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 A HISTORY OF LONDON at £20 I J. 8(/.,*^but for Wolsey's procurations in 1524, the rating of which was generally very low, it was reckoned at £z(>-^^ Masters of Whittington's College William Brooke, appointed 1424^' John Clench, S.T.P.^^ Richard Puringland, appointed 1427 *° John Eyburhall, S.T.P., appointed 1444,^° occurs 1457,^' resigned 1464'^ William Ive, appointed 1464,^' occurs 1465,'" resigned 1470'^ John Collys, appointed 1470,'^ died 1478'' Nicholas Good, S.T.P., appointed 1478, died 1479 34 Edward Lupton, appointed 1479, died 1482^* John Green, S.T.B., appointed 1482^^ Robert Smith, resigned 1488" Thomas Lynley, S.T.B., appointed 1488'* Edward Underwood, D.D., occurs 1493,^^ resigned 1496*" Stephen Douce, S.T.B., appointed 1496,^' occurs 1508,^ resigned 1509^' Humphrey Wistowe, S.T.B., appointed 1509" John Walgrave, S.T.B., appointed 15 19, resigned 1519^° Edward Feld, S.T.P., appointed 15 19, died 1537" Richard Smith, S.T.P., appointed 1537*' 42. THE COLLEGE IN ALLHALLOWS BARKING The chapel of St. Mary in the church of Allhallows Barking was founded by Richard I, but although it may have had from early times a reputation for special sanctity, it does not seem to have acquired its great attraction as a place of pilgrimage until the reign of Edward I, who in consequence of a vision placed an image of the Virgin there, and obtained a special indulgence from the bishop of London for those who visited the chapel, and contributed to its repair.^ In 1442 John Somerset, chancellor of the Exchequer, and Henry Frowik and John Olney, " Newcourt, op. cit. 492. " L. and P. Hen. nil, iv, 964. " Cal. 0/ Pat. 1422-9, p. 274. " Newcourt, op. cit. i, 493. " Ibid. •^ Ibid. " Sharpe, Ca/. of Wills, ii, 537. '' Newcourt, op. cit. i, 493. *' Ibid. '° Collections of a London Citizen (Camd. Soc), 228. " Newcourt, op. cit. i, 493. " Ibid. ^ Ibid. " Cal. of Inq. Ibid. '* Ibid. " Ibid. p.m. Hen. FII,, No. 854. " Ibid. '« Ibid. He is here called James Underwode. " Sharpe, op. cit. ii, 624. " Ibid. « Ibid. ' Lend. Epis. Reg. Gilbert, Refert. Eccl. Lond. i, 238. 41 Ibid. « Ibid, fol. 194 " Ibid. Newcourt, aldermen of London, established a gild of St. Mary, to which Henry VI granted the custody of the chapel, reserving, however, the right of the parish church to oblations.* Edward IV in 1465 granted to the master of the gild, the notorious John Tiptoft, earl of Worcester, and to the wardens the manor of Tooting Bee and the advowson of Streatham, county Surrey, part of the alien priory of Ogbourne, for the mainten- ance of a chantry of two chaplains to pray for the good estate of himself and his family in life, and for their souls after death.' The rules for the chantry made by the master and wardens * ordered that the chaplains should not have other benefices, nor a temporal patrimony exceeding five marks ; vacancies were to be filled by the master and wardens within six months ; each chaplain was to receive, if a graduate, ;^io a year, if not j^8, but the king in limiting the liability of the gild as regards the chantry in 1470 fixed the salary of the first chaplain definitely at to have a month's holiday every year on obtain- ing leave of the master and wardens, but were not both to be absent at the time of the chief festivals, and penalties were to be imposed in case due leave of absence was exceeded ; an arrange- ment was to be made with the vicar so that the services in the chapel on Sundays and festivals did not interrupt those in the church. The chaplains were exempted by the king in 1470 from payments of all tenths, fifteenths, tallages, and subsidies.' Richard III is said to have rebuilt the chapel, and to have erected there a college of a dean and six canons,' but there is no account of the further endowment which would have been necessary, and no mention ever occurs of a royal foundation there other than the chantry of Edward IV. The chantries afterwards established by Sir John Rysley and Sir Robert Tate * added five persons to those ministering in the chapel,* and Chicheley's chantry provided for a priest and a 'conduct,''" so that at the Dissolution there were altogether five priests and five 'conducts,* all of whom seem to have received pensions.^' Dean or Master of the Chapel OF St. Mary, in Allhallows Barking Edmund Chadertone(.?)" ' Cai of Pat. 1461-7, p. 428; Pari. R. (Rec. Com.), vi, 94a and 343^. ' Cal. of Pat. 1467-77, p. 192. ' Ibid. ' Stow, Surv. of Lond. (ed. Strype),ii, 32 ; Harl. MS. 433, fol. 105. Yet there seems to be no trace of the college in the calendar of patent rolls. ^ Chant. Cert. No. 88, m. 4 d. '"Ibid. " Ibid. " He is called the first dean. Stow, op. cit. ii, 32; Harl. 433, fol. 102. 5«o
 * ° Newcourt, op. cit. i, 493.
 * Newcourt, op. cit. i, 493.
 * ^io, and that of the second at ;^8 ' ; they were
 * L. and P. Hen. Fill, i, 5242 (i).
 * Exch. T.R. Misc. Bk. no.
 * Maskell, Hist, of Allhallows Barking, 16.