SCHOOLS 



THE RESTORATION AND REVOLUTION 



At the end of the Commonwealth period the college bells rang with 

 even peals to celebrate the proclamation of the Lord Protector Richard 

 in 1658 and the coming of Charles II. in 1660, the tariff on each occasion 

 being five shillings, or a shilling a bell. Nicholas Love, having sat in the 

 court which sentenced Charles I., fled for his life to the continent, and 

 like many of the other regicides found a delightful haven of safety on the 

 Lake of Geneva. After the Restoration, Winchester becoming again for 

 a time a royal city, the college again became a royal school. Under the 

 patronage of sprightly Charles II. it enjoyed another golden age such 

 as it had enjoyed under the saintly Henry VI. 



The first year after the Restoration there was a brilliant roll of 

 scholars. It included a future Lord Chief Justice, Lord Edward Herbert ; 

 a Secretary of State, John Trenchard ; a bishop, Thomas Manningham, 

 Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Chester ; a Public Orator at Oxford, 

 Cradock ; the most successful headmaster of the century, Dr. Burton ; and 

 the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Edward Herbert, son of Lord Herbert of 

 Cherbury, who went from his fellowship at New College to the bar, and 

 twenty years later became Lord Chief Justice. 



We do not know the names of the commoners contemporary with 

 the brilliant scholars of 1661, as after 1653 no Long Rolls are known to 

 exist before 1 668. In that year the commoners numbered only thirty-six, 

 of whom thirty-one are described as ' out of college,' the others being ' in 

 college.' ' The Lord of Falkland ' headed the list, on which Otway the 

 dramatist was third, of the commoners ' in college.' 



Another interesting point in this Long Roll is that it shows that the 

 practice of sending boys as commoners as a half-way house for entrance to 

 college still continued, for the name of Otway the poet was on the roll 

 ' ad JVinton ' for admission to Winchester College, though he never got in, 

 the last on the roll who was admitted being the next above him. Two of 

 his fellow-commoners headed the roll : Henry Morgan, son of Sir Thomas 

 Morgan, Bart., who was nominated by the king, and Eustace Moore, 

 who received a nomination from the bishop, Morley. 



It is remarkable that two of the choristers also obtained entrance to 

 college : Pettye, who, to judge by his place, was nominated by the war- 

 den, and Herrin, who was admitted the next year, the Long Roll for 

 which is missing. 



An examination 1 of the rolls from 1690 to 1720 has shown four 

 certain and ten practically certain cases of choristers going into college. 

 How late the practice went on is not ascertained. In 1758 William 

 Crowe the poet was admitted to college, after appearing as a chorister on 

 the Long Roll of the previous year. Dr. Goddard, headmaster from 

 1793 to 1809, elected to college in 1771, went first as a chorister. But 

 the practice was at the end of the seventeenth century probably falling 

 into desuetude. When the scholars were relieved of making their own 



1 By Mr. Herbert Chitty. The Wykehamist, May, 1901. 

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