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Historical Account Of The Life Of William Of Wykeham.
was allotted to two of them ; and the seven choristers had each one loaf of the family bread , and the fragments of the master ' sjtable and common hall , and were taught at school in the hospital ; Such was the institution and ceconomy of the hospital of St . Cross ; but the Bishops of Winchester , very soon after the foundation , began to prefer to it their nephews and kinsmen , not rightfully as to the mastership of an hospitalbut as to an ecclesiastical benefice ; and the
, persons , so preferred , had converted the revenues to other purposes than those appointed by the founders . In particular , John de Edyngdon , nephew to Wykeham ' s immediate predecessor , having been appointed master by his uncle , left it some time before W ykeham came to the bishopric , and took away with him and alienated the whole stock belonging to the hospital ; all the
cattlecorngoodsinstru-, , , ments , utensils , and moveables , of every kind , either in the house itself , or upon the estates belonging to it , leaving also dilapidations to the value of near 400 I . This Edyngdon was succeeded by one William de Stowell , who exchanged his mastership for a rectoiy soon after Wykeham became bishop ; but was obligedupon his resignationto make a particular
, , inventory of all the stock and goods then belonging to the' hospital , with an account of the state in which he found it . The . bishbp thett ordered his commissioners to enquire what was the condition' of ' tlte hospital when Edyngdon became master , aud what stock and goods
he found there ; and by their account , compared with Sioweh ' s' i ' nventory , it appeared what Edyngdon had embezzled ; against whom a suit was immediately commenced . Stowell-was succeeded'by ' on £ Lyntesford , who , finding the bishop very intent upon this prosecution , chose to resign the mastership to one Roger de Cloune , in ex- ' change for the rectory of Campsull in Yorkshire . Cloiine seems ' to have procured the mastership of the hospital for no other
purpose than to . plunder it ; hoping that , if he should'be made a party in the ' bishop ' s suit , he should yet be able , by artful delays , to prevent its coming to an issue till he had answered his own purpose , and put his unjust gain beyond the reach of his prosecutors . He , therefore , as soon as he entered on his office , seized upon the whole revenues and stock of the' hospitalas his property ; he sold the corn and cattleand a
, , great quantity of materials that had been laid in for repairs , and had the impudence , even after the bishop had proceeded against him , to pull down the larder of the hospital , and sell the materials : the larder , indeed , was then of no use ; for the great hall had fallen in , the hundred poor were turned away , and the thirteen brethren forced to quit the hospital and provide for themselves where they could .
The bishop , however , persevered with a calm , but inflexible , constancy ; and , after six years litigation , and two appeals to the pope , he brought the delinquents to a severe account , re-instated the'hospital in all its ri ghts , an 1 re-established its original use and institution . TTO BE CONTINUED . T
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Historical Account Of The Life Of William Of Wykeham.
was allotted to two of them ; and the seven choristers had each one loaf of the family bread , and the fragments of the master ' sjtable and common hall , and were taught at school in the hospital ; Such was the institution and ceconomy of the hospital of St . Cross ; but the Bishops of Winchester , very soon after the foundation , began to prefer to it their nephews and kinsmen , not rightfully as to the mastership of an hospitalbut as to an ecclesiastical benefice ; and the
, persons , so preferred , had converted the revenues to other purposes than those appointed by the founders . In particular , John de Edyngdon , nephew to Wykeham ' s immediate predecessor , having been appointed master by his uncle , left it some time before W ykeham came to the bishopric , and took away with him and alienated the whole stock belonging to the hospital ; all the
cattlecorngoodsinstru-, , , ments , utensils , and moveables , of every kind , either in the house itself , or upon the estates belonging to it , leaving also dilapidations to the value of near 400 I . This Edyngdon was succeeded by one William de Stowell , who exchanged his mastership for a rectoiy soon after Wykeham became bishop ; but was obligedupon his resignationto make a particular
, , inventory of all the stock and goods then belonging to the' hospital , with an account of the state in which he found it . The . bishbp thett ordered his commissioners to enquire what was the condition' of ' tlte hospital when Edyngdon became master , aud what stock and goods
he found there ; and by their account , compared with Sioweh ' s' i ' nventory , it appeared what Edyngdon had embezzled ; against whom a suit was immediately commenced . Stowell-was succeeded'by ' on £ Lyntesford , who , finding the bishop very intent upon this prosecution , chose to resign the mastership to one Roger de Cloune , in ex- ' change for the rectory of Campsull in Yorkshire . Cloiine seems ' to have procured the mastership of the hospital for no other
purpose than to . plunder it ; hoping that , if he should'be made a party in the ' bishop ' s suit , he should yet be able , by artful delays , to prevent its coming to an issue till he had answered his own purpose , and put his unjust gain beyond the reach of his prosecutors . He , therefore , as soon as he entered on his office , seized upon the whole revenues and stock of the' hospitalas his property ; he sold the corn and cattleand a
, , great quantity of materials that had been laid in for repairs , and had the impudence , even after the bishop had proceeded against him , to pull down the larder of the hospital , and sell the materials : the larder , indeed , was then of no use ; for the great hall had fallen in , the hundred poor were turned away , and the thirteen brethren forced to quit the hospital and provide for themselves where they could .
The bishop , however , persevered with a calm , but inflexible , constancy ; and , after six years litigation , and two appeals to the pope , he brought the delinquents to a severe account , re-instated the'hospital in all its ri ghts , an 1 re-established its original use and institution . TTO BE CONTINUED . T