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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    Cornwall street, between North gate and Smythe gate, which the Bishop had received from John (son of William) le Spycer and Alice his wife; witnesses Richard de Stapildon, William Hereward knights, John Kaygnes, John Prodhomme, John de la Slo, and others, at York Friday after S. Dunstan i6 Edward II: the Bishop gave £6o for it, and had on lo May 1323 appointed ‘ Magister Stephanus Rector of Stapeldone halle to receive seisin of it; and on 21 May 1323 he named Robert de Tauton or Thomas de Ston to give the seisin to the Rector and Scholars. On 3 Nov. 1336 Alice widow of John de Maydenstone [? her second husband] quitclaimed to the Rector and Scholars for Ledeneporche, between Bruneshalle on the east and the tenement of Robert de la Bache on the west k the west side of Leadenhall or Aula Alba, and was at last turned into a garden. It must therefore be distinguished from Leadenhall, which was sold to Jesus for £400 in 1821 (Reg. 9 May 1821, and 1845). Leadenhall was also called White- hall, but there was Great Whitehall in Cheney lane (Market street), and Little Whitehall in Ship street (Wood’s City i. index), besides half a dozen other White- halls in the University, and it is not easy to distinguish them. Computi, autumn 1419 ^ 12s (>d for repairs in Aula Alba ’; winter 1419 ‘ ipt/ for 26 pounds (ponderi- bus) of lead bought for Aula Alba,’ i. e. 3 farthings a pound ; autumn 1420 ‘57.? for repairs in Aula Alba autumn 1421 ‘ 17^/ for repairs at Aula Alba autumn 1425 ‘13^/ for the carriage tabellarum to Aula Alba’; ‘ 2i^/to John Edyngton and his partners for repairing one synk at Aula Alba’; winter 1426 ^ \2d io Norton for a garden near Whytehall for last year’; summer 1438 ‘ 6^ '^d from M. J. Claydon ; Lent 1469 ‘4^- received from Alice Berton for a garden called Ledyngporche near Aula Alba’; Lent 1478 ‘ 35 ^d from John Logger for a garden near Aula Alba for last year,’ so in winter 1504 ‘ near Aula Alba, on the west side; and again autumn 1505 and autumn 1522 ‘2j’; winter 1539 ‘ 4^/ for repairing the great gate which looks towards the garden of Alba Aula’; Lent 1544 ‘ for 2 twysts for the back gate towards Wythall’; summer 1555 ‘ i8<^to the Principal of Whithall, as in bill’; autumn 1547 ‘ received from M. Busbye for a garden near Aula Alba for 3 years past.’ Anstey 522 ‘ 1438 for Aula Alba in the Little Bailey M. Claydone’; 600 ‘1450 Aula Alba under the walls’; 676 ‘ 1458 Aula Alba m Cham street (vico catenarum, i. e. Cheney lane) ’; 714; Wood’s City i. 67, 71-2, 207, 258, 605; Wood’s Fasti 61 ; Griffiths 14, 22, 29, 32, 53 ; State Papers II Ap. 1538. 1 ^ Rector and Scholars granted to Richard de Sahsbersh of Oxford, Emma his wife and John their son a ‘placea terre ’ once called Ledynporche, between Richard’s own tenement on the west and a ‘ placea ’ which IS called Fouks-yne (Wood’s City i. 385; Hist. Comm. iv. 447) on the east, for eir ives at a rent of four shillings ; Computus winter 1445 ‘iiiL a Thoma Barton pro gardino ex antique vocato Lydenporche,’ and a similar entry in autumn 1457 ; mpare ent 1473 * xx^^d Priori S. Frideswide pro ultimo anno, et pars residua cl r ablata propter negligentiam suam circa murum orti Aide Plumbee.’ ► e mtch 1. 172. A Richard Salesbiiry occurs 1381 (Wood’s MS. D. 2, p. 466)