Collectanea. Third series / edited by Montagu Burrows.

Date:
1896
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    < Sub-prior of Durham (Rites, p. 78); B.D. 1530; first Prebendary of the Sixth Stall; deprived 1572 (Hutchinson’s Durham, ii. 190). “ Mathew, B.D. 1539; Taylor, B.A. 1^33, M.A. 1541; Blunt, B.A. 1540, M.A. 1544; Todd,B.C.L. 1541; Grey,’B.A. 1541, M.A. 1544 (Boase, pp. 195, 173, 199, 201, 198 ; and Forster’s Alum. Oxon.). ® MS. quilibet. ’’ Ratclyff, B.A. 1540, M.A. 1544; Pullen, ?B.A. 1540, M.A. 1544; Hudson, B.A. 1540, M.A. 1544; Green, B.A. 1542, M.A. 1544 (Boase, pp. 199, 198, 198, 200), In 1540 there were eight scholars, Chr. Ratclyff, J. Pullen, Ralph Coker, Cuthbert Hutchison, Edmund Wylie, Marmaduke Slingsby, William Taylor, and Ant. Green. ® I conjecture ‘Bibliste,’ bible-clerk, as ‘ Barbitonsori ’ could hardly be contracted in this way. ^ In 1540 the manciple, Lawrence Atkinson, was paid 25J.; the cook received 20J., the sub-cook, 6s. Zd., the barber iij. Zd., the laundress 6r. M., the ‘equester’ I2J. 2>d., and John Hudson, ‘servus collegii,’ 23J. j\d. The ancient quit-rent; cf. Cart, of St. Frid., ed. Wigram, pp. 372, 486. It was specially reserved ‘Magistro Collegii de Fryswith in villa nostra O.xon.’ (Christ Church) in Henry VIH’s charter endowing the Durham Chapter, May 12, 1541. “ Richard Smyth, D.D., Fellow of Merton; Henry VIIPs Reader in Divinity at Christ Church 1535-1548 and 1556-1558. In 1540 the College received 7s., ‘ de suo tenemento in Handbrow videlicet pro libera firma’; see Introduction, p. 21. If this reading is correct it must mean that the term ‘ presser ’ was formerly used for the piece of furniture here called a ‘ vestiarium.’ The ancient gateway in Broad Street, for which see Comp. 1396-7, Item in expensis factis circa facturam nove porte, c® viij‘1 ob. qu.; Comp. 1407, Item in reparacione facta circa nouam portam IxxJ^j'^: it was demolished in 1733- R drawing by Francis Wise, now in the Trinity library, is engraved in Skelton’s Oxonia Antiqua Restaurata, vol. ii. L. Edificacio Capelle, 1406-8. (This short summary of the expense of building (or rebuilding) the chapel is the only document of the kind among the College rolls; there are entries referring to the same work in the Compotus of 1404-5 and 1405-6. A Bull of John XXIII, licensing interments within the chapel, is printed in Hist. Dun. Scr. Tres., app. clxxxvii: cf. Comp. 1411—2, Item in 2'’“* bullis s. sepulture et indulgencie, vij'* xvij viijd. There are two copies of this roll, both 8 inches by 6J.) Compotus Willelmi de Appelby' de edificacione nove capelle Oxonie a festo Assumpcionis beate Marie anno domini mocccc™° sexto usque ad idem fcstum anno domini &c. cccc®° octavo.