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ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION 29 and the school fees, and presents of different sorts from the children, eight florins yearly, to which income was added later on from a church bounty the sum of three and a half gold florins for the singing of lauds with his pupils ; while the salary of the town clerk was only five florins, and that of each of the two burgo- masters only two and a half florins. At Eltville, in the Eheingau, the schoolmaster received yearly twenty- four florins, besides three albuses from each child ; the teachers in Kiedrich, in the Eheingau, received from thirty to ninety guilders ; the teacher in Seligenstadt, on the Main, received, besides his board and wine, eight bushels of wheat and the fees from the scholars. 1 In the schools at Culmbach and Bayreuth the yearly pay of the Latin teacher was seventy-five gold florins, besides board and lodging. It is only by comparison of the different classes of schools that we can estimate the relative height of the incomes of schoolmasters at that time. The whole annual expenses (from 1451-1452) of a young noble- man paid at the University of Erfurt, including college fees, clothing, laundry, and board and lodging for himself and private tutor, came only to twenty-six florins. A Frankfort student paid, at the beginning of the sixteenth century, ten florins a year for board and lodging in the house of the Freiburg University pro- fessor Ulrich Zasius. In the year 1515, when the value of money had considerably fallen, a tun of wine could be bought for nine florins. The salaries of the village schoolmasters in the hamlets of Weeze and Capellan seem very large when compared with the 1 Falk, Schulen am Mittelrhein, pp. 137-139; Zaun, Geschichtc von Kiedrich, p. 156. On the salaries of teachers, see Nettesheim, p. 114..