CHAP. VII. Of Vniversities and publick Schools.
ACademies which at this day are called Universities, were in times past cal∣led Synagogues, as the Synagogue of Hierusalem, Antioch, Ephesus, and Alexandria, and Studia.
They alwaies built their Academies in some famous City, as at Jerusa∣lem, Athens, Rome, Constantinople.
The use of Academies is very necessary many waies, therefore those Common∣wealths most flourished which did most esteem them.
Nothing is more Princely then to defend and provide for Schools and Univer∣sities, Ne quid detrimenti capiat literaria Respublica, Nothing more conducible to the profit of Scholars, then to indow Colledges with great Immunities and Privi∣ledges. So in times past did many Learned Heroes cherish Learning and favour Learned men, in Greece, Alexander; in Asia, Mithridates; in Egypt, Ptolomy; in Spain, Alphonsus; in Germany, Charles the Great and the 4th; in Bohemia, the Founder of the University of Prague; in Prusia, Albertus the Elder; in Italy, Iulius, Augustus, Maecenas; in France, Francis the first; in England, Edward the 3d, Henry the 7th, and Elizabeth his wife, Henry the 8th, Edward the 6th, Q••een Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James.
Zanchius reckons up four most weighty causes of publick Divinity Schools.
1. That the Propheticall and Apostolicall Writings might be preserved in them, from corruption or destruction, which is the cause why Libraries were alwaies wont to be added to these Schools, in which other Books being written out faith∣fully in Hebrew, Greek, and Latine were kept.
2. That there might be perpetuall witnesses in Schools which might testifie by