will or non payment of the money I will he that goeth to
Ikkyllyngton to say masse at my fathers obbett haue power to
strayne for non payment Aud by thyes presentes I give hym
power to strayne Acotdinge to her dede to me made and
sealed with her conuent Sealle and he to se the money be
ezpendyde accordinge to my will And if it fortune the saide
maister and fellowes of Clarhaull or ther successors to be
neclygent in sendynge of one of ther fellowes or one able
preiste to ikkyllyngton to sey masse and to se the said obbettes
kept as afore is reherside but make defaut therein That than the
maister and fellowes of Clarhaull couenauntith and grauntith that
thay shall forfett for everye tyme that thay do not accordingly
fyve sheilinges to the maister and fellowes of Seynt Johannis
College in Cambrige That is to say -^l he be absent frome
dirge and masse as is before rehersid And so often as it
fortune hym to be absent at eny tyme And the same fyve
shellinges so forfett to be payde within a moneth next ensuinge
after eny such forfett done and made that is to say to the
maister of Saint Johannis for the tyme beynge twentye pence
And to the fellowes of the said place thre shellinges foure
pence And if the same forfett of iy^^ shellinges be not payde
within one moneth then next ensuynge the same forfeture
That then the same maister and fellowes of Clarhaull shall
forfett ten shellinges ouer and aboue the saide forfeture of iy"^^
shellinges Itor the which ten shellinges the saide maister and
fellowes of Clarhaull couenaunteth and grauntith by thyes
presentes for them and theyr successors that it shall be lefuU
for the maister and fellowes of Seynt Johannis and to theyr suc-^
cessors or theyr certeyne Attorney to entre and distrayne in all
ther landes and tenementes in Ikkyllyngton within the saide
countie of Cambrige And the distres so takyn to lede dryve and
carye awaye and it reteyne and withhold vntyll duche tyme as the
said ten shellenges and tharragies of the same be fullye payde
satisfyede and contented with the costes and charges bj
occasyon of the same expendede Moreouer the saide maister
and fellowes of Clarhaull couenauntith and grauntith for them
and ther successors by these presentes that as ofte.n as it shall
fortune them not to fynd a lampe brynnynge afore seynt
Kateryne or make defaute in doinge of eny of theyr fower
solcmpne dirges with the masses or in eny of them as is afore
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rehersede or also make defaute in not takynge of the collett in
ther masses or in eny of the premisess And that not amendide
within the space of one moneth then the saide maister and
fellowes of Clarhaull couenauntith and grauntjth by thyes
presentes for theym and theyr successors to forfett to the
maister and fellowes of the saide college callid Sainte Katherns
haull in the name of a payne of ten shellinges for the same
moneth And if they make defaute the secunde moneth then to
forfett twentye shellinges And for the thyrde they to forfete a
hundereth shellinges yearlye out of theyr landes in Ikkyliyngton
aforsaide for ever ffor the whiche yt shalbe lauffuU for the
maister and fellowes of Seynt Katherynes haull to entre into
the lordshipe or manor of Ikkyliyngton within the saide countie
And into all other of theyr landes where so euer it be within
the reme of Englond they to have and inioye the same to them
and ther successores for ever ffor the whiche forfet of A
hundereth shellinges the same maister ande fellowes of Saint
Katheryns haull couenauntith and grauntith and by thies
presentes bynd them and ther successors to the forsaide
maister William Spycer to distribute the saide fyve poundes in
fourme followinge That is to say that the maister of Sainte
Katherins haull for that tyme beynge and his successors shall
name at his pleasure one of the fellowes of the same house to
be chantrie preiste und to synge satisfactorie for the soule of the
saide master William his Father and mother soules And those
soules that the saide maister William was bounde to pray for.
And the same chauntrie preiste so admittide to haue it as longe
as he is on beneficiede yff he please. And if it fortune the
same chauntrie preiste to be beneficide or to decease than
immediatlye after the saide maister of Saint Katherins haull to
name an other fellowe of the same place to be chauntrie preste.
And if the same maister of Sainte Katheryns haull be remysse
or necclygent in makynge of the said Chauntrie preiste that
then the maister of Seynt Johannis to haue the Vauntage of the
preistes wages the tyme of vacacion for ever. And the fellowe
of Seynt Katheryns haull so admitted to say masse foure tymes
in the yeare at Ikkyliyngton, that is to say, Crysmas daye,
eyght dayes followinge; Ester daye, and eight dales follow-
inge ; Wittsonday and eight daies followinge. And the obbett
day of the father of the saide maister William and eight daies
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he to se the saide obbett kepede as is aforhersede. And to
haue like power as the fellowes of Clarhaull shulde haue
had as is afore rehersede. And the maister ande fellowes of
Sainte Katheryns haull to kepe a solempne dirge and masse in
Sainte Katheryns haul! on the obbett daye of the saide maister
William And the maister to haue sex shellinges eightpence for
his parte and the fellowes therttene shellinges four pence of the
money that reman}'th of the fyve poundes. And the other
threttene shellinges foure pence to the maister and fellowes of
Saint Johannis to do dirge and masse for the saide maister William
for ever. Moreouer the maister and fellowes of ClarehauU
couenaunteth and graunteth for theme and theyr successors and
by thyes presentes byndeth theyme and ther successors that if
it shall fortune the saide maister of Seinte Katheryns haull to be
neccligent in takynge of thyes forfettes as is afore reherside by
the space of sex monethes That than the maister and fellowes
of the College of Seinte Johannis in Cambrige to entre to the
forsaide landes and forfettes for ever, the whiche the maister
and fellowes of Saynte Katheryns haull shulde haue enterid vnto
Than the same masters and fellowes of Seint Johannis College .
couenauntith and grauntith and by thies presentes byndyth
them and ther successors to the saide maister William Spicer to
distribute the saide fyve poundes in fourme folowynge. That
is to say that the maister of Sainte Johannis College for that
tyme beynge and his successors schall name at his pleasure one
of the fellowes of the same house to be my chauntrie preiste.
And to synge satisfactorie for the soules of the said maister
William his father and mother seniles and those soulles that
the saide maister William Spycer was bound to praye for. And
the same chauntrie preiste so admittide to haue it as longe as
he is vnbenificide if he please. And if [it] fortune the same
chauntrie preiste to be beneficide or to deceasse that than Im^
mediatlie after the saide maister of Seynte Johannis for the tyme
beinge to name A nother fellowe within eight daies and so as
often as it fortunith to be voyde. And this fellowe of Seinte
Johannis so admittede to say masse four tymes in the yeare at
Ikkyllyngton That is to say Cristmas daye and three daies
following ; Ester dale and three daies followinge ; Witsondaye
and three daies followinge. And the obbet daye of the father
of the saide maister William Spicer, he to haue five markes for
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reherside and to haue like power as is afore rehersede. And'
the other five nobulles to the mayntenynge of the College of
Sainte Johannis at the discrecion of the masters for euer. Also
the saide maister of ClarhauU shall at the admission of euery
fellowe hereafter to be chosen shoo and declare vnto hym all
such articles and duties as the fellowes of the saide College ar
bounde vnto by thies presentes. In Witnesse wherof to the
one parte of thies present Indentures rema3mynge in the
custodie of the saide maister and fellowes of Clarehaull in
Cambrige the said William Spicer hath puttoo his sealle And to
the seconde parte of the same Indentures remanynge in the
Custodye of the said William Spicer or in the custodie of
Seynte Johannis as well the maister and fellowes of ClarhauU
As the maister and fellowes of Seynte Katheryns haul! hath
seuerallye putto their commune Scales And to the threde parte
of the saide indentures Remanynge in the custodie of the said
maister and fellowes of Seynt Katheryns haull Aswell the saide
William Spycer As the saide maister and fellowes of ClarhauU
haue seuerallye putto ther Sealles yeven the daye and yeare
gbove saide.

{Indorsed; Mr Spicer ffor Clare hall.



This instalment of Notes concludes with an Indul«
gence (dated 20 May, 1504J granted by Pope Julius II
to the Lady Margaret and King Henry VII. This is
the latest of such documents preserved in the College.
It is in perfect condition with the leaden bulla or seal,
still attached to it. This seal has the faces of St Peter
and St Paul on one side and IVLIVS-PAPAJI- on the
reverse. I have to thank Mr. J. H. Hessels for assisting
jne with the transcript.



Julius episcopus Seruus Seruorum Dei Carissimo in Christo
iilio nostro Henrico Anglie Regi Illustri Salutem et apostolicam
benedictionem £zimie deuotionis sinceritas et integra fides
quibus nos et Romanam reuereris ecclesiam promerentur ut
petitionibus tuis hijs presertim que conscientie pacem et anime
tae salutem respiciunt quantum cum deo possumus fauorabiliter
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inclinati ut aliquem presbiterum seculareni uel religiosum in
tuum possis eligere Confessorem, qui uita tibi comite in casibus
etiam sedi apostolice reseruatis hijs duntaxat exceptis uidelicet
criminum heresis rebellionis ac conspirationis in personam
Romani Pontificis aut apostolice sedis et offense personalis in
aliquem sancte Romane ecclesie Cardinalem qui bus te nee
illaqueatum ne illaqueari debere credimus Bis tantum quolibet
Anno et in mortis articulo etiam ab exceptis huiusmodi in alijs
uero quotiens fuerit oportunum confessionibus tuis diligenter
auditis pro commissis tibi debitam absolutionem impendat et
iniungat penitentiam salutarem. Et quia sicut nobis exponi
fecisti dubitas quod dilectus filius Johannes Bumellus ordinis
fratrum Minorum de Obseruantia et Theologie professor Con-
fessor tuus, in penitentiarum iniunctione per eum tibi facta
quoquo modo minus debite se gesserit, ac in male per te receptis
non satis idonee tecum ordinauerit commulauerit uel disposuerit
aut quicquam aliud in confessionis ministerio ignoranter negli«
genter imperite uel insufficienter peregerit. Nos uolentes anime
tue saluti et conscientie Serenitati more pij patris paterna
caritate consulere tuis in hac parte pijs et deuotis supplica-
tionibus inclinati premissa omnia et singula per dictum Confes-
sorem sic tecum quacunque in re, aut qualitercunque gesta
composita commutata et ordinata pro dicte conscientie tue Sereni-
tate et in huiusmodi conscientie foro auctoritate apostolica ac de
apostolice potestatis plenitudine rata habentes, omnesque et
singulos defectus per dictum Confessorem circa ea forsan com-
missos supplentes, et quatenus opus sit super hijs tecum miseri-
corditer dispensantes ac ipsum Confessorem si in aliquo propterea
excessit absoluentes eidem Confessori quandiu Confessor tuus
fuerit et cuicunque Confessori seculari uel regulari quern,
uita tibi comite, duxeris eligendum ut te a quacunque simonie
labe ac excommunicationis alijsque sententijs censuris et penis
ecclesiasticis in simoniacos latis absoluere ac de simoniace ac
alias per te male receptis tecum ordinare componere et dis-
ponere prout conscientia sua sibi dictauerit in eodem conscientie
foro libere et licite possit. Quodque tu tuam Regiam uel aliam
quancunque Capellam sen ecclesiam ubicunque pro tempore te
esse contigerit quolibet Mense semel uisitando et ante Altare
dicte Capeile seu ecclesie Septies orationem dominicam et
totiens salutationem Angelicam genibus flexis deuote dicendo
omnes et singulas Indulgentias et -peccatorum remissiones con-



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equaris quas consequereris si ecclesias Stationum Vrbis, intra
et extra muros eius, Quadragesimalibus et alijs diebas Stationum
ecclesiarum predictarum personaliter uisitares. Quodque idem
uel alter Confessor quern duxeris eligendum omnium pecca-
torum tuorum de quibus corde contritus et ore confessus
fueris etiam Bis quolibet Anno et in eodem mortis articulo
uel quotiens de morte huiusmodi dubitabitur plenariam remis-
sionem tibi in sinceritate fidei vnitate eiusdem sancte Romane
ecclesie et obedientia ac deuotione nostra uel successonim
nostrorum Romanonim Pontificum canonice intrantium per-
sistenti auctoritate apostolica concedere ac uota quecunque
per te forsan emissa uel imposterum emittenda vltramarino
Visitationis Liminum beatorum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli ac
Religionis uotis duntaxat exceptis in alia pietatis opera com-
niutare ualeat. £t insuper quod liceat tibi post Nonam seu
Merediem in presentia tua et familiarium tuorum ac aliarum
personarum te sequentium facere celebrari et habere Altare
portatile cum debitis reuerentia et honore super quo in locis
ad hoc congruentibus et honestis sine iuris alieni preiudicio
et cum qualitas negociorum pro tempore urgentlum id exegerit
etiam antequam illucescat dies circa tamen diurnam lucem Ita
quod nee id tibi nee Sacerdoti taliter celebranti ad culpam
ualeat imputari et si ad loca ecclesiastico interdicto quauis
auctoritate supposita te contigerit declinare in illis clausis
Januis excommunicatis et interdictis exclusis non pulsatis Cam-
panis et submissa uoce possis per proprium uel alium Sacer-
dotem idoneum Missas et alia diuina officia in tua et familiarium
tuorum et aliarum personarum predictarum presentia facere cele-
brari dummodo tu uel illi causam non dederitis interdicto nee
id tibi uel illis contigerit specialiter interdici Quodque tu
cum Sex, ac dilecta in Christo filia Nobilis Mulier Margarita
Comitissa Richemondie tua Genetrix cum Sex alijs personis
quas duxeritis et etiam quill bet uestrum duxerit pro tempore
nominandas et eligendas, non teneamini Qudragesimali tem-
pore ieiunare et nichilominus dicto tempore ouis caseo butiro
et alijs lacticinijs quotiens tibi et Comitisse ac alijs per-
sonis prefatis uidebitur uesci libere et licite absque alicuius
conscientie scrupulo possitis et quilibet uestrum possit £t
dicte Margarite ut Confessor per eam etiam eligendus in
omnibus casibus sedi predicte reseruatis premissis casibus ac
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et in mortis articalo in alijs uero quotiens fuerit oportunum pro
commissis debitam absolutionem impendere et penitentiam
salutarem iniungere ac plenariam omnium peccatorum suorum
de quibus corde contrita et ore confessa fuerit remissionem
huiusmodi etiam Bis quolibet Anno et in mortis articulo
quotiens de illo dubitabitur auctoritate predicta impendere
possit. Quodque tu ac dicta Margarita Comitissa et quilibet
nestrum ac familiares uestri nobis in Mensa seraientes, illi
uidelicet duntaxat qui Cibaria uestra pro securitate personarum
uestrarum gustant antequam nobis exhibeantur. Quadragesi-
malibus et alijs quibus Jeiunium ab ecclesia est indictum
necnon Sextis ferijs et Sabbati diebus carnibus uesci. £t si
forsan contigerit te, et dictam Margaritam Comitissam uel
aliquem uestrum cum aliqua sen aliquibus persona sen personis
excommunicatis uel alijs sententijs censuris et penis ecclesi*
asticis innodatis, colloquium sen familiaritatem habere nullara
propterea excommunicationis sententiam uel censuram aliam
ecclesiasticam incurratis, dummodo conscij aut participes ex
communicationis huiusmodi non fueritis et hoc in contemptum
Clauium non feceritis. Ac quod dicta Comitissa cum Sex
Matronis honestis et habitu honesto indutis Monasteria et
Domos Religiosorum etiam Cartusiensium et Inclusarum quorum-
cunque ordinum quotiens sibi placuerit ingredi et salutare
colloquium cum eis habere ac inibi refectionem sumere, dum-
modo earum et eorum qui et que Monasterijs et Domibus
prefuerint ad hoc expressus accedat assensus et ibi non per-
noctet libere et licite ualeat, tue ac Margarite Comitisse et
aliarum personarum predictaram deuoiioni respectiue tenore
presentium de specialis dono gratie indulgemus. Non obstanti-
bus apostolicis ac bone memorie Octonis et Octoboni olim in
Regno Anglie dicte sedis Legatorum necnon in Prouincialibus
et Sinodalibus Concilijs edit is generalibus uel specialibus Con-
stitutionibus et ordinationibus statutis quoque et consuetudinibus
Monasteriorum Domorum et ordinum predictorum iuramento
confirmatione apostolica uel quauis firmitate alia roboratis
necnon quibusuis suspensionibus et limitationibus similium
concessionum et facultatum hactenus factis, seu imposterum
faciendis per nos et sedem predictam etiam cum quibusuis
clausulis eliam derogatoriarum derogatorijs fortiori bus efficaci-
oribus et insolitis et talibus quod illis nullatenus possit dero-
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ceteiisqoe contrarijs qaibnscanqne. Proniso qaod Maiestas
tna Regia concessione celebrari faciendi ante diem parce ntatur
quia cum in Altaris ministerio immoletur dominas noster del
filius Jesus Christns qui candor est Incis eterne congmit hoc,
non in Noctis tenebris fieri sed in Ince. Nulli ergo omnino
hominum liceat banc paginam nostre suppletionis dispensation is
absolutionis concession is et uoluntatis infringere uel ei ausn
temerano contraire. Si quis antem hoc attemptare presump-
serit indignationem omnipotentis Dei ac beatonim Petri et
Pauli Apostolorum eius se nouerit incursurum. Datum Rome
apud Sanctum petrum Anno Incamationis dominice Millesimo-
quingentesimo quarto Tertiodecimo Kalendas Junij Pontificatus
nostri Anno Primo.

Sigismundus^

On the hack is writien t P. de Comitibusr.

The Document is endorsed: Registrata apud me Sigismundum.

And in a later hand : Julij Papae 2<ii Indnlgentia &c. con-
cessa Henrico 7*> et Margaretae Genetrici eius, &c. Anno
Domini 1504, 13 Cal. Junij Pontificatus nostri Anno primo.

On the hack is also Written in a contemporary English hand:
Confessionale, de suplecione defectuum confessoris et super
eisdem dispensacione. £t quot licet super receptis sirmmate
ordinare componere et disponere. £t quod vrsitandum capellam
in qua fuerit habeat indulgencias stacionum in vrbe. £t de
absolucione et plenaria remmissione &c. Et de post nonam.
£t de altari portatili. £t de commutacione votorum. £t de
non ieiunandum. £t de lacticrnijs coramedendum. £t de estf
carnitrm. £t de diuersis alijs indultis.

R. F. S.

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♦ The Hmnd of the Sailer : being' the adventures of Master Wilfrid
Clavering at Corhridge, Hexham^ and elsewhere, in the twenty-seventh,
twenty-eighthy and twenty-ninth years of his late Highness King Henry the
Eighth. By R. H. Fo&STKR. (Newcastle-on-Tyne : Mawson, SwAn, and
Morgan, 1898.)

|0R readers of the Eagle there lies some
satisfaction in the knowledge that college
fiction is no longer exclusively represented
by the editors' chronicle and tutors' testi-
monialSy but has broken out in quite a new place, with
& bound volume, an author, and publishers of its own.
The credit of this enterprise is at least partly due
to the author, though nine-tenths of the glory will be
claimed by the noble but predatory Bird which has
thriven for so long upon his literary productions. The
purpose of this article is to congratulate Mr R. H.
Forster upon his undoubted success in his new field ;
the Bird itself may be safely left to expatiate upon its
honourable position of nursing-mother to a new writer
of romance.

One supreme merit Mr Forstef undoubtedly possesses ;
he writes in plain, straightforward English. We are
sick of long-winded heroes, who speechify at intoler-
able length upon the field of battle, and flood us with
cheap sentiment at each crisis of their eventful lives.
We have out-lived the fascination of the nasty-tempered
young gentlemen of Scotch extraction, who speak a
tongue not understanded of us, and are very ready with
their blood when the Covenant is called in question.
Even the elderly heroes who use French oaths, and are
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always misunderstood until the last chapter, have lost
their charm. "By my halidome" and "grammercy"
seem less convincing than of yore, and no longer of
themselves afford irrefutable evidence that the medieval
background is properly painted in. Thus it is a relief
to commune for a season with a writer who forswears
the cheaper tricks of the trade, and depends for his
local colour upon knowledge of the locality and a
vigorous imagination. Add to this the robust delight
of the north-country man for the Tyne and Tynedale,
and ** what things are to be seen beside Hexham and
Corbridge '* ; and we get an impression that recalls to
the man of Somerset or Devon the day when he first
read Lorna Doone.

The Hand of the Spoiler does not profess to be a
novel of character ; still less does it deal with problems.
The churchmen are pale reflexions of the ecclesiastics of
The Abbot and The Monastery ^ and the villain, Sir
Raynald Carnaby, is an ineffective person who would be
at home at the Adelphi. But the boys of the story are
well drawn by one who has not lost touch with them,
or forgotten their peculiar outlook on life; and their
adventures are ingeniously devised, and described with
a spirit and evident enjoyment that would carry the
most superior person off his feet.

To our thinking the best scene in the book is where
the boy Wilfrid Clavering escapes by the aid of the
great oak tree from an upper window in the fortified
house of the Sheriff of Hertfordshire, and this will
serve to give us a taste of Mr Forster's quality :

"And then John lifted me np to the window ; and, creeping
past the bar, I sat down upon the outer sill and peered forth
into the night, striving to see some way whereby I might come
at one of the branches, and so climb down to the ground.

"Truly, 'twas an ill seat and a fearsome upon that stormy
night ; and my heart well nigh gave way again as I strove to
make my eyes pierce through the pitchy blackness which was
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the gale wag roaring louder than Tyne roars when the first wave
of a winter spate comes charging down over the gravel beds ;
and the great rain-drops were hurled so fiercely against my facQ
that even had it been day I had scarce been able to see. More-
over John, down in our prison beneath, was waxing repentant^
and calling to me that I should come back, and not risk my
neck; and altogether my heart misgave me sadly, and I was
almost minded to creep back again and give up the quest. But
ere I had fully persuaded myself, the wind veered suddenly. . . •
and with a gust of threefold fury so swayed and tossed the
stubborn boughs of the great oak that one branch was blown
sweeping along the wall, and struck me smartly upon the cheek
as the twigs flew by. Then, being startled by the suddennesj
of the blow and the pain of the switching, I put my hands up
in an instant, not thinking what I did and where I sat, to shield
my face from a second stroke ; and that same moment I lost my
seat and fell."

Fortunately for himself our hero is caught in the
great tree, and thrown breathless upon a limb of it by
the force of the gale.

" Now as I lay thus, I thrust my hand forward a little space,
-thinking to find some smaller branch sprouting from the great
bough, whereby I might get a surer hold ere the next blast
came. Bat though I found no such branch as I wished, my
hand touched something strange; and, creeping forward, I
found a stout cord girdling the bough ; which cord I followed
by touch of hand to the under side, and thence felt it stretching
downwards as far as my arm could reach, wherefore, since the
lull in the storm still continued, I grasped the cord with my two