A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



five acres of land in the [Bishop's] Soke outside the city were then bought 

 from the priory, and two messuages from private owners. In October, 

 1382, letters patent containing license in mortmain from the Crown 

 were obtained, and a fortnight later the foundation charter was executed 

 by the founder in the chapel of his manor house in Southwark. 



A warden, Thomas of Cranley, S.T.B., a fellow of Merton, and 

 afterwards warden of New College and archbishop of Dublin, was ap- 

 pointed, and seventy scholars were admitted, and their names are stated 

 to have been entered in the muniments of the college. The register so 

 made is not now to be found, so that the names of those admitted between 

 1382 and 1394, from which date the present register of the scholars 

 commences, cannot be ascertained except for such of them, about one in 

 five, as went to New College and are found in the Hall Books or in other 

 documents there. 



Hence it is that it has been doubted whether Archbishop Chicheley, 

 the founder of All Souls' College, Oxford, was a Wykehamist. There 

 is in truth no reasonable doubt about Chicheley, or any other fellow or 

 scholar of New College admitted after 1382, since the statutes of both 

 colleges required the members of the one to be recruited from the other. 

 Chicheley's name appears among the scholars in the earliest Hall Book 

 (the list of those who dined in hall in each week) preserved at New 

 College that for 1386-7 in the 37th week, which fell in June, 1387. 

 We have direct evidence that as early as 1388 the system of election to 

 New College prevailed. In that year a letter * from Wykeham to the 

 electors to New College and Winchester, viz. : Mr. Nicholas Wykeham 

 and Mr. Thomas Cranlegh, the two wardens of New College and Win- 

 chester, Sir John Keton, probably a fellow of New College, 2 and John 

 Melton, the headmaster, directed them to elect the best scholars of 

 Winchester College for admission to New College, without partiality. 

 For admission to Winchester they were to choose, first the best four from 

 Broughton and Downton parishes, if fit, and then ' from the places 

 defined in our statutes.' If the statutes were in this respect the same as the 

 later statutes of the year 1400, these places were, first, where the college 

 had estates, next, the diocese of Winchester, and then others in succession* 

 Broughton in Oxfordshire belonged to Wykeham and is the home still 

 held by the descendants of Wykeham's nephew, the Wykeham-Fiennes, 

 Lords Saye and Sele, and Downton was the place near Salisbury, the 

 church of which, worth 100 a year, was then the richest possession of 

 the college. 



A direction was added that while the college remained in the parish 

 of St. John the Baptist on the Hill, the scholars were to attend the 

 parish church on Sundays and Feast-days. Attendance at chapel as 



1 Lowth's Life, App. p. 364, from Wykeham's Register, iii. 



* Robert Keton, or Ketone, appears as a scholar of New College in 1387, and on I April, 1399, 

 being then B.C.L. was appointed chancellor and the great (episcopal) seal delivered to him by Wykeham : 

 Regiiter, ii. 489 (f. 313 a). The executors of William Ketone, chaplain, were discharged 13 July, 

 1377. Ibid. ii. 271 (misprinted Kelm). 



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