The tutor sometimes accompanied his student to grammar school or
university. Puritans frequently sent their sons to board in the
house of some Frenchman or Swiss Protestant to learn the Calvinist
doctrines or on tour with a tutor. Certain halls in the
universities were predominately Puritan. Catholics were required
to have their children taught in a home of a Protestant, a
relative if possible.
The Inns of Court were known as "the third university". It served
the profession of law, and was a training ground for the sons of
nobility and the gentry and for those entering the service of the
commonwealth. Some American colonists sent their sons there. The
Inns were self-governing and ruled by custom. Students were
supposed to live within the Inn, two to a room, but often there
were not enough rooms, so some students lived outside the
quadrangles. Every student was supposed to partake of Commons or
meals for a certain fraction of the year - from eight weeks to
three months and there to argue issues in cases brought up by
their seniors. In hall the students were not allowed to wear hats,
though caps were permitted, nor were they to appear booted or
spurred or carrying swords. For the first two years, they would
read and talk much of the law, and were called Clerks Commoners.
After two years they became Mootmen or Inner Barristers. In five
or six years they might be selected to be called to the bar as
Utter Barristers, whose number was fixed.
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