EDUCATIONAL CHARTERS PAGES 1-285
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Foundation of East Anglian Grammar School, on the Model of Canterbury School. 631.
[Bede, Hist. Eccl. III. 18, ed. C. Plummer, 1896.]
His temporibus regno Orientalium Anglorum, post Erpualdum Redualdi successorem, Sigberct frater eius praefuit, homo bonus ac religiosus; qui dudum in Gallia, dum inimicitias Redualdi fugiens exularet, lauacrum baptismi percepit, et patriam reuersus, ubi regno potitus est, mox ea, quae in Galliis bene disposita uidit, imitari cupiens, instituit scolam, in qua pueri litteris erudirentur; iuuante se episcopo Felice, quem de Cantia acceperat, eisque pedagogos ac magistros iuxta morem Cantuariorum praebente.
The Teaching of Archbishop Theodore and Abbot Hadrian. 668.
[Ib. IV. 1.]
Erat autem in monasterio Niridano, quod est non longe a Neapoli Campaniae, abbas Hadrianus, uir natione Afir, sacris litteris diligenter inbutus, monasterialibus simul et ecclesiasticis disciplinis institutus, Grecae pariter et Latinae linguae peritissimus.…
Erat ipso tempore Romae monachus Hadriano notus, nomine Theodorus, natus Tarso Ciliciae, uir et saeculari et diuina litteratura, et Grece instructus et Latine, probus moribus, et aetate uenerandus, id est annos habens aetatis lx et vi. Hunc offerens Hadrianus pontifici, ut episcopus ordinaretur, obtinuit.
Foundation of East Anglian Grammar School, on the Model of Canterbury School. 631.
At this time, after Redwald's successor Erpwald, his brother Sigebert presided over the kingdom of the East Angles, a good and religious man; who some time before, while in exile in Gaul, flying from the enmity of Redwald, received baptism. After his return home, as soon as he obtained the throne, wishing to imitate what he had seen well ordered among the Gauls, he set up a school in which boys might be taught grammar.
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- Educational Charters and Documents 598 to 1909 , pp. 1 - 285Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1911