Note 159 — VIII. LINCOLN COLLEGE.

These “Sunday pence” were paid in all Oxford parishes. In 1525 payment was disputed; and in the test case between Lincoln College, as rector of All Saints church, and William Potycarye alias Clerke of All Saints parish, payment was enforced under penalty of “the greater excommunication.” Several tenements in Oxford continue to this day to pay to their parish church quit-rents of 4s. 8d. representing these old “Sunday pence.” Their owners have the satisfaction of knowing that these tenements represent the most ancient holdings in Oxford.