That Oxford was rather ‘Trojan’ than ‘Greek,’ that men were more concerned about their dinners and their souls than their prosody and philosophy, in 1531, is proved by the success of Grynaeus. He visited the University and carried off quantities of MSS., chiefly Neoplatonic, on which no man set any value. Yet, in 1535, Layton, a Commissioner, wrote to Cromwell that he and his companions had established the New Learning in the University. A Lecture in Greek was founded in Magdalen, two chairs of Greek and Latin in New, two in All Souls, and two already existed, as we have seen, in C. C. C. This Layton is he that took a Rabelaisian and unquotable revenge on that old tyrant of the Schools, Duns Scotus. ‘We have set Dunce in Bocardo, and utterly banished him from Oxford for ever, with all his blind glosses . . . And the second time we came to New College we found all the great quadrant full of the leaves of Dunce, the wind blowing them into every corner. And there we found a certain Mr. Greenfield, a gentleman of Buckinghamshire, gathering up part of the same books’ leaves, as he said, therewith to make him _sewers_ or _blanshers_, to keep the deer within his wood, thereby to have the better cry with his hounds.’ Ah! if the University Commissioners would only set Aristotle, and Messrs. Ritter and Preller, ‘in Bocardo,’ many a young gentleman out of Buckinghamshire and other counties would joyously help in the good work, and use the pages, if not for _blanshers_, for other sportive purposes!