- Ibid, p.105, quoting 34 & 35 Henry VIII, c.l. This statute dating to
1542-43 A.D., consisting of just one Article after a preamble read, ‘...The
Bible shall not be read in English in any church. No women or artificers,
prentices, journeymen, servingmen of the degree of yeomen or under,
husbandmen, nor labourers, shall read the New Testament in English.
Nothing shall be taught or maintained contrary to the King’s
instructions. And if any spiritual person preach, teach, or maintain any
thing contrary to the King’s instructions or determinations, made or to
be made, and shall be thereof convict, he shall for his first offence
recant, for his second abjure and bear a fagot, and for his third shall be
adjudged an heretic, and be burned and lose all his goods and chattels.’
The statute was entitled ‘An Act for the Advancement of True Knowledge’.
This restriction, however, may have completely been lifted by the time
the ‘authorised version’ of the Bible (King James’s translation) was
published in England in 1611. - Ibid, p.104, f.n.3, quoting Strype, Cranmer, i.127
- Ibid, p.33, f.n.l.
- Ibid, p.139
- Ibid, p.139
- Ibid, p.140
- Ibid, p.158
- J.W. Adamson: A Short History of Education, Cambridge, 1919,
p.243. - Ibid, p.243
- See Annexure C: Alexander Walker, Note on Indian Education; also
Ibid, p.246 - House of Commons Papers, 1852-53, volume 79, p.718, for the
number of schools and pupils in them in 1818 and 1851. - Adamson: op.cit., 232
- Dobbs, op.cit., pp. 157-8 also f.n.1, p.158.
- Adamson : op.cit., p.266
- Ibid, p.226
- Ibid, p.226
- Writing to the second Earl Spencer on 21 August 1787 William Jones
described a serpentine river ‘which meets the Ganges opposite the
celebrated University of Brahmans at Navadwipa, or Nuddea, as Rennel
writes it. This is the third University of which I have been a member.’ The
Letters of Sir William Jones, by G. Cannon. 2 volumes, 1970, p.754. - The fourth British University, that of London was established in
- The above information is abstracted from The Historical Register of
the University of Oxford 1220-1888, Oxford, 1888, mostly from pp.45-65. - The foregoing four paragraphs are based on information supplied by
the University of Oxford in November 1980 on request from the author. - For instance according to her doctoral thesis presented in April 1980
at the Sorbonne, Paris, Gita Dharampal: Etude sur le role des
missionaries europeens dans la formation premiers des idees sur l’Inde,
an early eighteenth century manuscript still has several copies extant.
The manuscript is titled Traite de la Religion des Malabars, and its first
copy was completed in 1709 by Tessier de Queraly, procurator of the
Paris Foreign Mission in Pondicherry from 1699 to 1720, nominated
Apostolic Vicar of Siam in 1727. Copies of this Ms. are to be found in the
following archives: Paris (Bibliotheque Nationale 3 copies, Bibliotheque
de L’Arsenal 1 copy, Bibliotheque Ste. Genevieve 1 copy, Archives
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