Note 959 — Chapter X

Harrison mentions, about the year 1586, that at the great collegiate schools of Eton, Winchester, and Westminster, boys are well entered in the knowledge of the Latin and Greek tongues and rules of versifying. Description of England, prefixed to Holingshed’s Chronicles, p. 254 (4to edition). He has just before taken notice of the great number of grammar-schools throughout the realm, and those very liberally endowed for the relief of poor scholars, so that there are not many corporate towns now under the queen’s dominion that have not one grammar-school at the least, with a sufficient living for a master and usher appointed for the same.