A Memoir of the Life of Bishop Mant Author:Edward Berens Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The education thus commenced under the paternal roof, was subsequently continued on the foundation at Winchester College, where he was admitted in 1789. Here he ... more »applied vigorously to his classical studies, and cultivated that taste for Latin and English poetry, which cheered him almost to the latest moment of his life. He was deprived of his Scholarship at Winchester under circumstances of considerable hardship. From a clear and accurate narrative of what took place, written by Dr. Mant at the time, and supported by numerous letters written on the occasion, the facts of the case appear to have been as follows. Returning from London to Southampton on the 3d of April, 1793, Dr. Mant, when passing through Winchester, found the school in a state of excitement. Upon asking the cause of it, his chapter{Section 4son told him, that the Warden had punished'the whole school for the fault of one boy, and they were all determined not to submit to such injustice. After expostulating with the boys, and warning them of the consequences of their insubordination, he proceeded to Southampton. The next day, with the natural anxiety of a father,—the father too of a large family,—he returned to Winchester, and found not only the school but the whole street in an uproar. The boys had armed themselves with bludgeons, got possession of the keys of the College, and locked the Warden out. Dr. Mant went to the College to see his son, but was refused admittance. It so happened that the High Sheriff had on that day convened a meeting of the gentry and freeholders of the county, to addressthe King on some public occasion, probably on the breaking out of the war with revolutionary France. The meeting was over; and several of the gentlemen, who had attended it, kindly went towards the school for the pur...« less