[23] See the extract from a letter of the Rectors, one a Doctor of Divinity and the other a Franciscan, of 1433, given by Riley, p. 443 a.
[24] In 1433: Savage, pp. 64 f.
[25] In 1477: ibid., p. 66.
[26] Statutes of Balliol College, pp. 1-22; cf. Lyte, pp. 415 ff.
[27] The eightpence a-week assigned them by the Statutes of Dervorguilla had been raised to twelve pence so early as 1340, by Sir William Felton’s benefactions, which also provided funds for clothes and books (Savage, p. 38). It was now ordered that the sum should not exceed 1s. 8d. Besides this Masters were to receive an annual stipend of 20s. 8d.; Bachelors, of 18s. 8d. (Statutes, p. 14).
[28] Compare Savage, p. 74.
[29] Statutes, pp. 38 f.
[30] Queen’s College Statutes, p. 14.
[31] We may remember that “between the years 1485 and 1507, Oxford was visited by at least six great pestilences” (Lyte, p. 380). In 1486 we find the Fellows of Magdalen sojourning at Witney and Harwell (not far from Wantage) “tempore pestis.” Rogers, Hist. of Agric. and Prices, iii. (1882) 680.
[32] See W. W. Shirley, Fasciculi Zizaniorum (1858), intr., pp. xi-xv, 513-528; P. Lorimer, notes to Lechler’s John Wiclif (ed. 1881), pp. 132-137; R. L. Poole, Wycliffe and Movements for Reform (1889), pp. 61-65.