PREFACE V Unless otherwise stated, the date attached to a Fellowship is that of election as Probationer, not of admission to the status of ' verus et perpetuus socius ' at the end of the year of Probation. This applies to all Fellowships before the Statutes made under the Universities of Oxford and Cam- bridge Act, 1877, and to Ordinary Fellowships since the date of those Statutes. There is no Probationary jeav for Official Fellows. The status of the father (e.g. arm., cler., gen.) has been recorded up to 1875 ; from 1876 onwards this has been dropped, on the ground that of late years the distinction between 'armiger', 'generosus', &c., has ceased to have the significance which it once had,^ and the designation of ' armiger ' has been loosely applied, and in different ways, by successive College authorities. The f. for ' filius ' has been omitted except where the omission might cause ambiguity. Thus, e.g. arm. is always to be understood as ' armigeri filius '. ]S[ames ^ are placed under the first year in which there is any record of connexion with Brasenose orany other College in the University. Hence a Fellow of the College, who matriculated at some other College, is placed under the year of his matriculation, not that of his admission to Brasenose.^ Before 1576 the year under which a name is placed may often be considerably later than that in which the connexion with the College or the University began. The foundation to which any Scholarship belonged is noted, when known, up to the end of the eighteenth ^ For the original meaning of 'armiger' and 'generosus' see a note by Mr. I. S. Leadam in his edition oi Select Cases in the Couti ofBequests, A. D. 1497-1569 (Selden Society, vol. xii),p. 147, where a passage bearing on the subject is quoted from Camden's Britannia. * Where a name occurs in several forms, the first is usually that which is given as the normal form in the Index to A. Clark's Begister of the University of Oxford 1571-1622, O.H.S., vol. xiv. This at least was the Editor's original intention, though he fears that it may not have been uniformly carried out. ' The numbers exhibited in the Charts are those of the men recorded under each year, and are therefore not in all cases equivalent to the number of the men admitted to the College in the year.