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Rh talium emp. hoc anno xxxiiis iiiid. In uno alio libro voc. "Innocens cum duobus doctoribus," xiiis iiiid. In uno libro vocato "Magister Sententiarum," cum quaterno continenti "Speculum penitentiæ," xxiiis iiiid. In uno alio libro voc. "Soliloquium;" cum altero libello vocato "Dialogus," viis. In uno libro de sex verbis Dñi in cruce empt. vis xd. In uno missali empt. apud Seinte Cros Juxta Wynton, xxxs. In uno manuali empt. quod liberatur ad ecclesiam de Titteley, xis iiiid. In soluto pro scriptura quaternorum de libris moralium abbreviatis per magistrum Johannem Elmer, xxvis. In soluto pro scriptura quaternorum et dimidii unius libri vocati, "Angelicus super Joannem" abbreviati per dictum Mag. Joh. Elmer una cum pellibus vitulinis empt. ab eodem, xviis viid ob. In soluto pro notatione cujusdam manualis simul cum crucifixo in eodem faciendo, iiis.

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, lxviiis iiiid.

Et pro factura patibuli Crucifixi, et pro meremio empt. pro eodem, xxiis.

Et pro pictura imaginum et patibuli sive crucis prædictæ, iiiil xs iiiid.

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

Et pro una dome conducta ad conservandas dictas imagines post depictionem, xiid.

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, xiiiis iid.

Et pro cariagio prædictarum imaginum et crucis a London' usque Wynton, xvis iiiid.

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, xxs.

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