University College, 1253-80[42] Balliol Coll., betw. 1263 & 1268 Merton College, founded at Maldon, in Surrey, in 1264, removed to Oxford in 1274 Exeter College 1314 Oriel „ 1326 The Queen’s College 1340 New „ 1386 Lincoln „ 1427 All Souls „ 1437 Magdalen „ 1458 The King’s Hall and } College of Brasenose } 1509 Corpus Christi College 1516 Christ Church „ 1526 Trinity College 1554 St John’s „ 1555 Jesus „ 1571 Wadham „ 1613 Pembroke „ 1624 Worcester „ 1714 HALLS St Edmund Hall 1317 St Mary’s „ 1333 New Inn „ 1438 Magdalen „ 1487 St Alban „ after 1547 [Headnote: UNDERGRADUATE’S EXPENSES AT OXFORD, 1478.] ‘The Paston Letters’ do not give us much information about studies or life at Oxford, but they do give us material for estimating the cost of a student there (ii. 124[43]); they show us the tutor reporting to a mother her son’s progress in learning (ii. 130), and note the custom of a man, when made bachelor, giving a feast: “I was made bachelor ... on Friday was se’nnight (18 June, 1479), and I made my feast on the Monday after (21 June). I was promised venison against my feast, of my Lady Harcourt, and of another person too, but I was deceived of both; but my guests held them pleased with such meat as they had, blessed be God.” The letter as to the costs is dated May 19, 1478. “I marvel sore that you sent me no word of the letter which I sent to you by Master William Brown at Easter. I sent you word that time that I should send you mine expenses particularly; but as at this time the bearer hereof had a letter suddenly that he should come home, & therefore I could have no leisure to send them to you on that wise, & therefore I shall write to you in this letter the whole sum of my expenses since I was with you till Easter last past, and also the receipts, reckoning the twenty shillings that I had of you to Oxon wards, with the bishop’s finding:-- £ s. d. The whole sum of receipts is 5 17 6 And the whole sum of expenses is 6 5 5¾ And that [= what] cometh over my receipts & my expenses I have borrowed of Master Edmund, & it draweth to 8 0 and yet I reckon none expenses since Easter; but as for them, they be not great.” On this account Fenn says,