Volume 1

The life of Thomas Linacre, Doctor in Medicine ... : with memoirs of his cotemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning ... / By John Noble Johnson ... Edited by Robert Graves.

  • Johnson, John Noble, 1787-1823.
Date:
1835
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    poverty in the evidences which their authors have adduced in support of such unsatisfactory hypo- theses. The history also, with which these pre- tended facts are connected, is enveloped in so much obscurity, that it would have been scarcely worthy of notice, had not an author,* to whose opportunities and observation much respect is due, reposed confidence in the chronicler of the middle ages, on whose unauthorised assertions he rests his claim to credit and support. No authentic records are preserved either of the systems of phi- * « Hrant olim, florente Britannici nominis gloria, ut ex historia fidei mihi non admodum approbatzee liquet, due schole cium eloquentia, tum eruditione pollentes; quarum utraque sita in ipsis ripis Isidis fluvii famosissimi. Uni nomen fuit patria lin- gua Greecelade, vocabulo a re nato, quod illic viri eximie docti Greecam profiterentur linguam. Alteri ex Latine lingue pre- ceptoribus Latinelade nomen impositum: quanquam non de- sunt, qui pro Latinelade, Lechelade, nescio tamen an vere scribant, adfirmantque medicorum fuisse scholam.”—Leland, De Script. Britan. tom. 1. p. 146, in Vitam Alfredi Magni. The History of the Abbey of Jervaux, in Richmond, mentions the foundation of these schools as a received tradition at the time of its composition, temp. Richard I.—Hist. Jornalensis ab adventu S. Augustin’ in Angham, A°. 588, ad mortem Regis Ric. I. Bibl. Cotton. Tiberius, C. xiii. John Rous, however, a chaunting priest of Guy’s Cliff, in Warwickshire, who flourished about 1480, has given a different etymology of one of these places, at least as probable as that given to it by Leland. “ A quo quidem loco [Greklade] non multim distante situ, medici qui erant inter eos periti, locum eis appropiarunt congruum et situ salubrem, qui usque hodié ab ipsis medicis Lechlade appellatur.”— Chronicon Joh. Rossi War- micensis de Regibus Anghe in Bibl. Cotton. Vespasian, A, xii. p. 19.