Old Hampshire Mapped
Cox's Hampshire
Transcription (41)Winchester College
Wickham, William of
school
Hospital of St Cross
de Blois, Henry
Beaufort, Cardinal
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. And near it is a very fair Hospital, containing two square Buildings, called St. Crosses, founded by Henry de Blois, Brother to K. Stephen, and in his Time Bishop here; and farther endowed by Henry de Beaufort, Cardinal, for the Relief of thirteen Brothers, and all poor Travellers, daily, for ever.
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