[31]. In the first Account Book in Christ’s Hospital it appears that on December 23, 1553, Guy Wade gave 50s. to Christ’s Hospital “on condition that the house of occupations be erected before midsummer next,” and it is entered as received on June 25, 1554.
[32]. Strype’s Stow; cp. Supplement to Royal Hospitals, p. 32, where it is printed from Harl. MS. 604.
[33]. Survey III. viii. Ed. 1754.
[34]. Calendar of Wills in the Court of Hustings, Part I. p. 57.
[35]. Clove pinks, from the French girofle.
[36]. Calendar of Wills in the Court of Hustings, Part II. p. 75.
[37]. The present Hall dates from 1887.
[38]. Early Yorkshire Schools, vol. i. p. 2, Yorkshire Archæological Society, 1899.
[39]. Materials for the History of Thomas à Becket, vol. iii. p. 4, Rolls Series.
[40]. The true reading is no doubt collectantes as in Pegge’s edition, not colluctantes as in the Rolls edition. Collections is a term still in use for college examinations at Oxford. Anciently it was a sort of “Speech Day” at which the masters collected fees of a more or less voluntary character from their pupils.