A01115:428
An abridgement of the book of acts and monuments of the ChurchAn abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church
An abridgement of the book of acts and monuments of the Church: written by that Reverend Father, Master John Fox: and now abridged by Timothy Bright, Doctor of Physic, for such as either through want of leisure, or ability have not the use of so necessary an historyAn abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church: written by that Reuerend Father, Maister Iohn Fox: and now abridged by Timothe Bright, Doctour of Phisicke, for such as either through want of leysure, or abilitie haue not the vse of so necessary an history
London: printed by I. Windet, 1589
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In the time of Egbert, king of Kent, some writers affirm, that this land began to flourish with Philosophy. About which time, also, some think that the University of Grantchester, near to that which is now called Cambridge, began to be founded by Bede, 1following this conjecture therein, for that Alcuinus, who went to Rome, and from thence into France, in the time of Charles the great (where he first began the University of Paris) was first traded up in the same School of Grantchester.2
In the time of Egbert, king of Kent, some writers affirme, yt this land began to flourish with Philosophie. About which time, also, some thinke that the Vniuersity of Grantchester, néere to that which is now called Cambridge, began to be founded by Beda, 1following this coniecture therein, for that Alcuinus, who went to Rome, and from thence into Fraunce, in the time of Charles the great (where he first began the Vniuersitie of Paris) was first traded vp in ye same Schoole of Grantchester.2
- 1Grantchester founded by Bede.Grantchester founded by Beda.
- 2Paris began from Grantchester.
Bed. lib. 3. cap. 18. writing also of Sigebert, king of the East-angles, declared how Sigebert returning out of France into England, (according to the examples which he did there see) ordered, and disposed Schools of learning, through the means of Felix, then Bishop: and placed in them Teachers, after the manner of the Cantuarites. And yet before these times, it is thought there were two Schools, or Universities within the Realm: the one for Greek, at the town of Greglade, which was after called Kirklade: the other for Latin, which was then called Latinlade, afterward Lethelade, near to Oxford.