HISTORY OF HARTING. 39 



1366, and was succeeded by William of Wykeham. 

 It would seem as if some of the Bishop's family still 

 lingered hereabouts, for (Pat. 12, Rich. II.) John de 

 Edyndon was appointed to the Parish Church of Bury, 

 near Amberley. In like manner, in our own imme- 

 diate neighbourhood the living of Buriton was held 

 by John, probably the nephew of William of Wyke- 

 ham, to whom Wykeham left in his will 50 for his 

 degree in Theology.* 



In connection with this notice of the educational 

 movement in this neighbourhood, it is very interesting 

 to observe that William of Wykeham's first head 

 master at Winchester College was Richard de Herton, 

 ' venerabilis et discretus vir Richardus de Herton 

 grammaticus,' as he is called in a deed dated 1373, 

 wherein he binds himself to William of Wykeham 

 to teach the College boys at Winchester School for 

 ten years, in the parish of St. John upon the Hill, f 

 " Richard de Herton, schoolmaster," would in mo- 

 dern form undoubtedly be "Richard Harting" for 

 " Herton " is the current name for Halting at this 

 time. It was the invariable practice of men of mark 

 to drop their family name, and to adopt that of their 

 birthplace. Thus we have William de Wykeham, 

 William de Waynflete, Simon de Stanbrugge, Richard 

 de Torrebury, Adam de Beriton (Vicar of Boxgrave, 

 Pat. 23, Ed. III.), and so Richard de Herton, or 

 Richard of Harting. Is it possible that through 

 Edynton's connection with Harting this Richard, 

 when a young man, may have shared Edynton's pa- 

 tronage, and, once a fellow student with Wykeham, 

 have been selected by the latter's well-known prac- 

 tical discrimination as the first Master of the famous 

 School ? 



* " Item lego magistro Johanni Wykeham, Rectori Ecclesae 

 de Biriton pro inceptione sua in Theologia and aliis actibus 

 scholasticis L (fifty) libras." 



t Lowth's Life of William of Wykeham. Appendix 360. 

 Idem. pp. 94, 191. 



