of which, call'd the Stamford bubble, flouriſh'd hugely, and began to vye even with the Oxford ſtock; inſomuch that the Oxford directors looked upon it with a jealous eye as a dangerous ſucker to them, and were forced to petition the king to put down and annul all bubble-academies, particularly the Stamford one (as Wood expreſſeth it)[1] ne vetus eruditionis fluentum exareſceret; leſt the antient fountain of learning ſhould be dried up: in purſuance of which requeſt, the King order'd a proclamation to be publiſh'd, requireing all maſters and ſcholars ſtudying at Stamford, to return to Oxford, under pain of confiſcation of goods; nam nolumus (inquit rex)ſcholas ſeu ſtudia alibi infra regnum noſtrum, quam in locis ubi univerſitate nunc ſunt, aliqualiter teneri; for we will not (said the King) have any ſchools of ſeminaries of learning within our dominions, but where the univerſities now are; and farther, to extirpate the Stamford-bubble entirely, they made a ſtature, obliging every candigate
- ↑ Vide, his Antiquities, p.166.
