380 ADVICE ABOUT THE CHARTERHOUSE. 



Concerning the advancement of learning, I do 

 subscribe to the opinion of one of the wisest and 

 greatest men of your kingdom : That for grammar 

 schools there are already too many, and therefore no 

 providence to add where there is excess : for the 

 great number of schools which are in your highness s 

 realm, doth cause a want, and doth cause likewise an 

 overflow ; both of them inconvenient, and one of 

 them dangerous. For by means thereof they find 

 want in the country and towns, both of servants for 

 husbandry, and apprentices for trade : and on the 

 other side, there being more scholars bred, than the 

 state can prefer and employ ; and the active part of 

 that life not bearing a proportion to the preparative, 

 it must needs fall out, that many persons will be 

 bred unfit for other vocations, and unprofitable for 

 that in which they are brought up ; which fills the 

 realm full of indigent, idle, and wanton people, 

 which are but &quot; materia rerum novarum.&quot; 



Therefore, in this point, I wish Mr. Sutton s in 

 tention were exalted a degree ; that that which he 

 meant for teachers of children, your majesty should 

 make for teachers of men ; wherein it hath been my 

 ancient opinion and observation, that in the univer 

 sities of this realm, which I take to be of the best 

 endowed universities of Europe, there is nothing 

 more wanting towards the flourishing state of 

 learning, than the honourable and plentiful salaries 

 of readers in arts and professions. In which point, 

 as your majesty s bounty already hath made a 

 beginning, so this occasion is offered of God to make 



