Note 10 — Horace, Ode XXII. Book I. Imitated. Integer vitæ scelerisque purus, &c.
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Churton says, in his Lives of the Founders of Brazenose College, Oxford, that “Manciples, the purveyors general of Colleges and Halls, were formerly men of so much consequence, that, to check their ambition, it was ordered by an express statute, that no Manciple should be Principal of a Hall.”