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Parliament, respecting the deterioration of tlie quality of " liners, boncttes and cappes," alleged to have arisen from the use of fulling mills.- A cap, or a livery hood, it will ho remenihcred, was a customary j)rt.Hent at the period, a little gratuity or annual retaining gift, as appears hy the various Statutes against Maintenance. Proofs are found in these rolls of the excitement, in which the country bordering on the sea coast of the south of England was kept by alarms of attacks from the French, during the wars of Henry V. The College was often obliged to incur the expense of sending men-at-arms to assist in the defence of the country, in their Manor of Ilanible, now known as llamblc- le-Rice, situate at the mouth of the Southampton Water. I may cite as an instance the following, which occurs in the 4th of Henry V. : — In expensis dfii Willelmi Hayne, Walteri Harley, Magistri Will'mi Grover, et aliorum de CoUegio cquitantium ct peditantium ad llamcle in le Rys, et ibidem existentium per im dies pro defensioue patria) contra inimicos dni Regis et regni sui et totius patrite, una cum expensis Walteri Wallyngford et aliorum hominum secum peditantium ad Hamcle pra;dictam pro simili causa, alia vice, et ultra expensas factas et solutas per Rob. Tichfeld firmarium ibidem, x ^ ix '^ ob. In cordulis et capitibus sagittaruni erapt. eod. temp, xii . In date iii tcnentibus de Roppele existent, apud Hamele praidicta, per unum diem et unam noctem post recessum hostium, pro majore securitate, <kc., xii. In the same year, the following liberal gratuity was given to the mes- senger, who brought to the College the tidings of the glorious victory of Agincourt. It will be observed that the terms, in which the entry is made, show the astonishment excited in England at the vast number of prisoners taken in that battle. It is as follows : — In dato Joanni Coudray, filio Edw. Coudray, armigero Dfii Epo' Wynton: deferenti novos rumores ad Collegium de ultra mare, de ducibus, comitibus, baronibus, militibus et aliis generosis de Francia captis per Dfim Regem nostrum nunc Anglia), in quodam hello facto apud Agyncourt in Picardia in festo Sc'orum Crispini et Crisplniani, anno regni sui 3 " et usque in Angliam postea cum dicto Dno Rege ductis, vi ^ viii. I shall conclude with a few extracts taken from a roll, headed, Expensa ultra onera consuetaab anno Regni Ric. 2 '"^S xviii° usque annum Regni Hen. 4 ti^ 4 tum_ fpijg fii-gt item which I shall cite is the cost of a pair of Organs : — In I pari organorum emptorum anno Reg. Hen. 4*" cum cariagio a London, vi ' iii ^ iiii 'K There is nothing in the cost of such organs to put them out of the reach of many a church, and religious house. Yet it would seem that such instruments in those days were cither not to be met with everywhere ; or that there nmst have been something peculiarly good in the College organs, for they were frequently borrowed by the Bishop of Winchester, and sent to him at his residence at Waltham, and even so far as Faridiam and High Clere. In the 8th of Henry IV., the following charge occurs in the Bursar's roll : — In expensis vi scolariimi deferentium organa de Collegio usque hospitium dili Epi' de Waltham, ix*^ ob. In 2nd of Hen. V. they had been sent to the Bishop at Farnham, as appears by the following : — In expensis clericorum et puerorum CoUegii cariantium organa CoUegii - Pari. Rolls, vol. vi., p. 223. TheProinp- and pur.scs bought at London for presents, torium Parvulorum gives — " Huwyr {al. is the item—" In vi. hu res cappca empt', Hurwyr,) Tcnn." In the Bursar'.s Roll, pro donis dandis, iiii*."' 12, i;i Hen. IV,, above cited, with gloves