[726] Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, ed. Skeat, p. 299.

[727] Ibid., p. 421.

[728] Statutes of the Colleges of Oxford, vol. I.; Ed. Ch., pp. 349-373.

[729] Brit. Mus. Add., MS. 30158, f. 34.

[730] I.e. the “Apeseyes.”

[731] Cf. article in Cyclopaedia of Education.

[732] Carlisle: Grammar Schools, I., p. 314.

[733] P. C. C., 8 Maynwaryng.

[734] See Carlisle, op. cit., II., pp. 594-598.

[735] A copy of this time table is reprinted in Leach: Educational Charters, pp. 448-451; see also Archaelogia, XXXIV., p. 37, seq. Foster Watson gives a full account of the projected statutes for Cardinal College, Ipswich (1528) in Old Grammar Schools, pp. 16-18.

[736] For an account of the manuals of Stanbridge, see Foster Watson: English Grammar Schools, pp. 385-386.

[737] Ibid., pp. 238-45.

[738] Among the records of the chantry schools, six are mentioned as teaching writing; see E. S. R., II., pp. 66, 98, 251, 305, 307, 312.

[739] Yorkshire Schools, II., p. 109.

[740] E. S. R., II., p. 21.

[741] E. S. R., II., p. 85.

[742] Cutts: Scenes and Characters in the Middle Ages, p. 200.

[743] Cutts: op. cit., p. 205.

[744] Johnson: Canons, II., p. 421.

[745] Household Book of Henry Algernon, fifth Earl of Northumberland, Antiq. Repertory, IV., p. 242.

[746] Dialogue of Heresies, III., c. 12.

[747] Dunning: Political Ideas, p. 263.

[748] Illustrations of Medieval Thought, p. 305.

[749] Letters of Grosseteste (R. S.), p. 63.

[750] Ibid., p. 68.

[751] Ibid., p. 151.

[752] 2 Hen. IV., c. 15. Stat. of the Realm, II., 127.

[753] Rot. Parl., III., 584.

[754] Johnson: Laws and Canons, II., p. 465. Wilkins: Concilia, III., p. 317.

[755] 2 Hen. V., c. 7.

[756] See p. 129.

[757] Rot. Parl., 12, R. II., c. 5.

[758] Rot. Parl., 15, Ric. II., 39; quoted de Montmorency, State Intervention, p. 27.

[759] Op. cit., pp. 30-32.

[760] See p. 200.

[761] Statutes of the Realm, 7, Henry IV., c. 17.

[762] Pat., 24, Henry VI., pt. ii., m. 28.

[763] Rot. Parl., V., 137.

[764] Bk. II., ch. VI.

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