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lOO The Librmy. Additions. Acts. The Public General Acts passed in the lOth Year of King VII. and the 1st Year of King George V. 8vo. Lond. 1911. Aristophanes. The Acharnians. With Introduction, English Translation, critical Notes and Commentary by W. J. M. 8vo. Lond. 1909. 7.20.10. -- The Wasps. With Introduction, metrical Analysis, critical and Commentary by W. J. M. Starkie. 8vo. Lond. 1897. 7.24. Cambridge History of English Literature. Edited by A. W. Ward A. R. Wailer. Vol. VII. Cavalier and PLJritan. 8vo. Camb. 1911 4.27.7. Ltnt Chancer Society. The Romaunt of the Rose. A Reprint of the Tenn, I9I2. printed Edition by William Thynne. 1532. Eclited by F. J. FLu·nivall. 8vo. Lond. 1911 (for issue ofA.D. 1890). Catalogue general de la Libraire Franvaise. Tome XXI. (1906-1 Fasc. 2. Chamard-Hyverl. 8vo. Paris, 1911. �OTES FROM THE COLLEGE RECORDS. Dictionary (New English) on historical Principles. Edited by Sir J. A. H Murray. Team-Tezkere. 4to. Oxford, 1911. 12.2. Early English Text Society. Lydgate's Siege of Thebes. Edited, xxxii, 274). Introduction, Notes and a Glossary, by Axe! Erclmann. Part I. (Continued from Vol. p. Text. 8vo. Loncl. 1911. 4.6.84. -- Erthe upon Erthe. Edited by Hilcla M. R. MmTay. 8vo. HE memory of John Williams, Archbishop of 1911. 4.5. York. Bishop of Lincoln, Dean of West Egypt Exploration Fund. minster and Lord Keeper to King James I, Papyri. Part VIII. Edited, with Translation and Notes, by A. D Hunt. 4to. Lond. 1911. 15.11. is kept alive in the College by means of our Grassmann (H.). Gesammelte mathematische und physikalische Band Ill. Teil ii. Grassmanns Leben geschilclert von F. Library and his portrait in the Hall. 8vo. Leipzig, 1911. 3.48.77. In what follows some documents will be given which Halsbury (Earl of). The Laws of England. Vol. XVII. 8vo. 1911. 14.3.17. bear upon another benefaction of his. Historical MSS. Commission. Report on the MSS. of Lord The Bishop founded two Fellowships and four preserved at Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire. 8vo. Heref Macray (W. D.). A Register of the Members of St. Mary Scholarships in the College and gave to it the advow College, Oxford, from the Foundation of the College. New sons Vol. \"Il. Fellows: 1882-1910. 8vo. Lone!. 1911. 5.27.53. of four livings, Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, Rolls Series. Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry Ill., preserved in Soulderne in Oxfordshire and the sinecure Rectories Public Record Office. 1237-1242. 8vo. Loncl. 1911. 15.9. of Suess La Face de laA.D. Terre. Tome III. 2e Partie. 8vo. St Florence in Pembrokeshire and Aberdaron in 1911.(Eel.). Carnarvonshire. Tatham (G. B.). Dr. John Walker and the Sufferings of the Clergy (Prince Consort Prize, 1910). 8vo. Camb. 1911. 1.8. The Statutes of this foundation are here printed in Thesaurus Linguae Lalinae. Vol. Ill. Fasc. viii. (colo-commodo). full for the first time. From the point of view of his Lipsiae, 1911. 12.1. day the foundation was a complete one. He had founded four Scholarships at Westminster School, Where his scholars wore a special violet coloured gown a nd were known as "Bishop's Boys." To the Scholar shi ps at St John's and at Westminster the same Pteferences are attached. Two were to come from :" elsh counties, two from the diocese of Lincoln, and default of such, preference was to be given to those Jn the of Westminster. Williams' Welsh born in Liberties VOL. XXXIII. I Notes ;ram the College Records. 103 102 N ales jr o111 the College Records. o had just. proved hi mself so generous a donor origin and his preferments as Bishop of e wh di ng nearly all the cost of building the Library. Dean of Westminster point to the reasons for � provi � r view is that Wi lliams induced the College to One of his Fellows was to be a Welshman and othe �he he gift, and the burden, by hinting or promising were to have preferenti al ri ghts to the benefices of accept t er endowments were to follow. To an almost gif . Thus it was possible that a man might owe ]1at furth clerical Society the gi ft of the four benefices wholet career to the Bishop. Hi s school education vhOllY � ontingent hopes of succession must have proved provided, thence he passed to a scholarship at with c tion, at least it was accepted subject to the John's ; when his time came he had the chance tempta a rules for its government: becoming a Fellow and later, if a vacancy occurred, f l lowi ng o could take one of the Rectories and so be settled Certaine Ordinances and Statutes touching life. As a matter of fact it does not appear the election and promotion of two ffellowesand anyone succeeded in accomplishing all this. Inde Schollers founded in the Colledge of St J obn the complete scheme did not last long, the endowm the Evangelist in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, provided at St John's being qui te inadequate for t By the right honorable and right reuerend purpose. For the maintenance of his four scholars ffather in God, John, Lord Bishop of Lincolne, Westminster Williams provided an en dowment Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England, £76 os. For the maintenance of two Fellows an according to the licence and poure giuen to Rd. four Scholars at St John's he at first provided £55 him, the said Lord Bishop by His Majesty's year, to which £7 was added later, or a total of£ 62 Letters Patentes elated the xxxth clay of year. The Fellows and Scholars were to receive December in the yeare of the reigne of our sa me emoluments as those of the Foundress' founda Souereigne Lord, James, by the Grace of God of England, ffraunce and Ireland &c the xxjth a total charge which we shall see was estimated and of Scotland the Lvlj'th. £ a year. In some of the letters which constant112 reference is made to the College " Imprimis : That. the 4 Schollers of this £foundation, part." This was a provision introduced by Bi s vpon1. the auoyclance and vacancy of them or any of them Fi sher in the early Statutes of the College and be foreuer chosen out of the Grammar Schole of Westminster tinued in those of Queen Eliz abeth. Donors of those ffower Scholers of his Lordship's foundation welcome to add to the Society ei ther by th e endo outthere , and residing in the said Schole at the tyme of their of Scholarships or Fellowships, but it was pr election. And that two of those fower Scholers aforesayecl s that of the income of any such new fo undation halbe borne within some of the Countries of Wales, and the other fourth part was to go to the general revenues of two in the clioces of Lincolne. And for want of such to be fo College, the remaining three quarters supporting und in the said Schole soe borne as is aforesaid, then �he vacan new foundation. Wi lliams having been a Fellow t places to be supplyed for that tyme onclie of such � shaibe borne within the liberties of Westniinster, being the College must have been aware of this rule and s ; c h ol ers of the income of a Fellowship or Scholarship . How . the said Schole of Westminster of the ffounda- aforesayde at the time of the saide Election. And this College came to accept the gi ft is not quite clear. 1�0111e cr on o t to be foreuer made at or about the ffeast of the what follows two suggestions seem to be thrown "-attui . N . rte o f St John Bapbst by the Deane of Wesbmnster One that the College did not like to refu se the gi ft • Notes j1 ·om the College Ru:ords. 104 Notes from the College Records. 105 for the time being with the Schole Master of the f{ellowes of this foundation shall not preiudice anie 1 b · · Common Grammar Schole and one of the ffellowes :�ne person or persons orne t I 1e a f oresa1"d e C ount nes ermentes in the said111 to Lordships ffoundation in St John's to be appointed theran y pref Colledge accordinge 0f speciall dispensation in that behalfe obtained from his by the Master of the S1,lid Colledge, as occasion shall 0 And the said ffellow soe nominated and appointed by �ajestie and in a licence of Mortmaine bearing date the said Master to receiue towardes the charges of his iou daie of December in the one and twentith yeare of y's raigne over England, ffrance and Ireland and toties quoties, of the Tresurer of the Church of Westmi h3oist hJ\ Iajest the seauen and fiftith in these wordes, videlicet: 20s. and to receiue nothing of the Colledge of St J oh ouer Scotland insuper ac per presentes pro Nobis haeredibus et in that respect. And also, That the said Scholers and mus of them soe elected shall and maie after theire election Vsuccessoribusolu nosh·is concedimus tam praefato Episcopo et any the said vacant roomes or places continue still at haeredibus suis, quam praefato Magistro, Socijs et Scholaribus predicti et Successoribus suis, quod Socij et Scholares minster Schole vntill the vigil or Eue of St Michael Co!legij m Episcopum vt praefertur Stabiliendi de tempore Archangell next following their Election, or shall and predictu inpe r tempus et ad omnia tempera imposterum in numerum at their owne free choice presentlie vpon their Sociorum et Scholarium dicti Collegij eligentur nominabuntur come and be admitted into the said Colleclge ancl liue th constituentur de talibus comitatibus et locis infra hoc Reg at the onelie costes and charges of their ffreindes vntill et num nostrum Angliae et dominium Walliae vnde et ex quibus vigil or Eue of Saint Michael aforesaid, or at the furthest per ipsum Episcopum in hac parte ordinabitur et expediens next claie after the election of Schollers in the saide fore videbitur Statuto dicti Collegij vulgariter nuncupato And vpon the saide day to be allwaies admitted into the Statuto Comitatuum aut aliquo alio Statuto seu ordinatione roomes or places void, and from thence forth to be had dicti Collegij non obstante, cum quibus et e01·um quolibet taken to be reall and actuall Schollers of this said (quatenus alicui seu aliquibus in hijs litteris nostris patenti and to enioy the severall Chamber-roomes erected by repugnant in aliquo siue contraria sint) pro Lordship for the said Schollers, as also all allowances, Nobisbus contentis haeredibus et successuribus nosh·is ex Praerogatiua mentes and priuileclges as other then actuall Schollers regia et plenitudine potestatis nostrae ad omnem iuris the ffoundresse doe.