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contained not onely the Eloquence of the toung, but also good plaine lessons of honesty & godlines whereby they may be induced also to perfect pronunciacon.
In the third forme shalbe placed all Schollars that haue profitablie passed through & learned y¬premisses before prescribed And the Mr shall teach to them the Lattine Gramar as it is set forth & used in this realme. Terence Esopes fables virgill Tullies epistles or so many of them as he shall thinke fit for the capacitie & profit of his schollars in the same & as he shall perceiue them profit in Learning so shall he place them in the 4 forme-
And euery day he shall giue them an English to be made in Latine & teach unto them there placed Salust, Ovid, Tullies offices, the comentaries of Caesar, Copia verboru et Reru Erasmi; or so many of the said Bookes or other as he shall thinke expedient for their Capacities and also he shall teach the art & rules of versifieing (if he himselfe be experte therein) to such Schollars as he shall perceiue apt to learne the same & the art of nuns bring by Arithmaticke And the practise of the Schollars in this 4 forme must be daily to turne & translate sentenses from English into Latine & so contrary from latine into English and at Certaine times to write Epistles one of them to another & the Mr to peruse the same over & amend the faults that he findeth therein
The Schollars of the said second & third forme shall euery Mounday teusday wednesday & thurseday being workedayes first in the morning say over one of the 8 partes of speach & upon Friday Sum, es,fui, wt~ his compounds as the Mr shall appoint & upon Saterday they shall repeate such things as they haue learned the weeke before & when Saterday is holy day the said repetitions shalbe upon Friday & euery Friday after dinner the Schollers of the Second 3rd & 4 formes shall exercise themselves onely in writing themes instructing them therein vntill they can hansomely write there owne Letters & Lessons.
And no Schollars shalbe suffered to continue in the sd Schoole over one mounth except he haue bookes necessary for his forme or else dayly write his Iessons with his owne hand.
The Schollars of the 3 & 4 formes shall speake nothing in the Schoole house but Latine saving in their teaching of ye lower formes e
An attached list shows that books given by Pursglove in 1561 and mostly lost by 163o were wholly Biblical and patristic. The curricula of the two schools are identical except that one omits Ovid and the other Horace. It is clear that the lists should have been identical, and so it is probable that both Ovid and Horace were intended at each school. Pursglove had expected that only a master would officiate in his schools. As a matter of fact, his schools have only three forms,
From a copy made in 163o, preserved in the Library of the Inner Temple as Barrington MS. 22., f. 646, and catalogued in Historical Manuscripts Commission, Eleventh Report, Appendix, Part VII, p. 303. I am indebted to the proper authorities for permitting the Library of the University of Illinois a photostat of it.
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