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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2011
To talk of St. Paul's School before Colet will to most people seem pure absurdity. Even those who know there was such a school think that it was only a poor sort of choir-boys' school, and would be inclined to apply to it, mutatis mutandis, the famous Scotch bull on the roads in the Highlands:
If you'd seen these roads before they were made,
You'd hold up your hands and bless General Wade.
page 197 note 1 Brit. Mus. Harl. MS. 1080.
page 211 note 1 Marginal heading at the top of the page.
page 211 note 2 Liber A, called pilosus from its hairy deerskin cover, is a cartulary copied from the original documents in 1241.
page 211 note 3 Marginal heading.
page 211 note 4 Wrongly quod in Knight's copy.
page 211 note 5 Lib. A has “Ylingis” (Ealing).
page 211 note 6 Lib. A has Madeleya.
page 212 note 1 Lib. A has et aliis for the other names, and omits Valete. The seal, with figure of the bishop with crozier in the left hand, is attached by parchment thongs.
page 212 note 2 post trinam vocacionem (Lib. A).
page 212 note 3 anathematis (Lib. A).
page 212 note 4 presumpserint (Lib. A).
page 212 note 5 The spelling is given as in that edition, not as in the original.
page 212 note 6 Videlicet, sedes episcopalis ecclesia S. Pauli, ecclesia S. Trinitatis, et ecclesia Martini, S., printed in Munimenta Gildhall. Lib. Custumarum, ii. 5Google Scholar. The second is a mistake; it was St. Mary-le-Bow.
page 213 note 1 This should be collectantes, as printed in Pegg's edition, i.e. as they do at collections.
page 213 note 2 The date is fixed by the first witnesses being “Radulphus Decanus, Ricardus de Belmeis”. Ralph of Langford occurs as dean in 1142, and Richard was Archdeacon of Middlesex in or about 1138. Le Neve's, Fasti, ii. 307, 325Google Scholar. Magister Henricus, i. e. Schoolmaster Henry, also appears as a witness, next after Robertus de Auco.
page 214 note 1 Fitz Neal, 1189–1209.
page 214 note 2 After 1197 to 1215.
page 215 note 1 The almonry, or hospital for the poor, was established during Ralph de Diceto's deanery by a grant of Master Henry of Northampton, the chapter annexing to it the doles of bread and pennies which, according to the ancient institution of the church, they gave in alms to the poor. The rectory of St. Pancras was also given as endowment.
page 216 note 1 Henry of Cornhill became dean in 1241. The customs of H. of Cornhill are said to be “nondum approbatis”, probably because time had not yet run, viz. 60 years.
page 218 note 1 dyalecticie.
page 219 note 1 Abstract in Hist. MSS. Commn. Rep. IX. Appx. 52.
page 219 note 2 Abstract in Hist. MSS. Commn. Rep. IX. Appx. 53.
page 219 note 3 Cloister and chapter-house built 1332.
page 220 note 1 continuo.
page 221 note 1 subscribetur, Hackett.
page 221 note 2 ex tunc, Hackett.
page 221 note 3 Omitted by Hackett.
page 226 note 1 Ive was, in 1463, Master of Whittington College. In 1458 he had been assigned by William Say, Dean of St. Paul's, to preach before King Henry VI. He “had been at Winchester in Wycham his College”, as informator or head master from 1444 to 1454.
page 226 note 2 Dr. Ive.
page 226 note 3 MR. GAIRDNER'S NOTE: “The Cathedral School of St. Paul, not the present St. Paul's School, which was founded at a later date by Dean Colet and dedicated to the Child Jesus.” [This is, of course, a twofold error. The school mentioned was the Theological School on the south side of the church, not the Cathedral School properly speaking, i. e. the Grammar School, which was at the east end of the churchyard, a few yards north of which Colet built the new school, taking over the old school as part of its endowment.]
page 227 note 1 Here and throughout “th” is printed for the thorn used in the original.
page 238 note 1 Sic.
page 238 note 2 Sic.
