[53] Savage, pp. 74-77; Wood’s City of Oxford, ed. A. Clark, ii. 3; P. Heylin’s Cyprianus redivivus (1668), p. 208; Wood’s Hist. and Antiqq. (ed. Gutch), ii. 677.

[54] Statutes, p. 30.

[55] P. 33.

[56] P. 35.

[57] Savage, p. 56. After 1718 the payment was made out of the College revenues: Statutes, p. 36.

[58] Statutes, p. 31.

[59] Humphrey Prideaux, Letters to John Ellis (ed. E. M. Thompson, Camden Society, 1875), pp. 12 f., under date 23 August 1674.

[60] Statutes, pp. 61-66.

[61] In 1677 the library was increased by the gift of “one of the best private librarys in England” (Prideaux, p. 61), from the bequest of Sir Thomas Wendy of Haselingfield, sometime gentleman commoner of the College. In 1673 these books were valued at £600: Wood, Colleges and Halls, p. 90.

[62] Statutes, pp. 25-28.