The total number of private classical schools in the eighteenth century runs into many hundreds. In the Appendix we give a list of 240 schoolmasters of private schools. Most of the names were taken from the admission lists of five colleges of the University of Cambridge (Trinity, King's, St. John's, Caius and Peterhouse) and checked in the Alumni Cantab. and Alumni Oxon. Some more were added from the D.N.B. and published works. Only those whose identity could be definitely proved were included. About 400 private schools and schoolmasters could not be identified owing to lack of details. If the remaining Cambridge registers and all Oxford registers were investigated there is no doubt that the total number of private classical schools would amount to more than a thousand. The clergymen-schoolmasters of the eighteenth century were not only long livers but were active almost to the very end of their lives. On the average twenty years per man would be a conservative estimate of their teaching activity. That means that on the average there were at least 200 private classical schools at any time throughout the century. In the middle of the century the numbers rose to about 300, decreasing to about 100 at the end of the century. The number of endowed Grammar Schools was about 400 (100 before the seventeenth century and 300 founded in the seventeenth century) at the beginning of the eighteenth century, to which about 100 were added during the century. Many of these schools were as small as the majority of private schools, had the same intermittent existence and depended on the local clergy as their masters. Even the appointment of schoolmasters was often decided by local incumbents. There was therefore no sharp dividing line between local 'public' and private classical schools. In these circumstances the role of private schools was similar to public Grammar Schools, and both Universities admitted students from private schools in the same way as from the official Grammar Schools. There was a constant interchange between the two groups of schools. On the one hand the public schools recruited their masters from private schools, on the other not concurring with has left the said place. Any gentleman applying himself to the Master of the said school may find suitable encouragement. N.B. The usher in that school not being admitted either to dine with the Master or Boarders, may, at a third hand, ifhe pleases the said Master, be admitted to dine with his gardener etc.'