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 A HISTORY OF LONDON John Stevyns, M.A., presented 1525," re- signed 1532 " John Blackden, presented 1532," died 1536 *« Thomas Starkey, presented 1536,^' died 1538 «° William Latimer, presented 1538," occurs 1539,*- and was master at the surrender , ., _ 63 A seal in the British Museum " shows three niches with trefoiled arches, canopied, and in them an altar with a chalice and paten thereon, and two female saints. In the base to the left a priest is kneeling in prayer under a carved round- headed arch. The legend is uncertain. 38. THE COLLEGE IN THE GUILD- HALL CHAPEL The new chapel of the Guildhall must at least have been begun in 1299, for Henry le Galeys then gave to the Fraternity of Pui 5 marks annual quit-rent to maintain a chaplain there.^ Either the building operations extended over a long period or extensive repairs^ were soon needed, since in 1326 Thomas de Wake, lord of Lidel, and John de Stratford, bishop of Winchester, promised to supply the timber and lead to complete the church.' In this chapel — dedicated to the honour of God, St. Mary, St. Mary Magdalen, and All Saints — Peter Fanelore, Adam Fraunceys, and Henry Frowyk proposed in 1356 to found a chantry of five chaplains at the altar of St. Mary.* Their intention, however, does not seem to have " Newcourt, op. cit. i, 389. He was presented by the king, as were his successors. Wilson, op. cit. 60. »« L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xi, 141 7 (29). ''Ibid. ""Ibid, xiii (2), +91 (14). "Ibid. "Add. Chart. 211. '^ Wilson, op. cit. 60. " B.M. Seals, Ixviii, 60. This appean to be the same as the seal of Robert Witney, master in the latter half of the fourteenth century, shown in Wilson, op. cit. 33. In the engraving, however, one of the saints appears to be male (? St. Laurence), and the legend is given as : — sigillu. roberti. . . ' Sharpe, Cal. of Letter Bk. E, l. This fraternity interested itself in the support of the chapel. Liber Custum. in Muit. Guildhall. Lend. (Rolls Ser.), ii(l), 227. ' Price, A Descriptive Account of the Guildhall of the City of Lond. 1 1 1 . ' Sharpe, Cal. of Letter Bk. E, 215. On a visit to the Guildhall they asked why the works had stopped, and were told by the mayor that with their assistance and that of other great men the chapel would soon be finished. Their handsome contribution was the result of the hint. kind appears to have been already established there, but the college, though then projected, was not con- stituted until later. been carried out until 1368, when Fanelore was dead.' Of the college of five chaplains one was to be warden with a salary of 13 marks a year, the others receiving 10 marks each from the revenues of the endowment, viz., two tenements in the parish of St. Vedast and one in the parish of St. Giles without Cripplegate. The clerk who aided the priests in the mass was to have 6 marks a year. The warden was to collect the rents and pay his fellow priests, and accounts were to be given before the two founders during their lifetime, and after their death before the mayor and chamberlain, any surplus over ex- penses being kept in a chest with three keys held by the mayor and chamberlain, the warden, and the four chaplains respectively. When the post of warden was vacant it was to be filled by Fraunceys and Frowyk while they lived, but when they were dead, the priests, after asking leave of the mayor, were to elect one of them- selves. The advowsons of the other chaplaincies, after the death of the founders, lay with the mayor and chamberlain. The Corporation seems to have had the super- vision of the chantry, judging from its order to the chamberlain in 1417 to seize the lands of the chapel because the chaplains wandered about and neglected their duties.^ The chapel was so ruinous in 1430 that it was decided to rebuild it, and in order to get more space for the new building the chaplains' house was taken down and another on the north side of the Guildhall assigned to them instead.' The work proceeded somewhat slowly : overseers were appointed in 1439,* and 'twas not until October, 1444, that the chapel was at last dedi- cated.^ In December of that year the warden and priests were commanded to perform choral service there daily.'" The chapel was still un- finished, the City companies being asked in 1446 to contribute to the expense of roofing it.^' A chantry was founded there in 1435^^ by Henry Barton, who bequeathed also some orna- ments to the chapel ;  chantries were also ' Harl. Chart. 79 G. 38. ' Rec. of Corp. of Lond. Journ. i, fol. 24 ; Price, op. cit. 1 19. ' Newcourt, Repert. Eccl. Lond. i, 361. They evi- dently lived and dined together, for Edmund Alynson in 1 5 10 bequeathed to the commons of Guildhall College ' 5 sawssers, a olde plater, a wyne quartte pott and 2 belle candelstykks,' and d. every Friday for a year to pray for his soul at grace. Lond. Epis. Reg. Fitz James, ii, fol. 5.  Rec. of Corp. of Lond. Joum. iii, fol. 39. ' Ibid, iv, fol. i,%b. '" 'Cum Nota,' ibid. fol. 55^. " Price, op. cit. I 25. " Ibid. I 2 I. " After a long contention with the wardens of St. John's Walbrook, an arrangement was effected in 1448, and a silver cross enamelled and gilt, and a suit ot vestments of white cloth of gold, were handed over to the chapel. Ibid. 122.
 * Newcourt, op. cit. i, 389. " Ibid.
 * Riley, Mems. of Lond. 288. A chantry of some
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