The history and antiquities of Boston, and the villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle; comprising the hundred of Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln. Including also a history of the East, West, and Wildmore fens, and copious notices of the Holland or Haut-Huntre fen ... sketches of the geology, natural history, botany, and agriculture of the district; a very extensive collection of archaisms and provincial words, local dialect, phrases, proverbs, omens, superstitions, etc. By Pishey Thompson. Illustrated with one hundred engravings.

402 JOHN CLAYMONDo
Bishop Fox, and became the first president of Corpus Christi College, of which
that prelate was the founder,' 5th March, 1516-17.
John Claymond died 19th November, 1537, and was buried in the Inner
Chapel of Corpus Christi College. A marble slab was laid over his grave, with
an inscription prepared by himself —the void spaces which he left to be filled in
by his executor, but this was never done.2 He left, by his will, dated 30th September, 1532, divers lands and tenements in Oxfordshire and Hampshire, for
certain services to be performed annually in the chapel for him, and the souls of
John and Alice his parents, and John his stepfather. He gave to Brazennose
College 4801., to purchase lands for an exhibition of four marks yearly to be
given to each of six scholars, of which one was to be elected from Frampton,
— the place of his birth,-and the other five from places with which he had been
officially connected. " These scholars were called Claymondines; and at this
day, corruptly, Clemmondines."3 He also left considerable property in Oxfordshire for the relief of poor Oxford scholars, and land and money to Corpus
Christi College, and books to the library.
There is a curious metrical life of Claymond by JOHN SirEPnEVE, Fellow of
Corpus Christi College, in the Ashmolian Library. It commences,"Continet obscurum Regio Lincolnica pagum
Quem sua Framptoniam turba vocare solet," &c., &c.4
There is nothing more upon record respecting John Claymond. "H6 e seems
to have been educated almost from his cradle in the college;" he is said to have
been " a very sedate man, as charitable as devout, and his life most exemplary.
it is doubted whether he was the better philosopher or divine, for he was very
eminent in both capacities." He corresponded with ERASMUS, and enjoyed the
friendship of many of the eminent men of his day. SHEPREVE Says he was an
excellent poet. He used to style himself Eucharistwe servzs, "because in his
more early days he frequently received this sacrament, and in his latter took it
every day." He left many specimens of his learning in MS., but nothing in
print; among others," Notae et observationes in Plinii Naturalem Historiamn." In 4 vols., in Corpus
Christi College Library. NEANDER speaks in high terms of commendation of
this work.
cc Comment. in Auli Gellii Noctes Atticas."
CC Comment. in Plautum."
"Epistolae ad Simon Grynmeum, Erasmum, et alios Viros Doctissimos."
" A Treatise on Repentance."
The family of Claymond continued to reside in Boston, Frampton, and
Wyberton, during the 16th and 17th centuries, several of them bearing the,
at that time, very distinctive appellation, " Generosus." ANTHONY CLAYMOND
was an alderman of Boston, from 1561 to 1578, and Mayor in 1565. He was
one of the four aldermen appointed in 1568, to consider the practicability of bringing water from Keal Hill for the use of the inhabitants of Boston. He removed
from Boston, probably to Frampton, in 1578.
In GUTCH'S History, vol. iii. p. 382, is a long 2 GUTCH gives the inscription at length, which is
account of Bishop Fox, who was born at Ropsley engraved on two brass plates fastened on the stone.
near Grantham, and received the first rudiments of vol. iii. p. 401.
his education at the Grammar School at Boston, 3 GUTCH, vol. iii. P. 358, &C.
from whence he went to Magdalen College, Oxford. 4 There is also another and more legible copy in
He was long most intimately acquainted with Clay- the Bodleian (Dr. SMITH'S MSS. Cvi. 7).
mond, and is called by Gutch " his familiar contemporary," vol. iii. p. 315.