I was rather surprised to find no mention of any Eton men in the first vol. of Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses (ed. Bliss) except two, who had first taken degrees at Cambridge, Robert Aldrich and William Alley, the latter admitted at Cambridge 1528 (Wood, p. 375, col. 2). Plenty of London men are named in Wood, vol. 1. No doubt in early times the Eton men went to their own foundation, King’s (or other Colleges at) Cambridge, while the Winchester men went to their foundation, New College, or elsewhere at Oxford. In the first volume of Bliss’s edition of Wood, the following Winchester men are noticed:
p. 30, col. 2, William Grocyn, educated in grammaticals in Wykeham’s school near Winchester.
p. 78, col. 2, William Horman, made fellow of New Coll. in 1477. Author of the Vulgaria Puerorum, &c. (See also Andrew Borde, [p. xxxiv, above, note].)
p. 379, col. 2, John Boxall, Fellow of New Coll. 1542.
402, col. 2, Thomas Hardyng„ „ „1536.
450, col. 2, Henry Cole „ „ „1523.
469, col. 1, Nicholas Saunders „ „ „1548.
678, col. 2, Richard Haydock„ „ „1590.
POST-REFORMATION GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
That the post-Reformation Grammar Schools did not at first educate as many boys as the old monastic schools is well known. Strype says,