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respects the demarcation is now complete between lower school and upper, with grammar as the function of the lower school and rhetoric of the upper. This demarcation is soon to be made even more complete.
Certain other provisions at Canterbury are also interesting. There were to be two teachers, and fifty boys,
whom however we will shall not be admitted as poor boys of our church before they have learnt to read and write and are moderately learned in the first rudiments of grammar . . . And we will that these boys shall be maintained at the expense of our church until they have obtained a moderate knowledge of Latin grammar and have learnt to speak and to write Latin. The period of four years shall be given to this, or if it shall so seem good to the Dean or in his absence the Subdean, and the Head Master, at most five years and not more . . . We will further, that none shall be elected a poor pupil of our church who has not completed the ninth year or has passed the fifteenth year of his age, unless he has been a chorister of our chapel royal or of our church of Canterbury .6
The boys, therefore, must be at least nine at admission to a scholarship but must not have passed fifteen, should already have had some training in the rudiments of Latin, though the curriculum provides for those who have none, and must have completed the course of six forms in four, or at the most, five more years after appointment. One might thus have expected the school to be divided into four forms of a year each. It appears, however, that admission to the school was not the same as being elected to a scholarship. Besides the King's Scholars, there were also evidently "Commoners" in the school from early date, as was certainly true later. By 1682, the usher taught the rudiments in one form,
the Accidence, Lillyes Grammar, Cato puerilis, Cordorius, Esopos fables, Erasmus' Colloquies.?
The master taught the remainder in two other forms. The second form was divided into two classes, the lower studying
Ovid de Tristibus, Terence, Latine testament, Erasmus, Tully's Offices; the upper
Ovid's Metamorphosis, Tully's Orations, Quintus Curtius, Greek Grammar, Possonius' colloquies. Here to make latine Theams and verses.
Ibid., pp. 456-457.
7 Woodruff, C. E and Cape, H. J., Srhola RÈg a Cantuariensh, p. 133.
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