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THOMAS ROTHERHAM. 217
in his will he extends the benefits of his foundation.
He provides that a third fellow should be appointed.
He states that he had observed that there were
many quick-witted youths in the place and neighbourhood
whose tastes pointed in the direction of
mechanical arts, and pursuits of a secular kind,
rather than to the scholarship and learning which
constituted a vocation for the priesthood, and he
assigned to this third fellow the duty of giving instruction
in those more homely and simple branches
of education, writing and arithmetic, free of all charge,
to those who should be sent to receive it. The Archbishop's
will breathes a deep spirit of piety throughout,
and no one can read it without feeling that its
expression of deep humility and earnest prayers for
the blessing of the Most High upon the provision he
was making for the training of the young in a place
which he loved with an abiding affection, were the
utterances of a good and holy man, who was not
unmindful of the gifts and blessings he had himself
received from the Lord of all. ' The endowment of
the college was a munificent one. It escaped confiscation
under Henry VHI., but it fell never to rise
again under Edward VI. 's Act for the suppression of
chantries, colleges, and gilds.
'
"Test. Ebor.'' iv. pp. 138 et seq.