Early English meals and manners : with some forewords on education in early England / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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1868. [Reprinted 1894, 1904]
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    VIU BP. GROSSETETB TAUGHT NOBLES’ SONS. calls in different places ‘ sharp, fond, & lewd ’'—Ascham denounces strongly in the first book of his Scholemaster, and he contrasts their folly in beating into their scholars the hatred of learning with the practice of the Avise riders who by gentle allurements breed them up in the love of riding. Indeed, the origin of his book was Sir Wm. Cecil’s saying to him “ I have strange news brought me this morning, that divers scholars of Eton be run away from the school for fear of beating.” Sir Peter CareAv, says Mr Froude, being rather a troublesome boy, was chained in the Haccombe dog-kennel till he ran away from it. But to return to the training of young men in nobles’ houses. I take the following from Eiddes’s Appendix to his Life of Wolsey : John de AtJion, upon the Constitutions of Othohon, tit. 23, in respect to the Goods of such who dyed intestate, and upon the Word Barones, has the following Passage concerning Grodsted Bishop of Lincoln'^ (who died 9th Oct., 1253),— “ Eobert surnamed Grodsted of holy memory, late Bishop of Lincoln, when King Henry asked him, as if in Avonder, where he learnt the Kurture in which he had instructed the sons of nobles (&) peers of the Eealm, Avhom he kept about him as pages (domisellos'^), —since he was not descended from a noble b'neage, but from humble (parents)—is said to have ansAvered fearlessly, ‘ In the house or guest- cruelty cited from Erasmus’s Letters, by Staunton, in his Great Schools of England, p. 179-80. 1 “ And therfore do I the more lament that soch [hard] wittes commonlie he either kepte from learning by fond fathers, or het from learning by lewde schole- masters,” ed. Mayor, p. 19. But Ascham reproves parents for paying their masters so badly: “ it is pitie, that commonlie more care is had, yea and thatemonges verie wise men, to finde out rather a cunnynge man for their horse than a cunnyng man for their children. They say nay in worde, but they do so in deede. For, to the one they will gladlie give a stipend of 200. Crounes by yeare, and loth to offer to the other, 200. shillinges. God, that sitteth in heauen, laugheth their choice to skorne, and rewardeth their liberalitie as it should: for he suffereth them to have tame and Avell ordered horse, but wilde and unfortunate Children.” Ib. p. 20 Sanctcc meinoriee Robertum Cognominatum Grodsted dudum Lincolniendem EpUcopum, Rcgi Henrico quasi admirando, cum interrogavit, ubi Noraturam didicit, gud Filios Nohilium Procerum Regni, quos secum habuit Eomisellos, instruxerat, cum non de nobiliprosapia, scd de simplicibus traxisset Originem, fertur intrcpide respon- disse, In Bomo sen Hospitio Majorum Region quam sit Rex Anglice ; Quia Region, David, Salomonis, aliorion, vivendi morem didicerat ex Intelligentia scripturarum. 2 Domicellcs, Domniccllus, diminutivum a Bomnus. Gloss, antiquae MSS.: Ucriles, Bomini minores, quod possumus aliter dieere Bomnicelli, Ugutio: Bomicelli et BomieellcB dicuntur, quando pulchri Juvenes magnatum sunt sicut servientes. Sic porro primitus appellubant magnatum, atque adeo Regum filios. Du Cange.