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195:, tackled the broad historical picture from pre-Roman times; some specialised in common law developments from the twelfth century. However, others began a serious study of the early-medieval origins of English culture and identity. In so doing, they made considerable use of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in both Old English and Latin to supplement still thin published sources. 179:, wealthy collectors of old manuscripts and a few professional archivists. They met in London during each law term unless plague intervened. Using the notebook of one member, Francis Tate, Wright dates 22 meetings from 1590 to 1601. Thereafter, meetings became less regular, not only owing to plague but also to the suspicions of the government of 36:: some form of learned institution, conceived as having royal backing and a leading role in the intellectual life of the nation. Definite calls for an English Academy came in 1617, based on the Italian model dating back to the 16th century; they were followed up later, after the 1635 founding of the 516:
were interested once more in the idea of an academy. Evelyn's experience abroad included a meeting of the Umoristi, an academy in Rome devoted to verse and linguistic matters. Language now became aspect of the "English Academy" issue that continued to resonate with English literati, and was floated
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as an active educational and regulatory body. In fact no such Academy would be set up, though discussion of the perceived need for one continued into the eighteenth century. The development of ideas on the language-regulation function of a putative English Academy was studied initially by Hermann
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Society members consulted Agard for advice on what material might be available. He had been deputy chamberlain of the exchequer since 1570, responsible for what would be a 40-year project to compile inventories of the four treasuries at Westminster, which contained both royal and abbey records.
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Although I must confess that in this proposition I have more travelled than in any of the former, for that it concerneth me more to understand the right thereof, especially in that sundry have resorted to me thereabouts to know whether I have in my custody any records that avouch the same in
424:'s setting up of an actual educational institution, his Musaeum Minervae, in his own home in Covent Garden. The king gave money, and the academy admitted young gentlemen only, on exclusive grounds. The tutors were hand-picked by Kynaston. The new institution was satirised, though mildly, by 72:
Martin Flasdieck. Flasdieck distinguished three phases: first private initiatives up to the middle of the 17th century; then the Restoration period in which the Royal Society and its membership took an interest; and a later period in which proposals to mirror the French
457:. The full course was to occupy seven years; no gentleman was ‘to exercise himself at once about more than two particular sciences, arts, or qualities, whereof one shall be intellectual, the other corporall.’ The regent taught the following subjects: 1859:"§9. Educational Projects after the Restoration: Cowley's "Proposition". XV. Education. Vol. 9. From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21" 186:
Two subjects for discussion were agreed in advance of meetings and every member was expected to contribute. They aimed to ‘construct a detailed and credible account of the origins and development of the English people.’ Some, influenced by
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in the eighteenth century and these give several indications of how the antiquaries worked. For example, on 24 November 1599, the Society chose to discuss the antiquity, etymology and variety of English terms used to measure land.
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as chartered by William III, with a modernised curriculum. He proposed a tax on publications to support it, but was opposed in Parliament and met with serious resistance from the universities. At the same period Daniel Defoe in his
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and the younger sons of gentlemen. The proposed course included subjects seen as practical, as well as classical studies. This conception already had a generation of history behind it: in the reign of Henry VIII
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by small groups from time to time; and Evelyn himself was a constant advocate of attention to it. Evelyn sent Boyle a plan, costed at something over ÂŁ1000, in a letter from in September 1659; in 1660
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A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue: In a Letter to the Most Honourable Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain
357:'s riding academy, which included varied studies. The project was intended to cover mathematics and languages as well as equestrian skills, but was cut short by the Prince's death. 718:. The proposal was later rejected by the Continental Congress due to concerns of individual liberty, and marked one of the earliest instances of the government’s consideration of 322:
and others petitioned Elizabeth I to establish a national library and academy, having in mind an institution for antiquarian study. The Society paid attention to the
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in 1661 conspicuously and in detail advocated a "philosophical college" near central London, that would function as an innovating educational institution, in his
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Wilfrid Prest, ‘Ley, James, first earl of Marlborough (1550–1629)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009
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academy. Bacon had then taken the idea further and combined it with legal experience of wardship, and in a paper of 1561 made a recommendation to the queen.
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Ovenden, Richard (2006). "The libraries of the antiquaries (c. 1580–1640) and the idea of a national collection". In Leedham-Green, E.; Webber, T. (eds.).
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and medieval history. They represented a conservative wing in the larger discussion, and in different ways they informed approaches to the idea of a
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published by Kynaston in 1636, only the nobility and gentry were to be admitted to the college, the object of which was to prepare candidates for a
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The suppression of the Society of Antiquaries having left a hiatus in intellectual life, at least as far as antiquarian interests were concerned,
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G. Lloyd Jones, ‘Broughton, Hugh (1549–1612)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2013
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J. D. Alsop, ‘Lambarde, William (1536–1601)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008
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John Niles, The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England, 1066-1901: Remembering, Forgetting, Deciphering and Renewing the Past (Chichester, 2015), 78
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version of the concept with Boyle and others, on a similar scale. These ideas were overtaken by Boyle's involvement in the
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The proposals for an English Academy were initially and typically characterised by an antiquarian interest, for example in
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During the early part of the 17th century, and persisting in some form into the early 18th century, there were a number of
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brought forward a plan for a royal academy (his "academ roial"). In 1617 a list of 27 names was put forward: it included
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set up, around 1682, a literary society that attracted the name 'academy'. It involved Dryden, other participants being
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Arnold denied that he supported setting up an English Academy, guying the likely membership as establishment figures.
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Lee, Patricia-Ann (Autumn 1970). "Some English Academies: An Experiment in the Education of Renaissance Gentlemen".
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A collection of curious discourses written by eminent antiquaries upon several heads in our English antiquities
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revived by his patronage Humphrey Gilbert's proposal. He combined that concept with the French model of
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The Society was eventually closed down owing to the disapproval of James I. Those involved included:
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in 1665 to plan an academy, as was recalled later by Evelyn: Cowley and Sprat were involved, with
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met from around 1586 to around 1607. The membership comprised successful lawyers, members of the
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from 1570 to the early 1580s has been identified as a prototype 'academy'. His circle included
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was later rumoured to be intending to set up an actual institution, in London, or
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Nothing much came directly of such proposals, typically for an "academy royal" or
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suggested an academy to oversee public welfare, as part of his reforming scheme.
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revived the idea of an academy on Kynaston's lines in a series of pamphlets.
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The whole idea later met stern opposition, however, from the lexicographer
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A large number of the contributions to their discussions were published by
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Freeman, Edmund (July 1924). "A Proposal for an English Academy in 1660".
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Der Gedanke einer englischen Sprachakademie in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart
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History of the efforts to establish a regulator for the English language
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Establishing the New Science: the experience of the early Royal Society
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Stuart Handley, ‘Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce, first baronet (1571–1631)’,
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During his 1780 diplomatic mission to Amsterdam, statesman, and later
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Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue
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Censorship and the Institution of Knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis
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Survey of London: volumes 31 and 32: St James Westminster, Part 2
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of the Royal Society, founded in 1662. A group actually met in
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Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England
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The academy idea was still in the air in the years before the
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spoke of a pilot scheme he had run. In the years 1648–1650
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Proposition for the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy
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advocated for an official English Academy as part of the
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a proposed Royal Academies Company was a lottery scheme.
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College of Antiquaries
French Académie
John Dryden
John Evelyn
Daniel Defoe
heraldry
learned society
court academy
Gresham College
Chelsea College
Durham College
Royal Society
pansophic
Humphrey Gilbert
wards
Nicholas Bacon
Thomas Denton
inn of court
humanist
John Dee
Mortlake
Thomas Hariot
Walter Raleigh
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland
Antiquaries
College of Heralds
James I
William Camden
Thomas Hearne
Arthur Agard

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