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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    poor; and after paying the steward £6 there was a balance of about ;^24 for general expenses. Among the miscellaneous receipts the most interesting entries are those of sums paid for the use of rooms in the college by persons not on the foundation. These rents were small at first, e. g. 43J. in 1389-90, 52J. 8d. in 1398-9, yos. in 1401, y6s. in 1410, 80s. in 1413, and the ‘pensio j camere Oxonie’ for one term was only 3J. 4d. in 1394-5 ; but they gradually came to form an important source of income; £y 8j. 8d. is credited to this source in 1472, and iJ^8 zs. in 1473. of tho tenants is mentioned above; the inha- bitant of the‘camera Dunkan’ (E, note 21) may have been Thomas Duncan, P'ellow of Merton in 1404, and physician to the Earl of March ®^. But the most important statements on this subject are to be found in the quarterly rolls. In that for the last quarter of 1394 there are two significant entries under the head of repairs; ‘ Item pro j banda ferrea pro trabe in bassa camera monachorum Eboracensium vijd.,’ and ‘ Item pro duabus crukys [hooks for hinges') fenestre camere monachorum Eboracensium \]d.’ The explanation is found among the receipts in a brief account for the third quarter of 1414: ‘ Item de xiij® iiij^ in plena solucione de pensione camere monachi de Qwytby pro anno preterito. Item de xx* in plena solucione camere monachorum Eboracensium pro eodem anno. Item de viij» viij^ in parte solucionis camere magistri T, Mosten.’ Unfortunately these are the only entries of the kind, but they make it quite clear that Durham College to some extent served the purpose of a home for the other Benedictine abbeys of the northern province, who had no share in the Gloucester Hall settlement and would naturally prefer renting rooms for their students among friends to letting them share the mixed society of the ordinary halls. It will be seen from a comparison of the list of rooms at the end of E with Loggan’s view, that there were rooms to spare. The chambers, besides the perloquitorium and the warden’s room over it’ were twelve in number, without reckoning the possibilities of accommodation in the buildings to the N.W. of the buttery. If we assume that the rooms of which the situation is not specially described, viz., the right-hand room on the first floor and the middle and right-hand rooms on the ground floor of the northern side of the quadrangle, were the three appropriated to the scholars (pueri), there remain for the Another Felbw of Merton, Ralph Hamsterley, Master of University College 1309, was a benefactor honoured with a brass plate in the old Chapel. ^ ^