A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



more.' No organ is mentioned, but he had to attend the mass of Jesus 

 on Friday in the nave as well as the other services. In other respects 

 his duties were the same as those of his predecessors. But his grant was 

 for life, his pay was more, ten marks (6 i^s. 4^.), and his other per- 

 quisites were the same as those of the grammar-masters. In 1510' the 

 Prior's Register contains a document headed ' deed granted to Edward 

 Pynbrigge for teaching the boys.' It contained all the provisions of the 

 former grant, except that the salary was reduced to nine marks, and 

 playing the organ was mentioned, while teaching the boys was not. 

 The description of the deed seems to be a mistake of the scribe as the 

 leaf before contains an appointment, dated eight days after 8 the other, 

 of Thomas Goodman or Gudemane to perform the same duties, but in 

 addition to teach chant and descant to ten boys or less, receiving seven 

 marks a year during Pynbrygge's life and eight marks afterwards. In 

 the last Prior's Register, 3 on 5 February, 1 537, Matthew Fuller, ' syngyng- 

 man,' was appointed to perform the same duties, teaching eight boys 

 only, with the same perquisites, but his salary was only 4 6s. 8*/., and 

 he was to dine at the cellarer's table, not the prior's. 



Neither the grammar school for the young monks, nor the al- 

 monry song school for the choristers, can be regarded as in any real 

 sense constituting a school. If they can either of them be regarded as a 

 school, then there was also a school at St. Elizabeth's college and another 

 at St. Cross hospital. For the latter the evidence given in Wykeham's 

 great suit shows that the staff of the hospital consisted, besides the 

 Master, of four priests, thirteen secular clerks, and 4 'seven poor edu- 

 cated ' (litterati) boys. These boys lived on the alms of the master's 

 hall, and were called choristers. Each of them received a loaf of bread 

 a day, and beer, meat and fish from the fragments of the table of 

 the whole hall, and attended all divine services and the canonical hours 

 in the church, ' and when they were finished used to attend school (sole- 

 bant sco/as exercere) in the said hospital.' One of the witnesses, Walter 

 of Edyndon [Edington], rector of St. Mary de Vallibus (Wyke), who 

 was one of the thirteen secular clerks and afterwards one of the four 

 priests, spoke of the clerks as ' seculars,' and said that of the seven poor 

 boys two were called choristers, that all attended the services, and when 

 the services were over used to learn and be taught (solebant addiscere et 

 informari] in the hospital. If therefore there was a priory school at 

 Winchester at all, there were two priory schools, besides a hospital school 

 at St. Cross and a college school at St. Elizabeth's college. The net 

 result was that more than a score of boys received an education of a sort, 

 and learnt at least to read and write and the elements of the Latin 

 tongue. The City Grammar School was the only real school. 



1 Prior's Register, ii. f. 44!}. Thomas Sylkestede, Prior. 12 March, 1509-10. 

 8 Ibid. f. 44. Carta Thome Gudeman concessa pro informatione puerorum capelle Beate Marie. 

 10 March, 1510, which is almost certainly a mistake for 1509, i.e. 1505*5. 

 8 Prior's Register, iii. f. 73. William Basyng, Prior. 

 * MS. New College, f. 2 3 b. 



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