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Excerpt from The Foundation Statutes of Merton College, Oxford, A. D. 1270: With the Subsequent Ordinances of Archbishop Peckham, Chichely, and Laud, From the Latin
The monasteries were in fact still the chief seats of education and learning. There the philosopher studied, the historian wrote; and the names of of Malmes bury, John of Salisbury, and Matthew of St. Alban's - men who were educated, and almost passed their lives within the cloister - are sufficient to remind us how much our literature in its infancy owed to that monastic system which we are wont to consider as most hostile to the growth of science. The schools of Oxford having as yet no perma nent existence, were without libraries, and almost without means of furthering instruction except by word of month; while the monks, undisturbed by scholastic disputes, spent their time either in writing, or in studying and transcribing the works of older writers, and thus created for their-re spective houses those manuscript libraries which were long looked upon as their most valued possessions.
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