praying that you will show yourselves favorable and kind to him,
both out of regard for our University and for his deserts. In
witness of which, and that all may know more fully about his
laudable character, we have caused this letter to be sealed for
said Master John with the seal of our University.

Given at Oxford in the Congregation-house, February 9th,
1434.[84]

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 77: _Chart. Univ. Paris._, I, f. 47.]

[Footnote 78: _Chart. Univ. Paris.,_ I, No. 22, p. 24.]

[Footnote 79: Jaffe, _Bibliotheca_, V, pp. 285, ff.]

[Footnote 80: _Chart. Univ. Paris._, I, No. 51, p. 50.]

[Footnote 81: _Bulletin de la Societe de l'Histoire de Paris_, 1877, p.
37 f.]

[Footnote 82: _Archiv fuer oesterreichische Geschichte_, Vol. 55, p.
385.]

[Footnote 83: _Epistolae Academicae Oxon._, I, p. 177.]

[Footnote 84: _Epistolae Academicae Oxon._, I, p. 113.]

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

=1. Additional Readings from the Sources.=

MUNRO, D.C. _The Mediaeval Student_. (Translations and Reprints
from the Original Sources of European History,
Vol. II, No. 3.) The student should not fail to procure
this little pamphlet, which is a necessary supplement to
several of the readings in the present collection. It contains
useful explanatory notes as well as important documents.
Price, ten cents. Longmans, Green & Co., New
York City.

ROBINSON, J.H. _Readings in European History_. Vol. I, chap.
xix, and especially pp. 446-461. Readings on Abelard,
Aristotle in the Universities, Roger Bacon.

HENDERSON, E.F. _Select Historical Documents of the Middle
Ages_, pp. 262-266. Charter of the University of Heidelberg,
1386.

=2. General References on the History of Mediaeval Universities.=

RASHDALL, HASTINGS. _The Universities of Europe in the Middle
Ages_. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1895. 1273 pages,
2 vols. in three parts. Much the best work on the subject;
based on the sources. Indispensable for reference.

MULLINGER, J.B. _Encyclopedia Britannica_, Art. _Universities._
"The first tolerably correct (though very brief) account
which has appeared in English." Includes university
history to 1882.

_Encyclopedia Britannica_ and other encyclopedias. The student
who may not have access to works mentioned in this
list is reminded that brief accounts of the men and the
subjects here considered are often to be found in