Abacus,209-15.A. B. C.,88,209-15,234-7.Abingdon School,132,183.Absence from school severely treated,108-9.Academies, private,143-4,170-4,178-83.Accomplishments taught at theMusæum Minervæ,170-4.—— at a private academy in 1676,178-9.Acolastus,127,257.Addison’sLetter from Italy,203.Æsop,48,99,139,141,287.Ainsworth, Robert,229-30.Aldus,76.Ale,140.Alexander de Villâ Dei,45-6,243-4.Alfric, Archbishop, hisColloquy,30.Allibone, John,12.Alphabet, Jonson’s remarks on our,234-6.Alphabetum Latino-Anglicum, 1543,124.America,33-4.American Plantations,17,84.Amwell,51-3,200.Andreas, Bernardus,68,102.Andrew of Wyntown,184.Anglo-Gallic dictionary,35.——vocabulary,255.Anglo-Latin literature,72.Anniquil, John, schoolmaster and grammarian,11,51-3,91.Apollo Shroving, 1627,144.Apothecaries, early, ignorance of,105.Appleby,107.Appositions,138.Aristotle,244.Arithmetic,163-4.Arthur, Prince, son of Henry VII.,68,102.Arthusius, Gotardus,155.Ascensius, Jod. Badius,78-80.Ascham, Roger,12,19,196,220-3.As in præsenti,216.Astrology,157-8.Astronomy, judicial,133,157.Aufield, W.,268-9.Aurelio and Isabel, History of, 1556,279-81.Aviarium,227-8.Aylesbury,160.Bacon, Francis,177.Baker, Humphrey,163-4.Bailey, Old,165.Balbus, Johannes,50,225.Bale, Bishop,98.Bales, Peter,165.Barchby, John,73.Barclay, Alexander,12.Beaune,256.Bebelius of Basle,81.Beer,140.Bellarmine’s (Cardinal)Catechism,284.Bellomayus, Johannes,73.Bellot, Jacques,267-8,271-2.Bellum Grammaticale,82.Berkshire,160.Bethnal Green,133,170-1.Bible, the, in schools,205-8.Black Eaglein St. Paul’s Churchyard,115.Blue Coat School,253.Board Schools, wise policy of the,207.Bodley, Sir Thomas,10-11.Bodmin,161.Bookbinders,114-15,264.Borde, Andrew,210-11.Boulogne,260.Bow Lane,156.Boy-bishop at St. Paul’s,109.Bracebridge, Thomas,180.Brackley, Waynflete’s school at,11.Bread, manchet,140.Bright, Timothy,177.Brightland, John,131.Browne, Alexander,175.Buchanan, George,117,196.Buckinghamshire,160.Bullokar, William,286-7.Burles, Edward,131.Burney, Charles,23.Busby, Dr.,18,21-3.Buskins,265.Butler, Charles,286-7.Butter, sweet, in 1652,140.Caius, or Kay, John,247-8,273-4.Calligraphy,165,175-6.Cambridge,243-4.Canterbury,241.Carmichael, James,187.Carving,171.Cassilis, Gilbert, Earl of,117-18.Catechism, the,207-8,216.Cathedral schools,7-9,113.Catherine of Aragon,118.Cato, Dionysius,98,287.Caxton, W., his proseÆneid,95-6.Cecil, W., Lord Burleigh,19,220.Chancellor of St. Paul’s,113.Chapman, George,252.Charactery,177.Charles II. and Dr. Busby,21.Charterhouse,76.Chaucer,223.Cheke, Sir John,82,221,247-8.Chichester,106.Childermass,109.Christ’s Hospital,126,135-6,253-4.Christ-cross-row,210-11.Church, salutary influence of the early,5et seq.Churchyard, Thomas,286.Cicero,18,94,96et seq.,110,139,141-2.Ciceronian Academy,219.Cirencester,108.City of London School,135,204.Civil War in Great Britain, influence of the,190,200.Classic authors read in England in 1520,88.—— in 1563,221.—— used at St. Paul’s,110.—— at Merchant Taylors’, &c.,251,253-4.—— at a provincial school in 1788,181.—— by ladies,199,203.—— attempt to supersede, in 1582,231-2.Clerical control over education,3,5-7,190-2,195-208.Cocker, Edward,175-6.Coleridge, S. T.,136.Colet, Dean,8,103,108-14,120-2.Collation at Merchant Taylors’ on Probation Day,140.College education in Scotland, former cost of,189.Collins, W.,281.Collins’sOriental Eclogues,203.Columbus, C.,33.Comparative study of Latin and English,72.Conventual schools,6-7.Cooper’sThesaurus,226,228-9.Corderius, M.,139.Cornwall,161.Corporal punishment in schools,18-26,30.—— petitions to Parliament against it,25.Coster, Laurence,54.Cox, Leonard,123.Croft, Richard,194.Croke, Richard,244.Cromwell, Oliver,191-2.—— Thomas, Earl of Essex,227,257.Dame-schools,196-7,202,206.Dancing,171,178.Davies’s Welsh Grammar,233.Decalogue,120-1.De Conscribendis Epistolis, by Erasmus,103-4.—— an anecdote about the book,104.De Corro, Anthonio,153.De Flores, Juan,279-81.Delamothe, G.,266.Denny, Sir Anthony,226.Derendel, Peter,281.Desainliens, Claude,261-6.Despauterius,46.Dialogues of Lucian translated into Latin by Erasmus,100.—— in English and French,258-9.—— in English and Italian,263-5,279.Dickens’sMrs. Plawnish,273.Dictionaries, early,27et seq.,225-30.Dictionary, definition of a,32.—— of Johannes de Garlandia,32-4.Discipline, severity of early,17-26,108-12.Doctrinaleof Alexander de Villâ Dei,45-6,186.Donatus, Ælius,46-9,50,86,121,184.Dorchester,183.Dorne, John,39,87-9.Dorset Street, Spitalfields,157.D’Ouvilly, Sir Balthazar Gerbier,170-4.Drawing,171,175.Dugard, William,140,145-9.Duncan, Dr.,219.Du Ploiche, Pierre,258-61.Dutch language,153,171,173.Du Wes or Dewes, Giles,117,257.Dyonisie de Mountchensy,36.East Indies,155.Edward the Confessor,17.—— I.35.—— VI.,123-6,135.Elizabeth, Queen,126,130,230-2,241.Elyot, Sir Thomas,226-9.Endowed grammar schools of Edward VI.,126.English school-books printed abroad,85,273.Erasmus, Desiderius,99,103,118,120,127,244-5,247.Erondelle, Pierre,266-7,281-2.Eton,18-19,21.—— Grammar,160.Etymology,151.Euripides,248,254.Evans, Sir Hugh,180-1.Exchange, Royal,164.Farriery,263.Faversham,161.Feckenham,194.Female influence,206-8.Festeau, Paul,269-70.Fish,76-7.Fisher, Bishop,242-3.Fitzjames, Bishop,106.—— Lord Chief Justice,106.Fitzstephen, W.,15.Flageolet,175.Flanders,273.Florence,245.Florio, John,155.Foreign influence,3,38et seq.,66,170-4.—— ignorance of English,273-84.Founders of schools at the Reformation,106.Fox, John,125.Free school at Oxford,60.Free school at Feckenham,194.French dame-schools,197.—— influence,3,257-62,266-70.——Introductory, by G. Du Wes,117.—— knowledge of English,274,280et seq.—— language,153,254et seq.,270.—— orthography,35-6.—— school in St. Paul’s Churchyard,116.Frobenius,76.Frorne = frozen,76.Gadbury, John,158.Gardiner, Bishop,82,247-8.Gascoigne, George,248.Gemma Vocabulorum,225.Geneva, English residents at,10.Gentleman’s Calling, The,13.German influence,197.—— language,152,171,173.—— population of Riga,217.Germany,222,274.Gloucestershire’s Desire, 1642,193.Gold, writing with,176.Golden Ball in St. Paul’s Churchyard,262.Goldsmith’s Alley,94.Goldsmith’sPoems for Young Ladies,202-3.Gradus comparationum,73.Grammar schools, endowed,126.Grammatica Initialis, 1509,14.Grant, Edward,251.Grantham, Lincolnshire,252.Grantham, Thomas,253.Gray’s Inn,248.Greek language,241-54.——, study of the, at Oxford,101-5,244.—— taught at Cambridge by Erasmus,100,243-5.—— taught at public schools,141-2,161,251,253-4.—— taught by private tutors,153.Greeting, Thomas,175.Grey, Lady Jane,222.Grocyn, W.,102,244-5.Guarini of Verona,86-7.Guarna, Andrea,82.Hadleigh, Suffolk,144.Hall, Arthur, of Grantham,252.Harmar, Samuel,193-4.Hart Street,157.Hawkins, William,144.Hayne, Thomas,216,238-9.Hazlitt, William,181-2.—— Mr. Registrar,281, note.Hebrew,142,153,168.Henry VII.,68,245.—— VIII.,68,123-4126,128,133,143,198,205,226-7,246-7,257-8.Hereditary succession of teachers,84.Herefordshire,162.Hero and Leanderof Musæus,253.Herodotus,253.Hertfordshire,131.Highgate,200.Highlanders,276.Hills, Richard,136.Holidays, ancient school,15-17.Holofernes, Shakespear’s,99,155.Holt, John,70-1.Holwell, John,157.Homer,250,252-4.Hoole, Charles,93-4.Hooper, Bishop,276.Horace,64,94.Horman, William,73-8,129,222.—— his literary quarrel with Lily and others,81-2.—— extracts from hisVulgaria,74-8.Horn-book,211,212.Hours of the Virgin, 1514,115.Howell, James,233.Hume, Alexander,131,187.Hundred Merry Tales,133-4.Hunt, Leigh,135.Illustrated children’s books,159.Indian abacus,215.Inglis, Esther,176.Ingulphus,17-18.Ink,76.Instruction, mediæval method of,14,30.Ipswich, Wolsey’s school at,107,119-20.Ireland,131,189,284,286.Italian influence,3,86-7,197,242-3,245,261-6,278-9.—— language,152