Whitgift School

And just some wonderful, wonderful fixtures across the, across the school calendar.

Whitgift, I wouldn't write them off.

I know they've lost a couple, but 35-29 winners against Seaford, and we spoke to, uh, Christian Head last week.

Just game after game after game as you shoot down this list of brilliant, brilliant rugby schoolboy fixtures.

So I don't, I don't know.

But no, no, no, but I'm a Whitgift boy.

I shouldn't have a, I shouldn't have strong feelings about Dulwich College, but I do.

They, they've come off the back of this big win against Bedford on their, on home turf.

And the, and then the Fisher game as well in the, in the, in the first round of the cup.

And what's not to love? [laughs]

The Fisher who beat Whitgift.

Yeah, exactly.

But it was really cool watching the final.

You had Wellington v Whitgift and the crowd was like, it was so cool.

Is it good?

Yeah, you should come next year.

We have mentioned Hooker, and nothing better illustrates what has just been asserted than the following incident in Hooker's own career, which everyone has read, for it is related in Izaak Walton's life of Hooker, but of which probably the significance has been fully grasped by not one half of those who have read it.

Hooker was through the influence of Archbishop Whitgift appointed in fifteen eighty-five Master of the Temple, but a great effort had just been made to obtain the place for a Mr. Walter Travers, well known in that day, though now it is Hooker's name which alone preserves his.

This Travers was then afternoon lecturer at the Temple.

The master whose death made the vacancy, Alvey, recommended on his deathbed Travers for his successor.

But perhaps nothing can better give us a lively sense of its presence there than this history of Travers, which is as if Mr. Binney were now afternoon reader at Lincoln's Inn or the Temple, were to be a candidate favored by the benchers and by the Prime Minister for the mastership, and were only kept out of the post by the accident of the Archbishop of Canterbury's influence with the Queen carrying a rival candidate.

Presbyterianism, with its popular principle of the power of the congregation in the management of their own affairs, was extruded from the Church of England, and men like Travers can no longer appear in her pulpits.

Perhaps if a government like that of Elizabeth with secular statesmen like the Cecils and ecclesiastical statesmen like Whitgift could have been prolonged, Presbyterianism might, by a wise mixture of concession and firmness, have been absorbed in the establishment.

Lord Bolingbroke, on a matter of this kind, a very clear judging and impartial witness, says in a work far too little read, his remarks on English history, "The measures pursued and the tempo observed in Queen Elizabeth's time tended to diminish the religious opposition by a slow, a gentle, and for that very reason, an effectual progression.