William of Wykeham but he was pardoned by the new king Richard II in July 1377, weeks after Edward III died. (Richard was the son of Edward, the Black Prince, who had died in June 1376, a year before his father.) Under Richard II, William resumed his position as a royal councillor. Although he took the side of the Lords Appellant in their disputes with the king in 1388, he also managed to maintain good relations with the king, and served as Chancellor again from May 1389 to September 1391. After years of supporting poor scholars at Oxford University, he founded New College,
George Heriot (died 1610) merks, in order that he could establish his own shop; he would go on to become jeweller and goldsmith to Queen Anne and King James VI, and amass a large fortune, which he bequeathed to establish Heriot's Hospital in Edinburgh. Of his other children, Patrick moved to Genoa, where he married into an Italian family and died sometime before 1623. whilst Margaret married twice. David also took up his father's business, and his son, also David, would become known as a "celebrated" goldsmith; the elder David died before 21 January 1623/4, and the younger David in 1661. James succeeded as