[I] The workmen employed were the same as were employed at Eton and Windsor, under the direction of William of Waynfleet, and were called away from Oxford under a royal mandate, but were restored again in consequence of a petition from the University.

[J] The architect employed was Thomas Holt of York, who was likewise employed over several of the other buildings in Oxford at the same period. He died in 1624, and was buried in Holywell Churchyard. The builders were first, J. Acroid, who died in 1613; and afterwards J. Bentley, who built likewise the new buildings of Merton, and M. Bentley, who died in 1618.

[K] From this arose the popular, but erroneous belief that the candidates were compelled to walk an hour in the Pig-market, in order to allow the tradesmen to whom they were indebted to recognise them, and obtain payment of their debts, it being a rule that no candidate against whom an action for debt is pending in the University court, can receive a degree. But though the belief was not correct, it was until a comparatively recent period the custom for tradesmen to attend at those times for the purpose mentioned.

[L] Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent five martlets saltier-wise sable; on a chief azure, three ducal coronets, Or; a crescent for difference.—Bodley. 2 and 3, Argent, two bars wavy, between three billets sable.—Hore.

[M] The two staircases were added afterwards, but were panelled to match the rest of the work. On the north end this panelling seems to have been subsequently cut away, so that nothing but the small arches remain attached to the under side of the strings. In Williams’s Oxonia Depicta it is shewn completely panelled.

[N] In these accounts, (for an opportunity of examining which I am indebted to the Rev. J. Griffith, Sub-Warden [now, in 1881, the Warden]), the masons who worked the stone for building are called Free masons, or Freestone Masons (which is probably the true meaning of the term), while the rest are merely called “labourers.” The cost of each window, with the name of the workman, is put down separately, the price of a chapel window being 6l., while those of the hall were 3l. 18s. each. It is curious, too, to find that the three statues over the entrance to the hall and chapel were cut by one of the free masons (William Blackshaw) employed on the other parts of the building. For each statue he was paid the sum of 3l.

The following prices and terms also appear, and are curious and interesting, [but great allowance must be made for the change in the value of money; it is probable that each shilling of the time of James I. was equivalent to at least ten shillings in the time of Queen Victoria]:—

Lodgement, 4d. per foot.
Window table, 4d. per foot.
Grass table, 4d. per foot.
Window lights, 3s. 4d. each.
Pillar stone, at 16d. per foot.
Cornish, 2d. per foot.
Gorgel table—at 4d. per foot.
Gargill
Gurgul
Gurgoll
Tun stone, or tun stuff—stones for chimney shafts, &c.
Tounel stones, or tunnel stones