A famous historian of seventy-four, if qualified to be a Professor at all, must be capable of managing his own work so that it may be most useful and efficient.

The restrictions of which Froude, not alone, complained are really incompatible with Regius Professorships, or at least with the patronage of the Crown.

They imply that the teaching branch of the University is to be entirely controlled by expert specialists on the spot.

A Regius Professor is a national institution, a public man, not like a college tutor, who has purely local functions to discharge.

That is a point on which Freeman would have agreed with Froude, and Stubbs would have agreed with both of them.