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and telling the soldiers that the kingdom by birthright was his ' although 

 Scott born,' and they should obey him, and that the enemy's cause was 

 just. He pleaded guilty to the partridge, but said his point was : 

 ' Have not kings their troubles as other men ? ' To the most substantial 

 charge that he ' with the rest of the College hath sent to the King money, 

 horsemen, and plate,' he said that he never sent any horsemen nor plate. 

 ' I have kept it and it is heere to be scene this day,' and he never gave 

 any money to the king before the city became a garrison, and then only 

 for ransom from the violence of Sir William Ogle. 



The visitation produced no results. The college and its members 

 were left alone ; and the judicious Harris deserves no small credit for 

 having so admirably ' served the times.' 



The college did not even lose the customary venison which the 

 Bishop of Winchester used to contribute from his park at Hursley, only 

 it 1 came from ' the Lord Cromwell ' instead. Sporting festivities too 

 received recognition, and it is at this period 2 that payments first appear 

 of a shilling 'to Mr. Symes' man bringing a fox to college' and 'to 

 mending the fox's chain.' For nearly two centuries a fox was kept at 

 Winchester. 3 



It is a strange thing for those who think that schools under 

 Parliament were in a state of imminent dissolution to find that at Win- 

 chester two of the documents which throw most light on its internal 

 economy date from this period. 



No school lists exist anywhere of an earlier date than the Common- 

 wealth, and both at Winchester and Westminster the earliest specimen 

 dated from that period. That at Westminster is dated in 1656, that at 

 Winchester is three years earlier, 1653. This earliest ' Long Roll "' is 

 like its successors at the present day in the form of a roll and in Latin. 

 It unfortunately gives no Christian names (as indeed the present ones do 

 not to the masters and fellows), while college and commoners are in 

 separate lists. There are three lists of college, first in school order, then 

 in order of seniority of admission, and thirdly, arranged according to 

 chambers. In later rolls the number of his chamber is prefixed to each 

 scholar's name. In the school order there are twenty-three scholars in 

 Sixth Book, a line being drawn after the eighteen prefects, eighteen in 

 Fifth Book, twenty-three in Fourth Book, and six in Lower Fourth 

 (Secunda Quarto). Then follow the commoners in college, seven in num- 

 ber, of whom two are described as ' at the Masters' table,' i.e. fellow-com- 

 moners, the fellows being commonly called magistri ; and five, including 

 two Stanleys, sons of the late schoolmaster, another son being in college 

 ' at the table of the Scholars (puerorum).' A Love, a son presumably of 

 Nicholas, the Parliamentarian, is among these last. The choristers are 

 inserted between the commoners in and out of college. These last only 



1 Bursar's Book, 1654-5. 



8 Ibid. 1657-8. 



3 One was still kept by the 'Slype' at New College when I first went up in 1869. 



4 Winchester, Long Rolls, 1653-1721, by C. W. Holgate (Wells, Winchester, 1899). 



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