During Elizabeth’s reign, leaves of absence become frequent and continuous, and are practically equivalent to non-residence. The Fellows in this reign, and later, developed a bad habit of asking for leave when their turn for disputing, or other duties, came round; and several Visitors’ Injunctions are directed against granting leaves unless a substitute has been provided to perform all duties. From this statement of the duties of the Fellows, we pass on to discuss their emoluments. These can best be understood if we group them together under separate heads. (_a._) Commons (_communiæ_), the weekly allowance for food at the common table in the hall of the College, and at the regular time of meals. Rotheram provided that in each week there should be allowed for each Fellow in residence (counting the Rector as a Fellow), the sum of sixteen-pence; fixing the allowance at that amount, and not more, because, as he says, “clerks” should avoid luxury. Several festivals of the Church’s year were to be honoured by an addition to the ordinary table-allowance. In the weeks in which the following Holy-days occurred, the allowance for commons for each Fellow was to be increased by the sum named:--Epiphany (6th Jan.), 4_d._; Purification of Mary (Feb. 2nd), 2_d._; _Carnis privium_ (Septuagesima Sunday), 2_d._; Annunciation of Mary (25th Mar.), 2_d._; Easter, 8_d._; Ascension, 4_d._; Whitsun day, 8_d._; Corpus Christi, 4_d._; St. Mildred (13th July), 2_d._; Assumption of Mary (15th Aug.), 2_d._; Nativity of Mary (8th Sept.), 2_d._; Michaelmas (29th Sept.), 2_d._; dedication of St. Michael’s Church (in Oct.), 2_d._; All Saints’ Day (1st Nov.), 4_d._; dedication of All Saints’ Church (in Nov.), 4_d._; Conception of Mary (8th Dec.), 2_d._; Christmas, 8_d._ An incidental, and therefore very striking, indication of the plagues which then infected the country is the care the statutes take to provide for cases of leprosy or other noisome disease. The Fellow so afflicted is to live away from the College, and to receive yearly forty shillings in lieu of all allowances. (_b._) Salary (_salarium_), payments in money. Rotheram made no grants for these, except to the Rector and the College officers; but he gave liberty to other benefactors to make them. The first distinct mention of such grants is in 1537, when Edmund Darby directs that 3_s._ 4_d._ shall be paid annually to each Fellow, and 6_s._ 8_d._ to the Rector. The dividends of the College rents, after payment of all charges, known as “provision,” date no doubt from a very early period, but their history cannot now be traced. (_c._) Livery (_vestura_), allowance for clothing. For this also Rotheram made no provision, except to permit it if given by later benefactors. Edmund Audley, Bishop of Sarum, in giving his benefaction in 1518, directed that forty shillings per annum should be allowed _pro robis_ to the Rector, and to each of the four senior Fellows.