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^{page 155 note 1} Fowler, J. T., Memorials of Ripon, Surtees Society, 1882Google Scholar.

^{page 154 note 2} Public Record Office: State Papers Domestic, Elizabethan (S.P. 12), vol. 234, f. 68, 1590. I am indebted to Mrs. Joan Row for great help in the transcription of this manuscript. As it seems never to have been printed before, it is here given in full.

^{page 154 note 3} The third Earl of Huntingdon, Henry Hastings (1535–95) was a convinced puritan. On his death a simple panegyric, most appropriate in this context, was written, called The Crie of the Poor. It contains the following couplet:

He built no palace, nor purchased no town,

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^{page 155 note 4} Before his translation to York, Sandys had been bishop of Worcester (1559–70) and bishop of London (1570–7). In both sees he had shown an awareness of the need for a more highly educated ministry. Among his early orders at Worcester was the following: no one was to be admitted into ‘the ministry who hath not good testimony of his conversation; who is not learned, fit to teach the people’. He also asked for the consent of six learned ministers before ordaining a candidate. At London he was equally demanding. Preaching before the queen he said ‘Christ therefore requireth careful choice of ministers in his church: his desire is to have them faithful and wise’. Nor is he afraid of giving a broad hint to patrons in their choice of clergy: ‘It goeth full hardly with the Church of God when Balaam is the Bishop, Judas the patron, and Magus the minister. This merchandise will make the house of God a den of thieves’: E. Sandys, Sermons (Parker Society), 434 and 121.

^{page 156 note 1} Sir Francis Wolsingham died in 1590. He had shown his interest in theological studies by the foundation of a theological lectureship at Oxford. He was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1587 until his death so that he had also a territorial interest in the project.

^{page 157 note 1} Alexander Nowell (1507?–1602) came of a North country family and retained his interest in the North. He conducted preaching tours there in 1570 and 1580 and made benefactions to Middleton School near Manchester: Churton, R., Life of Alexander Nowell, Oxford 1809Google Scholar.

^{page 157 note 2} William Day (1529–96). Educated at Eton and Kings. He was a prebendary of York where he might have been influenced by the archbishop, and later chancellor of St. Paul's where Nowell, his dean, might well have influenced him. Enquiries at St. George's, Windsor, show that there is no record of this patronage of the new project.

^{page 158 note 1} Thomas Crompton matriculated at St. Alban Hall, Oxford and became chancellor of the diocese of London and so possibly fell under the influence of Sandys when he wa bishop. See J. Foster, Alumni Oxonienses, s.v. Crompton T.

^{page 158 note 2} Made available for inspection by the kindness of the Dean and Chapter. A transcript may be found in Smith, L., The Story of Ripon Minster, Leeds 1914, 168–77Google Scholar.

^{page 158 note 3} William Cecil, Lord Burleigh (1520–98) was a brilliant student at St. John's College, Cambridge and enjoyed numerous academic distinctions. He became in turn chancellor of the universities of Cambridge and Dublin. His academic interest could well be imagined in such a project. And when there is added to this his expressed fears about dangers of Roman seminary priests he ought very specially to be interested in a project which aimed at combating precisely those dangers which he saw and feared, especially in Yorkshire, at that time.

^{page 159 note 1} MS. O., 3. 2, made available by the courtesy of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. Mrs. J. E. Mortimer, who has recently been cataloguing the library of Ripon Cathedral, informs me that the Trinity MS. was printed in Francis Peck, Desiderata Curiosa, 2 vols., 1732–5.

^{page 159 note 2} The father of Gilbert Earl of Shrewsbury, who died in 1590, had been Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire.

^{page 159 note 3} Sir Thomas Hinneage had succeeded Sir Francis Walsingham as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He died in 1595.

^{page 159 note 4} Sir Wolstan Dixy (1525–94). Lord Mayor of London in 1585 and benefactor of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The professorship of Ecclesiastical History in Cambridge takes its name from him. He was a very likely benefactor of such a scheme.

^{page 159 note 5} Ralph Rokesby was a Yorkshireman who matriculated at Oxford in 1593 and later became a barrister at law.

^{page 159 note 6} Peter Osborne was a friend of the leading reformers and an executor of archbishop Parker.

^{page 159 note 7} Peter Manhood or Manwood was an antiquary of distinction. His father had been a friend of archbishop Parker.

^{page 159 note 8} Enquiry reveals no trace of any support for the project amongst the surviving records at Eton.

^{page 159 note 6} William Craven (1548–1618) was born at Burnsall, Yorkshire, where he later founded the Grammar School. He rose to be Lord Mayor of London and was a benefactor of churches and educational foundations. The Craven scholarships at Oxford and Cambridge are named after his son.

^{page 161 note 1} Fuller, T., Church History, London 1837, iii. 204Google Scholar.

^{page 161 note 2} Public Record Office, S.P. 14/9a.

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