room twenty feet by eighteen, divided by a partition of solid brickwork, toward the east end of the lower story, belonged to the original plan. It has two towers, which project at the west end. In the northern is the stair-case; in the other a bell, with an inscription round the crown, in old capital letters d + AVE MARIA · GRA· SIA PLENA in which a mistake in one word may be imputed to inadvertency or ignorance. Perhaps the lower story was intended for the school, and an apartment for the master. It now affords a comfortable habitation to him and his family. The upper is the present school-room, seventy feet long and twenty broad, with six windows on each side and two Mr. Pickburn, and Vetust. Mon. vol. iii. The free school, founded in 1459, was orginally intended as a chapel, endowed with a pretty good revenue, to pray for his own soul, and the souls of his ancestors. The endowment of this school is seventeen marks a year for a master to teach grammar learning (i. e. Greek and Latin). Magdalen college, Oxford, to whom the school and the appointment of master belong, repaired the building in 1755. A pulpit and seat still remain in it, though disused. The school is kept at the east end. In the east window was (in 1629) the portrait of the bishop, with his arms, and Vulnera, &c., which was twice repeated in the west window. large The CHAPEL and SCHOOL-HOUSE at WAYNEFLETE in Lincolnshire Erected by WILLIAM WAYNEFLETE Founder of MAGDALEN COLLEGE Oxford. Ex-dono Collegii SM Magdalena Oxoniensis P. II. large ones in the ends. The former have been filled with lilies painted on single panes, of which more than an hundred remain, irregularly scattered; some very clear, others obscure, inverted or upright, as they happened to be put together in repairing. All the windows have been strongly ironed; and those below have had very massive shutters on the inside, as appears from the iron hooks left in the wall. The civil war and the licence of the barons had rendered precaution necessary. It was unsafe to abide in a dwelling not barricaded or fortified. A man's house was indeed his castle. What an age to live in! The painted glass of the two large wino ws of the upper story was removed, or destroyed, before August 1755. In 1629 the arms of the founder were extant in that at the west end, in two places; in that at the east, in one. His portrait was also visible in the latter, with the following verse: "Vulnera quinque Dei sint medicina mei!” which it is likely had been preceded by an hexameter, likewise in monkish rime, mak • MS. Harl. N° 6829, p. 214. ing mention of the five joys of the virgin Mary. The five wounds of Christ were of great celebrity in the papal church. They were displayed with a chalice on the banner of the rebels who advanced from the north, brandishing a cross before them, in the time of queen Elizabeth. The office of the mass to be celebrated in commemoration of them was, according to the rubric, delivered to Boniface bishop of Rome by the angel Raphael in person, who told him, among other extraordinary things, that, if it were used for the dead, as soon as it should be ended five times the soul should be freed from purgatory. Waynflete, who believed in its efficacy, ordered, as will be seen by his testament, that it should be said for him five thousand times. An altar after the Romish fashion, with an image, probably of Mary Magdalen, adorned I suppose one end of the upper room, which was the chapel; and was removed at the time of the Reformation. A pulpit and reading-desk remain, but fixt on the tops of two scholar-seats, and visibly of later construction. Though not intended for a Life of Gilpin, p. 239. See Hist. of Eliz. place |