[CIII.] Vide my Surrey notes <MS. Aubr. 4> if William Wanfleet did not
build it: both their scutcheons are there.
When the present great-duke of Tuscany was at Oxford, he was more
taken with that, then all the rest of the buildings he sawe there, and
tooke a second viewe of it.
It should not be forgotten what a noble foundation there was for the
chapell, which did runne from the Colledge, along the street as far as
the Blew-boare Inne; which was about 7 foot or more high, and adorned
with a very rich Gothique water-table[CW] as in the margin[1278].
It was pulled downe by Dr. John Fell (the Deane) about 1670, to use the
stones about the Colledge.
Memorandum:--about the buildings of this Colledge are frequent the
pillars, and axes, and Cardinall's cappes.
Concerning this great Cardinall's fall, see the histories of that time.
Returning to London from Yorke, he died at Leicester, where he lies
buried (to the shame of Christ-church men) _yet_ without any monument.
'And though, from his owne store, Wolsey might have
A palace or a colledge for his grave,
Yet here he lies interr'd, as if that all
Of him to be remembred were his fall.
Nothing but earth to earth, nor pompous weight
Upon him but a pebble or a quayte.
If thou art thus neglected, what shall wee
Hope after death that are but shreds of thee?'
Vide Dr. Corbet's Poems: his _Iter Boreale_.
See his life writt by ... and also by Thomas Fuller, B.D., in his Holy
State, where is a picture of his which resembles those in glasse in
Christ-church. He was a lusty man, thick neck, not much unlike Martyn
Luther. I beleeve he had Taurus ascending with the Pleiades, which
makes the native to be of a rough disposition.
He was Baccalaur of Arts so young, that he was called the
boy-bacchalaur. From Dr. John Pell (out of the aforesayd preface).
[1279]One of Osney bells is at Winslowe in Bucks, which is the great
bell there, but was the 3ᵈ at Osney; but they have not long since
cutt it something lesse, one Derby decieving them LX _li._ of their
metall. Cardinall Wolsey, being abbot of St. Alban's (to which Winslowe
did belong), at the pulling downe of Osney abbey, gave this bell to
Winslowe--Mr. Steevens[1280] was borne at Winslowe.
_Notes._