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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER k, 1515.
CONTENTS. No. 310.
IfOTES : Fromond's Chantry at Winchester, 433 Inscrip- tions in the Churchyard of St. Mary's, Lambeth, 436 Henry Tubbe and Henry Vaughan Alleged Inventor of the Stomach-Pump A Shakespeare Note, 438 The Observant Babe Puritan Names in New England, 439 Sermons on the Execution of Charles I. , 440.
OUERIES : Methods of Waking a Sleeper" Popinjay." "Papagei," 440 Le bravache Ecossais " Lady OToole's Epitaph Edward IV.'s Window at Canterbury Who was the Historian? Hungarian Traveller and Oysters, 441 Pitts=Baoon Haycock or Heycock Family Biographical Information Wanted Foreign Marriages in London Red Earth Authors' Names Wanted Owner of a French ' Terence ' Author of Quotation Wanted History of Commerce Famous Trial : Jephson Numbers in a Burial Register The Rev. Mr. Rosinhagen, 442 The Water of the Nile, 443.
REPLIES : Anastatic Printing, 443 Dando, 444 Father John and Dr. Bacon, 445 All's fair in love and war" Tavern Signs : " Mother Huff -Cap "History of Churches in Situ" Lienin "Derivation of Hanwell, 446 Latin Inscription : " Cerus " John Dalton MSS. Author Wanted Heraldic Query, 447 The Effect of Opening a Coffin Henry Gosson, Bookseller The German War Fetish, 448 William Letheuilier Virtues of Onions Inscriptions at St. Mary's, Lambeth Cantillon Family of Ballyhigue, co. Kerry, 449 Song Wanted : ' John Brown's Body ' " A stricken field "Elder Folk-Lore Latton Family Chapter and Verse Wanted, 450.
NOTES ON BOOKS : ' The Cambridge History of English Literature ' Reviews and Magazines.
Notices to Correspondents.
FROMOND'S CHANTRY AT
WINCHESTER.
As it might be thought from my remarks ante, pp. 294-5, that I relied too much upon one short entry in the College accounts of 1421-2 for my belief that the story of the building of John Fromond's Chantry, as told in Kirby's ' Annals,' is misconceived, may I now offer the following notes as additional evidence in support of that belief ? The main object of the notes is to show (a) that Matilda Fromond did not long survive her husband, and (6) that the Chantry was not built until after both of them were dead ; but some of the notes will, I hope, be of interest apart from the im- mediate purpose for which they are offered. On the first point I find myself differing not only from Kirby, but also from Miss A. R. Grundy, who in the * Victoria History of
Hants ' (v. 485), after saying that Fromond
willed to the College his Allington property
subject to his wife's interest, added in a
foot-note that Mrs. Fromond " evidently did
not die till over twenty years later, for the
College did not obtain licence to hold this
manor in mortmain until 1442." (The
licence was in fact dated 20 Aug., 1445, and confirmed 20 June, 1446 ; see ' Calendar of Patent Rolls.')
1. It must be observed, by way of preface, that at the point where Fromond died there is an unfortunate gap in the College records, because the Account-roll of 1420-1, which probably mentioned his death and possibly mentioned also the death of his widow, is missing. However, as regards the year and month of Fromond's own death there is no room for dispute, for the probate of his will exists at the College, and a copy made of it by Gunner was printed in The Archaeological Journal, vol. xvi. (1859), pp. 166 et seq. The will was executed on 14 Nov., 1420, and on the 29th of that month two of the executors, Mrs. Fromond and Richard Seman, who had been the testator's clerk, obtained probate of it from John Langthorn, Com- missary-General to the Bishop of Win- chester. On 16 December in the same year John Halle of Burgate and Robert Thurbern, who was Warden of the College, likewise obtained probate. Richard Wallop and Richard Chedesey, the other executors named in the will, apparently did not prove. It is unnecessary for the purpose of these notes to add anything to what I previously said about the contents of the will.
2. Upon finding the entry of 1421-2, which speaks of mill-stones given to the College by the executors of Fromond's widow, I was naturally somewhat puzzled. Kirby's well- told tale so flatly contradicted the entry that I felt the need to proceed with caution. There was the possibility that he had met with sub- sequent entries treating Mrs. Fromond as still alive and convicting the scribe of 1421-2 of a blunder. So it became desirable to search the later rolls, and I therefore worked through them from 1423 to 1447. The series being imperfect, nothing can be said now about the rolls of 1422-3, 25-6, 27-8, 35-6, and 45-6 ; but as for the rest of the rolls, which are all extant, I have failed to find in them any allusion whatever to the lady.
3. It may be noticed that Kirby (' Annals,' 168), before speaking of Mrs. Fromond as one of the party at the consecration of the Chantry altar in August, 1437, quotes the references to that ceremony which occur in
