[101]. For one term only. It had just been let on a new lease (jam affirmatur) to new proctors for £7 : 6 : 8 a year.
[102]. For one term only. It was let for £18 a year.
[103]. Let at £80 a year.
[104]. Let at £30 a year.
[105]. Part payment; full rent £13 : 6 : 8.
[106]. Historical MSS. Commission Report IX., Appendix, Canterbury, 105 b.
[107]. History of Winchester College, p. 193.
[108]. The earliest mention of the Michaelmas goose I have seen is in the “charge of St. Nicholas Hospital, Pontefract,” in 1432; but it was then ancient. The common story of its being derived from the fact that Queen Elizabeth was eating goose on Michaelmas Day when she heard the news of the Spanish Armada is manifest nonsense, as the Armada was destroyed during the first week in August.
[109]. English Schools at the Reformation, by A. F. Leach (Constable & Co., 1896), pt. ii. p. 8.
[110]. Stow, ed. 1598, p. 55.