FOUNDED IN HONOUR OF Christ Jesu in Puericia and of His Blessyd Mother Mary For 153 boys “of all nacions and countres indifferently to be taught free in the same in good literature both laten and greke” By John Colet, DD Dean of St Paul’s AD MDIX
APPOSITION Saturday 9 May 2026 at 11am
THE APPOSER: Professor Henrietta Harrison FBA
“And often coming from schoole (when I mette her) she would appose mee touching my learning and lesson, and falling from grammar to logicke wherein shee had some knowledge, would subtilly conclude an argument with mee.” JOHN STOW, Chronicles, 1565 “You come to appose me as if I were a scholler in the Grammar School” EDMUND CAMPION, 1581 “When children of that age were playing in the streets, Christ was found sitting in the temple, not to gaze on the outward glory of the house, or on the golden candlesticks or tables, but to hear and appose the doctors.” BISHOP HALL, Contemplations, 1612