which the scholars used to perform their ablutions, and which they called “Moab”.  The old Society comprised the Warden, ten Fellows, three Chaplains, sixteen Queristers, and seventy scholars.  The boys, the chaplains, and the choristers lived within the inner quadrangle, the northern side of which is formed by the chapel and the refectory.  The original chapel, with the exception of the beautiful fan-groining of its roof, was much defaced in the seventeenth century, but was restored in the nineteenth, when a new reredos was added.  The refectory remains practically untouched, and has a roof enriched with some beautiful carved woodwork, the painted heads of kings and bishops, and some great mullioned windows.  Over the buttery is the audit-room, hung with ancient and rare tapestries, and containing a large chest known as Wykeham’s money box.  The original schoolroom was in the basement, and has long been put to other uses.  The chantry, the beautiful cloisters, and the chapel tower were all built after the founder’s death, but he provided a wooden bell tower, which stood away from the chapel, so that the main building should not be injured by the vibration of the bells.  The remaining portions are mostly modern, and the foundation has naturally been much enlarged since Wykeham’s day, the last addition being the gateway in Kingsgate Street, erected as a memorial to the many Wykehamists who fell in the South African War.

On the wall of a passage adjoining the kitchen is a singular painting, supposed to be emblematical of a “trusty servant”, compounded of a man, a hog, a deer, and an ass.  The explanatory words beneath it are attributed to Dr. Christopher Jonson, headmaster from 1560 to 1571.

With the completion of Winchester College, Wykeham turned his attention to the Cathedral, although he was then seventy years of age.  He lived to see his munificence bearing good fruit, and his foundations flourishing in reputation and usefulness; so that when he lay down to die, on September 27, 1404, in his palace of Bishops’ Waltham, he could look back to a long life spent in the service of his Maker.  The funeral procession moved slowly along the ten miles that separated palace from Cathedral through crowds of people mourning his loss.  At the Cathedral door the prior met the procession, and the great bishop-builder was laid to rest in the beautiful chantry he had himself prepared.  Four days before his death he made and signed his will, in which he bestowed gifts and legacies with the liberality that was so marked a characteristic of his life.  That crowds of poor would attend his obsequies he was probably aware, for to each poor person seeking a bounty he bequeathed fourpence, “for the love of God and his soul’s health”.  To the Cathedral, on which he had expended so much of his genius, he left money for its completion; and bequeathed to it many precious things, including a cross of gold in which was a piece of the “Tree of the Lord”.  Henry IV was forgiven a debt