Collectanea. First series / edited by C.R.L. Fletcher.

Date:
1885
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    he received the Chancellorship for the second time, and held it until November 30th, when he was suddenly dismissed and even imprisoned by the King, who gave the Great Seal to a layman. William de Skeltun (Shelton, Sccltone, or Cel- tone) was Proctor1 at the time when the great quarrel with the Cardinal de Mota began. He was of Merton College. In 1331 there was a Prebendary of Lichfield of this name2: in 1339 a Chancellor of the University3. In 1360 the University passed a statute to regulate the management of a sum of 100 marks which ‘venerabilis vir Willelmus de Seltone, Cano- nicusEcclesiae Cathedralis Wellensis4,had left for the assistance of poor students. It was provided that he should have his anniversary on the Feast of S. John before the Latin Gate, that one mass should be celebrated on his behalf, and that the Chaplain of the University, when he made his customary annual visit to all the ‘Schools,’ should cause the ‘serviens publicus to proclaim the name ofW. de Seltone among those of the benefactors of the University. The University to Robert de Stratford. (Royal MS. 12. D. xi. fol. 26 b. B. M.) Summer, 1340. Episcopo Cicest’ per Universitatem. The University asks for information as to the settlement of the quarrel with Cardinal de Mota. Cum affectuosa sui recommendacione Reverenciam et honorem debitos tanto patri. Pater reverende quia nuper per venerabilem patrem virum magistrum W. de Schelton, sacre pagine professori, datum fuerat nobis intelligi quod vestra paternitas reverenda super act's unitatis et concordie inter dominum Cardinalem et Universitatem vestram sepius pertractate, nos, quam cicius commode poterit, certifi- caret, nee certificacionem hucusque literatoriam, seu quovis alio modo in negociis recepimus supradictis. Ideo paternitati vestre reverende latorem presencium una cum presentibus duximus destinandum, ut nos si placet, si qua et que sint acta ad pacis et concordie suavitatem tendencia et siquid ultra ea que prius temptaverimus, in posterum temptare vel facere debeamus, vestris literis consulcius certiorare 1 Wood, Annals, i. p. 408. ^ FasU Ecc. Ang., by T. D. Hardy, vol. i. p. 59S. Ib. vol. iii. p. 465. t Mim. Acad. p. 213 sqq.