NOTE K.

THE PLATE, VESTMENTS, AND SERVICE BOOKS OF THE COLLEGE OF JESUS.

The Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge," contains a full account of an original volume of the Archives of the College of Jesus in the Library there. The book is still in its original red leather folding cover, and has the Arms of the Archbishop with his motto, and those of the See of York with his motto (see above, p. 132). The initial on the first page of the text, surmounted also by his motto, has a full-length figure of Rotherham on a gold ground in blue chasuble, dalmatic, and alb, with pall, mitre, and cross.

The principal contents of the volume are the statutes (in Latin), and an Inventory of the books, plate, and vestments given to the College by Rotherham, and by Henry Carnebull. This Inventory was not written until after Rotherham's death, as it mentions the articles as "acquisita post mortem ejus." The first list of plate is (with the addition of a great silver-gilt cross, a large vessel for holy water, two silver candlesticks, thuribles, a vessel (navis seu carchesa) for incense, and a silver-gilt goblet with cover bought out of the College funds) identical with the articles given below in Rotherham's Will. There is a second list, containing articles of considerable value, at the end of the volume, the gift of Henry Carnebull. The immense value of the plate in the Chantry Certificate Return is quite accounted for by this Inventory. (See above, p. 150).

Among the less-known items, the pax bread, a piece of silver or silver-gilt metal, with a figure of Christ crucified on it, which was passed among the congregation to be kissed as a kiss of peace, may be mentioned. There was one at Doncaster in 1548, which the clerk took round, saying, "This is a token of joyful peace betwixt God and man's conscience. Christ alone is the Peace-maker." (Hook's "Church Dictionary.") "Pelvis" is a basin for the hands; Pyx, the box for the reserved Sacrament; Cochlearia, spoons; Tacea, a cup; (compare the list in Rotherham's Will below, Note N., and the translation in Guest, p. 138.) The list of vestments, altar-cloths, and super-altars only contains one item not in Rotherham's Will. They are very gorgeous. Four complete sets of vestments for priest, deacon, and sub-deacon; one of cloth of gold, one red velvet bordered with

gold, and green orfreys, one red velvet powdered with gold, and the figure of an angel on the orfrey, one of red bawdekin or purple velvet (sic): a blue silk (blodium, a hyacinthine blue-Blunt. An. P.B. vestment worked with flowers: a red one with lions: another gold with velvet worked with pearl and bearing an image of St. Katherine: a white one of damask, &c. The one item not mentioned in Rotherham's Will is a vestment of black velvet bordered with gold. The predominance of red in both vestments and altar cloths is marked. In the Will a cope is mentioned of cloth of gold on a green ground. The “ super-altars" are not what is often designated by that name now, but portable slabs for use in consecrating the host. Very curious is the mitre for the barne bishop, of cloth of gold, with "two knops of silver gilt and enamyled." The list of service books in the Will is fuller than that in the Inventory. The Breviary

sumptuously illuminated, Missal, gradual, and antiphonary are all of the York Use. There is, however, also an illuminated Missal of great price, according to the use of Saruin. This Inventory is printed in full in the Descriptive Catalogue, but not given in Guest. I have not felt able to reproduce the statutes in the original, as they are of considerable length. For almost every purpose, however, the complete translation in Guest will be sufficient. There is another copy of the statutes in the Coton MSS., a good deal burnt. (Vit. E. 10, pp. 226-234.)

NOTE L.

NOTABLE INMATES OF THE COLLEGE OF JESUS.

As the College of Jesus only existed about sixty-four years, it is strange that it should have had seven or eight Provosts. Their names have been discovered by Canon Raine and Alderman Guest (pp. 120-123). The first Provost was William Greybern, D.D., at that time Rector of Sherington, Bucks. He did not resign Sherington apparently on his appointment, as he is said to have exchanged it (1486) for Handsworth. The statutes did not forbid the tenure of a benefice along with the Provostship, though it forbade a number of preferments, if requiring continual residence. Rectories especially were then held by non-residents. The impropriation system had lowered the whole standard of obligation regarding them. He was collated to a Stall in St. Sepulchre's, York, in 1490. His bequests to Rotherham, particularly the one for exhibitions at the College and University, are interesting. He was buried in the Chapel of Jesus (1501). The Will of William Rawson, dated June 22, 1495, styles him Provost of the College. He was buried also in the Chapel of Jesus. His bequest of extras (extrancis in prandio . . . . septima die) for the meal on Saturdays has been already mentioned (p. 150). He leaves some books to the College. Richard Hoton, B.D., and Robert Cutler, B.D. (1509) are unimportant. Robert Nevile, B.D. (1518), was Rector of Grove, Notts. (inst. 1506). After his resignation of the Provostship we find him Vicar of Almondbury (appointed no doubt by the College), Rector of Ordsall, and Prebendary of Bilton, York. He may perhaps have resigned the Provostship in 1530, if he is the man then appointed to the benefice of Staunton in the diocese of Salisbury, having been made Prebendary of Gaia Minor, Lichfield, in 1528. Robert Pursglove, the last Provost, was a man of some consequence. Born at Tideswell, educated at St. Paul's School, London, and Corpus, Oxford, he became Prior of Gisburne, where he is said to have “lived in the most sumptuous style, served only by gentlemen." He received a pension of £200 a year on his voluntary surrender of the Priory. After the suppression of it he became Bishop of Hull, under the suffragan Act of Henry VIII., and appears under this title in the Chantry Certificates for the College of Jesus. No doubt he had a pension assigned him at the dissolution of the College. He held his office of Suffragan under Mary, and was also Archdeacon of

of Rotherham.

Nottingham: but refusing to take the oath to Elizabeth, retired to his birthplace, where he died in 1579. Guest engraves the beautiful leger slab in the church at Tideswell, representing him in full episcopal vestments, with mitre and pastoral staff. Another inmate of the College, though not a member, should be named, Henry Carnebull, Archdeacon of York. He was evidently a loving and trusted friend He was one of the executors of his private estate, and also of the special fund for the defence of the College. To the latter office he was marked out by his love of the foundation, which is shewn by his splendid gifts of plate and books for the altar. A letter written by Rotherham in his last days from Cawood (Sept. 20, 1499), grants to him the right to the prayers of the College during life, and an annual mass after death. He became also an inmate of the College. He made his Will, while lying sick there (July 12, 1512), and no doubt died there, after further gifts of plate on the day before his death (August 10, 1512). He was buried before the altar in the Chapel of Jesus. The inscription on the stone asked for prayers for Rotherham as well as for himself. And he founded a Chantry for the sons of Henry VII. and his Queen, and for Rotherham, as well as himself, in the Chapel of Jesus. He may have contributed alsc to the completion of the Clerestory in the chancel (see above, p. 135).*

* For the incidents concerning Carnebull, see "The Manuscripts at Sidney Sussex," pp. 3-5, as well as Guest, pp. 76, 133, 144, 322.

NOTE M.

THE COLLEGE OF JESUS AND THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

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The nucleus of the revenues of the present Grammar School was the salary of the grammar master in the College of Jesus. When the site of the College was granted to the Earl of Shrewsbury, the schoolhouse was reserved by the Crown (exceptis . . ..... et nobis heredibus et successoribus nostris . . . . reservatis tota illa domo vocat. le scolehouse). (See Guest, p. 160.) The intention of this reservation was apparently to preserve a school for the teacher of grammar. The Commissioners of Edward VI. ordered that Thomas Snell, the master in grammar in the College of Jesus which they dissolved, "should have and enjoy the place of school master, and should have for his wages yearly xli. xvs. iiijd. as before. This sum was to be paid out of the Court of Augmentations. “The Grammar School" was to "continue there." Snell continued to teach, and received this salary duly until Michaelmas in the third year of Mary (1555), when it was refused him. He continued to keep school for nearly six years afterwards: the town, according to the account in "The Fall of Religious Houses, &c.," "hiring" him "for the schole." After Elizabeth's accession, the town at the expense of twenty marks supported Snell in a successful suit to the Queen, that the salary should be paid as in the time of Edward VI., together with part of the arrears. (See the “Decree for the revyvyng and continuance of the grammar school, 15th April, 1561,” (3rd of Elizabeth) in Guest, pp. 335, 356.

The Schoolhouse, which, as we have seen, had always remained in the Crown, and probably had been rented or allowed for the use of the Grammar School, was granted to Lawrence Woodnett and Anthony Collins, for uses of the town of Rotherham, in 1584, at an annual rent of sixpence. (See Guest, p. 368.) The present Grammar School is thus clearly the daughter of the College of Jesus: and in its most distinguished son, Bishop Sanderson, educated first there, and then admitted, as a Rotherham man, to one of the Rotherham Scholarships founded by the old Archbishop at Lincoln College Oxford, we may still recognise the dead hand's beneficence.