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Excerpt from College Life in the Time of James the First The next morning he was admitted as a fellow-commoner in the ancient and religious foundation' of St J ohn'a, and at the same time was admitted his subsizar, one Thomas Manning, the son of a clergyman, who had been silenced' by the three Articles of Archbishop Whitgift in the preceding reign. Several of the offices which are now performed for the wealthy dergraduates by an ordinary servant of the col lege, were in those days performed by a boy Of inferior condition, who had been well stored with grammar learning at some country school, and was allowed to partake Of the privileges and aspire to the honours of the University. All the offices of the subsizar, which we find alluded to in this Diary, are the calling up to morning chapel, announcing at the same time what it is of the clock, ' and the carrying out letters and messages into the town. The nobility, both male and female, were waited upon by persons of gentle birth; and they, in their turn, exacted the like services from domestics taken out of the families of the most respectable of their tenants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.