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REQUENT reference has been made in these Notes to the fact that the general Register of all me mbers of the College does not com­ mence until the year 1630. The College Order establishing the Register is as fo llows : . '' 1629-30, Ja nuary 21 : Ordered by the Master and Seniors, That the register of the College should have a booke provided hi m wherein he shou ld from time to time write and register the names, paren ts, coun ty, school, age and tu tor of every on e to be ad mitted into the Co llege, before their enrolling into the bu ttry tables, and shall receive for each of them, for hi s pains as the he ad lecturer and deans do, for their admission. '' In accordance with this the Register of Ad missions was starte d, the first name recorded on 30 January, 1629-3 0, being that of Matthew Whynne, "et solvit pro ingressu 6d." He was afterwards Registrary of the University. This Register, kept with vary in g care and attention to detail has been co ntinued down to the present time. The Statutes of Henry VIII, dated 1545, p rescribed that a Regi::;te r should be kept of all VOL. XXXVI. K 118 Notes from the College Records. Notes jrom lite College Records 119 adm issions to fe llowsh ips, ot scholarships, to College year 1558 (which corresponds to the civil year 1559 in offices an d lectureships. This commences at Michael· our computation) we have the fo llowing entries: mas , 15 +5· an d has likewise been cont inued to the Of Mr Doddington fo r the ad mission of Mr present day. The first volume of this latter Register Denis Jhons into the fe lowes Commons IJS. 4d. (154s-r6r2) contains occasional entries of Fe llow Com­ mo ners, pensioners, an d sizars, but these entries are not Of Mr Coortesse fo r thadmission of Mr Higforthe regularly made and are probably due to some careful and Mr Hennyage into the fe lowes Commons Registrar. On the other hand a comparison of the list 26s. 8d. of officers and le cturers with the Accounts recording Of Mr Wiborne for thadmission of Mr Stafforde the payment of their stipends shews th at a greate r into the felowes Commons I JS. 4-d. check was kept on the Burs ar th an on the Registrar. The first name in each case is no doubt that of th e With these exceptions we have to depend on other College Tutor who paid the fe e fo r his pu pil. Tu rn ing sources fo r th e names of th ose who were members of to the Un iversity Matriculation Register, the the College prior to r63o. The recent publication by name of Denis Jo nes does not appear; John Hickforthe Dr Jo hn Venn of all the University "Matriculat ion s matriculated r6 November 1559 and Ed ward Stafford and Degrees " from 1544 to 1659 has supplied the ro November 1559, both as Fellow Commoners. Mr names of an immense number of members of the Hennyage is perhaps the Mi ch ael He nyage (Henydge College of whose entry we have no collegiate record . or Hemn adge) who matriculated as a pensioner 27 May On the other hand this list is not complete, many of 1559, was B.A. 1562-3, M.A. 1566, having been ad­ whom we have definite evidence of membership of the mitted a Fellow 31 March 1563. Turning ta other College, Fe ll ow Commoners, even Scholars, did not sources of information we find that Edward Stafford , mat riculate or graduate, an d human fr ai lty was ·no second son of Henry, late Lord Staffo rd , of Stafford more ab sent from the University Registry th an from Castle, eo. Stafford , was ad mitted to the Midd le Temple the College. 10 March 1564-5, and th at Ed ward, Lord Stafford , was In what follows some letters are given with regard created an M.A. at Oxford 6 September 1566. It is not to the entry of members of the College, and the certain th at th is is the Johnian, but it was not un­ evidence th at they did so considered. Let us consider common at th at time fo r a man to sp end a year or two some indirect means of arriving at the facts. at each of the Universities and al so at an In n of Court. On 2 r May 1569 William Fu lke, the President, and The last Fellow Commoner who paid IJS. 4d. fo r his the Seniors made an order that "every pensioner to be admission was a certain 'Mr Burde' in the year 1568, ad mitted into Fellows Commons " (i .e. a Fellow Com­ who does not ap pear to have matriculated either as moner) "shall give fo r his admission a silver pott or Bi rd, By rd , or Burd. A certain Ed munde Burde, late goblet, in weight ten ounces.'' Prior to this it would of New In n, gent., second son of Philip Burd, of :;eem from the College Accounts that a Fellow Com­ Dextden, eo. Es sex, esquire , was ad mitted to the mo ner paid 13s. 4d. to the College on his ad mi:;sion. Middle Temple ro October rs8o , which may be the These payments come in the accounts an d serve to man . preserve the names. The entries are made under the If a list of the early College plat e had be en pre­ ge neral heading Rccej;ta Forz'nseca. For example in the served ·we should, after 1569, have had the names of 1 20 Noies Jrom the College Records Notes jro111 the Coll,ge Records. 121 the Fellow Commoners recorded in that way, bu t if Here ag ain is an entry of another kind : " r 63 7. such a list were ever made it has not co me do wn to us. Two litle old Colledge potts be in g chan ged at London In the year 1573-4 th e College buil t a Tennis Co urt, fo r one great new pott (viz. the pott of Robert an d the site of which is now occupied by the North side He nry Mord aunt and the pott of Ambrose Gilberd) of the Second Court; when that Court was bu ilt a new there was due from the goldsmith in exchan ge .. 6s." Tennis Co urt was erected, the site be ing on the West Henry and Robert Mordent matriculated in the side of the River be tw een the old bridge and the Univers ity from St John' s in the Michaelmas Term present New Court. For the use of this, Fellows of of I 6o8; they did not pay fo r the Tenn is Court. An the College paid 3s. 4d. and Fellow Commoners ss. Ambrose Gilbert matriculated as a pensioner in the The re does not seem to be any form al order of the Michaelmas Term of r6Io, while a Mr Gilbert paid ss. College for these payments, they simply ap pear under fo r the Tennis Court in r6I3 . the he ad ing Rccepta Forz?zseca. The payment does no t Thus it would ap pear that from the College accounts se em to have be en an an nual subscrip tion, bu t, as it we can recover the names of ce rtain Fellow Commoners, were, an entrance fe e. Fellows paid on ad mission, a some of whom appear in the University lists. On the fr equent entry be ing "For the te nnis co urt of the ne w othe r hand, if we find the names of certai n persons in fe llows," the names being set out. Ap parently all the accounts it is good evidence that they were members Fellows paid , bu t there are many ins tances of Fellow of the College, whethe r they appear in the University Commoners who did no t pay. Here then is a source lists ·o r not. of inform ation of an ind irect kind , similar in its way to th e use we make of bap tismal registers, which serve The first group of lette rs which follow rel ate to the to ind icate the parentage, pl ace of birth and ap J;roxim ate entry of Al gernonPercy, LordPe rcy, eldest son of Henry, age of a man.