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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65215	Considerations concerning free-schools as settled in England	Wase, Christopher, 1625?-1690.	1678 (1678)	Wing W1015; ESTC R38239	54,418	122

of England where the Children of the Town are onely to be taughr gratis without any other allowance Consider we therefore though these Erections have been of late whether the practice be so modern In the yeare 1215 it is expressly further enacted in the fourth Lateran that not onely in every Cathedral but also in other Churches whose means be not able to beare a Divinity Lecture there be at least appointed an able Master to be chosen by the Prelate with the Chapters consent to teach the Clerks of those Churches freely Grammar and others according to his ability and that a Prebends place be assign'd every Master by the Chapter This was ordain'd in the times of King John in whose Reign Newbury Schoole is said to have been founded and endow'd with many other in sequel which were supprest or continued by King Henry the Eighth or King Edward the Sixth §. 11. Thus are we arriv'd at the fourth and present Age of the Church being that of the Reformation and about the times of the Councel of Trent This Councel wanted not some men of Politiques profound enough These awaken'd with the revolution of National Churches well advis'd that conduct of Conscience that is if I may so speak of the Reasonable subject is most safely committed to such as can render a reason and that to the gaining Consequences it is ordinate to deliver Principles made eminent provision for Seminaries whereinto poor mens sons especially should be elected not excluding the richer This order was accordingly put into execution in the Provincial Councels of divers Countries most effectually in that of Milan where all their Offices with their particular charges are amply deliver'd by that eminent of Cardinals the since canoniz'd Borromaeo Others in Flanders at the sollicitation of Cardinal Allen nor hath this constitution devis'd for the maintaining that power then shaken been wholly unanswerable in the success to its first intention §. 12. About what time upon the several dissolutions of Religious Houses in England some Schools were reserv'd some erected with general licence for well-dispos'd Persons to found others and endow them within a Mortmain by the State determin'd According to which gracious liberty such as have contributed to so pious a work seem to have deserv'd well of their Town For however we may be prone to judge of the forward accommodations of life all is not in present food and raiment There is improvement of mind the fruits of discipline not to be despis'd A learned slave would sell for more A youth brought up at school will be taken Apprentice with less mony then one illiterate The broken Colt tam'd Heifer polish'd Diamond known instances nay ground reclaim'd by culture will set at the higher rent Grammar-learning is requisite to very many honest callings and with industry faith and other vertues qualifying for trust hath open'd a way for high preferment nor is it a priviledg to be meanly priz'd by any people to have such education provided that out of their children in due season may be chosen such as may beare the Office of the Ministry Hence too accrues advantage to the state That instruments be fitted for emploiment imports but more that Officers of trust be prevented with sound principles Miserable is the face of any Nation where neither Schools nor Universities be frequented no Law no safe commerce a general ignorance and neglect of duty both to God and man Now that Universities flourish and Schooles are in many populous Towns erected from those places of public education especially persons are sent into all parts of the Land ingag'd in the strictest bonds of Allegiance § 13. Lastly as to the Church these Foundations have to that a more immediate respect The statutes of these Houses generally injoyne a diligent and decent attendance on the publick worship Nay learning well the first rudiments of Religion and bearing a yoke of Government prepares a people to be more docile under their proper Ministers stay'd in judgment and compliant with the Discipline as well as Doctrine of their Spiritual Pastors Further what is a manifest advantage the salaries to Masters and exhibitions to Scholars provide in great mesure that the Church be not burthen'd since upon supposition of their being withheld Ecclesiastical Benefices are taxable to the breeding up of students as in fact at the beginning of Queen Elizabeths reign they were tax'd a thirtieth part When the Fathers at the Councel of Trent assembled had propounded a fair Model of Seminaries knowing the advantages that arise to Religion from Learning and the necessity of endowments to the attaining those advantages till such endowments could be had for the immediate bringing that designe to effect they levied a Tax on all the rents assign'd for the Bishops and the Chapters Table on the profits of all Dignities Personages Offices Prebends Portions Abbies Priories Benefices as well of Regulars as Peculiars on the Fabrick of Churches and other Religious Houses on Colledges Corporations Guilds and Fraternities Monasteries and Exhibitions Of such importance was this work by them then esteem'd as indeed it hath since prov'd a great accession to the relatives of that exempt and peculiar jurisdiction and firmest support of the Papal throne §. 14. Now the better to form in us a right sense of what regards we ought to beare to these worthy Patriots whom God rais'd up to be Founders and Benefactors it may be not improper to examine in what posture the state Scholastick was found at the entrance of King Edw. 6 upon the Government It is well known that a great part of the former Teaching was in Monasteries Now there were in England 118 Monasteries of Royal Foundation whereof 27 mitred Abbots and 2 Priors held their Estates in Barons Fee and gave vote in Parliament All these were dissolv'd with the others which were many more during the Reign of K. Hen. 8. First 40 of the lesser by Cardinal Woolsey with the leave of Clement 7. then such as were under two hundred pound per annum to the number of 376 afterwards the greater the year following the great Priory of S. Johns of Jerusalem At last all Hospitals Chantries Schools Colleges were without any condition given into the Kings hands to be dispos'd of according to his better intentions Then was the survey of Eaton and Winchester Colleges return'd up but the death of the King that year interpos'd between the Act and its utmost Execution Henry the fifth when he supprest the Priors Aliens had thoughts of going farther but was diverted upon a French War by the prudent address of that most vigilant and Reverend Prelate Chichly Strange may it be thought here why the Lords Spiritual and Temporal should agree with the Commons to put up these Bills to King Henr. 8. in so unlimited a manner unless it did argue as to the incumbents of those Monasteries and Chantries a publick dissatisfaction about their having

Judgment resign'd supersedes the trouble of examination silences all disputes is very zealous too but at the instinct of other mens passion and needs must it be a frail and ignoble obedience which acts not according to knowledg Scriptures translated there may be who pervert to unsound opinions there were who wrested them at their first Revelation in the Vulgar Tongue at their own peril tho not without others danger Both of them men unlearn'd and thereupon unstable All that learn are not presently learn'd Some may be proud upon their little taste of knowledg become intractable to superiors prepar'd to embrace New Doctrins Be there stif necks that struggle with the Yoke of Discipline this cometh not from having bin kept in aw subject to statutes and orders Be there unstable minds not yielding themselvs up to be grounded upon firm principles They learn'd not that in their Catechism They who have a more favourable opinion of their own proficiency may do well to suffer a strict Judgment to pass upon their notions least they be found to know nothing as they ought For indeed it is not the being end●wed with more or less knowledg if per●aps little knowledg be an endowment but the Grace of Charity with either that accordingly makes men sober and useful without which they become conceited and factious whil'st Ignorance is of it self the certain Mother of Error To decry the publishing of truth upon pretence of securing peace argueth a consciousness of some opinions which must be indulg'd because useful would be conceal'd because unwarrantable A dark shop giveth suspicion of corrupted wares that would escape the Magistrat and impose upon the buyer Again admit the most knowing Teacher yet subject to human frailties if his hearers come unprovided of a Judgment of discretion they cannot have assurance in practice whether they be the Discipl●s of Divine verities or servants of human passions And the more laborious the one is in Teaching the more diligent and affectionate the other in hearing nay in repeating what they have heard they will run the greater risque So that to take away the rule of discerning Doctrins from the People and confine them to the sense of particular Pastors hath as small probability of advancing Catholic Religion as it hath appearance of promoting commutative Justice to call in standards and warrant every sellers Weights and Measures upon his private seal In short that the Canon of Faith be communicated to all Believers is honest to the People The Law of Moses was the inheritance of the Circumcis'd the whole Bible is the Birth-right of all the Baptiz'd Now because some unhappy instances may have bin found of particulars who have embezill'd their patrimony to their own damage and the injury of others with what colour of Justice can it be urg'd that the community of their country be disinherited It is also honorable to their faithful Pastors Would not a good Musician desire his whole Auditory well instructed in the Art of Musick that they may the better judg of his Ayres And an accurate Limner be pleas'd if all spectators of his Pieces were competently skill'd in proportions colours shadows and what else is requisite that they might rightly discerne the Beauties of his Pictures and set a due price on them Lastly it is safe to the Magistrat A people deliver'd up to implicite faith in their leaders is in the next disposition to be seduced they are only by accident Loyal and their Virtue owing to Fortune because at another mans choice Right and well grounded submission to Civil and Ecclesiastical Government is the Genuine issue of knowledg to sobriety For the manifold benefits of order and in conscience of the divine institution and command Obedience is not to be withdrawn from morose and hard Masters but therefore to advise to keep a people low in understanding and Fortunes are the misadventurous Politiques of such as serve themselves of Governors and set up a private against the public interest whereas when truth and civil beatitude are intended the more any Nation encreases in wisdom the more intrinsecal inforcements of Loyalty will they derive from the eternal Reasons of that Law which injoins their obedience and the Bands of such Government become indissoluble §. 5. There is therefore a learning which cannot be too universally dilated a fast friend both to Policy and Religion nor is it an enemy to trade but by strict injunctions commands Labour Mechanical and manual Operations are several times stil'd good Works Handy-crafts exercis'd by the Ancient Rabbins did not upon their conversion unqualify for the Apostolical dignity Nay the Author of our Profession and common Master of all did not disown a Parentage conversant about an honest Art Nor do Kings his Followers account it any diminution of their Majesty to be enroll'd in Company with Artisans Again as the right bred Scholar sees reason not to magnify himself against the industry of other honest laborers and Artists since God hath charg'd his support in good measure on part of their labors so we find the more ingenuous both of City and Country to bear a true respect to Learning This they have testified among other proofs by many monuments of their piety in all parts of the Land erected to the breeding up Youth in good manners and Literature These worthy Persons had bin so far proficients under the ordinary means of instruction in the Church as to acknowledg the good success of their labors to have bin from the gift and blessing of God had tasted the fruits of Wisdom and highly priz'd it Whereupon in humble retribution to the divine goodness and out of compassion to the plaee of their Nativity or Preferment founded there some Free-School especially for the poor that they might also be provided with means of knowledg Others have added exhibitions that if Children at the School should give hopes of profiting they might receive farther encouragement to proceed till they arriv'd at fitness for emploiment suitable to their Education A zeal unanimously allow'd to have proceeded from a pious intention only for the matter by some disputed These favor Learning yet are not reconcil'd to Free-Schools Nay great contention hath bin needful to convince Towns after many years to admit such foundations tho fairly endow'd as any wayes beneficial to the Neighborhood with so much the more reason may the Gentry require that such as would have the liberal Arts and Sciences should pay for them without censure keep their blood unmixt with mean conversation by immuring them at home or sequestring them into some convenient recess to be train'd up in society with their equals remote from Markets and Towns nor countenance such places with the Education of their Children Upon these allegations duely consider'd it may not be improper to examine what is the import of free-Schools to a state especially Christian since upon the issue of this Question not only the discretion of Founders cometh