The Grammar Schools of Medieval EnglandLeach struggled to rid his countrymen of the persistent myth that the monks had been the schoolmasters of the pre Reformation period in England. To accomplish his goal he embarked on a program of research and publication, based on a mass of hitherto unexplored documents, to establish the great antiquity of many of the nation's Latin schools and to show that they derived from clerical, but secular, colleges of Anglo Saxon times. Showing this would, he