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 Cambridge under Queen Anne
 
 CAMBRIDGE UNDER 
 QUEEN ANNE 
 
 ILLUSTRATED BY MEMOIR OF AMBROSE 
 BONWICKE AND DIARIES OF FRANCIS 
 BURMAN AND ZACHARIAS CONRAD VON 
 UFFENBACH 
 
 EDITED WITH NOTES 
 
 BY 
 
 J. E. B. MAYOR, M.A. 
 
 LATE FELLOW OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, AND PROFESSOR OF LATIN 
 IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 
 
 WITH A PREFACE 
 
 BY 
 MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES, LiTT.D 
 
 PROVOST OF KING'S COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE 
 
 Cambridge 
 
 Published for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society by 
 
 DEIGHTON, BELL & CO. AND BOWES & BOWES 
 
 LONDON: G. BELL & SONS, LTD. 
 
 1911
 
 CAMBRIDGE 
 
 PRINTED BY JONATHAN PALMEK 
 ALEXANDRA STREET
 
 PREFACE 
 
 The book which is here given to the world, begun 
 many years ago, but still in an unfinished state, is one 
 for which Cambridge antiquarians have often longed. 
 Dr H. P. Stokes and the Rev. F. G. Walker to 
 whom the best thanks of all of us are due have been 
 responsible for the arrangement by which the printed 
 sheets have been transferred to the Cambridge Anti- 
 quarian Society; and I have gladly complied with 
 the suggestion of Mr Bowes that I should write a 
 short prefatory note for the volume. 
 
 Originally the work was intended by Professor 
 Mayor to be a collection of three tracts the memoir 
 of Ambrose Bonwicke, and the visits to Cambridge of 
 F. Burman and Uffenbach and it was to have borne 
 the general title of Cambridge under Queen Anne. 
 As time went on, however, Professor Mayor found 
 himself unable to complete the notes to Uffenbach's 
 narrative, and eventually published the Life of Bon- 
 wicke by itself in 1870. The first paragraph of his
 
 viii Preface 
 
 introduction thereto explains his intentions with 
 regard to the remainder : 
 
 " This volume is extracted from Cambridge under 
 Queen Anne, which will also comprise visits to London, 
 to Oxford, and particularly to Cambridge, by Francis 
 Burman in 1702, and by Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach 
 in 1710. The complete work is printed mainly for such 
 of my private friends as are interested in the history of 
 the Universities, and in the advancement of learning and 
 science." S. John's, 30 Sept. 1870. 
 
 Of the portion which was then held back some 
 few friends obtained copies through Professor Mayor's 
 kindness, and these fortunate persons recognised at 
 once to what a mine of information about the scholars 
 of Cambridge nay, of Europe of two hundred years 
 ago they had gained admittance. I do not know 
 whether it continued to be Professor Mayor's inten- 
 tion to write the last part of his commentary on 
 Uffenbach, or whether he had definitely laid it aside. 
 At any rate it seems certain that he sent no copy to 
 the press later than 1871. Mr. Palmer, the printer, 
 has discovered part of another sheet that had been in 
 type for some years and then taken down, and this is 
 now reprinted, and forms pp. 517 530 of the present 
 volume ; but beyond that it is believed that no con- 
 tinuation is to be found among Professor Mayor's 
 papers. What remained to be written was the com-
 
 Preface ix 
 
 raentary on about 40 pages of Uffenbach ; 37 had 
 been treated, and the notes on these occupy about 
 1 20 pages, so that at least as much again might have 
 been expected. A great deal of the space would 
 probably have been occupied by collections about 
 YVhiston and Sike, who are both mentioned in the 
 text. 
 
 The narratives of Burman and Uffenbach, around 
 which Professor Mayor has heaped up the riches of 
 his learning, have long been accessible in print. 
 That of Burman is inconsiderable ; Uffenbach's teems 
 with interesting detail. He was an enthusiastic ex- 
 plorer of libraries and, in particular, of collections of 
 manuscripts. I have had frequent occasion to com- 
 pare the lists which he gives of manuscripts in our 
 college libraries with the existing collections, and 
 have had pleasure in finding that not more than half- 
 a-dozen volumes which he saw have disappeared. 
 Uffenbach is not always just in his account of the 
 condition of the libraries he visited, as Dr. Venn has 
 shewn in the case of Caius College ; and his diary is 
 full of girdings and sniffings at the people and things 
 he sees. But though I suspect he was tiresome, I 
 take him not to have been a disagreeable man on the 
 whole. I may add that the manuscripts which he 
 himself collected are now at Hamburg ; it would be
 
 x Preface 
 
 interesting to know whether the leaf of a Latin 
 Josephus (Dd. i. 28 in the University Library) which 
 the "beadle or library-keeper " gave him (see p. 157) 
 is still among them. 
 
 The commentary, however, and particularly the 
 biographical part of it, immensely outweighs the text 
 both in bulk and importance. Burman furnishes 
 Professor Mayor with material for interesting notes 
 on University ceremonies (p. 325), on Henry James, 
 President of Queens' (332), and on Thomas Smoult 
 (334). Uffenbach of course gives him more scope. 
 I may be forgiven for calling attention to some of the 
 most important of the persons dealt with : Ferrari 
 (p. 411), Fr. Redi(4i7), Bentleyand LeClerc(42i, 26), 
 W. Bedwell (438), Th. Gale (448), Jo. Davies (450), 
 Richard Laugh ton (456), Covel (470), Augustine 
 Lindsell (478), Meric Casaubon (482), Erpenius (484), 
 and, lastly, Edmund Castell, the collections concern- 
 ing whom occupy pp. 487 530. The industry which 
 has brought together from the most diverse quarters 
 the materials which throw light on the career of all 
 these persons is astounding, or would be astounding 
 if we did not already know what Professor Mayor was 
 capable of achieving how wide a net he cast into 
 the sea of literature, and how little he was disposed 
 to reject as useless whatever that net brought in.
 
 Preface xi 
 
 This work well merits its place beside the other won- 
 derful accumulations of learning which we owe to the 
 same hand ; and it sharpens our regret for the great 
 gatherer of knowledge whom we have lost. 
 
 M. R. J. 
 
 September, ign. 
 
 3obn JEgton JSicfcerstetb 
 
 Born 28th January, 1825. 
 Died 1st December, 191O.
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 PREFACE by Dr. MONTAGUE R. JAMES ... vii xi 
 
 AMBROSE BONWICKE: 
 
 LIFE BY HIS FATHER, 1729 i 112 
 
 NOTES 199308 
 
 (Published separately in 1870.) 
 
 FRANCIS BURMAN : 
 DIARY OF VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE IN 1702 113120 
 
 NOTES ON THE CAMBRIDGE VISIT ... 324338 
 
 Cambridge Coaches, Audley End, Com- 
 mencement, Creation of Doctors, J. 
 Laughton, Kuster, John Mill, Thomas 
 Smith, Henry James, Thomas Smoult, 
 Oxenham, Chr. Greene, Jas. Talbot, &c. 
 
 LIFE AND EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY 
 
 OF VISIT TO LONDON 309324 
 
 Lambeth, Gresham College, Newton, Dr. 
 Thomas Smith, Abp. Tenison, Bentley, 
 &c. 
 
 VISIT TO OXFORD 319 321 
 
 Dr. John Wallis, Halley, Burnet, Convo- 
 cation, &c.
 
 xiv Contents 
 
 ZACHARIAS CONRAD VON UFFENBACH : 
 
 PAGE 
 
 DIARY OF VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE IN 1710 121 198 
 Trinity, Clare, St. John's, King's, Caius, 
 University Library, Queens', Sidney, 
 Trinity Hall, Emmanuel, Peterhouse, 
 Pembroke, St. Catharine's, Christ's, 
 Corpus Christi, Jesus, Bentley, Baker, 
 Covel, Whiston, &c. 
 
 NOTES ON THE CAMBRIDGE VISIT ... 410 530 
 Nimtsch, Cambridge, Trinity Library, St. 
 John's Library, Coffee Houses, Caius, 
 Bentley, Beza, Public Library, Hickes, 
 St. Mary's, Baker, R. Laughton, Covel, 
 Castell, &c. 
 
 LIFE ... ... 341347 
 
 TRAVELS IN ENGLAND 348410 
 
 St. James's Park, Chelsea, Haymarket, 
 Paternoster Row, Flamsteed, Busch- 
 mann, Nimtsch, Karger, Burg, St. Paul's, 
 English Sundays, The Tower, Cock- 
 fighting, Winstanley, Little Britain, 
 Temple, Bull-baiting, Edzardi, George 
 Holmes, Benedetti, Westminster Hall 
 and Abbey, Hauksbee, St. Evremont, 
 C. Du Puy, Bear-garden, Gresham 
 College, Quakers, Epsom, Tenison's 
 Library. Queen Anne, Cotton Library, 
 Old Bailey, Petiver, London's Diversion, 
 Bp. Moore, Maryborough, Geo. Hickes, 
 Buddie, Asgill, Rochester, Grabe, Book- 
 sales, Dandridge, Woodward, Dancing 
 Ape, Pitt Diamond, Concert, Beverland, 
 Sloane, Harwich, &c.
 
 Contents xv 
 
 UFFENBACH continued. PAGE 
 
 VISIT TO OXFORD 374395 
 
 The Bodleian, Exeter, Jesus, Thomas 
 Hearne, Ashmolean, Parry, Wadham, 
 C. C. C., Christ Church, Lavater, Prof. 
 Frewin, Magdalen, Sacheverell, Wood- 
 stock, Merton, Hudson, Races, Lincoln, 
 Physic Garden, Bobart, St. John's, All 
 Souls', Col. Codrington, Rushworth MS., 
 Brasenose, Pembroke, Carswell, Thomas 
 Creech, &c. 
 
 ETON COLLEGE 395 
 
 INDEX by G. J. GRAY 531545
 
 PATTERN 
 
 FOR 
 
 Young Students, &c.
 
 PATTERN 
 
 FOR 
 
 Young Students 
 
 IN THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY, 
 
 Set forth in the Life of 
 
 Mr. AMBROSE BONWICKE, 
 
 Sometime Scholar of 
 
 St. JOHN'S COLLEGE, 
 
 IN 
 
 CA MBRIDGE. 
 
 'Ay<avieffOe eitreXfletV 8ta TTJS ffTfvrjs irv\r)s. Luke xiii. 24. 
 
 L O NDO N: 
 
 Printed for J. and J. BONWICKE, and STEPHEN AUSTEN, 
 in St. Paul's Church-yard, and F. COGAN, at the Blue 
 Ball without Temple-Bar. 1729.
 
 TO THE READER. 
 
 I NEED not apologize, I hope, for communicating 
 to the publick the life of a person so little known 
 to it. The virtues of a private life, the? they appear 
 not to the world, with all the advantage that those of 
 a publick one do, yet are of more use for its imitation, 
 and perhaps not less difficult to be attained to in a re- 
 markable degree. 
 
 An appearance in the heavens contrary to the 
 usual course of nature, may strike us with surprize, 
 and convince us of a power more than human : but 
 such a power is not less sheum in the constant motion 
 of the planets, and the silent regularity of the world. 
 Our reason may be affected as much by the one, as 
 our imagination is by the other. 
 
 Every one from a view of such a character as 
 Cicero describes and is here exemplified, will draw 
 the same conclusion.
 
 6 TO THE READER. 
 
 Ego, siquis, indices, hoc robore animi atque 
 hac indole virtutis ac continentiae fuit, ut re- 
 spueret omnes voluptates omnemque vitae suae 
 cursum in labore corporis atque in animi con- 
 tentione conficeret ; quern non quies, non remissio, 
 non aequalium studia, non ludi, non convivia de- 
 lectarent; nihil in vita expetendum putaret, nisi 
 quod esset cum laude et cum dignitate con- 
 iunctum : hunc mea sententia divinis quibusdam 
 bonis instructum atque ornatum puto. 
 
 Cic. pro M. Cadio [ 39].
 
 A 
 
 PATTERN FOR YOUNG STUDENTS 
 IN THE UNIVERSITY, ETC. 
 
 SUCH examples as this which I am now 1 
 communicating to posterity being very 
 rare, or, through a faulty neglect, sometimes 
 buried in silence ; I think it my duty to prevent 2 
 
 5 the loss of one, and to endeavour to perpetuate 
 the memory of a young man, who in this de- 
 generate age is scarce to be parallel'd. The 
 works of God ought always to be remembered, 
 especially those of his grace ; and a victory ob- 
 
 10 tained by his favour over the world, the flesh 
 and the devil, is more worthy to be recorded 
 and celebrated than a victory over an enemy in 
 the field, where the carnage of bodies, and the 
 worse havock of souls, must needs create horror 
 
 1 5 to the mind of a good man when he seriously 
 contemplates them. 
 
 Ambrose Bonwicke, whose short life I en- 
 deavour thus to lengthen as far as I can, was 
 the first-born child of Ambrose Bonwieke, and 
 
 20 Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Philip Stubbs,
 
 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 citizen of London, and several years inhabitant 
 of the parish of St. Peter Cornhill, where she 
 had the happiness of improving her piety by her 
 
 3 constant attendance on the service, sermons and 
 sacraments, under the most regular administra- 5 
 tion of the pious and learned Doctor Beveridge; 
 which piety she early instill'd into this her son, 
 and had the comfort to see it increase to a 
 very great degree. He was born at the master's 
 house adjoining to Merchant-Taylors' school in 10 
 London, on Wednesday September 30, 1691. and 
 being weakly and in danger of death, he was 
 baptized privately that day sevennight, October 
 
 7. Afterwards when he grew stronger, and able 
 to bear it, he was carried to the parish church 15 
 on St. Luke's day, October 18. being Sunday; 
 and there received into the congregation of 
 Chrisfs flock, by the reverend Doctor Whincup 
 then rector. His father being obliged within 
 a quarter of a year after his birth to leave that 20 
 house, he was carried from thence to Headley in 
 Surrey, where he continued till he was eleven 
 
 4 years of age, and laid the rudiments of learning 
 under his father. 
 
 Jan. n, 1702-3. he was admitted into Mer- 25 
 chant-Taylors' 1 school, and boarded with his 
 uncle Mr. Henry Bonwicke, a bookseller in St. 
 PauFs Churchyard, a man of great piety and 
 probity; by which he had the advantages of 
 being the more acquainted with books, and in- 30 
 fluenc'd by a very good example. Here he
 
 BORN 1691. AT SCHOOL, 1703-9. 
 
 followed his studies regularly, and gained the 
 affection of his master, and all he conversed 
 with : and being pretty well established in piety 
 and virtue, was the better able to proceed in 
 
 5 both, even after he had lost his dear uncle's 
 example, which it pleased God to deprive him 
 of, by taking him to himself, after he had en- 
 joyed it somewhat more than three years. He 
 was constant to his morning and evening private 
 
 10 prayers, and to the public also, as far as the 
 necessary attendance on his studies would per- 5 
 mit. And having been confirmed in due time, 
 and now arrived to the age of seventeen years, 
 tho' he was yet a schoolboy, he would no longer 
 
 15 defer his reception of the holy sacrament; but 
 thus address'd himself to his father in his letter 
 of February 25, 1708-9. "You have told me, 
 " sir, I should not want any helps for my learn- 
 " ing (and I do not know that I do want any) 
 
 20 " and I doubt not but you will assist me in my 
 " devotions also, and therefore desire you would 
 " lend me a book or two to employ my spare 
 " time in the ensuing Lent; for I think I cannot 
 " employ too much time in the preparing my 
 
 25 " self for the most holy sacrament you intend 
 " I shall, and I desire to receive. If you can- 
 " not well spare me a book or two, I shall be 
 " very glad to buy my self one, if you would 
 " but please to send (when you have an oppor- 
 
 30 " tunity, and can spare time) a line or two of 6 
 "your advice about the properest books and
 
 io AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 " means, for I have no books that are particu- 
 " larly relating to that great affair." 
 
 In this part of a long letter (such as his 
 generally were, as knowing that upon that ac- 
 count they were the more grateful) are evident 5 
 marks of great piety, modesty and respect for 
 his father. He carefully kept what letters he 
 received, and in one of them I find this answer 
 from his father : " I approve of your whole con- 
 "duct in the school-affair you mention, as you io 
 " imagined I would ; and would have you com- 
 " ply with every body, especially your master, 
 " in all things you can with a safe conscience. 
 " If Mr. H. had gone, as he had some thoughts, 
 " you should have had Doctor Patrick's Christian 1 5 
 " Sacrifice to assist you in your preparation, ac- 
 " cording to your pious design ; but I must wait 
 " for some other convenience of sending it. In 
 " the mean time the The Whole Duty of Man 
 " (which I think you have) and your Winchester 20 
 7 " Manual, will very well supply that defect." 
 I suppose shortly after this he received that ex- 
 cellent book of Doctor Patrick's, for I find him 
 in a letter March n, returning many thanks to 
 his father for a book he had just received, and 25 
 he hopes he shall make a good use of. 
 
 According as his custom was at all breakings 
 up, he went to his father's this Easter, 1709. 
 and there spent the holy week in attending 
 the daily service, and completing his prepara- 30 
 tion for the holy eucharist. An especial part
 
 DEVOTIONAL READING. n 
 
 of which according to the apostle, i Cor. xi. 28, 
 is examination, in which he was extraordinary 
 exact from the very first to the day of his 
 death. Having thus begun to communicate at 
 
 5 this great festival, he resolved to omit no op- 
 portunity of repeating it ; and upon his return 8 
 to London, waited on Doctor Mandevil, the rector 
 of the parish he then lived in, for his approba- 
 tion, which he readily obtained. He had Doctor 
 
 10 Lake's Officium Eucharisticum handsomely bound 
 up, (which he paid for out of his own little 
 stock) with spare leaves at each end, into which 
 he transcribed prayers and meditations out of 
 Doctor Beveridge, Mr. Nelson, and The Whole 
 
 15 Duty of Man, chiefly for his use at the time of 
 receiving. There was in this, as in all his other 
 devotional books, this distich :* 
 O Jesu, mea sola fames, mea sola voluptas ! 
 Quam sapis ipse, tui si sapit ipsa fames ! 
 
 20 To which in this was subjoyn'd the following 
 hexastich : 
 
 Fide Deo, die saepe preces,peccare caveto, 
 Sis humilis, pacem dilige, magnafuge. 
 Multa audi, die pauca, face abdita, scito minori 9 
 25 Par cere, maiori cedere, ferre parem. 
 
 Propria fac, persolve fidem, sis aequus egenis, 
 Parta tuere, pati disce, memento mori. 
 
 At the latter end of July this year 1709. he 
 removed nearer to the school, and became a 
 
 * Matth. Casimir. Sarbievii Epigr. CIV.
 
 12 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 parishioner of Doctor Whincup's, who first re- 
 ceived him into the congregation of Christ's 
 flock ; and having obtained his approbation, as 
 before he had Doctor MandeviPs^ he was for 
 near a twelvemonth, that is to say, all the time 5 
 he continued at Merchant-Taylors' school, a 
 constant communicant, binding himself by re- 
 peated sacraments to the Captain of his salva- 
 tion, in the same church where he was first 
 listed under his banner. He made the Saturday 10 
 his ordinary day of preparation, as having then 
 most time at his own disposal, and was con- 
 10 cerned when necessary business robb'd him of 
 any part of it. Thus March 4, 1709-10. while 
 Doctor SacheverePs trial was depending, he con- 15 
 eludes a letter to his father, "I have heard 
 " some few particulars, but must beg pardon for 
 " any more at this time, having already, I am 
 " afraid, intruded too far upon a time I had set 
 " apart for a better purpose." Tho' afterwards 20 
 when he had more leisure, he gave his father 
 a very large account of that trial in two long 
 letters. So upon another preparation day, June 
 3, 1710. he writes thus: "Going to so many 
 "places I have but little time to spare, and 25 
 " therefore can't be longer ; hoping at the same 
 " time, that having been about necessary busi- 
 "ness, and so lately at the communion, (that 
 " is to say, the Sunday before being Whitsunday) 
 " a shorter preparation for tomorrow will be 30 
 " accepted." He never was concerned for the
 
 NONJURING SCRUPLES. 13 
 
 loss of those sports and diversions which those 11 
 of his years generally set their hearts so much 
 upon, but his delight was in devotion, and doing 
 his duty ; and he very rarely miss'd the seven o' 
 
 5 th' clock evening prayers, and was as constant 
 on holy days at those of eleven in the morning, 
 at a church in the neighbourhood. 
 
 One of his strongest natural inclinations was 
 to his dear relations, and he was always forward 
 
 10 and earnest to visit them upon all vacations: 
 yet he made even this submit to religion, and 
 moved, in a letter to his mother, that he might 
 stay in town beyond the usual time, for the sake 
 of a sacrament the first Sunday in April this 
 
 1 5 year, though the very next was Easter day. 
 
 He had been left captain of the school at 
 the last election 1709. and in October following 
 was congratulated from St. John's with the news 
 of a vacancy there, it being presumed he would 12 
 
 20 reap the benefit of it. However, not long after 
 he began to be somewhat dubious of success, 
 his not reading prayers being taken notice of 
 by the master of the company, alderman Ward, 
 who, it was supposed, came to the knowledge 
 
 25 of it by the means of some one of the head- 
 scholars, that hoped by putting by Bonwicke to 
 succeed himself. 'Tis the custom of that school 
 for the head-scholars in their turns to read the 
 prayers there ; and among other prayers for the 
 
 30 morning, the first collect for the king at the 
 communion service of our liturgy is appointed
 
 14 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 to be read. This our conscientious lad stuck 
 at, it being indeed one of the most improper 
 prayers in the whole liturgy to be used for a 
 governor whom he thought was not so de iure, 
 as well as de facto. On this account he was 5 
 frequently attack'd by most of his friends in 
 Lo?idon, who endeavoured not only to convince 
 
 13 him with arguments, but to affright him with 
 the consequences of his not complying. But 
 the heroic youth stood firm against all their 10 
 assaults, resolving to sacrifice everything rather 
 than his conscience. In a letter to his father, 
 dated February 22, 1709-10. wherein he gave 
 him a large account of what two of his uncles 
 had said to him on this point, he thus expresses 15 
 himself : " Now tho' I am very well convinced 
 
 " in my own breast that these arguments are 
 " very false, yet I cannot so well answer to 
 " them, because I do not know whether you 
 "would have me open my self so much as I 20 
 " must of necessity do, if I go to refute these 
 " arguments ; therefore I hear all and say little : 
 " but if you would have me do othenvise, pray 
 " let me know it." And in another place thus : 
 " I am stedfastly resolved to keep to your 25 
 " opinion, which I take to be the right and my 
 
 14 " duty ; and I hope God will give me grace and 
 " courage to suffer for the same, whenever it 
 " shall please him to call me to it." To support 
 and comfort him in this trial, he received two 30 
 days after the following letter from his mother.
 
 NONJURING SCRUPLES. 15 
 
 " Dear Ambrose, we are afraid by your letter 
 " that came by your uncle, that you trouble your 
 " self too much ; and had that come time enough 
 "for us to send you orders to come down on 
 
 5 " Tuesday, I believe it had been done, though 
 " your father thought it would be too great a 
 " fatigue to return so soon, now the ways are so 
 " bad. I pity you, supposing you have not one 
 " friend at London, to encourage you, but that 
 
 10 " all blame us and you : I hope notwithstanding, 
 " you will take courage and bear up, when you 
 " consider you had the same fate which you 
 " now fear, before you were a month old, and 
 " it has pleased God you have wanted for 15 
 
 15 "nothing since that time; and therefore you 
 " have great reason to hope, if you do your 
 " duty, God will still provide for you some way 
 " or other ; we don't in the least doubt of it. 
 " And if you are put by going to Oxford, and 
 
 20 " don't like Cambridge so well, you may assure 
 " your self we shall not desire you to go thither, 
 " nor think you a burthen to us here, where 
 " you have a good friend to direct you in your 
 " studies : in the mean time God may raise us 
 
 25 " and you up friends, as he has done to a 
 " worthy person, which he never knew nor heard 
 " of before his troubles. So praying God in all 
 " things to direct and rule your heart, I leave 
 " you to his protection, who am, 
 
 30 Your Loving Mother, 
 
 E.B.
 
 1 6 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 At length the election for this year 1710. 
 
 16 came on, and St. Barnabas being on a Sunday, 
 the orations, examinations, and other exercises 
 were performed the day before : in all which 
 our youth came off with a reputation answerable 5 
 to his post and standing. Particularly his ex- 
 tempore translation of Livy (which was truly 
 so, for he declared he had never read that part 
 of the history before) was so much admired, 
 that Doctor Delaune, the president of St. John's 10 
 in Oxford, told the master of the school 'twas 
 
 fit to be printed. On Sunday in the evening 
 they proceeded to the election, and the captain 
 being called in, the master of the company 
 spoke to him in these, or words to this effect : 1 5 
 " Mr. Bonwicke, the president and gentlemen 
 " who have examined you as a candidate for 
 " this election, declare that you have performed 
 " your duty very well, and are every way capable 
 " of being elected. But the company who are 20 
 
 17 " the electors have received information that 
 " you have not read the prayers of the school, 
 "whether enjoin'd by the statutes or your 
 " master I can't tell. The company therefore 
 
 " desire to know of you the reason why you 2 5 
 " did not read them. You may make what 
 " excuse you please, I do not put any thing 
 " to you to say, but only the reason why you 
 " did not read them." To which he in short 
 answered : " Sir, I could not do it." Upon 30 
 which the master and several other persons
 
 FOREGOES PREFERMENT. 17 
 
 there present, said, It was very honestly said, 
 a very honest answer, the best answer he could 
 give ; and one, that he was very sorry for him. 
 Within a little while after, the second and 
 
 5 fourth boys were elected, the third being set 
 aside for having been absent some considerable 
 time from the school since the last election. 
 
 Our young confessor bore this defeat serenely 
 and chearfully, and after he had served a long 
 
 10 apprenticeship at the school, having been near 18 
 seven years and a half there, and above six of 
 them in the head-form, he laid down all his 
 hopes of going to the same university and 
 college of which his father had been, and of 
 
 15 which he had heard so much, (and once had 
 viewed from an adjacent hill) with an evenness 
 of mind becoming the title here given him ; and 
 retired to his father's in the country, where he 
 patiently and industriously assisted him in his 
 
 20 business, till the Bartholomew vacation afforded 
 them leisure for a journey to Cambridge; where 
 he was admitted into ^.Johris college Aug. 25, 
 and had another mortification in seeing several 
 that had been below him at school, superior to 
 
 25 him in the university. But this and some others 
 he scarce regarded, being on many accounts so 
 well pleased with his condition. It pleased God 
 to raise him up many friends, and among them 
 one especially, over whom his chamber was, 19 
 
 30 who was all along like a father to him in care 
 and kindness, and whose favours were so many, 
 
 c
 
 1 8 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 that there was scarce any letter of the many he 
 wrote home, but mention'd some of them. He 
 had an agreeable chamber-fellow, a very good 
 scholar, a sober and innocent yet chearful com- 
 panion. But the greatest happiness of all, and 5 
 what he valued above the honours and profits 
 he lost with his election to the other St.J0/in's, 
 was the frequent returns of the holy sacrament, 
 which he would have miss'd of there, and could 
 not, I think, have enjoyed at any other house 10 
 in either of the universities, except Christ-Church 
 in Oxford, which being a cathedral as well as 
 a college, is under a double obligation of con- 
 forming it self to the fourth rubric after the 
 communion service. Accordingly the second 15 
 Sunday after his admission, as soon as he was 
 20 tolerably settled, he address'd himself again to 
 this holy duty, having had no opportunity of 
 communicating since he left London; and 'tis 
 certain from that time he miss'd but four sacra- 20 
 ments all the while he was there, two of which 
 happened on state-festivals, and the other two 
 when he was confined to his chamber for the 
 sake of his health. 
 
 Just before he left Headley, he had by his 25 
 dear mother's direction, transcribed into one of 
 the spare leaves in his Offidum Eucharisticum, 
 a short prayer for a student, out of Dr. Patricks 
 book of Devotions for Families, &>c. And as 
 soon as his books were arrived, he betook him- 30 
 self heartily to his studies, and pursued them
 
 STUDIES AT ST. JOHNS 1710. 19 
 
 in spight of Sturbridge fair, which made most 
 of the other students idle, and by that means 
 deprived him (for want of auditors) of those 
 lectures and instructions of his tutor, which 
 
 5 would have been more grateful to him than 
 any of the diversions of that season. And 21 
 from that time he followed his studies so close, 
 that in the space of eleven months he had read 
 over all Dionysius's Periegesis, the Oxford edi- 
 
 10 tion; Virgil to the ninth book of the Aeneis; 
 all Aeliarfs Varia Historia, as it is printed for 
 the use of Eton school ; all Terence, fifty Hebrew 
 Psalms, a great part of Seneca the philosopher, 
 all Burgersdidus 1 s Logic, all the Fasciculus 
 
 1 5 praeceptorum logicorum, Oxon., and half another 
 logic book; all Bussiertfs Flosculi historic^ all 
 Pindar's Olympic odes, and the four first of 
 the Pythian, the lives of the first three emperors 
 in Suetonius, five books of Pliny's epistles, the 
 
 20 dialogue De Oratoribus, by some ascribed to 
 Quintilian, by others to Tacitus; the first book 
 of Aschanfs epistles, the first volume of Plu- 
 tarcffs lives, the first volume of my lord 
 Clarendon's history, and some other books; 
 
 25 and this not hastily or perfunctorily, but he 22 
 made his observations as he read them, and 
 transcribed excerpta out of several of them into 
 his adversaria. Besides these, on holy-days he 
 read books of piety, and on Sundays no other, 
 
 30 having in the forementioned space of eleven 
 months read all Thomas a Kempis de imitatione
 
 20 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 Christi^ The Whole Duty of Man, some pieces 
 of Kettlewell, Brome of Fasting, almost all Nel- 
 son 's Festivals and fasts, a book that he had a 
 great value for, and which he quickly purchased 
 after his arrival at St. Jo An' s; besides several 5 
 chapters in the Greek Testament, and other 
 parts of the Holy Bible. He had moreover in 
 this time translated into English a Latin sermon 
 of Doctor Henry Byanfs, preached before the 
 clergy at Exeter, at the triennial visitation of 10 
 Doctor Joseph Hall, Bishop of Exon.; and Er- 
 peniufs Epistle to the reader before his edition 
 of Ringelbergius, and Erasmus de ratione studii; 
 23 had made four and twenty Greek or Latin themes, 
 eighteen copies of Latin verses, with some 15 
 Greek, three Latin epistles, and three epitomes, 
 one of which was of the first part of JEustac/mts 1 s 
 Ethics, and transcribed into a paper book among 
 his other exercises, but the other two do not 
 appear. Besides all this, his practice was for 20 
 his improvement in the Greek tongue, to take 
 the Latin translation of an author, either prose 
 or verse, and turn it himself into Greek, either 
 prose or verse; and dividing his paper book 
 into two columns, in one of them he writ his 25 
 own version, and in the other the author, that 
 so he might see wherein he fell short of the 
 original. And thus had he in the aforesaid 
 space of eleven months imitated a hundred 
 verses of Theognis, four epigrams of Theocritus, 30 
 and eleven dialogues of Mr. Leedes's Lucian, from
 
 COURSE OF STUDY. 21 
 
 the beginning in order, omitting only the eighth 
 and the tenth, (which he had done before he 24 
 came to the university) and concluding with 
 the thirteenth. And all this, notwithstanding 
 
 5 his constant attendance on all the exercise of 
 the house, and his tutor's private lectures. But 
 he was an excellent husband of his time, rising 
 often at four o' th' clock, and sometimes earlier, 
 very rarely exceeding six, and that only when 
 
 10 the college prayers were later than ordinary; 
 and never, if he was well, going to bed till near 
 ten. Quickly after his settlement at St. John 's 
 he fixed to himself a weekly course of study, 
 as appears from a letter he writ to his father 
 
 15 Sept. 14, of that year 1710. " My tutor (says he) 
 " did not talk to me about a method, 6^:. as 
 " I hear is customary; but I have (thinking it 
 " convenient) proposed to my self one, viz. on 
 " Tuesdays and Thursdays all day, and Saturday 
 
 20 " mornings, which are our logic-lecture days, to 
 " read logic only, as being what I most need ; 25 
 " Monday mornings Greek prose, chiefly literacies, 
 " as being read at lecture after dinner : when 
 " that 's done, the rest of the afternoon I intend 
 
 25 "to turn the translation of a Greek author, prose 
 " and verse, by turns into Greek; Wednesday 
 " morning Latin prose, afternoon Latin verse ; 
 " Friday morning Greek verse, afternoon Hebrew; 
 " Saturday afternoon Hebrew, and holy duties. 
 
 30 " If you think fit to make any additions or 
 " alterations, pray send 'em. I think also to
 
 22 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 " make what he calls a commonplace-book, in 
 " which to write observations." 
 
 Within less than a quarter of a year after his 
 coming he was chosen scholar of the house, and 
 the veiy worthy master, Doctor Cower, told 5 
 him, 'twas his regular and good behaviour that 
 got him that preferment, and was the likeliest 
 
 26 means to get him more. On this occasion a 
 very worthy member of that house wrote thus 
 
 to his father. 10 
 
 Nov. 16, 1710. 
 
 " REV. SIR, 
 
 " I wish I had been in ^.Johifs to have 
 "received you when you brought your son, 
 " who I am glad gives us so very good hopes of 1 5 
 " his being a credit to the society. He brought 
 " me your kind letter the day after the election 
 " was over, and found me very ready to give 
 " him joy of his success, which was better than 
 " his tutor and I first expected. He is chosen 20 
 " into a scholarship, the value of which will be, 
 " while corn holds a good price, pretty consider- 
 " able, and was this last year to his predecessor 
 " more than double the value of the exhibition 
 " he was to have had, which I presume Mr. 25 
 " Anstey told you was five pounds. Himself or 
 " his tutor may have given you some account 
 
 27 " of it already, but might not be able to give 
 " you so exactly the value of it. His exhibition 
 
 " would have lasted no longer than till he is 30
 
 SCHOLAR OF ST. JOHN'S. 23 
 
 " batchelor of arts, but his scholarship till master; 
 " and I pray God preserve him to enjoy this 
 " favour of the college till he both deserves 
 " and receives greater. I gave Mr. Roper your 
 5 " service, who joins in the return of his to you 
 " with, 
 
 Rev. Sir, 
 
 Your most faithful 
 
 Humble Servant, 
 10 THO. BROWNE." 
 
 Upon this good success our pious youth did 
 not sacrifice to his net, or burn incense to his drag, 
 but gave the glory of it to God alone. For thus 
 
 15 he prefaces the account he gave his father of it : 
 " I have told you how God has delivered me 
 " from trouble : I am now to let you know with 
 " what great mercies he has bless'd me." And 
 concludes all thus : " I doubt not but you '11 8 
 
 20 "join with me in praying to God to enable me 
 " to keep the favour of the master, which by 
 " his blessing I have thus signally gain'd." 
 
 His first and greatest concern after this, was 
 to keep the oath (of observing the statutes of 
 
 25 the college) which he had taken when he was 
 admitted scholar. And understanding that 
 some of these were grown into disuse, " so that 
 " it would be ridiculous in him, nay perhaps to 
 " the disturbance of the peace of the college, to 
 
 30 " pretend to observe them ; I begun (says he) 
 " to doubt whether I could perform my oath,
 
 24 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 " and at the same time comply with the customs 
 " of the college ; and whether, to keep a good 
 " conscience, though with the loss of all my 
 " preferment here, I was not immediately to 
 " quit my scholarship at least, if not the college. 5 
 " On the other hand I could not think that, if 
 
 29 " the governing part and whole college should 
 " annul a law by their practice, one single 
 " scholar was obliged to observe it. However 
 
 " I could not be free (considering the dreadful 10 
 " guilt of the most heinous sin of perjury) from 
 " some doubts and scruples, and therefore made 
 " haste to wait on my good friend Mr. jR. that 
 " I might know his sentiments. He, I thank 
 " God, has settled my mind, and freed me pretty 1 5 
 " well from my scruples. But it being a matter 
 " of the greatest importance to have one's con- 
 " science quiet and at ease, I would, when you 
 " have leisure and opportunity, beg your opinion 
 " of the case, whether being ready, whenever 20 
 " my superiors shall require it, to perform every 
 " article of the statutes that concerns me, or 
 " suffer the punishment they shall think fit to 
 " inflict ; and performing to the best of my 
 
 30 " power, whatever I can presume they would 25 
 " have me do, or punish me for not doing ; and 
 
 " avoiding whatever they would have me not 
 " do, or would punish me if they knew I did, 
 "and observing whatever else I conveniently 
 " can ; and being also sorry that all required 30 
 " by the statutes is not to be performed, I faith- 

 
 SCRUPLES ABOUT STATUTES. 25 
 
 " fully perform my oath, and can with a good 
 " conscience acquit my self of perjury. And 
 " whether by the words (faciam ab aliis ob- 
 " servari) which are part of the oath, I am 
 
 5 " obliged to tell lads continually their duty as 
 " far as I know it, and also to inform against 
 " transgressors." To which I find this answer 
 returned by his father : " I know not how to 
 " express my great obligations to Mr. J?., par- 
 
 10 " ticularly from his freeing you from your scru- 
 " pies about the statutes, which thing, no doubt, 
 " he has well consider'd, and therefore is best 
 " able to give you satisfaction. I herewith 
 "send you our university statutes, in the 195 31 
 
 15 "page whereof you have this matter resolved. 
 " The resolution indeed has not the same au- 
 " thority in respect of your statutes that it has 
 " of ours, but I think the reason is the same 
 " for both. 'Tis the governing part of the 
 
 20 " college that must answer for the neglect or 
 " disuse of any statute, the main business of the 
 "juniors, and what I suppose is often enjoyn'd 
 " 'em in those very statutes ; being obedience : 
 " and what you resolve upon in discharge of 
 
 25 " your oath, is I believe as much as the found- 
 " ress her self, if she were alive, would require 
 " of you. It is out of your province to attempt 
 " a reformation, and would be an affront to 
 " your governors : and the [faciam ab aliis ob- 
 
 30 " servari] can never be meant to oblige you to 
 " oppose them. I bless God for his extra-
 
 26 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 " ordinary grace to you in giving you so con- 
 
 32 " scientious a regard to oaths, which I doubt 
 " are generally too much disregarded in both 
 " universities ; of which the sad effects are too 
 
 " visible all over the nation." In his next to 5 
 his father he thus expresses himself : " I return 
 " you many thanks, and praise God that I am by 
 "yours, and good Mr. -/?.'s assistance, now so 
 " well satisfied in a matter of such importance." 
 
 His temperance was always very great, and 10 
 his fasting and abstinence rather more than his 
 weak constitution could well bear. Yet we 
 shall find him still increasing those rigours, and 
 tho' at first he contented himself with missing 
 his breakfast, and eating his bare commons on 15 
 the church fasts, and his days of preparation 
 for the blessed sacrament ; afterwards on the 
 approach of Lent his rules were more severe, 
 which being written in his Officium Eucharisti- 
 
 33 cum without any date, might be made about this 20 
 time, and are as follow. " Remember to ob- 
 
 " serve all Lent with abstinence and retirement, 
 " and interruption of visits ; and the Wednesdays 
 " and Fridays therein, together with the holy 
 " passion-week, with strict fasting. Observe all 25 
 " vigils with abstinence and prayer, as also 
 " Embers and Rogations; and all Fridays in the 
 " year with strict fasting : but have always re- 
 " gard to thy health, and necessary occasions, 
 " as travelling and the like. Be not over-scru- 30 
 " pulous as to the accidents of place, friends,
 
 LENT FAST 1711. 27 
 
 " civility, &c. which may sometimes put by thy 
 " stated rules. Be always prepared for charit- 
 " able offices ; and let not thy fasts make thee 
 " peevish, affected in them, or self-conceited for 
 
 5 " them. Sanctifie all thy actions, especially on 
 " these times, by a holy intention ; and doubt 
 " not but God will bless and accept thee. But 
 " be sure at Lent, and all other fasts, beg his 34 
 " assistance even to outdo thy self. Obey the 
 
 10 " precepts of the gospel, and follow it's counsels 
 " as thou canst. Obey the church." The ab- 
 stinence here mentioned respected both the 
 quantity and quality of the food ; and the strict 
 fasting was eating but one spare meal on those 
 
 15 days, which was most commonly a dinner in 
 the hall. 
 
 Before he had fully spent this Lent according 
 to the foregoing rules, there was an additional 
 sorrow to the solemn one of the season, from 
 
 20 the death of Doctor Humfrey Gower, the worthy 
 master of the college, of which he gave his 
 father an account in the following letter. 
 
 St. Johifs Cambr. 
 March 28, 1711. 
 
 25 "HoN D . SIR, 
 
 "Yours of the 26 th I received this even- 
 " ing, and agree with you in your opinion of 
 " our late excellent master, for alas our good 
 " friend and benefactor, and the honour of this 35: 
 
 30 " college and university, died yesterday about
 
 28 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 " two in the afternoon. He was last week 
 " thought to be in a fair way of recovery from 
 " the illness I mentioned in my last ; but being 
 " on Monday in the afternoon taken with an 
 " aguish shivering, he thought (they said) him- 5 
 " self that he should die. He lay speechless, 
 " and I think senseless too, from four the next 
 " morning : and upon his death you might see 
 " in all faces, deep sorrow for the loss of so 
 " good a governor, except in those loose youths, 10 
 " who thought he held the reins too tight, and 
 " hope now to be no more punish'd for their 
 " irregularities. The president went the Friday 
 " before to his living at Ly?m, to administer the 
 " sacrament there at Easter, but is sent for back 15 
 " to college ; and a schedule is this day affixed 
 36 "to the chapel-door to give notice of the va- 
 " cancy, and that according to statute 1 3 days 
 " hence, viz. on the ninth of April a new master 
 "will be chosen, and Doctor Jenkin (they say) 20 
 "will, without opposition, be the man. Thus 
 " has it pleased God to take to himself from us 
 " a man indeed too good for us, as he had a 
 " little before a better. For to night being in 
 " Mr. R^ chamber, Before we begin to read, 25 
 " says he, you shall hear a letter, in which I 
 " have an account of the death of Bishop Ken. 
 " Here, says he, have I lost another good friend 
 "and acquaintance; he dyed as he lived, a 
 " plain humble man. And then upon my ask- 30 
 " ing (that I might give you an account) where
 
 DEATHS OF GOWER AND KEN. 29 
 
 " and when, &*<:. he took up the letter again, 
 " and read the particulars to me thus : he came 
 " hither (to my Lord WeymoutKs) on the 9 th in 
 " Mrs. Thynne's coach, at whose seat he had 
 
 5 " been all the winter, designing for the Bath on 37 
 " the 12 th , but was hinder 5 d by the return of his 
 " illness. He had two physicians from the 
 "Bath and the Devizes, and desired to know 
 " their opinion of his condition, for he was not, 
 
 10 "he said, at all afraid to die, and therefore 
 " desired they'd tell him the truth. Upon their 
 " saying there was but small hopes, he replied, 
 " God's will be done, and so died the 19*, 
 " leaving order in his will to be buried in the 
 
 15 " church-yard of the nearest parish in his diocese 
 " soon after sun-rising very privately; to be 
 " carried by the six poorest men in the parish, 
 " and to have laid over him a plain stone, with 
 " an inscription on it of his own composing, 
 
 20 " which the writer did not yet know. He was, 
 " according to his order, buried on Wednesday 
 " morning the 2ist, at Froome, I think. These 
 " particulars I dare say you have not heard of, 
 " if you have of the death of this excellent 
 
 25 "prelate; and therefore that I might the more 38 
 " exactly remember them, I take this night to 
 " write my answer, and partly because we are 
 " order'd to make verses upon the melancholy 
 " occasion against Saturday, with which I must 
 
 30 " necessarily be busied tomorrow, tho' against my 
 " inclination. For tho' such sorrowful subjects
 
 3 o AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 " may be proper, yet I could have wish'd the 
 " puzzling our heads with verses might have 
 " been let alone 'till another time, because they 
 " will be apt to discompose our minds, and 
 " keep out of them better thoughts, and fitter 5 
 " for this holy week, especially this latter part 
 " of it. To direct us in the observance of 
 " which, Mr. Anstey sent to all or most of his 
 " pupils on Monday (as Mr. Edmondson had 
 " done to his the week before) a book entitled, 10 
 " The Use, Measures, and Manner of Christian 
 " Fasting; especially with regard to the most 
 39 " holy passion-week ; by Mr. Brome one of our 
 " senior fellows, a particular friend to the master, 
 "and who always lived in the lodge with him. 15 
 " Tho' I have most of it that's useful in short 
 " in Mr. Nelson, and should have liked Mr. 
 " Seller's book much better to employ my time 
 " on this great week, yet I thought it very im- 
 " proper to refuse it. and that it were better to 20 
 " be at a small, tho' unnecessary charge, than 
 " seem to put an affront on Mr. Anstey and the 
 " author, if not the master also to whom the 
 
 " book's dedicated. I must hastily conclude 
 
 " (it being pretty late) with desiring you to accept 25 
 " the duty of, 
 
 Your most obedient Son, 
 
 A. ." 
 
 To which I shall add what I meet with in 
 his next to his father, of April the 5 th , relating 30
 
 GOWERS WILL. DR. JENKIN. 31 
 
 to the same subject. "The body of our late 
 " excellent master was interr'd on Thursday 40 
 " night ; but the funeral is not to be performed 
 " till next Saturday. He has been a noble 
 
 5 " benefactor, having left by his will two ex- 
 " hibitions of io/. each; all his books to the 
 " library; his country-seat at Thriploe, valued at 
 " i2o/. per annum, to the master, after the 
 " death of Mr. West his nephew and heir, and 
 
 io " 5oo/. to buy a living for the college. Besides 
 " private legacies, as ioo/. to Mr. Brome, who is 
 " also to have the use of his books as long as 
 " he stays here ; to his sizer, and to another 
 " who had been his sizer, whom (being a re- 
 
 15 " lation of Bishop Gunning) he had just made 
 " fellow tho' but middle bachelor, io/. each for 
 " mourning ; and five pounds to him who is to 
 " make his funeral oration." 
 
 Doctor Robert Jenkin was at the foremen- 
 
 20 tioned time, viz. Monday April 9. chosen master 
 of the college ; whose favour our young student, 41 
 partly by his own merit, and partly by the re- 
 commendation of his good friend and patron 
 Mr. Roper, quickly gain'd ; yet when he gives 
 
 25 his father an account of it, according to his 
 wonted piety, referring all to the first cause, he 
 attributes it to God alone. 
 
 He was (as I have already observed) so 
 early a riser, and so constant at chapel, (unless 
 
 30 on those few state holy-days that intervened) 
 that he was easily prevailed on by the chapel-
 
 32 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 clerk who was indisposed to officiate for him, 
 which he did for almost two months to the 
 satisfaction of the master and deans : but the 
 aforementioned eleven months being now ex- 
 pired, and having kept freshman's-term (as it is 5 
 there call'd) purely for the sake of the exercise 
 he was to perform in it ; he was willing to visit 
 his friends in Surrey, and having obtained his 
 father's leave, went for Headley at the beginning 
 
 42 of August: where he with great diligence as- 10 
 sisted in the instruction of the scholars, and 
 thereby made himself more perfect in the Greek 
 and Latin, especially the grammar of both, and 
 improved in his arithmetick to qualify him for an 
 auditor of the algebraic lecture in their college. 1 5 
 During his stay at Headley, it pleased God to 
 take away his youngest sister, whose sickness 
 and death would have been much more afflict- 
 ing, had he been at college at the time : but 
 being near her, he had the satisfaction of know- 20 
 ing continually how she did, and of contributing 
 his assistance for her recovery, by going himself 
 to consult the doctor (who lived at some dis- 
 tance) as often as it was thought necessary. 
 
 At the latter end of October he left Headley, 25 
 in order to return to Stjo/m's, there to prose- 
 cute his studies with the same vigour as formerly, 
 or rather greater. Quickly after his arrival, he 
 
 43 gave his father a large account of his journey, 
 and of the kind reception Mr. J?. gave him 30 
 when he waited on him at his chamber. And
 
 HIS SISTER'S DEATH. 33 
 
 then after a little college news, goes on thus : 
 " Tho' I could not but be perfectly satisfied 
 " with, and very happy in the many kindnesses 
 " I received from my mother and you in the 
 
 5 " country, for which I return many and hearty 
 " thanks ; yet methinks I receive more than 
 " ordinary satisfaction in being returned to this 
 " pleasant seat of the muses, where I find my 
 " books and all things in a very good condition, 
 
 i o " and my self happy at the ethic-table at morn- 
 " ing lectures in the hall. And I think my self 
 " in duty bound on this day (Nov. 6.) on which 
 " I was elected scholar, to give annual thanks 
 " to the Almighty for having most graciously 
 
 15 " afforded me so comfortable a subsistence, and 
 " such powerful patronage to enable me so 
 " happily to promote, not only my temporal but 44 
 " eternal welfare, in this learned and religious 
 " foundation. The hopes of being someways 
 
 20 " assisting to the preservation of your health, 
 " (added to the great satisfaction I always re- 
 " ceive in seeing my dear relations) for the con- 
 " tinuing of which, I earnestly beg of you to 
 " listen to the frequent good motions of my dear 
 
 25 " mother, will be the only allurement to draw 
 " me hence." At length he concludes thus : 
 " Now that God of his infinite mercy would 
 " preserve you and my mother in health and 
 " happiness, and all your children in their duty 
 
 30 " to you both, and love to one another, and 
 " bring us all to eternal happiness, with all our 
 
 D
 
 34 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 "good friends hereafter, is the earnest prayer 
 " of, dw." 
 
 Tho' almost every hour of his time was al- 
 ready taken up with the public prayers and 
 exercise of the house, with his tutor's lectures, 5 
 
 45 his private studies and devotions, and the ne- 
 cessary care of his health ; yet considering how 
 useful the understanding the French tongue would 
 be to him for the reading those many excellent 
 books which are daily published in that language 10 
 concerning all sorts of learning, he betook him- 
 self to the study of it after the Christmas holy- 
 days were over, under the direction of a French 
 master : and was so good a proficient, that in 
 
 a short time he could read a French author; 15 
 and having purchased the bishop of Cambray's 
 Telemachus, and Boileau's works, he had read 
 more than five books of the former before his 
 second journey into Surrey. 
 
 He had a younger brother, who, if he had 20 
 succeeded at Merchant-Taylors'., was to have 
 followed him that way to St. Joints in Oxford, 
 but now was design'd by his father to be sent 
 to him to Cambridge, so soon as there should 
 
 46 be a vacancy for him in the chamber he was in. 25 
 Having about this time a prospect of it by his 
 chamber-fellow's taking his degree, with a design 
 of leaving the college quickly after, he immedi- 
 ately gave his father notice, but withal desired 
 leave for the admission of a third, (the chamber 30 
 being capable) a very sober studious lad, who
 
 HIS BROTHER AND CHUM. 35 
 
 was become also a constant communicant, and 
 being troubled with a bad chamber-fellow, was 
 very desirous to be with him, that so they might 
 both avoid worse company. To this proposal 
 
 5 of his, his father made the following objections, 
 in a letter dated February 4, 1711. "I thank 
 " you and your tutor for the promise of the 
 " chamber for Phil, and think there may be 
 " some conveniencies in admitting a third, but 
 
 10 " there may also be some inconveniencies which 
 " I shall lay before you. By the grace of God 
 " this lad may continue very good, and your 
 " society may contribute towards it ; but should 47 
 " it be otherwise, you will not know how to 
 
 15" get clear of him again. Besides, if he be not 
 " exactly of your principles, tho' he be other- 
 " wise very good, 'twill be very inconvenient ; 
 " and you cannot at all times converse so freely 
 " with your brother, as 'twill be necessary you 
 
 20 " should. I had hopes that your brother might 
 " share with you in Mr. Roper's favour, and fear 
 " this third chum may be an obstacle to that. 
 " Another thing is, if Phil, should have the 
 " small-pox, there will be no room for you to 
 
 25 " set up a bed for that time ; and you know 
 " I do not care you should lye with any other 
 " but your brother. If this lad has never had 
 " that distemper, he may unhappily bring the 
 " infection into your chamber. Besides, I should 
 
 30 " not like him for a chum for you, if his dialect 
 "be ungenteel, for fear that infection should
 
 36 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 48 " reach you, as well as your brother. Yet after 
 " all I have a great concern for so hopeful a 
 " lad as you describe him, and wish you might 
 " enjoy each other's society in the day time, tho' 
 
 " you sleep not together ; neither am I against 5 
 " that, if you can make me easy as to the fore- 
 " going particulars." To which in his next he 
 gave the following answer : " As to your first 
 " objection, I hope there is no fear of his falling 
 " back, since the admitting him will, I am pretty 10 
 " well assured, be the best precaution against it. 
 " 111 company (I know by sad experience) is the 
 " most enticing snare in this place, and will 
 " never fail to be a great trouble, even to those 
 " who are no worse sufferers by it. Now as for 1 5 
 " my brother and self, I hope we shall be so far 
 " from being a snare to him, that we shall be 
 " a means to prevent his being taken by others ; 
 " and so will he, I doubt not, be to us, which 
 
 49 " for my own part, I 'm sure, will not be un- 20 
 " necessary for me. But supposing the worst, 
 
 " I doubt not but when it is so, we shall easily 
 " get rid of him ; seeing he himself will certainly 
 " in that condition be willing to leave us : for 
 " I find by much experience, that to be (almost 25 
 " without exception) true, which you acquainted 
 " me with, in relation to my self, in your third 
 " letter to me hither, viz. that the lewder sort, 
 " when they know me, will care as little for my 
 " company as I do for theirs. But 'tis almost 30 
 " a crime to fear this, since he acts upon no
 
 HIS BROTHER AND CHUM. 37 
 
 " sudden, but firm, well weigh'd and fix'd re- 
 " solutions. In the next place, by frequent 
 " conversation for some time, I find a great 
 " likeness of tempers and studies betwixt us : 
 
 5 " and should he not exactly agree as to the 
 " principle I suppose you mean, it could not 
 " any way hinder my freedom of conversation 
 " with my brother ; for tho' we shall be often, 50 
 " we shall not be always all three together. 
 
 10 " But I believe there is but very little disagree- 
 
 " ment between us in that point, for You 
 
 " need not doubt of my brother's sharing with 
 " me in Mr. R?s favour, nor fear the other's 
 " being any obstacle to it ; because I shall ac- 
 
 15" quaint Mr. R. with it, and if he thinks it incon- 
 " venient, to be sure he '11 tell me so. Besides, 
 " if a chum will be a hindrance to the gaining 
 " his favour, how should I have got it and kept 
 " it so long, having (you know) had always a 
 
 20 " chum and a neighbour too, both far more de- 
 " serving than my self? If my brother should 
 " have the small-pox, we must both remove, 
 " lest by staying with him, and then coming at 
 " meals, &>c. into the company of others, we 
 
 25 " spread the infection : so that we shall not 
 " need to lie together at all, but go into different 51 
 " chambers, or some one together that happens 
 " to be empty. He has had the small-pox, and 
 " I think is genteel enough in his dialect, being 
 
 30 " neither a northern nor western lad, out of 
 " which two quarters bad dialects usually come.
 
 38 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 " I am very glad you have the same concern 
 " with me for so hopeful a lad, and therefore 
 " must again beg of you (hoping you '11 be 
 " satisfied with what I've now offered) to admit 
 " him ; for to my sorrow I Ve too often found, that 5 
 " by means of a bad chum or his acquaintance, 
 " one is not safe in the best chosen company, 
 " which therefore hinders our enjoying each 
 " other's society, as we would otherwise do, in 
 " the day-time. The best way therefore, I think, 10 
 " is to get as many sober lads together as we 
 " can, without being liable to an intermixture of 
 52 " others, which he certainly is, who is troubled 
 " with a bad chum. 'Tis true, my brother and 
 "I should, I hope, be free from this by our 15 
 " selves, but then three are better company 
 " than two ; and besides, I would not for all 
 " the world my friend should be spoiled for 
 " want of my bearing with a few inconveniencies 
 " (supposing there were any) whereby I might 20 
 " prevent it." 
 
 This was urged so handsomely, and with 
 such affectionate concern for his friend, that his 
 father immediately gave his consent ; and about 
 the latter end of this month they were settled 25 
 together to their mutual satisfaction. 
 
 This pious youth had upon his very first 
 preparation for the holy sacrament on Good- 
 Friday, April 22, 1709. according to the method 
 prescribed in the Officium Eucharisticum, page 30 
 23. made and writ down resolutions for the
 
 RULES OF LIFE 1709-12. 39 
 
 avoiding those sins he then upon examination 
 found himself most inclined to, to which he 53 
 continually added more as he found them ne- 
 cessary. And on Good-Friday this year April 1 8, 
 
 5 1 7 1 2. he summed them all up with this preface : 
 " In the following rules I have comprised the 
 " sense of many former resolutions, and have 
 " laid down directions, which I pray God may 
 " enable me in the remaining part of my life to 
 
 10 " avoid all sin, and the occasions of it, to per- 
 " form his holy will and commandments, and 
 " which may by his grace free me from many 
 " scruples, doubts, fears and superstition. Grant 
 " this, QJesu, Amen" Such of these as I think 
 
 1 5 may be of benefit to the young reader, I shall 
 here transcribe. 3. "Continuing still to be 
 " very much given to indevotion, distraction of 
 " mind, and tediousness in my prayers public 
 " and private, to which I have been induced 
 
 20 " by indulging my self too eagerly in worldly 54 
 " matters just before ; by letting my eyes wander 
 " from my book, and bring in matter for wand- 
 " ring thoughts ; by staying too late in an even- 
 " ing before I say my prayers, till I grow sleepy; 
 
 25 " and entering on 'em too carelessly in a morn- 
 " ing : I '11 endeavour for the future at all times 
 " to allow my self a little space for recollection, 
 " composing my thoughts, and fixing in 'em an 
 " awe of the tremendous majesty I am going to 
 
 30 " address to ; to say my prayers every night, if 
 " possible, between eight and nine ; to keep my
 
 40 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 " eyes shut, covered or fix'd on my book in the 
 " chapel, or look upwards, that they rove not 
 " during any part of divine service. I '11 also 
 " endeavour to bridle my tongue in chapel or 
 " church, not talking loudly and undecently, nor 5 
 " making sport and jests as I come out, yet not 
 " scrupling to answer a necessary question to 
 
 55 " hinder more noise if I should be silent. I '11 
 " take care not to omit my noon-prayers in the 
 
 " country. I'll take care too to banish all idle 10 
 " thoughts and imaginations which may hinder 
 " my attention to sermons, which I '11 take care 
 " to write down on holy-days, yet not scrupling 
 " sometimes to omit it upon the account of some 
 " greater good, or some other lawful hindrance. 1 5 
 " And I '11 endeavour to keep my mind from 
 " distraction, and inflame it with fervent thanks- 
 " giving at singing psalms, not being foolishly 
 " shamefaced : and I '11 pray constantly for de- 
 " votion and zeal. 20 
 
 4. " In order to avoid rash execrations, 
 " evil-speaking and lying, I '11 always set a 
 " watch before my mouth, endeavour to speak 
 " little, and avoid loose laughter and much jest- 
 " ing. I '11 not hearken after ill stories of my 25 
 
 56 " neighbour, that so I may have no evil to say 
 " of him, and what evil I know to be true I '11 
 " conceal. I '11 avoid uncharitableness and hard 
 " suspicions and censures, self-conceit and mean 
 
 " thoughts of others, that I may offend neither 30 
 " in word nor thought. I '11 be so far from
 
 RULES OF LIFE. 41 
 
 " helping out discourse with scandal my self, 
 " that I '11 endeavour to discountenance it in 
 " others, and vindicate, if I can, my neigh- 
 " hour's injured character, and pray constantly 
 
 5 "for charity. 
 
 5. " Having been too often partaker in the 
 " profaneness of others by staying too long in 
 " their company, not shewing my dislike of, or 
 " reproving their actions as I 've had oppor- 
 
 10 " tunity, and by suffering my self too easily on 
 " specious pretences to be persuaded to venture 
 " amongst common swearers ; I '11 seriously en- 
 " deavour hereafter to be very uneasy at once 
 " hearing God's holy name profaned, and upon 57 
 
 15" the second or third repetition of great and 
 " dreadful oaths, depart the company boldly 
 " (tho' Mr. R. thinks upon this account I need 
 " not abridge my self of wholsome exercise) and 
 " make what convenient haste I can from those 
 
 20 " who use less execrations, as my affairs will 
 " permit, and when reproofs are vain. But be- 
 " cause I have too often been betrayed by 
 " venturing at first, I '11 be very careful not to 
 " be seduced into company that may be a snare 
 
 25 "to me, especially of those whom I have tried 
 " and reproved in vain. I '11 avoid getting 
 " much acquaintance. I '11 never venture the 
 " displeasing God for fear of men ; nor wound 
 " my conscience by an ill-timed complaisance. 
 
 30 " I '11 endeavour to live peaceably and brotherly 
 " with all, but will not value any indignity I
 
 42 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 " may receive on this account ; and pray daily 
 " for courage and constancy. 
 
 58 9. " To avoid sinning against my conscience, 
 " I '11 do nothing rashly, but considerately weigh 
 
 " all my actions and the inward motions of my 5 
 " mind, inclining always to obey the whispers 
 " of God's holy Spirit. I '11 not indulge my own 
 " infirmities or corrupt inclinations contrary to 
 " scripture and reason ; but considering that for 
 "every evil word God will judge me, I'll be 10 
 " very watchful over all my ways ; and when 
 " I have once formed a well-weighed resolution, 
 " not suffer any specious pretences and false 
 " glosses, but solid argument only to beat me 
 " from it. I '11 often deny my self lawful pleas- 1 5 
 " ures, that I may the better reject unlawful. 
 " I '11 use only such recreations as are necessary 
 " for my health on fast-days ; and take care not 
 " to let curious dressing on any day make me 
 " be late at church. In all doubts of conscience 20 
 
 59 " I '11 incline to the safer side ; but little un- 
 " necessary scruples and fears I '11 endeavour to 
 " reject. 
 
 10. " To avoid rash anger, I '11 endeavour 
 " to gain a contempt of worldly trifles ; not be 25 
 " eager about my meat, bear wrong, and re- 
 " member that the greatest affronts I can suffer 
 " are less than my deserts. I'll check diligently 
 " the first motions of anger, and not revolve in 
 " my mind aggravations of injuries ; but pray 30 
 " daily for patience, meekness and humility.
 
 RULES OF LIFE. 43 
 
 11. "To avoid all intemperance, upon the 
 " first true sense of having enough (tho' perhaps 
 " I could bear more) I '11 leave off, and not by 
 " being persuaded to take a little more, be in- 
 
 5 " sensibly drawn into sin ; nor disorder my self 
 " to please my own appetite, or another's strong 
 " head, and will pray constantly for temperance 
 " and sobriety. 
 
 12. " To avoid idleness, I'll not lavish away 6O 
 10 "broken hours, much less whole ones. I'll 
 
 " consider my business here, the value of my 
 " precious time, and not lazily please my body 
 "to ruin my mind and soul. But I'll not be 
 " scrupulous to recreate a little at fit seasons, 
 
 15 "so I loiter not away the minutes I ought to 
 " spend in devotion. I '11 avoid Sunday-visitants 
 " as much as I can, without rudeness and breach 
 " of charity, and pray daily for diligence, &>c. 
 "These contain all that was intended in my 
 
 20 " former resolutions, whereby I firmly bind my 
 " self to obey all God's laws, and avoid all sin. 
 "And I'll endeavour to avoid all occasions 
 " thereof which I think are here contained, 
 " with respect to the sins I am most prone to. 
 
 25 " And as I beg pardon for all former rash vows, 
 " so I humbly pray for God's grace to enable 
 " me sincerely, faithfully and without scruple, 61 
 " to perform these resolutions as by that grace, 
 " and the advice of my good father, I shall see 
 
 30 " 'em useful and fit ; that I may perfect holiness 
 " in the fear of the Lord, thro' Jesus Christ our 
 " Saviour. Amen"
 
 44 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 To these he made the following additions 
 December 4, 1712. " To prevent indevotion, 
 " I '11 endeavour at home to strike such an awe 
 " upon my mind of the divine presence at 
 "prayers, as if the room were a chapel, and 5 
 " not be vain about prayer-time. I '11 take care 
 " to allow my self half a day at least for sacra- 
 " mental preparation, unless hinder'd by un- 
 " avoidable accidents." 
 
 In the asterweek his brother arrived, being 10 
 sent very young, that he might grow up under 
 his care, and the influence of his good example, 
 which was lately strengthened by the conjunc- 
 tion of a suitable chamber-fellow. He was 
 62 happy also in Mr. Roper's favour and protection, 15 
 who upon his arrival told him he should follow 
 his brother's example, and he should do well 
 enough ; and the master upon his admission 
 gave him the same advice. In the letter he 
 writ the next day after his brother came, he 20 
 thus expresses himself : " I shall use my utmost 
 " endeavours, and all that little discretion I am 
 " master of, to render my dear brother innocent 
 " and good in his morals and conversation, 
 " diligent in his studies, and decent and hand- 25 
 " some in his carriage and behaviour. But, 
 " alas ! knowing my many defects in all, I 
 " cannot depend upon my own endeavours, but 
 " rather on your and my dear mother's united 
 " prayers, which therefore as I thank you for, 30 
 " so I heartily desire the continuance of them ;
 
 HIS BROTHER COMES TO COLLEGE. 45 
 
 " and hope your commands (as also a desire of 
 " not falling short of that good opinion the 
 " master and Mr. Roper have conceived of me) 63 
 " to set my brother a good example in all par- 
 
 5 " ticulars, will perfect me in some degree at 
 " least in each of them." And concludes thus : 
 " I pray God of his infinite mercy long to pre- 
 " serve you and my dear mother in health and 
 " happiness, as the greatest blessing on earth to 
 
 10 "all your children; and that he would give us 
 " all grace to see our happiness in being comforts 
 " to you both, which you are pleased to reckon 
 " as a very great blessing to you. Be pleased, 
 " sir, to accept also the humble duty and thanks 
 
 15 "of 
 
 Your most obedient 
 
 And dutiful Son, 
 
 A. BONWICKE." 
 
 He had, I believe, for a good while used 
 20 himself to daily examination ; one of the first 
 things written in the spare leaves of his Officium 64 
 Eucharisticum being this : 
 
 " Questions proper to put to our selves every 
 " evening, out of Mr. Nelson. 
 
 25 " How we have spent the whole day? What 
 " sin we have committed ? What duty we have 
 " omitted ? Whether we performed our morn- 
 " ing devotions, and how ? Where other oppor- 
 " tunities of serving God have offered them-
 
 46 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 " selves, how we have behaved our selves in 
 " relation to them ? If we have conversed, 
 " whether with candour and affability ? Whether 
 " we have kept at a distance from slander and 
 " evil-speaking, the bane of society ? If we 5 
 " have had leisure from business, how we have 
 " improved our time ? If we have been engaged 
 " in affairs, with what honesty and fidelity we 
 
 65 " have discharged them ? If we have diverted 
 
 " our selves, whether innocently, and within the 10 
 " bounds of Christian moderation ? What mer- 
 " cies we have received, and how thankful we 
 " have been for them ? What temptations we 
 " have resisted ? What ground we have got of 
 "the sin which doth most easily beset us? 15 
 " How we have govern'd our passions in the 
 " little accidents that daily happen to provoke 
 " us ? What opportunities we have had of doing 
 " good ? and how we have used them ? What 
 "opportunities we have had of discouraging 20 
 " evil ? and how we have opposed it ? 
 
 " Consider that thou art in God's presence 
 "before whose tribunal thou must shortly ap- 
 " pear." 
 
 Nay, in his private book of sacramental ex- 25 
 aminations, I found a paper with the same 
 heads of examination out of Nelson, of a much 
 older date, which doubtless he made use of 
 
 66 from his first addressing himself to the holy 
 sacrament, if not sooner. And this in con- 30 
 formity to that excellent advice of the author
 
 SELF-EXAMINATION. 47 
 
 of The Whole Duty of Man, Sund. 6. 25. of 
 which he had been often a reader or auditor. 
 " The oftner therefore we use this consideration 
 " (says that incomparable author) the better, 
 
 5 " for the less likely it is that any of our sins 
 " shall escape our knowledge. It is much to 
 " be wished, that every man should thus every 
 " night try the actions of the day, that so if he 
 " hath done any thing amiss, he may soon check 
 
 10 " himself for it, and settle his resolutions against 
 " it, and not let it grow on to a habit and course. 
 " And that he may also beg God's pardon, which 
 " will the easier be had the sooner it is asked, 
 " every delay of that being a great increase of 
 
 15 "the sin. And surely whoever means to take 
 " an account of himself at all, will find this the 
 " easier course, it being much easier to do it so 67 
 " a little at a time, and while passages are fresh 
 " in his memory, than to take the account of 
 
 20 " a long time together. Now if it be considered 
 "that every wilful sin must have a particular 
 " repentance before it can be pardoned, me- 
 " thinks we should tremble to sleep without 
 " that repentance ; for what assurance hath any 
 
 25 " man that lies down in his bed, that he shall 
 " ever rise again ? And then how dangerous 
 " is the condition of that man that sleeps in an 
 " unrepented sin !" 
 
 Now that this daily examination might be 
 
 30 the more exact and useful, he about this time 
 began to write down in Latin a short account
 
 48 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 of the day, and what in the whole he observed 
 amiss in himself. And for this purpose he 
 always retired before bed-time, wherever he 
 was ; the retiring was observed, but the purpose 
 unknown till after his death, when it was dis- 5 
 
 68 covered by the papers that remained. This 
 daily examination made the weekly one pre- 
 paratory to the holy sacrament very exact and 
 very easy, which was (as I have before ob- 
 served) usually performed on Saturday 's, for the 10 
 work was already done, and he had nothing to 
 do, but to add the examination of that day to 
 the foregoing ones of that week. However, his 
 custom was on such days of preparation, besides 
 this to note in a book he kept for that purpose 15 
 (which I just now mentioned) his breaches of 
 the several commandments, according to the 
 method prescribed in his Officium Eucharisticum, 
 which was very easy to him that had taken a 
 daily account of himself. This examination, as 20 
 well as the other, was writ in Latin with many 
 abbreviations, designed to be understood by 
 none but himself. It begins April 22, 1709. 
 and is continued to the very day of his death. 
 
 69 The other papers begin May the 25 th of this 25 
 year, being Rogation- Sunday, and are of the 
 same continuance. In these he observes how 
 every hour was spent from his rising to his 
 going to bed ; and if any one, or any part of 
 one was mispent, he notes it in the conclusion 30 
 among his other faults, to be repented of and
 
 SELF-EXAMINATION. 49 
 
 amended. By these we learn what time was 
 allowed for walking, and the necessary care of 
 his health ; what was taken up by his attendance 
 on the chapel, on the hall, and on his tutor, 
 
 5 and what remained for study, which never ex- 
 cluded his private prayers ; and yet it appears 
 he commonly studied eight or nine hours a day, 
 and sometimes eleven or twelve. Nay once we 
 find him sitting up all night at study, but out of 
 
 10 order with it the next day, and blaming himself 
 in his examination at night for his folly in 
 watching beyond his strength. 
 
 Among other necessary affairs which took 
 up part of his time, was that of writing letters, 70 
 
 15 of which he writ near sevenscore while he was 
 at Cambridge, in which it appears he had still at 
 heart the glory of God, and the good of man- 
 kind, and as occasion offered promoted both. 
 Particularly in those which he writ to his 
 
 20 brothers and school-fellows in the country, he 
 encouraged them to diligence in their studies; 
 and one especially which he wrote to one of 
 them after he was bound apprentice, deserves 
 a place here, wherein he supposes himself to 
 
 25 need the good advice he gives his friend, and 
 so artfully applies it to both. 'Tis as follows. 
 
 St. John's, Cambr. 
 Sept. 14, 1712. 
 
 DEAR COUSIN, 
 
 30 "The great acquaintance we had at 
 
 " school, and all the while I lived with your 
 
 E
 
 50 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 " mother, emboldens me to write first to you, 
 " who have not been so kind as to let me hear 
 
 71 " from you all the time I have been here. And 
 " to encourage you to correspond with me, I 
 "shall endeavour to make the nature of this 5 
 " my first letter to you such as may really be 
 "for your advantage. At this season of the 
 
 " year you cannot expect news, nor ought you 
 " at any time to expect idle tales from a philo- 
 " sopher : let us mount higher than such frothy 10 
 " trifles, and encourage one another in such 
 " things as may bring us in substantial pleasure. 
 " All persons that hope to live creditably here, 
 " or happily hereafter, must apply themselves 
 " diligently to some sort of business, art, or 1 5 
 " science : you have, I presume, to one ; I to 
 " another. But this must be laid down as a 
 " self-evident axiom for both of us (if we design 
 " to make any proficiency in one or the other) 
 " that the first step to be wise, is to obey wise 20 
 " counsel, to practise the advice of our best 
 
 72 " friends ; without this we shall never do any 
 " good, for by experience I know (as, if ever 
 " you have the misfortune to try, you will too) 
 "that young heads are neither fit nor able to 25 
 " chuse for themselves. This being premised, 
 
 " it necessarily follows, that above all we are 
 " obliged to respect our parents, and obey their 
 " counsels ; because 'tis morally impossible, 'tis 
 " contrary to the dictates of nature, that they 30 
 " should do or chuse what is opposite to our
 
 LETTER OF ADVICE. 51 
 
 " interest. But all young persons (as for my 
 " own part I too often have) are apt to think 
 " quite otherwise, forgetting all the while the 
 " sanction of the fifth commandment, which 
 
 5 " only of all others denounces shortness of life, 
 " and therein all temporal calamities to those 
 "who disobey it by despising their parents. 
 " 'Twere needless to reckon up the many dread- 
 " ful examples of grievous punishments inflicted 
 
 10 ''miraculously on such offenders; all histories 73 
 " (which in your business you have the oppor- 
 " tunity of often reading) are full of them. But 
 " were there not this command, our interest, as 
 " you may perceive by what I have said before, 
 
 15" would naturally oblige us to respect and obey 
 " our parents, since without following their ad- 
 " vice and directions we must almost inevitably 
 " be rakes and beggars in this life, and eternally 
 " miserable in that which is to come. Next 
 
 20 " after our parents, if we would be masters of 
 " our trades, if we would prosper and be happy, 
 " which is the end all rational creatures propose 
 " to themselves : I must love and obey my 
 " tutor, you your master, being those who are 
 
 25 "to teach us those arts, which we hope by 
 " God's blessing will afford us a comfortable 
 " maintenance. This we must do chiefly, be- 
 " cause 'tis a duty included in the fifth com- 74 
 " mandment, and also because by our civil and 
 
 30 " meek deportment we may reasonably hope 
 " they, out of love and affection will be more
 
 52 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 " careful and hearty in instructing us, than they 
 " otherwise would, or, in justice, were bound. 
 " As I have thus laid before you, dear cousin, 
 " what I at this time think seasonable, I desire 
 " you, as you see fitting, to take the same liberty 5 
 " with me ; and don't take ill what I have here 
 " said, which flows from a sincere desire of your 
 " welfare, and from gratitude to your good 
 "mother, from whom I acknowledge my self 
 "to have received so many favours. Let me 10 
 " beg of you not to contemn these lines at the 
 " first reading, but give them a second : I have 
 " endeavoured to make 'em plain to you, and 
 " 'twill be your own fault afterwards if you do 
 " not profit by 'em. However, if all my poor 1 5 
 75 " endeavours fail, whether you think well or ill 
 " of me for this real kindness, I shall continue 
 " always to beg of God, that both you and I, 
 " and all who bear any relation to us, may in- 
 " crease in all goodness, but especially in loving, 20 
 " honouring and obeying all who are set over 
 " us, particularly our dear parents, that so, after 
 " a long and happy life here on earth, we may 
 " be made partakers of a blessed immortality 
 "in heaven. I think I need say no more at 25 
 " present, since the freedom I have used with 
 " you will sufficiently assure you, that I am 
 " your true and hearty friend, as well as, 
 Your affectionate cousin, 
 
 And humble servant, 30 
 
 AMBROSE BONWICKEr
 
 HIS STUDIES. 53 
 
 In about a year's time from his return from 
 Headley to the college, he had read over Whit- 
 bey's Ethics, Thirlby against Whiston, Burgers- 76 
 didus's Ethics, Curcellaus 's Ethics, Puffendorf 
 
 5 de Officio Hominis 6 Civis, Sanderson de Ob- 
 ligatione Jur. 6 Consc., the four last books of 
 the ALneis, Eustachius's Ethics, and a second 
 time as far as the Passions, the greatest part of 
 Collier's Essays; the eight last Pythian Odes of 
 
 10 Pindar, and the six first Nemean; half Vossius's 
 Partitiones Oratories, Grotius de jure Belli 6 
 Pads, Ray's Wisdom of God in the Works of 
 the Creation, Allinghants Use of Maps, Euripi- 
 des' s Medea, and 357 verses of his Phcenissce, 
 
 1 5 Miltoris Paradise lost, 122 epigrams of Martial, 
 a chapter out of the Greek Testament every 
 day for eighteen weeks, 39 Hebrew Psalms, all 
 Sallust, Thomas a Kempis, Brome of Fasting, 
 Whole Duty of Man, and Nelson, all a second 
 
 20 time on Sundays and other holy-days ; Suetonius, 
 Caligula and Claudius; five books of Pliny's 
 epistles a second time, and three more added 
 to them ; more than five books of the adven- 77 
 tures of Telemachus in French, which I mentioned 
 
 25 before; about a third part of Hierocles's com- 
 ment on Pythagoras' s Golden Verses, the pro- 
 logue and first satire of Persius, the two first 
 Catilinarian Orations, that for Milo, and the 
 two first Philippics ; the first volume of Echard's 
 
 30 Roman History, HowelFs Epistles, Tyrrell of 
 the Law of Nature, and against Hobbs; part of
 
 54 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 ClerKs Physics and Ckeyne's Philosophical Prin- 
 ciples of Religion ; with other books. During 
 which time he also made six and twenty Greek 
 or Latin themes, eleven copies of verses, six 
 theses, six Latin epistles, two declamations, six 5 
 epitomes, a great many arguments in ethics and 
 physics for disputations; and added to the 
 former Excerfta'in his Adversaria, many obser- 
 vations and phrases out of the aforementioned 
 authors. He had likewise, according to his 10 
 
 78 former method, turned part of the version of 
 Musczus into Greek verse. And for Demosthenes 's 
 Oration de Rep. Ordinanda he did something 
 more, first translating above half of it into 
 Latin; and dividing his paper-book into three 15 
 columns, he wrote that version in the middle, 
 and then turning it again into Greek, writ that 
 on one side of his Latin version, and Demos- 
 thenes^ s Greek on the other. After the same 
 manner he translated part of QutnlHiarts first 20 
 oration de Pariete Palmato, and part of Tulles 
 Offices into English, in which sort of transla- 
 tions he was generally very happy, and then 
 returned 'em into Latin, opposing 'em to the 
 authors in his paper-book. The same method 25 
 he made use of for mastering the French, turning 
 part of Telemachns into English, and back again 
 into French, and then comparing his version 
 with the author. Besides all this he had, at 
 the motion of his best friend, undertaken the 30 
 
 70 translating a small tract of Bishop Henshaw's
 
 HIS STUDIES. 55 
 
 into Latin. The title of it is, Spare-Hours of 
 Meditations. The good man giving him the 
 book, took occasion from hence of advising 
 him not to suffer even such parts of his time as 
 
 5 came under that denomination to pass away 
 useless, and he who paid the greatest deference 
 to all the counsels of so prudent and so kind 
 a patron, gratefully accepted the book and the 
 advice, and immediately applied that little spare 
 
 10 time he had left to this translation, and by this 
 time had gone through forty-five pages, for the 
 most part very well, tho' some places were 
 difficult. 
 
 And now having obtained leave from his 
 
 15 father, he made him a second visit, taking his 
 brother along with him. And having for almost 
 a quarter of a year, in the severest time of it, 
 been very serviceable, not only in instructing 
 the boys as formerly, (in which he was some- 
 
 20 times relieved by his brother) but in calling 'em 80 
 up early, and condescending to any other as- 
 sistance he was capable of giving the family: 
 he return'd before Lent, with his brother, to the 
 college; and by a letter dated February 17, 
 
 25 1712-13. gave his father an account of their 
 safe arrival, and of the extraordinary care and 
 concern of Mr. R. for them. After which he 
 thus goes on : "I 'm returned very luckily for 
 " lectures, for on Saturday our sub-tutor, Mr. 
 
 30 " Newcome, begun Taquefs Euclid to us, and 
 " yesterday he began to read us Rohaulfs
 
 5 6 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 " Physics. I 'm very glad I brought the De 
 11 Chales y 'twill help me, I hope, in mathematicks, 
 " which I find somewhat difficult. Besides our 
 " best friends, that little acquaintance I have 
 " made among my equals, I find, to my comfort, 5 
 " more and more civil to me ; and can never 
 " enough adore the goodness of God, for the 
 
 81 " manifold supports, comforts and favours he 
 " hath showered down on me in this place." 
 After this, tho' he had honestly earned the 10 
 best entertainment could be given him at his 
 father's, yet he thus expresseth himself: "And 
 "now, sir, should I begin to return ordinary 
 
 " thanks to my dear mother and you, for those 
 " many and great favours I received in the 1 5 
 " country, I might seem to intimate, either that 
 " these were the first I had received from you, 
 " or else that I had made some competent re- 
 " compence for what kindnesses I had before 
 " been obliged by. Both which I so well know 20 
 " to be utterly false, that I am, on the contrary, 
 " deeply sensible of my being too too ungrateful, 
 " or rather (I hope) too incapable of making 
 " any recompence for those numberless obliga- 
 " tions you have laid on me ever since I had 25 
 "being. For from you, my dear parents, I 
 
 82 " gratefully acknowledge, I have received all 
 " that could be expected either from the most 
 " indulgent parents, best friends or kindest 
 
 " benefactors, to whom next under God, I owe 30 
 " all that little virtue, learning and fortune that
 
 LETTER TO HIS FATHER. 57 
 
 " I 'm master of. In gratitude therefore, and 
 " out of a due sense of my own, and all our 
 " future interest, I think my self bound humbly 
 " to advise and press you, not to let slip Lady- 
 
 5 " day before you have fixed your removal. If 
 " nothing else, let the interest your children 
 " have in your life, quicken your search ; and 
 " be assured I (and I doubt not all my brothers 
 " and sisters will agree with me) shall be very 
 
 10 " glad to abate much of that plenty you have, 
 " by God's blessing, always maintained us in, if 
 " we could but thereby add one day to either 
 " of your lives, or any little augmentation to 
 " either of your healths. Some small decrease 
 
 15 "of your school therefore, may be doubly use- 63 
 " ful ; help you sooner to a house, and enable 
 " you to live longer in it. I know you'll so far 
 "remember my constant readiness to make 
 " good my words by my obedience, as not to 
 
 20 " think these mere compliments, &c." For the 
 better understanding the foregoing, it must be 
 known, that Headley was a very good air for 
 young persons, but too sharp for his father, 
 which made him often think of removing into 
 
 25 some warmer place; and this son of his had so 
 tender and affectionate a concern for him, that 
 he was often pressing him to it. I suppose one 
 objection against it might be, the loss of some 
 of his scholars upon a removal, which he here 
 
 30 handsomly turns to an argument for it. 
 
 The very next day after the date of this, in
 
 58 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 a spare leaf in his Nelson, he set himself the 
 
 84 following rules for his observation of the Lent 
 that began that day: "February 18, 1712-3. 
 " A, W. ordinary days only com. and once A. 
 
 " viz. G. C. add L. P. to Noon Pr. Not vis. nor 5 
 " go to C. H. W. and F. only one Me. S. only 
 " 2. and add to longest Pr. L. P. F ap. A. W. P. 
 " to Noon Pr. Emb. D. only com. and add 2 
 " Emb. Pr. to all the rest. Allow ^ an hour 
 " on JF's for med. and read, go B. H. P. W. 10 
 " all strict F. not vow but endeavours. On W 
 " add Me. de H. C./. and on S's add Me. and 
 " P. on the H. S. and P. of Int. On Sun. to 
 " accust. add L. P. Be stricter next Lent. 
 
 These will need some explanation : A. W. 15 
 therefore stands for Ash- Wednesday, the day on 
 which he made these rules. He confines him- 
 self to his commons on the ordinary days in 
 Lent, and allows himself one draught of ale out 
 of the grace cup; he adds the Lenten prayers 20 
 out of Nelson, to his prayers at noon every day; 
 
 85 not visit nor go to coffee-house ; Wednesdays 
 and Fridays only one meal; Saturdays only 
 two, and add to longest prayers the Lenten 
 prayers on Fridays, (the meaning of ap here 25 
 after the F. I cannot make out) and the Ash- 
 Wednesday 's prayers out of the same book, to 
 
 the noon-prayers on those days, m6er-days 
 only commons, and add two ml>er-pra.yers to 
 all the rest. Allow half an hour on Wednesdays 30 
 for meditation and reading going to bed. Holy
 
 LENT AND PASSION-WEEK. 59 
 
 Passion-week all strict fasting ; not vow, but 
 endeavour. On Wednesdays add the meditation 
 on the Holy Child Jesus, out of bishop Kerfs 
 Winchester- Manual (a book that he had made 
 
 5 constant use of from the beginning of the year 
 1707. and in the spare leaves of which, he had 
 writ prayers collected out of other books) and 
 on Saturdays add meditations and prayers on 
 the holy sacrament, and prayers of intercession, 
 
 10 all out of the same manual : on Sundays to 86 
 accustomed, add Lenten prayers. The words, 
 Be stricter next Lent, were writ in a smaller 
 character, and added, I suppose, when that 
 Lent was finished. His strict fasting now was 
 
 15 more rigorous than formerly, for he eat nothing 
 all the holy week till supper time, only on 
 Monday and Tuesday he eat a little about four 
 o' th' clock in the afternoon. On Good-Friday, 
 when he was contemplating his Saviour's suffer- 
 
 20 ings for him and all mankind, he denied himself 
 at night the usual refreshment of his bed. This 
 I gather from his diary, wherein the account of 
 that day and the following are joined together. 
 I find him there reading, meditating and praying 
 
 25 till half an hour after one, and then sleeping 
 (I suppose in his studying chair) till about six, 
 when he betakes himself again to reading and 
 praying till chapel time, without mentioning, as 
 usual, his rising from bed. On the account of 87 
 
 30 this week were endorsed these words : f H a<yla
 
 60 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 His conscience was very tender, and he pre- 
 served that tenderness by the daily examination 
 of himself ; so that the sins of omission which 
 generally are so little regarded notwithstanding 
 that procedure of the last day, which our blessed 5 
 Lord gives us in the XXV th of St. Matthew, goes 
 wholly upon them, could not be endured by 
 him, but were as duly repented of as those of 
 commission ; and upon any difficulty, he had 
 recourse to his good friend and neighbour, Mr. 10 
 Roper, who was able and willing to give him 
 satisfaction. His father was at a greater dis- 
 tance, and therefore he could not so readily 
 consult him ; but as we find him once before 
 advising with him about the observation of the 15 
 college-statutes, so in a letter about this time 
 he proposes a case to him, which shews his 
 88 great concern to do the utmost of his duty, and 
 not to be guilty of any sinful omission. The letter 
 bears date May 29, 1713. Wherein after some 20 
 other matters he thus proceeds : " I wish you 
 " all the good success you can desire in finding 
 " a fit place to remove to, and must again beg 
 " you not to be too solicitous about a great 
 " deal of room for lads, the trouble of which 25 
 " may, perhaps, hinder the good effects of a 
 " warmer region ; or if (as you know best) we 
 " cannot well subsist without such a mainte- 
 " nance, let me prevail with you to take either 
 " me, (who shall soon have kept all my terms) 30 
 " or some other to your assistance. Let not
 
 CASE OF CONSCIENCE. 61 
 
 " any fears of hindring my preferment here, 
 " make you backward in being helped by me, 
 " for I shall willingly sacrifice my present satis- 
 " faction, (which I own is not little in a college 
 
 5 " life) and future hopes to your welfare ; and, 
 " doubt not, but I shall be better rewarded for 89 
 " dutifulness to my parents herein by God, than 
 " I can be by any other, for any endowments 
 " which by his blessing I may acquire. I thank 
 
 10 " God we are both in good health, and can 
 
 " never hear too often that you are so. 1 
 
 " desire your advice in this particular case : at 
 " St. Mary's there is a sacrament every month, 
 " and their time for receiving is after the uni- 
 
 15" versity sermon is over, between eleven and 
 " twelve o' th' clock. I have of late, upon see- 
 " ing the holy table prepared, had some doubts 
 " whether I am not obliged to communicate 
 " there, tho' I have done it but three hours 
 
 20 " before in our own chapel. My main argument 
 " with which I think I have pretty well satisfied 
 " my self, that there is no such obligation in- 
 " cumbent on me, is the practice of the apostles 
 " and primitive church, whom I never read to 
 
 25 " have communicated twice a day, unless with 90 
 " a sick person, or on some such extraordinary 
 " occasion, and whom I take to be the best 
 " judges of the extent of our Saviour's command, 
 " and best to understand his institution of the 
 
 30 " holy sacrament, and therefore hope that in 
 " me who have received but just before, 'tis no
 
 62 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 " criminal turning my back on the altar. Be- 
 " sides, I do not take St. Mary's to be the 
 " proper place for scholars to receive at, who 
 " must be supposed to have sufficient oppor- 
 " tunities in their own chapels. Be pleased to 5 
 " let me know if you think these arguments 
 " sufficiently grounded ; and if you have any 
 " others to add, pray let me have 'em ; or if on 
 "the contrary I'm in an error, and am obliged 
 " to receive the second time, pray let me know 10 
 " it." In his father's answer I find no more 
 than this : " As to the other point, I think you 
 91 " have determined it very well, and have nothing 
 " to add." 
 
 His brother being on the io th si July elected 15 
 scholar of the house, on the 14* he writ thus to 
 his father. 
 
 " HON. SIR, 
 
 " As you on the occasion of my being 
 " elected scholar began to me, so now do I to 20 
 " you on account of my brother's being upon the 
 " same level with me : Te Deum laudamus, crc. 
 " I shall never any more doubt the power of 
 " Mr. R. especially when united to that of Mr. 
 " B. by which, under the blessing of God, he 25 
 " has not only got us the scholarship, but also 
 " the firm promise of another exhibition, a full 
 " account of which you will have from my 
 "brother. These exhibitions too I find now 
 " (which is a greater enhancement of their value, 30
 
 HIS BROTHER A SCHOLAR. 63- 
 
 " and our friend's kindness) are kept till we are 92 
 " complete M.A. This good news will, I hope, 
 " make some amends for the tardiness of our 
 " letters to acquaint you with the receipt of the 
 
 5 " parcel which came safe hither on Saturday 
 " last. Pray return mine and my brother's 
 " many thanks to our dear mother and all her 
 " maidens for our linen ; and, I hope, by God's 
 "blessing, we may one time or other be able 
 
 10 "to make the junior part some amends, tho' 
 " my mother I am persuaded we never shall. 
 " All our endeavours, all our successes, be they 
 " never so great or surprizing, will be too weak, 
 " too insufficient, to make her any returns for 
 
 15 " this, or any other of her troubles endured for, 
 
 " or kindnesses shewn to us. Having found 
 
 " the Almighty so wondrously gracious in his 
 " singular care of and providing for us, I cannot 
 " in the least doubt but that he has ordered 
 
 20 " your stay at Headley for the best, at least 93 
 " at present, taking it for granted that you 
 " have used all the means you could at this 
 " time for removing. Tho' I was formerly so 
 " much against your stay, yet now I find some 
 
 25 " satisfaction in it, because it will give me an 
 " opportunity of shewing how desirous I am to 
 " make you what returns I possibly can for all 
 " your great favours, by taking part of your 
 " trouble upon me. And therefore earnestly 
 
 30 " desire you, (or rather my dear mother, who, 
 " I believe, will be a more equitable judge of
 
 64 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 " your case than your self) as soon as ever you 
 " find your self indisposed by the weather and 
 " cold, added to the too great fatigue of your 
 "business already, to send for me. I've kept 
 " so many terms that I'm perfectly at liberty in 5 
 " that respect, and therefore beg of you and her 
 " to consider your own ease wholly. Last 
 
 94 " week Mr. B. whose character you must needs 
 " have heard, brought a young gentleman hither, 
 
 " who being put in a chamber without a chum, 10 
 " my tutor on Saturday morning sent to me (at 
 " Mr. .ZTs request) to be acquainted with him, 
 " and accompany him a little at first. Accord- 
 " ingly I went, and as I was going, met Mr. B. 
 " He told me, tho' he was not personally ac- 1 5 
 " quainted with you, he had a very great respect 
 " for you, and appearing to be informed of our 
 " character, asked how my brother did, and de- 
 " sired the favour of us to be acquainted with 
 " the little gentleman, to whom he was too 20 
 " favourable in his commendations of us. He 
 "recommended him, a very pretty, modest 
 " genteel young man, to mine and my brother's 
 " acquaintance, and that of my friends, and to 
 " my care in Mr. 7?'s name, his very good friend. 25 
 
 95 " Had not Mr. .Z?'s character, and a desire of 
 " preserving any young gentleman from ill com- 
 " pany, obliged me sufficiently to him, Mr. ^?'s 
 " name, you may be sure, would have that in- 
 
 " fluence upon me, as to make me lose some 30 
 " little time in his company till he were a little
 
 HIS STUDIES. 65 
 
 " settled, and this occasioned my not writing 
 "before. He acquainted the master also in 
 "what hands he had put his friend, who, he 
 " said, was pleased with it." 
 
 5 He had for about eight months from his 
 return out of the country, kept very close to 
 his studies, tho' I cannot give so full an account 
 of 'em as I have given for the two former years. 
 I find extracts out of Suicer's Compendium Phi- 
 
 10 losophice, Rohaulfs Physics, Derhamts Boyle's 
 Lecture Sermons, Mr. Hughes's edition of St. 
 Chrysostom de Sdcerdotio, and Doctor Hammond 
 on the New-Testament, in which last he read 
 very often. The extracts out of him relate 96 
 
 15 chiefly to the use of the Greek words, and are 
 entred in an alphabetical order, among those 
 out of other Greek authors, Hammond's English 
 being turned into Latin. He read also at the 
 same time Sir Norton Knatchbull. He had 
 
 20 likewise for his improvement in the French, 
 translated the beginning of Monsieur Boilearfs 
 Lutrin into English, which remains in one of his 
 paper-books ; and in those others in which he 
 kept the first draughts of his exercises, I find 
 
 25 sixteen Greek or Latin themes, two theses, four 
 copies of Latin verses, two Latin epistles, and 
 one declamation within the aforesaid space of 
 eight months. 
 
 And now being desirous of seeing his friends 
 
 30 in Surrey again, and of assisting his father, in 
 that time of the year when he apprehended he 
 
 F
 
 66 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 would most need his assistance, he made them 
 the third and last visit. It was in the beginning 
 of October, while the coaches continued to go 
 
 97 through in a day. On which account he got 
 up by three o' th' clock, and was not in London 5 
 till past seven, and by that means caught some 
 cold, which turned afterwards to an ague, a 
 distemper to which he was too subject. Yet 
 notwithstanding the fatigue and disorder of his 
 journey, he went to God's house that night and 10 
 .joined in the public service : and according to 
 his constant practice, was twice a day at church 
 while he continued in town, except only one 
 evening when he was sick in bed. Being got 
 
 to his father's, he betook himself heartily to the 15 
 business of the school, notwithstanding his ill- 
 ness, which it pleased God in a short time to 
 deliver him from. But tho' he recovered of 
 his ague, he was often indisposed, which yet 
 hindered him not in his duty either to God or 20 
 man. Nay, he seemed always more concerned 
 for his father's indisposition, than for his own ; 
 
 98 and tho' he too much neglected himself, yet 
 would look upon him at such times with the 
 greatest tenderness, and put him upon taking 25 
 something, or using some diversion that might 
 make him better. The same unfeigned love 
 and respect for him he shewed upon another 
 occasion, which offered it self during this time 
 
 of his being at Headley: one of the boys de- 30 
 serving punishment, was called out to it, which
 
 AT HE AD LEY. 67 
 
 he not complying with, his father took him by 
 the hand, and he making shew of resistance, - 
 this most dutiful son, immediately uncalled, ran 
 with the greatest zeal and eagerness to his 
 
 5 father's assistance, as not being able to bear 
 any thing that looked like an insult on his 
 person or authority. 
 
 I find by his papers about this time he took 
 up the custom on Sundays, and other holy days, 
 
 10 of singing bishop Kerfs Morning Hymn as soon 
 as he awaked, after which he got up to his 
 devotions. And this, no doubt, he did in the 99 
 same devout manner he was always observed to 
 join in that seraphic prelate's Evening Hymn, 
 
 15 which used to be sung at his father's on Sunday 
 nights. He was always very strict in keeping 
 that day holy, and would not allow himself so 
 much as to write a letter on it, without necessity, 
 but prepared on the Saturday what was to go 
 
 20 by that day's post He was generally first of 
 the whole family ready for church, whither he 
 delighted to go, and was troubled when the 
 badness of the weather obliged his father to 
 perform the service at home. Besides his 
 
 25 constant attendance on the public service either 
 at church or in the family, he often retired to 
 his private prayers, usually four times in the 
 day, and sometimes more, to which he joyn'd 
 reading the Holy Bible, or some other good 
 
 30 book. Part of the business of that day like- 
 wise was writing into a paper-book he kept for 100
 
 68 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 the purpose, what he remembered of the sermon, 
 either preached at church, or read to him at 
 home. This exercise he had been a good while 
 used to while at school, and continued it at the 
 university on holy days, not having leisure for 5 
 it on Sundays, as he had in the countrey, con- 
 cerning which we have before met with a reso- 
 lution of his, page 40. And he left behind him 
 four volumes of such abstracts of sermons, be- 
 ginning July i, 1705. and ending with two 10 
 resurrection sermons on Easter Monday and 
 Tuesday 1714. as preparatory to his own dis- 
 solution. In this he was arrived to a wonderful 
 perfection, being able to write down the main 
 of the sermon, not only as to the matter, but 15 
 even the very words of it, with which on Sunday 
 evenings he entertained the family, and set a 
 noble example for the young gentlemen to 
 imitate, by which some of 'em improved to a 
 101 very great degree, tho' they were never able to 20 
 equal it. While he was preparing himself for 
 the holy sacrament on Christmas-Eve, he wrote 
 in a loose paper the examination of his whole 
 life, beginning it thus : " When I consider my 
 "life, I find a continual wonderful providence 25 
 " and care of God over me in every stage of it, 
 "and therefore the greater ingratitude in me, 
 "in that &c" And this memorandum in his 
 Officium Eucharisticum, December 24, 1713. 
 "'Twill be useful at all times to avoid doing 30 
 " what I Ve once condemned, till I am fully
 
 ABSTRACTS OF SERMONS. 69 
 
 " satisfied to the contrary; and to be constant 
 " in Friday's examinations, especially in the 
 " country, unless great necessity hinder ; not 
 " to put off noon devotions, nor lazily mispend 
 
 5 " spare times, and not trust too much to my 
 " present thoughts." 
 
 A little before his return to Cambridge on 
 January 21, in the parish of Great Bookham, 102 
 not far from his father's, there was a great 
 
 10 quantity of Roman coins found. As the country- 
 men were ploughing, the plough struck against 
 a large urn and broke it, and discovered the 
 coins : there were about half a peck of them, 
 all copper. As soon as his father and he heard 
 
 1 5 of it, they went to view the place, and get what 
 they could of them. There were none among 
 those that they saw older than Gallienus, or 
 later than Dioclesian. The little while he staid 
 after this, when the toil of the day was over, 
 
 20 he assisted his father in cleansing those coins 
 they had procured, discovering the impresses, 
 and in reading and transcribing the inscriptions. 
 On February 8, being Shrove-Monday, he walked 
 to Epsom , in order to go from thence by coach 
 
 25 to London; his father accompanied him part of 
 the way, acknowledging the good service he 
 had done him, and thanking him for it, and at 103 
 parting, with his blessing, gave him two kisses, 
 little thinking they were the last he should give 
 
 30 him in this world. He went to church that 
 evening at London, and so morning and evening
 
 70 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 constantly as formerly, till he left the town. 
 He gave his father an account of his safe arrival 
 at Cambridge in a letter by his brother, who 
 hastened to supply his place at Headky: and 
 acquaints him that the lads of his year being 5 
 apprized of his return, quickly took care that 
 he might not lose his turn of disputing and de- 
 claiming; and what he knew would be very 
 grateful, that his brother brings along with him 
 a coin of Constantino's, with a fair reverse, SOLI 10 
 INVICTO COMITI. Quickly after this I find the 
 following entry made in his Officium Eucharisti- 
 cum, which seems to be taken out of one of the 
 sermons he heard that day at St. Mary's, where 
 he was a constant attendant, and of which I 15 
 104 find no abstract in his sermon-book : " Sunday, 
 "February 28, 1713-4. Psalm v. i, 2. Ponder 
 " my words, O Lord: consider my meditation. O 
 " hearken thou unto the voice of my calling, my 
 " King, and my God: for unto thee will I make 20 
 " my grayer. The study of prayer, recollection 
 " and composure of mind. Mischievous prayers, 
 " when we ask for things that appear good, de- 
 " signed to ill purposes, or to be got by ill 
 " means. Frivolous, when we ask for worldly 25 
 " things, rather than, or before heavenly. Fan- 
 " tastical, when we strive not to gain the virtues 
 "we pray for. The inward intention of the 
 " heart, and what that is set upon, is the prayer, 
 " not the words. Complacency arising from a 30 
 " good performance of this duty, inquietude 
 "from the contrary."
 
 AT CAMBRIDGE 1713-4. 71 
 
 He had received no letter from Headley in 
 above a month's time after he had left it, which 105 
 gave him great uneasiness, of which he com- 
 plained thus to his father March 15, 1713-4. 
 
 5 " HON. SIR, 
 
 " After a very tedious expectation, and 
 " many disappointing negative answers from 
 " the buttery-men, I received my brother's last 
 " Friday. Tho' I was in great hopes my brother 
 
 10 " would have given me an account how he 
 " performed his journeys, what success you had 
 " in getting more coins &c. before the month 
 " was out ; yet I bore being balk'd pretty well 
 " till Sunday was sevennight. I had then been 
 
 15 " within a day of a month from Headley without 
 "any letter, and could not help being uneasy 
 " from that time till Friday; because you were 
 " pleased to promise me at parting, that I 
 " should never wait longer than a month for a 
 
 20 " letter. Mr. R. asked very frequently after 106 
 " you all, and wondered my brother sent no 
 " account, &c. When I reflect on what I have 
 " writ, I almost fear you '11 think me too bold, 
 " in taking notice of that which I 'm sure your 
 
 25 " forgetfulness only of the exact time, or your 
 " depending upon my brother to observe it, 
 " was the cause of. Only this I know, you'll 
 " put the best interpretation on my words and 
 "judge, (which is really the truth) that my 
 
 30 " desire of often hearing how you do, especially
 
 72 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 " at my first being separated from your company, 
 " after so long an enjoyment of it, makes me 
 " watch the times so exactly, and consequently 
 " so soon observe any failure in that respect." 
 For the reason (I suppose) mentioned in this 5 
 letter, that his father left the correspondence 
 wholly to his brother, I find no more of his 
 
 107 father's letters among his papers, tho', as I 
 before observed, he carefully preserved them. 
 
 The time now drew near that the Lord 10 
 would take him to himself, and as the philo- 
 sophers have discovered an acceleration of the 
 motion of heavy bodies in their descent towards 
 the earth, the same may we suppose in the 
 ascent of a pious soul towards heaven; the 15 
 nearer it approaches to it, the more powerful 
 is the attraction, and the more vigorous the 
 motion. The Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 
 in the holy week he eat nothing till supper 
 time, only once a few figs in the afternoon ; 20 
 Thursday being the feast of the Annunciation, 
 he dined as well as supped, and then watched 
 with his Saviour the night that he was betrayed, 
 in part of which he wrote the following articles, 
 and the resolutions that day and the next. 25 
 
 108 In the name of God, Amen. 
 
 Good Friday ', March. 26, 1714. 
 * Being moved (I hope) by the Spirit of God, 
 ' and excited by reading bishop Beveridgfs 
 1 Private Thoughts, &c. after some days' fasting, 30
 
 PASSION WEEK 1714. 73 
 
 ' abstinence, watching and praying for the par- 
 ' ticular assistance and direction of the Holy 
 ' Ghost, I formed these articles of belief, from 
 'the Apostles' Creed, Bishop Beveridge, Mr. 
 
 5 'Nelson, &c. and the following resolutions 
 ' grounded thereupon, intending after to examine 
 ' my evil ways, bewail and repent me of my 
 ' sins, that so I might worthily partake of the 
 ' holy eucharist at Easter, and also be enabled 
 
 10 ' to lead the remainder of my life in true faith 
 ' and obedience, without superstition, scruple 
 ' and doubtfulness. 
 
 ' / believe in God tJie Father Almighty, Maker 
 
 15 * of heaven and earth, i. e. I believe there is one 
 
 ' God the being of all beings, and that whatso- 109 
 
 ' ever he would have me to believe or do, in 
 
 ' order to his glory or my happiness, he hath 
 
 ' revealed to me in his holy scriptures : whence 
 
 20 * I learn to believe, that as there is one God, 
 
 ' so this one God is three Persons, Father, Son, 
 
 ' and Holy Ghost. Consequently I believe the 
 
 ' divine inspiration of the holy scriptures, the 
 
 ' canon received in the church, and that the 
 
 25 ' Christian religion which they teach is the only 
 
 ' true religion in the world. 
 
 n. 
 'And in Jesus Christ his only Son oiir Lord;
 
 74 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 in. 
 
 * Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born 
 ' of the Virgin Mary; i. e. I believe that the 
 
 * Son which is the Word of the Father, begotten 
 
 ' from everlasting of the Father, the very and 5 
 
 * eternal God, of one substance with the Father, 
 110 ' took man's nature in the womb of the blessed 
 
 * Virgin, of her substance ; so that two whole 
 ' and perfect natures, that is to say, the godhead 
 'and manhood, were joined together in one 10 
 ' Person never to be divided, whereof is one 
 
 ' Christ, very God and very Man. And I be- 
 ' lieve that Christ was conceived without sin, 
 
 * but that I was conceived in original sin, and 
 
 ' brought forth in iniquity, and being by nature 1 5 
 ' a child of wrath have been ever since working 
 ' vanity, for my righteousness is as filthy rags, 
 ' but am by Christ's merits made a child of 
 ' grace ; for I believe that the Son of God was 
 
 * made the Son of Man, that I the son of man 20 
 
 * might be made the son of God. 
 
 IV. 
 
 * Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, 
 ' dead and buried, he descended into hell ; i. e. I 
 
 * believe that Christ lived to God, and died for 25 
 ill ' sin, that I might die to sin, and live with 
 
 * God ; and this not in his divine, but humane 
 ' nature, (for the divine nature cannot be born, 
 'and suffer, and die, and be buried, and rise 
 
 ' again from the grave) but as it was one and 30
 
 PASSION WEEK 1714. 75 
 
 ' the same Person which subsisted in both 
 ' natures, we may properly be said to be re- 
 
 * deemed by the blood* of God, and that the 
 'Lord of glory was crucified^ for us. I believe 
 
 5 ' also, that he being dead, his soul continued 
 'in a state of separation for a time, that he 
 ' suffered not any torments of the damned, but 
 ' triumphed over the devil and led him captive. 
 
 v. 
 
 10 * The third day he rose again from the dead: 
 ' I believe too that Christ thus rose from the 
 'grave, that I might rise from sin; reuniting 
 ' by his infinite power the same soul to the 
 ' same body which was buried, and so rose the 
 
 15 ' same man. 
 
 VI. 
 
 ' He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the 112 
 
 ' right hand of God the Father Almighty: i. e. 
 
 ' I believe that the only begotten and eternal 
 
 20 ' Son of God, after he rose from the dead, did 
 
 ' with the same soul and body with which he 
 
 * rose, by a true and local translation, convey 
 ' himself from the earth on which he lived, 
 ' thro' all the regions of the air, thro' all the 
 
 25 ' celestial orbs, until he came into the heaven 
 ' of heavens, to the most glorious presence of 
 ' the majesty of God, and that he is ascended 
 ' into heaven that I may come to him ; and 
 
 * Acts xx. 28. t I Cor. ii. 8.
 
 76 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 ( that being exalted to the highest dignity in 
 ' his Father's kingdom, he there makes per- 
 ' petual intercession for us. 
 
 VII. 
 
 ' From thence he shall come to judge the quick 5 
 ' and the dead: i. e. I believe that our Lord 
 ' Jesus Christ shall at the end of the world 
 
 113 ' descend from heaven in his human nature, 
 ' and summon all mankind to appear before his 
 
 ' dreadful tribunal ; where they shall come upon 10 
 
 * their trial, have all their actions strictly ex- 
 
 * amined, and according to the nature and quality 
 ' of them be adjudged, the righteous to eternal 
 ' happiness, the wicked to eternal misery. 
 
 vin. 15 
 
 * I believe in the Holy Ghost ; that he is very 
 ' God, the third Person in the undivided Trinity, 
 
 * proceeding from the Father and the Son, and 
 ' coequal and coeternal with them. 
 
 IX. 20 
 
 ' / believe the holy Catholick Church ; the com- 
 
 * munion of saints. 
 
 x. 
 
 ' The forgiveness of sins : I believe that God 
 'in his unspeakable mercy gave his Son Jesus, 25 
 ' and the Son gave himself, to become a surety 
 
 114 * for the debt we by our sins had contracted, 
 
 * and did offer himself up a sacrifice by his 
 ' death to God's justice, and a satisfaction for
 
 PASSION WEEK 1714. 77 
 
 ' us ; thereby reconciling us to God. I believe 
 ' that I have no merit at all of my own, and 
 ' trust in Chrisfs merits only for justification, 
 
 * who by his grace also, I believe, delivers us 
 5 ' from the dominion of sin, enabling us to 
 
 ' repent of it and mortifie it : For we are not 
 ' sufficient of our selves, but our sufficiency is of 
 
 * God, who worketh in us to will and to do of 
 ' his own good pleasure. But I believe that his 
 
 10 * merits will stand me in no stead, unless I 
 ' endeavour after sincere obedience in my own 
 ' person ; his merits being imputed to none, but 
 'only such as apply them to themselves by 
 ' faith ; which faith in Christ will certainly put 
 
 1 5 ' such as are possessed of it upon obedience to 
 ' God. So that I must endeavour after obedi- 
 
 * ence as much as if that alone were to gain me 115 
 ' salvation ; and I must rely as much upon the 
 
 * merits of Christ, as if I were bound to no 
 20 ' endeavours after obedience. As to the active 
 
 ' obedience of Christ making part of our justifi- 
 
 * cation, I conceive it not a point of faith ab- 
 ' solutely necessary to salvation, tho' this text 
 ' i Cor. i. 30. seems to imply it. I trust in the 
 
 25 ' merits of Christ as revealed, to be the satis- 
 
 * faction for my sins, and the justification of my 
 'person; and think I need not be solicitous 
 ' about the predestinarian and Calvinistical 
 ' opinions of bishop Beveridge concerning free- 
 
 30 ' will, reprobation, and election ; at least not 
 ' yet a while.
 
 78 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 XI. 
 
 ' The resurrection of the body: i. e. I believe 
 ' that after a short separation, my soul and body 
 ' shall be united together again, in order to 
 
 116 ' appear before the judgment seat of Christ, 5 
 ' and be finally sentenced according to my 
 
 ' deserts. 
 
 XII. 
 
 ' And the life everlasting: i. e. I believe firmly 
 
 * the immortality of the soul, for God hath said 10 
 ' that, Eccles. xii. 7. My spirit shall return to God 
 
 ' who gave it; and that according to the actions 
 ' done in the body, it shall either be admitted 
 ' to the eternal fruition of the glorious Godhead, 
 ' or be sent into everlasting fire prepared for the 15 
 
 * devil and his angels. 
 
 ' In these articles of my belief, I learn to 
 ' believe, i, In God the Father, who hath made 
 ' me and all the world ; 2, In God the Son who 
 ' hath redeemed me and all mankind by his 20 
 ' death, and who has satisfied God's justice for 
 ' my sins, upon my faith and my repentance, 
 ' my future love and obedience, which are the 
 ' terms of the new covenant of grace, which I 
 
 117 ' believe God hath made with man in the second 25 
 ' Adam ; he promising me on his part, pardon 
 
 * of sins, eternal life and strength to do my duty, 
 ' by the assistance of God the Holy Ghost ; in 
 'whom, 3dly, I learn to believe, and that he 
 
 ' sanctifieth me and all the elect people of God. 30
 
 PASSION WEEK 1714. 79 
 
 * Which covenant I believe it hath pleased God 
 ' to seal to us by a double seal, baptism and the 
 ' Lord's supper. The first being that rite whereby 
 ' we are admitted into covenant with God, wherein 
 
 5 ' the guilt of original sin is washed off, and we 
 ' receive strength and power to live righteously, 
 ' (not by our own, but by God's strength) if we 
 ' will but diligently and sincerely make use of 
 
 * it to perform our part of the covenant, and 
 10 'humbly beg for more; we are restored and 
 
 ' admitted to God's favour, and have a title 
 ' given us to glory in heaven. The second is 
 ' the Christian sacrifice, a solemn and lively re- 118 
 ' presentation of the death of Christ, and offer- 
 
 15 'ing it again to God, as an atonement for sin, 
 ' and reconciliation to his favour, wherein we 
 ' renew our baptismal covenant with God, who, 
 ' I believe, will make good to us the benefits 
 ' of it upon our due reception of this holy 
 
 20 ' eucharist, furnishing us with free grace and 
 ' comfort ; wherein we verily and indeed receive 
 ' the body and blood of Christ to all intents 
 ' and purposes, to which he did speak them to 
 ' be, and as he meant and designed them to us. 
 
 25 ' Provided we examine, confess and bewail our 
 ' sins before God, with a true sense of, and 
 ' sorrow for them, and, taking firm resolutions 
 ' for the time to come utterly to relinquish 
 ' and forsake them, solemnly engage our selves 
 
 30 ' in a new and truly Christian course of life ; 
 'having a lively faith in God's mercy thro'
 
 8o AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 ' Christ, with a devout, humble, thankful re- 
 
 119 * membrance of his death, and being in charity 
 ' with all men, heartily forgiving those who 
 ' have offended us, and making restitution and 
 
 * satisfaction to those we have injured. This 5 
 ' I take to be the sum of what I promised in 
 
 * the second article of my baptismal vow, viz. 
 ' To believe all the articles of the Christian faith, 
 
 * contained in the Apostles' Creed, and in the 
 'writings and explanations of pious and learned 10 
 ' men ; all the necessary parts of which I can, 
 
 * I trust in God, confirm by express scripture, 
 ' or lawful inference from it And as to some 
 ' controversial points intermixed, I find them 
 
 ' not laid down in scripture as necessary articles 15 
 ' of faith, and think I need not as yet be over- 
 
 * solicitous about them. 
 
 ' Tho' I cannot fully comprehend all the 
 ' mysteries in my faith, yet I fully believe 'em, 
 ' because God has revealed them. 20 
 
 120 ' The best preparation for the holy sacra- 
 ' ment, is to endeavour to live constantly ac- 
 ' cording to the precepts of the gospel, which 
 ' will fit a man to receive at any time. 
 
 ' Having endeavoured to lay a firm found- 25 
 ' ation of faith, by God's grace, I proceed now, 
 
 * relying upon the same grace, to form such 
 ' resolutions as may make my practice suitable 
 
 * thereto, and conformable to God's holy will. 
 
 * In the first place I solemnly renew my bap- 30 
 ' tismal vow, (begging pardon humbly for any
 
 PASSION WEEK 1714. 81 
 
 ' rash ones that I have since made) my part of 
 ' which, viz. all that is to be performed by me, 
 ' I find summed up by the apostle* in these 
 ' words : That denying ungodliness and worldly 
 
 5 ' lusts, -we live godly, righteously and soberly in this 
 ' present world; which is excellently paraphrased 
 * in our Church Catechism, summing up all at 
 ' the end of the Ten Commandments, the whole 121 
 ' of our duty to God, our neighbour and our selves. 
 
 10 I. ' I resolve therefore, as 'tis my duty, to be- 
 ' lieve in God ; i. e. to believe the holy scriptures 
 ' which are his word, taking all the laws therein 
 ' recited for his laws, and the promises of pardon 
 ' and happiness to the penitent, and the threat- 
 
 15 'nings of death to the impenitent, for his pro- 
 ' mises and threatnings ; and to make this 
 'effectual, I'll endeavour to walk by faith, not 
 'by sight, that so I may not be deceived by 
 ' the false baits of sin, nor prefer momentary to 
 
 20 ' eternal pleasures. This will encourage me in 
 
 ' self-denial, and comfort me under all calamities. 
 
 II. 'I resolve to fear God, and to love him 
 
 4 with all my heart, with all my mind, with all 
 
 'my soul, and with all my strength: I'll en- 
 
 25 ' deavour therefore not to do any thing that 
 ' may offend him, and for his sake will do all 122 
 ' that he bids me. I '11 endeavour always to be 
 ' looking upon God, as always looking upon 
 'me, which shall make me not dare to do any 
 
 30 ' ill action in his sight, that I would not do 
 
 * Tit. ii. 12.
 
 82 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 1 before men. And since God sees my inward 
 ' thoughts, I '11 endeavour as much to watch 
 ' over the motions of my heart as my outward 
 ' actions, that they may not be wicked nor vain, 
 'proud, lustful, 6<r. or hindring my studies. 5 
 ' To which end 'twill be useful to keep my 
 ' mind fixed on good or innocent objects, and 
 ' to examine all thoughts of moment as they 
 ' come into my mind, that by letting an unex- 
 'amined thought harbour in my breast, I be 10 
 ' not drawn into sin : Not as if I could examine 
 ' every one, but such only as have the face of 
 ' sin. I 'm resolved to love God as the greatest 
 ' of goods, and hate sin as the worst of evils, 
 123 ' which love I must shew, by endeavouring 1 5 
 ' always to please him in avoiding that ; and 
 ' in all my expressions of love to my fellow 
 ; creatures, so to love the person, as yet to 
 ' hate his sins ; and so to hate his sins, as to 
 'love the person. I'll endeavour habitually to 20 
 ' desire spiritual mercies more than temporal, 
 ' and these only in reference to them ; and there- 
 ' fore to subject my affections to my reason, 
 ' and this to the word of God. 
 
 III. ' I resolve to worship God, to give him 25 
 ' thanks, to put my whole trust in him : i. e. in 
 ' his providence for outward supplies as I need 
 ' 'em, in his mercy for pardon of sins when I 
 ' repent of them, and in his Spirit for grace and 
 ' inward aid when I endeavour together with 30 
 ' him. And thus trusting in God, I'll endeavour
 
 PASSION WEEK 1714. 83 
 
 ' to arm my self with that spiritual courage and 
 ' magnanimity, as to press thro' all duties and 
 ' difficulties whatsoever, for the advancement 124 
 ' of God's glory and my own happiness. I'll 
 
 5 ' endeavour to conquer those childish fears I've 
 ' formerly been troubled with ; the surest remedy 
 ' against which is always to keep a good con- 
 ' science. I will call upon God devoutly in my 
 'religious addresses to him. I'll be devout at 
 
 10 ' publick prayers, and at home I must take care 
 ' to strike as great an awe of the divine presence 
 ' into my mind, as if I were at church. To 
 'prevent indevotion, I'll take care to meditate 
 ' before hand seriously, and fix in my mind an 
 
 15 ' awe of the tremendous majesty I am going to 
 ' address, take fitting opportunities when I am 
 ' best inclined to, and prepared for prayer. To 
 ' which end 'twill be useful as often as I can to 
 ' say my evening prayers before nine, my noon, 
 
 20 ' especially at home, before six o' th' clock. I 
 ' must reject all wandring thoughts, and to pre- 
 ' vent their intruding, 'twill be useful to keep 125 
 
 * my eyes fixed on my book in chapel, or shut 
 
 * or covered, or so fixed upwards, or some way, 
 25 ' that they bring not in matter for wandring 
 
 'thoughts. I'll endeavour to behave my self 
 ' decently in chapel, bridling my tongue from 
 ' loose talk and jesting, and not speaking with- 
 ' out necessity during divine service ; and not 
 30 ' minding what others do to my own hindrance, 
 ' by unnecessary bowing, 6^. in prayer time :
 
 84 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 ' and be as devout as I can at singing of psalms, 
 'anthems, S*c. I'll take care to allow my self 
 ' a fit time for sacramental preparation, and to 
 
 * facilitate it, be careful over my nightly ex- 
 
 ' aminations ; and besides, unless lawfully or 5 
 ' unavoidably hindered, allow half a day for 
 ' such preparation. 
 
 IV. ' I resolve to honour his holy Name and 
 ' his Word: and therefore to make his holy 
 
 126 ' Word the rule of all my actions, as that which 10 
 
 * contains fully all my duty. And I will en- 
 ' deavour so seriously to hear and read it, as 
 ' that I may constantly be confirmed by it in 
 ' well-doing, and also perfected in my knowledge 
 
 ' of what I am to believe, and particularly 1 5 
 ' practise in order to my eternal salvation. To 
 ' this end also I must be attentive to sermons, 
 ' which for my improvement 'twill be useful to 
 ' write down on holy-days as my circumstances 
 'will permit, not scrupling sometimes to omit 20 
 ' it for a greater good, or other lawful hindrance. 
 
 V. ' I resolve to serve God truly all the days 
 1 of my life. I will therefore endeavour to do 
 ' every thing in obedience to the will of God 
 'with a right intention of mind; especially my 25 
 'acts of charity: and make his glory the aim 
 
 ' of all my designs ultimately, tho' I'm not 
 
 127 * obliged particularly and immediately to design 
 ' it in every single action. To make these en- 
 
 ' deavours the more effectual, I set my self 30 
 ' these rules, and must take care not to venture
 
 PASSION WEEK 1714. 85 
 
 1 on any action of moment, where I can de- 
 
 * liberate, 'till I know 'tis lawful, lest by doubt- 
 ' ing I make all my actions sinful ; and as for 
 ' sudden acts, 'tis the safest way not to venture 
 
 5 * on what I have condemned already, till I am 
 ' convinced fully of my mistake. The best way 
 ' to serve God is to make Christ my pattern, 
 ' where I doubt, asking my self, what he would 
 ' do ; always judging, that what he had com- 
 
 10 'manded in scripture he would do, or what is 
 ' not expressly or implicitly forbidden there. 
 ' In all my behaviour I'll endeavour to be con- 
 ' siderate, and never do any thing that in my 
 ' conscience I am persuaded is unlawful, nor 
 
 15 'obstinately oppose the motions of God's holy 
 ' Spirit exciting me to do my duty, nor wholly 128 
 ' disregard the inward whisperings of my con- 
 ' science, but incline to them as far as they are 
 ' necessary, and my affairs will permit ; but take 
 
 20 ' care too not to be led into unnecessary scruples 
 ' and superstition thereby. I must not indulge 
 ' my own corrupt inclinations contrary to scrip- 
 ' ture and reason, nor break rashly a well 
 ' weighed resolution ; and take care not to be 
 
 25 ' imposed on by specious suggestions and false 
 ' reasoning. 'Twill be proper for me to follow 
 
 * my father's advice and good example, especially 
 ' in relation to swearers, and using gaming or 
 ' vain recreations on fast-days ; and in all real 
 
 30 ' momentous doubts to incline to the safest 
 ' side.
 
 86 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 VI. ' I resolve, as 'tis my duty, to love my 
 ' neighbour as myself, and to do unto all men as 
 ' I would they should do unto me. To love and 
 
 129 ' honour, and, when need is, to succour my 
 
 * father and mother. I'll endeavour to practise 5 
 ' the great duty of charity in all its branches, 
 
 ' being the true love of God and our neighbour, 
 
 * and to do good to all in the best way that 
 
 * I can with prudence and discretion. 
 
 VII. 'I resolve to honour and obey the king, 10 
 ' and all that are put in authority, actively or 
 
 * passively : and in the circumstances I am at 
 ' present, to direct my self according to a good 
 ' rule of my father's. 
 
 VIII. 'I resolve to submit my self to all my 10 
 ' spiritual pastors, and all my governours, and to 
 
 ' shew reverence to all my betters : I '11 endeavour 
 ' therefore to carry my self with due respect to 
 ' my superiors, with condescension to my in- 
 ' feriors, and civilly to all ; guarding my self 20 
 'against all proud, surly, insolent behaviour 
 
 130 * even to the meanest ; and giving my betters 
 'all the respect they justly require, and their 
 ' titles in opposition to the mad notions of 
 
 ' quakers, &c. To this purpose I ought often 25 
 ' to consider that the meanest of my fellow- 
 ' creatures in some measure excel me, and 
 ' therefore be willing to undergo little injuries, 
 ' deficiencies in their service, and small affronts. 
 
 IX. ' I resolve to bear no malice nor hatred 30 
 ' in my heart, to hurt no body by word or deed,
 
 PASSION WEEK 1714. 87 
 
 ' but to be true and just in all my dealing. To 
 'this purpose I'll particularly guard against 
 ' anger and hasty speeches ; and that I may 
 * not sin by anger, take care it be placed on 
 
 5 ' a due object, and do not exceed its proper 
 ' bounds. I must not be hasty in my spirit* 
 'but defer my anger according to discretion.^ 
 ' I'll take care never to speak evil of any, unless 
 ' justice or charity, or some good reason oblige 131 
 
 10 ' me to it, so as to do him no harm, and to 
 'keep from the greater fault. I'll not indulge 
 ' my self in idle tales, and censurings of others, 
 'lest I wound my neighbour's credit, and his 
 ' charity to whom I speak : and to take away 
 
 15 'all occasion of this, not hear with pleasure 
 ' evil of others, and when I do, conceal it, 
 'unless good reason call it forth. To avoid 
 ' anger, it will be useful to be prepared to bear 
 ' little affronts, and not to revolve in my mind 
 
 20 'aggravations of injuries, and avoid peevishness 
 ' about meats, &>c. 
 
 X. ' I resolve to keep my hands from picking 
 ' and stealing, and my tongue from evil speaking^ 
 ' lying and slandering. To govern my tongue 
 
 25 ' I will endeavour always to set a watch before 
 ' my mouth, avoid much speaking, consider as 
 ' well as I can what I speak, and take care that 
 ' no corrupt communication proceed out of my 132 
 ' mouth^. but what either is beneficial, or at 
 
 * Eccles. vii. 9. t Prov. xix. n. 
 
 J Eph. iv. 29.
 
 88 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 ' least harmless. I'll avoid all vain swearing, 
 ' and endeavour to reprove it in others as I can, 
 ' and some way or other shew my dislike to 
 ' such company, endeavouring to be very un- 
 ' easy at hearing God's holy name prophaned, 5 
 ' not rashly venturing amongst common swearers, 
 ' and if no other method will do, leaving such 
 ' company as soon as I can. I'll take care too 
 ' to avoid all lying, making my intentions con- 
 * ditionally, and not indulging jesting lyes. I'll 10 
 ' avoid carefully rash execrations and swearing 
 'in thought, and not help out discourse with 
 ' scandalous stories, but as prudently as I can 
 ' discountenance such talk, and vindicate my 
 'neighbour's injured credit as well as I can. 15 
 ' And that I may not be censorious or uncharit- 
 183 ' able, and have unjust suspicions and mean 
 ' opinions of others without reason, I '11 take 
 ' care not to be proud and self-conceited my 
 ' self, but meek and humble, often calling to 20 
 ' mind my great and crying sins. 
 
 XI. ' I resolve to keep my body in temperance, 
 ' soberness and chastity, and not to covet other 
 ' meris goods. I'll endeavour to avoid all manner 
 ' of uncleanness, and all filthy company, never 25 
 'by smiling, &c. countenancing any obscene 
 'jests; but beating down all impure thoughts, 
 ' and irregular fancies, at their first beginning, 
 ' not consenting to the least approach towards 
 ' uncleanness, which my conscience shall check 30 
 'me for. I'll endeavour upon the first true
 
 PASSION WEEK 1714. 89 
 
 ' sense of having drunk enough to leave off; 
 ' and tho', perhaps, I could bear more, yet deny 
 ' my self, lest I be ensnared unawares by little 
 ' springs and dissimulations. I must take care 
 
 5 ' that hunger or carelessness do not make me 134 
 ' omit saying grace devoutly to my meals ; and 
 * endeavour by my example, and other prudent 
 ' means, to bring others to this good practice. 
 XII. 'I resolve to be diligent in my own call- 
 
 10 ' ing, and to do my duty in that state of life, to 
 ' which it hath, or shall, please God to call me. 
 ' To this end I'll take care to do all my actions 
 ' with prudence and discretion, endeavouring to 
 ' bestow my charity with a due proportion to 
 
 15 'what God has given, or rather lent me to 
 ' be accounted for. I '11 be wary in the choice 
 ' of my company and friends, and faithful and 
 ' constant to those I shall enter into a state of 
 ' friendship with, as I desire my friend should 
 
 20 ' be to me. I'll endeavour by a double diligence 
 ' in my studies, especially, if possible, to redeem 
 ' my past time, employing all the gifts and en- 
 ' dowments both of body and soul, to the glory 135 
 ' and service of my great Creator, improving 
 
 25 ' the talents he hath given me, to his honour, 
 ' and my neighbour's benefit ; endeavouring to 
 ' improve good thoughts into holy actions, and 
 ' to take afflictions as tokens of his mercy to 
 ' me, and to amend under them. I'll take care 
 
 30 ' that my recreations be innocent, and take not 
 ' up too much of my time, suiting them to the
 
 9 o AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 ' particular circumstances I may be in ; and not 
 ' be overscrupulous about them, nor childish in 
 ' my behaviour, chiefly regarding my health and 
 ' reputation, and watching that I be not drawn 
 ' to covetousness, anger, cheating or tamely 5 
 ' hearing swearing in them, so as to seem to 
 ' comply with it ; and therefore 'twill be best 
 ' to avoid much play, or, with others, than 
 ' known acquaintance. To avoid idleness I 
 
 136 ' must take care not to loiter away my precious 10 
 ' time, especially such as is designed for de- 
 
 ' votion, and not let my friends rashly persuade 
 'me to mispend my time, and must find em- 
 'ployment for broken hours. 
 
 ' Thus have I endeavoured to fence my self 1 5 
 
 * against sin, by these rules, laying no obligation 
 ' on my self so as to be guilty of perjury if I 
 ' break them, binding my self only to my RESO- 
 ' LUTIONS, which I think chiefly contain my 
 
 * duty, and only so far as they are matter of 20 
 ' duty. The ENDEAVOURS which are subjoined 
 
 ' to the RESOLUTIONS, I take to be useful ; and 
 
 * those which I think most to my present cir- 
 'cumstances, which yet I fear will be most 
 
 ' difficult, I have marked with red lines \the 25 
 
 * original was so markecT\ and purpose to be 
 ' most careful in observing them. Yet not ty- 
 ' ing my self up strictly to 'em, but so far as 
 
 137 ' they are not matter of duty, leaving my self 
 
 ' at liberty to alter, omit, or neglect them, as 30 
 ' I shall see just occasion upon reasonable
 
 PASSION WEEK 1714. 91 
 
 'grounds and good advice. I am not for 
 
 * making too many resolves, because I have 
 ' found the sad inconvenience, and been in- 
 ' snared thereby. And I take some of the 
 
 5 ' bishop's about our thoughts to be unnecessary, 
 ' impracticable and pernicious to health, as wit- 
 
 ' ness In short, I intend not to be enslaved 
 
 ' to any odd expression I may have used, my in- 
 ' tention is sincere to perform my duty to God, 
 
 10 ' my neighbour and self, and therefore must ob- 
 
 * serve these ENDEAVOURS only as they are 
 ' useful to it in each particular. Taking care 
 'in general to be considerate, to keep out of 
 ' temptation by diligent employment in a lawful 
 
 15 'calling, or harmless exercise and devotion: 
 ' endeavouring to secure my duty in the first 
 'place, and these rules only as they are sub- 
 ' servient to it, lest I lose that which alone is 138 
 ' necessary, and insnare my self in superstition 
 
 20 ' and sin by those means which I choose to 
 ' keep out of it. Circumstances will alter. *Be 
 ' ye wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. 
 ' ^Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, 
 ' neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they 
 
 25 ' trample them under their feet, and turn again 
 ' and rend you. Offer not the sacrifice of fools. 
 ' \He that will come after me let him deny him- 
 <se/f. 
 
 ' And now, O my God, I am not able of my 
 
 30 ' self to do any thing that is good ; 'tis thy self, 
 
 * Matt. x. 1 6. t vii. 6. J xvi. 24.
 
 92 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 ' my God and my guide, that I solely and 
 ' wholly depend upon. O for thine own sake, 
 ' for thy Son's sake, and for thy promise sake, 
 ' do thou both make me to know what thou 
 ' wouldst have me to do, and then help me to 5 
 
 139 ' do it. Teach me first what to resolve upon, 
 ' and then enable me to perform my resolutions. 
 ' Keep me, if it seem good to thee, from scru- 
 ' pulousness and superstition, carelessness and 
 
 ' profaneness ; that I may chearfully walk with 10 
 ' thee in the ways of holiness here, and rest 
 ' with thee in the joys of happiness hereafter, 
 ' thro' Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen! 
 
 Both Good-Friday and Easter-Eve he fasted 
 till the evening, and on the latter of these days 15 
 he rose about half an hour after five, tho', as we 
 have observed, he had not slept the preceding 
 night. He again examined his whole life past, 
 and that he might do it the more exactly, he 
 made use of the catalogue of sins at the end of 20 
 his Nelson, as well as that in his Officium Eu- 
 charisticum. And from this time, to the day 
 of his death inclusive, I find the accounts of 
 
 140 his sacramental examinations much larger, and 
 more exact than formerly. 25 
 
 Understanding his mother was to be in London 
 in the Easter week, he writ to her thither on 
 Easter-Monday; and this being his last letter to 
 her, I shall give you part of it, that you may see 
 how he took his leave of her. In the first place 30
 
 LAST LETTER TO HIS MOTHER. 93 
 
 he hopes, before she leaves the city, she will 
 trouble her self so far as to let him know how 
 all dear relations do, particularly how his father 
 has born up against the remaining part of the 
 
 5 winter since he left him. And then after a 
 pretty deal of business, in which he was always 
 very exact, towards the conclusion he proceeds 
 thus : " My business generally leading me to 
 " write to my father, but having now an oppor- 
 
 10 " tunity to do it to your self, I should seem 
 " unmindful of those particular and affectionate 
 " kindnesses you have been all along pleased to 
 " shew me, more especially when I was last with 141 
 " you did I not return you my hearty thanks 
 
 15 "for them. Tho' at present I have no great 
 " prospect of it, yet I trust God will some time 
 " or other so bless with success my earnest en- 
 " deavours of making my self fit for the support 
 " and comfort of my dear parents, that I may 
 
 20 " make returns of gratitude in my actions, rather 
 " than my words. But however he pleases to 
 " order that, be assured, madam, I shall never 
 " want the will to do it so long as any sense 
 " of duty remains in me, which, as it has had 
 
 25 "so many additional helps of kindnesses from 
 " you to fix it in my breast, will (I have great 
 " reason to hope) never be rooted out thence." 
 
 The last letter he writ to his father was the 
 following one.
 
 94 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 142 St. John's Cambr. 
 
 May 2, 1714. 
 
 HON. SIR, 
 
 " Upon seeing the date of this you'll 
 " be apt to think something more than ordinary 5 
 " has happened, I having not used to write on 
 " a Sunday. The occasion of it is this. On 
 " Friday was sevennight, just as I was lain 
 " down in bed, before I had put out my candle, 
 " a tickling cough seized me, which causing me 10 
 " to spit, I was surprized to find it blood ; so 
 " taking up my pot, I continued spitting in that 
 " manner and coughing, by reason of the sharp- 
 " ness of the taste of the blood, for a little 
 " time ; designing to ask Mr. Roper's advice the 1 5 
 " first opportunity, which happened not to be 
 " till Tuesday last, when I was taken with my 
 " coughing and spitting blood again, much more 
 " than the first time, occasioned, I believe, by 
 
 143 " winding up the clock a little eagerly. Giving 20 
 " Mr. R. an account of what happened, (and 
 
 " that tho' some overstraining my self might 
 " cause this, yet no such could be the occasion 
 " of my first seizure, I being then perfectly 
 " easy, and having been sitting an hour or two 25 
 " in my study, and going to bed too in good 
 " time) he advised me if I was taken thus again 
 " to be let blood, and to take some styptic 
 " electuary, because he could not easily tell 
 " whether it proceeded from my lungs, or fell 30 
 " down from my head thither, which is the
 
 LAST LETTER TO HIS FATHER. 95 
 
 " apothecary's opinion, and to avoid straining 
 " my self on any account. Accordingly I have 
 " since got a boy to wind up the clock for me. 
 " But on Wednesday night, with only laughing 
 
 5 " heartily and suddenly, my cough and spitting 
 " came on me again, but not so much as the 
 " night before. The next day was not thought 
 " proper to be blooded in, because of my ex- 144 
 " ercise in the schools, nor Friday last, because 
 
 i o " 'twas very wet and cold. That night foolishly 
 " going to help the boy in the easiest part of 
 " winding up the clock, I was, in doing it, 
 " again taken with my cough, &>c. tho' but a 
 "little. But the same night, as soon as ever 
 
 15"! had laid my self down in bed, which was 
 " in good time, and without any emotion or 
 " hurry, having been quietly half an hour in my 
 " study, I was seized worse than ever before, 
 " coughing and bringing up for near half an 
 
 20 " hour, a great quantity of thick fresh blood. 
 " Upon which I resolved next day to keep up 
 " and be blooded, as I accordingly was by Mr. 
 " Roper's advice ; tho' the day was not so good 
 " as might have been wished, but I kept a fire 
 
 25 "in my chamber, and have stayed within ever 
 "since; tho' I thank God I'm now so well, 
 " that I believe I shall, with Mr. J?s leave, go 145 
 " to chapel this evening. I did not faint in the 
 " least at bleeding, tho' I was somewhat afraid 
 
 30 " of it before I felt it. Mr. R. tells me my 
 " blood is too good, yet bids me have a care of
 
 96 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 " eating salt meats, or drinking strong drinks ; 
 " and by my being subject to bleed at the 
 " nose, as my brother also is, he is apt to 
 " believe we have too much blood in our 
 " vessels, which he thinks has occasioned my 5 
 " illness. I beg you and my mother not to be 
 " concerned, for my good friend takes as much 
 " care of me as possibly can be : he was twice 
 "with me yesterday; he tells me I should take 
 " ground-ivy-tea, and plantane, and other styptic 10 
 " herbs he mentioned, of which I shall have an 
 " electuary from the apothecary to take two or 
 " three times a day, and to go abroad with, 
 146 " which shall stanch the blood, and heal any 
 " thing that may be out of order. I hope I shall 1 5 
 " have no more returns of my spitting blood ; 
 " if I have in any considerable degree, you shall 
 " be sure to hear. Mr. Roper says I must then 
 " be blooded again, and take the advice of a 
 " doctor. 20 
 
 "P.S. About 4. I've been at church, and 
 " am come down now into public again by Mr. 
 " Roper's advice, who was with me after dinner. 
 " He bid me be sure not to fright you, because 
 " he hoped all was very well : but he said 125 
 " must avoid all straining my self, and taking 
 " cold, which Doctor Wagstaff had told him 
 " after bleeding was of ill consequence, tho' 
 " little regarded. Our letters are not yet come 
 " in from London, but if I receive any this post, 30
 
 HIS DEATH. 97 
 
 " you may expect to have it answered, and a 
 " farther account of my health the latter end of 147 
 " this, or the beginning of next week." 
 
 Upon the receipt of this, his father concluded 
 5 him in a very dangerous condition, and hastened 
 away his brother to him, with orders, that, if he 
 were able to bear the journey, he should come 
 home, where during a lingring sickness (as he 
 thought it would prove) he might find that 
 10 tender care and attendance which his constant 
 duty and affection had so well deserved. His 
 brother accordingly began his journey on As- 
 cension-Day, presuming the charity of it would 
 excuse his travelling on so great a festival. He 
 15 had promised to write from Cambridge the very 
 next post; but his father was very much sur- 
 prized to receive a letter, which, by the super- 
 scription, appeared to be neither his, nor his 
 brother's, and upon opening found it thus. 
 
 20 REV. SIR, 148 
 
 " I am extremely concerned that I am 
 " obliged to acquaint you with the most afflict- 
 " ing news of a very great loss. It has pleased 
 " God to take to himself one of the best youths 
 
 25 " that I ever knew in this college, and for whom 
 " every body here had the greatest value. Mr. 
 " Roper will write to you next post, and give 
 " you the particulars of the manner of his 
 " death : in the mean time I know I need not
 
 98 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 11 pray you to bear this loss with a suitable 
 " resignation ; nor after the character I have 
 " mentioned, is it necessary to say it is your 
 " son that we have lost. Your younger son is 
 " very well recovered of the great surprize he 5 
 " was in on his first hearing the sad news. 
 " Every thing in relation to a decent funeral 
 " shall be taken care of by, Sir, 
 
 Your most afflicted 
 
 Friend and Servant ', i o 
 
 CHR. ANSTEY. 
 MAY 9, 1714. 
 
 149 The very next post came the following letter 
 from his brother. 
 
 St. John's, May II. 15 
 A Ground- Chamber. 
 
 HON. SIR, 
 
 " I must intreat you to cease your 
 " grief for my dear brother's untimely, yet happy 
 " departure out of this world ; for he is now 20 
 " (in the judgment of all that knew him) much 
 " happier than we ; and when you hear the 
 " circumstances which preceded it, you'll, I'm 
 " confident, agree with me in that phrase I used 
 "just now of happy departure. This therefore 25 
 " that follows, you may depend upon as certain, 
 " for indeed I cannot affirm any thing of my 
 " self, who did but set out from home the 
 " morning next to that fatal night. He was 
 " in company with Sir Newton that night, till 30
 
 HIS DEATH. 99 
 
 " about eight o' th' clock, and then retired, tell- 
 " ing him he had business at home, (which was 
 " to prepare himself for the blessed sacrament 150 
 "next morning, this being Ascension- Eve) ac- 
 
 5 " cordingly having examined himself (as was 
 " found by a paper of his own writing) and 
 " pray'd for devotion in celebrating those mys- 
 " teries (as may be seen by the books that were 
 " found open on his desk) it pleased Almighty 
 
 10 " God then and there to take him to himself, 
 " and that he should die such a death, as he 
 " had (I doubt not) often desired, in that prayer 
 " of Doctor Wichcot, which I wrote for him 
 " into his Nelson ; when he was neither un- 
 
 15" prepared, nor his accounts unready, when he 
 " was in a perfect renunciation of the guise of this 
 '' mad and sinful world, and not being tormented 
 " by a lingring sickness ; for in all probability 
 " he was taken away in an instant, having not 
 
 20 " made the least noise, not even so much as to 
 " be heard by his good neighbour Mr. Roper. 
 " The time he died, happy for him, unhappy 151 
 " for all that knew him, is supposed to be about 
 " nine or ten a clock on Wednesday night. His 
 
 25 " body was interred in the chancel QlAllhallows 
 " church on Friday night, and his funeral very 
 " decently performed the Sunday night follow- 
 " ing. There was within the college walls a 
 " very great attendance of fellows and scholars, 
 
 30 " yea, and fellow-commoners too, (who are 
 " generally negligent at these times) but a much
 
 ioo AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 "greater multitude expected the bier at the 
 " gates. For having the week before performed 
 " public exercise in the schools with great ap- 
 " plause, his death was more universally taken 
 " notice of, and sadly lamented too, as may be 5 
 " seen by the ingenious elegies which people so 
 " freely made on this occasion ; some of which, 
 " I hope, will e'er long be sent you. The 
 
 152 " master, when I was with him yesterday to 
 
 " write my rediit, told me, he hoped I should i o 
 " continue in health, tho' he could not but own 
 " the great loss befallen both my self and the 
 " college ; so enquiring after your health, dis- 
 " missed me. After which I went to Mr. Baker, 
 "who desired me to give his service to you, 15 
 " and tell you that he joined in bewailing the 
 " loss of such an ornament to the college. 
 "Whither (tho' I was in the town on Friday 
 " in the afternoon) I came not before Saturday, 
 " but no nearer the chamber than Mr. Roper's 20 
 " door, and can't find in my heart to go any 
 "higher. I have, indeed, no relish for the 
 " college, and should not abide it, were it not 
 " for some good friends, whom I am very much 
 "obliged to. But after six weeks I shall have 25 
 " kept my term, and then, I hope, to see you 
 " again, and take a little school-burden off from 
 
 153 " you, which, I am sure, must lie heavy, when 
 " such a sad addition comes to it ; and what- 
 
 " ever alterations I find in my self, I am pretty 30 
 " sure they are in no less degree at home on
 
 HIS DEATH, 1 01 
 
 " such an occasion. Pray, sir, give my duty to 
 " my mother. 
 
 Your obedient Son, 
 
 PHILIP BONWICKE." 
 
 5 P.S. " Mr. Roper desired me to give his 
 " service to you, and beg your pardon for not 
 " writing according to promise, for he is in no 
 " condition to do it. On Wednesday night he 
 " received an account of the death of Doctor 
 
 10 " Turner, president of Corpus Christi Oxon. his 
 " best friend in the world ; and on Thursday 
 " had the shock of finding my dear brother's 
 " dead body in his study. He desired me also 
 " to tell you, that he thinks his death proceeded 
 
 15" from an extravasation of blood upon his lungs, 
 " occasioned from winding up the clock that day, 154 
 " which he had not done for a week before." 
 
 There can little be added to this pathetic 
 account of his death. It must only be observed, 
 
 20 that next day being St.John Port. Lat. one of 
 their foundation days, (as they call it) as well 
 as Holy Thursday, his death was not so soon 
 discovered as otherwise it might have been. 
 He was then alone, his brother and his other 
 
 25 chamber-fellow being in the country; and tho' 
 he was asked after by several, because miss'd 
 at the public communion that day, where all 
 were obliged to be present; yet it passed off 
 without further enquiry till after evening prayer,
 
 io2 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 when his dear friend (with whom he had last 
 conversed, and very chearfully, as he said, tho' 
 he complained his head was out of order) ask'd 
 the bedmaker whether he lay at home that 
 
 155 night, and she answering no, he, knowing his 5 
 constant regularity in that and all other par- 
 ticulars, bid her go and tell Mr. Roper, whose 
 mind immediately misgave him ; and going up 
 and forcing open the study door, he found him 
 sitting in his chair cold and stiff, and so leaning 10 
 back that the chair lay against the door, his 
 candle by him unlighted (as was supposed) that 
 he might be the more retired and undisturbed ; 
 his Officium Eucharisticum open before him, 
 with a paper in it, containing the abstract of 15 
 that week, from Sunday morning to the end of 
 that day, Wednesday; his Nelson, Common- 
 Prayer-book, and others lying by it. Thus he, 
 whose lamp was always burning, had by the 
 good providence of God now trimmed it, ready 20 
 for the approach of the Bridegroom ; and gave 
 up his soul to his blessed Redeemer in that 
 very place, where he had often before offered 
 
 it up in prayer. This was an evOavacria, far 
 
 156 beyond what the poor heathen emperor could 25 
 wish for himself and his friends, being heightened 
 by a hope full of immortality. 
 
 By his constant regular reading of Nelson, 
 he was at this time more especially prepared 
 for his dissolution. For after he had finished 30 
 his resolutions on Easter-Eve, the discourses
 
 HIS DEATH. 103 
 
 and prayers for that day are all preparatory for 
 death ; and one of them is that very prayer of 
 Doctor Wichcofs his brother mentions. On 
 Easter-Day, and its two attendant festivals, he 
 
 5 was directed by that good book to meditate on 
 Chrisfs resurrection and his own, and the im- 
 mortality of the soul ; to set his affections on 
 things above ; to prefer the interest of his soul 
 before all the advantages of this life ; to prepare 
 
 10 his body by purity and sobriety for that honour 
 and happiness it is designed for at the resur- 
 rection ; and was furnished with suitable prayers. 
 On St. Philip and St. James he was instructed in 157 
 the duty of self-denial, and encouraged to part 
 
 15 with life and all earthly comforts, and rather 
 die and suffer the greatest hardships, than out 
 of a fondness to this world and the enjoyments 
 of it to do any thing unbecoming the religion 
 of Jesus Christ. The discourse on the Rogation 
 
 20 days is wholly upon prayer, teaching us what 
 we ought to pray for; upon what conditions 
 God has promised to hear our prayers ; in what 
 manner we ought to pray; what prayers are 
 most acceptable to God, and most necessary 
 
 25 for us ; what are the great advantages of the 
 frequent and devout exercise of this duty; as 
 that it is the best method to get the mastery 
 of our evil inclinations, and to overcome our 
 vicious habits : it preserves a lively sense of 
 
 30 our duty upon our minds, and fortifies us against 
 those temptations that continually assault us :
 
 io 4 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 158 it raises our souls above this world by making 
 spiritual objects familiar to them, and supports 
 us under the calamities and crosses of this life, 
 by sanctifying such afflictions : it leads us gra- 
 dually to the perfection of Christian piety, and 5 
 preserves that union between our souls and 
 God, in which our spiritual life consists. Im- 
 mediately after reading this and the meditation 
 for the day in his Officium Eucharisticum, he 
 betook himself to this devout exercise, and the 10 
 examination of himself preparatory to the holy 
 communion. After which he went to evening- 
 prayer in the chapel, where he was called upon 
 
 in the voice of the church, to ascend in heart 
 and mind after his blessed Lord. In obedience 15 
 to which call about eight o' th' clock, according 
 to his brother's letter, and his own minutes, he 
 betook himself again to examination and peni- 
 tence; and being acted by a nobler principle 
 than the fear of death, prepared himself, in the 20 
 
 159 best manner it was possible, for death, and the 
 actual ascent to the blessed Jesus, which im- 
 mediately followed. 
 
 He had left papers in three several places 
 of his Nelson, which shewed what parts he had 25 
 last made use of; the first was at the prayers 
 for Trinity-Sunday, the second in the prepara- 
 tion for death on Easter-Eve, and the third in 
 the examination of himself on all Fridays in the 
 year. That he had finished his sacramental 30 
 preparation according to the method of the
 
 HIS DEVOTIONS. 105 
 
 Officium Eucharisticum, may be gathered from 
 his having consecrated, (as it appeared he had) 
 and set apart what he designed for the offertory 
 the next day; which is one of the last things 
 
 5 to be done according to that book, that charity 
 may crown the devotions of the day. And in 
 such charities, out of his little stock, he had 
 expended in three years and about eight months, 
 the whole time from his admission at ^.Johrfs 
 
 10 to his death, above four pounds. Nor did his 160 
 charity exert it self only in almsgiving, but in 
 all the other branches of it, particularly in that 
 of hoping the best, and judging the best of 
 others. Of which, among other instances that 
 
 15 might be given, take this QiTuly 7, 1713. which 
 being a state holy-day, he absented himself from 
 the public prayers, but his brother was present 
 at 'em. However, for this he condemned him 
 not, but thus charitably express'd himself in a 
 
 20 letter to his father that day: "I dare say my 
 " brothei would not have gone, had he thought 
 " he could not lawfully." He shewed his great 
 charity for souls, in the care he took to instruct 
 some of the meanest college servants in the 
 
 25 principles of religion and piety, and helping 
 them to good books for that purpose ; a charity 
 which exceeds all corporal ones, as much as the 
 soul is superior to the body. 
 
 I am not able to give you any better account 161 
 30 of his studies for the three months of this year
 
 io6 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 that he was in college, than I gave you for the 
 eight months of the former year ; but this I am 
 sure of, that he continued the same early riser, 
 that he had been all along, to the last day of 
 his life ; and the Sunday before his death, when 5 
 he was obliged to keep in on account of his 
 illness, and having been let blood the day 
 before, 1 find him rising at half an hour after 
 six, tho' sick at that very time, and immediately 
 betaking himself to his prayers. And indeed it 10 
 is wonderful to consider, that he who had such 
 an infirm body, so often ailing, would not in- 
 dulge it that ease, which any one but himself 
 would have judged necessary. 
 
 He went on in this time in reading Echartfs 15 
 Roman History; Doctor Hammond on the New 
 Testament, whom by this time he had gone 
 162 almost quite through; Terence, Tully, and Hebrew 
 Psalms. He read also FontenelPs Plurality of 
 Worlds, Appiatis Roman History in Greek, 20 
 Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, (as appears by 
 the abstract he made out of each) and Whistotts 
 Astronomy. He made one Greek theme, one 
 copy of Latin verses, two theses, one Latin and 
 one Greek declamation ; besides the public ex- 25 
 ercises at the school, which his brother in his 
 letter took notice of. 
 
 And now if any one shall compare the rules 
 given by Doctor Barecroft, in his advice to a 
 son in the university, with the practice of this 30 
 pious youth, he will find it to come up to 'em
 
 HIS STUDIES. ELEGY ON HIM. 107 
 
 in almost all the particulars ; tho' it is a question 
 whether he had ever read that advice, it being 
 not among his books, nor any where taken 
 notice of in his minutes. His brother sent his 
 5 father several of those copies of verses which 
 were made on his death, one of which I shall 
 transcribe. 
 
 On the Death of my piotis Friend and ies 
 Schoolfellow, AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 10 WITH honest tears to praise the virtuous dead, 
 
 Is the best office men to men have paid. 
 
 So the great patterns of past ages slept, 
 
 And so our great forefathers nobly wept. 
 
 The good, the young, the lovely and the great, \ 
 it Have always by the muse been laid in state, 
 
 And in immortal verse surviv'd their fate. J 
 
 The list'ning crowds with glorious heat were fir'd, 
 
 And strove to be what they so much admir'd. 
 
 Wing'd by the muse, whene'er the hero dies, 
 20 He takes possession of his native skies. 
 
 The pious monarch who adorn'd his throne, 164 
 
 And made the cares of all mankind his own, 
 
 The purple he deserv'd must ever have ; 
 
 His fame, his worth, his honour know no grave. 
 25 If but a swain, a sighing Daphnis dies, 
 
 The murm'ring rivers to new sorrows rise : 
 
 The mourning spreads thro' all the echoing hills, 
 
 And Rhodope complains in weeping rills ; 
 
 The frozen Helms bursts with heaving sighs, 
 30 And pours new streams of pity from his eyes ; 
 
 The morning lowers and the sun looks pale, 
 
 The flowers hang their heads, and birds bewail.
 
 io8 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 And shall no tears, no tributary verse, 
 In lonely strains attend our present hearse? 
 Must all be swallow'd in the gulf of death, 
 And shall his fame fly from us with his breath ? 
 
 165 Will no kind muse revive the sinking youth, 
 Adorn'd with letters, constancy and truth; 
 Dress'd in the piety of silver hairs, 
 Finish'd in virtue, tho" a youth in years ; 
 
 Who dy'd in life's gay prime and spring of joy, 
 
 Who in the prime of life was fit to die ? 
 
 Ah no my friend, a thousand ties invite, 
 
 Worth, education, friendship all unite, 
 
 And say it is my duty now to write. 
 
 Condemn my verses, but applaud my love, 
 
 Virtue like yours 'tis virtue to approve. 15 
 
 Fain to thy merit would my sorrow raise 
 
 A strong, a well built monument of praise : 
 
 Such soft complainings as sweet Cowley sung, 
 
 When his sad harp to Harvey's name he strung ; 
 
 166 Harvey, whom all the fields of Cambridge knew, 2O 
 On ev'ry tree the sacred friendship grew, 
 
 Till the dull morn drove on tK unwilling light, 
 As conscious what was done that dismal night. 
 
 Pangs sharp as his, fair youth, for thee I feel, 
 More beautiful his verse, not more his zeal. 25 
 
 Forgive my want of power to commend, 
 Unlike the poet, tho' alike the friend. 
 
 Ah ! hapless youth ! by what mistake of fate, 
 The sun which rose so bright, so soon should set? 
 Why wast thou torn from nature's happiest bloom, 3 
 From life's fair dawning hurry'd to the tomb ? 
 
 167 Thy rising virtues were with pleasure seen, 
 
 And nature shew'd us what thou might'st have been : 
 
 But while we gaz'd, and lov'd the heav'nly boy, 
 
 The grasp of death chill'd thee and all our joy. 35 
 
 So the fair product of the flow'ry bed, 
 
 Which rais'd above the rest its painted head,
 
 ELE GY BY L. JA CKSON. 1 09 
 
 The garden's glory, and its master's pride, 
 
 Bedeck'd with beauteous lights on ev'ry side ; 
 
 Struck by a sudden blast dissever'd lies, 
 
 And all its colour, all its beauty dies. 
 5 But ah ! we think amiss, and wrong his fame, 
 
 His race was shorter, but his prize the same. 
 
 We talk of deaths and dark untimely graves, 
 
 And blame the happy providence which saves. 
 
 We dress the pious youth in our own fears, 168 
 
 IO And count the age of saints by common years. 
 
 While he serenely happy sits above, 
 
 Smiles at our sorrows, and forgives our love. 
 
 What is long life ? What all the shine of courts ? 
 
 What is the world, its business or its sports? 
 15 The seat of danger, error and mistake, 
 
 Where we adore and fear the things we make. 
 
 He view'd the gilded toys with other eyes, 
 
 Who while on earth convers'd above the skies. 
 
 He reach'd the goal, e'er others had begun, 
 2O And rested sooner, who had faster run. 
 
 Tell not his days, his age of virtues tell ; 
 
 He liv'd a length of time, who liv'd so well. 
 
 Hail ! happy youth ! discharg'd from flesh and blood, 169 
 
 And from the power of not being good. 
 25 Hereafter when we wash with tears thy urn, 
 
 'Tis not for thee, but for our selves we mourn. 
 
 LAUR. JACKSON, A.B. 
 
 There was a monument erected for him in 
 the chancel of Allhallows, near the place of his 
 30 burial, with the following inscription made by 
 the author of the foregoing verses.
 
 no AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 170 Respice paululum, 
 
 Si sincera fides, si Candida veritas, 
 Si flos iuventae redolens virtutem 
 
 Ad quod respicias habet : 
 
 Hie iacet quod post se reliquit 5 
 
 Impatiens terrae AMBROSIUS BONWICKE, 
 Egregius multi nominis iuvenis, 
 Maioris multo postea futurus. 
 Qui perbreve vitae emensus stadium, 
 Magnum virtutis circulum feliciter complevit ; l o 
 
 Et satis vixit. 
 
 Recepit pia sancti lohannis aedes, 
 Nee magis piam alluit Camus aedem, 
 Castumq; formavit iuvenem sinuq; fovit, 
 Nee magis castum fovit unquam iuvenem, 1 5 
 
 Educens bonam in frugem semina, 
 Quae ludus olim iecerat literarius, 
 
 Caelestis irrigaverat favor, 
 Sincero ipse excoluerat pectore. 
 Obiit Maii 5*0 1714, aetatis suae 23. 20 
 
 PHILIPPUS BONWICKE 
 
 Eiusdem Acdis Alumnus fratrem charissimum ut Pietate, 
 ita et Morte quam proxime secutus est. Ob. enim 14. Mar. 
 eiusdem Anni, Aetat. suae 18. 
 
 This small addition was made to the in- 25 
 scription upon the death of his brother, who 
 died of the small pox, and was buried close 
 by him ; by whose death this account has lost 
 much of its perfection and beauty. But such 
 as it is it may be depended upon as faithful, 30 
 having been chiefly made up out of his letters 
 which his father had preserved, and those other
 
 HIS EPITAPH. in 
 
 private papers, which were never designed to 
 see the light, but by his sudden death had the 
 good fortune to outlive him. 
 
 If now upon the reading of this it should 
 please God to move the heart of any young 
 
 5 person to remember his Creator in the days 
 of his youth, and to imitate the example here 
 set before him ; let him immediately fall down 
 on his knees, and give him thanks, that by his 
 good providence he hath put this little book 
 
 10 into his hand, and his grace into his heart, to 
 make a right use of it ; and beg the continuance 
 of that grace, that his good intentions prove 
 not abortive. To which purpose it may be 172 
 useful to take this caution along with him, viz. 
 
 15 that he aim not the equalling it in every par- 
 ticular at first, but content himself with a firm 
 resolution of abandoning all known sin, and 
 then proceed to those degrees of piety, morti- 
 fication and self-denial, he here meets with, as 
 
 20 he finds he is able, and that he try the strength 
 of his shoulders before he too much increases 
 the burthen. So shall there be joy in the 
 presence of the angels of God, and of the spirit 
 of this young man, among those of other just 
 
 25 men made perfect, and some addition even to 
 the happiness of heaven. Which God of his 
 infinite mercy grant for the merits of Christ Jesus 
 our Saviour, the only perfect example, to whom 
 with the Holy Spirit, three Persons, and one
 
 ii2 AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 
 glorious Lord God, be given all honour, praise 
 and thanksgiving, by all angels, all men, all crea- 
 tures, for ever and for ever. Amen. Amen. 
 
 FINIS.
 
 VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE 
 
 BY 
 
 FRANCIS BURMAN, 
 
 A.D. 1702.
 
 VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE BY FRANCIS 
 BURMAN, A.D. 1702. 
 
 July 17. I set out for Cambridge in a coach 21 
 and four. We started from London at 5 a.m,, 
 and arrived safe at Cambridge about 8 p.m. 
 Our road passed for the most part over hills 
 
 5 and dales, and we were often much charmed by 
 most pleasant views, opening to a great distance 
 across the plains. Near Cambridge is a regal 
 palace called Audley house, equalled by few in 
 grandeur of structure and of the apartments, 
 
 10 though now little frequented owing to the re- 
 moteness of its position. It was built by the 
 noble lord Audley; and from him Charles II. 
 had bought it. It is said to contain a porch so 
 spacious, that a man of powerful voice can 
 
 15 scarcely be heard from the further end. It will 
 soon be demolished, because its owner cannot 
 afford to keep it up. 
 
 July 1 8. a.m. I witnessed the celebration of 
 the university solemnities. The vicechancellor 
 
 20 sat on an elevated seat : the proctor presented 22 
 to him those who were to receive doctors'
 
 n6 FRANCIS BURMAN. 
 
 degrees. Next the professors of theology, law 
 and medicine, inaugurated by an introductory 
 speech the doctors in their several faculties, 
 setting a cap on their heads and handing them 
 a book and ring. The new doctors knelt before 5 
 the vicechancellor, who confirmed their degree. 
 They themselves took an oath, touching the 
 gospel, and then kissing the book. Afterwards 
 letters were read from many, who, being hindered 
 by grave cause from appearing in person, en- 10 
 treated, as the manner is, that doctors' degrees 
 might be conferred on them by proxy. 
 
 p.m. I saw St. John's college with its fine 
 library : the very learned public librarian, Laugh- 
 ton, escorted me. Towards evening a most 15 
 sumptuous dinner was set out in all the colleges, 
 chiefly in honour of the doctors, who from the 
 several colleges attained the coveted degree. I 
 dined in the hall of Trinity college, on the in- 
 vitation of the master, the most learned Bentley. 20 
 We dined at 8 or 9 tables ; the dishes, with few 
 exceptions, were square wooden platters. Before 
 dinner I had a conversation with Dr. Kuster or 
 Neocorus, respecting his Suidas &*c. 
 
 July 19. a.m. I saw King's college, whose 25 
 chapel is the finest and most elegant of all ; the 
 pavement of marble, the stalls of cunning work- 
 23 manship. On the right side it has a very well 
 stored library: from the roof we looked down 
 upon the whole city and neighbourhood. 30 
 
 p.m. Dr. Laughton took me to Trinity col-
 
 ST. JO. KINGS. TR. CORP. 117 
 
 lege library, arranged in a very spacious room, 
 and furnished with many excellent books ; and, 
 as it appears, lately restored. Afterwards I 
 saw Dr. Laughtorfs own very curious library 
 
 5 and coins. He is a fellow of Trinity college, 
 and a man of great erudition; he has very 
 lately edited Virgil. I also saw the library of 
 Corpus Christi college, rich in MSS. 
 
 July 20. 6 a.m. I was present at morning 
 
 10 prayers in the chapel of Trinity college, which 
 is also very noble, and will bear a comparison 
 with King's college chapel. 
 
 In St. Michael's church I saw the bishop of 
 Ely administer the confirmation of baptism, by 
 
 15 laying hands on many sons of Christians. The 
 
 sponsors are thus set free from the promise 
 
 made in baptism. The form, which is to be 
 
 found in the Anglican liturgy, was employed. 
 
 p.m. Saw Corpus Christi library. The MSS., 
 
 20 of great number and value, are arranged in a 
 room separately. Then in the public library 
 I examined the Codex Bezae. It contains on 
 one side the greek text written in round, uncial 
 letters, without any distinction of verses, marks 24 
 
 25 or accents : on the opposite side a latin version, 
 rendered word for word, in letters of exactly 
 the same form as the greek. The latin Version 
 begins Matt, i 12; the greek text c. i 20, 
 7rapa\a/3elv Maptd/j,. After Matthew follows 
 
 30 John, then Luke, then Mark to c. xvi 15 
 e TO evayyeXiov. At Oxford 28 July
 
 n8 FRANCIS BUR MAN. 
 
 Dr. Mills informed me that this change of the 
 usual order must be regarded as a mark of 
 novelty : for the monks or other scribes of this 
 copy had arranged the apostles first, then apo- 
 stolic men. The following page does indeed 5 
 contain a latin version, corresponding to the 
 greek text, down to the words already men- 
 tioned, but in a later hand. On the back of 
 the same page is the remainder of St. MarKs 
 gospel, written in the same later hand : but the 10 
 greek and latin are placed here side by side on 
 the same page, a thing which you can find no- 
 where else in the whole codex. The following 
 leaf contains on the first page the latin version 
 of 'Sk.Johrts third epistle, from the words ver. 1115 
 qui male facit, non videt Deum &*c. to the end, 
 where the colophon runs thus : 
 
 EPISTULaE IQHaNIS III 
 EXPLICIT 
 
 INCIPIT 20 
 
 aCTUS aPOSTOLORUM. 
 
 25 On the reverse of the same leaf begin the Acts, 
 written again in the same hand and style, gr. and 
 lat., and continued to c. xxn 29 aTrecrrrjo-av 
 air avrov. Hence I conjecture that this codex 25 
 formerly, when entire, comprised, beside the 
 gospels and Acts, all the epistles; if the re- 
 mainder still lurk in France, it ought to be de- 
 fective at the end of zjo. and to contain those 
 few verses of Mark. 30
 
 CODEX BEZAE. DR. COVELL. 119 
 
 There is a great gap Matth. vi 20 ix 2. 
 In the margin we often read 
 
 ANAFNOCMA FIEPI TOT CABBATOT. 
 _ -- KTPIAKH. 
 
 Matth. xxi. The three magi ; Caspar, 
 
 Malchus, Patisaria. 
 
 The robbers crucified with 
 
 Christ; Gemas, to the right, 
 
 Demas, to the left. 
 xxv 30. avdyvoa-fjia et<? rrjv 
 
 - xxvii i. -- es TOV 
 irapacrKevTov 
 TrapaarKvjrjv. 
 
 15 Observe that in the colophon of Johns gospel, 
 and in the heading of each page of Luktts 
 gospel, we read SECUNDUM LUCAN ; in one page 
 only QtLuke, and in the colophon to his gospel, 
 SECUNDUM LUCAM. Does not this agree with 
 
 20 Dr. Thomas Smith's conjecture, who supposes 
 that the name Lucas is contracted from Lucanus, 
 because in an ancient latin version in the 
 Cottonian library we read exactly secundum Lu- 
 canum ? 
 
 25 I also saw a MS. of several epistles in a 26 
 small character. 
 
 I then paid my respects to Dr. Covell, the 
 very courteous master of Chrisfs college. He 
 possesses two fine copies of the New Testament, 
 
 30 but, as I was not at the time aware of the fact, 
 I did not see them.
 
 120 FRANCIS BURMAN. 
 
 Professors of Cambridge university. 
 Henry James, D.D., regius professor of divinity. 
 Humfr. Gower, D.D., lady Margaret's prof, of 
 
 divinity. 
 
 Thomas Smoult, D.D., prof, of casuistry. 
 George Oxenden, dean of the arches, prof, of 
 
 law. 
 
 Chr. Greene, reg. prof. med. 
 William Whiston, M. A., prof, of mathematics. 
 James Talbot, M. A., prof, of hebrew. 
 Joshua Barnes, B.D., prof, of greek. 
 John Luke, D.D., prof, of arabic. 
 July 21. I returned to London.
 
 VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE 
 
 BY 
 
 ZACHARIAS CONRAD VON UFFENBACH, 
 
 JULY AND AUGUST, 1710.
 
 VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE BY 
 
 ZACHARIAS CONRAD VON UFFENBACH 
 
 JULY AND AUGUST, 1710. 
 
 m 
 
 ON Sunday 27 July 1710 we set out atl 
 8 a.m. from Littlebury, and reached Cam- 
 bridge before 12, a distance of 10 English miles. 
 Before the town we observed the old Saxon 
 
 5 graves, which are described at length in the 
 Delices d 1 Angleterre, Tom. i. p. 29. I need 
 therefore say no more about them. 
 
 On Monday morning, 28 July, it rained very 
 hard till noon, when we took a little stroll to 
 
 10 view the town, which however, excepting the 
 colleges, is no better than a village, or if I 
 must compare it to a town, is like Hochst. So 
 too the inns, of which there are two, are very 
 ill appointed and expensive. We had a re- 
 
 15 commendation from baron Nimtsch to a widow, 2 
 Mistress Lemons, who gave us indeed a friendly 
 entertainment, though the board and lodging 
 were none of the best. 
 
 In the afternoon our hostess sent for an 
 
 20 Italian, Ferrari, to speak to us, as he spoke
 
 124 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 some French, and to serve as our guide. He 
 was very polite and offered to shew us every- 
 thing. He changed his religion in Geneva, and 
 on the recommendation of some ministers of 
 that city was received into the university here 5 
 and created Doctor iuris; he also receives a 
 pension from the queen. He led us from one 
 college to another, and told us the state of this 
 university, which is certainly very bad. We 
 were amazed that no courses of lectures \collegid\ 10 
 at all are delivered, and only in winter 3 or 4 
 lectures are given by the professors to the bare 
 walls, for no one comes in. On the other hand 
 the scholars or students have some of them a 
 professor or old socium collegii, whom they call 15 
 tutorem, who instructs them, the noblemen and 
 other men of fortune, called fellow-commoners, 
 admitting the poor, who serve them asfamu/i, 
 to attend with them. In summer, however, 
 scarcely anything is done, both students and 20 
 professors being either in the country or in 
 London. Further information respecting the 
 university may be seen at length, both in the 
 3 printed Notitia acad. Cantabr. and in Chamber- 
 layne, and more particularly in Benthem's En- 25 
 gelandischer Kirch-und Schulen-Staat. 
 
 On the 2 Qth of July we visited with Dr. 
 Ferrari first Trinity college, the finest of all the 
 colleges here. It is a double and right royal 
 structure, with two square courts. We saw first 30 
 the chapel, in the first court to the right, very
 
 FERRARI. TRIN. COLL. 125 
 
 handsome, well-lighted, long, but somewhat 
 narrow. The altar is of wood, very massive 
 and well made. Behind it we noticed four very 
 fine pictures, painted on the wall with water 
 
 5 colours, representing Christ, $t.John, Mary the 
 Mother, and Mary Magdalene. There is nothing 
 else there worthy of notice. Dr. Ferrari next 
 shewed us the hall, or room in which \hefellows 
 and scholars dine. This is very large, but ugly, 
 
 10 smoky, and smelling so strong of bread and 
 meat, that it would be impossible for me to eat 
 a morsel in it. On both sides there are placed 
 long, narrow tables, and wooden benches. 
 Afterwards we went into the second court, to 
 
 15 the library, which is a large building, exceed- 
 ingly handsome, and set apart for the purpose. 
 It could not be handsomer or more convenient 
 for a library. It is very light, long and well- 
 lighted, and also highly decorated. For not 
 
 20 only is the floor inlaid with white and black 
 marble, but also the cases are all of oak, with 4 
 excellent and very artistic carvings. It is very 
 neat, made like little closets; an excellent 
 device, because in the first place you can stow 
 
 25 away many more books, on both sides and on 
 the walls ; and in the next place it is good for 
 those who study there, as they are not put out 
 by seeing others facing them. At the top and 
 bottom of the room there are locked closets, 
 
 30 four that is in all, with doors of open work. 
 Here the MSS. are kept ; the other closets have
 
 126 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 no doors. The arrangement of the printed 
 books is not at all good, as it is not according 
 to subjects, or as it is also called, according to 
 faculties, but according to benefactors, as they 
 have been bequeathed. This is probably done 5 
 in order to allure others by such good examples. 
 So too the donor's arms are suspended over each. 
 The following likenesses are also hung up, i) 
 the duke of Somerset, cut in stone. 2) lord 
 Halifax. 3) Hacket Episcopiis Lichfieldiensis, 10 
 as one of the principal benefactors. 4) Isaac 
 Barrow, who was master we praefectus, orflraeses 
 collegii) and 5) Henricus Puckering, alias Newton 
 baronettus, who bequeathed his library, consist- 
 ing mainly of French and Italian books. At 15 
 the end of the room is a little gallery, which 
 you enter by folding-doors, and which commands 
 a fine view over the handsome walks of this 
 5 college and into the country. Of books we 
 saw none this time, except such as the librarian 20 
 shewed us of his own accord. For it is my 
 general custom in the first instance to confine 
 my attention to what the librarian regards as 
 most remarkable, and to his observations upon 
 it : but afterwards I search for myself, having 25 
 often found far better things for myself, owing 
 to the ignorance of many librarians, which one 
 cannot but wonder at and deplore. Yet here 
 too the proverb holds good : saepe etiam est 
 olitor verba opportuna locutus. This time we 30 
 saw first of all the apographum of the cod. N. Test.
 
 TRINITY LIBRARY. 127 
 
 Bezae. For it is not the codex itself, as Benthem 
 in his EngeL Kirch-und Schulen-Staat, p. 354 
 very wrongly asserts ; but the codex itself is in 
 the public library of this university, beside which 
 
 5 each college has its private library. That this 
 is only a copy, is plain at first sight; but it is 
 further proved by the evidence, which we find 
 at the beginning of the book, in these words : 
 Hie liber exscriptus est ex antiquissimo libra manu- 
 
 10 scripto quern Dn. Beza misit ad Academiam Can- 
 tabrigiensem pro monumento servando. However, 
 it is very neatly written and on vellum, but 
 only the Greek text. The opposite page is left 
 empty all throughout, to receive the Latin 
 
 15 version. I am surprised that any one should 
 have incurred such cost and pains, to transcribe 
 the entire codex, as it would have been enough 6 
 to note the various readings in the margin of 
 a good edition. We were also shewn some 
 
 20 oriental manuscripts, of which there is a toler- 
 able store here, as is stated in the Ritterplatz 
 Tom. 2, in the ' library opened,' p. 242. Also 
 a Missale on vellum, adorned with gold and all 
 sorts of pictures, tolerably well drawn. Also 
 
 25 a folio volume containing about 60 very fine 
 sketches taken in Italy, in pencil and red chalk, 
 of all kinds of monuments. Lastly, the librarian 
 shewed us some few coins in two drawers ; 50 
 or 60 in brass and silver in the first, but none 
 
 30 remarkable. In the other were about the same 
 number of modern coins. Among them was
 
 128 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 one of Luther, which however seemed cast, 
 somewhat larger than a dollar. On one side 
 is his effigy with the words : tertius Elias, on 
 the other the angel from the Apocalypse, flying 
 in the air with the trumpet and the words : 5 
 Cecid it Babylon magna; below stands Apoc.xiv.; 
 this coin Juncker will no doubt have in Lutheri 
 gold-und-silbernen Ehrengeddchtniss. I also ob- 
 served a great copper medal, as large as a dollar, 
 having on the one side Redfs effigy with the 10 
 legend : Franciscus Redus Patricius Aretinus ; 
 on the other side was a representation of Bac- 
 chanalia, and below, the word canebam. This, 
 7 as Mr. Ferrari assured me, was an allusion to 
 one of his learned poems or dithyrambs, called 1 5 
 Bacco in Toscana. Afterwards we saw two other 
 colleges from the outside, and Clare hall pleased 
 us especially on account of the fine new build- 
 ings behind, though it is not nearly so large as 
 the two colleges above named. It has also the 20 
 finest walks or alleys. 
 
 In the afternoon we went first to S.Johrfs 
 college. We saw first of all the library, in a 
 tolerably large room. The books are more tidy 
 than we have found them elsewhere in England, 25 
 but mostly theologica, among which however many 
 noble opera occur. At the further end of the 
 library was a portrait Margaretae de Richemont, 
 fundatricis huiuscollegii, large as life. On the table 
 by the end window were set out i) Thomas a 30 
 Kempis de imitatione. Christi, an english trans-
 
 TRIN. CLARE. ST. JO. 129 
 
 lation, printed at London in 1505, 8vo., in which 
 the abovenamed Margaret of Richmond had 
 written her name. Again, a prayer-book, which 
 queen Elizabeth is said to have used as her 
 
 5 manual. A folio volume, in vellum, with this 
 title : /j,vrjiJ,6crvvov s. liber donationum, in which 
 may be seen the names and arms of all bene- 
 factors to the library; a happy thought, and 
 likely to encourage others to bequeath a book 
 
 10 or two, if not whole libraries. At the beginning 
 of the book were painted portraits of the afore- 
 said Marg. of Richmond, of king Charles the 8 
 first, and of bishop Williams (of whom see 
 Chamberlayne present state of England, p. 303) 
 
 15 as the principal founders of the library. Next 
 came many arms of those who had enlarged 
 the library, with a latin inscription, stating the 
 books given or bequeathed by each. By the 
 adjoining windows hung some mosaics, one of 
 
 20 which, representing a building in excellent per- 
 spective, was incomparably fine. We were 
 shewn also in a box all kinds of florentine 
 marble, a fine fossil fungus marinus, and an 
 english cheese petrified. There was also a 
 
 25 cabinet of medals, but as the key to it and also 
 that to the manuscripts were not at hand, we 
 only looked over the printed books. 
 
 Afterwards we went behind the college over 
 the new bridge across the little river Cam, from 
 
 30 which Cambridge may derive its name. This 
 bridge is well and handsomely built, with stone 
 
 K
 
 130 Z C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 balustres. It is said, as Dr. Ferrari assured us, 
 to have cost ^2000, which is an enormous sum 
 for so small a bridge. On the other side of the 
 bridge is a garden belonging to the college, in 
 which are fine alleys and a bowling green. We 5 
 did not however stay long in the garden, but as 
 we heard the bell ring for sermon, went to 
 9 King's chapel, the finest here. It is certainly 
 an incomparably elegant building of stone, es- 
 pecially as regards the quantity of carved work 10 
 about it. But it is no such great miracle, as it 
 is made out to be in the Delices d" 1 Angleterre, 
 Tom. I., that it is without pillars, for, though 
 long and lofty, it is not at all broad. We heard 
 the sermon, and admired exceedingly the good- 15 
 ness of the organ ; for it is small, and yet of 
 a deep and extremely pleasant tone. 
 
 As the library of this college is kept in this 
 church in divers little vaults on the right hand, 
 we requested that it might be shewn to us after 20 
 the sermon was over. In the first of these 
 vaults we saw the monument of the son of the 
 duke of Marlborough) who was at this college, 
 and died in his i7th year, when just about to 
 join his father for the purpose of seeing a cam- 25 
 paign. Though this monument has no special 
 decorations, it is nevertheless fine. There were 
 long inscriptions on both sides; I would not 
 however employ my time in copying them, but 
 rather in examining the books, especially as the 30 
 English have no patience. The books are in
 
 KING'S. TRINITY. 131 
 
 tolerable order and number; no manuscript 
 however was shewn me, and I was assured that 
 none existed; which seemed to me incredible, 
 and therefore I should have been glad to consult 
 
 5 the Catalogus Mss. Angl. 
 
 On the 3oth oijuly in the afternoon we 10 
 wished to look through the manuscripts in 
 Trinity college by the aid of the Catalogus MSS. 
 Angliae Tom. I. Part. VI. , which work I had ac- 
 
 10 quired in the meantime. But when I consulted 
 the catalogue of this library, I found that since 
 the printing of this catalogue \i. e. the Catalogus^ 
 as before] various MSS. had been added to the 
 library, the titles of which were inserted in 
 
 15 writing in the margin. 
 
 Namely ad pag. 94. col. I. in fine n. 42. i) Formulae 
 quaedam precum inter Romanenses. 2) Gratiarum ac- 
 tionum preces S. Brigittae. 3) Magister Hugo de com- 
 punctione cordis. 4) de Incamatione secundum testi- 
 
 20 monia S. scripturarum. 5) Vita St. Hildegardis. 6) 
 Eiusdem Epistolae. 7) Prophetia Merlini. Ad fag. 95. 
 col. 2. in 4 -t. i) Ledger book. 2) Augustinus de Trini- 
 tate. 3) Super Exodum Origenes. Ad pag. 100. col. i. 
 n. 30. i) The prerogative of the king of England, ib. 
 
 2C col. 2. n. 26. in med. i) D. Brook de praedestinatione. 
 26) Bp. Pearson's notes on Hesychius, vol. I. 27) Eiusd. 
 vol. 2. 28) Eiusd. vol. 3. 29) Fabulae duae Scyros et 
 Pastor fidus. 30) Commentaria in dies festos totius anni. 
 31) Guil. Woodford in Trialogum Wicklefi. 32) Col- 
 
 -?o lection of papers relating to the quinquarticular contro- 
 versies. Ad pag. loi.col. \.infiiieerantnotat. i) Rob. 
 Soane de fide iustificante contra P. Baro. 2) Pars 
 florum B. Augustini. 3) Tractatus B. Anselmi. 4) 
 Speculum peccatoris. 5) Monita B. Isidori. 6) Liber 11
 
 132 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 S. Ephrem de die iudicii, 7) Scrinia reserata, or a 
 memorial offered to the great deservings of ab. Williams 
 by John Hacket bishop of Litchfield. 
 
 So much was inserted in the catalogue with 
 the pen. When I had copied it, I diligently 5 
 looked through the codices by the help of the 
 Catalogus MSS. Angl* 
 
 From thence we went to the Greek's Coffee 
 house, so called because the host is a born 
 Greek. There we read all the journals, and 10 
 other news, which may be seen there. I was 
 specially pleased with the British Apollo, a 
 sheet of which is published weekly by some 
 scholars ; all manner of quaestiones curiosae in 
 every faculty are there discussed. I found it 15 
 more solid and better than the Athenian Oracles, 
 which otherwise is of the same kind, and some 
 volumes of which I bought printed in London 
 as a collection. In this coffeehouse, particularly 
 in the morning and after 3 o'clock in the after- 20 
 noon, you meet the chief professors and doctors, 
 who read the papers over a cup of coffee and 
 12 a pipe of tobacco, and converse on all subjects ; 
 and thus you can make their acquaintance. For 
 here they are universally far more polite than 25 
 scholars in London and elsewhere, and are also 
 delighted to see strangers, fewer of whom come 
 
 * What codices these were, appears from the Selecta 
 commercii epist. Uffenbachiani Part. I. p. 187 sqq. where 
 is given a Specimen animadversionum B. Uffenbachii in 
 catalogos MSS.torum Angliae et Hiba-niae.
 
 COFFEE HOUSE. MUSIC CLUB. 133 
 
 hither than to Oxford. When we had spent an 
 hour here, Dr. Ferrari came for us, and took us 
 to the Music club, in Chrisfs college. This 
 music meeting is held generally every week. 
 
 5 There are no professional musicians there, but 
 simply bachelors, masters and doctors of music, 
 who perform. It is surprising, as they make 
 such ado about music, and even create pro- 
 fessors and doctors of music, that still this nation 
 
 10 achieves scarcely anything in it. I think how- 
 ever that their ingenia are not the least musica, 
 as those of all frivolous men ; hence too all 
 their compositions are very harsh, and cannot 
 equal either the pretty manner of the French^ 
 
 1 5 or the tender manner of the Italians. And so 
 too this music, both vocal and instrumental, 
 was very poor. It lasted till 1 1 p.m., there was 
 besides smoking and drinking of wine, though 
 we did not do much of either. At n the 
 
 20 reckoning was called for, and each person paid 
 two shillings. 
 
 In the morning of 3 1 July we saw Caius and 
 Gonevill college* It is a passable building. 
 An amusing incident occurred to us. As we 13 
 
 25 wished to go to this college, our servant was 
 obliged to ask the landlady, whereabouts it was. 
 As she told him, he must ask for Kies college 
 (for so they commonly pronounce it), he tried 
 to do it quite right, and asked where Tschies 
 
 * See les Delices d' Angleterre, Tom. I. p. 1 12.
 
 134 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 college (for that word was more familiar to him) 
 might be. This threw our hostess into fits of 
 laughter, and she told it to us. For, so pro- 
 nounced, it means 'cheese college.' So one 
 may easily fall into a scrape, if one has no in- 5 
 terpreter with one, and we had just sent ours 
 out to enquire in some bookshops for Bentley's 
 Folly of atheism. But to return to Cains college ; 
 we could not see, what we most wished to see, 
 the library, because the keeper of the keys, or 10 
 librarian, was out of town. We were shewn 
 the room, which is not at all large, and also 
 assured, that there was no great number. But 
 as I boasted of the MSS., the list of which I had 
 read in the Catal. MSS. Angl., a master of arts, 15 
 one of those present, said that he happened to 
 have the key for them, for they were deposited 
 in another place. I was overjoyed at it, but 
 still more confounded, when he brought us into 
 a miserable garret under the roof, which could 20 
 have been very little or not at all visited, for 
 14 the top step was buried in pigeons' dung, and 
 the MSS. lay thick with dust on the floor and 
 elsewhere about the room in such disorder, that, 
 although there was a written catalogue of them 25 
 there, I could find nothing at all, and was even 
 doubtful, whether I could handle any for the 
 dust, especially in our black clothes, though I 
 should very gladly have searched for one or two. 
 However I plucked up courage, drew off my 30 
 ruffles, and, with great difficulty and much soil-
 
 CAIUS. DR. BENTLEY. 135 
 
 ing of hands and clothes, began my quest : and 
 so among other scholastic and worthless things 
 I finally caught sight of the following : 
 
 Apuleii opuscula varia. MS. membr. for which see 
 cj Catal. MSS. Angl. Part. 2, p. 118. col. i. n. i. 1009. It 
 is very neat, but not old, and defective at the end. Be- 
 sides there was a codex membr. in 4to., as thick as one's 
 finger, containing Alcuin de vita Caroli Magni. It., a 
 codex membr. in 4to. namely, Vita S. Edwardi Regis 
 io per Aluredum Rivallensem, in tolerable rhyming verse 
 [Jfnittel- Versen\. Item, a paper volume in 4to., as thick 
 as one's finger, with this title : Archaismus graphicus ab 
 Henrico Spelmanno conscriptus in usum filiorum suorum, 
 An. Dn. 1606. It is a collectio alphabetica serie and ex- 
 I c planation of the notes and abbreviations found in ancient 
 MSS., very fairly and neatly written. I greatly coveted 
 a copy of it for myself. 
 
 With all my pains I could discover nothing 
 else that was remarkable, and was surprised that 
 
 20 the magistellus, who was with us, had patience 
 
 enough to stay with me : it is true, my brother 15 
 
 was obliged to entertain him with conversation. 
 
 In the afternoon we visited Dr. Bentley, who 
 
 is master of Trinity college, and has built him- 
 
 25 self an excellent house, or wing, to live in, so 
 that he is as well lodged as the queen at St. 
 James's, or better. The rooms are very large, 
 and of extraordinary height, the floors curiously 
 inlaid with all kinds of wood, the panels in 
 
 30 every room veiy fine (as now in England tapestry 
 is no longer in fashion, but all is panelled at 
 great cost), the window-panes of extraordinary 
 size, and the windows themselves very large
 
 136 Z. C. v. UFFEABACH. 
 
 and high. He has been greatly reproached for 
 this building, since he endeavoured arbitrarily 
 and without consent of the other fellows to eject 
 a fellow, who as D. luris occupied the rooms of 
 a Doctor Medicinae. Many controversial pam- 5 
 phlets have appeared upon the subject, filled 
 with personalities, which do no honour to the 
 otherwise famous and very learned Dr. Bentley, 
 but rather serve to degrade him and to scan- 
 dalise many honest folk. And so indeed I 10 
 heard many complain of his extreme arrogance ; 
 though he tries to be very polite towards 
 strangers, and for an Englishman speaks good 
 and tolerably intelligible latin. He is a man 
 somewhat more than 40 years old, rather tall 15 
 and spare, and red in the face. When, among 
 other compliments, I regretted that we had not 
 16 met him in London, so that he might as king's 
 librarian have shewn us the royal library, es- 
 pecially the codex Alexandrinus, he made light 20 
 of that library, and, as to the codex Alexandrinus, 
 said that it had been already a considerable 
 time in the hands of Dr. Grabe, who would 
 very gladly shew it to us at Oxford. Besides 
 he asked us about one or two scholars in 25 
 Germany and Holland. As we came to speak, 
 amongst other topics, of the edition of Horace 
 which he had in hand, he assured me it would 
 soon be ready. He talked very big of it, scorn- 
 ing all other editions. When I next mentioned 30 
 my own very old edition and my general collec-
 
 DR. BENTLEY. 137 
 
 tion of other ancient authors, he contemned 
 it, thinking that such old editions served no 
 purpose, except to shew how the errores ac- 
 cumulated gradually in successive editions; he 
 
 5 believed also that in the i5th* century, when 
 printing was invented and learning revived, the 
 authors were printed from the newest codicibus, 
 because they were most legible, whereas the 
 old codices could scarcely be read. He desired 
 
 10 however to except the Aldine editions of greek 
 authors, and those writers of whom only one ' 
 copy had been found, as Velleius Paterculus, 
 first edited by Beatus Rhenanus, and the old 
 lexicographer Hesychius also, first published by 
 
 15 Aldus Manutius ; for of such the first editions 17 
 were to be regarded as MSS. But the first 
 editions of Horace, Virgil, Ovid, Cicero and the 
 like were of no use at all, and, where they 
 varied from the codicibus MSS., were to be re- 
 
 20 jected, but where they agreed with them, un- 
 necessa v y. But Mr. Dr. Bentley must excuse 
 me. For in the first place it is not so certain 
 that all first editions are taken from codicibus 
 recentioribus ; indeed at that time there were 
 
 25 persons who could read the old writing and 
 abbreviations employed before the invention of 
 printing, better than we can now, and by means 
 of the art of printing these compendia have for 
 the most part gradually fallen out of use. 
 
 30 Again, supposing they were all printed from 
 
 * In orig. vierzehenden.
 
 138 Z. Ci v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 new codicibus, are then all new codices to be re- 
 jected? If the scribe were capable, he may 
 surely have made a good apographum from an 
 old codice. 
 
 After this Mr. Bentley asked many questions 5 
 with a scornful air about Mr. Clericus in Holland^ 
 he (Bentley) being not without reason re- 
 garded as the author of the last pasquil, which 
 JSurman published in 1710 against Clericus, 
 under the name PhileleutheriLipsiensis. Clericus 10 
 first of all endeavoured cunningly to sound him 
 by help ofMasson, and afterwards himself wrote 
 him a letter, stating, that "it was reported in 
 Holland that he (Bentley] was the author ; he 
 desired therefore in the first place, to ask him, 15 
 before replying to the libel, whether the fact 
 18 were so, that he might shape his answer accord- 
 ingly; he demanded a plain answer, and should 
 regard silence as a confession." On this he 
 rejoined : " he was surprised that he had at 20 
 first attempted him with craft, and afterwards 
 ventured to write such a letter full of threats; 
 he found the book so well written, that though 
 he did not care to acknowledge it as his own 
 work, yet he would not disown it ; Clericus must 25 
 spare him his usual impudentia Gallica, else he 
 would take occasion to point out to him other 
 matters, beyond what were contained in this 
 mocking piece. He had done very wrong in 
 writing de arte critica, before he had given the 30 
 least specimen of a critici, and where as his ars
 
 DR. BENTLEY. MAGD. 139 
 
 critica contained nothing but a few general rules, 
 he had afterwards, when he had a mind to play 
 the criticum himself, offended in many points 
 against the fundamental laws of criticism," and 
 
 5 so forth. 
 
 After spending a couple of hours with Mr. 
 Dr. Bentley, we took leave, and went to see 
 Magdalene college. It is one of the meanest 
 here, of which king fames used to say in jest, 
 
 10 that he would go to stool there. It is a very 
 old, and, as I said, mean building ; the library, 
 which stands at the top under the roof, is also 
 very small, and may perhaps consist of 600 
 volumes. All the books, with hardly one single 
 
 15 exception, are entirely overgrown with mould. 
 By the door in a little cupboard were some poor 
 MSS., yet the following were to be found among 19 
 them : 
 
 Innocentii Papae III. de contemptu mundi liber (de 
 2O quo, ut in margine voluminis notatum erat, videndus 
 Bellarminus de script. Eccl. p. 332). Item Cassiodori 
 Scrutillarium scripturarum et alii tractatus scholastic!. 
 //. some bibles ex versione vulgata. It. codex membr. 
 fol. Apocalypsis cum expositione et figuris. simile extare 
 25 in margine dicitur, in bibliotheca publ. acad. sed absque 
 exordio (sc. Anglico) quod hie est. It. Psalterium Bedae 
 with many golden initial letters. It. a 410. vol. two fingers 
 thick, namely : ludus philosophorum, qui appellatur 
 summa astronomiae (this treats, as it appears, of astro- 
 30 logia and the ars geomantica) cum aliis tractatibus ex 
 arabico translatis. Some one had written at the be- 
 ginning : Si dignus iudicetur hie liber, valeat ut ille 
 Ephesiorum, Actor. 19, 19. It. a codex in 4. membr.
 
 140 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 recentior, namely : Meditationes Bernhardi. It. Ed- 
 mundi de Portuniaco speculum mundi. It. Legendae 
 S. Catharinae et aliae legendae. 
 
 i Aug. In the morning we went into the 
 collegium publicum, commonly called the school, 5 
 in which are the auditoria publica and the library. 
 It is an old, mean building. We saw below too 
 a small room in which the academic council 
 meets : there is nothing however remarkable in 
 it, except the.representation of the senate, copied 10 
 from an ancient picture, as the inscription upon 
 20 it states, amongst other matters. Above is the 
 library in two mean rooms of moderate size. 
 In the first, on the left hand side, are the 
 printed books, but very ill arranged, in utter 15 
 confusion. The catalogue is only alphabetical, 
 and lately compiled on the basis of the Bodleian 
 catalogue. It is also local, indicating where 
 the books are to be sought. In the second 
 room, which is half empty, there were some more 20 
 printed books, and then the MSS., of which how- 
 ever we could see nothing well, because the 
 librarian, Dr. Laughton (or as they pronounce 
 it, LaffHon) was absent ; which vexed me not 
 a little, as Dr. Ferrari highly extolled his great 25 
 learning and courtesy. Rara avis in his terris. 
 We met here however by accident the 
 librarian of St. John's library, Mr. Baker, a very 
 friendly and learned man, by whose help we 
 saw several other things : for otherwise the 30 
 maid, who had opened the door and was with
 
 LIBRARY. T. BAKER. 141 
 
 us, would have been able to shew us but little. 
 I asked first for the cod. evangdiorum Bezae, 
 which is the Palladium huius academiae* Beza 
 somewhere complained that he did not even 
 
 5 receive an answer, which would have been 
 great rudeness and ingratitude for so great a 
 present; but Mr. Baker declared that he him- 
 self had the copy of the letter which was 
 written to him in the name of the university, 
 
 10 and which must consequently have been lost 
 at the time. For the rest my examination of 
 the codex confirmed the truth of Bezds own 
 confession respecting it ; esse mutilum neque 
 satis emendate ab initio descriptum, neque ita ut 
 
 15 oportuit habitum (sicut ex paginis quibusdam 
 diverso charactere msertis, indocti cuiusdam graeci 
 Calogeri barbaris adscriptis alicubi notis apparet). 
 I had not time to collate the loca discrepantia, 
 which occur principally in Luke's gospel ; Mr. 
 
 20 Baker also assured me that Mills in the edition 
 of the new testament had noted them with all 
 diligence and exactness. The latin version is 
 so rendered word for word, that it could not be 
 more precise. The characters or letters of this 
 
 * Of which Tentzel treats at length in the Monat- 
 lichen Unterredungen torn. 5. an. 1693. p. 880 seq. See 
 also Ritterplatz torn. 2, in the 'library opened,' p. 242 ; 
 Chamberlayne, Present state of England, p. 302 ; and 
 Benthem 1. c. p. 354. The last has inserted Bezds letter, 31 
 sent with this present, which is pasted in the codex at the 
 beginning.
 
 142 Z C. v. UFFENBACH, 
 
 latin version so greatly resemble in outline the 
 greek, which face them, that, on a hasty view, 
 you would take the two for one language. For 
 the rest I consider the lectionarium Chrysostomi, 
 which we saw at Helmstadt, and the Genesis in 5 
 bibliotheca Cottoniana to be as old, if not older. 
 22 After this I enquired with great eagerness 
 for the ancient monuments of the church ofWal- 
 denses or Vaudois brought by Sir Samuel M ore- 
 land from Piedmont and given here, as Chamber- 10 
 layne, 1. c. p. 302 says. I had imagined that 
 they would be of the earliest times and state 
 of the Waldenses^ but found that they consisted 
 of 5 or 6 folio volumes, of the thickness of the 
 small finger, in which are to be found all kind 15 
 of letters, manuscript and printed, petitions and 
 the like, in french and italian, written during 
 the last persecution set on foot by the present 
 king in France; of all which a good account 
 may be found in Mr. Leger's Histoire Vaudoise. 20 
 Besides Chamberlayne is not a little mistaken, 
 when he boasts of 14,000 volumes in this 
 library, as there seem to be at most barely 
 6 to 8000, as far as I can judge by my own 
 collection. 25 
 
 Afterwards we saw many oriental books, all 
 brought from the library Th. Erpenii* But 
 whether all his MSS. came here, Mr. Baker could 
 not tell me ; much less, what is said of Cromwell 
 in the passage cited : on this point then the 30 
 
 * See Ritterplatz torn. 2. ' library opened, ' p. 242.
 
 LIBRARY. T. BAKER. 143 
 
 historia acad. Cantabrigiensis should be consulted. 
 Hard by were also many turkish MSS. On the 
 opposite side stood the 7 folios lexici arabici 
 MS., by Bedwell, of \f\i\c\iArnold speaks.* They 23 
 
 5 are all as thick as your hand, except the fifth, 
 which is only two fingers thick, and very neatly 
 written ; it is to be regretted that they have not 
 been published. We saw also some very fine 
 codices anglo-saxonicos, of which Hickes\ gives an 
 
 10 account. Mr. Baker shewed us also a little 
 1 2mo with this title : Edward sixieme (roy d' 
 Anglet.), petit traite a /' encontre de la primaute 
 du pape, written in french very neatly in the 
 king's own hand. Lastly we saw also a good 
 
 15 number of ancient and modern coins, lying all 
 covered with dust, without any order, in a deep, 
 poor drawer, unlocked and left open. There 
 were 20 and odd gold coins, with various silver 
 and copper; among the last I noticed an 
 
 20 Ottonem aeneum magni moduli deauratum, sed 
 spurium^ on the reverse of which was an ad- 
 locutio populi cum inscriptione : Securitas publica. 
 In order not to detain Mr. Baker too long, we 
 contented ourselves for the time with what we 
 
 25 had seen, and went besides into the main church, 
 
 * Epist. Richterian. p. 405. 
 
 t In the catalogo veterum librorum septentrionalium, 
 appended to his institutionibus grammaticis anglo-saxo- 
 nicis et moeso-gothicis. Tentzel has embodied this im- 
 portant catalogue in his Monatlichen Unterredungen for 
 1691, p. 631 seq., with learned notes.
 
 144 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 24 St. Mary's* We expected to find some epitaphs 
 of learned men there, as it is the university 
 church ; but there were none, and the verger 
 said, it was not the fashion to make them. 
 
 In the afternoon we visited first the afore- 5 
 said Mr. Baker in his museum in St. Johrfs 
 college. He has a tolerably large and good 
 room, and if all socii have the like, they may 
 very well make shift to live there. He received 
 us with great politeness, and spoke of all manner 10 
 of scholars in Germany and Holland, and of 
 their works, with which he has a considerable 
 acquaintance ; a very rare acquirement in an 
 Englishman, as they are very seldom at home 
 in any part of the world except England. He 15 
 told us that he was preparing Athenas Canta- 
 brigienses, on the plan of the Oxonienses of A. 
 Wood. He is also the reputed author of the 
 Reflexions upon learning, a book which lately ap- 
 peared in 8vo, but without his name, and is 20 
 highly esteemed. He is a very gentle, modest and 
 wellbred man, who might have held high offices, 
 if he were not a Jacobite and non-juror. In his 
 room he had the portrait Jo. Fischeri, episcopi 
 Rojfensis, ascribed to Holbein and certainly in- 25 
 comparably well executed. Thence we went 
 on to Queens' college, an old, mean building, not 
 
 25 much better than Magdalene college. The library 
 of this college, though small, has yet many 
 
 * See Delicts d' 1 Anglet. torn. I. p. 128. But it is not 
 so fine, as it is figured there, and very poor too inside.
 
 THO. BAKER. QUEENS COLL. 145 
 
 good books. Of MSS. however I only found 
 the following worthy of note : 
 
 First, a cod. membr. recentior in fol. four fingers 
 thick, containing i) Dionys. Halicarnass. Texvn. 2) 
 
 5 Demetrii Phalerei irepl epfj.jji'eias. 3) Alexandri Nu- 
 menii filii -n-epl o-xTj/uaTw*'. 4) Menandri rhetoris quae- 
 dam. 5) Aristides irepl Te%v(av priroptKeav. Thomas 
 Gale had availed himself of this codex in the edition 
 of these works which he published at Oxford. //. a 
 
 IO codex in fol. membr. Augustinus de civitate Dei. //. 
 codex in fol. membr. Ambrosius de omciis. It. vol. in 
 fol. membr., namely, Bedae commentarius in evangelium 
 Marci. //. volumen in fol. membr. missale in usum 
 ecclesiae Sarisburiensis. It. 2 vol. membr. in fol. a 
 
 15 commentarius in Psalmos, donum Francisci Tyndal 
 armigeri, who was donor of most of the MSS. in this 
 library. //. codex membr. in 4to. Haymo super Penta- 
 teuchum. Item some Turkish codices and with them 
 also a small volumen in duod. chart, vocabularium 
 
 2O Persicum. 
 
 When I could find nothing further, we went 
 home through King's college, an ordinary build- 
 ing.* 
 
 On Saturday morning, 2 Aug. we wished to 
 
 25 see the library of Bennets college, or collegia cor- 
 poris Christi, which consists chiefly of manu- 
 scripts. But as it is a legacy, and, if the least 
 article is lost, passes to another college, the 26 
 librarian must always have three keys to it ; 
 
 30 accordingly he excused himself, and begged us 
 to wait till the next week. So we visited at 
 Queens' college Mr. John Davis, who is socius 
 
 * See Delices d' Angleterre, torn. I. 
 
 L
 
 i 4 6 Z C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 there, and has made himself famous by the 
 editing of some autorum classicorum. He is a 
 young man, thirty and odd years old, and is 
 working at an edition Ciceronis de natura deorum. 
 As he was on the point of setting out on a 5 
 journey, we went from him to Clare hall, a 
 somewhat low, but yet fine building.* Mr. 
 Laughton, protector^ academiae and socius of this 
 college, an agreeable man, who spoke french 
 well. He shewed us the library, which is indeed 10 
 not large, but yet has many good books, es- 
 pecially Italian and Spanish. Among others 
 I found a fine work with this title : 
 
 Varias antiguedades de Espana, Africa y otras pro- 
 vincias, por el doctor Bernardo Aldrete canonigo en la 15 
 sancta iglesia de Cordoua. En Amberes 1614. pp. 640. 
 There is here also a good number of libris vulgo pro- 
 hibitis, which fetch a very high price in England, as I 
 perceived by the prices noted at the beginning. Smalcii 
 tractatus were almost all here, and also Bern. Ochini 2O 
 dialogi, Basileae per Petrum Pernam, 1563. 8vo. pp. 
 478. It. the examination of Tilenus in Utopia, 1658. 
 27 I2mo. pp. 283, an Arian book, which I also bought 
 here ; besides a number of rabbinical books, but mostly 
 printed. Of manuscripts, which lay in ugly confusion in 25 
 a press, I noted the following. Vol. in fol. membr. B. 
 Turpini archiepiscopi historia ad Leoprandum de Carolo 
 M. with which was also an anonymous histor. angl. 
 
 * See Delices d'Angleterre, torn. i. 
 
 f [Sic, perhaps by a blunder of the author. A fort- 
 night later, when at Oxford, Uffenbach learnt the true 
 name (p. 98) : ' the proctor, as they say, or strictly pro- 
 curator academiae. ']
 
 CLARE HALL. DR. COVEL. 147 
 
 scriptor a temp. Romanorum usque ad regem Joh. et 
 Henricum* filium eius ; the beginning is : cum mecum 
 multa et de multis saepius animo revolvens. There also 
 came into my hand : vol. in fol. membr. Quintilianus 
 5 cod. recentior, initio mutilus. It. vol. in 4. chart, re- 
 centius ivifiepuricu Lecapeni. f- It. cod. in 4. membr. 
 Augustinus de bono coniugali. ' It. cod. in fol. membr. 
 lustinus, cuius initium deerat [cent 12]. 
 
 In the afternoon we visited Mr. Dr. John 
 
 10 Covel, master of Chris fs college, whose manu- 
 scripts and coins are justly extolled in Cham- 
 berlayne.^ He is over eighty years of age, but 
 from his briskness one would scarce set him 
 down at sixty. He understands all sorts of 
 
 15 languages, and is singularly courteous, which 
 he owes no doubt to his many travels. For he 
 has not only resided long in Holland, Germany, 
 and Italy, but also as chaplain with an english 
 ambassador at Constantinople, where he procured 
 
 20 incomparable greek codices and coins. He 
 shewed us first of all in his museo two very fine 28 
 and large sketches of Constantinople, the one a 
 view, the other a ground-plan. Both were made 
 by a Frenchman with the pen with great labour 
 
 25 and not without great risk. For the Turks do 
 not permit anything of the kind to be done; 
 indeed he was detected, persecuted, and was 
 
 * \Edericum by mistake]. 
 
 t [' firipfyurlai Lecupeni.' On Georgius Lecapenus, 
 a Thessalian monk of the I4th century, grammarian and 
 historian, see Fabricius-Harles xit 59 61 and index], 
 
 J Present state of England, p. 303.
 
 148 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 obliged long to seek shelter from Dr. Covel. 
 He (Dr. Covet) valued these sketches greatly 
 for their accuracy. They may be seen on a 
 reduced scale in copperplate in the narrative 
 subsequently published by the above-named 5 
 Frenchman,* under the title : relation nouvelle 
 cfun voyage de Constantinople. Paris 1680. 4to.t 
 Dr. Covel gave him a testimonium, which he has 
 printed before his work. The above-mentioned 
 sketches are on p. 74, where Dr. Covel is men- 10 
 tioned. 
 
 After this Mr. Dr. Covel shewed us an admirable 
 codicem membr. in fol., namely : Pericopae evangeliorum 
 anno Christi 995. script, litteris maiusculis lingua graeca 
 hodierna. It. cod. membr. grace, in 12. qui complectitur 15 
 acta apostolorum, epistolas et apocalypsim tempore 
 Alexii Comneni script.; it. codex evangeliorum, both of 
 which Mills used in editing the new testament and highly 
 commended. Dr. Covel also shewed us many very fine 
 codices hebraicos, and among them in three voluminibus 20 
 membr. in 4. biblia hebr. ante 300 annos scripta. It 
 had indeed the vowel-points, but by a later hand. Such 
 29 codices we find here and there. It. cod. in 4. bomby- 
 cinus, in quo historia a Constantino M. ad captam urbem, 
 hactenus ineditus, and also in fine codicis Malaxus, for 25 
 which see Crusius^ and Vossius. It. a codex in 4. 
 namely historia Constantipolitana ad Selimum secundum, 
 etiam inedita. //. codex in 4. membr. Sgyropuli historia 
 
 * [Guill. Jos. Grelot]. 
 
 t [Also 8vo. Paris 1681. Engl. by J. Phillips, Lond. 
 1683. 8vo. Grelot accompanied Chardin in his travels]. 
 
 J [Turco-Graeciae lib. II. p. 106 seq.j 
 
 [de hist. lat. II. c. 30 p. 373 ed. Westermann. Cf. 
 Fabricius-Harles, ind. s. v. Emanuel].
 
 DR. COVEL. JO. MARSHALL. 149 
 
 concilii Florentini, which, as Mr. Dr. Covel asserted, is 
 much more complete, especially in the second part, than 
 that which has been published. * //. codex in 4. in quo 
 Simeonis Thessalonicensis caeremoniale ecclesiae graecae, 
 
 e mentioned by Leo Allatius de Simeonum scriptis. This 
 codex was published twot years ago in Moldavia. This 
 edition has been sent to Mr. Dr. Covel, who still keeps 
 up good correspondence in those quarters ; he has collated 
 it, and found it very faulty and incomplete. Dr. Covel 
 
 I O further shewed us a codic. membr. in 8. liber amorum ex 
 arabico in graecum vulgare translat. 
 
 After this Dr. Covel shewed us an uncommon 
 curiosity, which, as he asserted, had never before 
 come into Eiirope. He had had a pupil John 
 
 15 Mareschall^. who travelled in India and spent 
 many years in that country; where, by Dr. 
 Covers encouragement, he acquired great know- 
 ledge of the old indian language, and especially 
 studied the history and doctrinas veterum Brach- 
 
 20 manorum Indiae philosophorum^ and even trans- 
 lated into English the codices sacros Brachman- 30 
 orum, called Poran^ which he sent to Dr. Covel 
 in seven small voluminibus in fol. Dr. Covel 
 
 * [ed. with a lat. transl. by R. Creyghton, Hag. 
 1660. fol.] 
 
 t [Published at Jassy fol. 1683. Fabricius-Harles XI 
 
 J [No doubt the J. Marshall, M.A. 'comitiis regiis 
 1705', and probably the B.A. of Christ's 1663-4. He 
 communicated to the Philos. Trans, abridg. iv 534 
 (1700) an 'account of the religion, rites, notions, customs 
 and manners of the indian priests called Bramins. '] 
 
 [The Puranas].
 
 150 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 could not enough commend the profundam sa- 
 pientiam and curious things which he had found 
 in them. He greatly preferred them to Con- 
 fucius, and complained that he had lost two 
 parts, which he had lent to a certain bishop. 5 
 He had also a volume containing a translation 
 of Bedae* libra, in which is found explicatio 
 omnium sacrorum rituum Brachmanorum. He 
 further shewed us a small lexicon linguae malaicae 
 in fol., compiled by the same Mareschall. 10 
 
 Next we saw different MSta. recentiora, spe- 
 cially italian, and among them one in folio, as 
 thick as one's thumb, with this title : relatione 
 delf imperio Turchese fatta dal illustr. et eccell. 
 Sig. Cristoforo Valeria Bailo per la serenissima 15 
 republ. di Venetia 1615. Afterwards Dr. Covel 
 shewed us a fine vas aeneum with a hebrew in- 
 scription, found under ground in Norfolk. No 
 one has yet been able to decypher the inscrip- 
 tion owing to the numerous contractions. Mr. 20 
 Dr. Covel believes that much money must have 
 been found in it, as the man who dug it up, 
 suddenly became rich. The vessel may contain 
 two measures. Dr. Covel has also many fine 
 funeral urns, and among them one to which 25 
 folia amaranthae herbae still adhered, a plain 
 31 proof that the ancients added herbs to the ashes 
 of the dead. There were also many little urnulae 
 among them, which Mr. Dr. Covel had received 
 as a present from Bellori in Italy, who assured 30 
 
 * [The Vedas.]
 
 DR. COVEL. 151 
 
 him that they served for the interment of animals. 
 For the Romans burnt favorite animals also, as 
 birds and the like, and buried their ashes in 
 such pots ; hence we find in Gruter and else- 
 
 5 where many inscriptions on animals. 
 
 Hereupon Dr. Covel shewed us many drawers 
 full of nummis ex omni metallo^ which I should 
 have liked to examine more closely, but Dr. 
 Covel excused himself, because they were in no 
 
 10 sort of order. I must however make mention of 
 one nummi magni moduli of Gordiano iuniore, of 
 which Dr. Covel made much ado as unico, and 
 as having in ipsa marginis acie litteras. On the 
 one side was the likeness Gordiani with this 
 
 1 5 inscription : ATT. K. M. ANTNIOT TOPAIANOT 
 
 EH! M. AH^HTPIOY OTAA.. (Valerii) A?X. KAAT.* 
 
 In the centre was : 
 
 HN 
 
 AN 
 
 20 in aversa\ there was figura stolata stans ad altar e, 
 sacrificans, dextra stateram, sinistra hastam tenens. 
 On the edge were some strokes, which Mr. Dr. 
 Covel took for the letters ETI, which seemed 
 to designate the epocham 315. To me however 
 
 25 it did not seem so distinct, though the nummus 
 in itself was still in tolerably good preservation. 
 Mr. Dr. Covel also shewed us a great number 
 
 * [In Rasche in. 1513 Cadi in Phrygia is named as 
 occurring on the coins of the third Gordian]. 
 f \adversa orig,].
 
 152 Z. C. v . UFFENBACH. 
 
 32 of petrefactis and lapidibus figuratis, some very 
 fine, which he had brought with him from 
 Turkey. 
 
 After this Mr. Dr. Covel led us through a 
 room, in which he had some fine pictures ; as 5 
 the evangelist Mark by Albrecht Diirer, of 
 which my brother has an engraving. Mr. Dr. 
 Covel thought that it was Duress original, but 
 it seemed much too modern for that, but still 
 a very good copy. Further Mary with Christ 10 
 and John the Baptist, as two naked children, 
 a fine copy of Raphael; and also an incom- 
 parable night-scene by Salvator Rosa* In a 
 room below was a fine picture of Christ, said 
 to have been painted in Moscow: also Christ 15 
 on the cross by Mercati,^ an admirable painting. 
 As we went home, we observed in the street 
 Battecure% on a druggist's shop this apt in- 
 scription : principiis obsta. 
 
 3 Aug. Sunday we dined with Dr. Bentley, 20 
 who sent the invitation the day before, and were 
 very sumptuously entertained. As his wife 
 dined with us, we did not converse upon serious 
 matters, but of Germany and Holland. At four 
 o'clock we heard the sermon in Trinity-chapel, 25 
 and also very good music, especially on the 
 organ, which, though not of so fine a tone as 
 
 t \Marcatti orig. ]. 
 
 \ [Petty cury, ' the little cookery'].
 
 COVEL. BENTLEY. TRIN. COLL. 153 
 
 that in King's-chapel, was however uncommonly 
 well played. 
 
 4 Aug. On Monday morning we were again 
 in Trinity-library, wherein by the help of the 
 
 5 Catalogus MS. Angl. I saw other MSS., which 33 
 I could not see the first time.* We also turned 
 over the printed books a little, but found much 
 poor old stuff amongst them. The noble build- 
 ing is inside (i.e. not reckoning the walls) 2 14 ft. 
 
 10 long and 45 broad. The carvings and foliage 
 on the panels and book-cases is so slender, that 
 it quivers when you touch the panelling below. 
 It is the work of an artist named Master 
 Gibbons. 
 
 15 5 Aug. We wished to see the manuscripts 
 in the bibliotheca publica acad. Dr. Laughton, 
 the librarian, was however not in, nor is the 
 catalogue of these MSS. yet complete ; but that, 
 which may be found in catalog. MS. Angl. part 2, 
 
 20 was of no use to me, as the codices are not classed 
 or numbered by it. This was very annoying to 
 me, as I took out perhaps twenty volumina one 
 after another, and found nothing but scholastic 
 things. At last I came by accident upon a row 
 
 25 where the following codices stood together : 
 
 Codex in foL chart, recentior, one finger thick, 
 
 namely : i) Symeon protobestarchus (antiochenus) de 
 
 alimentorum viribus [Ff in 30 = 1238 (i)]. 2) Galeni 
 
 synopsis de simplicibus [ibid. (2)]. Again cod. chart. 
 
 30 Chrysostomi commentarius in psalmos Davidis a 77 34 
 
 * Conf. Sdecta commerc. epist. Uffenb. p. I. p. 192 seqq.
 
 154 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 usque ad 1 19 inclusive. [Ff in 2 = 1210. The homilies 
 are on Ps. 77 107 and 118; those on Ps. 77 99 are 
 printed in Chrysostom's works, but the real author is 
 Hesychius. See the printed catal. n 410]. At the be- 
 ginning was noted : Fuit doctoris Lindsel, deinde Merici 5 
 Casauboni ; redemit nummis Hacketianis T. G. (forte 
 Thomas Gale) et bibliothecae Cantabrigiensi intulit cum 
 aliis manuscriptis eiusdem Casauboni. 3) Homilia Chry- 
 sostomi, codex membr. in fol., three fingers thick, was 
 better and older than the last [li in 25]. 4) 'Ha-vxiov IO 
 irpefflivTfpov 'lfpocro\v/j,cav eiriffK6irov firiypafj./j.a iffTopias 
 ds tya\T-f]pioi>, a codex chart, recenti manu ex cod. Ox- 
 oniensi descriptus [Ff in 6 = 1214, catal. II. 412]. At 
 the end is mentioned the comment. Chrysostomi in Psal- 
 mos, and the following note may be seen at the be- 15 
 ginning : ' ' out of a paper written with Dr. Lindsell (after- 
 wards bp. etc. ) his hand : ' In the Savilian edition another 
 commentary of Chrysostome is found upon some of the 
 psalmes commented of in this : as the 118. yet it is not 
 Euthymius, nor Theodoret, nor Basile, but far surpassing 20 
 them all who comment upon the same ; Basil doth not. 
 Soe as I cannot see whose, unless Chrysostome (as the 
 subscription hath) went over twice the psalmes, and these 
 his notions infinitely more refined then the other. Yet 
 is not the whole book of psalmes commented of between 25 
 them both, a 77 ad 107 inclusive, et turn ps. 118, et sic 
 finis commentationum harum.' Hactenus ille. Sed 
 verus auctor huius ep/uTjveias est Hesychius, vel, ut alii 
 scribunt, Isychius, si Euthymio Zigab. fides ; qui non 
 35 pauca ex illo passim profert, et eum in psalm. 88 v. 13 3 
 (satis prolixum ex illo locum adducens) diserte nominal. 
 Quis autem Hesychius, presbyter hierosolymitanus (de 
 quo non uno loco Photius) an alius (quos plures et 
 diversae aetatis Miraeus in auctario, Sixtus Senensis in 
 bibliotheca, aliique commemorant) non plane liquet. 35 
 Mericus Casaubonus" (an autograph note). I also saw 
 cod. MS. chart, fol., three fingers thick, namely : Matthaei
 
 MSS. IN PUBLIC LIBRAR Y. 155 
 
 Blastaris syntagma alphabeticum* [Ff in 4= 1212]. 2) 
 Eiusdem (ut videtur) libri canonici lo. leiunatoris epi- 
 tome a fol. 153 usque ad finem [only to f. 161. ibid. (2). 
 See catal. n 411]. It. vol. MS. membr. in fol., three 
 
 5 fingers thick : epistolae aliquot N. T. cum commentario 
 Photii subiecto [Ff I 30=1163], tolerably old but de- 
 fective, for the codex only begins with the epistle to the 
 Corinthians [the commentary begins 2 Cor. i. 13; catal. 
 II 331]. //. codex MS. chart, in fol. [Ff I 26 = 1159], 
 
 IO hi which an old hand has noted at the beginning : ' Hoc 
 commentarium in psalterium graecum quondam fuit codex 
 Theodori archiepiscopi Cantuariensis inter eos libros quos 
 secum detulit e Roma circa annum Domini 668, anno 
 quinto Egberti regis, qui Theodoras fuit sextus ab Au- 
 
 1 5 gustino. ' Whether this evidence is to be trusted, I know 
 not, for the codex does not appear so very old [cent. 15, 
 catal. II 318]. This commentary is that of Euthymius in 
 Greek. On the first fly-leaf is a note : ' liber hie MS. si 
 conferatur cum Euthymio impresso, ipsius esse Euthymii 
 
 20 videbitur, teste RR. Armachano die lulii 1640.' Further 36 
 
 I saw cod. membr. in 4. very neat, containing : Theodori 
 isagogen grammaticamt [li iv 16= 1813, catal. ill 453]. 
 It had the note : Tho. Gale pecuniis Hacketianis redemit 
 ex reliquiis Merici Casauboni. It. cod. grace, in 4to. 
 
 25 more than a hand-breadth thick [Ff I 24=1157, catal. 
 
 II 313] containing i) paralipomenon lib. I. p. I 78. lib. 
 
 II p. 78 2O7. 2) VTTO \!.Vt]ffTlKbv filf3\loV 3 'lUfffalTOV. 
 
 p. 307 391. 3) (rrlxot Afovros TOV Pa<ri\eco? els ctfviyfia 
 
 Xpurrbv Kal Kpivov SfSfiy/j.fvoi pp. 391 395. 4) Testa- 
 
 30 mentum duodecim patriarcharum. J Besides I saw a 
 
 * See B. Virius T. 2 p. I [an abbreviation, misunder- 
 stood by the editor, for Beveregii pand. II I 272]. 
 
 [t An irrelevant note, relating to Theodoras of Samos, 
 is here omitted], 
 
 J [Printed from this MS., with a collation of the 
 Oxford MS. by Rob. Sinker, M.A. Cambr. 1869, 8vo., 
 who is engaged on a translation of the book for the 
 Edinburgh Ante-Nicene library].
 
 1 56 Z.C.V. UFFENBACH. 
 
 codicem membr. in 4. very neatly and closely written, but 
 still tolerably old [Dd xi 90=716, catal. I 482], con- 
 taining the acta apostolorum from cap. 12 vers. 2 and 
 epistolae, with some gaps here and there. Afterwards I 
 again took up the codicem Bezae, and found this further 5 
 note at the beginning : a. 1669 servatur in bibliotheca 
 Leicestrensi codex MS. N. T. qui cum hoc in multis con- 
 sentit. I also saw codic. membr. in 4., more than a 
 hand-breadth thick [Gg. v. 35 = 1567, catal. ill 201], in 
 quo varia, nempe i) luvenci historia IV. evangelistarum. IO 
 2) Sedulii paschale carmen.* //. codex membr. in 4., 
 namely Isidori etymol. [Gg I 19=1414, catal. ill 25]. 
 37 The codex is recentior, but has however at the end a 
 good indicem vocabulorum et rerum. //. vol. in 4. 
 membr. nitidissime scriptum [Gg 1 18= 1413, catal. ibid.~\. 15 
 At the end was the note : expliciunt xv. libr. geometriae 
 Euclidis cum commento magistri Campani. It. vol. in 4. 
 chart. [li IV 30=1827, catal. ill 466] geographia Ed- 
 wardi Higgons angli. in latin, and apparently very well 
 written. It. vol. in fol. membr. [Dd I 28 = 28, catal. I 
 36], two fingers thick, losephi antiquitatum iudaicaram 2O 
 lib. 10. 
 
 This codex of Josepho is remarkable on one 
 account, because the letters (Buchstabeti) have 
 fallen off here and there, and can in some places 
 be raised and removed by the nail, owing to 25 
 the excessive thickness of the ink ; one observes 
 the same thing often in old letters (Briefeii). 
 Yet the vestigia of the writing had eaten so 
 deeply by reason of the sharpness of the ink, 
 that it can still be read, though the blackness 30 
 is lost. We find old parchment letters, in which 
 
 * See Catal. MS. Angl. [which does not notice this 
 MS.].
 
 MSS. IN PUBLIC LIBRAE Y. 157 
 
 the sharpness of the ink has eaten into the 
 parchment ; if one holds them up to the light, 
 one can then easily read them by the daylight 
 streaming through the holes. At the beginning 
 
 5 of the volume the vestigia are impressed so deep, 
 that I was almost inclined to take it for a 
 printed book. As the codex was torn at the 
 end, the beadle or library-keeper, who was 
 present, gave me a leaf, which I took with me 
 
 10 as a curiosity. 
 
 After this I further found in the press Bedwelli 
 lexicon [Hh 6 r 2 410. Hh 5 I 7 fol.] and another 
 little work of his, namely the epistola ad Colossens. 38 
 arabice cum versione eius latina [Dd 15 4]. I found 
 
 15 a very learned dissertation at the beginning, which I 
 ordered to be copied. Afterwards I found here and 
 there the following : vol. in fol. Codex membr. recentior, 
 Cicero de oratore, paradoxa, de amicitia et senectute 
 [Mm ii 4 = 2299, catal. iv 125]. It. vol. in 4. membr. 
 
 2O in quo i) Eutropius de gestis Romanorum. 2) Sexti 
 lulii Frontini strategemata. 3) Eutropii breviarium. 
 Codex est recentior. [This MS. has long been lost. It 
 is catalogued by James n. 2 1 7, and thence in Catal. MSS. 
 Angl. ii 171 n. 2397]. Lastly I saw a volumen in fol. 
 
 25 membr. in quo Methodii, episcopi Paterensis, liber [Gg 
 iv 15 = 1514, catal. in 160]. Eusebii historia alia ;* cod. 
 MS. recentior. After this, as I could find nothing more 
 to my purpose in the latin codicibus, I viewed the press, 
 in which the manuscripta orientalia Erpenii are preserved, 
 
 30 of which there are a goodly number, as may be seen from 
 the catal. MS. Angl. [63 in all, n. 2440 2502]. In this 
 press I found the following inscription on vellum, framed : 
 ' Quod felix faustumque sit rei publicae litterariae. Codices 
 
 * See Catal. MS. Angl.
 
 158 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 eleganter manu exaratos, nostro orbi hospites, universe 
 vix parabiles, ad hastam locates a Thomae Erpenii 
 Leidensis vidua magno pretio coemptos a magno duce 
 
 39 Bukingamae, turn temporis apud ordines Belgii legato, 
 cancellario postea nostro, nobisque inter cetera quae 5 
 divinus heros meditabatur ingentia donaria Cantabrigi- 
 ensibus donates, non nisi Cantabrigiae servari tandem 
 voluit principis praecellentiss. fidissima coniux, maes- 
 tissima (proh scelus et dolor !) vidua pientissimaque Cath- 
 arina, ducissa Buckinghamiae, mense lunio MDCXXXII.' IO 
 In a corner of this press lay some printed books, and 
 amongst them Ochini dialog! printed at Basel 1563 in 
 8vo. * At the beginning was a manuscript dialogus in 
 italian with this title : dialogo. favellatori Prudenza umana 
 
 et Ochino ; of which dialogue, as I could not tell whether 1 5 
 it had ever been printed, I ordered a copy. 
 
 Lastly I examined also a little the incom- 
 parable collection of codicibus anglosaxonicis, 
 which stood opposite, of which Hickesius gives 
 the best account in his thesauro. It is strange, 20 
 that so many things of the kind survive in 
 
 40 England, and it were to be wished, that we 
 had anything like as many monumenta of our 
 lingua theotisca. As we were preparing to leave, 
 we found also two little pieces of old painted 25 
 glass in monkish style, one red and one blue. 
 We were the more interested, because we had 
 lately read in Le Comtejr cabinet des singularites 
 de peinture, of this glass-painting. He there 
 
 * [This copy has long been lost.] 
 
 t [Florent Le Comte, cabinets des singularites d' 
 architecture, peinture, etc. Paris 1699, 1700. 3 vols. 12. 
 Brux. 1702. 3 vols. 12].
 
 P UBLIC LIBRAR Y. SIDNE Y. 159 
 
 denies that the glass was stained and colored 
 through and through by the ancients. In order 
 to ascertain this we broke off a bit of each 
 piece, in a slanting direction ; and saw that the 
 
 5 red was stained only on the surface of one side, 
 but the blue was colored throughout : probably 
 because the blue colour is not so fast as the 
 red, and therefore must be stained more. Ac- 
 cordingly Le Comte is greatly mistaken ; pro- 
 
 10 bably he only examined the red, and drew a 
 general conclusion from that ; a common fault 
 with authors. I may fairly conjecture, that 
 glass of a yellow colour, and of all other such 
 light and bright colours, is stained throughout, 
 
 1 5 but red, brown, and the like only on the surface 
 of one side : but this requires more exact in- 
 vestigation. 
 
 In the afternoon we went to Sidney-Sussex 
 college, an old but still tolerably fine building.* 
 
 20 The library of this college is indeed high up, 
 under the very roof of the chapel, but yet 
 tolerably good and well-lighted ; the books too, 
 though not numerous, are still in a good state. 41 ' 
 
 I took the pains to go through the manuscripts of 
 25 this college.f The following were the best which I 
 met with: Edm. Castelli notae in lexicon Schindleri.J 
 The lexicon is in two voluminibus interleaved with paper, 
 on which Castellus had made very many notes, and 
 probably afterwards compiled his lexicon from them, 
 
 * See Dtlices </' Anglet. torn. I. 
 
 t Following the Catal. MS. Angl. p. 103 seq. 
 
 % ibid. col. a. n. 695 seq.
 
 160 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 though I had neither time nor ability to compare them. 
 Galfridi angl. tract, de arte dictandi* is a cod. membr. 
 in 4. recentior. ArjAoxm aKpiffis e/c TUV Ka.vovi.Kiav Sia- 
 rdfwf is cod. chart, in 12. recens, on which was noted 
 'liber collegii dominae Franciscae Sidney-Sussex, quern 5 
 (una cum aliis MSS.) plurimum reverendus vir Samuel 
 Ward S.T.D., professor pro domina Margareta, le- 
 gavit anno Dom. 1643.' ^(purdrov tv ifpo/j.ovaxois 
 Kvpov yiardatov irepl TWV ifptav Kal Oeicav ffw68<ai> 
 ff6vo\l/is.+ Cod. est chart, in large 4. nitidissime IO 
 scriptus. At the end is bound up with it a printed book, 
 namely : Theodoreti ecclesiastica historia ex omcina Fro- 
 beniana 1535. 4. Anonymi liber expositionum partium 
 vet. et nov. testamenti, cod. est membr. in 4., fully 
 a handbreadth thick. Epistolae Hieronymi eleganti 15 
 charactere.|| I must confess that I have scarcely seen 
 a neater and fairer codicem, for not only was the writing 
 uncommonly elegant, but also the vellum very fine and 
 fair ; yet it is somewhat modern, and about two hand- 
 42 breadths thick. Tabula beneficiorum in Anglia et 20 
 Wallia, cum annuo singulorum valore.1I This codex is 
 in fol., two fingers thick, and very modern. It is 
 astonishing what a large sum of money comes in yearly 
 from the foundations maintained in England. l) Petri 
 Blesensis epistolae. 2) R. Grosthead (episcopi quondam 25 
 Lincolniensis) epistolae.** Codex chart, in fol. Au- 
 
 * ibid. p. 104, n. 719. 
 
 t ibid, n. 724. J ibid. 728. [Gift of Dr. Ward.] 
 
 $ ibid. p. 105, n. 738. [Gift of Dr. Ward.] 
 
 || ibid. n. 750. [The gift of Pet. Witham M. A., rect. 
 
 of St Alban's, Wood-street, London, formerly a member 
 
 of the college.] 
 
 IT ibid. n. 751. [Drawn up for the college in 1627.] 
 ** ibid. n. 754. There is here an error in the printed 
 
 catalogo, for in the -volumine the letters of Peter stand 
 
 first. [Given by Dr. Ward.]
 
 SIDNEY MSS. 161 
 
 gustini libri 15 de Trinitate et reliqua. * Codex est 
 membr. recent, three fingers thick. Ind. librorum MSS. 
 graecorum an. 1602 emptorum in bibliothecam augus- 
 tanam,f is a supplementum of the catalogi^: bound up 
 
 5 with it : probably incorporated in the new edition 
 Reiseri ; but as that was not at hand, and time pressed, 
 I could not compare them. The first codex catalogued 
 in this supplemento MSto. is lamblichus chalcidensis de 
 secta pythagorica, lib. IV. Eiusdem lamblichi expositio 
 
 IO prolixa epistolae Porphyrii etc. One ought to search in 
 catalogo Reiseri, whether these codices are entered. || 
 
 In loculo adversaria Sam. Ward*h These 
 are volumina of all sorts, but yet in part mere 
 collectanea, and in some still charta pura for the 
 
 15 most part. Yet the letters and things relating 
 to the synod of Dort, noticed in the catalogue, 
 are not to be despised, and the most valuable 43 
 of all. He who shewed us the library was, not 
 in the proverbial sense,** but in truth a good 
 
 20 socius of this collegii, already in years, whose 
 name however we have forgotten.ft 
 
 Lastly he shewed us in a cupboard curiosa 
 
 * ibid. n. 756. [Given by Dr. Ward.] 
 
 t ibid. p. 1 06, n. 766 [appears to be lost.] 
 
 I ed. 1595. 
 
 [M. Ant. Reiser. Index manuscriptorumbibliothecae 
 Augustanae. Aug. 1675. 4to.] 
 
 || [Yes, at p. 83 n. 20 and 29.] 
 
 IT Catal. ibid. p. 106, col. 2. 
 
 ** [Not ' a good fellow,' a bon virant.~\ 
 
 ft [Probably Thomas Harrison, Strypis correspond- 
 ent, several of whose letters are preserved in the Baum- 
 gartner papers, Cambr. univ. libr.]. 
 
 M
 
 1 62 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 of all sorts, as a cranium humanum, with a 
 ticket : cranium cum capsula lignea dono dedit 
 bibliothecae collegii Sidney Sussex Gulielmus 
 Stevens de Rotherhithe capitaneus, e senioribus 
 fratribus domus sanctae et individuae Trinitatis 5 
 in Deptford, qui cranium illud ex Creta insula 
 (Candia vulgo dicta) secum attulit in Angliam 
 anno 1627, haud procul ab urbe Candia circiter 
 passus decent subter terra repertum in fonte fodi- 
 endo, qui in urbem derivaretur. By it lay also 10 
 a letter from the famous Guil. Harvaeo in the 
 english language, in which he thanks the college^ 
 for kindly making known to him this cranium ; 
 he had shewn it to the king, who was pleased 
 with it : for his own part he looked upon it as 15 
 specially curious. It is a cranium petrefactum, 
 or rather an incrustatum, and I may say that 
 though I have seen here and there in cabinets 
 many petrefacta and incrustata, I never met with 
 anything so singular. It is a pity that this 20 
 cranium is broken in two, and the under jaw 
 is altogether wanting. The largest fragment, 
 consisting of the front part, is very finely covered 
 within and without by a yellow, hard, stony 
 crust, about as thick as the back of a knife, 25 
 44 yet so, that the teeth (doubtless propter struc- 
 turam compactiorem] remained unchanged, as 
 also the structure of the cranii itself, which may 
 be well seen, with all its cavitatibus and ports, 
 at the end where it was broken off; so that, as 30 
 
 * [Academie.~\
 
 SIDNEY. TRINITY HALL. 163 
 
 I said above, it is no petrefactio, but a strong 
 incrustatio. There was also in the same cup- 
 board a narrow, but thick, roll of parchment, 
 perhaps three fingers broad, containing the arms 
 
 5 of all families in comitatu Cantiae an. 1593, very 
 neatly painted and colored. We were also 
 shewn a cylinder, with six figures excellently 
 painted, and among them king Charles II. on 
 horseback, admirably drawn. We noticed here 
 
 10 also an old desk and book-stand, the only 
 peculiarity of which was, that you could raise 
 and lower it by a long screw, passing through 
 the desk ; within it was fitted with drawers. It 
 rested on a cross, which wanted however a firm 
 
 15 stand, especially for writing. 
 
 Next we went to Trinity hall, which is one 
 of the poorest buildings, as Trinity college is the 
 finest. It is said to be founded for jurists only. 
 The library of this hall is like the hall itself, 
 
 20 that is, very mean, consisting only of- a few law 
 books. 
 
 Although mention is made* of seven poor codicibus 45 
 MSS. I could scarcely find a single one of them ; on the 
 other hand I hunted up the following from some fifty 
 
 25 pieces of old rubbish, f The most pretentious and best 
 codex was probably a membranaceus of imposing size, 
 some four spans high or tall, written in large letters, and 
 also tolerably old. It is a chronicon anglicanum, of 
 which however I could find no autorem, nor, as may 
 
 30 well be imagined, any other title. On the cover was 
 
 Catal. MSS. Angl. p. 163, part 2. 
 t \Schunkeri\.
 
 1 64 Z C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 written in pencil: Thomas Elmham.* But whether this 
 be the author's name, or rather a former possessor's, 
 must be ascertained from Nicolson's historical-library and 
 other books of reference. From the codice itself I ob- 
 served that it is properly a chronicon ecclesiae B. August. 5 
 cantuariensis. Beside this I found also the following 
 codices, of which I thought it worth while to make a 
 note: codex membr. in 4., two fingers thick, containing 
 Ambrosium de virginitate et sermonem Isidori episcopi 
 de corpore et sanguine Domini lesu Christi. f It. in fol. I O 
 cod. chart, recentissimus, Joh. CowelliJ I. C. D. et in 
 acad. cantab. profess, institutiones iuris anglicani ad me- 
 thodum et seriem institutionum imperialium compositae. 
 Below was written : hunc codicem post editionem im- 
 pressam sic auctum et emendatum, secundae editioni (ut 1 5 
 videtur) destinatum et iam prelo paratum ipse author 
 (huius collegii praefectus dignissimus) huic bibliothecae 
 46 nominatim commendavit. It. vol. in fol. membr. Hie- 
 ronymus de iuribus Angliae ;f codex erat recentior, of 
 the thickness of your thumb. It. vol. in 4 membr., three 20 
 fingers thick, in quo i) Stephani Langeton, archiepiscopi 
 cantuariensis, moralis expositio in prophetas. 2) Tract- 
 atus de similitudinibus. 3) Liber proverbiorum inter- 
 pretatus. [Also letters of Becket. The MS. has the name 
 of Robert Hare 1562]. I further saw vol. in fol. chart. 25 
 Ymago mundi per Vincentium ordin. praedicat. || It. 
 cod. membran. in fol. Radulphus Flaviensis super Leviti- 
 
 * [No such note now appears, but good reasons have 
 been given for assigning the authorship to Thomas. See 
 Historia monasteriiS.Augustini Cantuariensis, by Thomas 
 of Elmham. Edited by Charles Hardwick. Lond. 1858. 
 8vo.]. 
 
 f [No mark of ownership is now to be found]. 
 
 J [Corbelli, Uffenb.]. {Victorinus Uffenb.]. 
 
 || [one of Rob. Hare's books].
 
 TRINITY HALL MSS. 165 
 
 cum. * Vol. in 4. membr. in isto Sulpicii Severi vita S. 
 Martini episcopi et confessoris ; at the end of this codicis 
 was written : expliciunt gesta beati Martini et vita B. 
 Britii. After this follow only threef folia, beginning : 
 
 5 incipit praefatio de vita S. Nicholai ; but it is defective, 
 and as I said, consists of threet leaves only. //. cod. 
 membr. in 4, two fingers thick, Liturgia D. lacobi apos- 
 tolij ; caret initio : at the beginning is noted : Sancti 
 lacobi apostoli nomine apud graecos in usu liturgia est, 
 
 IO quam ut veram germanamque illius scripturam Proclus 
 constantinopolitanus agnoscit, et synodus oecumenica 
 sexta. Petrus Galesinius in suo martyrologio fol. 98 parte 
 secunda. Below was a more correct note : non est haec 
 divi lacobi liturgia, cuius meminit Galesinius, sed collectio 
 
 1 5 lectionum quae in ecclesia orientali festis diebus etiamnum 
 leguntur, e prophetis, proverbiis et sapientia Salomonis 
 sumpta. But this codex is ex dono RichardiJ Hare 
 1605, from whom also many other codices came. //. 47 
 cod. in 4. membr. cuius initium : incipit prologus in librum 
 
 2O contra duodecim errores et haereses Lollardorum ;|| but 
 at the end : explicit liber contra duodecim errores et 
 haereses Lollardorum. It. cod. in 4. chart, electa de 
 epistolis Petri blesensis. H //. vol. in fol. membr. losephi 
 historiarum antiquitates ludaicae lib. xx. latine. doubtless 
 
 25 of Rufini version.** It. vol. in fol. membr. doctrinale 
 
 * [bought by Robert Hare 1570 for IQJ.]. 
 
 t [two Uffenb.]. 
 
 J [This MS. appears to be lost]. 
 
 [Rather Roberti. I have not met with a MS. bear- 
 ing the date 1605 or (as below) 1603]. 
 
 || [dedicated to king Richard by brother Roger Dym- 
 mock. See Fabricius, biblioth. lat. med. et infimae aetatis, 
 under Dimmock; and Tanner, biblioth. p. 243. Another 
 copy is in the university library li IV 3]. 
 
 f [Robert Hare, 1565]. 
 
 ** [In the library, a handsome MS.].
 
 1 66 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH, 
 
 ecclesiae contra blasfemias Wiclef. The author is ma- 
 gister Thomas Walden, as may be seen at the end, and 
 it was written anno MCCCCCXVI. * Lastly I found 
 another vol. in fol. membr., wherein was contained: i) 
 Augustinus de civitate Dei libri xxn. 2) eiusdem super 5 
 genesin xn. 3) eiusdem de natura boni. 4) sententiae 
 Damasceni. f Thus much of good I could still discover 
 among the manuscripts, which however lay in miserable 
 disorder. I am surprised that I could light on nothing 
 of the seven recorded in the catal. MSS. Angl., while on IO 
 the other hand not one of those just described is to be 
 found in the catalogo. And though one might be in- 
 clined to suspect that they came to this college when the 
 catalogus had been already printed, yet, as I mentioned 
 before, several codices appear ex dono Richardi Hare 15 
 1603, so that probably no one cared for these codices 
 nor would be at the pains to make an indicem of them. 
 
 48 6 Aug. We inspected Emmanuel college. 
 This collegium is tolerably large, and even the 
 back court well built. In the first is the library 20 
 on the ground floor in a tolerably large room. 
 The books are respectable in number, it is true, 
 but (as usual in England} stand in entire con- 
 fusion, so that I could neither review them by 
 the printed catal. MSS. Angl. nor yet by the 25 
 written one, which lay upon the table, but only 
 
 * [This contains only the first part of the doctrinale. 
 It was written 'per me fratrem Livinum de Preestere 
 alias Presbyteri ordinis gloriose Dei genitricis Marie de 
 monte Carmeli pro fratribus eiusdem ordinis conventus 
 Gandensis, conventui prefato priorante venerabili patre 
 Petro de Brune. AOM.CCCCC. xvi die Septembris. 
 Uffenbach has confused the date of the year and that of 
 the day of the month]. f {Robert Hare, 1552].
 
 TRINITY HALL. EMM. 167 
 
 after laborious search could at last meet with 
 the following. 
 
 Cod. merabr. in fol. , thicker than a hand-breadth : it 
 was the bible in english, 'John Wiclef's translation per- 
 
 5 formed by him an. 83.' The good socius and librarian 
 who escorted us, asserted that it was an atitographum, 
 but it did not seem so to me. It. cod. membr. in fol., 
 three fingers thick, Gregorii M. commentarius in Eze- 
 chielem. It. cod. in 4. membr. Hieronymus contra 
 
 I O lovinianum haereticum de matrimonio et virginitate. It. 
 cod. in fol. membr. , three fingers thick, commentarius in 
 prophetas minores, without the author's name ; for the 
 rest it is a modern codex, very neatly written. It. cod. 
 in fol. Augustinus de Trinitate. In this as in many other 
 
 15 codicibus I found the name Tho. Leigh written. After- 
 wards I saw 14 volumina in fol., mostly a hand-breadth 
 thick, Matthaei Sutlivii opera, of which the first four 
 volumina had this title : adversus praecipuas synagogae 49 
 romanae haereses et errores eorumque auctores patronos 
 
 2O et sectatores disputationum tomi iv. quorum I. de fidei 
 principiis. II. de Christo et ecclesia. in. de sacramentis. 
 iv. de gratia et peccato. The last volumina comprise 
 varia. There was noted on them : Nicolaus Bernard 
 S.T.D. collegii Emanuelis olim alumnus eidem collegio 
 
 25 dono dedit. I also saw vol. in 4. grace, containing 
 Theocriti idyllia etc. //. cod. in 4. chart.* Pindari 
 [MS. vetus et pulchrum : incipit a] Pyth. oda i., it is neat, 
 but not so old, utpote chartaceus. It. vol. in 4. chart, 
 recentiss., and therein variae lectiones evangeliorum ex 
 
 30 quatuor codicibus, nempe I. in collegio Caio-Gonvilli. 
 2. ex cod. Bezae in bibl. publ. 3. MS. Henr. Googef 
 S.T.D. et coll. S. Trin. apud Cantabr. nuper socii. 4. 
 
 * De quo Catal. MSS. Angl. pt. II. p. 92, n. 131, 
 [whence the words in crotchets are supplied], 
 t [Goege, Uffenb.].
 
 1 68 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 ex codice recent, manu descripto, qui turn fuit Thomae 
 Montfortii theologiae doct. Below is cited biblia Waltoni 
 vol. ult. ante var. lect. grace. N. T. In the beginning 
 stands the name of Tho. Leigh, who presented these 
 variantes lectiones, which he had either collected himself, 5 
 or employed another to collect ; I rather suspect the 
 latter, for the writing differs from that of the signature 
 and is far neater. 
 
 Further I saw cod. in fol. chartac., three fingers thick, 
 in which was noted : MS. authenticum a Roberto Cotton IO 
 milite ex archivis collectum, dein ex bibliotheca comitis 
 50 Northamptoniae ad manus Dni. Mich. Bayne de colleg. 
 Trinit. praepos. operi Dni. Compton et a praedicto Dno. 
 Mich. Bayne dono mihi datum 16. Martii 1687-8. Josua 
 Barnes e coll. Eman. On the cover were the arms of 15 
 Jos. Barnes with this lemmate on a flying scroll : haec 
 mihi musa dedit. vix ea nostra voco. Josua Barnes 
 S.T.P. graecae linguae Cantabr. prof. reg. Eman. coll. 
 soc. 1700. bibliothecae eiusdem coll. dedit Eduardi 
 regis Angliae historiae autor egregius 1701-2. Mr. Barnes 2O 
 will no doubt have made great use of it in his ' history of 
 Edward III.' which he has lately published in the English 
 language. * Perhaps he has mentioned it therein ; I 
 must refer to the book to settle the question. Next I 
 saw vol. in 4. membr. It was Palladius de re rustica. 25 
 Deficiunt in eo initio fol. 20 et in fine fol. 5. Otherwise 
 the codex is bonae notae and neatly written. It. cod. in 
 fol. membr., three fingers thick, namely : Vitellionis 
 perspectivae libri x. elegantiss. script, cum fig. 5 schema- 
 tibus in margine. It. cod. membr. in 4., a hand-breadth 3 
 thick. $ifi\iov linro'iaTpiKbv sive rOiv iiriro'ia.Tpntu>v /3//3A('a 
 SutB, medicinae veterinariae lib. n. There was a note : 
 liber magni pretii, quoad partem priorem scriptus accu- 
 ratius, plurima continet, quae in libro typis excuso (scil. 
 Basileae apud Valderum graec. 1537) nan comparent. 35 
 
 * [Cam.br. 1688. fol.].
 
 EMM. MSS. DR. COVEL. 169 
 
 It. a bundle in fol. letters of holy martyrs.* I found 51 
 here also the Officia Ciceronis Moguntiae an. 1465 im- 
 press, in membr. Lastly I saw a cod. in 4. chart. 
 Joannis monachi irvevpaTop-fiTopos disputatio inter corpus 
 5 et animam. Of this codice there was a long entry in the 
 catal. MS. Angl. of which, by the permission of the 
 librarian, I procured a transcript. 
 
 In one of these presses, which contained the 
 manuscripts, we found also a tolerable magnet, 
 
 10 and in a bag some lenses for tubis astronomicis, 
 in their cases, which however were of no great 
 importance. When we had done with the 
 library, we went into the second court of this 
 college, to view the chapel, which is indeed 
 
 1 5 small, but neat. Before the church is a cloister, 
 and above it a fine saloon, called the gallery, in 
 which many portraits hang. 
 
 We dined with the worthy Dr. Covel, who 
 treated us well, and entertained us the whole 
 
 20 afternoon with all sorts of narratives of his 
 eastern travels, and gave us among other things 
 some well-made verses, composed by him on 
 the second edition of Spanheints de praestantia 
 et usu numismatum. 
 
 25 7 Aug. We were in Peterhouse, which, 
 though the oldest college, is yet new and well 
 built. The library is in a poor room of 
 moderate size. The manuscripts stand partly 
 over the door, and at the very top of the cases, 
 
 30 and were so buried in dust, that the librarian was 52 
 
 * They are said to form three volumina. See Catal. 
 MS. Angl. p. II. p. 91 n. 100.
 
 i yo Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 forced to send for a towel, for me to wear as a 
 pinafore, that I might not dirty myself too much. 
 They were also in such disorder, that I could 
 find nothing at all by the catal. MSS. AngL 
 part II. p. 147 seq. They are mostly scholastica, 5 
 and such sorry stuff, that after a painful search 
 I could find nothing but the following : 
 
 Cod. in fol. membr. a hand-breadth thick : cod. lus- 
 tiniani a lib. I. usque ad IX. tit. de abolitionibus. //. 
 cod. in fol. membr. Institutiones iuris civilis cum glossa. IO 
 //. cod. membr. in fol. Cod. iuris civilis cum glossa. This 
 codex was better than the first. Vol. in fol. membr., 
 two fingers thick, Petri Comestoris historia scholastica. 
 The rest was not worth noting. 
 
 Accordingly we went to view the chapel of 1 5 
 this college, which is small indeed, but elegant. 
 In the glass was Christ's Crucifixion of the size 
 of life, well drawn and colored. On either 
 side of the altar hung two scenes of the Passion, 
 well designed in black on blue cloth in golden 20 
 frames. 
 
 In the afternoon the librarian* Mr. Thomas 
 Baker at last shewed us the manuscripts and 
 coins mentioned above.t The manuscripts were 
 in a small, dark, poor room, by the side of the 25 
 library in a press ; they were mostly presented 
 53 by the earl of Southampton, since the publica- 
 tion of the Catalogus MSS. AngL; hence no 
 mention is made of them in that book. 
 
 * [Of St. Johns, see above p. 140 1. 28], 
 t [P. 129 1. 25].
 
 PE TERHO USE. ST. JOHJSPS. 1 7 1 
 
 I saw the following codices,* one chart., a hand- 
 breadth thick, arab. sed litteris syriacis script. In it 
 were i) historia ecclesiastica Georgii Elmacini [K 2], of 
 which Erpenius has published only the second part. 2) 
 
 5 Psalmi Davidis [K 5]. 3) Descriptio Ismaelitismi sive 
 sectae Mahumedanae [K 4]. 4) Preculae sive medita- 
 tiones partini arabicae partim turcicae [K 3 and 6]. 5) 
 Historia Hamtarae filii Siddadae 1'habassae 7. libris 
 compaginatis distinctisque hac nota # [K 8 14]. As 
 
 IO Mr. Baker asserted, Lomeierus makes mention of this 
 codicis.-\ He next shewed us the officia Ciceronis Mo- 
 guntiae per lo. Fust MCCCCLXVI. printed, like the copy 
 above mentioned,^ upon vellum [L 20]. //. vol. in fol. 
 epistolarum, which the famous Clarendon, (whose ex- 
 
 15 cellent history of the rebellion was lately published), when 
 in exile with king Charles II., wrote entirely in cipher 
 to a certain Jo. Barwick, with decyphered copies [H 10 ; 
 printed in the appendix to Bar-wick's life]. It. Pet. 
 Barwick M.D. vita lohannis Barwick (just mentioned), 
 
 20 eccles. S. Pault Lond. decani et collegii S. Joh. evang. 
 apud Cantabrigiens. olim socii, in qua non pauca arcana 
 studia pro regno Britannico, motibus intestinis collapse, 
 in pristinum statum restituendo, difficillimis temporibus 
 impensa in lucem proferuntur [H 9. Printed by Hilkiah 
 
 25 Bedford in 1721. 8vo. ; a translation by the same 1724. 
 
 * [The present numbers of these MSS. are inserted in 
 crotchets in the text. Fuller and more accurate descrip- 
 tions of them may be seen in A descriptive catalogue of 
 the manuscripts and scarce books in the library of St. 
 jfohtfs college, Cambridge. By the Rev. Morgan Cowie. 
 Cambr. 18423. 410. 2 pts.]. 
 
 t In his work de bibliothecis [ed. 2. Ultraj. 1680. 8vo. 
 p. 317 'in collegio lohannis, ubi prima pars historiae 
 Elmacini, syriacis exarata litteris ;' citing Hotting, biblioth. 
 quadrip. proleg. cap. 2], 
 
 J [P. 169 1. 2. The Johnian copy is on paper].
 
 172 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 54 8vo.]. After this Mr. Baker shewed us two printed but 
 remarkable books : i) loh. Roffensis (whose portrait we 
 had seen in Mr. Baker's mused) conciones, printed in Lon- 
 don in 8vo. by Wynkyn de Worde, * a Dutchman, one of 
 the first printers in England. 2) the bible, the first trans- 5 
 lation by authority finished in April an. M.cccccxxxix. 
 
 a Domino factum est istud. f It is printed on parchment, 
 and was originally so scarce, that it was valued at 4.0 
 sterling : now-a-days the word of God is cheaper. J At 
 the beginning is a fine frontispiece, representing Henry IO 
 VIII. to whom Cranmer and other bishops present this 
 version. I also saw cod. in fol. membr. de concilio con- 
 stantiensi [H 7], from which some transcripts were sent 
 to Mr. von der Hardt. See his historian! concilii Con- 
 stantiensis. //. vol. in small fol. a true relation of the 15 
 treaty and ratification of the marriage between k. Charles 
 I. and the lady Henrietta Maria [L 5, as noted by Uffen- 
 bach]. It. cod. chart, in 8vo. Catonis poemata s. dis- 
 ticha, cod. recentior. It. volum. in quo concilium 
 Lateranense sub Alexandra ill. [F n]. //. vol. chart. 2O 
 in 8. MS. [M 7]> which had originally this title, confessio 
 Augustana ; but the word Augustana has been erased, 
 and Saxonica substituted. It begins thus : necesse est 
 interrogates recitare doctrinam etc. ; and ends thus : nee 
 
 55 deleri patiatur coetus ipsum vere invocantes. It is the 2 5 
 saxon confession, composed by Alelanchthon by order of 
 the elector Moritz in Saxony A.D. I55i> in order to be 
 presented to the council of Trent. It. cod. chart, in 8. 
 
 in quo Confessio fidei graecorum [M 8], cuius initium 
 
 * C I S O 9- 141. Bequeathed to the college by Baker]. 
 
 t [This magnificent book is now (1870) exhibited in a 
 case at the w. end of the library]. 
 
 % [At the present time the volume would fetch more 
 than twenty times 40]. 
 
 [In Cowie's catalogue only one Cato, F 10 (3), a 
 vellum 4to. appears].
 
 ST. JOHN'S MSS. 173 
 
 '701 Kparaia vtcrrei iriffTfv<o re Kal 6/j.o\oy> airavra 
 etc. paulo post : iriffreixa els tva &e6v etc. finis oSrus 
 fffrca fioi 6 dfbs |8orjtfbs Kal ravra ra 07*0 rov &tov 
 fvayyf\ia. I further saw vol. membr. in 4. in quo varia 
 
 5 historica, as i) chronica Alexandri M. [G 16 (i)]. 2) 
 historia Huntingtoni [Hen. Hunt. ib. (6)], which has 
 indeed been printed, but in this copy is a special in- 
 sertion, not printed, nor found elsewhere fol. 210 b. 'in- 
 cipit lex que anglie danelage est.' In the margin* 
 
 I O stands this note : ' latine vero lex dacorum est interpre- 
 tata ab invictissimo et glorioso rege anglorum, dacorum, 
 Noragenorum, Suevorum Kannuto instituta et diligenter 
 custodita. ' The beginning is : ' haec est institutio quam 
 emit rex' etc. After this follows fol. 212 b. lex West- 
 
 15 saxiaef and goes on to fol. 215. As Mr. Baker asserted, 
 these laws have never been printed. At the beginning 
 was noted: 'scriptus est hie codex circa annum 1250'; 
 probably by Hickes,J as he had this codex long in his 
 hands. Further we saw Constitutiones quorundam archi- 
 
 2O episc. Cant, et Eborac. [D 13 and 18. 3. N 5]. Con- 
 stitutiones et statuta ecclesiae [ibid.]. Consuetudines 
 monasterii B. Mariae Ebor. [D 28]. It. consuetude 59 
 regni Westsaxiae ; whether this be identical with the 
 above, I forgot to ascertain by collation. Further I saw 
 
 25 a codicem entitled: Contentio inter abbatem S. Dog- 
 maelis et homines de Cardigan [A 5 (5)]. It. S. Edmundi 
 Cant, speculum [E 24 (3). G n (4)].|| It. Mahumed 
 Effendi epistolica institutio persice [K 3 (2)]. //. lo. 
 Eremita de collationibus abbatum [D 10]. //. cod. in 4. 
 
 * [not in the margin, but following in the rubric]. 
 
 t [' Hee sunt consuetudines regis quas habuit in 
 Westsexe']. J [No : in W. Crashaw's hand]. 
 
 [No separate piece under this title is to be found 
 in Cowie]. 
 
 || [Uffenbach says ' S. Edmundi Cant. vita, eiusdem 
 speculum,' by mistake].
 
 174 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 membr., a hand-breadth thick, recentior [D 22]., in quo 
 i) Valerius Maximus. 2) Solinus de mirabilibus mundi. 
 3) Sext. lulii Frontini strategemata. 4) Flores Tullii et 
 aliorum veterum autorum. Afterwards there came into 
 my hand : Fr. Fulcardi de vita S. Botolphi abbatis 5 
 [H 6 (3)]. //. Galfridi monumet. historia Britonum 
 [G 16 (2). G 33 (2)]. //. Galfridi viterbiensis chronicon 
 [G 16 (9)]. It. de gallorum pugna, ' cockfighting' [Seems 
 to be lost]. It. Conr. Gleshinki elementa linguae sla- 
 vonicae [The epistle to Philemon in Slavonic, english and IO 
 german, with some particulars of the Slavonic language ; 
 dedicated to Peter Gunning. L 8]. It. The complaint 
 of Henry d. of Buckingham, a poem [Seems to be lost]. 
 Further cod. in 4. membr. [D 26] in which were i) De 
 spiritu superbiae. 2) Passio SS. Sergii et Bacchi. 3) 15 
 Hincmari remensis vita S. Remigii. 4) Vita Gregorii 
 nazianzeni. 5) Vita S. Mauritii. 6) Liber versificatus 
 de S. Felice martyre. It. Ivo carnotensis de sacramentis 
 neophytorum, de excellentia sacrorum ordinum, et alia 
 eius opuscula [D 19]. //. vol. in fol. [C 6] membr. In- 2O 
 cipit prima pars libri qui vocatur musica ecclesiastica, de 
 imitatione Christi et contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi. 
 The old codices have the title musica ecclesiastica ; this* 
 57 seems to be of the author's times. Initium codicis est 
 cap. I. qui sequitur me, non ambulat in tenebris. After 25 
 the kalendario and the indice capitum, at the beginning 
 of the codicis, stand these verses : 
 
 scriptori merita, mater pia, redde, Maria, 
 
 Rogero Pynchebek de London. 
 
 hunc finem feci, da michi quod merui. t 3 
 
 Moreover I saw vol. recens in 4. of about six sheets 
 
 * [In the original it is ambiguous whether ' dieser' 
 refers to ' Titul' or to ' codex' supplied from ' codices' ; 
 I suppose to the former]. 
 
 t [A copy of Thomas a Kempis arranged in three 
 books].
 
 ST. JOHN'S MSS. 1 7 5 
 
 [L 19] : Vita, riti e costumi degl' Hebrei in brevissimo 
 compendio ma ampliamente raccolti e descritti da Leone 
 Modena Hebreo da Venetia. Ex dono autoris 1628. 
 Boswell.* It. S. Mauritii vita [D 26]. //. Methodii 
 
 5 chronica [Seems to be lost, if there is not a mistake]. 
 //. Nicodemi historia de passione Christi [E 24 )n. cf. 
 B 20 (4)]. It. Orosii historiarum libri 7 [D 23 (i)]. It. 
 cod. in 4. membr., three fingers thick [C 12]. In this 
 is i) Anonymus de templo Dei mystico et morali etc. 
 
 I O but at the end Ovidius de mirabilibus, beginning thus : 
 
 hie serpens ventis pernicior atque sagittas 
 transfugit quaeque etc. (read sagittis) 
 
 and ends with the words : 
 
 hanc quam permodicam sibi pervehit ungue rapinam. 
 I c explicit Ovidius de mirabilibus mundi. 
 
 I further saw [In (3)] de papis chronicon [Martini Po- 
 loni chronicon, containing the account of pope Joan]. 
 It. xn patriarcharum testamenta [G 16 (18)]. It. de 
 Pontii Pilati ortu [? acta Pilati B 20 (4)]. It. cod. in 4. 
 
 2O membr. Plutarchus de virtu te Rom., de virtute Alexandri, 
 et alia eius opuscula, latine [C n (2). (4). (n)]. It. 58 
 Theodori Prisciani gynaecia [D 4 (5)]. //. Probae Fal- 
 coniae virgiliani centones [D22 (5)]. //. Proclus in Pla- 
 tonem de re publica, lat. [in greek F 15]. It. Provinciate 
 
 25 romanum [G 9]. //. Provinciale s. constitutiones anglicae 
 [D 13 and 18. E 3. N 5]. It. Quintilianus de causis 
 [the declamations C 5]. Eiusdem institutiones orat. 
 [D 1 6]. It. Remigii vita [D 26]. It. Salvatoris gesta 
 a Theodosio inventa, ab Ambrosio conscripta [B 20 (4)]. 
 
 30 It. Seneca de institutione morum [B 20 (7)] et alia eius 
 opuscula [E 12 (8). (9). (10). E 17 (8). (9)]. It. Sim- 
 
 * [Uffenbach's notice disposes of Mr. Cowie's con- 
 jecture (p. 1 10) : 'I cannot conceive how this came to the 
 possession of the college, unless it be one of Dr. Ferrari's 
 books'].
 
 176 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 plicii expositio Epicteti [C II 8]. //. Statii Thebaidos 
 lib. XII. [D 12 (i)]. It. Trotula de morbis mulierum 
 [F 1 8 (10)]. //. M. Tullii rhetorica [D 25. Cf. I (12)]. 
 Eiusdem de amicitia [E 17 (12). I (12)] et de senectute 
 [E 17 (13)]. It. Valerii epistolae ad Ruffinum contra 5 
 nuptias expositio [E 12 (i); Mr. Cowie could find no 
 notice of this ; it is printed in Jerome's works]. //. 
 Maph. Vegii Aeneidos liber decimus tertius [H 2]. It. 
 Virgilius, cod. recentior [H 2]. Mr. librarian Laughton, 
 who published Virgil here in 4. anonymously in 1710, IO 
 has made use of it. It. Annotatio librorum ecclesiae 
 S. lacobi de Wellbek ad divinum officium pertinentium 
 [A 9 (2)]. If the time would have permitted, I would 
 gladly have perused this old indicem, for one often finds 
 in such catalogis intelligence of MSS. codicibus, which 1 5 
 are otherwise unknown, or even lost. It. Xenophontis 
 liber de tyrannide [C n (7)]. Thus much we could see 
 only superficially for want of time. 
 
 We were also shewn the cabinet of coins, which 
 scarcely deserves the name. For it is poor in itself, and 2O 
 contains but little, so that there is nothing specially to be 
 59 reported of it. I must however make mention of one 
 gold nummi of Arcadio, which is very fine. On the 
 one side is his face : DN. ARCADIUS P. F. Aug. In 
 aversa* figura he is stans, una manu vexillum cum mono- 25 
 grammate, altera Victoriolam globo insistentem tenens, 
 pede vero hominem prostratum calcans, with this in- 
 scription : VICTORIA AUGG. Below CONOB. and in the 
 centre on either side of the figurae stantis M. D. There 
 were in all about eight gold coins. 3 
 
 8 Atig. We went first to Pembroke college, 
 which is neither large nor fine.t In the very 
 front is a not very large, but well-lighted and 
 
 * \adversa, orig.]. 
 
 f See Delices <? Anglet. torn. I.
 
 ST. JOHN'S. PEMBR OKE. 1 7 7 
 
 neat building, containing the library, and pro- 
 bably built for that purpose. The librarian, a 
 very courteous and still young man, shewed us 
 first of all two fine globos of Bleau. They are 
 5 of the largest size which he made, about 2^ ft. 
 in diameter. He calls himself upon them in 
 latin Guilielmus Caesius. 
 
 Further he shewed us the album amicorum of the 
 famous Abrah. Ortelii, in which very many learned per- 
 
 I O sons have written. It. iv. volumina chart, in foL recent 
 each two fingers thick, in which was contained Nicetas 
 graece, very neatly written. //. cod. in fol., a hand- 
 breadth thick, membr. Aulus Gellius, an incomparably 
 neat and fine codex ; it is to be lamented that some rogue 
 
 1 5 has cut out all the golden initials, and consequently QQ 
 greatly disfigured and mutilated the codicem ; for it was 
 necessary to supply the context cut away on the other 
 side. I remember to have read, but cannot tell where, 
 that a librarian of the Vatican spoilt very many codices 
 
 2O in this manner, and is said to have received gold for 
 them to the value of several hundred scudi. Abeat in 
 malam crucem talis bibliothecarius ! The codices just 
 mentioned a^e not to be found in the catal. MSS. Angl. 
 because they came here after the date of that list. But 
 
 25 amongst those that are there recorded is very much trash, 
 much too, as the librarian assured us, has disappeared. 
 Yet I found the following : Virgilii Aeneid. libri xi. * the 
 last verse is : 
 
 vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbras. 
 
 30 Immediately upon this follow the libri bucolicon. It is 
 a cod. membr. in 8. recentior. It. Petrarchae Africae 
 descriptio versibus.f Cod. est chart, recentior. Epis- 
 
 * Catal. MSS. Angl. p. 159, n. 2048. 
 t ibid. n. 2049. 
 
 N
 
 178 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 tolae Hieronymi etc.* Codex membr. in 8. There is 
 also in this codice a lapidarium, or french description 
 gemmarum, about six leaves, the remainder is wanting 
 
 61 at the end. It. Tullius de officiis,f lost. It. Valerius 
 Maximus, J cod. in fol., as thick as one's thumb, membr. 5 
 recentior. It. Edictum lustiniani imperatoris rectae fidei 
 confessionem continens (as the title runs), et refutationem 
 haeresium, quae adversantur catholicae Dei ecclesiae. 
 Cod. membr. in 8. recentior. The beginning of this 
 codicis is : scientes quod nihil aliud sic potest misericor- I O 
 dem Dominum placare, quam ut omnes christiani unum 
 idemque sapiant in recta et immaculata fide nee sint dis- 
 sensiones etc. Lastly, Armachanus de quaestionibus 
 Armenorum.|| Cod. est membr. in fol. mutilatus, nam 
 libri novem postremi desunt. 1 5 
 
 As we could find no more, we went for a 
 while into the alreadylT mentioned Coffee-house, 
 of a Greek. In the morning you generally meet 
 the learned there, who read the paper, and 
 sometimes drink coffee and smoke tobacco. 20 
 Learned journals are also found here, known 
 by the title of British Apollo and the Athenian 
 oracle. Every one, learned or unlearned, may 
 find some entertainment in them. It were well, 
 if in Germany, and especially in universities, 25 
 learned men would found such a collegium. 
 
 This time we found in the Coffee-house, among 
 other scholars, the famous Dr.** William Whis- 
 ton, who by his many singular opinions, and 
 
 62 specially on account of the Arianismi, which 30 
 
 * ibid. p. 1 6 1, n. 2138. f MM- n - 2I 39- 
 
 J ibid. n. 2142. ibid. n. 2149. || ibid. n. 2152. 
 IT [p. 132, L 8], ** [A mistake].
 
 PEMBR. WHISTON. ST. CATH. 179 
 
 he boldly professes, has made himself only too 
 notorious, particularly in his lately published 
 opusculis, wherein he mocks at the Trinity very 
 shamefully ; for example, having concluded one 
 
 5 of these little tracts in nomine Patris, Filii et 
 Spiritus S. he adds at the end of the voluminis 
 as an erratum : dele ' Filii? I have bought all 
 his things. Another thing that has caused much 
 noise is, that though doct. theologiae* he him- 
 
 10 self baptised his child by a threefold immersion. 
 He is, it seems, a man of very quick and 
 ardent spirit, tall and spare, with a pointed 
 chin, and wears his own hair. In look he 
 greatly resembles Calvin. He is very fond of 
 
 15 speaking, and argues with great vehemence. 
 
 As there was little time to spare, we went 
 on to Catharine hall, a large and fine building, 
 as is represented in the copperplate.t The 
 library, if indeed three or four hundred books 
 
 20 deserve the name, is to the left, up stairs. 
 They are mostly historical books and patres. 
 We were shewn a single codicem MS., the only 
 one they had, as we were assured. 
 
 It is membr. recenlior, and contains i) historian) 
 
 25 Alexandri M. defective at the beginning. 2) de phi- 
 
 losophia per litteras facta collatio. Its initium : saepe 
 
 ad aures meas fando pervenit etc. 3) Peregrinatio Anti- 63 
 
 ochiae per Urbanum papam facta ; beginning : Cum 
 
 iam appropinquasset ille terminus etc. 4) Descriptio 
 
 30 Angliae ; beginning : Britannia igitur est latissima in- 
 
 sularum etc. The last two capita are : de victories 
 
 * [M.A. only]. f Dtlica <f Anglet. torn. I,
 
 i8o Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 Anglorum regis Henrici secundi ; the last of all : de 
 titulis et triumphis eiusdem variis recapitulatio brevis. 
 5) Tractatus de physiognomia. 6) and last : Incipit pro- 
 logus magistri Gregorii de mirabilibus quae Romae 
 quondam fuerunt vel adhuc sunt, et quorum vestigia ac 5 
 praesens memoria hodie manet. This last treatise begins : 
 Multo sociorum meorum rogatu. Something is lost at 
 the end. 
 
 In the afternoon we were in Christ's college;* 
 it is a tolerably large, but old and low building. 10 
 
 9 Aug. On Sunday afternoon we went again 
 to Trinity college for the sermon, and also heard 
 fine music, especially on the organ. The Eng- 
 lish excel specially herein, whereas on all other 
 instruments they are mean performers ; though 1 5 
 they also make much ado of their chimes, and 
 aim at an artistic and agreeable style of ringing ; 
 but we could not fancy the clatter, rather were 
 much annoyed, to hear it so often : for the 
 scholars or young students mount the towers 20 
 and ring when they please, often for hours to- 
 
 64 gether. Accidents often happen in bell-ringing, 
 some students being struck, or falling down and 
 breaking leg and arm. 
 
 10 Aug. we were in Bennet or Corporis 25 
 Christi college.^ It is an old and poor building, 
 indeed one of the ugliest colleges, lying entirely 
 among the houses, so that one cannot see it, 
 and must approach it by a mean entrance. But 
 this collegium has the choicest manuscripts of 30 
 all, which can only be seen with great difficulty. 
 
 * See Delices d 1 Angleterre, torn. I. f ibid.
 
 CHRIST 'S. TRIN. CC.C.C. 181 
 
 For as it is a legacy, which, if a single codex is 
 lost, passes to another collegium, there are three 
 keys to it, kept by three different persons, 
 whom it is very difficult to bring together. 
 
 5 However on the special recommendation of 
 messieurs Bentley, Baker and Dr. Ferrari they 
 were shewn to us, and that by a man of great 
 courtesy and learning, especially in respect of 
 the lives of scholars and bibliography, named 
 
 10 Waller, socius eiusdem collegii. Such men are 
 rarely met with in England. The manuscripta 
 are above the chapel, in a small, dark, very 
 ugly room. Over the door of this building I 
 found the following inscription : Honoratiss. Dn. 
 
 15 Nicolaus BACON, custos magni sigilli Angliae, 
 extruxit Dominicae salutis 1578, regni Elisa- 65 
 bethae 21, anno aetatis suae 61, cancellariatus 21. 
 There were also three coats of arms. When we 
 expressed our surprise at the man's generosity 
 
 20 in erecting this building at his own cost, we 
 must hear from Mr. Waller that he had sup- 
 plied nothing but the door or the archway. 
 
 I now come to the manuscripts, of which I saw the 
 
 principal, as time would allow, by help of the catal. 
 
 25 MSS. Angl.,* namely N. [81] Homerus, qui Theodori 
 
 archiepiscopi fuisse creditur, so is reported in the cata- 
 
 logo ;t but though the name Theodori is written also at 
 
 * [I have substituted Nasmith's numbers, by which 
 the MSS. are now known, for the numbers retained from 
 James by Bernard; Uffenbach's numbers are confused]. 
 
 t [No : it says : ' fuit quondam Theodori archiep. 
 sed fides sit penes ledoren?}.
 
 i8 2 Z.C.v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 the bottom of the first page, it is only a paper codex, and 
 seems far more modern. N. [129 (i). cf. 276 (i)] 
 Eutropius is a cod. membr. N. [290] Chronica Odonis ; 
 it contains a genealogiam regum Francorum, but consists 
 only of five foliis membr. N. [91] L'hystoire des seig- 5 
 neurs de Gaures. * The figures in this cod. membr. in 
 fol., highly extolled in the catalogue, are nothing at all 
 to speak of. N. [45] De origine gentis Francorum. 
 This codex is membr. in fol. The genealogy in it begins 
 a Turchoto sive Torgoto et Francione, it. Marchonuro IO 
 et Genebaldo, ducibus Sicambriae. N. [76] Annales 
 Stephani [Radulphi de Diceto annales]. There is nothing 
 fine in the binding, t rather it is all worm-eaten, but in- 
 66* side the codex is neat, yet must be ranked as modern. 
 N.- [16 and 26] Matthaei Parisiensis etc. cod. in fol. 15 
 membr. But the figures J in it are very poor. N. [318] 
 Vita S. Eduardi regis; and Turpinus. Cod. membr. in 
 4. somewhat modern. N. [149] Egesippi historia etc. 
 cod. membr. in fol. N. [23]. Prudentius etc. cod. 
 membr. in fol. The figures|| are numerous it is true, but 20 
 poor. The Orosius, which is bound with it, is not so 
 neat, nor yet so old as the Prudentius. N. [181] Guli- 
 elmi Gemeticensis de ducibus Normannorum. cod. 
 membr. in fol. beginning : quantae humilitatis Rollo fuit. 
 N. [139] Historia omnimoda etc. It bore the note : de 25 
 historia Symeonis dunelmensis liber impressus amplior 
 est in nonnullis, quae hie desunt. N. [389] Vita S. 
 
 * \^T historic des Gaules," 1 UfFenbach]. 
 
 f [Catal. MSS. Angl. p. 132, n. 1298, liber ob scrip- 
 turam et ligaturam notabilis sine dubio\. 
 
 J [ibid. n. 1306, illustrata coloribtis et figuris arti- 
 ficiosissime pictis\. 
 
 For which see Vossius de histor. lat. lib. 2. c. 23, 
 p. 299. 
 
 || \Catal. ibid. p. 133, n. 1332, liber ob characters* et 
 picturas splendide antiquus].
 
 C.C.C.C. MSS. 183 
 
 Pauli primi heremitae, cod. membr. in 8. mai. formae 
 litteris Saxonicis. N. [406] Senecae tragoediae etc. cod. 
 in 4. membran. recentior. N. [400] Descriptio Hyber- 
 niae etc. cod. in 4. ab initio membranaceus, but the 
 
 5 itinerarium Cambriae and what follows is on paper. 
 N. [197] quattuor evangelia. This cod. membr. in 4. is 
 incomparable, and in form of the characters and antiquity 
 very like the codici Bezae, of which I have already given 
 an account;* at the beginning is a preface, litteris saxoni- 
 
 IO cis. When I was admiring this old codicem, Mr. Waller 
 shewed me one yet far fairer and older [n. 286]. It is 
 membr. and in fol. At the beginning [of 197] were 67 
 some folia of paper, containing some judicial matters ; 
 upon this follows the old codex, bearing the inscription 
 
 1 5 fragmentum evangeliorum. hie liber olim missus a Greg- 
 orio papa ad Augustinum monachum, sed nuper sic 
 mutilatus. But it contains properly the evangelium 
 sancti lohannis lat. litteris uncialibus et antiquiss. One 
 cannot but admire the beauty, uniformity and blackness 
 
 2O of the letters of this codice. At the beginning is an 
 eagle, as the emblem of this evangelist, with five crosses 
 very neatly painted, and these words one on each side 
 IMAGO AQUILAE. It is a pity that some leaves are 
 wanting in this codice at the end, which however Mr. 
 
 25 Waller asserted were in the bibliotheca Cottoniana.t 
 The last words are : et cum ducerent eum, adprehende- 
 runt Simonem quendam Cyrunensem (al. Cyrenens.) 
 venientem de villa. I found afterwards that these words 
 are not in Johanne, but Luke xxiii. 26. Probably there- 
 
 30 fore it is a harmony of the gospels, or lastly of the 
 history of the passion. I may however safely say, that 
 
 [p. 141, 1. 2]. 
 
 t [Otho C 5 burnt in Oct. 1731]. 
 
 J [It contains 6 fragments of John between I I and 
 X 29 ; and 9 of Luke, between iv 5 and xxm 26. See 
 Evangelia Augustini gregoriana. An historical and
 
 1 84 Z C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 I never saw so old and fair a codicem latinum, for I con- 
 sider it much older than the codicem Bezae, and that of 
 S. Bonifacio, of which they boast at Fulda, and of which 
 I have given account in the diary of my journey to Saxony 
 in 1709. N. [468] Psalterium latino-graecum etc. cod. 5 
 68 membr. in 12. not very old. What is very peculiar is, 
 that the greek also is written in latin characters, owing 
 to the ignorance of the greek language which prevailed 
 in the middle age ; just as in the first years after the in- 
 vention of printing also, from want of greek type, the IO 
 greek words in the autoribus class, and patribus were 
 either omitted or printed in latin characters. Mr. Waller 
 shewed me another cod. membran. psalterium [n. 411, 
 saec. ix], which was much older. N. [158] Rhetorica 
 Tullii. It is said* to have been Theodori archiep., but 15 
 it cannot possibly be of that date, though it is tolerably 
 old and fine. N. [414] Otia imperialia Gervasii tilburi- 
 ensis. There follows also Turpinus. Cod. membr. in 4. 
 varia manu descriptus. N. [403] Euripides gr. Again 
 falsely ascribed Theodoro, for it is a not remarkably old 20 
 codex papyro nilotica. But there are only two tragoe- 
 diae, namely Hecuba and Phoenissae cum scholiaste 
 graeco. N. [173] Chronica Alfricif etc. cod. in fol. 
 membr. charact. saxonico. With it also Sedulius. N. 
 [430] Liber Martini episcopij etc. Some one has noted 25 
 on the margin of the codicis itself : Festus Senecae ; 
 
 illustrative description of the MSS. nos. CCLXXXVI. and 
 cxcvir. in the Parker library of Corpus Christi college, 
 Cambridge. . . . By James Goodwin, B.D. Cambr. 1847. 
 4to. (Cambr. Ant. Soc.), where facsimiles and illustra- 
 tions of no. 197 are given, y. O. Westwood, in his 
 Palaeograpkia sacra pictoria, pt. 7, had done as much 
 for no. 286]. 
 
 * Catal. MSS. Angl. [p. 139, n. 1498]. 
 
 \ \Chronicon saxonicum, Nasmith]. 
 
 \ So called in catal. ibid. [p. 141, n. 1554].
 
 C.C.C.C. MSS. 185 
 
 which is also incorrect, cod. in 4. membr. It is only a 
 poor scholastic treatise of morals. N. [401, apparently] 
 Liber valde peregrina lingua.* But this is very ridi- 69 
 culous : for, if not Alcoran, it is however an arabic book ; 
 
 5 another proof, how ill the catal. MSS. Angl. has been 
 compiled. That I had made no mistake, but this was 
 really the book in question, I was assured, not only by 
 the number, but also by Mr. Waller, who was provoked, 
 when I shewed him the blunder, f N. [478] Psalterium 
 
 10 lingua armeniaca etc. Mr. Waller could not find this. 
 N. [101] Huntingdon et reliqua also did not appear. 
 Next I enquired after the codicibus named by Chamber- 
 layne, J but neither of us could find any of them except 
 the luvencum [n. 304]. It is certainly a fine cod. 
 
 1 5 membr. in 4. litteris uncialibus, beginning : immortale 
 nihil mundi etc. But the end is wanting. Of the cod. 
 Virgilii, said to have been written by a bishop, Mr. 
 Waller professed to know nothing. || 
 
 Lastly I asked respecting the volumine 
 20 epistolarum, containing amongst others the letter 
 Lutheri, with regard to which Burnet made so 
 ugly a blunder. IF There were more than six 
 fine volumina variarum epistolarum. The epis- 
 tola Lutheri ad Bucerum** is written in 4to. 
 
 * So in the catalogo [p. 145, n. 1651]. 
 
 j- \_Nasmith : ' an arabic treatise on various subjects 
 of theology, metaphysics and history, in the african cha- 
 racter, and so ill written that it is scarce legible']. 
 
 J Present state of great Britain, ed. 23. p. 303. 
 
 As stated in the Ritterplatz, torn. 2. ' library 
 opened,' p. 242. || [Not to be found in Nasmith~\. 
 
 IT As related at great length by Tenzel in the monat- 
 lichen Unterredungen torn. x. an. 1698. p. 51. 
 
 ** Volumen miscellaneorum C. dictum infol. [= n. 
 102] p. 273. [Cf. Burnet> hist. ref. III. iv. records 
 n. I].
 
 1 86 Z C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 70 The writing is somewhat illegible, as Luther's 
 hand always is, yet it is still easy to recognise 
 that it is not said nihilo minus, but nihil minus. 
 Most of all must we wonder that Burnet should 
 commit this errorem, if \\Q\.fraudem, seeing that 5 
 his very epistle is transcribed throughout only a 
 leaf before, and that very legibly, in a hand in 
 which the words nihil minus are to be read dis- 
 tinctly and without any difficulty. Mr. Waller 
 assured me indeed, that Mr. Burnet \&&. acknow- 10 
 ledged and recanted his error, but could not tell 
 me, or could not remember, in what treatise. 
 
 12 Aug. We were again at the public 
 library, expecting to meet still with one or 
 another codicem, but I found nothing but the 15 
 following : 
 
 Vol. in fol. chart., a hand-breadth thick, entitled : 
 Botanicum antiquum graecum, ebraeum, arabicum, tur- 
 cicum, Smyrna Asiae portabatur anno MDCLXXXII. It 
 consists simply of icones plantarum, florum etc. painted 20 
 in water-colours, not very elegantly and finely, but yet 
 with great truth to nature, as I could infer particularly 
 from some well-known plantis. Here and there was a 
 description in arabic, but mostly only the names in the 
 above-mentioned four* languages. //. cod. membr. in 25 
 8., one finger thick, recentior, namely: Sallustii Crispi 
 bellum catilinarium [li VI 20 = 1899, catal. Ill 517]. It. 
 cod. membr. in 8., one thumb thick [Ff vi 13 = 1351, 
 
 71 catal. II 517] beginning: incipiunt versus magistri Mi- 
 chaelis cornubiensis contra magistrum Henricum Abri- 3 
 censem coram domino abbate Westmonasterii et dn. decano 
 Sit. Pauli Londoniarum, primis iudicibus, et postea coram 
 
 * \three, orig.].
 
 C. C. C. C. PUS L1C LIBRARY. 187 
 
 domino Eliensi episcopo et cancellario Grantebrigie una 
 cum universitate magistrorum. In the same codice is 
 also 2) spere (sphaerae) tractatus magistri Roberti lin- 
 colniensis episcopi. 3) eiusdem de compositione quad- 
 
 5 rantis ; and 4) de philosophia. 5) et ult. * liber de 
 universis passionibus falconum, accipitrum, austurum, 
 spervariorum, et qualiter eos curare poteris et qualiter 
 eos nutrire et mundare poteris, partim latine, partim 
 gallice. It. cod. membr. in 12 [Kk vi 16 = 2096, catal. 
 
 IO in 714], t in cuius fine legitur : explicit historia Bruti 
 script. Wigorn. an. Dni. MCCC. vicesimo septimo. This 
 leaves us none the wiser, as to what the book is ; J but it 
 is a historia britannica a Bruto usque ad Cadwalladrum 
 regem. Upon this follow various prophetiae, as pro- 
 
 1 5 phetia S. Thomae archiepiscopi ; prophetia Gildae ab- 
 batis glastonensis ; prophetia Hilpes philosophi ; prophe- 
 tia abbatis Joachimi etc. cum pluribus rhythmis propheticis 
 tarn latinis quam anglicis. Further I saw a cod. in fol. 
 membr. [Kk in 23 = 2009, catal. in 631], wherein was 
 
 20 indeed noted, that it contained Valerii Maximi de dictis 
 etc. lib. IX ; it. lib. Tullii de officiis complete ; it. libel- 
 lum paradoxorum etc. ; but I found only that Valer. Max. 
 was in this codice, perhaps the rest has formerly been cut 72 
 away, though I could not detect it in the volumine. It. 
 
 25 vol. in 4. membr. a hand- breadth thick, pretty fairly 
 written, beginning : incipit liber de homousion et homoe- 
 usion. In it are collected variae tarn graecorum quam 
 latinorum patrum sententiae de Trinitate. The last 
 chapter has this rubric : quod persona aliquando dicatur 
 
 30 essentia. On this follows in this same codice : incipit 
 liber de ignorantia. Quid ignorantia sit, multi ignorant. 
 
 * [Uffenbach overlooked several other pieces in the 
 volume]. 
 
 t [Once the property of George Herbert's friend : 
 ' Nicholas Ferrar ex dono Danielis Birkett']. 
 
 J [Geoffrey of Monmouth],
 
 1 88 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 This last tract however consists of only eleven leaves. 
 As I could find nothing further among the manuscripts of 
 special importance, we again inspected the numismata, 
 as they, though contained in a cabinet furnished with 
 doors, nevertheless are not locked up ; for although 5 
 nothing of extraordinary value is amongst them (as in- 
 deed I found no occasion this time to take any further 
 notes) yet the intrinsic worth in gold and silver is suf- 
 ficient to tempt a rogue.* Over this cabinet stands a 
 desk, containing three books bound in velvet, namely : I o 
 lacobi I. regis and then two volum. of Verulamii operibus. 
 They are all presents from their authors to this university, 
 as appears from the epistles prefixed, of which I ordered 
 copies. They are very friendly, and that of the king 
 very graciously and skilfully composed. They are as 15 
 follows : 
 
 I. 
 
 73 ' ' lacobus D. G. Magnae Britanniae, Franciae et Hiber- 
 niae rex, fidei defensor etc. postquam decrevisset public! 
 iuris facere quae sibi erat commentatus, ne videretur vel 2O 
 palam pudere literarum quas privatim amaverat, vel eorum 
 seu opinion! seu invidiae cedere qui regis maiestatem 
 literis dictitabant imminui, vel christiani orbis et in eo 
 principum iudicia expavescere, quorum maxime intererat 
 vera esse omnia quae scripsit ; circumspicere etiam coepit 2 5 
 certum aliquod libro suo domicilium, locum (si fieri pos- 
 set) semotum a fato, aeternitati et paci sacrum : ecce 
 commodum sua se obtulit academia nulla paene orbi 
 notior quam Cantabrigiae, ubi exulibus musis iam olim 
 melius est quam in patria, ubi a codicibus famae nuncu- 3 
 patis tineae absterrentur legentium manibus, sycophantae 
 scribentium ingeniis. In hoc immortali literarum sacrario 
 inter monumenta clarorum virorum, quos quantum di- 
 lexerit studiorum participatione satis indicavit, in biblio- 
 theca publica lucubrationes has suas Deo Opt. Max., cui 35 
 
 * [' einen losen Fellow 1 ].
 
 JAMES /. FRAS. BACON. 189 
 
 ab initio devotae erant, aeternum consecrat in venerando 
 almae matris sinu, unde contra saeculorum rubiginem 
 fidam illi custodiam promittit, et contra veritatis hostes 
 stabile patrocinium. 
 
 5 n. 
 
 "Franciscusde Verulamio, Vice-comes Sti. Albani, almae 74 
 
 matri incl. academiae cantabrigiensi etc. 
 Debita filii, qualia possum, persolvo. Quod vero 
 facio, idem et vos hortor; ut augmentis scientiarum 
 
 IO strenue incumbatis, et in animi modestia libertatem in- 
 genii retineatis, neque talentum a veteribus concreditum 
 in sudario reponatis. Affuerit procul dubio et affulserit 
 divini luminis gratia, si humiliata et submissa religioni 
 philosophia clavibus sensus legitime et dextre utamini et 
 
 15 amoto omni contradictionis studio quisque cum alio ac 
 si ipse secum disputet. Valete. 
 
 III. 
 
 " Cum vester films sim et alumnus, voluptati mihi erit 
 partum meum nuper editum vobis in gremium dare : aliter 
 
 2O enim velut pro exposito eum haberem. Nee vos moveat, 
 quod via nova sit. Necesse est enim talia per aetatum 
 et saeculorum circuitus evenire. Antiquis tamen suus 
 constat honos, ingenii scilicet ; nam fides verbo Dei et 
 experientiae tantum debetur. Scientias autem ad ex- 
 
 25 perientiam retrahere, non conceditur; at easdem ab ex- 
 perientia de integro excitare operosum certe, sed pervium. 
 Deus vobis et studiis vestris faveat. " 
 
 Near these lay a book, the like of which for smallness 75 
 I had never seen in all my life, for it is not above half an 
 
 30 inch square, and yet (what is surprising) is not only bound 
 in black leather, but has also silver clasps and settings on 
 the cover, at the edges and also in the middle. The 
 book has thirty leaves, is in hebrew, and probably the 
 decalogus.
 
 1 9 o Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 After dinner we went first to Jesus college, 
 which lies quite out of the town. It looks just 
 like a monastery. In the great square or court 
 of the college stands an exceedingly large walnut- 
 tree, with very wide-spreading branches. Our 5 
 servant was ordered to measure the extent of 
 ground covered by them, and found that it was 
 96 ft. across from side to side. The hall of this 
 college is elegant, though not large. The library 
 is small; still it comprises many good books, 10 
 particularly on history. Of manuscripts only 
 seven are named in the Catal. MSS. Angl.* 
 but I found in a written catalogo, that there must 
 be more than fifty here, of which however we 
 could see nothing at all, as they are locked up, 15 
 and the librarian out of town. I selected how- 
 ever the following : 
 
 Excerpta de Paulo de cura aegrorum. Fragmentum 
 morale anonymi. Priscianus de accentibus. Dioscorides 
 76 de natura herbarum. Tractatus de natura lapidum, gal- 2O 
 lice, fol. Poggii et aliorum epistolae etc. Boethius de 
 Trinitate. Anselmi monologion et proslogion ; eiusdera 
 tractatus de incarceratione Christi ; eiusdem de veritate 
 et libertate arbitrii ; eiusdem de casu diaboli ; liber cur 
 Deus sit homo ; liber de conceptu virginali et peccato 2 5 
 originis, 8vo. 
 
 As we had soon done our work here, we went again 
 into Trinity library, where I took pains to find those 
 manuscripts also, which Chamberlayne mentions p. 303. 
 The first is : the codex holmiensis, containing a great 3 
 part of Origen's works etc. The librarian's substitutes 
 knew nothing of it (as in general their knowledge of 
 
 * Part 2. p. 162.
 
 JES US. TRINITY MSS. 1 9 1 
 
 books is very small). Hence, as also in the printed 
 .catal. MSS. Angl. there is no special notice of this codicis 
 holmiensis, I was forced to look up all codices, which 
 contained the least scrap of Origine, which gave me no 
 
 5 little trouble, as they were scattered up and down. First 
 then I enquired for Origenis VIII homiliae de quibusdam 
 gestis etc. * This is not what I sought, for it is only a 
 cod. iatinus et recentior in 4. yet membr., two fingers 
 thick. //. Origenis tractatus in vetus testamentum. f 
 
 IO This also is a cod. lat. recentior in fol. membr., com- 
 mentarius in genesin et exodum. Againj Origenes 
 super exodum, leviticum et lib. numerorum, also a cod. 77 
 latin, recentior in 4. membran. //. aliquot Origenis 
 homiliae, cod. in fol. membr. nitide scriptus, sed recen- 
 
 1 5 tior et Iatinus ; begins : incipit omelia nona Origenis de 
 altari, quod edificavit IHC (i. e. Jesus) et scripsit in 
 lapidibus eius deuteronomium etc. //. Gregorius de mi- 
 raculis etc. et Origenes in cantica.|| Cod. etiam est 
 membr. in 8. litteris maiusculis et satis antiquus sed 
 
 2O Iatinus ; begins : epithalamium Origenis super cantica 
 canticorum. I asked further for Origenes in Matthaeum,H 
 and this was at last the codex graecus holmiensis of 
 which I was in quest ; as I found also initio voluminis 
 this testimony : hie est ille codex holmiensis, quern toties 
 
 25 laudat Petrus Dan. Huetius in suis origenianis. Donavit 
 Herberto Thorndicio Isaacus Vossius. On the following 
 page stood : Trinit. col. Cantabrig. Ex dono reverendi 
 clarissimique viri Herberti Thorndicke huius collegii 
 quondam socii anno Domini 1670. The codex is cer- 
 
 30 tainly very neat and tolerably old, the character litte- 
 rarum, the abbreviations, etc. greatly resemble my codici 
 of Constantino VIII. Porphyrogenneto. It is a folio, 
 
 * Catal. MSS. Angl. p. 94. n. 1 76. 
 t ibid. p. 97. n. 336. % ibid. n. 341. 
 
 ibid. p. 100. n. 503. || ibid. n. 505. 
 
 H ibid. p. 107. n. 573.
 
 1 92 Z. C.v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 a hand-breadth thick, written on glossy paper ; one 
 might be tempted to take it for chartam indicam or 
 
 78 niloticam ; but here and there many leaves are found 
 which are not glossy ; so that one sees, that it is only 
 common paper. But to what this codex holmiensis owes 5 
 its name, and what we are to think of its intrinsic worth 
 and goodness, may probably be ascertained from Huetio 
 
 as above cited. The second codex extolled by Chamber- 
 layne* is : the epistles of S. Paul supposed to be writ by 
 venerable Bede. The sub-bibliothecarius brought a cod. IO 
 in 4. membr., two fingers thick, which was supposed to 
 be the one in question. I could not refrain from aston- 
 ishment on looking at it ; for in the first place it was not 
 the epistolae Pauli, but according to the title of the codicis 
 itself : Beda super epistolas canonicas, beginning : inci- 1 5 
 pit expositio Bede presbyteri in epistolam B. lacobi apos- 
 toli etc. In the next place, the codex is so modern, that 
 even a child can see that it is not so old nor could have 
 been written by Beda. Notwithstanding all this, and 
 though the sub-bibliothecarius himself must confess, that 2O 
 the statement was worthless, still he assured me that no 
 other codex existed, and that this was the one of which 
 the story was told. The third manuscript spoken of by 
 Chamberlayne* is : Eadwin's psalterium triplex, being the 
 most valuable psalter in England. This codex is indeed 2 5 
 to be admired for its monstrous bulk. I never saw a larger 
 
 79 book either on vellum or paper. This book is about 
 2^ ft. long, but only I ^ broad, on vellum with letters 
 
 of an altogether monstrous size. Nevertheless, the codex 3 
 is not for all that very old, nor can it possibly date from 
 the temporibus Eadwini ; for the letters, large as they are, 
 are yet not square, but lombard, resembling those in the 
 old missals. The spelling also is that of the last centuries 
 before the invention of printing; for not only is a mere 35 
 e everywhere written for ae, but also michi for mihi. 
 
 * I.e.
 
 TRINITY. CHRIST S. ST. JO. 193 
 
 These and other indications prove it is not so old, and 
 cannot be ranked beyond the thirteenth, or at the utmost 
 the twelfth, century. 
 
 13 Aug. We inspected the library of Chrisfs 
 
 5 college. It is in a poor room, and itself of no 
 great importance; as then no manuscripts are 
 recorded of it in the catal. MSS. Angl., and he 
 who shewed us the library, to our surprise, 
 professed to know of none, we hastened from 
 
 10 thence and went once more to the public 
 library in the expectation of finding something 
 else of value, but I lit on nothing to speak of, 
 and we resolved to take our departure the next 
 day. 
 
 15 In the afternoon we paid a parting visit to 
 St. John's library, to see amongst other matters 
 some things mentioned by Arnold* where he 80 
 justly commends magnam librorum sacrorum 
 graeco-barbarorum copiam. They stand together 
 
 20 in the repositorio which is marked Tt and bears 
 the following rubric : libri liturgici; item hebr. 
 arab. There is a more considerable number 
 of them, than I ever saw together before of the 
 same kind. Maimonidis Mishna thorah in iv. 
 
 25 volum., which is specially extolled,t I found 
 indeed in the catalogo, but not on the shelf 
 therein assigned to it, which was empty; on 
 which Mr. bibliothecarius Baker assured me 
 that it was lent out. At the same time we 
 
 30 took leave of Mr. Baker, as also afterwards of 
 
 * In epistolis Richterianis, p. 41 5. f ibid. 
 
 O
 
 i 9 4 -Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 Dr. Bentley and Dr. Ferrari, and packed up in 
 the evening. I must further mention that I 
 also enquired of Mr. Baker respecting the 
 wandering Jew, who is said to have been here.* 
 But neither he, nor others whom I likewise 5 
 asked, as Dr. Covel etc., professed to know any- 
 thing at all about it ; which astonishes me the 
 more, as Tenzel, if I remember right, reports 
 that the professores of this university conferred 
 with this wandering Jew, and were surprised at 10 
 the many languages spoken by him, and indeed 
 amazed at his wonderful stories of things which 
 he professed to have experienced and seen. 
 81 Before I relate my departure I must, ac- 
 cording to my wont, go through my notamina, 1 5 
 and report what we were unable to see, how- 
 ever much we wished it. I must lament then, 
 that I could not speak with the following learned 
 and famous men, because (as is usual in summer) 
 they were either residing in London or in the 20 
 country. Among them it is only fair to name 
 first Dr. Laughton, the bibliothecarium of the 
 university. For if he had been in residence, 
 we should (thanks to his singular courtesy, 
 which was very highly commended to us) not 25 
 only have examined the public library more 
 thoroughly and better, but also his own collec- 
 tions in manuscriptis and nummisA Moreover 
 
 * As Tenzel relates at length, in Monatlichen Un- 
 terredungen t. vi. an. 1694. p. 799. 
 
 f- Extolled by Chaniberlayne, p. 303.
 
 LAUGHTON. BARNES. BAKER. 195 
 
 we were unable (more 's the pity !) to converse 
 with Dr. Barnes, Mr. Clarck, and John Eachard, 
 all three of whom have made themselves very 
 famous by many publications ; as also Mr. 
 
 5 Cotes, prof, of astronomy and experimental 
 philosophy, who generally shews strangers many 
 ctiriosa in the way of instruments and experi- 
 ments. Dr. Barnes, who is said to be quite 
 deaf, has resided the whole summer on an estate 
 
 10 six miles off, which he bought to live in peace, 
 after marrying an old woman for her money. 
 
 Much remained which we had noted down 
 and would gladly have seen, in libraries and 
 elsewhere, namely in biblioth.publ. Acad. Lexicon 
 
 15 Syro-arabicum MS. Bar Bahlull* That of 82 
 Bedwello we did see, as was mentioned before ;t 
 it is noticeable however that it was bequeathed 
 with an arabic fount of type, as Arnold also 
 reports. Of the public library it is elsewhere^ 
 
 20 related, that it was greatly increased by the 
 duke of Buckingham from the library Erpenii, 
 which is certain; but that the library should 
 have been sold by Cromwell to asiatic Jews, no 
 one professed to have heard, not even Mr, 
 
 25 Baker, who however, as I was assured, designs 
 to write Athenas Cantabrigienses (on the plan of 
 what Ant. Wood has done for Oxford]. It is 
 further stated that in the Benedictine college 
 
 * Mentioned by Arnold, in epistol. Richterianis, p. 
 485. t P. 157, 1. ii. 
 
 % Ritterplatz, torn. 2. 'of libraries,' p. 242. ibid.
 
 196 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 there is a large room containing nothing but 
 manuscripts; but, as was related above,* the 
 room is not so large, and rather to be called 
 a prison than a chamber. Nor can I see why 
 it is called Benedictine college, inasmuch as it 5 
 derives its name not from the Benedictines nor 
 from St. Benedicto^ but a Benedicto Corpore 
 Christi^ for it is called also collegium corporis 
 Christi. 
 
 I have already spoken j of \hecodice Virgilii^ 10 
 written by a bishop. It is also said, that many 
 arabic books are in collegia Trinitatis ;\\ but I 
 
 83 imagine, that there are many more in $>\..Johris 
 library. Nor did I find in the court of S. Clarae 
 (Clare hall} such a multitude of hebrew and 15 
 arabic books, as is reported. || Hickesius^ also 
 boasts that there are in archivis ecclesiae Can- 
 tabrig. inter apographa Guil. Somneri manuscripta 
 anglo-saxonica. We could not however ascertain 
 what church, or what archives, could be meant. 20 
 
 When I spoke above** respecting the falsification of 
 
 * P. 181, 1. 12. 
 
 t [A mistake. The college is (Masters, append. 24) 
 'collegium Sti. Benedicti sive corporis Christi'' and is so 
 named from St. Benedict's church, which originally served 
 as its chapel (ibid. 12), and is connected with it by a 
 gallery. So Peterhouse took its name from St. Peters 
 without Trumpington gates, now Little St. Mary's. The 
 original foundation was the gild pretiosi (not benedicti) 
 corporis Christi (ibid. 5)]. \ P. 185, 1. 17. 
 
 Mentioned in Ritterplatz, ibid. || ibid. 
 
 II Catal.MSS.Anglo-saxonicorum. ** P. 185, 1. 20.
 
 DR. SYKE. 197 
 
 the epistolae Lutheri and the many vohiminibus episto- 
 larum variarum, which exist in bibliotheca collegii Carports 
 Christi, I forgot to relate, that we also saw the letters by 
 the illustribus manibus spoken of by Tenzel ;* together 
 
 5 with many others, as of Henrico VIII., Anna Bolenia 
 (several, f in a very querulous tone), Elisabetha regina, 
 Th. Cranmero, Matth. Parker et Petro Martyre etc. Of 
 the bibliotheca publ. acad. I must further report that 
 ChamberlayneJ brags greatly, as his manner is, when 
 
 IO he says that it contains 'about 14,000 books', for to 
 judge by the eye, I can scarcely believe that there are 
 6000. The same ChamberlayneJ says also of Bennet 94 
 college that there exists there 'a collection of MSS. by 
 Matth. Parker relating to the history of England'; of 
 
 1 5 which however I saw nothing, having had so many other 
 old codices MSS. to examine, that I never thought of 
 these. 
 
 Among the scholars, whom I could not 
 meet, I forgot to mention above Mr. Dr. Syke, 
 
 20 hebr. ling. prof, whom I ought to have named 
 above all others as a German and a man of 
 singular courtesy. But to our great vexation 
 he had been already three months in London, 
 and there was no prospect of his return before 
 
 25 winter. So we could only hope to meet him in 
 London, after our visit to Oxford. 
 
 On the whole I must further report of 
 Cambridge that the place itself is not at all 
 large, and about as mean as a village, or as 
 
 * /. ibi cit. ex And. Adami Hochstetteri oratione de 
 utilitate peregrinationis anglicanae, Tubingae 1697 habita. 
 t [one only, in fr. and also in lat. 119 n. 9 and 10], 
 % P. 302. P. 303.
 
 198 Z. C. v. UFFENBACH. 
 
 Hb'chst near Frankfurt ; and were it not for 
 the many fine collegia here, it would be one of 
 the sorriest places in the world. Nor is the 
 entertainment good; one must dine everyday 
 pretty nearly alike, as on mutton, etc. About 5 
 Cambridge we have the following works : 
 
 Io. Caii de antiquitate acad. cantabrig. libri v. Lond. 
 1568. 8vo. * and 1574. 4to. Eiusd. Caii historia can- 
 tabrigiensis acad. ab urbe condita, libri II. ibid. [15 74- 
 4to.]. Eiusd. de libris propriis liber unus, Lond. J57- * 
 8vo., which last however does not properly fall under 
 85 this head. [Io. Ray] index plantarum circa Canta- 
 brigiam. London 1660. 8vo. 
 
 Most of these I have gone through, but 
 found only historica, and little else of note to 15 
 be seen here. Accordingly as we found nothing 
 more to do here, we set off on Thursday morn- 
 ing, 14 Aug. 
 
 * \Uffenbach repeats this under the date 1658, and 
 names the printer Henr. Bynneman, as the author].
 
 NOTES.
 
 ' Isto modo' inquit ' nee medico quicquam debere te nisi mercedulam 
 dicis nee praeceptori, quia aliquid numeraveris : atqui omnium horum 
 apud nos magna caritas, magna reverentia est.' Adversus hoc re- 
 spondetur, quaedam pluris esse quam emuntur. emis a medico rem 
 inaestimabilem, vitam ac valetudinem bonam, a bonarum artium prae- 
 ceptore studia liberalia et animi cultum ; itaque his non rei pretium, 
 sed operae solvitur, quod deserviunt, quod a rebus suis evocati nobis 
 vacant, mercedem non meriti, sed occupationis suae ferunt. 
 
 SENECA de benef. vi 15 2.
 
 NOTES. 
 
 THE BONWICKE FAMILY. 
 
 John B. of Christ's coll. Cambr. B.D. 1663. Manning 
 and Bray, Surr. n 185 from a 'MS. in Lambeth library': 
 ' In the return made by the jurors of Reygate to the com- 
 missioners appointed by Cromwell to inquire into the 
 
 5 value and situation of livings, they reported that Anthony 
 Bathurst was impropriator, and of his free will gave ^"5 
 a quarter to John Bonwicke the curate.' He was ap- 
 pointed rector of E. Horsley by the abp. of Cant. , where 
 he was instituted 5 Febr. 1662-3 ; he resigned this living 
 
 IO in 1669 (ibid, in 34). Incorporated B.D. at Oxford 12 
 July 1670 (Wood-Bliss, Fasti II 320), and buried at 
 Mickleham, where on a black marble gravestone on the 
 s. side of the altar is the epitaph (Manning and Bray n 
 66 1 ) : 'Hie positae sunt reliquiae Johannis Bonwicke 
 
 15 S.T.B. et istius ecclesiae per annos xxix rectoris, qui 
 natus est in Nov. MDCXXII. sepultus in Nov. MDCXCVIII. 
 et coniugis Dorotheae quae obiit ix. Febr. an. act. XC. 
 sal. MDCCXI.' It thus appears that it was not from him 
 that the family derived its nonjuring principles. His son 
 
 20 Ambrose was born 29 Apr. 1652 ; educated at Merchant 
 Taylors', chosen scholar of St. John's n June 1669 (H. 
 B. Wilson, Hist, of Merch. Taylors', Land. 1814, 410. 353, 
 1199); where he was appointed librarian in 1670; B.A. 
 I Febr. 1672. M.A. 18 Mar. 1675. B.D. 21 July 1682. 
 
 25 incorporated M.A. at Cambridge 1678. ordained deacon 
 21 May 1676; priest, 6 June (Trin. Sunday) 1680. By 
 his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Philip Stubbs of St. Peter's,
 
 202 JO. BONWICKE. AMBR. B. SEN. 
 
 Cornhill, he had twelve children (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. I 
 66-7; v 118). He died 20 Oct. 1722 (Hist. Reg. Wilson 
 ibid. 969-71, 1178). 
 
 He was elected head master of Merchant Taylors' 
 9 June 1686 (Wilson, 386, 838), procured a licence from 5 
 the bp. of London 15 July 1686, and (ibid. 387, 8) ' entered 
 on his office with a hearty devotion of his great and power- 
 ful talents to the service of the school, in which they had 
 themselves received their early cultivation. In December 
 1686 he made a probation of all the forms, but never 10 
 afterwards thought it necessary to repeat it at that season 
 of the year.' Among his pupils were Win. Dawes and 
 Hugh Boulter, afterwards abps. (ibid. 848, 86 1). The 
 revolution dashed his prospects (ibid. 389, 390) : ' the 
 court having agreed on the 5th of June [1690], that 15 
 Bomvicke, in consideration of resigning his fellowship, 
 should hold his head-mastership during good behaviour, 
 instead of the tenure by annual election, he actually 
 surrendered his fellowship on the nth into the hands 
 of the president .... But though Bonwicke had acted 20 
 on the faith of the arrangement that was made on the 5th, 
 the court did not think fit to ratify it at their meeting on 
 the 27th of that month. And it having, in the interim, 
 been hinted to them, that he and the ushers had not taken 
 the oath of allegiance to the new king and queen, as re- 25 
 quired by law, they ordered them to appear at the next 
 court of assistants. ' On 4 July 1690 (ibid. 391) Bonioicke 
 requested time to answer the question whether he had 
 taken the oaths of allegiance ; a month's indulgence was 
 granted, which was tacitly extended to a year. On the 30 
 5 Aug. 1691 (ibid. 392) he was dismissed, having 'time 
 till Michaelmas next to provide for himselfe.' On 16 May 
 1701 (ibid. 400) a deputation was sent to St. Johifs college 
 from the Merchant Taylors' 1 , to ascertain ' whether any 
 person or persons enjoy fellowships there who are not 35 
 legally entitled thereunto.' This severity is of a piece 
 with the subsequent persecution of the younger Ambrose.
 
 AMBROSE BONWICKE SEN. 203 
 
 After his ejection Bonwicke established a private school 
 (ibid. 503) at Headley, where Wm. Bowyer was educated. 
 We may judge of BonwickJs teaching by the evidence 
 of this grateful pupil (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. I 65-6): 'At 
 
 5 this excellent seminary [at Headley\ young Boivyer made 
 such advances in literature, as reflected the highest credit 
 both upon himself and his preceptor ; for whose memory, 
 to his latest years, he entertained the sincerest respect ; 
 and to whose family he always remained an useful friend. 
 
 10 The attachment indeed was mutual. 
 
 ' One instance of the good schoolmaster's benevolence, 
 which made an indelible impression on the mind of his 
 pupil, appeared in the following letter : 
 
 Headley, Feb. 6, 1712-3. 
 
 15 MY GOOD FRIEND, 
 
 I heard of the sad calamity, it has pleased God 
 to try you with [a fire which destroyed the premises and 
 stock of the elder Wm. Bowyer on the night of 29-30 
 Jan. 1712-3], last Monday; but concealed it from your 
 
 20 son* till I had the account from yourself, and then broke 
 it to him as gently as I could. He could not forbear 
 shedding some tears ; but that was no more than some 
 of your friends here had done for you before ; and it 
 would be some comfort to them if their sharing in it 
 
 25 might lessen your grief. We have in Job a noble example 
 of patience and resignation under even a severer trial than 
 this of yours; for, God be praised! though you have lost 
 
 * 'This circumstance Mr. Bowyer used frequently to mention 
 with the highest gratitude : as he did another in which the same 
 delicacy was shewn to him. When the brief [for a public collection, 
 by which Bowyer received nearly ^1400 ; other collections were 
 made ; e.g. Cambridge university gave 40 (Nichols ibid. 60, 63)] 
 was to be read in Headley church, Mr. Bomvicke contrived that he 
 should be kept at home, without assigning the reason for it. The 
 writer of these memoirs accompanied Mr. Bowyer to that village in 
 *774> when he, with great satisfaction, repeated the above and 
 many other particulars of his younger years.'
 
 204 WM. BOWYER THE PRINTER. 
 
 a worthy friend, * your children are alive, and onef of 
 them providentially disposed of a little before, the news 
 of which proved a happy mixture in your melancholy 
 letter ; and though you began with it, I made it the close 
 of my narrative to your son. And when we have seen the 5 
 end of the Lord, as St. James expresses it, we shall find 
 that he is very pitiful and of tender mercy, as he was to 
 his servant Job, whose losses in the end were abundantly 
 repaired ; and since he is still the same God, if our be- 
 haviour be conformable, we may humbly hope for the IO 
 like treatment. As an earnest of which, I must tell you, 
 that he has already put it into the heart of a certain 
 person, upon hearing of your great loss, to pay the whole 
 charges of your son's board etc. for one year ; the person 
 desires to be nameless, J that the thanks may be returned 15 
 to God only. My wife, who truly condoles with you, 
 gives her service to yourself and Mrs. Bowyer, to whom 
 pray give mine also, and to my good friend Mr. Ross ; 
 our service likewise (with hearty wishes of much joy not- 
 withstanding this melancholy beginning) to the new- 20 
 married gentlewoman. Your son speaks for himself in 
 the enclosed, which he just now brought to, Sir, 
 
 Your condoling friend and faithful servant, 
 
 AMBR. BONWICKE.' 
 
 Nichols, Lit. Anecd. I 249 : ' On the death of Mr. 25 
 Bonwicke, his grateful scholar \_Wrn. Bowyer] had an 
 opportunity of requiting in some measure the obligations 
 he had received, by officiating for a time in the capacity 
 of a schoolmaster, for the benefit of the family.' 
 
 In 1763 Bowyer wrote to Wm. Warburton (ibid. II 30 
 
 [Charles Cock ' passe" par feu au ciel, age 76' as was said on the 
 mourning ring (Nichols, 59)]. 
 
 + A dau. married in Dec. 1712 to James Bettenham, a thriving 
 printer. 
 
 J ' It may be unnecessary to mention, that this friend was Mr. 
 Bonwicke himself.'
 
 LETTERS OF A. BONWICKE SEN. 205 
 
 390) : ' May I be excused in mentioning that I lent or 
 gave you my old master Bonwicke's MS. sermon on the 
 text of y^xix. 25.' 
 
 Miscellaneous tracts by the late William Bowyer, 
 
 5 printer, F.S.A. and several of his learned friends . . . 
 Collected , . . , by John Nichols. Lond. 1785. 4to. contains 
 'letters from Mr. Ambrose Bonwicke to his father; tran- 
 scribed by his grateful scholar W.Boivyer ?* 1 (597,598): 
 'e museo meo loannensi, Oct. 9, 1669.' Am greatly 
 
 IO pleased with Oxford. You must not expect Ciceronian 
 elegance from me. ' Vix possum non effutire quidditates, 
 entitates, formalitates, et id genus barbariem.' My tutor 
 Dickenson ' praeclarissimus deque philosophia optime 
 meritus,' returns your good wishes, ' cuius auspiciis nullus 
 
 15 dubito quin ambages logicas et Aristotelis labyrinth os 
 tandem veluti filo ductus penitus exquiram. ' My respects 
 to Geo. Freeman-\ and Ambr. Bromn% ' susceptoribus 
 meis longe colendissimis. ' 2 (ibid. 598) : ' e coll. loan. 
 pridie Circumcisionis 1669.' The good wishes of the 
 
 20 season : ' eo in loco sunt res meae, ut ni protinus ad 
 manum sit pensio trimesfcris, possim coram latrone cantare. ' 
 He also condoles with the family, a Surrey family, of 
 
 * Extracts from these, and from Bonwicke's latin verses, are 
 printed in Wilson's Merchant Taylors' 803 814. 
 
 t Of Betchworth in Surrey, son of Sir Ra. Freeman, master of 
 the mint to James I. He died in 1678 (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. vui 
 358, who gives there from Rawlinsoris MS. hist, of St. John Bapt. 
 coll. Oxon. an. 1669, as does Wilson p. 970, the following) : 'A m- 
 brosius Bonwicke, archididascalus scholae Mercatorum Scissorum 
 Londinensium, munere functus est non sine laude, sed bonae con- 
 scientiae ergo amotus 1690, obiit apud Hadley com. Surriensi 20 
 Octob. 1722. In usum amicorum post mortem schedam volantem 
 suis sumptibus imprimi fecit Gulielmus Bowyer, non ita pridem 
 loannensis Cantabrigiae pensionarius, posteaque typographic : " To 
 the memory of the truly pious Sir George Freeman, knight of the 
 bath, his ever honoured god-father." 7 stanzas fol. sine anni aera.' 
 
 J Perhaps the Sir A . B. who subscribed .20 to the new buildings 
 at jfesus college in 1637 (Cooler's Memorials I 384 ; Shennanni 
 hist. coll. Jes. 32).
 
 206 LETTERS OF A. BONWICKE SEN. 
 
 a sometime secretary of state : ' Quam officiose meo 
 nomine salutabis familiam illam semper colendissimam, 
 cui quondam heu ! praefuit vir amplissimus D. Edvardus 
 Nicholas ; cuius etsi mortui apud me numquam inter- 
 moritura est memoria.' Mr. Brasier* B.D. of our college 5 
 'te plurimum salvere iussit, ut et contubernales mei.' 
 3 (ibid. y)<$): ' Oxon. Feb. 3, 1669-70.' ' Gratae profecto 
 (Reverende Domine) fuerunt litterae tuae, gratissimi vero 
 nummi, quos nudiustertius abs tabellario accepi.' You 
 tell strange news of the flirtations of my sometime friend 10 
 Griffith. ' Vestes nostrae undique fatentur vetustatem et 
 subter togam gestiunt latere, lucem aversantes ne suam 
 indicarent raritatem, nee diutius multo dominum tegent, 
 cum ipsae dudum nudae fuerunt. Facile locum cedent 
 successoribus, si modo mittas quae succedant, verumtamen 15 
 eatenus evigilabunt. Tutor noster una cum D. Meryfield\ 
 iun. tibi salutem plurimam.' 4 (ibid. 599, 600) : 'ex 
 aedibus loan. Aug. 18, 1670.' Thanks for criticisms on 
 the style of my last. ' Bibliotheca loannensi donatus 
 sum ideoque M. Strerii [?] data copia.' I beg you to 20 
 send l Famiani Stradae prolusiones academicas et Taciturn 
 cum observationibus Boxhorni, Amstelodami impressum 
 1 66 1.' I wrote long ago to brother Henry with your 
 commissions. ' D. D. Smitheus% et Rhodes^ tuam salutem 
 iterum remunerantur. ' Pray continue your criticisms ; 25 
 the severer they are, the more welcome. Meryfield sen. 
 and jun. and Rhodes suppose that the oath which you 
 forgot is 'non promovere indignos aut retardare dignos.' 
 5 (ibid. 600) : 'Sept. I, 1670.' I gave Mr. Smith your 
 message about the living, he does not think it worth 30 
 
 Jo. B. See PeshalFs Oxford 2t6. 
 
 t Geo. M. elected to St. John's June 1656 (Wihon 322, 1197); 
 M.A. 5 May 1663, B.D. 6 May 1669. His elder brother was elected 
 ii June 1651, B.D. vqNov. 1664 (ibid. 315, 1196). 
 
 t Perhaps Josi. S. of St. John's B. A. ^Febr. 1664, M.A. 14 Afar. 
 1667, B.D. 18 July 1674. 
 
 John R. of St. John's B.C.L. 31 Oct. 1670.
 
 LETTERS OF A. BONWICKE SEN. 207 
 
 while to be a candidate for it. I would have informed 
 Mr. Baylie* also of it, if he were not away from college. 
 ' Pridem est cum ad carissimum praeceptorem D. D. 
 Goad\ litteras vel importunas dedisse constitui, etsi illis 
 
 5 quia importunis saepius malis avibus inceptis superseden- 
 dum censui ; nunc vero cum de fraterculis habeo quod 
 scribam, epistolium hue usque libenter detentum libentius 
 brevi demittam, ut de eadem fidelia duos parietes (quod 
 aiunt) possim dealbare.' Pray add Appuleius to the 
 
 I o books already named. 6 (ibid. 601) : 'in museolo 
 nostro, vigiliis D. Thomae, vigilans scripsi 1670.' The 
 commemoration in honour of the prince of Orange has 
 already been described to you by Mr. Warren.\ One 
 thing alone, more welcome, ' absit verbo invidia,' even 
 
 1 5 than a royal presence, was wanting to grace the ceremony : 
 ' te inter ceteros istos nobiles toga ostro perfusa vestitum 
 sedisse et S.S.T. doctorem evasisse. Quanta iniuria non 
 datur esse. Nullibi doleo (Deo favente) nee caput nee 
 calcem, nisi togam dolere possim, siquidem mea in- 
 
 20 firmissima est.' 7 (ibid. 601-2): 'ex aedibus loan. X. 
 cal. lumi, 1671.' I have nothing to write about, except 
 my habitual poverty. I ought rather to apply to my 
 mother : ' cum non tarn librorum inopia laboro, quam 
 indusiorum et id genus vestium effeminatarum. ' 8 (ibid. 
 
 25 602): ' Oxon. xvi cal. Nov. 1671.' I wrote on the 6th 
 of the month, enclosing a paper book for Mr. Guest ; 
 but have received no reply from either. 'In istis ad te 
 (quod plerumque fit) nummulos aliquos petii quibus ad- 
 modum opus est in auditorio hoc nostro.' 9 (ibid.) to 
 
 30 his father at Michaelham : ' Oxon. ipsis cal. Febr. 1671-2.' 
 
 * Three of the name were of St. John's at this time ; probably 
 Simon is meant, B.A. 8 May 1666, M. A. 26 Mar. 1670. 
 
 t John G. master of Merchant Taylors', for whom see the 
 indices to Wood-Bliss P.O. and A.O. and to Wilson. 
 
 { Ri. W. of St. John's B.C.L. 16 Apr. 1670, D.C.L. 6 July 1676. 
 
 John G. elected to St. John's n June 1665 ( Wilson, 344, 1198) ; 
 M.A. 22 Mar. 1672-3.
 
 208 LETTERS OF A. BONWICKE SEN. 
 
 I have not received the promised sums of money, though 
 I have diligently inquired of both postmen. I waited 
 several days in suspense and have not received so much 
 as a line. 'Mittas, obsecro, quam citissime aliquid 
 saltern vel argenteum vel papyraceum, etsi prius malim. . . 5 
 Algentes digiti plura nolunt.' 10 (ibid. 602-3): 'ex 
 aedib. loann. 19 cal. Febr. 1671-2.' Yesterday night 
 Richard Warren shewed me your letter. The vice- 
 chancellor yesterday renewed his order for paying battels 
 at this season 'de batellis (ut cum nostratibus barbare IO 
 loquar) hac ipsa anni tempestate solvendis.' 11 (ibid. 
 603): I 0xon. 7 idus Martias 1671-2.' To be true to my 
 wont ' pecuniolam aliquam emendico ; tenemur enim 
 omnes scholares sub baccalaureo aliquo in hac Quadra- 
 gesima determinante, bis pro forma respondere; hoc 15 
 autem fieri nequit absque triginta solidis vel minimum 
 viginti. Semel iam respondi, quapropter decem solidos 
 ab amico mutuo accepi, ea lege ut quam citissime solverem. 
 Mittas igitur, obsecro, viginti saltern, utinam triginta, ne 
 diutius sim in ullo acre praeterquam tuo.' 12 (ibid. 20 
 603-4): ' Oxon. 6 cal. Apr. 1672.' The postman gave 
 me the last money from you on Monday. Dr. Levinz* 
 sends you a hearty greeting. Mr. Rhodes\ is from home, 
 taking the chancellor's duty at Rochester. 13 (ibid. 604) : 
 'Oxon. 4 cal. Maias 1672.' I wrote to you about the 25 
 loth of April, begging for some money on account of my 
 exercises ; but received not a syllable in reply. I asked 
 brother John to act as a second letter ; still nothing came. 
 ' Examen magistrorum iam subii pecunia mutuo accepta. 
 Aliud exercitium die crastino praestaturus sum, responsurus 30 
 scil. pro forma in Paruiso\ (ut loquuntur) ; adhuc nescio 
 
 Ri. L. M.D. afterwards president. See index to Wilson. 
 
 t Jo.R. B.C.L. 
 
 \ Parvis fr. ' a church-porch' from paradisus, used in medieval 
 latin in the same sense (Diez, etymol. Worterb. ed. 2, 1861, 384). 
 Ducange s. v. Paradisus, cites Matt. Par. an. 1250 : ' unde pro ilia 
 substantiola persolvenda cogebatur ille pauperculus, multis diebus
 
 MEANING OF PAR VIS. 209 
 
 quid faciam. Spero tamen ut aliquis ex amicis pecuniam 
 accommodavit, * quod certe non alio pacto faciat, quam 
 ut citissime solvam. Postremis etiam tutoris minerval 
 cum anicularum stipendiis petii, et nummos pro batellis 
 
 5 solvendis ; pro exercitiis praestitis et praestandis et nomine 
 ubique liberando tribus ad minimum minis mihi usus est. ' 
 14 (ibid. 610-1): to his father at Mickleham. ' Pridie 
 calendas Octobris 1672.' To shew my gratitude for your 
 forgiveness I send english Pindarics on Mickleham and its 
 
 10 patron saint. ' Quod de angelis tamquam de corporeis 
 quibusdam substantiis locutus sim, licentiae poeticae 
 tribuas. ' ' Institutum meum secutus iam Prudentii cathe- 
 
 scholas exercens, venditis in Parvisio libellis, vitam famelicam et 
 Codrinam protelare' ; and Fortcscut. de laud. leg. angl. c. 51 : ' sed 
 placitantes tune se divertunt ad Parvisum et alibi consulentes cum 
 servientibus ad legem.' See Chaucer prol. 311-2, ' A sergeant of the 
 lawe ware and wise, that often hadde yben at the parvis.' Halliwell 
 quotes Mind, Will, and Understanding, p. 8 : ' And at the parvyse 
 I wyll be At Powlys betweyn ij. and iij.' Wood-Gutch, Hist, and 
 ant. it 727-8 : ' Some have thought that schola parvis, or answering 
 in Parvisiis, cometh from the french, because that anciently those 
 that did that exercise performed it ' in parvis, i. e. in area,' in a court 
 or court-yard, they being unworthy because of their inferiority to 
 enter the schools of arts. But that derivation I suppose cannot by 
 any means take place, because other faculties beneath them had 
 schools appointed for them, and were never forced to do their 
 exercise in the open air without any shelter. But in my opinion the 
 true meaning comes from those inferior disputations that are per- 
 formed by the juniors, namely 'generalls,' which to this day are 
 called and written disputationes in parvisiis. For in the morning 
 were anciently as now the answering of 'quodlibets,' that is the 
 proposing of questions in philosophy and other arts by certain 
 masters to him or them that intend to commence master of arts, and 
 such as are called the great exercises. In the evening were the 
 exercitia pama, sometimes corruptly called parvisiaria, taken out 
 of the 'parvei logicalia? Wood also cites Selden's account of 
 Parvise : ' it signifies an afternoon's exercise or moot to the in- 
 struction of young students, bearing the same name originally (I 
 ghesse) with the parvisiae in Oxford, as they call their sitting 
 'generalls' in the schools in the afternoon.' 
 
 * Sic in printed edition ; Boniuicke probably wrote accontmodarit. 
 
 P
 
 2io LETTERS OF A. BONWICKE SEN. 
 
 merinon singulis paene diebus volvo. ' A business post- 
 script reminds his father by the date of the quarter's bills. 
 ' Postridie sancti Michaelis 1672.' I hope you remember 
 your promise of a more liberal quarterly allowance ; it 
 will be very welcome this Michaelmas. 15 (ibid. 611): 5 
 to his father at Mickleham. ' Ex aedib. loan. Octob. 26, 
 1672.' Two letters have brought no reply. I will try 
 once more to draw from you, if not silver coin, at least 
 golden words. My letters will lay siege to your silence, 
 and come back laden with spoils ; or you may keep them 10 
 as hostages, ' ac e tua gente ad me aliquas invicem cures 
 mittendas, at pecunia oneratas, quinquaginta circiter 
 solidis, stipendio illo quod convenit.' 16 (ibid. 604-5): 
 to his friend yohn Griffith* at London. I 0xonii, 4 calend. 
 Novembris 1672.' You are false to your word, and force 15 
 me to challenge you to the combat of letters. ' Livius 
 ille tuus etiam nobis in manibus est, nondum autem vel 
 duos libros totos perlegi : te tamen praeeuntem sequar 
 quamvis non passibus aequis.' 17 (ibid. 605). Same to 
 his father 'Oxonii, 4 nonas Novembris, 1672.' I received 20 
 your letters yesterday, the money to-day, 'utraque per- 
 gratissima.' As to your question about the account, I 
 should be glad to believe that you intended the first 
 quarterly stipend to last till Alichaelmas, when you onlyf 
 gave me 3OJ. at my departure, of which the half was 25 
 spent before I reached Oxford. ' Legibus autem tuis 
 posthac iis arithmetices magis subserviam : quamvis exlex 
 ilia necessitas nullas omnino agnoscat.' Observations on 
 your criticisms upon certain Pindaric verses of mine. 18 
 (ibid. 605-6): to John Griffith at London, 'Oxonii, aedib. 30 
 loannensib. nonis Novembris, propter coniurationem illam 
 sulphuream dudum famosis, 1672.' On the sotadic verse 
 "Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor.' I have laid aside 
 Livy, the father of history, for a while, till his turn comes 
 
 * Probably John G. of New B.A. 21 June 1670. Ch. Ch. M.A. 
 4 July 1674. 
 
 t Reading 'cum nihilmst for 'cum nisi.'
 
 PET. ME WS. E. BERNARD. 2 1 1 
 
 according to the course laid down by Alstedius. I shall 
 begin with the writers on universal history ; with Raleigh, 
 if he had not written in english. Then Cluverius, Peta- 
 vius, Boxhornius; history after Christ and the like ; I 
 
 5 shall then descend to special histories, and in particular, 
 sacred history ; then political, natural etc. 19 (ibid. 
 606-7) : to his father at Mickleham. ' Ex aedibus Jo- 
 hannis, nonis lanuarii, 1672-3.' Prayers for the new 
 year. Our president* has been elected bp. of Bath and 
 
 10 Wells, and will be consecrated next month at Lambeth ; 
 where you may see him and hear our Mr. Bernard-^ 
 preach, who (as is reported) has been presented to a 
 living in your county of Surrey, not very far from 
 Croydon. Dr. Levinz will succeed as president by an 
 
 15 almost unanimous vote; therefore, if occasion offers, 
 attach him to you and me by some means or other ; 
 though I nothing doubt, but he is already greatly attached 
 
 * Pet. Mews, on whom see beside the indices to Wood, Wilson, 
 the calendars of state papers and the catalogue of the Tanner MSS. 
 Brydges, Restitut. \ 160 ; Cassan's bishops of B. and W. ; D'Oyley's 
 Sancroft, ed. i, n 144 seq. (he was a friend of Henry Wharton's) ; 
 Todd's Deans of Canterb, 151 n. / ; Calamy Ace. 601-2; Atter- 
 bury's corresp. in 210. He was nicknamed Patch (North's Lives of 
 the Norths, 1826, I 241). 
 
 t Ed-w. B. of St. John's, proctor 1667, rector of Cheam and 
 Brighlwell, Savilian prof. 1678. See Wood and Wilson and 
 Tanner MSS.; Bentley's Correspondence 6-32, 35-38, 721-2, 724 : 
 Calamy's Own Times I 222-3, 280-1 ; he was a friend of Prideaujc 
 (P.'s Life 14) ; cf. prefaces to Tho. Smith's Vitae ix, x ; and to the 
 Catal. MSS. Angl. His books were sold by Millington 25 Oct. 
 1697 (a copy of the catal. in St. John's, Cambr.}. He has latin 
 verses before Creech's Lucretius and helped Almeloveen in his ed. 
 of Casauboni epist. His De ponderibus here and there criticises 
 Cumberland's Essay towards the recovery of Jewish -weights and 
 measures; and the bp. (Life, p. xxvii) made some preparations 
 towards a reply. His letter on the discovery of the pendulum is 
 cited by Andres, Delf orig. e progr. d'ogni letter. I 248. Colomesii 
 Opusc. 614 : ' Josephum Oxonii nunc edit E. Bemardus, de quo 
 nihil tain magnificum dixero, quin id virtus eius superet.' See his 
 article in Biogr. Brit.
 
 212 LETTERS OF A. BONWICKE SEN. 
 
 to both of us. The time is close at hand for my bachelor's 
 degree, which must be bought (so to say) at such a cost, 
 that I know not whether it has brought with it more joy 
 or pain and annoyance. For who would gladly mount 
 that step, which he cannot approach without lowering 5 
 in a manner his parents ? Whoever makes poor, lowers ; 
 but this I must do in taking from a very slender store 
 .10, which are necessary. For the purchase of cap and 
 gown, and some larger expenses, (as Sir Gibbons* of 
 our's, who has tried it, assures me) ;io barely suffice. 10 
 I should be glad to have the money in hand, ' modo 
 nemini vestratum (quod vix sperare possum) tanta summa 
 invisa foret : mallem enim humi semper iacere, quam 
 assurgere ut melius livore petar. Cures, obsecro, ut haec 
 summa sit ultima a vobis petenda, quod facies, si locum 15 
 aliquem investigas, ubi peregriner, donee ad magistratum 
 artium, ac ideo ad statum meliorem in collegio revertar. 
 D. Dickensonus\ salutem tibi precatur. ' 20 (ibid. 607-8) : 
 
 * Wm. G. of St. John's B.A. 2 May 1672 ; M.A. 18 Mar. 1675 ; 
 M.B. 10 July 1679 ; M.D. 9 May 1683. He raised a marble monu- 
 ment to his father John G. (ob. 1693 aet. 76) on the e. wall of S. 
 Mary's, Warwick, n. of the chancel gate. Amhursfs Terraefilius, 
 Lond. 1726, 276-7 : ' Dr. Gibbons the famous physician, and formerly 
 fellow of this college, gave the perpetual advowson of the rectory of 
 Beverly in Yorkshire. It is expected that the same worthy person, 
 having no children, will prove a greater benefactor when he dies.' 
 There is a copy of latin elegiacs by him in Bowyer's misc. tracts 617. 
 He gave ^40 to St. Giles* parish, Oxford, the interest to be dis- 
 tributed to the poor (Peshairs Oxford 219). There is a portrait of 
 him in the college, in his doctor's robes, presented by his wife 
 Elizabeth in 1729 {Wood-Gutch, colleges and halls, 550). See Dr. 
 Win. Munk, Roll of Coll. of Phys. Lond. 1861, i 449-452, and for 
 both him and Levinz cf. the indices to Wood-Bliss and Wilson. 
 Levinz was greek prof, and canon of Wells; administration was 
 granted of his estate 29 Oct. 1698 ; he died 3 Mar. 1697-8, aet. 73, 
 and lies buried in St. John's chapel, on the s. of the altar. The 
 inscription (printed in Wood-Gutch, colleges and halls, 559} was set 
 up by his brother Sir Creswell, sometime attorney general (Is. MilUs 
 Life, 90, 91). 
 
 t Brian D. vie. St. Gilts, O.rf. 1671 (Peshall 216).
 
 WM. GIBBONS. 213 
 
 to bp. Mews. I find it hard to climb the lowest step of 
 advancement without your aid, you have nimbly mounted 
 the whole ladder. ' Utinam eo altitudinis tandem aliquando 
 ipse progrediar unde pedes tuos humiliter exosculer ; 
 
 5 paternitati enim tuae obsequium illud (praefiscine autem 
 loquor) et D. Petri cathedra maiori iure debentur, quam 
 senecioni illi, cuius alter saltern pes iam pridem a 
 Charontis peculio fuerit : nisi pedes illius eo nomine 
 exosculandi sunt quo cineres et reliquiae defunctorum .... 
 
 10 Ante decessum autem obsecro, famulum tuum fidelissimum 
 emancipes, et pileo (quod solent) dones.' 21 (ibid. 608-9) 
 to his old master John Goad. * ' E coll. D. loan. Oxon. 
 4 idus Fe&ruarii, 1673-4.' I have abstained from writing, 
 because my letters would be little better than the exercises 
 
 1 5 of a schoolboy, and of them you are surfeited. ' Quae 
 cum ita sint, videar forsan commodo tuo pariter ac nostro 
 consuluisse, si a te impetravero, ut a Beniamine fratre et 
 nugis ejus quotidianis te ipsum liberares ; id e re tua 
 fuerit ; utque ad collegium nostrum eum mittendum 
 
 20 curares ; hoc e mea fratrisque nostri, patris autem prae- 
 sertim, qui liberos suos aegre alit, adeoque academiam 
 filiis suis toto animo exoptat. Tantus est illius in te 
 amor, quantus fratrum solet esse, aut si quis maior 
 uspiam sit aut vehementior : nee dubito quin amore amori 
 
 25 respondeas, ea est tua humanitas omnibus perspecta, 
 mihi autem imprimis, qui meam humanitatem (mea autem 
 culpa perexiguam earn esse agnosco, quamvis aliqua sit, 
 id agnoscere) tibi soli totam debeo. Te id quod ex- 
 optamus posse crederem : quippe qui fratrem ad studia 
 
 30 excitare ac iuxtat meritum vel (si id pueri indigentia et 
 tua erga eum benevolentia postulet) supra meritum gradum 
 ei assignare possis : nisi probe scirem te id quod possis 
 in re nostra velle. Sunt forsan aliqui e discipulis tuis 
 qui collegio huic adscisci merito suo plus quam frater 
 
 See the indices to Wilson and Wood. 
 \ In printed copy iusta, by mistake.
 
 2i 4 LETTERS OF A. BONWICKE SEN. 
 
 debeant, exoptent autem minus ac minus indigeant. Tu, 
 quod visum fuerit, facias ; non potes nobis non gratum 
 facere ; cum aut ad collegium Beniaminem mittas necesse 
 est, aut tutelae tuae academiam contra optatissimae re- 
 serves. ' 22 (ibid. 609) : to Dr. John Goad, ' praecep- 5 
 tori etiam nunc suo,' at London. 'Oxonii, pridie idus 
 Martii, anno 1673-4.' Your letter has removed all my 
 alarm. I cannot expect an answer to every letter, know- 
 ing how well you bestow the few hours of leisure which 
 school duties leave you. ' Quam te caelis tuis et astro- IO 
 nomicis recreare ac animum scholasticis defatigatum studiis 
 severioribus reficere soleas, haud sumus igriari. ' As to 
 Benjamin, I have said that whatever course you take 
 with him, will content us ; you aptly liken your pupils 
 to birds ; ' feliciores esse videntur, si felicitatem norint 1 5 
 suam, qui cavea inclusi cibis praeparatis vescuntur, quam 
 qui libertatem nescio quam sibi fingentes, perrupto ostiolo 
 avolant, et multo cum labore et periculo per silvas et 
 avia vagabundi tenuem sibi victum conquirunt. Vale et 
 Ambrosium tuum amare persevera.' 23 (ibid. 6io):2O 
 'ornatissimo viro D. Rudstat.' 1 * Our grief rejects every 
 
 * Tobias Rustat, for whose benefactions (amounting to nearly 
 12,000 in his life-time) see Peck's Desid. cur. xiv 9 p. 553 (ed. 2) 
 ibid. 50; for that to Cambr. library MS. Ashmol. 865 472-477 ; 1137 
 no; for his benefaction to St. John's Oxf. ibid. 865 468, 471. See 
 also ibid. 863 344-6 ; Evelyn's diary 24 July 1680 ; Duport's musae 
 suosec. 176 ; Gent. Mag. LXVII 86 b ; MS. Baker xxv 248, 251-2. 
 xxxvi 207-8. xxxvni 215. XLJ 218. XLII 136; PecKs historical 
 pieces n. 27 p. 83 (after his Cromwell] ; Trusts, statutes and direc- 
 tions affecting the professorships, scholarships and prizes and other 
 emoluments of the university. Cambr. 1857, 219-221 : 'the instru- 
 ment and declaration of Mr. Tobias Rustat, to what purpose he 
 gave the sum of 1000 to the university.' The memoirs of Tobias 
 Rustat ...by William Hevueit, Lond. 1849, is an uncritical and very 
 imperfect compilation, but it illustrates Bon'wicke's letter in the text. 
 The Rustat B.A. scholars at Jesus are directed (57-8) to make latin 
 orations on 5 Nov., 30 Jan., 2()May, and on the day of the accession 
 of the reigning king. The 1000 given 14 Dec. 1665 to St. John's 
 Ox/., was to be expended in land producing 50 a year, which sum
 
 TOBIAS RUSTAT. 215 
 
 ornament ; like a mourner it walks with dishevelled hair 
 ' calamistris abiectis.' 24 (ibid. 611-2) to his father. 
 [No date, but the contents make it probable that it is 
 rightly placed last] I am overjoyed with your letter on 
 
 5 many accounts : ' qua nuntiae pecuniae adventurae et 
 patruelis recens nati ; qua monitrices ; qua denique crista 
 gentili obsignatae fuerint. Nihil in his insipidum, nihil 
 amarum gustavi, praeter maternas lacrimulas. Hae gaudia 
 nostra temperaverunt, ne supra modum fierent : quis enim, 
 
 10 precor, posset non affligi, non deici, cum dignosceret se 
 matri indulgentissimae causam extitisse non unici doloris, 
 nee semel tantum lacrimandi ? quasi indies cum aetate 
 filiorum curae succrescerent, nee iam viri victum absque 
 ope parentum quaeritaremus : in hoc unico mandatis tuis 
 
 15 paene non obtemperarem. Di boni avertant ut in acre 
 etiam fratrum sim, qui vel tantillo parentum numquam 
 ero solvendo. Adultus ego potius abiciendus sum quam 
 teneriores illi : obnixe igitur rogo ut nihil posthac e fratrum 
 aut sororum peculio mihi prodigo insumas ; satius enim 
 
 20 est carere quam lacrimis affluere : frustra autem expectas 
 
 is now paid by Cambr. university out of the Ovington estate. The 
 dean of divinity was to receive 40?. yearly for a lecture in the college 
 hall on 30 Jan., ' on which day the king was beheaded, to the 
 amazement of all the world, by some of his subjects.' No more 
 worthy recipient, either for character, need, ability, or sympathy 
 with the founder's creed, could be found than Bonwicke for the next 
 item : 'to one, whether fellow or scholar, that speaks a speech before 
 supper on 30 January, declaring the barbarous cruelty of that un- 
 paralleled parricide . . . ior.' ' An original MS. (now in the possession 
 of Tobias Rustat Hemsted esq. ) which contains the substance of 
 one of these orations spoken in the time of Charles II. is thus 
 entitled : " Ornatissimo clarissimoque viro D. Tobiae Rustat hanc 
 de Caroli primi martyrio orationem in aula collegii divi loannis 
 Bapt. Oxon. 3omo lanuarii habitam humillime d. d.d. Amdroszus 
 Bon-wick"' (65-67). Cf. Wood-Gutch, Colleges and halls 542. Rus- 
 tafs epitaph is in MS. Baker vi 60 = B 61 ; thence in Le Neve, 
 Monum.Angl. (1680-99) J 48-9 : Blome_fteld,collectan, Cantabr. 143 ; 
 also in Hewett 86-7. He lies in the chapel of Jesus college, where 
 he has a monument of white marble.
 
 216 LETTERS ETC. OF A. B. SEN. 
 
 ut Oxonii sim Cantabrigiensis, aut hodie vivam ut olim 
 vixerunt : iubeas igitur ut alio transeam, et victum (quod 
 frater lohannes facit) per me quaeritem ; nolim nempe 
 doctus fieri fratrum Beniaminis et lacobi dispendio. Quin- 
 quaginta solidos a fratre accepi 5to nonas huiusce mensis, 5 
 quorum quadraginta et quod excurrit expendi ; nondum 
 tamen integrum nomen liberavi.' 
 
 Then follow various copies of latin verses, which are 
 not always even correct : 1 (ibid. 622) : elegiacs to Pet. 
 Mews vicechancellor in 1669, 1670, 1672 on the return of 10 
 spring. 2 (ibid. 613) : elegiacs on the death of John 
 Asgill, fellow of St. John's.* 3 (ibid. 614): an eclogue 
 in hexameters congratulating William Levinz on his elec- 
 tion as president. 4 (ibid. 615): 'angelus Gabriel an- 
 nuntiat nativitatem D. lohannisS Hexameters. 5 (ibid. 15 
 615-6): 'Visitatio B. Mariae.' Hendecasyllables. 6 
 (ibid. 6 1 6) : 'in obitum ducissae EboracensisJ who died 
 31 Mar. 1671. Elegiacs. 7 (ibid. 617-8): 'in coniura- 
 tionem sulphuream. ' Iambics. 8 (ibid. 618): 'in obitum 
 serenissimae Mariae reginae ;' on the death of the queen 20 
 mother, who died \oAug. 1669. Two copies of elegiacs. 
 9 (ibid. 619): 'in obitum illustrissimi ducis Albemarle^ 
 who died 1670. Elegiacs. A latin copy of verses by 
 Ambrose Bonwicke, B.D. is in the Oxford collection on 
 the death of Charles II. 1685 (Wilson, Merchant Taylors', 25 
 970). 
 
 Then follow (Bowyer, ibid. 620-654) ' Letters between 
 Mr. Ambrose Bonwicke and Richard Blechynden,\ B.D. 
 
 * Elected to St. John's 1657 ( Wilson 's Merck. Taylors' 322, 1157). 
 B.A. 30 Apr. 1661. M.A. 18 Apr. 1665. 
 
 t Elected to St. John's n June 1665 (Wilson's Merck. Taylors' 
 344, 1198). B.A. 27 May 1669. M.A. 22 Mar. 1672. B.D. 5 June 
 1679. He was one of four nominated to succeed Goad as master of 
 Merchant Taylors' in 1681 (ibid. 381); prebendary of Peterborough 
 ii Febr. 1685-6 (ibid. 837); he held the college living of Crick, 
 Northants, where he was buried 30 Oct. 1697 (ibid. 187, 378, from 
 Bridges l 561). Rawlinson (in Wilson 378) adds: 'He has written 
 "Two useful cases resolved, i. Whether a certainty of being in
 
 LETTERS ON THE OATHS (1691). 217 
 
 of St. John's college, Oxford, concerning the oaths.' 1 
 (ibid. 620-1) : Blechynden to Bonwicke. SAtig. 1691. 'I am 
 heartily sorry for the Merchant Taylors rigorous proceeding 
 against you. The letter of the statute does not reach you, 
 
 5 schoolmasters being not particularly mentioned. . . But it 
 is unaccountable to me, that any honest man should refuse 
 the caths out of conscience : out of generosity and honour 
 they might, struggling for their deposed prince, provided 
 his restauration were for the public good. ' ' The bishop 
 
 10 elect of Bath and Wells {Ri. Kidder} has often declared 
 for me a kindness for you, and perhaps can do you the 
 greatest kindness among your adversaries. Dr. [John\ 
 Rudston will be buried on Thursday next at St. Aldan's 
 [in St. Peters], He died of a fever here in the college 
 
 15 on Wednesday last [5 Aug. act. 35]. Mr. Tothill has 
 desired a recommendation to succeed you.' 2 (ibid. 622). 
 Bonwickem reply. 1 1 Aug. ' I suppose . . that king James 
 had a right to my allegiance, and that secured by an 
 oath ; and unless he has given away this right or forfeited 
 
 20 it, it is still in him. Now to me it does not appear that 
 he has done either, therefore I dare not give it to another, 
 which ... is the design of the new oaths ... I ought not 
 to have entered into the obligation, if I had not designed 
 to have kept it. ' 3 (ibid. 622-7). Blechynden in reply. 15 
 
 25 Aug. ' H3 that has no longer a right to the government, 
 has no longer a right to my allegiance . . . 
 
 a state of salvation be attainable ? 2. What is the rule by which this 
 certainty is to be obtained ? London 1698." 410. published after his 
 death. 
 
 'A copy of a former edition printed at London for Henry 
 Bomvicke in Paul's churchyard, 1685, is in the Bodleian library, 
 with marginal notes in the hand-writing of bishop Barlow, who 
 judged many things in it erroneous, and, to a doubting person who 
 should rely upon it, pernicious.' He preached the consecration 
 sermon of bp. Thomas White at Lambeth 25 Oct. 1685 ( Wood-Bliss, 
 Fasti II 392). For another of both names, the last principal of 
 Gloster hall, first provost of Wore, coll., preb. Gloitc., vie. of FairforJ 
 Bagpuse and Newnham Courtney, see Wilson 383-4, 1201.
 
 2i8 BONWICKE AND BLECHYNDEN. 
 
 shewn, that he neither has the qualifications for govern- 
 ment, nor for this of the English ... A full possession 
 of the power, especially when recognised by the grandees 
 and main body of the people, gives him that has it a title 
 to the obedience and fidelity (or, if you will, allegiance) 5 
 of all within his territories ; at least that they are guilty of 
 no sin that promise fidelity to him.' 4 (ibid. 628-631). 
 Bonwicke in reply. 20 Aug. ' I should be glad to find my 
 friends and relations (whom I have so great a concern for) 
 are in the right, and that it is prejudice in me has blinded 10 
 me so long. Though I suppose it would be perjury in 
 me to quit that oath that I still think obligatory, yet I 
 have a very charitable opinion of those that have taken 
 the new one, and suppose that conscience has been as 
 much their guide in taking it, as it has been mine in 15 
 refusing it .... I suppose a man may be dispossessed of 
 a legal right no otherwise than by law .... I am to 
 consider how I am to behave myself under a king that 
 has possession and not right. The execution of those 
 laws that protect me are [sic] in his hands ; I will give 20 
 him all the obedience that is necessary for that purpose . . 
 But to take an oath of allegiance to the king de facto, 
 certainly cancels my oath of allegiance to the former .... 
 If it were barely submitting to him in power, I suppose 
 we should have no great dispute ... I remember in the 25 
 charter put out by Dr. Burnet (for you must know I read 
 all the books I could on that side, with the same design 
 I now dispute with you, and I think not one of the other, 
 as you may perceive).' 5 (ibid. 631-637). Blechynden'vh 
 reply. 25 Aug. ' Municipal laws are not the sole measure of 30 
 right and wrong. There is a superior law of right reason, 
 which respects the common good of mankind, which gave 
 beginning to all civil societies .... You say treason 
 against the king de facto is not treason de iure; hereby 
 you must mean according to equity and right reason ; for 35 
 treason against a king de facto is the only treason by the 
 law of the land, if Coke and Hales may be credited . . .
 
 LETTERS ON THE OATHS (1691). 219 
 
 You call for a legal forfeiture ; nothing else, say you, will 
 forfeit a legal right to a crown. But if you please to 
 consult the gentlemen that write politics, who surely are 
 the best guides in this affair, you will find them assign 
 
 5 a great many others . . . The assemblies of the grandees 
 and parliaments have near forty times either deposed their 
 prince or waived the next of kin for the good of the 
 community.' He quotes Grotius, Milton, Edward the 
 confessor's law, Bracton, Fleta etc. 6 (ibid. 637-8). 
 
 10 Bonwicke in reply. 30 Aug. 1691. ' Reason must be our 
 best guide, and she has directed you to take the oaths, 
 as she does me to refuse them. I consider on one side 
 there is only a little temporal concern, and on the other 
 the danger of perjury. . . . For what you urge, that 
 
 1 5 therefore I ought to have no protection from king William, 
 I must be contented ; but I think that it is the law that 
 protects us both. At present it only deprives us of our 
 livings, and that we submit to. When the laws become 
 more severe, we must shift as well as we can, and if we 
 
 20 cannot live in this country, fly to another. ... A whole 
 nation can as ill dispense with their oaths as a single 
 person.' 7 (/fo#. 638-9). Bon-wicke again. 5 Sept. 'I do 
 really take those laws which have been made since king 
 William's coming to the crown to be good laws. . . . 
 
 25 King James has lost thus much by losing possession : he 
 has lost the assistance of his people, for it would be 
 treason and illegal to fight against king William, who 
 has now the law on his side.' 8 (ibid. 639-646). Blech- 
 ynden in reply. 8 Sept. ' The defence of the society being 
 
 30 the sole ground (and measure too) of our obedience and 
 fidelity to our chief governor, it is plain that it is due to 
 him, and to him only, that can and does defend the 
 society. ... If you will rightly weigh the matter, it is 
 not only a little temporal concern that pleads for your 
 
 35 taking the oaths. For (pardon my plain dealing) you are 
 chargeable with disobedience to the powers that be, with 
 depriving your country (for which we are all in a great
 
 2 2 o BONWICKE AND BLECHYNDEN. 
 
 measure made) of the good you may do in your present 
 station, or in the ministry; and with the making or 
 strengthening a party against the public establishment, to 
 the great prejudice of church and state ; besides the injury 
 to yourself and family, which an honest man ought not to 5 
 prejudice but upon very good grounds. All this, I say, 
 you are chargeable with, if the taking the oaths be not 
 manifestly sinful. For the danger or fear of its being so 
 is not sufficient to justify the neglect of any duty, and an 
 opposition to a public establishment and the benefits of 10 
 it.' Quotations from Dr. [afterwards abp. Johit\ Sharp, 
 bp. Sanderson. ' Reason will prefer the good of the 
 community before that of a single man, especially of one 
 already very false to his trust. ... It is not plain ' u at 
 I am sworn to king James ; the oath in an equitable 15 
 interpretation not reaching the present case ; nor has king 
 James any reason to insist on it as the present circum- 
 stances are ; nor ought you to oblige me by my oath to 
 hurt my neighbours, or my country, how rigorous soever 
 I might be otherwise to myself. There is a great deal of 20 
 difference between a private oath relating to my own con- 
 cerns, of which I am master ; and a public, which was 
 made for the good of the public, and therefore ought in 
 no wise to be strained to the prejudice of the same. . . . 
 The affection that men are bred up with towards the 25 
 memory of king Charles the first, and the abhorrence of 
 the parliament of 1641, does extremely prejudice men for 
 kings and against parliaments ; but both extremes are to 
 be carefully shunned.' 9 (ibid. 646-9). Bonwicke in 
 reply. 16 Sept. 1691. The author of The whole duty of y> 
 man declares that ' the king is accountable to none but 
 God.' Oxford by decree of 21 July 1683 'solemnly con- 
 demned all those propositions as seditious, impious and 
 heretical etc., repugnant to the holy scriptures, decrees of 
 councils, writings of fathers, the faith and profession of 35 
 the primitive church etc. by which this revolution is justi- 
 fied. . . . The sons of the church of England (by their
 
 AMBROSE BONWICKE SEN. 221 
 
 general defection) have brought an indelible scandal upon 
 her ; and it is not to be wiped off by the constancy of 
 a small party. But yet it is glorious to see an archbishop 
 quitting the honour and profits of his station, rather than 
 
 5 quit the obligation of an oath Non-resistance upon 
 
 any pretence whatever is a plain rule that exposes us only 
 to the inconveniencies of tyranny : but if every man must 
 be the judge of the actions of his prince, and quit his 
 allegiance whenever he thinks the coronation oath broken, 
 
 10 there can be no such thing as peace.' 10 (ibid. 649-654). 
 ' Fragments of Mr. Ambrose Bonivicke, relating to the same 
 controversy.' Many cases cited from English history. 
 
 His desire to conceal the authorship of his son's life 
 has been frustrated by the communicative historian of the 
 
 15 literature of our eighteenth century: Nichols, Lit. Anecd. 
 1 416-9 : ' This little volume was generally ascribed to our 
 worthy printer [ Wm. Sawyer], though it was in reality the 
 production of Ambroses father, and came into Mr. Sawyer's 
 hands as executor to James Bonwicke. This assertion is 
 
 20 confirmed by the following letter, addressed by the author 
 to his wife, and found unopened at his death : 
 
 {Undated}. 
 ' MY DEAREST, 
 
 ' You were thinking, quickly after dear 
 
 25 Ambrose's death, that an account of his life might be of 
 some benefit to the world. I have here drawn it up as 
 well as I could : if any thing material be omitted, dear 
 Jemmy, by your direction, will be able to supply it. He 
 therefore must be let into the secret ; and I depend upon 
 30 you two, that it shall for ever be a secret to all the world 
 beside, who was the author. He must therefore take the 
 trouble of transcribing it as soon as he comes hither after 
 my death, for which I bequeath him the two inclosed 
 guineas : and if my dear friend Mr. [Fras. ] Roper be 
 35 living, I would have that copy be shewed him by Jemmy, 
 as of his own motion, and wholly submitted to his judge-
 
 222 THE BONWICKE FAMILY. 
 
 tnent to be altered as he shall think fit. I would have 
 my good friend Mr. \_Tho.~\ Browne 's consent likewise 
 procured (if it may be) for the publishing his letter in this 
 account. And if Mr. Jackson and Mr. Newton are willing 
 to make any alterations in their verses, pray let it be done 5 
 before they are published. I hope, my dearest, you will 
 be at the charge of printing it handsomely ; and if your 
 bookseller be faithful, it is possible that charge may be 
 made up to you again in a little time. You will, I know, 
 think it proper that the master of the college [Dr. Rob. 10 
 Jenkin\, Mr. Roper, Mr. Baker, and Mr. \Tho,~\ Verdon, 
 dear Ambrose's special benefactors, should be presented 
 with these better bound than ordinary ; and that Jemmy 
 should give his tutor one handsomely bound, and distribute 
 about a score among the lads where he thinks they may 1 5 
 do most good. I am sorry I must bequeath you both 
 this trouble; but, if by this means one soul may be 
 gained, your reward will be great. However, I hope our 
 good God will graciously accept the honest intention of 
 us all, through the merits of our blessed Saviour Jesus 20 
 Christ. Amen. ' 
 
 Nichols, Lit. Anecd. v 118, 119 (also in Manning and 
 Bray, Surr. II 661): 'On the south side of the altar at 
 Mickleham, on a black marble, is the following inscrip- 
 tion : Hie, eodem sepulchre conditi, iacent par carissimum 25 
 Augustinus et Philippa, liberi natu minimi lohannis Bon- 
 wicke S.T.B. et Dorotheae uxoris ; quorum ille in caelum 
 cursum maturavit festo S.foAan. Bapt. A.D. MDCLXXXIII ; 
 haec autem, tarn dilecti fratris desiderio contabescens, 
 post quinquennium pridie eiusdem festi in amplexus eius 30 
 ruebatA.D. MDCLXXXVIII. 
 
 * Parce pias animas nimio violare dolore ; 
 
 non poscit lacrimas ille vel ilia tuas. 
 quin potius gravidis quantus fluat umor ocellis, 
 
 in tua, si sapias, crimina totus eat. 35
 
 THE BONWICKE FAMILY. 223 
 
 'On another marble grave-stone: H. S.E. Beniamin 
 Bonwicke LL. B. collegii S. lohannis Bapt. Oxon. socius, 
 et filius lohannis Bonwicke, istis ecclesiae rectoris, ex 
 Dorothea coniuge : vir summo ingenio, iudicio pan, at 
 
 5 modestia pene nimia; cuius mores suavissimos omnes, 
 quibus notus erat, iam maxime desiderant ; hunc saevus 
 variolarum morbus nobis omnibus praeripuit et Deo suo 
 reddidit, quern semper, quantum humanitas patiatur, re- 
 ligione non querula et muliebri, sed tacita et mascula 
 
 10 coluerat. Abi quisquis es, et scito te pariter mortalem. 
 Obiit a. d. ill idus Decembres MDCLXXXVII.' Chosen 
 scholar of St. John's Oxf, 19 May 1675 (Wilson's Mer- 
 chant Taylors' 1 366, 1200). B.C.L. II May 1681, second 
 under-master of Merchant Taylors' 1687 (ibid. 1183). 
 
 15 Henry Bonwicke, brother of the elder A mbrose. Two 
 letters from him to Strype (z and 7 Aug. 1705) are printed 
 in Notes and Queries, 29 Aug. 1859, 343. Life and errors 
 of John Dunton, Land. 1705, 205: 'Mr. Bonwick. I 
 don't think there's an honester man in London, or one 
 
 20 that is more ZEALOUS for the church. He served his 
 time with Mr. Benjamin Took, and we find all the wit 
 and loyalty of his INGENIOUS master exemplified in his 
 life and practice.' MS. C.C.C. Oxon. 391 contains a letter 
 from him to Chr. Wase on the Horatian metres. Nichols, 
 
 25 Lit. Anecd. v 119: 'a bookseller in St. PauFs church- 
 yard, a man of great piety and probity, who died in 1 706. ' 
 One Jas. Bonwicke occurs B.A. oiTrin. coll. Cambr. 
 1680- 1. 
 
 Nichols ibid. ' Counsellor Bonwicke, of the Mickleham 
 
 30 family, and a barrister of the Middle Temple, died May 14, 
 1729.' 
 
 Manning and Bray, Surrey II 197, speaking of 
 Kinnersley manor, Horley: 'In 1675 Kettleby and Petty 
 conveyed to Benjamin Bonwicke, who was a captain, 
 
 35 afterwards major, in the trainbands of this county. In 
 1708 Bonwicke settled it on his intended marriage with 
 Sarah. . . There was issue of this marriage a son named
 
 224 THE BONWICKE FAMILY. 
 
 Benjamin, who inherited the estate. He was a barrister, 
 resided at Reygate, and left two daughters and coheirs ; 
 viz. Sarah, who married Charles Mason (and died aged 
 97*); and Mary, who married Samuel Duplock. These 
 parties, with the widow of Benjamin Bonwicke, conveyed 5 
 to Mr. Richard Ireland in 1740 and 1765.' Erbridge 
 manor, Horley (ibid. 199) 'was settled in 44 Elizabeth by 
 Richard Bonwicke of Horley yeoman on his son Benjamin 
 Bonivicke of the Inner Temple. ' 
 
 James Bonwicke, brother of Ambrose JB. jun. Nichols, 10 
 Lit. Anecd. I 313-320: 'In January 1724-5 Mr. James 
 Bonwicke, the younger son of Mr. Sawyer's worthy school- 
 master, t knowing his integrity and friendship, appointed 
 him executor to his will, and bequeathed to him a small 
 cabinet of medals. The same cabinet, somewhat aug- 15 
 mented, Mr. Bowyer afterwards left to his worthy friend 
 and physician the late Dr. Heberden,\ for whom he had 
 a sincere regard. 
 
 ' As the circumstances attending the executorship are 
 remarkable, I shall annex, from Mr. Sawyer's handwriting, 20 
 a copy of the will : " In the name of the Father, and of 
 the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for 
 ever. 1 James Bonwicke, being now by the blessing of 
 God in good health, do by this my last will and testament 
 dispose of that temporal estate He hath been pleased in 25 
 much mercy to bless me withal. I have been a miserable 
 sinner, God He knows, and unworthy of the least of those 
 many mercies He has vouchsafed me all my life long ; yet 
 
 * [In vol. in app. clvii her age at death, 18 Dec. 1801, is given 91 ; 
 *. e. she was born in 1710 or 1711 ; two or three years after the date 
 above assigned for her grandfather's marriage.] 
 
 + 'The greek " Spicilegium in usum scholae Felstcdiensis sub 
 S.Lydiat gymnasiarcho," was printed 1698, i2mo. for H. Bonwicke 
 (brother to the schoolmaster) at the Red Lion, St. Paul's church- 
 yard ; and the edition of 1738, for J. and J. Bon-wicke, at the same 
 place and sign.' 
 
 J " I give to Dr. William Heberden my little cabinet of coins." 
 Mr. Bowyer 's will.
 
 JAMES BONWICKES WILL. 225 
 
 humbly hope for the greatest of all, even the salvation of 
 my poor soul, through the merits of our blessed Redeemer 
 Jesus Christ. I give and bequeath to my sisters Thea 
 and Winny, to each of them the sum of sixty pounds, to 
 
 5 be paid them immediately upon my decease ; to my sister 
 Molly the like sum, to be disposed to her own private 
 advantage in a small settlement ; to my sister Betty the 
 sum of twenty pounds at my death, and forty more at the 
 birth of her first child ; to my sistenr Henny* the like sum, 
 
 I o to be paid, one moiety at my decease, and the other at the 
 day of marriage, if they marry with the consent of my uncle 
 James Bonwicke esq. ; to my brother John forty pounds, 
 to be paid when he shall have been settled one whole year 
 in some business with the approbation of my uncle ; to 
 
 15 my grandmother Stubbs, and uncle Mr. Samuel Stubbs, 
 and my godson James Jones, to each of them twenty 
 pounds ; and to Mrs. Sarah Norton ten pounds, to be 
 laid out for her private use; I desire also that twenty 
 pounds may be laid out in the building of a monument 
 
 20 for my dear F. and M. ; I desire that one hundred pounds 
 may be disposed of to augment two poor livings, particu- 
 larly where my friends Mr. B. C., Mr. G. H., Mr. R. M., 
 or Mr. M. B. may be incumbents ; and one other hundred 
 pounds, whose annual product for eight years may be 
 
 25 given to two poor children born in the year of my decease 
 in the parishes of Mickleham or Headley, and to be nomi- 
 nated by the vicar of Leatherhead and the rectors of 
 Mickleham and Headley; I leave my cabinet of medals 
 to my dear friend Mr. William Bowyer junior, to whom 
 
 30 I bequeath all my other goods and chattels whatsoever ; 
 I appoint him likewise executor to this my last will and 
 testament." 
 
 ' On this will were grounded the following cases, 
 drawn up by Mr. Bowyer, and answered by two coun- 
 
 35 sellers of considerable eminence. 
 
 [No doubt 'and Margaret' should have followed.]
 
 226 JAMES BONWICKES WILL. 
 
 Case I. James Bonwicke having bequeathed above 
 ;6oo in legacies, by a will of his own hand-writing, 
 though neither dated, signed or sealed ; may an estate 
 held in trust for him be sold to make up the amount, or 
 must it go to the heir at law ? Edmiind Sawyer answers 5 
 8 Mar. 1 724 that the estate must go to the heir at law ; 
 but as to the personalty, the will is good for that. In 
 his answer to Case II. 10 April 1725, Sawyer advises (i) 
 that the same sum to be paid to Henny is 60, not .40 ; 
 (2) that the sixth sister, though possibly it might be the IO 
 testator's intention to give her the same legacy with the 
 rest, yet has no claim ; (3) that brother John ' is entitled 
 to the legacy in case he has been one year out of his 
 clerkship, and pursues the business of an attorney when 
 required by his clients ;' (4) that the letters F. and M. 15 
 are not so sufficient an evidence of the testator's intention 
 as to oblige the exor. to lay out 20 in a monument for 
 the testator's father and mother ; (5) that the bequest of 
 ;ioo for the augmentation of two livings is void. 
 
 Case in. gives a good deal of the family history. 20 
 1 A\nibrose\ B\pnwicke~\ by his last will and testament in 
 writing, gives and devises unto his five daughters the sum 
 of ^400 apiece, and unto his wife and two sons John and 
 James doth (inter alia} give and bequeath as follows : 
 viz. "I give and bequeath to my dear wife all that my 25 
 messuage, or tenement and farm, of all those lands . . . 
 known by the . . . names of Burford and Boxland, situate 
 ... in the parish of Mickleham . . . , and all other my 
 freehold messuages, lands, tenements .... within the said 
 parish, ... to hold during her natural life, if she continues 30 
 a widow so long ; and upon her decease or marriage, to 
 my son James and his heirs, he paying within six months 
 after he comes to the possession of the said estate 200 to 
 his brother my son John.' 1 '' 
 
 'A. B. died Oct. 20, 1722, and on Dec. 3 following, his 35 
 widow and relict also died. Whereupon James, the said 
 testator's younger son, being then of the age of 1 8 years,
 
 JAMES BONWICKES WILL. 227 
 
 received the rents and profits of the said estate from J. B. 
 esq. the testator's brother, in whose name the said estate 
 was purchased in trust for the said testator, and in whom 
 the legal right was to the day of James's death, he having 
 
 5 never made any conveyance thereof to the testator's widow, 
 or the said James the son. 
 
 ' That the said James about two years after his mother's 
 decease, at the age of 21 died likewise, without having 
 paid to his elder brother John the 200 or any part 
 
 10 thereof. . . 
 
 'That the said James by his will, neither dated, 
 signed, nor sealed, but all of his own hand-writing (and 
 for the validity whereof sentence has been given in. 
 Doctors' Commons) bequeaths several legacies, and among 
 
 15 the rest 200 to charitable uses, no mention being made 
 therein of the estate given him by his father's will, but 
 only in general words leaves his cabinet of medals to his 
 dear friend Mr. W. B. junior, to whom he bequeaths all 
 his other goods and chattels whatsoever, and appoints 
 
 20 him likewise executor of his last will and testament. 
 
 ' That, without the said estate, there will not be assets 
 sufficient to discharge his legacies ; notwithstanding which, 
 the said John the brother not only claims the said estate, 
 but also the 200 with interest for the same, and ^40 
 
 25 being a legacy left him by his said brother James's will. 
 
 ' Query, is James's will sufficient to convey to his 
 executor the said estate held in trust, to enable him to 
 fulfil the said will ; or must it go to the brother John as 
 heir at law, in prejudice to the said charities and legacies ?' 
 
 30 Answer. ' This will is not sufficient to pass lands of 
 freehold or inheritance, not being signed or executed ac- 
 cording to the statute, and it therefore descends to the 
 heir at law John, and not affected with the charities or 
 other legacies.' 
 
 35 ' II. If the trust of the estate descends to John the 
 heir at law, is it not sufficiently implied in his father's 
 will that the ^200 legacy he bequeaths to the said John
 
 228 JAMES BONWICKES WILL. 
 
 should be an incumbrance on the estate bequeathed to 
 James. Can John therefore claim the said 200 as a 
 debt of James's executor, when he possesses that estate 
 which seems to be charged with the very incumbrance he 
 claims ? 5 
 
 ' Or, further, may not James's neglect to pay the said 
 200 (that is, to perform the conditions by which he was 
 to hold the said estate) be interpreted as a refusal to 
 accept of that estate, to which his father had annexed 
 such conditions? Or shall his receiving the rents and 10 
 profits of the estate during his minority be looked upon 
 as an acceptance of that estate, which was never made 
 over to him, and the profits whereof he never received 
 after he came of age?' 
 
 Answer. 'I think the land devised to James being 15 
 charged with the 200 and the land so charged descend- 
 ing to John (to whom the ^200 was also payable) it 
 amounts to an extinguishment or satisfaction of the ^200 
 and all interest due on that account, and cannot be 
 claimed by John of the executor of James. ' 20 
 
 ' in. If the 200 is likewise due to John as a debt 
 from James, is Jameses exor. obliged to pay interest for 
 the said 200 to the claimant John any longer than to 
 the time of the said James's death, provided the exor. 
 has made no interest of the said money; and especially 25 
 considering that the claimant John, by litigating his 
 brother's will for near half a year, hindered the exor. 
 from paying either interest or principal?' 
 
 Answer. ' I think James's exor. is liable to pay neither 
 principal nor interest. ' 30 
 
 ' IV. When was James, according to the words of his 
 father's will, possessed of the estate? Was it from the 
 time he received rents and profits of the said estate, which 
 was from the Michaelmas before his father, who gave it 
 to him, died, his father and mother both dying between 35 
 Michaelmas and Christmas ? Or was he not rather then 
 only possessed of it, when his mother, who during her
 
 JAMES BONW2CKES WILL. 229 
 
 life was the obstacle to his possessing it, was dead ? Or 
 lastly, was he, or could he be possessed of it, before he was 
 of the age of 21 ? Consequently, must the interest the 
 elder brother John claims with the 200 commence from 
 
 5 six months after the Michaelmas which preceded his 
 father's death, or from six months after the younger 
 brother James came of age?' 
 
 Answer. ' James was possessed of the estate within 
 the meaning of the will when the mother died, and the 
 
 10 devise to him took place ; and whether he was 21 or not, 
 as long as he was entitled to the rents and profits, it was 
 sufficient ; and if James had lived, John might have de- 
 manded interest from six months after his mother's death ; 
 but he dying, and the estate out of which both principal 
 
 15 and interest was to be paid coming to John, the demand, 
 I think, is extinguished. 
 
 THOMAS LUTWYCHE, April 25, 1726.' 
 
 ' The whole progress of this business reflects honour 
 on the integrity of Mr. Sawyer; but his conduct to the 
 
 20 unprovided sister deserves to be particularly known. I 
 have now before me an exact debtor and creditor accompt 
 of the whole of his executorship, by which it appears that 
 he not only paid to Margaret Bonwicke 21. Ss. the whole 
 surplus which remained after all the other legacies were 
 
 25 paid, and added 10 to it as a free gift, but, at the 
 distance of thirty years, made up the sum which her 
 brother had most probably intended for her. This circum- 
 stance is confirmed by the following remarkable receipt : 
 "Whereas a legacy of ;6o was probably intended to 
 
 30 have been left to my wife Margaret, when a maiden, by 
 her brother Mr. James Bonwicke, who died January 
 1724-5 ; but her name being omitted in his will, and there 
 not being assets sufficient to pay the whole of the said 
 intended legacy, she gave a discharge in full to his exor. 
 
 35 Mr. William Bowyer, May 23, 1729, on receiving^ I. Ss., 
 being the whole surplus which remained after the other
 
 2 3 o JAMES BONWICKES WILL. 
 
 legacies were paid : And whereas the said William 
 Bowyer did, out of his own good will, pay at the same 
 time, and at his own expense, 10 more in aid of the 
 said intended legacy; and afterwards, on or about July 16, 
 1 747) did give to my said wife Margaret ^4. $s. more out 5 
 of the second dividend made to him on account of Mr. 
 Edward Jones's bond of 100 ; which sums made in all 
 ~$5- I 3 J - : And whereas Mr. Samuel Stubbs, dying on or 
 about December 12, 1756, left the following clause in his 
 will: I give and bequeath unto Mr. William Bowyer, of IO 
 Hatton Garden, London, printer, the sum of 31. lev. 
 (willing him to take it as a part of my late nephew James 
 Bonwicke's estate} and to dispose of it as he shall think 
 proper, by which clause the said Mr. William Bowyer, 
 having received ^31. icw. hath thought proper to dispose 15 
 of .24. fs. to me : I hereby acknowledge to have received 
 the said .24. 7^. ; which, with the sums before received 
 by my wife and myself, amounting to 60, is in full of 
 the intended legacy of Mr. James Bon-wicke to my wife, 
 and of the utmost intention of the late Mr. Samuel Stubbs. 20 
 Witness our hands, 
 
 EDWARD ANDREWS, MARGARET ANDREWS.' 
 
 ' Received of Mr. William Bowyer, each of us respect- 
 ively, 2. 8s., the sum which he hath thought proper to 
 dispose of in pursuance of the before-mentioned clause in 25 
 the late Mr. Samutl Stubbs 's will. 
 
 MARY JONES, DOROTHY WILDMAN, 
 
 WlNEFRID COOKE.' 
 
 Nichols gives a few items from Sawyer's accompt. 
 
 ' EXECUTORSHIP. 30 
 
 Debtor. 
 
 . s. d. 
 
 ' Found in a box dedicated to the poor . .691 
 
 Sold three sheets of paper . . . .001 
 Sold Miss Henny a book called Hygiasticon . o o 4 35 
 Sold Mrs. Winny a pair of black buttons . 002
 
 JAMES BONWICKES WILL. 231 
 
 . s. d. 
 Received of the administrators of Mr. Ambrose 
 
 Bonwicke and E. Bonwicke an eighth share 
 of odd things which were not divided in 
 their brother's life-time . . . .02 $)4 
 
 5 for household goods . . . . 146 o o 
 
 for eatables and drinkables . . 4150 
 
 of Mr. Woodward for books . . 102 2 o 
 
 of Mr. Bonwicke, bookseller . . 185 o o 
 
 of Lord Oxford for seven MSS. * . . 77 
 
 IO of Mr. May for MS. sermons . .1200 
 
 ' Per contra. 
 
 Creditor. 
 . *. d. 
 'Paid for my journey to London upon Mr. 
 
 15 Bonwicke 1 s horse, waterage to and from 
 Vauxhall, and putting up the horse at the 
 
 Vine 029 
 
 Paid neighbour Martyr's score . . . I II 3^ 
 Paid Goody Hubbard, for her trouble in at- 
 20 tending Mr. James Bonwicke during his 
 
 last sickness . . . . . . o 10 6 
 
 Spent at a coffee-house, waiting for Mr. 
 
 Stubbs o o i 
 
 Paid counsel for resolving three cases [as 
 25 above] . . . . . . -33 
 
 Paid the pocket expenses of Mrs. Elizabeth, 
 Dorothea, Winefrid, Henrietta, and Mar- 
 garet Bonwicke, when they went to London, 
 to give testimony to their brother's will . on 6 
 
 * Cf. Nichols 1 Lit. Anecd. I 92-3, from Humphr. W entity's 
 journal: 'Sept. u, 1725, being in company with Mr. Moses 
 Williams, he told me, that he had that day seen, in the hands of 
 young Mr. Bowyer, a small parcel of MSS. which were to be sold. 
 Hereupon I went to Mr. Bowyer this day, and bought them for my 
 lord in his absence ; they will be all marked with the date of this 
 day. These books formerly belonged to the rev. and learned Mr. 
 A nibrose Bonwicke, deceased.'
 
 232 W.BEVERIDGE. T. WHINCUP. 
 
 P. 8 1. 6. Wm.Beveridge. See \heindices toBaker's Hist, 
 of St. John 's college (Cambr. 1869) and to Dean Gran-villas 
 Remains, Surtees soc., both parts. When admitted sizar 
 of St. John's 24 May 1653 under Nic. Bullingham, he is 
 described as of Barrow Leic. , son of Wm. B. deceased, 5 
 educated at Okeham school for two years under Mr. Frear, 
 act. past 1 6. 
 
 P. 8 1. 1 8. Whincup. See p. 12 1. i. Thos. W. co. 
 Herts., admitted in C. C. C. C. 1664, B.A. 1667-8, M.A. 
 1671, B.D. 1679, D.D. 1684. Proctor 1677, and uni- 10 
 versity preacher. Presented by the college to the rectory 
 of St. Mary Abchurch and St. Lawrence Pountney 21 Nov. 
 1681 (inst. 10 Nov. Newcourt I 432): 'but a contest 
 arising respecting the title, he was continued in his fellow- 
 'ship until the suit was ended, although Sir Sagg [ Wm. S.] 15 
 had been some time before pre-elected to it. As a tes- 
 timony of his grateful sense of this and other favours from 
 the college, he added 20 to the stock for commons' 
 (Masters 165). He was chosen to represent the diocese 
 of London in convocation 1695 (Luttrell in 552) and 1708 20 
 (Masters}; and preached the 5th of Nov. sermon before 
 the commons in 1702 (Luttrell v 230), on Esth. 5, 12, 
 which was printed ; as were two others, one before the 
 sons of the clergy on Tit. 3, 8 in 1695 ; and an Easter 
 sermon, 1701, on charity before the lord mayor on I Jo. 3 25 
 (Masters). The life and errors of John Dunton, Lond. 
 1705, p. 449: 'Dr. Wincop : We have a pious example 
 to follow, in this learned divine, for he is a great master 
 of his temper, and no man is better skill'd, than Dr. 
 Wincop, in the mystery of winning upon the hearts of 30 
 men. He is well read in casuistick divinity, which does 
 abundantly furnish him for treating with persons, either 
 shaken with opinions, or troubled in mind ; and he 's a 
 divine of such great sincerity, that any may safely discover 
 their cases to him, without any fear of upbraiding or 35 
 treachery.' He died in 1713 and his will was proved in 
 1715 (Lamb 368, 493; Masters 164, 165, app. 8, 49).
 
 JOHN WHINCOP. 233 
 
 Masters, app. 49 : ' He was probably the son of John, 
 D. D. , pastor of the church of Clothall in Herts, and of 
 St. Martin's in the fields ; one of the assembly of divines 
 and the author ot Israel's tears for distressed Sion, a sermon 
 
 5 preached before the lord mayor in 1645 > w ^ was de- 
 scended from Thomas, a preacher at Beverley in Yorkshire, 
 where he died in 1624.' 
 
 John Wincopp, D.D. inst. rect. of Clothall 6 Nov. 
 1643 (Clutterbuck's Herts., Lond. 1827, fol. Ill 504) and 
 
 IO still rector in 1650 (ib. 503); his successor was Tho. New- 
 comen (504)' The first date in the following inscription 
 (507) must be a mistake : ' 1647. Johannes Whincop. 
 Resurget. Arms ... a fess .... in chief a covered cup 
 between two mullets. Ne erres, advena, tres erant e 
 
 15 Whincoporum genere theologi, ex eodem utero fratres, 
 in eadem academia socii eodemque doctoratus gradu co- 
 honestati. Tertius et natu minimus lohannes, postquam 
 in familia patrem egerat providum, in ecclesia pastorem 
 pium et proficuum, in republica virum integerrimum, im- 
 
 20 matura morte a suis ereptus, exuvias hie deponere voluit 
 et placide reclinare. In memoriam tarn charissimi con- 
 iugis relicta eius Etheldreda hoc posuit saxum et epitaph- 
 ium. Obiit Mai sexto, anno aerae christianae 1653, 
 aetatis suae 52. Tantum est quandoque, lector, virtute 
 
 25 prius quam annis canescere.' He has verses in Geneth- 
 liacum Acad. Cant. 1631, p. 73. 
 
 John Whincop of Clothall was fellow of Trinity, B. A. 
 1621-2, M.A. 1625, B.D. 1632, D.D. by mandate 1637. 
 His brother Sam. was of Sidn. B.A. 1610-1, admitted 
 
 30 Halytreholme fell, of St. John's 12 Apr. 1614 (described 
 as of Beverley, son of Tho. W. preacher there), M.A. 
 1614, B.D. 1621, D.D. by mandate 1631, vie. oiCheshunt 
 (Newcourt I 822). Diary of Sir Hen. Slingsby, Lond. 
 1836, 318 (H. S. to his father, from Queens' coll. 13 June 
 
 35 1621) : 'I was upon Tuesday morning at St. Maries church 
 to hear Mr. Wincopes concio clerum, who did very well 
 and with great applause, and soe every day at one act
 
 234 PA TRICK. D UTY OF MAN. 
 
 or other. Quis me uno vivit felicior ?' His dau. Elizabeth 
 married Dr. Thos. (son of bp. ) Sanderson 19 June 1655 
 (Sandersons Works VI 416 cl. 407). Another brother, 
 Thomas, also fellow of Trinity, was B.A. 1615-6, M.A. 
 1619, B.D. 1626, D.D. 1635. The father, Thomas, was 5 
 of Trinity, B.A. 1578-9, M.A. 1582, and died 7 Sept. 
 1624 (note in Richardson's MS. list of graduates). Others 
 of the name (which is spelt with or without h, with / or 
 //) are Thomas of Trin. B.A. 1541-2; John of Chr. 
 1581-2; Edm. of Caius, B.A. 1636-7, M.A. 1640; of 10 
 Layston (Calamy, Contin. 799). Thos. (no doubt the 
 son of Thomas of St. Mary Abchurch) of London, adm. 
 C. C. C. C. 1713, B.A. 1718-9. 
 
 P. 10 1. 15. Sim. Patrick's Christian Sacrifice. ' The 
 Christian sacrifice. A treatise shewing the necessity, end 15 
 and manner of receiving the holy communion : together with 
 suitable prayers and meditations for every month in the 
 year; and the principal festivals in memory of our blessed 
 Saviour . . . Lond. 1671.' 8vo. pp. 509. Of the sec. ed. 
 'enlarged with additional prayers . . . Lond. 1672.' I2mo. 20 
 pp. (24) and 498, St. John's has two copies, both among 
 bp. Gunning's books. Of the 3rd ed. ' corrected .... 
 Lond. 1675.' I2mo. pp. (24) and 498, St. John's has a 
 copy among Thos. Baker's books. Other ed. 1687. I2mo ; 
 1732. I2mo. Devotional Exercises, extracted from bp. 25 
 Patrick's "Christian sacrifice," adapted to the present time 
 by Laetitia Matilda Hawkins. Lond. 1823. 8vo. 
 
 P. 10, 1. 19. The Whole Duty of Man. See p. 47 1. I. 
 On the author (lady Packington ?) see Reliquiae Hearn- 
 ianae, ed. 2, 1869, I 18, 113-4, 122, III 62-4, 87-8530 
 Notes and Qu. I Ser. n 292-3 ; V 229; VI 537; vm 564; 
 IX 551 ; 2 Ser. V 334, 426 ; 3 Ser. VII 106, 124, 290, 328. 
 To the candidates for the authorship may be added Is. 
 Barrow ( Ward of Stratford's diary, 300) ; and bp. Fell 
 (Prideaux' Life 17-19). 35 
 
 P. 10 1. 20. Winchester manual. Cf. p. 59 1. 3 seq. 
 See \Anderdott s] Life of Ken, 2nd ed., 1854, 103-113.
 
 THOS.KEN. JO. MANDEVILE. 235 
 
 First published in 1674 ; the morning, evening, and mid- 
 night hymns first appeared in the 7th ed. 1704. Geo. 
 Whilfield borrowed largely from this book. See on bp. 
 Ken the life of Is. Milles 119-221, 136 ; Brydges 1 Restituta 
 
 5 I 151 ; at Id. Weymouttis in Aug. 1701 (Eur. Mag. Apr. 
 !7 8 7> 2 75); Lady Warwick's Diary, R.T.S., Land. 1847, 
 107, 138, 146. With one of his most often quoted verses 
 cf. Sam. Clarke's Lives of divines ( 1 683, fol. ) : ' that we love 
 and live each day as the last. ' In Poems by Tho. Fletcher, 
 
 10 B. A. Land. 1692, 8vo. pp. 12-16, are verses : ' To Thomas 
 lord bishop of Bath and Wells, staying at Winton, after 
 his promotion to that see, 1685.' Life of bp. Tho. Wilson, 
 1822, 269, 304; Life of Jo. Bawdier, 1824, 1 6, 260. 
 
 P. II 1. 7. Doctor Mandevil. See p. 12 1.4. Jo. 
 
 15 Mandevile of Trin. Cambr. B.A. 1673-4, M.A. 1677, 
 D.D. 1694; rect. of St. Mary Magd., Old Fish-street, 27 
 May 1691 (Newcourt I 472); preb. of Ketton, Line. 12 
 Jan. 1694-5 (.Lc Neve-Hardy II 159); collated to the 
 chancellorship of Line. 24 Dec. 1695, installed 18 Jan. 
 
 20 1695-6, resigned Mar. 1712-3 (ibid. 94); appointed canon 
 of Windsor by patent 23 Febr., installed 26 Febr. 1708-9 ; 
 on his resignation his successor was appointed I May 1 722 
 (ibid, in 406-7); archd. of Line., collated 23, installed 
 28 Oct. 1709, a preferment which, with the two next, he 
 
 25 held till his death (ibid. II 48); installed preb. Westm. 
 7 May 1722 (ibid. Ill 365); instituted dn. of Peterb. 23 
 May 1722 (ibid, n 540); died 20 Jan. 1724-5 and was 
 buried in the church of St. Mary Magd. , Old Fish-street 
 (ibid. II 94 ; ibid. 48 and 540 the day of his death is given 
 
 30 21 Jan. ; but see Hist. Reg. 1725). See also Coxe's Life 
 
 of Marlborough ill 169. He published a sermon preached 
 
 before the queen, on I Jo. iii 24. Land. 1705. 4to. (Bodl.). 
 
 P. II, 1. 10. \_Edw. ,] Lake's Officium Eucharisticum. 
 
 Cf. pp. 18 1. 27, 26 1. 19, 38 1. 30, 45 1. 21. See Wood- 
 
 35 Bliss Athen. IV 735. Reprinted at Oxford, 32nd ed., in 
 1846, on the suggestion of the late Mr. Norris Deck. 
 
 P. 12 1 15. \_Henry] Sacheverel. ' His grandfather by
 
 236 HENR Y SA CHE VERELL. 
 
 the father's side was Mr. John S., ejected from the living 
 of Wincanton in Somersetshire by the Bartholomew act for 
 nonconformity etc. See the wisdome of looking backward, 
 published by bp. Kennett, pag. 114' (Baker}. Calamy, 
 Account, 597-9 ; cl. Contin. 746 ; Nichols, Leicest. in 510 : 5 
 John ' was the eldest son of Mr. Sacheverell, minister of 
 Stoke [in the isle of Purbeck in Dorset], who was a man 
 of great reputation ;' cf. Contin. 449). Timothy S., brother 
 of John, was ejected from Tarrant Hinton, Dorset (Calamy 
 Ace. 269, 597 ; Contin. 424-7, 870). Another brother was 10 
 Philologus (ibid. 427). On Thos. S. vie. of St. Martinis, 
 Leicester, see Mather's New England, bk. Ill p. 73 and 
 ind. to Nichols 1 Leicestersh. Vol. I (see both indices and 
 that to Lit. Anecdotes, for Hen. Sacheverell and others of 
 the family). Joshua S., B.A. Cath. 1667-8, father of 
 Henry, was rector of St. Peter's, Marlborough (Cough's 
 Brit. Topographer I 381; Nichols, Leicestersh. Ill 511; 
 Nichols, Collectan. V 39, 263). Henry Sacheverell was in- 
 corporated D.D. at Cambridge in 1714; see upon him 
 State trials XV 1-522 ; Parliament, hist. VI 805-87 ; Watt, 20 
 Biblioth. Brit, (under ' authors' and ' subjects') ; Darling's 
 Cyclopaedia; the Bodl. catalogue ; the indices to Swift, 
 Burnet (text and notes, ed. 1833), Tindal, Luttrett, Re- 
 liquiae Hearnianae, Id. Mahon, Notes and Queries ; Cala- 
 my's Own Times II 223 seq., 227 seq. ; Kennett in Brydges, 20 
 Restituta\\\yi<), iv6g; Dean Granville's Remains, Surtees 
 soc., II 252. In 1719 Wm. Whiston (Memoirs 289, 290) 
 published a sarcastic Letter of thanks to the bishop of London 
 \_Robinson\for his late letter to his clergy, against the use of 
 new forms of doxology. On which ' happened Dr. Sachev- 30 
 erelVs attempt to exclude me from St. Andrew's, which 
 was then my parish church ; at which time I published my 
 Account of Dr. SachevereWs proceedings, in order to exclude 
 me from St. Andrew's church in Holborn; which is added 
 to the collection of my small pamphlets.' Addison, in 35 
 verses entitled An account of the greatest english poets, 
 3 Apr. 1694, addresses 'Mr. H. S.' as 'dearest Harry,*
 
 WM. DELAUNE. 237 
 
 Rob. S. fell. com. Trin. , has verses, sign. P 4, in Ducts 
 
 Cornubiae genethliacon, Cambr. 1688. 
 
 P. 13 1. 23. aid. Ward. Sir Jo. Ward, Id. mayor in 
 
 1719 {Wilson s Merchant Taylors' xxviii, 419, 421). 
 S P. 1 6, 1. 20. Dr. [Wm.~\ Delaune. See Van Mildert, 
 
 Life of Water/and, 27 ; indices to Wilson's Merchant 
 
 Taylors' and to Nichols' Lit. Anecd. ; Works of the learned 
 
 (1703), 126; Amhursfs Terrae films, 65, 150, 165 seq., 
 
 185 seq., 198, 245. He was Margaret prof., canon of 
 IO Worcester and Winchester and died 23 May 1728 (ffistor. 
 
 Reg.]. 
 
 P. 17 1. 4. the second and fourth boys. i.e. Stephen 
 
 Bignell and Francis West, on 1 1 June 1710 ( Wilson 419). 
 
 P. 17 1. 22. admitted into St. John's college Aug. 25. 
 
 15 Described as son of the Rev. Ambrose B., born in London, 
 
 educated at Merchant Taylors' under Mr. [Thos. ,] Parsell, 
 
 admitted 24 [not 25] Aug. 1710 sizar for Mr. Turner, 
 
 tutor Mr. [Christ.'] Anstey. 
 
 P. 17 I. 23 seq. several that had been below him at 
 20 school, superior to him in the university. Some of the 
 
 following, who had all the same tutor, Anstey. Tho., son 
 
 of Rev. Rob. Beverley, born at Kimbolton, educated at M. T. 
 
 under Dr. Shorting, adm. sizar for Francis Robins 20 Aug. 
 
 1708, act. 17. John, son of John Downes goldsmith, 
 25 born in London, educated at M. T. under Parsell, adm. 
 
 sizar for Lloyd 12 Oct. 1708, act. 17. Henry, son of Rev. 
 
 Hen. Cooper, born at Hampton, Midds. , educated at M. T. 
 
 under Parsell, adm. sizar for Herbert 8 Jan. 1 708-9, aet. 
 
 1 8. Laur. son of Laurence Jackson deceased, born in 
 30 Land. , educated at M. T. under Parsell, adm. pensioner 
 
 29 June 1709, aet. 1 8. John, son of John Brailsford 
 
 tinman ('stannarii'), born in London, educated zkM.T. 
 
 under Parsell, adm. sizar for Dawkins 29 June 1709, 
 
 aet. 17. 
 35 P. 1 7, 1. 29. one especially. Francis Roper. Cf. pp. 60, 
 
 1. 10, 102 1. 8. 
 
 P. 1 8 1. 8. Frequent returns of the holy sacrament.
 
 238 WEEKL Y COMMUNIONS. 
 
 Denis Granville, dean of Durham, laboured zealously for 
 the introduction of weekly communions in cathedrals and 
 colleges. See his Remains, published by the Surtees soc. , 
 pt. I (in 'Miscellanea,' 1 86 1 ), xxix xxxiv, 1, 143, 171-180, 
 182-3, 211; pt. II (1865), xvi, 42, 45 ('the celebration of 5 
 the Holy Communion every Sunday at the least, not ob- 
 served in more than two cathedrals and two or three 
 chappels in all England,' A.D. 1680); 46, 48-50, 52-4, 
 56-62, 71, 73, 79, 85-91, 108, 124-5, 13. i3 2 - As b P s - 
 Gunning (ib. 49, 60) and Turner (ibid. 124-5), successively 10 
 masters of St. John's, were principal supporters of these 
 endeavours of Granville's, it is no wonder that the college 
 also adopted weekly communions ; indeed Humphry Gower 
 speaks (Baker 's Hist, of St. John's, 1869, p. 654 1. 49 seq.) of 
 ' those frequent communions, which, to his everlasting 1 5 
 praise, this holy bishop \Gunning\ establish'd or practis'd 
 weekly in all places where he liv'd, and which were sub- 
 ject to his jurisdiction.' In 1681 the abp. ordered weekly 
 communions to be held in all cathedrals {Patrick's Auto- 
 biogr. p. 99). Cf. Secretan's Life of Nelson, 173-6. 20 
 
 P. 1 8 1. 28. Dr. Patrick's book. The Devout Christian 
 instructed how to pray and give thanks to God: or, a book 
 of devotions for families and for particular persons in most 
 of the concerns of humane life. By the author of the 
 Christian sacrifice. Lond. 1673. I2mo. pp. 508, 509 : 1 A 25 
 short prayer for a Student. I look up unto thee, O Lord, 
 from -whom cometh every good and perfect gift, beseeching 
 thee to direct, assist and bless all the labours of my mind. 
 Illuminate my understanding, O Father of lights, and lead 
 me unto right apprehensions in all things. Indue me with 30 
 that humility and soberness of mind, which thou delightest 
 to reward with more of thy gifts and graces. Bestow 
 upon me a discerning spirit ; a sound judgement ; and an 
 honest and good heart, sincerely disposed to imploy all 
 the talents which thou hast, or shalt instruct me withal, 35 
 to thy honour and glory, and to the good of mankind. 
 For which end, I beseech thee to excite my thirst after
 
 STURBRIDGE FAIR. 239 
 
 useful, rather than much knowledge. And especially 
 inrich me with the treasures of that inspired wisdom, con- 
 tained in thy holy Scriptures ; which are able to make me 
 wise unto salvation. That growing in understanding and 
 
 5 goodness, as I grow in years ; my profiting may be ap- 
 parent unto all men: and I may give a comfortable 
 account of my time to thee, my God, at the day of the 
 Lord Jesiis. Amen.' 
 
 P. 19!. I. Sturbridge fair. By the statutes of St. 
 
 IO John's (Early statutes of St. John's college, Cambr. 1859, 
 8vo. pp. 172-3, 321, 380) a piece of cloth for a gown was 
 bought for every fellow of the college at the fair. A letter 
 from abp. Williams, dated proctors' booth, in Sturbridge 
 l^Sept. 1612 is printed in his Letters, Cambr. 1866, 14-18. 
 
 15 Worthingtoris diary (Cheth. Soc.), I 115, 7 Sept. 1658: 
 vicechancellor's court at the fair. I 207, Oct. 1660 : Stur- 
 bridge fair the carpenters' harvest. Very frequently 
 Worthington and others speak of the fair as a well-known 
 date. Halliwell cites Brathwaite's Honest ghost, 1658, 
 
 2O p. 189 : 
 
 ' When th' fair is done, I to the colledg come, 
 Or else I drink with them at Trompington, 
 Craving their more acquaintance with my heart, 
 Till our next Sturbridg faire ; and so wee part. ' 
 
 25 Edward Kemp printed a sermon preached at St. Mary's 
 6 Sept. 1668, the Sunday before the fair. 4to. pp. 20. See 
 accounts of it in Jo. Can hist. acad. Cant. 105 ; Cambr. 
 Chron. 15 Sept. 1764, last page; Gent. Mag. LXVIII 761 ; 
 Rob. Gardiner, Hist, of Cambridgeshire, Peterb. 1851. 8vo, 
 
 30 179, 1 80. In the Bibliotheca topographica Britannica, V 
 pt. I, n. xxxvin, 1786, is a History of Barnwell Abbey 
 and of Stitrbridgefair. Cf. Nichols, Lit. Anecd. VIII 569; 
 Stirbitch fair, a mock heroic poem, s. a. et 1. ; a pamphlet, 
 printed at Cambridge, n. d. 8vo : An historical account of 
 
 35 Sturbridge, Bury, and the most curious fairs in Europe 
 and America ; interspersed with anecdotes curious and en-
 
 240 STURBRIDGE FAIR. 
 
 tertaining: and considerations upon the origin, the progress, 
 and decline, of all the temporary marts in this kingdom ; 
 also Thos. Hill, Nundinae Sturbrigienses, an. 1 702. Land. 
 1 709. 8vo. Several MSS. in the Cambridge university 
 library are referred to in Index to the Baker MSS. Cambr. 5 
 1848, pp. 153-4, and H. R. Luard, Index to the catalogue 
 of MSS. in Cambr. univ. libr. Cambr. 1867, p. 28 b. The 
 formal opening of the fair is described in Wall- Gunning, 
 The ceremonies observed in the senate-house of the univ. of 
 Cambridge, Cambr. 1828, 129-131. 10 
 
 In the works of the ribald Edward Ward, 2nd ed., 
 II 218-243, is 'A step \nStir-bitck-bSu. With remarks 
 upon the university of Cambridge, ' printed originally Land. 
 1700 fol. Several illustrations of the manners of the uni- 
 versity may be picked from the filth. P. 219: 'Our 15 
 booted caravan . . . had no more sway when we came 
 over a kennel, than St. Sepulcher's steeple has when the 
 colledge youths are ringing in it.' The company com- 
 prised five women and an old gentleman, who, (p. 220) 
 ' having a son at St. John's colledge, whose unruly appetites 20 
 were a little too powerful for the weak discretion of his 
 junior years to keep under a regular subjection, was going 
 down in order (by his paternal authority) to restrain him, 
 if it were possible, from the vices and debaucheries in- 
 cident to the fair. ' P. 234 : Trumpington taverns fre- 25 
 quented by scholars. P. 237 : London hackney coaches 
 convey passengers to the fair for yl. P. 238 : Proctors' 
 booth ; hops, fish, pitch, tar, soap, wooden bowls, spoons 
 etc. P. 239 : Garlic-row, ' occupy'd by sempstresses, per- 
 fumers, milleners, toymen and cabinet-makers.' Pp. 30 
 240-1 : Cooks-row, but a 'great number of booksellers . . . 
 are now crept into possession of their greasinesses division ; 
 this learned part of the fair is the scholars chief rendezvouz, 
 where some that have money come to buy books, whilst 
 others, who want it, take 'em slily up, upon condition to 35 
 pay if they're catch'd, and think it a pious piece of 
 generosity, to give St. Austin or St. Gregory protection
 
 STURBRIDGE FAIR. 241 
 
 in a gown sleeve till they can better provide for 'em. 
 Here the most famous auctioneer of all Great as well as 
 Little Britain, sells books by the hammer, and gives the 
 scholars as merry an entertainment, as a mountebank and 
 
 5 his Andrew. Here's an old author for you, gentlemen, you 
 may judge his antiquity by the fashion of his leather-jacket ; 
 herein is contained, for the benefit of you scholars, the know- 
 ledge of every thing ; written by that famous author, who 
 thro 1 his profound wisdom, -very luckily discovered that he 
 
 IO knew nothing. For your encouragement, gentlemen, I'll 
 put him up at two shillings, advance three pence ; two 
 shillings once: what? no body bid ? The bidder advances 
 three pence, two and three pence, once: gentlemen, fye for 
 shame, why sure men of your parts and learning, will 
 
 1 5 never suffer the works of so famous an author to be thus 
 undervalued: if you'll believe me, gentlemen, he's worth 
 more to a powder-monkey to make cartridges of, than what's 
 bid: two and three pence, twice ? What? no body amongst 
 you gentlemen of the black robe, that has so much respect 
 
 20 for the wisdom of our ancestors, as to advance t'other three- 
 pence ? Well, sir, I find you must have him for two and 
 three pence, knock, and now you've bought him, sir, I 
 must tell you, you 'II find learning enough within him to 
 puzzle both universities : and thus much I promise you 
 
 2 5 further, sir, when you have read him seven years, if you 
 don't like him, bring him to me again, in little Brittain, 
 and I'll help you to a man who shall give you a shilling for 
 him to cover band-boxes. At this sort of rate he banters 
 the young students ; and whatever they purchas'd, gave 
 
 30 'em a jest into the bargain.' P. 241 : Cheapside, with its 
 'wholesale tradesmen, as linnen-drapers, silk-men, iron- 
 mongers, leather-sellers, tobacconists etc. ' The Duddery, 
 where Norwich stuffs and Yorkshire cloth are sold ; where 
 stands (p. 242) ' an old weather-beaten pulpit, where on 
 
 35 Sunday a sermon is deliver'd, for the edification of the 
 stroling sinners, who give open attention, as in a field- 
 conventicle. Here is also great quantities of wooll, put 
 
 R
 
 242 STURBRIDGE FAIR. 
 
 up in bags, which they call pockets, weighing at least 
 a tun weight. An Irish gentleman coming by, and staring 
 very hard upon 'em, By my shoul, says he, they are the 
 largest feather-beds dat ever I did shee; I "wonder how they 
 do to turn 'em when they make 'em. ' ' The chief entertain- 5 
 ment of the fair is stubble geese and apple sauce ; fat pig 
 and fly sauce ; bad sack and good walnuts ; the last of 
 which the citizens send as fairings to their wives.' 'An 
 old fellow dignified with the title of Lord Tap, from his 
 going arm'd all over with spiggots and fossets, like a 10 
 porcupine with his quills, or looking rather like a fowl 
 wrapt up in a pound of sausages. ' 
 
 From C.H. Cooper's Annals of Cambridge a pretty com- 
 plete history of the fair may be derived. I 34 circ. A. D. 
 12 1 1, cf. I 59 : king John granted to the lepers of the 15 
 hospital of St. Mary Magd. at Sturbridge, a fair in the 
 close of the hospital, on the vigil and feast of the Holy 
 Cross (13 and 14 Sept. Rotuli Htmdred. n 360). I 101 
 A.D. 1351 : Cloth seized in Sturbridge fair to the king's 
 use. I 113 A.D. 1376 : The feast of dedication of Trin. 20 
 church changed to Oct. 9, to avoid clashing with Stur- 
 bridge fair. Town ordinance respecting the fair and chapel. 
 I 125 A.D. 1382 : False weights used in the fair. I 149, 
 150 A.D. 1403 and 1405 : Corporation ordinances about 
 booths in Sturbridge fair. I 153 A.D. 1411 : suit between 25 
 the warden of Sturbridge chapel and the town, about 
 stallage in the chapel yard. I 161 A.D. 1418 : Rob. Hier- 
 man banished for maintaining common women at the fair. 
 I 163 A.D. 1419 : suit between the city of London and the 
 university respecting the fair, r 171-2 A.D. 1423 : the cor- 30 
 poration exempt from toll merchandise coming to the fair. 
 Petition of the commons respecting embroidery sold in the 
 fair. I 173 A. D. 1425 : Purchases at the fair on account 
 of Burcester priory Oxf. I 210 A.D. 1459 : Ri. Andrewe, 
 alias Spycer, burgess, bequeaths three booths and certain 35 
 booth ground in the fair, the profits to be applied to his 
 anniversary in St. Mary's. I 214 A.D. 1464-5 : Act em-
 
 STURBRIDGE FAIR. 243 
 
 powering the homers' company to search in the fair for 
 defective wares pertaining to their mystery. I 222 A.D. 
 H75 : John Erlych, burgess, surrenders a booth at a 
 place in the fair called the Chepe, before the sign of the 
 
 5 cardinal's hat, on condition of an annual obiit being kept 
 for him at St. Mary's. I 233 A.D. 1487: An act of parl. 
 relating to fairs at Cambridge and elsewhere. I 245 A. D. 
 1495 : Proclamation to be made at Sturbridge enforcing 
 the act for the packing offish. I 246 A. D. 1496 : Katherinc 
 
 10 Cooke grants three booths in the fair viz. in the Soper 1 ?, 
 lane, the Chepe, and the Petimercerye, for a dirge and 
 mass in St. Mary's. I 248 A. D. 1497 : Sturbridge chapel 
 leased to the corporation. I 252-3 A.D. 1499 : ordinance 
 of the corporation respecting its rights in the fair. I 255 
 
 15 A.D. 1501 : much of the chapel land in the fair not hired 
 this year, because Londoners withdrew themselves. I 259 
 A. D. 1 502-3 : Wm. Kentte, elk. , devised by will two booths 
 in the fair to the town, for a dirge and mass in St. 
 Benefs. 1300 A. 0.1516: The town, by composition 
 
 20 with Barnwell abbey, to enjoy and maintain the fair. 
 I 302 A.D. 1519: composition respecting the toll to be 
 taken at the fair from freemen of Northampton. I 304 
 A.D. 1521 : the mayor accused of seizing for toll at the 
 fair. I 332 cir. A.D. 1529 : the townsmen complained of 
 
 25 the usurpations of the university at the fair. I 355-8 A.D. 
 1533 : specific charges against the proctors and taxors. 
 I 360-1 A.D. 1533 : bonfires and music at the fair. I 363 
 A.D. 1533-4 : An act against forestalling and regrating of 
 fish, specially in Sturbridge, St. Ives, and Ely fairs, ' being 
 
 30 the most notable fairs within this realm for provisions 
 offish.' [Repealed 1543-4 *&</. 409]. I 369 A.D. 1534: 
 the king's council decreed 'that Styrbridge faire was in 
 the subarbes of Cambridge and that the vicechancellor or 
 his commysary might kepe courte cyvyll ther for plees 
 
 35 wheare a scolar was the one party. Item, that in the 
 same faire the university had the oversight, correction and 
 punyshemente of all weightes and mesures, of all maner
 
 244 STURBRIDGE FAIR. 
 
 of victayll, of all regraters and forestallers. Item, it was 
 determyned that spyces be vytaill. ' I 371 A.D. 1534: 
 Sturbridge chapel valued at ^10. icw. in the king's books. 
 I 372-4 A.D. 1535 : Warnings from Sir Tho. Audeley and 
 Thos. Cromwell against disturbances between university 5 
 and town at the coming fair. I 388-90 A.D. 1537 : Tho. 
 Cromwell and Henry VIII. rebuke the town's interference 
 with the university's rights at the fair. I 393 (cf. 394) 
 A.D. 1538-9: Quo Warranto against the town for the 
 fair : the town agrees to pay the king a fine of 1000 10 
 marks for a grant of the fair. Cf. MS. Baker x 270 seq. 
 
 1 400 A.D. 1541-2 : an act revoking the grant of two fairs 
 to Lynn, as prejudicial to the fish trade at Sturbridge, 
 Ely and other places. I 416 A.D. 1544: Sturbridge 
 chapel leased to the town for 60 years at a rent of <) ; 15 
 revenues of the chapel. 1 430 A. D. 1 545-6 : suit respecting 
 the fair. I 441 A.D. 1546 : Town banquet at the fair, n 
 
 2 A.D. 1547 : Nic. Elton devises a booth in the fair to 
 the town. II 3-4 A.D. 1547: Corporation order respect- 
 ing the bailiffs' right in the fair. Proctors' power in the 20 
 fair maintained by the privy council. Cf. p. 7. II 8-9, 
 11-15 A - D - I 547~8 ' proposals for an agreement between 
 town and university respecting their respective rights in 
 the fair. II 1 8-2 1 A.D. 1548: 'the crye in Sturbridge 
 fayer.' Also in MS. Baker XLI 142. II 47-9 A.D. 1550: 25 
 Night watch kept at the fair by the colleges and the town. 
 The university, not the pewterers' company, entitled to 
 search for insufficient pewter at the fair. II 61-2 A.D. 
 1552 : The poor to be recompensed by the court of aug- 
 mentations for certain moneys, issuing of booths in the 30 
 fair, given for the maintenance of obiits. n 64 A.D. 1552 : 
 3OJ. paid by the mayor for the watch at the fair. II 69-71 
 A.D. 1553 : the town sues for a new charter for the fair. 
 
 II 86-88 A.D. 1554 : the town complains of the university's 
 usurpation of authority in the fair, n 93-4 A.D. 1554-5 : 35 
 the town again sues for a grant of the fair, n 98-9 A.D. 
 1555 : the watch at the fair to be doubled, in order that
 
 STURBRIDGE FAIR. 245 
 
 'the vagabonds, naughtie and joly persons, which are farr 
 more in numbre at this present then hath been sene in 
 tymes past, may suffer due punishment.' [MS. Baker x 
 250, 8 Sept. 1556 : Rob. Brooke to the V. C. and mayor, 
 
 5 complaining of vexatious searching at the fair.] n 132-3 
 A.D. 1557 : Certain rents in the fair to be granted again 
 to the town, for maintenance of obiits etc. II 135 A.D. 
 1557 : complaint of the London drapers of vexatious 
 searches at the fair. II 143-4 A.D. 1558: Dr. Brassey, 
 
 IO prov. of King's, opposes a proposal to sell to the town 
 the university's rights in the fair. Chr. Francke, alder- 
 man, bequeaths three booths in the fair for an obiit 
 in Trinity church. II 154-7 A.D. 1559: dispute re- 
 specting the watch at the fair. II 164 A.D. 1560-1 : 
 
 15 town sues for a grant of 'the fair. II 167-8 A.D. 1561 : 
 charter confirming the university's rights in the fair. II 
 174 A.D. 1562: 'the water fair' removed because of a 
 flood. II 176 A.D. 1562-3: the university's authority to 
 search for tanned leather confirmed by act of parliament. 
 
 20 II 216 A.D. 1565 : %>d. charged in the town accounts for 
 carrying a pulpit to Sturbridge chapel and bringing it 
 home again. II 231 A.D. 1567: suit between Sudbury 
 and Cambridge about a distress in the fair. II 235 A.D. 
 1 568 : the town anxious to bring Londoners to the fair, 
 
 25 'as of old they were accustomed.' II 268 A.D. 1570: in 
 the town accounts are items for the new pillory, for a 
 dinner at a meeting for ordering the fair, for fetching the 
 pillory from Sturbridge chapel. II 322-3 A.D. 1574 : Andr. 
 Perne suggests that the fair should be granted by the 
 
 30 queen to the university. II 325-8 A.D. 1575 : town order 
 respecting the tenure of booths at the fair, n 341 A.D. 
 1 S7S ' town order respecting attornies pleading in the 
 fair, ii 347 A.D. 1576 : disputes between town and uni- 
 versity respecting a grant of the fair. II 349 A.D. 1576-7 : 
 
 35 on the same subject. II 357-9 A.D. 1577 : list of things 
 bought at the fair for Id. Norttts household. The town 
 in vain attempts to obtain a grant of the fair. A haber-
 
 246 STURBRIDGE FAIR. 
 
 dashery booth in the fair pulled down by order of the 
 mayor and aldermen. II 359 A.D. 1577-8: Sturbridge 
 fair a scarlet day. II 366 A.D. 1578 : Provision bought at 
 the fair for Id. North, n 367 A.D. 1578-9 ; the mayor to 
 imprison such as refuse the charges assessed for their 5 
 booths at the fair. II 373 A.D. 1580: dispute between 
 university and town respecting the charter for the fair. 
 II 390 A.D. 1582 etc.: Presbyterians hold synods at com- 
 mencement and at the fair time. II 396 A.D. 1583 : book- 
 sellers at the fairs. II 403-4 A.D. 1584: points still in 10 
 dispute between university and town respecting the fair. 
 II 422-6 A.D. 1586 : the same. The v. c. and doctors to 
 ride to the fair, and make their proclamation on horseback. 
 The tolbooth, counsel and court houses blown down. 
 11432-4 A.D. 1586-7: university objections to the town 15 
 charter for the fair. II 461 A.D. 1588-9: order of the 
 corporation for defraying the charges of their charter for 
 the fair, n 466-476 A. D. 1589 : new charters for the fair to 
 town and university. Several items in the town accounts 
 relating to this charter. 11477 A - D - 1 S%9 ' Wni. Foxton, 20 
 alderman, bequeaths three booths in the fair, on condition 
 that 4OJ 1 . be given yearly to the poor, and a commemoration 
 sermon preached at St. Mary's. [On a presbytery at the 
 fair 1590 (or 1589) see Bancroft's Daungero us positions 
 bk. Ill 44, 45, 77, 79, 81, 85, 92 ; Pretended holy discipline 25 
 67]. II 492-7, 507, 510 A.D. 1591 : town orders for the 
 fair. Riots. Stokys' almswomen to have Ss. each 'to 
 buy them freese gownes and lynnin vales' at the fair. II 
 514-8 A.D. 1592 : town orders respecting the sale of meat 
 and fish at the fair. University's complaint of the dis- 30 
 traction caused to study by players at Chesterton during 
 the fair. II 524 A.D. 1594 : in the town accounts only "Js. 
 appear from the profits of Sturbridge chapel, the remainder 
 being lost owing to a flood. 11552-6, 560, 563-4 A.D. 1596: 
 town order respecting the booths at the fair. Town's 35 
 complaint against the proctors for taking bribes and be- 
 having tyranically at the fair. II 595-6 A.D. 1599 : award
 
 STURBRIDGE FAIR. 247 
 
 respecting the rights of burgesses of Lynn at the fair, n 
 605-6 A. D. 1 600- 1 : rights of the proctors, taxors, searchers 
 etc. at the fairs, n 612 A.D. 1601 : dispute with the town 
 respecting a pair of scales used by the university at the 
 
 5 fair, in 3 A.D. 1603: 23^.4^. charged in the town ac- 
 counts for certain persons 'going to the courte to get 
 leave to build Sturbridge fayre.' Ill 19 A.D. 1605 : 2s. 6d. 
 in the town accounts 'for makinge the stocks in the 
 tolboth at the fayre and a lock to them.' 11122 A. D. 
 
 IO 1606 : 2s. ^d. 'for a payre of claricalls [also called 'clari- 
 cord', ' claricol', ' claricoale', an instrument in the form 
 of a spinet ; see Halliwell~\ at Sturbridge fayre. ' in 41, 43 
 A.D. 1610: the town dispenses with the bailiffs' dinners 
 and breakfasts at Sturbridge fair because of the plague. 
 
 1 5 ' Mony expended against Wulfe for the compelling of him 
 to pay for Midsomer and Sturbridge dynners in the tyme 
 of his baliwicke.' in 44-5 A.D. 1611 : the rent of Stur- 
 bridge chapel. The mayor apologises to the v. c. for his 
 proceedings against certain clothiers at the fair, in 53 
 
 20 A.D. 1612 : 'laid out betwene the town and university 
 concerning the informacions exhibited by the deputy 
 alangers in the court of Sturbridge faire, vijli. ijs. viijd.' 
 in 103 A.D. 1616 : in the town accounts, 'to the printer 
 for iiij c . passes against Stirbridge fayre, x s .' Ill 136 A.D. 
 
 25 1620 : session of gaol delivery held at the fair. Ill 146, 
 148-9 A.D. 1622 : the town bailiffs freed from the charge 
 of the dinner at the fair. Suit respecting the right of 
 erecting booths in Sturbridge chapel yard. Ill 169 A.D. 
 1624: in the town accounts, 'paid Godbytte for apprend- 
 
 30 inge rogues at Stirbridge fayre vjs. viiijd.' Ill 1 80- 1 A.D. 
 1625 : the fair prohibited by proclamation, because of the 
 plague, in 220 A.D. 1629 : in the town accounts, 2os. to 
 the e. of Suffolk's keeper and man ' for bringinge a bucke 
 which the maior and baylyves had at Sturbridge fair.' 
 
 35 ' Item, for muzitions at the maior's booth at Sturbridge 
 faier, iiijs. ' ' Item, to hym that shewed the dancing 
 horse before the maior and aldermen, vs. 1 in 226-7 A - D -
 
 248 STURBRIDGE FAIR. 
 
 1630 : proclamation prohibiting the fair, because of the 
 plague. Ill 258, 262 A. D. 1633 : town's order respecting 
 right to dower of widows of booth-holders in the fair. 
 In the town accounts, ' to Mr. Blackley for his extra- 
 ordinary disbursements at Sturbridge faire in the inter- 5 
 taynement of Sir John Cults and his company, iiijl".' III. 
 271 A.D. 1635: in the town accounts, 'paid Mr. Bridge 
 to goe to London about the shippe money in Sturbridge 
 faire, .5.' Ill 278-9, 284 A. D. 1636 : proclamation, against 
 the wish of the town, prohibiting the fair because of the 10 
 plague. [Cf. Patrick papers in Cambr. univ. library XXII 
 f. 57. xxin ff. 33-5]. in 287 A.D. 1637 : proclamation to 
 same effect [cf. Patrick papers XXII f. 89. In this and the 
 last year the university desired the proclamation], in 
 290-1 A.D. 1638: the fair was held this year, in spite of 15 
 the plague ; only the Michaelmas feast was not kept. 
 Ill 381 A.D. 1644: full fair at Sturbridge. Ill 395 A.D. 
 1645: 'to the Gentries at Jesus lane's end at the pro- 
 clayming of Sturbridge fayre by Mr. maior's appointment, 
 5.?. ' III 415-6 A.D. 1647: complaint of the university 20 
 about the infringement of its privileges at the fair, ill 
 435 A.D. 1650: order of the town for the election of the 
 Sturbridge fair preacher. Ill 445 A.D. 1650-1 : university 
 petition against fen drainage, as injurious to navigation 
 and likely to stop the general commerce at the fair. 25 
 in 457, 460 A.D. 1654: 'the mayor's house,' i.e. a ban- 
 queting room and court house, erected at the fair. Evelyn, 
 who arrived at Cambridge 3 1 Aug. , saw from King's chapel 
 roof ' the incampment of Sturbridge faire now beginning 
 to set up their tents and boothes.' 111464 A.D. 1655; 30 
 'xxs. shall be given out of the moneys in the chest to 
 Michael Wolfe towards the buyinge of a coate against 
 Sturbridge fayer now next ensuinge, he being lord of the 
 tapps this present year. ' [The ' lord of the taps' in red 
 coat hung with wooden taps, was conspicuous in the fair 35 
 within this century.] Ill 465 A.D. 1655-6: a joiner is 
 paid 3-r. for four pillars for the Sturbridge pulpit. Ill
 
 STURBRIDGE FAIR. 249 
 
 484-5 A.D. 1660: king's order for the university to enjoy 
 the sole weighing of hops and other things of great bulk 
 in the fair. 111493 A - D - 1660-1 : 'to the painter for 
 painting the kings armes in the court and on the chamber 
 
 5 at Sturbridge faire, 4. los.' Ill 504 A.D. 1662: 'Paid 
 to the cryer for whipping a vagrant at Sturbridge faire 
 4t/.' HI 515 A.D. 1664: item in the accounts for 'harn- 
 essemen' attending on the high constable at the fair 
 to search. Ill 517-20 A.D. 1665-6: fair prohibited on 
 
 10 account of the plague. Ill 573 A.D. 1677 : town petition 
 against a new fair at Maidstone which might injure 
 Sturbridge fair, in 614 A.D. 1686: Edward Milling- 
 ton, the famous auctioneer, sold in Cooks' row at the 
 fair, the library of James Chamberlaine, fellow of St. 
 
 15 John's. [Sold 8 Sept. The catalogue, priced, is among 
 Baker's books in St. Jokifs library, 4to. At the end of 
 the catalogue of a library sold at the Pelican in Little 
 Britain 14 Febr. 1686-7 by Wm. Cooper is a list of 74 
 previous book-sales, including Bibliotheca Sturbitchiana, 
 
 20 8 Sept. 1684, and Bibliotheca Sturbigiensis 8 Sept. 1685 ; 
 the latter is advertised in the London Gazette n. 2063.] 
 Ill 640 A.D. 1688: hackney coach fares from Cambridge 
 to Sturbridge is. from sunrise to sunset, is. 6d. after sunset. 
 IV II A.D. 1689 : an action brought against Ccesar Crouch, 
 
 25 proctor, for seizing goods going down the river to the fair. 
 IV 45-6 A.D. 1701 : the mayor having allowed players to 
 perform at the fair, the senate conferred the authority of 
 proctors on 62 masters of arts ; and Ri. Bentley v. c. im- 
 prisoned an actor and ordered the booth built for the 
 
 30 theatre to be demolished. Yet in The long vacation, Land. 
 1 708. 8vo. p. 8 it is said : ' The actors too must take the 
 pleasant air, To Oxford some, to Sturbridge some repair, 
 And quite debauch the hopeful students there.' IV 100-1 
 A.D. 1710: preacher at Sturbridge fair [bp. Hurd filled 
 
 35 this office Nichols, Liter. Anecd. vi 474]. iv 170-1 A.D. 
 1722 : the profit of the booths of the fair not taxable for 
 land tax. iv 175-181 A.D. 1723 : De Foe's account of the
 
 250 STURBRIDGE FAIR. 
 
 fair, which he calls the greatest in the world. IV 195 
 A.D. 1727: procession of the corporation to proclaim the 
 fair, iv 205-6 A. D. 1729: order of the town regulating the 
 fares of hackney coaches at the fair. IV2I3 A.D. 1733 : 
 university entitled to weigh hops at the fair, iv 227 A.D. 5 
 1736: orders restraining the cost of 'the riding dinner'; 
 'the regulators' dinner' etc. at the fair, iv 229-232 A.D. 
 1737: parliament refuses to allow plays at the fair, iv 
 241 A.D. 1738: pro-proctors appointed to prevent John 
 Henley (orator) from preaching at the fair, iv 257-8 A.D. 10 
 1 747 j action relative to a distress in the fair, iv 262 
 A.D. 1748: players at the fair. IV 275-7 A.D. 1749: 
 Edmund Carter's account of the fair, iv 299 A. D. 1 759 : 
 the town weighs hops at the fair, iv 318-322 A.D. 1762 : 
 Ri. Hone's account of the fair. IV33I A.D. 1763 : account 15 
 of the fair from Cantabrigia depicta. IV 337-9 A. D. 1 765 : 
 obituary of Jacob Butler, barrister, owner of the Barnwell 
 estate ; he used to invite the giants and dwarfs from the 
 fair to dinner, and once drove his carriage among the 
 crockery that was kept too late upon the ground, iv 366 20 
 A.D. 1772 : booths at the fair overthrown by a storm. IV 
 438 A.D. 1790 : Procession of the corporation to open the 
 fair abolished. The corporation dinner there was given up 
 in 1789. iv 474 A.D. 1802 : false alarm of fire at the theatre 
 in the fair : four persons killed ; the theatre was pulled 25 
 down in 1806 (490). IV488 A.D. 1807: the rights of the 
 fair protected in an enclosure act. iv 653 2 July A.D. 
 1842 : grace dispensing with the entertainment given by the 
 proctors at the fairs. Wm. Whiston (Memoirs, 1749, p. 
 49), when an undergraduate, greatly admired the sermon 30 
 preached at the fair by Gervase Needham of Emm. Wm. 
 Paley (Memoirs by G. W. Meadley, Edinb. 1810, 8vo., 
 p. 15) used ' to frequent the fair held annually at Stirbitch, 
 . . . where, mixing with the crowd, at puppet-shows or 
 other exhibitions, he watched the various changes of 3 5 
 countenance in the spectators, and listened attentively 
 to their remarks.' A description of the fair in its later
 
 DIONYSIUS. BURGERSDIJCK. 251 
 
 days is given in Gtmning's Reminiscences, ed. 2, I 148-158. 
 With his account of Ri. Farmer's partiality for the Stur- 
 bridge entertainments cf. Nichols, Lit. Anecd. II 669. 
 
 P. 19, 1. 9. Dionysius's Periegesis. Much used as a 
 
 5 school-book. Thus Ra. Winterton published it at Eton 
 (?), early in the I7th cent, [in 1615, Waff] with a dedica- 
 tion in gr. elegiacs to sir Henry Wotton; repr. in usum 
 scholae reg. Etonensis, Cantabr. Tho. Buck and Rog. Daniel, 
 1633. 8vo. ; Land. Jo. Redmayne, 1668. 8vo. Ed. by Wm. 
 
 10 Hill, sometime fellow of Merton, a schoolmaster at Dttblin, 
 Land. 1658, 1659, 1663, 1679, 1688, 1708. 8vo. This 
 edition was intended for schools : ' textui etiam subiungitur 
 figurarum quae apud Dionysium occurrunt (cum dialecticis 
 et aliis grammaticis minutiis) systema, in usum tyronum ; 
 
 15 ut non modo philologicis et geographiae studiosis, verum 
 et scholis inserviatur, in quibus geographia vetus, historiae 
 lux, una cum poesi graeca ex hoc fonte imbibi poterit.' 
 As this ( Wood-Bliss, Athen. ill 800) was ' used in many 
 schools, and by most juniors of the university of Oxon,' 
 
 2O it was probably the edition read by Bonwicke. An im- 
 portant ed. by Edw. Thwaites, Oxf. 1697. 8vo. An ed. 
 by Edw. Wells, Oxf. 1704, 1709 etc., last in 1761 ; in the 
 later editions modern geography was added, also in gr. 
 verse. Dionysius is in the 4th vol. of Jo. Hudson's Geogr. 
 
 2 5 gr- min. O&f. 1710, new title 1712. Dr. John Free in his 
 London geography translated Dionysius into blank verse 
 (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. V 695) 'for the use of the ladies who 
 read history, and the youth of the universities. ' 
 
 P. 19 1. II. Aelian's Varia Historia. Jas. Upton's 
 
 30 iroitd\t\ iVTopla, sive novus historiarum fabellarumque 
 delectus, from Ael., Polyaenus, Aristotle, Maximus Tyr. 
 etc., of which a 2nd ed. was published at Eton 1715 ; 
 another at Land. 1726. 
 
 P. 19 1. 14. Burgersdicius. Cf. p. 53 1. 3. Franco 
 
 35 Petri Burgersdijck, prof, of philosophy at Saumur 1614-9, 
 and prof, of rhetoric, morals and natural philosophy at 
 Leyden between 1619 and his death 19 Febr. 1635 (A. J.
 
 252 BUR GERSDIJCK. 
 
 van der Aa, Biogr. Woordetib. der Nederlanderi). His 
 philosophical works were much studied and often printed 
 in England; e.g. his Collegium physicum, Cambr. 1653. 
 I2mo. Fr. Burgersdicii institutiomim logicarum libri duo. 
 Ad iuventutem Cantabrigiensem. Quod vetus est, iuvenes, 5 
 in relligione sequamur : Quod placet in logica, nil vetat esse 
 novum. Cantabr. Jo. Field. 1660. Sm. 8vo. It had 
 already appeared at Cambridge in 1637, 1644, 1647; after- 
 wards (ffeereboord's extract) 1663, 1 666, 1 668, (Heereboord] 
 1670, 1680. Extract from the pref. 'Methodum petii ex 10 
 ipsa artis natura. In quo tamen ex parte secutus sum 
 institutum clarissimi viri Marci Duncani, in academia 
 Salmuriensi professoris philosophiae praestantissimi, et 
 olim collegae mei dilectissimi, cuius accuratae Institutiones 
 Logicae maius auxilium mihi tulerunt, in meis institu- 15 
 tionibus apte ordinandis, quam ullae aliae.' See Edm. 
 Miller 's Account of the Univ. of Cambridge, 2nd ed. Land. 
 I7I7> 8vo., p. 6, where he says of the students : 'they 
 must, in all probability, in vain hear their tutors in their 
 reading ethicks, teach 'em the sacredness of an oath ; 20 
 when if they would but look within the lid of their 
 Burgersditius 1 s Logick (where that taken at their ma- 
 triculation is usually pasted) they can't but see one, which 
 soon after their admission they forced them to take ; tho' 
 at the time of taking, they could not know the extent of 25 
 it, or if they did, their own reason told 'em, they could 
 never punctually perform it.' In 1727 a pamphlet on the 
 interpretation of a university statute appeared under the 
 pseudonym Franciscus Burgersdicius (see Watt}. Dr. John 
 Jebb, Works, Land. 1787, in 279, 280(11 Nov. 1775): 'The 30 
 logic of Burgersdicius prevailed at Cambridgem. the memory 
 of our forefathers. The barbarous sounds of Darii and 
 Felapton now no longer grate upon our ears.' An abler 
 logician than Dr. Jebb, Sir Wm. Hamilton (Lectures on 
 logic I 71) recommends this logic 'principally' among all 35 
 the old latin compendiums. Respecting the study of logic 
 in the university see the index to the Autobiogr. of Matt h. 
 Robinson, Cambr. 1856, s. v. Logic.
 
 US S IE RES. 253 
 
 P. 19 1. 1 6. Bussieres. One of the many Roman 
 catholic authors whose books were then text-books at 
 Cambridge. Flosculi historiarum delibati. Ex rebus 
 praecipuis quae ab orbe condito ad Christi obitum conti- 
 
 5 gerunt. A patre Joanne de Bussieres societatis lesu sacer- 
 dote. Editio secunda auctior. Lugd. 1651. I2mo. in 2 
 pts. Printed at Oxf. 1663. 8vo. 1668. 8vo. Jean de 
 Bussieres was born near Lyon in 1607 and died 26 Oct. 
 1678. His lat. poems, esp. Scanderbeg, had considerable 
 
 10 vogue (De Backer, Biblioth. des ecrivains de la comp. de 
 Jesus, Litge 1853, I 157). 
 
 P. 19 1. 17. Pindar. Cf. p. 53 1. 9, IO. 
 P. 19 1. 19. Suetonius. Cf. p. 53 1. 20. Pliny. Cf. 
 ibid. 1. 21. 
 
 15 P. 19 1. 31. Thomas a Kempis, a copy of which, as 
 revised by Seb. Castellio, appeared at Cambr. in 1685. 
 Cf. p. 53 1. 1 8. 
 
 P. 20 l.i, 2. The Whole Duty of Man. Nelson. Cf. 
 ibid. 1. 19. 
 
 20 P. 20 1. 2. John Kettlewell. Probably among others 
 A help and exhortation to worthy communicating, with 
 suitable devotions, of which an ed. appeared at Cambr. in 
 1701. 8vo. with a portr. Observe that Bomvicke's favorite 
 divines were nonjurors. 
 
 25 Ibid. B^ome. Cf. pp. 30 1. loseq., 31 1. II seq., 53 
 1. 1 8. Rob. Nelson. Cf. p. 53 1. 19. See his life by 
 Secretan, Land. 1860. 8vo. 
 
 P. 20 1.9. Henry Byam. See Chronological memoir 
 of Henry, John and Richard Byam, sons of the Rev. L. 
 
 30 Byam, rector of Luckham, Somerset, 1574-1614. Ryde 
 1864. 8vo.; Wood-Bliss, ^^.111836-8; Walker 's Suffer- 
 ings of the clergy, n 29. 
 
 Ibid. Thomas Erpenius. No doubt Bonwicke used 
 Consilia et methodi aureae studiorum optime instituendorum, 
 
 35 ... quae Th. Crenius collegit. Rotterod. 1692, 4to. which 
 contains the tract of Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh, the 
 friend of Erasmus, ' de ratione studiij with the short
 
 254 . LEEDES? S LUC IAN. 
 
 preface in which Erpenius says of himself, that at the age 
 of 16 he was abandoning study as hopeless to one of his 
 mean abilities, when a perusal of Ringelbergtis arguments 
 filled him with new hope and ardour; the treatise of 
 Erasmus is in the same collection. Both treatises (but 5 
 not the preface of Erpenius) are likewise contained in 
 H. Grotii et aliorum dissertationes de studiis instituendis. 
 Amst. Elzev. 1645. I2mo. 
 
 P. 20 1. 17. Eustachius. Cf. p. S3 1. 7. 
 
 P. 20 1. 20 seq. Cf. p. 54 1. 10 seq. Roger Ascham 10 
 recommends a method very similar to this, Scholemaster 
 ed. 1863, 2-5, 93-7, 100-6, 230-2. 
 
 P. 20 1. 30. Theognis, Theocritus. These he would 
 read in Ra. Wintertorfs Poetae minores gr. printed at 
 Cambr. 1635, '52, '61, '67, '71, '77, '84, 1700. 15 
 
 P. 20 1. 31. Mr. Leedes's Lucian. ' Nonnulli eLuciani 
 dialogis selecti, et scholiis illustrati ab Edwardo Leedes, 
 cui in schola Buriensi contigerunt esse curae rb <rcf>li> Kal 
 fffyioiv Kal rb plv r;8e rb viv. In usum eorum, qui dum 
 Graecari student, non metuunt interim ridere. Omne tulit 20 
 punctum . . . monendo. . . Londini, Excudebat Sam. Roy- 
 croft LL. orientalium typographus regius, et prostant 
 venales apud Nevil Simmons ad insigne (princes lrnus) 
 in coemiterio Paulino, et Thomam Simmons bibliopolam 
 Buriensem, 1678. I2mo. pp. 24 unpaged and 408. Con- 25 
 tains 2 1 dialogues. After an interesting dedication to Hen. 
 Poley of the Middle Temple, whose proficiency both at 
 Bury and Cambridge, the editor highly extols, follows 
 a preface ' ad lector em? both dated 'in villa Faustini, 
 quae in pago Suffolciensi est, II Kalendas Februarias, 30 
 A. D. 1676 ;' then 8 latin iambics, by Sam. Leedes of Clare. 
 The imprimatur is dated 13 Dec. 1676. 'Nonnulli e Lu- 
 ciani dialogis selecti, et in duas partes divisi ; alteram 
 prius editam, alteram nunc additam : omnes scholiis illus- 
 trati ab Edwardo Leedes, cui in schola Buriensi graeca 35 
 lingua et minutissimae eius partis, T?> <rty\v Kal <r<$>Giiv Kal 
 ri> /j.lv TjSe rb viv, contigerunt esse curae. Accessit etiam
 
 LEEDESS LUCIAN. 255 
 
 (quod ad hanc rem spectare visum est) quidquid scrip- 
 serunt Graevius, Gronovius, lensius, cum nuper tantum 
 edito scholiasta graeco. Omne tulit punctum . . monendo. 
 Cantabrigiae, ex officina lo. Hayes celeberrimae academiae 
 
 5 typographi. Impensis R. Clavel, S. Smith et B. Walford, 
 bibliop. Londinens. MDCCIV. ' 8vo. pp. 1 6 unpaged and 
 218; the 'pars altera' (containing 6 pp. unpaged, 132 and 
 ind. of 1 8 pp.) is dedicated ' Edmundo Poley, nunc a sere- 
 vivs&va\3. Anglorum regina legationis obeunti munus Hanno- 
 
 \overae in Brunswici ducatu urbe florentissima. ' Edmund 
 was brother of Henry: 'quando prius prodibas foras et 
 inter Allobrogum gentes aliquandiu tibi erat morandum, 
 sumebas tecum duos atticos scriptores, Xenophontem scilicet 
 et Li(danum; non totum Lucianum, sed partem tantum, 
 
 15 eos nempe selectos dialogos, quos hie habes in eodem in- 
 volucro cum his inclusos, quos ideo gratiores tibi fuisse 
 iudico, quod fratris gerebant nomen, nee minus fortasse, 
 sic enim sperare libet, quod et meum.' Dated ' Buriae 
 90. Kalend. lunias A. D. 1 704. ' It is to be hoped that the 
 
 20 greek and latin epigrams ' to the purchasers' in the copy 
 in the Cambridge university library, are not by the editor ; 
 for each contains a false quantity. Other editions (cited 
 in Fabricius-Harles V 358) are Land. 1710, 1726, 1728, all 
 in 8vo. In the Tanner MS. 137 f. 84 is a letter of his 
 
 25 (10 June 1699) to bp. Moore, on a dispute with the 
 governors of the school. J. W. Donaldson, A retrospective 
 address read at the tercentenary commemoration of King 
 Edward's school, Bury St. Edmund's , on Friday, the 2nd 
 of August, 1850. Lond. 1850. pp. 42-55, gives some account 
 
 30 of Leedes, whose mastership lasted 44 years ; he published 
 a latin exercise book which ran through twenty editions 
 at least, and died 17 Nov. 1707 (cf. Nichols' Topogr. I 286). 
 He was of Christ's coll. B.A. 1645-6, M.A. 1654. He 
 was probably of the same family as the master of Clare of 
 
 35 both his names, who died 1589-90 (add to Cooper's Ath. 
 Cant, II 65, 66, MSS. Baker XXVIII 78 ; XXX 243, 247 ; 
 xxxvi 239). The name is common among Cambridge 
 graduates.
 
 256 HIEROCLES. 
 
 P. 21 1. 22. Hierocles. Cf. p. 53 1. 25. No doubt in 
 Needham's ed. ' Hieroclis philosophi Alexandrini com- 
 mentarius in aurea carmina, de providentia et fato quae 
 super sunt, et reliqua fragmenta. Graece et latine. Graeca 
 cum MSS. collata castigavit, versionem recensuit, notas et 5 
 indicem adiecit Pet. Needham, S. T.B. coll. D. loannis 
 Cantab, socius. Cantabrigiae : typis academicis. Impensis 
 A. et y. Churchill, bibliopolarum Londinensium. 1709.' 
 8vo. pp. (30), XLII, 467, (20). Dedicated to Wm. Id. 
 Cowper, Id. chanc. In the pref. Needham owns his ob- 10 
 ligations to bp. Jo. Moore, Matt. Prior, Rob. Cannon D. D. 
 of Kings, archd. of Norfolk ; yo. Alb. Fabricius ; prof. 
 Hen. Syke 'amicus vere doctissimus, et miro animi can- 
 dore praecellens ;' Rog. Gale. ' Primum et praecipuum 
 merito locum sibi vindicant schedulae aliquot emenda- 15 
 tionum et coniecturarum, quas, magna ingenii sagacitate 
 excogitatas, benevole mihi dedit vir in antiquis litteris 
 exercitatissimus et plane summus Richardus Bentleius 
 S.T. P. collegii SS. Trinitatis apud nos magister, et regius 
 bibliothecarius, criticorum nostrae aetatis facile princeps : 20 
 cui plurimum debere Hieroclem nostrum, gratissimo semper 
 testabor animo ;' John Dams of Queens' '; John Hudson of 
 the Bodleian. He taxes the english version of the Platonist 
 yohn Norris, as displaying singular ignorance of greek 
 and bad faith. Hierocles was a Cambridge text-book 25 
 before and after this. In 1654, 1655 an edition with yo. 
 Pearson's ' prolegomena' was printed by Rog. Daniel in 
 London 2 vols. 8vo. (Pearsorfs ' prolegomena' were re- 
 printed by Needham; in the Class. Journal Wll 197-208 ; 
 and in E. Churton's collection of his Minor theological 30 
 works. Oxf. 1844); reprinted 1673. 8vo. 'Land, by y. R. 
 for y. Williams in Cross-keys court in Little Britain, and 
 are to be sold by Henry Dickinson of Cambridge book- 
 seller.' Another ed. by Ri. Warren, D.D. sometime 
 fellow of Jesus coll., was printed at Lond. 1742, 8vo. by 35 
 yames Bettenham, ' impensis Gul. Thurlbourn bibliopolae 
 Cantab.' English translations were published by yohn
 
 CHR.ANSTEY. 257 
 
 Hall of Durham (Land. 1657); John Norris (Oxf. 1682); 
 Nic. Raive (Land. 1707). 
 
 P. 21 1. 23. lecture after dinner. The greek lecturer 
 was bound by c. 17 of the statutes to lecture at 3 P.M., 
 
 5 from more advanced students original gr. composition or 
 translation into gr. was to be required. 
 
 P. 22 1. 4. chosen scholar. Among scholars elected 
 6, adm. 10 Nov. 1710 (Register in 604): 'Ego Am- 
 brosius Bonwicke Middlesexiensis iuratus et admissus sum 
 
 10 in discipulum huius collegii pro domina fundatrice ad 
 officium custodis horologii, decessore domino Gregory.' 
 See the Elizabethan statutes of the college c. 15 : 'Tres 
 vero alios praeter viginti quattuor dominae fundatricis 
 discipulos, quorum unus vestiario, alius qui pulsationi 
 
 15 campanae, et tertius horologio deputetur, intra quattuor 
 dies a vacatione eorundem eligi volumus. ' 
 
 P. 22 1. 5. Cower. On Dr. Humphr. Cower see ind. 
 to Baker's history of St. John's (1869). 
 
 P. 22 1. 26. Christopher Anstey. He was of Merchant 
 
 20 Taylors', born 1 680 (? Notes and Queries, 2nd Ser. vni 
 167); hence Bonwicke and his schoolfellows were entered 
 under him. He was son of Wm. A., born at Blooberry 
 Berks, educated at Merchant Taylors' under Dr. Shorting, 
 admitted sizar for Dr. Smith 25 June 1696 act. 18, tutor 
 
 25 Arth. Orchard. Admitted scholar ' pro magistro Robinson 
 decessore magistro Dearing 1 7 Nov. 1699. B.A. 1699-1700. 
 M.A. 1703. B.D. 1710. D.D. 1715. He has gr. and lat. 
 verses in the collections on the peace of Ryswick, 1697 ; 
 the death of Wm. duke otGlouc. 1700; the death of Gee. 
 
 30 pr. ol Denmark 1708 ; the peace of Utrecht 1 7 1 3. Elected 
 foundation fellow 7, adm. 8 Apr. 1701 ; his place was 
 filled up 21 Jan. 1716-7. He subscribed to Strype's 
 Parker and Annals (described in the list prefixed to the 
 latter as 'rector of Brinkley, Cambs.' cf. Nichols, Lit. 
 
 35 Anecd. \ 682). His dau. Anne died 28 June 1719 act. 
 4 m. (MS. Cole XIX 93 a). There is a slight account of 
 him and fragments of two letters, in Nichols 1 Lit. Anecd. 
 
 S
 
 258 CHR. ANSTEY. 
 
 i 221-2. Cole {ibid. 92 a) speaking of Brinkley parish in 
 1 750, goes more into detail : ' The present rector is the 
 rev. Dr. Christopher Anstey, who has another living in 
 Essex or Hertfordshire. He was of St. John's college in 
 Cambridge, where he was pupil-monger, and got a good 5 
 deal of money; and marrying the daughter of Mr. 
 Thompson, of Trumpington, on the death of Porter and 
 James Thompson, esqrs., without issue, his wife came in 
 for the estate as heir-at-law : though the last had left it all 
 to the rev. Mr. Dowsing, late of Benet college ; but by 10 
 a defect in the will, one of the legatees being a witness, 
 after several long and expensive trials at law, it was ad- 
 justed at a very easy rate for Dr. Anstey, who only gave 
 Mr. Dowsing iooo/. to give up his pretensions. Dr. 
 Anstey has two children, both unmarried ; a daughter 15 
 Mary, aged about thirty-five ; and a son Christopher, 
 fellow of King's college, aged about twenty-five, who 
 would be M.A., was he not under a suspension from Dr. 
 Paris, when he was vice-chancellor in 1748, for some 
 irregularity in the performance of his bachelor's exercise ; 20 
 which was revived at that time, after a disuse of some 
 years, and therefore unacceptable to the bachelors of the 
 university ; he is a very ingenious young man and an ex- 
 cellent scholar, and drew this censure upon himself from 
 his too much vivacity and parts, which hurried him on to 25 
 treat that in too ridiculous and jocose a manner, which the 
 vice-chancellor determined to have regarded as a serious 
 exercise : and not being able, much against the opinion 
 of his university friends (for his father knows nothing of 
 it), to bring himself to make a proper submission to the 30 
 vice-chancellor, his censure still continues in full force 
 against him. He is now a student at one of the inns of 
 court at London. Dr. Anstey is quite deaf, and has been 
 so for many years ; so as not to be able to hear the report 
 of a cannon, though let off at his ear.' He held the 35 
 college living ofLawford, Essex, and died at Trumpington 
 19 Jan. 1751 (Gent. Mag. XLII 188). 1\&Acta Eruditorum
 
 CHR. AND JOHN ANSTE Y. 259 
 
 in the college library is of his gift. See Geo. Dyer's 
 Memoirs of Rob. Robinson, Land. 1796, p. 126: 'Chris- 
 topher Anstey, esquire, of Bath, generously offered me 
 [Robinson] the use of the large library of his good father, 
 
 5 the late Dr. Anstey.' He spelt his name Ansty at first, 
 but there is no reason to suppose that he was connected 
 with the Ansty family of Quy (see Commun. to Cambr. 
 antiq. soc. I 239). His son, of both names, was of King's, 
 B.A. 1746-7, author of the NeivBath Guide. See Walpole's 
 
 10 Memoirs of Geo. III. Ill 172 ; index to Walpole's Letters; 
 Nichols, Lit. Anecd. IX 187, 724 ; Gent. Mag. 1756 p. 42 b 
 (his marriage); Gent. Mag. 1805, p. 780; Anmial Reg. 
 XLVII 491; Lipscomb's Bucks I 185; Burke 's Landed 'gentry, 
 119, 142, 177, 1535; Cooper's Annals of 'Cambridge iv 261; 
 
 15 Madame D' Arblay' s Memoirs; Journals of T. S. WJialley, 
 Land. 1863, I 235, 311-2; ibid. II 384seq., 388 seq., 410 
 seq. are letters to Arth. Ansty esq. olBath. See Tabitha's 
 dream, a poem by him, in Notes and Qu. I Sen v 129. 
 Another ' to D. Garrick, esq. , on meeting him at a friend's 
 
 20 house,' in Cambr. Chron. 18 May 1771. Marriage of his 
 eldest son, [Christopher, of Trin. coll.] vie. of [Norton 
 near] Stockton-upon- Tees [ Whalley, tt. s.ll 322 ; he appears 
 to have held the living 1786-1827] to Miss Grey of Stockton 
 (Cambr. Chron. 21 Junei^^). He died 3 Aug. 1805, at 
 
 25 Hen. Bosanquefs, esq., Harnish ho. near Chippenham 
 act. 8l (ibid. 10 Aug.}; his widow died 31 Jan. 1812 at 
 Lyde house, Sion hill, Bath, act. 80 (ibid. i^Febr.). His 
 life by his son John Anstey is prefixed to his poetical 
 works, Lond. 1808. 410. This John was fellow of King's, 
 
 30 B.A. 1781, M.A. 1784; of Lincoln's Inn, specially ap- 
 pointed to investigate the claims of the loyalists in the 
 United States (Cambr. Chron. 9 Dec. 1785); author of The 
 pleader's guide, 6th ed. 1810. 8vo. Another son, Robert, 
 a writer in Musae Etonenses, was born at Trumpington 
 
 35 30 Mar. 1760; nominated to King's 28 Jul. 1777 and 
 27 Jul. 1778 ; adm. pens. St. John's 7 Jul. 1779; took no 
 degree ; of Canons Leigh ho. Devonshire in 1 796 ; died at
 
 260 ANSTEY. FR. ROPER. 
 
 Bath 12 Apr. 1818 (N. and Q. 3 ser. I 474). Another 
 Christopher Ansty, son of Anstygent., born near Wan- 
 tage, educated at Sedbergh under Dr. Saunders, was ad- 
 mitted pensioner of St. John's 26 Mar. 1728, act. past 17, 
 tutor Williams, admitted Lzipton scholar 6 Nov. 1728. 5 
 B.A. 1731-2. M.A. 1735. B - D - I 7435 the B.D. is one 
 year too late, he having had 'a year of grace' granted 
 I Mar. 1741-2. Admitted foundation fellow 25 Mar. 
 1735 ; his place filled up I Apr. 1754. Had leave to go 
 abroad Jan. 1736 (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. \ 682). He was 10 
 cousin to the Dr., as appears from Nichols, ibid. 222 : 
 ' my cousin is preparing to come to reside in college, and 
 would be extremely glad to have some curacy near, that 
 he might serve and be there sometimes . . . Could you 
 help him to be deputy-lecturer in the college, or any 15 
 thing of the like advantage? He is a very worthy, 
 prudent and good man and deserves encouragement. ' He 
 was elected to the college living of Holme on Spalding 
 moor 20 June 1753 > the lease of which rectory was re- 
 newed for 20 years 30 May 1775. He was collated 30 20 
 Apr. and installed 30 May 1772 prebendary of Asgarby 
 Line.; on his death a successor was collated 12 Nov. 1784 
 (Le Neve- Hardy II 104). Thos. Ansty (probably brother 
 of the last-named), son of James A. gent., co. Berks, 
 educated for many years at Sedbergh under Dr. Saunders, 25 
 was admitted sizar of St. John's for Dr. Baker 30 Mar. 
 1730, aet. 1 8, tutor Williams ; Lupton scholar 6 Nov. 
 1733 ; B.A. 1733-4; buried 17 Aug. 1734 (Register of All 
 Saints', Cambridge, in MS. Cole III 141 a). 
 
 P. 23 1. 4. Roper. Fras. R. , of Kettow, Durh. , son 30 
 of Rob. R. farmer, educated at Darnton school, Durh., 
 for 3 years under Mr. Johnson, was admitted sizar for Mr. 
 Brackenbury 21 Sept. 1658, aet. 16, tutor Chr. Fulthorpe; 
 B.A. 1662-3. M.A. 1666. B.D. 1673; admitted Keyton 
 fellow 2 Apr. 1666 ; succeeded by Matt. Prior 5 Apr. 35 
 1688; taxor of the university 1671. Collated 22 Jan. 
 1677*8, by bp. Gunning, to the vicarage of Waterbeach;
 
 F. ROPER, T.BROWNE. 261 
 
 installed prebendary of Ely I Apr. (Bentham 258) or 12 
 May (Le Neve- Hardy I 360) 1686, and resigned Water- 
 beach, to which Rob. Jenkin was collated 29 Apr. 1 686 
 (W. K. Clay's Waterbeach, Cambr. 1859, 66); rect. of 
 
 5 North-wold Norf. ^ June 1687 (Bentham; Blomefield, Hist. 
 Norf. II 220); deprived in 1690 of both preferments for 
 refusing the new oaths. He died 12 Apr. 1719, and was 
 buried in the college chapel without any memorial. There 
 are letters to him in Europ, Mag. Febr, 1799, p. 81 ; Sir 
 
 IO H. Ellis, Orig. Letters, 1st ser. in 333, 353. He, like 
 Baker, founded an exhibition in the college ; Wm. Bowyer, 
 who received the first 6 from it in 1719, wrote a lat. 
 letter to the president in praise of the donor (Nichols, Lit. 
 Anecd. I 182-4). His will, dated 1716, is transcribed in 
 
 15 MS. Baker xii 61. The following book-plate is in books 
 in the college library (e. g. Rohaulti Physica 1697) : 
 
 ONO dedit Reverendus Vir, FRANCISCUS J 
 
 ROPER, S.T.B. huius collegii per multos .$. 
 
 $ annos socius dignissimus, ecclesiae deinde Eliensis $ 
 
 20 j& canonicus etc. Apprime literarum sciens, peri- T* 
 
 .&. tus rerum, egregia morum suavitate, tot : usque vitae ,&. 
 
 $ sanctitate conspicuus. Sagaxque adeo fuit ingeni- .$. 
 
 $* orum explorator, mira ut facilitate teneros animos $ 
 
 X erudita pietate imbueret. In rebus secundis mo- X 
 
 25 A destia, in adversis constantia enituit. Sibi parcus, .A. 
 
 $ sumptuosus aliis, huic imprimis collegio : quod $ 
 
 "$" quidem haeredis loco habuit, et luculenta haeredi- "$* 
 T tate locupletavit. Obiit 12 April. 1719. 
 
 P. 23 1. 10. Tho. Browne, son of Tho. B. deceased, 
 
 30 of St. Giles 1 in the Fields, educated at Sultan's hospital for 
 
 7 years, was adm. sizar for Yard. Reresby 13 Jan. 1671-2, 
 
 act. 1 7, tutor Fras. Roper; adm. pens. 24 Febr. following ; 
 
 adm. Billingsley scholar 3 Nov. 1674. B.A. 1675-6. M. A.
 
 262 THOS. BROWNE. 
 
 1679. B.D. 1687; adm. foundation fellow 18 Mar. 1677-8; 
 his successor elected 27 Mar. 1710; taxor 1685. In- 
 corporated M.A. Oxon. II July 1682 (Wood- Bliss, Fasti 
 II 385). The titles of his works may be seen in the Bodl. 
 Catal. cf. Nichols, Lit. Anecd. I 374. Catal. of tracts for 5 
 and against popery, Cheth. soc., 1859, I 207, 217. They 
 are upon the nonjuring controversy and the validity of 
 anglican orders. The exhaustive treatise, The story of the 
 ordination of our first bishops in queen Elizabeth's reign, at 
 the Nag's head tavern in Cheapside, thoroughly examined, 10 
 Land. 1731. 8vo. is dedicated to Sir Francis Leicester, 
 bart., of Tabley in Cheshire, 'in grateful acknowledgment 
 of his long favour and friendship to the author ; and of 
 a never-to-be-forgotten instance of it, in his most free, 
 charitable, and generous support of him, under the in- 15 
 nrmities of a very advanced age, and the irreparable ruin 
 of his fortunes, by a late, too general, calamity. ' In the 
 preface the earl of Oxford is thanked, ' whose generosity 
 and goodness renders his incomparable library a public 
 benefit.' Browne died 23 June 1741 (Le Neve- Hardy \\\ 20 
 640). In 1749 was published at London An answer to a 
 discourse published by bishop Stillingfleet, soon after the revo- 
 lution, intitled, ' The unreasonableness of a new separation. ' 
 8vo. ; ' faithfully printed from an original manuscript in 
 the author's own hand-writing ... It would be altogether 25 
 needless to say anything here of the character of the great 
 and worthy author, that being already sufficiently known 
 to the learned world from what he published in his own 
 lifetime, both against infidelity, and in defence of the 
 church of England also, against the Romanists, who 30 
 shamelessly object to the validity of her orders.' By the 
 ' infidelity' which Browne combated, we are probably to 
 understand political infidelity, breach of the oaths taken 
 to James. In a letter to Rob. Jenkin, 23 Febr. 1697-8, 
 which contains a clear statement of nonjuring principles 35 
 (Nichols iv 242-5), Browne concludes with words that do 
 honour to his cause : ' Balsham, our great Charter-house
 
 STATUTES. LENT. 263 
 
 living, is fallen againe by the death of Dr. Templets 
 successour ; so that you see how many motives I have 
 (both of that and a good living now in the college gift) 
 to qualify my selfe for preferment, if I could satisfy con- 
 
 5 science that I am at liberty.' 
 
 P. 23 1. 13. sacrifice to his net. See Habak. \ 16. 
 P. 24 1. 13. Mr. R. Roper. 
 
 P. 25 1. 3. faciam etc. Stat. Eliz. c. 1 6 *de disci- 
 pulorum iuramento ;' the passage meant is : ' omnia 
 
 10 statuta dictum collegium concernentia edita et decreta 
 secundum planum litteralem et grammaticalem sensum et 
 intellectum ipsorum quantum ad me pertinet inviolabiliter 
 observabo ac quantum in me fuerit faciam ab aliis ob- 
 servari. ' 
 
 15 P. 25 1. 14. our university statutes. See Corpus statu- 
 torum universitatis Oxoniensis. Oxon. 1768. 4to. pp. 87-9 : 
 EUINOMI2, seu explanatio iuramenti, quod de observandis 
 statutis universitatis a singulis praestari solet : quatenus 
 scilicet, seu quousque, obligare iurantes censendum sit. 
 
 20 The clause most to the purpose is : 'Si statutorum 
 poenarumve contemptus et crassa obstinataque negle- 
 gentia abfuerit, delinquentes, si poenis per statuta sancitis 
 aliasve arbitrariis se submiserint, iurisiurandi religionem 
 temerasse minime censendi sunt. ' 
 
 25 P. 26 1. 1 8. Lent. Remember bp. Gunning's Lent 
 fast ; see Gcnuer in Bakers History of St. John's college, 
 1869, p. 655 1. 4 seq. ' Plenty of all things flowed round 
 about him, but for the use of others rather than himself. 
 His study and his business was his meat and drink ; for 
 
 30 of any other he had as little regard and made as little use, 
 as was well possible to flesh and blood. He that had 
 writ so irrefragably for the fasts of the church, kept them 
 as rigidly himself.' Jenkin (ibid. 656 1. 15) to the same 
 effect : ' Quadragesimae assertor invictissimus prope con- 
 
 35 tinuum sibi indixit ieiunium.' 
 
 P. 27 1. 9. Obey the precepts of the gospel, and follov.> 
 it's counsels as thou canst. This distinction between
 
 264 PRECEPTS AND COUNSELS. 
 
 precepts which all must obey, and evangelical counsels (or 
 counsels of perfection) which are an optional means of 
 higher perfection, is found already in Hernias and Origen ; 
 its advocates quote e.g. I Cor. 7 6 and 25. Bellarmin (ll 
 de monach. 7 and 8, in Rud. Hofmann, Symbolik, Leipz. 5 
 1857, p. 63, cf. 161, 375) defines such a counsel as 'opus 
 bonum, a Christo nobis non imperatum, sed demonstra- 
 tum, non mandatum, sed commendatum.' The principal 
 counsels are celibacy, poverty, and obedience to a re- 
 ligious superior. The doctrine of works of supererogation IO 
 was the natural development of this distinction, which is 
 condemned in our I3th article, in the Augustan confession 
 art. 20 and its apology, and by all protestant disputants, 
 from Jo. Gerhard J^oci theol. XV 9 (vol. vi 159-181 ed. 
 Cotta) to Baur and Nitzsch. See the Romanist Kirchen- I 5 
 Lexikon of Wetzer and Welte (Freiburg 1852) IX 23-30 ; 
 Herzog's Real- Encykloptidie fur prot. Theologie, Stuttgart 
 1855 III 119-122, and ind. s. v. consilia; Alex. Hal. 
 Summa pt. IV qu. 23 memb. 5 art. 2 ; Thomas Aquinas, 
 Summa II I qu. 108 art. 4, II 2 qu. 184 art. 3, III suppl. 20 
 qu. 25 art. I ; Rothe, theol. Ethik, 1st ed. Ill 90-3 ; Hase, 
 Handb. d. prot. Polemik, Leipz. 1862, ll 2 I; Munscher- 
 Coelln, Dogmengeschichte, Cassel, 1832-4, 1457-8, II 177-8; 
 S. Aug. desancta virginitate 14. Mosheim cent. 2, pt. 2, c. 3 
 ii seq. traces the connexion between the Christian and 25 
 the pagan aspirations after an exceptionally 'religious' 
 life. 
 
 P 27 1. 20. Humfrey Gower. He was a correspondent 
 of Dennis Granville's (Graninlle 1 s Remains, Surtees Soc. 
 I 212, where is an extract from A or. de la Pryme's diary, 30 
 who entered St. Johrfs in 1690 : ' Our master, they say, 
 is a mighty high, proud man, but, God be thanked, I 
 know nothing of that as yet by my own experience. His 
 name is Dr. Gower, and it was he that first brought up 
 the having of terms in the college, without the keeping 35 
 of every one of which we can have no degrees'). 
 
 P. 28 1. 13. the president. Thos. Thurlin admitted
 
 T. THURLIN. R.JENKIN. 265 
 
 president 26 Mar. 1683 and so on until n Mar. 1713-4 
 (2nd register 79-93; 3rd register 37-8); ' Edmundus 
 Brome surrogatus in locum praesidis huius collegii Aug. 
 1 60. 1714, decessore D r e- Thurlin defuncto.' Thos., son 
 
 5 of Thos. Thurlin of Linne Regis merchant, born at Linne 
 and educated in the school there under Mr. Bell, was 
 admitted sizar 3 Febr. 1650-1, act. 15, tutor Jo. Bowker. 
 B.A. 1654-5. M.A. 1658. B.D. 1665. D.D. 1681. Ad- 
 mitted foundation fellow 17 Mar. 1656-7, sen. fell. I Febr. 
 
 10 1675-6. He was 50 years rector of Gaywood, fy m. from 
 Lynn (Parkin's hist. Norf. vin 423-4), where he died 
 II Aug. 1714. He has verses in Acad. Cantabr. affectus, 
 1684-5, sig 11 - D2, and in Lacrymae Cantabr. 1694-5, sign. 
 B 4 ; and published The necessity of obedience to spiritual 
 
 \ 5 governors ; a visitation serm. on Hebr. xiii. 1 7. Cambr. 
 1686. 410. In MS. Tanner xxn 193 is a letter from him 
 to bp. Jo. Moore, giving an account of his proceedings 
 with Hen. Wake, a quaker, in the matter of tithes. The 
 following book-plate is in many books in the college 
 
 20 library, e. g. in Hare's Terence, Lend. 1 724. 
 
 J TCX dono THOMAE THURLIN, S.T.P. 
 
 $ 1-' huius coll. per quinquaginta septem annos 
 
 *$* socii dilectissimi, per triginta praesidis dignissimi : 
 
 jT qui, novo amoris et gratitudinis exemplo sua pene 
 
 25 .&, omnia nobis legavit bona, eaque ad valorem plus- 
 
 $ quam mille librarum, quarum ultra trecentas, 
 
 $" libris coemendis impendendas, huic bibliothecae 
 
 "f" dicavit. A.D. 1714. 
 
 P. 28 1. 20. Robert Jenkin. See ind. to Baker's hist. 
 
 30 of St. John's, 1869; he was 'much with bishop Ken in 
 
 lord WtytHOUtX'sfuaily' (Baker, in A Layman 's Life o/ 'Ken, 
 
 98, 662; Dean Granviltts Remains, Surtees Soc. , 11251-2). 
 
 P. 28 1. 25. Mr. R. Rofer.
 
 266 KEN. WM. EDMUNDSON. 
 
 P. 28 1. 27. Thomas Ken. See Mr. Anderdorfs ad- 
 mirable Life of Thomas Ken, 2nd ed., Land. 1854, 8vo. ; 
 verses ' To Thomas lord bishop of Bath and Wells, staying 
 at Winton, after his promotion to that see, 1685,' pp. 
 1 2- 1 6 of Poems by Tho. Fletcher, B.A., Land. 1692. 8vo. 5 
 Tho. Hearne, Reliqu. Hearnian. 26 Mar. 1711 notes : ' He 
 was a truly good and pious man, and was one of those 
 bishops that were illegally deprived at the late wicked 
 revolution. ' 
 
 P. 29 1. 3. Lord WeymoutKs. Longleat, the seat of 10 
 Thomas Thynne, visct. Weymouth, had the high honour of 
 giving shelter to Ken after his deprivation. See Mr, 
 Anderdon' s ind. under Weymouth. 
 
 P. 29!. 4. Mrs. Thynne. The hon. Mrs. Henry T., 
 of Lewiston near Sherborne, Id. Wey mouths dau. in law, 15 
 Anderdon, 627, 799, 800, 802. 
 
 P. 29 1. 22. At Froome, I think. At Frame- Selwood, 
 where he ordered a plain stone to be laid over him, with 
 this inscription (Anderdon 803): 'May the here interred 
 Thomas, late bp. of Bath and Wells, and uncanonically 20 
 deprived for not transferring his allegiance, have a perfect 
 consummation of blisse, both in body and soul, at the 
 great day, of which God keep me always mindful. ' The 
 injunction was not carried out. 
 
 P. 30 1. 9. Mr. Edmondson. Wm., son of Alan Ed- 25 
 mundson farmer, born at Coalflate, Yorksh., educated at 
 Sedberg school, admitted sizar for John Sillers 6 May 
 1692, act. 19, tutor Pet. Nourse. B.A. 1695-6. M.A. 1699. 
 B.D. 1706. D.D. 1714; adm. Heblethwaite fellow 12 Apr. 
 1698; sen. fell. 19 Mar. 1715-6; his successor in the 30 
 fellowship, adm. 29 Mar. 1737, his place in the seniority 
 filled up 8 Oct. 1736. He was curate of Fen Ditton in 
 1702 and 1710 (MS. Cole XIX 102 a). He subscribed for 
 Strype's Parker, Peck's Stanford (large paper), Spencer de 
 legg. Hebr., 1727 (large paper). A letter of his to H. 35 
 Lodge, 18 May 1711, is in the Brit. Mus. Add. 4275 art. 
 82 (Ayscough).
 
 EDM. BROME. A. SELLER. 267 
 
 P. 30 1. 10. a book. See the full title and dedication 
 in Baker's Hist, of St. John's, 1869, pp. 1000-1. 
 
 P. 30 1. 1 3. Edmund, son of the Rev. Edm. Brome, 
 born at Woodbridge, Suff., where he was educated under 
 
 5 Mr. Candler, was adm. pensioner 26 Mar. 1686, act. 15, 
 tutor John Sillers. B.A. 1689-90. M.A. 1693. B.D. 1701; 
 adm. Gregson fell. 16 Mar. 1691-2, sen. fell. 8 Nov. 1708; 
 his successor on the seniority appointed 2 Nov. 1 724. A 
 letter of his to Mr. Dwyer, 22 July 1698, is in Brit. Mus. 
 
 10 MS. Add. 4275 n. 32 (AyscougK). His father Edm., son 
 of the Rev. Edm. Brome, born in Middlesex, educated for 
 3 years at Norwich school by Mr. Loveday, was admitted 
 pensioner of St. John's 24 May 1658, tutor Jas. Chamber- 
 laine. B.A. 1661-2. M.A. 1665; perpetual curate of Wood- 
 
 15 bridge 1666, where he died Apr. 1719, act. 77 (Edm. 
 Bohun's Autobiography, 5, 39 ; his character by Bo}nm in 
 MS. Tanner xxxiv pp. 155, 172;; his petition to Sir John 
 Trevor, master of the rolls, touching the misapplication of 
 the surplus revenue of the almshouses at Woodbridge, 1699, 
 
 20 ibid, cxxxvn p. 74). The grandfather, also Edmund 
 Brome, was ejected from the living of S. Repps, Norf. 
 (Calamy Contin. 623). 
 
 P. 30 1. 1 8. Abednego .Seller's book. The good man's 
 preparation for the happy receiving of the blessed sacrament. 
 
 25 Together with an account of the Holy- Passion- Week; and 
 the great festival of Easter. With rules and directions how 
 to fast acceptably ; and how to communicate worthily. To 
 which are annext, particular lessons, prayers, meditations, 
 and anthems, for the several days of those times of strict 
 
 30 mortification and holy joy. In two parts. London. 1704. 
 I2mo. Dedicated to Sir Wm. Boothby bart. and his 
 virtuous lady. It is a republication, ' with many altera- 
 tions, additions, and amendments,' of The devout com- 
 municant assisted with rules for the worthy receiving of the 
 
 35 blessed sacrament. Lond. 1686. 8vo. 
 
 P. 31!. 5. his will. In MS. Baker yili 190. 1.6. his 
 books. See the book-plate in Baker's Hist, of St. John's 
 1002 1. 23.
 
 268 SELF-EXAMINATION. 
 
 P. 31!. 13. another who had been his sizer. A mistake. 
 Henry, son of Wm. Gunning deceased, born at Ely, 
 educated at the school there under Mr. Tenant, was entered 
 a pensioner 17 July 1705 act. 15, tutor Thus. Bosvile. He 
 was nominated Hare exhibitioner by the master each year 
 from 1705-9, both inclusive. B.A. 1709-10. M.A. 1713; 
 adm. Platt fellow 21 Mar. 1710-1, successor adm. 5 Apr. 
 
 P. 32 1. 30. Mr. R. Roper. 
 
 P. 34 1. 20. a younger brother. Philip, son of the Rev. 10 
 Ambrose Bomvick, born at Hedley in Surrey, taught there 
 by his father, was adm. sizar for Drake junr. 26 Apr. 
 1712, act. 14, tutor Anstey. 
 
 P. 35 1. 26. I do not care you should lye with any other 
 but your brother. See John Strype's letter to his mother, 15 
 A.D. 1662 from Cambridge (Sir H. Ellis, Letters of eminent 
 literary men, Camd. Soc. 1 79) : ' At my first coming I laid 
 alone ; but since, my tutor desired me to let a very clear 
 lad lay with me, and an alderman's son of Colchester, 
 which I could not deny, being newly come : he hath laid 20 
 with me now for almost a fortnight, and will do till he 
 can provide himself with a chamber. I have been with 
 all my acquaintance, who have entreated me very courte- 
 ously, especially Jonathan Houghton. I went to his 
 chamber the Friday night I first came, and there he made 25 
 me stay and sup with him, and would have had me laid 
 with him that night, and was extraordinary kind to me. ' 
 
 P. 45 1. 23. Questions. The first three are taken, as 
 Nelson says (Festivals and fasts, 1st ed., 1704, 496-7), from 
 the well known lines in the golden verses 40-44, ascribed 30 
 to Pythagoras (cl. the commentary of Hierocles c. 19) : 
 
 yiiTjS' virvov fia\aKo7fftv fir' o'/.i.uam wpo(r5f^aff9ai, 
 
 trplf TUV fj/jLepivui' epyiav \oyiffaff6ai eitaffTov' 
 
 irfj Trapf/i-riv; T'I 8' epe|a; ri pot Seov OVK eTe\e<rdri ; 
 
 s 8' airb wpiarov eirfi6i' Kal /j.fTireira 35 
 
 v fKirp-fj^as eTTjTrA^crcreo, xP 7 ? <rTC ' ^e, repirev.
 
 WHITE 'K THIRLBY. 269 
 
 Cf. Cic. de senect. 38 ; Diog, Laert. vill 22; 5V. de ira 
 
 III 36; Z>?</. Sic. X 5 I ; Arrian, Epictet. Ill 10 1-4, 
 
 IV 6 32-35; Porphyr. vit. Pythag. 40; Pint, de super st. 
 c. 7 ; *fe curios, c. I ; Appul. Florid. I c. 6 of the Indian 
 
 5 gymnosophists ; /for. jotf. I 4 133-8; Clem. Alex, paedag. 
 I I o p. 154 P. Hieronym. in Rufin. in 39, vol. ill col. 
 566 A Vallarsi, gives the Pythagorean rule thus : duorunt 
 temporum maxime habendam curam, mane et vesperi, id 
 esf, ear um quae acturi sumus et eorum quae gesserimus. In 
 
 10 the famous verses 'de viro bono,' printed as Idyl xvi of 
 Ausonius, we have a version of these rules, 14-17 : 
 
 non prius in dulcem dedinat lumina somnum, 
 omnia quant longi reptitaverit acta did. 
 quae praetergressus ? quid gestum in tempore? quid non? 
 15 cur isti facto decus abfuit aut ratio illi ? etc. 
 
 P. 49 1.31. all the while I lived -with your mother. 
 
 Cf. p. 8 1.2 7. 
 
 P. 53 1. 2. Whitbey's Ethics. Ethices compendium, in 
 
 usum academicae iuventutis. Authore Daniele Whitby 
 2OS.T.P. Auctius et emendatius tertio editum. Land. 1713. 
 
 8vo. The copy in St. John's library seems to have been 
 
 bought by the college, which shews that it was a book in 
 
 request. First ed. Oxon. 1684. 8vo. 
 
 P. 53 1.3, Thirlby. Sty an T. fellow of Jesus coll. 
 25 An answer to Mr. Whistorfs seventeen suspicions of Atha- 
 
 nasius in his historical preface. Cambr. 1712. 8vo. Cf. 
 
 A defence of the answer to Mr. Whistoris suspicions, and 
 
 an answer to his charge of forgery against St. Athanasius. 
 
 Cambr. 1713. 8vo. See a memoir in Gent. Mag. 1782, 
 30 p. 242, Gilb. Wakefield's Memoirs, ed. I p. 69 seq. and the 
 
 indices to Nichols, Lit. Anecd., and the Tanner MSS. His 
 
 Justin Martyr was viewed with jealousy at Oxford ( Thesaur. 
 
 epistol. Lacroz. I 375; see Otto's proleg. to his 2nd ed. p. 
 
 xxxviii). He was of Leicester school {Carlisle I 774)- 
 35 P. 53!. 3. BurgersdiciuJ s Ethics. Cf. p. 19 1. 14 with 
 
 n. Idea philosophiae turn moralis, turn naturalis. Sive,
 
 270 BURGERSDIJCK. CURCELLAEUS. 
 
 epitome compendiosa utriusque ex Aristotele excerpta et 
 methodice disposita. A Mr. Franc. Burgersdicio in aca- 
 demia Lugduno-Batava logices et ethices professore ordinario. 
 Oxonii, excudebat Henr. Hall, Impensis Rob. Blagrave. 
 1654. I2mo. Also published at Leyden 1623, 1626, 1629, 5 
 1644, Oxon. 1634, Amst. 1650 etc. 
 
 P. 53 1. 4. Stephani Curcellaei synopsis ethices. Trac- 
 tatus lectu dignissimus. Editio secunda, priori (quoad 
 capitum summaria) auctior, et longe emendatior. Accessit 
 Henrici Jenkesii Cantabrigiensis praefatio, de natura et IO 
 constitutione ethicae, praesertim Christianae; eiusque usu 
 et studio : Londini : Excudebat M. C. sumptibus H. Dick- 
 inson, bibliopolae Cantabrig. 1684. sm. 8vo. pp. (8) and 133. 
 Recommended in the preface tyronibus academicis, as worth 
 its weight in gold. A third ed. huic postremae editioni 15 
 annexa est Renati Des-Cartes Ethice. Cantabrigiae, ex 
 officina Johan. Hayes, celeberrimae academiae typographi. 
 1702. Impensis Edvardi Hall, et Rich. Thurlbourn, bib- 
 liopol. Cantab, sm. 8vo. pp. (8) and 133. Renati Des- 
 Cartes ethice, in methodum et compendium, gratia studiosae 20 
 iuventutis, concinnata. pp. 53, separately paged, but the 
 signatures run on. Etienne de Courcelles, born at Geneva, 
 2 May 1586, a pupil of Beztfs, preacher (1609-34) suc " 
 cessively at Fontainebleau, Amiens and Vitry, became a 
 Remonstrant and succeeded Episcopius in his chair at 25 
 Amsterdam; he died 20 May 1659. He was a warm 
 friend of Descartes (A. J. v. d. Aa, Biograph. Woordenb. 
 der Nederlanden, in 780-3). 
 
 P. 53 1. 4. Puffendorf, de officio hominis etcivis. Cambr. 
 1 682. 8vo. The two principal works of Sam. v. Pufendorf 30 
 were long used as text-books in the universities. See 
 Lowndes, Watt and Darling for editions and translations. 
 
 P. 53 1. 5. Rob. Sanderson 's De iuramenti promissorii 
 obligatione praelectiones septem. Habitae in schola theologica 
 Oxon. termino Michaelis A.D. 1646, were printed at Land. 35 
 1647, 8vo. (2 editions), 1670, 1676, 1683, 1696, 1719; 
 transl. into english by k. Charles I. Lond. 1655. 8vo.
 
 SANDERSON. EUSTACHIUS. 271 
 
 ( Wood-Bliss, Athen. in 627). De obligatione conscientiae 
 praelectiones decent : Oxonii in schola theologica habita A. D. 
 1647, were printed at Land. 1660 with a dedication to 
 Rob. Boyle; 1661, 1670, 1676, 1682, 1686, 1710, 1719. 
 
 5 Wm. Whewell published the de obligatione conscientiae, with 
 engl. notes and an abridged translation Cambr. 1851 8vo. 
 Cf. Allibone. See more respecting the editions in Jacob- 
 son 's pref. to Sanderson's Works (Oxf. 1854, 6 vols. 8vo.) 
 pp. ix-xiii. The lectures are printed in vol. IV. 
 
 10 P. 53 1. 7. the Aeneis. See p. 19 1. 10. Eustachius. 
 Cf. p. 2O 1. 1 7. Fr. Eustachii a S. Patilo, ex congregatione 
 Fuliemi ordinis Cisterciensis, ethica, sive summa moralis 
 disciplinae, in tres paries divisa. Cum duplici indice locu- 
 pletissimo. Nunc demum, in gratiam studiosae iuventutis, 
 
 15 seorsim edita, et quam plurimis mendis repurgata. Can- 
 tabrigiae : ex academiae celeberrimae typographeo, impensis 
 Guilielmi Morden bibliopolae, apud quern venales prostant. 
 1655. I2mo. pp. (8), 150, (n). Again Land. 1666. I2mo., 
 1677. I2mo., 1693. I2mo. 'Ex officina Elizabethae Red- 
 
 20 mayne. Prostant venales apud H. Dickinson, E. Hall, 
 bibliopolas Cantabrigierses.' His Summa philosophiae 
 quadripartita, de rebus dialecticis, moralibus, physicis et 
 metaphysicis was printed at Paris. 1609. 2 vols. 8vo. and 
 1623. 8vo. ; Lugd. 1620. 8vo.; Genev. 1638. 8vo.; Cam- 
 
 25 bridge 1640. 8vo., and 1649. Svo.j Lugd. Bat. 1647. 8vo. 
 with pref. by Adr. Heereboord. 
 
 P. 53 1. 9. Jer. Collier's essays. Essays upon several 
 moral subjects. In two parts. 3rd. ed. Land. 1698. 8vo. 
 In four parts. Vol. I. 6th ed. corrected and enlarged. 
 
 30 Land. 1722. Vol. II. (pt. 3). ^th ed. with large additions. 
 Land. 1728. Vol. III. (pt. 4). Land. 1709. Like so many 
 of BonwickJs favourite authors, Collier was a nonjuror. 
 
 P. 53!. IO. Pindar. Cf. p. 19 1.17. G. J. Vossius. 
 Rhetorices contractae sive partitiomim oratoriarum libri 
 
 35 quinque. Lugd. Bat. 1622, '27, '40. Amst. '66. 8vo. Oxon. 
 1672. I2mo. Elementa Rhetorica. Lond. 1739. 8vo. In 
 vol. III. of his works.
 
 272 GROTIUS. JOHN RAY. 
 
 P. 53 1. II. Grotius. Perhaps in: Institutiones iuris 
 naturae et gentium ex Hugonis Grotii libris de iure belli et 
 pads excerptae. Catabr. 1703. I2mo. Cf. Tho. Rutherforth, 
 Institutes of natural law ; being the substance of a course of 
 lectures on Grotius De iure belli ac pads, read in St. John's 5 
 college, Cambridge. Land. 1752-6. 2 vols. 8vo. ; a book very 
 highly esteemed in America, where it has been reprinted 
 (Allibone). Wm. Whewell printed Grotius at Cambridge 
 with an abridged translation and notes, 1853. 3 vols. 8vo. 
 
 P. 53 1. 12. John Ray. See Memorials ofJ.R., con- IO 
 sisting of his life by Dr. Derham, and notices by Sir J. E. 
 Smith, Cuvier and Dupetit Thouars, -with his itineraries 
 etc. ed. by E. Lankester. Land. 1 846. 8vo. Letters printed 
 in Sussex Archaeological collections ~x. 13 seq. John Belfour 
 prefixed a biographical preface to his Proverbs, 5th ed., 15 
 1813. 8vo. 12s. He was ejected from a Trinity fellowship 
 (Calamy, Account, 87; Contin. 120-2); and says in the 
 pref. to his Wisdom of God: ' By vertue of my function 
 I suspect myself to be obliged to write something in 
 divinity, having written so much on other subjects: For 20 
 not being permitted to serve the church with my tongue 
 in preaching, I know not but it may be my duty to serve 
 it with my hand by writing. . . . As for this discourse, it 
 is the substance of some commonplaces (so in the university 
 of Cambridge, they call their morning divinity exercises) 25 
 delivered in Trinity college chapel, when I was fellow of 
 that society; which I have enlarged with the addition of 
 some collections out of what hath been since written by 
 the forementioned authors \_ffen. More, Ra. Cudworth, 
 Edw. Stillingfleet, bp. Sam, Parker, Rob. Boyle\ upon my 30 
 subject.' The book is dedicated to lady Lettice Wendy of 
 Wendy, Cambs. , ( because I owe it to the liberality of 
 your honoured brother, that I have this leisure to write 
 any thing.' In early life he called himself Wray: Jo. 
 Wray coll. Trin. quadrantarius admissus in matriculam 35 
 acad. Cant. Apr. lo, 1647. Johan. Wray A.M. coll. 
 Trin. soc. has a copy of verses to Oliver Cromwell in
 
 RA K WM. ALINGHAM. 273 
 
 Oliva pads. Cantabr. 1654. 4to. He was Dr. Duporfs 
 pupil. See Duporfs Sylvae, p. 395' (Baker). See Weekly 
 Memorials for the ingenious, 1683. 4to. n. 24. Gods 
 wijsheid geopenb. in de werken der scheppinge, uit ket Eng. 
 
 5 Amst. 1765. and again 1769; 2 pts. 8vo. A supplement 
 by P. jf. Loosjes: Beschouwing van de werken der natuur. 
 Amst 1768. 8vo. Z. C. v. Uffenbach had admired the 
 book as a student, and began to translate it shortly before 
 his death, but abandoned his task on ascertaining that fr. 
 
 IO and germ, translations (the latter with Gal-veer's elaborate 
 commentary) had already appeared (Schelhorn, Vita Z. 
 Conradi ab Uffenbach, before Selecta commercii epistolaris 
 Uffenbachiani, Ulm I753> P- xxxviii). Ray is now best 
 known to general readers by this admirable piece, which 
 
 15 has been popular since the time of its first appearance in 
 1691. See Watt, Biogr. Brit., Lowndes, Allibone, Grdsse, 
 Tresor and Lehrbuch III (2) 644-5. 
 
 P. 53 1. 13. Allingham. This book, which seems to 
 be scarce, is in St. John's library. A short account of the 
 
 20 nature and use of maps. As also some short discourses of 
 the division of the earth into zones, climes and parallels ; 
 with the properties of the several inhabitants thereof. To 
 which is subjoined a catalogue of the factories and places 
 now in possession of the English, French, Dutch, Spanish, 
 
 25 Portugueze and Danes, both in the East and West Indies. 
 With several tables very useful in geography and Navigation. 
 By William Alingham, teacher of the mathematicks in 
 Channel-Row, Westminster. London : Printed by R. 
 Janeway, for Benj. Barker at the White-Hart in West- 
 
 30 minster- Hall. 1703. 8vo. pp. (8), 85. Dedicated to Wm. 
 Duncomb esq. of Battlesdown, Beds., as an acknowledge- 
 ment of many favours. Advertisement at the end : ' At 
 the house, late the lord Weymoutfts, in Channel-Row, 
 Westminster, are taught the mathematicks in all its parts ; 
 
 35 also youth boarded, land survey'd, timber measur'd, and 
 dials delineated, by the author.' Another book of Aling- 
 ham' s, there advertised by the same publisher: An 
 
 T
 
 274 ALINGHAM. WM. PIERS. 
 
 epitomy of geometry, containing the principal theorems of 
 Euclid's first, third, fifth, sixth, eleventh and twelfth books, 
 'ivith their uses and applications, digested in a method fit to 
 be read by all such who would, in a short time, lay a found- 
 ation for the most required parts of the mathemalicks. Also 5 
 Euclid's second book, and doctrine of proportion, algebrai- 
 cally demonstrated. To -which is annexed, a treatise of 
 measuring superficies and solids, vulgarly, decimally and 
 practically ; with the customs now used by artificers in 
 measuring their several works. Likewise directions for 10 
 measuring board and timber ; making vessels of any big- 
 ness ; taking the plan of any court, yard, garden etc. Also, 
 the cutting and measuring the five Platonick bodies. Of 
 great use to all that would found their mechanick practices 
 on the unerring principles of geometry. More particularly 15 
 for all engineers, gunners, mariners, gaugers, surveyors, 
 measurers, artificers etc. Watt (under Allingham} cites 
 a later edition ed. Land. 1714. I2mo. ; also Method of 
 fortification. Land. 1 702. 8vo. 2s. ; Treatise of arithmetic. 
 Land. 1710. 8vo. Alingham also revised and corrected 20 
 John Taylor's Thesaurarium mathematicae. Land. 1707. 
 8vo. (Brit. Mus.). 
 
 P. 53 1. 13. Euripides. No doubt in the following 
 edition : Euripidis tragoediae Medea et Phoenissae, graeco- 
 latinae cum scholiis graecis integris ; nonnullis nunc pri- 25 
 mum editis. Quarum prior ex collatione H. Stephani, 
 posterior Hug. Grotii et MS. C. C. C. Cantabrig. cum com- 
 mentario, variis lectionibus, atque indice locupletissimo. 
 Accessit eiusdem vita iam denuo conscripta. Studio et 
 opera Wilhel. Piers, coll. Emman. Soc. Cantabrigiae, 30 
 typis academicis, impensis Sam. Smith et. Beni. Waif or d, 
 ad insignia Principis in coemeter. D. Pauli Londini. A. D. 
 MDCCIII. 8vo. pp. (40), 392, with portrait of Euripides. 
 ' Si typorum elegantiam mireris, gratias merito ingentes 
 habeto illustrissimo principi Carolo duci Somersetensium, 35 
 munificentissimo nostrae academiae cancellario, cui cordi 
 est nostrum, imo suum denuo revixisse typographeum.
 
 WM. PIERS. SALLUST. 275 
 
 Horum [Grotii et Stephani\ ubique fere institi vestigiis, 
 non mediocriter adiutus manuscripto fab. Phoenissarum 
 qui asservatur in collegia Corp. Christi, cuius mihi copiam 
 fecit, et cui plurimum debes, Mr. lo. Waller dignissimus 
 
 5 eiusdem collegii socius. Illius exemplar Grotianum 
 Parisiis editum anno superioris saeculi xxx. . . human- 
 issimus bibliothecae publ. praefectus [lo. Laughton\ e 
 propriis amice et benevole, ut semper solet, mecum com- 
 municavit. ' The preface is dated Emm. coll. 3 Nov. 1 702. 
 
 10 Wm. Piers B.A. Emm. 1684-5. Pierse M.A. 1688. B.D. 
 1695. rect. of TV! Cadbtiry when he subscribed for 2 copies 
 of Richardson's Godwin in 1 743. He has verses in Lacrym. 
 Cantabr. 1694-5. f- K 4 verso. See on his Euripides the 
 Acta erud. 1704, 355; Le Clerc, Biblioth. choisie, XI 276. 
 
 1 5 S. F. W. Hoffmann calls it a correct ed. It was published 
 at 4J. large paper 26j. (see Knighfs Life of Colet, 491). 
 Verses by one Win. Pierse in Nichols, Lit. Anecd. I 112. 
 
 P. 53 1. 1 8. Sallust. The ed. of Jos. Wasse was pub- 
 lished at Cambridge 1710. 4to. 1. 19-20. Cf. p. 19 1.31 
 
 20 seq. 1.2O,2I. Suetonius. Pliny. Cf. p. 19 1. 19. Pliny 
 was published at Oxf. 1677, and (by Tho. Hearne] 1703, 
 8vo. The numerous editions of several english translations 
 shew the popularity of this author during the l8th century. 
 1.24. Telemachus. Cf. pp. 34 1.17, 54 l- 2 7- ! 2 5- 
 
 25 Hierocles. Cf. p. 21 1. 22. 
 
 P. 53 1. 28. Catttinarian etc. The speeches here 
 named are all comprised in M. Tullii Ciceronis orationum 
 selectarum liber. Editus in usum scholarum Hollandiae 
 et West-Frisiae .... Land. Typis E. Cotes, pro lohanne 
 
 30 Pierrepont. 1667. I2mo. Probably also in the editions 
 bearing the same title Lond. 1675, '79, '86. 8vo. ; and 
 certainly in Orationes quaedam selectae cum interpr. et notis, 
 quas in usum Delph. edidit P. Carolus de Merouville. 
 Quibus praefigitur vita Ciceronis per annos consular es di- 
 
 35 gesta. Adiiciuntur in tres oratt. notae quaedam ex Asconio, 
 P. Manutio cet. decerptae. Cantabrigiae, Jo. Hayes, 1692 
 and 1699. 8vo. Lond. 1706, '14, '22, 8vo.
 
 276 L. ECHARD. JAS. TYRRELL. 
 
 P. 53 1. 29. Laur. Echard's Roman history. Cf. p. 
 106 1. 5. Several editions of this book appeared, one as 
 late as 1 735, in 5 vols. 8vo. It was translated into fr. by 
 Desfontaines, Paris, 1730-6. 12 vols. I2mo. His History 
 of England may still be consulted with advantage. See 5 
 Biograph. Brit., Lowndes, Calamus Own Times II 395 
 seq., Life of Is. Milks 64, 152. He died 3 Sept. 1730 
 (Hist. Reg. Chronol. p. 57). 
 
 P- 53 ! 3- HowelFs Epistles. These inimitable letters 
 will soon be accessible in Mr. Arber's reprint. See an 10 
 anecdote of Jas. H. in Sir K. Digby's Discourse of the 
 powder of sympathy. 1659. 
 
 ibid. Jas. Tyrrell. A brief disquisition of the law of 
 nature, according to the principles and method laid down in 
 the reverend Dr. Cumberland's (now lord bishop of Peter- 15 
 borough's) latin treatise on that subject. As also his con- 
 futations of Mr. Hobbs's principles put into another method. 
 With the right reverend author's approbation. London : 
 Printed, and are to be sold by Richard Baldwin, near the 
 Oxford- Arms in Warwick-Lane. 1692. 8vo. pp. (100), 396. 20 
 2nd ed. 1701. 8vo. Dedicated to bp. Ri. Cumberland, of 
 whose treatise Tyrrell had made an epitome on its first 
 publication, for his own better remembrance and as an 
 introduction to ethics for some near relations of his. Rob. 
 Boyle and some other friends urged him to print the book. 25 
 All that was new in bp. Parker's Demonstration of the 
 laws of nature borrowed from Cumberland. Tyrrell has 
 added some notes from modern travellers concerning the 
 customs of barbarians; and others from bp. Jo. Wilkins, 
 Hen. More, and John Locke. Bp. Cumberland^ letter to 30 
 the bookseller, consenting to the publication, begins : ' The 
 learned authour of this treatise sent it to me (then being in 
 a private station) above a year ago, but then concealed his 
 name from me, either through his great modesty, or because 
 in his prudence he thought that if I knew him, I might 35 
 be biassed in my judgement, by the honour which I am 
 obliged to have to his family, and especially to his grand-
 
 JAS. TYRRELL. GEO. CHEYNE. 277 
 
 father by his mother's side, the most learned primate of 
 Ireland' 1 [James Ussher\. The 'learned and judicious' 
 Jas. Tyrrell, was son of Sir Timothy (Parr's Life of 
 Ussher, pp. 58, 98). He induced Tho. Smith to write his 
 
 5 Vita Usserii (praef. V, vm). See Wood-Bliss, Athen. IV 
 520; Biogr. Brit. 
 
 P. 54 1. i. Clerk's Physics. The translation of Rohault 
 by Sam. Clarke. See p. 65 1. 10 n. 
 
 ibid. Cheyne. Philosophical principles of religion: 
 
 IO natttral and revealed: In two parts. Part I. Containing 
 the elements of natural philosophy and the proofs of natural 
 religion arising from them. The second edition corrected 
 and enlarged. Part II. Containing the nature and kinds 
 of infinites; their arithmetick and uses: together with the 
 
 1 5 philosophick principles of reveal' d religion. Now first pub- 
 lish'd. By George Chzynt, M.D. and F.R.S. London: 
 Printed for George Strahan at the Golden Ball in Cornhill, 
 over against the Royal Exchange. MDCCXV. 8vo. pp. (32), 
 360, (24), 188. Dedicated, as ed. I of part I. had been 
 
 20 in 1705, to John d. of Roxburgh. The author had 'been 
 often sollicited to give orders for another edition of this 
 work, for the use of the younger students of philosophy, 
 who while they were taught the most probable account of 
 the appearances of nature from the modern discoveries, 
 
 25 might thereby have the principles of natural religion in- 
 sensibly instill'd into them at the same time ... I had 
 seen the observations and corrections, the late ingenious 
 and learned Dr. \David] Gregory, Savilian professor of 
 astronomy at Oxford, had made on the former edition of 
 
 30 this part. I had some remarks from the reverend and 
 learned Mr. John Craig; as also some very judicious 
 reflections from a gentleman at Cambridge ['Dr. Brook 
 Taylor 1 , MS. note in copy in St. John's library], who con- 
 ceals his name. ' The author, is now chiefly remembered 
 
 35 for his singular experiments in diet. See Biogr. Brit. 
 with addenda in vol. iv. ; Burton's Life of David Hume I 
 42-8; fable's Life ofbp. Wilson, 923 seq.
 
 278 J.HENSHAW. J. NEWCOME. 
 
 P. 54 1. 8. the former excerpta. Cf. p. 19 1. 27. 
 
 P. 54 1. 10. his former method. Cf. p. 2O 1. 20 seq. 
 1. 1 1. the version of Musaeus. The metrical latin version 
 of Musaeus, Bion and Moschus, by David Whitford, Land. 
 1655, 4to., and 1659, 4to. was highly esteemed. 5 
 
 P. 54 1. 13. De Rep. ordinanda. The irepi ffvvrd^ecas 
 is the first speech in a selection printed at London in 1672 
 and 1686, I2mo. 1. 20. Quintilian. The title of the first 
 of the declamations which go by his name is Paries 
 palmatus. The ed. used by Bonwicke would be that of 10 
 Oxf. 1675 or 1692- 8vo. both of which contain also the 
 dialogue on the causes of corrupt eloquence, which he had 
 read (p. 19 1. 20). 
 
 P. 54 1. 27. Telemachus. Cf. p. 53 1. 24. 
 
 P. 54 1.31. a small tract of bishop Joseph Henshaw's. 15 
 See Wood-Bliss, Athen. Ill 1195, iv 861. Bp. Kennetfs 
 account of him (MS. Lansd. 987 art. 99) is printed from 
 MS. Baker XXVI 371 in Notes and Qu., ser. 2, x 161. As 
 a sufferer for Charles I. , the author would have a special 
 attraction for Bonwicke' s ' best friend', Fras. Roper. 20 
 
 P. 55 1. 19. formerly. Cf. p. 32 1. 10. 
 
 f- 55 1- 3- John Ne^vcome. Afterwards master ; see 
 ind. to Baker's Hist, of St. John's, 1869. Taquefs Euclid. 
 See Whistorits Memoirs 131 : 'In March 1702-3 I pub- 
 lished my third book, which was Tacquefs Euclid, with 25 
 select theorems of Archimedes, and with the addition 
 of practical corollaries, in Latin; for the use of young 
 students in the university. The second edition was printed 
 at Cambridge by Mr- Crownfield, for Mr. Thurlborn and 
 Mr. Dickenson, A.D. 1710. It was also put into English 30 
 at London, from the second edition, under my own review. 
 The price of my own edition in 8vo. was 4^. Now it was 
 the accidental purchase of Tacqtiefs own Eticlid at an 
 auction, that occasioned my first application to the mathe- 
 maticks, wherein Tacquet was a very clear writer.' Andre 35 
 Tacquet was born at Antwerp 23 June 1612 and died there 
 23 Dec. 1660. He taught first classics for five years, then
 
 A.TACQUET. J. ROHAULT. 279 
 
 mathematics for 15 years, at Louvain and Antwerp. See 
 De Backer, Biblioth. des tcrivains de la compagnie de Jesus. 
 Liege 185 4. 11615-7, where many editions, english and foreign, 
 are cited. See also Watt and Lowndes, under Euclid. 
 
 5 The full title is : V. Cl. Andreae Tacquet soc. lesu sacer- 
 dotis et matheseos professoris elementa Euclidea geometriae 
 planae ac solidae ; et selecta ex Archimede theoremata. 
 Editionem primam Cantab, adornavit phirimisque corol- 
 lariis, varios propositionum ttsus exhibentibus illustravit, 
 
 10 et schemata XL addidit Gulielmus Whiston, A.M. nuperus 
 matheseos professor Lucasianus. Editio tertia, prioribus 
 multo auctior : cut accedunt complura nova schemata aeri 
 incisa. Cantabrigiae, impensis Corn. Crownfield, celeber- 
 rimae academiae typographi; et lacobi Knapton ; biblio- 
 
 1 5 polae Londinensis, adinsigtte Coronae in coemeterio D. Pauli. 
 
 MDCCXXII. 8vo. pp. (22), 330. Whiston's preface is dated 
 
 3 Cal. Mart. 1702-3. He acknowledges obligations to 
 
 De Chales, Barrow, Pardies, Sturm, and Is. Newton. 
 
 P. 55 1. 31. Rohaulfs Physics. Cf. p. 54 1. 1. lacobi 
 
 20 Rohaulti physica. Latine reddidit, et annotiunculis quibus- 
 dam illustravit S. Clarke A.B. C.G.C.C. Accessit index 
 rerum et phaenomenomm praecipuorum. Land, impensis 
 lacobi Knapton. 1697. 8vo. pp. (32), 184, 262. Dedi- 
 cated to John Moore, bp. of Norwich. lacobi Rohaulti 
 
 25 Physica. . Latine vertit, recensztit, et uberioribus iam aduo- 
 tationibus, ex ilhistrissimi Isaaci Newtoni philosophia max- 
 imam partem Siaustts, amplificavit et ornavit Samuel Clarke 
 A.M. admodum reverendo in Chris to patri, loanni episcopo 
 Norvicensi a sacris domesticis. ibid. 1702. 8vo. pp. (32) 
 
 30263, 119, 102, (14). Editio tertia, in qua annotationes 
 sunt dimidia parte auctiores, additaeque octo tabulae aeri 
 incisae. ibid. 1710. 8vo. pp. (32), 495, (17). Clarke is 
 described as regiae maiestati a sacris ; he acknowledges 
 his obligations in the preface : ' permulta doctissimo et 
 
 35 in his rebus exercitatissimo viro Ricardo Laughton; nee 
 non domino Carolo Morgan, reverendo admodum episcopo 
 Eliensi nunc a sacris domesticis ; debere me gratus fateor.
 
 z8o ROHAULTS PHYSICS. 
 
 Quoram prior, multa sparsim communicavit, plurima cor- 
 rexit ; posterioris, integrae sunt dissertationes sex. ' A 
 fourth edition was published hi 1718: accedunt etiam in 
 hoc quarto, editione novae aliquot tabulae aeri incisae, et 
 annotationes multum sunt auctae. In the catalogue of 5 
 Queens' library occurs an ed. Land. 1750. John Clarke, 
 dean of Salisbury, translated Rohault with his brother's 
 notes into English. 2 vols. Lond. 1735. 8vo. TyrrelCs 
 dedication of his Disquisition of the laws of nature: ' Thus 
 Monsieur Rohault's abridgement oiDes Cartes' s philosophy 10 
 
 [has] been received with general applause, not only 
 
 by all ingenious men of the French, but also of our 
 own nation, who understand that language.' Hoadly's 
 pref. to Sam. Clarke's -works: 'The philosophy of Des 
 Cartes was then the established philosophy of that uni- 15 
 versity; and the system of nature hardly allowed to be 
 explained any otherwise than by his principles : which, 
 at best, were evidently no more than the inventions of 
 a very ingenious and luxuriant fancy; having no found- 
 ation in the reality of things, nor any correspondency 20 
 to the certainty of facts. His tutor himself [afterwards 
 Sir Jo. Ellis], though a learned man, and for ever to 
 be honoured for his conscientious care of all under him, 
 was a zelot for this philosophy; and as he was most 
 diligent in reading to his pupils, without doubt gave them 25 
 the most favourable impressions of what he had so closely 
 embraced himself; and but little encouragement to strike 
 out any light in another way of thinking. The great Sir 
 Isaac Newton had indeed then published his Principia. 
 But this book was but for the few ; both the manner and 30 
 matter of it placing it out of the reach of the generality 
 even of learned readers : and strong prejudice, in favour 
 of what had been received, working against it. But 
 neither the difficulty of the task, nor the respect he paid 
 to the director of his studies ; nor the warmth and pre- 35 
 judice of all around him, had any effect upon his mind. 
 Not at all satisfied therefore with hypotheses arbitrarily
 
 ROHAULTS PHYSICS. 281 
 
 adapted to appearances, he set himself immediately to the 
 study of what was real and substantial : and in this study 
 he made such uncommon advances, that he was presently 
 master of the chief parts of the Nnvtonian philosophy ; 
 
 5 and, in order to his first degree, performed a public ex- 
 ercise in the schools, upon a question taken from thence, 
 which surprized the whole audience, both for the accuracy 
 of knowledge, and clearness of expression, that appeared 
 through the whole. Such an example could not but be of 
 
 IO great use, to animate all around him. But he was not 
 content with the service he could do to true philosophy, 
 by his example only. As soon as he had taken that first 
 degree, young as he was, he made an effort for the service 
 of the students, which ought not to be forgotten. The 
 
 1 5 system of natural philosophy then generally taught in the 
 university, was that written by Mons. Rohault; entirely 
 founded on the Cartesian principles; and very ill trans- 
 lated into latin. [The translation of Th. Bonet, Genev. 
 1674. 8vo. was republished at London 'cum animadvers- 
 
 20 ionibus Antonii le Grand 1 in 1682. 8vo. with a dedication 
 to Thomas Short, M.D.]. He justly thought that philo- 
 sophical notions might be express'd in pure latin : and if 
 he had gone no farther than this, he would have merited 
 of all those who were to draw their knowledge out of that 
 
 25 book. But his aim was much higher than the making 
 a better translation of it. He resolved to add to it such 
 notes, as might lead the young men insensibly, and by 
 degrees, to other and truer notions than what could be 
 found there. And this certainly, was a more prudent 
 
 30 method of introducing truth unknown before, than to 
 attempt to throw aside this treatise entirely, and write 
 a new one instead of it. The success answered exceed- 
 ingly well to his hopes : and he may justly be stiled a 
 great benefactor to the university, in this attempt. For 
 
 35 by this means the true philosophy has without any noise 
 prevailed : and to this day his translation of Rohault is, 
 generally speaking, the standing text for lectures ; and his
 
 282 R OH A UL TS PHYSICS. 
 
 notes the first direction to those who are willing to re- 
 ceive the reality and truth of things in the place of in- 
 vention and romance. And thus before he was much 
 above twenty years old, he furnished the students with 
 a system of knowledge, which has been ever since, and 5 
 still continues to be, a publick benefit to all who have the 
 happiness of a liberal and learned education in that uni- 
 versity.' Wm. Whistorfs Memoirs of Dr. S. Clarke. Land. 
 1730. 8vo. pp. 5-8: 'About the year 1697, while I was 
 chaplain to Dr. John Moor, then bishop of Norwich, I ro 
 met at one of the coffee-houses in the Market-place of 
 Norwich, a young man, to me then wholly unknown, his 
 name was Clarke, pupil to that eminent and careful tutor, 
 Mr. Ellis, of Gonvil and Caius college in Cambridge. Mr. 
 Clarke knew me so far at the university, I being about 15 
 eight years elder than himself, and so far knew the nature 
 and success of my studies, as to enter into a conversation 
 with me, about that system of Cartesian philosophy, his 
 tutor had put him to translate ; I mean Rohault's Phy 'sicks ; 
 and to ask my opinion about the fitness of such a transla- 20 
 tion. I well remember the answer I made him ; that 
 " Since the youth of the university must have, at present, 
 some system of natural philosophy for their studies and 
 exercises ; and since the true system of Sir Isaac Newton 
 was not yet made easy enough for that purpose; it was 25 
 not improper, for their sakes, yet to translate and use 
 the system of Rohault, [who was esteemed the best ex- 
 positor of Des Cartes, \ but that as soon as Sir Isaac 
 Newton's philosophy came to be better known, that only 
 ought to be taught, and the other dropp'd. " Which last 30 
 part of my advice, by the way, has not been follow'd, as 
 it ought to have been, in that university: but, as bishop 
 Hoadley truly observes, Dr. Clarke's Rohault is still the 
 principal book for the young students there. Though 
 such an observation be no way to the honour of the tutors 35 
 in that university, who in reading Rohaull, do only read 
 a philosophical romance to their pupils, almost perpetually
 
 OH A UL rs PH YSICS. 283 
 
 contradicted by the better notes thereto belonging. And 
 certainly, to use Cartesian fictitious hypotheses at this 
 time of day, after the principal parts of Sir Isaac Newton's 
 certain system have been made easy enough for the un- 
 
 5 derstanding of ordinary mathematicians, is like the 
 continuing to eat old acorns, after the discovery of new 
 wheat, for the food of mankind. However, upon this 
 occasion, Mr. Clarke and I fell into a discourse about the 
 wonderful discoveries made in Sir Isaac Newton's philo- 
 
 IO sophy. And the result of that discourse was, that I was 
 greatly surpriz'd, that so young a man as Mr. Clarke then 
 was, not much, I think, above twenty-two years of age, 
 should know so much of those sublime discoveries, which 
 were then almost a secret to all, but to a few particular 
 
 15 mathematicians. Nor did I remember above one or two, 
 at the most, whom I had then met with, that seemed to 
 know so much of that philosophy, as Mr. Clarke. Of 
 which conversation I gave an account to my patron, the 
 bishop, as soon as I was returned to the palace: and 
 
 20 farther told him what I had learned, that the young man's 
 father was an alderman of that city : whose most excellent 
 character also was soon known, and which character re- 
 commended him so to the citizens oi Norwich, that they 
 chose him without, nay, against his own inclination, to 
 
 25 represent them in parliament. Bishop Moor, who ought 
 to have that justice done his memory, that he was ever 
 ambitious of being, and of being esteemed a patron of 
 learning, and learned men, immediately desired me to 
 invite alderman Clarke and his son to the palace, to see 
 
 30 me : taking care, at the same time, that they should be 
 handsomely entertain'd by me there. They were by me 
 both invited, and they both came down to the palace 
 together accordingly. And then it was that I had the 
 opportunity of first introducing Mr. Clarke into the 
 
 35 bishop's acquaintance, which proved the happy occasion 
 of that great favor and friendship which was ever after- 
 ward shewed him by the bishop, which he highly deserv'd
 
 284 DE CHALES. COFFEE-HOUSES. 
 
 at his hands ; and which procured him at first St. Bennefs 
 Paul 's-wharf, and at last to be made both chaplain to 
 queen Anne, and rector of St. James's.' 1 Jacques Rohault, 
 born at Amiens in 1620, died at Paris 1675 and was 
 buried in the Sainte-Genevieve, by the side of Descartes. 5 
 A barometer, invented by him, is still known as the 
 chambre de Rohault. 
 
 P. 56 1. I. De Chales. The Elements of Euclid ex- 
 plain'd, in a new, but most easie method. Together with 
 the use of every proposition through all parts of the mathe- 10 
 maticks. Written in French by that exccellent [sic] mathe- 
 matician, F. Claud. Francis Milliet de Chales, of the society 
 of Jesus. And now carefully done into English, and 
 purg'd from a multitude of errors, -which had escaped in 
 the original. Oxford, Printed by L. Lichfield, printer to 15 
 the university, for Anthony Stephens, bookseller near the 
 theater in Oxford. 1685. 8vo. [contains bks. i-vi. xr. xn.] 
 pp. (4), 380. 2nd ed. Land. 1696. Other editions, fr. 
 Paris 1677, engl. Oxf. 1685, 1700, 1704 all I2mo. See 
 Watt and Lowndes under Euclid. De Challes was born 20 
 at Chamberi in 1621, taught classics and rhetoric for nine 
 years, was for sometime a missionary in Turkey ; then 
 professor of hydrography at Marseilles ; he then taught at 
 Lyons philosophy for four years, mathematics for seven, 
 theology for five ; lastly he was rector of the college of 25 
 Chamberi and died at Turin 28 March 1678 (De Backer, 
 Biblioth. des ecrivains de la compagnie de Jesus, Liege, 
 1854, II 115-7, where many editions are cited). 
 
 P. 58 1. 22. coffee house. Fifty years later Wm. Paley 
 (Memoirs by Meadley, Edinb. 1810, pp. 16-7) used to spend 30 
 his evenings when an undergraduate ' at a coffee-house in 
 Trumpington Street, kept by one Dockerell; a house of 
 character, and frequented more by fellows and masters of 
 arts than by undergraduates. This coffee-house retained 
 its character for many years : the masters of arts used to 35 
 occupy the upper, the bachelors and undergraduates the 
 lower parts of the room.' So, as tutor of his college, he
 
 P. BONWICKE. J. H. SUICER. 285 
 
 went at nine o'clock (p. 70) 'to supper at DockerelFs 
 coffee-house, or elsewhere. ' 
 
 P. 59 1. 3. Ken's Winchester manual. Cf. p. 10 1.2O. 
 P. 60 1. 14. once before. Cf. p. 23 1. 23 seq. 
 
 5 P. 62!. 15. his brother. Third register p. 258 : 'Electio 
 discipulorum lulii 10, 1713. Ego Philippus Bonwicke 
 Surriensis iuratus et admissus sum in discipulum huius 
 collegii pro domina fundatrice ad officium pulsatoris cam- 
 panae decessore \SamJ\ Lisle? 
 
 10 P. 62 1. 24. Mr. R. Roper. 1. 25. Mr. B. Given 
 in full, Browne, both here and below, in Nichols, Lit. 
 Anecd. v 140-1. If Nichols went upon conjecture, a 
 more probable guess would be Baker, as the two Bonivickes 
 held Baker exhibitions, and Tho. Baker had the right of 
 
 15 disposing of them during his life (Masters xii, 102). 
 
 P. 62 1. 27. another exhibition. Third register, p. 506 : 
 ' Exhibitionarii lulii 410, 1712. Bonwick senr. electus 
 exhib. pro Mr Baker. ' P. 509. ' Exhibitionarii electi 
 Nov. 2, 1713. Bonwick iunr. pro M"" Baker decessore 
 
 20 MTO [/,?. ] Baker. ' Neither t of the Bonwickes held a Hare 
 exhibition. 
 
 P. 64 1.8, 12, 14, 26. Mr. B. Browne or Baker. 
 L 25, 28. ^/n j?. Roper. 
 
 P. 65 1. 9. Suicer. loh. Hen. Suiceri, linguae graecae 
 
 25 in Athenaeo Tigurino professoris, compendium physicae 
 Aristotelico-Cartesianae, in usum tironum methodo erote- 
 matica adornatum. Accedit breve et succinctum theoreticae 
 philosophiae theatrum : editio altera, recognita et emendata. 
 Amst. apud. Henr. Wetstenium. Prostant venales apud 
 
 30 Guil. Graves, bibliop. Cantab. 1695. I2mo. In a singular 
 dedication Henr. Wetstein confesses that he had purloined 
 the MS. 'En Tibi, SUICERE CLARISSIME, tractatum 
 ilium tuum, quern ego cum nuperius ad Te inviserem, Te 
 inscio atque inconsulto manu scriptum mecum abstuli.' 
 
 35 Jh- Heinr., son of Joh. Caspar Suicer author of the 
 well-known thesaurus ecclesiasticus, was born 6 Apr. 1644, 
 succeeded his father as greek prof, at Zurich, and died
 
 286 WM. DERHAM. JO. HUGHES. 
 
 23 Sept. 1705. The historia vltae et obitus y. H. Suiceri 
 was published by Joh. Rod. Wolph in 1745. 
 
 P.65 1. 10. Rohaulfs Physics. Cf. p.55l.3i. Derham. 
 Wm. Derham 's Physico-theology ; or, a demonstration of the 
 being and attributes of God from his works of creation, being 5 
 the substance of sixteen sermons preached in St. Mary-le- 
 Bow church, London, at the hon. Mr. Boyle's lectures in 
 the years 1711 and 1712. Land. 1714. 8vo. (the third ed. 
 within a year). Reviews are cited in /. A. Fabricii De- 
 lectus argumentorum etc. Hamb. 1725, p. 292; there is a 10 
 notice of him in Nichols, Lit. Anecd. I 142-3, and an 
 account of his life and writings is prefixed to the ed. of 
 his Boyle lectures published in 1 798, 2 vols. 8vo. ; a letter 
 by him in Sir ff. Ellis, Letters of eminent literary men 315. 
 He offered to procure the election of Fabricius as fellow 15 
 of the Royal society (Fabricii Vita 68, cf. 173-4). His 
 Astro-theology and Physico-theology have been translated 
 into dutch by A. van Loon, Leyden 1728, 1739, 1742, 4to. 
 etc.; into germ, by Fabricius 1741 and 1750 etc.; into fr. 
 by Bellanger, E. Bertrand and Lafneu, last printed in 20 
 Migne's Demonstrations evangeliques VIII ; also into danish, 
 Italian, Swedish. See Allibone, the Bodl. Catal., Watt, 
 Lowndes; Hbfer, Biogr. generale; Querard, La France 
 litttraire. 
 
 P.65 1. II. Hughes. S. loannis Chrysostomi de 20 
 sacerdotio libri vi. graece et latine quibus dissertationes quas- 
 dam praemisit contra librum falso inscriptum, ecclesiae 
 Christianae lura vindicata, notasqueadiecitloarnizs Hughes 
 A.M. collegii lesu Cantab, socius. Editio altera priore 
 ilia emendatior et auctior. Accessit S. Gr. Nazianzeni 30 
 eiusdem sedis archi-episcopi, de eodem argumento conscripta, 
 oratio apologetica. Opera S. Thirlby, A.B. eiusdem col- 
 legii alumni. Cantabrigiae, typis academicis impensis 
 Edm. leffery, bibliopolae Cantabr. MDCCXII. 8vo. pp. (12, 
 title ; dedication to Dr. Charles Ashton, master of Jesus ; 35 
 ' lectori benevolo s. ' by Styan Thirlby, the editor of the 
 2nd ed. , published after the death of Hughes; ' luventuti
 
 HAMMOND. N. KNATCHBULL. 287 
 
 academicae, iis praesertim, qui rei theologicae aut operam 
 dant, aut sunt daturi'), 160 ( ' Dissertationes quaedam 
 prooemiales : in quibus auctoritas ecclesiastica, quatenus 
 a civili est distincta, explicatur et defenditur ; obiectiones 
 
 5 Erastiahorum, quae sese offerunt, diluuntur : praesertim 
 vero nuperi cuiusdam scriptoris, qui de ecclesiae Christianae 
 iuribus librum edidit'), 456. The first ed., published at 
 Cambridge in 1710, met with rare success. See Walch, 
 Bibl. Patrist. ; letters between Hughes and some friends in 
 
 10 Gent. Mag. 1778, 583, 621 ; ibid. 1783, 412. In Dr. Geo. 
 Hickes 1 Two treatises on the Christian priesthood, ed. Anglo- 
 Cath. libr. Oxf. 1848, III 283 seq. Hughes' preliminary 
 dissertation is translated; the translation (by Hilkiah 
 Bedford} was first published in 1 71 1, 8vo. In 1712 
 
 1 5 Hughes published an Essay towards further evidence of 
 our Saviour 's divinity, 8vo. He gave evidence against 
 Wm. Whiston ( Whiston's Append, to his Historical preface 
 I, 3 seq.) and died 18 Nov. 1710 (inscription in Le Neve, 
 Monum. Anglicana, 1615-1718, 239). 
 
 20 P. 65 1. 12. Henry Hammond. Cf. p. 106 1. 16. Many 
 of his letters are printed in ' Illustrations of the state of 
 the church during the rebellion' (in various numbers of 
 the Theologian and ecclesiastic] also in Brit. Mag. X 678 
 seq.; nineteen were printed by Fr. Peck in 1739. He 
 
 25 wrote ' a letter to the publisher' for The gentleman's call- 
 ing [by lady Packington^\, Land. 1660. See the indices 
 to Sanderson's Works and the Tanner MSS.; lives in The 
 Christian's mag. Ill 99-108 and in Teatts Lives of English 
 divines, 1846. On his living of Penshurst see MS. Baker 
 
 30 xxvii 432, Calamy Contin. 281 ; subdean of Ch. Ch. 
 Calamy Ace. 699; his letters to Cheynell, ibid. 676. 
 Verses to him by Thos. Washbmirne in his Poems 1654 
 (repr. by Grosart 1868 pp. 218-9). Cf. Allibone. 
 
 P. 65 1. 19. Sir Norton Knatchbull. On his library, 
 
 55 his notes on the N. T. and his share in the Polyglot, see 
 Duporfs Musae subsec. 262, 295, 309; his son John, 
 Duporfs pupil, ibid. 313; he founded the school at
 
 288 COACHES, REPETITION. 
 
 Ashford, Kent (Life of Dr. Rt. Warren, before his Sermons, 
 1739, p. iii seq. ); the autograph MS. of his Annotationes 
 in libros Novi Testamenti paradoxae orthodoxae is in Cambr. 
 MS. Gg iv 20 art. 3. The book was printed Land. 1659. 
 Oxf. 1677. Amst. 1694. 8vo. Engl. by the author Anno- 5 
 tat ions upon some difficult texts in all the books of the N. T. 
 Cambr. 1693. 8vo. 
 
 P. 65 1. 20. French. Cf. pp. 34 1. 8, 53 1. 24, 54 1. 26. 
 
 P. 65 1. 22. Lutrin. The Oxford reprint retains the 
 blunder Latin, 10 
 
 P. 66 1. 3. -while the coaches continued to go through in 
 a day. Cf. p. 115 1- 2. Cooper's Annals of Cambridge III 
 463 'From Chamber lay tie's Angliae Notitia, 1671, it ap- 
 pears that the coaches from London to Cambridge per- 
 formed the journey in 12 hours, "not counting the time 15 
 for dining, setting forth not too early and corning in not 
 too late." In the early part of Geo. II. 's reign, especially 
 in the winter season, although the coaches had six horses, 
 they were frequently two days in performing the journey 
 hence to London.' 20 
 
 P. 67 1. 10. singing bishop Ken's Morning Hymn as 
 soon as he awaked. See Anderdon's Life of Ken, ed. 2, 
 p. 115 : 'Ken exhorts the Winchester scholars to "be sure 
 to sing the Morning and Evening Hymn in their chamber 
 devoutly." He means that they should say them in bed, 25 
 the first thing on waking, and the last on going to sleep. ' 
 
 P. 68 1. 3. This exercise. Cf. the puritan exercise of 
 'repetition.' Autobiogr. of Matt. Robinson, Cambr. 1856, 
 p. 63 n. See Sam. Clarke's Lives of '32 divines, 1677, fol. p. 
 197: ' the particular fellows [of Queens' under Herb. Palmer] 30 
 ..., beside the instruction of their pupils in learning, caused 
 them to come to their chambers to prayers every night, 
 and to repetition of sermons on the Lord's day.' P. 290: 
 ' on Sabbaths in the evening the sermon, which he [abp. 
 Ussher\ had preached in the forenoon, was repeated in 35 
 his chappel by one of his chaplains.' P. 314: 'Master 
 [Stephen] Goffe [of Magd. coll. Oxf.} having thus received
 
 REPETITION. 289 
 
 him [Rob. Harris] into his charge, required him that with 
 the rest of his fellow-pupils he should joyn in reading the 
 scriptures, repetition of sermons, and prayer.' P. 331 : 
 ' His [Rob. Harris'} custome was, presently after he had 
 
 5 heard a sermon, to write down the heads thereof, and he 
 scarce either forgat or misplaced any of them. Upon 
 fast-nights he would by the strength of his memory repeat 
 two, sometimes three, sermons that he had heard that 
 day, in the same order as they were delivered.' P. 394: 
 
 10 ' He [Ignatius Jurdaine] was a constant writer of sermons, 
 
 even when he was old, and that, not for his own benefit 
 
 alone, but for the good of his family, to whom he did 
 
 constantly repeat the sermons.' Cf. pp. 149, 162, 190, 237. 
 
 P. 69 1. 8. Great Bookham. Manning and Bray, 
 
 15 Surrey, 1809, II 688 (speaking of Bagdon farm, Gt. 
 Bookham] : ' About 30 years ago an earthen vessel was 
 ploughed up, containing about a peck of small roman 
 brass coins, chiefly of Gallienus, and some of the later 
 emperors.' James Bomuicke in his will bequeathed his 
 
 20 cabinet of coins to Wm. Bowyer, who bequeathed it again 
 to Dr. Wm. Heberden. 
 
 P. 70 1. 10. SOLI INVICTO COMITI. An inscription 
 found on the coins both of Constantine the great and of 
 his son of the same name (Rasche II 849, 855). 
 
 25 P. 72 1. IT. as the philosophers have discovered an ac- 
 celeration of the motion of heavy bodies in their descent 
 towards the earth, the same we may suppose in the ascent of 
 a pious soul towards heaven. A common comparison. 
 Autobiogr. of Matt. Robinson, Cambr. 1856, 69: 'he 
 
 30 preached to his people as diligently as ever, and more 
 
 earnestly and fervently, his motions being all velociores in 
 
 fine, when drawing near unto the centre.' Tho. Fuller, 
 
 The holy state bk. IV c. 10 p. 276, Cambr. 1648, fol. ' The 
 
 motion of piety in him [St. Augustine], by custome now 
 
 35 made naturall, was velocior in fine, daily breathing out 
 most pious ejaculations.' Leighton's Works, ed. West, 
 1870, v 273: 'the nearer things are to their accomplish- 
 
 U
 
 2 9 o A CCELERA TION OF MOTION. 
 
 ment, the more, usually, the Lord excites the hopes and 
 prayers of his people about them, and they pray the more 
 earnestly, . . . moving naturally in it, and therefore fastest 
 when nearest their place.' Cf. Jo. de Burgo cited in 
 West's n. Pref. to Jos. Mede's Works, 1677, f. * 4 vo. 5 
 ' By other letters of his ... might farther appear his equal 
 skill in the history of nature and philosophy ; they being 
 written in answer to several enquiries of Sr. W. Boswel, 
 an excellent philosopher and mathematician, some de motu 
 gravium et levium, as likewise touching the equality of 10 
 natural motions, with some reflexions on the common 
 opinion, of their being velociores in fine quam in principioS 
 
 P. 72 1. 29. bp. Beveridge's Private Thoughts. Cf. pp. 
 II 1.14, 731.4. 
 
 P. 82 1. 1 8. so to love the person, as yet to hate his sins. 15 
 Martial X 33 \Qparcerepersonis, dicere de vitiis. 
 
 P. 94 1. 20. -winding up the dock. Cf. pp. 95 1. 3 and 
 12, 101 1. 16. He was elected to his scholarship as 
 'clock-keeper.' See Stat. Eliz. c. 14 and 18. 
 
 P. 961.10. ground-ivy-tea. Rees 1 Cyclopaedia: 'Ground- 20 
 ivy is an attenuant and dissolvent, and famous, both ex- 
 ternally and internally, as a vulnerary. It is much used 
 by way of tea in disorders of the breast and lungs, and is 
 sometimes an ingredient in the pectoral decoction. It is 
 esteemed a specific in erosions and ulcerations of the 25 
 viscera, and particularly of the kidneys and lungs.' Ge- 
 rarde, Herbal, 1633, p. 856, recommends it as a remedy 
 for sciatica, plantane. Rees s. v. plantain : ' The leaves 
 and seeds, recommended as vulneraries, in phthisical com- 
 plaints, spittings of blood, alvine fluxes etc. , appear to be 30 
 of the milder kind of restringents or corroborants. ' Gerarde, 
 42 1 : ' Plantaine is good for ulcers that are of hard cura- 
 tion, for fluxes, issues, rheumes, and rottennesse, and for 
 the bloody flix : it stayeth bleeding, it heales up hollow 
 sores and ulcers, as well old as new.' 35 
 
 P. 96 1. 27. Dr. Wm. Wagstaffe. See index to Nichols, 
 Lit. A need.
 
 LANCELOT NEWTON. 291 
 
 P. 97 1. 28. his death. Four years after Wm. Bawyer 
 wrote of him (Nichols, ibid. I 183): 'Quoties de angelis, 
 de caelis, fit mentio, ignosce mihi, si defuncti amici subeat 
 recordatio. Eheu ! infandus renovatur dolor, et vulnera 
 
 5 nostra plane recrudescunt. At, at, simul ac tecum mihi 
 esse sermonem intueor, spes aliqua laetior effulget ; ignosce 
 etiam mihi, si pro amico abrepto in vivis alter praesens 
 esse videatur.' 
 
 P. 98 1. 30. Sir Newton. Sir, i. e. Dominus, Ds. the 
 
 IO proper title of a B.A. See Autobiography of Matt. Robin- 
 son, Cambr. 1856, p. 29^5. Lancelot Newton (p. 102 1. 1), 
 son of Lancelot Newton gent. , born at Carcolson Notts, 
 educated at Nottingham school under Ri. Johnson, was 
 adm. pensioner 18 May 1710, act. 18, tutors Tho. Feilde 
 
 15 and Edm. Waller. B.A. 1713-4, M.A. 1717, LL.D. by 
 mandate 1728, adm. 1729. Elected foundation fellow of 
 St. John's 19 Mar. 1715-6, adm. 20 Mar. Again 'sworn, 
 admitted and restored' 21 Jan. 1716-7; elected medical 
 fellow 13 Oct. 1721 decessore Matt. Prior (Register in 625); 
 
 20 elected legista or legal fellow, decessore Dr. Ri. Berry 22 
 Dec. 1727 (ibid. 624); elected sen. fellow 19 May 1733; 
 registrary of the university 27 April 1726; died fellow 
 5 Dec. 1734 (Gent. Mag. p. 703). Nichols, Lit. Anecd. I 
 418 adds: 'bachelor of the canon and civil law and 
 
 25 Cronian professor of physic' (?). His friendship for 
 Bonwicke found vent in the following (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. 
 v 152-4, ' from the original MS. preserved by Mr. Bcnvyer}. 
 
 ' Ode on the death of AMBROSE BONWICKE. 
 I. 
 
 30 ' Dearest of all my friends and best of men, 
 Accept the offering of a grateful pen. 
 Somewhat extremely kind I fain would say : 
 But, through the tumult of my breast 
 With too officious love opprest, 
 35 My feeble words want strength to force their way.
 
 292 ODE BY L.NE WTON. 
 
 ' But why this formal speech from me ? 
 If I am eloquent in sighs, 
 
 It will suffice, 
 
 Thee, my friend, my better part ; 
 Partner of every secret of my heart. 5 
 
 II. 
 
 ' Unhappy youth ! what shall I say? 
 Shall I intreat relentless Fate in vain ? 
 
 Shall I complain 
 That thou art immaturely snatcht away? 10 
 
 Alas ! what have I said ? 
 In virtue thou 'rt mature, though not in age : 
 
 And blessed are the dead : 
 Blessed it is to quit this earthly stage. 
 
 I'm the unhappy, who remain 15 
 
 Fast link'd to earth with a corporeal chain. 
 
 III. 
 
 ' I who groveling lie 
 In darkness and obscurity : 
 
 Whilst thou, let loose, dost roam the realms above, 20 
 And view'st in brightest day the wondrous works of Jove. 
 Those things from thee no longer hidden are, 
 Which rack the brain of the philosopher. 
 Oh ! what discoveries 
 
 Make thy enlightened eyes ! 25 
 
 Thou now those riddles art able to explain, 
 Which thou and I have found too hard for mortal man. 
 Thou now canst understand, how God 
 Created heaven and earth and all things with a nod. 
 
 iv. 30 
 
 ' Thou now canst understand 
 How all events are rul'd by the Almighty hand. 
 Thou pity'st, when I try 
 To fathom deep eternity.
 
 ODE BY L.NE WTON. 293 
 
 Alas ! too deep the pit, 
 For Reason's plummet and the line of Wit ; 
 Too light the plummet and too short the line, 
 To search into the Power and Will Divine. 
 
 ' Thou shalt no more 
 Be lost upon the boisterous seas 
 Of trouble and of woe 
 Common to all below : 
 
 10 Thou 'rt safely landed on the shore 
 
 Of everlasting happiness and ease. 
 Thou with a pitying eye 
 
 Shalt see 
 
 Thy friends wade through a vale of misery. 
 1 5 Thus a happy mariner 
 
 (The gods have seal'd for good) 
 Brought safe to shore by some propitious star, 
 Beholds his comrades sinking in the flood. 
 
 VI. 
 
 20 ' But art thou for ever gone ? 
 
 Must thy dear flesh be eaten by the worm ? 
 Will neither prayers nor tears atone 
 For thy return ? 
 And must thy head, 
 
 25 With arts and learning so well furnished, 
 No distinction have, 
 But moulder in the grave, 
 Together with the vile and ignominious slave? 
 
 Shall I no more converse with thee ? 
 30 Shall we no more dispute ? 
 
 Shall we no more the subtle Locke confute ? 
 Shall I no more partake of thy philosophy ? 
 Yes we shall meet again, my friend, 
 In a far more happy state, 
 35 Where our joys shall know no end, 
 
 Where death shall have no power to separate. 
 
 LANCELOT NEWTON, B.A.'
 
 294 THOS. BAKER. 
 
 P. 99 1. 12. that prayer. Cf. p. 103 1. 3. In Whichcofs 
 Discourses, Land. 1701, I 409-424: 'The prayer, some 
 parts of which were ordinarily used by Dr. Whichcot 
 before sermon.' The passage quoted is from 17 p. 421 : 
 ' And superadd this to all the grace and favour Thou hast 5 
 shewn us all along in life, not to remove us hence, but 
 with all advantage for eternity; when we shall be in a 
 due preparation of mind, in a holy disposition of soul, 
 in a perfect renunciation of the guise of this mad and 
 sinful world ; when we shall be intirely resigned up unto 10 
 Thee our God; when we shall have clear acts of faith 
 in God by Jesiis Christ in our souls ; high and reverential 
 thoughts of Thee in our minds; enlarged and enflamed 
 affections towards Thee.' 
 
 P. 99 1. 14. into his Nelson. Cf. p. 1 1 1. 12 seq. 15 
 
 P. 99 1. 21. neighbour. Cf. p. 102 1. 8. 
 
 P. 100 1. 6. elegies. See that of Laur. Jackson pp. 
 107-9; that of Lane. Newton pp. 291-3. 
 
 P. 100 1. 10. my rediit. Fellows and scholars by stat. 
 Eliz. c. 27 were ordered to ask leave of absence from the 20 
 master, or in his absence, the president or his deputy. 
 ' Quicunque exeundi facultatem petierit scribat prius in 
 registro apud magistrum vel praesidem, vel eius vices 
 gerentem, diem exitus et rursus diem reditus postridie 
 quam redierit manu sua.' Within the last 20 years this 25 
 register was still kept in the master's lodge. 
 
 P. loo 1. 14. Thos. Baker. Add the following notices 
 to Zach. Grey's account of the college historian, which 
 has been three times printed, by Masters, by Nichols, and 
 in the Biogr. Brit. , and to the thin and lifeless sketch in 30 
 Hor. Waif ale's Works, 4to., II 339 seq. where is his will 
 p. 360 seq. He has verses in Acad. Cantabr. affectus 
 1684-5 f. R4 v. Cole's account of him is in Brydges, 
 Restituta, IV 409; notices in Reliquiae Hearnianae, see 
 ind., Wilson's Memorabilia Cantabr. 239 seq., Carter 261, 35 
 266, 441 ; verses on his death among the Hunter MSS. at 
 Durham; a funeral sermon on him in Waterland's Works
 
 THOS. BAKER. 295 
 
 X 442; an account of him, with his will, in Dibdin's 
 Bibliomania. He was liberal out of his poverty, even 
 to men of opposite principles: on Calamy's Ace. 118, 
 Contin. 157, (where Rob. Wilson, sometime a scholar of 
 
 5 Jesus college B.A. 1653-4, is called 'an arch beggar for 
 the nonconformists, ') he notes : ' This is a true account of 
 honest Rob. Wilson, who was a Dtirkam man, where the 
 church there might have taught him music, and better 
 principles, had he been so inclin'd. He was a great 
 
 IO beggar, and has been several times at my chamber upon 
 such occasions.' Diary of Edw. Rrtd, Cambr. 1860, 7: 
 12 Oct. 1711: 'Mr. Burrell contested with Mr. Euin of 
 Sydney for the rectory of Ovington in Norfolck and lost it 
 by one vote, viz. 8$ to 86, but Euin had 2 nonjurors who 
 
 15 voted for him, viz. Mr. Baker and Mr. Billers, and tho' 
 Mr. Burrell objected against their votes, and desired that 
 the oaths might be tendered to them, yet he was -over- 
 ruled by Dr. Laney, v. c. d. and Dr. Ashton.' Books were 
 often given to him by his friends, e.g. E IO 20 in St. 
 
 2O John's library by Beaupre Bell; Dd 9 12 and 13 by Nat. 
 Vincent pres. of Clare; a vol. now in the univ. library 
 LR 34 1 8 by Sir Phil. Sydenham. Letter to John Lewis, 
 thanking him for his life of Caxton {Gent. Mag. 1786, 669); 
 a letter to Jo. Strype in Cambr. MS. Mm. VI 49 n. 28 [lot 
 
 25 462 of Dawson Turner's MSS. sold by Puttick in June 
 1859] and 1 20 to the same in Baumgartner papers, vol. 
 X.; other letters in Europ. Mag. Apr. 1788, 237; to 
 Thoresby in Thoresby"s Corresp. n 230, 236, 241, 258 ; 
 many to Thos. Hearne in the Bodleian; to Humphry 
 
 30 Wanley in MS. Harl. 3778 art. 21 seq. , one printed in 
 Notes and Qu. I Ser. IX 7; to Kennett in MSS. Lansd., in 
 one of which, 1035 p. 49, Cambr. 14 June 1728, he 
 mentions his bequest to Kennett of the annotated Burnet, 
 which afterwards came to Cambr. library; the Surtees 
 
 35 society intends to print all his letters. Letters to him 
 by Dr. Thos. Smith in Europ. Mag. Dec. 1797, 364; by 
 Thos. Cooke, translator of Hesiod, ibid. Febr. 1786, 91. In
 
 296 THOS. BAKER. 
 
 Thorpe's catalogue 1842 no. 1690 is Baker's collection of 
 tracts on coinage ; no. 4004, of tracts on Ri. Bentley. On 
 the annotated copy of Godwin de Praesulibus which he 
 bequeathed to his kinsman Geo. Smith, see Gent. Mag. 
 1787, 1070. Ri. Fiddes, Life of Wolsey, Land. 1724, 312, 5 
 calls St. John 1 3 'a society, which has successively from 
 that time produced some of the greatest lights, both in 
 the ecclesiastical state and the republick of letters ; but 
 none of a more diffusive influence, or more willing to 
 communicate, than the excellent person here referred to 10 
 [ Thos. Baker], who has been pleased to favour me with 
 the present and several other informations.' Ant. Black- 
 wall, Sacred Classics, Lond. 1725, 4to., I 225, quotes Baker 
 as ' a noble scholar and critic of our own. ' Blackbournis 
 Life of N. Spinckes, 1731, p. x : 'my much honored friend.' 15 
 An impartial examination of the second volume of Mr. Daniel 
 Neaf s history of the puritans. By Zach. Grey, Lond. 1737, 
 8vo. 62 n. ' For these authorities, and many more, I am 
 indebted to my most worthy friend Mr. Tho. Baker, S. T. B. 
 of St. John's college, Cambridge; a person universally es- 20 
 teem'd, for his great knowledge in almost all the branches 
 of literature ; and who, as he is the most knowing in our 
 English history and antiquitys ; so he is the most com- 
 municative man living.' MS. Cofexix 226 a : 'I remember 
 to have seen a very curious old picture of this master 25 
 [Rob. Shorton of St. John's] in his doctor's robes at my 
 worthy friend's house at Cambridge, Dr. Zachary Grey ; 
 but not recollecting sufficient of it to describe it, took an 
 airing to Ampthill [7 May I7S9]> where the doctor now 
 resides, since he left his house at Cambridge, on purpose 30 
 to see it : but it was at his parsonage house at Houghton- 
 Conquest, 3 miles beyond, and not good roads for wheels, 
 so I was disappointed in my sight of it : the doctor had 
 it, with several other old pictures, as a legacy from Mr. 
 Baker, whose life the doctor is now writing and almost 35 
 finished : he told me he designed to leave the picture 
 to St. John's college, especially as they have one at this
 
 THOS. TURNER. 297 
 
 [Pembroke] college already of Dr. Shorten. I well re- 
 member the college arms are on the picture ; but I wanted 
 to see whether his own were there or not; and this Dr. 
 Grey could not resolve me in. ' 
 
 5 P. 100 1. 22. higher. Cf. p. 102 1. 8. 
 
 P. 101 1. 9. Dr. Turner. Thos., brother to bp. Fras. 
 Turner, elected pres. of C. C. Oxon. 13 Mar. 1687-8; born 
 19 Sept. 1645, died 29 Apr. 1714, a very great benefactor 
 to Ely cathedral and to his college, where he lies buried, 
 
 10 and has a long inscription on the s. wall of the inner 
 chapel (printed in Wood-Gutch, Colleges and halls 403-4; 
 cf. 397, 399, and append. 279). He bequeathed .20,000 
 to be laid out in estates for the relief of clergymen's 
 widows and orphans (ibid, append. 277 from Browne 
 
 15 Willis, Survey of Ely, 390 and Bentham's Ely, 263; see 
 Memoirs of W. Whiston, 206-215). 
 
 P. 1 02 1.1. his dear friend. Lancelot Newton. See 
 p. 98 1.30. 
 
 P. 102 1. 8. Up. Cf. pp. 17 1. 29, IOO 1. 22. 
 
 20 P. 1021.25. heathen emperor. Suet. Aug. 99: 'Inhac 
 voce defecit : Livia, nostri coniugii memor vive ac vale; 
 sortitus exitum facilem et qualem semper optaverat. Nam 
 fere quoties audisset cito ac nullo cruciatu defunctum 
 quempiam, sibi et suis evBavaarlav similem (hoc enim 
 
 25 et verbo uti solebat) precabatur.' 
 
 P. 103 1. 3. Benjamin Whichcote. B.A. Emm. 1629- 
 30, M.A. 1633, B.D. 1640, D.D. by mandate 1649. MS. 
 Baker vi 82 b = B 89 : ' Fifth son of Edward Whichcote 
 esq. of Stoke in the county of Salop, where he was born 
 
 30 4 Maii 1609. Fellow here [Emm.] and bred up as many 
 persons of great quality and others, as any perhaps tutor 
 of that time ; presented by the college to the rectory of 
 North Cadbury; bestow'd on the college ^1000 for the 
 foundation of scholarships bearing the name of Mr. Larkin, 
 
 35 who making him his executor, intrusted him with the 
 said summe to dispose of to pious uses at his own dis- 
 cretion. Left ,20 to the college library.' Cf. ibid. VI
 
 298 BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE. 
 
 80 = B 86. Among his pupils was the learned John 
 Wallis (Hearne's Langtoft, append, to pr. p. CXLVIII): 
 'About Christmass 1632 I was sent to the university of 
 Cambridge; and was there admitted in Emanuel college, 
 under the tuition of M.r. Anthony Burgess; a pious, learned 5 
 and able scholar, a good disputant, a good tutor, an 
 eminent preacher, a sound and orthodox divine ; and (after 
 he had left the college) I was under the tuition of Mr. 
 Thomas Horton, and lastly of Mr. Benjamin Whichcot ; all 
 able scholars and eminent divines ; . . . and all of them in 10 
 their time eminent preachers in London.' Another pupil 
 was Wm. Reynolds, afterwards ejected from Nottingham, 
 Calamy Ace. 521 : 'He went to Cambridge in 1641, and 
 was admitted of Emmanuel-college, under the tuition of Dr. 
 Whitchcot. Mr. [John} Whitlock [a pupil of Ra. CudwortKs\ 15 
 and he were chamber-fellows in the college, and both 
 design'd for the ministry. ' Symon Patrick (Autobiogr. Oxf. 
 1839, II, 12) attests Whichcote's reputation: 'It was in 
 the year 1644, when I was between seventeen and eighteen 
 years old and had some discretion to govern myself. My 20 
 father had recommendations to Dr. WJiichcote and Dr. 
 Cud-worth, of Emanuel college, who it was hoped might 
 take me to be their sizer. For my father was so mean 
 then, he could not otherwise maintain me. They were 
 both very kind, and being full* themselves, recommended 25 
 us to Queens' college, which was newly filled with fellows 
 from thence.' Calamy, Account 582, 583 says of Ri. Fair- 
 dough that he went from Emm. ' furnish'd with an unusual 
 stock of rational, substantial and polite literature. His 
 leaving the college to fix in Somersetshire was pretty re- 30 
 markable. Dr. Whitchcot, who was then fellow of the 
 same college, being presented to a living in Somersetshire 
 which was in the disposition of that college, prevail'd 
 with Mr. Fairclough to bear him company in a visit to the 
 people he was to take the charge of. The doctor being 35 
 hastily call'd away, engag'd him to stay behind, and 
 * Observe this still common technical term.
 
 BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE. 299 
 
 supply* for him in his absence.' yeremiah French also ac- 
 companied Whichcote on this visit (Calamy, Contin. 435). 
 He was a candidate for the divinity chair at Gresham 
 college 26 Oct. 1641, but was defeated by Thos. Horton 
 
 5 (Ward's Gresham professors 65). In Dec. 1655 Whichcote, 
 with ./?#. Cud-worth and other divines, were invited by 
 Cromwell to advise him on the question of tolerating the 
 Jews (Crossley's note on Worthingtori' ] s Diary I 79)- He 
 has verses in A cad. Cantabr. crwerrpa 1 660 sign. * * 3. 
 
 10 He was a friend of yohn Locke's (Europ. Mag. May 1789, 
 353). Burnefs well known account of the latitudinarian 
 divines, who saved the church from losing her esteem through- 
 out the nation, though often quoted, deserves a place here 
 {Own Times, fol. ed., I 186-7): 'These were generally of 
 
 15 Cambridge, formed under some divines, the chief of whom 
 were Drs. Whitchcot, Cudworth, Wilkins, More, and 
 Worthington. Whitchcot was a man of a rare temper, very 
 mild and obliging. He had great credit with some that 
 had been eminent in the late times ; but made all the use 
 
 20 he could of it to protect good men of all persuasions. He 
 was much for liberty of conscience : and being disgusted 
 with the dry systematical way of those times, he studied 
 to raise those who conversed with him to a nobler set of 
 thoughts, and to consider religion as a seed of a deiform 
 
 25 nature, (to use one of his own phrases). In order to 
 this, he set young students much on reading the ancient 
 philosophers, chiefly Plato, Tully, and Plotin, and on 
 considering the Christian religion as a doctrine sent from 
 God, both to elevate and sweeten humane nature, in 
 
 30 which he was a great example, as well as a wise and 
 
 * Observe this early use of a term now classical. Wm. Jay's 
 Autobiogr. Lond. 1854, 35 : ' there was no fixed minister at Tilsbury, 
 but the service was supplied by preachers of various denominations . . 
 Among these supplies came the excellent Cornelius Winter? 44: 
 'I went to supply for a sabbath.' 51: 'to supply Surrey chapel? 
 129: 'for nearly fifty years I annually supplied Surrey chapel? 
 130: 'for more than thirty years I supplied for eight Sundays 
 yearly. . . Then I supplied for 6 Sundays?
 
 300 BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE. 
 
 kind instructer. Cudwortk carried this on with a great 
 strength of genius, and a vast compass of learning. He 
 was a man of great conduct and prudence : upon which 
 his enemies did very falsely accuse him of craft and dis- 
 simulation. Wilkins was of Oxford, but removed to 5 
 Cambridge. His first rise was in the Elector Palatine's 
 family, when he was in England, Afterwards he married 
 Cromwell's sister ; but made no other use of that alliance, 
 but to do good offices, and to cover the university from 
 the sourness of Owen and Goodwin. At Cambridge he IO 
 joined with those who studied to propagate better thoughts, 
 to take men off from being in parties, or from narrow 
 notions, from superstitious conceits, and a fierceness about 
 opinions. He was also a great observer and a promoter 
 of experimental philosophy, which was then a new thing, 1 5 
 and much looked after. He was naturally ambitious, but 
 was the wisest clergyman I ever knew. He was a lover 
 of mankind, and had a delight in doing good. More was 
 an open hearted and sincere Christian philosopher, who 
 studied to establish men in the great principles of religion 20 
 against atheism, that was then beginning to gain ground, 
 chiefly by reason of the hypocrisy of some, and the 
 fantastical conceits of the more sincere enthusiasts.' It 
 is singular that Whichcote^s admirable sermons are so little 
 known ; the late Dr. Donaldson wrote a comparison of 25 
 Whichcote and Butler in Eraser, but one rarely meets any 
 one who has read them. In 1659 he, with Ra. Cudworth, 
 Ant. Tuckney, and other Cambridge doctors, supported 
 Matt. Poolers scheme ' for the maintaining of students of 
 choice abilities at the university, and principally in order 30 
 to the ministry' (Arttobiogr. of Matt. Robinson, Cambr. 
 1856, p. 193). In 1674 he, with Jo. Tillotson and Edw. 
 Stilling fleet, joined some nonconformists in furthering 
 Thomas Gouge's efforts to extend education in Wales ; a 
 remarkable movement, for though Gouge was a noncon- 35 
 formist ( Calamy, Ace. 9) : 'he was so far from that 
 narrowness of spirit or bigotry to the interest of the
 
 BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE. 301 
 
 dissenters, that he procur'd the church catechism, with a 
 practical exposition of it, and the common prayer, to be 
 printed in Welch and freely given to the poorer sort, with 
 the Welch bible, The -whole duty of man, The practice of 
 
 5 piety, and other practical books.' Whichcote and Cud- 
 worth supported Worthington in a fellowship election at 
 Emm. 1 6 Oct. 1641 (see their reasons in Worthingtoris 
 Diary, Cheth. Soc. I 12-15, w i tn Mr. Crossley's note). 
 22 Febr. 1648-9 (ibid. 31): 'I disputed in the first place 
 
 10 upon Dr. Whichcote.'' (ibid. 39, 40): extract from a letter 
 of WhichcotJs to Worthington, on the lawfulness of ac- 
 cepting a post void by ejectment. On 13 Oct. 1657 
 Whichcote married Worthington to Mary dau. of his 
 brother Christopher Whichcote (ibid. 87, 89). Whichcote 
 
 1 5 was engaged in various matters of business in Worthingtoris 
 vicechancellorship 1658 (ibid. 92, 101, 106, no, 117). 
 He was a constant friend to the famous Sam. Hartlib 
 (ibid. 178): 'Given to Mr. Hartlib anno 1659, by Dr. 
 Whichcote 2.' 30 Oct. 1660 Francis, afterwards abp. 
 
 20 Marsh (ibid. 224) presents his ' most hearty respects and 
 service to Dr. Whichcote. ' Hartlib to Worthington 10 Dec. 
 1660 (ibid. 241) : ' There are more copies of the Bohemian 
 
 Church Government arrived at the custom house Dr. 
 
 Whichcote 'hath one already.' Same to same 20 Dec. 1660 
 
 25 (ibid. 223-225) : ' This day I was surprised with another 
 kindness of yours, brought by the hands of Dr. Whichcote. 
 The more is my obligation to accept with many thanks 
 the liberal favour you have been pleased to bestow upon 
 me, and no less for the great love which you have been 
 
 30 exercising towards many worthies of your better acquaint- 
 ance. I long to see Dr. [Henry] More, to give him 
 thanks for the copies he was pleased to bestow upon us. 
 Dr. Whichcote hath promised to send him to me.' Which- 
 cote to Worthington 21 Dec. 1660 (ibid. 256-7) : 'I paid to 
 
 35 Mr. Hartlib your 2osh and will do for him what I can. 
 I consider your clause about S r . Barret to be in your 
 house; and being moved by my brother S r . Jeremy
 
 3 02 BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE. 
 
 Whichcote, concerning his eldest son Paul, near fit for the 
 university, I advised him to commit him to your care, for 
 his better fitting ; which motion was very pleasing to him. 
 He will very willingly allow you y^> per an. for his diet 
 and teaching, and if you will take him, he will send him 5 
 to you soon after Christmas? Same to same 2 Jan. 
 1660- 1 (ibid. 260, cf. 270, 273, 274, 275, 276): 'I believe 
 Mr. [Pros.] Marsh never had to do in the exchequer, had 
 no place under the treasurer but words only : he is gone 
 into Ireland to a great living about Caricfergus as I hear. 10 
 For my cosin Paul, it is not desired you should keep one 
 in your house, to instruct him : that had relation to your 
 own clause in your note, that you would keep a reader 
 for the church, and therefore wished some such additional 
 employment for him. If you can (as in your letter) spend 15 
 a quarter of an houre in the morning and another in the 
 afternoon to instruct him, it will be sufficient and satis- 
 factory to his father. So the 30 lib will rest in yourself, 
 for his diet etc. My brother is highly pleased to have 
 him with you, in a way preparatory for the university, 20 
 and intends to send him to you soon after these holydays : 
 but I have not seen him, since your letter to me. I 
 doubt, I shall not stir abroad this month, through my old 
 infirmity, which sends me to chirurgery and physick ; so 
 I cannot act for Mr. Hartlib, as I would.' Hartlib to 25 
 Worthington 15 Jan. 1660-1 (ibid. 272) : ' I am very sorry 
 for worthy Dr. Whichcote' 's sake.' Whichcote to same 25 
 Jan. 1660- 1 (ibid. 273): 'Mr. Marsh went for Ireland, 
 before I came last from Cambridge. Your letter to him 
 is delivered to Mr. Croon. I hope, my malady is in a 30 
 good way of cure.' Same to same 18 Febr. 1660- 1 (ibid. 
 275) : ' I shewed your letter to my brother S>" Jeremy, 
 who took great content in your report and opinion con- 
 cerning cosin Paul.'' Hartlib to Worthington n June 
 1661 (ibid. 336, 337) : ' I was surprised on Saturday last 35 
 with a gift of 6' procured by Mr. \Symori\ Patrick at 
 Battersee [from Sir Walter St. John~\, which the good man
 
 BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE. 303 
 
 Dr. Whichcote was pleased to deliver unto me. ' Worth- 
 ington in reply 24 June 1661 (ibid. 339) : 'I was glad of 
 the last clause in your letter about Mr. Patrick. Dr. 
 Whichcote writes he found him most ready upon intima- 
 
 5 tion given.' Worthington to Hartlib, Aug. 1661 (ibid. 
 350) : ' Dr. Whichcote being lately come into these parts, 
 tells me that Mr. Brereton went last week to London. ' 
 Sam. Hartlib to Dr. Worthington Oct. 1661 (Worthington^ s 
 Diary n 62) : ' You do not tell me where Dr. Whichcote 
 
 10 is at present ; I have few such friends as he hath been to 
 my distressed condition. ' Worthington in reply, 26 Oct. 
 1 66 1 (ibid. 63, 64) : ' Dr. Whichcote goes this week to 
 London. He hath had a quartan ague, and is not likely 
 to be free from it till spring. He hath taken a house 
 
 15 upon Bednall Green.' 1 Hartlib to the same 2 Nov. 1661 
 (ibid. 66, 67) : ' Mr. \Symon~\ Patrick is a pious and very 
 useful man, and ready to do me any good that lies in his 
 power. I count myself very happy in his acquaintance, 
 and must profess always my obliging respects to Dr. 
 
 20 Whichcote, who made up the match between us.' (ibid.) : 
 ' This day a gentleman of Gotha was with me who has 
 the receipt of a complete and never failing cure of a 
 purely tertian ague, which I do not despair to obtain 
 hereafter. But if it had been of a quartan ague, I should 
 
 25 have waived all formal civilities to do service to worthy 
 Dr. Whichcote. ' (ibid. 68) : ' Mr. Brereton hath been re- 
 turned these six days. He went to see Dr. Whichcote.' 
 Worthington in reply 14 Nov. 1661 (ibid. 70): 'Dr. 
 WJiichcotJs ague (as he writes to me) continues to afflict 
 
 30 him sorely. That receipt you speak of for a tertian ague 
 may be a very charitable and gainful discovery if pro- 
 cured.' Hartlib in reply 19 Nov. 1661 (ibid. 72): 'Dr. 
 W/iichcote's is more my affliction than I will write. If 
 I can procure the receipt for a tertian ague, it would 
 
 35 truly be a very charitable and gainful discovery. But 
 the author comes seldom at me. If I get it at any time, 
 it shall be yours.' Worthington to Hartlib 3 Febr. 1661-2
 
 304 BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE. 
 
 (ibid, 103) : ' Dr. Whichcote made a step down into this 
 country (his presence being necessary) and he returns by 
 coach this week. His ague seems to have shaken him 
 much. Though some have wished him to this or that 
 means for the removing of it (as the Jesuit's powder, etc. ), 5 
 yet it is thought best to let the ague have its course.' 
 Same to same 24 Febr. 1661-2 (ibid, no): 'Dr. Whichcote 
 was returned to London before yours came. I have not 
 heard from Mr. Foxcroffs at Finsbury since Dr. Whichcote 
 returned hither.' Part of a letter from Whichcote to 10 
 Worthington 23 Apr. 1663 (ibid. 119): 'Were your case 
 mine, I would readily close with an offer to remove into 
 Suffolk to ^140 per annum upon good terms,' etc. Fras. 
 Theobald, patron of Barking, to Worthington, 'at Dr. 
 Whichcote' s house at Blackfriars' (Ipswich 9 May 1663, 15 
 ibid. 121): 'I pray present my service to Dr. Whichcote 
 and his lady.' Tho. Stephens to Worthington, Bury IO 
 Aug. 1663 (ibid. 128): 'Last Friday Dr. Whichcote etc. 
 gave me the honour of a visit, and discovered some doubts 
 that Ditton might be otherwise disposed of. ' On his re- 20 
 moval from Ditton to Barking, Worthington spent several 
 weeks at ' Bednall Green' with Whichcote, between 30 Sept. 
 and 17 Nov. 1663 (ibid. 129). Whichcote 'in a letter to 
 his sister Foxcroft, Nov. 21, 1666' (ibid. 222): 'I pray 
 you let not Dr. More otherwise dispose of his living 25 
 \_Ingoldsby, which he had offered to Worthington, and 
 afterwards bequeathed to his own college], for Dr. Worth- 
 ington is not provided for where he is' etc. Same to 
 same 14 May 1667 (ibid. 228-9): 'Bishop Wren was in- 
 terred last Saturday, in the vault by himself prepared in 30 
 his new chapel in Pembroke hall. Dr. Pearson made a 
 speech. Regents and non-regents had sugar-boxes. I 
 have, since Michaelmas last, married away three of my 
 four servants, and the fourth is upon the point of being 
 married. This trade goes on though all others at a stand.' 35 
 Worthington to 'his honoured uncle, Dr. Whichcote, at 
 Dr. CudwortKsJfate&Ingoldsby, \oAug. \(>>7(ibid. 234-5),
 
 BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE. 305 
 
 giving an account of Mrs. Worthingtorfs death). Sentence 
 of the court of arches condemning him to pay the pension 
 due out of the rectory of Milton to the bp. of Ely for the 
 years 1642-59 (MS. Tanner 141 f. 26). Letter to his 
 
 5 brother, Land. 18 Mar. 1671-2 (MS. Tanner 44 f. 260). 
 Kennett in Wood-Bliss, Ath. IV 2 1 : ' His picture was 
 given to archbishop Tenison, and by him left to his 
 successor, and is now (1727) in the palace of Lambeth. 
 I have heard Dr. John Mapletoft often say, that when he 
 
 10 had wrot his sermon, he oblig'd his wife to read it aloud 
 to him, that if she stuck at any word or period, or any 
 thing sounded harsh to his own ears, he might immediately 
 amend it. ' ' Dr. WhichcotJs reasons for his being in 
 King's college. (Copied from his own hand-writing). 
 
 15 For satisfaction of conscience in respect of my being in 
 King's college. I. 'Twas the act of the then ruling 
 power. 2. I am now indemnified for it by the now 
 indubitable power. 3. 'Twas not then my contrivance 
 when time was. 4. I had an invitation or willing ac- 
 
 20 ceptance of persons interested. 5. Their necessity re- 
 quired me and I served their necessity. 6. For so doing 
 I laid down my living at Cadbury of proportionable value. 
 7. I satisfied myself with reasonable allowance, scil. about 
 the matter of maintenance there, while I discharged the 
 
 25 duty of the place. 8. The party ejected had by this 
 means a better compensation then otherwise he would 
 have had, and in a way in part to my losse. ' The same 
 paper is printed from Worthingtorfs transcript (in MS. 
 Baker VI 90 = B 98) by Heywood, King's statutes, p. 290. 
 
 30 MS. Lansd. 988 f. 3. Daiuson Turner's MS. 648 was a 
 letter from Whichcote to Lauderdale, 12 June 1 660, re- 
 specting his remaining provost, some having objected that 
 he had never been a fellow. An indenture (21 Sept. 1670) 
 between Whichcote and Emm. coll. for the foundation of 
 
 35 Larkin scholarships in MS. Baker VI 91, 92 = B 99-101. 
 MSS. Tanner 155 f. 171 b. cf. 155 ff. 32-3, 44. Ayscougtts 
 Catal. of MSS. in the Brit. Mus. Lond. 1782. 410. p. 39: 
 
 X
 
 306 BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE. 
 
 MSS. Sloane '2716 4 Philosophical and theological reflex- 
 ions addressed to Dr. Tuckney, 68. 2903 25 Letter to 
 Dr. Tuckney. 1691 66 Copies of letters that passed 
 between him and Dr. Anthony Tuckney? These have 
 been printed. Ibid. p. 800. MS. Birch '4276 art. 129. 5 
 Benj. Whichcot to Charles [?] Whichcot, Dec. i, 1675. 
 Articles for uniting the Catholics.' His epitaph is in 
 MS. Baker VI 93 b = B 102, printed in Wood-Bliss, Athen. 
 IV 20 and Strype's Stow in 47-8. For other of the family 
 see Collier's Hist. Diet. His sister Anne was baptized at IO 
 Burcott 2 Aug. 1608, and was wife of Thos. Hayes, and 
 mother of Philemon Hayes, minister of Childs Ercall(Owen 
 and Blake-May's hist, of Shrewsbury, Lond. 1825, 4to. I 
 408 n. 7 : ibid. II 436 is a notice of Whichcote' s mother, 
 Elizabeth dau. of Edward Fox esq. of Greet, who survived 15 
 her husband 46 years, and after his death removed to St. 
 Julian's, Shrewsbury, where she was buried in 1666). 
 Washington's Diary, 25 Jan. 1661-2 (II 101): 'This day 
 cousin P. Whichcote went to King's college to continue.' 
 (ibid. 127) : Paul Whichcote esq. godfather to John Worth- 20 
 ington junior. 26 Apr. 1664 (ibid. 133): 'On Tuesday 
 night between 10 and n died my father-in-law, Chr. 
 Whichcote esq. , at Frogmore. ' Sir Jer. Whichcote, solicitor 
 gen. to the elector palatine, was buried 5 July 1677 (see 
 an account of him and his family, and their Hendon resi- 25 
 dence, in Lysons, Environs of London, 1795, in 15, 16, 
 68, 549). He gave ^100 to St. Bride's church (Strype's 
 Stow ill 267 a). Cf. Worthington' s Diary n 133, 178. 
 Patent granting to him the offices of warden of the Fleet 
 and keeper of the old and new palaces Westminster ( Cal. 30 
 State Papers, Sept. 1667, 496. See also the ind. to the 
 volumes for 1664-5, 1665-6). Tho. Whichcote of Chr. 
 was B.A. 1636-7. Rob. Whichcote of Emm. B.A. 1648-9. 
 
 P. 103 1. 3. his brother mentions. Cf. p. 99 1. 13 n. 
 
 P. 105 1.5. according to that book. ed. Oxf. 1846, 76: 35 
 ' Having thus finished your closet-devotions, you go forth 
 to the church or chapel fasting, that so a portion from
 
 FONTENELLE. WHISTON. 307 
 
 God's table may be the first morsel ; and remember to take 
 something out of your store to present at the offertory. ' 
 
 P. 105 1. 15. July 7, 1713. Thanksgiving for the 
 treaty of Utrecht; the two houses of parl. went to St. 
 5 PauPs ( Tindal XVIII 103). 
 
 P. 1 06 1. 3. the same early riser. Cf. p. 21 1.8. 
 
 P. 106 1. 15. Echard. Cf. p. 53 1.29. 
 
 P. 106 1. 16. Hammond. Cf. p. 65 1.12. 
 
 P. 1 06 1. 19. Fontenelfs Plurality of worlds. Trans- 
 
 IO lated by Glanville, Land. 1688, 8vo. and the notorious 
 
 Mrs. Aphra Behn, ibid. 1688, I2mo., who adds a singular 
 
 preface, 'wherein the arguments of Father Taquet and 
 
 others against the system of Copernicus (as to the motion 
 
 of the earth) are likewise considered and answered.' 
 
 1 5 Editions have appeared even in this century. See Watt. 
 
 P. 106 1. 22. Whistoris Astronomy. See his Memoirs, 
 1749, 134: 'In the year 1707 I published [at Cambridge, 
 8vo.] Praelectiones astronomicae, Cantabrigiae in scholis 
 publicis habitae. Quibus accedunt tabulae plurimae astro- 
 20 nomicae, Flamstedianae correctae, Halleianae, Cassinianae 
 et Streetianae. In usum iuventutis academicae. Pretium 
 5-r. 6d. They were put into English afterward. ' 
 
 P. 107 1. 25. Daphnis. See Verg. eel. 5. 
 
 P. 108 1. 19. Harvey's name. See Cowley's fine poem 
 25 On the death of Mr. Wm. Harvey, 1. 20-1. stanzas 5 and 6 : 
 
 ' Say, for you saw us, ye immortal lights, 
 How oft unweary'd have we spent the nights, 
 Till the Ledaean stars, so fam'd for love, 
 
 Wonder'd at us from above ! 
 
 30 We spent them not in toys, in lusts or wine ; 
 But search of deep philosophy, 
 Wit, eloquence and poetry, 
 Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine, 
 
 ' Ye fields of Cambridge, our dear Cambridge, say 
 Have ye not seen us walking every day ? 
 Was there a tree about which did not know 
 The love betwixt us two ?'
 
 3 o8 LA UR. JA CKSON. 
 
 P. 108 1. 22-3. morn drave on etc. stanza I. 
 
 ' It was a dismal and a fearful night, 
 Scarce could the morn drive on th' unwilling light, 
 When Sleep, Death's image, left my troubled breast, 
 By something liker death possest. ' 5 
 
 P. 109 1. 27. Laur. Jackson A. B. Seep.222l.4. A 
 schoolfellow of Bonwicke's ( Wilson's Merchant Taylors' 
 1204). B.A. of St. John's 1712-3. fell. Sidn. 1715. M.A, 
 1716. B.D. 1723. Vic. of Ardleigh near Colchester, rect. 
 of Gt. Wigborough, collated 15 Apr. to the prebend of 10 
 Asgarby, Line., and installed 6 June 1747, a preferment 
 which he held to his death, which occurred 17 Mar. 1772 
 (Le Neve- Hardy II 103; Cambr. Chron. 21 Mar.; Gent. 
 Mag. p. 151). He published. I. Occasional letters on 
 several subjects (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. I 418); 2. An ex- 15 
 animation of a book intituled, The true gospel of Jesus 
 Christ asserted, by Thomas Chubb ; and also of his ap- 
 pendix on Providence, with a dissertation on episcopacy ; 
 shewing in one short and plain view the grounds of it in 
 scripture and antiquity. Land. 1739. 8vo. (the diss n . on 20 
 episcopacy is reprinted in the Cfmrchman's remembrancer, 
 vol. 2, as 'a masterly argumentation') ; 3. A letter to a 
 young lady, concerning the principles and conduct of the 
 Christian life; addressed to the S.P. C.K. Land. 1755, 8vo. 
 is. 1758. I2mo. 4, A short review and defence of the 25 
 authorities on which the catholic doctrine of the Trinity in 
 Unity is grounded. Land. 1771. 8vo. 2s. (Watt). Cf. MS. 
 Cole xx 135; Gent. Mag. 1739, p. 219. 
 
 P. 109 1. 29. Allhallows. AH Saints' church, opposite 
 to Trinity and St. John's colleges. The old church was 30 
 taken down a few years ago, and a new one erected 
 opposite to Jesus college.
 
 F. BURMAN. 
 
 VOL. II.
 
 Multa tuo, o lohannes dilecte Deo, 
 
 Magnifice donavit collegio: 
 Huic, quibus ipse tam est feliciter 
 
 Usus, legavit libros : 
 O si potuisset et doctrinam ! 
 
 Quamquam eidem, iure dixerim, et illam reliquit, 
 Plusque nos vivens quam moriens locupletavit, 
 Praeclaris praeceptis, praeclariori exemplo : 
 Hie sacra cernimus impressa vestigia, 
 Et, quern sequi non possumus, e longinquo veneramur. 
 
 ROB. JENKIN, in memory <T/"PET. GUNNING, 
 who died 6 July 1684.
 
 F. BURMAN. 
 
 Frans, brother of the celebrated Pieter Burman, was 
 born at Utrecht 15 May 1671, was minister first at 
 Kondum, whence he was called to Brielle in 1698; it 
 was here that he received the invitation to accompany 
 
 5 as chaplain the embassy charged with congratulating Anne 
 on her accession. In 1 703 he removed to Enkhuizen and 
 in 1705 to Amsterdam; on the 26 Febr. 1715 he delivered 
 an inaugural address as prof, of theology at Utrecht, and 
 died 22 Sept. 1719. He was a learned orientalist and 
 
 IO father of Pieter Burman the younger (A. J. van der Aa, 
 Biogr. Woordenb. der Nederlanden, Haarl. 1854, II 1600-2). 
 His tutor J. G. Graevius in a letter to Bent ley (Bent ley's 
 Corresp. 192, Utrecht 9 May 1702) introduces him thus: 
 ' Hebraice, graece, latine est pereruditus, in philosophia, 
 
 15 in mathematicis artibus et omnis doctrinae varietate 
 versatus eg r egie. Excellit etiam pietate integritate vitae 
 et morum suavitate. Te dudum is admiratur et suspicit, 
 et tanta tui cupiditate inflammatus est, ut nihil ardentius 
 desideret, quam te videre et tuis pasci sermonibus. Nullus 
 
 20 dubito, quin, ubi eum cognoris, se tibi sit ilico probaturus. 
 Si tamen et mei causa ilium sis complexurus arctius, 
 magna accessione tua in me merita cumulabis. ' Bentlcy 
 in reply, Cambr. 20 Aug. 1702 (ibid. 196): 'Gratias vero, 
 ut par est, habeo maximas, quod humanissimum Burman- 
 
 25 num, qui has deferet, commendatum mini voluisti. Is et 
 Londini me et Cantabrigiae hie invisit; adiutusque est 
 omni ope nostra, et sua causa, et tua praecipue, vir 
 magne, cuius amicitiae nihil possum negare.' Same to
 
 3 i2 F. BURMAN. 
 
 same, St. James's, 30 Oct. 1702 O. S. (ibid. 199): 'Non 
 dubito, quin litteras Neocori [of Kiister\ et meas acceperis, 
 quas a Cantabrigia hue Londinum ad optimum Burman- 
 num misimus, ut Bataviam ad te deferendas curaret. In 
 illis consilium meum tibi aperui de edendo Horatio. 1 5 
 Graevius to Bentley, Utrecht 23 Nov. 1 702 (ibid. 203-4) : 
 ' Burmanmts noster nondum ad nos rediit. Expectatur 
 indies.' Same to same, Utrecht 10 Dec. 1702 (ibid. 205): 
 ' Prater Burmanni rediit quidem ad suam ecclesiam, quae 
 est Brielae, sed nondum ad nos.' Cf. ibid. 208; and 10 
 Bentley to Burman in Bentleii Critica sacra 167. 
 
 The text is translated from : FRANCISCI BURMANNI, 
 v. d. m., viri clarissimi, itineris anglicani acta diurna. 
 Quae nunc primum edidit, praefatus est notisque illustravit 
 Abrahamus Capadose, med. doct. Amstelaedami, apud 1 5 
 J. H. den Ouden. 1828. 8vo. What follows is an ab- 
 stract of the remainder of Burmaifs journal ; the portions 
 between inverted commas are translated at length. 
 
 P. I : I was appointed chaplain to the embassy sent 
 by the states to condole with England on the death of 20 
 William III. and to congratulate qu. Anne on her ac- 
 cession. 
 
 Pp. I, 2: 25 May 1702 N. S. put to see from goede 
 Reede at 10 a. m. with two ships of war, war having been 
 declared with France and Spain on the I5th. 25 
 
 Pp. 2, 3 : 26 May. Towards evening we came up 
 with the english fleet off Sheerness under George Rook; 
 broadsides were fired, sailyards manned, and cheers given 
 in the two fleets. 
 
 P. 3 : 27 May, anchored off Gravesend, a place notorious 30 
 for the wantonness of its women. 28 May, 10.30 a.m., 
 rowed up to London in a wherry ; arrived about 3 /. m. 
 
 Pp. 3, 4 : Dr. Douce, minister of the chapel royal, 
 begged me to preach there, which I undertook to do by 
 order of the ambassadors. It is a chapel of moderate 35 
 size, allotted by K. William in the first year of his reign 
 to his french and dutch domestic chaplains. The dutch
 
 LAMBETH. GRESHAM COLL. 313 
 
 preach every Sunday at 9 a. m. and 4 /. m. The french 
 at 1 1 a. m. and 2 /. w. The other dutch minister is called 
 Balton; the french were two brothers Menard and Dr. 
 
 5 P. 4: 4 June, began my morning sermons in the 
 chapel royal. 5 J une i saw a cock-fight, 'dementia 
 quadam Anglorum commendandum,' in the cock-pit. 
 [It is described at length]. 
 
 P. 5 : 6 June. Death of my Maecenas, baron v. 
 
 10 Dykveld. His Christian end. 
 
 Pp. 5, 6 : 7 June, went through Lambeth palace. The 
 abp's deputy, Dr. [Edm.] Gibson, a very obliging man, 
 shewed us everything. The library is very well furnished, 
 but almost all the books are of older editions. One MS. 
 
 15 containing the four gospels, was conspicuous above the 
 rest ; it is more than a thousand years old, and is called 
 codex epkesinics in the Oxford edition, on which Dr. Mill 
 has long been engaged. The palace is noble and has 
 rooms both for civil and ecclesiastical business. In the 
 
 20 pulpit-cloth of the chapel I saw inscribed the three letters 
 IHS from the name 'li)<rovs, just in the same character as 
 is usual among the jfestdts. [Cf. the like jealousy of this 
 symbol in an english puritan, Lives of N. Ferrar, Cambr. 
 1855, xxxi.] 
 
 25 P. 6 : 8 June, I inspected Gresham college, where the 
 royal society meet. One room was full of rare instruments 
 collected from all parts of the world, of which an english 
 description has been published in folio. Here were many 
 magnets, one of prodigious size, at least a foot, but not 
 
 30 framed in iron nor suspended, but carelessly thrown 
 amongst many of different size. They are dug up in the 
 west of England. A second room contained the library. 
 I found here a second MS. of the four gospels, having the 
 eusebian canon at the beginning, in cursive and not very 
 
 35 clear hand, and with many abbreviations. 
 
 P. 7 : 9 June, saw the Tower [which is described]. 
 Pp. 7-8 : 12 June, saw the dutch church and the
 
 314 F.B URMAN. NE WTON. 
 
 library belonging to it. It is a noble temple, and has 
 room for a large audience ; there are a considerable number 
 of members of the church. It was founded by Edw. VI. , 
 so that it may justly be called the earliest dutch church. 
 This name remained inviolate even in the most troubled 5 
 times; indeed many of the episcopalians in such times 
 were secured by attaching themselves to this congregation. 
 It has now two pastors, Aemilius von Cuylenborg and 
 Bisschop. Because of this privilege our ambassadors have 
 always been accustomed to hear sermons here; and I ob- 10 
 served that some jealousy had sprung up between this 
 church and the pastors of the chapel royal, because the 
 ambassadors had appointed the chapel for me to preach 
 in. The library is well stocked with printed books and 
 has a few MSS., amongst the latter was a Koran, very 15 
 neatly written; a latin bible on vellum, in which Hebr, 
 and Acts follow the catholic epistles ; three volumes of 
 letters of the most eminent men of the i6th and I7th 
 centuries. The same day in the afternoon I climbed the 
 Monument. 20 
 
 Pp.9, 10: 1 3 June, p. m. I visited the most famous 
 Newton, who received me with great kindness, if only for 
 \Burchard de\ Voider 's sake, as whose pupil I introduced 
 myself. We spoke chiefly of the system of the universe. 
 
 First. The motions of the planets exactly observe the 25 
 laws of gravity, which amount in the main to these. I. 
 Gravity always acts with the same force on the same 
 portion of matter, excepting the resistance, which arises 
 from the surface of the body moved. So that bodies of 
 different bulks would fall with equal velocity in vacuo, 30 
 
 1. e. if there were nothing sensibly to retard their motion. 
 
 2. The velocity, with which heavy bodies fall, is in a 
 duplicate ratio to the spaces traversed. But as these pro- 
 portions suit any one of the sections of a cone, if a heavy 
 body, instead of falling, be conceived as whirling round 35 
 by the force of gravity, it will describe one of the conic 
 sections. And since these laws hold in all planets, we
 
 NEWTON. 315 
 
 must imagine the ethereal matter to be so rare, as not 
 sensibly to interfere with these laws of motion. But the 
 illustrious author admits this rarefaction to be so great, 
 that between each part of the ethereal matter spaces are 
 
 5 interposed void of all matter. 
 
 I objected, that then motion is not uniform, but 
 changes at each of these spaces : because bodies passing 
 from one medium into another are liable to refraction. 
 But these media are of all most different, the one being 
 
 10 entirely void, the other close packed with matter. The 
 answer I did not well understand. 
 
 A second difficulty is derived from comets. For they 
 move with equal velocity, whether carried away with the 
 stream of the vortex, or making head against it. For 
 
 15 sometimes they fall far below Jiipiter's orbit. The main 
 endeavour of astronomers at this day is to determine the 
 orbits of comets from given observations. But a some- 
 what longer time is needed for this purpose, the first 
 trustworthy observations having been made only by Tycho. 
 
 20 I found him most ready to do me a service ; he declared 
 that he would willingly have introduced me to the royal 
 society, but as he was engrossed at that hour with mint 
 business, it could be most conveniently done by Dr. Halley. 
 So he immediately writes a letter of introduction to him. 
 
 25 ' Sr. 
 
 The gentleman who brings you this, is one of the 
 chaplains to the Dutch ambassadors. I beg the favour 
 that by the leave of the R. -Society you would introduce 
 him to see one of their meetings. He has heard Mons r . 
 
 30 Voider 's lectures and has a curiosity about Mathematical 
 and Philosophical things. If he brings a friend with him, 
 I beg the favour that you will treat them with respect. 
 I am 
 
 Your humble servant 
 Jerom-street, Is. NEWTON.' 
 
 June 2*, 1702. 
 
 [Sic].
 
 316 WM. STRATFORD. THO. SMITH. 
 
 P. ii: 14 June, a.m. I called on Dr. Halley, who 
 was out of town. Then I visited Dr. Stratford,* who 
 resides in Westminster Abbey. He shewed me the abbey 
 library, very carelessly kept; all was filthy with dust. 
 All the MSS. had been destroyed by fire. It was founded 5 
 by Dr. Williams, first bp. of Lincoln, and then abp. of 
 York and keeper of the great seal at the end of the reign 
 of James I. 
 
 p.m. Went to Chelsey ; a large building with very 
 pleasant gardens, intended for veteran and crippled soldiers. 10 
 The governor is D., a Dutchman, who regaled us with 
 english ale. This most pleasant spot the Jesuits had chosen 
 for themselves under James II. , from whom William III. 
 took it and devoted it to its present use. 
 
 Pp. i I, 12: 16 June, p.m. Went to a sword-fight 15 
 [which is described at length]. 
 
 P. 12: 1 8 June, p.m. Taken by Dr. Stratford to 
 Westminster Abbey: First the litaniest were read, and 
 music (suited rather for a display of art than for edification 
 of souls) interspersed. Then the sermon, after which the 20 
 reader read some more prayers out of the book. 
 
 Pp. 12, 13: 19 June, a.m. Dr. Thomas Smith shewed 
 me the Cottonian library, given to the public a few months 
 ago by Cotton the grandson ; at the same time an act of 
 parliament was passed that it should never be sold. It 25 
 is still kept in Cotton-house near Westminster hall. It 
 consists solely of MSS. , most of which belong to english 
 history. Of others I saw Vitruvius, Vegetius and Solinus 
 in one volume, the two former in a very ancient, the last 
 in a very modern hand. Then the autograph of the 30 
 union between the greek and latin churches, agreed to at 
 the council of Florence, and signed by E^lgenius IV. and 
 many other bps. and by the emperor Palaeologus. Also 
 a vellum MS. of the four gospels in latin, in very ancient 
 
 * Wm. S. afterwards canon of Ch. Ch., to which he bequeathed 
 his library (Alumni Westm. 210-1). f [Evening prayers].
 
 ABP. TENNIS ON. 317 
 
 uncials. Specially remarkable are the gilt pictures in the 
 frontispiece of each gospel, representing the four evangelists 
 with their symbols. At the end of St. Luke occurs the 
 name of Lucanus, of which Dr. Smith supposes Luke to 
 
 5 be an abbreviation. As regards the pictures, this MS. 
 resembled another of venerable antiquity, containing the 
 greek version of Gen. ; the pictures in this last were more 
 artistic, and were inserted in the actual context, occupying 
 the whole breadth of the page. The letters were uncial, 
 
 IO and greatly resembled those of the codex alexandrinus, 
 which Dr. Smith believes to be more modem. 
 p. m. I again climbed the Monument. 
 P. 14: 21 June, kept the fast appointed by the 
 queen. 
 
 15 P. 14: 24 June. The very learned Bentley took me 
 to Lambeth, to abp. Tertnison's public dinner. He keeps 
 open table on Saturdays and Mondays. Many guests, 
 both churchmen and statesmen, were present, so that a 
 second table had to be set out. It was a most sumptuous 
 
 20 repast : two courses, each of six large and three small dishes. 
 When the abp. (having had a hint, I suppose, from Dr. 
 Bentley} had asked me whether I were son of prof. Bur- 
 man, he gave me a hearty welcome. During dinner he 
 spoke little, in a low voice, as usual, and in english. Im- 
 
 25 mediately after dinner tea was served. Afterwards I took 
 leave, thanking him for his singular kindness, and praying 
 that God might long preserve him in health, for the good 
 of the church, over which he presides. He replied with 
 a prayer that God would speed me in all things. On my 
 
 30 way back I inspected the codex alexandrinus . 
 
 P. 14: June 26, began morning prayer in the house 
 at 10. 
 
 P. 15: June 2.7, Ez. Spanheim, envoy of the king of 
 Prussia, introduced into the city with great pomp. 
 
 35 P. 15: Jime 28, our envoys began to treat with the 
 queen's representatives on the business of their mission, 
 viz. to condole with the queen on the king's death, and to
 
 3 1 8 ST. PA UZS. BENTLE Y. 
 
 congratulate her on her accession; to renew the treaty; to 
 settle the division of prizes. 
 
 Pp. 15, 16: 4-8 July, reception of the dutch envoys in 
 London, ending with a dinner given by them [described at 
 length]. 5 
 
 Pp. 17, 18: 9 July, a.m. At service in St. Paul's, 
 which is still very incomplete ; the sermons are preached 
 in the choir, the prayers read at the west end ; the inter- 
 mediate part is yet unfinished, and it is supposed that it 
 will not readily be completed, as the proportion of the IO 
 coal-duties, assigned to the work, increases very slowly 
 and can always on some pretext or other be diverted to 
 another purpose. 
 
 p.m. Was taken by the most learned Bentley to the 
 royal library in St. James's. For want of room most of 1 5 
 the books are stacked on the floor, nor are the rest 
 arranged in any regular order. [Description of the cod. 
 Alex. ] ' The most learned Bentley intends to edit this 
 MS. as it stands, in the same form of letters and line for 
 line. He is already making all preparations, and hopes to 2d 
 begin the work about winter-time. ' 
 
 Pp. 1 8, 19 : 12 July a.m. Went to the bp. of London 
 [Hen. Compton\ at Fulkam, to move him to intercede 
 with the queen to continue the stipends of the french and 
 dutch ministers of the chapel royal. On my return saw 25 
 Kensington. 
 
 p.m. Drove to Mile end green, to visit Mr. Domner 
 Sheppart, an english merchant, whose son is a student 
 under my brother at Utrecht. 
 
 Pp. 19, 20: 13 July, a.m. Saw the public library in 30 
 the Mews opposite Charing Cross. It contains many ex- 
 cellent books, but no MSS., and was founded by the 
 present abp. \Tennison\ who in king James' time made 
 it over for the use of Christian youth in order to counteract 
 the intrigues of the Jesuits. For they built schools in the 35 
 Savoy, possessed a very well-stocked library, offered a free 
 education to the young, and had seduced even some children
 
 OXFORD. DR. MILL. 319 
 
 of reformed parents. Setting a most commendable ex- 
 ample, the present abp. then offered all the same ad- 
 vantages, so to baffle the arts of the devil. Afterwards, 
 when the danger was over, he left the privileges intact, 
 5 but removed the MSS. with him to Lambeth on his pro- 
 motion. William III. , chiefly at lord Portland's instance, 
 allowed the Jesuits to remove that library, which is said 
 to have been a very rare one. The same day, dining with 
 Ez. Spanheim, I was regaled with choice fare and most 
 IO learned conversation. 
 
 p.m. Saw Islington. Wantonness in all suburban 
 taverns. On my return saw the pleasant terraces and 
 walks of Lincoln's Inn fields. 
 
 P. 20: July 14. Second conference of the envoys 
 15 with the queen's representatives. 
 
 P. 21: 1 6 July, p.m. In passing I called on the 
 
 Oxford professor \David\ Gregory at Mr. Newton's house : 
 
 then on Mr. [Afc.] Only, preb. of Westm., a very friendly 
 
 man. 
 
 20 [Then follows the ' Iter CantabrigienseJ given in the 
 
 text]. 
 
 P. 27 : 24 July, Monday. Set out for Oxford: put up 
 at the Cross. 
 
 P. 27 : it, July, a.m. Degrees conferred, p.m. Saw 
 25 New college, 'admodum augustum.' 
 
 P. 27: 26 July, p.m. Saw the Bodleian; climbed 
 Ch. Ch. tower. 
 
 Pp. 27-8 : 27 July, a.m. Walked to a mineral spring 
 in the neighbourhood, p.m. Heard the exercises in the 
 30 Sheldonian theatre. Saw the laboratory. 
 
 Pp. 28-9 : Saw Trinity college. Then in the house of 
 convocation at the election of two members of parliament. 
 Then Dr. Htidson took me to the Bodleian, to the library 
 of Qu. coll., and to Dr. Mill in St. Edm. hall. Spoke of 
 35 the N. T. on which he has been many years engaged. 
 The passage I Jo. v 7 is found in no MSS. ; perhaps erased 
 from the time when the fathers began to prove the doctrine
 
 320 BP. JO. HALL. JO. WALLIS. 
 
 of the Trinity from the following verse, p. m. After the 
 departure of my dutch friends, I began to examine the 
 library, especially the MSS. of the N. T. Met at Mr. 
 Gregory's Mr. Stradfort and Harnar* who confuted Dr. 
 [Thos.~\ Burnefs 'theory of the earth,' by arguments from 5 
 the mathematics, in which he is an adept. 
 
 P. 29: 29 Jtdy a.m. z.nAp.m. in the Bodleian. 
 
 P. 29: 3oy/y, a.m. Saw the university church St. 
 Mary's, ' satis augustum. ' Heard bp. HalTs\ sermon in 
 his parish church, where he preaches weekly. Was then 10 
 at a quakers' meeting, p.m. At prayers in a suburban 
 church ; also in the fine chapel of New college. Then saw 
 Magd. coll. walks. 
 
 Pp. 29, 30: 31 July, a.m. in the Bodleian, p.m. Saw 
 St. Jo. Bapt. coll. with its fine library, of books and MSS.; 15 
 Balliol, University, All Souls' . 
 
 P. 30: i Aug. a.m. In the library, p.m. Rode to 
 Woodstock. 
 
 Pp. 30-2 : 2 Aug. a.m. and/.#z. In the library. With 
 Mr. Gregory visited the most famous \Johii\ Wallis, a man 20 
 of astonishing vigour for his age. He is 86, and yet reads 
 very readily without spectacles, which he has never used ; 
 rises at five daily; studies, for more than 10 hours, mathe- 
 matics amongst other things ; is equally strong in judge- 
 ment and in memory, neither of which is in the least 25 
 impaired. His face is cheerful and open. Both related 
 
 If by confiitavit is meant 'confuted in a published work' 
 Harnar is probably a mistake for [Erasmus] Warren; if 'confuted 
 in the course of conversation,' it may stand for Harmer. 
 
 + John Hall, bp. of Bristol and master of Pembr. coll. (Calamy's 
 Own Times I 272), ' one of eminent piety, but not much esteemed by 
 the young wits of the university. He catechized at St. Toll's near 
 his college every Lord's day evening, and I sometimes heard him. 
 He could bring all the catechism of the Westminster assembly out 
 of the catechism of the church of England. I never heard Mr. 
 Gilbert applaud any one more than this bishop.' See also Calamy 
 Ace. 109, Contin. 100, Cambr. univ. MS. Ee vi 43. He was of Mer- 
 chant Tailors' (Notes and Qu. 2 Ser. ix 280).
 
 WALLIS. DES CARTES. 321 
 
 that Des Cartes had stolen his geometry from [Thomas] 
 Harriot an Englishman. For he died in 1610;* his 
 'analysis' was published by his heir in 1631, at which 
 very time Des Cartes was in London, which adds weight 
 
 5 to the suspicion. And afterwards it was a common 
 rumour, as Dr. Wallis well remembered; it was also 
 reported at that time that Mr. Scoten [Fras. Schooten of 
 Leydeti\ was author (A Des Cartes' 'geometry,' at least of 
 the third part. Wallis added, that Des Cartes did not 
 
 IO well understand analysis; at least he had expressed every- 
 thing most confusedly and obscurely, which had been 
 already explained with great clearness by Harriot; perhaps 
 to conceal the plagiarism. 
 
 To-day I looked through the remains of Casaubon, 
 
 1 5 consisting in great part of adversarial and stray notes, not 
 reduced to certain heads. Much could be extracted from 
 them relating to his personal history. 
 
 Pp. 32-3: 3 Aug. a.m. in the library. Saw the hortus 
 medicus. Quaintly trimmed yews. p. m. In the library. 
 
 20 Examined Sam. Petifs MSS. in two volumes, containing 
 notes on Josephus, bought for the university at Paris for 
 200 or ^300. Dr. Hudson will incorporate them in his 
 commentary. Mr. Gregory took me to the Savilian lecture- 
 rooms and library, containing gr. and arable mathematical 
 
 25 MSS. He shewed me there a copy of Des Caries' geometry 
 of the first edition, bought by Mr. Pitkarn at Leyden, 
 with the advertisement : ' On n'a imprime que six ex- 
 emplaires de cette geometric en cette forme ; et ils sont 
 pour les six premiers, qui auront fait connaitre a 1'auteur, 
 
 30 qu 'ils 1 'entendent. C 'est pour quoi celui ci appartient 
 a Mr. C/iauveau.' 
 
 P. 33 : 4 Aug. returned to London. 5 Aug. the envoys 
 went to Windsor. 6 Aug. p.m., preached in the dutch 
 church. 
 
 * 2 fitly 1621, Wood-Bliss, Atlien. n 303. 
 
 + His Ephemerides were printed by Dr. Jo. Russell, Ox/. 1850. 
 3 vols. 8vo.
 
 3 2 2 HALLE Y. NE WTON. 
 
 Pp. 33-5; 7 Aug., went to Windsor [described at 
 length]. 
 
 P. 35 : 2 Sept. Second fight with swords; one com- 
 batant unwounded, the other disabled. 
 
 P. 35 : 6 Sept. Returned to London from Windsor. 5 
 9 Sept. deputed by the envoys to attend the council of the 
 dutch church, in Mr. Cuylenburgh 's case. 
 
 Pp. 35-6 : 1 1 Sept. At Hampton- court, said to have 
 been designed by the late qu. Alary. Took Richmond on 
 our way back ; at the mineral springs there is a great 10 
 crowd of dancers every Monday and Thursday night. 
 
 P. 36: 12 Sept., called on Mr. Cyprian. 13 Sept., 
 called on Dr. Halley, the eminent mathematician, who is 
 engaged on a new system of magnetic phenomena, and in 
 particular has attempted to determine by actual experiment 15 
 the various declinations of the needle. He has already 
 published tables of the declinations in the Atlantic; and 
 by this time he has pretty well learnt, from the experience 
 of many observers, those of the rest of the globe, and he 
 is drawing up tables for them too : he seems to have 20 
 ascertained thus much, that he ventures to assign to the 
 earth four magnetic poles. In support of this system he 
 supposes that another globe swims in this our earth, much 
 as Saturn does in his ring. He will also correct the 
 longitude of many places in the maps. 25 
 
 P. 37 : 20 Sept. , saw the mint, by the favour of Is. 
 Newton, its master, who ordered every process of melting 
 and coining gold to be shewed to us. He then entertained 
 us most sumptuously. 22 Sept., saw Montague house. 
 
 P. 37: 25 Sept., saw the houses of parliament. 27 30 
 Sept., saw Lambeth palace a second time, being shewn 
 over by Mr. Gibson. 
 
 Pp. 38-9: 31 Oct., saw the first session of parliament 
 [described at length]. 
 
 Pp. 39, 40: 3 Nov., called on the most illustrious 35 
 \Ezek.~\ Spanheim. \_Gilb. Burnef], bp. of Salisbury was 
 there, who spoke of Dykveld's merits at great length ;
 
 BURNET. CONVOCATION. 323 
 
 among other things, he said he had it from his own mouth, 
 that he had silenced a papal theologian at Munster, when 
 he was there with the envoys on the business of the peace. 
 With regard to Joh. de Wit, he, said he had been told, 
 
 5 that his brother Cornelius missed in him a knowledge of 
 our history, and regretted that he had not devoted to that 
 study the time which he had spent in mathematics ; hence 
 he wanted sagacity to forecast the future, and knew nothing 
 whatever of the treaty between England and France for 
 
 IO crushing our country. 
 
 P. 40 : 6 Nov. , called on the bp. of Salisbury \Burnet\ 
 and presented to him my 'pietas jBurmannorum.' He 
 received me most lovingly. 9 Nov. , saw the lord mayor's 
 procession; the queen was present. As he is a vintner, 
 
 1 5 the expeditions and orgies of Bacchus were represented. 
 
 Pp. 40- 1 : 10 Nov. , present at the meeting of con- 
 vocation. Heard three speeches, one of a canon respect- 
 ing the election of the prolocutor of the lower house [Dr. 
 Aldrich\ whom he presented to the bishops, begging 
 
 20 them to confirm the election, and recounting the differences 
 which were beginning to arise amongst certain divines. 
 (The drift of this was, as Dr. Stratford said, to degrade 
 those who had been promoted by William III.; this 
 threatened no small danger to bp. Burnet}. A second of 
 
 25 the prolocutor, promising to maintain to the best of his 
 power the laws and rights of the church. A third from 
 the abp. of Canterbury, who alone read his speech, con- 
 firming the election. 
 
 Pp. 41-4: 14 Nov. p.m. Called on Bentley, and there 
 
 30 met the most famous Newton. We talked of points of 
 philosophy, especially of the Newtonian system. Also 
 called on bp. Burnet; [a long conversation on the theology 
 of Cocceius, on the Jewish conceptions of Messiah and of 
 sacrifices is reported]. Lord Russel came in and inter- 
 
 35 rupted our discourse. 
 
 P. 44: 15 Nov. a.m. Mr. Bentley took me to {John 
 Moore] bp. of Norwich. He received me in the most
 
 324 CAMBRIDGE COACHES. 
 
 friendly way, shaking hands and offering chocolate. He 
 shewed me his London library, and begged me to visit 
 him daily, during the remainder of my stay in England. 
 Dr. Hamel shewed me the Medical college. Then we saw 
 the lunatic asylum Bethlehem. In the evening there was 5 
 an illumination in the city, in memory of king William' 's 
 coming. 
 
 Pp. 44-5: 1 6 AW., Gunpowder plot. A pope of straw, 
 with the devil behind him, are set on a cart : they go 
 from house to house begging contributions for a great 10 
 bonfire, into which they cast pope and devil. 
 
 P. 45 : 17 Nov. Dined again with the most noble 
 Spanheim. 1 8 Nov. Left London for Gravesend. 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 P. 115!. 1-17. a coach. Audley house. Cf. p. 661. 515 
 with n. See lists of the coaches to and from London in 
 Cooper's Annals iv 273, 331 seq. (A.D. 1749 and 1763). 
 Tkoresby's Diary II 229, 230, 3 July 1714: 'Rose by 
 three ; walked to Bishopsgate to take coach for Cambridge, 
 was in time, and had the good hap of agreeable converse, 20 
 Mr. Branthwait and Mr. Dover. We passed through a 
 pleasant country, full of towns, hamlets and seats of the 
 gentry and citizens, to Epping Forest; thence through 
 Woodford to Bishop Stortford, where we dined ; thence 
 by Quenden-street and Newport to Littkbury, but had not 25 
 time to view the late ingenious Mr. Winstanley's house, 
 or the model of his noted lighthouse, which was cast down 
 in the dreadful storm, the same night that he himself 
 perished in the lighthouse itself [the Eddistone\ by the sea. 
 Had a view of Audley-end (much of which is now taken 30 
 down, but formerly reputed the greatest house in England), 
 and of Saffron-Walden ; the country people were planting 
 that valuable crocus ; thence over Gog-magog 1 s-hill (upon 
 the height whereof is an ancient and large camp with a 
 double vallum) to Cambridge.' 35
 
 AUDLEY END. COMMENCEMENT. 325 
 
 P. 115 1. 8 and 13. Audley house, a porch so spacious. 
 Edw. Ward's Works, 2nd ed. II 231-2 (first printed in 
 1700): 'we jogg'd on about a mile, at which distance 
 from Saffron Walden stood a famous pile of stone building, 
 
 5 called Audley End, of which I had often heard, but never 
 till this time had amazed my eyes with such a stupendous 
 structure, which seem'd to me to be a great city, with the 
 license of a traveller, almost as big as London within the 
 walls, if you take gardens and all, and for aught I know, 
 
 IO I shall not enlarge so much as to need your pardon for it. 
 This magnificent edifice was first raised by an ancestor of 
 the earl of Suffolk, and sold afterwards to king Charles ; 
 the magnitude of this house is reported to be such, that 
 'tis a day's work for a running footman to open and shut 
 
 1 5 the windows that appertain thereto ; and that there is one 
 gallery in it of such a vast length, that if you beat a drum 
 at one end, it shan't be loud enough to fright away a 
 mouse at the other ; nor are we able to distinguish at the 
 same distance a hog from a dbg, without a spying glass.' 
 
 2O Cf. Evelyn's Diary, ed. 1854, I 305, 3 Oct. 1654. 
 
 P. 115!. 19. the university solemnities. Cf. Thoresby's 
 Diary 6 July 1714 (n 230-1) : ' at the commencement at 
 St. Mary's: our countryman, Dr. Edmundson, had kept 
 the act yesterday, and Mr. Waterland, master of Maudlin, 
 
 25 did the like to-day. Dr. James, Dr. Edmundson, Dr. 
 Gibbons [Tho. Gibbon of St. John's}, and Dr. [Tho.] 
 Sherlock (which three commenced yesterday) were op- 
 ponents, and Dr. Jenkin (master of St. John's) was 
 moderator; all performed excellently, and the prevari- 
 
 30 cator's speech was smart and ingenious, attended with 
 volleys of hurrahs ; the vocal music etc. was curious, and 
 after seven or eight hours' stay there, being sufficiently 
 wearied, I went thence to visit Mr. Baker (a learned 
 antiquary) at St. John's, whom I never saw before, though 
 
 35 I corresponded with him many years ago ... I was in- 
 vited by Dr. Edmundson and Mr. [Tho.~\ Bennett to the 
 commencement treat in the college hall, which I very 
 
 Z
 
 326 CREATION OF DOCTORS. 
 
 thankfully embraced, to see the manner of it : the masters 
 of arts now commenced waited in their hoods. Dr. Jenkin, 
 the master, sent to invite me afterwards to his lodgings, 
 with Dr. Edmundson and Mr. (now Dr.) Bennett of 
 Colchester.'' 5 
 
 P. 116 1. 4. setting a cap on their heads and handing 
 them a book and ring. No notice of these ceremonies is 
 to be found in Wall- Gunning's book on the subject, 
 Cambr. 1828; but they are very ingeniously explained in 
 Bentley's commencement speech 6 July 1725 on the crea- 10 
 tion of 7 doctors of divinity (printed before his Terence, 
 and by Dyce in his Works in 541-6): 'Vos Academia 
 lubens in hunc doctorum ordinem cooptat. . . . Ne tamen 
 vos et hodie prorsus indonatos dimittat, his suis insignibus 
 de more veteri deductis cohonestat . . . Ac primo quidem 1 5 
 vos pileo donat, libertatis quondam symbolo ; quo vos, 
 opinor, hunc gradum semel assecutos post ab omnibus 
 apud se scholasticis exercitiis liberos et immunes constituit. 
 Nee tamen vos deinceps otiosos ac desides fore arbitratur. 
 Quippe, ut olim qui nudo capite domi ac in urbe versa- 20 
 bantur, ad iter tamen accincti pileo sibi caput aut petaso 
 vel galero muniebant ; ita vos hoc suo pignore commonitos 
 esse cupit, ut iam pileo instructi, continuo magis arduum 
 iter ac laboriosum inceptetis. Non iam amplius vobis in 
 hac umbra scholarum, sed in sole ac pulvere, in vera 25 
 iustaque acie sub dio est militandum ; iam cum hostibus 
 ecclesiae undecumque incursantibus, qua concionibus ha- 
 bendis, qua libris edendis, acerrime confligendum. Quin 
 et illud vobis inculcat ; sicut in nummis veteribus Ulixei 
 et Mercurii ac Vulcani effigies pileatae plerumque vel 30 
 petasatae spectantur, ita vos in sermonibus scriptisque 
 vestris et Ulixei facundiam et Mercurii acumen et Vtdcani 
 artificem operam exprimere oportere. * 
 
 ' Sed et altero vos dono beat mater Academia, potiore 
 cunctis Persartim Arabumvt divitiis. Videtis hunc Codicem 35 
 Sacrum, melioris vitae ducem et magistrum, immortali- 
 
 * ' Hie singulis pileus imponitur.'
 
 CREATION OF DOCTORS. 327 
 
 tatis obsidem, salutis sponsorem. Hoc vos libro impertit, 
 et primo quidem clauso; quo velut signo vobis indicat, 
 arcana Dei mysteria cunctosque sapientiae thesauros hie 
 haberi reconditos, non illotis, quod aiunt, manibus trac- 
 
 5 tandos, non indocto cuivis et profano temere commit- 
 tendos. * Vobis vero, quos cum eruditione turn moribus 
 cognoscit idoneos, etiam apertum concredit ; unde et 
 vobismet ipsi lucidum veri fontem vivosque latices hauri- 
 atis, et auditorum vestrorum animos puro ac salubri rore 
 
 IO caelestis doctrinae irrigetis.1" 
 
 ' Neque vero vel hie clauditur munificae matris libera- 
 litas. Nam et anulo vos dignatur, et eo quidem aureo ; 
 tarn libertatis iam vestrae quam auctoritatis indicio. . . . 
 lam manum ferulae subducitis+j iam magistrorum dictata 
 
 1 5 tuto neglegitis ; non diutius vestrum est stantes discere, 
 sed ex cathedra docere. . . . Hie vobis anulus more veteri 
 natalicius habeatur ; hodie enim doctores nascimini. Hie 
 dies vobis deinceps quasi natalis numerabitur ; tanto illi 
 alteri honore anteponendus, quanto maius est doctores 
 
 2O quam infantes nasci. Porro idem hie anulus etiam pro- 
 nubus vobis esto. Quippe hoc velut arrabone iam mater 
 Academia nliarum suarum natu maximam Theologiam in 
 matrimonium vobis collocat ; quam sive dote exigua seu 
 (quod auguror atque opto) luculente dotatam inveneritis, 
 
 25 numquam cum ilia facietis divortium, uxorem earn vobis, 
 matronam, dominam, caste semper et honorifice habebitis. 
 Quin et ipse ego, more maiorum, cum anulum meum 
 vobis trado, heredem huius cathedrae meae de vobis 
 aliquem, si non dedignamini, libens instituo.'f Two 
 
 30 other ceremonies, not noticed by jBurman, the installation 
 in the professor's chair and the kiss of peace, are handled 
 with no le*s skill. 
 
 P. 1 1 6 1. 14. John Laitghton of Trin. has verses in 
 
 ' Hie singulis clausus datur liber.' t ' Hie apertus.' 
 
 { [Bent ley has mistaken the meaning of this phrase ; which is ' to 
 flinch from the cane']. 
 
 ' Hie minimo singulorum digito anulus imponitur.'
 
 328 JO.LAUGHTON. L. KUSTER. 
 
 Hymenaeus Cantabrigiensis, 1683, f. K 2 vo. ; in Acad. 
 Cant, ajfectus, 1684-5 ^4 seq. ; in Ducts Cornubiae ge- 
 nethliacon, 1 688, f. I 2 vo. ; in Lacrymae Cantabr., 1694-5, 
 f. M vo. Moses du Soul (So/anus) in a note on Lucian, 
 Demosth. encom. 33 fin. speaks of an emendation, ' quam 5 
 [restitutionem} ante annos viginti a me repertam non meis 
 tantum libris adscripseram, sed in codice viri doctiss. loh. 
 Laughton bibliothecae Cantabrigiensi praefecti, amicitiae 
 causa. ' Grabe says that Laughton, ' vir erga exteros supra 
 modum humanus," shewed him the Cambridge MS. of the 10 
 Testaments of the XII. patriarchs ; of which Jo. Mill, 
 ' fautor meus gratiosissimus ac numquam satis laudandus' 
 afterwards gave him a transcript. Laughton corrected for 
 Tho. Smith a transcript of Ctunderfs Annals of James 
 (Smith's pref. to Camdeni epist. Land. 1691, 4to., f. C 2). 15 
 He supplied the list of the Tritiity MSS. for the Biblioth. 
 MSS. Angl. Installed prebendary of the fourth stall at 
 Worcester 22 May 1700; successor nominated 8 Nov. 1714 
 (Le Neve-Hardy III 83). On i^Febr. 1688-9 ne preached 
 the thanksgiving sermon at St. Mary's on the deliverance 20 
 of the nation from popery and arbitrary power. 
 
 P; 1 1 6 1. 15. a most siimptuous dinner. 10 May 1664 
 a decree was issued by the consistory court, that the in- 
 ceptor who keeps the divinity act for D. D. at commence- 
 ment should spend not less than ^30 nor more than 40 25 
 on the dinner ; whom he is to invite. Every other doctor 
 then commencing to contribute 5 marks towards the ex- 
 pense (MS. Baker XLII 59). Cf. Monk's Life of Bentley 
 
 175- 
 
 P.H61.23. Liidolph Kiister, LL.D. by mandate 1705. 30 
 Stt Bentley 1 s Corresp. 184, 197, 204, 208, 215, 227, 228, 
 241, 243-5, 263, 269, 272, 758; indices to Mottk's Life of 
 Bentley and Nichols, Lit. A need. The qu. of England 
 proposed, Jan. 1706, to give him a gold medal (Fabricii 
 Vita 283 seq., where are extracts from his letters). Com- 35 
 mei-cii epistolaris Uffenbachiani selecta I 34 in a letter from 
 J. A. Fabridus 25 Nov. 1714: 'Le roy a donne une
 
 KUSTER. JOHN MILL, 329 
 
 pension de 2000 livres & M. Kiister. II y a environ six, 
 mois qu'il est a Paris, ou il a fait abjuration de la religion 
 protestante. ' See also Uffenbactts Reisen ill 646. Other 
 authorities are cited by Griisse, Literdrgesch. Ill (3) 1906 
 
 5 n. I and in A. y. van der Aa, Biogr. Woordenb. der Neder- 
 landen. (Tib. ffemsterkuis profited by his instructions at 
 Amsterdam, Elogium T. H. , auctore Dav. Ruhnkenio. 
 Lugd. Bat. 1789, p. 23). His Suidas, 3 vols. fol. 1705 
 (Monk I 154-5), is one of the largest works that has ever 
 
 10 issued from the Cambridge press, which had just been 
 brought into an effective state through Bentley's endeav- 
 ours (Monk I 73-4, 153-6). In Epigrammatum specimen 
 novum, p. 37, after Musarum Anglicarum delectus alter, 
 1698, are verses to William III. 'in gratulationem pacis 
 
 15 typis academicis Cantab, ex Batavia nuper comparatis 
 feliciter mandatum. ' In 1 700 Matt. Prior and others were 
 in treaty with the Paris press for a supply of greek type 
 (MSS. de la biblioth. du rot, Paris 1787, I p. xciii seq. ). 
 P. 116 1. 31 and 117 1. 4. Laughton was not a doctor. 
 
 20 P. 1 1 7 1. 4. library and coins. Cf. p. 194 1. 28. 
 
 P. 117 1.7. lately edited Virgil, ad optim. exempt, 
 fidem recens. Cantabr. typis ac imp. lac. Tonson. 1701. 410. 
 ibid. 1702, '7, 'n, 8vo. 
 
 P. 117 1. 13. the bishop of Ely. Symon Patrick. 
 
 25 P.iiSl.i. Dr. Mills. John Mill or Mills. Cf. p. 319. 
 White Keiinett in BrydgeJ Restituta I 50- 1 : ' He was a poor 
 child, tabarder and fellow of St. John's college, Oxford; 
 installed in the 4th preb. of Canterbury, July 27, 1704. 
 Died .... act. 63. He was a ready extempore preacher, 
 
 30 became very early chaplain to king Charles II. by the 
 interest of a pupil's father; was discovered by bp. Fell to 
 have a good warm impetuous inclination to studies and 
 labours, and was therefore by the bishop advised to 
 undertake the laborious task of giving a new edition of 
 
 35 the Greek Testament, with various lections; and to en- 
 courage him the bishop promised to undertake for the 
 charge of the impression. But upon the bishop's death,
 
 330 JOHN MILL. 
 
 the author was forced to take it upon himself; and by 
 the expense of it brought himself into great difficulties, 
 and could never have subsisted without a wife's portion. 
 He succeeded Dr. Crossthwaite in the principality of St. 
 Edmund hall, and had thereby the advantage of shining 5 
 the brighter in it : but was so much taken up with the one 
 thing, his Testament, that he had not leisure to attend to 
 the discipline of the house, which rose and fell according 
 to his different vice-principals. I think he talked and 
 wrote the best latin of any man in the university, and 10 
 was the most airy and facetious in conversation in all 
 respects a bright man. He drank very much coffee, and 
 his apoplexy seemed owing to it. He would often com- 
 plain of Dr. Beveridge for a narrow man in leaving the 
 prebendal house in Canterbury in a very bad condition, 15 
 and refusing to allow one farthing towards the repairs of 
 it.' Ibid, in 370, White Kennett to S. Blackiuell 5 July 
 1 707 : ' Dr. Mills died at Edm. Hall, of an apoplexy, in 
 the morning, JuneZ^A; the jest of the Terrae filius that 
 he finished his will but not his testament, is now reversed ; 20 
 for he died intestate, and his estate goes to two children 
 of his father, born since his marriage at 80.' Same to 
 same, I ^.\\\July 1707 (ibid. 388): 'I paid for Dr. 
 Mills' book IOJ-. subscription, and 2Or. at delivery, in 
 sheets, and 6s. binding. I can have the favour from Mr. 25 
 archd. Worth to have another on the same terms; it 
 seems to be dear, but it is indeed a very valuable book, 
 and I think the greatest work that was ever yet performed 
 by any single hand. I will get one ready to send you as 
 soon as possible.' Cf. ibid. 366. He made preparations 30 
 for an edition of Hippolytus (Fabricii Vita 148 seq., 354; 
 cf. the notices ' ad lectorem' before each of the volumes of 
 Hippolytus ed. Fabric.}. His epitaph is in Le Neve, 
 Monum. Anglic. 1650-1718, p. 219. His notes on Clem. 
 Rom. were partially printed by Russet, the whole by 35 
 Jacobson. Uffenbach(commerc. epistol. Uffenb. I 41) to J. A. 
 Fabricius 2 Febr. 1715: ' Millius solertissimus nimisque,
 
 JOHN MILL. THO. SMITH, 331 
 
 quod multis videtur, anxius alias harum [of various read- 
 ings] ruspator.' Cf. Uhlii Sylloge nova epistolarum I 531, 
 629 seq. ; indices to Nichols, Lit. Anecd., Reliquiae Hearn- 
 ianae, Wood's Athen., F. O., Annals and Life; Bentley's 
 5 Correspondence and Life; Biogr. Brit.; the prefaces to 
 critical editions of the N. T., and introductions to the 
 same; Meyer ; GeschichtederSchrift-Erkldrung, Gb'tt. 1805, 
 iv 161 sq., 171 sq., 295 sq. A most competent judge, 
 F. H. Scrivener, A plain introduction to the criticism of the 
 10 N. T. Cambr. 1861. 8vo., pp. 316-7, says: 'Dr. Miffs 
 services to Biblical criticism surpass in extent and value 
 those rendered by any other, except perhaps one man yet 
 
 living During the many years that Mill's N. T. has 
 
 been my daily companion, my reverence for that diligent 
 15 and earnest man has been constantly growing.' 
 
 P. 118 1.8 seq. On the back of the same page. See 
 F. H. Scrivener, Bezae Cod. Cantabr. Cambr. 1864, 4to., 
 325, 428. 
 
 P. 1 1 8 1. 13. The following leaf. ibid. p. 326. 
 20 P. 1 19 1. 1. a great gap. ibid. pp. 15-6. 
 
 P. 119 1.3. These liturgical notes are all collected 
 ibid. 448 seq. 
 
 P. 119!. 5. This note ibid. 431 col. 3 ad fin. The 
 third name is Patisarea. 
 25 P. 119 l.io and 12. ibid. 449 col. I 1. 1, 5, 12. 
 
 P. 119 1.17. one page. Eight pages, ibid. 161, 172, 
 173, 213, 218, 220, 221, 225. 197 has no heading; 214, 
 236 have Luc. 
 
 P. 1 19 1. 20. Thomas Smith. Cf. p. 3 16 1. 22. Letters 
 
 30 of this learned nonjuror are in Europ. Mag. 1797, Nov. 
 
 p. 293, Dec. p. 364; 1798, Jan. p. 8; Sir H. Ellis, Letters 
 
 of eminent literary men 238 seq. Baker has noted in his 
 
 copy of Smith's Vitae: 'Obiit doctiss. auctor no. die 
 
 Maii an. 1710, anno act. 72, plus minus. Natus erat 
 
 35 tertio die lun. an. 1638. Dr. 7^ho. Smith died at London 
 
 the nth of May, between 3 and 4 of the clock in the 
 
 morning, and was buried on Sat. night following in St.
 
 332 THO. SMITH. HEN. JAMES. 
 
 Anne's church, between 10 and II o'clock. From Mr. 
 If earners Collection of curious discourses, append, p. 298. ' 
 See Biogr. Brit. 3720-3, 3727-32. His help is acknow- 
 ledged by Almeloveen in his pref. to Casauboni Epistolae; 
 he is highly praised by T. Hearne, Camd. i pr. vii, Ivi, c, 5 
 civ, cvi, cxli, cxliii. Graevius, 18 May 1695, sent to 
 Smith, through Bentley a copy of a speech which he had 
 printed in honour of the late queen. Bentley (Corresp. 
 98, 101) sent it to the abp. instead; he would not deliver 
 it to Smith, 'homini alioqui probo et erudito; verum, 10 
 quod tu, opinor, haud inaudiveras, animo erga regem 
 Gulielmum et beatae MARIAE memoriam non parum iniquo. ' 
 MS. letters of his to J. W. -van Meel ( UffenbacWs Reisen 
 in 556). See the indices to Wood's works, Nichols, Lit. 
 Anecd., Reliqn. Hearn., and Macraes Annals of the 15 
 Bodleian, where Smith's MSS. are deposited. 
 
 P. 119 1.25. a MS. of several epistles. Dd xi 90 
 (Scholz 21). 1. 27. Dr. Covell. Cf. p. 147 1. 9 with the n. 
 1. 29. two fine copies of the N. T. Cf. p. 148 1. 15 seq. 
 
 P. 1 20 1.2. Hen. James, pres. of Qit., has verses in 20 
 Hymenaais Cantabr. 1683, f. C vo., in Acad. Cantabr. 
 affectus, 1684-5, f- C 2 vo., in Ducts Cornubiae geneth- 
 liacon, 1688, f. B I vo. His will in MS. Baker xxxvin 
 223-8 (see Catal. of Cambr. MSS. V 463 for a summary): 
 ' Henry, the son of Henry James and Martha his wife, 25 
 baptiz'd Dec. 25, 1642. From Kingston register, co. 
 Somerset. [He bequeathed ;ioo to the parish.] He was 
 bom at Kingston, his father being then minister there, 
 and was put into Crocomb by the committee, after his son 
 Henry was born. [The son bequeathed ,100 to Croken- 30 
 ham. ] From Sir Phil. Sydenham, Somerset. Hen. James 
 Somersetensis admissus prius in coll. [litura obducitur] Maii 
 1660, translatus est ad nos Aug. 26, 1661, tutore Domino 
 Newberg. Jan. 26, 1664 Dominus James admissus est 
 socius in locum M" Lade. Regr. coll. Regin? ibid. 328: 35 
 ' Henr. James, S.T.P., ob. 15 Mar. 1716-7.' Cf. xxv 
 433, MS. Cole vii 160. He was king's chaplain, preb y .
 
 HENRY JAMES. 333 
 
 of Canterb. and York (Hist. Reg. 15 Mar. 1716-7). He 
 published a sermon on Luke \ 74-5, preached before the 
 king at Newmarket, Land. 1674, 4to. Bp. Hoadly gives 
 an account of his humour as moderator (Pref. to Dr. S. 
 
 5 Clarke's Sermons) : ' The royal professor of divinity, Dr. 
 James, who was a learned, ready and very acute disputer, 
 exerted himself beyond what was his common practice, in 
 order to oppose and try him to the utmost. By the help 
 of a great memory and fluency of words, and a certain 
 
 10 knack in the art of disputing, he first went into a long 
 examination of Dr. Clarke's thesis, (which was an elabo- 
 rate discourse upon the former of these two questions) 
 sifting every part of it with the strictest nicety ; and after- 
 wards pressed him with all the force of syllogism, in its 
 
 15 various forms, thro' the course of the disputation. Here 
 was an adversary worthy of such a respondent. To the 
 former Dr. Clarke made an extempore reply in a continued 
 discourse for near half an hour, in which, without any 
 hesitation either for thoughts or for language, he took off 
 
 20 the force of all that the professor had said, in such a 
 manner, that many of the auditors declared themselves 
 astonished, and own'd that if they had not been within 
 sight of him, they should have supposed him to have read 
 every word of this reply out of a paper. After this, thro' 
 
 25 the course of the syllogistical disputation, he guarded so 
 well against the arts which the professor was master of 
 in perfection ; he replied so readily to the greatest diffi- 
 culties that such an objector could propose, and press'd 
 upon the professor so close and so hard with his answers, 
 
 30 clear and intelligible to all, that perhaps never was such 
 a conflict heard in those schools; never such a disputa- 
 tion kept up for so long a time with such spirit, nor 
 ever any which ended with greater, if equal honour, to 
 the respondent. The professor himself, who was a man 
 
 35 of humour as well as learning, said to him aloud, towards 
 the end of the disputation (an accidental debate having 
 arisen, as I have been informed, about the meaning of the
 
 334 THOMAS SMOULT. 
 
 word exacuo) profecto, me probe exacuisti, which I hardly 
 know how to interpret to the English reader, unless by 
 a phrase of a low kind, In truth you have thoroughly 
 rubVd me up. Others think the word was exercuisti. 
 They remember that the professor used often to speak to 5 
 a respondent after a long disputation, finem iamfaciam; 
 nam te probe exercui : "I will now make an end, for I have 
 sufficiently work'd you," and say that he was going to use 
 the same expression to Dr. Clarke, but after the word te, 
 stop'd and corrected himself and said, nam ME probe 10 
 exercuisti " For you have work'd me thoroughly." This 
 was look'd upon as a very high compliment in his . 
 humorous way of speaking.' 
 
 P. 1 20 1.3. Humfr. Gower. Seep. 27 1.2oseq. 
 
 P. 1201.5. Thomas Smoult has verses in Acad.Cantabr. 15 
 affectus, 1684-5, f- D3> and in Lacrymae Cantabr. 1694-5, 
 f. C. ' Thomas Smoult, films Ednmndi Smoult &z Latham 
 in comitatu Lancastriensi generosi natus, ibidem litteris 
 grammaticis institutus in schola publica de Winwicke sub 
 magistro Gosse praeceptore eius, annos natus sedecim 20 
 admissus est subsizator sub magistro Compton tutore et 
 fideiussore eius 19 die Maii 1650.' St. John's register. 
 Admitted Ashton fellow of St. John's 5 May 1664, suc- 
 cessor elected 22 Mar. 1707-8, sen. fell. 6 Apr. 1685, 
 successor appointed 3 Nov. 1707; college preacher 4 May 25 
 1667. He was a special friend of Is. Milles ; lord keeper 
 North, who had known him well at college, would enquire 
 of any Johnian whom he might meet, ' how honest Tom 
 Smoult did?' (Life of Is. Milles, Land. 1721, 8vo., my 
 copy ascribes the authorship to ' Mr. Pocock,' pp. 24-5 ; a 30 
 curious story is told ibid. 25-9): 'It happened not many 
 years after the restoration of king Charles II., that Mr. 
 Smoult was either a visiter or a guest at the house of 
 a certain gentleman who had one day several other gentle- 
 men who came to dine with him, some by invitation, and 35 
 others of their own accord. Mr. Smoult being the only 
 clergyman in the company, was oblig'd to say grace before
 
 THOMAS SMOULT. 335 
 
 they sat down to dinner, which accordingly he did, but 
 whilst he was performing this office, a certain young 
 gentleman in the company behaved himself in such a 
 manner, with so much contempt and ridicule of the parson, 
 
 5 as he called him, that all the company, as well as Mr. 
 Smoidt, could not but take particular notice of him. Mr. 
 Smoult however said nothing, nor shewed any manner of 
 resentment of the affront, lest he should any way render 
 the company uneasy during the time of dinner. When 
 
 10 dinner was over, and it was Mr. Smoulfs duty to say 
 grace afterwards, the same gentleman was so remarkably 
 silly and rude whilst he was performing this duty, that 
 Mr. Smoult and the whole company could do no otherwise 
 than much observe it. Mr. Smoult thought it became 
 
 15 him to resent this unaccountable behaviour in a way 
 somewhat different from that in which the rest of the 
 company thought fit to take notice of it, and calling the 
 gentleman aside, into a little 'room hard by, he reproved 
 him pretty severely for his profaneness and ill manners. 
 
 20 Upon this the gentleman seemed so much nettled that he 
 told him he would never bear such an indignity, but did 
 demand, and would have from him, an honorable amends. 
 Upon which Mr. Smoult told him he did not know that 
 any amends was due to him, nor what he meant by an 
 
 25 honorable one ; whereupon, in a seeming rage, the 
 gentleman clapped his hand on his sword. Mr. Smoult 
 then told him "that he wore no sword, and his pro- 
 fession withheld him from the use of one; adding, that 
 he did suppose that was the chief reason which made 
 
 30 him so forward to demand a satisfaction which he 
 knew in the present case could not nor would not be 
 given to him ;" and so left him and went to the company. 
 After he had sat a little while, there came in a servant, 
 who, whispering him in the ear, told him there was 
 
 35 one without desired to speak with him. Mr. Smoull, 
 not thinking any more of what had passed, and never 
 imagining it was the aforementioned gentleman who sent
 
 336 THOS. SMOULT S DUEL. 
 
 for him, went into the garden, whither the servant led 
 him, and at the upper end of it, found this same gentle- 
 man walking to and fro, with two swords under his arm. 
 As soon as Mr. Smoult came to him, the gentleman told 
 him he did insist upon Mr. parsoris (so he styled him) 5 
 giving him the satisfaction he had demanded ; and that 
 now there was no room for his former refusal, since he 
 had there two swords, of which he might take which he 
 pleased, holding out the hilts of the swords to him. After 
 a little pause, Mr. Smoult accepted of one of the swords, 10 
 and retiring to a small distance, stripped himself to his 
 waistcoat, drew and apply'd himself to the combat ; re- 
 solving however, as he said, to be only on the defensive. 
 The gentleman, after some flourishes, to shew how well 
 he had been bred to the sword, made three or four hearty 15 
 thrusts at him, the last of which Mr. Smoult, who was 
 a perfect master of his weapon, put by with so great 
 force, such exactness and* steadiness of direction and 
 motion, and such intrepidity of mind, that he had like to 
 have disarmed the gentleman by flinging his sword out of 20 
 his hand, and at the same time very nimbly and dextrously 
 running in to him, threw up his heels, and very fairly 
 laid him on his back. After which, holding the point of 
 his sword near his breast, he told him he did apprehend 
 "that by the laws of the honorable satisfaction he had 25 
 so importunately demanded and taken he ought now to 
 beg his life;" which the gentleman however refused to 
 do. Whereupon Mr. Smoult took his sword from him, 
 and broke it over his head. And then after he had put 
 on his cloaths, he broke also the sword which he himself 30 
 had used, and so went into the company he had left, who 
 knew nothing of what had passed in his absence. This 
 affair, as it had no witnesses to it, so might it have gone 
 off without being ever mentioned, if the gentleman, who 
 was concerned, had not been so indiscreet as to publish it. 35 
 Mr. Smoult, for reasons best known to himself, always 
 afterwards disapproved and condemned his own conduct
 
 SMO UL T. OXENDEN. GREENE. 337 
 
 herein, tho' some may be apt to say there was nothing in 
 it that ought to be blamed, and as I have heard Mr. 
 Milles say, he was not well pleased to hear it at any time 
 mentioned.' He was first Knightbridge professor, and 
 
 5 a grace passed 10 Oct. 1685, that he and his successors 
 should rank with the other professors (MS. Baker XXXIII 
 247 : Stat. Acad. Cant. p. 401). His epitaph is in Salmon's, 
 Herts 401 and Le Neve's Monum. Anglic. 1700-15, p. 131. 
 He was buried at Barkway, Herts, where he was vicar 
 
 10 (MSS. Cole in 58 b, xxxv 49). White Kennett to S. Black- 
 well I [misprint for II ?] July 1707 (Brydges, Restituta III 
 388) : ' Dr. Smoult, rector of Northchurch in Hertfordshire, 
 and casuistical professor of divinity in Cambridge, dying 
 there at the end of last week, left ^600 to pious uses, 
 
 15 ^200 to clergymen's widows, ^200 to augment his pro- 
 fessorship, and ;2OO to the public library.' On II Jan. 
 1719-20 a grace passed for enrolling him among the 
 benefactors of the university, because of his bequest of 
 .300 for buying land to augment the salary of the prof. 
 
 20 of practical theology (MS. Baker xxxvin 248). 
 
 P. 1 20 1. 6. George Oxenden, or Oxinden, of Trin. h. 
 LL.B. 1673, M.A. by mandate 1675, LL.D. 1679; pupil 
 of Roger Meredith ( Ward's Gresham Prof. 255); prof. 
 1684, mast. Tr. h. 1688 ; has verses in Hymenaeus Cantabr. 
 
 25 1683, f. C4 vo., Acad. Cantabr. affectus, 1684-5, f. D4v<>., 
 Ducis Cornubiae genethliacon, 1688, f. C 2, Lacrymae 
 Cantabr. 1694-5, f. 4. Dean of the arches (Trevor's 
 William III. II 480). See Nichols, Topographer and 
 geneal. Ill 44; Brydges, Autobiogr. I 82, cf. 96. Cole's 
 
 30 account of him is printed in Brydges, Restituta, IV 388-9 ; 
 see MS. Cole XXX 214. A younger Geo. Oxenden 'Londi- 
 nensis LL.B. socius in locum Rob. Mapletoft LL.D. de- 
 functi ex fund. Mowse,' elected 2, adm. 7 June 1715 
 (Register of Tr. h. in MS. Baker IV 369). 
 
 35 P. 120 1.8. Chr. Greene fellow of CaiusR. A. 1671-2; 
 (Green} M.A. 1675, M.D. 1685, prof. 1700. Another 
 Chr. Green (prob. his son) was of Eman. M.B. 1714,
 
 338 CHR. GREENE. JAS. TALBOT. 
 
 M.D. by mandate 1717. Chr. Green ofChr. B.A. 1741-2, 
 M.A. 1745 was the professor's grandson (MS. Cole xix 
 32 a), and sister's son to Wm. Fordham of Emm. B. A. 
 1717, M.A. 1721, conduct of King's, who lived zkRoyston. 
 The professor subscribed for Strype's Parker and Annals. 5 
 
 P. 1 20 1.9. William Whiston. See p. 1 78 1.28. 
 
 P. 120 l.io. James Talbot, of Trin. B.A. 1686-7, 
 M.A. 1690, Hebr. prof. 1699, D.D. by mandate 1705. 
 He has verses in Acad. Cantabr. affectus, 1684-5, I v * 
 Rector of Spofforth, Yorkshire (Nichols, Collection of poems, 10 
 11189, vin 292). Editor of Horace, Cambr. 1799, 4to., 
 1701, I2mo. ; published a visitation sermon on Matt, xviii 
 17. The judicial ptnver of the church asserted. Lond. 1708. 
 4to. The church-catechism explained by a paraphrase, and 
 confirmed by proofs from the holy scripture; to -which is 15 
 added a table of questions to be answered from the catechism. 
 Lond. 1705. 8vo. The Christian schoolmaster; or the 
 duty of those who are employed in the publick instruction of 
 children. Lond. 1707. 8vo. 
 
 P. 120 1. II. Joshua Barnes. Seep. 1951.2. 20 
 
 P. 1 20 1.12. John Luke, fellow of Christ's, has arabic 
 verses in Duds Cornubiae genethliacon, 1688, f. 63.
 
 Z C. v. UFFENBACH.
 
 Sure I am there needeth no such pains to be took, or provision to 
 be made, about the preeminence of our English universities, to regulate 
 their places, they having better learned humility from the precept of 
 the Apostle, In honour preferring one another. Wherefore I presume 
 my aunt Oxford will not be justly offended, if in this book I give my 
 own mother the upper hand, and first begin with her history. Thus 
 desiring God to pour his blessing on both, that neither may want milk 
 for their children, or children for their milk, we proceed to the business. 
 THOMAS FCLLER, History of Cambridge, Preface.
 
 LIFE OF UFFENBACH. 
 
 Joh. Geo. Schelhorn's life of his patron, prefixed to 
 vols. I. and II. of Commercii epistolaris Uffenbachiani 
 selecta, Ulmae et Memmingae, I753~6> 5 v l s - 8vo., was 
 translated into german by Sckdksnfs son-in-law, Joh. Geo. 
 
 5 Hermann, and prefixed to the Reisen, Ulm, 1753; Her- 
 mann drew some additional details from a larger latin life 
 by Schelhorn, which has never been printed. From these 
 the following account is taken. See also Saxii Onomast. 
 vi 332. 
 
 10 Uffenbach was born at Frankfort on the Mayn 22 Febr. 
 1682-3, f a good family. From his infancy he took 
 delight in an illustrated Bible and in Gottfried's history 
 of the four monarchies, with Merian's plates. He early 
 learnt to play the violin and to bind books ; and was 
 
 15 a curious observer of all mechanical arts. He was sent 
 to school at his earnest entreaty, I Oct. 1694, to Rudelstadt 
 under Jo. Ern. Milller; here he spent his play-time and 
 half the night in study, until his master, fearing for his 
 health, and finding warnings ineffectual, ' candelarum 
 
 20 copiam denegabat.' He afterwards complained that 
 history, chronology, genealogy and geography were neg- 
 lected in this school; which he would have substituted 
 for logic and scholastic metaphysics. He made up for 
 the defect however by his private studies; e.g. he could 
 
 25 recite whole chapters of Morhofs Polyhistor by heart. 
 He remained at school, without one visit to his home, for 
 four years. In 1698 he was sent to Strassburg university, 
 where he speedily made himself at home in libraries, 
 
 AA
 
 342 LIFE OF UFFENBACH 1698-1703. 
 
 public and private, and museums, and in the shops of 
 booksellers and dealers in curiosities. He attended lec- 
 tures on chronology, law, anatomy; learnt to play the 
 flute; became perfect in french; weak eyesight however 
 compelled him to abandon drawing after three months' 5 
 study. In his journeys his brother afterwards aided him 
 with his pencil. In the year 1 700 he lost both his parents, 
 and entered at Halle, where he attended the lectures of 
 J. S. Stryck on law, and those of the admirable J. F. 
 Buddeus on philosophy, to whom he declared that he 10 
 owed more than to any other man. In April 1701 he 
 attended the Leipzig book-mart : already he had a library 
 of his own fit for a professor. He had free access, when 
 at Halle, to the public and several private libraries, from 
 one of which he borrowed many travels ; these afterwards 1 5 
 stood him in good stead, as he digested into 6 thick 
 volumes all their information respecting the curiosities of 
 various countries. At the same time he read through 
 Gottfr. Arnold's Kirchen-und Ketzer- Historic, and greedily 
 devoured the learned journals ; he also attended lectures 20 
 on natural philosophy, and studied the arguments by which 
 Parker, Bentley, Ray, Nieuiventijt and others prove a 
 Creator from the works of creation. He applied himself 
 likewise for the first time to greek studies, and in two 
 months was able to construe the gr. testament. He at- 25 
 tended courses on politics and modern history by Buddeus ; 
 on philosophy by Christian Thomasius, who seasoned his 
 lectures with scurrilous jokes at the expense of his col- 
 leagues, and encouraged a love of paradox. In September 
 1 703 he took the degree of doctor in civil and canon law. 30 
 At this time he had drawn up a plan for visiting the whole 
 of Europe, on a scale which would have required nine 
 years for its execution. In order to record his observa- 
 tions on the spot, he practised writing pencil-notes in his 
 pocket, unobserved by those with whom he was convers- 35 
 ing. In the autumn of 1703 he travelled through part of 
 Germany, inspecting libraries, museums, churches, work-
 
 LIFE OF UFFENBACH 1703-9. 343 
 
 shops, studios, copying inscriptions and manuscripts, and 
 now and then, under seal of secresy, some prohibited 
 book. On 10 Jan. 1704, he returned home to Frankfort, 
 and there spent upwards of five years, ' the happiest of 
 
 5 his life, ' in collecting and studying books ; some of which 
 he always had with him, even when walking, driving, or 
 lying on the banks of the Mayn. At first he bought 
 books and MSS. on all subjects ; but gradually limited his 
 purchases for the most part to MSS., especially the corre- 
 
 10 spondence of scholars, and books enriched with their notes, 
 early-printed, rare, and prohibited books, books on po- 
 litical and literary history, and documents relating to 
 Frankfort. In the hope of making his library generally 
 useful, he spent much time in compiling catalogues; one 
 
 15 single list, of tracts comprised in large collections, begun 
 in 1706, contained 60,000 entries in 1725. In a trip to 
 Holland in 1 705 he mastered the dutch language, and for 
 the first time attended book-sales. In 1706 he appears 
 as an ardent collector of coins. In 1709 he so arranged 
 
 2O his affairs as to allow of a lengthened journey in Holland 
 and England, with a design of settling for life in some 
 Oxford college. He took with him his brother John 
 Frederick, then a student of Halle, afterwards * consul 
 magnificus' of Frankfort. When preparing for his journey 
 
 25 he saw twin-sisters, Helen and Judith, joined at the hips, 
 born in Hungary in 1701, who spoke dutch, hungarian, 
 french and german. From J. M. Heineccius at Halle he 
 learnt the art of taking casts of seals ; having great skill 
 in leading all with whom he conversed to the topics of 
 
 30 which they were masters, and thus adding to his know- 
 ledge wherever he went. On 8 Nov. 1709 he set out on 
 his journey through lower Saxony and Friesland into the 
 Low Countries and England. In his visits to the english 
 libraries he made corrections in Bernard's catalogue of 
 
 35 MSS. sufficient to fill a volume. The english diet and 
 climate, and especially the disturbed state of public affairs 
 in this country, made him abandon the design of settling
 
 344 LIFE OF UFFENBACH 1711-25. 
 
 in Oxford* The wars barred the way to Italy and 
 France; accordingly he returned to Frankfort in April 
 1711, bringing with him more than 4000 volumes -which 
 he had purchased on his travels. He found the friend, 
 with whom he had before lived, no longer alive, and 5 
 knowing that the widow would not interfere with his 
 tastes, 'studium suum bibliothecarium haud remoraturam,' 
 he married her. In 1718 she accompanied him on a tour 
 through the Low Countries. In Flanders, which was 
 virgin ground, he stole away from his lady friends to 10 
 inspect the Jesuits' libraries at Antwerp and Louvain; 
 ' Musasque, ringentibus licet ac opprobantibus Gratiis meis, 
 sectatus sum.' He was very courteously received by Du 
 Sollier, who had the chief oversight of the Acta Sanctorum. 
 The greek and latin MSS. of the monasteries had all, he 15 
 was assured, perished in the wars ; he was forced to 
 content himself with historical and genealogical documents. 
 His correspondence was very wide; he preserved the 
 rough copies of his own letters, latin, french or german, 
 and bound them up with his correspondents' replies. Of 20 
 these he bequeathed to Schelhorn one thick volume in fol. , 
 and nineteen in 410.; containing in all more than 5000 
 letters, by about 160 authors: In 1725 he exchanged his 
 fine cabinet of coins for 100 MSS. on Swiss history with the 
 father of J. B. Ott, the Lambeth librarian. He amassed 25 
 a fine collection of seals and charters; and noted down 
 many thousand abbreviations employed by mediaeval 
 scribes. A ' bibliotheca diplomatica Uffenbachiana' was 
 intended to comprise all his charters, chronologically 
 arranged under different heads. Of MSS. he had about 30 
 2000 ; of books containing the collations, corrections and 
 other notes of the learned, nearly 400 ; of inedited letters 
 more than 20,000, a catalogue of which was published by 
 its purchaser, the learned J. C. Wolf, at Hamburg, 1736, 
 8vo. ; the collection itself is now in the Hamburg library. 35 
 He continually employed young students to make tran- 
 
 * Cf. Commerc. epist. Uffinb. n 293-4, 347.
 
 UFFENBACH'S LIBRAR Y. 345 
 
 scripts of his MSS., for purposes of exchange. Every 
 scholar was welcome freely to use these treasures ; Martette 
 and Durand quote the testimony of Schannat; he found 
 no library to equal it in Germany: 'Car outre un tres 
 
 5 beau cabinet de medailles, il a des busies, statues, bas- 
 reliefs, des bijoux en grand nombre, et pardessus cela 
 une bibliotheque des plus riches et des mieux ordonnees. 
 Pour vous en donner une idee, je vous dirai, qu 'il 
 travaille actuellement a en donner le catalogue au public, 
 
 IO en deux gros volumes en folio, dont 1'un ne contiendra 
 que ses manuscrits, tous egalement rares. . . Du reste, je 
 ne saurois assez vous vanter le scavoir et les manieres 
 nobles et gracieuses de ce Monsieur de Uffenbach, qui ne 
 souhaite rien tant que la connaissance des sgavans, a 
 
 1 5 qui il se fait un plaisir de communiquer tout sans reserve. ' 
 
 Uffeubach corrects this statement in some points ; he 
 
 _ never intended to publish a catalogue of his printed 
 
 books; the two volumes projected were to comprise the 
 
 description of MSS. alone; the first and only volume 
 
 20 appeared at Halle in 1 720, fol. , Uffenbach himself de- 
 scribing all except the greek and oriental MSS. The 
 Hamburg library contains the album, in three 4to. volumes, 
 in which UffenbacKs learned visitors inscribed their names 
 between 1711 and 1733. Among the authors who were 
 
 25 indebted to his help were J. A. Bengel, J. C. Wolf, Chr. 
 A. Heumann, P. B. Fez, and his devoted biographer and 
 editor, J. G. Schelhorn. When no longer able to use the 
 library as he wished, he issued (1729-1731) bibliotheca 
 universalis Uffenbachiana, in 4 thick volumes 8vo. The 
 
 30 books thus offered for sale did not include those relating 
 to literary history, or to the city of Frankfort. These 
 two classes he still continued to increase by purchases. 
 To his native city he bequeathed his local collections; 
 of books unsold at the former sale, and of books on 
 
 35 literary history, a new catalogue was issued, also in 4 
 vols. ; they were sold by auction in March 1 735 and the 
 following months.
 
 346 CHARACTER OF UFFENBACH. 
 
 ' He was of choleric-sanguine temperament, of middle 
 stature, of a noble countenance, somewhat pale, of dark 
 large eyes, which betrayed the calmness and goodness of 
 his soul ; of a voice manly, strong, but not harsh, and what 
 is the main point, ever agreeing with the thoughts of his 5 
 mind ; of a habit of body rather spare than lusty ; of decent 
 and grave carriage ; pious and reverent towards God ; tem- 
 perate in diet, scorning all pleasures, but such as spring 
 from literary pursuits; somewhat irritable, but soon ap- 
 peased and not eager for revenge, a lover of justice and 10 
 fairness, regarding neither fear or favour in passing sentence ; 
 never more rejoiced, than when by his advice and his re- 
 sources he could advance the interests of the literary world.' 
 In his daily devotions he employed the 25th psalm; he 
 often applied ps. 139 13-18 to his deliverance before birth ; 15 
 when, owing to a severe fall of his mother, he received 
 a bruise, the marks of which he retained to his dying day. 
 He early chose ps. 39 5-10 as the text of his funeral sermon, 
 applying the seventh verse to his library. He died 6 Jan. 
 1 734, and lies buried in the grave-yard of St. Catharine's 20 
 church, Frankfort, near his friend Job Ludolf. His younger 
 daughter, the light of his eyes, died before him at the 
 age of 21 ; she knew the place of every book in his 
 library, and was a good latin scholar; she had read to 
 her father the whole of the Basel lexicon in 4 folio vols., 25 
 and many other books. 
 
 In a treatise 'de studio Uffenbachii bibliothecario' 
 prefixed to parts ill. and IV. of the commercii epist. Uffenb. 
 selecta, Schelhorn calls him, as many others had done, the 
 Peiresc of Germany ; and assuredly he did not yield to 30 
 that 'procureur general de la litterature,' either in ardour 
 or in liberality. * In the year 1 704 the monks of Cologne 
 sent to Frankfort market a number of MSS. in loose sheets, 
 as mere waste ; Uffenbach selected from the mass all that 
 
 * He says himself (cotnmerc. epist. in 20) 16 Apr. 1712: Nihil 
 profecto mihi optatius, quant ut viros bibliophiles adiuvem : nihil- 
 que magis odio habeo, quam bibliotaphos.
 
 UFFENB AC WS LIBRARY. 347 
 
 seemed of value, and thus laboriously bringing together 
 their Sibylline leaves, secured many complete and im- 
 portant works : fine MSS. of the fathers, martyrologies, etc. 
 were sold to him by weight. By himself and his agents 
 
 5 he ransacked not only bookstalls, but goldbeaters', book- 
 binders' and trunk-makers' workshops, and the shops of 
 bakers, grocers, confectioners, fishmongers; one fine folio, 
 containing the acts of the councils of Constance and Bale, 
 had fallen ' in manus illotas, vel potius profanas nonnul- 
 
 IO larum virginum,' who pared away the margins for patterns 
 of lace. After some years he gave to his brother his 
 mathematical and physical library, and concentrated his 
 attention chiefly upon history. He formed an unrivalled 
 collection of prohibited and condemned books; but was 
 
 15 careful to lock up the classes in which they were kept, 
 granting access to them only to men of proved discretion. 
 Flysheets, controversial tracts, dissertations, might often 
 have perished utterly, but for his care. In his early years 
 he had great opportunities for collecting MSS., the stores 
 
 20 of the monasteries being at that time in the market ; but 
 the rivalry of the English, and the Vandalism of book- 
 binders and goldsmiths, exhausted the supply before his 
 death. Of manuscript letters he had no less than 30,000; 
 of the autographs of famous men 6000. Like the great 
 
 25 English collector of our day, he catalogued his books with 
 his own hand, filling 50 thick folios with the titles. All 
 were wrapped in blue paper, with the title of the con- 
 tents on the back ; each separate tract was marked by a 
 separate piece of paper. His very dreams turned upon 
 
 30 books ; he would discourse of them in his sleep, so as to 
 awake his wife; often he would seem to see books on 
 some worthy but neglected theme, and regretted that he 
 had not catalogued his copious ' bibliothecam e somniis.' 
 He drew up a list of 300 desiderata, some of which are 
 
 35 highly suggestive: e.g. 'de haereticis fictis'; 'de docta, 
 pia ac necessaria in theologicis et mysteriis sacris igno- 
 rantia.'
 
 348 
 
 UFFENBACH'S TRAVELS. 
 
 He writes 9 Apr. 1712 (commerc. epist. m 17): 'prae- 
 stabo id, quam primum diarium itineris, nuper perSaxom'am 
 inferiorem, Frisiam, universum Belgium et Angliam a me 
 peracti, quod nunc prae manibus habeo, absolvero. ' It 
 was not until 1753-4 however that there appeared at Ulm 5 
 in three volumes 8vo. Herrn Zacharias Conrad von Uffen- 
 bach merkwiirdige Reisen durch Niedersachsen, Holland 
 tind Engelland. The following translation is a summary, 
 more or less full, except in the portions between inverted 
 commas, which is literal. 10 
 
 Vol. II 426-7: ^jfime 1710, after waiting for despatches 
 from the duke of Marlborough, embarked at Helvoetsluys 
 on board the Dolphin, at 6^ p.m. 
 
 Pp. 428-32: Twenty-four hours generally reckoned a 
 good passage; with a speeding wind the captain expected 15 
 to cross in nine or ten hours; but the wind shifted, 
 privateers forced the packet out of her course, so that 
 it was not till i% p.m. on 5 jfune that we reached 
 Harwich. Miseries of sea-sickness. Pp. 432-3 : Impor- 
 tunity of the custom house officers, who stared hard at 20 
 twelve new shirts which I had bought in Holland; how- 
 ever, as they had my name, and were purposely tumbled, 
 they were allowed to pass. We spent the night here, 
 and found every thing very dear and very bad. We hired 
 a four-horse coach for next day, and paid full fare, five 25 
 guineas, though we were only three persons, with three 
 trunks. These coaches are very oldfashioned, carrying 
 three before and three behind. 
 
 P. 433: 6 June. At 6 a.m. we set out and at Man- 
 ningtree (12 miles), found that they wished to search our 30 
 trunks again ; but only in order to extract a ' Trinkgeld. ' 
 Pp. 434-5 ' at 2 p. m. we reached Colchester (8 miles), where
 
 ST. JAMES'S PARK. CHELSEA. 349 
 
 we dined; at 'J p.m. Witham (5 miles), where we slept, 
 as the coaches generally go no farther, and the roads are 
 dangerous at night. 7 June at 7 n.m. we set out, and 
 baited at Chdmsford (7 miles); reached Brentwood (10 
 
 5 miles) at 2, where we dined. At Rumford (5 miles) and 
 all the way thence to London, we met a multitude of 
 travellers, riding and driving ; the dust was so thick, that 
 one could scarce see a hand's breadth before one. 
 
 P. 435: We reached London (10 miles) at 7 p.m., 
 
 10 where our things were again searched ; took one of the 
 hackney-coaches which stand in every street for hire, and 
 drove to ' Suffolk street at the upper end,' to the lodgings 
 of Mistress Benoit, from the Palatinate. 
 
 8 June, Whitsunday. Went in the afternoon to walk 
 
 15 in St. James's park (Delices de la grande Bretagne IV 
 837-8), which is stocked with the finest english kine, and 
 with red deer. P. 436 : There are no longer any birds 
 here. The park was full of common people ; on week- 
 days persons of quality frequent it, all on foot, except the 
 
 20 queen and the dukes of Marlborough and Buckingham, 
 who are allowed to drive. Both here and in the streets 
 many masks are seen, mostly courtesans, of whom there 
 are great numbers here. 
 
 Pp. 436-8 : 9 June. The festival was not at all observed. 
 
 25 We went to Chelsea-college, described in Delices de la grande 
 Bretagne IV 853. The altar and pulpit were hung with 
 violet velvet, with the common symbol of the Jesuits, 
 which however is from the time of king James, when the 
 Jesuits bore rule everywhere. [For a similar jealousy of 
 
 30 the IHS. see above p. 313 1.22]. In the afternoon drove 
 in the Haypark, which was crowded with carriages, driving 
 round and round. 
 
 Pp. 438-42 : 10 June, Tuesday. To the Exchange; 
 then to the garden behind the Drapers' hall, and back to 
 
 35 the Exchange, where I bought some books. At dinner- 
 time, 2 o'clock, took a boat to Whitehall; on a windy 
 day wigs suffer greatly in the open boats, but many are
 
 350 HAYMARKET. PATERNOSTER-ROW. 
 
 covered. At Whitehall saw the wreck of the fire ; only 
 the chapel remains. Cavalry mounting guard. 
 
 At 3.30, after dinner, walked in Westminster and the 
 Haymarket. In the evening went to Haymarket theatre, 
 to the opera Hydaspes; it was the last performance of the 5 
 season. The director Nicolai [or Nicolini\ is very highly 
 paid; of the women singers Margarita de r Epine was 
 the best. Most of the performers are Germans and then 
 French; for the English are not much better than the 
 Dutch. The director of the music is from Brandenburg, 10 
 the well-known Pepusch. Scenery, decorations and acting 
 were excellent. 
 
 Pp. 442-4: \\June, Wednesday. To l Paternoster row, 
 the corner house,' to Badman's store of old bound books, 
 which is the best in England. Elsewhere you find few 15 
 latin books, but here there were two shops full, and the 
 floors piled up with books. The prices were however so 
 high, that I only bought a few english historians, and 
 Mabillon de re diplomatica, the last very cheap, at 2 
 guineas. Latin books may be bought far cheaper in 20 
 Holland than here ; english books however must be bought 
 here, as they do not go out of the country ; when I began 
 to study english at Frankfort, I could meet with nothing 
 but a bible. Widow Swaart, behind the exchange at 
 Amsterdam, is the only dealer in english books there, and 25 
 she has nothing but sermons and the like. Accordingly 
 I set about forming a great collection, especially of english 
 historians. In the evening we saw a comedy, ' you man 
 of Kent: 
 
 Pp. 444-451: 12 June, Took a boat to Greenwich^ 
 6 miles. When we came to the bridge we got out and 
 walked, leaving the boatman to row through alone, for 
 the stream is so strong, that boats are often upset The 
 hospital is far finer than Chelsea. They have been at 
 work on it for 14 years, and it is not half finished : 6d. 35 
 a month is stopped out of every sailor's pay for the works. 
 The painting of the hall ceiling alone cost .1000: the
 
 JO. FLAM STEED. B USCHMANN. 3 $ i 
 
 architect is Mr. James Thornhill at St. Paul's church. 
 The game in the park is exceedingly tame. We found 
 John Flamsteed, the famous astronomer royal, in his study. 
 He is bent down with gout, but received us with polite- 
 
 5 ness rare in England. He spoke latin tolerably well and 
 fluently for an Englishman, and not so much with the english 
 pronunciation, as to hinder us from understanding one 
 another. He enquired after our german mathematicians, 
 Sturm, Weigel, Bernouitti, and shewed us a vast number 
 
 IO of his written observations, taken during 30 years. He 
 has a salary, but, as he says, so small, that he could not 
 have done what he has, if he had not been a rich trades- 
 man's son. He is of weak constitution, a small, in- 
 significant-looking man. He complained that neither 
 
 1 5 Bayer nor others understood Ptolemy rightly ; and shewed 
 us that countless fixed stars had been misplaced. When 
 I said, it was a pity he did not edit Ptolemy, he said, now 
 prince George, his patron, was dead, there was scarcely 
 any hope of it. The mathematical and physical sciences, 
 
 20 and the royal society, seemed drooping. He sent his 
 amanuensis to shew us the observatory, which is much 
 worse furnished with instruments than we expected. 
 \Uffenbach then describes the observatory, and especially 
 a quadrant, of which he gives a plate]. 
 
 25 Pp. 451-5. On our return with the flood we shot the 
 bridge, the water on either side standing much higher 
 than our boat. In the afternoon we drove to the watch- 
 maker Buschmann, a German, formerly at the Hague, who 
 has now for many years resided here ; his watches are as 
 
 30 good as Quarts, and even as Tampion's [ Tho. T. cf. p. 
 448, and Bechmann, hist, of invent, ed. Bohn, II 364], 
 which are much dearer. My brother bought of him a 
 gold watch and chain and cornelian seal set in gold for 
 21. The neat steel swivels cost 6 more. In the 
 
 35 evening we went to the Paris coffee-house, opposite our 
 lodgings, where much gambling goes on and many Germans 
 have been shamefully cheated. But there are many rooms,
 
 3 S 2 NIMTSCH. KARGER. BURG. 
 
 an$l, though you do not play, you may meet much good 
 society, especially of Germans, glad of an opportunity to 
 speak. For owing to the difficulty of english pronuncia- 
 tion, a stranger, however well he may understand the 
 written language, is no better off here than if he were 5 
 deaf and dumb. We here made the acquaintance (i) of 
 Baron Nimtsch, of a wealthy family in Silesia, who has 
 wasted most of his estate in gambling. He has lived 
 many years in Italy and Holland, and now more than 
 seven in England. He spends his whole time between 10 
 chemical experiments and the coffee-house. He knows 
 the english language and society thoroughly, and gave 
 us much useful infonnation. (2) A Silesian M.D., of 
 Breslau, named Karger, who spent two years here some 
 time since, and has now again been more than a year 15 
 here. He is investigating specially the state of learning 
 in England, and will write an account of it in very lively 
 colours, which will certainly open foreigners' eyes, to see 
 that England is no seat of the Muses and all wisdom, but 
 that ignorance and pedantry rule here. He has a great 20 
 knowledge of mathematics, mechanics, physics and medi- 
 cine, in which he was of much service to my brother. I 
 learnt much from him in respect of english literary history 
 and bibliography. He intends to spend the winter here, 
 then to make a short stay at home, and finally to return 25 
 and complete his book here. (3) Mr. Burg, also of 
 Breslau, a magister and candidatus theologiae, not yet 30 
 years old, but so well read in theology and general litera- 
 ture, that the English themselves esteemed him highly. 
 He intended to go to Cambridge, to perfect himself in the 30 
 eastern languages under Mr. Sike. He is a special ad- 
 mirer of the greek fathers, and intends to form a complete 
 catenam patrum in lobum. I am sorry that he could not 
 stay longer in Holland and England, as he seems to have 
 means. But he constantly complained of the cost of 35 
 travelling, especially in England. From him also we 
 learnt much that was of service to us.
 
 ST. PA UL'S. ENGLISH SUNDA YS. 353 
 
 Pp. 456-7: 13 June, Friday. Afternoon, in the New 
 Exchange. In the evening at a comedy in Drury Lane, 
 ' the fair quaker of Deal. ' The principal actress Mrs. 
 Sandlffiu is known throughout all England ' ; as Harlequin 
 
 5 she is painted on snuff-boxes. Then followed a tumbler 
 as Scaramouche. 
 
 Pp. 457-463: 14 June, Saturday morning. To St. 
 PauFs. At the top of the tower found countless names 
 written in chalk, or scratched in the stone; ordered our 
 
 10 servant to write ours also. Clock with inscription : 
 Langley Bradley fecit. 1707: it cost ^"1500. Library of 
 the church : only lately formed. ' He who has charge of 
 the library is an Englishman, that is, one who troubles 
 himself little about it. ' The choir of the church was full 
 
 15 of scaffolding, the workmen being engaged upon the 
 stucco of the groining. The sculptor also was at work 
 upon the statues which are to stand before the church. 
 In the afternoon we removed from our old lodgings to the 
 mesdemoiselles Grossellieres in Suffolk street. 
 
 20 Pp. 463-4: 15 June, Sunday morning. Went to St. 
 James's chapel, to hear the sermon, and at the same time 
 to see the queen; otherwise, as she has kept no open 
 table since prince George^s death, one has no opportunity 
 of catching a sight of her. This time however she did 
 
 25 not appear. In the afternoon to St. James's park, to see 
 the crowds. No other diversion is allowed on Sunday, 
 which is nowhere more strictly kept ; not only is all play 
 forbidden, and public-houses closed, but few even of the 
 boats and hackney-coaches may ply. Our hostess would 
 
 30 not even allow the strangers to play the viol di Gamba or 
 the flute, lest she should be punished. This is, I suppose, 
 the only point in which one sees that the English profess 
 to be Christians, certainly from the rest of their conduct 
 one would not suspect it of many of them. 
 
 35 Pp. 464-6: 1 6 June, Monday afternoon, with Mr. 
 Campe, who lodges at a tinker's at Charing cross. He is 
 by trade a sword-cutler, but deals in old coins, of which
 
 354 THE TOWER. 
 
 he has a fine cabinet, and assured me that he can obtain 
 a guinea or more in England for coins which in Germany 
 or Holland one might buy for half a florin or half a dollar. 
 Some of his greek and latin inscriptions seemed to me 
 modern forgeries. He has from 200 to 250 little statues, 5 
 idols, utensilia etc. He is an Englishman, but speaks 
 french fairly, though with a bad pronunciation. In the 
 evening at the comedy ' London cuckolds,' which always 
 draws a large house. 
 
 Pp. 466-474: 17 June, Tuesday morning. To the 10 
 Tower, where on entering one must give up one's sword to 
 the Swiss guard. One of these english Swiss led us round. 
 The 'narrow gate,' through which condemned criminals 
 passed to execution : hence the proverb : ' he must go 
 through the narrow gate,' i. e. must die. The wild beasts ; 15 
 only four lions with a pet dog, one tiger, two wolves, two 
 indian cats, two eagles, one 40 years old. Armoury, with 
 its quaint arrangement of the arms in patterns. Diving- 
 bell. Royal jewels, ' shewn piece by piece, not in english 
 fashion, that is, cunningly and superficially, but at your 20 
 leisure.' We saw two prisoners of rank; one of whom 
 was lord Griffith, whom the queen reprieves from month 
 to month till his death [Edw. lord Griffin, taken on board 
 the pretender's vessel the Salisbury by Sir Geo. Byng 13 
 Mar. 1707-8]. They were walking under the trees in the 25 
 great court. We visited the medailleur Crocker, a Saxon, 
 who makes all medals for the queen, and cuts the dies for 
 the coinage. The queen's head is indeed well cut in his 
 coins, but the reverse is very clumsy, especially where 
 many figures must be brought in. The Mint was closed, 30 
 and we were informed that no coin would be struck this 
 month. We then drove to the custom^ house, and dined 
 near the exchange at a well-known traiteur's, named 
 Caviac. In the afternoon we did business with a Frank- 
 fort merchant, Mr. Latomus; and in the evening saw a 35 
 comedy, ' Love for love. ' 
 
 Pp. 474-8: 1 8 June, Wednesday morning, we saw the
 
 COCK-FIGHTING. WINSTANLEY. 355 
 
 college of physicians, described in the View of London II 
 647. The library did not seem to contain more than 
 2000 volumes. Before the great fire it was much more 
 numerous, as Wm. Harvey bequeathed his collection to it. 
 
 5 \Uffenbach quotes a long inscription, stating this, and 
 regrets that he could not discover the author]. 
 
 Pp. 478-481. In the afternoon went to see 'cock- 
 fighting, ' a sport in which the English take great delight, 
 though to a stranger it seems very childish. There is 
 
 10 a special house built for the purpose near Grays Inn. 
 When a fight is to come off, printed cards are issued, and 
 advertisements inserted in the papers, stating the amount 
 of the bets, the number and breed of the cocks. [Then 
 follows an account of the fight. Uffenbach bought some 
 
 1 5 ' spurs' of silver]. Afterwards we went into the fine walk 
 belonging to Grays Inn. 
 
 Pp. 481-2 : 19 June, Thursday morning, we went first 
 to the auction of the books of the late Swedish ambassador 
 Leuwencron, who married ill, and died in debt. I bought 
 
 20 chiefly historical books, to the amount of 20 and odd 
 guineas. We then visited Mr. secretary Hasperg, who 
 was sent here by his master, the hereditary prince of 
 Wolfenbiittel, to receive his share of the inheritance of 
 prince George. We were glad to meet him, as he speaks 
 
 25 english well, is acquainted with all that is going on, and 
 very inquisitive. 
 
 Pp. 482-3. In the afternoon we saw Henry Win- 
 Stanley's water theatre, in which tea and coffee were laid 
 on in pipes, and cups presented to the company. At the 
 
 30 close all the pipes threw jets of water. 
 
 Pp. 483-5 : 20 June, Friday morning, we were first in 
 Bedlam, which is described in Delices d' 1 Angleterre IV 831, 
 and in New view of London II 731. We then saw the 
 great open space in front of Bedlam, called Moorfields, 
 
 35 which is planted with trees, and very pleasant. We then 
 drove to Guildhall, described in Delices d' 1 Angleterre IV 
 814 and in New -view of London II 607.
 
 356 LITTLE BRITAIN. TEMPLE. 
 
 P. 485. In the afternoon we drove to Little Britain, 
 where are many second-hand booksellers. I bought to 
 the amount of about 30 guineas, much better bargains 
 than at Badmarfs or other city booksellers ; my purchases 
 were chiefly local histories, there being scarcely a shire in 5 
 England which has not an admirable history. In the 
 evening to the comedy, 'the silent woman,' containing an 
 incomparable representation of a misanthrope. 
 
 Pp. 485-491: 21 June, Saturday morning. To Bride- 
 well, described in New view of London n 733. Below were 10 
 prostitutes beating flax with hammers; they were very 
 bold and made us give them some shillings for brandy. 
 Manufacturers of pins, of plush and velvet, damask, 
 curtains, ribbons, silk pockethandkerchiefs. Next we 
 went to London bridge and were nearly half-way across 15 
 before we found out that we were on the bridge, as there 
 are high houses with shops below on either side. The 
 irons on which the heads of Cromwell and his partisans 
 were fixed, were still to be seen. 
 
 P. 491 : 22 June, Sunday, it rained the whole day, so 20 
 that we did not quit our rooms. 
 
 Pp. 491-4: 23 June, Monday morning, I bought at an 
 auction of a library ' lately lord viscount Fanshaw's' IO 
 guineas worth of english historical books. We drove to 
 the Temple, and saw first the Middle Temple (New view of "25 
 London II 701 seq. ). The dinner was as roughly served, 
 as in the Oxford colleges. The cloth had just been laid, 
 wooden trenchers were set on it, and green pots of 
 crockery to receive the bones; there were no napkins, 
 and the cloth looked as if a sow had farrowed on it. We 30 
 should have had no stomach for the meal, so we hurried 
 to the library, which contains some 2000 books all 
 chained. There were boards to receive the names of 
 benefactors, but the only name on them was that of the 
 founder, Robert Ashley esq. , whose portrait hung close by. 35 
 Among the books were some good ones. The hall and 
 library of the Inner Temple ( View of London II 695) were
 
 BULL-BAITING. EDZARDI. 357 
 
 both more elegant than the above-named. The books 
 were in neat oak cases. Of Rymer's Foedera the gih 
 volume (printed 1709) was the last in the library: the 
 loth is said to be ready. Only 225 copies, I was told, 
 
 5 in all are printed, at the queen's cost, who presents them 
 to the public colleges. Omitting matters of local and 
 family interest, one might extract from this costly work 
 several very useful volumes. 
 
 Pp. 494-5 : In the afternoon I bought some ink-powder, 
 
 IO which is whitish, and when stirred in water makes ink at 
 once. In the evening to a bull-baiting: almost every 
 Monday baiting goes on at two different places. Baiting 
 also of a bear, and of an ass ridden by a monkey. 
 
 Pp. 496-501 : 24 June, Tuesday morning, we were 
 
 15 again at viscount Fans/law's sale. We next drove to 
 Painter- stainers hall (New view of London II 612). The 
 finest picture is a landscape by Rob. Aggas 1679; there 
 is also a small piece representing two copperplate portraits 
 on a board, bearing the name Taverner; whether Taverner 
 
 20 the artist, or the Paris bookseller who publishes many 
 engravings, I know not. In the window is the portrait 
 of Wm. Camden, which Tho. Smith supposes to have 
 perished in the great fire. The cup, mentioned by Smith, 
 is said still to exist, locked up in a cupboard. In a niche 
 
 25 stands a bust of Thos. Evans, father and benefactor of 
 the company, ob. i^Jan. 1687. 
 
 We next visited Edzardi, who resides at the lutheran 
 church (called Swedish because supported by Swedes) of 
 which he is minister. He is a brother of the restless 
 
 30 Sebastian Edzardi of Hamburg, and son of the orientalist 
 Esdras Edzardi famous for converting Jews. Both sons 
 are good hebraists, and we found with this Edzardi one 
 Gnospizis of Dantzig, a gentleman and scholar, who takes 
 lessons in hebrew from him. Baron Nimtsch recommended 
 
 35 us to Mr. Edzardi not only because of his library and 
 knowledge of books, but as a dealer in them, picking up 
 bargains at auctions and then disposing of them. He is 
 
 BB
 
 358 EDZARDL 
 
 upwards of forty years of age. He received us very 
 politely, but it plainly appeared that he is hot-tempered 
 like his brother. He is on bad terms with his colleague 
 in the church, who is the more popular preacher. I do 
 not suppose that he will make friends by his nearly 5 
 finished historia ecclesiastica Anglicana, in specie luthera- 
 nismi in Anglia; from what he told us of it, I could see 
 that it contained much that would give offence to the 
 english church. He begged me to procure for him a 
 publisher in Frankfort, as he would not be able to print 10 
 it here. It deserves for its learning to be printed, though 
 I fear it lacks moderation. He shewed us his library, 
 containing many good books, especially on english history ; 
 a MS. 'confessio regis Aethiopiae,' printed by Ludolf, to 
 whom the elder Edzardi sent a copy ; his father's hebrew 1 5 
 bible, containing many marginal notes. Out of this, he 
 said, many Jeivs had been converted. Next Mr. Edzardi 
 shewed us the english translation of L.Tither"s ' table-talk. ' 
 He assured us that the passage about the Lord's Supper 
 had been monstrously perverted ; the editor, to judge by 20 
 his preface, presumed that there existed no other copy in 
 the world than that from which he translated. Indeed, 
 considering the prodigious ignorance of Englishmen in 
 literary history, especially of other countries, it is possible 
 that the editor presumed, that no other copy was to be 25 
 found in Germany. Next Mr. Edzardi shewed us ' Cate- 
 chismus, that is to say a short instruction etc. Gualterus 
 Lynne excudebat 1548' in 12. Cranmer's name is not on 
 the title, but at the end of the preface. Luther's opinions, 
 especially on the Supper, occur in it as plainly as Luther 30 
 himself could have stated them; which brought Cranmer 
 into great trouble, and made this catechism as rare as any 
 book in the world can be. Of this catechism, and its in- 
 fluence on Cranmer's fortunes, Mr. Edzardi will speak at 
 length in the portion of his history called ' Anglia luthe- 35 
 rana.' See his life [by Strype\ which I have bought ; Mr. 
 Edzardi says that it is indeed well written, but not with
 
 RECORDS IN THE TOWER, 359 
 
 perfect fairness. On our taking leave, Mr. Edzardi offered 
 to let me have books, which he did not absolutely want, 
 from his own library ; he had opportunities of replacing 
 them, whereas strangers were charged very large sums. 
 
 5 Indeed I found that I could procure from him for 6s. 
 
 what the booksellers marked at 8j. or los. Accordingly 
 
 I bought at once the precious works of Fuller and others. 
 
 Pp. 501-3. We went to a goldsmith's in Holborn, 
 
 who had advertised ancient and modern coins for sale. 
 
 IO He would not sell them apart, and asked ^"40 for the lot, 
 which was not worth ;io. The void space in newspapers 
 filled with advertisements in England, instead of with lies, 
 as in Germany. In the evening we wished to see the 
 comedy, the ' careless husband, ' but came home too late. 
 
 15 So we turned into the park, where we saw the chief court 
 ladies. The most beautiful were the duke of MarlborougKs 
 daughters, the duchesses of Montagu and Bridgewater. 
 
 Pp. 503-4: 25 June, Wednesday morning. Bought 
 tickets (costing a crown) for one of Pepusch's concerts. 
 
 20 Margarita de V Epine alone sang. Pepusch directed, and 
 played the general-bass. The principal flutist was a 
 Frenchman, Paisible. Mr. Gramm, of Liineburg, who 
 was of our company, wished to take lessons, but was 
 frightened by the charge, 3 guineas for eighteen. My 
 
 25 brother engaged Scheyon, a German, a master of the 
 violin, at a guinea a month. An Italian, Pietro, who 
 has a large salary from the duke of Ormond, played the 
 viol di Gamba incomparably. 
 
 Pp. 504-8: 26 June, Thursday morning, we went to 
 
 30 see the 'records' (New view of London n 716) kept in 
 Wakefield Tower, on the left as you enter the Tower, 
 towards the Thames. The oldest were only of the I3th 
 century, as we were assured by our guide, a man between 
 thirty and forty and, for an Englishman, very polite and 
 
 35 modest. In a small room four clerks were making tran- 
 scripts for Mr. Rymer. We compared several MSS. with 
 the printed Rymer, and found it exact. We saw also the
 
 360 GEO. HOLMES. BENEDETTI. 
 
 'book of common prayer 1662' with the commissioners' 
 certificate and seal. In another room we saw papal bulls, 
 autograph letters, some to Edw. I., some of Elizabeth, 
 and of the unfortunate Mary ; the oldest document of all 
 was a grant of Adelred A.D. 1007. As one old paper 5 
 document, of great age, was torn, I begged a piece, which 
 I value at more than a guinea ; the writing is scarce legible, 
 and the fabric, where torn, is quite woolly. Our guide 
 took us to the topmost story, to his own rooms ; from 
 which we had a very fine view over the Thames and 10 
 Southivark; he then shewed us in a ' camera obscura' 
 (bought from Marschall} the small boats plying on the 
 river. Next our guide, the famous Mr. ' George Holmes, 
 'deputy of the keeper of the records,' took us to the 
 White tower, containing a powder magazine below, and 15 
 a vaulted chamber, Jtdius Caesar's chapel, above, which 
 contained many documents of the year 1602. Three 
 persons were engaged in numbering them, and bringing 
 them into order. When we took leave, Mr. Holmes re- 
 fused two crowns which I offered him; I have observed 20 
 that men of good address, librarians and the like, are shy 
 of accepting presents from foreigners. 
 
 Pp. 508-511. In the afternoon we visited an Italian, 
 Francesco Benedetti of Lucca, whose acquaintance we made 
 in the Paris coffee-house. He is a well-known antiquary, 25 
 has seen the world, spent many years in France, and has 
 been here ten years. He is a mass-priest, and secretly 
 reads mass daily at the Venetian embassy. He is a great 
 dealer in antiquities, and fleeces the English rarely, selling 
 for enormous sums what he imports for a trifle from 30 
 France and Italy. He is adviser general to all who have 
 cabinets here ; his collection of gems is superior to any 
 that I have seen, except that at Berlin. [List of the chief 
 gems]. He has also many modern gems, cut by the first 
 artists in France, Holland and England. He next shewed 35 
 us his coins; his series is incomplete, as he has sold a 
 large portion to the earl of Pembroke and others. Lastly
 
 WESTMINSTER HALL &> ABBEY. 361 
 
 he shewed us a great collection of engravings by the best 
 masters ; but charged a guinea apiece, or a crown at least, 
 for engravings such as my brother bought at Vischer's in 
 Holland for dd. or 8d. In general we were amazed by 
 
 5 the great sums which the English give for works of 
 art. 
 
 Pp. 511-7 : 27 June, Friday morning, we drove to see 
 Westminster hall, which is by no means ' the most ca- 
 pacious room in Christendom without pillars' (New view 
 
 10 of London II 637), the St. Catharine's church in Frankfort 
 being both broader and longer. Courts of law. House 
 of commons (New view n 629), small and over-crowded 
 during session; speaker's chamber, commanding a view 
 of the Thames over the garden of lord Halifax. Court 
 
 15 of requests, a poor, smoky hall. 'Painted chamber,' 
 where the painted ceiling can scarce be made out for the 
 smoke. House of lords (New view II 628), smaller than 
 the other; the tapestry all spoilt with smoke, and yet 
 valuable for the mass of gold and silver worked into it 
 
 20 and for the history of the Armada. Woolsack. Prince's 
 chamber. Vault of the gunpowder conspirators, now 
 walled up. Westminster abbey ; tomb (so-called) of the 
 ' long maid of Westminster. ' ' Library of the queen's 
 school and college' (New view II 7 I 5> 73)- Even the 
 
 25 newest books, as Graevii thesaurus, were chained to iron 
 bars. The librarian [? Ri. Widmore\ was deaf and looked 
 like a sweep. But to my surprise he spoke latin fairly 
 and shewed us the following MSS. [8 in number]. There 
 were few printed books, and those of no great importance. 
 
 30 At the end was a portrait of John Williams, abp. of 
 York, a benefactor. We then bought in Westminster 
 hall a globe, bacilli Nepperiani, a very small but powerful 
 magnet. 
 
 Pp. 517-8. In the afternoon we drove to the famous 
 
 35 glass-grinder Marschall, whom my brother, with some 
 pains, engaged to teach him the art. In the evening we 
 went to the comedy ' S. Martin Alar-all, or the feign'd
 
 362 RHAUKSBEE. ST. EVREMONT. 
 
 innocence, by John Dryden esq. ,' which is little more 
 than a translation of Moliere's 'tourdi.' 
 
 Pp. 518-9 : 28 June, Saturday morning, went to Francis 
 ffauksbee in Fleet-street in Wine- office- court, but did not 
 find him at home. Yet his cousin shewed us some 5 
 common experiments with the pump, and we made an 
 engagement for another visit. We paid 6.r. for his Me- 
 chanical experiments, Land. 1709, which describe the in- 
 vention of his pump. On our way back we saw Sion 
 college (New view II 724). The books are well arranged, 10 
 chained, but scarce to be touched for smoke and dust; 
 indeed, whenever I examine London books, I make my 
 ruffles as black as coal. Our guide knew nothing, least 
 of all of MSS. , yet I think there must be some. Then we 
 went to the church of St. Mary le Bow, said to rank next 15 
 to St. PauTs (Delicts d'Angleterre IV 814; View of London 
 II 368). 
 
 Pp. 519-520. In the afternoon we went to a bookseller 
 in Common \? covent?\ garden, to see the model of a 
 fortification, highly praised in the papers. We paid half- 20 
 a-crown for the sight, and found it not worth 6d. Bought 
 some more english books. 
 
 Pp. 520-1: 29 June, Sunday. Again in the queen's 
 chapel, but again missed seeing her. At dinner there 
 was much talk of M. S. Evremont: though a true phi- 25 
 losopher, and without religion, he was highly esteemed 
 for his genius and virtue ; he was gentle not only towards 
 men, but towards brutes, keeping many birds, and above 
 all dogs ; he fed the dogs' that passed by from his window, 
 so that after his death troops of them waited about the 30 
 house. The king, who had a liking for him, (as he would 
 accept no other post) made him keeper of the canaries 
 and other birds, with a salary of 200. Towards the 
 end of his life he lost his appetite, never took medicine, 
 but supported himself by a good glass of wine; he called 35 
 for one at his last gasp, and died drinking it. 
 
 Pp. 521-2. In the afternoon we visited Baron Nimtsch.
 
 C.DUPUY. BEAR-GARDEN. 363 
 
 He said he had been 9 years in England, where he in- 
 tended to remain till the peace, when he proposed to go 
 to France and Spain. He shewed me a small two-inch 
 opera glass, bought in Rome of Giuseppe Campani. 
 
 5 P. 522 : 30 June, morning, letters. Afternoon, called 
 on Mr. Campe, and waited long for him, in vain. Even- 
 ing, walked in the park. 
 
 Pp. 522-9 : I July, Tuesday morning, we drove to 
 Claitdius du Puy, a French Swiss cotton-printer, who 
 
 IO has four rooms full of curiosities in natural history, 
 musical instruments and antiquities. [These are described 
 at length; e.g. 'Cromwelfs head, with the broken pole, 
 as it fell down, unless indeed Mr. de Puy has been taken 
 in.' However he asserted that he could sell it for 60 
 
 1 5 guineas. ' By CromweWs head was a mummy's, which 
 
 1 should greatly have preferred']. Likewise a sword- 
 stick containing also a gun-barrel, more than 12 wax- 
 figures large as life, Cleopatra and Antonius etc.; and two 
 apes with tails, and other living creatures. 
 
 20 P. 529. In the afternoon we drove to Cassel [Castle?} 
 street, to a Swiss locksmith, Westerreich. I paid him 
 
 2 gs. for a fine lock for a cabinet. He said prince Eugene 
 had paid him more than 120 gs. for 20 locks for his house 
 at Vienna. 
 
 25 Pp. 530-2 : 2 July, Wednesday morning, we drove to 
 the Monument (A T ew view of London I 54 seq. ), and then 
 to Christ's hospital (ibid. II 738 seq. ), with its handsome 
 hall and new mathematical school. We saw the children 
 dine after prayer; there were not more than 150 girls, 
 
 30 but a greater number of boys. Their costume. St. 
 Bartholomew's hospital (New view II 759) with shops below. 
 West-Smithfield, a cattle-market (ibid. \ 87). 
 
 Pp. 532-6. In the afternoon we drove to the Bear 
 garden at Hockley in the hole. Rough behaviour of the 
 
 35 mob. Fight of four with sticks, a common diversion in 
 Moorfields. Two champions, Thomas Wood an English- 
 man and George Turner a Moor, engage first with long
 
 364 WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 
 
 swords, then with swords and daggers, lastly with broad- 
 swords and bucklers. Many Moors in England. Com- 
 batants severely wounded, often killed ; but the law does 
 not punish the manslayer, if he have fought fair. Women 
 sometimes fight in their shifts. 5 
 
 Pp. 536-543 : 3 July, Thursday morning, we drove 
 to Westminster Abbey (New view II 493 seq. ), which is 
 neither so large nor so fine as we expected. The altar 
 stands to the west (Peirescius epist. 18 in append, ad 
 Camdeni epistolas, p. 386). No trace in Hen. VII. 'j tomb 10 
 of the jewels spoken of by Turlero de peregrinat. lib. I 
 p. 102. Will. III. and Mary his wife, and prince George, 
 lie under plain stones without epitaph. Monument of 
 Elizabeth daughter of John Russell, who bled herself to 
 death by the prick of a needle. The two wooden corona- 1 5 
 tion chairs, in Edw. the Confessor's chapel, are so smoky 
 and poor that I should not care to have them among my 
 furniture. Under the chair brought by Edw. I. from 
 Scotland, is the famous stone of the patriarch Jacob, which 
 is not, as Btichanan asserts, marble, but pure sandstone. 20 
 I would gladly have scraped off a little with my knife, 
 which would have done small damage to the sacred relic, 
 but durst not venture, especially as there is a penalty for 
 sitting on one of the chairs. The great sword, mentioned 
 in the Badenfahrt oder Reyse-Beschreibung Herzog Friede- 25 
 richs von Wurtemburg, p. 14. Graves of famous men. 
 Smith says truly that some ruffian has broken off Camden's 
 nose. St. Evremond's epitaph (ob. 9 Sept. 1703) given at 
 length. Went home through the 'private garden,' which 
 is utterly spoilt, as is also the elaborate sun-dial. 30 
 
 P. 543. In the evening we were at the Queen's theatre 
 in the Haymarket, and saw l Othello Moor of Venice, written 
 by the immortal Shakespettr.* It was a fine piece, and 
 consequently the house was crowded. 
 
 Pp. 543-4 : 4 July, Friday morning, drove to Hyde 35 
 park, to see the review of the royal horse guards, com- 
 manded by the duke of Ormond. They are said not to
 
 GRESHAM COLLEGE, 365 
 
 be as gallant as they look ; for when troubles lately broke 
 out in Scotland, almost the half of them wished to resign. 
 They have, as all Englishmen have, a bad seat, looking 
 like tailors on horseback. 
 
 5 Pp. 544-5. In the afternoon we could not go beyond 
 the coffee-house for the rain, where baron Nimtsch shewed 
 us a fine microscope by Bovilly of Paris ; also a signet, 
 which, when you press a spring, falls into three parts. 
 Mr. Benedetti shewed us some pieces (small heads, and 
 
 IO also 'Alexander and the captive princesses') cast in steel, 
 a remarkable invention, by a watchmaker, Pingo in New- 
 street [called Perigo p. 566]. 
 
 Pp- 545'55 2 : 5 J ll fy> Saturday morning, we drove to 
 Gresham-college {Nnv view of London II 664 seq. ). Miser- 
 
 15 able state of the royal society's apparatus. The guide, if 
 asked for anything, generally said : ' a rogue had stolen it 
 away ;' or he shewed fragments of it, saying : ' it is 
 broken. ' The ' transactions' of the first six years of the 
 society are worth all the rest together. The entire series 
 
 20 can be had bound for 12. The society never meets in 
 summer, and very little in autumn. The present secretary, 
 Dr. Sloane, is indeed a very learned man, but engrossed 
 with his practice and his own large cabinet. The pre- 
 sident, Newton, is an old man, and too much occupied 
 
 25 as master of the mint, and with his own affairs, to trouble 
 himself much about the society. For the rest, excepting 
 Dr. Woodward and a couple more Englishmen, and the 
 foreigners, there remain only apothecaries and the like, 
 who scarce understand latin. For the museum see Grew 
 
 30 and the New view of London II 666. The great magnet, 
 made by Dr. Wren's direction [fully described with a 
 plate, and an account of experiments]. A chair of a 
 certain root, with as many veins as walnut wood, ' given 
 by John lord Somers. . . . from Chusan in China 30 June 
 
 35 1702.' I cannot believe that it is of one solid piece. 
 Ovula of a dropsical woman, some as large as a cherry. 
 Of the library, which came from the duke of Norfolk,
 
 366 QUAKERS. EPSOM. 
 
 I have the printed catalogue in 4to. There were some 
 good MSS., but we could scarce glance at them, as the 
 operator, like a true Englishman, was impatient. The 
 iron oven, constructed by Dr. Hoock for hatching eggs in 
 egyptian fashion (New -view II 683 n. 253) was spoilt. 5 
 Antlers found in an irish bog, 7 ft. I in. in span. Part of 
 a fortress, excellently modelled by a preacher named 
 Christner. Meeting room of the society; portraits, es- 
 pecially of Boyle and Hoock; invention for enabling one 
 man to work two oars, as well as two men could. Clock 10 
 given by bp. Seth Ward in memory of Laur. Rook, who 
 died 1662. In the afternoon at MareschaW s, where my 
 brother ground glass. 
 
 Pp. 552-3 : 6 July, Sunday at noon, we attended the 
 quakers' meeting at the Gatehouse, Westminster. They 15 
 have no regular church, but a mean room, which was 
 crowded. Women preach here as seldom as at Am- 
 sterdam. Two old men spoke this time, very slowly and 
 distinctly, so that I could understand all. The hearers 
 all hung the head, as in Holland; but they used still more 20 
 singular gestures, and fetched sighs altogether terrible. 
 
 Pp- 553-5 : 7 J u b'> Monday morning, at St. James's. 
 The stairs were hung with black flannel, the rooms with 
 black cloth, by way of mourning for prince George. We 
 saw a fine new clock by Ed. Cockey. The paintings are 25 
 all removed to Hampton-court and Windsor. We visited 
 what remains of Whitehall, now converted into a chapel; 
 the ceiling painted by Rubens, consists of nine panels, 
 representing all manner of heathen stories. Afternoon 
 again spent at MareschaWs. 30 
 
 Pp. 555-560: 8 July, Tuesday morning, we set off 
 [with ten other Germans] for Epsom, famous for its salts 
 and its races. Arrived at Epsom at 10 and found several 
 inns unable to accommodate our horses. Company at the 
 races ; many women dressed as men, with feathers in their 35 
 hats ; a very common sight in England, where you may 
 see ten or a dozen galloping along the streets at once.
 
 TENNISONS LIBRAR Y. 367 
 
 [Full description of the race and of the behaviour of the 
 crowd during the race and in the evening]. 
 
 Pp. 560-2 : 9 July, Wednesday morning, we went to 
 the wells. In the afternoon, finding that there was to 
 
 5 be no more racing, we returned to town. Called at the 
 country house of a rich flax-merchant, Cox. Gardens 
 with trees cut into shapes of beasts, men, ships : parterre 
 of box, forming a sun-dial : grotto. One of Mr. Cox's 
 daughters rode with us to London; few of us could keep 
 
 10 pace with her. 
 
 P. 562 : 10 Jidy, Thursday. Letters. In the evening 
 a comedy, ' the changes. ' 
 
 Pp. 562-6 : 1 1 July, Friday morning, drove first to 
 the apothecaries' hall in Black Friars (New view of London 
 
 15 II 594), where drugs are prepared, not only for ships and 
 hospitals, but for most retail dealers. We next went to 
 the heralds' college ( Chamberlayne, present state of England ; 
 New view II 690). Importance of the office, and of 
 visitation. Liberality of the English, in freely opening 
 
 20 their archives. MSS. in the college. To St. Martin's le 
 grand, to see a german goldsmith J. B. Herbst. Then to 
 New street in Cheapside to the watchmaker Perigo [called 
 Pingo p. 545]- He has found out a way of gilding steel. 
 In the afternoon again with Mareschall, to grind glass. 
 
 25 [So also on the I2th]. 
 
 Pp. 567-8: 12 July, Saturday morning, we saw first 
 the library ?.t St. Martin's in Castle street (New -view II 
 642; Bayer's history of king William II 95). It is the 
 neatest and most extensive, which I had yet seen in 
 
 30 London. * But we could scarce spend a minute there ; 
 for the master of the school, to which abp. Tennison, the 
 founder, gave the library, had no time, and was not 
 allowed to shew it to any, who had not received express 
 permission from the abp. We passed on to Somerset 
 
 * This noble library was dispersed by auction a few years since ; 
 a great discouragement to public spirit].
 
 3 68 QUEEN ANNE. 
 
 house and its garden on the Thames. From a Dutchman, 
 Nicolaus de Geus, who dwelt opposite, we bought some 
 glass toys. My brother, who understands glass-blowing, 
 would gladly have learnt the art of making such toys, 
 which look just like porcelain. But he made a great 5 
 mystery of it. 
 
 Pp. 568-9: 13 July, Sunday. At last we saw the 
 queen in her chapel. She is somewhat copper-colored, 
 and though we believe in Germany that she no longer 
 drinks so much brandy or liqueurs, the English still talk IO 
 of the queen's 'cold Tea,' as she takes her dram out of 
 a tea-cup. Strangers also think far better of her intellect 
 than her subjects do; here we read, how all depends 
 on the favorite, first the duchess of Marlborough, and now 
 Mrs. Hill, who has ousted the other. 15 
 
 Pp. 569-574: 14 July, Monday morning, we drove 
 first to Barber Surgeons' hall in Monkwell, or as it is 
 commonly called, Mukel street (New mew of London n 
 596). It is the finest hall we have yet seen, 'repaired 
 and beautified A. D. 1 709. ' Clock given by Henry Carter. 20 
 Various specimens, with the donors' names ; e. g. an 
 ostrich skeleton, given by Thomas Hobbes. Next we 
 drove to Frame-work-knitters' or Stocking-weavers' hall 
 (ibid. 605). It contains nothing remarkable, but the 
 portrait of the inventor of the stocking-frame [ Wm. Lee 25 
 of St. Johifs college]. Next we drove to St. Martin le 
 Grand to Mistress Samon (?) famous throughout England 
 for her wax-work likenesses, most as large as life, and 
 clothed. Her work is much less delicate than that of 
 Mrs. Braunin in Frankfort. Returning I got out at 30 
 Mr. Badmarfs in Paternoster Row, and asked the price 
 of Mabillon 'de re diplomatica. ' The good man asked 
 only 30^., supposing no doubt that the new edition had 
 superseded the old. Some years ago Wetstein asked ten 
 times the money. The first editions of books with plates 35 
 are generally to be preferred; e.g. the figures in the 
 separate, original editions of Golzius are admirable, but
 
 COTTON LIBRAR Y. 369 
 
 in the collected works the plates are so worn as to be 
 useless. 
 
 P. 574. In the afternoon we drove to Hemstede 
 [ffampstead], half a german mile. One of the nearest 
 
 5 medicinal springs. Many summerhouses have been built 
 here ; crowds drive over for diversion on Mondays, Thurs- 
 days and Saturdays. Dancing contre-dances (or rather 
 country-dances]. 
 
 p -575 : I S 7 u fy> Tuesday. Writing letters. Rain the 
 
 IO whole day. 
 
 Pp. 575-8: \t>July, Wednesday morning, we drove to 
 Cotton's house near Westminster hall, to see the admirable 
 bibliothecam MSct. Cottonianam (JVew view of London II 
 652 seq. ). The librarian, still a young man, was very 
 
 15 courteous, and allowed us to look about for more than 
 two hours. [Account of a few MSS.]. Knowing that the 
 queen's library had been brought here from St. James's, 
 till a special room could be built for it, we begged to be 
 allowed to see it. Our guide, though he had the key, 
 
 20 was loth to shew it, because Dr. Bentley is properly the 
 librarian, who lives in Cambridge. However at last he 
 led us into a small room, containing the best bound 
 printed books. Of MSS. we saw nothing, because of Dr. 
 Bentley's absence. I was troubled at not seeing the 
 
 25 famous codex Alexandrinus ; however I hope to do so at 
 Oxford, where Dr. Grabe has it, who is still at work on 
 his edition. Drawers of coins, of which the lord chancellor 
 has the key. Portraits, one of Buchanan, act. 76, 1581. 
 This afternoon I spent in some bookshops; my brother 
 
 30 this and the next at Mareschalfs. 
 
 P. 578: 17 July, Thursday morning, we drove again 
 to pastor Edzardi, from whom I again bought some english 
 historical books. In the evening we saw a merry comedy, 
 ' the old bachelor by Mr. Congreve. ' 
 
 35 Pp- 578-582: 18 July, Friday morning, we drove to 
 see Merchant Tailors' school. Of the library (New view of 
 London II 701) scarcely 200 books are to be found; we
 
 370 OLD BAILEY. PETIVER. 
 
 were told, that many had been lost. Then through 
 Cannon-street to the London-stone (ibid. I 13). Saw the 
 W. India company's magazines under the Exchange, 
 which were full of pepper in bags. Then to the Bank 
 (ibid. II 594), a large building. Home by the Old Bailey 5 
 (ibid. I 60, II 706). Noise in the court; entrance fee u. ; 
 no soldiers, but only six javelin-men, to keep order, 
 though the accused stand free at the bar. Sentence for 
 petty thefts ; branding with the letter T, or touching 
 with the cold iron. Trial of a captain for killing his IO 
 lieutenant in the park; of an old man, for the violation 
 of a girl of 1 5 ; of three irish gentlemen, who had robbed 
 of his gold watch and purse a good friend who had treated 
 them. The first was found guilty of manslaughter and 
 sentenced to be touched with the cold iron; the other 15 
 four were condemned to death. Lastly the well-known 
 bailiff George Purchase, commonly called 'the captain,' 
 ringleader of SachevereVs rioters. There was a vehement 
 debate between the counsel, whether he was to be accused 
 of ' high treason' or no, and he himself joined in, and 20 
 shewed himself very defiant. In England the only kind 
 of torture known is this : if a criminal will not confess, 
 he is placed in a chest, and one large stone after another 
 thrown upon him, till at last he must be suffocated. In 
 the evening we walked in the park. 25 
 
 Pp- 583-7 : 19 July, Saturday morning, we drove to 
 the apothecary \James\ Petiver, in Aldersgate-street, a chief 
 member of the royal society. As he has won such fame 
 by his cabinet, we expected to see a learned man of fine 
 presence, but found neither the one nor the other. lie 30 
 could scarcely bring together a few words of latin. As 
 soon as he receives an addition to his cabinet, he has 
 an engraving made of it, and dedicates it to some one, 
 with whom he has even the smallest acquaintance, and 
 receives a present for his pains. His collections were in 35 
 no order ; the best among them were the plants in many 
 volumes; one packet had just arrived from Spain. He
 
 LONDON'S DIVERSION. 371 
 
 had also some fine insects, sent by Mad. Merian. He 
 offers all strangers a copy of his Museum, but as he 
 charges a high price, I begged him to excuse me. In- 
 troductions often prejudicial. On our return we got out 
 
 5 at St. Dunstan's church, and called on Antram, a very 
 polite young watchmaker, who speaks tolerable french. 
 He shewed us his famous invention of a clock driven by 
 heat, without springs. Then to School-lane, to a man 
 whose sole occupation is to make barrels for telescopes 
 
 IO etc. On our way back we stopped at Exeter-change, and 
 saw at a goldsmith's a stone somewhat larger than a 
 dollar, with an inscription deus spes; he asked 50 guineas 
 for this so-called agate, professing that the inscription was 
 natural. But the stone was marble, not agate, and the 
 
 15 inscription was no doubt an etching. At another gold- 
 smith's we saw gems ancient and modem; buy we could 
 not, for the worst costs at least a guinea. 
 
 Pp. 587-9. In the afternoon we took a boat to London's 
 diversion, a square vessel anchored in the Thames, which 
 
 20 serves at once as a tavern and brothel. A woman danced 
 holding two swords at her breast, two against her eyes, 
 and three with the points in her mouth. We then went 
 across the river to Cupid's garden, which deserves its 
 name. Thence to Lambeth-wells; and thence to Foxhall 
 
 25 [ Vauxhalf], and Spring-garden, which is full of alleys, 
 covered walks and arbours. As we returned by the 
 Thames, Peterborough-house was pointed out to us, now 
 belonging to Mr. Coks. We were told that it had lately 
 sunk the depth of one whole storey, without taking the 
 
 30 least harm. 
 
 P. 589 : 20 July, Sunday afternoon, we went to walk 
 in Lincoln's Inn fields, one of the largest open spaces in 
 London, with fine alleys and a fountain. 
 
 Pp. 589-591: 21 July, Monday morning, we saw the 
 
 35 porcelain factory at Vauxhall. The ware is very coarse 
 and heavy, not nearly so good as that of Frankfort or 
 Haiiau. Next we went to the glass-house, for mirror-
 
 372 BP. MOORE. PETIVER. 
 
 glass, which is close by. Then to another glass-factory 
 in Southwark. In the afternoon it was said that the queen 
 would hold a court, which she has not done since prince 
 George 1 ?, death. But we waited long, and in vain. It is 
 said that there is nothing to see but many foreign ministers 5 
 and ladies sitting for a quarter of a hour about the queen 
 in dead silence. 
 
 Pp. 591-3: 22 July, Tuesday morning, we went to 
 Westminster, to see the library of [Jo/in] Moore, bp. of 
 Norwich. But when we reached the house, which was 10 
 small and mean, we found that he lived in the city, having 
 been translated to Ely. So we drove back to Westminster- 
 hall, to see the exchequer-office {New view of London II 
 659; Chamberlayne, present state of England 129). I 
 brought away some of the old tallies. Doomsday book 15 
 and other records. In the afternoon we could not see 
 Montagu house, because the duke was from home. Then 
 we drove to Langecker (Long acre} to a Frenchman named 
 Regnier, a seal-engraver. My brother bought some 
 guineas' worth of engravings from him. In the afternoon 20 
 packed two trunks full of books and other purchases. 
 
 Pp. 593 -4 : 23 July, Wednesday morning, we drove to 
 a sculptor's near Hyde-park, to see the fine statue of 
 William III.; but were told that he had sold it for 600 
 to another sculptor at Bow. So we drove to the famous 25 
 mezzotint engraver [John] Smith, a poor-looking man, of 
 about 5 years of age. My brother bought some of his 
 works, with a stock of dry colours and pencils ; I bought 
 some portraits. They are dear, but very fine. 
 
 Pp. 594-8 : July 24, Thursday morning, we drove 30 
 again to Petiver's. He expects two guineas of those to 
 whom he dedicates a plate, as Dr. Karger and others 
 complained. His collection of conchylia and insects is 
 fine, yet less perfect and in worse order than that of 
 Vincenz and others in Holland. His plants, in 12 volumes, 35 
 were the best part of his stores. He is charged with ex- 
 changing or appropriating the plants in the apothecaries'
 
 MARLBOROUGH. WINSTANLEY. 373 
 
 hortus medicus. As it was 12 o'clock, and still two hours 
 to dinner (for no one dines here before two), we went to 
 the banqueting-house, to see the lottery. Precautions 
 against fraud. [Full description of the machines for 
 
 5 shuffling and drawing the tickets, with two plates]. 
 
 P. 598. In the evening to the comedy ' the recruiting 
 officer, ' a favorite piece. As an interscenium a song made 
 against the duke of Marlborough in the army at Brabant, 
 was sung by a troop of soldiers. Prince Eugene was ex- 
 
 IO tolled for his generosity, but Marlborough abused for his 
 avarice ; every verse ending with the burden : ' but Marl- 
 borough not a penny.' The duchess of Montagu, the 
 duke's daughter, blushed scarlet. The clapping and 
 cheering was such, that the actors' play was delayed near 
 
 1 5 a quarter of an hour. 
 
 Pp. 599-601 : 25 July, Friday morning, we waited to 
 see an execution ; but it did not take place. In the after- 
 noon we drove to Peterborough 1 s-garden, four miles out of 
 town, beyond Chelsea. Saw a fine tulip tree, higher than 
 
 20 a house, and as thick as a man's body. We also saw at 
 Chelsea the garden of the earl of Radnor, governor of 
 Chelsea, who had been arrested and deposed, for defalca- 
 tion in his accounts. My lady, one of the handsomest 
 women in England, resides in the house. 
 
 25 Pp. 602-4: 26 July. We set out for Cambridge, and 
 came first to Epping(i^ miles), then to Harl<rw(\$ miles), 
 where we dined; Newport (14 miles), close to which is a 
 fine mansion Andilyne (Audley-end, see Delices d'Angleterre 
 v 872 [52]), which we wished to see ; but the owner does 
 
 30 not allow it to be shewn when he is in residence. Thence 
 to Littlebury (3 miles), where, as it was or.ly 5 o'clock, 
 we saw the house built by a famous mechanician Win- 
 Stanley, the inventor of the water-theatre in London, and 
 of the lighthouse at Plymouth. The house is full of poor 
 
 35 paintings, most by Winstanley himself. There is a lift 
 by which you can be conveyed into the cellar, and a chair, 
 which runs backward into the garden, on a rail [an en- 
 
 CC
 
 374 BODLEIAN LIBRAR Y. 
 
 graving of the chair is given. Fras. Burman also saw 
 and described the house 21 July 1702, p. 26. A view 
 of Audley End by Winstanley may still be seen in the 
 house]. 
 
 [Next follows the visit to Cambridge, as given in the 5 
 text]. 
 
 Vol. ill. p. 8$: 14 Aug., TJiursday morning, we set 
 out, and at noon arrived at Gamke \Gamlingay\, after a 
 journey of 14 miles, where we dined. In the evening we 
 reached Bedford (10 miles) where we slept. 10 
 
 15 Aug., Friday morning, we set out at 6, and dined 
 at Newport-pagtiel (8 miles): At 7-3 we reached Buck- 
 ingham (10 miles). 
 
 Pp. 85-6: 16 Aug., Saturday, we drove to Bicester 
 (7 miles); when half-way to Oxford (10 miles distant), 15 
 one of the fore wheels broke, and we were forced to walk 
 the rest of the way. We found convenient lodgings at 
 Adam Roussier's, a french Swiss, opposite the Sheldonian 
 theatre. 
 
 Pp. 86-7: 17 Aug. Physic garden, ill-kept ; finer yews 20 
 than I have ever seen ; two full 30 ft. high, cut into the 
 figures (i) Hercules and his club, (2) a man with a pike. 
 Magdalen-college chapel, small and somewhat dark. 
 
 Pp. 87-93 : 1 8 Aug. , Monday morning. Without special 
 leave you cannot touch a book in the Bodleian nor see 25 
 anything but what the under-librarians choose to shew you 
 for a tip ( Trinkgeld}. But as it costs 8s. [9^. see Macray's 
 Annals 133] and some trouble, most visitors are content 
 with a superficial view. Every instant visitors come in, 
 even, which is amazing, boors and women, who stare at 30 
 this library like a cow at a new gate, and make such a 
 clatter, as to disturb every one else. We begged the 
 head-librarian, Dr. Hudson, to procure us admission, which 
 he readily promised to do. We at first set down his com- 
 pliance to politeness; but found reason to suspect that it 35 
 was due to avarice, and that he hoped to receive a 
 handsome present from us. In order to win the good
 
 JOS. CRABB. BODLEIAN. 375 
 
 graces of the under-librarian, Master \Joseph~\ Crabb, a 
 poor, covetous man, and to give him his perquisite of 
 a crown, we begged him to lead us round, that we might 
 gain a general view of the distribution of the library. 
 
 5 [Then follows a full account : the rule prohibiting swords 
 not observed ; notice of the library in the travels of 
 Monconys. Form of the library like H laid on its side]. 
 
 Pp. 93-98: 19 Aug. In the morning we saw Queen 's- 
 college. which, when the building is complete, will be a 
 
 10 truly royal structure. MSS. Our guide shewed us a 
 book said to have been written by the devil. Ambrosii 
 ex comitibus Albonesii introductio in chaldaicam linguam, 
 Papiae 1539, where at f. 212 vo. are 'Ludovid Spoletani 
 praecepta, sive, ut vulgo dicitur, coniuratio cum sub- 
 
 15 scripta daemonis responsione. ' The letters look like 
 Chinese. Then we saw the horn, mentioned by Bent/tern, 
 p. 308. Then to New-college, where we saw the college 
 arms, and those of England, and a sun-dial, all of clipped 
 box-trees. Behind the chapel is an old square building, 
 
 20 like a monastery : in the middle is a garden, with cloisters 
 all round, which are vaulted with irish oak, said to be 
 proof against worms and spiders. Then to the Sheldonian 
 theatre; it was found that printing injured the building, 
 consequently most books are printed in a neighbouring 
 
 25 house. The Arundel marbles are exposed to the air, and 
 to the tricks of boys. [Four years later they were removed 
 to one of the rooms on the ground-floor, where they still 
 remain, Macray's Annals 138-9]. 
 
 Pp. 98-103. In the afternoon to the Bodleian, to take 
 
 30 the oath, but the proctor did not appear; indeed English- 
 men generally having no politeness, are seldom punctual. 
 Dr. Hartmann of Konigsberg, son of the famous author 
 de sucino, and other strangers, who had dined with us, 
 came in, and begged us to go round the library with 
 
 35 them, probably in order that we might pay our share of 
 the under-librarian's charge, 5-r. So we went, in order 
 to see what kind of profit could be got from hurrying
 
 376 B ODLEIAN LIBRAR Y. 
 
 round the rooms in this fashion. We did not touch a 
 book, nor did under-librarian Crabb (an arch-ignoramus, 
 who would rather sit in the taverns, than here in the 
 library, if his living did not depend on it), say any more 
 than 'here are theological books;' 'there,' pointing with 5 
 his finger, 'MSS. ' [See on Crabb, Macraes Annals 129 
 seq. ; Commercii epistolaris Uffenbachiani selecta\ 182, 209]. 
 Geometrical instruments; globus armillaris, a- quadrant, 
 said to be of pure gold, maker's name Chr. Schiffler, Aug. 
 Vindel. 1579. Some MSS. neatly written, or decorated, 10 
 were exhibited. Of some he said ; ' they are 800 years 
 old.' I asked him, 'why?' He could only reply: 'It 
 is certain : Dr. Grabe says so. ' He put on so desperately 
 wise a look as he said this, that I could not help laughing. 
 What the old MSS. may have been, I cannot say; for he 15 
 put them away in such a hurry, and shewed them with 
 such 'fury,' as is past telling. Mr. Crabb also shewed 
 us some autographs of qu. Elizabeth and Mary and of 
 yames /., a Koran, some Chinese illuminated books. 
 Then we saw ' the study' with some pictures and tapestry, 20 
 a great volume of engravings, an arm-chair of the wood 
 of the vessel in which Drake sailed round the world, some 
 Chinese sticks, bows and arrows, a cylinder with figures. 
 The marble, mentioned by Monconys, with the figure of 
 a lizard, is the most remarkable of the curiosities. Gallery 25 
 with its pictures. Cabinet of coins (jRitterplatz n 83) 
 given by the brothers Freke of Hannington, with which 
 Laudi numismata have since been joined [Macray 88, 339]. 
 Out of a drawer Mr. Crabb with much ceremony, as if it 
 had been something sacred, brought out an old sword with 30 
 silver-gilt handle, said to have been sent by Leo X. to 
 Hen. VIII. as 'defender of the faith.' It has a great 
 crystal knob, which can be unscrewed, when there appears 
 a winged hour-glass, with the word ' vigilate. ' Mr. Crabb 
 also shewed us, as something special, a gold chain with 35 
 a likeness, sent by the emperor to a poet laureate. But 
 the main thing, the coins, Mr. Crabb did not shew,
 
 BODLEIAN. EXETER. JESUS. 377 
 
 probably because he did not understand, and therefore 
 did not care for them. However, he did open some 
 drawers, and shewed us a crown and half-crown of 
 Cromwelfs with the legend round the rim 'has mihi 
 
 5 nemo nisi periturus eripiet' (Evelyn, of Medals 119): also 
 coins of a pound and half-a-pound in value. Lastly we 
 were taken to the roof of the gallery, from which you 
 have a good view of the city and neighbourhood. 
 
 Pp. 103-7: 20 Aug., we went in the morning with 
 
 10 under-librarian Crabb to the proctor Mr. Williams, in 
 Exeter-college, to take the oath ' pro admissione ad biblio- 
 thecam universitatis. ' He first gave me the oath to look 
 over, then took a little greek testament from a bag, gave 
 it open into my hand, and himself read the oath aloud to 
 
 15 me, while I kept two fingers of the right handon the 
 open book. After this I was for returning the book to 
 him, but he guided my hand with the book to my mouth, 
 to be kissed, which is a form usual in all oaths in England. 
 Then the proctor gave us a ' schedulam' or ' copiam 
 
 20 decreti senatus academic!,' requiring the librarian to admit 
 us. When each of us had paid 8s. and Mr. Crabb had 
 taken the schedulam, we were allowed to visit the library 
 from 8 to 1 1 in the forenoon, and 2 to 5 in the afternoon 
 daily* (till 4 on Saturdays}. As we were in Exeter- 
 
 25 college, we inspected it. Lately the college, especially 
 the library, has suffered from a fire, occasioned by a 
 woman's carelessness. The books saved, some 200, lay 
 in confusion in the chapel. Eagle in the chapel. In the 
 Bodl. MS. A. 2 6 distinct. XI I found this question and 
 
 30 answer: 'Quare evangelium legitur super aquilam?' -'Ad 
 designandum, quod evangelium et sacerdotium est supra 
 imperium. ' Then to Jesus-college, where we saw the MSS. ; 
 a poor brass watch, said to have belonged to James I. ; 
 a copy of Junius 1 latin bible, Genev. 1617, interleaved in 
 
 35 three volumes, with very numerous notes in the autograph 
 of the famous bp. Williams. 
 
 * [So Burman, p. 29].
 
 378 BODLEIAN. THO. HEARNE. 
 
 Pp. 107-9. I n the afternoon I made my first regular 
 visit to the Bodleian. I asked the way to the Baroccian 
 MSS.; Mr. Crabb told me that he would bring me any MS. 
 I required ; I told him that I wished to go through the prin- 
 cipal MSS. by the catalogue and make notes of each. At 5 
 last he agreed to go up with me, if I would give him a 
 good present. So I was fain to open my purse, and give 
 him a guinea. I preferred giving the profit to him, diesem 
 armen Teufel, rather than to the head-librarian Httdson; 
 for first, I must have given him more, and next, I should 10 
 have seen less; for he does not always come to the 
 library, and does not stay to the end : whereas Mr. Crabb 
 is poking about the whole time (see Commerc. epist. Uffenb. 
 I 195 seq.). 
 
 Pp. 109-110: 21 Aug., in the morning I wished to 15 
 return to the Baroccian MSS.; but as Mr. Crabb was occu- 
 pied with strangers, and had much besides to do, I turned 
 over the register of donations (ibid. 199 seq.). 
 
 Pp. I IO-1 18. In the afternoon at the anatomical school 
 (schola in England is our auditorium}. Borrichitts (epist. 2O 
 ad Barthol. cent. IV ep. 92 p. 525) is quite right in his 
 remark that it will not bear comparison with the ana- 
 tomical theatre at Leyden. [Full description, and 4 plates, 
 of the curiosities, some named by Benthem p. 327 ; e. g, 
 two small, worm-eaten loaves from the siege of Oxford ; 25 
 qu. Elizabeth's shoe without a heel ; a hollow stick, filled 
 with quicksilver, taken from one who attempted the life 
 of Charles I. ; the skeleton of a pygmy, ' credat ludaeus 
 Apella' '; the sword with which James I. knighted the 
 ' Sir Line beef;' map of China, made in the country with 30 
 a pen; the hand of a supposed Siren, dried; 'the devil's 
 alphabet,' as the custos very simply called it; it is nothing 
 "but a tablet with indian characters; Joseph's coat, men- 
 tioned by Monconys, ' dans la suite de la seconde partie 
 de ses voyages' p. 101]. The lowest of the librarians, 35 
 Tho. Hearne, still a 'scholar,' who is very diligent, and 
 of much learning, has charge of the anatomical school,
 
 BODLEIAN. ASHMOLEAN. 379 
 
 and shews it to strangers ; but in these matters he is such 
 an ignoramus, that he took a cast for the natural foot. 
 
 P. 1 1 8 : 22 Aug. At the Bodleian. 
 
 Pp. 118-9: 23 Aug. We wished to see the Museum 
 
 5 Ashmoleanum; but as it was market-day, all sorts of 
 
 men and women from the country were there (for any 
 
 one, as the leges which hang at the door, parum honeste 
 
 et liberaliter, allow, may enter). So we put off our visit 
 
 and went to Trinity-college. Fine italian chapel, newly 
 
 IO built, panelled with cedar inside. No organ. 
 
 Pp. 119-120: 24 Aug., in the afternoon, with Messrs. 
 Grassy, two brothers from the Grisons, whose father some 
 years ago procured for the allied troops leave to march 
 through the Grisons: in return for this service the queen 
 15 has granted the sons j8o a year for 3 years, to enable 
 them to study at Oxford. They spoke english very well. 
 We went with them to the brook mentioned by Borrichius, 
 epist. ad Barthol. inter Bartholinianas 92 cent. IV p. 525. 
 It is two english miles off, at a village called Iffly. It 
 20 does not petrify at all, but wood thrown into it becomes 
 covered with a sandy crust, which crumbles under the 
 fingers. 
 
 Pp. 120-1 : 25 Aug., in the morning at the Bodleian. 
 
 Dr. Hudson boasted that they had excellent duplicates for 
 
 25 sale, and sent Crabb with us to a poor room in the gallery, 
 
 where some 400 books lay in wild confusion. We picked 
 
 out some with great trouble, and laid them on one side, 
 
 till Dr. Hudson should be pleased to fix their price. We 
 
 had no time to examine Casaubon's MSS., which were in 
 
 30 the same room, but very ill cared for. 
 
 Pp. 121-129. In the afternoon saw the Museum Ask- 
 moleanum. Antony* Wood's library below, to the left. 
 Great iron cradle, mentioned by Benthem. It is strange 
 that so much is made of this museum, as burgomaster 
 35 Reimers in Liineburg has curiosities of twice the number 
 and far greater value than one sees here. Antlers ; caudae 
 
 * \Uffenbach says Thomas; but has the right name in 177].
 
 380 ASHMOLEAN. PARR K 
 
 setosae vaccarum ; cornua Ammonis; stuffed reindeer; 
 Indian ass; turkish goat, with long, silky hair; indian 
 plants, foreign snakes etc. ' ex dono .... lacobi Pound 
 M.B.'; a great dens molaris more than a finger long and 
 2 in. thick, ' supposed to be one of the teeth of the danish 5 
 gigant Warwick found by M. Brown near Pontfreat castle 
 an. 1700,' (credat ludaeus Apella); cabinet of precious 
 stones, the most extensive I ever saw; an agate cut into 
 the figure of St. George and the dragon; carved cherry- 
 stones; a runic calendar; an abacus indicus ; ear-rings of 10 
 colored straw, once used in Spain; various things turned 
 in ivory ; rosaries of crystal ; amber containing flies and 
 a spider ; two gold chains given to Ashmole, one by elector 
 Fred. William of Brandenburg, the other by the king of 
 Denmark; an indian writing book, with leaves of black 15 
 paper; a horn, which grew at the back of the head of 
 'Mary Dames of Sanghall in Cheshire an. act. 1\, an. Dn. 
 1668' [an engraving of this is given]; a cabinet of large 
 conchylia; various pictures, one of John Tradescant ; 
 Andromeda and Perseus, in alabaster; a cabinet with 20 
 materia medica and fossils ; the petrified heel of a shoe ; 
 indian weapons and clothes; nails run together by the 
 action of lightning. The silly fellow who shewed us the 
 museum, who is sub-custos and a scholar, (for the custos 
 himself, Mr. Parray \_Parry\, is too busy guttling and 25 
 guzzling to shew it to strangers) seriously thought that 
 a stone indian idol (or, as he called it, Brachmanus} was 
 made of boiled rice, stained. We saw also foreign 
 costumes; an indian lantern; the portrait of Ashmole. 
 The catalogue is imperfect, but it would be well to print 30 
 it, or make a better. As regards the lapides, the late 
 learned and diligent custos, Lloyd, began an excellent list 
 of them; but the present Proto-custos, Mr. Parry, is too 
 lazy to continue it, though he is little inferior to Lloyd in 
 knowledge both of natural history and of welsh, anglo- 35 
 saxon, and other languages. But he is always in the 
 taverns; else he might well do something, as he is still
 
 WAD HAM. C.C.C. CH. CH. 381 
 
 a young man between 30 and 40 years of age. The 
 things in the museum might be better arrange'd and kept, 
 though they are in better order than those in Gresham 
 college. The wonder is, that they are as well preserved 
 
 5 as they are, as every one, in true english fashion, handles 
 them roughly, and all persons (even women) are admitted 
 on payment of 6d., who run about, lay hold of every 
 thing, and will not be hindered by the sub-custos. The 
 leges, as being privately printed, I ordered my servant 
 
 10 to copy. 
 
 Pp. 129-130: 26 Aug. In the morning we were ex- 
 amining the Bodleian codices. In the afternoon in the 
 library of Trin. coll. , which has no MSS. I saw a vellum 
 copy of ' Corpus statutorum universitatis Oxon. Oxoniae 
 
 15 ap. Jo. Litchfidd et Guil. Turner 1634' in fol. with many 
 additions. Then to Wadham-college, Its garden ; library, 
 containing many books; the key to the MSS. was not 
 forthcoming ; chapel ; altar-cloth ; long alley in front of 
 the college. 
 
 20 Pp. 130-6: 27 Aug. In the morning at the Bodleian. 
 In the afternoon at Corf its Christi college. New buildings 
 not in the Delices d" 1 Angleterre, where the views are all 
 taken from Lffggan's Oxonia illustrata, 1675. Much 
 building going on in Oxford; All Souls' lately new built, 
 
 2 5 .20,000 having been given for the purpose. In the 
 middle of the court of C. C. C. stands a pillar with various 
 sun-dials and coats of arms, the projecting ornaments of 
 which serve as a gnomon. Library well-stocked with 
 books ; a new room shortly to be built to receive them. 
 
 30 Chapel; large new building behind, where the great yew- 
 tree (Borric/iius in epist. ad Barthol. cent. IV. Bartholinia- 
 narum ep. 92 p. 525) has been cut down. Alley leading 
 to Christ Church, where we went to service, as it was 
 just 4 o'clock. The cathedral; window by W. Price 
 
 35 1696, the gift of Pet. Birch D.D. preb. Westm. sometime 
 chaplain; stained glass in the other windows; epitaphs, 
 mostly of students. [Ediv. PococKs, ob. 20 Sept. 1691, is
 
 382 CH. CH. LAVATER. 
 
 given at length]. The library we could not see, for it 
 was supper-time. Hall, exceedingly large and lofty, but 
 otherwise mean and ugly; there was such a stench of 
 bread and meat, that I was driven out ; I could not eat 
 or live in such a place. Our disgust was increased by 5 
 the coarse and filthy table-cloths, the square wooden 
 trenchers and wooden platters to receive the bones. [See 
 above, p. 356 1. 26]. So it is in all the colleges. Both 
 socii collegiorum and students or scholars dine here ; those 
 of quality however dine in their rooms, but the cost is 10 
 excessive. Old court of the college; new court. At 
 7 o'clock Messrs. Grassy took us to a collegium musicum, 
 which meets every Wednesday. The music was but poor, 
 but they assured us, that in winter, when the best per- 
 formers are in residence, it is much better. However the 15 
 magister artium, who played general-bass on a clavichord, 
 said to have cost ^18, did his part very well. The music 
 lasted till n, when the reckoning was called for, and 
 every one paid his share: from us, as strangers, they 
 would take nothing. 20 
 
 Pp. 136-141 : 28 Aug. In the afternoon the Messrs. 
 Grassy took us to their countryman Dr. Lavater of Zurich, 
 a grandson of the famous divine and son of the prof. med. 
 at Zurich, to hear the beginning of a cursus anatomicus. 
 As he had only lately been licensed to lecture, and had no 25 
 corpse to dissect, he began with osteology. He lectured in 
 english, which he speaks pretty fluently. Latin Englishmen 
 could not well follow, partly from ignorance of the language, 
 partly because of the difference in pronunciation. The 
 regular hearers were about 1 2 ; the place, a small vaulted 30 
 room under the Ashmolean. When the lecture was over, 
 we proposed to see the laboratory, and hoped to have every- 
 thing explained to us by Dr. Lavater; but he excused him- 
 self, as not knowing the uses of the various instruments ; 
 he appears not to be so skilful in chemistry as in anatomy. 35 
 This laboratory originally was used by the royal society, 
 and many fine discoveries were made here. But since the
 
 PR OK FRE WIN. MAGD. CH. CH. 383 
 
 society has become great, and removed to the capital, it 
 has decayed. .Nor has the laboratory itself been main- 
 tained in the condition, in which it is described by 
 Benthem p. 350 seq. The present prof, of chemistry, 
 
 5 Richard Frewin, does not trouble himself much about it, 
 the operator, Mr. White (said to be a great debauchee) 
 still less. Thus, though the stoves are in a tolerably 
 perfect state, the finest instruments are almost all broken 
 to pieces, and the whole place is filthy. And this in 
 
 IO England, where all studies, chemistry in particular, are 
 supposed to be flourishing in the utmost perfection ! 
 Strange that Gottfried in London, by birth a German, and 
 a Venetian Jew, also in London, have far finer laboratories, 
 than the royal society and the apothecaries. Next we 
 
 15 walked behind Magd. coll. Park and alley; large oak- 
 tree, said to be as old as the college; deer. Strange 
 statues (Dtiices d'Angleterre III 531). Pity that the mon- 
 strum or Brutum Dr. Sacheverell, member of this college, 
 and now resident, does not take his place among these 
 
 20 grotesque figures. 
 
 P. 141 : 29 Aug., in the morning we examined the 
 Bodleian MSS. ; in the afternoon we began to compare the 
 Ashmolean MSS. with the printed Catal. MSS. Angl. The 
 late proto-custos Lloyd is said to have supplied the de- 
 
 25 scriptions for this latter ; their only fault is that they are 
 too minute. 
 
 Pp. 141-2: 30 Aug., in the morning again at the 
 Bodleian. In the afternoon in Ch. Ch. library, a good 
 collection, in good order. Those of the college who were 
 
 30 with us, professed to know of no MSS. So we went into 
 a shop, and bought some books, chiefly in english, such 
 as are not to be bought in Germany or Holland. Latin 
 books it would be folly to buy, for they can be bought in 
 Holland for a third of the price which must be paid here. 
 
 35 The smallest I2mo. costs l&f. or 2s. The best is, that 
 all books are neatly bound in calf. One is allowed to 
 examine the books on the shelves ; though most English-
 
 384 SA CHE VERELL. WO ODSTO CK. 
 
 men are not so curious. Mr. Karger declares on his 
 honour that he has seen an Englishman buy a yard of 
 books, as they stood on the shelves, to fill up a gap of 
 that length in his library. No books are bound in vellum, 
 but all uniformly in calf. 5 
 
 Pp. 141-2: 31 Aug., Sunday. In the afternoon we 
 attended service at Magd. coll., in order to see the no- 
 torious Dr. Sacheverell,* who is socius of this college; 
 whom we had seen from our house the day before, riding 
 in from the country. He travels about everywhere, IO 
 agitating the people, who come out to meet him by 
 hundreds, especially the women; his journal is printed 
 weekly in London like a newspaper, and sold dear. We 
 had a good view of him during the whole service, and 
 were surprised, that so well-made and well-favored a man 15 
 should meddle with such foul plots. 
 
 Pp. 143-4: I Sept., examining MSS. in the morning at 
 the Bodleian, in the afternoon at the Ashmolean. [Tran- 
 script of an epitaph on Bacon in St. Michael's church at 
 St. Alban's]. 20 
 
 Pp. 144-8: 2 Sept., it being a fine morning we ordered 
 horses for Woodstock (6 miles), to see Blenheim castle, 
 begun 5^ years ago, and reported to have cost ;8oo,ooo, 
 though it is little more than half finished ; 800 workmen 
 are employed upon it. The rooms are small [cf. Reliquiae 25 
 Hearnianae, 1869, II 47-8]. The bridge, the costliest 
 and most useless ever built : water-works : tame fish, 
 which swim up at call ' Come, poor fellows. ' Lawns, 
 mown three times a week in wet weather, and rolled 
 daily. 30 
 
 Pp. 148-9. At 4 o'clock we returned, taking Godstow 
 on our way (Delices d'Angleterre III 588). Fair Rosamond; 
 subterranean passage a mile long between a monastery 
 and a nunnery. 
 
 Pp. 149-153: 3 Sept., in the morning comparing the 35 
 Bodleian MSS. with the printed catalogue. In the after- 
 * [See pp. 235-6; Letters from t!ie Bodl. 1 190, 201].
 
 MERTON. ASHMOLEAN. 385 
 
 noon, first in Merton-college (Delices d' 1 Angleterre III 577). 
 The library is tolerably extensive ; the MSS. stand among 
 the printed books. Astronomical instruments ; skeleton ; 
 portrait of Duns Scotus, a former member of the college, 
 
 5 ' verzweifell hdsslich. ' Chapel : east window by W. Price, 
 given \>y Alex. Fisher, sometime fellow, 1702. Tapestry; 
 tombs of learned men [the epitaph of Ri. Lydall, M. D. 
 warden, ob. 5 Mar. 1703-4, act. 84, given at length]. 
 Sun-dial by Jo. Bainbridge med. and math. prof., to which 
 
 10 a pillar of the building serves for gnomon. Garden. 
 Next we went to Lincoln-college (Delices d' Angleterre in 
 555). Two courts; chapel. 
 
 P. 153: ^Sept., in the morning we stayed at home, 
 'as it is a festival, St. Bart., which is kept throughout all 
 
 1 5 England, in memory of the massacre at Paris. Afternoon 
 in the Ashmolean library. 
 
 6 Sept. , in the morning at the Bodleian. In the after- 
 noon we were to see the stones, kept in cupboards in the 
 court of the Ashmolean; but Mr. Parry, who alone has 
 
 20 the key, did not appear. As the day was lost, and the 
 weather fine, we went to walk in the alley behind Magd. 
 coll. 
 
 8 Sept. Writing letters. In the afternoon Master 
 Paullus, gardener at Woodstock, brought us a letter to his 
 
 25 father, at Marholz in Isenburg. 
 
 P. 153: 9 Sept. and following days. Morning busy 
 with Bodleian, afternoon with Ashmolean MSS. 
 
 Pp. 154-5: 13 Sept., in the afternoon Mr. Parry had 
 promised to shew us the stones; but as he was late, I 
 
 30 turned over the 28 (i. e. 1097-1034; not, as stated in the 
 catalogue, 39) volumes which Ashmole used in composing 
 his book. Among them are many transcripts of originals, 
 some since printed in his ' history of the Garter, ' some 
 by Rymer. At last Mr. Parry came, and shewed us the 
 
 35 stones; such a collection I never saw. The collector 
 [Edw.~\ Lhuyd has described them excellently in his 
 \Ichnographia, Lond. 1699. 8vo. new ed. by Wm. Hddes-
 
 386 PARRY. HUDSON. HEARNE. 
 
 ford, Oxon. 1760. 8vo.]. As only 125 copies of the book 
 were printed, and it costs a guinea, and is now out of 
 print, Mr. Parry, who helped Mr. Lhuyd greatly in the 
 collection, intends to publish an enlarged edition. The 
 fossils were classified by genera and species. In the last 5 
 cupboard was a large drawer full of antiquities, dug up in 
 England; fibulae, lamps, sacrificial knives, fragments of 
 a fine urn, representing a roman funeral. 
 
 P. 155: 14 Sept., Sunday, at home, because of a 
 violent wind. 15 Sept. and 16 Sept., morning, engaged 10 
 on MSS. 
 
 Pp. I55'7 : *6 Sept., afternoon, took boat on the 
 Thames, to see a race, i% m. from Oxford. Speed of 
 english horses. Story of a thief who rode on one horse' 
 from London to York in one day. 15 
 
 Pp. 157-8: 17 Sept., in the morning at the library, 
 where Dr. Hudson fixed the prices of the duplicates which 
 we had selected: it was so high, that my brother only 
 bought a few mathematical books. I was not a little 
 angry at his often asking icw. for a book, for which he 20 
 afterwards would take $s. or 6s. He is said to be very 
 selfish, and to have made much money by dealing in 
 books. He has made many enemies by his avarice, and 
 is commonly called 'the bookseller.' He is not regarded 
 as a man of much learning, nor in what I saw of him, 25 
 did I find much. He seems very friendly, but has a 
 very ugly trick of crying out ' he ! he ! he !' every instant, 
 like the boors, so as to be heard all over the library. 
 He does not attend very diligently to the library; the 
 new catalogue has been chiefly made by the two sub- 30 
 librarians Mr. Crabb and specially Mr. Hearne. This 
 Hearne is a man of 30, and very mean to look at, but 
 exceedingly diligent, and of good acquirements. He is 
 only porter of the library, and shews the anatomy room, 
 to which he sticks very close, because of the fees. From 35 
 the library he has only 10, as he assured me. In the 
 afternoon was the second race, but as our time was
 
 RACES. LINCOLN COLL. 387 
 
 precious, and the wind high, we did not go again, but 
 turned into Merton-college, to see the MSS. 
 
 Pp. 158-161 : 18 Sept. After spending the morning in 
 the Bodleian, we wished to devote the afternoon to the 
 
 5 Ashmolean; but the sub-librarian went to the races, it 
 being the third and last day. We did not care to go 
 again, as time was so precious; besides, it is enough 
 to see such a sight twice, unless one is an Englishman 
 and can take pleasure in overdoing the poor animals. 
 
 IO Still we would have gone, if there had been this time, 
 as usual, a 'smock-race,' where women run in go\vn and 
 shift, and men in trowsers without shirt, for the prize 
 of a shirt. This time there was no such race; nor any 
 'whistlers' this fair. On a stage in the market people 
 
 15 come forward, and whistle against one another for a hat, 
 or for a piece of money which is thrown to them : some- 
 times the one which can hold out longest, sometimes the 
 one who whistles in the lowest, or again in the highest, 
 key wins. Or a prize is given to him who can pull the 
 
 20 ugliest face ; surely the maddest diversion in the world. 
 In All Souls' coll. we found no one, at least no one who 
 could or would shew us the library. So we went home, 
 and my brother made a drawing of Mr. Roussier's bed. 
 [A full description, and two engravings of this curiosity, 
 
 25 'contrived a double debt to pay, a bed by night, a chest 
 of drawers by day, ' is given in all seriousness]. 
 
 Pp. 161-5: 19 Sept., in the morning at the Bodleian. 
 In the afternoon saw Lincoln-college library, containing 
 few books and those ill-arranged, as they are in most 
 
 30 college libraries. Could not see the MSS. Those given 
 by Sir Geo. Wheler, preb. Durh., some time gentleman 
 commoner, were in a separate case : no doubt they will 
 be fine codices graeci, which he collected on his travels 
 with Spon. As he who had the key of the MSS. was not 
 
 35 in the town, we went with Dr. Biittner, who arrived some 
 days ago, to the hortus medicus. He brought an intro- 
 duction to prof. Bobart, and as he has a great knowledge
 
 388 PHYSIC GARDEN. BOBART. 
 
 of botany, I thought we could not see the garden better 
 than in his company. [On their way they met a funeral 
 procession, which is described at length; a number of 
 people followed the mourners, each with a piece of rose- 
 mary in one hand, in the other a pair of white gloves 5 
 wrapt in paper: these they receive from the house of 
 mourning, at a cost of i&/. a pair to the relations of the 
 dead. People of quality are buried at night by torch- 
 light]. 
 
 Dr. Bobart* was already at the hortits medicus. I was 10 
 amazed at the ugly features and insignificant appearance 
 of this otherwise honorable and good man. His wife, a 
 hideous old woman, was with him, but hideous as she is 
 in her sex, so hideous, indeed uglier still; was he. A very 
 long and pointed nose, little, deep-set eyes, a crooked 15 
 mouth with scarcely any upper-lip, a great, deep scar in 
 one cheek, face and hands as black and coarse as those 
 of the lowest field-labourer. Dress and hat in particular 
 were also very mean. Such was the figure of Mr. pro- 
 fessor, whom one would rather take for the gardener ; and 20 
 in fact, he does nothing else but work constantly in the 
 garden, and in botany itself is rather a good gardener than 
 botanist. Still his diligence is commendable, both in the 
 garden and the publication of the work of his predecessor 
 \Rob.~\ Morison, a far more scientific man. He led us 25 
 round, and shewed us all there was to be seen ; the plants 
 were pretty numerous, but not comparable to those at 
 Leyden or Amsterdam. Greenhouse. Mr. Bobart com- 
 plained of the losses by frost two years before. When he 
 shewed us an amygdalum nanam aegyptiacam flore plena, 30 
 and related that when it first came in, Dr. Hermann^ 
 
 * [A friend of Ray's. See Letters from the Bodleian, Land. 
 1813, II 160-1]. 
 
 t [Paulas H., born at Halle 30 June 1646, prof, of medicine and 
 botany at Leyden 1680, where he died 25 -Jan. 1695; in 1687 he pub- 
 lished Horti academici Lugduno-Batavi catalogus. Ltigd. Bat. 
 8vo.].
 
 BOB ART. ST. JOHN'S. 389 
 
 from Leyden was with him, and cried out with tears in 
 his eyes : ' That is my plant. ' And so it was in fact : for 
 when he was bringing it home, with many other plants 
 which he had himself with great pains collected in India 
 
 5 during 1 1 years, the ship was taken by a french privateer, 
 and the good man lost all. Some of these plants were 
 afterwards sent to Mr. Bobart, who restored not a few to 
 Mr. Hermann on learning that they belonged to him. 
 Alga floating in a little stone basin. Mr. Biittner assured 
 
 10 me that he only saw from 6 to 10 plants which were 
 unknown to him and specially rare : I have forgotten their 
 names. 
 
 P. 1 66 : 20 Sept. Busy with the MSS. 
 
 21 Sept., Sunday, we did not go out because of the 
 1 5 bad weather. Peculiarity of the english climate. 
 
 22 Sept. and 3 following days. Again searching the 
 fine MSS. 
 
 Pp. 166-7 : 2 4 Sept. Learnt from our host Roussier 
 the way to clean bottles with a narrow neck and lackered 
 
 2O furniture. 
 
 Pp. 167-171 : 25 Sept. Saw St. Johri s-college. Courts, 
 walks and garden. The books in the library are in 
 tolerable number and well-arranged. The librarian, a 
 brisk, lively young fellow, professed to know of no MSS. 
 
 25 He shewed us first in hot haste, mit rechter Furie, some 
 natural curiosities; fossils, a sheep with two heads and 
 eight feet etc. But the chief curiosity was a bladder- 
 stone of the size of a hen's egg in a golden box, bearing 
 the inscription : ' This stone was taken out of the body 
 
 30 of doct. John King lord bishop of London, descended 
 from the ancient Kings of Devonshire, who deceased 
 London 1621.' His arms, or those of his see, are below. 
 Then we were shewn 32 tolerably large stones, found 
 together in an ox. A likeness of Charles I., drawn with 
 
 35 a pen, the lines being verses from the psalms. Below 
 was a latin inscription, stating that it was placed there 
 by abp. Laud 1636. A breviary in 8vo. (Paris. Germ. 
 
 DD
 
 390 ALL SOULS'. COL. CODRINGTON. 
 
 Hardoin 1530) said to have been qu. Mary's mass-book; 
 we saw a similar one at St. John's college, Cambridge, etc. 
 etc. A Wickliffe's bible given by Humphr. Haygat ' con- 
 victor' in 1620. Chapel; hall, 'small but tolerably clean, 
 and did not stink so badly, as most of the others. ' We 5 
 next went to Paradise-garden at the end of the town by 
 a tavern ; there are countless little cabinets partitioned by 
 hedges, where the fellows (socii) drink in summer. There 
 are fine fruit-trees and yews. I had never before seen the 
 yew in fruit. 10 
 
 Pp. 171-3. At dinner we had a delicious piece of 
 roast veal: and when I gave the preference to english 
 veal above dutch, which is too coarse, as the calves are 
 there killed too old, Mr. Grassy assured me that he had 
 tasted far better in Italy, especially in Romagna. There 15 
 (as in Switzerland} the calves are fed out of leathern 
 bottles, to spare the mothers : but in the Romagna eggs 
 are first stirred up in the milk, which makes the calves 
 very fat and well-flavoured. Then we saw All Souls' 
 library. It is small and in a poor room. But as a col. 20 
 \Chr.~\ Codrington* has given the college .10,000 (a vast 
 sum, which could have been spent better, than on a 
 palace for these lazy socios, as most of them are) and his 
 fine collection of books worth ^3000, a new library is to 
 be built. This Codrington is said to be a very able man ; 25 
 for when king William came the first time to Oxford, and 
 was to be received in the Sheldonian theatre, and the uni- 
 versity orator chanced to be ill, no one (shame upon 
 them !) being found among all the members of the uni- 
 versity, who could make a speech, this Codrington arrayed 30 
 himself as a professor, and in the name of the university 
 made the king an elegant latin speech. Codrington^ s new 
 library is not yet in the college, but in a private house 
 
 * [Governor of the Lecivard Islands; he increased Le Clerks 
 ' exigua supellex libraria,' as Le Clerc says in the dedication to his 
 Hfsiod, Amst. i "Jan. 1700].
 
 RUSHWORTH MS. BRASENOSE. 391 
 
 opposite. The MSS. were standing among the printed 
 books, where I examined some of them. 
 
 Pp. 173-7: 27 Sept., in the morning I examined a 
 MS. of the latin gospels, with interlinear saxon version, 
 
 5 'given by Mr. Rtishworth,* and is thought to be Bedis 
 own book ;' and the under-librarian solemnly asseverated 
 that it was in Bede's own hand ; whereas the scribe gives 
 his name Atacretol or Macretuil in the subscription. As 
 it was just n o'clock, when I discovered this blunder, 
 
 IO I must confess that I left the library this time in real 
 anger. When we came home, our host Mr. Roussier had 
 received various buckles, coffee-spoons, seals, etc. from 
 Wells from Jonathan Parfitt, the first and true inventor 
 of the so-called Wells-metal, which is like pure gold, and 
 
 15 as heavy; if you rub it with 'rotten-stone' (found often in 
 England, so that it costs but qd. to 6d. the Ib. ; known in 
 Holland as 'engelsche steen') it takes a deep gold colour. 
 The inventor has become very rich; he keeps 30 people 
 always employed, and cannot execute orders in less than 
 
 20 two or three months; so great is the demand. In the 
 afternoon again to the Ashmolean, to see the MSS. 
 
 P. 177 : 28 Sept., kept at home because of the rain. 
 Pp. 177-9: 29 Sept., in the morning at the Bodleian; 
 in the afternoon at the Ashmolean. I then wished to see 
 
 25 one or two things in Antony Wood's library, but the key 
 was not at hand. So we went to Brasenose-college. The 
 library is pretty numerous, but they professed to know of 
 no MSS. though 16 are named in the Catal. MSS. Angl. 
 We then visited the schools (auditoria). They are almost 
 
 30 all alike, tolerably large, but quite empty. The theo- 
 logical school is the best. Behind this is a hall for 
 ceremonials, with raised benches all round; but the 
 Sheldonian theatre now serves this purpose. In the school 
 of history and grammar is Wm. Camdeifs portrait, with 
 35 an inscription stating that it was set up by Degory Whear, 
 his first professor. 
 
 * [Macray 104].
 
 392 MAGD. PEMBROKE. 
 
 P. 1 79 : 30 Sept. Again in the Bodleian and Ash- 
 molean. 
 
 I Oct., in the afternoon we went into Magd. coll. 
 library, which is tolerably large and bright, and furnished 
 with a large number of books, principally theological 5 
 and medical; of the latter this is said to be the finest 
 collection in Oxford. We could not obtain sight of any 
 MSS. 
 
 Pp. 179-180: 2 Oct. St. Matthew's day, all libraries 
 closed in the morning. We visited Mr.Zwinger, a grand- 10 
 son of the author of the Theatrum. As we spoke of 
 Joh. Jac. Hofmann, historical professor at Bdle and lexi- 
 cographer, he told us, that he died unmarried only three 
 years ago, and left behind him 10,000 dollars. Of his 
 shameful avarice he gave a specimen; in order to save 15 
 ink, he omitted commas and the dot over the i. When 
 visitors detained him too long, he sent them a quotation 
 about the loss of time. He scarcely ever left his house, 
 only once passed the city-gate, and never once reached 
 the Rhine bridge. Yet he is said to have been passion- 20 
 ately fond of chess, so as even to have given lectures upon 
 it. He was also, which is surprising, a good poet. 
 
 3 Oct. Inspected Wood's MSS. in the Sheldonian 
 theatre. 
 
 4 Oct. Saw Oriel-college. The library is small. 25 
 
 5 Oct. In the afternoon inspected New All Saints' 
 church. It is regular and fine, adorned with stucco and 
 with many coats of arms. The pulpit also is very 
 stately. 
 
 Pp. 180-183 : 6 Oct. In the afternoon we went first to 30 
 Pembroke-college, one of the poorest in Oxford. The library 
 we could not see, as the keys were kept by some one who 
 was out of town. Then we went with Mr. \John~\ 
 Carswell,* \Savilian prof, of astronomy], to the Savilian 
 library. This is one of the most honest, intelligent and 35 
 polite men that we met in all England, who spoke 
 * \Uffenlach calls him Math. Cassnel.]
 
 JOHN CARS WELL. 393 
 
 perfectly impartially of the state of the country, both in 
 respect of learning and of its political constitution. We 
 talked much with him, especially about mathematics. 
 He asserted that when Halley was with the famous 
 
 5 Hevelius, he discovered that they could not see or observe 
 anything with his telescope of 300 ft. , and that his other 
 telescopes were useless, because on account of their length, 
 the centres of the lenses cannot be brought into a straight 
 line. He asserted also that lenses of over great size were 
 
 IO of no use, and that neither Newton nor Marschall here in 
 England could produce anything of value in this kind. 
 He praised a telescope of Soft., which he had seen at 
 Mr. Flatnsteed's, who obtained the lens for it of Borello. 
 Of \Rob. ] Hooke, who is so famous in England, he thought 
 
 1 5 little ; he regarded him as a good mechanician, but a 
 charlatan withal, who made too much of his inventions. 
 He did not approve Newtorfs invention of the small 
 telescope, because the metal mirror was too liable to rust. 
 When my brother asked, whether glass mirrors would 
 
 20 not serve the turn, he replied, that they absorbed too 
 many rays. When we spoke of military architecture, he 
 said, that hardly four men in England paid any attention 
 to it, because the English think little of fortresses ; to this 
 island they are not so needful, and might be dangerous 
 
 25 as a focus of rebellion, in the present temper of the people. 
 Civil architecture was pursued with some success. He 
 mentioned, that Chr. Wren made the hanging floor, 
 secured by screws, in the Sheldonian theatre. Of Wallis 
 he said, that he had taken great pains to describe a 
 
 30 method of making a square floor without props, whereas 
 the thing was already done in the tower of the university. 
 He said that Wren had the charge of St. Paul's cathedral. 
 He praised Halley's invention of the longitude, and said 
 that none had advanced so far therein as he ; adding that 
 
 35 it would not answer to search for the longitude through 
 two telescopes by the course of the satellites, because on 
 ship board only short telescopes could be used on account
 
 394 CARS WELL. THOS. CREECH. 
 
 of the motion; now satellites could not possibly be ob- 
 served through short telescopes ; besides an accurate clock 
 was required for the purpose, which could not be had in 
 ships. True, Huyghens had taken great pains to invent 
 a clock in situ horizontali perpetuo, but as yet without 5 
 success. Lastly he spoke of special instruments, which 
 he had invented for applying the telescopes, but com- 
 plained that he could take few observations because of 
 the hilly site. He could not shew the instruments be- 
 longing to the college, not having the key; but assured 10 
 us, that they were of no great consequence, excepting 
 some quadrants. Some wooden quadrants he did shew 
 us, given by one Raimburg. Then we went into the 
 Savilian library. 
 
 Pp. 183-4: 7 Oct. , we went to see the fine library 15 
 bequeathed by col. Codrington to All Souls' '; it occupied 
 three rooms in an apothecary's house. There are said to 
 be 8000 volumes, and to judge by the look, there may 
 really be as many. They are mostly valuable new french, 
 Spanish and Italian books. Just above these rooms, eleven 20 
 years ago, Mr. [7/foj.] Creech resided, and hanged him- 
 self, as his favorite Lucretius did before him, whom he 
 had edited with learned notes and translated into English. 
 Some time before he had been expelled from All Souls' 
 for his turbulence; he then took lodgings in this house. 25 
 When he had resolved to hang himself, he made the 
 apothecary believe, that he was going to London; who 
 supposed that he was gone, till he was found hanging by 
 the girdle of his dressing-gown [see Reliquiae Hearnianae, 
 1869, II 242]. The host told us that Mr. Creech was 30 
 always greatly afraid of an upset when he had to travel 
 by coach, and often fainted from terror of it; so that he 
 generally travelled on horseback. So, when he gave out 
 that he would go by coach to London, the host was 
 greatly surprised. One would think that his reason for 35 
 fearing driving so much, was that he was minded to end 
 his life, not by a fall, but swinging in the air.
 
 ETON. 395 
 
 Pp. 184-5 : 8 Oct., at 7 a.m. we set out from Oxford 
 with our host Mr. Roussier, and came, after a 9 miles' 
 drive, to Benson [Bensington]; then to Anly [ffenley], 
 after another 9 miles of somewhat hilly road: here we 
 
 5 dined. Then, 7 miles further, Madyned [Maidenhead]; 
 and after 5 miles more, between 6 and 7 /. ;. , we reached 
 Windsor, and put up at the Siren. 
 
 Pp. 185-8: 9 CW. In the morning we saw the castle. 
 Poor knights. After dinner, we set out at 12 o'clock; 
 
 10 but first at the end of the town stopped to see Gate's 
 [sic for Eaton, i. e. Eton] college. All the scholars are 
 together, in one large room. There are scarcely more 
 than 50 books in the library. Then 5 miles to Colnbrook; 
 thence across ' thieves' plain,' so called from the frequent 
 
 1 5 highway robberies, to Honsly [ffounslow] 5 m. ; then to 
 Brentford, 2 m. ; Kensington, 5m.; London 2 m., which 
 we reached at 5/.#z. 
 
 P. 188: 10 Oct. Kept in doors because of the rain. 
 II Oct. Called on Dr. J. E. Grabe, but he was at 
 
 20 Tunbridge. 12 Oct., in the evening, at the Paris coffee- 
 house, we made the acquaintance of a scholar, named 
 Burg, from Breslau. 
 
 Pp. 188-9: 13 Oct., in the morning we first drove to 
 pastor Edzardi's, from whom we bought some books; 
 
 25 then to the Tower, where we bought at the mint some 
 fine medals of the kings. Then to Thomas Moor's house, 
 to enquire for Humphrey Adamson, sometime captain, 
 now professor; but he was not in. We bought Halley's 
 sea-charts for gs. , as the variations of the needle are there 
 
 30 given. Then to the Guildhall, to see the voting for lord 
 mayor. In the afternoon we examined Mr. Campe's fine 
 collection of ancient coins. For an Englishman he is 
 very patient and courteous, and takes much trouble in 
 shewing things to strangers ; at the same time he has an 
 
 35 eye to his own profit. 
 
 P. 190: 14 Oct., in the morning we drove first to 
 George Hickes in Ormond-street, famous for his excellent
 
 396 HICKES. BUDDLE. 
 
 thesaurus linguarum septentrionalium.* He is a good, 
 honorable man, some sixty years old, but talks very little. 
 We spoke of various atiglo-saxon MSS. and books; he 
 was highly delighted when I told him of Mr. Dietrich 
 von Stade and his intention of publishing Otfried. Then 5 
 we drove to the duke of Montagu's. 
 
 P. 191 : In the afternoon we drove to a pencil-maker's, 
 both to buy black and red pencils, and to see the process 
 of manufacture. 
 
 Pp. 191-2: 15 Oct. In the morning we drove to the 10 
 mechanician Culpeppers, where we bought some instru- 
 ments. Then to the Old Bailey to an optician, Patrick, 
 where we saw barometers, among others Halley's ship- 
 barometer. 
 
 Pp. 193-5 : *6 Oct. In the morning we could not find 15 
 the shop of the mechanician Moxon, where we wished to 
 buy some instruments and books. Then to Tothill fields, 
 to see a contested election between gen. Stanhope and 
 a brewer named Cross; violence ; Stanhope charged with 
 filthy profanity in Westminster Abbey. 2O 
 
 Pp. 195-7: 17 Oct., in the morning called first on Mr. 
 Beatel [Ad. Buddie of St. Cath. coll. see below 23 Oct.} 
 in Grays' 1 Inn to see his botanical collection, but he was 
 out. Then went to Covent garden, to see more of the 
 election. There were two great books, one for Stanhope, 25 
 one for Cross ; in one of these each elector wrote his 
 name. Then to the famous german chemist Gottfried in 
 the Strand, where we made some purchases. In the 
 evening in the Paris coffee-house a watchmaker offered 
 for sale an agate with a cross etched upon it, which he 30 
 
 * [On 8 June 1715 UJfenbach writes 'cultori Uffinbachianae 
 bibliothecae augusto Jo. Henr. Maio fil.' (Commerc. epist. Ujfenb. 
 v no): ' Hickesii thesaurus vere thesaurus est, diu a me desideratus 
 exoptatusque, nisi ingens deterruisset pretium, sed cum ad tuam 
 aeque ac meam, hoc est, litterarum rem conducat, comparandum 
 utique duxi, eo magis, quod raritatem opens, prelum vix umquam 
 denuo subituri, aucturam olim pretium persuasissimum mihi sit.']
 
 ABP. TENNISON. CHAS. BRO WN. 397 
 
 declared to be the work of nature : but baron von Nimtsch 
 
 explained to us the art of etching and painting on marble. 
 
 Pp. 197-9: 18 Oct., in the morning we drove to 
 
 Lambeth, to see the archbishop's library, in a narrow 
 
 5 gallery round a square court: there are many valuable 
 new books, bought by the present abp. Tennison. We 
 asked about MSS., but the librarian could not shew them. 
 At noon he asked whether we would go to the chapel to 
 prayers, which are always read before dinner. So we 
 
 10 went. Afterwards we and the other strangers passed into 
 a hall, through which the abp. and his people were 
 ushered by a marshal into the dining-room. We followed 
 and took our seats also. There were about 16 at dinner, 
 chiefly english clergy. He keeps open table in this way 
 
 1 5 several times a week, and the clergy of town and country 
 avail themselves of the occasion. We could well have 
 spared some of these gentry this time, as they made it 
 impossible for us to speak much with him. He is an 
 old man, of very courtly manners ; we were surprised 
 
 20 that at his age he sat bare-headed at table. He said 
 but few words, and though the entertainment was tolerable, 
 it was over in an hour and a half. The only toast was 
 the abp's health. After dinner he asked us of our 
 country, and who we were, and of some german scholars, 
 
 25 and so dismissed us. In the evening to the play : ' the 
 changes' followed by ' the stage coach. ' 
 
 19 Oct. Kept at home because of the rain. 20 Oct., 
 in the morning called on Dr. Woodward, but in vain. In 
 the afternoon to one James HempeVs, to see his new in- 
 
 30 vention for casting seals. 
 
 Pp. 199-201 : 21 Oct. Bought Charles Brown's writings, 
 which, as atheistic, have occasioned great stir in England. 
 In the evening baron von Nimtsch told us, that this Brown 
 had conceived a passion for his deceased wife's sister, 
 
 35 and, when she refused him, wrote a defence of such 
 marriages. When this did not convince her, he threatened 
 to shoot himself before her face, which he did. Some
 
 398 ASGILL. ROCHESTER. GRABE. 
 
 thought, the pistol went off against his will : but others 
 deny this, as Brffwn in his writings had openly vindicated 
 suicide. Respecting Asgill* and his book, to prove that 
 a man, if he had faith, might escape death, we were 
 assured that it was not written in earnest, but to please 5 
 a lady, who set him the task, he having maintained, that 
 anything in the world could be defended. Baron von 
 Nimtsch denied that he was turned out of parliament 
 because of this book; it was because of his debts; the 
 book, which had been published seven years before, was 10 
 a mere pretence. The earl of Rochester's foul satire 
 against Charles II. and his shameful comedy 'Sodom" 1 , 
 are not printed with his other works; the former has 
 never been printed, the latter is very hard to come by. 
 It is astounding that so godless and abominable a theme 15 
 should not only have been elaborated by any man, but 
 acted in the theatre in the grossest way before a king. 
 However the general excesses and in particular the amours 
 of this king, to which Rochester was always a party, are 
 only too well known. 20 
 
 P. 20 1 : 22 Oct., in the morning kept in doors because 
 of the rain. In the afternoon visited Mr. Fault, son of 
 the famous court physician of Denmark; he gave us some 
 good addresses, and promised to introduce us to the man 
 who cracks glasses by shouting: cf. Morhof 'de scypho 25 
 vitreo, voce humana fracto.' 
 
 Pp. 20 1 -2: 23 Oct., in the morning we visited the 
 famous Dr. Joh. Ernst Grabe, 1 ^ a short, spare, plain man, 
 
 [John A. See Brydges, Restituta m 64]. 
 
 t [See Bentley's Correspondence 151, 246, 613 ; Whiston 1 ! Me- 
 moirs of Clarke 32 ; Tholuck, Das akademische Leben u. s. w. I 34 ; 
 ind. to Reliquiae Hearnianae. There is a critique on his ed. of the 
 cod. A lex. in Mich, de la Roche, Memoirs of literature, 2nd ed. 
 Land. 1722 I 53 seq., 65 seq. Hickes speaks of him in the highest 
 terms, Letters from the Bodl. I 221-2. Mill's notes on Hippolytiis 
 wrongfully ascribed to him, Fabricii Vita 150, 154- See further 
 Calamy, Own Times, n 249; Macraes Annals of the Bodl. 149: 
 Amman, Gallerie merkwurdiger Personen etc. Erlang. 1833, p. 355
 
 GRABE. BUDDLE. 399 
 
 with a strong squint, from 40 to 5 years of age. He 
 received us very politely, and greedily inquired after 
 literary news from Germany. We begged him to shew 
 us the famous codex Alexandrinus, which he promised to 
 
 5 do; but excused himself for this time, as he had a 
 necessary engagement. He told us what trouble he had 
 in procuring for foreigners access to the MSS. of the 
 Bodleian. But since the student May had purloined 
 some MSS., they had been much more strict. This he 
 
 IO said, when I complained of Dr. Hudson's jealousy of him. 
 
 P. 202. In the afternoon we saw the fine collection 
 
 of plants at Mr. BeathePs or BuddeVs [Buddie's, see above, 
 
 17 Oct.'}, a preacher residing in Grays Inn. He had 
 
 some 20 large volumes^ all in good order: the most 
 
 15 curious was one of mosses, some 300 kinds. He had 
 a microscope with them, that we might the better see 
 the structure : it is very admirable. A volume of 1 50 
 sorts of indigenous grasses was also well worth seeing. 
 In the other volumes are not a few exotics. He is a 
 
 20 very gentleman-like and agreeable man, of about fifty. 
 
 Pp. 202-7 : 2 4 Oct., set off at 7 a.m. for Hampton-court, 
 taking on our way the duke of Somerset's opposite to Isle- 
 worth. Gardens and pictures of Hampton-court. The 
 king of France offered .300,000 for Raffaelle 1 s cartoons. 
 
 25 Saw Richmond on our way back, and were in some fear 
 of highway robbers, as the roads are very insecure. 
 
 Pp. 207-^12: 25 Oct., in the morning we went to 
 Kensington. Portraits by Holbein; barometer by Tam- 
 pion; portraits of the four indian kings, who were in 
 
 30 London some time ago. Clock by ' Sanmel Watson, now 
 in London,' but made at Coventry, giving not only the 
 hours, but the courses of the sun and moon according to 
 the system of Ptolemy, and the courses of all the planets 
 according to that of Copernicus. In the evening at the 
 
 35 coffee-house Mr. Kerger told us that the famous Jo. 
 
 seq. ; Nictron, Chauffcpie, Chalmers, and the introductions to the 
 O. T.J.
 
 4 oo /./. BE CHER. GRABE. 
 
 Joachim Becker was the inventor of the art of water- works 
 adopted here, but was ill-rewarded; once he lived in 
 great repute and made much money, but lived a 'very 
 loose life, so that he died quite poor, and his daughter 
 was in service at a schoolmaster's in London. Speaking 5 
 of libraries, Mr. Kerger assured us that there were indeed 
 many amateurs here, but they collected books without 
 intelligence; he had seen with his own eyes a great lord 
 draw a tape out of his pocket, measure off a row of books 
 without looking at their titles or contents, and then bargain IO 
 about the price by the yard. Baron von Nimtsch said 
 that the author of the ' true-born Englishman' and of the 
 ' review of London, ' had been put into the pillory, for the 
 bitter satire therein contained against England. We were 
 told that Mr. Hautsch from Niirnberg made steel red-hot 15 
 by hammering. We learnt also certain chemical experi- 
 ments [described at length]. Mr. Benedetti shewed some 
 choice medals. Baron von Nimtsch told us that the duke 
 of Buckingham possessed many fine autograph sketches of 
 machines invented by the marquis of Worcester. 20 
 
 Pp. 212-3: 26 Oct., Sunday afternoon, to Chelsea, to 
 see lord Renltfs [RandagK's] house there, but as he was 
 at home, we could not obtain admittance. Then to the 
 medical garden of the London apothecaries ; thence to the 
 coffee-house noted for its rarities. 25 
 
 Pp. 214-9: 27 Oct., in the morning to Dr. Crake's 
 where we at last saw the codex Alexandrinus. [Described 
 at some length ; Dr. Grabe argued that it was written by 
 Thecla from the mistakes in the division of words etc. 
 He was busy with the third vol., the prophets; for the 30 
 second he was waiting for the codex Masiamis, in the 
 possession of a son of prof. Lente of Herborn. He him- 
 self copied the three volumes of the codex, and collated 
 them in presence of three witnesses, that, in the event of 
 his sudden death, they might certify the accuracy of his 35 
 copy. The proofs were corrected by his copy, the last 
 revise by the original]. From Dr. Grabe we went to
 
 BOOK-SALE. DANDRIDGE. 401 
 
 the Royal bagnio in Newgate-street, fitted up in the turkish 
 fashion (View of London II 197). At the door were 
 scales, and some lost 8 or 10 Ib. weight while in the 
 bath. Then in a print-shop we bought the ' Cryes of 
 
 5 London,' 74 leaves, for half a guinea. Next to the 
 watchmaker ScJiulz from Breslau, who astonished us 
 with the speed and exactness with which he drilled a 
 hole in diamonds and rubies. Then we bought some 
 gold-beater's skin, made of lambs' bladders; of great 
 
 IO service for healing wounds. 
 
 Pp. 219-221. In the afternoon to another watchmaker, 
 Chr. Holfom [?], to see his new alarums. Thence to see 
 the ' state-bed' worked by the nuns of Brabant for the 
 elector of Bavaria; as it was not paid for, it was sold 
 
 15 here, and is now to be disposed of by lottery. It is 
 valued, with the tapestry belonging to it, at ,9000. In 
 the evening we drove to the so-called latin coffee-house, 
 near St. Paul's, to see a book-sale. This is very con- 
 venient; one drives out in the evening, drinks a cup of 
 
 2O tea or coffee, smokes a pipe, and can bid, when a good 
 book turns up. I bought several, much cheaper than 
 they can be had in the shops. We found Mr. Kerger 
 there also, who explained the use of borax in glass- 
 painting. 
 
 25 Pp. 221-3: 28 Oct., in the morning called again in 
 vain upon Dr. Woodward. Then to Mr. Dandrige [?] to 
 see his collection of insects. Each several butterfly or 
 fly is glued down between two glasses. He shewed us 
 also birds' nests with their eggs; also an 8vo. book, con- 
 
 30 taining drawings of all the english spiders, 115 in number, 
 with a short description in english; a great collection of 
 plants in 12 volumes. A fine volume <& fungi, drawn 
 from nature, was at the painter's. ' At the sign of the 
 sugar loaf in Salisbury court,' my brother bought, for 
 
 35 use in grinding glass, putty and emery, each 2s. a Ib. ; 
 and ' lapp, ' a coarse cloth, as thick as one's finger, very 
 useful for polishing, 6s. a yard.
 
 402 FR.HAUKSBEE. WOODWARD. 
 
 Pp. 223-6. In the afternoon at the mechanician Rohly's 
 [?], whom we asked for MorelancTs calculating instrument ; 
 he offered to make one for five guineas. They are said 
 to be more convenient for long calculations than the bacilli 
 Nepperiani. Rohly shewed us various object-glasses. He 5 
 had two other convexo-concave lenses, which he intended 
 to use for a reflecting telescope of Newton's; this invention 
 of Newton's he praised highly, as if there were none like 
 it. Then we went to the natural-philosopher [Francis] 
 Hauksbee [where they saw experiments on light, and on 10 
 the air-pump ; these last described at length, with a plate]. 
 Pp. 226-8: 29 Oct., in the morning in Westminster, at 
 WesenbecKs from Augsburg, who casts portraits and seals 
 in glass. Then to Mr. Pardin, a maker of watchmakers' 
 implements; he is very reasonable, and will not abate of 15 
 the price first asked. Then to the bagnio in St. James's. 
 In the afternoon we tried to find Jackson, a mechanician, 
 who has invented a coach that cannot upset etc., but he 
 was at Cambridge. Again with Mr. Kerger at a book-sale 
 in a coffee-house. Experiment of Hauksbee' s on refraction. 20 
 Baron -von Nimtsch taught my brother various tricks in 
 chemistry and magnetism, as how to make a solid glass 
 out of spirits, oil and other liquids. 
 
 Pp. 228-231: 30 Oct., in the morning called on Dr. 
 Woodward for the fifth time, and a't last found him at 25 
 home; but were shewn into an antechamber. When 
 we had stood there a good quarter of an hour, he first 
 sent his boy to ask our names : after another quarter of 
 an hour the boy came back, saying, ' his master was still 
 in bed, as he had sat up somewhat late the night before ; 30 
 it might be half an hour before he got up, if we could 
 wait so long. ' We left our interpreter and servant behind, 
 with orders to summon us, when it was convenient to the 
 man, and meanwhile drank a cup of coffee in the next 
 coffee-house. When one of them came for us, we set 35 
 off at once, but must again wait some half-hour in the 
 antechamber. At last his boy called us and led us
 
 DR. WOODWARD. DANCING APE. 403 
 
 through two rooms to the precious Mr. Doctor. He 
 stood stiffly up in his silk dressing-gown, and with an 
 affected air and screwed-up eyes, asked who we were, 
 and where we came from. But when we begged for a 
 
 5 sight of his cabinet, he excused himself, saying that in 
 half-an-hour he had to attend a consultation, which he 
 could not possibly put off, and prayed us to come again 
 the next afternoon at 3. When we were about to take 
 leave, he begged us to stay awhile, and called to his lad, 
 
 IO 'make haste,' intending, as we supposed, to offer us 
 chocolate, according to his custom. For, as Dr. Kerger 
 and others assured us, he presents it to all strangers, and 
 that with such ridiculous fuss and ceremony, that one 
 can scarce refrain from laughing. For till the chocolate 
 
 15 comes, he keeps urging the boy with every variety of 
 expression; a shouting to which, much to our disgust, 
 we were forced to listen some half-hour. But this time 
 we had not the honour to drink a cup with him; for 
 though the boy brought a silver can and a cloth, it was 
 
 20 only for shaving ; and we were to be favored with the 
 privilege of looking on. We had heard already of more 
 than four foreigners, who had received the same treat- 
 ment. But we excused ourselves, and said we would 
 not detain him, and got away, though he several times' 
 
 25 begged us to stay. Thence to an optician, named James 
 Praun \? Brown ?]. 
 
 Pp. 231-3. In the afternoon we saw in Fleet-street 
 a great baboon or ape, which performed all sorts of 
 cunning tricks; danced very cleverly on the rope, threw 
 
 30 itself into all sorts of postures, smoked tobacco etc. We 
 saw also the monstrous artillery-drum which is so much 
 talked of, said to have been taken from the French at 
 Lisle. In the evening we were again at the sale and 
 bought some books. We saw also book-ladders such as 
 
 35 are commonly used in England, and are convenient for 
 the 'small space they occupy. They consist of two half- 
 cylinders, hollowed inside, so as to receive the steps;
 
 404 DR. WOODWARD. 
 
 when folded up they look like one pole. Their fault is 
 want of steadiness. We met again Dr. Wilhelm Kerger, 
 and learnt from him some optical experiments and the 
 method of casting metal mirrors. 
 
 Pp. 233-5 : 31 Oct., in the morning we drove to Stone- 5 
 street, to see the fine collection of shells formed by the 
 minister of the church in the Stock-market. 
 
 Pp. 235-7- I n the afternoon we drove again to Dr. 
 Woodward, and at last attained our end, to see his things. 
 Yet he kept us waiting, as his way is, again a good half- 10 
 hour in his ante-chamber; and then complained that we 
 were not quite punctual and had not come half an hour 
 before. This is said to be the uncivil compliment, which 
 this affected, learned charlatan pays to all strangers that 
 come to him. He shewed us first all kind of precious 15 
 stones found here and there in England; then some 
 minerals, and then petrefactions, his strong point. Not 
 only was the quantity amazing, but the specimens were 
 select and fine. Amongst others he shewed us shells 
 filled and partly overgrown with stone of all kinds, even 20 
 the hardest flint. Specially curious was the collection in 
 which he shewed us the whole growth of the conchylia 
 from first to last. He had also many stones containing 
 fossil plants of all kinds ; shells covered with metals and 
 ores, and partly also filled with them ; amongst the rest 25 
 very many fine ammonites. He had a cabinet filled with 
 ancient urns and vases. In another were great fossil 
 snails and ammonites, yet not so large as those of Mr. 
 Reimers which we had seen at Limburg. In another he 
 had a good number of MSS., chiefly relating to the natural 30 
 history of England, which, as he professed, were mostly 
 of his own writing. When he opened this, he said, 'now 
 he would shew us, that he was not idle.' We did not at 
 once catch the meaning of the word in english; and 
 supposed he meant, according to the pronunciation, that 35 
 he was not eitel (vain). As he made a great boast of 
 these works of his, we could scarce hold from laughing.
 
 DR. WOODWARD. 405 
 
 Among these books was a volume, in which he had had 
 all his conchylia tolerably well drawn. Again a fine 
 herbarium vivum anglicanum of his collection, in which 
 the plants were quite fresh and well preserved. In another 
 
 5 room he had a good store of conchylia of all sorts ; and 
 with them we saw a great curiosity, the Muscovy vegetable 
 sheep, described at length by Adam Olearius in his travels. 
 It was not a full span high, bright brown, and the wool 
 not like proper, long, wool, but like the heads of reeds, 
 
 IO yet somewhat more woolly and longer-haired, so to say: 
 this plant draws its nourishment through the feet, which 
 serve it for roots. This is one of the greatest rarities 
 which we have seen on our travels. Dr. Woodward 
 shewed us all his things with such an affected air and 
 
 1 5 such screwing up of the eyes, that one cannot help laugh- 
 ing; though he suffers you to laugh as little as to speak, 
 requiring every one to listen to him as an oracle, approve 
 and extol all. You must listen to his opinion de diluvio 
 et generatione antediluviana et lapidum postdiluviana, till 
 
 20 you are sick of it. He repeats whole pages of his works, 
 accompanying them with running panegyrics. The mad- 
 dest thing of all is, that he has many mirrors hanging in 
 every room, in which he constantly contemplates himself. 
 In all he does he behaves like a woman and a conceited fool. 
 
 25 He is a man between 30 and 40, unmarried, but criminis 
 non facile nominandi suspectus. Very strange stories are 
 told of him, and Mr. \Chr. Heinr.~\ Erndtel has very 
 cleverly described him in his letter de itinere anglicano, 
 at which he is very angry, and continually rails at this 
 
 30 German. This is supposed to be his reason for disliking 
 the Germans, and throwing such obstacles in the way of 
 their seeing his things, as we learnt to our cost. 
 
 Pp. 238-9 : In the evening baron von Nimtsch told us 
 of the prodigiously large and precious diamond, belonging 
 
 35 to an Englishman named Pitt. We wished to see it, 
 but were told that it was impossible, as Mr. Pitt con- 
 tinually changed his name, and his residence when in 
 
 EE
 
 406 PITT DIAMOND. 
 
 London, for fear of being attacked or murdered for this 
 diamond. It is said to be far larger than that of the 
 duke of Florence. The baron has had it in his hands, 
 and confirms the truth of the description which he allowed 
 us to copy: 'Mr. Pitt's great diamond weighed, when 5 
 rough, 410 carats; but when it has been cut, it will 
 weigh I35/^ carats.' Observe: a diamond of 30 carats 
 is worth ,12,000; but if the weight rises to 32 carats, 
 the value is far greater. If it exceeds 32 carats, the in- 
 crease in value is out of all proportion to the increase in 10 
 size. A private person has offered .80,000 for this great 
 diamond ; but in truth it is almost priceless. The cost of 
 cutting it would amount to $ooo; the chips would be 
 worth at least ^8000. To break it into small pieces 
 would cost ^"1400. It is about 1% inches in diameter. 15 
 At 8 o'clock /. m. when we came home, we found Dr. 
 Pauli waiting for us, to tell us when we could see the 
 Scotchman who breaks glass by shouting. He also told 
 us how to gild steel. 
 
 Pp. 239-244 : I Nov. , in the morning we packed* up 20 
 our books and goods in three bales, to send them to 
 Holland. At noon we dined at the Blue Bell in Clare 
 market. There a Scot, Cherbourn \SJierbourne ?], of good 
 family, well-made, with a very strong voice, singing a 
 good bass, broke several double flint glasses by shouting. 25 
 [The process is described at length]. He is upwards of 
 40 years old, a loose liver and deep in debt ; he speaks 
 scotch, irish, english, dutch, german, italian, french and 
 latin. Baron von Nimtsch declared that a danish captain, 
 Drayer, who died here some time ago, could do it still 30 
 better. Our Scot also played the flute admirably, and 
 imitated the sound of other instruments; he also played 
 all sorts of juggling tricks. In the company was Mr. 
 Meyer, M.D. of Stuttgart, who has been here some time. 
 He is a learned, well-read man, and a good bibliographer. 35 
 He talked much of his MSS., an old and valuable Statins, 
 many letters of Casp. Scioppius, Andr. Schottus, Is. Casaubon
 
 CONCERT. BENEDETTI. 407 
 
 and Chr. Forstner. He professed to have collected more 
 than 4000 anonymi and pseudonymi, chiefly legal writers, 
 very few of whom were in the new edition of Placcius, 
 He is a man of about 40, but as I thought : vir beatae 
 
 5 memoriae, expectant indicium. [This is commonly said 
 to have been suggested as an epitaph for Joshua Barnes; 
 but here it is quoted before his death]. Towards evening 
 we went with Mr. Pauli, and a native of Holstein, named 
 Fleischer, to a concert given by a Frenchman, Binet, land- 
 
 IO lord of the 'Romer tavern in Gerard-street. 1 There was 
 a fine collection of musical instruments, and among them 
 two large harpsichords, valued at 2.00 a piece, by two 
 of the best makers in Antwerp, Hans Rucker and his son, 
 called for distinction Jean. Mr. Fleischer played with 
 
 15 great execution, and sang both a bass and a very soft 
 tenor ; he nearly equals Nicolini. Afterwards in the 
 coffee-house Mr. Kerger taught us how to reduce bas- 
 reliefs and seals, an invention on which Wesenbeck pro- 
 fessed to have laboured for nine years. 
 
 20 2 Nov., in the afternoon we went into the church in 
 
 Covent-garden, which ranks next to St. PauFs among 
 
 London churches; we could not guess why. In the 
 
 portico the elections of members of parliament take place. 
 
 Pp. 244-7 : 3 Nov. , in the morning took leave of Mr. 
 
 25 Edzardi and prepared for our journey. Then we drove 
 to Mr. Benedettfs, and saw his antiquities, books and 
 other curiosities. One thin volume in atlas fol. contained 
 pen-and-ink drawings of sixty fortresses in the Spanish 
 Netherlands. It formerly belonged to the notorious 
 
 30 Hadrian Beverland, who notes that he gave 125 guineas 
 for it. It was the work of Bernard de Gomme, born 1620, 
 knighted by Charles I., engineer and quarter-master- 
 general under Charles II. and James II., who died 23 
 Nov. 1685. Also catalogues, written by Beverland, one 
 
 35 of books, the other of coins ; both intended for the press. 
 Both the books and coins sold much below their worth : 
 Mr. Benedetti shewed me a printed sheet, in which Bever-
 
 4 o8 BEVERLAND. SLOANE. 
 
 land complains of being cheated, having received scarce 
 ^500 for his library, which was worth more than $ooo. 
 We would gladly have visited this Beverland, who lives at 
 Fulham; but were told that he is quite distracted, and 
 supposes that everybody is aiming at his life. He is said 5 
 to grumble most at his mistress, who had been a maid- 
 servant w'ith Is. Vossius, and for whom, as she had borne 
 him a child, he was obliged to provide. We drove also 
 to JBoet, a Swede, in St. James 1 -street. He is the most 
 famous emailleur in England; and with him young Zinck 10 
 from Dresden works. 
 
 Pp. 247-252 : In the afternoon Mr. Campe took us to 
 Dr. Hans Sloane, who received us very politely, quite 
 otherwise than that puppy Dr. Woodward had done. He 
 immediately addressed us in french, which is very unusual 1 5 
 for an Englishman; for they will rather stand dumb, than 
 speak with a foreigner in any language but their own, 
 though they may be very well able to do so. His 
 Charleton cabinet; his own collections made in India. 
 He had refused ,15,000 offered for his stores by the 20 
 Venetian ambassador. Animals and fishes, dry or in 
 spirits of wine; shells; one cochlea terrestris, oviparous; 
 corals; foreign costumes and armour; agates; gems and 
 vessels of precious stone ; coins ; stuffed birds and beasts ; 
 edible nests; books of drawings by the best artists, of 25 
 animals, flowers, costumes, from all parts of the world. 
 Some MSS. chiefly medical and modern. Owing to his 
 great practice he has no time to spare; it is said he can 
 make a guinea an hour; so we must regard it as very 
 courteous in him to have give us from 2.30 to 7 o'clock. 30 
 Being a great traveller, he is very affable, especially 
 towards Germans, and those who have some sympathy 
 with his pursuits. Then we drove to Thomas Smith, who 
 makes human eyes of coloured glass ; an invention of his 
 father-in-law's. Then we went to the Paris coffee-house, 35 
 partly to say good bye to baron A T imtsch and Dr. Merger, 
 partly to see the famous smith Honeyman [a mimic and
 
 HAR WICH. 409 
 
 ventriloquist]. We had still much to see in England; 
 but did not care to spend the winter in the country, 
 partly because of the unhealthy climate, partly because 
 of the disturbances consequent on a change of ministers : 
 
 5 nor would we stay longer, for fear of a rough passage. 
 
 Pp. 252-3: 4 Nov., in the morning we set out in a 
 coach hired for ^5. We dined at Brentwood; found 
 Chelmsford in the ferment of an election ; the mob shout- 
 ing Child! Child! (the Tory candidate's name) and pelting 
 
 10 us for lukewarmness in his cause. Spent the night at 
 Witham. 
 
 Pp. 253-4; 5 Nov., in the morning we set out at 6 
 for Colchester, where we bought a barrel of oysters for 5 s. , 
 dined at Manningtree, and reached Harwich at 4.30; 
 
 15 where we put up at the Rotterdam. Foul winds kept 
 us here 6 days ; nothing to see, nothing to do, poor fare, 
 and a terribly long bill, ein ganz entsetzlich Geld. Every 
 day we spent 30^. a head, and should have starved, but 
 for our barrel of oysters. The captain was in league with 
 
 20 the landlord. The second day we sent back our in- 
 terpreter, Lamorale Henry, who had cost us half a dollar 
 a day, with the returning coach. 
 
 Pp. 254-5 : 10 Nov. In the afternoon, walking along 
 the beach, we saw a field full of flint stones, in the shapes 
 
 25 of all manner of bones. Returning we saw a true english, 
 or rather devilish sport. Some lords, waiting for the 
 packet-boat, had promised two sailors a crown, if they 
 would strip to their trousers and fight with fists. Their 
 faces were running with blood, and their bodies were as 
 
 30 blue as an apron. Whenever they wanted to give over, 
 the spectators tossed them a shilling, to keep them to it. 
 This is a common pastime of passengers. 
 
 Pp. 255-9: ii Nov., at 6 a.m. we put to sea; as we 
 passed the fort in the dark, the guard fired at us : after 
 
 35 sailing about a quarter of an hour we ran aground, and 
 did not get off for half an hour. A Swede who was with 
 us said that on his way to England he had been 18 days
 
 410 CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 on the passage. On 12 Nov. at 8 a.m. we came to 
 anchor off Goeree, and stayed there, with nothing to eat 
 but some old ship's biscuit, for which we had to pay 
 dear ; it was night before we landed at Helvoetsluys. 
 
 NOTES. 5 
 
 P. 1 23 1.1. 27 July. New style, -we. The two bro- 
 thers with their interpreter and servant. 
 
 P. 123 1.6. Delices d' 1 Angleterre. Les delices de la 
 Grande- Bretagne et de VIrelande, par James Beeverel. 
 Leyde. 1707. 120. 8 vols. The plates of the colleges are IO 
 taken from Loggan. 
 
 P. 123 l.i I. no better than a village. Edw. Ward's 
 works, 2nd ed., II 235 : ' As for the town itself, it was so 
 abominably dirty, that Old-street in the middle of a winter's 
 thaw, or Bartholomew-fair after a shower of rain, could 15 
 not have more occasion for a scavenger, than the miry 
 streets of this famous corporation, and most of them so 
 very narrow, that should two wheel-barrows meet in the 
 largest of their thoroughfares, they are enough to make 
 a stop for half an hour before they can well clear them- 20 
 selves of one another, to make room for passengers. . . . 
 The buildings in many parts of the town were so little 
 and so low, that they look'd more like huts for pigmies, 
 than houses for men.' Evelytfs Diary, Sept. 1654 (ed. 
 1854, I 304): 'The market-place is very ample, and re- 25 
 markable for old Hobson the pleasant carrier's beneficence 
 of a fountain. But the whole town is situate in a low 
 dirty unpleasant place, the streets ill-paved, the air thick 
 and infected by the fens, nor are its churches (of which 
 St. Mary's is the best) anything considerable, in compare 30 
 to Oxford: 
 
 P. 123 1.12. Hochst. In Nassau, famous for Tilly's
 
 NIMTSCH. FERRARI. 411 
 
 victory over duke Christian of Brunswick, IO June 1622. 
 Its population slightly exceeds 2000. 
 
 P. 123 1.13. the inns. Ra. Thoresby {Diary $July 
 1714) lodged at the Red Lion, kept by Reyner, a York- 
 
 5 shireman. 
 
 P. 123 1.15. baron Nimtsch. Christoph. Gottlieb -von 
 Nimptsch, born 1 66 1, in 1674 was sent on account of 
 religious persecutions from Silesia to the court of Ernest 
 the pious of Gotha as a page, set out on his travels 1678, 
 
 IO spent 12 years in Rome, visited also Spain, France, 
 Holland and England, and died unmarried in London 
 after he had spent 9 years there (Zedler's Lexicon, xxiv 
 
 954). 
 
 P. 123 1.20. Ferrari. See Gent. Mag. 1744, p. 282 
 
 15 col. i. 21 May 1744. Died 'at the earl of Leicester's 
 house, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury-square, Sig. Do- 
 minico Ferrari, doctor of laws, and fellow of the royal 
 society, as well as a member of several learned foreign 
 academies. He was a Neapolitan by birth, of an ancient 
 
 20 family in that city, and practis'd as an advocate in his 
 profession, with no less success than applause, 'till, by an 
 accident, he became acquainted with a learned man of 
 sir Tho. Coke's (now earl of Leicester's} retinue; by whose 
 means, after serious consideration and conviction, he re- 
 
 25 nounced his practice and the errors of the church of Rome, 
 and became a member of that of England; and on his 
 arrival here was appointed librarian to the noble family 
 where he died. We hear that his body being open'd, 
 a large stone of the size of a turkey egg was extracted, 
 
 30 and that he left a valuable library to the earl. He was 
 a gentleman of uncommon learning, inoffensive to all, and 
 of a most agreeable and improving conversation.' To St. 
 Johrfs library he bequeathed a unique collection of early 
 Italian and French books, some from Bullinger's library; 
 
 35 they stand among the MSS. in shelf O (Cowie's Catal. pp. 
 115-34); among them is Paleario's long- lost 'trattato del 
 beneficio di Giesu Cristo crocijisso. Venet. 1543,' republished
 
 4 i2 D.A. FERRARI. 
 
 with a learned introduction and french and english versions 
 by Churchill Babington, Cambr. 1855, who justly says 
 (introd. Ixxiv, Ixxv): 'Ferrari was undoubtedly a man of 
 learning, and a copy of the lexicon of Hesychius, full of 
 his MS. notes, may be worth the attention of some future 5 
 editor. ' Each of the books in class has the following 
 book-plate : 
 
 IN grati aninii testificationem, ob plurima Humani- 
 tatis officia, a collegio Divi Johannis Evangelistae 
 apud Cantabrigienses multifariam collata, libram hunc to 
 inter alios lectissimos eidem collegio legavit illustris- 
 simus vir, DOMINICUS ANTON1US FERRARI, 
 J.U.D. Neapolitanus, 1744. 
 
 Teste 
 
 J. CREYK. 15 
 
 It is greatly to be regretted that Ferrari never carried 
 out the design which Courayer attributes to him : Histoire 
 du candle de Trente . . par Fra-Paolo Sarpi . . , traduite . . 
 par Pierre Francois Le Courayer. Londres, 1736. 2 vols. 
 fol. pr. p. xi : ' Entr' autres pieces qui m 'ont para les 20 
 plus curieuses j 'ai fait usage d 'un recueil d 'actes qui 
 commencent a 1'ouverture du concile sous Paul III., et 
 qui finissent a sa translation a Bologne, ramassez par un 
 nomme L. Pratanus Nervius. Ces actes qui m 'ont etc 
 communiquez par le Dr. Ferrari, et qui me paroissent 25 
 tres exacts et tres fideles, sont precedez d'un sommaire 
 abrege ecrit avec beaucoup de liberte. ' p. xii : ' II y a 
 plus a profiter dans la lecture d 'un recueil de lettres 
 des legats du concile sous Paul III. ecrites pour la 
 pluspart au card. Farnese, et au card. Camerlingue, que 30 
 m'a fourni aussi le Dr. Ferrari. ... Ce recueil aussi 
 bien que celui de Philippe Musotti secretaire du card. 
 Seripand; .... ces recueils, dis-je, contiennent quantite 
 d' anecdotes dont plusieurs meritoient d 'avoir place dans 
 1' histoire. Le cardinal Pattavicin qui en avoit eu com- 35
 
 D. A. FERRARI. 413 
 
 munication en a tire bien des choses, mais toujours avec 
 la precaution de n'en extraire que ce qui etoit favorable 
 a ses vues. II cut etc plus avantageux au public de 
 publier les recueils meme, et je 1 'eusse fait avec plaisir 
 
 5 si le savant Dr. Ferrari, qui me les a communiquez et 
 qui a ramasse beaucoup de ces sortes de pieces, ne m 'cut 
 fait entendre qu 'il se propose de les publier lui-meme et 
 de donner cette collection au public lorsqu 'il aura mis 
 en ordre tout ce qu 'il a deja recueilli, et tout ce qui 
 
 IO se trouve disperse ailleurs parmi ce qu'on a deja public 
 de ce concile. . . . Plus j 'ai eu occasion de consulter de 
 ces sortes de pieces, et plus je me suis convaincu de 
 la scrupuleuse exactitude de notre auteur ; et pour le 
 justifier centre la malignite de ceux qui 1 'accusent le 
 
 15 moyen le plus court et le plus simple seroit de rassembler 
 le plus qu 'il se peut de ses sortes de memoires pour se 
 convaincre par leur lecture de la ndelite avec laquelle 
 il les a suivis. Une telle collection ne peut etre que 
 tres curieuse et tres utile; et dans le dessein oil est le 
 
 20 Dr. Ferrari de la publier aussi ample et aussi complete 
 qu 'il est possible, il sera tres oblige a ceux qui auroient 
 sur cela quelques memoires de vouloir les lui communi- 
 quer afin d'en pouvoir enrichir le public.' In 1710 
 Dominica Ferrari LL. D. Neapol. was incorporated at 
 
 25 Cambridge. Baumgartner Papers in Cambr. univ. libr. 
 x 81, Tho. Baker to John Strype, Cambr. 30 Nov. 1714: 
 ' In your life of archbp. Parker, p. 255, you give some 
 account of one Petrus Bizarrus Perusinus, and say, you 
 have a bundle of his letters (italian) in your possession. 
 
 30 That Italian was fellow of this college, for which reason 
 I should be glad to see them, or any few of them that 
 most concern himself. There is likewise an italian gentle- 
 man now with us (a very sincere convert, I verily think) 
 who would be glad to know anything of the state of the 
 
 35 italian church then in England, or of any other Italians 
 that came over then upon account of religion. If you 
 have any thing of that kinde, that you are willing to com-
 
 4 i4 FERRARI. CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 municate, I should take it as a particular favor, and could 
 easily order Mr. Har-wood to call for them at Mr. Wyafs, 
 and would take care to return them very carefully and 
 thankfully. But for ought I know, you may have parted 
 with them, or may not be willing to lend them out, and 5 
 then I have no more to say, but to beg your pardon for 
 this trouble. ' Ibid. fa. Same to same. Cambr. 21 Dec. 'I 
 am to thank you for your letter by the post, and pacquet 
 by the carrier, the latter whereof I shall take care to 
 return in a short time. . . . My Italian friend, Dr. Ferrari, 10 
 presents his humble service and thanks.' Ibid. 83. Same 
 to same. Cambr. ^Jan. [l7 I 4'5] > 'I return your papers, 
 with my own and Dr. Ferrari's thanks. If you happen 
 to meet with P. Perusinus's letters, I shall be glad of 
 a sight of 'em, in the mean while, your extracts are 15 
 sufficient. ' 
 
 P. 124 1. 8. the state of this university . . . very bad, 
 See Uffenb. to Joh. Andr. Danz, 10 May 1713 (commerc. 
 epist. ii 293-4): since my return, ' mutato lares in Angliam 
 transferendi consilio, omnis mea cura in bibliotheca in 20 
 ordinem redigenda novisque in itinere collectis accessi- 
 onibus augenda fuit. . . . Quid de nuptiis dicam ? Ridebis 
 hominem tanto in libros Musasque amore flagrantem, ut 
 innatum procreandi liberos stimulum restinguere atque 
 neglegere aetatique degendae in Anglia quaerere locum 25 
 latebrosum Musisque sacrum instituerit firmissime. Nee 
 mutassem animum, nisi clima, taetro a carbonibus fossili- 
 bus odore infectum, victus ratio, et denique pessimi, iuxta 
 vetus de insularibus proverbium, hominum turn temporis 
 plane furentium mores obstitissent. Unicum quod aljicere 30 
 poterat, bibliothecae erant instructissimae, qu'os thesauros 
 ipsi neglegunt, si paucos excipias, qui gentis gloriam 
 attollunt atque conservant, exterosque inducunt, ut sibi 
 persuadeant, Musas in hac insula sedes fixisse. Est igitur, 
 quod mireris, tarn paucos esse qui has colunt, ut vel in 35 
 una nostrarum academiarum plures erudites viros, quam 
 in latissima regione, reperias. Indigni igitur, quod tantis
 
 TRINITY LIBRAR Y. 415 
 
 subsidiis instructi sint, quibus si nostri gauderent, melius 
 uterentur.' 
 
 P. 124 1.24. Notitia, Probably a loose sheet, if the 
 title is truly given; cf. Cooper 1 s Annals \\\ 553. Chamber- 
 
 5 layne. Angliae notitia, first by Edw. and then by his son 
 John C., of which many editions appeared between 1668 
 and 1755. 
 
 P. 124 1. 25. H. L. Bent/tern's Engeldndischer Kirch- 
 und Schulen-Staat. Printed at Luneburg, 1694, 8vo. 
 
 10 P. 124 1.31. the chapel. Restored in 1707 and 1708, 
 under the direction of Roger Cotes (Monk's Life of Bentley 
 I 205-9, where the large subscriptions of the master and 
 fellows are given). 
 
 P. 125 1. loseq. Cf. pp. 356 1.26, 382 1.3. 
 
 15 P. 125 1.15. the library. See a letter from Is. Barrow, 
 soliciting subscriptions, 8 Febr. 1675-6, in Eur. Mag. 
 Aug. 1789 p. 98, also in his Works, ed. Napier. Monk 
 in Mus. Crit. u 696 : ' The situation of the projected 
 fabric was happily chosen, to complete the quadrangle of 
 
 2O Neville's court, the north and south sides of which had 
 just been finished by the munificence of two old fellows 
 of the college, Sir Thomas Sclater and Dr. Humphrey 
 Babington. Barrow lived only to raise the subscription 
 and to lay the foundations of this noble pile, which was 
 
 25 destined to be one of the architectural glories of Sir 
 Christopher Wren.' 1 Cooper 1 s Annals III 566 : ' It appears 
 from a book still preserved in Trinity college library, that 
 the building was begun 23 Febr. 1675-6, and finished 
 26 Febr. 1684-5, tne total cost being 12,21$. i6j. id., 
 
 30 of which ,11,709. igj. &/. was subscribed.' Rog. North's 
 Life of Dr. John North, ed. 1826, 364-6: 'When the 
 doctor entered upon the mastership of Trinity college, 
 the building of the great library, begun by his immediate 
 predecessor Dr. Barrow, was advanced about three quarters 
 
 35 of the height of the outward wall ; and the doctor most 
 heartily and diligently applied his best forces towards 
 carrying it on; and besides his own contributions, most of
 
 416 TRINITY LIBRAR Y. 
 
 his friends and relations, upon his encouragement, became 
 benefactors ; the particulars whereof will appear in the 
 accounts of that noble structure. The tradition of this 
 undertaking runs thus. They say that Dr. Barrow pressed 
 the heads of the university to build a theatre .... Dr. 5 
 Barrow assured them that, if they made a sorry building, 
 they might fail of contributions ; but if they made it very 
 magnificent and stately, and at least exceeding that at 
 Oxford, all gentlemen of their interest would generously 
 contribute . . . But sage caution prevailed, and the matter 10 
 at that time was wholly laid aside. Dr. Barrow was 
 piqued at this pusillanimity, and declared that he would 
 go straight to his college, and lay out the foundations of 
 a building to enlarge his back court and close it with 
 a stately library which should be more magnificent and 15 
 costly than what he had proposed to them, and doubted 
 not but, upon the interest of his college, in a short time 
 to bring it to perfection. And he was as good as his 
 word ; for that very afternoon he, with his gardeners and 
 servants, staked out the very foundation upon which the 20 
 building now stands ; and Dr. North saw the finishing of 
 it, except the classes, which were forward, but not done, 
 in his time; and divers benefactions came in upon that 
 account; wherewith, and the liberal supply from the 
 college, the whole is rendered complete; and the ad- 25 
 mirable disposition and proportion on the inside is such 
 as touches the very soul of any one who first sees it.' 
 
 P. 126 1.13. Henry Puckering, to whom Stanley's 
 Aeschylus is dedicated. He was son of Adam Neivton, 
 prince Henry's tutor (Duporfs Musae subsec. 222-3, where 30 
 his son Henrys death is spoken of; cf. ibid. 229. He was 
 member for Warwick, born in London, buried at Notting- 
 ham; Duport, 344, thanks him for the gift of a silver 
 clock and inkstand). 
 
 P. 126 1.17. folding-doors. Rather 'a double door,' 35 
 eine doppelte Thiire. 
 
 P. 126 1.29. the proverb, as translated by Erasmus
 
 BENTHEM. RED I. 417 
 
 from (Cell. II 6 9): 7roA\ctat Kal KriTrovpbs apfyp /j.d\a 
 Kalpiov e?7rev. 
 
 P. 126 1.31. apographum. B x 3, a transcript made 
 for John Whitgift, and bequeathed by him to the college 
 
 5 (see Scrivener's Cod. Bezae, x, xi): a grace passed 2 Mar. 
 1582-3 for lending the MS. to Whitgift 'quo illud de- 
 scribat;' the time was extended by a subsequent grace 
 IO Oct. 1583 (ibid. xiv). 
 
 P. 127 1. I. Benthem. In the ed. of Leipz. 1732, p. 
 
 10 503, the error does not appear; in the pref. f. b 3 ro, an 
 apology is made for it. The great Camden (in Scrivener 
 xiii) seriously maintained that he had seen the true codex 
 Bezae in Trin. library, but that it had since been lost; 
 the codex Bezae shewn in the university library, he, like 
 
 15 Simonides, considered to be 'sequioris aevi.' 
 
 P. 127 1.21. Ritterplatz appeared at Hambitrg in 3 
 parts I2mo., 1701, '2, '4. 
 
 P. 128 1. 7. Christian Juncker published Vita M. 
 Lutheri et successuum. evangelicae reformationis historia 
 
 20 nummis 145 atque iconibus aliquot rarissimis confirmata 
 et illustrata. Francof. 1699. 8vo., where this medal is en- 
 graved p. 24 tab. 2 ; the same in germ. Guldenes und 
 silbernes Ehren-Geddchtniss des seeligen D. Martin Lutheri 
 Niirnb. 1706. 8vo. 
 
 25 P. 128 1. 10. Francesco Redi, an Italian naturalist, born 
 at Arezzo 18 Febr. 1626, died at Pisa I Mar. 1694 (Tira- 
 boschi t.viii pt. I 1. 2 c>3 9). Ibid. pt. 2. 1. 3 c.3 1 1 : ' Le 
 poesie del Redi son per grazia e per eleganza vaghissime, 
 ma sopra ogni cosa e stimato il suo Bacco in Toscana, 
 
 30 ditirambo a cui non si era ancora veduto 1 'uguale, e 
 forse non si e poscia ancora veduto.' The Bacco in 
 Toscana, a panegyric of tuscan wines, with learned notes, 
 first appeared at Florence, 1685, 4to. ; Leigh Hunt pub- 
 lished a translation in 1825. Prof. Huxley, in his address 
 
 35 to the British Association in 1870, seems to regard Redi as 
 standing almost alone in his time as an experimentalist. 
 P. 128 1. 17. Clare hall. Evelyn's Diary Sept. 1654
 
 4 1 8 ST. JOHN'S LIBRAR Y. 
 
 (l 304, ed. 1854): 'Clare-kail is of a new and noble 
 design, but not finished.' 
 
 P. 128 1. 23. the library. Ibid. I 303 : ' Went first to 
 St. John's college, well built of brick, and library, which 5 
 I think is the fairest of that university. One Mr. 
 \Edward~\ Benlffwes has given it all the ornaments of 
 pietra commessa, whereof a table and one piece of per- 
 spective is very fine ; other trifles there also be of no great 
 value, besides a vast old song-book, or service, and some 10 
 fair manuscripts. There hangs in the library the picture 
 of John Williams, archbishop of York, sometime lord 
 keeper, my kinsman and their great benefactor.' Tho- 
 resby's Diary, 16 May 1695 (i 293-4): 'enjoyed our late 
 vicar, the learned and obliging Mr. Milner's, good com- 15 
 pany, who shewed us the delicate walks etc. of St. John's 
 college ; but was yet more pleased with the curious library, 
 where are some valuable manuscript hebrew bibles, deli- 
 cately writ, and other old gilt ones, a book in the Chinese 
 character, the greek testament used by king Charles I. 20 
 and a serious book richly embroidered by queen Elizabeth ; 
 the pictures of the excellent archbishops Grindal (?) and 
 Williams, Sir Robert Hare, noted benefactors, and Mr. 
 Bendlows, who bestowed several curiosities; variety of 
 natural marbles so delicately placed and inlaid as to make 25 
 curious prospects; we saw there also a little chameleon 
 etc.' 
 
 P. 129 1. 5. a folio volume. The text is printed in 
 Baker's History of St. John's, 1869, 338-342 ; the arms 
 are described ibid. 1107-9. 3 
 
 P. 129 l.ig. mosaics. See Evelyn and Thoresby, just 
 cited. 
 
 P. 129 1. 29. Cam. Les delices de la Grande Bretagne 
 I 1 02 : 'le nom de Grant-bridge, ou de Cam-bridge, c'est- 
 a-dire, le font du Cam.' 35 
 
 P. 129 1.30. This bridge. The plan of this bridge 
 has been lately bound up with the building plans of the 
 2nd court.
 
 COFFEE-HOUSES. 419 
 
 P. 130 1.8. King's chapel. Evelyn's Diary, Sept. 
 1654, I 304: 'I found the chapel altogether answered 
 expectation, especially the roof all of stone, which for the 
 flatness of its laying and carving may, I conceive, vie 
 
 5 with any in Christendom. The contignation of the roof 
 (which I went upon), weight and artificial joining of the 
 stones, is admirable. The lights are also very fair. In 
 one aisle lies the famous Dr. Collins, so celebrated for his 
 fluency in the latin tongue . . . The library is too narrow.' 
 
 IO P. 130 1.13. Tom. I. p. 109. 
 
 P. 131 1. 5. Catal. MSS. Angl. pt. II p. 162, where 
 7 MSS. occur. 
 
 P. 131 1.26. Bp. Jo. Pearson's Adversaria Hesychiana 
 were published at Oxford 1844, 2 vols. 8vo. 
 
 15 P. 132 1.8. the Greek's Coffee house. Edw. Rud^s 
 Diary, Cambr. 1860, 15 Sept. 1710, p. 2: 'Mr. \_Ri.~\ 
 Laughton arrested the Grecian for abuseing him when he 
 visited his coffee-booth at the \Sturbridge\ fair.' Ibid. 
 7 Sept. ' Mr. Laughton the senior proctor hinder'd the 
 
 20 musick booths from coming to the fair, by threatening 
 that he would oblige them to sell in full measure. He 
 also revived the statute [n. 47] for punishing lads 3^. ^d. 
 who came to the fair without leave under their master's 
 hand ; and on the 9 he visited paper-mills. ' On the gth 
 
 25 of Nov. 1664, it was decreed by the heads (Stat. Acad. 
 494) ' that all in pupillari statu that shall go to coffee- 
 houses without their tutors' leave shall be punished ac- 
 cording to the statutes for haunters of taverns and ale- 
 houses.' Rog. North, Lives of the Norths, ed. 1826, ill 
 
 30 309, 310, speaking of John North, admitted in 1 66 1 : 
 ' Whilst he was at Jesus college, coffee was not of such 
 common use as afterwards, and coffee-houses but young. 
 At that time, and long after, there was but one, kept by 
 one Kirk. The trade of news also was scarce set up ; for 
 
 35 they had only the public Gazette, till Kirk got a written 
 news-letter circulated by one Muddiman. But now the 
 case is much altered; for it is become a custom after
 
 420 COFFEE-HOUSES. 
 
 chapel to repair to one or other of the coffee-houses (for 
 there are divers) where hours are spent in talking, and 
 less profitable reading of newspapers, of which swarms 
 are continually supplied from London. And the scholars 
 are so greedy after news (which is none of their business), 5 
 that they neglect all for it ; and it is become very rare for 
 any of them to go directly to his chamber after prayers, 
 without doing his suit at the coffee-house ; which is a vast 
 loss of time grown out of a pure novelty, for who can 
 apply close to a subject with his head full of the din of 10 
 a coffee-house ?' Cf. ibid. 293-4 : ' And we may judge the 
 time as well spent there [with the booksellers in Little 
 Britain}, as (in latter days) either in tavern or coffee- 
 house ; though the latter had carried off the spare hours 
 of most people.' Cf. on London coffee-houses ibid. I 316-9. 15 
 In 1675 the duke of Monmouth, chancellor, asked (Cooper's 
 Annals, in 569): 'Whether the coffee-houses be much 
 frequented or not, by what sort and degree of men, and 
 at what hour ? ' The heads replied : ' The coffee-houses 
 are daily frequented and in great numbers of all sorts (the 20 
 heads of houses and other doctors excepted) at all hours, 
 especially morning and evening. ' Masters, Life of Baker, 
 1 08: 'Mr. Baker had for many years before his death 
 been almost a recluse, and seldom went further than the 
 college walks, unless to a coffee-house in an evening after 25 
 chapel, where he commonly spent an hour with great 
 chearfulness in conversing with a select number of his 
 friends and acquaintance, chiefly upon literary subjects.' 
 See an order of the v. c. against frequenting taverns 14 
 Dec. 1728 in MS. Baker xxxin 475; and a decree of the 30 
 heads to the same effect idMar. 1728-9 in Stat. Acad. 510. 
 The regulations which passed the senate in 1750, and led 
 to a violent controversy (Cooper iv 278-281), contain 
 several enactments relating to coffee-houses. 
 
 P. 132 1.12. British Apollo. John Dunton (Life, ed. 35 
 1817, p. xxvii n.) designed a work entitled : ' The querists. 
 A satire on interloping. Dedicated to the British Apollo.''
 
 CAIUS. RI.BENTLEY. 421 
 
 P. 132 l.i 6. Athenian Oracle is the title of three 
 volumes selected from John Dunton's paper originally 
 called Athenian Gazette and afterwards Athenian Mercury 
 (see his Life 187-197, 206). 
 
 5 P. 133 1.27. Kies college. \n.Beeverell,m\&'va.Loggan 
 from whom his plates are taken, the name is spelt Keys. 
 
 P. 1341.7. Sent ley's Folly of Atheism. The Boyle 
 lectures for 1692, being the first lectures delivered on that 
 foundation. 
 
 10 P. 134 1. 15. Catal. MSS. Angl. pt. n, pp. 107-129. 
 
 . See A catalogtte of the manuscripts in the library ofGon- 
 
 ville and Caius college, Cambridge. By the Rev. J. J. 
 
 Smith, M.A. Cambridge, 1849. 8vo. A list of the early 
 
 printed books ; and an index of the English books printed 
 
 15 before the year MDC. in the library of Gonville and Caius 
 college, Cambridge. Compiled by W. R. Collett, M.A. 
 Cambridge. 1850. 8vo. 
 
 P. 135 1. 23. Dr. Bentley. A few details may be 
 gleaned after Monk's harvest. A Narrative of the life and 
 
 20 distresses of Simon Mason, apothecary. Birmingham, 
 printed for the author. 8vo. (n. d. but after 1 754) pp. 72-3 : 
 ' Upon reading the account of Mr. Dresser's death, who 
 was an apothecary of good business in Cambridge, I went 
 to Dr. Mead, . . . and told him what a miserable situation 
 
 25 I was reduc'd to; ... and as there was a vacancy at Cam- 
 bridge, there I would willingly go, if I could accomplish 
 it, in hopes of better fortune : the Dr. readily said he would 
 write to Dr. Bently . . . In the year 1740 I went to 
 Cambridge, with letters of recommendation to Dr. Bently 
 
 30 and several more gentlemen. . . . The reception I met 
 with from Dr. Bently, and the encouragement I receiv'd 
 from many gentlemen in the university, town, and county. ' 
 Pp. 76-7: ' Dr. Bently was taken ill of a pleurisy, a day 
 or two before I was set at liberty [from Cambridge castle], 
 
 35 who was pleas'd to accept the attendance of a brother 
 I recommended in my absence; I waited on the doctor 
 as soon as I had it in my power; Dr. Bently was then 
 
 FF
 
 422 RICHARD BENTLEY. 
 
 under the care of Mr. professor Phimtree; I was very 
 much concern'd to find my best friend so very ill, fearing 
 upon the account of his great age, it wou'd go very hard 
 with him; and as he had enjoy'd such good health so 
 many years, and no great friend to physick, he was not 5 
 so conformable as the professor and I could have wish'd ; 
 but however he was judiciously treated by Dr. Plumtree, 
 and closely attended by myself, who was with him night 
 and day 'till death depriv'd us of this great good man. 
 . This was another very unlucky circumstance now I had 10 
 lost my best friend, who did not only employ me for him- 
 self and family, but for a great many poor people that the 
 world was not acquainted with. The charities he did 
 with his right hand were not known to his left ; his alms 
 were done in secret that he might be rewarded openly. 15 
 This good gentleman every morning during his illness, 
 order'd me half a guinea for my attendance, and besides 
 his paying me handsomely for medicines, I had a present 
 of a three pound twelve over and above ; but these favours 
 were not equal to those I receiv'd from his kind recom- 20 
 mendation. The sanction I had, under the umbrage of 
 this great man, obtain'd me the respect and favours of 
 many. . . . Of all the unlucky incidents of life, nothing 
 cou'd prove more fatal than the death of Dr. Bently in 
 less than a fortnight after [add my\ coming out of gaol; 25 
 and when I had been but little more than half a year 
 settled at Cambridge, and one month of that in prison. 
 My great friend being dead, my interest lessen'd and my 
 business declin'd. ' Thos. Baker to John Lewis of Margate, 
 Cambr. Jan. 22 ( Gent. Mag. , 1 786, p. 669 ; year not given, 30 
 but as the receipt of the life oiCaxton, published in 1737, 
 is acknowledged, no doubt I737"8): 'I can send you no 
 news from hence, unless you have a curiosity to hear of 
 Dr. Bent ley's health, of which you have had so much in 
 the prints. He is really much better ; so much so, as to 35 
 have been abroad twice or thrice in his coach this bad 
 weather. He has received much benefit by blisters, and
 
 RICHARD BENTLEY. 423 
 
 has been advised to pursue and promote such evacuations 
 by issues; but that he will not submit to. So I doubt 
 you may hear of a relapse, since he neglects proper 
 remedies.' His conjectures on Hesiod were transcribed 
 
 5 by Heyne (Got (ling's Hes., praef. fin. with n. of Jacobs']; 
 Heyne writes to Jacobs (Personalien, 307, 17 Mar. 1790): 
 ' Bentley's MS. [on Homer\ makes me half desperate. He 
 has his whim too about the aeolic digamma.' His tran- 
 script of the cod. Boernerianus, which he kept 5 years in 
 
 10 his hands (Marsh's Michaelis, II 676, 818, 820). The 
 Bodl. has a Quintus Curtius, Hag. 1708, 8vo., with his- 
 MS. notes and collations ; and also a defence of Bentley, 
 unknown to Monk, by John Gumming, M. A., minister of 
 the gospel at Cambridge: ' The scotch pope not infallible ; 
 
 15 or animadversions on Mr. John Commins's remarks on 
 Dr. Bentley'' s sermon preach't Nov. 5th, 1715. Land. 1715,' 
 8vo. When Dr. A. A. Sykes kept his divinity act in 1726, 
 he repeated ' Quid si, quid si,' being at a loss for words. 
 On which Bentley took him up : ' Quid si, quid si, caelum 
 
 20 mat?' On which Sykes replied: 'Turn tu, dignissime 
 professor, sublimi feries sidera vertice' (Disney 's Life of 
 Sykes, 370-1). In Geo. Harding^ s Memoirs of Sneyd 
 Davies, (Land. Nichols 1817 pp. 249-250) is a saying of 
 Bentley's on hearing a conjecture : ' Good, very good, and 
 
 25 sound ; but that Hardinge is a King's-man, is he not ? 
 Those King' '.r-men are bad fellows, not one or another, 
 but all of them except Hardinge and Hardinge is a 
 King 'j-man. ' Parson's application of the epigram about 
 the Lerians is much better known. See another saying 
 
 30 of Bentley's in Wyttenbach, Vita D. Ruhnkenii, 1 799, 
 p. 239. On Ri. Bentley the son see Cole in Brydges, Re- 
 stituta, IV 384. Richard Bentley'' s letter to Davies p. 41 1 
 ed. Wordsw., is also printed in John Hughes' Letters, ed. 2, 
 III 169. H. R. Luard in 1860 published for the Cambr. 
 
 35 Ant. Soc. 'The diary of Edw. Rud, sometime fellow of 
 Trinity college ; to which are added several unpublished 
 letters of Dr. Bentley. ' A letter to Patrick Gordon vicar
 
 424 RICHARD BENTLEY. 
 
 of Reading, dated St. James's 25 Sept. 1697, was in Kers- 
 lake's catalogue of Jan. 1859 art. 1577, and with it a letter 
 from Jablonski to Bentley. Six of his letters to Btirman 
 were printed by Haitpt in the Monatsbericht of the .#'/. 
 Akad. Oct. 1860, and thence by A. A. Ellis, in the app. 5 
 to Bentleii critica sacra. Cambr. 1862, pp. 163-180. Jacob 
 Bernays has a paper on Bentley 's correspondence in the 
 Rhein. Mus., ser. 3, vol. vm (1853) p. I seq., where he 
 complains of the errors of Lennep's lat. version of the dis- 
 sertation on Phalaris; accordingly a germ, version by 10 
 W. Ribbeck was published at Leipzig in 1857. Epistolae 
 Bentleii, Graevii, Ruhnkenii, Wyttenbachii selectae, annot. 
 instr. Kraft. Altonae. 1831. 8vo. A letter to him by Edm. 
 Elys in Dr. Hen. Morels Letters, 1694, p. 49. See further 
 the indices to Jo. Byron? s Diary (Cheth. Soc.); Reliquiae 15 
 Hearnianae; Thoresby's and Evelyn's diaries ; Cambr. 
 Chron. 31 Dec. 1768 last page; about his prelection, Whis- 
 toti's Memoirs of Sam. Clarke, 101. He wrote Sir NIC. 
 Pedley's epitaph at Huntingdon (Peck, Desid. Cur. Lib. xiv 
 n. 8). Jos. Gronwius refused to send him Manetho (Fa- 20 
 bricii Vita p. 209). J. A. Fabricius dedicated to him the 
 Vita Prodi, 1700 (ibid. 114). Kuster (ibid. 283-4) had re- 
 ceived a letter from him a few days before 7 Jan. 1706 
 (ibid. 283-4). He intended to publish Jiistin Martyr 
 (Kemble's State Papers, p. 231). Hemsterhnis censured 25 
 the rashness of his Manilius (Ruhnken, Elog. Tib. Hemst., 
 ed. 1789, p. 53). A Manilius with his MS. notes was in 
 Jos. Cradock's hands (Ann. Biogr. 1828, p. 297). A cor- 
 rection of his in Florus recorded in Markland's Slatius, 
 praef. p. xiv. Many notices of him in Thesaurus epistol. 30 
 Lacroz. vols. I III, see the ind. On him and Locke, see 
 Uhlii Sylloge nova epistolarum, vol. in pt. I, lib. 7, pp.63, 
 186-9. Stillingfieef s Life has been falsely ascribed to him 
 (Brydges, Restituta I 164). ' Bentley. Eine Biographic 
 von Jacob Maehly. Mit einem Anhang Bentley 1 scher An- 35 
 ecdota zu Homer. Leipzig. 1868,' 8vo., is more accurate, 
 let us hope, elsewhere, than in an appendix on english
 
 RICHARD BENTLEY. 425 
 
 education, which states (p. 121) that each of our two 
 universities has 24 professors, who give very few lec- 
 tures, and those only on classical philology and mathematics 
 ' and their appurtenances ;' none, it appears, but graduates 
 
 5 are allowed to attend. Considering that Mr. Maehly's 
 work was done to his hand by a former professor of this 
 university, we might reasonably have expected him to 
 make some inquiries before he served up again these stale 
 libels. See a severe review of his book by Fr. Liidecke 
 
 10 in the 1 Gott. gel. Anz. 1869. st. 35. F. A. Wolf, Liter ar. 
 Anal. I 1-95, 493-9, and F. Hand in Ersch u. Gruber ix 
 48-52, had already given some account of ovx Aristarchus. 
 In the catalogue of the Cambridge library may be seen a 
 full list of Bentley's works, collected and scattered. De 
 
 15 Koutorga, Examen de la dissertation de Bentley sur /'##- 
 thenticite" des lettres de Themistocle. Paris, 1861, 4to. Hen. 
 Wotton, the excellent Johnian editor of Clement (Cambr. 
 Corn. Crownfield 1718, 8vo.), 'cuius editio summa laude 
 digna est' (Hilgenfeld), acknowledges' Bentley's help in 
 
 20 words rendered famous by the Phalaris controversy : 
 Praef. ccvni : ' Plurimum me debere fateor Re'verendo 
 admodum apud nos PROFESSORI REGIO, qui pro singular! 
 sua humanitate et benevolentia me illi prorsus ignotum 
 excipiens, non solum MSti cod. licentiam mihi concessit; 
 
 25 sed et perhumane, si qua de re ipsum consuluerim, quid 
 ipse senserit mecum communicavit. ' Again n. on c. 50 
 p. 199, speaking of Bentley : ' Qui et ipse pro singular! 
 sua, qua omnes excipere solet, humanitate, me monuit, 
 non esse discedendum hoc in loco a fide MSti codicis.' 
 
 30 See further H. Ahn: De Bentleio Miltoni editore. Bonn. 
 1859. 8vo. ; Godofr. Hermanni Opusc. II 270. On his 
 Manilhis see Fr. Jacob, Manil. Berol. 1846 praef. vi-ix, 
 xi, xiii (Burman and Dorville against Bentley], xiv, xv 
 (Bentley adopted many of Withofs conjectures). Ri. 
 
 35 Bradley was chosen professor of botany at Cambridge 
 10 Nov. 1 724 ' by means of a pretended verbal recom- 
 mendation from Dr. Sherard to Dr. Bentley 1 ( G. C. Gorham, 
 Memoirs of John and Thos. Martyn, Lond. 1830, 32).
 
 426 TRINITY. LE CLERC. 
 
 P. 135 1. 24. has built himself an excellent house. See 
 Monk I 148-150, 174-6. 
 
 P. 135 1. 29. panels. Ibid. 149, 150: ' In all the rooms 
 wainscot was substituted for the antiquated and decaying 
 tapestiy. Here Bentley complied with the fashion of the 5 
 day;* as he did likewise in the introduction of marble 
 chimney-pieces and sash-windows. In the last particular 
 only there seems to have been just ground for complaint ; 
 since these windows not only occasioned a great cost, but 
 were a blemish to the Gothic character of the noble quad- 10 
 rangle. He alleged in defence of this alteration, for which 
 his taste as well as economy were impeached, that there 
 was already a want of uniformity in the court, no two 
 sides being exactly alike, and that sash-windows were de- 
 sirable, as giving greater light to rooms which were not 15 
 less than 25 ft. in depth. ' 
 
 P. 136 1.3. to eject a fellow. Edm. Miller. Seethe 
 whole controversy in Monk, \ 242-6. 
 
 P. 136 1. 1 1. his extreme arrogance. Ibid. 379 n. from 
 ' University loyalty considered. Loud. 1715 :' 'many have 20 
 therefore taken an antipathy against him as a man that 's 
 high-minded. ' 
 
 P. 1 36 1. 23. Dr. Grabe. See pp. 400 1. 26. 
 
 P. 136 1.27. Horace. See Monk I 157-9, 307-324; 
 Bentley 1 ! Corresp. 194, 2OO, 219, 225: Bentleii Critica 25 
 Sacra 167: Alaehly 50-61, 130-5. A new edition is now 
 (1870) in course of publication in, Germany. 
 
 P. 137 1. 12. Velleius Paterculus, first edited by Beatus 
 Rhenanus. From the MS. , since lost, of the monastery of 
 Murbach, printed by Froben at B&le in 1520, fol. 30 
 
 P. 137 1. 14. Hesychius, first edited by Marcus Musurus, 
 Ven. 1514, fol. 
 
 P. 138 1.6. Clericus. On the 25 Febr. 1710-1 Uffen- 
 bach (Reisen III 559, 560) visited Clericus at Amsterdam. 
 ' He is a man of about fifty, very polite, yet somewhat 35 
 dry ; from his writings I had expected to find him much 
 * ' Only the dining-room was wainscoted with oak.'
 
 LE CLERC. BENTLEY. 427 
 
 more brisk. He began, like ordinary people, by talking 
 of the weather. When I led the conversation to England, 
 he complained of the great laziness of Englishmen, and justly 
 too ; enjoying such large beneficia and noble libraries, they 
 
 5 produced very little in the way of learning ; which is only 
 too true, with a few bright exceptions. . . . His wife, an 
 old, lean and very ugly woman, daughter of the famous 
 Greg. Leti, sat with us, had a book before her, and joined 
 in the conversation. For the rest he spoke chiefly on in- 
 
 IO different topics, and asked several times, whether Bentleii 
 Horatius would come out soon ; he believed ad graecas 
 calendas. I did not care to say much in reply, because 
 of the great quarrel between him and Bentley. ' Uffenbach 
 to J. H. Mains, 10 Mar. 1713-4 (Commerc. epist. n 349, 
 
 15 35) : ' Certiorem enim me fecerat \Lederlinus\ editionem 
 [anthologiae gr.], quam Clericits tarn diu molitus fuit, vix 
 amplius sperari posse. Quod eo probabilius videbatur, 
 quod magnus ille Aristarchus, postquam a Burmanno et 
 Bentleio tarn male exceptus fuerat, manum de tabula sub- 
 
 20 ducturus, animumque in graecis quicquam audendi ab- 
 iecturus sit. ' On Bentley's dispute with Le Clerc see Monk 
 I 266-280; Maehly 49, 50, 129, 130^ Bentley's Corresp. 
 380, 402, 408, 410. The principal authorities for Le 
 Clerks life are given in A. J. v. d. Aa, Biogr. Woordenb, 
 
 25 der Nederlanden, III 439-457. Wm.Cave published at 
 Land. 1700, I2mo., 'Epistola apologetica ad versus ini- 
 quas J. Clerici criminationes ;' and John Milner published 
 at Cambr. 1702, 8vo., 'Animadversions upon Mr. Le 
 Clerc's reflexions in his supplement to Dr. Hammond's 
 
 30 paraphrase. ' On the other hand Le Clerc numbered 
 among his friendly correspondents David Wilkins, Wm. 
 Wake, Nat. Lardner, Wm. Nichols, Jas. Fraser, Peter 
 Allix, Ra. Cudivorttts learned daughter Damaris lady 
 Masham ; he exchanged literary services with John Davies, 
 
 35 Pet. Needham, Jos. Wasse, Wm. Wotton. 
 
 P. 138 1.8. the last pasquil. See Bentley's jesting 
 letter to Burman 19 Aug. 1710 (in Bentleii Critica sacra,
 
 428 LE CLERC. BENTLEY. 
 
 172-3): 'Video inter te et lo. Clericum bellum atroc- 
 issimum exarsisse, et legi gallicum tuum scriptum [Le 
 Gazettier menteur\, in quo hominem adeo depexum, adeo 
 colaphis contusum dedisti, ut vix ipse credo se noverit. 
 Neque hoc supplicio contentus alium libellum sub ficto 5 
 Phileleutheri nomine in caput infelicis impegisti ; de cuius 
 vero auctore inter erudites disceptari audio. Clericus 
 tamen ipse per epistolam me eius libelli patrem esse in- 
 sinuabat et rumorem ilium etiam antequam liber prodiret 
 per totum Belgium increbruisse narrat; unde et biblio- 10 
 polae hie in Britannia passim sub meo nomine divendere 
 solent. Scire igitur a te aveo an verum sit talem rumorem 
 in Belgio esse sparsum, et unde is primum dimanaverit, 
 a ClericffRK. an a te, an ab ipsis lectorum iudiciis; deinde 
 quid de opuscule illo sentiant litterati, Relandus, Cuperus, 15 
 Perizonius, Kusterus aliique; an ab emptoribus avide 
 diripiatur, an magis in officinis librariis haereat et ob- 
 solescat; an paret aliquid Clericus quod repor.at; et 
 quaecunque de toto illo negotio scis ut me ccrtiorem 
 facere velis. "Clericus quidem id a me exigebat ut 20 
 \a.KtavMois vel aiam vel negem: sed cum primo me 
 insidiis et deinde minis (etiam ante libellum editum) ag- 
 gressus esset, neque librum mea caussa agnoscere volui, 
 nee illius caussa eiurare. Tu igitur, vir amicissime, fac 
 ut quam primum poteris fuse mihi omnia narres, quae 25 
 de illo libello in eruditorum coetibus apud vos iactantur. ' 
 Abr. des Amorie -van der Hoeven, ' Dissertatio de loanne 
 Clerico. Amst. 1843,' has thrown new light upon this 
 matter. P. 81: Wm. Wotton to Le Clerc, Land. 15 Oct. 
 1697 : ' Cum a lectione incomparabilis tuae Artis Criticae 30 
 fervens nuper discesseram, subiit mihi in mentem, Richardi 
 Bentleii censuram epistolarum Phalaridis et fabularum 
 aesopicarum tibi hisce in artibus versatissimo haud in- 
 gratam fore.' Pp. 82-3 : Le Clerc in reply, Amst. 4 Apr. 
 1698: ' Coepi legere libellum .... viri doctissimi Ric. 35 
 Bentleii, cuius eruditionem eximiam iam miratus eram, 
 cum legerem doctissimam eius dissert, ad loannem Male-
 
 BENTLEY AND LE CLERC. 429 
 
 lam, et quae contulit ad exornandam nuperam editionem 
 Callimachi . . . Velim scire, si liceat, quid vir doctissimus 
 moliatur. . . An Hesychio donabit remp. litterariam ? An 
 fragmentis poetarum graecorum ? Novi hominem harum 
 
 5 litterarum amantem, qui studiose collegit non modo frag- 
 menta ampliora Menandri et Philemonis, sed etiam ra- 
 menta, ex plurimis omnium generum scriptoribus. Is 
 averet scire num vir infinitae lectionis de iis edendis 
 etiamnum cogitet, nam ipsi hoc consilium hactenus fuit 
 
 10 ut ea ederet, non modo auctiora, sed etiam emendatiora, 
 quam sunt apud Stobaeum aut Grotium, eaque latina 
 versione notulisque criticis et ethicis illustrata. Omnia 
 affecta habet, nee editionem sustinet, nisi quia exspectat 
 num aliunde ornament! quidpiam operi suo accedere 
 
 15 possit. Vides, vir doctissime, ex hisce avidissime eum 
 accepturum quid moliatur amicus tuus. Qui si consilium 
 suum de edendis iis fragmentis mutasset, malletque iis 
 quae collegit alios obstetricari, quod video illi placuisse 
 in fragmentis Callimachi emittendis, non posset cum 
 
 20 homine gratiore et qui pluris faceret eiusmodi beneficium 
 quae habet communicare. Quod si intellegat eum de iis 
 edendis cogitare, fortasse exspectabit donee prodierint.' 
 Wotton's next letter, pp. 83-5, Milton, 16 May 1698, is 
 mainly taken up with Bentley's intended reply to Boyle: 
 
 25 ' Proximis meis, quas, si rescripseris, brevimittam, consilium 
 amici nostri de fragmentis graecomm poetarum edendis 
 uberius expositum habebis. ' Wotton's next letter is dated 
 Lond. 21 Jtme 1698, pp. 85-6: 'Prioribus meis meo 
 nomine ad tuam elegantem pariter et amicam epistolam 
 
 30 responsum dedi ; nunc Bentleii nomine et iussu rescribo. 
 Is quod de se tarn magnifice et tarn amice sentis gratias 
 tibi agit maximas; quae illi tribuis sibi arrogare nefas 
 ducit, licet se eo nomine obstrictum existimat pro virili 
 laborare, ne tu cum ceteris omnibus qui ilium apud vos 
 
 35 tanti facitis sua culpa spe vestra decideritis. De frag- 
 mentis poetarum edendis haec est eius sententia: si tute 
 ipse istud opus moliris, quod nos ambo credimus, se
 
 430 BENTLEY AND LE CLERC. 
 
 tibi opem ferre semper fore paratissimum ; si autem 
 amicus tuus sit qui fragmenta ista Menandri ceterorumque 
 sit editurus, modo iste amicus talis sit, pro quo ipse 
 sponsionem dabis ilium isti oneri hand futurum imparem, 
 virum nempe quicum Bentldus noster se iungi non eru- 5 
 bescat, nee turn quoque amici tui editionem appendice 
 ornare gravabitur. Rogat autem te ut operis totius 
 specimen seu conspectum hue transmittas, nam ex tuis 
 non liquet num ethica solum vel potius omnia poetarum 
 graecorum fragmenta quae ubicunque exstant in lucem 10 
 edere amicus tuus statuerit. Hoc enim si suum (vel 
 tuum potius) sit institutum, Bentleio non vacat omnia ilia 
 quae ex graecis scriptoribus pridem eollegit, et quae in 
 scriniis suis indigesta latitant, in ordinem redigere et ad 
 vos transmittere. Tanta enim et eorum et notarum quae 15 
 iis explicandis erunt necessariae erit copia, ut biennium 
 integrum illis exscribendis et concinnandis non sufficeret. 
 Si ethica solum spectes, ut ex tuis coniecimus, te tali 
 appendice, quali Graevium nuper, libentissime donabit. 
 Certo enim scit omnia sua ex tuis manibus accuratissime 20 
 fore proditura. Vides, vir eruditissime, quantus tui 
 nominis cultor sit ille criticorum coryphaeus.' Le Clerc 
 in reply 8th July 1698, after recommending that an 
 epitome of the 'dissertation,' in latin or french, should 
 be published abroad (p. 87): 'Non dissimulabo amplius 25 
 me ipsum parata habere fragmenta ilia, de quibus ad te 
 scripsi. Sed intellexi tantum \etyava duorum poetarum 
 comicorum Menandri et Philemonis j nam de ceteris colli- 
 gendis ne per somnium quidem umquam cogitavi . . . 
 Horum collectione absoluta, statui, quam primum per 30 
 graviores occupationes liceret, edere graece et latine, hoc 
 est prosa oratione conversa, omnia ilia duorum comicorum 
 fragmenta, et primum quidem ea quae pertinent ad certas 
 comoedias, quarum nomina erunt ordine alphabetico di- 
 gesta; deinde ea quae ex quo dramate petita sint non 35 
 constat. Omnibus subicientur notulae criticae atque 
 ethicae. Praefigentur utrique elogia veterum, et Me-
 
 BENTLEY AND LE CLERC. 431 
 
 nandro quidem eius comparatio cum Aristophane a Plu- 
 tarcho exscripta, quae utinam integra ad nos pervenisset ! 
 ... Si quid ad ea adnotasset amicus tuus clarissimus, 
 quod ad eorum emendationem vel illustrationem spectat, 
 
 5 aut deprompsisset ex minus trito scriptore, vel in quo 
 talia latescere suspicari non possem, id mecum communi- 
 cari, nisi molestum esset, optarem, pollicererque omnia 
 sub nomine inventoris summa fide editum iri. Ego 
 quidem gloriolam ex hoc mustaceo non quaero, sed 
 
 IO vellem pulcherrimas et elegantissimas sententias cultissi- 
 morum comicorum adolescentibus legendas praebere, qui- 
 bus nihil eiusmodi praelegunt nostrates critici.' Wotton 
 in reply, I Nov. 1698: 'Litteras tuas humanissimas . . . 
 ad Bentleium nostrum transmisi ; . . is te quam officio- 
 
 1 5 sissime salutat, tibique suppetias ferre se fore paratissimum 
 perquam alacriter spondet. Responsum quod in Carolum 
 Boylaeum parat, sub prelo sudat, et ante Natalicia ut 
 credo prodibit : opere perfecto ad te scribere, exemplar- 
 que suae defensionis una cum epistula mittere statuit.' 
 
 2O Clericus in reply, Amst. 28 Nov. 1698 (p. 88): 'Avide ex- 
 spectabo responsum rever. et clariss. viri ad vehementem 
 satiram, et si quid de poetarum illorum meorum comi- 
 corum biga commentatus sit aut collegerit. Si evolvit 
 interpretes graecos Aristotelis, in quos numquam incidi, 
 
 25 et quos forte non legissem, si fuissent mihi ad manum, 
 aut atticistarum lexica MSS. quae dicuntur esse in biblio- 
 thecis Angliae vestrae, atque in iis fragmenta nonnulla 
 invenit, iis mecum communicatis me bearet.' Le Clerc 
 to Bentley, Amst. 24 Oct. 1699 (pp. 88-9), after thanking 
 
 30 him for a present of the dissertation on Phalaris, and 
 highly extolling it : ' Importuni illi adversarii (nam plures 
 videntur esse, quamvis unus omnium nomine loquatur) 
 tibi vacuum tempus posthac sinent quo possis remp. 
 litterariam ditare sponte tua operibus, quae sine dubio 
 
 35 affecta habes. Voluissem inter ea comparere fragmenta 
 poetarum graecorum, verum accepi a viro rever. Gulielmo 
 Wottono nostro te id consilii abiecisse. Ab eodem in-
 
 432 BENTLEY AND LE CLERC. 
 
 tellexeris a me collecta esse fragmenta praestantissimorum 
 comicorum Philemonis et Meiiandri; quae, quam primum 
 erit aliquid otii, in lucem publicam emittam. At hoc 
 opus multo ornatius prodiret, si quid ad eius splendorem 
 conferre velles, ex iis quae in scriniis de hisce poetis 5 
 habes observata, et quae a te ausim petere, auctoribus 
 viro reverendo quern memoravi, et optimo atque acu- 
 tissimo viro loan. Locke, cuius amicitiam maximi facio, 
 qui mihi spem fecere impetrandi a te, viro longe huma- 
 nissimo, quidquid rogarem.' Wotton to Le Clerc, ^Apr. IO 
 1700 (p. 90): 'Quae a Bentlrio nostro dudum efflagitasti, 
 fragmenta nempe Menandri et Philemonis, habet penes 
 se, iam parata. Necesse est ut ilia iterum exscribat, et 
 tune ad te credo mittet. Sed viri promissorum non 
 memoris aurem ut subinde vellas rogo : negotiis enim 15 
 obrutus, modo non sit monitus, diutius forsan quam par 
 est in schedis suis exscribendis cessabit; quamvis nollem 
 ut a te resciscat, quod huius rei a me monereris. Scribe 
 igitur et audacter et crebro, modo propositum de edendis 
 istis fragmentis non mutaveris. Tui enim studiosissimus 20 
 est Bentleius, ut qui maxime, et beneficio aliquo te suum 
 reddere magno optaverit. Audivimus nempe te fuisse 
 auctorem epitomes defensionis Bentleianae quam Bernardus 
 vester Actis suis litterariis mensis lunii anni praeteriti 
 insemit. ' Jo. Dames to Le Clerc, Cambr. 26 Nov. O. S. 25 
 1709 (pp. 272-4): l Menandri et Philemonis fragmenta te 
 mihi missurum polliceris, et dubio procul in caussa fuit 
 bibliopolae neglegentia, cur destinatum munus haud ac- 
 ceperim. Ea tamen aliunde comparata perlegi, et turn 
 diro<nrao7t<&rta ipsa, turn tuae notae mihi vehementer 30 
 placuerunt. Attamen, ut ingenue loquar, tibi multis 
 negotiis districto nonnulla videntur excidisse, quibus 
 metri ratio prorsus repugnat.' Several corrections follow. 
 ' Haec nullius fere sunt momenti ; non tamen ea negle- 
 genda censui : meas etiam, si videtur, observationes in 35 
 reliqua fragmenta tecum communicabo ; nihil enim magis 
 in votis habeo, quam ut omnia tua quam emendatissima
 
 SPANHEIM. BENTLEY. LE CLERC. 433 
 
 videant posteri.' Ezek. Spanhtim to the same, London 
 10 June 1710 ('Soanm's Clerici vita et opera ad annum 
 MDCCXI. Amst. 1711,' 237 seq.): 'A 1'egard de Mr. B\ur- 
 matt], comme il m'envoya son Pttrone, . . . et qu'il m'y 
 
 5 consultoit sur quelques MSS. de Silius Ilalicus a Oxford, 
 et d'ailleurs que feu Mr. Graevius, qui etoit mon bon 
 et ancien ami, me 1' avoit recommande, comme son eleve, 
 je n'avois pu, que 1'en remercier, sans d'ailleurs y faire 
 aucune mention de sa preface. . . Du reste, j'avois vu 
 
 10 a regret la maniere dont il vous attaquoit dans cette 
 preface, et n'avois pas etc surpris de voir de quelle 
 maniere vous y repondites, dans votre dernier tome de 
 la BibliothZque choisie. Pour le dernier ecrit fran9ois, 
 que vous me marquez qu'il a public centre vous, je 
 
 15 vous puis dire de bonne foi de ne 1' avoir pas vu 
 jusques-ici, ni appris qu'il y en cut chez nos libraires, 
 qui correspondent en Hollande, et qui ont coutume de 
 me donner part des livres qu'il re9oivent. J'apprends 
 cependant qu' il y en a un en ville, que quelque particulier 
 
 20 venu d' Utrecht y a apporte. Je n' ai pas naturellement, 
 dont je me sais bon gre, beaucoup d'empressement pour 
 les ecrits, tels que vous me depeignez celui-ci, et ap- 
 prouve la-dessus entierement le parti, que vous voulez 
 prendre de n'y pas repondre. Mais je vous avoue que 
 
 25 j'ai ete encore plus surpris de ce que vous me touchez 
 dans votre lettre d'un. . . .* qui auroit envoye des re- 
 marques a Mr. B\icrman~\ centre votre Menandre. Comme 
 le soup9on et le prejuge que vous avez et ce que vous 
 en dites pourroit tomber sur \Bentley\ je veux esperer 
 
 30 qu' il se trouvera mal-fonde. Je vous puis dire au moins 
 de bonne foi et en toute verite, que dans le sejour de 
 quelques semaines qu'il a fait ici, en ville, il n'y a guere 
 et avant la reception de votre lettre, et qui m'a donne 
 lieu de le voir deux ou trois fois; il ne m'a du tout 
 
 35 rien fait connoitre de pareil. L'estime que j'avois pour 
 [Bentley] venant en mon present emploi en Angleterre, 
 
 * [Supply Anglaisl:].
 
 434 DA VIES. BENTLEY. LE CLERC. 
 
 me fit accepter, avec joie, les offres de son amitie, et 
 a 1'entretenir depuis ce temps-la, aux occasions de ses 
 voyages a Londres. Ainsi s'il etoit vrai qu'il fut effect- 
 ivement 1'auteur de ces remarques sur Menandre, j'aurois 
 souhaite de tout mon coeur qu'il cut pris quelque autre 5 
 sujet. Je n'ai pas su d'ailleurs, qu'il y cut autant de 
 liaison entre lui et Mr. B\urnian\ que d'en vouloir epouser 
 la querelle centre vous. Je rends graces a Dieu, parmi 
 mes autres defauts, de m' avoir au moins preserve jusqu' a 
 present de la demangeaison d'attaquer ou d'insulter les 10 
 gens de lettres et de savoir, quelque sujet meme, occasion, 
 ou facilit^, que j'y pusses trouver.' John Davies to the 
 sapne, Cambridge, 23 July 1710 (Amorie v. der Hoeven, 
 u. s. 274) : ' Hoc ipso die Menandri et Philemonis ex- 
 emplar compactum recte accepi; tibique, vir doctissime, 15 
 pro munere litterario gratias quam maximas habeo atque 
 ago. Interim, ut verum fatear, mihi ex animo dolet 
 tantas ob hoc opus procellas in te esse concitatas; spero 
 tamen te animos non remissurum, sed eodem, quo hac- 
 tenus, ardore rem litterariam promoturum. Si aljter res, 20 
 quod abominor, caderet, votis suis potirentur adversarii, 
 qui scriptorum tuorum multitudini simul et erudition! 
 prorsus invident. ' Same to same, Cambridge, 9 Nov. 
 1710 (p. 275): ' Famosum, quern memoras, lac. Gronovii 
 libellum festinanter perlegi. Antiquum obtinet scriptor, 25 
 et ita se gerit, ut contemptu puniendus, non accurata 
 confutatione redarguendus, videatur. Virulentos libros 
 semper sum aversatus, et mallem sane litteras nescire, 
 quam homines erudites, qui de rep. litteraria bene me- 
 rentur, conviciis proscindere. ' Same to same, Cambridge, 30 
 f)July I7 r 9: l Bentleius Suetonium ad antiquissimorum 
 MSStorum fidem editurus est. ' De Paulo's unhappy Emen- 
 dationes (see Monk I 278) are alluded to by Bentley in 
 a letter to Sike, undated, but written in 1711 (Corresp. 
 410-1): 'We expect to have the Amsterdam book by the 35 
 next occasion: but for the answer, I shall leave that to 
 Burman; for I suppose I can do business semel, and
 
 BENTLEY. LE CLERC. 435 
 
 need not give a second blow. I had a letter from Kiister 
 by the hand of a learned Venetian nobleman, who told 
 me the chat in Holland about Phileleutherus. And yet 
 Kiister himself, in his letter, pretends that the book is a 
 
 5 very shrewd book, telum a non vulgaribtis lacertis tortum; 
 sed de auctore diversae sunt sententiae. What is the 
 meaning of this grimace? can he really doubt of the 
 author? As if Mr. Burgh did not hear him and Hem- 
 sterhuis speak of the author without doubting.' Jac. 
 
 10 Perizonius to Bentley, Leyden, 9 June 1711 (ibid. 416-7): 
 ' Quis, quaeso, apud vos ille est Philargyrius Canta- 
 brigiensis, vel Oxoniensis potius, qui sua tela in armatum 
 Phileleutheri corpus voluit potissimum vibrare, idque pro 
 communi omnium philologorum et grammaticorum hoste 
 
 15 certissimo? Pudet me eorum pigetque, qui tantum odiis 
 suis dant, ut communem causam destituant prodantque, 
 immo labefactent et oppugnent. Habemus et hie, qui 
 tibi per litteras blandiuntur, in sermonibus suis detrahunt, 
 affectantes Clericum, quos ego certe pro genuinis libe- 
 
 2O ralium disciplinarum, quas tamen profitentur, cultoribus 
 non habeo.' J. Wasse to Clericus, Aynho, 28 June 1724 
 (in Abr. des Amorie v. der Hoeven, 279): 'I sent you a 
 specimen of our Bibliotheca, in which you must not take 
 it unkindly, that I give your antagonist Dr. B\entley\ his 
 
 25 due praises : the points you two great men differ'd about 
 cannot affect the name and character you maintain in 
 the learned world : they really are minutiae, and tho' 
 I have corrected the verses in Plautus throughout, I dare 
 not be positive I'm not often mistaken. I am sure Dr. 
 
 30 Hare is upon Terence, which Dr. B\entley\ possibly may 
 show (?). He was the person that determin'd the Dr. to 
 write against you; Dr. Davies, Dr. Needham and myself 
 knew nothing of it; and to my knowledge Dr. Bentley 
 burnt the first essay of that work, because the stile was 
 
 35 too coarse and severe. If I cou'd see you together, you 
 shou'd soon be good friends. The true reason of that 
 pamphlett was, that the Dr. receiv'd informations the then
 
 436 BEZA. 
 
 government intended to appoint you co-library-keeper 
 with him, which he imagin'd was a thing of your seeking, 
 and therefor cou'd not bear it; and that there was an 
 intention of that sort, a nobleman in the secret told 
 me.' 5 
 
 P. 138 1.12. J. Masson. See fienttey's Corresp. p. 377 
 1.4, 4001.23. 
 
 P. 138 1. 13. a letter, dated Amst. 25 June N. S. 1710 
 (ibid. 397-9). 
 
 P. 138 1. 20. rejoined, in a letter dated Cambridge i 10 
 July O.S. 1710 (ibid. 400-7. Cf. ibid. 266, 380, 408, 410, 
 
 435. 438). 
 
 P. 140 1. 5. the school. See the plate in Loggan or in 
 Beeverell. 1.8. a small room; the ' consistory' was held 
 under the east room of the present library. 1.15. the first, 15 
 the present south room, leading from the entrance staircase 
 to the dome. 1. 19. the second room, or 'little library,' 
 where the east room now stands. 
 
 P. 141 1. 4. somewhere. Kipling (praef. xxii, xxiii) 
 cites a letter from Beza to Walter Travers, Geneva, Oct. 20 
 1582: 'Misso superiore vere venerandae plane vetustatis 
 Novi Testamenti graeco-latini codice, qui publicae biblio- 
 thecae consecraretur, ne litterulam quidem inde accepi, 
 ex qua meam hanc voluntatem ipsis non ingratam fuisse 
 cognoscerem.' 25 
 
 P. 141 1.8. the copy of the letter. It is in MS. Baker 
 x 406-7 = B 209, 210, and is printed by Scrivener, p. ii 
 and Heywood and Wright, Cambr. univ. trans. I 352-3. 
 
 P. 142 1.5. which we saw at Helmstadt, 14 Dec. 1709 
 (Reisen, I 226, where is a reference to Sauberlus, 'variae 30 
 lect. text. gr. evang. S. Matt. Helmst. 1672,' 4to., p. 263 
 seq. ; and J.A.Schmid, 'diss. de lectionariis vet. imprimis 
 ChrysostomiJ the latter of whom gave the MS. an age of at 
 least 800, Saubertus of 1000 years). 
 
 P. 142 1.5. Genesis in bibliotheca Cottoniana, viz. Otho 35 
 B6, which Uffenbach saw 16 July 1710 (Reisen II 575); 
 most of it was destroyed in the fire.
 
 PUBLIC LIBRARY. 437 
 
 P. 142 1. 8. ancient monuments of the church of 
 Waldenses. Numbered Dd iii 25-38. xv 29-34. The 
 latter series was long supposed to be lost, and often 
 suspected to have been stolen by the Papists, until the 
 
 5 volumes were found in their proper place by the present 
 librarian, Mr. Bradshaw. See Catalogue of the manuscripts 
 preserved in the library of the university of Cambridge. 
 vol. i. Cambr. 1856. 81-99, 54 8 '55 2 ; v 589. Mr. Brad- 
 Shaw's description of Dd xv 29-34 is printed in Communi- 
 
 IO cations to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society n 203-218, 
 and in Dr. J. H. Todays Books of the Vaudois, 1865, 210- 
 223. Mr. Bradshaitfs important correction of the received 
 date of the Waldensian books has been accepted by 
 several German critics. 
 
 15 P. 142 1.14. five or six folio volumes. Ujfenbach only 
 saw a part of the collection. 
 
 P. 142 1. 20. Jean Leger's Histoire Vaudoise, or rather 
 Histoire generale des eglises evangeliques des vallees de 
 Piemont. Leyde 1669. fol. 
 
 20 P. 142 1.21. Chamberlayne is not a little mistaken, 
 when he boasts of 14,000 volumes in this library. On the 
 contrary he kept well within the mark. Dr. Richard 
 HoldsworMs books, bequeathed in 1649, and those of 
 Henry Lucas, bequeathed in 1664, 'together made up- 
 
 25 wards of 15,000 volumes' (Mr. Bradshaw in the Cambr. 
 Univ. Gazette, no. 14, 10 Mar. 1869). To these must be 
 added Bp. John Hackefs bequest of more than 1000 
 volumes in 1670, and many smaller gifts, and books bought 
 on the Rustat account. It is to be hoped that Mr. 
 
 30 Bradshaw may find time to collect and enlarge the series 
 of articles on the library which he printed in nos. 9-15 of 
 the Gazette. Mr. H. R. Luard, the registrary of the uni- 
 versity, printed for the syndics of the press ' A chrono- 
 logical list of the graces, documents, and other papers in 
 
 35 the university registry which concern the university library. 
 Cambridge, 1870.' 8vo. some copies 1. p. in 4to. ; this 
 forms a valuable supplement to Mr. Bradshaw'' s papers. 
 
 GG
 
 438 WM. BEDWELL. 
 
 P. 142 1. 24. as far as lean judge by my (nun collection. 
 In a letter to Jo. Andr. Dam, 10 May 1713, Uffenbach 
 writes (Commerc. epistol. II 295): ' Utinam praesens oculis 
 tuis perlustrare posses, quanta spolia (thesauros dicam, 
 nam multo labore nee parvo sane pretio constiterunt) ex 5 
 itineribus reportaverim. Praefiscine dixero, quattuor milia 
 voluminum numerus excedit, omnium vero librorum me- 
 orum ad duodecim milia excrescit. ' 
 
 P. 142 1.27. Th.Erpenii. Seep. 157 1.29 n., 195 1.21. 
 
 P. 142 1.29. Cromwell. Seep. 195 1.23. 10 
 
 P. 143 1.3. lexici arabici. Seep. 157 1. n. 
 
 P. 143 1.4. Wm. Bedwell, rector of St. Ethelburg/i's, 
 London, in the gift of the bp. of London, 8 Dec. 1601 ; 
 Wm. Bray succeeded 5 May 1632, on his death (Newcourt 
 I 346). Vicar of Tottenham 8 Oct. 1607, in the gift of 15 
 the dean and chapter of St. Paul's; Wm. Wimpew suc- 
 ceeded I Sept. 1632 (ibid. 755). Bedwell owed this pre- 
 ferment to Lane. Andrewes, then canon. Isaacson's Life 
 of Andrewes, ed. Bliss (before his 'minor works,' Oxf. 
 1 854), xxiii, xxiv : 'Erpenius, to whom he tendered an 20 
 annual stipend, to have read and taught here the oriental 
 tongues, wherein, long before his death, he himself had 
 been well versed, as may appear by his commencement 
 verses ; the experienced professors whereof he much de- 
 lighted in, and did much for them ; as Master Bedwell, to 25 
 whom he gave the vicarage of Tottenham, if living, among 
 others would testify.' He was a member of the West- 
 minster company of translators of the bible, which under- 
 took the first portion, to the end of Kings (Fuller-Brewer 
 v 371). His publications may be seen in Watt and 30 
 Lowndes, or in the Bodl. catal. In Tanner MS. 74 f. 78 
 is a letter from him to his uncle, 29 June 1616, for money 
 to carry on a law-suit. In 1616 he translated Salignac's 
 Arithmetic. He also translated and enlarged the Geometry 
 of Ramus, but it was not published till after his death, 35 
 Land. 1636, 410. The book was dedicated to Jo. Grea-ves 
 by Jo. Clerke, who mentions BedwelFs MSS. in the Cambridge
 
 WM. BED WELL. 439 
 
 library. A translation had been published, more than 30 
 years before, by Thos. Hood, a learned friend of BedweWs, 
 who taught those arts in the Stationers' Chapel, Leaden/tall 
 Street. Another friend, named in the prefaces, was Hen. 
 
 5 Briggs. Bed-welVs album, with inscriptions by Grotius etc., 
 was sold in Damson Turner's sale MSS. art. 653. Wm. Rob- 
 inson, History . . . of Tottenham, ed. 2, Land. 1840, n 58 : 
 ' Within the rails of the altar, on the north side of the 
 communion table, is the following inscription, in roman 
 
 10 capitals : " Here lies interred the body of Margaret Clark, 
 the wife of. . . Clark clerk B.D., they lived in wedlock 
 37 years, aged . . . , dyed December 20, 1663. Here lyes 
 likewise interred in this chancel the body of Mr. Wm. 
 Bedwell her father, sometime vicar of this church, and 
 
 15 one of king James's translators of the Bible, and for the 
 Easterne tongues as learned a man, as most lived in these 
 moderne times; aged 70; dyed May the 5th, 1632.' In 
 the first edition of Robinson's book, Bedwell' s ' Description 
 of Tottenham High-Cross' is reprinted. See both indexes 
 
 20 to Robinson. Wm. Eyre writes to Jas. Ussher (Parr ll) 
 from Emmanuel 24 Mar. 1607-8: 'Nondum aliquid 
 efficere potui in arabicis, quod digmim sit opera: forsan 
 si Christmanno muto magistro, aut Bedwello Londinensi 
 vel potius Ambrosia tuo Dubliniensi viva voce praeceptore 
 
 25 uti liceret, aliquid emcerem. Sed non licet.' Hen. 
 Briggs writes to the same (ibid. 12) in Aug. l6lO: 'Mr. 
 Bedwell is not well, and keepeth altogether at his t'other 
 living at Totenham. ' Is. Casauboni epistolae, Roterod. 1 709 
 fol. no. 344 pp. 183-4 (Paris 24 July 1603) is addressed 
 
 30 to Bedwell. You may not know me even by name ; but 
 I have long known your name: 'cum multi viri docti 
 istinc venientes et de ceteris tuis virtutibus et de peritia 
 atque usu quern habes linguae arabicae, eximia quaedam 
 et rara praedicarent. Atque hanc famam confirmavit 
 
 35 non mediocriter eruditissimus hie Logo [Arth. Lake?} tibi 
 probe notus et tuae in eo genere litterarum praestantiae 
 &fori0Tos. Itaque certior ab illo factus de suo
 
 440 WM. BED WELL. 
 
 ad vos reditu, committendum non putavi, ut tempus aliud 
 exspectarem adfectus adversum te mei expromendi. Diu 
 namque est cum inire tecum amicitiam, eruditissime Bed- 
 welle, percupio. Meretur tua singularis doctrina, ut 
 omnes te ament et colant, qui virtutem ac litteras, quos 5 
 inter nomen nostrum ab ineunte aetate professi, sic vitam 
 hactenus instituimus, ut eorum amicitia nihil antiquius 
 duceremus, quos pietas erudition! iuncta commendaret. 
 Quod si benevolentia tua non indignos nos iudicaveris, 
 de iis litteris, in quibus tu cum oppido paucis excellis, 10 
 frequentibus posthac epistolis tecum agemus.' Ibid. n. 
 662, Th. Erpenius to Casaubon, Saumur I Apr. 1610 
 (p. 343 b) : I am expecting some arabic grammarians* 
 from the most learned Bed-well, for he has informed me 
 that he has three or four; I have not written to him for 15 
 6 months, when I wrote in arabic; I have been greedily 
 exspecting an answer every week: 'at frustra, ob ad- 
 versam ipsius, quantum ex aliis intellego, valetudinem. ' 
 P. 344: it may seem strange, but it is most true, that 
 those papers which I have sent you alone, however im- 20 
 perfect, suffice to remove some thousands of errors from 
 the dictionary of the most learned Bedwell. Ibid. n. 663, 
 Casaubon in reply, Paris 8 Apr. 1610, p. 346 b: ' Bed- 
 wellus, vir doctissimus, ita lente procedit, et cursum stu- 
 diorum eum tenuit, ut quid de eo sperare queamus, 25 
 nesciam.' Ibid, n.yn, Same to same, Land. $Mar. 1611, 
 p. 376 a : 'Bedwellus lexicon urget suum. O virum bonum, 
 doctum et simplicem ! ' Ibid. app. n. 38, Erpenius to 
 Casaubon, Paris 27 Sept. 1611, p. 661 b: here and there 
 some words occur, whose sense I have not yet been able 30 
 to discover, with which the most learned Bedwell, who is 
 of wider reading than I, will, I hope, easily supply you ; 
 some others there are, at which I guess; whether well or 
 ill, no one can better judge than you and he . . . I forward 
 the sheets of the most learned Bedwell, with my remarks 35 
 upon them, which I hope will not be unwelcome to you. 
 * Which he received ; see dedication to his arabic grammar, 1613.
 
 BED WELL AND CASAUBON. 441 
 
 You will see from them how dangerous it is to attempt 
 anything in this language without a knowledge of 
 grammar; you may keep them with the sheets them- 
 selves, till you have read them at leisure, and afterwards 
 
 5 deliver them to him; for my letter which is enclosed, 
 bears no date. Or if you do not wish him to know that 
 you have seen them, they may be wrapped in paper with- 
 out a seal. P. 662 b in a postscript : ' Quaeso ne affinis 
 meus aut quisquam alius ex te resciscat me Parisiis adhuc 
 
 10 esse : si quaerant an litteras a me acceperis, significare 
 quidem id potes, sed velim simules eas Genevae scriptas 
 esse mense Augusta: quin D. Bedwello scrips! me Genevae 
 esse, ne per eum secretum hoc reveletur.' One would not 
 choose the guileless Casaubon, of all men in the world, 
 
 15 as one's porter, to answer 'not at home.' On the 28 
 Jime 1612 Casaubon paid a visit to Bed-well (Ephemerides 
 Is. Casauboni, Oxon. 1850, 934): 'Ad optimum Bedvellum 
 hodie sum profectus cum uxore. Deus et ilium et nos 
 servet.' Casauboni epist. n. 820, Casaubon to Erpenius, 
 
 20 Land. 9 July 1612, p. 478 a: ' Scito optimum virum 
 Bedwellum iter istuc cogitare, ut lexicon roO (taitaplTov 
 Scaligeri inspiciat, si potest, et aliquam sui lexici edendi 
 rationem ineat. Ille te admiratione singulari prosequitur, 
 ex illis notis, quas ad ipsum misisti in observationes suas 
 
 25 ad Alcoranum. Magno ilium afficiam gaudio, cum te 
 rediisse ei nuntiabo. ' Ibid. n. 43, Erpenius to Casaubon, 
 Middelburg 13 July 1612, p. 667 a: 'verbis meis . . . 
 saluta . . . Bedwellum nostrum, quern quam primum litteris 
 compellabo.' Ibid. n. 821, Casaubon to Dan. Heinsius, 
 
 30 Loud. I Aug. 1612, p. 478 a. b: ' Qui tibi has reddidit, 
 amicus meus est ; amicus de meliore nota, vir doctissimus 
 et domini episcopi Eliensis \Andrewes\ a multis annis 
 ojoj/ei ireA^TT/s. Is cum multos annos in illustranda 
 lingua arabica consumpserit, optavit priusquam sua ederet, 
 
 35 posse inspicere rcfe rov fjiaKaptrov herois. Ea sola illi 
 fuit causa suscipiendi huius itineris, hortatu rov irdvv 
 Eliensis, qui nullis parcere cupit sumptibus, ut studiis
 
 442 BED WELL AND CASAUBON. 
 
 litterarum consulatur. Ille vir magnus, a quo scis te 
 amari et ' aestimari /caret T)\V a^iav, petiit a me, ut huic 
 communi amico aditum patefacerem per litteras ad tuam 
 amicitiam. Speramus per te posse ipsi fieri copiam in- 
 spiciendi, quem servas, thesaurum. Quia vir simplex 5 
 est, probus et pius, putamus non eum indignum tua 
 benevolentia et gratia. Neque dubitare debes, si quid 
 illi hoc iter ad voti summam profuerit, fore memorem 
 et TOIIS evfpyeras praedicaturum ingenue et candide. 
 Nolo mihi fidem habeas ; ipse experieris hominem non 10 
 minus &KO.KOV KO.\ a<t>f\rj, quam serio doctum in illis 
 litteris, quas praecipue colit. Habetis istic Erpenium, 
 cui meus Bedwellus (sic enim vocatur is, de quo ad te 
 scribo) probe est notus . . . Tu, quaeso, et Bedwellum et 
 Erpenium tua benevolentia complectere, et quibus poteris 15 
 cumque rebus adiuva.' Ibid. n. 823, same to Th. Er- 
 peniiis, Land, i Aug. 1612: You have with you our 
 Bed-well; would that I could have accompanied him on 
 his journey. I should have seen you and the friends 
 whom I have in your parts; you above all, than whom 20 
 there is none more friendly to me, none whom I myself 
 love more. Our Bedwell will inform you of our present 
 state. Ibid. n. 829, same to Dan. Heinsius, Loitd. \iAug. 
 1612, p. 484: I wrote to you a few days ago by the 
 Englishman Bed-well, a minister of God's word, and doubt 25 
 not, avv ecp elirfiv, that he has delivered my letter to 
 you. Ibid. n. 831, Casaubon to Etienne Hubert, royal 
 prof, of arabic at Paris, Land. 22 Sept. 1612, p. 485 : ' Je 
 vous conjure per omnia sacra Musarum, ut in incepto 
 pergas, neque prius desinas, quin aliquid effeceris, quod 30 
 studia ilia promoveat. Hie sunt nonnulli, qui non negle- 
 gunt. Sed unus est mihi notus Bedwellus in iis litteris 
 longe viTfipoxos oAAcuv. Quo nomine cum sit mihi caris- 
 simus, tamen propter mores longe est mihi carior. Est 
 insitum huic nationi, ut sua amet, aliena ne admittat 35 
 quidem ad aliquam comparationem. Florentissima enim 
 et ditissima sua collegia ipsis animos faciunt, ut omnes
 
 BED WELL AND CASAUBON. 443 
 
 non vereantur prae se contemnere. Hoc vitio qui non 
 laborant, inter Anglos sunt viri admirandi, ut .noster 
 Bedwellus, homo simplicissimus omnium, quos memini 
 vidisse; alienus ab invidia, ab opinione sui et a studio 
 
 5 obtrectandi, quod hodie est Tri$-f)/j.ioi> morbi genus. Vidi 
 eius thesaurum arabicum; sic namque iure appellavero: 
 est enim magna libri moles. Is rmncLttgduniJBatavorum 
 alterum mensem agit, eo profectus auspiciis et sumptu 
 viri maximi, domini episcopi Eliensis. Hie dignissimus 
 
 IO praesul [Lane. Andrewes] non solum est doctissimus, sed 
 etiam egregie favet litteris ; itaque Bedwello pecuniam 
 pollicitus est necessarian! ad thesauri arabici editionem, 
 et faciet ; nam et potentissimus est, et, ut dixi, litterarum 
 amantissimus. Hie unicus est Angliae phoenix, in omni 
 
 15 re moderatissimus, cuius vota, cogitationes et sermones 
 ad litteras sacras et studium concordiae semper referuntur. 
 Quemadmodum Gallia alterum cardinalem Perronium 
 non habet, ita haec insula unico superbit Eliensi: non 
 quod desint hie viri magni; sed aliis rebus sunt magni. 
 
 2O I lie si praestiterit, ut thesauro Bedwelli aliquando fruamur, 
 incredibile dictu est, quantum illi simus omnes debituri. 
 Sed vereor, ne Erpenius, qui iam est cum Bedwello, illius 
 conatus retardet ; non quod Erpenius id habet propositum, 
 est enim vir optimus; sed si Bedwellus, qui ilium valde 
 
 25 admiratur, intellexerit Erpenium serio cogitare aliquid 
 simile, statim languescet eius impetus . . . Miror queri 
 te de inopia characterum arabicorum; nam Lebbaeus, 
 obsecro, in quern usum suos paravit? An ille non 
 cogitat, rbv f}iov flvai fipaxvv, T)JV -rexy-riv (jiaKpdv? 
 
 30 Quando igitur fruetur gloria, quam meretur ob nobile 
 inceptum? Sin velit vendere, episcopus Eliensis lubens 
 emet in gratiam Bedwelli. Sed maneat in Gallia decus 
 illud.' Ibid. n. 833, same to Th. Erpenius, Land. 24 Sept. 
 1612. I see that lack of type will hinder your efforts. 
 
 35 What our Bedwell will achieve here, I know not. If he 
 could attain what he seeks, I would advise you to come 
 hither. Ibid. n. 845, same to same, Land. 22 Nov. 1612.
 
 444 BED WELL. HICKES. 
 
 I was greatly troubled by a letter of Heinsius, giving a 
 gloomy account of your health ; but afterwards I was cheered 
 by a conversation with our Bedivell, who gave a happier 
 report. Ibid. n. 843, same to Hugo Grotius, Land. 26 Nov. 
 
 1612, p. 507 b: If I had more leisure, I would answer in 5 
 detail your last letter, which our Bedwell brought. Ibid. 
 0.846 postscr. Lend. I Dec. 1612 'Stylo Gallico': 'De 
 Bedwello ago tibi gratias : ille nobis narravit tuam huma- 
 nitatem.' Ibid. n. 895, same to Jo. Meursius, Land. 2 June 
 
 1613, p. 536 a: 'Attulit mihi Bedwellus noster, vir cla- IO 
 rissime, litteras tuas.' Parr's Letters of Ussher, n. 46, 
 
 p. 78, John Selden to UssAer, 24 Mar. 1621-2: 'I 
 should before this have returned your Nubiensis geographia; 
 but Mr. Bedwell had it of me, and until this time, pre- 
 suming on your favour, he keeps it; nor can we have 15 
 of them till the return of the mart.' Jos. Ussher to 
 Ludov. De Dieit, Dubl. 9 June 1632 (ibid. 462) : ' Arabici 
 psalterii tria habui exemplaria, satis antiqua: quorum 
 unum D. Londinensi episcopo [Laud], academiae Oxoniensis 
 dignissimo cancellario, cum aliquam multis aliis codicibus 20 
 MSS. nuper a me donatum est : alterum quod D. Gulielmo 
 Bedwello commodaveram, eo iam vita functo vix est ut 
 recuperari a me posse sperem.' 
 
 P. 143 1.4. Arnold. The very interesting letters of 
 Christ. Arnold to George Richter give a lively picture of 25 
 the state of learning and religion in England in the year 
 1651. The passage cited is in p. 485 (not 405) of Rich- 
 terus Redivivus, sive Georgii Richteri I. C. eiusque famili- 
 arium, epistolae selectiores. Norimbergae 1686. 4to. : 
 ' Celebris ille apud Anglos philologus sacer, Bedwellus, 30 
 eidem bibliothecae Lexici Arabici vohimina septem, con- 
 scripta manu sua, una cum typographia arabica legavit.' 
 
 P. 143 1.9. George Hickes. See p. 395 1.36. On the 
 23rd of March 1709-10 J. H. Eggeling of Bremen gave 
 into UJfenbach's hands (Reisen n 205) a packet of his dis- 35 
 sertations for Hickes. This indefatigable scholar, politician 
 and nonjuring bishop deserves a full biography. John
 
 GEORGE HfCKES. 445 
 
 Lewis of Margate (see the list of his works in the app. to 
 Masters, Hist. C.C.C.C. 102) wrote in 1744-5 an account 
 of his life and writings, which was afterwards in the 
 hands of Sir Peter Tompson. Short accounts of him may 
 
 5 be seen in Wood, in the General Dictionary of Birch and 
 Bernard, Biogr. Brit, suppl., Chaiiffepie, Chalmers, Europ. 
 Mag., Dec. 1792, p. 413. See also the indexes to Re- 
 liquiae Hearnianae, Pepys, Luttrell, Kennetfs Reg. and 
 Chron., Thoresby's Diary, Burnet, Letters from the Bod- 
 
 IO leian (1813), Thesaur. epist. Lacrozianus, Secretaries Life of 
 Rob. Nelson, Anderdon's Life of Tho. Ken, Bohun's Auto- 
 biography. Various particulars of him may be found in 
 Kennetfs Life 12 seq., 34, 47 seq., 160; Nelson's Life of 
 Geo. Bull 439, Birch's Tillotson, D' Oyly's Saner oft, Monk's 
 
 15 Bentley I 427 seq., Waterland's Works, Lathbiiry's Non- 
 jurors, Fabricii Vita 157. Many of his letters are pre- 
 served; e.g. to Charlett in Europ. Mag. Jan. 1796 p. IO, 
 Febr. 1796 p. 103, May 1797 p. 329; others to and from 
 him in bp. Nicolson's Correspondence, in Zouch's Works, 
 
 20 ed. Wrangha,m, I 106, and in Sir H. Ellis, Letters of 
 eminent literary men and Orig. letters, ser. II. He relates 
 some interesting passages of his life in the biographical 
 preface to his friend Dr. Wm. Hopkins' Sermons 1708, 
 8vo. (see MS. Cole xxvii 273-4). O n the 2nd of Oct. 1712 
 
 25 he gave letters of ordination to Laur. Plowell {Hist. Reg. 
 1717 p. I2l). On his gift to Sion College see Reading's 
 State of S. C. p. 45. Edm. Calamy in his Own Life II 
 337-8 gives this character of him (on occasion of his 
 death) 15 Dec. 1715: 'He was one of eminent learning, 
 
 30 formerly dean of Worcester, and after the revolution a 
 nonjuror; and never could be prevailed with to take the 
 oaths, either to king William, queen^w<?, or king George; 
 though we are told [in the Life of Bp. Kennett\ that "he 
 once intended and designed it." He at length ran to 
 
 35 that height, that he was encouraged by some of the 
 deprived bishops to assume the title of suffragan of 
 Thetford. After their decease he made himself the prin-
 
 446 HICKES. ST. MAR Y'S. 
 
 ciple of orthodox unity and Jacobite loyalty, condemning 
 the established church of England as schismatical, the 
 civil government as tyranny and usurpation, the bench of 
 bishops and all other clergy as of invalid orders, their 
 ministration of the sacraments as null and void, and their 5 
 very prayers a sin ! Of what extravagance is not a man 
 capable if he is left to himself ! ' The titles of most of his 
 numerous works are in the Bodl. Cat. , Watt and Darling; 
 see too index to Tanner MSS. Add his translations of 
 Fenelon's Telemaque, 1707; of the whole works of Thomas IO 
 a Kempis, Land. Rivington. 1717- 2 vols. 8vo. (in con- 
 junction with Rob. Nelson}. He revised Susanna Hopton's 
 Meditations and devotions, ijij. 8vo. See \.OQ John Bawd- 
 ier 1 s Life, 12, 14, 70. His brother y>/& was also a sufferer 
 for conscience sake. See Calamy's Account 248, Contin. 15 
 336, Ingledew's Northallerton 292, Whitaker's Richmond- 
 shire. ' Troublous times, or Leaves from the notebook of 
 John Hickes, an ejected nonconformist minister 1670-1, 
 transcribed by Jane B. Crunch, 1862.' 8vo. He was 
 executed for his share in Monmouth 's rebellion (Calamy 20 
 Ace. 762, Burnet i 650 fol. ed., Luttrell I 357). 
 
 P. 143 1. 10. a little I2mo. Dd xii 59 (Catal. I 499). 
 See Notes and Queries, ser. 2, I 112. The book is ex- 
 hibited in the shew case. 
 
 P. 143 1.15. coins. Removed some years ago to the 25 
 Fitzwilliam museum. Roger Gale of Scruton left his coins 
 to the library (Stukeley's Carausitis 153). 
 
 .P. 144 l.i. St. Mary's. See 'Historical and archi- 
 tectural notes on Great St. Mary's church. By S. Sandars, 
 M. A. Together with the Annals of the church. By 30 
 Edm. Venables, M.A. 1869.' No. X of the 8vo. series 
 of publications of the Cambr. Antiq. Soc. 
 
 P. 144 1.3. there were none. There were some in the 
 vestry. See MS. Harl. 6127, n. 7. 
 
 P. 144 1.6. in his museum. ' Mr. Baker lived up one 35 
 pair of stairs, in the 3rd court on the south side' (Cole in 
 Baker's History of St. John's, 1869, p. 569 1. 26).
 
 BAKER. JO. FISHER. 447 
 
 P. 144 n.*. For 128 read 127. 
 
 P. 144 1.6. Baker preparing Athenas Cantabrigienses. 
 See p. 195 1. 20. In the Batimgartner papers (Cambr. 
 univ. libr. ) IV 129 is a letter from Dr. A. Charlett to John 
 
 5 Strype, in which he expresses his delight that a Cambridge 
 man 'gives us hopes to see their antiquitys.' On the 1 8 
 Apr. 1710 Thos. Baker (ibid, x 24) asks the name of ' some- 
 body that had made collections concerning the university 
 of Cambr. ' 
 
 10 P. 144 1. 19. Reflexions upon learning, wherein is 
 shewn the insufficiency thereof in its several particulars, in 
 order to evince the usefulness and necessity of revelation. 
 Land. 1699. 8vo. Also ibid. 1700, 1708 (4th ed.), 1714, 
 1738, 1756. In all there were 8 editions. See Masters 
 
 15 14-18 for the praise of John Boswell, M.A. vicar of 
 Taunton and the censure of Jortin. 
 
 P. 144 1. 24. the portrait Jo. Fischeri. Given to Baker 
 by Lord Weymouth. Rob. Jenkin to Baker, Long Leet 
 25 July 1709 (Masters 23): 'His lordship will send bp. 
 
 20 Fisher's picture to London, to have a copy taken for you 
 there, by a good hand.' Same to same 17 Oct. 1709 
 (ibid. 24, 25): ' Bishop Fisher's picture is now copied, and 
 so well done, that his lordship has been thinking of parting 
 with the original to you, but the painter told him, the 
 
 25 boards upon which it was painted, if any accident should 
 happen to it in the carriage, could not be put together 
 again, so as not to blemish the picture. The copy cost 
 ;io, by which you may guess it is not ill done. And 
 indeed, as it has hit the likeness, so it is as well (if not 
 
 30 better) finished than the original ... P. S. Mr. Francis 
 Roper of St. John's college was very desirous of a copy of 
 this picture likewise, but the painter's stay was so short, 
 it could not be procured.' Same to same, 17 Nov. 1709 
 (ibid. 26): ' You will receive the original picture of bishop 
 
 35 Fisher, which I hope will come safe to you. The copy is well 
 done, and has a great likeness, but represents him at least 
 ten years younger, which I suppose was the reason that
 
 448 THO. GALE. 
 
 the painter omitted the age, which you will find to agree 
 with the face and with the inscription.' Same to same, 
 3 Dec. 1709 (ibid. 26-7): 'I am glad that the picture came 
 safe, and that you approve of it. His lordship is very 
 well disposed, and I am sure would be very willing to 5 
 gratify you in any thing else, if his library could afford 
 any materials for the great work which you have in hand,' 
 i. e. Athenae Cantabrigienses. Masters (ibid. n. ) seems to be 
 wrong in identifying this picture with that bequeathed by 
 Baker to Dr. Nevucome (ibid. 135 : 'my founder's picture 10 
 for himself or college'); Baker's founder was strictly//?/^ 
 Ashton; and Cole (Baker's History of St. John's college 556 
 1.33) says that he thinks Baker had a picture of Ashton, 
 ' taken probably from his monument, either here or at York, 
 and which I have seen, either at St. John's college lodge, or 15 
 at Dr. Zach. Grey's. ' The best of the two pictures of Fisher 
 in the college, ' reckoned to be done by Hans Holbein, . . . 
 as all who have seen it, and know his style and manner, 
 judge it to be his, has Ao Aetatis 74 upon it' (Masters). 
 
 P. 144 1. 28. Queens' college library. See the catalogue 20 
 by T. H. Home, Land. 1827. 2 vols. 8vo. 
 
 P. 145 1. 7- Thomas Gale included Demetrius Phalereus 
 in his Rhetores selecti. Oxon. 1676. 8vo. See accounts of 
 him in Biogr. Brit., Collier, The general diet, of Birch 
 and Bernard, Chauffepie, Chalmers, Nichols' Lit. Anecd., 25 
 Evelyn, Pepys, Knight's Colet ; cf. a slight account by 
 Joseph Moser in Europ. Mag. Febr. 1797, 102-4. He re- 
 ceived a piece of plate, when master of St. Paul's school, 
 for writing the inscription on that ' tall bully' the Monu- 
 ment. He gave to Trinity college arable MSS., included 30 
 in a catalogue by Mr. E. H. Palmer, which has just [1871] 
 appeared. He was a friend of bp. Ri. Cumberland's (C.'s 
 Sanchoniatho 420), and of Pet. Dan. Huet (P. D. H. Com- 
 ment, de rebus ad eum pertinentibtis, Hag. Com. 1718, 3I5) : 
 ' Circa haec tempora venit ad me ofncii causa Eduardus 35 
 Bernardus Anglus, quern pauci hac aetate aequiparabant 
 eruditionis laude, modestia vero pene nulli. Excipio
 
 THOMAS GALE. 449 
 
 tarn en Thomam Galaeum, Anglum alterum, quern utraque 
 dote, et modestiae et doctrinae, non Bernardo tantum, 
 sed omnibus hominibus, quos quidem noverim, ante- 
 ferendum puto. Is me nee de facie sibi notum, humani- 
 
 5 tate, benignitate, omnibus officiis provocavit et ad amorem 
 sui pellexit. Atque ea sane in me constant illius bene- 
 ficia, quae, nisi turpiter ingratus esse velim, nulla ex 
 animo meo dies oblitterare possit.' Nichols, Lit. Anecd. 
 IV 542 : ' A great number of Huefs letters to Dr. Gale 
 
 10 were in the possession of his eldest son Roger.' He re- 
 signed the greek professorship 19 Oct. 1672 (MS. Baker 
 xxxi 265). Luttrell 22 Mar. 1697-8 (iv 358): 'The 
 lords heard and repealed the judgement given for the king 
 and Dr. Gale to hold a living of ^400 per ann. in York- 
 
 15 shire, and gave it to Mr. Peirce the patron.' He intended 
 to edit Juvenal (Henninius, Juv. f. * * * * 2 vo). Koch 
 (Antonin. Liberal, viii) complains of his carelessness ; not 
 without reason, as is known to those who have used his 
 collection of our national chronicles. Thoresby's Diary 
 
 20 I 360, 1 1 Apr. 1 702 : ' At church, where the vicar told 
 me the sad news of the death of my kind friend, the dean 
 of York (Dr. Gale), which is a public loss, both as he was 
 a very religious and truly pious divine, and as he was one 
 of the most learned men in the Christian world ; myself 
 
 25 can abundantly testify the former, to whom he most 
 affectionately bewailed the growing prophaneness of the 
 nation etc. ; and the great applause the learned part of the 
 world has given to his works, is an undeniable testimony 
 of the latter. ' Ibid. 1 5 Apr. (pp. 360- 1 ) : ' Walked to York . . 
 
 30 Afternoon, at the funeral of my excellent and dear friend, 
 Dr. Thomas Gale, .... who was interred with great so- 
 lemnity ; lay in state, 200 rings (besides scarfs for bearers, 
 and gloves to all) given in the room where I was, which 
 yet would not contain the company ; yet was the lament- 
 
 35 ation greater for the loss of so learned, pious, and useful 
 a person, whose death was deservedly lamented by persons 
 of all denominations. . . . Was invited to sup at the
 
 450 THO. GALE. JO. DA VIES. 
 
 deanery; was kindly received by both the sons; was 
 somewhat revived to see so much of the dean in Mr. 
 [Roger] Gale.' Cf. ibid. 296. Several of Gale's letters 
 are printed in Thoresby's Correspondence. His pedigree 
 may be seen in Thoresby's Ducat. Leod. 203-4 (or ed. 5 
 Whitaker 203), where Gale's great services are acknow- 
 ledged. Cf. Burke's Landed Gentry. His epitaph in 
 Hear tie's For dun v 1371; Drake's Eboracum 514-5, see 
 also p. 565 and the index. A catalogue of his MSS. , since 
 given by his son Roger to the library of Trinity college, is 10 
 in the Catalogus MSStorum Angliae in 185. A copy of 
 Bale with his MS. notes is in the Royal Institution 
 (Lowndes). He with several bishops and divines approved 
 the plan of a concordance drawn up by Aug. Plumsted, 
 who lost his Trinity fellowship for nonconformity ( Calamy, 1 5 
 Contin. 808). Some bibliographical references in Grdsse, 
 Literdrgeschichte III (2) 1007 n. 43. 
 
 P. 145 1. 15. Fras. Tindal of Qu. has verses in Geneth- 
 liacum Acad. Cantabr. 1631 p. 75- 
 
 P. 145 1.22. King's college, the old court, on part of 20 
 the site of which the western portion of the N. and s. sides 
 of the university library stands. The western gate still 
 remains. 
 
 P. 145 n.*. torn. I. p. 109. 
 
 P. 145 1.27. a legacy. Cf. 181 1. iseq. From Matt. 25 
 Parker. See Masters, Hist. C. C. C. C. 91, 92. 
 
 P, 145 1.28. to another college. Caius, if six folios, 
 eight quartos and twelve books of smaller size should at 
 any time be lost : from Caius they are to pass to Trinity 
 Hall, and from Trinity Hall to Corpus again. 30 
 
 P. 145!. 29. three keys. One lodged with the master, 
 and the other two with the keepers of the Billingford 
 hutch. 
 
 P. 145 1.32. John Davies. See pp.256 1.22, 4321.25, 
 434 1.12, 23 and 30, 435 1.32. He was born in London 35 
 22 Apr. 1679. His father was a merchant, and his mother 
 a daughter of Sir John Turton justice of the King's Bench.
 
 JOHN DA VIES. 451 
 
 He went from the Charterhouse to Queens', where he was 
 admitted 8 June 1695. B.A. 1698-9. fellow of Queens' 
 7 July 1701. M.A. 1702. proctor 1709. LL.D. 1711, in 
 which year he was collated by that great patron of letters, 
 
 5 bp. John Moore, to the living of Fen Ditton [cf. MS. Cole 
 XIX 103 a] and to the 5th stall at Ely where he was in- 
 stalled 24 Sept. Elected president of Queens' 23 Mar. 
 1716-7. D.D. 1717, when George I. was at Cambridge; 
 king's chaplain 5 Nov. 1717 (Hist. Reg. ). He died 7 Mar. 
 
 10 1731-2 and was buried in the middle of the college chapel, 
 where is an inscription on him (Biogr. Brit. Gent. Mag. 
 1732, p. 678). J. A. Fabricius to La Croze (Thesaur. 
 epistol. Lacroz. I 137)* Hamburg 29 Apr. 1732: 'Can fa- 
 brigia tristis nuntius affertur, clarissimos viros Petrum 
 
 15 Needhamum in Aeschylo et lo. Davisium in Tullii officiis 
 illustrandis occupatum fato proxime concessisse' (cf. Fa- 
 bricii Vita 335). Jo. Chr. Wolf to same (ibid. II 257) 
 Hamburg 2 Oct. 1733 : ' Cl. Doruillius heri mihi nuntiavit, 
 cl. Th. Bentleii aedes, una cum bibliotheca eius, quam 
 
 20 alter a pars inscriptionum Asiaticarum, scholia in Homer i 
 Iliadem aveKSora et Davisii in Ciceronis de officiis libros 
 annotationes ornarunt, ita periisse, ut ipse aegre vitam 
 servarit.' Cf. Monk's Bentley, ind., Bentley's Corresp. 41 1, 
 553> 78i. A letter from Dames to dean Moss, about 
 
 25 chapter business, 21 July 1725, in Nichols, Lit. Illustr. Ill 
 520. Some slight notices in Lit. Anecd. see the index. 
 He occurs among the subscribers to Knighfs Colet. Abr. 
 des Amorie van der Hoeven, Diss. dejo. Clerico, Amst. 1843 
 (p. 98) speaks with enthusiasm of this stedfast friend of Le 
 
 30 Clerc's: ' Amicum certum in reMenandrea tragico-comica 
 admodumque incerta se probavit. . . Davisium ilium, si 
 cum plerisque eius aequalibus studiorumque sociis com- 
 pono, non possum non amare et praeprimis magni facere. 
 Sagacitate Bentleio, doctrinae copia aliis inferior fuerit, 
 
 35 quamquam in his quoque suas habet laudes meo praeconio 
 maiores; at quam humanus est, quam candidus, quam 
 modestus! Macte, Clerice, tali amico! Quibus bene-
 
 45 2 JOHN DA VIES. 
 
 ficiis se ornarint invicem notum est. Ut cetera taceam, 
 Clerico ad patres apostolicos notulas misit Davisius, huic 
 ad Ciceronis philosophica suas donavit Clericus? In a 
 letter from Davies to Le Clerc (ibid. 272-4), Cambridge 
 26 Nov. O. S. 1 709 : I thank you for your friendly com- 5 
 mendation of my Caesar and Minucius Felix, I propose 
 soon to republish Minucius with new emendations. Same 
 to same, Cambr. 23 July 1710 (a few days before Uffen- 
 bactfs visit): 'Fidem datam iam tandem absolve, tibique, 
 vir doctissime, Severi quae dicitur, Aetnam ex vetustissimo IO 
 codice descriptam mitto. Quamvis iste MS. innumeris 
 mendis scateat, sunt tamen lectiones bene multae ex quibus 
 melior et emendatior reddi possit Severus; ne dicam in 
 hoc apographo tres quattuorve versus esse qui in editis 
 non comparent. Sed de hisce rebus tu op time iudicabis; 15 
 et spero me secundam Pedonis et Severi editionem brevi 
 visurum ; nam Londini certe adeo rara erant exemplaria, 
 ut ne unum quidem nancisci potuerim, cuius orae varias 
 lectiones ex MS. collectas adscriberem. ' This is MS. Kk 
 v 34 in the university library, which is fully described by 20 
 Prof. Munro in his ed. Cambr. Deighton, Bell and Co.;- 
 1867, 8vo. , pp.28, 29: 'This codex is so much superior 
 to all other existing codices both in age and in merit, that 
 not only have I grounded my text mainly on it, but as in 
 duty bound have noted the minutest discrepancies of spell- 25 
 ing.' Davies to Le Clerc, Cambr. 9 Nov. O. S. 1710 (u. s. 
 274-6): Thank you for your conjectures on Cic. Acad. and 
 Fin.; pray send others on the other philosophical books. 
 ' Brevi recudentur Tusculanae, et eodem tempore prodi- 
 bunt libri de Nat. Deorum; sed agmen ducet Minucius 30 
 Felix, plurimis in locis, nisi fallor, emendatus.' I have 
 read the libel of Jac. Gronovius, which is only worthy of 
 contempt. I am glad that your Pentateuch is reprinted; 
 the additions should be issued separately. I am told that 
 you are editing Orosius ; a new edition is much wanted ; 35 
 so also of Plato; nor does the Oxford Xenophon satisfy 
 scholars. ' Homerus Barnesianus praelum relinquit. In
 
 JOHN DA VIES. 453 
 
 prolegomenis videbis Dionis Chrysostomi orat. Lin meis 
 notis emendatam; quae breviores sunt, quia spatiis ini- 
 quis fui conclusus. Ideo autem publicas feci, ut viderent 
 homines eruditi, nobilem ilium philosophum simul et ora- 
 
 5 torem multis vitiis etiamnum laborare, et, si qui sint 
 quibus praesto sunt MSS. codices, illi limatius edendo sese 
 accingerent. ' Barnes in the preface to his Iliad, says of 
 these prolegomena : ' quae . . . ego singulari libro super 
 hac re [the history of Homer] paraveram, nee pauca, nee 
 
 10 contemnenda, cum malorum hominum [such as Bentley\ 
 artificio vilipendantur, ne in huius editionis detrimentum 
 converti possint, ultro praetereo.' When rid however of 
 the Aetnaean labour of the Homer, and when the times 
 are somewhat more propitious to my labours (when the 
 
 15 queen will accept my dedication), 'emittere statui librum 
 ilium, quern et ausim nunc vocare thesaurum eruditionis 
 hactenus reconditum.' The prolegomena never appeared; 
 we see why Bentley chose to make Davies the medium of 
 his chastisement of Barnes (see Monk I 293-6). Davies 
 
 20 to Le Clerc (u. s. 276), I Oct. O. S. 1718, sending notes 
 on Barnabas and Clement, and offering many emenda- 
 tions on the Clementines. Thanks for procuring from 
 Salvini a collation of the Florentine MS. of Maximus 
 Tyrius. The Cambridge editor of Clement is not Win. 
 
 25 but Hen. Wotton. ' luvenis est e non-iuristarum partibus ; 
 adeoque non minim est, si bonis omnibus [e. g. to Bernard 
 and Le Clerc\ sit infensus.' Same to same (ibid. 276-7), 
 14 May O. S. 1719: Sends emendations on the first 
 nine Clementine homilies; will soon do as much for the 
 
 30 other ten. Salvini puts a monstrous price on his MS. of 
 Maximus Tyrius, 'adeo ut isto auxilio mihi prorsus sit 
 carendum, nisi forte librum pro decem libris sterlingicis 
 mihi traderet.' I thank you for the compliment you have 
 paid me in the Biblioth. anc. et nouv. [see xxi 247, xxiii 
 
 35 2 54] 5 ' laudes enim a viro laudato profectae semper sunt 
 acceptissimae novamque languentibus animis induunt ala- 
 critatem.' I shall return to Cambridge [from London} in 
 
 H H
 
 454 JOHN DA VIES. 
 
 June. In an english P.S., 16 May: 'I heartily thank 
 you for the care and dexterity you have us'd in treating 
 with Mr. Salvini. The terms he now proposes I readily 
 comply with, and have sent my servant with ,3 to Mr. 
 Guiger, with which summe I desire you will buy such 5 
 a piece of holland as it will purchase ; but I think it will 
 be time enough to send it him, when you have receiv'd 
 the collation.' Same to same (ibid. 277-8), Cambr. <)Jul. 
 [? ' a. d. ix Jul.'~\ 1719 : Sends emendations on the remain- 
 ing Clementine homilies : ' Ea omnia, aut eorum partem, 10 
 pro libitu tuo vel reicias vel edas. Id modo a te peto ut 
 quaecunque spongiam mereantur omnino deleas.' Hud- 
 soil's Josephus is all but printed. The greek ecclesiastical 
 historians [Reading's ed.] are very nearly ready at Cam- 
 bridge. I have in hand Cic. Acad., which I shall soon 15 
 send to press. Our friend Wasse promises Lactantius ; 
 but I am surprised that I hear nothing of Diodorus 
 Siculus, as he long ago made an agreement to edit it for 
 the Wetsteins. Same to same (ibid. 278-9), Ely, May 
 1728. 'Tis some years since I heard from you. I hope 20 
 you received my Cic. de legibus last year. My bookseller 
 has now delivered my Cic. Fin. to Smith, Wetsteirfs son- 
 in-law, for you. ' Prout ab ineunte adolescentia te colui, 
 sic senectuti proximus animum non muto; nee umquam 
 possum, si probe me geram, mutare, quum reputem quan- 25 
 turn tibi debeant cum omnes litterae, turn praesertim 
 sacrae. Commentaries tuos in utrumque Foedus dili- 
 genter et plus semel evolvi, ac, nisi fallor, a reliquis inter- 
 pretibus baud dubiam reportasti palmam. Hoc et in 
 ceteris V. F. libris te praestiturum confido, quos sub 30 
 praelo sudare laetus audivi. A Deo O. M. enixe peto ut 
 vegetam tibi senectutem det, quo diutius orbi Christiano 
 prosis. Ecclesiasticam certe tuam historian! ad metas 
 quas proposuisti perductam lubentissime viderim, ut et 
 opus de Incredulitate latine versum, notisque, forsan et 35 
 nonnullis capitibus, auctum : scis enim quam petulanter 
 in ipsam religionem Christianam invadant e nostratibus
 
 JOHN DA VIES. 455 
 
 nonnulli; nee, ut opinor, in partibus transmarinis eius- 
 modi funesta desunt exempla.' J. A. Fabricius ( Vita 56, 
 57) supplied him with collations of Cic. Tusc. and Caesar. 
 His commentaries have since been reprinted (e. g. those 
 
 5 on Cicero by Rath and again by Moser and Creuzer) and 
 are the result of independent reading. Yet cf. Madvig's 
 judgement (Cic. Fin. praef. Lll, ed. 2): 'Davisii opera. . . 
 fere consumpta est in locis Diogenis et Sexti Empirici 
 patrumque Christianorum ibi ascribendis, ubi unum ali- 
 
 10 quod non ignotum decretum apertis verbis positum erat.' 
 See ibid, x-xil a severe censure of Davies as a verbal 
 critic. ' Usus est octo codicibus, . . . sed usus est cum 
 supina quadam neglegentia. Non iam hoc dico, tantum 
 hie illic* inspectos et commemorates esse codices, ubi 
 
 15 aliquid animum pupugisset, tanta inaequalitate, ut modo 
 et, ac, que codicibus adhibitis permutet, modo in foe- 
 dissimis mendis eos non curet; sed primum, etiam ubi 
 codices inspexit, saepe tantum eos inspexit, quos casus 
 obtulerat. . . . Saepe in mendis typographicis superiorum 
 
 20 corrigendis parte codicum utitur, cum deberet omnibus . . 
 Multis locis, ubi tantum duae scripturae sunt, utrique 
 unum et alterum assignat codicem, ceteros omnino dubios 
 relinquit . . . Saepissime codices permutavit et permultis 
 locis de scripturis plane falsa prodidit.' Like most 
 
 25 scholars of his time Davies paid much attention to pa- 
 tristic studies. Gisbert Cuper to J. A. Fabricius, 5 Febr. 
 1709 (Uhlii Sylloge nova epistolamm I 468): Gronovius is 
 about to publish, or has published Minucius Felix, ' aemu- 
 latione accensus, ut ferunt, Davisii, qui eundem publicavit 
 
 30 'm. Britannia magna, et non infeliciter emendavit subinde.' 
 Cf. Jo. Christ. Wolf to La Croze (Thesaur. epist. Lacroz. II 
 50): 'Cl. Gronovii scriptum recentius conspectum tibi 
 esse non dubito, quo uno impetu in eruditissimum Bent- 
 leium huius in Tuscttl. quaest. Ciceronis emendationes loco 
 
 35 movere conatur, Clericum item, et, qui iram eius nova 
 Minucii Felicis editione promeruit, Davisium etiam evo- 
 muit bilem, novumque adeo professoris humanitatis, ab
 
 456 RICHARD LAUGHTON. 
 
 humanitate vel naturae quodam ductu abhorrentis, ex- 
 emplum constituit.' Notes and emendations communi- 
 cated by Davies to Gottl. Scheliuig were printed in the 
 Theophilus of J. C. Wolf, Hamb. 1724. 
 
 P. 1461.5. Ciceronis de natura deorum. With emend- 5 
 ations by John Walker, published at the university press, 
 1718, 1723, 1733, 1744. 
 
 P. 146 n. * torn. I. p. HO. 
 
 P. 146 1.8. Ki. Laughton. See p; 279 1.35. B.A. 
 1684-5, M.A. 1691, D.D. by mandate 1717. In the 10 
 Cambr. MS. Oo vi 1 1 1 (3) is his speech as senior proctor 
 in the bachelors' schools. He has verses in Acad. Cantabr. 
 affectus 1684-5 I 3> an< ^ m Lacrymae Cantabrigienses 
 1694-5 N 2. A sermon preach' d before the kingTit King's 
 college chapelin Cambridge. By Richard Laughton D.D. 15 
 and fellow of Clare. 2nd ed. Cambridge, Corn. Crownfield, 
 1717. 8vo. Appointed king's chaplain 5 Nov. \1\"j(Hist. 
 Reg.}. In 1717 he was a candidate for the mastership 
 (Monk's Bentleyu 13); nominated nth, installed I4th Nov. 20 
 1717 prebendary of the 8th stall in Wore, cathedral (Le 
 Neve-Hardy in 86). Died 28 July 1 723 (ibid. ) Winston 
 (Life 257) to abp. Wake: ' In the summer of the year 1710 
 
 I came from Cambridge, in company with Dr. Laughton 
 of Clare hall, who was then tutor to a relation of your 25 
 grace's [Martin Folkes esq. now president of the Royal 
 Society] and with several of his pupils, members of the 
 same college, to wait on your grace, who at that time was 
 bishop of Lincoln, at Bugden; and to desire your per- 
 mission for printing your Translation of the smaller epistles 
 of Ignatius . . . together with my own translation of the 30 
 larger epistles, in my Primitive Christianity revived. ' Col- 
 batch in his commemoration sermon at Trinity 17 Dec. 
 1717 speaks of Lattghton's fame as a tutor (Mo nKs Bentley 
 
 II 30, 31): 'We see what a confluence of nobility and 
 gentry the virtue of one man daily draws to one of our 35 
 least colleges.' In a paper (by Win. Wheivell) on the 
 introduction olWettftcn't philosophy into Cambridge (Mus.
 
 RICHARD LAUGHTON. 457 
 
 Crit. II 517-8): 'In 1709-10, when Mr. Lattghton of 
 Clare hall, a zealous Newtonian, was proctor, instead of 
 appointing a moderator, he discharged the office himself; 
 and by the most active exertions, stimulated still farther 
 
 5 the progress of mathematical science. He had previously 
 published a paper of questions on the Newtonian phi- 
 losophy, apparently as theses for the disputations. He 
 had been tutor in Clare hall from 1694. . . Mr. Laughton's 
 [lectures] had probably been on Newtonian principles for 
 
 10 the whole or the greater part of his tutorship; but it is 
 certain that for some years he had been diligently in- 
 culcating those doctrines, and that the credit and popu- 
 larity of his college had risen very high in consequence of 
 his reputation.' In a 'Speech on the Royal Society Nov. 
 
 15 19, 1772, recommending mathematics as the paramount 
 qualification for their chair, by Sir Wm. Browne F. R. S. ' 
 {Nichols, Lit. Anecd. Ill 322) : ' Mathematics had just 
 begun to gain ground in the university of Cambridge in 
 the year 1707, when I was admitted a student there at 
 
 20 the age of 15, principally by the encouragement of Dr. 
 Laughton, a noted tutor in Clare-hall, who then had Mr. 
 Martin Folkes under his tuition, and happened, as has 
 often been the case, to be soon surpassed in his own new 
 doctrine by the great genius of this pupil. He had pub- 
 
 25 lished a sheet of questions for the use of the Soph schools, 
 on the mathematical Newtonian philosophy; and when 
 proctor, .... most zealously promoted disputations on 
 them there, to the great credit and reputation of the dis- 
 putants, he himself chusing to moderate in them, instead 
 
 30 of appointing a moderator as usual. Sir Isaac Newton's 
 Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy or Know- 
 ledge, a book originally but of ten or twelve shillings 
 price, had risen so high above par, that I gave no less 
 than two guineas for one, which was then esteemed a 
 
 35 very cheap purchase.' The same Sir Wm. in 'A new 
 year's gift. A problem and demonstration on the xxxix 
 articles. 1772' (ibid. 328): 'This problem and demonstra-
 
 458 RICHARD LAUGHTON. 
 
 tion, though now first published, on account of the praesent 
 controversy concerning these articles, owe their birth to 
 my being called upon to subscribe them at an early period 
 of life. For in my Soph's year, 1711, being a student at 
 Peterhouse, . . , just nineteen years of age, and having per- 5 
 formed all my exercises in the schools (and also a first oppo- 
 nency extraordinary to an ingenious pupil of his, aftenvards 
 Dr. [Fras.] Barnard, prebendary of Norwich} on mathe- 
 matical quaestions, at the particular request of Mr. proctor 
 Laughton of Clare-hall (who drew me into it by a promise 10 
 of the senior optime of the year), I was then first informed, 
 that subscribing these articles was a necessary step to 
 taking my degree of B. A. ' Ri. Laughton was an intimate 
 friend ofj&at&yfs, and is the Laughton to whom foreign 
 scholars send their compliments in Bentley's Corresp. 236, 15 
 2 39> 2 59> 375> 443- Bp. Monk thus introduces the famous 
 scene in the Rose tavern (i 286-8): 'As proctor he had 
 been indefatigable in repressing the licence of the young 
 men, and restoring the ancient discipline of the university : 
 in particular he had put down some clubs, and constantly 20 
 dispersed the parties at taverns, which according to the 
 practice of that day used to be kept up till a late hour. 
 He had likewise curbed the licentiousness of the tripos, 
 and forbidden any personal reflexions on the senior mem- 
 bers of the university; whereby it was foretold that the 25 
 spirit of that exercise would be altogether destroyed, sub- 
 lato iure nocendi; a prediction which we may observe, by 
 the bye, has not been verified by the result. Mr. Laughton 
 had supplied to Dr. Bentley a testimony under his hand to 
 the good conduct and good discipline which he had ob- 30 
 served among the students of Trinity ; a document which 
 the latter took care to insert in his Letter to the bishop of 
 Ely. But it unfortunately happened that this valuable 
 member of the university was a violent party-man, and 
 appears to have suffered such feelings to overpower all 35 
 sense of discretion. ' See ' The university of Cambridge 
 vindicated from the imputation of disloyalty it lies under
 
 RICHARD LAUGHTON. 459 
 
 on the account of not addressing ; as also from the 
 malicious and foul aspersions of Dr. B\enf\ly, late master 
 of Trinity college, and of a certain officer, and intended 
 reformer in the said university. Written by the author 
 
 5 \Styan Thirlby\. Cur omnium fit culpa, paucorum scelus? 
 London: Printed and sold by A. Baldwin, near the Ox- 
 ford-Arms inn, in Wanvick-Lane. 1710.' 8vo. (pp. 21-22): 
 * The proctor 1 s complaint to the vice-chancellor. Burlesqued 
 by RICHARD LAUGHTON, KM. fellow o/CLARE- 
 
 10 HALL. On the third oijuly, one thousand seven hun- 
 dred and ten, I found a company of universitymen at the 
 Rose, about a quarter of an hour past ten at night, ' who 
 insulted and affronted me, and the fellow-commoners and 
 scholars that were with me, in a most abusive manner: 
 
 15 they often set up a loud laughter in derision of me when 
 I spoke to 'em, and especially when I mention'd the ex- 
 ecution of my office. They call'd the gentlemen and 
 scholars I had with me the black-guard. And when we 
 were gone down, there was a chamber-pot, or something 
 
 20 of that nature, thrown out of their window at us, and loud 
 laughing in their chamber when it was done. One of 
 these persons was Dr. P[as]&, of Clare-hall, who appear'd 
 to have drunk to great excess, by the tone and accent of 
 his voice (which was very different from what it is when 
 
 25 he is sober) and by the difficulty he found to speak and 
 go as he us'd to do. He call'd the company that was 
 with me my myrmidons, and rose up, as well as he could, 
 to thrust 'em out of the room by force. There was like- 
 wise Mr. S // (?) of Christ-college, and Mr. Ch\apma~\n of 
 
 30 Emmanuel, who once or twice by way of affront drank 
 Dr. Sachevereirs health to me. There was also Mr. 
 M\iddleto\n, of Trinity-college, who call'd one of the scholars 
 that were with me coxcomb, and told him in a threatning 
 manner, that he wou'd take care of him. There was 
 
 35 likewise Mr. G\oo\ch of Caius-college, who joyn'd in the 
 laughing and affronts that were put upon me, and Mr. 
 T[illof\son, of Clare-hall, who was sitting without either
 
 460 RICHARD LAUGHTON. 
 
 gown or cassock, tho' he be in priest's orders. I requir'd 
 'em to go home to their colleges, which they refus'd to 
 do, and said they wou'd stay as long as they pleas'd : 
 after which I went to visit some other places and retum'd 
 to 'em a second time about eleven a-clock, requiring 'em 5 
 again to go home, which they refus'd as before. I went 
 then to visit another part of the town, and at my return 
 to 'em, about twelve a-clock, requir'd 'em a third time to 
 be gone ; but was forc'd to leave 'em there (some of 'em 
 indeed then saying they wou'd drink up their wine and 10 
 then go) at that time of the night. And the two last 
 times I was with 'em, I was treated in a very rude and 
 abusive manner by them, as at the first. This has oblig'd 
 me to demand satisfaction of these men for the affront 
 they have put upon me in the execution of my office. 15 
 And that justice may speedily be done, according to the 
 statute, upon this house which entertains such rude and dis- 
 orderly persons. R. Laughton. M.A. fellow of Clare- hall 
 and senior proctor. ' Thirlby adds some particulars (ibid. 
 25-27): ' Mr. Laughton comes into a publick room, where 20 
 gentlemen are drinking, but with the strangest attendance 
 that ever was seen; a rout of staring boys at his heels, 
 and one bearing a staff going before him ; he hems, shrugs 
 his shoulders twice or thrice (which by the by, I must 
 confess, is generally allow'd not to proceed from lowsi- 25 
 ness), and tells 'em, amongst other compliments, that he 
 will not go before 'em. As hearty a topeing speech, as 
 any sophister in Cambridge cou'd have made. Upon this 
 Mr. M\iddletd\n of Trinity college, as he 'is a very gentle, 
 well bred man, drew him a chair and desir'd him to sit 30 
 down, telling him, since he intended to honour 'em with 
 his company, and stay as long as they did, he might 
 probably be tir'd with standing. Dr. P\as\k at the same 
 time pray'd him to dismiss his guards, accounting it un- 
 reasonable that any one man shou'd introduce such a 35 
 great number of impertinent umbrae. This put the proctor 
 into a violent passion, and the gentlemen into as violent
 
 RICHARD LAUGHTON. 461 
 
 a fit of laughing. They must needs be very much surpriz'd 
 at the oddness of this behaviour. Yet they still continued 
 to be civil to him, and accordingly one of 'em drank to 
 him, but it happening to be Doctor SacheverelPs health, 
 
 5 which instead of mending the matter, made it much worse, 
 ... he flung out of the room in a greater rage than before. 
 I suppose the proctor don't much insist upon their laugh- 
 ing, for certainly no one ought to be blam'd for what he 
 can't help, and besides, as Mr. Bickerstaff says, who can 
 
 IO forbid an english gentleman to screw his face into what 
 figure he pleases ? It wou'd be easie, tho' very tedious 
 to prove, that their whole demeanour to him was as re- 
 spectful and inoffensive, as the particulars I have instanc'd 
 in ; but these being the things he seems chiefly to ground 
 
 15 his resentment upon, 'tis plain enough from this, that 
 a man, who will be affronted at such undeserv'd civilities 
 as these, will be affronted at any thing. After all, I can't 
 much blame the proctor for giving that account of it he 
 has; the goodman I verily believe, fansied himself ill 
 
 20 used by 'em ; which may be owing partly to the effect, 
 his continual painful watching for our good and reforma- 
 tion might have had upon his brain, and in some measure 
 to the great reason he had to expect no other usage from 
 'em, because he knew most of 'em look'd upon themselves 
 
 25 to be very much wrong'd by his putting down the musick 
 club; tho' Mr. proctor humbly conceives, that they have 
 so little grounds to be disobliged at that action of his, 
 that they are rather beholding to him for not doing it 
 sooner; since they can't deny, but that he had as much 
 
 30 authority to do it ten years ago, as the day he did it. 
 Mr. proctor had been a long time assur'd, that this musick 
 club was an idle, trifling thing, not such a one as a man 
 of letters wou'd expect to find in an university, (viz.) he 
 shrewdly suspected, that the Harmonica were not read, 
 
 35 nor the nature of sounds studied, and he knew very well 
 that, tho' they had been a society almost as long as the 
 Greshamilts, they had not made any considerable progress
 
 462 RICHARD LA UGHTON. 
 
 towards the solving any of the innumerable difficulties in 
 the theory of musick. All this he long knew, and out of 
 his especial grace and clemency deign'd to bear with, till 
 he found they began to divide into parties and factions, 
 and carry matters so high, as to separate ; then he thought 5 
 it was high time to take some notice of 'em ; discord being 
 a thing very absurd in a musick-meeting, and by no means 
 to be encourag'd, and he effectually put an end to it, by 
 destroying both sides. Neither did he do this, till they 
 were arriv'd to such an height of impudence, as to strike 10 
 up in his presence, and to try, whether that musick, of 
 whose miraculous power they had read and felt so much, 
 and which Pindar says, rbv alxfj.cna.v Kfpctvvbv (r&fvvvfi, 
 wou'd mollifie his rage. But this they found had a quite 
 contrary effect. To think his grave philosophical soul 15 
 cou'd be soften'd by the charms of effeminate musick, was 
 an unpardonable affront, and he resented it so highly, as 
 to prosecute 'em with much greater vehemence than before, 
 and never rested, till he had triumph'd in their ruin. ' In 
 the dedication to Geo. Sewell of Peterhouse, B.A. 1709-10, 20 
 we read : ' I don't know whether you want to be inform'd, 
 that the word, gentleman, in Clare-Hall, by Mr. proctor's 
 particular order, signifies a fellow-commoner, and nothing 
 else. ' In the body of the tract p. 1 5 ' ' The heaviest 
 charge of all is still to come, for which we are indebted 25 
 to a magistrate in the university, that sets up for a re- 
 former, who (not content to have abus'd the nation' with 
 an account of a wonderful reformation, brought about by 
 his diligence, courage, and application) to magnifie his 
 work farther by the difficulty of it, has by the help of 30 
 his friends and manifesto's publish'd every where the vast 
 opposition and discouragement he has met with in the 
 execution of his office, from all orders and degrees of 
 men amongst us; from doctors of divinity, batchelors of 
 divinity, masters of arts, uncler-graduates, butchers, whores 35 
 and drawers ; we being all, it seems, a stubborn and per- 
 verse generation, a generation hating to be reform'd.'
 
 RICHARD LAUGHTON. 463 
 
 Pp. 16, 17: 'The heads are many ways oblig'd to him, 
 and chiefly for giving 'em frequent opportunities of ex- 
 ercising a certain Christian vertue call'd patience; as also 
 for putting down the tripos in effect, by taking care, there 
 
 5 shou'd be neither wit nor scandal at it ; which must needs 
 have been done purely out of a tender regard to their 
 reputations ; for what some report, that he did it to secure 
 himself, is so far from being probable, that it's plain, if 
 he had consulted his own advantage only, he wou'd have 
 
 10 encourag'd rather than suppress'd it, if it be true that 
 Carmen amat, quisquis carmine digna gerit. Since he had 
 done nothing thro' the whole course of his reign, that did 
 not highly deserve to be celebrated there. Yet for all 
 these benefactions, most of 'em received him so coldly, 
 
 15 when he comes with his black book full of complaints, 
 that he wou'd certainly never come to 'em of that errand 
 agen, unless it was to plague 'em. The under-graduates 
 too, who have the greatest obligations imaginable to him, 
 are no less ungrateful. 'Tis a currant opinion with most 
 
 20 of 'em, that his extraordinary pains in discovering and 
 punishing vice (tho' perhaps augmented by the natural 
 inclination all base minds have to tyrannize) are chiefly 
 taken to gain himself the name of a man of ancient and 
 severe manners. But they hope the world is too old to 
 
 25 let this trick pass upon it, this pretence to virtue having 
 been in all ages of all others the most common, neither 
 is any more easily put on, or more easily seen thro', than 
 severity to the vitious. That those actions, he wou'd 
 fain have imputed to a religious care to do his duty ex- 
 
 30 actly, are done partly to gratifie his own ill humour, partly 
 to get pupils, and partly out of the vexation it gives him, 
 to see the youth of the university indulge themselves in 
 all those innocent, elegant pleasures of life, which both 
 his poverty and want of taste made him at that age a 
 
 35 stranger to. That these or some other such (equally un- 
 justifiable, and therefore conceal'd) were the true motives, 
 that put him upon acting the reformer, they say, is clear
 
 464 RICHARD LAUGHTON. 
 
 from the reasons he publickly gives out, which are so 
 directly opposite to the whole tenour of his life and 
 actions, that it's impossible he shou'd ever have thought 
 of 'em, any otherways than as things that sounded well.' 
 P. 1 8 : ' 'Tis reported too that he declares, he fancies him- 5 
 self oblig'd in conscience to do what he does. This 
 impudence, they say, wou'd be utterly inexcusable, if it 
 were not something lessen'd by the commonness of making 
 that the pretence for the worst of actions, in all ages. 
 However, as it is, 'tis impudence enough in him to pre- IO 
 tend conscience for any thing, when he has so little claim 
 to it, as to confess, that he went to chappel with a firm 
 resolution to receive the sacrament (very well prepared, 
 no doubt) and there refus'd it only because it was ad- 
 minister'd by Mr. Green, and that not from any exceptions 15 
 he had to the validity of his orders, or any thing of that 
 nature, but purely from an inveterate, mortal hatred of 
 his person.' P. 18, 19: 'But that our representatives 
 shou'd debauch and seduce to the tavern one doctor of 
 laws, several young batchelors of divinity, and masters of 20 
 arts, and then assist and abett 'em in affronting and re- 
 belling against their high and mighty, lawful governour, 
 the proctor; and shou'd come down from London on 
 purpose to do this too, this is unsufferable. 'Tis evident 
 they cou'd come hither with no other intent. They may 25 
 say indeed, if they please, that they came to strengthen 
 and confirm their 'interest; but this Mr. proctor will 
 never believe, he knows too well that is made altogether 
 needless by their own singular merit, and the hearty affec- 
 tions of the far greater part of the university to their 30 
 persons and principles. And for pleasure they cou'd never 
 chuse to come to a place where they must expect to be 
 insulted at the caprice of an officer, made only for a 
 bugbear to affright naughty boys ; one that practises less 
 civility, if it be possible, than he understands. But, 35 
 whether these gentlemen meant any ill in coming down 
 and taking Dr. P. and the rest to the tavern, we'll be so
 
 RICHARD LAUGHTON. 465 
 
 charitable, as not absolutely to determine ; tho', you see, 
 we have just grounds for a strong suspicion that they did. 
 This is most certain, that their coming was the fatal 
 occasion of a very ugly accident, that happen'd out in 
 
 5 the town of Cambridge, in the county of Cambridge, on 
 the third day of July O. S. betwixt the hours of ten and 
 twelve in the night, in the year of our Lord 1710. You 
 have here a full account of it, in a woful complaint (alias 
 manifesto) made by the senior proctor to the vice-chan- 
 
 10 cellor, and, for the credit of the composer's eloquence, 
 and the sobriety of the university, sent to several of the 
 bishops.' The somewhat tedious fun ends with this ad- 
 vertisement (p. 33): 'All gentlemen that design to send 
 their sons to Cambridge, are desired to commit 'em to 
 
 15 Mr. Laugktfttt care, otherwise they will unavoidably be 
 ruin'd in their principles and morals, and God knows 
 what.' In 1719 A. A. Sykes, in 'The case of Dr. Bentley 
 further stated and vindicated, in answer to a second part 
 of the Full and impartial account of the late proceedings 
 
 20 in the university of Cambridge against Dr. Bentley, "* re- 
 printed Laughton's 'complaint,' in order to discredit 
 Conyers Middleton the prosecutor, and Thos. Gooch the 
 judge, who brought about Bentley 1 s degradation (MonKs 
 Bentley n 71, 72, Disney's Life of Sykes 83-87). Conyers 
 
 25 Middleton, who left behind him in MS. ' Dr. Laughtoifs 
 account of finding Dr. Middleton at a tavern' (Nichols, 
 Lit. A need, v 420), published in 1719 a reply to Sykes: 
 ' Some remarks upon a pamphlet, entitled, The case of 
 Dr. Bentley farther stated and vindicated, etc. Wherein 
 
 30 the merit of the author and his performance, and the 
 complaint of proctor Laughton, are briefly considered.' 
 London 8vo. price $d. ; (also in his Misc. Works, 1752, 
 vol. ill). In pp. 15-21 he gives an exact account [of the 
 business at the Rose: ' But to demonstrate once for all 
 
 35 what a want of discipline and good order there is in the 
 university, our author makes here a discovery to the 
 world, that the present vice-chancellor Dr. Gooch, who is
 
 466 RICHARD LAUGHTON. 
 
 so severe upon the professor, and Dr. Middleton the pro- 
 secutor of him, are after all the only persons who deserve 
 the censures and animadversion of the university. This 
 is supported by the complaint of a proctor, dated July 3d, 
 1710, now printed with much pomp, and subscrib'd Rich. 5 
 Laughton, proctor senior. The account I had received 
 of this old story's being reviv'd and publish'd here, was 
 the only reason that could make me read or regard any 
 thing that S[y]kes had wrote ; it was to come at this, that 
 gave me the patience to wade through all the dirt which 10 
 he had thrown in the way to't; it is not in the power 
 of S[y\kes to give me the least uneasiness or disturbance. 
 Men' moveat cimex Pantilius ? He can raise no passion 
 of mine but that of mirth or contempt : but Dr. Laughton 
 indeed has something to stake upon a controversy, has 15 
 some reputation to lose, if indecently or unjustly he attacks 
 that of others ; which I shall easily prove to be the case 
 of this complaint of his, false in many passages of it, and 
 misrepresented in all. How will he justify to the world 
 the dispersing, as he will own he did, among bishops and 20 
 other great men, many written copies of this manifesto ? 
 Where the story, as he has represented it, could have no 
 other possible effect, than to bring scandal upon the uni- 
 versity, gain reputation, perhaps preferment to himself, 
 and injure others probably in both. But to examine this 25 
 account of his a little more particularly. One of the 
 persons whom he found in this company at the Rose, 
 appear'd, he says, "to have drank to great excess by the 
 tone and accent of his voice, etc." This he pretends to 
 have observ'd at his first coming amongst them, when yet 30 
 at their parting about two hours afterwards, the whole 
 reckoning amounted only to eighteen pence a piece, out 
 of which, besides what was given away, some part was 
 reserved and carried off unspent. Another, he tells us, 
 "was sitting indecently without either his gown or cassock 35 
 on, tho' he be in priest's orders:" would not any man 
 imagine from this description of his, that this clergyman
 
 RICHARD LAUGHTON. 467 
 
 had strip'd himself to his wastecoat to drink with more 
 ease and coolness in a warm summer's evening ; yet there 
 was nothing more in it than this, that having been to take 
 the air on horseback, he came into company just as he 
 
 5 alighted from his horse, in a riding habit, and with boots 
 and spurs on. When the proctor first drew up this com- 
 plaint in writing, he found it proper to pass over in 
 silence such of the company, whose names would effect- 
 ually have demonstrated his rudeness ; and in this printed 
 
 10 edition of it, the names, for some special reasons, are 
 dwindled only to two, viz. Mr. Gooch of Caitts-college, and 
 Mr. Middleton of Trinity-college. One of these is at 
 present vice-chancellor of the university, whose character 
 is too well known in the world to want any vindication ; 
 
 15 who has join'd the accomplishment of a gentleman to 
 those of a scholar ; who with all the proper gravity and 
 severity of the one, knows how to practise and allow 
 every liberty which becomes the other ; whose magistracy 
 has taught us what difference there is between discipline 
 
 20 and pedantry, reformation and ill manners. The other, 
 who from this representation of him, might pass probably 
 enough for a haunter of taverns, a lover of wine and 
 debauch, has always been remarkable and exemplary in 
 the university for the strictest temperance and regularity 
 
 25 of life. These are the rude and disorderly persons he 
 complains of; these are the men whose ill lives, according 
 to Master S[y]kes, are a reproach to us. But these 
 gentlemen are however much oblig'd to him for the 
 opportunity he has given of informing the world, that 
 
 30 they had the honour to be found by him at this time in 
 company with the present earl of Anglesey, who was 
 then the shining ornament of the house of commons, as 
 he has since been of the house of lords ; a person much 
 more distinguish'd by his great parts and abilities, than 
 
 35 by his high birth and quality; whose friendship and con- 
 versation have always been the ambition and delight of 
 the greatest and politest in the kingdom; and whose
 
 468 RICHARD LAUGHTON. 
 
 name and education amongst us will be remember'd to 
 all posterity as the honour and glory of this university. 
 There were besides in this company some others of great 
 quality and character; the honourable Mr. Windsor, 
 member of parliament for the university; Sir J. Cotton, 5 
 bar. member of parliament for the town, with doctors and 
 masters of arts. This was the company when this zealous 
 reformer came bolting into the room, about ten at night, 
 with as much authority and as little ceremony, as if he 
 had surpriz'd a club of sizers or freshmen; he requir'd 10 
 them to be gone, declar'd he would not stir, till he had 
 seen them pay their reckoning; brought all his young 
 scholars in upon them, and encourag'd the sauciness and 
 rudeness which some of them offer'd to the company; 
 such treatment of persons of such distinction had never 15 
 before been practis'd or heard of in the university. And 
 it had been strange if an insult so unusual had not been 
 resented by the company with a just contempt and in- 
 dignation ; it was out of pure opposition to him that they 
 stayed till the late hour he mentions of twelve a clock, 20 
 and did not break up till they had receiv'd three visits of 
 the same kind from him. They were not however pro- 
 vok'd to shew any other incivility or disrespect to his 
 person, than that of laughing at him pretty heartily ; and 
 tho' he complains of this as an affront to his office, he 25 
 must thank himself for it, 'twas impossible to be help'd ; 
 'twas but the natural and necessary effect of the great 
 pains he took to make himself ridiculous. We all re- 
 member a late professor in our schools, who when himself 
 had made the jest, used to thunder at the scholars for 30 
 rudely laughing at things so serious. This gentleman had 
 a fair occasion of reforming some abuses, and abolishing 
 some dirty perquisites of his office, which too justly give 
 offence to grave and good men : but 'tis charity only, and 
 not reformation that begins at home; and his want of 35 
 scruple here is enough to make us suspect that his business 
 was to chuse such a part, as would make a noise in the
 
 RICHARD LAUGHTON. 469 
 
 world, would bring him credit, without loss, and would 
 give people such notions of the university, and himself, as 
 to think it unsafe to trust their children there, but under 
 his government and direction. There needs no other 
 
 5 proof of the absurdity and impertinence of this complaint, 
 than the confession which Mr. S[y\kes has made, that it 
 was never yet redressed. Dr. Roderick, the late provost 
 of King's, was at that time vice-chancellor, a known 
 lover of discipline, and steady friend to the revolution; 
 
 10 and tho' he was very tender of discouraging whatever 
 look'd like reformation ; yet he express'd himself, I know, 
 very severely upon the trouble and disturbance this proctor 
 gave him in this and many other of his complaints.' 
 Diary of Edw. Rud, edited by If. R. Luard, Cambr. 1 860, 
 
 15 p. 2, 1710, Sept, 7 : 'Mr. Laughton the senior proctor 
 hinder'd the musick booths from coming to the fair, by 
 threatening that he would oblige them to sell in full 
 measure. He also reviv'd the statute [47 of the university 
 statutes] for punishing lads 3^. ^d. who came to the fair 
 
 20 without leave under their master's hand ; and on the 9 
 he visited Paper-mills. . . 15. Mr. Laughton arrested the 
 Grecian for abuseing him when he visited his coffee-booth 
 at the fair. ' Dr. Flexman's Life of Dr. Benj. Ibbot, before 
 Ibbofs Thirty-six discourses on practical subjects, Land. 
 
 25 1776, p. iv: 'He was admitted of Clare-hall . . . 25 July 
 1695, under the tuition of the Rev. Mr. La^^ghton, a 
 gentleman justly celebrated for his eminent attainments in 
 philosophy and mathematics. ' The account of Laughton 
 in "Jo. Chambers, Biographical illustrations of Worcester- 
 
 30 shire, is very slight. 
 
 P. 146 1.23. an Arian book. A mistake on the part 
 of Uffenbach or of his editor for Arminian. Lawrence 
 Womock, afterwards bp. of St. David's, was author of: 
 ' The examination of Tilenus before the triers, in order to 
 
 35 his intended settlement in the office of a publick preacher 
 in the commonwealth of Utopia, whereunto are added the 
 tenets of the Remonstrants, with an essay on the theses of 
 
 II
 
 470 JOHN CO VEL. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Parker. Land. 1658.' I2mo. The last page 
 of the book is numbered 283, but the paging is most 
 irregular. 
 
 P. 147 1. 7. Augustinns de bono coniugali, and others. 
 Given by Clemens Gregorie 1640. The other MSS. were 5 
 given by John Heaven, D.D., sometime fellow, vicar of 
 New Windsor and fellow of Eton college, installed canon 
 of Windsor 12 Mar. 1661 ; died 23 June 1670; whose 
 monument and epitaph are in St. Georges chapel Windsor 
 (Wood-Bliss, Fasti Oxon. II 271). IO 
 
 P. 147 1. 9. John Covel or Covell was son of Wm. C. 
 of Horningshearth, Suff.; born 1638; educated at Bury 
 school, under Thos. Stephens ; admitted to Chris fs coll. 
 31 Mar. 1654, B.A. 1657-8. M.A. 1661. Life of Is. 
 Milles, Land. 1721, 18-9: 'Dr. Covel was another, of 15 
 whom Mr. Milles never spoke without the greatest com- 
 mendation and respect. He used to say, he had the 
 repute of one of the gentilest, and best temper'd, and 
 most obliging youths he had ever heard of. And being 
 a little acquainted with him, he found him such. He is 20 
 still alive, though very old.' Life of abp. John Sharp, 
 Lond, 1825, I 13-4: 'the plague in 1665 and 1666 being 
 at Cambridge, he, as many others did on that occasion, 
 removed to the neighbouring villages, first to Sawston, . . 
 where he boarded, together with Mr. Covel of his own 25 
 college and others who removed their pupils.' In 1670 
 he went, as chaplain to Sir Dan. Harvey, to Constanti- 
 nople. In the dedication (p. 3) of his Account of the present 
 Greek church. Cambridge, Corn. Crownfield, 1722, to 
 James duke of Chandos, he says of the Tiirkey Company : 30 
 'during the space of seven years (under those two am- 
 bassadors Sir Dan. Harvey and Sir John Finch] I have 
 owed to them a very handsome subsistence.' Cf. ibid. 
 pref. i-viii. In a letter from Edit). Browne to Jo. Strype, 
 Constantinople 17 Mar. 1676-7, he speaks of Covel as 35 
 about to return home (Baumgartner MS. i 90 Cambr. univ. 
 libr.). D.D. and Lady Margarefs preacher 1679: 'a
 
 JOHN CO VEL. 471 
 
 person noted for polite and curious learning, singular 
 humanity, and knowledge of the world' (Baker's catalogue 
 of the Lady Margarefs preachers, after the pref. to The 
 funeral sermon on Lady Margaret, Land. 1708). Pre- 
 
 5 sented by bp. Gunning to the sinecure rectory of Littlebury, 
 to which he was instituted 5 Mar. 1680; presented to the 
 college rectory of Kegivorth 31 Oct. 1681, which he held 
 to his death (Nichols, Leicestersh. Ill 856, 859); installed 
 chanc. of York 9 Nov. 1687, on the nomination of the 
 
 IO king sede vacante. Elected master of his college 7 July 
 1688; v. c. in 1688-9 (Cooper's Annals iv 9) and 1708-9. 
 Cambr. MS. Mm vi 50 : The fellows of Christ's to some 
 nobleman, announcing Cudworttts death and imploring 
 his assistance with the king on CoveVs behalf, 26 June 
 
 15 1688. 'The society elected him immediately on the 
 death of Dr. Cudworth, in order to prevent a mandate 
 taking place, which they heard had been obtained of 
 king James ; and when the king was told whom they had 
 chosen, he assented to their choice. But it is thought, 
 
 20 that if the election had been more free, Dr. Covel would 
 not have been so successful' (Chalmers from MS. Cole xx 
 72). Died 19 Dec. 1722 and was buried in the college 
 chapel, where is an inscription to his memory (Biogr. 
 Brit., Chalmers}. One secret, which Covel jealously kept 
 
 25 to himself, has been divulged by Mr. Singer. In 1681 he 
 was ' made one of the chaplains to the princess of Orange, 
 . . . and on that account resided at that court, till, for 
 some cause or other, which he never would mention to 
 his most intimate friends, he was dismissed his attendance 
 
 30 at three hours' warning, and came over to England' 1 
 ( Chalmers). In Singer's Clarendon Correspondence, Lond. 
 1828, 4to., I 163-7 is a letter from the prince of Orange, 
 Dieren 22 Oct. 1685, sending a letter of CoveVs to Skelton 
 which he had intercepted, and in consequence summarily 
 
 35 dismissed him : ' Vous serez, sans doute, surpris qu 'un 
 homme de cette profession peut estre un si grand fripon. ' 
 Covel's letter is dated Dieren, A Oct. 1685: 'Your
 
 472 JOHN COVEL. 
 
 honour may be astonished at the news, but it is too true 
 the princess's heart is ready to break ; and yet she every 
 day . . . counterfeits the greatest joy, and looks upon us 
 as dogged as may be. We dare no more speak to her. 
 The prince hath infallibly made her his absolute slave, 5 
 and there is an end of it. I wish to God I could see the 
 king give you some good thing for your life, for I would 
 have it out of the power of any revocation ; for I assure 
 you I fear the prince will for ever rule the roast. ... I 
 wonder what the devil makes the prince so cold to you. 10 
 None but pimps and bawds must expect any tolerable 
 usage here. I beseech God preserve the king many and 
 many years.' Lord Rochester in reply to the prince (not 
 dated): 'I. . . cannot but be much troubled at the oc- 
 casion of Dr. CoveV s being sent away in that manner from 15 
 your highness' service.' MS. Tanner xxviii 309, Covel to 
 Sancroft, 29 Dec. 1 688; begs him to prevail on the prince 
 of Orange to pardon him. Cambr. MS. Mm vi 50 n. 32 ; 
 Covel to the princess of Orange, on his expulsion from her 
 court, Hague, \\ Oct. 1685. n. 44: Dr. Owen Wynne, 20 
 seer, to Id. Shrewsbury, writes from Whitehall 23 Febr. 
 1688-9 that the king would admit Covel, with the body of 
 the university, to kiss hands, but would have been more 
 content were the compliment paid by another. See ibid. 
 n. 84 and 85 the speeches made by Covel to the king. 25 
 Mm vi 50 art. 46 is a letter from Sancroft to Covel, 
 Lambeth, 26 Febr. 1688-9, expressing his willingness to 
 assist him ' for the quitting some old scores between him 
 and the court.' Three of Covers letters to Sancroft, re- 
 lating to his election as chancellor, are printed in D' Oytys 30 
 Life of Sancroft, ed. 2, 241-4. Several other letters to 
 Sancroft in Tanner MSS. vols. xxviii, xxxi, xxxii; one 
 (xxviii 364) I Alar. 1688-9, when he declined the chan- 
 cellorship of the university. A notice of him ibid, xxxv 
 32. Covel has verses in Lacrymae Cantabrigienses 1694-5 35 
 f. Bb seq. In Cambridge university library MS. Mm vi 50 
 is a transcript of a large part of CoveVs correspondence
 
 JOHN COVEL. 473 
 
 from 1662 to 1722, relating to his residence on the con- 
 tinent and in the east, to the eventful year of his vice- 
 chancellorship, to the imprimatur on a book in which 
 John Locke was charged with Socinianism, to the sale of 
 
 5 Covers MSS. to Edward lord Oxford for ^300 (27 Febr. 
 1715-6), and to proposals for the sale of his other collec- 
 tions. A very large number of eminent names appear in 
 this correspondence, which deserves to be printed ; indeed 
 Mr. Dawson Turner was preparing it for publication. 
 
 IO MS. Harl. 4200 Statutes of York cathedral, in Dr. Covel's 
 hand. Others that belonged to him 5537, 5620, 5633 (a 
 reply from Nectarius patriarch of Jerusalem to papal pre- 
 tensions, Gr. lat.; translation finished by Covel 1681-2), 
 57 I S> 5739 5773-8- Dan. Duckfield gave him MS. HarL 
 
 *5 55 21 9 May 1702. Mention of Covel ib. 3777 n. 178. 
 3778 n. 27-31, 36-39. 3779 n. 21-30, 87-93 (letters from 
 Tho. Tudway Mus. D. to Humphr. Wanley about the sale 
 of CoveVs library, which had cost him about .1000, to 
 lord Oxford '; ' hints about the doctor's intrigues with 
 
 20 some Greek mistresses)', n. 94-96, 98, 99 ( Wanley to Tud- 
 way on same subject, beating down CoveVs demand of 
 ^400), 3780 n. 44-5 (from C. Christian, a seal engraver, 
 about Dr. Covers collection), n. 59-76 (correspondence 
 between Covel and Wanley about terms of sale), 3782 
 
 25 n. 44. 
 
 P. 147 1.12. over eighty. No, 72 or 73. 
 P. 147 I.I 8. an english ambassador. On Sir Dan. 
 Harvey of Surrey see Wm. Lilly's Life, 1774, 129 seq. ; 
 Manning and Bray I 402. Cambr. MS. Mm vi 50 n. 4 
 
 30 Sir Elias Harvey to Covel, informing him of his being 
 appointed chaplain to the embassy at Constantinople, of 
 which Sir Dan. Harvey was head. Land. 17 Mar. 1669. 
 Ibid. n.g. Draft of a letter in Covers own hand to Wm. 
 Harvey ; ' about my lord's death and my trouble. ' Con- 
 
 35 stantinople, 17 Oct. 1672. Ibid. n. 10. To the same, on 
 the same subject, the former having miscarried ; begs the 
 residue of Sir Elias Harvey's medals, n. 1 1. From Mrs.
 
 474 JO. COVEL. G. J. GRELOT. 
 
 Anne Hill, assuring Covel of Lady Harvey's favour, 16 
 Apr. [1673]. 
 
 P. 148 1.8. a testimoninm. ' Dominus Guil. Josephus 
 Grelot, quern probe novi quando Constantinopoli una com- 
 morati sumus, mihi monstravit Parisiis tabulas quasdam 5 
 propria sua manu delineatas, nempe urbium Const anti- 
 poletas, Galatae, Chrysopoleos, vulgo Scutari, item templo- 
 rum sanctae Sophiae aliorumque quorumdam ab impera- 
 toribus Turcicis fabricatorum. Ego sane ne amici officio 
 deessem, aut veritati ipsi asserendae, non possum non IO 
 laudare imprimis viri ingenium, industriam ac diligentiam ; 
 nee minus affirmare, quod, in quantum mihi videtur, et 
 fideliter et accurate et ad amussim, quod aiunt, facta sunt 
 omnia. Ita tester JOH. COVEL.' In a letter to John 
 Locke, Christ's coll., 27 Apr. 1681 (Cambr. MS. Mm vi 50 15 
 n. 27) Cffvel says that he had not heard from M. Grelot. 
 
 P. 148 1. 10. whei-e Dr. Covel is mentioned. 'Je diray 
 seulement en abrege 1'estat present ou elle [Constantinople] 
 est aujourd'huy, apres en avoir donne un petit plan dans 
 ce qui suit, et une idee assez parfaite dans le petit dessein 20 
 que j'en ay mis cy-apres; et le tout en attendant que 
 Monsieur Covel gentilhomme Anglois en donne au public 
 un fort beau, fort grand et fort exact qu'il a entre les 
 mains, avec les curieuses et S9avantes observations qu'il 
 a fait pendant pres de dix ans qu'il a demeure en Grece.'' 2$ 
 
 P. 148 1.13. Pericopae evangeliorum. MS. Harl. 5598. 
 It is not in modern gr. 
 
 P. 148 1.15. cod. meinbr.gr. in 12. Cited as Paul. 31. 
 Apoc. 7 in critical editions of the N. T. MS. Harl. 5537 
 or Mill's MS. Covel 2. See Catal. of Harl. MSS. ill 274-5; 3 
 the MS. contains an annotated transcript of a lexicon 
 preserved in it, and this note by the transcriber : ' Viro 
 venerando lohanni Covello S.T. D. collegii Christi apud 
 Cantabrigienses praefecto, quod proprium ipsi erat red- 
 dens, observantiae gratique animi, ob humanissime prae- 35 
 stitum ad istas antiquitatis reliquias accessum, qualecun- 
 que monumentum, benevolae recordationis gratia reliquit
 
 COVELS MSS. 475 
 
 lohannes Fridericus Burg Vratislaviensis. Cantabrigiae 
 d. 12 Decembr. 1710.' See Griesbach, Symbol, crit, II 
 148, 184. 
 
 P. 148 1. 1 7. codex evangeliorum. See p. 1 19 1. 27 seq. 
 
 5 Mill's Covel I, MS. Harl. 5776. 410. F. H. Scrivener, A 
 plain introduction to the criticism of the N. T. Cambr. 
 1861, pp. 150-1 : 'brought from the east in 1677 with 4 
 other MSS. of the gr. T. by Dr. John Covel .... This 
 book was presented to Covel in 1674 by Daniel, bp. of 
 
 IO Proconnesus. The last verse is supplied by a late hand, 
 the concluding leaf being lost.' In Mill's Prolegomena 
 CLXIII, CLXIV, five MSS. of Covets are described : ' Pro- 
 vectos paulo ultra ad cap. XI Matthaei egregie nos locu- 
 pletavit amicus noster eruditissimus, loan. Covellus S. T. P. 
 
 15 quinque MSS. exemplaribus, quae ex oriente paulo ante 
 secum advexerat.' See MarsKs Michaelis, ed. 4, n 735. 
 Letters from Mill to Covel about these MSS. Mm vi 50 
 (Cambr. univ. libr.) art. 33 f. 85 (Oxon. 22 Jan. 1686-7); 
 art. 36 f. 87 (Oxon. 24 May 1687). In a letter from Mill 
 
 2O to Is. Newton, St. Edm. hall, 7 Nov. 1693 (in Brewster's 
 Life of Newton, 1860, n 374): 'May I presume to beg 
 your favour to transcribe any one single page in the greek 
 [of cod. Bezae\, and to point it exactly according to the 
 copy, 'twill be a mighty obligation. My most humble 
 
 25 service to ... Dr. Covel. He put an arabic charm in my 
 hands, which I have not yet returned. The next return 
 of the carrier he shall surely receive it, with a translation 
 of some part "of it. I hope our common friend Mr. 
 \Johii\ Laughton is well. Pray give him my thanks for 
 
 30 all civilities.' Newton in reply, Trin. coll. 29 Jan. 1693-4 
 (ibid. ) : 'I have sent you not only my old collations so far 
 as they vary from yours, but also some new ones of Dr. 
 Covets two MSS.; for I have collated them anew, and sent 
 you those readings which were either omitted in your 
 
 35 printed ones, or there erroneously printed. In collating 
 these MSS., I set the readings down in the margin of your 
 book, and thence transcribed them into a sheet of paper,
 
 476 JOHN COVEL. 
 
 which you will find in your book at the end of the 
 Apocalyps, together with my old collations, and a copy 
 of a side of Beta's MS. The collations I send you of Dr. 
 CovePs two MSS. you may rely upon ; for I put them into 
 Mr. \Johri\ Laughton's hand with the two MSS., and he 5 
 compared them with the MSS. and found them right .... 
 I could not observe any accurateness in the stops or 
 commas in Bezel's MSS. You may rely upon the transcript 
 of something more than a side of it. ' 
 
 P. 148 1.21. biblia hebr. MS. Harl. 5773-5. ib. 3780 10 
 11.63: Covel to H. Wanley 1712-3: His hebrew MSS. 
 highly valued by a learned rabbi of Upsala. Daily using 
 his gr. MSS., which are creditably noted by Dr. Mills. 
 
 P. 148 1.24. historia. MS. Harl. 5632. 
 
 P. 148 1.27. historia. MS. Harl. 5742. 15 
 
 P. 148 1.28. Sgyropuli. MS. Harl. 5740. 
 
 P. 149 1.4. Simeonis. MSS. Harl. 5630 and 5783 
 seem both to have belonged to Covel. Another copy 
 ibid. 5574. 
 
 P. 149 1. 8. correspondence. MS. Harl. 6943 contains 20 
 letters to Covel in modern gr., fr. , ital., lat., as well as 
 engl., mostly from foreigners. MS. Lansd. 353 contains 
 his correspondence with the Greek and Armenian clergy 
 at Adrianople, Philippopoli and Jenisalem in 1673 and 
 1675, in modern gr. One main subject of his correspond- 25 
 ence when in the east was the belief of the orientals 
 with respect to transubstantiation, on which Arnauld and 
 Clarede carried on a brisk controversy. A*full account of 
 this matter is given in the pref. to his book on the Greek 
 church; cf. some letters in Cambr. MS. Mm vi 50 n. 13, 30 
 15-17. Perhaps his curiosity may have given rise to the 
 report that he had become a papist, 1678 (ibid. n. 22, 23). 
 
 P. 149 1.22. Poran. MS. Harl. 4256 : 'The Bramin's 
 Poran in five books.' By the same John Marshall, ib. 
 4252 : ' A journal to the East-India, in the ship Unicorn ;' 35 
 4253 I : 'A dialogue between John Marshall and Muddoo- 
 soodum Raurre, Bramin, at Callumbtisar in Bengal^ 18
 
 JOHN MARSHALL. 477 
 
 March 1674-5 >' *b*d' n - 2 : ' An account by Muddoosoodum 
 Raurre, from a Hindoo book on the creation;' 4254 and 
 4255: 'John Marshall's memoranda concerning East 
 India, from n Sept. 1668 to I Jan. 1671-2;' 7199: 'Con- 
 5 tinuation of Muddoo Soodon Rauzzo Bramin's account of 
 the Hindoos' book called Serebangabut Porans, translated 
 by John Marshall, and brought from Leber D. le 29 May 
 1677.' In a letter to Wanley 1712-3 (ib. 3780 69) Covel 
 classes the Porans, translated by one of his pupils, amongst 
 IO his choicest treasures. 
 
 P. 150 1.5. a certain bishop. Probably John MOOT*. 
 
 P. 1 50 1. 1 7. a hebrew inscription. In Cambr. MS. 
 Mm vi 50 n. 102, 103, 105 are letters from Chas. Ellis, 
 Castle Ashby 26 Aug. and 26 Sept. 1696, and one from Is. 
 15 Abendana, Oxf. 9 Oct. 1696, with conjectures on this in- 
 scription, which is given on f. 187, where it is said that 
 Id. Oxford purchased the pot from CoveVs executors, and 
 sent it to Oxford, to be explained by Jean Gagnier. 
 
 P. 150 1.30. Giovanni Pietro Bellori, born at Rome 
 
 20 1615, died 1696; he had the charge of the library and 
 
 antiques of queen Christina of Sweden, and received from 
 
 Clement X. the title Antiquario di Roma. His numerous 
 
 archaeological works are still valued. 
 
 P. 151 1.7. nummis. See a latin letter to him from 
 25 \John\ Masson, Oxford, 19 Aug. 1702, on some gr. coins 
 (MS. Harl. 6941 n. 6; cf. n. 5 and 7). 
 
 P. 152 1.22. As his wife dined with us, we did not 
 converse upon serious matters. Describing to a friend his 
 tour in the Low Countries in the summer of 1718 (Vita 
 30 p. xcvn), Uffenbach names as one of the obstacles to 
 learned intercourse and purchases of books ' societatis, 
 quam inieram, seria abhorrentis nexus.' His wife was 
 with him. 
 
 P. 152 1.25. Trinity chapel. See The true state of 
 
 35 Trinity college. Lond. 1710 (one of several replies to 
 
 Bentley's letter to the bp. of Ely, see Monk I 259, 260) 
 
 p. 60: 'The chappel was fine enough too for devotion;
 
 478 TRINITY. JO. LA UGHTON. 
 
 plain, neat and elegant, without those glaring ornaments, 
 which are apt to draw off the eye from the Creator to the 
 creature, which now make it more like a Roman oratory, 
 a chapel of the Lady of Loretto, than a place of worship 
 for protestants. ' Bentley had boasted (The present state of 5 
 Trinity college, Land. 1710 p. 60) of 'the college-chappel, 
 from a decay'd antiquated model, made one of the noblest 
 in England.' 
 
 P. 153 1.4. Trinity library. See The true state of 
 Trinity college, p. 59 : ' Dr. Barrow, before he began that IO 
 necessary ornament of our college, the new library, rais'd 
 such a bank of subscriptions, as enabl'd him to carry on 
 the building without oppressing the fellows, who had 
 constantly (as I have heard them say) half a dividend 
 every year, though the charge of that fabric was treble 15 
 to the sums laid on by Dr. B. ' 
 
 P. 153 1. 14. Grinling Gibbons. See Walpole's An- 
 ecdotes and ind. to MSS. Ashmole and to the diary of 
 Gibbons' patron Evelyn. Thoresby's Diary I 366 : ' Mr. 
 Etty the painter, with whose father . . . the architect the 20 
 most celebrated Grinling Gibbons wrought at York, but 
 whether apprenticed with him or not, I remember not well. ' 
 
 P. 153 l.i 6. John Laughton. See p. 116 1.14, 140 
 1.23, 1761.9, 327, 328, Cooper's Annals iv 2, Brewster's 
 Life of Newton, ind. He supplied the list of Trinity MSS. 25 
 for the Catal. MSS. Angliae, and subscribed to Strype's 
 Parker. His name occurs as assisting research in MS. 
 Baumgartner III n. 7-16 and 21 ; his MSS. x n. 73 and 75. 
 Diary ofEdw. Rud, ed. by H. R. Luard, Cambr. 1860, p. 8 : 
 1712. l Sept. 4. Mr. Laughton dyed about 6 this morning, 30 
 at his niece Jenkins 1 house at Woodlayes near Rotheram.' 1 
 The John Laughton rector of Godeby (Nichols 1 Leicestersh. 
 II 197-8, in 926, IV 753-4) was of Emman. B.A. 1694-5, 
 M.A. 1698. 
 
 P. 154 1.5. Augustine Lindsell of Clare, tutor of Nic. 35 
 Ferrar (see ind. to Two lives of N. F. Cambr. 1855), after- 
 wards bp. successively of Peterborough and Hereford. He
 
 A UG. LINDSELL. 479 
 
 was a friend of Laud and of Cosin (see ind. to Laud's 
 works, to Cosin's correspondence printed by the Surtees 
 society, and to the Surtees book on the Durham High 
 Commission 1858). Laud records that he was cut for the 
 
 5 stone 9 a.m. 27 Apr. 1624 (Diary v& Works in 152). Sir 
 Hen. Bourgchier to Ussher (Parr's Ussher's Letters, n. 54> 
 p. 86), Land. 28 Apr. 1623 : ' Our good friend D. Lyndsel 
 was cut on Munday ; and is yet (God be praised) well 
 after it : there was a stone taken out of his bladder about 
 
 10 the bigness of a shilling, and rough on the one side.' Ri. 
 Montagu in his reply to Seldeti p. 144 commemorates his 
 learning, and profited by it : see pref. to Greg. Naz. in 
 lulianum invectivae duae, ed. R. Montagu, Etonae. 1610, 
 4to. : ' Porro vir doctissimus Richardus Thomson [of Clare 
 
 15 also, one of the translators of the Bible], et Augustinus 
 Lindsel amicissimus, suas hue symbolas contulerunt : hie 
 enim Castigationes lulii Gabrielii ad omnes ep. et orat. 
 e Vaticanis membranis ad me misit, editas illas apud 
 Plantinum, sed Parisiensibus non visas : . . . ille autem 
 
 20 suum cod. communicavit, cum scriptis collatum in Italia. ' 
 Also in the notes on Photii epistolae, Land. 1651, Montagu 
 records conjectures of LindselCs, see p. 46 sect. 14 and 15, 
 p. 64 sect. 35, pp. 115, 143. Sir Hen, Bourgchier to 
 Ussher (Parr n. 138 p. 406): ' I doubt not but your grace 
 
 25 hath heard of the greek library brought from Venice by 
 Mr. Fetherston, which the earl of Pembroke hath bought 
 for the university-library of Oxford; it cost him ^700; 
 there are of them 250 volumes. Dr. Lindsell, now dean 
 of Litchfield, tells me that it is a great treasure, far ex- 
 
 30 ceeding the catalogue. He likewise tells me that there 
 are a great number of excellent tracts of the greek fathers, 
 never yet published ; besides divers ancient historians and 
 geographers; and particularly, that there is as much of 
 Chrysostom, as will make a volume equal to any of those 
 
 35 published by Sir H. SavilS Ant. Walker's Life of Jo. 
 Bois (Peck Desid. Cur. bk. VIII pp. 52-3 ed. i = 337-8 
 ed. 2) : ' He did often, at the request of divers of his worthy
 
 480 A UG. LINDSELL. 
 
 friends, peruse bookes by them sent to him; not only 
 noting them in the margent, but writing larger notes upon 
 them ... At the request of Dr. Li'idsel ... he took great 
 pains with a greek manuscript, entitled Bap\aa/j. al 
 'I<oaffd<f> [ascribed to Joann. Damasc., first printed in 5 
 Boissonadfs Anecd. gr. 1829. iv] which should have soon 
 after come in print, with the bishop's and his joynt 
 labours upon it. But the bishop being so prevented by 
 death, that he could neither see it printed himselfe, nor 
 take order for the restoring of it (for he was found dead IO 
 in his study in 1634 [6 Ncw.~\ .... there were three whole 
 years lost and buried, unless it had pleased my lord's 
 grace of Canterbury [ Wm. Laud}, who had the supervision 
 of his bookes, to keep them from imminent danger of utter 
 perishing.' Z/</.sv?// was a friend of John Gregory 1 s {Lloyd 1 s 15 
 Memoires 88), who, with Thos. Triplet, helped him to 
 collate the MS. for his edition of Theophylact on St. Paul 
 (Land. 1636). He was also a friend of the papist Daven- 
 port or Franciscus a sancta Clara (Prynne^s Canterb. 
 Doome 426-7, 448), which accounts for his falling under 20 
 Prynne's lash (ibid. 167, 353, 359). Meric Casaubon to 
 G. y. Vossius, Canterbury 22 Febr. 1635 (i.e. 1634-5, in 
 his letters, printed after his father's, pp. 7, 8, or in Cla- 
 rorum virorum ad G. J. Vossium epistolae p. 138 b) speaks 
 of Lindsett, whom he had lost a month or two before, in 25 
 the highest terms : ' sanctitate et integritate vitae praesul, 
 etiamsi olim vixisset, admirandus. Vix est ut tantam 
 eruditionem in tanta modestia, tanta obscuritate (etsi iam- 
 pridem toto hoc regno celeberrimae famae fuerit) latere 
 potuisse quisquam credat . . . Nullum genus est eru- 30 
 ditionis, in quo non ita excelleret, ut tota vita nihil aliud 
 egisse videretur. Nullus liber antiquus aut recens, latinus, 
 graecus aut hebraicus, nullus fere gallicus, italicus aut 
 hispanicus, qui quidem alicuius momenti fuerit, quern 
 notum non haberet, totumque ita excussisset, ut pro re 35 
 nata suam de eo sententiam apud amicos docte pariter 
 ac copiose proferre non posset. Hie ante quattuordecim
 
 A UG. LI ND SELL. 48 1 
 
 plus minus annos, cum libellum, quern contra patrii nomi- 
 nis infamatores edideram, legisset et probasset, antea sibi 
 penitus ignotum ita complecti coepit, ut deinceps non 
 aliter de me sollicitus esset, quam si propiori aliquo na- 
 
 5 turae vinculo ipsi coniunctissimus fuissem. Nullum officii 
 genus est, quo mihi commodare potuit, quod inexpertum 
 reliquerit. Nam et studia mea qua consulendo saepissime, 
 qua docendo non raro adiuvit; et fortunas meas ali- 
 quando tenues non ipse modo sponte sua liberalitate sub- 
 
 IO levavit, sed et ab aliis ut sublevarentur sua apud magnos 
 viros auctoritate, nunquam a me ne minimo quidem 
 verbo sollicitatus, effecit. Ille denique fuit, qui benig- 
 nissimum dominum ac patronum . . . Cantuariensem archi- 
 episcopum (in tanto dignitatis fastigio meritis quam loco 
 
 15 longe celsiorem) primus mihi conciliavit; ut omnia prope 
 ipsi debeam, tanquam fortunae meae fabro et architecto 
 praecipuo, quaecumque mihi felicia postea contigerunt. 
 Sed ut ad studia redeam, assiduus hie mihi fpyo5i<aKTT)s 
 erat, et temporis acti severus exactor, pensis etiam inter- 
 
 2O dum impositis, quae pro ratione sive virium mearum, sive 
 otii et temporis, maxime congrua iudicaret. Paucos ante 
 mortem annos totus in eo fuerat, ut graecorum veteris 
 ecclesiae scriptorum quaedam dj/e/cSora, magno acre non 
 ita pridem e diversis Europae Asiaeque locis comparata 
 
 25 et hue allata, quam emendatissima cum latina interpre- 
 tatione in lucem emitteret. Me quoque (magis id quidem 
 amori erga me suo indulgens, quam umeris meis confisus) 
 ad partem tarn gloriosi propositi vocarat, mandata mihi 
 veteris graeci codicis, qui commentationes in partem Psal- 
 
 30 morum Chrysostomo vulgo adscriptas continet, interpreta- 
 tione. Quae quidem eo facilius a me suscepta quod dies 
 ad perficiendum data, nee alia condicione imposita quam 
 si per alias occasiones liceret. Alia quippe erant plura, 
 seu maioris ea momenti, seu quod acceptiora futura essent, 
 
 35 praelo designata, priusquam harum usus esset. Neque 
 iam quicquam restabat, quam ut typographus primo quo- 
 que tempore ad opus accingeretur, cum supremum diem
 
 482 LINDSELL. M. CASA UBON. 
 
 obiit praesul illustrissimus. Sed Deo laus, quod ille 
 [Laud] superstes, diuque sit superstes oro, quo vivente 
 nunquam patrono cariturae sunt in Anglia meliores litte- 
 rae ; cuius potissimum auspiciis et prudentissima adminis- 
 tratione, ut eo perductum negotium illud, quo perductum 5 
 diximus cum praesul illustrissimus obiit, omnes hie ag- 
 noscimus; ita et in cura providentiaque eius, nulli non 
 pari negotio omniumque hactenus difficultatum feliciter 
 victrici, spes nobis non exigua, tot conatus et labores ob 
 intempestivam praecipui instrument! iacturam incassum 10 
 non futures. ' Many notices of Lindsell, and some of his 
 letters, are in the state paper office (see the Calendar 
 1628-34) 
 
 P. 1 54 1. 5. See accounts of Meric Casaubon in Ada 
 eruditorum latino, Wood, Niceron, Senebier's Hist. litt. de 15 
 Geneve, Biogr. Brit. , the Gen. Diet, of Birch and Bernard, 
 Chalmers; letters to him in Grotii epistolae, n. 630, 669, 
 941, 1139, 1243, 1332; his letter to Grotius in Epistolae 
 celeberrimorum virorum . ... ex scriniis litterariis Jani 
 Brantii. Amst. 1715, 8vo., p. 146; letters to him from his 20 
 father ibid. p. 288, and in Casauboni epistolae n. 648 : no- 
 tices of verses of his ibid. pp. 549 a, 553 a; 22 letters to 
 him from G. J. Vossius in Vossii Epistolae, Land. 1690, 
 and 3 from him to Vossius ibid, among Clarorum virorum 
 ad G. J. V. epistolae, where he says (p. I2gb) that the 25 
 bookseller made a good profit on his Antoninus, every 
 copy having been sold in a few months. His letters and 
 prefaces are printed at the end of his father's, ed. Alme- 
 loveen; in one to J. F. Gronovius 20 Apr. 1660, he com- 
 plains bitterly of the conduct of his only remaining son 30 
 John, the same to whom he inscribes his De verborum 
 usu. Some letters passed between him and Evelyn (Diary 
 etc. II 246 sq., 251, 285, 4to. ed., or ill 220-5, 2 4^ ed. 
 1854). Wm. Laudio G. J. Vossius, 3 Jul, 1632 (Works 
 VI 299): 'Casaubonus a morte reverendissimi Winfoniensis 35 
 [L. Andrewes] in meam clientelam transiit. Ego patris 
 nomine et suo quae potui feci, ut liber a curis studiis
 
 MERIC CASAUBON. 483 
 
 indulgeret. . . Alia et maiora facturus sum, quum facultas 
 adsit, et erit opportunum. ' Laud gave him the vicarage 
 of Minster 4 Oct. 1635, and that of Monkton 25 Oct. 1635. 
 He was ejected, but his wife was allowed fifths for Minster 
 
 5 (MS. Baker xxvn 425, Walker's Sufferings 8); on the 
 restoration he resumed possession of both livings ( Calamy, 
 Continuation, 548, 555-6; Jo. Lewis, Thanet, 37, 41, 
 66-9). Christ. Arnold to Geo. Richter, Land. ' a. d. f 
 Aug. 1651 (Richterus Redivivus p. 485): ' Mericus Casau- 
 
 10 bonus, in rure amoeno et suburbano degens, per litteras 
 mecum sermones miscet.' P. Du Moulin dedicates to 
 him, as to a neighbour, book II of his Poemata (Cambr. 
 1670); in bk. in p. II seq. ('schola morbi'), he speaks of 
 Casauboii's great sufferings. His book on enthusiasm was 
 
 15 translated by J. A. Fabricitis: l De enthusiasmo precatorio 
 ex anglico latine versus,' at the end of Jo. Frid. Mayer's 
 book De pietistis ecclesiae veteris, Hamb. 1696. 4to. Gottfr. 
 IV. Leibnitz commends Casaubon's tract against the new 
 philosophy in a letter to Huet, Hannover 1679 (Uhlii 
 
 20 Sylloge nova epist. i 655): 'admonendi sunt homines ex- 
 emplo egregii operis tui, religionis interesse, ut vera eru- 
 ditio conservetur ; idque praeclare monuit vir doctissimus, 
 Mericus Casaubomis, . . . scriptis non ita dudum sermone 
 anglico libellis eruditis, in quibus non sine caussa male 
 
 25 ominatur pietati, si naturae tantum indagandae dediti, 
 antiquitatis studium et bonas litteras neglegamus. ' In his 
 Comment, de quatuor linguis, Lond. 1650, as in several 
 others of his works, Casaubon gives many particulars of 
 his life (pp. 127-132, coming of the family into England; 
 
 30 his first acquaintance with anglo-saxon MSS. ; 140-144, he 
 induces Wm. Somner to study the language; great pro- 
 gress which he has made). In the pref. to Somner's Can- 
 terbury and especially in that to his Dictionary ( 1, 5, 18) 
 Casatibon's encouragement is duly acknowledged ; cf. 
 
 35 Worthington 's Diary i 62. See further Prynne's Canterb. 
 Doome 79. 
 
 P. 154 1.6. Hacketianis. The life otjohn Hacket by
 
 484 ERPENIUS. 
 
 Thos. Plume was reprinted, with some additions, by M. 
 . C. Walcottvn. 1865. 
 
 P. 155 1.2O. Armachano. Jas. Ussher. 
 
 P. 156 1.6. in bibliotheca Leicestrensi cod. MS. N. T. 
 This MS. (known to critics as Act. 31, Paul. 37, Apoc. 14) 5 
 is described in F. H. Scrivener's Plain introduction to the 
 criticism of the gr. T. Cambridge, Deighton and Bell, 1861, 
 pp. 151-2; a collation is given in the app. to Scrivener's 
 ed. of the cod. Augiensis. 
 
 P. 157 1.9. gave me a leaf. Uffenbach forgot the IO 
 design on his own book-plate ; a mouse nibbling a book, 
 denoting those (commerc. epist. Uffenb. II 279), 'qui li- 
 bellos, immo pretiosissima saepe opera, mutuo ipsis bene- 
 vole data, male habent ac corrupta reddunt, vel plane 
 retinent.' 15 
 
 P. 157 1.1 1. Bedwelli. See pp. 438-444. Bedwell 
 was enrolled among benefactors for presenting his arabic 
 lexicon, 27 Oct. 1640 (Grace Book Z in the registry p. 398). 
 
 P. 157 1.29. Erpenii. Thomas -van Erpe, born at 
 Gorinchem 3 or II Sept. 1584, was encouraged by Scaliger 20 
 to study the oriental languages, for which purpose he 
 visited the libraries of London, Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, 
 Milan, Heidelberg, Venice etc.; appointed extraordinary 
 professor of oriental languages (except hebrew) at Leyden 
 9 Febr. 1612-3, though Andrewes used great efforts to 25 
 induce him to settle in England. Among his pupils were 
 Sixtinus Amama, Adolf Vorstius and Jat. Golius. He 
 set up an arabic press, and had the letters cast at his own 
 cost ; after his death it passed into the hands of Is. Elsevier. 
 He died 13 Nov. 1624, and was commemorated in a 30 
 funeral oration by his friend G. J. Vossius ( Opera IV 84-91; 
 see many authorities in A. J. van der Aa, Biogr. Woordenb. 
 der Nederlanden, Haarl. 1859, iv 210-3). James Ussher 
 to Sam, Ward, Land. 16 June 1626 (Parr's Ussher's 
 Letters TL. 98, p. 342): 'I have dealt with your chancellor 35 
 very effectually for the erecting of your library, to which 
 he is of himself exceeding forward : I have procured him
 
 ERPENIUS. 485 
 
 to send unto Leyden for all the printed hebrew books of 
 Erpenius his library; which, together with his manu- 
 scripts which he hath already, he purposeth to bestow 
 upon your university. I have also persuaded him to send 
 
 5 thither for the matrices of the syriack, arabick, aethiopick, 
 and samaritan letters, and to bestow them likewise upon 
 you.' Same to same, London, 23 June 1626 (ibid, n.gg, 
 p. 343): ' Since I wrote unto you last, I have received in- 
 telligence from Leyden, that all Erpenius' 's printed books 
 
 10 are already sold ; and his matrices of the oriental tongues 
 are bought by Elzevir the printer there ; so that you now 
 must content yourselves with his manuscripts only, which 
 are a very rare treasure indeed, and for which your uni- 
 versity shall rest much beholden unto your chancellor.' 
 
 15 Ward to Ussher, Sidney coll. 27 June 1626 (ibid. n. 100, 
 p. 344) : ' I received your lordship's last letter of the 23rd 
 of this month, and do perceive thereby that Erpenius's 
 printed books and his matrices of the oriental tongues are 
 already sold.' Jo. BaWs Life of Dr. Jo. Preston (in Sam. 
 
 20 Clarke's Lives of '32 English divines, 1677, p. 108): 'His 
 next retreat was to Lincoln's Inn; for now he said, the 
 duke was chancellor, and would endeavour to ingratiate 
 himself and be a benefactor, and had brought [? bought] 
 Erpenius 1 manuscripts, and did verily intend to found a 
 
 25 library; and so it would be easie, and in his power, to 
 out him of the colledge and university.' Jos. Mead to 
 Sir Martin Stuteville 24 Mar. 1626-7 {Birch's Court and 
 times of Charles I. , I 208, Heywood and Wright, Cambr. 
 uni-v. transactions II 352, MS. Baker xxxn 388): 'We 
 
 30 talk here of a magnificent library which our great chan- 
 cellor will build, and bestow no less toward it than ,7000 
 presently. All the houses between Caius college and St. 
 Mary's must be pulled down to make room. I wish he 
 might never do worse deed; but I doubt, I doubt.' See 
 
 35 the certificate delivered to the duke at Wattingford house 
 29 Jan. 1627-8 respecting the houses and ground between 
 Caius college and the Regent walk, where he proposed to 
 
 KK
 
 486 ERPENIUS. 
 
 build the library (ffeywood and Wright, ibid. 359-361). 
 John Cosin offered the university .500 on 2 Febr. 1668-9 
 towards resuming the contemplated building (MS. Baker 
 xxx 454). Sir Hen. Wotton, Life and death of George 
 Villiers (Harl. Misc. ed. Park, vin 619; Reliquiae Wotto- 5 
 nianae, 1685, p. 223 = p. 16 of the original ed., Land. 
 1642, 4to.): 'Here it were injurious to overslip a noble 
 act in the duke, during the employment [when he went 
 to the Hague to pawn the crown jewels 1625]; which 
 I must, for my part, celebrate above all his expenses: IO 
 there was a collection of certain rare manuscripts, exqui- 
 sitely written in arabick, and sought in the most remote 
 parts by the diligence of Erpenius, the most exquisite 
 linguist ; these had been left to the widow of the said 
 Erpenius, and were upon sale to the Jesuits at Antwerp; 15 
 liquorish chapmen of such ware. Whereof the duke get- 
 ting knowledge, by his worthy and learned secretary, Dr. 
 Mason, interverted the bargain, and gave the poor widow 
 for them $oo; a sum above their weight in silver, and 
 a mixed act, both of bounty and charity, the more laudable, 20 
 being out of his natural element. These were they, which 
 after his death were as nobly presented, as they had been 
 bought, to the university of Cambridge by the duchess 
 dowager, as soon as she understood (by the aforesaid Dr. 
 Mason} her husband's intention ; who had a purpose like- 25 
 wise, as I am well instructed, to raise in the said uni- 
 versity, whereof he was chancellor, a fair case for such 
 monuments, and to furnish it with other choice collections 
 from all parts of his own charge ; perchance in some emu- 
 lation of that famous treasury of knowledge at Oxford, 30 
 without parallel in the Christian world. ' Cf. Hor. Walpole's 
 Works, Land. 1798, 4to. I 241. MS. Baker xxxnr 213, 
 214: IT> June 1632, Latin letter from the university to the 
 duchess of Buckingham; thanks for the gift of oriental 
 MSS. and condolences on her husband's murder. Ibid. 35 
 214-5, no doubt sent with the above. English petition 
 from same to same, for the library of Erpenius. Ibid.
 
 ERPENIUS. EDM. CASTELL. 487 
 
 215, the duchess in reply. The MSS. are not yet in her 
 hand. Ibid. XLI 247 v is a latin speech to the senate on 
 its receiving the library. Mr. Bradshaw in Cambr. univ. 
 gazette, n. 13, 3 Mar. 1869, p. 101 : ' To this day the people 
 
 5 of Ley den cannot understand how the transaction was 
 managed ; they say that a large instalment of the purchase 
 money had been paid by the corporation, but yet that by 
 some means the manuscripts were never delivered, and 
 that they have reason to believe that some of them are 
 
 IO at Cambridge, and some perhaps elsewhere in England. 
 True it is that they are all here, and we know whose 
 liberality we have to thank for them; indeed, among 
 them are some of the most valuable books which the 
 university now possesses. ' 
 
 15 P. 159 n.*. Tom. I. p. 120. 
 
 P. 159 1. 26. Edm. Castelli notae. These are now 
 being examined by Mr. R. L. Bendy for Prof. Payne Smith's 
 lexicon. Edmund, a younger son of Rob. Castell esq. of 
 East Hatley, Cambs., was born there, matriculated as a 
 
 20 pensioner of Emm. 5 July 1621, B.A. 1624-5, M.A. 1628, 
 B.D. 1635, D.D. by mandate 1660 (Wood's Fasti n 83; 
 note on PococKs Life, ed. 1816, p.213; see the long list of 
 eminent men who had the same honour on the same day 
 5 Sept. 1660 in Kennetfs Reg. and Chron. 251). He gave 
 
 25 20 to Emm. chapel (MS. Baker vi f. 87 v<> = B 95 ; Blame- 
 field's Collectan. Cantabrig. 1 1 8, Cooper, Memorials of 
 Cambridge II 363). He was admitted fell. comm. of St. 
 John's 27 Oct. 1671, the master acting as his tutor and 
 surety. He held the livings of Hatfield Beverell or 
 
 30 Peverell, to which a successor was appointed on his re- 
 signation 1 6 Apr. 1638; of Wodeham Walter, to which a 
 successor was appointed on his resignation 15 Nov. 1670; 
 and lastly of Higham Gobeon, to which he was appointed 
 by Geo. vise. Grandison. (Kennett in Wood-Bliss, Ath. Ox. 
 
 35 in 883, who gives extracts from the bishop's registers; 
 Newcourt II 318, 685; Nichols, Liter. Anecd. iv 693, 
 where he occurs rector of Wodeham Walter I Mar. 1658-9;
 
 4 88 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 .installed into the gth prebend of Canterbury, 13 Nov. 1667, 
 the stall which Is. Casaubon had held (Le Neve-Hardy I 
 56). PococKs Life 214 n. : 'Together with the prebend, 
 the king gave him a dispensation of absence in order to 
 attend his arable lecture at Cambridge, where he became 5 
 the first settled arabic lecturer, by an instrument under 
 the hand of Sir Tho. Adams the founder, dated June 20, 
 1666, after a 13 years' vacancy of that lecture, which 
 during Mr. Wheelocke's life had been voluntary only. His 
 lectures were heard at first with great applause, but in 10 
 a few years were so much neglected, that being then easy, 
 and disposed to be pleasant, he put up this affix upon the 
 school-gates : Arabicae linguae professor eras ibit in de- 
 sertum.' See a paper signed by the heads of colleges, 
 9 May 1636, in which they thank Tho. Adams for his 15 
 design of founding the professorship in perpetuity ( Todd's 
 Life of Brian Walton I 236-7). Grace in MS. Baker xxv 
 248: ' 17 Apr. 1667. Cum rev. vir Dr. Castle, linguae 
 arabicae apud vos professor, lexico oriental! edendo in- 
 cumbens, Londini diutius manere necesse habeat, quo 20 
 minus praelectiones suas obire possit: Placeat vobis, ut 
 illud praelegendi munus bona vestra cum venia pro hoc 
 termino omittatur.' Bulstrode Whitlock has preserved an 
 order made at the grand committee for religion, 16 Jan. 
 1656-7, which produced no lasting result, owing to the 25 
 dissolution of the parliament (Memorials, p. 654, ed. 1732): 
 ' Ordered, that it be referred to a sub-committee to send 
 for and advise with Dr. Walton, .... Mr. Castell, Mr. 
 Clarke, . . . Dr. Cud-worth, and such others as they shall 
 think fit, and to consider of the translations and impress- 30 
 ions of the Bible, and to offer their opinions therein to 
 this committee; and that it be especially commended to 
 the lord commissioner Whitlock to take care of this busi- 
 ness. This committee often met at my house, and had 
 the most learned men in the oriental tongues to consult 35 
 with in this great business, and divers excellent and learned 
 observations of some mistakes in the translation of the
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 489 
 
 Bible in english ; which yet was agreed to be the best of 
 any translation in the world.' Leonard Twells to Zath. 
 Grey 26 Nov. 1734 (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. I 466), asking 
 for help in his life of Edw. Pocock: 'I shall be under a 
 
 5 necessity of mentioning Mr. Whelock, Dr. Castell, and Mr. 
 Thorndike.' Life of Pocock, Land. 1816, pp. 212-4.: 'The 
 first discouragement they [the editors of the Polyglott] met 
 with, was the death of Mr. Abraham Wheelocke {Sept. 
 1653], the professor of the arabic and saxon tongues in 
 
 10 the university of Cambridge, which happened just before 
 the first tome w^s committed to the press; so that they 
 had not the least use of him in that work ; his province 
 was, jointly with Mr. Castell, to correct the syriac and 
 arabic at the press, but his room was filled by Mr. Hyde." 1 
 
 15 P. 220: 'On the I2th of May 1658 Dr. Walton sent Mr. 
 Pocock the remaining parts of the Polyglott Bible, which 
 he had not before presented him withal, as also those 
 manuscripts and books which he had lent them, except 
 the Aethiopic Psalter, which Mr. Castell desired either to 
 
 2O buy or borrow. ' Pp. 224-5 : ' grafts' on the Polyglott, 
 viz. a 7th volume, and ' a lexicon to the oriental languages 
 of the Polyglott edition, known by the name of the Hep- 
 taglott lexicon, carried on chiefly by the very learned and 
 indefatigable Dr. Castell, and published by him several 
 
 25 years after. In both these learned designs Mr. PococKs 
 assistance was desired, and readily granted.' Ibid. 279- 
 280: 'This year [1669] was farther remarkable for the 
 publication of Dr. Casters lexicon in seven languages, 
 after ten years' immense labour : towards which Dr. Pocock 
 
 30 had contributed, by lending three aethiopic MSS. and ten 
 aethiopic MS. liturgies. We shall hear him hereafter 
 complaining how ill rewarded all his learned pains were, 
 which he had expended on this lexicon. I shall only add 
 that at the time of his death he had a large number of the 
 
 35 copies on his hands ; as appears from this circumstance, 
 that in his last will he bequeathed 100 sets of them to 
 Dr. Com f ton, then lord bishop of London.' Pp. 287-8:
 
 490 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 'From two of Mr. Bernard's letters this year [1671], I 
 find the professor was much urged by his friends to 
 publish his chiliads of arabic proverbs, which had lain 
 by him finished for the press between 30 and 40 years ; 
 the encouragement he had to proceed in it seemed at this 5 
 time not inconsiderable. Dr. Castell had promised to 
 secure a hundred books for Cambridge, and a still greater 
 proportion might be depended on in Oxford.' Pp. 290-2 : 
 'By several letters written from Dr. Castell, in March of 
 the next year [1672-3], I find that our professor intended 10 
 then an edition of his arabic chiliads of proverbs, and that 
 in order thereto he printed and dispersed a specimen of 
 the work. Dr. Castell earnestly pressed the perfecting of 
 that piece, and, to encourage it, frequently repeated his 
 promise of becoming responsible for 100 copies. From 15 
 one of his letters it appears also, that Dr. Pocock was then 
 thought to be preparing something of the Rabbi Tatuhum 
 and Maimonides's More Nebochim for the public . . . But 
 of all these Dr. Castell urged most the publication of the 
 arabic chiliads, as most grateful to all the truly learned, 20 
 offering to leave no stone unturned to effect the vending 
 of the edition: "Not," adds he, "of the proverbs only, 
 but as to the other Jewish authors also, having a very high 
 esteem and value for them, especially Rabbi Tanchum" 
 offering at the same time himself carefully to correct the 25 
 errata. The same learned arabic professor of Cambridge 
 was at this time labouring to purchase the Golian library 
 for his universityj a private person of his acquaintance 
 being willing to venture about 700 for it. But the ex- 
 ecutors hoping to make a more advantageous sale, refused 30 
 the offer, of which they dearly repented afterward, being 
 compelled more than 20 years after to sell them by 
 auction, and probably to less advantage; at which time 
 Dr. Edward Bernard made a journey into Holland, and 
 bought the choicest of them for Dr. Narcissus Marsh, 35 
 then archbishop of Dublin. ' P. 309 : ' In July of this 
 year [1675] our author received from Dr. Castell his
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 491 
 
 thanks and compliments for the present of our english 
 liturgy, most elegantly transfused, as he expresses himself, 
 into arabic. The reader will pardon me for observing on 
 this occasion, that this very learned gentleman, by con- 
 
 5 versing almost constantly with the eastern writers, seems 
 to have made their lofty ways of expression habitual to 
 him, so as not to have been able to forbear them, even 
 in his epistolary style.' John Whiston in Nichols, Liter. 
 Anted. I 506 : ' Dr. CastelFs library was purchased by 
 
 10 Mr. Hollings of Shrewsbury ; whose grandson, counsellor 
 Hollings, sold most of it to me. ' Nichols ibid. IV 28-9 : 
 ' I have the original receipt of Dr. Wm. Saywell, vice- 
 chancellor of the university of Cambridge, dated April 7, 
 1686, for 38 MSS. in hebrew, arabic, ethiopic, Coptic, to 
 
 15 each of which the effigies of Dr. Castell was affixed, or his 
 name inscribed : all which were given to the university by 
 the doctor's last will ; with an undertaking from the vice- 
 chancellor to Mrs. Mary Crisp, sole executrix, to redeliver 
 the same, in case the university should not think fit to 
 
 20 give such security as would indemnify her against debts 
 which the personal estate might not be sufficient to satisfy ; 
 a similar receipt from Dr. John Balderston, master of 
 Emmanuel college, for in printed hebrew books; 
 another from Dr. Humphrey Cower, master of St. Johris 
 
 25 college, for a silver tankard, weighing 26 ounces, value 7/. ; 
 and an express bond to the same purpose from Dr. 
 Henry Compton, bishop of London, for 2O/. the sum ap- 
 praised by Robert Scott and Robert Littlebury, as the value 
 of "all Dr. CastelFs Bibles, and other oriental parts of 
 
 30 holy Scripture, (30 folio volumes, amongst which was the 
 Polyglott Bible, the interlineary Bible of Arias Montanus, 
 those of Buxtorf, David Wolder, Castalio, Vatablus, 
 Luther's dutch Bible, the Antwerplztin Bible 1542, Spanish, 
 Italian and french Bibles, Munster Bible, TindaFs english 
 
 35 translation, WheelocVs persian Gospels, Bezds New Testa- 
 ment 1582, etc. etc. 8 quartos, hungarian and polonian 
 Bibles, Marshall's greek and saxon Gospels, saxon Psalter,
 
 492 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 the roman Psalter in arabic, Ulfilas's Gospels, an old latin 
 Bible in MS., an arabic MS. etc. and 14 octavos, a turkish 
 and an ethiopic New Testament, ethiopic, russian, arme- 
 nian, and nubian Psalters, Erpenius's Pentateuch, with the 
 Prophets, in MS.; the Catholic Epistle of St. John, an 5 
 arabic MS. etc. etc. ) and 66/. 6s. &/. more, as the value of 
 " 100 copies of his Heptaglott Lexicon;" all which were 
 bequeathed to the bishop by Dr. CasteWs will. March 6, 
 1685-6, valued and appraised what books are given to my 
 lord of London (including 100 Lexicons compleat, 2 vols. ) 10 
 at 2427. ioj. Per me, EDWARD MILLINGTON." Richard 
 Ecclestone, by the order of the bishop of London, signed 
 a receipt "for 100 perfect copies of the Lexicon; and for 
 Bibles and other oriental parts of holy Scripture, in number 
 52."' The rest of his books were sold by auction at the 15 
 Eagle and Child, opposite St. Bene'fs, Cambridge, 30 June 
 1686, by Edw. Millington (a copy of the catalogue, with 
 prices marked in some cases, is in the library of St. John's). 
 23 of his letters to Sam. Clarke were sold among Dawson 
 Turner's MSS. art. 102. Some are transcribed in MS. 20 
 Baker xxxvi from Hearne's collection. E. Castell to Sam. 
 Clarke, 2 Dec. 1658 (p. 3 53): requests a final answer whether 
 he will, with Huish, join in the lexicon. Bedwelfs MS. 
 received some time since [by a grace, 25 June 1658, Bed- 
 well's lexicon had been lent to Castell on a bond for 1000, 25 
 Grace Book H p. 179; on I Mar. 1658-9 he gives a bond 
 of ,2000 to secure Clarke, Nichols, Lit. Anecd. IV 693], 
 ' Resolve we now must instantly either to go on with it, 
 or wholy to cast it off.' No date (pp. 349, 350). Petition 
 of Edm. Castell, Al. Huish and Sam. Clarke to the lord 30 
 protector, desiring the same protection for their projected 
 lexicon, as the promoters of the Polyglott and Critici sacri 
 have enjoyed [communicated by Baker to Twells, and by 
 him printed in Edw. Pocock's Life, Land. 1816, pp. 209, 
 210]. Castell to Clarke,,2 Mar. 1659-60 (p. 350): Roycroft 35 
 will shortly send for Clarke's nephew. Recommends ' Mr. 
 Holder's son, a Charterhouse schollar, .... invincibly ad-
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 493 
 
 dieted to a studious life, for a sizarship.' Same to same, 
 20 Jan. 1662-3 (P-348): Hopes shortly to get up into his 
 working room again, having been for nearly two months 
 kept to his bed by the luxation of his thigh. Has in his 
 
 5 will made over the materials of his lexicon to Clarke, who 
 had offered to complete it. Has been unable to procure 
 for Pocock a good account of the late grand seignior's death. 
 Desires 3 or 4 copies of Abulpharagius in quires. Same 
 to same, 17 July 1667 (pp. 347-8): Mr. Denham sends a 
 
 IO MS. and letter for Dr. Pocock. Dr. Busby desires Clarke's 
 and PococKs emendation of hebrew, chaldee, arabic etc. 
 papers. Same to same, 23 Dec. 1669 (p. 349): Bp. John 
 Fell of Oxford promised to write to the v. c. that every 
 college at least may ' take off one of my lexicons. Hard 
 
 15 usage after above 12,000 expens, upon such a work, 
 and so many disasters I have encountred in it, my copies 
 should now all ly upon my hands.' Dr. Heilin never a 
 subscriber. Cannot sell first parts of the Heptaglot with- 
 out the second. Same to same, 1673 (Nichols, Liter. 
 
 2O Anecd. IV 694-5), returning PococKs three aethiopic MSS. 
 Same to same, St. John's college, June 1673 (ibid. 695): 
 has received Jo. Milner's Coniectanea, ' truly a most ex- 
 cellent essay . . . Mr. Milner honours me too much in 
 mentioning my contemned name in his learned and ela- 
 
 25 borat work . . . The number (you may believe me) is very 
 small here in the university, that at all regard this kind 
 of literature; I feel it to my cost, if God be not better 
 to me than man, to my utter mine and of my family. . . . 
 If he \Rob. Hitch, dean of York] could help me off with 
 
 30 any more of my copies (of which I have at least a thousand 
 still) it would be a very unparallel'd favour, for now I 
 find none that regard the work or author, of those that 
 once fed me with better promises.' Towards the end of 
 his life his fortunes mended as he purchased a small estate 
 
 35 at Hexton, Herts, 19 Dec. 1684, for ^300 (Nichols, Liter. 
 Anecd. IV 695-6). Brian Walton to Jo. Lightfoot, 2 Jan. 
 1653-4 (Lightfoofs Works, ed. Pitman XIII 348 from MS.
 
 494 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 Lansd. 1055): 'The Samaritan copy which we follow is 
 that of the Paris Bible; .and though we have divers MSS. 
 of the Samaritan text which are made use of, yet I cannot 
 yet light on any other Samaritan version. I believe you 
 may find instances in them which may be liable to question, 5 
 and so does Mr. Castell in his copies ; but our resolution 
 is to vary as little as may be from the printed copies, 
 unless in palpable typographical errors (of which there 
 are great store in all the language of the Paris Bibles); 
 and as for other things, to take notice of them, and to 10 
 give account once for all .... Mr. Castell hath gone over 
 most of Genesis already. Same to same, 23 Febr. 1653-4 
 (ibid. 349): ' Mr. Castell presents his best respects to you.' 
 Same to same, 24 Apr. 1654 (ibid, 350-1): 'I thought 
 fit to send you another alphabet of the Bible, which you 15 
 shall however review, and withal to desire that you would 
 send up, as soon as you can, the book of Numbers, with 
 your notes thereupon, or as far as you have gone, because 
 Mr. Castell will shortly read it ; for the workmen will this 
 week be out of Exodus, and Leviticus will hardly hold 20 
 them a month. And Mr. Castell would gladly have yours 
 returned some time before they begin in Numbers. They 
 print near seven sheets a week. . . I have advised with 
 Mr. Castell and others about your manner of translating. . . 
 Gen. I 2 ... Mr. Castell remembers his service to you.' 25 
 Same to same, \^Junt 1654 (ibid. 351): 'humble and 
 hearty thanks from Mr. Castell and myself.' Same to 
 same, 24 Jan. 1654-5 (ibid. 353): 'Mr. Castell told me of 
 your intention to draw up something about the Samaritan 
 version, to be published with the rest; which I am glad 30 
 you have taken into your thoughts.' Same to same, 
 23 Oct. 1655 (ibid. 356): 'We are now entered upon the 
 prophets, and should be glad if you would accommodate 
 us with the "syriac copy of the prophets in the public 
 library, for which Mr. Castell will join with me in what 35 
 sum you shall appoint.' On the 7th Now. 1655 (ibid. 357) 
 Walton acknowledges the receipt of this MS. Same to
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 495 
 
 same, \Nov. 1657 (ibid. 363): 'Mr. Castell and Mr. Clarke 
 remember their service to you. ' Edm. Castell to Lightfoot, 
 Dunsmore house, 2 Dec. 1657 (ibid. 387-8), sending a 
 specimen of his lexicon : ' Without your cognizance and 
 
 5 approbation in a work of this nature I would not willingly 
 engage. For above the moiety of those years I have lived 
 to, I must confess, I have at times been meditating and 
 doing somewhat in tendency to such a work. Providence 
 has now, with the assistance of so able and excellent a 
 
 IO coadjutor as Mr. Clarke, singularly and indeed eminently 
 experienced in the same studies, made some overture for 
 the production of what we have both for not a few years 
 been in travail with, but, sir, not without your obstetricant 
 hand, which we therefore submit to your arbitrement, ac- 
 
 15 cording as you shall think fit, either to stifle or give it 
 life. If you shall choose the latter, our earnest and joint 
 suit to you then is, you will do us the favour to signify 
 what you find corrigible or changeable in the whole 
 platform. ' Same to same, no date, but evidently next in 
 
 20 order (ibid. 368-371): ' Your approbation only of what we 
 presumed to communicate to you, was the highest pitch 
 our ambition durst aspire unto; but, sir, you have given 
 both us and it your applause; a sufficient salve against 
 all the fastenings and morsures of those Theonine teeth we 
 
 25 must expect : and this you have done with such ample 
 abounding encomiums, as not to acknowledge your singular 
 respect and favour to us in them, would be the worst of 
 ingratitude; so to believe any such merit in ourselves, 
 would be as inexcusable and unpardonable arrogance . . . 
 
 30 We have, most worthy sir, since my last to you, by some 
 great masters of words and languages, been induced to 
 make some alteration in our first intendments, having 
 persuaded us to take into ours all the arabic words in 
 Colitis's lexicon ; without which (they conceived) it would 
 
 35 not be perfectly useful for that tongue, amongst all the 
 oriental the most copious and principal, and for assoiling 
 the difficulties in the hebrew, confessedly, by the grandest
 
 496 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 rabbles, of most avail. The doing this arising to a very 
 great augmentation of sheets, far above what we proposed 
 or promised, forced thereupon we were to enhance the 
 price from forty to fifty shillings, but at two several pay- 
 ments, as in the enclosed paper you will find; which to 5 
 as many as we have yet imparted it, gives a very good 
 resentment: we trust it will likewise do so to you; else 
 for my part, I shall really wish not done our change. 
 But if what you read please, suffer us then, I beseech you, 
 to request this favour at your hands, that both in your 10 
 college, to the fellows and students there, so far as you 
 shall judge it convenient, and elsewhere, within the line 
 of your interest, not of small extent (as, by the means and 
 letter of Dr. Reynolds, Mr. vice-chancellor of Oxford hath 
 done it in that university), you will be pleased to honour 15 
 and encourage our labours, and alleviate by subscriptions 
 that great and vast charge we must necessarily undergo, 
 in promoving what in you lieth, both among the learned 
 nation, and the favourers of it, this engaged work of ours, 
 by your favourable recommendation of it, no otherwise 20 
 than as your own judgement shall suggest to you the use- 
 fulness of it is like to prove, not for the biblical versions 
 only, but for all other authors in any of the seven lan- 
 guages, in which many hundreds (I may say more, some 
 thousands) of words, never yet extant in any printed 25 
 lexicon, will be found, many with reference both to the 
 authors and places in them. It is not indeed for a letter, 
 but a large preface, to lay this forth duly in all the parti- 
 culars of it.' Same to same, no date (ibid. 370-1), asking 
 advice respecting ' sundry other pieces homogeneous to 30 
 this biblical work ... by several hands recommended to 
 us' to employ the presses used about the Bible. Sam. 
 Clarke\.Q same, Dunsmore house 1 8 June 1658 (ibid. 401-2): 
 hopes that his promotion (to the offices of superior beadle 
 of law and architypographus at Oxford] may not hinder 35 
 the work which he has undertaken with Castell, who 
 'Bedwelli lexici vestigia premit.' Same to same, Merton
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 497 
 
 coll. 3 Nov. 1659 (ibid. 403-4): Dr. [Brian] Walton ap- 
 proves my proposal of editing the Targum on Chronicles 
 [cf. ibid. 476-7], but does not think subscriptions will aid 
 the sale, 'prout id D. Castellus in suo lexico edendo ex- 
 
 5 pertus est, qui tamen imperterritus pergit, ac illud ad 
 finem perducere proposuit, quamvis omnia sua in eo 
 excudendo consumere cogeretur.' I give you an account 
 of my engagements, 'ut liqueat me a D. Castetto non 
 secessisse, ut proposito nostro remoram obicerem, sed ea 
 
 10 secessione] opus felicius procedere, quam eo tempore cum 
 coniunctis operis earn promovebamus. ' Kennett, Reg. and 
 Chron. 493, from MS. minutes, 10 July 1661 : ' in inferior! 
 domo convocat. Post preces finitas lecta est petitio Doc- 
 toris Castell, et subscriptio facta per nonnullos.' Castell 
 
 15 to Lightfoot, 22 Febr. 1663-4 (Lightfoot as above, 366-7): 
 ' Reverend and ever honoured sir, I this day received by 
 your nephew your very kind letter, full stored with en- 
 couraging expressions to a much-dejected spirit ; together 
 with 4/. for one copy of the Heptaglot Lexicon, and 2s. for 
 
 20 the stitching it up. Truly, sir, I am even heartily ashamed 
 I did not prevent you with the free tender of it, which 
 was really in my thoughts to have done, had I not been 
 traversed with so many sad disasters. Two partners I 
 had at the first, to share with me in the charge and labour 
 
 25 of that I am yet upon, who were both taken off by other 
 offers. After them the printer for some years was joined 
 with me, who knew divers ways how to lessen the expense. 
 But at length, seeing no hopes at all of any gain, he like- 
 wise, after no small trouble and loss of time, renounced 
 
 30 his partnership. Another able person, that fully promised 
 me his assistance in the same way, was discapacitated by 
 an extraordinary loss that befel him. Thus destitute and 
 forsaken I am by all ; though called to this unhappy de- 
 structive undertaking by letters and promises from the 
 
 35 very highest persons both in church and commonwealth; 
 to what little effect I am afraid to write. May I only add 
 this without offence? a debt of near iooo/. I have already
 
 498 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 contracted, upon the account of this work ; for which also 
 I have now lately sold an estate in land, to the value of 
 above ioo/. per annum, which will be all, and more than 
 that comes to, exhausted by this consumptive undertaking. 
 Sir, it was this insupportable burden, under which I yet 5 
 sadly groan, that pressed down my willing hand, ready to 
 have reached forth itself in an humble proffer to you, 
 whose worth and works, so transcendant to the vulgar 
 way of writing, all the learned world doth and ought 
 highly to esteem; and in this work now upon me, I have 10 
 and shall (as does become me) sundry times with honour 
 mentioned, by whom and which, I must confess, I have 
 profited not a little. And if it shall please God to prolong 
 my days, any time after this sore labour finished, it will 
 be, next to heaven, a very grand happiness to me here, 15 
 the voisinage of your Munden to my Higham, whereby we 
 may have the intercourse of some good society. Sir, I crave 
 your acceptance of a small present put up in your bundle, 
 an ethiopic lexicon, confession, and corollary to their 
 liturgy, which I was at the charge to print, being sent 20 
 me by the author; which, with my humble service to 
 you, and hearty prayers for your continued and encreased 
 welfare and prosperity, that you may live long to build 
 and bless the church of God with your excellent and most 
 learned labours, shall conclude me alway, sir, your very 25 
 real and redevable servant, EDMUND CASTELL. I am 
 now upon my remove to Sion college, where I hope to 
 be fully settled within a week or two.' Same to same, 
 14 Mar. 1663-4 (ibid. 367-8): 'Reverend and ever right 
 dearly honoured sir, Your most affectionate and friendly 30 
 letter I could not read, without a sympathy suitable to 
 what I there found, eyes impregnant with tears; that in 
 these three kingdoms there should be one found ( for 
 such a second has never yet appeared to me) who has 
 manifested such a sentiment of my ruined and undone 35 
 condition. I must only except my honourable and most 
 singular good lord the bishop of Exon \Seth Ward], who
 
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 {considering the smallness of his diocese) has done very 
 strange and incredible things in procuring me about four- 
 score subscribers, since the printing of the last papers, 
 which is above threescore more than all the three king- 
 
 5 doms besides have done. Sir, I doubly thank you for 
 obtaining me Sir Thomas Brograve's subscription, the 
 great eminency and voisinage of so noble a person to your 
 Munden and my Higham, signified by your letter, besides 
 the benefit that accrues by the addition of his noble and 
 
 10 worthy name. Would there come in but a sufficient 
 number of subscribers, after the exhausture of above loo/, 
 lands per annum, sold to carry on this work, to pay my 
 debts, and perfectly to accomplish the same, it would be 
 a great joy and satisfaction to me. Sir, I have sent the 
 
 15 volume according to your direction, craving the continu- 
 ance of your prayers (wherein to my power I reciprocate), 
 I take my leave in the quality of, sir, your very redevable 
 and really devoted servant, E. CASTELL.' Same to same, 
 Sion college, 16 Aug. 1664 (ibid. 371-3): 'That real sym- 
 
 20 pathy I read in your so favourable and most affectionate 
 lines, and that free and noble bounty I experience in your 
 munificent and generous actions, is no small encourage- 
 ment to me in my deserted and despised condition ; only 
 because this luxuriant age is, and will be, ignorant of this 
 
 25 necessary part of theological knowledge. Yet, had I not 
 been called by the highest powers, with promise of assist- 
 ance and support, to this ruinating and destructive under- 
 taking, there had been less cause of my expecting any 
 thing from them : but instead of being aided by them, to 
 
 30 be exprobrated with a scornful cui bono ? as if all my 
 twelve years' hard labour was but for the wind, this is the 
 very worst and bitterest pill to swallow, they could have 
 given me. But the truth is, one Dr. Lightfoot is more to 
 me than ten thousand such censors. Besides some few 
 
 35 others amongst ourselves. I have a Golius, a Buxtorf, a 
 Hottinger, a Ludolfo, etc. in foreign parts ; that, both by 
 their letters and in print, have not only sufficiently, but
 
 500 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 too amply and abundantly for me to communicate, ex- 
 pressed their over-high esteem of that, which finds but 
 a prophet's reward here in its own country. Reverend 
 and most noble sir, you have laid an unutterable obliga- 
 tion upon me by the gift of this learned and much longed- 5 
 for work you have now published; and very highly 
 honoured me, and enriched my poor library with an ad- 
 dition so excellent and delightful that truly, when I first 
 received it, I could not contain myself from reading it 
 quite through, notwithstanding the importunacy of my 10 
 public engagement, and the clamour of all the workmen, 
 correctors, compositors, pressmen, etc. to all whom I 
 turned a deaf ear, till I had satisfied my eye with the 
 entire perusal of it. This one thing alone troubles me I 
 have nothing as yet to retaliate; but, sir, you shall find 15 
 I will not bury your favour and bounty in the sand. All 
 your extant works I keep continually obversant before my . 
 eyes, which will not suffer me to be forgetful of the author. 
 Renowned sir, I made bold to beautify and embellish this 
 worthless contemned work I am upon, with the oriental 20 
 lustre of your eminent and deservedly most famigerous 
 name: for which presumption I intended to crave your 
 pardon, and behold ! I am prevented, not with your ab- 
 solution only, but with a grateful acceptance. Sir, I will 
 never be ashamed to confess by whom I have profited. 25 
 All that would understand that clear light, together with 
 the mysterious hidden use and benefit, which the most 
 ancient records of the Jeius bring unto holy writ, must 
 confess themselves, above all others, deeply indebted to 
 your elaborate and incomparable writings, who have fetched 30 
 more out of these profound and rich mines, than any of 
 the best seers in this or the precedent ages, have been 
 able to discover. There is but one, that famous professor 
 at Basil, venerable Dr. Buxtorf, that has done any thing 
 like you, who in almost all his letters to me, fails not 35 
 to mention your name.' Same to same, Sion college, 
 22 Sept. 1664 (ibid. 373-4): 'Since my last to you, and
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 501 
 
 the passage I inserted out of one of professor Buxtorf's 
 letters to me, I had brought me the last week the sad 
 tidings of his sudden death, about the beginning of this 
 instant. Some friends and relations of his have not a 
 
 5 little importuned me for a few verses in some one or other 
 of our languages. I had an only brother died just at the 
 same time : my great unmerciful work would neither suffer 
 me to be present at his death or burial; and which is 
 much worse, he has devolved a most immense burden of 
 
 IO all his debts and encumbrances, very great and intricate, 
 upon me. Yet if possible, I am willing to do something, 
 though far short of the merit of so eminent and illustrious 
 a person; but I durst make no promise of this, in the 
 least measure. Sir, if your occasions would conveniently 
 
 15 permit you to pen some few in hebrew, or latin, or any 
 other language, it would strongly induce me, in some one 
 that you omit, to add likewise a few of my effete muse, 
 which, to a kindly birth, requires always secessum scri- 
 bentis et otia.' Same to same, Sion college, 15 Nov. 1664 
 
 20 (ibid. 374-6): 'Next to the divine, I meet with no lines 
 like yours, that so sweetly refresh and delight my soul, 
 when quite wearied with labour and unreleased cares, 
 which very scarcely, from any other, find either pity or 
 resentment. At the mere sight of your letter, before ever 
 
 25 I open it, cor mihi rite salit, when I come within to view 
 it, every word I read seems to me to proceed rather from 
 your breast than from your brain. . . . Only, sir, one 
 thing in all your writings I receive, does really shame me, 
 that you so much extol him whom others everywhere 
 
 30 avile, and whose own conscience tells him he is altogether 
 unworthy to bear your books after you . . . Truly, sir, 
 I am even heartily abashed that my rude abortive verses, 
 who was myself born iratis Musis, should appear within 
 the same leaves with the reverend Dr. Lightfoofs most 
 
 35 unparalleled heroical strains ; for verily, sir, I speak it in 
 the truth of my heart, I have never yet met with any 
 epicedium in all my life, that hath so pleasingly affected 
 
 LL
 
 502 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 me . . . Sir, though I perish, it comforts me not a little 
 to see how holy writ flourishes.' He then gives a list of 
 armenian, turkish, gothic, lithuanian, and other versions 
 in the press. Same to same, 13 June 1666 (ibid. 376-7): 
 ' Sir, I thank you for the civilities you shewed me when I 5 
 was last with you, which I then well hoped would not have 
 been the last ; but the contagious dismal condition of the 
 season, and some disastrous accidents which befel me, 
 would not suffer me to enjoy the overtures I then pro- 
 posed of my most hearty and impetuous desires. I hope, 10 
 if I outlive this work, to me very destructive leisure and 
 convenience will both be then more propitious to me. 
 Sir, Mr. Paget, one of your fellows, was with me on 
 Monday last, and signified to me your great favour in 
 accommodating me at your lodgings, when I went down 15 
 to commence the arabic lecture. I intend upon Saturday 
 next come se'nnight, the 23d instant, to take my journey 
 for it. In regard of the sickness breaking out again in 
 Cambridge, it will double your kindness to me, to have so 
 commodious and secure a place. My purpose is, to go 20 
 down in the running coach; else I could not have con- 
 tained myself from a turn to Munden. Young professor 
 Buxtorf, who has been here this fortnight or more, pre- 
 sents his humble service to you. A lodging is procured 
 him not far from Sion college ; the next day he came to 25 
 town, we were told you also was come hither. Oh, how 
 joyfully did we then both go to enquire for you ! but, 
 after all enquiries, could find no more of truth, but that 
 your son had been in town very lately. He hath a most 
 passionate desire (as I also have) to see you.' In this 30 
 letter his wife is mentioned for the first time. Same to 
 same, Sion college, 22 June 1666 (ibid. 378): 'Sir, I am 
 in a very great dubitation what is fittest for me to do ; the 
 measure to steer my cynosure by must be Sir Thomas 
 Adams, what he will desire of me. The interest of the 35 
 university, after above a twelvemonths' delay in this fffair, 
 will indubitably require me to speed without any demur
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 503 
 
 the indication of the lecture; unto which as I am of 
 myself very prepense, so I find some others also forward 
 to add unto the bent of that resolution, which, until it be 
 late this night, cannot have its plenary determination.' 
 
 5 Same to same, Sion college, 20 July 1666 (ibid. 379) : 
 ' That my gratitude hath been so slow paced in its return 
 for so noble a favour as the comfortable and convenient 
 accommodation of your lodgings, let there not, I beseech 
 you, be thereupon created any unkind suspect; just as 
 
 10 I have been putting pen to paper, I have been sundry 
 times unhappily diverted. Chiefly by this business which 
 occasioned my going to Cambridge, it cannot be imagined 
 how great a trouble it has put me to in running to, and 
 waiting upon so many offices, overburdened with so great 
 
 1 5 a work as daily oppresses me. The king's hand, and Sir 
 Thomas Adams's seals to all his writings, were obtained 
 and effected (which was in sum the settlement) before my 
 going down. Since, I had only the broad seal to procure; 
 but with how great difficulty and delayed protractions ! 
 
 20 almost whole days lost in little better than fruitless at- 
 tendances, for it is not yet done. . . . Not a little troubled 
 I was I should be just gone that very morning you came 
 to London : but hackney coaches make stay for none ; and 
 had I not taken that day, I could not have begun the 
 
 25 lecture till Michaelmas, and my journey would have been 
 quite lost ; which delay, after so great endeavours, would 
 have been no small dissatisfaction to Sir 7^homas Adams, 
 who hath all along so greatly laboured for a more speedy 
 accomplishment of this affair.' Castell to Lightfoot, from 
 
 30 Mr. Roycroffs, a printer, in St. Bartholomew's close, 8 July 
 1667 (ibid. 380-2), introducing the younger Buxtorf, ' come 
 out of a far country to sit at your feet. ' Last week I sent 
 copies of my speech at the opening of the arabic lecture 
 for you and for each of the fellows of the college. You 
 
 35 will forgive my lodging last time in the town, ' and not 
 in the college, where you had taken so much care for my 
 good reception . . . Sir, my humble request now is, that
 
 504 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 seeing I must (cum bono Deo) be at Cambridge again next 
 term, and intend to have my wife and a servant also there 
 with me (not aged only, and much decayed with this de- 
 structive work, very heavily still incumbent on me, but so 
 often limb-battered and bruised and broken as I have 5 
 been, I dare not adventure myself in the winter time, 
 without some careful help); my wife and servant I would 
 willingly should continue there at Cambridge till about 
 Lady-day, that so the term after (if God give me life and 
 leave) I may again, when I go down thither, have their 10 
 help ; before which time I hope this tedious work will be 
 completely finished. My request is, I may clearly under- 
 stand whether it may be no ways incommodious to your 
 own occasions, nor incongruous to the rights of the college, 
 to borrow one room only in your lodgings, which can be 15 
 best spared for so long a time ; linen, bed-clothes, and all 
 other necessaries, wherever I am, I purpose to send .down. 
 . . . Sir, could I be yet once emancipated out of this cruel 
 slavery, under which I have for fifteen years together been 
 a very unknown sufferer, I know no man under heaven 20 
 whose vicinity would make my life more patiently tolerated 
 (it is for me to speak or dream of comforts here) than to 
 be near one that has in him so much of heaven as you 
 have (heaven the only thing I look and long for), and 
 that I may, whilst here, attest and approve myself with 25 
 clearest demonstrations, sir, your ever most faithfully 
 avowed servant.' Same to same, $Aug. 1667 (ibid. 382-4): 
 ' Sir, since my last to you, I have encountered with many 
 counter-buffs of infelicities : first, in my great work, which 
 I was promised should be carried on at the press with 30 
 such diligence and speed, that I well hoped about Michael- 
 mas term it would have been nigh or wholly finished. 
 Now I have been waiting here almost five months, and 
 but one sheet yet printed, who was told before I came 
 up, I should have four or five sheets printed weekly. By 35 
 this means I shall be forced to make it a full winter work, 
 having now lost all the best part of the year. The blame
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 505 
 
 for which was wholly in the printer, till about a month 
 since, in which time I have run through much trouble 
 and charge, by being bound for my elder and only brother, 
 and for a debt which he paid sundry years before his 
 
 5 death, but took not up the defeasance of a judgement he 
 had before acknowledged. I was willing to have paid 
 the debt 25O/. over again, in case the party would have 
 staid till my work was done, or that I was able; which 
 she would not; but just after the ships were fired at 
 
 10 Chatham, she commanded me to be arrested, and cast 
 into prison, a time when the greatest bankers and gold- 
 smiths in London would not pay to any the least mite 
 of principal or interest. By this disaster, I have been 
 since the nth of last month impeded: no sooner at some 
 
 15 liberty, but I made known immediately my adverse con- 
 dition to the highest of ecclesiastical power, without com- 
 passion or relief. Sir, these sad traverses of Providence 
 compel me to alter my intended purpose of wintering my 
 family, I mean a small part only, and mostwhat myself 
 
 20 (with your favourable concession most freely granted, for 
 which I can never enough express myself sufficiently 
 thankful) at your most delighted-in Catharine-hall, where, 
 could I have enjoyed your most beatific society, no paradise 
 under heaven would more have sweetened the extremity 
 
 25 of those sorrows and labours I have, now fifteen years 
 together, sustained in the tormenting purgatory of this 
 cruel undertaking, with which I am still oppressed, and 
 in which I have buried above one hundred and forty 
 pounds land of inheritance, per annum, besides consider- 
 
 30 able sums of money I had before-hand when I began the 
 work, and am now by it cast into very huge and vast 
 debts : all which signified (and that not seldom) to those 
 above, hath not yet obtained me to the value of five 
 shillings per annum. Sir Thomas Adams's foundation 
 
 35 and gift was upon no account of theirs. I comfort myself 
 with this, I have in heaven a better Master, and upon 
 earth so reverend, noble, and most happy a Maecenas as
 
 506 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 your honoured self. The bountiful, generous, and most 
 free proffers you have so kindly made me of your lodgings, 
 is one of the chiefest inducements to make my life here 
 desirable to me; which I cannot but often reflect upon 
 with much comfort . . . Sir, my gratitude, service, and 5 
 most sincere affection are all so deeply obliged unto your 
 excellent goodness, it is impossible but die I must in a 
 greater and more grievous debt to you, than to any or all 
 those pecuniary creditors to whom I am so deeply engaged, 
 who I hope may all in time receive their just satisfaction, 10 
 which as I now, and shall ever acknowledge, cannot be 
 given to you.' Same to same, 20 Aug. 1667 (ibid. 385-7): 
 ' Most precious and dear sir, I cannot often enough champ 
 and ruminate upon those rich cordials, I lay continually 
 before my eyes; your letter is indeed semper ante oculos: 15 
 I cannot suffer it to be out of my sight ; so replenished it 
 is with soul-cheering and supporting encouragements, 
 enough to turn the prison and dungeon I was in, into 
 a most delightful paradise. When in that dark vault, 
 I well hoped that my misery was at the lowest ; yet it 20 
 pleases the wisdom of my greatest sovereign Master to 
 exercise me with superadditions to my former sorrows. 
 After seven foreigners, and as many englishmen, whom at 
 a very great rate I had salaried to be assistant to my work, 
 all which, but one, above a year since, are dead or gone 25 
 away ; that one, the most faithful and diligent, trained up 
 by me to some good skill in all the languages, in the very 
 flower of his age (about his thirtieth year), since my last 
 to you, was suddenly cropt by the hand of death, so as 
 I have not so much as one collaborator now left to act 30 
 with me. And instead of his help, promised me gratis, 
 in regard of some considerable kindnesses I had done him, 
 a great deal of trouble and care is already fallen upon me, 
 by the mean condition in which he died. A city minister, 
 he was burnt out of his living; my wife took his child 35 
 into the country which puts me still to a further loss. 
 Nor find I that his condition, though very well known to
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 507 
 
 those above, no more than mine, is any whit regretted by 
 those that have the greatest power in their hands, whose 
 hearts I beseech God to open. This is the true cause 
 I made no sooner return to your last : this accident in the 
 
 5 interim intervening. . . Dr. Buxtorf did, in his lifetime, 
 send me a collection of chaldee and rabbinic words, which 
 he had more lately taken notice of; whom I promised (as 
 I did divers others of the like quality with him), that the 
 first letters of their names should be affixed to every word 
 
 10 they sent me, and some farther mention made of them in 
 the preface to my work. My caballistic and rabbinic books 
 (excepting what I lost by the fire), are most at Higham 
 Gobion, fourteen miles from you, where my wife is, and 
 will make both Sir Thomas [Brograve] and your honoured 
 
 15 self most heartily welcome, if you would be pleased to 
 grace her with a visit. My study door shall stand wide 
 open to give you entrance, and every book you there find, 
 most truly at the service of you both; take them and 
 use them at your pleasure. A good quantity I have at 
 
 20 the Charter-house, but could never yet get any time to 
 catalogue them: some very choice books there are, but 
 lie all in confused heaps. But the greatest part of my 
 library is in Essex, to which I have been a long stranger... 
 Sir, neither your reverend worthy self, nor your venerable 
 
 25 society, shall have no cause to chide me for balking 
 Catharine-hall, when I go next to Cambridge. With 
 your good leave, I fully purpose to make bold with your 
 lodgings, where my time must be short : the presses will 
 groan for me, as I shall for your most ambitiously coveted 
 
 30 presence, whilst I shall be under your roof, if possibly 
 such a felicity might be attained. ' Same to same, 8 Jan. 
 1667-8 (ibid. 388-9) : ' After many dismal and most disas- 
 trous and intervening letts and obstructions, which have too 
 long kept me off from my intended journey to Cambridge, 
 
 35 I am now fully resolved, avv ey, to be there upon the 
 i6th instant, viz. Thursday next week, but myself only 
 and a servant. Our journey to Canterbury in November
 
 5o8 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 last (upon occasion of a prebendary befalling me), hath 
 so wearied out my wife, she takes no pleasure to think 
 of travelling any more this winter. My tarriance there 
 I intend to make about a fortnight, that I may read at 
 least two, and if I can three, lectures before my return, 5 
 and then so fall amain, with all possible speed and dili- 
 gence, upon my printing work again, which I hope, if my 
 printer hinder not, half a year's time will completely finish. 
 Sir, it cannot be expressed how happy I should account 
 myself, if your occasions would contemporize, that we 10 
 might both meet at the same time in your Catharine-hall. 
 I dare not think of taking any other lodging, were I as- 
 saulted with never so vehement importunities. Sir, the 
 date of my bonds and imprisonment is, I trust, now upon 
 expiring, and the hope of liberty once more begins to dawn 15' 
 upon me ; in which comfort I am sure your experienced 
 goodness will most really share with me, as your sympathy 
 was above others most cordial in my sufferings ; whereby 
 you have very deeply and indelibly obliged my heart to 
 a co-affection with your honoured self, in whatever con- 20 
 dition does betide you, unto an answerable likeness and 
 equality. And truly, if what I have at Canterbury, had 
 befallen me at Ely, though to a less value, I would have 
 apprized, and congratulated my felicity, as incomparably 
 much greater. 'Same to same, 14 Jan. 1667-8 (ibid. 389, 25 
 390) : ' Your most civil, favourable, and elegant excuse 
 you make in your kind letter, would justly deserve I 
 should freely present you with this first volume of the 
 lexicon ; I much deceive myself, if not the hardest labour 
 ever the english presses (to add no more) have in so little 30 
 a time groaned with. God grant that it may be but so 
 profitable to the public, as it hath been to me at once 
 most difficult and chargeable; whereof one great reason 
 hath been (which I must not promulge, however it wrings 
 me) the want of such assistants as would be really aw- 35 
 fpyol : amongst very many I have had, I have but one 
 foreigner only, whom I can call so : this hath incredibly
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 509 
 
 increased and aggravated the charge to me. Notwith- 
 standing, if you will accept of it, if I may know by what 
 safe expedient I may best do it, I will freely send you 
 one. I am sure it cannot come into the hands of one 
 
 5 more able to judge of it, or that will do it with more 
 candour. After your most mature perusal, I earnestly beg 
 your censure with the same liberty, as to one you had 
 never seen nor before heard of. Though every language 
 will have a copious accession of words or significations 
 
 10 more than any other yet extant, the arabic above all 
 others will very much excel : therein, therefore, I crave 
 your more severe scanning; but withal your gentle ad- 
 monition of what you find amiss, either through the 
 corrector's fault or mine. I keep by me a collection of 
 
 15 some which I have myself observed, and reserve for an 
 appendix.' Same to same, 23 Sept. 1668 (ibid. 390-1): 
 ' The next week after the term begins, about the 1 3th of 
 September, I fully purpose to take my journey for Cambridge, 
 which to me will be but a dark place, if not illustrated 
 
 20 with the resplendent sun of your soul-rejoicing presence. 
 My stay there, in regard of my work, must be short. I 
 am stopped at present for want of paper, which before 
 my return from the university, I hope I shall not fail to 
 be furnished with. I have (cum bono Deo) brought the 
 
 25 Heptaglot Lexicon now within two sheets to its period : 
 only an appendix, grammars, and the epistle or preface, 
 remain to be added.' Same to same, 12 Febr. 1668-9, 
 from Mr. Roycroffs in Great St. Bartholomew's close (ibid. 
 391-2): thanks for the entertainment which he had re- 
 
 30 ceived at Cath. hall in Lightfoofs absence, and congratu- 
 lations on his preferment. ' Sir, after my repeated thank- 
 fulness, with my veriest humble service to your most 
 justly honoured self, I beseech you will be pleased to 
 present the same likewise to all your venerable society, 
 
 35 to whom, for cohonestating, with their much refreshing 
 presence, the fresh and yet infantine lecture so lately con- 
 ferred upon our university, I am bound to return them
 
 5io EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 both my own and the founder's most grateful acknowledg- 
 ment of our joint obligations. And truly Sir T. Adams, 
 the donor, is not a little glad when he hears his donation, 
 (which he thought sometime elevated) to be now at last 
 entertained with good respect ; for I constantly let him 5 
 know at least every great name that frequents it, and 
 whereabout the number is of the meaner audience ; which 
 encouragement verily he most justly deserves, if but for 
 this reason (not that he covets praise, unto which I know 
 no man more angrily and infestly averse, but), for that 10 
 some of his own flesh and blood (as I am told) want that 
 for their necessary sustenance (by accident of the late 
 dreadful fire), which he, so freely and but a little before 
 it, had most firmly, and for ever settled upon our uni- 
 versity: and whom would it not grieve to give away his 15 
 estate from such near collops of himself, to the advance- 
 ment of that learning which himself lives to see neglected ? 
 But, blessed be God, with us it is not so, I hope, nor 
 ever will be.' Same to same, 9 June 1669 (ibid. 393-4): 
 ' Since the finishing of my great work I have been more 20 
 harassed with tedious trottings up and down between the 
 engraver, the roller, ruler, and binder, to get copies pre- 
 pared and made fit to be presented, that really it hath 
 been a greater trouble for the time, than the composure 
 of it was when most grievous and oppressive. It was but 25 
 this last week, that I could obtain the archbishop of 
 Canterbury's book to be in readiness for him. That over, 
 my very next care was, how to find to, and convey safely 
 the remaining parts of this so often and most unhappily 
 interrupted work, unto your most worthy self; for which 30 
 cause I write these lines. In a word, I may understand 
 from you what expedient you will be pleased to direct 
 me to, which shall he readily laid hold of, with no less 
 speed than cheerfulness, in hope your gentleness and 
 candour will cover all my many defailances and inadver- 35 
 tencies. A seventeen years' drudgery for the public I 
 have now undergone; of fourteen or fifteen, I at first
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 511 
 
 salaried at not easy rates, to be subservient in this work 
 in my aged years, and extremely decayed eye-sight. Thus 
 left, and for no small time, quite destitute, without so 
 much as one to be aiding to me. Sir, if I knew how 
 
 5 you would have these volumes bound (which is generally 
 desired by all, in the same mode with the Bibles), I 
 would do my best to have yours likewise done up suitably. 
 I purpose for Cambridge about, or a little after, the 
 middle of this instant, where I shall continue to usurp 
 
 IO upon your most favourable concessions, in the use of your 
 lodgings, as formerly, in case I may not trespass against 
 your occasions for them ; especially in regard of the now 
 approaching commencement. I will come myself alone, 
 and my page.' Same to same, 5 July 1669 {ibid. 394-5): 
 
 15 'These are to let you know how boldly I have tres- 
 passed upon your goodness and favour. I wrote to you 
 about a month since, of my intentions (with your leave) 
 to be here where I now am, with my desire to know by 
 what expedient I might send you the remaining part of 
 
 2O that work I have to so little purpose been labouring 
 about for so long a time. I would gladly have had both 
 the volumes bound up handsomely for you, if I could tell 
 how to come by your first part. This morning I made 
 offer of one copy of the lexicon, bound up, to your 
 
 25 library, requesting it may be accepted as a poor pledge 
 of those thankful acknowledgments, with which your ex- 
 cellent self, and this honourable society have eternally 
 obliged me.' Same to same, 20 Aug. 1669 {ibid. 395-7), 
 after some questions on passages of the O. T. : ' But, most 
 
 30 eminently worthy sir, to the business about your copy, 
 which it was my earnest desire might have been the 
 second I ever gave out, and yet, I know not how, I am 
 still afKovrl 75 Qv^tf behind with it, when many hundreds 
 have received their's. You write, Sir Thomas Brograve 
 
 35 (to whom, I beseech you, my humble duty and service) 
 being a second time here in London, took out your copy, 
 and sent it to Mr. Roycroffs. I cannot yet hear what is
 
 5i2 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 become of it ; but most fully resolved I am, to make up 
 your copy as entire and every way perfect as any whoso- 
 ever : sure I am, my work could never have been so entire 
 as it is, without you. All pretenders to the oriental 
 tongues must confess their great obligation to you. There- 5 
 fore, noble sir, let me have your first part, and but send 
 me word how your Bibles were bound, and you shall not 
 fail to have these suited accordingly. I must not, honoured 
 sir, let pass the preamble of your letter, wherein truly you 
 make me much ashamed in using such an apology to me, IO 
 who, if I should write letters every week in the year, 
 though you should answer never a one of them, your real 
 favours and civilities I experience in one month, outvie 
 all that ever it is possible for me to do within the compass 
 of Nestorean years. Sir, I was fully purposed to have 15 
 wintered it with my family at Cambridge, and had fully 
 agreed upon Mr. WheelocKs house, that I might have been 
 as near to your royalty as I could. My swarm somewhat 
 encreased, I was forced to look out a larger hive, not 
 larger rooms than you have designed me that were arro- 20 
 gancy to desire; but when two or three chambers would 
 have sufficed me as I was formerly, I cannot contain my 
 number now within those bounds. But disappointed I 
 was and am, not only of that promise about Mr. Wheelock 's 
 house, but of some other places I had viewed ; no account 25 
 being sent me, though I had more than once desired it, 
 concerning the one or other. So, as I must now go 
 down alone with my servant, to read my lectures in the 
 term; where my abiding, with your wonted leave and 
 goodness, will be in your lodgings ; and if half a chaldron 30 
 of coals might be laid in upon my account (it will be but 
 a part of the term I can be there), I will repay it with all 
 possible gratitude, the first oppertunity I can meet with ; 
 and I hope to come down iriyself thither, where your 
 company, incomparable sir, would make that place to me 35 
 like one of the heavenly mansions.' Same to same, 
 24 Sept. 1669 (ibid, 398) : ' I now send you back your
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 513 
 
 bound volumes (wherein your name ought to have shined 
 in the front of them, who have given the most orient 
 splendour, if there be any such in them, unto all that 
 is printed, and may therefore most justly be called yours), 
 
 5 which, if they be done according to your mind (wherein 
 I have not been wanting to my power, writing out the 
 clause in your letter concerning it, that it might continu- 
 ally be obversant* to the binder's eyes), I much rejoice : if 
 otherwise, upon sending up one of your Bible volumes, 
 
 10 he shall more exactly fit it to your mind. Sir, I return 
 you my very humble thanks, for giving order about laying 
 in some winter fuel for me in your lodgings, and that you 
 are so graciously pleased to accommodate me with the use 
 of them : the sight of your honoured presence there, would 
 
 15 be a sun more joyful to my heart, than that in the firma- 
 ment to the world. ' Same to same, from the Charterhouse, 
 24 Oct. 1670 (ibid. 399, 400): 'My greatliest and most 
 highest honoured master, father, and patron, for all these 
 you are at once to me: think not, I beseech you, that 
 
 20 I am so removed away from your Catharine-hall with my 
 goods, but that there is still left in me (with your good 
 leave and liking), animus revertendi whenever I shall be 
 in Cambridge solo con guerpo y ombra, with none but 
 myself and my servant. Coming now thither with a 
 
 25 more numerous family, without injury both to yourself 
 and to some others in the college, I easily find I could 
 not be sufficiently accommodated neither for rooms, nor 
 beds for my occasions. I must not abandon such a parent, 
 who for so many years hath afforded me freely a good 
 
 30 patrimony in such large and ample apartments : such a 
 master, by whom I have been taught and instructed so 
 long sine pretio: such a patron and landlord as hath 
 suffered me to live rent-free in so noble a structure, the 
 space of a Nerd's quinquennium ; only with this difference, 
 
 35 he grew worse afterward, but your beneficence (like those 
 blessings Job received from God), is greatest at last ; for all 
 
 [Pitman reads observant.]
 
 514 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 which what I have, I most heartily give Monnoye de cor- 
 deliers (as the french proverb phrases it), my most humble 
 duty and service to your most honoured self firstly, and in 
 the chiefest place ; next, to your whole honourable society, 
 for all the many civilities I have from time to time re- 5 
 ceived. Sir, I was last week with Dr. [Zfe.] Burton 
 [fell. Magd. Cambr., incumbent of St. George's Southwark; 
 see Lightfoofs Works xin 464] who presents his service 
 to you, and if you come upon any occasion to London, is 
 very ready to join his interest with yours, in mentioning 10 
 my condition by the public service ; in which I have now 
 spent near twenty years in time, above twelve thousand 
 pounds of my own estate, and for a reward left, in the 
 close of the work, above eighteen hundred pounds in 
 debt; almost a hundred letters written by me in five 15 
 months' space since the convocation house last arose, 
 unto the bishops, who passed a vote, they would help 
 me off with my copies amongst their dignified clergy and 
 others that thought fit to recommend it : to all which 
 letters, only one of their lordships returned me an answer, 20 
 and but five copies amongst them all hath been yet taken 
 off. A petition I lodged in my lord Arlington's hands 
 above a year ago, to his majesty, whose chaplain I have 
 been almost seven years, that a jail might not be my 
 reward for so much service and expense, unto which by 25 
 virtue of his majesty's letters I was commanded. This 
 veritable condition Dr. Burton is very desirous should be 
 effectually made known to my lord keeper, like as I have 
 more than once made it known to not a few other lords. 
 If I must perish for all my pains and work, with so much 30 
 difficulty effected, Fiat voluntas Domini. ' Same to same, 
 12 Dec. 1670, 'from my lodgings at Mrs. Salmon's house 
 in St. Andrew's parish, Cambridge 1 (ibid. 400-1): thanks 
 for a present of his Horae on St. Luke: ' If all the sacred 
 or secret arcane letters of the holy writ were but so 35 
 glossed upon and explicated throughout ; oh ! how empty 
 a thing would all the critical learning of precedent ages
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 515 
 
 be, in comparison of your elucidations. ' All these letters 
 were sent to Jo. Strype by John Duckfield, Lightfoofs 
 son-in-law and executor (ibid, 473). On i July 1659 
 Castell wrote in latin to Jos. Hill of Magd. , sen. proctor, 
 
 5 who had helped to procure for him the use of BedweWs 
 lexicon (Nichols, Liter. Anecd. IV 693-4, wno a l so refers 
 to a letter from Castell to Tho. Greaves, 1658, Donation 
 MS. Brit. Mus. 4162 14). John Worthington to Sam. 
 Harttib(Diary\ 226), 25 Oct. 1660: 'I ha^e enclosed Dr. 
 
 10 Cas fell's paper about the Lexicon. He is a laborious 
 honest man. I wish he be not undone in his estate by 
 his great and unexpressible labours about this work.' 
 Same to same, Dec. 1660 (in reply to a letter of 10 Dec. 
 ibid. 243-4) : ' Dr. Castell writes to me, that he thinks 
 
 1 5 Petraeus is yet in Holland, and that he hath seen Petraeus 
 his new ethiopick piece, viz. Ruth, an homily of S. 
 Chrysostom, and the 4 first chapters of Genesis in ethiopick, 
 which was lent him by an ambassador to peruse ; I am 
 heartily sorry for Dr. CastelFs difficulties. I hear that 
 
 2O for the carrying on of his great work, he has been forced 
 to sell part of his estate, viz. 20 per annum; and he 
 writes that he shall be constrained to dispossess his family 
 of the whole estate which his ancestors left him, except 
 the work be encouraged with more subscriptions, or by 
 
 25 the generous beneficence of some great persons. And is 
 there no Maecenas in this part of the world ? None that 
 has the sense and relish of what is of more universal 
 influence for the encrease of knowledge, and deriving it 
 to those of different tongues and nations? None that 
 
 30 considers the unwearied pains and unconquerable industry 
 of such laborious persons, who waste their health, their 
 estate, their all, for the good of others ? I have written 
 and spoken to some of my acquaintance concerning this 
 particular, desiring them to recommend it, as they have 
 
 35 interest.' Sam. Hartlib to Jo. Worthington, 20 Dec. 1 660 
 (ibid, 255): 'I have heard no more of Petraeus but what 
 you write, nor can I advise anything for helping of Dr.
 
 5i6 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 Castell.' Jo. Worthington to Sam. Hartlib, 9 Sept. 1661 
 (ibid. II 21-24): 'By another enquiry of Mr. Beafs, viz. 
 what Dr. Walton hath undertaken in this kind, it may 
 seem that he hath not as yet heard of the design, which 
 is not pursued by Dr. Walton, but by Dr. Castell (some- 5 
 time of Emmanuel college), whose labours about the Bill. 
 Polygl. were not inferior to any one's. He and Mr. 
 Clerk, (an assistant also in the great Bible,) persevering 
 in their ende^ours to do yet more good, about three 
 years since printed some proposals for the printing of 10 
 grammars and lexicons for the languages in the great 
 Bible. In Cambridge they found good acceptance (and 
 Dr. Castell professeth he received nowhere so much en- 
 couragement for the work as there), and when some 
 number of subscribers had paid the first sum, they began 15 
 to open the press. But Mr. Clerk is called to an office in 
 Oxford. Dr. Castell yet resolves to go on cum bono Deo, 
 and with the assistances of such persons as were fit for the 
 work, and patient, he hath finished all the first tome ; the 
 other tome, now in the press, and the grammars, will be 20 
 finished as soon as may be with convenience. That which 
 hath retarded the work has been the paucity of subscrib- 
 ers (besides the unfaithfulness of some that subscribed). 
 Dr. Walton was more active, and had many active friends ; 
 he had also some benefactors that contributed to that 25 
 great work. Dr. Castell is a modest and retired person, 
 indefatigably studious, (and for many years his studies 
 were devoted to these eastern languages,) he hath sacri- 
 ficed himself to this service, and is resolved (for the glory 
 of God and the good of men) to go on in this work though 30 
 he die in it, and the sooner for the great pains it requires 
 so great that Petraeus and some others that were en- 
 gaged by him to assist, were forced to desist, as being 
 unable to endure such herculean labours. I never see 
 Dr. Castell, nor think of him, but his condition affects 35 
 me. He hath worn his body in the unexpressible labours 
 which the preparations of such a work for the press re-
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 517 
 
 quire. He hath been forced to sell some of his no great 
 temporal estate to procure money for the paying off the 
 workmen at the press, the money subscribed falling short, 
 and there being such a scarcity of persons so nobly affected 
 5 as to contribute. God preserve him in health, that he may 
 lay the headstone. God raise up some that may move 
 others of ample fortunes to ennoble themselves by en- 
 couraging a work of so universal and diffusive a good. 
 God reward him in the comforts of this life also. Persons 
 
 IO deserving highly for their endeavours of the public good 
 would have found not less encouragement in the heathen 
 world. Such a one at Athens would have had the favour 
 of the Prytaneum. Would such places were erected in 
 Christendom ! In this Lexicon Polygl. it cannot be ex- 
 
 15 pected that the observations upon a word should be so 
 large as in dictionaries which are for some one language ; 
 yet is not the Lexicon Polygl. thin and bare, like a lank 
 nomenclator. It was one particular of my advice that 
 they would do more than express the word and its latin, 
 
 2O that they would confirm the signification by good authori- 
 ties quoted ; ard that for the arable words they would 
 have a special respect, as to the arabic version of Scripture, 
 so to the mahometan's Bible, the Alcoran, besides the re- 
 spect to Avicen. It may be hoped that sometime the 
 
 25 original arabic of the Alcoran may be printed, which 
 would better direct and enable Christians to deal with 
 mahometans. Erpenius hath discovered an excellent 
 method of printing in that specimen he printed relating 
 to the story of Joseph. Hottinger hath, in print, engaged 
 
 30 himself to the world to print it, with a version. I do not 
 like starved lexicons. When the signification is confirmed 
 by good testimonies, (as in Buxtorf's Talmudic Lexicon), 
 and when fit apothegms, proverbs, observations, etc., are 
 pertinently brought in under such a word, the reader better 
 
 or remembers the signification, and reads with more delight. 
 The arabic in this Lexicon Polyglotton will take in all or 
 most of Colius his late Arabic Lexicon printed at Leyden 
 
 MM
 
 Si8 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 in folio. For the better advancing of this work we lent 
 them a treasure out of our university library, viz. about 
 eight or nine volumes MS. of Mr. Bed-well (who taught 
 Erfenius), being a large Arabic Lexicon composed by 
 him, the fruit of many years' labours, which he devoted 5 
 to our library. The care for the Persian Lexicon and 
 Grammar doth chiefly lie upon Mr. Seaman. ' Worsley, 
 cited by Sam. Hartlib in a letter to Jo. Worthington, 24 
 Sept. 1661 (ibid. 44) : 'The Lexicon Polyglotton, he will 
 see what it is by the printed papers, the supervisor of 10 
 which is, for his care, ardency, assiduity, and intolerable 
 labour and pains thereof, never sufficiently to be com- 
 mended.' Sam. Hartlib to Jo. Worthington, 14 Febr. 
 1661-2 (ibid. 109): 'O what shame is it that laborious 
 Dr. Castell is not better encouraged nor rewarded.' Jo. 15. 
 Worthington to Sam. Hartlib, 24 Febr. 1661-2 (ibid. 1 14) : 
 ' I do (as you) resent Dr. CasteWs condition and merits.' 
 Same to Dr. Geo. Evans of Jes. coll. Cambr., 24 Jan. 
 1665-6 (ibid. 202): 'Dr. Castell returns to London to- 
 morrow, and to his work. If there were any great care 20 
 for the encouragement of the studious, and the advance- 
 ment of learning, he would have been before this in better 
 circumstances, and his work would have more subscribers.' 
 Same to John Lightfoot, 13 Febr. 1665-6 (Lightfoofs 
 Works, xiii 433, these letters to Lightfoot have escaped 25 
 Mr. Crossley) : ' Dr. Castell is returned to London, and is 
 preparing for his great work. I have been speaking with 
 him about procuring a Maimonides for me ; but I tell him 
 I cannot buy books as formerly ; but I have some hebrew 
 books to change, a Zohar in folio, etc. (which is a scarce 30 
 book). He tells me that M. Athias the Jew is dead of 
 the plague, by whose means he was used to procure such 
 books.' Same to same, 12 June 1666 (ibid. 436) : 'Dr. 
 Castell intends to go down to Cambridge the week before 
 the commencement, and read an arabic lecture. Same 
 to same, 17 July 1666 (ibid. 437-8) : ' In June last I sent 
 you a letter, which Dr. Castell, with his, sent to you. . . .
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 519 
 
 Dr. Castell is now in Tsadi.' Edw. Bernard to Jo. 
 Lightfoot, St. John's, Oxon., 5 Mar. 1673-4 (Light/oofs 
 Works xiii 453-4) : ' My service to Dr. Castell . . . Pray 
 is there any hope of your soon purchasing the Golian 
 5 books ? ' Jo. Lightfoot to E. Bernard, Much-Munden, 
 29 Apr. 1674 (ibid. 455) : ' As for the Golian libiary, I do 
 not perceive any progress with us about it ; and I have 
 not seen Dr. Castell since I received your letter.' Same 
 to same, no date, but June or the beginning of July 1674, 
 
 IO as the next is in reply to it (ibid. 457) : ' The business 
 about the Golian library begins to have some life in it 
 again, through the importunity of Dr. Castell and the 
 zealous forwarding of the vicechancellor {John Spencer]. 
 Dr. Castell, who is but just now parted from me, presents 
 
 15 his dear remembrances to you, and desires you to do the 
 like for him to Dr. Pocock and Dr. Marshal. ' E. Bernard 
 to Jo. Lightjoot, St. John's, Oxon., 8 July 1674 (ibid. 
 458-9) : 'Dr. Marshal, who presents his love to you, is 
 very much concerned that the Golian affair be prosecuted, 
 
 20 and will do his utmost to bate down the price, and effect 
 that very much desired purchase ; nay, he professes to me 
 his readiness to come over to Cambridge and explain all 
 that he knows of the business. . . . My humble service 
 I commend to the reverend and learned Dr. Castell, con- 
 
 25 gratulating his zeal and the likely success of it, for the 
 procuring Goltus's books.' Castell to Jo. Spencer, master 
 of C. C. C.C., Higham Gobin, 16 Aug. 1664 (Nichols, Liter. 
 Anecd. i\ 25-6) : ' Reverend and most highly honoured 
 sir, on Saturday the gth instant, I received a letter from 
 
 30 Dr. Marshall, rector of Lincoln-colled g, Oxford: that very 
 day, the generality heerabouts began the harvest : that 
 much adoe I had, having no hors of my own, to borrow 
 one til Tuesday following : then I set forth to carry you 
 the said letter : about the mid way from my hous to 
 
 35 Cambridg I met with Mr. Broughton coming to mee with 
 an expres from you, assured mee that my journy would 
 bee to no purpose in reference to Goltus's library ; you
 
 520 EDMUND CASTE LL. 
 
 had told him, there could be notthing at present don 
 about it : whereupon we both returned back to my hous : 
 to him I have deliverid the letter ; requesting after it is 
 read, that he may receive it again of you. Sir, it is now 
 about, or above six years since I began to intermedle in 5 
 this affair, with no other aim but only to serve the uni- 
 versity, in which tho I have spent not a few hundred, yea 
 thousands of pounds, yet from it I never received the least 
 kerm of pecuniary profit ; my professorship received from 
 another hand, in settling which had I not been active, it IO 
 is more than probable, it would scarce have been effected 
 by our noble founder ; it has put mee to a far greater 
 expens, then the stipend amounts to : nevertheles, after 
 the great work of the Bibles and heptaglot was finished, 
 no one thing has run more in my thoughts, and more 15 
 than so, then how to farther any way our academical 
 interest. Formerly I procured towards the purchase of 
 this dnparelled inestimable treasure, no less than a thou- 
 sand pounds, without any charg to the colledges, except- 
 ing 3 persons only, the rest was promised by bishops, 20 
 deans, and dignified men. The miscarriage of the attempt, 
 I have made known. Since, it is no small grief to think, 
 how this once apprized gem is now depreciated ; a dis- 
 couragement to any such kind of benefacture. However 
 (most honoured sir), tho I have no thanks at al for the 25 
 precious time, tedious jaunts, and to mee no easy charg 
 in prosecution of my real intentions, I humbly beseech 
 you (most worthy sir) that Dr. Marshall, ahead in Oxford, 
 unto whom, by your appointment, in a letter sent him 
 from Cambridg, a promise was made, that some recom- 30 
 pence should be given him, for his forward nes, pains, 
 and charge, against the guise of the place in which he is, 
 in offering so willingly to advance an emulous concern. 
 Sir, this I hope you wil deem very just and equitable, 
 that I be not damnified by this so reasonably engaged 35 
 promise. Sir, vouchsafe mee your pardon but this once : 
 if I sin this offense any more, I will crave your severest
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 521 
 
 punishment without any mercy upon, reverend sir, your 
 veriest real and most redevable 5 ervant, EDMUND CASTELL.' 
 Wm. Sancroff, as we might expect, was a liberal friend 
 to Castell. MS. Tanner 145 f. 61, benevolence voted to 
 5 him by the chapter of St. Paul's. Castell to Bancroft ', 
 5 Aug. 1669, sending a copy of his lexicon (ibid. 44 f. 143). 
 Same to same, n July 1676 : loss of part of the im- 
 pression by fire (40 f. u). Same to same, Sept. 1678, with 
 a book (314 f. 12). Same to same, 28 Oct. 1678: losses 
 
 10 and misfortunes in printing the lexicon (39 f. 121 ; to the 
 same effect 33 f. 36). Same to same, 10 Dec. 1678: thanks 
 for his munificence (39 f. 144). Same to same, 24 Noi . 
 1679 : unsuccessful couching of a cataract in his eye ; 
 completion otjob Ludolfs History of Aethiopia (38 f. 103). 
 
 15 Same to same, 15 Mar. 1679-80 : losses by his literary 
 labours ; copies of the Heptaglott on his hands (38 f. 135). 
 Same to same, 13 Apr. 1680 : chequered fate of his 
 lexicons (37 f. 12). Same to same, i and 15 Sept. and 
 1 8 Oct. 1680 : on the chalice at Higham Gabion (i3off. i, 
 
 20 35, 36). Draught of a letter on CasteWs behalf by San- 
 croft (37 f. n). Dr. John Balderston^ master of Emm., 
 to Dr. John Eachard, 24 Oct. 1681 : abp. Sancroft wishes 
 to get subscriptions at Cambridge for Castell's book (36 
 f. 150). Castell to Sancroft, 3 ' Febr. 1681-2 : steps taken 
 
 25 by him at Cambridge to promote the printing of a work 
 of Dr. Lo/fus's (36 f. 226). Same to same, 22 May 1682 : 
 visits London to have his eye couched for the third time ; 
 his poverty and distress (314 f. 95). Same to same, in 
 latin, 3 Oct. 1682 : account of his labours as professor (35 
 
 3 f. 98). Same to same, loNov. 1682: his pecuniary losses ; 
 reasons for non-residence on his prebend (25 f. 125). 
 Same to same, in latin, 18 Dec. 1682 : complains of poverty 
 and neglect (35 f. 148). Same to same, in latin, 27 Dec. 
 1682 : declines a subscription proposed by the bishops on 
 
 35 his behalf (35 f. 153). Same to same, 20 June 1683 : re- 
 commends Nic. Aspinall as Lambeth librarian (34 f. 54). 
 State of his affairs (37 f. 61). His widow, Elizabeth, to
 
 522 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 Sancroft, 25 Jan. 1685-6 and 21 June 1686, begging him 
 to dispose of her husband's lexicons (31 f. 248 and 30 f. 64). 
 Castellio bp. Hen. Compton 1685 (Nichols, Liter. Anted. 
 IV 696) : ' It is now not a few monthes since I presumed 
 to importune your fatherly goodnes on my behalf, when 5 
 I had no other friend that would appear for me, in your 
 lordship's writeing a letter to our diocesan, my lord bishop 
 of Lincolne ; to salve no irremissible irregularity. After 
 I had brought up a young scholar for about five years or 
 more in university learning, intending to make him my 10 
 curate, I suffered him to preach but three times in my 
 parish, in which I have but five houses. By your lord- 
 ship's signall and singular favour, I waded out of that 
 trouble, though with no small difficulty. It cost me little 
 less than 300 miles rideing, in which I saw not the least 15 
 foot of land all the while I was upon my horse, and was 
 in that journy infested with such mischances so dangerous, 
 I could not get clear of them till about three weekes ago ; 
 which, amongst other obstacles, hath been the cause of 
 this delay in returning your lordship my deepliest engaged 20 
 gratitude, which yet I neither can nor will acquitt myself 
 of by my words or writing.' Same to same, Higham 
 Gobyn, n May 1685 (ibid. 696-7): 'When I first im- 
 portuned your most excellent lordship, it was in a most 
 negotious juncture of time, your honour just ready to enter 25 
 into your coach ; yet this hindred not, but your goodness 
 was pleased to go up straitway, and write a letter to the 
 lord bishop of Lincolne on my behalf, who was then in 
 a molested and deserted condition, whereby I was forth- 
 with relieved ; which grace and favour of your lordship so 30 
 alarmed all the faculties of my soul, that I resolved the 
 highest act of gratitude in my power to atchieve, I would 
 fully demonstrate. The noblest and richest treasure I 
 have in this world, I account my library ; and the pearl 
 of price therein, that which hath the most and best of 35 
 God in it, His pure and holy Word, superior whereto 
 impossible it is either for men or angels to aspire or
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 523 
 
 imagine : though one in this our age (and I suppose but 
 one), of whom your lordship once spake to me, hath with 
 great labour thought to elevate that sacred authority, con- 
 cerning whose opinions were my deemings of any value, 
 5 I must so far close with him as to think (and perhaps not 
 without good reason) that if all the antient translations, 
 but especially orientall, for which he so much pleads, 
 were in some learned man's possession, who perfectly 
 understood them all, he would have more advantages, not 
 
 10 onely for the expedite and ready, but for the certain and 
 most infallible sense of the text, than if he had all the 
 fathers, hebrew, greek, latine, etc. ; all the schoolmen, 
 commentators, and criticks whatsoever ; and that because 
 the waters are allways clearest in and about the fountain. 
 
 15 .... My lord, I have sent some few more of these books 
 in present ; and bequeath all the rest at my death (which 
 cannot be long, haveing already attained the utmost period 
 of the mosaicall determination), and should have accom- 
 panied these, but that both my profession in the university 
 
 20 and pastoral cure in the country doth necessarily require 
 the use of them.' CastelVs anticipation was verified ; he 
 died the same year, and lies buried in his church (see his 
 epitaph ibid. 27-8, and in Hearnes Tho. de Elmhant 427 ; 
 and the inventory of his goods, 6 Jan. 1685-6, ibid. 697-9). 
 
 25 His will, dated 24 Oct. 1685, proved in the prerogative 
 court 8 Jan. 1685-6, at Cambridge 29 June 1686, is tran- 
 scribed in MS. Baker xxvi 268-271, and an extract in 
 Baker's letter to Hearne, Cambr. \^Aug. 1727, printed in 
 Hearne's Elmhant 356-7 : ' My body I commit to the 
 
 30 earth, whereof it was made, to be buried in the chancell 
 of the parish church of Higham Gobyon, near the monu- 
 ment there erected by me in my lifetime, by my executrix.' 
 bis niece Mary Crispe. ' Item, I give all my manuscripts 
 in hebrew, syriack, Samaritan, ethiopick, persian and 
 
 35 arabick unto the university library of Cambridge, upon 
 condition my name be inscribed upon every one of them. 
 Item, all my printed hebrew books, that consist of hebrew
 
 524 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 only, I give and bequeath to the library in Rmman. 
 college, on the same condition. Six bequests : one to his 
 godson Edmund Crisfe of all his books at Higham Gobyon 
 not otherwise disposed of; another to bp Compton, of 100 
 of his lexicons, with all his bibles and all other oriental 5 
 parts of holy scripture ; to St. Johns his silver tankard 
 [valued in his inventory at 6. IDS. Nichols, Liter. Anecd. 
 IV 699], upon condition that his name be set upon it. 
 For an account of CasteWs Lexicon, see his own statement 
 in Nichols, Liier. Anecd. iv 30-2, Hen. Jo. Todd, Memoirs 10 
 of Brian Walton, 1821, I 163-179, Tanner MSS. 37 f. 2J, 
 45 ff. 75, 274. Walton in the pref. to the Polyglot speaks 
 of a specimen as already published in 1657 : ' cuius speci- 
 men luculentum nuper Impressum ediderunt.' Nichols , 
 Liter. Anecd. iv 27: 'It is supposed that about 500 of 15 
 his lexicons were unsold at the time of his death. These 
 were placed by Mrs. Crisp, Dr. CastelFs niece and ex- 
 ecutrix, in a room in one of her tenant's houses at Martin 
 in Surrey, where for many years they lay at the mercy of 
 the rats, who made such havock among them, tha$ when 20 
 they came into the possession of this lady's executors, 
 scarcely one complete volume could be formed out of the 
 remainder, and the whole load of learned rags sold only 
 for }.' After the title of the Lexicon Heptaglotton, Land. 
 Tho. Roycroft, LL. Orientalium typographus regius 1669, 25 
 fol., is a portrait by Faithorne, which has given him a 
 place in Granger. Then a dedication to Charles 77. 
 He presents to the king not one star only, like that which 
 appeared to the Magi, but septem stellarum plaustrum, 
 like Charles Wain. ' Ego iam secunda viae M. T. aulam 30 
 ingressus sum cum munusculo meo, levidensi nimis, quia 
 T. C. nihil a subdito offerri queat magnum. Interim venia 
 (uti spero) mihi dabitur usurpandi il'ud sacratissimi ac 
 plane regii vatis, Domino meo regi victimas me neutiquam 
 immolaturum gratuitas ; sed (si fas dicere) care quidem 35 
 emptas. Non enim qui plurima dedit, sed cui paucissima 
 sunt relicta, qui o\ov rbi? &iov, quicquid facultatem habet,
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 525 
 
 in Dei principisve sui conicit donaria, is demum a supremo 
 mundi judice laudata maxima. Hoc puto innotescit om- 
 nibus scilicet quibus ego notus sum, nihil esse quod mihi 
 parentes reliquerunt (patrimonium aliquando satis com- 
 
 5 modum atque amplum), nihil quod in anteacto vitae meae 
 tempore laboribus meis atque solicitis acquisiveram curis 
 (accessio minime contemnenda) quod non integrum in 
 offertorium hoc iam olim impenderim. Annus iam agitur 
 decimus septimus, ex quo relicto rure paterno, immanibus 
 
 10 hisce atque tremendis ausis (talia fuerunt certe) non sine 
 M. T. consensu, quum primum specimen huius operis sub 
 eius initium ob oculos fuit positum ; necnon litteris in- 
 super quam plurimis, a viris magni nominis, qua in 
 eccelsia, qua in rep., domi forisque ad me missio, (quarum 
 
 15 magna pars, uti etiam bibliothecae meae, cum multa 
 supellectile et tricenis Lexici Heptaglotti exemplaribus, in 
 flammis periit Londinensibus} me submisi invitus admo- 
 dum, animoque (quod testabitur 6 KapSwyixavriis) multum 
 horrescente, quodque satis superque noverunt illi omnes 
 
 20 summi viri, qui me promissis turn auxilii turn etiam re- 
 munerationis ad istaec non pellexerunt tantum, sed vi 
 quadam urgenter impulerunt. Mihi vero, in molendino 
 hoc per tot annorum lustra indesinenter occupato, dies 
 ille tanquam festus et otiosus visus est, in quo tarn Bibliis 
 
 25 Polyglottis quam Lexicis hisce promovendis sexdecim aut 
 octodecim horas dictim non insudavi. Mitto privata quae 
 corpori in curriculo huius operis contigerunt mala, mem- 
 brorum confractiones, luxationes, contusiones ; quodque 
 prae omnibus hisce gravissime dolet, oculorum lumen 
 
 30 perpetuis atque indefessis vigiliis tantum non ademptum : 
 item alia magis publica, bellum nationale, pestem saevis- 
 simam et miserandum urbis huius incendium ; quibus 
 omnibus diutius multo ut protractum fuit hoc ante lan- 
 guens negotium, ita supra modum ingravescebant simul 
 
 35 onera mea et impensae . . . Sunt tamen praeter haec 
 omnia, aliae insuper (nee paucae nee parvae) quibus 
 gravatus fui infelicitates, quas satius atque consultius puto
 
 526 EDMUND CASTELL. 
 
 silentio contegere, quam non sine periculo in publicum 
 proferre.' The letters of the king, abp. Sheldon, and the 
 bps. were all printed, some more than once ; yet they 
 altogether brought in only ^700 towards a work, ' In quo 
 millenas multo plures infaustus exhausi ; praeter plurima 5 
 atque ingentia valde, quae contraxi debita. ' Of this 700 
 bp. Seth Ward raised 400 in a fortnight. Three years 
 ago I was appointed chaplain in ordinary to the king; 
 a year ago, prebendary of Canterbury ; very lately I was 
 excused residence, partly because of another office which 10 
 I held at Cambridge, ' in quo laboris multum, emolumenti 
 mihi adhuc vix quidquam ; . . . . partim ob corpus tot 
 tamque diris vexatum casibus, ad itinera omnino nunc 
 ineptum.' Then follows a royal letter, signed Wm. 
 Morice, Westminster 18 Dec. 1660 (this date must be an 15 
 error), commending the lexicon, of which one volume had 
 appeared ( ' quum plane nobis innotuit, . . . quod unum . . 
 eiusdem [Lexici] volumen non sine maximis ipsius sump- 
 tibus et expensis, adsistentibus aliis quibusdam personis 
 ad promovendum istud opus voluntarie subscribentibus, 20 
 iamdudum publicaverit'), to the munificence of persons of 
 honour and learning, who might assist the work by sub- 
 scribing for one or more copies, or in other ways. Then 
 follows a circular from Gilb. Sheldon to the bishops, 
 Lambeth loDec. 1663, sent with proposals for the lexicon ; 25 
 the dignitaries and more richly beneficed clergy, and other 
 religious and learned persons, should be invited to sub- 
 scribe. Few arguments are needed on behalf of a work 
 so serviceable to learning and religion. ' Dolorem insuper 
 pudoris calcar ingerere, ad instigandum quemlibet in hoc 30 
 negotio. Cui si deessemus, ad ecclesiae nostrae non modo, 
 sed et regni opprobrium, ne dicam infamiam, cederet 
 universi : si quidem personam rei litterariae publico bono 
 tarn strenue incumbentem, sub tarn insigniter honorandi 
 operis mole subsidere eoque opprimi sineremus.' Then 35 
 follows the testimony of 25 english, i scotch, and 3 irish 
 bishops, recommending the book, of which the first part
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 527 
 
 had been some time printed, to biblical students, and to 
 all whose business took them to the east. Its service in 
 ascertaining the meaning of hebrew words, of oriental 
 sentences and proverbs. ' Liturgiae orientales quam plu- 
 5 rimae una cum omnibus tam excusis tam MSS. auctoribus, 
 quos vel emere, mutuari, vel alias conducere, domi forisve 
 D. Castellus ullo modo potuit, hie usurpantur. . . Concor- 
 dantiarum instar esse potest magnis nostris Bibliis, Avi- 
 cennac, Talmudi, parti saltern eorum non exiguae,A/c0rano, 
 
 10 aliisque ritualium et philosophiae scriptoribus, qui in 
 linguis istis extant. . . In quibus non minimum posita fuit 
 difficultas et retardatio operis, una cum sumptuum et ex- 
 pensarum augmento, ad summum auctoris detrimentum.' 
 They sign this appeal, 'ut institutum hoc tam utile, tam- 
 
 15 que in omnibus supra modum publico usui commodum, 
 non sit auctori damnosum (quod veremur, idque multum, 
 sed prout meretur, debitum sortiatur proportionatumque 
 profectum.' Then follows the preface. ' In septem lin- 
 guis impressa sunt ante decennium Biblia Polyglotta. 
 
 20 Labore autem nostro haud levi in iis edendis vixdum 
 exantlato (ob quem, Honorarium illud quod in prae- 
 fatione Waltoniana dicor accepisse, in illud ipsum opus 
 non refundebam tantum omne, sed mille plus minus 
 libra?, ad promovendum illud, partim ab aliis sollicitando 
 
 25 procurabam, partim ipse donabam ultro) cum ecce ad 
 aliud novum difficilius longe nee unquam antia a quopiam 
 per omnia temptatum opus impense vocor. Hoc autem 
 ex quibus, quot, quant isque auctoribus satis diligenter 
 perlectis contextum est, omnibus ut clarius constet, nomina 
 
 30 eorum hie in limine contexam.' Then follows a list of 
 the authorities, and of the friends who supplied them, e.g. 
 Buncle, Sam. Clarke, Edw. Pocock, Mich. Wansleben, 
 Thtod. Pttraeus, Dudley Loftus, Jo. Marshall, Job Ludolf, 
 Thos. Greaves. ' Mortalibus quippe mos iste inolevit 
 
 35 (heu nimis inveteratus) antagonistis suis falsa audacter 
 affingendi ; hoc nos ludaeis facimus atque Mohammedomis ; 
 atque idem nobis illi. ... Et quidem pace doctiorum,
 
 528 EDMUND CASTE LL. 
 
 hoc mihi videtur extra dubium ; neminem esse qui harum 
 linguarum vel unam assequi queat perfecte et accurate, 
 qui non intellegat omnes. . . Socios quidem habui in hoc 
 opere, sed perexiguo tempore mecum in illo commorantes, 
 nescio an dicam immensitate laboris plane exterritos. 5 
 Quos diutius retinui, bi fuerunt ; D. M. Murray Gryps- 
 waldensis, vir non minus doctus quam admodum ingenuus, 
 cui per septennii fere spatium arabicas meas concredide- 
 ram collectiones ; D. Gul. Beveridgius, vir in secretioribus 
 hisce litteris egregie versatus, per dimidium illius temporis 10 
 curabat syriacas ; prout in aethiopicis per idem tempus 
 operam impendebat suam D. M. Wanslebius, qui ad per- 
 poliendum eius in iisdem ingenium in varias orientis oras 
 longa atque periculosa suscepit itinera. Per plures annos, 
 iam aetate provectus, et una cum patrimonio satis com- 15 
 petenti exhaustis etiam animi viribus, oculis caligantibus, 
 corporis variis in hoc opere confractis et dislocatis mem- 
 bris, relictus sum solus, sine amanuensi aut vel correctore 
 ullo, venia ideo apud candidos lectores (uti spero), ob 
 jrapopd/*aTa si quae occurrunt, aliquanto dignior.' The 2O 
 list of benefactors 'in tanto tamque longo plurimorum 
 annorum decursu non multorum quidem, . . . qui opus hoc 
 neglectum, et casibus non paucis duris ac durissimis lan- 
 guescens nimis, donaris suis amplis atque munificentia 
 perbenigne excitarunt ac promoverunt,' consists of Charles 25 
 //.; John e. of Bridgwattr, Geo. Villarsv'isc. Grandison; 
 Edm. Fortescue, Norton Knatchbull, Tho. Rich, baronets ; 
 Fras. TheobaldV^., ' harum etiam lingg. callentiss. ;' abp. 
 Gilb. Sheldon ; bps. Jo. Cosin, Matt. Wren, Rob. Sander- 
 son, Geo. Morley, Hen. King, Edw. Reynolds, Wm. Piers, 3 
 Set/i Ward. ' Est adhuc honoratissimus unus vel alter 
 alius, quos intra velum latere iubet prudentia et rerum 
 ratio. Optimus Maximusque omnium bonorum Remune- 
 rator honoratissimis hisce atque vere generosis viris eorum- 
 que posteris in sempiternum retribuat quaecunque in 35 
 thesaurum hunc verborum ipsi revera effuderunt, animitus 
 oro et obtestor.' Even advertisements in CastelCs hands
 
 EDMUND CASTELL. 529 
 
 learn pathos. Lend. Gaz. 3 May, 1669. ' The long ex- 
 pected, often and many wayes most unhappily obstructed 
 and interrupted, work of the Heptaglot Lexicon, compiled 
 by Dr. Edmund Castell, is now fully finished : and all the 
 5 subscribers to it are desired to send for their several copies 
 due in arrear to them, from Tuesday the nth instant, and 
 so every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday weekly, unto 
 a ware-house in the Charter-house, London : where they 
 shall be delivered out from 8 of the clock in the morning 
 
 IO until 12, and from 2 in the afternoon till 6.' Ibid. 27 Dec. 
 1669 : 'Doctor Edmund Castell, the author of the Hep- 
 taglol Lexicon unto the Polyglot Bibles, a work wherein he 
 has laboured 18 years now current, expended also and 
 buried in this service not so little as 12,000 pounds, 
 
 15 besides that which has been brought in either by bene- 
 factors or subscribers, after all this, hath with divers of 
 his servants at a very great charge attended the space 
 of three-quarters of a year upon a warehouse he hath in 
 the Charterhouse, London, for the delivering out the sub- 
 
 20 scribers' copies ; who, though publick notice has been 
 many times given them, come in for them very slowly : 
 the said doctor, therefore, desires all concerned persons 
 whatsoever, either to come or send for their books between 
 this and Lady-day next ensueing at farthest ; the doctor 
 
 25 not being in a condition to continue this charge any 
 longer.' Grcisse says that 4 copies are known on large 
 paper. Of the 3 copies in St. John's library one is on 
 1. p., and bound in the red Turkey morocco, in which 
 bp. Moore delighted. The syriac portion was improved 
 
 30 by J. D. Michaelis in 1 788, and the Hebrew by J. F. L. 
 Trier in 1790-2. See Paulus, Memorabilien, I 82 seq. ; 
 y. Chr. Wolf, Biblioth. hebraea ; Lorsbach, Archio f. d. 
 Morgenl. Literatur, II 1794 ; Baumgaiten, Hall. Biblioth. 
 VIII 405. Tho. Hearne in Lelandi Ccllectan. VI 80 : 
 
 35 ' More deplorable than this is the fate of the learned Dr. 
 Edmund Castell, who after many years spent in compiling 
 his Heptaglott Lexicon, to the ruining of his health and
 
 530 EDMUND CAS TELL. 
 
 fortune ; when the work was finished and published he 
 met with a very poor reward for his incredible and indeed 
 Herculean labours. Himself observes in a letter I have 
 under his own hand, that he had spent above ; 12,000 
 upon that work, and makes bitter complaints that after 5 
 such a vast expense, and so many disasters as he had 
 encountered with in it, the copies should all lye upon his 
 hands.' He also published I. 'Sol Angliae oriens au- 
 spiciis Caroli\\. regum gloriosissimi. 1660.' 4to, contain- 
 ing verses by Castell in the seven languages of his lexicon. 10 
 2. Oratio in scholis theologicis habita ab Edmundo Castello 
 S. T. D. et linguae arabicae in academia Cantabrigiensi 
 professore, cum praelectiones suas in secundum canonis 
 Avicennae librum auspicaretur, quibus via praestruitur ex 
 scriptoribus orientalibus ad clarius ac dilucidius enarran- 15 
 dam botanologiam SS. scripturae, partem, opus a nemine 
 adhuc temptatum. Land. 1667.' 4to. Dedicated to Sir 
 Tho. Adams. There remain among the Tanner MSS. 478 
 f. 21 : 'heptas praelectionum arabicarum in varia Vet. 
 Test. loca. ' 448 f . 4 : ' Liturgia aethiopica ; seu formula 20 
 celebrandi SS. cenam a S. lohanne evang. ac suis usurpata, 
 lat. sermone donata per Edm. Castellum;' andf. 17: 'Con- 
 secratio SS. cenae ab ipsis apostolis usurpata : lat. reddita 
 per Edm. Castellum.'' Cambr. MS. Dd vi 4 contains 
 Castell's notes upon oriental versions of the Bible, and 25 
 copies of letters in his hand, chiefly written in cypher, 
 being his correspondence 1651-72; p. 404 is a letter of 
 introduction to Golius given by Caesar Calandrinus to 
 Castell ; pp. 273 seq. : a letter from Waterhouse to S. 
 Adams, requesting his aid to relieve Castell from pecuniary 30 
 difficulties. Other note books of CasteWs Dd vi 63, xi 
 139, xii 15. There is in the Bodleian, 'orient. 344,' a 
 Coptic lexicon by Thos. Edwards, M.A., of St. John's^) 
 Cambtidge, who was living with Castell when bp. Fell 
 took him to Oxford, to fill the gap caused by the death 35, 
 of Dr. Marshal of Line. coll. (Macray's Annals of the 
 Bodl. 150).
 
 INDEX
 
 533 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Abendana, Is., 477 1. 15. 
 
 Adams, S., 530 1. 29. 
 
 Adams, Sir Thos., 502 1. 34, 503 II. 15, 
 
 27 ; 55 ' 34, 51 ' 2, 53 ! 18. 
 Adamson, Humph., 395 1. 27. 
 Addison, Jos., 236 I. 35. 
 Adelred, 360 1. 4. 
 Aelian, 19, 251. 
 Aggas, Rob., 357 1. 17. 
 Albemarle, Duke of, 216 1 22. 
 Aldine Greek Authors, 137 1. 10. 
 Aldrich, Dr. H., 323 1. 18. 
 Allingham, Wm., 53, 273. 
 Almeloveen, T. J. van, 211 n. 
 Alstedius, 211 1. i. 
 Amhurst's Terrae filius, 212 n. 1. 4, 237 
 
 1. 8. 
 
 Andre we alias Spycer, Rich., 242 1. 34. 
 Andrews, Edw. and Marg., 230 1. 22. 
 Andrews, Bp. L., 438 I. 18, 441 1. 32, 
 
 443 1. 10 
 
 Anglesey, Earl of, 467 1. 31. 
 Anne, Q., Embassy to, 312 1. 21, 368 
 
 1. 7, 372, 1. 2. 
 Anstey, Chr., 22, 30 1. 8 ; 98, 237 1. 18, 
 
 257- 
 
 Anstey and Ansty families, 259, 260. 
 Antram, watchmaker, 371 1. 5. 
 Appian's Roman Hist., 106 1. 20. 
 Apuleius, 207 1. 9. 
 Aristotle, 205 1. 15. 
 Arlington, Lord, 514 1. 22. 
 Arnold, Chr., 143, 193 1. 17. 195 n, 444. 
 Ascham, R., 19 1. 22, 254 1. 10. 
 Asgill, John, 216 1. n, 398 1. 3. 
 Ashley, Rob., 356 1. 35. 
 Ashmole, E., 380 1. 13, 385 1. 16. 
 Ashton, Dr. Chas., 286 1. 35, 295 1. 18. 
 Ashton, Hugh, 448, 1. n. 
 Aspinall, Nic., 521 1. 34. 
 Astronomicis tubis, lenses for, 169 1. 10. 
 Athenae Cantabrigienses, 144!. 16, 447 
 
 1. 2. 
 Athenian Gazette, Mercury, Oracles, 
 
 132 1. 16, 178 1. 22, 421. 
 Athias, Mr., 518 1. 31. 
 Audley, Lord, 115 1. 12. 
 Audley House, 115 1. 8, 324-5, 373 1. 28. 
 
 Babington, Churchill, 412. 
 Babington, Dr. Humph., 415, 1. 23. 
 Bacon, Fr., Ld. Verulam, 189, 1. 5. 
 
 Bacon, Nich., 181, 1. 15. 
 
 Badman, bookseller, 350 1. 14, 356 I 4, 
 368, 1. 31. 
 
 Bahlull, Bar., 195 1. 15. 
 
 Bailo, Crist. Val., 150!. 15. 
 
 Bainbridge, Dr. John, 385 1. 9. 
 
 Baker, Thos., 100, 140 7, 170 1. 22, 
 181 1. 6, 193 5, 222!. n, 234!. 24, 
 260 1. 26, 261 1. ii, 285 1. 13, 294 
 297, 325 1- 33- 33i 1- 32, 413, 1- 26, 
 
 420 1. 22, 422 1 29, 446 8. 
 
 Balderston.Dr. John. 491 1. 22, 521 1.2t. 
 
 Ballon, dutch minister, 313 1. 3. 
 
 Barecroft, Dr., 106, 1. 29. 
 
 Barlow, Bp. Thos., 217 n., 522 11. 7, 28. 
 
 Barnard, Dr. Francis, 458 1. 8. 
 
 Barnes, Joshua, 120 1. 12, 168 1. 15, 
 195 1. 2, 338, 407 1. 5. 
 
 Barrow, Dr. Isaac, 279 1. 18, 415 1. 15, 
 478 1. 10. 
 
 Bath, 29 1. 5. 
 
 Bathurst, Ant., 201 I. 5. 
 
 ' Battels,' paying, 208 1. 9. 
 
 Baylie, S., 207 1. 2. 
 
 Becher, J. J., 400 1. i. 
 
 Bedae libro (the Vedas), 150 I. 7. 
 
 Bede's gospels, 391 1. 5. 
 
 Bedford, Hilkiah, 287 1. 13. 
 
 Bedford, 374 1. 10. 
 
 Bedwell, Wm., 143, 438, 484, 492 1. 23, 
 518 1. 4- 
 
 Beeverel, Jas. Del. d'Angleterre, 410. 
 
 Behn, Mrs. A., 307 1. u. 
 
 Belfour, John, 272 1. 14. 
 
 Bell, m. of Lynn School, 265 1. 5. 
 
 Bell, Beaupre, 295 1. 20. 
 
 Bellori, G. P., 150, 477. 
 
 Benedetti, Fr., 360 1. 24, 365 1. 9, 400 
 1. 17, 407 1. 26. 
 
 Benlowes, Edwd., 418, 11. 7, 4. 
 
 Bennett, Dr. Thos., 325 1. 36, 326 
 1. 4. 
 
 Benoit, Mistriss, 349 1. 13. 
 
 Benthem, H. L., Eng. K-und Schules 
 Staat, 124, 127, 141, 375, 415. 
 
 Bentley, Dr. Rich., n61. 20, 134 5, 
 152, 1. 20, 181 1. 6, 194 1. i, 249 
 1. 28, 256 1. 18, 311 1. 12, 312 1. 6, 
 317 1. 15, 318 1. 14, 323 1. 36, 326 
 1. 10, 329 I. n, 332, 1. 7, 369 1. 20, 
 42136, 458 1. 29, 465 1. 17, 477 
 1. 34, 478 11. 5, 10. 
 
 NN
 
 534 INDEX. 
 
 Bentley, Thos , 451 1. 19. Brentford, 395 1. 16. 
 
 Bensington, 395 1. 3. Brentwood, 349 1. 4, 409 1. 7. 
 
 Bernard, Edw., 211 1. n, 448 1. 25, Brereton. Mr., 303 1. 7. 
 
 490 1. i, 519 11. i, 5 , 8, 16. Bridge, Mr., 248 1. 7. 
 
 Berry, Dr. Rich., 291, 1. 20. Bridgewater, Duchess of, 359 1. 17. 
 
 Bettenham, Jas., printer, 204 n. Bridgwater, John E. of, 528 1. 26. 
 
 Beveridge, Wm., 8, n, 72, 73, 77, 232, Brjegs, Hen., 439 1. 5. 
 
 290, 528 1. 9. British Apollo, 132, 178 1. 22, 420. 
 
 Beverland, Hadrian, 407 1. 30, 408 1. 3. Brograve, Sir Thos., 507 1. I4 , = :l 
 Beverley, Tho;., 237 1. 21. 1. 34 . 
 
 Beverley Rectory, 212 n. 1. 7. Brome, Edmund, 267. 
 
 Bicester, 374 1. 14. Brome, Edmund, 20, 30, 31, ,3, 253. 
 Bignell, Stephen, 237 1. 12. 265 1. 3, 267. 
 
 Billers, John, 266 1. 27, 267 1. 6, 295 Brooke, Rob., 245 1. 4. 
 
 ' 15- Broughton, Mr., 519 1. 35. 
 
 Bmet of Romer tavern, 407 1. 10. Brown, Ambr., 205 1. 17. 
 
 Birch, Dr. Peter, 381 1. 35. Brown, Charles, 397 1. 31. 
 
 Birkett, Dan, 187 n. 1. 4. Brown, Jas., optician, 403 1. 26. 
 
 Bizarrus. See Perusinus. Brown, M., 380 1. 6. 
 
 Blackley, Mr., 248 1. 4. Browne, Edw., 470 1. 34. 
 
 Bleau's globes 177 I. 4. Browne, Thos., 23, 62, 64, 222 I. 2, 
 Blechynden, Rich., 216 1. 28. 261, 285. 
 
 Bobart, Prof., 387 1. 37, 388 1. 10. Browne, Sir Wm., 457 1. 16. 
 
 Boet, tmailleur, 408 1. g. Buchanan, Jas., 369 1. 28. 
 
 Boileau, 34, 65, 288 1. 9. Buckingham, Duke of, 195 1. 21, 340 
 Bonet, Thos., 281 1. 18. 1. 20, 400 1. 19. 
 
 Bonwick, Ambrose, 7112, 201 308. Buckingham, Cath. Duchess of, 158 
 Bonwick, Philip, 34 1. so, 35 1. 8, 44 1. 10. 
 
 1. 10, 62, 70 1. 9, 97 1. 6, 101, no, Buckingham, 374 I. 12. 
 
 268, 285. Buddie, Ad., 396 1. 21, 399 1. 12. 
 
 Bonwick family, 201, 222, etc. Bull-baiting, 357 1. n. 
 
 Bookham, Gteat, 69 1. 8, 289. Bullingham, Nic., 232 1. 4. 
 
 Bock-ladders, 403 1. 34 Buncle, 527 1. 32. 
 
 Book-plate, Uffenbach's, 484 I. 10. Burcester Priory, 242 1. 34. 
 
 Boothby, Sir Wm., 267 1. 31. Burg, Mr., 352 1. 26. 
 
 Borello, 393 1. 13. Burgersdijck, F. P., 19, 53, 251, 269. 
 
 Bosanquet, Hen., 259 1. 25. Burman, F., 138 1. 9, 424 1. 3, 427 1. 18 ; 
 Bosvile, Thos., 268 1. 4. Travels in England, 311324; 
 
 Boswell, John, 447 1. 15. Cambridge, 115120, notes 324 
 
 Boulter, Archbp. Hugh, 202 1. 13. 388. 
 
 Bovilly of Paris, 365 \. 7. Burnet, Bp. G., 185 1. 21, 186 I. 10, 
 Bowker, John, 265 1. 7. 218 1. 26, 322 1. 36, 323 1. 11. 
 
 Bowyer, Wm., sen., 203 1. 18. Burnet, Thos., 320 L 5. 
 
 Bowyer, Wm., 203 1. 2, 205 1. 4, 221 Burrell, Mr., 295 1. 12. 
 
 1- I7i 225 ' 29, 229 1. ig, 230 1. i, Burton, Dr. Hez, 514 1. 6. 
 
 261 1. n, 289 1. 20, 291 1. 27. Bury Fair, 239 I. 35. 
 
 Boxhorn, M. Z., 21 1 1. 4. Buschmann, watchmaker, 351 1. 28. 
 
 Boyle, Rob., 271 1. 4, 272 1. 30, 366 Bussiere, J. de, 19, 253. 
 
 ! 9- Butler, Jacob, 250 1. 17. 
 
 Brabant, nuns of, 401 1. 13. Buttner, Dr., 387 1. 35, 389 1. 9. 
 
 Brackenbury, Mr., 260 1. 33. Buxtorf, 0^,499-501,507!. 5, 5171.32. 
 
 Bradley, Langley, clockmaker, 353 Byam, Hen., 20, 253. 
 
 J- ". Byng, Sir George, 354 1. 24. 
 Bradshaw, Hen., 437 1. 6, 487 1. 3. 
 
 Brahmins, 149 n, 150 1. 8. Caesius, Guil. (Bleau), 117 1. 7. 
 
 Brailsfordj John, 237 1. 31. Caius, Dr. J., 143, 198. 
 
 Branthwait, Mr., 324 1. 21. Calandrinus, Caesar, 530 1. 28. 
 
 Brasier, Jo. B., 206 1. 5. Calvin, 179 1. 14. 
 
 Brassey, Dr. 2451.9. Cambridge. Visits: F. Burman, 1 15 
 Braunin, Mrs., of Frankfort, 368 1. 30. 120. Uffenbach, 123 198.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 535 
 
 Cambridge. Allhallows (All Saints) 
 Ch. 99 1. 25, 109 1. 29, 308. 
 
 Eamwell Abbey, 239 1. 31, 243 1. 20. 
 
 Battecury (Petty Cury), 152 L 18. 
 
 Billingford hutch, 450 1. 32. 
 
 Christ's, 1 80, 193. Music Club, 
 
 133 1- 3- 
 
 Clare, 128 1. 17, 146 1. 6, 196 1. 14, 
 
 4i7 1- 37- 
 
 Coffee Houses, 58 1. 22, 284. Docke- 
 
 roll's, 284 1. 32. Greek's 132, 178 
 1. 17, 419. Kirk's 419 1. 34. 
 
 Commencement, 115 1. 18, 325 11. 
 
 21 328. 
 
 Corpus Christ!, 117, 145, 180 6, 
 
 195 1. 28, 450 11. 2533. 
 
 Emmanuel, 166 9, 524 1. i. 
 
 D.D. creation, 326 1. 6 328. 
 
 Gonville and Caius Coll., 133 35, 
 
 421 1. 5, 450 1. 27. 
 
 Jesus, iqo, 215 n. 1. 19. 
 
 King s, 116 1. 25, 130 1. 8, 145 1. 23, 
 
 153 1. i, 419, 450 1. 20. 
 
 Magdalene, 139, 144 1. 26. 
 
 Paper Mills, 469 1. 21. 
 
 Pembroke, 1768. 
 
 Peterhouse, 169 70. 
 
 Queens', 144 1. 25 145, 448. 
 
 Red Lion (Keyner's), 411 1. 4. 
 
 Rose Tavern, 458 1. 17 466. 
 
 St. Cath., 179. 
 
 St. John's, 13 1. 18, 17 1. 22, 116 
 
 I. 13, 128 1. 22 130, 171 n. 1. ii, 
 193 1. 16, 196 1. 13, 239 1. 9, 411 
 1. 32, 418 1. 3, 524 1. 6, 529 1. 27. 
 Clock-keeper, 94, 95, 101, 290. 
 
 St. Mary's Ch., 61 1 13, 62 1. 2, 
 
 144 1. i, 446. 
 
 St. Michael's Ch., 117 1. 13. 
 
 Schools, 140 1. 5, 436 1. 13. 
 
 Sidney, 159 63. 
 
 Sturbridge Fair, 19 1. i, 239 51, 
 
 419 1. 18, 469 1. 15. 
 
 Trinity, 116 1. 18, 117 1. 10, 124 
 
 1. 28, 131, 135 1. 17, 152 1. 20, 153 
 
 1. 4, iSo 1. 12, 190 1. 28, 196 1. 12, 
 
 44.8 1. 30, 47748- 
 
 Trinity Hall. 163 1. 16, 450 1. 30. 
 
 University Library, 117 I. 21, 140 
 
 1. 4143, 153 1- '5. i861. 13, 437 
 
 1. i, 438 1. 12444, 484 1- 19-4871 
 
 5 2 3 1- 35- 
 
 Cambridgeshire roll, 1593, 163 1. 5. 
 Camden, Wm., 328 1. 14, 357 1. 22, 391 
 
 1-34- 
 
 Campani, Giuseppe, 363 1. 4. 
 Campe, Mr., 353 1. 36, 363 1. 6, 395 
 
 1. 31, 408 1. 12. 
 Candler, Mr., 267 1. 5. 
 Cannon, Dr. Rob., 256 1. u. 
 
 "Careless Husband, The," 359 1. 14. 
 
 Cat-swell, Prof. John, 392 1. 34. 
 
 Carter, Edm., 250 1. 13. 
 
 Carter, Henry, 368 1. 20. 
 
 Casaubon, 321 1. 14, 43943, 482 1. 14. 
 
 Castell, Edm., 159 n. 1. 3, 487 530. 
 
 Castell, Eliz., 521 1. 37. 
 
 Castellio, Seb., 253 1. 16. 
 
 Caviac, traiteur, 354 1. 34. 
 
 Chained books, 361 1. 25. 
 
 Cbales, De., 56 1. i, 279 I. 18, 284. 
 
 Chamberlaine, Jas., 249 1. 14, 267 1. 13. 
 
 Chamberlayne's Pres. state of Eng., 
 
 124, 141, 2, 7, 185 1. 12, 190. 
 "Changes, The," 367 1. 12. 
 Chapman of Emmanuel, 459 1. 29. 
 Chardin, Sir J., 148 n. 1. 3. 
 Charlett, Dr. A., 447 1. 4. 
 Charles I., 129 1. 12, 215 n. 1. 3, 220 
 
 1. 26, 270 1. 37, 378 1. 28, 389 1. 34, 
 
 418 1. 20. 
 Charles II., 115 1. 12, 163 1. 8, 215 n. 
 
 1. II, 524 1. 27, 526 1. 2, 528 1. 26. 
 
 Chauveau, Mr., 321 1. 31. 
 Chelmsford, 349 1. 4, 409 1. 8. 
 Chelsea, 316 1. 9, 349 1. 25, 350 1. 34, 
 
 400 1. ai. 
 
 Chesterton, 246 1. 31. 
 Cheyne, Geo., 54 1. i, 277. 
 China, map of, 378 1. 30. 
 Christner, 366 1. 8. 
 
 Chrysostom, 65 1. 12, 142 1. 4, 286 1. 20. 
 Chubb, Thos., 308 1. 17. 
 Cicero 53, 54, 146 I. 5, 275, 456 1. 8. 
 Clarendon's History, 19 1. 21. 
 Clark, Margaret, 439 1. 10. 
 Clericus, 138 1. 6, 426 7. 
 Clerke (or Clarke), John, 280 1. 6, 438 
 
 1. 37. 
 Clarke for Clerke), S., 54 I. i, 195 1. 2, 
 
 277 1. 7, 279 1. 21, 282 1. 8, 333 1. 4, 
 
 496 1. 33, 527 1. 32. 
 Cluvenus, 211 I. 3. 
 Coaches, 66, 115, 288, 324. 
 Cocceius, 323 1. 33. 
 Cock, Chas. , 204 n. 
 Cock-fighting, 355 1. 7. 
 Cockey, Ed., clockmaker, 366 1. 25. 
 Codex Alexandrinus, 136 1. 20, 399 1. 4, 
 
 400 1. 27. 
 Codex Bezae, 117!. 22, 126!. 31, 141 
 
 1. 2, 156 1. 4, 184 1. a, 417 1. 3, 
 
 436 1. 19. 
 
 Codex Masianus, 400 1. 31. 
 Codrington, Col. Chris., 390 1. 21, 394 
 
 1. 17. 
 
 Coffee houses, see London, Cambridge. 
 Coins, 69, 70, 127, 129, 143, 147, 151, 
 170, 176, 188, 194, 224, 5, 296, 359., 
 3?6, 39S, 446-
 
 536 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Coke, Sir Thos., 411 1. 23. Dandrige, Mr., 401 1. 26. 
 
 Coks, Mr., 371 1. 28. Davies (or Davis), John, 145, 256, 45<x 
 
 Colchester, 348 1. 32, 409 I. 13. Davis, Mary, 380 1. 17. 
 
 Collier, Jer., 53 1. 9, 271. Dawes, Archbp. Wm., 202 1. 12. 
 
 Collins, Dr., 419 1. 8. Dawkins, 237 1. 33. 
 
 Colnbrook, 395 1. 13. Dearing, 257 I. 26. 
 
 Communion, Weekly, 238 I. i. Deck, Norris, 235 1. 36. 
 
 Compton, Bp. H., 318 1. 23, 334 1. 21, Defoe, D., 249 1. 37, 400 1. 12. 
 
 489 1. 37, 491 1. 27, 522 11. 3, 22. Delaune, Dr. \V., 16, 237. 
 
 Confucius, 150!. 3. Demosthenes, 54, 278 1. 6. 
 
 Congreve_'s 'Old bachelor,' 369 1. 34. Denmark, King of, 380 1. 14. 
 
 Constantinople, 147 1. 19. Denmark, George, Prince of, 257 1. 30. 
 
 Convocation, 323 1. 16. Deptford, 162 1. 6. 
 
 Cooke, Kath., 243 1. 9. Derham, Dr. W., 65 1. 10, 272 1. n, 
 Cooke, Thos., 295 1. 37. 286 1. 3. 
 
 Cooke, Winefrid, 230 1. 28. Des Cartes, 270 1. 16, 280 1. 10. 
 
 Cooper, Hen., 237 1. 27. Devizes, 29 1. 40. 
 
 Cooper, Wm., bookseller, 249 1. 18. Dickenson, 205 1. 13. 
 
 Cosin, John, 486 1. 2, 528 1. 29. Dieu, Lud. de, 444 1. 17. 
 
 Cotes, Roger, 195 1. 5, 415 1. n. Dionysius, 19, 251. 
 
 Cotton, Sir John, 468 1. 5. Dockerell's Coffee Ho., 284 1. 32. 
 
 Courcelles, E. de., 270 1. 7. Donaldson, J. W., 255 1. 26, 300 1. 25. 
 Covell, Dr. J., 119 1. 27, 147 48, 169 Dort, Synod of, 161 1. 42. 
 
 1. 18, 194 1. 6, 47076, 477 1. 17. Douce, Dr., 312 1. 33. 
 
 Cowie, B. M., 171 n. Dover, Mr., 324 1. 21. 
 
 Cowley, Ab., 307 1. 24. Downes, John, 237 1. 24. 
 
 Cowper, Wm., Lord, 256 1. 9. Dowsing, Rev. Mr., 258 1. 10. 
 
 Cox, flax merchant, 367 1. 6. Drake, Sir F., 376 1. 22. 
 
 Crabb, Jos., 375 1. i 379, 386 1. 31. Drajer, Capt., 406 1. 30. 
 
 Craig, John, 277 1. 31. Dresser, Mr., 421 1. 22. 
 
 Cranmer, Archbp., 358 1. 28. Dryden's S. Martin Mar-all, 361 1. 37. 
 
 Crashaw, W., 173 n. Duncan, 252 1. 12. 
 
 Creech, Thos., 211 n. 1. 15, 394 1. 21. Duncomb, Wm., 273 1. 31. 
 
 Crenius, T., 253 1. 35. Duns Scotus, 385 1. 4. 
 
 Crete, 162 1. 6. Dunton, J., 223 1. 17, 232 1. 26, 420 
 Crick, Northants, 216 n. 1. 7. 1. 35, 421 1. i. 
 
 Cries of London, 401 1. 4. Duplock, S., 224 1. 4. 
 
 Crisp, Edm., 524 1. 3. Duport, Dr., 273 1. i. 
 Crisp, Mrs. Mary, 491 1. 18, 523 1. 33, Durer, Albrecht, 152 1. 6. 
 
 524 1. 17. Dutch envoys, 318 1. 3, 319 . 14, 322 
 Crocker, medailleur, 354 1. 25. 1. 5. 
 
 Crokenham, 332 1. 30. Dwyer, Mr., 267 1. 9. 
 
 Cromwell, O., 142 1. 29, 195 1. 23. Dykveld, Baron v., 313 1. 9, 322 1. 35. 
 
 Cromwell, Thos., 244 1. 5. Dymmock, Roger, 165 n. 
 Croon, Mr., 302 1. 30. 
 
 Cross : election, 396 1. 19. Eachard, John, 195 1. 2, 521 1. 22. 
 
 Crossley, M., 518 1. 26. Echard, L., 53, 106 1. 15, 276. 
 
 Crossthwaite, Dr., 330!. 4. Eddistone lighthouse, 324 1. 29. 
 
 Crouch, Caesar, 249 1. 24. Edmondson, Dr. Wm., 30, 266. 325 L 
 Cudwcrth, R., 272 1. 29, 298 1. 15, 301, 23, 326 1. 4. 
 
 304 1. 37, 488 1. 29. Edward I., 360 1. 3. 
 
 Culpepper, 396!. it. Edward VI., MS., 143 1. u. 
 Cumberland, Bp. R., 211 n. I. 17, 276 Edwards, Th., 530 1. 33. 
 
 1. 21. Edzardi, Pastor, 357 1. 27, 359 1. i, 
 Gumming, John, 423 1. 13. 369 1. 32, 395 1. 24, 407 1. 25. 
 
 Curcellaeus, S., 53 1. 4, 270. Eg_geling, J. H., 444 1. 34. 
 
 Custom House officers, 348, 1. 19. Elizabeth, Q., 129 1. 4, 360 1. 3, 376 
 Cults, Sir John, 248 1. 6. 1. 18, 378 1. 26, 418 1. 21. 
 
 Cuylenburgh, Mr., 322 1. 7. Ellis, Charles, 477. 
 
 Cyprian, Mr., 322 1. 12. Ellis, Sir John, 280 1. 21, 282 1 14
 
 INDEX. 537 
 
 Elton, Nich., 244 1. 18. Frankfurt, 198 1. i. 
 
 Ely, 244 1. 14. Frear, Mr., 232 1. 6. 
 
 Elys, Edm., 424 1. 14. Free, Dr. John, 251 1. 25. 
 
 Episcopus, 270 1. 25. Freeman, Sir Geo., 205 1. 17. 
 
 Epping Forest, 324 1. 23, 373 1. 26. Freke of Hannington, 376 1. 27. 
 
 Epsom, 366 1. 31. French, Jeremiah, 299 1. i. 
 
 Erasmus, 20 1. 22, 126 1. 29, 416 1. 27. Frewin, Rich., 373 1. 5. 
 
 Erlych, John, 243 1. 3. Frome, 29 1. 22. 
 
 Erndtel, C. H., 405 1. 27. Fulham, 318 1. 23. 
 
 Erpenius, 20, 142 I. 27, 157, 195 1. 21, Fulthorpe, Chas>., 260 1. 33. 
 
 253 1- 33. 44 1- 12442, 484, 517 
 
 1. 27, 518 1. 4. Gagnier, Jean, 477 1. 18. 
 
 Eton, 395 1. 10. Gale, Roger, 256 1. 14, 446 1. 25. 
 
 Etty, Mr., 478 1. 20. Gale, Thos , 145, 448. 
 
 Euclid, Tacquet, 55 1. 30. Gamjingay, 374 I. 8. 
 
 Eugene, Prince, 363 1. 22, 373 1. 10. Garrick, David, 259 1. 19. 
 
 Euin, Mr., 295 1. 12. 'Gazette,' 419 1. 35. 
 
 Euripides, 53, 274. Geneva, 124 1. 3. 
 
 Eustachius, 20, 53, 254 1. 9, 271 1. n. George, Prince, 355 1. 24. 
 
 Evans, Dr. Geo., 518 1. 18. Geus, Nich. de, 368 1. 2. 
 
 Evans, Thos., 357 1. 25. Gibbons, Grinling, 153, 478. 
 
 Evelyn, John, 248 1. 27. Gibbons, Dr. Thos., 325 1. 26. 
 
 Evremond, St., 364 1. 28. Gibbons, Dr. Wm., 212 1. 9. 
 
 Evremont, S., 362 1. 25. Gibson, Dr. Edm., 313 1. 12. 
 
 Eyre, Wm., 439 1. 20 Gilbert, Dr., 313 1. 4. 
 
 Glanville, 307 1. to. 
 
 Fabricius, J. A., 256 1. 12, 424 1. 21. Glass, Painted, 158 1. 25. 
 
 ' Fair Quaker of Deal,' 353 1. 3. Glass factory, Southwark, 372 I. 2. 
 
 Fairclough, R., 298 1. 34. Gnospius of Dantzig, 357 1. 33. 
 
 Fairs. See Sturbridge Fair (Cam- Goad, Dr. John, 207 1. 4, 213 I. 12, 
 
 bridge), Maidstone. 214!. 5, 216 n. 
 
 Faithorne, 524 1. 26. Godbytte, 247 1. 29. 
 
 Fanshaw, Lord, 356 I. 23, 357 1. 15. Godstow, 384 1. 31. 
 
 Farmer, Rich., 251 1. 2. Goeree, 410 1. 2. 
 
 Fasciculus praec. logic., 19 1. 15. Goffe, Stephen, 288 1. 37. 
 
 Feilde, Thos., 291 1. 14. Gog-magog's-hill, 324 1. 33. 
 
 Fell, Bp. J., 234 1. 34, 493!. 12, 530 Golian library, 490!. 27, 519)1.6, 19, 37. 
 
 1. 34. Golius, 517 1. 37, 530 1. 29. 
 
 Fenelon, 34 1. 17, 53 1. 24, 54, 1. 27, 275 Gomme, Kernard le, 407 1. 31. 
 
 1. 24, 278. Gooch, Thos., 459!. 35, 465 1. 22, 467 
 Ferrar, Nich., 107 n., 478 1. 35. 1. u. 
 
 Ferrari, Dr., 123 1. 20, 124 1. 27, 128 Gordon, Patrick, 423 1. 37. 
 
 1. 14, 130 1. i, 133 1. 2, 140, 1. 25, Gosse, 334 1. 20. 
 
 175 1. 25, 181 1. 6. 194 1. i, 411. Gottfried, 383 1. 12, 396 1. 27. 
 
 Fetherston, Mr., 479 1. 26. Gouge, Thos., 300 1. 34. 
 
 Finch, Sir John, 470 1. 32. Gower, Humphry, 22, 27, 120, 238 
 Fisher, Alex., 385 1. 6. 1. 13, 257 1. 17, 264 1. 28, 334 1. 14, 
 
 Fisher, Bp. J., 144 1. 24, 447 1. 35, 491 1. 24. 
 
 448 1. 16. Grabe, Dr. J. E., 136 1. 23, 369 1. 25, 
 Flamsteed, J., 351 1. 3, 393 1. 13. 376 1. 13, 398 1. 28, 400 I. 26, 426. 
 
 Fleischer, 407 1. 9. Gramm, of Lune_burg, 359 1. 22. 
 
 Fletcher, Thos., 235 1. 9. Granville, Dennis, 238 1. i, 264 1. 29. 
 
 Folkes, Martin, 456 L 26, 457 1. 22. Grassy, Messrs., 379 1. 12, 382 1. 12, 
 Fontnelle, 106, 307. 390 1. 14. 
 
 Fordham, Wm., 338 1. 3. Gravesend, 324 1. 13, 350 1. 36. 
 
 Fortescue, Sir Edm., 528 1. 27. Greaves, John, 438 1. 36, 527 1. 34. 
 
 Fox, Eliz., 306!. 15. Green, Mr , 464 1. 15. 
 
 Foxcroft, Mr., 304 1. 9. Greene, Chas., 120, 337. 
 
 Foxton, Wm., 246 1. 20. Gregory, Clemens, 470 1. 5. 
 
 Francke, Ch., 245 1. n. Gregory, John, 480 1. 15.
 
 538 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Gregory, David, 277 1. 28, 319 I. 17, 
 
 320 1. 20, 321 1. 23. 
 Gregory, Mr., 257 1. n. 
 Grelot, Wm. Jos., 148 1. 6, 474 1. 3. 
 Grey, Miss, of Stockton, 259 1. 23. 
 Grey, Zach., 296 1. 17, 448 1. 16. 
 Griffin, Edw. Lord, 354 1. 23. 
 Griffith, John, 210 1. 14, 206 1. n. 
 Grindal, Archbp., 418 1. 22. 
 Gronovius, Jas., 424 1. 20. 
 Grossellieres, Mesdemoiselles, 353!. 19. 
 Grotius,_H., 53, 272, 254 1. 7, 444 1. 4. 
 Ground-ivy-tea, 290. 
 Guest, John, 207 1. 26. 
 Gunning, Bp., 31 1. 15, 238 1. 10, 263. 
 Gunning, Hen., 268 1. 2. 
 Gunpowder plot, 324 1. 8. 
 
 Hacket, Bp. John, 126 1. 10, 132 1. 3, 
 
 154 1. 6, 427 1. 27, 483 1. 37. 
 Halifax, Lord, 120 I. 10, 361 1. 14. 
 Hall, John, of Durham, 257 1. i. 
 Hall, Bp. Jos., 20 1. ii, 320 1. Q. 
 Halley, Edm., 315 1. 23, 316 1. i, 322 
 
 1- 13, 393 1- 4, 395 ' 28, 396 1. 13. 
 Hamel, Dr., 324 1. 4. 
 Hamilton, Sir Wm., 252 1. 34. 
 Hammond's New Test., 65, 106 1. 16, 
 
 287. 
 
 Hampstead, 369 1. 4. 
 Hampton Court, 322 1. 8, 366 1. 26, 
 
 399 1. 21. 
 
 Hardinge, Geo., 423 1. 22. 
 Hare, Sir Rob., 418 1. 23. 
 Harlow, 373 1. 26. 
 Harnar, 320 1. 4. 
 Harriot, Thos., 321 1. i. 
 Harris, Rob., 289 1. 4. 
 Harrison, Thos., 161 n. 
 Hartlib, S., 301 1. 17 to 303, 518 11. 8, 16. 
 Hartmann, Dr., 375 1. 32 
 Harvey, Sir Dan, 470!. 27, 473 1. 27. 
 Harvey, Sir Elias, 473 1. 30. 
 Harvey, Wm., 162 1. n, 355 1. 4. 
 Harvey, Wm., 108, 307. 
 Harwich, 348 1. 19, 409 1. 14. 
 Harwood, Mr., 414 1. 2. 
 Hasperg, Mr. Secretary, 355 1. 21. 
 Hauksbee, Fr., 362 1. 3, 402 1. 19. 
 Hautsch of Niirnberg, 400 1. 15. 
 Hayes, Anne, Thomas and P., 306 
 
 1. 10. 
 
 Haygat, Humph., 390 1. 3. 
 Hedley, Surrey, 8, 18, 32, 53, 57, 63, 
 
 66, 70, 71, 203, 225. 
 Hearne, T., 295 1. 29, 378 1. 36, 386 
 
 1. 31. 
 
 Heaven, John, 470 1. 6. 
 Heberden, Dr. W., 224 1. 17, 289 1. 21. 
 Hebrew inscription, 150 1. 17. 
 
 Heereboord, 253 1. 9. 
 
 Heilin, Dr., 493 1. 17. 
 
 Heinsius, D., 441 1. 29 442, 444 1. i. 
 
 Helmstadt, 142 1. 5. 
 
 Hempel, Jas., seal-caster, 397 1. 29. 
 
 Hemsted, Tobias Rustat, 215 n. 
 
 Henley, John, 250 1. 10. 
 
 Henry VIII., 244 1. 7, 376 1. 32. 
 
 Henry, Lamorale, 409 1. 21. 
 
 Henshaw, Bp. Jos., 54 1. 31, 278 1. t$. 
 
 Herbert, 237 1. 28. 
 
 Herbert, George, 187 n. 
 
 Herbst, J. B., goldsmith, 367 1. 21. 
 
 Hermann, Dr. P. H., 388 1. 31. 
 
 Hesiod, 422 1. 5. 
 
 Hesychius, 137, 412 1. 4, 426. 
 
 Hevelius, 393 1. 5. 
 
 Hickes, G., 143 1. 9, 158 1. 19, 196 1. 16, 
 
 395 1- 37, 444- 
 Hickes, John, 446 1. 14. 
 Hierman, Rob., 242 1. 27. 
 Hierocles, 21 1. 26, 53 1. 25, 256 1, 20, 
 
 268 1. 31, 275 1. 25. 
 Hill, Mrs. A., 368 1. 15, 474 i. 
 Hill, Wm., 251 1. 10. 
 Hitch, Robt., 493 1. 29. 
 Hobbes, 53 1. 31, 276 1. 17, 368 1. 22. 
 Hoadly, Bp., 333 1. 3. 
 Hochstetteri oratione, 197 n. 
 Hochst, 123 1. 13, 198 1. i. 
 Hoffmann, J. J., 392 1. 12. 
 Holbein, 144 1. 25, 399 1. 28, 447 1. 20. 
 Holdsworth, Dr. Rich., 437 1. 23. 
 Holfpm, Chr., watchmaker, 401 1. n. 
 Hollings, of Shrewsbury, 491 1. 10. 
 Holmes, Geo., 360 1. 13. 
 Hone, Rich., 250 1. 15. 
 Honeyman, 408 I. 37. 
 Hood, Thos., 439 1. 2. 
 Hoock, Dr., 366 11. 4, 9. 
 Hook, Robt., 393 1. 14. 
 Hooker's Eccles. Pol., 106 1. 21. 
 Horace, Benlley, 136 1. 27. 
 Horsley, East, 201 1. 8. 
 Hortpn, Ihos., 298 1. 9, 299 1. 4. 
 Hottinger, 517 1. 29. 
 Hounslow, 395 1. 15. 
 Howell's Epistles, 53, 276. 
 Hubbard, Goody, 231 1. 19. 
 Hubert, Etienne, 442 1. 27. 
 Hudson, John, 251 I. 24, 256 1. 22, 319 
 
 1- 33, 374 1- 33, 378 1. 9, 379 '! 24, 
 
 28; 386 1. 17, 399 1. 10. 
 Huet's letters, 449 1. 9. 
 Hughes, John, 65, 286. 
 Hurd, Bp., 249 1. 34. 
 Huyghens, 394 1. 4. 
 ' Hydaspes,' 350. 
 Hyde, Mr., 489 1. 14. 
 Hygiasticon, 230 1. 35.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 539 
 
 Ifily_, 379 1. 19. 
 
 India, Mareschall in, 149 1. 15. 
 
 Ink powder, 357 1. 9. 
 
 Ireland, Rich., bookseller, 224 1. 6. 
 
 Islington, 319 1. u. 
 
 Italy, sketches of, 127 1. 26. 
 
 Jablonski, 424 1. 3. 
 
 Jackson, Laur. , 109, 222 1. 4, 237 1. 29, 
 
 308. 
 
 Jackson, mechanical inventor, 402 1. 17. 
 James I., 139 1. 9, 188 1. n, 376 1. 19, 
 
 377 1- 33, 378 1. 29. 
 James II., 219 1. 25. 
 James, Dr. Hen., 120 1. 2, 325!. 25, 332. 
 Jebb, Dr. John, 254 1. 34. 
 Jenkes, Hen., 270!. 10. 
 Jenkin, Dr. Rob., 28 1. 20, 31 1. 19, 
 222 1. 4, 261 1. 3, 262 1. 34, 263 
 1. 33, 265 1. 29, 325 1. 28, 326 1. 2, 
 447 1. 1 8. 
 Johnson, Rich., of Nottingham, 291 
 
 1. 13. 
 
 ohnson of Darnton Sch., 260 1. 32. 
 ones, Edward and Mary, 230!. 21, 27. 
 osephus, MSS., 156 1. 22, 321 1. 21. 
 uncker, Chr., 128 1. 7, 417. 
 urdaine, Ignatius, 289 1. 10. 
 ustin Martyr, ed. Thirlby, 269 1. 32. 
 
 Karger. See Kerger. 
 
 Kemp, Edw., 239 1. 25. 
 
 Ken, Bp. Thos., 10 1. 20, 28 1. 27, 59 
 
 1. 3, 67 1. 10, 234 1. 36, 265 1. 30, 
 
 266 1. i, 285, 288 1. 21. 
 Kennett, Bp., 236 I. 4, 295 1. 31. 
 Kensington, 395 1. 16, 399 1. 28. 
 Kentte, Wm., 243 1. 17. 
 Kettlewell, John, 20, 253. 
 Kerger, Dr. Wni., 352 1. 14, 372 I. 32, 
 
 399 ! 35. 44 ! 2 , 47 1- *7, 48 
 
 I. 36. 
 
 Kidder, Bp. Rich., 217 1. 10. 
 King, Bp. Hen., 528 1. 30. 
 King, Bp. John, 389 1. 30. 
 King's librarian. See R. Bentley. 
 Kirk's coffee house, 419 1. 34. 
 Knatchbull, John, 287 1. 56. 
 Knatchbull, Sir Norton, 65, 287, 528 
 
 1. 27. 
 Kuster, Dr. L., 116 1. 23, 328, 424 
 
 1. 22, 435 1. 4. 
 
 Lake, Arth., 439 1. 35. 
 Lake, Edw., n 1. 10, 18 1. 27, 26 1. 19, 
 38 1. 30, 45 1. 64, 48 1. 18, 68 1. 29, 
 
 7O 1. 12, 92 1. 21, IO2 1. 14, 104 1. 9, 
 
 103 1. I, 235. 
 
 Lambeth, 211 I. 10, 305 1. 8, 313 1. n, 
 317 1. 16, 322 1. 31, 397 1. 4, 521 1. 34. 
 
 Lambeth-wells, 371 1. 24. 
 
 Laney, Dr., 295 1. 18. 
 
 Larkin Scholarships, 297 1. 34. 
 
 Latomus, Mr., 354 1. 35. 
 
 Laud, Archbp., 444 1. 19, 480 1. 13. 
 
 Lauderdale, 305 1. 31. 
 
 Laughton, John, 116 1. 14, 153, 176, 
 
 3 2 7, 329 4i9 1- 19, 475 1- 29, 478. 
 Laughton, Dr. R., 117 1. 4, 140!. 23, 
 
 146 1. 6, 176 1. 9, 194 1. 22, 275 1. 7, 
 
 279 1. 35, 456, 475 1. 29, 476 1. 5. 
 Lavater, Dr., 382 1. 22. 
 Leatherhead, 225 I. 27. 
 Lecapenus, Geo., 147 n. 
 Le Comte, Florent., 158 1. 28. 
 Lee, Wm., 368 1. 25. 
 Leedes, Edward, 254. 
 Leedes, Sam, 254 1. 31. 
 Leger, John, 142, 437. 
 Leicester, Sir Francis, 262 1. u. 
 Lemons, Mistress, 123 1. 16. 
 Lente, Prof., of Herborn, 400 I. 32. 
 Leo X., 376 1. 31. 
 L'Epine, Margarita de, 350 1. 7, 359 
 
 1. 20. 
 
 Leti, Greg. 427 1. 8. 
 Leuwencron, 355 1. 19. 
 Levinz, Dr. Rich., 208 1. 22, 211 1. 14, 
 
 212 1. 16 of n. 
 Levinz, Wm., 216 1. 13. 
 Lewis, John, 295 1. 22, 444 1. 37. 
 Lightfoot, 499 1. 33, 501 1. 34, 518 1. 24, 
 
 519 11. 117. 
 Lindsell, Aug., 154, 478. 
 Littlebury, 123 1. 2, 324 1. 25, 373 1. 31. 
 Livy, 210 1. 34. 
 Lloyd, Edw., 380 I. 32, 383 1. 24, 383 
 
 1. 36, 386 1. 3. 
 Locke, John, 276 1. 30, 299 1. 10, 473 
 
 1. 4. 
 
 Lodge. H., 266!. 36". 
 Loftus, Dudley, 521 I. 26, 527 1. 33. 
 Lomeierus, 171 1. 10. 
 London. Apothecaries Hall, 367 I. 14. 
 
 Apothecaries hortus medicus, 373 
 
 1. i. 
 
 Banqueting house, 373 1. 3. 
 
 Barber-Surgeons' hall, 368 1. 17. 
 
 Bedlam, 355 1. 34. 
 
 Bethlehem, 324 1. 5. 
 
 Bishopsgate, 324 1. 19. 
 
 Bridewell, 356 1. 9. 
 
 Christ's Hospital, 363 1. 27. 
 
 College of Physicians, 355 1. i. 
 
 Cottonian Library, 119 1. 23, 142 
 
 1. 6, 316 1. 22, 369 1. 13. 
 
 Covent Garden, 396 1. 24, 362 I. 19. 
 
 Cries of London, 401 1. 4. 
 
 Cupid's Garden, 371 1. 23. 
 
 Custom house, 354 1. 32.
 
 540 INDEX. 
 
 London. Drapers' Hall, 349 1. 34. ' London cuckolds,' 357 I. 8. 
 
 Drury Lane, 353 1. 2. ' London's diversion,' 371 1. 18. 
 
 Dutch church, 312 1. 37. ' Love for love,' 354 1. 36. 
 
 Exchange, 349!. 35, 353!. 2, 370!. 3. Loveday, Mr., of Norwich, 267 1. 12. 
 
 Exeter change, 391 1. to. Luard, H. R., 437 1. 32. 
 
 Exchequer office, 372 1. 13. Lucian, 20, 254. 
 
 Frame-work Knitters' Hall, 368 Lucretius. Creech. 211 1. 15. 
 
 1. 23. Ludolf's Aethiopia, 521 1. 14, 527 1. 33. 
 
 Gray s Inn, 355 1. 16. Luke, Dr. John, 120, 338. 
 
 Gresham Coll., 313 1. 25, 365 1. 14. Luther, 128 1. i, 358 1. 18, 417 1. 18. 
 
 Guildhall, 355 1. 36, 395 1. 30. Lutwycbe, Thos., 229. 
 
 Haymarket Theatre, 350 1. 4, 364 Lynn, 28 1. 14, 244 1. 13. 
 
 1. 31. 
 
 Heralds' College, 367 1. 17. Macretol, or Macretuil, 391 1. 8. 
 
 Houses of Parliament, 322 1. 30. Magnet, 169 1. 9. 
 
 361 1. n. Maidenhead, 395 1. 6. 
 
 Hyde Park, 364 1. 35, 349 1. 31. Maidstone fair, 249 1. n. 
 
 Inner Temple, 356 1. 37. Malaicae linguae lexicon, 150 1. 9. 
 
 Latin Coffee House, 401 1. 17. Mandeville, Dr. J., n, 12, 235. 
 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields, 319 1. 13, 371 Manningtree, 348 1. 29, 409 1. 14. 
 
 1. 32. Mapletoft, Dr. J., 305 I. 9. 
 
 Little Britain, 356 1. i. Margaret of Richmond, 128 1. 28, 129 
 
 London Bridge, 356 1. 15. 1. 2. 
 
 Medical College, 324 1. 4. Marlborough, Duke of, 348 1. 12, 349 
 
 Merchant Taylor's School, 8 1. 10, 1. 20, 373 1. 8 ; son, 130 1. 24 ; 
 
 12 1. 6, 16, 34 1. 21, 201 1. 20, 202 daughters, 359 1. 16. 
 
 1. 4, 216 n., 369 1. 36. Marsh, Bp. Francis, 301 1. 19, 302 1. 8. 
 
 Middle Temple, 356 1. 25. Marsh, Archbp Narcissus, 490 1. 35. 
 
 Mile End Green, 318 1. 27. Marshall, J., 149 1 15 and n., 150 1. to, 
 
 Monument, 314 1. 20, 317 1. 12, 363 360 1. 12, 361 1. 35, 366 1. 30, 367 
 
 1. 26. 1. 24, 369 1. 30, 393 1. 10, 476 1. 36, 
 
 Mint, 322 1. 26, 354 1. 30. 477 1. 3, 518 11. 16, 18, 30 ; 520 1. 28, 
 
 Montagu House, 372 1. 17. 527 1 33, 530 1. 36. 
 
 Old Bailey, 370 1. 5. Martial, 53 1. 15. 
 
 Painter-stainers Hall, 357 1. 16. ' Martin Mar-all,' 361 I. 37. 
 
 Paris Coffee House, 351 1. 35. 360 Martyr, 231 1. 18. 
 
 1. 25, 396 1. 29, 408 1. 35. Mary, Q., 216 1. 20. 
 
 Paternoster Row, 350 1. 13. Mason, Chas., 224 1. 3. 
 
 Romer Tavern, Gerard Street, 407 Mason, J., 477 1. 25. 
 
 1. 10. Mason, Simon, 422 1. 20 
 
 StBartholomew'sHospital, 363 1.31. Masson, J., 138!. 12,436. 
 
 St James' Palace, 366 1. 22; Cha- Masters, Rob., 448 1. 8. 
 
 P e '> 353 ' 20 i Park, 353 1. 25. Mead, Dr., 421 1. 24. 
 
 St Martin's Library, 367 1. 27. Menard, dutch minister, 313 1. 3. 
 
 St Paul's Cathedral, 318 1. 6, 353 1. 7. Mercati (or Marcatti), 152 1. 16. 
 
 Savoy, 318 1. 36. Meredith, Roger, 337 1. 23. 
 
 Sion College, 445 1. 26, 498 I. 27, Merian, Mad., 371 1. i. 
 
 362 1. 9. Meryfield, jr., Geo., 206 1. 16 and n. 
 
 Smithfield, 363 1. 32. Meursius, J., 449 1. 9. 
 
 Somerset House, 367 1. 34. Mews, Bp. Pet., 211 I. 9 and n. 213 I. i. 
 
 Spring Gardens, 371 I. 25. Meyer, Dr., of Stuttgart, 406 I. 34. 
 
 Tothill Fields, 396 1 17. Michaelis, J. D., 529 1. 30. 
 
 Tower, 313 1.36, 354!. 10,359.!. 31, Mickleham, 201 1. 12, 207 1. 30, 209 
 
 395 1. 25. 1. 9, 210 1. 6, 211 1. 7, 225 11. 26, 
 
 Westminster, 350 1. 3, 372 1. 9, 366 28 ; 226 1. 28. 
 
 1. 15. _ Middleton, Conyers, 459 1. 32, 460 
 
 Westminster Abbey, 361 1. 22, 316 1. 29, 465 1. 21 467. 
 
 1. 3, 364 1. 7, 396 1. 20. Miller, Edward, 426. 
 
 Westminster Hall, 361 1. 32. Millington, Edw., auctioneer, 211 !. 13 
 
 Whitehall, 349 1. 36, 366 1. 27. of n., 241 1. 2, 249 1. 12, 492 1. n.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 54i 
 
 Mills, Dr., 118 1. i. 
 
 Mills, Is., 334 1. 26, 337 1. 3. 
 
 Milner, John, 418 1. 15, 493 I. 23. 
 
 Milton's Paradise Lost, 53 1. 15. 
 
 Missale, 127 1. 23. 
 
 Moliere's ' Etourdi,' 362 1. 2. 
 
 Monconys, 376 1. 24, 378 1. 34. 
 
 Monck, J. H., 415 1. 17. 
 
 Montagu, Duchess of, 359 1. 16, 373 
 
 1. 12. 
 
 Montagu, Duke of, 372 1 17, 396 1. 6. 
 
 Montagu, Rich., 479 1. n. 
 
 Moore, Bp. J., 255 1. 25, 256 1. u, 
 
 265 1. 17, 279 1. 24, 282 1. 10, 283 
 
 1. 19, 299 I. 16, 323 1. 36, 372 I. 9, 
 
 477 1- " 529 1- 29. 
 Moor, Thos., 395 1. 26. 
 More, Hen., 272 1. 29, 276 1. 30, 300 
 
 1. 18, 301 1. 31, 304 1. 25. 
 Moreland, Sir S., 142 I. 24, 402 1. 2. 
 Morgan, Bp C., 279 L 36. 
 Morice, Wm., 526 1. 15. 
 Morison, Rob., 388 1. 25. 
 Morley, Bp. Ge_o., 520 1. 30. 
 Moscow's painting, 152 1. 15. 
 Moses du Soul (Solanus), 328 1. 4. 
 Moxon, mechanician, 396 1. 16. 
 Muddiman's news-letter, 419 1. 36. 
 Murray, M. (Grypswald.), 528 1. 6. 
 Musaeus, 54 I. 79, 20 1. 20, 278 1 2. 
 Music Clubs, 133 1. 3, 461 1. 31. 
 
 Needham, Gervase, 250 I. 31. 
 
 Needham, Peter, 256 1. 6. 
 
 Nelson, n 1. 14, 20 1. 2, 30 1. 17, 45 
 1. 24, 46 1. 27, 53 1. 19, 58 1. i, 73 
 1. 5, 92 1. 21, 99, 102 1. 17, 104 
 1. 25, 253 1. iS, 268 1. 29, 294 1. 15. 
 
 Neocorus. See Kuster. 
 
 Nipperiani, Bacilli, 361 1. 32, 402 I. 5. 
 
 Newcome, John, 55, 278, 448 1. 10. 
 
 Newcomen, Thos., 233 1. 10. 
 
 Newport, 324 1. 25, 373 1. 27. 
 
 Newport-pagnel, 374 1. 12. 
 
 Newton, Adam, 416 1. 20. 
 
 Newton, Sir Isaac, 279 1. 18, 280 1. 28, 
 282 1. 24, 314 1. 22, 319 1. 17, 322 
 I. 26, 323 1. 30, 365 1. 24, 393 1. 10, 
 402 1. 7, 457 1. 2458, 475 1. 20. 
 
 Newton, Lancelot, 98 1. 30, 222 1. 4. 
 
 Nicholas, Edw., 206 1. 3. 
 
 Njchols, John. 205 1. 6, 221 1. 15. 
 
 Nicolai (or Nicolini), of Haymarket 
 Theatre, 350 1. 6, 407 1. 16. 
 
 Nimptsch, Baron, 123 1. 2, 352 1. 7, 
 357 I- 34, 362 1. 37, 365 1. 6, 397 
 I. i, 398 1. 8, 400 1. ii, 402 1. 21, 
 405 1. 33, 406 1. 29, 408 1. 36, 411. 
 
 Norfolk, Duke of, 365 1. 37. 
 
 Norfolk hebre* inscription, 150 I. 18. 
 
 Norris, John, 256 1. 24, 257 1. i. 
 North, Lord, 245 1. 36, 246 1. 4, 334 
 
 1. 27. 
 
 North, Dr. John, 415 1. 31, 419 1. 30. 
 Northampton, 243 1. 22. 
 Norton. Mrs. Sarah, 225 1. 17. 
 Norwich stuffs, 241 1. 33. 
 Notitia acad. Cantab., 124, 415. 
 Nourse, Peter, 266 1. 28 
 
 Oath, Scholars', 23 1. 24. 
 
 Okeham school, 232 1. 6. 
 
 Only, Nic., 319 1. 18. 
 
 Orange, Prince of, 207 1. 12. 
 
 Orchard, Arth., 257 1. 25. 
 
 Ormond, Duke of, 359 1. 27, 364 1. 37. 
 
 Ovington Estate, 215 n ; Rectory, 295 
 
 1. 13. 
 
 Oxenden, Prof. G., 120, 337. 
 Oxford, Earl of, 231 1. 9, 262 1. 18, 477 
 
 1. 17. 
 Oxford, 117 1. 31 ; Burman, 319 21 ; 
 
 Uffenbach, 374 95. 
 All Souls, 320 1. 16, 381 1. 24, 387 
 
 1. 21, 390 1. 19, 394 1. 16. 
 
 I jy- 1 ~^ jyt v ' 
 
 Anatomical School, 378 1. 37. 
 
 Ashmolean, 379 I. 5, 382 1. 31, 
 
 384 
 
 1. 18, 385 1. 16, 387 1. 5, 391 1. 21, 
 392 1. i. 
 
 Balliol, 320 1. 16. 
 
 Bodleian, 319 1. 23 321, 374 1. 25, 
 
 375 1- 29, 378 1. i, 379 1. 3, 381 
 1. 1385, 387 1. 4, 391 1. 3, 392 1. i, 
 399 1. 8, 479 1. 27. 
 
 Brasenose, 391 1. 26. 
 
 Christ Church, 319 1. 27, 381 1. 33. 
 
 Corpus Christ!, 381 1. 21. 
 
 Exeter, 377. 
 
 Hortus Medicus, 388 1. 10. 
 
 Jesus, 377 1. 32. 
 
 Lincoln, 387 1. 28. 
 
 Magdalen, 320 1. 13, 374 1. 23, 383 
 
 1. 15, 392 1. 3. 
 
 Merton, 385 1. i. 
 
 New All Saints' Ch., 392 1. 26. 
 
 New, 320 1. 12, 375 1. 17. 
 
 Oriel, 392 1. 25. 
 
 Paradise Garden, 390 1. 6. 
 
 Pembroke, 392 1. 31. 
 
 Physic Garden, 374 1. 20. 
 
 Queens', 319 1. 34, 375 1. 8. 
 
 St. Edmund's Hall, 319 1. 34. 
 
 St. John's, 320 1. 15, 389 1. 21. 
 
 Sayilian Lecture R., 321 1. 23 ; 
 
 Library, 392 1. 34, 394. 
 
 St. Mary's Ch., 320 1. 8. 
 
 Schools, 391 1. 29. 
 
 Sheldonian, 319 1. 30, 375 1. 22, 391 
 
 1- 33. 392 1. 23, 393 1. 28.
 
 542 INDEX. 
 
 Oxford, Trinity, 319 1. 13, 379 1. 9) 381. Poley, Hen., 254 1. 27. 
 T V J3- . Poole, Matt., 300 1. 20. 
 
 ~ w ni ^ rSUy> 32 ? h l6 ' Poran - '49 I- 22, 476. 
 
 Wadham, 381 1. 16. Pound, Jas., 380 1. 3. 
 
 T> i _* Porson, Prof.. 423 1. 28. 
 
 Packington, Lady, 234 1. 29- Praun, Jas., 403 I. 26. 
 
 Paget Mr., 502 I. 13 Prayer-book, 1662, 360 1. i. 
 
 Paisible flutist, 359 1- 22. Price, W., 381 1. 34. 
 
 Palsy, Wrn., 250 . 32 Prideaux, Humph. 211 n. 1. u. 
 
 SKc^?&L% ^fS, 2 ! 1 ' '" 26 ' * - 
 
 BftftKT 39 ' ' I3 ' ^Hebrew, i 9 ,. , 53 ,. I7) Io6 
 
 & !?*"' 45 'i ^ Puckering (or Pickering), alias Nevr- 
 Parker, Bp. S., 272 I. 30. ton sir Hen., 126 if: n . 
 
 Parkers Laws of Nature, 276 1. 26. Puffendorf ^ 270 
 
 Parry, 380 1. 25, 385 1. 19, 28. Puranas, The,' 149 n. 
 
 Parsell, Thos 237 1. 16. Purchase, Geo., 370 1. 17. 
 
 Parviso,' 208 l. 3 i. Puy, Claudius du, 363 1.9. 
 Pask, Dr., 459 1. 22, 460 1. 33, 464 1. 37. 
 
 Patrick, Bp. S., 10, 18, 234, 238, 302 Quaker's meeting, 366 I. 15. 
 
 1- 30, 303 j. 16, 329 Q uare : watchmaker, 351 1. 30. 
 
 Patrick, optician, 396 1. 12. Quendon-street, 324 las 
 
 Pau i, Dr., 398 1. 22, 406 1. 17, 407 1. 8. Querists, The, 420! 36. 
 
 Paullus, gardener, Woodstock, 3851.24. Quintilian, 19 1. 21, 54 1. 20, 278 1 6 
 Pauw, De., 434 I. 32. 
 
 Pearson, J. 256 1. 28, 304 1. 31. Radnor, Earl of, 373 1. 21. 
 
 Pedley Sir N., 424 1. 19. Raimburg, 394 L 13: 
 
 Pembroke, Earl of, 360 1. 37, 479 1. 26. Raleigh, Sir W., 211 1. 2 
 
 Pepuscb, music director, 350 1. n, 359 Ramus, 438 1. 35. 
 
 D T ?' , Ranelagh, Lord, 400 1. 22. 
 
 Perne, And., 245 1. 29. Raphael, 152 1. 12, 399 1. 24. 
 
 Perromum, Cardinal, 443 1. 17. R ay J o h n , 53, 198 1. 85, 272 
 
 Persius, 53 1. 27. .. Re d i; t " 2 ^\ ^ Q- 
 
 Perusmus, Petrus Bizarrus, 413 1. 27, Redi, Fr., ill 1. 10, 417. 
 
 414 I. 14. Reflexions upon learning, 144 1. in. 
 
 Petavius, 21 1 1. 3. Regnier, seal-engraver, 372 1? 19. 
 
 Peterborough's garden, 373 1. 18. Reigate, 201 1. 3 
 
 .Petit, b., MSS. 321 1. 20. Reimers, Mr., 379 1. 35, 4O4 1. 20 
 
 Petiver, Jas., 37 1- 27, 372 L 31- Reiser, Ant., 161 n. 
 
 Petraeus, 515 1. 15, 36 ; 516 1. 32, 527 Reyner of Red Lion, 411 1. 4. 
 
 r>,-i i 33 'i. Reynolds, Bp. Edw., 528 1. ?c. 
 
 Phileleuthen Lipsiensis, 138 1. 10 ; 428 Reynolds, Wm., 298 1. 12. 
 
 DU .,,. ' T Rhenanus, Beatus, 137 1. 13. 
 
 Efe /' J 4 " Rhodes, Dr. J., 206 1. 24, 208 1. 23. 
 
 Piedmont, 142 I. I0 . Richard, King, 165 n. 
 
 Piers, Bp. Wm., 274 1. 30, 528 1. 30. Rich, Sir Thos., 528 1. 27. 
 
 Pietro, viol di Gamba player, 359 1 27. Richmond, 322 1. 9, 399 1. 25. 
 
 Pindar, 19 1 17, 53 1. 9, 253, 271. Richter. See Arnold: 
 
 Pingo (or Pengo), watchmaker, 365 Ritterplatz, 127, 141 n., 142 1. 27, 195 
 
 H| 3^7 1- 22. J JQ AIJ 
 
 Pitkarn, Mr., 321 1. 26. Robins, Francis, 237 1. 23. 
 
 Pitt diamond, 405 1. 35. Robinson, Mr., 257 1. 25. 
 
 P my s Letters 19, 53, 253, 275. Rochester, Earl of, 299 1. n, 472 1. n 
 
 P umtree, Prof., 422 1. i. Rochester 208 1. 24. 
 
 P utarch s lives 19 1. 23. Roderick, Dr. , 469 1. 7. 
 
 fcl" V^ g ' T S ?' 373 L , Rohault, 55 1. Si, 65 1. io, 277 1. 7, 
 Pocock, tdw., 489 1. 4, 490 I. 16, 493 279-284, 286. 
 
 PnV X ^ 519 l6 '. 5 7 32< Roh y> mechanician, 402 1. i. 
 
 Poley, Edm., 255 1. 8. Root, Laur, 366 1. ii.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 543 
 
 Roper, Francis, 17, 23 1. 4, 24, 31 1. 24, 
 32 1. 30, 35 1. 21, 37 1. 13, 41 1. 17, 
 44 1. 15, 55 1. 27, 60 1. ii, 62 1. 24, 
 64 1- 25, ?i 1- 20, 94 1. 15, 95 1. 23, 
 96 1. 18, 99 1. 21, 100 1. 20, TOI 1. 5, 
 
 IO2 1. 7, 221 1. 34, 222 1. II, 260, 
 
 263, 285, 447 1. 30. 
 Rosa, Salvator, 152 1. 13. 
 Roussier, Adam, 374 1. 18, 387 I. 23, 
 
 389 I_i8, 391 1. 11, 395 1. 2. 
 Rowe, Nic., 257 1. 2. 
 Roxburgh, Jfohn, Duke of, 277 I. 20. 
 Rubens' paintings, 366 1. 28. 
 Rucker, Hans, harpsicord maker, 407 
 
 1. 13. 
 
 Rudston, Dr. John, 217 1. 13. 
 Rumford, 349!. 5. 
 Russell, Dr. John, 321 n. 
 Russel, Lord, 323 1. 34. 
 Rustat, Tobias, 214 1. 21. 
 Rutherforth, Thos., 272 1. 3. 
 Rymer's Foedera, 357 1. 2, 359 1. 36, 
 
 385 1- 34- 
 
 Sacheverell, Dr., 12 1. 15, 235, 236 1. 6, 
 370 1. 18, 383 1. 18, 384 I. 8, 459 
 1. 29, 461 1. 4. 
 
 Sacheverell family, 236. 
 
 Saffron Walden, 324 1. 32, 325 1. 4. 
 
 Sagg, Sir W. S., 232 1. 15. 
 
 St. John, Sir Walter, 302 1. 37. 
 
 Salignac, 438 1. 34. 
 
 Sallust, 53, 275. 
 
 Salmon, Mrs., 514 1. 32. 
 
 Samon, Mrs., 368 1. 27. 
 
 Sancroft, Archbp., 521 1. 5 522 1. i. 
 
 Sanderson, Rob., 53 1. 4, 270, 528 1. 29. 
 
 Sanderson, Thos., 234 1. 2. 
 
 Sandlow, Mrs., 353 1. 4. 
 
 Sarbievius, M. Casimir, n 1. 17. 
 
 Sarpi, Paul, 412 1. 18. 
 
 Saunders, Dr., 260!. 3. 
 
 Sawyer, Edm , 226 1. 5. 
 
 Scheyon, violin master, 359 1. 26. 
 
 Schooten, Fras, 321 1. 7. 
 
 Schulz, watchmaker, 401 1. 6. 
 
 Sclater, Sir Thos., 415 1. 22. 
 
 Seaman, Mr., 518 1. 7. 
 
 Selden, John, 444 1. 12. 
 
 Seller, Abednego, 30, 267. 
 
 Seneca, 19 I. 13. 
 
 Shakespeare's Othello, 364 I. 32. 
 
 Sheldon, Archp., 526 11. 2, 24 ; 528 
 1. 29. 
 
 Sheppart, Domner, 318 1. 28. 
 
 Sherbourne, 406 I. 23. 
 
 Sherlock, Dr. Thos., 325 1. 27. 
 
 Short, Dr. Thos., 281 1. 21. 
 
 Shorting, Dr., 237 1. 23, 257 1. 23. 
 
 Shorten, Rob., 296 1. 26, 297 1. i. 
 
 Sinker, Dr. Rob., 155 n. 
 
 Slingsby, Sir Hen., 233 I. 33. 
 
 Sloane, Dr. Hans., 365 I. 22, 408 1. 13. 
 
 Smith, George, 297 1. 4. 
 
 Smith, John, engraver, 372 1. 26. 
 
 Smith, Jos., 206 1. 24. 
 
 Smith, Dr. Thos., 119 1. 20, 257 1. 24, 
 
 277 1. 4, 295 1. 36, 316 1. 22, 317 
 
 1. 4, 328 1. 14, 331, 357 1. 22. 
 Solanus, 328 1. 64. 
 Somers, John, Lord, 365 1. 34. 
 Somerset, Duke of, 126 1. 9, 399 1. 22. 
 Somner, Wm., 196 1. 18. 
 Southampton, Earl of, 170 1. 27. 
 Southwark glass factory, 372 1. 2. 
 Spanheim, Ez., 169 1. 23. 317 1. 33, 319 
 
 I. 9, 322 1. 36, 324 1. 13, 433 1. i. 
 Spencer, Dr. John, 519 11. 13, 26. 
 Spon, 387 1. 34. 
 
 Spycer, Ri. Andrew alias, 242 1. 35. 
 Stade, Dietrich von, 396 1. 4. 
 Stanhope, General, 396 1. 18. 
 Stephens, Thps., 304 I. 17. 
 Stevens. Wm., of Rotherhithe, 162 1. 4. 
 Stillingfleet, Edw., 272 1. 30, 300 1. 33, 
 
 424 ' 33- 
 
 Stokys' almswomen, 246 1. 27. 
 Strada, F., 206 1. 21. 
 Stratford, Dr. W., 316 1. 17, 323 1. 22. 
 Strerii, M., 206 1. 20 
 Strype, John, 223 1. 16, 295 1. 24, 447 
 
 Stubbs, Philip, 7 1. 20, 201 1. 27. 
 Stubbs, Samuel, 225 1. 15, 230 1. 8, 231 
 
 1. 22. 
 
 Sturbridge fair. See Cambridge. 
 Sudbury, 245 1. 22. 
 Suetonius, 19 1. 19, 53 1. 20, 253, 275 
 
 1. 20, 297 1. 20. 
 Suffolk, Earl of, 247 1. 33. 
 Suicer, J. H., 65, 285. 
 Suidas, 116 1. 23, 329 1. 8. 
 Swaart, Widow, 350 1. 24. 
 Sydenham, Sir P., 295 1. 22, 332 1. 31. 
 Syke, Dr. Hen., 197 1. 19, 256 1. 13, 
 
 352 I- 31- 
 Sykes, Dr. A. A., 423 1. 17, 465 1. 17, 
 
 466 1. 9, 467 1. 27, 469 1. 6. 
 
 Tacitus, 19 1. 21. 
 
 Tacquet 55 1. 30, 278 1. 25, 307 1. 12. 
 Talbot, Prof. James, 120!. 10, 338. 
 Taverner portrait, 357 1. 19. 
 Taylor, Dr. Brook, 277 I. 32. 
 Templer, Dr., 263 1. i. 
 Tenant, Mr., of Ely, 268 1. 3. 
 Tenison, Archbp., 305 I. 7, 317 1. 16, 
 
 318 1. 33, 367 1. 31, 307 I. 6. 
 Tentzel, 141 n., 143 n., 194 1. 8. 
 Terence, 106 1. 162.
 
 544 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Theobald, Fr., 304 1. 14. 
 Theocritus, 20 1. 30, 254 1. 13. 
 Theognis, 20 1. 30, 254 1. 13. 
 Theobald, Sir Fr., 518 1. 28. 
 Thiilby, Styan, 53 1. 3, 269, 286 1. 32, 
 
 459 1 5- 
 
 Thomas a Kempis, 19 1. 31, 53 1. 18, 
 128 1. 30, 253. 
 
 Thomas of Elmham, 164 1. i and n. 
 
 Thompson, Peter and Jas., 258 1. 7. 
 
 Thomson, Rich., 479 1. 14. 
 
 Thoresby, 295 1. 28, 418 1. 13, 449 1. 19. 
 
 Thornhill, Jas., 351 1. i. 
 
 Thriploe, 31 1. 7. 
 
 Thurlin, Thos., 264 1. 37. 
 
 Thwaites, Edw., 251 1. 21. 
 
 Thynne, Mrs., 29 1. 4, 266 1. 14. 
 
 Thynne, Thos., 266 1. n. 
 
 Tilfotson, Jo., 300 I. 32. 459 I. 37. 
 
 Tindaj, Fr., 145 1. 15, 450. 
 
 Tompion, barometer maker, 399 1. 28. 
 
 Tompson, Sir Peter, 445 1. 4. 
 
 Took, Benj , 223 1. 21. 
 
 Tothill, Mr., 217 1. 15. 
 
 Tothill fields, 396 1. 17. 
 
 Travers, Wtn., 436 1. 20. 
 
 Trevor, Sir John, 267 1. 13. 
 
 Trier, J. F. L., 528 1. 30. 
 
 Triplet, Thos., 480 1. 14. 
 
 Trumpington tavern, 240 1. 25. 
 
 Tuckney, Dr. Ant., 300 1. 28, 306 1. 2. 
 
 Tudway, Thos., 473 1. 17. 
 
 Turkey, 150 1. 14, 152 1. 3. 
 
 Turner, George, 363 1. 37. 
 
 Turner, Mr., 237 1. 17. 
 
 Turner, Bp., 238 1. 10. 
 
 Turner, Dr. Thos., 101 1. 10, 297. 
 
 Turton, Sir John, 450 1. 37. 
 
 Tyrrell, John, 53 1. 30, 276, 280 1. 8. 
 
 Uffenbach, Z. C., 273, 414, 444, 477 ; 
 Travels in England, 348 410 ; at 
 Cambridge, 123 198 ; notes, 411 
 517 ; Epist., 132, 153 ; Life, 341. 
 
 Upton, Jas., 251 I. 29. 
 
 Ussher, Archbp., 277 1. 2, 439 1. 20, 444 
 1. n. 
 
 Vaudois. See Waldenses. 
 
 Vauxhall, 371 1. 25. 
 
 Vedas, The, 150 n. 
 
 Velleius Paterculus, 137 1. 12, 426. 
 
 Verdon, Thos., 222 1. 11. 
 
 Villars, G. Vise. Grandison, 528 1. 26. 
 
 Vincent, Nath., 295 1. 21. 
 
 Vincenz, 372 1. 35. 
 
 Virgil, lo 1. 10, 53 1. 7, 117 1. 7. 
 
 Voider, Burchard, 314 1. 23, 315 1. 30. 
 
 Vischer, print-seller, 361 1. 3. 
 
 Vossius, Is., 53 1. 10, 148 1. 26, 408 1. 7. 
 
 Wagstaff, Dr. W., 96 1. 27, 291. 
 
 Wain, Chas., 524 1. 30. 
 
 Wake, Hen., 265 1. 18. 
 
 Waldenses MSS., 142 1. 23, 437. 
 
 Waller, Edmund, 291 1. 15. 
 
 Waller, John, 181 1. 10, 183 1. in, 184 
 
 1. 12, 185 1. 8, 10 ; 186 1. 9, 275 1. 4. 
 Wallis, John, 298 1. 2, 320 1. 20, 393 
 
 1. 28. 
 Walton, Brian, 488 1. 17, 497 1. i, 516 
 
 1. 3, 528 1. 12. 
 Wandering Jew, 194 1. 10. 
 Wanley, Humph., 231 n., 295 1. 29, 
 
 473 I- 17. 477 1- 8. 
 
 Wansleben, M., 527 1. 32, 528 1. 12. 
 Warburton, Wm, 204 1. 30. 
 Ward, Edward, 240 1. n, 410 1. 12. 
 Ward, Aid. Sir John, 13 1. 23, 237. 
 Ward, Samuel, 160 1. 6. 
 Ward, Bp. Seth, 366 1. n, 498 1. 37, 
 
 526 1. 7, 528 1. 30. 
 Warren, Rich., 207 1. 13, 208 1. 8, 256 
 
 1- 34- 
 
 Wase, Chr., 223 1. 24. 
 Wasse, Jos., 275 1. 18, 435 1. 21. 
 Waterhouse, 530 1. 29. 
 Waterland, 325 1. 24. 
 Watson, Samuel, clockmaker, 399 1. 30. 
 Wells, Edw., 251 1. 22. 
 Welsh common prayer, etc., 301 1.3. 
 Wendy, Lady Lettice, 272 1. 31. 
 Wesenbeck of Augsburg, 402 1. 13, 407 
 
 1. 18. 
 
 West, Francis, 237 1. 13. 
 West, Mr., 31 1. 9. 
 Westerreich, locksmith, 363 1. 21. 
 Wetstein, Hen., 368 1. 34, 285 1. 29. 
 Weymouth, Lord, 29 1. 3, 265 1. 31, 
 
 266, 447 1. 1 8. 
 
 Wharton, Hen., 211 n. 1. 4. 
 Whear, Degory, 391 1. 35. 
 Wheelocke, Abr., 489 1. 8, 512 1. 17. 
 Wheeler, Sir Geo., 387 1. 31. 
 Whewell, Wm., 271 1. 5, 272 1. 8. 
 Whichcote, Benj., 99 1. 13, 103 1. 3, 
 
 204 1. 3, 297. 
 Whichcote family, 306. 
 Whincup, Dr. John, 233 1. i. 
 Whincup, Dr. Thos., 8 1. 18, 12 1. i, 
 
 232. 
 Whiston, Wm., 53 1. 3, 106 1. 22, 120 
 
 1. 9, 178 1. 28, 236 1. 22, 250 1. 29, 
 
 269 1. 25, 278 1. 24, 287 1. 17, 307, 
 
 338. 
 
 Whitby, Dan., 53 1. 2, 269. 
 White, Mr., 383 1. 6. 
 White, Bp. Thos., 217 n. I. 9. 
 Whitfield, Geo., 235 1. 3. 
 Whitford, David, 278 1. 4. 
 Whitgift, John, 417 1. 4.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 541 
 
 Whttlock, B., 488!. 23. 
 
 Whitlock, John, 298 1. 15. 
 
 Whole Duty of Man, 10 1. 19, n 1. 14, 
 
 20 1. i, 47 1. i, 53 1. 19, 220 1. 30, 
 
 234, 253. 
 
 Widmore, R., 361 1. 26. 
 Wildman, Dorothy, 230 1. 27. 
 Wilkins, John, 276 1. 29, 299 1. 16, 300 
 
 . ' 5- 
 
 William, King, 219 1. 15, 312 1. 36. 
 William III., 372 1. 24. 
 Willjam, Elector Fred, 380 1. 14. 
 Williams, Bp., 129 1. 9, 316 1. 6. 
 Williams, Abp. J., 132 1. 2, 239 1. 13, 
 
 361 1. 30, 418 1. 12. 
 Williams, Mr., of Exeter Coll., 377, 
 
 11. 5, 10. 
 
 Wilson, Robt., 295 1. 4. 
 Windsor, Hon. Mr., 468 1. 4. 
 Windsor, 321 1. 33, 322 1. i, 366 1. 26, 
 
 395 1- 7- 
 
 Winny, Mrs., 230 1. 36. 
 Winstanley, Hen., 324 1. 26, 355 1. 27, 
 
 . 373 1- 35, 374 1- 3- 
 Winter, Cornelius, 299 n. I. 4. 
 Winterton, R., 251 1. 5, 254 1. 14. 
 Wit, J. de, 323 1. 4. 
 Wjtham, Pet., 160 n. 1. 4. 
 Witham, 409 1. n, 349 1. \. 
 Wolfe, Michael, 248 1. 32. 
 Wolfenbiittel, Prince of, 355 1. 23. 
 
 Womock, Lawrence, 469 1. 32. 
 Wood, Ant. A., 144 1. 17, 379 1. 32 
 
 391 1. 25. 
 
 Wood, Thos., 363!. 36. 
 Woodford, 324 1. 24. 
 Woodstock, 320 1. 18, 384 1. 22. 
 Woodward, Mr., 231 1. 7. 
 Woodward, Dr., 365 1. 27, 397 1. 28 
 
 401 1. 26, 402 1. 25, 404 1. 8, 408 1. 14 
 Worcester, Marquis of, 400 1. 20. 
 Worsley, 518 1. 7. 
 Worthj Archdeacon, 330 1. 26. 
 Worthington's diary, 239 1. 15, 299 1. 8 
 
 3016, 518 11. 836. 
 Worthington, Mrs., 305 1. i. 
 Wotton, Sir Heji., 251 1. 7. 
 Wotton, Hen., 425 1. 17, 453 . 25. 
 Wray. See Ray. 
 Wren, Sir Chr., 393 1. 27, 415 1. 26. 
 Wren, Dr., 365 1. 31. 
 Wren, Bp. M., 528 1. 2q. 
 Wulfe, 247 1. 15. 
 Wyat, Mr., 414 1. 2. 
 
 York, Duchess of, 217 1. 17. 
 Yorkshire cloth, 241 1. 33. 
 "You Man of Kent," 350 1. 28.. 
 
 Zinck of Dresden, 408 1. 10. 
 Z winger, Mr., 392 1. 10. 
 
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