BALLIOFERGUS▪ OR A COMMENTARY UPON THE Foundation, Founders and Affairs, OF Balliol College, Gathered out of the RECORDS thereof, and other ANTIQUITIES.  
With a brief Description of EMINENT PEOPLE Who have been formerly of the same House.  
Whereunto is added, An exact Catalogue of all the Heads of the same College, never yet exhibited by any.  
Together with TWO TABLES, One of ENDOWMENTS, the other of MISCELLANIES.  
By HENRY SAVAGE, Master of the said College.  
OXFORD, Printed by A. & L. LICHFIELD, Printers to the University. 1668.   

Reverendissimo in Christo Patri ac Domino, Domino GILBERTO, Divina Providentia Archiepiscopo Cautuariensi, totius Angliae Primati & Metropolitano, nee non Academiae Oxoniensis Cancellario munificentissimo.  
CVm Paternitas vestra, Praesul amplissime, in tali fastigio collocata res nostras non solum curare dignetur, verum etiam earundum curam Visitatori prudentissimo demandare; evidemur, cum Lystrensibus, videre deos hominibus assimilatos ad nos descendere, labascens & anhelans nostrum corpusculum non minus infortunio quam senio confectum exsilire & ambulare jubentes. Quapropter hoc commentariolum quasi taurum vittatum ad vestibula aedium Lambethanarum adducenti immolare, omniaque fausta nobis polliceri fas sit; Idque a te imprimis, Illustrissime Praesul, Quem Academia Patronum munificentissimum, omnisque Anglia magnificentissimum una praedicant: quippe moles illa Oxoniensis tuis solius impensis in sublime exurgens, prae illis omnium splendorem Academiae antehac molientium, merito superbit.  
Unum pro cunctis fama loquatur opus.  
Quo pacto divorum basilicas ab impietate & impuritate palam grassante vindicabis; atque adeo Enochi seculum, pietate & charitate juxta ac mundo nutantibus, in tantum restitues, ut haud inepte dicere licuerit caept●messe Oxoniae invocari nomen Jehovae. Macte igitur virtute tua, Amplissime Praesul, & Deus optimus maximus tuam Paternitatem multiplici benedictionum genere ornatam quam diutissime servet incolumem. Sic precatur  
Supereminentiae tuae Cultor humillimus. H. S.   

Admodum Reverendo in Christo Patri ac Domino, Domino GULIELMO Divina Providentia Lincolniensi Episcopo, Collegii de Balliolo Oxon: Visitatori meritissimo.  
COlendissime Praesul, Johannes de Balliolo abnepos Bernardi de Balliolo Castri Bernardensis in Palatinatu Dunelmensi conditoris, Collegium Balliolense, in sustentationem 16 Scholarium inchoavit, Anno Dom. 126●. Quod sic inchoatum, Dervorgilla Domina de Galweda ab Regia Scotorum stirpe, & sic à duobus utrinque Fergusiis oriunda (unde opus hoc Balliofergusii titulo honestare visum est) continuavit, statutisque donavit: quas utriusque filius Johannes de Balliolo, postmodum Scotorum Rex; diplomate suo confirmavit circiter Annum Domini 1287. Post hujus vero obitum filius ejus Edvardus de Balliolo Rex itidem Scotorum factus (impensis Philippi Somervyle equitis aurati & aliorum) numerum Scholarium ibidem adauxit: in quorum gratiam, nova statuta [suggerente eodem Philippo] Dervorgillianis addidit, Anno 1340. quae opera Simonis Episcopi Londin: in unum corpus tanden coaluerunt, An: 1364. Verū illis perperam consarcinatis Episcopi Win●oniensis & Carleolensis medicas apponentes manus, hodierna condiderunt, Anno D. 1507. Magistrum unicum, numerum Sociorum denarium paremque Scholarium Collegio decernentes: quod autem nunc, interventu benefactorum duodenario sociorum numero, Scholarium verò octodenario gaudet, praeter quatuor Scholares oriundo Scotos, in quorum Salarium Episcopus nuper Roffensis octoginta libras sterlingorum annuatim soluendas testamento legavit.  
Verùm haud latet Paternitatem vestram Nautis nocte sublustri frustra cum tempestate luctantibus sphaeras quasdam igneas conspici solere; idque illis tristissimum ostentum est si quando solitarius ignis est, felix, cum gemini. Haud dissimile nobis hodie contra decumanos adversae fortunae fluctus remigantibus accidit; cum non ita pridem solitarius ignis nobis, proh dolour, una cum Londinatibus, naufragium minitatus est: nunc demum gemini in pectore tuo juxta ac Reverendissimi Archipraesulis accensi, incolumitatem nobis spondent & diuturnitatem; quo fundatores verius audituri estis quam Visitatores; quum non minor provincia sit labans aedificium statuminare, quam in culmen extruere: quippe illud totum simul moliri opus est, hoc moras patitur & gradus. 'Et ne huic rei, nedum mihi deesse videar, minutum meum in hoc gazophylacium audax conjeci, eo primordia hujus Collegii arcessere gestiens, ne spectris vel supposititiis Mecaenatibus pro veris & legitimis diutius parentaremus. Opus interim vestrum in se satis meriti habiturum est, dum decus hujus duxero maximum, sub vestris vexillis meruisse.  
Paternitati vestrae omni officio devinctissimus, H. S.   

Neque hos nominatissimos & egregios viros praetereundos duximus, quin ipsos, una cum ceteris, quotquot Collegium hoc honestarunt, plurima salute impertiremus; viz.  



Baronettos.  
Gulielmum Dominum Sandys.  
Dominum Hen: Littleton,  
Dom: Gualterum Williams,  
Dom: Johannem Lowther,  
Dom: Franciscum Edwards,    


Milites.  
Dom: Thomam Wendy militem de Balneo.  
Dom: Johannem Price,  
Dom: Johannem Finch,  
Dom: Edvardum Hobbs,  
Dom: Thomam Hanbury,  
Dom: Henricum Janson,    


Doctores in Theol.  
Edmundum Hoskins, servientem ad Legem.  
Paulum Hood,  
Thomam Washbourn,  
Thomam Good,  
Egidium Thorn,  
Obadiam Grew,  
Ambrosium Atfield,    


Doctores Med.  
Timotheum Baldwin, Doctorem L. L.  
Timotheum Clark,  
Thomam Waldrond,  
Robertum Fielding,  
Georgium Castle,  
Johannem Atfield,  
Thomam Moor,    


Armigeros.  
Franciscum Popham,  
Ricardum Atkins,  
Per●grinum Hoby,  
Thomam Powis,  
Samuelem Baldwin,  
Carolum Smith,  
Johannem Evelyn,  
Henricum Brown,  
Brigesium Nanfan,  
Johannem Harris,  
Thomam Fowk,  
Richardum Coling,  
Thomam Horton,  
Richardum Vernon,  
Johannem Bearcroft,  
Davidem Williams,  
Johannem Carter,  
Johannem Fleet,  
Robertum Oldisworth,  
Thomam Southcot,  
Thomam Lister,  
Gulielmum Savage,  
Thomam Cornwall,  
Matthaeum Herbert,  
Johannem Brown,  
Richardum Herbert,  
Samuelem Dingley,  
Jacobum Pit,  
Franciscum Fitzherbert,  
Johannem Seymour,  
Robertum Cresset,  
Henricum Pudsey,  
Gulielmum Oakley,  
Davidem Slocombe,  
Richardum Walwyn,  
Gulielmum Bard,  
Georgium Skip,  
Henricum Sandys,  
Henricum Jeffreys,  
Georgium Weld,  
Johannem Kyrle,  
Robertum Rodde,  
Johannem Spark,  
Jehannem Mouldisworth,  
Johannem Gayer,  
Gulielmum Franklin,  
Nathanielem Adams,  
Richardum Lyster,  
Georgium Sprye,  
Gulielmum Tomkins,  
Johannem Windford,  
Rowlandum Wood,  
Thomam Stephens,  
Jonathanem Rashleigh,  
Humphredum Courtney,  
Johannem Barker,  
Pontisburium Owen,  
Richardum Philipps,  
Johannem ap Thoma Wigmore,  
Johannem Horton,  
Richardum Evelyn,  
Georgium Dickenson,  
Henricum Swale,  
Gulielmum Lowther,  
Johannem Bear,  
Johannem Tomkins,  
Gulielmum Talbot,    


Praeb: Brist:  
Nothanielem Tomkins, Preb. Wig.  
Thomam Tomkins, Sacel. Archep. Cant.  
Timotheum Woodruff, B D.  
Georgium Ashwell, B. D.  
Johannem Williamson,    


Clericos.  
Harbartum Boughton.  
Gulielmum Dowling.  
Gulielmum Evet.  
Thomam Stanniford.  
Edvardum Web,  
Gulielmum Hide,  
Johannem Vernon,  
Johannem Vernon jun.  
Thomam Careless,  
Gulielmum Elk,  
Andraeam Broomhall,  
Johannem Best,  
Nicolaum Levet,  
Franciscum Wheeler,  
Hugonem Chibnall,  
Samuelem Filer,  
Josephum Stretch,  
Franciscum Hore,  
Georgium Abrahall,  
Bryanum Alder,  
Gulielmum Martin,  
Richardum Tristram, Crouch,  
Gulielmum Mose,      

Errata majora sic corrige.  
Pag. 5: lin. 28. for after read before, in the Marg. read derivation. l. ult. r. mesmes. p. 10. l. 1. r. Cabasila. p. 25. r. Conncil. p. 15. l. 24. r Dervorgilla. p. 18. l. 4. r. of. p. 20. l. 3. r. Garcionem. l. 22. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. p. 21. l. 2. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. l. 33. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. p. 22. in marg. l. 17. for Hecate, r. Hecate. p 23. l. 3. r. cessaverint. p. 24. l. penult. r. Mickle. p. 32. l. 35. r. Siloe. p. 43. l. 35. r. Magistri. p. 44. r. suffecerint. p. 48. l. 12. for renunci, r. renunciet. l. 40. r. amittat. p. 52. l. 3. for 39 r. 36. l. 6. r. 63. p. 56. l. 34. r. ejusdem. p. 60. l. 5. r. cassamus. p. 71. l. penult. r. Humphredi Lancastriae, etc. p. 77. l. 18. r. Sermons. p. 78. l. 20. r. Royal. p. 85. l. 14. r. Periham. p. 114. l. 25. r. Valteline. p. 119. l. 7. for Physic, r. Philosophy. p. 120. l. 25. r. Metropolitan. p. 100 l. 23. r. Volumes.   

SECT. I  

† Called also Johannes de Brittannia, in the Records of the Tower.  JOHN BALLIOL [styled Baron by Matthew of Westminster] the son of Bernard Balliol; who was the son of Edward Balliol; who was the son of John Balliol; who was the son of Bernard Balliol of Bernard's Castle in the Bishopric of Durham [as appears by our Records] so called from the said Bernard the first Founder] [as Mr. Camden writes] whom Hector Boëthius the Scotish Historiographer entitleth Lord of Balliol, Harcourt, Dampat and Horn, all Manors or Seigneuries in France. This John de Balliol first here named, but the last in order of time, I found by Historians to be one of those Nobles which were the devotes [to speak in the words of Caesar] of Henry the third of that Name, King of England, and paid him their assistance against the Barons, Anno 1264. particularly against the Catiline of the Commonwealth [so Simon Mountfort is termed by Mr. Camden] and is therefore deservedly ranked, both by Name and Coat of Arms, with the Heroes of those times, on the inside of the North Ail or wing of that magnificent Structure of the said King Henry, viz. the Abbey of Westminster; the Ail I mean which is extended in length from the cross Ail of the said Church, to the Belfree westward. The opposite wing is adorned with the like number of Names and Shields. The said Coat of Arms of John Balliol time hath begun to eat: the tooth whereof, and that of Theon together are the devourers, that of the being, this of the merit of things and People. For a timely prevention whereof, in our present subject, it seems to me not unseasonable to observe that the Coat of Arms of the said John Balliol, is the very same which our College owing to him its first institution, gives, viz. a Shield Rubies, with an Orle Pearl: the simplicity of which Coat is an argument of the venerable antiquity of the same, as it is of the natural priority of the Elementary bodies before the mixed: and its the very same that Hugo de Balliol son and Heir of the said John gave; but that, Hugo, to note himself to be descended from Alan of Galloway, great Grandchild to Fergus Prince and Lord of Galloway by his mother Dervorgilles side, bore in the Sinister Canton of the said Field, the Lion, as may 
✚ Which, being almost 400 years since, is as much as 240 pounds is now. h. e. six score▪ pound each Horse.  appear by his own Seal set to a bond, which he the said Hugh gave to the Executors of his Father for the payment of * Ten Marks at Pentecost 1269, for two Horses which he bought of them, as part of that personal Estate of his Fathers, which he left to his Lady Devorgille and his other Executors for the continuance of this College, which he in his life time, had so happily begun. Which Bond [as well for the antiquity thereof as for the proof of some of the premises] I thought fit to insert.  
Omnibus Christi fidelibus presens scriptum visuris vel audituris Hugo de Balliol filius & heres quondam Domini Johannis de Balliol salutem in Christo. Noveritis nos teneri Executoribus Testamenti quondam predicti Domini Johannis Patris nostri in decem Marcis bonorum & legalium sterlingorum, pro duobus Equis, ad opus nostrum ab eisdem emptis solvendis apud Fodringh. eisdem vel eorum alteri infra Pe●tecosten proximè venturam Anno gratie Millefimo Ducentesimo Sexagesimo Nono, sine actionis dilatione. Ad quam quidem solutionem fideliter ad terminum predictum observandam, Obligamus nos Ecclesiastice districtioni: ut ad predictam solutionem modo predicto observandam per censuram Ecclesiasticam distringamur. Et si contingat predictos Executores dampnum molestiam cujuslibet aut gravamen i●currere; tam hujusmodi exceptioni, quam principali debito volumus Executoribus obligari & plenarie suis simplis sciis. sine ulteriori probatione satisfacere. In cujus rei Testimonium huic Scripto Sigillum Nostrum fecimus apponi.  
The which Seal hath this Inscription in the Ring thereof, viz. † Sigillum Hugonis de Balliol. Out of which Bond we may further observe, that as John de Balliol our Founder was English, so the place of his residence was in England, and that at Fodringheye, being his, not as his own Inheritance [as Bernard's Castle formerly mentioned was, where his residence he sometime also had] but in right of his wife Dervorgille, a Lady many ways of Noble extraction, both English and Scottish: by reason of the latter whereof, it was that John de Balliol, another of her sons by our said Founder, come after the death of her [and his Elder Brother Hugh] to lay a successful claim to the Scottish Crown. And so I pass to Dervorgille our Foundress; but not without this short remark upon the aforesaid Fodringheye [which is that in Northamptonshire, and belonged to the Earls of Huntingdon, being of the Royal Race of Scotland] namely that it was now the Palace of a Princess of Scotland, which afterwards become the Prison of its Queen Mary, who having formerly resigned up her Crown in Scotland, did here with the like meekness of spirit, the Head that had born it. The circumstances of whose sufferings, 'tis not my business to dispute or relate; but the event gives way to this Note upon it, viz. How dangerous a ●●ing it is, first to be persuaded to lay claym to a Crown, and afterwards to fly for succour to the head that wears it.   

SECT. 2.  
'Tis true that John de Balliol was Earl of Huntingdon and Lord of Galloway, yet not in his own right, but in that of his wife Dervorgille who was Lady of Balliol in right of John de Balliol her Husband; and by common right, Countess of Huntingdon, as being Daughter to Margaret Elder Daughter to David Earl of Huntingdon, which David was Son to Henry Earl of Huntingdon, which Henry was Son to David King of Scots by Maud Daughter and Heir to Voldosius Earl of Huntingdon, which was the reason, as some will have it, why John de Balliol her Son and King of Scots did Homage to Edward, the First, King of England, though I much doubt whither this Earldom were suffered actually to devolve unto her, in as much as she is, in no Record whatsoever, styled Countess or Lady of Huntingdon, nor her Husband John de Balliol Earl thereof, though they enjoyed the Lands and Castle of Fodringheye thereunto belonging, as hath been said; only she gave the Arms of the Earl of Huntingdon in her Seal, as in the next Sect. I shall show. Dervorgille was also Heir at the Common Law to the Earldom of Chester, as being Elder Daughter to Margaret Sister to John [surnamed of his Nation Scot] Earl of Chester and Huntingdon dying without issue, who descended on their Mother's side from Hugh Bohun, alias Cavel Earl of Chester, and his wife Beatrice Daughter to Lucy Lord Chief Justice, by Maud their Elder Daughter. But the issue Males failing, the Kings of England would not suffer so great an Honour and Command, as was that County Palatinate to devolve to the Distaff, allowing to the said Maud and her Sisters something else, which they accepted, by way of compensation, for the clearer evidencing whereof, I shall consider the Seal she gave, the Arms she bore, and the Pedigree of her and of John de Balliol.   

SECT. 3.  
Her Seal which is affixed to her Statutes, free from any deface, Is her Image in Front, or Face dressed in a Dowagers habit, like to that of a Nun, all in Relief or Bosse, Bearing in her Right Hand an Escocheon and an Orle upon it, as being Lady of Balliol: which Title you may observe to be placed first in the Border of her Seal on this upper side. In her Left Hand she holds the Lion for Galloway. This Galloway, says Mr. Camden, had in times past, Princes and Lords over it: of which the first Recorded in Chronicles, was Fergus in the Reign of Henry the First, 
† Her Picture in the Master's Hall holds a Lion Gules i● a Field Argent, neither has the Lion a Crown, and therefore the Painter was mistaken who drew it, having no pattern but this Seal she gave.  King of England; who gave for his Arms, A Lion Rampant Argent, Crowned Or, in a Field Azure. * The Elder Son of this Fergus was Vcthred, the Son of which Vcthred marrying a Sister of William Morvill Constable of Scotland, begat Alan of Galloway and Constable of Scotland, Father to Dervorgille, by Margaret Elder Daughter to David Earl of Huntingdon before mentioned. Below on the Right Side of her is an Escocheon Charged with Three Garbs or Sheaves of Wheat, as being Grandchild to Hugh Bohun alias Cavel Earl of Chester, whose Coat that was. On the Left side below, and opposite to the last spoken of, is an Escocheon Charged with Piles in Point, Born by her Ancestors Earls of Huntingdon and Northumberland. In the Ring of this upper side of the Seal, is this Inscription. viz, ✚ S. Dervorgille de Balliol filie Alani de Galewad'. On the Reverse is a Lion in the first place in Pale with the aforesaid Coat: and therefore it is that Galewad ' is the first put in this inscription. In the place of a Crest it hath a Thistle in bud only, and not in flower; to show, haply the possibility in her line, not the possession of the Crown in herself: having on the right side thereof the 3 Garbs aforesaid, and on the left the Piles aforesaid, with this Inscription in the Ring thereof, viz. ✚ S. Dervorgille de Galewad'Domine de Balliolo.   

SECT. 4.  
I should not have written any thing in vindication of the name Dervorgille but that I found others takeing notice of the divers writings of it, as of a matter of reproach to the person; it being in our present Statutes, Devorguilla; in other places, Devorgoyle; in her Statutes, Devorgulla; This last only, is capable of abuse, and that by no other then a pitiful English Rencountre. But the Orthography of her Name is Dervorgille: which by a Gallicism usual in the English tongue, is pronounced Dervor●ille: and the letter E in the end of the Name, by an other Gallicism of E feminine is pronounced almost like A with us, which hath occasioned the change of E into A. But to preserve the force of the Greek γ in the G of her Name, which in the French pronunciation is lost, when ever it comes before the Vowel E or I, some have put OH between, and written it Dervorgoyle; some U, and written it Dervorguille; some U without I, as in Dervorgulle. All which had been superfluous, had they understood the reason why, in the English tongue ge is sometimes pronounced je, and sometimes γ●; and gi' is pronounced sometimes γι, and sometimes ji; which is, that our language indeed is Saxon originally: but because of the Norman Conquest, the French having made as great an impression upon it, as upon our Nation, those which we receive from the French, or from other Languages through their mouths, are uttered according to the French mode; but those which are Genuine, according to our own. Hence it comes to pass that generation is pronounced jeneration, and ginger is pronounced jinger. The same is true of gely, gender, gentle, general, George, germane, giant, Register, and so of all the rest that can be named, because they are all borrowed words. Whereas get is pronounced γεt, and given is pronounced γιve, so also girl, girdle, together, begin, and all the rest that can be named, because they are genuine. And this Rule is so general that it admits of no exception: which even learned men not observing have sought for the reason of this diversity in the Consonants that follow, and not in the Nation to which the words own their beginning, or first crasis, enquiring what ge signifies before t, and what before n: and by the like kind of vain investigations; not unlike the observations of those who look for the wind in the Weathercocks Tail. Nor will it be amiss [the occasion offering itself] to consider the pronunciation of Arch, in divers words: which in some is pronounced Arsh, in others Ark, as for example, we pronounce Architect as Arkitect, and not as Arshitect. So Archangel we pronounce Arkangel and not Arshangel. Whereas we pronounce Archbishop as Arshbishop, and not Arkbishop, so also Archpriest is pronounced Arshpriest. The reason is because the words Architect and Archangel come to us immediately and purely from the Latin, and not from the French, for they have no such word as Archangel, burr their word is Archange and not more, nor is there any of the French Fancy in Architect, which it may call its own: whereas Archbishop seems to have a nearer affinity to Archevesque in the French, then to Archiepiscopus in the Latin, 
* But indeed the dirivation of Bishop from either, is so obscure, that its accounted a word of our own (as all words justly are wherein there's a Crasis) and the composition of it with Arch, to be our own, and therefore we given it our own pronunciation, which herein agrees with the French as ne'er as our tongues can frame themselves to it.  as for Archpriest, it is manifestly derived from Archprestre, the French word. Some allege the foresaid way of considering what comes after: As for Example. If Arch comes before a Consonant, then say they, it is pronounced Arsh, but if after a Vowel, then it is pronounced Ark, but they are confuted by Arch-enimy, Arch-instrument, Archer, Arched, Arch-heretic, etc. all which are pronounced by Arsh. But to return and apply allthings that have been said, to our present purpose. Dervorgille being genuine, the G is to be pronounced as γ without the aid of those forementioned interpositions to make it good.  
And now having spoken of Consonants, something may not be unseasonable to be spoken of Vowels, in answer to the objection against 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which comprehends the number of the Beast, which is 666 Reu. 13. The Objection is, that the Latins writ it not by (ει) but by (i) simple; whereunto hear what Johannes Grossius Genevensis upon the Apocalypse answers, ●'est une indigne puerilité que cette objection là: car il est tout notoire, & que les Grecs escrivent souvent par (●●) l' (i) Latin, & que le latins mesme prononcoient par (●●) laquelle prononciation est encore aujoured 'hue common & ordinary entre les Anglois. Behold here our pronunciation of the vowel (i) as (●●) approved by a stranger which some of us affecting singularity pronounce like our (●●) never considering, that as the French hath an (●●) masculine, and an (●●) feminine, so we have an (i) masculine, which is pronounced as (●●) and an (●●) feminine, which is pronounced as we pronounce (●●) And albeit some do reject this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, as an unfit word containing the number of the Beast. Yet first I say, 'tis as ancient as Irenaeus, who alleges it to this purpose. Secondly, it is as, if not more, probable then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, which Grotius says was a name of Trajan, where he to found 666 in it, writes it with a (ς) in the end, saying that they commonly read it so, for a simple (σ) signifies 200, and so it will be 860, and not 666.   

SECT. 5.  
And now for their Pedigree, I might derive Dervorgille as high as Arletta Mother to William the Conqueror, and Richard Earl of Aurenches, and from the Earls of Gloucester and Oxford, and last of all from Beatrice Daughter to Lucy Lord chief Justice. Yet I shall ascend no higher that way, then Maud the Daughter to Hugh Bohun alias Cavel, by the said Beatrice Lucy, whom he married, all the rest, being to be seen in Fern's second part, entitled Lacy's Nobility. Nor shall I ascend the other way any higher then David King of Scots, who married Maud Daughter and Heir to Voldosius Earl of Huntingdon and Northumberland, for it would prove tedious, as it is superfluous. I shall only fill up this Sect. with that of Barclay in his Icon animorum, viz. Centum & octo Reges a primo Fergusio in Jacobum numerantur. Which agrees with the list of Hect. Boethius.   

SECT. 6.  
The foundation of this Society is commonly taken to be laid, Anno 1263. and indeed, all things considered, it could not be later; and that because John de Balliol, next Year following, listed himself [as also did Robert Bruis] in that great Service in the behalf of Henry the third, against the forementioned Mountfort, and the rest of the Baron-Rebels, during which time he could not be vacant to such a work: wherhfore the Service being like to be hot, as it proved [He and Bruis, yea and the King himself, being taken Prisoners at the Battle of Lewis] 'tis more then probable he made a timely provision for his Eleemosynaries here, before he took up Arms. And Anno 1269. we found him to be dead, and his personal Estate taken into the hands of his Executors towards the continuance of the College, according to his last Will and Testament: Nor was it likely that He should go about such a work in Oxford then, when the King threatened the rvine of the University, upon the displeasure His Majesty conceived against the Scholars, whereof 15000 are said to have departed from Oxford, and most of them to Northampton, more annoying 
David K. of Scots descended from Fergus.  
Maud Daughter and Heir to Voldosius, Earl of Huntingdon and Northumberland.  
Malcolm King of Scots the Elder Son.  
William King of Scots the second Son.  
Henry Earl of Huntingdon the Third Son.  
Daughter to Earl Warren a Plantagenet.  
Hugh Bohun Earl of Chester.  
g  
g  
a  
●  
Alexander King of Scots.  
David Earl of Huntingdon.  
Maud Daughter of Hùgh Bohun Earl of Chester.  
Alexander King of Scots.  
Bernard Balliol.  
* Fergus Prince and Lord of Galloway.  
John, Sur-named of his Nation Scot  
John Balliol.  
* What were the Arms of this Fergus see Sect. the Third.  
Edward Balliol.  
Ucthred Prince and Lord of Galloway.  
Bernard Balliol.  
Son of Ucthred.  
Sister to William Morvill Constable of Scotland  
To fill up this blank, you may Note that the Arms of this Henry Hastings, are an Escocheon charged with a Manche (i e.) Manica in Latin, and a Sleeve in English.  
Alan of Galloway.  
Margaret Elder Daughter.  
Henry Hastings.  
Alda the Third some say Fourth Daughter of David Earl of Huntingdon.  
John Balliol Founder of Balliol College.  
Dervorgille, Daughter to Alan of Galloway and Margaret.  
Rob. Bruis.  
Jsabella the Second Daughter.  
Hugh Balliol, Son and Heir to Jo. Balliol.  
John Balliol King of Scots, Second Son of John Balliol.  
☟ Hugh Rebelled against King Henry the Third, as some say, but it may be mistaken for Guido Balliol a Kinsman.  
Edward Balliol King of Scots.  
The Kings of Scotland.  
This Hastings Arms are the same that the present Earl of Huntingdon gives, by which and by the Name of Henry Hastings he is listed in Westminster Abbey with John Balliol, our Founder, and the rest aforesaid.  
John Speed makes Fergus Prince of Galloway to be descended from Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, which by reason of the uncertainty of it I have derived it by a Black Train.  
Place this after Page 6.  the King in the Battle there, then all the Rebels Army did besides. About which time, John de Balliol's House at Fodringheye was plundered of 100 marks sterling, and his Cattles driven away: whereof Baldwin Wake the plunderer, one of the Rebels party [whom Matthew Paris writes to have been taken among the rest at Northampton] afterwards obliged himself to restitution, and of whatsoever else should be found out upon him by a lawful Jury; and all this under his Seal, remaining in our custody. There's another Bond besides this from Thomas Musgrave, for a certain sum of money to be paid to Jo: de Balliol, or to his Assigns, at Bernard's Castle aforesaid, at several times; which allows me the liberty of conjecture, That the said Balliol was dead before Pentecost, 1266. in as much as the last payment then intended to be made, was not made accordingly, though secured under the severest penalties: which occasioned the transmission of the Bond unto the hands of Jo: de Balliol's Executors, and thence unto the College with other things, which we shall hereafter have occasion to declare more at large. But that he was living at Bartholomew-tide, 1265. must be acknowledged from the then dating of the Obligation, which yet remains uncancelled in our custody: by whose instigation [after his deliverance out of Prison, and return to Bernard's Castle aforesaid] together with that of the King of Scots and Robert Bruis, the Northern parts remaining unconquered, risen up and recovered all the rest of the Land to the King; the loss whereof, had before been a sad consequent of that not lesle sad defeat at Lewis, as writes Matt: of Westminster.   

SECT. 7.  
And that the Society was of ancienter date then the present Site of the College is, is clear from thc place called Old Balliol Hall, in a Lease of it long after granted us, viz. 3 R. 2. Anno Dom. 1389. by the University, Mr. Robert Aylsham being then Chancellor thereof, and Thomas Tirwhit our Master, which Old Balliol Hall, with its Garden and Appurtenances, was situate between a Tenement of Saint Frideswids on the West part, and a certain Garden of the Master and Scholars on the East, and extended itself from the Kings-street, or King's Highway of Candych on the South, to the Garden of the said Tirwhit Master of the House on the North. The area whereof (Garden and all I suppose to be meant) was 96 Foot in length from North to South, and 47 Foot in breadth at the South end, and 41 at the other. The name of Sparrow-Hall, which the University calls it by, might be given it before our Founder first took it of them, or else since, by some under-Tenant of that name, who used it for a place of entertainment for Students, the College having no longer use for it in that kind: Of which old Balliol-Hall, the House lately leased forth to Dr. Baily's Son, and in the possession of Jackson the Stone-cutter, must be a part, inasmuch as in some Writings it is said to be bounded by the corner House on the West, which must be true of part thereof, the whole (Garden and all) being 96 Foot in length, extending a great way farther. From this Old Balliol-Hall, the Society probably removed Eastward to the next Tenement save one to it, which may be the reason why that Tenement was called New Balliol-Hall. But be it as it will, we found Dervorgille to have left them settled in Horsmongersstreet, in the Buildings of her o●n purchasing, which stood about the upper end of the present Quadrangle: This being then called Horsemongers-street, as will evidently appear by the bounds thereof East and West, in its due place: which was also enlarged by several Halls taken in, which stood here, as hereafter I shall show, whereof one was probably St. Hugh's Hall; but where it stood, unless at the East end of the Quadrangle, 
† In Dauphiné, which was part of the Kingdom of Burgundy.  I cannot tell. This St. Hugh was Bishop of Lincoln, in whose Diocese Oxford then was: He was born at * Grenoble in Burgundy, who upon the importunity of our King Henry the second, come over and accepted the Priorate of Wittham in Somersetshire, and afterwards this said See, whose Body, after his death, which was at London, was carried thence to the Gates of Lincoln, and thence more solemnly to the Cathedral-Church there, viz. upon the shoulders of two Kings, h. e. of England and Scotland; and from the Church door to the Choir, by a great number of Prelates, Anno 1200. which was 62 Years before the Foundation of our College, and 20 Years before his Canonization, and 82 Years before his Bones were translated out of his Coffin into a Silver Chest, which was done the same Year that Dervorgille gave us Statutes, and two Years before Oliver Sutton Bishop of Lincoln confirmed our College. One thing Bishop Godwin notes of him (besides what he cites out of Parisiensis) viz. That visiting Godstow, and seeing the Hearse of Rosamund covered with silken Tapestry, and demanding whose it was; the Nuns answered, That it was Rosamunds', a great Benefactrix to their House: which he not sooner heard, then he commanded her Carkeiss to be digged up and buried in the Churchyard; affirming, That such honour aught not to be done to a Strumpet. The like was his severity in other things from the time that he first become one of the Chartreux.   

SECT. 8.  
But, to return, this unnatural War receiving now a period, and those Victories [as all gained upon Rebels do] having made the King more King, and the Subject more subject, a serenity of times ensued proper for an improvement of John dd Balliols' Foundation; which improvement owes itself in the first place to the piety of Dervorgille his Lady Dowager; and next, to the bounty of succeeding Benefactors. But before I descend so low, I shall touch upon the motives, wherewith our Founder served himself to build this College, then styled by the name of Balliol-hall: The first doubtless, was the honour of God, it being the pole upon which his own Loyalty to the King, and the Charity of Dervorgille, in pursuance of his Design, did move: whereof she hath given a large Testimony in the Preamble to her Statutes, which she left unto us, though attended with the common Errors of those times. The second was the good of his own Soul, as thereby purchasing the Prayers of his Beneficiaries for his good success in the service he went upon, and for the better fitting of his Soul for heavenly Mansions, by what accidents soever it should be divorced from his Body. I easily yield too, that he also swimming with the stream of those Times, would not be displeased at the thoughts of some future Commemoration of himself, at the lest imagining that it might do him good, but could do him no harm: And more I shall not need to say, there being not wanting such as are apt enough to draw hence Arguments against Church and College Lands, and to make the highest improvement of those as well as of these, to the justification of their own Sacrilege. But where such Prayers made had respect to the reuniting of the soul to the body, they are like to get but little by it. Commemoration of good People hath been anciently received in the Church; insomuch, that they not oftener celebrated their Divine Services, then they recited the Holy Diptyches, as may be seen not only in the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy of Dionysius Areop. c. 3. but, which is more, in St. Basil's Liturgy, translated by Masius out of the Syriack, and used generally through the whole Greek Church. In these were written only the names of People both living and dead: That wherein the names of the dead were written, was recited as proposed thereby to the Church as a pattern of their imitation, and occasion of Thanksgiving: But the other wherein the names of the living were registered, was recited that the Church might follow them in their practice; or else, by their Prayers might get them confirmed in good, or reformed from the Error of their evil way. But in process of time these names, it seems, swelling to such a multitude, they contented themselves with a general Commemoration, only a few Particulars excepted, as may be seen in orher Liturgies. So that at last, the Diptyches contained the whole Canon of the Latin Mass, as Lindanus observeth upon St. Peter's Liturgy in Bibliotheca Patrum, and that out of the ancient Diptyches of St. Gregory's Church in Biscay in Spain: for the fashion whereof, saith he, they were distinct, a foot and a half high, ●licatiles duae valvulae, after the manner of a Book which the Mysteries ended, were closed again. This recital was, at first, called recitatio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 plicarum, Dionys. Eccl. Hier. c. 3. which in process of time come to be corrupted into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 animarum, as is observed upon Cassander in Liturgicis; which, if true, might given a Collateral occasion of Prayer for the Souls departed. At length they began to bethink themselves of a place or state from whence they would have them delivered; whither Paradise or Abraham's bosom, or places voided of all grief and sadness, and light, or green and refreshing places, as Nicolaus Cabusila relates▪ in Expos. Liturg. c. 40. whereunto they seem to have been lead by the Opinion of the Platonics, and the Expressions of Virgil remembered by St. Augustine, de Civ. Dei, l. 21. c. 13. which Queree they being unable to determine, confuted themselves out of their own Opinion: which, I believe, gave occasion to the Papists to settle upon the profitable Error of Purgatory, and to us to expunge out of our Liturgy all Prayers of that nature, contenting ourselves with a general Thanksgiving for Saints departed, and a general Prayer for the accomplishing of the number of the Elect, and the hastening of God's Kingdom, that we with them may have our perfect Consummation and Bliss, both in Body and Soul, in his eternal and everlasting Glory, where they rest from their labours, and their works follow them, Reu. 14. v. 13. and lesle charity then this we aught not to have for them, who had so much for us: The which, as it is our duty, so 'tis the happiness of our Church that we have a set Form of Common Prayer [which noon in the Christian World have ever been wanting in, before the Introduction of the Scotish new Fangle] but the want of an exact Rubric [such as we have] gave a liberty of using, some one form, some another; as did Sarum, Hereford, York, Lincoln, Bangor, etc. all of them framing a kind of Directory to themselves: and so by circumstantial alterations, they come at last to altar the Substantials, till in fine their very follies were held for Celebrations of their Church Festivals, turning the holy Consecration of Bishops, and Episcopal Administration, into a mere Christmas gamble; which is rightly observed and justly censured by that famous Council of Basil [established afterwards in France by the pragmatical Sanction of Charles 11. by the advice of a General Assembly of States at Burges] The Autographum of which Councils Epistolary Transactions, with the Popes Seal affixed, was sent by Sir Tho: Roe the King's Ambassador at Constantinople, to our University, and received in Convocation with great solemnity, Dr. Smith being then Vicechancellor: The which Council I wonder not that Mr. Gregory takes notice of, in his Episcopus Puerorum, the most authentic Record produced in that Disquisition. One Abuse more I cannot but note, censured in the same Session, viz. De pignorantibus cultum divinum. which was, That when any Canon of a Church had contracted a Debt, he would oblige himself to his Creditor by Oath; That in case he paid it not at the time appointed, he would forbear Divine Offices, which aught not to have been without the formality of an Ecclesiastical Censure, which Hugh Balliol obliged himself to submit to [in case he paid not for the two Horses which had been left by his Father, our Founder, in his last Will, for and towards the perpetuation of the House] by the Bond recited Section. 1. Note, that there's another pragmatical Sanction of St. Lewis, dated Anno 1268. mense Martii, against the unjust exactions of the Court of Rome, etc. noted by Rebuffus, upon the Concordates between Leo 10. and Francis the first, Anno 1555.   

SECT. 9  
Now for that which follows: As Varro is cited to have distinguished the times of the World, the common subject of History into three Intervals, viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: the first uncertain [i e. to Ethnics] which was from the Creation to the Flood, of 1656 Years: The second Fabulous [to the Ethnics also] from the Flood to the beginning of the Olympiads, h. e. to the Year 3174: The third Historical, from the first Olympiad forwards: So, if it be lawful, parva magnis componere, we may divide the subject of our College History, though not in every respect precisely distinguishable, according to its successive Intervals: The two first whereof, that is, the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I shall purge my subject of at first, that the stream of my History may run down the clearer to these our Times. The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 concerns, 1. The Number of Scholars appointed by our Founder; wherein some, having no other light to guide themselves by then our present Statutes, have pitched upon the Number therein stated: But by the Statutes of Sir Philip Somervile, it seems clear to me, That they were at lest Sixteen; the which were allowed one poor Servitor to attended them at the Table, by the Statutes of Dervorgille. And this Number of Fellows [called Scholars before] was Found by Sir Philip Somervile, in the House even then when his Statutes were set forth: whereunto he added six Scholars under them and one Chaplain, besides what Chaplain or Chaplains had been placed there before upon the Charity of other Benefactors, which I shall take notice of as they lie in my way. But be the Number what it will, it was to receive an increase or diminution according to the increase or decrease of the Revenue, provided they exceeded not their set Allowance; which was so large, that of poor Scholars [which they were to be at their first reception] they might become rich, as is observable out of the Statutes of Dervorgille, and particularly may be noted of Walter de Fodringheye, the first▪ Principal [for so the Head was then called] that ever was of the House: who being chosen out of the number of the Scholars, did, without any addition to his former allowance, over and above the fruit of his own providence, grow too big for the place; insomuch, that having resigned it, he become at last a Benefactor to this Foundation, whereof he had been formerly a 
† Eight pence then as good as a mark now, and more.  Beneficiary, which was Anno 1311. as by the Letters Patents of the then King does appear. In the second place, the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 concerns their set allowance, which seems to have been * eight pence per week; inasmuch as I found no mention made of any lesle, but of an increase of thus much to 
† Eleven pence then, as good as 18 shillings 4 pence now. Twelve pence then as good as twenty shillings now.  eleven pence per week, made by Sir Philip Somervile, in case his Rents yielded so much, as well for the 16 Scholars of the ancient Foundation, as for the 6 Scholars of his own; though it were intended to be * twelve pence per week by Sir William Felton, who to that end, as also for the augmentation of the number of Scholars, gave us the Benefice of Abboldesly, and the Manor thereof, in the Fourteenth Year of King Edward the third over England, and over France the first; which was at, or immediately before the time of Sir Philip Scmerviles Statutes. And then what allowance now, would answer to such so long since, I shall not precisely determine, though I cannot judge it to have received lesle then a twentifold improvement; when even in Queen Elizabeth's days, Sir Richard Baker notes [but by the Year of our Lord, viz. 1533. which he placeth it in, it must be Hen. 8. his days] that a fat Ox was sold for 26 shillings, and a fat Sheep for three shillings four pence, and other things about the same proportion. And even in our Records I found, that for the building of a Barn at Abboldesly Rectory, the College contracted with one Jo: Harwold a Carpenter for 100 shillings, Anno Dom. 1391, which now would cost 100 pound.   

SECT. 10.  
But the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is, that of Lesley Bishop of Ross, who writes, That our College was builded and endowed with ample Revenues by Jo: Balliol King of Scots. The second contrary hereunto, is, That Lands of great value were settled upon the College for its maintenance, by the true Founders; but were taken away again, forsooth, by Jo: Balliol King of Scots. These are mere Empusa's, having no more to go with but one leg, which is the imagination of their Author. The first whereof, needs no other confutation then the Evidence of this History, which shows, That his Father and Mother Founded this House, and endowed the same with a competent Revenue. I confess 'tis a common, but almost impardonable Error of Historians, to pin their Faith on other Man's sleeves, when they cannot, or will not, take the pains to found out the truth: So impatient of labour, saith Thucydides in his History of the Peloponesian War, with many is the search of truth, that they are apt to turn to, and take for current that which is next to hand. Five or six more besides Lesley, writ the same with him, deriving it by Tradition one from another, or else all from some single Author of credit among them, which becomes like a Dog of good creance in the Pack, which at a loss, not sooner spends, then all the rest follow him with open mouths, without ever laying their noses to the ground: And of these, some say it was Anno 1263. 
* Pitsaeus saith, That An. 1263. and yet in the time of Edw. 1. (which is a flat contradiction) Jo: Balliol K. of Scots, an Exile in Engl. built this Coll. Balaeus, in the life of our Rog: whelpdale, saith, That Johannes de Balliolis Scotorum Rex condidit Collegium Ballionease & honestis possessionibus locupletavit.  Others, 1262. Others, 1265. all of them make their contradiction the greater in adjuncto, by how much they are nearer the truth for the time: inasmuch as Jo: Balliol was not King of Scots till Anno 1300, a mere Child when our College was Founded, and then a younger Brother too. Some have Knighted our Founder, and say, That our College was built by Sir Jo: Balliol, being then an Exile, 1262. But I demand, How could he be an Exile in England, and himself an English Man, and three or four of his Ancestors? or what Record [for I never found any] is it that gives him the Title of Miles, or Eques auratus? The reason of their gratification might be in favour of his Son John, King of Scots, lest the said King should be accounted an Hibris, in Erasmus his sense in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉; or a Mule in the sense of those, who by a like Metaphor have called Cyrus so, for being more noble on his Mothers then Father's side; and that by regarding his Personal Achievements only, being ignorant perhaps of his noble Extraction: But I am afraid they were led hereunto by the Title of Dominus, given him in Latin, which they had no other English for but Sir. Some come in and say, That albeit John Balliol King of Scots builded not this College, yet he Endowed it, or at lest made large additions to the Revenue. But if this be true, then this Revenue must be in France, England, or in Scotland. The first I never heard any one affirm, though he might have enough there to do it withal, about Gailzard in Normandy, the Castle whither he retired himself, and where he died very old and blind, as Hector Boethius writes; albeit the other four forenamed Seigneuries the same Hector Boethius elsewhere affirmeth to have been given to Edw: of Caernarvon with the French Lady, which he the said Edward married. The second I have searched for in the Tower of London, and found nothing of it. The third were most likely to be found among the Scotish Records there: But these were then so lately brought thither by Cromwell, that they had not been digested into method, and now are returned again (since His Majesty's return) upon the Petition of the Scots, inasmuch as they concerned their Estates, as was pretended: But upon search made, there was found the whole proceeding in the matter of the Covenant, which Argyle and his Complices would not have had discovered. Till some of these can be produced to prove their Assertion, it must pass for a Fable: and if any one of them were true, 'tis very probable we might found something in our Treasury which might given us a light in the business; it being very strange that our Predecessors should have been so careful as to have preserved personal & such transient things, as old Bonds for the payment of moneys, which now for hundreds of Years have been passed recovery, meanwhile neglect things of so great concern as the real Endowment of our College. Now for the second, Where could any Land fall into the hands of John Balliol King of Scots power to take away? If you say in Scotland, indeed you may sooner persuade men to believe it, then to take the pains to go thither and found it out. But I demand, How our Founder being English, should leave Land to this College in Scotland, who never had any there, unless in right of his Lady Dervorgille? The which, had John Balliol King of Scots taken it away, certainly his Son and Successor Edward Balliol, would have restored again, since we found him so much a Well-willer to his Grandfather's Benefaction, that he confirmed the Land and Statutes unto us, which Sir Philip Somervile gave, as hereafter more at large shall appear. I might let these things bleed to death upon these Considerations; but that which at once cuts the Throat of the Dispute, is, That we found John de Balliol, afterwards King of Scots, confirming his Fathers and Mother's Charity, as I shall hereafter show by the Deed itself under Seal, so far was he from the guilt of this Sacrilege. Indeed this Balliol, when King, making with his Scots an impression upon the Territories of Edward the first, King of England, who had fastened the Crown on his Head before, was rendered odious to the English for this his Ingratitude; which also occasioned the said King Edward his Demand of those three forementioned Seignuries, with 60000 Crowns in Gold upon the Marriage aforesaid: which was done, saith Hector Boethius, to be revenged on Balliol for joining with the King of France against him: And it happens in Fame as in Fortune, that He who is falling shall not want help to his precipitation. 'Tis the first stone that is thrown at a Man, which may be said to kill him, all the rest being cast upon him by example: and thus it fared with John de Balliol King of Scots: He was guilty of this Ingratitude, and therefore Fame must tender him so of the other Crime. But Arguments seem not to be wanting for his defence in this too. The worst that can be said of him is a kind of an Apology for him, and 'tis of Tacitus, viz. That Beneficia eousque laeta sunt, dum exolvi possunt; ubi multum antevenere, pro gratia odium redditur: which is as much as we are want to say, viz. That great Injuries and great Courtesies are never forgiven. The second is, That having now no need more of the King of England for his settlement, he thought hereby to come into favour with his Scots for his preservation, having lost their affections before for swearing Fealty to the King of England, which his Scots would be tender of suffering him to do; though indeed it were a due, in regard the Scotish Kingdom, from the very first establishment thereof in Britain, hath been held of the Kings of England in Vassalage: whose several King's Homages are Recorded in Verse by Harding, even from the time of Athelston, as we found in Baker's Chronicle in the time of 
* And this Homage was demanded by K. H. 8. and justified by the sword. See our Chronicles in temp. H. 8.  Edw. 4. The third is, That paying his devoir to the King of England, he would have infringed the League with, and forfeited the protection of France, signified by the double Tressure counterflowred, wherewith the Scotish Lion is guarded. The fourth is, that of Buchanan, who writes, That macduff a great Man in Scotland, being slain, his Brother little hoping for Justice there, appealed to the King of England for redress: at the hearing whereof, Balliol King of Scots being commanded to descend from the Bench to the Bar, took the matter in great indignation. The fifth is, That herein the King of England's Obligation laid upon John de Balliol King of Scots, was the lesle, when in the decision of the Controversy between the said Balliol and Bruis, he had done no more then what he must have done to any of his Subjects; it being clear that Balliol was Heir at the Common Law to the Crown of Scotland: Nay had he, in a Case between Subject and Subject, determined an Inheritance to an Heir of a younger Sister, he might have assigned to the right Heir something in Compensation: but what Compensation could have been made for a Kingdom? This Act therefore of Edw. the first, rendered him the Justinian of the Scots, as other things gained him the title of the English Justinian. From whence nevertheless some [as Hector Boethius notes] have endeavoured to eclipse the Honour of Edw. 1. and of that Bruis [who by the Scots was surnamed The Noble] saying, That King Edward promised Bruis the decision of the Crown to him, provided, he would hold it of him in Vassalage; and that Bruis should answer, That he would not betray the Liberties of his Country for a Kingdom: and yet that the same Bruis afterwards, at the Fight at Dunbar against Balliol, should privately charge all his Friends to given back from the rest of the Scots, upon a promise made him by King Edward, that he should be King in case of Victory: which being so done, did so disanimate the rest of the Scots, that they yielded the day, and become a subject of spoil to the Enemy. But King Edward, Though he loved the Treason, esteemed the recompense too good for the Traitor.   

SECT. 11.  
Now from the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, I proceed to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and herein first to the Original Government. The House [for its called Domus sive Aula de Balliolo] was governed at first only by Procurators of the Founders own appointment, till Devorgilla gave it Statutes: whereby, among other things, she impowered the Scholars to choose them a Principal out of their own Company. The Tenor whereof, word for word, and letter for letter, is as follows;  

Devorgulla de Galweda Domina de Balliolo dilectis in Christo fratri Hugoni de Hertilpoll, & Mro Willo de Menyl salutem in Domino sempiternam: Vtilitati filiorum & scolarium nostrorum Oxoniae commorantium affectu▪ materno providere cupientes, omnia inferius annotata volumus mandamus & precipimus ab eis inviolabiliter observari. Ad Honorem sc. Domini nostri Jesu Christi & gloriose matris sue Marie, nec non & Sanctorum omnium. Imprimis volumus & ordinamus quod Scholares omnibus & singulis teneantur diebus Dominicis & festis Principalioribus divino interesse officio, nec non sermonibus seu predicationibus in eisdem festis & diebus nisi contigerit aliquem ex eis impediri propter urgentem necessitatem vel evidentem utilitatem, ceteris vero diebus diligenter Scolas exerceant & studio intendant secundum Statuta Universitatis Oxonie, & secundum formam inferius annotatam. Ordinamus etiam quod Scolares nostri teneantur, nostris Procuratoribus obedire in omnibus que ex, nostrâ Ordinatione concessione commissione ad ●orum regimen, & utilitatem pertinere noscuntur. Item Volumus quod Scolares nostri ex semetipfis eligant unum Principalem, cui ceteri omnes humiliter obediant in his que officium Principalis contingunt secundum Statuta & consuetudines inter ipsos usitatas & approbatas. Predictus autem Principalis postquam legitime fuerit electus nostris Procuratoribus presentetur, nec aliquid de suo officio exerceat, antequam ab eis auctoritate nostra in prefata officio fuerit institutus. Ceterùm statuimus quod Scolares nostri procurant tres missas celebrari singulis annis solenniter, pro anima dilecti mariti nostri Domini Johannis de Balliol, & pro animabus predecessorum nostrorum omniumque fidelium defunctorum, imo & pro nostra salute & incolumitate. Ita quod prima missa celebretur in prima Hebdomada Adventus Domini, & secunda in Hebdomada Septuagessime, & tertia in prima Hebdomada post octavas Pasche: & fiant predicte miss de Sancto Spiritu, vel de Beata Virgine, vel pro defunctis secundum dispositionem Procuratorum. Singulis etiam diebus, tam in prandio quam in Caena dicant benedictionem antequam comedant, & post refectionem gratias agant: Et orent specialiter pro anima dilecti mariti nostri superius nominati, & pro animabus omnium predecessorum nostrorum imo & liberorum defunctorum, pro incolumitate etiam nostra & liberorum ceterorumque amicorum nostrorum vivorum: Item & pro nostris Procuratoribus secundum formam antiquitùs usitatam. Et ut melius provideatur sustentationi pauperum ad quorum utilitatem intendimus laborare, volumus quod ditiores in Societate Scolarium nostrorum ita temperatè studeant vivere ut pauperes nullo modo graventur propter expensas onerosas; & si contigerit totam communitatem Scolarium nostrorum in expensis communibus aliqua septimana excedere portionem à nobis eis impersam, volumus & precipimus districtè quod ad solutionem illarum expensarum excedentium, nihil omnino recipiatur ultra unum denarium in una septimana ab eis qui secundum discretionem, & arbitrium Procuratorum nostrorum judicantur impotentes & insufficientes ad t●●alem illarum expensarum solutionem faciendam. Si aequalis portio deberet ab omnibus Sociis exhiberi, praedicta tamen nolumus excedi ad magnam vacationem quae durat à Translatione B. Thomae Martyris, usque ad festum B. Luce, nec etiam ad septimanas in quibus occurrunt festa Nativitatis Dominice Circumcisionis Epiphanie Pasche & Pentecostes, nec inaliis casibus in quibus Procuratores nostri judicav●rint illud omittendum. Volumus etiam Procuratores nostros diligentem habere examinationem super prefata Scolarium nostrorum impotentia & quod Scolares ipsi ad Procuratores accedant cum omni confidentia pro eorum necessitate intimanda. Et si contigerit aliquem vel aliquos de Scolaribus nostris contra ordinationem illam murmurare, aut occasione istius ordinationis pauperiores verbo vel signo aliquo provocare, volumus quod Scolares nostri teneantur sub juramento nobis prestito nomina taliter murmurantium aut provocantium nostris Procuratoribus revelare: qui quidem Procuratores habita super hoc sufficienti probatione, autoritate presentium sine spe redeundi ipsum vel ipsos ejiciant indilatè. Statuimus etiam, quod Scolares nostri communiter loquantur Latinùm, & qui passim contra fecerit, à Principali corripiatur; Et si bis aut ter correptus se non emendaverit à communione mense separetur per se comedens & ultimus omnium serviatur: Et si incorrigibilis manserit per Hebdomadam, à Procuratoribus nostris eficiatur. Volumus etiam quod qualibet altera Hebdomada inter Scolares nostros in eadem domo disputetur unum Sophisma & determinetur, & hoc fiat circulariter ita ut Sophistae opponant & respondeant, & qui in Scholis determinaverint determinent, Si verò aliquis Sophista ita provectus fuerit quod merito possit in brevi in Scolis determinare, tunc ei dicatur à Principali quod prius determinet domi inter Socios suos. In fine autem cujuslibet disputationis praefigat Principalis diem disputatione sequentis, & disputationem regat & garrulos cohibeat & assignet Sophisma proximè disputandum, opponentem respondentem & determinatorem ut sic melius valeant providere. Consimili modo fiat qualibet altera Hebdomada de questione. Praecipimus etiam Scolaribus nostris firmiter injungentes, ut 
* a Corpore's Case (such as Will: Wright the Master gave in the Reign of Phil: and Mary. See the Register) wherein the Priest carried the Host. It was the Deacons Office Portare, i e. to move and remove the Altar, and all the Implements of it, Aug. lib. quaest. ex utroque mixt. nam utique Altare portaret & vasa ejus; which if not St. Augustine's, it was one that lived before him, vid. Cens. in append. tom. 4. oper. Aug. p. 416. See the Holy Table, name and thing.  Portatorium quod eis pro anima dilecti mariti nostri concessimus diligenter custodiant, nec aliquo modo permittant illud impignorari, vel quocunque titulo alienari. Habeant etiam Scolares nostri unum pauperem Scolarem per Procuratores nostros assignatum cui singulis diebus reliquias mense sue teneantur erogare, nisi Procuratores nostri illud decreverint omittendum. ut autem omnia & singula predicta à nostris Scolaribus tempore Procuratorum quorumcunque inviolabiliter observentur, presens scriptum Sigilli nostri munimine roboravimus.  
Datum apud Botel in Octavis assumptionis gloriosae Virginis Marie, Anno gratiae M C C. octogesimo secundo.    

SECT. 12.  
The Office of Procurators, [in whose hands had been the Government of the House from the very first Foundation till now] did not upon the choice of a Principal cease; the said Principal and Scholars being strictly obleiged to obey them, as you may observe in the perusal of these Statutes of Dervorgille, two years after the publication whereof, which was 1284 did she under her Seal, put a final establishment to the House for perpetuity, by Letters full of Piety and Public-spiritedness, directed to R. Sclikebury a Minorite: to whose discretion she thereby committed the choice of her Attorneys and Procurators to be made in her Name; the Scholars, before this, having chosen Walter Fodringheye to be Principal according to the Statutes. Whereupon Dervorgille and the rest of the Executors of John de Balliol had made a Grant to the said Walter Fodringheye, Principal, and the Scholars, of all the Goods of John de Balliol sore rhe perpetuation of the House. Ad perpetuationem domus de Balliol quam ille feliciter inchoavit & perpetuare decreverat, si mortis auctor & vite si●i concessisset suum adimplere propositum, are the very words of the Grant, dated Anno 1282. Whereupon divers obligations were now Sealed to the said Walter Fodringheye anc the Scholars, for the payment of monies due to John de Balliol: whereof one was from Walter Balliol Rector of Wickford, for the payment oe 59 pounds sterling 1282: and another from Stephen de Ewn Rector de Milford, for the payment of 44 pounds 13 shillings 4 pence, part of the 100 pound assigned to him by John de Balliol's Executors of the debt of Alan Fitz Count [Ex debito Alani Filii Comitis] This Bond was dated in festo Sancte Margarete 1285.   

SECT. 13.  
The said Grant of Dervorgille, and the rest, was backed with the Authority of the Bishop of Lincoln by Letters under his Seal, which first gives the Society the Style of Master and Scholars, the Tenor whereof is as follows.  
Vniversis sancte Matris Ecclesie filiis, ad quos presentes litere pervenerint. Oliverus permissione divina Lincoln Episcopus, salutem in Domino.  
Cum Nobilis Mulier Deoque devota Dervorguilla de Galewich Domina de Balliolo ad honorem & laudem summe & individue Trinitatis gloriosissime Virginis Marie genitricis unici Filii Dei, Beate Virginis & Martyris Katerine, a● totius Curie Celestis, & ad utilitatem totius Ecclesie Militantis & stabilimentum Vniversitatis Oxon pro anima Nobilis Viri Pie Recordationis Domin● Johannis de Balliolo quondam sponsi ejus, & pro animabus omnium Predecessorum, ac pro salute propria omniumque Successorum, Locum quendam cum Edificiis & omnibus pertinentiis quem Domum Scolarium de Balliolo censuit nu●oupandum, in nostra Diocesi apud Oxon, ubi viget studium generale, de novo ordinaverit, & in subsidium perpetuum sustentationis Magistri dicte Domus de Balliolo & Scholarium ejusdem assignaverit, eosque Philosophiam audire decreverit, & quousque in artibus cessaverint inibi commorari, Ex quibus incliyti moribus & scientia prediti exeuntes in religionem & alibi magnum fructus cumulum produxerint, & adhuc majorem Domino producent, Locumque predictum sen domum terris possessionibus ac variis proventibus in tantum pia devotione dotaverit atque ditaverit, quod studentes ●ibi congrue potuerint sustentari, sic quod nostri debitum officii charitatis & pietatis opera comprobaverit, precipue que d●vinae laudis ampliationem, curie caelestis venerationem & totius Ecclesiae Militantis exaltationem ac universitatis predicte fulcimentum respiciunt & honorem. Nos dicte Nobilis Domine devotionem in Domino commendantes sciatis dictorum Magistri & Scolarium Locique praedicti seu domus perpetuationem cum terris possessionibus & rebus aliis eidem domui appropriatis seu appropriandis in posterum ratam habentes, & gratam ipsum approbamus, & tenore presentium confirmamus ●idemque stabilitatis & firmitatis perpetue, quantum ad nos pertinet, robur plenissimum impertimur. Salvis ●piscopali auctoritate & Lincoln. Ecclesiae dignitate. In cujus ●ei tesstmonium sigillum nostrum presentibus est appensum.  
Datum apud Lidgton Secundo Junii, Anno Domini MCCLXXXIIII.   

SECT. 14.  
By which Letters it appears that the House is Dedicated to Saint Katerine in particular: whom Spondanus in his Epitome of Baronius, will have to be an abbreviation of Hecaterina. [a Name, says he, which seems to be derived from Hecate given by the Gentiles, she being a Gentle born viz. at Alexandria, though afterwards she might haply be called Dorothea, as Ruffinus names her at what time she become Christian] though whence she took the name of Dorothea, Spondanus does not found, saying she was better known by the name of Katerina, and so she is written in the rest of our Records * as well as here, and indeed Dorothea and Katerina have two distinct Holidays in the Calendar, viz. Dorothea, Feb. 6. and Katerina, Nou. 25. Now by what has been said it will appear how little reason there is for any to marvel. 1. Why she's written with K. and not with C. and much less upon consideration that even Karissimus is so too. And that it is so, is evident by several writings, which is agreeable to the manner of the ancients, with whom the Letter C of the Moderns had mostly the force of an S, as in ΑΣΣΑΡΙΟΝ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 assarium. So it is written in Arias Montanus his apparatus de Siclo, and in the Specimen of the ancient Greek Characters exhibited in Prologom▪ ad Biblia Polyglot. out of the Alexandrian Mss. Lops 1. v. 1. viz. ΜΑΚΑΡΙΟΣΑΝΗΡΟΣΟΥΚΕΠΟΡΕΥΘΗΕΝΒΟΥΓΗΑΣΕΒΩΝ, etc. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. In which Specimen there are divers Characters that are found indifferently both in Greek and Latin Alphabets, which comes to pass by reason that as the Latin Alphabet owes its Original to the Greek; so the Greeks, after the Roman Conquest, received from the Latins both Lerters and Words too: such as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Mat. 27. 65. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mark, 15. 16. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Joh. 2. 15. So that it will be in vain to inquire unto what Alphabet the Letter C doth originally belong: the inquiry should rather be, what force it carries in either Language? In Greek it seems to have had always the force of an S, it being a Σ: but in Latin it hath a middle pronunciation between that of K and S, as Quintianus Stoa hath acutely noted in verse, as may be seen in Scapula's Lexicon.  

C Linguam adpulsos compellit ad usque molares.  
K Fauc es formant media cum parte palati.  
S Cum fit peragit colliso sibila dente.   
The pronunciation therefore of K beginning at the Throat, that of S, at the Foreteeth, that of C, between both; it follows that C hath a middle pronunciation between K and S, the which being very difficult, its pronounced sometimes like K, and sometimes like S. For the preservation of the force whereof in the French and Spanish Languages, where it has the consonancy of S its noted by a little s at the foot of it: as in façon, which is pronounced fasson, and Allanscon, which is pronounced Allanscon, and Garçon, which is pronounced Garson (from whence Garcio in Sr. Philip Somervyles Statutes, comes, h. e. a Boy. Magister habeat Gartionem sibi ministrantem) with many other words in French. Alcamiento rebellion in Spanish, Alcan●ado obteynd Cora●on the heart which are pronounced Alsamiento, Corason, Alcansado, with an abundance of other words. And these things serve in short to justify the Ancients against those Moderns, who are ever apt to censure those times and persons of ignorance, and that so highly as if no reason could be given of many things they wrote and spoke. I shall instance in Thomas Aquinas [because he flourished about this time] his Synder●sis: which they will have, sorsooth to be a great piece of ignorance; when indeed it argued rather knowledge both in the signification and pronunciation of the Greek. The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is rightly defined by him, to be a natural habit of practic principles, which He, part 1, hath written in Latin Characters Synder●sis, because that wheresoever τ follows ν, it has the consonancy of a δ, as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is pronounced panda, a thing observed by the natural Greeks to this day. Upon the same ground P conceive it to be, that Lud. Vives upon St. Aust. de Civ. Dei l. 22 c, 11. excuseth Tully for writing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 instead of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in his relation of Aristotle's opinion, l. 1. Tusc. q. saying that they are the same in pronuncition. Modern Editions therefore have done amiss in reading it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Text, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Margin▪ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in neither: whereby they have made it not Tullie's but an effect of their own ignorance. Qu● bene vertendo & describends malè ex Ciceronianis bonis sua fecerunt non bon● 
* b Ter. E●n●ch. in prolog.  we need go not further then our own language for the proof of th● 
† An Error observed even in Lucian's time, Anno 110 who in his Dialogue called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 (h. e. judicium vocalium) wherein Σ brings his Action against Τ, making the 5 vowels Judges of the controversy, says that T hath not only been injurious to Σ, but also to Δ and Ζ and THgr;, and almost all the Elements of the Letters▪ for says he, Surripuit mihi meam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pro qua vult dici 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, quod sane contrarium est omnibus legibus.  premises: wherein we found Abington or Abinton to be pronounced and written Abindon or Abingdon: so also Huntingdon Huntingdon; Farington Farindon. Cicero therefore in Oratory says, that Vsum loquendi populo concessi, scientiam mihi reservavi. And Quintil. says, Orthographiam consu▪ etudini servire, ideoque saepe mutari. And to Apologise, not for Letters only and pronunciation, but for words, which we may hereafter meet with in these Records, or elsewhere, I will allege that of the Poet.  

Multa renascuntur quae jam cecidere, cadentque  
Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus  
Quem penes arbitrium est & jus & Norma loquendi.   
But to return from this digression, to our St. Katerine again, I say in the Second place that if this, and that of Spondanus be true, they are mistaken that have written the word with an H as Catherina: and they more, who imagine it to be derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and therefore [imagining a mistake in the ● Gregorian Calendar word Catherina, which our Rubric follows] they writ it Catharina, which Error both our Universities have been guilty 
† Printed at Paris 1583.  of, in their Books of Verses upon the Arrival▪ of our Queen, and her Marriage to our Sovereign Lord K. Charles the Second: perhaps led thereunto by the Breviary and Mass-Book, in both which it is Catharina, but falsely. For the writing of the word Catharina in the Roman Calendar seems to be grounded upon the Legend of Saint Catherine, the sum whereof is as follows.  

† This could be but a Regulus, Egypt being subject to the Roman Empire, and so had been from the time of Cleopatra. And this Regulus or Governor is said to be, 〈◊〉 the best, but a Gentleman of Rome . There was at Alexandria a King, called * Cost●●▪ very rich and glorious, but for a long time without issue, and being Pagan, offered many Sacrifices to the Gods for issue: but, because Devils cannot Created a human Soul, they were all in vain: Mean while a certain Philosopher, named Alpho●abius dwelled in Greece, to whom the said King sent to know whither he should have any issue by his Queen? To whom the Philosopher made answer, that it proceeded not from any defect in nature, but Divine Providence, and therefore advised him to offer Sacrifices. But the King replying that many Sacrifices had been offered already, the Philosopher rejoined, that though we call many Gods, yet reason dictated that there was one above all the rest, * and therefore advised the King 
† The Gentiles, in those times, did make, for the most part, these divisions of Gods. That there was One Great God, others were little ones: so Epiph●nius l. 3. tom. 1. h●res. 76. D●us primus dat omnibus omnia; dij vero omnibus aliqua largiuntur, Jamblichus de mist. c. 33. Alios esse superos Deos, Alios inferos. Arnob. l. 7. which and much more, is collected of them by the Magdeburgenses, Cent. 4. c. 15. de o●pitib●● opinionum Gentilium▪ de Deo.  to cast one Image of Gold to the great God of gods, and to do Sacrifice to him for issue, which the King commanded to be done accordingly. But besides the intent of the Artisan, there come forth the Image of our Crucified Saviour, which when brought into the Temple, all the Idols fell down before. Whereupon shortly after, the Queen was delivered of a Girl; which, from the rvine of the said Idols, was named Catherina, which implies Ruin; for it is compounded [or rather follows the composition] of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, capio, corripi● or invalid●, which by reason of the aspitate in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, is made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in composition, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Preterperfect Tense; and therefore Pom●rius in his Sermons de S. Cath. is mistaken, who writes her Catharina, and yet says it signifies Ruina; whereas he should have written it Catherina; for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is deturbatio, or eversio *. But to follow this Legend a little farther: She is said to have learned 
✚ 2 Cor. 10. 4▪ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. ad eversionem seu destructionem muni●ionum. 2 Cor. 13. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. ad ●dificationem, & non ad destructionem.  all the Liberal Arts by 13 years of age; for which reason, she was called Gemma by the Masters of Greece. Her Father, upon his death bed, charged her to worship this great God of gods, and his Image. Secondly, not to Mary any but one equal to herself in Blood, Beauty, Learning, and Richeses. Now Father & Mother being both dead, she held the Reinss of the Kingdom with much wisdom, afterwards she travelling to Alexandria lost her way, and lighted upon the Cell of an Hermit, where beholding a Crucifix, she said that that man and she worshipped the same God; and after long discourse she was persuaded by the Hermit to be Married to Christ, as having all those Conditions, which her Father required in her Matching: She yielded, and dreaming that she was Married to Him, found a Ring upon her Finger in the morning. After this, she confuted many Philosophers, whom Maxentius the Emperor set to dispute with her. She converted the Soldiers which were to guard her in Prison, and after to Execution. She caused the Wheels to be broken which were presented to her to torment her. At last she was beheaded, whose Body the Angels took and buried in Mount Sinai; out of whose bones continually flows an Oil, which cures the Members of all languid persons. The strangeness of some part of this Relation is enough to make a man distrust the truth of the whole: Wherhfore I shall adhere to my Katerina [for if Spondanus be (as he seems) ashamed of the Legend, I see no cause for me to be in love with it.] and that without derogation hereby to the Honour of St. Katerine, or our gracious Queen, who bears the same name, whom Married to our Sovereign K. CHARLES my Muse thus bespeaks.  

Qualiter 
a h. e. Portugaliae.  Imperium peperit 
b Daughter of Pr. Edw. Son of Emanuel King of Portugal, Mother to Theodosius Father to joh. Duke of Braganza.  Caterina Braganzae  
Taliter id Magno pariat Caterina Brittanno.  
Quae 
c Caterina [quasi Hecaterina & per epenthesis Heccaterina, ab Hecate] vir go & Martyr. Spond. add an. 307. Hecate n. nomen est Dianae▪ Junoni, & Proserpinae accomodatum: quae & tergemina dicitur vel triformis, habens Imperium Lunae, Aeris & subterranearum divitiarum▪ quod C A R. II hisce nuptiis acquisivisse videatur.  Caterina cluens, plus quam Heccaterina vocetur  
ut cui Tergeminae sors sit superanda d Dianae.  
Carolus, hâc socia Thalami, Plutonis ad antra  
Proferat Imperium, sub quo Mercator ad Indos  
Aequora tutus art, loculos distentus & auro  
Quod Tagus & rutilâ volvit Pactolus arenâ.  
Heroes pariter peperit quos regia Juno,  
Baetica queis facies, huic vectigalia solvant,  
Tertia ne d●sit tandem Cui summa potestas,  
Lysiadum ingenio novus & monstrabitur orbis  
In Lunâ. Imperium non est sed inane quod optas,  
[Satque superque tuum variantia lumina sensit  
Qualia vel rapidis velox Latonia bigis]  
Carole, sed castis adolere altari● tedis  
Cum sponsa tali, & quanto felicior es, qui  
Hanc cuperes, quàm qui totum sibi posceret orbem!   
These Verses (though Printed in the foresaid Book) I have again Printed here, because that the Supervisors of the Press have there mistaken them.  
But to return; it appears by the premises, That it was not intended that the Scholars of the first Foundation should continued in the House any longer then Quousque in Artibus cessaverit, h. e. till they be Masters of Art complete, in opposition to Inceptors, sc. Beginners or Commencers, as the Cambridge word is, which they preposterously use for such as do stand in the Act, and become complete Masters. But the rigour of this Statute was taken of by the Pope of Rome, as I found it verified under the hand of a public Notary, wherein is specified the Gift of Abboldsley by Sir William Felton; which Instrument bears date, Anno 1520, when Ri●: Stubbies was Master: though the Manor was given, and the Appropriation of the Benefice made long before, as hereafter we shall see. And now the fourth thing observable is, That these Letters of the Bishop given a date to a Deed that bears noon: Which is a Writing wherein Dervorgille did confirm to God, and to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and to the Principal and Scholars of Balliol, all the Land, with the appurtenances thereof, which Robert Waldron formerly held in Stamfordham and the Howgh in the County of Northumberland [besides the Lands which Sir Jo: de Swinbourn gave them there, that are contained in a Deed by itself] the which Lands, she and the Coexecutors of her once Husband John de Balliol, of happy memory, did buy with a certain parcel of money, assigned thereunto by him in his last Will and Testament, Sealed with her own Seal; which must be done before the Bishops Letters of Confirmation: 1. Because therein mention is made of Dervorgilles having even then endowed and enriched the House with divers Possessions and come in; which, as far as I found and can guests, could not be understood of any other then these. Secondly, because no mention is made [in this Writing] of St. Katerine, which is an Argument that it was of ancienter date then the Bishops Letters, which entitles her as well as the B. Virgin to the Patronage of the House.   

SECT. 15.  
Now that the foresaid Lands in Stamfordham and Howgh were of themselves a Manor, appears by the first Lease of them that ever was set since they were the Colleges; which Lease was granted by Walter Fodringheye, the first Principal [whom the Scholars made their Attorney to that intent] to Jo: Lucchefield, viz. That the said Walter had let to him all the Land in the Village of▪ Stamfordham and the Howgh, which belong to the Domain with the Farms, and Rents of free Tenants, Cottages and Husbandmen, with a Mill, Pastures and Feed, with all other Appriseaments and Approxiaments within and without the Village, excepting the Courts and Amerciaments, etc. and this upon payment of 16 l. 18 s. sterling per annum, which now a Man would think could not be lesle then 340 l. per annum; and so much I am informed the whole manor to be now at. To this, if you add the ten Marks due from Hugh Balliol▪ Sect. 1. now as good as 240 l. and the 100 Marks plundered by Baldwin Wake, worth about 2000 l. now, Sect. 6. and the debt due from Musgrave, ibid. besides those from Walter Balliol and Steven de Ewer, as good as 2000 l. now is, Sect. 12. its enough to tender the College very considerable, as being between 4000 and 5000 l. to this may be added, the Houses which Devorgille gave in Oxon, besides the site of the College which cost her 80 Marks sterling, which is as good as 1000 l. now is. Yet so it was, that in Anno 1403. all our Lands in Howgh and Stamfordham, were set for 4 marks 3 s. 4 d. per annum: whereupon I conclude, That all our Manors and Demesns given by Dervorgille, were quickly lost, those only of S●inburns gift remaining [with exemption from doing any Suit or Service for them at the Court of Stamfordham and Howgh, as by a Letter of Record may appear] of which Lands I take the Rent of 4 marks 3 s. 4 d. aforesaid to be understood; which now a man would think to be improved to 50 or 60 l. This is now set with the Rectory and Demesns of Mickle Benton in one Lease. But the loss of the foresaid Manor might given occasion to ignorant persons of the ill report raised on John Balliol King of Scats: But why [if any such thing had been done by any of that Family] might it not rather be by Hugh de Balliol, elder Brother to the said John? which Hugh, never paid us for his two Horses before mentioned: whom had he been just to his Father's Ele●mosynaties here, God might have blessed with longer life to the enjoyment of that Kingdom which his younger Brother John de Balliol lived to possess; a name nevertheless, which proved as unhappy to Scotland, as it had to England before, and did to France afterwards. Another reason of diminution of Rents [though not of the sweeping away of whole Manors] may be the Tenants living upon the Borders of both Kingdoms, with whom it is no news to deceive their Landlords. In Anno 1412. the Rectory of Benton and Killingworth, and Westdade, with the members thereof, were set at a Rent: but sub cautione si Scoti omnia vastaverint: so now when they have a mind to make any defalkation of Rent, then Scoti omnia devastârunt, or some such thing must fall out, by which Artifice they have, since the beginning of the War, not only defalcated our Rent, but brought us 500 l. in their debt for Quarter and Contribution: yet so honest have they been at their last renewing, that they have confessed double the Acres which we demanded of them, according to our old Terriers; and the reason they given, is, That the Acres mentioned in our Terriers are Bishops Acres, one whereof is two of our Statute Acres, which▪ contain forty Perches in length, and four in breadth, and in all 160: and upon the last renewing of their Lease, they entered into a Bond of 500 l. to bring in a perfect ●e●●ier upon Oath, within three Years, of all our Lands in the Howgh, Si●mfordham and Muckle Benton, etc. which they holdfrom us by Lease.   

SECT. 16.  
Now Dervorgill● having bought all the Buildings and place in Horsmongers street without North-gate, in Magdalen Parish, lying between the Land formerly belonging to Jeffrey le Sa●ser on the one part, and the Land of Walter Feteplace on the other, of Thomas Ewe, Son and Heir of John de Ewe Burgess of Oxford, for 80 Marks sterling [as good as 1000 l. now is] and some small quit Rents, as appears, by a Writing without date [wherein she's written Dervourgwilla] gave all the place, Buildings and Appurtenances which were Hers there, to Walter Fodri●gheye Principal, and the Scholars of Balliol in Oxon: Witness Oliver Bishop of Lincoln, and Mr. Roger Rodwell then Chancellor of the University, 1284. which was the Man●●on of the Scholars, as may be seen upon the backside of Ewes Deed to Dervorgille: whereon is written this, viz. Feoffamentum 
See the following confirmation, from John Balliol afterwards K. of Scots, and Son to our Founder.  Thome de Ewe, de Aula nostra in qua manemus: whereof the 〈…〉 Stable and Coach-house, with the adjoining Tenement next the Ballcourt, with other appurtenances, were not a part; whereof more hereafter. After this, viz. 13 Ed. 1. it appears by Letters Patents, that Dervorgille obtained a Licence from the King of giving to the House one Message [no● Balls House] in the Suburbs of Oxon: and this must be about the Year 1286. Her doing of good works continued so long, that they trod upon her heels to Heaven: for the last time that ever we read of any Act of hers, is 1287. when the Executors of Jo: de Balliol, with the consent and assent of her Ladyship, resigned all their power into the hands of Walter de Fodringheye and the Scholars, viz. as well that which they had of or in the Goods of John de Balliol as any other, to any intent or purpose; unless Richard de Sclikbury should hap to be alive, to whom Dervorgille had committed the choice of Attorneys and Procurators for the House, as we said before. After these things we found John de Balliol [afterwards King of Scots] confirming as well the then Site of the College, as the Lands in Howgh and Stamfordham [given by her] under his Seal [which is the very same with his Fathers and the Colleges] in haec verba.  
Omnibus Christi fidelibus presens scriptum visuris vel audituris. Johannes de Balliolo filius Domini Johannis de Balliolo salutem in Domino sempiternam. Noveritis me vidisse & inspexisse scriptum Karissime Domine matris me Domine De●vorgille de Galwichia Domine de Balliolo de feofatione & perpetuatione domus Scolarium de Balliolo Oxonie suo sigillo signatum in hec verba. In nomine Sancte Trinitatis & individue unitatis patris fil●i & Spiritus Sancti, Amen. Gloriosissime▪ Virginis Marie, Virgins & Martyris Katerine beatissime totiusque curie celestis & ecclesie militantis. Ego Dervorguil: de Galwichia D●●: de Balliolo in m●a propria viduitate & legia potestate ●ōstituta, cupiens & volens quandam Eleemosynan Oxon: p●rpetuare ubi viget studium generale, quam bone memory D●s. Joh: de Balliolo sponsus meus Karissimus cujus anime propitietur altissimus pietatis intuitu quondam suscitante ibidem. Pr● anima videlicet dicti sponsi mei perdilecti & pro animabus patris mei matris me & omnium pred●cessorum meorum sc. & pro salute propria pro●is me & omnium successorum meorum do concedo & in perpetuum pro me & heredibus meis confirmo Mro Waltero de Fodringheye Principali & Sociis suis Scolaribus dictis de Balliolo in Universitate Oxon studentibus & eorum successoribus per legitimam electionem societatem illam intrantibus & in ea commorantibus secundum quedam statuta ad hoc specialiter ordinata & meo sigillo r●borota totam 
The College first settled in Horsmongersstreet.  placeam cum edificiis & omnibus suis pertinentiis quam emi de Thoma de Ewe filio & herede Johannis de Ewe burgensis Oxon in Horsmongerstreet in Parochia Beat Marie Magdalene in suburbio Oxon quam quidem placeam cum edificiis predictis Principali & scolaribus & eorum successoribus pro loco habitationis in perpetuum concedo & assigno. Quem etiam locum domum Scolarium de Balliolo censeo nuncupari, in qua dictos Principalem & Scolares & eorum successores in forma predicta ad dictam societatem electos perpetuo moraturos esse decerno. Cui siquidem domui & scolaribus in eadem, concedonte Domino in perpetuum moraturis totam terram de Stamwortham & de le Howh in Comitatu Northumber. cum omnibus suis pertinentiis concessi assignavi & in subsidium perpetue sustentationis predictorum Principalis & Scolarium & eorum successorum pro me & heredibus meis confirmavi. Quam 
† Called Waldroa before.  quidem terram executores Testamenti Domini Johannis de Balliolo, dilecti sponse mei supradicti emerunt dudum de Domino Roberto * Walraven, pro quadam summa pecunie in dicto Testamento ad hoc specialiter ordinata. omnia vero superdicta dictis Principali & Scolaribus & eorum successoribus dedi concessi & assignavi & libera voluntate mea pro me & heredibus meis confirmavi in liberam puram & perpetuam Ele●mosynam. Et ego & heredes mei omnia predicta dictis Principali & Scolaribus & eorum successoribus, contra omnes mortales warrantizabimus acquietabimus & futuris temporibus defendemus in omnibus & per omnia secundum tenorem cartarum quas cis inde confeci meo Sigillo roboratarum. Et ut hec mea do●atio assignatio warrantizatio acquietatio & defensio pro me & heredibus meis dictis Principali & Scolaribus & eorum successoribus robur perpetue firmitatis & stabilitatis obtineat presenti scripto sigillum meum est appensum: his testibus Dominis Antonio Dei gratia tune Dunelm. Epis●. & Olivero eadem gratia Episc. Lincoln. Dominis Hugh de Ewer, Johan: de 
Called Rodwe●●e before.  Swinburn, Roberto de Menevile, Waltero de Camhowe militibus, Mr● Rogero de Rowelle, tun● Cancellario Vniversitatis Oxon: Mro Simone de Gandauno, tum ejusdem ville Archidiacono, Domino Roberto de Avenel, tunc Rectore Ecclesie de Stamwortham, Johan: de Erington, Ricardo Benewich, Willielmo de Saulton, & aliis. Ego vero Johannes de Balliolo filius & Heres Domini Johannis de Balliolo, omnibus predictis inspectis & bene & distincte intellectis ipsa omnia & singula prescripta in omnibus & per omnia secundum quod liberius quietius vel melius predictum est pro me & heredibus meis concedo ratifico & in perpetuum confirmo. ●t ut hec mea concessio ratificatio & confirmatio pro me & heredibus meis in omnibus & singulis perpetuum robur firmitatis obtineant, hoc scriptum sigillo meo roboratum predictis Scolaribus fieri feci, his testibus Dominis Gilberto de Vnfraude Comite de Angus, Roberto filio Rogeri, Rogero de Lonecaster, Hugone de Ever, Roberto de Insula, Waltero de Camhowe, Johanne de Swinburn, Hugone de Subyny, Roberto Bertram de Bottal, Rogero Mandate, Rad. de Effingdene, & aliis.  
There is another Grant of the same John de Balliol, to the very same intent and purpose, and for the most part verbatim the same, witnessed by the same persons, but written with a far different hand: Only I take one thing material to be observed, viz. That in the Conclusion of the other, He is written barely Filius Domini Johannis de Balliolo; but here he is written, Filius & Heres Domini Johannis de Balliolo: and that therefore the former was either before the death of Hugh de Balliol, and this after; or else for that omission that was judged insufficient, and therefore received a speedy emendation according to the Tenor hereof. But notwithstanding this confirmation of John de Balliol, Son to our Founders, and afterwards King of Scots as hath been said, I found no Disclaimer of the Heirs of Robert Waldron, or Walraven, of the Land in Howgh and Stamfordham, bought of him by Dervorgille as aforesaid [a thing requisite and usual in those times] which might be the reason why we lost them. Yet doth not this free the Heirs of our Foundress, or of John de Balliol her Son, from the obligation of the Warranties they have given us, in hec verba, sc: Contra omnes mortales, not against their Heirs alone, warrantizabimus acquietabimus & futuris temporibus defendemus: which might probably have wrought upon the Royal Spirit of King James, had Doctor Lily urged it in his Petition, and had not his mistake in the beginning occasioned a sudden rejection thereof without perusal; which mistake was, That John Balliol King of Scots was our Founder, which that learned King knew to be otherwise.   

SECT. 17.  
Now K. Ed. 1. taking occasion to banish all Jews out of this Kingdom, with Licence to cell or carry away their moveables only, all their Lands come into the King's hands as Escheats. Now I found that of Jews Houses in Oxford, the King, in the nineteenth Year of his Reign, granted to William turnel Provost of Wells, nine Messages, with their Tenements and Appurtenances [whereof seven were in the Parish of St. Aldates', one in St. Martyn's, and another was a School of the Jews] one of those nine Messages was called The Synagogue, whereunto did belong the entrance in at the great Port or Gate, and the sollar over it; from which great or broad Port o● Gate, as it is thought, the House of the Students [now Pembroke College] was called Aula Lateportensis, or Broadgates-hall. This Synagogue and Port was given to Stephanus de Cornubia, Master of this House, and the Scholars, 35 Ed. 1. The rest of the premises, together with ten Shops, did the same William Burnel bestow upon our said House: For the confirmation whereof, we have Licence of Mortmain, and other Letters Patents from the King, a confirmation of the Gift from Queen Margaret, 8 Edw. 2. [which King was her Son] the disclaim of Edward Burnel, Heir to rhe said William, with all other circumstances of Law contained in a multitude of Writings; which makes me wonder how it comes to pass that we have scarce one of those Houses remaining to us in St. Aldate's Parish, and noon of the shops. [That House in Grandpont [vulgò Grampool] though in the same Parish 
† See Sect. 18. in Alban-hall.  now, yet then in St. Michael's at the South * Port [which St. Michael's hath been since consolidated with St. Aldate's] being of another Foundation] unless it were to make way for the Building of Christ Church, called the Cardinal's College. And indeed it was mostly to that end; in recompense whereof, we were promised Lands, Houses, or Money, but never received any, as appears under the hand of a Public Notary of the Bishop of London, Anno 1529. The Year before the Donation of these Houses, viz. 7 Edw. 2. I found that Henry Har●la, Professor of Divinity, was Chancellor of the University, and so was he the Year following: but who was the next Year I do not found: The Chancellor's place being not made perpetual before 21 Ed. 4. John Russel Bishop of Lincoln being the first that ever so enjoyed it, as Godwin of Bishops will tell you: But this by the way.   

SECT. 18.  
But in order before this, I should have mentioned the gift of Richard Hunsington and Walter Horkstow, who gave two Messages; one called St. Hughs-hall, the other Hert-hall, Anno 18 Edw. 1. confirmed by Letters Patents. It appears by a Court Roll of the Mayor of Oxon, held Mercurii in Festo Sancti Edw. Regis, Anno Edw. 3. 19 that we had a Tenement in St. Mildred's Parish [the Church whereof stood where Lincoln College Ballcourt now is] called St. Hughes-hall, which my Friend, who brought me a Transcript of the Record, would have to be understood of this St. Hughs-hall, which I contend to be part of our College: he supposing it not to be so, but that it was the Site of the Divinity School [which the University pays us Rent for, to this day, whereof elsewhere] But whatever the name of the said Site of the Divinity School was, it is as clear as may be that they are distinct things given us by distinct Benefactors: for this St. Hughes-hall, which I will have to be a part of our College (together with that Hert-hall) was given, as you see, by Richard Hunsington and Walter Horkstow, Anno 18 Edw. 1. but the place of the site of the Divinity School was given by Jeffrey Horkstow and Richard Staynton, Anno 11 Ed. 2. He will likewise have Hert-hall here mentioned too, to be that slip of Ground annexed to Alban-hall, which is proved to be otherwise by the same observation. This Heart hall being given by Rich: Hunsington and Walter Horkstow, but that piece of Land was given by Richard Hunsingoure, of the legacy of Walter de Fodringheye, whereof elsewhere. Many Halls bearing the same name heretofore, no Argument can be drawn 
† Hart-hall, which remains to this day, is confessed to be neither of these, which argues many Halls to have been of the same name.  from the Identity thereof to the sameness of the places; * neither is it likely that we should pay four shillings a Year quit Rend to the King for that piece of Ground by Alban-hall (as the Record imports) and receive but two shillings ourselves from Merton College 
† There are Writings which mention a Hart-hall of ours, given by Ric: Hunsingoure in Saint Johas Parish, for the which we were to pay 4 s. per annum to the Hospital of St. John: but neither could this be that he meaneth, for the reasons aforesaid. And now mention being made of Saint John's Parish, we must note that there were two St. John's; the one Saint John de Merton, which was so called, because annexed to Merton Col. the other St. John's Chapel just opposite to that, and on the other side of the Town, which now joins to Hert-hall: At the four Gates also of the Town, were four Churches, viz. St. Michael's at the North Port, St. Michael's at the South Port, St. Bodocks at the West Gate, and Trinity Chapel at the East. Bullocks-la●e is not so called from a corruption of Bodock, but from one Bullock a Scavenger, who obtained leave of building a House there, whose precedent others followed: before which time, it was a voided place to receive, as I am informed, the dirt of the Town; as also all that Green was, which lies on the North-side of the Way to High-bridge, and leveled about 30 Years since. . Now besides these Letters Patents, I found another Charter of a latter date for the confirmation of Chimers-hall and the Schools, as also for the confirmation of those places for the enlargement of our House standing neare them: of one whereof Walter Fodringheye was the Donor [which three places must be where the Site of the College now is, as St. Hughes-hall and Hert-hall probably were] But the said Chimers-hall was in Sydyerd-street, in the Parish of St. Edward the King; and this was given by Hugo de Sancto Yvon, and Jeffrey Horkstow, 4 Ed. 2. whereof [sc. Chimers-hall] more hereafter. The Year before this, viz. 3 Edw. 2. two places of Land in Horsmongers street, for the enlargement of the House, were given by Gilbert de Pomfrait, and Thomas Humbleton, which lay between the Land of John Slatter on the West, and the land of the Monks of Durham on the East, containing 180 Feet in length, and 50 Feet in breadth, which is all the East part of the College. This is half way met by a piece of land extended from the Street Westward to the College Garden, which we hold from Magdalen College, the Lease whereof was renewed Anno 1663. with one other Tenement extending from the way over against the East end of St. M. Magdalen's Church, to the land of the Monks of Dunelm, now Trinity College; passed over by Jeffrey Sawser to Walter Fodringheye, with liberty to given it to this College by a Deed without date (but it may be known from the observation of the time in which Fodringheye lived) obliegeing himself to acknowledge a Fine; which I only note by the way, that Fines were then want to be levied. And this Tenement seeming to meet that given by Ponfrait and Humbleton, as it were at right Angles, does therewith bound all the back parts of the College on two sides; the one abbutting on the little Garden and part of the Backside of Trinity College on the East, and the other on the same little Garden on the North, and answers in length to the measure of 180. (centum & quater viginti, as it is in the Deed) feet before given (at the lest) for the length; the breadth of 50 feet, extending from Trinity lane end, to the Chimney next the College Gate.   


✚ In the Box, cornering the Foundation of our College.  SECT. 19  
Anno Dom. 1293. * Oliver Bishop of Lincoln did grant to the Master and Scholars [for so they are called in the Grant] Licence, That, in as much as by reason of the frequency of Disputations and Lectures, they could not attended Divine Offices of the Parish Church [then in the Patronage of the Abbot of St. Mary Oseney] they might celebrated them in their own Oratory within the House, not prejudicing the Parish-Church in regard of Oblations and Obventions: Provided also, That they visited the Parish Church in the greater Solemnities of the Year, as other Scholars were bound to do to the Parishes wherein they lived, as in the said Grant is signified, wherein no leave was given them of celebrating the Sacraments, which was that which the House aimed at, not only as a convenience, but an advantage to themselves; but was never granted them [till it was done by the Authority of the Pope] though they afterwards prepared a better Fabric, which they called by the name of St. Katerines' Chapel. Indeed its being owned by a Saint, and that such a Saint as they esteemed St. Katerine to be, methinks should have moved the Bishop: But why they should think to have it done upon the naked account of Chapel, more then of that of an Oratory, there was little reason, if we regard a Chapels first institution, which was to be only a portable Oratory, all others being fixed and standing. The French Historians [as it seems by the Treasury of the History of France] make mention of a certain silken Banner of a Vermilion colour, called Oriflamme, from the Flames of Fire and colour of Gold represented therein; which Ensign they say, was never born but in a Battle against Infidels: but when once their Kings abused it against the Christians, it vanished as it come, that is, by Miracle. This Standard was kept in the Church of St. Denys in France (neare unto Paris) wherein, as in our Westminster Abbey, their Kings are Interred: But some say, that the English being rendered Masters of Paris, burned the Banner with the Maid of Orleans. This Oriflamme, they say, was the Cope of St. Denys; and that their Kings not able to have the Body of St. Martin entire for their ordinary Guard, found a means to have his Cope, which in French is called Chap or Chape; and commonly their Kings, who could not assist at the public Service, were want to have Clergy Men who followed them with portable Oratories, which they called Chapels and Chapelains, from this Chap, h. e. Cope of St. Martin, and that other of St. Denys: and so much for the derivation of the word Chapel. Though portable Oratories Sozomen testifies to have been first invented by Constantine, who in his Warlike Expeditions carried about a Tabernacle, made after the form of a Temple, wherein the Assemblies were gathered together for God's Worship, l. 1. c. 8. But notwithstanding these things, the Parisians think not themselves destitute of a Guard, viz. The most Rich Cabinet of St. Genevefue, whom they esteem the Protectress of their City [though St. Denys be tutelar Saint of France in general] and therefore they superstitiously ascribe the same power to this Rich Cabinet made to the honour, and kept in the Church of that Saint there, as others have done to Talismanical Figures: the Hebrew derivation whereof seems to be from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, whence comes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stella, draco, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 numerus: inasmuch as they were 
Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dic●ntur effectus stellarum. Arab. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tishm.  made according to and under the Figure of some Constellation or number of Stars then ascending, called Vultus Celestes, especially Draco or Ophiuchus, for the effects of these two are much alike, according to Junctinus in speculo Astrologiae, viz. That they which are born under them shall be Marsi [Sons of Circe's] able to mitigate and cure the sting of Serpents: whence some superstitiously conceive, That the Brazen Serpent lifted up in the Wilderness, was such a kind of Talisman. And these kinds of Fancies they have extended to the defence of places, saying, That before the taking of Constantinople, the Talismans' thereof were thrown into the Thracian Bosphorus. * But if the Constellations themselves have no 
✚ These are, by some, thought to be the Teraphim mentioned in Scripture, and that Laban's Images were such, vid. Seldenum de Dis: syr. The manner of making such, is set down by Schedius, de Dis Germanis, cap. 31. and by Grotius in cap. 31. Gen. where the Hebrew Word is Teraphim, which Reb. stole away, lest Laban from them should learn which way they went; or (as Josephus) that they might be a refuge against their pursuers: but Grotius upon Judg. 17. and upon ●os. 3. notes Teraphim to signify as well good as bad Angels. The good Teraphim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, says Grotius upon Judg. 17. Cherubinorum formam habuisse cens. Hieron. The Colossus at Rhodes is said by some to have been a Talisman, which was overthrown by an Earthquake, as is testified by Pliny; and the Brass whereof it consisted, was carried away by Mehua the Sultan of Egypt, successor to Selym●s, Anno Dom. 660. It was seventy Cubits in height; and although it were hollow, nine hundred Camels were laden with it. This might possibly given Answers and Intimations of things, by such kind of Artifice as the Papists make their Images to speak, to sweated, and to weep.  such efficacy, how should the Images made under them have any? But that the Constellations themselves have noon, is clear from hence, namely, That they are [according to reformed Astronomy] removed 30 degrees Eastward from the places they once held, the virtue remaining where they were before, as receiving it by impression made by that part of the Primum Mobile which was at first, and still continues directly over the same places; which they leaving, leave together with it their former virtue behinded them. The like may be said of this, and of many other Saints, viz. That they hold not those places in the reformed Sphere & Calendars which they have held heretofore, & at this day hold in the Roman; those virtues once ascribed to them, being acknowledged to remain in the Christians Primum Mobile alone, who is Yesterday, to day, and the same for ever. But that the Brazen Serpent should be a Talisman, is disproved from the very matter of it, which naturally not cures, but increases the grief arising from the bites or sting of Serpents; which was thought to have been done by Moses of purpose, that the Cure might not own itself to any thing in Nature, but to the Institution of God, ordaining it purely to be a Typical representation of our Saviour Christ nailed to the Cross, upon whom whosoever looketh with the eye of Faith [as the Israelites did upon this with that of the Body] shall be cured of the stings of the Fiery Serpents of sin. Aes natur●liter nocet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, sed Deus cum vim suam eximie vult ostendere operatur per contraria, says Grotius upon Numb. 2. 9 And albeit Moses were skilful in all the Wisdom of the Egyptians, he could not derive this use of the Heavenly Configurations from them: for although they acknowledged these Vultus Coelestes, yet, nor they nor the Chaldeans ever used them otherwise then ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉; the Greeks afterwards abusing them, ad fata geniturarum praenoscenda, etc. 
✚ Berosus, qui ipsefuit oriu●do Babylonius, primus scholam Graecis aperuit Chaldaeorum discipliaae qui post tempor● Alex: magni vixit, Salmas.  says Salmasius, de Annis climactericis in Praefat. * It cannot be denied that the Chaldeans and Egyptians made use of the Planets in their Divinations, from whom the Jews learned their Superstition: whence the Prophet Mica saith, c. 5. v. 12. Et exscidero praestigias è manu tua, adeò ut Planetarii non sint tibi, so Junius and Tremellius translate this, and that of Jerem. 27. 9 but this is nothing to the Configurations of the Fixed stars. And as for any disaster that may hap to a place, it is rather to be ascribed to Belshazzar's Tekelman, as I may so call it (then to these Talismans') viz. the Figure of a Hand writing its doom thus: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting, therefore God hath numbered thy happiness and finished it: The Author of Judgements being God's hand commonly working in means; and the subject of them, Man, too light upon the weights. It was therefore well said of an Englishman, who was one of the last Boat that loosed from Calais upon the surrender of that Town to the Duke of Guise, in the time of Queen Mary; when a Frenchman calling to him in a jeer from the shore, and ask him, When he would return again? he answered in good earnest: When your sins are greater then ours. Though the French, proud hereof, commend the Englishman for it; yet God doth not ever apparently use such an exact proportion of Judgements in this World, as we learn from the example of the Tower in Shiloe: and the Heathen Poet could say, 
— saepe Diespiter  
Neglectus, incesto addidit integrum.    

SECT. 20.  
By this time now had the Abbot and Convent of Mountreul in France (by Licence obtained from the King of England) sold a Soak of Land, and several Houses in St. Laurence Jury London, together with the Advowson of the Church of St. Laurence, to William [Facetus] Faucet; which said William gave them to Henry Faucet, and the said Henry to Hugh Wickenbrook, called Hugo de Vienna: which said Hugo de Vienna lastly bestowed them upon the Master and Scholars, Anno 1294. Next Year after this, the Church of St. Laurence was made an Appropriation to the College by the consent of the Incumbent, the Bishop, Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's; and last of all by the confirmation of the then King. The Composition then made, was, That the College should take all the Tithes, Fruits and Oblations whatsoever, to their own use; and that the Vicar should content himself with 100 s. per annum, arising out of the lesle Tithes and Oblations: and so he did till Anno 1549. when an Indenture was made between the College and Brogden the then Vicar, whereby the College granted him 20 l. per annum, with a House to live in, during the time he continued Vicar there [but not to his Successors] the Vicar having formerly lived in a House built at the charge of the Parish, the College allowing them the Porch and Vestry by way of Compensation, provided that this latter were used as a Vestry for ever, and not Farmed out. This was Anno 1390. Afterwards, viz. 1392. 2 Ric. 2. the College, with the consent of the said King, signified under the Broad Seal, gave a House to the Vicars, provided they paid to the College 20 s. per annum for ever: all which may appear by 57 several Writings. Now the Oblations and Obventions of such a Parish as that, could not make the Profits thereof lesle then 200 l. per annum better to the College then they are, which by reason of the Reformation, are ceased.   

SECT. 21.  
Anno Dom. 1310. Hugo de Warkeneby, and William de Socham, gave us four Messages with the Area adjoining, and the Appurtenances, in the Parish of St. Mary the Virgin, in the street of the School of Arts, to found some Chaplain in the Chapel of St. Katerine within our House, for the daily Celebration of Divine Offices; which they had bought of William Solby, Burgess of Oxford. These Houses and Places, together with the Schools formerly mentioned, Sect. 19 [besides which it does not appear that the University had any other for the Arts] we perceive now to be lost, without as much as the honour of the name left us, which we formerly had by the name of Balliol-hall and Balliol-schools: and as for the Area, we must understand that into the Schools of Arts, no Under-graduates were permitted to enter, as to the doing of any Exercise therein, but were left to dispute in the Area, or Court-yard adjoining: which in French being Parvis, our Answering of Generals, is thence called answering in Parvisiis, or in Parviso: which Exercise they now perform [though in the Schools, yet] under the protection of a Bachelor of Arts, whose Formality is a Licence to read Logic, etc. to enter into the Schools, to dispute, & reliqua peragere, qu● ad gradum Baccalaurei in artibus pertinent: and so much for that.   

SECT. 22.  
Anno 13 Edw. 2. which was about the Year, 1320. twelve Acres of Meadow, commonly called Baylymead, were given by Mr. Hunsingoure to the Master and Scholars, to found a Chaplain for the celebration of Divine Offices in the Chapel of St. Katerine, within the Mansion of the said Master and Scholars, confirmed by Letters Patents of the said King, to be held of the Manor of Wotton, for the Service of 15 d. per annum. King Edw. 4. afterwards understanding more Rent then this to be exacted by his Receivers, did by His Letters Patents confirm it upon the old Rent of 15 d. per annum, though our new Rebels reassumed those old Demands. But upon Remonstrance made by us of the premises, 
✚ This Baylymead Mr. Napper holds by his Wife's life.  they went not to trial with * us. The same Richard Hunsingoure had, before this, viz. 9 Edw. 2. given and confirmed to the Master and Scholars of the House of Balliol for ever, All that Tenement, with the Houses, Curtilage, and all other the Appurtenances in the Parish of St. John de Merton, lying between Alban-hall and Lomb-hall, which Tenement he had of the Legacy of Walter de Fodringheye, Canon of Lincoln [and probably he who had been Master before] witness Mr. Henry Harcla, then Chancellor of the University of Oxon, Jo: Ducklington Major, Robert Wathington and Jo: Kilward Bailiffs, etc. This is at present Leased to Merton College (and makes up a part of Alban-hall) the measure whereof is specified in the Lease. In the eleventh Year of the same King Edw. 2. Jeffrey Horkstow and Richard de Staynton, gave a Tenement within the Walls of Oxford, in the Parish of St. Mildred; which is that whereon the Divinity Schools stand, as is evident by the Lease thereof granted to the University of 99 Years, beginning 1427. in the fourth of Hen. 6. 
✚ Viz. Anno 1661.  which is about 234 Years since: The Lease is therefore expired * now 135 Years. The Rent is 7 s. per annum: The measure of the Ground is precisely set forth in the lease, together with the situation thereof, by the name of one voided place of land within the Walls of Oxon, situate between Exeter College on the West part, and the School-street on the East: from whence one end abbuts upon Exeter-lane towards the North [this Exeter-lane was the Pomaerium between Exeter College and the Townwall, which before the building of the present Chapel there, was our way to the Schools] and the other Head of it abbuts upon the Ground or Tenement of the Abbot and Convent of Dorchester, and of Balliol-hall, by Mildred-lane to the Southward; and it contains in length from North to South, 171 Feet and 5 Inches; and the greatest breadth thereof in any place is 130 Feet: For the more precise measure whereof, I must refer you to the Deed itself, yet remaining in our custody entire without the lest violation made, Thomas Chace being Chancellor of the University, and Robert Burley Master of the House: by both whom, it was desired that a change might be made (as soon as by Law it could be contrived) of this land for Sparrow-hall (which we call Old Balliol-hall) which we hold from the University at the Rent of 2 s. per annum; consideration being to be had of the inequality of the Rents: the overplus whereof [which is 5 s.] was to be made good to us upon some other place, etc. as by the Deeds may appear: which thing was lately attempted to be done, but by reason of Dr. Langbaines death, then Custos Archivorum, to whom the management of such things did belong, it did not obtain its effect, and that especially because the Books were drawn, and therein the only Caution that was allowed us for the 5 s. per annum, was Beef-hall: which because a part of Pembroke College I refused, as being no Townhouse, and improper for us to enter into and distrain for our Rent in case of non-payment at the day; besides that in the same Books they had couched all other places, where the Site of the other Schools now is, which were never intended in the exchange. Another piece of Land anciently belonging to our House, is a Garden and Curtilage lying between Exeter-hall [for so that College was then called] on the West, and Schools-street on the East, now part of Exeter College Garden; whereof more hereafter. And although I found but one Writing of Manger-hall, and that without date too; yet for the antiquity thereof I shall cast it in here, though where it stood I cannot show. But all those Halls or Messages whose situation is not noted, stood probably, where the site of the College now is, viz. This of Manger-hall, together with St. Hughes-hall and Hert-hall, Sect. 18. also Saucer-hall and New Balliol-hall, noted Sect. 7. whereunto may be added Margarets-hall (whereof more hereafter) and of this I am certain, but the rest I leave in medio till farther proof can be made pro or con.   

SECT. 23.  
And now we having, by the charity of our Benefactors aforesaid, gained two Chaplains, others began to entertain thoughts of a more elegant Chapel for us. For Anno Dom. 1327. Nich: Luceby then [Custos] Warden of our House (for so he's there called) and Mr. Thomas Otham, Chancellor of the University, and others, were Witnesses 
✚ The Abbot of Reading was one of those that had Votes in Parliament. See Spelman's Glossarium.  to a Deed under the Seal of the * Lord Abbot of Reading: wherein is set forth, That the said Abbot had delivered to the Scholars of the House of Balliol, Oxon, 
† As good as 400 l. now.  20 l. sterling for the Soul of Adam le Poleter, Burges of Reading, for the building of the Chapel of St. Katerine of the same House: whereunto the said Abbot added * 10 marks, besides a Glass Window of 10 l. and more (such is 
10 marks and 10 l. almost as good as 400 l. now is, a Gift otherwise scarce worthy of him, he being one of the 27 that had place in Parliament, whereof 25 were Abbots, and the other two were Priors, viz. The Prior of Coventry, and the Prior of St. John's of Jerusalem, according to Ascanius Tamburinius: The reason whereof is given by Spelman in Glassario; where speaking of the quantity of the penultima of Abbatis in the Gen. Case, he proves it to be long, by differencing it from Abbatis, or Abatis for an Ostler, etc. thus Abbatis ad caenam, dat equis Abbatis avenam.  his expression) for the same Chapel. And now as we had Licence from Oliver Bishop of Lincoln, to celebrated Divine Offices in our own Oratory, within our House, as hath been said: The same was obtained from his Successors Henry, John, and Thomas, which appears under the Seal of the said Thomas Bishop of Lincoln, Anno Dom. 1346. The same Licence also, and upon the same Conditions as all former were, was given by John B. of Lincoln, Anno 1368. In which last, our Oratory is called St. Katerines' Chapel, and in noon of the former. But as in those there was a tacit, so here was an express Exception of administering the Sacraments therein: A thing very strange, when upon the Petition of the House Pope Urban had given a Licence for it in the second Year of his Pontificate, as appears by the Record thereof (the hindrance whereof had been Oblations and Obventions, the great ●ore of those times, which was not endured to be touched.) Besides which Licence of the Popes, to celebrated Sacraments and all other Divine Services in our own Chapel, within our House, with exemption from all Duties to be done or paid to the Parish Church; we are freed from paying of Tithes for any Houses of ours, either in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen, or in all Oxford besides, as may appear by the Instrument itself, in the Box (in our Treasury) called Magdalen Parish Box, whereunto I refer you: But because time and some accident has begun to deface the Pope's Licence, I shall here insert it verbatim.  
●rbanus Episcopus servus servorum Dei Dilectis filiis Magistro & Scolaribus Collegii Clericorum domus de Balliolo de Oxonia Lincoln. Dioc. salutem apostolic. ben. P ia devotorum Deo & Ecclesie desideria que divini cultus augmentum ac ipsorum quietis commodum respicere dinoscuntur apostolico favore prosequimur, eisque benignum impertimur assensum. Exhibita siquidem nobis pro parte vestra continebat quod vos in quadam capella sita intra septa domus vestre de Balliolo de Oxonia Lincoln. Dioc. juxta statuta dicte domus per vos juramento vallata singulis diebus per proprios sacerdotes divina officia facere celebrari ac certis diebus eisdem Miss & horis canonicis personaliter interesse tenemini. Nos vestris in hac parte supplicationibus inclinati ut in capella predicta singuli vestrum qui fuerint in presbyteratus ordine constituti & alii Presbyteri dicte domus Missam & alia divina officia etiam in festis majoribus summissa & alta voce ●ure Parochialis Ecclesie & cujuslibet alterius in omnibus semper salvo celebrari valeatis quibuscunque Constitutionibus Apostolicis contrariis nequaquam obstantibus devotioni vestre auctoritate Apostolica tenore presentium indulgemus. Nulli ergo omnino hominum liccat hanc paginam nostre concessionis infringere vel ei a●su temerario contraire. Si quis autem hoc attemptare presumpserit indignationem omnipotentis Dei & beatorum ●etri & Pauli Apostolorum ejus se noverit incursurum. Dat: Avinioni xuj Kl. Maii Pontificatus nostri Anno secundo.  
This cannot be understood of Urban 6. (and therefore must precede that of John Bishop of Lincoln) inasmuch as his immediate Predecessor, Greg. 11. had reduced the Apostolic Seat to the City, because the Italians began to revolt from it, by reason of its so long continuance at Avignon, which had been the Seat of four Popes besides himself; who though he was created at Avignon, died at Rome: where also his immediate Successor, Urban 6. aforesaid was created, sat, and died: Nor why we (having obtained this Licence from the Pope) should receive another afterwards from the Bishop of Lincoln (and that disadvantageous too) do I understand, unless by reason that the Public Notary having put no Protocollum thereunto, 'twas thought not Authentic; or else because the Bishop thought it safer to contradict the Pope's Authority, then to displease the Abbot of Osney, in whose gift St. Mary Magdalen Parish Church then was, as is aforesaid; or then to undergo the displeasure of God, and of his Apostles Peter and Paul, who are there made the Vindicators of such contempt. Yet notwithstanding all this, we are not only permitted, but enjoined to celebrated and receive the Sacraments in our Chapel by the Injunctions of the Bishop of Lincoln's Commissioners in their Visitation, had in this College Martii 4. 1565, which are set down Sect. 31. verbatim.   

SECT. 24.  
Anno 1340. 15 Edw. 3. Besides a Grant made of the Domain Lands in Mickle Benton by Rokysborow, an Agreement was made for the maintenance of six Scholars above the ancient number, and one Chaplain, to be maintained out of the Lands given by Sir Philip Somervyle, viz. Two Cottages and six Acres of Land, with the Appurtenances in great, h. e. in Mickle Benton aforesaid, which are called The butts: and in the Statutes of Sir Philip Somervile the Advowson of the Church of Mickle Benton is also mentioned, with duabus carrucatis terre arabilis, & viginti acris prati; h. e. as some interpret it, as much as two Ploughs will Till in a Year, Charrue (which comes from * 
✚ (Or Carruca from Charrue) the Language of the Gauls (now pray erved in the Italian, French, and Spanish Languages) being not a corruption of the Latin, as the vulgar Error is; but the condition wherein it now is, proceeds from the light Impression that the Latin hath made upon it (as the learned Breerwood observes in his Inquiries of Languages) And it is doubtless ancienter then the Latin itself, having Declensions and Conjugations of its own, which resemble not those of the Latin at all: Declining all Words by Articles, as all Eastern Languages (except the Arabic) do, and not by variation of Terminations of Cases, as the Latin and Greek are want to do.  Carruca) being a Plough in French, the same some say is two Hides of Landlord The which two Carrucata or Hydes of Land, together with the said 20 Acres of Meadow, were further assured by the Release of Sir Philip's Heir, and other necessary Circumstances of Law. The next Year after this, the Rectory of Mickle Benton was appropriated to the College by the Bishop of Durham, as appears by divers Write. An Extract of the Instrument of the said Bishop is as follows. Habeant Vicarii totam terram ad dictam Ecclesiam ab antiquo spectantem libere sicut Rectores tenere solebant: nec non decimas lane & agnorum & pullanorum & vitulorum, lacticinii & alias decimas minutas quascunque. Magister autem & scolares integre percipient decimam Garbarum & feni totius Parochie predicte. procurationes Vicarius persoluet. Cancellum etiam supportabit quoad modicas & quotidianas refectiones: concerning which, we have almost 30 several Writings. Among which, are the Statutes of Sir Philip Somervile, confirmed by Edw: Balliol and the Bishop of Durham. About which time, or the Year before, the Rectory of Abboldesley, with the Manor thereof [whereunto Beeston was annexed, though since divided] was given to the College by Sir William Felton, for the augmentation of the Commons of the Fellows from 8 d. to 
Clement 6. who sat ten Years.  12 d. the week, and for supply of Clotheses and Books, with other Necessaries. The which Rectory was appropriated to this House by Pope Clement, a competency being reserved for the support of the Vicar there: by whom it was also granted, that the Scholars might continued in the House after they become Masters and Doctors, having been formerly exposed to vaunt and beggary [by the foresaid rigour of Dervorgilles Statutes] All which, though it appears by a Public Notary, Anno Dom. 1520. yet I shall fetch it from the Originals, and therein you shall perceive the reasons why, I said before, this Benefaction was about the same Year that Sir Philip Somerviles Statutes were made, or the Year before. For the Deed of Gift from Sir William Felton of Abbotsley Rectory, cum pertinentiis, to the Master and Scholars, and their successors for ever, was first made in festo Sancti Martini in Hieme, Anno Dom. 1340. confirmed by Letters Patents, 14 Edw. 3. over England, and over France the first; which was a Year before Sir Philip Somerviles first Grant, which was 15 Edw. 3. as I have already noted. Livery and Seisin was likewise given by him to Balliol College, Anno 1340. as by another appears. Yet I found another Deed of Gift of Abbotsley, of the said Sir William Feltons', dated 1341, Robert Skelton being then Chancellor of the University, which was after Sir Philip Somerviles gift, and after his Statutes confirmed by Edw. Balliol, as is evident by the date thereof. But the Composition of Abbotsley for the Vicar, and consequently the Appropriation of the Rectory to the College was not made till Anno Dom. 1361, by John Synwell Bishop of Lincoln; which was 20 Years after, and attested by John Williams then Bishop of Lincoln 
✚ Anno 1628. (Which Attestation was occasioned by the negligence of the Society: who those rather to search at Lincoln, then the Records at home.) . By which Composition, The Vicar was to have 60 Acres of Domain Land, and all manner of lesser Tithes and Oblations whatsoever, and of what sort soever; as also all Mortuaries living and dead, the Tithes of Mills, and whatsoever is known of Right or Custom to belong to the alterage of the Church aforesaid, and 3 l. a Year from the College: A dwellinghouse competent, having one Hall, one Chamber, one Kitching, one Stable and one Grange: The College were to repair the Chancel, and pay Arch-deacons Procurations: The Vicar to repair the Vestments and books belonging to the Church; to pay Synodals, to provide bread and wine for the Sacrament of the Altar, Frankincense, Wax and Rushes through all the Church, and Light in the Chancel; to pay the Tenth and Procurations of Cardinals, and other Apostolic Nuncio's pro rata, which rate is six Mark sterling: The College to have all the Tithe of blade and hay. And if there be any Ambiguity, the Bishop was to decide the Controversy. Another Composition was made by the Abbot of Huntingdon, by virtue of a Commission directed to him from John Bokingham Bishop of Lincoln, successor to John Synwell aforesaid, at the request of Robert Osgood Vicar on the one part, and the Master and Scholars on the other, according to the power which the Bishop reserved to himself and Successors in the first Composition; which Composition of the Abbot of Huntingdon, was made according to Instructions given in his Commission, which were only to assign to Osgood, and his Successors, a House with such and such Rooms, which were ordered in general without mention made of the place, or of Garden, or of ingress or egress: All which, are by the Abbot assigned to be on the East part of the Rectory, together with Timber to build the Kitchen backhouse and barn, which had then all lately been burnt down: The Vicar was also assigned to build a barn of 70 foot in length, and 22 foot in breadth. But other things mentioned in the first Composition, the Abbot meddles not with, as being besides his Commission: The which Commission was given and executed, 1364. three Years after the first Composition made. After this, the next thing I found was a Lease made of Abbotsley for 45 marks a Year, dated Anno 1374. (Frank Pledge and Court held, 1 R. 2.) A second made to Robert Bateman and Jo▪ Sekyll, reserving the keeping of the Court, and all Emoluments thereof, and of the Tenements, Anno 1386. A third set for 43 marks per annum, Anno 1389. And Anno Dom. 1395. there happened a difference between the College and William Willesthorn Vicar, on the one part, and the Parish on the other, touching the maintenance of the Clerk of Abbotsley Parish Church, in relation to ringing Hora aurorae, or The Day-bell, and Ignitegium, h. e. Courfue, and Offices done for the Saints, etc. This was heard before the Archdeacon (Tho: Barry one of the Fellows being made Proctor for the College) and composed; the Parishioners promising to be perpetually silent for the time to come, under the Seals of six of them set to the Instrument; and that the College and Vicar for those things should be left to their own liberty. As for the Licence granted by Pope Clement for the Scholars continutnce in the College till Masters and Doctors, it was necessary, (though made after Sir Philip Somervyles Statutes, whereby the inconveniences of Dervorgylles Statutes were obviated) in as much as her Statutes were still in force; the which interfering with those of Sir Philip, occasioned future grievances and alterations. In the next place we found a Court held at Abbotsley, 5 H. 4. another 12 H. 4. together with divers Rentals, etc. The next is a Lease for 17 l. per annum, 29 H. 6. Before which I should have noted a Lease set by William Brandon Master, and the Scholars, 19 H. 6. for 22 l. per annum. In the next place, we have a boundary of all our Lands in Abbotsley, taken 32 H. 6. In the next place, a Rental of Abbotsley and Beeston, annexed in the time of Thomas Cisson, Master of this College, 5 H. 8. In the next place, a Lease for 17 l. 19 s. 5 d. per annum, Anno Dom. 1524. Item, a Court held at Abbotsley by the Master and Scholars, 44 Eliz. the Jurors 14. the Tenants 8. Item, a Court Baron held, 5 Car. 1. for the Master of Balliol College, by Christopher Mead Steward; the Homage was six. Item, a Court-Roll of a Court held in the name of the College, by Mead Steward of the Court, 7 Car. 1. Jurors five, Tenants admitted three. Item, a Lease set to Anthony Hare for three Lives, dated 1615. at the usual Rent: The said Anthony hath hereby power granted him to keep a Court Yearly, and is enjoined to return the Court-Rolls to the College; for which, 3 s. was to be allowed (which Covenant, the Tenants there have never observed) the College discharging him of Vicar-Bishop and Archdeacon. The said Lessee gave also a Bond of 500 l. for the performance of Covenants. In the last place, I found a true and a perfect Terrar of all Lands, Domain and Copyhold, taken Aug. 30. 1621. And so having given an account of Abbotsley, I return to Sir Philip Somervyles affairs, and therein to his Statutes; which are as follows.  
Edwardus Dei gratia Scotorum Rex, ex primeva fundatione. Magistri & scolarium Aule sive Domus de Balliolo in Oxon: fundator. Universis & singulis ad quos presents pervenerint salutem in amplexibus salvatoris. Cartam Domini Philippi de Somervyle Domini de Wichnore militis, & statuta in eadem carta contenta Magistrum & Scolares aule sive domus de Balliolo in Oxon: concernentia sigillis bone memory Domini Ricardi dudum Dunelm: Episc: & venerabilium virorum Religiosorum Dominorum Prioris & Capituli Dunelm: Reverendi viri & discreti Domini Cancellarii Universitatis Oxon: & Magistri & Scolarium aule sive domus de Balliolo in Oxon: una cum sigillo dicti Domini Philippi de Somervyle consignata inspeximus, & in nostra presentia perlegi fecimus in forma que sequitur verborum: In nomine Sanctissime & individue Trinitatis Patris & Filii & Sparke: Sancti, & gloriose Virginis Marie, & beaten Caterine Virginis & Martyris omniumque sanctorum. Ego Philippus de Somervyle de summi rerum & bonorum opificis bonitate confisus, ejusdemque gratie qui vota hominum pro sua voluntate ad bonum disponit & dirigit fidenter innisus animique revolutione sepe sollicitus si quid sui nominis honori retribuamus pro his que mihi in hac vita tribuit abundanter: Advocationem ecclesie de Micklebenton comitatu Northumber: & in Diecesi Dunelm: cum duabus Carrucatis terre arabilis & viginti acris prati in Campis ejusdem ville Magistro & Scolaribus domus de Balliolo in Oxon: & eorum successoribus in augmentationem numeri scolarium & ad sustentationem eorundem in perpetuum pro salute anime me & dilecte sponse me Margarete & ad honorem & gloriam Domini no●●ri Jesu Christi & S. Katerine Virginis ac Martyris contuli caritative▪ quam quidem collationem spontanea & libera voluntate ac deliberato consilio approbo ratifico & confirmo & apud eosdem Magistrum & Scolares manere in perpetuum dispono sub forma & conditionibus infra scriptis tam quoad personas quam ad regulas earundem annuente Domino sine contradictione integre observandas. Hanc igitur formam quoad omnia infra scripta de communi consensu Magistri & Scolarium predictorum statuendam dispono. Quod ultra numerum sexdecim Sociorum secundum antiquas observantias, à Sociis dicte domus usitatas secundum facultatum sufficientiam, dicte domui pertinentium. Sex scolares facultati artium intendentes per socios dicte domus de novo sint electi. in quorum electione nec non in, sustentationis gratia, admissione, illi qui de locis propinquioribus illi loco ubi beneficia antedicta, dicte domui per me collata situantur oriundi fuerint: dum tamen in eis vel eo●um aliquo tres conditiones in antiquis ordinationibus nominate videlicet magis pauperes magis proficientes & magis morigerati inveniantur precipui sint & primi. Sit autem in dicta domo superior perpetuus in eadem domo commorans, qui Magistri nomine perpetuo nuncupetur vir in spiritualibus & temporalibus circumspectus qui Scolaribus in ipsa domo commorantibus ac ministris altaris aliisque omnibus officiariis seu famulis quocunque modo censeantur, qui ad exteriorum seu interiorum administrationem seu regimen fuerint deputati pertineat & presit, omnesque ei tam Scolares quam altaris ministri officiarii & quicunque alii famuli tanquam suo superiori in his que effectum suum contingunt pareant & intendant. De conditionibus quoad ejus institutionem electionem seu destitutionem & alia ipsum tangentia, ea firmiter observentur que super hoc inferius sunt annotata. Volo autem & ordino quod de numero Scolarium domus supradicte, eligantur secundum formam subscriptam sex Socii dummodo in facultate artium fuerint regentes qui Sacre Theologie facultate audiant, quibus etiam in vacationibus aliis facultatibus liceat intendere decreta & decretales per biennium duntaxat audire. Dispono etiam quod electio Magistri perpetui secundum formam inferius annotatam celebretur convocatis omnibus Sociis presentibus & absentibus justa causa & necessaria, dummodo sine notabili difficultate venire poterint, injungat Principalis vel locum ejus tenens omnibus & singulis in fide proficere domui quam fideliter: duas elegant artist●s qui cum Principali domus predicte seu cum ejus locum tenen●e in scrutinio sedeb●nt qui per communitatem electi coram seniore secundum ejus statum in domo juramentum prestent corporale & idem juramentum in propria persona coram eodem seniore prester Principalis quod non per se alium vel alios aliquem vel aliquos ad dicendum pro aliquo in Magistrum eligendo induxerit vel induce● quovismodo contra voluntatem propriam & spontaneam, & ad id juramentum observandum quilibet socius domus supradicte virtute sui juramenti per eundem seniorem firmiter astringatur. Jurent etiam omnes & singuli tactis SStis. in presentia omnium sociorum quod fideliter & absque personali acceptatione & spe remunerationis fact vel in futurum faciende pro tali dicant quem melius scientem magis potentem & majorem Zelum habentem sciverint ad domus negotia expedienda. Quo fact● Principalis & alii duo per communitatem electi vota fingulorum fideliter sedendo audiant in secretis & scribant & ipsum Magistrum fidelite● denuncient in quem major pars communitatis consenserit. Et si contingat aliquos vocum paritatem obtinere, per saniorem partem communitatis nominatus in Magistrum sit electus. Saniorem vero partem ex prerogativis in scientia & prioritate domus aliisque consimilibus ex quibu● unus alio vel una pars altera in Collegiis sanior solet numerari, voca● decerno. Electione quidem Magist●i celebrata faciat eum Principals vel senior secundum statum suum in domo coram communitate jura● quod statuta & ordinationes per me editas fideliter observabit. Ite● volo & dispono quod Magister sub forma predicta electus cum licenti● Comitatus ad Manerium meum de Wi●henore ante officii sui executione● mittatur & Domino ejusdem Manerii qui pro tempore fuerit se offer● si quis fuerit de sanguine meo dominus dicti Manerii pro tempore illo ● causam sui adventus exponat, qui sine exceptiore contra formam electic nis seu contra personam electam & absque omni contradictione per pr● dictum Dominum illius Mane●ii in Magistrum dicte domus sit receptu● Si autem Dominus ad dictum Manerium presens non extiterit, suffici● si Custodi dicti Manerii se presentet & causam sui adventus exponat. ● autem contingat hereditatem meam inter sorores esse divisam seniori so ro●i vel ejus heredibus dum de sanguine meo fuerint ad dictum Maneri um de Wichenore dicti Magistri sub forma prescripta fiat presentatio: d● ctus vero Magister cum de predicto Manerio Oxon: redierit Cancellari● vel ejus Commissario Vniversitatis qui pro tum fuerit, Priori seu Custodi Monachorum Dunelm: Oxon: studentium ibidem pro voluntate Domini Prioris Dunelm: deputato & duobus Magistris extrinsecis assidentibu● per Principalem & unum de senioribus vel per duos seniores presentetur: a quibus sine contradictione omnimoda confirmetur, coram quibu● prestet juramentum corporale ordinationes & constitutiones per dictu● Dominum Philippum de consensu predictorum Scolarium editas fideliter observare, & idem juramentum prestet ad Manerium de Wiche●or● coram domino predicti Manetii si tempore sui presentationis ●o●inus dictus presens extiterit, Cancellario vero vel ejus Commissario, Priore seu Custode Monachorum predicto aut dictis duobus Magistris extrinsecis in hac parte negligentibus vel alias qualitercunque predictam confirmationem expedire nolentibus, hoc ipso quod eisdem ut predicitur sic electus presentatus fuerit pro confirmato habeatur. Et Consimilis forma quoad admissionem cujuslibet dicte domus electi ad intendendum Sacre Theologie & quoad ejus receptionem coram memorato Cancellario vel ejus Commissario Priore seu Custode Monachorum predicto ac dictis duobus Magistris extrinsecis punctim observetur. Hoc etiam in eadem domo specialiter observetur ut circa eos qui ad ●heologiam fuerint eligendi diligenti sollicitudine caveatur ne qui vel quis preter honestum vel honestos castos pacificos & humiles ad scientiam habiles ac proficere volentes admittantur, quos per communitatem de Sociis dicte domus dum tamen in artibus rexerint eligendos esse dispono sub hac forma. Convocet Magister domus supradicte communitatem omnibus & singulis in Sacramento Domini prestito firmiter injungendo quod fideliter & sine personarum acceptatione favore omnimodo & affectione quacunque postpositis alium vel alios ad facultatem predictam eligant quos verisimiliter per experientiam probabiles ad proficiendum in facultate predicta magis habiles & morigeratos sciverint & ille vel illi in quem vel in quos pars major communitatis consenserit ad Theologie auditionem sint electi. Si autem contingat aliquos de eligendis paritatem vocum obtinere, senior secundum ejus statum in domo preferatur. Electus vero vel electi ad intendendun Sacre Theologie in sexto anno sue auditionis opponat & per unum annum vel duos si videatur communitati expedire oppositionem & in nono vel decimo anno Librum Sententiarum legate & in duodecimo vel tertio decimo anno in eadem facultate incipere teneantur, nisi ex causa legitima vel honesta impediatur. Audiat & Magister dicte domus quamcunque 
Redditus, usually written here with a double dd.  facultatem voluerit. Sic etiam Numerus scolarium pro redditibus meis dicte domui eligendorum ut predicitur quorum quilibet undecim denarios per manus sui Magistri vel eo●um qui ad proventus dicte domus recipiendos vel reserandos fuerint deputati percipiat, ita tamen quod singularium sociorum commune in dicta domo ex aliis redditibus venientium ad undecim denarios per redditus meos predictos augeantur. Si autem victualium Caristiam accidere contingat singulorum so●iorum dicte domus commune secundum arbitrium Magistrum & Communitatis ad quindecem denarios inclusive septimanatim accrescant. Volo autem quod quilibet dictorum scolarium quatuor denarios percipiat pro septimanis maxime festivis sicut in septimana natalis Domini & Pasche & aliis consimilibus ultra id quod solebat per septimanam predictam percipere. Magister siquidem cameram sibi soli habeat deputatam & garcionem sibi ministrantem qui secundum ordinationem dicte communitatis suam sustentationem percipiat de Communi. Quia vero extraneos ad dictam domum pro negotiis ejusdem accedentes sepius a Magist●o re●ipi oportebit Dispono quod propter sic accedentes & communitatis honestatem pro se & suis commensalibus si sibi videbitur expediens in Camera propria prout aliis sociis ministratus mensam minime excessivam habeat de communi & eo tempore duntaxat; nisi egritudinis vel alterius cause rationabilis necessitas eum urgeat & compellat. Dictus autem Magister quadraginta solidos pro suis necessariis annuatim de communi percipiat cum facultates reddituum meorum ad hoc suffecerint quousque per me vel per alios seu per communitatem pro eo commodius fuerit ordinatum. Dispono etiam quod idem Magister juramentum prestet corporale ut de sua administratione & de omnibus bonis dicte domui spectantibus coram communitate vel aliquibus ad sua ratiocinia audienda per communitatem deputatis annis singulis die sancte Margarete seu tempore aliquo per communitatem assignando fidelem reddat rationem qui suo similiter ministerio interius & exterius prout rei qualitas & temporis seu loci necessitas aut utilitas poposcerit solicit intendat, qui etiam annis singulis omnia bona ad dictam domum spectantia per se vel per alium de Sociis discretum ad hoc per communitatem electum si communitati expediens visum fuerit visitet diligenter nec non & quantitatem bonorum in lo●is singulis estimet & taxet, ipsamque estimationem & taxationem fideliter in scriptis redigat & redacta in scriptis Scolaribus dicte domus deferat & assignet, ut deinde cum sua ratiocinia fuerint audienda fidelitas ipsorum ratiociniorum ex collectione ipsius scripture certius valeat apparere. Et computo dicti Magistri plenarie soluto si quod de bonis dicte domus ultra expensas per communitatem allocatas residuum fuerit infra mensem a die solutionis sui computi Thesaurariorum custody reddere seu cautionem palam exponer● aut alio modo communitati satisfacere teneatur. Quorum si qua fuerit residua partem in usum Sociorum & partem pro oneribus supportandis prout Magister & communitas decreverit dispono converti. Si autem contingat dictum Magistrum brevi egritudine infirmari, plena sibi portio sua pro rata proportione temporis vel alia sustentatio competens & minime excessiva ministretur de communi. Aliis vero Scolaribus predictis in predicta domo insirmantibus ex tunc dummodo pro necessitate vel utilitate domus fuerint destinati exhibitio consimilis fiat de communi. Si autem dicti Magistri incurabilis fuerit egritudo, nec de ejus convalescentia spes extiterit ratione cujus ipsum Magistrum circa domus negotia laborare non posse nec ut deceret Magistratus officium exercere communitas decreverit, eo ipso suo cedere officio teneatur, & secundum formam electionis Magistri prescriptam loco ejus alius eligatur & sustentationem secundum arbitrium communitatis competentem pro suo perpetuo habeat de communi. Si autem alicujus predictorun scolarium incurabilis fuerit egritudo propter quod ad victum alias consequendum aptus non fuerit, novem denarios extra domum septimanatim pro suo perpetuo de communi si quicquam uberius alibi non obtinuerit ratione reddituum dicte domus per me collatorum percipiat caritative, dum tamen ad hoc domus sufficiant facultates. Item ordino & dispono quod quilibet socius in sua admissione prestet juramentum corporale quod non procurabit pierce nec per alios nec scienter faciet quo minus ad Collegium aliud uberio●is exhibitionis in dicta universitate eligatur, quod si ipsum ad Collegium aliud hujusmodi eligi contigerit eo ipso in ejus persona cesset domus exhibitio supradicte. Magister tamen ipse ad hujus articuli observationem se noscat non astringi. luret etiam quilibet socius in sua ad dictum domum admissione quod jura & possessiones dicte domus ubique terrarum pro suis viribus defendet & conservabit, & ad eorum meliorationem fideliter laborabit & cum ad meliorem fortunam Deo dante pervenerint in licitis & honestis promovebit & maxime in consisiliis & auxiliis pro defensione & conservatio●e jurium dicte domus & eorum melioratione semper adhibendis, & quotiens opus fuerit fidele consilium dicte domui si ab eo requiratur constanter adhibebit. Si autem dictus Magister de patrimonio aut spiritualitate seu quovis alio modo de certo ad valorem quadraginta librarum promotus fuerit sui officii regimine ex tunc non utatur, & a beneficio dicte domus penitus excludatur: eandem & formam pro quolibet alio socio si quovismodo predicto ad valorem centum solidorum promotus fuerit ordino observari. Item cum dicti Magistri industria honestas & diligentia preceteris necessaria sit & oportuna ne per ejus negligentiam quod absit vel insolentiam dicte domui eveniant dispendia aut pericula graviora premissis adjicio & dispono ut cum Magister dicte domus qui pro tempore fuerit per dilapidationem bonorum domus predicte inutilis aut sui officii negligens executor seu luxuriosus vel notabiliter vitiosus ut inferius de sociis notatur repertus fuerit trina monitione per Principalem de consensu communitatis legitim● moneatur ut ab his insolentiis & negligentiis se omnino compescat, qui si post trinam incortigibilis appareat aut a predictis se abstinere neglexerit, de eo Cancellario vel ejus Commissario & Priori seu Custodi & Magistris extrinsecis supra-dictis fiat denunciatio qui de ejus excessibus & processibus contra eum factis summary informati ipsum sine dilatione qualibet ab officio Magistratus ammoveant, qui si ad predicta facienda venire recusaverint, vel quorum si quis noluerit infra triduum post legitimam denunciationem eis factam Principali & dicte domus communitati liceat Magistrum hujusmodi ab officio Magistratus deponere, & ipso deposito alium loco illius forma vero predicta in Magistrum eligere. Si autem aliquis sociorum predictorum homicidium aut adulterium furtum rapinam perjurium sacrilegium vel simoniam vel aliquod grave delictum committat seu gravem lapsum carnis vel notam turpitudinis aliquam inurat quod absit per que grave scandalum in dicta domo po●erit suscitare, aut quisquam eorum rixosus seu jurgiorum inter so●ios suscitator creber extiterit, vel eorundem socio●um atrox percussor aut quod plus est Magistro vel Principali seu aliis intollerabilis in societate predicta cum aliquo premissorum per facti notorietatem seu alias legitime fuerit c●nvictus, transgressor hujusmodi a domo & exhibitione ejusdem penitus excludatur. Insuper Magister dicte domus associatis sibi duobus de antiquioribus & discretioribus scolaribus dicte communitatis omnes discordias inter eosdem scolares exortas & omnium ●urgia sive delicta levia inter eosdem existentia absque strepitu vel dilatione infra domum propriam eorundem prout Magistro & illis antiquioribus videbitur audiant pacificent & decidant. Si quis etiam disputationibus sue facultatis sive scolis diebus legibilibus vel officiis divinis debito modo non intendat, vel si in villa vel extra villam in tempore non debito fuerit vacabundus, vel si modo minus honeste in disputationibus mensa vel aliis actibus contra Magistrum vel socium se habeat, ratione cujus scandalum vel incommodum domui predicte vel sociis notabiliter eveniat, volo quod Magister predictus cum illis duobus sibi associatis quemcunque in aliquo premissorum delinquentem invenerint puniat corrigat & remedium imponat prout qualitas delicti secundum eorum estimationem rationaliter id exposcat. Et si quis eorum ordinationi parere noluerit persubstractionem Commune sue per quindenam puniatur. Si quis autem hujusmodi transgressor pro suis forsan demeritis per Magistrum & sibi assidentes tertia vice legitime correctus & per suarum communarum substractionem totiens punitus se ab hujusmodi malifi●iis refrenare noluerit tanquam incorrigibilis & rebellis a dicta societate finaliter expellatur. Ejectis autem a domo prefata omne beneficium dicte domus & participatio bonorum ipsius penitus denegetur, & eis ratione ammotionis seu ejectionis hujusmodi contra Magistrum domus dicte aut scolares, seu quoscunque alios de dicta domo aliqua actio competat vel regressus sive agendo sive appellando sive querimoniam deponendo sive in integrum▪ restitutionem petendo sive cujuscunque curie sive secularis sive ecclesiastice literas obtinendo seu literis a quibuscunque vel per quoscunque obtentis utendo contra suam ammotionem memoratam qu●ntumcunque. Si alias probitatis & vite merita suffragentur ne bona dicte domus in levibus inaniter expendantur. Item in ammotione dicti Magistri cum ex causis superius annotatis fuerit ammotus censeo observandum & istud in admissione sua a quolibet sit juratum. Ne autem ob crimina leviora ut superius expressum est vel offensas leves ejectis aut studium desiderantibus omnis denegetur humanitas si in posterum digs penitenty fructus egerint, & Magistrum seu scolares domus supradicte agendo vel appellando aut per modos alios superius nominatos occasione sue objectionis nequaquam procurave●int molestari, seque ad loca & beneficia ipsius domus humiliter petierint de novo admittantur ea ex speciali gratia premissis non obstantibus si poterint concedi si hoc Magistro & scolaribus videatur expediens. Ordino etiam quod per preces vel literas alicujus domini nullus in socium predicte domus admittatur nec pensio alicui per preces vel literas alicujus magnatum ratione redituum meorum penitus conferatur. Capellanum siquidem in do●o supradicta esse decerno & censeo tempore perpetuo moraturum qui per me & heredes meos dicte domui presentetur & a Magistro & sociis absque contradictione aliqua admittatur dum tamen idoneus fuerit & honestus pro me & sponsa mea pro anima domini Rogeri de Somervyle pro venerabili patre domino Ricardo Dunelm: Episcopo heredibus meis & parentibus nec non & dicte domus benefactoribus in perpetuum celebraturus, qui se inter scolares dicte domus tolerabiliter honeste & modeste se gesserit ac dicto ministerio diligenter va●averit in dicta domo perpetuo ●i voluerit conversetur omnem domus exhibitionem quoad victum & cameram quam aliquis de scolaribus predictis ut superius decretum est percepe●it pro tempore more sue in dicta domo integraliter percepturus. Quem si publica turpitudinis nota involuerit prout de aliquo sociorum quoad ejus correptionem & correctionem & a dicta domo finalem expulsionem nec non occasione sue ammotionis 
Ammotio, herein always written with a double m m.  actionem statuta de socio vel de sociis ejiciendo vel ejiciendis prescripta sine contradictione mei nedum meorum seu cujuscunque alterius titulo vel nomine strictius observentur. Quo ejecto vel decedente si nec per heredes meos alius dicte domui loco illius intra mensem postquam nobis de ejus recessu constiterit presentetur, ad predictum Magistrum & scolares dicte domus capellani electionem quotienscunque sic contingentem solummodo spectare dispono, qui electus sic ut predicitur celebrabit, & si quem capellanum per me presentatum vel per me vel heredes meos presentandum semper predictos Magistrum & scolares eligendum ad servitia dicta ei incumbentia adimplenda ex causa quacunque aptus non fuerit, a dicta domo & exhibitione ejusdem ammoveri dispono, & alium loco ejus forma ut predicitur subroga●i. Capellanus vero pro me & sponsa mea quamdiu vixerimus in omni die trium lectionum pre●erquam a Pascha usque ad festum Sancte Trinitatis, utendo illo officio Salus Populi cum propria collecta secret; & postil: eidem officio pertinent: celebret. In aliis vero festis novem lectionum & duplicibus nec non in festis prius exceptis de aliis Sanctis prout sibi videbitur opo●tunum eidem liceat celebrated, In quibus nisi magnum duplex festum fuerit, post primam collectam, collectam specialem dicat & in suo operimento pro nobis suppliciter & devote exoret. Si autem me viam universe carnis ingredi contingat sponsa mea vivente, missam de Requiem cum propriis collectis & Placebo & Surge cum commendatione omni die trium lectionum pro salute anime me forma ut predicitur & omnium fidelium defunctorum celebret devote aliquam collectam pro salute sponse me quamdiu ipsa vixerit jugiter di●endo. Utroque autem nostrum viam universe carnis ingresso Missa de Requiem pro nobis & personis predictis ac pro omnibus benefactoribus domus supradicte forma ut predicitur per predictum Capellanu devoti●s celebretur. Insuper singulis annis die anniversarii obitus mei Missa de Requiem cum nota & Placebo & direge precedentibus pro salute anime me & omnium fidelium defunctorum celebretur. Cui miss & exequiis singuli socii qui pro tempore fuerint teneantur personaliter interesse. Consimilis auten forma quoad anniversarian sponse me dilecte Margarete penitus observetur. Ad hec quidem omnia & singula prescripta fideliter observanda quilibet Capellanus per me & heredes meos dicte domui presentatus vel presentandus seu per communitatem electus vel elegendus dicta officia forma ut predicitur celebraturus tactis Sacrosanctis corporale prestet juramentum. Juret etiam Capellanus sua ad domum admissione secreta domus clam vel palam nemini revelare unde damnum vel scandalum dicte domui socio vel sociis poterit evenire. Qui etiam in sua ad domum admissione renunci per verba expressa omni future Actioni Juris rem●dio cujuscunque tam Canonici quam consuetudinarii & civilis si forsan ob sua demerita a dicta domo ipsum ejici contingat in futurum. Juret etiam omnes ordinationes per me pro profectu dicte domus & honestate ordinatas & quecunque alia privilegia dicte domu● quantum in eo fuerit observare. Item habeant dicti scolares qualibet die Sabbati missam cum nota de Beata Virgine, quando aliam missa● cum nota celebrated seu in Ecclesia Parochiali vel alibi in missis Vniversitatis non teneantur. Cui miss in honorem gloriose Virginis celebrat● omnes Capellani intrinseci nisi ex causa legitima fuerint impediti ceteri●u● socii dicte domus quos propter actus scolasticos seu propter aliam causal legitimam coram Magistro vel locum ejus tenente approbatam minim● impediri contigerit interesse teneantur. Quam quidem missam Capell●nus celebraturus & quilibet al●us Capellanus domus predicte in Capell● eorum celebraturi pro me & sponsa mea teneantur specialiter exorar● Ceterum omni die Veneris quando illam antiphonam antedictam in dicta Capella cantari contigerit & in gratiis in mensa dicendis nomen meum & sponse me per Capellanum seu aliquem so●ium dicte domus inte● nomina precipuorum benefactorum recitentur, p●o nobis specialiter exorando. Illud insuper est attendendum quod si locus habitationis seu scolarium predictorum studio vacantium congregatio causis aliquibus eme●gentibus que facile numerari non poterunt ad locum alium transferat● nihil eis commodi, juris vel possessionis depereat in predictis redditib● vel rebus aliis sibi assignatis vel deinceps ex pia largitione fidelium assignandis, sed omnia eis nihilominus integra remaneant durentque he ordinationes he & alley in posterum promulgande atque previleg●a ipsi dom● concessa & futuris temporibus concedenda dum tamen hanc ordinationem tam re quam nomine teneant & observent, sic tamen quod nome● fundationis antiquum Collegium non admittat sed sicut prius domus d● Balliolo nominetur. Nec est intentionis me eorum fundationem antiquam aut regulas vel statuta tollere sed ea potius presentibus confirmare: & si quid Contrarium legibus dictorum scolarium statutis vel consuetudinibu● antiquis ad quas vel que dicte scolares fuerint ●urati in hac ordinatione me● compertum fuerit, nolo dictos Scolares ad illud observandum aliquate●●s obligari, sed antiqua ●o non obstante firmitur observentur. Sicut autem in premissis sex socios eligi ratione reddituum per me dicte domui collatorum ordinaverim & quemlibet socium & Cappellanum undecim denarios 
11 d. per week then, 18 s. now. 40 s. then, above 40 l. now: which two things made the Master's place above 60 l. per annum, besides Chambers and all Perquisites.  septi●anatim, & Magistrum quadraginta solidos ultra communas suas pro suis necessariis de bonis dicte domus ratione reddituum predictorum una cum augmento communarum forma ut predicitur ordinaverim. Volo tamen & ordino quod omnia & singula in premissis ordinata observentur, sicut & quatenus ad hoc domus supradicte per me caritative collate sufficiant facultates. Premissis etiam adjiciendo decerno quod si redditus in presente dicte domui assignati aut in posterum ex pia largitione fidelium assignandi excreverint numerus scolarium in dicta domo studio Theologie vacantium, quatenus augeri poterit augeatur. nisi de conferendis in futurum per donatores ipsos aliter contigerit ordinari. Et ne aliqui de scolaribus predictis ignorantiam horum futuris temporibus quovismodo pretenderent statuo quod singulis annis in festo Sancte Margarete presens scriptum coram omnibus publi●e recitetur. Item Statuo ordino & ad premissa adjicio quod Prior seu Custos Monachorum Dunelmensium Oxon: studentium per Priorem Dunelm: prefectus Collega sit in omnibus Cancellario predicto vel ejus Commissario tam in admissione quam confirmatione Electi in Magistrum dicte domus de Balliolo & prestatione juramenti de ammotione ejusdem Magistri in casu quo fuerit ammovendus de quibus supra fit mentio nec non & illorum quos continget eligi ad insistendum Theologie facultate. Ipse quoque Prior seu Custos cum dicto Cancellario vel ejus Commissario exerceat omnia que circa dictos electos fuerint exercenda: sic autem idem Prior seu Cu●●os una cum Magistris intrinsecis quibus dicte sex scolares vel plures si bona excreverint presentari debent cum eligantur, plenam quoque potestatem cum aliis Magistris habeat ad eosdem scolares examinandum admittendum vel etiam repellendum & ad omnia alia exercenda circa eosdem que circa alios scolares in eadem aula existentes per dictos Magistros extrinsecos exercere consueverint tempore retroacto. Volo insuper statuo & dispono quod Episcopi Dunelmenses qui pro tempore fuerint prefatos Magistrum & scolares ad denunciationem dicti Prioris seu Custodis Monachorum Dunelmensium ad observantiam premissorum quoad electionem sex scolarium & Capellani ratione reddituum per me collatorum ad presens nec non ad nume●u●● studentium in casu excrescentie reddituum eorundem cum acciderint ut premittitur ampliandum ac quod omnia alia & singula superius expressata possint compellere viis & modis canonicis prout sibi magis videbitur expedite. In quorum omnium testimonium & perpetuam firmitatem tria instrumenta tenoris consimilis sunt confecta. Quorum cuilibet sigilla Reverendi Patris Domini Ricardi Dei gratia Dunelm: Episcopi Religiosorum vi●orum dominorum Prioris & capituli Dunelm: venerabilis viri domini Cancellarii Universitatis Oxon: & Magistri & scolarium Aule de Balliolo predictorum una cum sigillo meo apponi procuravi. Quorum etiam instrumentorum unum penes dictos Priorem & Conventum aliud penes prefatos Magistrum & scolares tertium vero penes heredes & a●●ignatos meos volo ordino & dispono perpetuo remanere. Et nos Ricardus permissione divina Dunelmensis Episcopus ad rogationem Domini Philippi ac Magistri & scolarium predictorum ad corroborationem statutorum seu ordinationum predictorum quatenus rite & canonice sunt e●ita quatenus ad nos pertinet sigillum nostrum decimo octavo die mensis Octobris, Anno Domini Millesimo CCCmo quadrage●●mo in Mannerio nostro de Dukeland presentibus duximus apponendum. Jure consnetudine & dignitate nostris & Ecclesie nostre Dunelmensis in omnibus semper saluis. Et nos Prior Ecclesie Dunelmensis & ejusdem loci conventus omnia & singula supradicta rationabiliter statuta ordinata & decreta per Dominum Philippum memoratum ac autoritate pontificasi dicti reverendi patris ut premittitur roborata ad instantiam dicti domini Philippi Magistri & scolarium prefatorum quantum in nobis est de nostro consensu unanimi ac appositione Sigilli nostri communis Capituli Du●●lm approbamus ratificamus & etiam confirmamus Dat: in domo nostra capitulari Dunelm: vicesimo quarto die mensis octobris Anno Domini supradicto. Et nos Cancellarius Universatis antedicte ad rogatum dictorum domini Philippi Magistri & scolarium domus supradicte in testimonium premissorum quatenus rite & legitime sunt ordinata in crastino purificationis beaten Marie anno supradicto sigillum officii nostri presentibus apposuimus. Et nos Magister & scolares domus supradicte submittentes nos & domum no●tram de Balliolo predictam ex certa scientia pure sponte jurisdictioni & correctioni venerabilis in Christo Patris Domini Dei grat●a Dunelm: Episc: qui pro tempore fuerit quod ecclesiam de Micklebenton & quoad omnia alia & singula supradicta nos & dictam ecclesiam contingentia jurisdictionem predicti venerabilis patris scienter in corroborationem confirmationem & perpetue rei firmi●a●em omnium & singulorum superius expressoru sigillum nostrum com●●me presentibus duximus apponendum Dat: Oxon: in Au●a de Balliolo in crastino purificationis beaten Marie Anno Dom: supradicto. Nos igitur Edwardus Rex Scotorum antedictus ac Magistri & scolarium aule sive domus de Balliolo in Oxon: ab antiquo fundator dictam cartam atque statuta in eadem contenta omnia & singula tanquam juri congrua & rationi consona approbamus ratificamus & quantum in nobis estpro nobis & successoribus nostris confirmamus non obstantibus quibus●unque statutis contra●iis privilegiis seu consuetudinibus ab antecessoribus nostris ante hec tempora editis concessis approbatis seu confirmatis. In quorum omnium testimonium Sigillum nostrum presentibus fecimus apponendum .Dat.  
To these Statutes thus confirmed by Edward Balliol, is put the Seal of Sir Philip Somervyle, which is a Field (Semée) powdered with Crosses Fichées, charged with Three Spread-Eagles: wherein it is provided, among other things, That nothing contrariant to the Statutes of the first Foundation be binding to these: of which sort, are the Rules given to Fellows to be chosen to the profession of Divinity, when once they become Regents; and after so many Years, to become Bachelors in Divinity, etc. as having no Foundation in, but rather overthrowing the Statutes of Dervorgille, which allow neither Masters nor Bachelors in Divinity to be in the House; the rigour whereof was feign to be taken of by the Pope himself, as hath been said. But to take things in that order as they are in these Statutes of Sir Philip, the first for our purpose, is, That over and above the 16 Fellows, which had of old been in the House, the Fellows weet to choose six Scholars, born in places nearest to the site of the Lands by him given, and those the poorest, the best and the greatest Proficients. 2. They were to choose a Master by a formal Election, to be called by the Principal or his Vicegerent; which Master was not sooner elected, then they were bound to present him: 1. To the Lords of the Manor of Wicknore in Northumberland (so long as they were of the Posterity of the said Sir Philip.) 2. To the Chancellor of the University of Oxon, or to his Commissary. 3. To the Warden of the Monks of Durham (now Trinity College) and others, Masters of Art: who without all contradiction were to admit him. The which Durham College, or place of the Monks of 
Guile Camden & alii perstringuntur.  Durham, Mr. Camden in his Britania will have to be built and endowed by Thomas Hatfeild Bishop of Durham: so also Godwin of Bishops (in the Life of the said Thomas Hatfeild) Pitsaeus and others whom they follow. 
* Which Durham College, Pitsaeus says, was for eight Monks and seven Clerks, to be placed there at the discretion of the Prior of Durham: But they had a Prior of their own, as is evident from these Statutes . Put it is clear to be otherwise from the very date of these Statutes, which was Anno Dom: 1340. whereas Durham College, pretended to be built by the said Hatfeild, was Founded Anno 1350. and Hatfeild himself not advanced to be Bishop of that Sea before about 1345. But its yet more evident, in that these Statutes were confirmed (as we see) by Richard (that is Richard Bury) Bishop of that Sea, and immediate Predecessor to the aforesaid Thomas, which had been 10 Years before the Foundation of Hatfeilds' pretended College, had the same been of no greater Antiquity, and so our Master had been to be presented to a mere Idea: And therefore that which the said Bishop Godwin, in the Life of the said Learned and pious Prelate Richard Bury aforesaid, says to be an erroneous Tradition, is a very truth, or nearer to it then the other; namely, That the said Richard Founded the said Durham College, unto the Warden or Prior whereof [by reason of the dependence of him and his Society upon the Priory of the Cathedral of Durham] our Master was to be presented. But that which takes away the Bone from both of them, is that noted Sect. 18. viz. The Land given by Pomfrait and Humbleton, 3 Ed. 2. Anno Dom. 1309, bounded one way by the Lands of the Monks of Durham, which was 39 Years before either of the terms forementioned. Add hereunto the Land passed over by Sa●cer to Fodringheye, Sect. 18. which was Anno 1282. and therefore 27 Years more, and consequently 66 before Hatfield's or Bury's time. But to return, they were in the third place to choose six Fellows out of the whole number for the study of Divinity, whereof they were to be capable as soon as they become Regents: and the Parties so Elected, in the sixth Year of their Election, were to oppose; and in the ninth or tenth Year, to read the Master of the Sentences [which answers to our Reading the Epistles of St. Paul, and is the Formality of a Bachelor in Divinity] unless hindered by some lawful and reasonable cause. Fourthly, They were to remember the Benefactors in the Grace, as well as Offices. Fifthly, Of the Chaplains which were then divers, they were to have one perpetual in the House to be chosen by Sir Philip and his Heirs, etc. Sixthly, The number of Scholars to be designed for Divinity, were to increase according to the increase of the Revenues [provided that his Scholars, and those of the ancient Foundation, had 11 d. per week] unless future Benefactors should otherwise Ordain. Lastly, The Bishops of Durham [to whose Jurisdiction the College did submit] had power given them to enforce the due execution of the Premises, upon information given by the Prior or Warden of the Monks of Durham aforesaid.   

SECT. 25.  
Now the Beneficies of Fillingham, Risom and Bratleby, in the County of Lincoln, did once belong to the Abbot and Convent of the Monastery of the Holy Trinity at Aurenches [so Exaquium is called in a French Deed] in the Diocese of Constance in Normandy, of the Order of the Benedictines. But in regard of the Troubles at Sea, occasioned chief by the Wars between the two Kingdoms, the Bishop of Constance aforesaid, at their Instance, gave Licence to cell the said Livings, as appears under his Seal in Writing, dated Mar: 3. 1343. And Thomas Cave Rector of Welwick, for the good affection he bore to the Master and 
100 l. then, as good as 1500 l. now.  Scholars of the House of Balliol in Oxon, had left in the hands of William Brocklesby Clerk, 100 l. sterling, to buy these three Benefices; that out of the Profits thereof, in case they might be transferred to the proper use of the said Master and Scholars, the number of the Scholars might be increased: All which, will appear by this following Indenture, which is the very first Record wherein Balliol is written with a single L.  
He Indentura testatur quod cum Magister Thomas Cave Rector Ecclesie de Welwick, ob affectionem quam habuit versus Magistrum & Scolares domus de Baliolo in Oxon: liberasset Wilhelmo de Broclesby clerico centum libras sterlingorum ad emendum ad opus dictorum Magistri & Scolarium de Abbate & Conventu de Exaquio in Normannia advocationes Ecclesiarum de Fylingham, Brotleby & Rysum, in Com: Lincoln, ac idem Thomas jam defunctus in Testamento suo ordinasset inter cetera quod si dicti Magister & Scolare dictas advocationes habere & easdem Ecclesias in proprios usus adjungere possent, quod de fructibus earundem numerus s●ola●ium augeretur ibidem. Ita tamen quod ipsi servent regulas & statuta prime fundationis domus predicte, dictus Wilhelmus de Broclesby qui cognovit se recepisse pecuniam predictam ex causa predicta obligat se & executores suos ad solutionem dictarum centum librarum p●o dictis advocationibus emendis ad opus Magistri & scolarium in omnibus prout superius continetur. Ita tamen quod dicti Magister & scolares inveniant securitatem predicto Wilhelmo de Broclesby ac heredibus & executoribus predicti Magistri Thome ad augmentandum numerum scolarium in dicta domo quam cito appropriationem dictarum ecclesiarum vel aliquarum earundem fuerint assecuti juxta facultates & valorem ecclesiarum appropriatarum vel ecclesie appropriate in hac parte. Videlicet augen▪ do numerum suum de tot scolaribus quot de exitibus & proficuis dicta▪ rum ecclesiarum seu alicujus earundem de claro proventibus ad opus di▪ ctorum Magistri & scolarium poterunt rationabiliter sustentari: qui● etiam in dicto Testam●to continetur quod dictus Magister Thomas volui▪ in eventu quo dicte advocationes ad opus dictorum Magistri & scolarium adquiri non possent, quod dicte centum libre liberarentur pauperibu● scolaribus infra domum predictam de Baliolo, Ita quod numerus scolari▪ um ibidem augeretur juxta discretionem dicti Wilhelmi de Broclesby▪ Idem Wilhelmus volens implere voluntatem dicti Magistri Thome in ha● parte concedit solvere prefatis Magistro & scolaribus in eventu quod dict● advocationes adquiri non poterunt, dictas centum libras in forma predicta. Ita tamen quod dicti Magister & scolares eandem pecuniam ponant sub bona custodia & eam servari faciant quousque aliquas possessioner inde adquirere possint pro augmentatione numeri scolarium in eadem domo: & quod quam cito aliquas possessiones inde adquisiverint ipsi recipiant scolares in majori numero in eandem domum & ●os sustentabu● prout ipse possessiones adquirende ad hoc rationabiliter sufficere va●eant. Et nihilomin●s ipse Magister & scolares facient a die dat: hujus inden▪ true in futurum aliqua specialia suffragia pro anima ejusdem Thome i● Missis celebrandis & aliis orationibus faciendis in domo predicta. Proviso semper quod si amissio in Mari vel itinere vel alia casualitas fiat 〈◊〉 pecunia predicta dum tamen idem Wilhelm: non fuerit in culpa, quod ipse ve● executores sui inde versus dictos Magistrum & scolares non onerentur & quod expense necessary & solutiones ex hac causa fact eidem Wilhelmo & executoribus suis allocentur prout idem Wilhelmus & executores sui dicere veli●t super sac●ament●m suum. In cujus rei testimonium fit hoc scriptum indentatum. Unde parti penes dictum Wilhelmum remanenti sigillum commune dicte domus de Baliolo apponitur & altera pars ejusdem indenture penes predictos Magistrum & scolares sigillo predicti Wilhelmi remanet roborata. Dat: Londini quinto die Martii, Anno Dom. Millesimo trecentesimo quadragismo secundo. 1342.  
Now these three Benefices were accordingly bought, and the Appropriation thereof to the Master and Scholars, and their successors, is warranted by many Write, particularly by two Letters Patents of King Edw: one to given Licence for selling and buying of them; the other for the confirmation of the Purchase to the College, upon the conditions aforesaid. The first whereof I omit: the later is as follows.  
Edwardus Dei gratia Rex Anglie & Francie & Dominus Hibernie: Omnibus ad quos presents litere prevenerint salutem.  
Sciatis quod cum sexto decimo di● Maii, Anno Regni vostri Anglie sexto decimo de gratia nostra speciali concesserimus & licentiam dederimus pro nobis & heredibus nostris quantum in nobis fuit Abbati & Conventui de Exaquio in Normannia quod quod ipsi de advocationibus Ecclesiarum de Filyngham, Brotleby & Rysom, in Com: Lincoln, Feoffare, possent Wilhelmum de Broclesby, & Thomam de Cave Clericos, habend: & tenend: eisdem Wilhelmo & Thome & Heredibus suis de capitalibus dominicis feodi illius in perpetuum, & eisdem Wilhelmo & Thome quod ipsi advocationes predictas a prefatis Abbate & Conventu recipere & tenere possent sibi & heredibus suis predictis sicut predictum est. Similiter Licentiam dederimus specialem eo non obstante quod advocationes predicte in 〈◊〉 nostra inter ceteras possessiones Religiosorum alienigen●rum de pot●state Francie existunt: & insuper concesserimus eisdem Wilhelmo & Thome quod ipsi advocationes predicta● dare possint & assignare dilectis nobis Magistro & scolaribus de la Baliolhalle Oxon: habend: & tenend: prefato Magistro & scolaribus & successoribus suis in perpetuum: Ita quod ipsi recepti● advocationibus illis ecclesias illas appropriare & ea● sic appropriat●s in proprios u●●● tenere possent sibi & successoribus suit ut predictum est. Statut● de terris & tenementis ad manum mortuam non ponendis edito non obstante. Ac prefati Abbess & Conventus postmodum unanimi consensu per scriptum suum dederint & concess●rint prefato Wilhelmo, dicto▪ Thoma tuno defuncto, advocationes predictas cum omnibus juribus & pertinentiis spectantibus ad easdem habend: & tenend eidem Wilhelmo heredibus ac assignatio suis in perpetuum: dictu●que Wilhelmus pen carta●● suam advocationes easdem cum omnib●● j●nibu● & pertinenti●● suis predictis Hugoni de Corbriggt Magistre scolarium an●● predicte & so●iis 〈◊〉 scolaribus ejusdem aule habend: & tenend: sibi & successoribus suis. Jam dederit similiter & concess●rit virtute concession●● nostraru● & Licentie predicte prout premissa 〈◊〉 in nost●is literis, quam predictorum Abbatis & Conventus ac ipsius Wilhelmi scripto & Carta predictis plenius exprimuntur. Nos ex abundanti & ut predicta ceteris evidentius liqueant tum donatio●●m & concessionem predictorum Abbatis & Conventus quam donationem & Concessionem ipsius Wilhelmi predictorum ratas habentes & gratas eas pro nobis & heredibus nostris sicut superius annotantur acceptamus approbamus confirmamus & concessimus perpresentes. In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fecimus fieri patentes.  
Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vicesimo octavo die Februarii Anno regni nostri Angl: decimo octavo, Reg: in vero nostri Francie quinto.  
These Letters Patents did Queen Eliz: totidem verbis, confirm, together with all other Letters Patents made by her Predecessors in favour of this College, under her Great Seal: Which, with other Letters Patents of the same Queen hereafter to be mentioned, are enclosed together in one long Charter Box, or black Case. But so it was, that Fylingham, the most considerable of all the three, the Masters of the House holding by Presentation, and Dr. Piers Master thereof being Incumbent, He did let a Lease of 99 Years of the whole Rectory, 13 Eliz. for the Rent of 22 pound per annum, to be paid to the Master who was then to be Incumbent, the Lessee being obliged to pay the Curate. Here then I shall insert all Acts material that have been made in the premises, recorded upon our Register according to the dates they bear.  
Ordinatum & constitutum est ex consensu Reverendissi●i in Christo ●atris permission● divina Lincoln Episc: Collegii nostri de Baliolo in Universitate Oxon: Visitatoris Magistri Francisci Babington Sacre Theologie Professoris, Magistri sive Custodis dicti Collegii, & omnium sociorum ejusdem: Anno Dom. 1560. & Anno Regni Domine Elizabethe Dei Gratia Angl: Francie & Hibernie, Regine fidei defensoris, etc. Secundo die vero Augusti vices●●o. ut [ob diversa incommoda nostro Collegio de Baliolo predicto ex crebra Magistrorum sive Custodum mutatione & discessione incidentia] quoties & quandocnnque post-hac Rectoria nostra de Fylingham, Lincoln: Diocese: ad nostram donationem & presentaetionem spectans vacare contigerit, jnxta statutum de Magistri residentia Magistro sive Custodi offeratur & donet●r. Ita tamen ut quocunque modo a dicto Collegio quilibet post-hac futurus Magister sive Custos nostri Collegii discesserit sive per liberam resignation●m sive per justam privationem predictam Rectoriam etiam cum omnibus suis juribus & pertinentiis dicto Collegio relinquat impropriat●m Magistro Collegii perpetuis futuris temporibus si fieri possit. Preterea quisque ita discedens s●lvet dicte Domine Regi●e heredibus & assignatis suis Heriotam ut vocant & finem pro terris nostris in veteri Woodstock & Wootton in Com: Oxon: predict: pro qualibet mutatione & discessione Magistri sive Custodi● a dicto Collegio pro consuitudine debita. Ad cujus ejusdem observationem Magister sive Custos quiscunque fuerit in prima sua admissione Visitatori admittents dabit fidem, etc.  


per me Franciscum Babington, Magistrum Coll: Ball: Oxon.  
per me Ric: Shaughues.  
per me Arthurum Garcew.  
per me Radulphum Lathmum.    
About 10 Years after this, it was that Dr. Piers aforesaid, made the forementioned Lease, beariug date Febr: 26. 1570. but according to the College Register, it was 1571. and indeed it was not to commence till St. Mark's day following, which was in the Year 1571. Whereupon a Decree was made by the Bishop of Lincoln, the Master and Fellows; as follows.  
Anno Dom: 1571. die vero Maii 17.  
A Magistro & Sociis Collegii de Balliolo in Vniversitate Oxon: cum assensu Reverendi in Christo Patris Thome Lincolniensis Epis: ejusdem Collegii visitatoris ordinatum Statutum & pro se suisque successoribus perpetuis futuris temporibus decretum est, ut quicunque in posterum Magister sive Custos predicti Collegii futurus est, is antequam ad officii executionem in dicto Collegio admittatur, juramento Visitatori in prima sui admissione prestito firmiter se obstring at ista se observaturum. Prim● quod Rectoriam de Fillingham in Com: Lincoln: predict: quandocunque eadem a Sociis Collegii predicti offeratur, acceptabit, nec eam recusabit ullo modo aut ulla de Causa quamdiu dicti Collegii Magister extiterit. Secundo quod eandem Rectoriam nulla de causa resignabit aut relinquet quamdiu ipse Magister existit dicti Collegii: Quandocunque tamen a dicti Collegii Gubernation sive per resignationem sive per deprivationem aut ulla alia de causa recedet, suum justitulum & clameum in eadem Rectoria resignabit & relinquet intra unum ●ensem proxime sequentem. Tertio quod quamdiu dictus Magister predictam Rectoriam de Fyllingham habuerit persolvet singulis annis in tres publican Lectiones in Communi Aula ejusdem Collegii habendas, viz. Graecam Dialecticam Rhetoricam Octo libras tr●decim solidos & quatuor den●rios prelectoribus earundem Lectionum qui in dicto Collegio eisdem die modo & forma quibus coteri ejusedem Collegii officiarii eligentur, aequa portione ad quatuor usitatos anni terminos distribuendas. Proviso tamen quod iis duobus annis quibus primitiae sive primi fructus ejusdem Rectoriae persolvendi sunt, dicti prelectores sex libris contentierunt, eisdem modo & temporibus quibus supradictum est persolvend●●. Et ut hec decreta perpetuo observentur dictus Reverendus Pater Lincoln: Episc: & Magister Sociique Collegii predicti nomina sua subscripserunt.  


Thomas Lincoln.  
Adam Squier.  
Johannes Tunkis.  
Adam Hill.  
Robert People.  
Johannes Wilson.    
Wherhfore, Anno 1659. the College called George Saunderson Baronet, Lord Viscount Castleton, the Lessee of Fillingham, and the Incumbent Mr. Ramires: Hollingworth into Chancery, to the end that discovery might be made thereby, by what warranty they held so considerable a thing, so much to the prejudice of the Foundation, without Rent or Acknowledgement? Whereunto my Lord Castleton demurred: But Mr. Hollingworth answered, That he knew not any Title we had thereunto; which how truly, may appear not only by the Premises, and upon our own Register, wherein his Suit with my Lord Castleton [with the very state of the Case itself] is recorded, but also by the said Hollingworths' own Letter, which is as follows.  
To the Right Worshipfnll Dr. LAWRENCE, Master of Balliol College, in Oxon these present, or in his absence to his Vicegerent.  
Worthy Sir,  
All due respects premised, having very good hopes now to overthrew that unreasonable and most unconscionable long Lease of the Parsonage of Fillingham, whereof your College is Patron, I am bold to crave your assistance, as heretofore I did from Dr. Parkhust and the then Fellows, in my former chargoble Suit, whom I ever found ready in that kind, as some I suppose of your now Fellows may well remember. Nor indeed doth it make only for my benefit, but for the Colleges also, to have the said Lease overthrown, there being many Years yet to come therein. Neither do I desire to put you to any charge, but only request, That I may have Dr. Pierce's admission to the Mastership of the College by the Bishop of Lincoln, Anno 1570. mense Maii, as I remember, under Seal to show in evidence before the Judges, as I had it before, being a very material thing in the Case, and I shall faithfully return i● again to the College as I did before, either by this Bearer Mr. Ellis, or his Father, or whom you shall be pleased to appoint, and ever remain,  
Yours, in all good Offices to be commanded, Rod: Hollingworth. Lond: June 2. 1647.  
In which Letter, he very truly professes the Patronage of the said Benefice to remain in us, and our readiness to assist him in the overthrowing of the Lease, etc. For my Lord of Lincoln, Williams (whose Chaplain Mr. Hollingworth was) did by his Letter to the Master and Fellows [at the reading whereof I was present] signify, That the said Living was in the Lapse, with desire that we would given Mr. Hollingworth a Presentation; and if so, then his Lordship would add only a Corroboration thereof, to the end that the College might not suffer in their right to the Advowson: which desire of his Lordship we yielded unto, and gave him a Presentation under Seal. But what use he made thereof, I cannot say: but two of our Fellows did afterwards travel to Lincoln Assizes to testify on his behalf, where Mr. Hollingworth obtained only a special Verdict; the which (Troubles coming on) enforced Mr. Hollingworth to a Composition. But it seems by the aforesaid Letter, that in 1647. he revived his Suit, and then brought my Lord to terms, which, as I have heard, made up Mr. Hollingworth's allowance, in all, to be worth 60 l. per annum, with the 22 l. per annum reserved upon the Lease. And whither this were well performed to him, or he pleased with the allowance, I cannot say; but so it was, that, since the King come in, he tried another fall with my Lord Castleton, who, at the Assizes, laid him on his back u●on a mere misnómer: for he writing himself sometimes Rodolphus, sometimes Radulphus, sometimes Radolphus, his Adversaries found out that he had been presented by the one, and brought his Action by the other: He offering to justify them to be all one, whereunto the Judge is said to have replied, That then Joan 
* Both derived from the same Original.  and Jane were both one name. [He was either surprised in the business, or else he wanted a good and able Lawyer to extricate him out of that present difficulty; such was St. Ives in the matter of his poor Hostess at Tours in France. We read in the Annals of Britania Armorica, written in French by Alan Bouchard, but afterwards augmented and Printed in French at Paris, 1531. that in the Year 1303. this St. Ives was eminent, born in the Bishopric of Treguier, one of the nine in Britain aforesaid, all whose Bps. are suffragans to the Archbishop of Tours: He is famous (among other things) for pleading the cause of that his Hostess, a poor Widow of Tours, against two crafty Merchants, who delivered her a full Purse, upon condition that she should not deliver it to either singly, unless they come both together. A little after, one of them, under pretext of an urgent necessity, required the Purse of her, which she delivered to him, pretending that his Fellow stood by the goods he had bought in the Market in expectation of the money. The Purse was not sooner thus delivered to the one, then the other come to demand it; nor would he take any answer, but brings his Action against her for 200 Crowns of gold, which he pretended to have been in the Purse. The Night before the hearing, St. Ives come to her House, and demanding what news, she said, Very bad on her part, for to morrow she was in danger of being condemned in 200 Crowns of gold. St. Ives received a relation of the matter, bade her fear nothing. On the morrow, the Case being opened by the Plaintiff, St. Ives said, That he was for the Widow (he was a professed Advocate for those who went to Law in forma pauperum) and that she had with much ado procured the money, and said, Let them according to their Conditions come both in place, and they should receive it; which answer, the Judge allowed of. Whereupon that cunning Merchant waxed pale with fear; and the matter being further examined, he was hanged within three days, as one who might have put Iron into the Purse instead of Gold. How many cheats were here complicated, I shall not now stand to observe, nor how the Law is many times made use of to undo persons, and rob them of their right. This St. Ives was, upon the Petition of rhe Country, Sainted 50 Years after his death. He was a Priest and an Advocate too, and was buried in the Cathedral Church of Treguier, with this Epitaph, Sanctus Ivo fuit Brito; Advocatus, & non latro; res miranda. For want of such a Lawyer, our Hollingworth was feign to become nonsuited.] The rectifying of which mistake (if he intended it) was prevented by his death: who indeed, during his life, did so well season that great Parish with his Doctrine, that he left not behind him one Factious or Fanatic person in the place. But a question may be made, Why the Masters of the House, bound by Oath to accept of the Presentation to the Rectory of Fillingham, by virtue of the foresaid Decree of 1571, did suffer it to Lapse into the hands of Strangers? whereunto I answer, That that Obligation was taken of by a later Decree; the Tenor whereof is as follows.  

Anno Dom. 1615. Jan. 14.  
Unanimi consensu Magistri & omnium sociorum Collegii de Balliolo in Vniversitate Oxon: una cum assensu Reverendi in Christo Patris Ricardi Episc: Lincoln: ejusdem Collegii Visitatoris diversas ob causas specialiter moventes & ad ejusdem Collegii bonum atque emolumentum & ad vitanda quedam gravamina apprime spectantes Concordatum ordinatum atque statutnm est nosque supra nominati concordamus ordinamus atque statuimus Actum illud & Decretum, Anno Dom. 1571. Die mensis Maii 17. De▪ Rectoria Fillingham in Com: Lincoln: a Magistro Collegii virtute juramenti in prima admissione prestandi acceptanda atque non resignanda neque relinquenda quamdiu dicti Collegii Magister existit reliquisque inde consequentibu● circumstantiis de cannonibus in Ecclesia Fillingham & Lecturis in Collegio Magistri sumptu habendis ab hoc tempore irritum ac nullum fore. Idque eadem qua decretum est autoritate irritum facimus cassumus annullamus & numero decretorum expungimus, Ne deinceps de jure valeat Neve ultra Magister ulla ejus particula teneatur. In cujus rei fidem & testimonium. Nos omnes supradicti Visitator Magister & Socii nomina nostra Subscripsimus, die & anno supradictis.  


R. Lincoln.  
Rob: Sarum, Madge Coll:  
Ca: Morley.  
Jo: Chenellm.  
Edw: Wilson.  
Nath: Williams.  
Rob: Chepman.  
Rob. Godfrey.  
Jo: English.  
Jo: Churchar.  
Gul: Armeston.      

SECT. 26.  
Margaret-hall beforementioned, Sect. 22. was bought by Cave and Brocklesby, both mentioned in the recited Indenture and Patent of Fillingham, Rob: Paynink then Chancellor, and witness to the Grant. And in the tenth of Ric: 2. I found a Licence from the King to Hamond Haskman and Thomas Cinlow, to given three Tofts and one Garden, with the appurtenances contiguous to the House of the Master and Scholars of Balliol-hall, for the enlargement of their Mansion; and this written Margarets-hall on the backside thereof, in a hand as old, if not the very same, as that within is. But that these two are the very same [is very improbable] the Identity of names being no good medium to infer the sameness of things, as before I have noted; besides the vast interval between 14 Edw. 3. (for about that time Brocklesby lived) and 10 Ric. 2. viz. 46 Years. In the same foresaid 22 Sect. we made mention of Saucer-hall; this was given 13 Ed. 3. The Year before, that Message of ours in St. Giles' Parish, together with the Land in Walton-fields thereunto belonging, was given 12 Edward 3. One other Tenement in St. Giles' Parish was given 6 Edw. 3. A third Message and Garden in St. Giles' Parish, was given 39 Edw. 3. The House and the Appurtenances in St. Peter's Parish in the Bayly, given by Jo: Burton Bedel of the University, 49 Edw. 3. There are also six Writings tied together, of six Houses in St. Ebbs Parish: whereof one was given in the Reign of Edw. 3. another by George Nevil B. of Exon. The corner Tenement, overagainst Candych, was given 1 R. 2. but when or how the Tenement adjoining to it, which is now the South-part of the Katherine-wheel, come to be the Colleges, I do not found; the said Tenement seemed to have belonged to St. Fridisweds, as being formerly described to be on the west-part of Old Balliol-hall. I thought it might possibly have been exchanged for the Synagogue and great Port in St. Aldate's Parish, which were taken away, together with the rest of our forementioned Houses, npon the building of Christ-Church; but that I found under a Public Notary's hand, 1529. that we never received any thing in compensation of them, though largely promised, as before is noted, Sect. 17. That which now is the Katherine-wheel, was given us 3 Ric. 2. as being described in the Deed to be directly opposite to the East-end of Magdalen Church. In the same Year also, John Duke and Julian his Wife, gave a Message and Shop in St. Giles' Parish: so that four Messages were given in St. Giles' Parish, but three of them only remain to us: whereof, unless two united and made one since, I cannot show a reason. And last of all, a shop under a room belonging to Oriel College in St. Mary's Parish, was given 8 H. 4. which is part of Mr. Cryps' shop, late Bookseller in the High-street. There is mention made in a Deed without date (and therefore very ancient) of a Message situate between a Tenement of the Universities, called Old Balliol-hall on the West, and a Tenement of the Master and Scholars of Balliol-hall, called New Balliol-hall; which Tenement stood next to, or upon part of that ground where now Hammond's Lodgings do stand, which have been formerly called the New buildings. I shall show hereafter how it come to be called Hamond-hall, or Hamonds' Lodgings. These Lodgings were either intended to be drawn out farther, or else were cut of to make room for the Master's Garden, as appears by the Door and Mortaises for Joists left, to be seen at the end thereof. But that there have been Buildings farther Eastward from thence, appears by the Oven, and other Evidences found upon the late reparation of the Wall towards the street adjoining; which Ovens mouth was found to be lower then the ground we there tread upon, so much is the Earth swollen up again towards its natural rotundity; if it be true, that (as some Geographers would have it) the Earth in general has such inclinations, and is daily experimented in the parts thereof: where we see the Mountains willing to abate daily of their proud tops, by the abundance of stones falling from thence towards the Valleys; and the humble Valleys swelling up, as if they would meet them half way for an accommodation into a level, as is experimented in all Meadows, and may be seen by our old Colleges, whereof time hath half buried some in that Earth they once stood above; and had done all the rest, had they not been kept from sinking quite into their Graves, by the bounty of Pious Benefactors: Were these things to be ascribed, as some think, to the sinking of Buildings, 'tiswere strange that they should never leave sinking, and that so equally too, that the Eaveses, for the most part, hold the same proportion of height in every part, and the same level as ever they did. But be it as it will, the present excrescences of some parts of the Earth are so inconsiderable to the whole, that it holds the proportion of a moth or dust to a ball, as some note Cleomedes to have affirmed. We usually say, That the Earth and the Sea make one Globe, and therefore without all consideration (as some have had) of the depth of the Sea, the highest Mountain in the World has been found scarce to bear such proportion to the semidiameter of the Earth, as is that of one to a thousand. Nevertheless, the uneveness of the Earth, how small soever in itself, is of much concern to those that people it, for the advantage that is in it, as well for the conveniency of habitation, as for quantity of ground, which is much greater, being measured by the Arks, then by the Hypoteneuses or Subtenses according to which it were to be measured, were it perfectly round: unto which roundness, notwithstanding, did the Earth incline, it would not receive its accomplishment in the time that the World (according to the Opinions of Men) is to endure, the motion towards it being so slow as it is: which may be proved from the buildings which are noted, Sect. 19 to be given by Sawser to Fodringheye, to be confirmed to the College, which are noon else but the Masters Stable and the adjacents, though served at first for Lodgings for Scholars; which, I am confident were never since that time, new built; and yet the Earth is not swelled up above four or five Foot in this Four hundred Years space.  
But in the Condition, wherein now it is, it something resembles the old remainder of Brasenose College or Hall in Stanford in Lincoln shire, but that that stands more upon the declining of a Hill: alike squalid it was and had nothing [when I visited it] remaining in itself whereby to own that Name, besides the Brazen Nose which held the Ring of the Door. And now to stay the Reader a little longer, I would have him note that some Cantabrigians, willing to prove their University the Ancienter of the two, would have ours to be of no longer standing then that Brazen-Nose and of the return [for it was no more] of part of it from thence [which gave occasion to that Oath given to Proceeders, Quod non leges vel audies Stanfordiae tanquam in Schola generali] which was at the lest 100 years after the first Foundation of this our College. Old stories are not enough to decide this, or any other Controversy, but real Records only: Now a Record they have, but noon ancienter then Maud the Empress, as I have heard Sir William le Neve ●larenti●ux confess, (though a great Champion for Cambridge Eldership) which Record is to be found in the Tower, and 'tIS a Patent which she gave them for [and what was it?] the Founding of a Grammar School, which is not enough to entitle it to the Name of a University, or Studium generale. Had ours learned its Accidence not sooner then that, it would not have been so early espoused to the Liberal Arts, and Divinity itself, as to have brought forth Three Thousand Children, which the malice and violence of the Townsmen enforced to departed hence to Cambridge, Reading and Maidstone, in the time of K. John; though in a short time they returned to their Mother again, and that at the Petition of the Town itself, who therein professed that they could not subsist without them. And this gave the first occasion of that Duty of the City of Oxford, of Swearing to maintain the Privileges of the University, as another did of Offering 63 Pennies; all which may appear by the Records of our University under the Seal of the Town of Oxon. The Oath is to be taken at the appointment of the Vicechancellor: and the Offering of 63 Pennies (which is for the 63 Scholars which were slain) is yearly upon St. Scholastica's day, which is Feb. 10. Now I do not 
The Townsmens' Oath took its rise from the suspendium Clericorum in K. John's time: But the Offering on S. Scholastica's day, not till the great conflict, Anno 29▪ Edw. 3.  marvel that they returned from Reading and Maidstone, yet it seems strange that they should be so easily brought back from Cambridge, if it were at that time a University or Studium generale: but the Petition of the Town, backed with the Mediation of the Bishop of Tusculum, the Pope's Legate then here, did prevail with them to return to this place, so famous, that it deserved the Name of The Foundation of the Church, in the time of K. H. 3. and continued so numerous, they swarms of Scholars, fled to Stanford in the Reign of Edw. 3. where they remained till called back to their old Hive, wherein they have ever since lived under the same Privileges with the rest, who made room for them, the want whereof has ever been the occasion of new Colonies, as well of Men as of Bees.   

SECT. 27.  
This our College did not long flourish under the Statutes of Sir Philip Somervyle interfering with those of Dervorgille, for Anno 1364. Simon Bishop of London was specially deputed Commissary from the Apostolical Sea to do what in Equity he judged meet, in order to the peace and quiet of the House, upon view had of the First and Second Statutes, and upon further information, which otherwise might be given him. The Letters Apostolic by him with all reverence received, did he sand to be perused, and to be ordered by Mr. John Hethingham Chancellor of the University of Oxon, and Hen. de Whitfield Provost of Queen's Hall in Oxon, both Professors of Divinity, and Mr. Ralph Orgum Incaeptor in the Civil Law, to be transcribed; with Command by Apostolic Authority to sand him those Letters back again with true Copies of the first and second Statutes, and such further faithful informatiou as might enable him the said Bishop of London to proceed in the premises accordingly. This done, the said Bishop of London gave us a new body of Statutes: Which could I come to the sight of, I would have here inserted; But I found them not in our own Archives, not yet in the Registers Office of the Bishop of London, if those I employed to search there deceived me not. I wonder how we should lose such a Monument as those were, by which the College was governed for so many years, even till the Compiling of our Statutes now in force. Nevertheless it seems, by what I shall show, it was therein provided, that in Case any statute seemed too 
These Rectors made inquisition into the gravamina, and certified, as under Seal▪ appears in Clarkenwell●▪ Box, London.  rigorous or too remiss in the Judgement of the Rectors (which were, it seems, first ordained by those Statutes, and died with them too) and of the Master and mayor part of the Company, it should be in the bosom of the Bishop of London to relieve or reform, which was twice done afterwards. viz. Annis Domini 1433 and 1477. the occasion whereof will appear by the recital, which you shall have of the first Correction entirely, without omission of any thing; the second in part only, the rest containing merely the times and matters of disputations; between which, and our Statutes concerning Disputations now in force, I found no material, yea scearcely circumstantial difference, which renders the transcription unnecessary, my business being not to writ what every one in the College knows already. The thing that the Bishop of London's Statutes would be seen for, is, chiefly whither therein any mention be made of a Visitor of the College, and how qualified, and with what power vested? because 
Q. Whither Jo. Longland were not by these Statutes Visitor who is reckoned up in our Register among our Benefactors as Visitor, or whither so chosen after the new Statutes?  in the book of our Statutes now in force. C. 2. which is, De horum Statutorum editionis causa & condit●orum auctoritate, it is said that Visitator quidam ex fumo exiguo eam excitavit flammam, quae & Magistrum & Socios profugavit, Collegii bona profuse effudit, unumquodque a suo ordine removit. However I observe from these corrections, that as the Second Statutes ordained a Master above the Principal, so these did set up Rectors above the Master: and as the foresaid Clause of our present Statute seems to imply, a Visitor above all. And haply these Rectors might be in lieu of Procurators, whereby the House was at first governed, as hath been said, and those not abolished by the choice of a Principal till the death of Ric: de Sclikebury, to whom the nomination of them was committed, or the death of Dervorgille in whose name they were to be nominated by him: but without any Proviso made for a supply of their mortality. The first correction of the Bishop of London's Statutes, runs thus:  
Universis Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae filiis, ad quos presents literae pervenerint. Robertus permissione divina London: Episc: salutem gratiam & benedictionem. Cum inter Statuta Collegii aulae sive domus Balliol: Oxon: Lincoln: dioceses inter cetera reperiatur quoddam statutum in quo sic cavetur. Quod si contingat quod aliquod statutum premissum videatur sociis nimis grave vel nimis remissum secundum judicium Rectorum Magistri & majoris partis Comitivae, habeat tunc Episc: London: potestatem dictum statutum corrigendi mitigandi diminuendi addendi mutandi, nec non aliud statutum faciendi, quod sibi ad honorem Dei & utilitatem dicti Collegii videbitur expedire. Ac insuper cum inter statuta reperiatur quoddam aliud sub hac forma. Imprimis statutum est quod in dom● de Balliolo semper sint tot scholares quot commode ex fructibus redditibus proventibus ejusdem domus secundum limitationem expensarum infra in statutis annotatam poterunt sustentari, qui de seipsis habeant unum Magistrum cujus officium duret quamdiu se bene gesserit in off●cio, propter tamen defectum notabilem ammoveatur sub forma inferius annotanda vel si beneficiatus fuerit ad verum valorem decem librarum annuatim vel qualitercunque sibi fuerit provisum perpetuo aliunde ad tantam summam, quo casu post tres menses à tempore pacifico possessionis adepte, dictarum decem librarum ipso facto noverit se ammotum. Quod quidem statutum prout sufficienter informamur videtur Rectoribus Magistro & majori parti Comitive dicti Collegii fuisse & esse nimis grave atque damnosum propter nonnulla pericula & incommoda que occasione ejusdem statuti prefato Collegio sepius evenerunt, & verisimiliter amplius evenient in futurum nisi celerius de oportuno remedio sit provisum. Nos igitur volentes hujusmodi periculis & incommodis obviare ac utilitati & quieti dicti Collegii Magistri sociorum & scolarium ejusdem cum favore prospicere, ad instantiam rogatum & supplicationem prefatorum Rectorum Magistri Sociorum & Scholarium predictum Statutum sub forma subscripta duximus corrigendum mutandum & emendandum, & sub forma subscripta corrigimus mutamus & emendamus & in loco il●ius statuti inseri volumus subscriptum statutum. Viz: Imprimis statutum est quod in domo de Balliolo semper sint tot Scolares quot commode ex fructibus redditibus & proventibus ejusdem domus secundum limitationem expensarum infra in statutis annotatam poterunt sustentari Qui de seipsis habeant unum Magistrum cujus officium duret quamdiu se bene gesserit in officio licet ad quancunque summam promotus fue●it, aut aliunde sibi perpetuo ad summam hujusmodi sit provisum, propter tamen def●ctu● notabilem ammoveatur sub forma inferius annotanda, & quicunque vacant officio Magistri ibidem fuerit eligendus liceat sociis sive scholaribus ipsius domus de aliis quam de seipsis si hoc eis videatur expediens beneficiatum vel non beneficiatum eligere in Magistrum, dum tamen sic electus socius juratus ejusdem domus prius extiterit cujus officium duret sicut prius ovamdiu bene se gesserit in officio licet ad quamcunque summam promotus fuerit, vel aliu●de perpetuo ad summam hujusmodi provisio sibi fiat: propter tamen defectum notabilem ammoveatur sub forma in statutis plenius annotata. Quod quidem statutum nostrum hujusmodi sic denuo factum in loco prioris statuti de cetero precipimus & mandamus firmiter observari Juramentis predictorum Magistri & Sociorum sive scolarium priu● prestitis & aliis si que visa fuerint huic statuto contraria non obstantibus quibuscunque. Que omnia & singula Vniversitati vestre innotescere volumus per presents. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum fecimus his apponi, Dat: in Mannerio nostro de Stebbenhith Octavo die Augusti, Anno Dom: MCCCCXXXIII. & nostre consecrationis anno secundo.  
The which Statute concerning the Master, and that concerning Disputations, were both amended afterwards by Thomas Bishop of London. That concerning the Master was amended by the Insertion of this Clause, viz.  
Vel aliqui● olim Capellanus ejusdem domus qui in dicta domo continued st●●ri● per annum & ampli●s & post ● beneficiatus fury competeter.  
By which Clause inserted, was given a liberty of choosing one who had been formerly Chaplain, as well as one that had been formerly Fellow, into the Master's place. That which concerned Disputations, was much like that now in force with us, and ends thus, viz.  
Proviso semper, Quod si placuerit Magistro dicte domus dispu●are respondere replicare interesse aut regulare predictas disputationes tam logica● quam Philosophicas quinetiam Theologicas, quod hec poterit exequi ad ejus litertatem & in Magistri absentia regat vicem gerens & in eorum absentia senior socius presens qui non est arguens vel respondens. Que quidem statuta nostra hujusmodi sic denit● facta in locis priorum statutorum de cetero precipimus & mandamus firmiter observari Juramentis predictorum Magistri & sociorum sive scolarium prius pres●itis & aliis si que visa fuerint his statutis contraria in aliquo non obstantibus quibuscunque. Que omnia & singula Vniversitati innotescere volumus per presents incujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum apposuimus. Dat: in Mannerio nostro de la Wykh: An. D. MCCCCLXXVII. Aug. XXVII. & consecrationis nostre XXVIII.   

SECT. 28.  
In the fourth Year of R. 2. the Master and Scholars of our College, called then Balliol-halle, gave to Canterbury College, now part of Christ-Church Oxon: a message called Chimer hall, formerly mentioned, lying towards Kings-street, called there Sydeard-street East, and the Garden of the said Canterbury-Colledge West, North and South [which must be just opposite to Oriel College] as appears under the eal of the said Canterbury College: In which Seal is represented [in regard of that Colleges dependence on the Prior of Christ-Church in Canterbury] Austin the Monk, in a Pulpit with his Cross and Banner, Preaching to the barbarous Infidels [for such the Saxons then 
* viz. When that Austin was senthither.  were] with this Inscription in the Ring of the Seal, which is not oval but orbicular; viz. Sigillum Collegii Aule Cantuarie in Oxonia: upon which consideration, the Prior and Convent of the said place granted, Anno Dom: 1393. and in 17 R. 2. to Mr. Tho: Tyrwhit Master, and the Scholars of our said College, and their Successors, an annual Rent of 26 s. 8 d. to be taken of their Manor of Newington and its Appurtenances, in the County of Oxon, at the Feasts of Easter and Michaelmas, by equal portions for ever: which Grant was the same Year confirmed by the said King his Letters Patents, with Licence to distrain upon the foresaid Manor in case of non-payment at either or any of the said Feasts. But upon the dissolu●ion of Religious Houses, and the return of the Lands into their Crown, the Rent was not paid, till Dr. Cotes, Master of our College, and the Scholars thereof, had it decreed to them and their Successors, by the Chancellor and Court of Augmentations, in 34 H. 8. to be paid, together with the arrearages due from the dissolution, by the hands of the particular Receiver of the Court of Augmentations of the Revenues of the Crown, in the said County of Oxon, for the time being. All which, may appear by the Exemplification of the said Decree under the Great Seal, and several other Write in our Archives in Oxford, and Canterbury Box there. This Rent was received down to the taking away of Cathedrals, by the late Rebellion, and that for many Years by the hands of Auditor Squib in London, who told us, That we were never like to receive it more, unless we bought some of the Lands belonging to the Church of Canterbury, and so got it allowed in the Purchase. To this purpose a Solicitor was employed at Worcester-house, for the Purchase of a Quitrent of about 38 s. per annum, upon a Manor in Kent, or some other such small matter then left unsold. But since that time, I never heard of the Solicitor or Business: It may be that the greediness of Purchasers went between him and home; for Men having devoured the whole dishes of the Church, they were ready to fall together by the Ears for the scraps. But how the dissolution of Canterbury Church, either first or last aforesaid, should extinguish our Rent settled in manner aforesaid, restat inquirendum. At present, this Rent is acknowledged to be due from the Receivers of Kent: To which purpose, Sir Edmund Sawyer, Auditor for Kent, gives a Debentur; which being shown to Mr. Owen, Receiver for Kent, he pays it, and hath paid since the coming in of the King. After this, one House was given to the College in Grandpont (vulgo Grampool) called by the name of Rack-hall, situate in St. Michael's Parish at the South Port [which Parish is now part of St. Aldate's] which had been the Land of Thomas Coventry Burgess and Alderman of Oxford, sold by him 8 H. 6. the several Conveyances are 18. this House is now Leased to Crayford the Baker. And Anno Dom. 1443. 22 H. 6. the Abbot of St. Mary de Osney granted to our College a Tenement in Juse-lane, neare the then 
* The Law School stood on the North side of Christ-Church Quadrangle, in the Parish of St. Frideswide (for it hath been a Parish.)  Law School; the which, because a Lease long since expired, I shall make no further enquiry after, nor reckon it among our Losses, though passed over to the Cardinal's College, when White was Master, as ●y the Deed appears.   

SECT. 29.  
Though Thomas Chace, a York Man by birth, were Master of this House, 12 H. 4. about Anno 1410. yet he become not our Benefactor till he was Chancellor of the University; which was, 1427. 4 H. 6. or later. When he built the lo●er part of our Library, adjoining to the Hall (at which time the Hall itself probably might be built) the upper part thereof, which is adjoining to the Chapel, was built by Robert Abdy Master of this House▪ about which time, that which is now the Mastets Hall, was built by B. Grace (the great Furnisher of our Library with rare Manuscripts) as appears by his Coat of Arms engraven in Stone upon the three Brachets, under the outside of the Bay Window thereof. The very fashion of the Building speaks it to have been the Chapel, & to have been done after the mode of those Times; unto the Building or Glazing whereof, George Nevil (of whose several Preferments you shall hereafter understand) might contribute, in as much as his Coat of Arms are to be seen yet in the West Window of the same place; together with Beauchamps Coat of Arms, who was Earl of Warwick before this George Nicholas' Brother: But Beauchamp's Heirs males failing, the Earldom of Warwick devolved to his Sister, whom Nevil marrying, he was created Earl of Warwick in her Right, if I well remember. But be this as it will, this said Hall having been a Chapel, and built not longer ago, it makes voided the common Cabal, that it was a Parliament House. Indeed, Parliaments are sacred things, and not mis-becoming a Chapel, when not employed to Religious Exercises; nor am I ignorant, that the House of Commons at Westminster was once a Chapel: moreover, I have seen Courts of Justice made after the fashion of this said Hall, with such a Bay Window at the East end thereof, for the celebration of Divine Offices therein, even the Courts fitting, which take no more notice thereof, then of the Elevation of the Host, which they are warned of by the ringing of a little Hand-bell, whereupon they all uncover and adore: But the time of Parliaments held at Oxon, or of the building of the Room, makes it uncapable of either of these uses. We had many Benefactors in those times, mentioned in the Windows of our Library, whose bounty was mostly employed in building, and partly in adorning the College with Windows, or enriching the Library with Books. In the East Window of the Library, looking into the Chapel, is the Picture of St. Katerine, in the right light thereof, with her Wheel before her, and her Sword behind her, with this Motto▪ 
Si servitis ei, vos tegit aula Dei.   
In the other light is Thomas Chase and his Fellows adoring her, with this Motto.  

1. Hic tibi dans celis Thomam Chase comitantes.  
2. Hanc patrona velis munire domum famulantes.   
In the first Window, on the South side of the Library, is the Coat of Arms of George Nevil [which are the same with those in the Master's Hall aforesaid, and on the top of the Divinity Bedels' staff which he gave] in pale with the Arms of his Archiepiscopal Sea, in the first light: and in the second light of the same Window, is a Coat of five Annulets argent, in a Field gules, quartered with Chequey, Or and Sable, with this Motto, in a wreath about them; viz. the first about the first, and the second about the second.  

1. Fige dies cursum nec perdat virgo triumphum.  
2. Conditor ecce mei Skipton Ricarde fuisti.   
And now since mention is made of the Arms of his Archiepiscopal Sea, which was York, its requisite to know the difference between these and those of Canterbury. Canterbury bears a Staff in pale Sol, and upon the top of that a Cross patée Luna, over all a pall Luna, but not fringed. But the ancient Arms of York differed from these, in that the Cross on the top of the staff was Sol, and the pall was fringed, as there may be seen: though the Arms of the same Sea be at present clean another thing, but when thus changed, I cannot show: nor do I found that the Heralds at this day do 
* So they did at the Funeral of William Juxon, Archb. of Cant.  paint the present Archiepiscopal Arms of Canterbury in any thing differing from those anciently appropriated to the Sea of York.  
The two Coats of Arms in the second Window, on the same side, have likewise these Verses in a wreath about them; viz. The first, the first; and the second, the second.  

1. Inclitus ille Thomas Horrow fenestratuit me.  
2. Ad tempus mensis vocitati rite Decembris.   
The third Window in the like manner hath two Verses.  


1. Gaudeat unita totalis & hec comitiva.  
2. Claram luce fore Carpenter nempe Johannes .  Below is,  
Orat● pro anima Johannis Carpenter, & Johannis Heries, with the Picture of John Heries, not of John Carpenter. Johannes Harrisius primus & precipuus Thomae More secretarius, 1579. confessor, obiit Namurci regnante Eliz. scripsit collectanea ex Sanctis Patribus. But I suspect that this is not our Heries.  
The fourth Window, in the first light, hath a Coat that bears pale of nine pieces Azure and Gules, over all a Chevron Argent, charged with three crosses pometées Or, and a Mitre on the point. with this Motto, 

1. Me tuus Antistes Vigornia fecit honore.    
The second hath this Motto; viz.  

2. Conditor ipse mei Warter Ricarde fuisti.   
The fifth Window hath Bishop Gray's and Abdy's Arms (whereof more anon) with this Motto, 

1. Hos Deus adjecit, Deus his det gaudia celi.  
2. Abdy perfecit opus hoc Grace presul et Ely.    
Under is, 

1. Orate pro bono statu Magistri Johannis Spens.    
The sixth Window.  

1. Hi duo mitrati pro donis sint memorati.  
2. Sint consummati celesti sede locati.   
The seventh hath in one light, the Arms of Thomas Percy Earl of Worcester, which are the same with the Earls of Northumberland in University College Hall: and those of Nevil Earl of Warwick in the other light, with these Verses in Wreaths about them.  

1. Sunt benefactores Comites hic nobiliores.  
2. Luceat eterna Lux his requiesque superna.   
The Eighth is in honour of William Firbit of Bridlinton in Yorkshire.  
Firbit Wilhelmus semper sit ment retentus.  

or, commune.  Et Bridlintone domus additur extra corone.  
The Ninth, 
Has aliquando fores vitro clausere priores.  
Claustri Mertone vigent mercede corone.   
The Tenth hath a Scheme of the Holy Trinity in one, and the Blessed Virgin Mary with the Babe, in the other; given by Robert Brotliber of Malvern in Worcestershire, with these Verses.  
Gilberti Brotliberi Malvernensisque Johannes.  
Contiwis annis place at sociis ministrare.  
And now mention being made of Malvern: it were worth a Man's Journey to go to see the Fabric of the Church 
* viz. The Church of the Priory of Gr: Malvern.  thereof, built after the Model of Gloucester Cathedral; but especially the Glass Windows, wherein are to be seen all the Stories of the Old and New Testament, every one of them under-written what it is: among which, is to be seen the Picture of the Holy Trinity, by as great a Solaecism as Brotlibers and John of Malverns Scheme is done by Ingenuity: to represent a visible Nature by colours, is as if a Man should go about to paint white with a Chark-coal, or light with darkness itself; to say nothing that it entrenches upon the Heresy of the Anthrop●morphites: But, 
Qui fingit sacros, auro vel marmore vultus,  
Non facit ille deos; qui rogat, ille facit.   
On the North side of our said Library, the first Window hath the Arms of Bishop Grace, which are a Lion rampant arg: in a Field gules, a Border engrailed argent: and Abdy's Arms, which are a Shield argent, a Chevron sable, between three Eagles displayed of the second. I call them Eagles, not Eaglets or Allerions, because they have both feet and beaks; for 
* Geliot written in French.  Geliot in his Indice Armorial, says, That Allerions sont petites aigles qui n' ont ny bec ny jambes: that is to say, Allerions are little Eagles, which have neither beak nor legs: The Verses in Wreaths about these are, 

1. Conditor ecce nevi structus h●●us fuit Abdy.  
2. Presul & huic Edi Grace, libros con●●lit Ely.    
Below this, is, Orate pro bono statu anime Magistri Roberti Abdy Magistri hujus Collegii, qui istam partem edificavit.  
The Second Window hath Arms, and these Verses about them in Wreaths, as all the other have; viz.  

1. Me fecit socius hic Stanhop nempe Radulphus.  
2. Militis esto memor Wooddem Deus optime tutor.   
The Third Window hath Nevil's Arms in pale with those of the Sea of York, in one light, and by themselves in the other.  

1. Sit presul alma tibi requies sine fine Georgi.  
2. Me fordas vitream Stavely Wilhelme fenestram.   
The Fourth Window hath these Verses in a Wreath about the Coats of Arms.  

1.— Somnum—  
2. Me P●trus Pekkam vitravit sponte fenestram.   
The Fifth Window hath likewise about the Arms, 
Asperaflabat hyems brumoso frigore fervens.  
Cum Miniorita vilis fuit ista fenestra.  Peneath is, 
Orate pro Johanne Burton, quondam socio hujus domus.   
The Sixth Window hath the Arms of Tho: Chace, which are a Shield argent, charged with three Talbot's heads erased sable. A Talbot is properly any Dog yoked (like a Hog) to keep him out of the Vineyards, when the time is for them to be fenced. But our Heralds, it seems, restrain it to dogs of Chase; but the Verses are, 

1. Condidit hanc Edem Thomas Chace meque vitravit.  
2. Huic superis sedem des sibi nate David .  Below is, Orate pro statu & anima Magistri Thomae Chace de Ebor: Th': Professoris, Cancellarii Hiberniae, Oxon: et S. Pauli, London: olim hic Socii fratris mei, Anno Dom. 1431.  
The Seventh Windows Verses imply, That Clifford Bishop of London was a greater Benefactor, then to own the Glazing of a Window.  

1. Clifford Ricardus Antistes Londoniensis.  
2. Fusis expensis tale non avit opus.   
Given by Nich: Herbury, Archdeacon of Gloucester, therefore under-written thus; viz.  
Orate pro anima Magistri Nich▪ Herbury, quondam Archi: Gloucest:  
The Eighth Window, given by Jo: Patrick, valet of the Wardrobe to Humphrey Duke of Lancaster and Gloucester, hath the Duke's Arms, which are those of England, but bordered argent, with these Verses, 

1. Fecimus hanc claram vitro splendente fenestram.  
2. ut gratis nostri meminerit debitis .  Orate pro anima Johan: Patrick, quondam valette de Wardroba Lancastriae, Ducis Gloucestriae.  
The Ninth Window.  

1. Me fecerant quos scuta notant prius hic comitantes.  
2. T. Skelton dicti milesque Whelpdailque Robertus.   
The Tenth.  
Hanc Socii quondam duo perfecere fenestram.  
Wombwelle Robertus, Thomas Barryque vocatus.  
These Arms of Wombwelle and Barry, and Chase too, are in the Windows of the Colledge-hall. This Barry was Fellow here, 1395. as is noted before, and consequently lived in the time of Chase.  
The false Metre and Grammar, is not to be ascribed to the ignorance of the times (which produced so many Learned Men, even in this College, Ubi tunc temporis nobilium juvenum corona celebris renascentem imbibebat eloquentiam, as hereafter you shall hear) but to the Glaziers or others, who composed such as these according to their own understanding, or some traditional Conceptions. There's one Marble Grave-stone in the Church of St. Burien, neare the Landsend in Cornwall, which having a Cross on it, the People take it to be some▪ Deans Grave-stone [for the Parson is now called Dean of Burien, and it had once Prebendaries too, as Mr. Camden writes] but that its no such matter, that which is engraven in the border thereof, doth sufficiently testify: The true reading thereof may be this,  

Clarie la femme Geffrei  
De 
* Bolleit is a place in that Parish, which I had occasion to know, accompanying some Friends that have Estates in the Parish.  Bolleit gist icy,  
Dieu de l'ame ayez mercy!  
Qui prient pour l'ame auront  
Dix jour de pardon en ce mond.   
I showing my Transcription to a Gentleman a Roman Catholic, and an Antiquary, asked him, Who promised that ten days of pardon to whomsoever should pray for her soul? He answered, That it was a traditional thing, and ad placitum sculptoris, who might have put 100 days as well as ten, had he pleased: The Application is easy.   

SECT. 30.  
I do not found any conveyance to the College of the Houses now leased out, one to 
* Formerly to Rich: Carter, Anno Dom. 1626. then commonly known or called by the name of the Golden Phoenix.  Miller, and the rest to the Bradshawes, in St. Margaret's Patens, and Rood-lane in London: but I found several Letters of Attorney made, for giving of possession from person to person, from the time of Edw. 3. to 1 Edw. 4. when Robert Kirkam, Custos Rotul: Cancellarie, Richard Friston Clerk, William Morland, Parson of St. Mary Bow London, gave power to Robert Abdy Clerk, to given Livery and Seisin of them to George Nevil, Bishop of Exeter, and Lord Chancellor of England, William Bishop of Ely, William Lambton, Robert Lowson, and William Appilby, Clerks, who, 'tis like, were Trusties for the College (William Lambton being then, or the same Year, Master) which was the way they took, it seems, during the Wars between the Houses of Lancaster and York, without mention made of the trust, for fear of Forfeitures, I suppose, and may be collected from the Pardons which the College sued forth under the Great Seal of K. H. 6. and K. Ed. 4. yet in our College, we have another Pardon from K. Ed. 6. too, which must be upon some other account. But now for the situation of the foresaid Houses; it was thus described, viz. between a Tenement of the College of the B. Virgin Mary by Guildhall London on the West part, and a little venue called St. Margaret's Patyns-lane on the East part, and a little venue called Smiths-lane, alias, St. Andrews Hoberds-lane on the South, and a Tenement called Patesden Rent on the North part. I found also, that after the end of the said Wars, John Segden Clerk, and Master, or (Gardianus) Warden of our College, and [confratres) Fellows, did set a Lease of the said Houses to three Citizens of London for 20 Years, at the Rent of four Marks sterling, dated Anno 1473. and 12 Ed. 4. As for our Farm at Odyngton in Oxfordshire, anciently called Otyndon, in a Deed without date: I found it by the said Deed to have been the Land of William le Pour, Son and Heir of John le Pour, who by that Deed conveyed it to William, the Son of John Urlewyne of Otyndon. After this, viz. in the time of Ed. 3. I found it to be Brahall's Land of Otyndon, passed over to him by Stryvyn of Otyndon. Afterwards, it come to be the Land of one Saunders, 1 H. 5. in which name it seems to have continued till 5. Edw. 4. when it was conveyed by a Daughter and Heir of Thomas Saunders, and her Husband William Wellis of Otyndon, to Nich: Blunt and Agnes his Wife, who made a Release thereof to William Kyrby of Otyndon and Alice his Wife, Apr: 20. in 3 H. 7. which said Kyrby and his Wife, upon the same, conveyed it to John Russel Bishop of Lincoln, James Stanley Dean of St. Martin's London, William Bell, William Stephyns, John Smith, Richard Barningham, John Southwood, Clerks. But by another Deed of April 27. in the same Year, did the said Blunt and his Wife grant it to the said Kyrby and his Wife, who, upon the 29 day of the same Month, conveyed it to William Bell, John Smith, Richard Barningham, John Southwood, Clerks, in trust, 'tis like, for the College, William Bell being then, or soon after, Master of the House, whom Richard Barningham succeeded. The Conveyance is general, of all the Messages, Lands and Tenements, Meadows of Pasture and Pastures, with the Appurtenances, which were the aforesaid Blunts. This said Farm is now held by a Lease of Lives, granted to Abraham Watson, and hath been so held by him and others time out of mind.   

SECT. 31.  
Richard Barningham Master, and the Scholars of Balliol, obtained Letters from Pope Julius, directed to Richard Bishop of Winchester, and to the Bishop of Carlisle [upon the Motives expressed in the second Chapter of our now Statutes; which is, De Statutorum editionis causa & conditorum auctoritate] make us a new Body of Statutes, which was done accordingly, Anno Dom. 1507. (and testified by a Public Notary, with his Protocollum put thereunto) wherein the number of Fellows is stated to be ten, with a Master over them, which are bound to apply themselves to the study of Divinity, and to take Holy Orders upon them, at or before four Years standing Masters of Art The Master, and every Graduate Fellow, is to have the Presentation of one Scholar, to be approved by the Master and the two senior Fello us: the business of which Scholars, is to serve the Master and the Fellows by whom they are presented, provided they be not so exercised and oppressed with business, as to hinder their studies. Of this number of Fellows, two are to be Priests before elected, though but Bachelors of Arts, whose peculiar Office is, to say Mass daily: and these were in lieu of the several Chaplains beforementioned, who by little and little come to have the same Privileges as Fellows. One Lease I have observed to be set by the Master, cum consensu totius Capituli; and the Bishop of London's Statutes makes them as capable of being chosen Masters of the House as any of the Fellows: wherhfore, in these Statutes, they are incorporated into our Society, and bear the name and privilege of Fellows in every thing, besides the performance of Divine Offices, which is their own Peculiar. This Statute concerning the two Priest-Fellows, hath been generally observed, unless it be in the clause of their being ordained Priests before their election: for I found upon our Register anno Dom: 1564 Maii 12. that George Godsell Bachelor of Art was chosen in socium sacerdotalem, albeit he was not ordained: but took an oath to be ordained, Quam primum fieri potuit, which might given an occasion to the Decree made by William Bishop of Lincoln, Doctor Lily Master and the Fellows, in our book of Statutes, which are the most exact and concise body that ever was made us; to the perusal whereof I must refer the Reader; and shall make my further observation only upon that of the Visitor. By these Statutes we are enabled to choose a Visitor of our own, after the same manner and form as the Master is to be chosen. Hereupon I found that Richard, Bishop of Winton become Visitor of the College acting as Visitor, insomuch that Anno Dom: 1511. Feb: 16; he sat judicially Visitor, received the Resignation of Richard Barringham B. D. also swore and admitted Thomas Cisson lawfully elected Master into the Room of the said Barningham, as may be seen in the Box of Admissions of Masters. To the said ●ishop of Winton succeeded Laurence Stubbies: which Lawr: Stubbies resigned his office of Visitor into the hands of W. White Master of the College 25 H: 8. But after this viz: An. D: 1545. William Wright was admitted Master by the Bishop of Lincoln as being Visitator Generalis, for so he is called in the instrument of the said admission [prestito juramento de observandis statutis & consuetudinibus Collegii in quantum humana fragilitas patitur] upon the same account I conceive it was that the Archbishop of Canterbury admitted Doctor Laurence Master, by reason of the suspension of the Bishop of Lincoln, Anno 1637. I have heard indeed, that the said Bishop of Lincoln demured to the visitation of the Archbishop Laud, but he prevailed not in it: for his Grace proceeded in his Visitation of Lincoln Diocese, as fotmerly Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury had done, Anno 1411. Jan: 21, in the sixteenth year of his translation, as appears by an Instrument under the Seal of the said Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, which remains with us being concerned in the Visitation in regard of the Appropriations which we hold of Abboldsley and Saint Laurence▪ the one in the Diocese of Lincoln, the other in London: whereof we were called to, and did show Evidence of the Appropriation, as by the Instrument aforesaid more fully may appear; wherein although he be styled, Legatus Sedis Apostolicae, yet he adds, Jure nostro Metropolitico actualiter visitantes. But to go on: In the Charter for the Foundation of Christ-Church, Oxon: bearing date Novemb: 4. in the 38 Year of H. 8. there's a Proviso, in haec verba, viz.  
Proviso tamen, Semper quod dictus Episcopus Lincoln: & successores sui habebunt omnem & omnimodam jurisdictionem & potestatem infra Collegia vocata Lincoln College, Oriel College, Brasenose & Bayliole, quae antehac idem Episcopus aut antecessores sui sive eorum aliquis ratione fundationis sive dotationis eorundem Collegiorum sive eorum aliquis habuerunt tenuerunt vel exercuerunt, habuit tenuit vel exercuit.  
The Proviso leaving the Bishop of Lincoln in his former power in these Colleges, notwithstanding the erection of the Bishopric of Oxon, it appears on our Register, That upon Jan: 2. 1557. the Visitation of Tho: Watson Bishop of Lincoln, began by Commissaries, which were, Mr. Wright Archdeacon of Oxford, and Master of this House, Tho: White Warden of New Coll: both Doctors of the Laws; which Visitation continued till the said Reverend Father was Imprisoned at London, Anno 1571. Tho: Bishop of Lincoln, with the consent of Adam Squire Master, and the Fellows, made us Decrees, which are in number seven, all entered in our Statute Book. All the following Decrees written in the said Statute Book [excepting that concerning Fellow-Commoners, dated Anno 1610] are a Collection of Decrees, made not only 1574. but formerly: for I found upon our Register the Decree concerning the payment of Battles within 15 days after the end of the Quarter, to be made verbatim 1554. [which was about seven Years after the foresaid Proviso] subscribed, 

Jo: Lincoln.  
James Gloucester, Master.  
Jo: Smith.  
Gul: Talerius.  
Anth: Garnet.  
Brianus Nedamus.  
Alanus Higginsonius.  
Bartimeus Greemes.    
Anno Dom. 1565. Nicholas Bishop of Lincoln, and Visitor of the College of Balliol, cited the Master and Fellows to a Visitation, forbidding them all Elections. Nevertheless they, in obedience to the Statute, admitted Thomas Coventry and John Tunkis Fellows, having fulfilled their Year of Probation; especially since the Bishop of Lincoln could not Inhibit an Election prescribed by Statute: And by their date, it should be the same Bishop that by his Commissioners made us these Injunctions following.  

Injunctions ordained by Mr. Thomas Goodwin, Mr. Laurence Humphrey Doctor of Divinity, Mr. Richard Barber, Commissioners to my Lord of Lincoln, in their Visitation had in Bayly College in Oxon, the 4th of March, Anno Dom. 1565. left to be perpetually observed within the said College, and confirmed with the putting of their hands in the Margin.  
1. IMprimis, it is Ordered and Decreed, That the Communion shall be duly ministered and given into the hands of the Communicants, according to the Order set forth in the Book of Common Prayer; and that all and every person and persons being of lawful Years and Discretion, shall at the lest three or four times in the year reverently receive it, and that the contemners or refusers thereof shall pay every time 3 s. 4 d. at the discretion of the Master to be levied.  
2. Item, That all Fellows-Commoners, and others, sojourning within the House, shall resort to the Chapel in the time of Service and Common Prayer; and then and there shall behave themselves in such godly manner, that they hinder not the Word of God to be read or sung, or disturb others: which Ordinance whosoever breaketh, shall pay 12 d. and if after admonition, and twice correction, he or they do refrain to come, as is above ordained, then he or they, whosoever he be, shall be at the discretion of the Master, put out of the House.  
3. Item, That Public Prayers in the Morning shall be said in the vulgar Tongue, as is through the Queen's Majesty's Dominions used; and that every common Scholar or Bachelor within the said House, not frequenting the said Prayer, shall for every time so offending be punished with stripes, if he be under correction, or else have one farthing set on his head, at the discretion of the said Master.  
4. Item, That as well Divine Service, as the Sacrament of the Supper of the Lord, shall be said in the Chapel of the said College, to the which, all the House shall diligently repair, and not to the Parish Church.  
5. Item, That all Primers; not allowed by the Queen's Majesty, and all superstitious Books, be neither in Public Prayer had or used, but be brought and delivered to the Master forthwith, to be abolished.  
6. Item, That such Books for Divine Service be brought and used in the said College, as is mentioned in the Queen's Majesty's Injunctions; as the Bible, Communion Book, David's Psalters, and the Book of Homilies.  
7. Item, That all the Service be distinctly and openly pronounced, as it is set forth in the Book of Common Prayer.  
8. Item, That the Prayers at the usual times, and the Graces at Meals, shall be said or sung within the said College, without Invocation of Saints, or Prayer for the dead.  
9 Item, That the Master bring with him all his company to the Sermon, especially if they be solemn and ordinary, otherwise the absent shall pay 2 d. at the discretion of the Master, if he be not upon reasonable cause licenced by the Master.  
10. Item, There shall be a Minister chosen within one Month, according to the Statute.  
Scripta per me Johannem Ball, notarium publicum Linc: Diocese: 10 Martii, Anno supradicto in meo proprio cubiculo in Collegio sive Edibus Christi in Vniversitate Oxon.   
These things I have heaped up together, as belonging to the Visitor, and the exercise of his Authority here; though some of them, in order of time, were done after those that follow; viz. The buildings of the Chapel.   

SECT. 32.  
The Chapel, called the new Chapel, that now is, was built in the Reign of K. H. 8. (at the charge of the House, assisted probably by the contribution of Friends) for I found, that in the 13th year of the reign of H. 8. [which was about Anno 1521.] an Agreement was made with a Mason of Burford, for the finishing of the 3 Windows thereof on the Quadrangle side, and one Window of the Treasury on the same side; the rest may be presumed to have been finished before, viz. 9 H. 8. which by a mistake in our Register is written 19 H. 8. which if true, it were after the glazing of the Windows: But how long it was, before it received its perfection [both for Stonework and Lead, with the Frame that bears it up] I cannot show precisely: But that it was before Anno 1529. is evident by the date of the glazing of the Windows, it being then, that Laurence Stubbies gave the East Window, which is so fair, that the Founder of Wadham College is said to have offered the Society 200 l. for it, to glaze the East Window of his Chapel, as representing in lively Colours and exquisite Postures, the Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ: but the Chapel being fair, they thought not that Window too gaudy for it; and I would they had not thought the Leads too heavy, I am sure others did not, for weaker Frames at the Schools upon which they were laid. The South Window was at the same time glazed by Richard Stubbies, containing the whole Story of the Martyrdom of St. Katerine: The next to that, was of the Gift of Dr. Wentworth, Fellow of this House, containing the story of Hezekiah's sickness and recovery: that opposite thereunto, containing the story of Philip and the Eunuch, was the same year given by Richard Atkins Esq; of Gloucestershire, and Fellow-Commoner of this College; about which time, the whole Chapel was lined and adorned with Joiner's work, at the cost of the College and of many Benefactors, one of the greatest whereof was Mr. Popham of Littlecot, who had been of the House, and gave One hundred pound; in memory whereof, his Arms engraven in Wood, are placed over the Screen doors of the Choir. The second best, was Mr. Boughton, Subdean of his Majesty's Chapel Royol, who gave 50 l. so that now it gives way to noon of those of the lesser Colleges for beauty and proportion. One of the Chapel Windows appears, to be given by one of the Comptons' (a Knight) Sir William Compton, of the Ancestors of the now Earl of Northampton, both by his Name and Coat of Arms, and probably he gave towards the structure itself: for his Charity was great, if it were answerable to his Piety, which his posture (with his Ladies) wherein he is represented in the same Window, shows to be devout. 1530.   

SECT. 33.  
In the 31 Year of Hen. 8. The site of the Monastery of Clerkenwell, was settled by Act of Parliament upon the Duke of Norfolk; and in the 35 Year of the same K. H. 8. it was settled, by the consent of the Duke of Norfolk, upon the King again by Act of Parliament; then in the 37 Year of his Reign, he granted it to Walter Henly and John Williams, Knights, to be held in Capite. After the death of Sir Walter Henly, his Widow Dame Margaret Henly, conveyed one Message, two Gardens, and one Cottage or little House, to John Bell, 7 Edw. 6. (wherein Bell afterwards lived) after this the said Lady Henly married Thomas Roberts Esq: The same Roberts sold the Sister's House and Garden to John Bell, Nou. 19 2 and 3▪ Year of Phil: and Mary, and he the said Roberts and his Lady acknowledged a Fine. This Sister's House, and the beforementioned Message, with the Appurtenances aforesaid, the said John Bell did given to our College, March 9 2 and 3 of Phil: and Mary. After the death of John Bell, our College was questioned in the Exchequer for the House, Gardens and Cottage, sold by my Lady Henly, and given by John Bell without Licence (the whole Case is recited in a Copy of a Rowl out of the Exchequer) thereupon the transgression was pardoned by Letters Patents, Febr. 1. 3 and 4 of Phil: and Mary; and the Houses by the same Letters Patents confirmed to the College. But Elizabeth Sackville the Prioress being living (3 Eliz.) was thought to have a right to the Sister's 
* It being her Freehold for her life, the like I heard urged by Serjeant Maynard, at a Committee in the Painted Chamber, on the behalf of the Heads and Fellows of Houses in Oxon, saying, That it was their Freehold, and they could not be disseised thereof, nor disfranchised of the Corporation: whereunto Serj. Wild, then Chairman, answered, That though Sir James Bag were one of the Corporation of Plymouth, He was nevertheless disfranchised by a Decree of the Star-Chamber: But Serjeant Maynard replied, That by a motion made, showing it to be against Law, he was restored.  House, which she did the same Year, Septemb. 8. release to the College; The bounds whereof, are the Church on the West, John Bells own House, bought as aforesaid, on the East of it, and the Church Yard on the South, as appears by the Deed, and several Leases since set by the College of all the Houses, which are also noted as being within the Precinct of the said Monastery, not only by the said Leases, but also by the Original Deeds. Part of one of the Gardens belonging to the premises [for now they stand divided into three] hath been challenged by the Parish there; insomuch, that one Goodcoale, sometimes Minister of the same, being Confessor to the condemned People in Newgate, did [in the time that Dr. Juxon was Bishop of London, and Lord Treasurer] cause a door which had been Masoned up, to be broken open [which had been the way for the Prioress to come into the Church] and the dead Bodies of Executed persons, with others who died of the Plague of Pestilence, to be buried there; out of which, 'tis like, he sucked some advantage. But complaint being made by us to the said Lord Treasurer, his Lordship made an Order, remaining still with us, for the quiet possession of the premises; which we continued till Anno 1659. when they, taking advantage of the Times, put us to new troubles. But the Day not sooner began to dawn, then all those Spirits betook themselves to their Dens again. The end for which that sometimes Reverend Bishop of Worcester did given the premises to the College, was, for a stipend to be paid to two Scholars born within the Diocese of Worcester, whose Will therein hath been ever observed. This Bishop, John Bell, by the Arms 
Robert Hooper was Master, 10 Eliz. not mistaken for Richard Hooper Master. See in Clerkenwell Box, and that o● admissions.  over the Gate of three Church Bells, is judged to have built that and some of the Front of the College: but hereof we have no other testimony.   

SECT. 34.  
In Oxford and Canterbury Box, there is also a Deed to Exeter College for exchange of our Land beforementioned adjoining to that House, for a House and Garden lying neare to ours: which House and Garden must be, by the description thereof, upon part of that ground where Hammond's Lodgings now stand: for it is set lying and being on the North part of the way, leading from Balliol College to Magdalene Church, on the West part of the Wall of Balliol College aforesaid, and therefore it extende●h itself further that way then now it does, viz. quite to the low Wall end without▪ and on the East part of certain Tenements belonging to Balliol College aforesaid. Upon further consideration of the aforesaid exchange, the Rector and Scholars of Exeter College, did covenant to pay to the Master and Scholars of Balliol aforesaid, a yearly Rent of 2 s. 6 d. for ever, to be issuing and going out of a Tenement of the said Rector and Scholars in Magdalene Parish, to be paid at the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel only; and for non-payment thereof, the Master and Scholars of Balliol may, by the same Deed, distrain upon the aforesaid Tenement; or (in case of insufficient Distress to be found there) upon any other Tenement belonging to the said Exeter College in the City of Oxon, or Suburbs thereof: All which, appears in an Indenture under the Seal of the College of Exeter aforesaid, dated Octob. 6. Anno 14 Eliz. After which exchange so made, I suppose the said House was new builded; from whence, it obtained the name of the New Buildings: but whither done by the College, or any Tenant in performance of Covenants made with the College, I cannot show. But I found it to have been Leased out to one John Wilson, at the time of William Hammond's benefaction. The Lease itself I have not seen; but it appears by an Indenture, bearing date Febr: 14. in the 36 of Q Eliz. That William Hammond of Guildford, in the County of Surrey Esq lent to John Apsley Esq in the County of Sussex, the sum of 1100 l. for non-payment whereof, he was to be seized of a Rent charge of 100 l. per annum, to him and his Heirs for ever. But then, in case the Rent charge were redeemed by the payment of the said 1100 l. then the Will of him the said Hammond was, That the said Eleven hundred pounds, with Three hundred pounds more, should be paid over to my Lord Montague, Anthony Garnet, and John Brown Esq for the advancement of our College. The said Garnet, with the consent of the other two, did receive several sums as part of the said 1100 l. & namely 200 l. at one time: which 200 l. was lent to Dr. Ainsloe, Doctor in Physic, for the good of the College, till the rest should be received: for the payment whereof, the said Ainsloe and Sir Henry Lee become bound. Moreover, the said Ainsloe become bound to the said Lord Montague in a Bond of 100 l. for the payment of 20 l. per annum for divers Years. Now my Lord Montague, Ainsloe and Brown being dead, there passed a Decree in Chancery against Garnet aforesaid, that the said two Bonds should be delivered to the College; and my Lady Montague, with the rest of the Executors and Assigns of my Lord Montague, did appoint George Abbots, Master of Arts of the College, to receive that 200 l. of Ainsloe, and upon Receipt thereof, to pay it over to the College, further enabling the College to ask and take of the said Executors of Hammond the said 300 l. mentioned in the said two Obligations. Now whither the said George Abbot, or the College, did receive any part of the forementioned sums, it appears not. But I found that the foresaid Garnet, in pursuance of the said Decree, did surrender the forementioned Lease of the New Lodgings [thence called Hammonds-hall] to our College, by his Deed, bearing date 35 Eliz. which Lease had been bought by the said Garnet, and the rest of Hammond s Executors, as is probable, to the same intent and purpose: The which Tenement, by this means, become part of the site of the College, and so remains. By which, and divers other cases of our own, we may see how the Charity of good People is mostly left unto the trust of those, who either neglect it, or lick their own Fingers with it: so that very little or nothing falls, as here it did, to the share of those to whom its intended. Only by the taking in of this Lease [which time and patience would have worn out] we gained Lodgings for two Fellows more, which were added to the Foundation by the Charity of Peter Blundel, and the Lady Periham.   

SECT. 35.  
To all Benefactions already mentioned, and some hereafter [because lying together with others of later date, but of more moment] to be mentioned, we have a Licence of Mortmain added, with a 
Besides the Pardons granted by H. 6. & Ed. 6. which are in the Box of Admissions of Masters, & of the Foundation of the College; which Pardons are formerly mentioned.  Charter for the Being and Style of our College; which [having been formerly divers, and many Inconveniences ensuing thereupon, being sometimes written [The Principal and Scholars] sometimes [the Principal and Fellows] sometimes [the Warden and Scholars] sometimes [the Master and Fellows] sometimes [the Master, Fellows and Scholars etc.] as in the said Charter is observed] is thereby appointed to be [The Master and Scholars of Balliol College] and noon other: The which style we use to this day; and have so used it ever since the date of the said Charter, which was Auno 30 Eliz. Who by other Letters Patents laid up, together with these, in the same Charter Case, had formerly, viz. 29 Eliz. confirmed not only the Foundation and Statutes of John de Balliol, but also other Letters Patents before▪ mentioned; with others given by her Progenitors for the behoof of this College, which are therein verbatim recited. 
* The ancient Benefactions I found Recorded likewise in the Tower, verbatim.  So that were all other Records of our College lost, & these mentioned in this Section only remaining, we had enough to show for the substance of all our College Revenue; excepting some few Candle-Rents here in Oxon, and other accessions to this House, of greater moment indeed, but made after the date of all the Premises. And upon this alteration of the Style of the College, a new Seal was Fabricated, with the Image of St. Catherine in it, having her Sword in one hand, her Wheel in the other, and her Crown upon her head, with the several Coats of Arms placed, as in Dervorgilles Seal beforementioned: the Seal in use immediately before, being the Image of the B. Virgin Mary, in boss or haut relief (as the French call it) sitting with a Crown upon her head, with the Babe in her hands (nobili sane solacismo) as Beza calls it (upon another occasion) environed with St. Kat: and all the Saints, with this engraveur in the Ring; viz. Sigillum commune Domus Ball: servata, sancta, pia virgo domui tuae de te propitiam.   

SECT. 36.  
In K. James' Reign, many things were done for our College, some of them relating to things of ancienter date; one is concerning our Quarries at Heddington, which, though time out of mind in the possession of our College and of their Lessees, yet Mr. Broom, Lord of that Manor, pretended title to, endeavouring by all means to suppress the Landmarks thereof, having gotten into his own hands some Evidences which appertained to the College in relation to the Premises. But upon complaint made by the College in the Chancery, 10 Jac. It was Decreed [and the Decree we have under Seal] that we should enjoy the said Quarry, and Land thereunto belonging, as it was meered out by one Richard Comely, containing on the West side 21 Pole and 5 Foot, at 16 Foot and a half to every Pole; on the East side 20 Pole and 5 Foot: In the breadth on the North end, 7 Pole and 15 Foot, and on the South end 8 Pole: Madge Coll▪ Quarry lying on the West side of the said Acre, & the Land of Magdalen College lying on the North side thereof, and the Land of Mr. Broom on the South and East-sides. By the same Decree we have also free liberty of digging, carrying away, using, employing, converting, etc. as by the said Decree in Odyngton Box more at large may appear. But before this, viz, August 36. Anno 1605. Mrs. Mary Dunch gave an Exhibition to the College, charged upon North-morton in the County of B●rks, as by the Composition thereof appears. And Jan: 20. 1607. John Brown B. D. and Vicar of Basingstoke in Hampshire, formerly Fellow of University College, but first Scholar of this House, confirmed by Indenture to us, 2 l. 12 s. per annum for ever, as a Rent-charge out of certain Lands in Rutherwi●k in the said County of Southampton, for one Exhibitioner or Scholar; to be paid him by 12 d. per week, according to his residence, as by the Composition more fully may appear.   

SECT. 37.  
Although our Land at Tackley, and some of our Lands at Old Woodstock and Wotton, are anciently belonging to our College, and confirmed by the Letters Patents mentioned in the former Section [but of whose gift I do not found] yet because other of our Lands there [and those the greater part of all] were bought in K. James' his Reign, I shall mention them together in this place. The Land at Tackley appears upon our Register, to be confirmed to us by K. H. 8. who took us Tenants for it.) The ancient Lands in Woodstock and Wotton, I found confirmed unto us by the same K. H. 8. by the name of one Message and one Yard Land in 
As appears by a Courtroll of 33 H. 8.  Old Woodstock, called Heynes; one other Message and half Yard Land in Old Woodstock, called Jewels; and one more Message and half Yard Land in Wotton; and this done by receiving our Homage for them: but it appears by a Survey, that Balliol College hath two Yard Land and a half in Wotton and Woodstock, which is half a Yard Land more then in the Homage is mentioned: All which, and many more, seem to have been the Lands of Thomas Harrow Clerk, and passed over by him to divers persons jointly, 9 H. 8. as its recorded in our Register, by a full recital of the Deed itself. The other Lands of ours in Old Woodstock, are the third part of the Certes (now written Sartes) bought of Thomas Ely and Nicolas Lucy, for 6 l. 6 s. 8 d. in 11 Jac: reputed worth 1 l. 13 s. 4 d. per annum, as among other things by the Deed is expressed. 
* See Nashes' surrender, 13 Jac. Rex. Annoque Dom. 1615.  Seacoals, with other Lands, and the rest of the Sartes bought of Hierome Nash for 700 l. being part of moneys given by Peter Blundel, Founder of Tiverton School in Devon, in the last Year of Queen Eliz: upon which consideration, 13 Jac: our College did agreed with his Feoffees to maintain one Fellow and one Scholar for ever, to be chosen and sent from Tiverton School as aforesaid, as among other things may by the Composition appear. Before the purchase of these Lands of Hierome Nash aforesaid, he the said Nash was Tenant to our other Lands, which lying intermingled with his, a Controversy arose, Which were ours? and which were his? whereupon, by mutual accord of the College and him, ours were set out precisely, as appears by a Deed to that purpose, bearing date Octob. 16. Anno 13 Jacobi. The particulars of the Land, afterwards purchased by the College of him the said Nash, are expressed and bounded in a Schedule annexed to our Deed of purchase, bearing date, Novemb: 24. following; which Lands, together with others of the said Nash in Old and New Woodstock and Wotton, were the Lands of William Sea-coal of Stanton-Wyard in the County of Oxon, who conveyed them to Michael Nash, by a Deed bearing date, Octob. 9 Anno 6 Eliz. Now these Lands thus bought of him are so small, and the charge is so great, that the said lands were set almost at a Rack-rent to defray it; and falling into the hands of beggarly Tenants, the College hath of late Years, lost at lest 200 l. by them: So that the Damnum emergens, by letting in these new comers, and these to share in Offices and Perquisites; and the Lucrum cessans, by the lessening of our Rent, makes the old Foundation groan under the burden, which happened to be the greater by the dis-honesty of the Chapman, who sold away the best parcels of his land to others; leaving to us the open Fields, wherewith he thought us as easy to be taken, as Larks are there by a Day-net: and some of those, 'tis thought, were our own before too. And lastly, That no allurement might be wanting to catch us by, he tempted us with a handsome well-situated House: not forgetting that of the Poet.  

Aspicis ut veniant ad candida tecta columbae  
Accipiat nullas sordida turris oves.  These misfortunes some have ascribed to the unluckiness of the place, it being never known that any Man thrived upon it: But this hath been the usual Apology for bad Husbandry, which is the reason why our Chapman sold it, and our Tenant grew poor upon it, besides the Suits in Law wherewith he was continually embroiled, for land of his own adjoining. I should rather ascribe it to the non-performance of Blundel's Will, by establishing a Fellow and a Scholar, he intending it for two Scholars only. Some will be ready to say, That it hath followed Fortunam Loci, h. e. the College which was cheated in the first Foundation lands, and hath been since many times abused, as herein, so in other things before, and hereafter to be mentioned, ascribed to the superstitious uses whereunto the House was consecrated, viz. the honour, not of God only, but of the whole Choir of Heaven, to whom Prayers, Supplications, and Intercessions were want to be made. Whereunto I answer, That this hath been ever the Argument of Sacrilege, and at this day is, for the sales of Bishops lands and other Church Revenues, and holds as well against the most flourishing Colleges of England as against this. But in the first place, these Benefactions were no Acts of constraint, they being all done or intended before the persons lay upon their Deathbeds, and consequently not solicited thereunto by their Confessors, which was the matter of an 
Anno Dom. 1646.  Appeal, I remember, once at Roven in the great Chamber of Parliament, viz. for the Cassation of a Testament, whereby the Testator gave all his moveables and one Years Rend of his lands to a Religious House, inasmuch as the Curate having his soul in his hand, one would presume it to have been done by an Act of constraint: for by the Civil Law, it is not permitted to any one to persuade a Moribund to bequeath any thing to any person but his Tutor, his Physician, or his Servant, inasmuch as the last Will aught to be free. The matter was so learnedly and readily argued on both sides, that the Court gave no Sentence in the Cause. On the same day there was another Process, touching a Testament which had been signed by the Testator before it was read unto him, by reason of the feebleness of his hand, not able to expect the reading thereof: whereupon, the Appellant demanded the Cassation of the same: But it was pronounced good by the sentence of the Court, as a thing freely intended by the Testator. Secondly, then I say, That though those Constellations of Saints were in her [as in others] religious Horoscope, as carried away with the common Error of the Times; yet she made God, whose honour is first regarded by her, the Lord of her Ascendent. The like hath the good Lady Periham done [those Constellations being by the Reformation removed out of the places they held in our Founder's time] who for the promoting and increase of Learning and Religion, hath annexed one Fellowship and two Scholars places to the old Foundation for ever, with 40 s. per annum to the signior Fellows Scholar; but with a more equitable Proviso then any is in Blundel's Composition, and more suitable to that of the Founders Statutes; which is, That the Revenues decreasing, the allowance of her Eleemosynaries should decrease proportionably: which otherwise, had not been agreeable to the Founders Statutes, wherein it is provided, that Decrescentib us reditibus decrescat numerus Sociorum: Wherhfore she chose rather to have part of the maintenance of her own Scholars withdrawn, then in this case leave them to rob us. And all this was done by the direction of George Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, as is recited in an Indenture of mutual Release between his Grace and this College, to whose discretion it was by her wholly left, to what uses, and in what College in Oxon her Charity was to be employed. To the end and purpose aforesaid, the said Lady Beriham did (18 Jacobi) given to the said Archbishop the Farm called Borough-farm, with all the Members and Appurtenances whatsoever in Medmenham and Hambleton, in the County of Bucks, yet in lease for about 
The Lease dated 18 Jac.  13 Years to come; which Interest of his Graces, did he Release to the College by the foresaid Indenture, dated Octob. 9 in 4 Car. 1. Annoque Dom. 1628. But some of the Trusties judging part of this Estate 
See the Boxes of Borough-Farm and Prince-Risborow.  to lie convenient for themselves, took it, and left us that at Prince-Risborow for it. Thus our Pious Benefactrix beteemed her Scholars reasonable Messes of Commons, but her Cooks licked their own Fingers in dividing of them. Not far from this Prince-Risborow, we have another Farm of an ancienter Donation, viz. at Morton neare Tame, conveyed by George Nevil Archbishop of York, to several Trusties, 14 Ed. 4. conveyed to Nevil by Botelet, conveyed by Botelet to Jacket, conveyed to Jacket by Pyron, and to Pyron by Wolundun, 14 Ed. 3. and so up, till we come to Write without date. And besides this, I do not know of any thing that I have not mentioned, unless the George in Woodstock, bought of one Mead (13 Car. 1.) with 100 l. given us by a Benefactor, and 60 l. added thereunto.   

SECT. 38.  
Seven Fellowships and six Scholarships, given by William Tisdale, were upon the point of being settled here, upon such terms as should be agreed upon between the Abindonians and the College, and allowed by George Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace. Three hundred pound of the Money given by Tisdale to the foresaid intent and purpose, was delivered into the hands of the College, wherewith (with the addition of 40 l. or thereabouts) were bought Caesar's lodgings, with all the Houses and Appurtenances adjoining, for a present Receptacle for the said six Scholars, which were there received and settled accordingly, receiving their Exhibitions by the hands of our Bursars, viz. Dring, Lee, Crabtree, Allen, Bowles and Read: whereof Crabtree died of a stab with a Knife, given him by the unlucky hand of a Freshman of three Weeks standing: the rest continued here in expectation of a settlement for themselves and the intended Fellows here (whereof they were to be the first) which was to be upon the mutual accord of this College and the Abindonians, by whom they were to be sent hither from that School. At the last, Articles, such as the Abindonians desired, were agreed on by the College, subscribed by the Master and Fellows: which are as follows.  

Articles of Agreement, between the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Burgesses of the Town of Abington, and the Master and Scholars of Balliol College, concerning the Incorporating into the said College seven Fellows and six Scholars, of Mr. Tisdale's Foundation, mutually assented unto, if so be it shall seem good to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace.  
IMprimis, It is agreed, That the said College be endowed with the Lands purchased for the Fellows; provided, That if the said Lands and Endowment shall be by any means impaired, there shall be a decrease of the number of Fellows and Scholars, according to the Statute of the ancient Foundation.  
2. That the surplusage of the Money that remains of the Profits of the said Lands, amounting unto about Eight hundred pounds, be delivered to the use of both the Foundations.  
3. The seven Fellows and six Scholars of Mr. Tisdale's Foundation, to be Incorporated and made parcel of the Body, by the name of Master and Scholars: But by their private Orders, and in the House to be distinguished; viz. Mr. Tisdale's Fellows, and Abingdonian Scholars.  
4. The said College to provide convenient Lodgings for the Scholars of the said Foundation, during the time they shall continued Scholars.  
5. That the Scholars already chosen, shall so continued, until such time that Money be raised out of their Revenues for to provide convenient Building to receive the full number of the Foundation, and then the said Scholars to be Fellows, and more Scholars chosen. Provided, That the Money levied out of the Yearly Rents, shall remain in the Chamber of the Town of Abingdon, until such time that there be raised a competent sum to erect Buildings, uniform to the said College, the College allowing Ground for the said Building; and that the Election of the said Fellows and and Scholars respectively, shall be immediately after the finishing of the said Building.  
6. That out of the said Eight hundred pounds, or thereabouts, all charges in settling of the said Lands by Conveyance, or otherwise, shall be discharged.  
7. That the seven Fellows of Mr. Tisdale's Foundation, shall equally receive all Profits and Commodities with the Fellows of the ancient Foundation, and shall be equally capable of all Offices, Preferments and Privileges whatsoever in the said College.  
8. That the six Scholars of Mr. Tisdale's Foundation shall receive the full allowance by the Will, or what shall answer in full proportion to the said allowance, as shall be suitable to the Customs of the College.  
9 That the six scholars of Mr. Tisdale's foundation shall enjoy their said places until they shall be Masters of Arts, or until either by death, resignation or preferment, according to the statutes of the said College, their places shall become voided.  
10. That in a voided place of any scholar, the election of one other to be made within three months by such, and in such manner as is limited by the Will, and then to be presented and admitted, if he be worthy.  
11. That the Master of the College for the time being, shall receive out of the Revenues of Mr. Tisdale's donation, the sum of Twenty▪ pounds by the year.  
12. That there being seven fellows and six scholars chosen out of the said school of Abington, not more of the said school be chosen into any place of the ancient Foundation.  
Subscribed, 

Jo: Parkhurst, Magister Coll: Bal.  
Edw: Wilson.  
Johannes English.  
Johannes Churchar.  
Tho: Crane.  
Tho: Chambers.  
Aegid: Thorn.  
Johan: Pits.  
Rich: Trimnell.  
Rob: Parry.     
Whilst these things were pending, the Abingdonians, instead of pursuing the intent of Tisdale, which was to make his Fellows and Scholars an additional part of a Foundation, entertained thoughts [by the help of the Charity of Whitwick] of Founding a new College of itself; which they did effect, without regard had at all to the said Condescensions of our College [though published time enough to have hindered it] which could not have been greater, without manifest Injury to the ancient Foundation, violence offered to the Statutes themselves: which thing was so little regarded in Blundel's Composition, that it is to be feared, That it hath been noon of the lest occasions of those various Providences we have seen come to pass, & ad beneficium & beneficiarios. The place the Abingdonians pitced on, was Broadgates-hall, where that they might take such footing, as that nothing might be able to remove them; they made the Earl of Pembroke, then Chancellor of the University, the Godfather of this new Christened Hall, calling it by the name of Pembroke College: King James the Founder of it, who then reigned; but (ad onera & costagia) at the cost and charges of Tisdale and Whitwick, allowing these only the privilege of Foster Fathers, as appears by the Natalitia which I shall here insert.  

NATALITIA COLLEGII PEMBROCHIANI OXONII. 1624.  
Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Georgio Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi dignissimo, totius Angliae Primati & Metrapolitano, patrono nostro colendissimo.  
QVi te non audet accedere, non novit benignitatem Tuam, Praesul Amplissime; qui te multis interpellat, peccat in mores, Ecclesiam, Rempub. quibus sub pientissimo Rege, optimoque Principe, prudentissima tua pietas praesidet. Paucis ergo habeto gratitudinem Tuorum Pembrochiensium, rationem redditam actorum in natalibus Collegii hujus nuperi; in honorem & solatium Tuum, qui benefacta Tisdalli Tui non malè locata laetabere. Tisdalli Tui verè dicimus, affectu, institutione, benefaciendi foelicitate Tui. Propensissimè Is semper in te affectus, multis annis à te religiosè, pi● institutus, ad hanc munificentiam piam per te edoctus, animatus. Per illius piam memoriam; per pietatem Tuam, Te submissè obtestamur, Reverende Pater, nos velis fundatore nostro, amico Tuo orbatos, inter filios tuos numerare. Putato, ut Legatum Tisdalli munificum Tuae fidei concreditum, sic Legatoris nos Tuae tutelae commendatos. Quo obsequio filii nativi patri devincti sunt, aut esse debent, eodem nos paternitati Tuae obstrictos habebis; inter reliquos Magistrum Collegii, Eum qui per 30 plus minus annos, pietatem, doctrinam, prudentiam Tuam verè, intimè est reveritus, futurus semper est  
Amplitudini Tuae devotissimus Servus, Tho: Clayton.  

COllegium Pembrochiae in Vniversitate Oxon: ex fundatione Jacobi Regis ad onera & costagia Thomae Tisdale & Richardi Wihgtwicke, constat ex uno Magistro, decem Sociis & decem Scholaribus cum privilegiis & immunitatibus concessis per Literas Patentes Regias datas Junii 29. 1624.  
Hae literae patentes lectae fuerunt publicè in Aulâ Collegii Pembrochie Augusti 5. 1624. Quo die admissus fuit Magister Collegii, & facta est Transmutatio Aulae Lateportensis in Collegium Pembrochianum.   
In quâ transmutatione habitae sunt Orationes sequentes.  


Thomas Browne Studiosus non Graduatus Commensalis Collegii.  
SEntio Lateportenses (salvam enim adhuc vobis antiquum hoc nomen, mox antiquandum) sentio, inquam, aures vobis ad unum omnibus arrectas quò se ferat Oratio mea avidè expectantibus, &, ut ita dicam, auditurientibus an in invidiam Pembrochianorum an in gratiam dicturus surrexerim: Quaenam verò sunt ista perperàm interpretantibus mala, quae à me quasi in Aulae funere lamentis veris, atque quod dicitur, spirantibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 velitis? En, Aulam vestram vagam, & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 (quem enim hujus domus patrem, aut fundatorem recolimus? in tutelam recepit Maecenas nobilissimus, de Aulâ Collegium, de Lateportensi suo indito nomine Pembrochiense, de lateritiâ, ut ita dicam, idque si durationem spectes, verè marmoreum facturus, quod ne ipsa quidem invidia, nisi fluens aspiciet. An illum qui hujus beneficii author, & fundus nobis extitit, qui mutationem hanc parturiit, pietatis criminis rerum sistemus, postulabimus benevolentiae datique nobis rectè aestimantibus beneficii invidiam faciemus? Quis tam improbus, & nullâ fronte qui haec dicat? Quid enim? jura nostra, si quae fuerint, salva omnia, quanquam quae Lateportensium jura, quas privatas rationes putemus tanti? ut cum de communi bono agitatur, non prorsus jaceant, & Collegio Pembrochiano fasces submittant? Eadem tamen jura omnia, idem Magister & Principalis, eaedem aedes, nisi quod nobiliores, Lateportensis Pembrochiensis & vice versâ Pembrochiensis Lateportensis, Tros Tyriusque hoc tantùm discrimine, quòd nos priùs titulo nescio quo fortè Ironico appellatos, jam verè magnificum nomen insigniet. Quis ergò Lateportensium cum ex Aulae antiquae ruderibus Phaenicem Pembrochianam excitatam viderit (quod nunc tantum non fit) non ostentabit damnum suum, & gratulabitur sibi tam utilem nominis jacturam? Intret jam Pembrochianum in portas nostras, nec non etiam in animos; hanc Latiportensem nostram apud te (vir ornatissime) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 deponimus, durum enim fuerit dicere telinquimus, apud te, inquam, auspicatò deponimus mox pro Aulâ Collegium, pro Principali Magistrum recepturi.   

Johan. Lee Art: Baccalaur Scolaris Collegii.  
QUidni demorsos Cleanthis ungues sapere, & lucernam olere Ciceronianam debet, quae arae Lugdunensi adornatur Oratio? ne Oratoris incuria cum Ajace in spongiam, & fama in dentem impingat Theoninum. De meà igitur famâ quidni jacta videatur alea? cum in hoc Areopagitarum Theatrum velut in Epicurei intermundia subito delapsus sim homuncio, festinâ nimis obstetricante editam proditurus Orationem quasi ex somnifero vacunae foco, ipsoque Epimenibus specu prodeuntem. Elegissem (Academici spectatissimi) Tacitae potius cum Numâ litasse, quam in tam celebrem irruisse conventum, illotis (quod aiunt) manibus, & salsâ minus molâ propi●io Tisdalli Genio litaturus; nisi maluissem à vobis medium imperitiae digitum, quam ab illo conversum ingratitudinis pollicem demereri. Meum me huic scopulo Prometheum affixit pientissimo Tisdallo gratulandi officium; qui suos huc usque passus videtur manes foelici Aesonis omine nunc demùm recoquendus, nouâque cum Eu●yclice donandus vitâ. Gallum debemus, candido serenissimi Claytonis Aesculapio cujus unius beneficio velut gustato Glauci gramine, nostri in his aedibus revixit Tisdallus; & lugubri Libitinae suspensâ Cupresso nactus est vivacem nominis in aeternum victuri Cedrum. Euge, Abingdoniensis, plaude nunc demum, propitiae Junoni litato, Genioque indulgeto Schola, quae Solem hodiernum, tanquam illam Acessei lunam avidis jamdudum oculis expectasti: En foelix unione notandus, tibi jam tandem illuxit dies, in quo foelici opem ferente Lucinâ, Musas enixa es Pembrochianas. Totum nunc certè lustrum elapsum est, ex quo tu harum aliquas immaturo quasi Semeles partu radi obstetricante Mineruâ exclusisti: quae celeberrima Ballioli seminaria veluti Jovis foemori insutae & excoctae Pembrochianos nunc gestiunt coronare lares. Hasce Musas (ornatissimi Lateportenses) quae vestrum in limine faventem salutarunt Janum, facilem Jovis vestri Hospitalis tesseram impetraturas spero. Adeò ut sanctum quasi Jovem lapidem juratae vobiscum ineuntes foedus in unum cum Apolline vestro coalescant Hermophroditum. Piis indies precibus vestro litant Hymenaeo, & deorum omnium conjugalium incerant genua, genialem Dei vestri tutelaris ambientes torum; sperâmus tam pias Musas (faventibus Gratiis) voti damnandas, earumque (nullâ interim Penelopes texendâ telâ, aut moris nectendis) Zonam solvendam praestolamur. Ne gravemini (viri de Musis meritissimi) omnibus dejectis de cardine controversiis, ad quas componendas nouâ plerumque viri plac● opus est; obviis ulnis procantes amplexari Musas: quae si vestram demereri gratiam poterint, de alterius cujuscunque Museae splene, & formicae bile, nil pensi habent. Insuper, ut nihil desit, quod suam Caio Caiam legitimis pactam tabellis arctissimè conjungat, orandi estis, ut deponcano & antiquato Lateportensium nomini nuncium mittentes, nomine gaudeatis succidaneo, & libentèr (quod benè vortat) Pembrochienses audiatis. Amandetur interim ad Chrispini Lippi scrinia cum blattis ac tineis rixatura multiloqua invidiae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, quae suas à ventis ferendas in nos eructabit de plaustro contumelias incassùm nostrum per tam Latas portas egressuram exprobraturas Myndum. Pinge duas angues (pia mater Accademia) quo minus profana ausit invidia in cineres mingere Tisdallinos; ex his enim speramus aliquando (nullis interim expectandis Graecorum calendis) magnificas Musis surrecturas moles, reliquarum aemulas, prae quibus Memphitica pyramidum miracula in Augiae stabulum commigrasse viderentur. Agite (celeberrimi Pembrochienses) vestrum solamini, & exhilarate Larem, quem (deterso vetustatis situ) velut exutum pannis Ulyssem opulescere videmus, Tysdalli in primâ cerâ haeredem futurum: quem per se clarissimum magis indies inclarescere non dubitamus, magnas quoquo versus literarum colonias deducturum. Suam hinc arripiat Zoilus calumniandi ansam, qui nedum in scirpo non tam invenire, quam facere satagit: qui saniosas vitiorum vomicas obelo suo indignas summâ tantùm cute titillare solet; at protractae in arenam virtuti Rhinoceroticam semper impingit narem: Naevos vellicare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 susque deque habet invidia: in amabili quocunque, vel ipso Veneris sandalio gestit scabros fatigare dentes; & praetereuntium digito si quid dignum occurrat, in hoc suum vel frangere genuinum non gravatur. At verò non vereor eam soboli Tysdallinae vaticinari famam, quam albo invidiae calculo insignitam, vel ipse inclusus tauro Perillus reboaret; eamque his aedibus gloriam non dubito accessuram, quam vel ipse quoque livor (salvis Codri iliis) plenis in perpetuum decantabit buccis. Interim quam arcto nexu munificentissimo Tisdallo emancipati sumus? qui nos haeredes ex asse constitutos, nec non ornatissimo Whitwicko qui plus quàm sextulâ aspersos in tantum fortunae supra omnem invidiae aleam positae spem, erexit censos capite homunciones. Gratâ etiam memoriâ semper recolendus est à nobis, qui ad clavum Ecclesiae Anglicanae sedet Reverendissimus Praesul, fiduciarius Tisdalli haeres; qui nostras utroque cornu nutantes jamdiu fortunas grato tibicine suffulcire dignatus est. Caeterùm (Maecenas ornatissime, dignissimique municipii Abingdoniensis proceres) nobis aere vestro planè obrutis, aut novae impetrandae sunt tabellae, aut tristes quam primùm advenerint calendae, luridus miseris expectandus Druso: nisi malitis, ut conductae à Musis Cratiae suspensis nostris omnium bonis libellos dejiciant se vobis in aeternum obligaturae. Ut ut (vigilantissime Collegii Pembrochiani magister) tuos tibi semper indelibatos exopto honores, quibus siqua uspiam Aesopica intumescens in bovem rana illud ex veteri comoediâ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●ggannire ausit, (vindice Nemesi) ruptis demum iliis debitas luat coaxantis invidiae poenas. En habetis (Academici) ad nictantem planè lucernam nullâ olei impensâ elucubratum Collegii Pembrochiani encomium: in quo concinnando res postulavit, ut pluteum c●deret caput scaberet, ungues ad vivum roderet redivivus aliquis è vobis eloquentiae Camillus. At rem dicam, duplicem impresentiarum nactus sum Spartam, ad quarum alterutram satis pro merito ornandam, lateribus Milonis & toto Ulysse opus esse videatur: hunc enim pulverem emensus, jamjam à Baliolensi accersor pluteo, ad commovendam Gowrian● machinationis camarinam. Dum duplicem hanc humeris Aetnam sustineo, à posticis temperate sannis (Academici) meque in tantas angustias redactum, curvatis à tergo ciconiarum collis nequaquam dignum judicate, utcunque rem tanti ponderis tam dissolutis aggredientem scopis. Quod unum reliquum est vos ad unum omnes (ornatissimi Academici) per sacrum Academiae Genium oratos velim, ut piae munificentissimi Tisdalli urnae pientissimis parentetis votis: Mollem tam charo Musis capiti cippum precamini: & bonis avibus inauguratas vestris auspitiis approbate, calculis ornatae, faustisque acclamationibus Musas salutate Pembrochianas.   

Matth: Turner, Art: Madge Prelector Philosophiae.  
EOne res jam recidit (Lateportenses) ut nos veteres Coloni migremus, & novis istis in nostrâ domo regnum possessuris jure & loco cedamus? Sanè quod dixit Tribunus quidem plebis apud Livium, cum plebi connubio patritio interdictum esset, quid hoc est aliud, inquit, quàm exilium intra eadem maenia, quàm Relegationem pati? idem de Lateport: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fortè à re natâ alienum, & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non erit: Intra eosdem parietes nostros, intra eadem tecta, non relegationem quidem, aut exilium, sed quod aeque novum est, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, sed migrationem pati, sed in propriis penatibus tantùm non hospites videmur. Quin si sero resipitis aliquid Lateportense, obviam itis hominibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in alienâ nec vacua quidem illâ invadentibus, quin interceditis Collegio, quin jura vestra vobis à majoribus tradita sarta tecta servatis, & Aulam vestram 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 animam agentem, & vix tantillum spiritus reliqui habentem, quo haec novissima verba jam abituriens in auribus vestris 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 relinquat, Aulam, inquam, antiquam; jam si fas fit dicere, moriturientem, quam ne fuisse unquam posteri nostri fortè vel fando audituri sunt, ab imminente morte asseritis, & a novo isto nomine vindicatis. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Quid enim est ratione rectè subductâ, cur quis tantas hâc in re tragaedias excitet, cur coelum quasi ac terras misceat, & in invidiam Pembrochianorum ore plus quàm tragico exaggeratum eat mala nostra, nondum constituto, an si ponitùs excusserit, mala, an secùs, fuerint: Siquidem rem rectè aestimantibus fortasse etiam imputandam fuerit nobis hoc damnum non adeò prout primâ videbatur fronte incommodum, & non spernendi beneficii loco censendum. Ecquis enim parvi faciat novarum familiarum adjectiones, & novae adaugendam hanc nostram Coloniam quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cujusdam accessionem. Non ignoti, nescio qui de triviis homines, diverso Rectore, diversis affectibus quasi ex alio genere mortalium repentè in unum collecti hûc confluunt, eadem omnes castra & Hyberna tendimus. Idem nobis mutato titulo, non animo Magister, & Principalis, Tros Tyriusque huic nullo, nisi virtutis discrimine spectatur: & quod hujus beneficii caput est, Aula nostra Reverendissimo Domino Archiepiscopo, illi Britanniae nostrae oraculo, & honoratissimo Domino Cancellario nostro, literarum & Literatorum patrono, nec non vobis (quibus haud minima debetur gratia) Abingdoniensibus, tanti aestimata est, ut quasi de sparsis Absyrti membris nullo firmo quidem inter se vinculo colligatis, annuente Regum optimo Jacobo, in corpus benè compactum, omnibusque quod speramus 
Whitw: Tisd:  numeris absolutum, impensis & sumptibus nobilis illius Piorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coalesceret, & instar decantati istius in fabulis Aesonis, aetate depositâ venerandos illos antiquitatis canos jam revirescentes ostenderet. 
Com: Pemb : Quid tandem aliud est Collegium Pembrochianum, quàm Aula Lateportensis recocta, addo etiam renata, & si nobilem illum hujus Domus aeternùm 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 addiderim, certè hodierno die Aulae nostrae Encaenia agere, non 
Dns. Dr. Clayton Princip:  funus ducere videamur. Quibus tandem herbis, nisi in animo tuo (Medicorum pater) olim insitis, quo alio quam tuae humanitatis succo, quibus nisi virtutum tuarum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, & carminibus posita canitie repubescit Aula Lateportensis; Fallor, aut sola tua 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bonitas, te etiam silente, viris optimis author erat, ut in alia Musarum domicilia tantùm 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, in nostrum oculos infigerent, quo philtro, quo fascino obstricti, nisi quo, tu, in omnium affectus gratissimā exerces Tyranniden? Qua tanden in re 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Lateportenses, aut jure nostro decedimus, vel specie tenus nisi fortè quaedam s●t, ut Imperiorum, ita Collegiorum & Aularum arcana, nescio quae, ego non video, ut autem fuerint, fuerint etiam alia insuper incommoda (nam quid ferè undique placet?) quis tam adeo de faece homnncio est, qui id quod suâ tantum interesse putat, publico bono antiquius habeat, aut suâ causa & privatis nominibus aegrè ferat communem utilitatem? Certè non solum non dubitaverim, sed etiam contenderim, nominem esse, ut ut hujus domus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, & indigenum Aulae Lateportensis Alumnum, qui non obviâ voluntate affirmet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hâc mercede valdè placuisse sibi ●ānum suúm quantum quantum fuerit, & non protinus exclamet tanti fuisse. Rationes putemus, Lateportenses (gratiam verò mihi facite erro●is hujus, nec dum enim scio, tam obviam, & familiari apud nos consuetudine receptam 
Dom. Dm. Clayton Magistrum.  appellationem dediscere) Rem, inquam, ad calculos vocemus, Sociis aucti sumus, quâ verò re, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 diminuti? In animum illum verè Lateportensem, nullo unquam inhumanitatis pessulo obditum, sed bonis omnibus latè patentem intromissi illi, quid, an continuò nos ejecti: Nunquam sat scio hic obtinebit vetus illud verbum invidiâ plenum, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Nihil intererit inter Magistrum & Principalem, nisi quòd nunc à pluribus amabitur, coletur, qui ipse omnes ut ut plurimos amabit ut singulos. Hujus quidem humanitate freti, non solùm non iniquis animis ferimus hos transitus rerum, sed pronis etiam, & quod dicitur, obviis ulnis amplectimur. Quin igitur non disparibus frontibus honorem portas nostras pulsantem intromittimus, & unanimi salutantium (ut ita dicam) vultuum concentu unum, eundemque virum amplissimum (in cujus purâ putà industriâ Lateportensis gloriae cardo vertebatur, & olim Pembrochianae vertetur.) hodierno, (ut ad honoris cumulum accedant etiam auspitia) hodierno, inquam, die, quinto quidem, sed vel reclamantibus poetis, verè nobis festo, non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, ultimum Aulae Lateportensis, & primum (quod faelicitèr vortat) Collegii Pembrochiani divino, humanoque calculo approbante Magistrum auspicato salutamus.   

Tho: Clayton Medecinae Professor Regius Magister Collegii.  


Dr. Prideaux Vicecancell: Oxon: Rob: Baro Dormer: Gul: Dormer, frater Baron: Dnus J: Smith Dnus Francis: Godolphin, equites aurati▪ Dr. Feat.  
Procuratores Academiae.  
Magistri alii multi, Aula plena. Major item Recordator & Burgenses Abing :  NOn ego, vos Domini, longo sermone morabor,  
Multae sint gratiae tibi, Reverēde, qui secundo jam itinere benignâ tuâ operâ, hoc ipso in loco, me & res meas, Aulares, Collegiales promovere dignatus es; vobis multae, Honoratissime Baro, cum honorabili fratre tuo, Ornatissimi, amicissimi omnes, qui presentiâ vestrâ benevolâ Aulam hanc Aularum antiquissimam, Collegium hoc Collegiorum novissimum ornare voluistis. Nemo, puto, hoc mihi Magisterium invidebit: ego mea omnia infra invidiam, sunt apud me miseranda multa, magnum nihil, nihil invidendum. Nec est, quod mihi succenseat quispiam si quis haec benefacta, alibi locata voluerit, expectarit. Testem habeo, in Domo meâ omni exceptione majorem, neminem (benè novi) contratestantem, me nec magnates, nec minores, planè nullum, nec verbo, nec scripto, nec pretio, nec prece, de hâc Prefecturâ sollicitasse. Quum verò ita placuerit serenissimae Majestati Regiae, Augustissimo Jacobo, Monarcharum optimo, Regi à Salomone sapientissimo, literatissimo, Literarum Patrono maximo, quum ita voluerint Reverendissimus Archiepiscopus, Ecclesiae, Academiae, Collegiorum, literatorum, Pater pientissimus, Honoratissimus Cancellarius noster, mihi speciatim semper colendus, nobis Pembrochianis, Academicis omnibus aeternùm honorandus, Alii magnifici▪ ornatissimi, probi viri, qui de nobis non malè senserunt, Provinciam capesso lubens. In quâ administrandâ non tam laetabor de commodo aut imperio, quàm de amore meorum & occasione, quae dabitur, benefaciendi merentibus benè. Deus optimus maximus, imperia, obsequia nostra, conatus, studia, proposita omnia dirigat in gloriam suam bonum Ecclesiae & Reipublicae, in honorem Academiae, & Collegii Pembrochiani.    
Now this 
* Rejeton or Rejecton, is Emissarius Palms, or an Off-set.  Rejeton had not sooner taken root, then the Master and his company called the Master and Society of our College into Chancery, for the restitution of the foresaid 300 l. which had been employed towards the Purchase of the Lodgings aforesaid: whereunto the Society at first were generally inclined to demur [my Lord Keeper Coventry, who had been of the College, promising a gracious hearing] but in fine, it was referred to my Lord of Canterbury aforesaid; who, upon hearing, determined that the College was to pay the said 300 l. to the Master and Society of Pembroke College (decreeing the Lodgings and Garden adjoining to our Master, as a compensation of the loss of the 20 l. per annum, which He and his Successors should have had, if the Pembrokians had been settled with us; and the rest of the adjoining Tenements to the payment of the Lectures, which failed with the failure of Fylingham) upon the Decree made 1615. Sect. 25. But knowing our Treasury to be empty of such sums, bade us go home, be obedient to our Governor, and Jehovah jire● Deus providebit: whereupon his Grace paid down 50 l. of the said 300 l. presently; the other 250 l. we gave Bond for, to be paid half yearly till the whole were satisfied. The which sums, as they grew due, His Grace did likewise pay; which we expressed our thankfulness for, by so many several Epistles: which being written by the Fellows severally according to seniority, it come descendendo to my turn to pen the last. Now this 300 l. together with 100 l. more, which was probably employed to the making of the present Seats and Shelves in the Library, we own to his Grace. So that if Stars had any special influence upon inferior things, we might safely say, That this College hath been subject to unhappy ones. And among all its Chronoeratores or Domines Temporum, 'tis hard to judge whither has had the more malignant Aspect upon it, viz. The Thievish glance of Mercury's Eye, or the Fiery looks of Mars: yet we have never wanted Benefactors, who have lent us Bladders which have kept us from sinking: Among whom, one eminent hath been the late Right reverend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of Rochester, who hath added to the honour of our Founders, in the enlargement of their Foundation, four Scholars, with 80 l. per annum maintenance for them, in haec verba.  
Item, I given out of my Manor of Swayton, for the maintenance of four Scholars in Scotland fourscore pounds yearly and for ever; which said Scholars shall be placed in Balliol College in Oxford, there to enjoy their Annuities or Exhibitions until they are Masters of Art, and fit to be admitted into Holy Orders according to the Church of England. And the said Scholars are to be chosen from time to time by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishop of Rochester.  
To say nothing of the advantage that may hence accrue to the Scots themselves (in the capacity they have already by our Statutes of being choose Fellows here, as well as any other persons of any place or Nation ●●atsoever are) that to us will be (besides the Obligation of Interests) the filling of Chambers, Tuition, taking of Degrees, Honour, etc. things whereunto our College seems to be mainly designed; which Baits, whilst others nibble at, I wonder they should go about to prove them shadows to us, who have lost one part of five of our College Revenue, by the late dreadful Fire in London, besides what damage it hath sustained by the late unnatural War, and the Fine upon renewing of the Lease of the Impropriation of St. Laurence Jury London, now within two Years and half of expiration, which could not have been lesle worth then Five or six hundred pounds at 10 Years purchase.    

SECT. 39  
But whatever hath been the condition of this College, as being a part of the Material World: It gives way to few in relation to the Intelligible, as I may so say, It having been the Nursery of so many Learned People, and others desirous of good Letters: A List of some whereof I am now to exhibit.  

Walter de Fodringheye.  
The first Principal, who become a Dignatary, viz. Prebendary of Lincoln.   

Johannes Duns Scotus.  
There's as much contending for the breeding place of this rare Man, as hath been for the birth of Homer: We conjecture him to have been of this College of Balliol, inasmuch as he was by Country of Northumberland, and of Duns there, as might be seen not only in Pitsaeus, but before every Volume of his Works in Mss. in our Library, of the gift of Bishop Grace, but torn of in the time of the late War; and for that in Northumberland was the first Endowment of our College. He lived Anno 1300. which was after Dervorgilles Statutes (but before those of Sir Philip Somervyle) yet not after the time when it was granted by the Pope that the Scholars might live in the House after they become Masters of Art: and therefore he might for that reason departed from this to Merton College. But if this be not current, I shall given you in exchange   

William Bishop of Worcester.  
But whither he were William de Lynna, or William Whitlesey, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, I am not sure: whereof this was Bishop of Worcester, 38 Ed. 3. that the 43 of Edw: 3. and immediate successor of this Whitlesey. I found not either of them challenged by others.   

Jo: Wickleff.  

Mentioned in five several Writings in Abbotfley-Box, by a Public Notary, April 9 1361.  There were two of the name Masters of this House: The later is he of whom we now writ: He was first Fellow hereof, then Master, and w● he that gave the name to the Wicklevites. His Letter written to the Pope, is to be seen in Fox▪ s Acts and Monuments. Whom Balaeus commends as liberally, as Pitsaeus spends his black mouth upon. He was public Reader in Divinity in the University. He set up the Doctrine of the Waldenses, who were called Lollards in England; who being also written Lolleards, seem to be so called quasi Low-Lords, that is, Levellers: who though Reformers of Religion, yet the hostile manner wherein they assembled themselves, gave occasion to the Laws which were Enacted against them, Temp. Hen. 5. and of that Oath given to the High Sheriffs of Counties to persecute the Lollards to death: (That which Mr. Fox in his Acts and Monuments urgeth against Alanus Copus, in defence of Sir John Oldcastle, the Lord Cobham (that the Act of Parliament was falsified, in that the consent of the Commons was not found in it) proves only that the Commons had then no Vote in Parliament, as to the making of Laws; but the falsifying of the Act, it proves not at all.) Which damnable Doctrine of Rebellion, Religionis ergo, cannot be ascribed to Wickleff, the University giving testimony to his great Learning and Integrity of Conversation, Anno Dom. 
* 12 Years before the Council of Constance, and 29 Years after his death.  1402. And all our College Records wherein he is mentioned, do speak him a Man of great Trust, in the Reign of K. R. 2. which things were witnessed by his very Enemies. He is said to have written 200 Volumes against the Pope: He translated the Bible into English. See the Catalogue of his Books exhibited by Balaeus. His Bones were, by the Decree of the Council of Constance, taken up and burned 41 Years after his death, which Council was called Anno Dom. 1414.   

Jo: Waltham.  
He was Fellow of this House, and Subdean of York: He gave as a Legacy to the College Notingamum Anglum in Mss. super quatuor Evangelia. Although he be placed in our College Library Catalogue, Anno 1492. or thereabouts, yet the very writing of Balliol with a double LL in the midst of the word, shows it to be at lest as ancient as the gift of Fylingham, etc. when it began to be written ordinarily with a single L, (which was 1343.) as I have observed; which variation begat writing of it sometimes Bayly College, sometimes Bayliolle, sometimes Bayly-hall College, whereby the true Founders come to be forgotten, instead whereof Men become the Adorers of Fancies. This kind of negligence, about those times, become the Mother of Ignorance, which spread itself so far, that it stirred up the Industry of aftertimes to correct it.   

William Wilton.  
Fellow of this House, Professor in his Faculty: but in what that was, Pits doth not know; but it could be no other then Divinity by the Statutes of this House made by Sir Philip Somervyle: After which, he lived here and wrote many things; namely, 

Super Priora Aristotelis. l. 2.  
Quaestiones de Anima. l. 1. Mss. Bibl: B. C.  
Super Ethica. l. 10.    
He was Chancellor of the University of Oxon: 1373. according to Twine Apol: antiq: Oxon: but noted to have given Books to our Library, 1492. There were two other Wiltons mentioned by Pitsaeus, both named John; one lived 1310. the other, 1360. In neither of which is our College concerned; and Tho: Wilton, 1470.   

Roger Whelpdale.  
He was Fellow of this House, and afterwards Provost of Queen's College Oxon: as they of Queens would have him to be; but of this Balaeus takes no notice: and lastly Bishop of Carlisle, a great Mathematician. He wrote many Books, whereof these are to be found in our College Library.  

Summularum Logicalium. l. 1.  
De Universalibus. l. 1.  
De Aggregatis. l. 1.  
De quanto & Continuo. l. 1.  
De Compositione Continui. l. 1.  
De rogando Deo. l. 1.   
According to Balaeus, he lived in the time of Edw. 3. He is noted to be the first that enriched our Library with Manuscripts, besides those of uncertain donation.   

Thomas Chace.  
He was Dr. of Divinity, Fellow, and afterwards Master of this College, Chancel: of Oxon, Ireland, and St. Paul's London. He built part of our Library, vid. Sect. 29.   

Humphrey Duke of Gloucester.  
He was Duke of Gloucester and Earl of Pembroke, of the Royal Blood: for he was Son of Henry the fourth, Brother of Hen: 5. Uncle (and Protector) to Hen: 6. chief of the King's Bedchamber. He was a great Lover of Aretine and Gandidus, Italians, as Leland witnesseth: He was of this House, and one of the most Learned and Eloquent of his Age: He built that magnificent Structure of the Divinity School, and Library over it [though some do conjecture from the great number of Coats of Arms in the roof of the Divinity School, that this was built by a common contribution] It is said, That order was given for the taking of it down, as a thing too superbe for a Building of that nature, which he enriched with 129 of the rarest Authors procured from Foreign parts at a very great charge, besides innumerable other Books of lesle value. After whose Example the other two parts of the Library, which cross this at both ends, was founded and furnished by Sir Thomas Bodily [since which time it hath received the access (among others) of rare Manuscripts of the gift of William Earl of Pembroke, Sir K●n●lm Digby, William Archbishop of Canterbury; together with the whole Library of Mr. Selden, which is therein placed by the appointment of his Executors, Men eminent for their Learning, and skill in our Municipal Laws.] And this Building hath received such further improvement, as if it strove not only to fetch out, but to go beyond the Copy given by our Duke Humphrey: for the great Gate of the Schools, and Tower over it, is of that height and excellence, that I know nothing of that nature comparable to it, being adorned on both sides within the Quadrangle, with five Stories of double Pillars of five several orders and dispositions, viz. The Tuscan, Doric, jonick, Corinthian and Italian; all improved by the skill of Architecture, which will not be solely espoused to the Fancies of Antiquity. Add hereunto the Theatre now on Building, begun by the most Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, which once finished will as far exceed all the rest, as any one part thereof now goes beyond the other. So great a promoter was this Duke of Learning as well by the pattern he left behind him, as the cost he was at, and that as well of time bestowed in study, as in money employed towards the work aforesaid. He was a skilful Astronomer, and wrote, 

Tabulus directionum. l. 1.  
Ad Abbatem Sancti Albani. l. 1.  
De sua donatione. Ep. 1.  
Ad viros cruditos. l. 1.    
At length, in the Parliament at Berry, Feb. 24. he was stifled with Featherbeds at midnight by the Suffolk Faction: His Body was honourably Interred at St. Alban, Anno 1447. Temp. Hen: 6.   

Rob: Twaytes.  
He was Master of this House, and Dean of Aukland: and more of him I cannot writ, unless that he gave Books to our Library, which though many others have done, I note him as being a Dignatary, 1451. which, or any other promotion, he might hold with his Mastership by the Bishop of London's Statutes, a thing which by former Statutes was not allowable.   

John Tiptoft.  
He was of noble Parentage, but nobler for his Achievements, and most of all for his Inclinations to good Letters. His Father was John Tiptoft, a Peer of this Realm, his Mother the incomparable Lady Jocosa; by both of these he was consecrated to Virtue and good Letters, born at Everton in Cambridge shire, saith Leland, brought up in this College, wherein, saith the same Leland, Tunc temporis & Nobilium juvenum corona celebris renascentem imbibebat eloquentiam. He was created Earl of Worcester, and at 25 Years of age Lord high Treasurer (High Constable, saith Camden, 
Pitsaeus, in Appendice Cent. 2. calls him Rob: Tiptoft, and sets him in Anno 1294. in the reign of Ed. 1. but falsely.  in Worcester shire) of England: and was Beheaded, Anno 1471. He wrote many Orations full of Roman Eloquence.  

To Pope Pius the second. l. 1.  
Ad Cardinales. l. 1.  
Ad Pa●avienses. l. 1.  
Epistolarum ad diversos. l. 1.  
Et ejusmodi alia plura.   
He Translated out of Latin into Enligsh, 

Publius Cornelius, and Caius Flaminius, of true Nobility. l. 2.  
Cicero de amicitia. l. 1.  
Et de Senectute. l. 1.   and other good Authors.   

Jo: Freus, vulgò John Free, or Phrëus in Leland.  

London and Bristol contend for the Birth of this John Free. Leland will have him to be his Cuntryman, h. e. a Londoner.  He was Fellow of this College: He become an admirable Philosopher, Lawyer and Physician: He become Public Reader of Physic at Ferraria, afterwards at Plorence and Fadua, where he was made Doctor in the Faculty. He wrote to his Maecenas Tiptoft abovesaid, Earl of Worcester 

Expostulationem Bacchi. l. 1.  
De rebus Geographicis. 1.  
Petrarchae Epitaphium. 1.  
Epistolas familiares. 1.  
Carmina diversa. 1.  
Epigrammata. 1.  
De Coma paruifacienda. 1. 



Per plagiarios surreptos: as Dr. James testifies: but these two, and only these, are in Manuscript in our Library.  
Librum Geographiae. 1.  
Contra Diodorum Siculum poetice fabulantem. 1.        
He translated out of Greek into Latin, these following, as Balaeus testifies.  

Diodori Siculi Bibliothecam. l. 6.  
Xenophontis quaedam. 6.  
Synesium de Calvitio. 1.   
And many other things wherein he employed his Pen well; for a Translation which he dedicated to Paul the second, Pope of Rome, he was rewarded with the Bishopric of Bath and Wells, a Month after he went to Rome; where he died before he could be Consecrated, but not without suspicion of Poison from some Competitor. 1465.   

George Nevil.  
That great Earl of Warwick, Richard Nevil [who, as in a stage for some Years, did set up and depose Kings at his pleasure] had a Brother which was this George Nevil, whom yet but young, he promoted to high Honours: for, being Chancellor of the University of Oxon [where he studied and become Fellow of this College] he was consecrated Bishop of Exeter, Nou. 25. 1455. not yet 20 Years of Age. Afterwards, viz. 1460. he was made Lord High Chancellor of England, till his Brother the Earl being sent by K. Edw. 4. upon an Embassy into France, he was put out of his Chancellorship, and another, viz. Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells substituted in his place. But afterwards, Henry the sixth being taken, George Nevil was permitted to be promoted to the Archbishopric of York, and consequently Metropolitan of all Scotland. Three Years were not hence expired, when Edward was devested of his Kingdom, committed to the Custody of this Archbishop of York: and Hen: the sixth being delivered out of Prison, restored to his own again, which he had before held for almost 40 Years. But Edward enduring an easy Imprisonment, made, by the aid of his Friends, an escape, recoverred his Kingdom, took K. H. 6. and this Archbishop [who had formerly taken him into Custody] But mindful of former Obligations, he let him, viz. Nevil Archbishop forth again; but suffered K. H. 6. to be murdered in the Tower. And it was scarce a Year after, but K▪ Edward committed him Prisoner again, and plundered him of the worth of 20000 l. at his House at Moor in Hertford-shire (among which, is recorded a Mitre set with Gems of a great value, whereof the said King made himself a Crown) Time and death having lost him his Friends before; He lay Prisoner after this for the space of four Years, at Calais and Guines in great want, the Revenues of his Bishopric meanwhile being sequestered for the use of the King. This his Calamity began 1472. and he was, 1476. by the Intercession of his Friends, let out of Prison; and dying of Grief, he was buried in his own Church. In his time, did Pope Sixtus the fourth divide the twelve Bishoprics of Scotland from York, and subjected them to St. Andrews, which he erected into an Archbishopric. This our Nevil was a Benefactor to our College in Books, Building, etc. And at his Installation, he made a Feast of a Magnificence unheard of in our Age, Recorded by Bishop Godwin (Bishop first of Landaffe, and then of Hereford.)  

The Bill of Fare.  

Of Wheat, quarters 3000  
Hogsheads of Beer 1200  
Hogsheads of Wine 0416  
Hipocrist Hogsheads 0002  
Fat Oxen 0080  
Wild Bulls 0006  
Fat Weathers 1004  
Porkers 0300  
Calves 0300  
Geese 3000  
Capons 3200  
Pigs 0300  
Peacocks 0100  
Cranes 0200  
Goats 0200  
Chickens 2000  
Pigeons 4000  
Rabbits 4000  
Bitours 0204  
Ducks 4000  
Hernsewes 0400  
Phaisants 0200  
Partridge 0500  
Woodcocks 4000  
Plovers 0400  
Curlewes 0100  
Quails 0100  
Egrets 1000  
Rees 0200  
Stags above 0400  
Bucks above 0400  
Roes above 0400  
Hot Venison Pasties 1506  
Cold Venison Pasties 4000  
Dishes of Jelly parted 1000  
Dishes of Jelly plain 4000  
Tarts 0400  
Cold Custards 4000  
Hot Custards 2000  
Pikes 0300  
Bream 0300  
Sea Calves 0008  
Porpaises 0004    

Ministers or Officers serving at the said Feast.  

Earl of Warwick, Steward of the Archbishop.  
Earl of Bedford, Treasurer.  
Lord Hastings, Controller.  
Lord Willowby, Sewer.  
Baron of Buckingham, Cupbearer.  
Sir Richard Strangways, Taster.  
Nine Knight's Marshals of the Hall, besides Esquires and Servants.  
Sergeant of the Basin to the King was here so. 

Keepers of the Plate▪  
John Graystock  
John Nevil    
John Braynock Overseer of the Hall.    

Guests in the Hall.  

High Table.  
The Archbishop himself.  
Bishops of London Ely Durham on the right Hand.  
Duke of Suffolk Earl of Worcester Earl of Oxford on the left.   

Second Table.  
Ten Abbots and eleven Priors.   

Third Table.  
Five Barons and eight and forty Knights.   

The fourth Table.  
Dean of York.  
Dean of St. Severine.  
Canons of York.   

The fifth Table.  
The Mayor of York.  
The Mayor of the Staple of Calais.  
Chief Citizens of York.   

The sixth Table.  
Four Barons of the Exchequer.  
And Lawyers six and twenty.   

The last Table.  
Four King's Servants.    

Guests in the chief Dining-Room.  

At the Upper Table.  
The Duke of Gloucester▪  
Sister to the Duke of Suffolk at his right hand.  
Countess of Northumberland at his left hand.  
Countess of Westmoreland at his left hand.  
Two Daughters of the Earl of Warwick at the same Table.   

The second Table.  
Four Barons and Twelve Noble Matrons.   

The third Table.  
Their Waiting Gentlewomen.    

Guests in the second Dining-Room.  

The first Table.  
One Duchess.  
Two Countesses.  
Three Baronesses.   

The second Table.  
Two Baronesses.  
Eight other noble Ladies.    

Guests in the great Dining-Room▪  

First Table. Bishops four viz.  
Lincoln.  
Lichfield.  
Exon.  
Carlisle.   

The second Table.  
Three Earls.  
Two Barons.  
Three Bannerets.   

Third Table.  
Fourteen Gentlewomen.  
Fourteen Gentlemen.    

In the Hall again.  

Gentlemen 〈◊〉 Yeomen 412 twice.    

In the Sollar.  
Servants of Nobles 400 twice.   

In other places.  

Officers and Servants 1000  
Cook's 62.  
Scullions, etc. 515.   
The first Course consisted of Fifteen Dishes. The second Course Of thirty three Dishes. Which I must refer you to Bishop Godwin for.    

Thomas Gastoing.  
He was Doctor in Divinity, Fellow of Balliol College, and Chancellor of the University: This may be the same with Thomas Gasconius in Pitsaeus, and Thomas Gascoign, called also Vasco in Leland. Hunfletae inter brigants nobili l●co natus, saith he. Pitsaeus notes him to be Anno 1460. and that he wrote many things, viz. 

Dictionarium Theologicum. lib. 3.  
Septem flumina Babyloniae. l. 1.  
Veritates ex scriptura. l. 1.  
Ordinarias lectiones. l. 1.  
Sermones Evangeliorum. l. 1.  
Vitam Hieronymo Stridonis Senioris viri ad miraculum cum eloquentis, tum docti, quem mirifice coluit.    
Ita Balaeus etiam.   

Stephanus de Cornubia.  
Stephanus de Cornubia was Fellow of this House: He traveled beyond Seas, and become Doctor of Physic in Paris, Anno 1460. He hath left no memorial of himself with us, but the gift of Galen's Works to our Library; but hath written, Subtiles suas & omni admirations dig●as moralitates, viz. 

In Pentateuchum. libros 5.  
In libros Regum. l. 4.  
In 12 Proph-minores. l. 1. teste Pitsaeo.     

William Grace.  
He was Bishop of Ely, Doctor in Divinity, born of a Noble Family, viz. of the Lord Gray of Codnor. His ingenuity and towardliness gave occasion to the great care that was taken for his Education, which began in this our College. Afterwards, at Ferraria in Italy, he was an Auditor of Guarinus Veronensis, and got to himself praise by his skill in polite Language, and various knowledge of things. He is said to have written much both before and after he▪ received his Mitre at Rome: Neither was he a mere Scholar, his Wisdom making him K. H. 6. his Procurator at Rome. After his return thence, he was made Chancellor of England. He gave all his Books, consisting of rare Manuscripts, to our Library; built part of our College, and bestowed much upon the building of Ely Cathedral, where he was buried, Anno Dom. 1478. Moore of this Prelate in the next that here follows, viz.   

Robert Abdy.  
Robert Abdy a Gentleman of a good Family, as is evident by his Coat of Arms, was bred up in this College in the time of K. Hen. 6. become Fellow here about the first Year of K. Edw. 4. Anno 1461. and Master of the same about the 17th of K. Edw. 4. viz. Anno 1478. in which place he continued till the time of his death. He built half of the present Library of our College. The forementioned William Grace and he are nevet put asunder in places where they are remembered, as particularly in the College Library: wherein are [as I have formerly noted] 21 Windows curiously painted; every Window having two Coats of Arms, with Verses in painted Wreaths about them: In one of which Windows on the South side their Arms are placed, and none's else [for each Window hath two only] the Verses about them are, 
Hos Deus adjecit, Deus his det gaudia coeli.  
Abdy perfecit opus hoc, Grace Presul & Ely.   
And in the uppermost Window, on the North side, their Coats likewise are with these Verses, 
Conditor ecce novi structus hujus fuit Abdy.  
Praesul & huic Aedi Grace libros contulit Ely.   
This Robert Abdy lies buried in the Nave of St. Mary Magdalen Church [within the Parish whereof this College stands] under a Marble stone, which had once a border of Brass about it, signifying his Quality and the time of his death; but its now lost. In the middle of the said Stone is yet remaining his Image in a Plate of Brass, with these Verses under his Feet.  
Testis sis Christe quod non jacet hic lapis iste  
Corpus ut ornetur, sed spiritus ut memoretur.  
Quisquis eris qui transieris tu respice plora:  
Sum quod eris, fueram quod sis, pro me precor●ora.  
Abdy.   

John Tartays.  
He studied many Years in this College, as Balaeus witnesseth, even till he become Master of Arts; he wrote 

Summas Logicales. l. 1. with other things  
Quaestiones Naturales. l. 1. with other things   which he testifies to have been in our Library.   

Richard Clifford.  
Richard Clifford, supposed only to be brought up here because not challenged by others, and a worthy Benefactor to this House; as is employed, though not particularised in the 7th Window on the North-side of our Library, in these Verses, 
Clifford Ricardus Antistes Londinensis  
Fusis expensis tale non avit opus.   
He was first Bishop of Worcester, where, having sat about six Years, he was translated to London, Octob: 13. 1407. and Anno 1414. being sent to the Council of Constance, he made a Latin Oration before the Emperor and Cardinals. In that Council that 
* Of 50 Years continuance, begun by Clement the Antipope at Avignon, against Urban: 6. fitting at Rome: to Clement succeeded Benedict: 13. in the same Schism; but, according to Caranza, Greg: 12. who promised to resign his Pontificate, in case Benedict like▪ wise would vot refuse it: but Benedict leaving Avignon, and flying into Catalonia, Gregory entered the Revocation of his Promise: both of them were deposed by the Council of Cardinals at Pisa in Italy, and Alexander 5. substituted in this place, which increased the Schism: hereupon Gregory flies to Ariminum, where he remained till the Council of Consia●ce: Alexander 5. lived at Bo●onia. vid. plura Sect. 23. in fine.  lasting Schism had an end, and Martin the fifth was declared the sole true Pope. In his Election it was, by the Authority of the Council Ordained, That 30 Electors should be added to the Cardinals, whereof one was to be our Bishop of London: neither were there wanting among them that thought of making him Pope. Certainly he was the first that nominated Cardinal Columna, who, with the consent of the rest, was declared Pope, and took on him the name of Martin. This Prelate died August 20. 1421. and lies buried in St. Paul's, neare to the Tomb of Sir Christopher Hatton.   

Dr. B●le.  
Fellow of this College, and Archdeacon of Ely, 1478▪ a Benefactor to our Library.   

John Bell.  
John Bell brought up in this College Doctor of the Laws, Archdeacon of Gloucester: He was confirmed Bishop of Worcester, August 11. 1539. where when he had sat only four Years, he left it, as his Predecessor had done before him. He afterwards lived and died in his own house in Clerkenwell London, which he left (inter alia) to the College: and was buried in the same Parish Church, where he lies undet a plain Marblestone on the North-side of the Chancel, with this Epitaph engraven upon it.  

Contegit hoc marmor Doctorem nomine Bellum.  
Qui belle nexit Praesulis officium.  
Moribus, ingenio, vitae probitate vigebat,  
Laudato cunctis cultus & eloquio.   
Anno 1556. Aug: 11.   

John Cotes.  
Brought up in Magdalene College Oxon, Master of this House, and afterwards Bishop of Chester, 1556. Mariae 4. thus Bishop Godwin of Bishops writes, but there is some mistake in it: I found George Coats Doctor of Divinity to have been Master, 1539. John Cotes I found not at all.   

James Brooks.  
James Brooks was Master of this College, Anno 1554. and Bishop of Gloucester at the same time, where he succeeded Hooper. He was a Learned Man and an Eloquent Preacher: But by delegation from the Pope he condemned to the Fire those Excellent Men, and Holy Martyrs, Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer, who were burnt in the Town-ditch, commonly called Candych, over against this College.   

John Piers, and Adam Squier.  
John Piers was Doctor in Divinity, Dean of Christ Church, and Master of this College both together: He was admitted here, May 23. 1570. resigned it again, 1571. He was consecrated Bishop of Rochester, 1576. and then made Almoner to the Queen. From Rochester he was translated to Sarum: at last, Anno 1588. after the death of Archbishop Sandys, he was advanced to the Archbishopric of York, died 1594. The next Master was Adam Squier, D. D. and ● great Mathematician. I know of nothing he has left in Writing behind him.   

Robert People.  
Robert People was Socius Sacerdos of this College, commonly called Chaplain-Fellow; and consequently entered into ●●oly Orders when but Bachelor of Arts [for so 'tis required of every one that is to be chosen Chaplain-Fellow] He resigned his Fellowship, Anno 1573. Feb. 13. with dispensation granted him to keep his Chamber and Scholars as long as he pleased; and his Commons to be allowed him till Easter following: But afterwards he turned Jesuit, received Orders from the Church of Rome, and become Rector of the English College there, Anno 1587. He wrote 

Responsum ad Edictum Reginae Angliae. l. 1.  
De Sacris alienis non adeundis. l. 1.  
A Christian Directory, or Book of Resolution, an excellent Piece, in two parts. l. 1.  
Novam Anglic: reip: reformationem. l. 1.  
De 3bus Angliae conversionibus. English. l. 3.  
Martyrologium Catholicum, against Fox. l. 1.  
Censuram Catholicam contra Hanmerum. etc. l. 1.  
The Defence thereof, Anno 1582. l. 1.  
Contra Edvardum Cocum de antiq: legibus Ecclesiast: Angl: extat. 1606. l. 1.  
De successione Regni Angliae. l. 1.  
Modestam admonit. contra Fr: Hastingum. l. 1.  
De mitigatione erga Catholicos in Anglia. English. l. 3.    
These are all reckoned up by Pits.  
There's a Manuscript written with his own hand in our Library, styled Epitome controversiarum hujus temporis. By all which appears, That it was the wisdom of the Society to use that gentleness and moderation as they did, towards a Man of his excellent parts, wavering in his Religion, and already wand'ring in his mind towards Rome, to the end that thereby they might allure him to stay: which had they prevailed upon him to have done, it had been good service to God, and an acceptable one to the Queen of England, which the events of things proved to be true.   

Christopher Bagshaw.  
About the same time was Christopher Bagshaw Fellow of this House; afterwards, likewise changing his Judgement, he traveled beyond the Seas, and being a Man of parts, become Doctor in Paris, and one of the Faculty of Sorbon. He lived long after this, even to the time of King Charles the first, as I have been informed, and was want to say, He hoped to see a reduction of England to obedience to the Church of Rome, and then he would come and repossede his Fellowship again here, inasmuh as he was never expelled, nor did he resign his place as Father Parsons had done.   

Robert Crane.  
Robert Crane Fellow of this House, a Man of that prudence in the Eye of the University, that he was chosen Proctor thereof, 1581. nor could it be said of him as 'twas of that Emperor Galba, viz. That he was omnium consensu dignus Imperio si non imperasset: for they approved of his government so well, that they made choice of him the Year following: and all this when Proctorships went not by Cycle but by Suffrages, and so continued to do till the Cycle was thought fit to be made as best suitable to the present time.   

Thomas Holland.  
Thomas Holland was Fellow of this College, Dr. of Divinity, and Regius Professor, all at one time. He was chosen Rector of Exeter College, and a great Patron of Dr. Prideaux, as appears by Dr. Prideaux's own Epistle to him, put before his Introductory Tables to the Greek Tongue, a task imposed upon him by Dr. Holland, whom he thus bespeaks viz. Pietatis & eruditionis nexu, non spectabili minus quam suspiciendo viro, D. D. Hollando, S. S. T. Professori Regio, omnibus à me nominibus patrono venerando. It were a sufficient Eulogy of either, to say they were Friends one of the other; which puts me in mind of the Epitaph of Sir Fulk Grevil in Warwick Church, viz. Servant to Q. Eliz. Councillor to K. James, and Friend to Sir Philip Sidney. He never went any Journey, but he took solemn leave of his Fellows, with this Benediction. Commendo vos dilectioni Dei, odio Papatus & omnis superstitionis. He went beyond others in Reading, and beyond himself in disputing. Him succeeded Robert Abbots.   

Thomas Wenman.  
Thomas Wenman was Fellow of this House, and Public Orator to the University, 1595. He hath left nothing, neither would he leave any thing in Writing behind him: because that whatsoever he had left us, must needs have fallen short of his Perfections, inasmuch as the best part of an Orator dies with him.   

Robert Abbots.  
He was of this College and Fellow here: from hence he become Parson of All-hallows in Worcester: from thence he was preferred to a Living in Leicestershire, which had been refused by Dr. Reynolds, Precedent of Corpus Christi, and George Abbots then Master of University College: from thence he was chosen Master of this House, and then made Regius Professor of the University, in Divinity, whose Patent for the place is in our Treasury, in the Box of Admissions of Masters. He was also a frequent Preacher: He wrote all his Sermons in Latin only, and Preached them out of the Latin Copy: they were begun to be translated into English by a 
* Mr. Chapman a worthy person.  Fellow of this College, but he receiving small encouragement from whence he expected much, went not through with the work. After that the said Robert Abbots had, by Writings extant, confuted the Errors of the Pontificians, he was consecrated Bishop of Sarum, Anno 1615. One Book not yet Printed, is his Commentary upon the Epistle to the Romans: the Original Manuscript Copy whereof is in the University Library. In this, saith B. Godwin, he matched the happiness of Seffride B. of Chichester, That he, being a Bishop, seen his younger Brother Archbishop of Canterbury, viz. George Abbots. Him succeeded in this College, the Reverend and Learned Doctor Parkhurst.   

George Abbots.  
George Abbots was Fellow of this House, proceeded Dr. in Divinity here, then he become Master of University College; afterwards consecrated Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1609. Decemb: 3. and the beginning of February following, he was translated to London; where he had not sat a Year, before, by the prudent judgement of King James, he was designed Successor to Bancroft at Canterbury, and Privy Councillor; whose Learning, Eloquence, Vigilancy, and unwearyed Study in Writing, in a Man so overwhelmed with business, Posterity will celebrated, though I be silent, says Bishop Godwin. He wrote a Book of Geography, which Dr. Heylen took for the groundwork of his. Another Book called, Look beyond Luther. A third contains his Questions stated in Vesperiis. He new published Foxes Acts and Monuments, with an addition of the Persecution in the Valtoline.   

Laurence Kemis.  
Laurence Kemis was Fellow of this House, Companion in Travel, and Councillor in Designs to the Renowned Knight Sir Walter Raleigh, who gave him his History of the World which he bestowed on our Library. Sir Walter not 
* 
For one was sent with him that looked narrowly to him.  
See the Declaration of King James upon that Voyage.   capable of his advice in one thing abroad, he chose [and an ill choice it was] rather to become felo de se, then scrupling an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, to return home and become a State-criminal. This fact of Kemis was like that of Torquatus Silanus, who killed himself upon a bore accusation. Tac. Hist. l. 15. c. 8. of whom Nero said, That he should have had life granted, if he would have expected the Judges clemency. Here was the difference, That the Case of Torquatus Silanus was better, but his Judge worse then that of Kemis.   

Hen: Bright, Mr. Moor, and Dr. Hyde.  
Henry Bright was Probationer-Fellow of this House, and afterwards chief Schoolmaster at Worcester for above 40 Years before his death: the number of Scholars under him and the Usher, were usually 300: out of which he furnished the Universities, and especially this College, with many Scholars well grounded in the Latin and Greek Tongues, 3 or four whereof were usually Fellows of this House together. A Man he was of that incomparable diligence and method in his Vocation, that he seemed to be born to that only: this and his temperance, spoke him a Man natum ad reformandos hominum mores. He become Prebendary of that Church of Worcester (in which City he was born) seven Years before his death; for which Prebend a Patent had been procured him before by one that had been his Scholar, and at last Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England, viz. Lord Coventry. At the same time Mr. Moor was Prebendary of the same Church, formerly Fellow of this College too. And Dr. Hyde Prebendary of Sarum, once of this College, Father to the Reverend Dr. Tho: Hyde late Chanter of Sarum, and sometime Commoner here.   

Tho: Lord Coventry, and Tho: Coventry Fellow.  
Thomas Lord Coventry was of this College, a great Lawyer: who become King's Attorney [in which Dignity he procured Mr. Bright's Patent aforesaid] last of all Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, wherein he lived for the space of 17 or 18 Years, which he resigned up by his death. He was born in Worcestershire, Father to my Lord Coventry who was likewise of this House; and Son to Thomas Coventry sometimes Fellow of this House (and afterwards a Judge at Westminster) see Sect. 31. and more in the description of Tho: Lord Coventry the second.   

Dr. Wakeman.  
Dr. Wakeman was Fellow of this College, a Learned Man: but hath left no memorial of himself, besides Sermons Preached at Court, etc. Printed 1605, and a Treatise called the true Professor.   

Dr. Tho: Holloway, and Mr. Boswell.  
Dr. Thomas Holloway born in Worcester, and Scholar to Henry Bright there, Chaplain-Fellow of this House, afterwards Vicar of St. Laurence Jury London; an excellent and assiduous Preachet there: exceedingly respected of his Parishioners, which is wonder, he being presented by the College: After his death, immediately succeeded him Mr. Boswell (Fellow of this House too) after his return from Spain, with the Earl of Bristol: which Mr. Boswell gave many Books to our Library, a Person of known equal worth and integrity with the other.   

Edmund Lilly.  
Edmund Lily D. D. was many Years Master of this College, as appears by the Catalogue of Masters. He was an excellent Divine, universally read in the Fathers, all whose Opinions he would reckon up upon any Question at Divinity Disputations in the College; and that with such volubility of Language, and rivers of Eloquence, as made all covet to hear him, and his very Enemies to admire him. He was Chaplain to Q▪ Eliz. and had been preferred by Her, had not his long-winded Sermon displeased Her, when State-business occasioned Her to enjoin him brevity.   

Mr. Wilkinson. 1610.  
Mr. Kery▪  
Mr. Wilkinson Fellow of this House, died in the Vacation after the Act, wherein he was completed Master; of which Act he was designed signior: in which place he come of with universal approbation. He left Logic and other Notes behind him, which are since either lost, or under a Hos ego versiculos, etc. He read the Logic Lecture with that vigour, eloquence, and prolixity, that drew on every Scholars admiration, and his own death: whom Mr. Kery endeavouring by hard and unseasonable study to fetch out, died likewise young. There have not been wanting those since, who, for their assiduity in the same, have deserved equal commendations with them: But these late times have taught men to have more care of their Lives, and lesle of their Duty.   

Mr. Wood  
Mr. Wood was bred up at Tiverton School, and Fellow here in that Composition place: A Man of singular Parts and Learning. His head would, and did endure study several whole days and nights together, without intermission, eating, drinking, or sleeping, which his Body could not long do: and this occasioned a lameness in his leg, upon which he died. A little before his death, he went to the Chapel upon Crutches, and Preached a Sermon, taking this for his Text, Have pity on me, OH my friends! for the hand of God hath touched me. That this eminent person lived not longer, I reckon among the misfortunes of that place. Him one White should have succeeded in the Fellowship, but was rejected by the Society for his deformity; which was a Canonical Impediment to one who was necessarily to be Priest, but kept his Scholar's place as long as he lived in the College, which was till Master of Arts, Anno 1624.   

Jo: Popham.  
John Popham Esq; of Littlecot, was of this House Fellow-Commoner, and Pupil to Mr. Chambers, admitted with his Brother, Anno 1618. gave us 100 l. towards the lining of our Chapel: in memory whereof (as the greatest Benefaction towards that work) his Arms are placed upon the Sk●eens of the Chapel, just over the door.   

Dr. Tho: Clayton.  
Dr. Clayton was of this College, where he proceeded Master of Arts: afterwards he become Principal of Broadgates-hall, and Master of Pembroke College, Regius Professor in Physic for many Years. He was a good Linguist, to whom great Avicenne might speak and be understood without an Interpreter. A good Divine too: and this his skill he did so seasonably exercise towards his Patients, that it rendered him worthy of double honour.   

Dr. Denison, and Tho: Bunbury.  
Dr. Denison, Doctor of Divinity of this College. He lived many Years Vicar of St. Mary's in Reading, an excellent Preacher: He wrote an acute Treatise of Auricular Confession, etc. Him succeeded Dr. Bunbury of this House too, but sequestered, and created Doctor, 1642.   

George Sing.  
George Sing was Commoner of this College, and Master of Arts here, 1617. Afterwards preferred in Ireland by the Lord Primate Hampton, to be his Chancellor and Vicar-general: After that, viz. about Anno 1639. advanced to the Bishopric of Cloyne; and from thence to the Archbishopric of Tuam, in which Dignity he died.   

Elias Fareley, and Mr. Kery.  
Elias Fareley was born in Worcester, Scholar to Henry Bright there: Afterwards, viz. about Anno 1617. admitted of this College, where he proceeded Bachelor of Arts: But as soon as he had time for Master, he crossed the Seas, and become Priest in the Church of Rome, and at present he is said to be the chief Favourite of the Popes, and in likelihood to be the next Cardinal. A while before his flight, I heard him make an excellent Oration before the Master and all the College, upon this Theme, viz. Achilles lachrymae Patroclum mortuum sic alloquuntur: which though in his own turn, yet he intended as a Funeral Oration upon Mr. Kery then late Fellow of the House, a young Master of Arts, of great expectation with all, and no lesle in the affection then the judgement of this Fareley. But at another time [whither before or after this, I do not remember] he declaimed upon this Theme, viz. Propria quae maribus foemineo generi tribuuntur; for which he was justly reproved, by the Reverend Master, Dr. Parkhurst, as arguing a levity of Nature so incident to those that change their Religion, that Astrologers do undertake to found this in their Horoscope, vid. Junctinum in speculo Astrologiae.   

John Greaves.  
John Greaves was of this College, from whence, for his singular Learnng, he was chosen Fellow of Merton College. He made a great improvement of his knowledge by his Travels into the East: Last of all, he become Public Professor of Astronomy in Oxford, and Gresham College London: He wrote a Description (or rather published it) of the Grand Sigours S●raglio, Anno 1653. He Translated out of the Arabic, Abul Feda. Out of the Persian, Nasiroddin Al Tusi, and Shah Kolgi. He hath written a Discourse of the Roman Foot, and Denarius. A Description of the Pyramids of Egypt: and translated a Tract, De siglis Arabum & Persarum Astronomicis, out of Anonymus Persa. And besides, the Geographick Tables of Nassir Oddin, the Persian aforesaid. He hath translated a second of Vlag Beïgi Tartari. una cum Hypothesibus Planetarum Shah Kolgi, aforesaid. He hath himself written, Elementa Linguae Perficae.   

I: Clabrook.  
At the same time that this I: Greaves was chosen at Merton College, stood S● Clabrook of this House: who missing a place turned Popish Priest, and now at last is advanced to the dignity of a Chanoine in some of the hither parts of France or Flanders, as I am informed. A great Opiniatre he was; but so conscionable, that he took order for the discharge even of the lest of his Debts here.   

Tho: Laurence, D. D.  
Thomas Laurence was Scholar of this House, then Fellow of All-Souls; and lastly Master here, and Margaret Reader in the University, and consequently Prebendary of Worcester: an excellent Preacher, exquisite in the Elegancies of the Greek and Latin Tongues. Bishop Elect to a Sea in Ireland: but Death and the Rebellion hindered his Consecration. The Headship of this College he resigned under his hand, Anno 1647.   



John English  
Tho: Chambers   both of Worcester.  
John English was born in Worcester, Scholar to the foresaid Hen: Bright. He become Fellow of this House, and Dr. of Divinity, Anno 1630. And lastly Prebendary of Gloucest: till wearied by the Rebellion, and wasted by a Quartain Ague, he died, Anno 1648. Contemporary with this, was Tho: Chambers, the greatest Tutor at that time in this College.   

Edward Sylvester.  
Edward Sylvester was born in Mansfield in Notinghamshire, Master of Arts and Bachelor of Divinity of this House: a professed Tutor in the Latin and Greek Tongues, in a private House in Oxon. He bred up many Scholars to the Universities, whereof three he lived to see Heads of several Houses at one time in this of Oxford. He was Interpreter to Metrophanes Critopylus.   

Matthew Turner, Thomas Saxby.  
Matthew Turner was of this College, from whence he went to be a Tutor in Broadgate▪ hall, where he become Reader in Physic: upon which account he made one of the Orations in the Natalitia of Pembroke College, Sect. ●8. He had skill in the Oriental Languages: He wrote (as he professed to me) all his Sermons in Greek. He was Chaplain to the Leaguer Ambassâdor, Viscount Slego in Paris; by whom he was preferred to Hom-Lacy, and another Benefice in Herefordshire: where he died about the Year, 1656. This Mathias Turner was Scholar here to Dr. English, and so was Thomas Saxby: this was of the Foundation till Master of Arts, after which time he become a Preacher in London at Fanchurch: He imitated Mr. Shute of Lombard▪ street, and went beyond him. Lastly, he become Vicar of Sunning neare Reading, where he died much about the time of the others decease.   

Dr. Tooker.  
Doctor Tooker Commissary for Berkshire, Dr. LL. whom I thought not fit to omit, to let the World know that this College hath afforded Lawyers (as well as Divines and Physicians) in which Faculty this Doctor Tooker was eminent. He was a Benefactor to our Chapel.   

Metrophanes Critopylus.  
Metrophanes Critopylus was a Graecian born, and come into England to be instructed in the Doctrine and Discipline of our Church; and in order thereunto, to learn the Latin and English Tongues. To these ends, he addressed himself to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Abbots, who sent him to this House, where he continued till about the time of his departure out of England, which was about Anno 1622. After his return into his own Country, he become Patriarch of Alexandria, which in the Council of Nice, was ordained to be one of the Patriarchal Cities; the other three being Antioch, Rome, and Constantinople. He wrote, as some suppose, the Confession of Faith, which went under the name of Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople, in Greek, αχ●θ, 1629. which Confession was with a Censure upon it, Printed at Rome, 1632. the Title whereof is, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. that is, The condemnation of the Confession of the Calvinists, as it was set forth in the name of Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople: with this Condemnation and Confession is Printed an Answer to the Anathematisms of Cyrill Patriarch of Alexandria, and Predecessor to our Critopylus; wherein the said Anathematisms are acknowledged to be genuine, though they decry the said Confession as spurious. [And indeed Cyrill himself confesses, That they were at first written in Latin, but by himself, and afterwards turned into Greek by himself also: whereunto he added Answers to certain Interrogations concerning the principal Heads of Controversies between us and the Church of Rome: in every one whereof he declares for us, and against them, Anno Dom. 1631. αχ●α.] The said Anathematisms, as in the matter of Primacy, the great sore of all that must not be touched, so in most things besides, are most contrariant to the doctrine of the Church of Rome transcribed from his own hand, αχ●ς h. e. 1616; wherein he styles himself thus. viz: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. h. e. Cyrill by the mercy of God, Pope and Patriarch of the great City of Alexandria, and Judge of the whole World. Nay Cyrill of Constantinople himself was said, by the hereafter mentioned Conopius, to have been strangled by the contrivance of the Romish party, because he refused to acknowledge the Primacy of the Pope at old Rome [for Constantinople is called new Rome by the Greeks themselves, and particularly in the premises] which his successor was contented to swallow whilst gilded over with the hopes of a Patriarchate. The Patriarch of Mosko believes (and all the Russians with him) that he hath gotten this bone from them all; albeit 'tis not 400 years since they received the Christian faith; nor 80 years since he was first styled Patriarch; contenting himself before with the Title of Metripolitane. Their Religion could not be sounded, they receiving it from the Greek Church with all their superstitions: and as for the Patriarchate; The Patriarch of Constantinople being banished by the Turk from Constantinople, he resided in Chio, which the Russians call Sio, till about Anno 1588.; the Patriarch of Constantinople or Sio being banished, as some say, by the Turk; or as others say, deprived by the Greek Clergy, come to Mosko; where he resigned his Patriarchate, and translated it thither; since which time they are made believe, that they have a Patriarch invested with the same right and authority that the other had: of which superstition of theirs the subtle Greek made good advantage, and departed with a rich booty into Poland, whither their Patriarcship were currant or not.   

Nathaniel Conopius.  
Nathaniel Conopius was a Cretan born, and trained up in the Greek Church; He become 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, or Primore to the aforesaid Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople: upon the strangling of whom by the Visir [the Grand Signeur of the Turks being not then returned from the Siege of Babylon] he fled over, and come into England, addressing himself with Credentials from the English Agent in Constantinople, to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Land, who allowed him maintenance in this College, where he took on himself the Degree of Bachelor in Divinity, about Anno 1642. And lastly, being returned home, he become Bishop of Smyrna. He spoke and wrote the genuine Greek [for which he was had in great Veneration in his Country, others using the vulgar only] which must be understood of Prose too, for Poetical Greek he had not, but what he learned here. As for his Writing, I have seen a great Book of Music, as he said, of his own Composing: for his skill wherein, his Countrymen in their Letters to him, styled him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: but the Notes were such as are not in use with, or understood by any of the Western Churches: Yet I have often heard him sing these Words, and this Tune following, which we have set to our Notes.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
That their Music was sung in parts, the difference of Ages inferring different Voices; and the difference of Voices, common to Men of the same Age, do sufficiently prove. For Schot in his Natural Magic proves, That a Symphony may be made by Beasts, which he demonstrates by an Iconism of Cats and Sicilian Asses, according as they have been experimented to have done by an artificial Contrivance, supplying their want of reason. But whither the parts of their Church-music were generally counterpoint [as the Learned Mr. Gregory of Christ Church hath said] I cannot say. But it seems by Clemens Alexandrinus, Paed. l. 2. c. 4. that Chromatic Harmony was known to, and in use with some in his days, though disallowed by him, which Opinion of his, was agreeable to the custom of that Church under Athanasius, where (in singing) the Voice was but a little varied, which ●ight be called a loud Reading rather then Singing: which kind of Music St. Austin also approves, though St. Ambrose's way [who first brought it into the Latin Church, as the same Saint Austin testifies in his Confessions] he doth not disallow. And the said Clemens himself admits of modest and chaste Harmony, which he opposes to such Chromatic Music as is described by him to be A wicked and artificial flexure of the Voice, used in their Bacchanalian and Meritricious Meetings, not much differing from some Cathedral Music which I have heard in France, where one (in the time of Divine Service, and he the Organist of that Church) upon the Organs played set Almains and Corantoes instead of Voluntaries. So that the result of all will be only this, viz. That its not meet to sing Holy Hymns with Tunes borrowed from profane Songs: which one (whom I could name) endeavouring to introduce here in England, was justly censured in the High Commission, who, it seems, did herein imitate Ephrem Presbyter of the Church of Edessa: Quem Theod●retus ●i● (say the Magdeburgenses, Cent. 4. c. 6.) ad impios, sed suavis●●mos modos, Harmonii cujusdam, accommodasse pias & sacras materias. That otherwise Chromatic Music [in a good [and now current] sense] which Clemens takes in an ill, may lawfully and lawdably be used, we learn from the example of David himself; of whom hear St. Austin, de Civ. Dei, l. 17. c. 14. Erat autem David vir in Canticis eruditus, qui Harmoniam Musicam non vulgari voluptate, sed fideli voluntate dilexerat: eaque Deo suo qui verus est Deus mystica rei magnae figuratione serviens, & diversorum nomine s●norum rationales moderatosque concentus, concordi varietate compactam bene ordinatae Civitatis insinuat unitatem. h. e. David was a Man skilful in Songs, who loved Musical Harmony not with a vulgar delight, but with a faithful desire: and thereby serving his God, who is the true God by a mystical representation of a great thing; and under the notion of divers sounds, he insinuateth rational and moderate Concents by an agreeable variety, the compacted unity of a well ordered City. The truth whereof, God grant may ever flourish in this Church, and in this College in particular. Amen.   

Christopher Prior.  
Christopher Prior the Son of Tho: Prior Prebendary of Gloucester, was brought up under Mr. Langley Schoolmaster of Gloucester College. He was Scholar of this College, and the first that I as Fellow ever presented. He become Doctor in Divinity and Principal of New-inn Hall, whereunto the Marquis of Hartford then Chancellor of the University [whose Chaplain he was] nominated him, Rogers being fled over to the Parliament party. Afterwards he was made Prebendary of Sarum in the room of Dr. Prideaux, whose Preferment to the Bishopric of Worcester made it for him: These Preferments, with others of equal value, lost by the prevalence of the Rebels party, he had regained with Job's Compensations, had he lived till the return of the King; which Death prevented half a Year before. He come hither the best Graecian that ever since my time hath been admitted of this College, and was furnished with other parts of Learning accordingly, which he lost no time to improve.   

Peter Wentworth.  
Peter Wentworth was first of Magdalen-hall, then Scholar of this House, where he proceeded Bachelor of Arts, and was at the same time Collector by a general suffrage, no● Proctors nomination. He was Fellow here, and after, having taken the Degree of Doctor in Divinity upon him, he was preferred to the Deanery of Armagh in Ireland; which I may call not an Archiepiscopal only, but a Patriarchal Deanery, the Archbishop of Armagh (whose Cathedral that is) having three other Archbishops subject unto him, which cannot be said of any one of the Western Church, besides the Pope of Rome. He outlived this Dignity, lost his Children, and all that he left there upon his flight into England: where being extremely weakened by a dead Palsy, wherewith he had been a long time affected, he chose rather then to return to a place so fatal to his Body and Estate, to settle upon the Parsonage of Hasley in Oxfordshire, whereof he died Parson. The place he died at was Bath, Anno Dom. 1662.   

Thomas Lord Coventry, the second.  
Thomas Lord Coventry, Father to the Lord Coventry now living. He was Pupil here to Edw: Wilson B. D. and Fellow of this College, under whose Tuition he profited in virtue and good letters; besides the honour he had to be Son to such a Father, as was Thomas Lord Coventry Lord Keeper of the Great Seal aforesaid. Stapleton de Tribus Thomis, writes of one of his Predecessors, Sir Thomas Moor, That after Sentence given in a certain Cause, called for another: whereunto answer was made, That there was noon depending; which he caused to be registered in perpetuam, rei memoriam. And although the like happened not in this Thomas' time, 'twas not because he come short of That Thomas in clearness of Judgement, and quick dispatch of Causes, but by reason of the contentious disposition of the Times wherein he lived; which filled not that Court only, but that of Requests too, with Suits, where Men come to be relieved against their own Acts: whereunto he was want to answer, That he sat not there to make Wise men of Fools. [It is there also said, Sir Thomas Moor being a Member of the House of Commons, Temp. H. 7. and opposing the unjust exaction of the K. promoted by Empson and Dudley, was moved to acknowledge his Error; who answered, That he had committed noon: neither would ever confess himself guilty, where he was not sure of pardon. This had been to expect relief against his own imprudent Act in a Criminal Matter, as Lord Keeper Coventry's Orators aforesaid craved in Civil Causes, and in both to be made Wise men of Fools.] Yet in this 
* viz. Lord Keeper Coventry.  he excelled that Thomas, viz. That he died not in jest.   

Robert Smith.  
Robert Smith, Son to Sir John Smith by the Lady Isabel, Sister to the Earls of Warwick, Holland and Newport, was, with his Brother Charles▪ Scholar to Mr. Silvester aforesaid here in Oxon, and afterwards of this College: where he spent his time in the study of good Letters, till he took on him the Degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then traveled beyond the Seas [as his Father had done before, who died in Sienna in Italy] After his return he married the Countess of Sunderland, a Lady of incomparable Beauty, and a true Sidney; by whom he had a Son not long before his death: In whom also died all the virtue and sweetness of disposition, that a mere Mortal Nature was capable of, and answerable to that of his Grandmother by the Father's side, 
* First married to Sir Tho: Smith, Father to Sir John aforesaid, and afterwards to Sir Robert Sidney Earl of Leicester, Grandfather to the Countess of Sunderland by a former Wife.  the Countess Dowager of Leicester, under whom he had his first education.   

Davenport and Wild Chief Barons.  
Davenport, him I should have named as contemporary with my Lord Keeper Coventry: He was of this House, and become a known excellent Lawyer (and was want to say, That Sir Edward Cook commented learnedly, but it was upon a wrong Littleton.) Last of all Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and so continued till his death, He was one of the common Contributors to the last adorning of our Chapel, as was Lord Chief Baron Wild, who was about the same time of this House: whose sole Daughter and Heir hath been many Years married to the Right Honourable Lord De la War, one of the ancientest Barons of this 
* The third Baron.  Kingdom. But forasmuch as I am uncertain whither the said Baron Wild be dead, I have not given him a distinct place in my Calendar: and here I shall desire my Reader to let him stand as a Statua Mercurialis to point out the excellencies of his Daughter, as the way to true honour.   

Sir William Throckmorton.  
Sir William Throckmorton, was Son to Sir Thomas Throckmorton of Tortworth in the County of Gloucester: He lived in this House Pupil to George Abbots (afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, as hath been said) Fellow of this College, who to his dying day was want to call Sir William his Son. A Pupil he was worthy of such a Tutor; for he had proved the Eye and Mouth of that County, had not his expense in the preservation of the Forest of Deane [in the Confines whereof his Lady's Estate lay] caused his unhappy Retirement. He was Friend to the Church and Churchmen, and settled so many Impropriate Tithes upon the Parish Church of Tyrley, as doubled the Vicarage thereof, he being then Lord of that Manor.   

Sir Baynham Throckmorton.  
Sir Baynham Son to Sir William was likewise of this House, Pupil here to Dr. Thorn, now Archdeacon of Buckingham: He was of Clowerwall in the Forest of D●an, which descended unto him by his Mother [and is now the seat of his Son, called also Sir Baynham Throckmorton, one of the Knights of Parliament for Gloucestershire.] He was a faithful Soldier and Servant to the King, and died one of his Majesty's Privy Chamber.   

Dr. Higgs.  
Dr. Higgs was Fellow of this College, and Tutor here to the now Reverend Rector of Lincoln College Dr. Hood: He become Beneficed in the West, where, after he had lived many Years, desired nothing more then to see his old Mother this College again; which he did, and died in the way homeward before the War.   

Lord Wenman.  
Lord Wenman was Fellow-Commoner of this College; whose worth is so well known in these parts, that what I could writ, would be but a diminution to his Merit. He gave us a very fair Silver and gilt Bowl: but of such Monuments, the late Rebellion left us noon. He being but lately deceased, may conveniently be placed here.   

Edward Wilson.  
Edward Wilson, B. D. and Tutor to Thomas Lord Coventry, as is aforesaid, was much a Scholar, and as much a Gentleman: who after having lived many Years signior Fellow of this House, was Beneficed at Bampton, whom resigning his place, The Reverend and Learned Dr. Thomas Good, now Canon of Hereford, succeeded. He was taken at length with a dead Palsy, under which he laboured divers Years: during which time, he made Plutarch much of his Diversion, and Bellarmine, De arte bene moriendi, much of his serious study (wherein one in his condition could not be very assiduous.) Let no man startle at this; for Bellarmine, notwithstanding the much ado that he makes about the merit of good Works in his Polemical Divinity, professes here, That its the safest way to trust in the Mercies of Christ. Lastly, for a memorial o● himself, he left us the Brazen Eagle in the Chapel.   

Dr. Gerard.  
Dr. Gerard was a greater Friend to the Church, then his Brother Sir Gilbert, though a Church Tenant. He was first Fellow Commoner of this College; from whence he was chosen Fellow of All-Souls, where he become Professor of the Laws in this University.   

Dr. Page.  
Dr. Page was of this House, where he lived till he was of some reasonable standing, Master of Arts; and was then chosen Fellow of All-Souls, where he proceeded Dr. of Divinity, and a worthy Divine he was, very well versed in the Greek Fathers. Wind was a great enemy to him, and he as great an enemy to the Winds and Tempests of Religion: to which end, he wrote a Book called The Peacemaker, or a brief Motive to Unity and Charity in Religion. He translated Thomas a Kempis, of the mitation of Christ, whose Legacy, to the Church was Peace. He wrote against Prin, concerning the bowing at the name of Jesus: and another Tract of Schism, occasioned by another. At last, he died in a good old age at his Benefice, leaving his Books, etc. to Mr. George Ashwell sometimes Scholar of this House, and afterwards a Worthy Fellow of Wadham, but at present Rector of Hanwell.   

Mr. Rous.  
Mr. Rous, alias Rus, was Scholar of this House, and afterwards Fellow of Oriel College, and Protobibliothecarius of the University for many Years. He was successor to Dr. James, and predecessor to the Learned Dr. Thomas Barlow, the Reverend Provost of Q. C. and Marga●et Professor.   

Sir Robert Parkhurst.  
Sir Robert Parkhurst, Son to Alderman Parkhurst sometime L. Major of London (and so Nephew to Dr. Parkhurst our Master) was of this House, where he lived studiously and soberly: but of his Achievements I am not able to given any account. Only he gave divers Books to our Library.   

Thomas Hicks, and John Parkhurst.  
Thomas Hicks was born about Stratford upon Avon, and was educated in quality of a Commoner in this House: where he lived till he was of some good standing Master of Arts: and then was made Chaplain of Christ Church, by the worthy Dean Dr. Duppa, to whom he dedicated his Translation of some of Lucian. He was a skilful Limner as well as Poet, and drew the Picture of the Reverend Dr. Parkhurst, as he sat at Divine Service, or Divinity Disputations in the Chapel, and presented it to his acceptance. And could he have drawn the Image of his mind, as he did it in Face or Front, as Limners are want to speak, he might have presented that as comely as this: for he was a Man of singular Learning, Gravity and Piety, frequent in Preaching, and vigilant in the Government of this College, whereof he was Master, as may be seen in the Catalogue; whom we own to Magdalen College wherein he was educated: He was sometimes Proctor of the University, then Chaplain to Sir Henry Nevil Lieger Ambassador at Paris, who gave him afterwards the Benefice of Shillingford; next he become Chaplain to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Abbots, who gave him Newington, both which he resigned by his death, aged 74 Years, having left his Headship of this College one or two Years before.   

Francis Finch, and Sir John Finch.  
They were both Scholars to Mr. Sylvester aforesaid here in Oxon, and afterwards Fellow-Commoners of this College. Francis betook himself at length to the study of the Law, and become Barrister: He had not been long in practice, but he died; yet he lives still in those several pieces of Ingenuity he left behind him, wherein he falls not short of the best of Poets: and because Est finitimus Oratori Poeta, he might have proved excellent in that too, having so incomparable a precedent as his Brother Sir Heneage Finch. As for Sir John, he betook himself to the Study of Physic, traveled into Italy, and there become Doctor in the Faculty, and public Reader thereof in several places. He hath been in England, and visited this his aged Mother since the return of the King, but is go back into Italy again, where his further Achievements I must leave Posterity to celebrated.   

* Thomas Price.  
Thomas Price was Scholar of this House, of my nomination, afterwards Fellow of the same, and died May 1665▪ not yet Bachelor of Divinity, but as Learned of his time as any that I ever knew of this College. He went Chaplain in the Voyage to Algiers, and the taking possession of Tangiers, whereby he come to be acquainted with the Impression that Arabic, wherein he was skilled, made upon the Spanish Tongue. He was as mindful of Courtesies as any, and forgetful of Injuries beyond parallel; which made him seem best to those that stood most in his way to preferment.  
He made a Copy of Verses in commendation of one that had been his Competitor for a Fellowship the first time he stood, and got it from him. The which (without robbing the other of that his due) may serve in a sort for his own Epitaph; viz.  

Pungente homines stylo  
Erubescat pagina.  
Salvo homine tui recîdit vulnus  
Ingenii acies:  
Nec toxica effundit Calamus  
Acutus sanè, non aculeatus.  
Moribus vivere malles, quam more:  
Alienam agit vitam saeculi vivens genio,  
Et extrà se quaerens Exul:  
Seipsum perlegit Stoicus.  
Et Statim  
Sphalmata corrigit.  
[Arctatur humano Cortice malorum Ilias]  
Vitiorum speculando contrahit imagines,  
Non vitia:  
Quid ni istas dicam Idêas  
Mentis Harpyiarum 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arab: Est imago magica sub certo Horoscopo insculpta & consecrata ad rem ipsam fugandum. Dicuntur etiam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qui imagunculas concineant mirabisi saepe eventu. Coel: Rhod: Lect: antiq: l. 1. c. 15.  Telesmata?  
Aut Animalis Paradisi 
† Spectra in Paradiso formidabili forma qui terrebant Adamum ne illuc rediret.  〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉?  
Perpendat Lector,  
In anoche, & apoche  
Passionem, & quadragesimam,  
Epictetum, Arrianum, Simplicium,  
Stoae olim incolas  
Jam Portae Proselytos.    

John Lee.  
This was he who made one of the Speeches written in the Natal: Coll: Pemb: and one of the six Scholars sent from Abingdon School to our Coll: of Balliol, which were afterwards translated from hence to Broad gates now Pembroke College. He was an indefatigable Student, and of proficiency answerable. He died soon after his going to Pembroke College. It may be said of all the other five together compared to him as was answered of of Mercury's Picture in the fable compared to Jupiter's and Juno's. viz. That he that would buy these two, should have the third into the bargain: He wrote an Interlude never published, or Acted.   

Mr. Berry.  
He was first Scholar of Corpus Christi College, from whence he was removed to this house, and Fellow of Peter Blundells' foundation here, so made by the appointment of Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench Westminster, Anno 1601. a man of that learning and integrity, that he may seem of purpose to be set here as a Copy for all his Successors in that place to writ after. He hath left only two sermons in print behind him, viz: an Assize Sermon, and a Visitation Sermon, very well worth the perusal. He was many years Cannon of Exeter, and died Anno 1667. aged 87 years; such was his symmetry of parts, and exact temper of body, that he might have lived to an hundred years, had he not contracted an ulcer occasioned by a fall.   

Sir Edmund Fortescue, Fellow Commonerand Edmund Ellis, Fellow of this House.  
Sir Edmund Fortescue Knight, sometimes Father to our Sir Edmund, preferred Edmund Ellis to the Benefice of East Allington in the County of Devon, after he had continued a worthy Member and Fellow of this House for many Years together. After the death of both these and the return of the King, our Sir Edmund was, I had said, created Knight and Baronet; but that it cannot be said of him, that Materiam superabat opus, much lesle that it was ex nihilo, unless the Name and Resemblance which a King bears of God will have his Acts of Regality called Creations. It were a sufficient Eulogy of him to say not more, then, That he was one who deserved such a Wife as his now Relict was: Yet I shall add the Character given him by the Pen of Edmund Ellis, son to the aforesaid Edmund, and Fellow of this College too, but now Rector of the said East Allington, whereunto this our Sir Edmund Fortescue presented him.  

In Memoriam Clarissimi Viri D ni E. F. Militis, & Baronetti.  

Ante Annos Animum gessit,  
Nec sibi, nec Aliis sa●is notus:  
Variam habuit, & Fluctuantem Indolem  
Suo nimirùm Vacillantem Pondere.  
Sub ipsâ Juventute maxima exhibuit Gemi Politici Indicia:  
In SENATUM tandem adscitus,  
Quando non fuit in Terris quò ultrà pergeret,  
In Patriam emigravit Coelestem.   
Decembris 30.— 66. Posuit E. E.     
FINIS.  

Procurators, Principals and Masters.  
PRocurators first ordained 1263. 45 Hen: 3. Appointed by Dervorgille 1266. 48 Hen. 3. Walter Fodringheye, Principal 1282. 08 Edw. 1. Hugo de Warnakeby 1296. 22 Edw. 1. Stephanus de Cornubia 1308. 34 Edw. ●. Richard Chikewelle 1309. 03 Edw. 2. Henry de Seton 1323. 17 Edw. 2. Nicolaus Luceby 1327. 01 Edw. 3. John Wickleff 1340. 14 Edw. 3. Hugo Corbrigg 1344. 18 Edw. 3. John Wickleff 1361. 34 Edw. 3. Thomas Tyrwhit 1374. 47 Edw. 3. William Lambert 1406. 08 Hen. 4. Thomas Chace 1410. 12 Hen. 4. Robert Burley 1424. 02 Hen. 6. Richard Stapilton 1429. 07 Hen. 6. William Brandon 1432. 10 Hen. 6. Robert Twaytes, alias Thwates 1451. 29 Hen. 6. William Lambton 1461. 01 Edw. 4. John Segden 1473. 12 Edw. 4. Robert Abdy 1478. 17 Edw. 4. William Bell 1496. 10 Hen. 7. Richard Barningham 1504 18 Hen. 7. Thomas Cisson 1511. 03 Hen. 8. Richard Stubbies 1518. 10 Hen. 8. William White 1525. 17 Hen. 8. George Cotes 1539. 31 Hen. 8. William Wright 1545. 37 Hen. 8. James Brooks 1547. 01 Edw. 6. William Wright 1555. 03 Ph: & M. Francis Babington 1559. 02 Eliz. Anthony Garnet 1560. 03 Eliz. Richard Hooper 1563. 06 Eliz. Robert Hooper 1567. 10 Eliz. 
vid. Sect. 34. in Margin▪ p. 79.  John Piers 1570. 13 Eliz. Adam Squier 1571. 14 Eliz. Edmund Lily 1580. 22 Eliz. Robert Abbots 1609. 06 Jac. John Parkhurst 1616. 13 Jac. Thomas Laurence 1637. 12 Car: 1. George Bradshaw 1646. 21 Car: 1. Henry Savage. 1650. 03 Car: 2.  
Note, That all the Masters [except Walter Fodringheye, the first] preceding Barningham, are here set down, not according to their Admissions, which are not known, but according to the Dates of some Acts done by them, or in their time; the Records whereof we have remaining with 
Except those of Chikewelle and Seton, temp. Ed. 2. which I own to the Town Archives.  us. So that if any be omitted, 'tis because they were Faineants or Bibulus'.  Nam Bibulo fieri Consule nil memini.  

A TABLE Referring to the ENDOWMENTS OF THIS COLLEGE.  
NOrth Morton. Sect. 36. p. 82. Berkshire. Beeston. 24. p. 38, etc. Bedfordsh. Borough Farm. 37. 84, 85. Bucks. Prince Risborow. 37. p. 85. Rotherwick. 36. p. 82. Hampshire Abbotsley. 24. p: 38. Huntingdom Canterbury Rent. 28. p. 66. Kent. Fylingham. 25. p. 52. Lincolnsh. Risome. 25. p. 52. Br●tleby▪ 25. p. 52. St. Laurence. 20. p. 32. London. St. Margaret's Patyns 30. p. 72. And Rood Lane. 30. p. 72. Clerken-well. 33. p. 78. How. 14. p. 23. etc. Northumb. Stamfordham. 14. p. 23. etc. Mickle Benton. 24. p. 37, 40. Westlade and Killingworth. 24. p. ibid. Morton in Tame Parish. 37. p. 85. Oxfordsh. Old Woodstock. 37. p. 82, etc. Wotton. 37. p. 82, etc. Tackley. 37. p. 82, etc. New Woodstock. 37. p. 82, etc. Steeple Aston. 22. p. 34. Odington. 30. p. 37. Heddington. 36. p. 82. Divinity School. 22. p. 34. Oxford City and Suburbs. Exeter College. 34. p. 80. Merton College. 22. p. 34. Magdalene Parish. 38. p. 85, etc. The same 26. p. 60. etc. The same. 18. p. 28. The same. 16. p. 25, etc. St. Giles' Parish. 26. p. 60. St. Mary's Parish. 26. p. 61. The same. 21. p. 23. St. Martyn's Parish. 17. p. 27. St. Mildred's Parish 22. p. 34. St. Edward's Parish. 18. p. 29. St. Aldate's Parish. 17. p. 27. St. Ebbs Parish. 26. p. 60. St. Peter's in the Bayly. 26. p. 60. St. Michael's at the South Port. 28. 67.   

A Table of MISCELLANIES.  

ALlowance of Fellows. Sect. 9  
Balliol College Schools. 21.  
Balliol King of Scots. 10.  
Battle at Dunbar. 10.  
Bachelor in Divinity. 24.  
Brazen Serpent. 19  
Cambridge Antiquity. 26.  
Canterbury College. 28.  
Chaplain-Fellows first made. 31.  
Chaplains distinct from Fellows. 21, 22, 24.  
Chapels. 19 

1. Chapel, 19  
2. Chapel. 19  
3. Chapel. 29.  
4. Chapel. 32.    
Characters. 14.  
Commencement, the Cambridge word conf: 14.  
Corpore's Case, what? 11.  
Dedication of the College to St. Katerine. 14.  
Divine Offices. 19, 23.  
Divinity School. 22.  
Durham College above 60 Year ancienter then either Hatfield or Bury's time, the pretended Founders. 24.  
Earth swells up daily. 26.  
St. Edward's Parish. 18.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. 14.  
Establishment of this College by 

1. Dervorgille. 11.  
2. Bishop of Lincoln. 13.  
3. John Balliol King of Scots. 16.  
4. Edw: Balliol K. of Scots. 24.  
5. Queen Elizabeth. 35.    
Exeter College. Sect. 34.  
Fillingham. 25.  
Founders of this College, who, and when. 6.  
Garcio and Garcon, what? 24.  
Genealogy. 5.  
Generals. 21. 

Halls, as  
Alban-hall. 22.  
Brasenose-hall. 26.  
Broadgates-hall. 17.  
Chimers-hall. 28.  
Herte-hall. 18, 22.  
Hammond-hall. 26.  
St. Hugh's-hall. 7, 18, 22.  
Lomb-hall. 22.  
Manger-hall. 22.  
Margaret-hall. 22, 26.  
New Balliol-hall. 7, 22.  
Old Balliol-hall. 7.  
Rack-hall. 28.  
Sparrow-hall. 7.  
Saucer-hall. 22, 26.    
Hills daily sink down. 26.  
Homage done by Scotland. 10.  
Homage done by John Balliol K. of Scots. 2.  
St. Hugh, 7.  
St. Ives. 25.  
Jews banished. 17.  
Juse-lane, or [in other Writings] Jury-lane. 28.  
Katerine, unde? 14.  
Letters Patents. 25, 35, 17.  
Levellers. 39  
Library of the College. 29, 39  
Library and Schools. ●.  
Licence from the Pope, etc. for celebration of Divine Offices. 2●.  
Lollards, what? 39  
Masters of this College. 3, 13.  
Mackduffe. 10.  
Maud the Empress. 17.  
Meadows grow higher. 26.  
Metrophanes Critopylus. ψ.  
St. Michael's Church at the South Port. 17.  
St. Mildred's Church. 22.  
Mitigation of Statutes. 24.  
Mortmain. 35.  
Music in God's Worship, what kind? 39 p. 121.  
Number of Scholars at first. 9  
Offerings by Townsmen, why? 26.  
Oriflamme. 19  
Parliament at Roven. 37.  
Parvisum, or Parvisia. 21.  
Pembroke College. 37.  
Primacy of Pope denied by the Greeks. 39 p. 120.  
Principal. 11.  
Procurators. 11, 12.  
Pronunciation of Letters. 14.  
Portatorium, what? 11.  
Prayer for the dead. 8.  
Queen of Scots. 1.  
Rectors of this College. 27.  
Risome. 25.  
Russians, when converted to Christ▪ etc. 39 p. 120.  
Sacrilegious Objections answered, 37.  
Site of the College, first where? 7, 16. 

Statutes of  
1. Devorgille. 11.  
2. Sir Philip▪ Somervyle. 24.  
3. Bishop of London. 27.  
4. Present Statutes. 31.    
Style of the College, what? 35.  
Synderesis. 14.  
Talismans'. 19  
Tekelmans. 19  
Testaments aught to be free. 37.  
Tithes, the College freed from in Oxford. 23. 

Visitors.  
Bishop of Durham. 24.  
Bishop of Winchester. 31.  
Bishop of Lincoln. 31.  
Others. 31.  
Others. 27.    
Writers, and others eminent of this College. 39  
Wickleffe Master of this House. 39  
Yorks Archbishop, Primate of Scotland. 39 p. 104.  
Yorks Archbishop deprived of Scotland's 12 Bishoprics. ibid.   
FINIS.