[192] Throughout this chapter I must acknowledge my indebtedness to Professor Burrows’ invaluable Worthies of All Souls. I must also mention that both the Warden of All Souls and Professor Burrows have been good enough to look through these pages, and have kept me from many pitfalls. The Warden furnished me with much information in the later pages of this chapter which would have been quite inaccessible without his help.
[193] Worthies, p. 32.
[194] Capi-tolium. A horrible derivation!
[195] See [page 226].
[196] The effigy on Richard Patten’s monument has been described as showing the dress of a merchant; but there does not seem to be anything in the costume which would indicate unmistakably the status of the wearer. The monument, formerly in the old Church of All Saints at Wainfleet, was removed to Oxford by the Society of Magdalen College to preserve it from destruction on the demolition of the church, in 1820. It is now placed in the little oratory on the north side of the choir of the College chapel.
[197] This Hall is of course to be distinguished from the later society of the same name, which was at first a dependency of Magdalen College, and afterwards became a separate foundation.
[198] Another duty incumbent upon the members of the Hospital was the preaching of a sermon ad populum on St. John Baptist’s Day. This, with certain other duties, was transferred to the College. The sermon was at one time preached as a rule from the stone pulpit in the corner of what is now called St. John’s Quadrangle; but the stone pulpit was not always employed even in early times. Thus in 1495 there is a record of a payment of 4d. to “four poor scholars” for bringing a pulpit from New College for St. John Baptist’s Day, and taking it back again. In the early part of the eighteenth century the sermon was preached in the chapel if the day chanced to be wet; and what was then the exception has become the rule.
[199] This name was given to the scholars who received half the allowance given to Fellows. It appears to have been in current use at the time when the founder’s statutes were drawn up.
[200] This priory, originally a dependency of St. Florence at Saumur, was made “denizen” in 1396, before the alien priories were suppressed.
[201] An Augustinian Priory, founded by Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, in 1233. It was suppressed by Waynflete, after several attempts had been made to reform it.