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Lovell, husband of the co-heiress; the remainder being left between the two sisters; and it was agreed to refer their title to arbitrators, whose award should be final ®. He was buried with his lady in the chancel at Tateshale, in Lincolnshire, where he had a castle, and where he founded and endowed a college 1 (17 Hen. VI.) for a master or warden, seven chaplains, six secular clerks, and six choristers; with an alms-house by the churchyard for thirteen poor persons; and their monument is still in being, but, the windows having been demolished, is exposed to the weather. He likewise erected the church of Ranby in the same county. His buildings were adorned with figures of purses, in reference to his office of lord high treasurer of England. His ex

k

East-Bridgeford, No 11. N° 21. Index. N° 16 is his Will. h 14 Jul. 17 Hen. VI.

Bulla super ordinatione novorum Statutorum in Coll. de Tatteshall, 1501.

It was valued 26 Hen. VIII. at 348. 5. 11. per annum, according to Dugdale and Speed; at 500 marcs, says Leland; and 36 Hen. VIII. was granted to Charles duke of Suffolk. Tanner Notit. Mon. p. 286. See also Dugdale Bar. vol. ii. p. 45. Nichols's Collection of Wills, p. 274.

i Their epitaph is copied in MS. Harl. No 6829.

k Orate pro anima Dai Radulphi Crumwell, qui incepit hoc opus Año Dài 1450. An inscription in the nave of the church of Ranby. MS. Harl. N° 6829, p. 174.

ecutors

ecutors were the bishop, the learned sir John Fortescue chief justice of the King's Bench, and Portington a justice of the Common Pleas At his church at Tateshale an antiquarian remarked" in 1629 arms, Lozengy sable and ermine, on a chief sable three lilies argent, the bearing of Waynflete after he was provost of Eton, on each side in the windows over the north and south doors, and also cut in stone over each portico. If the former are now missing, the reason probably is, that a great quantity of painted glass has been taken away, to adorn a chapel at Burleigh Hall near Stamford. The church is exempt from ecclesiastical jurisdiction °.

SECT. X. A TRIUMVIRATE, Composed of the duke of York and the lords Salisbury and Warwick, now governed the nation. Waynflete, who continued of the council, subscribed the writ for a parliament, which was held at Westminster, and opened by Henry

16 Jul. 21 Hen. VI. a great commendation of Raffe lord Cromwell, treasurer, when the king dismissed him from that office. MS. Harl. N° 6962. He entered on it 11 Hen. VI. See Rymer's Acta MSS. Candlesby 35, Index, is an exemplification of a pardon grant

ed to his executors. 35 Hen. VI.

n MSS. Harl. No 6829, p..188.

⚫ Letter from Mr. Pickburn, June 1785.

sitting in his chair of state. He presided in a committee "to establish and ordinate a "substantial rule for the king's honourable

household; and to ordain where ready pay"ment should grow for its expenses;" and signed the regulations. He is recorded among the lords spiritual and temporal who, with the duke of York, after a pardon of the insurgents, renewed their allegiance to the king in the great council-chamber, each singly taking him by the hand and repeating the oath. He was present at the council which advised the sending of a letter to the Pope, to desire that George Nevyll, son of the earl of Salisbury and brother of Warwick, might be promoted to the next vacant see; and he subscribed the writ by which York was again constituted the king's lieu

tenant.

SECT. XI. THE queen with her Lancastrians was reinstated in power, after various struggles, in 1456. The court was at Coventry; and in the priory there, on the eleventh of October, the lord chancellor Bourchier, in the presence of the duke of York, who, with the earls of Salisbury and Warwick, had been invited to attend, and of many

lords.

lords spiritual and temporal, produced to the king in his chamber the three royal seals a large one of gold; another; and one smaller, of silver P, in three leather bags under his own seal; and caused them to be opened. The king received the seals from his hands, and delivered them to the bishop of Winchester, whom he appointed his successor. Waynflete, after taking the usual oath and setting the large silver seal to a pardon prepared for the archbishop, ordered the seals to be replaced, and the bags to be sealed with his own signet by a clerk of chancery. It is mentioned that his salary was two hundred pounds a year'. The prudence of the bishop was now to be "made "eminent in warilie wielding the weight of "his office" of lord high chancellor. His advancement to it seems to have been a conciliatory measure, and enforced by, or agree able to, both parties.

P Biblioth. Cotton. Vitellius, C. xvii.

Rymer, t. xi. p. 383. See Budden, p. 76.

Holinshed, vol. ii. p. 628. Harpsfield, p. 643. Budden,

p. 75.

• Holinshed, vol. ii. p. 628.

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CHAP

CHAPTER V.

Of Bishop Waynflete while Chancellor, with the Founding of Magdalen College at Oxford.

SECT. 1. the renowned Wickliff, the N the preceding century had liv

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first assertor of religious liberty a, and author of the heresy, as it was then deemed, called Lollardism. This had been nurtured in the university of Oxford, its birth-place; where bishop Flemmyng founded Lincoln college to oppose its increase and progress. Reginald Pecock, whom he ordained at the same time with Waynflete, was a convert to the tenets of the reformer, which he propagated with success; and had become exceedingly famous by a sermon preached at St. Paul's Cross in 1447, the year of Waynflete's ad

Gilpin. Life of Wickliff.

b Pecock was ordained acolite and sub-deacon when Waynflete was made sub-deacon. They became deacons together; Pecock, on the title of Oriel college, to which he belonged. He was ordained presbyter 20 Jan. 1421. Registr. Flemyng.

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