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Historical Account Of The Life Of William Of Wykeham.
It does not appear that Wykeham had any share in this important transaction , farther than by his presence in the parliament held on the 30 th of September , 1399 , when Richard resigned his crown , and was solemnly deposed . On the 23 d of October a solemn council of the lords in parliament Avas held by command of Henry IV . to determine Avhat should be done with Richardthe late king ; when it was determined he should
, suffer perpetual imprisonment . Wykeham Avas not one of the number that joined in this determination ; and he never afterwards attended any parliament in person , but he assisted at a council of lords and prelates convened by the new king soon after the parliament was dismissed for a supply , when the prelates gave a tenth , as an example to the nation , to supply the king ' s exigencies ; and this is the last
trace that remains of Wykeham in a public character . During the two first years of Henry IV . he moved about from one of his palaces in the country to another , and then retired to South Waltham , where he remained till his death , which happened about eight o ' clock in the morning of the 27 th day of September , in the year 1404 aged eighty years .
, Very little concerning his domestic life has been transmitted to us . In general , he appears to have had an early tincture of the devotion of his times , and to have considered the Virgin Mary as his patroness . Over all the gates of his colleges he has been careful to have himself represented as her votary , in an act of adoration ; and he erected his
chapel in the very place Avhere he used to perform his daily devotions before her image , when he was a boy . It is recorded of him , that he was particularly possessed Avith the notion of the reasonableness and efficacy of prayers for the dead ; and that he performed this part of the public service of the church with peculiar fervour , even to the abundant effusion of tears . Though his will was signed not more than fourteen months before his deathyet he executed part of
, it himself : for , as he made it a rule never to defer any act of benevolence to another day , Avhen an opportunity offered to perform it , he distributed many of his legacies with his own hands , and added a codicil to declare Avhat articles he had discharged . Besides his public and private benefactions upon such occasions as offered themselves to him , he continually employed his friends and
attendants to seek out proper objects of his charity ; to find those whosemodesty Avould not yield to their distresses , nor suffer them to apply for relief ; aud to go to the houses of the sick and needy , and inform themselves particularly of their several calamities : a Avider circle of benevolence Avas thus opened before him , and he administered largely to the wants of all whom it included ; he supported the
infirm , he relieved the distressed , he fed the hungry , and he clothed the naked . The whole sum that he bequeathed in legacies amounted to about 7000 I .-He continued to see all who had business with him till . vithin four , days of his death , in his upper chamber , and he was buried in his own oratory , in the cathedral church of Winchester .
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Historical Account Of The Life Of William Of Wykeham.
It does not appear that Wykeham had any share in this important transaction , farther than by his presence in the parliament held on the 30 th of September , 1399 , when Richard resigned his crown , and was solemnly deposed . On the 23 d of October a solemn council of the lords in parliament Avas held by command of Henry IV . to determine Avhat should be done with Richardthe late king ; when it was determined he should
, suffer perpetual imprisonment . Wykeham Avas not one of the number that joined in this determination ; and he never afterwards attended any parliament in person , but he assisted at a council of lords and prelates convened by the new king soon after the parliament was dismissed for a supply , when the prelates gave a tenth , as an example to the nation , to supply the king ' s exigencies ; and this is the last
trace that remains of Wykeham in a public character . During the two first years of Henry IV . he moved about from one of his palaces in the country to another , and then retired to South Waltham , where he remained till his death , which happened about eight o ' clock in the morning of the 27 th day of September , in the year 1404 aged eighty years .
, Very little concerning his domestic life has been transmitted to us . In general , he appears to have had an early tincture of the devotion of his times , and to have considered the Virgin Mary as his patroness . Over all the gates of his colleges he has been careful to have himself represented as her votary , in an act of adoration ; and he erected his
chapel in the very place Avhere he used to perform his daily devotions before her image , when he was a boy . It is recorded of him , that he was particularly possessed Avith the notion of the reasonableness and efficacy of prayers for the dead ; and that he performed this part of the public service of the church with peculiar fervour , even to the abundant effusion of tears . Though his will was signed not more than fourteen months before his deathyet he executed part of
, it himself : for , as he made it a rule never to defer any act of benevolence to another day , Avhen an opportunity offered to perform it , he distributed many of his legacies with his own hands , and added a codicil to declare Avhat articles he had discharged . Besides his public and private benefactions upon such occasions as offered themselves to him , he continually employed his friends and
attendants to seek out proper objects of his charity ; to find those whosemodesty Avould not yield to their distresses , nor suffer them to apply for relief ; aud to go to the houses of the sick and needy , and inform themselves particularly of their several calamities : a Avider circle of benevolence Avas thus opened before him , and he administered largely to the wants of all whom it included ; he supported the
infirm , he relieved the distressed , he fed the hungry , and he clothed the naked . The whole sum that he bequeathed in legacies amounted to about 7000 I .-He continued to see all who had business with him till . vithin four , days of his death , in his upper chamber , and he was buried in his own oratory , in the cathedral church of Winchester .