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interesting when we remember Iioav ignorant we arc of eveiy tiling conneeted with the family and parentage of William of Vykeliam. His father, mother, and sister, Avcrc buried in the chnrcli of Snthwyk priory. This a])pears from an aeknowledgment of a payment, by Thomas Ayleward, one of the executors of Willijun of Wykeham, to Prior Thomas, of £50, in part payment of 100 marks, for the works of the church at Snthwyk, and especially for the roof over the vault in which the bishop's father, mother, and sister were buried. This document is dated April 8, Henry IV. 1407^. As there is no special ])rovision left for this })urpose in Wykeham's will, as given by Lowth, this money nnist have been paid out of the residuary estate, left to be disposed of at the discretion of his executors. Of the ancestors of William of Wykeham we know only that his father was called John, his mother Sibil, and that they were Inu'ied at Snthwyk. Every fact connected with the name of AVykeham deserves to be sought out and recorded. It is pleasing to find him, immediately upon his elevation, mindful of the place which contained his parents' remains, and so anxious to make provision for that which he believed to be conducive to the eternal peace of their souls. Notwithstanding his liberal benefaction to the priory, a few years later he seems to have had reason to be dis})leased with the state of discipline and order in the house ; for he held a visitation of the convent, " tam in capite, quam in membris," and issued some severe injunctions against divers breaches of the conventual rule, and even against some more serious offences. These injunctions are dated at South- Waltham, August 22, 1397. An event of considerable historical importance took place in the priory of Snthwyk, in the reign of Henry VI. According to I'abyan and Ilolinshed, the nuptials of Henry with jNlar- garet of Anjou were celebrated there in the year 1 145, being the 23rd of his rcimi. There is no direct confirmation of this, indeed, in the records of the priory; but there is a charter of Henry VI. to the prior and convent, dated March UK in the 24tli year of his reign, A.D. 1446; and a second « Tlic receipt for the remainder, dated pounds ten oiiiu'es, price of the jjouud May 3, 8 Ucn. IV., (1 107) is intere.stiM<i:, 28s.; and by one pair of silver gilt basons, as slicwinfj the value of silver at the time. of the weight of live pounds, price of the It slates that it was paid by one pair of pound 30s. silver candlesticks, of the weight of live