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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P> A PUBLICK and PIOUS DESIGN FOR THE PRESERVING THE Generous YOUTH, And Con&s;equently the NATION From <HI>R&V;INE.</HI></P>
<Q><HI>Difficilia quae pulchra.</HI></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for the AUTHOR. 1676.</P>
<PB REF="2">
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<DIV1 TYPE="proposal">
<PB N="1" REF="2">
<P>_THe De&s;igner having long &s;adly con&s;idered the great Di&s;honour and Prejudice this Nation receives by &s;ending the Sons of our prime Nobility and Gen|try too early into <HI>France,</HI> before they are well|principled in Religion, and practized in active Ver|tue at Home; He believed he could not do a greater Service to <HI>GOD,</HI> his <HI>KING</HI> and Country, than to &s;et forth a Model, or Method pur&s;uant to that end.</P>
<P>And fora&s;much as nothing is more E&s;&s;ential and Con&s;ervative of the Weal and Happine&s;s we &s;ee and enjoy within this I&s;land, Wall'd, Water'd, Warm'd and Enrich'd with the Daily Flowings of the Sea, than that the Succe&s;&s;ive Noble&s;s, and infinite Gentry of His <HI>MAJE|STIES</HI> Kingdoms and Dominions, &s;tand Qualified and Enabled to &s;erve His <HI>MAJESTY</HI> &s;ub&s;tantially in the Support of the Crown and Government, by an Exemplary Life and Behaviour to the re&s;t of their Fellow-Subjects, and Foreigners flocking to Us: And that Experience hath &s;hewed how Trouble&s;om, Dangerous and Co&s;tly it hath been, and is &s;ure long to be, for our Young Nobility and Gentry to be &s;ent Abroad raw, with or without Governours and Tutors, or Servants, ere they be Principl'd and Sea&s;on'd in good mea&s;ure at Home; have Languages, Exerci&s;es, and competent Judg|ment to u&s;e their Travels with Advantage; as may appear by the following Di&s;parities.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="comparisons">
<HEAD><HI>A Short Survey of Profitable Di&s;parities, incident to the De&s;ign of This</HI> ACADEMY.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="point of comparison">
<P>WHereas Noblemens and Gentlemens Sons are not &s;ent beyond Sea at any Age, but under a very &s;en&s;ible Charge, and Yearly Expence, and are the more expo&s;ed to the Humours, and &s;elf-concerned Practi&s;es of Strangers, being at great di&s;tance from Home:</P>
<P>THey will in this <HI>Academy,</HI> clo&s;e to <HI>London,</HI> be entred from their Pa|rents own Laps and Coaches, uncharge|ably and &s;afely, and will be there che|ri&s;ht as their tenderne&s;s may require, and ob&s;erved how they profit, and grow capable for Travel, &s;ecured &s;o long from the Plots and Humours of unknown and un&s;een Teachers, and Debaucheries in Religion and Man|ners, till rea&s;onably confirmed in both.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="point of comparison">
<PB N="2" REF="3">
<P> WHereas at <HI>Paris,</HI> and other <HI>Academies</HI> be|yond the Seas, our Noblemen and Young Gentry are not much e&s;teemed, if they &s;pend not 5. or 600 <HI>l. per ann.</HI> a piece, at the lea&s;t, and more as they advance in Age:</P>
<P>THey may in this <HI>Academy</HI> Learn twice as much, and be better Treated for two thirds, with full Reputation; and by con&s;equence in five or &s;ix Years &s;ave at lea&s;t &s;o much as they will need to &s;pend in their Travels Abroad, if requi&s;ite.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="point of comparison">
<P>WHereas Di&s;ea&s;es are fre|quente&s;t upon Youth from 15. or 16. Years Old downwards, and more affli|ctive to Parents, and dange|rous to them&s;elves, when over|early &s;hifted to a Foreign Cli|mate:</P>
<P>THe like Accidents will be more tolerable and hopeful for re|covery in this <HI>Academy;</HI> whence, as occa&s;ion pre&s;&s;es, Patients will be ea|&s;ily removed to Parents, Friends, Bath, and Change of Air, till they can Travel in a more confirm'd &s;tate of Health.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="point of comparison">
<P>WHereas &s;ome of our Neighbouring and Re|moter Countries have under|valued and di&s;-e&s;teemed our Noblemen and Young Gen|try, &s;ometimes for not having Lived or Studied in their <HI>Aca|demies:</HI></P>
<P>BY this Sea&s;onable Frequentation of our (hoped) Incomparable One at Home, we &s;hall &s;oon be quit with them, and draw over the whole Reputation to Ours, as much as our Univer&s;ities carry the Bays away from all that are in the World be|&s;ides.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="conclusion">
<P>The&s;e Previous Arguments, be&s;ides the Love of my Country, with the Encouragements following, made me, to my great Charge and Trouble, &s;et up this Method of Breeding at <HI>Piccadille:</HI> which as &s;oon as it was made Practicable, was Ob&s;tructed by certain Per|&s;ons, whom I forbear yet to mention, re&s;erving them for another time and place: Hoping now all Noble and Generous <HI>PATRIOTS</HI> will give A&s;&s;i&s;tance to &s;o Worthy an Undertaking; and have their Names Recorded in the Book of Fame for True Lovers of their Country.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="petition">
<PB N="3" REF="3">
<HEAD>To the KINGS Mo&s;t Excellent MAJESTY: <HI>The Humble PETITION of EDWARD PANTON, Your MAjESTIES Servant:</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>SHEWETH,</OPENER>
<P>_THat the Petitioner, out of a ju&s;t Zeal to the Glory of GOD, and the Service of Your <HI>MAJESTY</HI> and Kingdoms, doth humbly Pro|po&s;e the Erecting of a Society at <HI>Chel&s;ey,</HI> or in &s;ome other Con|venient Place near <HI>London,</HI> to be, by Your Gracious Favour and Commands, made capable, and Encouraged to Train up here at Home, the Generous Youth of Your &s;aid Kingdoms, &s;ecurely, in all Manly good Sciences and Exerci&s;es; to which any Young Gentlemen from beyond the Seas, may al&s;o re&s;ort for the &s;ame purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>Now to the end this Propo&s;al, which &s;everal of the <HI>Nobility</HI> and <HI>Gentry</HI> are ready to give a happy Beginning unto, and do exceedingly want the Benefit of, to Initiate and Sea&s;on their Sons, before they &s;tep into Sway and Liberty, may take the more &s;peedy Effect:</P>
<P>May it plea&s;e Your mo&s;t <HI>Sacred MAJESTY,</HI> to be&s;tow upon the &s;aid In|tended Society, the Honour to call it, <HI>Your Royal Academy;</HI> and that a War|rant be i&s;&s;ued in good form, &s;ignifying Your Will and Plea&s;ure to Mr. <HI>Attorney</HI> and <HI>Sollicitor General,</HI> or one of them, to prepare a Bill for Your Royal Signa|ture to pa&s;s the Great Seal, containing Your <HI>MAJESTIES</HI> Grant of &s;uch a Society to be forthwith Erected and Settled at <HI>Chel&s;ey,</HI> or el&s;ewhere conveniently near <HI>London,</HI> bearing the Name of <HI>Your Royal Academy,</HI> to con&s;i&s;t of Your Petitioner, as Regent thereof for his Life; and of a competent number of Fellows, to be de&s;ired, by him, out of the Body of the <HI>Royal Society,</HI> and other Per&s;onages of Learning, Quality, and known Reputation; together with able and tru&s;ty &s;uf|ficient Officers within the &s;aid <HI>Academy,</HI> to be a Body Politick, Active and Pa&s;|&s;ive, to all the Ends and Purpo&s;es before intended, for ever; capable of Gifts, Le|gacies and Endowments, Real and Per&s;onal, Pleading, and being Impleaded, in as full and ample manner as by Patent heretofore was Granted, or intended to be Granted unto Sir <HI>Francis Kyna&s;ton</HI> Knight, decea&s;ed, by Your <HI>MAJESTIES</HI> mo&s;t Royal Father, of Immortal Recordation, in the Eleventh Year of His Reign; and comprehending &s;uch further Expre&s;&s;ions and Clau&s;es, Priviledges, Immuni|ties, Provi&s;ions and Grants to the &s;aid <HI>Academy,</HI> Regent and Members thereof, as Your &s;aid <HI>Attorney</HI> and <HI>Sollicitor General,</HI> or either of them, with the Peti|tioners Council Learned, &s;hall advi&s;e to be mo&s;t Legal, and conducing to the Ere|ction, Sub&s;i&s;tence and Increa&s;e of this <HI>Your Royal Academy:</HI> Vouch&s;afing to that end, unto the pre&s;ent, or fir&s;t and future Regents, Liberty to Chu&s;e and Im|ploy a &s;ufficient Deputy; and to Intercede with the mo&s;t Reverend Father in GOD, His Grace the <HI>Lord Archbi&s;hop,</HI> Metropolitan of <HI>England,</HI> and the <HI>Lord Chan|cellor,</HI> or <HI>Lord Keeper</HI> of the Great Seal <HI>pro tempore,</HI> or one of them, that upon any emergent great Occa&s;ion, requiring Vi&s;itation and Change, or Amendment
<PB N="4" REF="4" MS="y"> of the Local Rules and Statutes which the &s;aid Regent, with his A&s;&s;i&s;ting Council, have from time to time made for the Good and Advantage of the &s;aid <HI>Academy,</HI> on due Supplication, and Notice thereof in Writing pre&s;ented, their <HI>Lord&s;hips,</HI> or one of them, be e&s;pecially Willed by Your <HI>MAJESTIES</HI> Order, finally, <HI>de plano,</HI> to determine all &s;uch Grievance, or Matter of Change or Amendment, and to be for ever Friends and Protectors of this Your <HI>Royal Academy and Foun|dation.</HI> Where Your Indulgence is humbly craved for Gentlemen al&s;o, Strangers born, and re&s;orting to this <HI>Academy</HI> from any Kingdoms or Countries beyond the Seas, in Amity with Your <HI>MAJESTY,</HI> That they, and their Servants, may be Received, Accommodated and Trained up in all the &s;aid Sciences and Exer|ci&s;es, Conforming to the Rules and Statutes with our Intended Students there.</P>
<CLOSER><HI>All which the Petitioner humbly &s;ubmits to Your Sacred</HI> MAJESTIES <HI>good Will and Plea&s;ure; And &s;hall ever Pray as in Duty bound,</HI> &amp;c.</CLOSER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="response">
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>At the Court at</HI> Whitehal, <DATE>4. Febr. 1668.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>HIS <HI>MAJESTY</HI> being Graciou&s;ly Inclined to Encourage this De&s;ign, as Tending to the Laudable Education of Youth, and Good of the Publick; is plea&s;ed to refer this Petition to Mr. <HI>Attorney</HI> and Mr. <HI>Sollicitor General,</HI> or to either of them, to con&s;ider of the Nature of the Thing, the Propo&s;als made, and the Power and Priviledges de&s;ired to be granted: And upon the whole, to make Report to His <HI>MAJESTY</HI> of their Opinion, how far His <HI>MAJESTY</HI> may Gratifie the Petitioner; and then His <HI>MAJESTY</HI> will declare His further Plea&s;ure.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Arlington.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="advice">
<HEAD>May it plea&s;e Your MAJESTY,</HEAD>
<P>WE have, in Obedience to Your <HI>MAJESTIES</HI> Commands, con&s;idered of this Petition to &V;s referr'd: And having heard the Petitioner at large touching the Nature of the <HI>Academy</HI> by him endeavoured to be &s;et up, and the whole Method and De&s;ign of that Education of Youth which he propo&s;eth to be ob|&s;erved; We do humbly conceive that the &s;ame is worthy of all Encouragement, and may prove very &V;&s;eful to Your <HI>MAJESTIES</HI> Service, and &s;o not unfit to be Honoured with the Title of, <HI>The Royal Academy.</HI> And we do humbly con|ceive, that the Erection of &s;uch an <HI>Academy</HI> will be no way contrary to the Laws or Statutes of Your <HI>MAJESTIES</HI> Kingdom, nor any way prejudicial to the Rights or Liberties of any of Your Subjects, or of any Corporation, or Publick Society what&s;oever. All which we humbly &s;ubmit, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>10. <HI>April,</HI> 1668.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>G. PALMER,</ITEM>
<ITEM>HENEAGE FINCH.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="academy charter">
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<HEAD>The Royal Academy,</HEAD>
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<P>TO be Settled at <HI>Chel&s;ey,</HI> or &s;ome other Convenient Place near <HI>London,</HI> is to be Framed to an Exact Method for the Well-breed|ing and Education at Home of the</P>
<P><HI>Youth of Condition,</HI></P>
<P>Natives within this of <HI>England,</HI> and other His MAJESTIES Kingdoms: To fit them for the Service</P>
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<ITEM><HI>Of GOD,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI> Of the KING,</HI> and </ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Of their Country.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>With Freedom for any</P>
<P><HI>Youth of Quality</HI></P>
<P>al&s;o from Parts beyond the Seas, to be admitted Students with Us, under the Rules and In&s;titutes of this our <HI>Academy.</HI> The In&s;titutes whereof will con&s;i&s;t of Two Di&s;tinct</P>
<P><HI>Parts, or Schools:</HI></P>
<P>The FIRST,</P>
<P>For Youth from VIII. Years Old to X,</P>
<P>The SECOND,</P>
<P>For Youth and Young-Men under XX. Years of Age.</P>
<P>The &s;pace of time for their Aboad and Continuance in both Schools, not to exceed Three Years; except for Rea&s;onable Cau&s;es. And in each of the&s;e Schools to be</P>
<P><HI>Three Forms, or Cla&s;&s;es;</HI></P>
<P>In which the Students not to &s;tay pa&s;t One whole Year, except for Cau&s;es as before.</P>
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<DIV2 N="1.1" TYPE="curriculum">
<HEAD>Schol. 1. Ann. 1.</HEAD>
<P><HI>THe Fir&s;t Year the &s;aid Younge&s;t Students are to be carefully Principled in</HI></P>
<P>Religion <HI>and</HI> Mora<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ty;</P>
<P><HI>and Taught to &s;peak</HI></P>
<P>Latin, French, <HI>or</HI> Other Languages,</P>
<P><HI>according to their Parents De&s;ires, or the Childrens Propen&s;ity and Capa|cities. Al&s;o,</HI></P>
<P>Fair Writing, Arithmetick, Dancing, Behaviour, Fenceing, Shooting <HI>with all &s;orts of Bows,</HI> Wre&s;tling, Swimming, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="1.2" TYPE="curriculum">
<HEAD>Schol. 1. Ann. 2.</HEAD>
<P><HI>THe Second Year, &s;uch as plea&s;e may begin to Study</HI></P>
<P>Greek, In&s;trumental <HI>and</HI> Vocal Mu&s;ick, Arithmetical Deeper Rules, <HI>with</HI> Mathematical Introductions, <HI>and</HI> Triangle-Doctrine, Turning, <HI>and other Elegant</HI> Mechanicks:</P>
<P><HI>Not intermitting the Principles and Exerci&s;es before &s;pecified.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="1.3" TYPE="curriculum">
<HEAD><HI>Schol.</HI> 1. <HI>Ann.</HI> 3.</HEAD>
<P>THe Third Year they are to pro|ceed, to be perfect in, as before,</P>
<P><HI>Latin</HI> and <HI>French;</HI></P>
<P>To Study</P>
<P><HI>Heraldry, Architecture, Opticks,</HI> and Other <HI>Liberal Sciences:</HI></P>
<P>Con&s;tantly heeding to Speak &amp; Write Proper and Short,</P>
<P>Without Tautology or Repetition.</P>
<PB N="6" REF="5">
<P> Then will follow the Second School, for Young Men.</P>
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<DIV2 N="2.1" TYPE="curriculum">
<HEAD><HI>Schol.</HI> 2. <HI>Ann.</HI> 1.</HEAD>
<P>IN this Second School will be no other Speech familiar, but</P>
<P><HI>Latin, French, Italian</HI> and <HI>Spani&s;h;</HI></P>
<P>And there will be Taught the further <HI>Sciences,</HI> and what belongs to per|fecting their <HI>Exerci&s;es</HI> afore&s;aid. Al&s;o,</P>
<P><HI>Riding,</HI> with the <HI>Manage</HI> of Warlike Arms, <HI>Drilling, Embattailing, Fortification,</HI> and <HI>Surveying Lands.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2.2" TYPE="curriculum">
<HEAD><HI>Schol.</HI> 2. <HI>Ann.</HI> 2.</HEAD>
<P>ALL this to be further Studied, Exerci&s;ed, and Cultivated. And now will be laid the Elements of</P>
<P><HI>Navigation, Drawing, Painting, Graving, Etching; The &V;&s;e of both Globes, Maps, In&s;truments</HI> and <HI>Books;</HI></P>
<P>E&s;pecially tho&s;e relating to the fit Knowledge of His <HI>MAJESTIES</HI> Kingdoms and Dominions; with the</P>
<P><HI>Antiquities, Nature</HI> and <HI>Cu&s;toms</HI> thereof;</P>
<P>All the &s;aid <HI>Exerci&s;es</HI> mean while duly proceeding.</P>
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<DIV2 N="2.3" TYPE="curriculum">
<HEAD><HI>Schol.</HI> 2. <HI>Ann.</HI> 3.</HEAD>
<P>THe Third Year, all the&s;e <HI>Sciences</HI> and <HI>Exerci&s;es</HI> to be more exactly Compleated in every Student, as his Genius and Abilities di&s;po&s;e him.</P>
<P>For it is to be pre&s;umed, that by this time the&s;e Students will be ren|dred capable</P>
<P><HI>Of &V;niver&s;ity-Learning, Of the Inns of Court, Of Attendance at Court, Of Imploy in the Army or Navy,</HI> Or <HI>To Travel beyond Sea with Cre|dit and Profit;</HI></P>
<P>And &s;o Fortified again&s;t Evil Impre&s;|&s;ions, which Undi&s;ciplin'd Youth are frequently en&s;nared withal in other Countries.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="summary">
<P>For it is intended, That in every Form or School and Cla&s;&s;is, <HI>HISTORY</HI> &s;hall be con&s;tantl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Read and Expounded in the Learned and other Lan|guages before &s;pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">fied, &s;uitable to the Level of the School and Scholars.</P>
<P>And that the H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">rs of Ri&s;ing and Going to Re&s;t, Prayer, Studying, Ex|erci&s;e, Refection, Di&s;port, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;hall be duly apportion'd according to the Sea&s;ons, and Mat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ers to be Treated or Done therein.</P>
<P>As al&s;o that the Regent, and his A&s;&s;i&s;ting Council, will provide a Suf|ficient Number of Able Profe&s;&s;ors, and other Mini&s;terial Well-qualified Per&s;ons, to perform all this with Order and <HI>Decorum.</HI></P>
<P>Such A&s;&s;i&s;ting Council, to con&s;i&s;t of about Ten or Twelve Learned, So|ber, Publick-&s;pirited Per&s;ons; by who&s;e Advice once a Month, or oftner as need &s;hall be, He may from time to time be enabled, with them, to carry on this Work, to <HI>GOD</HI>'s Glory, the Honour and Satisfaction of the <HI>KING,</HI> and the Real Service and Benefit of His <HI>MAJESTIES</HI> Friends Abroad, and Loyal Subject<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in His &s;everal Kingdoms and Dominions.</P>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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