Excerpt from Going to Markets and Grammar Schools, Vol. 1 of 2: Being a Series of Autobiographical Records and Sketches of Forty Years Spent in the Midland Counties, From 1830 to 1870 The Report of the Committee of 1816 was issued in that year and dated the 2oth of June. That Committee declared through their Report that a very large number of poor children were wholly without the means of instruction, that their parents were very desirous of obtaining education for them, and that they felt persuaded that great advantages would result from Parliament taking steps to meet the deficiency of instruction which the poor were labouring under. The Committee (although their labours were confined to the Endowed Schools of the Metropolis) stated that they had received communications from various parts of the country as to the state of education generally, but especially as to that given in the larger towns. Upon this the Committee suggested that a Parliamentary Commission should be appointed to investigate the state of the whole of these Charitable Educational Endowments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.