the founder on the 18th of July d 1482, with certain ordinances and statutes; particularly the statute concerning the election of scholars to a year of probation and admission to be actual fellows; on which the scholars, to whom he confided them, deliberated during the 19th. On the next day he admitted twenty actual and perpetual fellows. Then also the first deans were elected, with the unanimous consent of all the seniors of the college; Mr. William Rydall dean of divinity, Mr. Thomas Kerver and Mr. William Fell, deans of the faculty of arts. The president, vice-president, and three deans next proceeded, as the founder and the statutes had directed, to the election of middle commoners, vulgarly called demys, which lasted three days. On the 26th the president and all the fellows proceeded to elect scholars to a year of probation. An oath,

d Registr. A. f. 15. The royal grant for the foundation is also dated 18th July.

e" In veros et perpetuos socios, quorum nomina et agnomina "sequuntur, &c."

Marye Mawdelen College vulg. nuncupat.

f They were admitted ad medias cominas, or communas, collegii.

• Sixteen masters of arts, five bachelors, were elected, all or most the same as probationers in 1480.

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as the statute enjoined, was required from all who were chosen h. The restriction of fellowships and demyships to particular counties and dioceses took place, it is apprehended, at this time'. The only qualifications before required for a demyship were, to be versed in grammar, in logic, and in plain chant. The number of fellows and demys was not yet fixed. Sixteen masters and five bachelors of arts were elected probationers. At the admission of demys on the 28th of July, eighteen who had attained to their sixteenth year were sworn; and all these had been of the college before, in commons, without the oath and statutes. Their counties are specified. The first sworn was Nicholas Tycheborn of Hampshire. Seven were admitted but not sworn, being under age; and four nominated, but not admitted.

SECT. XIX. THE same year (1482) was remarkable for a disturbance, created at the election of proctors for the university by

h Oath of the scholars at their admission, f. 17. Reg.

i See their names and surnames, f. 18; also f. 32; f. 20 to 25 ; and f. 51. F. 26 is the admission of a demy of Lancashire county, York diocese.

k A. Wood, p. 189.

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the regent masters of Magdalen college. Waynflete, whose interposition was required, directed that the smaller should be guided by the larger party. Three who refused to submit to the majority and their decision, were, after due deliberation, dismissed from the society in consequence of his letter1; and the Register adds, that this conduct of the president and masters was highly agreeable to the founder ". The same letter, with the statute which directs how dissensions should be pacified, was again taken into consideration by the president, officers, and six seniors assembled in the hall", in 1488; when they made a decree, that in future no fellow or scholar should labour, or be any way concerned, in obtaining the proctorship for himself or another without the consent of the president, or, in his absence, of the vice-president, and a majority of the masters; under the penalty of immediate expulsion, in case of perseverance after an admonition to desist.

SECT. XX. IN the following year king

1 See Appendix, N° XXII.

m Registr. A.

n Ibid.

Edward,

Edward, distressed by the situation of his affairs foreign and domestic, fell into a deep melancholy. He died April 9th, 1482, and was buried on the 19th. His body was conveyed from Westminster to Eton, where it was received by the procession of Windsor. It was censed at the castle-gate by the archbishop of York; and by the bishop of Winchester, who was also present, with divers great persons, when his effects were sequestered by the archbishop of Canterbury, his executors not administering to his will. The body was discovered in March 1789, in repairing the choir of St. George's chapel at Windsor.

• Sandford's Geneal. Hist. p. 392.

P Nichols's Collection of Wills.

A particular account of this discovery, drawn up by Mr. Emlyn, may be seen in the third volume of Vetusta Monumenta, at plate VII.

-EDITOR.

CHAP.

CHAPTER IX.

Proceedings at Oxford in the time of King Richard the Third; with the Building of the Chapel and School-house at Waynflete in Lincolnshire.

SECT. I.TT was affirmed and believed of king Richard the Third, by the multitude, that he had stabbed prince Edward after the battle of Tewksbury, had assassinated king Henry in his bed, and had compassed the destruction of the duke of Clarence, his own brother. He had besides recently usurped the throne, not without bloodshed; and had shut up the young king Edward the Fifth and the prince, his nephews, in the Tower. He was, however, as yet guiltless of their murther, when he resolved

■ Stow. Baker. He was crowned with his queen, July 6, 1483, and afterwards visited Gloucester. On the journey he devised the smothering of the young king Edward Vth and his little brother, in the Tower, which foul deed was perpetrated before the month expired. Richard issued the same year proclamations for the reformation of manners, and one is directed to the bishop of Winchester. Rymer, c. xii. p. 205.

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