AN them. When the complete history of education is written it may be expected to comprise some account of their noble efforts, but that is not within the design of these pages. The Scotch and Irish systems, and such ancillary measures as the Factory and Workshop Laws, Reformatory, Industrial, and Vagrant Schools, are touched only incidentally, and as they bear on the main lines of the story. It is proper I should also add, that although the views expressed may be presumed to be in general harmony with those of the members of the League, no one but myself is responsible for any statement, whether of fact or opinion, contained in the book. FRANCIS ADAMS. YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, CONTENTS. ... ... ... ... ... ... Henry VIII. and Work of the Reformation Edward VI. and Grammar Schools Mary and Elizabeth and Grammar Schools ... ... ... Revival of Knowledge in Elizabeth's Reign Hostilities of Charles I. and Laud against Puritans Act of Uniformity-Conventicle Acts, &c. ... Mandeville's Essay on Charity Schools... Educational Movement of Eighteenth Century... Condition of Church Clergy--Their Neglect of Education Neglect and Opposition of the Government Scotch, New England, and Continental Schools Sydney Smith on Education of the Poor Mr. Whitbread's Parochial Schools Bill, 1807 ... Lord Brougham takes Parliamentary Guidance of the ... Effect of Enquiry into Management of Local Charities Central Society of Education and Statistical Societies ... Influence of Cheap Postage System on Education Decline of Lord Brougham's Influence... : : Opposition to Pretensions of National Society and Clergy Principles of Action of the Department-Their Effect..... Dissatisfaction in the Country and in Parliament The Voluntaryists and their Movement... Ministerial Proposals in regard to Education in 1847... PERIOD.-FROM THR FORMATION OF THE LANCASHIRE PUBLIC SCHOOL ASSOCIATION, 1847, TO that of the League, 1869. Origin of the Lancashire Public School Association Mr. W. J. Fox's Bill in the Session of 1850 The National Public School Association |