[152] The following details are from Anstey’s Munimenta Academica, pp. 241, seqq.
[153] Anstey’s Munimenta Academica, p. 286.
[154] In the fifteenth century Cicero or a classical poet might be substituted. Some other alternatives are omitted.
[155] See Wood’s Annals (edit. Gutch), ii. p. 292; Ayliffe, ii. p. 316.
[156] See Professor Montagu Burrows’ delightful Memoir of Grocyn in the Oxford Historical Society’s Collectanea, vol. ii.
[157] A few Gentleman-commoners educated at Winchester had been admitted to the College earlier. Among these, but only for a very short time, was the Sir Henry Wotton who still lives in Izaac Walton’s Lives.
[158] G. V. Cox, Recollections of Oxford (1870), p. 50.
[159] These “Sunday pence” were paid in all Oxford parishes. In 1525 payment was disputed; and in the test case between Lincoln College, as rector of All Saints church, and William Potycarye alias Clerke of All Saints parish, payment was enforced under penalty of “the greater excommunication.” Several tenements in Oxford continue to this day to pay to their parish church quit-rents of 4s. 8d. representing these old “Sunday pence.” Their owners have the satisfaction of knowing that these tenements represent the most ancient holdings in Oxford.
[160] On 13th Dec., 1432, in the time of the first rector, the celebrated Thomas Gascoigne gave twelve MSS. to the library.
[161] Mr. Maxwell Lyte, in his History of the University of Oxford, has taken for the original the seventeenth century copy on the south side of the quadrangle, which was put there by a married Head to cloak his annexation of College rooms.