A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



their master together. Lord Deerhurst and his brothers Coventrys, 

 Lord Ossulston, Lord Brook, Master Duncomb and Sir Robert Burdet, 

 Master Greville, Master Wallop (Lord Lymington's son), also Lord Drum- 

 lanrich, the Duke of Queensberry's son, who is under his peculiar care, 

 though not in the house, because he would not exceed his fix'd number.' 



The portraits of all the boys mentioned, except Master Duncomb 

 and the elder of the two Coventrys, were given by Dr. Burton's will in 

 1774, with a direction that they should 'hang in the school-master's 

 great room,' the present second-master's dining-room, of which, though 

 their gay colours are somewhat faded, they still form a most interesting 

 ornament. In 1733 the distinction between commoners in college and 

 other commoners still appears in the Long Roll for that year, and accord- 

 ing to Mackenzie Walcott's copies of Long Rolls, contained in the 

 British Museum, is traceable till 1736. In 1739 a quarrel broke out 

 between Hostiarius Eyre and Dr. Burton, and the former among other 

 gravamina asked the warden and fellows : ' Have I a right to the 

 chambers in the College assigned to me by the College, but possessed by 

 Dr. Burton without any leave ever asked ? ' 



The headmaster then occupied the old joint chambers of the head- 

 master and usher and the commoners' chamber. The quarrel arose 

 through Burton having said that ' the Scholars, at the Usher's end of the 

 School, do not make due progress in their learning.' To remedy this he 

 had introduced an assistant-master, Ashley by name, without Eyre's con- 

 sent or knowledge. Two commoners being ' taken from the Usher's end 

 of the School and sent to Ashley's'; the outraged usher, missing them in 

 school, went in pursuit, and the boys ' stamped downstairs ' in Mr. 

 Ashley's hearing. What stairs ? School had none. Mr. Kirby reason- 

 ably conjectures that Mr. Ashley was teaching in the commoners' chamber 

 over Fifth. Eyre resigned as the result of the quarrel, and was succeeded 

 by Samuel Speed, who also became tenant of the Spital. 1 In 1755 

 Joseph Warton was, on the resignation of the Rev. Samuel Speed, elected 

 second master of Winchester School, ' with the management and 

 advantages of a boarding-house ' ; and his biographer says ' the sons of a 

 prime minister 2 were in his boarding-house while he was Second, and the 

 heir-apparent of a secretary of state while he was First Master of Win- 

 chester College.' Warton also became tenant of the Spital. At least as 

 late, then, as Dr. Warton's headmastership, the second master lived in a 

 separate and independent boarding-house. 



In the Spital precincts Dr. Burton occupied only the ' Sistern houses ' 

 out-houses seemingly ' so much of them as is not already demised to 

 other persons,' let to him by the chapter on 25 November, 1748, and 

 again 20 June, 1759. Instead of these he built a new and, probably, 

 superior boarding-house, with a house for the headmaster. It was no 

 doubt a great improvement. The new house, filling up the front to the 



1 Biographical Memoirs of the late Dr. Joseph Warton, by Dr. Wooll, headmaster of Rugby (London : 

 T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1806), p. 30. 



* Lord Bute's sons, one of whom became Bishop of St. David's and Archbishop of Dublin. 



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