pence; to the chaplain ten marcs, to be paid by the master from the profits of the parish church of Crondale and of St. Faith near Wynton, and of other benefices, in conformity to the intention of the appropriator; and to the master, for his trouble, four pounds. The residue of their income he directed to be reserved annually, for the necessary expenses of the premises; the lodgings of the chaplain and brethren to be repaired according to the old statutes and ordinances. SECT. V. THE bishop appears to have possessed a robust constitution, and to have long enjoyed almost uninterrupted health. He now fell suddenly into a grievous disease, which, in the figurative language of Dr. Budden, creeping and stealing through his limbs and marrow, got into the citadel of his heart, and so entirely overcame him as to bring on a speedy dissolution. He died on Friday the 11th of August, 1486", at four P.89. "In gravissimum morbum repente incidit; qui ubi per "artus et medullas in arcem cordis furtim irrepsisset, sic hominem "senio et laboribus confectum prorsus debilitavit, ut-" perhaps an inflammatory disorder, which began at a distance, and gradually reached the vitals. u Ledger-book I. fol. 117. The letter to the king notifying his death in the usual form is dated 15th August 1486. Registr. A. f. 53. tertio iduum Aug. in the afternoon. His disorder, of which the account is obscure, seems to have begun in the extremities. Its inroad was gradual, and it seized on his vitals by insensible degrees, as we are told; for he was able, as is proved by his Register, to give institution to a living on the same day. The body was removed to Winchester with great funeral pomp, and, after the usual solemnity, deposited in the tomb within the chapel of St. Mary Magdalen in the cathedral, according to the directions in his will. In the Account-book of the year a payment is entered, for three carts which conveyed to the college servants belonging to the president; and for the carriage of divers things from Waltham. Among the articles then removed were probably the mitre, crosier, and pontifical habit of the founder; which were reposited as memorials of him in the treasury. At his exequies performed in the college were expended three pounds six shillings and cleven pence halfpenny; and on the trental, three pounds eight shil * Account-book, 1488. "Solut. Will. tonsori pro cera viridi pro "floribus fiendis circa candelas in obitu fundatoris iiiid. 1498. So"lut. campanario Oxon. proclamanti exequias fundatoris iiii. sc. "solidi." lings and seven pence. On his obits, the chapel, we may suppose, was dressed in suitable hangings, and all the sad solemnity observed which is usual in the Roman catholic worship on such occasions. A charge is extant for green wax, for the making of flowers round the candles. A distribution of forty shillings yearly, on his anniversary, was decreed by the president and senior fellows. We find the executors busied in settling their concerns with the college. Fees were given to counsel for advice, and Dr. Mayew attended parliament on the business of the society. It has been observed, that three prelates in succession held the same bishopric an hundred and nineteen years, the time between the consecration of Wykeham and the death of Waynflete. The last had it thirty-eight years and twelve days, (one year less than Wykeham, and three than Beaufort,) according to Budden, who computes from his installation, which was on the 30th MSS. Harl. No 4240. a MSS. Ashmole, N° 810. In the printed Catalogue, No 7484. P. 89. of of August 1448; or thirty-nine years, if we follow Godwin ed. He was elected, we have seen, on the 15th of April 1447, and consecrated on the 13th of July following. The see continued vacant until the 29th of January 1487, when Courtney bishop of Exeter was translated to it by a bulle of Pope Innocent. I have met with no accusation of, or reflection on, Waynflete, which I have not produced into open view. Humane and benevolent in an uncommon degree, he appears to have had no enemies but from party, and to have disarmed even these of their malice. His devotion was fervent without hypocrisy; his bounty unlimited except by his income. As a bishop, he was a kind father revered by his children as a founder, he was magnificent and munificent. He was ever intent on alleviating distress. and misery. He dispensed largely by his almonere to the poor. He enfranchised se C P. 232. d 37 years, 11 months, 12 days, if computed from his installation, 30th Aug. 1448; or 39 years, 3 months, 27 days, if taken from his election, 15th April 1447. EDITOR. • Budden, p. 87. veral of his vassals from the legal bondage to which they were consigned by the feudal system. He abounded in works of charity and mercy. Amiable and affable in his whole deportment, he was as generally beloved as respected. The prudence, fidelity, and innocence, which preserved him when tossed about on the variable waves of inconstant fortune, during the long and mighty tempest of the civil war, was justly a subject of wonder to his biographer, Dr. Budden. It is remarkable, that he conciliated the favour of successive sovereigns of opposite principles and characters; and that, as this author tells us, the kings his benefactors were, by his address in conferring obligations on them in his turn, converted from being his creditors into his debtors. "Servos complures quos dura gentium constitutio dominio "alieno contra naturam subjecisset libertate donabat." Budden, p. 87. Ex Archiv. Wint. In Ledger-book I. occur the deeds of enfranchisement. Budden, p. 87. Ex Archiv. Wint. 8 P. 59. "Qua sapientia, fide," &c. P. 88. CHAP |