Albright Hussey Church having probably long before this fallen down, Battlefield Church became now, though without any definite settlement, practically the parish church for the old parish of Albright Hussey, and it has so continued ever since.
The Seal of the College.
Dukes, in his Antiquities of Shropshire, gives an engraving of the College Seal. It represents the Blessed Virgin crowned, the Child in her right hand, in her left a palm branch. On the dexter side a Shield of Arms, Quarterly France and England. On the sinister side, a chevron engrailed between three birds. Over each shield a sword erect. The legend being,—“S. Commune-Domini. Rogeri. Ive. primi. magistri. et. successorum. suorum. Collegii. Beatæ. Mariæ. Magdalenæ. juxta. Salop.” This was probably the first seal of the College.
Roger Ive, in 1444, complains that it had been fabricated, and orders a new Seal for the College,—In the centre, the image of the Holy Trinity, with the image of S. Mary Magdalene on the dexter side, and of S. John Baptist on the sinister side, at their feet the image of Roger Ive kneeling. The legend to be the same as before. I do not know that any impression of this second Seal has been preserved.
Masters of the College.
The following is an imperfect list of the Masters or Wardens of the College:—
Roger Ive, of Leaton; rector of Fitz 1399, and of Albright Hussey 1398 to 1447; first master.
Roger Phillipps, living in 1463, and 1480.
Adam Grafton, LL.B., 1490 and 1509; chaplain to Edward V. and Prince Arthur; vicar of St. Alkmund’s, Salop, 1473 to 1489; rector of Upton with Withington 1494; canon of St. Chad’s 1494; prebendary of Lichfield 1497; archdeacon of Salop 1504 to 1514; archdeacon of Stafford; dean of St. Mary’s Salop; died 24 July, 1530; buried at Withington, where a brass represents him as vested in a cope, and in an act of prayer. He erected or completed the tower of Battlefield Church in 1503.
John Hussey, 1521.