A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



remaining 8 were to be spent for common 

 purposes by the prior with the advice of his 

 brethren. Bishop Peter added an annual 

 gift of fifty quarters of grain. This was to be 

 given by the rector of the church of Bishop- 

 stoke on the five feasts of St. Michael, St. 

 Nicholas, the Purification, SS. Philip and 

 James, and SS. Peter and Paul ; three 

 quarters of corn, three of barley, and four of 

 oats on each occasion. They were also to 

 receive from the rector of Bishopstoke four 

 reasonable cartloads of hay at the time of hay 

 harvest. The prior was to prepare an annual 

 balance sheet, and if there was any surplus 

 it was to be divided amongst them. 1 



Bishop Woodlock (1305-16) also added to 

 the property of the college as recorded in his 

 register. 2 Marwell or Merwell was his birth- 

 place ; hence he was sometimes called Henry 

 de Merwell. 



From Bishop Wykeham's institution regis- 

 ter we find that he collated Richard Merke 

 and John Aubeoyle to priests' offices in 

 capella de Mere-well in 1371 ; Richard Allen 

 in 1373; Walter Oures in 1376; John 

 Mikeltone in 1384 ; William Elkstoke in 

 1395 ; Richard Beck in 1396 ; John 

 Wegull in 1398 ; ThomasTellere in 1399 ; 

 Walter More and John Grene in 1402 ; 

 and Richard Stanstede in 1404. 



As time went on and the purchasing power 

 of money became so materially lessened, the 

 pension from the church of Bishopstoke was 

 utterly inadequate for the support of four 

 priests. At the time of the Valor (1535) this 

 small college was termed a chantry, and sup- 

 ported two priests, William Atkinson and 

 Thomas Smyth ; the sum of 12 was then 

 divided between them. 



This chantry was of course suppressed ; it 

 went with the episcopal estate and manor 

 house of Marwell to Sir Henry Seymour. 



32. THE COLLEGE OF ST. ELIZA- 

 BETH, WINCHESTER 



Near to the gate of his castle at Wolvesey, 

 Bishop Pontoise built, in 1301, the college 

 of St. Elizabeth of Hungary. The founda- 

 tion consisted of a number of secular clergy 

 and choristers living under the rule of a pro- 

 vost, with so clearly an expressed object that 

 it was in reality a chantry on a large scale. 

 In the episcopal registers and other documents, 

 it is most usually described as the chapel of 

 St. Elizabeth, but frequently as a college and 

 sometimes as a chantry. 



1 Pat. 1 8 Edw.II.pt. 2, m. 15. 

 J Wharton's AugjRa Sacra, \. 316. 



By the foundation charter, 3 the bishop es- 

 tablished three altars in the great chapel. 

 The dedication of the high altar was to the 

 honour of St. Elizabeth ; the second to the 

 honour of St. Stephen and St. Laurence ; and 

 the third to the honour of St. Edmund and 

 St. Thomas of Canterbury. To serve these 

 altars and to maintain a stately ritual, the 

 foundation provided for the establishment of 

 seven chaplains, one of whom was to be 

 provost, three were to be in deacons' and three 

 in sub-deacons' orders. All were to be ap- 

 pointed, as vacancies occurred, by the bishop ; 

 they were to live together and have a common 

 table ; to be satisfied with one dish and pit- 

 tances on week days and two dishes on Sun- 

 days and double feasts ; to dress humbly, and 

 to wear in chapel surplices and black copes ; 

 to receive annually in addition to their board 

 for clothes and other necessaries : the provost 

 6 marks, the chaplains 40*. and the clerks 

 20J. ; to have a common dorter for the clerks 

 save in sickness ; each chaplain to have a 

 young shaveling, between the age of ten and 

 eighteen, to wait on him, and to sing in sur- 

 plice in church ; and the choristers to dine 

 together in hall at a separate table. Their 

 clerical duties were to rise each day at daybreak 

 and say together (submissa voce aperte et distincte) 

 mattins of our Lady, and afterwards to chant 

 antiphonally mattins of the days ; after mat- 

 tins to celebrate solemn Lady mass after the 

 use of Sarum ; next to intone the proper day 

 hours, followed by the hours of our Lady in a 

 low voice ; immediately afterwards, the mass of 

 St. Elizabeth was to be sung, followed by the 

 saying of three masses at the three altars, two 

 for the departed and one of the Holy Spirit ; 

 and about nine o'clock * high mass was to be 

 solemnly sung. Each chaplain was to say at 

 each mass six special collects (i) for the 

 founder, (2) for the then Bishop of Winches- 

 ter, (3) for all the departed bishops of the 

 diocese, (4) for the king and queen and their 

 children, (5) for kings and queens and all 

 faithful departed, and (6) a general collect for 

 the quick and dead, but especially for the 

 prior and convent of St. Swithun's. Before 

 evensong, all the chaplains and clerks were to 

 say, in low but distinct voice, Placebo and 

 Dirige ; afterwards to say evensong of our 

 Lady, and to sing evensong of the day, to be 

 followed by compline of our Lady and com- 

 pline of the day. Everything was to be ac- 

 cording to the use of Sarum ; the provost and 



3 Printed in Dugdale's Monasticon (from the 

 Patent Rolls), vi. 1339-41. 



* The third hour ; but the actual time would 

 vary materially according to sunrise. 



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