Hereabout
are some few other places which retain their British names with a
little disguise.
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Without the close of Salisbury, as one comes to the town from Harnham-
bridge, opposite to the hospitall, is a hop-yard, with a fair high
stone wall about it, and the ruines of an old pidgeon house. I doe
remember, 1642, and since, more ruines there. This was Collegium de
Valle Scholarum (College de Vaux). It took its name from Vaux, a
family. Here was likewise a magister scholarum, and it was in the
nature of an university. It was never an endowed college. (From Seth
Ward, Bishop of Sarum.)
[Some historical particulars connected with this scholastic
establishment or college will be found in Hatcher's History of
Salisbury, pp. 50, 92, 232, &c. The author gives a different etymology
of its name to the above. Quoting Mosheim, cent. 13, p. ii. he states
that the Professors of Divinity in the University of Paris, in the
year 1234, assembled their pupils and fixed their residence in a
valley of Champagne, whence they acquired the name of Valli-scholares,
or Scholars of the Valley. Mr. Hatcher adds, that the College at
Salisbury, which was founded about 1260, derived its name, and
probably its system of instruction, from this community in France.
- J. B.]
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The consistorie of this church (Salisbury) was as eminent for
learning as any in England, and the choire had the best method; hence
came the saying "secundum usum Sarum".
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