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found in the later Westminster curriculum, the omissions are clearly due to Ruthin and not to Westminster. For the Greek, only the Greek - grammar had been specified for the sixth and seventh at Westminster, the authors not being mentioned. The Greek grammar? is still specified for the final form at Ruthin; but in addition Isocrates and Xenophon are specified as authors in prose, Homer in poetry. Since we find Isocrates and Homer in the later Westminster curriculum they were already used at Westminster at least by 1574. Xenophon was also in use at Westminster in 1571-73.8 It is thus clear that Ruthin in 1574 is simply taking over the Greek curriculum of Westminster. Presumably this is the curriculum which Westminster itself had taken over from Eton in 156o, but unfortunately the Greek authors are not specified in the earlier curricula.¬ Xenophon is not carried over, appearing elsewhere so far as I know only at Shrews-bury, a school on the Eton system " Evidently, then, Westminster about 1574 still had in its upper school practically or entirely the same curriculum for Latin as in 156o. It began Greek at the same place in the curriculum, but we do not know directly what was the early cur-. riculum in Greek. Its school routines were also still the same, with the afternoon work beginning at twelve instead of one, etc.
It follows that the lower school at Westminster would also have suffered few changes, as is made directly apparent by the adaptation for Ruthin. There the third class read only Terence, without Sallust. So Terence had been confined to the third and Sallust to the fourth. It read also Cicero's Epistles as selected by Sturm and Aesop's Fables. Terence and Lucian's Dialogues do not appear in the second form, but instead Aesop's Fables and Erasmus' Colloquies. The Erasmus and Aesop were in the original Westminster curriculum. The Lucian and Terence pretty certainly continued in this position at Westminster, since Terence continued here in the later curriculum and Lucian was raised to the Greek sequence. So the second form was doubtless still unchanged at Westminster about 1574. The first form at Ruthin had Vives, Introduction to Wisdom, Corderius's Dialogues, and Cato. Originally, at Westminster this form had only Vives and Cato, but the revised curriculum adds Corderius. Evidently that had already occurred by 1574. The preface to Corderius in my copy of
7 This is said to have been Clenardus at this period (Sargeaunt, Westminster School, p. 4o). Later it would have been Grant's, and then the revision by Camden.
B Tanner, Westminster School, p. 9.
9 For the Greek curriculum in Nowell's day as master, see above, pp. 178 If.
10 The Cyropaediq of Xenophon was to be published at Eton in 1613.
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