went to chantry schools.
But the following three factors began
to diminish the control of the church in education:
the development of philosophy, medicine and law removed parts of the curriculum from church supervision;
the new universities were determined to be independent 'corporate learned bodies deciding their own conditions for granting degrees and licenses to teach’
by the end of the 15th century the network of grammar and song schools had been joined by a number of 'independent' schools.
15-16 centuries