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This refers to the Thomas Gouge schools and Cromwell-era schools which are discussed latter. I don't want to include too much detail in the lead because these schemes both had limited success and were the first instances of a movement that really took of in the 18th century beginning with the founded
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There is some evidence that girls may have been allowed to attend certain elementary-level schools which is mentioned in the article; "Endowments for elementary schools often referenced "children" rather than "boys" or "scholars", suggesting that they might have admitted
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The Black Death killed many people (possibly half of people). This caused an economic crisis which negatively effected the church, which was the main provider of education. After Owain Glyndwr was defeated Welshmen were prohibited from working for the
47: 823:. They all had slightly different criticisms which would be difficult to condense quickly. I don't like including too much detail about theoretical ideas because it might confuse readers about what actually happened.-- 126: 1164:: "For example, tutors employed to educate the offspring of the wealthy might expand their lessons to a wider group of children" makes this practice seem a lot broader and more prolific than the book does. 729:
Since we are not referring to the whole of the 15th century, as the beginning of the period saw the Glyndŵr rebellion, "there was a steady expansion for the rest of the 15th century" seems more precise?
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There was a slow economic recovery and Welshmen began to be unofficially accepted back into the government. This began to have an effect on education, especially in the second half of the century.--
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For instance one school in Montgomeryshire described its aim in 1549 as being to teach "young beginners only to write and sing, and to read so far as the Accidence Rules, but no grammar"
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The review looks to be of high quality. The article is of high-quality, making it more difficult to find clear things to improve. Well done as a first review :).
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One such motivated scholar was Edward Carne from Ewenny in the Vale of Glamorgan, who had a celebrated legal career and eventually became an ambassador
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One comment goes beyond what's expected in an GA (such as the m-dashes). In general, detailed formatting is usually a FAC criterion.
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Licensing is good on both the images, I think the article would benefit from an image of Thomas Gouge and Jesus College though.
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After many introductory clauses, or between independent clauses, I added commas to give the reader more time to process.
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I have fixed the very small errors myself. Let me know if you see any issue with the fixes. General themes were:
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This expansion in demand was partially due to the same factors as the expansion in lower levels of education
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some experiments in educating a wider group of children took place in the second half of the 17th century
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The impact of the Black Death and the Glyndŵr rebellion harmed the Welsh elite's prospects for education
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to teach the poor Welsh children to read and write English, cast Accompts and repeat the Catechism
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The number of Welshmen who were registered, other men might of attended who weren't registered.--
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The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK) was founded in 1699 with similar aims
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In Wales, formal education remained almost entirely dominated by the Church until after 1500
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There is one bit of guideline that a GA article does not yet meet, and that is to avoid
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I have taken out the quotation marks as they are not usual for an act of parliament.--
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Since this is now also a direct quote (I think), it will need an inline citation.
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Could this information be added to the article for context? Something like:
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Added brief overview, it's discussed in more detail in the next article.--
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A 1650 Act appointed a commission that established sixty schools in Wales
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It is discussed in the next paragraph so I'd prefer to avoid repetition--
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Those progressing onto a Master's degree studied a wider range of fields
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I replaced many semi-colons with commas, because the later clauses were
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Ah yes, my bad. For some reason I forgot about elementary schooling.
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Women and girls were excluded from grammar schools and universities
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wording, is it possible to provide who criticized this approach?
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Sorry, I must have misunderstood this at the time. Corrected.--
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Everything below may require some discussion before changing.
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Apart from the minor edits I have made, all looks good here.
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I have changed "might expand" to "occasionally expanded".--
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There was some criticism of this approach at the time
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This was a mistake, I will change it to Caerleon.--
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