[311] Newcourt, Report II., 86, 87, 88.

[312] Linc. Chapter Act Bk., pp. 2, 24.

[313] See p. [61].

[314] See [Chap. IV.]

[315] The chancellor of a diocese exercised a considerable amount of scholastic patronage.

[316] Memorials of Southwell Minster, XII.-XLII., 52.

[317] Registrum Brevium, fol. 35. The power of patronage to a school could apparently be delegated. Thus the Bishop of Lincoln granted a licence to the rector of Willeford “to chose a lettered and fit man in the parish to teach the boys and others going to him the said science.” See Linc. Epis. Reg. Gynwell, fol. 135 b. This unusual action was due to the scarcity of schoolmasters after the Black Death.

[318] 1382.

[319] Reg. Ep. Worcester, H. Wakfeld, p. 72. Ed. Ch. pp. 331-341.

[320] See also Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, III., 241.