Education had long been associated with religious institutions since a Cathedral grammar school was established at Canterbury under the authority of St Augustine's church and King Ethelbert at the end of the sixth century.
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It was founded in 1554 as "The Free Grammar School of King Philip and Queen Mary" “for the education, instruction and learning of boys and young men in grammar; to be and to continue for ever.”
James Margetson, a native of Drighlington, built and endowed the Drighlington Free Grammar School and endowed it (1678).
He was educated at the Free Grammar School at Manchester for around four years and was then taken into his father's stables.
He was master of the free grammar school at Chichester, when it was attended by jurist John Selden, who received from him his instruction in 'grammar learning.'
Hibbert was convinced that the cave was a temple to Odin, saying in his book History of the foundations in Manchester of Christ's College, Chetham's Hospital and the Free Grammar School (1830), "There can be little question but that in this recess the sacrifices, divination and compacts appertaining to worship of the hero of the Edda were regularly practised".