There was soon after the Xmas holidays a misunderstanding between the TBs & QSS. which nearly ended in serious consequences to one of the QS. a TB home boarder in the fifth having been sent for by a QS to come into the green of a Saturday morning refused & he alleged as excuse that…
The annual TB & QS cricket match was won this year by QS by 5 runs see Cricket Ledger__ The Lamprobatick between QS and TB was won by the later in one innings & 17 runs to spare See also Cricket Ledger C.F.L West
Some of the choristers who were in the school having been hit & kicked by some of the QS for not stopping the ball well in green and the organist J. Turle having shown up to Dr Williamson he expressed his wish to me that they should not be obliged to go into the green…
Another case of cold water cure happened about this time a ’sci having been seen to lend a boat the green and cut[t]er it was seen by a 4th Town boy to come out with something in his hand which afterwards turned out to be a pair of shoes belonging to one of the senior…
Owing to the superiority of the TB heavy four the Minor Candidates did not race them this year.
I ought to have inserted higher up that the KS challenged the TB to a rubber at Raquets in the year /43 which was contested at 9 o clock in the morning when the TBs won the first game early, & carried on at 12-o-‘clock when the KS won the two next & thus it…
It having been for some time in contemplation to abolish the breeches of the Q.S. & to institute trousers in their place an order to that effect was after Whitsuntide issued by Dr Turton Dean of Westminster. The colours specified were, as I understood any thing between black & white but this was of course…
The Queen Scholar and Town Boy Heads of the Water having proposed a race between the Town Boys (in the 5th and 4th) and the Minor Candidates it was arranged that they should race in the heavy 4 oared boats belonging to each from Vauxhall to Battersea. The Townboys were victorious by a great deal,…
March 1 – 1842 A quarrel between the TB & QSS which lasted some time began this day in consequence of Beasley a Bishops’ Boy in the Sixth having licked a Second Election.* The facts are as follows – The Captain* having head that this fellow in the 2d Election has been licked, sent to…
This year finding that the Town Boys were miserably few, being about the same number as the King-Scholars, and that it would be unfair that they should have to pay a bill nearly double that of the K.S. (as it has always been) I spoke to Somerset (the captain) saying that when the T.B.s were…