Transcriber’s Notes
No attempt has been made to rationalise the spelling within thetext.
Sidenotes, in italics and embedded in the text in the original, havebeen placed at the beginning of the relevant paragraphs and indicatedthus: sidenote
The Latin poem that follows the Dedication contains several wordsending in q with an acute accent. These are shown thus [que].
The cover was created by the transcriber and is placed in the publicdomain.
POSITIONS:
BY
RICHARD MULCASTER,
First Headmaster of Merchant Taylors’ School (A.D. 1561-1586);
WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING SOME ACCOUNTOF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS,
BY
ROBERT HEBERT QUICK,
Author of “Essays on Educational Reformers”; First University Lecturer atCambridge on the History of Education (A.D. 1879).
LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.,
AND NEW YORK: 15, EAST 16th STREET.
1888.
All rights reserved.
POSITIONS
WHEREIN THOSE
PRIMITIVE CIRCVMSTANCES
BE EXAMINED, WHICH ARE
NECESSARIE FOR THE TRAINING
vp of Children, either for skill in their
booke, or health in their bodie.
WRITTEN by RICHARD MVLCASTER, master of theschoole erected in London anno. 1561, in the parishof Sainct Laurence Povvntneie, by the vvorshipfullcompanie of the merchaunt tailers of the said citie.
Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautrollier, dvvelling in the blacke Friersby Ludgate, 1581.
Reprinted for Henry Barnard and R. H. Quick by
Harrison and Sons, Printers in Ordinary to Her Majesty,
St. Martin’s Lane, London, 1887.
iii
To the most vertvovs Ladie
TO THE MOST VERTVOVS
LADIE, HIS MOST DEARE, AND
soueraine princesse, Elizabeth by the
grace of God Queene of England,
Fraunce, and Ireland, defendresse
of the faith &c.
My booke by the very argument,most excellent princesse, pretendetha common good, bycause itconcerneth the generall traineand bringing vp of youth, bothto enrich their minds with learning,and to enable their bodies with health: and itcraues the fauour of some speciall countenauncefarre aboue the common, or else it can not possiblieprocure free passage. For what a simple credit ismyne, to perswade so great a matter? or whatforce is there in common patronage, to commaundeconceites? I am therefore driuen vpon these soviolent consi