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ORIGINAL    MEMBERS. 

Rev.  Dacres  ADAMS,  Bampton,  Oxfordshire. 

Sir  Ralph  Abercrombie  ANSTRUTHER,  Bart,  Balcaskie,  lifeshire. 

Colonel  ANSTRUTHER,  4  Chepstow  Villas,  Bayswater. 

Rev.  Dr  BLOXAM,  St.  Mary  Magdalen  Coll.,  Oxford. 

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Beriah  BOTFIELD  esq.,  9  Stratton  Sreet. 

W.  Downing  BRUCE  esq.,  11  Eludyer  Street,  Whitehall. 

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Rev.  Dr  GILES  Bampton,  Oxfordshire. 

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sftlALKET,  esq.  Advocates'  Library,  Edinburgh. 

Mr  C  HOOK,  4  Southampton  St.,  Camden  Town,  (Copyist  &c.) 

Rev.  J.  S.  HOWSON,  Princ.  of  the  Collegiate  Institution,  Liverpool. 

Rev.  Dr  HUME,  Liverpool. 

Rev.  Dr  INGRAM,  President  of  Trin.  Coll.  Oxi. 

Count  Codes  de  LIANCOURT,  London. 

Robert  LAURIE  esq.,  Doctors'  Commons. 

Me  J.  W.  LENG,  5  Saville  Street,  Hull. 

Library  of  the  WRITERS  to  the  SIGNET,  Edinburgh. 

Rev   (5.  A.  MARIUOTT,  Oriel  College,  Oxford. 

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MERTON  College  Library,  Oxford. 

Rev.  Dr  MOBERLY,  Head-master  of  Winchester  School. 

Philip  MURE  esq  ,  Shirly  Lodge,  Croydon. 

R^ht  Rev.  the  LORD  BISHOP  of  OXFORD. 

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OF    THE 

CAXTON   SOCIETY. 

HEYLIN'S  MEMORIAL  OF  WAYNFLETE. 


MEMORIAL  OF 

BISHOP     WAYNFLETE 

FOUNDER    OF 

ST  MARY  MAGDALEN  COLLEGE,  OXFORD. 

BY 
DR  PETER  HEYLIN  : 


NOW    FIRST    EDITED  FROM    THE    ORIGINAL    MS. 

BY 

JOHN  ROUSE  BLOXAM,  D.  D. 

FELLOW  OF  THE  SAME  COLLEGE. 


LONDON; 

PRINTED  AND  PUBLISHED   FOR  THE   CAXTON  SOCIETY 

BY  J.  RUSSELL  SMITH,  4  OLD  COMPTON  ST. 

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CONTENTS. 

PREFACE.         ......         Page  ix 

HEYLIN'S  OWN  MEMORANDA     ....  x 

WAYNFLEET'S  MEMORIAL.         ....  1 

APPENDIX       ...  69 


PREFACE. 

It  is  remarkable  that  the  MEMORIAL,  which  is  here 
published  for  the  first  time  from  a  manuscript  in 
Heylin's  own  handwriting  preserved  in  the  Library 
of  Magdalen  College,  Oxford,  has  escaped  the  notice 
of  all  his  Biographers.  It  was  probably  written  soon 
after  the  Death  of  Queen  Anne,  which  is  alluded  to 
in  stanza  107,  and  which  mournful  event  took  place 
on  the  2nd  of  March,  A.  D.  1619,  the  very  year  in 
which  the  author  was  admitted  perpetual  fellow  of 
Magdalen  College.  The  notes  with  one  or  two 
exceptions  are  given  from  the  MS. 

Notwithstanding  the  excellent  Notice  and  Republi- 
cation  of  Barnard's  Life  of  Heylyn  in  the  1st  volume 
of  his  History  of  the  Reformation,  lately  edited  for 
the  Ecclesiastical  History  Society  by  Mr  Robertson,  I 
have  deemed  that  it  would  not  be  unacceptable  to 
the   Readers   of    the   MEMORIAL   to  give    them    here 
certain  Extracts  "  out  of  an  account  of  Dr  Heylyn's 
life  written  by  himself  to  April  8th,  1645,"  copied  by 
Anthony  Wood  from   the   original   MS.,   which,   he 
mentions,   was  lent  him   by   Mr   Henry   Heylyn   of 
Minster  Lovell,  8th  July  1673.    Mr  Robertson  alludes 
to  these  memoranda  (Introductory  notice  xxv),  but 
does  not  appear  to  have  consulted  the  copy  of  them, 
which  may  be  found  among  Wood's  MSS.  (E.  4.)  in 
the  Ashmolean  Museum,  Oxford. 

b 


HEYLYN'S    OWN    MEMORANDA. 

1599.  29  Nov.  being  Thursday  and  S.  Andrew's  Eve,  I  was 
born  at  Burford  in  the  countie  of  Oxon,  (to  which  place 
my  father  had  remooved  from  Lechlade  the  11  July  before) 
between  8  and  9  of  the  clock  in  the  morn,  (the  sun 
being  in  Horoscope  of  my  nativitie,  and  the  houses  verie 
well  disposed,  promising  good  constitution  of  Body  and 
success  of  fortunes  which  God  grant)  and  was  christened 
in  the  parish  church  there  on  Sunday,  Dec.  9. 

My  father  Henry  lleylyn  l  descended  from  the  antient 
familie  of  the  Heylyns  of  Pentre  Heylyn  in  Montgomerie 
shire,  then  part  of  Powis  land,  from  the  princes  whereof  they 
were  descended,  and  to  whome  they  were  hereditarie  cup 
bearers,  for  so  the  word  doth  signifie  in  the  Welsh  or 
British,  and  afterwards  of  great  authorise  with  the  Princes 
of  N.  Wales,  which  appeareth,  in  that  Llewellyn  the  last 
prince  of  that  countrie  made  choice  of  Grono  ap  Heylyn 
to  treat  with  the  comissioners  of  Ed.  I,  K.  of  England,  for 
the  concluding  of  a  full  andfinall  peace  between  them,  which 
they  did  accordingly  an.  1282. 

My  mother  Elizab.  Clampard,  was  daughter  of  Francis 
Clamp.,  of  Wrotham  in  Kent  and  of  Marie  Dodge  his  wife, 
descended  in  a  direct  line  from  that  Peter  Dodge  of  Stop- 
worth  in  Cheshire,  to  whom  K.  Ed.  I  gave  the  Seigneurie  or 
Lordship  of  Pactenhugh,  in  the  Baronie  of  Coldingham  in 
the  realme  of  Scotland,  as  well  for  his  especiall  services 
in  the  seige  of  Barwick  and  Dunbarre,  as  for  his  valour 

(1)  An  attorney,  as  I  have  heard. 


OWN   MEMORANDA.  XI 

shewen  in  divers  battells  "  encountre  son  grand  enimy  et 
Rebelle  Le  Balliol  Roy  d'  Escose  et  vassal  d'  Angleterre, " 
as  the  words  are,  in  the  originall  charter  of  Armes  given  to 
the  said  Pet.  Dodge  by  Guyen  K.  of  Armes,  at  the  King's 
command,  dat.  8  Apr.  in  the  34  of  Ed.  I,  Doni.  1306. 

1603.  In  the  3d  year  of  rny  age  I  was  like  to  have  been  chouked 
with  a  peice  of  pig's  coat  in  my  throat,  and  was  thought  past 
recovery  (all  meanes  of  help  and  triall  failing,)  when  Mrs 
Ward,  one  of  the  neighbours,  having  verie  long  fingers, 
thrust  one  of  them  downc  my  throat,  so  forcibly  that  she 
cleered  the  passages,  and  my  chops,  which  before  were  fallen, 
closed  suddenly  on  her  finger,  the  mark  wherof  shee  often 
shewed  me  and  carried  it  with  her  to  her  grave  above 
30  years  after. 

1606.  Tn  the  6th  yeare  of  my  age  T  began  to  learn  my  accedence 
under  Mr  North  my  schoolmaster,  of  the  free  school  of 
Burford.  under  whome  1  profited  so  well  and  went  so  fast 
forwards,  that  when  I  was  come  to  make  Latine,  he  raised 
me  a  whole  forme  higher  than  my  fellowes,  and  put  me  into 
my  versyfying  rules  (to  which  he  saw  my  fancie  led  me)  ;  and 
I  praise  God  I  was  able  to  keep  pace  writh  them,  though  a 
whole  forme  above  me,  whilest  I  continued  in  the  schoole. 

1609.  In  the  10th  year  of  my  age,  there  was  a  football  match 
appointed  between  some  of  the  young  men  of  Burford  and 
the  husbandmen  and  Hines  of  Taynton,  (a  neighbouring 
village  not  above  a  mile  off)  ;  which  ended  at  the  last  in 
fighting,  in  which  those  of  Burford  were  too  hard  for  the 
others,  and  drave  them  home  into  the  village,  broke  into 
some  of  their  houses,  and  robbed  all  the  orchards.  I  was 
then  with  other  boyes  and  children  a  spectator  of  most  of 
the  dayes  business,  and  held  the  hat  and  band  of  one  of  the 
chief  actors  in  it ;  which  at  my  coniming  home  I  framed  into  a 
storye  (you  must  needs  think  it  was  a  wise  one),  partlye  in 


xii  HEYLIN'S 

verse,  but  most  in  prose,  after  the  manner  of  the  History  of 
the  destruction  of  Troy  and  other  books  of  chivalrie,  which 
I  began  about  that  time  to  be  studious  of,  which  learned 
peice  being  much  prised  amongst  my  schoolfellowes,  was 
borrowed  of  me  by  Laurence  Hinton  (after  one  of  the 
Fellowes  of  Merton  College)  and  by  him  uufortunatly  (as  I 
thought)  lost. 

1610.  In  the  11  year  of  my  age  I  began  to  be  troubled  with  an 
hoare  scurf,  &c. 

1611.  In   the    month    of    February    I  was  sent  to  London    to 
be  under  the  cure  of  Dr  Turner  (the  husband  of  that  gentle 
woman  who  after  had  a  hand  in  the  death  of  Sir  Thomas 
Overbury)  by  whose  direction  I  was  sent  to  sojourn  at — &c. 

1C  13.  December.  In  the  beginning  of  this  month  (the  particular 
day  I]  remember  not  (I  was  sent  to  Oxon  at  the  desire 
of  Mr  Davis  my  schoolmaster,  who  had  brought  me  into 
my  Greek  Grammar  (which  was  as  farre  as  he  could  go)  and 
was  there  placed  under  the  Tuition  of  Mr  Joseph  Hill 
an  antient  B.  of  Div.  (once  fellow  of  C.  C.  College,  then  a 
commoner  of  Hart  Hall,  by  whome  one  Mr  Walt.  Newberrie  a 
Dorsetshire  man,  who  after  proved  a  verie  zealous  and 
pragmaticall  Puritan,  was  made  choice  of  to  instruct  me  in 
Logick,  and  other  universitie  learning,  as  farre  as  I  was 
capable  of  it.  It  was  my  father's  pleasure  to  have  me  entred 
as  a  Batler  only  (because  my  elder  brother  being  a  commoner 
of  Brodgates  had  been  suffered  to  take  too  much  libertie), 
which  was  no  profit  unto  him  (for  he  limited  me  to  no 
expence  of  clothes,  and  commons)  but  very  much  to  my 
discouragement,  when  once  I  understood  the  difference. 

1614.  July  22.  I  stood  to  be  Demie  of  Magdalen  College  upon 
no  other  recommendations  than  only  a  letter  of  Sir  John 
Walter's,  being  Attorney  generall  to  the  Prince  his  highness 
and  a  neare  neighbourgh  of  my  father's,  unto  Dr  Langton, 


OWN    MEMORANDA.  XI11 

who  was  then  President  of  that  College,  by  whom  1  was  put 
upon  the  Roll  iti  the  8th  place,  (being  the  1st  place  of  the  2d 
course)  but  it  succeeded  not  that  yeare. 

Jan.  28.  being  Saturday,  I  was  admitted  commoner  of 
Hart  hall  (to  my  great  contentment)  by  Dr  Theodore  Price 
the  then  principal  of  it- 
March  7.  K.  James  began  his  journey  to  Cambridge, 
whither  divers  Oxford  men  went  to  observe  the  exercises 
and  the  manner  of  his  entertainment  there,  and  amongst 
them  my  Tutor  Mr  Newbery.  At  their  returne  there  were 
some  idle  songs  made  of  the  passages  there,  one  of  which 
(being  that  which  first  came  out)  was  by  me  translated  into 
Latin,  but  at  the  coming  out  of  Mr  C  t  of  Ch.  Ch.  which 
was  farre  the  better,  both  the  English  and  iny  Latine 
died. 

1615.  In  the  beginning  of  this  year  my  two  Tutors,  Mr  Hill  and 
Mr  Newbery,  with  some  other  com  panic,  went  to  take  the 
air  and  make  merry  at  Woodstock,  and  took  me  along  with 
them.     The   journey   pleased    me  verie   well  and   I   made 
a  Latine   poem    of   it  at   my   comming    back,  which   was 
generally  verie   well   approved    of   both    at    Harthall  and 
Magdalen. 

July  22.  Saturday.  I  was  chosen  Demie  of  Magdalen 
College  by  Dr  Langton  in  his  first  place,  upon  the  former 
recommendation  onlie,  and  was  admitted  on  the  last  day  of 
the  same  month,  in  the  place  of  Mr  Dochen  then  chosen 
Fellow  &c. 

1616.  May  5.  My  mother  died  at  Burford  of  a  contagious  burning 
feavour  £c.,   and  was    solemnly   buried  in  the  chancell  of 
Lechlade  neare  her  unkle  Dodge. 

July  8.  Monday.  I  was  made  Impositor  of  the  Hall 
by  Deaue  Brichenden,  which  office  I  held  till  the  4th  of 

t  Corbet,  1  believe. 


XIV  HEY  LIN  S 

Jan.  (which  was  no  longer  than  ever  any  had  held 
before)  which  made  the  Demies  call  me  the  perpetuall  dictator, 
and  occasioned  a  great  deal  of  heart  burning  towards  me, 
amongst  the  senior  fellowes  also,  which  break  out  into 
whipping  and  other  base  usuage;  but  I  thank  God  I  stood  it 
out  and  overcame  the  storme  at  last. 

July  11.  Dr.  Lake  warden  of  New  College  chose  Vice- 
chancellor,  &c. 

March  8.  My  English  Tragedy  cal'd  Spurius  was  acted 
privatly  (as  Mr  White's  and  Mr  Bernard's  plaies  were)  in 
the  president's  lodgings. 

1617.  Nov.  20.    Mr  Holt  chosen   Ld    (Xmas  f   Ld)    and    so 
lemnly  inaugurated  on  the  2d  of  Jan.  following,  in  which  I 
represented  the  embassador  of  the  universitie  of  Vienna. 

Feb.  7.  I  appeared  a  sutor  for  the  Collectorship,  but  being 
betrayed  by  Exeter  Coll.  and  deserted  by  Sir  Chad  well  of 
New  Coll.  who  was  to  have  joined  with  me,  I  sate  clowne 
upon  a  Wednesday  morning  (as  soon  as  I  had  obtained  the 
Vicechancellor's  leave  to  stand)  having  cast  away  above  £20 
to  buy  that  canvass. 

Feb.  27,  and  March  17.  I  answered  pro  forma  as  determi 
ner  for  my  degree :  the  fearful  bickerings  in  the  streets  on  the 
last  of  the  two  dayes  being  Tuesday. 

1618.  Aug.    13.  I  began  my  Latin  comedie  called  Theomachia 
and  finisht  it  Sept.  14.  It  was  never  acted. 

Feb.  6.  Sr  Dod  of  Exeter  College  had  his  great  canvass 
for  the'collectorship,  our  College  voycing  then  for  Ch.  Ch. 
in  revenge  of  my  quarrell  against  those  of  Exeter  for  their 
perfidious  dealing  with  ine  theyeare  before- 

1619.  May  31.  The  funeralls  of  Q.  Anne  (who  died  at  Hampton 
2  Mar.  last)  solemnised  at  Oxon,  Dr  Goodwin  the  Vicechanc. 
preaching. 

f  of  Magd.  Coll.  v.  Hist.  temp.  2  Marie,  v.  prox.  pag. 


OWN    MEMORANDA.  XV 

July  29.  Thursday.  I  was  admitted  in  verum  et  perpetuum 
socium  &c. 

Nov.   23.  Mr  Storehouse  (Mag.    Coll)  chosen  Ld   and 

solemnly  inaugurated  in  the  Xm.   Holidaies,  in  which  pomp 

I  personated  the  Duke  of  Helicon,  the  first  peere  of  his  prin- 

cipalitie,  and  in  Jan.  following  my  shew  of  doublet,  breeches 

-  and  shirt  was  presented  before  them. 

16$0  June  6.  A  simile  primo  call'd  at  6  of  the  clock  in  the  morn, 
where  Festus  Hommius  a  Div.ne  of  great  note  in  the 
Lo\v  countries  was  incorporated  Dr  of  Div.  in  a  pair  of 
green  stockings. 

June  the  26.  I  sate  for  my  grace  to  be  Mr  of  Arts,  and 
had  it  primo  &c. 

Aug.  14.  My  good  friend  Mr  Morebread  died  and  was 
buried  on  the  Thursday  after  (Aug.  17.)  Mr  Frewen  preach 
ing  his  funerall  sermon,  not  without  some  scandall  to  the  dead, 
and  little  to  the  praise  of  his  owne  discretion. 

Dec.  16.  Saturday.  A  solemne  Convocation  called,  in  which 
the  E.  of  Pembroke  Chancellour  of  the  University  did 
signifie  his  pleasure  by  speciall  letters  that  from  that  time 
forwards  the  Mrs  (who  before  sat  bare)  should  wear  their 
caps  in  all  congregations  and  convocations  :  to  which  his 
Lordship  was  induced  by  an  humble  petition  presented  to 
him  by  the  Regent  Mrs,,  in  behalf  of  themselves  and  the 
Non  regents.  For  the  subscribing  of  which  the  senior  Mrs  of 
this  yeare  (and  among  the  rest  myself)  met  at  the  Corner- 
Taverne  at  S.  Maries  f  church  in  the  beginning  of  Michael 
mas  Terme,  Dr  Prideaux  the  Vicechancellor  being  pre- 
acquainted  and  giving  us  great  encouragement  to  goon  with 
it.  The  chief  solliciter  of  the  business  was  Rous  Clopton  of 
C.C.Coll. 

Jan.    15.     Monday    the    first    day    of    the    Universitie 

f  at  the  west  end. 


ivi 

Terme,  the    Regents    first  put  on    their  caps  in  the  con 
gregation. 

1621.  May  16.  incorporated  A.  M.  at  Cambridge. 

June  1.  By  an  order  made  in  convocation,  all  scholars 
under  the  degree  of  Masters  of  Art  and  not  being  the  sons 
of  Bps  or  noble  men,  were  enjoyned  to  stand  uncouvered  in 
all  publick  places,  viz  at  S.  Maries  and  the  Schooles,  if  any 
Mr  of  Arts  were  present. 

July  7.  the  Earl  of  Arran  eldest  son  of  the  marquess 
of  Hamilton,  came  to  Oxon  and  was  admitted  into  Exeter 
College  under  the  Tutorage  of  Dr.  Prideaux. 

A.ug.  26.  Sunday.  Mr  Kolidayes  Marriage  of  Arts,  which 
had  been  acted  in  Ch.  Oh.  hall  Feb.  13.  an.  1617  with 
no  great  applause,  was  with  some  foolish  alterations  acted 
before  the  King  at  Woodstock  :  wherupon  I  made  a  copie  of 
verses  which  passed  by  the  name  of  Whoop  Holiday  arid  gave 
occasion  to  many  other  copies  pro  et  contra,  made  by  severall 
men,  the  Deanc  of  Ch.  Ch.  Dr  Corbet  (who  loved  that  Boyes 
play  verie  well)  putting  in  for  one. 

Nov.  7.  I  went  to  Theobald's  where  the  court  lay  and 
presented  my  Geography  to  Prince  Charles  to  whome  it  was 
dedicated,  by  whome  I  was  received  verie  gratiously.  I 
was  brought  unto  his  Highness  by  Sr  Rob.  Carre  (since 
Earl  of  Ancrom)  one  of  the  Gentlemen  of  his  Bedchamber, 
to  whose  care  I  was  commended  by  my  honorable  Friend  the 
Ld  Danvers,  who  by  reason  of  his  sickness  and  indisposition 
kept  himself  at  Cornburie  all  this  winter. 

Jan.  29.  Francis  Ld  Norris  E.  of  Berks  killed  himself 
with  a  Crossbow.  The  Lady  Elizab.  his  onlie  daughter  and 
heire  was  afterwards  married  to  Mr  Wray. 

1622.  Apr.  14.  Palm  Sunday.  Mr  Knight  of  Broadgates  preached  at 
S.  Peters,  where  he  let  fall  divers  dangerous  passages  deroga- 
torie  to  the  power  and  safetie  of  Soveraigne  princes,  which 


OWN    MEMORANDA.  1V11 

(when  he  was  call'd  in  question  for  them)  he  fathered  on 
Parseus  his  comment  on  the  Romans  (where  he  took  his 
Text)  from  whose  notes  he  had  drawne  most  of  his  obser 
vations.  Upon  occasion  of  which,  the  doctrine  of  the  said 
Parceus  was  soiemnely  condemned  in  full  convocation,  and 
the  book  publickly  burnt  at  Oxon  June  7  next  following ; 
and  after,  on  the  23  of  the  said  June  being  Sunday,  it  was 
burnt  also  at  St  Paul's  Cross,  the  Bishops  of  London  (Dr 
Monteigne)  preaching  there  upon  that  occasion. 

July  26.  my  father  died  :  buried  in  Lechelade  chancell  bv 
my  mother,  &c. 

Feb.  17.  Monday,  the  Prince  and  Marquess  of  Bucks,  began 
their  journey  towards  Spainc  under  the  borrowed  names  of 
Jack  Smith  and  Will.  Smith,  for  whose  safe  arrival  in  that 
conntrie,  there  was  a  solemne  thanksgiving  at  Oxon,  on 
Saturday  the  19  April  following,  celebrated  with  a  sermon  in 
S.  Maries,  and  an  oration  in  the  Schooles,  a  little  book  of 
verses  being  published  and  presented  to  the  King  before, 
in  which  there  was  a  copie  of  mine. 

1623.  Oct.  5.  Sunday.  Prince  Charles  landed  at  Portsmouth,  his 
comming  home  made  knowne  at  Oxon  on  the  Tuesday 
after,  and  on  Thursday  the  30  of  the  said  month  a  solemne 
holyday  observed  for  joy  therof. 

Oct.  26.  being  the  5  of  Nov.  according  to  the  calendar  of 
the  church  of  Rome,  94  Papists  were  killed  by  the  fall  of  a 
chamber  in  the  French  Embassador's  house  in  the  black 
Fryers  London,  where  they  were  met  for  their  devotions  (the 
day  being  Sunday)  and  presently  came  out  a  pamphlett  from 
beyond  seas,  beguiling  their  poore  followers  with  an  impu 
dent  Tale  of  the  killing  an  100  puritans  in  S.  Andrew's 
Holborne,  as  they  were  singing  a  Genevian  psalme,  as  they 
use  to  call  them.  At  which  I  gave  a  touch  in  the  next 
edition  of  my  Geography. 

c 


XVlll  HEYLINS 

1624.  Apr.  6.  The  great  canvass  for  Proctors,  Warner  of  S.  John's 
having  229   voyces,  Parsons  247   of  the  same  house  too, 
Mr  Hill  of  Brasnose  253,  and  Mr  Escot  of  Wadham  255, 
the  scrutinie  lasted  till  past  nine  at  night. 

Apr.  12.  Jack  Harmar  went  towards  London  in  the  wag 
gon,  on  which  (as  on  Jack  Yates  returne  from  Lincolnshire 
the  Jan.  next  before)  I  made  a  knavish  song  to  make  merry 
withall. 

Nov.  21.  The  old  organ  of  Ch.  Ch.  being  bestowed  on  the 
universitie,  was  first  used  at  S.  Maries. 

1625.  Apr.  27.  Ch.  Church  Canvass  for  Proctors.      Williamson 
of  E.  Coll.  having  238  voyces,  Payne  of  Ch.  Ch.  253  (wher- 
of  the  Bishop  of  Oxford's  was  one)  Marsh  of  Trinity  285, 
and  Brookes  of  Oriel  292,  in  all  1068. 

Apr,  28  My  deare  friend  wnAfidua  Achates  Mr  Allibond 
made  Schoolmaster  of  Magdalen  College  in  the  place  of  Mr 
Barnard. 

1626  Apr.  19.  Another  great  canvass  for  Proctors,  Thome  of 
Balliol  having  211  voyces,  Lusliiugton  of  Pembroke  247. 
Prideaux  of  Exeter  294,  and  Sydenham  of  Magdalen 
College  2 9 6.  In  all  1078. 

Aug.  16.  Dr  Laud  Bishop  of  St  David's  was  elected 
Bishop  of  Bath  and  Wells,  upon  the  death  of  Bishop  Lake  and 
actually  translated  to  that  see  on  the  18  Sept.  following, 
and  the  6  of  Oct.  following  was  svvorne  Deane  of  the  Chapter, 
which  I  take  notice  of  the  rather,  because  in  that  capacilie  I 
began  my  relations  to  him. 

Aug.  15.  Tursday,  the  Lord  George  Digbye  came  to 
Magd.  Coll.  and  was  entred  commoner  :  who  afterwards  was 
pleased  to  hold  great  correspondence  with  me,  whilst  he  con 
tinued  in  the  College. 

1627.  Apr.  The  strong  plot  for  the  Proctors  broken  by  the 
flying  off  of  Allsoules  :  the  Proctors  for  this  year  being  II. 


OWN    MEMORANDA.  XIX 

Haliwell  of  Allsoules  and  Hide  of  Ch.  C.  who  was  the  first 
Proctor  which  Ch.  Ch.  had  since  the  yeare  1616,  when  they 
played  foul  with  those  of  Magdalen  and  were  therupon  thrust 
out  of  the  plot 

1628.  Apr.  £3.  The  tumultuous  convocation  for  the  choice  of 
proctors,  the  competitors  being  Williamson  of  Magdalen 
College,  More  of  New  College,  Brooch  of  Brasnose  and 
Lloyd  of  Jesus ;  which  two  last,  finding  themselves  like  to  be 
overborne,  made  an  appeal  to  the  K.  which  was  admitted,  and 
the  convocation  dissolved  in  a  great  combustion.  The  bus 
iness  being  examined  at  court,  Williamson  and  Lloyd  were 
declared  Proctors  for  that  yeare,  the  last  pretending  kindred  to 
the  Dutchess  of  Buchingham. 

Apr.  28.  I  began  my  journey  to  London,  where  my  cham- 
berfellow  Mr  Hord  came  to  me,  by  conference  with  whome  I 
found  that  the  Puritans  of  Lechlade  (com.  Glouc.)  had  a 
plot  to  put  Mr  Phippes  out  of  his  Vicaridge.  I  gave  him 
notice  of  it  presently  (for  he  came  to  Towne  with  me),  and 
upon  search  into  the  business  he  found  they  had  not  onlie  a 
plot  upon  him  for  his  living,  but  for  his  life  also.  Both 
which  as  he  prevented  by  God's  great  mercy  (upon  this  dis 
covery)  so  to  preserve  himself  for  the  time  to  corne,  he 
brought  the  principall  Actors  into  the  Star  Chamber. 

Aug.  23.  S.  Bartholomew's  eve,  the  D.  of  Bucks  was 
killed  at  Portsmouth  by  one  Felton,  a  discontented  fellow, 
and  a  great  professor  :  who  being  examined  what  had  moved 
him  to  so  foul  a  fact,  was  able  to  alledge  no  other  reason,  but 
that  the  Duke  had  been  remonstrated  against  by  the  House  of 
Commons.  The  news  came  to  us  at  Oxon  on  the  next  day 
after,  being  Sunday.  Felton  was  excuted  for  this  murder  at 
Tyburne  Nov.  29,  and  thence  sent  to  be  hanged  in  chaines 
not  farr  from  Portsmouth,  where  long  he  had  not  hanged, 
but  his  body  was  stolen  away  by  some  zealous  Brethen,  who 


XX 

were  before  so  mad  upon  the  business,  that  they  had  caused 
his  picture  to  be  cut  in  brass  and  sold  openly  in  stationer's 
shops. 

Oct.  28.  Tuesday,  and  S.  Simon  and  Jude's  day,  I  married 
my  dearest  mistress  miss  Lettice  II ey gate  in  the  church  or 
chapel  of  Magd.  Coll.  which  I  had  caused  to  be  set  out  in 
the  best  and  richest  ornaments  the  College  had,  my  old  and 
true  freind  Jack  Allibond  performing  the  ceremony,  and 
kept  my  wedding  dinner  in  my  chamber  in  the  College,  to 
which  I  did  invite  some  of  the  Fellowes  of  the  College,  some 
Drs  of  the  Towne  and  their  wives.  I  placed  her  at  the  head 
of  the  table,  desiring  her  to  bid  her  friends  welcome,  for  the 
day  was  hers,  and  had  the  Towne  musick  to  entertaine  her 
withall,  which  I  had  caused  to  play  that  morning  at  her 
chamber  dore,  which  open  carnage  of  the  business  made  it  less 
suspected.  The  day  was  verie  dark  and  rainy,  which  seemed 
somewhat  ominous  :  but  I  thank  God,  wee  have  had  gene 
rally  a  very  faire  and  sunshining  fortune.  I  bedded  her 
that  night  at  the  King's  head,  where  (I  thank  God  I  can  say 
it  safely)  i  exchanged  maydenheads  with  her,  and  the  next 
day  went  with  my  brother  and  sister  to  Minster  £c. 
1630.  Apr.  1 1.  Sunday  M.S.  one  of  thePellowes  of  St  Johns  came 
verie  early  to  my  chamber,  told  me  of  the  sudden  death  of 
the  Earl  of  Pembroke  the  day  before,  and  that  there  was  an 
hope  of  the  Lord  Bishop  of  London  to  be  Chancellour  of  the 
University  &c. 

Feb.  2.  being  Candelmas  day,  I  was  brought  by  my 
Lord  of  London  to  his  Majestic,  being  then  in  his  bed 
chamber  at  Whitehall,  to  whome  he  did  present  the 
History  of  St  George  :  he  verie  gratiously  accepted  of  it 
and  held  some  conference  with  me  about  the  Argument. 
I  presented  severall  copies  of  it  fairly  bound  to  all  such 
Kts  of  the  Order  and  men  of  eminencie  as  were  about 


OWN  MEMORANDA.  XXI 

the  Towne,  and  was  used  by  all  of  them  with  great  respect, 
save  only  by  Archbishop  Abbot,  and  the  Earl  of  Exeter,  the 
first  of  which  disliked  the  Argument,  and  the  other  snapped 
me  up  for  a  begging  scholar  which  he  was  after  much 
ashamed  of,  when  it  came  to  be  kuowne. 

1631.  Feb.   15.  Ash  Wednesday,  the  Lord   Viscount   Dorchester 
died,  and  therupon  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Lync.  (whose  great 
friend  he  was)  retired  unto  his  house  of  Bugden. 

1632.  Dec.   2.  The  small  pox  appeared  on  his  majestic,  but  he 
soon  recovered.  T  made  a  copie  of  English  verses  upon  that 
occasion,  which  I  presented  to  the  King  by  Mr  Elphine,  the 
K.  having  read  them  over,  sent  them  to  the  Queen  ;  I  had 
thanks  from  both. 

1633  Aug.  25.  Sunday.  Dr  Potter  gave  me  one  of  his  bookes 
called  charitie  mistaken,  which  he  had  presented  to  the  King 
the  same  day.  A  prebend  of  Windsore  designed  him  for  his 
reward,  then  likely  to  be  void  by  the  promotion  of  the  Bishop 
of  Glocester  unto  Hereford.  It  was  thought  I  should  have 
been  the  man,  and  many  of  my  friends  especially  the  Lord 
Archbishop  of  York  (D.  Neile)  put  me  hard  upon  it,  but  it 
did  not  move  me,  I  only  made  this  epigram  upon  it  and  so 
passed  it  by. 

When  Windsore  Prebend  late  disposed  was, 

One  asked  me  sadly  how  it  came  to  pass 

Potter  was  chose,  and  Heylyn  was  forsaken  ? 

I  answered  '  twas  by  charitie  mistaken. 

but  the  Bishop  of  Gloucester  did  not  move,  so  the  business 
ended. 

March  5.  Tuesday,  my  4th  child  borne  at  Westminster, 
a  son  christened  Charles,  &c.  this  child  had  the  same  cross 
line  thorow  the  palrae  of  the  right  hand  and  the  same  crook 
ed  fingers  on  both  hands  as  I  have  myself,  which  made  the 
old  Lady  Dymoke  put  this  jest  upon  me,  that  I  got  children 
by  the  booke. 


XX11  IIEYLIN  S 

1634  May  24. 1  went  to  Braintford  and  kept  my  Whitsontide  with 
with  Attorney  Noy :  He  told  me  of  his  purpose  of  going  to 
Tollbridge  waters  the  next  long  vacation,  which  I  disswaded 
him  from  and  advised  him  rather  to  go  with  me  to  Alresford, 
where  he  should  find  a  better  aire  and  a  more  carefull 
attendance.  He  wished  after,  when  it  was  too  late,  he  had 
harkned  to  ine.  He  shewed  me  also  two  larg  paper  books 
of  his  owne  hand  writing,  the  one  contayning  his  collections 
about  the  king's  maintaining  his  navall  power  according  to 
the  practice  of  his  ancestors,  and  the  other  about  the  privil- 
edges  and  juisdiction  of  the  ecclesiasticall  courts  :  of  which 
I  gave  notice  to  his  Grace  at  my  next  going  to  him. 

Aug.  10.  I  heard  the  sad  news  of  Mr  Noyes  death,  at 
Leicester  &c. 

1636.  March  2.  Ashwednesday,  the  lent  courses  altered,  and 
Wednesday  made  the  preaching  day,  instead  of  Tuesday,  as  it 
had  been  antiently,  before  the  comming  in  of  K.  Jarnes. 

1640.  Nov.  15.  The  Bishop  of  Lyric.  (Williams)  released  out  of 
the  To\ver,  and  became  the  idoll  for  a  time  of  both  houses. 
Bagshaw  and  Prinne  *  in  secret  conference  with  him  at  his 
lodgings  in  Westminster,  which  made  me  thinke  my  turne 
was  hard  at  hand. 

Dec.  10.  A  freindly  complement  passed  upon  me  by  the 
Bishop  of  Lyncoln,  who  met  me  in  Hierusalern  chamber,  who 
thought  he  had  me  now  fast  enough. 

Dec.  13.  The  great  affront  put  upon  me  by  the  Bishop  of 
Lyncoln  as  I  preached  at  Westminster  knocking  the  pulpit 
with  his  staff  and  crying  aloud  No  more  of  that  point. 
Many  reports  raised  therupon,  which  caused  me  to  send  a  copie 
of  the  whole  passage  as  it  should  have  been  spoken,  both  to 
my  friends  at  court  and  enimies  in  parliament. 

*  Bagshewe  Prynn  was  not  then  released  from  prison. 


OWN    MEMORANDA.  XX111 

Dec.  15.  The  Bishop  of  Lincoln's  Action  censured  and 
my  Carriage  justified. 

Jan.  12.  The  Bishop  of  Lyncoln  preached  before  the  King. 
He  pleased  the  Puritans  verie  much  in  being  so  zealous  for 
the  sabbath,  and  against  his  majesties  book  for  sports.  His 
saying  that  the  discipline  of  Geneva  and  Cornuries  diet  were 
fit  for  none  but  Beggars  and  Tradesmen,  did  as  much  dis 
pleasure.  After  this  he  declined  day  lie  in  the  people's 
favour. 

1643.  Aug.  17.  Dr  Frewen  president  of  Magdalen  College  nomi 
nated  by  the  King  to  the  Bishoprick  of  Lichfeild.  Dr  Brough 
Deane  of  Gloucester  and  Dr  Oliver  president  of  Magdalen. 

1644.  Apr.  Sunday.  Dr  Frewen  consecrated  in  Magdalen  College 
chapel   by  the  Archbishop   of  York,   Bishops   of   Winton, 
Oxon,S  arum,  and  Peterborough. 

June  2.  The  K.  quits  Oxon  and  goeth  towards  Worcester, 
Mr  Birkenhead  with  him,  by  meanes  wherof  I  was  intreated 
to  resume  my  old  employment,  *  I  did  it  for  4  weeks,  he 
came  agaiue  and  1  gave  it  over. 

Nov.  4.  The  King  moved  for  me  by  the  Duke  of  Rich 
mond  about  the  Deanery  of  York,  by  Mr  Secretarie  N.  and 
M.  E.  P.  His  majestie  demurred  upon  it,  but  gave  it 
shortly  after  to  Dr  Marsh,  one  who  had  never  lived  before 
above  the  life  of  Curate.  The  Bishop  of  Sarum  in  this 
business  did  me  no  good  office. 
ADDIT. 

1G13.  Sept.  20.  Lord  Viscount  Falkland  slaine  at  Newbury  fight, 
in  whom  the  church  lost  no  great  friend.  I  am  sure  I  did 
not. 

Sept.  27.  Tuesday.  I  cleared  myself  of  my  employment 
of  under  Secretary  (in  writing  Merc.  Aulic.)  which  was 
committed  to  Mr  Berkenhead,  who  had  of  late  so  interlaced 

*  Writing  Mercur.  Aul. 


XXIV 


his  expressions  and  intelligences  that  I  could  hardly  call  it 
mine ;  but  at  rny  going  off  upon  his  request,  1  wrot  a  little 
book  called  the  rebel  I' s  catachisme,  which  came  not  out  till 
the  nextFebruary. 

March  27.  J  was  voted  a  Delinquent  in  the  house  of  com 
mons,  by  reason  of  my  stay  in  Oxon,  and  an  order  sent  to 
the  committee  at  Portsmouth  to  sequester  my  estate  and  seize 
my  goods.  The  taking  of  Reading  by  the  Earl  of  Essex,  Apr- 
26,  opened  a  free  passage  to  this  mischeif.  My  corn,  cattle, 
and  money  seized  upon  by  one  Captain  Wats  towards  the 
latter  end  of  May,  and  all  my  bookes  carried  away  to  Ports 
mouth  upon  Whitsoneve.  I  made  my  case  knowne  unto  his 
majestic  and  petitioned  twice  for  reparations  out  of  Norton's 
Estate  (whose  hand  was  to  the  warrant  of  sequestration) 
but  was  denied  the  first  time  and  put  off  the  last. 

END  OF  THE  DIARY. 


It  is  to  be  lamented  that  the  memoranda  finish 
abruptly  in  November,  1644.  The  remainder  how 
ever  of  Heylyn's  Biography  has  been  so  well  illustrated 
by  Mr  Robertson,  that  I  will  do  little  more  than  refer 
to  it.  In  1645  when  the  king's  affairs  became  despe 
rate,  our  author  left  Oxford,  and  wandered  from 
place  to  place,  reduced  to  the  utmost  necessity.  At 


PREFACE.  25 

Winchester  he  stayed  for  a  while,  but  when  that  city 
was  delivered  up  to  the  Parliament  he  was  forced  to 
remove  again.  In  1648,  he  went  to  Minster  Lovel 
in  Oxfordshire,  the  seat  of  his  elder  Brother,  which 
he  farmed  for  six  or  seven  years  of  his  nephew  Co 
lonel  Heylin.  On  quitting  this  farm  he  settled  at 
Abingdon  employing  himself  in  various  publications. 
Upon  the  return  of  Charles  II  he  was  restored  to  his 
Spiritualities,  but  was  not  afterwards  raised  to  any 
station  beyond  that  of  Sub-dean  of  Westminster.  He 
died  May  8,  1662,  and  was  interred  before  his  own 
stall  within  the  Choir  of  the  Abbey. 

I  have  only  to  add  that  in  the  appendix  will  be 
found  a  Genealogy  of  the  ancient  Family  of  Patten, 
kindly  communicated  to  me  by  its  present  Represen 
tative,  John  Wilson  Patten,  Esq,  of  Bank  Hall,  Co. 
Lancaster.  M.  P.  for  the  northern  Division  of  that 
County,  and  also  a  description  of  Magdalen  College 
at  the  time  of  the  matriculation  of  Prince  Henry  in 
1605.  Extracted  from  Isaac  Wake's  "  Rex  Platoni- 
cus"  published  at  Oxford  in  1607. 

J.  R.  B. 

The  Library,  S.  M.  Magdalen  College  Oxford. 
June  27,  A.  D.  1851. 


WAINFLEET'S  MEMORIAL  : 

OR 
A   TRUE  HISTORIOGRAPHICAL  NARRATION 

OF  THE  LIFE,  AND  ACTS,  AND  DEATH 
OF  THAT  FAMOUS  PRELATE,  W.  OF  WAINFLEET, 

B.  OF  WINCHESTER, 
THE  HONORABLE  AND  SOLE  FOUNDER 

OF 

MAGDALEN  COLLEGE  IN  OXFORD, 
CONTAINING  ALSO  THE  CHIEF  OCCURRENCES  IN  THE 

ENGLISH  STATE 
HAPPENING  IN  HIS  LIFE-TIME. 

NOLO  VIRUM,     PROPRIO   REDIMAT    QUI    SANGUINE    FAMAM  '. 
HUNC    VOLO,    LAUDARI,    QUI    SINE    MORTE    POTEST. 


TO  THE  EIGHT  WORSHIPFUL  AND  REVEREND 

MR     DR     LANGTON,1 

THE  MOST  WORTHY  PRESIDENT  OF  MAGDALEN  COLLEGE. 

Right  worthy  Sir. 

True  is  that  saying  of  the  comedian,  "  Scriptorum 
plus  est  hodie,  quam  muscarum  olim,  cum  caletur 
maxime" 2  and  of  these  the  most  neglected,  though 
certainly,  if  looked  into  with  an  impartially-judicious 
eye,  the  most  to  be  regarded,  are  Poets.  Since  by  a 

(1)  Dr  William  Langton,  President  of  S.  M.  Magd.  Coll.,  was  descended 
from  an  ancient  family  in  Lincolnshire,  whose  pedigree  may  be  found 
in  Oldfield's  account  of  Waynflete,  p.  207.  He  was  the  son  of  John 
Langton  and  Anne  d.  and  h.  of  L.  Palmer  of  Burgh,  born  in  1572,  elected 
Probationer  of  Magdalen  College  in  1591,  and  perpetual  Fellow  in  the 
following  year  ;  Praelector  of  Logic,  1596.  He  resigned  his  Fellowship  in 
1608,  but  was  elected  President  on  the  19  Nov.  1610.  He  married  Mary, 
d.  of  Sir  William  Stonehouse  Bart  of  Radley,  Berks  :  and  died,  Oct.  10, 
1626. — He  lies  buried  in  the  College  Chapel,  where  a  monument  contain 
ing  his  effigy  was  raised  to  his  memory  with  the  following  inscription  : 

PlvE  MEMORISE  EXCELLENTISSIMI  VIRI  GlJLIELMI  LANGTON,  AGRO 
LlNCOLNIENSI,  VILLA  COGNOMINI,  FAMILIA  VETERE  ORIUNDI,  GENTILITIA 
CLAR1TATE,  NECNON  VITA  CONSIMILI,  IN  SACRA  THEOLOGIA  DOCTORIS, 
SAPIENTIA  ET  ARTE  EXIMI1,  MODESTIA  SUA  CONSPICU1  MAGIS,  QUAM  TITULORUM 
INANI  FULGORE  :  HUIC  COLLEGIO  NON  SINE  MAGNO  BONARUM  LITERARUM  ET' 
PIETATIS  INCREMENT©  XVI  ANN1S  PR^EFUIT  :  HANC  VICEM  REDDIDIT  CHARA 
UXOR,  AFFECTU  MAGNO,  SUMPTU  MODICO,  AMORE  ET  OBSERVANTIA  SUA  SIC 
CONTENTA  DEFUNOI,  CUI  HAUD  ILLO  MARMORE  ESSET  SATISFACTURA.  OfillT 

AN  :  SALUT  :  MDCXXVI,  OCT.  X,  JSTATIS  SVJE  LIIII.  (2)  PLAUT., 


4  DEDICATION. 

general  consent,  it  is  thought,  if  not  better,  yet  in 
an  equal  degree  of  worthiness,  to  commit  to  memory 
things  that  have  been  done,  and  to  do  things  worthy 
remembrance.  But  since  actions  may  seem  to  be 
twofold,  such  as  being  done,  though  in  themselves 
praiseworthy,  are  yet  prone  to  perish  with  the 
authors :  and  such  as  leave  behind  them  a  sufficient 
memorial :  certainly  the  former  would  utterly  be 
in  wrapt  in  the  dark  clouds  of  oblivion,  if  not  eternized 
by  some  worthy  Pen-man.  Achilles'  valour,  Ulysses' 
policy,  ^Eneas'  piety,  had  without  doubt  long  since 
been  forgotten,  if  not  celebrated  by  the  divine  poems 
of  Homer  and  Virgil : 

"  neque, 

si  chartse  sileant  quod  bene  feceris, 
mercedem  tuleris."  ; 

But  do  the  latter  also  want  an  Historiographer  ?  I 
will  not  take  upon  me  presuming  on  mine  own  judge 
ment  to  determine  this  controversy.  Let  Horace 
pronounce  the  sentence.  Romulus  in  the  foundation 
of  Rome,  one  would  think,  had  left  a  sufficient  token 
of  remembrance  ;  and  yet  saith  the  poet ; 

Quid  foret  Ilia? 

Mavortisque  puer,  si  taciturnitas 
obstaret  mentis  invida  Romuli 4  ? 

I  speak  not  this  to  extenuate  the  worth  of  our 
glorious  Founder,  for  in  so  doing  the  very  stones 
would  accuse  me  of  injustice  and  ingratitude,  nor 
absolutely  to  affirm  the  necessity  of  blazoning  his  deeds 
by  an  historiographical  pencil,  of  whose  worth  his 

(3)   Hon.  CAR.  lib.   IV,  viii,  20.  (1)   In.   IV,  viii,  22. 


DEDICATION.  5 

walls  are  books,  his  fosterchildren  perpetual  registers  : 
neither  do  I  herein  strive  to  arrogate  to  myself  any 
meritorious  applause,  "nam  nihil  dictum  est  quod  non 
dictum  juit  prius.*"  And  the  worthy  Doctor,6  not 
many  years  since  a  flourishing  plant  in  this  fruitful 
nursery,  hath  happily  engraven  his  memory  in  ever 
lasting  characters.  If,  erring  from  my  example,  I 
have  contracted  some  passages,  and  amplified  others, 
I  beseech  you  to  let  it  be  imputed  to  Poetical  licence  : 
sure  I  am  I  have  observed  the  chief  est  scope  of  the 
History  :  I  will  be  bold  to  say  with  Cicero,7  "  Hoc 
opus  ut  in  apertum  prof  eras  non  postulo ;  non  enlin  tale 
est  ut  in  arce  poni  possit  quasi  ilia  Minerva  Phidice." 
though  I  dare  not  add  the  following  words,  "  licet  ex 
eadem  ojjic'ma  exiisse  videatur"  Such  as  it  is,  I 
humbly  consecrate  unto  your  bounty,  beseeching  you 
to  allow  it  your  customary  benignity,  both  in  reading 

(5)  Terent  :  in  Prol  :   Eun. 

(6)  John    Budden,  s.  of  J.  B.  of  Canford,  Co.  Dorset;  matriculated  at 
Merton,  ret  :  1C,  A.  D.  1582;  elected  Scholar  of  Trinity,  30  May,  1582;  B. 
A.    19   Oct,    1586;    M.    A.  Gloucester  Hall,  28   June,    1586;    Natural 
Philosophy  Reader  in  Magd.  Coll,    1594—1605  ;  B.  C.  L.  and  D.  C.  L.  8 
July,  1602  ;  Principal  of  New  Inn  Hall  ;  28  June,  1609;  Regius  Professor 
of  Civil  Law,  1611  ;  Principal  of  Broadgate's  Hall,  1  Feb.,  16I8;obiit  11 
June,  1620,  and  was  buried  in  the  chancel  of  St  Aldate's,  Oxon.    In  1602, 
he      published,    "  GULIELMI  PATTENI,    cui  WAYNFLETI   AGNOMEN     FUIT, 

WlNTOMENSIS  EcCLESI.E  PRJE3ULIS,  ET  CoLL  :  B.  MARI.E  MAGD.  APUD  OxON. 

Fi'NDAToais  CHLEBERRIMI,  VITA  OBIT-USQUE,"  which  was  reprinted  in  1681, 
in  4to,  by  Dr  William  Bates  in  his  "  VITVE  SELECTORUM  ALIQUOT  VIRORUM, 

QUI  DOCTRINA,  DIGNITATE,  AUT  P1ETATE  INCJ,  ARUERE."      Vide  Wood's    AtllC- 

nae  Oxon  :  Fasti,  and  the  Preface  to  Chandler's  Life  of  Waynflete.  In 
the  College  Account  Book  of  1600,  I  found  the  following  item  :  "  Solutum 
Mro  Budden,  scripture  vitam  Dni  Fundatoris,  ex  allocatione  auditorum 
£  5.0s.  Od."  ED  : 

(7)  Cic.  in  prooem.  ad  Paradoxa, 


6  DEDICATION. 

and  censuring.  And  I  hereafter  will  make  it  my 
utmost  ambition  to  do  somewhat  far  more  worthy 
your  gracious  acceptance. 

Heec  tamen  accipias ;  ego  te  legisse  putabo 
Et  tumidus  galla  credulitate  fruar. 8 

Your  worship's  in  all 

Duty  and  service 
PET  :  HEYLYN. 

(8)   MARTIAL  :  lib.  V,  Epig.   1. 


WATNFLETfi'S    MEMORIAL. 


i. 

INTRODUCTIO. 

Chant  out,  my  Muse !  in  thy  most  pleasing  strain, 

That  worthy  Prelate's  fame,  whose  stately  deeds, 

Worthy  so  brave  a  man,  will  still  remain, 

In  spite  of  ruinous  time,  though  time  exceeds 

Her  former  strength  and  age  ;  whose  worthy  acts, 

Fitting  so  grave  a  peer,  admiring  breeds 

In  all  beholders ;  study,  Muse  !  to  track 

His  footsteps ;  strive  to  blaze  abroad  his  name, 
Whose  virtues  merit  everlasting  fame. 

2. 

What  I  received  I  write ;  Waynflete  shall  owe 
Nothing  to  my  invention  ;  truth  seems  best 
In  its  own  garments  and  apparel,  though 
Homely  and  plain  ;  and  in  such  garments  drest 
I  shew  her  here,  stripp'd  from  that  Latin  tire.1 
In  which  her  beauties  were  so  well  exprest 
By  him,  who  snatch'd  this  relique  from  the  fire, 
Oxford's  Justinian  ;  may  thy  work  remain 
Till  the  old  Chaos  be  return'd  again ! 

1  Wainfleti  7ra\vyyeve(rla  scripta  per  D.  Budden,  anno  1602. 


PETER  HEYLIN'S 

3. 

NARRATIO. 

Waynflete  descended  from  a  worthy  race ; 
The  father  was  a  Patten,  and  the  son 
A  Pattern  of  succeeding  time.     The  place  3       [done, 
From  whence  he  came,  who  these  good  deeds  hath 
Was  Waynflete  ;  (seated  where  the  roaring  wave 
Parch'd  with  the  salt'ning  ardor  of  the  sun 
Washeth  fair  Lincoln's  shores  ;)  his  birth-place  gave 
His  usual  name,  and  brags  in  this,  that  she 
First  shew'd  the  world  so  brave  a  man  as  he. 

4. 

His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  a  Knight, 
Honor'd  Sir  William  Brereton,3  who  in  mind 
Loathing  effeminate  ease,  to  shew  his  might, 
Clad  in  bright  steel,  with  favourable  wind, 
Arrived  in  France,  where  blood  and  England  sway'd, 
And  Mars,  whom  he  amongst  them  there  did  find 
Mounted  upon  his  Thracian  steed,  did  aid 
The  English  soldiers,  who  were  thither  led 
By  royal  Henry,4  then  but  lately  dead. 

5. 

This  British  Alexander,  England's  joy, 
Minos  in  peace  and  more  than  Mars  in  war, 
With  strong  arm'd  legions  did  the  French  annoy, 
Taking  in  conquer'd  cities  faster  far 

(2)  For  a  notice  of  the  birthplace  of  the  Bishop,  vide  Oldfield's  account 
of  Wainfleet,  London,  1829.  Chandler,  p.  169. 

(3)  Sir  William  Brereton  :  vide  Pedigree  of  the  Pattens,  in  the  Appen 
dix  :  also  Chandler,  p.  4.  (4)  Henry  V. 


MEMORIAL  OF  WAYNFLETE.  9 

Than  Rome's  first  monarch ; 4   then  the  grey  goose 
And  Bilboa  blades  well  whet  in  many  a  war       [wing 
Slaughtered  the  French";  Henry  as  in  a  string 
Led  Victory  with  him  ;  what  he  takes  in  hand 
Prospers  ;  Bellona  was  at  his  comand. 

6. 

But  Henry  dieth,  and  Bedford, 5  his  brave  brother, 
Follows  the  wars  begun  with  like  success ; 
France  lost  one  valiant  foe,  and  finds  another 
Attended  by  like  chance,  like  happiness  ; 
Under  this  Prince  our  Brereton  fights,  and  gains 
Eternal  credit,  having  nothing  less 
Bestow'd  upon  him  for  his  forepast  pains 
Than  Caen,  the  mother-city  of  that  place  6 
From  whence  our  Norman  kings  derive  their  race. 

7. 

Then  blister'd  be  their  tongues,  that  feign  this  man 
To  be  a  barber's  7  offspring  ;   let  such  thoughts 
Be  smother'd  in  their  bosoms  who  began 
To  broach  this  error  ;  since  they  savour  nought 
But  envy  and  detraction  ;  for  the  arms,8 
Which  th'  Heralds  (that  with  studious  pains  have 
To  salve  antiquity's  oblivious  harms)  [sought 

Give  to  this  House,  which  then  so  long  had  stood, 
Proclaim  him  sprung  from  a  true  gentle  blood. 

(4)  Caesar. 

(5)  John,  Duke  of  Bedford,  Regent  of  France.  (6)  Normandy. 

(7)  Barbour,  a    patronymic  appellation  of  the  Family  of  Waynflete : 
Chandler,  p.  1. 

(8)  Vide  Pedigree  of  the  Pattens,  in  the  App?ir  i\'. 

2 


10  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

8. 

His  parents  knowing  that  the  first  degree 
Of  future  happiness  and  eternal  bliss 
Was  education,  first  ordain'd  that  he 
Was  well  instructed ;  for  our  nature  is 
So  prone  to  follow  what  we  first  are  taught 
That  (will  we,  nill  we)  we  shall  hardly  miss 
Our  former  paths  ;  9  just  as  a  vessel  bought 
New  from  the  shop  retains  the  savour  still 
Of  that,  with  which  her  carcass  once  we  fill. 

9 

Winchester  first  taught  him  his  rudiments,  [be 

Brave  Wykeham's  10  school,  long  may'st  thou  mother 
To  such  brave  children,  and  give  nourishment 
To  such  praise-worthy  scholars  ;  such  as  he, 
That  rais'd  this  stately  building  from  the  ground 
Even  to  the  skies.     He  '  also  came  from  thee, 
Which  in  the  honour  of  All  souls  did  found 

That  worthy  house,  than  which  this  land  as  yet 
(Waynflete's  excepted)  knows  none  more  complete. 

10. 

From  Wykeham's  school  he  shortly  was  translated 
To  Wykeham's  College,  where  were  plainly  seen 
The  sparks  of  future  graces  emulated 
By  his  inferiors  ;  such  as  once  had  been 

(9)  Quo    semel    est  inibuta  recens  servabit  odorem  Testa  din.     Hon. 
Ep.  I,  ii,  69. 

(10)  Will.  Wykeham  Founder  of  New  Coll.  in  Oxon.  and  the  College 
by  Winchester. 

(1)   Henry  Chicheley  Archbishop  of  Canterbury. 


MEMORIAL  OF  WAYNFLETE.  11 

His  fellow-scholars  ;  '  twas  admir'd  by  all 
Superiors,  that  one  in  years  so  green 
Should  be  so  ripe  in  wit;  just  like  a  tall 

Straight  cedar,  whose  out-stretching  boughs  excel 
The  lower  shrubs  that  under  it  do  dwell. 2 

11 

Nature  in  him  had  play'd  her  utmost  part : 
What  she  could  give  she  gave  ;  yet  these  her  gifts 
Though  exquisite,  were  more  adorn 'd  by  art. 
He  employs  art  and  nature  to  his  thrift, 
And,  seeing  contentation  of  the  mind 
To  be  the  greatest  happiness,  he  shifts 
From  other  slighter  studies,  and  doth  find 
Ethics  and  Physics  all  things  to  contain 
Which  other-where  he  hunted  for  in  vain. ' 

12. 

By  Physics  we  with  knowledge  do  adorn 
The  soul's  intelligencer,  we  discern 
Falsehood  from  truth,  we  know  that  we  were  born 
Not  for  ourselves  but  others,  here  we  learn 
What  course  the  stars  keep  in  the  spangled  sky, 
The  nature  of  all  trees,  from  the  low  fern 
Unto  the  vastest  pine-trees  ;  we  descry 
Nature's  chief  secrets,  and  unlock  the  cask 
In  which  her  marvels  she  doth  use  to  mask. 


(2)  Quantum  lenta  solent  inter  viburna  ctipressas.   VIRO.   Eel.  1  ,  26. 

(3)  Kthica  jungatur  Physicae,  bene  vivere  si  vis, 

Haec    docet  anatomen  corporis,  ilia  animi.     OWEN:     Epi : 


12  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

13. 

By  Ethics  we  discern  the  bad  from  good ; 
If  we  are  rich,  this  teacheth  us  to  use 
Our  riches  with  discretion,  lest  our  food 
And  vain  apparel  should  these  gifts  misuse ; 
If  we  are  poor,  we  want  it  much  to  ease 
Our  hearts  with  patience,  lest  we  should  abuse 
His  Name,  that  gave  such  blessings  unto  these 
And  not  to  us :  by  this  all  men  thongh  rude 
Are  wrapp'd  in  robes  of  pure  beatitude. 

14. 

To  know  and  not  to  do  deserves  great  shame, 
To  do  a  thing  once  known  (if  good)  great  praise,4 
To  do,  and  not  know  what,  nor  why,  great  blame, 
To  know  what  'tis  we  do  and  why,  the  bays. 
Young  Patten  then  coupled  them  both  in  one, 
Knowledge  with  action  ;  and  they  two  did  raise 
Their  joiner  from  his  College  to  a  Throne. 
Knowledge  is  best,  when  we  it  actify, 
And  they  are  firmliest  good,  that  best  know  why. 

15. 

To  know,  and  not  be  able  to  express 
Our  knowledge,  is  nought  worth  ;  to  do  good  deeds 
And  tell  no  reason  why,  is  little  less 
Than  vanity  ;  to  know,  and  do,  we  need 
Speech  to  express  our  minds,  that  we  may  shew 
A  reason  for  our  actions,  and,  indeed, 
Impart  unto  our  friends  what  things  we  know  ; 5 

(4)  Omnis  laus  virtutis  in  actione  consistit.  Ar  : 

(5)  Scire  tuum  nihil  est,  nisi  te  scirehoc  sciat  alter.  PERSIUS,  Sat.  1,  27, 


MEMORIAL  OF  WAYNFLETE.  13 

Yet  better  far  be  silent  still  than  blaze 

Our  knowledge  in  some  barbarous  uncouth  phrase. 

16. 

Sweet  Eloquence,  let  me  adore  thy  name  : 
By  thce  Amphion  made  the  senseless  stones0 
Leap  in  their  proper  places,  so  to  frame 
The  Theban  walls  ;  by  thee  heart-breaking  groans 
Are  laid  aside,  by  thee  love-quenching  hate 
Is  pacified,  and  foes  agree  in  one. 
Thou  canst  both  kindle  love  and  stir  debate ; 

Thy  sugar'd  voice  charm'd  the  three-headed  wight, 
And  made  him  fawn,  where  he  had  wont  to  bite. 

17 

Waynflete  unto  his  rare  Philosophy 
Join'd  Rhetorick,  and  did  in  all  excel ; 
With  common  voice  he  was  ordain'd  to  be 
Winchester  School's  chief  Rector,  and  did  well 
Perform  his  office,  giving  such  content 
To  them  whose  sons  under  his  care  did  dwell, 
That,  in  short  time,  his  fame  though  England  went ; 
And,  like  great  Philip, '  all  their  stars  did  praise 
That  they  had  sons  living  in  Waynflete's  days. 

18. 

Then  Henry  8   rul'd,  who  minding  to  surpass 
His  ancestors  in  piety,  neglected 

(6)  Dictus  et  Amphion,  Thebanae  conditor  arcis, 
Saxa  movere  sono  testudinis  et  prece  blanda 
Ducere  quo  vcllet. 

HOR  :   ARS  POET  :  394. 
(7)  Alexander's  father.  (8)  Henry  VI. 


14  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

The  state  affairs  ;  all  his  endeavour  was 

To  meditate  on  Heaven  ;  he  still  affected 

The  cowl  more  than  the  crown,  and  therefore  'gan 

(That  his  soft  nature  might  be  more  respected) 

To  build  fair  schools,  in  which  the  poorer  man 

Might  have  his  children  taught  with  studious  pains 
Rent-free,  yet  great  should  be  the  teacher's  gains. 


19. 

The  work  is  done.     Eton  her  school  doth  raise  ; 
And  now  religious  Henry's  chiefest  care 
Is  to  find  out  some  man  that  might  with  praise 
Govern  the  school,  and  studiously  prepare 
The  tender  minds  of  youth  to  take  in  hand 
Church  or  state  business.     Some  are  sought,  and  are 
Not  well  approv'd,  so  that  the  sole  command 

Of  that  fair  school  is  void,  and  Waynflete's  fame 
Pointed  him  out  to  moderate  the  same. 


20. 

But  hush !  some  Mome  or  Momus  now  will  cry 
" '  Tis  base  to  teach  a  school."     Base  Gull,  thy  tongue 
Breathes  a  black  slander  'gainst  authority. 
Is't  not  a  credit  to  instruct  the  young  ? 
To  correct  nature  and  inform  the  mind  ? 
To  new-mould  them  that  in  the  world  were  flung 
By  nature  wretched  and  by  ignorance  blind  ? 
To  tame  wild  manners  ?  and  to  teach  the  soul 
How  she  her  subject  passions  may  control  ? 


MEMORIAL  OF  WAYNFLETE.  15 

21. 

9  Beaufort,  fourth  Henry's  brother,  had  the  charge 
To  tutor  his  young  Sovereign,  10  and  did  make 
This  kingdom  happy  with  a  Prince,  whose  large 
And  ample  benefits  it  did  long  partake. 
Ascham  instructed  our  late  Sovereign  Queen,1 
Whose  like  in  Christendom  (and  for  her  sake 
Her  teacher  may  be  honoured)  was  ne'er  seen. 
His  precepts  have  so  well  deserv'd,  that  we 
Must  still  to  School-masters  beholding  be. 

22. 

1  Religion  well  reformed  ;  2  Money  restored 
To  its  true  value  :  Peace  well  grounded  :  Wars 
Extinguish'd  :  Navy  with  munition  stor'd  : 
3  Scotland  made  free  from  French  annoys  : 4  The  jars 
Of  French  conformants  ended  : 5  Belgia  free 
From  Spanish  armies  : 6  Spain  controll'd  : 7  The  stars 
Which  8  Irish  rebels  felt  :  The  boundless  sea 
9  Twice  sail'd  about ;  made  her  admir'd  of  all : 
Praised  then  be  he  whom  she  did  teacher  call. 

23. 

But  what  are  they  that  call  this  calling  base  ? 
Either  ungrateful  wretches  who  forget 

(9)  Afterwards  B.  of  Winchester  and  Cardinal.  (10)  Henry  VI. 

(1)  Queen  Elizabeth.  (2)  Corrupted  by  her  sister  Queen  Mary. 

(3)  Debased  by  her  father  Hen.  VIH.  (4)  Called  into 

Scotland  by  Mary  queen  of  Scots  and  dowager  of  France. 

(5)   In  the  days  of  the  three  latter  kings.  (6)   Under  the  con 

duct  of  Alva.  (7)  By  loss  of  Armada  88,  and  intercepting  the 

Indian  fleets.  (8)  Tyrone  and  his  Complices. 

(9)  By  Capt.  Drake  and  Candish. 

Hoec  jam  fceminca  vidimus  acta  manu 


16  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

The  benefit  their  youth  reap'd  in  that  place 
Where  such  have  sway,  or  envious  dolts  that  fret 
Their  heart-strings  at  another  man's  good  luck, 
Or  else  illiterate  clowns,  whose  dullness  yet 
From  such  a  fruitful  tree  no  fruit  could  pluck. 
For  learning,  gratitude,  or  charity 
Could  never  broach  so  vile  an  infamy. 

24. 

Waynflete  perform'd  his  charge  with  good  applause, 
And  made  the  king  admire  his  house  to  see 
Flourish  so  soon,  in  scholars  and  good  laws: 
And  all  by  Waynflete's  means,  who,  like  the  Bee 
Brought  honey  to  his  hive,  and  made  the  heaven 
Richer  by  many  souls  ;  and  since  that  he 
Did  merit  more  than  had  as  yet  been  given, 
The  pious  King,  his  studious  care  to  grace, 
Made  him  the  Provost  of  that  worthy  place. 

25. 

1  May  thy  bones  rest  in  peace,  religious  Prince, 
Whose  gracious  love  this  famous  man  did  raise 
To  such  great  honours,  that  we,  ever  since, 
Obliged  to  thee  for  him,  must  give  thee  praise. 
'Twas  not  enough,  thou  thought's!,  to  make  him  head 
Where  he  had  been  a  foot ;  thy  virtue  lays 
A  greater  charge  upon  him  ;  thou  wast  led 
By  his  advice  ;  for  thou  didst  him  create 
A  privy  Counsellor  to  the  English  state. 

(10)  Levior  cippus  none  imprimat  ossa.  PEES:  Sat.  1,  47. 


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26. 

How  well  he  did  perform  that  place  this  story 
Shall  shortly  tell ;  while  thus  he  climbs  the  throne 
Great  Beaufort,  and  who  know'th  not  Beaufort's  glory  ? 
Time-honour'd  Gaunt's  '  offspring,  who  then  alone 
Possessed  the  See  of  Winton,  and  was  called 
The  mighty  Cardinal,  the  corner  stone 
Of  England's  Church,  by  Atropos  forestall'd 
In  some  tumultuous  projects,  makes  an  end 
With  nature,  that  he  might  the  heavens  ascend.  * 

27. 

His  See  doth  want  a  Bishop  :  who  more  fit 
Than  Waynflete  to  succeed  him  ?  Henry  knew 
His  scholarship  sufficient,  and  his  wit 
To  manage  high  affairs  so  great,  that  few 
Could  equalise  it.     He  his  faith  had  prov'd ; 
His  care  was  known  ;  and  he  most  firmly  true, 
Honouring  his  Prince,  was  of  his  Prince  belov'd, 
Who  therefore  to  the  Convent  wrote  that  he 
By  their  election  might  their  Bishop  be. 

28. 

Their  Sovereign's  commendations,  and  the  merit 
Of  the  commended  so  prevailed,  that  they 
With  fit  congruity  of  voice  and  spirit 
Elected  Waynflete,  and  did  so  obey 
Their  Prince's  will,  and  made  themselves  most  blest 
With  a  renown'd  Prelate,  that  to  this  day 
That  Church  may  vaunt  her  hap,  and  never  rest 


(1)  By  Katharine  Swinford,  his  third  wife.  (2)   Anno  1447. 

3 


18  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

Till  heat  and  cold,  moist  natures,  and  things  dry 
Shall  in  one  heap  confus'd  together  lie. 

29. 

But  such  authorities  through  every  Realm 
Peter's  successors  in  the  Roman   chair 
Had  now  usurped,  that  none  must  rule  the  helm 
Of  a  Church-living,  but  must  make  repair 
To  them  for  confirmation.     The  then  Pope  3 
Mov'd  with  the  briefs,  full  of  words  smooth  and  fair, 
Made  by  the  Convent,  gave  what  they  did  hope 
They  should  not  be  denied,  and  by  his  voice 
His  Holiness  confirm'd  the  convent's  choice. 

30. 

Of  all  Rome's  priestly  monarchs,  he  that  then 
Governed  that  ancient  city,  by  consent 
Of  their  now-writers  (whose  corrupted  pen 
Chiefly  commends  the  living)  was  most  bent 
To  pious  courses.     He  reform'd  the  bad, 
Confirm'd  the  good  ;  his  aim  and  whole  intent 
Was  with  rewards  to  make  the  virtuous  glad 
That  they  that  course  of  life  had  undertook, 
And  vice's  beaten  path-ways  had  forsook. 

31. 

This  Pope  (a  thing  which  Rome  but  seldom  knew) 
In  giving  offices  respected  more 
The  person  than  his  wealth  ;  he  (strange  yet  true), 
Rich  knaves  put  by,  preferr'd  the  honest  poor 
Into  the  Magistracy ;  his  free  hand 

(3)  Nicholas  V. 


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Ne'er  let  the  poor  go  empty  from  his  door, 
He  woo'd  where's  predecessors  did  command  ; 
His  noble  heart  (a  thing  now  rare  to  see) 
W  ould  needs  of  Poets  a  true  patron  be. 

32. 

Alas  !  how  few  in  these  our  Halcyon  days 
Take  patronage  of  these  afflicted  wights. 
Well  may  a  poet's  works  deserve  the  bays, 
And  yet  be  counted  frivolous,  vain,  and  slight. 
Nay,  be  they  counted  good,  what's  their  reward  ? 
Some  cold  commendings  :  what  a  grievous  plight 
Do  these  men  live  in !  Let  their  cause  he  heard 
By  a  purg'd  ear,  and  we  shall  see  these  men, 
Now  set  at  nought,  will  flourish  green  again. 

33. 

Poets,  by  their  instructions,  taught  the  rude 

And  simple  people  virtue's  sacred  love. 

Poets  inform'd  the  stony  multitude 

That  they  this  world's  Creator  were  t'  adore. 

Poets  detect  the  sins  that  men  embrace, 

Which,  once  being  shewn,  are  seld  committed  more. 

Poets  the  time's  enormities  uncase. 

But  what  shall  I  say  more  ?  their  matchless  worth 
Thy  matchless  pen,  sweet  Sydney, 4  hath  set  forth. 

34. 

5  I  have  not  touch'd  that  fountain  with  my  lips. 
Which  Pegasus'  swift  hoof  did  make,  nor  ever 
Slept  on  that  two-topp'd  mountain,  where  the  ships. 

(1)   In  his  defence  of  Poesy.  (5)  Nee  in  bicipiti  somniasse 

Parnasso,  nee  fonte  labra  prolui  caballino,  memini.  PERSIUS. 


20  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

Of  Pyrrha  and  Deucalion  stay'd  ;  I  never 

Dipp'd  my  light  pen  in  the  Castalian  ink. 

6  I  never  saw  Pyrene,  yet  had  liever 

Into  the  choking  earth's  big  belly  sink 

(O  holy  Pope)  than  not  thy  worth  confess 
Which  didst  thy  love  to  Poets  so  express. 

35. 

Thou  gav'st  two  hundred  crowns  for  every  book 
Of  that  Greek  poet  for  whose  birth  long  after 
Seven  cities  strove, 7  whose  works  were  ne'er  forsook 
By  that  first  Grecian  monarch,  who  through  water 
And  fire  pursued  the  Persians  ;  to  be  brought 
In  Latin  verses  ;  that  this  work  though  latter 
Might  smooth  the  former.     Thy  love  always  sought 
To  make  itself  known  to  such  men,  whose  quill 
Could  pain  a  passion,  though  (if  meanly)  ill. 

36. 

Thou,  being  told  that  some  who  dwelt  at  Rome 
Could  smoothly  pen  and  speech,  marvel'st,  and  said, 
"  Surely  they  cannot,  if  they  could  they'd  come 
To  me  for  patronage,  who  am  well  assay'd 
With  meaner  stuff."     Brave  prelate !  let  thy  name 
(Since  thou  so  long  hast  low  in  grave  been  laid) 
Be  made  immortal  by  some  man  of  fame, 
Who  fitly  may  in  brave  heroic  verse 
Blaze  out  thy  deeds,  immortalize  thy  hearse. 

(6)  Dignum  laude  virum  Musa  vetat  mori.    HOB  AT. 

(7)  Septem  urfoes  certant  de  stirpe  insignis  Homeri ; 
Smyrna,  Rhodes,  Colophos,  Salamis,  Chios,  Argos,  Athenae. 


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37. 
Then  let  it  no  discredit  be  accounted 

That  Waynflete  by  a  Pope  confirm'd  his  place, 
Since  he  his  predecessors  so  surmounted 
Nought  hence  can  Waynflete's  memory  deface. 
He  is  confirm'd,  and  solemnly  created 
By  Canterbury,  whose  Hierarchic  place 
Him  to  that  sacred  office  deputated. 
Never  was  Bishop  welcomed  to  his  See 
With  more  solemnity  or  pomp  than  he, 

38. 

This  See  (though  not  the  highest  in  place,  yet  thought 
The  greatest  in  revenues)  hath  alone 
Two  privileges,  which  may  well  be  sought 
In  other  sees,  but  never  found.     The  one 
Is  that  the  Bishops  are  the  Chancellors 
Of  Canterbury's  Primate,  in  whose  throne 
By  death  made  void,  they  sit  as  Counsellors ; 
So  that  by  them  as  Vicars  of  the  Chair 
Our  English  Kings  sometimes  anointed  are. 

39. 

The  other  is  ;  the  Prelates  are  ordain'd 
Of  that  brave  order  which  such  credit  brings 
Unto  this  realm,  in  that  it  hath  obtain'd 
Eight  Emperors,  twenty-two  foreign  Kings, 
Twenty  strange  Dukes,  as  fellows  to  the  Knights 
That  England  breeds.     The  Garter  8  deck'd  with  rings 
And  costly  jewels,  which  the  eye  delights, 

Tied  round  the  leg  with  gem-bedecked  loops, 
Is  the  chief  ensign  of  these  sacred  troops. 

(8)  With  this  inscription :   Iloni  soit  qui  mal  y  pcnse. 


22  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

40. 

When  that  heroic  prince  third  Edward's  son  9 
With  half  a  handful  of  quite  wearied  men 
Had  overthrown  the  French  battalion  10 
And  took  their  valiant  Sovereign  l  prisoner,  when 
David  of  Scotland,  trusting  in  his  might, 
Was  captur'd  by  an  English  soldier ;  2  then 
Mars  seem'd  within  this  realm  his  tents  t'  have  pight, 
And,  mounted  on  his  steed  in  full  career, 
Made  French  and  Scots  grow  palsy-sick  for  fear. 

41. 

Then  Edward,  our  victorious  king,  admir'd 
The  beauty  of  an  English  dame, 3  whose  face, 
Modestly  fair,  her  prince's  heart  so  fired 
That,  for  her  sake,  her  garter  he  did  grace 
With  unheard  honours,  and  an  order  fram'd 
Of  valiant  knights, 4  (in  which  the  prelate's  place 
He  gave  to  Winton's  priestly  lords).     He  nam'd 
These  Knights,  Knights  of  the  Garter,  and  decreed 
They  should  be  Sovereigns  who  did  him  succeed. 

42. 

Promoted  to  this  height  of  dignity 
That  his  brave  head  even  touch'd  the  starry  heaven, 
His  mind  within  its  former  bounds  did  lie, 

(9)  Edward  the  black  prince. 

(10)  Consisting  of  GO  000  by  the  City  Poictiers. 

(1)  King  John  with  his  son  Philip,  17  Earls,  50  Barons,  and  almost 
30000  gentlemen,  anno  1355.  (2)  John  Copland  anno  1345. 

(3)  The  Countess  of  Salisbury.     Nobilitas  sub  amore  jacet. 

(4)  This  order  consists  of  26  Knights  of  which  the  King  of  England  is 
the  Chief. 


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Not  elevated  by  these  dignities,  which  even 
Made  him  ador'd  and  honour'd.     All  his  thouglit 
Was  to  please  Him,  from  Whom  all  this  was  given, 
To  Whom  he  owed  his  breath.     He  chiefly  sought 
To  be  beloved  of  all,  and  largely  gave, 
That  he  the  poor's  good  wishes  so  might  have. 

43. 

He  knew  his  riches  were  on  him  bestow'd 
To  relieve  others'  wants,  he  knew  the  end 
Of  his  preferment ;  that  his  wealth  was  owed 
By  him  which  made  and  doth  the  world  defend. 
He  only  was  a  steward  to  disburse 
With  liberal  hand  what  God  to  him  did  send, 
So  to  be  given :  his  house,  his  hand,  his  purse, 
Is  open  to  the  poor,  and  what  he  can 
Turns  to  the  profit  of  the  poorer  man. 

44. 

So,  ere  he  died,  his  bounty  was  made  known 
Most  eminent.     There  was  no  Monk  nor  Friar 
In  Winchester's  fair  abbey,  but  was  grown 
Wealthy  by  him.     And  he  (besides  their  hire) 
Was  to  his  servants  so  munificent, 
That  some  fled  Knight-high,  other  some  soar'd  higher  : 
To  Wykeham's  scholars  so  magnificent, 

That  all  had  cause  to  praise  that  worthy  Peer 
To  whom  they  always  were  accounted  dear. 

45. 

He  in  his  house  continually  did  breed 
Six  learn'd  Divines,  with  whom  he  spent  his  days 


24  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

When  state-affairs  gave  leisure  ;  he  did  feed 
The  poor  so  well,  that  for  their  sake  always 
He  kept  an  Almoner,  to  bestow  his  store 
Duly  amongst  them,  to  his  lasting  praise. 
Nor  was  he  only  liberal  to  the  poor 

That  breath'd  the  self-same  air,  but  unto  these 
That  from  far  parts  came  here  their  griefs  to  ease. 

46. 

Let  this  be  instance.     When  the  barbarous  rout 
Of  warlike  Turks,  wasting  the  fertile  ground 
Of  renown'd  Greece,  with  courage  boldly  stout 
And  stately  trenches  had  encompass'd  round 
Constantinople  ;  5  when  a  dangerous  war 
Threatened  the  ruins  of  the  stony  mound 
Which  girt  the  city  ;  when  no  wall,  no  bar, 

Could  make  resistance  :  when  all  means  gave  place, 
That  they  that  glorious  city  might  deface ; 

47. 

Then  G  Mahomet,  whose  mighty  conquests  well 
Deserv'd  the  name  of  Emperor  and  Great, 
(Constantine7  crush'd  to  death)  began  to  quell 
The  people's  force,  and  made  that  place  his  seat. 
A  Constantine  8  first  built  it,  and  behold, 
In  it  the  Turks  do  Constantine  9  defeat, 
Who,  suffering  none  to  live  there,  but  whose  gold 

(5)  The  Metropolis  of  the  Grecian  Empire  anciently  called  Byzantium, 
and  built  by  Pausanias  a  Lacedaemonian. 

(6)  The   7th  from   Ottoman,  and  the  1st  Emperor  ;    he  conquered  2 
Empires,  12  kingdoms  and  200  cities. 

(7)  Constantine  Palreologus,  the  last  Emperor. 

(8)  Annum  circiter  310.  (9)  Annum  circiter  1453. 


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Paid  for  their  lives,  made  many  worthy  knights 
To  leave  their  country  to  these  barbarous  wights. 

48. 

Amongst  them  one  Emanuel,  whose  estate 
Maintain'd  him  once  a  knight,  for  succour  flies 
To  England  ;  his  escape  was  fortunate  ; 
He  met  with  Waynflete,  who,  with  watery  eyes, 
Griev'd  at  the  loss  that  Christendom  sustain'd, 
Heard  his  discourse,  pitied  his  miseries, 
The  Grecians'  case  and  cause  they  told,  obtain'd 
A  yearly  pension  for  him,  by  the  which 
He  might  live  honestly,  but  not  so  rich. 

49. 

But  these  were  private  benefits  ;  his  mind 
Intends  a  public  favour  to  this  land. 
As  yet  the  Muses  wander'd,  and  could  find 
Few  resting  places  ;  he  with  open  hand 
Protests  his  love  to  them,  and  'gins  to  raise 
A  habitation  for  them,  which  should  stand 
Till  it  might  see  the  eye-out-staring  rays 

Of  Phoebus  dim'd,  pale  Cynthia  wanting  light, 
And  all  things  hurried  in  perpetual  night. 

50. 

The  ground  is  bought,  the  King's  good  leave  is  gotten 
And  now  the  work  begins  on  high  to  rear 
His  advanc'd  head  with  state  ;  10  when  lo  !  the  rotten 
And  corrupt  English  members  brought  a  fear 

(10)  Which  was  once  Magdalen  Hall. 

4 


WAINFLEET'S  MEMORIAL  : 

OR 
A   TRUE  HISTORIOGRAPH  1C  A  L  NARRATION 

OF  THE  LIFE,  AND  ACTS,  AND  DEATH 
OF  THAT  FAMOUS  PRELATE,  W.  OF  WAINFLEET, 

B.  OF  WINCHESTER, 
THE  HONORABLE  AND  SOLE  FOUNDER 

OF 

MAGDALEN  COLLEGE  IN  OXFORD, 
CONTAINING  ALSO  THE  CHIEF  OCCURRENCES  IN  THE 

ENGLISH  STATE 
HAPPENING  IN  HIS  LIFE-TIME. 

NOLO  VIRUM,    PROPRIO  REDIMAT    QUI    SANGUINE    FAMAM  : 
HUNC    VOLO,    LAUDARI,    QUI    SINE    MORTE    POTEST. 


PETER  HEYLIN'S 

55. 

4  Suffolk,  her  too  familiar  friend,  and  she 

Summon  a  Parliament,  where  (each  the  while) 

Gloster's  arrested  ;  and  by  their  decree, 

He  that  so  well  and 5  long  had  ruled  this  isle 

Is  found  at 6  Bury,  buried  in  the  jaws 

Of  murderous  death. 7     He  well  deserved  the  style 

Of  Pater  Patriae,  for  the  Lion's  paws 

After  his  death  let  go  their  hold,  and  soon 
French  flower  de  lyces  swell'd  above  the  moon. 

56. 

France  is  8  quite  lost,  and  all  the  blame  is  laid 
On  Suffolk  and  the  Queen.     The  People's  wrath 
Confound  the  duke  ;  now  Gloster  be  apay'd, 
Thy  death's  reveng'd  :  cry  quits :  for  all  the  scath 
He  wrought  is  doubled  to  the  author's  smart. 
Well,  France  is  lost,  yet  wretched  England  hath 
Far  greater  harms  to  cotne  ;  a  tragic  part 

Must  now  be  play'd,  thy  death  made  way  to  those 
That  did  thy  princely  cousin  quite  depose. 

57. 

9  Richard,  York's  duke,  had  an  undoubted  claim 
To  England's  diadem  ;  but  when  thy  breath 

(4)  William  de  la  Pole  D.  of  Suffolk,  Contriver  of  the  King's  unlucky 
marriage.  (5)  Having  governed  England  25  years. 

(6)  A  town  in  Suffolk.  (7)  Anno  1447. 

(8)   Anno  1453. 

(9)  Being  the  heir  of  Anne,  daughter  and  heir  to  Roger  Mortimer  and 
Philippa  his  wife,  daughter  and  heir  of  Lionel  D.  of  Clarence  2nd  son  to 
Edw.  Ill  :  whereas  John  of  Gaunt  from  whom  this  Henry  was  descended 
was  but  the  3rd. 


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Kept  the  state  warm,  he  durst  not  touch  the  aim 
At  which  in  heart  he  shot ;  thy  timeless  death 
Sets  ope  the  floodgates  of  his  hopes,  and  gives 
Free  passage  to  his  torrent;  the  fair  wreath 
Is  plainly  hunted  after;  Margaret  lives 

Hated,  and  10  Somerset  her  new  made  minion 

Is  of  the  subjects  had  in  bad  opinion. 

58. 

Now  York  triumphs,  and  by  his  crafty  plots 
Stirs  up  the  Commons  to  maintain  a  host 
Against  their  Sovereign.     Lo,  the  clownish  sots 
Obey  his  hests.     Rude  !  Cade  fills  all  the  coasts 
Of  Kent  with  arms ;  plough-shares  are  turned  to  bills, 
Sheep-hooks  to  lances.     His  vain-glorious  boasts 
Promise  unto  the  valiant  golden  hills. 

Their  army,  like  a  long-cours'd  river  grows, 
That  makes  his  banks  wider,  the  farther't  flows. 

59. 

Thus  plough  they  up  their  mother's  breasts,  and  march 
By  I  sis'  current  'till  their  army  came 
To  the  King's 2  Chamber-royal  where  the  arch 
Which  cuts  the  flood  denies  the  furious  flame 
A  further  passage.     Now  they  swell  with  rage 
And  are  resolved  the  floating  waves  to  tame 
And  bridge  it  with  a  rank  of  ships ;  T'assuage 
These  tumults  Henry  musters  up  his  men 
To  drive  these  rustic  swads  to  plough  again. 

(10)  Edmund  Duke  of  Somerset. 

(1)  Jack  Cade  who  falsely  called  himself  Mortimer. 

(2)  London. 


30  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

60. 

3  Stafford  conducts  the  host ;  but  multitude 
Prevails  ;  the  rebels  had  the  greater  store, 
And  were  enraged  with  fury.     Fortitude 
Gives  place  to  number.     Now  the  solid  shore 
Lost  its  own  colour,  and  the  crystal  wave, 
Fiird  with  dead  corps,  was  dye'd  with  crimson  gore. 
The  valorous  leader  had  not  power  to  save 

Himself  from  slaughter,  but  oppress'd  with  death, 
4  To  his  dear  country  sacrificed  his  breath. 

61. 

This  conquest  made  their  army  great,  and  pride 
Puff'd  their  swoln  hearts,    and  now  these  monsters 
(All  inbred  fear  and  duty  laid  aside)  [threat 

To  pull  their  sovereign  from  his  regal  seat. 
And  sure  they  had  effected  their  desire 
IfWaynfletehadnotbeen;  (of  whom  to  treat     [higher 
The  time  now  comes.)     He  knew  floods  stopp'd  flow 
Than  freed,  and  where  the  Lion's  skin  did  fail 
It  should  be  lengthen'd  with  the  Fox's  tail. 

62. 

He  seeks  a  new  means  to  confound  their  trains 
By  flying  battle  :  and  persuades  the  king 
To  give  a  general  pardon  to  the  swains 
That  were  misled  by  Cade.     Tis  done  ;  they  sing 
A  smooth  retreat,  and  haste  them  home  with  speed. 
Stones  fly  not  faster  from  the  loosen'd  sling 
Than  they  from  him.    The  storm  which  thus  did  breed 

(3)  Sir  Humphrey  Stafford.  (4)  Anno  1450. 


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Such  present  terror,  quickly  did  decline, 
When  glorious  Waynflete's  sun  began  to  shine. 

63. 

Now  the  arch-rebel  flies,  and  is  betray'd 
By  them  which  late  under  his  flags  did  fight. 
Treason,  whose  chief  foundation  being  laid 
On  wavering  minds,  cannot  long  stand  upright, 
Heaps  coals  of  vengeance  on  the  author's  head. 
Cade  dies ;  with  him  rebellion  took  her  flight 
Even  to  the  lowest  abyss  where  first  it  bred ; 

But  stay'd  not  long  ere  it  returned  again  [pain. 

Arm'd  with  brass  whips  t'  augment  poor  England's 

64. 

Richard  of  York  seeing  this  project  fail 
Intends  another  ;  and  with  seld-seen  haste 
Raiseth  a  Host ;  and,  better  to  prevail, 
Stirs  up  his  friends,  who  flock  to  him  as  fast 
As  April  showers  fall  down  upon  the  land 
Crushing  the  green  fruits  with  a  furious  blast. 
The  King  is  certified,  and  out  of  hand 

Strength ene th  himself,  and  means  by  sword  to  try 
Which  of  them  two  should  soonest  conquer'd  fly. 

65. 

But  Waynflete,  grieving  that  one  luckless  day 
Should  shed  such  store  of  Christian  blood,  departs 
To  Richard's  camp,  then  placed  in  battle  array, 
And  with  fair  words  so  mollifies  the  hearts 


32  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

Of  him  and  his  5  co-partners,  that  they  grant 
A  gentle  audience.     To  them  he  imparts 
The  joys  of  peace,  the  miseries  which  haunt 
Bellona's  tents,  their  honour  fondly  stain'd 
Since  they  these  wars  against  their  prince  maintain'd. 

66. 

Moved  with  these  words,  and  hoping  other  time 
Would  give  this  happy  plot  a  luckier  birth, 
York's  warlike  lord,  whose  mind  on  high  did  climb, 
Fixing  his  seeming-humbled  eyes  on  th'  earth, 
Said  thus  ;  —  "  I  take  to  witness  God  and  man 
"  That  my  sad  heart  was  never  joy'd  with  mirth 
"  Since  I  this  troublous  business  first  began  : 

f(  But  yet  my  country's  good  o'ersways  my  mind, 
"  And  tells  me  I  for  her  some  ease  must  find. 


"  I  do  not  seek  my  prince's  life,  nor  ever 
"  Intend  his  downfall  ;  let  my  sovereign  reign 
"  Till  death  im-king  him  :  these  my  hands  shall  never 
"  Lift  sword  against  him,  though  my  title's  plain 
"  As  sprung  from  °  Clarence,  Edward's  second  son, 
"  And  York,  the  fourth.     (My  lord  you  know  I  feign 
"  No  bastard-  title)  yet  my  actions  run 
"  In  a  far  lower  channel,  I  desire 
"  The  safety  that  our  country  doth  require. 

(5)  The    Earls    of   Devon,    Salisbury,    Warwick,    and   the    Duke    of 
Norfolk. 

(6)  Edward's    sons  were,    1.  Edward  the  Black  prince.   2.   Lionel!  of 
Clarence,  3.  John  of  Gaunt,  4.  Edmund  of  Langley,  Duke  of  York. 


MEMORIAL  OF  WAYNFLETE.  33 

68. 

"  The  Queen  and  Somerset  neglect  the  state  : 
"  France  is  regain'd,  and  scorns  the  English  sway ; 
"  And  all  the  fertile  provinces,  which  late 
"  Were  suhject  to  this  crown,  are  fallen  away. 
"  They  rule  the  roast :  Our  sovereign  is  misled 
"  By  them  :  the  common  people  are  a  prey 
"  To  sycophants  of  theirs :  We  nobly  bred 

"  Must  fawn  to  creatures  of  their  making  :  now 
"  The  Royal  blood  to  parasites  must  bow. 

69. 

"  If  royal  Henry  in  an  open  court 
"  Letting  me  plead  'gainst  Somerset,  will  defend 
"  His  favourite's  cause  in  just  and  noble  sort, 
"  Here  (worthy  Prelate)  shall  my  wars  have  end. 
"  But  if  my  liege  avert  his  gentle  ear 
"  From  my  complaint,  (God  willing,)  I  intend 
"  To  wreak  my  vengeance  on  that  traitorous  peer, 
"  And  sooner  die  than  let  him  live  to  be 
"  A  plague  unto  the  people,  state,  and  me." 

70. 

Waynflete  receives  this  answer,  and  retires 
To  Henry's  camp,  who  with  it  seems  content. 
Thus  Waynflete's  meditation  quenched  the  fires 
Of  civil  discord.     Cruel  prisonment 
Betides  the  Duke  of  Somerset  till  his  day 
Of  trial  came.     The  hosts  which  lately  meant 
In  hostile  sort  to  fight  a  bloody  fray 

Are  reconcil'd  ;  homeward  they  bend  their  pace, 
And  with  all  praise  the  worthy  Prelate  grace. 


34  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

71. 

Then  in  that  temple  which  the  Kentish  king, 
Good  l  Ethelbert,  to  2  Paul  did  dedicate,3 
Whose  lofty  top,  tiring  an  eagle's  wing 
To  touch, 4  a  lightning  flash  did  ruinate, 
The  northern  Duke  (our  Waynflete  standing  by; 
Took  God  to  witness  he  would  consecrate 
His  future  days  to  Henry's  majesty. 

Now  hell-bred  discord  in  this  land  did  cease, 

Daub'd  over  by  a  counterfeited  peace. 

72. 

And  in  this  time  of  peace  was  born  a  son 
To  England's  pious  monarch.     Waynflete  dips 
The  infant  in  the  sacred  font.     This  done 
He  names  him  Edward,  whose  sweet  smirking  lips 
Attracted  all  beholders'  eyes  away. 
Time,  having  nought  his  flight  to  hinder,  skips  ; 
The  prince  grows  manly,  and  the  sacred  day 

Is  come  in  which  the  prince,  confirm'd,  doth  crave 
Waynflete  as  surety  of  his  faith  to  have. 

73. 

King  Henry  then  had  with  great  charges  rais'd 
In  England's  other  nursery  of  arts, 
Than  which  (except  her  sister)  none  is  prais'd 
So  much  in  foreign  nations  for  rare  parts, 

(1)  The  13th  King  of  Kent  from  Hengist,  and  the  1st  christened  King 
of  the  Saxons. 

(2)  It  had  been  the  temple  of  the  great  goddess  Diana. 

(3)  Anno  610.  (4)  Anno  1460. 


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That  royal  house,  whose  Church5  I  well  may  name 
The  world's  eighth  wonder,  (if  so  fame  imparts 
Nought  but  the  truth.)     I  never  saw  the  frame 
Of  this  brave  building,  nor  can  my  pen  fit 
That  model  which  excels  all  poet's  wit. 

74. 

The  scholars  were  elected,  whose  behaviour 
Did  first  direct  itself ;  but  faults  soon  spring 
Where  statutes  want ;  sith  every  one  will  favour 
His  proper  doings  :  so  the  prudent  king 
Allots  our  Waynflete  to  that  weighty  charge, 
By  statutes  and  good  ordinance  to  bring 
Them  in  some  bounds  who  first  did  live  at  large. 
He  makes,  puts  out,  amends,  and  takes  such  care, 
Good  laws  soon  made,  and  bad  abolish'd  are. 

75. 

The  place  6  whereof  thou  once  hads't  been  the  head 
Requires  like  reformations  ;  thou  before 
Didst  govern  by  thy  wisdom,  but  now  led 
By  his  command,  whom  thou  didst  honour  more 
Than  he  whose  bark,  tossed  on  the  briny  wave, 
Now  free  from  death,  honours  the  welcome  shore, 
Thy  sound  directions  and  good  laws  did  save 

That  house  from  error.     She  receiv'd  from  thee 
The  laws  which  yet  she  keeps  so  firmly  free. 

76. 
But  Eton  ow'th  thee  more  than  this.     The  work 

(5)  King's  College  Chapel.  (G)   Eton. 


36  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

Not  ended  by  the  king,  receiv'd  of  thee 
A  full  perfection  ;  and  lest  truth  should  lurk 
Hid  in  the  darkness  of  antiquity, 
The  ancient  writer,  Leland,8  will  declare, 
Whose  words  our  late  assertion  verify. 
Besides  Commemorations  duly  are 
Observ'd  for  thee  at  Eton,  as  the  man 
Which  brought'st  to  end  that  work  the  king  began. 

77. 

Who  wisely  weighing  the  mortality 
Of  sickly  men,  did  healthful  make  his  will, 
In  which  our  Waynflete  (whose  fidelity 
Unto  his  sovereign  made  him  trusted  still) 
Was  made  executor ;  with  this  caution 
If  any  thing  was  mov'd  without  his  skill, 
And  grave  advice,  the  fore-made  motion 

Should  quite  be  void.     If  doubt  hereof  you  move, 

His  TraXiyyeveo-la  will  it  prove.7 

78. 

His  care  thus  known,  and  wisdom  often  prov'd, 
Increased  his  favour  with  his  sovereign  so 
That  were  he  more  deserv'd,  or  more  were  lov'd 
May  to  a  doubtful  controversy  grow. 
His  Counsel  was  an  oracle,  from  whom 
Such  politic  complotments  still  did  flow, 
That  Henry  charg'd  he  never  should  be  from 

(6)  As  also  Hollinshead  in  his  1  vol  of  Chron : 

(7)  Pag:  50.  51. 


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His  royal  palace ;  where  he  ready  found 
A  yearly  pension  of  two  hundred  pound. 

79. 

Yet  greater  honours  are  bestow'd  ;  for  see 
He  is  created  Chancellor,  which  place 
Obtains  next  to  the  King  the  first  degree. 
In  this  he  found  among  the  people  grace. 
He  pardons  small  offenders,  and  relieves 
Such  as  lay  groaning  under  th'  heavy  mace 
Of  dire  oppression  ;  he  kind  succour  gives 

To  them  whom  need  o'erwhelm'd,  and  evermore 

Was  as  a  sanctuary  to  the  poor. 

80. 

And  now  the  work  which  he  of  late  begun 
Calls  for  perfection  ;  but  his  mind  is  set 
Upon  a  braver  building ;  thus  undone 
He  left  the  former,  and  lest  aught  should  let 
His  good  proceedings,  royal  Henry  gave 
That  hospital 8  which  he  whom  th'  wars  did  fret 
Made  by  his  angry  barons,  nigh  the  wave 

Of  smooth-paced  Charwell  for  the  poor  did  frame, 
And  call'd  it  by  the  King  his  father's  name. 

81. 

Waynflete  by  this  encouraged,  sets  his  thought 
Wholly  upon  his  building,  which  now  threats 
The  middle  sky,  built  of  hewn  stone  being  brought 

(8)  St  John's  hospital  built  by  Henry    III,  son  and  successor   to  King 
John. 


38  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

From  Headington's  deep  Quarr-pits,  which  repeats 
The  founder's  fame  as  in  a  song.     The  Hall, 
Spacious  within  and  high  without,  even  beats 
The  flitting  air  with  pinnacles  thick  and  tall ; 
The  church,  adorn'd  in  comely  sort,  shews  forth 
The  praise  and  glory  of  the  founder's  worth. 

82. 

Then  the  brave  tower  lifts  up  his  stately  head      [No, 
And  threateneth  Heaven.    What  said  I  ?  threateneth  ? 
It  bears  up  Heaven,  whose  weight  may  well  be  led 
Upon  his  high-rear'd  top  ;  if  Atlas  grow 
Feeble  through  age,  and  cannot  bear  the  weight 
Of  Jove's  majestic  palace,  he  may  throw 
His  burthen  on  this  tower,  whose  strong-made  height 
Would  bear  that  burthen  on  his  mounted  brow, 
Under  which  Atlas  weak  through  age  doth  bow. 

83. 

Nor  are  his  inmates  aught  inferior  deem'd 
To  his  exterior  beauties  ;  whose  swreet  chime 
If  by  a  skilful  ringer  rightly  teem'd, 
Surpass  the  sphere's  sweet  music,  at  the  time 
When  sage  Pythagoras  did  hear  their  note 
(Which  music,  since  unheard,  was  then  at  prime) 
These  sing  aloud  with  never-wearied  throats, 
And  trowling  in  each  other's  neck,  send  out 
Delicious  tones,  and  tunes  heard  round  about. 

84. 

Cloisters  engirt  the  college  round,  and  serve 
Instead  of  galleries,  to  meditate, 


MEMORIAL  or  WAYNFLETE.  39 

Or  walk,  and  talk,  and  certainly  deserve 
Abundant  praise  ;  but  I  must  dedicate 
My  muse  to  other  matters ;  yet  will  say 
Since  Bullen's- Victor's  rage  did  ruinate 
England's  fair  abbeys,  to  this  very  day 

They  want  co-partners,  and  must  stand  alone, 

Unmatch'd,  unparallell'd  by  any  one. 

85. 

This  building's  inward  wall,  which  doth  behold 
The  goodly  quadrangle,  is  strongly  drest 
With  fair  and  stately  pillars,  which  uphold 
Rare  hieroglyphics,  in  which  are  express'd 
Mysteries  worthy  marking,  which  as  now 
Few  can  to  any  grounded  meaning  wrest. 
A  misery,  that  such  mysteries  should  bow 
Under  oblivion's  yoke  ;   but  time  prevails 
'Bove  all,  when  man  and  man's  invention  fails. 

86. 

Into  this  quadrangle  with  spacious  lights 
Looks  a  fair  library,  which  Waynflete  fill'd 
With  full  eight  hundred  books.     They  which  did  write 
Best  in  what  tongue  soever,  it  nought  skill'd, 
Were  there  laid  up.     This  place  enlarg'd,  requires 
Of  some  praise-worthy  man  to  be  upheld 
In  its  due  estimation,  and  desires 

That  some  as  benefactors  at  their  charge 
The  number  of  its  volumes  would  enlarge. 

87. 
Without  the  college  on  smooth  Charwell's  brink 


40  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

Lie  pleasant  walks  rear'd  from  the  low-laid  ground 
Down  on  th'one  side  the  bubbling  flood  doth  sink, 
Whose  parted  stream  doth  quite  encompass  round 
This  place  of  pleasure,  and  thus  gliding  on 
The  rugged  stones  doth  make  a  murmuring  sound, 
And  to  raise  up  more  delectation 
The  scaly  people  living  there  at  ease 
Dance  in  the  crystal  waters  what  they  please. 

88. 

On  th'other  side  a  pleasant  mead  is  plac'd, 
Enriched  with  Flora's  verdant  tapestry, 
With  all  scent-pleasing  flowers  most  sweetly  graced, 
Which  are  not  art's  but  nature's  nursery. 
The  primrose  sweet,  cowslip  of  pleasant  hue, 
The  daisy,  which  with  secret  sympathy 
Opes  and  shuts  with  the  day's  eye,  here  we  view. 
And  such  as  these,  that  with  dumb  eloquence 
Of  fragrant  sweetness  captivate  the  sense. 

89. 

The  walks  themselves  are  compass'd  round  about 
With  thick-set  trees,  which  clad  in  summer's  pride 
Admit  no  entry  to  the  winds  ;  keep  out 
The  chill-cold  air,  and  also  bravely  hide 
With  out-stretch'd  boughs  tne  heaven  ;  so  that  the  rays 
Of  Phoebus,  who  oil's  prancing  steeds  doth  ride 
Through  the  twelve  monsters  dwelling  in  his  ways, 
Lose  all  their  scorching  heat,  and  only  give 
A  gentle  warmth,  in  which  no  heat  doth  live. 


MEMORIAL  OF  WAYNFLETE.  41 

90. 

Amidst  their  boughs  the  birds  do  build  their  nest, 
And  hopping  round,  with  pretty  warbling  strains 
Delight  the  ear.     The  Nightingale,  whose  rest 
Is  on  a  thorn,  of  Tereus  here  complains. 
The  sweet-voic'd  thrush  and  blackbird  here  do  make 
Their  chirping  tunes  ;  the  linnet  with  sweet  pains 
Lisps  out  his  note ;  the  pretty  lark  doth  quake 
His  slender  voice  ;  and  all  so  sweetly  sing, 
As  if  this  place  were  a  perpetual  spring. 

91. 

Here's  a  full  quire  of  sweet-tun'd  harmony. 
The  birds  chirp  out  the  treble,  and  the  wind 
Whistling  among  the  leaves  deliriously 
Maintains  the  tenor ;  then  the  waters  kind 
Kissing  the  stones,  the  counter-tenor  blaze ; 
And  lest  one  part  were  wanting,  here  we  find 
Minerva's  honey-birds  buzzing  the  base. 
All  things  in  one  so  sweetly  do  consent 
To  give  the  walkers  a  complete  content. 

92. 

Those  that  enjoy  this  pleasant  place  are  told 
A  hundred  and  six  :  of  which  in  order  thus. 
First  forty  fellows,  who  this  palace  hold  : 
Thirty  demies  ;  two  readers  which  discuss 
On  both  philosophies  :  one  more  whose  charge 
Is  lecture-wise  to  explain  the  tenebrous 
Hard  knots  of  scripture  ;  one  '  who  writes  at  large 

(1)  The  steward  or  registrar. 


42  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

Of  all  the  college  acts ;  two  more  whose  care 
Is  to  teach  those  that  fit  for  grammar  are. 

93. 

The  Quire  consists  of  twenty-nine  ;  wherein 
There  are  four  chaplains,  who  by  turns  do  say 
The 2  clergy-prayers ;  and  more  eight  clerks  there  been 
And  sixteen  choristers,  o'er  whom  bears  sway 
One  who  doth  teach  them  how  to  sing  with  ease, 
Whose  nimble  fingers  on  the  organs  play 
Gravely-compos'd  church  music  :  and  all  these 
^  With  different  notes  which  sweetly  do  accord, 
Sing  Allelujahs  to  the  living  Lord. 

94. 

And  'cause  this  body  should  not  want  a  Head, 
He  did  ordain  that  one  should  chosen  be 
Out  of  the  fellows,  which  the  rest  might  lead 
As  guide,  and  all  their  actions  oversee. 
Which  worthy  president-ship  is  now  possess'd 
By  doctor  Langton,  to  whose  courtesy 
My  muse  beholding,  hath  her  rude  lines  'dress'd. 

Yet  I  unto  his  bounty  more  do  owe 

Than  my  unskilful  poetry  can  shew. 

95. 

And  lest  unruly  ruffians  might  offend 
Their  studious  minds,  he  hath  encompassed  round 
The  college  with  a  wall,  which  might  defend 
His  scholars  both  from  fear  of  any  wound, 

(2)  At  10  and  4.  o'clock. 


MEMORIAL  OF  WAYNFLETE.  43 

And  make  resistance  'gainst  an  army's  might. 
And,  ere  our  valour-murdering  guns  were  found, 
Did  well  perform  that  charge  ;  for  I  dare  write 
The  students  with  few  friends  but  meanly  strong, 
Might  have  maintain'd  it '  gainst  a  kingdom's  wrong. 

96. 

Within  this  wall  is  placed  a  beauteous  grove 
Like  Pindus,  where  the  sacred  muses  dwell, 
Or  like  th'  Epirian  woods  in  which  great  Jove 
Nurs'd  by  Melissus'  gracious  girls  did  dwell. 
Here  nought  doth  want  to  furnish  recreation, 
The  studious  scholar  here  may  study  well. 
Mars,  and  the  muses  here  have  habitation. 
Here  are  both  walks  to  meditate,  and  places 
To  exercise  one's  mind  in  warlike  graces. 

97 

The  swift-wing'd  arrow,  which  such  slaughter  made 
In  France,  hath  here  butts  to  be  levelM  at. 
The  heavy  bar  here  sometimes  as  a  slade 
Is  foot-pitch'd  off,  and  like  a  massy  bat 
Whirl'd  o'er  the  head,  divides  the  foggy  air. 
Here  do  they  leap,  and  leaping  verberate 
The  yielding  earth  ;  here  many  men  repair 
Their  sickly  bodies,  and  herein  do  find 
By  conference  contentment  to  the  mind. 

98. 

This  is  both  Campus  Martius,  to  augment 
Our  bodies'  strength  with  valorous  exercise, 
And  Tempe,  studious  scholars  to  content 


44  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

With  its  delights.     On  the  one  side  there  lies 
Good  store  of  gardens,  dressed  with  borders  fine, 
In  which  are  glorious  flowers  pleasing  the  eyes, 
And  fruitful  trees,  which  each  in  other  twine. 
These  keep  out  heat  and  cold,  and  also  suit 
The  fellows,  whose  they  are,  with  walks  and  fruit. 

99. 

Now  Waynflete,  knowing  that  man's  life  was  prone 
To  all  unstaidness,  by  a  prudent  care 
Furnish'd  the  house  with  statutes,  which  alone 
Might  always  keep  the  house  in  awe,  and  are 
So  absolutely  made,  that  nought  doth  miss 
Which  may  be  added  to  them.     To  prepare 
Like  fortune  to  3  that  house,  that  founded  is 
By  worthy  Foxe,  these  laws  were  imitated, 
And  were  from  hence  unto  that  house  translated. 

100. 

This  Foxe  so  much  admired  our  Waynflete's  worth, 
That  he  commanded,  if  some  sickly  year 
Did  chance  to  send  this  college'  students  forth, 
Their  studies  in  some  other  place  to  rear, 
That  all  the  scholars  to  whom  he  was  father 
Should  likewise  all  depart,  and  sojourn  there 
Where  Waynflete's  scholars  did  ;  and  this  the  rather, 

Because  their  statutes  make  them  auditors 

Of  our  divine  and  humane  lecturers. 

101. 
Now  nothing  wanted  but  a  worthy  name 

(3)  Corpus  Christ!  College  by  Foxe  Bp  of  Winchester. 


MEMORIAL  OF  WAYNFLETE.  45 

To  make  the  work  complete,  and  as  our  4  Queen 
Christened  Sir  Thomas  Gresham's  5  worthy  frame, 
Than  which  a  fairer  burse  was  never  seen, 
So  royal  Henry  named  this  stately  place, 
Than  which  a  fairer  never  yet  hath  been, 
fi  Magdalen  College,  surely  worth  the  grace 
Of  such  a  namer,  since  the  world  can  boast 
Of  no  such  college  in  its  spacious  coast. 

102. 

But  lest  some  Zoilus  blame  my  partial  quill 
I  take  to  witness  him  7  whose  happy  reign 
Is  blest  by  peace,  and  peaceful  pleasure  still, 
Under  whose  crown  this  isle  erst  cut  in  twain 
Is  now  united,  whose  sweet  voice  affirmed 
The  universal  world  not  to  contain 
A  more  complete  College.     This  is  confirmed 
By  8  him  whose  critic  pen  partial  to  none 
Deferred  the  laurel  to  this  house  alone. 

103. 

A  hundred  three-score  years  from  hence  hath  sent 
Twenty-two  bishops  to  defend  the  state 
Of  England's  happy  church  ;  from  hence  have  went 
Archbishops  two  ;   two  Cardinals  of  late ; 
Wolsey  was  one,  whose  elevated  head 
Knocked  at  the  pole  of  honour,  who,  by  fate 
Dandled  a  while,  the  great  foundation  laid 

(4)  Elizabeth.  (5)  The  Royal  Exchange  built  anno  1572. 

(6)  Anno  1458.          (7)  (8)  King  James  and  Lipsius  as  they  are  cited 
by  Wake  in  his  Rex  Platonicus,  page  213  and  214. 


46  PETER  HEYLIX'S 

Of  Christ-Church  college.     But  much  pride  at  last, 
As  he  rose  quickly,  brought  him  down  as  fast 

104. 

Pole  was  the  other,  who  was  by  descent 
York's  second  issue's  daughter's  son. 9     This  man 
In  late  queen  Mary's  Marian  government 
Came  from  the  seven-hill'd  city,  first  began 
By  Rhea's  sons,  and  was  one  night  elected 
By  some  great  cardinals  of  the  Lateran 
For  Rome's. Monarchic  Priest ;  but  he  expected 
A  more  applausive  choice.     This  modesty 
Lost  English  Pole  the  Roman  papacy. 

105. 

Here  govern'd  Humphrey,  whose  divine  assertions 
Maintained  the  English  Church,  and  freed  this  land 
From  many  heresies  and  foul  aspersions. 
From  hence  came  Foxe,  whose  memorable  hand 
Penn'd  down  the  Acts  and  Monuments  of  fame 
Which  have  been  done  since  Christ  did  first  command 
His  twelve  Apostles  to  divulge  his  name. 

And  many  famous  men,  whose  names  to  write 
Excel  my  new-born  Muse's  fainting  might. 

106. 

Yet  boasts  she  most  of  all  in  this  ;  that  she, 
When  our  first  British  monarch  came  to  view 
Th'  Oxonian  Muses,  was  ordain'd  to  be 

(9)  He  was  son  to  Margaret  daughter  to  George  D.  of  Clarence,  the 
2nd  Son  of  Richard  D.  of  York. 


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The  lodging  of  his  royal  son  10 ;  whose  hue, 
Adorn'cl  with  majesty,  promised  to  all 
A  gracious  mind.     Let  luckless  England  rue 
His  speedy  death,  and  too  untimely  fall. 
The  Gods  above,  the  Muses'  sacred  row, 
The  Nymphs  and  Graces  all  condole  our  woe. 

107. 

There  lies  he  with  his  mother,1  who,  alas  ! 
Grieving  to  lose  her  dearest,  dearest  son, 
Through  the  Heavens'  tenfold  brazen  doors  did  pass, 
And  hangs  about  his  sacred  neck  :  run,  run, 
You  heavenly  citizens,  to  view  this  greeting, 
Your  whirling  spheres  another  moon  have  won. 
Stand  all  amazed  to  see  this  mournful  meeting, 
And  let  the  water  dropping  from  your  eyes 
Quench  Phoebus'  lamp,  and  sable  all  the  skies. 

108. 

This  royal  prince,  sad  Magdalen's  best  hope, 
Was  by  her  entertain'd ;  his  grace  did  call 
Her  house  his  own,  and,  (which  is  now  my  scope) 
His  princely  person  supp'd  within  her  hall, 
And  made  each  scholar  of  the  house  put  on 
Their  corner'd  caps,  and  minding  now  that  all 
Should  know  his  bounty,  he  lays  hold  upon 

A  goblet  foaming  with  the  grape's  s\veet  wealth, 
And  to  great  Waynflete's  scholars  drinks  a  health. 

(10)  Prince  Henry,  who  died  the  6th  of  Nov.  1612.     Vide  appendix, 
no.  2. 
(1)  Queen  Anne  who  died  the  2nd  of  March,  anno  1619. 


48  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

109. 

Heroic  soul !  how  shall  my  rhymes  express 
This  seld-seen  bounty.     Were  my  foolish  quill 
Dipp'd  in  the  Heliconian  fount,  yet  less 
Would  he  described  than  thou  deserv'st ;  yet  still 
My  soul  shall  honour  thy  dead  memory, 
And  future  times  admire  thy  great  good  will 
Which  thou  hast  shewn  to  us.     Posterity 

Shall  weep  thy  loss,  and  know  that  they  lament 
Therein  their  own  bad  luck,  sad  dreariment. 

110. 

The  work  is  done,  and  Waynflete  doth  retire 
To  Henry's  palace,  where  his  faithful  heart 
Glads  his  afflicted  prince.     For  now  the  fire 
Of  civil  discord  and  intestine  smart, 
Which  long  had  worn  the  mask  of  amity, 
Flames  plainly  forth,  and  spreads  through  every  part 
Of  pious  Henry's  sea-clipp'd  monarchy. 

York  claims  the  crown  again  by  hostile  arms, 
And  fresh  supply  unto  him  daily  swarms. 

111. 

Paint  out,  my  muse,  fair  peace's  sacred  rays 
Disfigured  by  uncivil  civil  wars. 2 
The  fierce  Pharsalian  fields  were  gentle  frays 

(2)  The  whole  course  of  these  civil  wars  continued  80  years  in  which 
were  fought  17  pitched  fields  wherein  perished  8  kings  and  kings'  sons: 
40  Dukes,  Marquesses  and  Earls  ;  200000  of  the  Commons,  besides  many 
of  the  gentry  and  Barony. 

lieu  quantum  potuit  terrae  pelagique  parari 
Hoc  qv.em  fuserunt  civiles  sanguine  dextrn?. 


MEMORIAL  OF  WAYNFLETE.  49 

If  you  compare  with  these,  the  cruel  jars 
*  Twixt  Marius  and  Sylla  (which  to  speak 
Old  Romans  trembled)  were  hut  sudden  scars. 
Domestic  war  grew  strong  to  make  us  weak. 
Rack,  rack  thy  wits,  Melpomene,  and  now 
Roar  out  the  wrongs  that  wrinkled  peace's  hrow. 

112. 

Firebrand  of  hell,  fix'd  in  the  burning  lake 
Of  Phlegethon  by  the  three  hags  of  hell, 
And  thence  thrown  in  the  world ;  when  will't  forsake 
This  massy  ball  of  earth  ?  Th'  wert  best  to  dwell 
'  Mongst  the  mad  Tartars,  to  enrage  their  breast. 
Why  dost  thou  vex  our  nation,  and  excel 
Thy  wonted  use  ?  by  thee  my  hand  is  press'd 

To  write  such  things  as  vex  my  yielding  mind, 

For  wars  Iclsea  in  these  days.  I  find. 

113. 

Somerset,  who  but  late  in  prison  lay 
And  dreading  what  York's  wrath  might  sort  unto, 
With  trembling  mind  waited  his  judgment  day, 
Is  freed  :   and  fears  not  what  York's  wrath  can  do, 
But  triumphs  with  the  queen,  and  makes  the  air 
Echo  his  joys,  and  now  layeth  projects,  to 
Entrap  the  wary  duke,  whose  vigilant  care 
Saves  him  from  thousand  perils,  and  destroys 
All  them  that  thought  to  work  him  most  annoys. 

87. 

To  him  were  joyn'd  the  father  and  the  son, 
Two  noble  heroes,  of  the  which  the  sire 

•7 


50  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

Was  Earl  of  3  Salisbury ;  from  him  did  run 
4  Richard  of  Warwick,  whom  all  did  admire 
For  martial  exploits  ;  his  worthy  parts 
Mix'd  with  a  pleasing  countenance  so  did  fire 
The  vulgar,  that  he  so  obtained  their  hearts 

That,  when  he  favoured  Edward,  Edward's  foes 
Submit  themselves ;  when  Henry,  Henry  rose. 

115. 

Both  these  had  suffered  vile  indignities 
By  that  imperious  woman,  who  both  swayed 
The  king  and  state  ;  and  by  the  villanies 
Of  Somerset ;  and  therefore  mean  to  aid 
Great  Ebrauck's  5  city's  sovereign  :  they  confer 
By  what  complots  the  queen  might  be  decay'd 
With  her  audacious  favourite  ;  they  err 
In  no  device,  their  projects  never  fail, 
'Till  they  against  their  foes  in  field  prevail. 

116. 

That  town  which  bears  our  °  protomartyr's  name 
Was  purpled  first  with  blood  ;  by  which  was  slain 
That  duke  7  whom  our  historians  chiefly  blame 
For  these  outrageous  uproars,  and  do  stain 

(3)  Richard  Nevill  Earl  of  Salisbury. 

(4)  Richard  of  Warwick  called   the  King-maker,  who,  first  siding  with 
Edward  IV,   deposed  King  Henry,  and  then  siding  with  Henry  again  de 
posed  Edward  and  was  by  him  slain  at  Barnet-field. 

(5)  York  founded  as  the    ancient  stories  write  by  Ebraucke  the  5th 
King  of  Britain  after  Brute. 

(6)  St  Alban,  who  was  martyred  by  the  tyrant  Muximianusin  the  10th 
persecution. 

(7)  Duke  of  Somerset. 


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With  spots  of  infamy.     The  pious  king 

Is  in  the  hurly-burly  prisoner  ta'en, 

Whom  York  in  glad  sort  doth  to  London  bring, 

Where  'tis  ordained  that  he  the  king  shall  keep  ; 

So  to  the  wolf  committed  is  the  sheep. 

117. 

Our  second  Voada  scornes  that  her  mate 
Thus  should  be  curb'd  :  and  by  her  power  removes 
The  Yorkish  lord  from  ruling  of  the  state 
In  scornful  wise ;  and  now  it  him  behoves 
For  all  his  wrongs  to  seek  his  last  redress  ; 
And  cries  aloud  that  he  who  best  him  loves 
Should  help  him  now  :  how  shall  my  pen  express 
These  troublous  times,  in  which  the  god  of  war 
Trampled  down  thousands  with  his  brazen  car. 

118. 

York  flies  to  Ireland,  but  brave  Warwick  stays, 
And  where  the  river  Nene  doth  smoothly  glide  [strays 
Through  th'  North-Hamptonian  fields,  and  calmly 
'Till  by  North-Hampton  walls  his  waves  do  slide, 
He  pitch'd  his  tents ;  and  makes  a  solemn  vow 
That  he  all  human  torture  will  abide 
Rather  than  to  queen  Margaret's  empire  bow. 
Who  like  Bellona  with  her  flags  display'd, 
Heart'neth  her  true-styl'd  subjects  to  her  aid. 

119. 

Waynflete's  presaging  mind  foresaw  th1  event 
Of  this  disastrous  combat,  and  resigns 


52  PETER  HEVLIN'S 

His  Chancellorship  to  Henry  in  his  tent, 
And  leaves  the  field.     From  hence  the  world  combines 
To  slander  him,  as  one  that  leaves  his  lord, 
When  dangerous  war  his  person  round  entwines  ; 
And  with  a  barking  tongue,  and  biting  word, 
Accuse  him  as  unconstant,  and  unkind 
To  him,  whom  he  so  gracious  still  did  find. 

120. 

But  Henry  knew  his  faith,  and  to  the  Pope 
Clear'd  him  from  all  suspicion,  as  a  man 
Than  whom  no  potentate  could  ever  hope 
A  better  counsellor.     The  morn  began 
To  ope  her  dusky  eyes,  and  crow-black  night 
To  Tenarus  her  sad  pavilion  ran  ; 
And  now  the  armies  join  ;   the  bloody  fight 
Continues  'till  the  sun  had  climb'd  the  sky, 
And  from  the  eastern  dales  touch'd  mountains  high. 

121. 

Here  did  the  father  fight  against  his  seed ; 
And  they  that  erst  were  link'd  in  friendship's  knot 
Bandy  against  each  other  blows,  and  feed 
The  earth  with  lake-warm  blood.     The  angry  Scot 
Runs  madding  through  the  field,  and  dips  his  blade 
In  Yorkshire  blood,  whose  purple  streams  do  blot 
The  sable  earth.     But  Warwick's  sword  soon  made 
A  passage  through  their  troops,  (oh  dismal  chance  !) 
His  scarlet  steed  on  carcases  doth  prance. 

122. 

The  day  is  his.     The  Queen  retires.     The  King 
Is  taken  prisoner.     York  in  Ireland  staying 


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By  loud-mouth'd  fame,  arm'd  now  with  double  wing, 

Is  certified  of  his  great  foes  decaying, 

And  posts  for  England  ;  but  the  warlike  queen 

Penthesilea-like, 8  her  foes  dismaying, 

Met  him  where  Calder  brook,  a  river  sheen, 

Stays  by  fair  Wakefield  ;  there  they  battles  join, 
And  deaths  are  sold  for  honour,  not  for  coin. 

123. 

Fortune  moves  retrograde.     York's  mounting  spirit 
Fate-shackl'd,  falls  before  his  female  foe. 
Young  "  Rutland,  murder'd  for  his  father's  merit, 
With  Salisbury,  new  slain  by  fatal  blow, 
Swims  in  his  blood  to  find  his  father's  ghost, 
And  to  th'  Elysian  fields  together  go. 
The  warlike  Amazon  clears  every  coast, 
And  all  in  solemn  march  together  make 
The  air  to  tremble,  and  the  earth  to  quake. 

124. 

But  Edward,  10  York's  first  son,  is  hard  at  hand 
With  a  huge  army,  which  doth  daunt  the  pride 
Of  the  crest-fall'n  virago,  whose  command 
Govern'd  the  true  Lanccistrians  ;  and  beside 
Towton,  a  village  small,  the  trumpets  sound 
A  dreadful  joining.     Cruel  soldiers  dyed 
Their  ravenous  blades  in  gore  ;  the  stupid  ground 
Her  once  smooth  cheeks,  war-furrowed  now,  did  stain 
With  blood  of  seven  and  thirty  thousand  slain. 

(8)  Ducit    Amazonidum    lunatis    agmina    pcltis,    Penthesilea 
mediisque  in  millibus  ardct.     VIRG  : 

(9)  Edmund  Earl  of  Rutland,  son  to  Richard  of  York. 

(10)  Edward,  Earl  of  March,  and  after  King  Edward  IV. 


54  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

125. 

Henry,  his  wife,  and  son  l  to  th'  countries  haste 
Where  Grampius  cuts  in  twain  the  flowery  dales, 
Meaning  to  stay  there  'till  the  storm  were  past 
That  threatened  ruin  with  its  blustering  gales. 
Edward  approacheth  York,  and  thence  takes  down 
His  friends'  dear  heads,  by  Margaret  pitch'd  on  pales, 
And  sets  them  there  by  him  of  late  o'er  thrown. 
Thence  goeth  to  London,  where  the  golden  lace 
With  great  applause  his  temples  doth  embrace. 

126. 

What  grievous  pangs  then  seized  on  Waynflete's  heart, 
Let  him  be  judge  whose  luckless  chance  hath  lost 
His  only  son,  in  whom  the  greatest  part 
Of  '  s  joy  consisted.     (So  the  Phrygian  coast 
Griev'd  when  their  dearest  Priam  lost  his  breath  ; 
So  griev'd  the  Myrmidons  when  their  warlike  host 
Wanted  its  guide.)     I  dare  affirm  that  death 
Had  been  more  pleasing  to  him  if  death's  pain 
Might  have  restored  his  gracious  prince  again. 

127. 

But  greater  grief  attends  him.     Henry's  son, 
Sweet  Edward,  hearten'd  by  his  manly  mother, 
In  many  dangers  unadvis'd  did  run, 
Which  did  at  last  his  vital  spirits  smother. 
For  aided  by  great ]  Somerset,  the  Earls 
Of  Devonshire,  Pembroke,  and  many  other, 

(1)  Prince  Edward.  (2)  Quis  tibi  (care  pater)  ccrnonli 

talia  sensus  Quosvc  dabas  gcmitus  ?  (3)  Edmund  Beaufort,  son 

to  the  former  Edmund. 


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He  pitch'd  his  tents  there  where  the  rocky  pearls 
Adorn  swift  Severn's  channel,  whose  sweet  waves 
So  many  towns  and  cities  gladly  laves. 

128. 

This  river's  name,  as  2  ancient  stories  write, 

Came  from  Sabrina,  who  in  times  of  old 

Was  3  Locrine's  daughter,  borne  by  '  Elstrid  bright 

His  concubine:  But 5  Guendoline  his  bold 

And  warlike  wife,  scorning  that  Humber's  brat 

Should  make  Locrinus'  love  to  her  grow  cold, 

Turns  a  deaf  ear  to  their  life-begging  chat, 

And  having  kill'd  her  husband  throws  his  child 
Into  the  flood  which  by  her  name  is  styl'd. 

129. 

Here  the  two  Edwards  fought,  the  king  prevails 
And  takes  his  rival  captive  and  demands 
How  such  a  princox  durst  his  prince  assail. 
The  prince  replies  "  By  valorous-minded  bands 
I  thought  to  free  my  father  "  :  then  the  king 
Swelling  in  rage  in  furious  words  commands 
To  see  his  blood  sprinkling  the  earth,  this  thing 
The  crook-back'd  Duke  of  Glo'ster8  executes 
And  with  a  stab  the  noble  prince  salutes.9 

(2)  Geoffry  of  Monmouth  and  Matthew  of  Westminster. 

(3)  Son  and  heir  to  Brutus.  (4)   Daughter  unto  Humbcr  King 
of  the    Huns,  who   invaded  this  island,  and  was  drowned  in  the  river 
Humher,  formerly  called  Ahus.  (5)    Daughter  unto 

Duke  of  Cornwall. 

(S)  Richard,  ,3rd  son  to  Richard  duke  of  York. 
(9)  Anno   1  172. 


56  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

130. 

In  him  fifth  Henry's  valour  died  ;  the  true 
Piety  of  his  father,  the  bold  mind 
Of10  Reiner's  daughter,  and  the  gracious  hue 
Of  Venus'  darling.    Glo'ster,  couldst  thou  find 
These  gifts  together,  and  not  spare  the  shrine 
In  which  they  were  enwrapped  ?  Monster  unkind, 
Could  not  his  gracious  youth  thy  sword  enjoin 
To  pardon  him  ?  No,  no,  thy  heart  in  evil 
Is  rooted,  and  thou  fear'st  nor  God  nor  devil. 

131. 

Else  the  sweet  infants,  Edward's  '  tender  boys, 
Thy  brothers'  sons — else  thy  bed-partner 2  Anne,— 
•  Clarence, — the  *  kindred  of  the  5  queen, — the  8  joys 
Of  Hastings, — and  thy  maker, 7  Buckingham, 
Had  lived  till  nature,  weary  of  the  pain 
Which  she  endures  in  safe-preserving  man, 
Had  call'd  them  to  her  storehouse  back  again. 
Thou  hadst  not,  if  thy  mind  felt  any  good, 
Imbrued  thy  hands  in  royal  Henry's  blood. 

132. 

Fair  Hyperion's  son,  desiring  rest 
After  his  journey,  lull'd  in  Thetis'  lap, 

(10)  Queen  Margaret. 

(1)  Edward  and  Richard  sons  to  Edward  IV,  smothered  in  a  bed. 

(2)  Daughter  of  Richard  Earl  of  Warwick,  and  widow  to  Edward  son 
to  Henry  VI,  poisoned.  (3)George   D.  of  Clarence  drowned  in 
a  malmsey- butt.  (*)   Rivers,  Vaughan,   Groy, 
kindred    to     (5)   Elizabeth,   wife  to  Edward  IV,  beheaded    at    Pom  fret. 

(6)  His  love  and  life,  which  he  lost  on  Tower-hill. 

(7)  Henry  Stafford  Duke  of  Buckingham,  his  helper  to  the 


crown. 


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Had  drench'd  his  foam-bedabbl'd  jades  i'  th'  west, 
And  grim-fac'd  night  in  her  dark  arms  did  wrap 
This  earthly  football  with  a  thick-black  veil 
Mantling  it  round,  and  with  a  cloudy  cap 
Hoodwinked  the  heavens,  whose  flaring  lamps  did  fail 
To  spread  their  beams  on  this  terrestrial  globe, 
Wholly  extinguish'd  by  night's  hellish  robe* 

133. 

When  Henry,  safely  kept  in  London  tower^ 
Who  not  long  since  was  happy  England's  head, 
(His  soul  committed  to  the  Supreme  Power) 
Sweetly  reposing  on  his  princely  bed 
Was  by  this  tyrant  Gloster  (whose  delight 
Was  with  gore-blood  to  make  his  dagger  red) 
Stabb'd  to  the  heart ;  his  now-triumphing  spirit,  * 
Freed  from  his  earthly  prison,  gladly  flies 
With  higher  wings  up  to  the  azure  skies* 

134. 

Dark  night,  thou  mother  of  annoyance  sad, 

Daughter  of  Chaos,  wife  to  Erebus, 

Sister  to  Lethe,,  th'  all  Creator  had 

No  need  of  thee ;  his  works  so  glorious 

Thou  dost  deface  ;  true  noble  hearts  abhor 

Thy  ugly  looks  and  visage  tenebrous  ; 

Only  th'  art  by  the  slothful  hunted  for, 
Whose  lazy  limbs  and  baser  minds  do  call 
Thee  nature's  hand-maid  that  refreshest  all- 

(8)   Anno  1472. 

8 


58  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

135. 

Under  thy  foggy  mask  do  always  lie 
Manslaughter,  whoredom,  and  light  shunning  treason," 
Theft,  riot,  and  all  kind  of  villany 
Acted  when  passion  over-mastereth  reason. 
But  day,  the  comfort  of  th'afflicted  mind, 
That  heart-refreshing  time,  and  cheerful  season 
In  which  such  acts  no  patronage  can  find, 
The  praises  of  the  Holy  One  displays, 
And  plain  discovers  all  dishonest  ways. 

136. 

And  day  detects  this  sin  :  for,  when  the  morn  10 
Rearing  her  dewy  head  from  out  the  main 
Had  oped  her  purple  gates,  and  'gan  t'adorn 
The  heaven  with  flowers,  to  make  the  passage  plain 
For  the  great  light  to  enter  :  when  the  sun 
Had  with  his  beams  scorch'd  the  Egyptian  swain 
And  made  fierce  Phlegon  and  his  fellows  run 
With  nimble  pace  from  Neptune's  watery  deep 
Up  to  the  crystal  hills  so  high,  so  steep, 

137. 

Then  (Henry)  was  thy  murder  first  made  known, 
And  all  deplored  thy  lamentable  fate. 
Then  (Richard)  was  thy  villany  first  shewn, 
And  all  abhorr'd  thy  most  tyrannic  state. 
But,  above  all,  Waynflete  the  heavens  did  tear 

(9)  Nocte  latent  mendse. 

(10)  Mitido  patefecit  ab  ortu 

Purpureas  Aurora  foras  et  plena  rosaruin 
Atria  &c. 


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With  dolorous  complaints  ;   he  had  no  mate 

Equal  to  him  in  grief ;  thus  did  he  rear 

His  plaints  on  high,  and  with  these  following  cries 
Did  tears  extract  out  of  Pumicean  eyes.1 

138. 

"  Where  shall  I  first  begin  my  sad  complaints  ? 
"  At  thee  (dear  country)  whose  sweet  breasts  are  torn 
"  With  civil  wars,  so  that  thou  'gin'st  to  faint 
"  Under  this  bloody  yoke.     The  babe  unborn 
"  Shall  grieve  at  thy  mischance,  and  sigh  aloud 
"  To  hear  thy  miseries.     Thy  foes  with  scorn 
"  Shall  by  thy  fall  rise,  and  grow  wondrous  proud. 
"  England,  lament,  and  with  heart-breaking  tones 
"  Invoke  the  heavens  to  hear  thy  fainting  groans.2 

139. 

"  Or  shall  I  first  begin  my  dreary  grief 
"  At  thee,  (young  Edward,)  whose  yet-tender  heart 
"  Feels  Gloster's  biting  dagger.     No  relief 
"  Can  hence  accrue  to  thee,  yet  'tis  my  part 
"  To  moan  thy  loss,  whose  life  had  surely  made 
"  Thy  country  triumph  in  thine  enemies'  smart. 
"  But  thou  art  buried  in  death's  ghastly  shade. 
"  England,  lament,  and  let  thy  mournful  cry 
"  Pierce  through  the  heavens  to  God's  great  majesty. 

140. 

Or  shall  I  first  begin  my  utmost  moan 
At  thee,  (good  Henry)  whom  I  always  found 

(1)  Miscuit  ha'c  lacrymis  tristia  dicta  suis. 

(2)  Quis  talin  fando  Tempt- rot  a  lacrytnis  ? 


fiO  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

A  gracious  patron  ;  nor  am  I  alone 
Obliged  to  thee,  but  this  whole  isle  is  bound 
To  praise  thy  name,  sith  she  so  well  did  flourish 
When  thou  by  all  consents  in  peace  wast  crowned, 
And  didst,  while  soul  inlived  thy  corpse,  her  nourish. 
England,  lament,  and  wish  thy  briny  showers 
Entreat  for  vengeance  of  the  heavenly  powers. 

141, 

f<  Or  shall  I  first  my  grief's  exordium  make 
f'  At  mine  own  self  ?  My  luckless  fate  hath  lost 
"  A  gracious  prince,  by  whom  I  did  partake 
"  Of  all  the  blessings  in  which  now  I  boast. 
"  My  luckless  fates  have  lost  that  princely  youth 
«  In  whom  my  future  hopes  were  laid ;  this  coast* 
"  My  native  soil,  war-torn,  moves  farther  ruth, 
"  Waynflete,  lament,  and  let  thy  sighs  and  tears 
"  Touch  thy  Creator's  ever-patient  ears. 

142. 

"  Or  shall  I  first  my  grievous  plaints  begin 
*'  At  thee,  blood-sucking  duke,  whose  cruel  hand, 
ff  Crimson'd  in  blood,  hath  stain 'd  thy  soul  in  sin. 
<'  At  whose  bed-side  continually  do  stand 
"  Millions  of  furies,  arm'd  with  hissing  snakes 
*'  To  terrify  thy  timorous  soul,  and  brand 
"  Thy  deform'd  carcass  with  their  burning  flakes. 
"  Gloster,  lament,  and  with  a  humbled  mind 
«  Entreat  the  heavens  some  spark  of  grace  to  find. 

143. 
f*  Else  Nemesis,  new  rising  from  the  deep, 


MEMORIAL  OF  WAYNFLETE.  61 

"  Will  score  eternal  lashes  on  thy  side  ; 
"  Else  hell-born  hags,  whose  iron  whips  do  steep 
"  Themselves  with  poison,  will  o'er  throw  thy  pride. 
"  Else  will  the  Manes  of  these  heroes  slain 
"  Dance  their  black  rounds  about  thee,  and  bestride 
"  Thy  wretched  corpse,  to  thy  eternal  pain. 
"  Gloster,  lament,  the  angry  heavens  to  please, 
"  Waynflete,  lament,  and  hate  enticing  ease." 

144. 

Thus  Waynflete  mourns  ;  and  royal  Edward  strives 

To  comfort  him,  and  with  all  princely  love 

Into  the  worthy  prelate's  bosom  dives, 

To  ease  that  heart,  whose  grievous  plaints  might  move 

The  ruthless  stones.     To  him  he  doth  confirm 

The  ancient  privileges  which  behove 

A  bishop's  place  and  profit ;  as  affirm 
His  letters  patent,  cited  in  that  book  3 
Which  to  revive  this  man  first  undertook. 

145. 

And  more  t'express  his  bounty,  he  ordain'd 
Waynflete  fair  Oxford's  Chancellor  ;  which  place 
\Vas  by  his  aid  in  its  due  worth  maintain'd, 
For  the  Foundation,  which  so  much  doth  grace 
Humphrey  of  Gloster,  the  true  favourer 
Of  learned  men  and  learning,  doth  embrace 
Waynflete  as  its  most  complete  finisher. 

I  mean  that  School,  in  which  divine  assertions 
purified  from  all  impure  aspersions. 

(3)   Page  6G  and  G7. 


62  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

146. 

But  Oxford  oweth  thee  yet  more  thanks  ;  for  thou 
By  thy  fair  college,  built'st  a  school  as  fair, 
And  liberal  maintenance  dost  to  them  allow 
That  o'er  thy  young  grammarians  take  care. 
Nor  Oxford  only,  but  the  country  swains  * 
To  thy  magnificence  beholding  are, 
Whose  sons  by  thee  good  education  gain 
So  wholly  rent-free,  that  their  fathers'  purse 
For  their  instructing  nothing  doth  disburse. 

147. 

Praise-worthy  prelate,  how  thy  deeds  increase 
And  quite  excel  my  new-born  poetry  ! 
Edward,  (whose  sceptre  flourished  now  in  peace 
Wrapp'd  with  a  garland  of  prosperity,) 
In  solemn  progress  through  his  kingdom  went 
(Girt  with  fair  troops  of  his  nobility) 
Hath  hither  purposely  his  journey  bent, 

And,  which  is  more,  unask'd  and  unexpected. 

Strangers  unbidden  seldom'st  are  neglected. 

148. 

Here  did  he  see  that  gorgeous  house,  whose  frame 
Admits  no  equal.     All  the  world  entwin'd 
In  Amphitrite's  girdle,  cannot  name 
A  braver  building.     Edward's  noble  mind 
Admires  the  work,  and  in  most  gracious  wise 
Applauds  the  founder's  worth  ;  and  there  did  bind 
His  royal  self  always  to  patronise 

(4)  Both  by  Oxford  and  at  Waynflete. 


MEMORIAL  OF  WAYNFLKTK.  6'3 

Magdalen  muses  :  what  he  then  protested, 
His  worthy  actions  after  manifested. 

149. 

Even  that  imperious  wolf  whose  tooth-born  jaw 
Devour'd  his  brother's  children,  who  had  dyed 
His  hands  in  so  much  princely  blood,  whose  raw 
Unsettled  government  could  scarce  abide 
Absence  from  state  affairs,  in  gentle  sort 
His  ravenous  tricks  and  state-mists  put  aside, 
Purposely  came  from  his  majestic  court 5    [daughters 
To  view  this  palace,  where  Jove's  brain-bred 
Did  live  secure  from  all  his  murdering  slaughters. 

150. 

Here  was  he  entertain'd  ;  his  graceless  grace 
Gave  to  their  disputations  gentle  ear  ; 
The  best  he  garnish'd  with  a  laurel  lace 
About  their  temples,  and  the  meaner  were 
Hearten'd  by  pleasing  words  ;  and  being  gone, 
To  make  his  love  to  Waynflete  more  appear, 
Venison  and  wine  he  gave  to  every  one 

Around  the  hall ;  and  plainly  shewed  that  he 
In  Waynflete's  work  took  great  felicity. 

151. 

But  now  the  guiltless  blood  by  Richard  shed 
Had  moved  the  Eng'ner  of  this  massy  frame 
To  hurl  down  vengeance  on  the  tyrant's  head, 
Who  now  too  long  had  lived,  to  be  the  shame 
Of  reasonable  man.     His  brutish  acts 

(.5)  Anno  1483.  vide  appendix. 


64  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

Had  put  on  wolfishness,  and  lost  the  name 
Of  man,  God's  image.     His  inhuman  facts 
In  which  he  glutting,  surfeited  at  last 
Brought  double  vengeance  for  all  murder  past. 

152. 

Henry  of  Richmond, 6  Lancaster's  sole  heir, 
Who  from  his  infancy  an  exile  was, 
And  could  not  safely  breathe  his  native  air, 
From  little  Britain's  chalky  rocks  did  pass 
With  an  indifferent  navy.     To  his  aid 
Whole  nations  flock  in  troops.     The  brittle  glass 
Of  fawning  fortune  breaks.     Richard  dismay'd 
With  these  unlook'd-for  news,  inwardly  droops, 
But  outwardly  cheers  up  his  fainting  troops. 

153. 

Mark  how  the  English  drum  sounds,  blood  and  death 
The  battles  join,  and  as  the  foaming  wave 
Flows  up  curl-pated  Humber,  (whose  fierce  breath 
Tottering  whole  navies  grimly  do  out-brave 
Their  wooden  ribs)  and  by  a  violent  force 
Doth  make  him  seem  another  way  to  have, 
Breaking  the  current  of  his  natural  course, 
Yet,  when  the  tide  is  spent,  flies  back  again, 
And  pays  large  tribute  to  the  watery  main. 

154. 

So  did  this  battle,  hard  by  7  Bosworth  town  ; 
Now  Richard  had  the  better,  now  his  foe  ; 

(6)  He  was  son  to  Edmund  Tudor  and  Margaret  daughter  unto  Joint 
Beaufort  D.  of  Somerset  son  of  John  E.  of  Somerset  son  to  John  of  Gaunt 
D.  of  Lancaster.  (7)  A  town  in  Leicestershire 


MEMORIAL  OF  WAYNFLETE.  (>5 

Now  llichnioncrs  flags  strike  up,  and  now  fall  down  ; 
Sometimes  they  press,  and  sometimes  backward  go  ; 
Belov'd  "  Andates  hovering  o'er  their  head 
With  doubtful  wing  doth  waver  to  and  fro, 
'Till  Richard,  mad  to  see  his  friends  fall  dead, 

Breaks  through  his  rival's  rank  to  meet  their  lord, 
Whom  found,bold  Richard  falls  by  Richmond's  sword. 

155. 

Clap,  clap  your  hands,  you  cherubinis  above 
To  see  this  tyrant's  downfall ;  you,  whose  blood 
Shed  by  this  tyrant  parricide,  do  love 
That  pleasing  word  revenge,  in  joyful  mood 
Dance  your  sweet  measures ;  let  the  heavens  rebound 
Whose  burning  lamps  have,  half-extinguish'd,  stood 
Amazed  to  see  his  murders.     Let  all  sound 
A  joyful  triumph.     England,  weep  no  more, 
He's  gone  that  lately  purpled  thec  with  gore. 

156. 

Waynflete  rejoice,  see  now  thou  mayst  behold 
Thy  God-son  well  reveng'd,  thy  country  free, 
Thy  patron's  line  restor'd ;  for  now  the  gold 
Adorns  seventh  Henry's  princely  head,  and  he, 
Intending  to  establish  lasting  peace, 
Marries  °  Elizabeth,  York's  heir.     Even  she 
By  whom  thus  match'd  intestine  wars  did  cease, 

And  the  two  1(l  roses  which  so  long  did  jar, 

Were  now  united  in  an  amorous  war. 

(9)   Eldest  daughter  and  heir  to  Edw.  IV. 

(1)  The  red  and  white  roses  were  the  cognizances  of   the  2  disagreeing: 
families. 

i) 


66  PETER  HEYLIN'S 

157. 

From  hence  proceeded  that  great  prince,  whose  power 

Banish'd  the  pope's  usurp'd  supremacy ; 

Under  whose  flags  the  l  German  emperor 

Serv'd  as  a  soldier ;  hence  that  majesty 

Under  whose  peaceful  rule  this  fruitful  isle 

Enjoys  sweet  plenty  and  tranquillity 

Is  issued;  he  that  first  enjoyed  the  style 
Of  Britain's  monarch  ; 2  for  as  Henry  join'd 
The  roses,  so  this  prince  the  realms  combin'd. 

158. 

Now  aged  Waynflete  looks  for  death,  who  flies 
Like  Perseus  mounted  on  his  winged  steed, 
Whom,  ere  his  venom'd  arrows  touch,  he  dies, 
And  thou  receiv'd'st  fair  warning,  and  dost  feed 
His  ravenous  darts.     He  now  draws  nigh,  and  thou 
Distributing  thy  wealth,  whose  loss  did  breed 
A  double  gain,  art  now  prepar'd,  even  now 
To  entertain  death's  message  :  thy  soul  flies 
With  purified  wings  up  to  the  azure  skies. 

159. 

There  with  heaven's  citizens  thou  liv'st  in  bliss, 
Which  shall  no  kind  of  intermission  feel ; 
There  no  tyrannic  smile,  no  serpent's  hiss 
Disturb  thy  rest ;  no  murderer  bathes  his  steel 
In  guiltless  blood  ;  there  dost  thou  shine  with  them 
That  safely  scorn  blind  fortune's  powerful  wheel. 

(1)  Maximilian  at  the  siege  of  the  city  Tournay.  1513. 

(2)  Henricus  rosas,  regna  Jacobus. 


MEMORIAL  OF  WAYNFLETE.  67 

As  Enoch,  Adam,  and  Methusalem. 

The  heavens  enclose  thy  soul,  thy  corpse  the  grave, 
Let  us  thy  name  from  dark  oblivion  save. 

160. 

EFILOGUS. 

Thus  Waynflete  liv'd,  and  thus  did  Waynflete  end, 
Who  yet  shall  never  end,  for  whilst  the  sun, 
Plac'd  in  his  flaming  coach,  his  work  intends, 
And  makes  his  fiery-footed  jades  to  run 
About  yon  crystal  cieling  ;  whilst  the  light 
That  gilds  our  dark  nights  '  scapes  confusion, 
So  long  shall  Waynflete  live,  and  flourish  bright 
To  all  posterity,  and  be  accounted 
A  man  most  absolute,  bv  none  surmounted. 


FINIS. 


APPENDIX. 


STANZA  4. 

The  genealogy  of  the  ancient  Family  of  Patten  of 
the  county  Palatine  of  Lancaster,  of  which  was 
William  of  Waynflete,  Bishop  of  Winchester,  Lord 
Chancellor  of  England,  founder  of  Magdalen  College, 
Oxford  £c.  Wherein  are  exhibited  the  maternal  and 
conjugal  alliance  with  the  Pattens  of  the  Revd  Tho 
mas  Wilson,  D.  D.  Prebendary  of  Westminster  &c. 
&c.  deduced  from  sundry  evidences  preserved  in  the 
college  of  arms,  London,  to  the  year  1770,  by  Ralph 
Bigland  Esq.  Somerset,  Isaac  Heard  Esq.  Lancaster, 
Heralds.  With  additions  to  the  present  time. 

(a)    Richard  Patten 
or  Patine  of  Patten 
House,  prope  Chelmsford 
in  the  county  of  Essex. 

Richard  Patten  s.  and  h.=  .  .  .  Eyre  .  .  . 
temp.  Hen.  I.  1119.  |       County  of  Derby. 

Richard  Patten,  s.  and  h.  —    Mary  '1.  and  cob.  of 


Lord  of  Dagenhams,  of 
Dagenham  Court  and 
Patten  House,  both  in  the 


Ralph    Dagenhams  (b)  of 
Dagenham  Court,  county 

of  Essex. 


county  of  Essex. 

A  [see  the  next  page.] 

(a)  The  name  of  Patine  occurs  in  a  tablet,  sometime  in  Battle  Abbey,  among  the  Knights 
and  Esquires,  who  came  over  with  William  the  Norman.     Vide  Stow's  Chronicle. 

(b)  A.  P.  13:>:>.      Philip  de  Dover  held  .17  acres  of  arable  in  this  Vill  (Dapenhams)  of  Willi 
am  Dakenham  by  the  service  of  13s.  per  annum.     Vide  Morant's  Ksscx.  vol.  1,  p  61,  note  I 

10 


70 


APPENDIX. 


[from  A  in  the  last  page.] 
I 

|     1  |     2 

Richard  Patten   anno  =       Robert 

5  Hen  :  III.  |         Patten 


John 
Patten 


John  Patten  s.  and  h.  =   .  .  .  Nevyle, 
|     County  of  Derby. 

John  Patten  s.  and  h.=   .  .  .  Poole, 
|    County  of  Derby. 

John  —  Agnes 
Segar 

I    1 
John  Patten  of  = 
Dagenham  Court 
and  of  Waynflete, 
county  of  Lincoln 
living  in  1376. 

1   2 
=  .  .  .  d.  and  h.  of       William 
Sir  Oswald  Wes-     Patten  of 
tingcroft,  Knt,  of       Wheldryk. 
Westingcroft.  Co.     Co.  York. 
Lancast. 

1    3 
=  Emma  d.         John 
of  ...           Patten 
Everingham 
Co.  York. 

Thomas  Patten  of  = 
Wheldryck    had 
issue  1429. 


Nicholas  Patten  of  Wayn-   = 
flete,  s.  and  h.  of  John. 


Agnes  coh. 


Idonea  coh. 


1 

13                                                      |    2 

John  Patten 

(c)  Richard  Patten  =  Margery  d.     Nicholas  =  .   .   .  . 

of  Waynflete 

alias  Waynflete 
temp.    Hen.  IV 

of  Sir  Will.  (William?) 
Brereton  Kn.    Patten 

or  V. 

of  Brereton, 

Co.  Chester. 

(c)  For  an  account  of  Richard  Patten,  Vide  Chandler's  Life  of  Waynflete.  The  High  Tomb 
stated  by  him  (p.  242)  to  be  existing  in  the  ancient  church  of  all  Saints,  Waynflete,  has,  since 
the  demolition  of  that  Edifice,  been  transferred  to  Magdalen  College  chapel,  Oxford,  where 
it  remains  in  an  excellent  state  of  preservation.  Over  the  supposed  resting  place  of  Richard 
Patten  at  Waynflete  the  following  inscription  has  been  lately  placed  on  a  slab  of  black  marble  ; 

St'BTUS  CORPUS  JACKT  RlCARDI  PATTEN  PATER  QUI  FU1T  ILLUSTRIS  WAYNFIETI  MONU- 
MENTUM  EJUS  MIRa  ARTE  FABRICATUM  OLIM  A  FILIO  PATRI  HIC  POSITUM  IN  COLLEGIO  S. 

MARINE  MAGDALENE  OXONII  CONSERVATOR  PRJESES  SOCIIQUE  MAGDALENENSES  P.  P.  KE 
OSSA  PARENTIS  FUNDATORIS  sui  VIOLARENTUR— A  handsome  mural  tablet  of  white  marble 
is  also  affixed  to  the  north  wall  of  the  interior  of  the  new  Church  at  Waynflete  inscribed  thus ; 

CUM  EXCISA  ESSET  VICINA  OMNIUM  SANCTORUM  ECCLESIA  ABLATUMQUE  CUM  EA  RlCARDI 
PATTEN  SEPULCHRUM  IN  ftUO  QUIDEM  PULCHERRIMO  MONUMENTO  FILIUS  EJUS  GULIELMUS 
WINTONI^EPISCOPUS  PATRI  CAPUT  SUSTINENS  SPECTAHATUR  HUKC  TITULUM  PARENTI  FUN 
DATORIS  SUI  PRJESES  SOCIIQUE  MAGDALENENSES  posuERUNT.  Both  these  inscriptions  are 


APPENDIX. 


71 


John  Patten 
of  Waynflete 


13    [repeated  from  page  70.]  2 

ichard  Patten  —  Margery  d.     Nicholas  = 
'  i-        itr /i-i.  ~fc:..\v;ii     /wili.'o,-,-.  ?\ 


alias  Waynflete 
temp.  Hen.  IV. 
or  V. 


of  Sir  Will.   (William?) 
Brereton  Kn.    Patten, 
(d)  of  Brere 
ton,  Co.  Chester. 


Joan 


=  Thomas 
Valence 
of  Kent. 


Robert  Patten  = 
temp  Hen.  IV    I 


Bostock  =  Mar- 
Co.  Ches-    I  garet 

ter. 

Richard  =  Juiiana(f)     Bonhewre  =  Helen  d. 
Churchstyle  Co.  Derby   |     and  h. 


1    2 
(e)  John  Patten 
Dean  of  Chi- 
chesterd.  1481. 

I    1 
WILLIAM  PATTEN  alias 
Waynflete,    Bishop   of 
Winchester,  founder  of 
Magdalen  College,  ob. 
11  Ag.  1486. 

1    3 
Richard  Patten= 

of  Boslow,  Co. 
Derby. 

See  page  73.  L 

from  the  pen  of  the  present  learned  and  venerable  President  of  Magdalen,  whose  accurate  and 
elegant  taste  in  compositions  of  this  nature  excited  the  admiration  of  Parr  and  Sheridan. 
May  it  yet  be  long  before  the  Cenotaph  in  a  certain  beautiful  church  near  Reading,  Berks., 
shall  require  the  addition  of  such  a  memorial. 

(d)  Sir  William  Brereton  died  4  Hen.  VI.     His  wife  was  Anylla  d.  of  Hugh  Venables. 
For  an  account  of  him  vide  Chandler. 

(e)  For  an  account  of  John  Patten,  Dean  of  Chichester,  Vide  Chandler.     The  memoranda 
of  his  funeral  expences,  from  a  MS.  in  the  Library  of  Magdalen  College,  may  be  found  in  the 
Gentleman's  Magazine,  1834,  pt  11,  page  589. 

(f)  This  descent  of  Juliana  Churchstyle  is  not  exactly  correspondent  to  a  Deed,  said  to  have 
been  anciently  in  the  Remembrancer's  office,  but  now  not  to  be  found.     The  Preamble,  as 
furnished  by  the  Revd  Dr  Wilson,  is  "  Know  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  Juliana 
Churchstyle,  widow  of  the  late  Richard  Churchstyle  deceased,  first   cousin  and  heiress  to 
William,  late  Bishop  of  Winchester,  am  the  only  daughter  and  heiress  of  Robert  Patten,  the 
Brother  and  Heir  of  Richard  Patten,  the  Father  of  the  aforesaid  Prelate,  William  of  Wayn 
flete,  in  my  widowhood  &c."—  This  Deed  was  to  convey  a  title  to  an  estate  at  Dagenham  in 
Essex,  but  it  is  very  extraordinary,  and  therefore  doubtful,  that  Robert  Patten,  Father  of 
tfuliana,  should  be  styled  Brother  and  Heir  of  Richard  Patten,  who  is  the  lineal  ancestor  of 
the  present  Thomas  Patten  of  Bank  esq.— (Note  of  the  Heralds  in  the  Family  Pedigree.) 

Budden,(p.  11,)  quotes  the  above  mentioned  portion  of  the  Deed  from  the  College  Register. 
Chandler  examined  Reg.  A.  without  finding  it.  I  have  discovered  it  in  the  last  page  of  Reg. 
C.  and  here  give  it  entire.— It  will  be  seen  that  Budden,  from  whom  Chandler  &c.  have  cited 
the  document,  omitted  WILLIAM  PATYN.the  uncle  of  our  Founder,  and  Grandfather  of 
Juliana  Churchstyle,  and  that  the  Heralds  were  correct  in  pronouncing  some  mistake.— Ed. 

"  Sciant  praesentes  et  futuri  quod  ego  Juliana  Churchstyle  vidua,  nuper 
uxor  Ricardi  Churchstyle  defuncti,  consanguinea  et  haeres  magistri  Willi- 


72  APPENDIX. 

elmi  de  Waynflete,   nuper  Wintoniensis  episcopi,  videlicet  unica  filia  et 
hasres  Robert!  Patyn,  filii  et  haeredis  Willielmi  Patyn,  fratris  et  haeredis 
Richard!  Patyn,  alias  dicti  Barbour,  de  Waynflete,  patris  praedicti  Williel 
mi    de  Waynflete,  nuper    Episcopi,   in  pura    viduitate  mea,   et  legitima 
potestate  dimisi,  tradidi,  liberavi,  et  hac  praesenti  charta  mea  confirmavi 
Reverendissimo  in  Christo  Patri,  Johanni  Cantuariensi  Archiepiscopo,  Wil- 
lielmo  Martyn  et  Johanni  Percyvale,  militibus,  Johanni  More   gentihnan, 
Nicholao  Worley,  Henrico  Wodecocke,  et  Willielmo  Cater,  manerium  sive 
totam  illam  placeam,  vocatam  Dakenham  Place,  ac  omnia  terras  et  tene- 
menta  in  villa  et  parochia  de  Berkinge  in  comitatu  Essex,  et  alibi  in  eodem 
comitatu  cum  libera  warenna  in  eisdem  manerio,  terris  et  tenementis,  ac 
in  omnibus  aliis  dominicis  terris  in  eadern  villa,  sive  parochia,  quae  prae- 
dictus  Willielmus  de  Waynflete,  per  nomen  Willielmus  Episcopus  Winton 
iensis,  ac  Johannes    nuper  vicecomes  de  Beaumount,  Radulphus  nuper 
Dominus  de  Sudley,  Johannes  Dorwarde   armiger,  Henricus   Astley,  et 
Johannes  Folkard,  jam  omnes  defuncti,   (quos  quidem  Johannem  vice- 
comitem,  Radulphum,  Johannem  Dorwarde,  Henricum  Asteley,  et  Johan 
nem  Folkard,  praedictus  Willielmus  de  Waynflete  supervixit,)  nuper  con- 
junctim  habuerunt :   eis,  haeredibus  et  assignatis  in  perpetuum  ex  dono, 
concessione,  et  chartae  confirmatione  Mri  Rokke  clerici,  et  Roberti  Osborn. 
Quae  quidem  manerium,  terrae,  et  tenementa,  simul  cum  warrena  praedicta, 
ac  cum  omnibus  et  singulis  suis  pertinentibus,  per  et  post  mortem  dicti 
Willielmi  de  Waynflete,  sicut    prsedicitur,  super   viventis,  mihi   praefatae 
Julianas  more  haereditario  descendebant  ac  descendere  debuerunt,  haben- 
dum  et  tenendum  praedictum   manerium,  terras   et  tenementa  simul  cum 
vvarrenna  praedicta  ac  cum  omnibus  et  singulis  suis  pertinentibus  praefatis 
Johanni  Archiepiscopo,  Willielmo    Martyn,  Johanni   Percy val,    Johanni 
More,  Nicholao  Worley,  Henrico  Wodecoke,  et  WTillielmo  Cater,  haeredi 
bus  et  assignatis  suis  in  perpetuum  de  capitalibus  dominicis  feodi  illius 
per  servicia  inde  debita  et  de  jure  consueta  ;  ac  insuper  noveritis  me  prae- 
fatam  Julianam  fecisse,  ordinasse,  et  loco  meo  posuisse  dilectos  mihi  in 
Christo  Johannem  Spigonell  et  Johannem  Ledar,  meos  veros  et  legitimos 
attornatos  conjunctim  et  divisim  ad  intrandum  jure  et  nomine  meo  et  pro 
me  in  praedictum  manerium,  terras  et  tenementa,  cum  caeteris  praernissis  et 
suis  pertinentibus  ac  plenam  et  pacificam  possessionem  ac  seisinam  jure 
et  nomine  meo  capiendmn  et  connrmandum,  ac  de  et  super  hujusmodi 
possessione  sic  captis  et  confirmatis  plenam  et  pacificam  possessionem  et 
saisinam  de   et  in  eisdem  nomine  meo  prsefatis  Johanni  Archiepiscopo, 
Willielmo    Martyn,  Johanni  Percyvale,  Johanni   More,    Henrico  Wode 
coke.  et  Willielmo  Cater,  deliverandum  secundum  vim,  formam  et  effectum 
praesentis  chartae  meae  —  Ratum  et  gratum  habentes  et  habituri  totum  et 


APPENDIX. 

L).  [from  page  71.] 

73 

1 

I 

(s)  Richard   =   (h)  Grace     John    =     Helen     (i)  Humphrey   - 

=   Jane  d. 

Patten 

d.  and  h.      Ito-            named           Patten 

and     h. 

s.  and  h. 

of  John 

by  n  son        in  the 

ofThos 

ob.1536. 

Basker- 

will  of  her 

Rixton 

ville 

Brother 

of  Great 

Richard 

Sankey 

Co.Lan- 

caster 

Gent. 

see  £  page  75. 

1    DAI'. 

Joan  =  IST  HUSB.  William  Streete,  of 

Islington, 

co.  Middlesex  living  29  April,  1536. 

=  2ND  HUSB.  Thomas   Percy  of  Stanwell, 

co.   Middlesex. 

—2   DAU. 

Lettice  =  Richard  Staverton,  of  Bray, 

co   Berks. 

gent. 

—    3     DAU 

.   Mary   =   Christopher  Marton,  of  Ashton,  co. 

- 

York,  gent. 

4     DAL 

.  Alice  =  IST  HUSB.  Thomas  Seaiie, 

of   Essex, 

living  1536. 

=  2ND   HUSB.   Annigal  Wade, 

co.  Mid- 

dlesex.  (k) 

—    2    SON 

Sylvester  Patten  :  ob.  s.  p. 

F  See  the  next  page 

quicquid  dicti  attornati  mei  nomine  meo  fecerint  aut  eorum  alter  fecerit  in 
praemissis  et  quolibet  premissorum.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  huic  prse- 
senti  chartae  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Datum  apud  Barking  praedictum 
quinto  decimo  die  mensis  Decembris  anno  regni  Regis  Henrici  septimi 
post  consuetum  tertio  decimo. 

(s)  Richard  Patten,  citizen  and  clothworker  of  London.  He  was  buried  in  St  Mary  Magd. 
ch.  Milk  St— will  dated  29  Apr.  1536. 

(h)  Grace  d.  of  J.  Baikervill  by...d.  and  h.  of...Goddard,  from  Co.  Hereford.  She  died 
before  her  husband  and  was  buried  in  St  M.  Magd.  ch.  Milk  St. 

(i)  Humphrey  Patten  seated  himself  at  Warrington,  co.  Lancaster,  1536.  He  was  buried 
there,  and  in  the  Churchyard  of  that  place  was  existing  in  1774  a  tombstone  with  the  following 
genealogical  Epitaph:  "HERE  LYE  INTERRED  HUMPHREY  PATTEN,  SON  OF  RICHARD, 

BROTHER    TO    WlLMAM    OF    WAYNFLETF.  :     THOMAS     PATTEN,    HIS    OLDEST     SON:     THOMAS 

PATTEN  HIS  OLDEST  SON,  May  30,  1639:  THOMAS  PATTEN,  HIS  OLDEST  SON,SKPT.  8,  1653. 
THOMAS    PATTEN,  HIS  OLDEST   SON    NOV.  25,  1684:    THOMAS  PATTEN,  HIS  ELDEST   SON, 
PIED  APRIL  ?,  1726,  AGED  63."    (Robinson's  Hist,  of  Stoke  Newington.  p.  29.) 
(k)  Armigell  Wade  was  educated  at  St  Mary  Magd.  Coll.  Oxford,  and  took  a  degree  in  ArU 


74 


APPENDIX. 


from  the  last  page 
— 1  SON  William  Patten  (1)  =  Anne  (Johnson) 


—  1  SON  Mercury  Patten,  s.  and  h.  (m) 

—  2  SON  Richard  Patten. 

—  3  SON  Thomas  Patten 

-  4  SON  (11)  Gratian  Patten  =   Elizabeth  Collis. 

William  Patten,  living  a  minor  Oct. 
9,  1600. 

—  1   DAU.    Elizabeth   =   Sir   Thomas   Coney,  of    Basing- 

thorp,  co.  Lincoln,  kt. 

—  2  DAU.  Pallas. 

—  3  DAU.  Anne. 


circa  1531,  and  afterwards  became  clerk  of  the  council  to  Hen.  VIII,  and  Edw.  VI.  In  1559  he 
•was  ambassador  to  the  Duke  of  Holstein.  Obiit.  20  June,  1568  and  was  buried  in  the 
chancel  at  Hampstead  where  a  fair  monument  of  alabaster,  now  destroyed,  was  erected  over 
his  grave  by  his  eldest  son  Sir  Will.  Wade.  Vide  Wood's  Athenae  Oxon.  Ed.  Bliss,  vol.  1. 
4to  col.  360. 

(1)  William  Patten  esq.  Lord  of  the  manor  of  Stoke  Newington,  co.  Middlesex,  (the 
Church  of  which,  according  to  Stow,  he  new  builded  in  1563),  one  of  the  Tellers  of  the 
Receipt  of  the  Queen's  Exchequer  at  Westminster,  Receiver  general  of  her  Revenues  in  the 
county  of  York,  customer  ol  London  outward,  and  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  the  county 
of  Middlesex.  He  married  Anne  d.  and  coh.  of  Richard  Johnson  of  Boston,  co.  Lincoln,  and 
Alice,  his  wife,  h.  of...Eynes  of  Poplar,  co.  Middlesex. 

(m)  Mercury  Patten,  Blue  mantle  Pursuivant  of  arms  from  1597  to  1611. 

(n)  Gratian  Patten  of  St  Andrew's  Holborn.  will  dated  1603.  After  his  death  his  widow 
Elizabeth  married  John  Trussalof  Winchester.  Gent. 


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Stanza  106. 

Description  of  Magdalen  College  at  the  time  of  Prince  Henry's  matri 
culation,  and  King  James's  visit  in  August  1605,  from  Wake's  Rex  Pla- 
tonicus,  p.  41,  &c. 

. .  .Sed  potentem  monarcham  post  tsedia  itineris  se  coenaculo  refi- 
cientem  paulisper  relinquat  oratio,  invita  quidem,  nisi  quod  Jacobi 
Britanm'seque  una  saavissimain  spem,  Henricuin  Principem  sequu- 
tara  sit  ad  curiam  suam  in  magnificentissimo  Collegio  Divse  Mag- 
dalense,  extra  portam  civitatis  orientalem  sito,  commeantem. 
Etenim  ea  solennis  est  majestatis  Britannise  consuetudo,  ne  princi- 
cipes  una,  quamvis  capacissiina,  regia  excipiantur,  sed  ut  singulis 
singula  palatia  destinentur  :  sicut  pauculis  mutatis  verbis  merito 
illud  de  Pompeio  et  filiis,  sed  sensu  multo  feliciore,  usurpari 
possit, 

Quid  mirum  toto  si  spargitur  urbe  ?  teneri 

Uno  non  poterat  gloria  tanta  loco.  MART.  Ep.  5,  7G. 
Itaque  Principis  excellentiam  comes  illustrissimus  atque  idem 
optimus  Wigornius,  equi  regii  Prsefectus,  et  Dominus  Knovvles- 
ius  Baro,  Regise  Thesaurarius,  deducunt :  comitantur  vero  Oxon- 
iensis  et  Essexius  lectissimi  dilectissimique  comites,  vicecomes 
Cranbornius,  Roberti  Cecilii,  comitis  iro\iTLKordrov,  hseres,  Schef- 
feldius,  Harringtonius,  Howardius,  Brusius,  cum  reliquo  Britan- 
mcss  juventutis  flore,  e  Principis  fanmlitio  ;  sed  cum  primis  virtu- 
tis,  doctririseque  ergo  nominandus  Thomas  Chalonorus,  eques 
auratus,  Principi  in  disciplinarum  omniumque  regiarum  institu- 
tioue  honoratus  Praefectus,  quo  viro  merito  gloriatur  collegium 
Magdalenense,  ut  etiam  iimuineris  aliis,  quos  intra  lustra  annorum 
non  multa  in  Kempublicam  Ecclesiamque  transmisit,  alumnis : 
archiepiscopis  scilicet  duobus,  iisdemque  cardinalibus,  episcopis 
viginti  duobus,  Toxo  martyrologo,  Laurentio  Humphredo,  aliisque. 


APPENDIX.  83 

Collegium  ab  Euro  alluit  limpidissimus  rivorum  Chenvellus  (is 
alter  ex  parentibus  Tamisiaci  fluminis  habetur)  qui  Pontem  civi- 
tatis  orientalem,  Collegii  parietibus  imminentem,  subterfluens 
compascuis  proximis  cum  Iside  conjugatur.  Ipsa  moenia  ex  quad- 
rato  lapide  fortissima  pinnisque  ornatissima,  tarn  immense  se  pro 
tend  unt  in  Aquilonem,  tantumque  a3dificii,  arboreti,  pomarii  sinu 
continent,  ut  procul  contuentes,  non  tarn  collegium  quam  urbe- 
culam  eorum  complexu  comprehendiputent.  Ad  alteram  fluminis 
ripam,  qua?  Collegio  privato  ponte  adnectitur,  undecunque  virida- 
ria  pascuaque  fructu  commodissima,  ambitu  spectatuque  multo 
gratissima,  sed  imprimis  ambulacra  multo,  ut  patet,  opere  et 
sumptu  sed  majore  elegantia  aggesta,  et  sepium  arborumque 
ordinibus,  fluminisque  undique  spiraculo  et  murmure  jucundis- 
sima. 

Nee  in  primo  aditu  deliciae  oculorum  minus  pellices.  In  area 
exteriori  introeuntium  oculis  objicit  se  amplissimum  frontispicium 
tribus  porticibus  magnis  insigne,  quarum  altera,  quse  a  Iseva  in 
aream  interiorem  ducens,  uti  et  media,  vivas  superne  statuas  exhi- 
bet,  et  Waynfleti  laudatissimi  fundatoris,  Episcopi  olim  Winto- 
riiensis,  hujusque  Regni  Summi  cancellarii  et  Marise  Magdalenae 
Servatorem  alabastri  et,  quod  acceptius  erat,  lacrymarum  ungu- 
ento  demulcentis, — nam  hujus  lacrymantis  Divae  nomini  (rectius 
quam  Romani  qui  templurn  Deo  ridenti  et  ridicule  posuerunt) 
collegium  suum  consecrabat,  altera — Ad  templum  ducit,  lapicida- 
rum  elegantiis,  testudinum  politura,  alarum  varietate,  pyramidum 
multitudine,  campanilis  spectabili  sublimitate  laudatissimum. 
Ad  quarn  porticum  Collegii  Prseses,  Dominus  Nicholaus  Bondus, 
S.  T.  P.  et  cseterum  studiosorum  sodalitium  (qui  Fundatoris 
alumni  censentur  sex  supra  numerum  centenarium,  preeter  amplum 
nobilium  adolescentium  gregem)  omnes  suis  ordinibus  dispositi 
Principem  venientem  excipiunt,  cujus  adventu  quantum  Igetitiae 
conceperint,  quantumque  sibi  gratularentur,  Magister  Jacobus, 
Mabbe  publico  Collegii  nomine  eleganti  oratione,  alii  carminibus 
propalam  affixis  testabantur.  Inde  in  aream  Collegii  interiorem 
eandemque  amplissimam  pergitur ;  quadriformi  ajdificiorum  ex 


84  APPENDIX. 

quadrato  lapide  claustrorumque  spcctaculo,  et  duplici  parietuin 
pennarurnque  ordine  insignem.  Tibicines  speciosi,  qui  frequentes 
singula  latera  ct  praemuniunt  ct  adornant,  ipsi  hieroglyphicis  et 
pene  spirantibus  anirnalium  iraaginibus  adornantur,  quse  ita  e  vivo 
lapide  vivis  coloribus  justa  omnes  magnitudine  expressae  sunt,  ut 
ad  Mosis  effigiem  toga  cserulea  deformati,  Eusticanum  aperto 
capite  accessisse  certissima  ocuJatorum  testium  fide  consiet,  et  ut 
sibi  (nescio  quo  eunti)  viam  indicaret,  submisse  petiisse.  Ista 
vero  Mosis  statua  theologias  professio  designata  est :  cui  a  dextra, 
sed  suis  intervallis,  visuntur,  jurisperitus  clientem  emungens, 
medicus  purpuratus  phialam  urinariam  contemplans,  paedagogus 
denique  e  cathedra  superciliosus :  qui  singuli  facilitates  suas  de- 
signabant,  quam  tamen  non  magis  quam  lapides  callebant,  a  leeva 
tlieologias  ludos  agit  morionis  imago,  vultu  vestituque  ridicula, 
qua  notari  videtur  voluisse  author  mysticus,  prudentium  esse 
clarissimis  artibus  insudare,  etsi  fatuis  inscitia  sua  arrideat,  seque 
nugameritis  delectent,  prudentiam  aliorum  contemuant.  Pryssidis 
sedibus  prasfiguntur,  (ut  caatera  ilia  ornnia  ingeniorum  cruoiainenta 
aliis  Hermetibus  relinquam)  hinc  torvus  leo,  illinc  pelicanus,  qui 
rostro  sibi  pectus  pertundens,  pullulos  suos  sanguine  fovet,  ut 
literatae  juventutis  prasfecti  rnoiieantur,  ex  illo  quod  j)ossint,  ex 
isto  quid  debeant  erga  suos,  et  ex  illo  vigiles  fortesque  agere  ad- 
versus  male  meritos,  ex  isto  mites  ct  ainantes  erga  bonos  :  sed 
esse  leones  omnes  experimur,  an  tales  sint  uspiam  pelicani  non 
sine  causa  dubitant  qui  sunt  naturas  a  secretis. 

His  a  Principe  transeuiite  perlustratis,  ad  ista  Prresidis  concla- 
via,  Excellentiae  recipienda?  destinata,  deductus  est :  ubi  literarii 
palsestritse  tan  to  arbitrio  in  disputationum  certamine  concertant. 
In  quo  Gulielmus  Seymerus,  Hartfordias  comitis  ex  Beauchampio 
filio  nepos  natu  minor,  resporidentis  stationem  tuebatur.  Carol  us 
filius  comitis  Wigornii,  Edvardus  Hartfordias  comitis  ex  Beau 
champio  hseres,  Robertus  Gorgius  clarissimi  Thomae  Gorgii  Equi- 
tis  aurati  et  proecellentis  marchionissa3  Northampton  filius,  Chal- 
onirii  duo,  et  Gulielmus  Burlasius,  equiturn  insignissimorum  filii, 
adolescentes  omnes  natalium  splendorem  indolis  virtutumque 


APPENDIX.  85 

pracstantia  sequiparantes,  amentatis  argumentorum  hastis  strcnue 
irrucbant.  Qua  velitari  pugua  Excellentia  ejus  una  ct  animum 
suum  voluptate  pascebat,  et  quanta  cum  voluptate  Nobilissimi 
Adolescentes  operara  in  optimarum  artiuni  studiis  collocabant,  ex 
quibus  solis  vera  nobilitas  comparanda  est,  intelligebat ;  manumque 
mox,  tanquam  ct  gratise  suae  et  eorum  meriti  testem,  singulis 
deosculandam  exhibuit. 

Unde  mox  Henricus  Princeps  a  suo  nobilium  comitatu  deduci- 
tur  ad  collegium  Magdalenense,  ubi  in  aula  collcgii  publica  Magda- 
lenensibus  invitatus  coenare  decreverat.  Supreinse  mcnsa3  medium 
solus  Ipse  occupabat,  unde  quasi  de  loco  superiori  prospicere  posset 
in  crcteros  omnes,  qui  simul  coenabant ;  quorum  ordines  ita  dis- 
tributi  sunt  ut  aula  media  comites  atque  nobiles  discumberent,  ad 
utraque  autem  aula3  latera  studiosi,  qui  ita  turn  frequentes  aderant, 
suoque  graduum  habitu  decenter  ornati,  ut  Princeps  eorum 
multitudine  et  ordine  plurimum  delectaretur,  eosque  omnes  pileis, 
quos  gestabant,  quadratis  discumbere  opertos  benigne  jussit,  et  ne 
quod  eis  incomparabilis  humanitatis  suse  indicium  deesset,  scyphum 
vino  spuraantem  generoso  arripiens,  unaque  studiosos  alta  vocc 
coropellans,  eorum  omnium  saluti  propinavit;  statimque  omnes  in 
pedes  erecti  consistunt,  donee  per  totum  aula?  circuituin  suavissimi 
Principis  saluti  respondeatur :  nee  illud  porro  obscurum  eximire 
benignitatis  argumentum,  quod  collegium  illud  consueverit  suum 
dicere  ejusque  se  curam  perpetuo  habiturum  pollicitus  fuerit.  Qui 
vicissim,  ne  quod  amantissimi  Principis  demerendi  officium  prse- 
termitterent,  sedulo  curabant,  et  publici  privatique  amoris,  quoties 
se  daret  opportunitas,  exhibebant  indicia.  Pandulphi  Colinucii 
Apologos,  librum  manuscriptum  auro  et  margaritis  affabre  contec- 
tum,  jubente  Collegii  Prseside,  tradidit  Gulielmus  Graius,  Arthuri 
de  Wilton  Baronis  filius  natu  minor,  aiienum  donurn  Principi 
commendans  illustri  oratione  sua  ;  uti  etiam  Edvardus  Chaloiiorus, 
qui  duo  insignium  auroque  fulgentium  chirothecarum  paria,  pro 
universi  collegii  voto,  et  Eicardus  Worsla3us,  adolescens  illustris, 
libellum  exoticarum  linguarum  versibus  eleganter  exaratum  dono 

11* 


86  APPENDIX. 

dedit :  ut  istiusmodi  etiarn  munusculis  Icvioribus  benevolentiae 
magnitude  seque  facile  conspici  potuerit  ac  cccli  atnplitudo  fencs- 
tra  etsi  parva.  Pag.  iii. 

Visuntur  mox  Magdalenensium,  seii  verius  jamPrincipis  Henrici 
sedes,  quibus  etsi  Wainfletus  ortura,  et  Magdalense  fletus  nomen 
dederit,  Jacobi  jam  radii  lacrymas  exsiccasse  gaudiumque  nunquam 
obliviscendum  visi  sunt  induxisse.  Eaque  gaudia,  ne  putarentur 
nulla  ubi  nulla  exprimuntur,  Douglaseus  Castilioneus,  publican 
lastitise  gratitudinisque  expeditus  interpres,  Eegi  ob  oculos  polita 
exhibuit  oratione  :  unde  mox  quicquid  ab  initio  in  illustre  hoc 
Henrici  hospitium  visu  dignuin  delineavimus,  pedibus  oculisque 
Isetus  metitur,  deque  singulis  Isetus  colloquitur.  Quumque  deinum 
ingrederetur  (uti  est  librorum  avidus  inspector)  Bibliothecam  et 
manuscripta,  vetustatis  situ  fere  evanescentia,  contueretur,  antiques 
fidei,  cujas  est  defensor,  ejusdem  et  amator,  verissima  oratione 
fassus  est,  etiamsi  volumina  recentiora  charactemm  compaginum- 
que  ornatu  rnulto  sunt  oculis  jucundiora,  istiusmodi  tamcn  canitie 
squalentia  plus  suo  palato  arridere ;  liorum  enim  fide  tam  homi- 
num,  quain  librorum  reccntiorum,testimonia  judiciaque  a3stimanda. 
Discessum  tandem  paraturus,  ut  omnibus  Collegii  studiosis^  cum 
deduccntibus,  vultu  voceque  patefaceret,  quam  grata  Ipsi  fuissent 
omnia  officii  eorum  amorisque  testimonia,  fronte  qualem  semper 
gestat  serenissima  valedixit,  et  capite  discooperto,  voce  benignis- 
sima,  Valete,  inquit  yenerosi,  valeteomnes  !  Pag.  132. 


APPENDIX.  87 


STANZA  149. 

The  Visit  of  Richard  III  to  Magdalen  College,  A.  D.  1 183.  From 
the  College  Register,  A,  fo.  28. 

Vicesimo  secundo  die  Julii  accessit  Oxoniam  Revcrendus  in 
Christo  pater  ac  dominus,  dominus,  Willielmus  Waynflete,  Wynto- 
niensis  Episcopus,  Fundator  hujus  Collegii,  ad  supervidendum 
statura  sui  Collegii  et  aedificia  ejusdem,  ac  etiam  ad  honorifice 
recipiendum  illustrissiraum  Doininum  regem  Ricardum  tertium  in 
suum  super-norainatum  Collegium,  proficiscentem  usque  Wood- 
stoke. 

Vicesimo  quarto  die  hujus  mensis  illustrissimus  Rex  Ricardus 
Tertius  honorifice  receptus  est,  primo  extra  universitatem  per 
cancellarium  universitatis  et  per  regenles  et  non  regentes  :  deinde 
receptus  est  honorifice  ac  processionaliter  in  collegium  Beatse 
Maria)  Magdalenre  per  dictum  Dominum  Fundatorem  et  per 
Prresidentem  et  scholares,  ibidemque  pernoctavit,  et  in  crastino, 
qui  fuit  dies  sancti  Jacobi  apostoli,  et  in  die  Sanctai  Annac  matris 
Marise  expectavit  usque  post  prandium  cum  quibusdam  plurimis 
dominis  suis  spiritualibus  et  temporalibus  et  aliis  nobilibus,  ut 
decuit. 

Eodem  die  venerunt  cum  domino  rege  ad  collegium  dominus 
episcopus  Dunelmensis,  dominus  episcopus  AYygornensis,  dominus 
episcopus  Assannensis,  magister  Thomas  Langton  elect  us  episco 
pus  Menevensis,  dominus  comes  Lincolnia3,  dominus  sencschallus 
comes  de  Surrey,  dominus  Camerarius  dominus  de  Lovell,  domi 
nus  Stanley,  dominus  Audeley,  dominus  Becham,  dorainus  Ricar 
dus  Radclyff,  miles,  et  plures  alii  nobiles,  qui  omnes  pernoctave- 
runt  in  collcgio.  Et  dominus  Furidator  recepit  omnes  cum 
honore. 

Vicesimo  quinto  die  hujus  inensis,  mandato  et  desiderio  domi- 


88  APPENDIX. 

ni  regis,  factae  sunt  in  aula  raagna  collegii  duse  solemnes  clisputa- 
tiones,  prima  videlicet  in  morali  philosopbia  per  magistrum 
Thomam  Kerver  opponentem  et  quendam  Baccalaureum  ejusdem 
collegii.  Deinde  facta  estalia  solennis  disputatio  theologica,etiam 
in  prsesentia  Regis,  per  magistrum  Joannem  Taylor  sacrcE  theologise 
Professorem  et  per  magistrum.  Willielmum  Grocyn  responsaleui ; 
quos  omnes  dominus  Rex  et  magnifice  et  honorifice  remuneravit, 
viz.  Doctorem  sacra  theologise  cum  damo  et  centum  solidis,  ejus- 
que  responsalem  cum  damo  et  quinque  marcis  :  magistrum  dispu- 
tantem  in  philosophia  cum  uno  damo  et  quinque  marcis,  et  bacca- 
laureum  responsalem  cum  damo  et  quadraginta  solidis.  Dedit 
insuper  idem  magnificus  Rex  prsesidenti  collegii  et  scholaribus 
duos  damos  cum  quinque  marcis  pro  vino. 

It  appears  also  from  an  old  account  book  of  Robert  Barnes,  V.  P.  that 
the  king  paid  a  short  visit  to  the  college  on  the  28th  of  October  following, 
and  made  an  oblation  at  the  altar  of  the  College  chapel  "  Recept. 

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