A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



him or his family as late as 1787. The silver medals were, as now, one 

 for English and one for Latin speech, the gold for composition. When 

 people who had not sons in the school took the trouble to go over from 

 Salisbury for medal-speaking, it must have been a very different perform- 

 ance to what it is now. 



In November, 1 774, was another rebellion at Winchester on a small 

 scale, of which Mrs. Harris gives an account to her son at Berlin : 



P.S. There has been a foolish riot at Winchester, and forty of the middle class 

 of the Commoners have set off. Our neighbour Seaman, Dr. Warton locked up. Lord 

 Shaftesbury stayed at school ; Knatchbull went to your uncle Harris's, and is still 

 there. Seaman desired to be sent for home, and so he was. He tells me it all arose from 

 some boys dressing up like the housekeeper, who has a hump back, and she desired the 

 assistant, Huntingford, to order them all to bed before their usual time. That they 

 would not comply with. Then Dr. Warton came into the Hall ; the boys hissed him, 

 and said either Huntingford or they must quit the house. So all this trouble is owing 

 to a silly old woman, who now, too late, repents her complaining. 



A less clear account is given from a letter of T. Wood Knollys to 

 his aunt, Lady Wallingford 1 : 



The first cause of it was that they had two masquerades among themselves in the 

 Common Hall, which the Master hearing of went in, and, seeing a mask and a wig 

 hanging up, made the boy whom he supposed they belonged to take them down and 

 burn them, saying he would have no masquerades. Upon Dr. Warton leaving the Hall 

 all the boys hissed him. Upon that he returned and said, ' So, gentlemen ! what, are 

 you all metamorphosed into serpents,' and then a second time they hissed him out. 

 And a third time he came and attempted to speak, but they reiterated their hisses, and 

 would not give him the hearing, upon which he was obliged to leave them. This 

 was of a Saturday, and he went immediately to Mr. Stanley's, where he stayed 

 throughout the next day. 



The quarrel then resolved itself into an ultimatum against the com- 

 moner tutor (G. I. Huntingford, afterwards warden and Bishop of Here- 

 ford), that he or they should leave the school, and on Monday morning off 

 they went. Very few had any money. ' The first day they suffered 

 much hunger and fatigue, and at night going to inns they, by leaving 

 their watches, or other means, got credit sufficient to forward them to 

 their several homes.' The writer adds that ' everybody condemns the 

 boys.' He condemns Dr. Warton, who had prospered as long as his 

 wife lived : ' she excelled, and was a downright slave as to the domestic 

 business of providing for the boarders. In short, she was the admiration 

 of every one, and none could equal to her.' 



In 1776 we find a boy removed 'for funding Philip Lys.' In 1778 

 almost a riot took place in the case of William Moody. Mr. Kirby" 

 gives some of the letters in the case. Though Moody was a 'junior,' it 

 was not a case of bullying a little boy. He had been five years in the 

 school, and the boy principally concerned was of his own year. The 

 allegation was that having refused * to cut at cards a shilling a game ' 

 with Western, a prepostor, he was afterwards found ' playing at com- 

 merce for nothing with some little boys,' and was thereupon tunded 

 with a horsewhip. Another time going to Hills his shoe came down, 

 when Western and another came up and drove him before them, and 



p. 404. 2 Ibid. p. 406. 



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