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 of which, call'd the Stamford bubble, flourih'd hugely, and began to vye even with the Oxford tock; inomuch that the Oxford directors looked upon it with a jealous eye as a dangerous ucker to them, and were forced to petition the king to put down and annul all bubble-academies, particularly the Stamford one (as Wood expreeth it) ne vetus eruditionis fluentum exareceret; let the antient fountain of learning hould be dried up: in puruance of which requet, the King order'd a proclamation to be publih'd, requireing all maters and cholars tudying at Stamford, to return to, under pain of confication of goods; nam nolumus (inquit rex)cholas eu tudia alibi infra regnum notrum, quam in locis ubi univeritate nunc unt, aliqualiter teneri; for we will not (said the King) have any chools of eminaries of learning within our dominions, but where the univerities now are; and farther, to extirpate the Stamford-bubble entirely, they made a tature, obliging every candigate