SCHOOLS 



the banks of the Thames, Isleworth, Twickenham and Hampton-on- 

 Thames. From the abbey of St. Katharine's Hill, Rouen, was derived 

 a possession as rich as Downton, the rectory and manor of Harmonds- 

 worth. New College took for its share other possessions of the same 

 houses. Durrington and Fernham (Vernham), Wilts, by private purchase 

 from Lord De la Warr, completed the endowment by Wykeham. 



The first complete year in which the accounts are rendered by the 

 two bursars, yearly elected by the fellows, who then first superseded, 

 according to the statutes, the warden, till then the sole estates manager 

 and accounting officer, is for the year 1398-9. The account was as 

 follows 



L '. ' 



Arreragia (arrears, i.e. balance in hand from the year before). . 43 o o 



Harmondesworth 48 10 8 



Istelworth (Isleworth) 34 i i 4^ 



Heston 1800 



Hampton 10144 



Roppele (Ropley) 23 13 2 



Ichene (Itchen) too 



Andewell 21175 



Hamele (Hamble) 1990 



Seinte Croos (St. Cross, I.W.) 6134 



Tyttele 27 o O 



Meonestoke 24 12 i 



Elynge (Eling, Hants) 40 3 4 



Downton 91 16 3^ 



Combe Buset 1 7 6 8 



Durryngton 1500 



Fernham 12140 



Oblationes (offerings) 115 



Exitus hospitii, 1 coquinae, pistrini et brasinae 3 13 3^ 



On the final dissolution of the alien priories in Henry V.'s reign 

 the college acquired * its first considerable accretion to Wykeham's 

 original endowment, by the assistance of his successor as bishop, Cardinal 

 Beaufort. This was St. Mary's Priory at Andover, Hants, a dependency 

 of the abbey of St. Florent of Saumur in Anjou, to which it had been 

 given by William the Conqueror. The last prior received a pension for 

 life of fifty-two marks out of it, and there were other payments secured 

 on it, with the result that though the property was conveyed to the 

 college in 1413 it only acquired the beneficial value in 1437. 



A transaction of a somewhat similar nature was the appropriation 

 to the college of a small collegiate church of the Trinity, Barton, in the 

 Isle of Wight. This was not an alien priory or a monastic establishment 

 at all, but a college of secular clergy, presided over by an archpriest 8 or 

 warden. Beaufort appropriated it to the college in 1439.* Cardinal 

 Beaufort also founded an obit in the college with a bequest for the pur- 



1 Issues of the hall, kitchen, bakery and brewery, i.e. extras supplied to and paid for by members 

 of the college. 



8 Annals, p. 182. * Wykekam's Register, Kirby, ii. 401, 458, 550. * Annals, p. 201. 

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