and others to whom he was obliged: and the society engaged to pray for his soul and that of Bowyke, as benefactors and aiders of the college. He gave also certain jewels and books, and directed a small distribution of money (one of seven and one of five pence) to the poor, on some particular festivals, to be made at the college gate. About the same time John Forman, one of the bachelor fellows named in the charter of Magdalen hall, and perpetual vicar of Ruston by Wakefield in Yorkshire, delivered to the president and fellows one hundred marks (L.66. 13s. 4d.) for the use of the college, to be employed on fit, lawful, and honest occasions; on condition that they should always have a fellow a native of that county; to be elected by him while living; to be of his family, that is, descended from John his

a Compositio T. Ingledew. A. Wood, p. 189. His account is not correct. He calls him John, but is wrong.

Ingledew appointed xxd. to be distributed to the poor at the college gate, on certain festivals, as did likewise Preston, another benefactor; each to the amount of 3s. 7d. yearly. The like sum, and also bread, was distributed at other feasts, as on Midsummer and Magdalen day, but only of the liberality of the society and not of duty. MS. Harl. N° 4240, p. 15. "Certayne advertisements "and informations geven by the President and Seniors concerning "the Hospital." Signed by N. Bonde and eighteen Fellows.

father;

father; or, no such candidate appearing, to be born in or near the parishes of Rothwell and Ruston, one his birth-place, the other his benefice; to be a priest; to say mass for his soul, and to go several times yearly to sow the word about that neighbourhood". The same person gave, the year before Waynflete died, (13 Aug. 1485,) a sum of money for a chest, to be called Mutuum Forman, and twenty pounds for the buying of a parcel of land in Golder c.

SECT. II. THE founder had continued his attention to the endowment of his college. William de Braiosad had given in 1075 the churches of St. Peter at Sele, St. Nicholas at Bramber and at Shoreham, with some others in the county of Sussex, to the abbey of St. Florence at Salmur in France. A convent of Benedictine monks from that mo

b Compositio J. Forman. I have not seen any copy with a date. A. Wood, p. 188.

Compositiones, N° 15. Index. N° 13 is "Memoranda quæ"dam de recept. pecuniæ dat. per Johan. Forman; sine dat.”

Dr. Clerke did not know when the money called Mutuum Forman was given, but makes it distinct from his composition.

d Tanner Notit. Mon. p. 552. The rectory of Sele, with the glebe-lands and rent of houses once belonging to the priory, was valued at £.26. 9s. gd.

nastery

nastery was soon after fixed at Sele. This alien priory was made denizon in 1396; when the charter describes it as founded by the ancestors of Thomas lord Mareschal and Nottingham. The grant of it to Waynflete was ratified by John duke of Norfolk, and also by his son in October 1451 ; who relinquished to him the patronage and advowson. In the process for the annexion and appropriation, before the delegates of the bishop of Chichester in 1469, and of the Pope in 1471, John Waynflete was examined as dean and as archdeacon, to prove the seals of his chapter and of the bishops of Chichester and Winchester; and it is remarkable, Dr. William Gyfford deposed that the founder had admitted several persons to be presidents of his college, and that he had been of the number. President Tybarde and the society made Gyfford, with others, their attorney in July 1474 to take possession.

Scale in gnre, N° 62. ibid. L.-N° 18. N° 17. Appropriat. et Uniones, N° 22. N° 7. 1a. 1b. Privatio Prioris et Unio Coll. Index.

Dr. Gyfford in the last process gave in evidence that his age was about 44. He was a clerk, and was constituted by the college one of their attornies to take possession of all goods &c. given by friends and benefactors, and by the founder. 1 April, 21 Edw. IV. 1481. Again with Wm. Holden, 1 Hen. VII.

f Registr. A.

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SECT. III. As the buildings of the hospital of St. John were dispersed and irregular, and far too small for the reception of the new society, Waynflete had resolved to alter and enlarge them, to render their form more commodious, and to make the additions requisite for the comfort and convenience of a collegiate body. His progress had been suspended or retarded by his private troubles and the calamities of the nation. The return of public tranquillity afforded him leisure for a review of his plans; and the valuable see which he possessed, with his personal fortune, enabled him to carry them into execution,

SECT. IV. THE ceremony of dedicating the college to St. Mary Magdalen was perhaps intended to be solemnized when William Wyrcestre made the founder (16 Dec. 1473) a present of a book, which had belonged to sir John Fastolff, now in the archives of the Library; (a manuscript of the reign of Henry the Third, in the opinion of Hearne,) and entitled "De Sacramentis Dedi

Lowth, sect. vi.

h Budden, p. 88. Hearne Præf. Lib. Nig. Scacc. p. xxii, xxv, xix. See A. Wood Hist. et Antiq. p. 346.

❝cationis,

"cationis, Sermo." The author was Ivo, bishop of Chartres. The subject seems to have suggested the offering, which, it may be conjectured, had a further view, to remind the bishop of a former compliment, Wyrcestre having dedicated and presented to him in August, the same year, an English version of Tully De Senectute, for which he complains in his Diary "se nullum regar"dum de episcopo recepisse." What he did not obtain from such a bishop, it may be presumed he did not deserve.

Ivo sive Yvo (Lantfranci, Prioris tunc Beccensis, postea Archiep. Cantuar. auditor) ex abbate S. Quintini ad muros Bel"lovacenses, Ord. Augustiniani, Episcopus ab A. 1090 ad 1117, "Carnolensis, vir multarum virtutum et litterarum." J. A. Fabricii Biblioth. med. et inf. Lat. iv. 605, 606.

A. Wood supposed Wyrcestre the author of the Treatise De Sacramentis, but Hearne asserts that he only delivered it to him by order, and as the gift of Sir John Fastolf. I am indebted to Mr. Loveday for the name of the true author.

The MS. is on parchment, in Svo., and at the beginning Wyrcestre has written,

"Suo domino colendissimo magistro Willelmo Waynfleete, se"dis ecclesiæ cathedralis Sancti Swythini Wyntoniensis episcopo, quæ olim ante tempus consecrationis dictæ ecclesiæ templum Dagon vocabatur tempore paganorum gencium, et præsentatur "domino præscripto episcopo de beneficio domini Johannis Fas"tolf, militis, ob memoriam sui, quamvis modicum fuerit quan❝titatis, die 16 mensis Decembris anno Christi 1473°. per Wille!"mum Wyrcestre." Hearne, p. xxv.

* Budden, p. 88.

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