[293] It is interesting to note here that the maintenance of a monopoly was insisted upon by civic authorities no less than by ecclesiastical persons. [294] _Chapter Act Book, Lincoln_, 1406-7. _V. C. H., Lincs._, II., 426. [295] _Hist. Warwick School_, p. 66. [296] _Linc. Chapter Act Bk._, A. 2. f. 2; _Ed. Ch._, p. 237. [297] _Reg. John Whethamstede_, II., 305. [298] _Hist. Mon. Glouc._, III., 290. [299] See _Rites of Durham_, (Surtees Society) p. 81. [300] _Abingdon Obedientaries Accounts_, 1375-6; Camden Soc. [301] _Roger Prior's Reg._, V., 261 b. [302] Statutes of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds. B. M. Harl. MSS. 1005, fol. 95.b., Trans., _V. C. H. Suffolk._ II., 307. For other instances of appointments of schoolmasters by abbots, see _Gesta Abbatum Mon. S. Albani_, (R. S.) I., p. 72. _V. C. H. Lincs._, II., 450. [303] _B. M. Landsdowne MS._, 375: _Ed. Ch._, 299. _Westminster Abbey Obedientaries Accounts_, reprinted _Ed. Ch._, pp. 306-315. [304] Cf. _Statutes of the Church of York_, p. 6. [305] _Yorkshire Schools_, I., p. 18 from Acta Capituli, G., c. ii. 70. [306] _Beverley Chapter Act Bk._, I., pp. 157, 382; _Mem. Southwell Minster_, p. 29. The function of the dean and chapter was not simply formal. _Mem. Southwell Minster_, p. 125. [307] The appointment of a master of song at a monastery was made by the prior. Cf. Roger Prior's _Reg._ V., 261 b. [308] _Statutes of the Ch. of York_, p. 5. [309] _Lambeth MSS. Reg. Peckham_, f. 38 a., _Ed. Ch._, p. 233. [310] _Lambeth MSS. Reg. Winchelsea_, f. 300. b., _Ed. Ch._, p. 239. Scholastic patronage in monastic cathedral dioceses was subject to episcopal review. _Worc. Epis. Reg. Silvester_, fol. 202. [311] _Newcourt, Report_ II., 86, 87, 88. [312] _Linc. Chapter Act Bk._, pp. 2, 24. [313] See p. 61. [314] See Chap. IV. [315] The chancellor of a diocese exercised a considerable amount of scholastic patronage. [316] _Memorials of Southwell Minster_, XII.-XLII., 52. [317] _Registrum Brevium_, fol. 35. The power of patronage to a school could apparently be delegated. Thus the Bishop of Lincoln granted a licence to the rector of Willeford "to chose a lettered and fit man in the parish to teach the boys and others going to him the said science." See _Linc. Epis. Reg. Gynwell_, fol. 135 b. This unusual action was due to the scarcity of schoolmasters after the Black Death. [318] 1382. [319] _Reg. Ep. Worcester, H. Wakfeld_, p. 72. _Ed. Ch._ pp. 331-341. [320] See also _Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries_, III., 241. [321] _Op. cit._, A. 2, 24, f. 14. [322] _Early Yorkshire Schools_, I., 90. [323] _Ibid._, p. 97. [324] _Ibid._, p. 23. [325] _Ibid._, p. 27. [326] _Ibid._, p. 29. [327] _Ibid._, p. 67. [328] Re-founded 1531-2. [329] In town muniments of Newark; reprinted by T. F. A. Burnaby, Town Clerk, 1855. [330] But cf. _Great Roll of the Pipe_ (Rec. Com.) pp. 9-10, which suggests customary arrangements. [331] Decretal V, tit. 5, cap. I.