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 1921 IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM 419 four houses for the order and to receive two or three houses of conventuals under stricter rule in Scotland. Pius. Bulla ; string. 1 menta Franciscana, ii. (1882) 264 f.; W. M. Bryce, The Scottish Grey Friars, 1909, ii. 276 (text), i. 58 (translation).] Add. Ch. 1247. Sixtus IV (1471-84) 233. Rome, Sta. Maria Maggiore, 28 May 1473. Provision of Augustinus de Collis to a perpetual benefice or primissaria at the altar of St. John in the parish church of Hainsfahrt, 2 diocese Eichstatt, vacant by the death of Georg Jaghafft ; Roland de Carenis, to whom provision was first made, having resigned it. Sixtus. Holes (2) for threads of bulla. ' Grata deuotionis et Add. Ch. 12789. 234. Rome, St. Peter's, 24 May 1476. Commission and definition of powers to abbot of Abingdon as papal nuncio to England to preach and publish indulgence of year of jubilee. Sixtus. Holes (2) for threads of bulla. * Cum nos nuper Stowe Ch. 580. 235. Rome,- St. Peter's, 20 April 1479. Dispensation to Thomas Hay- warde, perpetual vicar of Ivinghoe, to hold also two other benefices. Sixtus. Bulla ; silk. ' Uite ac morum '. Stowe Ch. 581. 236. Rome, St. Peter's, 3 November 1480. Licence, at the request of Edward IV of England, for his nephew Edward Pool [Edward de la Pole, fourth son of second duke of Suffolk] to be elected, on attain- ing the age of twelve, to any see which may fall vacant. First line. Adfuturam rei memoriam. Holes (2, repaired) for threads of bulla- ' Decet interdum Romanum '. Add. Ch. 13989. (To be continued.) The Beginning of Cambridge University It is generally agreed that the first mention of a chancellor of Cambridge is in 3 May 1231, in certain writs of the king to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire and the bishop of Ely, in which the chancellor and masters of the university appear as in control of the university. 3 But there is evidence that a chancellor was in existence five years earlier. In the bursary of New College, 1 The bulla, unlike all others in the collection, is attached by means of slits at the top of the letter, under a narrow flap. There seems no reason for supposing that this was not the original method of fastening. a In the bull ' Haiussurt ' (not, apparently, Hainssurt), but the scribes of the papal chancery were not pedantically accurate about foreign names. Hainsfahrt has a church dedicated to SS. Andrew and John (J. K. Bundschuh, Geogr.-Stat.-Topogr. Lexikon von Franken, 1799, &c, s.v.), which was confirmed to the chapter of Eichstatt by Honorius III (Kon. Bayer. Ak. d. Wiss., Monumenta Boka, Neue Folge, III. Bd., 1910, p. 69). Medieval spellings of the name are Hermsfurte, Heimesvur, Heimesvurt, Haimsfurth (Mon. Bo., index). 3 Annals of Cambridge, ed. Cooper (i. 41). Ee2
 * Intelleximus te nuper '. [J. S. Brewer and K. Howlett, Monu-