Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bishop Vesey's Grammar School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The school's Latin motto, Dextra Dei Exaltavit Me means "The right hand of God hath lifted me up". The former school motto was "Dominus Mihi Adjutor" meaning "Lord, give me counsel". The first foundation deed set up by Bishop John Vesey in 1527 provided an endowment from property income of £7 a year and twenty-one people were appointed Trustees to manage the school and pay a fit and proper person to teach Grammar and Rhetoric. There was no known images of John Vesey and an image hung in the "Big School" hall assumed to be John Vesey is in fact John Wilmot and can be seen here. It was not until 1540, however, that a second deed was set up providing for the endowed properties to be held by the Warden and Society of Sutton Coldfield and layman John Savage was appointed as the first master. Until 1544, St Marys Hall was used as a schoolroom and then a school was built close to the church on Blind Lane, behind the Masonic Buildings (The former Town Hall) and on the site of the former Work House, behind the former Alms Houses, close to the Sons of Rest building off Mill Street. Complaints relating to the diligence of the Trustees and the Corporation came before the Chancery Court which ordered in 1636 that control be transferred to a new board of fourteen Trustees. In 1728, the Corporation provided land for a new school building in the present location, one of the conditions being that the headmaster Paul Lowe should agree to teach English, writing and arithmetic to twelve parish boys. At that time there was no stipulated age of entry to the school. Entry required the ability to read, and usually to pay. William Webb was appointed headmaster in 1764 and under him a sound basic educat. More:
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