See also cap. 31, against horses of scholars being kept.

Lodgings were let according to the joint valuation of 2 Magistri (scholars) and two townsmen (probi et legales homines de Villa). Wood, i. 255. An. 15 Hen. III. A.D. 1230-1.

In the beginning of the 15th century it had become the established rule that every scholar must be a member of some college or hall. The scholars who attended the public lectures of the university, without entering themselves at any college or hall, were called chamber dekyns, as in Paris they were called martinets; and frequent enactments were made against them.—Malden, p. 85, ref. to Woods Annals, 1408, -13, -22, and 1512, &c.

The following are the dates of the foundations of the different Colleges at [Oxford] as given in the University Calendar:—

University College, 1253-80[42]

Corpus Christi College

1516
Balliol College, betw. 1263 & 1268

Christ Church College

1526

Merton College, founded at Maldon, in Surrey, in1264, removed to Oxford in

Trinity College1554
St John’s College1555
Jesus College1571
1274Wadham College1613
Exeter College1314Pembroke College1624
Oriel College1326Worcester College1714
The Queen’s College1340HALLS
New College1386
Lincoln College1427St Edmund Hall1317
All Souls College1437St Mary’s Hall1333
Magdalen College1458New Inn Hall1438

The King’s Hall and College of Brasenose

1509Magdalen Hall1487
St Alban Hallafter 1547

UNDERGRADUATE’S EXPENSES AT OXFORD, 1478.

‘The Paston Letters’ do not give us much information about studies or life at Oxford, but they do give us material for estimating the cost of a student there (ii. 124[43]); they show us the tutor reporting to a mother her son’s progress in learning (ii. 130), and note the custom of a man, when made bachelor, giving a feast: “I was made bachelor ... on Friday was se’nnight (18 June, 1479), and I made my feast on the Monday after (21 June). I was promised venison against my feast, of my Lady Harcourt, and of another person too, but I was deceived of both; but my guests held them pleased with such meat as they had, blessed be God.” The letter as to the costs is dated May 19, 1478.

“I marvel sore that you sent me no word of the letter which I sent to you by Master William Brown at Easter. I sent you word that time that I should send you mine expenses particularly; but as at this time the bearer hereof had a letter suddenly that he should come home, & therefore I could have no leisure to send them to you on that wise, & therefore I shall write to you in this letter the whole sum of my expenses since I was with you till Easter last past, and

also the receipts, reckoning the twenty shillings that I had of you to Oxon wards, with the bishop’s finding:—

£s.d.
The whole sum of receipts is5176
And the whole sum of expenses is655¾
And that [= what] cometh over my receipts & my expenses I have borrowed of Master Edmund, & it draweth to80