Part 12 (1/2)

[Footnote 63: Edited by Mr Halliwell in his 'Selection from the Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate.' Percy Society, 1840, quoted by Prof. Morley.]

[[Footnote 63a: 'Fitz-Stephen says on the parents of St Thomas, ”Neque fnerantibus neque officiose negotiantibus, sed de redditibus suis honorifice viventibus.”' E. A. F.]]

[Footnote 64: Mr Skeat's readings. The _abbot_ and _abbots_ of Mr Wright's text spoil the alliteration.]

[Footnote 65: Compare the previous pa.s.sages under heading 1, p. vi.]

[Footnote 66: May Mr Skeat bring the day when it will be done!]

[Footnote 67: Later on, men's games were settled for them as well as their trades. In A.D. 1541, the 33 Hen. VIII., cap. 9, -- xvi., says,

”Be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no manner of Artificer or Craftsman of any Handicraft or Occupation, Husbandman, Apprentice, Labourer, Servant at Husbandry, Journeyman or Servant of Artificer, Mariners, Fishermen, Watermen or any Serving man, shall from the said feast of the Nativity of St John Baptist play at the Tables, Tennis, Dice, Cards, Bowls, Clash, Coyting, Logating, or any other unlawful Game out of Christmas, under the Pain of xx s. to be forfeit for every Time; (2) and in Christmas to play at any of the said Games in their Master's Houses, or in their Master's Presence; (3) and also that no manner of persons shall at any time play at any Bowl or Bowls in open places out of his Garden or Orchard, upon the Pain for every Time so offending to forfeit vi s. viiii d.” (For _Logating_, &c., see Strutt.)]

[Footnote 68: Translated from the Latin copy in the British Museum, MS. Harl. 1197, art. 15, folio 319 b.]

[Footnote 69: Duodecim pauperes de sumptibus dictae Ecclesiae _alendi_.]

[Footnote 70: Duo _unus_ Pincernae, et _unus subpincerna_, duo unus cociquus, et unus subcoquus. Sic in MS]

[Footnote 71: MS. No. 688 in Lambeth Library. MS. Harl. cod. 1594, art. 38, in Brit. Mus.]

[Footnote 72:

Farewell, in Oxford my college cardynall!

Farewell, in _Ipsewich, my schole gramaticall!_ Yet oons farewell! I say, I shall you never see!

Your somptious byldyng, what now avayllethe me?

_Metrical Visions_ [Wolsey.] by George Cavendish, in his Life of Wolsey, (ed. Singer, ii. 17). Wolsey's Letter of Directions about his school should be consulted. It is printed.]

[Footnote 73: Colet's Statutes for St Paul's School are given in Howard Staunton's _Great Schools of England_, p. 179-85.]

[Footnote 74: 'That there was a school at Rochester before Henry VIII.'s time is proved by our Statutes, which speak of the _Schola Grammaticalis_ as being _ruinosa & admodum deformis_.' R.

Whiston.]

[Footnote 75: Pegge concludes these to have been St Paul's, Bow, and Martin's le Grand.]

[Footnote 76: The custom of boys bringing c.o.c.ks to masters has left a trace at Sedburgh, where the boys pay a sum every year on a particular day (Shrove-Tuesday?) as ”c.o.c.k-penny.” Quick.]

[Footnote 77: On the London Schools, see also Sir George Buc's short _cap._ 36, ”Moore of other Schooles in London,” in his _Third Vniuersitie of England_ (t.i. London). He notices the old schools of the monasteries, &c., 'in whose stead there be some few founded lately by good men, as the Merchant Taylors, and Thomas Sutton, founder of the great new Hospitall in the Charter house, [who] hath translated the Tenis court to a Grammar Schoole ... for 30 schollers, poore mens children.... There be also other Triuiall Schooles for the bringing up of youth in good literature, _viz._, in S. _Magnus_, in S. _Michaels_, in S. _Thomas_, and others.']

[Footnote 78: Udall became Master of Eton about 1534. He was sent to prison for sodomy.]

[Footnote 79: The perversion of these elections by bribery is noticed by Harrison in the former extract from him on the Universities.]

[Footnote 80: See p. 273-4, 'all of a fourme to name who is the best of their fourme, and who is the best next him'.]

[Footnote 81: ? key of the Campo, see pp. 299 and 300, or a club, the holder of which had a right to go out.]

[Footnote 82: See Mr Froude's n.o.ble article in _The Westminster Review_, No. 3, July, 1852 (lately republished by him in a collection of Essays, &c.).]