¹ Hastings Rashdall, ‘John Wycliffe’, in L. Stephen and S. Lee (eds), Dictionary of national biography, xxi, London 1900; Twemlow, J. A., ‘Wycliffe's preferments and university degrees’, EHR xv (1900), 529–30CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

² The best history of the college is to be found in A. Hamilton Thompson, ‘Notes on the ecclesiastical history of the parish of Henbury’, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society xxxviii (1915), 99–186. The present author is preparing Westbury-on-Trym: monastery, minster, college (Bristol Record Society, forthcoming).

³ See, for example, H. B. Workman, John Wyclif: a study of the English medieval Church, Oxford 1926, i. 163; Dahmus, J. H., ‘Wyclyf was a negligent pluralist’, Speculum xxviii (1953), 378–81CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and K. B. McFarlane, John Wycliffe and the beginnings of English nonconformity, London 1952, 26.

⁴ There is a reference to this effect in 1455: Calendar of papal letters, xi, London 1921, 231.

⁵ The prebendary of Holley had claims to present the chaplain of Compton Greenfield in the parish: Register of Bishop Godfrey Giffard, 1268–1301, ed. J. W. Willis Bund (WHS, 1898–1902), 498.

⁶ Thompson, ‘Notes on Henbury’, 117; H. J. Wilkins, The disagreement between the dean and chapter of Westbury and the vicar of Henbury, Bristol 1909, 11–31.

⁷ Thompson, ‘Notes on Henbury’, 105–18.

⁸ English Episcopal Acta, XIII: Worcester, 1218–1268, ed. P. M. Hoskin, London 1997, 128.

⁹ Worcestershire. Record Office, Worcester, Register of William Whittlesey (b 716.093; BA 2648/4(ii)), fo. 3r; reproduced in H. J. Wilkins, Was John Wycliffe a negligent pluralist? Also John de Trevisa, his life and work, London 1915, 10–14, 19–22.

¹⁰ Reg. Whittlesey, fo. 3r; Wilkins, Was John Wycliffe?, 12, 20.

¹¹ Worcestershire Record Office, Register of Godfrey Giffard (b 716.093; BA 2648/1(i)), fo. 278r; reproduced in Papsturkunden in England, ed. W. Holtzmann, Berlin 1930–52, ii. 466–7.

¹² Valor ecclesiasticus tempore Henrici VIII, ed. J. Caley, London 1810–34, ii. 434.

¹³ Taxatio ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae auctoritate papae Nicholai IV, circa 1291, ed. S. Ayscough and J. Caley, London 1802, 220.

¹⁴ Rose Graham, English ecclesiastical studies, London 1929, 271–301.

¹⁵ Worcester Cathedral Library, WCM A 5, i, fo. 151r; The Liber Albus of the priory of Worcester, parts 1 and 2, ed. J. M. Wilson (WHS, 1919), 90, no. 1228.

¹⁶ BL, Cotton Charter IV.11.B.

¹⁷ Valor ecclesiasticus, ii. 433–4.

¹⁸ Twemlow, ‘Wycliffe's preferments’, 529–30; Calendar of papal petitions, i, London 1897, 390.

¹⁹ A. B. Emden, A biographical register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500, Oxford 1957–9, i. 457, to be supplemented by J. Le Neve, Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae, 1300–1541, VII: Chichester diocese, ed. Joyce M. Horn, London 1964, 8.

²⁰ The reason for proposing this date will emerge from the discussion that follows.

²¹ Accounts rendered by papal collectors in England, 1317–1378, ed. W. E. Lunt and E. B. Graves, Philadelphia 1968, 494. The suggestion that Wycliffe owed £29 5s. 8d. (Anne Hudson and Anthony Kenny in ODNB), is a misunderstanding; that sum is a total of several assessments or payments, including Wycliffe's.

²² Wilkins, Was John Wycliffe?, 10–18 (Eng. trans.), 18–26 (Latin).

²³ Giffard also talks of ‘newly added’ prebendaries being allowed a year in which to find a vicar, but this related to a scheme of his to increase the number of prebends, and did not apply to the five original prebendaries although it may, perhaps, have been misinterpreted to do so by Wycliffe's time.

²⁴ ‘Item magister Johannes Wynkele canonicus et prebendarius in eadem quem ego decanus induxi in corporalem possessionem eiusdem prebende, qui eciam iuramentum corporale de obseruando statuta et consuetudines ac obseruaciones eiusdem ecclesie colleg[iate] qui debuit exhibuissse vnum capellanum in eadem iuxta formam superius expressatam, et nullum penitus exhibuit sed omnino subtraxit per vnum annum integrum vltimo elapsum nec aliquam fecit residenciam a tempore assecucionis sue’: Reg. Whittlesey, fo. 3v; Wilkins, Was John Wycliffe?, 16–17, 24.

²⁵ Wilkins, Was John Wycliffe?, 27; Workman, John Wyclif, i. 159; McFarlane, John Wycliffe, 26; Emden, Biographical register, iii. 2104; Hudson and Kenney in ODNB.

²⁶ C. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica medii aevi, Münster 1897–1910, i. 561

²⁷ Registrum Simonis de Sudbiria, diocesis Londoniensis, ed. R. C. Fowler (Canterbury and York Society, xxxiv, xxxviii, 1927–38), i. 251–2; ii. 153.

²⁸ Reg. Whittlesey, fo. 11r-v; Wilkins, Was John Wycliffe?, 43–4 (Eng. trans.), 44–6 (Latin).

²⁹ M. E. H. Lloyd, ‘John Wyclif and the prebend of Lincoln’, EHR lxi (1946), 388–94; Calendar of papal registers, iv, London 1902, 193.

³⁰ Calendar of patent rolls, 1374–7, London 1916, 121.

³¹ Ibid. 195.

³² Accounts rendered by papal collectors, 494.

³³ Calendar of patent rolls, 1374–7, 393.

³⁴ Calendar of patent rolls, 1381–5, London 1898, 408; A calendar of the register of Henry Wakefield, bishop of Worcester, 1375–95, ed. W. P. Marett (WHS n.s. vii, 1972), 124.

³⁵ McFarlane, John Wycliffe, 26.

³⁶ Reg. Whittlesey, fo. 3r.

³⁷ The statutes of the realm, from Magna Carta to the end of the reign of Queen Anne, ed. A. Luders and others, London 1810–28, i. 373–4.

³⁸ Registrum Simonis de Langham, Cantuariensis archiepiscopi, ed. A. C. Wood (Canterbury and York Society lii, 1956), 55.

³⁹ Wilkins, Was John Wycliffe?, 51–62.

⁴⁰ TNA, E 179/58/5.

⁴¹ Wycliffe, Tractatus de officio pastorali, ed. G. V. Lechler, Leipzig 1863, 29–30; De veritate sacrae scripturae, ed. R. Buddensieg (Wyclif Society, 1905–7), iii. 37–9; Tractatus de blasphemia, ed. M. H. Dziewicki (Wyclif Society, 1893), 178.