[5]: These corresponded to the still existing "Scouts" at Oxford.
[6]: The corresponding Oxford name is "Common Room."
[7]: The Washington arms are, in heraldic language: Barry of four, gules and argent. On a chief azure three mullets of the second. Crest, a demi-eaglet sable rising from an earl's coronet.
[8]: This word reminds us that archery practice was, in England, a regular feature of mediæval College life.
[9]: This is shown in our first wood-cut.
[10]: The speediest possible destruction of such buildings was the only way of dealing with fires before effective engines came in, which was not until the nineteenth century. Rings to facilitate the use of fire-hooks are to be found under the eaves of many old houses hereabout. The hooks had 30 foot handles, mounted on a pair of wheels.
[11]: Bishop Latimer, the Protestant martyr, also belonged to Corpus.
[12]: The University had licensed printers from the time of Henry the Eighth, but did not set up a Press of its own till the eighteenth century, when influenced by the great scholar and critic Richard Bentley.