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especially the weekend routine, as stated in the second form, with the render on Friday morning, and grammar rules in the afternoon, followed by the part on Saturday morning and an exercise. Doubt-less, catechetical work came on Saturday morning as was true a century later at Paul's. There were morning and afternoon lessons also, with grammar, authors, and daily exercises from English into Latin. But at Norwich the routine is given both imperfectly and confusedly. Someone not fully skilled in grammar school routine is attempting to state the eight-form routines of Paul's in such a way that they may be put into a six-form routine at Norwich. Else they have been inaccurately transcribed. Nevertheless, here is an important situation, since the Norwich directions show that by 1566 the routines at Paul's were already as they appear at the end of the seventeenth century. In the upper school, the boys pursued the regular compositional forms, learning to vary, to make a verse, to write epistles, themes, and orations. The Greek authors are also probably the same as at Paul's, ending with Euripides, who appears in Paul's list of 1582-83 and seems to be rather peculiar to that system.
The statutes of Merchant Taylors' in 561 were evidently modelled upon those of St. Paul's. For the sake of Edmund Spenser, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Lodge, and possibly Thomas Jenkins, Shakspere's schoolmaster, we ought to be interested in this school. As McDonnell points out "a very cursory investigation of the statutes of Merchant Taylors' shows that, mutatis mutandis, they were copied from those of St. Paul's."6 Similarly, for the curriculum the boys were not required at entrance to know their accidence. Even when in 1607 the curriculum was being shaped to the Westminster system, which had been evolved from that at Eton, this provision of the statutes was still retained. Doubtless, therefore, the original curriculum had also been modelled on that at Paul's. Other indications point in the same direction. The visitation of November 13, 1564, included "the ap-. posicions of the chief iiii formes."' This might refer to the upper school and might indicate that Merchant Taylors' had eight forms as at Paul's; it almost certainly indicates at least as many as six forms, and we shall see that this was probably the number of forms from foundation, as it was certainly by 1607.
We have also some hints in this early period as to the authors in the upper forms. For at an examination of the highest form for schol_
McDonnell, St. Paul's School, p. 144.
7 Wilson, Merchant-Taylors' School, p. 27.
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