IV. Litera procuratoria missa Regi Henrico sexto ad con- firmandam Electionem factam de Willˇmo Wayne- V. Litere misse Domino Pape Nicholao quinto. VII. Extract of the Will of King Henry the Sixth....... 318 VIII. Letter of the University of Oxford to Provost Wayn- flete on the Subject of Duke Humphrey's Books... 321 IX. Instrumentum Fundationis Aulæ Beatæ Mariæ Mag- inter Thomam Davers et Doctorem Haydock...... 364 XXII. Letter of the Founder to his College.... XXIII. Letter of John Gygur to the Bishop of Winchester, XXIX. Letter of the Founder respecting William Hewster. 389 XXXII. Extracts from Account-Books relating to the building XXXIII. Extract of the College-Register concerning the Visit LIST OF THE PLATES. Vignette. Tomb of Waynflete. Plate I. Portrait of William Waynflete, to face the Title. II. School-house at Waynflete, Lincolnshire III. Magdalen College, Oxford.. p. 172 Tailpiece. Seal of Magdalen College, Oxford ......296 THE LIFE OF WILLIAM WAYNFLETE. CHAPTER I. Of William Patten, alias Barbour, to the Time of his assuming the Name of Waynflete. SECT. I. W bishop of Winchester, lord LIAM WAYNFLETE, high chancellor of England in the reign of king Henry VI., and founder of Magdalen college in the university of Oxford, was son of Richard Patten, alias Barbour, of Waynflete, a market-town on the sea-coast of Lincolnshire. The father of William Waynflete was called, it should seem, indifferently Patten or Barbour. Surnames, when Richard Patten or Barbour lived, were not fixed and ascertained as in later times; an alias very frequently occurs though the person be emi |