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The constitutions of the Musaeum Minervaæ.
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Musaeum Minervae (London, England); Kinnaston, Francis, Sir, 1587-1642. aut
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1636
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Algebra Geometrie Fortification Architecture The Professour of Musick shall teach these Skill in singing and Musick to play upon Organ Lute Violl c. The Professour of Languages shall teach these Hebrew Greek Latine Italian French Spanish High Dutch The Professour of Defence shall teach these Skill at all weapons and wrestling Also Riding shall be taught Dancing and behaviour Painting Sculpture Writing Lastly there shall be annexed a School for the young Gentlemen whose Parents are desirous to have them brought up in the Musaeum from their first yeares Item these Arts Sciences or Qualities rehearsed the Professours and their Assistants shall teach by Demonstration and Experiment as much as the nature of the Art and Science requireth and as much as in them lyeth Item the present Professours and successours of every of them forever shall leave in writing some memoriall of the most selected Points Secrets Experiments and Demonstrations which doe belong to every of their Arts or Sciences for the greater advancement of learning and knowledge unto the worlds end And this shall be done at their deaths when they dispose their estates if they shall be then of abilitie Item because learned men are many times anticipated by death and their excellencies die with them Every Professour shall also every new yeares day every yeare or within the twelve daies of Christmas give some Raritie in writing or otherwise to the Library of the house concerning their own Professions And the Regent shall see them have rewards out of the Treasurie according to their severall deserts Item the Assistants to the Regent and Professours or to any of them shall be the most able in their severall professions that may be had or chosen Item at time of sicknesse great imployment or for any reasonable cause it shall be permitted to the Râ—gent or any Professour to substitute aâ— dâ—putie for some daies at his own procurement Pâ—ovided alwaies that the Deputie work according to the Regent and Professours information and appointment And that his directions be according to the Constitutions of the Musaeum Item the Professour of Philosophie and Physick and his Assistant or Assistants shall from time to time according to their abilities and opportunities make experiments of naturall things chiefly for medicinall use and what they finde certain shall be recorded and what they finde otherwise shall in a book by it self be noted how and in what manner experiment was made and how it failed that men may not afterwards spend their pretious time and meanes in vain and that the licentious abuses of Impostors hereafter may be detected Item it is agreed and constituted by the Regent and Professours of the Musaeum Minervae that there shall be alwaies a Regent and six other Professours in the said Musaeum according as is granted and expressed in the Letters patents belonging unto the said Musaeum confirmed by his Maiesties great Seale Item in vacancie of the Regent or any of the Professours another shall be chosen within six weeks or sooner Item the Regents after the death of Sir Francis Kinaston the first Regent shall be chosen out of the Septennalls if there shall be found sufficient choice and the most worthy shall be chosen by the Professours and Septennalls who shall be found resident about the Citie otherwise by the maior part of Professours onely Item the Professours in vacancie are to be chosen by the Regent and maior part of Professours but when there shall be Septennalls the voices of these also shall be required as many as shall be found resident about the Citie and the most worthy shall be chosen Item the Regent and Professours shall be chosen by 〈◊〉 balletting box Item no forreigner or aliene born out of his Maiesties dominions shall at any time for ever hereafter be elected or admitted to be either Regent or Professour of any of the aforesaid Sciences Arts or Qualities except he be onely admitted as an Assistant by the approbation of the Regent and maior part of Professours And in case by any oversight or deceipt any such forreigner shall be admitted either Regent or Professour upon better knowledge of him he is to be dismissed immediately ipso facto and another to be chosen according to the true intents of these Constitutions Item in elections and other matters where voyces are necessarie the Regent shall have two voyces and the rest of the Professours each of them one a piece Item the Assistants shall be chosen by the Regent and maior part of Professours Item the Receiver shall be chosen by the Regent and maior part of Professours Item all officers shall be chosen by the Regent and maior part of Professours Item if any man make any suit by power and authoritie for the Regents place or for any place of the Professours or for any place of Assistants it shall be denied him for ever Item the admittance money which Gentlemen are to pay is five pound at the least Item the said admittance money is to be paid when the said Gentlemen are admitted Item The Professours are to have a monthly Salary as they use ordinarily to have in other places Item if any complaint be made of any Professour for asking too much the Regent and maior part of Professours shall regulate the matter Item what Professour soever shall be desired to teach out of the Musaeum shall not goe to teach any not admitted of the Musaeum except he first acquaint the Regent or his deputie with it and have leave of one of them Item if any Professour finde any agreevance any way either in his place or maintenance he shall propound it to the Regent and rest of the Professours and they shall redresse it as brotherly and charitably as if themselves were agreeved according as the nature of the matter shall permit being collated with the state of the Musaeum Item no Professour nor Assistant shall teach any man within the Musaeum not admitted except he shall have leave of the Regent or of his deputie in his absence Item the Regent and Professours or maior part of them shall dispose and imploy for the good of the Musaeuâ— Minervae all benefits moneys lands or whatsoever shalâ— be given or received by such Agreements Orders or Ruleâ— as they shall see reason to make for the said end from time to time as occasion shall be offered Item all admittance moneys benevolences of money or lands or what gifts soever shall be paid and delivered into the hands of the Receiver to the use of the Musaeum Minervae Item twice a yeare all receipts and expences shall be cast up and examined by the Regent and major part of the Professours after a moneths warning given unto the Receiver Item what lands soever are bestowed upon the Musaeum Minervae shall revertunto the Donours or their Heires if the Musaeum Mineruae shall wholly cease and finally be dissolved Item the Regent and Professours shall make covenants with all Assistants or Deputies of the said Musaeum
THE CONSTITVTIONS OF THE MVSAEVM MINERVAE LONDON Printed by T. P. for Thomas Spencer 1636. NIHIL INVITA MINERVA TO THE NOBLE AND GENEROVS WELL-WISHERS TO VERTVOVS ACTIONS AND LEARNING The Regent and Professours of the Musaeum Minervae wish all honour and happinesse HOwbeit publick actions and undertakings doe usually receive no Preface it being needlesse to divulge that which of it selfe will be exposed to all mens Censures neverthelesse new enterprises how good or iust soever they be are commonly subiect at least to suspicion if not unto oblique interpretation which frequent experience as well as in other things hath manifested in this our new institution of an Academy here in England Which though already it hath been iustified and approved by the wisdomes of the Kings most sacred Maiestie and many of the Lords of his Maiestie most Honourable privy Councell and confirmed by his Maiesties Letters patents and these the following Constitutions and Discipline thereof ratified under the hands and seales of the right Honourable the Lord Keeper of the great seale of England and the two Lord-Chief Justices Yet for a further and more full satisfaction of all men aswell ignorant detractours as vertuous Favourers of this Designe some remonstrance may not seem impertinent but rather necessary to be printed and published for the better understanding of what hath been undertaken Therefore for as much as we conceive that it is not generally nor cleerly understood what the nature of an Academy is nor wherefore the institution of such a Colledge is here necessary as well as in other great transmarine Cities we have thought it requisite for the bringing of vertue into action and the Theorie of liberall Arts into more frequent practise to show that such an institution is fit to be established here according to the laudable custome of other Nations who even in the middle of their Vniversities have their Academies as Rome Bononia Padua Paris Wittenberge and other places wherein our Aymes are directed to this end that England may he as well furnished for the vertuous education and discipline of her own Natives as any other Nation of Europe It is sufficiently known that the subiects of his Maiesties dominions have naturally as noble mindes and as able bodies as any Nation of the earth and therefore deserve all accommodations for the advancing of them either in speculation or action Neverthelesse such hath been the neglect or undervalueing of our selves and our own abilities and overvalueing of forreigne teachers that hitherto no such places for the education and trayning up of our own young Nobilitie and Gentrie in the practise of arms and arts have been instituted here in England as are in Italy France and Germany but that by a chargeable and sometimes an unfortunate experience we to our own losse and disgrace doe finde the noble and generous youth of this kingdome is sent beyond the seas to learn such things at excessiverates from strangers abroad wherein they might be as well and with lesse expence and danger instructed here at home The experience not onely of the honour but the gaine which other Nations reape by the confluence of our Nobilitie and Gentry to them for instruction might be a sufficient auâ—horitie and warrant for the erection of such Academies in the chiefest Cities of this kingdome as are beyond the seas were it not for some iealousies and suspicions which the novelty of every publick action doth bring with it as indiâ—iduall concomitants and therefore in the particuâ—â—r of this first institution of that nature some short answeres are requisite to be given to some places whose foundations have so long and so honourably been confirmed And for as much as we are to give reasons that the institution of an Academy is necessary amongst other noble qualities and arts if taught yet not practized in the Vniversities nor Innes of Court the sciences of Navigation Riding Fortification Architecture Painting and such like being most usefull accomplishments of a gentleman doe require a peculiar place and institution for them And albeit many of them are taught in London in dispersed places yet it cannot but be iudged more convenient to reduce and unite them in one certain place likewise whereas many men teach them perfunctorily rather for gain then any other respect it was held necessary to select certain men who upon oath should undertake to see them learnedly and sufficiently taught and in brief whereas in the Citie of London diverse strangers professe to teach sundry or rather all the liberall arts and sciences of which many have been found to be upon examination and triall egregiously ignorant whereby our youth loose both their tyme anâ— mâ—ney it could not but be thought most necessary for the benefit and convâ—niencie of all such vertuous disposed youths as live about the Citie as also for the honour of our nation that such a house should be erâ—cted in which they might be regularly taught to practise the aforesaid sciences and qualities and in a vertuous societie have such generous and fitting recreations as might divert them from the too much frequenting of places of expence and of greater inconveniences Now to let all men know that the intention of the erection of this Academy is as well for the prevention of inconveniences and dangers as for the positive benefit of our Gentrie there is no understanding man but may resent how many of our Noble men and young gentlemen travell into forreigne countries before they have any language or knowledge to make profit of their tyme abroad they not being any way able to get knowledge for want of language nor language for want of tyme since going over so young their yeares of licence commonly expire before they can obtain to sufficient ripenesse of understanding which no nation is known to doe but the English for what children of other nations come over to us before they are of able age and ripenesse To prevent which inconvenience we by this publick Act give notice unto all men that one great end of our institution is to give language and instruction with other ornaments of travell unto our Gentlemen if they shall stay some tyme in this Academy before their undertaking any long iourneys into forreigne parts Moreover whereas it is found by lamentable experience that Noblemen and Gentlemen for want of an Academy here are as it were necessitated to send their sonnes beyond the seas for education where through change of Climat and dyet and for want of yeares of discretion they become more subiect to sicknesses and immature death then otherwise they might have been we leave it to carefull prudent parents to consider how necessary the institution of an Academy here in London is in which especiall order may be taken for the bringing up of young Gentlemen untill both for yeares and learning they may be fit as well to travell and make benefit of their tyme abroad as to gain some knowledge how to prevent the dangers both of forreigne