[73.] Colet’s Statutes for St Paul’s School are given in Howard Staunton’s Great Schools of England, p. 179-85.
[74.] ‘That there was a school at Rochester before Henry VIII.’s time is proved by our Statutes, which speak of the Schola Grammaticalis as being ruinosa & admodum deformis.’ R. Whiston.
[75.] Pegge concludes these to have been St Paul’s, Bow, and Martin’s le Grand.
[76.] The custom of boys bringing cocks to masters has left a trace at Sedburgh, where the boys pay a sum every year on a particular day (Shrove-Tuesday?) as “cock-penny.” Quick.
[77.] On the London Schools, see also Sir George Buc’s short cap. 36, “Moore of other Schooles in London,” in his Third Vniuersitie of England (t.i. London). He notices the old schools of the monasteries, &c., ‘in whose stead there be some few founded lately by good men, as the Merchant Taylors, and Thomas Sutton, founder of the great new Hospitall in the Charter house, [who] hath translated the Tenis court to a Grammar Schoole ... for 30 schollers, poore mens children.... There be also other Triuiall Schooles for the bringing up of youth in good literature, viz., in S. Magnus, in S. Michaels, in S. Thomas, and others.’
[78.] Udall became Master of Eton about 1534. He was sent to prison for sodomy.
[79.] The perversion of these elections by bribery is noticed by Harrison in the former extract from him on the Universities.
[80.] See p. 273-4, ‘all of a fourme to name who is the best of their fourme, and who is the best next him’.
[81.] ? key of the Campo, see pp. 299 and 300, or a club, the holder of which had a right to go out.
[82.] See Mr Froude’s noble article in The Westminster Review, No. 3, July, 1852 (lately republished by him in a collection of Essays, &c.).