A Life of John Colet, D. D., Dean of St. Paul's And Founder of St. Paul's ...
A Life of John Colet, D. D., Dean of St. Paul's And Founder of St. Paul's ...
J H Joseph Hirst Lupton
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insti- tuendis," and other passages quoted in Appendix B. to the "Lives of Vitrier and Colet;" and compare above, pp. 8, i6. Digitized by Google FOUNDATION OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. 1 55 There is extant, for example, a will made by one who was almoner of St. Paul's in the early part of Edward Ill.'s reign, William de Tolleshunte, a native, probably, of the parish in Essex so called. He died in 1329. By his will, made in the previous year, he bequeathed to the Almonry, for the use of the boys living... and studying there, a library of books, which, though small in number according to our ideas, embraced all the main subjects of academic teaching. There was not only Priscian, " major " and " minor," and Isidore, and " all my grammatical books," but there were works on Logic, on the Aristotelian Physic, on Medicine, on Civil Law (including the Institutes, Code, and Digest), and on Canon Law. Some of these, it is directed, might be lent to boys showing an aptitude for scholarship, on leaving the Almonry, due caution being taken for their safe return ; but all were bequeathed expressly for the use of the boys.* It is reasonable to infer from this, that the testator contem- plated cases in which the " little clerks," after their voices had broken, and they had thus become disqualified for a time for ^ ^'Registnim Eleemosynarise D.
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