[76] “I have given to God, the Blessed Virgin, blessed John Baptist, and to the House of the Scholars of Merton“: these words occur in the same deed with those in the text. _Harl. Add. MSS. 5832. ff. 74, 75._ The gift includes a stone house in the town: _Dedi etiam et concessi prefatae domui ... domum illam lapideam in Cauntebrigg. cum gardino et curia adjacente_.... Three deeds relating to the same transaction are dated _mense Martii_ 54th of Hen. III. In _Rot. Hund._ 7th Edw. I. p. 366, a certain John gives a quit rent to the scholars of Merton for 18 acres of this property. [77] The priory of S. Frideswide granted him land in 1265, and he obtained much more two years later. [78] The wording provides for the existing or any other _ordinatio_ Merton may formulate. [79] “_Domus scolarium de Merton._” _Burg. Cantebr. Rot. Hund._ i. 55. [80] _Rot. Hund._ ii. 360. [81] The “Merton clerks,” _clerici de Merton_, are mentioned again in the next paragraph. At the same date a certain Johanna declares that she had as a marriage portion from her father a messuage given him by Cecil at the Castle, for which is paid a quit rent of twelve pence a year to “the scholars of Merton.” _Rot. Hund._ ii. 379. In the Hundred of Chesterton (p. 402) we find that “the scholars of Merton hold of the fee of Hervey Dunning” such and such properties. They also paid a quit rent to Edmund Crouchback for lands he held (on the death of de Montfort) as earl of Leicester. [82] _Rot. Hund._ ii. 364, 407. [83] The general rule in these Rolls is to add no qualification of origin in cases where the owner, or religious house, has another habitation in the locality to which the transaction refers. Hence we find “the prior of Anglesey,” “the prioress of Stratford,” side by side with “the scholars of Merton” in the Cambridge Hundred Rolls (cf. _Rot. Hund._ ii. 364). [84] Grantchester (7th Edw. I. p. 565): _et tota dicta pars alienata est scolaribus Oxon’ per dominum Walter’ de Merton’, nescit quo warranto_. Gamlingay: “William of Leicester sold the whole of that holding to _dominus_ Walter de Merton and the said Walter _gave it all to the scholars_ of the _domus de Merton Oxonie_.” [85] “Villani ejusd’ Gunnor’ dicunt quod _prior de Mertone_” held the advowson of the church of Barton. (_Rot. Hund._ ii. 564.)