[Footnote 13: The inventories of the Monasteries imply that the blessed Virgin was industrious with her needle.] [Footnote 14: _Customary_, ii. 49: Idem vero secretarius zonam beatae Dei genetricis, ubicumque destinetur, sumptibus suis portare vel, si per alios portatur, expensas eis exhibere tenetur, cum vectura, si forte indigeat.] [Footnote 15: Thomas Hatfield, Bishop of Durham, 1345-81.] [Footnote 16: _Mun._ 27968.] [Footnote 17: John Sergeaunt, _Annals of Westminster School_, pp. 57, 130.] [Footnote 18: The building is still in the sole care of His Majesty's Office of Works.] [Footnote 19: Cf. J. T. Smith, _Antiquities of Westminster_, 1807, p. 38, etc.] [Footnote 20: J. T. Smith, _Antiquities of Westminster_, 1807, p. 100; Widmore, _History of Westminster Abbey_, pp. 103-4.] [Footnote 21: _Mun._ 9256, C, D.] [Footnote 22: The manuscript actually says July; but what follows shows this to be an error; _e.g._ he was at Bruges for the two feasts of June 24 and June 29.] [Footnote 23: Cf. J. Armitage Robinson, _Simon Langham, Ch. Quart. Rev._, July, 1908, p. 358.] [Footnote 24: Cf. L. Pastor, _Geschichte der Päpste_, i. p. 109.] [Footnote 25: Non potuit reperire societatem versus Auinionem.] [Footnote 26: Propter diuersitatem lingue et viarum discrimina in partibus transmarinis.] [Footnote 27: Prout modus est patrie.] [Footnote 28: Infirmabatur per viam quasi ad mortem.] [Footnote 29: _Mun._ 9228.] [Footnote 30: Widmore, p. 191; _Mun._ 9225.] [Footnote 31: Pastor, _Gesch. d. P._ i. p. 113.] [Footnote 32: See the account in Pastor, _Gesch. d. P._; and Creighton, _Hist. of the Papacy_, i. 61 ff.] [Footnote 33: Creighton, _ibid._, p. 67.] [Footnote 34: Cf. _Lib. Nig. Quat._ f. 88b, 89; J. C. Cox, _Sanctuaries_, p. 51 f.; G. M. Trevelyan, _England in the Age of Wycliffe_, p. 87.] [Footnote 35: Quod non erat ausus transire per Calis' propter metum aduersariorum.] [Footnote 36: _Mun._ 9503.] [Footnote 37: Viz. John de Wratting, Colchester's senior by about eighteen years.] [Footnote 38: Cf. _Mun._ 18478, D.] [Footnote 39: _Customary_, ii. 95.] [Footnote 40: _Mun._ 5260, A.; December 3, 1407.] [Footnote 41: _Mun._ 9615.] [Footnote 42: On the other hand, Colchester may have come into the affair either as Abbot's Seneschal or as Convent Treasurer.] [Footnote 43: _Mun._ 5984.] [Footnote 44: Indentura Willelmi Colchester de ouibus suis ad firmam dimissis.] [Footnote 45: Cf. Robinson and James, _Manuscripts of Westminster Abbey_, p. 96 f.] [Footnote 46: F. 507-69.] [Footnote 47: _Mun._ 6603.] [Footnote 48: Tabularium cum familia.] [Footnote 49: Debiles.] [Footnote 50: Cf. Col. H. Yule, _Marco Polo_, vol. i., Introd., §§ 75-8.] [Footnote 51: There are corresponding records in the cases of Abbot Litlington (_ob._ 1386), _Mun._ 5446, and of John Canterbery (_ob._ 1400), _Mun._ 18883.] [Footnote 52: In manerio de la Neyte, hora prandendi (_Lib. Nig. Quat._ f. 86).]