In 1701 the pamphlet The School of Manners was published outlining the expectations of children's behavior at home, at table, in company, in discourse, at school, abroad, and among boys. The preface explains in part, "Parents expect that children under the Schoolmasters care, should be competently furnished, that of decent Carriage and Behaviour is no less necessary and ornimental, than universally demanded. Nor is it an unreasonable expectation in those, that unwillingly are at great expences for the good and wholesome Education of their offspring in good letters, besides the bare acquisition of learning, that they should understand something of ingenious and obliging conversation, to distinguish them from the unpolished and illiterate Rout, and honorably to grace their other excellent attainments..."

Chapter two outlines ten rules to observe while at church:

1. Decently walk to thy Seat or Pew; run not, nor go wantonly.

2. Sit where thou art ordered by thy Superiors, Parents, or Masters.

3. Shift not Seats, but continue in the same place.

4. Lend thy place for the easing of any one that stands near thee.

5. Keep not too long a Seat lent thee by another, but being eased restore it.

6. Talk not in the Church, especially in the time of Prayers or Preaching.

7. Fix thine eye upon the Minister. Let it not widely wander to gaze upon any Person or Thing.

8. Attend diligently to the words of the Minister, pray with him when he prayeth, at least in thy Heart; and while he preacheth, listen, that thou mayest remember.

9. Be not hasty to run out of the Church when the Worship is ended, as if thou wert weary of being there.

10. Walk decently and soberly home, without haste or wantonness.