Oct. 14. 1854.] 



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sides claim the advantage. The Allies of Charing Cross 

 lately held a Council, concerning the operations of the 

 campaign, in which it was resolved to besiege the Pope at 



T n, and to open the trenches without loss of time. 



They also came to a resolution to begin their attack by a 

 battery of Epigrams, by which they propose to beat down 

 a certain Pillar of Fame, which has been the chief sup- 

 port of his Holiness : their engineers having viewed the 

 said pillar, and found it to stand upon a very tottering 

 foundation. On the other side, his Holiness has not been 

 idle ; for having intelligence of their designs by his spies, 

 he is laying in a magazine of Satyr, which being filled 

 with merdose matter, he thinks will annoy the enemy, and 

 oblige them to raise the siege. 



" P. S. There is a rumour, that the Allies having dis- 

 covered one E d C rl lurking about the head- 

 quarters ; they seized him, and found him to be one of 

 the Fope's spies; upon which, according to the law of 

 arms, they hanged him up immediately, he died very 

 hard, and nobody pitied him." 



William J. Thoms. 



P. S. — May I take this oppoi-tunity of suggest- 

 ing to P. T. P., whose valuable communication on 

 Pope and his Printers in " N. & Q." of Sept. 16 

 is tilled with so much curious speculation, that an 

 investigation into the circumstances under which 

 Pope got printed for Bolingbroke the copies of his 

 Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism, Sf'C., would 

 throw considerable light upon Pope's unacknow- 

 ledged connexion with the press, and serve to 

 complete tiie curious chapter in his literary his- 

 tory which P. T. P. has so well commenced. 



Pope's Memorial to his Mother. — As your 

 attention has recently been turned to Pope, per- 

 mit me to ask a question relative to the memorial 

 he raised to his mother in a secluded part of his 

 garden on the right of the road from Teddington 

 to Bushy Park. It was a stone obelisk, with this 

 inscription round the base : 



" Editiia, matrum amantissima, vale." 



Pope's atfection for his mother is well known. 

 I wish to know whether this memorial still exists 

 (I sluv it a few years ago) ; or whether it has been 

 profanely removed, after having been sold, to some 

 spot unconsecrated by the memory of the poet? 



W. EWART. 



THE MASTERS OF ST. CROSS. 



Having long endeavoured to obtain an accurate 

 list of the masters of this celebrated hospital, and 

 ^"iST. & Q." being a refuge ibr the destitute, I avail 

 myself of an opportunity to enter its portals, and 

 in its columns seek that assistance and correction 

 which my imperfect copy requires. 



1157. Raymond {The Charter of Henry de Blois). 



Humphrey de Milers {Dugdale). 

 1240. Henry de Secusia {Dugdale; Milner'). 

 12fi0. Thomas de Colchester *(jyu«o«,). 

 1275 (died). Stephen de VVotton (Dugdale). 

 1289. Peter de Sancta Maria {Dugdale; Wavill; tomb in 

 Hospital Church). Archdeacon of Surrey. 



1289. William de Welynger, otherwise Wendling {Dug- 

 dale). 

 1298. Robert de Maidenstane, or Maj'dstone {Hutton). 

 1319. Geoffry deWelesford (Z>«(/(ia/e; Hutton; Gale). 

 1322. Bertrand Asserio {Dugdale). 



Peter de Galliciano {Dugdale). 

 1334. William de Edyngdon (Z>«(7tZ«/e). Lord High Trea- 

 surer of England ; Bishop of Winchester. 

 Reymund Peregrj'u {Dugdale). 



1345. Walter de Wetewang {Hutton). 



1346. Richard de Lusteshall {Dugdale ; Lowth ; the win' 



dows of the Hospital Church). 

 1349. John de Edyngdon {Dugdale; Lowth). A nephew 



of the Bishop of Winchester. 

 1365. William de Stowell {Dugdale; Lowth). 

 1367. Richard de Lyntesford {Dugdale ; Lowth). 

 1370. Roger de Cloune {Dugdale; Lowth). 



1370. John de Fordham {Hutton). 



1371. The Constitutions of Pope Clement V. made bishops 



real masters of the hospitals in their dioceses, 

 and as such William of Wykeham * retained the 

 government of this house from 1371 to 1382 

 ( Wavill), not for the mere custody of the house 

 and use of its revenues, but to redress the mis- 

 conduct of former masters, and restore the charity 

 to the original purposes of its foundation. 



1382 (resigned). Nicholas Wykeham (Z)M</cZ6i/e; Lowth; 

 Wavill). Warden of New College, Oxford. 



1383. John de Campeden {Dugdale). Archdeacon of 

 Surrey. 



1426. John Forest {Dugdale). 



1444. Thomas Forest {named hij Cardinal Beatifort in the 

 deed of endowment of the Alms House of Noble 

 Poverty; also named in a codicil to the Cardinal's 

 will). 



1463. Thomas Chaundeler, D.D. {Dugdale; Life of Bishop 

 Wayneflete; Newcnurt). Warden of Winchester 

 and of New College, Chancellor of the University 

 of Oxford. 



1465, WiUmmWesthuTv {Life of Wayneflete; Newcourt). 

 Provost of Eton. 



1489 (died). Richard Harward, or Havw'ard {Dugdale). 



1489. John Lichfield {Dugdale). 



1491. Robert Sherborne {Dugdale; Histories of Winchester 

 and Chichester). Bishop of St. David's, and 

 afterwards of Chichester. 



1500. Richard Fox (Cassan's Lives of the Bishops of Win- 

 chester). Bishop of Winchester. Founder of 

 Corpus Christi College, Oxford. • 



1517 (about). 3 ohnCVd.ymQm\ {Dugdale; Life of Wayne- 

 flete). President of Magdalen and Corpus Christi 

 Colleges. 



1524. John Licent {Dugdale). Dean of St. Paul's, Lon- 

 don. 



1557 (died). .John Leefe {Newcourt). Prebendary of St. 

 Paul's, London. Fellow of Winchester Col- 

 lege. 

 Dr. Reynolds {mentioned in the act 18 Elizabeth, re- 

 lating to St. Cross, as having made leases to his own 

 benefit, which that act set aside at the request of his 

 successor) ; 



1559. John Watson, afterwards Bishop of Winchester. 



1600. George Brook {Milner ; Wavill). Executed at 

 Winchester for high treason, December 5, 1603. 



* " A man of great energy and zeal, to whom this 

 country is deeply indebted for the successful exertions 

 and sacrifices he made to promote education." — The 

 Master of the Rolls, August, 1853. What a noble cha- 

 racter, given nearly 500 years after the acts were done ! 



