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tanniam domus venerabilis patris Theobaldi" Britanniarum primatis asciverat. Ne quis etiam libros retineret, edicto regio prohibitum est, et Vacario nostro indictum silentium. Sed, Deo faciente, eo magis virtus legis invaluit, quo eam amplius nitebatur impietas infirmare." By which we see, that the civil law (not the ecclesiastical, as some have imagined) was not with greater indiscretion rejected in the days of King Stephen, than it was with great fervour restored again in the days of his successor King Henry II. For in his days was the Polycraticus written: at the same time also flourished Willelmus de Glavile (or Glanvil) one of the followers of Thomas Becket, and afterwards bishop of Rochester: "In utroque jure scientiam commendabilem assecutus," as it is in the fourth book of the forecited quadrilogue: as Leland also in his book De scriptorib. Britann. noteth of Roger Hoveden the historian; not long after that, "Mediis studiorum suorum annis legibus Cæsarianis operam dedit; a quibus recta se contulit ad pontificias." His book De legibus, et consuetudinibus regni Angliæ, written much after the same manner, and in the same words commonly, that the Regiam majestatem of Scotland is; with the like proem out of Justinian's Institutes placed in the beginning of it. But Bracton, who after him drew a more full body of the common law toward the end of Henry III. stuffeth his book every where with quotations of the civil law, which to have been done also in the pleadings at the bar, the reports of the year books of Edward II. (vouched by Mr. Selden) do sufficiently testify.

VIII. After the restitution of the imperial laws here, in the time of Henry II. public schools were erected for

n Anno 1138. as it seems; when Theobald went to Rome, to get his pall. Whence Thomas Becket, (as we read in the Quadrilogue, or Quadripartite his tory of his life, lib. 1. cap. 5. edit. Par. 1495.) being bred in his family, “Juri civili operam dedit. Impetrata vero postea a Domino suo archiepiscopo transfretandi licentia, per annum in legibus studuit Bononiæ; postea Antisiodoro."

Selden, in Jano Anglor. pag. 89. lib. 2. sec. 43. Notes upon Fortescue, pag. 45. not. 21. and Review of hist. of tithes, pag. 490, 491. ad fin. P Review of the history of tithes, cap. 7. fin.

the profession thereof in the city of London: for the suppressing whereof, in the year 1235. the king's writ was directed to the mayor and sheriffs: "Quod per totam civitatem London clamari faciant, et firmiter prohiberi, ne aliquis scholas regens de legibus in eadem civitate de cætero ibidem leges doceat. Et si aliquis ibidem fuerit hujusmodi scholas regens, ipsum sine dilatione cessare faciant. Teste Rege' apud Bassing undecimo die Decembris." And yet all this notwithstanding, the English clergy remitted nothing of their diligence in the study of the civil law; as appeareth both by the relation of Matthew Paris, at the year 1255. (which was the thirty-ninth of Henry III.) and by the reproof given unto them for it by Roger Bacon, who deceased anno Domini, 1292. under Edward I. in his Compendium theologiæ; cited at large by Mr. Selden in his notes upon Fortescue".

IX. At length the profession of the civil law was estalished in both the universities; and recourse had to the sages thereof in weighty consultations; though with protestation, that the kingdom was not subject to the rule of that law as appeareth by the proceedings in the parliament, anno 11. Richardi II. related by the same Mr. Selden, both in the said notest, and in Jano Angloru.

X. In Wales I met with the writings of Thomas Saincte, archdeacon of St. David's, who lived in the latter days of Henry VII. and the beginning of Henry VIII. and was a reader of the canon law in Aula profunda Oxoniæ: where he made an exhortation to his scholars to follow their studies, beginning thus:

Multum præclari sacrati juris alumni,

Salvete, insignes laudibus usque viri, &c.

This Aula profunda, if I be not deceived, belonged to

4 Selden, review of the history of tithes, pag. 491. ad fin.

Claus. 19. Hen. III. Membran. 22.

Pag. 43, 44. not. 21.

" Lib. 2. sec. 42.

Pag. 41, 42. not. 21.

All Souls College: where you may inquire farther hereof; as also of Dr. Zouch, touching the foundation of the civil law lecture in Oxford; for which also you may look into the memorials out of the records bestowed by Mr. Hare upon the university.

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