A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



in the same every working day.' On Saturday morning they were to rehearse and render by heart 

 all the lessons they have learnt all the week.' But if Saturday were a holy-day, then the said 

 render be made the working day before.' 



It is ordained also that every working-day, Friday and Saturday except, one of the 8 parts of Reason, [now 

 called parts of speech] with the verb according to the same, that is to say, Nomen with Amo, Pronomen 

 with Amor, and so forth, be said by heart by all the learners of the accidence, if they have learnt that 

 part, and of all the First, Second and Third Forms. 



This was to be ' by and by after 6 of the clock ' in summer and seven in winter. ' After the part 

 done the learners of the accidence shall labour their lessons, which lesson the Master shall hear more 

 often or more seldom after his discretion and to the more profit of the scholars.' Form I were to 

 learn Stanbridge's English Rules called the ' Parvula.' 



These rules shall be said by and by after the Part done, and upon repeating the rules the Master shall 

 cause them to make small and easy Latins, proper and such as the children may understand and have 

 a delight in. 



Form II the same c except that the Master may by his discretion add more matter to the Latin for the 

 Second Form.' 



These Latins must be so given that the children may write 10 them before breakfast. After 

 their breakfast one of the next Form above by the Master's assigning shall read to them one Rule for 

 the next day and in the Master's presence ; upon which the scholars of this Form shall apply them- 

 selves to the understanding construing saying and answering to the parts of their Latins under the 

 dinner-hour [which was 1 1 a.m.]. 



If the Master's discretion shall think the babies able easily to overcome it, he may give them also 

 some Latin words from Stanbridge's Collection, or small and light matter in Latin to be rendered by 

 the B.ibies by and by after one of the clock ; which done, after a convenient pause, the said babies 

 shall render their Latins by heart, construe them and answer to the part of them. 



This applied to the first four days of the week. On Friday they were to say Sum, ,_/*, or 

 some other verb out of rule. Then they were to be examined in the understanding of the rules learned 

 in the week and say them by heart in the afternoon. 



If the master " have time sufficient before the time of breakfast the Master, or some Scholar of 

 an higher form in the presence of the Master, shall declare to them one little piece of the Pater Noster, 

 or the Ave Maria, the Credo or the Treatise of the Manners called " Quos decet in mensa, or the Ten 

 Commandments, the Seven Deadly Sins, or the Five Witts, ' 3 or some other proper saying in Latin 

 meet for the Babies, and especially such as is meet for Christian People to learn, as the Articles of Our Belief 

 or anything like. 



On Saturday before breakfast Form I ' rendered ' their ' one little piece ' of religious instruction, 

 ' construed it and answered to parts of it.' After breakfast they rendered their Latins learnt in the 

 week. ' At afternoon they shall learn to write or read Legends, or the Psalter, to become more 

 prompt in reading.' Not, be it observed, for the sake of religious instruction, but for the enunciation. 



In the second form the scholars shall read the genders I4 of Whittington and after them done the 

 Heteroclites of Whittington. These rules shall be said in the morning and by and by one lesson shall 

 be read unto them for next day and they shall learn Latins with the First Form. After their break- 

 fast a lecture of Cato after the new interpretation shall be read unto them, which they shall construe 

 again at afternoon and answer to the parts of it, which done they shall say their Latins by heart, 

 construe them and parse them. 



On Friday after breakfast ' they render their rules ; and at afternoon their constructions.' On 

 Saturday they say and render all things with the first form. 



In the third form the rules shall be the Pretertenses 16 and Supines of Whittington, and after 

 these done the Defectives of the said Whittington, they shall have Latins. Their constructions 



10 Not as in Carlisle, Endowed Grammar Schools, ' recite.' 



" Not as in Carlisle, 'If they may have sufficient time before breakfast.' 



" Not as in Carlisle, 'verses for the Mariners, called Quos dicet in mensa.' The Treatise in question 

 was a Latin poem by Sulpicius, a fifteenth-century schoolmaster at Rome, on how to behave at table ; a most 

 interesting work. 



13 i.e. the five senses. " Not as m Carlisle, ' gradus.' 



14 Sic. It was probably Preterites in the original, but the copyist of 1626 could not read the writing of 

 100 years before. 



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