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The
Merchant Taylors' School, east side of Suffolk Lane, Thames Street
The
Merchant Taylors' Company was very affluent, and ran a
school for benevolent purposes. The school originally
occupied a sixteenth-century building on this site called
the "Manor of the Rose" which had belonged to
the Staffords, Dukes of Buckingham. The Manor of the Rose
burned down in the Great
Fire of London in 1666 and the large brick building
pictured above was built on the same site in 1675.
The
school held two hundred boys, many of whom paid no fees
at all. They learned Greek, Latin and Hebrew.
