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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04956	The constitutions of the Musaeum Minervaæ.	Musaeum Minervae (London, England); Kinnaston, Francis, Sir, 1587-1642. aut	1636 (1636)	STC 15099; ESTC S108163	12,490	32

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 au●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 indi●iduall concomitants and therefore in the particu●●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 an● m●ney it could not but be thought most necessary for the benefit and conv●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 er●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