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NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 B.IU.BEPT., 1917.

3. One John Prowde of Kyngeswode (Gloucestershire) died in September, 1464 his will, dated the 3rd of that month, being proved on the llth at Lambeth by Robert Golde, the executor (P.C.C., 5 Godyn) I have looked at this will at Somerset House to see whether it could be the glazier's, but it contains nothing which suggests to me that it was his. The testator desired to be buried in the churchyard at Hawkysbury and, after bequeathing Qd. to the mother church at Worcester, a brass pot and a plate to his son John, ten marks sterling to his son William, and a silver-gilt cup and his best silver girdle to his daughter Helen, left the residue of his property to Robert Golde and Thomas Fostar, to dispose of as they should think best for the good of his soul. Is anything known of John Prudde, the glazier, connecting him with Gloucestershire ?

4. The references to Prudde which occur in the Winchester College accounts have not yet appeared in print. So I set them out here with the entries that seem to bear upon the work done by his assistants :

" Et in ii. quarterns zabuli emptis pro Vitrea- cione Capelle Johannis Fromond et Capelle Collegii, xxd. Et in iiii. quarterns calcis non laxate emptis pro eisdem, ( iis. vid. Et in xxv. libris Stanni sive Tynne emptis pro eisdem, precium libre iiid. minus in toto iiid.. vis. Hid. ob. [sic]. Et in v. libris Resine emptis pro eisdem, vd. Et in solutis Willelmo Boore pro xxii. Counterbarris ferreis pro Fenestris Capelle Collegii ponderantibus lix. libras, precium libre [id. ob. q. altered to] iid., ixs. Hid. [sic]. Et in solutis Johanni West et sociis suis laborantibus in faciendo Skaffoldes pro Fenestris supradictis, iis. iiiid. Et pro cariagio de Skaffold tymber, viiid. Et in solutis Johanni Prudd vitreareo pro ii. famulis suis laborantibus per viii. septi- manas circa vitreacionem Fenestrarum predic- tarum, quolibet eorum capiente per septimanam iiis. iiiid., liiis. iiiid." ' Custus domorum,' 1443-4.

" Et in datis Ricardo et Willelmo famulis Johannis Prudd vitrearii Westmonasteriensis pro eorum expensis versus London ex curialitate domini Custodis, iiis. iiiid." ' Custus necessarii forins. cum donis,' 1443-4.

5. It is not clear whether the glazing done by Prudd e's men in 1443-4 extended to the upper room of Fromond's Chantry, but there is an entry in the College accounts of 1449-50 which shows that there was coloured glass in that upper room :

" Et solutum Stephano vitriario pro factura et emendacione unius ymaginis occidentalis fenestre et i. Angeli orientalis fenestre domus super capellam Fromond, iiis." ' Custus Capelle.'

6. At the present time there is only one piece of old glass in the upper room. * It is

a circle of glass, with a diameter of about 15 inches, set in one of the four windows on the south side, and it displays Wykeham's arms on a shield. Its history is obscure, but I do not connect it with Prudde. It probably came out of Thurbern's Chantry, whence also came the bulk of the old glass now in the east window of Fromond's, on the ground floor. There were originally two windows on the south side of Thur- bern's, but in attempts to uphold the belfry tower both windows were closed up one probably in 1740, the other certainly in 1772. The former contained several shields, one of them being Wykeham's, and the fact that this window had been closed up " lately " is mentioned in Thomas Warton's ' Description of Winchester ' (n.d.), p. 27. Warton's book is usually assigned to 1750, but, to judge from internal evidence,* it was not really published before 1760. I infer the date 1740 for the closing of the window from the College Accounts of 1739-40, which contain under ' Custus CapellaV 3rd quarter, the item " Dno. Townsend pro consilio et opera in compin- genda et stabilienda Turri, 21 Os. Od."

7. For his descriptions of the glass in the two chantries (pp. 27-8, 45) Warton relied mainlv upon Anthony Wood's manuscript, D. 4" (ft. 308-31), dated "Feb., 1684" (i.e., 1684/5). He supposed that Wood then visited the College, but the manuscript " must be copied by Wood from some one's notes, not made by himself, for he was not at Winchester " (Clark's ' Wood's Life and Times,' Oxf. Hist. Soc., iii. 134). I would

uggest that he copied Matthew Hutton's notes, now at the British Museum, Harl. MS. 6977. Upon several points these notes are not so lucid as one could wish.

8. Although the bulk of the old glass now in the east window of Fromond's Chantry was brought out of Thurbern's in 1772, there may be a few fragments of the Prudde

ss intermixed with it. I venture to men- tion as a piece which is possibly Prudde' s the head of a mitred paint, with a blue back- ground, which occupies a central position among the upper lights. The aureole proves

hat it is the head of a canonized saint, and not merely of a bishop. But by 1852
 * he head had come to be regarded as Wyke-

lam's (see Walcott's ' Wykeham and his

olleges,' p. 242, n. 2), and about thirty

nade of the opening of the Hampshire County Hospital (in Parchment Street) at Michaelmas, 1759.
 * For instance, see p. 12, where mention is