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The Queen's Grammar, with the Accidence.
The small Catechism in Latin, publicly authorised. Confabulationes Pueriles.
Aesopi Fabulae.
Epistolae Minores Selecte.
Officiorurn. in Prose.
M. T. De Amicitia.
Ciceronis De Senectute. Lib. Tusculanarum Questionum.
Orationes, or any other of his works. Salustius.
J
ustinus. Comentarii Caesaris. in Prose. Q. Curtius.
Distica Catonis. B. Mantuanus.
Terrentius. Pallurgenius.
Virgilius. Buchanani Scripta. in Verse.
Horatius. Sedulius.
Ovidii Metamorphoses. Prudentius. Ovid: de Tristibus.
The Greek Grammar of Cleonard, or some other generally allowed.
The little Greek Catechism set forth by public authority, and any other good Author in Greek.
The Schoolmaster may use his choice of these books, to take or leave as he thinketh meet, to be appointed for every Form, saving that the Accidence, the Queen's Grammar, and the Catechism aforesaid, shall not be omitted. And the Schoolmaster shall not suffer his Scholars to have any lewd or superstitious books or ballads amongst them .¬
Strype7 gives us the further information that the usher at St. Bees was to teach the A B C in English, the Psalter and the Book of Com-
mon-prayer, while the Master was to teach the Catechism in Latin (including Nowell's). The master was advised but not required to teach Palingenius, Sedulius, and Prudentius. The Queen's Grammar; that is, Lily, was, of course, required. Here is the hand of Dean Colet. It will be noticed that these requirements and suggestions appear duly in our list. It appears, therefore, that the usher was really a teacher of petties and that the master alone was to teach the gram-mar school proper.
Leach says that "An enormous list of authors to be read" is also to be found at Durham in 1593; but he gives only a few selected examples, which we have already noticed above.' One will find that these
' Carlisle, Grammar Schools, Vol. I, p. I f $.
7 Strype, John, The History of the Life and Acts of the Most Reverend Father in God, Edmund Grindal (1710), p. 312.
' The Victoria History of the County of Durham, Vol I, pp. 377-378.
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