SCHOOLS 



the old endowment of the school for the college 

 school, giving their cordial assent : — 



Pleasith it your grace to be advertised that we the 

 balies portmen and enhabitaunts of this the Kings 

 Towne of Yppswich have lately apperceyved by 

 Master Deane of your newe College of Yppswich 

 aforesaid, that your pleasour and desire is that all 

 such Lands and Tenements as of old tyme have been 

 lymyted and appoynted to the Gramer Maister ther 

 shuld be mortised and gevene to the said College 

 toward the sustentacion of your newe Maister of 

 Gramer of your Schole ther and his successours nowe 

 by your grace ther appoyncted and ordeigned, And 

 that your grace wold have our ffree assents unto the 

 same. It maie please your grace to be advertised that 

 we welle apperceyve and considre the manyfold good- 

 ness that your grace hath shewed, as welle in the 

 ereccyone of the said College and gramer scole ther, 

 as also in many and divers other thingis that it hath 

 liked your grace to do to the welth of the said 

 Towne ; ifor the which we confesse our selfFs unable 

 to make unto yor grace any sufficient Recompence. 

 But as towchinge your said request and desire, we alle 

 be not only content frely wit oon assent to accom- 

 plish^ and fulfille the same, but also to do and execute 

 alle and every other thinge that hereafter shalbe yor 

 gracious pleasour to advertise us to do for the cor- 

 roboracione of the same. As knoweth our lord god, 

 we send unto yor grace, our especalle good and 

 gracious lord long lief and honourable to his pleasour, 

 and to the fulle accomplishment of alle yor honorable 

 affaires. Wreten at Yppswich the xth day of 

 Januarye 



By yor humble and daylye bedemen the Bailies 

 of Yppswich aforesaid 



James Hyll 

 Thomas Manser ' 



In pursuance of their promise, at an assembly 

 of the bailiffs, portmen, twenty-four, and some 

 of the commoners on 7 October, 1528, the cor- 

 poration granted to the dean and canons of the 

 Cardinal College of St. Mary in Ipswich all the 

 interest of the town in the lands in Whitton and 

 Ipswich which the town claimed by the last will 

 and testament of Richard Felaw or otherwise. 



But, alas, the enlarged school was not of long 

 continuance. We do not know whether the 50 

 scholars were ever appointed. On I December, 

 1529, Sir Thomas More the chancellor and other 

 members of the House of Lords presented articles 

 of impeachment against Wolsey, some of which 

 were grounded on his proceedings in relation to 

 the two colleges. He was eventually found 

 guilty of incurring the penalties of a praemu- 

 nire for having on 2 December, 1523 accepted 

 a papal bull without the royal licence. On 

 9 July following the dean, • William Capon, 

 priest,' wrote to Wolsey 2 that 



Mr. Fayerfax, Serjeant, and divers other counsel and 

 the Lord Chief Justice all advised that the college at 

 Ipswich would not stand, 



1 The name is wrongly read by Brewer into 

 Chanser. L. and P. Hen. Fill, iv, 5 I 60. 

 ' L.ani P. Hen. Fill, iv, 6510. 



as the grants had been made to Wolsey after he 

 had ' ronne in the praemunire.' On the 20th 

 he wrote again to say that the king had resolved 

 to dissolve the college by Michaelmas, and that 

 the lands had already been seized to the king's 

 use. On 19 September, 1 530, a commission sat at 

 Woodbridge and gave a verdict that all the college 

 lands were forfeited to the king. On 4 October 

 Capon writes that he had received through the 

 Duke of Norfolk, now practically Prime Minister, 

 orders to dissolve the college ' retaining only the 

 subdean, schoolmaster, usher, and six grammar 

 children until the king's future pleasure should be 

 known.' 



In an undated document, 3 but presumably 

 some time in 1530 or early in 1 53 1, there is 

 preserved an assignment of the forfeited property 

 amounting to ^2,234 a year in all, to various 

 persons, leaving to the king only ^359 a year. 



England. Lordships, manors, land, tenements, rec- 

 tories, pensions, portions and other possessions spiritual 

 and temporal there, now in the hands of King 

 Henry VIII, and by mandate of the same king as- 

 signed and appointed to divers persons following. 



To the college at Oxford were assigned rents 

 and farms amounting to £200 a year, besides 

 the late monastery of St. Frideswide £227 a year, 

 and the monastery of Littlemore, another £40 ; 

 in all £667 1 8*. 6jrf. To 'the college of 

 Wyndesore,' i.e. St. George's, were given lands 

 worth ,£603 a year. Then came : — 



Assigned to the College or school of Ipswich (assignata 

 collegia sive schole G.ppeaici) : — 



£ '■ d. 



Rent of manors of Felixstowe 

 and Fakenham with their 

 appurtenances 20 o o 



Rectories, pensions, and por- 

 tions late belonging to the 

 monastery of St. Peter, Ips- 

 wich, as appears by the 

 valuation aforesaid ... 23 8 4 



Rent of the rectory of Blaka- 

 more 66s. 8d., and Ginge 



Margaret, £12, in all . 

 Rectory of Marybourn . 



1568 

 o 13 4 



59 8 4 



The school was therefore intended to be left 

 amply endowed, even without the endowment 

 left by Felaw. But what exactly happened is 

 unknown and apparently unknowable. For 

 another edition of the same document'* gives 

 under the heading 'assigned to the school of 

 Ipswich (assignata scole Gipptuici) ' in more detail 

 what was assigned. The items mentioned are : — 



Rent of the site of the manor of Felixstowe with 

 demesne lands rents and farms in Felixstowe and 



* The reference to it is L. and P. Hen. /'Ill, iv, 

 6816 (5). 



• Misc. Bks. Exch. T.R. 117, fol. 87. 



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