[[Footnote 24a: The regular Cathedral school would have existed at St David’s.]] [Footnote 25: The foregoing three extracts are sent me by a friend.] [Footnote 26: From a fragment of the Computus Camerarii Abbat. Hidens. in Archiv. Wulves. apud Winton. ut supr. (? Hist. Reg. Angl. edit. Hearne, p. 74.)] [Footnote 27: Hist. and Antiq. of Glastonbury. Oxon. 1722, 8vo, p. 98.] [Footnote 28: Reyner, Apostolat. Benedict. Tract. 1, sect. ii. p. 224. Sanders de Schism. page 176.] [Footnote 29: _utriusque juris_, Canon and Civil.] [Footnote 30: _Lit. humaniores._ Latin is still called so in Scotch, and French (I think), universities. J. W. Hales.] [[Footnote 30a: “There are no French universities, though we find every now and then some humbug advertising himself in the _Times_ as possessing a degree of the Paris University. The old Universities belong to the time before the Deluge--that means before the Revolution of 1789. The University of France is the organized whole of the higher and middle institutions of learning, in so far as they are directed by the State, not the clergy. It is an institution more governmental, according to the genius of the country, than our London University, to which, however, its organization bears some resemblance. To speak of it in one breath with Oxford or Aberdeen is to commit the ... error of confounding two things, or placing them on the same line, because they have the same name.” --E. Oswald, in _The English Leader_, Aug. 10, 1867.]] [Footnote 31: (Pace _de Fructu_, p. 27.) Exigit iam suu{m} musica quoq{ue} doctrina locu{m}, a me præsertim, que{m} puer{um} inter pueros illustravit. Na{m} Thomas Langton Vyntoniensis episcopus, decessor huius qui nunc [1517 A.D.] uiuit, cui eram a manu minister, quum notasset me longex supra ætatem (ut ipse nimis fortasse amans mei iudicabat, & dictitabat) in musicis proficere, Huius, inquit, pueri ingeniu{m} ad maiora natum est. & paucos post dies in Italia{m} ad Patauinu{m} gymnasium, quod tu{n}c flore{n}tissimu{m} erat, ad bonas literas discendas me misit, annuasq{ue} impensas benigne suppeditauit, ut omnibus literatis mirifice fauebat, & ætate sua alterum Mecenatem agebat, probe memor (ut freque{n}ter dictitabat) sese doctrinæ causa ad episcopalem dignitate{m} prouectum. Adeptus enim fuerat per summam laudem, utriusq{ue} iuris (ut nu{n}c loquu{n}tur) insignia. Item humaniores literas tanti æstimabat, ut domestica schola pueros & iuuenes illis erudiendos curarit. Et summopere oblectabat{ur} audire scholasticos dictata interdiu a præceptore, sibi nocta reddere. In quo certamine qui præclare se gesserat, is aliqua re personæ suæ acco{m}modata, donatus abibat, & humanissimis uerbis laudatus. Habebet e{n}im semper in ore ille optimus Præsul, uirtutem laudatam crescere.]