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A44390	A new discovery of the old art of teaching schoole in four small treatises ... : shewing how children in their playing years may grammatically attain to a firm groundedness in and exercise of the Latine, Greek, and Hebrew tongues : written about twenty three yeares ago, for the benefit of the Rotherham School where it was first used, and after 14 years trial by diligent practise in London in many particulars enlarged, and now at last published for the general profit, especially of young schoole-masters / by Charles Hoole ...	Hoole, Charles, 1610-1667.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2688; ESTC R16111	140,451	388

of Armes This division I have purposely made that whether one Master alone be put to teach the whole or have one two or more Ushers to assist him he may constantly train up his Scholars by one and the same Way of teaching altering now and then onely some circumstances as his own Discretion shall better direct him and that every Scholar may from his first entrance to the Schoole proceed with cheerfulnesse in learning when he seeth plainly what he is to do from year to year and how others before him in a playing manner overskip those seeming difficulties which he imagineth in his minde And conceive it will be no small satisfaction to Parents and a mean to cease the indiscreet clamors of some against School-masters to see what method they observe in teaching and how their children profit by degrees according to their present apprehensions and growth in years And now the God of heaven earth in whose alone power it is to give increase vouchsafe to bestow such a blessing upon our planting and watering that our young plants may grow up in all godlinesse and good learning and abound in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ whom onely to know is eternal life Amen SCHOLASTICK DISCIPLINE OR The VVAY of ordering a Grammar-Schoole Directing the not experienced how he may profit every particular Scholar and avoyd Confusion amongst a multitude By C. H. LONDON Printed by J. T. for Andrew Crook at the Green Dragon in Pauls Church-yard 1659. CHAP. I. Of the Founding of a Grammar Schoole THe most of the Grammar Schools which I have yet taken notice of in England are of two sorts The first I may call mixt Schooles where a structure is made and an allowance given of ten twenty or thirty pounds per annum onely to one man to teach children freely that inhabit within the precincts of one Parish or of three or four neighbouring Hamlets adjoyning And such Schooles as these very seldom or never improve Scholars further then to teach them to read and write and learne some little they know not what it meaneth in the common Grammar partly because the Master is overburdened with too many petty Scholars and partly because many parents will not spare their children to learne if they can but finde them any employment about their domestick or rureall affairs whereby they may save a penny In some places more populous an allowance is made to a Master of about twenpounds per annum to attend Grammarians onely and ten pounds to an Usher whose work it is to teach the Petties in such Schooles as these I have knowne some boyes more pregnant witted then the rest to have proved very good Grammarians and to have profited so in the Latine and Greek Tongues as to come to good maturity in University studies by a Tutors guidance But the Masters of such Schooles for the most part either weaken their bodies by excessive toyle and so shorten their dayes or as soon as they can fit themselves for a more easie profession or obtain a more profitable place after a few years quit their Schoole and leave their Scholars to anothers charge that either hath his method to seek or else traines them up in another quite different from that which they had been used to And thus thorow the change of Masters the Scholars are either dispersed or hindered from going on with that alacrity and profit which otherwise they might The second sort of Schooles are those which are purely Grammatical being especially conversant in teaching the Art of Grammar Now some of these have yearely salaries for a Master and one Usher where the Master is employed in perfecting those Scholars which the Usher hath already grounded And many of these Schooles especially if they be situate in places where accommodation is to be had for Tabling do happily train up many Scholars which about sixteen or seventeen years of age are fit to besent to the University But in regard there is no preferment attending these Schooles the most pregnant witted children are commonly taken thence after they are well grounded and disposed on to other places where they may gain it So that of all others our collegiate Schooles or those that come nearest them have the greatest advantage of making most Scholars For these having commonly large revenues belonging to them do not onely provide sufficiently for a Master and one Usher at lest but also for a certaine number of Scholars which being for the most part of the choycest wits pickt out of other Schooles and such as depend upon hopes of advancement do industriously bestirre themselves to attain what learning they can and submit themselves orderly to such Discipline as is there exercised But forasmuch as these greater Schooles rather intend the forwarding of such children as are already grounded then busie themselves about meere Rudiments it ca●seth many parents to disperse their little ones abroad to Tabling-Schooles where for the most part there is but one man to teach a few promiscuously hand-over-head without any setled Method and these changing and removing ever and anon as cause is offered do seldome attain any stable proficiencie in Grammar-learning Yet in some of these where an able Schoole-Master is well seated and provided with all fitting accommodations so as to entertain many Gentlemens sonnes of good quality and an able Usher to assist him in Teaching I have observed children to make double profiting in respect of other Schooles because they have the advantage to spend much of that time at their bookes which others trisle away in running up and down about home not to say that the constant eye of the Master is an especiall means to regulate them in point of behaviour Now comparing all the Schooles which we have in England with some that I read of in other countries that I may speak freely and without offence to any man submitting my self herein also to the judgement of those of my Profession I do not know one that is so compleated as perhaps many might easily be with all necessary accommodations and advantages to improve children to what they are capable of in their playing years and wherein we evidently see how many places of education beyond the Seas do quite outstrip us And therefore from what I have heretofore read in Mr. M●leasters Positions concerning the training up of children in ch 40. which he writ when he had been twenty years Schoole-master at Merchant Tailors Schoole which was erected 1561. being afterwards head Master of Pauls in 1600. and what I have been informed touching Mr. Farnabies improvement of a private Grammar Schoole in Gold-Smiths Alley now called New street also Jew●n Street and what I my self have experienced for about fourteen years together both in that place and in Lothbury Garden I am induced to think that it is a matter very feaseable to raise many of our Grammar-Schooles to a far higher pitch of learning then is ordinarily yet attained to in England For whereas

A NEW DISCOVERY Of the old Art of TEACHING SCHOOLE In four small TREATISES 1. concerning A Petty-Schoole 2. concerning The Ushers Duty In a Grammar Schoole 3. concerning The Masters Method In a Grammar Schoole 4. concerning Scholastick Discipline In a Grammar Schoole Shewing how Children in their playing years may Grammatically attain to a firm groundedness in and exercise of the Latine Greek and Hebrew Tongues Written about Twenty three yeares ago for the Benefit of Rotherham School where it was first used and after 14. years trial by diligent practise in London in many particulars enlarged and now at last published for the general profit especially of young Schoole-Masters By Charles Hoole Master of Arts and Teacher of a Private Grammar School in Lothbury Garden London London Printed by J. T. for Andrew Crook at the Green Dragon in Pauls Church-yard 1660 To the Right Worshipfull his most Reverend constant truly loving Friend Robert Saunderson D. D. and Rector of Boothby-Pagnell C. H. wisheth increase of Grace and perfection of GLORY SIR NOw I have by Gods blessing obtained that which you can witnesse I have seriously laboured after a thrice seven yeares experience in this despicable but comfortable employment of teaching Schoole I think it not amisse to discover to the world what method I have hitherto used and which I resolve to continue so long as God shall enable me to undergoe this profession of a Schoole-Master which at first I undertook and have ever since persisted in by your encouragement How far this New Discovery is improved since I made it at Rotherham and afterwards writ it out at little Humbie whilest I lived more retiredly in the house of that Noble Knight Sir William Brownelwoe whom I think my self ever bound to honour for for his singular and undeserved favours to me in many particulars I refer it to you to consider For as you sometimes then perused it in Manuscript so I hope you will at your leisure look upon it now in print and not like it much worse then formerly For I may truly say that besides what I have observed by reading sundry Authours treating of this subjest or gained by frequent and familiar converse with men of known abilities both in City and Country I have profited most in this Art of teaching by my Scholars who have been my daily instructers how to suit my method to their several capacities And of all that ever I have taught either in publick Schoole or in my own or others houses in more private manner I have been beholding most to my London Scholars who as they are generally quick-spirited and forward to learn where the way is easy to them so are they soon apt to flag and be discouraged when any difficulties appeare in their way For their sakes therefore who by reason of many Schooles were sometimes occasioned to remove from one to another I was enforced to facilitate the most common way of teaching according to what you see I have here endeavoured in these small Treatises In the publishing whereof I beseech you that I may not offend in making use of your name as well as my Masters for as I was instructed by him at the School so I was by your means sent and provided for in the Vniversity and though I can never be able to requite your care and pains on my behalf yet I have long desired even whilest you are both living to testify to the world that I am not forgetful altogether of your great benefits If what I have here done be liking to your selfe I shall lesse need to care how others censure me or it Forasmuch as you have known me since my first studies and are sufficiently able to judge of a way to come by learning as having been your self well methodized in your youth and attained to that perfection in all kinde of knowledge which many do much admire but few can hope to exceed But I know to whom I write and therefore I will not adventure into an Ocean of what may be said of your demerits especially to mee wards onely I commend this little work to your acceptance as a Testimony of that unfeigned respect which I think my self ever bound to shew towards you and yours And I beseech God that hath been pleased to exercise me in School-teaching whilst you have been put upon exercises in School-Divinity and so ordered that something of what we have each done is now labouring at the presse to continue our earnest endeavours to serve him whilst we live that when we dye we may partake of that blessed reward which is reserved in heaven for all those that attend the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to whose Grace I commend you and all yours and rest Your humbly observant Kinsman CHARLES HOOLE London Dec. 24. 1659. To his most Experienced and truly Honoured Master Mr. ROBERT DOVGHTY Head Schoole-Master at Wakefield C. H. wisheth all health and happiness SIR IT is yet a question amongst Schoole-boyes and not likely to be hastily by them decided whether K. Alexander was more bound to Philip his Father that begat him or his Master Aristotle that instructed him for of both he had received unrequitable Benefits Should I therefore not acknowledge that lasting good which with many co-partners I obtained by your care and industry I should indeed be worse then ungatefull And what token of thankfulnesse can I tender more welcome to your self then this small Manual which most nearly concernes the profession of a Schoole-Master a calling which hath all kinde of good attending it to make it commendable as well as others For 1. If we look at the benefitting of Church and Common-wealth wherein can we better imploy our time and study then in traing up of children to become serviceable instruments of much good in both Nay should a man but barely respect himself he may finde it very profitable to augment his learning and not a little advantagious to the increase of his yearely Revenues 2. What more pleasing variety can there be then that of childrens dispositions and fansies what better Recreation then to read and discourse of so many sundry subjects as we meet with in ordinary Authours Besides the delight which is to be taken by our Scholars ready progresse in a constant even way will far exceed all care and toyle that can be bestowed in helping them to profit 3. Should I goe about by those millions of Arguments that concurre as Voluntiers to maintain the lawfulnesse of this calling as commanded by God continued in all ages practised by the well-learned and truly vertuous commended by all good men maintained and encouraged by most noble Princes and religiously disposed people opposed onely by the enemies of Gods truth and most disesteemed by persons that are altogether for want of breeding either debauched or ignorant I might write a larger Volume and to lesser purpose Ob. But alas we that wholly undergoe the burden of School-teaching can tell by our