Second American Edition Of The New Edinburgh Encyclopaedia

Author : Sir, David Brewster
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230153834
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Second American Edition of the New Edinburgh Encyclopædia Volume 5 written by Sir, David Brewster and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 edition. Excerpt: ...hired a public barn, made open profession of those sciences, and soon collected a great number of scholars."--" Out of this little fountain, increased to a great river," continues the same author, " we see how the city of God has become enriched, and England rendered fruitful by the many masters and teachers going forth from Cambridge as from paradise." Its prosperity, however, was agr.in checked by a dreadful fire in 1174, which destroyed most of the churches and houses, and "only stopt," says Fuller, "for want of fuel to feed its fury." During the contest between King John and his barons, the town was successively pillaged by their forces.; and in 1281, some very serious disputes arose between the members of the university and the townsmen, concerning their respective rights, which terminated in open hostility. The towns people having assembled in a tumultuous manner, committed many flagrant acts of violence against the university. They carried off its charters, records, and other papers, which they burnt in the market-place, and compelled the chancellor and other officers to renounce, under pain of death, all the privileges that had ever been granted to it, and to sign a bond, investing its entire future government in the burgesses of the town. But these daring proceedings were soon stopped by the appearance of the Bishop of Norwich, who having entered the town with a few soldiers, restored for a time tranquillity to the city, and punished the principal offenders. The mayor was deprived of his office, the liberties of the town were forfeited, and given to the vice-chancellor; and though the corporation was afteiwards restored in the reign of Henry VIII., many of its former privileges...