A treatise of religion & learning and of religious and learned men consisting of six books, the two first treating of religion & learning, the four last of religious or learned men in an alphabetical order ... / by Edward Leigh ...

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Title: A treatise of religion & learning and of religious and learned men consisting of six books, the two first treating of religion & learning, the four last of religious or learned men in an alphabetical order ... / by Edward Leigh ...
Author: Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.
Publication: London :: Printed by A.M. for Charles Adams ...,; 1656.
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Merton Colledge Founded 1274.

Walter de Merton sometimes L. Chancellour of England, Counsellour to King Henry the 3^d,* 1.1 and Edward the first Bishop of Rochester, Founded this Colledge by the name of Merton Colledge, endowing it in effect with all the Lands and Reve∣news which at this present are belonging thereunto, ordaining in the same a War∣den, and no definitive number of Fellows.

It may be styled Collegium Scholasticorum, Bacon, Burlie, Occham, Scotus, Brad∣wardine, Gatisdene, Dumbleton, Nicholas Gorrham, Suitzaens, great lights of Europe were of this Colledge.

What one Colledge ever yielded at one time and from one Country, three such Divines as Jewell, Raynolds, and Hooker; or two such great Wits and Heroicall spirits, as S^r Thomas Bodley, and S^r Henry Savill, D^r Hackw. Epist. Dedicat. to Oxford before his Apology.

Of this Colledge also were Bishop Carleton, S^r Isaac Wake the University Orator.

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* 1.1

Camden in Oxfordshire saith that Bali∣oll Colledge and this were the first endowed Colledges for Students in Christendom. Ex hoc Colle∣gio principes in omni literarum genere viri, tanquam ex equo Trojano, ad veritatis defensionem, atque ad Baby∣lonici Imperii incendium & ruinas per diversa secula prodierunt. Hinc Johannes Wicleuus, hinc Gulielmus Occham, hinc Thomas Bradwarden. Praefat. Episc, Carlet. ad consensum Eccles. Cathol. contra Trident. Vide plura ibid.

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