A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



single-handed to deal with them. It is strange to find that not only 

 the fellows and conducts used to assist in teaching but the warden him- 

 self. The words can hardly refer only to the lectures in religion to be 

 given under the injunctions ; so that it is just possible that the real 

 origin of the Beaufort injunction against commoners was the warden's 

 desire to share in the profits of teaching them, and the effect to enable 

 him to do so. This may account for so many of the headmasters being 

 elected wardens. 



There is rather striking testimony to the efficiency of Everard's 

 teaching in spite of his heavy hand. In the autumn of 1552, Edward VI. 

 and his council made a sort of progress through Surrey and Hampshire, 

 spending the greater part of July and the whole of August there, and 

 visiting Winchester on 5 September. The congratulatory verses written 

 by the boys on this occasion are preserved in the king's library at the 

 British Museum. 1 



No less than forty-three boys wrote copies of verses, of whom five 

 were commoners ; at least their names do not appear in Scholars. The 

 verses were in all varieties of metres, sapphics, alcaics, iambics and other 

 Horatian metres, as well as hexameters and elegiacs ; and the general 

 average of merit is very high. One of the cleverest is a dialogue be- 

 tween ' A Child ' and ' Echo,' by a small boy, Edward Tichborne, only 

 twelve years of age, admitted only the year before. There is one very 

 creditable copy of Greek iambics by Thomas Stapleton, who, becoming 

 a canon of Winchester under Mary, turned a Roman Catholic, retiring 

 abroad at the purgation of New College in 1562, and died professor 

 of divinity at Louvain. 



When Queen Mary came in and was married to Philip in Win- 

 chester Cathedral, the boys greeted them with equally loyal and learned 

 effusions, under the guidance of White as Warden, who as headmaster 

 under Henry VIII. had 2 ' made certain verses extolling the King's 

 supremacy, and against the usurped power of the Bishop of Rome, which 

 said verses he caused his scholars to learn, and to practise them in the 

 like argument.' Shortly after as Bishop of Lincoln he was trying and 

 sending Cranmer to the stake ' for the like argument.' 



Boxall succeeded him as warden. He was made archdeacon of Ely, 

 and in 1556 employed as ambassador to France on matters concern- 

 ing Calais. In 1557 he became Secretary of State, 3 and was endowed 

 with three deaneries Peterborough, Norwich and Windsor. College 

 therefore could not have been much troubled with his presence. 



White, translated to Winchester on Gardiner's death, preached the 

 funeral sermon on Queen Mary. It is impossible not to admire the 

 mixture of dignity and impudence with which he praised his dead 

 mistress. ' She had left a sister to succeed her, a lady of great worth 

 also, whom they were bound to obey, for " better is a living dog 



1 Royal MS. A. xxxiii. * Foxe's Martyrs, ed. I, ii. 845. 



3 Acts of the Privy Council, 1556-8, p. 70. 



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