Sketch of the Reformation in England

by John J. Blunt

[158] Latin was the common language of schools also before and at the Reformation. In the “Monita Pædagogica ad suos Discipulos” of Lily, the grammarian, and first master of Paul’s, is the following admonition:—

“Et quoties loqueris, memor esto loquare Latine,

Et veluti scopulos barbara verba fuge.”

[159] Ecc. Biog. i. 30. note.

[160] Inferno, c. ix.

[161] Ecc. Biog. i. 97, 98.

[162] Mark, xi. 32.

[163] See Milner’s History of the Church, iv. 109.

[164] See Milner’s History of the Church, iv. 130–136.

[165] See Wickliffe’s Life as given in Fox, extracted in Wordsworth’s Ecc. Biog. i. 52. 121.