Editing Schoolmaster (section)

==Spelling==
The term schoolmaster was once commonly two words, and the spelling has varied. 

[[Roger Ascham]]'s book ''The Scholemaster Or a Plaine and Perfite Way of Teachyng Children, to Understand, Write and Speake the Latin Tong'' was published in 1570.<ref>''The Children's World of Learning, 1480-1880'' Vol. I (1905 edition), [https://books.google.com/books?id=jICsEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA133 p. 133]</ref>

In 1634, Henry Bury, former master of [[Bury Grammar School]], left in his will £300 to the "ffree school" at Bury "for and towards the yearlie mentayninge of a school maister there, for to teach their children."<ref>Derek Hodgkiss, [http://www.henrydunstersociety.org/uploads/2/0/1/6/20161677/roger_kay_commem_book_b.pdf ''Bury Grammar School''],  henrydunstersociety.org (and Bury: BGS, 1974) accessed 21 November 2016</ref>