Elizabethan Oxford : reprints of rare tracts / edited by Charles Plummer.

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1887
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    betweene the Citty and University, and it well agreeth with the first tyme of the Brittaines, as Leukner speaketh, and with seciilo ^ Britanico^ as Cambden, which both were not much above a hundred yeares from the first entry of the Brittaines. And yet the secuhcm Britanicum of Mr. Cambden, giveth 3- us leave to extend it further, even to the tyme of Vortigerus, who is said to have repaired it beeing defaced, and to have recalled the Schollars beeing driven thence by the warrs of the Saxons. This repayring, noe doubt, extended as farr as Pag. 5 the harme the Saxons had wrought in their warrs. They both destroyed the building, and dispearsed the studies of learning. Tis very likely, therefore, that Vortiger’s repaire restored the one and other, according to that ^dislike of Daniell Rogers, which thus writeth concerning Oxford : Non ingrata sttis, queis crevit regibus olim; Menpricio sese Vortigeroque refert. But leaveing these things to them that are skilfull, I will remitt you to that most learned and industrious worke of Bryan Twyne, who hath fully and plentifully examined this wholl matter in his three Bookes that hee writeth, De Antiquit. Acad. Oxoniensis. I will here onely remember, out of him, three famous things, that have happened concerning this busines. The first shall bee that renowned translation of the two i* Schooles, Greeke lade and Leech lade, from their first planta- tion to this place of Oxford, then knowne or called by the name Pag. 6 of Bellesitum, propter montium^ pratorum, & nemorum adjacen- tium amoenitatem, for the pleasantnes of Hills, Meadowes, and Woods thereunto adjoyning. This Translation what yeare it fell out I cannot tell. Some conceive, that it was about the yeare of our Lord. 440. about which tyme the noble and renowned Clerke S*. German, Bis. of Altesiodore, was sent out of France, First with Lapus Bishopp of Trecassa, and 1 Sic. ^ Sic. [Sic; leg. distike.']