82 APPENDIX. 



the College and Hospital, is the first Charter given by Dugdale, dated 

 at Lambeth, 20th November 1424, followed by the Charter of the 

 Executors, prescribing the Statutes and Ordinances of the College, 

 dated on the 1 8th December following. The third Instrument printed 

 by Dugdale, is the Charter of increased endowment to the College 

 from the Executors, with some additional Statutes. The fourth con- 

 cerns the endowment and Statutes of the Hospital separately. The 

 foundation, generally, was dedicated to the Holy Ghost, the Virgin 

 Mary, St. Michael, and All Saints. The College was for a Master and 

 four Fellows, all to be Masters of Arts, besides. Clerks, Choristers, 

 «&c. The Hospital, on the East side of the College, was endowed for 

 thirteen poor people, the chief of whom was to be called Tutor. The 

 Chai'ter of Foundation for the Hospital, comprizing its regulations, 

 Avas dated December 21st, 1424. 



In the year already mentioned, the Executors of Whittington 

 alloAved £63 per annum toward the support of the College, till it 

 could be better endowed ; yet, after all the benefactions, the whole 

 of its revenues were valued (26 Henry VIII.) at no more than 

 £20. Is. 8d. per annum. The site of the College was granted to 

 Armigcl Wade, 2 Edward VI.'' The Alms Houses for the poor men 

 continued; they are still under the direction of the Mercer's Company, 

 who, besides a room to each of the pensioners, according to Maitland, 

 allow them 3s. lOd. a week ; to the men every third year coats and 

 breeches, and to the women gowns and petticoats. (Dugdale's Ifonas- 

 ticon. Bohn's Edit. 1846.) 



The Instruments above mentioned are all given in full in Dugdale's 

 Monasticon, to which refer. 



EXTRACTS FROM RECORDS ON THE SUBJECT OF THE 

 FAMILY OF WHITTINGTON, 



ALLUDED TO IX THE PRECEDING WORK. 



Calendar ium Liquisitionum -pod mortem. 



V0I-. II. 



33 Edtcd. III. fA.JJ, 1360,; No. 93.— WilluS de AVetyngtou Chf 

 utlegatus. Paunteleye maner" ut de honorc de Clyfford, Glouc. 

 Solers Hope maner'-', Hereford. 



d Sec account of "Wbittington's palace, page 76 of the preceding Memoir. 



