MOREOVER, there is a Steward of the Courts, and Clerk of the Lands, which is an Officer under both the before-mention’d Stewards. He keeps the Courts by himself or Deputy, and is a Barrester at Law, and the standing Council for the College. His yearly Pension is 20 Nobles. But the Council _in Spiritualibus_ is usually a Graduate in the Law.
THE Chapter-Clerk enters and registers all Acts of the Chapter-House; he draws and engrosses all Indentures, Patents, Grants, Leases, _&c._ which pass the common Seal of the Dean and Canons. His Pension is 3 _l._ 6 _s._ 8 _d._ _per Annum_. The Under Stewardship and Chapter Clerkship heretofore were enjoy’d by one Person, but of late they are divided, and now he must be a Barrester at Law.
OF the Virgers Institution the Statutes of the College make mention, that in Procession and other Solemnities, they were to go before the Dean and Canons, bearing their Rods, for which Service they were to have annually a Robe, and 6 _d._ _per Diem_. And besides these, there are Two Sextons, Two Bell-ringers, a Clock-keeper, and a Porter who attends the shutting and opening of the Gates.
§ 7. FOR the Endowment of the College we shall only treat upon those Lands given to the Maintenance of this Foundation by the Founder himself, or by his Successors, or by Sovereigns of _The Order of the Garter_, such as have been Knights-Companions.
KING _Edw._ III. by his Letters Patent of the Foundation [22 _Edw._ III.] aforesaid, gave them [the Custos, Canons, Alms-Knights and Ministers] the Advowsons of the Churches of _Wyardesbury_ [_Rasbury_] in _Lincoln_, _South-Tanton_ in _Exeter_, and _Uttoxater_ in _Coventry_ and _Litchfield_ Diocess, in Frank Almoigne, free from all Secular Exactions; which License, to appropriate the same to the College, notwithstanding the Statute of _Mortmain_, he appointed as much out of his Treasure for their Support, as amounted to an immoveable Estate of 1000 _l._ _per Annum_; and lest there might be any Defect in the Knights Title to _Uttoxater_ and _South-Tanton_, _Henry_ Earl of _Lancaster_, 23 _Edw._ III. and _Thomas Beauchamp_ Earl of _Warwick_, that Year had special Licenses granted them in Right of Patronage to the said Two Advowsons, and they to receive the same. Another such License, 28th of _January_, 24 _Edw._ III. was given to _William de Bohun_ Earl of _Northampton_, for assigning to the Custos and Chaplains the Advowson of _Dodyngton_ in _Com. Oxon_, which he held of the King _in Capite_. The 28th of _January_ following, this Royal Founder conferr’d on them (by the Name of Custos and Chaplains of his free Chapel at _Windsor_) one Messuage, Seventeen Acres of Land, one of Pasture, and 3 _s._ Rent, in _Wyrardesbury_ in _Com. Bucks_, which had been convey’d to him by _Richard de Gloucester_, Heir to _Isabel de Ditton_; and the 22d of _May_ ensuing granted unto them the Advowson of _Dachet_ near _Windsor_.