A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



The warden was to be a priest and to wear in chapel an ' amice ' of 

 grey such as canons of a cathedral wore, while the ten fellows, who 

 were priests, were to wear ' furred amices ' like vicars choral of the 

 cathedral churches. All scholars were to have ' the first tonsure ' within 

 a year of admission if not before (except founder's kin, who might put 

 it off till the age of fifteen), and were to be competently instructed 

 before admission in plain song, so as to sing the services, were to wear 

 surplices in chapel, and the elder ones to occupy stalls. None were to 

 be admitted who had any bodily defect which ' would render them unfit 

 to take holy orders.' They were to wear ' long gowns with hoods,' and 

 were not to wear ' striped, variegated, or parti-coloured clothes, or any 

 not befitting their clerical order.' The servants were all to be males. 



The fellows were perhaps the most markedly ecclesiastical element. 

 They were an addition to the original foundation of warden and scholars, 

 dictated perhaps by the desire to make the college more like an Oxford 

 college, and to provide more gorgeously for the chantry services and 

 masses for the founder's soul than the three hired and removable chap- 

 lains could have done. A fellow of Winchester is recorded as dining in 

 hall at New College in 13 92-3. l The first fellows (socii perpetui) to be 

 found in Winchester records appeared under that name in September, 

 1394, though the first recorded appointment of one is in Wykeham's 

 Register in the December following. But two priests (sacerdotes) the 

 fellows were obliged to be priests had been in commons from a month 

 after the entry on the new buildings. 2 There was some difficulty in filling 

 up the number ; as in 1396-7, Mr. Turks or Turke, one of them, who 

 was sub-warden, was paid 8s. yd. for riding to New College ' to get 

 fellows and chaplains of the college.' In 1397 the Fellows' Register, 

 written up about 1424, records the names of three fellows as admitted. 

 In 1399 the full tale of ten was completed and so always continued. 

 Till the Reformation they were practically chantry-priests, who had to 

 celebrate daily masses for Wykeham's soul, and take their part in the 

 canonical hours. As sub-wardens and bursars they had also to assist the 

 wardens in the management of the estates, while another fellow, changed 

 every week, was steward of hall and responsible for the dinner and the 

 dinner bill. 



There were ten servants, besides the choristers who waited at table 

 and were fed on the broken meats, steward (dispensator) , cook (who was 

 also manciple or emptor victua/ium), porter, pantry-man, butler (garcio 

 buterie), under cook, cook's boy, gardener, two warden's servants. There 

 were besides a baker, brewer, warden's clerk, a barber (generally the 

 porter) and a clotheswasher. All the servants were to be males, 8 but if 

 a male clotheswasher could not be found there might be a laundress, who 

 was to receive the dirty linen outside the outer gate at the hands of a 



1 New College Hall Book for that year, if the date is correctly guessed, which is a matter of inference 

 from the names appearing in it ; not easily verifiable. 



* College Muniments, First Account Roll, kept by Warden Morys, Lady Day to Michaelmas, 1 394. 

 3 Statutes, r. 45. 



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