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Quia datum est nobis intelligi quod quamplures magistri et scolares universitatis nostre Oxonie colore quarundam dissensionum in universitate predicta nuper ut dicitur exortarum et aliis coloribus quesitis se ab eadem universitate retrahentes apud villam de Stamford se divertere et ibidem studium tenere ac actus scolasticos excercere presumunt assensu nostro seu licencia minime requisito, quod si toleraretur non tantum in nostrum contemptum et dedecus, set eciam in dispersionem universitatis nostre predicte cederet manifeste; Nos nolentes scolas seu studia alibi infra regnum nostrum quam in locis ubi universitates nunc sunt aliqualiter teneri, tibi precipimus firmiter iniungentes quod ad predictam villam de Stamford personaliter accedas, et ibidem ac alibi infra ballivam tuam, ubi expedire videris, ex parte nostra publice proclamari et inhiberi facias, ne qui, sub forisfactura omnium que nobis forisfacere poterunt, alibi quam in universitatibus nostris predictis studium tenere vel actus scolasticos excercere presumant quoquo modo, et de nominibus illorum quos post proclamacionem et inhibicionem predictas inveneris contrarium facientes nobis in Cancellaria nostra sub sigillo tuo distincte et aperte constare faceretis indilate.
This book aims at doing, so far as the scantier space allows, for the educational history of England what Bishop Stubbs' Select Charters did for its constitutional history. It sets out the text of the salient documents relating to the origin and development of educational institutions.
Educational charters, being largely both legal and ecclesiastical, tend to combine the prolixity of the preacher with the verbosity of the conveyancer. Hence, few of them can be presented at full length. As the chief object of the work is to show the origins of educational institutions, which are in many cases centuries earlier than hitherto supposed, the earlier bulk much more largely than the later documents.
In nothing, not even in religion, has the innate conservatism of the human race been more marked than in education. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the subjects and the methods of education remained the same from the days of Quintilian to the days of Arnold, from the first century to the mid-nineteenth century of the Christian era.
The history of English education begins with the coming of Christianity. But the education introduced by Augustine of Canterbury was identical in means and methods with that of Augustine of Hippo. The conversion of the English caused the establishment in Canterbury of a school on the model of the Grammar and Rhetoric Schools of Rome, themselves the reproduction of the Grammar and Rhetoric Schools of Alexandria and of Athens.