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A03087	A simple, and religious consultation of vs Herman by the grace of God Archebishop of Colone, and prince Electour. [et] c. by what meanes a Christian reformation, and founded in Gods worde, of doctrine, administration of the deuine sacramentes, of ceremonies, and the hole cure of soules, and other ecclesiastical ministeries may be begon among men committed to our pastorall charge, vntil the Lorde graunt a better to be appoynted either by a free, and Christian cou[n]sayle, general, or national, or elles by the states of the empire of the natio[n] of Germanie, gathered together in the holye Gost; Einfaltigs Bedencken, warauff ein christliche in dem Wort Gottes gegrünte Reformation an Lehr, Brauch der heyligen Sacramenten un Ceremonien, Seelsorg und anderem Kirchendienst, biss auff eines freyen, christlichen, gemeinen oder nationals Concilii, oder dess Reichs Teutscher Nation Stende, im Heyligen Geyst versamelt, Verbesserung, bei denen so unserer Seelsorge befohlen, anzurichten seye, English	Wied, Hermann von.; Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560.; Bucer, Martin, 1491-1551.	1547 (1547)	STC 13213; ESTC S103980	258,817	620

euer in the congregation meete men and well furnished to set furthe and defende the doctrine of Christe and that so the true doctrine of Christ reueled vnto vs from God and comended and beclared by the Appostles which the true catholike church of Christe hath euer holden maye be kepte and sprede furth vnto oure posterite by the grace and goodnes of christ thys of righte ought to be chiefeste care of great princes and al gouerners of commenweales as in dede it is the principall seruice of God For these causes the Apostles and their disciples instituted in theyr congregacions such peculiar lectures and scholes as we read of Iohan the Euāgeliste Pof olicarpus of the scholes erected Antioch Alexandre and constātinople And such wer scholes at the beginning whych nowe be ecclesiastical colleges And this maner of institutinge such scholes was verie profitable to the cōgregacions for foure causes First that the writinges of the Apostles and prophet in such colleges and scholes might be preserued from perishinge Secōdly that there myght euer be witnesses of the Apostolike writinges whyche shoulde be true and which counterfeit For euen streyght waye at the beginninge some wrytinges were carred aboute vnder the name of the Apostles vntruly whyche were furth with reiected and noted by these scholes As we reade that Ihon the Euangeliste reproued one for addyng a false appendice to the Actes of the Apostles Thirdlye that such scoles might bear witnes what doctrin and vnderstandinge of the scriptures was taught by the Apostles least straunge doctrines and enterpretations of the scriptures and suche as fyght with the doctrine of the Apostles might crepe in the authours wher of should be vnknowne or elles aduersaries to this testimoni of the cōgregacion Fourthly that out of suche colleges and scholes meete teachers and gouerners might be taken for other churches also These I thinck wer the causes whither wer alwaies in the congregations such companies and colledges from the beginninge whyche after that they wer enriched by the liberalitie of princes and godlye men thei were broughte to such colledges of Cannons as we se nowe a dayes But forasmuch as the studie of the holie scriptures is euer quēched a greate while sithens in these colledges many other slanders pernitious to the cōgregations ar com in with a lamentable ignorance of holy matters surely the great nede necessitie of the congregations requireth that scholes be restored and preserued asmuche as the Lorde wyl helpe thereunto Wherfore we also haue purposed to erect and cōstitute such a schole of Diuinitie at Bonne wherein after the custome some mete readers shal teach the holye scriptures and other good learnyng in which we wyll also procure that the studentes shal haue a place and a table as the maner is in other vniuersities And moreouer we wyl depute somwhat for pore younge men There shall then be appoynted for a beginning seuē professours in this our schole The firste shall professe diuinitie and shall teache openly two dayes of the wieke in the olde testament and two other in the newe to whose iudgement we wyll permitte that he shall chuse out of the holie bokes those that he thynketh wyll be moste profitable for the hearers as in the olde Testament Genesis Deutoronomie the Psalmes Esaie In the newe Paule Iohn Luke And this professoure shall so moderate his doctrine that it agre with this sūme of holie doctrine which we haue described in thys boke and whiche is in deede the doctrine and meanyng of the true and catholike churche of Christe This principall reader of diuinitie shall also exercise the office of the superintendant in the cōgregrations nigh aboute and as the rector of thys schole he shall haue charge of the other reders and shal warne thē of their duti if neede be and if they do not their duties he shal bryng the matter before them whō we wyl appoint to be vphoders and maynteyners of thys our ordinaunce He shal labour also to maynteyne mutuall cōcorde betwene the professours that one hurte not an other wyth wordes writinges or other wayes And he shall decree and put in execution by the aduise and assent of the other readers thynges perteynynge to the discipline and correction of the youth The seconde reader shal also examine the holie scripture but there wythall he shall teache the hebrue tonge Two daye in the wicke he shall enterprite some boke wyth a theological exposition Foure dayes he shall reade hebrue in order First he shal teach the grammer and then he shall expoune some boke of the Bible and therin he shal declare the rules and vse of the grammer that thys tonge maye be more certeynely knowen of yonge men and be made more familiar vnto them The thyrde professour shal reade logike and the greke tonge both twaine euerie day in the wieke in the which he muste teache as vpon the seconde the thyrde the fifte the sixt day of the wieke Which thynge shal not be harde vnto hym whiche hath atteyned but euen a meane knowledge of both the artes For he that hath once wel perceyued the ru●es of Logike shall not haue muche a do to teache them But he shal chuse some cōmune and good Logike as is the Logike of Cesarius philip or Sturmius And he shal not chaunge that that he hath begonne to teache and moreouer as often as he hath ended the same he shall adde some boke of Aritoteles his Logike whom he shall interprete in greke But he shall chose the easiar bokes as is the boke of Porphyrius or of the Predicamentes or some parte of the Analitikes that the youth maye be prepared to the readyng of Aristotle And he shall moderate all these thynges accordynge to the capacitie of the hearers When the boke of Aristotle is finished he shall returne to the accostomed Logike of Cesarie Philippe or Sturmius In the other houre when he muste reade greke this reader shal first teache the grammar and afterward Hesiodus or some part of Homere or some Tragidies of Euripides or Sophocles or some oratiō of Isocrates or somewhat of Luciane or Herodotus Those ended he shall returne to the grammare The fourth reader shall professe Rhetorike and shall reade euerie daye twyse one houre he shal bestowe vpon the preceptes of Rhetorike and he shal chuse some good Rhethorike cōmunely vsed in the scholes which ended he shall expoune Erasmus his boke de copia rerum and after that some bokes of Quintilian namely the second the thirde the eight and the tenth On the other houre he shal expoune some ●ration of Cicero wherein asmuche as he shall thynke needfull he shall declare howe the oration agreeth wyth the rules and preceptes of Rhethorike Howbeit some tymes in the steede of oratiōs he shall mengle some what out of the poetes This reader of Rhethorike shal also professe moral philosophie Therefore in the houre deputed to thys lecture he shall expoune sometymes Tullies offices and sometymes he shal interprete

out of the worde of God as Paule witnesseth saiynge The swerde of the spirite is the worde of god Ephe. vi Seinge than the beginninge the middle and the ende of oure newe lyfe that is to say regeneration in to the saide lyfe the encrease of it and victorie agaynst Satan consisseth of the worde of God the feeders of congregations maye easely see in to what daunger of Goddes wrath they runne if anie be not parttakers of this regeneration thorough theyr negligence or if they that be borne agayne of the spirite wante the feedinge of goddes worde and the cherishinge of holesome doctrine of exhortation or if they falle from the lyfe and communion of Christe beinge sedused thoroughe false doctrines of men wherefore they that haue this office must euer with al diligence continue in readinge doctrine praier and other exercises spiritual that they maie saie with that faythful seruaunte Lorde thou deliueredest to me ten talētes and lo I haue gained other ten And that they maie heare agayne wel done faythful seruaunte thou wast faithful ouer fewe thinges I wil sette the ouer manie Entre in to the ioye of thy Lorde Wherfore that feeders and al ministers of congregations may the better vnderstande and handle the holye scripture we wil opē vnto thē a certaine way and we wyll declare in ordre the more notable places of the Chrystiane doctrine not that we would haue them to tary in these places but because we desire to haue them brought by these more easelie to the holy scripture it selfe out of which afterward they may be instructed more fully and perfectly ¶ That some leason out of the holie scripture muste be set forth to the people before the sermō and that the same muste be declared to them FYrste we wyll that the pastours take all theyr sermons that they make to the people out of some leason of the holie scripture whiche at the begynnynge of the sermon they shall recite wyth singuler reuerence grauitie As we know that the olde holy fathers vsed it euen from the tyme of the Apostles Which thing also was obserued in the synnagoges of the Iewes as it appeareth by that that we reade of the Lord. Luk. iiii of the synnagog Act. xiii into the whiche Paule and Baruabas entred vppon the Sabbath at Antioche of Pisidia Wherfore in olde tyme euerie congregation had peculiar readers whiche red the bokes of the holie scripture to the people out of the pulpette But this custome being abolished amonge other fautes of ecclesiasticall administration and in thys scarsnes of ministers of the worde by reason wherof Peculiar readers cānot be appointed in euerie congregation we wil that the pastours and preachers execute theyr office and religiouslie to reade to the people afore hande those thinges wherof they wyl speake that so thei may the more accustome them selues to heare the worde of God and that they maye be more fullly enstructed of their saluation It shall healpe also the pastours thē selues to make and finishe their sermons with better ordre if they shal folow the prescripte of the leason preposed and keepe thē selues wythin the bandes therof And they shall measure these leasons after the measure of those lessons that are accustomablye recited in Masses So the people maye more easily remēbre the thynges that shall be redde and the preachers also maye more comodiouslie declare them For they must diligently auoyd this faute that some haue that they tarie not vpon one or two wordes of the premised leason lettyng the reste passe vntoutched or fall quite to other matters then were redde Oure fayth must leaue vpon the pure and onelie worde of God wherefore that worde must be hearde and vnderstanded of euerie person Wherfore it shal be conuenient to reade out of the holie scripture and declare so muche as by likelihode the people may perceyue and retayne to the edification of fayth ¶ That al sermons must be made to set forth and magnifie Christ the Lorde FOrasmuch as Christ our Lorde is the ende of the lawe and Moses the psalmes Rom. x Luke the last Actes x. and the prophetes doe testifi and preach of hym that he is the onely sauiour of the chosen people in whom whosoeuer shal beleue shal receyue forgyuenes of sinnes thorowe his name all pastours must directe ordre theyr sermons to this marcke that they beare and declare witnesse of thys Christe For so he himselfe commaundid the Al christian doctrine is a testimonie of Christ the sauiour Actes i. i. Cor. ij apostles a litle before his ascention into heauen whan he instituted the holie ministerye of preaching you shal be witnesses vnto me at Hierusalē and in all Iurie and Samary vnto the vttermost endes of the earth Here of it cometh that S. Paule wryteth of hym selfe I iudged not myselfe to knowe anye thinge amonge you sauinge Iesus Christe and him crucified And he had a good cause to saye so For as he wrate to the Coloss al thinges were created by him that be in heauen and in erth visible and inuisible whether they be thrones dominations principates or powers All thynges were made by him and in him and he is before al thinges ▪ al thinges cōsist thorough is him He is the head of the body of the church which is the begining the frist begottē of the deade that he may be the chief in al thinges for it hath pleased the father that all fulnes shoulde dwelle in him and thorough hym to reconcile al thinges towardes hymselfe the thinges that be ether in heauen or in erth being pacified by the bloud of his crosse thorough the same persō Iohanne witnesseth the same thinges in the begininge of his gospel and epistle And the Lorde of hym selfe Iohan. v. iii. xii xvii and in manye other places Therefor Christe hym selfe comprehended the summe of the whole scripture in this sentence Luke the last repentaunce and remission of synnes must be preched in the name of Christ wherfore let the faythful ministers of congregations alwayes magnifie the name of oure Lorde Iesus Christe testifiynge that thys only sonne of God the true God and man is he by whome al thinges were made be Ephe. i. gouerned repared and renued which also ruleth al thinges with the worde of his power whyche gathereth together the scattered chyldren of God and straiyng sheepe Hebru i. Iohn x. and gyueth repentaunce and remission of sinnes For there is none other name vnder heauen gyuen to men wherein they shal be Act. v. Act. iiii Iohn xvii Iohn x. saued the power of all fleshe is gyuen to him that he maie gyue euerlastinge lyfe to al thē that the father hath gyuen hym He is that good shepeherde that giueth his life for his sheepe that he maye gyue them eternal lyfe which so defendeth and keepeth his sheepe that noman can take them out of his hande These and suche lyke testimonies of Christe must be often and diligintlye beatē

into the people in sermons ¶ The article of the trinitie AL though mannes reason vnderstandeth not the nature of God yet God hath opened hym selfe in the worde and in his sonne that we maye knowe him asmuch as he hath reuelated him selfe and calle vpon him After whiche sorte whan we calle vpon God the father there is a greate difference betwene our inuocation and the inuocation of all other people and nations and this difference cōsisteth cheifely in ij pointes One is that inuocation thus ordered is derected to the true and natural God Thother is that our inuocation so vsed must needes please God and not be voyde and frustrate Wherfore the preachers must teach out of the holy scripture of the true and almightie Thre persōs but one substaunce God the father the onely begotten sonne and the holie goste that they be one God of the same deuine nature and power but yet three distincted personnes And that thys one God made and maynteneth all thynges Further that the sonne of God by the vnspeakeable purpose and vnmeasurable mercie of God dyd put on mannes nature that he might be a sacrifice and a raunsome for vs and that these two natures that is to saye mannes nature and Goddes is one and vndiuided personne Iesus Christe Two natures vnited in Christ Howe be it these two natures be so knytte in Christe that they be not confounded or mixte but eche hath by it selfe his owne substaunce and proprietie As al these thynges are well knowen out of the worde of God administred by the Apostles and Prophetes and be declared in sundry confessions of the holie fathers agaynste sundrie heresies in the crede made in the counsel of Nice and in the crede of Athanasius Item in the agreable decrees and confestions of the olde and very holy counselles as Nicene Cōstātinopolitane Ephesine Calchedonēse cōstātinopolitane againe Further by the wrytinges of the fathers cōsēting herunto whiche faught earnestly for the worde of God as by the bokes of Athanasius Basilius Nazianzenus and Augustine it appeareth Wherfore the sentence and doctrine of thys article muste be diligently propouned to the people and commended and defended that the true knowledged of God may be mayntayned and that we maye retayne a difference betwene the inuocation of christian men and other nations whiche is verye necessarye namely that thou mayste call vpon thys true God the father of Iesus Christe together wyth his sonne Iesus Christe and the holie gooste whiche hath reueyled hym selfe in the sonne for whose sake he wyll be mercifull and wyll geue the holie gooste to them that thus call vpon hym in fayeth whiche also stireeth vp in the hertes of men the true knowledge of God feare fayeth and other motions The differēce betwene the i●uocation of Christians and other nations of newe lyfe For thoughe the excellente Philolophers among the heathē the Iewes and the Mahometistes do glorye that they worshyppe not ymages and Idolles but the eternal God maker of heauē and earth of mē and of all other thinges neuertheles semge that they wil not acknowledge thys God whiche hath opened him selfe in his word by his sonne our Lorde Iesus Christ they do not worship and call vpon the true God but they worshippe the vayne imaginations of their owne hertes and handes Neither can they persuade them selues that God is mercifull vnto them and heareth them because they refuse the Gospell and the onelye mediatoure And therfore their inuocation can in no wyse be directed to the true God the father of our Lorde and sauiour Iesus Christ but these men imagin to thē selues A peculiar God whiche is not the father of oure mediatour Iesus Christe and therfore is not the true God for whiche cause they can not persuade them sellues that theyr prayers be harde Their inuocation then hāgeth and abideth in the vayne deuices of theyr owne reason in images and Idoles stāding before thē and they remaine verie straūgers and abominable to the true God bicause they lyue without Christ and the worde of God as Christ sayeth he that honoureth not the sonne honoureth not the father And Paule to the Roma v. thorowe Christe we haue entraunce vnto the father Thus God also reueiled hym selfe to Iohn How the holy Trinitie was reueiled to Iohn Baptiste at the baptisme of Christ the sonne of Zacharie that he afterwarde mighte instructe the churche of true knowledge and right inuocation for in thys sorte God eternall the father witnesseth his sōne Thys is my beloued sonne in whom I am wel pleased the sonne him selfe standeth at baptisme the holie goste cōmeth downe opēly vpon him to testifie that the holie gooste should be geuen both to Christ and to his cōgregation Wherfore thre personnes appeared in thys place This appering thē ought to be wel considered of euerie christen man whiche chaunced not for Ihon his sake onely but for the whole congregation his sake that the same might offre praiers to the only eternall and almightie God the father of our Lorde Iesus Christ which made al thinges with the eternal sōne and the holy gost And whiche also wyl heare the churche gouerne and sanctifie it wyth his holy spirite for Christe the mediatoure his sake The wordes of Baptisme signifie the same thinge wheras it is saied I baptise the A declaration of the wordes of baptisme in the name of the father and of the sonne and of the holie goste For here be three personnes numbred of one equall power and diuitie to whō alone the whole cause of our saluatiō is ascribed for thys is the meaning of the wordes I baptise the that is to saye I testifie by thys token of dipping or sprinklynge that thy synnes be forgeuen the and that thou art receyued into the grace of the eternall and the true God the father of Iesus Christ and that for this his sōnes sake Item that the holie gooste shal worke in the effectuouslie Surely thys is an highe doctrine and aboue mannes wysedome of the nature wyl and efficacie of God towardes vs whiche maketh a difference betwene vs and al heythen comprehending most ample promises as we wyll declare herafter of whiche promises it is very requisite that the people be admonished as often as the texte of the scripture requireth it that the congregation maye be well instructed of the one and singuler diuine substaunce and of the there personnes For thys article muste be obserued of al mē and exercised in our dayly inuocation And our inuocation muste be discerned frō the inuocation of the heathen the Iewes and the mahometistes that we do beleue that God certaynly heareth vs if in oure prayer we apprehende the mediatour wherof no heathen Iewe no mahometist can certifie hym selfe For thus we must pray Almightie and eternal god the father of oure Lorde Iesus Christ which with thy A fourme of christen prayer onely begotten sonne and the holy gost madest al thinges and preseruest the

a lesson these two exercises must be diligently retained namely that the childrē do euer declare the constructiō of the text and also adde the rules so that they recite the coniugations and declinations and shewe the rules of the same In this exercise of repetinge and examininge a lerned and faithful master shal teach how manie waies the same sentence maye be spoken in latine with such declaracions of the propriete and elegancie of the latine toung they shal cause more plentious fruit than may be here fully expressed But this matter consisteth altogether in the faythfulnes and dexterite of the master Wherfore men thoroughly learned faythfull and prompte in teachinge must be sought furth to haue the gouernance of scholes cheifely in greate townes In thys fourme there shal be a certayne howre appoynted euerye weeke at whyche howre the childrē shal reherse wythout boke the rules of grammar that they forget them not The masters maye also change thir lectures and in the howre deputed to virgil expoune Tullies epistles In thys furme also euerie childe shall write and delyuer euery weeke a latine Epistle that together thei may learne both to speake to write latyne The fourth fourme shal be of thē whiche haue lerned theyr grammare rules and construction and haue attained a metly good latyne toung To thē afterwarde some logike shal be red as the logik of Cesarius Philip or Sturmius and some easie accentinge as of Murmelius or some other lyke In thys fourme more ouer some bookes of Ouides Metamorphosis de Pōto and Tullies offices shal be red The childrē of this fourme shal also be sterred vp to write verses which they shall deliuer to the master euerie month But forasmuch as manie be of that nature that thei lern to mak verses with much difficultie the shole master shal vse such moderacion in requiringe thys studie that he maye exercise euerie one in that that he shall perceyue the nature of euerie one to preuaile in Howe be it he shall exhorte the dulle also to this arte that thei do not vtterly caste a waie thys art for the greate profite which it hath vndoubtedly But they shall stirre them to trauaile furth as much as they canne and to write some verses though they be but fewe For this exercise maketh perfite grammarians and putteth the youth in remembraūce of manie necessarie thinges of figures of sōdrie wayes to speake latine and fedeth maruailously copie of latine speach Two howres a weeke shal suffice for the readinge of logike But whan it is ended it must be begonne a gayne At other howres the master shal interprete to theim to whom logike is red the greke grammare if they be fitte for that purpose whan he hath ended the grammare he shal expoune Hesiodus or Phocilides or some like thinge as a wise master shal percieue to be profitable for the children But the exercises of grammar rules and construction shal not be omitted in thys fourme but shal be vsed in the repeticion of Ouide These be the lectures whiche maye conuenently be reade the seconde thirde fifte and sixte daye of the weke For seinge that christiā scholes ought chifely to serue for the mainteinaunce and furtheraūce of the knowlege of God among men and to retaine and promote the doctrine of Christe and the hole true Christian religion we wyll and commaund that vpon the furth daie of the weke the schole cease frō other lectures and exercises and that thys daye be bestowed vpon teaching the catechisme and demaūde what the chilhren canne saye therein And we wyll do oure endeuoure that some commē and vniforme Catechisme shal be vsed thorought the hole diocese For we must not graunte to the scholemasters that euerie one shall make a newe catechisme but we wyll that they all vse the receyued whiche they shal so decylre and beate in to children that the youth maye be kepte and euer furthered in the syncere knowlege of Christ in fayth and communion of the congregacion And the selfe same doctrine must be taught in the scholes and in the cōgrgaciōs Which thinges the ouerseers of the congregacions shal cheifly loke to Furthermore the scholemayster shal exhorte his elder sholars to the communion of the Lords supper but let him first enstructe them diligently of this sacrament and examen them Finally in this fourth daye of the weke whan the catechisme shabe handled let eueri childe of the lowest fourme be hearde whether he can faye in latine and in hys mother toung the partes of the catechisme that is to saye the Lordes praier the crede the ten commaundmentes the wordes of baptisme and of the Lordes supper and of discipline and christian correction as they are wrytten Math. xviij Vpon the same day the schole master shal grammatically interprete to hys elder sholers and to suche as canne attaine to it the Gospel of the sondaye nexte folowyng and shal declare the sume of that lesson to them and shewe them what thinges are touched therein concerninge faith and other vertues that the scholemaster and the youth may accustome them selues to knowe more certainly and to serch out more religiousli the thiuges that be taught in the Gosples lette the Saturday be bestowed vpon Musike that vpon that daye the rules of Musike may be taught and the yong men enstructed and exercised to singe cheifely those songes which vpon the nexte sondaye shal be sounge in the temple For scholemaysters and scholars must not only be present at the songes in the congregacions befor other but they must al so beare the cheifeste stroke not only vpon holie dayes but also vpon other dayes whā there shal be holye assembles as it shal be appointed after the cōdicion and commodites of euerie place In this mater suche moderacion must be kept that the childrens heath be not hurted in the winter thorought colde if they be deteined to long in the temple and that they be not so occupied in singinge that theyr study of lerninge be hindred It pertaineth also to the maintenaunce and encrese of grauite and religion in temples that to sondrie and longe songes be not vsed But these thinges and suche other that pertaine to the dignitie of holie assembles edificaciō of the people of Christ the visiters shal appoint accordinge to the oportunitie of euerie place ¶ Of the schole of deuinitie But for maiteinaunce of Christean doctrine and holesome administration of churches those firste beginninges are not onely required whyche be gotten in the scholes of children but furthermore it is necessarie that men giuen theym selues altogether to lerne perfetly the vniuersal scripture of the prophetes and the Apostles and to excusse al the hearde questions whyche haue exercised the churche from the begninge Item to knowe the waye and meane whereby the holy fathers in theyr time defēded the Lordes truth in the cōgregacion and kepete the same pure vnto vs and finallye howe we maye in our time defende and retaiue the same That there maye bee

Aristotles his Ethikes in greke and shall introduce the youth to the readynge of these bokes The fifte reader shal be a grammarian for though thys schole shall be appoynted and instituted for thē that haue learned grāmare in the scholes of chyldren yet for as muche as the wittes of chyldren and yonge folke be vnlike and some when they come to these cōmune lectures knowe not theyr grāmare fully and some forget the same it shall be necessarie that amonge other cōmune lectures some chyldely exercise in grammare be also reteyned Lette the professours then whē they haue tried the learnynge of euerie one distribute the chyldrē into certeyne fourmes as euerie one hath profited in learning and lette them pricke those forwarde whiche haue not bene sufficiently trained in grammare to learne the same more perfectly To thys reader there muste be two houres assigned euerie daye in whiche he shall cause the youth to rehearse wythout boke the rules of grammare euerie one in ordre And thys custome must needes be euer reteyned in scholes and not chaunged And forasmuche as the youth vnwillingly susteyneth thys exercise the professours muste all agree vpon the maynteynaunce of thys statute and cōpell the youth wyth punishmentes to thys exercise euerie one accordynge to his age and according as he hath profited in learnynge that they may make theyr hearers perfecte grammarians whiche thinge healpeth excedynge muche to true and substantiall learnynge For cōmune studies are greatly endamaged in thys tyme by reason that a perfecte institution of grammare is neglected and manie yonge men go to other professions and artes before that they haue perfectly learned grammare Of whiche hinderaunce though all faythfull enstructours of youth complayne and as muche as in them lyeth woulde gladly remoue the same from theyr scholars and compell them to learne grammare perfectly yet they wante the authoritie and ayde of them whiche haue superiour power in scholars Wherefore we wyll that oure ouerfears shall diligently resiste thys euyll and procure wyth all diligence that thys exercise of grammare be faythfully maynteyned and sette forth In the other houre thys reader shall cause the chyldren to rehearse without boke the accentynge of Mycillus and shall require of them that they exercise them selues in wrytyng of verses And for thys purpose he shall expoune some Poete vnto them We wyll that the sixte professoure shall reade Mathematicall sciences and naturall Philosophie and we thynke it sufficient that he reade one houre in a daye Therefore on the seconde and thyrde daye of the wieke he shall teache Arithmetike and that done he shal reade the litle boke of the Sphere made by Iohn de Sacro busto whiche muste be diligently declared to the youth Afterward he shall returne to Arithmetike and shal cōtinue therin On the other two daies namely vpon the fifte and the sixte he shall professe somewhat in naturall Philosophie and he shall chuse some vsed and approued boke in thys arte as summula Alberti or Philippes boke De anima or some such that is not veri lōge nor obscure Whā these be ended he shall take in hande to declare some short Cosmographie as the Cosmographie of Appian wherein he shal teache the youth the maner of comptyng diligently The seuenth reader shall be a lawyar whyche shalle expowne the Institutions of Iustinian one houre euerie daye For it shal be good to introduce gentlemēnes children and the chyldren of other worshypfull Citizins whiche shall come to thys schole to the knowledge of the lawe teachynge the fyrste principles of thys arte Whiche thing shall haue thys commoditie that while they trauayle in the lawe they shal perceiue how greate the vse of other artes is chiefely of Rhethorike and Logike But bycause manie chyldren and yonge men shall come into thys schole a phisition and an Apothecharies shoppe shall be needfull Where we wyll haue an eye to this cōmoditie also Euerie wieke on the fourth day thre professours shall come togyther the Rethoritian the Logitian and the Grammarian that they maye examen the yonge mennes wrytynges as well prose as verses and amende some of them that the youth maye see what thynges be fautie and learne to auoyed the same and to wryte better The professours also shall procure asmuche as maye be that the scholars do euer speake latine ❧ Of disputation It pleaseth vs also that foure tymes in a yere a disputation of diuinitie be kept vpon a saturdaye in whiche disputation the professours of diuinitie shall sitte as Iudges by course But the professours of artes shall procure that some disputation or declamation be vsed euerie moneth In disputations lette the better learned amonge the studētes make argumentes and then the professours thē selues At these disputatiōs we wyl haue a Rector to be euer presente that they maye dispute comely and wyth friendlie myndes and that the disputations gyue not occasion to pernitious brawlynges and dissentions Further it shall perteyue to the Rector to see that profitable matters be sette forth to be disputed of and suche as be offensiue to no man The same man shall diligently exhorte the youth to the holie communion and shal laboure to bringe to passe that they go to the Lordes table often in the yere But they that shal come to the communion shall fyrste aske absolution and then they shall be examined what they haue profited in the doctrine of Christe But howe the houres shall be destributed when euerie professoure shall reade the professours them selues wyth the Rectour shall appoynte whom we wyl also to make statutes by commune aduise concernynge the maners of the studentes whereby they maye be allured and dryuen to those thynges that perteyne to godlines and other vertues and whereby also they maye be an exemple to other men of godlinesse and honestie The Rectour then and the professours shall make lawes that the Scholars at conuenient tymes go to the temple comely and together that they be present in the holie assembles heare sermons praye wyth the cōgregation vse the Sacramentes offre their gyfttes to Christe the Lorde for the pore that they eschue vngodly othes euyll speakyng eursynge and all noysome and vncleane speache all gloutonie dronkennes and vnchastnes that they weare comely and honest apparell not iagged or otherwise gaye and proude that theyr gounes come doune beneth theyr knees These thynges and suche lyke perteynynge to discipline semely for christian Scholars and to honestie shall be comprehended in statutes and ena●ted with punishmentes Suche a Schole out of which most ample cōmodities shal come to the congregation and that eueri ordre of mē mai be wel instituted and mainteined so that not only the professors shal haue iuste stipendes but also certeine poore scholars shal be founde if the reuenues of one abbaie be appoynted hereunto which now be wretchedly wasted For ye maye fynde many Monasteries euerie where in whiche there scarcely remaine fiue or sixe monkes and such men as neither be nor cā be any waies

and honest artes wherwith they may afterward bryng greater profite to the colledges and to the congregations than that thei shuld spende in their colledges those good yeres idly in foule ignorancie and so rather burthen the colledges than do theym anye good ¶ Of the reformation of monastaries both of men and women VVE canne not hope that the olde and true Mouckrie maye be restored agayne in thys tyme as we haue no hope neither of restorynge of the olde discipline of Canons of that sorte as it was once and as it is described of Sayncte Augustine in the booke of the maners of the congregacion Wherefore we wyll be contente wyth that reformacion of the monasteries whyche yet remaine that we maye hope shal be obtained and kepte Firste therefore we wyll that all monasteries conforme theim selues to that waye whiche we haue described in this booke and shall hereafter appointe more largelye in doctrine in administracion of sacramentes and ceremonies in repurgacion and moderacion of holie lessons and songes Secondly that thei se the parishes which they haue incorporated the reuenues and tythes wherof they enioye to be prouided of ecclesiasticall and scholasticall ministeries and of stipendes for theym whiche muste exequite ministeries to the congregacions in al pointes accordinge to that fourme which we prescribed before to colleges Thirdlye we will that they whiche in monasteries shall be founde meete to take the charge of soule shal be apointed therūto as also among the olde fathers clerckes and pastours bee chosen frō the cōpanie of monkes And now the greate necessite of the congregacion requireth the same Fourthly concerning those which be vnfit to ministre and haue not the gyfte nor yet the wyll to lyue godly and honestli in monasteries we se not that it is lawful for vs to deteine thē in monasteries to be certainely offensiue to them selues and to other Wherefore asmuche as pertaineth vnto vs we wyll not grudge to graunte to suche cloisterers if they vndre whome they liue wil permitte the same that leauinge theyr monasteries and monasticall bondage they shall conueye them selues to the commune honest and christiā life and to liue in mariage or wiueles so that their purpose be godlie and vnfained To which kind of liuinge it shall not displease vs that they whiche haue nede be holpen of the monasteries whiche they leaue Fiftly we will that they whiche wil tarie in monasteries shal liue godly and without offence and kepe the commen discipline of christen men and be contente to receiue thinges necessarie for the bodie by the administracion of the monasterie and not to waste the goodes of the monasteries in shamefull riot For monastaries oughte to serue to the cherishyng of honest and godly studies and to bryng vp young men which afterwarde may bryng certaine vtilitie to the cōgregations Further we wyll haue the noumber of these mē so moderated that euery yere some what may remain to the monasteries wher by some children may be holpē which haue not wherwith thei mai be honestly brought vp and be taught some craft to mayntayne thē selues thereby And moreouer that yong folcke of more age maye bee holpen whiche though thei haue a craft wherbi thei be able to get their owne liuyng yet they haue not wherwyth to set vp their craft or to fynd a commodious mariage So it semeth good to vs also that monasteries of beggynge friers be wholy dedicated to godly learnyng For it is euidēt that thei were not made at the beginnynge that men should begge or only read and sing in temples or sai masses but for this purpose chiefly that in them men should be brought vp and framed vnto the congregations whych myghte supply the negligence of pastours and susteyne the holy ministerye of the cure of soules which than began to were out of vse Wherefore we wyll prouyde that they whiche in these monasteries shal be founde meete to ministre shal be deputed to the same in conuenient places And where as it is against christian simplicite and the verie rules of the olde holi fathers prescribed vnto monckes that cloisterers shoulde shewe furth themselues to be gased vpon with such disgised and so manifolde variyng garment where as monckes apparel shoulde be base and of smale price not differinge muche in shape and colour of the gramentes of other meane and base men it shal please vs that they whiche wil abyde in monasteries shall vse comen garmentes not much varnyinge from other apparel of good men which yet shal be homelie and honest and so ordred as it shal be conueniēt for euerie mans ministerie and condicion of life And because it is right expedient for the cōgregaciōs that there be scholes where in the youth maye be godly and commodiously taught and framed we wyl do oure diligēce that wher oportunitie hereof shal be certaine monasteries with the aduise and assente of our pronincialles shal be tourned in to scholes in which wee wyll studie to set learned and good scholemasters asmuch as we maie and we will appointe some monasteries for the nobilite and some for other honest men that in thē their children maye be godly and honestly brought vp and be furnished with good lerninge and honest maners And because that folowinge the Lordes worde we make it free to them to whom it is not giuen to liue well holy and godly in monsteries to returne to the cōmune life of christen men manie men feare sondrie daungers that maye come hereof For some of the order of gentlemen and other worshipfull men because they haue manie children and can not sette furth al their daughters to mariag feare lest it maye chaunce thorough this libertie of forsakinge monasteries that their daughters shal returne to them and be burthenous vnto them or at the lest shal be allured to vnauised and vnsemelye mariages or sedused to some other spotte of lyfe For oure weaknes is verie much in continuyng in good and honest studies and our old enemie Sathan layeth meruailous waites a gainste al christian reformacion of thinges Some feare also that greate and pernicious contensions aboute inheritaunces wil come hereof and an intolerable diminucion of patrimonies for thei are aferde lest the women which shal forsake their nonries wil require their protion of inheritaunce and not onely of that inheritaunce that shal be deuided but also of that that is deuided already But as for vs seing that in the whole reformation that we take in hand we haue an hertie regard hereunto and most studiously referre al thynges to the same poynte that we may augment al commodities vnto our men to the glory of God fyrst spiritual and secondly temporal and not to intercepte or diminishe any commoditie in any thyng we wysh asmuch as we may possibly to turne a way and remoue both these thynges and al other which men fear wyl happen or which in dede wyl be paynful to some And therfore we exhort in the Lord most ernestlye all virgins cloysterers and