Collectanea. Third series / edited by Montagu Burrows.

Date:
1896
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    place of Bossall till certain preliminaries had been completed), and pensiones of ^4 and :£\(> from the rectory and vicarage of Northallerton, the income being made up to about ;£'240 by the customary contributions from Durham. A consider- able sum was spent out of capitaD^ in stocking the estates and in providing necessaries at Oxford, including possibly some additions to the buildings : but far too much was wasted on fees and bribes and travelling expenses in procuring the appropriation of the rectories. The pensions of the rectors in possession, whose interests had to be bought out, hung heavily on the College for many years after, while the value of their benefices was declining. All these arrangements had to be sanctioned by the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Lincoln, in whose dioceses the parishes lay, were confirmed under the great seal, and then approved by Urban VI in 1387, and subsequently by Boniface IX in 1396 and 1403 Serious expense 8^7.) was incurred ‘in curia Romana pro reformacione ecclesiarum nostrarum ’ in 1403-4 ; and over was spent specially ‘ pro defensione ecclesie de Rodyngton ’ in two years It is a pity that the Walworth family did not pursue Prior Robert’s original suggestion. Though Hatfield himself ‘ morte praeventus propositum minime adimplevit,’ his intentions were clearly expressed in the quinquepartite covenant, which was accordingly adopted as the ‘ ordinatio ’ or statutes of his College. It has often been described ; and the regulations for the religious life and studies do not differ materially from similar codes; the dedication is ‘ad honorem sanctissimaeTrinitatis beatissimae Virginis, et gloriosissimi confessoris Cuthberti,’ and there are to be special prayers for Hatfield and his family, for his old Some revenues received during the transition appear in the same accounts. Part of the fund was temporarily lent out; e. g. Comp. c. 1387, ‘ Item debentur de domino Episcopo (John Fordham) clvij‘'vj® viij'* pro quibus inuadiantur in custodia Johannis de Beryngton una ymago argentea deaurata, precium c*'; quinque espice- plates deauratae, precium xl'*; se[x can]delabra argentea, precium xl*>; usque ad festum sancti Martini.’ The receipt for the image is in Hist. Dun. app. cxl. Wilkins, Cone. ii. 617-622 : but it is a polite fiction on the part of the Popes to say that Richard II endowed the college, since all the benefices were in reality bought from Lord Nevill and his sub-tenants. The college had to borrow ;^40 of Bishop Langley for this purpose. Cf. Comp. 1404-5 (Rodyngton), ‘ Item in solucione facta iuridicis Ebor’ et London’ pro defensione cause eiusdem ecclesie,’ jCy 6r. 8</. ; ‘et pro expensis factis apud Cowyntre et apud Sanctum Albanum et London’ ac apud Poumfrate et versus Byngham pro eadem causa,’ £\6 10s. o^d.; (Oxonie), ‘Item in solucione facta magistro Johanni Catryke pro adquisicione 2'“'“'“ bullarum,’ £20 13J. 4^f.; ‘Item Thome Rose laboranti London’ pro eisdem bullis,’ l8r. iid.; Comp. 1405-6, ‘ Item pro exemplificacione carte Regis Ricardi de Ecclesiis Collegii,’ 22s. \d.; and so on. “ Hence perhaps Sir Thomas Pope’s dedication of his College ‘ sanctissimae et individuae Trinitati.’