. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. This was the case not only at Canter-bury, at A\inchester, and in other cathedral citie.^. Yv estminster School.] INGULPH AND QUEEN EDGITHA. 463 but in such abbey churches as those of Glaston-bury, St. Albans, and Westminster. Accordinglywe find that the Abbey of St. Peters had not beenvery long in existence before provision was madefor the instruction of the youth of the neighbour-hood. At all events, it is an ascertained fact thateven in the reign of Edward the Confessor, andprobably at an earlier date, there was
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. This was the case not only at Canter-bury, at A\inchester, and in other cathedral citie.^. Yv estminster School.] INGULPH AND QUEEN EDGITHA. 463 but in such abbey churches as those of Glaston-bury, St. Albans, and Westminster. Accordinglywe find that the Abbey of St. Peters had not beenvery long in existence before provision was madefor the instruction of the youth of the neighbour-hood. At all events, it is an ascertained fact thateven in the reign of Edward the Confessor, andprobably at an earlier date, there was a schoolatrached to it, for Ingulph, the abbot and historian few trustworthy notices, however, remain to showus the character of this early institution. Fitz-Stephen, in his Life of Thomas h. Becket, con-firms the fact of a school being attached to theAbbey ; and from other sources we know that asalary was paid by the almoner of the monasteryto a schoolmaster for teaching boys salary continued to be paid down to thetime of the dissolution of the THE COLLEGE HALT-. of Croyland Abbey, states that he himself receivedhis education there, adding that, in his way backfrom school, he would meet Edgitha, the queen,who would ask him as to his lessons, and fallingfrom grammar to the brighter studies of logic,wherein she had much skill and knowledge, shewould subtilely catch him in the threads of argu-ment, and afterwards send him home with cakesand money, which was counted out to him by herhandmaidens, and then, like a good kind womanand queen as she was, she would send him tothe royal larder to refresh himself The chronicleof Ingulph, we are aware, has been impeached asto its genuineness ; but, at all events, genuine ornot, it bears testimony to the tradition of an oldmonastic school here before the Conquest. Very A school for the young being thus as necessaryan adjunct to a monastery as were its cloisters andits mill, the three chief homes of the monks ofLon
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