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A40655	The church-history of Britain from the birth of Jesus Christ until the year M.DC.XLVIII endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.; Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661. History of the University of Cambridge snce the conquest.; Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661. History of Waltham-Abby in Essex, founded by King Harold.	1655 (1655)	Wing F2416_PARTIAL; Wing F2443_PARTIAL; ESTC R14493	1,619,696	1,523

in the Darkness of Paganisme which others afterward enlightned with the Beams of the Gospel But as he is esteemed the Architect or Master-workman not who builds up most of the Wall but who first designeth the Fabrick and layeth the Foundation thereof in the same respect Augustine carrieth away the Credit of all that came after him because the primitive Planter of the Gospel amongst the Saxons And it is observeable that this Conversion was done without any Persecution yea considerable Opposition costing some Pain no Torture some Sweat no Bloud not one Martyr being made in the whole managing thereof Mean time the poor Christian Britans living peaceably at home there enjoyed God the Gospell and their Mountains little skilfull in and lesse caring for the Ceremonies al a mode brought over by Augustine and indeed their Poverty could not go to the Cost of Augustine's Silver Crosse Anno Dom. 600 which made them worship the God of their Fathers after their own homely but hearty Fashion not willing to disturb Augustine and his Followers in their new Rites but that he had a mind to disquiet them in their old Service as in the sequele of the History will appeare THE SEVENTH CENTURY Anno. Dom. AMICO SVO GR. B. SOcrates interrogatus quo Philtro Natura Sympathias conciliaret quidve esset in causa ut alii hominum primo occursu ament medullitus alii sibi mutuò sint infensi hanc rationem reddidit Deus inquit ab aeterno quicquid futurum esset animarum creavit creatas per immensum temporis spatium in uno cumulo collocavit collocatas corporibus prout indies generantur infundit Hinc est si contingat vel fortuitum consortium inter eos homines quorum animae in hoc acervo propinquiores quòd primo visu quasi veteris vicinitatis memores se invicem diligant dum isti primo intuitu antipathiae stimulis urgeantur quorum animae adversantes diametricè opponebantur Fateor commentum hoc Socraticum à Theologia abhorrere in Philosophia plurimis asystatis laborare Quod si ei subesset tantum veritatis quantum ingenii sanct ssimè voverem in hoc animarum cumulo Tuam Meam contiguas olim jacuisse cum Te primum conspectum animitus amarem à Te redamarer 1. MUch about this time Pope Gregory sent two Arch-Bishops Palls into England 601 the one for a Rog. Wendover Matth. Florileg and Roff. Histor London Why the Arch-bishops See was removed from London to Canterbury the other for York The former of these Cities had been honoured with an Arch-bishop's See some hundred yeares since King Lucius But at the instance of Augustine and by a new Order of the foresaid Gregory this Pall sent to London was removed thence to Canterbury whereof Augustine was made Arch-Bishop and there for the future fixed and confirmed for severall Reasons First London already had Lustre enough being the biggest City in Britain and it was needlesse to adde new Spirituall to her old Temporall Greatnesse which conjoyned might cause Pride in any one place whilest divided they might give Honour to two Cities Secondly London by reason of the Receit thereof was likely to prove the residing place for the English Monarch and it was probable that the Archiepiscopall Dignity would there be eclipst and out-shined by the Regall Diadem Thirdly had Augustine been Arch-Bishop of London he might have seemed to succed the British Arch-Bishops and to have derived some Right from them contrary to his Humour Anno. Dom. 601 who would Lead All but Follow None and therefore would not wear an Old Title but have a span-New Arch-Bishops Chaire carved out for himself Lastly Canterbury was the place wherein Christianity was first received by the Saxons and therefore deserved to be honoured to perpetuate the Memory thereof Thus London hereafter must be contented with the plain Seat of a Bishop the Mother being made a Daughter and must come behind Canterbury which did much wrong and perchance something trouble her But Churches have more Discretion and Humility then to break their Hearts about earthly Precedency and the matter is not much which See went first when living seeing our Age hath laid them both alike levell in their Graves 2. Augustine thus armed with Archiepiscopall Authority Augustine summons a Synod of Saxon and British Bishops to shew a Cast of his Office by the Aid of Ethelbert King of Kent called a Councill for the Saxon and British Bishops to come together in the Confines of the Wiccians and West-Saxons An indifferent Place for mutuall Ease in mid-way betwixt both haply presaging that as their distant Persons met on equall termes so their opposite Opinions might agree in some Moderation The particular Place was called AUGUSTINES AKE that is his Oak in our modern Dialect which a In his Translation of Bede 2 Book 2 Ch. Stapleton mistaken by the affinity of Wiccii or Veccii with Vectis the Latine name for the Isle of Wight seeketh near Southampton where indeed he may find many Oaks in the New Forest and yet misse the right one For this Oak stood in the Confines of b Camden's Britannian in Worcestershire VVorcester and Herefordshire though at this day Time hath confounded it Root and Branch and therefore this Meeting is in Latine called Synodus c Spelman in Concilus Anno 601. pag. 107. Vigorniensis Many solemn Entertainments we know were anciently made under d Gen. 18. 4. Trees and a Palm-tree served Deborah for her VVestminster-Hall wherein she judged e Iudges 4. 5. Israel But severall reasons are assigned why Augustine kept this Council under an Oak First so publick a place was free from Exceptions whereunto none were debarred Accesse Secondly being congregated under the view of Heaven and not pent within the Walles of a private House they were minded of clear fair and open Proceedings without secret Ends or sinister Intents Thirdly perchance some Pagan Saxons allured with Novelty would repair to the Council whose Icalousy was such as in no case they would come under a Roof for fear of f This reason is given by Sir Henry Spelman ut prius Fascination as hath been formerly observed Lastly Augustine knowing that the Pagan Britans performed their Superstitions under an g See first Century 3. Parag. Oak celebrated his Synod under the same in some Imitation and yet a Correction of their Idolatry As in a religious Parallel Pagan Temples had formerly by him been converted into Churches of Saints But when all is done the matter is not so clear but that the place called Augustine's Oak may as well be a Town as a Tree so called from some eminent Oak in at or near it as the Vine in Hampshire so named from Vines anciently growing there is a beautifull House and principall Seat where the Barons Sandes have their Habitation And what is most apposite for our purpose Sozomen calleth the Place where

Credit hereunto multiplying Objections against it Obj. There were say they many places besides Cambridge in the Kingdome of the East-Angles conteining Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridgeshire which with equall Probability may pretend to this School of Sigebert's Foundation seeing Bede doth not nominatim affirm Cambridge for the particular Place where this University was erected 50. Ans Answer Though Bede be Dumb in this particular notnaming Cambridge yet he makes such Signes that most intelligent Antiquaries by us alledged understand him to intend the same especially seeing Cambridge is acknowledged by all Authours time out of mind to have been a place for the Education of Students in Literature 51. Obj. Second Objection If any such University was founded by Sigebert it was at Grantchester differing as in Appellation so in Situation from Cambridge as being a good mile South West thereof Cambridge therefore cannot entitle it self but by apparent Usurpation to the ancient Priviledges of Grantchester 52. Ans Answer Most usuall it is for ancient places to alter their Names Babylon to Bagdet Byzantium to Constantinople our old Verulam to S t. Albans still retaining the numerical Nature they had before Oxford they tell us was once called a Bryan Twine Antiq. Acad. Ox. pag. 114. Bellositum and yet not altered from it's same self by another Name Nor is it any news for great Cities in processe of time as weary of long standing to ease themselves a little by hitching into another place Thus some part of modern Rome is removed more then a mile from the ancient Area thereof Thus Ierusalem at this day is come down from Mount Sion and more South-West climbed up Mount Calvary Yet either of these Places would account themselves highly injured if not reputed for the main the same with the former Sufficeth it that some part of Cambridge stands at this day where b Mr. Camden an Oxford-man in his description of Cambridgeshire alloweth Grantchester and Cambridge for the same place Third Objection Grantchester did which anciently c Cajus de Antiq. Cantab ex libro Barnwellensi pag. 11. Answer extended North-West as far as the Village called Howse and that 's enough to keep possession of the Priviledges of Grantchester as properly belonging thereunto Especially seeing Oxford at this day layes claim to the Antiquityes of Crekelade and Lechlade Towns distant sixteen miles off the one in VVilts the other in Glocestershire two ancient Schools of Greek and Latine as some will have it removed afterwards to Oxford from whence some of her Assertours do date her Beginning 53. Obj. Sigebert founded but Scholam which makes little to the Honour of Cambridge For thereby her Professours are degraded to Pedants and by a retrograde Motion Cambridge is sent back to Eaton I mean is made no better then a great Grammar-School 54. Ans If the best of Latine Oratours may be believed Schola properly signifies the Place where all Arts are publickly professed d Tully De natura Deorum Ex Platonis schola Ponticus Heraclides Ponticus Heraclides came out of the school of Plato Which is notoriously known to have been an Academie yea all his Scholars known by the name of Academicks to this day Those of Salerno in Italy dedicating a book of Physick to our Henry the second I take it begin thus Anglorum Regi scribit Schola tota Salerni School-boys deserve to be whipped indeed if presuming to prescribe Receipts to a King But that Schola there is sufficiently known to have been a famous University And under the favour of the University the word Vniversitas is but a base and barbarous Latine whiles Schola is pure Greek originally to design either the Place where generall Learning is publickly professed or the Persons studying therein And though I dare not totally concurre with that e Mr. Camden in his Britannia pag. 381. in Oxfordshire Fourth Objection Learned Critick that Vniversit as was first used in the foresaid sense about the reign of King Henry the third yet I believe it will not be found in any Classicall Authour in that modern acception 55. Obj. In good Authours Sigebert is said to have founded not only Scholam a School but Scholas Schools in the plurall If Schola therefore be an University either he made moe Universities then one in Cambridge which is absurd to affirm or else he erected moe Universities in other places of his Kingdome which Cantabrigians will not willingly confesse 56. Ans Answer The variation of the Number is of no Concernment For if respect be had to the severall Arts there professed Sigebert founded Schools in the plurall but if regard be taken of the Cyclopaedy of the Learning resulting from those severall Sciences he erected but one Grand School Every Fresh-man knows that the single Quadrant wherein the publick Lectures are read and Acts kept is called plurally the Schools in each University 57. Obj. Fifth Objection But Bede terms them Pueros Boyes properly under the Rod and Ferula whom Sigebert placed in his School and the word Paedagogi Vshers placed over them imports the same that they were no University-Students but a company of little Lads that lived there under Correction 58. Ans Answer Criticks will satisfie you that the word Pueri signifies even those of more Maturity especially if living sub regimine under the Discipline of Superiours Secondly Bede being a great Divine and conversant in Scripture-phrase borroweth an expression thence Christ calling his Disciples 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Iohn 21. 5. Children He useth also Paedagogos in the same notion with b 1 Cor. 4. 15. S t. Paul's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which our last Translatours reade Instructours in Christ even to the Corinthians who still needed such Paedagogues or Teachers though already c 1 Cor. i. 5. enriched in all utterance and knowledge Thirdly the Saxon ancient Copy of Bede which doubtlesse doth emphatically render the Latine translates pueri ●eon●e menn Fourthly Asserius Menevensis speaking of Alfred's founding of Oxford faith that he endowed the same Suae propriae Gentis nobilibus Pueris etiam ignobilibus and it is but equal that the Pueri at Cambridge should be allowed as much man in them as those at Oxford Lastly the young Frie of Scholars when first admitted is such to whom * All the Scholars of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge not being Fellows are termed pueri in their Statutes Pueri in the proper sense thereof may well be applyed And here it may seasonably be remembred how an d Bryan Twine Antiq. Oxon. p. 322. Oxford Antiquary affirmeth that Edward the fifth Prince of VVales and Richard his brother Duke of York Oxoniae studuerunt studied at Oxford in the life-time of their Father Stout Students no doubt whereof the Elder could not then be ten the Younger not nine yeares old But I forget what Lawyers hold that the Kings eldest Son is at full Age for