The textbooks, which were unearthed at
Newcastle-under-Lyme School, Staffordshire, are more than 300 years old and contain the musings of the man credited with the discovery of gravity, the Daily Express reported.
MIDLANDS UNDER-18s: C Fellows (King's School, Worcester, Worcester, N Mids)' B Chatwin (Bablake School, Barkers' Butts, Warwicks), A Robinson (Prince Henry's HS, Evesham, Worcester, N Mids), W Bradley (King's School, Grantham, Kesteven, NL&D), J Gregson (Woodlands School, Coventry, Barkers' Butts, Warwicks)' T Streather (Chase HS, Malvern, Worcester, N Mids), J Askew (
Newcastle-under-Lyme School, Staffs)' J Heath (Adams GS, Whitchurch, N Mids), S Petty (Trent College, Nottingham & NL&D), T Williams (Prince William School, Oundle, Kettering, E Mids), G Bramhall (Nottingham HS, Nottingham, NL&D), O Caunt (Wyggeston & QE I College, NL&D), C Law (Old Swinford Hospital School, N Mids), R Keir (Kettering, E Mids), J Ranson (King's School, Worcester, Worcester, N Mids).
Miss Peake was described as a gifted linguist by Dr Ray Reynolds, headmaster of the pounds 4,500-a-year
Newcastle-under-Lyme School where she got eight grade A GCSEs and straight As in French, English and geography at A-level.