ABSTRACT
A good deal of the history of formal education in England could be written by collating the subsequent histories of the numerous schools founded in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, only a fraction of which have been mentioned above. Many declined during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and some have completely disappeared from view. Others have remained small country schools down to our own time. Others again—for a variety of reasons, such as the growth of population, increases in the endowments, or the work of outstanding headmasters—have developed into major public and grammar schools.
