^{page 201 note a} These statutes are derived from (I.) a collection of the statutes of the church, written in Elizabethan hand, and, from the fact of their containing the Elizabethan statutes, put together no doubt when the Elizabethan statutes were made, viz. 1585. (II.) The White Book. Some of the statutes occur both in the collected statutes and in the White Book, some only in the former, some only in the latter. Where the version in the White Book and the collected statutes differs, I have adhered to the White Book. Dickinson printed the collected statutes, but with so many had mistakes that I thought it well to print them again, especially as he omitted preambles and conclusions.

^{page 201 note b} Walter Gray, as appear from other deeds relating to this transaction, dated in 1221 (see Introduction p. xxxvi.). It is obvious that this is a deed, not a statute at all, but I have included it because it was included in the Elizabethan collection as a statute. It is given in the White Book, p 42, where it is headed “Litera Walteri Archiepiscopi de Ecclesia de Rolleston.” No doubt, like some imperial statutes which were not in form strictly statutes, it was held to operate as such.

^{page 201 note c} The whole of the document from here to the end is omitted by Dickinson, and also in the Elizabethan collection, with the result that this deed and the statute which follows have been dated fifty years later than their real date, because they were attributed to Walter Giffard, 1274, instead of Walter Gray. The names of the witnesses settle the date, William of Kotherfield was treasurer of York in 1221. Richard of Cornwall became chancellor of York in 1225. The date is between those two, and probably in the earlier year, which is also the date of the earliest extant statutes of York, by which a claim of William the Treasurer to a double share of commons was settled.

^{page 202 note a} The charter of Edgar the Prior, and the convent of Thurgartor, stating that they were bound to pay two stone of wax annually to the church of S. Mary of Southwell for ever, one at Christmas, one at Ladyday, is set out in the White Book, p. 58. It is witnessed by the Abbots of Rucford, i.e. Rufford, and Welbeck, and the Priors of Lenton and Shelford.

The charter of the Chapter of Southwell granting to the church of St. Peter of Thurgarton, and the canons there serving God, all the tithes of garbs, i. e. wheat, of Fiskarton, freedom from tithes in Fiskarton, and of tithes of hay, mills, pannage, and fisheries in the same manner, and 8s. from tithes of Rolleston Mill, is set out at p. 143 in the chartulary of Thurgarton Priory. This is now in Southwell Minster library, having been given to the chapter by Cecil Cooper, great-great-grandson of Thomas Cooper, to whom the greater part of the priory lands were granted by Henry VIII.

^{page 202 note b} This is the heading in the White Book, p. 44. It is, however, a fully formal statute of the church, the archbishop enacting with the consent of the chapter, and sealed with the seals of both.

^{page 203 note a} Sic. I cannot construe it.

^{page 203 note b} Dickinson, mistaking Walter Gray for Walter Giffard has dated it 1274. Gray was Archbishop 1216–1256, Giffard 1266–1279.

^{page 203 note c} White Book, p. 45. This is an interleaved insertion in a later (Henry VI.) hand than the statute of John, which was written circa 1335. I have put it, out of date, here, as it is simply an interpretation of the statute of 1225.

^{page 204 note a} The hearers are the tanght, the students; the readers are the teachers.

^{page 205 note a} These are not in the White Book.

^{page 205 note b} This is a useful entry. It irresistibly suggests that the existing Southwell Grammar School was existing at least in 1248; if there were grammar schools even in its small dependent townships, which formed the prebends. The custom of York was that the Chancellor should present, and the Master should be an M.A., and hold for three years, with power of extension for a fourth year.

^{page 206 note a} The York Statutes were made in 1252, directing the Vicars to elect a similar officer, who is called Camerarius or Custos Vicariorum.

^{page 206 note b} It shows the antiquity of the Vicars Choral, that they are even thus early spoken of as a “brotherhood” as in the latest pre-Reformation wills.

^{page 207 note a} See item of inquiry at Visitation of 1478, p. 39 supra.

^{page 207 note b} This is the statute to which reference is made at p. 5 supra and elsewhereas “the statute which begins ‘ceterum.’”

^{page 210 note a} W. B. p. 52, headed “Statutum Johannis Archiepiscopi.”

^{page 211 note a} At York by Statutes of Dean and Chapter, A.D. 1291, their stipend was only 40s. a year.

^{page 212 note a} Not in White Book.

^{page 212 note b} Similar Statute at York 1294.

^{page 212 note c} Similar Statute at York among ancient Statutes of uncertain date, but later than 1256.

^{page 212 note d} W. B. p. 51. This is not in Elizabethan collection.

^{page 215 note a} Semen, or some such word, omitted.

^{page 215 note b} Not in White Book.

^{page 216 note a} This was the rule at Oxford in the University Library, and the security which took the form of cups, garments, &c. was often sold.

^{page 216 note b} Not in White Book.

^{page 216 note c} A similar Statute at York in 1291 was confirmed in 1325.

^{page 216 note d} Hence poor Gurnell's sentence, pp. 1–4 supra.