1920 TRUCE OF BISHOPTHORPE 1323 233 Item, si durante la dite true nule persone, de quelle condicion qelle soit, face guerre a nul des Rois, que lautre neidera en fet, nen consail a lui, ne lui rescettera ne nul de sa partie, dedenz son poer enguerrant lautre. Item quelle houre, que le Roi Descoce voudra envoier outre mer, dedenz la dite true, ses messages, de quelles condicions quils soient, prelatz ou autres, qil le puise faire, come en tenps de pais, par terre, e par mer, sanz nul manere denpechement. Item si nul des Rois voule enveer messages a lautre, qil veignent primerement as Gardeins de la true, e monstrent a eux qil soient messages, e soient resceu covenablement, de passer come en tenps de pais. Item que la dite true en toutes les condicions avantdites soit acorde, et afierme, par lettres et serementz, des almes les Rois, de Prelatz, Countes, et barons des Realmes, et auxi *conferme* par nostre Seint Pier le Pape, e tesmoignez par le Roi de Fraunce, comme medne ami.
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Thomas Harding Amongst the English refugees who, in the first years of Eliza- beth's reign, found shelter from the rising storm of persecution in the Studium Generale of Louvain, was the Oxford professor Thomas Harding.^ He had not always been a decided Roman catholic. In Wykeham's College at Winchester, where he was prepared for the university,^ he possessed some of the writings of the reformers and recommended them to his fellow students.^ According to Strype, it was on account of his protestant zeal that, through the intervention of Edward VI, he was elected warden of New College, Oxford, where he had been successively student, pro- bationer, and fellow, and, in 1542, had been appointed the King's Professor of Hebrew.* On Mary's accession, however, he subscribed the required declaration, evidently from a deeper motive than the fear of o£fending the susceptibility of those in power. It is not a mere coincidence that at that time several men were studying in New College who were to be amongst the most learned of the
- Bom at Beckington, Somerset., 1516 : see Diet, of Nat. Biogr. ; Wood, Athenae
Ozonienses (London, 1691), i. 138. The dates of degrees taken by persons mentioned in this article are taken throughout from Wood.
- After having for some time attended the Barnstaple Grammar School: see
Dugdale and Burnett, Curiosities of Great Britain (1840), p. 96. He was admitted in 1528 to Winchester: see Kirby, Winchester Scholars, p. 116 ; Walcott, William of Wykeham and his Colleges (1852), p. 397. ' For his lending Frythe's Purgatory (1532) to John Fox see ' Reminiscences of John Louthe ' in Nichols, Narratives of the Days of the Reformation, Camden Society (1859), pp. 55, 56.
- He was elected fellow of New College in 1536 and became a bachelor of arts
on 28 February 1537; master of arts on 15 March 1542. He delivered on 22 July 1547 an ' eloquent oration ' on the solemn entrance of Richard Coxe as chancellor into Oxford (Wood, i. 689, 694, and 700).
