Memorials of Merton College Volume 4; With Biographical Notices of the Wardens and Fellows (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...of valuable MSS. are said to have been thus abstracted from Merton College Library. This statement Anthony Wood makes on the authority of Thomas Allen, ' the famous mathematician of Gloucester Hall' in the reign of Elizabeth, whose evidence was reported to Wood himself by John Wilton, Chaplain of Merton. Nicholas Aleyn or Alayn (1365). He was Vicar of Wolford in 1368.--Asmode. Laurence Albon, Aldborn, or St. Alban's (1344). He was one of the Masters who supported Wylliott's tumultuous election to the Chancellorship in 1349. RobertdeAylesham orAlsham, S.T.B.(1364). He was Proctor in 1367 and 1368, Bursar in 1367-8, Commissary, or Vice-Chancellor, in 1377, and Chancellor in 1379--the year of his death.--Ardle.--Alkyrton or Walkyngton (1347). Anthony Wood, who assigns this date to Alkyrton, finds also a Richard Alkyrton or Alkrynton mentioned in 1374, and says that he was SubWarden in 1384 and 1389. Thomas de Bokeland or Boklond, S.T.B. (1339). He was Vicar of St. Peter's-in-the-East, and died before 1362. Richard de Byllyngham (1344). He appears in the Savile Catalogue under the reign of Edward II. He was a great dialectician, and compiled a table of Logic and Philosophy, which he presented to the College Library. He is said to have been a leading promoter of Wylliott's 'violent' election, but was appointed by the King a Commissioner to investigate and settle the affair. He appears as Bursar oftener than any other Fellow between 1344 and 1356--the year in which the name of Wyclif appears in his account. William Berton, S.T.P. (1356). He was Chancellor of the University in 1379, 1380 (when he obtained a writ for the repair of the city pavements), 1381, and 1382. He is described as a man of learning and capacity, but having strenuously denounced Wyclif, and pro...