[p. xxvii., last line.] Roger Bacon died, perhaps, 11 June, 1292, or in 1294. Book of Dates.
[p. xxvii.], dele note 3. ‘The truth is that, in his account of Oxford and its early days, Mr Hallam quotes John of Salisbury, not as asserting that Vacarius taught there, but as making “no mention of Oxford at all”; while he gives for the statement about the law school no authority whatever beyond his general reference throughout to Anthony Wood. But the fact is as historical as a fact can well be, and the authority for it is a passage in one of the best of the contemporary authors, Gervaise of Canterbury. “Tunc leges et causidici in Angliam primo vocati sunt,” he says in his account of Theobald in the Acts of the Archbishops, “quorum primus erat magister Vacarius. Hic in Oxonefordiâ legem docuit.”’ E. A. F.
p. xxxiii. note, l. 1, for St Paul’s read St Anthony’s Corrected in reprint.
p. xxxiv., for sister read brother
Corrected in reprint. The word “brother” appears twice on this page: “brother of Anne Bulleyn” and “Jane Seymour’s brother”.
[p. xlv. l. 2], for poor read independent. ‘Fitz-Stephen says on the parents of St Thomas, “Neque fœnerantibus neque officiose negotiantibus, sed de redditibus suis honorifice viventibus.”’ E. A. F.
p. liii. Thetford. See also p. xli.
Author’s intention unclear. [List on page liii] shows Thetford grammar school, founded 1328. [Page xli text] has “between 1091 and 1119 ... schools at Thetford”.
p. lxxix. last line. A Postscript of nine fresh pieces has been since added, on and after p. 349, with ‘The Boris hede furst’ at p. 264*. Section rewritten for reprint.
[p. 6, l. 77], for the note on plommys, damsons, see p. 91, note on l. 177.