No XXIII. See p. 171.

Letter of John Gygur to the Bishop of Winchester, concerning the Chapel and School-House at Waynflete.

Indorsed, A Remembrance for Carpentry and the Brekewerke to be made for the Chapell of Wayneflete.

My singuler good lord after most louli recommendacyon and many thankys for your good lordschip shewyd unto your rere College and me at al tymes and specialli at my last beyng wyth the same plesyth your good lordschip to wyte that the house that was ordeyned to have be bougth for your Scule and Chapel at Waynflete ys don a way and so I was wyth mayster Tontoft and John Robenson to let tham wyte howe your lordschip trustyth up on them to help you ye mygth have an house and thei sey thei can have non that the tymbur wold be seure to contynewe in tyme to come but thei thynkyth that ther must be ordeyneyed for a newe rofe yif your lordship so wol be plesyd and so I have sent Harry Alsbreke to commune wyth your lordship and he wol not make you an house of lxx of length and xx1 fote of brede to fynde al maner of stuff longyng to the same lesse then xxxti pounds and he to fynd al cariage ther to and be cause my lord ye can best understond whether his petycion be resonabyl I beseche you to commune rypli wyth hym and to

express

express the very forme and length wyth brede of the same and I have tituled you suche thyngs as nedyth to be expressyd after my conceyte in a scrolle send to your lordship and as for bryke to be had for your scole bothe Tontoft and John Robynson taryth the comyns of a gentilman that thei trust to have good penyworthes of and thei beke dayli somhat comyns and thei doute not but ye schal have brike plenty and therfor nowe ye must nede send the maner of makyng of the house as wel for the chyrch as for the brikeman and then I doute not but ye schal sone be answeryd in al your desyres. My lord thise scole may not be of no grete hethe nor nedyth not but my lord ye may take hym an example of sum maner house in your nobyl place of Ascher that may be exemple to hym for I remember ye have many dyverse houses of mene byldyng in the same that wold be convenient and acordyng to your entent and my lord yif happ bargen wyth you your reward nedyth be but litel and yif he don not I have give xld of myn owne purse and your lordship schal content the residewe of his costs and I pray your lordship in avoydyng more cost let him lyghtly be answered and I trust at the comyng of my mayster president your lordship schal be more playnli enformed as I trust. My good lord I am gretli troubyld wyth on Eland for xxxiis of rent that my lord Crowel purchesyd of Sir Robert Eland his fader and nowe his sone shewyth howe hyt ys clerly entayled and so I fere sore hyt wol be lost to morowe I must be wyth the Chefe juge ther for and the

next weke bothe the seyd Eland and I god be my helpe the which ever preserve your good lordship in

good live and healthe.

Your bedman

John Gygur.

Dat Deus omne bonum.

[In another hand-writing.]

No XXIV. See p. 171.

(Supposed in the Archives of Magd. Coll. Oxford.) Indenture for the Carpentry of the Chapell and Scole in Waneflete. 1o R. III.

THIS Indenture made the xxv day of Aprill, the yere of the reigne of Kyng Richarde the thirde the furst, betwene the reverend fader in god William Busshop of Winchestre on the oon party, and Henry Alsbroke of Tateshall in the Counte of Lincoln Carpenter on the other party Witnesseth that the seid Henry hath covenaunted aggreid and bargayned and by these presents graunteth to make for the seid R. fader at Waynflete in the seid Counte of Lincoln, a flore with a Rofe of Tymber of good herte of ooke conteyning in lengthe Ixx foote, and in brede within the walles xxti foote with dores windowes steyres hynches reredoses desks and all other thyngs necessarye that longeth to carpentry werk for a Chapell and Scolehouse to be made within the seid

towne of Waynflete and the seid flore shalbe well and sufficiently made aftur the patron and facyon of the flore of the chambyr in the Towre on the gate of the maner of Essher in the Counte of Sotherey and the forseid Rofe to be of vii bayes evěry bay frome the midds of the beme shall conteyn x. foote in lengthe, and evˇy raffter shalbe xxti foote in lengthe vi. inches in brede and iiii. inches in thicknes. Also the lower doobyll purlyon pece shalbe viii. inches of brede and vi. inches in thicknes. And the overpurlyon for the seid flore shalbe of herte of ooke and of inch and quarter thicknes dry and wrought: for all which tymber stuff and borde necessarye to the same werke beyng of herte of ooke with the cariage of the same and for all man' of warkmanship nedefull to be doon by Carpenters in the foreseid werk wele and warkmanly doon set up nesshed the seid R. fader shall pay unto the seid Henry by the hands of maist' John Gygur Warden of Tateshall or his assignes xxvli. xiii s. iiii d. and a gown cloth or ells vis. viii d. for a gown cloth. In witnes wherof the parties aboveseid to these Indentures enterchaungeably have put to ther seales the day and yere abovseid.

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No XXV. See p. 171.

Extracts from Letters of Mr. Pickburn concerning the School at Waynflete.

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Revd Sir,

AM happy to find that the memory of our excellent Founder will be rescued from oblivion by a pen so able to do justice to his worthy character. If any thing in my power can in the least degree contribute to so laudable a design, it will give me unspeakable pleasure.

The number of steps in the staircase is forty-two; viz. eighteen from the ground to the school-floor, and twenty-four from thence to the top, where the door opens to the leaded roof. The building is brick; the bricks of a somewhat larger size, better clay, and closer contexture, than those usually made in our neighbourhood. These are supposed (how truly I know not) to have been made in the isle of Ely, and conveyed hither by water; many of them are formed in curious figures for ornamental parts, as cornices, or mouldings, in the door-cases, windows, &c. The number of windows I take to have been orginally thirty; viz. in the school and chapel six on each side, two large ones in the ends, and two in the bell-tower, which last two were bricked up long before my time. In the lower apartments there have been seven on each side, but only five appear, the door and chimney filling the places of