A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



treatise on phrases, called Iron' ' It was a large book as, when it was 

 written or copied in 1400, the parchment of its twelve quires cost 3-r. 8</., 

 and the scribe, Peter of Cheesehill, received a mark for writing it. 2 But 

 it has disappeared^ with the fifteen other grammatical works in the 

 library, as indeed have all the other 124 MSS. in the old catalogue 

 except three. 



Of the next headmaster, Richard Darsey or Darcy (1418-24), 

 little can be learned. Whether he was a Wykehamist or not does not 

 appear. If he was one, he had left New College before 1386. The 

 only thing recorded of him is that he resigned on account of illness. 

 He gave the college library a ' Grecismus ' and a Doctrinale with notes 

 by Pictaviensis and Horiliensis, which was valued at 3, the equivalent 

 of >6o now. 



At Darcy's retirement several competitors were invited for the 

 vacancy. One Fellow rode to Maidstone, to Mr. John Baddesden, pre- 

 sumably grammar master of Archbishop Courtnay's College there ; then 

 to Master Thomas Alwyn at Newport Pagnell, Bucks ; another went 

 to Oxford and thence to St. Alban's, where there was an ancient 

 Grammar School (not a monastic one), and other places ; and a third to 

 Richard Maslyn at Salisbury ; while Richard Davy, master of Glou- 

 cester Grammar School, 3 came to Winchester ' to be Informator of 

 the scholars ' and was paid 6s. %d. with a shilling to his clerk. Pre- 

 sumably the payment was for his expenses in coming to be looked at 

 rather than for acting as locum tenens. Alwyn was paid 3-r. 4^. for the 

 same. Alwyn or Walwayn, as he is also called, obtained the appointment. 

 He was one of the scholars who had entered the new buildings in 1394. 

 He held office for eleven years, and after he had regained his liberty for 

 a dozen years was ' sucked in by the dread Charybdis again ' as Johnson 

 has it, when Waynflete, his successor, left for Eton. 



It is a strange thing that so little is known of Wayneflete's extrac- 

 tion or early career. It is still a moot point whether he was a Wyke- 

 hamist or not. It is known that his father's name was Pattene alias 

 Barbour, and it is assumed, from the erection of his father's tomb by him 

 in Wainfleet Church, Lincolnshire (now barbarously destroyed and the 

 tomb removed to Magdalen College, Oxford), that he was born at 

 Wainfleet, the name of which he took on taking orders. The 

 name of Wayneflete is not on the Winchester Scholars' register. It is 

 just possible that he was the William Patney of Patney 4 who was on the 

 roll for Winchester in 1403, two places below Bekynton, though there 

 is nothing but his name to connect him with Patney. This William 

 Patney left Winchester in 1406, and did not go to New College, and the 



1 Architokgical Journal, xv. 74. Item quidam tractatus grammatice super dictionibus vocatus 

 ' Ferrum," ex dono Magistri Thome Rumsey, et continet in fine Summam Raymundi. 2 folio, distin- 

 guendum est. 



* Annals, p. 67. 



* Richard Davy is described as magistro scolarum gramaticalium Gloucestrie. GuJiciiolei (Ann. p. 188) 

 is a misprint. 



* Willelmus Patney de eadem. 



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