Collectanea. Third series / edited by Montagu Burrows.

Date:
1896
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Credit: Collectanea. Third series / edited by Montagu Burrows. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION The following documents, which (except C and D) are now printed for the first time, are selected from a box of rolls in the Treasury of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, They relate primarily to the affairs of the interesting and unique foundation of the ‘ College of Monks of Durham Studying at Oxford,’ the site and buildings of which, soon after its dissolu- tion, were acquired by Sir Thomas Pope, the founder of Trinity College: but they may also throw some fresh light on the general conditions of academic life in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. My attention was first ^ called to their existence by a reference to the collection in the late Rev. Joseph Stevenson’s small pamphlet on Durham Col- lege^; and it seemed possible that the Bursarial rolls might furnish information as to the old buildings, still existing or seen in Loggan’s view, of a more trustworthy character than the current statements. Accordingly, in the autumn of 1891, I obtained an introduction to the Librarian of Durham Cathedral, the Rev. W. Greenwell, D.C.L., to whose prompt assistance and constant interest I feel most deeply indebted ; and on his motion and that of the Archdeacon of Northumber- land, supported by a kind letter of recommendation from the Bishop of Oxford the then Dean and Chapter most liberally granted me the use of the whole collection, and even allowed me to have the rolls at Oxford that I might work through them at my convenience. The thanks of the Oxford His- torical Society are due to the Dean and Chapter for per- mission to include these documents in the present volume, Unfortunately I was unable to inspect them before completing my article on Irmity College for the Rev. A. Clark’s Colleges of Oxford. Several statements made there on the authority of Wood, Warton, and Ingram can now be corrected A/r Durham College, Oxford, &c. (By the Rev. Jos. Stevenson, M.A., Umv. Coll., Durham.) Durham : F. Humble. 1840. = Who had at one time contemplated editing the whole of these rolls, with various charters, &c., for the Surtees Society.