SCHOOLS 



Adam Moleynes, Bishop of Chichester. The bishop and archbishop 

 gave the boys 4OJ. for refreshment (refectione]. On the last day of the 

 parliament, 1 6 July, the king attended the Lady mass, offered half a mark 

 and afterwards ' gave to the high altar a tabernacle or canopy of gold,' 

 presumably to receive the silver gilt statue of Our Lady which his uncle, 

 Cardinal Beaufort, had given. On 16 July the courtiers were entertained 

 at dinner in hall, and a pipe of claret (red wine) was bought for 8 for 

 the purpose. On Palm Sunday, 1451, the king came again and was 

 present at mass and procession, when Thomas Chandler, the warden, 

 preached, and gave 5 over and above the usual mark. He also gave a 

 pair of silver gilt dishes with the royal arms in the middle, weighing 

 9 Ib. odd and costing 29 3^. yd. Christopher Johnson, in his 'distichs' 

 on the headmasters, attributes to John Bernard or Barnard the pleasure 

 of having been the headmaster at this time. 



You Barnard saw the King full many a day 

 His gifts upon our heaped up altars lay. 



But in point of fact Ive, or Ivo, as Johnson calls him, who had 

 succeeded Ailwyn in 1444, was the reigning Informator. Of him Johnson 

 only guessed. 



Ive was perhaps akin to Ive of yore, 



The Fellow ; but my Muse knows nothing more. 



' Yve,' as he is spelt in the register, was a fellow from 1411 to 

 I432. 1 William Ive the headmaster was an Oxford man, 2 but his name 

 is not to be found in the lists of Winchester or of New College scholars. 

 He took his M.A. degree as a member of Magdalen Hall in 1449, while 

 he was headmaster. He afterwards became master or warden of Sir 

 Richard Whittington's College in St. Michael's Royal, London, and 

 created some stir by his sermons against what was described as the heresy 

 of the Friars, who claimed Christ as a professional mendicant. 



Bernard, who succeeded Ive in 1454, was a Wykehamist, and a 

 Hampshire man from Over Wallop, admitted a scholar under the name 

 of John Barnard in 1435. He became a scholar of New College in 1440, 

 and was made an M.A. on 30 October, I453- 3 Next year he was dis- 

 pensed residence for a month in order to appear before the prior of 

 Canterbury sede vacante for promotion. From his time till Easter, 1901, 

 none but a scholar of Winchester College has sat in the chair of the 

 Magister Informator of Winchester College ; and till 1766 every 

 Informator was not only a scholar of Winchester but also a fellow of 

 New College. 



THE ENDOWMENTS 



The endowment given by Wykeham to the college at its first 

 opening amounted to 37 a 7 ear > but by the time of his death it had 



1 Kirby's Scholars, p. 4.. 



* Boase's University Register, n Nov., 1449, he received a dispensation as M.B. and 30 June, 

 1456, was admitted B.D. ; n Feb. 1460, disputed as D.D. ; 1460-1, vice-chancellor. 

 8 Boase, Register, under date. He is not there said to be a member of New College. 



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