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College of the Blessed Mary by Winchester, is worth in 

 the rent of lands, with all other revenues, as well spiritual as 

 temporal as appears by a book l (quaternum) signed by the 

 hands of the Commissioners 71080 



Reprises in alms, fees and other payments, as appears by 

 the said book 81 14 6 



And so is worth net 628 13 6 



Tenth thence 62 i 7 4 J 



Edward More, now Warden of the said College, and has 

 of the goods of the College, and the rents aforesaid yearly . . 22 1 8 8 



Wm. Pyle, Jn. Hasard, Jn. Harvey, T. Basset, Jn. 

 Chubbe, Edmund Keyt, T. Brownyng, Rt. Stevyns, Wm. 

 Baker, Jn. Rytte, Fellows. These yearly take for dividends 

 from the aforesaid rents 74 4 2 



John White, layman, Master (pedagogus) of the boys 

 receives yearly from the rents aforesaid 11185 



Richard Sedgrave, Under-master (sub-pedagogus) .... 494^ 



Richard Philippes, Chantry Priest (cantarista), in the said 

 College of the foundation of John Fromond takes yearly from 

 the rents aforesaid 6134 



The college took exception to the valuation for two reasons, stated 

 in a letter from Bishop Gardiner, the head of the commission. 2 First, 

 they objected to being charged at all in regard to the chapel of the Holy 

 Ghost in the Isle of Wight, or other places where ' Chantries be not 

 perpetually assigned to any spiritual man ; where there groweth no 

 profit to the incumbent by any special revenue, and that he may be 

 removed at pleasure.' Secondly, ' Considering the act maketh mention 

 of all alms to be allowed, given by foundation, therefore finding of poor 

 children in the New College beside Winchester ought also to be 

 deducted : being their portion so little that it cannot be less.' 



Gardiner observed on this, ' The title of almes ; although in our 

 judgment we understand it, and have made allocations thereafter, in the 

 finding and nourishing of old and impotent and lame men ; yet we 

 have not so deemed it in the finding of young children to school. We 

 used herein a distinction of finding which in poor and impotent men is 

 without other shift necessary to live by. But in children no such 

 necessity to find them to school.' So the ' children ' in the return were 

 treated as a quantite negligeable and not even mentioned. 



There is every reason to believe that the valuation, which was 

 made by the parties to be charged to a commission of which the bishop 

 was everywhere the head and the returning officer, erred, if at all, on the 

 side of undervalue. Certainly it was so with the college ; for at the 

 closer scrutiny which took place twelve years afterwards the income was 

 returned at no less than >C 2 5 more, and the warden's income at 101 

 instead of 22. 



One of the most interesting points disclosed by this return is that 

 the headmaster was a layman. It is highly probable that White's 



1 Unfortunately this book is not forthcoming. 

 8 Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials, vol. i. pt. i. 328. 



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