Chronicle of the Realm · Restored crown

Crime & case · during 4553–4556

Scholars’ Gate Beating

Part of The White Vault Scandals

Cambridge · Scholars’ Gate

Yard hands beat a Schola examiner after his refusal put a bench out of work for a season. He recovered, never named his attackers, and went on giving refused applicants his reasons off the record, a practice a generation of examiners learned from him.

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