Register of the rectors, fellows, and other members on the foundation of Exeter College, Oxford, with a history of the College and illustrative documents / by the Rev. Charles William Boase.

Date:
1894
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Credit: Register of the rectors, fellows, and other members on the foundation of Exeter College, Oxford, with a history of the College and illustrative documents / by the Rev. Charles William Boase. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    exemption of Merton et aularum consiniilium—probably University, Balliol, Exeter, Oriel and Queen’s—from the general rustication which followed the sanguinary riot on S. Scholastica’s day lo Feb. i35f. A matriculation oath was now imposed on students that they should keep the peace. Merton, Stapeldon, and Wykeham (like Chicheley, Warham, Fox, and Wolsey, in later times) were statesmen as well as bishops. The Kings then paid their officials, and clerks in chancery, by church appointments, the only means at their disposal; this had one good result, of securing large-minded men for the Episcopate. In 1314 Walter de Stapeldon, bishop of Exeter, founded Stapeldon hall for scholars from Devon and Cornwall; but the ground in and near Hart hall, which he bought for this purpose, not proving large enough, he removed the students next year to S. Stephen’s hall, and gave them the rent of Hart hall, about £2 a year, that their rooms might be rent-free and kept in repair. Their new abode was at first also called Stapeldon hall, but was soon known as Exeter College^. Stapeldon ^ had taught Canon law at Oxford, and at the time of his election to Exeter 13 Nov. 1307 was precentor of the cathedral, rector of Aveton Gifford, and chaplain to Clement V. He was employed on service in France, before and after he became bishop ; sent thither by Edward I 6 June 1306; Edward II sent him to Gascony in June 1310; on 6 Nov. 1312 he was ordered to defend the King’s cause about Aquitaine before the Parlement of Paris, and again 8 Feb. ^3^^ • He was one of those who elected the Lords Ordainers in Mch 13$^ ^ His predecessor Thomas de Bitton made several bequests to him. He was consecrated 13 Oct. 1308 and zealously pushed on the rebuild- Called Exeter hall in 1368, Lyte 181 ; Exeter college 1404. Wood (MS D 2 p. 94) says ‘ autoritate Innocentii vii,’ but adds ‘by a bull of Gregory xii, 15 Jan! i4o|-. c-* ^eg., ed. Hingeston-Randolph, 1892. The bishop’s brother Sir Richcyd m. Joan d. of Serlo Haye; their greatgranddaughtev Thomasin m. Richard Hankford, and the heiress of Hankford [Stafford’s Reg. 122, 142, 196, 337] brought the family estates to her husband Thomas earl of Ormond. Of the’ bishop s sisters Douce m. William Herward, Joan m. Thomas Kaynes of Winkleigh, WMrInwardleigh of Waghfield [Waysfeld, now Washfield] ; V Ilham Walle, son of the fourth sister, was murdered with the bishop. * b 2