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A54288	New instructions to the guardian shewing that the last remedy to prevent the ruin, advance the interest, and recover the honour of this nation is I. a more serious and strict education of the nobility and gentry, II. to breed up all their younger sons to some calling and employment, III. more of them to holy orders, with a method of institution from three years of age to twenty one.	Penton, Stephen, 1639-1706.	1694 (1694)	Wing P1440; ESTC R5509	42,499	186

enclined to hearken to these Good Wishes In the Second Part I will prescribe him such a Method from the very beginning of his Adventure as by God's Blessing upon his Abilities shall give him very great Insight if he can take Pains enough A Catalogue of several Great Families whose Relations have been Church Men. AGelnothus Bishop of Canterbury Son of Earl Agelmare Athelmarus Bishop of Winton Son to Hugh Earl of March Henry de Bloys Bishop of Winchester Brother to King Stephen Hugh de Pudsey Bishop of Durham Earl of Northumberland Boniface of Savoy Bishop of Cant. Uncle to Queen Eleanor Wife to Henry III. Richard Talbot Bishop of London Allied to the Talbot's after Earls of Shrewsbury Henry Beaufort Bishop of Lincoln and Winton Son to John of Gaunt William Courtney Bishop of Canterb. Son of Hugh Courtney Earl of Devon Giles de Bruce Bishop of Hereford Son of William Lord de Bruce George Nevil Bishop of Exon and York Brother to Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick Thomas Piercy Bishop of Norwich Allied to the Piercy's Earls of Northumberland Lionel Woodvil Bishop of Sarum Son to Earl Rivers Thomas Vipont Bishop of Carirsle Allied to Viponts then Earls of Westmorland Marmaduke Lumley Bishop of Carlisle Allied to the House of Lumley's Walter Bishop of Durham Earl of Northumberland Julius de Medices Bishop of Worcester Allied to the House of Medices in Italy Nicholas de Longespee Bishop of Sarum Son to William Earl of Salisbury William Dudley Bishop of Durham Son of John Lord Dudley Walter de Cantilupo Bishop of Worcester of a Great House in Normandy Lewes Beaumont Bishop of Durham of the Blood-Royal of France Thomas Arundel Bishop of Canterb. Son to Robert Earl of Arundel and Warren James Berkley Bishop of Exon Son to the Lord Berkley Richard Scroope Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield Brother to William Scroope Earl of Wiltshire Thomas Bourchier Bishop of Cant. Son to Henry Bourchler Earl of Essex Roger de Clinton Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield of the same Family with Geofry de Clinton John Stafford Bishop of Canterbury Son to the Earl of Stafford William de Vere Bishop of Hereford Richard Beauchamp Bishop of Hereford and Sarum John Orandison Bishop of Exon of the House of Grandison Dukes of Burgundy Edmund Audley Bishop of Hereford Allied to the Lord Audley Henry 〈◊〉 Bishop of Lincoln 〈…〉 Baron of Lords John Zou●h Bishop of Landaff Brother to the Lord Zouch Fulco Basset Bishop of London Lord Basset James Stanley Bishop of Ely Brother to the Eacl of Derby Simon Montacute Bishop of Ely Allied to the Montacutes then Earls Salisbury What Clergy have sprung from the Gentry Lawyers and Merchants you may see in a very large Catalogue annexed to the Charter of the Corporation for Widows and Children of Clergy-men Printed July 1. 1678. for John Playford in Little-Britain To speak my mind more plainly 1. A strict Education of the young Nobility and Gentry would be a great Advantage to the Publick It is a great Wrong to the National Concerns that we lose the Service and Assistance which the Parts of so many excellent Persons might afford What great variety would the King have to fill up all void Places of Trust and Honour What choice of Privy-Councellors Ambassadors Judges and Justices of the Peace What a glorious shew of Military Officers at Land and Sea We may learn from an Enemy How mightily doth the French King serve himself of the Nobility there What an Emulation makes them contend to deserve best And though God be thanked the Arbitrary Command of our Service is not so great as theirs yet the Love of our Country ought to be And what a noble Resolution would it be for all Persons of Quality to Consecrate the several Inclinations of their Children to the respective Services of the Kingdom Civil Ecclesiastical or Military according as Sedentariness and Books or Activity and Business is their Talent How many Honourable Conditions doth great skill in the Law prepare a Man for How many Lives doth a good Physician save And what a Calamitous want is there in many places where many a Gentleman miscarries because the Quack cannot write a good Bill or because the Apothecary cannot read a bad Hand There are great Dignities in the Church which no doubt the King had rather bestow on a Man of Birth If his Temper be for Action in the Field he will scarce ever want an opportunity to be as Stout as he pleaseth And he must have a care of mistaking the Employment It is not now as in the time of Peace when being good for little was Qualification enough for a Soldiers Life which is often chosen because it is most like to Idleness Now Industry Hardiness Vigilancy Skill and Conduct is required and Courage to venture the Lottery of Death or Honour 2. A strict Education of the Nobility and Gentry would be of great Advantage to their own Private Families The Eldest Son would keep up the Honour and wisely manage the Estate of his Ancestors and be likely to add to both But on the contrary if he value himself by the customary liberty of Heirs to be Loose and Idle he may Hunt Hoop and Hallow for some Years but in a little time thou shalt look and behold he is not thou shalt seek him but he shall no where be found And besides the danger of running out an Estate a loose and fond Education of a Son and Heir is the ready way to make him self-will'd Humoursome and Proud For having been gratifyed in all he desired when young he expects the same Fondness from all People when he grows up and for want of it grows Peevish Sowre and Unconversable And I believe many Mothers Wives Sisters and Servants have often found such a Man prove the most imperious Son Husband Brother Master and Neighbour in all the Kingdom As for the Younger Sons if they are not bred up to some Profession their case is not indifferent They are left to the dieting of a moderate Condition Their Parentage makes them aim at Great Fortunes but the hard word Jointure spoils all Sobriety in such Persons is a great Vertue and it must be a great share of preventing Grace that can keep them within bounds it being a very hard matter not to do ill when a Man hath nothing else to do Whereas were they bred good Scholars what might not they promise themselves I would have every younger Son dream as Joseph did That Father Mother and eldest Brother should bow to his Wealth and Power There have been Honourable Families in this Kingdom which have made this good By undertaking one of the forementioned Professions as they may do great service to the Nation so in the end they may be very well paid The Kingdom is not niggardly to such as deserve if they are not wanting to themselves by Modesty No Nation in Europe hath better rewards for Industry and I verily believe they are generally as well

Imprimatur Geo. Royse March 6. 1691 4. Advertisement THE Pages of the Guardian 's Instruction and the Apparatus ad Theologiam which are so often referred to in this Book are according to the first and best Impression sold by Walter Kettilby and Sam. Smith in St. Paul's Church-yard and Henry Clements in Oxford New Instructions TO THE GUARDIAN SHEWING That the last Remedy to Prevent the Ruin Advance the Interest and Recover the Honour of this Nation is I. A more Serious and Strict Education of the Nobility and Gentry II. To breed up all their younger Sons to some Calling and Employment III. More of them to Holy Orders WITH A Method of Institution from Three Years of Age to Twenty One. LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's-Head in St. Paul's Church-yard 1694. TO CHARLES Lord BRVCE Son and Heir to the Right Honourable the Earl of Ailesbury My LORD I Am very willing it should be known how great a share of the Guardian 's Instruction was Influenc'd by the Prospect of your good Lordship's Education and also the just Regard these Second Thoughts have both to your Lordship and the Splendid Families of Saresden Barton and Glympton I look'd on my self your Debtor in the Result of all my Experience and Observation from the time when Sickliness made me Retire from Business and that Retirement made Reflection the main use of my Being and Notions of Education so familiar as to become the very Property of my thinking Faculty This I intend for an Excuse to those Persons who are so kind as to think that I am able to deal with a greater Subject They think Letters Syllables and Spelling beneath the venturous Pretension of the Title-Page They are beneath it indeed but no otherwise than the Foundation is beneath the Building which though it be low and unregarded dirty and less Polished yet the least neglect and slightness in that is fatal to the Pomp and Pride of what looks higher Some are so kind as to wish that it were not so short whereas it seems I mistook when I thought that a Civility and Bribe to the Reader There are those who know that a while since it was much larger and why it is not so now among several Reasons I will name but one If I should have written all that I could have said on the Subject I am satisfied it would never have made a Fool a Wiser Man and what wrong is it to the Tutor to presume him able to Improve and Practise upon a few plain general Directions I am not tempted to think the Directions I give the best and wisest in their kind But to justifie my Choice whatever becomes of my Judgment I must own that they are such as I would use my self in hopes of Success as thinking them most plain and easie and most agreeable to the Infancy of Thought which ought mainly to be considered in the business of Institution That the Knowlege I wish your Lordship may more effectually serve this Life and a better I pray God to Water with Dew from above the Seeds of Virtue and Religion in you For Knowledge in a Person of great Quality without Grace and good Manners is a sight rather Ominous than Delighting it is like the mighty Blazing Comet the more Glorious the more Terrible and the Influence of the former on the Ruin of this Kingdom is much more certain than the Prediction of it from the latter can reasonably be pretended My Lord I speak not this out of any distrust I know the just Temperament of Authority and Affection which cannot but turn to Account so sweet a Disposition For though I will not stand by all the suppositions which have been made yet I think it is safe to believe that God will not Deny Grace where Parents and Tutors do their Duty And now my Lord the great Prejudice of a long Preface to a Book which hath nothing in it to command a Reader 's Favour makes me short in mine own Defence and conceal many things which the World would willingly know concerning your Illustrious Ancestors and must depend upon the experienced Good-Nature of your Noble Family to accept of a general Acknowledgment how much I am Your most Obliged and Affectionate STEPHEN PENTON THE CONTENTS The First Part. A Word to the Wise lamenting the great Degeneracy of Manners from the Gallantry of our Ancestors page 1 2 Caused by too much Indulgence and Fondness in the Education of Persons born to Greatness and Places of Trust p. 3 4 Frugality recommended p. 5 6 Prodigality condemned p. 7 Covetousness censured p. 8 Some Calling and Profession absolutely necessary for the younger Sons of Nobility and Gentry p. 10 The reason why so few of them undertake any Calling is an Error in their Breeding p. 10 11 A Reason for a distinction in the Breeding the Eldest Son from the Younger p. 11 12 Divinity recommended to the Younger Sons of Nobility and Gentry p. 13 A Catalogue of Nobles who have been Church-men p. 14 The damage the Publick suffers for want of the Service young Gentlemen's Parts might do in some Profession or other p. 18 The great Advantage their own Private Families might reap thereby as to the Riches of this World p. 20 And as to the Happiness of the next in the Salvation of their Souls p. 23 The looseness of Manners in the Sons of the Gentry is to be ascribed to the carelesness of the Fathers when they grow up p. 24 The Advantages which Parents have above Strangers in Breeding up their own Children p. 25 Good Education would fortifie them against Temptations by the help of God's Grace p. 28 And prevent the Horror of a guilty Conscience p. 29 The Earl of Marleborough's Pious Letter before he was killed at Sea p. 33 The famous Earl of Rochester's conversion the Restections on his Life and Mr. Robert Parson 's very useful Sermon at his Funeral recommended to young Gentlemen p. 35 36 c. The Second Part. A Method of Teaching from Three Years of Age to Twenty One. A Vindication of the Guardian 's Instructions in an answer to a Letter p. 44 First Stage for learning English p. 52 Lord's Prayer Creed and Ten Commandments p. 57 Second Stage from Six to Fourteen p. 63 A Method proposed to exercise the Child's Memory so that at the same time he may have a general View by the Division of the Old Testament History p. 63 A familiar way of feeding his thinking Faculty with variety of Matter p. 67 Solomon's Proverbs digested under several Heads with the Addition of the Proverbs of all civilized Countries recommended as a good Foundation for Prudence and Goodness p. 70 Learning to Write early proposed p. 71 Placing Children of much differing Ages and Capacities in the same Class at School discommended p. 72 The Admirable effect of constantly accustoming a Child to read a Chapter Morning and Evening in the Bible p. 73 and also p. 36 What sort of