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than a dead lion," and I hope she shall reign long and prosperously over 

 us. But I must say with my text, " the dead are more to be praised 

 than the living," for certain it is "Mary hath chosen the better part." 

 He was very tenderly treated for this utterance, being only com- 

 manded to keep his house, and released even from that after a ' good 

 admonition ' by the lords of the council. 1 But as he afterwards ' would 

 needs preach, which he did, seditiously in his Romish pontifical vest- 

 ments,' he was sent to the Tower in April, 1 559, and eventually deprived. 

 He found in the end that discretion was the better part of valour, ' and 

 upon acknowledgment of his misdemeanours he was set free, and died at 

 Sir Thomas White's place in Hants,' 12 January, 1559-60.* 



His brass in chapel, placed there by him when warden, is inter- 

 esting as that of the last of the Roman Catholic wardens, robed in a 

 magnificent cope. 



James Trobylfelde or Turbervil, another Wykehamist, who was a 

 Marian bishop and deprived by Elizabeth, is worthy of note as having 

 kept his see of Exeter unspotted from the fires of persecution. 



THE ELIZABETHAN ERA 



The beginning of the new regime in the state under Queen 

 Elizabeth was marked by the advent of a new regime at Winchester. 

 The Marian warden indeed, Thomas Stempe, conformed and continued. 

 He lived till 9 February, 1581, but little is recorded of him save that 

 according to his epitaph he had been a good civilian and was a popular 

 preacher. 3 As warden he judiciously bought up some chantry lands to 

 add to the college property in Andover and elsewhere. 



The headmaster, Hyde, disappeared, and was succeeded by one of 

 his own pupils, who saluted him with a scoff : 



Tu quoque, preceptor meus, Hyde, latenth 

 E re nomen habes, Numinis istud opus. 



Thy name to fit thy actions, hiding Hyde, 

 My master once, some god did sure provide ! 



Hyde died at Douay in 1597. The vacant chair was filled by 

 one of the most pleasing figures that has graced the throne of 

 Winchester School, that of Christopher Johnson. He came from 

 Derbyshire, and became a scholar of Winchester in 1 549, a scholar 

 of New College in 1553, and went straight from his fellowship 

 there to be headmaster in 1561, when he was twenty-four years old. 

 He suffered much as a junior under the heavy hand of Everard, and he 

 seems to have taken the lesson against severity to heart. His own mild 



1 Acts of the Privy Council, 1558, p. 45. 2 Strype's dnnals, i. 213. 



3 Grandior ad leges civiles ibat ; in illis 



Doctor et hinc judex non sine laude fuit. 

 Presbyter in sacris scripturis plurimus haesit 

 Quas populo acceptas plausibilesque dedit. 



Blackstone's Benefaction Book, p. 82. This valuable series of extracts from the college archives, 

 made by Charles Blackstone, fellow of Winchester, in 1748, is in the possession of the warden. Most 

 of it has now been printed in Mr. Kirby's dnnali of Winchester College. 



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