[254] Mun. Acad. 391. This explanation or compromise was not suggested in any of the three bulls of John XXII, which I have seen. The Pope did not advance matters much: on this point he decreed, ‘quod fratres predicatores et alii religiosi predicti ejusdem loci Oxoniensis, dummodo alias ydonei fuerint, ad idem Magisterium in facultate predicta (sc. theologica), etiam si antea in artibus Magistri non fuerint, non petita, eo pretextu quod Magistri non fuissent in artibus, ab ipsis Cancellario et Magistris vel aliis, ad quos id pro tempore inibi pertinet, licentia per viam gratiae, sed per modum merae justitiae, libere assumantur.’ Bull of John XXII, VIII Kal. Nov. Ao 2, transcribed by Mr. Bliss from Regesta, Vol. 67.
[255] Close Rolls, 11 Ric. II, m. 15; 12 Ric. II, m. 45.
[256] Wilkins, Concilia, III, 400.
[257] Ibid. 574-5. The same form of licensing was used for all faculties, and there was no mention of regency in Arts in the licence for the faculty of theology, strictly speaking: Ibid. 382-3. It was however contained among the conditions which the licentiate swore he had fulfilled or been dispensed from: Ibid. 391-2, 394.
[258] Ibid. 575.
[259] In 1459 John Alien, B.D. of Cambridge, supplicated for incorporation at Oxford: one of the conditions imposed was, ‘quod solvat xls ad fabricacionem scolarum.’ This condition was withdrawn the same day. Regist. Aa, f. 119.
[260] Opera Inedita, pp. lv and 399.
[261] Twyne, MS. XXII, f. 103 c (Defensorium, cap. 62).
[262] Mun. Acad. 206.
[263] Ibid. 207-8.