£15.00
Title: A Famous Antient Seed-plot of Learning-A History of Ipswich School
Author: John Blatchly (Signed by Author)
Publisher :Ipswich School
Publication 2003 First Edition
Format: Hardback
Condition: Blue cloth covers in a very good condition. It comes with its dust jacket which is also in a good condition. Bright clean pages with photos and illustrations throughout.Picture engraving of Gateway to Wolsley’s College, Ipswich to frontispiece. Picture endpapers. Signed by the author in two places.
Book measures: 24.5cm x 18.5cm with 397 pages
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A Famous Antient Seed-plot of Learning-A History of Ipswich School.
This book charts the progress of Ipswich School from its 14th century, Possibly earlier origins, to the present day. Despite changes of name and location, the school has a continuous history of over 600 years. And as with every other ancient school, it has experienced conspicuous success and near failure. Partly because Ipswich was, In earlier times, more important than it is today, local and national events have often touched. The celebrated but too often reviled Thomas Worsley had ambitions only temporarily achieved to enlarge the school which prepared Him for Oxford into a rival for Eaton and Winchester. At its full, Thomas Cromwell persuaded Henry the Eighth to give the town school a royal charter, which Elizabeth the first confirmed with letters……………
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