Aug. 16. Death of Thomas Fuller (1608-1661),
London antiquarian and divine. He wrote of the teachers of his day, "There is scarce any profession in the commonwealth more necessary; which is so slightly performed. The reasons whereof I conceive to be these: First, young scholars make this calling their refuge; yea, perchance before they have taken any degree in the university, [they] commence schoolmasters in the country, as if nothing else were required to set up this profession but only a rod and a ferula. Secondly, others who are able use it only as a passage to better preferment, to patch the rents [holes] in their present fortune, till they can provide a new one, and betake themselves to some more gainful calling. Thirdry, they are disheartened from doing their best with the miserable reward which in some places they receive, being masters to their children and slaves to their parents.”
Guidelines were set down by a grammar school founded in 1629 at Chigwell, northeast of London, declaring, "The master must be a man of sound religion, neither Papist nor Puritan, of a grave behavior, and sober and honest conversation; no tippler or haunter of alehouses, and no puffer of tobacco:'
Jeffrey Kacirk. Forgotten English Daily Calendar, Pomergranite, 2011