15 small silver shields & 3 silver plaques (1 school crest, 1 presentation: A.T. Willett (OW) 1922'. Awarded: 1922-1935. Damage to plaque at point of shield. Needs refixing. Missing 1 large silver shield. Some loose elements stored separately.
3 plaques (1 school crest) and 14 small shields on a wooden support. Awarded: 1921-1934. Damage to plaque at tip and 2 shields missing. Presented by the Rev. G.H. Nall 1922. Some loose elements stored separately.
3 plaques (1 school crest, 1 presentation plaque) + 11 small shields on a wooden round support. Centrepiece to be fixed. Presented by E. Ryde Esq. June 1880. Awarded: 1880-1890.
15 small shields, 1 central plaque (school crest) and a small presentation plaque inscribed: 'Presented by the Elizabethan Club 1887'. Awarded: 1887-1901. Several shields need re fixing.
Has not forwarded the name of Thomas Trebeck (see 7 and 29) to the committee established to support the play (see 29), since Bull wrote that he did not know if he was still alive. Pulteney reports that cricket balls are now bowled so violently that players must be padded. On translations of Terence - thinks that new translations should appear every 50 years to reflect changing idiom. Westminster said to be improving under new Head Master (see 29) - hopes that he will keep the best of the old customs, such as fagging (what hardship is it to carry 2 or 3 hats on one's shoulders to Tothill Fields, or to blow on a fire?). On the import of cattle and sheep by railroad from the interior of Germany and its negligible effect on London meat prices, and on the state of the potato harvest. To assist his French a Frenchwoman comes in three times a week to read Molieres to him out loud.