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talium emp. hoc anno xxxiii^s iiii^d. In uno alio libro voc. "Innocens cum duobus doctoribus," xiii^s iiii^d. In uno libro vocato "Magister Sententiarum," cum I quaterno continenti "Speculum penitentiæ,"^[1] xxiii^s iiii^d. In uno alio libro voc. "Soliloquium;"^[2] cum altero libello vocato "Dialogus," vii^s. In uno libro^[3] de sex verbis Dñi in cruce empt. vi^s x^d. In uno missali empt. apud Seinte Cros Juxta Wynton, xxx^s. In uno manuali empt. quod liberatur ad ecclesiam de Titteley, xi^s iiii^d. In soluto pro scriptura XIII quaternorum de libris moralium abbreviatis per magistrum Johannem Elmer, xxvi^s. In soluto pro scriptura VII quaternorum et dimidii unius libri vocati, "Angelicus super Joannem" abbreviati per dictum Mag. Joh. Elmer una cum XV pellibus vitulinis empt. ab eodem, xvii^s vii^d ob. In soluto pro notatione cujusdam manualis simul cum crucifixo in eodem faciendo, iii^s.

 

The next extracts which I shall give, relate to the costs incurred in providing materials for, and in the sculpture, painting, &c., of a set of images for the rood loft of the chapel, in the 3 & 4 Henry IV.

In soluto pro sculptura imaginum Crucifixi B. Mariæ et Sci Joannis una cum meremio empt. pro eisdem London,' quæ stare debent in Capella, lxviii^s iiii^d.

Et pro factura patibuli Crucifixi, et pro meremio empt. pro eodem, xxii^s.

Et pro pictura imaginum et patibuli sive crucis prædictæ, iiii^l x^s iiii^d.

Et pro portatione prædictarum imaginum et crucis ad manus artificum ad diversa loca London,' una cum expensis unius hominis—pro dictis operibus, vii^s.

Et pro una dome conducta ad conservandas dictas imagines post depictionem, xii^d.

Et in tribus cases factis de tabulis ad imponendas dictas imagines cum clavis pro eisdem empt. et pro panno lineo pro eisdem involvendis pro eorum (sic) indempnitate tempore cariagii, xiiii^s ii^d.

Et pro cariagio prædictarum imaginum et crucis a London' usque Wynton, xvi^s iiii^d.

Et in soluto Will'mo Ikenham pro factura trium bases ligneorum pro dicta cruce et prædictis imaginibus ponendis, una cum positione earundem super dictas bases, xx^s.

 

I shall confine the extracts from the Custus Capellæ to one or two items relating to a few matters required for the services; after noticing one which satisfactorily fixes the date of a portion of the buildings of the College, which, on very insufficient grounds, have sometimes been assigned to a later period, and other benefactors than the sole and munificent Founder of the two St. Mary Winton Colleges. It runs thus:—

18, 19 Ric. II.

In expensis suffraganei dñi Episcopi Wynton', existentis in Collegio cum

1. This may have been a tract written under this title by William de Monte, or Montibus, a native of Leicester, Professor of Theology at Oxford, and Canon and Chancellor of Lincoln, where he died, and was buried in the cathedral, Reg. Joh. He seems to have been a voluminous writer. A work of his called "Summa brevis," and another called "Summa numerorum," in twelve books in MS., were once in the Library of New College, Pitseus, p. 285.
2. Two treatises under these titles, once assigned to St. Augustine, were rejected as spurious by the Benedictine editors, and placed by them in the Appendix of the 6th Vol. of his Works.
3. Arnold Abbat of Bonneval, diocese of Chartres, wrote a tract under this title. Flourished A.D. 1162.—Cave. Hist. Lit.