For having learned to read, but never to write, beyond, that is, the trifle of her maiden name, she valued scholarship both by that she had, and that she had not; and in the year after I was breeched, prevailed on my father who, for his part, good man, never advanced beyond theNeck Verse, to bind me to the ancient Grammar School at Bishop's Stortford, then kept by a Mr. G----.
