But whereas there be free schools
erected and endowed, or to be erected and endowed in every tribe
of this nation, to a sufficient proportion for the education of
the children of the same (which schools, to the end there be no
detriment or hindrance to the scholars upon case of removing from
one to another, are every of them to be governed by the strict
inspection of the censors of the tribes, both upon the
schoolmaster's manner of life and teaching, and the proficiency
of the children, after the rules and method of that in Hiera) if
a parent has more sons than one, the censors of the tribes shall
animadvert upon and punish him that sends not his sons within the
ninth year of their age to some one of the schools of a tribe,
there to be kept and taught, if he be able, at his own charges;
and if he be not able, gratis, till they arrive at the age of
fifteen years. And a parent may expect of his sons at the
fifteenth year of their age, according to his choice or ability,
whether it be to service in the way of apprentices to some trade
or otherwise, or to further study, as by sending them to the inns
of court, of chancery, or to one of the universities of this
nation. But he that takes not upon him one of the professions
proper to some of those places, shall not continue longer in any
of them than till he has attained to the age of eighteen years;
and every man having not at the age of eighteen years taken upon
him, or addicted himself to the profession of the law, theology,
or physic, and being no servant, shall be capable of the essays
of the youth, and no other person whatsoever, except a man,
having taken upon him such a profession, happens to lay it by ere
he arrives at three or four and twenty years of age, and be
admitted to this capacity by the respective.
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