Collectanea. First series / edited by C.R.L. Fletcher.

Date:
1885
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    over all Doctors, Masters, and scholars, religious and lay, and also over all rectors, vicars, and chaplains within the Uni- versity, unless they held cures in Oxford, in which case they were subjected to the ordinary jurisdiction of the Archdeacon. Other clauses were added, providing for the method of procedure in cases in which the two jurisdictions overlapped, ensuring that no more processes should be begun before the Curia; that the Archdeacon should procure the Pope’s recognition of the agreement, which though in substance intended to be permanent, might yet be modified in detail as necessity should require. It may be added that Cardinal de Mota1 died in 1357. VIII. John de Stratford was translated from Winchester to Can- terbury in November, 1333. This letter must be ascribed to a date not later than that. The reference to the ‘ varias et graves vexationes burgensium Oxonie ’ is interesting, as con- firming the plea of the Stamford Schismatics that the internal disorder of the University rendered study difficult, if not impossible. Henry de Harcla was Chancellor from 1313 to 1316. The University to J., Bishop of Winchester. (Royal MS. 12. D. xi. fol. 25. B. M.) Autumn, 1333. The University is distressed by the expenses of their long suit at the Curia. The bishop is reminded of a debt of n| marks. Reverendo in Christo patri ac domino domino J. Dei gratia Wynt’ episcopo. Sui supplices et devoti Cancellarius Universitatis Oxon’ Cetusque magistrorum ejusdem unanimis Cum recommendacione sui status humilima reverenciam et honorem debitos tanti patri. Innatus amor prolis novissime materne jacture dissimulacionem non sustinet quin pro oportuno remedio quod etas infirmior adhibere non sufficit fratres suos natu majores saltern lacrimis interpellet ut memores instar ius uberum matris sue que in tenera etate suxerunt matrem consolentur infirmam et revelent pro viribus inopia pregravatam. Nos igitur Universitatis Oxon’ matris nostre indicole ejusdem langores et gemitus Ciaconii, Vitae Pontificum et Cardinalium, Rome, 1677, vol. ii, p. nj,