![]() ![]() Any balance remaining is required to be given to the poorest scholar but now is given to a representative scholar of the school. The Foundation Deed also provides for the distribution (out of a total sum of 20 shillings) of certain monies to the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Vicar and others and for the purchase of bread, cheese and ale for consumption by the officials attending the Service. The formal procession is an important part of Founder’s Day and seeks to symbolise the ancient links the School has with the Crown, the City and the Church. With the exception of the Goose Fair, it is the most ancient ceremonial event still held in the City of Nottingham, and the oldest which is still largely in its original form (the Goose Fair is now a funfair rather than a livestock fair), although there seems to be no record of it being held between the middle of the sixteenth century and its modern revival in 1923. In the Foundation Deed, Mellers provided that a Commemoration Service should be held in St Mary's Church in the Lace Market “on the Feast of The Translation of St Richard of Chichester, namely 16 June” each year, although the service “is now held on the nearest Saturday to that date”. More recently, the school has also adopted the informal motto “T.E.A.M.” (“Together Everyone Achieves More”). The Latin inscription on the School Arms is Lauda Finem which translates as “Praise to the end”. Whilst this breaches laws of English heraldry, action is rarely taken in such matters. In 2007 the school introduced a new ‘logo’ for more general use, a modified version of the shield which omits the lozenge and the ermine field. The arms incorporate those of the school’s founder: the arms of the Mellers family were three blackbirds (or merles – an example of canting arms) on a white field Dame Agnes, being a woman, would have displayed these on a lozenge rather than a shield. And for the crest, on a wreath argent and gules, a squirrel sejant gules holding between the paws a ducal coronet or. On a chief gules, an open book also proper, garnished or, between two ducal coronets of the last. Coat of armsġ949 saw the granting of the school’s coat of arms by the College of Arms, the full blazon being:Įrmine, a lozenge argent charged with three blackbirds rising proper. 19,940 boys are estimated to have attended the school since 1513. It is not clear whether this was a new institution or a refoundation or endowment of an existing school, of which records exist as far back as 1289. As a result of their combined efforts, King Henry VIII sealed the school’s foundation deed on the 22 November of that year. In order to do this she enlisted the help of Sir Thomas Lovell, who was both the Governor of Nottingham Castle and Secretary to the Treasury. In 1513, the school was founded as the "Free School" by Dame Agnes Mellers, after the death of her husband, Richard, partly in his memory, but also as an act of atonement for his several wrongdoings against the people of Nottingham. ![]()
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