This extract, which has not hitherto been fully printed in any of the authorities (Pressutti, _Regesta Honorii Pape III._ vol. ii. pp. 194, 258; Bliss, _Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers_, vol. i. pp. 94, 97) has reached me from the Vatican just before going to press. I owe it to the kindness of Monsignor Ehrle, the Prefect of the Bibliotheca Apostolica, and am glad to reproduce it here, not only because of the light it throws on the events mentioned in Chapter viii., but as a testimony to the opinion then held of Scot’s attainments in science. Incidentally too, it places beyond question the fact mentioned on p. 14, namely, that he was in holy orders. With regard to the title of ‘Master,’ here repeated, I may add that this would seem to have been equivalent among the Regulars to that of ‘Doctor’ among the secular clergy; so that there is a further probability that Scot belonged to one of the monastic orders. Should any one still doubt that the ‘M. Scotus’ whom Honorius named for Cashel is the same person as Michael Scot, this extract may help to resolve the matter. Honorius evidently held Michael in the highest esteem, and it will be difficult to find another M. Scotus so likely to have been preferred by him in the very same year. FOOTNOTES [1] _De Michaele Scoto Veneficii injuste damnato_, Lipsiae, 1739. [2] Some account of Scottish grammar-schools in the twelfth century will be found in Sir James Dalrymple’s _Collections_, pp. 226, 255 (Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh); also in Chalmers’s _Caledonia_, vol. i. p. 76. [3] _Compendium Studii_, vol. i. p. 471, ed. Master of the Rolls. London, Longmans, 1859. [4] Boncompagni _Vita di Gherardo Cremonense_, Roma, 1851, and the _De Astronomia Tractatus_ x. of Guido Bonatti, printed at Bâle, 1550. [5] _Historia Ecclesiastica_, xii. 494. [6] In the last edition of Chambers’s Encyclopædia, _sub nomine_. [7] See _infra_, ch. vii. [8] Leland’s work was published in 1549. [9] _Comento alla Divina Commedia, Inf._, canto xx. Bologna, Fanfani, 1866-74. [10] The _Scotorum Historia_ of Boëce in which this statement appears was published at Paris in 1526. [11] Between 1260 and 1280. See Cartulary of Dunfermline. [12] Exchequer Rolls. [13] See _infra_, p. 55. [14] Bulaeus _Historia Univ. Paris._, vol. iii. pp. 701, 702. [15] Sir James Dalrymple’s _Collections_, pp. 226, 255. There was also a school at Dryburgh, where Sibbald says Sacrobosco studied, but had Scot entered here he would hardly have been distinguished in later years as a man in close relation with another order—the Cistercian. [16] Not excepting the north. ‘Morebatur eo tempore (_c._ 1180) apud Oxenfordiam studiorum causa clericus quidam Stephanus nomine de Eboracensi regione oriundus,’ _Acta Sanctorum_, Oct. 29, p. 579. At the exodus in 1209, no less than three thousand students are said to have left Oxford.