Volume 1

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

  • Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695.
Date:
1792-1796
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Credit: The history and antiquities of the University of Oxford ... / by Anthony ä Wood. Now first published in English ... by John Gutch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Deditus a teneris ftudiis hie nofter alumnus, , Morum et do£lrinae (i) tantum profecit ut aulam Illuftrare tuam, et curare negotia regni (Rex Henrice) tui poffit honorifice. And the Kyng anfweryng in thefe verfes Tales efledecet, quibus uti facra majeftas (2) Regnum in tutando debeat imperio. Quare fufeipiam quern commendaftis alumnum Digna daturus ei prsemia pro mentis.’ By the appearance on which boord it is manifeft that there were now eight Officers belonging to the Chancellor, viz. fix Bedells, a Vergerer and a Crucifer, as tis exprefTed in the [Note.] The laft of which was taken away at the Reformation of Religion when Proceffions were throwd afide. The eight embattled Towers were I fuppofe New Coll. Magdalen, Merton, Ofney, Rewley, Black Fryers, Auflen, and Grey. All which except the three firfi: have been long fince demolifhed. An. {Dom. 1504 19—20 Hen. VII. But to proceed: the Scholars which before were fled, being now return- ed and fettled, reaflumed their Ledtures again. Among feveral flrangers that came to Oxford about this time was one Andrew Alazard (3) of the Univerfity of Mompellier. He was a learned man and Dodtor of Phyfic of that Univerfity, and becaufe his defire was to be incorporated in the fame Faculty, did at the command of the Chancellor and Prodtors read publickly the Treatife of Avicen de Pulfibus, and made excellent Tables on them extempore; which at this time being of no fmall account were much ap- plauded by thofe of the Faculty of Medicine. During the time of his abode here he was a Commoner in St. Albans Hall, where reading divers admirable Ledtures, was not only frequented by the learneder fort of the (1) DoSrina et Meritis—A, W. 2) PoteJlas-—A. W. (3) Reg. Mert. ut fupra, fol. 153, a, et alibi. Univerfity,