Ptōchomuseion [sic]. = The poore mans librarie Rapsodiæ G.A. Bishop of Exceter vpon the first epistle of saint Peter, red publiquely in the cathedrall church of saint Paule, within the citye of London. 1560. Here are adioyned at the end of euery special treatie, certaine fruitful annotacions which may properly be called miscellanea, bicause they do entreate of diuerse and sundry matters, marked with the nombre and figures of Augrime. 2.

Liberall sciences. 16.

THere be seuen liberall sciences, of the which three are called Artes benedicendi, as Grammer, Logicke, and Rhetoricke, and Grammer is called Ars triuialis, quia in triuiis docetur, bycause it is taught almost in euery streete and place.

The other foure are called Mathematicall, as Arithmeticke, Geome∣trie, Musicke, Astronomy, and they be so called, bycause they are learned by most firme and sure demonstrations, and doth make the thyng to be knowen by reason, and by some certaine cause.

Mathematicum, is a Greke worde, and signifieth disciplinall, or doc∣trinall, or demonstratiue.

All these seuē sciences be called liberall sciēces. i. Quod liberū hoīem potissimū deceant, bycause they be most meete & expediēt to be learned of gentilmen and of free men, for it is illiberall and seruile to get the le∣uing, with hand labour and sweate of the body. All artes & occupations exercised and vsed with trauell of handes and payne of body, are called

Artes maechanicae, as carpentrye and smithes worke, with such like and they are so called of this Greke worde 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. VVhiche signifieth Inuen∣tionem, inuention, or an excogitation, a craft.