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newspaper cutting - 'ITV's' Secret Treasures - 'Tragic tale behind a beautiful ring' - Thomas Littleton Mourning ring.- Thomas Percy (Bishop Percy's House Chaplin) attended Bridgnorth Grammar School at eight years of age - He later commented on Littleton, who was an Usher at the school 1728-44, the Usher being under master to the Head Master and who would have taught the younger scholars. 'I made little or no improvement under him, not as much through his want of care, nor of learning (for he was a man of literature) as for want of his accommodating his knowlege sufficiently to the capacity of children, and for want of a proper method.' At the time the Head and Usher would have combined religious duties as clergy, with teaching. It co-incides with Littleton being Curate at St. Leonard's before he moved to Oldbury. see also 2004-6, 2010-18, 2012-43.