Volume 1

The history and antiquities of the University of Oxford ... / by Anthony ä Wood. Now first published in English ... by John Gutch.

  • Anthony Wood
Date:
1792-1796
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    rependere medicinam. Exclamat igitur pia mater et faevis plena doloribus in occulto in primis fuas depromit anguftias patri fuo, ut tarn in Curia Ro- ' mana, quam in Parliamento proxime celebrando fuperna pietate manum falutis dignetur apponere, et tantae miferis caufam pro viribus defendere. Ne forfan expugnantium furore (quod ablit) invalefcente paternali fuffragio non adjuta, deficiat, et fubjedtioni adverfariorum perpetuae fe provolvat.' Quia vero, &c.’ Thus the Univerfity, who alfo in other Epiftles do complain of the faid Friers, which being chiefly concerning the infringing and impugning the Statutes of the Univerflty, I fliall omit the mention. To fo great a necef- fity were they brought that they were forced to make their complaints (i) to the King in the fame manner as they had before to the Bifliop of Win- chefter. At length the caufe being heard in the next Parliament, the Fri- ers were forced to recede without little or any thing done on their part. An. f Dom. 1460 j 38-39 Hen. VI. Omitting other matters relating to the faid controverfles, I fhall proceed to fpeak of fomething elfe that occurs, which I fuppofe may not unwor- thyly be placed here. The end of the reign of Hen. VI is now at hand, which though full of troubles, yet had he a care to learning and learned men. A great Me- caenas to letters he fhewed himfelf and a great friend alfo to this Univer- lity, wherein he had received his education. So mindful he was of certain Houfes of learning therein, of which All Souls and Magdalen Colleges were of the number, that he, as ’tis reported, (2) became a liberal Bene- fadlor to them. And as his favour was thus to the Univerfity, fo was its piety and well withes towards him while living, and when dead according to the manner of thefe times j for at what time he was undergoing his tra- vels inFrance to ejftablifh his right there, the Univerfity every Lord’s day did perform certain Maifes (3) for his welfare. As for the Rate of the Univerfity In this King’s reign relating to Learn- ing and number, was but mean, as I have partly before mentioned. There (1) Lib. Epist. F fol. 109 b. Ep. 238. (2) Rous in Lib. de Regibus, MS. [edit. Heaine, p. zio: / Novum etiam Collegium Ox- oniae intra muros, Collegiumijue Regale de Oriell in eadem Civitate certis polTeffionibus amplia- vit.’] (3) In quodam Chroniculo in Coliec- TAN. Nic. Bilhop in Chartop. Civ. Oxon. where