...houses, now merged in St. John's and other colleges, exercised large influence in University matters. Our founder's purpose I conceive to have been to secure...aggregate body living by common rule, under a common head, • In the year 1249 Matthew of Paris records that the Cistercians obtained the privilege " excrcere...

...founder's purpose," says Bp. Hobhouse, once Fellow of Merton, " I conceive to have been to secure to his own order in the Church, for the secular priesthood,...head, provided with all things needful for a corporate und perpetual life, fed by its secured endowments, fenced from all external interference, except that...

...priesthood, the academical benefits which tho religious orders were so largely enjoying, and to this cud 1 think all his provisions are found to be consistently...common rule, under a common head, provided with all tilings needful for a corporate and perpetual life, fed by its secured endowments, fenced from all...

...special needs of the time in which he lived. He borrowed largely from the monastic institutions in the idea of an aggregate body living by common rule under a common head, but kept his beneficiaries free from perpetual obligations. They were neither to be monks nor friars,...

...which underlies and pervades his Statutes is well interpreted by Bishop Hobhouse : — ' He torrowed from the monastic institutions the idea of an aggregate...and perpetual life, fed by its secured endowments, and fenced from all external interference except that of its lawful patron.' . But he was not content...

...conception which underlies and pervades his Statutes is well interpreted by Bishop Hobhouse : — ' He borrowed from the monastic institutions the idea...and perpetual life, fed by its secured endowments, and fenced from all external interference except that of its lawful patron.' But he was not content...

...succession of men capable of doing good service in Church and State. As Bishop Hobhouse well says : " He borrowed from the monastic institutions the idea...and perpetual life, fed by its secured endowments, and fenced from all external interference except that of its lawful patron." But he was not content...

...an Abbot," he is introducing a misleading analogy. When Bishop Hobhonse speaks of Morton " borrowing from the monastic institutions the idea of an aggregate body living by common rule," he is absolutely reversing history. The true analogue of the warden's lodgings is the deanery of a...

...the secular priesthood the academical benefits which the religious orders were so largely enjoying. " He borrowed from the monastic institutions the idea...external interference, except that of its lawful patron." * Thus was Merton the first to achieve for the secular priesthood in Oxford what Robert of Sorbon succeeded...

...building dates from that year. The scholars were limited to twenty, their statutes date from 1274. Merton borrowed from the monastic institutions the idea of...head, provided with all things needful for a corporate life, fed by secure endowment, fenced from external interference, with study (rather than religion)...