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NOTES AND QUERIES. ri2 s. i. JUNE 24, wie.

of the price, was still due to him in July, 1451, when (as the Hall-book of 1450-1 shows) a younger Wynne, a relative of his, was accepted as a Commoner at the College. The debt was then gradually discharged by setting off against it the boy's commons (at Sd. a week) and some other expenses for him which the College bore (see ' Custus Capelle,' 1450-1 to 1453-4). The beauty of this arrangement was that a reduction of the boy's holidays meant also a reduction of the debt.

The Visits in June and July, 1449.

The record of these visits, which occurred while Parliament sat at Winchester, from June 16 to July 16, 1449, presents no chronological difficulty, and I will therefore epitomize it by saying that the King attended some of our Chapel services on the following days :

On St. Alban's Day, Sunday, June 22 : on St. John the Baptist's Day, June 24, when Waynflete officiated : on SS. Peter and Paul's Day, Sunday, June 29, when Becking- ton, Bishop of Bath and Wells, feasted the whole College " lautissime " : on the Octave of SS. Peter and Paul's, and on the next day, being the translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, when Mass was celebrated by John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England, assisted by Wayn- flete, William Askew (Bishop of Salisbury), and Adam Moleyns (Bishop of Chichester and Keeper of the Privy Seal) the Clerk of the Rolls, the Clerk of Parliament, and the Clerk of the Hanaper* were present, and Stafford gave the Scholars 40s. " pro refectione " : on Relick Sunday, July 13 : and finally on July 16, when the King " obtulit Deo, beate marie et summo altari unum tabernaculum de auro," which is described in the inventory as :

" Item i tabernaculum de Auro cum lapidibus preciosis et ymaginibus sancte trinitatis et sancte marie in Cristallo ex dono illustrissimi principis Regis Henrici VI"."

The Account-roll of 1448-9 makes abun- dant reference to these visits. This roll, which has already been mentioned in con- nexion with the visit in January, 1448/9, has been deprived of its heading, but its date is well established by internal evidence, and it concludes with the credit balance of 100Z. 75. 4c?. with which the roll of 1449-50 begins.

Kirkeby, Sir John Fawkes, and Sir Robert Monter.
 * These offices were then held by Sir Thomas

Two Later Visits (1451, 1452).

" Item alia vice idem dominus noster Res: nterfuit divinis officiis videlicet vesperis pro- cessioni et misse in h Collegio dominica in Ramis. palmarum, eodem die magistro Thoma Chaundeler Custode istius Collegii post nonam coram eodem domino Rege et populo sermonem faciente. Efc obtulit xiiis. iiiid. Et ultra ex sua magna gracia dedit summo altari dicti Collegii in auro c s., Officium istius diei exequente custode istius ^ collegii.

" Item idem dominus noster xpianissimus Rex ultima vice fuit in hoc collegio in festo Trans- la cionis sancti Swithuni .in utrisque vesperis eiusdem sancti sed non in missa quia exhibuit presenciam suam in ecclesia sancti Swithuni. Et obtulit idem Rex, vis. viiidf."

Our author does not specify the years in which these two visits occurred. But it would appear from the Account-rolls that one of them (that which he treats as the- King's last visit) occurred on St. Swithun's Day, Thursday, July 15, 1451, and the other,, which was really the final visit, on Palm Sunday (April 2), 1452.

The roll of 1450-1 (Sept, 26, 29 H. VI. Sept. 25, 30 H. VI.) contains the following notices of a royal visit :

" Oblaciones Et de Roberto Vyport Sacrista Collegii pro oblacionibus hoc anno cum vis. viiicL.. oblatis per dominum Regem," &c.

Under ' Custus necessarii ' :

" Et in exennio dato Episcopo Winton in mense- julii viz. in hayronsewys, xvd. Et in expensis Thome Sampson equitantis pro le kedys [kids] habendis erga adventum domini Regis, vd."

Brief as these notices are, they seem to- indicate a visit in July, and I therefore infer that this was the visit which our author assigns to St. Swithun's Day. The Palm Sunday visit is clearly disclosed by the Account-roll of 1451-2 :

" Oblaciones Et de domino Roberto Vyport Sacrista Collegii pro Oblacionibus hoc Anno cum. xiiis. iiiid. oblatis per dominum Regem," &c.

Under * Custus necessarii ' :

" Etin datis Famulo mri Willelmi Say venientis ad Collegium ad monendum Custodem de Adventu domini Regis erga domini ca,m in Ramis palmarum,., xxd. Et in expensis Fyscher equitantis ad Suthwyke et Portysmowthe pro Piscibus habendis et emendis pro domino Rege, xiid. Et in expensis factis circa diversos Generosos de Familia domini Regis venientes in Collegium dominica in Rarris palmarum ut in pane et servisia et aliis victualibus, . ! xs. viiid."

Under ' Custus Capelle ' :

" Et solutum Nicholao Wheler laboranti circa j Feretrurr fiendum pro corpore Dominico im- \ ponendo [for making a bier for our Lord's body to be laid on] erga Dominicam in Ramis palmarum . ] in prescencia domini Regis, iiid."