List of Provosts.
- 1326. Adam de Brome: first Provost under Charter of 21 Jan. 1325-6: died 16 June 1332.
- 1332. William de Leverton: instituted 27 June 1332: died 21 Nov. 1348.
- 1348. William de Hawkesworth: election confirmed 20 Dec. 1348: died 8 April 1349.
- 1349. William de Daventre: elected 1349: died June 1373.
- 1373. John de Colyntre: elected 8 July 1373: died c. 1385.
- 1385. [Headship in dispute between Thomas Kirkton and John de Middleton.]
- 1387. John de Middleton: confirmed 26 Feb. 1386-7: died 27 June 1394.
- 1394. John de Maldon: elected 3 July 1394: died Jan. 1401-2.
- 1402. [Headship in dispute between John Paxton and John Possell.]
- 1402. John Possell: died Sept. 1414.
- 1414. [John Rote: elected and confirmed 17 Nov. 1414, but resigned his claim 14 Feb. 1414-15.]
- 1415. William Corffe: confirmed 16 March 1414-15: died about Sept. 1417.
- 1417. [Headship in dispute between Richard Garsdale and Thomas Leyntwardyn.]
- 1419. Thomas Leyntwardyn: died 1421.
- 1421. Henry Kayle: confirmed 3 Dec. 1421: died 1422.
- 1422. [Headship in dispute between Nicholas Herry and another.]
- 1426. Nicholas Herry: first decision in his favour given 30 July 1424: final decision given 29 Jan. 1425-6: died 1427.
- 1427. John Carpenter: resigned 1435.
- 1435. Walter Lyhert: elected 3 June 1435: resigned 28 Feb. 1445-6.
- 1446. John Hals: elected 24 March 1445-6: resigned 4 March 1448-9.
- 1449. Henry Sampson: resigned 1475.
- 1475. Thomas Hawkyns: elected Nov. 1475: died Feb. 1477-8.
- 1478. John Taylor: elected 8 Feb. 1477-8: died 23 Dec. 1492.
- 1493. Thomas Cornysh: elected 5 Feb. 1492-3: resigned 26 Oct. 1507.
- 1507. Edmund Wylsford: elected 30 Oct. 1507: died 3 Oct. 1516.
- 1516. James More: elected 14 Oct. 1516: resigned 12 Nov. 1530.
- 1530. Thomas Ware: elected 16 Nov. 1530: resigned 6 Dec. 1538.
- 1538. Henry Mynne: elected 6 Dec. 1538: died 13 Oct. 1540.
- 1540. William Haynes: elected 18 Oct. 1540: resigned 17 June 1550.
- 1550. John Smyth: elected 17 June 1550: resigned 2 March 1564-5.
- 1565. Roger Marbeck: elected 9 March 1564-5: resigned 24 June 1566.
- 1566. John Belly: elected 25 June 1566: resigned 3 Feb. 1573-4.
- 1574. Antony Blencowe: elected 10 Feb. 1573-4: died 25 Jan. 1617-18.
- 1618. William Lewis: elected 28 March 1618: resigned 29 June 1621.
- 1621. John Tolson: elected 5 July 1621: died 16 Dec. 1644.
- 1644. John Saunders: elected 19 Dec. 1644: died 20 March 1652-3.
- 1653. Robert Say: elected 23 March 1652-3: died 24 Nov. 1691.
- 1691. George Royse: elected 1 Dec. 1691: died 23 April 1708.
- 1708. George Carter: elected 6 May 1708: died 30 Sept. 1727.
- 1727. Walter Hodges: elected 24 Oct. 1727: died 14 Jan. 1757.
- 1757. Chardin Musgrave: elected 27 Jan. 1757: died 29 Jan. 1768.
- 1768. John Clarke: elected 12 Feb. 1768: died 21 Nov. 1781.
- 1781. John Eveleigh: elected 5 Dec. 1781: died 10 Dec. 1814.
- 1814. Edward Copleston: elected 22 Dec. 1814: resigned 29 Jan. 1828.
- 1828. Edward Hawkins: elected 31 Jan. 1828: died 18 Nov. 1882.
- 1882. David Binning Monro: elected 20 Dec. 1882.
VI.
QUEEN’S COLLEGE.
By J. R. Magrath, D.D., Provost of Queen’s.
It is now just five centuries and a half since Robert of Eglesfield founded “the Hall of the scholars of the Queen” in Oxford. The Royal license for its foundation was sealed in the Tower of London on the eighteenth of January, and the statutes of the founder were corrected, completed and sealed in Oxford on the tenth of February in the year 1340 as men then reckoned, or as we should say 1341.
Eglesfield was chaplain and confessor to Philippa, Queen of Edward III. He came of gentle blood in Cumberland, and had ten years before received from the King the hamlet and manor of Ravenwyk or Renwick, forfeited through rebellion by Andrew of Harcla. This and the property he had purchased in Oxford as a site for his hall was all that Eglesfield was able of himself to contribute to its maintenance. His relations with the Queen and the King were, however, of priceless service to the new foundation.
Eglesfield seems to have continued for the remainder of his life to have fostered by his presence and influence the institution he had founded. In the earliest of the “Long Rolls,” or yearly accounts of the College, which are preserved, that of 1347-8, his name appears at the head of the list of the members. In that year sixteen pence is paid for the hire of a horse for six days, that he may visit London on the Thursday after the feast of St. Augustine, bishop of the English; twenty-three shillings is paid for a horse for him to go to Southampton about the time of the festival of St. Peter ad vincula; William of Hawkesworth, Provost of Oriel, a former Fellow, lends him a horse, and a penny is put down for a shoe for the same, and a halfpenny for parchment bought for him for documents executed on the feast of Saints Cosmo and Damian.
His funeral is celebrated in 1351-2. They made a “great burning for him,” as of seventeen and a quarter pounds of wax, costing nine shillings, expended during the year, eleven pounds were used at the funeral of the founder. Fourpence halfpenny only seems to have been spent on wine on the same occasion.