A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



wages' is a payment of ' cash to Thomas Notte, 

 usher (hippodidasculo) of the boys, 6 I Of., and 

 to the scholars called grammar children (Sco/as- 

 ticis vocatis le Grammer ckilderri}, of 63 6s. 8d., 

 showing that the school was still going on, but 

 that Udal's place as head master had not been 

 filled up. These payments are for half a year. 

 But next year there were a master and usher and 

 the full tale of scholars. 



An account of John Moulton, the receiver- 

 general of the abbey, of payments to be made 

 for the last year of Philip and Mary, i.e. 

 I557-8, 114 shows under the heading of 'fees 

 and wages granted to certain persons by letters 

 patent of the monastery for life,' to John Passey, 

 schoolmaster (pedagogi) of Westminster yearly, 

 20, and Richard Spencer, 114 usher (subpeda- 

 gogi) yearly, ^15, while the 'master of the 

 choristers' received jCiO. Under 'wages and 

 salaries without letters patent continued accord- 

 ing to the form of the foundation and erection 

 established by Henry VIII,' is the payment of 

 '40 grammar boys, 133 (>s. 8d., and 10 chor- 

 ister boys singing in the choir, ,33 6s. 8dS i.e. 

 3 6s. 8d. for each scholar and chorister. This 

 appears to be conclusive proof that Udal had a 

 successor, and that the school went on and was 

 only re-enacted, not re-established, by Queen 

 Elizabeth's charter refounding the collegiate 

 church on 21 May 1560. No doubt there were 

 under Udal and under his predecessors town 

 boys as well as the 40 scholars. 



Udal's successor as head master of Eton was 

 ' Tyndall,' according to Maxwell Lyte's list. 

 He was no doubt Henry Tyndall, M.A. Oxford 

 1516-17, and B.D. 5 June 1526. A fellow of 

 Merton, his stay of only a year may perhaps be 

 accounted for by his desire to return to Merton, 

 of which he was elected warden in 1544. 

 Smyth, who followed in 1541, was probably 

 Nicholas Smyth, a Buckinghamshire boy from 

 Fenny Stratford, scholar of Winchester 1536, of 

 New College 1541, B.A. 1545. He held office 

 with first Alphyn or Alphild as usher, and then 

 John Fuller, who, like himself, was of Winches- 

 ter (1537) and New College (1540). Smyth re- 

 turned to New College in 1545. He became 

 a fellow of Eton in 1554, and died rector of 

 Petworth. At Lady Day 1545 another Wyke- 

 hamist succeeded, Robert Cater, a Berkshire boy 

 from Newbury, scholar of Winchester 1526, of 

 New College 1 5 3 1 , M. A. 1 1 June 1 5 3 9. He was 

 the last representative of the mother college in the 

 capacity of head master of Eton. He died in 

 office i January 1 546-7, and was buried in Eton 

 Chapel with an inscription which, in view of the 

 false quantity in the second line and the bad 



114 Westm. Abbey Mun. 33194. 



II4a He was probably Richard Spenser, scholar of 

 Winchester, 1543, and of New College, 1549, fellow 

 1551-3 ; Kirby, Winchester Scholars. 



scansion of the third, 116 we may hope was 

 either not written by him, or was miscopied by 

 the person who recorded it. William Barker, 

 who filled the gap, was a demy and then fellow 

 of Magdalen College, Oxford. He was master 

 when Eton was again threatened with destruc- 

 tion, being included with Winchester and all the 

 other colleges and collegiate churches, not except- 

 ing the cathedrals, in the Act for the Dissolution 

 of Colleges and Chantries of 1545, which pro- 

 vided for the dissolution at the king's pleasure of 

 any of them to provide for the costs of the wars 

 with France and Scotland. The report for Eton 

 by the commissioners under the Act 118 " is as 

 follows : 



ETON COLLEGE 



Founded by Kynge Henry the sixte. 



Robert Aldridge, Bisshop of Carlill, is proves: 

 there. 



The seid college is a parishe churche. 



The seid college is of the yerely value of 

 1066 i6s. <)%J., wherof 



Paide for collectours fees and rentes resolutes, and 

 suche other as doth appere in the Ministers accomptes, 

 62 I3/. l%<t. ; paide to the provest for his stipend, 

 30 ; to 7 felowes at looj. the pece, ^35 ; to 5 

 chaplaynes, at 4. the pece, one of theyme havynge 

 133. \d. more by yere, 20 i$s. ^.J. 



To the Scoole Master, 10 the vssher, 10 ; and 

 to 10 clerkes callid conductes, wherof one is an organe 

 player, 21 6s. SJ. ; in all, 121. 



Paide to the vice provest, 4. ; to the chaunter, 

 26s. 8i/. ; to the sexten, 26s. %il. ; to the under 

 sexten, I3/. \d. ; to the 2 bursarres, 4. ; and to the 

 clerke of the londes, 53*. ^d. ; in alle, ^14. 



Paide for the kepyng of 5 obbites for the founder, 

 and for Kinge Henry the First (sic) and Quene 

 Kateryne, his wife, quene Margaret, the founder's 

 wife, and for william waynflete, late bisshop of Wyn- 

 chester, 14 os. \d., .zn 13'- 5i<^ 



And so Remaynyth 855 3/. \\d. 



For the whiche some there is yerely borne the 

 diettes of the provest, vice provest, felowes, chap- 

 laynes, 70 scollers, 1 3 poore children and I o choris- 

 tours, and 5 of the provest his seruauntes, and other 

 seruauntes of the house, And also for liueries, and 

 Wages, and Reparacions and other charges, as well 

 ordynarie as extraordynarie. 



The ornamentes or goodes apperteynynge to the 

 seid college be worth, as by the Inventorie therof 

 more playnly it may appere, 373. 



Plate gilte and enamylid, poice, 314^ ounces; 

 plate gilte not enamyled, 1,000 ounces ; plate parcel! 

 gilte, 847 J ounces ; and White plate, 152^ ounces ; 

 Remaynynge in the handes of the Reuerend father in 

 God, Roberte Aldridge, Bisshop of Carlill, and provest 

 of the college there. 



115 Grammata tradentis Cateri hie membra 



quiescunt, 



Quern pius adjutes precibus oro preces. 

 Illico mens bona quae sunt summa petat, 



redivivum 



Corpus ad astra volans denuo surgat : dem. 

 115a Leach, Engl. Schools at the Reformation, 15. 



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