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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

sharpness was as great as when the greatest mixture of Madness composed the best Verse he ever wrote Therefore let his Memory be precious let the Wicked take the Ptatern and let the Spirit of God have the Praises of a sound and sincere Conversion which the mournful Courses of his Life set off as shades do the Picture and as the Dark side of the Cloud in Aegypt without which the bright side had been no Miracle And now 't is full time to take my leave of the Gentry asking Pardon for becoming their Adviser and begging that a good Intention may atone for what ever is eagerly and weakly spoken I am sure they would forgive me did they but know how much I think an English Gentleman Religiously Vertuously and Wisely bred the finest sight in the World New Instructions TO THE GUARDIAN The Second Part. Containing an Easie METHOD FOR TEACHING A Young Gentleman FROM Three Years Old to Twenty One. London Printed in the Year 1694. An Answer to a Letter from a Person of Quality Madam I Received your Censure of the Guardian 's Instructions with a Duty becoming the Favour and would have Printed it before this Second Part but that this Performance will not endure such Neighbourhood I am sorry that your Ladiship who is the One only great Exception to all I have written should fancy that You and your Son were in my Thoughts when my Pen drop'd the Vinegar Part of the Book as you Phrase whatever Intrencheth on the Jurisdiction of the Women's Court. I am very willing to own that your Ladiship is often in my Thoughts but I take care that it be when I am disposed to think wisest which I fear the Ladies will never say was when I wrote such a Book as that However being neither Old nor Rich enough to set up for an Humour and pretend to despise what Gentlewomen think of me I do but beg the reasonable liberty of a common Criminal to explain my own meaning and then it shall be found that the worst of my Design is to save fine shap'd Gentlemen from having their Backs broken by too much Hugging Your Ladiship Indicts me in the name of all your Sex for Insinuating that the Fondness of the Mother spoils the Son as much as the Fondness of the Father spoils the Mother or which is all one where the Husband dotes that is thinks every one wise who is handsom and leaves his Wife to do what she will with the Son the Wife leaves the Son to do what he will with himself and so prepares the young Man to set up his Horse at the Stews or a Tavern To get rid of this Objection as well as I can it is too late to repent of having discovered an Opinion which Scripture and Reason enclines me to That the Man should guide the Woman he is Head and a Man would think the Understanding should be there 'T is true Men in England have parted with this Prerogative for you Ladies have Compounded for it with so much Beauty that you have gotten an Empire over Husbands here unheard of in other Nations I do not envy you this Power or think it unjustly gotten for I wish I were under the Dominion of it my self But since this Monarchy Occonomical is a mix'd Monarchy I would have due Limits adjusted and proper Shares allotted I would not have the Husband be carefully looking after the roasting of Eggs in the Kitchin while the Wife is reading Lectures of Politicks in the Parlor to the Son neither would I have the Son sent for three times in the Week from School to do nothing else but make Babies in his Mother's Eyes for two hours together I shall not here describe all the various Shapes in which this Fondship appears alas that is the mortal Sin in the Guardian 's Instructions which hath offered so much violence to the Chast Eyes of the Fair Sex that this Sheet is the Penance for And though I cannot with a safe Conscience allow Mothers so much liberty to spoil their Children as I would yet I will make them amends for it with an Aequivalent I will bring the best Reasons they can have to plead for their Breeding up their Children and show that they cannot help being too Fond and the more there is of Necessity the less they are culpable and if this doth not make my Peace then I must conclude to live and die a Batchellor Thus then I will suppose you to argue The Tenderness of our Sex the great pain in Breeding and Torments of our Travail the delight of being eased of those Pains and seeing the Fruit of our Labour the infinite Care and Trouble necestitous Infancy requires from the Mother whilst the Father walks about and Whistles with his hands in his Pockets the Pleasure of seeing the growing little Actions and first Essays of Knowledge these things cannot but heighten our Affection and make it too loud for Reason and we may claim as the Mother's due the comfort of his Tatling for the trouble of his Crying and unanswerably conclude that no Person can be sitter to manage the Child when he can speak than she which taught him first to do so I confess How an Husband who is as fond of his Lady as he ought to be can deal with such Logick as this is beyond my Experience And to make you amends once for all I will frankly confess that Women's natural Wit is as brisk as ours I will not say Brisker The sharpness of a Daughter is beyond that of a Son of more Years Indeed afterwards the greater freedom of Conversation Hearding in Societies and Feeding one another with Observation and Experience in the World give our Sex those Advantages which Women want But since the Law of the Creation doth not think you fit to be trusted with this Improvement for fear you should manage your Knowledge as ill as you first obtained it You must excuse me if I cannot force my self to believe that the Husband ought not to be wiser than the Wife My Service to Mr. William and tell him I hope to see him prove a more material Objection to the Guardian 's Instructions than I have met withal yet And now Madam I know the length of that Apology which ought to be made for treating so much Excellency with a Style thus Familiar But that I am confident it is impossible for your Ladiship to be discovered without your own Consent For I have compelled my self to a Vow of foregoing the satisfaction which I could easily make my self envied for by Publishing the Honour of Corresponding with so much Worth and subscribing Your Ladiship 's most Affectionately Devoted The First Stage New Instructions to the Guardian 1. THE Two things to be practised upon in the Breeding up a Gentleman are Good Manners and Knowledge It is not my design in this small Tract to meddle with Morality and the Dutiful or Adviseable Practices of the Respective Behaviour of Childhood Youth and