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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    Responsiones Contra Priorem Studentium, 1422. (This document appears to be one of those collections which the energetic John Wessyngton or Washington, Bursar of the College 1398-1403, and Prior of Durham 1416-1446, ‘ad perpetuam tutelam et defensionem jnrium libertatum et possessionum ecclesiae Dunelmensis, adversus malicias et machinaciones ipsam molencium impugnare, non sine labore et studio compilavit, et per Robertum Westmorland scribi fecit ’ {Hist. Dtindm. Scr. Tres, app. ccxxviii). It may even be the actual roll by which he proved ‘ quod Prior Studencium non habet interesse in Collegio nostro Oxoniensi, ea racione quod prius erat Prior in dicto loco nostro quam erat creatus aliquis Prior Studencium.’ It contains some quotations of importance ; and is also valuable as showing that early in the fifteenth century the Oxford College was regarded as an institution of undoubted antiquity. The citations from the Digest and Decretals which are paraded in the concluding para- graphs, are so little to the point, that it has been thought sufficient to expand the cramped references which are printed in the text as they stand in the MS. This roll was at one time sewn on to the accounts of John Berington, the acting trustee of Bishop Hatfield for the endowment of the College, and is docketed ‘ e locello 1“.’ It is well written and legible, and measures l ft. 7 in. by ii in. In this transcript stops have been freely inserted for the sake of clearness, and for the same reason the interchange of u with v and i with j has been almost entirely ignored.) Infrascripta erant notata pro responsione facienda Priori Studen- i. Title cium* clamanti Jurisdiccionemin Collegio Monachorum Dunelmensium Oxonie Anno Gracie millesimo quadringentesimo vicesimo secundo*. IMemorandum quod Papa Benedictus XII^s circa annum gracie 2. Extract millesimum ccc“xxxvij“»im edidit certa statuta et constituciones super reformacionem ordinis nigrorum monachorum. Inter que statuta tions of' continetur talis clausula, capitulo octavo de modo conservandi stu- Benedict dencium monachorum ; ‘ Volentes eciam providere ut dictis scolaribus in eisdem studiis morantibus et eciam moraturis (eo quod absunt ab eorum cenobiis) regularis non desit salubre^ gubernaculum discipline, ordinamus et volumus quod capitulis provinciarum, in quibus erunt