Under these circumstances the inhabitants of Beverley made known their grievances to King Edward VI. Their town was, they said— a market towne and the greatest within all Estryding of your Majesties countie of York, having a grete nombre of youthe within the same, and fife thowsaund persons and above, whereof some of them be apte and mete to be brought up in learning, whiche are not, for so much as there is neither gramer schole, or any other schole, as yet founded, wherewith they might be brought up in any vertuous studdie. No satisfactory reply was forthcoming to the inhabitants’ petition that the King would, out of the confiscated revenues of the Minster of St. John, found ‘one Fre Gramer Scole’ in their town. So it was left to the Town Governors to take over the finances of the old school. The school which had its origin in the Minster was thus re-established by the Town—an historic event which is embodied in its modern coat-of-arms. The town records contain mention of many interesting payments made on behalf of the school by the Town Governors. In 1567 there occur the following:— Item gyven to the Schole maister his players 17s. Item payd to the waits for playing when the 3s. 4d. Schole maister’s players played In 1606 a new school was built in the Minster Garth, and during the following years there are several records of the purchase of books for the school:— Item for a dictionary for the Schollers 3s. 4d. Item for another booke bought at Crossfaier, 6s. 6d. and for bringinge one fro Cambridge Item for a booke and for chaines for two 18s. 10d. other bookes in the schole The Beverley Grammar School still possesses its ancient library of books; among which are an edition of _Vergil_ printed in black letter at Florence, one of _Terence_ printed at Paris in 1552, one of _Cicero_ printed at Basle in 1553, and a very early edition of Foxe’s _Book of Martyrs_, containing gruesome illustrations of practical methods of torture. But there is now no need for chains to preserve these books from being surreptitiously ‘borrowed.’ * * * * * The Grammar School at Hull also had its revenues confiscated, but these were afterwards in part restored. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth the school was rebuilt, mainly at the expense of Alderman Gee, who contributed for the purpose the sum of eighty pounds and twenty thousand bricks. In his will, Alderman Gee put a further bequest thus:— I give and bequeath to the schoole of Hull which I builded through God’s goodnes, two houses in the Butchery.... I give these houses for ever for and towards the said Schoolmaster’s fee for his good teachinge and bringinge upp youth.