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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38889	An exact and true account of the number, names, founders, and the years of foundation of all the publick schools in England with all the reputed academics and universites in the Christian world, viz. England, Scotland, Ireland, Bohemia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Moravia, Poland, Prussia, Portugal, Spain, Sicily, Silesia, Sweden, Switzerland, and Transilvania.		1687 (1687)	Wing E3608A; ESTC R36395	8,130	1

AN Exact and true Account of the Number Names Founders And The Years of Foundation of all the Publick Schools in England with all the reputed ACADEMIES and UNIVERSITIES In the Christian World viz. England Scotland Ireland Bohemia Denmark France Germany Italy Lithuania Moravia Poland Prussia Portugal Spain Sicily Silesia Sweden Switzerland and Transilvania Of the reputed Academies or Vniversities of Europe and first of England Scotland and Ireland THERE are many Schools of good Literature in several Towns and Cities of England The most Famous of these are 8 1. Eaton School founded by King Henry the Sixth 1441. 2. Westminster School founded by Queen Elizabeth 3. Winchester by William of Wickham Bishop of Winchester 1387. 4. St. Pauls of an old Ruined House built and Richly endowed by Dr. Collet Dean of St. Pauls for 153 poor Mens Children for which there was appointed a Chief Master Usher and Chaplain 1510. or 1512. 5. Merchant Taylors that Worshipful Company and Corporation Founded a School in the year 1561. in the Parish of St. Lawrence Poultney some time the House of the Duke of Bucks called The Manour of the Rose which Mr. Richard Hill purchased for 500 Pound and bestowed it for a Free School 6 Mercers Chappel formerly an Hospital belonging to St. Thomas of Acon was made a School the 25th of Henry the VI. 1394. 7. Christchurch Hospital Founded by King Edward the VI. 1552. 8. The Free-School at St. Mary Overie's in Southwark Founded by or in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth In London we have the Charter-house Founded by Sir Walter Maney Kt. of the Garter to King Edward the III. who served him in the French Wars He first Built a Chappel there and a Monastery for Carthusian Friers the most severe and Riged of all Cloysteral Orders called at first by the name of Salutation Inn. This Charter-house at the Suppression of Abbeys had 642 Pound per Ann. a vast sum in those days And this Demolished place came afterward into the hands and possession of Thomas Earl of Suffolk Lord Treasurer of England in King James the I. his Reign Now in regard the House was sweetly Scituated with Walks Gardens and other Conveniencies it gave occasion to Thomas Sutton of Castle-Camps in Cambridge-shier Esq though Born at Knayeh in Lincolnshire to alter his design of Erecting an Hospital at Hallingbury in Essex and purchased this of the Earl abovesaid for the Sum of 13000 l. one penny paid down before the Sealing of the Conveyance that in few years having raised up this goodly Structure though he died before it was compleated and endowed it with several Manours in Lincolnshier Wiltshier Middlesex Cambridge Essex and other large Revenues and Possessions The Work was finished and called the Hospital of King James consisting of a Master Governer Preacher a Free-School Usher Eighty poor decayed Gentlemen and forty Scholars And 1614. the Monday next after Michaelmas day the Captains Gentlemen and other Officers entred into this new Hospital You may read the Story at large in a Treatise published by Samuel Herne Intituled Domus Carthrusiana Or an account of the Foundation of the Charter-house We have also near Cripplegate in London Sion College fabricated by the care and industry of Mr John Simpson Rector of St. Olaves Hart-street London one of the Executors of the last Will of Thomas White D. D. Vicar of St. Dunstans in the West and one of the Canons Residentiary of St Pauls who Bequeathed 3000 Pound to purchase and erect the said College for the use of the Clergy and Alms-houses for 20 poor People ten Men and ten Women He gave 160 l. for ever to the College and Alms-house whereof one hundred twenty Pound yearly to Maintain the poor Men and Women aforesaid and Forty pound per Ann. to defray the charges of four Dinners for the Clergy who are to have four Latin Sermons Quarterly and on these days to dine in the College Mr. John Simpson did at his own Charge Build the Library containing in length 121 foot and breadth 25 and upward being indifferently stored with Books of all sorts of Learning Sir Thomas Gresham in the year 1579. Queen Elizabeths Royal Merchant or Agent gave the one moity of the Royal Exchange and the Buildings thereunto belonging to the Mayor and Commons of London and their Successors and the other to the Mercers on this condition that the Mayor and Aldermen find four able Persons to read Lectures of Divinity Astronomy Musick and Geometry within the Dwelling-house of Sir Thomas Gresham in Bishopsgate-street Erected by him as an appendent to the Royal Exchange and to bestow 202 l. viz. 50 l. per Ann. on every Reader and the Mercers to find three for Civil Law Physick and Retorick and allow them 50 l. a year stipend they being to read every day in Term time in the Morning in Latin and in English in the Afternoon The Musick only to be read in English The Academies Universities and Colleges of England Scotland and Ireland THey are call'd Academies from a shady Grove of Academus a Noble Athenian about a Mile from Athens where Plato and Zenocrates and other Philosophers retired for the Study of the Sciences of Later Times They have been stiled Universities a Professione Vniversalium Scientiarum artium Liberalium 1 Of these there are two famous Oxford and Cambridge Oxford ques Ousford Isidis radum the name of the Chief River whereod it is Seated or perhaps from Bovis vadum a foard for Oxen as Thracius Bosthoms is by the Germans termed Ochenfort It was much Augmented by Alfred the Saxon King though not Founded by him in the year 880. 2 Cambridge so named from a Bridge built over the River Cam Anciently reported to be built by Cantaber a Spaniard 375 years before Christ repair'd by S●bert about the year 630. defac'd by the Danes and restored by the Normans It began to be an Univrrsity under Henry the I. 1109. These two Learned Sisters may equal most if not all the Academies beyond Sea They have each of them a Chancellor and High-Steward who is always a Person of great Quality Govern'd by a Vice-chancellor and two Proctors apiece The Heads or chief Governors in Oxford are distinguished by six several Titles 1. President 2 Master 3. Warden 4. Provost 5. Dean 6. Princlpal In Cambridge they are all stiled Masters Kings College excepted whose Title is Provost In Oxford the time of taking Degrees in the Arts and Sciences is called The Act which is always the Monday after the sixth of July and in Cambridge the Commencement which is always the first Tuesday in July The Publick Library in Oxford Built by Sir Thomas Bodley with the Addition of Selden's is the most Noble Collection of Books in the World. Cambridge hath likwise a gooodly Publick Library In Oxford there are 18 Colleges and 7 Halls with the Names of their Heads in the Margin Master 1 Vniversity College Founded by Alford King of the West Sax●ns by this Name