Faithful to Our Trust is a history of the Erasmus Smith educational charity, founded in the seventeenth century by a London merchant who acquired a large estate during the Cromwellian plantation. over 200 primary schools, as well as giving money to Trinity College and the Blue Coat School. includes a detailed history of the first hundred years of the school and features a section on W. B. Yeats as a schoolboy. the Protestant community in Ireland over a period of 300 years.