The life of Thomas Linacre : Doctor of Medicine, physician to King Henry VIII; the tutor and friend of Sir Thomas More, and the founder of the college of physicians in London : with memoirs of his contemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning, more particularly of the schools from the ninth to the sixteenth century inclusive / by John Noble Johnson ; edited by Robert Graves.

  • Johnson, John Noble, 1787-1823.
Date:
1835
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Credit: The life of Thomas Linacre : Doctor of Medicine, physician to King Henry VIII; the tutor and friend of Sir Thomas More, and the founder of the college of physicians in London : with memoirs of his contemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning, more particularly of the schools from the ninth to the sixteenth century inclusive / by John Noble Johnson ; edited by Robert Graves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The master, to whom the cto' ofi this establish- ment had been confided, was a monk,'who merits a notice, superior to that' of the. kliarjoil'ifcf of his brethren in the fifteenth centur^. iiTHislman was Wilham Tilly—more geiierallj^ knowiii! by thte; surnanie of SelHn^, whicb • Ihd - •assumed fixJm ■• a village of that name in Ken't^ where he*vi^aSMbiOrn'J Of his family and early Hfe little is: ktiownii » He studied ■ at. Oxford, and was destined > for Ntlfi© church;* Wood has enumerated*him-iaAn^ng (the fellows of All Souls Collegefi|ii;^bat^)(iuliversity^ about the period of Linaere^p birihsjf an; admlissi^>n into which iriiplies a gentleman by birtHij.slnd a consanguinity not very remote frotn ishe fbuhder^ He afterwaixis became ar mOnk of ithle Aiigiastine monastery of Ghristchurchj .a^jm -jthife idapoicity similar foundations weji such, ia»b!)ftlian^e.Biateii;^^q)in9inatiob of tyrants, to a seminary of philQ^pphy,^]b,i^t ^f what tendency, the historian has'not informed us. Ethellbert, King 6f Kent, was converted alii'out A'iri. sl^fi',^ and ^^ife'^IMafedn of the church, iof vvhich Augusiinejv\}as first 5tchbishQ][)» imme- diately followed. , Theodore, .whose eqdeavoiirs were so.suo- cessful in rescumg England from barbarism, did not succeed till 668, leavihg^^an inWvjil-of sev^fy^tsloye'ars'betv^efen tlh'e fouri-^ dation of the church and his succession. These differences seem to point at a distinct foupdatian from, that of Augiistine, or a renovation of the old establishment within the,-precinpts of the cathedral, withwhich it of course shajced initbe-itijicn qpmmon calamities of invasion and wzxi-^^omm'ls^^nt'mi^'hes of (^fififp-- bury by Balteley, 1703, p. 105^117,; / o,,o<| frr.,^'i o-n^viW f>, ' * Leland De Scriptoribus Britannicis,: Oxford, 17,Q9,. V9I.) ii. cap. Dxc. p. 482, . ,,h// J,- .,h lu.'^ t Hist, et Antiquitates Univers, Oxo^. 1674. lib. ii. p, 177.