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Title: John de Wycliffe : a monograph, with some account of the Wycliffe mss. in Oxford, Cambridge, the British museum, Lambeth palace, and Trinity college, Dublin
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Vaughan, Robert, 1795-1868
Subjects: Wycliffe, John, d. 1384
Publisher: London : Seeleys
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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sights, thenatural being mixed up largely with the supernatural. Contiguous to Rokeby, in the opposite direction, thedirection yet further from Wycliffe, is Egglestone Abbey,which, in the fourteenth century, was in its prosperity,and a foundation of the sort in which youth commonlyreceived education, especially such as were looking tothe vows of priesthood. Such places of instruction wereto be found at no great distance from each other overthe whole land^ especially over the northern countries ;those countries being so far removed from the universi-ties of Oxford and Cambridge. Edward the first bringsit as a heavy charge against the Scots, that they hadextended their violence to a religious house of this de-scription, in one of the northern districts, where as manyas two hundred young clerks were receiving their edu-cation. From diligent research on this subject, it appears,that during the interval from the conquest to the timeof king John, more than five hundred religious houses had
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Junction of the Greta and the Tees. A.D. 1324.) Rokehy—Mementos of Boyhood. 15 made their appearance in England ; and it is well knownthat to these houses schools were generally annexed.^The time had come, moreover, even before the age ofWycliiFe, in which education ceased to be confined toreligious houses, or to clerical persons. Matthew Paris relates, that beside the conventualschool in the Abbey of St. Albans, in which everybranch of knowledge then cultivated was taught, therewas another in the town, under one Matthew, a physician,and Garinus, his kinsman : and the praise bestowed onthis secular or laic school, by our monkish author, impliesthat there were many such in England in his time. In-deed, we have evidence, that so early as 1 ) 38, schools ofthis nature, distinct from monastic establishments, hadmade their way from large towns into villages. But noman could become a schoolmaster without a license froma clerk, and the exactions made from such persons bythe clergy, whether

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