The parent's imperfect obligation to educate his children

The Court of Chancery and Education

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CHAPTER VI.

THE DAWN OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION IN ENGLAND.

45. Præ-Reformation elementary schools

Geoffrey Chaucer's school-boys

List of early non-classical schools

46. The school endowment movement, 1660-1730

The reaction from the Act of Uniformity

47. Rates and Education in the eighteenth century.

48. The Bishopsgate Street Workhouse School, 1698

The Woolwich Workhouse School, 1732

Greenwich Hospital School, 1715 .

The Foundling Hospital, 1739

49. Richard Baxter's educational proposals

Baxter's relations with Dr Tillotson

Dr Thomas Gouge (1609-1681)

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205

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1698

50. Social conditions at the opening of the nineteenth cen-

The Factory Act of 1802

The position of apprentices

51. Sir William Blackstone and State Education

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216

Adam Smith and State Education

216

Jeremy Bentham and State Education

217

52.

Mr Whitbread's Poor Law Reform Bill of 1807

The Education of the Poor Bill, 1807.

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220

Dr Samuel Johnson and Education

Petitions against the Education Bill of 1807

53. The Select Committee on Education, 1816.

Liberalism of the Church in 1816

54. Proposals of the Select Committee in 1818.

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225

King George IV. and the National Society

Lord Brougham and English Education

56. Educational movements in 1833

Petitions for a national system

Mr Roebuck's scheme of Compulsory Education

Sir Robert Peel and National Education

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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APPENDIX I.-The text of the Gloucester Grammar School

case, 1410

241

APPENDIX II.--The Endowment of Schools between 1660 and

1730 (with Statistical Tables)

243

APPENDIX III.-The speech of Mr Henry Brougham in the

House of Commons, June 28, 1820

The speech of Henry Lord Brougham in the House

of Lords on May 21, 1835

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285

The speech of Mr Roebuck in the House of Commons,

July 30, 1833

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INDEX

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1341

1362

36 Edw. III. c. 15

Statute of Westminster I

37

33

33

14 Edw. III. stat. 1, c. 4 Statute of Engleschrie

Pleading in English

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1529

21 Hen. VIII. c. 15