Conversion of the hospital of St. John the Baptist to Magdalen College, Oxford (Oxfordshire)....

Conversion of the hospital of St. John the Baptist to Magdalen College, Oxford (Oxfordshire).

Transcript of letters patent of John [Stanbury], bishop of Hereford, attesting that in the chapel or oratory of William Waynflete, bishop of Winchester, at his manor of Southwark (Surrey), he had inspected a bull of Pope Calixtus III [of 14 March 1457/8] to the [John Chedworth] bishop of Lincoln, [John Carpenter] the bishop of Worcester and the bishop of Hereford, on the petition of the bishop of Winchester that King Henry III had founded the hospital of St. John the Baptist outside the eastern gate of the town of Oxford under the care of a master or keeper, and considering that it is no longer well governed, that the number of brothers does not meet that specified at the foundation, that the fruits are not put to the use of paupers as King Henry had wished, and that the brethren do not keep to the rule, and with the consent of King Henry VI and Richard [Wyse], master of the hospital, that he might found a college of scholars in its place for the study of theology and philosophy, the pope requests the bishop of Lincoln to grant consent and license to the conversion, whereupon the pope, having enquired into the truth of the matter, grants his license to the incorporation of the college under the presidency of Richard Wyse, who has also obtained the parish church of Fawley (Hampshire), which supports four brethren of the hospital - John Selam, John Vobe, Walter Redd and Robert Hyees, priests - all of whom are to be provided to a suitable benefice where possible, notwithstanding any constitutions and ordinances to the contrary. Having inspected the bull, the bishop of Hereford summoned the relevant documentation to be examined before him, finding everything to be true and granting license to the bishop of Winchester to convert the hospital into a college.

Copy of the letters patent of William Waynflete, bishop of Winchester, founding the college of St. Mary Magdalen outside the eastern gate of the town of Oxford abutting up against the River Cherwell to the east, the king's highway leading to the bridge called Estbrygge to the west, which goes from the eastern gate to the place called the Cavendish (Candysh) in Oxford, and on the northern side over certain lands called Halywell, a site granted to him by John Horley, president, and the scholars of St. Mary Magdalen Hall; and endowing the college with a president, fellows and scholars within the University of Oxford, namely Master William Dybard, Bachelor of Thelogy, president, and Master Robert Catchar, Master William Laughton, Master Henry Fysher MA, Sir Simon Codmanston, Sir Richard Bernes and Sir Robert Rowt BA, graduate scholars of Magdalen. [12 June 1458].

Letters of John, bishop of Hereford, drawn up by Master Thomas Yon', Bachelor of Decrees, clerk of the diocese of York, and Thomas Gyan or Eyan, of the diocese of Worcester, public notaries, and inspected by Master Thomas Halle, Bachelor of Theology, and Master Thomas Paslew, Bachelor of Decrees, on 13 June, and by William Dasell', LLD, and Sir Thomas Saulchan, chaplain of the dioceses of London and Lincoln, on 19 June.

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