Some Account of the
Foundation
of Eton College.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02
Vol.
11.
1828.
Walsingham, The foundation of the chapel of. Fugitive tracts written in
verse. Ed. Huth, H. No. II. 1875.
E. G. D. & A. R. W.
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X
CHAPTER XV
ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH EDUCATION. UNIVERSITIES AND
PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO THE TIME OF COLET
(a) ORIGINAL AUTHORITIES.
(i) Manuscripts. Vast stores of documents referring to the early history
of Oxford and Cambridge are to be found in the treasuries or muniment
rooms of the several colleges, and in the registries of the two universities.
Thomas Baker (1656-1740), sometime Fellow of St John's, a laborious and
accurate antiquarian, left extensive writings, which are preserved in the
Harleian collection in the British Museum and in the Cambridge University
Library. In the antiquarian collections made by William Cole (1714
82), vicar of Milton, Cambridgeshire, and bequeathed by him to the
British Museum, is much useful material extracted by him from original
sources.
(ü) Printed Books. (1) CAMBRIDGE.
Documents relating to the University and Colleges of Cambridge. 3 vols.
1852. These volumes contain the Statuta Antiqua of the university,
together with charters, statutes and other records furnished to the
university commission of the time by Cambridge authorities and by the
custodians of various national collections.
Statuta Academiae Cantabrigiensis. Cambridge, 1785.
(2) OXFORD.
Statutes of the Colleges of Oxford, with the Royal Patents of Foundation,
Injunctions of Visitors, eto. 3 vols. Oxford and London, 1853.
Corpus Statutorum Universitatis Oxoniensis (with Appendix). Oxford, 1768.
Anstey, Henry. Monumenta Academica, or Documents illustrative of Aca-
demical life and studies at Oxford. 2 vols. Rolls Series. 1868.
(3) SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES.
Fasti Aberdonenses, Selections from the Records of the University and
King's College of Aberdeen (1494-1854). Spalding Club. 1854.
Munimenta Alme Universitatis Glasguensis. Records of the University of
Glasgow from its foundation till 1727. Ed. Innes, C. Maitland Club.
3 vols. Glasgow, 1854.
Royal Commission on the State of the Universities and Colleges of Scotland.
Evidence taken before the Commission, Papers, etc. 4 vols. 1826-30.
(4) PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Report of Her Majesty's Commission appointed to enquire into the Revenues
and Management of certain Colleges and Schools. 1864.
Valuable occasional references to university history and life are made by
contemporary chroniclers and poets, amongst whom particular note may be
made of Giraldus Cambrensis, The Vision of Piers the Plowman, Matthew
## p. 488 (#506) ############################################
488
Bibliography
of Paris and Richard of Devizes. The following editions may be dis-
tinguished :
Giraldus Cambrensis. Opera. Ed. Brewer, J. S. , Dimock, J. F. and
Warner, G. F. 8 vols. Rolls Series. 1861-91.
Matthaei Parisiensis Monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora. Ed. Luard,
H. R. 7 vols. Rolls Series. 1872-83.
Chronicon Ricardi Divisiensis de Rebus Gestis Ricardi Primi. Ed.
Stevenson, J. Eng. Hist. Soo. 1838.
For Piers Plowman, see chapter 1 of present volume, and bibliography.
Mention need hardly be made of rich material to be found in the Prologue
of The Canterbury Tales, and in The Prioress's Tale. Among early Scottish
chroniclers may be singled out John Major, whose De Historia Gentis
Scotorum Libri Sex appeared at Paris in 1521, and was republished at
Edinburgh in 1740. For direct personal observation of Scottish university
life in the middle of the sixteenth century reference may be made to:
Melville, James, Minister of Kilrenny, The Diary of, 1556-1601. Bannatyne
Club. Edinburgh, 1829.
The Autobiography and Diary of the Rev. James Melville, Minister of
Kilrenny. Wodrow Soc. Edinburgh, 1842.
(6) MODERN AUTHORITIES.
(1) GENERAL
Maitre, L. Les écoles épiscopales et monastiques de l'occident (768–1180).
Paris, 1866.
Rashdall, H. The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. 2 vols.
Oxford, 1895. An excellent general account of the beginnings and life
of the medieval universities. The history of Oxford and Cambridge is
dealt with in vol. II, part 2. The author prefixes a useful list of
authorities.
(2) CAMBRIDGE.
Baker, T. History of the College of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge.
Ed. Mayor, J. E. B. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1869. The belated issue of
the work of an early labourer thoroughly alive to the requirements of
critical history.
Cooper, C. H. Annals of Cambridge. 4 vols. Cambridge, 1852.
Fuller, Thomas. The History of the University of Cambridge. 1655.
Leathes, 8. M. Grace Book I, containing the Proctors' Accounts and other
Records of the University of Cambridge from the Years 1454-1488.
Luard Memorial Series. Cambridge, 1897.
Mullinger, J. Bass. The University of Cambridge from the earliest Times
to the Royal Injunctions of 1535. Cambridge, 1899. A work of inde-
fatigable industry, free and critical, and particularly valuable on the
literary and educational side.
Peacock, G. Observations on the Statutes of the University of Cambridge.
1841.
(3) OXFORD.
Brodrick, Hon. G. O. A History of the University of Cambridge. 1841.
An excellent outline history.
Memorials of Merton College. Oxford Hist. Soc. 1885.
Edmund, bishop of Nelson. Sketch of the Life of Walter de Merton. 1859.
Fletcher, C. R. L. and Burrows, M. Oxford Collectanea, series i and 11.
Oxford Hist. Soc. 1885 ff. (Catalogue of Oriel College Library, 15th
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489
cent. , the university in the 12th cent. , Friars in Oxford, Jews in Oxford,
Linacre's catalogue of Grocyn's books, John Dorne, the Oxford book-
seller, eto. )
Maxwell-Lyte, H. C. A History of the University of Oxford to 1530. 1886.
Wood, Anthony. History and antiquities of the University of Oxford. Ed.
Gutch, J. 5 vols. Oxford, 1786–96.
(4) SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES.
Herkless, J. and Hannay, R. K. The College of St Leonard. Edinburgh,
1905. A useful work, containing original documents.
Lyon, C. J. History of St Andrews, episcopal, monastic, academic and civic.
2 vols. Edinburgh, 1843. Utilises original documents, but unfortunately
these are usually translated in an abridged form.
Rait, R. S. The Universities of Aberdeen. Aberdeen, 1895.
(5) PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Chandler, R. Life of William Waynflete. 1811.
Creasy, E. S.
Some Account of the Foundation of Eton College. 1848.
Cust, L. History of Eton. 1899.
Heywood, J. and Wright, T. The Ancient Laws of the 15th century for
King's College, Cambridge, and for the Public School of Eton College. 1850.
Knight, S. The Life of Dr John Colet, Founder of St Paul's School. 1724.
Leach, A. F. History of Winchester. 1899.
Lowth, R. Life of William of Wykeham. 1758.
Lupton, J. H. A Life of John Colet. 1887.
Maxwell-Lyte, H. C. A History of Eton College. 1873.
Moberley, G. H. Life of William of Wykeham. Winchester, 1887.
Seebohm, F. The Oxford Reformers. 3rd edition. 1887.
Reference may also be made with advantage to
Anstey, Henry. Epistolae Academicae Oxon. : a Collection of Letters illus-
trative of academic life and studies at Oxford in the 15th century. Pt. 1.
Oxford Hist. Soc. 1898.
Bateson, M. Medieval England. 1903.
Brewer, J. S. Monumenta Franciscana. 1858.
College Histories Series, published by Hutchinson & Co. (formerly F. E.
Robinson). The writers usually indicate the works of earlier college
historians, which are in some instances (e. g. Queens', Gonville and Caius,
and St John's Colleges, Cambridge) of considerable historical importance.
De Montmorency, J. E. G. State Intervention in English Education.
Cambridge. [See chap. 1, Education and the State from Saxon times
to the end of the 14th cent. ]
Denifle, F. Heinrich S. Die Universitäten des Mittelalters bis 1400. Berlin,
1885.
Heppe, Heinrich. Das Schulwesen des Mittelalters und dessen Reform im
sechszehnten Jahrhundert. Marburg, 1860.
James, M. R. A Descriptive Catalogue of the MSS in the Library of
Peterhouse. With an Essay on the History of the Library by J. W.
Clark, M. A. Cambridge, 1899.
Kaufmann, G. Die Geschichte der Deutschen Universitäten. 2 vols. Stutt-
gart, 1888.
Poole, R. L. , in Traill's Social England. Vol. 1.
Sandys, J. E. A History of Classical Scholarship from the 6th century B. C.
to the end of the Middle Ages. 2nd edition. Cambridge, 1906.
Specht, F. A. Geschichte des Unterrichtswesen in Deutschland. Stuttgart,
1885.
:
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CHAPTER XVI
TRANSITION ENGLISH SONG COLLECTIONS
9
Böddeker, K. Altenglische Dichtungen des MS Harleian 2253. Weid-
mannsche Buchhandlung. Berlin, 1878.
Chambers, E. K. and Sidgwick, F. Early English Lyrics: Amorous, Divine,
Moral and Trivial. 1907. Contains a valuable essay on Some Aspects
of Mediæval Lyric. Published after completion of present chapter.
Fehr, B. Die Lieder des Fairfax MS (Add. 5465, Brit. Mus. ) Archiv für das
Studium der Neueren Sprache und Litteraturen, CVI, 49. Braunschweig,
1901.
Die Lieder der Hs Add. 5665. Archiv, cvi, 262.
Weitere Beiträge zur Englischen Lyrik des 15 und 16 Jahrhunderts,
(MSS Sloane 2593, 1212, 3501, Harley 541, 367, 7578). Archiv, CVII, 48.
Die Lieder der Hs Sloane 2593. Archiv, cix, 33.
Flügel, E. Liedersammlungen des xvi Jahrhunderts, besonders aus der
Zeit Heinrich's VIII (MSS, Balliol 354, Add. 31,922, Royal App. 58).
Anglia, XII, XVII, XVIII, XXVI. Halle, 1889–
Kleinere Mitteilungen aus Handschriften. Anglia, xiv, 463.
Neuenglisches Lesebuch. Halle, 1895.
Fuller-Maitland, J. A. and Rockstro, W. S. English Carols of the Fifteenth
Century. Leadenhall Press, 1891.
Furnivall, F. J. Political, Religious and Love Poems (some by Lydgate,
Sir Richard Ros, Henry Baradoun, Wm. Huchen, etc. ), from the arch-
bishop of Canterbury's Lambeth MS 306, and other sources, etc.
E. E. T. S. xv. 1866 (1903).
Hymns to the Virgin and Christ: The Parliament of Devils, etc.
E. E. T. S. XXIV.
Minor Poems of the Vernon Maruscript, Part 11. E. E. T. S. CXVII.
Halliwell, J. 0. Early English Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, Selected
from an Inedited Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century (Porkington MS).
Warton Club, II. 1855.
Hansknecht, E. Vier Gedichte von Charles D'Orleans. Anglia, XVII, 445.
Hazlitt, W. C. Remains of Early Popular Poetry. 4 vols. 1864-66.
Holthausen, F. Zu Alt-und Mittelenglischen Dichtungen. Anglia, XIII-xxv.
Horstmann, C. Minor Poems of the Vernon Manuscript, Part 1. E. E. T. S.
XCVIII.
Morris, R. An Old English Miscellany, containing a Bestiary, Kentish
Sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, and Religious Poems of the Thirteenth
Century. E. E. T. S. XLIX.
Padelford, F. M. Early Sixteenth Century Lyrics. Boston, 1907.
Rimbault, E. F. Ancient Poetical Tracts of the Sixteenth Century, reprinted
from unique copies, formerly in the possession of the late Thomas
Caldecott, Esq. Percy Society, XXVII. 1842.
Walsingham, The foundation of the chapel of. Fugitive tracts written in
verse. Ed. Huth, H. No. II. 1875.
E. G. D. & A. R. W.
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X
CHAPTER XV
ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH EDUCATION. UNIVERSITIES AND
PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO THE TIME OF COLET
(a) ORIGINAL AUTHORITIES.
(i) Manuscripts. Vast stores of documents referring to the early history
of Oxford and Cambridge are to be found in the treasuries or muniment
rooms of the several colleges, and in the registries of the two universities.
Thomas Baker (1656-1740), sometime Fellow of St John's, a laborious and
accurate antiquarian, left extensive writings, which are preserved in the
Harleian collection in the British Museum and in the Cambridge University
Library. In the antiquarian collections made by William Cole (1714
82), vicar of Milton, Cambridgeshire, and bequeathed by him to the
British Museum, is much useful material extracted by him from original
sources.
(ü) Printed Books. (1) CAMBRIDGE.
Documents relating to the University and Colleges of Cambridge. 3 vols.
1852. These volumes contain the Statuta Antiqua of the university,
together with charters, statutes and other records furnished to the
university commission of the time by Cambridge authorities and by the
custodians of various national collections.
Statuta Academiae Cantabrigiensis. Cambridge, 1785.
(2) OXFORD.
Statutes of the Colleges of Oxford, with the Royal Patents of Foundation,
Injunctions of Visitors, eto. 3 vols. Oxford and London, 1853.
Corpus Statutorum Universitatis Oxoniensis (with Appendix). Oxford, 1768.
Anstey, Henry. Monumenta Academica, or Documents illustrative of Aca-
demical life and studies at Oxford. 2 vols. Rolls Series. 1868.
(3) SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES.
Fasti Aberdonenses, Selections from the Records of the University and
King's College of Aberdeen (1494-1854). Spalding Club. 1854.
Munimenta Alme Universitatis Glasguensis. Records of the University of
Glasgow from its foundation till 1727. Ed. Innes, C. Maitland Club.
3 vols. Glasgow, 1854.
Royal Commission on the State of the Universities and Colleges of Scotland.
Evidence taken before the Commission, Papers, etc. 4 vols. 1826-30.
(4) PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Report of Her Majesty's Commission appointed to enquire into the Revenues
and Management of certain Colleges and Schools. 1864.
Valuable occasional references to university history and life are made by
contemporary chroniclers and poets, amongst whom particular note may be
made of Giraldus Cambrensis, The Vision of Piers the Plowman, Matthew
## p. 488 (#506) ############################################
488
Bibliography
of Paris and Richard of Devizes. The following editions may be dis-
tinguished :
Giraldus Cambrensis. Opera. Ed. Brewer, J. S. , Dimock, J. F. and
Warner, G. F. 8 vols. Rolls Series. 1861-91.
Matthaei Parisiensis Monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora. Ed. Luard,
H. R. 7 vols. Rolls Series. 1872-83.
Chronicon Ricardi Divisiensis de Rebus Gestis Ricardi Primi. Ed.
Stevenson, J. Eng. Hist. Soo. 1838.
For Piers Plowman, see chapter 1 of present volume, and bibliography.
Mention need hardly be made of rich material to be found in the Prologue
of The Canterbury Tales, and in The Prioress's Tale. Among early Scottish
chroniclers may be singled out John Major, whose De Historia Gentis
Scotorum Libri Sex appeared at Paris in 1521, and was republished at
Edinburgh in 1740. For direct personal observation of Scottish university
life in the middle of the sixteenth century reference may be made to:
Melville, James, Minister of Kilrenny, The Diary of, 1556-1601. Bannatyne
Club. Edinburgh, 1829.
The Autobiography and Diary of the Rev. James Melville, Minister of
Kilrenny. Wodrow Soc. Edinburgh, 1842.
(6) MODERN AUTHORITIES.
(1) GENERAL
Maitre, L. Les écoles épiscopales et monastiques de l'occident (768–1180).
Paris, 1866.
Rashdall, H. The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. 2 vols.
Oxford, 1895. An excellent general account of the beginnings and life
of the medieval universities. The history of Oxford and Cambridge is
dealt with in vol. II, part 2. The author prefixes a useful list of
authorities.
(2) CAMBRIDGE.
Baker, T. History of the College of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge.
Ed. Mayor, J. E. B. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1869. The belated issue of
the work of an early labourer thoroughly alive to the requirements of
critical history.
Cooper, C. H. Annals of Cambridge. 4 vols. Cambridge, 1852.
Fuller, Thomas. The History of the University of Cambridge. 1655.
Leathes, 8. M. Grace Book I, containing the Proctors' Accounts and other
Records of the University of Cambridge from the Years 1454-1488.
Luard Memorial Series. Cambridge, 1897.
Mullinger, J. Bass. The University of Cambridge from the earliest Times
to the Royal Injunctions of 1535. Cambridge, 1899. A work of inde-
fatigable industry, free and critical, and particularly valuable on the
literary and educational side.
Peacock, G. Observations on the Statutes of the University of Cambridge.
1841.
(3) OXFORD.
Brodrick, Hon. G. O. A History of the University of Cambridge. 1841.
An excellent outline history.
Memorials of Merton College. Oxford Hist. Soc. 1885.
Edmund, bishop of Nelson. Sketch of the Life of Walter de Merton. 1859.
Fletcher, C. R. L. and Burrows, M. Oxford Collectanea, series i and 11.
Oxford Hist. Soc. 1885 ff. (Catalogue of Oriel College Library, 15th
## p. 489 (#507) ############################################
Chapter XV
489
cent. , the university in the 12th cent. , Friars in Oxford, Jews in Oxford,
Linacre's catalogue of Grocyn's books, John Dorne, the Oxford book-
seller, eto. )
Maxwell-Lyte, H. C. A History of the University of Oxford to 1530. 1886.
Wood, Anthony. History and antiquities of the University of Oxford. Ed.
Gutch, J. 5 vols. Oxford, 1786–96.
(4) SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES.
Herkless, J. and Hannay, R. K. The College of St Leonard. Edinburgh,
1905. A useful work, containing original documents.
Lyon, C. J. History of St Andrews, episcopal, monastic, academic and civic.
2 vols. Edinburgh, 1843. Utilises original documents, but unfortunately
these are usually translated in an abridged form.
Rait, R. S. The Universities of Aberdeen. Aberdeen, 1895.
(5) PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Chandler, R. Life of William Waynflete. 1811.
Creasy, E. S.
Some Account of the Foundation of Eton College. 1848.
Cust, L. History of Eton. 1899.
Heywood, J. and Wright, T. The Ancient Laws of the 15th century for
King's College, Cambridge, and for the Public School of Eton College. 1850.
Knight, S. The Life of Dr John Colet, Founder of St Paul's School. 1724.
Leach, A. F. History of Winchester. 1899.
Lowth, R. Life of William of Wykeham. 1758.
Lupton, J. H. A Life of John Colet. 1887.
Maxwell-Lyte, H. C. A History of Eton College. 1873.
Moberley, G. H. Life of William of Wykeham. Winchester, 1887.
Seebohm, F. The Oxford Reformers. 3rd edition. 1887.
Reference may also be made with advantage to
Anstey, Henry. Epistolae Academicae Oxon. : a Collection of Letters illus-
trative of academic life and studies at Oxford in the 15th century. Pt. 1.
Oxford Hist. Soc. 1898.
Bateson, M. Medieval England. 1903.
Brewer, J. S. Monumenta Franciscana. 1858.
College Histories Series, published by Hutchinson & Co. (formerly F. E.
Robinson). The writers usually indicate the works of earlier college
historians, which are in some instances (e. g. Queens', Gonville and Caius,
and St John's Colleges, Cambridge) of considerable historical importance.
De Montmorency, J. E. G. State Intervention in English Education.
Cambridge. [See chap. 1, Education and the State from Saxon times
to the end of the 14th cent. ]
Denifle, F. Heinrich S. Die Universitäten des Mittelalters bis 1400. Berlin,
1885.
Heppe, Heinrich. Das Schulwesen des Mittelalters und dessen Reform im
sechszehnten Jahrhundert. Marburg, 1860.
James, M. R. A Descriptive Catalogue of the MSS in the Library of
Peterhouse. With an Essay on the History of the Library by J. W.
Clark, M. A. Cambridge, 1899.
Kaufmann, G. Die Geschichte der Deutschen Universitäten. 2 vols. Stutt-
gart, 1888.
Poole, R. L. , in Traill's Social England. Vol. 1.
Sandys, J. E. A History of Classical Scholarship from the 6th century B. C.
to the end of the Middle Ages. 2nd edition. Cambridge, 1906.
Specht, F. A. Geschichte des Unterrichtswesen in Deutschland. Stuttgart,
1885.
:
## p. 490 (#508) ############################################
490
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CHAPTER XVI
TRANSITION ENGLISH SONG COLLECTIONS
9
Böddeker, K. Altenglische Dichtungen des MS Harleian 2253. Weid-
mannsche Buchhandlung. Berlin, 1878.
Chambers, E. K. and Sidgwick, F. Early English Lyrics: Amorous, Divine,
Moral and Trivial. 1907. Contains a valuable essay on Some Aspects
of Mediæval Lyric. Published after completion of present chapter.
Fehr, B. Die Lieder des Fairfax MS (Add. 5465, Brit. Mus. ) Archiv für das
Studium der Neueren Sprache und Litteraturen, CVI, 49. Braunschweig,
1901.
Die Lieder der Hs Add. 5665. Archiv, cvi, 262.
Weitere Beiträge zur Englischen Lyrik des 15 und 16 Jahrhunderts,
(MSS Sloane 2593, 1212, 3501, Harley 541, 367, 7578). Archiv, CVII, 48.
Die Lieder der Hs Sloane 2593. Archiv, cix, 33.
Flügel, E. Liedersammlungen des xvi Jahrhunderts, besonders aus der
Zeit Heinrich's VIII (MSS, Balliol 354, Add. 31,922, Royal App. 58).
Anglia, XII, XVII, XVIII, XXVI. Halle, 1889–
Kleinere Mitteilungen aus Handschriften. Anglia, xiv, 463.
Neuenglisches Lesebuch. Halle, 1895.
Fuller-Maitland, J. A. and Rockstro, W. S. English Carols of the Fifteenth
Century. Leadenhall Press, 1891.
Furnivall, F. J. Political, Religious and Love Poems (some by Lydgate,
Sir Richard Ros, Henry Baradoun, Wm. Huchen, etc. ), from the arch-
bishop of Canterbury's Lambeth MS 306, and other sources, etc.
E. E. T. S. xv. 1866 (1903).
Hymns to the Virgin and Christ: The Parliament of Devils, etc.
E. E. T. S. XXIV.
Minor Poems of the Vernon Maruscript, Part 11. E. E. T. S. CXVII.
Halliwell, J. 0. Early English Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, Selected
from an Inedited Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century (Porkington MS).
Warton Club, II. 1855.
Hansknecht, E. Vier Gedichte von Charles D'Orleans. Anglia, XVII, 445.
Hazlitt, W. C. Remains of Early Popular Poetry. 4 vols. 1864-66.
Holthausen, F. Zu Alt-und Mittelenglischen Dichtungen. Anglia, XIII-xxv.
Horstmann, C. Minor Poems of the Vernon Manuscript, Part 1. E. E. T. S.
XCVIII.
Morris, R. An Old English Miscellany, containing a Bestiary, Kentish
Sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, and Religious Poems of the Thirteenth
Century. E. E. T. S. XLIX.
Padelford, F. M. Early Sixteenth Century Lyrics. Boston, 1907.
Rimbault, E. F. Ancient Poetical Tracts of the Sixteenth Century, reprinted
from unique copies, formerly in the possession of the late Thomas
Caldecott, Esq. Percy Society, XXVII. 1842.
