ulating the discipline
of the university was given by Robert de Courcon, legate of Honorius
III., in 1215, id. p. 296.

[824] No one probably would choose to rely on a passage found in one
manuscript of Asserius, which has all appearance of an interpolation. It
is evident from an anecdote in Wood's History of Oxford, vol. i. p. 23
(Gutch's edition), that Camden did not believe in the authenticity of
this passage, though he thought proper to insert it in the Britannia.

[825] 1 Gale, p. 75. The mention of Aristotle at so early a period might
seem to throw some suspicion on this passage. But it is impossible to
detach it from the context; and the works of Aristotle intended by
Ingulfus were translations of parts of his Logic by Boethius and
Victorin. Brucker, p. 678. A passage indeed in Peter of Blois's
continuation of Ingulfus, where the study of Averroes is said to have
taken place at _Cambridge_ some years before he was born, is of a
different complexion, and must of course be rejected as spurious. In the
Gesta Comitum Andegavensium, Fulk, count of Anjou, who lived about 920,
is said to have been skilled Aristotelicis et Ciceronianis
ratiocinationibus.

[The authenticity of Ingulfus has been called in question, not only by
Sir Francis Palgrave, but by Mr. Wright. Biogr. Liter., Anglo-Norman
Period, p. 29. And this implies, apparently, the spuriousness of the
continuation ascribed to Peter of Blois, in which the passage about
Averroes throws doubt upon the whole. I have, in the Introduction to the
History of Literature, retracted the degree of credence here given to
the foundation of the university of Oxford by Alfred. If Ingulfus is not
genuine, we have no proof of its existence as a school of learning
before the middle of the twelfth century.]

[826] It may be remarked, that John of Salisbury, who wrote in the first
years of Henry II.'s reign, since his Polycraticon is dedicated to
Becket, before he became archbishop, makes no mention of Oxford, which
he would probably have done if it had been an eminent seat of learning
at that time.

[827] Wood's Hist. and Antiquities of Oxford, p. 177. The Benedictines
of St. Maur say, that there was an eminent school of canon law at Oxford
about the end of the twelfth century, to which many students repaired
from Paris. Hist. Litt. de la France, t. ix. p. 216.

[828] Tiraboschi, t. iii. p. 259, et alibi; Muratori, Dissert. 43.

[829] "But among these," says Anthony Wood, "