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<HEAD>TO ALL FATHERS OF NOBLE Families, and lovers of Vertue.</HEAD>
<P>_BE it known that Sir <HI>Baltha&s;ar Gerbier,</HI> Knight, erects an Acade|my, wherein forraigne Languages, Sciences, and all Noble exerci&s;es &s;hall be taught, <HI>viz French, Italian, Spani&s;h, German,</HI> and <HI>Low Dutch,</HI> both Ancient and Modern Hi&s;tories, joynlty with the con&s;titution and government of the mo&s;t Famous Em|pires and Stares of the world. Be&s;ides, the true experimentall Naturall Philo&s;ophy. As al&s;o, what is mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary and mo&s;t noble of the Mathematicks, to wit, Arithmetick, the true method of keeping Bookes of Account, by double parties, as is practi&s;ed in <HI>Italy</HI> and other parts of <HI>Europe,</HI> Geometry, Geography, Co&s;|mography, Per&s;pective, and Architecture, as well for building as for magnificent &s;hewes, and &s;ecret motions of Scenes, and the like. But above all, what is mo&s;t excellent of practicall Ma|thematickes, what&s;oever belongeth to Fortification, be&s;ieging and defending of places, Fire|workes, ordering of Battallies, and Marches of Armes, Mu&s;ick, playing of all &s;orts of In|&s;truments, Dancing, Fencing, riding the great Hor&s;e, together with the new manner of fighting on Hor&s;e-backe. And if there be any lovers of Vertue, who have an inclination to Drawing, Painting, Limning and Carving, either for their curio&s;ity, or to attain unto a greater excellency in &s;everall of the forementioned Sciences, <HI>(viz.</HI> Arithmetick, Fortifications, &amp;c.) they may have them as exactly taught as any of the other Sciences, and by a &s;hort method, which &s;hall give them a full in&s;ight in the Theoricall part of the &s;aid Sciences and Exerci&s;es at the &s;elf &s;ame time that they &s;hal be taught in the Forraigne languages, whereunto &s;hall &s;erve &s;e|verall Treaties held forth by the &s;aid Sir <HI>Baltha&s;ar</HI> in the Forraigne Languages afore&s;aid, the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> tongue being joyned thereunto, together with divers excellent Tables of very great u&s;e for facilitating the matter, and helping the memory; which Treaties &s;hall be continually at Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e <HI>Allens</HI> &s;hop at the &s;igne of the Crown in <HI>Popes-head Alley,</HI> neere the old <HI>Ex|change, London;</HI> &s;o that all lovers of the&s;e Languages, Sciences, and Exerci&s;es, may be plea&s;ed to addre&s;&s;e them&s;elves to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Baltha&s;ars</HI> hou&s;e, at <HI>Bednall Green,</HI> beyond <HI>White Chap|pell,</HI> where Gentlemen, and the &s;onnes of all &s;uch lovers of vertue, are received and accommo|dated to their and their parents entire &s;atisfaction, being a place mo&s;t plea&s;ant, healthfull, and fit for the &s;tudious, that are di&s;po&s;ed to apply them&s;elves, as afore&s;aid, and there to improve them&s;elves in &s;uch a &s;hort and convenient time, as that they &s;hall be the &s;ooner enabled to travell as Gentlemen, who conver&s;ing with per&s;ons of repute and worth, will leave a no|ble e&s;teem of them&s;elves in forraigne parts, when &s;trangers &s;hall find them to be well ver&s;t in Languages, Sciences, and perfect in all noble Qualities; And that they &s;hall not owe to the &s;aid &s;trangers, the merit of their education. Be&s;ides the other more weighty con&s;iderations which con&s;cience and loyalty to our own native Countrey obligeth all, parents to preferre, and e&s;pecially in the&s;e evill times, when it proves a generall misfortune that a number of young Gentlemen abroad, are drawn into evil company, where they heare and learn nothing but meere corruption both of manners and language, be&s;ides de&s;tructive Principles to their na|tive Countrey, and to their Religion, it being al&s;o con&s;iderable, that the &s;ending of young Gentlemen to any of the Forraigne Academies (where they &s;hall learn no more qualities then now they may get at home, nor altogether &s;o many) as it is incomparably more expen&s;ive, &s;o it expo&s;eth them to many dangers and inconveniencies.</P>
<P>And although the principall &s;cope of the Academie is for the education of young Gentle|men, yet tho&s;e of more mature Age, may find in it wherewith abundantly to &s;atisfie any laudable curio&s;ity in any kinde what&s;oever, whether onely for enriching the minde, or for honorable profit.</P>
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