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 io- s. iv. A™. 5,1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 101 LONDON. SATUKDAY, AVGVST 6, 1905. CONTENTS.-No. 84. ICOTBS :— Magdalen College School and the ' D.N.B.,' 101— Yorkshire Dialect. 102— Yorkshire Spellings— Bartholomew and Charles Beale. 104— "Bust" for •• Burst " — ' Omar Khayyam': FltzQerald'a First Edition— '• Phoorea " : a Ghost- Word, 105. QUERIES • -Briiion's ' Ornitbologle,' 105— Lord Nelson and Cardinal York— The Archieplseopal Cross and ' Becket,' 10*— Ballad: Spanish Lady's Love for an Kngliihman— Great Event* In Church History in Pictures— "Kniaz "— "Bombay Grab"— 'Don Quixote,' 1595-6— John Leech— Doherty, Winchester Commoner— Robert Henry levers- General Officers — " The Screaming Skull"— Mellsande: Ettarr* 1U7— 'La Belle Assemblee': Miss Cubitt— Lord Chesterfield— Yachting— Robert Wood. Traveller and Poli- tician—John Whitney— Nicholas Kllmius— Gordon of the West Indies-Romanoff and Stuart Pedigree, 108-Basll Montagu's MSS.— Kynaston's Translation of Chaucer— Book-plate Motto, 109. BBPLIKS :— Poem by Sir Thomas Wyatt, 109-" To Ply," 11O— Sarah Curran, Robert Emmet, and Major Sirr, Ill- Irish Soil Hxported — Owen Brigstocke, 11:)— B. B. Hill —St. Paul's Cathedral— William Shelley, 114— The Weep- ing Willow— Oastrell and Shakespeare's Home— Authors of Quotations Wanted— Bonlnge nf Ledsuin— The Duke's Bagnio in Long Acre, 115 — Pleshey Fortifications — Charlemagne's Roman Ancestors— Jules Verne : Star and Crescent Moon— Moon and Hair-cutting, 116. SOTKS ON BOOKS :— R. S. Hawker's Life and Letters- Walker's 'Septem Psalml Pccultentlales '—' The Burling- ton ' — Reviews and Magazines. Obituary :— Mr. Henry Sotheran. Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents. MAGDALEN COLLEGE SCHOOL AND THE •D.N.B.' (See ante, p. 21.) AT Magdalen the buildings which comprised the last important part of the College erected in the founder's lifetime were begun in August, 1480. They stood outside of the western gate, on the ground between the present St. Swithun's Buildings and the small block which now bears the name of the Grammar Hall — a name by which the School, and the buildings immediately adjoining it, were known in the fifteenth century. The School buildings themselves consisted of a school- room with chambers for the master and usher, and a kitchen. Of the present picturesque building known as the Grammar Hall the southern part, including the small bell-turret, is a fragment of the School building ; but the adjoining rooms were for the most part included in the premises occupied by the members of Magdalen Hall. John Anwykyll, first master of the School (1480-8), and his usher and successor, John Stanbridge, were among the foremost grammarians of their day in England, and their teaching attracted many besides members of the College. These strangers settled themselves, cuckoo-fashion, in tenements— adjoining the original School building—which, had Waynflete's plans been fully carried out, would probably have been demolished to make room for its enlargement. Possibly the fact that Anwykyll was a married man may have caused some alteration to be made in the ultimate destiny of the chambers originally built for the schoolmaster and usher over the schoolroom (Bloxam, iii. 7). Whatever room was to spare seems to have been at once occupied by the intruding mem- bers of the Grammar Hall ; and when, in the early years of the sixteenth century, the School buildings were extended, the addition was made not so much for the benefit of the School as for that of the new Hall, which at the same time began to be known as Magdalen Hall. This society had at first the closest connexion with the College, the early Prin- cipals being all, or almost all. Fellows of the latter. But, apart from this personal con- nexion, and from the fact that the College were the owners of the site of the Hall and received rent for it, the two societies were entirely separate. The College had no juris- diction over the Hall, or over any persons residing in it who were not at the same time members of the College itself. But it was not until 1694 that the Chancellor of the University finally established his_ right to nominate the Principal. After awhile writers, adding insult to injury, persistently asserted that the Hall was part of Waynflete's own foundation—a fiction which, originally con- ceived by the College for the purpose of establishing their claim to the site of the Hall, had come to be generally accepted, and had even insinuated itself into the University Calendar (Wilson, p. 29 ; S. G. Hamilton's ' Hertford College.' p. 101 ; ' Oxon Almanack Top' for 1749). The schoolroom, as built by the founder, was 72 ft. in length by 24 ft. 9 in. in width. It was lighted on either side by five square windows, placed irregularly, and by two windows at the east (south ?) end, one being a small window over the door of en- trance. In later times, when further stories had been added to the two raised in Wayn- flete's lifetime, it was found necessary to support the schoolroom ceiling by beams, and twelve wooden pillars in two rows (Bloxam, iii. 6). The interior, as thus altered, must have in some measure resembled Lower School at Eton to-day, the exact date of which is uncertain, but is not later than 1500. In the latter room the double row of wooden pillars (said to be of Spanish chestnut) down the centre was erected by Sir Henry Wotton (Provost 1624-39), although an un- trustworthy tradition relates that the wood, being wreckage from one of the vessels of the