I and granted to Master Richard Andrew, Warden of the College, certain manors, lands, and possessions by letters patent which they enjoyed till an Act of Resumption of 1 Edw. IV, by which some of the said possessions were resumed and seized into the hands of the King; howbeit the Warden and College have at all times occupied the premises, and have continued to take the profits, till lately process has been made upon them out of the Exchequer. Pray that the King will confirm to them these and all other grants of his blessed uncle, that or any Act of Resumption notwithstanding. Reply. Soit faite come il este desire. 134. Rot. Parl. VI. 517. VII, A. D. 1496. In the Act granting a subsidy to the King in this year, express pro- 12 Hen. vision is made exempting the lands and tenements and possessions amortised and belonging to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge from being charged to the said subsidy. A similar clause was inserted in the Act granting the same King aids to make his eldest son a knight and to marry his eldest daughter, in 1503 (Rot. Parl. VI. 534). PART III. POEMS RELATING TO THE RIOT BETWEEN TOWN AND GOWN ON ST. SCHOLASTICA'S DAY (FEB. 10, 135%) AND TWO FOLLOWING DAYS TRYVYTLAM DE LAUDE UNIVERSITATIS OXONIAE EDITED BY THE REV. HENRY FURNEAUX CONTENTS. PAGE I. PLANCTUS UNIVERSITATIS. DIALOGUE between the UniversITY POEMS RELATING TO THE RIOT. INTRODUCTION. THESE poems are all given in one manuscript (Bodl. 859, fol. 292 b-294 b), a volume containing a large amount of various matter, and taken to have been written in the early part of the fifteenth century. This portion of it seems intended to be a collection of the then known poems on the subject, which, taken separately, may have been of various dates, and may have existed in other manuscripts. The first and longest poem ('Planctus Universitatis'), for which we have now no other source, is distinct in metre and treatment from all the others, being a supposed dialogue between the University and one of its scholars in rhythmical quatrains; the four lines of each rhyming at the end, and the two pairs within each four rhyming also in the middle. The dialogue purports to take place while the events were still fresh; the real date may be somewhat later. Edward III, his Queen, and the Prince of Wales are all spoken of (vv. 129-136, 177-184) as one would speak of the reigning king and of persons still living; and there is reason to think that it was written earlier than one of the other poems, which is itself to be dated before this king's death (see below on III): also, if 'caput Albaniae' is rightly interpreted (see note on v. 132), it was probably written before David of Scotland had been released. On the other hand, the reply of the University (vv. 201 foll.) is such as would have been written after time had been given for matters to settle down, and for more permanent consequences to disclose themselves. A date circa 1356-1357 would satisfy these conditions. The other poems are all hexameters or elegiacs; and the first of them, wishing long life to Henricus' (probably |