Traditionally, John Ruding is regarded as the founder of the RLS, endowing it with scholarships for poor boys to learn grammar and singing. He became Prebendary Ruding of Buckingham in 1471, until 1481. Archdeacon Ruding was responsible for partially rebuilding the chapel and chantry, between 1471 and 1481, which later became the old RLS. He contributed generously to the rebuilding of Buckingham's Chancel and his arms and motto were depicted in the glass windows of the church in the early eighteenth century. Ruding gave the school its motto, "Alle May God Amende," which was also depicted on the ceiling of the Chantry chapel until 1688, when it was destroyed by schoolboys on the rampage. In his will, Ruding left, to the church, a Latin Bible inscribed with his motto, "Alle May God Amende". In 1996, the rapidly growing Royal Latin School chose Ruding as the name of one of its two new houses, following the custom of remembering its benefactors in this way.
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