CHAPTER IV.-ETON COLLEGE (continued)

Good Boys!"-Land at Hampstead Garden City-Alms-

folk, a Dream of the Past-The Red Wine of Gascony-

Henry VI. dies "sticken with a dagger "-Life and Labour

in the Fifteenth Century-Jane Shore and a Charming

Portrait at Eton-Roger, Provost Lupton, Founder of

Sedbergh, originally Free Grammar School-Enormous

Incremental Loss-The Amorous One again-Society Bri-

gands-Edward VI.'s Bogus Reputation-Hush-money and

Adroit Bribery-A Sixteenth Century “ Agitator "—Queen

Bess and Eton-Provost foiled by Woman's Intrigue-

Nativity of the Fellows' " Birthright."

CHAPTER V.-ETON COLLEGE (continued)

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Etonian "Nuts "-Amusements in the Sixteenth Century-

May and Hawthorn Boughs-A Warden, simultaneously

Pedant, Pooh-Bah," and a "Beautiful Man!"-Benefac-

tions, Scholarships, and Flourishing Revenues-Sir Henry

Wotton, and the Young Nobility-How the King's Ear was

beguiled-" Poor and Needy "Patricians' Scramble-A

Beautiful Commonwealth Episode-The Restoration-

Benefices and a Clique-Whipped for not Smoking-A

Napoleonic Schoolmaster Curious Advertisement and

Queerer Election-A Bear and a Bore-Courtier and

Obscurant-Vested Abuses and Tardy, Partial Reform—

Long Chamber, the Byword of Eton - Other Diversions-

Shelley George III.'s Patronage-" Montem' - Eton's

Governance · A Former Glory' Sic Transit Gloria

Mundi !" Prodeegious ! "

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The Tightening Noose and the British Lion-Rich Loot-

Numerous Broken Statutes-Laziness and Eton Synony-

mous-The Class of "Poor " Scholars in the 'Nineteenth

Century-" Sloppy Sentimentalism and an Episode-

Revolting Savagery-A Work of the Old Artist-Reward

for Upholding a Dead Man's Will.

CHAPTER VII.-ETON COLLEGE (continued)

Provost Hodgson, the Vandal, and his Partial Reform-

From Flunkeys to Plutocrats-A Modern Educationalist's

Criticism of Eton-Swinburne, the Poet-Virtues of the

Birch-An Agitator" at Eton-Jacob Omnium and the

Cornhill Magazine-A Supernal Reform "-Hail, Mis-

tress Etona!-The Firm of William Morris-Burne-Jones

and Watts-Old and New Departures-The

"Old Serpent

-New Statutes Where are the Founder's Poor

Thirteen "?"A Shocking Thing!"-Flagrant Iniquity

Legalised The Manes of Henry VI.-Eton To-day.

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CHAPTER VIII.-HARROW

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John Lyon's Free Grammar School-His Epitaph-Old

Governing Body-Poor Scholars-No Girls to be Taught-

Foreigners Chicanery and Subterfuge Poverty

strangely Defined—Sop to Dispossessed Cerberus-Padding-

ton Ratepayers-Income To-day-Ancient Recreations-

Famous Ĥarrovians-Wealth of Harrow in 1914-Diver-

sion's Consummation.

CHAPTER IX.-RUGBY

Lawrence Sheriffe of London, Queen Elizabeth's Grocer-

Rugby Free School and Almshouse-Source of Increasing

Wealth-Founders' Origin and Career-Malversation-

Commences the Extrusion of the Poor-In the Eighteenth

Century "Leaving Gratuities - Income in 1807·

Scholastic Hotels - The Clarendon Commission ·

Founder unusually fond of German Language-Famous

Rugbeians-"Poor " Scholars, To-day.

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CHAPTER X.-ST. PETER'S COLLEGE, WESTMINSTER. 147

A Saxon Scholastic Vignette-William_Fitz-Stephen-The

Medieval Scholar at Work and Play-Cock-fighting in the

Schools-John Stow exposes Ecclesiastical Corruption-

Abbey Lands and Revenues-Queen Elizabeth, Founder-

The Reformation-Insistence on Poverty-"Commons" in

Elizabethan Days-Gabrielle Goodman and his Fair Elms-

In Time of Sickness-Gentle Lancelot Andrewes and his

Summer Pupils-Brave Dean and Imperious Queen-Origin

of Bottled Ale-Fearsome Consequences of Libel-Laud and

a Schoolmaster-The Schoolmaster "Abroad!"—" Malig-

nancy "-How Dr. Busby conserved his Authority-House

of Commons control the School-George Herbert-Richard

Busby-" Modern Midas-eared City Grandfathers, and a

Contrast-A Liberal Sixteenth Century Parish Vestry—

Busby's Expression of his Gratitude-Old Buildings-A

Shaking of the Skeleton-Romantic Episode of the Com-

monwealth-Patronage and the Dean of Christ Church,

Oxford-Famous Westminsters-An Absolute Autocracy-

Past and Present Emoluments-King's Scholars-The Pall

Mall Gazette.

CHAPTER XI.-St. Peter's College, WESTMINSTER

(continued).

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Clarendon Commission's Recommendations Governors

of the College - Modern Regulations — Examination and

Admission of King's Scholars in 1914-" The Challenge

Inner Life of the Elizabethan Schoolboy-Translation of

Latin Statutes-Insistence on Indigence-Masters' Duties

- Manner of Electing Choristers Rule and Order of

Scholars-Westminster no Charity School for Uriah Heeps

-The Humanities-Annual Westminster Plays-Commons

in Hall-Stipends and Allowances-In Time of Plague-The

Westminster Play.

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A Product of the Democratic Renaissance Spirit-John

Colet-Pigeons of Paul's and Pigs of St. Anthony-Early

Predilection for Reform-The Smoke of the Burning-

England's Numerous Autos da Fé cause Wood to Rise in

Price!-Colet's Simplicity of Character-His Real Title to

Fame-Singular Prescience in Choice of Trustees-The

Church of England and Demos-An Old Story-Another

Oxford Don-And a Modern Dean of a Cathedral-Death of

Colet-Magnificent Munificence-The Prologus-Statutory

Emoluments-Bars Blotterature "-" Lift up your Little

White Hands!" The Mercers' Livery Company

Child Bishop-Erasmus on Barbarous Discipline-Anecdote

referring to Colet ?—The Acme of Servility.

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The

An Echo of Eton's "Dividing Society "-Salaries—Nepo-

tism and Patronage-Pepper with Privileges !-Famous

Scholars-Not very Violent Iconoclasts !-A Large Unap-

plied Surplus Income-The London Livery Companies and

the Eighties Royal Commission-Stewardship of the

Mercers-Large Defalcations-Report of Brougham's Com-

mission-The Missing Third and Much Else-The

"Pestiferous Poor "-Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth-

Difference between a Litell Dinner and an Apposition

Dinner "-Portentous Gold Medals for Meritorious Breasts-

St. Paul's To-day-Official Scholarship Regulations for 1914

-Are Pauline Foundationers To-day Poor Boys ?-Govern-

ing Body in 1914.

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CHAPTER XIV.-MERCHANT TAYLORS'

Taylors and Linen Armourers-Manor of the Rose-Founda-

tion of a Free Grammar School-Sir Thomas White-Cen-

sure of Richard Mulcaster, Schoolmaster-Friction-" Well

spoken of beyond the Seas"-" For Poor Men's Children "

A Complaint and a Probation - Wm. Dugard and his

Inscriptions-Catching Posterity's Eye Quintessential

Autocracy The Commissioners' Reproof -A Fee School

and not a Free School-Customary Nepotism-Numerous

University Exhibitions Brougham's Whitewashers

Alumni-Charles II. in the Role of a Moral Preceptor-A

Quibble-Extracts from Official Regulations.

CHAPTER XV.-CHARTER-HOUSE .

The Carthusian Monastery-Pardon Churchyard-Thomas

Sutton and his Purpose-Source of Vast Wealth-Commis-

sioner of Prizes at the Time of the Spanish Armada-His

Mansion an Open Hospital "-Adventurers-Courtiers'

Intrigue arouses his Indignation-Rejection of a Belated

"Honour "-Charter-house Endowments-Sutton's Death

and Burial-More Sheep fleeced by their Shepherd-Old

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CHAPTER XV.-CHARTER-HOUSE (continued)

Thos. Fuller on Sutton-Stow's Corroboration of Sutton's

Intentions-List of Manors-" Rich Sutton's " Prominence

in the Domestic Calendar of State Papers-Legal Vultures

-Current Gossip-Advent of Francis Bacon-Ultimate

Eleemosynary Alienation forecast-In 1865-Litigation

of Disappointed Heirs-Bacon's "Advice to the King "-

Sidelights on Corruption-" Gentlemen will not live upon

Alms"-Bacon on Contemporary Charity Batteners-The

Old Hoary Educational Fallacies-Bacon's Hints-Lawyer

First, Reformer Later-The Case of the Savoy Hospital's

Dilapidation-Effect of Great Civil War-Collision with

James II.-Glorious Autocracy-Famous Carthusians-

Matthew Arnold on the Charter-house-" Humorous

Customs-Charter-house in the Nineteenth Century-

Thackeray and "The Newcomes "- Brotherhood of

"Poor "Carthusians-Income, Government, and Scholars

of the New Charter-house-Almshouse To-day-Charity

Digest Account of Charter-house, 1914-A Letter to the

Daily News and Leader.

Bluecoat School and Greyfriars' Monastery-Edward

VI.'s Charge to Bishop Ridley-An Interview with the

King at his Palace-The "Spitals" - Voluntary Contribu-

tions and Endowments-The Cock of Westminster-Stigma

of Servitude-Church Linen Granted to the Hospital-

Monopoly in a Market, and Cart Licensing-No Chance

for "Gamfield, the Sweep "-Types of Beneficiaries-A Tem-

porary Wane-Lady Ramsey's Bequest-Charles II.'s Mathe-

matical School-Thin End of the Wedge-First Class

Distinction ! - William Wales evokes Wails-Effect of

the Great Fire on Hospital-Ample Assistance and

Financial Aid-Careful Thomas Guy jilts his Maidservant

-Thomas routs the "Vulture"-Benefaction to Christ's Hos-

pital-Notable Philanthropy, not Sycophancy-The "Cy-

Près " Doctrine and a Query-Past and Present Statutes-

Pathetic Rhymes and Monastic Diet-Leigh Hunt's

Ludicrous "Steward" Anecdote-Lely and Holbein Portraits

-Pen Pictures of Hospital Life by Lamb, Hunt and

Coleridge-Solitary Cells for Runaway Scholars.

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CHAPTER XVII.-CHRIST'S HOSPITAL (continued)

Robert Waithman, the Radical Reformer, charges the

Governing Body Open Letter to the Examiner

Allegations of Patronage and Favouritism towards Children

of the Rich-Leigh Hunt's Admissions-Usurpers Cole-

ridge and Lamb champion Hospital Governors-Lamb's

Singular Volte-Face" Are there not Parochial Schools?

says Lamb-Bluecoat and Charity Boy contrasted—” The

First Order "-Why Leigh Hunt and Charles Lamb were

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CHAPTER XVII.-CHRIST'S HOSPITAL (continued)

not sent to the Universities-Famous Bluecoat Boys-The

Modern Christ's Hospital-How West of England Poor Boys

were and are penalised by Local Reactionaries-"Hethering-

ton's Charity"-Big Sale of Hospital Lands in Summer,

1914.

CHAPTER XVIII.-DULWICH COLLEGE.

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Another Melancholy Example-Alleyn, the Shakespearian

Actor and Keeper of the King's Bear Garden-Poor

Scholars and Foreigners "-Foundation and Endow-

ments of Dulwich College-A Romance of the Merry

Old Gentleman-Alleyn's London Almshouses-Statutes

Modified-Enlightenment not Vouchsafed-Alienation of the

College-Its Scandalous Condition in the Nineteenth Cen-

tury-Sir Francis Bacon's Letter to the Duke of Bucking-

ham-" A Princely Work "-Court of Wards-Bacon, a

Poetical Stenographer?-Our Collective Best Friend's Hands

tied-The Chancery Tribunals-Fine Picture Gallery of

Murillos and Dutch Masters-Upper and Lower School at

Dulwich-Charity Organisation Society's Report on Dul-

wich College and Alleyn's Charities (1914)-Eleemosynary

Branch very little Expanded since 1870, despite Enormous

Growth of "Unearned Increment "Official Scholarship

Regulations of Dulwich College-To-day.

CHAPTER XIX.-SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

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Tipping a Flunkey to obtain a Free School-Thomas Ashton

Shrewsbury School Endowments-Camden on the School

-The Trend of the Times-School Fasti-A Quaint Banquet

and a Queer Aquatic Ceremony-John Stow Exposes

Aristocratic Graft "-Jurisdiction of St. John's College,

Cambridge, over Shrewsbury-Poverty Qualification—

Income and Salaries in 1870-Bailiff's Ordinances of 1577-

Chancery Scheme of 1853 Dereliction of Clarendon

Commissioners-A Fee School-Alumni of Shrewsbury-

A Good Story-Shrewsbury To-day.

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CHAPTER XX.-SOME OTHER SCHOOLS, AND THE

FUTURE OF THE GREATER PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

APPENDIX.-CHARITY SCANDALS IN ENGLAND

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