English Schools at the Reformation 1546-8 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Symond Smith, M.A., recommended by Mr. Cheke," this Mr. Cheke being "Sir John Cheke, Who first taught Cambridge and King Edward Greek," and became a Secretary of State. At Ripon, however (p. 295), we still find the " Scolemaster of Gramer " paid " yearly, forth of the common of the said church," that is out of the common fund; and his stipend is the same as that at Southwell, viz., 2 a year. At Crediton, in Devon, no less than 3 out of the 13 prebends were used apparently as exhibitions at the Universities, one of the three exhibitioners, however, being described as "scholar of Exeter," which may mean at Exeter Grammar School. The Grammar School master is not mentioned. He was probably one of the Vicars-Choral. The Song School master, " teacher of children and queresters (choristers)," got 4 a year. Before leaving the collegiate churches, it should be added that at Warwick we find (pp. 231-2) a Guild selling lands at ten years' purchase, to find the money to re-purchase the town's parish church and Grammar School from the Crown, which School was called " The King's New School of Warwick." This School was that of the Collegiate Church, in regard to which occurs the actually oldest record of post-Conquest times, referring to a school. The church is mentioned in Domesday Book. In 1123, Earl Roger purports to give " to the Church of St. Mary of Warwick the School (scolas) of the same church, that the service of God may be improved by the attendance of scholars." About the same date is a writ of Henry I., directing that." the Church of All Saints at Warwick," a college of canons in the castle, " should have all its customs as they (sic) did in the time of Edward, and in like manner may have the school." A few years later the establishments of these two collegiate churches we...