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VI.—Fromond's Chantry at Winchester College

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John Fromond's chantry chapel stands in the garth of the cloisters at Winchester College, and is now commonly known to the inmates of the college by the brief name of ‘Chantry’ (pl. XXI, fig. 1).

The college was founded by William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester, in 1382: its buildings were first occupied by the warden and scholars in March 1394; and on St. Kenelm's day (17 July) 1395, the college chapel, and the cloisters which lie on its south side, were consecrated by Wykeham's suffragan. Simon, bishop of the Irish see of Achonry. The cloister garth, which was included in this consecration, was intended to be the college cemetery. John Fromond, who died on 20 November 1420, and his widow Maud, who died in or before April 1422, were buried, as he had desired, in one grave in the middle of the garth, and the chantry was afterwards built over their grave by his executors.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1926

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page 139 note 1 A Cistercian of Quarr; suffragan of London, 1385; Canterbury, 1386; Lichfield and Ely, 1387; Winchester, 1387–95; died 1398. See Stubbs, , Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum (2nd ed.), p. 208Google Scholar; Cotton, , Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae, iv, 100.Google Scholar

page 139 note 2 ‘In solutis eidem [Stephano Glasyer] emendanti diuersos defectus in capella Fromond et in superiore domo eiusdem ordinata pro libraria, destructa et deturpata per columbas et alios volucres, vs.’ (Bursars' accounts, custos capelle, 1457–8).

page 140 note 1 College Muniments, Fromond's chantry drawer, no. 7, pleas in a suit relating to her dower ‘ex dotacione Roberti Markaunt chivaler quondam viri sui’.

page 140 note 2 The others were Richard, who died without issue, and Joan, who became a nun at Romsey (Fernhill drawer, Fromond's title, no. 2 a).

page 140 note 3 His other children were Thomas (o.s.p.), Walter (a monk), Richard (o.s.p.), and Margaret, whose children were Thomas Penne, William Penne, ‘et alii plures’ (ibid.; and no. 4).

page 140 note 4 Excerpta e Rotulis Finimn (Roberts), pp. 434–5. He was probably the Stephen Fromond to whom Henry III granted in 1250 ‘sex quercus ad maeremium cum escaetis’ out of the Forest of Bere (Calendar of Close Rolls). For Stephen's son Edward, see Calendarium Genealogicum, ii, 497, 772.

page 140 note 5 Wykeham's, Episcopal Register (Kirby, Hampshire Record Soc), ii, 427–8Google Scholar; Archaeological Journal, xvi, 166.Google Scholar

page 140 ntoe 6 Bursars' accounts under Feoda.

page 140 note 7 He was one of the executors of the will of warden Morys, who died in 1413.

page 141 note 1 ‘In datis nutrici filii Henrici Kesewik apud Spersholte ixo die mensis Februarii xxd. In datis cuidam alteri nutrici lactanti quandam filiam adoptiuam Johannis Fromond et vxoris eius, xxd.’ (Bursars' accounts, expense forinsece, 1415–16.)

page 141 note 2 Close Roll, 13 Hen. IV, m. 2.

page 141 note 3 Calendars of Close Rolls.

page 141 note 4 It is not known how Esteney was related to Fromond, but Richard Seman calls him Fromond's cousin (P. R. O., Early Chancery Proceedings, Bundle 8, no. 18). Fromond's heir was Alice, wife of John Dent, of Basildon, Berks., gentleman, and she was daughter of Joan, daughter of Edith, sister to Fromond's father (Allington drawer, no. 30).

page 141 note 5 Wykeham's only provision for clothing the quiristers was permission to the warden, fellows, head master, and usher, to give their livery, after four years' wear, to the quiristers, intuitu charitatis. (Statutes of 1400, rubric 27, ad finem).

page 141 note 6 Fromond's chantry drawer, no. 8.

page 141 note 7 Probably the John Harryes who was in the commission of array for Hants in 1418, and in the commission there of 1419 for raising a loan for the king.

page 141 note 8 Fernhill drawer, Fromond's title, nos. 28, 29.

page 142 note 1 Archaeological Journal, xvi, 169173.Google Scholar

page 142 note 2 As to whom see V.H. Hants, iv, 569–70. His heir was William Sydeney, son of Agnes, daughter of Henry Clympysfold, son of William, son of Robert Clympysfold, father of Helias, father of Agnes, John Halle's mother (Allington drawer, no. 35). See Archaeologia, lxv, 251.

page 142 note 3 Journ. of Brit. Arch. Soc, xlvii, 323; The Ancestor, ix, 218. See also V.C.H. Hants, iv, 60.

page 142 note 4 Brit. Mus. Add. Ch. 24, 697, and 36, 987. See also Brit. Mus. Catalogue of Seals, iii, 86 (nos. 10, 604 and 10, 605).

page 142 note 5 ‘Le chief de azure trois flourdelys dargent oue un cheueroun dermyn’ (Journ. of Brit. Arch. Soc, xlvii, 323). ‘Chief’ here evidently means ‘field’.

page 142 note 6 A parchment sheet of shields, with notes mainly by Dr. John Nicholas (Warden 1679–1711/2). The series includes the arms in ‘School’ (built 1683–7).

page 142 note 7 Kent, Hasted's,ii, 316.Google Scholar

page 142 note 8 Harl. MS. 1561, ff. 28 b, 29, 29 b (Harleian Soc, vol. xliii, p. 30).

page 143 note 1 Close Roll, 21 Ric. II, pt. ii, m. 18d.

page 143 note 2 Bursars' accounts, 1421–2.

page 143 note 3 Fromond's chantry drawer, no. 13 (copy of the conveyance). In accordance with the directions in Fromond's will, the property was conveyed upon the terms that Esteney and his heirs and assigns should for ever find a priest to celebrate in the church of Sparsholt at the altar of St. Katharine for the souls of Fromond and his wife and other named persons. But there seems to be no evidence that these terms were observed or enforced.

page 143 note 4 Close Roll, 1 Hen. VI, m. 21d. Cf. V.C.H. Hants, iii, 88, 97, 98, 414–16; iv, 473, 656–7. But at some of these references Fromond's ownership of the properties bought by Rogers is ignored.

page 143 note 5 See ibid., iv, 60.

page 143 note 6 Fernhill drawer, Fromond's title, no. 29; P.R.O., Early Chancery Proceedings, Bundle 8, no. 19.

page 143 note 7 P.R.O., ibid., nos. 17, 18.

page 144 note 1 Bursars' accounts under Feoda.

page 144 note 2 College hall-book, 1430–1 (1st quarter, 3rd week). The other details are from the accounts.

page 144 note 3 John Bover, bishop of Annadown in Ireland, and provost of St. Elizabeth's College, Winchester.

page 144 note 4 This glass probably perished in 1580–1, when 9s. 6d. was paid to ‘Johanni Gyllam vitreatori laboranti per se per 5 dies et cum famulo per 7 dies deponendo vitro capelle fromond et emendandis fenestris capelle maioris’.

page 144 note 5 Fromond's chantry drawer, nos. 10, 11.

page 144 note 6 In the deed of 20 June 1446, the building is described as sumptuose constructa, and it may be doubted whether the college would have taken to it before all the contemplated work had been finished.

page 144 note 7 Bursars' accounts.

page 144 note 8 Library-book of donations.

page 145 note 1 In 1608–9, when this chamber was cleaned and its windows reglazed, it is styled in the accounts camera supra librariam.

page 145 note 2 Its use as a junior chapel began in December 1874.

page 145 note 3 See further Ancient Glass in Winchester, by Le Couteur, J. D. (Winchester, 1920), pp. 106et seqq.Google Scholar

page 145 note 4 Winchester Scholar, 1804; Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1859–66.

page 146 note 1 He also gave the glass now in the side windows, and the figures of the archangels Gabriel and Michael, on either side of the altar, carved by Sir George Frampton, R.A. At the same time the late Dr. Edwin Freshfield, F.S.A., gave the present marble altar and painted reredos. On this occasion the floor of the chantry was lowered to what was believed to be its original level, and the outside steps to the door consequently disappeared. These steps are shown in the woodcut at p. 241 of Walcott's William of Wykeham and his Colleges (1852).

page 146 note 2 Vol. vii, no. 349 (July 1898).

page 146 note 3 Bursars' accounts, 1411–12; College Liber Albus, fo. 39.

page 147 note 1 By deed-poll dated 6 Nov. 1447 (Domus drawer, no. 9).

page 147 note 2 As recited in the deed-poll.

page 147 note 3 ‘Dr. Ihon Baker, his pryvie counseiler and his chappelleyn’ (Hall's Chronicle, edition of 1809, p. 210).

page 147 note 4 Thurbern's immediate successor was Thomas Chandler, who migrated to Oxford as warden of New College in 1454.

page 148 note 1 See Willement's Regal Heraldry, p. 36.

page 148 note 2 As to the dates of Henry VI's visits to the college, see Notes and Queries, 12 S., i, 481, 501.

page 149 note 1 Romsey drawer, nos. 9, 12, 13, 17–19 (lands purchased from Sir Thomas Wykeham, Kt.). The arms of Perot were silver, five rowels crosswise sable.

page 149 note 2 The certificate, dated 24 Nov. 1472, of the homage done for the college moiety of Allington by Warden Baker to Edward IV's son Edward (Allington drawer, no. 38) has, appended to it, a fine example of the prince's seal. There seems to be no evidence of homage done to Henry VI's son.

page 149 note 3 At the eastern extremity of this ridge there is a boss, not mentioned in the text, of vine leaves and tendrils.

page 150 note 1 Barton drawer, no. 103

page 150 note 2 Ibid., nos. 105, 106.

page 151 note 1 Fernhill drawer, Fromond's title, no. 24. In return the college granted to the earl and countess and the heirs of her body a relief of £4 6s.8d. payable out of the manor upon every vacancy in the office of warden (no. 25). This relief was paid on Warden Thurbern's death in 1450, but apparently on no later occasion.

page 152 note 1 Complete Peerage (1st edition), vi, 300, in notis.

page 152 note 2 Nicolas's Testamenta Vetusta, p. 217. For his will, see P.C.C. 14 Luffenham (1430).

page 152 note 3 His maternal grandfather, a De Grey by birth, was nephew of the second Lord FitzPayn, and assumed the name and arms of FitzPayn in consequence of this Lord FitzPayn's dispositions of the FitzPayn estates. See the article on FitzPayn in the Complete Peerage, vol. v (1921), pp. 685et seqq.Google Scholar

page 152 note 4 This is the date of the inquisition taken at Bramber, Sussex, whereby Alianora, vxor Henrici Percy, militis, was found to be her grandfather's heir (P.R.O., Chancery Inq. p.m. 25 Hen. VI, no. 24).

page 153 note 1 Quarterly silver and gules fretty gold with a baston sable.

page 153 note 2 Brit. Mus. Catalogue of Seals, ii, 360 (nos. 6483, 6485).Google Scholar

page 153 note 3 His arms with this border, impaling Beaufort, are on the tomb of Lady Margaret Beaufort See Historical Monuments Commission, ‘Westminster Abbey’, 1924, p. 68a.Google Scholar

page 153 note 4 As in Hants, V.C.H., iv, 123; Woodward, Ecclesiastical Heraldry, p. 371.Google Scholar

page 154 note 1 Andover drawer, no. 41 a. In the east window of the chantry there is a fragment of the arms of the abbey with two pairs of keys. There are also two pairs on the shield which is in the vault (c. 1485) of Thurbern's chantry on the south side of the college chapel.

page 154 note 2 Bursars' accounts, 1426–7.

page 154 note 3 In a collection of notes about Fromond which the late F. J. Baigent gave to me, there is a note of a document recording that on 2 Oct. 7 Hen. V (1419) John, the son and heir of John de Insula, knight, did homage to the abbot of Hyde, one of the witnesses being ‘Johanne Fromond senescallo terrarum dicti Abbatis de Hyda’. Unfortunately the note does not state where this document can be found.

page 154 note 4 College Liber Albus, fo. 38 d.

page 154 note 5 See The Ancestor, iv, 250Google Scholar; Hope's, Grammar of English Heraldry, p. 111.Google Scholar It has often been called ‘a cross moline ‘.

page 154 note 6 Lowth's, Life of Wykeham, Appendices II, IV.Google Scholar

page 154 note 7 College accounts: fragment of hall-book, 1396–7: roll of extraordinary expenses, 1395–1400.

page 154 note 8 Hall-books.

page 155 note 1 Bursars' accounts, 1469–70.

page 155 note 2 Bursars' accounts: roll of extraordinary expenses.

page 155 note 3 Lowth, p. 394.

page 155 note 4 Fernhill drawer, Fromond's title, nos. 17, 20.

page 155 note 5 Bursars' accounts, 1464–5.

page 155 note 6 V.C.H. Hants, iv, 537, 609, 636.

page 155 note 7 Hall-book, 1462–3.

page 155 note 8 Fernhill drawer, Fromond's title, nos. 21, 22.

page 156 note 1 ‘His scutcheon was supported at first with two flying serpents, which after he changed into mairemayds, without any greate note of difference’ Lives of the Berkeleys, by Smyth, John of Nibley, edited by Sir John, Maclean, F.S.A., 1883, vol. i, p. 219.Google Scholar

page 156 note 2 Berry's, Dictionary of Arms.Google Scholar

page 156 note 3 His father, Richard Baigent, who died in 1881, was for fifty years the drawing master at the college.

page 156 note 4 V.C.H. Hants, iv, 77.

page 156 note 5 Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 7098, fo. 98b (Visitation of Hants, 1552–3).

page 157 note 1 ‘Notes on the History of the Heraldic Jail or Yale’, by George C Druce, Archaeological Journal, lxviii, 173; ‘A Note on the Jall or Yale in Heraldry’, by W. H. St. John Hope, ibid., 200.

page 158 note 1 This stonework was painted, but not satisfactorily, in or at some date after 1854.

page 158 note 2 Vol. x, p. 158. With Baigent's description of the figures compare Gunner's, Archaeological Journal, xvi, 168.

page 158 note 3 2nd edition, p. 122.

page 158 note 4 Similarly, in a window at St. Mary's, Ross, there is the figure of a bishop kneeling and offering up a heart between his hands. See Drake's History of English Glass-Painting, pl. XI.

page 158 note 5 Nicholas Upton (1400–57), the author of De Militari Officio, was a Wykehamist, but there seems to be no evidence that he was consulted about the heraldry for the chantry. He gave the college library Augustinus super Johannem, a gift which has perished.