from the sobriquet of the Saint of Assisi, whose Christian name was
John.

From the son of Sir Francis in 1279 Simon the Draper obtained the
Manor of Otterbourne for 600 merks, and a quit rent of a pair of gilt
spurs valued at six pence! Simon seems to have assumed the gilt
spurs himself, for he next appears as "Sir Simon de Wynton." Indeed
it seems that knighthood might be conferred on the possessors of a
certain amount of land. Wynton in two more generations has
lengthened into Wynchester, when, in 1379, the manor is leased to
Hugh Croans, merchant, and Isabella his wife for their lives, paying
after the first twenty-five years 100 pounds per annum. And two
years later William de Winchester conveyed the manor over to Hugh
Croans or Crans.

The great Bishop William of Wykeham bought it in 1386, and gave it to
his cousin, bearing the same name. It continued in the Wykeham
family till 1458, when William Fiennes or Fenys, Lord Say and Sele,
the son of him who was murdered by Jack Cade's mob, being married to
the heiress, Margaret Wykeham, sold it to Bishop Waynflete for 600
pounds.

The bishop's treasurer was Hugh Pakenham; and being one of the
feoffees to whom the manor was conveyed for the bishop, he pretended
that he had bought it for himself, and absconded with some of the
title deeds; but eventually he died in magna miseria in sanctuary at
St. Martin's le Grand, Westminster. His son John renounced the
pretended claim, and very generously the Bishop gave him 40 pounds.

In 1481, good Bishop Waynflete made over the property to his newly-