^{page 227 note a} Archaeologia, lvii. 285–294Google Scholar

^{page 227 note b} The statute Quia Emptores was no obstacle to a manor being made up in this way. According to the second resolution in Melwich and Luter's Case, 4 Co. Rep. 26, where a lord of a manor hath several ancient freeholds held of his manor, and grants the inheritance of them all to another, so that by such grant they are severed from the manor; yet the grantee may hold courts for the customary tenants and accept surrenders and make admittances and grants. For every manor consisting of freeholders and copyholders hath in effect two courts: the one a court baron for the freeholders, and in this the suitors, i.e. the freeholders, are the judges; and the other is a customary court for the copyholders, and in this the steward or the lord of the manor himself is judge. And though in strictness of law after the grant of all the freeholds from the manor it is no longer a manor, because it wants freeholders, yet the grantee may hold such courts for freeholders as the grantor might have done. And though by his own act he cannot have two manors oat of one to consist of demesnes and freeholds, yet he may make a customary manor of copyholds, which is what Wykeham did in this case.

^{page 228 note a} Church scot or church dues.

^{page 229 note a} The lease lias appended to it two seals, that of the bishop and that of the chapter. The bishop's seal is a pointed oval one 3½: inches long (Plate XV. fig. 2). The device represents Our Lord standing and giving' a book inscribed Pasce Oves Meas to a kneeling figure of St. Peter. Between the figures is a flock of five sheep. Above is a scroll inscribed Ite Predicate Evangelivm, and over it the Holy Dove descending from a cloud. In base is a large shield encircled by the Garter with the arms of the church of Winchester impaling those of the bishop, a fess between three pelicans in piety. The legend is: Sigillvm Thomae; Cooperi Episco[Pi Winton] 1584. On the back is a small oval counterseal with the bishop's arms, as above, encircled by the Garter (Plate XV. fig. 3).

^{page 229 note b} In one or two other cases about that time the college was not so fortunate, the renewed lease being assigned to a courtier. It may be suspected that the college owed its success in this case to the little value of the property.

^{page 230 note a} Bishop Cooper died in 1594.

^{page 231 note a} Thomas de Manecrofte, whose surname is perpetuated in Great and Little Mancroft fields in the parish of Ropley.

^{page 231 note b} East and West Tisted are neighbouring parishes.

^{page 231 note c} Lymington, a farm in adjoining parish of Medstead.

^{page 231 note d} Itchen Stoke and Itchen Abbas are neighbouring parishes.

^{page 231 note e} Titchborne is an adjoining parish.

^{page 231 note f} Thedden, a place in the north of Alton.

^{page 231 note g} Soldridge, a farm in parish of Medstead.

^{page 231 note h} Deeds were often sealed on Sundays at that period, I suppose because witnesses were easy to get after morning mass.

^{page 232 note a} A chief rent of £25 a year was reserved, in order to insure Butillier's regranting the premises.

^{page 232 note b} He died in 1372, as his successor, Nicholas Danvers, was instituted 17th December in that year on the presentation of Sir William Melton, lord of the manor of Bentworth.— Wykeham, , Register, i. 45Google Scholar.

^{page 232 note c} C. J. Common Pleas, 27th June, 1376, succeeded Wykeham as Chancellor 26th March, 1371; died 29th June, 1372.

^{page 232 note d} Justice of Common Pleas, 30th September, 1361; C. J. King's Bench, 29th October, 1365; Chancellor, 30th June, 1372, to 11th January, 1376-7.

^{page 232 note e} Perhaps of kin to a man of the same name who was Master of the Rolls in 1346; died 1370.

^{page 232 note f} Justice of Common Pleas in 46 Edward 111.; died circa 1385.

^{page 233 note a} A table dormant is a stationary piece of furniture as distinguished from one made of boards laid on trestles. See Chaucer, Gen. Prologue to C. P., 353.

^{page 234 note a} Fr. Cuve.

^{page 234 note b} “Trow” is Hampshire for “trough.”

^{page 234 note c} Perhaps a stillion or cask stand.

^{page 234 note d} The open wooden framework or grating over a manger.

^{page 234 note e} Sir Thomas Warenner, knt., who was High Sheriff of Hants in 1394. He married Joan, a granddaughter of Agnes, Wykeham's aunt, and had two sons, Thomas and Reginald, who were cholars of Winchester College in 1394.

^{page 235 note a} The following pedigree is amongst the pleadings in this action:

^{page 235 note b} A tithing in the parish of Buriton, near Petersfield.

^{page 235 note c} Warden of New College 1403-1429.

^{page 236 note a} Name preserved in “Boyne Wood,” South Medstead.

^{page 236 note b} Grandson of Sir Luke de Ponynges, whose will, dated 5th June, 1376, is entered in Wykeham's Register, iii. 143A.

^{page 236 note c} Thus distinguished from a contemporary, John Benet of Botley, a relation of Wykeham.

^{page 236 note d} I may refer here to our late Fellow, Mr. Charles Spencer Perceval's communications on the subject of these seals generally in Proceedings, 2d. S. vii. 107Google Scholar, and x. 253, and to Mr. W. H. St. John Hope's notes, ib. xv. 61.