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A54288	New instructions to the guardian shewing that the last remedy to prevent the ruin, advance the interest, and recover the honour of this nation is I. a more serious and strict education of the nobility and gentry, II. to breed up all their younger sons to some calling and employment, III. more of them to holy orders, with a method of institution from three years of age to twenty one.	Penton, Stephen, 1639-1706.	1694 (1694)	Wing P1440; ESTC R5509	42,499	186

enclined to hearken to these Good Wishes In the Second Part I will prescribe him such a Method from the very beginning of his Adventure as by God's Blessing upon his Abilities shall give him very great Insight if he can take Pains enough A Catalogue of several Great Families whose Relations have been Church Men. AGelnothus Bishop of Canterbury Son of Earl Agelmare Athelmarus Bishop of Winton Son to Hugh Earl of March Henry de Bloys Bishop of Winchester Brother to King Stephen Hugh de Pudsey Bishop of Durham Earl of Northumberland Boniface of Savoy Bishop of Cant. Uncle to Queen Eleanor Wife to Henry III. Richard Talbot Bishop of London Allied to the Talbot's after Earls of Shrewsbury Henry Beaufort Bishop of Lincoln and Winton Son to John of Gaunt William Courtney Bishop of Canterb. Son of Hugh Courtney Earl of Devon Giles de Bruce Bishop of Hereford Son of William Lord de Bruce George Nevil Bishop of Exon and York Brother to Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick Thomas Piercy Bishop of Norwich Allied to the Piercy's Earls of Northumberland Lionel Woodvil Bishop of Sarum Son to Earl Rivers Thomas Vipont Bishop of Carirsle Allied to Viponts then Earls of Westmorland Marmaduke Lumley Bishop of Carlisle Allied to the House of Lumley's Walter Bishop of Durham Earl of Northumberland Julius de Medices Bishop of Worcester Allied to the House of Medices in Italy Nicholas de Longespee Bishop of Sarum Son to William Earl of Salisbury William Dudley Bishop of Durham Son of John Lord Dudley Walter de Cantilupo Bishop of Worcester of a Great House in Normandy Lewes Beaumont Bishop of Durham of the Blood-Royal of France Thomas Arundel Bishop of Canterb. Son to Robert Earl of Arundel and Warren James Berkley Bishop of Exon Son to the Lord Berkley Richard Scroope Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield Brother to William Scroope Earl of Wiltshire Thomas Bourchier Bishop of Cant. Son to Henry Bourchler Earl of Essex Roger de Clinton Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield of the same Family with Geofry de Clinton John Stafford Bishop of Canterbury Son to the Earl of Stafford William de Vere Bishop of Hereford Richard Beauchamp Bishop of Hereford and Sarum John Orandison Bishop of Exon of the House of Grandison Dukes of Burgundy Edmund Audley Bishop of Hereford Allied to the Lord Audley Henry 〈◊〉 Bishop of Lincoln 〈…〉 Baron of Lords John Zou●h Bishop of Landaff Brother to the Lord Zouch Fulco Basset Bishop of London Lord Basset James Stanley Bishop of Ely Brother to the Eacl of Derby Simon Montacute Bishop of Ely Allied to the Montacutes then Earls Salisbury What Clergy have sprung from the Gentry Lawyers and Merchants you may see in a very large Catalogue annexed to the Charter of the Corporation for Widows and Children of Clergy-men Printed July 1. 1678. for John Playford in Little-Britain To speak my mind more plainly 1. A strict Education of the young Nobility and Gentry would be a great Advantage to the Publick It is a great Wrong to the National Concerns that we lose the Service and Assistance which the Parts of so many excellent Persons might afford What great variety would the King have to fill up all void Places of Trust and Honour What choice of Privy-Councellors Ambassadors Judges and Justices of the Peace What a glorious shew of Military Officers at Land and Sea We may learn from an Enemy How mightily doth the French King serve himself of the Nobility there What an Emulation makes them contend to deserve best And though God be thanked the Arbitrary Command of our Service is not so great as theirs yet the Love of our Country ought to be And what a noble Resolution would it be for all Persons of Quality to Consecrate the several Inclinations of their Children to the respective Services of the Kingdom Civil Ecclesiastical or Military according as Sedentariness and Books or Activity and Business is their Talent How many Honourable Conditions doth great skill in the Law prepare a Man for How many Lives doth a good Physician save And what a Calamitous want is there in many places where many a Gentleman miscarries because the Quack cannot write a good Bill or because the Apothecary cannot read a bad Hand There are great Dignities in the Church which no doubt the King had rather bestow on a Man of Birth If his Temper be for Action in the Field he will scarce ever want an opportunity to be as Stout as he pleaseth And he must have a care of mistaking the Employment It is not now as in the time of Peace when being good for little was Qualification enough for a Soldiers Life which is often chosen because it is most like to Idleness Now Industry Hardiness Vigilancy Skill and Conduct is required and Courage to venture the Lottery of Death or Honour 2. A strict Education of the Nobility and Gentry would be of great Advantage to their own Private Families The Eldest Son would keep up the Honour and wisely manage the Estate of his Ancestors and be likely to add to both But on the contrary if he value himself by the customary liberty of Heirs to be Loose and Idle he may Hunt Hoop and Hallow for some Years but in a little time thou shalt look and behold he is not thou shalt seek him but he shall no where be found And besides the danger of running out an Estate a loose and fond Education of a Son and Heir is the ready way to make him self-will'd Humoursome and Proud For having been gratifyed in all he desired when young he expects the same Fondness from all People when he grows up and for want of it grows Peevish Sowre and Unconversable And I believe many Mothers Wives Sisters and Servants have often found such a Man prove the most imperious Son Husband Brother Master and Neighbour in all the Kingdom As for the Younger Sons if they are not bred up to some Profession their case is not indifferent They are left to the dieting of a moderate Condition Their Parentage makes them aim at Great Fortunes but the hard word Jointure spoils all Sobriety in such Persons is a great Vertue and it must be a great share of preventing Grace that can keep them within bounds it being a very hard matter not to do ill when a Man hath nothing else to do Whereas were they bred good Scholars what might not they promise themselves I would have every younger Son dream as Joseph did That Father Mother and eldest Brother should bow to his Wealth and Power There have been Honourable Families in this Kingdom which have made this good By undertaking one of the forementioned Professions as they may do great service to the Nation so in the end they may be very well paid The Kingdom is not niggardly to such as deserve if they are not wanting to themselves by Modesty No Nation in Europe hath better rewards for Industry and I verily believe they are generally as well

Benefactors are so established that an attempt of change is extravagant There is a great out-cry against the customary usage of the common Accidence and Grammar and tho' I could wish that every one who rails at them understood them yet I must own that the Objections which the Learned in the Art of Grammar have made are very considerable but will hardly be able to prevail with publick Authority to establish a new Method upon the Ruin of Lilly 'till manifest Experience of much greater and speedier Effects shall prepare the whole Nation to embrace it But it must be confess'd that they deserve a great many thanks who by their Objections endeavour to promote a more beneficial use of the common Grammar For tho' the Laws permit not private Persons to shorten Journeys by making a new High-way yet it is something like an equivalent to pick out the Stones and remove the Rubbs which lengthen the old one And every man is a Benefactor to the Publick who sets up a Mercurial Statue which tho' it be fixt and cannot turn and point to every By-Path yet it saves many a Travellor from being lost in the common Road. I come now to such directions as Year after Year may forward the Understanding the Latin Tongue They are not the largest or the most learned that I have read but they are most easie and most likely to be practised of any I have met with And hereby will be avoided the great Inconvenience which both Master and Scholar would find by changing the Accidence and Grammar Extraordinary success must not be expected without extraordinary pains But because it will seem tedious to dwell long upon little things there is great danger that the Master may make too much hast with the Child especially since Parents are impatient for the taking out New Lessons This I conceive is one great reason why Children afterwards prove imperfect because they leave things behind them not well understood Therefore in what follows I will set down the easiest Method I could extract out of the Rules which Lilly Ascham and later Schoolmasters give compared with foreign Advices of the same kind First Year IET the Child be made perfect in Declining Nouns thro' all Cases and forming Verbs thro' all Tenses and Persons when required and the flower it is in doing the effect will be the more sure and Progress greater Foreign Writers allot but few Months for this but I should be glad if the first whole Year could do it When he comes to the Declension of Nouns and Conjugation of Verbs let him have many several Examples of each First the easiest Examples and by general Rules without the Exceptions which will puzzle at the beginning afterwards such Examples as are harder and with the Exceptions also Daily Declining a Noun and Forming a Verb and turning it into all Fashions will fit him for Concords and framing Sentences by showing him how single Nouns and Verbs are joined Take some easie Sentence wherein all the Eight Parts of Speech are contained and let every single Word be declined and formed and afterwards construed as they depend upon each other When the Cases of Nouns and Persons of Verbs and Concords are well known then let not the Child drudge to learn the Rules orderly by roat as they lie in the Syntax but rather learn some easie Book containing good plain Latin and as there falls out any necessary Rule of Syntax to be known shew it and let him learn it as the Sentence giveth occasion thus th Grammar will be taught by the by And I could wish that the Forming Verbs were made more easie by lengthening all the Abbreviations which baffle a tender Understanding For Instance Amabam as at it were better to write it at length Amabam Amabas Amabat And let the Persons be also set down Ego Amabam Tu Amabas Ille Amabat for it disturbs the Child's Memory to be made add them of himself Second Year WHen he comes to make Latin the easiest Method I think is what Mr. Lewis sets down in his Vestibulum Technicum whereby the Child is eased of the difficulty of finding out proper Larin Words and hath nothing to do but to alter Tense and Case as the Sense requires and be careful that he never go upon a new Sentence 'till he be perfectly Master of what he did last Turning English into Latin will fix the Rules in his Head and help him sooner to speak Latin than turning Latin into English For many Persons can more easily Construe Latin than Speak it If between while you show him the use of Brinly's Posing the Accidence and Hooll's Accidence examined it will add to his knowledge of the Rules with Mr. Walker's Works of Grantham Third Year NOW he must be very frequent in Construing and Translating some easie Author wherein he may learn both Morals and Latin together Castalio's Dialogues and some of the most easie of Cicero's Epistles especially I except those which touch upon State Affairs because the Matter makes the Latin difficult Let him for variety be taught to Construe some easie Poet according to the Method for the Dauphin resolving the Verses into natural Order because Poetical Latin at first will be more difficult as being more Concise Some Speeches in Ovid's Matamorphosis being Construed and perfectly well understood will be worth his learning without-without-Book and repeated to exercise his Memory which must be exercised in something or other once every day The Nature and differing kinds of Verses are too difficult yet to be explained And Composition or Imitation I think may yet be let alone How much I preferr Translation before Composition in order to Institution I have shewn in the Apparatus ad Theologiam de Grammatica with a Method to learn the Latin Tongue Fourth Year IF the former Course be duly taken the Child's Judgment will begin to appear fit for some solid Instructions so that together with progress in the Latin Tongue a Foundation may be laid for more useful Knowledge than of bare Words and Sentences Justin I think the fittest Author to begin this Year with because he is less crabbed than the Style of Historians commonly is especially wherein much Matter is crowded into little compass but in reading of him regard must be had to the Chronology as well as History and the Youth directed to measure the time and distances of Men and Actions recorded in him by some such assistance as you have in the Apparatus ad Theologiam de Munere Historico for otherwise the Historical Narrations will be found loose uncertain and false Between whiles some Speech in Cicero famous for the Art and Rethorick sometimes a Speech in Livy to be so perfectly construed and understood that the Child may comprehend the Strength and Nerves of the Orator And because by this time Wit and Sharpness may deserve to be encouraged some of the most notorious chast Epigrams in Martial will very usefully exercise his Translating