A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



versatility is shown by his being also the author 

 of two works on anatomy, so probably he 

 had been one of the medical fellows of New 

 College. He gave to Eton 12 of the 100 MSS. 

 which the college now possesses. 67 Under Hor- 

 man the ushers were Mr. Eryll, Christmas 

 1485-6 to Lady Day 1488 ; Thomas Lyrypyn, 

 1488 to Michaelmas 1489 and perhaps beyond; 

 from Michaelmas 1492 to Midsummer 1493 

 Lane, then Grey for three terms. Eryll was 

 Henry Earle, a Winchester scholar (1472) and 

 fellow of New College (1481-5). In a letter 68 

 written at Winchester 17 October 1486, King 

 Henry VII asked ' the Regentes of owre 

 Universitie off Oxenforde ' to ' dyspense with 

 the regencie,' i.e. the ' contynuall abode there as 

 necessary regent by an hole yere ' of ' Maister 

 Henry Erie, huisshere of the gramer scole withyn 

 owre college of Eton, late commencyde in arte 

 withyn owre Universitie ' as ' the sayde maister 

 Henry is necessary and behofull for the goode 

 and formall contynuance yn lerninge off such 

 children and scolars which be att owre Exhibition 

 yn owre sayde college, and yff he shulde be 

 remevyd and chaungyde ther tyme myght turne 

 and slyde to dispendy.' Lyrypyn or Lyrpyn 

 was from the same colleges, and in 1 494 became 

 a fellow of Winchester, where his effigy in brass 

 may still be seen. He died 30 March 1509. 



For Edward Powell, the next head master, 

 1494-6, recourse was again had to Oriel College, 

 and he was very probably an old Etonian. 

 Nothing seems to be known of his head-master- 

 ship at Eton ; but in after days he became an 

 eminent ecclesiastical lawyer, canon of Lincoln 

 and Salisbury, rector of the college of St. Ed- 

 mund there, and D.D. 69 He got some favour for 

 writing in 1 523 a defence of the seven sacraments 

 against Martin Luther, whom he dubbed ' smoky 

 friar and eminent Wickliffite ' ; but more dis- 

 favour for a tract against the divorce of Queen 

 Catherine, and was executed 30 July 1540 as a 

 traitor for denying the royal supremacy. His 

 successor at Eton, Nicholas Bradbrigg or Brad- 

 bridge, came in July 1496, with Haffbrd, 

 Haward, or Howard as usher, who gave place in 

 1498 to Such for half a year, followed by 

 Clerke for half a year, and then by Barrett for 

 two years. Haward was perhaps Philip Haward, 

 who went to King's in 1493, and Barrett John 

 Barrett, who went to King's in 1495. Brad- 

 bridge held for five years and left at Michaelmas 

 1501. Two or three years later he became head 

 master of Chichester Grammar School. A 

 canonry and prebend in the cathedral had been 

 annexed to the head-mastership of this school by 

 Bishop Story in I497, 70 which caused it to be re- 

 garded at this time as promotion by the masters 



67 Wasey Sterry, op. cit. 67. 



68 Anstey, Epist. Acad. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), no. 334. 



69 Wood, Athen. Oxon. 53. 



70 V.C.H. Sussex, ' Schools,' ii, 404-5. 



both of Eton and Winchester. Of Robert 

 Yong, who came as master at Michaelmas 1501, 

 nothing is known. He only stayed for a year. 

 John Smyth, who succeeded at Michaelmas 1502, 

 may be identified with that one of the name who 

 was third on the roll from Eton to King's in 

 1492 ; while John Vyse the usher was a scholar 

 of Winchester (1495) and of New College 

 (i497). 71 The next usher, William Snelle, was 

 a Reading boy, scholar of Winchester 1497, 

 and fellow of New College 1505, is. 8d. being 

 the cost of fetching him from Oxford. King 

 Henry VII visited the college on 21 October with 

 ' divers magnates ' at a cost of 1 9 CM. 9^. 

 John Smyth held office till Michaelmas 1507. 



On 27 February 1504" Roger Lupton was 

 made provost by the king, after a colourable 

 election as fellow. Lupton was one of the 

 successful civil servants and ecclesiastical lawyers 

 who obtained the chief preferments in the 

 Church as their pay. He was a north country- 

 man, born at Sedbergh 73 in Yorkshire, on the 

 borders of Lancashire, in July 1456. At Cam- 

 bridge he took the degree of Bachelor of Canon 

 Law in 1483, and was presented by Richard III 

 to the rectory of Harlton in Cambridgeshire 

 in 1484. As his favourite description of him- 

 self is ' Doctor of Canon ' or * of decrees,' it 

 may be presumed that he duly took the degree 

 of Doctor of Canon Law. In the interval of 

 fifteen years which elapsed before he again re- 

 ceived clerical preferment from the Crown he 

 practised in the ecclesiastical courts. He was 

 made a canon of Windsor 24 November 1500, 

 and it is to this preferment he probably owed 

 his election to Eton. In his long provostship 

 of thirty-one years, no one, not even Wayne- 

 flete, left so great a mark on the college. Its 

 most striking and conspicuous portion, the great 

 gateway tower of the inner quadrangle and the 

 splendid range of buildings on either side of it, 

 the provost's lodgings, which front the visitor on 

 entrance, and form the western side of the quad- 

 rangle, together with the whole northern range 

 of buildings in the outer court, Long Chamber, 

 and the old school, now called the Lower School, 

 on the left of the outer entrance, are his handi- 

 work. He himself reposes under a stately monu- 

 ment in the beautiful little chantry chapel on 

 the north side of the ' church,' in which are 

 collected the monuments of the pre-Reformation 

 provosts. Thus Lupton 's Tower and Lupton's 

 Chantry still perpetuate his name at Eton. 



Long Chamber was the first of Lupton's 

 works, and may have been built at his own cost, 



71 Alumni Eton. 6. 



" Maxwell Lyte, op. cit. 6 1 1. But Alumni Eton. 

 gives his election as fellow on 22 Feb. 1503. There 

 is something wrong about the dates. Cooper in 

 Athen. Cant, probably gives the dates rightly, as fellow 

 on 1 6 Feb. and provost 27 Feb. 15023. 



" Leach, Early Forks. Schools, ii, xli. 



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