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and sacrist are to have two different keys of the 

 door of the treasury, and two of the chest. The 

 contents of the chest to be examined four times 

 a year by the master and three times by the 

 fellows, and all to be cleansed and repaired. 

 Other chests to be kept in the porch of the 

 church, to contain vestments, chalices, etc., in 

 daily use ; the keys to be kept by the sacristan. 

 The second chest in the treasury to contain all 

 registers, charters, muniments, and evidences, with 

 three keys, one for the master, one for the pre- 

 centor, and one for an appointed fellow. The 

 common seal only to be used in the chapter- 

 house with the consent of the college. The 

 third chest in the treasury to contain the com- 

 mon gold and silver of the college, together with 

 the principal relics and jewels, and to have four 

 keys in the respective custody of the master, 

 precentor, and two appointed fellows. An in- 

 dented inventory of the contents of the chest to 

 be taken, one copy to be in the hands of a fellow 

 who has not a key, and the other in the keeping 

 of the precentor. 



27. The statutes to be read in chapter of the 

 whole college twice yearly, namely, on the 

 morrows of the feasts of the Purification and of 

 the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. 



28. One of the fellows to be chosen sacrist, 

 and to have charge of all the valuables of the 

 church, with a salary of two marks. 



29. The books, ornaments, and vestments to 

 be openly, visibly, and distinctly shown to the 

 master and all the college at Ascensiontide, to 

 see if any are torn or missing. 



30. No book, ornament, jewel, or vestment of 

 the college to be sold, pledged, or removed from 

 the college, under any pretext whatsoever, save 

 books requiring binding, or anything to be repaired. 



31. Any member of the college guilty of 

 heresy, theft, homicide, adultery, incest, or like 

 notorious crimes to be expelled. If any one is a 

 hunter or common fisherman who brings any 

 scandal on the college, he is to be warned first by 

 the master, then by the master and two fellows, 

 and for the third offence by the chapter, and if 

 then incorrigible, to be expelled. 



32. A warden to be appointed to look after 

 the money of the choristers. If any chorister 

 die before the age of 14, his money to be divided 

 into three parts, one part to the college, another 

 for funeral expenses, and the third to his parents 

 or relatives. 



33. The master to have power of proving the 

 wills of those dying in the college. 



34. No one to depart from the college in 

 debt. 



35. No one of the college (including the 

 master) to wander alone outside the college pre- 

 cincts into any house in the town or neighbour- 

 hood, nor to enter any tavern save in the presence 

 of some one of sufficient dignity and honesty, 

 under pain of correction by the master, and of 

 expulsion if repeated. 



36. The fellows, clerks, and choristers, daily, 

 when compline is finished, standing in quire 

 before they depart, shall sing in unison the anti- 

 phons of St. John Baptist, and of St. Edmund, 

 king and martyr ; and at the altar step, kneeling, 

 the antiphon of the Blessed Virgin. Then to 

 form round the tomb of Edward the founder, and 

 to chant the ' De profundis.' ' 



37. The fellows, clerics, and choristers are to 

 be humble, modest, and careful, in entering and 

 departing from the church, and to abstain at 

 mattins and all the hours from talking, whisper- 

 ing, laughing, or making any noise or disturbance. 



38. The master's place in quire is the first 

 on the right, and the precentor's on the left, the 

 rest as they are ordered by the master and 

 precentor. 



39. All members of the college on rising from 

 their beds, and on lying down at night, and at all 

 hours of the day and night, when meeting with 

 any hindrance, shall say in honour of the Trinity 

 the antiphon. Libera nos, and a special prayer 

 for blessing on the founder's work. Everj' day 

 after nones and compline, and in Lent after 

 vespers, shall be said in the church special 

 prayers for kings Richard, Henry, etc., and the 

 founder. 



40. From I May to i September the bell to 

 ring at eight o'clock, and the rest of the year at 

 seven, and on the bell ceasing the anthem of 

 the Blessed Virgin to be said by every one of the 

 college, whether within the precincts or cloister, 

 or gates, or outside, pausing as they say it.- 



41. The principal and smaller gates of the 

 college to be closed after the bell at the west end 

 of the church has rung the Angelus. The doors 

 to be kept closed till daybreak, and the keys 

 to be handed to the master. Any one remaining 

 outside, without leave of the master, to forfeit for 

 first offence commons and salary for fifteen days, 

 for second offence a month, for third offence six 

 months, and for a further repetition to suffer 

 expulsion. 



42. Evensong, mattins, mass, and all the day 

 hours to be attended by all in the church. The 

 bell for mattins on the night of the Nativity to 

 ring at one o'clock, and mattins to begin at two ; 

 on the principal feasts and the greater doubles, 

 the bell to ring at four, and mattins to begin at 

 five ; on other festivals and ordinary days, the 

 bell to ring at five, and mattins to begin at six. 



43. Solemn processions are to be made round 

 the cloister, following in all things the use of 

 Sarum, and in the mass, the canonical hours, and 

 in all other observances, the same use to be 

 observed. The feasts of St. Lawrence, St. Edmund 



1 They were also to make stations before the two 

 images of the Virgin against the pilLirs of the nave of 

 the church, but this part is erased, and ' vacat per 

 mandatum dni. Regis Hen. VIII.' is written in the 

 margin. 



- By the side in a late hand is written : ' \'acat 

 antiphona salve regina.' 



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