A short history of England . ed that the offering up of prayers for thesouls of the dead, the burning of candles before the shrines ofsaints, and the hallowing of private chapels were superstitiousand unchristian practices, and that the property possessed bychantries and devoted to these uses should be confiscated to thegovernment. Immediate steps were taken to carry this old memorial services and celebrations came to an end ascompletely as had the monasteries, and some two thousand chantrypriests ceased to performtheir old duties but re-ceived small pensionsfrom the government torecom
A short history of England . ed that the offering up of prayers for thesouls of the dead, the burning of candles before the shrines ofsaints, and the hallowing of private chapels were superstitiousand unchristian practices, and that the property possessed bychantries and devoted to these uses should be confiscated to thegovernment. Immediate steps were taken to carry this old memorial services and celebrations came to an end ascompletely as had the monasteries, and some two thousand chantrypriests ceased to performtheir old duties but re-ceived small pensionsfrom the government torecompense them for thesalaries of which theyhad been deprived. 278. Schools. — Thechantries had performedother duties along withtheir religious had distributed alms to a certain number of poor persons. Some had provided forthe support of one or more schoolmasters to give free duties the government now undertook to perform or to pro-vide for by the return of a proportionate part of the endowments. suae A Fifteenth-Century Grammar Schoolat Taunton 314 A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND which had been confiscated. A promise was also given todevote a portion of the money before used for the support ofpriests to the support of schools. This duty was only partiallycarried out. Many if not all of the schools formerly kept up bythe chantries were reestablished by the government and their oldendowments returned to them; but the confusion of the timesand the difficulties of the government prevented any properattention to the support and encouragement of the reorganizedschools, and much of the funds secured from the chantries waswasted or used for very different purposes. At about the sametime, however, a number of new schools were established andendowed by private persons, and the reign of Edward VI hasalways been looked back to as a time of the founding or refound-ing of schools. 279. Inclosures.—The period of the early Tudors was one inwhich many other fundament
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