Volume 1

Brasenose College quatercentenary monographs.

Date:
1909
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Credit: Brasenose College quatercentenary monographs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with Brasenose Hall. The former is first mentioned in 1243-4 as in the tenancy of Roger le Fleming, from whom it passed to his son Roger, and from him to Simon Balindon, see below. The next distinct mention of the name of Brasenose is in the Survey or Inquisition of 1279, where it is stated that ‘ eadem Universitas [Oxoniensis] habet quandam . . . domum que vocatur Brasennose cum quattuor scolis in eadem parochia [Beate Marie Virginis], et taxatur ad viij marcas, et fuit ilia domus aliquo tempore Galfridi Jussel ’. This shows that the permanent name of Brasenose was attached to this house by 1279, and that a former owner was one Geoffrey Jussel. Now there was a Geoffrey Jussel in the first half of the thirteenth century (known through his daughter Matilda, mentioned in a St. Frideswide deed), whose floruit was about 1240, and who held divers tenements in St. Mildred’s parish; and we cannot doubt that he gave his name to the tenement which afterwards became Brasenose Hall. The University owned only three tenements in St. Mary’s Parish in 1279, namely (A) Brasenose, (B) Little University Hall (the corner house just north of Brasenose), and one other house (C) only described as next to a tenement of the prioress of Studley, which tenement had been given her by Andrew Halegod, but this house was undoubtedly on the site of what is now All Souls College. It would seem then that the following grant made about 1262, though the name of the tenement is not given, must apply to Brasenose, namely a sale by Simon de Balindon, canon of Lichfield, to the University of land with houses situated between land and houses of Walter Feteplace and land formerly of William de Lewkenore (Univ. Coll. deed). This entirely fits in with the fact that Juliana Feteplace owned Salesurry Hall in and before 1333. We find then that Brasenose Hall was purchased in 1262 by the University, and this was done, according to the historians of University College, with William of Durham’s money and for the purposes of his foundation. After 1279 a silence falls on Brasenose Hall, partly accounted for by the migration, as is supposed, of almost all its students to Stamford in the year 1333 (see Monogr. II).