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

Date:
1887
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Elizabethan Oxford : reprints of rare tracts / edited by Charles Plummer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    76/356 (page 40)
    Speed page 208. Bed. lib. I. cap. 17. Bed. lib. I. cap. 21. Pag. 7. Pag. 8. Leland apud Ba- Iseum in vita Alfre- di Magni. afterwards with Severus to allay the heate and rage of the Pelagian Herisey, which a litle before that time newly began to trouble the Church. Some think, that it was long after that, in the tyme Theodorus the Grsecian, who taught att Greek lade, and was after that made Archbishopp of Can- terbury about the yeare of our Lord. 668. But for the Translation it selfe, I beleeve such a thing to have beene, beeing induced thereunto, not onely by our ^ Historiola Oxoniensis in the Proctors Booke, but by Johannes Rossius alsoe in libro de Regibus^ who thus testifyeth: ^ {idem & Chronica docent.) ipsi magnce literatiLrcc viri a Grcecia cum ipso eorum Rege Bruto novi advencc locum pro eorum habita- tione congruum eligebant^ ciu & nomc7i ab ipsis GrcEcis Greeke- lade appellatum est. A qtw quidem loco non midtum ^ distantes situ medici qui erant inter eos periti^ locum iis appropriarimt congmium Pf situ salidrem^ qui usque hodie ab ipsis medicis Leechlade appellatur: as Chronicles teach, men of Great Learning comeing out of Greece as new guests with their King Brutus, chose a place meete for their habitation, which of them is called by the name of Greekelade; from which place not farr distant those which amongst them were skilfull in Phisick, appropriated to themselves alsoe another place, wholsome in ^ Cituation, which deriveing it’s name from these Phisitians, is even att this daie called Leechlade. Here, you see, mention is made of two Schooles, whereas the History in the Proctors Booke nameth but one. Unto this of Rossius Leland alsoe doth accord concerning both these Schooles, saying: veteres Britannos. 2. scholas habuisse., tam eloquentia quam omni literatura florentes., quarum qitidem una. Greekelade a Grcecce linguce professione dicta est, altera vero Latslade a linguce professione: ventm nunc corrupte Greeke lade & Leech lade nomen: that the old Brittons had two Schooles, flourishing aswell in Eloquence as in all other Learning, ‘ This I have printed exactly in p. 123. of the ninth Vol. of Leland’s Itin. [v. s. P- 3I-] ^ Et, tit cronicce docent, ipsi &c. in Ed. nostra Rossi. ^ Distante Ed. nostra Rossi. * Sic.