[In old time there was a collection made every year for the doctors,
masters, and beadles, and this was called _collecta_ or _culet_: the
latter word is now used for a customary fee paid to the beadles. "I
suppose," says Hearne, "that when this was gathered for the doctors and
masters it was only for such doctors and masters as taught and read to
scholars, of Which sort there was a vast number in old time, and such a
collection was therefore made, that they might proceed with the more
alacrity, and that their dignity might be better supported."--Appendix
to _Hist. Rob. de Avesbury_.]
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