The period was also one of significant cultural development. Although the dissolution of the Guild of St John in Deritend saw the closure of its associated school, the former hall of the Guild of the Holy Cross in New Street, together with property worth £21 per year from its estate, was saved for the establishment of King Edward's Free Grammar School in 1552. John Rogers, born in Deritend in 1500, became the town's first notable literary figure when he compiled and partially translated the "Matthew Bible", the first complete authorised edition of the Bible to appear in the English language. The first Birmingham library had been established by 1642, the same year that Nathaniel Nye – the town's first known scientist – published his "New Almanacke and Prognostication calculated exactly for the faire and populous Towne of Birmicham in Warwickshire". Finally 1652 marks the first record of a Birmingham bookseller and the first Birmingham-published book: "The Font Guarded", by the local puritan Thomas Hall.