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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. xn. OCT. IG, 1915.

magne andyrys de ferro stantes in camino aule tempore yemali Item j chaufor de cupro pro aqua calefacienda contineiis j potellum Item j cupebord Item j lectrinum pro biblia ibidem legenda."

Returning to the Hall-book, let us take as a specimen of the " diary " the last week of the 3rd quarter :

" Die Sabbati. Johannes Paget socius collegii oxon. ad prandium cum sociis et Willelmus Tettebury ad prandium cum famulis.

" Die Dominica. Cumbe valettus Campeden ad prandium cum sociis et Tyas ad cenam in alta mensa.

" Die Lune. Willelmus Tettebury et ij bicatores ad prandium [in panetria, altered to] cum famulis et Robertus Langrysche socius collegii oxon. ad cenam cum sociis et famulus eius cum famulis.

" Die Martis. Dominus Aylward ad prandium in alta mensa et clericus eius ad prandium cum sociis et Pagett et Langrysche socii collegii oxon. ad cenam cum sociis.

" Die Mercurii. J. Pagett socius collegii oxon. ad prandium cum sociis et Lauer quondam firmarius de Hermondsworth et alius valettus ad cenam cum sociis.

" Die Jo vis. Uxor Fromond ad prandium in camera custodis [et ancilla, struck out] et ij clerici illius ad prandium cum sociis et ij pagetti ad prandium cum famulis.

" Die Veneris. Mr. Johannes Boner socius collegii oxon. ad prandium in alta mensa et J. Pagette alius socius collegii oxon. et uxor J. pistoris [an early " Mrs. Bun "] ad prandium cum sociis."

John de Campeden, Master of the Hospital of St. Cross, and Thomas Aylward, Rector of Havant, who are mentioned in the above extract, were two of Wykeham's executors ; and Aylward is the reputed author of a ' Life of Wykeham ' which is preserved in our muniment room. Students of Hamp- shire brasses will remember their effigies, the one in St. Cross Church and the other at Havant. Wykeham had died on 27 Sept., 1404, and the object of one of Aylward's visits to the College during the year 1406-7 is thus recorded in the Account -roll :

" Receptio Forinseca Et de Domino Thoma Ayleward et aliis executoribus Domini Fundatoris de dono unde per manum domini Thome Ayleward vijZi. xiijs. iiijd. pro manerio de Ewell quod quidem manerium fuit in manibus eiusdem et xZi. pro expensis factis infra collegium pro anniversario dicti domini Fundatoris hoc anno et xls. de dono predicti Thome Ayleward et eleemosyna eiusdem xixft. xiijs. iiijd."

One reason why Lauer (or Laver), late farmer of Harmondsworth, was a guest was that the College then owned that Middlesex manor. But it was one of the properties that passed from them in 1543 under a more or less compulsory exchange of lands with Henry VIII., when the King was enlarging his hunting grounds at Hampton Court. It may be remembered that Tettebury, another guest, once a Scholar, figured

frequently in the diary for 1401-2. Since- then he had descended from the Fellows*" table to the servants', and in fact, during part of 1406-7 (as also later), he was in the service of the College as Warden's yeomai* ("valettus custodis"). In the fifteenth century the humbler offices at the College were often filled by ex-Scholars. Thus Wm. Pokilchirche was Warden's clerk in* 1412-3, and John Stoite (or Stoyte) in 1413-4. The most notable instance of Scholar becom- ing servant is that of John Bedell, who became lay-clerk (1446) and manciple (1459), and held the latter office until his death in 1498, combining with it in or about 1496^ the position of Mayor of Winchester.

Mrs. Fromond would deserve a fresh para- graph, if it were only to lament the damage- done by a snowstorm a few years ago to the- little image of her which adorns the front of Fromond's Chantry. The fact that she- used to hold a book in her lap ought to be- carefully recorded. The diary for 1406-7 makes frequent mention of Fromond him- self, and his clerks and servants, and also of his brother (" f rater Fromond "). The- Account-roll states that no fee was paid to him this year as Steward of the estates in? Hants and Wilts, " nil quia pardonatum." But the College made him and his wife some- pleasant gifts, which are recorded under " expensa forinseca cum donis et litibu& defendendis " :

" In dato Fromond Senescallo ut et in j cade- de rubra allecia [red herrings] et j cade de sprottis* [sprats] et j barello allecie albe erga quadrages-

imam, xviijs. yjd In j anulo aureo empto ad

dandum uxori Johannis Fromond, vjs. viijd."

Though the topic may be thought to bfr a " red herring " here, I cannot part with Fromond without pointing out the error into which the chief historians of the College have fallen with regard to the building of his Chantry. The date of this building must be of some little importance in the 1 history of English architecture. Kirby ('Annals,' 165) and Leach* ('History,' 195, see also ' Victoria Hist, of Hants,' v. 17), while they differed as to the date of Fromond's death, agreed in stating that his Chantry was erected in his lifetime. Kirby was right in saying that Fromond died in November,. 1420, and there is no foundation for Leach's " 1426." But on the main ques- tion, when was the Chantry built ? there is ample evidence that it was built after Fromond's death, and built with moneys-

when I heard with great regret of the death ot Arthur Francis Leach.
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