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wysedome and discrecyon of the said maisters.' 

 This regulation breathes a very much milder spirit 

 than the absolute negative of Colet at St. Paul's, 

 * And I will that ther be no Remedies.' It is of 

 interest to note that Tuesdays and Thursdays 

 were still the regular days for ' remedies,' as they 

 are still called, at Winchester, instead of, as in 

 most modern schools, Wednesdays and Saturdays, 

 Eton having Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Satur- 

 days. The reason is that Wednesday was a half 

 fast day and Saturday was specially devoted to 

 the service of our Lady. Magnus anticipated 

 modern practice by forbidding other employment: 

 ' Nonne of the Scollmaisters for the tyme beyng 

 shal be religious ' i.e monks, friars, or regular 

 canons ' or beneficed persones, officed or stipen- 

 daries ' (i.e. chantry priests). Lastly, as in 

 modern schemes, it was provided that the mas- 

 ters should have a copy of the ' Ordinance,' if 

 they required it, made at the expense of the 

 trust. 



The provisions in the deed as to other things, 

 and especially the management of property, are 

 very complicated. Leases were to be made by 

 the aldermen of the two gilds of the Trinity and 

 Mary Magdalen (Mawdelyn) with ' sex of the 

 eldest and most auncyent and saddest feoffees 

 then lyvyng and beyng of the towne of Newark,' 

 with the advice of the churchwardens. They 

 were to be under seal of the vicar and two alder- 

 men and six feoffees, but all the feoffees were to 

 confirm them as ' things clerely past from theym all 

 by their owne acte, assent and consent.' Another 

 body were to see to the collection and spending 

 of the rents, viz., the vicar, the two aldermen, and 

 the churchwardens (churche maisters). They 

 were to appoint a receiver ' to receive ' the rents 

 and deliver them when received to the church- 

 wardens, who were first to pay the ' two secular 

 prestys or laymen beyng Scoolemaisters.' Next, 

 they were to keep an obit ' with Placebo 

 and Dirige at after none in one day and 

 masse on the next morowe ' for the souls of 

 the founder, his father and mother and other 

 his benefactors. 2 was to be spent at this 

 obit. Of this 2s. ^d. was for the vicar 'yf 

 he do execute at the Dirige and syng the masse 

 of Requiem, and elles but 12^;' but he had to 

 offer id. Every parish and chantry priest in the 

 church was to have 6d. and other priests 4^. ' so 

 the hoole nomber . . . passe not 24 prests.' The 

 parish clerks had $d. and the six children -id. each. 

 The alderman of the Trinity Gild was to have 

 2s. and his wife is. ^d. ; the aldermen of Mary 

 Magdalen, Our Lady, and Corpus Christ! Gilds 

 each 11. 4<, and their wives is. ; each of them 

 had, however, to ' offer,' the husbands 2d., and 

 the wives id. each ; is. Sd. was to be spent on 

 wax for candles; the bellman was to receive 

 4 so muche ... as hath byn and ys accustumyd.' 

 The residue of this 40*., which would be more 

 or less, according as the aldermen had wives or 



not, was to go among ' the pore and nedy ' of 

 the town of Newark. Special provision was 

 made that ' the Maisters of the Gramer Scoole 

 and Song Scoole and their scolers shalbe present 

 bothe at the saide Dirige and Masse ' ; but they 

 were to be rewarded. 'For all that day ' after mass 

 ' they . . . shal have remedy, and be absent 

 from the said Scoole and take their laufull dys- 

 porte and libertie.' Besides the obit money 

 ' the Alderman of the Trinytie Gilde, otherwise 

 called the Alderman of the Towne of Newarke,' 

 was to have 2 a year ' towardys the maynten- 

 ance of his charge in the said office,' while 

 two chantry priests, who lived together in the 

 chantry house, which though wholly rebuilt, still 

 goes under that name, were also to have l a 

 year * towardys their comons.' In return they 

 had to pray daily for Magnus' soul in their graces 

 after dinner and supper. The churchwardens 

 were not, however, to be unchecked in these pay- 

 ments ; they had to make them under the over- 

 sight of the vicar and the aldermen of the four 

 gilds. The payments directed amounted to only 

 32 out of the 42 odd which was the estimated 

 income. ' The rest of the revenues . . . shalbe 

 put ... in a chest in the Treausour house within 

 the Revestry ' under three keys, one to be kept 

 by the alderman of the Trinity Gild, another 

 by the vicar or ' the eldest chauntery prest . . . 

 or ... saddest man of the chauntery' and the 

 third by the alderman of the Mary Magdalen Gild. 

 When this residue amounted to over ^40 or 

 more, the surplus was to be employed in putting 

 the endowment into mortmain, or for the church 

 works or for ' some other comon weale as nede 

 shall requyre." If the vicar, two aldermen, and 

 churchwardens could not agree as to how to 

 spend the money they were to call in the eldest 

 chantry priest and the two schoolmasters and 

 two eldest feoffees ' and as the moost part of theym 

 shall accorde, the said residue of the money to be 

 ymployde and bestowed.' 



Magnus thought it necessary to provide that 

 if ' the covenants agrements and graunts especy- 

 fyed in this present Indenture shalbe in any wyse 

 frustrate by any lawes or statutes of this realme,' 

 then, if no other lawful remedy could be devised 

 for the maintenance of the same, the executors 

 of his testament and the feoffees, or the latter 

 alone, might sell the lands and apply the money 

 to the same uses. This is a curious anticipation 

 of the present law of mortmain. In a similar 

 spirit of foresight Magnus provided that if the 

 gilds failed, ' whiche God defende,' the alderman 

 of the two longest continuing gilds should have the 

 powers given to the aldermen of the two chief 

 gilds ; while ' for lakke and defaulte of the said 

 aldermen,' the vicar, bailiff, church masters, and 

 two eldest feoffees, if the lands should not have 

 been put into mortmain, were to have ' the hoole 

 orderyng of the premisses.' As a matter of fact 

 Magnus himself survived to assist at the dissolu- 



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