Notes to the Boke of Curtasye, &c. 283 Index to the Poems, &c. (before the Postscript) 286
[***] POSTSCRIPT (added after the Index was printed).
FFOR TO SERVE A LORD (see Preface to Russell, p. lxxii.), with _A Feste for a Bryde_, p. 358 349 Suffer, and hold your tongue 361 The Houshold Stuff occupied at the Lord Mayor's Feast, A.D. 1505 362 The Ordre of goyng or sittyng 365 Latin Graces 366 SYMON'S Lesson of Wysedome for all maner Chyldryn 381 The Birched School-Boy of about 1500 A.D. 385 The Song of the School-Boy at Christmas 387 The Boar's Head 388
The Headnotes from the General Preface are collected here to act as a table of contents. Each note will also appear in the text at approximately its original location.]
EDWARD THE FOURTH'S HENCHMEN RICH MEN'S EDUCATION IN EARLY ENGLAND. HOUSES OF NOBLES AND CHANCELLORS WERE SCHOOLS. BP. GROSSETETE TAUGHT NOBLES' SONS. YOUNG NOBLES IN WOLSEY'S HOUSEHOLD. KNOWLEDGE OF FRENCH. APPRENTICESHIP IN HENRY VII.'S TIME. GIRLS SENT OUT TO LADIES' HOUSES. PRIVATE TUITION IN EARLY ENGLAND. EDUCATION AT HOME AND AT TUTORS'. STUDIES OF YOUTHS, TEMP. HEN. VIII. AND ELIZABETH. NEGLECT OF EDUCATION BY MOTHERS. UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN EARLY ENGLAND. POVERTY OF UNIVERSITY SCHOLARS. UNDERGRADUATE'S EXPENSES AT OXFORD, 1478. FEW NOBLEMEN AT CAMBRIDGE. NOBLES AND GENTLEMEN AT OXFORD. FAVOURITISM OF THE RICH IN THE UNIVERSITIES. BAD EXAMPLE OF RICH MEN AT COLLEGE. FOREIGN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION. MONASTIC AND CATHEDRAL SCHOOLS. LYDGATE'S TRICKS AT SCHOOL. EDUCATION OF FIELD LABOURERS. NO BONDSMAN'S SON TO BE AN APPRENTICE. POST-REFORMATION CATHEDRAL SCHOOLS. POOR MEN'S SONS HAVE HEADS AS WELL AS RICH ONES'. AN ETON BOY IN A.D. 1478. POST-REFORMATION GRAMMAR SCHOOLS. STUDY OF ENGLISH RECOMMENDED IN 1582-1612. A GRAMMAR-SCHOOL BOY'S DAY IN A.D. 1612. THE GOOD OLD TIMES OF SMOKE AND FILTH. NAKED SCULLIONS AND DIRTY STREETS.
"The naturall maister Aristotell saith that euery body be the course of nature is enclyned to here & se all that refressheth & quickeneth the spretys of man[1] / wherfor I haue thus in this boke folowinge[2]" gathered together divers treatises touching the Manners & Meals of Englishmen in former days, & have added therto divers figures of men of old, at meat & in bed,[3] to the end that, to my fellows here & to come, the home life of their forefathers may be somewhat more plain, & their own minds somewhat rejoiced.