112 THE EXTERNAL GROWTH OF SHERBORNE SCHOOL. 



commanded and required by Captain Helyar, a captaine for the 

 Parliament, to be done." The statue of the King within the 

 schoolroom itself is allowed, it would seem, to remain. The 

 reticence of the Minute-book during this eventful crisis is provoking, 

 but discretion was doubtless held to be the better part of valour. 

 Upon the restoration, ten years later, all danger to demonstrations 

 of loyalty is over, and in 1670 steps are taken for re-building the 

 School-room, which is in a state of decay. But the records of this 

 work are so meagre, except in the bare account of moneys spent, 

 that it does not even appear whether the present Dining-Hall, 

 which dates from this time, was a restoration and improvement 

 upon the old building merely, or whether it was an entirely new 

 departure. I have before stated that my own belief inclines to the 

 former view. At any rate it was ordered that the Statue of King 

 Edward VI. our Palladium the oldest solid relic of the past, 

 which we possess should be again set up, with the same four Latin 

 verses beneath its feet as in the former room. The fear of Captain 

 Helyar being now removed, it was also resolved that the King's 

 Arms be replaced over the School door, and " washed over with 

 oyle only, or some sad colour," as though the trustees were 

 mindful of the Horatian precept, to preserve a temper as far 

 removed from overweening joy in prosperity as from undue 

 depression in adversity. At the same time the Head-Master, Mr. 

 Goodenough, is directed to make a pair of Latin verses to set 

 beneath them, which is the origin of the clever rebus still existing. 

 This gives the date both of the founding of the School, 1550, and 

 of the new building, 1670, according as the numerals are added 

 together in pairs or singly. 



Tecta ZJraco Gustos Leo VinDe X FZos Z)ecus Auctor 

 KeX pius haec servat protegit ornat aLit. 



Six years later, Dr. Highmore, Warden, is empowered to finish the 

 Library, now mentioned for the first time, but whether the date 

 1670, upon the wall of this room, is to be taken as an indication 



