Now! Then! The daily timetable for Cicely Sandys’ university at Ripon is approved today by Queen Anne of Denmark

4 July 1604: The daily timetable for Cicely Sandys’ university at Ripon is approved today by Queen Anne of Denmark

Francis Peck. 1779. Desiderata Curiosa. London: Thomas Evans. Get it:

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05:00-06:00 Public prayer for half an hour, and lecture of chief commonplaces in divinity, another half hour, in Latin. 06:00-07:00 Genesis lecture of logic; analysis lecture of logic; the lecture of Hebrew, Syrian & Arabic; with lecture of histories, and lecture of law or physic. 07:00-08:00 Genesis lecture of rhetoric. Genesis lecture of physics; lecture of algebra. With lecture of ethics and politics. The lecture of the sacred text. 08:00-09:00 The lecture of arithmetic. Lecture of geometry elements. Lecture of geometry solids. With lecture of astronomy principles. Lecture of spherical motions. Of geography and chronography. Of Polonish. 09:00-10:00 Public prayer for half an hour. With divinity lecture in English, for the other half hour: in Ripon Minster. 10:00-11:00 The lecture of rhetoric analysis. Lecture of physic analysis. Lecture of metaphysics. With lecture of first planetary motions. Lecture of second planetary motions. Lecture of Greek. Lecture of Hungarish. 11:00-12:00 The lecture of optics and the lecture of divinity controversies.

13:00-14:00 The lecture of the Dutch or of the Flemish tongue. 14:00-15:00 The lecture of the French tongue. 15:00-16:00 The lecture of the Italian tongue. 16:00-17:00 The lecture of the Spanish tongue. 17:00-18:00 Disputation or declamation, as follows: on Monday, the logic disputation; on Tuesday, disputation in natural philosophy; on Wednesday, disputation in law or physic; on Thursday, disputation in divinity; on Friday, an oration in Latin; on Saturday, an oration in Greek. 18:00-19:00 Public prayer in Latin, for half an hour after six of the clock.

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II. Their publique & perpetual exercises in learning & religion; morning & evening.
In the morning dayly.

Betwixt
First, publique prayer for half an hour, & lecture of chief common places in divinity, another half hour, in Latin.

5 2. Genesis lecture of logique ; analysis lecture of logique ; the lecture of Hebrue, Sirian & Arabique ;. with lecture of histories, & lecture of law or phyficke.

3. Genesis lecture of rhetorique. Genesis lecture of physickes; lecture of Algebra. With lecture of ethiques & politiques. The lecture of the sacred text.

8 4. The lecture of arithmetique. Lecture of geometry elements. Lecture of geometry solids. With lecture of astronomy principles. Lecture of sperical motions. Of geography & chronography. Of Polónith.

5. Publique prayer for halfe an hour. With divinitie lecture in English, for the other half hour: in Rippon minster.

6. The lecture of rhetorique analysis. Lecture of physique analysis. Lecture of metaphysiques. With lecture of first planetary motions. Lecture of second planetary motions. Lecture of Greek. Lecture of Hungarish. 7. The lecture of optiques & the lecture of divinitie controversies.

In the evening daily. 1. The lecture of the Dutch or of the Flemish tongue. 2. The lecture of the French tongue. 3. The lecture of the Italian tongue.

3 4 4. The lecture of the Spanish tongue. 5. Difputation or declamation, as followeth, viz. On Monday, the logique disputation. On Tuesday, disputation in natural philosophy. On Wednesday, disputation in law or physic. On Thursday, disputation in divinitie. On Friday, an oration in Latin. On Saturday, an oration in Greek. Lastly, publique prayer in Latine, for half an hour after six of the clock.

III. Their sabath exercises, morning & evening. 1. Publique prayer in Hebrue.

6 2. Publique prayer in Greek. 3. Publique prayer in Latin.

8 In these three congues, usual prayers, psalms & hymns to be used by course. And sundry chapters read in lundry tongues successively. One out of the Old Testament, & one out of the New.

4. Publique repetition made by the rehearser of the divinitie lectures in English, read in the week last past saving one.

8 9 5. Divine service publickly celebrated in English in Rippon minster.

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6. A publique sermon in English, to be made by the chief of the house every first
Sunday of the month, in Rippon church. The other fabath sermons there to be
made by interchangeable course of the senior & junior divines. The juniors preaching
once, & the seniors twice in the year. The junior divines in the country chappels to
do the like upon the sabaths : four of them weekly. All of them in seven weeks.

7. Repetition of the sacred text lectures.
8. Repetition of the lectures of divinitie controversies.

3 9. Repetition of the lectures in the principles of divinitie.

3 The fumm of the said lectures read the week past to be collected in writing. And, upon the professors perusing, publiquely read by one of the probationers in their turns. Lastly, publique prayers in English.

The reading of publique prayers on the sabath days, with other facred duties;

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& the administration of the facraments, celebrated once in a month, to be performed
by the senior divines ; by weekly or monthely course.

The junior divines, to read prayers in the colledge on the working days by weekly
turne.
All the divines to be present at the Hebrue prayers.
All the graduats & probationers, at Greek prayers.
All the students joyntly, ar Latin & English prayers.

IV. The college students how to be auditors of the former leɛtures.
io. Anno. Of logique genesis. Of ethiques & politiques. Of arithmetique. Of Greek.
Of Dutch or Flemish.

ijo. Anno. Of logique analysis. Of rhetorique genesis. Of geometry elements. Of
Greek. Of French.

iijo. Anno. Of rhetorique analysis. Of physick genesis. Of geometry folids. Of Hebrue, Sirian, Arabique. Of Italian..

ivo. Anno. Of physick analysis. Of algebra.. Of optiques. Of astronomical principles. Of Hebrue, Sirian, Arabique. Of Spanish.

vo. Anno. Of spherical motions. Of law & physick. Of the sacred text. Of divinity controversies. Of. Polonish…

vjo. Anno. Of first planetary motions. Of law & physick. Of the sacred text. Of divine controversies. Of Hungarish.

vijo. Anno. Of harder planetary motions. Of law & physick. Of the sacred text. Of dia vine controversies. Of histories.

viijo. Anno.. Of geography & chronography: Of law and physick. Of the facred text. Of divine controversies. Of metaphysicks.

The learners of musique to be voluntary, or at their tutors direction.

The students aforesaid, after eight years of these their studies in the college, to take degrees.
in one of the universities; upon due performing such exercises and acts as, in the said univers
sitie, are usual for graduates of the same continuance..
V. The order for performance of leElures, disputations, declamations, examinations, and other

exercises.
1. The divinity lecture in English, to be kept dayly by all the fellow divines, on Mondays
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday weekly.

2. For Thursday lecture a full sermon made at meeting of town & country.
3. Five of the divines to exercise herein weekly. All of them once in eight weeks..
4. The four chief professors of divinitie to read one week in three, dayly.
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The six assistants divines, one week in nine, to do the like. Three of them to read the
divinitie controversies. Other three to read the facred text.

6. The professors of law & physick to read every other day, thrice weekly.

7. The Hebrue reader to read weekly four lectures [2.] in Hebrue, 1. in Sirian, 1. in Ara-..
bique.

8. All readers of the vulgar tongues, of Greek, & of arts, to read daily.
9. The affiftants to the Hebrue & Greek readers, to read one week in three.

10. The professors of divinitie, law & physick, & the readers of the arts, to bring their
lectures or the substance & order thereof, ready written ; upon approbation to be published as
occasion serveth.

11. The readers of the chief common places of divinitié, 1. one of them to read dayly, by yearly course. The vacant reader, for his year, to catechize in English in Rippon Minster, on the fabath afternoons.

12. The readers of divinitie controversies & of the facred text, sometime, by yearly course, to change their kind of lectures; that they may be exercised in both kinds,

13. In the divinity disputation, all the divines by course, to answer.once, & oppose twice, in the year. Two opponents & one answerer therein..

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14. The disputation of law or physick, to be kepe weekly by interchangeable course. The professors thereof to moderate the disputation. The proper students thereof to answer & oppose therein by course, about fix times yearly.

15. The disputers in logique to be of the second & third years standing.

16. The disputers in natural philosophy to be of the third, fourth, fifth & fixth years standing. One answering, & two opposing therein, by course.

17. The disputation in logique & natural philofophy, to be moderated by the several readers thereof, by weekly or monthly turns.

18. The declaimers in Latine and Greeke, to be of the third, fourth, fifth & sixth years . standing. And four of them by weekly course to exercise therein. Two in each tongue.

19. The readers of rhecorique, to hear & censure the Latine declamation. 26. The readers of Greek to hear & censure the declamation in Greek.

21. Examinations of the lectures read the week past, of law & physick, of the tongues & of the arts; to be taken by the several readers thereof, upon Saturday in the afternoon, from one to five of the clock. Seven several kind of lectures being examined every hour.

22. The foresaid lectures, disputations, declamations & examinations to be continued only nine or ten weeks in a quarter of a year. The English exercises, with prayers in the learned tongues, to be always continued.

23. The teachers of grammar of the college, to have under their charge cl. scholars ; lx. of them elected; xc. other next eligible into the college. In five years to be made fit auditors of the college lectures.

24. In the i. year, the grammar scholars to be taught & exercised in Latine unly. 25. In the ij. year, to be taught four days Latin; two days Greek, weekly.

26. The iii. iv. & v. year, two days Latin; two days Greek; one day Hebrue; one day Syrian & Arabique.

27. At nine of the clock at night, all the students of the college to withdraw themselves, & (upon half an hour imployed in private prayer and due examination of the day spent) immediately to go to rest.

28. All the fellows, probationers, & scholars of the college, to be personally resident in the house, and to live & keep together in common diet. And not to be married, but to live a single life during their societie, according to the statutes and custome of the colleges in the universities.

29. The visitors of the college to be appointed by her majestie, to see these orders, exercises, & other proceedings of the college duly performed; & to have authority, upon weighty cause, to alter them from time to time.

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