SCHOOLS 



The terms of peace are thus a complete justification of the rebels. 

 The rebellion threatened to break out again next day owing to the 

 second master demanding the surrender of four guns taken from his 

 house. This was said by the boys to be a breach of the amnesty, but on 

 the argument that the demand for restitution of stolen property was not 

 a breach of amnesty the guns were surrendered. But the warden chose 

 to consider the first refusal of surrender of the guns a breach of amnesty 

 by the boys, and addressed them on their insubordination in ante-chapel, 

 in the course of which he is said 1 to have paused for a reply with the 

 words ' Eloquar an sileam,' and to have received it in the word ' Sileas,' 

 anglice, ' Silly ass.' He told them that if they did not intend to obey 

 the statutes they had better go. They asked for a copy of the statutes, 

 which was given, and a statement as to what in particular was required, 

 which was refused. Meanwhile, the boys found that, in spite of the 

 amnesty, the warden had been putting pressure on parents to compel 

 their sons to apologize or resign. One of them, Dr. Budd, a physician, 

 went to Winchester and enforced the alternative on his son, who pre- 

 ferred resignation. Thereupon the ' whole of his schoolfellows ' com- 

 plained in writing of the breach of amnesty and sent in their resignations. 

 They wished to withdraw them next day, but the warden had taken 

 the resigners at their word, and thirty-five or thirty-six were made to go. 

 The expelled included Richard Mant, who became Bishop of Down, and 

 Thomas Silver, Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. Certainly the 

 expelled scholars who exchanged arts for arms at that exciting crisis had 

 no reason to regret the insidious conduct of the warden. 



The headmaster however, and not the warden, was made the scape- 

 goat. Dr. Warton retired in the summer of 1793. He survived till 

 February, 1800, busied to the last in poetry on an edition of Dryden, of 

 which he published two volumes and left two others ready for the press. 

 A monument to his memory by Flaxman in the south aisle of the nave 

 of Winchester Cathedral presents an excellent likeness of the genial old 

 headmaster in his magisterial throne. 



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If it had been done on purpose for our ensample, there could have been 

 no more conspicuous object-lesson in the right and the wrong ways of 

 managing a public school than was seen in the first two headmasters of 

 Winchester at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The principle 

 of confidence between master and boys, self-government by prefects 

 against ushers, the English system, in a word, was in force under one ; 

 the principle of mistrust and usherdom, the French system, under the 

 other. 



William Stanley Goddard, the second master, followed Dr. Warton 

 as headmaster in 1793, and reigned till 1809. His father was a merchant, 

 who had his boy's name entered as a commoner ; but becoming bankrupt, 

 the boy went first as a chorister, but was soon taken by Thomas Collins, who 



1 Wykebamica, p. 149. But the story is in all probability apochryphal. 

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