A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



An interesting thing about this book is that the contract for its 

 being printed by R. Pynson, 28 June, 1519, is preserved, and has been 

 printed by Dr. Furnivall in the Philological Society's Transactions. No 

 less than ' 800 hole and perfytt books of suche vulgars as be contenide in 

 the copy ' were to be printed at the price of ' for every hole reme, 5*.' 

 Forty shillings was paid down, and ' full for 500 ' was to be paid on 

 delivery of 800, and that day twelvemonth payment was to be made for 

 ' the three resydue hundred.' 



In the latter half of the fifteenth century the supply of bishops 

 and magnates turned out by Winchester School was not less good than 

 in the preceding half century. The roll of honours is made up of 

 two archbishops ; again one of Canterbury, Warham, another of 

 Dublin, Yng ; two bishops, another Bishop of Bath, William Knyght ; 

 another Bishop of St. David's, then of Chichester, Robert Sherborne ; 

 two suffragan bishops (in partibus infidelium)^ John Yong, Bishop of 

 Callipoli or Gallipoli, warden of New College, with a fine brass in 

 ante-chapel there ; and Thomas Wellys, Bishop of Sidon. Chandler, 

 dean of Hereford, as warden of Winchester and then of New College, 

 was the Janus through whom the passage from the ' old ' to the new 

 'learning' was made. While he celebrated the past glories of Wykeham 

 and Beckington and the earlier generation of Wykehamists, he passed 

 on the torch of learning to be carried into new regions by Warham 

 and Grocyn. There was another dean of York, another John Yong, 

 who was also Master of the Rolls, and was buried in the Rolls Chapel. 

 The fine monument erected to his memory is in the Public Record Office 

 Museum, which was built upon the site of the Rolls Chapel. There 

 were other deans : Geoffrey Simeon, dean of Lincoln and the Chapel 

 Royal, William Fleshmonger, dean of Chichester, and so forth. All 

 these bishops and deans were, it must be remembered, no mere eccle- 

 siastics ; generally, indeed, their ecclesiastical promotion was in an inverse 

 ratio to the time which they spent on ecclesiastical matters. Their 

 rectories, their canonries, their archdeaconries were their pay for civil 

 and legal service, and their bishoprics, if not, as they commonly were, 

 accompanied by high office, were in the nature of retiring pensions. 



Warham was one of the great figures of the age, and would 

 have stood out as perhaps its greatest figure in England if, in his 

 old age, he had not been overshadowed by that last and greatest of 

 all English ecclesiastical statesmen, Wolsey. 



The name of Grocyn suggests his fame as the ' First Grecian ' 

 in England. This was vindicated for him by Montagu Burrows, 

 Chicheley Professor of Modern History, in an article a propos of a 

 newly discovered list of his library in iSgo. 1 Grocyn headed the 

 roll for college in 1463, and went to New College in 1465. 



In the first quarter of the sixteenth century Winchester went on 

 the even tenor of its way, developing with the development of the new 



1 Oxford Historical Society's Collectanea, pp. 316-89. 

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