. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. )ooL. LTHOUGH the exaft date of the foundation of Nantwich Grammar School has not occurred, it is certain that the school was established more than three hundred years ago.* The Chantry Roll of 1548 (page 282) alludes to the necessity there was for such a school; and in many places the revenues of the suppressed Chantries and Free Chapels were, by A(5t of Parliament I Edw. VI. c. 14, applied to the establishing of Grammar Schools. This, however, was not the case at Nantwich. Some years must have
. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. )ooL. LTHOUGH the exaft date of the foundation of Nantwich Grammar School has not occurred, it is certain that the school was established more than three hundred years ago.* The Chantry Roll of 1548 (page 282) alludes to the necessity there was for such a school; and in many places the revenues of the suppressed Chantries and Free Chapels were, by A(5t of Parliament I Edw. VI. c. 14, applied to the establishing of Grammar Schools. This, however, was not the case at Nantwich. Some years must have elapsed before one was commenced; or Gerard, the herbalist, who was born at ?Nantwich in 1545, would probably not have been sent to school to Wisterson, two miles from the Webb, in his Itinerary of Nantwich Hundred c. 1621, (Kings Vale Royal) says :— The school was founded by Mr. John Thrush and Mr. Thomas Thrush, of London, woolpackers,and is well and sufficiently upheld and maintained to the furtherance of teaching the children of thepoor and others; and an ancient and grave schooh
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