[69] See “Town and Gown” chap. iv. p. 233 n.
[70] Cf. “the students from regions near home” (e partibus diversis tam cismarinis ...) of his father’s rescript p. 33.
[71] For other references to this important document see ante pp. 14, 28; chap. iii. p. 165 n, iv. p. 203.
[72] Henry VI., VII., VIII., and Edward VI. continued the favour shown by the Henrys and Edwards to Cambridge; the exceptions were Henry V. and Edward IV. See ii. p. 101, v. p. 262. For the relation of the English queens to the university see Queens’ College pp. 109, 112, and p. 114.
Edward III. allowed the university to appropriate any church of the yearly value of £40; to receive (through its chancellor) the oaths of the mayor and aldermen and the bailiffs; to take cognizance of all causes in which the scholars were concerned, “maim and felony” excepted; and required that the chancellor should not be disquieted if he imprisoned offenders; that masters of arts should not be cited out of the university; and that the mayor should make assay of the weight of bread as often as the chancellor demanded it.
[73] pp. 29, 54.
[74] Peterhouse p. 55, S. John’s pp. 122-3.
[75] Except Kilkenny’s exhibitioners, infra p. 40.
[76] “I have given to God, the Blessed Virgin, blessed John Baptist, and to the House of the Scholars of Merton“: these words occur in the same deed with those in the text. Harl. Add. MSS. 5832. ff. 74, 75. The gift includes a stone house in the town: Dedi etiam et concessi prefatae domui ... domum illam lapideam in Cauntebrigg. cum gardino et curia adjacente.... Three deeds relating to the same transaction are dated mense Martii 54th of Hen. III. In Rot. Hund. 7th Edw. I. p. 366, a certain John gives a quit rent to the scholars of Merton for 18 acres of this property.
[77] The priory of S. Frideswide granted him land in 1265, and he obtained much more two years later.