To quarrel or give ill-language should be a crime to be punished by way
of fine only, the college-major to be judge, and the offender be put into
custody till he ask pardon of the person wronged; by which means every
gentleman who has been affronted has sufficient satisfaction.
But to strike challenge, draw, or fight, should be more severely
punished; the offender to be declared no gentleman, his name posted up at
the college-gate, his person expelled the house, and to be pumped as a
rake if ever he is taken within the college-walls.
The teachers of this college to be chosen, one half out of the exempts of
the first college, and the other out of the proficients of the second.
The fourth college, being only of schools, will be neither chargeable nor
troublesome, but may consist of as many as shall offer themselves to be
taught, and supplied with teachers from the other schools.
The proposal, being of so large an extent, must have a proportionable
settlement for its maintenance; and the benefit being to the whole
kingdom, the charge will naturally lie upon the public, and cannot well
be less, considering the number of persons to be maintained, than as
follows.
FIRST COLLEGE.
£ per ann.
The general 300
5 colonels at £100 per ann. each 500
20 captains at 60 ,, 1,200
100 governors at 10 ,, 1,000
200 directors at 5 ,, 1,000
200 exempts at 5 ,, 1,000
2,000 heads for subsistence, at £20 per head per 40,000
ann., including provision, and all the officers’
salaries in the house, as butlers, cooks, purveyors,
nurses, maids, laundresses, stewards, clerks,
servants, chaplains, porters, and attendants, which
are numerous.
SECOND COLLEGE.
A governor 200
A president 100
50 college-majors at £50 per ann. each 2,500
200 proficients at 10 2,000
Commons for 500 students during times of exercises at 2,500
£5 per ann. each
200 proficients’ subsistence, reckoning as above 4,000
THIRD COLLEGE.
The gentlemen here are maintained as gentlemen, and 25,000
are to have good tables, who shall therefore have an
allowance at the rate of £25 per head, all officers
to be maintained out of it; which is
100 teachers, salary and subsistence ditto 4,500
50 college-majors at £10 per ann. is 500
Annual charge 86,300
The building to cost 50,000
Furniture, beds, tables, chairs, linen, &c. 10,000
Books, instruments, and utensils for experiments 2,000
So the immediate charge would be 62,000
The annual charge 86,300
To which add the charges of exercises and experiments 3,700
90,000
The king’s magazines to furnish them with 500 barrels of gunpowder per
annum for the public uses of exercises and experiments.
In the first of these colleges should remain the governing part, and all
the preferments to be made from thence, to be supplied in course from the
other; the general of the first to give orders to the other, and be
subject only to the founder.
The government should be all military, with a constitution for the same
regulated for that purpose, and a council to hear and determine the
differences and trespasses by the college laws.
The public exercises likewise military, and all the schools be
disciplined under proper officers, who are so in turn or by order of the
general, and continue but for the day.
The several classes to perform several studies, and but one study to a
distinct class, and the persons, as they remove from one study to
another, to change their classes, but so as that in the general exercises
all the scholars may be qualified to act all the several parts as they
may be ordered.
The proper studies of this college should be the following:
Geometry. Bombarding.
Astronomy. Gunnery.
History. Fortification.
Navigation. Encamping.
Decimal arithmetic. Intrenching.
Trigonometry. Approaching.
Dialing. Attacking.
Gauging. Delineation.
Mining. Architecture.
Fireworking. Surveying.
And all arts or sciences appendices to such as these, with exercises for
the body, to which all should be obliged, as their genius and capacities
led them, as:
1. Swimming; which no soldier, and, indeed, no man whatever, ought to be
without.