A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



number fifteen, among them being a Fiennes. Next come four names, 

 headed ' Pueri Domini Ludimagistri.' One of them was named Burt, 

 and they no doubt lived in the headmaster's chambers. Then follow 

 the rolls ad Oxoyiam, the names of those elected to New College, if a 

 vacancy should occur during the year, and ad Wintoniam^ those similarly 

 elected to Winchester. This Winton Roll contains ten names, headed 

 by that of Nicholas, afterwards warden, and comprises three of the 

 commoners. The roll for New College does not coincide either with 

 the order in the school or that of seniority, so that it would seem to 

 have been really founded on examination. The number of commoners 

 is so small that it almost suggests that at this time, day-boys having 

 been dropped, the college did not hold itself out to receive any one but 

 gentlemen commoners, and a few who came in the hopes of getting 

 into college. Of the twenty-five commoners five had the same names 

 as, and were no doubt relations if not brothers of, boys in college. 



After the list of the servants, in which the two cooks and the 

 manciple receive the title of Dominus like the fellows, comes a list of 

 ' officers.' It is headed by the prefect of tub, who was neither head 

 of the school or senior in standing, but as low as eighth in the former 

 and nineteenth in the latter ; then comes prefect of hall, who inhabits, 

 as now, sixth chamber, but was fifth both in school and seniority order. 

 The prefect of school in this roll was Turner, afterwards Bishop of Ely, 

 who was twenty-seventh in seniority, seventh in school, and thirteenth 

 on the roll for New College. Next, under the heading Pueri Domini 

 Ludimagistri, came the head of the school, second on the roll for New 

 College, Thackham and Fauchin, who is thirteenth in the school ; and 

 under Pueri Domini Hypodidascali appears one boy only, Lowe, second 

 in the school and eighth on the roll for New College. Were the two 

 head boys called headmaster's and second-master's ' child ' respectively, 

 or had they some connection with commoners as tutor or prefect? The 

 name does not occur in the later Long Rolls ; and in the third extant, 

 that for 1672, of the three senior commoners out of college two are 

 definitely described as prefects. Last on the Roll of 1653 came two 

 Prefecti Templi, or prefects of chapel. 



THE SCHOOL IN 1650 



About the same time as the first Long Roll, in the full height of 

 the political revolution, as if to prove how little politics affected or were 

 likely, whichever side won, to affect the schools, there made its appear- 

 ance one of the most lively sketches of school life that has ever been 

 seen. This was the poem, De Collegia sen potius collegiata scbola Wic- 

 camica Wintoniensi (' Of the College, or rather Collegiate School of 

 Wykeham at Winchester '). As has been already said, this poem, which 

 was printed for the first time in 1848 by Christopher Wordsworth, was 

 wrongly attributed by him to the Elizabethan headmaster, Christopher 

 Johnson, when he was a boy, i.e. about 1550. It has been accordingly 



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