LORD COKE SAYS, "BETWEEN SUCH HOSPITALS AS THIS AND COLLEGES EITHER IN THE UNIVERSITIES OR OUT OF THEM, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE IN LEGAL CONSIDERATION; FOR WHERE IN AN HOSPITAL THE MASTER AND POOR ARE INCORPORATED, IT IS A COLLEGE, HAVING A COMMON SEAL BY WHICH IT ACTS, ALTHOUGH IT HAVE NOT THE NAME OF A COLLEGE.MOST OTHER HOSPITALS OF MODERN CREATIONS ARE NOT LEGAL HOSPITALS.",

MASTERS OF THE HOSPITAL FROM ITS

FOUNDATION.

ORIGINAL

Names of Masters.

Rev. Ralph Griffyn, D.D., Professor of Divinity 1571

Thomas Cartwright, B.D..

:-Symon Buttreys

Edward Lord

Samuel Burton

Rice Jem

Timothy White

Thomas Glover

Samuel Jemmet

-Samuel Lydiat

James Mashbourne

William Burman

Charles Gore, M.A.
Edward Tart, D.D.

When yrs. in

electd. office.

Charles Scottowe, D.D.

George Lillington

John Kendall, M.A.

1767 27

1794 50

Henry Berners Shelley Harris

1844

...

THE HOSPITAL OF FOBERT EARL OF LEYCESTER IN WARWICK. Pub by Henry T. Cooke, High St Warwick

When Queen Elizabeth made her entry into Warwick on the 12th day of August, in the year 1572, and in the 14th of her reign, the following latin verses were presented to her by Mr. Griffyn, a Master of the Hospital.

* Triste absit letum: dignare amplectier omen *
Ut firmo vitæ producas stamina nexu
Explorans gressu cepisti incedere Caleb
Lurida sulphurei qua torquent tela Ministri
In capita authorum lex est ea justa resultans
Sic tibi demonstras animi quid in hoste fugando
Agmini cum fundas regno nocitura malorum
Bella geris parce, illicite non suspicis arma
Exempla illorum nunquam tibi mente recedunt
Turpe quibus visum magna cum clade preesse
Alma vernis vultu, sed Christus pectore fertur
Vere ut fervescat cor religionis amoe

In verbis Pallas, factis Astrea tenetur
Rara ut Penelope regia, nescia Debora vinci
Omen triste absit: defuncta propagine vives

* The initials and finals make Tu Elizabeta viro nubis o mater eris