of the fellows and scholars at Walington, during the plague £ 17 17 4 To Mr. Edward Grove, for the same, at Bracklie -£ 6 38 To Mr. Wulcy, Web, Knolls, and ney On making up their accounts they desired to be allowed for the last article the sum of eight pounds three shillings and eight pence, which they had delivered to Wulcy and Knolles, in whose hands it still remained. Knolles was elected middle bursar for the year ensuing; a proof that their not settling in the same manner as Arderne and Grove was involuntary, and that their reasons were admitted as sufficient k. Wulcy * To Richard Arderne, Thomas Knolles, and Laurence Stubbs succeeded as bursars, 18 Hen. VII, John Stokysley, John Hygdon, and John Drewett. This year the chest in the bursary was robbed of £112. They were sworn to the loss, and then their account was passed, but with a reserve in case proof should be found against them. In the account-book of the next year are the following entries respecting this business. "Solut cuidam scholastico qut (quatenus) misso ad quendam astro"logum consulendum pro bonis coll~ ablatis superiori anno xvid." "In regardis 2bus astrologis calculantibus pro eisdem bonis coll" " xx"." "Pro Wulcy seems to have quitted the college soon after the expiration of his office of dean of divinity, as I find no mention of him again in my extracts until 1506-7, (22 Hen. VII.) when an entry is made in the account-book of twelve pence paid to Mr. Wulcy's keeper, for bringing venison to the college. The cardinal came to Oxford with queen Catharine' toward the end of the year 1517, (8 Hen. VIII.) and was entertained at Magdalen. In the account-bookTM is a charge, For the expenses of the lord cardinal, late fellow : For one refection in the college, besides wine this year as by bill, £ 8 11 11 Also, For a copy of the arms of the lord cardinal, £010 Perhaps the society designed to have these painted on glass, to be placed, with the like memorials of other great men who should be of their number, in the windows of the lodgings of the president. "Pro vino dato astrologis variis vicibus per billam xiid." "Uni astrologo de Westmynstre pro furto recuperando, xiii. " iiiid." I A. Wood, p.245. m See also Dr. Clerke's Account-books, 1656, p. 132. In 1524 the cardinal appointed Hygden, then president, to be the first dean of the college which he had founded at Oxford ". In the account-book of the year 1526 is an entry, For dishes given to the counsellors of the lord cardinal, by order of Mr. President, forty-eight shillings. On what account they came to the college I know not; but in the following year Stubbs the president resigned, and Knolles was chosen to succeed him. The society instituted several suits against their late governor, which at length were referred by consent to the cardinal, each party entering into a bond of three hundred pounds to abide by his award o. Wulcy was not raised to his painful and dangerous, but envied preeminence in church and state, by good fortune and great abilities alone, and unsupported by a fair character and suitable conduct. No misdemeanor appears imputable to him as a member of Waynflete's college, which he did not leave before he was nearly, or quite, A. Wood, p. 248. • Ledger-book B. p. 169. 188. thirty years old; and it seems reasonable that we suspend our belief of such stories as represent him guilty of levity and immorality elsewhere, until we have considered their probability, and weighed their evidence; remembering always, that it is far easier to affix a stain than to remove it. СНАР THE CHAPTER XIV. The Conclusion. HE increase of knowledge and learning, which Waynflete was so solicitous to promote, produced in his society warm abettors of that Reformation which expelled the Romish religion from the University and realm of England. The relics which enriched his chapel were trampled under foot, altars removed, and Mary Magdalen the tutelar saint taken away. Of the precious effects belonging to it, Walter Haddon the president sold as many as were valued at about a thousand pounds, for fifty-two pounds fourteen shillings and eight pence; which sum he consumed on alterations, as also nearly one hundred and twenty pounds of the public money. Quarterly or yearly commemorations of the founder, and of benefactors, were established in lieu of exequies • A. Wood. and |