Not infrequently a university which had decreed a cessation was invited
to establish itself elsewhere. The cessation at Paris in 1229 was
followed by an urgent invitation from the King of England:

The King; Greeting to the Masters and the whole body of scholars
at Paris. Humbly sympathizing with the exceeding tribulations and
distresses which you have suffered at Paris under an unjust law,
we wish by our pious aid, with reverence to God and His holy
church, to restore your status to its proper condition of
liberty. Wherefore we have concluded to make known to your entire
body that if it shall be your pleasure to transfer yourselves to
our kingdom of England and to remain there to study we will for
this purpose assign to you cities, boroughs, towns, whatsoever
you may wish to select, and in every fitting way will cause you
to rejoice in a state of liberty and tranquillity which should
please God and fully meet your needs.

In testimony of which &c. Witnessed by the King at Reading, July
16. [1229].[48]


(e) _The Right of Teaching everywhere_ (Jus ubique docendi)

Masters and Doctors of the three leading universities, Paris, Bologna,
and Oxford, were early recognized as qualified to teach anywhere without
further examination, by virtue of the superior instruction given at
those institutions. Their degrees were in strictness merely licenses to
teach within the dioceses in which they were granted. The recognition of
these licenses elsewhere grew up as a matter of custom, not by any