[23.] As to agricultural labourers and their children A.D. 1388-1406, see below, [p. xlvi].
[24.] Readers will find it advisable to verify for themselves some of the statements in this Editor’s notes, &c.
[24a.] The regular Cathedral school would have existed at St David’s. [Corrigenda]
[25.] The foregoing three extracts are sent me by a friend.
[26.] From a fragment of the Computus Camerarii Abbat. Hidens. in Archiv. Wulves. apud Winton. ut supr. (? Hist. Reg. Angl. edit. Hearne, p. 74.)
[27.] Hist. and Antiq. of Glastonbury. Oxon. 1722, 8vo, p. 98.
[28.] Reyner, Apostolat. Benedict. Tract. 1, sect. ii. p. 224. Sanders de Schism. page 176.
[29.] utriusque juris, Canon and Civil.
[30.] Lit. humaniores. Latin is still called so in Scotch, and French* (I think), universities. J. W. Hales.
* “There are no French universities, though we find every now and then some humbug advertising himself in the Times as possessing a degree of the Paris University. The old Universities belong to the time before the Deluge—that means before the Revolution of 1789. The University of France is the organized whole of the higher and middle institutions of learning, in so far as they are directed by the State, not the clergy. It is an institution more governmental, according to the genius of the country, than our London University, to which, however, its organization bears some resemblance. To speak of it in one breath with Oxford or Aberdeen is to commit the ... error of confounding two things, or placing them on the same line, because they have the same name.” —E. Oswald, in The English Leader, Aug. 10, 1867. [Corrigenda]