Winchester College
Winchester College, Winchestercounty:
Hampshire
Period - 19th century, early
Winchester ... Near this place is St. Mary's College, founded by William of Wykeham, for a warden, 70 scholars, 10 fellows, &c. with exhibitions for New College, Oxford; and contiguous to it is a spacious quadrangular edifice for commoners or gentlemen not on the foundation.
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- school - Winchester parish: - Hampshire
St. Mary's near Winchester, a College founded by William of Wickham, Bishop of Winchester, who obtained a Licence of King Richard II. Reg. 6. to build a College, House, or Hall, for the Honour and Glory of God, and the glorious Virgin Mary, his Mother, and therein to establish a Custos or Warden, seventy poor Scholars, Students in Grammar, ten perpetual Chaplains, now called Fellows, three other Chaplains, three Clerks, a School-master, Usher, and other Officers, which being accordingly performed, the same King, Reg. 19. granted to the said College, commonly called St. Mary's College of Winchester, these farther Immunities and Privileges, viz. That they and all their Tenants be freed and acquitted for ever, from all Tol, Geld, Scutage, &c. and from all Taxes and Exactions whatsoever, as also shall not be obliged to grant any Pensions, Corrodies, and Maintenance to any one, at the Command of the King, or his Heirs. King Edward IV. also Reg. 1. confirmed to this College the alien Priory of Andover, in the County of Southampton, with all the Lands, Rents, &c. thereunto belonging, to hold in free, pure, and perpetual Alms, notwithstanding the Statute of Mortmain, &c. or any other Restriction whatsoever; so that the Revenues were found to be at the Dissolution, 628 l. 13 s. 6 d. Dugd. 639 l. 8 s. 7 d. Speed, per Annum.
... In the South Suburbs of this City is a neat College, which William of Wickham, Bishop of this See, (a great Patron and Encourager of Learning) built for a publick School and Seminary to New College in Oxford, settling on it such Revenues as genteely maintain one Warden, ten Fellows, two Masters, seventy Scholars, three Chaplains, three Clerks, one Organist, sixteen Choristers, and other statutable Servants. Till this College was built, he maintained fifty poor Scholars at the University.
Period - 18th century, early
To the honour of this bishop [Wickham], there are other foundations of his, as much to his fame as that of this church, of which I shall speak in their order; but particularly the college in this city, which is a noble foundation indeed: The building consists of two large courts, in which other lodgings for the masters and scholars, and in the centre a very noble chapel; beyond that, in the second court, are the schools, with a large cloyster beyond them, and some enclosures laid open for the diversion of the scholars. There is also a great hall, where the scholars dine: The funds for the support of this college are very considerable; the masters live in a very good figure, and their maintenance is sufficient to support it: They all have separate dwellings in the house, and all possible convenience appointed them.
The scholars have exhibitions at a certain time of continuance here, if they please to study, in the new college at Oxford, built by the same noble benefactor, of which I shall speak in its order.
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This school has fully answer'd the end of the founder, who, tho' he was no great scholar, resolv'd to erect a house for the making the ages to come more learned than those that went before; and it had, I say, fully answer'd the end, for many learned and great men have been rais'd here, some of whom we shall have occasion to mention as we go on.
- school, church - Hampshire
WIlliam of Wickham, Bishop of Winchester, by Licence of King Richard II, granted the sixth Year of his Reign, founded a College to the Honor of God, and St. Mary, in the Soch of Winchester, endowing the same with 3 Messuages, one Acre and a half of Arable, and 3 Acres of Meadow; with other Parcels in the same Place; and to place therein one Warden, and 70 poor Grammar Sholars. ...
- Winchester parish: - Hampshire
... Religious Houses ... deliver'd to King Henry VIII. in the 26th Year of his Reign, with the yearly Value ...
value l. s. d. q.
Winton College. 628 13 6 0
Period - 17th century
Without the City [Winchester] in the Suburbs is a fair Colledge, called Winchester Colledge or School, having a Warden, Masters, and an Usher, and is endowed with liberal maintenance.
- school - Hantshire
Period - 1600s
... and in the South-suburbes, just over against it be holdeth a faire Colledge: which William Wickham Bishop of this See, the greatest father and Patron (of all Englishmen) of good literature, and whose praise for ever to the worlds end will continue, built for a schoole, and thereto dedicated it: out of which, both for Church and common welth there riseth a most plentifull encrease of right learned men. For, in this Colledge, one warden, ten fellowes, two schoolemaisters and threescore and ten schoolers, with divers others are plentifully maintained.
The new college lyith without the toun wal by south hard agayn the Close waulle.
Minns says:- Winchester College of St. Mary, founded by William of Wykeham (Bp. 1367-1404).
