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and statesman. Always wrote his name
" Wulcy " ; whether first admitted at
Magdalen as chorister, servitor, Demy, or
Commoner is not known ; B.A. at fifteen,
he was called the " boy bachelor," as he
himself told his gentleman usher, George
Cavendish, who wrote his life. " I," he is
made to say in Thos. Churchyard's ' Tragedy
of Cardinal Wolsey,'
of wit and judgement fine,
Brought up at school, and proved a good divine : For which great gifts, degree of school I had And Bachelor was, and I a little lad.
Master of M.C.S. for six months during 1498 (between Andrew Scarbott and William Bothewood) ; Dean of Lincoln, Hereford, York, and St. Stephen's, Westminster ; Canon of Windsor ; accompanied Henry VIII. to " Field of the Cloth of Gold " ; Bishop of Tournay, of Lincoln ; Archbishop of York ; created Cardinal by Leo X. with title " St. Csecilia trans Tiberim," 1515 ; Lord High Chancellor : Papal Legate de Latere ; Bishop of Bath and Wells ; Abbot of St. Alban's ; founder of Cardinal College (eventually Christ Church), Oxford, and a college at Ipswich, his native place ; Bishop of Durham, of Winchester ; built palaces of Hampton Court and York Place (White- hall) ; died and buried at Leicester. John Skelton's ' Why Come Ye nat to Courte ? ' is a bitter satire on Wolsey so also in some measure are his poems ' Colyn Cloute ' and
- Speake, Parrot,' in the latter of which he
says, " Bo-ho [the King] doth bark well, but Hough-ho [Wolsey] he ruleth the ring." The portraits in Hall of Magd. Coll. and at M.C.S. are copies of the Holbein in Ch. Ch. Hall ; the full face is shown in a drawing preserved at Arras. Thomas Wynter, his son by one Lark's daughter, later Dean of Wells and Archdeacon of Cornwall, &c., was when a youth placed under the tuition of Maurice Byrchenshaw, Usher of M.C.S. in 1513, subsequently Canon of Wells. The great tower at Magdalen is sometimes called " Wolsey 's Tower " ; but his only connexion with it seems to be that, as Bursar for a year or two during its erection (1499-1500), he would have to pay the builder's account.
Richard Wooddeson the elder (1704-74), divine. Chorister 1712 ; Master of the Free School at Kingston 1733-72, among his pupils being Edward Lovibond, George Steevens, George Keate, Edward Gibbon, William Hayley, Francis Maseres, George Hardinge, and Gilbert Wakefield. His father, another Richard (1655-1726), chorister 1662 was vicar of Findon, Sussex. His son, oJ
- he same names, the Vinerian Professor, was
Demy and Fellow.
Edward Wotton (1492-1555), physician and naturalist. Son of Richard W., superior Bedel of Divinity in the University ; at VE.C.S. chorister and Demy ; Fellow ; first Reader in Greek at C.C.C. ; M.D. Padua and Oxon ; President College of Physicians ; 3hysician to Duke of Norfolk and Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury ; said to have been first English physician to make a ystematic study of natural history.
Thomas Yalden or Youlding (1670-1736), poet and divine. Son of John Y., some- bime page and groom of the chamber to- Prince Charles, a sufferer in his cause, and an exciseman in Oxford after the Restora- tion ; at M.C.S. while a chorister ; Demy ; Fellow, Lecturer on Moral Philosophy,. Bursar, Dean of Divinity ; friend of Addi- son and Sacheverell at College ; arrested during clamour raised about Atterbury's plot, but soon released ; his ' Hymn to- Darkness,' written in imitation of Cowley, highly esteemed by Dr. Johnson ; chaplain to Bridewell Hospital, where he was buried ; gave the College a full-length picture as a portrait of the founder. A. R. BAYLEY.
St. Margaret's, Malvern.
SHAKESPEARIAN^.
' KING- RICHARD III.,' IV. iv. 175, " HUM- PHREY HOUR " :
Ditcher. What comfortable hour canst thou name That ever graced me in thy company .
K. Richard. Faith, none, but Humphrey Hour,
that call'd your grace To breakfast once forth of my company. Here no explanation in the smallest degree satisfactory has been offered of the words " Humphrey Hour." I believe we should read,
Faith, none but, humph, the hour that, &c. Singer was the first to suggest that the allusion is to John xvi. 21 : "A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come ; but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world " ; and this, it seems to me, gives a sure clue to the meaning of the passage. Grim, sardonic humour of the kind is exactly in Richard's way ; cp., e.g., his words to Anne, I. ii. 105 :
Anne. 0, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous.
Glouc. The fitter for the King of heaven, that hath him.
" No hour of comfort, I grant you," says Richard, " ever came to you from me r
