Economics -- Early works to 1800; Finance -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
Being such as graduates by preferment, at first named by the founder; and
after the first settlement to be chosen out of the first or second
colleges; with apartments in the college, and salaries.
£ per ann.
The general 300
The colonels 100
The captains 60
2,000 scholars, among whom shall be the following degrees:
allowed £ per ann.
Governors 100 10
Directors 200 5
Exempts 200 5
Proficients 500
Juniors 1,000
The general to be named by the founder, out of the colonels; the colonels
to be named by the general, out of the captains; the captains out of the
governors; the governors from the directors; and the directors from the
exempts; and so on.
The juniors to be divided into ten schools; the schools to be thus
governed: every school has
100 juniors, in 10 classes.
Every class to have 2 directors.
100 classes of juniors is 1,000
Each class 2 directors 200
1,200
The proficients to be divided into five schools:
Every school to have ten classes of 10 each.
Every class 2 governors.
50 classes of proficients is 500
Each class 2 governors is 100
600
The exempts to be supernumerary, having a small allowance, and maintained
in the college till preferment offer.
The second college to consist of voluntary students, to be taken in,
after a certain degree of learning, from among the proficients of the
first, or from any other schools, after such and such limitations of
learning; who study at their own charge, being allowed certain
privileges; as—
Chambers rent-free on condition of residence.
Commons gratis, for certain fixed terms.
Preferment, on condition of a term of years’ residence.
Use of libraries, instruments, and lectures of the college.
This college should have the following preferments, with salaries
£ per ann.
A governor 200
A president 100
50 college-majors 50
200 proficients 10
500 voluntary students, without allowance.
The third and fourth colleges, consisting only of schools for temporary
study, may be thus:
The third—being for gentlemen to learn the necessary arts and exercises
to qualify them for the service of their country, and entertaining them
one whole year at the public charge—may be supposed to have always one
thousand persons on its hands, and cannot have less than 100 teachers,
whom I would thus order:
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