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WILLIAM WAYNFLETE.
So little is known for certain about the
early career of this great bishop, the founder
of Magdalen College, Oxford, that an attempt
to help in the clearing up even of one small
matter of doubt will probably be welcome.
In July, 1429, Robert Fitzhugh. who two
years later was promoted to the see of
London, was about to start upon an embassy
to Home, and his retinue was to include one
" William Waynflete, in legibus bacallarius "
(' -Proceedings of the Privy Council,' iii. 347).
Some writers, like the late M. E. C. Walcott
in his ' William of Wykeham and his
Colleges' (p. 365), have identified this
William Waynflete with the future bishop.
Others, including the writer of the article
on the bishop in the 'D.X.B.,' have regarded
the identification as probably incorrect.
Xow Fitzhugh, when he set out for Rome,
was warden of King's Hall, Cambridge,
having been appointed such in July, 1424
('Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1422-29') ; and if
there was a William Waynflete amongst the
scholars or fellows of this hall in 1429, the
inference that he was the man selected to
accompany Fitzhugh seems irresistible. I
am indebted to Mr. A. E. Stamp, of the
Record Office, for drawing my attention to
some documents there which furnish the
names of members of the hall : 'Accounts,'
&c. (Exchequer, Q.R.), Bundle 348, Nos. 31
and 33. No. 31 contains an account by Fitz-
hugh of the moneys received by him as
warden ; No. 33 contains a like account by
his successor, Richard Gaud ray ; and these
accounts include the following entries, which
have not hitherto, I believe, been mentioned
in print :
[Xo. 31.] "Et in consimilibus vadiis ipsius nuper custodis et xxxi scolarium existencium in collegio predicto a predicto v to die Marcii dicto anno vi to usque vi tura diem eiusdem mensis tune proximo sequentem, quo die [i.e., 6 March, 1427/8] Willel- mus Waynflete receptus fuit loco predict! Johannis Bank per breve Regis de private sigillo suo dat. xiii mo die Marcii anno v to prefato custodi directum et penes has particulas remanens :* scilicet per unurn diem v sol. vi den. per breve et sacrimeutum predictum." [The warden was allowed 4rf. a day, and each scholar "2d. : hence the sum of 5s. &7. ]
[No. 33.] " et in consimilibus vadiis ipsius
custodis et xxxii scholarium existencium in collegio predicto a predicto vii die Marcii anno xii mo usque tertium diem Aprilis ex tune proximo sequentem, quo die [i.e , 3 April, 1434] locus quern Wijlelmus Waynflete habuit in collegio vacavit et Ricardus Cost admissus fuit loco eiusdem Willelmi "
Was this William Waynflete, scholar of King's Hall 1428-34, the future bishop] It hardly seems likely that he was, for these reasons :
1. Cambridge has never, I believe, claimed the bishop as an alumnus. Oxford, on the other hand, did so in his lifetime ; as appears from the following extract from a letter which that university sent to him iu 1447, while he was yet provost of Eton (Anstey's 'Epistolse Academic-re Oxou.,' Oxf. Hist. Soc., i. 258) :
"Credinms enim semper tibi ante oculos esse quanto tenearis amore iu matrem que te spiritual! conceptum utere in lucem cognicionis eduxit et donee in virilis animi robur cresceres, quo jam excellis, preciosissimis dapibus, indulgentissimo favore, omnium scientiarum alimentis enutrivit."
This letter seems to rule out the sugges- tion, in the ' A r ictoria History of Hampshire,' ii. 285, that Waynflete ' : in all probability was not at the university."
2. Waynflete, the future bishop, became head master at Winchester College at Mid- summer, 1430, more than three years before Waynflete of King's Hall vacated his scholar- ship there. He had previously been master of Magdalen Hospital, Winchester; but for how long is uncertain, because the volume of the diocesan registers which probably recorded the appointment and its date is missing.
- The document referred to is unfortunately now
j missing.
