A peep into the Blue Coat School!!!!!!!!! mb-code 2501240 'Melrose Abbey'

'Melrose Abbey'

Malcolm McPherson and Farquhar Shaw

with a carriage and sedan chair

Smith Square

with figures disembarking from a coach on the Strand

A peep into the Blue Coat School!!!!!!!!! mb-code 2501240 'Melrose Abbey''A peep into the Blue Coat School!!!!!!!!!', 1815. Showing a pig in military uniform (General Sir Eyre Coote) standing on its hind legs and being birched by three Christ's Hospital boys. A woman is standing at the doorway with Sir William Curtis and Alderman Matthew Wood. Coote was dismissed from the army in scandalous circumstances after he was caught by the school nurse at the Christ's Hospital School flogging pupils and then being flogged by them