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 iv. JULY s. MM.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 21 LONDON, SATVllDAY, JULY 8. 1905. CONTENTS.-No. 80. HOTKS :-Magdalen College School and the ' D.N.B.,' 21— The Duke's Bagnio in Long Acre. 24—Burton's ' Anatomy of Melancholy.' 25-The Birthday of George III., 28— Midsummer Day—" Piccaninny" : Its Origin, 27. QUERIBS:—Horse-pew=Hor«e-block, 27 — Foretts set on Fire by Lightning—Packs of Sixty Cards—Cry of Macarla —Lord Moira and the United Irishmen — • Bathilda'— •"Vescalion"—Capt. R. Herlott Barclay, 28 —Harriet: Joseph Lancaster — Moon and Hair - cutting — Bowtell Family—" Molree Melanique"—" Lonning "—John Roll Hixon—Brudenell: Boughton—Capri Antiquities, 29. REPLIRS:—Boyal Oak Day, 30—" Beating the Bounds," 31 —Faoshawe Family—' Love's Labour's Lost': its Date, 32 —Pinchbeck Family, M-'Tbe MiBsal'-Parsloe'n Hall, Essex — Koights Templars, 34 — Dickeneian London — Mr. Moxhay, Leicester Square Showman—Love Ales— Haswell Family—Palindrome—" Poeta nascltur non fit," 3A —Wesley and the Wig —Sir George Davles, Bart.— Quetllngton, Gloucestershire—House of Lords, 1625-60— William Waynflete—Hollicke or Holleck, Middlesex.36— The Kgyptian Hall, Plecadllly-"Boast," Its Etymology, 37—Child executed for Witchcraft—Authors of Quotations Wanted — Wace on the Battle of Hastings — Besant on Dr. Watte, 38. ROTHS OH BOOKS :—Conlngton's ' Horace '—Swinburne's Tragedies—Patmore's 'Angel in the House'—'Nights at the Opera'—'The Burlington Magazine'—Beviewi and Magazines. Notices to Correspondents. MAGDALKN COLLEGE SCHOOL AND THE •D.N.B.' THE Public Schools' Enquiry Commission of 1866 reported :— " Few schools have been more famous, or of more service to good learning in this country, than this school was in ancient times Indeed, next per- haps after Winchester College, the country is more indebted to this school than to any other institu- tion in the kingdom for the revival of learning, and the cultivation of the only study which in those days could be popularly diffused, namely, that of the Latin language." And Dr. Hastings Rashdall has, in the same connexion, called Magdalen College School the " first home of the Renaissance" in England. Bishop Waynflete, a full Wykehamist pro- bably by education, after being head mas_ter of his old school, became successively original Fellow, first head master, and second Provost of Eton College (founded 1440), which he practically completed. (See 'A History of Winchester College,' by A. F. Leach, pp. 204-5.) To his original coat of arms—a field fusilly <or lozengy) ermine and sable—he made the addition of "on a chief of the second three lilies slipped argent," borrowed from the Eton •shield ; and the coat, as thus altered, is still borne by Magdalen College. He chose as his motto a verse from the Magnificat, " Fecit mihi magna qui potens est." In 1448, the year after his appointment to the see of Winchester, he founded at Oxford the Hall of St. Mary Magdalen, or " Maudelayne Halle." This lay on the southern side of the High Street, south-west of the present College. Ten years later Waynflete, having acquired the ancient hospital of St. John Baptist, outside the East Gate of the town, suppressed both Hall and Hospital, and founded his College of St. Mary Magdalen within the buildings of the latter. At some date between 1426 and 1429 he had received from Cardinal Beaufort, his immediate predecessor in the see, pre- sentation to the Mastership of St. Mary Magdalen's Hospital, situate upon a hill a mile east of Winchester—the memory of which early preferment may have suggested the dedication of his College. When he came to build he would have to take into considera- tion the peculiar conditions of a site bounded upon the east by the river Cherwell, and already partly covered by the tenements of the suppressed Hospital; but nevertheless, like another Wykenamical founder some twenty years earlier—Archbishop Chichele at All Souls'—he adhered mainly to the model set by Wykeham at New College. As visitor of the latter house by virtue of his bishopric. Waynflete would have every opportunity of inspecting both the external and internal economy. His chapel and hall were arranged on Wykeham's system, so as to form together one high continuous range of building, but on the south side of the great quadrangle, and not on the north, as at New College and All Souls'. His chapel, moreover, was given a similar transeptal ante-chapel, the east end of lofty tabernacle work being likewise in contact with the table end of the hall, as at these earlier foundations. A novel feature in collegiate architecture was the erection of a monastic cloister, with chambers above it, carried round the great quadrangle. The south walk of this cloister, which abuts against the hall and chapel, was added in 1490, and probably did not form part of the original design. Peter Heylyn in his 'Memorial of Waynflete' thus addresses his founder in somewhat halting lines:— But Oxford oweth thee yet more thanks ; for thou By thy fair College built'st a school as fair ; And liberal maintenance dost to them allow That o'er thy young grammarians take care. Waynflete followed Wykeham also in attach- ing a school to his College ; and not one school only, but two. But he departed from