[212] Oxf. Hist. Soc. Collectanea, II. (1890), pp. 147-8; see the English Historical Review, Apr. 1891.
[213] In like manner the position of the head of the earliest College (Merton) was rather that of a Bursar than a Master, a gardianus bonorum more than scholarium.
[214] Wood’s History of the University of Oxford, ii. 755-7. The name of Brasenose occurs in the well-known forged charter which professes to be of the date 1219.
[215] Wood’s History, ii. 756.
[216] See Peck’s History of Stamford, which contains an engraving of the gateway and knocker. The latter is perhaps more accurately described as a door handle.
[217] See the Proceedings of the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society for November 18th, 1890. The site of the Hall with the gateway and knocker was purchased by Brasenose College in 1890, and the eponymous Brazen Nose itself is now fixed in a place of honour in the College hall.
[218] Until 1827 every candidate for a degree at Oxford took an oath “Tu jurabis, quod non leges nec audies [deliver or attend lectures] Stanfordiæ, tanquam in Universitate, Studio vel Collegio generali.”
[219] Register of the Visitors, ed. Burrows (Camd. Soc. N.S. xxix.), 1881, p. cxxi.
[220] Life of Scott, 1837, i. 374.
[221] The printed editions run—