[271] Hist. Ch. of York, I., 281.

[272] Dugd. Mon. III., 405.

[273] Early Yorkshire Schools, II., 1.

[274] Hist. Warwick Sch., p. 5, from Chartul. S. Mary’s, Warwick, G. R. Eccl. Misc. Bks. 22.

[275] Cal. Pat., 12 Rich. II., pt. 2, m. 10; Ed. Ch., p. 77.

[276] P. R. O., Cart. antiq. H., No. 18; Ed. Ch., p. 93.

[277] Charter Roll, II., Henry III., pt. 1, m. 27; Ed. Ch., p. 93.

[278] Chancery Warrents, Series 1, file 1439; Ed. Ch., p. 413. Dealing with this grant of a monopoly of school keeping to Eton College, Mr. Leach remarks “The remarkable invasion of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, to which alone the grants and still more the enforcement of the monopoly of endowed schools belonged,” etc. Schs. Med. Eng., p. 259. Mr. Leach is in error here. The grant of the monopoly of school keeping was a civil matter.

[279] Pat., 24, Hen. VI., pt. II., m. 28.

[280] Rot. Parl., V., 137.