SCHOOLS 



in a quarter of an howre cum ageyne & tary . . . xi 

 & then to dyner, at T to toper afore an An theme & 

 De profundis. 



Two Prepositores in every forme, whiche doth 

 give in a ichrowe the absents namys .it any lecture & 

 shewith when & at what tyme, both in the fore none 

 for the tyme paste, & at v. 



Also ij Prepositon in the body of the Chirche, 

 ij in the qwere, flbr tpekyng of Laten in the thrcd 

 forme & all other, every one a custos, & in every 

 howse a monytor. 



Whan they go home ij. and ij. in order, a monitor 

 to se that they do toe tyll they come at there hostise 

 dore. 



Also prevy monyton how many the Mr wylle. 



Prepositores in the feld whan they play, for fyght- 

 yng, rent clothes, blew eyes, or siche like. 



Prepositores for yll kept hedys, unwasshid facys, 

 fbwle clothis & sich other. 



YfF there be iiij or v in a howse, monytors for 

 chydyngand for Latyn ipekyng. 



When any dothe come newe, the master doth inqre 

 fro when* he comyth, what frendys he hathe whether 

 there be any plage. No man gothe owte off the 

 schole, nother home to his frends with owt the 

 masters lycense. YfF there be any dullard the Mr 

 gyvith his frends warnyng and puttyth hjrm away that 

 he sclander not the Schole. 



By me, Richard Cox, Scholcm'. 



As regards the curriculum it is interesting to 

 note that when once change began in the 

 schools it continued. Stanbridge's Accidence and 

 Parvula still reigned in the lower forms. But, 

 in the short interval which had elapsed since the 

 Eton use was furnished to Cuckfteld in 1524, 

 for the higher grammar Whittington's gram- 

 mar, in consequence perhaps of his quarrel with 

 Horman, who was still a fellow and vice-provost 

 of Eton, had been deposed in favour of Lily's 

 grammar, which, afterwards as ' the king's 

 grammar ' and the ' Eton Latin Grammar ' 

 reigned as despotically in English schools as 

 Donatus had done, with almost the authority of 

 verbal inspiration, until 1850. The pseudo- 

 Cato's Maralta was still the first Latin Book. 

 Terence, Ovid, Virgil, Sallust, Horace, Cicero, 

 were still the only books read by the higher 

 forms. As the boys still began rchool with Deut 

 misereatur, sang De profundit before breakfast, and 

 sang it again with an anthem at 5 p.m., we can 

 hardly say that the omission in the 'use* of any 

 reference to the Ave Maria and the Seven 

 Deadly Sins mentioned in the Cuckfield ' Form ' 

 is due to the spirit of Reformation. But the 

 introduction of the Dutch Despauterius and the 

 German Mosellanus points to the re-importation 



Every quarter one fortenyght every forme rendryth all thyngi lernyd that quarter 



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