Note 262 — Chapter III · THE PEASANTRY (continued)
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Repton School Register, 1564–1910. One of the husbandmen kept his boy at school for ten years. The average school life of the sons of seven yeomen was between six and seven years; one stays for twelve years, going to school at five and staying till seventeen. If one may judge by the attitude of most modern parents ("I went to the mill when I was ten, and why shouldn’t Tommie?"), these men must have been pretty comfortably off.