Note 327 — Chapter IV · COLLEGIATE AND SOCIAL LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY

The first public orator was Richard Croke; Sir T. Smith, Sir J. Cheke, Roger Ascham, and George Herbert the poet, all held the office. Caius supposes that the master of glomery was university orator, whose duty it was to entertain princes and peers and to indite the epistles of the university on great occasions. He supposes also that as “senior regent” he collected and counted the suffrages in all congregations: the Statutes however show us this officer in company with two junior regents sorting the votes cast for the proctors. See also iii. p. 164 n.