. Charterhouse: old and new. as still labouringunder a certain amount of ridicule. Our Charter-house Corps never mustered many members inspite of the trouble and zeal shown to raise was plenty of space available for drillingboth in fine and wet weather. In the latter casethe quadrangles about and around the Pensionersquarters afforded excellent cover. Had the move-ment attained any height, the Volunteers wouldno doubt have been permitted either to go downto Wimbledon or to use a nearer range in theeast of London for shooting. It is amusing tothink what our uniform would have been. Int
. Charterhouse: old and new. as still labouringunder a certain amount of ridicule. Our Charter-house Corps never mustered many members inspite of the trouble and zeal shown to raise was plenty of space available for drillingboth in fine and wet weather. In the latter casethe quadrangles about and around the Pensionersquarters afforded excellent cover. Had the move-ment attained any height, the Volunteers wouldno doubt have been permitted either to go downto Wimbledon or to use a nearer range in theeast of London for shooting. It is amusing tothink what our uniform would have been. Inthose crude days some marvellous toggery orother would have been turned out. Was thereanything more hideous than the uniform of theOxford University Rifle Corps about the year I90 CHARTERHOUSE 1864? By-the-bye, in the chapter on CricketQuarter omission has been made of the coloursof the Eleven. They were a pink cap, pink belt,and white flannel trousers and shirt. Similarcolours existed for the Football Eleven. OLD AND NEW 191. CHAPTER IX LONDON CHARTERHOUSE THREATENED \N the beginning of 1886 the out-side world was suddenly startledby an announcement that theGovernors of Charterhouse de-sired to sell a portion of theLondon estate, for the supposed benefit of thePensioners. It was intended to dispose of oneor two of the minor courts, without destroyingthe more notable historical buildings of the the removal of the School to Godalming,and the purchase of a large area by the MerchantTaylors School, a considerable piece had alreadybeen lopped off. The fresh proposed curtailmentwould naturally have circumscribed it still appears that the income of the institution hadlong been falling off on account of the prevailingdepression in agriculture. Whether or not asufficient sum, considerinor the enormous value 192 CHARTERHOUSE of property in the heart, as it were, of theMetropolis, had been already given by theMerchant Taylors, may be still a question tomany. Anyhow, Cha
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