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LONDON, SAT I RD AY, SEPTEMBER 16, 191C.

CON TENTS.- No. 38.

3JOTES : The Chaplains of Fromond's Chantry at Win- chester, 221 Materials fora History of the Watts Family of Southampton, 224 Saiuu>l Wesley the elder : his Poetic Activities, 226 " Communique," 227.

QUERIES : Sir Alexander Fraser, Physician to CharlesJI.

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Frozen " Great-cousin" " The freedom of a city in a gold box " ' The Comic Aldrich ' Acco St. Newly n East A Mediaeval Hymn Tinsel Pictures, 228 Arnold of Rugby and Hebrew Old MS. Verses Moone of Breda: Jackson Osbert Salvin, Naturalist Dr. Thomas Frewen Author Wanted, 229.

REPLIES : An English Army List of 1740. 229 " Watch House," Ewell, Surrey, 233 Marshals of France Uncut Paper - Snob and Ghost Capt. Arthur Conolly, 235 Cromwell : St. John The Actor-MartyrRichard Duke.

236 ' Sabi inse Corolla ' Caldecott The Removal of Memorials in Westminster Abbey The Horse Chestnut,

237 Sir John Maynard, 1592-1658 John Evans, Astrol- oger, of Wales Authors Wanted St. George's. Hart Street, Bloomsbury The Custody of Corporate Seals, 238 St. Luke's, Old Street: Bibliography- Folk-Lore : Red Hair Perpetuation of Printed Errors Ching: Cornish or Chinese? 239.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' The Ancient Cross Shafts at Bewcastle and Ruthwell ' Sir William Butt, M.D.' "The Burlington Magazine.'

Notices to Correspondents.

THE CHAPLAINS OF FROMOND'S CHANTRY AT WINCHESTER.

THE subjoined list of the Chaplains of John Fromond's Chantry at Winchester College is offered as a supplement to the list of the College Chaplains (1417-1542) which was printed at 11 S. x. 201, 221.

As has been indicated already at 11 S. xii. 294, 433, Fromond's Chantry-Chapel was built after his death by his executors. Robert Thurbern, who was Warden of the College from 1413 to 1450, was one of these executors, and the building may justly be regarded as his chief work at Winchester. Following Fromond's example, he left the building of his own Chant ry-Chapel to others, -and Dr. John Baker was consequently en- gaged between (say) 1473 and 1487 in building Thurbern' s Chapel and in rearing a belfry tower above it.

The moneys needed for the erection of Fromond's Chapel were obtained mainly by the selling of his landed estates. These had been conveyed by him on Nov. 13, 1420

(the day before he made his will), to John Harryes, Richard Wallop, and Richard Seman, and their heirs, without mention of the trusts intended, because of the great confidence which he had in the feoffees. What the trusts really were can be learnt from the Chancery proceedings which Thur- bern and John Halle (another of Fromond's executors) had to bring against Wallop and Seman in or about the year 1430, when Harryes, the other feoffee, was dead. For the bill of complaint, the subpoena to Seman (who was an executor as well as a feoffee), and Seman' s depositions, see ' Early Chancery Proceedings,' P.R.O., bundle 8, Nos. 17-19; see also the petition of Thurbern and Halle to Cardinal Beaufort, telling the like story, but with some variations of detail, a copy of which is preserved at the College. These documents show that Fromond had intended that all his estates, other than those ex- pressly disposed of by his will, should be sold by the feoffees under directions from the executors, and that the executors should expend the proceeds in the building of a chapel over Fromond's grave in the centre of the College Cloisters. The occasion of the litigation in Chancery was an alleged attempt by Wallop to secure two of Fromond's properties, the manor of Fernhill and some lands at Alverstoke, for his own son, Richard Wallop junior, without any payment being made for them. Wallop senior was Fro- mond's successor as Steward of the College lands, but he vacated the office shortly before the litigation began. (Cf. 12 S. i. 362', No. 27.) The upshot was that the manor of Fernhill eventually came to the College as an additional endowment for the Chantry.

By the deed of Nov. 13, 1420, Fromond divided his estates into no fewer than seven- teen parcels. He disposed of only three of them by his will :

1. He directed that, after his wife's death, what may be called his home property (the manor of Sparsholt, &c.), which he had inherited from his grandfather, Richard Fromond, should go to John Esteney and his heirs, but on the terms that a chaplain should be provided at St. Stephen's Church, Sparsholt, to celebrate daily at St. Kathe- rine's altar for the souls of Fromond and his wife and certain of their relatives and ancestors. This property was duly con- veyed upon these terms, by Harryes, Wallop, and Seman, to Esteney by a deed dated Tuesday next before the feast of St. George the Martyr, 10 H. V. (i.e., April 21, 1422), a copy of which was entered in our ' Registrum rubrum,' fol. 126. As Fromond's widow,