Many thanks for the list of early Bucks students to New Coll. I believe that medieval schools (cathedral, church, chantry, guild, grammar etc) taught until about the age of 14, by which time those who wished to apply for University were likely to achieve the minimum standard of Latin to gain entrance. So I suspect that Winchester and the RLS were teaching the same age of children - the difference (I think) is that the pupil fees at Winchester were paid by an endowment. > >Could they have received a preliminary schooling at the Royal Latin School >before going on to Winchester, do you think, or did the school only take pupils >from the same age as Winchester? > -- Paul Poornan