2. _Home and Private Education._ Of these, more or less must have been going on all over England, by private tutors at home, or in the houses of the latter. “In five years (after my baptism) I was handed over by my father to Siward, a noble priest, to be trained in letters, to whose mastery I was subdued during five years learning the first rudiments. But in the eleventh year of my age I was given up by my own father for the love of God, and destined to enter the service of the eternal King.” --_Orderic_, vol. ii. p. 301, ed. Prevost. From Adam de Marisco’s Letters, 53, we find that Henry and Almeric, the eldest and youngest sons of the Earl of Montfort, were put under Grosseteste for tuition, he being then a Bishop. At Paris, John of Salisbury (who died in 1180) gained a living by teaching the sons of noblemen,--(_instruendos susceperam_, ? took them in to board). --_Metalogicus_, lib. 11, c. 10. Henry of Huntingdon says, “Richard, the king’s (Henry I.’s) bastard son, was honourably brought up (_festive nutritus_) by our Bishop Robert (Blote of Lincoln), and duly reverenced by me and others in the same household I lived in.” --_Anglia Sacra_, vol. ii. p. 696. Giraldus Cambrensis speaks of beating his _coætanei et conscolares terræ suæ_, of being reproved for idleness by his uncle, the Bishop of St David’s, and of being constantly chaffed by two of his uncle’s chaplains, who used to decline _durus_ and _stultus_ to him. Also he alludes to the rod. Probably there was some sort of school at either Pembroke or St David’s[[24a]].--_De Rebus a se Gestis_, lib. 1, c. 2.[25] The Statutes of a Gild of young Scholars formed to burn lights in honour of some saint or other, and to help one another in sickness, old age, and to burial, will be printed for us by Mr Toulmin Smith in the Early English Text Society’s books this year. Under this head of Private Tuition we may class the houses of Abbots, where boys of good birth were educated. In his History of English Poetry, section 36, vol. iii. p. 9, ed. 1840, Warton says: