Even his logic was slowly received and lectured on.

For St.
Edmund, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was the first in my time who read the Elements at Oxford.

And I have seen Master Hugo, who first read the book of Posterior Analytics, and I have seen his writing.

So there were but few, considering the multitude of the Latins, who were of any account in the philosophy of Aristotle; nay, very few indeed, and scarcely any up to this year of grace 1292." [Sidenote: The Town] If we pass from the English University to the English Town we see a progress as important and hardly less interesting.

In their origin our boroughs were utterly unlike those of the rest of the western world.