Chapter XV

ENGLISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES.--A.D. 1149 TO 1170.

Early history and legends of Oxford. Its old inns and halls. Its
early masters and scholars, previous to the thirteenth century.
Want of regular discipline, and tumults among the scholars. Robert
Pullus restores sacred studies. Curious illustrations of the state
of studies. Rise of Cambridge University. Giraldus Cambrensis.
Schools of Reading, Ramsay, St. Albans, &c. Alexander Neckham and
his writings. London schools. School of Sempringham. Old English
poor-schools. What was taught in them, and how. 451