Appendix
List of Provosts from the Year 1443
| William Millington, D.D. | April 10, 1443 |
| John Chedworth, D.D. | Nov. 5, 1446[Y] |
| Robert Woodlarke, D.D. | May 17, 1452 |
| Walter Field, D.D. | Oct. 15, 1479 |
| John Dogget, D.C.L. (Oxon) | April 18, 1499 |
| John Argentine, D.D. and M.D. | May 4, 1501 |
| Richard Hatton, LL.D. | Mar. 21, 1507 |
| Robert Hacumblen, D.D. | June 28, 1509 |
| Edward Fox, D.D. | Sept. 27, 1528[Z] |
| George Day | June 5, 1538 |
| Sir John Cheke, M.A. | April 1, 1548 |
| Richard Atkinson, D.D. | Oct. 25, 1553 |
| Robert Brassie, D.D. | Oct. 3, 1556 |
| Philip Baker, D.D. | Dec. 12, 1558 |
| Roger Goad, D.D. | Mar. 19, 1569 |
| Fog Newton, D.D. | May 15, 1610 |
| William Smith, D.D. | Aug. 22, 1612 |
| Samuel Collins, D.D. | April 25, 1615 |
| Benjamin Whichcot, D.D. | Mar. 19, 1644 |
| James Fleetwood, D.D. | June 29, 1660 |
| Sir Thomas Page, M.A. | Jan. 16, 1675[AA] |
| John Coplestone, D.D. | Aug. 24, 1681 |
| Charles Roderick, LL.D. and D.D. | Oct. 13, 1689 |
| John Adams, D.D. | May 2, 1712 |
| Andrew Snape, D.D. | Feb. 21, 1719 |
| William George, D.D. | Jan. 30, 1742 |
| John Sumner, D.D. | Oct. 18, 1756 |
| William Cooke, D.D. | Mar. 25, 1772 |
| Humphrey Sumner, D.D. | Nov. 3, 1797 |
| George Thackeray, D.D. | April 4, 1814 |
| Richard Okes, D.D. | Nov. 2, 1850 |
| Augustus A. Leigh, M.A. | Feb. 9, 1889 |
| Montague R. James, Litt.D. | May 13, 1905 |
| Sir Walter Durnford, LL.D. | Nov. 16, 1918 |
List of Organists from 1592
| Edward Gibbons, Mus.B. (Cantab. & Oxon) | 1592-1599 |
| John Tomkins, Mus.B. (Cantab.) | 1606-1622 |
| Matthew Barton | 1622-1625 |
| Giles Tomkins | 1625-1626 |
| —— Marshall | 1626-1627 |
| John Silver | 1627 |
| Henry Loosemore, Mus.B. (Cantab.) | 1627-1671 |
| Thomas Tudway, Mus.D. (Cantab.) | 1671-1728 |
| Robert Fuller, Mus.B. (Cantab.) | 1728-1743 |
| John Randall, Mus.D. (Cantab.) | 1743-1799 |
| John Pratt | 1799-1855 |
| William Amps, M.A. (Cantab.) | 1855-1876 |
| Arthur Henry Mann, F.R.C.O., Mus.D. (Oxon), 1882; M.A. (Cantab.), 1910 | 1876- |
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Henry was born at Windsor in the year 1421. When Henry V was informed that Catherine had borne him an heir he asked: Where was the boy born? At Windsor was the reply. Turning to his Chamberlain, he gave voice to the following prophetic utterance:
"I Henry born at Monmouth,
Shall small time reign, and much get;
But Henry of Windsor shall long reign and loose all.
But as God will, so be it."
[2] The preamble to the charter granted by Henry in January 1441, and confirmed by Act of Parliament in February of the same year, as translated, reads as follows:—
"To the honour of Almighty God, in whose hand are the hearts of Kings; of the most blessed and immaculate Virgin Mary, mother of Christ; and also of the glorious Confessor and Bishop Nicholas, Patron of my intended College, on whose festival we first saw the light."
[3] In the College Library may be seen a small piece of silk in which his bones were wrapped, and which was taken from the coffin by the late Sir W. H. St. John Hope in the presence of Dr. M. R. James, when it was opened on the 4th November, 1910.
[4] The accounts show that a chapel existed from the beginning, and that it stood between the south side of the old court and the north side of the present Chapel. It consisted of a chancel, nave, and ante-chapel, and had a door at the west end, and east and west windows. It was richly fitted up; and numerous allusions to plate, hangings, relics, service books, vestments, choristers and large and small organs, show that the services were performed with full attention to the ritual of the day.
[5] He was buried in his chapel at Westminster beside that of his wife, Elizabeth of York. Lord Bacon says "He lieth at Westminster in one of the stateliest and daintiest monuments of Europe both for the chapel and the sepulchre. So that he dwelleth more richly dead in the monument of his tomb than he did alive in Richmond or in any of his palaces."
[6] The side windows are 49 feet in height from the base to the point of the arch, and 16 feet in width.
[A] Joseph, Mary, and a number of little angels adore the Child. Through an opening in the background are seen the Angels appearing to the Shepherds.
[B] The Virgin and Child on right: the Star above. Just above the Virgin in the picture the head of an Ox and an Ass may be seen.
[C] In the background on right Rebecca is seen bringing Jacob to Isaac to be blessed.
[D] Simeon is a conspicuous figure.
[E] At the bottom are the figures 15017, generally read as a date (1517).
[F] Below in front the devil (represented as an old man) tempts Christ to turn stones into bread. Above on left the two are seen on the high mountain: on right they stand on the pinnacle of the temple.
[G] David enters on left balancing the huge head of Goliath on the point of a sword. On right are the women with musical instruments.
[H] A man in a tree cuts down branches: others spread garments.
[I] Christ on left stands and gives the sop to Judas, who bends over the table from right. He is red-haired.
[J] A cup is shown at the left upper corner, and an angel is represented as coming down to comfort our Lord. The disciples are shown asleep at the bottom of the picture.
[K] Judas kisses Christ. Peter attacks Malchus.
[L] Annas and other Jews look on from above.
[7] This window from its base to the top of the arch is 53 feet and 25 feet wide.
[M] There was originally only half a window here. The lower half was intended to have a building (which was in part begun) abutting on it. This building was removed in 1827, and the lower part of the window opened up. The old glass was moved down to the lower lights in 1841, and in 1845 the glass which now occupies the upper main lights inserted by Hedgeland. The only thing that can be said in its favour is its vivid colours.
[N] This subject is often asked about. The whale is represented as a great green monster with a large black patch for the open mouth. Jonah is shown in a recumbent position on the ground. At the back is part of a ship, while in the extreme background may be seen Ninevah.
[O] Mary Magdalene is also seen alone in the background, looking into the Sepulchre.
[P] In the upper part of the left hand light is depicted the killing of the fatted calf.
[Q] This subject and its type ought to precede numbers 1 and 3.
[R] He casts his mantle, represented by a lovely piece of ruby glass, down to Elisha.
[S] In the background, Peter and John are seen bound to a pillar and scourged.
[T] In the background, Peter preaching inside the building.
[U] In the background is seen his body being carried out for burial.
[V] In the background he is seen being let down in a basket from a window. In this and the preceding window figures of St. Luke, habited as a doctor, with his ox by him, alternate with figures of angels in the central light.
[W] In this subject is a beautiful specimen of a late fifteenth century ship. The ship has her sails furled, and is anchored by her port anchor as her starboard anchor is fished (i.e. made fast with its shank horizontal) to the ship's side by her cable. An empty boat is alongside. At the top of the mainmast is a fighting top from which project two large spears.
An excellent article on this ship was contributed by Messrs. H. H. Brindley, M.A., and Alan H. Moore, B.A., and read to the members of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society in 1909.
[X] She kneels in the centre, full face. On right the Son, seated; on left the Father, crowning Mary. The dove between. Angels playing music in front.
[8] This window is 49 feet from its base to the top of the arch and 33 feet 6 inches in width.
[9] A rebus was invariably a badge or device forming a pun upon a man's surname. It probably originated in the canting heraldry of earlier days. A large number of rebuses ending in "ton" are based upon a tun or barrel; such are the lup on a ton of Robert Lupton, Provost of Eton 1504, which appears in the spandrils of the door in the screen leading into his chapel at Eton College, or the kirk and ton of Abbott Kirkton on the deanery gate at Peterborough. The eye and the slip of a tree, which form, together with a man falling from a tree (I slip!), the rebuses of Abbot Islip, are well known. The ox crossing a ford in the arms of Oxford, and the Cam and its great bridge in the arms of Cambridge are kindred examples.
[10] "The founder designed, by the colour of the field, to denote the perpetuity of his foundation; by the roses, his hope that the college might bring forth the choicest flowers, redolent of science of every kind, to the honour and most devout worship of Almighty God and the undefiled virgin and glorious mother; and by the chief, containing portions of the arms of France and England, he intended to impart something of royal nobility, which might declare the work to be truly regal and renowned."—Cooper's Memorials of Cambridge.
[11] At a meeting of old Etonian generals at Eton on May 20, 1919, the following reference was made to the arms of Eton:—
"What bears Etona on her shield?
What each true son should be;
A lion valiant in the field;
At heart a fleur-de-lis."
Daily Telegraph, May 21, 1919.
[12] Mr. T. F. Bumpas in his London Churches, Ancient and Modern, speaks of him as an organ builder of some note. Renatus Harris he is there styled. "In 1663 the Benchers of the Temple Church being anxious of obtaining the best possible organ, we find him in competition with one Bernard Schmidt, a German, who afterwards became Anglicized as 'Father Smith.' Each builder erected an organ which were played on alternate Sundays. Dr. Blow and Purcell played upon Smith's organ, while Draghi, organist to the Queen Consort, Catherine of Braganza, touched Harrises. The conflict was very severe and bitter. Smith was successful. Harrises organ having been removed, one portion of it was acquired by the parishioners of St. Andrew's, Holborn, while the other was shipped to Dublin, where it remained in Christ Church Cathedral until 1750, when it was purchased for the Collegiate Church of Wolverhampton. In 1684 he competed again with Father Smith for the contract for an organ for St. Laurance, Gresham Street, and was successful. In 1669 he built a fine large organ for St. Andrews, Undershaft." He was also engaged in 1693 to keep in order the organ in Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge, at a yearly salary of £3.
[13] Heads of Colleges have the right of impaling with their own arms the arms of the College of which they are the head in the same way as a Bishop impales the arms of the See over which he presides. Deans of secular churches and the Regius Professors of Divinity at Cambridge (since 1590) have the same privilege.
[14] Of Melrose it is written:
"The keystone that locked each ribbed aisle
Was a fleur-de-lys or a quarterfoil."
"The gorgeous halls which were on every side
With rich array and costly arras dight."
[16] In all cases I have refrained from using the Latin, and have contented myself with giving the English translation.
[17] The words "Pray for the soul," or "May whose soul God pardon," were sufficient excuse for fanatics such as Dowsing to destroy or deface the beautiful brasses in various parts of the kingdom. But the fanatics were not alone to blame; for it is well known that churchwardens and even incumbents of our churches have in many cases taken up and sold the brasses to satisfy some whim of their own in what they called "restoration" of the edifice over which they had charge.
[18] It may appear to my readers somewhat strange that in this case the words "Pray for the soul" and "May God have mercy, &c." are intact. Until 1898 this chantry had a boarded floor above the slab, the fillet round not being visible. The figure itself with label was affixed to a board and placed in the vestry for those who cared to inspect it. When the floor was removed the Brass was placed in its proper place on the slab and the whole inscription could then be seen. There are the matrixes of four coats of arms. Probably they were King's, Eton, the University, and Argentine's own coat, which was gules, three covered cups argent. At the upper corners of the fillet are the evangelistic emblems of St. Matthew and St. John, while those of St. Mark and St. Luke, which were evidently at the bottom, have been taken away.
[Y] The last Provost appointed by the Founder.
[Z] It is very strange, but there is no evidence of Provost Day having taken a degree of any kind. He was Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1537; Provost, 1538; Bishop of Chichester, 1543. On making enquiry at Chichester, the answer is "We have no reference whatever to his having taken a degree, odd as this is to us."
[AA] The last Provost nominated by the Crown.
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