Social life in Britain from the conquest to the reformation / compiled by G.G. Coulton.

  • George Gordon Coulton
Date:
1918
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Credit: Social life in Britain from the conquest to the reformation / compiled by G.G. Coulton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    master in Gramer shall give the Boye a Grote for hys Labour, and another Grote to hym that provydeth the Rode and the Palmer; etc. de singulis. And thus endythe the Acte in that Facultye. Nota, That the Bell Ryngar shall provyde a Rodde and a Palmer for the Masters in Gramer, and he shall have of every master in Gramer for hys Labour iiijd. Nota, That the Inceptour in Gramer shall gyve to the Vice- chauncelar a Bonett, and to the P'ather and to eche off the Proctours a Bonett ; and iff there be but on Inceptour, he shall do thys; and iff there be moo then on, then to pay thys emong them. 9 CO-EDUCATION Trevisa’s Higden, vol. vn. p. 183. ...In these dayes [about 1050 A.D.] a famous clerk, Barbosus, was at Irland, and a man of wonderful religioun, so mac he that he helde a greet scole of clerkes and lewed men and maydons ; but, for he schare1 the maydens in manere of his scolers, he was put out of Irlond. IO THE DANGERS OF GRAMMAR Walsingham, Histo?'ia Brevis, R.S., vol. II. p. 9 (a.d. 1381), speaking of Wat Tyler and his fellow-rebels. We must judge them by their works; for they slew the father of the whole clergy, the head of the English Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury. See too what they did against the faith; how they compelled masters of grammar schools to swear that they would never again teach grammar to children ! And what more? they strove to burn all ancient muniments, and slew all such as could be found capable of commemo¬ rating to posterity either ancient records or modern events; it was perilous to be recognized as a clerk, and” far more perilous if any were caught bearing an inkhorn at his side. This attitude of the rebellious commons towards learning may be illustrated by that of the extremists among the governing classes, as recorded in the parliamentary proceedings of subsequent years. 1 i.e. made them adopt the clerical tonsure.
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