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An History of Birmingham (1783) by William Hutton
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salary of one hundred and twenty pounds; a second master sixty; two
ushers; a master in the art of writing, and another in that of drawing,
at forty pounds each: a librarian, ten: seven exhibitioners at the
University of Oxford, twenty-five pounds each. Also, eight inferior
schools in various parts of the town, are constituted and fed by this
grand reservoir, at fifteen pounds each, which begin the first rudiments
of learning.

CHIEF MASTERS.

John Brooksby, 1685.
---- Tonkinson.
John Husted.
Edward Mainwaring, 1730.
John Wilkinson, 1746
Thomas Green, 1759.
William Brailsford, 1766.
Rev. Thomas Price, 1776.



CHARITY SCHOOL:

COMMONLY,

The BLUE SCHOOL.

There seems to be three clases of people, who demand the care of
society; infancy, old age, and casual infirmity. When a man cannot
assist himself, it is necessary he should be assisted. The first of
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