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London in the Time of the Tudors

Chapter 35: APPENDIX II SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT’S ACADEMY
By Walter Besant
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A comprehensive survey of the city during the Tudor era, tracing political and religious change through sketches of successive sovereigns and accounts of the Dissolution, Reformation, and martyrdoms. The narrative reconstructs Elizabethan streets, institutions, and civic life using contemporary evidence and maps, and examines municipal government, trade, and notable literary and artistic figures. Detailed chapters describe everyday practices — manners, food, dress, apprenticeships, inns, theatres, soldiers, poverty, crime, and punishment — while appendices and illustrations supply documentary and topographical support to evoke the city’s social and cultural fabric.

APPENDIX II
SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT’S ACADEMY

In 1570 Sir Humphrey Gilbert laid before the Queen a plan for an Academy or University of London.

His plan was as follows:—

“Seeing that young gentlemen resort most freely to London there should be an Academy, viz.:—

  1. A master for G. and L., £40.
  2. Four Ushers at £20.
  3. One Hebrew at £50.
  4. One Logic and Rhetoric, £40.
    Exercise and instruction in English.
  5. One Reader of Moral Phil., £100.
  6.    „       „       „  Natural Phil., £40.
  7. Two mathematicians ea. at £100
    1. Arith., Geom., Fort.
    2. Cosmog., Astronomy, Navigation.
  8. Two Ushers at £40.
  9. Riding Master.
  10. Drill Master, £66:13:4.
  11. Physician £100, with a garden.
  12. Reader of Civil Law, £100.
  13. Reader of Divinity, £100.
  14.     „       „  Law, £100.
  15. Teacher of French, £26; Spanish, £26; Italian, £26; Dutch, £26; with Ushers at £10.
  16. Master of Defence, £36.
  17. Dancing and Vaulting School, £26.
  18. Music, £26.
  19. Steward, Cooks, Butlers, etc., £600.
  20. Minister and Clerks, £66:13:4.
  21. Teacher of Heraldry, £26.
  22. Librarian, £26.
  23. Treasurer, £100.
  24. Rector.
    Amounting in all to £2966:13:4 a year.

“By erecting this academie, there shall be hereafter an effect, no gentleman within the Realm but good for something; whereas now the most parts of them are good for nothing. Your Majesty and your successive Courtes shall be for ever, instead of a nurserie of idlenes, become a most noble Academy of Chevallrie, Policy, and Philosophie.”