[9] See p. 174.

[10] This edition is not mentioned by Bömer.

[11] See p. xxvi.

[12] See p. 196–196.

[13] p. 21.

[14] p. 18.

[15] p. 65.

[16] In the eighteenth century, the Nonconformist academies, which are of the first significance as educational institutions, probably, in many cases, already associated the stages of elementary, secondary, and university education in one institution.

[17] The grammar school was called in Latin Ludus literarius.

[18] E.g., John Northbrooke: Treatise wherein Dicing, etc., ... are reproved ... Dialogue-wise, 1579 (Reprinted by the Shakespeare Society); Gilbert Walker: A Manifest Detection of the most Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice-play, 1552 (Reprinted by the Percy Society); and by educational writers, e.g., Roger Ascham: Toxophilus (1545), and Laurence Humphrey: The Nobles (1560). William Horman, headmaster of Eton College School, in his Vulgaria (in 1519) holds the opinion: “It is a shame that young gentlemen should lose time at the dice and tables, cards and hazard.”