The schools of medieval England . win atfirst confirmed it to the dean, Hyllarius, and the secularcanons, with all its free customs, as they anciently heldthe same, namely, the school of the same town, its freecourts and soon. But in 1150 regular canons were intro-duced and as the secular canons died off, their places were notfilled, and it was expressly provided that none of theirfamilies should be brought in as by inheritance . A formaldeed of confirmation of all the rights of the seculars to theregulars was executed in 1161. The school then passed tothe priory and the master was appointed b
The schools of medieval England . win atfirst confirmed it to the dean, Hyllarius, and the secularcanons, with all its free customs, as they anciently heldthe same, namely, the school of the same town, its freecourts and soon. But in 1150 regular canons were intro-duced and as the secular canons died off, their places were notfilled, and it was expressly provided that none of theirfamilies should be brought in as by inheritance . A formaldeed of confirmation of all the rights of the seculars to theregulars was executed in 1161. The school then passed tothe priory and the master was appointed by it. The schooldoes not appear again in history till the dissolution of thepriory was impending in 1538, when a vehement petition forits continuance was presented by the prior, John Draper, oneof the chief reasons alleged being that the canons and theirpredecessors have used contynually hitherto to kepe a maisterto teache grammer to children and schollers there, and certeynof them havyng meate drynke and clothe . Like the school. HUNTINGDON GRAMMAR SCHOOL, TWELFTH CENTURY SCHOOLS FROM LANFRANC TO BECKET 123 at Dunstable, it perished with the priory at the dissolution ofmonasteries. At Thetford, on the other hand, is an exceptional instanceof a resumption of this right of school government from aCluniac priory. Bishop Herbert, known by the surname ornickname of Lozlnga, who had been made Bishop of the EastAnglian See when it was at Thetford, in 1094 removed thesee to Norwich. By his advice the ex-cathedral church ofSt. Mary was converted into a Cluniac priory by Roger Bigodin 1107. But seven years later the priory was moved outsidethe town, the monks preferring rural solitude to town life;and having quarrelled with the monks over the possession ofthe body of Bigod, the bishop restored the town church of to secular hands, and with the church, the school. Soin, approximately, the year 1114 we find him addressing thebrethren (the monks) and his sons (the secular clergy): k
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