A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



Uppingham. Under the next master, Simon English, Peterborough is 

 said by the historian, Gunton, to have had the honour of educating Sir 

 Robert Cotton, but if so it must have been for a limited period, as a 

 ' tother school ' or preparatory school, since the main part of his school 

 career w^as passed at Westminster, from whose illustrious master, Camden, 

 he is supposed to have derived the historical and antiquarian tastes which 

 made him collect the Cottonian MSS. now the chief glory of the British 

 Museum. 



In 1 56 1, when Richard Stevenson was head master, a full account of 

 the curriculum of the school is preserved, and as these early time-tables 

 are as rare as they are interesting, is here given in full. 



The first part is in all probability an earlier order of the time of 

 Queen Mary; the second part a new and revised edition under Elizabeth. 



ORDERS FOR THE GRAMER SKOOLE » 



^ Ffirste that the skoolers may be commaunded to be at the skoole every workinge 

 day, eyther at vj a cloke in the morning or else within haulfe an ouer after at the 

 furdiste, bothe in winter and sommer. 



Item that the Usher be there present to here the partes of the suche as shalbe of 

 his formes, & that done he shall geve them Inglysces uppon sum of the roules to make 

 in to latten and to heare them to do the same, & that done to rede out then there 

 seuerall lectors. 



Item that neyther the scolemaister ne ussher shall absent themselves one day and 

 night out of the scole, without knowleg geven thereof to the Deane or Sub-dean, or in 

 their absence to some of the Prebendaryes. 



Item that their shalbe noo scoller admitted to be the Queen's scoller untill he be 

 fownde hable by the scolemaister or Ussher and by the Deane or Sub-dean, or in their 

 absence by some of the Prebendaryes. 



Item that it may be lawfull for the scolemaister and ussher to receive of every 

 substanciall manes childe, being not the Queen's scoller, xij"* every quarter, viij'' to the 

 scolemaister and iiij'' to the ussher. 



Orders to be Observed in the Grammer Scole ^ 



Ffirst that all the scollars be commanded every working daye to be present in the 

 scole at vj of the clock in the morning or with in halfe an hower after both in wynter 

 and somer. 



Item that the ussher be there present with them and all they to say some godly 

 prayers ; that done he to heare all such as shalbe upon his formes such partes as he 

 shall thinke convenient for them. And that done he to give to euery of his formes 

 an English to be made in to Latten, upon [one] of there rules ; and to heare them to 

 make there lattens hymself, and to cause euery one to wright the same in a fayer paper 

 boke. And that done to rede to euery forme a severall lecture eyther of a poett or 

 prose, and to cause them to labour the same agaynst one of the clock at after none, as 

 well to expound as to parse every worde in the same, and he to heare them at that 

 tyme to doe the same, and that done to give them some good vulgars, some to note 

 phrases, and soe to contynew emong them unto iiij"'' of the clok ; and from iiij"' to v, 

 the one scoller to pose an other, and then to commaunde them to commend to memory 

 their lattens agaynst the next days morning, say prayer agayne and so departe. This 

 order is to be observed Monday, Tuesday, Wodonsday and Thursdaye, onlesse it be a 

 day of recreacion, then to omitt some parte of the after none exercyses. 



' From a detached paper among cathedral archives. Dated (under Mr. Cattel's hand) 1 56 1. 

 ' The first two items are cancelled in the original. 



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