[3] I have used Mr. William Smith’s rendering of these passages of Matthew Paris.
[4] This, as Mr. William Smith says, to whose printed volume and MSS. preserved in the College archives, my obligations are so profuse that henceforth I will not mention them in detail, was the sum allowed to the Merton scholars also, and would in an ordinary year purchase twelve and a half quarters of the best wheat.
[5] This writ of King Richard is only entered on the back of the ancient roll containing the French Petition, and is not upon Record. (W. Smith’s Annals, p. 311.)
[6] Mr. Wm. Rogers of Gloucestershire, a member of the College. The speech spoken by Mr. Edw. Hales upon ye setting up of it was printed by Dr. Charlett. Mr. Hales was afterwards killed at ye Boyne in Ireland most couragiously fighting for his master King James. (Hearne by Doble, II. p. 143.)
[7] In the earlier part of this chapter I have been under constant obligations to the old College history entitled Balliofergus, or, a Commentary upon the Foundation, Founders, and Affaires of Balliol Colledge, Gathered out of the Records thereof, and other Antiquities. With a brief Description of eminent Persons who have been formerly of the same House. By Henry Savage, Master of the said Colledge (Oxford 1668). I am also considerably indebted to Mr. Maxwell Lyte’s History of the University of Oxford (1886), and to the somewhat perfunctory and ill-informed account of the College muniments given by Mr. H. T. Riley in the appendix to the Fourth Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission (1874). The Statutes of the College are cited from the edition prepared for the University Commission of 1850, and published in 1853. In dealing with later times I have had the advantage of a number of references kindly furnished me by Dr. G. B. Hill of Pembroke College, Mr. C. E. Doble of Worcester College, and Mr. C. H. Firth of Balliol College. Mr. Rashdall, of Hertford College, has been so good as to look over the proof-sheets of this chapter; and, although he is not to be held chargeable with any errors that may have escaped him, I have to thank him for many corrections and suggestions.
[8] The identification seems certain, though the name is suppressed in the Chronicon de Lanercost (ed. J. Stevenson, 1839), p. 69.
[9] Chron. de Mailros, s. a. 1269.
[10] Statutes of Balliol College, pp. v.-vii.
[11] In this document we have for the first time the mention of the Master and Scholars of the House: Savage, p. 18.
[12] See extracts from the deeds in Riley, p. 446.