he assigned thirty. The successor of Waynflete in the school was William Westbury', master of arts, of New college; who, it is not improbable, had been educated under him, as many eminent and learned persons were, at Winchester or Eton; and whom he afterwards (in 1465) collated to the mastership of St. Cross, vacant by the resignation of Dr. Chaundler. Budden mentions, that by favour of sir Henry Saville he had seen leases at Eton signed by provost Waynflete. The arms of the family of Patten alias Barbour were a field fusily ermine and sable. Waynflete, as provost, inserted on a chief of the second, three lilies slipped argent; being the arms of the college. This addition was made as a token of gratitude to the king, because from Eton he derived honour and dignity"; not to acknowledge his education there, as Guillim most absurdly supposes. a Hugget. Hugget, vol. iii. p. 310. • P.53. * Budden does not set forth properly the arms of provost Wayn flete, when he says he quartered the Eton lilies, they being added in a chief. Hugget. Dr. Wilson. Le Neve has lozengy for fusily, p. 493. " Budden, p. 54. Le Neve, p. 493. × Guillim, 408. His example was followed by provost Luptony in 1525. He retained this bearing after his removal to the see of Winchester, caused it to be engraved on the public seal of his hall, and transmitted it to his college. Much stress has been laid on it, as a variation from the Patten arms, by those who have contended that his name was originally Waynflete. His arms are noticed as remaining at Eton in 1763, cut in stone in two places; in the ante-chapel, over the north door, in the north-west corner, with the lilies on a chief; and over the font,. without the lilies; the latter, I suppose, placed in the roof before he was provost. If they were painted, both have been falsified about twenty years since; azure and or having been substituted in the room of sable and ermine; and to those over the font a chief is added, unless Hugget was mistaken, with lilies argent, but unlike the other, and differing from their common representation. The glass in the chapel-windows stained lozengy argent, or rather ermine, and sable, mentioned by him, is no longer visible there. Hugget, vol. ii. p. 203. SECT. SECT. VI. THE duke of Bedford, regent of France, had supported his royal nephew king Henry, who was only nine months old at his accession to the throne in 1442, with fidelity and success. On his dying in 1435, cardinal Beaufort, amid contending factions, continued to the young monarch the pleasure of tranquil retirement, which he loved; and to his party the queen, Margaret daughter of René of Anjou, king of the two Sicilies, adhered on her arrival in England. Humphrey, usually styled the good duke of Gloucester, who was at the head of the opposition, after being disgraced in 1447, was murthered, it was commonly believed, by Beaufort and William de la Pole then duke of Suffolk. The cardinal did not long survive him. On Tuesday the 11th of April he died in his palace at Winchester, testifying remorse, at a great age, and immensely rich. "Of this catholike clerke", says Holinshed", "such * Archiv. Univ. Oxon. Registr. F. p. 52. This volume contains several letters to duke Humphrey, and catalogues of the books given by him. his bishoprick a more He is mentioned by a Vol. ii. p. 628. There succeeded in deserving prelate. Baker Chron. p. 188. Polydore Vergil, Angl. Hist. p. 493, 1. 36. "cum permulta egregia opera fecisset, illud unum imprimis præ "Is etenim fuit; et "clarum "such were the deeds, that with king and "ech estate else, the lighter was the loss; "bicause as for his hat he was a prelate 66 proud inough, so for a bishop was there a "better soone set in his room." It is related of Henry VI, that he was circumspect in ecclesiastical matters, and particularly cautious not to bestow preferment on persons undeserving, or in a manner unworthy of his own dignity". John Stambery, his confessor and first provost of Eton, had received from him the bishopric of Norwich, and had been deprived of it by the power of Suffolk. Afterwards he obtained Bangor: but it is probable Henry was prevented by his failure then from attempting to promote Sever, the predecessor of Waynflete, to the prelacy; and perhaps he had a retrospect to it on this occasion, if we give credit to a tale which Budden regards as a mere invention. It was said “clarum extitit; nam ut patria eruditissimis hominibus indies magis magisque afflueret, Oxonii collegium posuit," Blackman, p. 295. • Budden, p. 58. d Camdeni epist. p. 224. e P. 46. "Fuere tamen (ut ego aliquando accepi) qui narraci"unculam (haud pol illepidam) a communi tamen judicio valde "differentem nobis excogitarunt, quam ego in ipsorum gratiam said that he called Waynflete, and addressing him familiarly, as was his custom, by the title of Master William, asked whether, if he should obtain a certain benefice by his favour, he should be able to retain it? On his answering in the affirmative, and that he would with diligence whenever his majesty ordered; Henry replied, he then willed and commanded him to be bishop of Winchester. It was perhaps necessary to use uncommon expedition to secure this promotion to Waynflete, and to preclude embarrassment from papal interposition or the application of potent and factious noblemen. Henry, without waiting the customary forms, on the day his uncle died, sent leave to the church of Winchester to proceed to an election, and strongly recommended his "right trustie and "wel beloved clarke and councellour Master "William Waynflete, provost of Eton," to be his successorf. He committed to him, by letters patent of the same date, the cus "nunc subjiciam. Ferunt accitum ab H. VI. Gulielmum, tunc forte "ubi Coll. Eton. præfecturam gerebat." f See Appendix, No I. 8 Rymer. Acta MSS. vol. vi. No 153, in the British Museum. See mention of this collection of records consisting of 59 large volumes folio, Lowth, p. xxii. tody |