A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



psalter, so that after they have learnt higher subjects they may not be 

 obliged to go back to this, or not having learnt it be less fit for divine 

 service.' The assumption that all boys were to have sufficient education 

 to read their psalter, which was of course in Latin, is remarkable. William 

 of Wykeham on 3 January, 13689, enforced 1 the statute of Pontissara. 

 It, he says, had been observed to within a short time back, ' but some, 

 jealous of our scholars, in spite of the constitution and of custom 

 hitherto observed, have given the holy water to married men, dissolute* 

 men not capable of this kind of schooling, especially in the city of Win- 

 chester and churches near.' The Official was therefore directed to revoke 

 anything which had been attempted in the matter to the prejudice of 

 ' our said scholars of Winchester.' 



The words ' our scholars ' cannot mean the boys of the college not 

 founded for nearly twenty years afterwards, though they may include the 

 school which, as will be seen, Wykeham was maintaining in 1373. At 

 all events it includes the scholars of the City Grammar School, of the 

 continued existence of which there is fortunately specific contemporary 

 evidence. This is afforded by a conveyance, now in the college archives, 

 dated Sunday after the Epiphany, 41 Edward III., i.e. 1366-7, of a 

 house with Calpe Street, now St. Thomas Street, on the west, with Minster 

 Street, now Symonds Street, on the east, ' and a tenement of the prior 

 and convent of the cathedral church, where the school is now held, on 

 the south.' 



In 1 377 8 William Balet was fined 3^. in the city court for unlaw- 

 ful detention of 6s. 8</. from William ' Scolmaystere,' which he acknow- 

 ledged and was ordered to pay within a week. 



The conveyance of 1367, taken in conjunction with two other deeds, 

 one in 1450* and the other in 1483,* and the note of a lease of the 

 ' High School House ' in 1 544,' definitely fixes the site of the City or 

 High School on the west side of what is now Symonds Street and the 

 north side of Little Minster Lane at their junction. 



An undated twelfth century grant 6 by one Pentecost and Alditha 

 (Edith ?) his wife to the priory of St. Denis, Southampton, of land de- 

 scribed as in Minster Street, 'between the house which was Jordan 

 Fantasma's and the house of Reiner the Squire,' or as it is described in 



1 ffykeham's Register, Hants Record Soc., ii. 75. 



z Diicolos, i.e. Suo-icdXov?, but perhaps used in the sense of 8v<r\o\ovs malos scholarei, unlearned, 

 lewd or laymen. The word in its medieval use was derived from Boethius' De regimine scolarium. 

 3 City Muniments, Court Roll, 10 Richard II. rot. xvi. b. 



* November zoth, 29 Henry VI., Robert Erlegh to Thomas Forest, clerk, and other trustees, 

 grant of house in Calpe Street between a tenement of Richard Prikher, N. and ' le scole hows ' and the 

 lane leading from Minster Street to Calpe Street, S., Minster Street, E., and ' Calpstrete,' W. 



November 24th, I Richard III., lease by William Barnstaple, surviving trustee of the same house 

 to Stephen Bramden, ' valet of the Crown,' between the late John Prikier's tenement, N., and the 

 king's way leading to ' le scolehous,' E., a stone wall of the garden, S., and Colstrete, W. 



Not as printed in History, pp. 43, 44 1440, 1484. 



6 Cathedral muniments. Note by Chapter Clerk, 1643, of lease by Dean and Chapter in 1544 

 to Alice Tytridge for forty-one years at 3/. \d. a year of tenement and garden called High School 

 House, having Minster Street east and Calpe Street south. 



Chartulary of St. Denis Priory, Southampton. Brit. Museum Add. MSS. 15,314, f. 117. The 

 next deed is dated 52 Henry III., i.e. 1267-8. 



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