VCH Cheshire, III, 242-3. For a detailed return of shool's foundation and orgaization by the then master, Henry Moreton, see J.P. Earwaker, East Cheshire, 2 vols. (1877-1880), 2.139-40. 1612 is the date of the will of Alderman Robert Garsett founding it; he evidently appointed the first schoolmaster c. 1608/9, whilst the schoolhouse was built in or after 1620, and the endowment converted from money into land in 1632.