EPITAPHIUM VIVI AUCTORIS *. "Hic, o viator, fub lare parvulo "Defunctis humani laboris "Sorte, fupervacuâque vitâ. "Non indecorâ pauperie nitens, "Vanóque dilectis popello "Divitiis animofus hoftis. "Poffis ut illum dicere mortuum ; 66 Exempta fit curis, viator, "Terra fit illa levis, precare. "Hic fparge flores, fparge breves rofas "Vatis adhuc cinerem calentem." * See a translation of this Epitaph among THAT one, two, or (at fartheft) three miles of London; and, if it be poffible to find that convenience, upon the fide of the river, or very near it. That the revenue of this college amount to four thousand pounds a year. *Ingenious men delight in dreams of reformation. In comparing this Propofition of Cowley, with that of Milton, addreffed to Mr. Hartlib, we find that these great poets had amufed themfelves with fome exalted, and, in the main, congenial fancies, on the fubject of education: that, of the two plans proposed, this of Mr. Cowley was better digefted, and is the less fanciful; if a preference, in this refpect, can be given to either, when both are manifeftly Utopian: and that our univerfities, in their prefent form, are well enough calculated to anfwer all the reasonable ends of fuch inftitutions; provided we allow for the unavoidable defects of them, when drawn out into practice. H. 1. That That the company received into it be as follows: 1. Twenty philofophers or profeffors. 2. Sixteen young scholars, fervants to the profeffors. 3. A chaplain. 4. A bailiff for the revenue. 5. A manciple or purveyor for the provifions of the house. 6. Two gardeners. 7. A master-cook. 8. An under-cook. 9. A butler. 10. An under-butler. 11. A furgeon. 12. Two lungs, or chemical fervants. 13. A library - keeper, who is likewife to be apothecary, druggist, and keeper of inftruments, engines, &c. 14. An officer to feed and take care of all beafts, fowl, &c. kept by the college. 35. A groom of the table. 16. A meffenger, to fend up and down for all ufes of the college. 17. Four old women, to tend the chambers, keep the houfe clean, and fuch-like fervices. That the annual allowance for this company be as follows: 1. To every profeffor, and to the chaplain, one hundred and twenty pounds. 2. To the fixteen fcholars, twenty pounds apiece; ten pounds for their diet, and ten pounds for their entertainment. 3. To the bailiff, thirty pounds, befides allowance for his journies. 4. To the purveyor, or manciple, thirty pounds. 5. To each of the gardeners, twenty pounds. 6. To the mafter-cook, twenty pounds. 7. To the under-cook, four pounds. 8. To the butler, ten pounds. 9. To the under-butler, four pounds. 10. To the furgeon, thirty pounds. 11. To the librarykeeper, thirty pounds. 12. To each of the lungs, twelve pounds. 13. To the keeper of the beafts, fix pounds. 14. To the groom, five pounds. 15. To the messenger, twelve pounds. 16. To the four neceffary women, ten pounds. For the manciples table, at which all the fervants of the house are to eat, except the fcholars, one hundred and fixty pounds. For three horses for the fervice of the college, thirty pounds. All which amounts to three thousand two hundred eighty-five pounds. So that there remains for keeping of the house and gardens, and operatories, and inftruments, and animals, and experiments of all forts, and all other expences, feven hundred and fifteen pounds. Which were a very inconfiderable fum for the great ufes to which it is defigned, but that I conceive the industry of the college will in a fhort time fo enrich itfelf, as to get a far better ftock for the advance and enlargement of the work when it it once begun : neither is the continuance of particular men's liberality to be despaired of, when it fhall be encouraged by the fight of that public benefit which will accrue to all mankind, and chiefly to our nation, by this foundation. Something likewife wili arife from leafes and other cafualties; that nothing of which may be diverted to the private gain of the profeffors, or any other ufe befides that of the fearch of nature, and by it the general good of the world; and that care may be taken for the certain performance of all things ordained by the inftitution, as likewife for the protec tion and encouragement of the company, it is propofed : That fome person of eminent quality, a lover of folid learning, and no ftranger in it, be chofen chancellor or president of the college; and that eight governors more, men qualified in the like manner, be joined with him, two of which fhall yearly be appointed visitors of the college, and receive an exact account of all expences, even to the fmalleft, and of the true estate of their public treasure, under the hands and oaths of the profeffors refident. That the choice of profeffors in any vacancy belong to the chancellor and the governors; but that the profeffors (who are likelieft to know what men of the nation are most proper for the duties of their fociety) direct their choice, by recommending two or three perfons to them at every election: and that, if any learned perfon within his majesty's dominions difcover, or eminently improve, any useful kind of knowledge, he may upon that ground, for his reward and the encouragement of others, be preferred, if he pretend to the place, before any body elfe. That the governors have power to turn out any profeffor, who fhall be proved to be either fcandalous or unprofitable to the fociety. That the college be built after this, or fome fuch manner: That it confift of three fair quadrangular courts, and three large grounds, inclofed with good walls behind them. That the first court be built with a fair cloister; and the profeffors' lodgings, or rather CC 4 little |