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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17026	The introduction to the true understanding of the whole arte of expedition in teaching to write Intermixed with rare discourses of other matters, to shew the possibilitie of skill in teaching, and probabilitie of successe in learning, to write in 6. hours. Which tending all to one end, doe serve for two uses. 1. If authors doe excell others in their owne artes, why may not this author excell others in his arte. 2. For removing a vulgare opinion against his native countrey of Scotland, he sheweth that it hath moe excellent prerogatives than any other Kingdome. Whereby it will rather follow, that a Scotishman is so much the more able to prosecute whatsoever hee undertaketh, and therefore so much the more to bee respected, by how so much he is more ingenuous than one of another nation.	Browne, David, fl. 1622-1638.	1638 (1638)	STC 3904; ESTC S117068	26,810	42

THE INTRODVCTION to the true understanding of the whole Arte of Expedition in teaching to write Intermixed with rare discourses of other matters to shew the possibilitie of skill in teaching and probabilitie of successe in learning to write in 6. hours Which tending all to one end doe serve for two uses 1. If Authors doe excell others in their owne Artes Why may not this Author excell others in his Arte. 2. For removing a vulgare opinion against his native countrey of Scotland he sheweth that it hath moe excellent Prerogatives than any other Kingdome Whereby it will rather follow that a Scotishman is so much the more able to prosecute whatsoever hee undertaketh and therefore so much the more to bee respected by how so much he is more ingenuous than one of another nation Anno Dom. 1638. TO THE MOST ILLVSTRIOVS AND HOPEFVLL PRINCE CHARLES Prince of WALES c. temporall prosperitie and endlesse felicitie MAy it please your Highnesse In regard that some have a sinister opinion of me in my profession not only becaus of the pretended impossibility of the succes therof but far more of that worthie nation where all your Highnesse most royall Progenitors had their being and whereof I also have the honour to be a native and lest any either of their writings or speaches should come to your Highnesse sight or hearing now in your tender yeares I have laboured heere to preuent them by defending both my Countrie and profession Where as these things are propounded heere in the superlative degree I suppose it is according to the practise of worthy men in former times when their persons professions countries or causes have beene any wayes traduced they have not only defended the same to the uttermost of their power but even stretched all and what-so-ever their properties priviledges or liberties to the furthest extent that their adversaries might bee either convinced or silenced Whensoever it shall please God your Highnesse shall have occasion to use that antient nation yea or any member thereof such as my self in any service I hope your Highnesse shall find us as faithfull able and willing now as our predecessors have beene to your Highnesse royall progenitours informer times Now in token of my goodwill and affection I humbly present your Highnesse with these my meane labours that they may goe abroad under your Highnesse protection and that it would please God to grant your Highnesse such gratious education as you may bee an happie instrument of his glorie in his owne good time it shall be the fervent suite of Your Highnesse humble servant DAVID BROVVN In D. Davidis Bruni Calligraphiam novam I Lle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sonet quimentis acumine fretus Protulit in tenebris quae latuere prius At si quis nostros artem quae cedat in usûs Invenit inventum perficit at que suum Ille quidem plenis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 buccis Personet inventas dum sibi prodit opes Non has Assyrius laudes aut Helladis ora Quos dedit aut claros terra latina Sophos Non sibi Niliaci tribuent Nam postuma semper Aetas excoluit quod rude prima dedit At modo scribendi leges dum tradit artem Haec sibi qui merito vendicet unus erit THO. CARFORDIVS Philographo VSus ut artifices faciat ars dirigit aptas Scripturae hîc normas quam cupis artis habes Brunius ecce dedit si primus reddere primas Aequum est artifici convenit artis honos PATRICIVS SANDAEVS THough use makes skill yet art directs Here Master Browne the rules detects Since he the same doth first discover The praise with him remaines for ever JO. DICK The summe of the Authors Profession of EXPEDITION in teaching to Write 1 HE teacheth those that can reade and bee capable and carefull to write any hand well in sixe houres which they never wrote before or to rectifie whatsoever hand they write already each one in a severall roome and halfe an houre at a time 2 Others also hee teacheth in so much longer time as they come short of such abilitie capacitie or using the meanes which consists both in earnest performing their daily halfe hours taske when they have best leysure betweene the times of teaching and in carefull supplying the defect losse or neglect of any one time by so much the more care and diligence at another time 3 And those that cannot write at all or not well or not true English neither can reade written hand write without rule nor keepe accounts he teacheth to attaine all these better in one Month an houre onely in a day and as long by their owne private practise when their affaires may bee least hindred then they can by others after the ordinary manner in three though they should spend all the day neglect all other businesse and doe nothing else All by true and exact method new Rules and rare secrets of art authorized by Supreme Authoritie approved by the State embraced by the Learned attained by the Ignorant and maintained by the Author Professor against all opposers and envyers strangers and others For redeeming the time and renewing the occasion of learning to all but chiefly those of middle age who have wanted lost or neglected either in their youth and cannot now spare long time to learne He practiseth the most part of the day in the Terme time and most of the after noone in the vacation at the Cat and Fiddle in Fleet-street and most of the forenoone at his house in S. Iohns street next above the Vnicorne except when hee is invited to the Country at any time especially in the long vacation Wh●re likewise Mary Stewart and her daughters doe instru●t young Noble and Gentlewomen in good manners languages writing other qualities by his assistance direction THE INTRODVCTION to the true understanding of the whole Booke Shewing as in a prospect both the probability of Expedition in teaching faire short and true writing and the possibilitie of learning to write any hand in sixe houres AS it hath pleased our gratious God of his great bounty for his owne glory and mans felicity to preferre man to all his creatures on earth and to adorne him with many excellent prerogatives gifts and faculties farre above all the rest such as wisedome knowledge and learning so likewise he hath ordained all good Arts and Sciences as speciall helps and ordinary meanes whereby he may attaine thereunto and so much the better both enjoy a comfortable life here and the hope of a happy life hereafter for as hee ever appointeth the end so he alwaies appointeth the means to come to the end And since the knowledge and practise of Arts and Sciences can neither be so well nor speedily attained as by using the ordinary meanes prescribed by those whom it hath pleased God to raise up and indue with gifts above the rest in every age and that by the help or instruction of such as have

things which none either before or after them have done which is correspondent to what was spoken last but because I affect brevity howsoever I be driven against my inclination and disposition to the other extremitie even as well to be on my guard for all opposers and to give every one his due as to satisfie all learners and to give each one his part I will make choise therefore to speake of those things which have beene in these dayes because they are most in remembrance or best knowne to many yet living most pregnant to our present purpose most forcible to prove the possibility of what is intended and both most probable and credible to all of this age since they have all come to passe therein Many godly wise learned and valiant men both English and Scottish hath Britaine brought forth even in the same age wherein we live who have excelled many that have beene before them in many ages whose names were tedious to expresse and their workes a thousand fold more tedious to declare in any competent measure but both their matchlesse fame in those things wherein they surmatched others and their magnificke workes beare witnesse of their persons who now rest from their labours I would gladly begin here at the highest degree and expresse both some particular matter and cause of true and well deserved praise due unto that state but especially to a happy and late Possessor thereof were it not that I am commanded by modesty to cease therefore onely thus much If there were any universall Chronicles royall the most renowned memory of King James for his matchlesse wisedome and learning might not onely be recorded in great Capitall and text lines with letters both of pure gold and perfect silver but likewise set with rich Diamonds and Pearle and flourished in most curious manner with all colours of inke before all Kings since the dayes of good King Iosias but such a one as I neither being able in any measure to expresse nor yet any booke of this kinde worthy to comprehend what commendation hee as Gods instrument in using of his gifts deserved I think it most expedient to desist and goe to others of inferiour degree Yet onely these few I will name with their rare and commendable acts so briefly as the sufficiencie of the matter and equitie of the cause doe require and as there may be any impression left to the Reader or Hearer hereof whereby if they please to enquire further of those things which were done by these worthy Instruments whom it pleased God to raise up for his owne glory and the good of his Church Onely these five I will name the first is Master William Perkins because hee was one of the first in this age that tooke extraordinary paines in writing many excellent and learned Bookes both for the benefit and ease of all that either wrote or taught since or yet learned for their owne us● And to the intent hee might so much the better performe what he had resolved in this matter hee did moderate both his dyet and sleepe according to the shortnesse of his time and necessitie of his calling for he not onely almost every day of his pilgrimage in this life after he was any wise enlightned and enabled was marvellous diligent and temperate but likewise in the night time he had a device tyed about his necke which after hee had slept foure houres time gave him a checke by meanes whereof hee wakened that after he had stroken fire he might either reade write pray or meditate two or three houres many times before any of the house whithersoever hee sojourned went to their businesses The second is Master Henry Ainsworth who both wrote very much and learnedly and lived very modestly yea and had no more for a long time but eight pence a weeke The third is Master George Buchanan who had the honour to be Tutor to our late Soveraigne Lord King Iames of famous memory although many in divers nations both before him and in his dayes have tryed to translate the Psalmes of David in latine verse yet never any of their translations were thought comparable to Buchanans Psalmes And by reason thereof and of some other rare workes and that hee was so happy an instrument of the breeding of such a worthy Monarch whom all the world admired for his wisedome and learning his fame is very great among all the godly learned in Europe and so much the greater both because he was a great traveller and that his bookes are dispersed in all nations The fourth is Master Iames Creighton who being a Baron in Scotland choosed rather to travell in forraigne nations and follow his learning then to stay at home and enjoy his Patrimony Concerning whom though I bee somewhat large I hope it shall not seeme tedious howsoever many have taken great paines both to attaine learning and to invent the art of memory to be a helpe therunto yet this yong Noble man was matchlesse in both and that not onely in his youth-hood at home but likewise in all his travels abroad yea scarcely doth any history make mention of any the like before him and besides which is no lesse worthy consideration it is reported by men of great worth and credit who are yet alive and knew his education that he was never taught at least after the ordinary manner in studying by booke onely he sometimes heard what was taught to others and seldome either read or studied bu● rather besides the appointed times of recreation he had liberty procured of those who hearing of his fame came both farre and neare to visit and try whether or not such things were according to the report when in the meane time all the rest of his condisciples were kept in at their studies and that both when he was at Schooles and Vniversities After he had thus past his course and came to be made Master of Arts as they are called there scarcely any could be found to dispute against his Theses in publike Least they should incurre any disgrace before such a learned auditory and that from such a young S●holler for his fame being so spread throughout all the land there was a greater assembly of the learned in the Vniversitie of S. Andrewes at that time then was either many y●ers before or y●t since in the time of any laureation Having past his degree● and ent●ing in his travels and upon the manifold experiences which he had of his owne ability at home whither soever he came and heard of any publike declamation or disputation there or any where he alwaies addvessed himselfe thither against the time appointed if either distance of place or other urgent occasions did not hinder him And amongst many other places wherein he purchast great commendation he being once at Constantinople as some doe thinke and others doe alledge it was at Padua but wheresoever it was the action is most certaine because it was his ordinatie practise any where

beene most expert for the time and those who are expert in these dayes now as well as in former times are so rare that they can scarcely be had but only in some eminent Cities and in no Arte or Science are they more rare then in this of writing although it maintaineth all other Arts and Sciences I therefore not onely in consideratio● of these and many other motives but likewise being further moved by the earnest in treaty of some vertuous minded men who now in their age doe far more sensibly feele the want neglect or losse of time in their youth then many others who are little more carefull yet than they were then and so much the rather in that I apprehend some measure of ability in my selfe for their nearest remedy or best recoverie as they are now have thought it both a part of my duty to him of whom I have it and very needfull and expedient for the good of all being the chiefe end wherefore I received it even to offer the same as a benefit to all and that by publishing this Booke to the view of the world that ●oth they and all others may make a profitable use thereof For it may be that many hundreths who are both past the date of going to schooles and much employed about other businesses will yet spare some convenient time to learne alone by the helpe of this Booke whereas ●ither through distance of place or other occasions seare●ly one of them can come to me or will goe to others which whosoever readeth or practiseth I wish it may be done orderly as it standeth without any omission at all and as little intermission as possibly may be that the scope and substance of all being once well conceived in the minde it may be so much both speedier and better practised by the hand If either thou that diligently readest or but lightly viewest or yet any of you that heare or see this booke be such as neither need nor intend to learne or otherwise if yee or any of you be ignorant and therefore yee apprehending your owne necessities would faine learne but want either meanes or opportunity or yet be such as have both great need and earnest desire but too late for you now to begin I could wish it might please you not to judge or censure this Booke or benefit offered therein either as ye are or shall be in any of these cases or conditions But rather as if ye your selves or any of you had either written the one or offered the other or perchance thrice so good as either and would have me or others of better judgement and discretion to judge or censure those your workes or fruits thereof and so esteeme of you accordingly Or as if Ye were to be learners and did feele to your great griefe now the want losse or neglect of learning formerly and could get no other helpe under God to teach you Ye were in danger to lose some good designe which if you could but write a legible hand you might easily obt●ine Ye were come to such age as you would think it a disparagement to goe to schoole Your affaires would not permit though you would bee content to goe You might spare some little time to learne this way though no time any other way Your children friends neighbours or servants stood in need of instr●cting Or most of all I wish ye may judge or censure this Booke or benefit as it may be profitable to the Church or Common wealth whereof you are members for in that regard it doth also concern you all in what estate soever you are yea and the more wise or learned you be I hope you will so much the better acknowledge that that which is a benefit to others by the simpathy of fellow members is also a benefit to you and therefore ye are not onely to approve but even to maintain also according to your power at all times and occasions whatsoever is for the good of others although neither any of you not any of yours at some time or occasion have any particular need thereof your selves But since that which is written may indure when the dayes of the actor as well as the time of the action will expire who knoweth but that which I intend herein may both continue and doe good to many one when neither my hand can write nor my tongue speake to any at all I will therefore take occasion howsoever to doe my part and not onely now begin whiles I have breath by the meanes of writing to write the speedy and true way both of teaching and learning to write but likewise use my best indeavours to performe it with all my power for there is neither wisedome worke nor invention in the grave whither I goe and referre both the continuance and event to God who onely is eternall and hath the successe of all things in his hands Whom I humbly beseech so to guide and direct me both in doing thereof and whatsoever thing else I take in hand that not onely I may set his Majestie alwaies before my eyes and keepe my selfe in the meane betweene these two extremities even neither to deserve the name of a sluggard by doing nothing at least worth the name of any thing nor yet to be wise in my owne conceit in that hee hath given mee some measure of ability and grace to doe some thing but likewise that I may alwaies as justly say as he knoweth my desire is at this present that whatsoever thing hee putteth in my hands to doe may be done principally or much rather in obedience to him of whom I receive both the will and the deed and secondarily to make the best use thereof I can both for my selfe and others then any wise to affect singularity either by the raritie of the project it selfe in thinking it matchlesse or that it cannot be surmatched or yet so much as by meanes thereof to claime any perishing title prerogative or preheminence at all which may not justly be attributed unto the instrumentall or any wise derogatorie to the principall efficient of what is done Concerning the elements and contemplations of writing whereby may be considered and observed the definitions derivations and divisions of the Arte causes and occasions of the practise I intend not much to insist in this first part neither yet of the excellencie of writing in respect of the renowne necessitie utilitie raritie antiquity universality and noble discent therof because they are already illustrated in the second part for onely the principles are briefly expressed here but the reasons and use of all largely discussed there Therefore to be short in what I intend to say in this Preface to the commendation of writing neither for want of matter nor cause but rather for brevitie and to shun repetition I hope any of any breeding will easily confesse that by the blessing of God upon the ordinary meanes of writing which it pleased himself both as our