SECT. II. I HAVE endeavoured, but hitherto unsuccessfully, to obtain more particular information respecting Sir William Brereton, the maternal grandfather of William and John Waynflete. Lord Scales was sent to forage with three thousand men, while the Earl of Warwick besieged Pontorson in 1425, and on his return was encountered by double the number of the enemy; whom he defeated with great slaughter, and then triumphantly re-entered the English camp, with provisions and a long train of captives. It was, I apprehend, in this once famous action, Brereton served under that renowned commander. He was then advanced beyond middle life, as John Waynflete at that time was dean of Chichester. In June 1474 (14 June, 14 Ed. IV.) Sir William Brereton made over to the bishop and dean, jointly with Robert Brereton rector of Brereton in Cheshire, and to their heirs and assigns for ever, all his possessions in Lincolnshire. He must then have attained to extreme old age. In the act of resumption, which passed in the third year of King Edward, provision was made, that it should not extend nor be Titus E vii. MSS. Cotton. pre prejudicial to Mr. John Waynflete, dean, and the chapter of Chichester. He died in 1481, it should seem while the bishop, who was one of his executors P, tarried at Magdalen college after the departure of King Edward. His funeral cost six pounds three shillings and five pence. He was succeeded as dean of Chichester by John Cloos; and the bishop conferred his archdeaconry on Lionel Wydevyle, whom he had presented in April 1475 to the church of Wytteneye. Richard Patten, alias Barbour, survived perhaps sir William Brereton, and, it is P Two acquittances remain. One "Johannis de Giglis facta "fundatori pro 5. 13. 1. exequatori fratris sui Johannis W. Archi"diac. 1481. Cartæ regis, &c. No 61. Index. The other, dated May 19, 20 Ed. IV. (the same year) for £20 received for dilapidations and all repairs whatsoever by Lionel Wydevyle his successor as archdeacon of Surry,-mentions the bishop ac alios executores. A "Memorandnm of the expenses atte the bereying of my lord "and maister deane of Chichestre. Also of other costs and pay"ments on his death, and at his month mind" is in being. It is a paper-book with the hand-writing of the bishop on some of the pages, in a chest in the tower of Magdalen. Thirty scuchouns of his armys cost va. The distribution to pore peple every man woman and childe 1a the day of his bereying amounted to xxxiiiiiii. The funeral cost vili iii vid. Le Neve. In his Fasti, Smith follows as archdeacon instead of Wydevyle. * Registr. Waynflete. probable, probable, died before his son John Waynflete. He was buried in the church of All Saints, which now stands above a mile distant from Waynflete, to the north-west, in the rich meadows surrounding the town on the land-side. His monument is still extant there, at the east end of the south aisle, close by the wall that divides it from the middle aisle. The arms of the bishop are mentioned by Stukeley as remaining in his time in the windows of the same church; yet they are not noticed by the diligent antiquary who preceded him in 1629; who copied from the painted glass in the south window of the chancel, Orate pro aia Willhelmi Hewarbe Prioris de Kyma et Joh is Bardney; who observed his family arms, Lozengy sable and ermyne, in a window of the church of Croyland; and the same arms with the lilies in chief, as at Tateshale, in the south window near the door of the chancel at Bennington; where also was his portrait with the legend, Effigies Willi Wainflet Epi Winton. • MSS. Harl. 6829. p. 214. + Ibid. p. 210. Richard Mr. Pickburn, in June 1785, found on the painted glass in the chancel south window the half-length portrait of a bishop with a Richard Patten is recumbent in effigy on the slab of a fair altar-tomb of alabaster, within a strong moveable enclosure of wooden palisades designed to defend it from injury. He is represented as a tall, wellmade person, not aged, of a comely pleasing countenance, without a beard, his eyes open and turned upwards, his hands closed as in prayer. He is bare-headed; his hair regularly divided in wavy locks from the centre of the crown, and cut round, reaching only to the ears. He has a large figured ring, which seems to have had a stone or seal set in it, on the forefinger of the right hand; and a narrow plain ring on the little finger of the left. He wears a gown or robe with wide puffed sleeves and with plaits, reaching from the breast to the feet; a broad hem or border at the bottom; and underneath, a vest or waistcoat, of which the sleeves are tied at the wrists with double strings. The full face and open affable countenance, but in features not like any of the figures on the monument of Richard Patten; and the mitre different, and more splendidly decorated than the sculptured one. "His right hand holds nothing in it, the fingers close, not clinch"ed, but held up and bending toward his face. His left hand ap"" pears not. He had no beard." Mr. P. could see no arms, nor motto; nor procure any information about him. I apprehend he held the crosier in his right hand, and that the painting has suffered from tempest or some other accident since 1629. two |