conditions than those amid which he preached, frequenting
the older universities, and the records of some sixteenth cen-
tury grammar-schools tell a similar story. Among the first
twenty-two names on the register of Repton ¹ there are five
gentlemen, four husbandmen, nine yeomen, two websters or
weavers, a carpenter, and a tanner.

But by that time much had changed, and for seventy
years before these documents begin the peasantry in many
parts of England had had sterner things to think of than
the schooling of their children.

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