[133] Hawkesworth was one of the first Fellows of Queen’s, nominated by the original Statutes in 1341; but as the ground on which his election was annulled is expressly stated to be its informality and not any defect in the person chosen, he was probably also connected with the College either as Fellow or ex-Fellow. He appears as acting on the College behalf in 1341.
[134] It has been printed in the Oxford Historical Society’s Collectanea, vol. i. p. 59.
[135] In Wood’s list, both Symon and Byrche are entered as of University College; but there is little doubt that they both belonged to Oriel.
[136] These two manors adjoin one another, but are entirely independent and in distinct parishes; they appear, however, as held together at the time of the Domesday Survey, and never to have parted company since that date.
[137] In his account of this building Wood must for once have fallen asleep, or he would not have suggested that the letters O. C. (Oriel College) were inscribed by “the Saints, in honour of their great Commander.” But such is the vitality of error that this absurd blunder is copied without correction into every guide-book for Oxford, and actually reappears in the note prefixed to a very careful account of the Hospital, published by the Oxford Architectural Society.
[138] I. e. take this, and prosper. To “grow thrifty” in the sense of to thrive seems to have been used in America as late as 1851, (Dr. Smith’s Latin Dictionary, preface, p. vii.)
[139] State Papers, Domestic, Elizabeth xvii. p. 57. Letter of Francis and others to Cecill, 11 May, 1561.
[140] See Carleton’s Life of Gilpin.
[141] On the election of Joseph Browne, who succeeded Provost Smith in 1756. See Letters of Radcliffe and James (Oxford Historical Society, ix.), p. xxiii.