haps, instead of either of the colleges to which he has been ascribed, he belonged to that Inn. Leilont died in 1428d. The art of printing was not yet invented, or not practised in England.

SECT. III. THE literary attainments of William, which may be supposed not inconsiderable for the age he lived in, did not qualify him for an ecclesiastic more than his disposition to piety. I have endeavoured to trace his progress in the orders of the Romish church, not wholly without success; and in particular am enabled to fix the time of his assuming the name of Waynflete in lieu of Barbor, under which, if I mistake not, he is found in the episcopal register of the see of Lincoln. The ordinations were held in the parish church of Spalding by bishop Fleming; and

1420, April 21st, Easter Sunday, among the unbeneficed acolytes occurs William

Barbore.

1420, January 21st, William Barbor became

a sub

d A. Wood, Hist. et Antiq. ii.

e

• Regist. Fleming. fol. 175. In the archdeaconry of Lin

coln

a subdeacon by the stile of William Waynflete of Spalding.

1420, March 18th, William Waynflete of Spalding was ordained deacon; and

1426, January 21st, presbyter, on the title of the house of Spalding.

The same prelate admitted Reginald Pecock of Oriel college, Oxford, afterwards a learned doctor and bishop, to some of the orders of the church, at the same place, and at the same times, as William Barbor or Waynflete.

"It was a fashion in those days from a "learned spirituall man to take awaie the

coln is a gap between 16th June 1423 and 5th July 1425, where begin Institutions by the official, sede ibid. vacante, with this memorandum, hoc loco tria folia desiderantur, excisa scalpello. See Collections from Ancient Registers by Dr. Matthew Hutton, in the British Museum. Catal. MSS. Harl. N° 6949.

Pope Martin issued a rescript, transferring by provision bishop Flemmyng to the archbishopric of York, vacant by death. The dean and chapter resisted him as he was about to enter the church, The pope was compelled to re-transfer him to Lincoln by a contrary rescript. Duck v. Chich, p. 39.

f Spalding. About 1074, the church of St. Mary and the manor were given to the abbey of St. Nicholas at Angiers, from whence were sent over some Benedictine monks, and it became an alien priory to that foreign monastery. It was given 20 Hen. VI. to King's college, Cambridge, and 1 Edw. IV. to Sion abbey. Tanner Notit. Mon. p. 251.

See chap. v. sect. i. note 2.

"father's

"father's surname (were it never so worship"full or ancient), and give him for it the 66 name of the towne he was borne in." Holinshed, after producing several instances, observes, that this in like manner happened to William Waynflete, "a matter right prove"able." The usage was certainly common on taking orders; but, though it probably continued to the era of the Reformation, appears to have fallen soon after into oblivion; for an opinion that the family of William was called Waynflete had prevailed so strongly, as to occasion Budden i the labour of some pages to confute it, and to establish a different appellation. He has cited Holinshed, yet seems not aware of the fashion, but supposes that the father of William, as the shoots of the generous stock from which he sprung were numerous, had, to avoid confusion, assumed as his distinction the local denomination'.

The episcopal registers furnish many in

P. 232, Holinshed's Chronicle.

i P. 53, 55.

k P. 56.

1 P. 55. "Nam cum multæ essent tam generosæ stirpis pro"pagines, nisi una ab aliâ commode discerneretur, ingens profecto "eveniret nominum confusio." In marg. Geneal. Fundat.

stances

m

stances of the name of Waynflete taken by, or imposed on, ecclesiastics, and it is often difficult to ascertain the identity of the persons. Both Waynflete and Patten were also common surnames. In Rymer" is a John Waynflete, and a John Paten, owner, or master, each of a vessel for transporting pilgrims on their way to St. James of Galicia,

in 1451.

I have noted seventeen modes of spelling the name adopted by William. In the episcopal register at Winchester it is commonly Waynflete; but there also occurs Wayneflete, and Waynflett. The first was constantly used, if I mistake not, by the bishop.

William

From the Lincoln Register :- -3 Jan. 1415. Waynflete having the first clerical tonsure, was presented to the church of Salmanby.

28 Jan. 1415. Master John Waynflete, presbyter, exchanged the rectory of St. Mary of Binnebroke for Salmanby.

Kal. Jan. 1420. William Waynflete was ordained presbyter.. From MS. Harl. N° 6962.

19 Feb. 14 Hen. VI. John Waynflete presented to Monks Shirborn, Hants.

26 May, 14 Hen. VI. The king consents that brother John Waynflete be elected abbat of Bardney.

John died 26 Hen. VI.

See also Willis's Abbies, vol. i. p. 30. vol. ii. p. 328.

a T. xi. p. 280,

CHAP

CHAPTER II.

Of William Waynflete to the Time of his Advancement to the See of Winchester by King Henry VI.

SECT. I.

W

YKEHAM has directeda that the master of his school at Winchester should be a person sufficiently learned; possessed of skill in teaching, of good fame and conversation, hired and removable; that he should instruct and inform the scholars of his college with assiduity; superintend them, their lives and manners, with diligence; reprove or punish sloth, idleness, or other delinquency, without distinction or partiality. He has forbad his demanding, asking, or exacting from the scholars, their parents or friends, any recompense; and the reader will not be displeased to know the reward assigned for his labour. He has allowed the master weekly commons, the same as the fellows and chaplains; to wit, twelve pence in plentiful

• Mr. Blackstone.

years;