Volume 1

The history and antiquities of the colleges and halls in the University of Oxford / by Anthony Wood. Now first published in English, from original manuscript in the Bodleian Library; with a continuation to the present time: by the editor, John Gutch (Appendix ... containing Fasti Oxonienses; or a commentary on the supreme magistrates of the university ... with a continuation to the present time.

Anthony Wood

Date:: MDCCLXXXVI-MDCCXC [1786-1790]

Credit: The history and antiquities of the colleges and halls in the University of Oxford / by Anthony Wood. Now first published in English, from original manuscript in the Bodleian Library; with a continuation to the present time: by the editor, John Gutch (Appendix ... containing Fasti Oxonienses; or a commentary on the supreme magistrates of the university ... with a continuation to the present time. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1268. Chanc. the cae: (1) N. de Eweumg, asin the Annals Gade this year, 1269. Chanc. Mr. Tuomas Brx, as in a certain Convention (2) between him and the Univerfity on the one Ha and Wymund le Lyngedraper of Oxford and Agnes his Wife on the other, &c. to which are witnefles John de Colefhall,. Mayor, Jeffrey le Orfeure and Philip de Ewe, Provofts or Bail- lives of Oxford. In a certain charter, (3) dated on Monday next going be- fore the feaft of S. Matthias the Apoftle, 51 Hen. Il], Dom. 1266, | find thae one Jacob, the fon of Mr. Mofey, a Jew of London, by Henna his wire, conveyed to Walter de Merton, fometime Chancellor to the King, his houfes in St. John Baptifi’s Parifh in Oxford, for the building of an Hall or Col- _ lege for his Scholars, that he had lately fettled at Meandon in Surrey. But - becaufe Mr..Antony Beke, and his brother Thomas Beke did then: live and abide in the faid houfes he therefore made this condition with the faid W. de Merton, that he’ fhould fuffer the faid Antony and ‘Thomas to inhabit in the faid houfes from the feaft of St. Michael following ’ti]l three years after were expired, by paying to his Warden and Scholars that he was then about to fettle in thofe, and other houfes adjoining, an hundred fhillings yearly. This is the effect of the Charter; and I thought fit to. mention it, becaute the faid Antony (ftiled in the Charter Dominus Antonius Beke) and Tho- mas his brother were then ftudents in the faid houfes, and that the former was. afterwards Bifhop of Durham, and the other Chancellor of this Univer- fity (as before *tis told you) afterward Treafurer of England, and at Jength, being very old, became Bifhop of Lincoln an. 1319. 1270. Chanc. the fame, Tuomas Bex, as from another writing, in the place here quoted, (4) appears. Commiffary (5) Mr. Rob. Steeton, D. of D. 4273. Chance. Mr. Wittiam de Bosco, as in the accompts of one Ralph Stokes, Chamberlain of the Town of Oxford, 2.Edw.1; (6) wherein under the title of Expenfes I find it thus fet down—‘ Item in duobus Pikerillis miffis Mro. W. de Bofco Cancellario, quarta feptimanz Quadragefime, 1 iilj fol.’ For in thefe times, and fince, it was an ufual cuftom for the Burghers of Oxford, to prefent the Chancellor with gifts, efpecially at his entrance into his office, as from divers places is evident. This Mr. Witt. de Bosco was one of the firft Fellows of Merton College, as in their writings 1 find, and fo have I put him into the Catalogue of them, which I have with very . great labour compofed from multitudes of writings in that College Treafury and Chequer, and alfo from their Regifters. 1274. Chanc. the fame, W. de Bosco, as by circumftance it appears, Commuffary, or Vicegerent, (7) Mr. Nicno.tas de Marnuam. (1). A. fol. 73. a3C. 67. b. (4) Tues. Coll. Univerf. (2) In Tuesaur. Coll. Univerf, in pyx.. (5) Ibid. inter Cuarras de tenem. in Oxon. parochia B. Mar. Virg. (3) In Tuesaur. Coll. Merton, in pyx. (6) In Cuarropu. Civit. Oxon. Oxon. A. 1, 22. [See before in Mert. Coll, (7) In pyx. H, in Turner Schol, nu. 12. where he ftudied,: p. 13, N. 40.], 3 276,

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