[164] Hingeston-Randolph’s “Register of Bishop Grandisson,” pp. 349, 356.
[165] Lyndewode, “Provinciale.” Compare the 74th of the Canons of 1603.
[166] “Grostete’s Letters” (Rolls Series), p. 49.
[167] “York Fabric Rolls” (Surtees Society), p. 243.
[168] For picture of the basilard and purse see Royal MS., 6 Ed. VI., f. 478, p. 492, etc.
[169] Catalogus omnium qui admissi pet’runt in fraternitatis beneficium Monasterii Sti. Albani, cum picturis eorum et compendiosis narrationibus. (British Mus., Nero D., vii.)
[170] These, with the descriptions, are taken from “Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages,” by the present writer.
[171] A. Gibbons, “Early Lincoln Wills,” p. 57.
[172] Ibid., p. 130.
[173] The record of a suit in the Ecclesiastical Court of Durham gives us a curious little illustrative anecdote of a quarrel in the Rectory of Walsingham, in the year 1370. The bishop, the archdeacon, and their attendants were passing the night there, probably after a Visitation. The record tells us in full detail how, after the Bishop had gone out of the hall of the rectory into the chamber, the family remaining in the hall, Nicholas de Skelton uttered threats against John of Auckland, the servant of the archdeacon, viz. that he would break his head. One of the archdeacon’s people intervened, when the angry Nicholas threatened to break his head also. The archdeacon seems to have then interfered, when a servant of Nicholas, offering to strike the archdeacon with a hawking staff, the archdeacon drew his cultellum; the servant broke it in two with his staff; the archdeacon hurled the half which he held, and it killed another of the company who happened to interpose. The archdeacon was summoned before the Court to answer for the homicide.