as haue attained to any perfection in the Artes. Bononia ALthough all the learned writers of antique histories do with one consenting opinion agree that the Vniuersitie of Bononia is of long continuance and was first founded when Theodosius swayed the scepter of the Romaine Empire yet in what yeare of our Sauiours natiuitie or the said Emperours raigne it should bee instituted they are of discrepant and sundry opinions The originall of this controuersie seemeth to proceede from hence because there haue beene two Theodosii possessed of the imperiall Diadem For from the selfe same cause haue many profound and iudiciall antiquaries fallen into more pernicious and daungerous errours Baldus the learned pillar of the law affirmeth that this Academie was in most flourishing estate 1000. yeares before his time Others write that it was first priuiledged by Theodosius the yonger which as in those Chronicles which containe the greatest likelihood of verity we may reade was elected Emperor about the yeare of our Lord 420. and raigned 27. yeares For testimony whereof they alleadge this publike Charter of his Whereas the manners of men health and warre such like are all gouerned and preserued by the best disciplines least all good artes and principles of learning should decay we Theodosius by the grace of God Emperour of the Romaines euer Augustus moued with the commodiousnesse and fertilitie of the place hauing 25. Monthes taken sounde and deliberate aduise thereon sitting in our seate of Maiestie a generall Councell of Christians being assembled in the presence of Coelestine high Bishoppe of Rome twelue Cardinalles Archbishoppes and Bishops innumerable and sundrie other Dukes and Princes of diuers degrees and callinges Baldwin Earle of Flaunders and Gualter Earle of Poictiers Embassadors the one representing the person of the King of Fraunce the other of the King of England sitting the whole Colledge of an hundred Senators doe by this inuiolable Acte ordaine and decree that Bononia shall for euer hereafter be a place of exercise for all learned sciences and a perpetuall seate and habitation for the Muses Moreouer wee will that all determinate and finitiue sentences pronounced by such Iudges as haue not beene students in this vniuersitie the space of at least fiue yeares shall be voide and of none effect Also if any shall proceed Maister of Artes and receiue the booke of any other then the Archdeacon of Bononia although the most learned Artistes shall doe and approue the same yet by our royall authoritie wee depriue him of all degree and dignitie If any man bee so bold or hardie iniuriously to offend any student going or comming from this Vniuersitie he shall be punished with death which if the President shall neglect to execute our will is that hee incurre the same penaltie This Copie of our sacred ordinance constitution signed with our imperiall seale and written with the hand of Cicero our Notarie we grant deliuer to the perpetual memorie thereof to Petronius Bishop of Bononia descended from the Constantinopolitane Emperors at his earnest entreatie and request to bee kept and executed to the vttermost of his power Giuen at Rome in the Capitoll in the yeare of our Lord 423. the 11. day of May. How great authoritie this Academie enioyed in former ages we may imagine when Pope Gregorie the ninth Pope Boniface the 8. Pope Iohn the 23. writing sundrie learned treaties did dedicate them all to this vniuersitie Petrus Anchoranus calleth Bononia the mother of sciences Pope Clement the 5. in a Councell held at Vienna decreed that beside the studies of all the liberall Arts the Hebrew Arabicke and Chaldean languages should be there publikely deliuered We reade that the Emperour Fredericke the 2. did much damnifie this vniuersitie because it tooke parte against him with the sea Apostolique when he held his warres in Italie The students of this place at what time Pope Martin too seuerely persecuted the Bononians departed from the vniuersity some to one place and some vnto another so that in short time it became a solitarie desarte vntill afterwarde it was by the Popes Eugenius the 4. Nicholaus the 5. and Leo the 11. againe restored Bessarion Patriach of Constantinople when this Academie was by negligence and Ciuill contentions almost vtterly ouerthrowne by sundry meanes endeuoured to repaire the same both by encreasing the yearely pensions and stipendes allowed for the publique Readers and professors and also by building costly and sumptuous edifices for the maintenance reliefe of such schollers as for meere pouertie were constrained to giue ouer their vndertaken course of studies Hierome Osorius that famous Portugall and onely Cicero of this our latter age writeth in his first booke de Gloria that the more to enrich himselfe with learning he was especially moued to seeke out this cittie because in all Italie there was no place for the glory and renowne of letters comparable to Bononia For there saith he doe flourish men in the Greeke and Latine tongues exquisitely learned many there are which excell in all kind of Philosophie many famous for eloquence and Oratorie and many which haue in all the liberall sciences with great admiration long beene conuerâ—ant What shall I speake of the studies of the Canon and Ciuill lawes When such as in Bononia haue professed them haue obtained the supreme principalitie ouer all other that euer haue beene students in that learned facultie c. The excellencie of this Vniuersitie may easily bee gathered out of the learned treaties commentaries written by sundry famous Clearkes whereof some were in this place schollers some professors of learned sciences Iohannes Andreae which of ciuill Lawyers is commonly called the decyder and expounder of doubtfull questions professed in this Academy the law with great fame and estimation and there at length dyed of the pestilence Azo that mirror and bright shining lampe of learning was here also a publique professor of the ciuill law Pope Innocent not disdayning to be his Auditor at what time he wrote that worke of our age so much admired called Summaiuris Herein also taught Bartholus who being but one and twentie yeares of age proceeded Doctor of the ciuill law Accursius that famous and renowned Clearke being forty yeares of age beganne first in this Vniuersity to apply his minde to studie wherein hee so much profited that his name was knowne throughout all the Italian Academies and whereas before there had been alwaies two sects and heresies among the Lawyers they were by him reconciled and brought into one vniforme opinion Socinus likewise was in this place for his great learning so highly esteemed that hee was called the Monarch of the Law and his Schollers often would complayne of nature saying she was too auaritious to hide a witte so excellent and admirable in a body so small deformed and vnfashionable To recite all those renowned wittes that haue in this famous nursery receyued their education and institution were a labour
Academy shall come vnto stay in or returne from the same and send their messengers and baggage eyther thether or from thence to any other place quietly without troble or molestation as to themselues shall seeme best c. The like Charter was to them graunted by king Philip the sixt which Rebulphus rehearseth in this manner We of our especiall grace and from the fulnes of royall authority do expressely forbid all lay men of what condition or calling soeuer and euery priuate person vppon any occasion to disturbe or molest any maister or scholler eyther going to or comming from the Parisian Vniuersity or any other that shall by his oath affirme that hee eyther is or meaneth to bee one of the saide incorporation King Charles the 6. did release and set free all students in Paris from al maner of subsidies taxes impositions of wine corn or whatsoeuer goodes besides they should buy eyther by parcels or by great to serue their necessarie turnes Euen this king Charles not long after taking part with Clement the Antipape against Pope Vrban by apprehending and imprisoning the Rector of this Vniuersitie for publike reciting the saide Popes letters in the schooles did much impayre the happie and florishing estate thereof for the students thinking thereby their priuiledges to bee infringed departed from the Vniuersity and left it in a manner desolate and voide of schollers In like manner wee reade that the Vniuersity was forsaken in the time of king Lewes the holy vnder whose raigne the schollers many outragious iniuries being offered them by the Cittizens complayning that their auncient customes and priuiledges against all law of God and man were violated and abrogated departed in swarmes from thence whereof some thousandes came into England and studied in Oxford wherat the kings charge they were wel prouided for Many likewise are the priuiledges which haue by sondry Popes beene granted to this Vniuersity but to auoide prolixity I will set downe one letter of Pope Innocents written to this Academie We being desirous to doe you an especiall grace and fauour do ordayn and decree that it shall not bee lawfull for any man to pronounce any sentence of excommunication or interdiction against eyther Rector Proctor Maister or Scholler of your Vniuersitie of what degree or facultie soeuer hee be or against any other for any fact concerning the Vniuersitie without especial licence from our sea Apostolike without which if any such sentence shal be pronounced wee will that it be helde as friuolous and of no effect From this Vniuersity as from a clearespringing fountaine haue beene deriued many excellent Academies of France and Germany Therein are at this day to be seen an hundred goodly Colledges for the vse of students builded all of costly marble stone Robert brother to king Lewes the holy founded in this Academie in the yeare 2 3. that famous Colledge of the learned Sorbonistes vnto whome all Vniuersities of Europe with one consent giue place as to the greatest Clarks most profound Diuines of Christendome In the yeare 1286. Queene Iohan erected the magnificent and goodly Colledge of Nauarre Francis of Valois king of France did send for sondry learned professors of the Greek and Hebrue tongues vnto whome he allowed liberall exhibitions vnto the which he added afterward being moued thereunto by the counsell and perswasions of William Budye Iohn Bellay two singularly learned men the profession of Phisicke Philosophy and the Mathematikes So great a quantity and proportion of corne and other prouisions necessary for the life of man are from all quarters of the Realme brought into this cittie that there is nothing wanting for the sustenance of so many thousande persons for within this Cittie are sayde to be 500. parishes and 100. Colledges S. Dionisius Areopagâ—ta first taught in this cittie the principles of religion That the Reader may the better conceiue the excellencie of this Cittie I haue annexed hereunto for a conclusion certaine old verses written in commendation thereofby Architremius a Poet of our owne countrie Exoritur tandem locus altera regia Phoebi Parrisius Cyrraea viris Chrysaea metallis Graeca libris Inda studiis Romana Poetis Attica Philosophis mundi rosa balsamus orbis Sidonis ornatu sua mensis suapotu Diues agris foecunda mero mansueta colonis Messe ferax inoperta rubis nemorosa racemis Plena feris fortis domino pia regibus aura Dulcis amaena situ bona quolibet omne venustum Omne bonum si sola bonis fortuna faueret Poictiers POictou is a great and goodly Earledom of France contayning 1200 parishes deuided into three Dioceses or Bishoprickes It hath also within the confines thereof many proud and mighty citties amongst which appeareth that beautifull and far renowned cittie Poictiers seated at the foote of the riuer Claine or Clanus the principall seate and Metropolis of the Earldome for antiquitie and long continuance not inferior to any towne of France second to Paris onely in greatnes power and maiesty therein are yet to this day remayning certaine reliques and monumentes of most incredible continuance as the olde ruines of an ancient Theater Gallienus his pallace and the vaultes of certaine Conduits yet standing called in French Arceaux de Parigne In this Citie hath long flourished a most learned Vniuersitie of great fame and authoritie in degree and preheminence next to Paris We read in the Ecclesiastical histories that S. Hiliary called the Apostle of Aquitaine first reuealed vnto this people the light of the Gospell and became the first Bishop of Poictiers who after many miseries and torments constantly endured for the Catholike faith deceased in the yeare 371. leauing behind him many excellent treatises which do sufficiently testifie his singular wisedome and learning Lions LIons is a rich and plentifull Cittie seated on a little neck or point of land between the two noble riuers Araeris Rhodanus now called Sosne and Rhosne We reade in Plutarch that Lucius Plancus Munatius hauing the conduct of some Romaine soldiers finding in this place the aire to be sweet and healthy the soyle pleasant and fruitfull the riuers so commodious for conueying thither all things necessarie from the territories neere adioyning hee layed here the foundation of this worthy cittie which dayly increasing in wealth and swarming with innumerable multitudes of Matchants grew to be so mighty and populous that Strabo reporteth it to haue beene in his time the most noble and opulent Cittie of all France Narbone onely excepted which in those daies was the most flourishing Emporie of that kingdome this cittie being about that time at the height of her glorie became a seate and habitation of the Romaine Princes who often forsooke Rome the garden of the world and onely paradise of earthly pleasures to recreate themselues therein About which time see how all mortall thinges are subiect to vicissitude and chaunge she seeming to haue aspired to
the toppe of all felicitie was in one day consumed with fire and became vnto beholders a most miserable dolefull spectacle of ruine and desolation of which Seneca in a certaine consolatorie Epistle of his to Liberalis a cittizen of Lions writeth as followeth Vnius noctis incendium totum strauit vrbem vt vna scilicet nox interfuerit inter vrbem maximam nullam tant a fuit incendij vis celeritas In this cittie flourished an Academie of great fame and celebritie which hath sent forth into the worlde many excellent men renowned for their great learning holinesse of life as Irenius and Eucherius both Archbishops of Lions and Primates and Metropolitanes of Fraunce which dignitie belongeth vnto this Cittie though in the yeare 1306. the Archbishop alienated from himselfe the gouernment thereof receiuing for the same a yearely pension or annuitie We reade of most barbarous and tirannicall cruelties exercised on the professors of the Christian faith in this Cittie during the raigne of Marcus Antonius the Romaine Emperour in the yeare of our saluation 175. in which persecution dyed 19000. Martyrs Angiers ANiou in times past an Earledome and in the yeare 1350. enobled with the title of a Dukedome is a Region in Fraunce of no great circumference but full of goodly riuers forrests and mountaines therefore for aboundance and fertilitie not inferior to any countrey neere thereunto It is confined on the East side thereof with Tourraine and Vendosme on the West with Britannie on the South with Poictou and on the North with the Earledomes of Maine Laualle the Metropolis of this Dukedome is an ancient citie called by Ptolomey Iuliomagus now named of the Angeuines Angiers A publike vniuersitie was in this cittie instituted and erected by Lewes the 2. about that time that Rupertus Phaltsgraue of Rheine founded Heilderberge in Germany which was about the yeare 1346. Others will haue it to be founded in the yeare 1362. at which time Casimere erected Cracow in Polonia Henry Valoise Duke of Aniou brother to King Charles the 9. not long since with much industrious care laboured to augment restore the same the which good worke that he the better might performe hee with great munificence inuited thither sundry excellently learned schollers among the which was Frauncis Baldewin who therein to his eternall praise and euerlasting memory did establish the profession of the Ciuill law Of this city Dukedome in our country chronicles is often mention made as of a territorie which long was annexed to the English crowne and alienated by King Henry the 6. in the 22. yeare of his raigne in the yeare of our Lord 1444. at the mariage solemnized betweene him and Margaret daughter to Reyner King of Sicily and Hierusalem Auignion AVignion is an ancient cittie of Prouuence situated on the banke of Rhodanus wherein is an Vniuersitie of long continuance which then began first to flourish and be famous in other nations when the Bishops of Rome were therein resident We reade in the histories of the Church that Pope Iohn the 22. transferred the seate Apostolique from Rome vnto this citie after whom it remained there 74. yeares or thereabout Likewise we reade that after the decease of Benedictus the 11. when Clement the sift was declared Pope in the yeare 1305. the Apostolike seat was againe translated from Rome to Auignion and from thence afterward in the yeare 1376. returned againe to Rome at the instance and entreatie of Saint Katharine Nunne of Sitnna The cittie and church of Auignion are at this day immediately subiected to the Popes or Bishoppes of Rome who first became Lordes thereof by meanes of a certain Neapolitane Queene who being indebted to the church of Rome resigned this cittie to the Bishops thereof and his successors for euer Paulus Castrensis by sundrie learned works he wrote did much enable this Vniuersitie Andraeas Alciatus comming into Fraunce was hired as himselfe in an oration he made to the schollers of Pauia confesseth for 600. crownes to be a publike reader in this Vniuersitie Orleance ORleance is a rich and plentifull Cittie placed on the banke of the riuer Ligeris now called Loire Some auncient Hystoriographers write that the foundation of this Cittie was laide by Aurelian the Emperour in the yeare 276. and from him was called Aurelia which name vnto this day it retaineth In this Cittie was erected an vniuersitie by Philip le Beau King of France in the yeare from our Sauiours natiuitie 1312. wherein the ciuill Law is with such learning and admiration professed that this Academie hath beene often of graue and learned writers entituled the Nurse or Mother thereof It enioyeth the same priuiledges with Thoulouse This citie among many other hath not escaped the taste of those miserable calamities inflicted vppon Fraunce by the furie of the late ciuill warres Bourges BOurges is a citie in Fraunce of great same rich spatious and much frequented It is seated in a pleasant and fruitfull countrey replenished with all kind of graine hearbes wines beastes fishes and fowles and whatsoeuer els is necessary for the vse of man Concerning the first originall of this citie and the etimologie of the worde Bituriges there are sundrie strange opinions Ioannes Callamaeus in his treatise de origine Biturigum saith that in the yeare from the begining of the world 1791. the foundation of this citie was laide by one Gomer descended from Noah who in honor remembrance of his great grandfather called the inhabitants of that countrey Ogyges But as it often commeth to passe that words by long continuance and custome are corrupted from Bytogyges they were called Bituriges Others there are that say it was called Byturis quasi Biturris from two ancient towers which they affirme to haue beene in this citie erected by two brethren which there together raigned one of which towers if we giue credite to antiquitie is that which remaineth yet to bee seene built in forme round of a great circuite without within of a huge capacitie and is made at this day a castle of most inuincible strength To confirme this opinion they recite an old verse of an ancient Grammarian Turribus à binis inde vocor Bituris In this cittie is a most glorious resplendishing vniuersitie an other Pernassus a place of such fame and excellencie and of all learned authors so much admired that whensoeuer they haue occasion to write thereof they call it the ornament of letters habitation of the Muses It was many yeares since founded by a certaine Duke of Burges but after in continuance of time falling to decay and being almost vtterly extinct it was againe restored and brought vnto his former glorie perfection by sundry kings of France It was authorized and endued with many great priuiledges and high prerogatiues by Pope Paulus the 2. of that name In this Academie is a Diuinitie Schoole wherein Theologie is
professed with great sinceritie and profoundnesse there are also continuall dayly exercises of Philosophie Phisicke and the Ciuill law Caen. AN Vniuersitie was erected at Caen in Normandie vpon this occasion Henry the fift king of England who subdued the kingdome of France and left the title to his posterity after many great and glorious conquests atchieued against the French king hee at last bereaued him of Normandy in the yeare 1418. In token and memorie of which victorie as an eternal trophie and monument of his glorie he caused to be laid in Caen the foundation of this vniuersitie Rhemes RHemes is a goodly cittie and the Metropolis of Champaigne wherein not long since was erected an Vniuersitie by the Prince Charles Guise Cardinall of Lorraine Archbishop Duke of Rhemes whose glorie and renowne dayly more and more encreaseth by reason of the arâ—s so learnedly there professed Of this citie was Bishop S. Remigius a man of most holy conuersation and excellently learned as by the Commentaries which he wrote vpon the old new Testament it euidently appeareth He baptized Clodouaeus a mightie and puissant king of Fraunce together with Chrâ—tildis his wife daughter to the king of Burgundie he died in his venerable old age in the yeare 498. Burdeux BVrdeux is the principall or head cittie of Aquitane called by the French men Guienne seated at the mouth of Garomne a mightie riuer issuing out of Languedoc It is a place of incredible antiquitie strongly fortified and beautified with many sumptuous edifices In this citie hath long flourished a most renowned vniuersity commonly called the schoole of Aquitaine where the Artes are publikely taught and professed from whence issued those mirrors of holinesse and learning Seuerinus Maximinus the one Bishop of Colen the other of Tryer both after their deathes canonized for Saintes Vnto this citie also resteth the worlde indebted for the birth education of Ausonius the Homer of these latter times Neere vnto this Citie on the waters side standeth a castle inexpugnable fortified beyond all credite comparison Tholouse IN the extreamest confines of Languedoâ— not farre distant from the Pyrenaean mountaines standeth Tholouse called by antique writers Teotosagum an auncient and goodly cittie built neere to the Riuer Garomne The first foundation whereof is referred to a certaine Trotane It was afterward amplified and enlarged by the Romaines Wee reade that Theodericus King of the Gothes and Thorismonde his sonne finding about this cittie a happie fertile soile enuironed with a sweete and holesome ayre chose the same for their habitation as the place of all France most pleasant and most opulent most fit for the preseruation and augmentation of their Empire whose posterity was afterwarde expelled of the Frenchmen with great difficultie It was raised to an Archbishopricke by Pope Iohn the 22. who also was the first institutor of the Vniuersity therein which as yet was erected not long after Paris so doth it enioy the same priuiledges that heretofore haue beene to Paris granted Saint Saturnine was the first Bishop thereof who afterward being with vnsufferable torments excruciated by the Pagans yeelded his soule into the hands of his Redeemer was in this cittie buried the reliques of whose body are by the inhabitantes often visited with great reuerence and deuotion There was sayde in times past to haue beene in this cittie a Temple wherein was continually reserued in secret vaultes and dungeons vnder ground as Poss donius sayeth 15000. talents of golde which if any man by chance had touched he shortlie after came to some vnfortunate end which was verified in Caepio other Roman captaines from whence proceedeth the prouerbe applyed commonlie to those whose attemptes are euer vnfortunate and without successe Aurum habet Tolosanum The Earle of Tholous is one of the twelue Peeres of France Nismes NIsmes called by Ptolomye Pomponius Mela trabo and other learned searchers of antiquities Nemansus is an antient Citty in Dolphine wherein was lately erected an Vniuersity The soyle in this prouince is of such incredible fertilitie that being with neuer so little labour mannured it bringeth forth sondry kinds of excellent fruites It hath such plentie of figge-trees and bringeth such aboundance of grapes that a greate parte of Europe is with figges and raisins from thence accommodated Mompehers MOns Pessulanus called of Pomponius Mela Mesua of Ptolomye Agathopolis and now vulgarly named Mompeliers is a cittie in Dolphinie not far distant from the Mediterranesea An Vniuersity was therein erected as some writers affirm in the yeare of our Lord 1196. which afterwarde was endued with many priuiledges by Pope Vrban the fift who layed the foundation of a goodlie house called Popes Colledge In times past the profession of Phisicke was there in greatest request but now the schooles of the ciuil law are most vsually frequented much was the Vniuersity augmented and promoted by the bounty and liberality of Henry the second king of France so great is the Rectors authority in this Vniuersity that whensoeuer he hath occasion to walke into the towne the studentes are bound to follow and attend him Henry the first granted to this Academic many royall praerogatiues and founded therein the Kings colledge here also is an other sayre and sumptuous colledge called Duuergier wherein sondry ingenious youthes are ten yeares trayned vp in letters and good discipline Bisanson NEare to the side of Doux or Doubis a small riuer passing through the French Counte and falling into the Sone standeth Bisanson a great goodly and well munited citcie a towne imperial and the Metropolis of eyther Burgundy In the yeare of saluation 1540. by the authority of Pope Iulâ—us the third and the Emperour Charles the 5. a new Vniuersity was therein erected which hath exceedingly since flourished and sent forth many learned and godly labourers into the Church The reuerend father Anthony Peronotus Archbishop of Mechlin was a great benefactor to this Academie who so desireth to know more particularities of this Cittie let him reade the workes of George Bruno and Gilbertus Cognatus Paradinus in whose bookes he shall finde the same at large described Dole IN Burgundy also on the banke of the said riuer Dubis is to bee seene Dola a cittie for strength opulencie and sumptuousnes of buildinges to bee preferred before all other places of Burgundy An Vniuersity is therin of great continuance wherin among many other sciences the ciuill law is most learnedly reade and professed The Vniuersities of Polonia Prussia and Lituania Cracouia WEe reade in the historie of Polonia that Lechus and Zechus two sons of Iauan going to seeke a place of habitation for themselues their posterity Zechus with his people remayned in those territories which now are knowne by the names of Bohemia and Morauia but Lechus proceeding further to the northeast some twelue dayes iorney there seated himselfe and called the region Polonia by reason of the playnenes of the continent being altogether
Wainsflet Bishop of Winchester builded Magdalen Colledge hee builded also a great parte of Eaton Colledge before begunne by king Henry the sixt William Smith Bishop of Lincolne during the raigne of king Henry the seauenth layed the foundation of Brasen nose in the yeare 1513. the which hath beene lately by that reuerende olde man Alexander Nowel Deane of S. Paules Church in London much helped increased During the raigne of the saide king Henry the seauenth Richarde Foxe Bishop of Winchester founded Corpus Christi Colledge himselfe hauing before beene a fellow of Pembrooke hall in Cambridge the which colledge of his in the yeare 1516. hee endowed with forty pound eight shillinges two pence yearely rent for euer In the time of king Henry the eight Thomas Wolsey Cardinall of Rome Archbishoppe of Yorke and Lorde high Chancelor of England beganne in sumptuous manner to lay the foundation of a most ample and spatious Colledge but falling into the kinges heauie displeasure before the same could bee brought to perfection the king after his decease enriched the same with many goodly reuenewes annexing thereunto Canterburie colledge which had beene before erected in the time of Edward the 3. by Simon Islep Archbishop of Canterburie This worthy King of famous memory the more to grace adorne the citie erected therein a Bishops sea and out of his treasurie appointed yearely to be paid certaine annuities for the perpetuall maintenance of publique readers in each seuerall schoole In the raigne of Queene Mary Sir Thomas Pope reedified Duresme Colledge which was in former ages erected by Thomas of Hatfield Bishop of Duresme and now by continuance of time exceedingly decayed by which knight the name therof being altered it is now called Trinitie Colledge Not long since Hugh Prise Doctor of the ciuill law hath founded a new colledge which in honour of our Sauiour is knowne by the name of Iesu colledge Many other rare and excellent ornamentes there are wherewith this famous and farre renowned Academie exceedingly is beautified as churches libraries publique schooles and many sumptuous priuate edifices the which to auoid prolixitie I will omit imagining that such triuiall things must of necessitie bee famialiarly knowne to euery learned reader wherefore with this assertion I will finally conclude that more pietie in religion more profoundnesse in learning more strictnes in discipline more integritie in life is not to be found in any one vniuersitie in whatsoeuer part or region of the world Cambridge COncerning the first originall and foundation of the cittie and vniuersitie of Cambridge among the learned searchers of antique lustories two seuerall and discrepant opinions strongly are maintained Iohn Caius in his booke of the antiquity of Cambridge with many arguments laboureth to proue the foundation thereof to haue beene laide and the name deriued from one Cantabar a Prince of Spaine brother to Partholinus King of Ireland and sonne in law to Gurguntius king of Britaine in the yeare 4317. after the worlds first creation which was 539. yeares before our Sauiours natiuitie For proofe of which opinion hee alleadgeth the authoritie of Iohn Lidgat Monke of Berriâ— and scholler to that famous Poet and onely Homer of our English nation Geffrey Chaucer whose verses in old English as I found them written I haue here vnderneath set downe By true record of the Doctor Bede That sometime wrote so mickle with his hand And specially remembring as I reade In his Chronicles made of England Among other things as we shall vnderstand Whom for mine author I dare alleadge Sith the translation and building of Cambridge With him according Aâ—fred the chronicler Seriously who list his bookes for to see Made in the time when he was Thresurer Of Beuerley an old famous cittie Affirme and saine the vniuersitie Of Cambridge and studie first began By their writing as I report can He rehearsing first for commendation By their writing how that old cittie Was strongly walled with towers many one Built and finished with great libertie Notable and famous of great authoritie As their authors according saine the same Of Cantabar taking first his name Like as I find report I can none other This Cantaber time of his liuing To Partholine he was Germane brother Duke in those daies in Ireland a great king Chiefe and principall cause of that building The wall about and towers as they stood Was set and built vpon a large floud Named Cantebro a large broad riuer And after Cante called Cantebro This famous citie this write the Chronicler Was called Cambridge rehearsing eke also In their booke these authors both two Touching the date as I rehearse can Fro thilke time that the world began Foure thousand complete by account cleare And three hundred by computation Ioyned thereto eight and fortie yeare When Cantebro gaue the foundation Of this Cittie and this famous towne And of this noble vniuersitie Set on this riuer which is called Cante And fro the great transmigration Of Kings reckoned in the Bible old Fro Ierusalem to Babilon Two hundred winter thirtie yeares told Thus to write mine author maketh me bold Then Cantebro as it well knoweth At Athens schooled in his youth All wits greatly did apply To haue acquaintance by great affection With folke expert in Philosophie From Athens he brought with him downe Philosophers most soueraigne of renowne Vnto Cambridge plainely this is the cause Anaximander and Anaxagoras With many other mine authors doth fare To Cambridge fast can him speed With Philosophers and let for no cost spare In the schooles to studie and to reede Of whose teaching great profit that gan spread And great increase rose of his doctine Thus of Cambridge the name gan first shine As chiefe schoole and Vniuersitie Vnto this time fro the day it began By cleare report in many a far countrey Vnto the raigne of Cassibelan A worthy prince and full knightly man As saine chronicles who with mighty hand Let Iulius Caesar to arriue in this land Fiue hundreth yeare ful thirty yere twenty Fro Babilons transmigration That Cassibelan raigned in Britaine Which by his notable royall discreation To encrease that studie of great affection I meane of Cambridge the Vniuersitie Franchised with many a libertie By meane of his royall fauor From countries about many a one Diuers schollers by diligent labour Made their resort of great affection To that studie great plentie there came downe To gather fruites of wisedome and science And sundrie flowers of sugred eloquence And as it is put eke in memorie How Iulius Caesar entring this region One Cassibelan after his victorie Tooke with him Clearkes of famous renowne FroÌ„ Cambridge led them â—â— Rome towne Thus by processe remembred heretoforne Cambridge was founded long ere Christ was borne Fiue hundred yere thirty eke nine In this matter ye get no more of me Rehearse I will no more at this time These remembrances haue great authority To be preferd of long antiquitie
of S. Radegunde which Monastery being destitute of gouernement the aedifices fallen in decay the goodes and ornaments of the Church wasted the lands diminished and in conclusion a small number of Nuns left being but two whereof the one ready to depart and the other an infant were brought into such pouerty that they were not able to relieue themselus and therefore forced to depart they left the house desolate whereupon Iohn Alcote the 29. Bishop of Ely obtayned licence of king Henry the 7. in the yeare 1497. to founde in the place thereof a colledge for 6. fellowes and 6. schollers the rentes whereof being afterward at seuerall times much amplified by fondry benefactors it now maintayneth one Maister 17. Fellowes and as many schollers Christes Colledge was first begunne by king Henry the 6. and after his decease brought to perfection by the Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmonde and Derby daughter and heire of Iohn Duke of Somerset and mother of king Henry the 7. in a place where sometime stoode the Colledge of Gods house which colledge because it neuer was fully finished shee obtayned of the king her sonne his charter dated the first day of Maye in the 20. yeare of his raigne and the yeare of our Lord 1505. to encrease the number of students there translating it according to her disposit on It sustaineth at this day one Maister thirteen Fellows fifty nine schollers and fifteene Sisers The same Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond procured licence of her Nephew king Henry the eight to conuert into a colledge in the honour of S. Iohn the Euangelist a certain house of religious persons which first was an Hospitall of regular Canons founded by Nigellus the second Bishop of Ely 1134 and translated from that order many yeares after by Hugh Balsam Bishoppe of Ely The said Lady departing out of this world before that princely worke of hers was fullie finished gaue in charge the performance thereof to her Executors Richard Foxe Bishoppe of VVinchester Iohn Fisher Bishop of Rochester Charles Somerset L. Herbert after created Earle of VVorcester Sir Thomas Louel Sir Henry Marney and Sir Iohn S. Iohn Knightes Henry Horneby and Hugh Ashton clearkes who wel discharged the trust committed vnto them and faithfully did execute the will of the deceased Lady it maintayneth at this day one Maister fifty one Fellowes seauentie Schollers and nine Sisers Edwarde Duke of Buckingham comming to Cambridge in the yeare of our Lord 1519. and remayning there the space of certaine dayes conuerted a certain house builded for Monks of fondry Abbyes sent to the Vniuersity to studie into a colledge and builded thereto a hall At length after the generall suppression of Monasteries Thomas Audley Baron of VValden and Chancelor of England endowing the same with lands and possessions by act of Parliament and charter of king Henry the eight in the 3â— year of his raign became sole founder thereof committing the same vnto the tutele protection of S. Marie Magdalen in the yeare of our Lord 1â—42 but being preuented by suddaine death before hee could bring to passe what hee intended he left his colledge vnperfect and vnfinished so that at this day there are therein sustained onelie one Maister fiue Fellowes and one Bibleclearke Trinity Colledge was first founded and erected by the king of famous memory Henry the eight the royall Father of our gratious Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth in the yeare of our Lorde 1546. the 20. day of Ianuary the Kinget hall S. Michaels house and Phisicke Ostle were ioyned together for the better sustentation and aide of so noble an enterprise and worke to endure for euermore which Colledge doth at this present flourish with one Maister 60. Fellowes 62. schollers 4. Chaplaines 13. Sisers 24. poore Almesmen 6. singing men one Maister of the Choristers 10. Choristers three Readers one of Diuinity another of Greeke and a thirde of Hebrew Emanuel Colledge was lately founded on the house groundes of the Dominicke Fryers in the Preachers streete at the cost and charges of Sir Walter Mildmay knight Chancelor Vnder Treasurer of the Exchequer one of the Priuie Councell to our Soueraigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth about the year 1584. The Vniuersities of Scotland IN Scotland onely are two priuiledged Academies whereof the most ancient and best knowne is S. Andrewe erected in the yeare after our Sauiours incarnation 1411 the other is Aberdon instituted by VVilliam Elphinstone Bishop of Aberdone in the yeare of our Lorde God 1480. vnder the raigne of Iames the third of that name king of Scots FINIS Colonia Agrippina What a Colonie is Colen reedified and so named by the Romaines The coÌ„uersion of Colen vnto Christian religion The first erection of the Vniuersitie The vnâ—uersity in Colen consisteth of foure parts The office of the Rector or president of the Academy The Colledges for students in Colen Collegium Montanum Collegium LaurentianuÌ„ Collegium nouum Coronarum Schola trilinguis Three thinges wherewith Colen is chiefly adorned The flourishing estate of the clergie in Colen These are coÌ„monly called the 3. kings of Colen whose reliques were brought from Millan at the instance of Reinold Archbishop of Colen when that cittie was surprised by the Emperour Fredericke in the yeare 1165 The Archbishop of Colen a Prince elector The flourishing estate of Colen much hindered by ciuill dissention Engelbertus Archbishop of Colen murdered by Earle Fredericke Earle Fredericke put to death A battaile fought betwixt the citizens Cleargie for the gouernment of the Citie wherein the citizens preuailed A generall councell held at Colen Euphrata an Arrian hereâ— tike condemned Basilia Basiâ—l diuided by the Rheine into two parts Sundry opinions concerning the etimologie of the name of Basill Basill destroyed by the Hunnes The erection of the vniuersitie in Basill The Charter of Pope Pius the second for the ratification thereof A generall councell held in Basill Erasmus Rot. buried Moguntia The situation of Ments A bridge built ouer the Rhein by Charles the great Ments destroied by Carocuâ— 7. Archbishops in Germany The Citie repaired by Dagobertus S. Boniface an Englishman Hatto deuoured with Rats Willigisus the first Archbishop that aspired to the Electorship Dietheruâ— founder of the Vniuersitie This councell decreed that men should belieue as an article of their faith that our Ladie was conceiued without sinne But this councell was not confirmed in anything it decreed quoad sidem vt pates in bulla Nicholai 5. The arte of printing first inuented in this Citie by Iohn Gutenberge Some say it first was inuented at Harlem in Holland and brought to perfection at Ments A generall Councell assembled at Ments Henry the 3. Emperour excommunicated by the Pope Herbipolis The originall of Wirtsburg The antiquity thereof Sundry opinions concerning the name thereof The situation of Wirtsburg The Bishopricke erected The Cathedrall Church founded The Domeherne A generall Councell assembled The institution of the Vniuersitie The Vniuersitie decâ—ied by ciuil