/ en /so-fellows-our-college-may-persevere-be-one-mind-inwardly-and-be-more-closely-united-mutual-charity <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2025-07/New%20College%20Archives%2C%20Oxford%2C%20NCA%203584%20%5Bdetail%5D.jpg.webp?itok=b7Y8FaAi" width="655" height="435" alt="Ç¿¼éÊÓƵ Archives, Oxford, NCA 3584 [detail]" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> ‘So that the Fellows of our College may persevere to be of one mind inwardly and to be more closely united in mutual charity . . .’: The Annual Liveries of Fellows and Scholars of Medieval Ç¿¼éÊÓƵ </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Timothy Hallett</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2025): 23</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/657" hreflang="en">Livery</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/128" hreflang="en">William of Wykeham</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/61" hreflang="en">Ç¿¼éÊÓƵ history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/658" hreflang="en">NCA 9431</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/514" hreflang="en">14thC history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/127" hreflang="en">15thC history</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>Ç¿¼éÊÓƵ, Oxford, possesses some of the most extensive and detailed accounts of any medieval collegiate foundation in Oxford and Cambridge. Amongst the 58 account rolls made by early wardens or bursars between 1376 and 1529 we find regular allocations of cloth, and sometimes furs, given as annual livery to the academic community established by William of Wykeham. Medieval accounts can be used in combination with the founder’s statutes and surviving pictorial evidence to gain insight into the reasoning behind academic livery, the vendors who supplied cloth and furs, costs and quantities of cloth and furs, the design and colours of academic livery, plus rules on the attire which was also prohibited to members of the college.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The college porter ejects a youth, in distinctly unclerical garb, who is not a member of the college.<br>Ç¿¼éÊÓƵ Archives, Oxford, NCA 3584</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>New College Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2025-07/23NCN2%20%282025%29%20Hallett%20on%20Liveries.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1068896" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">23NCN2 (2025) Hallett on Liveries.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.02 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:47:31 +0000 Christopher 3383 at