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would expect to see them, viz., in the list which, according to its heading, belongs to 7 H. IV. (1406-7). That is a list of 12 names, and it includes, besides the 10 just indicated, 2 boys, Maydeston and Palmer, who had been admitted before 2 Oct., 1406, for they appear in the Hall-book's opening week, but who may very well have come, before the book began, under the Election held in the preceding August. Palmer left, according to the Register, " eodem anno mense Augusti," and he is one of the 15 noted in the Hall-book" re. h a," : he was still a Scholar in the 6th week of the 4th quarter, but evidently left within the next few weeks.

(e) Three of the new-comers Kannere, Farnham, and Wylkotis remain to be accounted for. I cannot trace either Kan- ne-re or Wylkotis in the Register. The Hall- book shows that Kannere was Scholar from the 4th week of the 1st quarter to the 7th of the 3rd, and that Wylkotis, after starting as a Commoner, succeeded in the 9th week of the 3rd quarter to the place as Scholar which Kannere had just vacated ; but the compiler of the Register has, it seems, ignored them. As for Farnham, who came in the 8th week of the 2nd quarter, he also is ignored, unless he be the William Farnham

This solution may be tabulated thus :

who occurs in the Register in the second of the two lists which, according to their original headings, belong to 9 H. IV.

(/) To sum up the effect of what has now been stated, the Hall-book furnishes cogent evidence that Heete's list for 7 H. IV. is headed correctly ; it is a list (somewhat imperfect) of Scholars admitted in 1406-7 under the Election of August, 1406. On the other hand, it is scarcely less clear from the book that Heete's next list (headed as of 9 H. IV., but with the heading struck out) does not belong to the year 1406-7. The annotator who struck the heading out may have been right in supposing that it was an erroneous heading, but he (and Kirby, who followed him) evidently failed to make the proper correction. As we know from the Hall-book that no more than 16 places became vacant during 1406-7, we cannot squeeze into that year, in addition to the 15 boys known to belong to it, the 26 whom Heete placed under the heading in question.

My own tentative solution of the puzzle is that during the period we are considering Heete's lists are arranged in their true order, and that (though some of the lists may not be wholly free from errors of detail) each of them relates substantially to a distinct year, but the headings need some revision

True date

Heete

4 H. IV.

5 H. IV.

5 H.

6 H.

7 H. 9 H.

8 H.

9 H. 10 H.

IV. IV. IV. IV. IV. IV. IV.

Kirby

1403

1403

1404

1405

1406

1406

1407

1408

1409

Admissions

under Election

1402-3

Aug.

3

H.

IV.

(1402)

1403-4

Aug.

4

H.

IV.

(1403)

1404-5

Aug.

5

H.

IV.

(1404)

1405-6

Aug.

6

H.

IV.

(1405)

1406-7

Aug.

7

H.

IV.

(1406)

1407-8

Aug.

8

H.

IV.

(1407)

1408-9

Aug.

9

H.

IV.

(1408)

1409-10

Aug.

10

H.

IV.

(1409)

1410-11

Aug.

11

H.

IV.

(1410)

(Note : regnal years of H. IV. began 30 Sept., ended 29 Sept.)

This solution at any rate brings the Register into harmony with the extant Election - rolls ; it squares with the facts disclosed by the Hall-book of 1406-7 ; it does not clash with anything to be found in the earlier book of 1401-2.

There are some other chronological prob- lems which Heete and his annotator have set us, but they do not come within the scope of an article on the Hall-book of 1406-7.

H. C.

Winchester College.

THOMAS SUTTON AND THE CHARTERHOUSE. (See 1 S. iii. 84 ; 3 S. x. 393 ; 5 S. ii. 409 ; 5 S. v. 27.)

SOME misconceptions have prevailed among historians, and even among contemporary writers, concerning Thomas Sutton and the litigation which took place after his decease. A Roman Catholic author signing himself

" J. H.," but supposed to have been Edward Knott, the learned Jesuit, writes :

" Button's hospital was to take no profit until

he loas dead. He, as I have always understood, died without any children, or brothers or sisters, or known kindred."