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1922 REVIEWS OF BOOKS 117 to learn that receipts (for expenses incurred in the burial of Piers Gaveston) ' are still extant among the Patent Rolls ' (p. 6) and that ' the actual sums ' (given as royal alms for pittances) ' are entered in the Patent Rolls ' (p. 13). These details occur in the Exchequer and Wardrobe Accounts. 1 As it may be hoped that a second edition of the book may soon be called for, it may be useful to point out some mistakes and suggest addi- tions or alterations. The relations between the friars preachers and the parish priests receive very inadequate treatment. The explanation of the enlargement of the cemetery at Cambridge given on p. 12 is denied on p. 26. The date of the Peasants' Revolt was not 1389 (p. 13). The authority should be given for the statement on p. 29 that no sepulchral effigies were allowed in any Dominican church : certainly ' this ordinance was very partially obeyed '. A reference also for the concerts and songs in Dominican infirmaries would be welcome (p. 33). Some further informa- tion about books belonging to the friars preachers of Cambridge now in the Vatican is given in the late Dr. Bannister's article in Collectanea Franciscana, vol. i (Brit. Soc. of Franciscan Studies). Matthew Paris (' Mag. Chron., ann. 1243 ') says nothing about theological courses given by the friars within the greater English abbeys (p. 45) : some details on the subject may be culled from other sources. On the same page ' laity ' should be ' secular clergy '. Some of the evidence which Father Jarrett adduces tentatively in favour of the existence of grammar schools in Dominican convents (p. 51) is capable of a different explanation. The school of which Friar Galfrid had been master was surely the Guildford town grammar school : and the grammar school at Yarm, which Friar Clement Guadel was allowed to attend by special licence of the master general, was probably the town school. There seems to be no evidence of grammar schools in the plentiful records of the provinces of Provence and Toulouse, On the other hand, the register of Friar Raymund of Capua, with its assignations of foreign students to various English convents for purposes of study, throws addi- tional light on the special schools in the English province (p. 52-4) : thus there was a studium artium at Sudbury. 2 The organization of studia generalia is very complicated, and I can only touch on one or two points in Father Jarrett's account. The office of master of the students was held by a cursor sententiarum (or B.D.) during the year following the delivery of his lectures on the sentences : he lectured on set books, not quodlibets (p. 60 : cf. Acta Capit. Gen. ii. 72). The statement (p. 60) that ' in 1320 the three great convents of Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge were given local autonomy ' and ' could co-opt their own professors ' certainly goes too far : in view of the fact that the appoint- ments were regularly made by the master general and by the general and provincial chapters, one must assume that nominare means to propose. Father Jarrett's summary of the rules made by the provincial chapter of Lincoln in 1388 (p. 61) are even less intelligible than the original. Mortier 1 What is meant by ' the private notebooks of the various kings ' ? (p. 114). 2 See Loe u. Reichert, Qwllen u. Forschungen z. Gesch. d. Dominikanerordens in Deutschland, vi. 18, 22 : other English studia are mentioned, ibid. pp. 13, 14, 22, 30, 32, 33, 38, 43.