A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



there in their youth sixty years back, i.e. about 1313. They all 

 add ' of the city ' (cfaitatis Wyntori) to the title of the school. This 

 school did not cease on the foundation of the college, for we find in 

 January, 1407,* the master teacher (magister informator) of the High 

 (alto) School supping at the high table of the college ; while, in 

 September, 1411, Mr. Ralph Greenhurst, master of the High School 

 and himself an ex-scholar of the college, dined and supped with the 

 fellows. In 1416 the same master is recorded 2 as holding the ' High 

 Schole,' a tenement of the prior and convent of St. Swithun which, and 

 the garden on its west, were subject to a 'tarrage,' 'terrage' or assessment 

 on land of 6d. each, payable to the city authorities. 'Rafe Greenhurst' 

 is named by Foxe, 3 the martyrologist, as one of those who, * either in 

 Wycliffe's time or after his time, springing out of the same University, 

 were partakers of his persecution,' and ' mencioned in auncient writers,' 

 'which being excommunicate by Pope Eugenius IV., A.D. 1446, ap- 

 pealed unto a General or Ecumenical Council.' 



The latest document yet found relating to this school is a confirm- 

 ation, 4 1 8 October, 1488, of a licence by the bishop through his 

 Official 5 to John Furnew (modern Furneaux), granting him for life 

 ' special licence, authority and power to teach and inform in grammar 

 and literature in the school of Winchester, called in the vulgar tongue 

 " The High Scole," situate by the churchyard of the cathedral church 

 of S. Swithun, any wishing to be instructed and informed in this sort of 

 learning.' The appointment or licence was enforced by an inhibition 

 against any one else ' teaching grammar in the .High School, or else- 

 where within the city or suburbs of Winchester, or instructing or 

 informing scholars coming to it,' ' the master and scholars of the Blessed 

 Mary's College, founded by the Lord Wykeham, only excepted.' This 

 document is of great value in the general history of education, as it 

 shows that the real Priory school, the monastic school, if school it can 

 be called, which existed in Winchester cathedral priory as in every 

 large monastery, was not regarded by the world as a grammar school at 

 all at least not as a public school and that it did nothing for outsiders. 

 A document which only within the last few months came to light, 

 approximately fixes the ending of the High School. This is an 

 Obedientiary Roll which had escaped the notice of Dean Kitchin, and 

 was found by the cathedral librarian, the Rev. F. T. Madge ; an 

 account roll of the keeper of the altar of the Virgin Mary for the year 

 1529-30. Among receipts from tenements in the city in St. Laurence's 

 parish are ' from George Bowsum $s. for the tenement of the High 

 School there, which used to be rented at i6s., and no more, because 

 it stood vacant and no one wished to take it at a higher price (carius) ; 



1 College Muniments, Steward of Hall's Books under dates given. 



2 Add. MS. 6,133, f - 3- 3 Book of Martyrs, ed. 1570, i. 552. 

 4 Cath. Mun., Prior's Register, i. f. 134. De Aha Scola. 



6 John Lychfield, LL.D., Scholar of Winchester, 1461, Fellow of New College to 1481, Master 

 of St. Cross Hospital, 1489-92. 



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