Table of Contents

Preface; 1. The development of grammar schools; 2. The grammar schools and the renascence; 3. Grammar school founders: the great warrior prelates; 4. Grammar school founders: the great Tudor merchants; 5. The Marian 'exiles' and the grammar schools; 6. Church control of the grammar schools; 7. The church and the grammar schools: religious observances and instruction; 8. The grammar school curriculum; 9. The old grammar school: internal life; 10. The decadence of grammar schools and the rise of the 'great public schools'; Short bibliography; Index.

Promotional Information

This 1916 book contains an account of the structure of early English grammar schools, with information on their historical development.