resolve the doubts, and problems, as far as they can, of such as come unto them with desire to be informed. That the Universities now are not regulated by the Pope, but by the civil power, is true, and well. But where say I the contrary? And thus much for the first injury. Another, you say, is this, that in my _Leviathan_ , p. 670, I say: “_The principal schools were ordained for the three professions of Roman religion, Roman law, and the art of medicine_.” Thirdly, that I say: “_Philosophy had no otherwise place there than as a hand-maid to Roman religion_.” Fourthly: “_Since the authority of Aristotle was received there, that study is not properly philosophy, but Aristotelity_.” Fifthly: “_That for geometry, till of late times it had no place there at all_.” As for the second, it is too evident to be denied; the fellowships having been all ordained for those professions; and (saving the change of religion) being so yet. Nor hath this any reflection upon the Universities, either as they now are, or as they then were, seeing it was not in their own power to endow themselves, or to receive other laws and discipline than their founder and the state was pleased to ordain. For the third, it is also evident. For all men know that none but the Roman religion had any stipend or preferment in any university, where that religion was established? No, nor for a great while, in their commonwealths; but were everywhere persecuted as heretics. But you will say, the words of my _Leviathan_ are not, philosophy “_had no place_,” but “_hath no place_.” Are you not ashamed to lay to my charge a mistake of the word _hath_ for _had_? which was either a mistake of the printer, or if it were so in the copy, it could be no other than the mistake of a letter in the writing, unless you think you can make men believe that after fifty years being acquainted with what was publicly professed and practised in Oxford and Cambridge, I knew not what religion they were of. This taking of advantage from the mistake of a word, or of a letter, I find also in the _Elenchus_, where for _prætendit se scire_, there is _prætendit scire_, which you the geometrician sufficiently mumble, mistaking it I think for an anglicism, not for a fault of the impression.