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and statesman. Always wrote his name " Wulcy " ; whether first admitted at Magdalen as chorister, servitor, Demy, or Commoner is not known ; B.A. at fifteen, he was called the " boy bachelor," as he himself told his gentleman usher, George Cavendish, who wrote his life. " I," he is made to say in Thos. Churchyard's ' Tragedy of Cardinal Wolsey,'

of wit and judgement fine,

Brought up at school, and proved a good divine : For which great gifts, degree of school I had And Bachelor was, and I a little lad.

Master of M.C.S. for six months during 1498 (between Andrew Scarbott and William Bothewood) ; Dean of Lincoln, Hereford, York, and St. Stephen's, Westminster ; Canon of Windsor ; accompanied Henry VIII. to " Field of the Cloth of Gold " ; Bishop of Tournay, of Lincoln ; Archbishop of York ; created Cardinal by Leo X. with title " St. Csecilia trans Tiberim," 1515 ; Lord High Chancellor : Papal Legate de Latere ; Bishop of Bath and Wells ; Abbot of St. Alban's ; founder of Cardinal College (eventually Christ Church), Oxford, and a college at Ipswich, his native place ; Bishop of Durham, of Winchester ; built palaces of Hampton Court and York Place (White- hall) ; died and buried at Leicester. John Skelton's ' Why Come Ye nat to Courte ? ' is a bitter satire on Wolsey so also in some measure are his poems ' Colyn Cloute ' and says, " Bo-ho [the King] doth bark well, but Hough-ho [Wolsey] he ruleth the ring." The portraits in Hall of Magd. Coll. and at M.C.S. are copies of the Holbein in Ch. Ch. Hall ; the full face is shown in a drawing preserved at Arras. Thomas Wynter, his son by one Lark's daughter, later Dean of Wells and Archdeacon of Cornwall, &c., was when a youth placed under the tuition of Maurice Byrchenshaw, Usher of M.C.S. in 1513, subsequently Canon of Wells. The great tower at Magdalen is sometimes called " Wolsey 's Tower " ; but his only connexion with it seems to be that, as Bursar for a year or two during its erection (1499-1500), he would have to pay the builder's account.
 * Speake, Parrot,' in the latter of which he

Richard Wooddeson the elder (1704-74), divine. Chorister 1712 ; Master of the Free School at Kingston 1733-72, among his pupils being Edward Lovibond, George Steevens, George Keate, Edward Gibbon, William Hayley, Francis Maseres, George Hardinge, and Gilbert Wakefield. His father, another Richard (1655-1726), chorister 1662 was vicar of Findon, Sussex. His son, oJ

Demy and Fellow.
 * he same names, the Vinerian Professor, was

Edward Wotton (1492-1555), physician and naturalist. Son of Richard W., superior Bedel of Divinity in the University ; at VE.C.S. chorister and Demy ; Fellow ; first Reader in Greek at C.C.C. ; M.D. Padua and Oxon ; President College of Physicians ; 3hysician to Duke of Norfolk and Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury ; said to have been first English physician to make a ystematic study of natural history.

Thomas Yalden or Youlding (1670-1736), poet and divine. Son of John Y., some- bime page and groom of the chamber to- Prince Charles, a sufferer in his cause, and an exciseman in Oxford after the Restora- tion ; at M.C.S. while a chorister ; Demy ; Fellow, Lecturer on Moral Philosophy,. Bursar, Dean of Divinity ; friend of Addi- son and Sacheverell at College ; arrested during clamour raised about Atterbury's plot, but soon released ; his ' Hymn to- Darkness,' written in imitation of Cowley, highly esteemed by Dr. Johnson ; chaplain to Bridewell Hospital, where he was buried ; gave the College a full-length picture as a portrait of the founder. A. R. BAYLEY.

St. Margaret's, Malvern.

SHAKESPEARIAN^.

' KING- RICHARD III.,' IV. iv. 175, " HUM- PHREY HOUR " :

Ditcher. What comfortable hour canst thou name That ever graced me in thy company ''.

K. Richard. Faith, none, but Humphrey Hour,

that call'd your grace To breakfast once forth of my company. Here no explanation in the smallest degree satisfactory has been offered of the words " Humphrey Hour." I believe we should read,

Faith, none but, humph, the hour that, &c. Singer was the first to suggest that the allusion is to John xvi. 21 : "A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come ; but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world " ; and this, it seems to me, gives a sure clue to the meaning of the passage. Grim, sardonic humour of the kind is exactly in Richard's way ; cp., e.g., his words to Anne, I. ii. 105 :

Anne. 0, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous.

Glouc. The fitter for the King of heaven, that hath him.

" No hour of comfort, I grant you," says Richard, " ever came to you from me r