33. THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF WINDSOR
There was an old free or royal chapel of some
importance within the castle of Windsor, dedicated
to St. Edward the Confessor, wherein Henry I
established a college of eight secular priests. (fn. 55) It
is supposed that these priests had no regular endowments and were not prebendaries, but were
merely stipendiaries of the king.
In the year 1313 Edward II granted to the
thirteen chaplains celebrating daily for the
king's soul and the souls of his ancestors and
heirs in the chapel in his park of Windsor, and
to the four clerks serving those chaplains,
£156 13s. 4d. a year, namely to each chaplain
£10, and to each clerk 10 marks a year for their
sustenance, to be paid out of the Buckinghamshire manors of Langley Marsh and Cippenham, until such time as the king should make an
assignment to those chaplains and clerks of benefices to the like value. (fn. 56)
Soon after his accession, Edward III removed
these chaplains and clerks out of the park into
the castle. On 3 March, 1331, the king granted
to John de Melton, Andrew de Bodekesham,
Peter de Wyde, and Edmund de London, his
chaplains, lately celebrating in the chapel in
Windsor Park by appointment of the late king,
and now staying in Windsor Castle, to be attendant with his other chaplains on the divine
offices of his soul, &c., a yearly allowance of ten
marks each for their sustenance. (fn. 57)
An interesting matter relative to these thirteen
royal chaplains and four clerks of the park in the
time of Edward II occurs in letters patent of
1346, wherein it is recited that Edward II had
granted to all those ecclesiastics privileges of
meals at the table of the royal hall (or their liveries of meat and drink) whenever the king or
queen should be at Windsor; but now that the
king had removed the chantry to the castle
Edward III granted to the eight chaplains and
their two clerks that every time that the king or
queen or his heirs stayed at the castle they and
their successors were to be admitted to the table
in hall or have their liveries; and further, that
they were to receive all oblations offered in the
castle chapel in like manner as they used to
receive them in the park chapel. (fn. 58)
On 6 August, 1348, the king signed a charter
of foundation, whereby he established and definitely endowed a chapel within the castle,
wherein (as he recites) he had himself been baptized, and which had been begun by his progenitors in honour of Edward the Confessor. It
was to be rebuilt on a more magnificent scale, to
be served by a much enlarged establishment, and
to be dedicated in honour of the omnipotent God,
the glorious Virgin His Mother, St. George the
Martyr, and St. Edward the Confessor. In the
first instance the king bestowed on this royal
chapel—soon afterwards known only by the
dedication to St. George—the advowsons and
appropriations of the churches of Wyrardisbury, Buckinghamshire; South Tawton, Devon;
and Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. To the eight
existing chaplains he added fifteen other canons,
a warden and twenty-four poor or infirm
knights. (fn. 59)
Between 1348 and 1350 the king largely increased the endowments of his first charter, adding thereto the appropriated churches of Datchet,
Eure, Rhiston, Whaddon, Caxton, Simonsburn,
and Saltash, with the manors of Eure and
Caswell, &c. (fn. 60)
In 1350 Pope Clement VI, after confirming
the statutes of this royal college, granted to the
warden and his successors that whilst residing
there they might enjoy the fruits of other
benefices. He also granted exemption from
ordinary jurisdiction to the whole college; but
for this privilege they were to pay a mark
annually to the papal camera on St. George's
Day. (fn. 61)
In 1351 there was some alteration and extension of the arrangements of the college, according to the direction of the bishop of Winchester,
acting as papal commissary. The establishment,
as then ordered, was to consist of a warden,
twelve canons, thirteen priest-vicars, four clerks,
six choristers, and twenty-six poor or alms
knights.
A miscellaneous register of affairs of the
college at the Public Record Office thus
opens:— (fn. 62)
Here ffolowithe sertayne Actes and statutes made by
the noble Kyng Edwarde the thirde, to the Colledge
in the Castell of Wyndesere, and firste founder to the
highe and honorable ordre of the garter.
Item for the amplification of his hevenly merytes
and noble memory, of his knyghtley fame, devised or
desyned and establishede in his chappell and Colledge
of Seynte George off Wyndesore, A custos or Deane,
and xij secular preestes chanones, xiij preestes vicares,
vj queresters, and xxvi pore contemplatyne knyghtes
under one corporation, And as one joynte bodye,
ffor whose perpetuall sustentation he fowndede full
blessedly and approved certayne landes, lordeshipps,
benefices and possessions To the yerely value of a Mli
or more, as hereafter shalbe Rehersed by the particular
parcells of the same.
At the head of the details of the property the
composition of the establishment of the college
is repeated. It is in the same words as the
previous statement, save that 'iij Clerkes' are
inserted between the vicars and the choristers.
The list begins with the particulars of the
first foundation, i.e. of the whole reign of
Edward III. It included the three manors of
Eure, Caswell, and Castle Donington, the quit
rent of 100 marks of the town of Northampton,
'one last of Rede heryng' of the town of Yarmouth, eighteen rectories, and thirty pensions or
portions from other churches.
The sum total of the annual value of the
original foundation and of all subsequent gifts,
'the blessede disposycions of other dyvers kyngs
and prynces' &c. is put down as £2,193 13s. 4d.
for the year 1516.
The yearly charges were: the dean £100;
twelve canons £243; fifteen vicars £100; one
gospeller £8; one epistoler and organist 53s. 4d.;
thirteen clerks £130; thirteen choristers
£52; two 'sacristorys' £8; two bell-ringers
£6 13s. 4d.; two chantry priests for the
duchess of Exeter £16; one verger £10; four
chantry priests for the king £42 13s. 4d.; for
bread, wine, wax and oil £20; for 'there
officer outwarde and innewarde £20'; for the
clerk of accounts £10; for 'there Rydyng
officers and for other that goythe upon Errandes
necessarye yerely' £28; and to 'theire learned
Councelles for their ffees' £20.
The expenses amounted to £825 13s. 4d.
and so the remaynethe in surplusage yerely above
all the ordynary Charges, besides the greate oblations
unto Or Lady, The holly Crosse, and blessed Kyng
Henry, the sum of £1,368.
An indulgence, or a relaxation of injoined
penance, for two years and eighty days was
granted by Innocent VI in 1354, to penitents
visiting on the principal feasts, and on those of
St. George, the Exaltation of the Cross, and
St. Stephen and St. Edward; the royal chapel in
Windsor Castle, in which there is a cross of
great length of the wood of the true cross brought
by St. Helen. (fn. 63)
Notwithstanding the papal exemption from
jurisdiction, Richard II in 1378 directed Adam,
bishop of St. Asaph, chancellor of the kingdom,
to hold a visitation of the college, lest there
should be anything unseemly (indecens vel inhonestum) requiring correction. The visitation
was held in the chapter-house on 17 September,
when every member of the establishment was
examined. (fn. 64)
The following were the reformanda:— (a) The
dean, Walter Almaly, was no longer to appropriate the fines of the poor knights for absence
from office, but they were to be divided among
the knights; (b) the dean was to divide all
donations of lords and magnates among the
knights as well as the canons; (c) two knights
guilty of incontinence were reprimanded; if
they or others were in the future guilty of such
offences, they were to be corrected by the dean,
if repeated to be gravely corrected, and for a
third occurrence expelled; (d) one of these two
knights was given to insolence, attended chapel
but rarely, and when he did come immediately
went to sleep; his case was referred to the king
and council; (e) one of the canons was jocular
with the laity and frequently absent from mass
and hours; the dean was to deal severely with
all such cases without delay; (f) the church of
Uttoxeter, appropriated to the college, was
farmed by one Thomas Tapley, who lived in
the rectory house, with wife and children and
servants, contrary to the canons; the king was
desired to find a remedy; (g) one of the canons
of the college did not celebrate as he ought, but
was a huntsman and a hawker; he was therefore
to be admonished by the dean to take his due
share of masses, and to give up his illicit life, and
if he proved incorrigible to be removed from his
office by the chancellor, without any hope of
restoration; (h) the dean was too remiss, simple
and negligent in the correction of the vicars, so
that they did not show the reverence they ought
to the canons; (i) the charters and other muniments of the college were to be placed without
delay in a chest with two or three locks in the
treasury of the chapel, the dean to keep one key
and the king to appoint the custodian of the
others; (j) the dean to pay the vicars' salaries
regularly; (k) a vicar's stall money during
vacancy not to be retained by the dean, but to
be given to those other vicars who take his
place; (l) the order of celebration by the canons
to be better observed; (m) a vicar charged with
incontinence was left to the correction of the
dean; (n) the swans and cygnets lately given to
the college by Oliver de Bordeaux were to be
divided between the dean, canons, and knights;
(o) the gift of the late William Edendon, bishop
of Winchester, of £200 to the college that he
might become an associate (confrater) could not
be traced, so the dean, into whose hands it was
paid, was to be obliged to produce an account of
it; (p) the dean was strictly injoined, under
pain, to keep the cloister in a decent condition
worthy of a royal chapel, and to have it at once
cleansed of nettles and noxious weeds.
The college seems to have been peculiarly
unfortunate in its second warden or dean, as
appears from this visitation. Further difficulties
arose in July, 1384, when nine of the canons
lodged a complaint against their warden, who
was usurping the chancellor's power of visitation,
expecting them to appear before him; both
parties were summoned to appear before the
chancellor's commissary at Westminster. (fn. 65)
A grant for life was made by Richard II in
1387 to John Cray, a king's esquire, of the office
of usher of the king's chapel at Windsor, to carry
a rod before the king in processions on festivals
when the king is there, with 12d. a day wages
and lodgings in the castle. (fn. 66)
In 1399 Henry IV confirmed letters patent
of 17 Richard II granting all the chapel offerings
to the warden and canons, and ordering that
certain lasts of herrings should be divided
between the warden and canons resident. (fn. 67) An
addition was made to the endowment in 1422,
when the spiritualities of the suppressed alien
priory of Ogbourne were granted to the college
by John, duke of Bedford. (fn. 68)
Large grants of property, both spiritual and temporal, were made to the college by Edward IV,
especially of the lands &c. of alien priories.
In 1494 Pope Alexander consented to the suppression of the small priory of Luffield, Northamptonshire, in favour of Windsor College. (fn. 69)
Thomas Butler, warden of the chapel, was
permitted by Pope Boniface IX, at the king's
request, to farm, without obtaining licence of the
ordinary, the fruits of his wardenship, and to be
absent therefrom, providing it be served by a fit
vicar. (fn. 70)
Letters patent of 1429 recite that when the
wardenship with a prebend became vacant
through the death of Thomas Butler, Henry IV,
disregarding the terms of the foundation, granted
the prebend and wardenship to his clerk Richard
Kingston, by name of the deanery. Richard
was admitted and had possession all his life; but
on his death, Henry V, not being aware of the
foundation, when with his army before Rouen,
granted letters patent of wardenship and prebend, by name of deanery, to John Arundell,
who was duly admitted as dean in 1417. The
said John had become troubled lest he might be
disturbed, as the foundation charter specifies
warden and not dean, therefore Henry VI confirmed him in possession as dean. (fn. 71)
From this date the head of the college was
always called dean; but, as we have seen, John
Arundell was unnecessarily troubled and misled
the king, for the second warden (custos) was
repeatedly and officially styled dean by the chancellor.
On 6 December, 1479, letters patent were
granted by Edward IV in confirmation of a
parliamentary grant in 8 Henry VI for the incorporation of the warden or dean and the canons
as one corporate body, with perpetual succession
and a common seal. The same letter authorized
the grant to them by the duke of Suffolk of the
manor of Leighton Buzzard, and licence to
acquire in mortmain lands, rents, or advowsons
to the value of £500 without any fines or fees. (fn. 72)
Edward IV, who was the great rebuilder of
Windsor Castle, finding the foundations of the
noble collegiate chapel of Edward III in an unsafe condition, began its reconstruction on a more
magnificent scale in 1474. The fabric itself
was completed in five years, but it was not until
1481 that the stalls and tabernacle work in the
choir were set up.
On the appointment of Bishop Beauchamp to
the Windsor deanery he obtained papal sanction
for the translation of the remains of John Shorne
from North Marston to a shrine in the new
chapel of St. George. The church of North
Marston, Buckinghamshire, had before this been
appropriated to the chapter. Of this church John
Shorne, who died about 1290, was the pious
rector. Miracles were reported of him in his
lifetime, which were afterwards continued in
connexion with his remains, and with a well
that he had blessed. The most popular of his
achievements, actually represented on church
glass, painting, and carvings, was the conjuring of
the devil into a boot. Round his holy well, so
late as the eighteenth century, these words were
legible:—
Sir John Schorne,
Gentleman borne,
Conjured the Devil into a Boot.
The visits and offerings to his shrine at Windsor
were so numerous that they were actually said
to have averaged £500 a year at the time of the
Reformation. (fn. 73)
Edward IV died in 1483. By his will, dated
1475, he desired to be buried 'in the church of
the Collage of Saint George within owre Castell
of Wyndesour, by us begoune of newe to bee
buylded.' He was to be buried in a vault with
a chapel or closet over it with space for an altar,
and tomb with his figure of silver and gilt; or at
least of copper and gilt. The will further provided for a chantry of two priests, and for a company of thirteen poor bedesmen to live within
the college. (fn. 74)
Edward IV was duly buried in St. George's
chapel in 1483, and in the following year the
body of Henry VI was removed from Chertsey
abbey and here re-interred. Edward the Fourth's
queen, Elizabeth Wydville, was buried by her
husband in 1492, according to the terms of her
will,
I bequeathe my body to be buried with the bodie
of my Lord at Windesoure, according to the will of
my saide Lorde and myne, without pompes entreing
or costlie expensis doune thereaboughts. (fn. 75)
The original intention of Henry VII was to
be buried at St. George's, Windsor; he drew up
elaborate plans for a stately chapel and special
almshouse for bedesmen. For this project he
procured no fewer than four papal bulls of
indulgence between 1494 and 1499. (fn. 76)
The work of the new chapel, begun by
Edward IV in 1474, was not fully completed
till the beginning of the reign of Henry VIII,
when the beautiful roof of the choir was erected.
This royal collegiate chapel was marvellously
equipped with rich ornaments, jewels, vestments,
books, and relics, many of which were no doubt
transferred from the earlier chapel of Henry III,
otherwise we could scarcely expect so varied and
wealthy a display in the days of Walter Almaly,
the second dean, 1380-1403. A full inventory compiled in the reign of Richard II (with a
few additions), names, among a large number of
service books, an ordinal which had belonged to
Edward III, another ordinal bound by William
Mugge, the first dean of the college, a new text
of the Gospel, bound in silver on each side, and
a book of legends and of masses of Our Lady,
the gift of John Grandison, bishop of Exeter
(1327-70). In addition to the service books,
there were thirty-four books on different subjects
(diversarum scientiarum) chained in the church;
among them was a Bible and a concordance, and
two books of French romance, one of which
was the Liber de Rose.
The list of vestments is an amazingly rich one,
beginning with a set of ruby velvet, woven with
figures powdered with jewels, and comprising a
chasuble, two tunicles, three albs, three amices,
a good cope, and two other copes without jewels,
an altar frontal, and riddels or side curtains.
There were seventeen other complete suits of
varying colours and texture, as well as many
single chasubles, &c. Some of the sets were
appropriated for particular uses, as for use at the
Lady Mass, at a private altar behind the high
altar, for the two altars in the nave, and for the
altar on the rood-loft.
In addition to the copes belonging to the sets
of vestments, there were twenty special copes;
one of red velvet embroidered in gold, the gift
of Henry, duke of Lancaster; another of black
velvet with ragged staffs of silver, the gift of the
earl of Warwick; and two of deep red cloth of
gold, with dragons and lions fighting, the gift of
the duke of Gloucester. There were also two
large sets of red copes, one of eighteen, and the
other of twenty-two, evidently intended for the
processional use of the whole staff of ecclesiastics
on special occasions.
Fourteen costly cloths or hangings are enumerated; two large linen cloths, 6½ ells long, are
also mentioned, which were unfolded in the
quire to place the copes on at the principal
feasts.
There is a wonderful catalogue of the jewels
and relics infra tabulam summi altaris. The list
opens with the richly jewelled noble cross, vocat.
Greth. (fn. 77) The second is the still more richly
ornamented cross, formed from the true cross, set
in gold and blazing with sapphires and enamel,
which must have been the gift of Edward I.
This display included silver gilt images, and
jewelled tabernacles, reliquaries borne by angels,
cups, vessels, crystal phials, &c., and there was
another shorter list of jewels and reliquaries
standing super summam altare. The actual relics
were very numerous, and included bones of St.
Bartholomew, St. Thomas the Apostle, St. George,
St. Thomas of Canterbury, St. Thomas of
Hereford, St. David, St. William of York, a
girdle given by St. John to the Blessed Virgin,
and part of the jaw-bone of St. Mark containing
fourteen teeth.
The inventory of plate, all elaborate of its
kind, included five jewelled morses; a golden
chalice and seven of silver gilt; two paxes; nine
candlesticks; four censers and two ships; a
cross and four processional crosses; four beautiful pyxes; six super-altars, one being of jasper
encircled with silver gilt; two mitres and a
pastoral staff; as well as paxes, cruets, staves, &c.
The swords of King Edward, the earl of
Suffolk, Lord Thomas Banaster, King Richard,
the earl of Derby, the duke of Lancaster, and
the earl of Salisbury are enumerated, as well as
six helmets and six mantles.
In addition to all this, there is a long supplementary list of jewels and relics in the treasury.
Among them were a silver gilt cup which had
belonged to St. Thomas of Hereford; a pyx of
beryl, enamelled with the arms of St. Edward
and St. Edmund; a pyx of red jasper with foot
and cover of silver gilt, containing a bone of
St. Louis; three jewelled crowns for the images
of Our Lord, the Blessed Virgin, and St. Edward;
and a banner for Rogationtide bearing a dragon
and a lion. (fn. 78)
There is another inventory, 8 Henry VIII, at
the Public Record Office, which, whilst still very
extensive, shows certain losses since the list,
temp. Richard II, was compiled. (fn. 79)
The abstract of the Valor of 1535—the full
return for Berkshire is missing—gives the clear
annual value of the college as £1,396 17s. 1¼d.,
but in 1547, when the College and Chantry
Commissioners of Henry VIII made their
reports, the full annual value was declared as
£1,530 10s. 6¼d., out of which £138 1s. 8¾d.
went to the king for tithe. The stipend and
commons of the dean were valued at £66 13s. 4d.
a year; of thirteen prebendaries, £26 each; of
eight petty canons, collectively, £106 13s. 4d.;
of eight vicars, £80; of thirteen clerks, £130;
of thirteen choristers, £52; whilst a certain
priest received 40s. for 'ordinary sermonds.'
Bread, wine, wax, and oil cost £36; £120 was
spent on obits and lights, £8 4s. 7d. for masses
and suffrages, and £6 19s. 8d. in perpetual
(obligatory) alms. Out of the balance of upwards of £650, eight chantry priests received
£78 6s. 8d. for their salaries, whilst £237 5s.
was spent in the 'cotydyan dystrybucion' to the
thirteen priest-vicars. (fn. 80)
The chantries enumerated in this return,
within the collegiate chapel of St. George, were
those of Edward IV (two priests); the duchess
of Exeter, sister to Edward IV (two priests);
William Lord Hastings; Canon Thomas Passche;
Verger John Plumer; and John Oxenbridge. (fn. 81)
Although this college was specially exempted
from suppression, it was visited by the commissioners of Edward VI of 1548. The names
and ages and incomes of the clerical staff are set
down; the two chantry priests of Edward IV
were 'continuall preachers according to the
foundation.' (fn. 82)
In consequence of numerous extensive
peculations with respect to the goods and property
of the royal chapel of Saint George, in 1552
a commission was appointed, consisting of the
marquis of Northampton, Sir Philip Hobey, Sir
Maurice Berkeley, and two esquires, to hold a
visitation of the college. They were instructed
to inquire, inter alia, as to the vestments and
jewels, going through the old inventories, and
including 'the palles of herses, namely of King
Henry the vii and King Edward iiiith beside the
palle of Henry theyght, whether thei kepe length
and breadth, the organes and pipes, the plates of
copper upon the graves, the spoile of the Chappell
plucked donne in the College, King Edwardes
cappe of maintenance, the sworde and girdle of
perle and stone, the Duke of Suffolkes sword.' (fn. 83)
The Commissioners had an inventory prepared
in July, 1552, showing that there were then
three chalices with patens, six great candlesticks,
two little candlesticks, two great basins, two
censers, a monstrance, a cross, and two pairs of
cruets, all of silver gilt; as well as a square
agate stone furnished with silver (a pax), and
seven rector's staves tipped with silver.
There were twenty-six copes; seven chasubles,
each with two tunicles; various altar frontals,
including one 'of needle work conteining the
lief and martirdom of St. George'; numerous
hangings and cushions; three hearse cloths;
'a palle or canopie to bear over the Kinge,' and
'the coate Armour and banner of King Henry
theight.'
In addition to these goods, which were in the
two vestries, there were the following 'Jewelles
in the Erarie' (treasury): a pyx of gold, two
paxes of gold, a tablet of gold with the image of
the Trinity, a tablet of gold set with diamonds,
cruets of 'bryraals,' and 'St. George's head with
a helmet.' (fn. 84)
Valuable as these ornaments were, it was but
a sorry remainder of the magnificent and glorious
array that the college possessed a few years
earlier. At the same time that this inventory
was drawn up, the dean and chapter put in a long
document giving as their reason for selling certain
plate and jewels, that excessive charges had
been enforced upon them. Their estimate was
that these charges amounted to the sum of
£1,965 3s. 1½d. The details included the cost
of building parts of the castle wall, and the
conveying of water in lead pipes, the furnishing
of ten demi-lances when the late king went to
Boulogne, and 'the taking doune the Alters,
leveling and paving the ground and for peinting
of the East end where the high alter was.' (fn. 85)
A threefold excuse was made by the dean and
chapter for making partition of certain copes and
ornaments, leaving the best (as they said) still in
the college—'We thought it lafull for us to do,
both bicause the goodes are owres, and also
bicause the use of such thinges were abolished by
the Kinge's Majestie godlie proceadinges, and
finallie because the thinges did dailie decay for
lack of occupying' . . . 'Concerning the
Sapphires and a Balist that were in certain capsis
of golde, their were divided by common assent of
them that were ther present, everie man having
one.'
Certificates were obtained from various goldsmiths, showing that they had paid the great sum
of £1,489 8s. to the dean and chapter for various
parcels of plate and jewels sold at different times
during the reign of Edward VI.
On 8 August Sir Philip Hoby and one other
commissioner examined the dean and each of the
canons both singly and collectively. They were
able to plead that the chapel of St. George had
been expressly exempted from the late statute as
to church goods. The various separate confessions and statements of the members of the
chapter are somewhat paltry and sordid, and for
the most part endeavour to show that each got
but little, but that his fellows profited more.
Their explanations and excuses availed them not,
and they were ordered to surrender to the king all
their remaining treasures whether held individually
or collectively. These were dispatched to the
jewel house in the Tower, where they were
weighed on 25 October; the gold and precious
stones weighing 685¾ oz. On 9 November the
silver and silver gilt was ordered to be 'put to coyne
with convenient spede'; the gold plate to be
preserved for further consideration. (fn. 86)
Notwithstanding the vast changes in the
wealth and beauty of this great collegiate church
by the Reformation, Queen Elizabeth was by no
means content that the fame of its music should
cease. On 8 March, 1560, a royal proclamation was issued prohibiting the removing of
singing men and boys from St. George's and
expressing the opinion that it should 'not be of
less reputation in our days, but rather augmented
and increased. (fn. 87)
The Virgin Queen had ever a difficulty in
recognizing the marriage of her clergy, and on
20 September, 1561, sent
a commandment unto the college of Windsor, that
the priests belonging thereunto that had wives should
put them out of the College; and for time to come
to lie no more within that place. (fn. 88)
Deans of Windsor (fn. 89)
William Mugge, 1348
Walter Almaly, 1380
Thomas Butler, 1403
Richard Kingston, 1412
John Arundel, 1417
Thomas Manning, 1452
John Faux, 1462
William Morland, 1470
William Dudley, 1473 (fn. 90)
Peter Courtney, 1476
Richard Beauchamp, 1478 (fn. 91)
Thomas Danett, 1481
William Bealey, 1483
John Morgan, 1484 (fn. 92)
Christopher Urswick, 1495
Chris. Bainbridge, 1505 (fn. 93)
Thomas Hobbes, 1507
Nicholas West, 1510 (fn. 94)
John Voysey alias Harman, 1515 (fn. 95)
John Clerk, 1519 (fn. 96)
Richard Sampson, 1523 (fn. 97)
William Franklin, 1536
Owen Oglethorpe, 1553 (fn. 98)
Hugh Weston, 1556 (fn. 99)
John Baxall, 1557 (fn. 100)
George Carew, 1559
William Day, 1572 (fn. 101)
Robert Bennett, 1595 (fn. 102)
Giles Thompson, 1602 (fn. 103)
Anthony Maxley, 1612
Marcus Antonius de Dominic, 1618 (fn. 104)
Henry Beaumont, 1622 (fn. 105)
Matthew Wren, 1628 (fn. 106)
Christopher Wren, 1635
Edward Hyde, 1658 (fn. 107)
Bruno Ryves, 1660 (fn. 108)
John Durell, 1677
Francis Turner, 1683 (fn. 109)
Gregory Hascard, 1684
Thomas Manningham, 1708 (fn. 110)
John Robinson, 1709 (fn. 111)
George Verney, 1713
Peniston Booth, 1729
Frederick Keppel, 1765
John Harley, 1778 (fn. 112)
John Douglas, 1788 (fn. 113)
James Cornwallis, 1791
Charles Manners Sutton, 1794 (fn. 114)
Edward Legge, 1805 (fn. 115)
Henry Lewis Hobart, 1816
George Neville Grenville, 1846
Gerald Wellesley, 1854
George Henry Connor, 1882
Randall Thomas Davidson, 1884 (fn. 116)
Philip Frank Eliot, 1891