Smith and Gilbert were physicians to Queen Elizabeth; Baronsdale and Gilbert had been Senior bursars of the College.
"St. John's College, Cambridge"
Robert Forsyth Scott
The custom was still observed at Hawsted in 1784, and in Eden's time, 1797, the bursars of New College, Oxford, presented each of their tenants with two pairs, which the recipients displayed on the following Sunday at church by conspicuously hanging their hands over the pew to show their neighbours they had paid their rent.
"A Short History of English Agriculture"
W. H. R. Curtler
15. August 7. 1641. Overtures anent bursars, and Expectants.
"The-Acts-Of-The-General-Assemblies-of-the-Church-of-Scotland"
Church of Scotland. General Assembly