Early English meals and manners : with some forewords on education in early England / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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1868. [Reprinted 1894, 1904]
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    instructed in it at a school in his house; And he was vastly delighted to hear the scholars repeat to hinr at night the lessons given them by the teacher during the day. In this competition he who had borne himself notably went away -with a present of some- thing suitable to his character, and with commendation expressed in the most refined language; for that excellent governor had ever in. his mouth the maxim that merit grows udth praise.” ^ Palsgrave in 1530 speaks of “maister Petrus Vallensys, scole maister to his [Charles, Duke of Suffolk’s] excellent yong sonne the Erie of Lyncolne.” Roger Ascham, author of Scliolemaster, &c., born in 1515, “ Avas receh^ed at a very youthful age into the family of Sir Antony Wingfield, aaRo furnished money for his education, and placed Roger, together AAuth his OAA-n sons, under a tutor AA'hose name AA^as Bond. The boy had by nature a taste for books, and shoAA’'ed his good taste by reading English in preference to Latin, AA'itli Avonderful eagerness. This Avas the more remarkable from the fact that Latin AA^as still the language of literature, and it is not likely that the feAv English books AA'ritten at that time Avere at all largely spread abroad in places far aAA^ay from the UniA'ersities and Cathedral Ioaatis. In or about the year 1530, Mr Bond the domestic tutor resigned the charge of young Roger, aa'Iio AA^as noAV about fifteen years old, and by the advice and pecuniary aid of liis kind patron Sir Antony, he aa'RS enabled to enter St John’s College, Cambridge, at that time tiie most famous seminary of learning in all England . . he took his bachelor’s degree in 1531, Eeb. 18, in the 18th year of his age [“ being a boy, neAV bachelor of art,” he says himself,] a time of life at Avhich it is uoaa more common to enter the UniA^ersity than to take a degree, but AA'hich, according to the modes of education (Pace de Fritctu, p. 27.) Exigit iara suu;« musica quoq?<e doctrina locuw(, a me praesertim, que;« puerwM inter pueros illustravit. Na«i Thomas Langton Vyntoni- ensis episcopus, decessor huius qui nunc [1517 a.d.] uiuit, cui eram a manu minister, quum notasset me longe supra actatem (ut ipse nimis fortasse amans mei iudicabat, & dictitabat) in musicis proficere, Huius, inquit, pueri ingeniuw ad maiora natum est. & paucos post dies in Italian! ad Patauinuwi gymnasium, quod tu!?c florentissimum erat, ad bonas literas discendas me misit, annuasq!!^ impensas benigne suppeditauit, ut omnibus literatis mirifico fauebat, & mtate sua alterum Mecenatem agebat, probe memor (ut freque?!ter dictitabat) sese doctrinae causa ad episcopalem dignitatem proucctum. Adeptus cnini fucrat per summam laudem, utriusqwe iuris (ut nunc loquuntur) insignia. Item humaniores literas tanti ajsti- mabat, ut domestica schola pueros & iuucnes illis erudiendos curarit. Et summo- pere oblectabat!!?' audire scholasticos dictata interdiu a pra'ceptore, sibi nocta reddere. In quo certamine qui prceclare se gesserat, is aliqua re persona sua accommodata, donatus abibat, & humanissimis uerbis laudatus. Habebct e!!mi semper in ore ille optimus Prfcsul, uirtutem laudatam crescere.
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