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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 B. iv. OCT.,

shire' (1820), and Weaver's ' Somersetshire Incumbents.' Works dealing with clergy lists for any county would be welcome.

J. W. FAWCKTT. Cjiisett, co. Durham.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. A little way to walk with you, my own,

Only a little way ;

Then one of us must weep and walk alone. MADELAINB M. MARSHALL.

2. One is nearer God's heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.

A. K. T. [2. The last lines of ' God's Garden,' by

Dorothy Frances 396.]

Guraey. See 11 S. ix. 373

KENT FAMILY AND HEADBOURNE WORTHY.

(12 S. iv. 187.)

THE following notes will, perhaps, be of interest to the querist.

1. In Kirby's ' Winchester Scholars ' there is a list of 21 Scholars, of whom John Kent is the 17th, under the year 1431. But the arrangement of their names in the original Register is not quite so simple. There we have, first, a list of 7 boys under

the curious heading " Nomina Scolarium electorum xx die Augusti A Dni ' xxxi et A

regn regs

mcccc supradicti x

curious because Aug. 20, 1431, occurred in the 9th year of Henry VI.'s reign, and the 10th year did not begin until Sept. 1, 1431. Next we have a list of 14 boys under the heading " Nomina Scolarium nominatorum die et A supradictis et admissorum

ut

patet infra." Upton, the first boy on this list, was admitted on Oct. 6 ; Inkepenne, the third boy, on Dec. 10, and Baker, the sixth, on July 22. The entry as to Kent, who comes next, runs thus :

the last five weeks of 'that College year, which ended on Friday, Sept. 28, 1431. The boys on the second list were admitted subsequently, during the year 1431-2. Kent thus entered the College on Aug. 23, 1432.

3. There is no date on Kent's brass at Headbourne Worthy. Though the entry which I have quoted from our Register assigns his death to Aug. 31, 1435, yet I think that Kirby's statement (' Scholars,' p. xi) that the boy died on Aug. 31, 1434,* is really correct. Kent's name does not occur in any of the weekly lists of the community in the Hall Book of 1434-5, which began on Saturday, Sept. 25, 1434. I infer, therefore, that when this Book began he was already dead, and that the regnal year of his death is misstated in the Register.

4. It would appear from the Register that an epidemic was raging at the College in the late summer and early autumn of 1434. The following Scholars died : Rt. Modenford (Aug. 29) ; J. Kent (Aug. 31) ; J. Pryse (Sept. 1) ; Ralph Troweyf (Sept. 4) ; Wm. Nowers (Sept. 5) ; Win. Inkepenne (Sept. 9) ; Rd. Smith of Newbury (Sept. 10) ; Wm. Kyngill and N. Russell " statim obiit," says the Register of each of them, after recording that they were admitted

in festo exaltationis sancte crucis " (i.e., Sept. 14, 1431). From the Hall Book of 1434-5 we further learn that J. Fosbroke died (1st quarter, 2nd week)J and Walter Law (8th week) ; also two Quiristers, Baynfeld and Cosyn (5th and 6th weeks). Another Scholar, Rt. Mohone (or Mohoue), died in the 2nd quarter, 6th week (which began on Jan. 29, 1435).

5. In those days the modern system of Scholar might absent himself for one month, Wykeham's Statutes, rubric 17). The num- ber of the Scholars dining in Hall was abnormally low in the final weeks of 1433-4
 * erms and vacations was unknown, but any
 * ontinuous or discontinuous, in each year

Aug. 31, 1435, the concluding day of Henry VI.'s

ISt.h T-par Vint, coo Viol<->Tirl "

13th year ; but see

2. The explanation of the two lists is supplied by the Hall Book of 1430-1 (we fortunately possess the Hall Books of 1430-1, 1432-3, and 1434-5 ; but those of 1431-2 and 1433-4 are missing). The Book of 1430-1 shows that the 7 boys on the Register's first list (from Rd. Cayte to Rt. Gylys) were admitted as Scholars during

two Account-rolls, beginning with the

the boy died on Aug. 14, needs emendation.
 * His later statement (' Annals,' p. 182), that

t Called Troney by Kirby ('Scholars,' p. 54); but the Hall Book of 1432-3 proves that he was Trouey or Trowey.

t Yet the Register assigns his death to 9 H. VI. (1430-1), which is evidently an error, as Fosbroke - took the Scholar's oath on Aug. 23, 1432 (Reg. O). Miscalled " Lade " by Kirby (p. 55).