Danvers, relict of William Danvers, esquire. To this lady the manor of Wike, alias Staneswyke, with its appurtenances at Ashbury in Berkshire, had descended, in default of male issue from Rafe Stanes, to whom it was given by fine in the fourteenth of Edward the Third. She granted it on the seventeenth of July, 1453, to Waynflete and others. The next day, the feoffees let it to her for the annual payment of a red rose, and vested the sole right in Waynflete by release. The president and society entered into an obligation on the twenty-fourth of May, 1454, to celebrate exequies cum nota for her soul, and for the souls of her husband and of Matilda de Veer countess of Oxford. The manor was conveyed by Waynflete to his college in 1476.

SECT. III. IN 1456 the king granted a licencef for the yielding up of the priory of Luffield with its appurtenances to the president of the hall. This convent had been founded for Benedictines, at a village of that name on the confines of Buckinghamshire and

e Staneswyke. Index.

N° 66 is the Will of William Danvers, dated 12 Decem. 17 Hen. VI.

f Mortmaynes, N° 17. Index.

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Northamptonshire, by Robert Bossu earl of Leicester, in the reign of Henry the First; but had fallen into decay, and its revenues were not sufficient for the maintenance of the prior and two monks which remained. The union did not take place; and the priory, suppressed in 1494, was annexed by Henry the Seventh to the convent of Westminster 5.

SECT. IV. THE president and scholars had purchased, but not in perpetuity, four tenements belonging to University college; two standing on the east side of their hall, the other two between Horse-mull-lane and the college. They had likewise hired the Saracen's Head of the trustees of a chapel of the Virgin in St. Peter's church, at the yearly rent of forty shillings. These buildings Waynflete was about to demolish to enlarge the site, when the recovery of the king and the re-instatement of the Lancastrians in power, with the high degree of royal favour he enjoyed, enabled him to extend his de

8 Tanner Notit. Mon. p. 376. Preface, p. xxxiv.

h A. Wood, p. 188.

One of the tenements between the hall and college was in his time called Little University Hall.

signs in behalf of the needy student and of learning in general.

SECT. V. THE hospital of St. John Baptist at Oxford consisted of a master, of brethren and sisters, and was in being in the reign of king John, who was a benefactor to it. His son, Henry the Third, gave them by charter, in 1231, a garden of the Jews, who were then numerous and had a synagogue in the city, for the site of a new edifice, of which he laid the first stone, in the suburb without the east gate. A spot was reserved near it, sufficient for the burials of that peoplek. He likewise bestowed on them Kynges

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"Fratres Hosp. S. Joannis Oxon. tenent vi. acras de assarto, " de donatione dom. regis Joannis, pro animabus antecessorum et prædecessorum suorum. Br. Twyne." Tanner Notit. Mon. p. 429.

"Rex H. III. collegium et xenodochium nobile extruxit et "in memoriam patris sui regis Johannis, nomini Sti Johannis "dicavit, asyli prærogativa donavit, omnesque fere mulctas hic "delinquentium addixit. Mat. Paris, p. 526; et Chart. Univ.” Wake Rex Platon. P. 68.

* Cartæ concessæ Hospit. N° 8, N° 9, N° 4. Index. Dugdale Mon. Angl. t. ii. p. 443, 444. A. Wood, i. p. 132.

The Jews, I suppose, buried in the garden. The place reserved for their interment, and that afterwards consecrated for the hospital, was to the south, or where the Botany Garden now is. Some years ago, on taking up the floor of a ground-room on the west side of the great tower, the workmen discovered some skeletons

melne in Edendon, with its appurtenances; and, besides other articles, in 1247 a portion of the forest of Shotover'. These charters were confirmed by him, and by his son Edward the First, to whom the possessions of the Jews escheated on their expulsion from England in 1289 and the following year. A burying-place was granted to the hospital in 1296; and John de Farenden released to it for ever his right in a piece of ground opposite to it, without the east gate and between his tenements and the hospital, which was consecrated for the purpose. An exchange with the owner of the lands of the Jews near the hospital, was negotiated, and, after an inquisition, established in 1326. Certain liberties were confirmed (1318) by king Edward the Third, who issued licenses

in a row, near the surface, which by order of Dr. Jenner, then president, were left undisturbed. These were probably Jews deposited before the foundation of the hospital. When the wall of the Botany Garden was erected, many bones of various sizes and of persons of either sex were dug up; as also in 1462, when the mound was made between the east bridge and the north side of the wall.

1 "Ubi prius habere solebant per cartam nostram unum equum "sumericum singulis diebus bis itiner; autem ad siccum boscum "et subboscum in eadem foresta capiendum-Secunda meta est ab ❝ ultima quercu del Hek (de Couele) usque quercum quæ est juxta "Seggilake." Dugdale, p. 444.

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for donations in mortmain; particularly one for lands in Willoughby and elsewhere in 1334. A grant m had likewise been made to the hospital, by Henry the Sixth, in 1431.

SECT. VI. WAYN FLETE, weighing the disadvantages of a confined spot within the city-walls, where land could not be acquired but with great difficulty, and unwilling to leave his foundation subject to the inconveniences of a limited tenure, had conceived a desire of obtaining the hospital of St. John Baptist; meaning, as it afforded a most eligible situation, to convert his hall into a college. On his explaining his intentions, and the obstacles in his way, the king, it is related, after a gracious hearing, persuaded him to give the preference to Cambridge, where he had erected his own college, as wishing to amplify that university". Waynflete reminded him that he had promised his permission to convert this hospital to the uses of religion and learning; when, it is said, he replied to Master William, as he

m S. Petrus in Oriente, N° 10'. 11b. 18. Cartæ concessæ Hosp. N° 9. 4. 10. Cartæ Regis, No 28. 40. Mortmaynes, No 8, etc. Index.

n A. Wood, p. 188.

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