A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



Hampden and other like rebels.' Under date 1 8 July, 1 644, a Parlia- 

 mentary newspaper 1 says that Sir William Ogle had taken ' from the 

 Master of Winchester College fifteen oxen and three hogsheads of beer, 

 upon suspicion that he was a Roundhead.' 



In the bursar's book for 16423 there are expenses relating to the 

 war, which were first brought to notice by Mackenzie Walcott, 2 who 

 apparently saw in them a reward to the soldiers for abstaining from 

 destroying the college. He notes only ' given to Mr. Fines' soldiers 

 29 5-r. 6</.' This was not however a single payment, but is a sum- 

 mary of several items, paid at quite different times. The entries point 

 to no unfriendly relations, and we may well believe that the warden, 

 suspected by the castle, would have welcomed one of the leading old 

 Wykehamists of the day, and a founder's kin, to billet in the college, 

 quite apart from any protection required from an imagined furious 

 soldiery. 



The college accounts show other warlike payments. Besides those 

 above mentioned under the heading of ' Distribution to the poor ' in 

 1642-3, we find is. paid to a wounded soldier and is. 6d. to a soldier 

 lately a prisoner, and to divers soldiers at divers times, 3^. Which side 

 was favoured in these payments is not stated. The reticence shown is 

 still more tantalizing next year, 16434, when the warden was paid 

 24 9-r. %d. in the fourth term (June-Michaelmas 1644) ' for extra- 

 ordinary expenses incurred in the billeting of divers soldiers this year ' 

 a sum nearly as large as that paid on Fiennes' visit the year before ; 

 while 4 ids. ^d. was expended in the same term on Mr. Jones, one of 

 the fellows ' going and returning between Winchester and Oxford and 

 divers " tips " (regardis) given by him to obtain the king's protection for 

 the college' a protection necessary because of the castle being in the 

 king's hands, and the seizure of college property by the garrison. The 

 college now kept men under arms. In Michaelmas term Seyward and 

 Pudsey were paid i zs. for bearing arms at divers times, and for keeping 

 guard for two days and nights 6s., at the rate of 3J. a day and night ; 

 while Pudsey and Tongue were paid 4*. ' for carrying arms on Decem- 

 ber 6th and 8th.' 



Though the college was not at any time in danger of destruction, it 

 suffered by the Civil War financially, like other landlords, in the loss of 

 rents. Its income which had been 2,665 m 1640-1 and 2,545 in 

 16412 fell to 2,331 in 1642-3 and sank a whole thousand pounds to 

 1,319 in 1643-4. Recovery came quickly. In 1644-5 l ^ e i ncome 

 rose again to 2,022. The arrears must have been paid up in the two 

 following years, when the income reached the highest total then recorded 

 of 3,218 and 3,370, while in 1647-8 the sum was 4,047, a figure 

 not attained again for the best part of a century. The spring and autumn 

 progresses of warden and bursars to visit the estates and the journey of 

 the warden and posers of New College to Winchester for the election 



1 Godwin, p. 1 60. 

 * Walcott, p. 172, 1643. Dat militibus Magistri Fines (Colonel Nathaniel). 



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