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no longer used the hospital as a provost's residence ; 

 at least for the previous fifteen years it, or a great 

 part of it, had been let to Mr. Peter Carmeliano 

 at the very large rent of 5 a year, and after- 

 wards to Archdeacon Magnus, who was much 

 employed as ambassador to Scotland. They got 

 nothing from the lands, which went to the 

 maintenance of the sisters of the hospital. A 

 * robbery ' was in a sense committed, in that 

 Henry VIII suppressed the useless leper hospital to 

 turn it into a palace. But Eton was particefn cri- 

 minis y as it now derived rents from the lands of the 

 hospital which had previously gone to support its 

 inmates. The college paid the pension to one 

 of the sisters, Anne or Agnes, but as that was 

 only 131. \d. a year, the burden was not great. 

 At that time no one could anticipate that 200 

 years afterwards the fields round the leper hospital 

 would become valuable building land, seeing that 

 even when Burlington House was built in the 

 1 8th century it was purposely built as at an 

 ultima Thule, beyond which no houses could 

 go. Moreover, as both the Dartford and the 

 Hampstead land are now selling at building 

 prices far higher than those which would have 

 been reached by a sale of St. James's Street a 

 century and a half ago, the present benefit is 

 greater also. 



Lupton resigned the provostry of Eton in 

 1535, retaining his canonry at Windsor, the 

 rectories of Caistor, Brancepeth, Skipton, Hazle- 

 ton, and the chapel of Ascot. In his latter days 

 he was accused to Cromwell of divers ecclesiastical 

 and moral offences, which he repudiated with 

 scorn in a letter of 29 January 1540: 'I beg 

 your favour. I have lived 83$ years and have 

 been taken for an honest man, and now a sort of 

 light men inform you to the contrary. But I 

 will be reported by all the honest men of Eton 

 and Windsor ' ; and again on 3 February : ' How 

 can any man of my age offend in that thing which 

 is laid to my charge ? I will be judged by any 

 1 2 honest persons in Windsor and Eton.' On 

 23 February 1540 he made his will. Besides 

 his obits at Eton and Sedbergh, he now provided 

 for an obit at St. John's College, Cambridge. 

 He gave 16 131. \d, 



to be bestowed in ij dinners in Eton Hall, one at the 

 day of my burial], and another at my monthes mind. 

 To buy blacke govvnes for 20 poore men that here 

 torches at the day of my buriall, 10. Item to be 

 distributed to Mr. Provost of Eton, the masters [i.e. 

 fellows], scholemaster, preistes, clerkes, children [i.e. 

 scholars], quiristers [choristers], officers of the college 

 and children of the town at my day of buriall and 

 monethes mynde in manner and forme followinge, 

 19 1 6s. SJ. ; first to the Provost the day of my 

 buryall 1 3/. \d. ; item, to 7 masters and the scole- 

 master lot. a piece, 4; item to the chaplcins and 

 usher 3/. ^J. a piece, 3 j/. 4^. ; item to 3 score and 

 10 children of the colledge and quiristers, i6</. a pcce, 

 4 1 3/. tfd. ; item, to a hundreth children of the 

 town, %J. a pece, 3 61. %J. 



There were also to be forty ' straunge preists ' 

 to sing mass ; and ' to poore folkes at Eton \d. a 

 pece, jio,' so that there were fifty of them. 

 Similar gifts of half the amount were to be given 

 at his month's mind. This is the first mention 

 of oppidans in the English form of ' children of 

 the town,' still in use at Westminster, and the 

 first indication of any large number being at 

 Eton. From no separate mention being made of 

 'commoners* in college, if they were not pur- 

 posely ignored on account of their rank and riches, 

 it follows that they must have been included in 

 the 100 'town boys.' 



On the retirement of John Smythe at 

 Michaelmas 1507 John Goldyve, Etonian and 

 Kingsman, came as head master. He seems, 

 however, to have been fetched from Oxford, as 

 Mr. Arderne's expenses to Oxford to inquire for 

 a new ' Preceptor ' were 31. id. ; and Thomas 

 the butler rode there with letters for the said 

 'Preceptor,' and Mr. 'Gowldyffe* himself was 

 paid los. for coming 'for the said office of Pre- 

 ceptor.' He retired in 1510, and in 1521 is 

 found, like his predecessor Bradbridge, pre- 

 bendary of Highley at Chichester and master of 

 the grammar school there. Thomas Philips, 

 master for a year in 1510-11, is probably the 

 Thomas Phylyppys who took his M.A. degree at 

 Oxford I February 1508-9 and afterwards sup- 

 plicated forhisB.C.L. 7 May 1524. In Thomas 

 Erlysman, who was fetched from Oxford and 

 received 101. for his expenses at his first coming 

 at Michaelmas 1511, Winchester and New 

 College again furnished a head master, who, like 

 Clement Smythe and Herman, was promoted to 

 the head-mastership of Winchester, viz. at Lady 

 Day 1515, where he stayed for ten years. 

 Robert Colyar, the hostiarius under him, gave 

 place at Christmas 1512 to George Hals or 

 Hale, who also was sought for at Oxford, and 

 had a competitor, ' Sir ' Risby, who received 5*. 

 for coming for the office of hostiarius. After a 

 year and a half Hale took the better-paid post 

 of chantry chaplain of Provost Bost. John 

 Holonde or Holland (King's 1506) succeeded 

 and held for three or four years. But Michael- 

 mas 1520 found Henry Halked/ 8 head of the 

 roll to King's in 1513, in his stead. In Feb- 

 ruary 1521 he was followed by Thomas Pery, 

 an Eton scholar, whose name is preserved as 

 such, because he was ill in 151415. His suc- 

 cessor, Robert Aldrich, or Aldryge, as he is 

 generally spelt, was an Etonian and Kingsman, 

 on the roll of 1507. He had at least one noble 

 pupil in Richard Lord Grey of Ruthyn, who is 

 commemorated by a brass in Eton Chapel. 

 Aldrich is said to have taught ' according to the 

 old Winchester system.' This is likely enough, 

 but the passage in the life of Sir Thomas Smith 

 on which this statement is based refers, not to 



" He appears in Alumni Eton, as Halhcad and Hal- 

 stead. 



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