> they "recently made the discovery that this charter awarded William & Mary the status of a university, a fact that has been hidden behind an overly literal English translation of the Latin.”



Fascinating.   Interesting to recall too Thomas Bray’s very early comment (1701) that Blair was founding a university (and possibly Paul Micou’s account), both in my essay “Benjamin Franklin, the College of William and Mary, and the Williamsburg Bray School,” Anglican and Episcopal History, 79:4 (December 2010), 374.



Bray (1658-1730) saluted Blair’s “great Designs” “for the Good of … [the] Church,” “the Erecting of a College in Virginia, or rather an University, for which he obtained a  charter from His Majesty.”



Micou briefly reviews Blair’s stay at Henrico  and much earlier orders to workmen “to erect a university and college at Henrico.”



I don’t know the source of Micou’s statement.



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Terry L.. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English, Emeritus, The College of William and Mary, in Virginia, Williamsburg  23187

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