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girls did not usually stay beyond the age of nine. This was done
by a schoolmaster's assistant, a parish clerk, or some older boys.
However, the grammar schools did not become the breeding grounds
for humanist ideas because the sovereigns were faced with
religious atomism and political unrest, so used the grammar
schools to maintain public order and achieve political and
religious conformity.
Some founders of grammar schools linked their schools with
particular colleges in the universities following the example of
Winchester being associated with New College, Oxford, and Eton
with King's College, Cambridge. The new charter of Westminster
(1560) associated the school with Christ Church, Oxford and
Trinity College, Cambridge.
The government of Oxford University, which had been Catholic, was
taken from the resident teachers and put into the hands of the
Vice-Chancellor, Doctors, Heads of Colleges, and Proctors.
Cambridge already had a strong reformed element from Erasmus'
influence. Oxford University and Cambridge University were
incorporated to have a perpetual existence for the virtuous
education of youth and maintenance of good literature. The
Chancellors, masters, and scholars had a common seal. Oxford was
authorized to and did acquire its own printing press.
Undergraduate students entered about age 16 and resided in rooms
in colleges rather than in scattered lodgings.
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