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EDUCATION AND THE OLDER HUMANISTS 73 Count Moritz von Spiegelberg, also in part educated at Deventer, and later on in Italy. As provost at Emmerich, on the Ehine, he was a zealous promoter of education and classical studies. The greatest cordiality existed in the intercourse between the teachers of these different schools, whether newly established ones or old ones improved. Pro- fessors from Minister were sent to the school at Emmerich, professors from Emmerich to the neigh- bouring towns of Xanten and Wesel. The attendance at these schools was very considerable. In Emmerich, the school under the direction of Lambert von Venray numbered four hundred and fiftv Latin scholars in the year 1510, in Xanten and Wesel two hundred and thirty. Even in the little town of Frankenberg, in Hesse, the school under Jacob Horle had nearly one hundred and eighty students. The Swiss, Heinrich Bullinger, who attended the school at Emmerich from 1516 to 1519, says that he was there instructed in the first rudiments of Donatus and the Latin Grammar of Aldus Manutius. ' In addition to this,' he writes, ' were the daily exercises at school and at home. Every dav we had to decline, analyse, and conjugate. There were daily readings of selections from Pliny and Cicero, extracts from Virgil and Horace, poems from the " Baptista Mantuanas," and letters from Jerome and others. Each week a letter had to be written. Latin was invariably spoken.' He was also taught there the rudiments of Greek and dialectics. Strict discipline was enforced, and great attention paid to religion. In the school of Xanten, the chaplain, Adam Potken, gave instruction in the Greek language after the year