[41]. History of the Life of King Henry II., London 1767, ii. 351.
[42]. A Survey of London, imprinted by John Wolfe, 1598, p. 54.
[43]. Now in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow; but there is an inaccurate transcription in the Guildhall Library MS.
[44]. An entry in the Patent Rolls 19 Henry VI. ii. 19, “Pro Scolaribus S. Trinitatis, London, et aliis” refers to the foundation of a College at Oxford for the reception of the students from all the houses of Augustinian canons in England, the Prior of Trinity being only the first of a list, to whom with the Abbot of Waltham, the Prior of Twineham (Christ Church, Hants), the Abbot of Leicester, the Priors of Guisborough, Bridlington, St. Oswald’s, Nostell, Hexham, and Carlisle, the Patent was addressed. This college was known as St. Mary’s College, and Erasmus himself, an Augustinian canon, lived there when at Oxford. The fact that the Augustinian houses each sent one or two of their own members as students to the university does not imply that they kept public grammar schools or did anything for general education.
[45]. Hist. MSS. Commission Report IX., Appendix.
[46]. Vol. i. p. 252, Rolls Series.
[47]. Dugdale’s History of St. Paul’s, ed. 1716, p. 9: “Which Henry had such great respect in those days that Henry de Bloys that famous Bishop of Winchester (who was nephew to the King) commanded that none should presume to teach school in London without his licence.”
[48]. History of Winchester College, by A. F. Leach (Duckworth & Co., 1899), pp. 37 and 330.
[49]. See my Early Yorkshire Schools, Yorkshire Archæological Society, 1899, pp. 24, 27, 30, 80 n., 87-8.
[50]. This is the title given in the Chartulary called Liber A. It is not on the original document.