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RICHARD MULCASTER, First Headmaster of Merchant Taylors’ School (A.D. 1561-1586);
WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS,
ROBERT HEBERT QUICK, Author of “ Essays on Educational Reformers ”; First University Lecturer at Cambridge on the History of Education (A.D. 1879).
LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO., AND NEW YORK: 15, EAST 16 th STREET. 1888.
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POSITIONS WHEREIN THOSE PRIMITIVE CIRCVMSTANCES BE EXAMINED, WHICH ARE NECESSARIE FOR THE TRAINING vp of Children, either for skill in their booke, or health in their bodie.
WRITTEN by RICHARD MVLCASTER, master of the schoole erected in London anno. 1561, in the parish of Sainct Laurence Povvntneie, by the vvorshipfull companie of the merchaunt tailers of the said citie.
Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautrollier, dvvelling in the blacke Friers by Ludgate, 1581.
Reprinted for Henry Barnard and R. H. Quick by Harrison and Sons, Printers in Ordinary to Her Majesty, St. Martin’s Lane, London, 1887.