The schools of medieval England . theology and medicine, in the hopeof keeping the subjects of the English King away from 1441 another university was established for Henrys southerndominions at Bordeaux. By letters patent of 11 October, 1440, Henry, theneighteen years old, having just taken on himself the govern-ment, declared his desire as a sort of first-fruits , to showlike his ancestors his devotion to the Church. But whereasthis devotion had in them taken the shape of monasteries,in him it took almost as a matter of course the form of acollege or collegiate church, in which a sch
The schools of medieval England . theology and medicine, in the hopeof keeping the subjects of the English King away from 1441 another university was established for Henrys southerndominions at Bordeaux. By letters patent of 11 October, 1440, Henry, theneighteen years old, having just taken on himself the govern-ment, declared his desire as a sort of first-fruits , to showlike his ancestors his devotion to the Church. But whereasthis devotion had in them taken the shape of monasteries,in him it took almost as a matter of course the form of acollege or collegiate church, in which a school was a leading,in this case a predominant, feature. So by the patent hefounded in the parish church of Eton the Kings College ofOure Ladye of Eton besyde Wyndesore to consist of a pro-vost, ten priests (the fellows), four clerks, six chorister boys,daily to serve at divine worship, and twenty-five poor andneedy scholars to learn grammar there , and twenty-five poorand disabled men to pray for the souls of his father and mother. THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY AND HUMANISM 253 and all his forefathers and all the faithful departed; also aMaster or Informator in grammar to teach the said needyscholars and all others from any part of England coming there,gratis, without exaction of money or anything else . In otherwords Eton was a free grammar school, but from the first non-local, open, free from tuition fees, to the nation at large. Thecollege was licensed to hold property up to the value of 1000marks {£666 13s. 4d.) a year, equivalent to at least ;£20,oooa year now. Shortly after, on 12 February, 1441, KingHenry founded another college, in Cambridge University, con-sisting of a rector and twelve fellows, by the name of KingsCollege of St. Nicholas, so called because 6 December, thekings birthday, was the day of St. Nicholas of Myra, the patronsaint of schoolboys. There was in Eton church before 1425a chantry of St. Nicholas, and it is quite possible that thechantry priest of this chur
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