'  We  enjoin  that  priests  diligently  teach
youth  and  educate  them  in  crafts  ' — technical
education — '  that  churches  may  have  help
from  them.'  '  Priests  ought  always  to  have
schools  of  schoolmasters  in  their  houses,  and
if  any  of  the  faithful  wish  to  entrust  his
children  to  them  for  instruction  they  ought
willingly  to  receive  them  and  teach  them
kindly.'  This  last  is  copied  from  Theodulf,
Bishop  of  Orleans,  so  that  it  probably  re-
presents a  pious  wish  rather  than  actual
English  practice  at  the  time.  Still,  there  is
no  doubt  that  besides  the  great  schools
established  in  the  great  cities  and  other
large  centres  of  population  in  connection
with  the  cathedrals  and  the  great  collegiate
churches,  whether  those  which  had  been
bishops'  sees  like  Hexham  and  Ripon,
Thetford  or  Crediton,  or  were  almost  second-
ary cathedrals  like  Beverley  and  Southwell
Minsters,  a  certain  number  of  parish  priests,
and  in  later  days  parish  clerks,  also  kept
schools  of  a  humble  kind.  Moreover,  the  wan-
dering scholars,  the  knights-errant  of  educa-
tion, sometimes  set  up  schools  for  a  time
in  likely  places,  such  as  the  one  who  '  by
some  chance,  or  rather  by  the  grace  of
God,'  settled  at  Rotherham  in  Archbishop
Rotherham's  youth  (c.  1435),  and  gave
him  the  education  which  enabled  him  to
be  appointed  one  of  the  first  scholars  of  Eton
in  1443  and  admitted  to  King's  College,  Cam-
bridge, the  same  year.  The  bishops'  duties  to
education  were  certainly  carried  out  in  later
Anglo-Saxon  days  as  they  had  been  in  earlier.
