. A history of the University of Oxford : from the earliest times to the year 1530. CHAPTER IX. The mythical Origin of the University—Claims asserted in 1296 and 1322-—Walter Burleys Opinion—Ranulph Higden—Camdens Edition ofAsser—The Liber de Hyda—The Benedictine Tradition—Legendof the Greek Philosophers—Testimony of the pseudo-Ingulf—TheOrigin of University College—Suit with Edmund Franceys—Petitionof 1379—The forged Charter of 1220—Opinions of different Historians—Controversy between the Convent of St. Frideswyde and theUniversity—The forged Bond of HE claims to remote antiquity which
. A history of the University of Oxford : from the earliest times to the year 1530. CHAPTER IX. The mythical Origin of the University—Claims asserted in 1296 and 1322-—Walter Burleys Opinion—Ranulph Higden—Camdens Edition ofAsser—The Liber de Hyda—The Benedictine Tradition—Legendof the Greek Philosophers—Testimony of the pseudo-Ingulf—TheOrigin of University College—Suit with Edmund Franceys—Petitionof 1379—The forged Charter of 1220—Opinions of different Historians—Controversy between the Convent of St. Frideswyde and theUniversity—The forged Bond of HE claims to remote antiquity which used to beurged on behalf of the Universities of Oxfordand Cambridge were tacitly abandoned manyyears ago. Nobody now affects to believe thatOxford was peopled by learned philosopherssoon after the close, of the Trojan war, or that Cambridgetook its name from a Spanish king named Cantaber. Somecredence is, however, still given to other fictions of a morespecious character, such as that which represents King Alfredas the founder of the schools of Oxford, and a short accountof them seems appropriate to the present place. It was in the middle of the fourteenth century that certainvague legends as to the antiquity of the University began toassume a definite shape. Up to that time the monasticchroniclers had been content to record different events thatoccurred at Oxford, without attempting to explain how theplace first became a seat of learning. A desire to obtain tem-poral advantages seems to have prompted the assertion of CLAIMS TO ANTI(2U1TV. 239 high
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