[142] I. e. to an ecclesiastical benefice.
[143] See State Papers, Domestic, Elizabeth, vol. 271, 49, March, 1601.
[145] Sir Richard Richards, 1776; Sir William Carpenter Rowe, 1827; William Basil Tickell Jones, 1848; Thomas William Lancaster, 1809; James Garbett, 1824; Adam Storey Farrar, 1852; Edward Feild, 1825; Samuel Thornton, 1859; Robert Gaudell, 1845. The dates are of election to Fellowship. Sir William Wightman, Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench, and Henry John Chitty Harper, Metropolitan of New Zealand, were also on this foundation, but never Fellows.
[146] Those reading “Logic,” termed “sophistae.”
[147] “Artista,” a student (here probably a Master) in the faculty of Arts.
[148] Students not yet advanced to the study of Logic.
[149] The study of theology began two years after the attainment of the M.A. degree.
[150] See Tobie Matthew’s letter to Lord Burghley in State Papers, Addenda, Elizabeth, xxxii. 89, Oct. 16, 1593, and Boast’s life in Dict. of Nat. Biog.
[151] Except to the grammar-boys at Merton, and the “poor boys” at Queen’s.