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A Day in the life of Thomas Ashton, Headmaster of Shrewsbury School (morning)
Headmaster (Image courtesy of J.Bryan)
Hear those bells ringing! It does the soul good to hear St. Julian’s bells welcoming in a new day. A day I can do the Lord’s work, making sure our young lads have a good education – Latin, Greek and Divinity especially – that will set them up for life!
It will be a long day; the boys are at their desks by six in the morning or if not they’ll feel their master’s anger – oh yes “Spare the rod and you spoil the child” as we masters are fond of saying. By five o’clock they’ll be finished, some to go home to their parents, some to their lodgings in town if their families are far away, as most of them are.
The bells of St Julians are rung to wake us up and to end the day.
How true is "Days in the Life..."?
These dramatised accounts have been created by the Discovering Shropshire's History team. We used information taken from biographies of these individuals as researched by Bill Champion, author of "Everyday Life in Tudor Shrewsbury". These biographies, with the sources he used, can be seen in full by clicking on the "in depth" buttons on each page.