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<HEAD>THE Rules of the Schools AT THE SAVOY.</HEAD>
<P N="1">I. THE Intention of Opening the&s;e Schools is, to Teach Youth Vertue and Learning; They &s;hall be Taught <HI>Gratis;</HI> Nor &s;hall they be at any farther Charges or Expences than the buying of their own Pens, Ink, Paper and Books.</P>
<P N="2">II. The&s;e Schools, are common to all, of what condition &s;oever; and none &s;hall be Excluded, when they &s;hall be thought fit to begin to learn Latin, and Write &s;ufficiently well: And in the&s;e Schools, &s;hall be Taught, Greek and Latin: As al&s;o Poetry and Rhetorick, as they &s;hall ri&s;e to higher Schools.</P>
<P N="3">III. And altho' Youths of different Profe&s;&s;ions, whether Catholics or Prote&s;tants, come to the&s;e Schools; yet in Teaching all, there &s;hall be no di&s;tinction made, but all &s;hall be Taught with equal Diligence and Care, and every one &s;hall be promoted according to his De&s;erts.</P>
<P N="4">IV. There &s;hall not be, either by Ma&s;ters or Scholars, any tampering or medling, to per&s;wade any one from the Profe&s;&s;ion of his own Religion; but there &s;hall be all freedom for every one to Practice what Religion he &s;hall plea&s;e; and none &s;hall be le&s;s e&s;teemed or favored for being of a different Religion from others.</P>
<P N="5">V. None &s;hall upbraid or reproach any one, on the account of Religion; and when any Exerci&s;e of Religion &s;hall be Practi&s;ed, as hearing Ma&s;s, Catechi&s;ing or Preach|ing, or any other, it &s;hall be lawful, for any Prote&s;tant, without any mole&s;tation or trouble, to ab&s;ent him&s;elf from &s;uch Exerci&s;e, if he plea&s;e.</P>
<P N="6">VI. All &s;hall be Taught to keep Gods Commandments, and therefore none &s;hal<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> be permitted, to Lye, Swear, or Cur&s;e, or talk uncivil Di&s;cour&s;e; Nor &s;hall figh<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> or quarrel with one another; And he who &s;hall be ob&s;erved to fail in the&s;e Duties &s;hall be puni&s;hed according to his Demerit: And when any one for the&s;e or othe<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Faults &s;hall be adjudged to any Cha&s;ti&s;ement, if he &s;hall refu&s;e to receive &s;uch Cha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ti&s;ement quietly, or be &s;tubborn, he &s;hall be Expel'd the Schools, and not be re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">admitted again, until he &s;hall have given &s;atisfaction for &s;uch his Fault.</P>
<P N="7">VII. All &s;hall be in their re&s;pective Schools, by a Quarter after Seven in the Mor|ning, and &s;hall there &s;tay until Ten: Again at a Quarter before Two, until half a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Hour after Four. Yet by rea&s;on of the &s;hortne&s;s of the Days in Winter, the Mornin<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> time of the Schools, &s;hall be Half an Hour later: Thus from All-Saints Day to Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">delmas, they are to be in the Schools a Quarter before Eight, and &s;tay till Half a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Hour after Ten; but in the Afternoon at the time before mentioned.</P>
<P N="8">VIII. The other Hours of the Day, they &s;hall Study at their own Homes, a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> prepare tho&s;e Exerci&s;es, which the Ma&s;ters in the Schools appoint to be brought,<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> their next coming to the Schools. And therefore, all Parents are de&s;ired to allo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> their re&s;pective Scholars, &s;uch conveniency for their Studies at their own Hou&s;e that they may comply with tho&s;e Duties which are appointed them.</P>
<P N="9">IX. All are required to be exact and diligent, in dayly frequenting the Schools and being there, none are to go out without leave of their Ma&s;ter; and when any on &s;hall be ab&s;ent from School, he &s;hall the next Day he comes, bring from his Parents Ticket, of the lawfulne&s;s of &s;uch his Ab&s;ence: Yet they &s;hall have every Week tw<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Afternoons of Recreation, in which they come not to School; unle&s;s a Holy-da<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> happen that Week, which &s;hall then be their Recreation-day.</P>
<P><HI>The&s;e Schools &s;hall begin on</HI> Monday <HI>after Whit&s;un-week,</HI> May 23. 1687.</P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Henry Hills,</HI> Printer to the Kings Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, for His Hou&s;hold and Chappel: For him and <HI>Matthew Turner,</HI> at the Lamb in High <HI>Holborn.</HI> 1687.</P>
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