Major Frederick Brownlow and niece of the first Lord Lurgan. He left no issue.
Walcott contributed articles on his favourite topics to numerous magazines and to the transactions of the learned societies, and he was one of the oldest contributors to ‘Notes and Queries.’ His separate works include: 1. ‘Parish Church of St. Margaret, Westminster,’ 1847. 2. ‘Handbook for Parish of St. James, Westminster,’ 1850. 3. ‘Westminster, Memorials of the City,’ 1849; new ed. 1851. 4. ‘The English Ordinal: its History, Validity, and Catholicity,’ 1851. 5. ‘St. Paul at Athens: a Sacred Poem,’ 1851. 6. ‘William of Wykeham and his Colleges,’ 1852; an ‘early and long-cherished ambition.’ 7. ‘Handbook for Winchester Cathedral,’ 1854. 8. ‘Dedication of the Temple: a Sacred Poem,’ 1854. 9. ‘The Death of Jacob: a Sacred Poem,’ 1857. 10. ‘The English Episcopate: Biographical Memoirs,’ 5 parts, 1858. 11. ‘Guide to the Cathedrals of England and Wales,’ 1858; new ed. much enlarged, 1860; the descriptions of the several cathedrals were also published in separate parts. 12. ‘Guide to the South Coast of England,’ 1859. 13. ‘Guide to the Mountains, Lakes, and North-West Coast of England,’ 1860. 14. ‘Guide to the East Coast of England,’ 1861; parts of these works were issued separately. 15. ‘Minsters and Abbey Ruins of the United Kingdom,’ 1860. 16. ‘Church and Conventual Arrangement,’ 1861. 17. ‘Priory Church of Christchurch, Twyneham,’ 1862. 18. ‘The Double Choir historically and practically considered,’ 1864. 19. ‘Interior of a Gothic Minster,’ 1864. 20. ‘Precinct of a Gothic Minster,’ 1865. 21. ‘Cathedralia: a Constitutional History of Cathedrals of the Western Church,’ 1865. 22. ‘Memorials of Stamford,’ 1867. 23. ‘Battle Abbey,’ 2nd ed. 1867. 24. ‘Sacred Archæology: a Popular Dictionary,’ 1868. 25. ‘Leaflets [poems], by M. E. C. W.,’ 1872. 26. ‘Traditions and Customs of Cathedrals,’ 1872; 2nd ed. revised and enlarged, 1872. 27. ‘Scoti-Monasticon, the Ancient Church of Scotland,’ 1874. 28. ‘Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical of the Church of England,’ 1874. 29. ‘The Four Minsters round the Wrekin,’ 1877. 30. ‘Early Statutes of the Cathedral Church of Chichester,’ 1877. 31. ‘Church Work and Life in English Minsters,’ 1879.
Walcott contributed to the Rev. Henry Thompson's collection of ‘Original Ballads,’ 1850, and to the Rev. Orby Shipley's ‘Church and the World,’ 1866. He edited in 1865, ‘with large additions and copious notes,’ Thomas Plume's ‘Account of Bishop Hacket,’ and published, in conjunction with Rev. W. A. Scott Robertson in 1872 and 1874, two parts of ‘Parish Church Goods in Kent.’ Many of his papers on the inventories and registers of ecclesiastical foundations were also issued separately, and he presented to the British Museum the following Additional manuscripts: 22136–7, 24632, 24966, 28831, 29534–6, 29539–42, 29720–7, 29741–4 b.
[Boase's Exeter Coll. Commoners; Foster's Alumni Oxon.; Men of the Time, 10th ed.; Notes and Queries, 6th ser. iii. 20; Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 29743, ff. 8, 66, 68.]
WALDBY, ROBERT (d. 1398), archbishop of York, was a Yorkshireman. The village of Waldby is near Hull, but Godwin says he was born at York. John Waldby (d. 1393?), who was English provincial of the Austin friars, and wrote a number of expository works still preserved in manuscript in the Bodleian and other libraries (Tanner, p. 746), is said to have been a brother of Robert Waldby (Lives of the Archbishops of York, ii. 428; cf. art. Nassyngton, William of). As they were both doctors of theology and Austin friars, some confusion has resulted. Robert seems to have become a friar in the Austin convent at Tickhill in South Yorkshire (ib.), unless his brother's retirement thither from the friary at York be the only basis of the statement (Tanner). The occurrence of his name (as archbishop) in one of the old windows of the chapel of University College, Oxford (Wood, p. 65), has been supposed to imply membership of that society, but he may only have been a benefactor. At any rate he received most of his education abroad, going out to Gascony in the train of the Black Prince, and pursuing his studies at the university of Toulouse, where he devoted himself first to natural and moral philosophy, and then to theology, in which he became a doctor. Dean Stanley inferred (Memorials of Westminster, p. 196) from a passage in his epitaph that he was ‘renowned at once as a physician and a divine:’
Sacræ scripturæ doctor fuit, et genituræ
Ingenuus, medicus, et plebis semper amicus.
If ‘medicus’ be not a misreading of ‘modicus,’ it must surely be used in a metaphorical sense. In an earlier line he is described as ‘expertus in quovis jure.’
Waldby took part in the ‘earthquake council’ which met at London in May 1382 to repress Wyclifitism, sitting as one of the four learned representatives of the Austin order, and described in the official record as ‘Tholosanus’ (Fasciculi Zizaniorum, p. 286). Richard II commissioned him on 1 April following, with the bishop of Dax
