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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 cocks to masters has
left a trace at Sedburgh, where the boys pay a sum every year on a
particular day (Shrove-Tuesday?) as “cock-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 noble article in _The Westminster
Review_, No. 3, July, 1852 (lately republished by him in a
collection of Essays, &c.).]
[Footnote 83: Their eyes must have smarted. The natives’ houses in
India have (generally) no chimneys still, and Mr Moreshwar says
the smoke _does_ make your eyes water.]
[Footnote 84: Mouffet is learned on the Louse.
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