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The schools-probation: or, Rules and orders for certain set-exercises to bee performed by the scholars on probation-daies Made and approved by learned men, for the use of Merchant-Tailor's-School in London.
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Merchant Taylors' School (London, England).
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1661
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Wing S887A; ESTC R228980
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Schoolmaster and presently translate the same into proper and plain English leaving empty spaces so often as they are not able to translate it themselvs They shall turn the same period into other Latine one or more waies and also into Greek They shall turnit into Latine Hexameters and Pentameters or Sapphicks They shall make two three or more periods in prose upon som theme or sentence propounded and also verses on the same The Afternoon THe Schoolmaster having opened on Hour the sodain the Greek Testament Aesop's Fables in Greek or som other very easie Hours Greek Autor shall read som short sentence without naming letters accent spirit or point or telling them any thing that may help their understanding thereof and the Scholars shall write word by word after the Schoolmaster and presently translate the same into proper and plain english leaving empty spaces so often as they are not able to translate it themselvs They shall turn the same sentence into proper and plain Latine and also into other Greek They shall also turn it into Greek Hexameters and Pentameters or Sapphicks They shall make two three or more periods in Greek prose and also som Greek verses upon som Greek sentence propounded The Utilitie and Benefit of these Probations and Trials FIrst they are provocations to the Teachers and Scholars to be very studious circumspect and careful in their several places that the former by Teaching and the other by Learning do make good preparation thereunto Secondly they will mak the Teachers so to instruct their Scholars that they of themselvs may be well able to practise and make use of whatsoever they teach that all their exercises be don of understanding and knowledg without the help of any other Thirdly they will caus both Teachers and Scholars every day more and more to surpass themselvs in all things and namely that the last exercises be for substance more to the purpose for the tongue more proper for order better for writeing fairer and in all circumstance more pleasing the Viewers then the former were Fourthly these Probations and Trials will be to all men infallible and sure testimonies of the Teacher's diligence and the Scholars profiting whence Whence as from a fountain will flow to the Companie contentment to parents satisfaction to teachers comfort to Scholars cheerfulness to the School credit to posterity if not matters of emulation yet patterns of imitatation and occasion of far better exercises Fiftly the Company from the exercises don on the probation-dayes shall truly be informed when and how often soever they pleas which Scholars of the highest Form be absolutely the best and which simply be the worst whereby the Merchant-Tailors at the Election day shall the better know which of the Scholars is most fit to be preferred to St John Baptist College in Oxford and not depend so much upon others Lastly although the papers of the Scholar's exercises written on the probation daies should presently be cancelled burnt or converted into any other use yet shall the Scholar's benefit arising principally from the making thereof be the same as if they were reserved for posteritie Howbeit it cannot be denied but that the keeping of them for the view of posteritie will caussom great care both in the preparation and making thereof WEe whose names are here subscribed allow and think very good and necessarie that the Orders and Exercises aforesaid be used by the Schoolmaster Ushers and Scholars of the Merchant-Tailor's school for their most profit in learning and commendation of the School and Founders of the same John Overall Dean of Pauls John Dove Doctor in Divinitie John Spencer Doctor in Divinitie Nicolas Felton Doctor in Divinitie John Childerley Doctor in Divinitie THE EXAMINATION OF THE School's-Probation The Preface WHereas certain Orders are appointed for the Probation of all the Scholars of Merchant-Tailors-School four several times in the year viz. upon the eleventh daies of March June September and December devised with confirmation of certain learned Doctors to bee don for good considerations by the Master of the School and his three Ushers onely and to bee entered into the School's Register with the Master and his three Ushers hands subscribed thereunto and then signified to the Master and Wardens of the Companie of Merchant-Tailors at their common Hall and there entred into their Court-Book It is further thought meet and convenient for the better satisfaction of the said Master and Wardens and Court of Assistants as well for the true and faithful performance of the said Probation by the Master of the School and his three Ushers as also from time to time to know which boies profit most and be the best and likeliest Scholars in the six several Forms that the said Probations have their Examination and Trial and the same to be truly and duly observed and kept for ever except they shall upon grave and needful considerations with good advice and consent alter and change any part thereof Which said Examination shall bee made and don at two several times every year in manner and form following 1. Of the Examination the place and time THis examination shall be made by two judicious men well learned both in Greek and Latin apt and fit for that purpose and being by the Master and Wardens thereunto requested two or three daies before the said forenoon of Examination and in the South part of the School commonly called the Chappel in the forenoon onely between the eleventh and twentieth daies of the Month of March and September The whole business thereof shall bee so well plotted and foreseen that all this Examination be fully don between the hours of six and eleven or soon after that all that bee present may the better end and depart before twelve of the clock becaus it is meant that at this Examination there shall bee neither eating nor drinking except a little to stay one's stomach as is hereunder appointed and mentioned 2. Of the persons onely to be present the time of coming together and reading of Orders THe Master and Wardens beeing the Surveiors of the School or two of them at the least the Clark and Beadle attending upon them shall together with the two aforesaid learned men be at the School at six a clock in the morning at the farthest without any farther assembly of commers whatsoever except the Master of the School for testimonie aswel of the Companies care and pains for their School as also of his own faithfulness in his place do desire to call thither two honest men Fathers or Friends of his Scholars And then there the Companie 's Clark shall make an end of reading all such Orders as concern this present business of Examination at a quarter of an hour before seven of the clock at the farthest 3. That no impertinent matter is to be intruded IN all this Examination to the end that all things may be don quietly in love and amitie and that the truth the onely end of this
rest with them for their wilfull default 12. It is thought meet that this Probation of the whole School shall be committed unto the honest and faithfull trust and disposition of the Master of the School and the three Ushers alone without any association forthese three causes First the Founders have good experience of their faithfull government and assured confidence of their care of this trust reposed unto them Secondly this trial of the Scholars being made by an Act onely in writing it is without doubt that strange Assembly will but hinder them in their said exercises Thirdly the watchful cie of the Master and the three Vshers onely will bee sufficient to make the boies the more serious and earnest in their work and caus every boie 's Act to bee entirely his own work without any help whereas if further assembly were this Probation could not by the Master and the three Vshers bee so carefully attended neither the Scholar's works bee so heedfully and dutifully intended and done by them as it should 13. These Orders with the Exercises following shall be written in the book of the School's Probation and shall bee by the Master of the School read and made known unto the three Vshers on the first or second daie of the aforesaid months March June September and December A Description of such or the like exercises as every From shall do forenoon and afternoon on every Probation-daie The First Form the Forenoon THey shall write the ends or terminatitions Hours of all the Declensions of Nouns and one Noun after every Declension They shall write the ends or terminations of the Active voice in the four Conjugations They shall write the ends orter minations of the Passive voice in the four Conjugations They shall write a Substantive Masculine and an adjective Masculine together thorow every case in both numbers also Substantive and an Adjective Feminine and a Substantive and an Adjective Neuter The Afternon THey shall write the Active and Passive Hours voice of some Verb after Amo every tens in a several line without nameing either mood tens number or Hours person They shall write the Active and Passive voice of som Verb after Deceo as in the former hour They shall write the Active and Passive voice of som Verb after Lego as in the the first hour They shall write the Active and Passive voice of som Verb after Audio as in the first hour The second Form the Forenoon THey shall write som Anomalie or Hours harder Noun Substantive after every Declension and also the cognata tempora of the present tens and of the preterperfect tens severally or else som person singular of plural of the same tenses of Amo Doceo Lego Audio They shall write every person singular and plural alone through out both the Active and Passive voice of two irregular Verbs the one of the first Conjugation as Lavo the other of the Second as sorbeo They shall write as in the hour before two Verbs the one of the third Conjugation as dico the other of the Fourth as sentio They shal translate into Latine Dictata Hours or Englishes made out of the Rules of the Concords or of the Construction of Substantives and adjectives being uses of the examples The Afternoon THey shall translate other Dictata Hours or Englishes made out of the Rules of Verbs which have a Nominative Genitive or Dative case after them being uses of the examples They shall do likewise out of the rest of the Rules of the Construction of Verbs and the other parts of speech that follow They shall translate a Dialogue beeing a Dictatum or English made out of Corderius's Dialogues 4. They shall translate an Epistle beeing a Dictatum or English made out of Tullies's Epistles The third Form the forenoon THey shall write the ends or terminations Hours of the five Declensions and four Conjugations with a note of the short or long time which peculiarly belong's to every Declension and Conjugation Hours They shall write some person singular or plural of the cognata tempora of som anomalie-Verb in every Conjugation thorow both the Active and Passive voices They shall make of themselves according to the Rules so many uses as they can of one two or more examples propounded out of the Rules of the Syntaxis They shall varie som easie Latin sentence so many waies as they can The Afternoon THey shall write in construing-manner Hours som short Dialogue of Corderius exactly observing the natural right order of construing and their points also make uses of the rarest and best phrases They shall of themselves make another Dialogue like unto the former They shall write in construing-wise som short and easie Epistle of Tullie and make use of the rarest and best phrases alone They shal of themselvs make another Epistle like unto the former The Fourth Form the Forenoon THey shall write in construing-wise Hours a Dialogue of Corderius longer then the former Form did and of themselvs make another Dialogue like unto it They shall write in construing-wise som easie Epistle of Tullie and make another like unto it They shall varie some Latine sentence so many waies as they can They shal make two three or more periods of some Theme or Sentence in Latine and make two or more verses upon the same The Afternoon THey shall write the Greek ends or Hours terminations or els the Paradigmata of the five Declensions of simple Nouns They shall write the Greek ends or terminations or els the Paradigmata of the five Declensions of Nouns contract They shall write some person singular dual or plural of the Active Paradigmata of the Greek verbs Barytona circumflexa and in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They shall write som person singular dual or plural of the Passive or middle Paradigmata of the Greek verbs Barytona Circumflexa and in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The fift Form the Forenoon THey shall varie som Latine sentence Hours in Prose They shal make a longer theme ortreatise in Prose then the former form did They shall make verses upon the same theme or sentence They shall make a Dialogue or an Epistle in Latine The Afternoon THey shall compare a Noun Adjective Hours in Greek They shall write som person singular dual or plural of the Cognata tempora in Greek first in the Active voice secondly in the Passive thirdly in the Middle They shall write som Parodie or imitations of Latine verses They shall also make some Parodiae or imitations of Greek verses The Sixt Form the Forenoon THe Schoolmaster having opened on Hours the sudden som part of Tullie shall read one period word by word without nameing either with what letters any word is to be written or where any point is to be set or telling them any thing that may help their understanding of the same period And the Scholars shall write word by word after the