##### Statuta Collegii S. Aldati Oxon, newly printed 1648 — folio xxxiij, cap. xxv. De officio coqui.
Coquus principalis, ad mensam Magistri et sociorum præparandam constitutus, accipiet annuatim contra battellos suos summam sex librarum tredecim solidorum quatuor denariorum, in compensationem laboris in coquinâ Collegii sustentandâ, atque in pretium curæ qua cibos pro infirmis ex propriâ manu coquit. Allowance ad eius officium pertinet et inter battellos numeratur.
Coquus subordinatus — qui per Quadragesimam et per ieiunia maiora pisces et legumina præparat — eo titulo accipiet contra battellos suos summam triginta solidorum, ne ieiunium Collegii inanibus mensis celebretur.
Hoc capitulum lectum coram Magistro et senioribus, et confirmatum, xxij die Junii anno 1648.
— in the foot margin, in the same older hand as the foregoing chapter —
Tho. Acland, bursar 1646–53, this xiij of Februarie 1649. The cooks allowance hath alwaies stood in the booke of battels, and shall stand. The College may close the chapell for repair; it may not close the kitchen. What is given to the kitchen is given by the College openly, and at the foot of the leaf, and entered to the booke as wage. Allowance is not gift; it is wage. The booke knoweth the wage.
— at the head of the leaf, in pencil, in a hand of the last quarter of the seventeenth century —
vide ad annum 1675. Mr. Sparke confirmed this allowance to Will. Page, coq. princ., on his first day at the bursary; he confirmed no other allowance the booke had not already named. The booke spake of the kitchen first.