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<P>Imprimatur</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Joannes Langley</SIGNED> <DATELINE><DATE>Jan. 5. 1649.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="treatise on education">
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<HEAD>TO ALL FATHERS OF NOBLE FAMILIES, AND LOVERS OF VERTUE.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><ADD>Aug. 4. 1649</ADD></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_SIR BALTHAZAR GERBIER Knight, the Author of the Aca|demy, wherein the honour of the Nation, the generall &s;atisfaction of all Fathers of Families, and the improve|ment of all men that are lovers of Langua|ges, Sciences, and all Noble Exerci&s;es is concerned; having during his being con|ver&s;ant with forraine Nations, and his re|&s;idency among them, in &s;ervice of the State,
<PB N="2" REF="3">ob&s;erved both the advantages which Fa|thers of Families, and all lovers of vertue, procure to them&s;elves by publicke Acade|mies, as al&s;o the inconveniencies where|unto many of tho&s;e that travell, are &s;ub|ject; hath al&s;o fixt on this mo&s;t Noble, and mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary de&s;igne (how great and la|borious &s;oever it may prove to him and his) to apply all his time, his cares, la|bours, faculties, and all po&s;&s;ible indu&s;try, as well in his owne per&s;on, as by tho&s;e that &s;hall teach the Latin, Greek, French, Ita|lian, Spani&s;h, German, and Low Dutch, &s;everall &s;orts of Hands of excellent Wri|ting; both Ancient and Moderne Hi&s;to|ries, joyntly with the Con&s;titution, and Government of the mo&s;t famous Empires and States 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 Ac|count, by Debptor and Creditor, as is pra|cti&s;ed in <HI>Italy,</HI> and other parts of Europe,
<PB N="3" REF="3">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 ex|cellent of practicall Mathematicks, what&s;oever belongeth to Fortification, Be&s;ieging, and defending of places, Fire|works, ordering of Battalioes, and Mar|ches of Armies, Mu&s;ick, playing of all &s;orts of In&s;truments, Dancing, Fencing, Ryding the Great Hor&s;e, together with the new manner of Fighting on Hor&s;e|back, and if there be any lovers of Ver|tue, who have an inclination to Draw|ing, Painting, Limming, and Carving either for their Curio&s;ity, or to attaine unto a greater excellency in &s;everall of the forementioned Sciences (<HI>Viz.</HI> Ar|chitecture, Fortifications, <HI>&amp;c.</HI>) they may have them as exactly taught, as a|ny 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
<PB N="4" REF="4">&s;ayd Sciences, and Exerci&s;es, at the &s;elf|&s;ame time that they &s;hall be taught in the Forraigne Languages; whereunto &s;hall &s;erve &s;everall Treati&s;es held forth by the &s;ayd SIR BALTHAZAR GERBIER, in the Forraigne Lan|guages afore&s;ayd, the Engli&s;h tongue being joyned thereunto, together with diver&s;e excellent Tables of very great u&s;e, for facilitating the matter, and help|ing the memory; which Treati&s;es &s;hal be continually at Mi&s;tri&s;&s;e <HI>Allens</HI> Shop, at the &s;igne of the Crowne in Popes head Alley, neere the Old Exchange, <HI>LON|DON:</HI> The &s;ayd SIR BALTHAZAR GERBIER, being fully per&s;waded, that all &s;uch Fathers of Families as mind the improvement of their Sonnes, will cheerefully and readily embrace what is now proffered unto them, and pre|ferre the placing of their Sonnes in this Academy, to their Travelling a|broad, not onely in troubled times, but at any other hereafter; for when all is
<PB N="5" REF="4">done, Parents doe &s;pend much for keep|ing of &s;ome of their Sons abroad, when during that chargable time, they for the mo&s;t part, doe become acquainted one|ly with Academi&s;ts, and then returne; leaving to tho&s;e Forraigners, the honour of their Education; when if they bee taught before their Travelling abroad, they will then in a &s;hort time make them&s;elves knowne among the be&s;t of men, in the Courts of Princes, and there lodge a glorious impre&s;&s;ion of the Abi|lities of the Nation, every whit as able of Body and Minde, as any other can be: They will al&s;o, Travelling in a more mature age, be the more &s;ecured again&s;t tho&s;e, who make it their practice to cor|rupt young Men, and to infu&s;e into them de&s;tructive Principles, to their na|tive Countrey, and to their Religion; which is &s;o generally manife&s;t, as no doubt, both Germains, Polonians, Sweds, Danes, and Flemmings, will &s;oone re|&s;olve to Travell towards the&s;e parts, and
<PB N="6" REF="5">to this Academy, which will al&s;o re|dound to a particular glory to the nation both for the pre&s;ent, and for the future; and make good that the pre&s;ent time fa|voureth what is &s;o noble, and &s;o general|ly u&s;efull and commendable.</P>
<P>All Lovers of Vertue, are therefore invited to this Academy, where they &s;hall be received, well u&s;ed, carefully, and diligently In&s;tructed, &s;o they con|forme them&s;elves to all fit Academicall Orders; and for the better pro&s;pering in their Studies, ob&s;erve the fitte&s;t hours (as <HI>Aurora</HI> is &s;ayd a friend to the Mu|&s;es) begin their Studies the Munday morning with Arithmetick, the Key, and entrance of Mathematicks.</P>
<P>Study at nine of the Clock the Lan|guages, untill Eleven; and then breake up for their recreation, and at Noone lend their eare to a publick Reader, who &s;hall entertaine them with Hi&s;tories fit
<PB N="7" REF="5">for that houre, and being ri&s;en from Ta|ble, apply them&s;elves to SIR BAL|THAZAR GERBIER (or his De|puty) to heare the expo&s;ition of &s;uch particulars as &s;hall have beene read unto them; which done, for one halfe houre (be&s;ides another halfe houre for their recreation) returne about two of the Clock to Study untill four of the Clock, the Elements of Euclide; untill &s;ix, Geometry, and Mu&s;ick.</P>
<P>Tue&s;day morning, Co&s;mography, Geography, and Languages; in the af|ternoone, Fortification, Arithmetick, Fencing, and Vauting.</P>
<P>Wedne&s;day morning, Architecture, Per&s;pective, and Language.</P>
<P>Thur&s;day morning, Drawing, and Language, in the afternoone, Painting, Limming, and Mu&s;ick.</P>
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Friday morning, naturall experimen|tall Philo&s;ophy, Hi&s;tory, and Language, in the afternoone, Carving, Dancing, Fencing, Vauting.</P>
<P>Saturday morning, Scenes, Fireworks, Marches of Armies, they having beene at the Ryding of the great Hor&s;e; in Summer, early in the morning before the heat of the day. The afternoone Studies are to la&s;t untill &s;ix of the Clocke in Summer, and in Winter untill five.</P>
<P>The Wedne&s;day afternoone, they are to recreate them&s;elves; as al&s;o the Sa|turday afternoone, e&s;pecially for pre|paring to the Sabbath; they &s;hall have a fit vacation on the foure &s;ea&s;ons of the Yeare.</P>
<P>The Studious &s;hall be bound to be|have them&s;elves peaceably and civilly: they &s;hall not &s;tirre from the publicke Study, nor from the Hou&s;e, nor Ground,
<PB N="9" REF="6">but with con&s;ent: They &s;hall not ad|mit any vi&s;its during the time of their Studies.</P>
<P>They &s;hall not repaire to any Ta|vernes, nor any kinde of Victualling Hou&s;es, on pretence of entertainments of &s;uch Friends as they &s;hall be vi&s;ited by, but pre&s;ent them with what is fit within doores, their Chamber, Orchard, or Gardens; and without any offence, or impediment to the Academy; in which taking of Tabacco, &s;hall be pro|hibited.</P>
<P>Swearing ab&s;olutely forbidden, the tran&s;gre&s;&s;or &s;hall be obliged to pay two &s;hillings to the Box for the poore: Ten &s;hillings for a blow, &s;o much more for an injurious word, or affront.</P>
<P>Two &s;hillings at every time the Stu|dious ab&s;ents him&s;elfe from the publick attendance, except indi&s;po&s;ed in body.</P>
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They &s;hall forbeare the receiving of any Maiden or Gentlewoman, on what pretence &s;oever, except the vi&s;it of Si|&s;ters, or Kindred, and &s;uch as &s;hall be in the company of their Mother, and &s;uch grave Per&s;ons, as may be admit|ted.</P>
<P>SIR BALTHAZAR GERBIER, his time to receive, and attend all tho&s;e that &s;hall be de&s;irous to treate with him about the placing of Gentlemen in the Academy, &s;hall be the Wedne&s;dayes and Saturdayes in the afternoone.</P>
<P>This &s;hall be concluded with the &s;ay|ing:
<Q>Happy is the man that findeth Wi&s;edome, and the man that getteth &V;nder&s;tanding: <BIBL>Prov. 3. Chap. 5. Ver&s;. 13.</BIBL></Q></P>
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And with the Old <HI>Pibrac,</HI> in his French Ver&s;es.
<Q LANG="frm"><L>Le Sage fils e&s;t du Pere la Joye:</L>
<L>Or &s;i tu veux ce &s;age fils avoir,</L>
<L>Dre&s;&s;e-le jeune au chemain du devoir;</L>
<L>Mais ton Exemple e&s;t la plus courte voye.</L></Q></P>
<P>Engli&s;hed by <HI>Silve&s;ter.</HI>
<Q><L>The Parents comfort, is a prudent Sonne,</L>
<L>Now, &s;uch a Sonne if thou de&s;ire&s;t aye,</L>
<L>Direct him young, in Duties race to runne,</L>
<L>But, thine Example is the neare&s;t way.</L></Q></P>
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<HEAD>Adverti&s;ement.</HEAD>
<P>That however it is truely a&s;&s;erted, that the &s;everall Sciences and Exerci&s;es &s;pecified, &s;hall be carefully &s;upplyed for the u&s;e and &s;atisfaction of all that &s;hall apply them&s;elves in ob&s;ervance or pra|ctice: And whil&s;t the &s;ayd Con&s;titution &s;hall have drawne together the mo&s;t exqui&s;ite Ma&s;ters, or Profe&s;&s;ors, attain|able by any rea&s;onable Sallaries. They &s;hall he engaged to read weekly, or oft|ner, Publick Lectures, whereunto &s;tran|gers of civill Conver&s;ation, as well as the Academi&s;ts &s;hall be freely admit|ted: And it &s;hall be in the plea&s;ure of every Scholler in this Academy, to &s;e|lect the pro&s;ecution of any of them in particular, according to his Genius, or affection; and accordingly le&s;&s;en, or in|crea&s;e his charge. The Ma&s;ter and Con|&s;titution being chiefly po&s;itive, onely in the regulation, for preventing idlene&s;&s;e,
<PB N="13" REF="8">and con&s;equently vitiou&s;ne&s;&s;e, in life, or manners; hoping that beginning and ending every Day, with Prayers, and Thank&s;giving intended, and filling the re&s;t of the time with vertuous Exerci&s;e and Study, God will &s;o ble&s;&s;e their en|deavours, as that Hee may be the more glorified, and this nation better &s;erved, which is the mo&s;t humble con&s;tant de|&s;ire of him that is wholly their Servant to &s;uch purpo&s;e; and their obliged:</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>B. G.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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