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Walter Brut was served with a series of seTen charges against him, which 

 are given at full length in the Register, and he was summoned to appear before 

 the Bishop to answer them. ]\Ir. Brut "partly appearing," says the account 

 in the Register "by his own self before us sitting in our judgment seat, and 

 partly by his witnesstrs specially appointed for that purposp," presented his 

 answers to the articles and conclusions drawn up against him "on divers scrolls 

 of paper written with his own proper hand," in the form of two "suppositions." 

 This failed to satisfy the Bishop, who pronounced "his writing too short and 

 obscure, and begged him to write more plainly and more at large." Whereupon 

 Mastr Walter Brut, nothing lothe, draws up a "declaration" covering a dozen 

 skins, with small writing, and which may be said to consist of a general argu- 

 ment from Scripture against the Pope and the Romish Church. 



The Bishop of Hereford then appointed Friday, October 3rd, 1303, for the 

 said Walter Brut to appear before him, sitting in commission in the Cathedral 

 Church of Hereford, at six o'clock, or thereabouts, having for his assistants in 

 the same place divers prelates and abbots, and twenty bachelor? of divinity 

 (whereof twelve were monks and two doctors of the law), accompanied "with 

 many other prelates and worshipful men, and wise graduates in sundry faculties." 



The following is the list of the members of the commission, as translated 

 from the Episcopal Register : — 



John Grene, prior from Worcester. \ 



John Newton, chancellor of the University of Cambridge. 

 Everard, a monk, prior of the Monastery of St. Peter, at 



Gloucester. 

 William Trewellys, treasurer of the church at Exeter. 

 Thomas Cranly, warden of New College, Oxford. 

 William Colvyll, lately chancellor of Cambridge. 

 John Myddelton, canon of Hereford. 

 Nicholas Hereford. 

 John Taclo, rector of Westbury. 

 Brother John Bromzor, prior of the preaching friars, 



Hereford. 

 Brother John Ude, warden of the friars minor, Hereford. 

 Brother Walter Warde, of the order of minors, AVorcester. 

 Brother John Lendon, of the order of minors of the convent. 

 Brother (Robert Mayal*) order of minors. 

 J. Dudley, monk of Worcester. 



Master Ludovie Aber, treasurer of the church of St. David's 

 Master Adam Uske. 



Brother Walter Chadesley, of the order of St. Augustin. 

 iBrother Philip Gudin, of the order of preachers. 

 Master (a blank) from Cambridge. 



Masters in 

 Theology. 



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Doctors of Law. 



Bachelors i 

 Theology. 



Name filled in with different ink at s later period. 



