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At last, I bethought myself of a . . Man who 50 Thomas Becon, The Early Works of Thomas Becon, ed. J. Ayre, Parker Society, 2 (Cambridge University Press, 1843), p. 38. 51 Aston, Lollards and Reformers, p. 214. 52 See above, pp. 27–8. Literacy, society and education 31 taught some poor People’s Children to Read and Write; and having by this time got two Sheep of my own, I applied myself to him, and agreed with him to give him one of my Sheep to teach me to make the Letters, and Joyn them together.
Although his fellow shepherds, as a group, were not ‘ready readers’ they did, again as a group, possess the capacity to help him to learn to spell out words. He was not dependent on only one of them to help him. But these Gloucestershire shepherds could not write at all. A semi-qualified teacher was called for, and it took some effort to find him. Thomas Tryon eventually went to London as an apprentice. His addiction to print continued. He made time to read by sitting up at night for two or three hours after his day’s work was finished.
71–7. 11 Charlton, Women, Religion and Education, pp. 78–84; Cressy, Literacy and the Social Order, pp. 19–21. 12 G. D. ), A General Account of my Life by Thomas Boston, AM, Minister at Simprin, 1699–1707 and at Ettrick, 1707–32 (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908), p. 3. 18 kenneth charlton and margaret spufford boys of superior social status left for grammar school, as John Evelyn did. 13 His father later complained of his writing when he was fifteen, and he had an intensive ‘moneth or two’ at a writingschool.
