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ness, and also ' to Cambridge in January for 

 "Sir" Walter Barbour, at a cost of 14*. 8</.' 

 Barbour filled up the rest of the first term till 

 Clement Smythe's return. He then seems to 

 have gone back to Cambridge to finish his course 

 and take his M.A. degree, after which, in 1470, 

 then described as magister, he succeeded Clement 

 Smythe in the head-mastership. John Upnor 

 came as bostiariui for two terms and five weeks, 

 and was succeeded in the following year by 

 Richard Hakier. By the end of the year 

 three fellows had returned, Richard Hopton, the 

 ex-head master, who was vice-provost, William 

 Weye, and William Strete. John Boner had 

 also returned, but only to die. Apparently five 

 choristers came, their places being temporarily 

 supplied by five boys who are called King's 

 choristers, and had sheets, blankets, shoes, and 

 surplices bought for them. The only element 

 of the college which never reappeared was the 

 almsfolk. They were finally dropped, and 

 were never resumed for 400 years. 



The cost of getting restitution was consider- 

 able. Apart from 'a fresh salmon given to the 

 king at Windsor ' at a cost of lew., 61. Sd. was paid 

 for a letter addressed to the Bishop (sic) of York, 

 George Neville, then Chancellor of England, for 

 the restitution of the letters patent, 41. lod. for 

 writing two bills in Parliament, 6s. 8J. to the 

 king's attorney [general], Henry Sucell, 13*. 4^. 

 to the king's secretary for two letters, and for two 

 more under the Privy Seal 131. ^d. The writ- 

 ing of letters patent cost IOJ., their enrolment 

 6s. 8d. ; two fines to the king for two grants cost 

 16 181. ; 5*. was paid to the valet of the 

 wardrobe for taking down arras in St. George's 

 College, Windsor ; and a letter of Privy Seal to 

 the Dean and Canons of the college of Windsor 

 for restitution of goods cost 6s. 8d. ; while the 

 official of the king's antechamber was given I Of. 

 For a licence in mortmain a fine of 8 was paid, 

 apparently for the grant of Goldcliff Priory in 

 Wales. Two letters to the pope cost only IOJ. ; 

 copies of the provisions to be had and writing 

 them cost y. ^d. t and writing Pope Calixtus' 

 bull 5*. Finally, the king's attorney, Henry 

 Sucell, received i as a fee, and the solicitor, 

 Richard Lovell, 13*. ^d. 



So speedily, however, in spite of all, were the 

 old customs renewed that the three bonfires 

 (' bencfyres*) on Midsummer eve and the eve of 

 St. Peter and St. Paul and of St. Thomas the 

 Martyr were duly provided for. The celebra- 

 tion of the feast of the Assumption was, however, 

 on a much reduced scale, only 4 odd being 

 spent, instead of over 30 ; and the costs of the 

 election were reduced to 2 2s. ^d. In subse- 

 quent years each item became fixed at 5 a 

 year. 



In 1468 the regular Audit Rolls recommenced, 

 but the account for that year is made up from 

 I January, instead of from Michaelmas. It 



shows an income of 3 70 instead of close on 

 1,500 a year, as it was in 1458. No provost 

 or fellow received any pay this year ; though the 

 provost was paid for this year in the following 

 year, and for the rest of his life at the rate of 

 20 a year, instead of 75 which he had pre- 

 viously received. The fellows never again rose 

 in number above seven,nor their salaries above 5. 

 There were only three chaplains instead of io,and 

 four clerks instead of 10 ; while in the first week 

 there were only 52 scholars, choristers, and servi- 

 tors in commons, instead of 109. In July the 

 number went down to 22, but this seems to 

 have been due to an outbreak of plague, their 

 commons being paid to outsiders ' at the time of 

 pest in the town.' 



Wayneflete seems to have borne an important 

 part in the resuscitation of Eton, as the accounts 

 contain frequent entries of expenses of Provost 

 Westbury on visits paid 'to the lord of Win- 

 chester,' which in January 14689 were for ' be- 

 ginning the works of the church,' and ' for 

 providing money for them.' Notwithstanding 

 that Wayneflete was the principal overseer ap- 

 pointed by Henry's will, and was his chancellor 

 up to the battle of Northampton, in spite of 

 endeavours made to ruin him on charges of 

 oppression of his tenants in Edward's first Parlia- 

 ment, he seems to have soon been admitted to 

 favour. After the resuscitation of Eton he 

 loyally carried out to the best of his power the 

 trust reposed in him by Henry. No 1,000 a 

 year was now forthcoming from the Crown 

 revenues. So he had to do whatever was done 

 at his own expense, though he was himself ex- 

 pending vast sums on the foundation of his 

 own college of St. Mary Magdalen at Oxford. 

 Edward IV so far interested himself as to allow the 

 college, by privy seal of 21 March 14712, to 

 take so much chalk and flint from Windsor Park 

 'as shalbe necessary for the ful bylding of the 

 said churche.' Wayneflete's glazier provided the 

 glass of the east and other windows, and Wayne- 

 flete contracted, 15 August 1475," with a 

 Southwark** carpenter, Walter Nichol, who for 

 IOO marks was to make the stalls and rood loft 

 ' for utter (i.e. west) parte . . . like to the Rode 

 lofte late made in Bisshop Wykehams Collage at 

 Winchestrc, and the inner part . . . with the 

 garnysshing of all the stalles . . . like to the 

 rode loft and quere of the collage of Seint 

 Thomas of Acres in London,* where is now the 

 Mercers' Hall. On 8 January 1479*' Wayneflete, 

 also at his own expense, contracted for a supply of 

 stone from Headington, near Oxford, for the 

 ' werke he hath at Etone.' Abandoning the 

 vast nave, he built the antechapel at the west 



** Willis and Clark, op. cit. i, $96. 



14 The Bishop of Winchester's London house wa 



then in Southwark, close to St. Mary Ovcry. 

 v Willis and Clark, op. cit. i, 410. 



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