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 A HISTORY OF LONDON Burgh, Henry Gubbe, William Jordain, Walter Mordon, and Thomas atte Leye, the endow- ment of which had in course of time become insufficient, and to found in their place a college of a master and nine chaplains to celebrate for the founders of the chantries, for Walworth and his wife Margaret, and for John Lovekyn.^ The property which had belonged to the chan- tries in Crooked Lane, Bridge Street, Thames Street and elsewhere was settled on the college,' and further provision for its maintenance must have been made by Walworth on a very ample scale,* since the royallicence given to the college in 1 38 1 to acquire in mortmain lands and tene- ments to the annual value of ^^40 could only have been granted with a view to his benefac- tions.* At the time of the foundation Walworth had assigned to the priests a house near the church for a dwelling-place. ° Important, how- ever, as the college was in size, it remained only a chantry and never absorbed into itself the organization of the parish church' as did Poult- ney's College and Whittington's. It lasted until the general suppression of col- leges and chantries in the reign of Edward VI.* Pensions of £^ a year were then paid to seven priests and one ' conduct.' ' 40. THE FRATERNITY OF THE HOLY TRINITY AND OF THE SIXTY PRIESTS IN LEADENHALL CHAPEL Simon Eyre, who built a granary for the City in Leadenhall, left by his will in 1459 3)°°° marks to the Drapers' Company to establish within a year of his decease in the Leadenhall Chapel a college of a master, five secular priests, six clerks, and two choristers, and to found a school for teaching grammar, writing, and sing- ing.^ For some reason unknown the terms of the will were not carried out either by the Drapers' Company or by the prior and convent ' Pat. 4 Ric. II, pt. z, m. 12, printed in Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 1380. ' Ibid. quest. He seems to have arranged by his will in 1385 that his wife should assign the revenues of certain property in the City to the college, and that after her death some tenements and rents should be entrusted to the rector and churchwardens of St. Michael's for that purpose. Sharpe, Cal. of Wills, ii, 251. ' Cal of Pat. 1377-81, p. 612. ^ Ibid. 609. ' The rector of the church continued as before and seems not to have been connected in any way with the college. Sharpe, Cal. of Wills, ii, 251 ; Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i, 371 ; L. and P. Hen. VIII, v, 1693 (7). ' Tanner, Noiitia Mon. ' Chant. Cert. No. 88, m. 5. By 1556 the eight were reduced to five. Add. MS. 8102, fol. 4. ' Stow, Surv. of Lend, ii, 84 (ed. Strype). of Holy Trinity, who became legatees on the same conditions on the default of the company." In 1466, however, Edward IV, at the request of Queen Elizabeth, granted licence to William Rous, chaplain, and John Reseby and Thomas Asheby, priests, to found in the Leadenhall Chapel a fraternity to be called the Fraternity of the Holy Trinity and the Sixty Priests of London.' If the rules of the Pappey were drawn up * at the time of that hospital's foundation in 1442 the brotherhood of the sixty priests must have been in existence before it was connected with Leadenhall, as it is there mentioned. The City in 1512 seems to have attempted to carry out Eyre's wishes to some extent by grant- ing to these priests the use of the chapel on con- dition that they prayed for the souls of Simon Eyre and his wife.* There is no account of any endowment ex- cept the small bequests often made to them by will ; such as the legacy of 20s. left to them in 1507 by John Overton, priest of St. Thomas of Aeon,* 20s. to their common box by a chantry priest of St. Mary-at-Hill in 1509'; loj. for a trental of masses in 15 10 by the priest of St. Peter's CornhilL^ The fraternity was suppressed at the general dissolution of chantries and gilds in the reign of Edward VI. There is a fine example of the seal of this society, of fifteenth-century date.^ It is a pointed oval and bears a representation of the Trinity in a niche with tabernacle work at the sides. In the bases, under a double arch, are two priests in the act of elevating the host. The inner edge is engrailed. Legend : — S COE • FRAT NIT SCE TRINITAT ET SEXAGINTA • SACERDOTV • LODONI 41. WHITTINGTON'S COLLEGE The church of St. Michael Paternoster Royal was the parish church of the wealthy Richard Whittington, and therefore had a special claim on him. At the beginning of the fifteenth century it needed enlarging, and was also in a ruinous state, so that he determined to rebuild it entirely, and in 141 1 began the work by adding a piece of ground to the site.^ His idea was to make the new church collegiate, but before he could com- plete his project he died early in 1423. His executors, however, with the consent of the king* and the archbishop of Canterbury, erected ' Cal of Pat. 1461- xvi, fol. 1 1 611. P- 5 16. ' Ibid. • Cott. MS. Vit. F. ' Rec.of the Corp. of Lend. Repert. 2, fol. 140. ^ Lond. Epis. Reg. Fitz James, pt. 2, fol. 2. 'Ibid. fol. I. 'Ibid. fol. S. ' B.M. Seals, xxxvii, 64. ' Letter Bk. I, fol. 86, quoted by Riley in Mem. of Lond. 578. ' Cal. of Pat. 1422-9, p. 259. 578
 * Either by grants during his lifetime or by be-