THE second part of ‘Grace Book B’ continues the annual accounts of the proctors for the years 1511—1544. As has been explained in the preface to the first part, the present volume includes only one section of the proctors' record, the other section, containing the graces, being included in ‘Grace Book Γ.’ The accounts are accompanied by tables of degrees for each year except 1542–3; for that year Grace Book B gives the accounts only, without the degrees. The severance of the graces from the accounts is also not perfectly methodical. A few graces, for which no payment was made, continue to be entered in an irregular way on the pages of Grace Book B (see for instance, pp. 118, 139, 140).

The entries are in several hands, and the arrangement of the volume is far from systematic; expenses and receipts, cautions, tables of degrees, accounts of particular benefactions, are grouped together, but in no regular order. The tables of degrees are confusedly arranged, the titles of the several groups are varied, the headings are in some cases omitted altogether, and the lists are broken up to suit the exigencies of space, so that it is difficult in some cases to determine under what title each list should come. Sometimes the order of seniority is followed in the lists of B.A.'s and M.A.'s, sometimes it is neglected (pp. 104, 163).