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,
The Frogs Who Desired a King has become a willing plaything of the frogs as they gleefully hop onto his back and use his bill as a water-slide. The majority of allusions to Aesop's fable contrast the passivity of King Log with the energetic policy of King Stork. They include a reference by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne in his novel "The House of the Seven Gables" (1851) and several in novels by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, who often featured political situations there. The fable was also pressed into the service of political commentary in the title "King Stork and King Log: at the dawn