SCHOOLS 



tinguished schoolmaster he might therefore have been asked in 1500 to his native county to teach 

 the prebendal school. Possibly it was there he composed his book Lac Puerorum ; Mri. Holt 

 Mylke for Children^ first published by Wynkyn de Worde (c. 1500), and then by Richard Pynson 

 in 1520. 



With so rare a name, William Hoone can hardly fail to be Mr. Hoone who paid 20d. on 

 being incorporated at Cambridge in 1 506-7 . 13 By an amending statute 23 January, 1502, made 

 under the power of amendment reserved by Story to himself during his life in the statutes of 

 14978, the schoolmaster-prebendary was relieved of the payment for the bishop's obit, and he was 

 also allowed to 



take and canonically hold one ecclesiastical benefice only, with or without cure of souls, on this con- 

 dition : that the canon prebendary and master of the school . . . shall . . . provide and keep an usher 

 fit to teach under him in our said Grammar School for the relief of and to share the anxiety of the 

 master of the above mentioned school and for the benefit of the scholars flocking to the said school. 



Of all the amending statutes which have been made to the statutes of 18 February, 1497-8, this is 

 the only one which appears to have any validity. 



Nicholas Bradbrigge, appointed in 1504, is a remarkable proof of the high status of this school, 

 for he had been head master of Eton in 1494; John Goldyff, 1521, is not traceable. The 

 reign of a Wykehamist bishop, Robert Sherborn, who had spent 6 years at Winchester and 14 at 

 New College, Oxford, with 3 Wykehamist deans in succession from 1504 to 1546, was marked by 

 the appointment in 1524 of William Freind, scholar of Winchester, 1495, whence he went to 

 New College in 1501, being fellow there 1503-16, B.C.L. 26 April, 1510. On 13 May, i53O, 12a 

 Sir Geoffrey Poole wrote ' To my hearty beloved Master Freynd, scolemaister at Chichester,' begging 

 for a loan of j6 till Michaelmas, and tending a ' gage ' as security by Anthony Bramshott. This 

 man of substance was succeeded by another of the same school and college, John Tychenor, Tuechener, 

 Touchenor, or Twychener, as he is variously called. He is a well-known person, having become 

 head master at Winchester at Michaelmas, 1525," at the age of twenty-four, and having in that 

 capacity put on record almost the only known pre-Reformation time table, after the ' use ' of 

 Winchester, for the benefit of Saffron Walden School, Essex, then being started. After six years 

 he resigned the head-mastership of Winchester to become head master of Chichester Grammar 

 School, and was admitted to the prebend of Highley on 5 October, 1531. 



No doubt this was due to the pressure of the Wykehamist dean William Fleshmonger, and of 

 Edward More, head master and then warden of Winchester, who was then archdeacon of Lewes and 

 canon of Chichester. But still, it is rather amazing. Nominally the post was financially better, 

 as the Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1535 taken while John Tychenour was master and prebendary of High- 

 ley shows that the prebend was worth ^13 6;. 8^. after deducting ^2 which the prebendary con- 

 tributed ' for the yearly and perpetual stipend of the usher of the Grammar School of Chichester.' 

 The same valuation shows the schoolmastership of Winchester as worth only 11 18;. $d. a year, 

 10 salary and the rest apparently estimated value of allowances for gown and so forth. But as 

 board was provided as well, worth is. a week, what little difference there was between the two 

 was perhaps rather in favour of Winchester. The Elizabethan poet head master of Winchester, 

 Christopher Johnson, seems to account for the change by saying 



Grammaticam, Twichenere, licet docuisse feraris 

 Summa tamen studii pagina sacra fuit. 



Tho' Twychener taught grammar as 'tis said, 

 Yet 'twas theology he chiefly read. 



He may therefore have taken the prebend of Highley with the promise of the better canonry 

 he afterwards obtained of Wittering, to which was attached the theological lectureship. Perhaps, 

 too, as his brother Richard succeeded him in the head-mastership of Winchester, there may have 

 been some family financial arrangement. 



But it must be remembered also, and this is a salient instance of it, that there was not then the 

 great difference in pay and prestige between the head-masterships of the so-called public schools and 

 of the grammar schools that has since arisen. Each grammar school was the public school of its 

 own district, to which the golden youth flocked instead of being accumulated in a few distant centres. 



We may presume that the 'use' of Winchester transmitted to Saffron Walden was also brought 

 to Chichester. Unfortunately the document at Saffron Walden has lost its beginning, and so the 

 work of the VII and VI forms is unknown. But in the V and IV forms they read Sulpicius, a 



11 Camb. Grace Bk. B. 222. lfl L. and P. Hen. Vlll, iv (3), 6384. 



11 V.C.H. Hants, ii, 296-300. 



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