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A History of the County of Middlesex
… 'The Cross Row and the arts of writing, grammar and arithmetic.' The plague epidemics were another frequent …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… open to all classes and taught reading with writing and arithmetic, a requirement that pupils should read when … teaching villagers' sons aged 4-16 reading, writing, and arithmetic. Fifty boys were to be taught free, others paying …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… living at Wardy Hill, was teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic on undenominational lines. 76 It was stated in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… number of children were being taught reading, writing, arithmetic, and the Catechism. 98 The condition of this …
Old and New London
… Edward Cocker, a person so well skilled in all parts of arithmetic as to have given rise to the classic phrase, … be accepted. Cocker's fame was chiefly made by his "Vulgar Arithmetic," published after his death by his friend, John … gone, No art can show thee fully but thine own. Thy vast arithmetic alone can show The sums of thanks we for thy …
Old and New London
… above report states, "With the exception of writing and arithmetic, the education given at the school is, according …
Old and New London
… in 1660 (the Restoration), lived that king of writing and arithmetic masters, the man whose name has grown into a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… represent the artsLearning, Astronomy, Geometry, Music, Arithmetic, Logic, Rhetoric and Grammar, with appropriate …
Survey of London
… same duties: her charges also learnt reading, writing and arithmetic, as well as needlework, 'making and mending', but …
A History of the County of Oxford
… boys under the Gibbons endowment 3 were taught writing and arithmetic free, were supplied with books, and were clothed …