College of the Eighteen

The college of the Eighteen is one of oldest the college of old the Université of Paris.

It was rested by an English of the name of Jose in 1180 per 18 stock-brokers close to Notre-Dame. It was then transferred in the buildings from the Collège from Calvy close to the Collège to Sorbonne.

Text founder:

" We, Barbedor, senior of the church of Paris and all the chapter of the same church, we want as well that is to say known of all, present as to come, that there, when lord Jose of London east returned from Jerusalem, having considered with carefullest devotion the assistance which is carried to the poor and the patients in the hospital of the happy Marie of Paris, it saw a room in which according to an old use were lodged the poor clerks and, on our council and that of Hilduin Master, chancellor of Paris, then prosecutor of the same place, it acquired of it with perpetuity for the price of 52 pounds nearprosecutors of the same house for the use of the aforesaid clerks, under this condition which the prosecutors of this one would provide on a purely perpetual basis with 18 clerks schoolboys of the suitable beds and each month twelve sums of money taken on alms which are collected in the trunk. N the other hand, the aforementioned clerks will have in turn to carry the cross and water bénite in front of the bodies of the people died in the same house and to celebrate each night seven psalms of penitence and the prayers due and instituted in the past. So that these provisions remain firm and stable, the aforementioned Jose obtained that this charter of our institution is made by the aforementioned clerks and required that it be confirmed by the impression with the bottom of our seal. Fact publicly in Paris, in our chapter, the year of the Incarnation of the Lord 1180. "

It was destroyed during the rebuilding of the college of Sorbonne.

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