. A history of the University of Oxford : from the earliest times to the year 1530. —Grievances of the Townsmen—The Great Riotof 1298—Humiliation of the Townsmen—Development of the Chancel-lors Authority—Struggle with the Bishop of Lincoln—Controversywith the Archdeacon—Internal Dissensions—Condemnation of Here-tical Doctrines—Feud between Northerners and Southerners—Lawless-ness of the Clerks—Prohibition of Jousts—Secession to Stamford. HE University of Oxford attained its highestcelebrity within a century of the time when itfirst began to be recognised as a corporate resorted t
. A history of the University of Oxford : from the earliest times to the year 1530. —Grievances of the Townsmen—The Great Riotof 1298—Humiliation of the Townsmen—Development of the Chancel-lors Authority—Struggle with the Bishop of Lincoln—Controversywith the Archdeacon—Internal Dissensions—Condemnation of Here-tical Doctrines—Feud between Northerners and Southerners—Lawless-ness of the Clerks—Prohibition of Jousts—Secession to Stamford. HE University of Oxford attained its highestcelebrity within a century of the time when itfirst began to be recognised as a corporate resorted to it in great numbers notonly from all parts of England and Wales, butfrom Scotland, from Ireland, and from more distant countriesbeyond sca.^ Edward I. was justly proud of this advent offoreigners, and it was at his instigation that Francesco dAc-corso, one of the chief teachers of civil law at the University ofBologna, came to reside at Oxford. DAccorso seems to haveattached himself to the King, when the latter was passing Rymcrs Fauhia, vol. ii. p. i FRANCESCO DACCOKSO. 89 throui;h Italy on his return fi-oni the Holy Land, at the verybcginninf^ of his rciL;ii, and he b(canie one of liis most trustedcounsellors. It was ncjt lonj^ before the Kin_!^M\rote urgentlyto DAccorsos wife, exhorting her tojcjin her husband in Eng-land, and offering to make a liberal provision for them andthe members of their family.^ Oxford was chosen as theplace of their abode, and in December, 1275, the Sheriff ofthe county received orders to give them the free use of theKings Hall, the royal residence in the northern Although summoned away from time to time to attendthe King in Parliament and elsewhere, Francesco dAccorsomust surely have given lectures on Roman law at of his works remain, and little is knov/n of hini beyondthe fact that in his own day he was reckoned scarcelyinferior in ability to his father of the same name, theidol of the lawyers,
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