SCHOOLS 



Item upon Fryday to some other partes convenient for euery forme, and thac 

 done, to hav e them att ' after a litell respect ^ to render feA^«f ' unto him all their 

 lattens be hart made that wyk, and to parse them, and at after none to render all their 

 lecturs taken that wyk, unto iiij"' of the clock and from iiij"'' to v as is above apoynted. 



Upon Saturday morning to give to every forme his several lecture both to labour 

 to expounde and say -by ' without the boke, after their parte, upon Monday morning, that 

 done to give to every scollar at after none upon Saturday to wright all their excersises 

 as well of lattens as other phrases, etc. inespecialiy so many as can wright ; and to all 

 such as cannot wright, to learne to wright two howers that after none, and in like 

 maner everry day one hower iff" it may be spared, as bytwyxt xj and xij or bytwyxt 

 xij and one. 



And that every scollar may have commaundement to prepare them selfes to come 

 to common prayers devoutly and ' in their apparell, and orderly both in commyng to the 

 church and contynewing their the tyme of prayers : and the ussher for the moste parte 

 there also to see their good ordr observed, and to warne as many as can wright to make 

 vj or vij sentences of the sermon yf any be made : and theye that can not wright to 

 note iiij". 



Item that the scolemaister be in the scole every working daye eyther a litell 

 before vij or at ' els at vij at the furdest, and he in like maner to heare his scollars upon 

 every forme of his some convenient parte, and that done to mynistre unto them a theme 

 to be made in prose agaynst th e a ' iiij"'' clock at after none and then to rede to every 

 forme a severall lecture -ef ' eyther of prose or of a poett and they to render the same 

 agayne at one of the clock as well in expounding of the ' as in parsing the same, with 

 notes of such phrases adagis and figures as are contayned in the same, and then after 

 a little respitt to exhibitt unto them their theme in writting in prose. And the next 

 day at morning after ' to say their lectures the' geven to them the day before without 

 boke. And then after that the m'' to rede to them two dayes, viz. Monday and 

 Tuysday some latten autor in prose, and Wedonsday and Thursday some poett, and 

 in like maner that as upon Monday and Wedonsday they shall make their latten s ' 

 theme in prose, soo upon Tuysday and Thursday they shall make their themes in 

 verses. Upon Ffryday they shall render the Monday and Tuesday lectures in prose 

 at the forenone and upon ' their lectures of the poetes at after none. 



Upon Saturday morning he shall give them a lecture of some other good author, 

 to labour agaynst Monday morning with a them, and in the after none every one of 

 theme to wright their themes both in prose and verses, with all proper sentences, 

 storys, adagis or figures, fayer in a paper boke, that yf any will see them they may. 



And that the scolem' in like manner shall use hymself and his scollars to do 

 as the ussher, as well to be present in the church hym self as to see his scollers to use 

 them selves godly. 



The days of recreation referred to on which part of the afternoon 

 work was to be remitted were no doubt Tuesday and Thursday half 

 holidays. But by injunctions given by Edmund (Scambler), bishop 

 of Peterborough (1567), 'Item xvi. the School Master and Usher shall 

 give their schollars leave to play but once in a whole week, except 

 it be at the special request of some worshipfull person for some 

 urgent cause.' 



Apparently the boys had to attend cathedral at 5 a.m., before prayers 

 in school at 6, as in 1559 Queen Elizabeth's commissioners gave the 

 following among other injunctions : — 



You shall besides your ordinarye Morning Prayer have every working day at 

 five of the clock in the morninge in summer and six of the clock in the winter the 

 Morning Prayer, to the intent that the schollers of the Grammar School and all other 

 well disposed people and artificers may dayly resort thereunto. 



' The words struck out are cancelled in MS. ' i.e. respite. 



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