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1478, and a chorister, William Marchall, were 

 in 1469-70 boarded for a time with Richard 

 Bernyeat. In 1472, besides Capland, Ellysmer, 

 Lute, Ralph Crete, no doubt a scion of the 

 family of Creykc, in the East Riding, who to 

 this day habitually bear the name of Ralph, all 

 of whom afterwards appear on the rolls for 

 King's, Philip Berte, no doubt of the family of 

 the Earls of Abingdon, John Parker, Henry 

 Reynold, Robert Cotton, Hyll, and Forde are 

 named. So in other years. A considerable ad- 

 dition to the Alumni Etonensn could be made 

 from these entries. 



Barbour's ushers were William Darker, Janu- 

 ary 14704 ; then Maurice Bye, at Michaelmas 

 1474 ; Henry Brydde or Byrd, an Etonian, who 

 went to King's in 1470 ; and at Michaelmas 

 1475, Edward Huett. 



Westbury died on II March 1477, devis- 

 ing to the college a house in Windsor. The 

 fellows first elected as provost one of themselves, 

 Thomas Barker," who was a Henrician fellow 

 and for many years vice-provost ; but the king 

 having nominated Henry Bost, Barker resigned, 

 fearing the king's anger equivalent to death, or, 

 as his epitaph puts it, cant hanari Nolem ; id 

 meminity mars indignatio regum. Henry Bost was 

 elected a fellow of Eton a few days before his 

 election as provost, to qualify him according to 

 the statutes. From this time forward, in spite 

 of the statutes, the provostship of Eton was 

 always treated as in the gift of the Crown, the 

 appointee being colourably elected a fellow first. 

 Bost was a distinguished person, being already 

 master of King's Hall, a foundation of Ed- 

 ward III, now absorbed in Trinity College, 

 Cambridge. He held office for twenty-five years, 

 and is said in his epitaph to have got wealth for 

 Eton through the influence of Edward's queen, 

 Elizabeth : 



Illius auspiciis elemosyna conjugis uncti 

 Edwardi quart! larga fluebat opem. 



This statement disproves the ' tradition ' that it 

 was Jane Shore through whom the grants were 

 obtained. This ' tradition ' may be dismissed to 

 the limbo of inventions with the similar ones 

 which made William of Wykeham buy his 

 pardon from Edward III through his mistress, 

 Alice Ferrers, and credits Chelsea Hospital to the 

 intervention of Nell Gwyn. There seems to 

 be no authority for the ascription of two pictures 

 at Eton and King's respectively to Jane Shore. 

 The queen's family, on the other hand, in the 

 person of her brother Anthony, Lord Wodevill, 

 and his relations, was specially commemorated by 

 an obit in Eton Chapel for having procured a 

 regrant of property in the city of London. The 

 provost's salary was raised in 1482-3 from 20 

 to 30, though the fellows' and masters' salaries 

 remained unchanged. 



* Maxwell Lyte, op. cit. 83. 



The head masters of this era reigned by no 

 means as long as the provosts. The next 

 master, David Hawbroke or Haukbroke, c. 

 1479, was another Wykehamist, as he may be 

 identified with David Haukbroke, who appears 

 in the Bursars' Rolls of Winchester College as 

 hostiarius or usher there, at first under Clement 

 Smythe and then under his successor, from Lady 

 Day 1464 to Michaelmas 1469. Whether in 

 the interim he was teaching some other school 

 does not appear. Several Audit Rolls are missing 

 in the reign of Edward IV. In 1482-3 the 

 usher was Thomas Fox, a Winchester scholar in 

 1473, succeeded at Midsummer by John Ash ton. 

 Hawbroke continued to Michaelmas 1483. From 

 Michaelmas 1 484 to 1 4 February 1 485-6, Thomas 

 Mache or Machy, unidentified, was master, with 

 John Ashton as usher. Machy seems to have been 

 dismissed and to have removed with himself a Virgil 

 belonging to the school. At least the Audit Roll 

 for the year records, ' paid to John Barston for 

 redemption of a Virgil furtively taken away * ; 

 while neighbouring items are ' for a lock and 12 

 keys to the library door ' and ' laid out on the 

 officials of the Court of Arches for the matter 

 of the College against Mr. Mache, and expenses 

 of Mr. William Attwater (a fellow, afterwards 

 Bishop of Lincoln) to London for 4 days, 

 2OJ. 4</.' In Mache's successor, William Hor- 

 man, head master from the middle of February 

 1485-6, Eton acquired from Winchester 

 (scholar 1468) and New College (scholar i July 

 1475 M ) a famous man. He remained a fellow 

 of New College till his election at Eton, his 

 place there being filled 2 February 1485.** He 

 was head master of Eton for nine years, and then 

 was promoted to the head-mastership of Win- 

 chester, which was evidently regarded as a higher 

 place. He remained at Winchester from Lady 

 Day 1495 to Michaelmas 1501, when he re- 

 turned to Eton as a fellow. He was vice-pro- 

 vost for many years until his death 12 April 1535, 

 when he was buried in the church. His fame 

 has come down to our day in virtue of a school 

 book called Bulgaria* The frequent references 

 to Greek, and especially to the performance of 

 Greek plays, bears out Sir Thomas Pope's state- 

 ment in 1556 that in his day Greek learning 

 flourished at Eton. Herman's book involved 

 him in a fierce controversy with Robert 

 Whittington, a rival schoolmaster and school 

 author, who called himself Bcisus, to which he 

 and Lily, the high master of St. Paul's, replied 

 in a book entitled Anti bosticon. Herman's 



" The scholars of New College up to 1854 were 

 really fellows, though they were called scholars during 

 their two yean of probation. 



There ii absolutely no foundation for the claim 

 that he was a Cambridge man, made in Cooper's 

 Athtnat Cantabrigieniti. 



Leach, Hut. Winch. Cttt. 217 ; Maxwell Lyte, 

 Eton, 110-13. 



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