Coming of St. Augustine," 1897, pp. 59-62; S.P.C.K.) in a learned note
disposes of this, as he does of the veteran claim of St. Peter's,
Cornhill, to take rank as the elder sister of St. Paul's.

[3] The list in the south nave transept, compiled with the assistance
of Bishops Stubbs and Browne, leaves this period doubtful and
uncertain (_vide_ Appendix A).

[4] "Eccles. Hist.," book ii., chap. iii.

[5] The grant is in Dugdale, p. 288; in Domesday it runs "tenet
_semper_ Paulus."

[6] Bishop Browne's "Conversion of the Heptarchy," p. 154 (S.P.C.K.).

[7] Dugdale, p. 299 _et seq._, quotes the Exchequer Domesday. Also,
Hale's "Domesday of St. Paul's" and Leach's "Southwell" (the
Introduction); Freeman's "Cathedral Church of Wells," p. 50 _et seq._;
and Newcourt's "Repertorium." Hereford is the only other cathedral in
Domesday where canons held in this way. Southwell (now a cathedral,
though the prebendaries are gone), Bedford, Twyneham, and Stafford
were collegiate churches of a like kind.

[8] Freeman's "Wells," p. 69.

[9] "Diary," Sept. 16, 1666. So far as the pillars are concerned I
know of no other time when this "casing" could have been done; and the
architecture in Hollar's prints, as reproduced in Dugdale, agrees.

[10] Dean Milman says the text was from Ezekiel, i. 5; was it not from
Revelation, iv. 6?

[11] "Documents Illustrative," p. 175.

[12] St. Faith's parish reaches westward to 62, St. Paul's Churchyard,
north side.

[13] "Chapters in the History," p. 97.

[14] Perhaps the residentiaries were increased to eleven.

[15] "Gleanings," chap. i. It is disappointing to find that it was
thought necessary to provide in the Statutes against gross immorality,
and that a fine of 3s. 4d. was deemed a sufficient punishment for the
first offence, to be doubled on repetition.

[16] Were they ever members of the chapter _ex officio_?

[17] If he had to read his share of the Psalter every day for each,
his time for affairs of State must have been encroached upon.

[18] So says Dr. Sparrow-Simpson. In the Gallican Church the _stage_
was the time of qualifying for residence. In modern French a
_stagiaire_ = a licentiate in law going through his stage.

[19] In former days. The Vicars Choral of other foundations are now
called Minor Canons.

[20] "Chapters in the History," p. 53.

CHAPTER II.

FROM THE ACCESSION OF DEAN COLET TO THE FIRE

(1505-1666).

With the Florentine studies of John