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RELIQUIAE HEARNIAM^.

THE REMAINS OF
THOMAS HEARNE, M.A.,
OF EDMUND HALL,

EXTRACTS FROM HIS MS. DIARIES,
COLLECTED
WITH A FEW NOTES
BY PHILIP BLISS,
LATE FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, NOW PEINOIPAL OF ST. MART HALL,
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD'.

OXFORD:
PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR,
BY JAMBS WRIGHT, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY.
M.DCCC.LVII.

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July 24. Mr. Lewis0 assures me, that my lord
BuLingbrooke is a great villain, and that king James
turned him out of his court for being a spy, and be
traying his secrets. Indeed, as Mr. Lewis said, he
went over, by Marlborough's contrivance, purely to
be .a spy, and tho' he opposed Oxford in England,
yet it was only out of pretence of being on king
James's side, not out. of honesty ; Oxford indeed
being rather of that king's side, which is the true
reason, it may be, why Bullingbroke so much hated
him. But these are secrets. 'Tis certain Bulling-
broke's father is great in George's court, which 'tis
believed would not be, were his son for king James.
Aug. 25. Mr. Prynn's books^ having been made
use of for wast paper, begin now to be scarce, and
to be got into curious hands, purely for this reason,
because he commonly cites his vouchers for what he
delivers^ and thereby gives his reader an opportu
nity of examining the truth of them. Mr. Baker,
of Cambridge, believes his study hath more of Mr.

. - John Lewis was a bookseller in Covent-gardcn, and a papist. He was
for many years servant to king James the second in France, and afterwards
to the pretender, with whom he sailed for Scotland in queen Anne's time.
Soon after Hearne saw him at Oxford, Lewis was brought into trouble for
causing a pamphlet, entitled Vox Populi Vox Dei, to be printed. This was
judged to be a treasonable production, and the printer being compelled to
disclose his employer, Lewis left off trade, and retired into Denbighshire,
his native country, where, I fancy, he ended his days. The printer, Mat
thews, was tried, and being convicted of high treason, was hung at Tyburn,
6thNov.l719. The author of the pamphlet in question was supposed to be
Mr. Brewster, a barrister, and formerly a member of Balliol .college, who
died about the time that Lewis absconded into Wales.
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Prynne's books than any one of that university, and
he well remembers, that he sent up his Anti-Armi,
nianism to Mr. Strype, which he could not meet with
at London, when he was writing one of his books,
and yet it has two editions.
Sept. 8. On Saturday (Sept. 5.) came to Oxford
two of the daughters of Richard Cromwell, son of
Oliver Cromwell, protector, one of which is married
to Dr. Gibson, the physician, who writ the Ana
tomy; the other is unmarried. They are both pres-
byterians, as is also Dr. Gibson, who was with them.
They were at the presbyterian meeting-house in
Oxford on Sunday morning and evening ; and yes
terday they, and all the gang with them, dined at
Dr. Gibson's, provost of Queen's, who is related to
them, and made a great entertainment for them,
exspecting something from them, the physician being
said to be worth 30,000 libs. They went from Ox
ford after dinner.
Dec. 3. Tho. Morgan, gent, writ a little thing,
printed in 4to. called The Welchmen's Jubilee : to
the honour qf St. David, shewing the manner of
that solemn Celebration, which ihe Welchmen an
nually hold in honour of St. David. Describing
likewise the true and reall cause why they wear
that day a Leek on their Hats. With an excellent
merry Sonnet annexed unto it. He thinks the true
reason of wearing the leek is, because St. David al-

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ways when he went into the field, in martial exer
cise, carried a leek with him ; and being once almost
faint to death, he immediately remembered himself
of the leek, and by that means not only preserved
his life, but also became victorious. The author was
some merry fellow, and writ it to get a penny.
1719 — 20. Jan. 4. Sir Philip Sydenham tells me
that he hath had several estates belonging to the
church, and that he hath never had any satisfaction
or comfort with them, and that ever since their fa
mily had them, they have been decreasing, but be
fore flourishing and encreasing. He justly observes,
(in a letter to me, Dec. 26, 1719,) that sacrilege is
certainly a canker to all estates. But whereas their
bishop (Dr. Hooper, bishop of Bath and Wells) said,
in his hearing, that time wears out that sin, he
rightly judges that this is very doating. Mr. Eyston
was told by a man that lived within six miles of
Glastonbury, that the scite of the said abbey of
Glastonbury had not continued above twenty years
together in the same family since the dissolution p."
p General Monk (Duke of Albemarle) deemed it sacrilege to possess any
property that had been wrested from the church. In page 33 of Seth Ward's
sermon at his funeral, entitled, The Christian's Victory over Death, Lond.
1670, 4to. is this passage : " He (the duke) was a great detester of sacri-
ledge; he hath often told me with joy and resolution, that he never had, or
would have, in the compass of his estate, any part that had ever been de
voted to pious uses." Hearne, in another vol. (Ixxxvi. p. 95.) makes a very
singular exception to his general rule on this subject. " 'Tis an observation
that abbey lands thrive in the hands of Roman Catholicks, tho' not in the
hands of others ; Mr. Eyston says, that the abbey lauds in his own family
have prospered !"
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436 RELIQUIAE 1719—20.
Feb. 7. This day sennight died Mrs. Mead, wife
of my great and generous friend Dr. Richard Mead.
Many scandalous stories have been raised of this
lady, but I am well informed they are malicious and
false. For thus my worthy friend, Thomas Raw-
Hnson, esq. writes to me, in a letter, dated yester
day. " Ever since Monday (for on Sunday Mrs.
" Mead died) I have bin with the doctor from morn-
" ing to night, and never bin once at the coffee-
" house. She will be buried on Tuesday next,
" about which time, or thereabout, I hope to be
" abroad again. Mrs. Mead brought the doctor a
" very good fortune. She left him five children,
" four girls, and a son of about a yeare and a half
" old. 'Tis now a pretty many years I have had
" the honour to be intimately acquainted in the fa*
" mily, where I remarked him a good father and
" kind husband, and her a good wife. A deal of
" scandal ill people (Woodward or such fellowes)
" have uttered, but I never saw any grounds for it,
" tho' so constantly there. I found her an honour-
" able friend without falshood or disguise ; never
" heard worse things from her mouth, than such
" advice as a wise mother might give to even a fa-
" vored son. I thought this due to her character
" now dead, who have defended it while she lived,
" if at any time I found it, or barbarously attacked,
" or more insidiously whispered away."
Feb. 8. It is a custome now in London for all the

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tory clergy td wear their master's gowns, (if they
have proceeded in the degree of master of arts at
either of the universities,) which much displeases
the whiggs and the enemies of the universities, who
all go in pudding-sleeve gowns.
Feb. 18. Out of a letter from Mr. Baker, of Cam
bridge, dated the 16th of this month. " It will be
no news to tell you, that Dr. Snape (master of Ea
ton) is chosen provost of King's college, which, tho'
it be a good choice % yet, I doubt, they may loose
the court by it, and their hopefull expectations of a
new building. The late provost's' death was an un
happy blow to them ; all things were prepared and
adjusted, and he only wanted the ceremony of being
Introduced, when his sudden death dasht all."
March 23. Mr. Eyston told me, that Dugdale's
Baronage cost him but about 30 shillings, whereas
now it is worth about five libs. I gave four libs, for
one myself. He said he bought Dugdale's Warwick
shire for considerably under 30 shillings. The cata
logue of the MSS. of England and Ireland was sold
two days since, in an auction at Oxford, for 8s. It
is worth 17*.

1 Hearne says, in another place, " On Thursday, May 26 last, the Rev.
Dr. Andrew Snape resigned his place of head school-master of Eaton, upon
bis being elected provost of King's college, Cambridge, at which time he
made a most affectionate speech to the scholars, which drew tears from their
eyes." r Dr. Adams, who writ of self murther against Dr. Donne. T. H.
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June 26. Paucis abhinc annis Oxoniam venit sar-
tor quidam Norvicensis, Wilde nomine, commenda-
tus ab Humphr. Prideaux, et Thoma Tannero, hoc
cancellario, illo decano Norvicensi. Homo iste, oc-
cupatione relicta, nunc lingua? Arabicae operam dat,
quumque sit plane indefessus mirum est quantum in
eadem profecerit. Atque hoc eo magis est miran-
dum, quod lingua? Latinse et Graecse sit fere imperi-
tus, uti et eruditionis expers.
June 27. Brownus Willis mihi retulit, se habere
exemplar Godwini de prsesulibus, in quo perplures
emendationes ac additiones MSS. Sunt etiam alia
id genus exemplaria. Horum ope editio nobilissima
posset proferri, una cum continuatione ad nostra us
que tempora. Sed prsesulum aliquot pravitas obstat
quo minus typis ejusmodi opus mandetur.
July 29. A friend told me, that being once with
Dr. Charlett, the doctor told him, that the father of
one Stanhope, coming to Trinity college, Oxon. to
enter his son, had a mind to talk with Anthony a
Wood. Anthony happened to be in the college at
that time, and Charlett brought him to him. Stan
hope plaid upon him, and grinned, and pretended to
be witty, especially when he found Anthony thick
of hearing: which Charlett minding, told him se
cretly, (there being others in company,) Have a care,
for tho' he pretends to be deaf, he can hear some
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Mr. Wood, says he, what doe you remember of me ?
Of you, sir ? says Anthony. When was you entered
of this college ? Why, about such a time, says he.
Very well, replyes Anthony, " and one of your name
whispered Ann Green in the ear, when she was
hanged for murthering her bastard child." Stanhope
was nettled at this, and acknowledged that he was
met with by Anthony.
Aug. 7. Mr. Collins, of Magdalen college, tells
me, that Mr. Joseph Addison, of their college, (who
was afterwards secretary of state,) used to please
himself mightily with this prologue to a puppet-
shew: A certain king said to a beggar, What has't to
eat f JBeans, quoth the beggar. Beans ? quoth the
king. Yea, beans, I say, and so forthwith we
straight begin the play. Strike up, player.
Mr. Collins told me of this verse about drinking
thrice before smoking :
Ter bibito primum, post osfac esse caminum.
Mr. Collins told me, that he hath seen Mr. Josias
Howe's sermon, printed in red letters, and that Mr.
Jon. Beaucham, (commonly called Nie. Beaucham,)
late of Trinity college, had a copys.
Whereas Mr. Wood, Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 737- f
saith, that Mr. How was put out of his fellowship of
Trinity college by the parliamentarian visitors in
¦ See Appendix, No. XIII.
' Fasti Oxonienses, vol. ii. p. 96. ed. 4to.
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440 RELIQULE 17m
164iS, Mr. Collins thinks it is not so true. For he
saith, that Mr. How was then bursar of Trinity col.
lege ; that he carried off all the books, and went to
an estate in Buckinghamshire, where he staid a good
while ; that Dr. Harris, who was then put in head
of Trinity college by the parliamentarians, when
they wanted the books, sent to him, to return to the
college, promising to secure him. But an expulsion
from the powers was lodged in Harris's hands, and
Harris courted How so long, that at last he got the
books out of his hands, upon which he sighed and
lamented that he could not keep his promise to him,
and keep so ingenious a man in the college, and then
producing the expulsion, told him, he must leave the
college immediately, which accordingly he did, and
this was some time after 1648. *^
Wr
Aug. 26. Account of the death of Lionell Wal-
den, esq. a very worthy young gentleman, formerly
gentleman commoner of Christ Church, and one of
those that were taken at Preston, and afterwards
imprisoned at London.
Good Mr. Hearn,
I have very mucb longed for some pretence of
giving you the trouble of a letter, but must express
my deep concern for the melancholly occasion offered
at this time, which serves to acquaint you, that your
friend Mr. Walden, formerly gentleman commoner
of Christ Church, and nephew to Mr. Cotton, was
barbarously murthered at this place by one Forbes,

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from whom, in the heat of liquor, he had received
very abusive language, upon which blows ensued,
for the gentleman in whose chamber they were had
secured their swords ; but Forbes observing that one
ef the company who sleep'd upon the bed, had his
sword by his side, in a treacherous manner laid him
self down upon the bed, without the least suspicion
of the company, who imagined he intended to sleep,
while he was intent only upon stealing softly the
gentleman's sword (who sleeped) out of the scab
bard, with which he in a furious manner run upon
Mr. Walden, and gave him five wounds before any
of the company could come to his rescue, of which
wounds he dyed in a quarter of an hour after. I,
being the only acquaintance he or his uncle had in
this country, thought myself obUdged to look after
his body and effects, amongst which I found his
will, dated 20th last July, which I have just tran
scribed, and sent the copy over to his uncle, in
which will he has left you a legacy of 100/. by the
name of Mr. John Heron, late library-keeper at Ox
ford, which is sufficient in law, because you are de
scribed ; he has given Dr. Welton 200/. to the Rev.
Mr. Read, of Sheffield, 100/. to Mrs. Stone, daughter
to the under-warden of the Fleet prison, 100/. and
1000/. for two charity schools, one in the Isle of Ely,
another to be built in Huntington. * * *
Angers, 20 Nov. 1719.
Memorand. That after the receipt of this letter,
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442 RELIQUIAE 1720;
legacy would be paid me. Mr. Walden's body was
afterwards brought into England, and interred in
Huntingdonshire. Sept. 3. This morning Mr. Holdsworth, lately fel
low of Magdalen college, and now a non-juror, called,
upon me. He is a right worthy man, and hath been
lately at Rome. He shewed me the pictures of king
James III. and his queen. The queen is a very fine
lady. The king, he says, is a prince of admirable
sense, cheerfull, and finely shaped.
Sept. 20. Yesterday was a great foot-race at
Woodstock, for 1400 libs, between a running foot
man of the duke of Wharton's, and a running foot
man of Mr. Diston's, of Woodstock, round the four
mile course. Mr. Diston's man being about 25 years
of age, (and the duke's about 45,) got it with ease,
out distancing the duke's near half a mile. They
both ran naked, there being not the least scrap of
any thing to cover them, not so much as shoes and
pumps, which was looked upon deservedly as the
height of impudence, and the greatest affront to the
ladies, of which there was a very great number.
Oct. 18. My friend Thomas Rawlinson, esq. writes
me word, that my mentioning the desecration of holy
bones, puts him in mind ofthe care his grandfather*
Richard Tayler, esq. took at Chiswick, in Middle
sex. He, as the ill custom now is, purchased some

1720. HEARNIANjE. 443
ground in the church for a vault for his family. In
digging, it appeared they dip'd on some old charnel
house, or where casualty, or in the plague in some
other age, had strewed the place with sculls, and
other bones. He, with all the piety imaginable, jussit
defodi. He was a plain man of little learning, the
son of a yeoman of Taunton Dean, in Somersetshire,
but of good penetrating parts, and thought the fling
ing the bones of the dead in dunghills or such vile
places, (ut plerumque fit,) the highth of wickedness.
" This age (says my friend) wants monitors to good
ness, God knows, nay ev'n severe ones, to scare them
out of ill practises. I do my part in speaking, you,
whose pen is happier, by your immortal writings."
My friend writ this in a letter to me, upon occasion
of what I had said in my preface to Textus Roffen-
sis, which he had read with pleasure. " I have read
(saith he) your preface, which I like for being long,
for with Rutilius,
Nil unquam longum est, quod sine fine placet."
Nov. 11. On Wednesday night last (Nov. 9-) died,
in St. Giles's parish, Oxon, Dr. Hugh Wynne. This
worthy person, who took the degree of bachelor of
civil law, July 13, 1667, and that of doctor in the
same faculty, May 11, 1672, was deprived of his
fellowship of All Souls college, and of his chancellor
ship of St. Asaph, upon the late wicked revolution,
for his loyalty, since which he lived privately, for
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444 RELIQUIAE 1720.
but never published any thing. He was carried out
of town this morning to Blechingdon, six miles from
Oxon, and buried in the church there. He was the
first deprived in Oxford at the revolution, and the
thing was done about midnight, as I think I had it
from himself u. I have often heard him complain of
the ingratitude of the present warden of All Souls,
Dr. Gardiner, whom he assisted very much in his
encounters with the fellows, with relation to his
negative voice, the warden being not able to gain
his point without Dr. Wynne's directions, for which,
however, the warden afterwards slighted and de
spised him. This worthy doctor was the man also
that put a stop to the selling of fellowships in All
Souls college, as I have often heard him say ; and I
have as often heard him Hkewise say, that he always
voted for the poorest candidates for fellowships in
that college, provided they were equally qualified in
other respects ; a thing not practised now.
Nov. 22. About a fortnight or three weeks since
died at London, the lady Holford, widow of sir Wil
ham Holford, baronett. Her maiden name was Eli
zabeth Lewis, being the daughter of one Lewis, a
coachman, of Stanton St. John's, near Oxford. Being

" Dr. Wynne, the non-juror, tells me, that he was ejected his fellowship
on the 1st of November, in 1691, at eleven clock at night, without the least
warning, or crime alledged against him. He said he made no resignation,
nor gave any consent to the filling up his place. I told him I looked upon
him as fellow still, and that they owed him several years rent. He said
nothing. MS. Col. xxxvij. 163.

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a handsome, plump, jolly wench, one Mr. Harbin,
who belonged to the custom house, and was a mer
chant, and very rich, married her, and dying, all he
had came to her. For tho' she had a son by him,
who was gentleman commoner of Christ Church,
(and the only child, as I have been informed, she
ever had,) yet he died very young, to her great grief.
After this, sir William Holford married her, chiefly
for her wealth, (her beauty being then much de
cayed,) he being but poor himself, but dyed before
her, and what he had came to his son, sir William
Holford, who dyed not a year agoe, being bachellor
of arts, and fellow of New college, a rakish, drunken
sot, and would never acknowledge his mother in
law, for which she allowed him nothing, and so he
dyed poor. This woman dyed very rich, (in the
70th year or thereabouts of her age,) and hath left
a vast deal to several charitable uses. She was bu
ried on Thursday night, (Nov. 17.) in great state, in
the church of St. Alhallows, Stayning, near that of
sir William, her late husband. The blew-coat boys
belonging to Christ Hospital walked before the corps
in procession, singing of psalms ; and twenty-seven
clergymen attended at the funeral.
Nov. 30. The twenty-seven clergymen who at
tended, on the 17th inst. at the funeral of the lady
Holford, had each a legacy of 10/. left by her lady
ship. Besides which, she has left eleven exhibitions
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446 RELIQUIAE 1720—21
on Charter House scholars only, such as were bred
on the foundation, and sent by the election of the
governors of the Charter House to the university of
Oxford. Five of these exhibitions are to be in
Christ Church, two in Pembroke college, two in
Worcester college, and two in Hart hall. Any scho
lar bred in the Charter House foundation, being an
undergraduate in what college soever, is capable of
being chosen ; and these elections are to be made
after publick examinations of the candidates in the
halls of the said colleges, and the persons thus
chosen are to hold the said exhibitions no longer
than eight years.
Dec. 28. Edmund archbishop of Canterbury, com
monly called St. Edmund, founded the Virgin cha
pell" in Oxford, as I find by a letter of the univer
sity of Oxford to the pope, in an old MS. in sir Ed
ward Deering's library, lent me by Mr. Anstis, which
MS. contains matters about Canterbury.
1720 — 21. Jan. 12. Some years before I came to
Oxford, there was at Oxford and many other places
of England, a man that would eat all manner of
flesh, even the worst carrion, and never be satisfyed.
Some of Oxford have told me they have seen him
* The chapel of the blessed Virgin Mary is the second house northwards
from New College lane, and was purchased a few years since by the dele
gates of the Clarendon press, in order to increase that establishment. Some
remains of its antiquity are still visible, particularly the sculptures over the
late entrance (now a window), representing the Virgin, with attendant figures.

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take stinking carrion from dunghills and devour it.
Nor would he matter whether it was raw or not.
They say that they never heard any other account
of his coming to this strange, unnatural habit, (for it
was not natural,) than that he once attempted to fast
hke our Saviour all the 40 days of Lent, without
eating any thing, but that being not able to do it,
he was taken with this unnatural way of eating^.
Jan. 19. Last night I heard Mr. Samuel Parker
say, that some years agoe Mr. Jer. Collier said to
this effect, That we must come as near the papists
as we can, that they may not hurt us.
Jan. 21. I have been told, that in the last great
plague at London2 none that kept tobaconist's shops
y There is a very curious account of one Nicholas Wood, whose propen
sity to devour all that came in his way was very similar to what Hearne re
cords ; this man was called " the great eater of Kent," and his life was writ
ten by Taylor, the water-poet, and published under that title (Lond. 1630.) in
a thin quarto pamphlet, to be found in St. John's college library.
1 The earliest treatise on the plague, in English, that I have met with, is
a quarto of twelve leaves, without date, place, or printer's name, but in all
probability printed by Machlinia, A passing gode lityll Soke necessary e and
behouefull azenst the Pestilence. It is a translation from the Latin of Rami-
cus, bishop of Arusiens, in Dacia, Regimen contra Epidimiam siue Pestem,
of which there are two editions, printed in the Gothic character, in the Bri
tish Museum. The translation, printed by Machlinia, has been noticed by Mr.
Dibdin in his Typographical Antiq. ii. 19, where a fac-simile plate of a
second title, and an extract from the work, are given : from this there ap
pear to have been two editions of the English book by the same printer, as
Mr. Dibdin's plate and extract differ in many typographical particulars from
the copy formerly in sir Hans Sloane's collection, and now in the Museum.
Among other remedies, cleanliness, constant washings, and temperance are
strictly enjoined, and the good bishop, well knowing how much the well-
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448 RELIQUIAE 1720—21.
had the plague. It is certain, that smoaking it was
looked upon as a most excellent preservative. In so
" to be mery in the herte is a grete remedie for helth of the body: therfore
in time of this grete infirmite beware ye drede not deth, but lyue merely and
hope to lyue longe." This same work was afterwards translated by Thomas
Paynell, at that time canon regular of Merton abbey, who, in addition to
the matter to be found in the former translation of Ramicus's book, gives a
short paragraph on urines, and another concerning a certain disease ; the
whole printed by Berthelet in 1534, small 8vo. Another early writer on
this subject was John Vandernote, sworn physician to the lord Suffolk, and,
as he himself boasts, " admitted by the kinge his highnes." His work was
called The Gouernance and Presentation of them that feare ike Plage:
' ' now newly set forth at the request of William Barnard, of London, draper."
Imprinted at London by Wyllyam How, for Abraham Ueale, 1569, 8vo. A
large portion of Vandernote's book is taken from Ramicus, who seems the
grand source from which all succeeding writers drew their information. But
one of the most curious, as well as entertaining, tracts on this doleful sub
ject, was, A Diatbgve bothe pleasaunt. and pietifull, wherein is a godlie
regiment against the Feuer Pestilence. This was licensed in 1563, and
was probably first printed in 1564, the date of the dedication, although no
earlier edition of it is as yet known, than one, by Jhon Kingston, in 1573,
(erroneously registered by Herbert as 1578,) small 8vo. It was written^
William Bullein, a physician of eminence, practising, as Mackenzie says, at
Durham, though I can find no evidence to that effect. He was author of
several other medical books, most, if not all, of which are written in dia
logue, and enlivened by poetical digressions, and merry stories, together
with much good and profitable religious instruction. In the Dialogue on the
Pestilence is a curious allusion to some of our old English poets, who, in
company with Homer, Hesiod, Ennius, and Lucan; are depicted on " a
sweete conduite in the middest" of a rich patient's garden. " And nere
theim satte old Morall Goore, with pleasaunte penne in hande, commendyng
honeste loue without luste, and pleasure without pride; holinesse in the
cleargie without hypocrisie ; no tyrannie in rulers, no falsbode in lawiers,
no usurie in marchauntes, no rebellion in the commons, and vnitie emong
kyngdomes. Skelton satte in the corner of a piUer, with a frostie bitten
face, frownyng, and is scante yet cleane cooled of the cholour kin-
deled againste the cankered curd i n all Wolsey ; writyng many a sharpe disti-
cons, with bloudie penne, againste hym, and sente theim by the infernall
riuers Styx, Flegiton, and Acheron, by the feriman of helie, called Charon,
to the saied cardinail. How the cardinail came of nought,
And his prelacie solde and bought,
And where suche prelates bee
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much, that even children were obliged to smoak.
And I remember, that I heard formerly Tom Rogers,
And spirituall dignitee,
Farewell benignitee,
Ferewell simplicitee,
FareweU bumanitee,
Farewell good charitee.
Thus parunm literatus
Came from Rome gatus,
Doctor Dawpatus
Scante a bachelaratus :
And thus Skelton did ende
With Wolsey his frende.
Wittie Chaucer satte in a chaire of gold couered with roses, writyng prose
and risme, accompanied with the spirites of many kynges, knightes, and
faire ladies, whom he pleasanntly besprinkeled with the sweete water of the
welle, consecrated vnto the muses, ecleped Aganippe, and, as the heauenly
spirite, commended his deare Brigham for the worthy entffbyng of his bones,
worthie of memorie, in the long slepyng chamber of moste famous kinges.
Euen so in tragedie he bewailed the sodaine resurrection of many a noble
man before their time, in spoilyng of epitaphes, wherby many haue loste
their inheritaunce. And further thus he saied, lamentyng,
Couetous men do catche all that thei maie haue,
The felde and the flocke, the tombe and tbe graue.
And as thei abuse riches and their graues that are gone,
The same measure thei shall haue euery one.
Yet no buriall hurteth holie men, though beastes them deuour,
Nor riche graue preuaileth the wicked, for all yearthly power.
Lamentyng IAdgate, lurking emong the lilie with a balde skons, with a
garlande of willowes about his pate : booted he was after sainct Benets guise,
and a blacke staraell robe, with a lothlie monsterous hoode hangyng back-
warde, his stoopyng forward bewailyng euery estate, with the spirite of
prouidence. Forseyng the falles of wicked men, and the slipprie seates of
princes, the ebbyng and flowyng, the risyng and falling of men in auctoritie,
and how vertue do aduance the simple, and vice ouerthrow the most noble of
the worlde. And thus he said,
Oh noble princes, conceiue and doe lere
The fall of kynges for misgouerncre,
And prudently peisyng this matter,
Vertue is stronger then either plate or maile :
Therefore consider when wisedome do counsaile,
Chief preseruatiue of princely magnificence
Is to almightie God to doe due reuerence.
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who was yeoman beadle, say, that when he was that
year, when the plague raged, a school-boy at Eaton,
all the boys of that school were obliged to smoak in
the school every morning, and that he was never
whipped so much in his Ufe as he was one morning
for not smoaking.
Jan. 29- Mr. Rich. Baxter writ, at the request
of Edward Stephens, esq. Additional Notes on the
Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale, printed at
London, 1682, 8vo. in which are some remarkable
passages. The said Mr. Stephens was the published
of sir Matthew's Contemplations, and his familiar
frienda- In page 38, he observes, that sir Matthew
had a great distaste of the books called A Friendly
Debate, &c. and Ecclesiastical Polity. Page 40,
he notes that he greatly valued Mr. Selden, who
Then Bartlet, with a hoopyng russet long coate, with a pretie hoode in
his necke and fine knottes vpon his girdle, after Frances trickes. He was
borne beyonde the cold riuer of Twede. He lodged vpon a swete bed of
chamomill, vnder the sinamnm tree : about hym many shepherdes and shepe,
with pleasaunte pipes : greatly abhorryng the life of courtiers, citezeins,
usurers, and banckruptes, &c. whose olde daies are miserable. And the
estate of shepherdes, and countrie people, he accoumpted moste happie and
sure, saiyng, Who entretb the court in yong and tender age
Are lightly blinded with folie and outrage :
But suche as enter with witte and grauitie,
Bowe not so sone to suche enormitie,
But ere thei enter, if thei haue learned nought,
Afterwardes vertue the least of their thought."
In his Gouernement of Healthe, 8vo. 1558, are several pieces of Bullein's
original poetry, particularly " Verses against surfeting, comending moderate
diet," which abound in good rules not inelegantly expressed; and in the
same volume is an original wood-cut portrait of the author.
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1720—21. HEARNIAN3E. 451
was a great adversary to Hobbs, whom he (Selden)
would oppose so earnestly, as either to depart from
him, or drive him out of the room. Page 43. What
he was as a lawyer, a judge, a Christian, is so well
known, that I think for me to pretend that my tes- .
timony is of any use, were vain. I will only tell
you what I have written by his picture, in the front
ofthe Great Bible which I bought with his legacy, in
memory of his love and name : viz. Sir Matthew
Hale, that unwearied student, that prudent man,
that solid philosopher, that famous lawyer, that
pillar and basis of justice, (who would not have
done an unjust act for any worldly price or mo
tive,) the ornament of his majestie's government,
and honour qf England; the highest faculty qf
the soul qf Westminster-hall, and pattern to all
the reverend and honourable judges ; that godly,
serious, and practical Christian, the lover of good
ness and all good men ; a lamenter of ihe clergie's
selfishness, and unfaithfulness, and discord, and of
ihe sad divisions following hereupon ; an earnest
desirer of their reformation, concord, and the
churche 's peace, and of k reformed act of uni
formity, as ihe best and necessary means thereto ;
that great contemner qf the riches, pomp, and
vanity ofthe world ; that pattern of honest plain
ness and humility, who, while he fled from the ho
nour that pursued him, was yet lord chief justice
ofthe king's bench, after his being long lord chief
baron ofthe exchequer; living and dying, entring
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on, using, and voluntarily surrendring his place of
judicature, with the most universal love, and ho
nour, and praise, that ever did English subject in
this age, or any that just history doth acquaint us
with, &/c. 8%c. c\c. This man, so wise, so good, so
great, bequeathing me in his testament the legacy
of forty shillings, meerly as a testimony of his
respect and love, I thought this book, the testament
of Christ, the meetest purchase by that price, to
remain in memorial of the faithful love^ which he
bare to his inferiour and unworthy, but honouring
friend, who thought to have been with Christ before
him, and waiteih for the day of his perfect con
junction with the spirits of the just made perfect.
Richard Baxter.
Feb. 1. My friend the hon. Ben. Leonard Cal
vert13, esq. writes me word in a letter, (Jan. 17 last,)
b Hearne's great friend, the honourable Benedict Leonard Calvert, was
second son of Benedict Leonard George, fourth lord Baltimore, by his wife
the lady Charlotte, eldest daughter of Edward Henry Lee, earl of Litchfield,
and Charlotte Fitzroy, one of the natural daughters of king Charles the se
cond, by Barbara Villiers, duchess of Cleveland. He was born Sept. 7,
1700, appointed governor of Maryland in 1727, and died on his passage
home, June 1, 1732.
In June 1718, Mr. Calvert, with his brother lord Baltimore, made a short
tour in France. Previously to sailing from Woolwich, he wrote a few lines
to his brother antiquary, which Hearne stuck into one of his pocket-books,
with the following note : " I preserve this letter out of the great respect I
have for him, upon account of his quality, his virtues, and his skill and dili
gence in antiquities. It is an addition to my troubles to lose the conversa
tion of so accomplished a person. But I believe the journey may be for his
benefit, and for that reason I am very content, lxvii. 86." Mr. C re
turned to England in August. " This night (Aug. 16) returned to Oxford
very safe (for which I bless God) my dear, excellent friend, the honourable
Benedict Leonard Calvert, esq. He hath been at Callais, Diep, and other

1720—21. HEARNrANiE. 453
that a gentleman of his acquaintance lately shew'd
him an Oihds coyn which was surreptitiously taken
from a collection abroad. It seems to have had a
greenish rust upon it, which is much worn off by
the gentleman's carrying it in his pocket. On one
side is Otho's head with this inscription : imp.
otho. caesar. aug. tri. pot. On the other an
altar with soldiers joyning hands, with a priest or
some other person in a long robe. The inscription
secvritas. p. r., at the bottom s. c. About the size
of half a crown. It is very fair and well struck.
Feb. 14. Copy of an authentick MS. paper com
municated to me to-day by Mr. John Leak the
non-juror :
" D. J. Paris, January 25, 1721.
The Chevalier de St. George's lady began to have
pains and approaches from the 27th of Decr. N. S.,
but they discontinued, and went off till the 30th:
from that morning she was in hard labour till the
next evening, at 5 a clock, that she was brought to
bed of a son. Great numbers of people of quality,
and amongst others the governour and magistrates
of the city, waited and were present all those two
days. The child was christned an houre after by
the bishop of Montefiesconi, who had married the
places. He hath made many pertinent remarks in his journey " In 1725,
Mr. Calvert visited Paris. He drew up an exact pedigree of his family, with
their arms tricked by his own pen, which he gave to Hearne. He addressed
also some half-dozen metrical epitaphs to him, (none of them worth preser
vation,) which will be found in vol. lxxxii. 130. See more under Aug. 7, 1732.
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parents. The pope had no meddling in the matter.
The names of the child are chiefly four, Charles,
Louis, Edward, Casimir. This last in regard to
John Casimir Sobietzki, king of Poland. John
would have lookt as an Enghsh name, and the
Johns both of England were but unfortunate. The
first of these four, Charles, is the name he is to goe
by. This is reckon'd prudent enough. Charles
the first is acceptable to the high church of Eng
land, and Charles the second to the gay and free1
spirited. He is said to be a healthy, beautifull, and vi
gorous child. All letters from there speak with rap
ture. And the Jacobites in this country are trans
ported. They pretend that this answers the com
mon objection that was in Brittain, both among to
ries and whigs, Who will risk his all for a single
person or a single life?
The rejoicings have been great in many places of
Italy and Savoy, and France. In Lyons, Avignon,
Orleans, extraordinary. At St. Germain s no wonder
they should. The burgers there, I mean the French,
came under armes to the bonfires, to the number of
3000, and the troop of guards, of the due de
Noailles, which is the Scotish troop, went about and
fir'd till three in the morning. The due lives there.
The news came first to the court of France. When
the mareschaU de Villeroy read an account to the
young king, the king jump'd and clapt his hands ;
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part, that the child was strong and vigorous, the
king said, Ah, voila le bon endroit.
The regent said Uttle, but even all his court were
joyfull. The due de Chartres drank the prince of
Wales's health to the princess of Conte, where he
supt that night that the news came. Enfin, I can
not express the joy that is in this country.
Severall communities have had Te Deums. The
Scotts college a very handsom one ; where many
ladies and others went, some no doubt out of cu
riosity, and to wait on the ladies. Protestants, you
know, are not oblig'd to join in any words in wor
ship but what they approve of, and Christians go to
the mosques in Constantinople.
I am telling you what these neutral people here
say, for their curiosity to hear musick and see fire
works, and gallante ladies, so you need not be scan-
daliz'd to hear of any body's being there.
The princess, the mother of the child, was in a
very good way, tho' she had suffer'd much. She
was brought to bed upon chairs, if that is not a
bull." Feb. 19. The former part of this winter was the
warmest that ever I knew in my life, insomuch that •
it was just like midsummer, and much beyond what
'tis generally at spring. Things sprung and blos
somed most strangely, beans and pease, as well as
other things : insomuch, that a friend hath writ me
word from Berkshire, that at Christmas last there
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456 RELIQUIiE 1720—21'.
was a pear tree not far from Bracknell near Ocking- ,
ham in that county, that was in full bloom, as white
as a sheet, and a winter pear too. After this un
seasonable warm weather, it began to freeze very
hard on Jan. 30th last, and so continued without in
termission till yesterday, Feb. 18c.
March 1. On Thursday last (Feb. 23) the barons
of the exchequer gave judgment in a cause which
had been several years depending between the duke
of Marlborough, and a number of masons, carpen-.
ters, joiners, &c. on a demand of 7300/. and up
wards, for work done to Blenheim-house in Oxford
shire. It appeared by the papers produced, that the
duke had above 230,000/. impass'd to him from her
late majesty to defray the expence of building the
said house. There were eight council on a side.
The barons of the exchequer gave it as their opi
nion, that his grace ought to pay the money, and
not the crown, the workmen having not any legal
pretence to demand their wages of any but his
grace. March 2. This day I walked over to Bay worth
in the parish of Sunningwell, near Abbington in
Berks, and took a view of Mr. Baskerville's house,
which indeed is a brave old thing, full of all conve
niences, and as pleasant a place as need be desired.
c On Thursday, Feb. 23. it freez'd very hard again, and so continued till
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1720—21. HEARNIAN^;. 457
What I chiefly went for was to see the two foUo
MSS. written by old BaskerviUe, which I have be
fore mentioned d. I was shew'd them by Mrs.
Giles, wife of one Mr. GUes, a farrier of Oxford,
which Mr. GUes was left executor by young Mr.
BaskervUle. 'Tis a medley of merry stuff, which
shews the coUector to have been a madman ; but I
cannot think he was quite so mad as to have printed
it, whatever he might give out. AU SunningweU
and Bayworth belonged to BaskervUle, as did also
the presentation to the parsonage of SunningweU,
but now aU is come to Sir John Stonehouse, and
God knows how long it may continue with him.
For being abbey land, I do not doubt but a curse
wUl go with it as long as it continues in lay-hands.
'Tis true, old BaskervUle, (who made the said coUec
tion,) tho' a whimsical man, yet mightUy improv'd
the estate, but then his son spent aU, died heart
broken, (occasion'd by thinking what he had done,)
and now the famuy is exstinct.
March 28. It always grieves me when I go
through Queen's coUege, to see the ruins of the old
chapeU next to High-street, the area of which now
lyes open (the buUding being most of it pull'd down)
and trampled upon by dogs, &c, as if the ground had
been never consecrated. Nor do the Queen's coU.
people take any care to hinder or preserve it from
prophanation, but rather laugh at it when 'tis meh-
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458 RELIQUIAE 1720—21.
mention'd, tho' 'tis certain that much greater men
are buried there than ever wiU be buried in their
new chapell.
April 22. This day se'nnight between six and
seven in the evening, the pretended princess of
Wales was safely delivered of a prince (as he is
caUed) at Leicester-house ; the news of which was
immediately proclaimed by discharging the park
and tower guns ; the people in several parts of tbe
tower express'd their joy by bonfires , illuminations,
and ringing of beUs, and on this occasion, three or
four hogsheads of wine were given away at the gate
of the said Leicester-house.
Monday, Humphrey Parsons, esq. alderman of
Portsoken-ward, and William Billers, esq., one of
the sheriffs for London and Middlesex, waited on
his [pretended] royal highness with the city's com
pliment of congratulation, on account of the birth of
his son. And in the evening his [pretended] ma
jesty [K. George] visited her [pretended] royal
highness and the [pretended] young prince.
The next day the house of commons waited
on the [pretended] king at St. James's, with an
humble address, to congratulate his [pretended]
majesty on the birth of his grandson. As did
also the lord mayor and court of aldermen. The
house of commons hkewise sent a congratulatory
letter to their [pretended] royal highnesses on this
occasion.

1721. HEARNIANjE. 459
May 15. Out of a letter I received last night
from Mr. Anstis :
" Pray was not the famous Sir John Fastoff a
benefactor to your university in general, or at least
to Magdalen college ? If you know any thing thereof,
pray impart the same."
This day I went to Mr. Collins of Magdalen, and
mentioning the said querie to him, he told me he
had heard that Sir John gave 1500 hbs per an. in
Norfolk and Suffolk to the coUege.
This, he said, is certain, that he gave to the seven
senior demies a penny a week for augmentation of
! their vests, which being nowadays but a smaU pit
tance, those that have it are caU'd by such as have
it not, Fastoff' s buckram mene.
'. ¦—,
May 21. From the prints of last night : " On
• Tuesday last, (May 16,) the right hon. the house of
I lords heard a cause that had been long depending
i between the lord bishop of Rochester, appeUant, and
; Dr. Friend, respondent, about the place on which
the dormitory belonging to Westminster school shaU
i be rebuUt : and their lordships gave it in favour of
, the former."
! I am told the bishop of Rochester had twenty-
eight, and Dr. Friend twenty-six. It is very re
markable, that, a considerable time since, Dr. Friend
himself was of the bishop's opinion in this case,
and that he quite came over to the bishop, but the
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460 RELIQUIAE 1721/
bishop of Chester and Dr. Stratford (who cannot
endure the bishop of Rochester) perswaded him to
alter his mind, and to push the matter on against
the bishop, which now is very justly given for the
bishop, to the great regret of the bishop of Chester,;
Dr. Stratford, and some others.
May 23. Dr. King, principal of St. Mary haU, told
me yesterday, that Jordanus Bruno's book, which
went at such a prodigious price in Charles Bernard's;
auction, is translated into Enghsh, that he is ac
quainted with the translator, (who, he said, is now in
Oxford, and is a Scotchman, as I think he added,)
but that he had not liberty of telling his name. He
said the translator had presented him with a copy
of it, and that there were not above forty copies
printed f. j
f The book here alluded to was the Spaccio delta Besta Triomfante of
Jordan Bruno, printed in 8vo. 1584, which was sold to Mr. Walter Clavel,
(Mr. Crynes says, " against Burnett") for twenty-eight pounds, it wai
bound with another tract by the same author, and stauds No. 1005 of Ber
nard's Catalogue, 8vo. 1711. Bruno's work was called into notice by a let
ter from Toland to Bayle; Toland discovered a copy of it in 1696, which he
shewed, he says, to several persons, but never gave a copy of it. Having
represented it to be " as dangerous as impious, and proper only for such
persons, who, by their good sense and strength of reason, are proof against
all sophisms," it was naturally diligently inquired after, and eagerly coveted
when found. It seems however, that the extreme danger apprehended by
Toland from the diffusion of Bruno's principles was unfounded, for Bracket
has clearly proved, that although his opinions were fanciful and extravagant,
they were in no degree atheistical. His crime indeed was Lutheranism, a
crime too atrocious to admit of any clemency from the severity of a popish
inquisition, and the author was accordingly burnt at the stake, and his
writings prohibited. From the time that the innocence of Bruno's book was
made public, its value has decreased in proportion, and at Dr. Mead's sale
in 1754, it produced only from four to five guineas. It had been sold for

1721. HEARNIAN.E. 461
May 26. Mr. John Murray of London being in
Oxford, he told me last night, that he hath an edit.
of Fabian's Chronicle with wooden cuts, and that
this edit, was suppress'd by card. Wolsey. He told
me, that he hath got Caxton's Aurea Legenda, and
that it cost him above four pounds. He told me he
gave a guinea for Percie Enderbie's Hist, qf
Wales, which he met with now since he was in Ox
ford. This is but a poor book. He told me he
gave three guineas for Dugdale's Warwickshire.
I bought two for fifty shillings a-piece. He told me
he gave a most noble copy of the Bishops' Bible to
Mr. Baker of Cambridge, and that Mr. Baker in
heu of it gave him the Decern Scriptores, which
cost him 20*., tho' tis now worth three libs ; and
that Mr. Baker let my lord Harley have this Bible
afterwards, with many other curious books, being
much Importuned to do so. Mr. Murray tells me
that Thomas Jett, of London, esq. hath Rich. Why te
deBasingstockio's Hist. Angl. in ten books, whereas
I never heard before but of nine. He gave two
guineas for it. Mr. Granger's copy of London hath
only nine books, and he gave 15*. for it.
June 2. The reason why they cannot give so
fifty. The curious reader will find a long account of it, with several extracts,
in the English Bale, under the article Bruno, and a very masterly examina
tion of the author's principles and opinions in Brucker's Historia Critica
Philosbphiee, Lips. 1767. The English translation mentioned by Hearne
was printed in 1713, under the title of The Expulsion of the triumplumt
Beast, a copy of which, at Mr. Perry's sale in 1822, produced only nine
shillings and sixpence. See page 234.

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RELIQUliE 1721.

good an account of the benefaction of sir John Fal-
stolf to Magd. coU. is, because he gave it to the
founder, and left it to his management, so that 'tis
suppos'd 'twas swaUow'd up in his own estate that
he settled upon the coUege. However, the college
knows this, that the Boar's Head in Southwark;
which was then an inn, and still retains the name,
tho' divided into several tenements, (which bring the
college 150 libs per ann.) was part of sir John's
gift. They also know, that Caldecot mannour in
Suffolk was another part of his gift ; and some say,
that he gave an estate in the same county, now
called Lovingland, but anciently Lothingland^.
June 3. Mr. Laurence Eachard having published
the History of England 'in three volumes fol., aiida
new edition being caUed for, hath put out a separate
appendix for the use of such as have the former
edition.. In which appendix, bearing date in Jan.
1711, he notes, that he began to be a pubhsher of
books in the eighteenth year of his age, and that he
was then forty-eight ; and he tells us withaU, that
he is so regardless of fame, that he is very desirous
that his own books should be utterly destroyed and
forgotten, upon condition better may appear in their
places. This History of England is dedicated to
king George. 'Tis but a shght performance, (tho'
there are some remarkable things irr it as to later
c The said account I had this morning from Mr. Collins of Magd. coll.
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1721. HEARNIAN.E. 463
times,) as aU Mr. Eachard's things are, being done
chiefly to please novices, and not adapted to such as
search deeply into our histories and antiquities. The
author hath always made use of common printed
books, and not taken care to make himself ac
quainted with our old MSS. and records.
June 17. We learn from the publick prints, that
Dr. Fiddes, who is publishing the life of Cardinal
Wolsey, by subscription, has this week put out a
true copy of the duke of Buckingham's epitaph, with
a vindication of it. The said epitaph, from the said
paper or book of the doctor's, is thus inserted in the
prints : Pro rege saepe
Pro republica semper.
Dubius, sed non improbus, vixi :
Incertus morior, sed inturbatus.
Humanum est errare, et nescire.
Christum adveneor, Deo confido
Omnipotenti, benevolentissimo.
Ens entium miserere mei.
Much for the prerogative,
Ever for my country.
I liv'd irregular, not abandon'd.
Tho' going to a state unknown,
I die resign'd.
FraUty and ignorance attend on human hfe.
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464 RELIQUIAE 1721.
Almighty, and most merciful.
O! thou Principle of aU Beings, have pity on me!
June 18. I thought, at first, that the said account
of Dr. Fiddes's performance had. been a banter ; but
upon inquiry I found it true, a gentleman telling
me, that the Doctor had certainly published such
a thing, that he was a trifler, and, as he believes, put
upon it by Dr. Charlett.
July 7. I bought some years agoe the Scotch
Black Acts of Fletcher the bookseUer, for 17#. for
my friend John Bridges, esq. h I understand that
'tis worth at least 10 libs, tho' Mr. Bateman, whom
I take to be the most understanding bookseUer, (and
he is a man too of great honesty,) teUs me, (he being
now in Oxford^) that 'tis not worth above 5 or 6 libs.
Rymer's Fcedera is now look'd upon as cheap at
100 hbs.
Aug. 17. I am told that Dr. Robinson, the pre
sent bishop of London, was of very mean parentage;
that he went for some time to plough ; that after
wards he was put to a trade, but his master finding
him more inclin'd to books than business, got hira
to Oxford to Brasennose coUege, where he was ser-
vitour to sir James Astrey, who was extremely kind
to him. Afterwards he became feUow of Oriel col
lege, was agent and envoy in Sweden, made bishop
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1721. HEARNIAN.E. 465
of Bristol and a plenepotentiary in Queen Anne's time,
which Queen also made him bishop of London.
This bishop, out of gratitude to sir James Astrey,
hath made Dr. Astrey (son to sir James, and late
feUow of Merton coUege) his chaplain, and given
him two hvings. It must however be known, that
notwithstanding this bishop when young, as is said,
was so bookish, yet he is no great scholar, his head
lying reaUy more to secular affairs than to learn
ing. By his imployments and preferments he hath
heaped up vast riches. He hath founded some
scholarships at Oriel coUege, and put up a piece of
buUding there for those scholars.
Aug. 18. There is just come out a httle thing in
8yq. about Inoculating the Small Pox, it being the
lopinion of some, that such as have it by inoculation
jare nothing near so dangerously sick as otherwise.
Experiments are to be made upon some malefactors
in Newgate.
Sept. 1. Yesterday morning, about seven clock,
died in the 49th year of his age, John KeU, M. D.
and Savilian professor of astronomy in the univer
sity bf Oxford. He died at his house in HolyweU,
having taken coach to go to-day with his wife to the
Bath. Some months since he happened to have a
faU in his house, and very much hurt his right arm :
since which time he hath not been right weU. But
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466 RELIQUIAE 1721.
is said) was drinking late on Saturday night last at,
his own house, where he entertained, with wine and
punch, the vice-chancellor, sir Tom Gifford, and
some others. He was at HolyweU church with, his
wife on Sunday last, and invited the minister home
with him to dinner. On Monday he was about the
town, but was taken extremely iU on Tuesday, and
so continued. This Dr. KeU (who was incorporated
M. A. as a member of BaUiol coUege,) from Edih-
borough on Feb. 2, 1694, was an ingenious man and
an exceUent mathematician, and succeeded Mr. John
CasweU in the astronomy professorship. He mar
ried MoU Clements, who, tho' of mean education',
yet proved a very good wife to him, as he also
proved a good husband. He hath left a son behind
him by the said MoU Clements, and dying worth a
great deal of money (which came to him chiefly by
his late brother, who practis'd physick at Northamp*,
ton,) there is no question but there is good provision
enough for both, tho' 'tis said he hath left no will,
and his widow being young, airy, and handsome,
'tis probable may meet with another fortune. This
Dr. John KeU hath written and published many
things, among which are two books against Whis-
ton, (both printed at the theatre,) Euclid's Ele
ments, Lectures on Astronomy, &c. The said Dr.
KeU was buried in St. Marie's church, on Saturday-
night (at nine clock) Sept. 2, 1721.
1 She was daughter of James Clements, a book-binder inOxford, and some
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Sept. 6. In the year 1702 Queen Anne was at
Oxford, lay at Christ Church, and the next day
dined in the theater with prince George, (her hus
band,) the duke and dutchess of Marlborough, &c;
Dr. Maunder was vice-chanceUor. She was very
merry, and eat most heartUy. After dinner she
passed through the Ashmolean Museum, took coach,
and so went out of town for the Bath. Humphrey
Wanley was at the same time in Oxford, as I weU
remember, and then wore a long wig, (tho' now he
wears his own hair,) and strutted mightUy about.
This Wanley hath reported since he hath been now
in Oxford, (a thing I had not heard of before,) that
he was sent for at that time on purpose to shew the
queen the curiosities of the Bodleian Library, had
she went up thither, as she did not. Thus this vain
coxcombe. I suppose Arthur Charlett might send
for him, he being weak enough to do so. But
Wanley had no business then to shew any thing in
the library. For tho' some time before he ; did
some little matters there, by consent of the curators,
(which however was doing more hurt than good,
for he plaid odd tricks,) yet he never had any post
in the library, and was at that time quite discarded,
Dr. Hudson being head hbrarian, who therefore, and
the second hbrarian, and the janitor, had all the
power of shewing things in the library, and 'twas
the height of impudence for Wanley to pretend to:
any authority, unless imploy'd (as he was not) either
by Dr. Hudson or the curators. It must be farther
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noted, that this Wanley gives out that he was the
man that put up Mr. Wallis of Magd. coU. to stand
to be librarian, against Dr. (then Mr.) Hudson, and
that many would have had himself stood for it, but
that he dechn'd it, as not thinking it beneficial
enough; which is another of his saucy stories. For
it cannot be supposed that he should be fixt upon as
hbrarian, being an undergraduate, (for indeed he
never took, even to this day, any degree in any uni
versity,) and was therefore altogether incapable of
standing ; tho' 'tis likely enough, that he might be
so impudent as to urge Wallis to appear for it, and to
do him what service possibly he could, in hopes, it
may be, of having some considerable power in the
library. The said Humphrey Wanley, who hath
belonged many years to the earl of Oxford, by way
of pensioner, hath drawn up six vols, in foho of the
Harley hbrary, and is going on with others ; but he
takes such a method, (with no true judgment, as I
am told,) that 'tis probable he wUl never hve to
finish it.
Sept. 19. Mr. Charles Eyston, of East Hendred,
in Berks, told me yesterday, that Mr. Ravenscroft,
who died about ten years since, had the best hbrary
for Roman Cathohck books of any Roman Catholick
in England. Being a Cathohck, he was seized upon
the score of the Popish plot, and being to be tryed,
he told them that he requested the favour to defend
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'721. HEARNIA3NLE. 469
part out of England ; and so signing himself with
the cross, he made a most elegant speech in Latin,
to the astonishment and confusion of the court, who,
finding themselves incapable of managing him in
that language, told him, 'twas a thing out of their
way, and contrary to the course of the court, and
told him he must proceed in Enghsh. Yet, after all,
he was brought off. He was a great scholar, and
weU verst in Latin.
Sept. 25. Out of a letter from Mr. Baker, of Cam
bridge, dated Sept. 19 last. " Mr. Math. Prior, sen.
feUow of St. John's coUege, died yesterday, (Sept.
18th,) at my lord Harley's house at Wymple, and is
(as I am told) to be buried at Westminster amongst
the poets, where he deserves a place. I beheve he
dies somewhat richer than is usuaU with poets, for
he was beginning to buUd a house in Essex."
Oct. 4. Yesterday I was told by an honest Scot
tish gentleman, a captain, one of those taken at Pres
ton, that fought for king James III. that there was
no treachery in general Foster, or any of the rest,
but cowardice, Foster being a timorous man, and
unwilling to fight, or to shew the least part of a ge
neral, and so surrendered his men ; whereas, had he
been at aU courageous, the business had been cer
tainly done for the kingk. The same gentleman told
k Thomas Foster, the person to whom the pretender sent his commission
of general of the forces, was son of sir William Foster, of Balmsbury castle,
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me, that Mr. Ruddiman, keeper of the advocates li
brary at Edinburgh, is not only a learned, but a very
honest man ; but that Mr. Anderson, the antiquary,
who writ about the independency of Scotland upon
England, is a presbyterian, and no friend to the king.
Oct. 8. Early on Sunday morning, (Oct. 1,) the
earl of Rochester's fine house at Petersham, in the
county of Surry, was burnt to the ground, and seve
ral persons (we hear) were destroyed, either in the
flames, or by leaping from the windows to escape
them. So the news papers. I am told that 'tis
thought this dismal fire was occasioned by some
charcoal, the servants having been ironing the clouts
for my lady Essex's lying-in at my lord Rochester's,
where she now was, and it being customary to drink
(or, as they call it, to liquor the clouts) upon such
occasions, they were all much disordered, and went
to bed without taking care of the fire. The said
lady Essex is daughter to the earl of Rochester, and
since the fire she is brought to bed of a daughter.
Among other things was burnt a fine coUection of
books, many of which had been brought from my
lord's fine hbrary at Cornbury, near Woodstock.
And I am told my lord Clarendon's History of his
Northumberland, and at the time of Preston fight was member for that coun
ty. He was seized in consequence of a message from the king, committed to
Newgate, expelled the house of commons, and would undoubtedly have suf
fered, had he not contrived to escape from prison, and reached the continent
in safety. Lord Crewe, bishop of Durham, married a sister of this Foster,
who survived him. She was one of the most beautiful women of her age,
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own Life was burnt also1, (a work never printed,)
and his Exposition upon the Psalms, which was
hkewise never printed.
Oct. 18. Mr. Trap's translation of Virgil into
blanck verse being scouted, and justly looked upon
as a poor performance, when the first volume (for it
is in two) came out, Dr. Evans, of St. John's coUege,
was (as 'tis said) pleased to express himself thus :
Keep the commandments, Trap, and go no further,
For it is written, that thou shalt not murther.
Oct. 19. Last night I was many hours in com
pany with Mr. Humph. Wanley. He told me many
things about the Harley hbrary, and of the MSS.
and rare printed books in it.
He was born at Coventry, being son of Mr. Nath.
Wanley, M.A. of Trinity college, in Cambridge, and a
minister in Coventry ; which Mr. Nath. Wanley writ
and pubhshed The History of Man, in folio, and
translated into Enghsh a piece of Lipsius. And
this is aU, I think, he printed. But Humphrey told
me he left many MSS. behind him : but he knows
not what became of them, only one, viz. Divine
Poems, he had himself, but gave it to Mr. Brewster,
1 This was a false rumour, for the MS.'was preserved, and presented to
the university by lord Clarendon's heirs, as has been before noticed. His
• lordship's Contemplations and Reflections vpon the Psalms of David, ap
plying those Devotions to the Troubles of the Times, (dated Jersey, Dec.
26, 1647,) will be found in the collection of his Tracts, printed at London,
in folio, 1727.
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472 RELIQUIAE 1721.
a barrister of law. Humphrey said, he .is of opinion
that the story about Godiva's riding naked through
Coventry is aU fiction. But he gave poor reasons
for his opinion. He said he did not take the uni
versity of Oxford to be older than Hen. I. But this
is so ridiculous a notion, that it needs no confuta
tion. Humphrey Wanley also said, that he was the
main instrument in getting Mr. Bagford's papers for
lord Harley, and that he laboured hard for them,
and had like, nevertheless, to have missed of them.
This was roguery. For they were most certainly
designed for me. But since they have got them,
they ought to digest those about printing, and to
pubhsh them. This I mentioned to Wanley. But
he said his accounts were very imperfect, and so put
off the discourse, and seemed to declare that nothing
of that nature would be done ; himself, he said, being
taken up with other affairs. I told him, had the
papers come to me, I would have methodized them,
and pubhshed a book from them, for the service of
the publick, and the honour of Mr. Bagford.
Oct. 23. Last night I was several hours in com
pany of Mr. Martin Benson, archdeacon of Berks"1.
There were many besides with us. This Mr. Ben
son is a most vUe whig. He traveUed lately into
France and Italy with my lord Lemster, as his tutor
and governour. He hath spoiled his lordship ; and
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1721. HEARNIAN^E. 473
indeed Mr. Benson's chief design of travelling (be
sides lucre) seems to have been as a spy, and to find
out faults. He spoke last night with the utmost
disrespect of the pope, and the whole coUege of car
dinals, and caUed aU the antiquaries of Rome asses,
and the cardinals either fools or blockheads. Nay»
he would hardly aUow that there was a learned man
in aU Italy or France, except Bianchini and Mon-
faucon. Nov. 1. Out of Mist's Journal, dated Saturday,
Oct. 28, 1721. Whereas a pretended Vindication
qf John Wickleff has been pubhshed, under the
name of one Lewis, of Margate, by the incitement,
as the preface asserts, of the archbishop of Canter
bury, and in the same I am injuriously reflected
upon as a scurrilous writer. This is to inform the
publick, that I shah reserve the author for a more
serious whipping in my leisure hours ; and, in the
mean time, give him a short correction for his bene
fit, if he has grace and sense to take it. He charges
me with the errors of the translator and blunders
of the author, with which I am by no means con
cerned, who only wrote the preface ; and when it
comes out afresh in the edition of my works, my
vindication will be as clear as the sun at noon
day. He insists upon charging me with falshood, in re
lation to one Grimwood, whom he asserts to have
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474 RELIQUIAE 1721.
of his bowels ; Mr. Lewis, with equal modesty, supl
ports the story, with affirming it to be true.
But to shew how weU this gentleman is furnished
with learning and abihties to write, and censure
others, Grimwood himself hved many years after,
even to an old age, and brought his action against a
minister, who, in his presence in the church, related
this story from him, as a remarkable instance of
God's judgment ; for evidence whereof, see Danver's
Abridgment, 163 ; Croke Car. 91 ; Coke, Mich. 3.
Jac. Agreed by Popham, and RoUe's Abridgment,
Action sur Case, p. 87. '
I appeal to the world if this is not sufficient evi
dence on my side of the question.
Lastly, why does this author perswade the world,
the late archbishop of Canterbury could have any
veneration for the memory of one who asserts, God
ought to obey the devU ; or, that he could be de
sirous to open the impure fountains from whence
the filth of Bangorianism has been conveyed to us.
M. Earbtjry".
¦ Earbery was a political writer of some renown. He was born July 11,
1690, educated at St. John's college, Cambridge, and exercised his pen with
great spirit and courage in defence of the Stuarts and the tory cause. Tbe
following is the most complete list of his works I have been able to procure :
Principles of Church Unity considered. Lond. 1716. 8vo. An Answer tp
Mr. fVhiston's Dissertation on the Ignatian Epistles. Lond. 1716. 8vo.
History of the German Reformation, founded upon Heresy e of John fVich-
liffe, John Huss, and Jerome of Prague, 1720. 8vo. History ofthe Cle
mency of our English Monarchs. Lond. 1717; 1720, second edition. This
was accounted a seditious libel, upon which tbe author retreated into France,
and published, A Vindication of the History of Clemency, with Reflections
upon the late Proceedings against the Author. Lond. 1720. 8vo. Upon
Earbery's absconding from the kingdom, sentence of outlawry was pro-

1721. HEARNIAN.E. 475
Nov. 9. On Sunday morning died Charles Ey
ston, of East Hendred, in Berks, esq. a gentleman
of eminent virtues, and my great acquaintance". He
was a Roman Cathohck, and so charitable to the
poor, that he is lamented by aU that knew any thing
of him. Insomuch, that on Saturday last, being the
day immediately before his death, I heard a woman
of Hendred say, that she had rather aU the people
in Hendred (excepting her husband) should die,
than this gentleman. He was a man of a sweet
temper, and was an exceUent scholar, but so modest,
that he did not care to have it at any time men
tioned. The last time I saw him was on Sept. 18
last, when he rode on horseback from Hendred on
purpose to see me, and to converse with me a few
hours. We dined together at the Mitre, and Mr.
1 Kimber, of Hallywell, with us. Mr. Eyston was as
nounced against him, which was reversed in the court of King's Bench, Dec.
2, 1725. An Admonition to Dr. Kennet, appended to the Earl of Notting
ham's Answer to Whiston. Lond. 1721. 8vo. Tho. Burnett of the State
of the Dead, and of those that are to rise. Translated from the Latin.
With Remarks upon each Chapter, and an Answei- to all the Heresies therein.
Lond. 1727. 8vo. The Occasional Historian, No. I. Lond. 1730; Nos. 2
and 3, 1731 ; No. 4 and last, 1732. This was written against the Crafts
man, in pursuance of an advertisement inserted in the London Evening Post
of Sept. 26, 1730. " Whereas the Craftsman has for some time past openly
declared himself to be a root and branch man, and has made several iujust
and scandalous reflections upon the family of the Stuarts, not sparing even
king Charles the first : this is to give notice, that if he reflects further upon
any one of that line, I shall shake his rotten common-wealth principles into
atoms. Matthias Earbery." He died October 3, 1740. There is a
neat small portrait of him in gown and band, " jam politice denatus, postea
resurrecturus cum patria," J. Cole, sculp, from a picture by J. Fry.
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476 RELIQUIAE 1721.
weU as I have known him, and returned home that
evening, but it seems some time after he was seized
with a diabetes, of which he died, and was buried
in Hendred church yesterday.
This worthy gentleman lent me, on Saturday,
Sept. 23d last, a printed book, intitled, Memoires
ofthe Family of the Stuarts, and the remarkable
Providences qf God towards them ; in an Histo
rical Account of the Lives of those his Majesty's
Progenitors of that name, that were Kings qf Scot
land. Lond. 1683, 8vo. Mr. Eyston bought this
book out of Mr. Ravenscroft's study, and at the he-
ginning of it he hath written,
" Charles Eyston,
1709.
Quaere, whether this book was not written by sir
George Mackensie, notwithstanding what is insinu-
ated in the preface, as if it had been written by a
Scotch minister ?"
At the same time he sent me a letter, (being the
last I received from him,) dated at East Hendred,
Sept. 22, which I shah here insert at large :
East Hendred, Sept. 22, 1721.
Honrd Deare Sir,
I most humbly thank you for affording me so
much of your good company when I was last in Ox
ford. I know how precious time is with you, so am
the more obhged to you for spending so much of it
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1721. HEARNIAN^E. 477
son's Anatomy. I herewith retourne it to you, and
in it you will find Mr. Latton's paper, which I can
make nothing of. I also send you the Memoires of
the Family ofthe Stewarts; which is the booke I
mentioned to you, to have bought out of Mr. Ravens-
croft's hbrary, whose catalogue, I feare, I have lost ;
for I have made a most diligent search after it, and
cannot find it. In the life this authour gives us of
king Robert the second, you'U not find he mentions
any children begotten by him extra matrimonium.
Some acquaintance of mine, of whom I had opinion,
(but who it was, I cannot caU to mind,) told me it
was written by sir George Mackensy, which moved
me to put the querie you wiU find under my name
in the first leafe of the booke. I have also examined
Sjjotwood and Heyhn, and find they take no notice
j of any such thing. So I humbly offer to your con-
a sideration, whether it may not be proper for you to
make a marginal remarke upon that passage in For-
: done, where he speakes of chUdren begotten by king
i Robert the second upon the body of Elizabeth More,
extra matrimonium. For many, prejudiced to the
famUy of the Stewarts, may, from the report of so
famous an authour as Fordoune is, poyson the world
, with a notion, that king James the first and his
\. whole posterity ^not excepting the Ulustrious house
of Hanover) are of a spurious and ^legitimate de-
, scent. Would you please to come over, I could en-
,. large on this discourse, but doe not think proper to
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you with theyr best respects, and would bee heartily
glad to see you. I am, with affection and sincerity,
Deare sir,
Your most faithfull and obliged humble servant,
Charles Eyston. .
I herewith send you Burnett's Record, and the
note you gave me of the History of Glastonbury.
I told my friend, in my answer to this letter, that
what was said by the Scotch historians about Robert
III. being Ulegitimate, is altogether false, and that
I should have many things in my edition of Fordun
to confute this assertion. I told him I designed to
walk over to Hendred, (as indeed I did speedily,
had he Jived,) and desired him to get what he could
against my coming, that might be of use to me in
this very material affair. Upon Mr. Eyston's sug
gesting that the abovementioned book was written
by Sir George Macken%y, I have made some in
quiry as to that point, but cannot find it true. Nor
indeed does Mr. Wood mention any such thing in
his Athence Oxon. or in the MSS. additions and
corrections under his own hand (many of which are
not in the second or spurious edition of the said
Athence) in the Ashmolean museum. Bishop Ni-
colson, in p. 153 of his Scottish Historical Library, ,
mentions some such book, printed in 1683. " To
this king's (Robert II.'s) reign," saith he, (" he hav,
ing been the first that bore the name of Steward,)
we may refer R. Watson's p Memoirs of the Family
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1.721— -22. HEARNIA1SLE. 479
of the Stewards : with his Historical Account of the
Lives of the Kings of that Name. The author, as
his work sufficiently shews, was a peevish and dis
contented writer; having been, a httle before his
pubhshing of it, turned out of his ministry at Edin-
burg." But I take this to be a different book from
the former, in which there is nothing peevish ; but
as the author takes no notice of Robert 1 1 Id's being
illegitimate, (which he knew was a false report,) so
he speaks honourably of Mary queen of Scots, and
not hke those peevish, malapert writers, who have
so maliciously asperst her.
_ Nov., 20. Money is so extreme scarce at present,
(occasioned by the South sea bubble,) that the hke
was never known in this kingdom ; insomuch that
the news informs us, that London was never known
to be so thin within the memory of man ; not half
of the members of parliament being come up, and a
bill is seen upon almost every doori.
Dec. 24. An English divine, in a sermon at St.
Marie's, in Cambridge, on 1 Sam. xvii. 7- once en-

, 1 This is corroborated by the following extract from the publick papers of
Dec. 9. " Those who seem to know the town (London) very well, tell us,
" there cannot, upon a moderate computation, be allowed less than 30,000
" people difference, between what are now in town and what were here this
" time twelvemonth. We perceive the town to grow thinner daily, and seve-
" ral families will fly into the country, under a pretence of keeping Christ-
" mas, who will not appear here again till next winter at soonest. We shall
« not be thought to reckon extravagantly, if we allow 20,000 more for this
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tertained his auditory with a discourse concerning
the dimensions of Gohah's beame, which extorted
this expression from one then present, " The man
hath not divinity enough to save the soul of a gnat."
1721 — 22. Jan. 28. Out of a letter to me from
John Bridges, esq. Jan. 25, 1721 — 22.
" Mr. Murray, with other of your friends, are very
pressing with me to print the draught of your face,
which Mr. Tillemans by stealth took for my satis
faction ; but I've no inchnation to doe it without
your consent ; and if that be had, I would readily be
at the charge of its being taken again : for tho' under
the disadvantages TUlemans was, he has made so
lovely a representation, that every body knows it to
be yours ; yet I think 'tis capable of being much
improved; and 'tis also my opinion the world should
know somewhat of the figure of one, to whose in
dustry and learning our British antiquaries are so
much obliged."
" To John Bridges, esq.
" Honrd Sir,
" I thank you for your weU penned letter of the
25th inst. but I humbly beg leave to be excused from
giving my consent to what you so kindly propose
in it."
Feb. 5. Dr. Robert Harris, formerly head of Tri
nity coUege, Oxon, being asked about the best edi
tions, used to say, that what was said of Homer was

1721—22. HEARNIAN.E. 481
true of the fathers and the first popish writers, vix.
That was the best still, which was least corrected.
Feb. 10. Whereas the university disputations on
Ash Wednesday should begin exactly at one o'clock,
they did not begin this year 'tiU two or after, which
is owing to several coUeges having altered their hour
of dining from eleven to twelve, occasioned from
people's lying in bed longer than they used to do.
March 21. The parUament, which hath conti
nued seven years, being dispersed, and writs out for
a new one, yesterday sir John Walters and young
Tom Rowney (for his father hath desired to be ex
cused from any longer being elected) were chosen
burgesses for the city of Oxon, in opposition to coun-
seUor Wright and counseUor Hawkins, who made
just nothing at aU of it.
March 22. Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock,
was a convocation for electing burgesses for the uni
versity. The candidates were the two old members,
Mr. Bromley and Dr. Clarke ; but many having a
mind to get Clarke out, Dr. King, principal of St.
Mary HaU, was put up against himr, The convo-
' Upon its being known that Dr. King's friends intended to nominate
him, in case of a general election, against Dr. Clarke, the supporters of the
sitting member were so angry, that a letter was drawn up, signed by most
of the heads of houses, and forwarded to the chancellor, lord Arran, in which
King was characterized as " a fomentor of differences, .a disturber of the
peace, and, (continues Hearne,) I know not what. Upon which some pas-
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cation continued 'till about half an hour after four
in the afternoon, when it appeared that Dr. King
had lost it by a very great majority, the poU stand
ing thus, the number whereof on the right hand sig
nifies dubious votes :
Bromley - - 337 — 60
Clarke - - 278 — 49
King - - - 159 — 36
Upon which the election was declared; tho' a
scrutiny being desired, the compleating of the busi
ness was put off till this morning, when there was
another convocation. But there being such a vast
disproportion, the throwing out the bad votes signi
fied nothing to the interest of Dr. King, who there
upon acquiesced, and Mr. Bromley and Dr. Clarke
are declared duly elected. I heartUy wish Dr. King
had succeeded, he being an honest man, and very
zealous for king James, whereas Clarke is a pitifull,

sages passed between my lord Arran and Dr. King, and the doctor resigned
his secretaryship, (worth above 100 guineas a year, as I heard tlie doctor
say,) and Mr. Henry Watkins, M. A. senior student of Christ Church, ii
made his lordship's secretary." I may be allowed to give my own opinion,
that Dr. King's resignation, and the " passages" that preceded it, did not
arise in consequence of the letter alluded to above, but from an attempt on
the part of the chancellor to dissuade Dr. King from opposing the old mem
bers, a proceeding totally at variance with the reputation and established
usage of the university. But, as Dr. Gibson tells us, in a letter addressed to
a noble lord, and printed on the occasion, " the secretary chose rather to
resign his employment than desist." His friends became the more zealous
in consequence of this forced resignation, and, as well as himself, resolwd
to persevere in their attempt, with What success will be seen from Hearne's
account of the election. The poll was afterwards printed in 4to.~Oxfori,
1 722, under the superintendance of Joseph Bowles, M. A. keeper of the Bod
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1722. HEARNIANiE. 483
proud sneaker, and an enemy to true loyalty, and
was one of those that threw out the bill against oc
casional conformity in queen Anne's time, and not
only so, but canvassed the court to lay the bUl aside,
he being then member of parliament for East Lowe,
in CornwaU, for which reason he was afterwards put
by for that borough. Dr. King had 82 single votes
in this election. One hath told me since the elec
tion, that he could mention fifty (or thereabouts)
that had failed the doctor.
March 23. This week I bought Taylor the water
poet's Uttle thing, called The Old, Old, very Old
Man, being the Life of Thomas Par ; but, tho' un
bound, it cost- me two shilUngs, and is a very great
rarity. April 20. Last night I was in company of Dr.
HaUey and Mr. Bradley, our two Savilian professors.
Dr. HaUey hath a strange odd notion, that Stone-
henge is as old, at least almost as old, as Noah's
floud. Dr. HaUey hath also an odd notion, and he
is very positive in it, that Silchester, in Hampshire,
| is Antoninus's Calleva. But when he is possessed
1 of a notion, he very hardly quits it.
i> June 3. On Friday last was puUed down the fa-
| mous Postern-Gate, in Oxford, caUed the Turl Gate
> commonly, (being a corruption for Thorold Gate,)
' which was done by the means of one Dr. Walker, a
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484 RELIQUIAE 1722.
physician, who hves by it, and pretends that 'twas a
detriment to his hoiise.
June 9. Yesterday, in my walks, I caUed upon
my friend John Powell, of Sandford, esq. who told
me, that the pribress and nunns of Littlemore used
to demand of the abbey of Abbington a good piece
of roast beef for every Sunday in the year. Mr.
Powell told me, Ant. a Wood used sometimes to
caU at his house, on purpose to inquire of him about
antiquities. Old Ralph Sheldon, of Beoly, esq. (com
monly caUed Great Sheldon,) was Ant. a Wood's
great friend, and Anthony used sometimes to go and
lye at his house. When he was there one time,
some young ladies there, having a mind to make
sport with Anthony, put some antimony and some
thing else into his liquor, which made him so sick,
that it was thought he would have died ; at which
Mr. Sheldon was confounded angry with the ladies,
who did it out of a frohck, Anthony being looked
upon by them as a quere feUow.
Aug. 14. On Thursday last the duke of Marlbo
rough was buried in Westminster, with the greatest
pomp and splendour ever any prince was buried
there. Mist, the journahst, had began to print an account
ofthe life of that compleat villain, the said duke, con
taining many very remarkable things about his knar
very, which so vexed the party, that they hindred

1722. HEARNIANjE 485
him from going on, seized his papers and materials,
and put what he had into the utmost confusion.
Aug. 20. Wednesday last, (Aug. 15,) a proclama
tion offering a reward of 1000/. for apprehending
Mr. Thomas Cart, a non-juring clergyman, was is
sued out by the government, information being given
against him for high treason5. This Mr. Cart is a
very ingenious, man, and was of Brazen-Nose coUege
in this university'. Many persons are taken up, and
orders given to take up others, a plot being to be
laid before the parliament at their meeting.
Aug. 24. Great Marlow, in Bucks, tho' a poor
market, and but a poor town, is yet very pleasantly
situated upon the Thames. There is plenty of fish,
corn, and wood there. Whence the people there
commonly say : Here is fish for catching, corn for
snatching, and wood for fetching.
Oct. 9. Dr. Stukley, feUow of the Royal Society,
s Carte made his escape into France, where he remained under the as
sumed name of Philips, till queen Caroline, who was an universal patroness
of learned men, obtained leave for him to return home, which he did before
1730. It is singular, that the proclamation, as advertised in the Gazette,
gave a description of Carte's person which was almost in direct contradic
tion to the truth ; " About 32 years of age, a middle-sized, raw-boned man,
goes a little stooping, sallow complexion, with a full grey or blue eye, his
eye-lids fair, inclined to red, and commonly wears a light coloured peruque :
descriptio cujus pene contrarium est verum," says Dr. Rawlinson (in some of
his own Latin) who knew him well, and has been at some pains to collect
materials, for writing his Life, in the MS. continuation to the Athene.
1 He was matriculated of University college, at the age of twelve, July 8,
1698, " Tho. Cart 12 Sam. C. Clifton super Dunmore, cler. f." Reg. Maine.
Univ. Oxon. AZ.
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486 RELIQUIAE 1722—23.
is making searches about the Roman ways. He is
a very fancifuU man, and the things he hath pub
lished are built upon fancy. He is looked upon as
a man of no great authority, and his reputation
dwindles every day, as I have learned from very
good hands. He hath published a draught of Old
Verulam, with strange, fancifuU things. He hath
pubhshed a draught of Waltham Cross, all fancy,
yet the cross is standing, and Mr. Bridges hath pub
hshed a true draught of it.
1722 — 23. Jan. 18. Last Monday, the 14th inst.
(the 14th being always the day,) was All Souls col
lege Mallard, at which time 'tis usual with tbe fel
lows and their friends to have a supper, and to sit
up aU night drinking and singing. Their song is
the maUard, and formerly they used to ramble about
the coUege with sticks and poles, &c. in quest of the
mallard, but this hath been left off many years,
They teU you the custom arose from a swinging old
maUard, that had been lost at the foundation of the
coUege, and found many years after in the sink.
Feb. 13. The first catalogue of books sold by auc
tion was the hbrary of Dr. Seaman ; the second was
that of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Kidner, A. M. rector
of Hitchin, in Hartfordshire, beginning Feb. 6, 167f°.
u On the progress of selling books by catalogues, see an article by the
late Mr. Gough, in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. iii. p. 608 ; and Dib-
din's Bibliomania, 402, 408, 418, &c. Dr. Lazarus Seaman's books sold
for seven hundred pounds. Calamy, Ejected Ministers, ii. 17.

1722—23. HEARN1AN.E. 487
Feb. 21. Ant. a Wood hath no account of Edw.
HaUe, that writ the " Chronicle*," in his Athence
Oxon. but in the spurious edition of these Athene
there is an account of him, and there are two edi
tions of that Chronicle there mentioned, one in 1548,
the other in 1550. I have this Chronicle, and it
bears the latter date. Bishop Nicholson, in the foho
edition of his English Historical Library, gives a
poor, paultry, false account of this Chronicle, and
makes it to be dedicated in a very flattering epistle
to king Hen. VIII. but all the copies (which indeed
are but three) I have yet seen are dedicated to Edw.
VI. and the dedication is far from being flattering.
The materials of this Chronicle are exceUent, and
the style mascuhne. One would think bishop Nichol
son had never seen the book, at least not read it.
Feb. 27. It hath been an old custom in Oxford
for the scholars of aU houses, on Shrove Tuesday, to
go to dinner at ten clock, (at which time the httle
beU, called pan-cake bell, rings, or at least should
ring, at St. Maries,) and at four in the afternoon;
and it was always foUowed in Edmund hall, as long
as I have been in Oxford, till yesterday, when they
went to dinner at twelve, and to supper at six, nor
were there any fritters at dinner, as there used al
ways to be. When laudable old customs alter, 'tis
a sign learning dwindles.
* " The said Edward Halle's Chronicle is a book that hath been sold for
seven guineas or seven pounds." Jan. 21, 1722-3.
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488 RELIQUIAE 1723.
March 20. Last Sunday, in the afternoon, preach
ed at St. Peter's in the East, Oxon. before the uni
versity, Mr. WUl. Peche, fellow of St. John's coUege.
It was remarkable, that his sermon was not above
five minutes long, or very Uttle more, and that it
was shorter than his prayer. This Mr. Peche is a
very good scholar, and was formerly a studious man.
1723. April 6. My friend Mr. Murray, the cu
rious coUector of books, tells me he is 53 years old.
He teUs me, one Mr. Aynsworth (who wUl not take
the oaths) understands our Enghsh coyns, he be
lieves, as well, if not better, than any man in Eng
land ; that he is a mighty modest man, an exceUent
scholar, and hath been about seven years about a
Dictionary, in the nature of Littleton's. He was
author of the Catalogue (which is printed) of Mr.
Kemp's Rarities, a thick 8vo. But most of the said
Rarities were a cheat. He is a married man, and
hves at Hackney, near London.
April 7. I heard Mr. Bagford (some time before
he dyed) say, that he walked once into the country
on purpose to see the study of John Bunyan. When
he came, John received him very civiUy and cour
teously, but his study consisted only of a Bible and
a parceU of books, (the Pilgrim's Progress chiefly,)
written by himself, aU lying on a shelf or shelves.
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1723. HEARNIAN.E. 489
my coUection of books was the oddest that ever he
saw ; and he said, if I were to seU them by auction,
they would bring as much money, (for the number
of them,) he beheved, as ever any coUection sold in
England ; nay, said he, I beheve much more, con
sidering the character you have estabhshed.
Castelio, that very great and good humble man,
had nothing, when he dyed, to bury him, but a most
exceUent study of- books, and he was carryed to his
grave by bis own scholars, who could not but admire
the exceUencies of their master, who was so great a
despiser of money.
April 20. What is said about Lamb-day, in page
149 of Blount's Tenures, as belonging to Kidling-
ton, in Oxfordshire, is a mistake for Kirtleton ; un
less the same custom also belonged to Kidhngton
formerly, and is discontinued since. It seems, on
Monday after Whitson week, there is a fat hve lamb
provided, and the maids of the town, having their
thumbs tyed behind them, run after it, and she that
with her mouth takes, and holds, this lamb, is de
clared lady of the lamb, which being dressed with
the skin hanging on, is carried on a long pole before
the lady and her companions to the green, attended
with musick, and a morisco dance of men, and ano
ther of women, where the rest of the day is spent in
dancing, mirth, and joUity. The next day the lamb
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490 RELIQULE 1723r
feast, where she sits majesticaUy, (and much respect
is shewed to her,) at the upper end of the table, and
her companions with her, with musick, and other
attendants, which ends the solemnity. Mr. Blount
does not teU us the reason of this custom, but I am
told 'tis upon account of the inhabitants being toll
free in Oxford and other places. I was told yester
day, that the same custom belonged formerly to
Wightham, in Berks.
April 22. The editions of classicks of the first
print, (commonly caUed Editiones Principes,) that
used to go at prodigious prices, are now strangely
lowered ; occasioned, in good measure, by Mr. Tho.
Rawhnson, my friend's, being forced to seU many of
his books, in whose auction these books went cheap,
tho' Enghsh history and antiquities went dear : and
yet this gentleman was the chief man that raised
many curious and classical books so high, by bis ge
nerous and couragious way of bidding.
April 30. On Wednesday last the sessions began
at the Old BaUy, when SaUy SaUsbury was tryed
for an assault upon the hon. Mr. Finch, with an in
tent to murder him : she was found guilty of the
former, and acquitted of the latter y. This Sally Sa-
• Sally Pretteyn, alias Sally Salisbury, having been convicted of assault
ing and wounding the Hon. John Finch, esq. was to pay 100/. to suffer twelve
months imprisonment, and to find securities for her good behaviour for two
years after. Mist's Journal, Monday, 29th April, 1723. Iu a subsequent
place, Hearne says, " There are two books in 8vo. come out about the Life

1723. HEARNIANjE. 491
lisbury (now 32 years of age) is the greatest w 
in England. She is extreme handsome, and of a
fluent tongue.
May 1. I am informed, that my friend Dr. Mead
hath lately purchased the head of a very old statue
of Homer. It is very fine, and represents him blind,
and is said to have been part of the Arundel coUec
tion. What is -become of the lower part, I know
not. It was valued at 300 guineas, but the doctor
had it for 50 guineas7-.
May 13. A sham plot having been contrived, and
the bishop of Rochester (Dr. Francis Atterbury) be
ing accused as one in it, (they having forged three
letters in his name in cipher, which WUls, the de
cipherer, hath interpreted,) last week his lordship
was upon his tryal, but was hindered making his
defence. However, he spoke a most exceUent speech

of Mrs. Sally Salisbury, one of half a crown price, (with her picture before
it,) the other of \2d. price, without her picture. In the latter 'tis said the
celebrated poet, Matthew Prior, esq. had to do with her, and that one of her
admirers was the lord Bullingbroke, who indeed is noted for an amorous
man. Vol. xcv. p. 127. See under October 12, 1724.
* This valuable bronze is now in the British Museum, and has been en
graved in the second part of the ancient marbles preserved in that national
gallery, plate XXXIX. It was purchased at Dr. Mead's sale, in 1755, by
the earl of Exeter, and presented to the Museum by that nobleman in 1760.
Although long considered as a bronze of Homer, Mr. Taylor Combe has
elearly shewn that it was intended for some other poet, and he inclines to
suppose it a portion of the statue of Pindar, placed before the portico at
Athens, and existing in the time of Pausanias. The poet is represented as
in extreme old age, the head inclining forwards, with a short beard, hollow
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492 RELIQUIAE 1723.
of more than two hours long, in delivering which he
is said to have fainted twice, having been strangely
harrassed and insulted.

Charles Aldrich, D. D.a rector of Henley upon
Thames, on the thanksgiving day, (for preserving
us from the plague,) on the 25th of April last,
preached before the house of commons, and his ser
mon (by their order) is just printed ; but, which I
am sorry for, 'tis poor canting stuff, altogether whig-
gish and flattering, against the poor king (James
III.) and honest men, and as much in praise of the
duke of Brunswick and his government, and those
that are for him. But poor Charles hath a bad,
vexatious, furious wife, that pushes him on to these
things, being angry that he is not preferred. There
is also false history in the sermon. For whereas he
dates the firm estabhshment of the Protestant reli
gion from the very beginning of queen Elizabeth's
* Charles Aldrich, nephew of the dean of Christ Church, was educated at
Westminster, elected to Christ Church as a student in 1699, took the degrees
of B. A. April 23, 1703, M.A. March 12, 1705, B.D. May 7, 1715, D.D. Oct.
13, 1722. He died of apoplexy in the rectorial house of Henley upon Thames,
Nov. 8, 1737, and was buried within the rails of the communion table, in
that church, on the 10th of the same month. By his last will he left his li
brary to his successors at Henley for ever, in these words : " 1 give and be
queath all my study of books to the rectory of Henley, being desirous to lay
the foundation of a parochial library, begging my successor, or the parish,
to provide a room for them, if God should not spare my life to do so." The
books were originally deposited in the rectorial house, but being placed in a
damp room, sustained considerable injury, on which account they were
removed to the vestry, about the year 1777, where they now remain. There
is no monument or inscription to Dr. Aldrich in the church, but a small
stone in the pavement of the chancel marks the spot of his interment.

1723. HEARNIANiE. 493
reign, it is manifestly wrong. For the popish reli
gion continued for a considerable time, her counsel
lors were popish, and the hturgy too popish for se
veral years b.
May 26. Some time last night died Dr. John
Hammond, canon of Christ Church, Oxford, aged
about 84 years. He took the degree of M. A. Nov.
23, 1664, that of B. D. Nov. 27, 1679, and that of
D. D. May 8, 1680. He went out grand compoun
der for both these last degrees. He dyed of a dropsy,
and desired (for he had his senses to the last) to be
buried next Tuesday, between seven and eight clock
at night c. When he was a young man, he was very
weak and infirm, and 'twas not exspected he would
live long. His physician advised him to use a horse,
which he submitted to, but was so very iU, that at
first he could hardly go through Christ Church
quadrangle, (for in those times horses and coaches
were not suffered to come into the quadrangle, tho'
it be otherwise now,) and was not able to get up the
horse of himself; but after a httle use, he grew
strong and healthy, and so continued; tho' it was
exercise that did it, (for he was a very great rider

'¦ It was singular that Aldrich should preach a sermon of this description,
as he had been appointed chaplain to bishop Atterbury not more than a fort
night before that prelate's apprehension, and was besides under considerable
obligations to him.
c Accordingly he was buried in the cathedral of Christ Church on Tues
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494 RELIQUIAE 1723.
and hunter,) which he was obhged, through old age,
to leave off for some time before he died, otherwise
he might have held out much longer. 'Tis probable
that his distemper, when young, might be a dropsi
cal humour, which was expeUed by exercise, and re
turned when he gave over exercise. He was a man
that did not read much, and was not noted for any
learning. When I came first to Oxford, I remem
ber I heard him preach at Christ Church, (and I do
not know that he hath preached since,) when 'twas
said it was the best sermon he ever preached in his
life. His wife (who was a mighty fine woman) hath
been dead many years, I think near thirty. She was
a great gamester.
June 2. On Monday morning last, (May 24,) died
at his house at Godwood, in Sussex, Charles Lenox,
duke of Richmond, knight of the most noble order
of the garter. He was begotten by king Charles the
second on the body of Lovisa de QuerovaU, a lady of
French extraction, and an attendant on Henrietta
dutchess of Orleans, when she came into England
to give a visit to the king her brother, an. 1670.
She was afterwards made dutchess of Portsmouth.
This duke of Richmond, whom I saw some years
agoe, and conversed with in Oxford, was a man of
very httle understanding, and tho' the son of so
great a king as king Charles II. was a man that
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1723. HEARNIAN.E. 495
opposite to true monarchical principles. He is suc
ceeded in his honour and estate by his son, Charles
earl of March.
June 4. A pardon passed the seals last week for
the late lord Bolinbroke. By which it appears, that
what I formerly heard asserted by several, that this
lord is not a man of integrity, but a traitour, and
that he was one of those that hindered the restaura-
tion of king James III. is true.
June 15. The late bishop Smalridge, when he
was dean of Christ Church, (for 'twas before he was
bishop,) being one night at the play, to hear Cato
acted, there was great notice taken, that a man of
his order and dignity should be there ; and sitting
near some ladies that laughed upon this occasion,
the dean thereupon spoke to one or two of his ac
quaintance that were by him, and told them, that
the ladies laughed at him, adding, " Sure the ladies,
by laughing so, think themselves to be at church ;"
' which being heard by them, they continued sUent
aU the time after.
June 17- Mr. WiUiam Baxter died lately, in the
73d year of his age. He was nephew of the famous
presbyterian, Mr. Richard Baxter, and was himself
also first a presbyterian, but afterwards a pretended
convert to the church of England, tho' hardly any
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496 RELIQULE 1723.
was a learned, but whimsical, man. He pubhshed
one book against Mr. DodweU, in defence of lay
men's administering the communion. He writ and
pubhshed notes upon Horace, but not very much
esteemed by the most curious men, tho' I have
heard it commended by some. He pubhshed also
critical notes upon Anacreon, but for that was taken
to task by the famous Mr. Joshua Barnes. When
he did these two books, he was a schoolmaster,
which profession, I think, he foUowed toj the last.
He hath written and pubhshed other things, but the
last that he printed (which was done at London in
1719, with his picture in a hat at the beginning)
was Glossarium Antiquitatum Britannicarum, an
8vo. book, dedicated to Dr. Mead. In this book he
brings aU names of places from the British language,
and strangely indulges his fancy, which makes his
book therefore not much regarded by judicious men.
June 22. On Tuesday last, (June 18,) between
twelve and one, the deprived bishop of Rochester"1,
set out from the Tower, in the navy barge, attended
by Mr. Morris, (the bishop's son in law,) and his
lady, (the bishop's daughter,) having a sign manual
for that purpose. CoUonel Williamson, who had
warders with him, conducted him aboard the Ald
borough man of war, lying in Long Reach. Two
footmen attended his lordship in purple hveries, him
self being clad in a lay habit of grey cloth. Great
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1723. HEARNIAN^E. 497
numbers of people went to see him take water, and
to take their leave, many of whom accompanied him
down the river in barges and boats. We hear that
two messengers went on board the man of war to
see him landed at Ostend, from whence, 'tis said, he
will proceed to Aix la ChapeUe, after staying two
or three months at Brussels. The duke of Whar
ton made a present to the late bishop of Rochester,
before his departure, of a rich sword, with the fol
lowing mottoes on the blade, viz. on one side, Draw
me not without reason ; and on the other, Put me
not up without honour.
June 29. Beyond High bridge, (in the suburbs of
Oxford, by Rewly, is a httle house, caUed Antiquity
Hall, which one Wise, of Trinity coUege, and one
Tristram, of Pembroke coUege, (both of them very
conceited feUows, and of httle understanding, tho'
both are masters of arts,) have had a draught taken
of, and printed, with very sUly, ridiculous things
and words in ite, for which they are much laughed
at by aU people, who cannot but look upon it as one
of the weakest things ever done.
July 1. On Saturday morning last caUed upon

e The silly things and words which gave Hearne so much offence, were
inserted in order to ridicule some of his own plates, in which he has given
explanations of the objects, or what they were intended to represent. Wise
and Tristram have done the same, and have introduced Tom himself as en
tering at the court-yard, holding up his gown behind, according to his usual
manner of walking.
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498 REL1QULE 1723.
me, Mr. George Parker, the figure flinger, in his
journey out of Worcestershire, whither he had went
about three weeks before from London to see friends
and relations. This Mr. Parker was born at Ship-
ton upon Stour, in Worcestershire, and was appren
ticed to a cutler in London, (I think in or about
Fetter-lane,) but being much addicted to astrology,
he gave over his trade, and set up the trade of
figure flinging, and pubhshing of almanacks, and
used in his almanacks to make brave sport with
John Patridge, a great republican,- whereas George
Parker is an honest man, and a great cavalher, and
much superior to Patridge, who hath been dead se
veral years. In queen Anne's time, George hap
pened to print, in his almanack, the pretender (as
they caU the chavaUier de St. George) and his sister
(who is now dead) among the sovereign princes of
Europe, for which he was prosecuted, and fined fifty
hbs. and hindered from printing almanacks. Upon
which he printed only an annual Ephemeris, with
the saints days, without doing it in the nature of an
an almanack, tho' now the stationers let him go on
again (if he pleases) as he did before. His Ephe-
merides, and the account of the ecchpses, are the
best that come out, having in these matters the as
sistance of Dr. HaUey. Some years agoe he sold
drink, and many honest and ingenious men used to
frequent his house, among the rest, Mr. Edward
Thwaites, late feUow of Queen's coUege, when he
was in London a considerable time about his lame-

1723. HEARNIAN.E. 499
ness, and had his leg then cut off by Charles Ber
nard the great chirurgeon, used George's house
much, and, I think, lay there for some time, and
learned astrology from George, who, after Mr.
Thwaites returned to Oxford, came over to Oxford,
and stayed there three weeks at least, and lodged
in Queen's college, in one of Mr. Thwaites's rooms,
who did this out of gratitude to George, who had
been very civU to Mr. Thwaites in London. At
this time I remember (altho' 'tis many years agoe)
George was on foot, and walked from Oxford into
Worcestershire ; the night before which journey,
Mr. Thwaites and he and I being together, (and
none else with us,) George would often go out of
the room on purpose to observe the heavens, and he
told us 'twould rain the next day, at such a time.
Accordingly, there was, at the time he said, a sharp
shour, and George was in it himself, being then foot
ing it into Worcestershire, which being noised about
Oxford, made his name famous there. He is a mar
ried man, and his wife living, being at this time his
companion in his journeyf.
f Parker, the astrologer, was originally in business as a cutler, and pro
fessed the principles, and adopted the habits, of a quaker. His wife, how
ever, being, at the time of her marriage, a. zealous member of tbe church of
England, laboured hard to convert her husband, whilst he as strenuously en
deavoured to bring her over to his own persuasion. The result was equally
strange and unintentional. Each was convinced by the other, George be
came a firm church-man, whilst his wife turned rigid quaker, and so they
continued to the last. I have this anecdote on very good authority*, and it
* Mr. Wallis, an acquaintance of Parker's, and brother to Dr. Wallis,
keeper of the archives, who related it to Hearne.
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500 RELIQULE .1723.
July 9. They have reprinted at London the cas
trated sheets of Holinshead's Chronicle, but done so
as there is a great quarreU between some of the Lon
don bookseUers on this score, some of them having
one impression, and some another ; so that there are
two new impressions of these sheets, in one impres
sion of which Fletcher Gyles, a bookseUer, is con
cerned, and he was urgent with me to correct them,
but I dechned it, being sensible that the reprinting
them might disoblige some gentlemen, who had
given great prices for their books, as it seems it
hath done. But, however, the bookseUers are not
hke to be very great gainers by this work, the cas
trated HoUingsheads being now like to be dearer
than those that are perfect.
July 10. There are two fairs a year at Wantage,
in Berks, the first on July 7, being the translation
of St. Thomas a Becket, and the second on the 6th
will not fail to remind the reader of a similar discussion, attended with a
similar double conversion, recorded of the two Rainolds's, and thus cele
brated by Dr. Alabaster.
Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres
Traxerat ambiguus religionis apex :
Ille reformats; fidei pro partibus instat,
Iste reformandam denegat esse fidem.
Propositus causae rationibus, alterutrinque
Concurrere pares, et cecidere pares.
Quod fuit in votis, fratrem capit alteruterque,
Quod fuit in fatis, perdit uterque fidem.
Captivi gemini sine captivante fuerunt,
Et victor victi transfuga castra petit.
Quod genus hoc pugni est! ubi victus gaudet uterque,
Et tamen alteruter se superasse dolet !
Wood Hist, et Antiq. Oxon. lib. ii. p. 139.

1723. HEARNIAN.E. 501
of October, being St. Faith's day. But this year,
the 7th of July being a Sunday, the fair was kept
last Monday, and 'twas a very great one ; and yes
terday it was held too, when there was a very great
match of backsword or cudgell playing between the
hill-country and the vale-country, Barkshire men
being famous for this sport or exercise. And 'tis
remarkable, that at ChUdrey, by Wantage, hves one
old Vicars, a farmer, who hath been very exceUent
at it, and hath now five sons, that are so expert in
it, that 'tis supposed they are a match for any five
in England. They always come off victors, and
carry off the hat, the reward of the conquest, so
that they have not bought any hats since they have
been celebrated for this exercise. There is also an
other fair at Wantage, (which is not above two years
standing,) caUed the Constable's fair, being granted
by the high constable, upon the town of Wantage's
chosing him out of Wantage.
July 12. Yesterday, at one clock, was a convo
cation about a poetry reader, or professor, who is to
be elected every five years, but the same person can
not have it above ten. Mr. Trap, therefore, when
five years were expired, was elected without oppo
sition, but now there was a great struggle. For Mr.
Warton of Magdalen coUege's five years being ex
pired, Dr. Gardiner, of AU Souls coUege, and the
constitution club, and many others, were resolved,
if possible, to hinder his re-election; and accordingly
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Mr. Randolph, feUow of AU Souls college, who hath
written and pubhshed some time agoe a poem in
Latin, printed at the Theater, about the South sea,
was put up, which Mr. Warton's enemies thought
might do, because this Randolph was formerly of
Christ Church, which might be likely to gain all
Christ Church for him. But when they came to
vote, several of Christ Church were for Mr. War-
ton, and several of Christ Church did not appear
at ah, insomuch that Randolph lost it by 36, Mr.
Warton having 215, and Mr. Randolph 179 votes,
at which honest men are pleased, Mr. Warton hav
ing the character of a very honest, ingenious, and
good-natured man ; and nobody looks upon Mr.
Randolph's being put up to be any thing else besides
spight. July 25. Yesterday, going into a shop, I saw an
8vo. book just pubhshed, intitled, Alfred, a poem in
xii books, the author sir Richard Blackmore, a great
writer upon aU subjects, so that he is looked upon as
a sort of madman. He formerly writ a poem in fol.
called Prince Arthur, to flatter the prince of Orange,
and then he writ one caUed Eliza, to flatter queen
Anne, and now this is to flatter the Hanover faimly;
such is the poor spirit of the man, who, however,
when of Edmund haU, (where he had his education,)
was a great tutor, and much respected, as I have
often heard, for he had left that place some years
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July 28. Yesterday I saw Mr. Freebairne, of Scot
land, who hath been several years with king James,
at Rome, being turned out of his printer's place at
Edinburgh, and for his honesty forced to go beyond
sea. He told me, that for three years together he was
every day with the king.
He said, the young prince is a mighty lively brisk
chUd. He said, the king is very chearfuU.
He said, the queen is the finest lady living, and
that none of the prints of her do her justice, she
being much handsomer than represented by them.
Mr. Freebairne had the use of the Vatican hbrary
as he pleased, and transcrib'd a great many excel
lent papers from thence relating to the English
reformation, not taken notice of by our pubhck
writers. July 30. Some years agoe came out at Oxford, a
poem, caUed Merton Walks, the walks in the gar
den of that place being every Sunday night, in the
pleasant time of the year, thronged with young gen
tlemen and young gentlewomen, which growing
scandalous, the garden gate was, at last, shut up
quite, and thereupon the young gentlemen and
others betook themselves to Magdalen coUege walk,
which is now every Sunday night in summer time
strangely filled, just hke a fair, which hath occa
sioned a printed letter, giving an account of an ac-
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cident that happened there between a young gen
tleman and a young woman.
Aug. 7. Dr. Jasper Mayne was minister' of Cas
sington, near Oxford, which he kept after he was
canon of Christ Church, giving this reason for it,
Cassington kept me, (that is in the bad times,) and
I now will keep Cassington.
Aug. 15. This morning the right rev. Dr. Tho
mas WUson, bishop of Man, caUed upon me, and
staid with me some time, at Edmund haU. He is a
most worthy, ingenious, learned, honest man. I
never saw him but once before. He told me, he
had given my lord Harley some historical MSS.
This bishop hath done abundance of good in his
diocese, having hved there, and instructed the inha
bitants in the principles of the Christian religion,
and pubhshed a book in the Manks and English
language upon the subject of the Christian religion,
being the first book ever printed in the Manks lan
guage. He is a most exceUent, good natured, plea
sant man, and hath a son, a commoner of Christ
Church, a pretty young gentleman. The said bishop
of Man hath written an account of the isle of Man,
which is printed in the second edition of Gibson's
Enghsh Camden.
Sept. 5. Yesterday, at two clock in the afternoon,
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1723. HEARNIANiE. 505
Oxford, a scaffold being buUt up for it just at Fin-
niore's, an alehouse. The conditions were, that any
one (man or woman) that could smoak out three
ounces of tobacco first, without drinking or going
off the stage, should have twelve shillings. Many
tryed, and 'twas thought that a journyman taylour,
of St. Peters in the East, would have been victor,
he smoaking faster than, and being many pipes be
fore, the rest ; but at last he was so sick, that 'twas
thought he would have dyed ; and an old man, that
had been a souldier, and smoaked gently, came off
conquerour, smoaking tbe three ounces quite out,
and he told one, (from whom I had it,) that, after it,
he smoaked four or five pipes the same evening.
Sept. 12. A matter of law being in debate be
tween two considerable tradesmen of Oxford, and it
being to be ended by a trial by a jury of twelve men,
after the jury had been many hours about the mat
ter, and sent back, and locked up together more than
once, and after all, being not unanimous, but seven
against five ; at last they agreed to end it by baUot-
ting, so that he should have it, who had that side to
which the paper, marked with such a dot, feU. Ac
cordingly it feU to the party of five, so that they aU
gave in their evidence for that side. Afterwards
one Williams, who was one of the jury, and was the
person that proposed this method, talking of it, the
thing took air, and a prosecution was designed to be
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of the jury, understanding, he was so terrified, that
he presently answered upon oath to interrogatories
that were put to him, and confessed that he was for-.
sworn, as indeed aU the twelve were, in acting so
contrary to aU manner of justice ; it being against
the method of our laws, destructive of aU methods
of judicature, and indeed utterly to the prejudice of
the person that had seven, who certainly ought to
have had the cause. The thing being so, the suit is
as it was, and these perjured persons' verdict stands
for nothing.
Sept. 13. Tho' the late Mr. Millingtons, of Lon
don, bookseller, was certainly the best auctioneer in
the world, being a man of great wit and fluency of
speech, and a thorough master of his trade, tho', at
the same time, very impudent and saucy, yet he
could not, at the end of auctions, be brought to give
an account to the persons that employed him, so
s " Edward MiUington will never be forgotten while his name is Ned, or
he a man of remarkable elocution, wit, sense, and modesty — characters so
eminently his, that he would be known by them among a thousand. Mil-
lington (from the time he sold Dr. Annesley's library) expressed a particular
friendship to me. He was originally a bookseller, which he left off, being
better cut out for an auctioneer. He had a quick wit, and a wonderful flu
ency of speech. There was usually as much comedy in his * once, twice,
thrice,' as can he met with in a modern play. ' Where,' said MiUington,
' is your generous flame for learning ? Who, but a sot or a blockhead, would
have money in his pocket, and starve his brains ?' Though, I suppose, he had
but a round of jests, Dr. Cave once bidding too leisurely for a book, says
MiUington, ' Is this your Primitive Christianity ?' Alluding to a book the
honest doctor had published under that title. He died in Cambridge, and I
hear they bestowed an elegy on his memory, and design to raise a monu
ment to his ashes." Dunton's Life and Errors, p. 236, ed. Nichols, Lond.
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1723. HEARNIANiE. 507
that by that means he aUowed what he pleased, and
no more, and kept a great number of books, that
were not sold, to himself. Whence arose that vast
stock of books, tho' most of them but ordinary, that
he had when he dyed, and which, after his death,
were sold by auction.
Sept. 21. They wrote from Dover, Sept. 14, that
the day before, col. ChurchiU, with two other gen
tlemen, arrived there from Calais, by whom they re
ceived the foUowing account, viz. that on Thursday
morning last, Mr. Sebright and Mr. Davis being in
one chaise, and Mr. Mompesson and a servant in
another chaise, with one servant on horseback, pur
suing their way to Paris, were, about seven mUes
from Calais, attacked by six ruffians, who demanded
the three hundred guineas, which they said were in
their pockets and portmanteaus. The gentlemen
readily submitted, and surrendered the money ; yet
the villains, after a httle consultation, resolved to
murder them, and thereupon shot Mr. Sebright thro'
the heart, and gave the word for kiUing the rest :
then Mr. Davis, who was in the chaise with him,
shot at one of them, missed the feUow, but kUled his
horse ; upon which he was immediately kiUed, being
shot and stabb'd in several places. Mr. Mompesson
and the two servants were likewise soon dispatched
in a very barbarous manner. During this bloudy
scene, Mr. John Locke coming down a hUl within
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sent two of their party to meet and kill him ; which
they did before the poor gentleman was apprized of
any danger ; but his man, who was a Swiss, begging
hard for his life, was spared. This happening near
a smaU village where they had taken their second
post, a peasant came by in the interim, and was also
murdered. They partly flead, and otherwise mangled,
the horse that was kiUed, to prevent it's being
known ; so that 'tis believed they did not hve far
from Calais. The unfortunate gentlemen afore men
tioned, not being used to travel, had unwarily dis
covered at Calais what sums they had about them,
by exchanging their guineas for louis d'ors, which is
supposed to have given occasion to this dismal tra
gedy. On Monday the Junior arrived in the river
from Calais, having on board the bodies of these un
fortunate gentlemen, which were carried out of town,
to be interred in Hertfordshire, the servants that were
killed at the same time being buried in France h.
h The following account appeared in one of the public papers of the day,
(Mist's Journal for Saturday, Nov. 2.) and is the rather to be relied on, as
it was written by Mr. Sebright's servant, Richard Spindelow, who recovered
from his wounds, and returned to England in the latter end of the following
October. " On Tuesday, Sept. 10, about three in the afternoon, we set out from Ca
lais for Bologne, in our way to Paris : my master Sebright (the best of mas
ters) aud Mr. Davies being in one chaise, and Mr. Monpesson and myself hi
another, and his own servant on horseback. About three quarters of a mile
beyond the second post, being near seven miles from Calais, we were set
upon by six highwaymen, who having stopped the postillions, came up to the
chaises, and demanded our money, and the same was readily surrendered to
them ; for we had no fire-arms with us to make resistance, and even the
gentlemen's swords were taken from them. Then taking us out of our
chaises, we were all commanded to lie down upon oui- faces, as were tbe

1723. HEARNIAN.E. 509
The said Mr. Sebright was the only brother of my
friend sir Thomas Sebright, of Beachwood, in Hart-
postillions too; which was presently obeyed. Upon which, one of the rogues
came and rifled our pockets, and narrowly searched the wasts and linings
of our breeches. This being done, I was ordered to get up and open the
portmanteaus ; arid as I was going to do it, I saw one of them pull the dead
body of Mr. Locke out of the chaise in which he had been killed, in his re
turn from Paris, at some small distance from ns. This was a sad presage of
what was like to follow. Mr. Locke's servant, who was a Swiss, was spared ;
but made to lie on his face at the place where they met him. In rifling Mr.
Sebrigbt's portmanteau, they found some things wrapped up, which they sus
pected I endeavoured to conceal, which made them cut me with a sword,
very dangerously, on the head. When they had done with my master's port
manteau, they ordered Mr. Monpesson to open his ; who desired Mr. Se
bright to tell them in French, that his servant was gone before, and had the
key with him. This servant they had met not far off, and had shot him in
the back ; but he not being dead, was ordered to lie down on his face ; and
now they fetched him to open his master's portmanteau.
" When they had finished their search of the portmanteaus and cloak-
bags, shaking eveiy piece of linnen, for fear of missing any money : then
the barbarous ruffians gave the word to kill'; whereupon one stabbed me in
five places in the body, and left me for dead ; and, with the same sword, he
struck at Mr. Davies several times, and cleft his skull. Who was butchered
next, or what immediately followed, 1 cannot tell, being stunned by one of
the villains, who came up to me, and stamped three times upon my head,
as I was lying upon my face. As soon as I came a little to myself, I per
ceived by his groans that they were murdering Mr. Monpesson, whose throat
they cut, and otherwise wounded him ; but he survived his wounds for some
time. "About that time a peasant that was accidentally passing by, was brought
in amongst us, and made to lie with his face to the ground ; who, perceiving
what sort of work they were upon, got up, and attempted to run away; but
they rode after him, and shot him dead. After this, they visited me once
more; and having turned me about to see if I bad any life remaining, but
observing none, they left me there, weltering in my blood. The bloody
scene being then ended, they packed up their booty, carrying away two
cloak-bags filled with the best of the things ; and having a horse that was
small and poor, they shot him themselves, and took away a better out of the
chaises in his room.
" About a quarter of an hour after they were gone, we heard the peasants
talking over the dead bodies; and Mr. Monpesson and myself, lifting up our
heads as well as we could, perceived they were carrying away what things
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fordshire, and was gentleman commoner of Balliol
coUege, and had his master of arts degree given him
do it ; so, with much difficulty, Mr. Monpesson got himself in, and 1 crawled
up to it, and got my body in, while my legs hung out ; and in that posture
we were carryed to a little house three quarters of a mile from the place,
and one of the peasants was so kind as to lead the chaise ; the people of the
house brought us some straw, and laid ns upon it, and there we lay in great
misery that night. Mr. Monpesson took notice in the night, that he thought
the rogues were but indifferently paid for tbe drudgery of butchering so
many, (five persons being then murthered, and himself, who died soon after,
made the sixth,) For, saith he, besides watches, rings, linnen, &c. they had
but 120 guineas amongst us all ; and the payment of the bills will be stopt
at Paris.
" Mr. Sebright had changed at Calais about 25 guineas into silver, (not
300, as was given out,) to bear our expences upon the road. And whereas
it was reported, that he said to the ruffians he knew one of them ; which ex
pression is supposed by some to have occasioned the sad catastrophe, which
it might have done, had it been true ; but the said report is absolutely false
and groundless, and highly injurious to the memory of that worthy, tho' un
fortunate gentleman. The murther was, doubtless, pre-concerted among
them, and resolved upon ; and they tell us in that country, that some time
before, a certain company had drank at a house upon the road au uncommon
quantity of brandy, who are supposed to be this wicked gang, in order to
work themselves up to a sufficient rage for the committing of so much bar
barity. " Next morning we were carried from our little cottage upon the road
back to Calais, where several of the most able surgeons of the place were
sent for to take care of us, and dress our wounds. They sowed up Mr. Mon-
pesson's throat, and finding he had a fever, bled him, but he died a few
hours after.
" Another report was spread here, and transmitted to France, which in
justice to truth and the injured person, I think myself obliged to contradict,
viz. that tbe woman's son, at the Silver Lyon inn at Calais, was taken up on
suspicion of having a hand in that horrid action, upon which account they
have since been great sufferers at that house : but the said report is as false
as any thing cau be true ; on the contrary, these people bear the best of cha
racters. " I have here given the substance of the report I made, more at large, to
the president at Calais, when I waited on him some days before I left that
place, to thank him for the great care he had taken in this unhappy affair,
and at the same time described to him the features of two of the rogues who
had some thiDgs remarkable in their faces. What account the postillions
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1723. HEARNIANiE. 511
this last summer by the university. He had a very
good estate left him lately by an uncle. He was a
sweet natured gentleman, and had been at Paris
more than once.
Sept. 29. Roger Bacon guilty of a great error in
affirming, that Christians ought to keep fairs, feri-
enter, and work upon the Sabbath day, as is shewed
by Picus Mirandula Advers. Astrol. 1. ii. c. 5. For
ought I know, Bacon's notion might be the occa
sion, in some measure, of fairs being so much kept
on Sundays. He thought Saturday should be a day
of rest, because Saturn is a star not agreeable to la
bour, stella rebus agendis parum commoda etfelix.
Oct. 3. Notwithstanding the abominable wicked
ness of the abjuration oath, it is incredible what
numbers of aU kinds run in to swear; abundance
pretending, that as 'tis a forced oath, they may do
it, especially since the imposers have no right to
advance such an oath, and they think therefore that
aU the crime will faU upon them. But this reason

" A person was some time since taken up at Lisle, and said to be the old
man that was among them, for such there was in the gang; but upon his
trial he did not appear to be the same : however he was broken upon the
wheel for a robbery committed by him four years ago.
" Another person is taken up near Bologne, who is in gaol there, on ac
count of some words that he spoke, as 'tis said, in a drunken frolick; so
that 'tis much doubted that he was a person concerned, tho' he hath got a
stone doublet by the bargain. But it is hoped that the perpetrators of so
much wickedness will be apprehended, and in that case I expect to be sent
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wUl bring off any wickedness ; and as the writer of
these matters can by no means commend it, so the
best of men abhor and abominate such evasions,
which any profligate wretch may pretend on any
other occasion1.
Oct. 4. An epitaph in Banbury church yard upon
a young man, who dyed by a mortification which
seized in his toe, (his toe and leg both being cut off
before he died :)
' In addition to the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, the following was,
by a late act of parliament, tQ be taken by all persons, as well men as
women, above the age of eighteen : " I, A. B. do truly and sincerely acknow
ledge, profess, testify, and declare, in my conscience before God and the
world, that our soveraigu lord king George is lawful and rightful king of
this realm, and all other his majestie's dominions and countries thereunto
belonging : and I do solemnly and sincerely declare, that I do believe in my
conscience, that the person pretended to be the prince of Wales, during the life
of the late king James, and since his decease, pretendiug to be, and taking
upon himself the stile and title of king of England, by the name of James
the third, or of Scotland, by the name of James the eighth, or the stile or
title of king of Great Britain, hath not any right or title whatsoever to the
crown of this realm, or any the dominions thereto belonging. And I do re
nounce, refuse, and abjure any allegiance or obedience to him : and I do
swear that I will bear faith and true allegiance to his majesty king George,
and him will defend to the utmost of my power against all traiterous con
spiracies, which I shall know to be against him, or any of them; and I do
faithfully promise to the utmost of my power, to support, maintain, and de
fend the succession of the crown against him the said James, and all other
persons whatsoever; which succession, by an act, entituled, An Act for fur
ther Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of
the Subjects, is and stands limited to the princess Sophia, electress and dut
chess dowager of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being protestants. And
all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear, according
to these express words by me spoken, and according to the plain and com
mon sense and understanding of the same words, without any equivocation,
mental evasion, or secret reservation whatsoever; and I do make this re
cognition, acknowledgment, abjuration, renunciation, and promise, heartily,
willingly, and truly, upon the true faith of a Christian. So help me God."

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Ah ! cruel death, to make three meals of one,
To taste, and eat, then eat till all was gon.
But know, thou tyrant, wn th' last trump shall call ;
He'll find his feet to stand, when thou shalt fall.
Oct. 19. Yesterday, in the afternoon, died in War
wickshire, of the smaU pox, after five days iUness,
'<¦ the honourable Mr. Craven \ brother to the right
( honourable the lord Craven, to the great reluctance
of aU that knew any thing of him, he being a noble
man of Magdalen coU. and one of the most beautifuU
youths that have been seen, and his other quahties,
1 with respect to virtue and probity, were agreeable.
1 The female sex were in love with him, and many of
i them used to say he was too handsome for a man.
1 He died in the 19th year of his age.
t Oct. 21. The word paeb, in the Saxon tongue,
1 signifies counsel or advice, as 'tis used in some places
1 to this day : and paet> apebian with the Saxons was
to give advice, and reade thy reade with us is, to
take thy counsel, as in these rhymes ' :
With a red man reade thy read;
With a brown man break thy bread :
At a pale man draw thy knife ;
From a black man keep thy wife.
Thomas Sternhold, therefore, in his translation of
k Robert, third son of William second lord Craven, by Elizabeth, daugh
ter of Humberston Skipwith, esq. son and heir of sir Fulwar Skipwith, bart.
of Newbold hall, Warwickshire : his mother died in child-birth of him, May
16, 1704.
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the first Psalm into Enghsh meeter, hath wisely made
use of this word :
The man is blest that hath not bent,
to wicked reade' his eare :
Nor led his life ais sinners doe,
nor sate in scorner's chaire.
I say spurious editions, because not only here, but
quite throughout the whole book of Psalms* are ¦
strange alterations, aU for the worse. And yet* not
withstanding, the title-page stands as it used to do,
and aU (which is abominable in any book, much
more in a sacred work*) is ascribed to Thomas Stern^
hold, John Hopkins, and others. And yet I am con
fident, were Sternhold, Hopkins, and the other trans
lators now hving, they would be so far from owning
what is ascribed to them, that they would proceed
against the innovators as cheats, especiaUy too since
they have, in several places, changed the very initial
letters that were to represent the several parts of
the Psalms, that every one turned into meeter. This
wiU very easUy be perceived from comparing the
spurious edition printed at London, 1723, (to he
bound up with the Oxford edition of the Bible
printed the same year,) with the old editions, which
ought carefuUy to be sought after, and kept as curi
osities. Mr. Wood observes"1, that Thomas Stern-
hold (who died in 1549) turned into Enghsh meeter
51 of David's Psalms, and caused musical notes to
be set to them, and that aU those Psalms which he
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1723. HEARNIANjE. 515
put into rhime have the letters T. S. set before, to
distinguish them from others. Then, saith he, con
temporary with Sternhold was Joh. Hopkyns, who
is stiled to be "Britannicorum poetarum sui tempo-
ris non infimus, as indeed by the generality hving
in the reign of Edward VI. he was so, if not more,
esteemed. He turned into meeter 58 of David's
Psalms, which are to this day sung in churches ;
and in aU editions of the said Psalms (it seems Mr.
Wood had observed no innovations) his (which he
translated) hath set before them two letters J. H.
And a httle after, (col. 62,) he tells us, that, besides
these two, he found others to have had hands in
making the said Psalms to run in meeter, as WUl.
Whittyngham, afterwards dean of Durham, and
Thomas Norton, of Sharpenhaule or Sharpenhoe, in
Bedfordshire, who seems to have been a barrister,
made 27 of the said Psalms of David to run in
rhime. Mr. Wood afterwards gives (col. 152, &c.)
a fuU and distinct account of the said Whittyngham,
and, among other things, hath these words : " At
the same time also that Whittyngham and others at
Geneva translated the Bible into Enghsh, he (Whit
tyngham) turned into meter those Psalmes that wd
to this day sing in our churches, inscribed with W.
W. : they are in number five, of which the 119th
psalme is one, as large as 22 other psalmes, as also
the ten commandments, and a prayer at the end of
the book of Psalmes." But now if you look into
" Baleus in Script. Maj. Britan. p. 113. inter cent. 12 et 13.
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what the innovators have done, you will find that
they have ascribed the cxixth psalm to W. L. and
not to W. W. ; to particularize no more of their in- ,
tolerable alterations, (and to say nothing of then-
omissions,) a hberty which ought by no means to be
permitted or approved of by such as are for unifor
mity, and have any regard for the old English-Saxon-
tongue, of which there are several words in the old
editions of the singing Psalms, notwithstanding.
changed by such as were not at aU versed in Saxon.
Oct. 22. Sunday last, being the coronation of the
duke of Brunswick, commonly caUed king George,
Mr. Streat, of Merton coUege, who is the senior head
proctor of the university, and his pro-proctor, Mr.
Briton, of the same coUege, were with others at a
tavern in Oxford, at an unseasonable hour. The
vice chancellour walked that evening, and going
into the tavern, found them there, and dismissed
them aU forthwith, to the great reluctance, to be
sure, of Streat and his friends.
Nov. 5. This being the powder plot, which is to
be observed as a thanksgiving, and the prince of
Orange's landing being joyned with it, tho' that
happened the day before, abundance of people seem
ed very indifferent in the observance of it. Nor
were there in the evening so many bonfires as used
to be, many people beginning to disbelieve this plot,
from the sham plots that have been since, and look-

17231 HEARNIAN.E. 517
ing upon the prince of Orange's coming as an inva
sion, and a monstrous injury (as it hath proved) to
the nation.
Nov. 7- Field's Bibles have always been looked
upon as very correct. I mean those printed at Cam
bridge; but then they were counterfeited both at
London and beyond sea: which counterfeits may
easUy be discovered by the letter (not so beautifuU
as that of Cambridge) and the correctness0.
Nov. 12. The book caUed Festivall, printed by
Winken de Worde, which is very scarce, makes-
Whitsontide to be so caUed from the wit and wis
dome sent down that day by the Holy Ghost upon
° Field, however correct in his large and more splendid edition, was not
entirely free from the errors which Hearne attributes to the counterfeits
alone. In 1656 he was examined before the sub-committee for religion,
touching an impression in 24mo. 1653, of which he acknowledged to have
printed to the number of two thousand, but of which no less than seven thou
sand nine hundred were secured by the committee. In this, among other
omissions and misprintings, were the following : for " the unrighteous shall
not inherit the kingdom of God," the unrighteous shall inherit : for " neither
yield ye your members instruments oi unrighteousness unto sin," instruments
of righteousness, besides other omissions and false readings. See Journals
ofthe House of Commons, vol. vii. page 554, 5. William Kilburne, (in his
tract, entituled, " Dangerous Errours in several late printed Bibles," 4to.
printed at Finsbury, 1659, p. 7,) says, that the first error above quoted, " is
the foundation of a damnable doctrine ; for it hath been averred by a reve
rend doctor of divinity to several worthy persons, that many libertines and
licentious people did produce and urge this text from the authority of this
corrupt Bible, against his mild reproofs, in justification of their vicious and
inordinate conversations." Lilburne enumerates various errors in other
Bibles bearing Field's name, particularly those printed at London in 1655
and 1656, at Cambridge in 1657, " in 8vo. volume, which sels very much
and very dear, at least for 8s. 6d. per book." See also Cotton's List of
Bibles, 8vo. Oxford, 1821, page 33. l13

518 RELIQUIAE 1723.
the apostles ; and indeed the old way of writing the
word agrees to this derivation p. I
p " Gode frendis as ye know well a saterday nexte comyng isWytson
euyn, & amonge the peple for to gete hem mete & drynke. But yet as criste
bad theym in his ascencyon. they wente in to the cite of Jherusalem | and
there they were in a halle of stage | and there they sat togyder | preyeng
vnto god wyth hole herte. and one spiryte | of helpe & socour. and some,
comforte in their diseace | Thenne as they were thf| preyenge togyder | so-
deynly there was a grete clowde made in thaire like a blast of thondre. And
euyn therewyth the holy ghost come emong hem | Et apparuerut illis dis-
pertite lingue tanquam ignis. And lighte come downe emonge hem in lik-
nesse of tonges brenyng. and not smertyng | warmyng | and not hannyng |
lightenyng | and not ftyteryng Et repleti sunt omnes spiritu sancto And i
fylled hem ful of gostly wit For as they were to fore but lewde men of (
sighte | aud vnlettred & very ydeottes | as of conping. and noo thyng cowde
of clergy. Suddenly they were the wyseste men in the worlde | And anone
they spake all maner langages vnder the sonne | And there as before her
hertes wereu colde for drede and fere of dethe. Thenne were they soo com
forted of the holy goost in brennyng loue | that they wente aud preched | and !
taughte the worde of god | Spary ng for noo drede | but rcdy to take the dethe
for cristis sake."
The above is extracted from a copy of The Festival, (liber qui vocatur I
festialis,) printed by Caxton, (Caxton me fieri fecit,) in folio, sign, e iij. rev.
The passage affords but slight ground for Hearne's conjecture : on the contrary,
this festival of the Christian church is called Whitsunday, or Whitesunday,
because on this day, being one of the stated times for baptism "in the primi
tive church, those who were baptized put on white garments as typical of
that spiritual purity received in baptism. These garments were afterwards
laid up in the church, that they might be evidence against such persons as
violated or denied the faith they had previously owned at the celebration of
the ceremony. Of this there is a remarkable instance related by Victor Uti-
censis, (De Persecutione Vandalorum, in Bibliotheca Patmm, tom. V. pars 3,
pag. 662. edit. 1618.) Elpidophorus, a citizen of Carthage, had long lived in
the communion of the church, but apostatizing afterwards to the Arians, he-
came a most bitter and implacable persecutor of the orthodox. Among seve
ral whom he sentenced to the rack was one Murittas, a venerable old deacon,
who had himself received the apostate from the font, and who, being ready
to be placed on tbe rack, pulled out the white garment with which Elpido
phorus had been cloathed at his baptism, and thus upbraided him : " These,
Elpidophorus, thou minister of error, these are the garments that shall accuse
thee, when thou appearest before the majesty of the great Judge ; these are
they which girt thee, when thou earnest pure from the holy font ; and these
are they which shall bitterly pursue thee, when thou shalt be cast into the

1723. HEARNIAN^E 519
Nov. 18. Last Sunday night (Oct. 27) died sir
Godfrey KneUer, knight, at his house in Queen's-
square. He was principal painter to his majesty;
to which place a salary of two hundred pounds a
year is annexed.
Dec. 18. Mr. Wilham Stone, LL.B. and princi
pal of New Inne haU, was so wise a man, and of so
much learning, knowledge, and probity, that Dr.
Mill used to say, " Now there are many men that
think themselves fit, and would fain be archbishops
of Canterbury, but I know no one so weU qualifyed
as Mr. Stone, tho' he thinks himself fit for no high
station." He had been a traveUer, and was founder
of St. Clement's hospital, on the east side of Oxford^.
He lies buried in St. Michael's church in Oxford, his
flaming gulph, because thou hast cloathed thyself with cursing as with a
garment, and hast cast off the sacred obligation of thy baptismal vow."
o Stone's hospital, on the east side of the road leading through St. Cle
ment's to Headington hill, was originally intended for eight clergymen's
widows, each of whom was to have apartments, a stipend of eight, since ad
vanced to twelve, pounds yearly, together with a ton and a half of coals, and
a plot of garden ground. The income of the hospital arises from an estate,
and about 2002. in the three per cents. On the front of the building is this
inscription :
" This Hospital, for the poor and sick, was founded by the Rev. Wil
liam Stone, Principal of New Inn Hall, in hopes of thy assistance, Anno
Dom. 1700."
The old inscription being decayed and rendered illegible, a worthy native
and eminent medical practitioner in Oxford, Mr. Richard Curtis, repaired
and restored it two years since, having, as he himself told me, always re
garded the words, in hopes of thy assistance, as peculiarly judicious and well
chosen. At the same time, in order to lend his aid to the benevolent inten
tion pf the founder, he bestowed a benefaction, sufficient to provide certain
comforts for the inmates of the hospital, to be distributed at the festival of
Christmas, for ever.
Ll4

520 RELIQUIAE 1723—24.
monument being in the coUege chancel. 'Tis as fol
lows : H. S. E.
GUTLM9 STONE Dorsetensis LL. Bacc. Erudi-
tione, Iudicio, Pietate eximius, Ingenio vero adeo su
pra fidem praecoci, ut, Juramento suscipiendo nondum
maturus, Gradum Academicum, quem abunde meruit,
differre cogeretur. Egregiam hanc Adolescentiae so-
lertiam pari profectu ad Senectutem usque praestitit.
Et quamprimum per aetatem licuit, Ecclesia? Win-
burnensi, loco natahtio, summo cum Popuh Deside-
rio praeficiebatur. Ghssente jam beUo civih, Perdu-
eUium injurijs opportunus, in Exercitum Regium se
recepit. Ubi, per multos Labores,Damna, et Pericula,
Officio suo strenue functus est. Succumbente tan
dem Causa, optima, exteras Regiones, insigni Pruden-
tiae et Doctrinae compendio, peragravit. Post feli-
cem Caroh 2dl reditum Winburnce suae restitutus
est, de amphoribus minime sohcitus. Dein, aetate
morbisqueingravescentibus, Oxoniam remigrans, Re
quiem qualem qualem in Aula? Nov. Hosp. praefectura
quaesivit, Ubi diu corpore infirmo conflictatus, me-
moria, tamen et judicio ad extremum vegetus, Opes
Egenis, Animam Coelo, tradidit X Kal. Vles- A. D.
MDCLXXXV. iEtatisLXX.
1723-4. Jan.21. The word marry, for an assevera*-
tion or assertion, used very commonly ; as, / marry,
sir, or ah marry, sir, is nothing but Marie, or an in*
vocation of the Virgin Marie, and so 'tis writ in an old

1723—24. HEARNIANiE. 521
passage that I have pubhshed from Lidgate's Life
of the Virgin Mary, a MS. neatly written on veUam,
in a httle foho, in the hands of my friend Thomas
Rawhnson, esq. in my Glossary to Bob. of Glouc.
This clarke also, this wise Plinius,
Seith in Tauriche ther is an erth founde,
That of nature is so vertuouse,
That wol'l cure euery maner wounde.
Right so Marie was the eurth founde
That oute chese God bi eleccion,
To bere the fruyte of oure redempcioun.
Jan. 22. When Borstal house was a garrison for
the kingr, at the time it was surrendered to the par
liament forces, aU happened to go out according to
articles, excepting one person, who, being asleep in
a chair in a little upper room, knew nothing of the
matter, but awaking as the enemy came up, and
being not apprised that the place was so surrendered,
and thinking that the enemy was got in by force, or
r Borstal house, in Buckinghamshire, but immediately upon the borders
of Oxfordshire, was a strong station at the commencement ofthe civil wars.
Anthony il Wood was there in 1646, and represents it as " a garrison with
high bulwarks about it, deep trenches, and pallisadoes." It was quite al
tered in 1668, when he again visited it; *' now (he adds) it had pleasant
gardens about it, and several sets of trees well growne." {Life, by himself,
Bvo. 1772, p. 211.) There is a very interesting plate of it by Burghers, re
presenting it as it appeared at the end of the seventeenth century, in Ken-
nett's Parochial Antiquities. Lord Clarendon tells us, the works and forti
fications were destroyed by the royal party, and the house itself evacuated,
upon which the parliament forces immediately possessed the place, and gave
so much trouble to Oxford, by intercepting the provisions intended for that
city, that colonel Gage was directed to retake it, which was effected with
very little loss, and proved a most important acquisition. Hist, of the Re
bellion, fol. vol. ii. p. 382. Of the story, as related above by Hearne, I find
no trace in any account of the transactions of that period.

522 RELIQUIAE 1.723— 24^
else by some treachery, he takes up his halberd, and
knocks 15 or 16 down, so that they were kiUed,
which makes the enemy fall back, and the king's
forces, that were marched out, understanding the
matter, return again thereupon, and take possession
again of the place, the parhament forces ah the time
thinking that there had been treachery, and that it
was a stratagem only to destroy them. This story
I had to-day from Mr. Thomas Myn, the joyner, and
he had it from his grandfather.
Feb. 3. The Scots highlanders caU their pladds
brcechams : and brech, in that language, signifies
spotted, as their plaids are of many coUours. That
the brachce of the old Gauls were not britches, I pre
sume from Suetonius, who says in Vita, Caes. " Iidem
in curia Galh bracas deposuerunt, et latum clavum
sumpserunt," p. 107. 4to edit. Casaub.s
Feb. 10. Praying for the dead is most certainly a
very ancient and primitive custom, as appears from
the fathers. Our best Enghsh divines are also for
it, and many use it privately, tho' not publickly. Dr.
Isaac Barrow and Mr. Thorndyke were mightily for
it. It is justified from 2 Maccabees xii. 44. For if
he (Judas Maccabaeus) had not hoped that they that
were slain should have risen again, it had been
superfluous and vain to pray for the dead. And
5 So my late friend, Mr. John Urry, in a loose bit of paper 1 found in
Phil. Holland's Camden, that I bought out of Mr. Urry's study.

1723—24. HEARNIANjE. 523
in Matt. xii. 32. we have : And whosoever speaketh
a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven
him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy
Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this
world, neither in the world to come. This shews
some sins, of an inferiour nature, are forgiven in the
world to come.
Feb. 12. As the old Britains were a rehgious
people, so also they were very loyal, and used to
adhere firmly to their princes. This the Romans
knew very weU, and therefore it was their interest,
after Claudius had gained Britain, to make them
have a good opinion of the Roman emperour, and
of such as were to succeed him. This they endea
voured to do, by representing him as a prince
mightily in favour with the gods, and that he would
be deified upon his death. Hence the domvs di-
vina, in the Chichester Inscription. Tho' domvs
avgvsta be looked upon as the same in significa
tion, yet the word divina was more proper, upon
account of the use it was to be of to the Britains.
This expression took place after Juhus Caesar's apoT
theosis. It is of something a more subhme signifi
cation than avgvsta, as shewing that Claudius
was not only of the imperial, but divine, family.
And were not the Roman an elective monarchy, I
should think it were to be restrained to those of the
right hne, such as Robert of Gloucester calls of the
kund.

524 reliqule 1723—24.
Feb. 13. In the same Chichester Inscription we
have PRO salvte. In many old Roman inscrip
tions, perpetva immediately foUows salvte. And
perhaps some may think that word is to be under
stood here. But had it been so, it would certainly
have" been expressed, the authors in this inscription
aiming at perspicuity. But leaving this point, these
broken words ... :::::: wctor.it at :::::::: clnv
:::: gidvbni • rlc :::::: ign briT.' are of more
moment. Indeed it is the most considerable pas
sage in the whole monument. Dr. Bayly reads it
thus : Ex Auctoritate imp\_eratoris~] Chtud\ij\ et
Cogidubni regis magni Brit[annid.~] He rightly
guesses Cogidubnus to be the same with Tacitus's
Cogidunus. The words in Tacitus are these : u" Quae-
dam qivitates Cogiduno regi donatae, is ad nostram
usque memoriam fidissimus mansit, vetere ac jam
pridem recepta popuh Romani consuetudine, ut ha-
beret instrumenta servitutis et reges." Mr. Cam
den, in his account of the Regni, (which he makes
to have been Surry and Sussex, with the sea coast
of Hampshire,) had this passage in his view. For
thus he writes : x " In etymo [vocis regni] quae ani-
mum subeunt, tacitus praetermittam, quia forsitan k
' This inscription was published in the Philosophical Transactions, No.
379. and in Stukeley's Itinerary. Hearne afterwards gave a plate of it in
Adam de Domeram, with Dr. E. Bayly's remarks, written in a letter to a
friend, and his own opinions on it. The rev. Mr. William Clarke, chancel
lor of Chichester, as well as Horsley, who republished it, give a different and
more probable reading to the words just quoted, viz. Cogidubni r. leg. Aug*
in Brit.
u Vita Agric. p. 423. * Britannia, pag. 211. ed fol.

1723—24. HEARNIANiE. 525
veritate non fuerint ; non minus, ac si phtnoi Pto-
lemaeo dictos existimarim, quod regnum esset et sub
regio dominatu permanere permiserint Romani. In
hoc enim tractu Cogiduno regi Britanno, ut habet
Tacitus, quaedam civitates vetere pop. Romani con
suetudine donatae, ut haberet instrumenta servitutis
et reges." i. e. " As touching the etymologie of this
name [regni] I will passe over my conceits in si
lence, because peradventure they would carry no
more truth with them, than if I should thinke they
were by Ptolemy caUed PErNOi, for that it was Reg
num, that is, a kingdome, and the Romans permit
ted the people thereof to remaine under a regaU go
vernment. For in this tract it was, that, as Taci
tus writeth, certaine cities, according to an old cus
tome of the people of Rome, were given to Cogi-
dunus, a British king, that they might have even
kings also as instruments to draw others into bon
dage and servitude." So the words are englished by
Dr. Philemon HoUand, whose translation is to be re
garded, partly because the second edition of it was
revised and approved of, long before it went to the
press, by Mr. Camden himself, and partly because
Dr. Holland had a most admirable knack in trans
lating books, as appears from many instances, seve
ral of the most obscure books being translated by
him, one of which was Plutarch's Morals, which,
tho' it consisted of above a ream of paper of Phile-
j mon's writing, yet it was translated and writ by him
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526 RELIQUIAE 1723—24.
and wonderfuU a thing, that it occasioned his learned
son Henry Holland (author of that curious and rare
book caUed Herwologia Anghca) to write the follow
ing distick upon the said pen :
This booke I wrote with one poore pen,
Made of a grey goosse quill :
A pen I found it, us'd before,
A pen 1 leave it still.
This pen was afterwards begged by an ancient
gentlewoman, (mother to a noble countess,) who gar
nished it in sUver, and kept it as a monument.
Feb. 15. The Persians looked upon their princes
as friends to the stars, and brethren of the sun and
moon. Hence Sapor, in his letter to Constantius the
emperour, styled himself thus : Rex regum Sapor,
particeps syderum,f rater solis et lunce, Constantio \
Ctesari fratri meo salutemy.
Feb. 16. Yesterday Dr. Thomas Tanner was in-
staUed canon of Christ Church, in room of Dr. Eger
ton, bishop of Hereford, who hath resigned. The
said Dr. Egerton was a noble man of New college.
He is young, and hath no learning. As for Dr. Tan
ner, he owes this preferment to the spurious edition
of Ant. a Wood's Athence Oxon. Had he acted
honestly and fairly, and given us the 'third vol. of
Anthony's book just as Anthony left it, (as he should
y E fragment*) quodam impresso Commentationum Apocalypticarum fflihi
dato a v. amiciss. Tho. Rawlinsono, arm. T. H.

1723—24. HEARNIANjE. 527
have done,) he would not have been prefer'd in this
manner. He hath had two wives, but both are dead.
He hath one chUd, a son, about six years old, by his
second. His first wife was one of the daughters of
Dr. More, late bishop of Norwich. She was a great
brandy drinker, and that kUled her.
Feb. 17. On Tuesday morning (Feb. 11.) died in
Newgate, the famous Mrs. SaUy SaUsbury ; and the
same evening the coroner's inquest, consisting of cre-
ditable housekeepers in the neighbourhood, sate upon
the body, (as is always done, when any dies in the
gaol,) and brought in their verdict, that she died of
a fever, having been UI of a consumption of a long
time, which for several days preceeding her death
was attended with a violent fever, and had almost
reduced her to a meer skeleton. This is that most
beautiful w — , that captivated so many fine gentle
men. She hath been mentioned formerly2.
Feb. 19. Dr. William Baker, the present unwor
thy bishop of Bangor, hath just printed a sermon he
preached before the house of lords, last 30th of Jan.
They desired him to print it, and they call it an ex
ceUent sermon. 'Tis, on the contrary, most sorry,
vUe stuff, picked up from newspapers and tittle
tattle, fuU of lyes, abusing the rightfuU king and
his friends, and flattering the usurper. 'Tis void of
divinity and reason. This Dr, Baker was always
¦ See page 490.

528 RELIQULE 1723—24.
looked upon in Wadham coUege as an Ul-natured
man, and they are glad there that they are rid of him.
Feb. 21. This afternoon, upon my return from
my country walk, I had a great deal of discourse
with old WUl. Bremicham, of St. Peter's parish in
the East, now in the 91st year of his age, being, as
he says, born a httle after three clock in the morn
ing, on Valentine's day in the year 1632. His fa
ther was a cavaher, and a souldier for king Charles
the first. He says, he used to supply his father's place
in the siege of Oxford sometimes, as a centinel. He
says, he hath many times seen king Charles the first
as he was walking, and that the generahty of the pic
tures of him represent him too fuU faced, and with
too much beard, he being a thin man, and of a httle
picked beard, and httle whiskers, though a strait
man, and of a majestick countenance. He says, he
served as centinel in that part of the fortifications,
where Buddard's garden, (as they call it,) by Wad
ham coUege, is now. He says, he had a mighty
veneration for that exceUent prince, and that he re
ceived several kindnesses from the king's souldiers.
This old man was formerly very brisk, and let horses.
He let horses to king Charles the second's men in
the parliament of Oxford, in the latter end of that
king's reign. He says, his wife is four days older
then he is, and that she was born somewhere about
Dover. He says, that the tradition used to be, that
Blake's oak (as we go to Abbington) was so called,

1723—24. HEARNIANjE. 529
because Blake was hanged there upon it (he being
a great parliamentary viUain) for betraying three
Christian kings. He said, this oak was older than
Magdalen oak, notwithstanding much smaUer, both
being now in their decay. He was born in Oxford,
and never hved out of it, unless it were before he
was in breeches, when he was not two years of age,
that he staid a httle while at Norleigh.
Feb. 22. Upon the top of Heddington hill, by
Oxford, on the left hand as we go to Heddington,
just at the brow of the branch of the Roman way,
that falls down upon Marston-lane, is an elm, that
is commonly caUed and known by the name of Jo.
PuUen's tree, it having been planted by the care of
the late Mr. Josiah PuUen, of Magdalen haU, who
used to walk to that place every day, sometimes
twice a day, if tolerable weather, from Magdalen
haU and back again, in the space of half an hour.
This gentleman was a great walker, and some walks
he would caU a mug qf twopenny, and others a mug
qf threepenny, &c. according to the difference ofthe
air of each place.
Feb. 23. Yesterday I bought, out of the study of
the late Dr. Charlett, The Vision of Pierce Plow
man, wherevnto is annexed the Crede of Pierce
Plowman, neuer imprinted with the booke before7-.
* The argument of this curious poem is so well given by Pope, that I can-
: not but reprint it. " An ignorant plain man having learned his pater-noster
M m

530 RELIQUIAE 1723—24.
I had before two copies of this very edition of Pierqe
Plowman, one given me by Mr. West, pf BaUiol col-
and ave-mary, wants to learn the creed. He asks several religious men of
the several orders to teach it him. First of a friar minor, who bids him be
ware of the Carmelites, and assures him they can teach him nothing, de
scribing their faults, &c. But the friars minors shaU save him, whether he
learns his creed or not. He goes next to the friars preachers, whose magui-
ficent monastery be describes : there he meets a fat friar, who declaims
against '^e Augustines. He is shocked at his pride, and goes to the Augus-
tines. They rail at the Minorites. He goes to the Carmes ; they abuse tbe
Dominicans, but promise him salvation, without the creed, for money. He
leaves them with indignation, and finds an honest, poor plowman in the field
and tells him how he was disappointed by the four orders. The plowman
answers with a long invective against them." Such is the argument of this
curious piece of satire against the four orders of mendicant friars, wbo
were peculiarly obnoxious from the ascendancy they had obtained, and the
authority they assumed, in the political, as well as the religious, world. Tbe
whole poem is extremely interesting, describing, in very lively colours, tbe
hypocrisy and covetousness, the magnificence and pride, together with the
deceptions, of the religious societies it professes to satirize, and had it not
been reprinted of late years, under the careful superintendence of Mr. Hasle-
wood, would have formed a good subject for a longer extract. As it is, the
reader shall only have a description of the plowman, which is a curious pic
ture of the times.
Thanne turnede I me forth and talked to my selfe
Of the fashede of this folke, whow feythles thei weren
And as I wente by the way, weping for sorowe
Aud seigh a sely ma me by, open the plough hongen
His cote was of a cloute that cary was ycalled.
His hod was ful of holes, and his heare oute.
With his knoppede shon clouted ful thykke.
His ton toteden out, as he the lond tredede
His hosen ouer hongen his bokshynes, on euerich a syde
AI beslomered in fen, as he the plow folwede
Tweye myteynes as meter maad al of cloutes
The fyDgres weren forwerd, and ful often honged
This whit waselede in the feen, almost to the ancle
Foure rotheren hym beforne, that feble were worthi
Men mighte reknenich a ryb, so rentful they weren
His wiif walked hym with, with a long gode
In a cutted cote, cutted ful heoghe
Wrapped in a wynwe shete, to were hire fro wederes
Barfot on the bare iis that the blod folwede
And at the londes ende lath a little crom bolle

1723—24. HEARNIANiE. 531
lege, the other by Mr. Graves, of Mickleton, in Glou
cestershire, but in both of them the Creed, notwith
standing mentioned as annexed in the title-page, is
wanting, being, it may be, laid aside for some that
had copies of a former edition. This Crede is so
great a rarity, that it was formerly lent me by Tho
mas Rawhnson, esq. being bound up by itself, and
at that time I extracted some things out of it, which
I have made use of in my edition of GuU. Neubri
gensis, and in my glossary to Robert of Gloucester,
mentioning, in both places, that it is a very great
rarity. And in GuU. Neubrigensis I have signifyed
that it is a distinct book (altogether different) from
the book in meeter, commonly caUed Piers Plough
man, the author whereof was Robert Langlands.
This book Dr. Charlett procured out of the study of
the late learned Mr. WUl. Fulman, who hath writ
ten the foUowing particulars at the end of the book :
" The Creed seems to have been written some yeares
after the Vision, as appeares by the mention of Wick-
lef, who appeared not till the end of king Edward
the third, and especiaUy of Walter Brute, who was
later. Of Walter Brute, mentioned in the Creed, ¦
/. 1111, vide Fox, Act. Mon. p. 566, ann. 1391. Bale
caUs him Britte, p. 503 ; Pits, Brithus, p. 547. The
And tberon lay a litel cbylde lapped in cloutes
And tweyne of tweie yeres olde, opon a notber syde
And al they songen o songe, that sorwe was to heren
They crieden alle o cry, a kareful note
The sely man sighed sore, and seyde, children beth stille.
This man lokede opon me, and leet the plpugh honden
And seyde : 
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532 RELIQUIAE 1723—24.
prayer and complaint of the Plowman extant in Fox,
Act. Mon. seems to be pf the same age."
From what I have said in p. 770. of GuU. Neubr.
it appears, that Piers Ploughman was written in the
year 1409, whence I should conclude that the Creed
is older than Pierce Ploughman, and yet, after aU, I
have there insinuated, that Pierce the Ploughman's
Crede was so caUed, as other satyrical books were,
in imitation of the former ; so that I still am of opi
nion and beheve, that Pierce Ploughman's Vision is
the oldest, tho' not so old as Mr. Fulman seems to
take it. Toward the beginning of the Crede are
some MSS. glosses or explications.
It cost me (being priz'd no more) one shilling and
six pence only, and yet the book is weU worth a
guinea*. March 16. Mr. Selden was a great admirer of
Dr. Rob. Flud or Floyd, that noted Rosacrucian
physician, who, as he teUs us, in his dedication of
his Titles qf Honour, ed. 1. 4to. to Mr. Edward
Hayward, cured him of a dangerous and tedious
sickness, " being thence freed (are his words) by the
bounteous humanitie and advice of that learned phi-
sician doctor Robert Floyd, whom my memorie al-
waies honors." Indeed Selden was a foUower of
• " Pierce the Ploughman's Crede, 4to. Lond. 1553." Sale Catalogue of
the duke of Roxburghe, Lond. 1812. Numb. 3239, where it produced ten
guineas : the Vision, Crowley's edition of 1550, sold for six guineas and an
half. Lord Spencer has a magnificent copy of Crowley's edit, of the latter,
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1724. HEARNIAN^E. 533
such sort of learning as the doctor profest himself,
and used very frequently to dive into the books of
astrologers and sooth-sayers. Whence 'tis that he
so often quotes Juhus Firmicus and Vettius Valens,
(both old writers, and 'tis pity the latter is not pub-
hshedb,) and divers besides, which makes many of his
writings hardly intelligible, he being fond of even
their very expressions, as he was certainly a very
careless writer, both in Latin and Enghsh, being
more fond of. variety of learning, than elegant, or
even easy, expressions.
March 18. Yesterday I bought for six-pence,
(tho' it be worth five shillings,) out of Dr. Charlett's
study, Prynne's Signal Loyalty and Devotion of
God's true Saints and pious Christians towards
their Kings, &c. Lond. 1660. 4to. in two parts. It
must be now noted, that Mr. Prynne's things beginn
now to be scarce, and are picked up by curious men.
They are made rare, by many of the copies being
turned to wast paper. They are valuable for the
historical passages (provided his citations and tran
scripts may be relyed on) out of a great variety of
authors, MSS. and printed.
1724. April 1. Travelling, night and day, in Ger
many, is by waggons, that go no faster at most than
a foot-pace. If traveUers in a winter night get three
or four hours rest, noble-men and persons of quality,
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534 RELIQUIAE 1724.
and those of the most inferior rank, (men, women,
and chUdren,) tumble aU together in one room upon
straw. April 29- Mr. Tayler, of University coUege, told
me last night, that Dr. Clavering told him, that Dr.
Tanner, chanceUor of Norwich, declared, that he
much wondered at the exphcation Mr. Denison and
his friends put upon the clause about electio canoni-
ca, in University coUege statutes. He said there
were three canonical elections, electio per inspira-
tionem, electio per compromisSum, and electio per
scrutinium. The two former were exploded long
since, the latter holds, and Mr. Cockman was there
fore legaUy, fairly, and canonicaUy elected, as having
the greater number of votes.
April 30. Formerly it was usual to be buried in
winding-sheets without coffins, and the bodies were
laid on biers. And this custom was practised about
three score years agoe, tho' even then persons of rank
were buried in coffins, unless they ordered otherwise.
Thomas Neile, of Hart hall, in queen Elizabeth's
time, is represented in a winding sheet, in Cassing
ton church. It seems, therefore, he was not buried
in a coffin, especiaUy since his effigies in the wind
ing sheet there was put up in his life time. In the
monkish times stone coffins were much in vogue,
especiaUy for persons of quality, and for those other
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1724. HEARNIANiE. 535
abbots, abbesses, &c. Even many of the inferior
monks were sometimes so buried, tho' otherwise the
most common way was a winding sheet. Yet even
many persons of distinction, instead of coffins, were
wrapt up in leather, as were sir Wilham TrusseU
and his lady, founders of Shottesbrooke church and
chantry, in Berks, as may be seen in my edition of
Lelands Itinerary, and 'twas in such leathern sheets
or bags that others were put that were layed in the
waUs of churches.
May 10. Yesterday I saw in Oxford my friend
Mr. Richard Graves, of Mickleton, in Gloucestershire,
who told me that Mr. James Woodman, a London
bookseUer, is going to reprint Caxton' s Chronicle.
He also told me, that the Latin Bible, printed in
foho, at Mentz, 1462, was sold in the sale of the
Count de Brienne's hbrary, carrying on at London
by the said Woodman, for 112 fibs, being bought by
my lord Harley, and that other books (the hbrary
being extraordinary curious) bring vast prizes. The
said Bible is in two vols. veUum, and is noted in the
catalogue to be the first Bible ever printed.
May 20. Yesterday, at two clock in the after
noon, was a convocation, when a letter was read
from king George, (as the duke of Brunswick is
stiled,) offering the foundation of a new professor
ship to teach the modern tongues and modern his
tory, in which George himself is to put in the pro-
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536 RELIQUIAE 1724.
fessor, who is to have four hundred pounds per an.
but to give 100 libs, out of it to two assistants, at
50 libs a piece. So I hear, and I was told at the
same time, that an address of thanks was returned
to George, and that there was a full house, a matter
of 300, nemine dissentienteL.

c The king's letter to the two universities.
George R.
Trusty and well beloved, we greet you well. We being greatly desirous
to favour and encourage our two universities, those ancient and laudable
nurseries of piety and learning, and to enable them more effectually to an
swer the end of their institution, by sending forth constant supplies of learn
ed and able men, to serve the publick both in church and state ; and having
observed that no encouragement or provision has hitherto been made in either
of the said universities, for the study of modern history, or modern lan
guages, the knowledge of which is highly necessary towards compleatly qua
lifying the youth committed to their care, for several stations, both in church
and state, to which they may be called : and having seriously weighed the
prejudice that has accrued to the said universities from this defect, persons of
foreign nations being often employed in the education and tuition of youth,
both at home and in their travels ; and great numbers of the young nobility
and gentry being either sent abroad directly from school, or taken away from
the universities before the course of their studies can be there compleated,
and opportunities frequently lost to the crown of employing and encouraging
members of the two universities, by conferring ou them such employments,
both at home and abroad, as necessarily require a competent skill in writing
and speaking the modern languages. In order, therefore, to remedy these
and the like inconveniences, we have determined to appoint two persons of
sober conversation and prudent conduct, of the degree of master of arts, or
batcbellor of laws, or of some higher degree in one of the said universities,
skilled in modern history and in the knowledge of modern languages, to be
nominated by us, to be our professors of modern history, one for the univer
sity of Cambridge, and the other for that of Oxford, who shall be obliged to
read lectures in the publick schools, at such times as shall hereafter he ap
pointed. And we have further determined, that each of the said professors
shall have a stipend of four hundred pounds per annum, and out ofthe said
stipend shall be obliged to maintain with sufficient salaries, in the university
where he shall be established, two persons at least, well qualified to teach
and instruct in writing and speaking the said languages, which said teachers
shall be under the direction of the professors respectively, and shall be obliged
to instruct, gratis, in the modern languages, twenty scholars in each univer-

1724. HEARNIAN.E. 537
June 5. Formerly wearing hats was looked upon
as a great crime, bonnets and thrums being then in
fashion, and hats being of a late rise. So that such
as wore hats used then to be fined, whence 'tis that
some of the parish of Marlborough, in Devonshire,
were fined twice for wearing hats, as appears from
the register book towards the beginning of queen
Ehzabeth's reign, as Mr. Dyer, of Oriel coUege, takes
it, from whom I had this information.
June 14. On Friday, June 5, in the evening, Dr.
sity, to be nominated by us ; and each scholar so nominated, shall be obliged
to learn two. at least of the said languages, both the professors and teachers
taking especial care that the times and hours for the instructing and teaching
the said scholars, be so ordered, as not to interfere with those appointed for
their academical studies': which professors and teachers shaU be obliged,
once every year, to transmit an attested account of the progress made by
each scholar committed to their care, to our principal secretaries of state, to
be laid before us, tbat we may encourage tbe diligence and application of
such amongst them, as shall have qualified themselves for our service, by
giving them suitable employments either at home or abroad, as occasions
shall offer. And our royal will and pleasure is, that you forthwith, upon the
receipt hereof, call a congregation, in order to communicate these our royal
intentions to the university. And so we bid you farewel. Given at our
court at St. James's, the 16th day of May, 1724, in the tenth year of our
reign. By his majesty's command,
Townshend.
Both universities, on this occasion, presented very dutiful and loyal ad
dresses. That from Oxford was transmitted to the lord viscount Townshend,
and by him presented to his majesty, who was pleased to receive it very gra
ciously. That from Cambridge was presented by the vice-chancellor, (Dr.
Snape, provost of King's,) attended by the proctors and several other mem
bers, who were introduced by the duke of Grafton, and received the foUow
ing answer :
I thank j'ou for this dutiful and loyal address, and am glad to find, that
what I proposed to you in my letter meets with your intire approbation ; and
doubt not, with your assistance, my intentions upon this occasion will prove
an honour to the university in general, as well as an advantage to the parti
cular members of that learned body.

538 RELIQUIAE 1724.
Henry SachevereU, rector of St. Andrews, Holbourn,
(worth about 700 hbs. per an.) departed this life at
Highgate ; which rectory being in the gift of the
duke of Montague, his grace has been pleased to
present the same to the reverend Mr. Barton, a cler
gyman of the country. The said Dr. SachevereU is
the person that made so great a noise in the time of
queen Anne. He took the degree of M. A. March
16, 1696, that of B. D. Feb. 4, 1707, and that of
D. D. July 1, 1708. He was a bold man, and of a
good presence, and dehvered a thing better than a
much more modest man, however preferable ia learn
ing, could do. He was but an indifferent scholar,
but pretended to a great deal of honesty, which I
could never see in him, since he was the forwardest
to take the oaths, notwithstanding he would former
ly be so forward in speaking for, and drinking the
health of, king James III. He hath printed several
things; but that which is reaUy good, viz. his speech
at his tryal, was none of his own, but was penned
by Dr. Francis Atterbury, the deprived bishop of
Rochester. He died very rich. He had a compli
cation of disorders.
June 28. When Mr. Wm. Brome, of Ewithing-
ton, near Hereford, was in town, in his return from
London, he told me, that the late earl of Oxford,
notwithstanding what had been reported, had the
true use of his understanding ever since he was in
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1724. HEARNIANjE. 539
that he died in a very quiet, composed manner, and
that he put his hand up and closed his own eyes,
and fixed his jaw. Mr. Brome was weU acquainted
with him, rid out with him in his lordship's coach
on the Monday to make a visit, sat up with him tiU
eleven clock at night, when his lordship was weU
and cheerfuU, and died on the Wednesday foUowing
of a pleuretick feaver. He said, his lordship had
never had his true health since he was stabbed. He
told me, he beheved he was an honest man, and a
true friend to king James III. but that he could do
nothing, finding those to be knaves and vUlains, that
should have been firm, and have been assisting, such
as lord BuUingbroke, who most certainly is a R. hav
ing been discarded at king James's court for betray
ing aU bis secrets, and some others. I could not but
give great attention to Mr. Brome on this score, be
cause he is a man of great modesty and integrity ;
and indeed I have heard some other honest men say
the same thing, tho' others have asserted the con
trary. July 15. Mr. Hinton, rector of Lasham, in Hamp
shire, calling upon me to-day, told me that the place
where archbishop Abbot kiUed the keeper of the
park with an arrow, is BramsweU, in Hampshire,
where sir John Cope now hves. He said, that the
place where Walter Tyrrell passed over the river,
after he had kiUed Wilham Rufus, is to this day
caUed Tyrrell's ford.

540 RELIQUIAE 1724.
July 19- They write from Paris, that on the 14th
of July sentence was pronounced, and the same day
executed, upon Joseph Bisseau, who had taken the
name of Gratien D'AvaneUe, merchant-jeweUer, of
Leige, and Peter Lefebvre, merchant-jeweUer, in the
foUowing manner. A scaffold being erected in the
place caUed the Greve, in that city, they had their
arms, legs, thighs, and loins broken upon it; and
then laid on a wheel, with their faces towards hea
ven, where they remained tiU they dyed; from
whence the dead bodies were to be conveyed, viz.
that of Joseph Bisseau to the highway near Calais,
where the Enghsh gentlemen were robbed and mur
thered'1; and that of Peter Lefebvre to the highway
near Peronne, whereabouts the stage coach of Lisle
was robbed, and two that foUowed it murthered,
there to be exposed to view, each upon a wheel*, for
which robberies and murthers they suffered the se
vere punishments above mentioned.
July 21. Old Mr. Bremicham, of Oxford, teUs me,
that he very weU remembers the siege of Oxford,
and the hanging up of one Blake upon an oak in the
way to Abbington, beyond the half-way gate, which
oak is stUl standing, but very much decayed. This
Blake was a traytour. Mr. Bremicham says, he be
trayed three Christian kings, and was going to be
tray the fourth, viz. king Charles the first, upon
which he was hanged, within two days after his de-
d See page 506.

1724. HEARNIANjE. 541
sign was discovered, upon the said oak, which is
caUed by no other name than Blake's oak.
This Bremicham says, he weU remembers the
great house in St. Clements, that is now down, but
was then caUed Bole-shipton farmc. He says, he
rented part of the grounds formerly himself, that
the farm was 300 hbs. per an. and that aU those
grounds on the left hand the way, as we go to Hed
dington hiU, are stiU caUed Bole-shipton.
He says, that, during the siege of Oxon, all parts
were drowned, excepting the north side, which could
not be drowned, and the way from Oxford to Ab
bington, which lay open to bring in provisions, which
were constantly brought by waggons, &c. from Ab
bington. He says, Oxford could never have been
taken, had not there been treachery. I suppose he
thinfs there was treachery in the surrendry, whereas
it is looked upon as a very prudential thing.
Aug. 9. Dr. Atterbury, the deprived bishop of Ro
chester, being now at Paris, they write from thence,
that since his arrival there, he hath passed his time
in examining the publick hbraries, and other curio
sities of that city ; and that he hath been visited by
' At the very moment I am writing this note, the workmen are clearing
the ground for the erection of new housesj if not new streets, in the field im
mediately adjoining the eastern side of Cutler Boulter's alms houses. The
remains of an ancient building of considerable extent, chimney and hearth
stones, as well as many other evidences of a former erection, have already
been discovered ; and in one part, about four feet under ground, a large area
of a well paved court yard, or somewhat similar, was clearly discernible.
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542 RELIQUIAE 1724.
most of the members of the royal academy of sci
ences, by the famous father Monfaucon, and abbe
Vertot, and other persons of distinction and learning,
who seem to pay him a more than ordinary respect.
Sept. 2. Mr. Thomas Kimber, of HolyweU, in the
north suburbs of Oxford, my friend, is a man of ex
ceUent sense, and versed in history and antiquities.
Being some hours in his company last night, and
only he and I together, and happening to discourse
of the Bodleian and other hbraries, and how meanly
the Bodleian hbrary is furnished with curious clas
sical books, and books of our Enghsh history and
antiquities, I told him, the true reason was, the ne
glect in former times that way, the original design
of the hbrary being chiefly for books against the Ro
man Cathohcks, and accordingly Dr. Thomas James,
Mr. Rowse, and Dr. Barlow, (who were zealous
against the Cathohcks,) made it their business to
get such kind of books, to say nothing of others.
This, he said, he never heard of before, but would
be sure to remember it, it being remarkable.
Sept. 10. Yesterday, in the afternoon, caUed upon
me, WUham Stukeley, doctor of physick, whom I
had never seen before. He told me, he is about
printing a httle foho book about curiosities. It is
to be intitled, Itinerarium Curiosum : Centuria pri
ma. Or, An Account qf the Antiquities in Na
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1724. HEARNIAN.E. 543
Britain. Illustrated with one hundred folio prints
in copper. He told me, he designed other Centuries.
This Dr. Stukeley is a mighty conceited man, and
'tis observed by aU that I have talked with, that
what he does hath no manner of hkeness to the ori
ginals. He goes aU by fancy. Hence his cut of
Waltham cross is not one bit like.it, whereas that
done by my late learned friend, John Bridges, esq.
is exact. Nor indeed is the print of Old Verulam,
that he hath given, any thing but meer fancy. In
short, as he addicts himself to fancy altogether, what
he does must have no regard among judicious and
truly ingenious men. He told me he had been at
Thame, thinking it was a Roman city. Good God !
this is nothing but idle dreaming. How is it pos
sible to think at this rate ? Had he said Heddington
had been a Roman city, any one of reason would
have rather beheved him, there being a bit of a Ro
man way passing there. He said, his work was to
consist of every thing that was curious, whether Ro
man, Graecian, Egyptian, Norman ; and what not ?
He said, he should have in it monasteries, and other
religious houses, as occasion offered. He pretended
to have discovered a Roman amphitheatre at SU-
chester, a draught of the walls whereof he shewed
me. This is again fancy. I have been at SUchester.
There is nothing hke it. The doctor told me he had
never been in Oxford but once before, and that was
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544 RELIQUIAE 1724.
informed he knows very little, or nothing, of the
matter.

Sept. 15. Yesterday the right honourable Gerald
De Courcy, lord Kingsale, of the kingdom of Ireland,
did me the honour to caU upon me, and to sit with
me some time, after which I was with him at his
lodgings at the Mitre several hours. This young
nobleman is a very honest, virtuous man, and hath
a very good skUl in heraldry, history, and antiqui
ties. There came with him to my room, and were
with him afterwards, when I was there, at the Mitre,
three other very worthy, honest gentlemen, viz. Mr.
King, of Hartfordshire, Mr. Butler, of Ireland, and
Mr. Sexton, which Mr. Sexton is a man of exceUent
learning, and acts as an attorney for many Roman
Cathohcks. I had been six years ago with this Mr.
Sexton at the Mitre, with Mr. Blount, of Maple
Durham, and Mr. Blount's lady, and some other truly
virtuous, good people of the Roman Cathohck per-
swasion. My lord Kingsale often mentioned my per
formances in an honourable way, and pressed me se
veral times to write a History of England, no one,
says he, being so capable on many accounts. I ex
cused myself, and told his lordship, that I had al
ready writ and pubhshed too many things of secret
history, since I had been so often troubled on that
score. He said (and the company agreed with him)
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1724. HEARNIAN.E. 545
by Mr. O'Connor, is a very poor work, and does not,
by any means, please, being a poor fabulous thing.
His lordship said, that captain Stephens's books about
our monasteries have several good things in them,
but that the whole work, taken together, is but in
different, and far from giving satisfaction, and so the
company said too. For my own part, I never had
yet an opportunity of reading these books over, and
therefore I cannot, as yet, give my opinion about
them. They all wished that the work had faUen
upon me. I told them, if I had done it, it should
have been done in the manner Mr. Dodsworth and
sir William Dugdale foUowed, and that I would have
taken care to have given originals, (instead of trans
lations,) which is the exceUency of Dodsworth and
Dugdale. This young lord is not yet married, but a fine lady
is in his view, as Mr. Sexton told me.
Mr. King is godson to king James Hid. being the
very first the king stood for. This Mr. King is a
personable man, and hath a fine lady. He often
drinks, Betty of Hearts, meaning, I beheve, king
James the third's queen, that most beautifuU lady.
Oct. 12. Mr. Murray, being in Oxford, told me,
that he happened once, with two or three gentle
men, to see the celebrated SaUy Sahsbury, whUe she
was under confinement, being the only time he saw
her. They found her with two or three others drink
ing a bowle of punch, of about fifteen or sixteen shil-
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546 REL1QULE 1724.
hngs. Mr. Murray and his companions sate at an
other table. But Mr. Murray being a great lover of
punch, and expressing himself as if he desired to
taste of it, he was very civiUy accommodated. He
said, she seemed to him to be about fourty years of
age, tho' she must be less, if, according to her life,
she was born about 1690, or 1691. He said, she
dressed plain but neat, that she had the finest hand
his eyes ever beheld, and that she had been most
certainly a compleat beautye.
Nov. 16. Dr. Carter, provost of Oriel college, hav
ing entered a young gentleman some time ago from
Hart haU, the principal of Hart haU, Dr. Newton,
hath made a great stir in the matter, because the
young gentleman had no discessit from the hall, as
the statutes require ; tho', after aU, Dr. Carter for
feits only 40 shillings for such entrance by the sta
tutes, which Newton would have raised to 40 libs.
Newton is famous for talking much, Carter for say
ing nothing. Somebody upon this occasion hath made
the foUowing verses. I rather think they were done
by Mr. Jones, of BaUiol, that translated Oppian into
Enghsh. Newton, with open mouth, demands a stray,
Carter looks wisely, and will nothing say.
Newton remonstrates, Carter's wondrous shy :
Newton then prints, but Carter won't reply.
O ! endless question, should it last so long,
Till Carter speaks, or Newton holds his tongue.
' See page 527.

1724. HEARNIAN.E. 54?
Dec. 1. On Wednesday last, at night, died ofthe
stonef, my very worthy friend, the reverend and
learned Mr. Hilkiah Bedford, M.A. and formerly
feUow of St. John's coUege, in Cambridge^.. This
great and good man died one of the firm and steddy
confessors of the church of England. He was au
thor and translator of many learned books, two of
which deserve a particular mention, viz. his Vindi
cation of the Church of England, in Defence of
the Clause in the 20th Article about Ceremonies,
against Mr. CoUins's vUe pamphlet, caUed Priest
craft in Perfection, and his book caUed Hereditary
Right, printed in foho in queen Anne's time, which
made a great noise, and Mr. Bedford was imprisoned
three years for it, and fined high, but his fine was at
last, with much difficulty, remitted'1. His name is
not put to any of his books, that I know of. Dr.
Hickes left him his own books and a legacy in money,
desiring that Mr. Bedford might write his life, which
accordingly he undertook, but I know not whether
he finished it. The two last things Mr. Bedford
1 'Dec. 7. Mr. Baker, of Cambridge, writes me word, that Mr. Bedford
died November 25th last, about ten at night, of the stone. lie had been
probed twice, and no stone could be discovered ; but after his death, his body
being opened, a stone was found and taken ont larger than a hen's egg. By
his will, he has left his wife and eldest son executors. He was buried on Sun
day Nov. 29, in St. Margaret's, Westminster, the pall being held up by six
friends of his own principles, and the office read by another." T. H.
e Hilkiah Bedford, natu IvOndino, filius Hilkiae B. mathematici mechanici,.
Uteris institutes in schola infra Bradley in com. Suff. sub m'ro Harwood,
aelatis 16. admissus est subsizator pro d're Watson, tutore et fidejussore ejus,
Oct. 8. 1679. Reg. Coll. Jo. Cant. MS. note by Mr. Baker to his copy of
Barwick's Life, in English, now in the Bodleian.
h See page 386, under April 23, 1718.
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518 RELIQUIAE 1724.-
published were, Dr. John Barwick's Life, writ in
Latin by his brother Dr. Peter Barwick. This Mr.
Bedford put out in Latin. After which, this very
year', he put out the same Life, translated by Mr.
Bedford himself, in Enghsh, with many notes and
illustrations, wanting in the Latin book.
Dec. 4. Tho' king Charles II. was very amorous,
and much addicted to women, (which was his chief
failing, and appeared most of aU after his restaura-
tion,) yet he was not guUty of swearing, but on the
contrary would reprove such as used it : an instance
of which Mr. Blount, in p. 25. of the second part of
his Bosmbel, gives us, when the king was in his
disguise at Hampshire, at Hambledon, at the house
of Mr. Symonds, who entertained his majesty, who
then went under the name of WUl. Jackson, when,
it seems, Mr. Symons letting faU an oath by chance,
the king (whom Mr. Symons did not know to be
such) took occasion modestly to reprove him.
Dec. 5. Samuel Gale, esq. writes me word, in a
letter dated from London, the 3d inst. that he hath
lately and accidentaUy purchased an antient, but
• London, printed by. J. Bettenham, M.DCCXXIV. 8vo. This volume,
I know not why, has not of late years been sought after by collectors with
the avidity displayed in the attainment of other works of a similar nature,
printed at the same period. It is however a very valuable book, and coa-
tains a fund of amusement and information which will well reward the pur
chaser, even if he gives a trifle more for his bargain than has been usually
required. There are some copies on large paper, and both papers should
have portraits of Peter and John Barwick, engraved by Vertue.

1724. HEARNIAN^E. 549
fine, picture of the beautiful Rosamond* 'Tis painted
on a pannel of wainscott, and represents her in a
three quarter proportion, dressed in the habit of the
times, a streight bodyed gown of changeable red vel
vet, with large square sleeves of black flowered da
mask faceings, turned up above the bend of her
arms, and close sleeves of a pearl coloured sattin
puffed out, but buttoned at the rist, appearing from
under the large ones. She has several rings set with
pretious stones on her fingers. Her breast covered
with a fine flowered hnnen, gathered close at the
neck, like a ruff. Her face is charmingly fair, with
a fine blush in her cheeks ; her hair of a dark brown,
parted with a seam from the middle of her forhead
upwards under her coifure, which is very plain, but
a gold lace appears above it, and that covered with
a small cap of black sUk. She is looking very in
tently upon the fatal cup, which she holds in one
hand, and the cover in the other, as going to drink
it. Before her is a table covered with black damask,
on which there lies a prayer book open, writt in the
antient black character. The whole piece is ex-
treamly weU preserved. Mr. Gale takes it to have
been done about Harry the seventh's time.
Dec. 12. Maghabeedhi, the late duke of Tuscany's
librarian, was a very strange man. Nobody had such
a memory for books. He was a common repertory.
If any wanted to know what books were writ upon
any subject, he could teU immediately. He wore no
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550 RELIQUIiE 1724.
shirt, and lived upon pudding and hard eggs. In
the latter part of his life, he lived altogether in the
hbrary. He was never but once out of town, and
that was but ten mUes off. So I have heard Mr.
Cockman, and his brother, the physician, Dr. John
Cockman, who have been at Florence, say. Maglia-
becchi, however, (notwithstanding the severity of his
life,) was a mighty complaisant, civU, obliging man.
A medal was struck to him.
Dec. 18. In the year 1660, was printed in 12mo.
at London, Cromwell's Bloody Slaughter-house;
or, his damnable Designes laid and practised by
him and his Negros, in contriving the murther of
his sacred majesty King Charles, discovered. By
a Person of Honour. With CromweU's picture at
the beginning, offering up the royal crown to the
scaffold, on which scaffold is the executioner in a
vizard, with H. P. over his head, signifying that
Hugh Peters was the disguised person that beheaded
the king ; and the same is also asserted in p. 33. of
the book, where 'tis said — " Through that power
and influence, which by their lyes, soceries, and hy
pocrisies, they with the help of that mongrel minis
ter, that mihtary priest, that modern Simon Magus,
that disguised executioner, that bloody butcher of
the king, H — P — , they have gained upon the com
mon souldiery." I purchased this book lately, and
tho' it be but a very smaU thing, yet I value it at
least a crown. I know not who was the author.

1724—25. HEARNIANjE. 551
This loyal treatise (as is insinuated in the stationer's
preface to the reader) was pen'd many years before
it was printed, and sent over from the Hague to be
printed here, for his majestie's, service ; but the print
ing of it was hindered upon this occasion : the printer,
to whose care it was commended, feU into some
trouble for some other acts of loyalty, which were
then called treason ; such as were the printing of
king Charles the first's incomparable book, entituled,
EIKON BASIAIKH, in English, Latin, French, and
Itahan ; Salmasu Defensio Regia ; Elenchus Motuum
nuperorum in Angha, by Dr. Bates ; and some other
things of the hke nature. He was committed to
Newgate, his press and other materials seized upon
and carryed away by Hunscott ; his wife and chU
dren turned out of doors ; and threatned to be tried
by an high court of in-justice. This was the reason
of letting this tract lye dormant 'tiU better times,
1724—25. Jan. 1. I am told by old Mr. Nich.
Cox, the bookseUer, who was once querister of New
coUege, at least went to school there when a boy,
that he remembers bishop Ken a bachellor of arts of
that coUege, and that he was even then, when young,
very pious and charitable, and used always to have
smaU money to give away constantly as he walked
the streets, in pence or two pences, or more at a
time, as he saw proper objects.
Jan. 16. Edge hiU fight happened on a Sunday,
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552 RELIQUIAE 1724—25.
in the afternoon, Oct. 23, 1642, the fight beginning
about the beginning of evening service, at two clock,
at which time prince Rupert having quite routed
the enemie's left wing, and his men being busy in
the plunder, he there found several letters and ad-
visoes from one Blake, then of his bed-chamber, to
the earl of Essex, (general of the parhamentarian
army, and commander of their main battle in this
fight,) whereby he understood his counsels were be
trayed; for which the said Blake was afterwards
hanged in the mid-way betwixt Oxford and Abing-
ton, in an oak, as the king's army marched to a ren
dezvous k.
Jan. 19. They have a custom at Northmore, near
Witney, in Oxfordshire, for men and women, every
Easter Sunday after evening service, to throw in the
church yard great quantities of apples, and those
that have been married that year are to throw three
times as many as any of the rest. After which all
go to the minister's house, and eat bread and cheese,
(he is obhged to have the best cheese he can get,)
and drink ale1.
k So in a little book, intitled, The History of the Commons fVarre of
England. Lond. 1662. p. 17. N. B. This oak is still in being, tho' very
old, and many of the boughs cut off. It is but a small tree, is commonly
called Blake's oak, and is within two little miles of Abbington. T. H.
1 This custom still, prevails : and my good friend the present professor of
Anglo-Saxon, who is vicar of Northmore, tells me, that on Easter Sunday
last, (1822,) being ignorant of the usual warfare, and so neglecting to make
good his retreat after evening service, he came in contact with a stray shot
or two, much to the entertainment of his parishioners ; all of whom, old as
well as young, religiously take part in the contest.

1724—25. HEARNIANiE. 553
They have a custom in St. Aldate's parish, Ox
ford, for people of the parish to eat sugar sopps out
of. the font in the church, every holy Thursday, and
this is done in the morning.
Jan. 30. Memorand. That Mr. Whiteside, keeper
of the Ashmolean museum, went this morning by
Haynes's flying coach, at four clock, to London"1,
about some ordinary business relating to his experi
ments. I am well informed, that the great and most cele
brated mathematician, sir Isaac Newton, does not
understand a bit of classical learning, but hath apr
ply'd himself altogether to the mathematicks, only
sometimes for diversion, and for relaxation of his
spirits, he hath studied chronology".
I heard a man, who bears a good character, and
hves now at Horton, near Oxford, say yesterday,
m There is nothing in which we have obtained a more decisive advantage
over our predecessors, than in the expedition and convenience with which we
now travel. At the present time we are conveyed from Oxford to London
with ease and safety in somewhat less than seven hours, a journey performed,
not quite a century since, in two days. The coach, from Michaelmas to
Lady Day, started at four o'clock in the morning, and was to. reach Oxford
in the evening of the second day. During the summer half year, they ran
only three days a week, leaving Oxford and London at nine o'clock, and
performing the distance in one day only. The same improvement manifests
itself in every species of public conveyance. In 1707, the only regular car
riage between Oxford and Bath was by a carrier once a fortnight ; the same
to Birmingham and to Reading ; to Shrewsbury once in a month ; to Exeter
once in five weeks ; and to Westmoreland thrice a year.
° Pope said of sir Isaac Newton, that though so deep in algebra and
fluxions, he could not readily make up a common account : and, when he
was master of the mint, used to get somebody to make up his accounts for
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554 RELIQUIAE 1724—25.
that Mr. Edward Eustace, formerly of University
coUege, and lately minister of Beckley, a man well
beloved in his parish, being once to preach a funeral
sermon at Beckley, happened to forget his sermon,
and thereupon went home, at some distance, to fetch
it just as the psalm was begun to be sung, upon
which he desired the clarke to keep on singing till
his return, so that the whole 119th psalm was sung
out, a thing never, I beheve, heard of before.
Feb. 7- By our letters from Rome, we are ad
vised, that the pope has not only commanded the
inferior clergy to recommend to the people the read
ing of the holy scriptures in the vulgar tongue, but
that he designs to employ men of skill and learning
in making a more correct translation of the holy
Bible than is yet extant. It is said, that he has also
declared, that as customs and ceremonies are not
matter of faith, he is willing the church should lay
aside part of her drapery, that the reformed may no
longer have a pretence of quarrelling with their an
cient mother, (as they caU her at Rome,) nay, some
have gone so far as to say, that he has some design
of calling a general council; and that thus by meet
ing the protestants, as it were, half-way, he is not
without hopes of drawing all Christendom under one
form of church discipline. So that tho' he is a per
son of singular piety, he appears to be no bigot.
This unexpected news has made so much noise in
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1724—25. HEARNIANiE. 555
it is the common saying now, that the pope is turned
Protestant. It is certain, that for a time there has
been a chappel allowed in the palace of the chevaher
de St. George, where divine service is regularly per
formed according to the rites of the church of Eng
land, and that two ministers of good reputation for
learning, officiate there. It is observed also, that the
frightful notion the common people entertained of a
heretick is quite worn off, and that when a Protes
tant now dies in Rome, he is admitted to be bury'd in
consecrated ground, which is a new privilege. This
favour, as weU as the kind dispositions the pope him
self seems to entertain of a union amongst the Chris
tian churches, is supposed to come from the influence
of the Enghsh, who reside in the Roman territories".
Feb. 9. At SunningweU, near Abbington in Berks,
they have a custom, (which I suppose was formerly
in other places, tho' I do not know of any else where
it is now,) every Shrove Tuesday, at night, in the
dusk of the evening, for the boys and girls to say
these verses about the viUage,
Beef and bacon's
out of season,
I want a pan
to parch my peason.
which they repeat several times, and then throw
stones at aU people's doors, which makes the people
• The substance of this is taken from Mist's Journal, No. 328, Feb. 6,
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556 RELIQUIAE 1724—25.
generaUy to shut up their doors that evening, the
custom beginning much about the dusk thereof.
Feb. 17. My friend Mr. James West, in a letter
of the 11th inst. from London, told me he had met
with John Fox's Book of Martyrs, in Latin, printed
at Basil, 1559, fol. which (says Mr. West) contains
many things not in the Enghsh editions, and is ex
ceeding scarce p.
p Feb. 18. To James West, esq. at No. 7, in Fig-tree court, in the Inner
Temple, London.
Dear Sir, If John Fox's Commentaries be a book that is scarce, 'tis grown
so of late. For some few years ago it was very common and very cheap. Yet
I never endeavoured to make myself master of it, thinking that the English
book, which I have, would serve my turn. I never had the curiosity of com
paring tbe Latin with any English edition; and therefore cannot of myself
account for the differences.'which, however, I have been told are very great,
and indeed the first English edition (which is in Magdalen college library, of
the author's own gift, with a Latin epistle before it, of his own penning,
never yet printed)* varies very much from those that were set out afterwards.
Mr. Fox was a diligent learned man ; but being calvinistically inclined, and
too zealous against those of another perswasion, he imployed a good part of
his time in collecting stories, that served any way to lessen the credit of such
as he looked upon as enemies ; and being of » very credulous temper, he
yery easily believed the reports that were sent into him ; so that tlie credit
of his work hath been deservedly caUed in question by many learned and ju
dicious men, Protestants as well as Papists, who were all very sensible that
as he was withall of a very great memory, so he trusted too much to it, and,
in putting down stories, would wholly depend upon that, even at such times
as he might have transcribed immediately from books and papers ; a fault
which several other great men have been guilty of, not excepting the famous
John Tzetzes, who after he had read over a great variety of authors, was so
far nevertheless from extracting from them verbatim, (as Photius did, who
is therefore the more valuable,) tbat he rely'd intirely upon his memory,
(which was prodigious,) in the many curious historical passages (from those
authors) in his Chiliads ; and he is very full of himself for having such a
memory, as if he endeavoured thereby to recommend his work the better to
posterity, which certainly would have been of greater esteem if he had been
* Hearne afterwards printed it in Adam De Domerham, Append, ad Praf.
Num. V. p. Ixiv.

1724—25. HEARNIAN.E. 557
Feb. 23. Last night I received a letter of the 20th
inst. from Mr. Ward, of Longbridge, near Warwick,
in which he desires my opinion about organs, he
having lately met with the foUowing remark, which
he was glad of the opportunity to communicate to
me, viz. " That there never were any organs in ca-
thedraU or coUegiate churches in England before
king Henry VIII. altho' there were vicar choraUs,
clerks, (or singing men,) and choristers : for no or
ganists are foundation men, (but only as informator
choristarum,) and are admitted as clerks, and not as
organists in those churches." I am since informed,
(saith Mr. Ward,) there was provision made for an
a faithfull transcriber. For tho* after he had read the books he tells us seve
ral times that he was ilfiifixos , yet this was only to shew what a memory he
had, there being no doubt but he might have had constant access to the very
same books he had already perused. But tho' it would have been a more
valuable work had he been an exact transcriber, yet most of his authors being
lost, as it is, it is of great account, and I could wish, for that reason, that it
were reprinted, it being become now exceeding scarce. Such works would"
be more for the credit of scholars to set out, than books that are very com
mon, and whereof there are daily editions coming out. And methinks so
cieties should engage in some great works, either never yet printed, or, if
printed, are become either almost or quite as rare as MSS.. This I mention
upon account of two prints you lately mentioned, the publishing of which
might have been proper enough for some single person, whose abilities would1
not reach higher, but, I think, they do not redound much to. the honour of,
the members that jointly concerned themselves, unless they had published
them in some great work, such as a continuation of Weevev, m which alt
monuments of this nature might be inserted. Neither would, the Arundelian,
statues, in my lord Lempster's gardens, be improper for them, especially if
they would undertake to illustrate them with other pieces' of antiquity. For
to print them alone without improvements,, might be more fit for a single
person than a body of men. I am glad Mr. Anstis's book is out, and am,
Dear Sir, ¦
Edtn.HaU, Oxford,, Your most obliged bumble servant,
Febr. 18, 1724. Tho. Hearne.
My service to Mr. Murray.

558 RELIQUIAE 1724—25.
organist at AU Souls, Oxon, long before that time.
But you may soon learn the truth of this, which will
infinitely oblige, Sir, your very humble servant,
Tho. Ward.
As for this notion of there being no organs in ca
thedral and coUegiate churches 'tiU Hen. Vlllth's
time, it is very odd and groundless. I know not the
provisions in coUeges and cathedrals on that account,
but 'tis certain, that organs in churches were very
early, as Durantus hath shewed, De Ritibus Eccle-
sice, 1. 1. c. 13. King Edgar founded many churches,
and organs were placed in them ; particularly in his
time organs are mentioned to be in the church of
Glastonbury, by John of Glastonbury, in his MS.
Chronicle ; and since Glastonbury was the mother
church of this isle, there is no doubt but other
churches foUowed her in instrumental musick, as
well as other things.
March 7. Memorandum. That in the Oxford
Almanack for the year 1725, there is a catalogue
of the deans of Christ Church, in which, however, is
very partiaUy left out Mr. Dean Massey, who never
theless was as much a dean of that house as ever
any one was, he having been appointed by a right
ful king, king James II. and being instaUed and
lived amongst them with great respect, (for he was
an ingenious, good natured man,) 'tUl he was forced
to go off. He hath not been dead long, if he be in
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1725. HEARNIAN^E. 559
chaplain of Merton coUege, (of which coUege dean
Massey had been,) told me he saw him in France,
at Paris, in a very chearfull condition.
1725. May 29. On Monday last (May 24) was
hanged at Tyburne, Mr. Jonathan Wylde, the fa
mous thief-taker. This man was looked upon, and
deservedly, as one of the greatest, if not the very
greatest, rogue in England. He was the prince of
thieves and viUains. Oaths were taken to him, and
aU things were at his direction. He knew, and had
hand in, aU robberies, thefts, &c. and had his pro
portion ; but then 'twas usual with him to discover
many a man, and to get them taken off, such as he
did not like, or proved otherwise than he would have
them. He helped many to their own again, but not
without great rewards, and 'twas this that brought
him to the gaUowes.
June 13. Dr. John Wallis, tho' he used no exer
cise, (at least very httle,) was however very healthy,
and died in the 87th year of his age. He was a very
hard student even to the last, and (which is remark
able) used no spectacles, insomuch that I saw him,
a httle before he died, in the Bodleian hbrary, (in
one of the darkest places thereof,) reading a book of
a smaU letter without spectacles, at which time he
writ the note mentioned at page 12, about the Ma
drid Index Expurgatorius. He would usually sit at
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560 RELIQUIAE 1725.
July 15. 0" this day sennight (viz. Thursday July
8) died at London, the Rev. Dr. Richard Fiddes,
rector of Halsham, near HuU, in Yorkshire, and au
thor of A Body qf Divinity, in two fohos, of An
Annual Course of Sermons, in one foho, of the
Life qf Cardinal Wolsey, in one foho, and of some
books in 8vo. one whereof is an Essay concerning
Homer. He was originaUy of University coUege,
in Oxford, and was coUector for the Lent disputa
tions. He left the coUege, took holy orders, and
married, and hath left several chUdren and his wife
behind him. Some years since, he lost the use of
his voice, and dedicating some sermons to Dr. Smal-
ridge, printed in 8vo. the doctor got him the degree
of bacheUor of divinity (tho' he was not master of
arts) conferred on him, which was done with diffi
culty, there being great opposition in the convoca
tion house, and afterwards he was created doctor in
the said faculty. He had a hving also given him by
the university, but that he could not hold, by reason
the person (who was pretended to be a Roman Ca
thohck, and therefore not qualified to present) con
tested the matter, and was too hard for Fiddes. He
was a man that had a good command enough of
Enghsh, but had not much learning, especiaUy in
our history and antiquities, (to which he, at last,
meerly to get a penny, for his wife and chUdren re
duced him to penury, addicted himself,) for which
reason his Life of Cardinal Wolsey is a very poor,
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out doubt) have been bis Life of bishop Fisher, and
his Life of sir Thomas More, both which he had also
undertaken, but I know not what progress he had
made in them, tho' he had exceUent materials from
Mr. Baker, of Cambridge, Mr. Anstis, and some
others. The doctor was httle more than fifty years
of age. 'Tis thought his heart was broke with the
troubles of his family, and some other misfortunes,
and it may be he was affected not a httle to find his
Life of Cardinal Wolsey shghted, as it deserves. I
was told one remarkable thing of this doctor, name
ly, that he could write (and did therefore use to
write) as weU in company as out of company''.
July 22. Sir Philip Sydenham has part of a let
ter wrote by Oliver Cromwell himself, in these words,
to general Monk. ' Tis said there is a cunning fel
low in Scotland called George Monk, who lyes in
wait there to serve Charles Stuart ; pray use your
diligence to take him, and send him up to me.
In the same letter sir Philip observes, that gene
ral Monk's lady, sister to Dr. Clarges, (tho' sir Philip
believes he never was doctor,) had a gown caUed the
' Aug. 3. I had made enquiries after Dr. Fiddes at Oxford for Mr. Baker,
who had lent him two MSS. but could not tell where he was, any otherwise
than at London, and at last I understood he was dead. Mr. Baker, in a let
ter of July 31, thanks me for these enquiries, and tells me, he hath an ac
count of Dr. Fiddes's death, from Mr. Anstis, at whose house- at Putney he
died, being invited thither, upon Dr. Mead's advising him to use the country
air, in hopes of relief. He came in a weak condition, walked in the garden
that day, and went out in the chariot ; the next day walked again, and died
in the evening. He is buried at Fulham, betwixt two bishops, Comptou and
Robinson. T. H.
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562 RELIQUIAE 1725.
treason-gown, which she often put on, and had the
hberty to paint out the tyrants of Westminster in
their bloudy, rebeUious colours, and this she did,
says the historian, (so sir Philip writes,) with a great
deal of wit, and often influenced her husband.
July 31. My friend Thomas Rawlinson, esq. writ
me word, a httle more than a week since, that his
wifer is " a poor, good natured, honest, persecuted
creature," aUuditig to the troubles in which they are
both involved, occasioned by his creditors.
He hath but an indifferent opinion of my friend
John Murray, whom I and others look upon as a
very honest man, as without doubt he is, but my
friend Mr. Rawhnson is disgusted. Mr. Rawlinson
caUs him immane quoddam monstrum, says he only
knows how to be sly, and that he was educated under
his Hounsditch pawn-broking father.
At the same time he tells me, John Bagford, as
he takes it, was a much honester man than John
Murray, and more knowing, and that the other has
 instead of its.
Mr. Rawhnson at the same time hinted, that Dr.

T Tom. Rawlinson married his servant, Amy Frewin, whb had been his
housemaid for some years. He did not own his marriage till about twelve
months after it had taken place, when, to the dismay of his brother, and the
entire dissatisfaction of his creditors, who had just compleated an arrange
ment as to his affairs, he confessed the union.
5 N. B. Mr. Rawlinson owes Mr. Murray money, an hundred pounds, 1
am told, upon bond, which Mr. Murray is urgent now, upon Mr. Rawlin-
son's marriage, to have again, which puts my friend Mr. Rawlinson out of
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1725. HEARNIANtE. 563
Mead, &c. are only my pretended friends, " and have
encouraged my studies seemingly to make themselves
glory1." He says, " the lord Oxford, that fat booby caff, as
they caU him, is a rascall ; that he knew Mr. Raw
hnson meant an epitaph on poor John Bagford, yet
slighted him, (Mr. R.) and has given none himself"."
Mr. Rawlinson says, he " doubts LenthaU's picture
of sir Thomas More's famUy (mentioned in my pre
face to Roper) for an original," and signifies, that
" a pretty picture is in a drunken, sorry wretche's
hand ; one Southerby he thinks they call the crea
ture*." Sept. 4. On Friday, Aug. 6, 1725, about ten a
clock in the morning, died in London my dear friend
Thomas Rawhnson, esq. (and not, as the printed
papers have it, on Thursday, Aug. 5,) and was bu
ried on Thursday night foUowing, Aug. 12, as I am
informed, by letter ofthe said 12th of Aug. written
by Mr. Sam. May, of London house, (in Aldersgate-
street,) in which Mr. Rawhnson died, he having for
several years before rented lodgings there. Mr. May,
1 I must beg his pardon. Dr. Mead, &c. profess true friendship, and I
have received signal instances of it, and I have not as yet found any cause to
be jealous. T. H.
¦¦ My lord hath shewed me many particular instances of friendship, and 1
am willing to believe him sincere. T. H
x This is Mr. James Sotheby, whom I have mentioned in my books more
than once, as an ingenious man ; and indeed he was curious formerly, and
was much assisted by Mr. Bagford; but, it seems, he is grown an idle, use
less sot, as I have been also informed by Mr. Murray. T. H.
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564 RELIQUIAE 1725.
(who is a wealthy' druggist,) added, " it is not easy
to teU his distemper," but Mr. Murray, from whom
I had a letter from London of the same date, vk,
Aug. 12, said, that he died " after a languishing iU-
ness." Mr. Murray, in the same letter, said, that
Mr. Rawhnson " made a wiU two days before he
died, wherein it is said he has ordered his debts to
be paid, and, in order to it, his books are to be sold
as soon as possible. I hear (adds he) he has left his
wife 150 pounds a year for life." Tho' Mr. May ob
served, as I have noted, that 'tis not easy to teU his
distemper, yet I beheve the immediate cause of it
was, a great concern he had upon account of his
debts, which were very considerable. For after his
marrying Mrs. Amy Frewin, that was a servant to
him, his creditors were very angry with him, and
united to give him trouble, particularly Dr. Mead,
(whom he owed, as I have been informed, five hun
dred pounds,) and Mr. John Murray, (whom he owed
upon bond 100 libs.) were very clamorous, which
affected him so much, that he broke into such lan
guage, as perhaps wiU not be looked upon as decent;
considering that 'twas a very great obligation that
he owed to them for lending him money in his want,
and staying many years for it.
At the same time that his creditors came upon
him, I was also desired to joyn with them for what
he owed me, which was a pretty many pounds, but
this I absolutely dechned, notwithstanding he left
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1725. HEARNIAN,E. 565
moved to) to do as I pleased, which he took extreme
kindly, and I could wish that Dr. Mead and Mr.
Murray had acted with the same moderation, since
Mr. Rawlinson was aU along contriving and endea
vouring to do the best that every one should be paid,
as himself told me, and he assured me in particular,
that he never designed (nor did I ever think he did)
that I should lose any thing by him, and so he said
in effect with respect to others.
But notwithstanding the justness of the debts, I
am of opinion, that such as were not under an ur
gent necessity, should have been less violent towards
him, especiaUy bookseUers, for whom he had done
eminent service. For, being a man of a brave, noble
spirit, and being a great lover of books, in which I
never knew any one whatsoever better skUled, he
took aU opportunities of being present at, or at least
giving commissions at, sales and auctions, and by his
high bidding he strangely advanced the prices of
books, which he hkewise did in bookseUers' shops,
so that I have heard it said long ago, (and I am of
the same mind,) that the bookseUers ought to erect
a statue to him. And yet so ingratefuU were they,
that one of them arrested him for an inconsiderable
sum, (and yet he was a person that Mr. Rawhnson
had particularly obhged,) which was the beginning
of his troubles, and occasioned him to keep in, so
that he hath hardly been out many years, and dur
ing that time he wore his beard for the most part
long, and appeared very negligent of himself, which
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566 RELlQUIvE 1725.
conduced, in no small measure, to the impairing of
his health.
When he was a school-boy at Eaton school, his
grandfather, by the mother's side, Richard Tayler,
esq. settled upon him an annuity of fourteen pounds
per annum for his Ufe, to buy books with, which he
not only fully expended, and nobly answered the
end ofthe donor, but indeed laid out his whole for
tune this way, so as to acquire a coUection of books,
both for number and value, hardly to be equaUed by
any one study in England, which was what really
run him aground, and brought him at last into so
much trouble. For he was not a lewd, vicious man,
but, on the contrary, very virtubuss temperate, and
sober, and never married tiU a httle before he died.
Had he hved some years longer, (which he might
have done by the course of nature, for he was not,
I think, more than 45 or 46 years of age,) 'tis pro
bable he might have extricated himself, and lived
comfortably. For an estate (I am told of six hun
dred pounds per an.) came to him a few months
since by the death of his mother, and he had begun
to seU his books in order to pay his debts, and printed
several catalogues, (six octavo Uttle volumes, the last
of which was printed just as he died,) in which are
many rare, exceUent, and uncommon books, tho' the
chief of his collection was not comprehended in these
catalogues. Mr. Rawhnson was a man of very great integrity
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any thing for the interest of king James, -that now
fives in exUe beyond sea. He died in communion
of the non-juring church of England, being a perfect
hater of aU new-fangled doctrines. And 'twas the
happiness of his father, (to whom he was eldest son,)
sir Thomas Rawlinson, kt. who was sheriff and lord
mayor of London, to be also very honest and loyal,
insomuch that sir Thomas Kensey (who had married
the sister of Mr. Rawhnson's grandmother by the
mother's side) and Mr. Rawhnson's father, spent, in
two years space, ten thousand pounds to keep king
James II. on the throne. Mr. Rawhnson had seen
his father's expence under his own hand, and it
amounted to 4600 libs. Sir Thomas Kensey was
sheriff of London in king James the second's time,
the year before Mr. Rawhnson's father, and as he
was a great friend to the said king, so he was per-
sonatty acquainted with him, and was a brave, bold
man, 'tiU he broke his health, by breaking his leg,
when he languished tiU the time of his death.
Mr. Rawhnson loving to be very free in his dis
course, (for as he was born to the freedom of an
Enghsh man, so he said he would make use of it,) it
proved of no smaU disservice to him, because he did
not observe the wise-man's caution, There is a time
to keep silence, and a time to speak. Insomuch,
that when he was among such as were of different
principles from himself, (and could do him much
mischief,) he would, without distinguishing the sea
sons, make use of such girding expressions, as made
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568 RELIQUIAE 725.
the persons touched take aU opportunities of shew
ing their resentment, and giving him trouble, tho'
some did it in a sly way. Hence 'twas, that even Dr.
Mead, who had otherwise shewed himself a friend
to Mr. Rawlinson, discovered a great deal of indif
ference towards" him for a good whUe before his
death, and avoyded his conversation ; which is pure
ly owing to the too great freedom of Mr. Rawhnson.
For the doctor having been bred a presbyterian, (as
his brothers were also, his elder brother Samuel
Mead having been a tub-preacher, tho' they are
otherwise now,) Mr. Rawhnson, who was the doc
tor's companion, and used to dine and sup at his
house, and to go up and down in the doctor's coach
with him, (such an affection did the doctor shew to
wards him,) took aU occasions whatever of twitting
him with this, and that too before company, and of
adding other occasional reflections, by no means pru
dent, as made the doctor withdraw his kindness, and
to express himself in a different manner from what
he had done. This I have heard spoke of by some
of Mr. Rawhnson's friends with a sort of concern :
and truly 'twas with no smaU concern that I heard
thereof at first, easily perceiving what the conse
quence would be.
Some gave out, and pubhshed it too in printed
papers, that Mr. Rawhnson understood the editions
and title-pages of books only, without any other skill
in them, and thereupon they stiled him Tom Folio.
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1725. HEARNIANiE. 569
shallow learning. 'Tis certain that Mr. Rawhnson
understood the editions and titles of books better
than any man I ever knew, (for he had a very great
memory,) but then besides this, he was a great reader,
and had read abundance of the best writers, ancient
and modern, throughout, and was intirely master of
the learning contained in them. He had digested
the classicks so weU as to be able readily and upon
aU occasions (what I have very often admired) to
make use of passages from them very pertinently,
what I never knew in so great perfection in any
other person whatsoever.
On Friday, August 27, 1725, after I had writ
down the foregoing particulars, Mr. WilUam Oldis-
worth told me, that Mr. Rawhnson (what I had not
heard of before, nor could I have imagined it,) had
put his money into the South Sea stock, and was one
of those that lost aU by that wicked scheme, in which
so many thousands were utterly undone, whilst others
were as great gainers. He said this was certainly
true, (for I doubted about it,) and was what ruined
his fortune, and forced him to run so much in debt,
and was the principal occasion of aU his miseries y.
Sept. 10. Mr. Anstis (garter king of arms) being
in Oxford, (with Mr. Maittaire,) I spent the even
ing with them last night, and Mr. Burton, of Corpus
Christi coUege, (who is tutor to a son of Mr. Anstis's,
y Upon inquiry since, I am apt to think (and indeed am pretty well assured
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just entered gentleman commoner of that coUege,)
and Mr. West, of Balliol coUege, were with us. Mr.
Maittaire then told me, that Mr. Rawhnson made
his will in June last ; that one Mr. Ford is his exe
cutor ; that he hath ordered aU his books to be sold
in order to pay his debts ; that he hath left 120 (I
had before been told 150) hbs. per an. to his wife
during hfe ; that he hath left only two legacies, viz.
150 hbs. to Mr. John Griffin, of Saresden, in Oxford
shire, (the person who married them,) and 100 hbs.
to Mr. ClaveU, (I suppose Walter ClaveU, of the In
ner Temple, esq.) and that he hath died (the interest
and principal being to be reckoned together) ten
thousand hbs. in debt2. Mr. Maittaire said, Mr.
Rawhnson was apprehensive and spoke of it (at
least) a year before, that he should hve but a httle
whUe. He said he was perfectly raving, and in a
strange delirium for many hours before he died.
Neither Mr. Anstis nor Mr. Maittaire seem to have
any good opinion of Mr. Rawhnson's widow. Mr.
Rawlinson, however, spoke weU of her, and I see no
reason (as yet at least) to think any thing UI of her,
Mr. Rawhnson owed Mr. Anstis something more
than 30 hbs. Mr. Anstis does not seem to think
that he shaU ever be paid. What must I then think
of mine, which is more than twice 30 hbs. tho' I had
left part of it to Mr. Rawhnson's hberty, considering
what circumstances he was in ; and yet, if there be
' Of this it was said he had borrowed three thousand of his brother Richard
upon mortgage.

1725. HEARNIANiE. 571
enough, there is no reason but I ought (and Mr.
Rawhnson assured me he never designed I should
be a looser by him, and he was certainly very ho
nest) to be paid the whole, and some would insist
too upon interest, which I never thought of. Mr.
Maittaire said, Mr. Rawhnson was grown (and I
have reason to think it very true) so very satyrical
and free with his tongue, that he spoke UI of every
body whatsoever, excepting only Dr. Richard Hale,
and yet of him too, at last, he began to find fault.
Sept. 12. Last night Mr. Anstis (garter king of
arms) caUed upon me at' Edmund hall, with Mr.
Mattaire and Mr. West, and we afterwards went
out and spent the evening together with Mr. White
side, in Cat-street. Mr. Anstis said, he was of Exe
ter coUege, and was entered there almost fourty
years ago. Mr. Mattaire told us, (and he said he
did not care how publick it was made,) that Roger
Gale (who indeed is but a poor stingy man) served
him a very dirty trick. Mr. Hare it seems had un
dertaken to pubhsh The Honour of Richmond,
from a MS. in the Cotton hbrary. But upon his
death, Mr. Gale undertook it, and accordingly had
it printed very pompously in foho, in the manner
Mr. Hare proposed it, and to the whole is prefixed
a large preface of about seven or eight sheets of
paper, which Mr. Anstis said last night was hand
somely done in good Latin, but as for the book it
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what any one else could have done in that manner.
Upon this Mr. Mattaire said, that the said preface
was writ in Enghsh, and that he, (the said Mr. Mat
taire,) by the interest of the earl of Pembroke, trans
lated it into Latin for Mr. Gale ; that it being de
sired to be done with speed, he did it in about a
fortnight's time, (tho' it was a piece of learning out
of his way, his studies not lying in Enghsh history
and antiquities,) and that Mr. Gale, to whom he car
ried it, upon delivery, put into his hand a paper, with
somewhat in it, that Mr. Mattaire did not look upon
'till he came home, when he found it to be only three
guineas, whereas he said 'twas worth ten to write it,
and he declared now, that he would not do the same
again for twenty guineas. What Mr. Mattaire re
sents the more is, that Mr. Gale did not so much as
give him a book, which indeed is very mean. This
Roger Gale (however) hath shewed himself in seve
ral respects to be a friend to the writer of these mat
ters, in communicating his Fordun, and several par
ticulars relating to learning, tho' 'tis very well known
that he is a very great whig, a man of a Very stingy
temper, notwithstanding he be very rich, and is in
a wealthy post. I before thought that he could have
writ Latin himself. I find now he cannot.
Sept. 13. At the same time Mr. Mattaire told us,
that Dr. Atterbury, the deprived bishop of Roches
ter, (who was my very good friend and acquaint
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1725. HEARNTAN^E. 573
wards, his bitter enemy, and that 'twas chiefly by
his contrivance, that he (Mr. Mattaire) was turned
Out from being second master of Westminster school,
to make way for Mr. now Dr. Robert Friend. His
enemies gave out, that Mr. Mattaire was a whig,
but were forced to be sUent, when he appeared to
be, as he is, a non-juror. They would have had Mr.
Mattaire to resign, but this he dechned, and told
them, he would not leave the place unless he were
turned out, and if they did turn him out, that he
would then pubhckly declare it to the world, which
accordingly he did in the beginning of his Vitee
Stephanorum. Upon occasion of which, I cannot
but here mention what I spoke of formerly, viz. that
Dr. Hudson and others would have had me to resign
my post of second hbrarian of the Bodleian hbrary,
but this I would not do, (to their great vexation,)
upon which they proceeded violently, and I was not
only debarred that place, (for I have stUl the old
keys by me,) but deprived of whatever belonged to
me there, and aU was given to others.
Sept. 18. On Wednesday night, Sept. 8, 1725,
between eleven and twelve a clock, the people were
greatly alarmed at a fire, which broke out at the
south end of London bridge, where the houses being
all of wood, burned with uncommon vehemence on
both sides, till about fifty or sixty were laid in
ashes, eighteen whereof were upon the bridge, and
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574 RELIQUIAE 1725.
put to it by the old stone gate, which stood between
the second and third arches, the flame must have
unavoidably extended as far as the draw-bridge at
least. Wea do not hear of any hves lost, but the
damage in merchandizes is very great. Some com
pute the loss at a hundred thousand pound; but
most of the houses and goods being insured, it will
faU very heavy upon the insurance. The bridge, we
are told, has suffered but httle damage ; however, it
is at present unpassable for carts and coaches, which
are obliged to ferry over the river at Westminster.
Colonel Turner, about 18 years ago, having re
ceived a hurt on his forhead, a bunch grew thereon,
which was supposed to have occasioned the distem
per of the faUing sickness ; he had been for late years
importuned to have it opened, but would not con
sent to it, 'tiU a few days ago, when an eminent sur
geon made an operation with that success, that he
found the point of a sword in his skuU of an inch
long, which he took out, and since that the colonel
is very easy, and in a fair way of recovery. Mr.
Whiteside tells me, he knows the colonel, and that
the hurt happened at the battle of Almanza, when
he had a faU from his horse b-
» This intelligence is copied from the Northampton Mercury, a provin
cial newspaper of uncommon merit in its day, and apparently a great fa
vourite, particularly with tbe honest party, in the university.
b From the Northampton Mercury, of Sept. 20. " Whereas it was said,
that Edmund Turner, esq. late lieutenant colonel of the second troop of horse
grenadiers, received his wound by a fall from his horse at the battle of Al
manza ; we are since informed, that it happened near the end of Pall-Mali,
in a rencounter ; and that tbe piece of sword extracted from within his scull,

1725. HEARNIANjE. 575
Sept. 22. The street which goes from Christ
Church, by Christ Church almeshouse to Littlegate,
is commonly caUed Brewer's-lane, and oftentimes
Slaughter-lane. The people commonly say 'twas
called Slaughter-lane from the scholars being kiUed
there ; but that is a mistake. 'Twas so denominated
from slaying the cattle there, as being removed from
the body of the university. The true name of this
lane or street, when the Dominican and Franciscan
frieries flourished, and after, was Friers-street, or
Friers-lane, tho' that name be now quite forgot, the
Dominican friery being on the south, and the Fran
ciscan on the west, side of it ; and indeed both these
houses were brave places, and many noble and very
exceUent personages were buried in the churches of
each, and even to this day, in the place where the
Dominican church stood, are bones dug up. I heard
of some very lately, and of a piece of gold, (I know
not what,) but I do not hear that such are so fre
quently dug up at the place ofthe Franciscan church.
N©r have any rehques been discovered for many
years at the place where the Penitentiarian friery
(commonly called the friers of penance, of sackcloth,
&c.) stood, which was at the west end of Paradice-
garden, and 'twas, when dissolved in 1307, united

was one inch and 3-8ths of an inch long." N. B. Shewing this passage yes
terday to Mr. Whiteside, who knows the collonel, he told me 'twas false, and
that the collonel received his damage at Almanza, and he thinks this passage
is inserted, that it might not be believed that the collonel fled at Almanza.
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576 RELIQUIAE 1725.
to the Franciscan friery, in which year all the friers
of penance were abolished.
Lond. Sept. 25, 1725. We hear, that the famous
ostrich died a few days ago at Sturbridge-fair ; and
that his body was afterwards dissected at Cambridge
by Mr. Warren, the surgeon. He cut above six
inches deep in fat. Many stones and naUs and half
pence, and some small pieces of silver, aU turned
black, were taken out of the crop and gizzard. The
silver and copper pieces were very visibly wasted,
especially about the edges c.
Oct. 22. This morning caUed upon me, which he
had never done before, Mr. Henry DodweU, of Mag
dalen , haU, son of the late very learned Mr. Henry
Dodwell. He caUed about Mr. Vansittart's sub
scribing to Peter Langtoft and John of Glastonbury.
He told me, he was almost three years standing. I
got him to stay almost a quarter of an hour. I had
discoursed him before. I had heard, and so it ap
peared to me, that he is a changeling. He is, how
ever, good natured, and may, and I hope he wiU,
make a good man ; but having not (most certainly,
as I take it) a capacity, I cannot see how he can
make any thing of the figure in learning that his
c Northampton Mercury, Sept. 27. N. B. This ostrich was in Oxford
this last summer, and was there shewed for many days. What killed it was
cramming of it too much, particularly with iron, stones, &c. which (notwith
standing what they say) it could not digest. T. H.

1725. HEARNIAN^E. 57?
father did. But I must suspend my opinion and
leave it to after times. I asked him about his
father's MSS. He said he had not seen them, nor
did I find that he had seen or knew much of his
printed books. He mentioned Dr. Heywood and
Mr. Parker, the former about his father's copy of
Thomas a Kempis, the latter about his father's Dis
sertation upon Irenaeus. He had heard, he said,
Dr. Heywood speak of Kempis. I told him I had
seen it, and that I had made publick mention of it.
He said Mr. Parker had told him the Dissertation
upon Irenaeus would bear reprinting. I told him I
had heard his father's lectures were reprinted. He
said he had heard (he knew not from whom) the
same. After this I met Mr. Leake and Mr. Parker.
The former said he was not at all acquainted with
this young man, nay did not know him by sight.
Mr. Parker said he knew him, but had not seen him
of late ; (indeed he hath been in the country, coming
up yesterday ;) but they both agreed (Mr. Leake
only from what he had heard) that he would never
make a scholar, whatever he might with respect to
being a good man. Mr. Leake observed, that he
understood he wanted both parts and application.
Nov. 1. On Friday last (Oct. 29) were planted
four yew trees upon tbe top of Heddington hiU,
round the elm tree which is commonly called Jo.
PuUen's tree'1. They are given by Mr. Tilman Bo-
bart, brother of the late Mr. Jacob Bobart.
d This tree, mutilated tbough it be, is still(i8s6j standing, and may in every
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578 RELIQUIAE 1725.
Nov. 15. About Thursday last Dr. Francis Gas-
trell canon of Christ Church, of the seventh stall,
and bishop of Chester was seized very violently with
the gout in his head. He was told that if he would
take a bottle of Port wine it would drive it back,
but this he absolutely declined, saying he had much
rather die than drink a whole bottle of that wine.
Accordingly he died some time last night at his
lodgings in Christ Church, and the bells went for
him this morning, being much lamented. Indeed
he was the very best of all the bishops, except
ing Dr. Hooper bishop of Bath and Wells, and
had many excellent qualities, among some bad ones.
I am told he died in the sixty third or grand climac-
terical year of his age. He took the degree of
M.A. April the 20th, 1687, that of B.D. June 23,
1694, and that of D.D. July 13, 1700. On Jan. 5,
1702, he was instituted canon of Christ Church, and
on April 4, 1714, he was consecrated bishop of
sense be deemed university property. First, from the associations belonging
to it, and the numerous visitants of early days, as well as of modern times, who
have made it their almost daily boundary of exercise : next, because the late
Mr. Whorwood of Headington House gave it, although informally, to the
university authorities, which to the credit of the present owner of the pro- ,
perty, Mr. Davenport, was no sooner made known to him, than he declared '
nothing should induce him to destroy it, (it had been doomed to the axe,)
and there it remains still, an illustration to these Remains. The property at
Headington, as did that at Holton Park, belonged for a long period to the
old family of the Whorwoods, one of the most ancient and respectable in the
county of Oxford, and was severed from its original lords, owing to a series of
improvident proprietors. Not so however the last owner, the Rev. Thomas
Henry Whorwood, feUow of Magdalen college, who disposed of the remnant
of this fine estate from a nice sense of honour, and from a desire to get rid
altogether of incumbrances laid on the estate by those who had gone before
him, and which, at the moment, he saw no other means of surmounting, but
by a sacrifice painful to himself, and regretted by all his friends ; by none
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1725. HEARNIAN.E. 579
Chester. He hath written and published several
books, and was looked upon as a man of a good
rational head, and in several things he shewed him
self honest, notwithstanding he was a complyer.
Nov. 20. Yesterday at four o'clock in the after
noon was buried in Christ Church cathedral Dr.
Gastrell bishop of Chester, when Mr. George Wigan
spoke the speech.
Nov. 22. Tho' Mr. Willis of Whaddon be justly
blamed for some indiscreet things he hath published
full of gross blunders and mistakes, yet he hath done
many things that deserve commendation, and par
ticularly what he is endeavouring now to have done,
viz. the erecting a church or chapell at Fenny Strat
ford, in reference to which I had a letter from him
yesterday, dated at Whaddon hall the 19th instant,
which he tells me came to give thanks for my gene
rous gift to their chapell, that they doubt not of my
good offices in the university, and hope I spoke to Mr.
Whiteside, to whom, he saith, he hath wrote two
letters without answers, and so desires me to jogg
his memory, and begg him to favour him with a
line. He hopes he will follow my example, for they
are, as he says, a true object of charity. This week,
he says, they shall get up a bell in the tower ; and a
clock they hope for by Christmas : if he is pretty
well, he says, he shall go in about a fortnight to Lon
don to put his eldest son to Westminster school.
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Nov. 23. The answer I writ to Mr. Willis was as
follows, Honoured Sir,
What you are doing for the town of Fenny Stratford
(and indeed for the church of England) is very generous,
and can never be sufficiently commended. What Mr.
Whiteside and others do in it, I know not, farther than
that I have several times heard them speak very honour
ably of it. Some ages ago affairs of this nature did not
require such earnest petitions. They were then as willing,
as they are backward now, to promote such good, Christ
ian, charitable offices. I wish you would not mention my
little mite. As small as it was, I hope a blessing will
attend it. I am glad you are going to put your eldest son
to Westminster school, under so truly excellent a master
as Dr. Freind, for whom I have always had a very great
honour, though I am an utter stranger to him. I wish
your son all possible success, that he may prove a good
scholar, and (which is far above all learning) a good honest
man. I am, dear honoured sir,
your most humble servant,
THO. HEARNE.
Edm. Hall, Oxford,
Nov. 21, 1725.
Nov. 27- Tho' what Mr. Willis is doing for Fenny
Stratford towards the building of the chapell, where
of he hath himself given an hundred pounds, (as he
laid out some years ago five hundred pounds at least
upon Bletchley church, in procuring a good ring of
bells and repairing and beautifying the chancel!,) be
very generous, laudable, and charitable, yet Mr.

1725. HEARNIANLE. 581
West tells me that be is maligned and ridiculed for
it, and not thanked, and even Mr. West himself
seems mightily to blame him for it, saying that his
children (which are eight in number, four boys and
four girls, the two eldest of which girls, now about
seventeen years of age, are twins) will be bound to
curse him for giving away that hundred pounds out
of their fortunes, his estate being not, as Mr. Willis
says, hardly a thousand pounds per annum. But
let them say what they will, 'tis a commendable
undertaking, and I cannot think Mr. Willis or his
children will be ever a whit the poorer : on the
contrary, I hope God Almighty will bless them on
this account.
Dec. 6. Somner's Saxon Dictionary is now reck
oned cheap at three guineas, or three pounds three
shillings, which is the price Fletcher Gyles puts it
at in his sale, that he is now carrying on at London.
I bought one some time since for forty five shillings.
T remember one sold for a crown.
Dec. 8. There is printed and published at London
an 8vo. pamphlet every month called Memoirs qf
Literature, the author whereof, I am told by Mr.
John Innys of London, bookseller, who with his
elder brother Mr. William Innys prints it, is Mr. la
Roch. Mr. John Innys informs me by letter of the
1st instant that that for November was then pub
lished, and that in it is an account of Peter Lang-
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582 RELIQUIAE 1725.
toft's Chronicle, that I put out, and that they have
desired Mr. la Roch always to give an account of
what books I shall favour the world with.
Dec. 9. "'London, Nov. 30 (Tuesd.) 1725. This
day Mr. Curl, the bookseller, was found guilty in the
King's bench court, of two indictments, for print
ing obscene pamphlets." (Northampton Mercury for
Monday, Dec. 6th, 1725).
NB. This is that villain Curl, that was so severely
whipt some years since, for his rogueries, in West
minster school, by the school boys of that place.
Dec. 29- I am told Fletcher Gyles asks 3l. 10*.
for the Dauphin Cicero de Orat. I know not what
should make the Dauphin books so dear, there being
nothing hardly of learning in any of them, but
Pliny's Nat. History, which indeed was done for
glory, and much pains and learning (tho' the old ed.
exceeds it in some respects) are shewed in it, and it
made the editor Harduin distracted.
Jan. 12. The famous Mr. Thomas Creech took the
degree of M.A. as a member of Wadham College,
June 13, 1683, after which he became fellow of All
Souls' College, as a member of which he proceeded
to B.D. March 18th, 1696, and after that hanged
himself at Mr. Ives the apothecary's, where he lodged.
He was found dead in a garret there on July 19th,
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Div.) but he had hung some days, as was guessed, for
the body then stunk. He is said to have been melan
choly for some time before, occasioned (as 'tis dis
coursed) upon account of a mistress. He was cer
tainly a most ingenious man, as appears from his
incomparable English translation of Lucretius, and
from many other pieces. And when he was of Wad
ham college (where he was chum with Mr., after
wards Dr. Humphrey Hody) he was observed to be
a most severe student, as he was afterwards for some
time at All Souls, tho' he grew lazy at last. He had
promised an edition of Justin Martyr's works, in
order to which many sheets (above fifty) of notes
were found among his papers after his death, which
Dr. Grabe borrowed, and I have heard him say they
were excellent, tho' some things were amiss in them.
This Mr. Creech was a very proud, morose, sour man,
and no good company.
Feb. 15. My late friend John Bridges esqr.'s
books being now selling by auction in London, (they
began to be sold on Monday the 7th inst.,) I hear
they go very high, being fair books, in good condition,
and most of them finely bound. This afternoon I
was told of a gentleman of All Souls' College, I sup
pose Dr. Clarke, that gave a commission of 8*. for an
Homer in 2 vols., a small 8vo. if not 12mo. But it
went for six guineas. People are in love with good
binding more than good reading.
Feb. 23. Mr. Upton, a schoolmaster in the West
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58-1 RELIQUIAE 1725.
of England, in which country he was born, was of
Eaton School, and afterwards fellow of King's college
in Cambridge. His father was gardiner to old sir
Philip Sydenham, father to the present sir Philip
Sydenham. I am told his father designed him to
be an hostler, or fbr some mean imployment, and
was going towards London with that intent, when
sir Philip was carrying his son to Eaton. Sir Philip
understanding his mind, told him he should have
some better business, viz. that he should be servant
to his son at Eaton school, which accordingly he .was,
and so became a scholar in the school himself, though
many years older than sir Philip's son, (I have heard
it said he was 25 when he came to Eaton, which I
suppose is a mistake, it may be he was so old when
he went from it to King's,) and grew a good gram
matical scholar, aud young Mr. Sydenham proved
his true and great friend. At length he became one
of the masters at Eaton, and marrying, was after
wards, as now, an eminent schoolmaster in the west,
and was preferred to a living by his patron sir Philip
Sydenham, to whom Mr. Upton had dedicated Dio-
nysius Halicarnass. de Structura Orationis. Mr.
Upton, who is a very good scholar, hath also pub
lished Ascham's Schoolmaster, with notes, but he
hath altered the language. He is upon an edition
of Hephcestion, which Mr. Steers of Christ Church
(who was his scholar) told me last night is to be a
thin folio at 20*. per book, and that Mr. Upton
shewed him a printed specimen of it this last sum
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1726. HEARNIANiE. 585
Hephtestion. It should be a small book, being but
Rttle itself.

April 7. I was told last night by Mr. Whiteside,
and I suppose 'tis what others think and say also,
that sir Isaac Newton took his famous book called
Principia Mathematica, another edition whereof is
just come out, from hints given him by the late Dr.
Hook (many of whose papers cannot now be found)
as well as from others that he received from sir
Christopher Wren, both of which were equally as
great men as sir Isaac, who, by the way, understands
not one bit of classical learning, nor can he, as I
hear, write Latin, but is beholden to others to do that
fbr him, although his books be only mathematical
Latin. June 4. On Thursday last, in the afternoon, called
upon me, father Cuthbert Parkinson, who came from
East Hendred in Berks on purpose to see me. His
nephew Mr. Fetherstone came along with him, and
yesterday I spent the greatest part of the day with
them. Mr. Parkinson told me, that he himself is
the author of Collectanea Anglo-Minor itica, or, a
Collection ofthe Antiquities ofthe English Fran
ciscans, or Friers Minors, commonly called Gray
Friars, in two parts. With an Appendix con
cerning the English Nuns of the order of Saint
Clare. Lond. 1726. 4to. He compiled this work,
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my late exceUent friend Charles Eyston of East
Hendred esq. Mr. Parkinson, (who is a Franciscan
himself) is now in the 59th year of his age, as he
told me himself. He is a very worthy learned man,
and of an excellent good natured temper. The said
book is what my letter e of May 22 relates to ; which
letter they are urgent with me to give leave to be
printed, to be prefixed to some of the copies. Ac
cordingly I gave them liberty to do with it as they
please. June 13. There are such differences now in the
university of Oxford, (hardly one college but where
all the members are busied in law businesses and
quarrels, not at all relating to the promoting of

e To Mr. Parkinson, at Mr. Eyston's at East Hendred,
near Wantage in Berks.
Sn,
I thank you very kindly for your valuable present of the Antiquities of the
English Franciscans. The excellent author (to whom my very humble service)
hath taken a great deal of pains, and shewed much skill in compiling this
work, which I peruse and read with much delight. I cannot think, that any
one can be against it, that hath any regard for true devotion. 'Tis from
such books, that we learn the piety, sanctity, and generosity of our ancestors.
And 'tis therefore a very useful piece of service to collect any thing upon
such subjects. When I had the happiness of seeing you last here, I men
tioned to you a MS. of John of Glastonbury, that belonged formerly to sir
Richard Tycheburn. I know not whether you have thought of it since.
This author I am now printing, and the work is pretty near being finished.
I was very sorry to hear some time since of the death of Mr. Robt. Eyston.
I am, with my respects to my friend, Sir,
your obi. and most
faithfull humble servt.
Edm. Hall, Oxford, Tho. Hearne.
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learning,) that good letters miserably decay every
day, insomuch that this last ordination, on Trinity
Sunday, at Oxford, there were no fewer (as I am
informed) than fifteen denied orders for insufficiency,
which is the more to be noted, because our bishops,
and those employed by them, are themselves gene
rally illiterate men.
June 22. On Friday June 10, about 11 o'clock,
as the Rev, Mr. Anthony Alsop, prebendary of
Winchester, and rector of Brightwell, near Walling
ford, in Berks, was walking by a small brook called
the Lock Bourne near the college of Winchester, the
ground gave way under his feet, which threw him
into the brook, where he was found dead the next
morning. The rectory of Brightwell being in the
gift of the bishop of Winchester, his lordship has
been pleased to give it to the Rev. Mr. Morgan,
one of his lordship's chaplains ; a living worth about
500 libs per annum. As for Mr. Anthony Alsop,
he was one of the oldest, and one of the most in
genious acquaintance I had. He was a man of a
most ready wit, of excellent learning, a fine preacher,
and of rare good nature. He was looked upon to
be the best writer of lyrick verses in the world.
He was a Derbyshire man, was bred up at West
minster school, and from thence elected student of
Christ Church. He took the degree of master of
arts March 23, 1696, and that of bach, of div. Dec.
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Theater Press, in Greek and Latin, iEsop's Fables
in 8vo., which is an excellent edition. He was a
neat writer of Epitaphs, and did many things that
way and in poetry, most of which are unknown. He
was about 55 years of age when his unfortunate
death happened, which was occasioned by the work
men's having loosened the ground, in order to new
pitch it, what Mr. Alsop did not know of. He was
going that by-way to his lodging, having parted
(I am told) with a friend at the college great gate,
which being not readily opened, Mr. Alsop said, he
would not stay, but go the by-way, which he un
happily did. His death is much lamented f.
July 8. St. Grymbald's obit. The said St. Grym-
f In a former volume (for 1717) Hearne gives the following account of the
action against Alsop whicli is mentioned in Bp. Atterbury's letters, which
compelled him for a time to leave England. ,
" Mr. Alsop, rector of Brightwell in Berks, being married to the widow of
" Dr. Bernard late rector of that place, one Mrs. Astrey commences a suit
" against him, as having made a contract of marriage with her. The matter
" hath been tryed at London, and given against Mr. Alsop, who is to allow
" her two thousand pounds damage, and to pay all charges. The said Mrs.
" Astrey is daughter in law to Dr. Smith, late principal of Hart halL Some
" merry letters of Mr. Alsop's were produced. She is a very light body, as
" some say, and the witnesses were suborned, and 'tis look'd upon by honest
" men as a party business, carryed on chiefly by one Dr. Lasher a notorious
" Whigg, who is uncle to the girl. Which Dr. Lasher hath been also a very
'; loose man. Yet it must not be denyed but that Mr. Alsop is to be blamed
" for having had, even in an innocent way, any thing to do with her." (July
18, 1717.)
Dr. Pearson, Princ. of Edm. hall, told me last night that the original of
the proceedings against Mr. Alsop was purely malice, and that no wise man
believed any thing of a real serious contract of marriage, but the contrary.
(July 19.)
The jury against Mr. Alsop were most of them, I hear, Presbyterians. The
judge was Ld. ch. Justice Parker, a notorious Whigg. (July 20.)

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bald is the same that was monk and prior of the
famous monastery of St. Bertin in Flanders, and
being sent for over by K. Alfred, assisted that great
king in the restoring of learning at Oxford, being
one of the first professors in that place, and 'twas at
Oxford that he built the famous church of St. Peter's
in the East, under which, at the East end, he made
a vault, with a design to have been buried in it him
self, but, upon account of the great disturbance
between the old scholars and the new, he retired to
Winchester, and died there on July 8, A0. 904, and
was buried in the abbey there, (built by K. iElfred,)
of which he was abbat, according to William of
Malmsbury, as I have cited him in sir John Spel-
man's Life of K. Mitred.
July 10. On Wednesday morning last (July 6th h)
died at London Mr. Humphrey Wanley of a dropsy.
He was born at Coventry on March 21, 1671, being
the son of the Rev. Mr. Nath. Wanley, that writ the
History qf Man, and some other books. He was
put an apprentice at Coventry, I think first to a lim
ner, and afterwards to some other trade, as I have
heard, but the late bishop of Worcester, Dr. William
Lloyd, at that time bishop of Litchfield and Coven
try, understanding that he had some skill in MSS.,
and that he writ an excellent hand, as he came once
thro' Coventry, he had a mind to try him. And find-
h The newspapers say July 5th being Tuesday, but Mr. Murray's letter to
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590 RELIQUIAE I7s>6.
ing what was reported to be true, he took care to
take him from his trade, and to send, him to Oxford
to his friend Dr. John Mill, principal of Edmund
hall, thinking that the Dr. by his care might make
him a useful serviceable man in matters relating to
learning. He was entered batler of that hall, but
becoming soon acquainted with that busy man Dr.
Charlett, master of University college, Dr. Mill could
not have his design, which was to have well grounded
him in Greek and Latin, (what Wanley wanted
much,)and in some academical learning. But Charlett
wheedling him, and Wanley being naturally of an
unsettled temper, presently left Edmund hall, having
been but at one lecture with his tutor, and that was
in logic, which he swore he could not comprehend,
saying, " By G — Mr. Milles, (for he was then vice-
principal under Dr. Mill,) I do not, nor cannot un
derstand it," and so came no more, and entered him
self of University college under Dr. Charlett, in
whose lodgings he lay. Being now at Dr. Charlett's
command, he was employed in writing trivial things,
and in talking big, (for Wanley was very impudent
with Charlett,) so that he got no true learning. After
a little time he was made an assistant keeper of the
Bodleian Library, where he did a vast deal of mis
chief, which I had much ado to rectify after Dr. Hud
son became librarian, and I was employed for that
purpose. After a while he left Oxford, went to
London, and became secretary to the religious so
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he that was afterwards earl of Oxford, which post he
held even under the present earl of Oxford, son to
the other, to his dying day. He was a man of good
parts, and might have been considerable, had he
stuck to any one thing, but then he very much
wanted steadiness and judgment. He was employed
by Dr. Hickes to draw up the catalogue of Saxon
and other Northern MSS. in the said Dr.'s Thesaurus,
which Wanley accordingly did, and dedicated it to
secretary Harley, but his Remarks were writ in
English, and translated into Latin by the care, as
I remember, of Mr. Thwaites, who got it done for
Wanley, tho' perhaps some things were done in
Latin by Wanley himself, who, however, was very
meanly skill'd in that business, as may appear from
his preface to the Oxford Catalogue of MSS. relating
to the Indexes of that work, which Wanley did;
tho' the Index to the Cat. of Bodleian MSS. is built
upon an index, now in MS. far better done by Mr.
Emanuel Pritchard, janitor of the Bodleian Library.
Mr. Wanley, besides what hath been mentioned,
published one book, a translation, for the use of the
religious societies. He was a very great sot, and by
that means broke to pieces his otherwise very strong
constitution. He married a widow woman in London
(that had several children) who died a few years
since suddenly, but Wanley had no child by her.
He had begun a catalogue of the earl of Oxford's
MSS. but he took such an injudicious method, that,
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592 RELIQUIAE 1726.
been finished. He had completed six, if not seven
vols, in folio, taking in whole passages out of the
respective pieces, on purpose to swell the work, for
which he was often in my hearing much blamed,
and an epitome of what he had done was intended,
and another method design'd for what remain'd. He
married another wife (a very young creature) just a
fortnight before he died, and by that means she had
what he had, which was considerable. He is buried
in Marybone church.
July 23. Yesterday, as I was walking to Godstowe,
near St. John's college I met with Mr. Anderson, a
Scottish man, whose brother is professor of«divinity
at Aberdeen. He is related, he told me, to Mr.
James Anderson, the Scottish historian and anti
quary. I have seen this gent, several times some
years ago. Saith he, " Mr. James Anderson often
asks after you, and what you are doing. Be sure,"
saith he, " when you go to Oxford, always inquire
how Tom Hearne does, and what he is upon." This
gent, told me, that the said Mr. James Anderson
is upon publishing a collection of all things pro
and con relating to Mary queen of Scots, and that
his other great work, being1 a sort of Formulare
Scoticanum, as yet in MS., is prodigious.
Just as I was parting from this Mr. Anderson, he
whispers me in the ear, in the hearing however of
another Scottish gentleman tbat was with him, " You
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1726. HEARNIAN.E. 593
want a larger gullet to swallow damned cramp
oaths."

July 27. This is the day kept in honour of the
Seven Sleepers, so called, because in the reign of
Theodosius the second, about the year 449, when
the resurrection (as we have it from Greg. Turon.)
came to be doubted by many, seven persons, who
had been buried alive in a cave at Ephesus by Decius
the emperor, in the time of his persecution against
the Christians, and had slept for about 200 years,
awoke and testified the truth of this doctrine, to the
great amazement of all. But Baronius does not seem
to approve of this account, but to lean rather to
those who will have them so called, from their being
shut in a cave by Decius, where they died or slept
(for the death of the martyrs is called sleep), and
near 200 years, after were found, their bodies incor
rupt and fresh as if alive, when in the time of Theo
dosius II. the cave was opened.
Aug. 4. These verses following were communi
cated to me by Edward Prideaux Gwyn, esq.
Upon sir James Baker's death.
Here lies a knight who now is dead,
But when alive wore ribband red ;
In grief for which his brethren two
Have turnVl their red ones into blue.

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Upon sir Robert Walpole's being made knight
ofthe Garter.
Sir Robert, his credit and int'rest to shew,
Has drop't his red ribband, and took up a blue.
To two strings already the knight is preferr'd ;
Odd numbers are lucky — we pray for a third.
Aug. 6. Yesterday my friend the hon. B. Leonard
Calvert, esq. left Oxford for Ditchley to see his uncle
and aunt, the earl of Litchfield and his countess.
Mr. Calvert gave me a medal of the famous Maglia-
bechi, which is an extraordinary curiosity. This
Magliabechi was a very great man, and was librarian
to the great duke of Florence. He was never (as I
have been told) above ten miles out of Florence in
his life, and then he walked. He lived upon hard
eggs, and wore no shirt. He used to lie in the li
brary at last, and he dined at the duke's table. His
memory was so prodigious, that he could, (when at
any time consulted) immediately tell what authors
had writ upon any subject. He did not understand
Greek, and I am told could not write Latin. He
was, notwithstanding his severe way of living, a man
of great humanity and complaisance, and particu
larly civil to strangers.
Aug. 15. Last night came to Oxford from War
wickshire, where he hath been to view his estate, my
friend Dr. Richard Rawlinson, and I was with him at
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1726. HEARNIANtE. 595
several years. He was four years together at Rome.
He was present at the queen's delivery of her first
child the prince of Wales, and was then very near
the queen. This prince is an extraordinary fine
child. The duke of York is too young to judge of
him yet. The king is a man that is by no means a
bigot to the church of Rome. He is a man of an
excellent understanding. Yet he is unfortunate in
making Scotch and Irish his confidents, and those
too of the meanest sort. Which thing is of very
great disservice. The queen is a zealous Roman
Catholic, but hath, as well as the king, a prodigious
affection for the English.
Aug. 23. Yesterday morning came to Oxford,
with Mr. John Murray, Mr. Thomas Granger of
London. The said Mr. Granger is a curious good-
humoured gentleman, and hath an excellent collec
tion of books in English history and antiquities, as
well as a fine collection of coins and medals. Mr.
John Sturt of London is also now in Oxford with
Mr. Bateman and Mr. Granger. This Mr. Sturt hath
been one of the most eminent, indeed the eminentest
engraver for writing of this last age. He is a man
now (as he saith) of sixty-eight years of age. His own
writing is also as good as his engraving. The things
he hath done are prodigious. Mr. Murray told me
formerly that he (Mr. M.) began to collect books at
eleven, now he says at thirteen, years of age. I
thought Mr. Murray had kept all his curiosities toge-
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596 RELIQUIAE 1726.
ther, ever since he began collecting, excepting dupli
cates ; but he tells me now, that besides duplicates,
he hath parted, upon occasion, with a vast number
of things, and I find he lets any one that wants have
what books he hath, and 'tis this way that he gets
his support. Mr. Christopher Bateman is a West
morland man by birth. Mr. Thomas Granger was
born at Brayles in Warwickshire. Mr. Murray told
me, that formerly he gave 10*. for Barnabee's Journal,
which was afterwards (a few years since) reprinted,
and sold for very little.
Aug. 28. At Campden in Gloucestershire lives one
Mr. Ballard a taylor, who hath a daughter, a very
pretty girl, of about fourteen years of age, that hath
an extraordinary genius for coins, and hath made an
odd collection of them. Mr. Granger (who came
from thence last night in his return to London) saw
her, and speaks much of her, which I took the more
notice of, because he is himself a good judge of coins,
and hath an admirable collection of them, especially
of English ones. But, it seems, this young girl is
chiefly delighted with those that are Roman.
Sept. 8. When Mr. Murray and Mr. Bateman were
lately in Oxford, Mr. Murray put into my hands, for
a few days, a paper MS. in fol. with the arms of
England and France on both sides of the binding,
being Norden's Description of Cornwall. He de
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1726. HEARNIAN.E. 597
it, it being, he said, Christopher Bateman's, who, he
said, gave 20 libs for it, and he added that Kit,
being in but bad circumstances, would print it, to
raise some money, and had been at the charges of
engraving the draughts in it, of which proofs lay in
the book, tho' I found the engravings wrong in many
particulars. But the maps were wanting in the MS.,
I mean the county maps. I do not know but this is
the MS. that belonged to St. James's library. Yet
there being several faults in the writing, I cannot
tell whether it be the original. Roger Gale, esq.
hath a MS. of this work, but Mr. Murray said, 'tis
only a copy of this MS. of Mr. Bateman's. He con
fessed, however, that Mr. Gale hath the maps, but
added that he would lend them Kit Bateman to be
published. Copy of my letter to Mr. Murray, when I returned
the MS. to Norden.
Sib,
Mr. Norden's character is well known from what is al
ready printed of his Speculum Britannice. Yet I think
nothing of his that I have seen equals his Topographical
and Historical Description of Cornwall, that you lodg'd
with me for a few days. But the mapps being wanting in
the MS. I cannot judge of the whole. He took a right
method to trace the originall of places, by making him
self acquainted, in some degree, with the Saxon tongue.
Nor did he neglect even the Brittish language. Even
Greffry of Monmouth was, in many respects, a favourite
author with him. And that justly, since 'tis certain, that
Geffry is in many things an author of credit. The most
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early accounts in other countries, as well as our own, were
brought down by tradition. And therefore tis rather a
wonder, that there are no more inconsistencies in Geffry.
Mr. Norden being sensible of this, hath modestly apolo
gized for him. And so, without doubt, had he seen it, he
would have done for the British Chronicle in Jesus College
Library, which contains more historical facts than are in
Greffry, and ought to be printed by such as are versed in
the British language. There are many other pieces as yet
unpublished of Norden. I hope these may be retrieved
also, and I think his Preparative to the whole should be
reprinted, as it was first published at London in 1596 in
31 pages in 8vo. But this little thing I never yet saw,
only I have some MSS. extracts from it, that were given
me by a friend. But I leave this, and other matters of
this kind, to more proper judges than, Sir,
your most obliged
humble servant
Edmund Hall, Oxford, THO. HEARNE.
Sept. 6, 1726.
Sept. 9. Yesterday Mr. Layng of Balliol college
gave me a fine copy of Coryat's Crudities, which is
a most rare book. As there are abundance of very
weak, idle things in that book, so there are withal
very many observations that are very good and use-
full, as was long since noted by Purchas and some
others. The author kept a diary, in which he en
tered whatever notes he thought memorable, for
many years, but what became of it after his death is
uncertain, tho' 'tis probable, that his mother Ger
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died at an extreme old age, destroyed it. One
would wish to have seen that Diary, in which, with
out doubt, were many remarks of English affairs,
particularly before he travelled beyond sea, which
was not till he was turned of thirty.
Sept. 14. (From the Reading Post, Sept. 12,
1726.) " Lisbon, Aug. 31, 1726. N. S. One Wel-
" ton, a non-juring English clergyman, who some
" time ago arrived here from Philadelphia, died
" lately of a dropsy. During his illness he refused
" the assistance of the English minister here, alledg-
" ing he was not of his communion, though as for
" himself he declared he was of the church of Eng-
" land as reformed by archbishop Cranmer. After
" his death, among his things were found an episcopal
" seal, which he had made use of in Pensylvania,
" whereas he assumed and exercised privily and by
" stealth the character and functions of a bishop.
" Information of such his practices having been
" transmitted from Pensylvania last year to the
" Lords Justices of Great Britain, they ordered a
" writ of privy seal to be sent to him, commanding
" him to return home ; which writ being served
" upon him in January last at Philadelphia, he chose
" rather than pay obedience to it, to retire hither."
N.B. This is the famous Dr. Welton minister of
White-chappel, who suffered much for his honesty,
and was, it seems, a bishop, and is now above the
malice of all his enemies. Q q 4

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Sept. 28. Mr. Roger Bourcbier, fellow of Wor
cester college, is a man of great reading in various
sorts of learning. He hath been always of that
place, having been entered there when it was a hall,
at his first coming to Oxford. He is not in orders.
Mr. Colley of Christ Church says he is the greatest
man in England fbr divinity. This Mr. Colley is an
apocalyptical man, being much given to books upon
the Revelation, reading, besides Mede, other things
that he meets with upon that subject, and he is par
ticularly strangely taken with a great folio upon the
Revelation, written by Mr. Daubuz (that same that
wrote a Latin 8vo. book upon the passage in Jo
sephus relating to our Saviour) and published since
his death, which Mr. Colley saith is the most learned
book by much that ever he read. I have not seen
this book of Daubuz's, but Mr. Colley having recom
mended it to Bourchier, the said Bourcbier also now
mightily commends it. By this you may guess, that
these two gentlemen are fanciful, as they are also
esteemed to be&.
Oct. 5. The following paper was communicated to
me yesterday by Mr. Isham, fellow of Lincoln college,
viz. In the register of St. Martin's parish, Leicester,
Feb. 5, 18 Eliz. :— " Tho. Tilsly and Ursula Russet
- Roger Bourchier, son of Thomas B. a poor person of the city of Oxford,
was matriculated as servitor of Gloucester hall, July 14, 169S being then
fourteen. Reg. Matric. A.7i.

1726. HEARNIAN.E. 601
were married, and because he was and is naturally
deaf and dumb, could not for his part observe the
order of the form of marriage, after the approbation
had from Thomas the bishop of Lincoln, John Chip
pendale, LL.D. and commissary, and Mr. Rich.
Davys, mayor of Leicester, and others of his bre
thren with the rest of the parish ; the sayd Thomas
for expressing of his mind instead of words, of his
own accord used these signs ; first he embrac'd her
with his arms, took her by the hand and put a ring
on her finger, and laid his hand upon his heart, and
held up his hands towards heaven, and to shew his
continuance to dwell with her to his lives end, he
did it by closing his eyes with his hands and digging
the earth with his feet, and pulling as tho' he would
ring a bell, with other signs approv'd." — Concordat
cum originali.
Oct. 6. Lond. Sept. 29- Thursd. the rev. Mr.
Francis Wise was lately presented to the vicarage of
Harlow in the county of Essex. (This from the
Reading Post for Oct. 3. N.B. This Wise hath a
donative besides, and is fellow of Trinity coll. Oxon.
Custos archivorum of the university, and the in
truding second librarian of the Bodleian library,
which is really my place.)
Oct. 12. In August last past a person unknown
came to Cutt-Hedge-Inn in the liberty of Long-
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602 RELIQUT.E 1726.
and mounted on a steed worth 20 guineas, and
having two small twigs in his hand, he came in and
desired the landlord (Mr. Robert Webb) to give him
correction, which the landlord at first seemed un
willing to comply with, but at the gentleman's fur
ther intreaty, he called in a lusty porter, which was
at the house, and the gentleman (having himself un-
trust bis breeches) caused the porter to take him at
his back, and the landlord with the twigs aforesaid
paid him on the bare buttocks until the blood ran :
for which the gentleman was very thankful ; which,
the better to express, he treated the landlord and
porter, and so went off unknown.
Oct. 19. Wedn. 14° Kal. Nov. Oxonii in Anglia
Sanctse Fredesuuindse virginis. Mart. Rom. St.
Frideswide flourished about tbe year 740. She was
the ornament and patroness of the most illustrious
city and university of Oxford. Her father's name
Didan, a person of noble quality, and her mothers
Safrida. From her infancy she had an aversion from
all delicacies. She usually lay upon the hard pave
ment. A great part of the night she spent upon her
knees, or prostrate upon the ground. Her ordinary
diet was barley-bread with a few herbes and roots,
and her drink only water. By her example twelve
other virgins forsook the world. She dedicated her-
b In the collection of letters attributed, although falsely, to lord Lyttelton,
the following singular narrative is recorded. It forms a fitting companion to
Hearne's Cutt- Hedge-Inn story, from which it may probably have taken rise.
— See Appendix, No. XVI.

1726. HEARNIAN.^. 603
self wholly to religion by her parents' leave. By
the munificence of the king she built a monastery,
into which she entred with her companions, and
passed the greatest part of her time in prayer and
fasting. Alard or Algar, a young prince, being
smitten with her beauty, she leaves the monastery,
and flies to Oxford, whither Algar pursued her, but
was struck blind as he entered the city, but restored
to sight by her means, at his repentance. Princes
were afterwards scrupulous about entering tbe city
at that gate. Out of thankfulness she built another
monastery, in which she spent the remainder of her
life in purity and divine contemplation. This was at
Oxford, and there she was buried, and after her death
her immaculate body reposing there, became the
principal ornament of the city. There is a shrine,
called St. Frideswide's shrine, now at Christ Church.
Plate in the treasury of the Monastery of Faversham.
(From a MS. in the hands of Mr. West.)
1. One piece of the holy crosse closed in gold, and set
with stones.
% A crucifix silver and gilt weight 50 J .
3. A mitre with pearl.
4. A staffe with a crosse. The staffe silver parcel gilt.
The crosse silver gilt, and enamel'd.
5. A pontifical ring of gold with 4 other gold rings, S iii
et dimid.
6. II ouches of silver set with pearl.
7. IX chalices with their patents of silver gilt, pond.
150 §.
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604 RELIQUIAE 1726.
9. A navet of silver, pond. § 16.
10. A bell of silver. II paxes of silver parcel gilt, i x.
and IV cre wets of silver, pond. 26 I .
Plate in the Abbots chamber.
1. A standing peice all gilt with a cover, pond. % xxx.
2. A flat peice of silver with a cover, pond. 5 xii.
3. A salt of silver with a cover, § 16.
4. II gilt spoons, pond. 5" i.
5. VI spoons of silver with knobs like stravvberrves,
pond. 5 vi.
6. V masors with covers, pond. 3" xiiii.
Plate in ihefratery.
1. VII masors with III covers, pond. § Lxxxi.
2. VI silver spoons, pond. % iiii.
Plate in the portery.
1. A masor, pond. 3 ii.
2. A salt of silver with a cover, pond. § vi.
Summe total of the silver plate was § 454^.
Of gold in rings, J iii.
Besides the piece of the Holy Crosse, the Crucefix, mitre,
staff and 2 ouches of silver set with pearl.
The price of the Horses in the Stables.
In ye first stable VI horses, price
In ye 2d stable V horses, price
In ye 3d stable V horses, price
In ye 4th stable IV horses, price
Item 2 mares price
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1726. HEARNIAN.E. 605
Oct. 20. This being the coronation-day of George
duke of Brunswick, commonly called king George,
there was mighty jambling of bells very early in the
morning at several places in Oxford.
To James West esq., at N°. 7 in Figtree court, in the
Inner Temple, London.
Dear Sir,
I hope after you went from Oxford k on Thursday last,
you, and the young gentleman that accompanied you, met
with a pleasant entertainment at Tetsworth, and that the
next day, after you had parted with that young gentleman,
you got safe to London. I fear 'twill be long before I shall
have the happiness of seeing you again. I have paid the
four shillings you left with me for Jerry at Godstow, and
the same day (as I often do) I drank (as I most heartily
wish and desire) your health at that place.
The little book you gave me of the third order of St.
Francis, called the order of Poenance, is a curiosity. But
then 'tis nothing near so rare as the little book of three
sheets of paper, De Scriptorum Britannicorum paucitate,
written by Nie. Carr, which you shew'd me at Godstowe,
and which I looked over with much pleasure. This Carr
was an elegant writer, and 'tis a curious subject that this
little book treats of. But I was disappointed in reading
it; for I expected, that he would have spoken of the
havock made of our writers at the dissolution : but this,
as 1 remember, he does not so much as touch upon. At
that time perished also a great many Tabulce, in which
were recorded the foundations and transactions in several

k Oct. 21. Yesterday I delivered back into Mr. West's own hands, his
MS. Brute of England, after, which Mr. West went for London in the after
noon, lying last night at Tetsworth.

606 REL1QULE 1726.
religious houses. They used to be hung up either in their
refectories, or some other publick places, where they might
be seen and read by those of the respective societies, as
well as by strangers. Of this kind were the tabula of St.
Frideswide, formerly much read by the scholars and
townsmen of Oxford, of which place she was the ornament
and patroness.
When you see Mr. Granger and Mr. Murray, pray give
them my humble service, and be pleased to accept the
same yourself from. Dear Sir,
your most obliged
and most humble servant
Edm. Hall, Oxford, THO. HEARNE.
Oct. 23, 1726.
Oct. 29. On Thursday night last Mr. Graves of
Mickleton in Gloucestershire, who is now in Oxford,
shewed me a copper coin of Theodora, the second
wife of Constantius Chlorus. It is small. He said
he was told it was found near Campden in Glouces
tershire. It is a great rarity ; all her coins are scarce.
On one side is FL- MAX THEODORA AVG
Theodorce caput diad. On the reverse PIETAS
ROMANA Figura muliebris, stans cum puerulo
lactente : infra TR.S.
My friend Mr. Graves was born on April 22, 1677,
as he told me last night. He hath an aunt, that is
an hundred and one years of age, as I heard him say.
She is still a woman that is vigorous, and hath her
senses perfect. She is a tall upright woman, and
still comely, she having been formerly very handsome.

1726. HEARNIANjE. 607
Mr. Graves said, that Dr. Knight (if he survives her)
is to preach her funeral sermon, he being very great
with her.
The said Dr. Knight is different from Dr. Knight
that was of St. John's college, Oxford. He was a
Cambridge man, and hath published one vile whig-
gish sermon, if not more. He hath likewise scribled
and published the lives of Dean Colet and Erasmus,
both in 8vo volumes, and are but miserable stuff.
There are indeed divers cuts in them, but they are to
please women and children. The life of Erasmus is
worse than that of Dean Colet.
Nov. 2. Valerius Andreas in Bibliotheca Belgica
p. 866. ed. Lovanii, 1643, 4°. gives an account of
Richard Whyte of Basingstoke and his writings, but
mentions no more than nine books of his History, so
that even then the tenth and eleventh books, which
my friend Mr. West hath, were extremely scarce. ,
Dr. Rawlinson (in a letter from London of Nov. 1 )
tells me that my reflections on Mr. Moyle, at the
end of John of Glastonbury, have raised on me a
nest of hornets, but he says, by what is already
printed, their satyr is as edgeless, as their endeavour
strong, to say something spiteful and unreasonable :
such a Coryphaeus of the party must be defended at
all events, and every thing sacrificed to such an oc
casion to spleen. " Some pretended," says the Dr.,
"to affirm that there was not only venom in your

608 RELIQUIAE 1726.
works, but rank treason. One La Roche, a French
Huguenot, who patches for the booksellers a piece
he terms Memoirs qf Literature, I am informed,"
continues the Dr., " intends not to let you pass by
unremarked in his next labours for bread, but hack
ney writers, and such kind of cattle, are mushrooms
of an hour's growth, and forgot almost as soon as
born. These," adds the Dr., " are some notices I
picked up in conversation, as one cannot always
chuse one's company, and one lays under obligations
to bear with impertinencies."
Mr. Creech, fellow of All Soul's college, hanged
himself in the year 1700. He was one of the most
applauded wits we had, and for several curious pieces
deserved well of the commonwealth of learning. By
the coroner's inquest he was found non compos men
tis. The evidence for it was very good, being such
as had observed him to be melancholly for a some
considerable time. He was upon a new edition of
the ancient father Justine Martyr, and had prepared
several materials for it.
Nov. 5. Sir Norton Knatchbull had a folio MS.
which must be of great use, thus intit. in sir Norton's
Auction Catalogue, "Dr. Rich. Zouche's Privileges
of the University of Oxford, collected into a body,
1659." And in p. 8, there is mentioned to be among
his MSS. " A Chronicle of England in English verse,"
on paper, fol. and num.157, "John Norden's Ab-

1726. HEARNIAN.E. 609
stract of the General Survey of the Soke of Lindesey
in the county of Lincoln, with all the mannors, town
ships, lands and tenements, within, or belonging to
the same, being a parcel of the dutchy of Cornwall,
1616, fol.
Nov. 6. Mr. Willis of Whaddon-hall told me last
night, that Mr. Francis Peck, who is printing the
antiquities of Stanford in Lincolnshire, which he calls
Academia tertia Anglicana, was formerly his ser
vant. For being a poor servitor of St. John's coll.
in Cambridge (I think Mr. Willis said, his mother
was a poor woman, that worked for her bread, being
a sort of semstress) , Mr. Willis took him to his
house at Whaddon, before Slyford was with him,
where he wrote for him, and drew some things, he
being an expeditious scribe, and good at drawing.
After some time Mr. Willis discovered him to be a
*******; for he not only preached in a certain church
without being in orders, but betrayed the family con
cerns of Mr. Willis, who thereupon quite discarded
him. He is a batchelour of arts, and is now a cler
gyman. He hath got some good papers of other
men's, particularly of one that is dead, and formerly
undertook the antiquities of Stanford, and by the
help of these he may make a good book, he being
himself (what Mr. Willis acknowledges) a man of
parts, and no mean scholar, tho' very conceited i.
1 For an account of Peck see Nichols's History of Leicestershire, and Anec
dotes of Literature, as well as some additional particulars in Chalmers's Bio-
R r

610 RELIQUIAE 1726.
Mr. John Dryden, the great poet, was buried in
Westminster abbey among tbe old poets in May
1700, being carried from the college of Physicians,
where an oration was pronounced by the famous
Dr. Garth, in which he did not mention one word of
Jesus Christ, but made an oration as an apostrophe
to the great god Apollo, to influence the minds of
the auditors with a wise, but, without doubt, poetical
understanding, and, as a conclusion, instead of a
psalm of David, repeated the 30th ode of the third
book of Horace's odes, beginning, Exegi monumen-
tum, &c. He made a great many blunders in the pro
nunciation1'. Nov. 13. On Thursday the 3d of this month was
hanged at Tyburne Anthony Drury, for robberies on
graphical Dictionary. Neither of these writers was aware of Peck's obligations
in early life to Browne Willis, nor of their subsequent disagreement. Peck, '
in after life, mentions Willis with respect, dedicating a plate in his History of
Stanford to him, in which be is termed " that curious and communicative an
tiquary Browne Willis, esq."
' See an interesting account of Dryden' s funeral in Malone's Life prefixed
to the Prose works of that illustrious writer. The extract from Hearne given
above corroborates, in great measure, Malone's confutation of the false state
ments of what took place on that occasion, related in one of Curll's compila
tions (the Memoirs of Congreve), said to have been written by a Charles Wil
son, esq., but really1 penned by Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas. Hearne, who was no
admirer of Garth, would have delighted in the story of the grave physician's
falling into the " old beer barrel" in the midst of his oration, had such an
event ever taken place. See Malone's Life of Dryden, p. 361. In a subse
quent vol. (1 15. p. 17) Hearne writes, on Tuesday, April 30th, 1700, about
nine o'clock in the evening died John Dryden, esq. the celebrated poet, aged
69, leaving behind him 80 libs per annum to his wife, and as much to his son,
with a new comedy in MS. About two days before his death he finished a
satyr against sir Richard Blackmore, with as much spirit and vigour, as if it
had been wrote in tbe flower of his age.

1726- HEARNIAN^E. 611
the highway, (he having particularly robbed the
Bisseter waggon of a great sum of money &c.) in the
28th year of his age. After the death of Mr. Har
rison, late chaplain of Christ Church and minister of
Magdalen parish in Oxford, his widow, (an elderly
body, though Mr. Harrison was a young man,) who
was daughter of Mr. Arthur Violet, (who had been
esq. Beadle of Div. of the univ. of Oxford,) was
married to this Drury, who married her purely for
her money, a great deal of which he soon spent, and
so left her. He was a person of good natural under
standing, and might have lived in great reputation,
and very happily, he being very famous for curing
smoaky chimnies, for which reason he was commonly
called the Chimney Doctor, and got considerably
by this practise. But after he was married to Mrs.
Harrison, she thought such a profession too low, and
would therefore have had him to leave it, which he
declined. This and the difference of their age, (she
being an old woman to him,) as well as her cross
ugly humours, (which killed her first husband, who
was a mighty goodnatured man,) made him very
uneasy, and conduced to his ruin, to say nothing of
his having another wife, with which he was charged
in Newgate by the minister, but waved it, and would
not give a direct answer. He was born at Norwich
of honest creditable parents, who gave him good
education for business, and instructed him in the
principles of religion. At the place of execution he
appeared with abundance of courage ; he said King
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612 RELIQUIAE 1726.
the waggoner was the only person who put him
upon robbing the Bisseter waggon, as also the Ban
bury waggon, and his own wife of £4, but that he
only got 2 or 3 shillings from her. He complained
of his wife's unkindness, but forgave her. He called
to a gentleman at the place of execution, and gave
him some directions relating to his estate. He also
gave several advices to the spectators, desiring them
to live holy, virtuous, and godly lives ; and he hoped
to be saved thro' the merits of Jesus Christ, and
died apparently penitent.
About the year 1704 a young gentleman (a com
moner) of Magd. hall in this university, who was
son to the learned Dr. Inett, being drinking with
three others, after they had drunk ale for some time
'twas concluded to drink brandy upon it; which
they did in such a quantity, that they all fell asleep.
After some time, three of them awoke, and found
the other, Inett, quite dead, and he could never be
recovered, the strength of both liquors exhausting
his spirits. Richard Barlow of the parish of White
Waltham died A.D. 1705 suddenly, having before
drunk considerable quantity of ale and brandy.
Nov. 15. On November 9th last called upon me
Edward Harley esq. late gentleman commoner and
master of arts of Christ Church, (son of auditor
Harley,) he being going with his lady (sister of Mr.
Morgan of Tredegar) into Wales. This Mr. Harley
is a fine gentleman, being much given to books, and

1726. HEARNIANJJ. 613
a friend to scholars. He hath one son (being his
first child) about a quarter of a year old, by his
lady, who is a very great fortune to him. [He hath
another son since, Dec. 6, 1727.]
Nov. 19. " Some days since died at his chambers
in Gray's Inn, the Rev. Mr. Bishop, a nonjuring
clergyman." N.B. This Mr. Bishop, whose Christ
ian name was William, was a very honest man, and
was of Trinity college Oxford, as a member of which
he took the degree of M. A. Feb. 19, 1683. Dr.
Charlett used to call him his cousin Bishop. He
did not like Anthony Wood's way of writing lives,
so that being once talking with Anthony, Anthony
told Mr. Bishop he would write his life. Prithee,
Anthony, says Mr. Bishop, hast a mind to have a
good cudgel? upon which Anthony forebore.
Nov. 21. Mr. West tells me, in a letter, that he
had seen that day a noble book finely printed, with
a great number of beautiful cutts, in a large folio,
which because he takes it to be a very great rarity,
he hath sent the title, viz. Succint genealogies qf
the noble and antient houses of Alno or de Alneto.
Broc of Shephale. Latimer of Duntish. Dray
ton qf Drayton. Mauduit of Werminster. Greene
of Drayton. Vere of Addington. Fitz Lewes of
Westhornedon. Howard of Effingham, and Mor-
daunt of Turvey justified by public records, antient
and extant charters, histories and other authentic
proofs, - and enrichted with divers sculptures of
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614 RELIQUIAE 1726.
tombs, images, seales and other curiosities by
Robert Halstead." London, printed in the year of
our Lord MDCLXXXV. Mr. West judges rightly
that the said book is a very great rarity. I do not
remember any thing distinctly about it ; but I think
I have seen it. I would fain have some short ac
count of this Halstead, who and what he was1, and
whether he was a man of learning.
Nov. 30. One Mrs. Anne Toft, wife of William
Toft clothworker of the town of Godliman within
three miles of Guilford in Surrey, was delivered
of 9 creatures resembling rabbits at several times
in the month of October last, and since that
time she hath been delivered of 8 more, in all
seventeen. All papers are full of this, as are also
many private letters, and 'tis so well attested by
several chirurgeons, physicians, and others, (among
which is Mr. John Howard, chirurgeon and man-
midwife in Guilford, who delivered her, women mid-
wives being after one rabbit came from her afraid to
proceed,) that no doubt is made about the truth of
the factm. Dec. 8. The woman that has been delivered

1 " This Halstead is supposed to be a fictitious name ; and the book, in
reality, to have been compiled by Henry earl of Peterborough. See a good
account of it in Lowndes Bibliographer's Manual n, 862. The British
Museum certainly has two copies, one of which came amongst the hbrary formed
bythat zealous book collector kingGeorge the Third, and given to the nation by
king George the Fourth : the second by the late Mr. Grenville. For further
mention of this rarity, and the libraries in which it may be found, see Gough's
British Topography, and that most useful, but now nearly forgotten, book the
Censura Literaria.
m Hearne concludes this subject Apr. 21, 1727. Mary Toft the Godalmin

1726.

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615

of 17 rabbits at Godalmin is come to town by order
of his majesty, and is lodged in the Bagnio in Long
Acre, where there is a great resort to see her. Dec.
23. Mary Toft, the rabbit-woman from Godliman,
is ordered to be prosecuted upon the statute of
Edw. Ill, for being a vile cheat and impostor.
There is a very great resort of all manners of people
to see her in Tothill Fields, Bridewell.
Dec. 5. On Friday last in the afternoon was a
convocation for electing a minister of some west
country living", which falls to the university upon

rabbit woman was (April 8) discharged from her recognizance at the quarter
sessions, Westminster, there being no prosecution.
n This was the rectory of Loxore in Devonshire. Hearne's account is
curious, as shewing us the combinations of colleges in his day. It will be
interesting to Oxford men if I take this opportunity of recording the results
of a few elections in the university which I have casually met with in ^my aca
demical researches.

University contests for Charwellor.
1759. Lord Westmoreland  321
Bp. of Durham  200
1762. Lord Litchfield  321
Lord Foley  1 68
1809. Lord Grenville  4°6
Lord Eldon  393
Duke of Beaufort  238
Burgesses.
1679. Dr. Perrott  224
Sir Leoline Jenkins  204
Dr. Oldys  104
Hon Mr. Lane  45
1705. Mr. Bromley  325
Sir Wm. Whitlock  214
Sir Hugh Mackworth .... no
1721. Mr. Bromley  334
Dr. Clarke  275
Dr. King  '62 R

1 736. Mr. Bromley  329
Mr. Trevor  1 26
1750. Sir R. Newdigate  184
Mr. Harley  126
Sir E. Turner  67
1 768. Sir R. Newdigate  352
Mr. Page  296
Mr. Jenkinson  198
Dr. Hay  62
1806. Sir Wm. Scott  65 1
Rt. Hon. C Abbot  404
Mr. Heber  275
1821. Mr. Heber  612
Sir John Nicholl  519
1829. Sir R. H. Inglis  755
Rt. Hon. R. Peel  609
1847- Sir R. H. Inglis  1 700
Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone 997
Mr. Round  824
1852. Sir R. H. Inglis  1369
r 4

616

RELIQUIAE

1726.

account of the patron's being a Roman catholic, in

Rt. Hon. W.E. Gladstone 1108
Dr. Marsham  758
1853. Rt. Hon. W.E. Gladstone 1022
Mr. Perceval  898
Margaret Professor.
1 69 1 . Dr. Maurice  40
Mr. Sykes  35
1 705. Mr. Wynne  ^2
Dr. Baron  27
1728. Mr. Jenner  34
Dr. Leigh  24
1 783. Dr. Neve  77
Dr. Bandinel  53
1827. Mr. Faussett  42
Dr. Nares  33
Mr. Shuttleworth  19
1833. Mr. Heurtley  53
Mr. Woodgate  46
Mr. Hansell  22
Mr. Foulkes  20
Camden's Professor of History.
1688. Mr. Dodwell  104
Hon. Mr. Finch  98
Dr. Aldworth  86
1 720. Dr. Harrison  177
Mr. Denison  104
Mr. White  92
1772. Mr. Scott  140
Mr. Bandinel  115
Mr. Napleton  99
1 785. Mr. Warton  186
Mr. Winstanley  107
Bodley's Librarian.
1701. Dr. Hudson  194
Dr. Wallis  173
1 719. Mr. Bowles  106
Mr. Hall  77
1 768. Mr. Price . .
Mr. Cleaver . . .

i- equal

Custos Archivorum.
17 7 7. Dr. Buckler  266
Mr. Rawbone  97

Mr. Price  26
1781. Hon. T. F. Wenman .... 221
Dr. Monkhouse  191
1818. Mr. Cooke  180
Mr. Bliss  122
Mr. Heyes  107
Professor of Poetry.
1 741. Mr. Lowtb  233
Mr. Lisle  214
1751. Mr. Hawkins  176
Mr. Thompson  131
1 793. Mr. Hurdis  201
Mr. Kett  181
1842. (no poll but on a loose state
ment of votes promised.)
Mr. Garbett  921
Mr. Williams  623
Vinerian Professor.
1777. Mr. Woodeson  231
Mr. Rooke  226
Clinical Professor.
1785. Dr. Wall  196
Dr. Vivian  194
Aldrichian Physic,
1 803. Dr. Bourne  323
Dr. Williams  238
Curator of the Theatre.
Dr. Butler  96
Dr. Shippen  65
Public Orator.
1697. Mr. Wyatt  112
Dr. Penton  99
Mr. Waple  92
Mr. Manningham  2
1 745. Mr. Lisle  167
Mr. Hind  98
1 760. Mr. Nowell  141
Mr. Vivian  138
1784. Mr. Crowe  58
Mr. Tatham  54
Mr. Burrington  45
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the room of Mr. Charles Reeve M.A. late of New
college, who is dead. This Mr. Reeve took the said
degree of M.A. June 14, 1707. He married one
Mrs. White, sister of Mr. White the chymist of
Holywell in Oxford. He drank very hard, which
ended his life. His wife is living. Candidates were
Mr. Bourn, chaplain of Corpus Xti coll., and Mr.
Quicke of Christ Church. Mr. Bourn is much the
senior. They are both masters of arts. Mr. Bourn
had 130 votes and Mr. Quicke only 98. Magd. coll.
and Univ. coll. struck in with Corpus. Mr. Bourn
had been formerly of Univ. coll. ; Dr. Charlett being-
his uncle. Balliol coll. struck in with Christ Church.
A.D. 1698. A charter passed the seals for the
making Gloucester Hall in Oxford a college, by the
name of Worcester college. Sir Thos. Cook gave
for that end 10.000£, and Dr. Woodrof pretended to
be a great benefactor. Sir Thos. committed the
care of that business to the bp. of Worcester, Dr.
Stillingfleet, but Dr. Woodrof put into the charter
that the king should have liberty to put in and turn
out the fellows at his pleasure, which displeased the
bishop very much, who said that kings have already
had enough to do with our colleges. Upon this
it was reported the bishop would alter his purposes,
and give the money to some other place in this uni
versity. And Dr. Mill, principal of Edmund hall,
said, that if it should so fall out, he did not question
but that he should get it for Edm. hall; for bp.
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with the bp. than Dr. Woodrof. But soon after
I heard that things were settled again between the
bp. and Dr. Woodrof, by reason of a paper drawn
up which annulled what was inserted in the charter
with relation to the king ; and thereupon the busi
ness went forward, and after some years it was fully
ended, and Gloucester hall became a college, not
withstanding the contrivances of the late Dr. Lan
caster to have it at Magdalen hall.
Dec. 15. Sept. 26th Mr. Calvert told me that he
hath an uncle called Mr. Paston, who is a very cu
rious gentleman. He is a Roman catholic. He lives
at Pauntly in Gloucestershire. He married Mr.
Calvert's aunt, viz. the lady Anne Calvert. She is
his second wife. His estate (at least the greatest
part) is abbey lands, and thrives with him, as it is a
general observation that abbey lands thrive in Roman
catholic hands, though not in others0. Mr. Charles
0 Hearne's remark on the prosperity attending the possession of abbey
lands by Roman catholic proprietors is rather unfortunate in this instance.
The Paston name, at once one of the most ancient and respectable in Eng
land, is, I fancy, now extinct. The last of the family lived at Horton, and
becoming involved fell into the hands of an attorney in the neighbourhood, to
whom he ultimately became so indebted, that dying, he paid his debt by leav
ing the estate to this gentleman. There was, if I remember rightly, a suit at
law in consequence, which at the time occasioned a great sensation in the
county, and on the production of the will, which (having been proved in
some consistory court in the country, and erroneously sought for in the pre
rogative court in London only) was supposed not to exist, the cause was im
mediately decided in favour of tbe attorney. Hearne, subsequently, gives
many extracts from charters and other documents, relative to the Pastons,
which I only omit as not being of general interest. They may however be
found in the Diary, under 1726, by the curious inquirer. See a reference
to a sir William Paston in Russell's Memorials of Thomas Fuller, Lond.
Pickering, 1844, page 32. I cannot refev to a more interesting or accurate
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Hyde is chaplain to him. Mr. Paston's son married
Mrs. Courtney, a lady of great understanding and
virtue. They were married in 1725. Her brother
(who is a protestant) hath many old valuable writ
ings. Mr. Calvert then told me that the great tithes
of Kissling near Richmond in Yorkshire belonged
to the priory of St. Agatha, i. e. Richmond juxta.
The foresaid young Mr. Paston (William Paston esq.)
lives at Hortou near Badminton in Gloucestershire.
This Horton belonged to the church of Salisbury.
Dec. 23. " London Dec. 13. On Friday night
the vestry of St. Martin's in the Fields chose the
Rev. Mr. Horseley their second reader to succeed
Mr. Ellison, deceased, as clerk of the said parish,
which is returned worth about £300 per annum."
Reading Post, Dec. 19, 1726.
" London, Dec. 13. Dr. John Cockman of Maid
stone was lately marryed to Mrs. Dyke, sister to sir
Thomas Dyke of Sussex, bart." This Dr. Cockman,
who is younger brother to Mr. Thomas Cockman,
master of University college, is a man of a sweet
temper, and is ingenious. He had a great practice
in his profession of physick at Maidstone, but his
first wife being a great fortune to him, upon her
death, or rather before, he left off his practice, and
came and lived in Univ. college in Oxford, of which
he had been formerly a member. By the said first
wife (a pretty woman) he had only one child, a
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sir Thomas Dyke's sister, she is not very young, but
very agreeable, both in her person and temper, and
though younger than the doctor, who is about forty-
six years of age, yet she is of an age suitable to his.
Sir Thos. Dyke was a young nobleman of Christ
Church a few years since.
Dec. 25. One Mr. Zachary Pearce, a Cambridge
gentleman, who some time since put out a piece of
Tully with a fulsome dedication, hath just published
a sermon in 8vo. preached by him at London at the
consecration of some new church there {viz. in Lon
don) by bp. Gibson, at the end of which he hath
added an essay about the original of temples. In
which essay he often quotes Dr. Potter bp. of Ox
ford's Antiquities qf Greece, as if Potter had any
thing extraordinary, not observed before by Meursius,
whereas indeed Potter is nothing but Rouse improved
from Meursius, as any one may immediately perceive
that will give himself the trouble of considering
impartially. And whereas many very curious new
observations might have been made, (several relating
to the Greek coins,) Potter hath not made so much
as one ; the study of those coins &c. being quite out
of his way. This Pearce also speaks of sir Isaac
Newton as the genius and glory of this isle, and
makes him as great a chronologer as he is a ma
thematician. There is no doubt that sir Isaac is a
very great mathematician, but in chronology he ad
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classical scholar, (as I am well assured he is not,)
he must be at a loss for reading, to know what the
ancients delivered of such and such affairs, and 'tis
too late to begin reading now at his great age,
though I cannot find that he thinks much of death.
Jan. 3. Dr. Humphry Hody died on Jan. 21,
1706, in the 45th year of his age, at which time
I heard Dr. Grabe say that he was an older man
than Dr. Hody, so that Dr. Grabe must have been
at least 51 years of age when he died. The said
Dr. Grabe was a Prussian by birth, and in his own
country a Lutheran, but disliking some things of
that persuasion, he writ a book or two in his own
language, shewing his dissent from some particulars,
which, as I think, being answered, and he being un
easy, he came into England, and coming acquainted
with Dr. Mill, principal of Edmund hall, he proposed
to publish several books, one of which was to shew,
that the church of England excells all other churches.
But Dr. Mill and others put him by this design, as
thinking (and very rightly) that he was very un
qualified for such an undertaking, as he was a fo
reigner not thoroughly acquainted with our affairs,
and being still in some things a Lutheran. Instead
therefore of writing upon the church of England,
they put him upon Spicilegium Patrum, which he
had also proposed, and accordingly he printed two
vols, of that work in 8vo. during his residence at
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Christ Church, he laid by that design, (for he was a
very fickle, unsettled whimsical man,) and put out
an 8vo vol. of a piece of Justin Martyr, and intended
other parts, but did not, leaving the rest for others,
which accordingly was done, and then he set upon
an edition of Irenaeus and finished it, though had it
been to consist of several volumes, he would certainly
have laid it aside. After this, leaving his chaplain-
ship, he settled at London, and put out bp. Bull's
works in folio, but without the bp.'s leave, adding
many things of his own, which are far inferior to
the bp's. Then he set upon the Septuagint accord
ing to the Alexandrian MS., and printed some parts
of it, and prepared the rest for the press, which hath
been since published by Mr. George Wigan, now
principal of New Inn hall. But Dr. Grabe was so
weary of this work of the Septuagint, that I have
often heard him say, he wished he had never under
taken it. However, his friends prevailed with him
to go on, though during his being upon it he made
an excursion into matters of controversy, and writ
and published a little 8vo book against Mr. Wins
ton, printed first in the Theater at Oxford, and since
the Dr.'s death at London. In order to the writing
of which book against Mr. Whiston, (which was
afterwards answered by Mr. Whiston,) he was obliged
to take one or more journeys to Oxford to consult
MSS., in one of which journeys he happened to re
ceive a bruise in his breast from the coach, which
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his chaplainship of Christ Church, where he never
officiated, had an hundred a year pension settled
upon him from queen Anne, but 'twas very rarely
paid him, as I have heard him complain more than
once, in so much that he wanted money, and would
often borrow of friends, and 'twas his general
complaint that he could not get generous subscrib
ers heartily to promote and encourage his learned
labours. 'Tis certain he was a worthy man, and
what he hath done in ecclesiastical affairs is extra
ordinary. Yet he was far from being that great
man some have extolled him for. He had no classi
cal learning. His judgement was not great ; his
stile was poor. He received orders as of the church
of England, of Dr. WmvLloyd, bp. of Worcester,
but he did not then receive the sacrament, nor did
the bp. offer it him. Indeed Dr; Grabe (who was
intirely for consubstantiation) never communicated
with us. When he was of Edm. hall and of Christ
Church, he would frequent the chapell prayers, as
he would constantly go to the publick churches,
but then he would never receive the sacrament at
any of those times, but he used to go to London,
and for some time he received at the hands of Mr.
Edward Stevens, after the manner of the Greek
church, and after Stevens' death, I have been told,
from some Lutheran; but how he received at his
death, I have not learned, tho' some have said he
received from Dr. Hickes. In short, I could never
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unsettled, and was for setting up a religion of his
own framing. In some things he was a Lutheran,
in others for the church of England, in others a
papist ; I mean he was for some of the errours of the
church of Rome, though at the same time I have
heard him at a public coffee house bitterly rail (for
which he was checked) against the pope, calling him
antichrist &c. He was in many things very credu
lous and very superstitious, and for some time
(though he changed his mind afterwards) he used to
keep saints' days as strictly as Sundays, and was
unwilling to work himself or to let others work for
him on those days. He had strange fancies about
spirits, and when he heard of a fire, (as there was
one at Edm. hall while he was there,) he would
presently cry out that there were spirits. His way
of writing was to have a bottle of ale, brandy, or
wine stand by him, and every three or four lines of
his writing he would drink thereof. He was a man
that mightily delighted in women's company, and he
was very sweet upon them, in so much that at last
he mightily desired a wife, and he had made his
addresses to a daughter of sir Sebastian Smith's of
Oxford, but she was married to Dr. Gardiner of All
Souls' instead of Dr. Grabe, who had then other
young women in his view. Dr. Grabe died (as I
have noted elsewhere) in a dubious condition, and
cowardly, if what Mr. Samuel Gale told me be true.
The earl of Oxford sent him money upon his death
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hath been said, very little. The erecting a monu
ment is popular, befitting such as make court to the
house of Hanover. I have heard Dr. Grabe say,
that he preached and read lectures, though not in
orders, for about eleven years before he came to
England. When he was here I very much assisted
him in things relating to MSS., and transcribed
from old MSS. a vast number of sheets for him,
some of which he printed, and some are now among
his MS. papers in the Bodleian library. At the
same time I was also a great assistant to Dr. Mill,
Dr. Hudson, &c. When Dr. Grabe came first to
Oxford, he had not much Greek, but at length, by
Dr. Mill's help, he became well versed in such Greek
as is used in ecclesiastical writings. So I have
often heard Dr. Mill say. He was withal a man of
so much vanity as mightily to court and desire
applause, and would talk of obelisks and asterisks,
and of his own undertakings before all persons, even
such as were perfectly ignorant and illiterate, on
purpose that he might be commended by them. He
always wore a wig while he was with us, at least as
long as I knew any thing of him, which I note,
because Mr. West hath observed, that he is in the
statue represented in his own hair. He was a man
of a mean presence, and by no means personable.
His eyes were so fixed as if he looked two ways at
once. Yet he would fain be thought an handsome
man. These are many of the severe remarks that
used to be made upon Dr. Grabe, and among the
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rest even by his friend Dr. John Mill, to whom
(what I should have observed before) he wrote a
letter that is printed in 4to about the Septuagint.
Notwithstanding all which, Dr. Grabe was certainly
a good, pious man, and what he did with respect to
ecclesiastical learning is prodigious.
Jan. 4. Last Friday was a tryal (that lasted several
hours) at St. Mary's in Oxford about presenting to
Cherlebury in Oxfordshire, vacant by the death of
Dr. Brabourn. Upon which vacancy St. John's col
lege put in their claim, though they had never pre
sented before, it belonging (it seems) to them after
such a number of years had been expired, which
happened now to be the case. Dr. Heywood of
St. John's college was presented by the college soon
after Dr. Brabourn's death. But a caveat was put in
against his institution by one Saunders of Glouces
tershire, who pretended to the right of presentation
because they had had it before, and Brabourn's wife
was a Saunders, and would fain have had it in behalf
of her son, young Brabourn. On Friday morning
the said Turner presented one Allen in opposition
to St John's- college. Both the bp. of Oxford and
his archdeacon, as well as Dr. Irish, judge of the
court, sate. There was a great auditory. Council
from London for both sides came down, viz. Dr.
Wills for St. John's college, and serjeant Hawkins
for Turner. Many gave out that 'twould certainly
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matter appeared too plain for the college, and the
jury brought it in for St. John's college, to the con
fusion of Brabourn and all that were for him.

Jan. 5. Memorand. that formerly the Theater
printers at Oxford kept no other holydays at Christ
mas but the three days immediately following Christ
mas day, and the Circumcision, commonly called
New Year's day. The other days, excepting Christ
mas day itself, they used to work, not so much as
keeping Epiphany, or Twelfth day, holyday, only at
night they did not use candles, a thing of note,
because the custom hath of late been altered, so as
little work is done during the 12 days.
Jan. 7. The parsonage of Blechingdon near Wood
stock was given to Queen's coll. in Oxford at the
request of the founder, Robt. Eglefield, by king
Edw. III. 9 Jul. anno regni 17, A.D. 1343, and the
year following 27th March (viz. A.D. 1344) he gave
the said college the wardenship of the Hospital of
St. Julian at Southampton, commonly called God's
house. This hospital was almost destroyed by fire
by the rebels temp. Car. I. Robt. Eglefield himself
was warden of that hospital.
Wm. Muskham, rector of the church of Dereham
in Cumberland, built Queen's coll. gate next Edm.
hall, and certain chambers on the north side of the
said gate temp. Edw. III. before the year 1352 :
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the said gate is still standing, as also the chamber
over it, built likewise by Muskham, which chamber
was the very chamber in which prince Henry (after
wards Henry V) lived when he was a member of
that college. John Ross in his history of England,
that I printed, hath noted this. And there is a note
about it in one of the windows of the chamber. My
late friend, Charles Eyston of East Hendred in
Berks, esq., not long" before he died, being in Oxford
with one or two other honest, worthy gentlemen,
and understanding from me that that was king
Henry Vth's chamber, had a mighty desire of see
ing the inside, which accordingly I obtained, and,
Mr. Eyston earnestly desired of the gentleman then
residing in it, that he would use his interest that
this chamber might not be pulled down with the
rest, now at this time of erecting new buildings in
the college. But what will be done I know not,
though I fear the worst ; especially since they have
pulled down the old refectory which was on the
west side of the old quadrangle, and was a fine old
structure that I used to admire much, and should
have admired it the more had I seen the old enig
matical inscriptions, and the- arms of the several
benefactors of the college, with which it was once
adorned. But these were destroyed long before the
refectory which was lately pulled down, and the
name of Muskham (who gave 160 marks for build
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Wharton, who gave 4 pounds to the refectory, in
order to repair and adorn it, in tbe time of king
Henry Vllth.
Jan. 9- The abbat of Abington used to keep court
in an house on Grandpont bridge in St. Aldate's
parish, Oxford. St. Aldate was bishop of Gloucester,
and cut Hengist king of the Saxons in pieces.
Grandpont bridge consists of above forty stone arches.
Brian Twyne looks upon Friar Bacon's study on
Grandpont bridge as a fiction. Without doubt he
had an observatory in that place. The lower part is
very old, though the upper part be new. It is now
the waterworks. I have spoke of this study in my
¦ glossary to Peter Langtoft. East Bridge street in
I St. Clement's parish, by Oxford. Magdalen bridge,
Oxon. was built by Wm. Waynfleet, founder of
! Magd. Coll., yet there was an older bridge according
to Twyne, who tells us from the book of the hospital
of St. John Baptist, that king Henry III. founded
the said hospital, not far from the bridge. He con-
i firms it from Florilegus. But Leland tells us of a
i ferry only then. If there was a bridge, 'twas only
a foot-bridge, as indeed there is a tradition that for-
i merly there was only a foot-bridge there.
Jan. 10. Yesterday morning died old Mr. Michael
i Burghers, of St. Peter's parish in the East, Oxford.
• He was born at Amsterdam in Holland, and being
an engraver, when young he came into England, and
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after some time settling in Oxford, he worked as a
journeyman to Mr. David Loggan the university en
graver. Upon Loggan's death Burghers himself was
made the university engraver. He was looked upon
as the best general engraver in England, and had
always till very lately, within these two or three
years, a vast deal of business, so that being withal a
very industrious man, he got a vast deal of money,
and purchased a pretty estate in Oxford. His wife
hath been dead several years. His only daughter
(and I think only child now living) is the wife of one
Welman a barber in St. Peter's parish. The old
man was so foolish as to make all he had over to
them some time ago, whereupon they wanted to be
rid of him, and for some time they kept him a
prisoner in his own house ; for he and they lived all
together in a house of his by East gate ; and gave
out one while that he was gone to Holland, and an
other that he was at Hackbourne in Berks, where
his son in law Welman hath some estate, and all this
that he might not come out to pay his debts. For
they having got all, the old man was reduced so as
to borrow money, and run in debt other ways. It is
true, the old man was, in many respects, a great
villain, and a very debauched person. Yet for all
that, they should have taken all possible care of him,
and not have starved him as they did. Had he had
the comforts of life, he might have held out (as all
think) ten or a dozen years longer, and yet was
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man, and had a vast stomack. He was struck with
a palsy a few days before he died, which if it had
been known to physicians and apothecaries in good
time, they might (as I am well assured) in all pro
bability have recovered him so as he might have
held out a good while longer, but, it seems, they
thought their father had lived too long already.
Jan. 14. In an old imperfect Psalter in English
which I have in 4to, used in the 2nd year of Queen
Elizabeth's reign, is this written at the beginning :
" Popery was not quite downe, till the third yeare
of Qu. Eliz. This Psalter was the Liturgy used in
the second yeare of her reigne."
" The papists frequented the churches untill her
seventh yeare."
Jan. 24. The famous Dr. Pocock assisted Mr. Sel
den very much, as Selden himself is pleased to ac
knowledge in several places, particularly in his edi
tion of Eutychius' Origines Ecclesice Alexandrines,
which Origines is only a small inconsiderable frag
ment of Eutychius' Annales that Pocock himself
afterwards published in Arabic and Latin. Indeed
Selden, notwithstanding his great pretences, had but
little skill in Arabic, and he made use of others'
help in that, as in many other things. His design
of printing these Annals was purely out of his hatred
to episcopacy. His Commentary upon them, which
is large, is a meer rhapsody, learned indeed and full
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of reading, but generally like his other performances
injudicious. His efforts against episcopacy are but
weak, and yet he did what he was able.
Jan. 25. On the 5th July 1724, Dr. Rawlinson
writ me a letter from Rome, at which time my
friend the Honble Benedict Leonard Calvert esq.
was there also, to whom the Dr., as Mr. Calvert
bath since told me, was antiquary at Rome. The
Dr. speaks of that great variety of agreeable objects
which daily, not to say hourly, are the. entertain
ments at that place of the curious. Books indeed
describe, and travellers talk, but Horace's rule, he
observes, is exactly true, that
" Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures,
" Quam quae sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus."
The Dr. roved, as himself says, out of the common
road of travellers. He made excursions into Sicily,
where every spot of ground, every rock or wave of
the sea, recalled to his mind either Homer, Virgil,
Claudian &c. If I admire, says he, the grandeur of
old Rome in its great remains, I pity the fate of
more antient and more spacious Syracuse, whose
ruins and vast circumference strike with terrour,
and in viewing Rome I only review Sicily plundered
of her treasures by Marcellus, who by the spoils
carryed thence enriched and adorned this capital.
With what astonishment do we behold the subter
raneous grottos and catacombs of Rome ? No less,
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prying into those of the Syracusan tyrant, where he
spent a life in the greatest profuseness and luxury,
but alass ! this city, this wonder of the world, has
suffered more from violence than time. The fre
quent earthquakes and convulsions of nature may
be added as a melancholy circumstance. In those
countries the works of nature are equal, if not su
perior, to those of art. Mount iEtna is to be seen,
not described. Heights almost inaccessible, preci
pices horrible, and streams of fire which strike ter-
rour into the hardest. The condition the Dr. saw
it, when thereon, gave reason to fear to forty miles
around. Of the ravage and destruction which attend
those dreadfull eruptions the antient and modern
story is full. All the country around abounds with
fabulous history, the rape of Proserpine, the planting
of corn by Ceres &c. are too trite but barely to
mention. Old Homer's Cyclops seem still to sweat
at their forges, and the Cyclopum scopuli near Ca
tania remind the famed escape of Ulysses. The
doctor goes still on, and speaks of his brother's going
into Arabia, of the pleasures in travell, and of the
satisfaction himself enjoyed on that score. This,
says he, and much more was not able to satisfy the
appetite of my more curious brother, who now per
haps traverses the burning sands of Arabia, or rather
visits some sacred ruin recorded in holy writ. It is
his good fortune to see some at least of those seven
golden candlesticks whose lights once shone so bright
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Constantinople, the seat of the Eastern empire, he
has viewed doubtless with pleasure, though quantum
mutatus ab ilia as in the time of Constantine. I
eannot but own, I innocently envy him the pleasure
one must naturally receive from a visit to parts of the
world, from what we see here so widely different,
and with much impatience I wait his return here
for the holy year, to gratify my curiosity with the
bare repetition. The itch of curiosity none know
but those who feel it, and none feel it more terri
bly than the traveller: at first setting out, foreign
countries are only a change of air, but when a little
language is attained, and some knowledge of the
customs &c. of the nations we converse with, the
terrible notion of absence gradually wears off, and
we only admire the folly of our former way of think
ing : Omne solum forti patria est may be applyed
to the contented and easy, as well as the heroes,
and the notion of banishment only is a sting to us :
this consideration will sweeten, and a due reflexion
will render not only easy, but delightful, even such
a state of life to those whose unhappy circumstances
oblige it. As to myself, continues he, a voluntary
absence is highly agreeable, a few books, and fewer
friends occupy all my hours : sometimes I retire to
some shady ruin, and frame ideas of its antient
grandeur, or with father Kircher build an imaginary
palace in the air ; other times read a page in an old
author, and force a stone or two, the slender remains
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than ever he designed, or so much as dreamt of. Dr.
Rawlinson tells me that my observations at the end
of John of Glastonbury on Mr. Moyle's works have
raised, he hears, a nest of hornetts, or rather waspes
against me ; such are the antagonists of our * * * *
and the patrons of Moyle, from whom, the Dr. says,
I may expect severity, though probably no shadow
of arguments ; the poyson such sort of creatures
spit. Mr. Serjeant of the tower published two vols.
of Moyle's works, as he is informed, (and indeed I
had been told so before by Dr. Woodward, Mr. Ser
jeant's name being also subjoyned to the preface,)
though contrary to the knowledge say some, others
against the consent of Moyle*s son, now on his
travels. Arthur Hammond (known formerly for
his noisy tory eloquence, since a Proteus, since a
beggar, said to have attempted the life of the che
valier on his Scotch embarcation, at present a pri
soner for debt in the King's Bench, and prostitutor
of his pen for bread) has added a third of Mr.
Moyle's works by himself formerly reprinted. The
Dr. at the same time takes notice, that they see
there lately published the Memoirs of John Kerr
esq., an honest Scott, or, in Burnett's phrase, a true
Scott, in which he severely lashes a German ministry
which he with great assurance affirms us governed
by, and that all our offices are sold &c, and many
more reflections, which, the Dr. says, he dares not
stain his paper with, as he knows not what terms
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author, says the Doctor, is dead, the truth of the
MS. is sworn to as left by him, and such a warrant,
prefixed to the first part, of leave to keep-company
with the late queen's enemies on purpose to betray
them, such an instance hardly to be produced in
history. Feb. 3. I hear that complaint being made to the
Vice-Chancellour Dr. Mather by some, particularly
by one Mr. Ayscue of the Vice-Chancellour's own
college (Corpus Christi), of some passages in Mr.
Coningsby's 30th of Jan. sermon, there was a meet
ing on that occasion on Wednesday last, of the Vice-
Chancellour and some other heads of houses and
doctors, some of which I hear were Dr. Shippen,
principal of Brazenose coll., Dr. Dobson president of
Trin. coll., Dr. Butler president of Magd. coll., Dr.
Holland warden of Merton coll., Dr. Gibson provost
of Queen's coll.. Dr. Felton principal of Edm. hall,
Dr. Terry canon of Christ Church ; and that Mr.
Coningsby being called, he appeared, but his notes
being demanded, he pretended he had lost them,
upon which he was ordered to preach no more before
the university for two years. What the passages of
offence were I hear no further than that he should,
in commending king Charles I., say that he was a
prince that was not an alien by birth, and that he
preferred to dignities in the church men of true
worth and learning. Also that he said, all rebellion
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(as he is stiled) was looked upon as reflected upon
for preferring such as he does, and the revolution to
be branded. I am told Mr. Coningsby's sermon was
well delivered, that 'twas a good honest discourse,
and that all were very attentive (that heard it) with
out the least smile, as often happens when any sting
ing passage comes from a sermon..
Yesterday in tbe afternoon Mr.Prujean of St. Cle
ment's parish near Oxford, an honest sensible Roman
catholick, telling me that the day before, viz. Shrove
Tuesday,the workmen,as they were digging for gravell
on the north side of Holywell church, in the garden
between the holy well and the church, they had found
several human bones, I went down thither upon
that occasion with him. When we came they had
filled up part of one of the holes, and so covered a
good number of tbe bones, viz. the skull and some
others, but I saw the two shank bones of a man in
the gravell, which they covered with it again, and I
am of opinion (and I think there can be no doubt
made of it, what I have also formerly mentioned)
that the north wing of the church hath been down
many years, which when standing it made the church
(which is dedicated to the holy cross) to be in form
(as without doubt it formerly was) of a cross, and I
believe that the said wing might come as far as this
skeleton now discovered, tho' part of the churchyard
was also on this north side. For westward under
the tower in the same garden, as the workmen dug
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or house of ease, they found other human bones in
the gravel, several of which (one being a piece of a
skull) I saw yesterday, and, two or three of the
workmen being there, I could not but exclaim
against this act of building an house of ease upon
sacred ground, and declare my resentment that part
of the churchyard should be turned into a cabbage
garden, that being the use to which the whole gar
den is at present imployed, as part of other church
yards lying to the north side of the respective
churches are also turned into cabbage gardens, par
ticularly part of the churchyard of St. Peter's in the
East, Oxford. I wish we could learn how far the
churchyard of Holywell extended northward, and
that care were taken to make some separation from
the rest of the ground, that hereafter what belonged
to the church and churchyard might not be turned
to a prophane use. But I fear my wish is in vain :
how long since the bodies were buried, to which the
bones now discovered belonged, I cannot learn, but
it could not be before Henry Vlth's time, because
till his time the inhabitants both of Holywell and
Wolvercote used to burie their dead at St. Peter's
in the East, to which Holywell and Wolvercote are
chapells of ease. I well remember the burying of
two, viz. old Rich. Heathfield a shoemaker and his
wife, who both died within half an hour of one an
other, in that part of the churchyard, that is on the
north side of St. Peter's church, according to their
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grave. No fragments of any coffin nor no stone
coffin appearing where the bones at Holywell were
found, I am of opinion, that the bodies were buried
in winding sheets only, a practice much in use for
merly, even in queen Elizabeth's time.
Feb. 20. About ten days since I met with and
purchased for 2c?. (though for its rarity and curiosity
it be worth a crown) a little printed thing in English
verse with a dedication in prose before it, intituled
In honour qf Abingdon, or on the seaventh day qf
September's solemnization 1641. By John Richard
son Serjeant of Abingdon in the county of Berks.
Printed in the yeare 1641, 4to. It is dedicated to
thd worshipful the major, bayliffs, and burgesses of
Abingdon. The king and parliament had published
and decreed, that on the said 7th of Sept. 1641,
every parish should keep a festival (religiously to be
performed) in honour of the great peacemaker, upon
account of an accommodation with the Scots. Ga
lena is here made to be Oxford. K. Cissa is made
to be founder of the abbey. Many of the ruined
battlements of tbe abbey then (1641) to be seen.
The crosse then standing, which is here called un-
parralleled and harmless, but threatned to be de
stroyed. St. Helen's bells (what I never heard
before) are called Aaron's bells. Christ's hospitall
near the churchyard wall. Where were also Royse's
fruitfull nurseries, out of which the earle of Pem
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nursery, nor any tradition of one. The said 7th day
was a Tuesday. The festival was proclaimed, be
cause a joyfull peace was concluded betwixt the
Scots and us. St. Nicholas' bells called honest
Nick's low bells. The hundred and sixth Ps. sung
by two thousand quoristers at the crosse. The
figure of K. David upon the crosse, though after
wards destroyed by hairbrained separatists, an epi
thet made for that crew by the author. Mention of
the skilfull Serjeant Corderoy. Mention of the well-
known antelope in Abingdon. A great deal of
money collected that day for the poor. The author
a cavalier. Feb. 21 . Mr. Baker sends me in a letter the title
of the first edit, of Fox's Martyrs, as he took it from
a perfect copy, viz.:
" Actes and monuments of these latter and peril-
" ous days touching matters of the churche, wherein
" are comprehended and described the great per-
" securing and horrible troubles that have bene
" wrought ahd practised by the Romishe prelates,
" specialise in this realme of England and Scotland
" from the yeare of our Lorde a thousande, unto the
" time now present &c, gathered and collected ac-
" cordinge to the true copies and wrytinges certifi-
" catorie, as well ofthe parties themselves that suf-
" fered, as also out of the bishops' registers, which
" were the doers thereof ; By John Fox. Imprinted
" at London by John Day, dwelling over Aldersgate

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" beneth St. Martins', Anno 1563, the 20. of March.
" Cum gratia et privilegio Regia; Majestatis."
Mr. Baker never saw more than one perfect copy
of this book, and that among the late bishop of Ely's
(Dr. More's) books, now out of its place, for he can
not find it, as before p.
Feb. 23. John Ward of Hackney, esq., having on
the 11th instant received his sentence at the King's
Bench bar, Westminster, to pay a fine of 5001., to
stand an hour in the pillory, and to give security for
his good behaviour for seven years, accordingly he
stood in the pillory on Friday the 17th before West
minster Hall gate, pursuant to his sentence. It seems
it was for forgery ; being prosecuted by the duchess
of Buckingham, he having added to some writing a
cipher too much. A vast concourse of people was
assembled on this occasion, and a soldier was sent to
the house of correction for throwing an egg at him.
At his being taken down he fainted, being extremely
weak. I have been told he had been before expelled
the Parliament house. «
Feb. 26. The following extracts from a register at
Abingdon were sent me by Mr. James West of Bal
liol coll. on Feb. 17, 1726. He being then at Lon
don. Who made them I know not, but they were
taken anno 1638.
p The copy, given by the author, at Magdalen College has been already no
ticed at p. 556. There is a copy among archbishop Wake's books at Christ
Church, and others will be found in Douce's coUection in the Bodleian.
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Abingdon com. Berkes.
Taken out of a kind of legger booke remayning in
the New Hospitall of Christ in Abingdon upon the
xiiiith day of Sept. 1638, which booke was written by
one Francis Little, sometymes maior there, the 20th
of September, Anno Domini 1627.
The monastery of the Blessed Virgin St. Mary of
Abingdon was buylt by Cissa, king of the West
Saxons about the yeare of our Lord Christ 600.
It was destroyed by the Danes Ingor and Hubba
about the yeare 871. It was reedified by Edred the
xxviith king of the West Saxons about the yeare
926. [F.956 vel potius 955. J
It was dissolved by king Henry the Eight in the
yeare 1538 in the xxixth yeare of his raigne. The
revenewes thereof were yearely 2042/. ii*. 8c?. 4-
In the 12th yeare of Rychard the second, the
brotherhood of the Holy Crosse in St. Helen's was
at Abingdon. It is supposed the inhabitantes of
Abingdon founded it very antiently. It was first a
fraternitye and an hospitall of tbe Holy Crosse, then
after the suppression it was made the hospitall of
Christ. Borford and Culham bridges were remade over
Teames by licence of king Henry the fift in the
fourth yeare of his raigne, Ano. 1416.
John Huchion and John Banbury compounded
with the abbot of Abingdon for the ground whereon
to buyld the bridges and to make the waye. Upon
St. Alban's daye John Huchion layed the first stone

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in the king Henry the fifte's name, witnes the west
windowe in St. Katharines Isle in St. Helen's church.
King Henry the fift was founder of the bridges.
Jeffrey Barbour, a marchant of Bri stoll, was a
benefactor to tbe buylding of the bridges. This
Jeffrey Barbour was buried on the xxist day of Aprill,
1417, in the monastery of the blessed Virgin Mary
of Abingdon.
At the dissolution of the abbey the brethren of
the Holy Crosse perceaving that amongst the rest of
those strong and statlye buyldinges the fayre and
goodly church of the sayd monastery should be
throwen down, and the monuments therein utterly
defaced, they therefore, out of a thankful and
Xtian respect to the memory of this bountiful] bene
factor to the buylding of the bridges, removed the
monument of stone under which his body had layne
buried 121 yeares, and translated his bones with
great solemnitye unto St. Helen's church, and there
interred them in St. Katharynes ile with the former
monument over them which remayneth to this daye
with this inscription. " Hie Jacet Galfridus Barbour
" mercator de Abendon quondam Balivus Bristoliae
" qui obiit vicesimo primo die Aprilis An0. Dn1 1417,
" cujus anime propitietur Deus."
Sir Peter Besils of Besils leigh com. Berk, knight,
a principal benefactor fo the buylding of the bridges,
by his will dated the xxiiird of October, 1424. 3rd
Henry vith. gave landes to the maintenance of the
sayd bridges. He gave his executors 600£. to make
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restitution for any wrong that he or his ancestors
had done to any man, and if nothing was required,
then that mony to be given to the poore and to re-
payre high wayes ; he appoynted his body to be
buried in the church of the preching friars in Ox
ford, unto which church he gave 120£. to make six
windowes in the north ile.
Sir John Golafre was a principall benefactor to
the fraternitye of the Holy Crosse, for xiii. Henry
vith. 1434, he gave his manor of St. Helen's and
divers other lands corn. Berks, for the relief of the
poore and other workes of mercye.
Henry the sixt, 20th of October, in the 20th yeare
of his raygne 1441, by his letters patentes appoynted
the sayd John Golafre amongst others, to be one of
the founders for making the fraternity a corporation.
This John Golafre builded at his owne charges the
new bridge in Oxfordshire; his fame grew princi
pally by martiall deedes, but spread and settled it
self by good workes, and not long before his death
was knighted. He was owner of seventene manors
in Oxford and Berkes. He lyeth buried in Fyfeild
church, com. Berkes, in a monument of stone as a
warelik knight, he had issue one only daughter and
heyre maried to John de la Pole, erle of Lyncolne,
sonne to John de la Pole, duke of Suffolk, and
Elizabeth, sister to Edward the fourth and Rychard
the third, who proclaymed the sayd erle his nephew
heyre apparent to the crowne of England after the
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in the tyme of Henry vi. the fraternitye of the Holy
Crosse built the crosse now standing in the market
place as a monument of theyre name, and for an or
nament of the towne. And it is the more likely, for
that at the late repayring thereof the coate of armes
belonginge to sir John Golafre, knight, who lived
about those tymes, was found in a scutchion upon
the sayd crosse, and no doubt at the buylding there
of was a speciall benefactor thereunto, and had his
armes placed there to honor his name, and to re-
tayne his memory for his bounty and liberalitye.
Besides he was one of the commissioners which
were appoynted by Henry vi. his letters patentes to
found and make the sayd fraternitye a corporation
as before declared, which crosse or monument was
repayred, gilt and garnished, an. 1605, (3rd Jacobi) in
the tyme of Thomas Mayot, gent., maior of the
towne, by the benevolence of the knightes, esqres and
gentlemen of Berkes and other countyes (whose
coates of armes are set up in schuchions upon the sayd
monument) together with some contribution of the
inhabitantes of the townes and other country villages
adjoyning, by the paynes of the relater, vizi Francis
Little, with the expence of more than thirty poundes
of his owne mony, about the cost and charge
thereof. The fraternitye of the Holy Crosse in Abingdon
in Henry vi. tyme, being there where now the hos
pitall is, did every yeare keepe a feast, and then they
used to have twelve preistes to singe a dirige, for
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which they had geven them four pence a peece.
They had also twelve minstrells, some from Coven-
trye and some from Maydenhith, who had two shil-
linges three pence a peece besides theyre dyet and
horse meat ; this was in the raigne of Henry vi.
Observe that in those dayes they payd theyre min
strells better then theyre preistes.
Theyre feast they kept yearely on the Invention of
the Holy Crosse, vizt. the third' of Maye. They had
at theyre feast six calves ii*. iid. a peace ; sixteen
lambes xiid. a peace ; 80 geese 2c?. ob. a peece ; 800
egges which cost five pence the hundred, and many
marrowe bones, much fruit, spice, a great quan
tity of mylk, creame and floure (wheat was then at
xiid the quarter in the" 23rd of Henry vi.) besides
what theyre servantes and others brought in, and
pageantes and playes and May games to captivat the
sences of the zelous beholders, and to allure the
people to the greater liberalitye, for they did not
make theyre feastes without profit, for those that
sate at dyner payed one rate and those that stood
payed another.
Sir John Mason, knight, whose father was a cow
herd of Abingdon, and his mother sister to a monke
of Abingdon abbey, which monke brought him up a
scholler, provided him a place in Oxford in All
Soules, where he was fellowe, procured the erection
of the hospitall and the incorporation of the towne
as at large is set downe, with his risinges and the
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and other the kings and queens succeeding. He
was chancellor of Oxford, embassador twice or thrice,
imprisoned once upon suspition of treason, sett free
by Henry the eight, and in great favour, and a privy
counsellor ; excellently well learned, much liked of
by sir Thos. More, who entreated king Henry viii.
to place him at Paris in the university there out of
hope he had he would prove a great commonwealth's
man, and so he did.* He was master ofthe hospitall
twelve yeares eleven moneths and three dayes, he
lived sixty-three yeares, sawe five princes reigning in
this realme, viz. Henry vii., Henry viii., Edw. vi.,
Mary and Elizabeth. He died the xxth day of
April, 1566, 8th of Elizabeth, and lieth buried in
the north chancell of St. Paules in London.
Jeffrey Barbour and sir John Mason, two especiall
benefactors, died both upon the same day of the
moneth, 149 yeares asunder.
Barbour gave money to buyld tbe bridges, and
Mason procured meanes to maynteyne them.
Upon Mason's tombe are engraven certeyne verses
in Latin which this relator hath caused to be Eng
lished thus :
If ere a wise and faythful statesman were,
If any to his countrymen were deare,
If ere were fit ambassador elected,
Who truth and goodnes for themselves respected,
Mason was he. All England can this prove,
By the nobles' favour, and the comons' love.
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Five several princes in his time did live,
To some of which good counsell he did give :
Threescore and three he lived : his ashes rest
Here in this earth ; his soule in heaven blest.
An0. 1566.

His wif for Mason did this tombe ordayne,
Where after death she shall be joyned agayne :
A son and nephew did these verses make
For both his father and his uncle's sake.
March 1. Dr. William Nicholson having been
lately made archbp. of Cashel, died a few days after
wards as he sate in his chair in his study. He was
a bold, confident man, and his historical libraries are
full of gross mistakes, which however he cared not
to acknowledge. He was of a large size as to his
person. Dr. Hickes complimented him much for
his skill in the Runic language.
March 2. On Tuesday last called upon me Mr.
Wilson % bach, of arts of Christ Church, son of Dr.
9 See p. 504. This Mr. Wilson, after he had graduated as a D. D. at Christ
Church, removed to St. Mary haU, where is a good whole length portrait of him.
He was an eccentric, but very benevolent man, a furious politician, the friend
of Wilkes, and a great admirer of Mrs. Macauley. See au account of him in
Nichols's Literary Anecdotes. I believe he ended his days at Bath, where
his valuable library, which abounded in curious books, was afterwards dis
persed. There is a very pleasing anecdote of him on record. Hearing of a
clergyman in distress, he gave some friend a sum of money for his relief.
" Thank you, Dr. Wilson, for your liberality ; I will go the first thing in the
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Wilson bp. of Man. He is lately come from that
island, where he hath been detained a good while,
(almost two years,) which hindered him (he having
been like to have been drowned) from coming to
Oxford to determine last year, for which reason he
determines this Lent. He told me of a new sort of
money, (silver and brass,) coyned lately for that
island. It seems before they had only brass, of
which there was only three hundred pound worth
coyned, which makes it scarce. He told me that his
father is about publishing the N. T. in Manks and
English, a thing never done before. He told me
his father sent bp. Gibson a compleat tract of the
Isle of Man written by himself, but that 'tis strangely
mangled by Gibson in his late second ed. of Cam
den's Brit. I wish the bp. of Man would give it
separately. March 3. The Friers of Brethren of the Holy
Trinity, for the redemption of Captives. This order
had its beginning A0- 1198 under the pontificate
of pope Innocent III., St. John de Marta and St.
Felix de Valois being the founders. They seem to
have been first brought into England by Robert
Rokesley, who built them a monastery at Motinden
in Kent A.D. 1224. Edm. Plantagenist or Plan-
tagenet, (son of Richard king of Almain &c.,) earl of
"In the morning, my dear  ?" said Dr. Wilson; "think how many
hours of painful suffering his mind may endure through the night, if you
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Cornwall, was a great patron of the religious, par
ticularly of the Trinitarian friers, who came to and
settled at Oxford A. D. 1291, 19 Edw. I., being
mightily encouraged thereto by the said earl of
Cornwall, who obtained for them at Oxford certain
tenements of the brethren of St. John Baptist's hos
pital, on condition that they gave yearly one pound
of incense. These tenements stood between East
gate and St. Frideswide's gate, on the way that leads
into Merton coll. fields, which way is now called
Trinity lane, though more commonly Rose lane,
from one Rose dwelling there formerly. Earl Ed
mund's charter bears date at Beckley, on St. John
Baptist's day, An°. 21 Edw. I. A.D. 1293. He
founded this place (dedicated to St. Mary) for them
to pray for his soul, the souls of his father Richard,
and his mother Scbenchia, and for the health of the
soul of king Edw. &c. William de Hamine was at
that time provincial of the order. Earl Edmund or
dained that the provincial and his brethren should
find five chaplains for ever. Soon after this the inn
and chapell being quite built, king Edw. I., at the
request of Edmund, confirmed the grant to the fore
said brethren and their successors for ever. About
the same time, the warden and fellows of Merton
coll., and the vicar of St. Peter's parish in the East,
(in which parish the inn and chappell stood,) gave
them liberty of having an oratory, a chantry and a
cemetery, to bury the bodies of the fraternity in,
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this, being desirous to enlarge their bounds, they
obtained of the mayor and townsmen of Oxford a
small piece of ground, with the houses upon it, upon
this condition, that they should pay yearly 136\ 4c?.
to them. But this rent being not paid for some
years, A.D. 1314, 8 of king Edw. IL, an agree
ment was made, that if it were afterwards neglected,
the mayor and townsmen might have power to seize
their tenements. *
It must now be known, that within East gate on
the north side, was a very old chappel dedicated to
the Holy Trinity, which the friers very much ho
noured, and for that reason they had a great desire
to go thither, and to leave their first habitation as
111 too narrow. It belonged to the prior and canons of
1 H St. Frideswide, who at first were against their hav-
111 ing it, but at last they obtained their desire, and got
moreover two or three plots of ground besides. This
; ; • was a good accession, and was confirmed to them by
1 j ! k. Edw. II. in the 2nd year of his reign. But not
: '¦ '¦ long after, viz. in the fourth year of the same king's
i i reign, they procured a greater addition, and that was
from the mayor and townsmen of Oxford, viz. three
1 plots of ground lying under the walls of the town.
! i ! The first of which plots extended from a postern
' gate near Smith gate to the area or court of Trinity
chapell, near East gate, whicli area or court was an-
i i i nexed to the said chappell, and was given, to the
friers for ever by the prior and canons of St. Frides
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posite to the present refectory of Hart hall, or rather
to Black hall lately pulled down. The other two
plots lay on the south side of the area or court of
the said chappell, and reached a little tower or turret
that was the boundary of the court of Runcevall
hall, for all which three plots or pieces of ground
they gave 13*. 4c?. per annum to the prior and
canons of St. Frideswide. Some time after this, by
the licence of king Edw. II. confirmed by king Edw.
III., they translated themselves thither; but then
this licence was granted them, on condition that
they built a chantery in the foresaid chappel for
their founder and benefactors, &c. So that, going
to this new place, the friers let the area or court
lying on the south side of the former chappell to
the warden and fellows of Merton coll. for 50 years.
Which area or court or plot of ground extended in
length from the front of Runcevall hall southwards,
to a little tower or turret near the end of the area
or court of the said hall, and in breadth between the
area or court of the said hall on one side, and the
wall of the village of Oxford on the other. These
friers flourished very much after this, 'till about the
year 1351. When a pestilence happening, they
were all cut off to a man, and so the inn and chap
pell without East gate escheated to k. Edw. Ill,, in
whose time and afterwards the minister of these
friers at Hundeslowe (for at Hundeslowe on the
west side thereof they had an house) transmitted
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other sacred offices. But after this, William of
Wickham intending io build a college at Oxford,
bought these two plots of ground of the Friers, which
they had before purchased of the town of Oxford ;
viz. An0. 8°- Ric. II. Dom. 1379. I mean those
two plots, one of which lay under the walls of the
town on the inside of the same, and reached from
the postern gate opposite to Smith gate, to the N. E.
corner of the said walls, extending from thence
southwards to Trinity chapell. But the other reach
ed from the said chapell southwards to the area or
court that had been formerly let to the warden and
scholars of Merton coll. The first of these plots
therefore being inclosed by the founder of New
coll. (viz. that on which is built the wall that sur
rounds the college) and the other lying on the south
side of the chappel being restored by the same
founder to the mayor and townsmen of Oxford,
upon some agreement the 12th year of k. Richard IL,
(I mean that plot on which, within East gate both
on the right and left hand, houses are now built,) as
many of the friers as remained, because they had a
chappell only within the walls, having first of all
obtained power of the king, transplanted themselves
to the old inn and chappel situated beyond the gate,
both which had, as escheats, belonged to the king
for the space of forty years, viz. from 25 Edw. III.
Dom. 1351, to the 15th of Rich. II. Dom. 1391-
But now the mayor and townsmen layd a heavy
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for many years paid them the yearly rent of 13*. Ad.
The king therefore ordered in the 15th year of his
reign his escheator Thos. Barentine to permit the
mayor and burgesses to seize the inn and chappell,
which accordingly they did, and after that time both
of them belonged to them, notwithstanding when
the founder of New coll. purchased the foresaid area
or plots within the wall, they had remitted to the
friers the aforesaid 13*. 4c?. The friers afterwards
endeavoured to recover them, and for that end ap
plyed to the university; but the town kept what
they had got, and afterwards reserved only one
dwelling for a single priest to perform divine offices
in, and the rest of the chambers they let out to
scholars who studied there under a principal, and it
went by the name of Trinity hall, under which de
nomination it paid certain rents to the town.
Now as to the two mansions or dwelling houses
of these friers at Oxford, I have already noted that
Edmund earl of Cornwall founded the first which
adjoyned to the lane that leads from Magdalen coll.
to the field behind Merton coll. This was by the
papal indulgences exempt from tithes and offerings.
But as to the other dwelling house, I know not who
was the founder ; but it fell to ruin after the founder
of New coll. had procured the neighbouring spots of
ground. I doubt not but once there was some brass
lamina in it to signify who the founder both of the
inn and chapell here was, much such another as that
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antient laudable custom, now laid aside, used to be
commemorated in some Prone. As to the two
chappels, the most antient of them, viz. that without
East gate, was built by Edm. earl of Cornwall, where
for some time certain chaplains celebrated mass for
his soul. After it came to the town of Oxford, it
was used for the new mayor every year, when he
returned heme from being sworn in the exchequer
at London, (for in old time that was customary,)
to stop at this chapell and return thanks to God
Almighty for his safe return, and to give an alms to
the person who read the office, after which he was
received by the townsmen, and conducted into the
city with great huzzaings and rejoicing. At the
altar of this chapell a lamp or wax candle continu
ally burned. And this chapell was an asylum or
refuge for criminals. But as for the other chapell,
I know not who built it, though it belonged origin
ally to St. Frideswide's, but after the Trinitarian
friers begun to dwindle, and the adjoyning area or
plots of ground fell to New coll., it quite sunk by
degrees, and the very place where it stood is now
altogether forgot.
When it was that this fraternity was dissolved, I
know not for certain. For it does not appear among
the convents that were destroyed in the time of
Henry VIII., it being very probable that it escaped
then, upon account of it's being called an hall. How
ever it be, this is certain, that when the other fra
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frier, was principal, and at that time certain poor
scholars were here educated from stipends, that, ac
cording to an old custom, they received of the col
leges in Oxford, and here then lived an old hermit
or priest, where also he afterwards died. But at
last, towards the end of k. Henry VHIth's reign,
Robert Perrot, bachelor of musick, was principal of
this hall, at which time the mayor and townsmen
letting him the hall and chappell, he pulled both
down, and in the same place built a barn, a stable
and hogstie.
March 16. Last Monday (13th) the honble Dr.
Henry Bridges, visitor of Balliol coll., gave judge
ment about the mastership of that college ; when he
declared his nephew Dr. Theophilus Lee duly elected,
to the great confusion of Mr. Best and his friends ;
but Mr. Best &c. may thank Dr. Bourchier for this,
whom they employed on this occasion as a coun
sellor, and, he advising them to a new way of elect
ing, by that means Mr. Best (who took that way)
lost his point, whereas Mr. Lee's friends, following
the old method, (which was to go out of the chappel,
and so to come in again one by one and vote, and
after voting to recede,) thereby obtained the cause
for him. Nor do I doubt but this was the old way
in other elections. I find it was so in the abbies,
when in elections in their chapter houses they used
to retire, when they had severally given their votes,
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ought) secretly. This I told Mr. Sandford of Balliol
coll. and some other of Mr. Lee's friends of, and I
hear they made use of what I said, and I am in
formed, that my book of Adam de Domerham (in
which is the form of electing an abbat of Glaston
bury) was quoted on the occasion, I having men
tioned to Mr. Sandford &c. that form, who therefore
made some application to me for the first volume,
hi which this form is, but the book being still under
the press, I could not grant this favour. This Mr.
Theophilus Lee bears the character of a good honest
man. I wish he may prove such1-.
Sir Isaac Newton was certainly a very great ma
thematician, and he is justly famed for his Principia
Mathematica &c, but I cannot learn that he had
any other learning, unless it be that he made some
sallies by way of diversion into chronology, though I
fear his chronological knowledge was no better than
Dr. Walfis's, which was but mean, considering his
I great skill in mathematicks, and many other branches
: of learning, as appears by what he hath done at the
: end of bp. Fell's St. Cyprian. When I came first to
¦> Oxford, Mr. Francis Thompson, fellow of Queen's
' Hearne afterwards (March 22nd) says, "I hear, that vyhen judgement
1 " came to be given on the said 13th March, the judge and both the assessors
| " agreed that Mr. Best's election was invalid, and that one of the assessors
"would not' allow Mr. Lee's election good, but that the judge (viz. Dr.
'" Bridges) and the other assessor agreed that it was valid, and thereupon the
[?" judge declared him duly elected. Mr. Best desired the judge's reasons;
,' " but the judge, as he ought, declined giving any. This business being over,
»'" Mr. Lee came into Oxford, March si, (being Tuesday,) about five o'clock,
uv with a vast attendance, and immediately took possession.''
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coll., was much cried up by many in that college for
understanding the foresaid sir Isaac Newton's Prin
cipia Mathematica, some maintaining that he un
derstood them better than the author then did
himself. This Mr. Thompson was a sober man, and
a great tutor. He did the college several signal
services. The statutes, which I have seen, require
an actual fellow to be head, and accordingly he,
being actual fellow, stood, upon the death of Dr.
Timothy Halton, but instead of an actual fellow
they chose Dr. Lancaster, that had left his fellowship
many years. This election occasioned a pamphlet,
printed by Leonard Litchfield, drawn up partly by
honest Dr. Crosthwayt (who always maintained that
none but an actual fellow ought to be elected pro
vost,) and partly by Mr. Thompson himself. Some
time after a parsonage fell to Mr. Thompson, and he
retired to it, and I think he is still living at it, free
from the noise, trouble, and mischiefs of elections.
Sir Isaac Newton was formerly fellow of Trinity
coll. in Cambridge. He died a batchelour. Some
years since I heard an eminent mathematician (since
deceased) say, that he could mention another person
then living, every way equal in mathematicks to sir
Isaac Newton, though he had not published. We
asked him (for there was one more, a very virtuous
gentleman, with us) who this should be. He replied,
sir Christopher Wren, who was indeed a very extrar
ordinary man, being an admirable architect, a pro
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was not) in classical learning. It is remarkable, that
sir Isaac owed much to some papers be had got of
Dr. Hooke's.

March 28. Dr. Rawlinson in a letter from Rome
(July 18th O. S. but July 7 N. S. 1724) told me, that
among a great quantity of history and antiquities
which he had collected in all parts where his cu
riosity led him, it is highly probable some duplicates
will arise to gratify friends. The money others
lavish in equipage, coaches, and embroidery, he put
to use this way, and deprived of those gaudy appear
ances, he had notwithstanding entered as far, and
seen as much, perhaps more, than some of our pea
cocks. Of the remarkable accidents that happened
within four years past, which were very extraor
dinary, he had been a witness. The holy year then
approaching, he said, would put an end to his cu
riosity as to Rome. He said, he highly approved
the foundation of the new professorships at Oxford
and Cambridge for the modern languages, as cer-
.tainly useful, if for nothing but to curtail the benefit
of tutorage to our young nobility and gentry, from
impudent and ignorant French Hugonots and Scotch
pedlers. With the languages they will come out
with great advantage. For, to our shame at present
be it spoken, both tutors and pupils come and go
very little skilled in the languages, and that little
they often know of the learned languages is useless,
as the pronunciation, especially in Italy, is widely
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different from ours, in a manner unintelligible to us
and them, as the Dr., he says, found by experience.
April 4. I hear sir Isaac Newton died intestate,
tho', besides a considerable paternal estate, he was
worth in money twenty-seven thousand pounds. He
had promised to be a benefactor to the Royal society,
but failed. Some time before he died, a great quar
rel happened between him and Dr. Halley, so as
they fell to bad language. This, 'tis thought, so
much discomposed sir Isaac as to hasten his end.
Sir Isaac died in great pain, though he was not sick,
which pain proceeded from some inward decay, as
appeared from opening him. He is buried in West
minster abbey. Sir Isaac was a man of no promising
aspect. He was a short well-set man. He was full
of thought, and spoke very little in company, so that
his conversation was not agreeable. When he rode
in his coach, one arm would be out of the coach on
one side, and the other on the other. He hath left
behind him a MS. chronology compleat, audi ordered
it to be printed. Some years ago sir Isaac was much
troubled with a lethargy, occasioned by too much
thinking, but he had got it off pretty well before he
died. From the Reading Post for April 3rd. "The !
" corpse of sir Isaac Newton, which was buried on
" Tuesday (March 28) in the abbey, from the Jeru-
" salem chamber, was followed to the grave by a
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" shew the respect they bore to that unquestionably
" great man, and six noble peers supported the pall.
" Yesterday (March 29) John Conduit esq. M. P.
" for Whitchurch, received his patent constituting
" him master worker of his majesty's mint in the
" Tower, in the room of sir Isaac Newton deceased."
April 24. There being a great flaw in the east
end of Carfax church, Oxon., this day they began to
pull part of the said east end down, in order to
1 repair it.
; April 25. Mr. West tells me, in a letter from
'London ofthe 22nd. inst., that being lately in Cam
bridgeshire, he spent two days in that university,
iboth which times he had the pleasure of seeing my
i friend Mr. Baker, who was pleased to walk with
him, and shew him his college, the library, &c.
I What hath been given to the library by Mr. Baker
(himself, is no small addition to it; Mr. Baker being
sturned out of his fellowship for his honesty and in
tegrity, (as I have also lost my places for the same
treason, in not taking the wicked oaths,) writes him^
iself in all his books socius ejectus. His goodness
and humanity are as charming, to those who have
the happiness of his conversation, as his learning is
^profitable to his correspondents. The university
library is not yet put into any order. They just saw
lit in heaps. The college libraries make a very in
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Mr. West had not time to see abp. Parker's MSS.
in Corpus college, but what he was most pleased
with, was Mr. Secretary Pepys' library given to
Magd. coll. There is a very pretty collection of
English history, among whicli is great store of an
tient ballads, several vols, of English heads of learned
men, 3 large vols, of original letters of our great
men in the reigns of Henry VIII., Edw. VI., queen
Mary and queen Elizabeth. The whole contains
about 2700 books. He has left them under severe
restrictions. They are kept in a room separate from
the college library, and are not on any account what
ever to receive the addition of one book, which in
case they do, the whole collection is forfeited to
Trinity coll. Cant.
May 4. Anno 1074, sir Robert Doilley built the
collegiate church of St. George, in the castle of
Oxford, for secular canons of the order of St.Austin.
They were afterwards translated to Osney abbey,
and then the house in the castle became an inn for
scholars, who were subject to the chancellour of
Oxford. Many brave persons were buried both at
St. George's and at Osney ; but alas ! no notice is
now taken of them, but they are utterly forgot.
May 5. Yesterday Mr. Graves of Mickleton called
upon me. He told me that young Ballard the taylor
of Campden is out of his time, and hath very good
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Latin, going' twice a day for that end to the school
master there, and that he hath a great mind to come
and enter of some college or hall in Oxford, but Mr.
Graves gives him no encouragement; judgeing it
better (and I think so too) to keep to his trade.
This young Ballard's great uncle was a doctor of
physick. Mr. Graves hath promised to send me
some account of hims.
May 9. About the year 1075 the Jews began to
come much to Oxford. After they were settled,
they procured a great many houses, particularly in
the parishes of St. Martin, St. Edward, and St.Aldate,
and heaped up vast wealth. Their dwellings in St.
Edward's and St. Aldate's were so considerable as to
be stiled the old and new Jewry, and in St. Aldate's
parish they had a synagogue, where they had masters
that taught the Hebrew tongue, to the great advan
tage of the university ; as there were scholars that
afterwards taught in Jewish houses, stiled from
thence Lombard hall, Mossey hall, Jacob -hall &c,
having their names, without doubt, from Jews to
whom they had formerly belonged.
May 21. Dr. Tanner told me on Thursday last,
when I called upon him, that he had never seen
Thos. Key's defence of his Assertio Antiquitatis

s The best account of BaUard (including Hearne's memoranda) will be.
found in Dr. Bloxam's Magdalen College Register, " Clerks," pp. 9.5-102.
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Academics Oxon. I told him I had it, and that
Anthony Wood had seen it, and mentions it under
the title of Examen &c, but that he could not tell
what became of it afterwards. The Dr. said 'tis
very probable Anthony had it, but perhaps did not
care to own it, Anthony being shy of letting people
know what he had about Oxford, that it might not
be discovered what assistance he had received from
others, which certainly were very great. The Dr.
said, what Anthony had done ought by no means to
be despised, but Brian Twyne (he said, and indeed
very justly) was far superior to him.
May 22. Anno 1076 Wm. the Conqueror was at
the abbey of Abingdon for some time, with which
place (especiall the isle of Andersey, so called from
it's being sacred to St. Andrew) he was wonderfully
delighted, and therefore both he and his son William
Rufus came there often. Here some tell us he first
heard of exhibitions settled by k. Alfred on the
univ. of Oxford, with which he was much displeased,
and therefore took them away, for fear they might
encourage the scholars to keep still to the Saxon
tongue. But this I look upon as a poor occasion
for his withdrawing them, since he had confirmed
k. Edward's laws, by which it was established that
no scholars nor those of the clergy for any cause
should be injured. I look upon the scholars' firm
ness to Edgar Atheling to be the true reason. As
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church in that isle, dedicated to St. Andrew, and
there was in the Saxon times also a royal palace.
May 29. This being the Restoration of k. Charles
II., there was very great and very good ringing of
bells in Oxford, but very little and very poor yester
day, which was the birth-day of the duke of Bruns
wick, commonly called king George. The sermon
this day, before the university at St. Mary's, was
preached by Mr. Greenaway of Hart hall. Mr. Jo
nathan Colley being chanter of Christ Ch., he yester
day set a penitential anthem, which enraged the dean,
Dr. Bradshaw, to that degree, that after service he
sent for and reprimanded him.
May 30. There is just come out in 8vo an Eng
lish book, being the life of Robert Dudley, earl of
Leycester ; the author's name is not added, but I
am well assured 'tis Mr. Jebb, who hath done in the
same manner (without putting his name) the life of
Mary queen of Scots, and that of sir Thos. More.
This Mr. Jebb, who pretends to many parts of
learning, and is a pretended non-juror also, though
'tis feared he is far from being sincere, (which I am
very sorry for,) is a man that bears but an indifferent
character. He is turned a meer hackney writer.
His collection called Sedecim Scriptores, about Mary
q. of Scots, is not much inquired after, as I am told.
He makes use of several things from my books, some
with, and others (as if he had been the first dis
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June 12. On the 10th of May last, came on in
Westminster Hall the final hearing of Univ. coll.
case, and after a whole day's examining into that
affair, 'twas declared by the judges that the king is
visitor of that college, and that consequently, what
the Vice-Chancellor, proctors, and drs. of div. lately
did, under pretence of being visitors, is null and
void ; so tbat Mr. Denison's plea of being put in by
the visitors is quite extinguished, and Mr. Cockman,
having been duly elected and duly admitted, is head,
and accordingly came down on Wednesday last, and
the next day and since hath in eVery point acted as
head, and so will do. His enemies, who made a
most wretched injudicious defence in Westminster
Hall, are so strangely exasperated and nettled at this
victory, that yesterday morning Mr. George Ward,
commonly called Jolly Ward, ('tis supposed by the
direction of Dr. Bourchier and Mr. Denison,) got
into chappell sooner than ordinary in his surplice,
usurped the master's seat, read prayers, and after
wards sent for the buttery book, struck Mr. Cock-
man's name out from being master, and conveyed
away out of the hall or publick refectory the master's
chair, and this he did as senior resident fellow, which
piece of villainy makes many people laugh, who now
plainly see the weakness of Denison's cause, when
they come to such tricks as this. Mr. Denison does
not now seem to stir in the college, he having cut
himself out from being fellow, and his fellowship
being also vacant, as he is married. Yet, I hear,
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entered a caveat directed to the duke of Newcastle,
secretary of state, petitioning his grace that he would
not admit Mr. Cockman (now k. George, as they
stile the duke of Brunswick, is beyond sea) as master,
till the university hath tryed their right of a visitorial
power of that college. But I understand this caveat
is only laughed at, as being ridiculous, this matter
having been already tryed in Westminster Hall, and
the king proved to be visitor.
June 25. I was told last night that Jolly Ward of
Univ. coll. did on Sunday, June 18th, usurp the mas
ter of Univ. coJl.'s seat again, and read prayers, in
sisting to have Mr. Cockman shew something signed
either by the king or by the university or some body
else before he submits, and this he had also told
Mr. Cockman the master before. As for the univer
sity, Mr. Cockman hath denyed the doctor's power,
and the. matter hath been tryed in Westminster
Hall, and the king is declared visitor. As Mr. Cock
man was statutably elected and statutably admitted,
there is no occasion for the visitor's hand, tho', I sup
pose, if they continue refractory and disobedient a
proper method will be taken to reduce them to good
manners; indeed Ward and such debauchees are not
fit for any society.
July 1st. Yesterday I walked from Oxford through
Bagley Wood to Bagworth, which, though it be a
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kervilles is now almost quite gone to ruin, the family
of the Baskervilles being (as I have noted formerly)
exstinct. Thence I walked (leaving Beaulieu farm
on the right hand) to Norcot, where are two old
barns, one of which hath several buttresses, and on
both at the east end are the remains of a cross,
whence I gather that they have been formerly chap
pels, at least I take that with buttresses to have
been a chappell, and perhaps the other might have
been an infirmary. This Norcot is very pleasant,
and the prior and sometimes the abbat of Abing
don* used to be here. Thence I walked to Abing-
don, from Abingdon I walked to Ridley or Rod-
ley, where sir John Stonehouse hath built a new
brick house, but 'tis nothing near so pleasant nor
snug as the old large house, most of which (they say)
is to be pulled down. The inside and the gardens
&c. of the new house are not quite finished. An old
woman told me that sir John and his lady are very
charitable to the poor, though I had heard the con
trary from others. Sir John's eldest daughter by
this lady, (whose maiden name was Penelope Dash-
wood,) viz. Mrs. Penelope Stonehouse, (a fine crea
ture,) is married to sir Henry Adkins. Walking from
Radley I overtook a man with hoops on his back,
who told me he had been at work at Radley, and
that he was going to SunningweU, where (he said)
he lives. I understood afterwards that 'twas Mr.
Thomas Ellys who was prenticed to a wine-cooper in
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into the country for his health, he being consump
tive. He is a mighty sober young man, and is brother
to the late Mr. William Ellys, of whom I have made
mention formerly. Parting with the said Mr. Thomas
Ellys I walked to Sandford ferry, and crossing the
water, after some little refreshment at Sandford mill,
I walked to Mr. Powell's at Sandford, but I did not
speak with him, as I designed, he being private in a
room by himself taking a knap (tho' his lady being
in the country (Worcestershire) where she hath been
at least two months, I looked upon this as the most
proper time for some conversation with Mr. Powell,
who is a very worthy good man, and much beloved).
From Sandford I walked to Iffley and so to Oxford.
Oct. 16. Last night spending the evening with
Mr. Hall, my nonjuriug friend Mr. Whiteside, Mr.
Brook of Oriel coll. and Mr. Richardson of Brazenose
coll., I understood from Mr. Brook, that Mr. Wick-
sey went out of town as soon as the election at Oriel
coll. was over, being it seems much nettled. He is
gone to the lord chancellor of Great Britain to see
if he can oust Mr. Hodges, under pretence that
Mr. Hodges ought not to have it by their statutes,
having fifteen hundred pounds a year estate, which
is pretended is much beyond what their statutes
allow. A very poor plea ! and I believe groundless,
whatever it may be with respect to fellowships. But
it seems Dr. Shippen hath put this into Wicksey's
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brings to mind what I heard the other day about
Mr. Denison, namely, that Dr. Carter was very poor
when he was elected head of Oriel coll., Denison
thereby insinuating that a poor man ought now also
to be elected, and not Hodges. But what Denison
said is downright false. Carter, as I well remember,
was elected chiefly for this reason, that he was rich.
Wicksey also pretends another reason that the elec
tion should be vacated, viz. because that by their
statutes the election ought to be sine discordia:
Now, says he and his friends, had it been sine dis
cordia, then both Wicksey himself and his friends
ought to have come over to Hodges, &c. A very
poor plea, and what even Mr. Brook himself laughs
at. Mr. Hodges carried it by a majority of two
votes, the votes standing thus : viz.
For Mr. Wicksey. Por Mr. Hodges.
i. Mr. Wicksey himself. '• Mr. Hodges himself.
/. Dr. Woodward.
3. Mr. Catheral (who is dean, and
3. Mr. Pipern. had, si necesse, i votes.)
4. Mr. Brook. * Dr- Reyner.
5. Mr. Chester.
5- Mr- parry. g. Mr. WooUen.
6. Mr. Makepeace. 7- Mr. Craster.
8. Dr. Fisher.
7. Mr. Martin. 9. Mr. Edmunds.
Mr. Dyer, who was altogether for Mr. Hodges,
could not be there.
Oct. 25. Last week they cut down the fine plea
sant garden in Brazenose coll. quadrangle, which was
not only a great ornament to it, and was agreeable
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delightful and pleasant shade in summer time, and
made the rooms in hot seasons much cooler than
they otherwise would have been. This is done by
direction of the principal and some others purely to
turn it into a grass plot and to erect some silly
statue there.
In the time of Henry V. were abundance of Irish
scholars in Oxford, and, from their living there, one
street going from Gloucester hall (now Worcester
coll.) towards Highbridge was called Irishmen's
street. Here, viz. in that street, were many halls or
houses for entertainment of them, but a great many
of them at that time (viz. in the reign of Hen. V.)
were so rakish, tbat (under the name of Chamber-
dekyns) they committed strange disorders, so that
they were expelled this place (and their houses be
gan to decay and the street to lose its name) and
then they went to Cambridge, where they were
guilty of the same enormities, which occasioned
them at length by order of parliament, in the reign
of Henry VI. to be banished the nation, with injunc
tion not to come hither into England any more, with
an intent to settle at our universities.
Oct. 30. On Friday being Oct. 26, was a hearing
before the lord chancellour of England (sir Peter
King) of Oriel coll. case, with respect to a provost
of that college. Mr. Wicksey alledged two reasons
against Mr. Hodges being head, (1.) that he had
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many arguments to prove that he had so much.
Upon whicli says Mr. Hodges, " Mr. Wicksey, you
" need not have given yourself this trouble, I own
" I have such an estate." Upon which, says the
chancellour, " this reason makes for Mr. Hodges : it
" is for the interest of the college that a man of good
" estate should be head." 2. That four of those that
elected Mr. Hodges were not statutable fellows,
having never been admitted by the late provost.
Indeed they were not admitted by him, because he
denyed their election by virtue of his pretended
negative. But, the negative being legally set aside,
they were otherwise admitted, as appeared from the
register, where both their election and admission
were entered and even signed by Wicksey also, two
of whose voters also were of the same election and
admission. In short Mr. Wickseys allegations and
objections were adjudged very weak and frivolous,
and the chancellour (as visitor under king George)
immediately confirmed Mr. Hodges, and administered
the oath to him as head, so that Wicksey (who is
looked upon as a rogue, and to have been altogether
in the scheme of the late provost, though he pre
tended then to be otherwise) is quite now thrown
by, tho' perhaps he may still pretend that there is a
nullity, unless Mr. Hodges be also confirmed by the
bp. of Lincoln, which, however, I believe will sig
nify just nothing.
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1727- HEARNIANJ5. 673
Chilswell farm, and from thence to Denton Court,
which way (a strange by, unked, solitary walk) I had
never went to Denton Court before. I did it chiefly
to have a better notion of the ancient solitariness
and retiredness of the place, when the hermit Aben
inhabited here. I went by a coppice (a little above
Chilswell farm) called Birch Coppice, the only place
in this country that I know of, where birch grows.
Nov. 17. Yesterday meeting Mr. Wm. Dodwell
(by the schools of Trin. coll. where he is commoner),
he told me that his mother never was yet at Oxford,
so that, I take it, he and his brother of Magdalen
hall1- have had some particular directors here as to
their entrance and conduct. He told me, his mother
and all their family have had the small pox long
since, which he mentioned upon my saying she might
be afraid of coming hither on that account.
Nov. 25. The provost and fellows or scholars of
Oriel coll. (10 in number) originally were to have
but twelve pence a week. If corn came to ten
shillings a quarter, they were to have fifteen pence
each a week during the dearness, but that ceasing,
they were then to have no more than twelve pence.
The provost was to dine in common with the fellows:
but afterwards he had a distinct table allowed, and
10 marks per an. added for supporting that and a
man servant. Adam Brome, alias Browne, was the
r See p. 576.
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674 RELIQUIAE 1727-8.
first provost. Adam Brome is buried in St. Anne's
chappell (now called Adam Brome's chappell) at the
north side of St. Marie's church, Oxford. His tomb
is still there, but the brasses are all off, so that there
is no inscription, having been all destroyed in the
civil war times.
Jan. 16. Yesterday morning they began to pull
down the remainder of St. Peter's church in the
Bailly, Oxon., in order to have a new one erected in
its stead, which new one they compute will cost two
thousand pounds.
Jan. 26. The atchievement of sir John Presbyter
(from a MS. paper communicated to me by Tho.
Ward of Warwick, esq. who had borrowed it.)
" He beareth party per pale, indented, God's glory and
" his own interest : over all profit, pleasure counter-
" changed, insigned with an helmet of ignorance opened
" with confidence befitting his degree, mantelled with
" gules and tyranny, doubled with hypocrisie ; upon a
" wreath of pride and covetousnesse, for his crest a sinister
" hand lifting up a solemne league and covenant reversed
" and torne ; in an escrole underneath the shield these
" words for his motto, viz. ' Aut hoc aut nihil.' This coate
" is impaled with another of four pieces signifying thereby
" his four several matches : The first is the house of Geneva ;
'•' she beareth for her armes a field of separation with mar-
" ginall notes on the Bible falsely quoted. The 2nd is the
" house of Scotland ; she beareth in her eseocheon the
" feild rebellion, charged with a stoole of repentance. The
" third is the family of Amsterdam ; she beareth in a feild

1727-3. HEARNIAN^E. 675
" of toleration three Jewes heads proper, with as many
" blew caps on them. The fourth and last is the country
" pf New England ; she beareth for her armorial ensigns in
" a feild of sedition a crop-eared preachman, preacht up
" into a pulpit proper, holding forth to the people a schis-
" maticall directory.'1

Feb. 10. About two lands length, or two furlongs
south west from Binsey, on the other side the
water that goes from Wightham to Botley, was for
merly a notable village called Seckworth, situated in
Berkshire. 'Tis now intirely demolished, and there
is nothing remaining of it, only there stands a house
and two or three hovels for cows &c. on part of the
ground where it stood. The highway passed through
it, and so over the water through Binsey ford, and
so to Oxford. There is a hard way now to be seen,
and at Binsey the said way (which comes over the
water that goes from Wightham to Botley, which
water is called Seckworth) is called in one or two
places the king's swarth.
Feb. 11. The word swarth before mentioned is
a corruption for ppaeth which signifies via, callis,
semita. So the king's swarth or rather ppseth is no
more than the king's way.
There is a tradition that there were once above
twenty inns in Seckworth. Some say that Wight
ham castle on the hill was besieged by the Danes
from Seckworth. I take Wightham castle to have
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676 RELlQUliE 1728.
been taken and demolished by the Danes in the
reign of k. Etheldred, the father of Edm. Ironsides,
which k. Etheldred began to reign A. D. 978. In
Etheldred's reign also Seckworth was destroyed by
the Danes, but it revived again in the days of k.
Edw. the Confessor, who was born at Islip, and
began to reign A.D. 1042. King Edw. Confess.
and his beautifuU, virtuous, chast and learned q.
Edgitha or Editha were often at Seckworth, when
they used to come to Oxford from Islip and Hed
dington, coming along the king's swarth beyond new
park, so that then there was a passage that way
over the Charwell.
May 29. Yesterday in the afternoon Mr. Tho.
Jenner B. D. and fellow of Magd. coll. was elected
Margaret Professor in opposition to Dr. Theophilus
Leigh D. D. and master of Balliol coll., Dr. Leigh
had only 24 votes, and Mr. Jenner 34. Besides
these two, at first appeared Dr. Felton principal of
Edm. hall, Mr. Niblett warden of All Souls' coll.,
and Mr. Robert Lydall of Magd. coll. But Dr.
Felton having not above one vote that I can hear of,
(viz. Dr. Gibson provost of Queen's, who was also
out of town,) and Mr. Niblett and Mr. Lydall not
being able to succeed, they let their interest drop,
tho' Lydall did not relinquish his till just the time
of election, a thing which if he had not done, Magd.
coll. would most certainly have lost it, and Dr. Leigh
Would have been the man.

1728. HEARNIA1SLE. 677
June 25. Bp. Wren was a true antiquary. He
has left collections, wherever he went, as Pembr.
hall, where fellow, Peter house, where master,
Windsor, where dean, and Ely, where bishop, many
of which Mr. Baker hath seen : but being in loose
scattered papers are in danger of perishing. Dr.
Tanner hath likewise seen many of this good bp.'s
collections. They should be got together as far as
possible, and endeavours for preserving them should
be used. The Cambridge men are much wanting
to themselves, in not retrieving the remains of their
worthies. Mr. Baker is the only man I know of
there, that hath of late acted in all respects worthily
on that head, and for it he deserves a statue.
July 12. Quaere, who hath wrote best of the
Cortex Peruvianus, so much used now (and with
great reason) in leavers and agues? the Spaniards
call it the Feaver tree.
July 16. About a quarter of a year since they
began to build a new chapel for Pembroke coll.,
next to Slaughter lane.
July 19. Dr. Tanner lent me an old paper, a copy
of which here follows :
for Oseneye.
The longe stable All the same stable is utterly taken
vacat awaye. Christes Churche had vi lode of
slattes of the same.
x x 3

678

RELIQULE

1728.

Mr. Bysley lodg-
yng vacat.

An other howse
ioyning to ye same
lodgyng at the est
end vacat.
Where the almes
men lay vacat.

Dorter

frater

That is greate decaye' and mine The
pticoiis dores windowes iron glasse is
spoyled and gone, the bordes of ye flowre
in diuerse places taken awaye. The lengthe
of that lodgynge 55 fote, the bredth 25
fote, the tymber of the rowgh is very good.
There be pticoiis w*. the lofte taken
awaye in much ruyne w*. evell tymber in
length 40 fote.
There is dores windowes iron is all taken
awaye and yt is in utter decaye in length
30 fote.
At the end of the same were ii propre
chambers well glassyd ironed w4. a pticofi
ii goodly dores of weynskote all spoylyd
& gone.
The length 169 fote in bredth 32 fote
thone syde is all sklate excepte 20 fote
thother syde 40 fote sklated the rough ys
good, the length of ye rafters 36 fote
very good, the gutters leyd with leade
through owte both sydes. gone utterly.
The length 140 fote, the pyllours &
irons of the wyndowes spoylyd & gone
the bredth 36 fote all sklattyd.
The gutters of leade on bothe sydes
taken awaye cleane. All the whole is
syled through, the pulpet therin is also
spoyled, the length of the rafters 38 fote.
The length 40 fote, the bredth 24 fote,
meane tymber in decaye.

1728.

HEARNIAN^E.

679

- The slaughter
howse w'. other
houses of office
ioyned therto va
cat. Abbotte Johns
hall vacat.

The leadid lodg-
yng or Mr
lodgyng

The plour un-
derneth Mr
lodgynge The kylne house
w' the furnesse
house vacat.

Mr. Belsyer sta
ble unocupid.
The lofte over
the scole unoccu
pyed. The scole Mr
chamber
unoccupied.

The length 84 fote The pticoiis wyn-
dowes dores cleane gone. In great decaye
the tymber indifferente all sklated.
The length 46 fote the bredthe 34
good tymber unoccupyed well sklated
goog [sic] rough w'. glased w'. irons the
depnesse of the roughe 40 fote, the gutter
of thone syde leaded, cleane taken awaye.
The length 45 fote couered with leade
the bredth 16 fote the leade is taken
awaye iri some places wherby yt goyth to
decaye ; the roughe proper and handsome.
There all the glasse is gone.
The length 76 the bredthe 32 fote In
great decaye well tymbryd and a very
good rough Ther be ii principall postes
standyng in the same house. The house
long unoccupyed. Much sklate taken
awaye. ii sommerss standyng wl the kylne
betwene and vi other pecis lyeng in the
flowre. The depth of the rough 30 fote
the length 40 fote in bredth 16.
The length 50 fote the bredth 24. There
is a rieue flowre. well sklatyd a good
rough. The length 24 the bredth 16 foote well
skla'tyd. the bordes of ye flowre new
partly taken awaye & ye wyndowes gone.
The gutters of leade taken awaye.

s ii. sommers, or summers, snmmarim Irabes, principal beams.
x x 4

680

RELIQUIAE

1728.

The scole house
unoccupied. Mr. Haynes lodg-
yng vacat
The great hall

The yatte house
vacat wt ovrte
steyres The lytle cham
ber nere to ye same
vacat. the porters
lodge vacat.
Tbe greate barne
vacat.

The barres of iron beyng substanciall
cleane gone with the glasse.
The glasse taken awaye the whole
barres of iron are there yet.
Whiche Mr Stumpe wold have had a
lofte in, is of length 59 fote the bredth 33
wherin we fownde good tymber spoyled to
the fyer. There is no pece of tymber un
occupyed in the hole house yt will serve
for this hall flowre.
The length 38 fote the bredthe 28. a
competent good roughe of tymbre ye depth
30 fote good sklate.
The whiche all in ruyne and decaye.

The length 88 fote, the bredth 28, the
tymber meane. the sklate competente
good. The depth of the roughe 30 fote.
These lacketh ye greate porche wl the
greate dores. Indorsed
S. Nicholas Osney Stumpe 106. accompt ofthe decay es in
the old abbey of Oseney.
Aug. 3. Yesterday Mr. Gilman of St. Peter's
parish in the east, Oxford, (a lusty, heartick, thick,
short man,) told me, that he is in the 85th year of
his age, and that at the restoration of K. Charles II.
being much afflicted with the king's evil, he rode

1728. HEARNIAN.E. 681
up to London behind his father, was touched on a
Wednesday morning by that king, was in very
good condition by that night, and by the Sunday
night immediately following was perfectly recovered,
and hath so continued ever since. He hath con
stantly wore the piece of gold about bis neck that
he received of the king, and he had it on yesterday
when I met him.
Sept. 13. The repairing the east end of Cairfax
church, Oxford, cost 70£. or thereabouts. The de
fect was occasioned by the removing some butresses
in the chancell to make the Butter-bench, which was
done by the advice of some rash indiscreet persons,
who perceived their error too late.
Oct. 24. On Tuesday last Mr. Tho. Weeksy was
deprived of his fellowship of Oriel coll., (and indeed
expelled, his name being struck out of the book,)
sentence being pronounced by the provost himself
in the chappell, for contumacy and for having " ube-
rius beneficium." Both points were so plain and
notorious that nothing can be alledged for him.
This Mr. Weeksy (who stood himself to be provost)
hath been so troublesome and vexatious that he did
all that possibly he could to hinder the peace of the
college. His living is about 19£. in the king's
books, whereas he cannot hold a fellowship of Oriel
with a living above 10 marks. He had been sum
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682 RELIQUIiE 1728.
for detaining a register of the college and declining
to surrender it, (tho' he and his crony Bowles had
had it a great while, three quarters of a year or
more,) notwithstanding the college had great occa
sion for it. Bowles is also twice upon one of the
registers, as lyable to the like punishment of Weeksy,
which will be inflicted, if he proceeds in his vile
practices. Nov. 8. Mr. Aynsworth teaches a private school
in London. He hath been a great many years about
a Latin Dictionary7, and (I am told) hath at last
finished it, though 'tis not printed for want of en
couragement. It seems he leaves out in it all proper
names but such as are classical. I do not know of
anything that he hath published, but the catalogue
of Mr. Kemp's curiosities, (a great number of which
were counterfeits and cheats,) and the catalogue of
Dr. Woodward's books and curiosities. I am told
he hath wrote a Latin poem to Mr. Edm. Chishull,
and another to Mr. John Strype, but they are not
printed. He is a married man, of at least 70 years
of age*.
Dec. 21. The bp. of Oxford, Dr. John Potter,
bears a very poor mean character at Cuddesden
where he lives. I heard a man of Cuddesden say
yesterday, when I was that way, that he and his
lady are miserably stingy and covetous, and that
t See p. 488.

1728-9. HEARNIAN.-E. 683
there is not the least hospitality in their family. He
said they were so wretchedly miserable, that the
bp. and his lady went themselves a coursing, she
going up to her knees for a day together at that
sport, on purpose to hinder the poor from catching
any bares, and that they were very severe to any
one (tho' never so poor) that killed any hare, &c.
there. Jan. 11. On Dec. 2 last, was a meeting of the
heads of houses about a programma relating to infi
delity, and 'twas carried for one, by a majority, and
accordingly one was printed ; but at last, it seems, all
the heads unless perhaps you may except one or two,
so intirely agreed in one and the same thing, that is,
that what they had done should not be known, that
they got all the copies into their own hands, and
quite stifled this programma, done, it seems, without
spirit, insomuch that it could not be seen nor pro
cured ; so that, though I have much laboured for it,
yet I have not been able either to get a copy, or
even a sight of one. God knows, 'tis a poor zeal
for religion, when they are ashamed and afraid to
appear publickly in a good cause, but act in a clan
destine way, and are not willing that even actions
that are laudable should be known.
Feb. 27. Mr. Wood makes Schidyard street, now
St. Mary hall lane in Oxford, to be the same with
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684 RELIQUIAE 1728-9.
formerly lived here, and for that reason might be
termed Sched-writers, or Writers row. But I think
that it is the same with Schieldyard street, and that
therefore the shield makers formerly dwelt here.
Feb. 28. Last night Mr. Whiteside told me and
others, (and I think he said he had it from the
present earl of Oxford,) that the late earl of Oxford
often talked that he would publish Domesday Booh
itself, and that in such a manner as to have the
whole ingraved on copper plates, with all the several
abbreviations and very ductus 's of the letters. But
this I look upon as a vain proposal, the business of
publishing being to make it clear as can be, that is,
to give the words at length, and the abbreviations
only at such times when such abbreviations may
bear several significations, and even then too some
times a note will be necessary. Were what his lord
ship proposed followed in other books, viz. Livy &c.
we should have strange editions. Let an able, faith
full man (that is skilled in abbreviations, and hath
honesty) undertake the work, and give the words at
large, in common characters (unless it be where the
signification is dubious,) and he will deserve well of
tbe learned world.
Mr. James Gibson being in town yesterday, he
told me his Grammatical Observations (printed at
Lichfield's) is quite finished. It seems it is against
the alterations that have been made in Lilly's
grammar. He was told by one that was with me,
that Lilly's grammar is newly done at London, with

1728-9. -HEARNIAN.E. 685
the corrections of all the school-masters there, so as
to be reduced to its first state, and that Mr. Ayns-
worth was one of those that had done it. This
seemed to trouble Mr. Gibson, as if his own labour
were now in vain.
March 4. Mr. James Gibson's little 4to book
(printed at Leonard Lichfield's in Oxford) relating
to Grammar is just come out. 'Tis entitled by him
Grammatical Exceptions, which is a very odd title,
as indeed the whole book is very odd. 'Tis true
there are several good remarks in it, and so I told
him a good while since, when he shewed it to me in
MS., but I then told him, it ought to be wrote all
anew, and several things to be omitted, and others
to be altered, but this he little regarded. For
though, at my suggestion, he did leave out his note
or observation, in which he had made Dorobernia
to be Dover, and was a long time positive that 'twas
so, (and I had a great struggle with him to make
him sensible that 'twas Canterbury,) yet he took no
care in other things to consult his reputation, but
hath published a very ridiculous book ; which need
not be wondered at, considering that he is crazed,
and very perverse, though when young he was a
very good schoolmaster, aud got himself a good re
putation on that account. He is withall an honest,
religious man, and very inoffensive, and on that
account to be much respected. His second wife
(whose maiden name was Newton) died in October

686 RELIQUIAL 1728-9.
last, aged at least three score and ten. After I had
formerly more than once cautioned him very freely
about this book, he never afterwards either shewed
it me, or told me what he did in it, for fear (I sup
pose) that I should expostulate with him ; tho' some
time since he did tell me in Oxford, that he would
dedicate it to the convocation of both provinces ; but
'tis not dedicated to them, his brother, the provost
of Queen's coll., having overruled that matter.
March 8. Mr. Anstis, finding by a citation of
mine that I have a copy of New college statutes,
desires to borrow it for a very short time. I must tell
him (what I must also to all that pretend to borrow
books of me, for if I should lend to one I must to
another), that being debarr'd the Bodleian library, I
am now confined to my own books, which I am
every minute using, and therefore desire to be ex
cused from parting with any, even for so little time
as a minute".
March 16. Yesterday in a convocation at 2
o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Wm. Jorden of Pem
broke coll. was elected by the univ. of Oxford rector
of Astocke in com. Wilts, (which belongs to a
Roman catholic family, the Webbs,) in opposition
to Mr. Crawford of Balliol coll.

u Upon second thoughts, Hearne relents, and lends Anstis his vol. of New
college statutes, " since he is so good a friend."

1728-9. HEARNIAN^E. 687
March 19. The farther part of Christ Church
meadow (which is in Barkshire) is in the parish of
St. Aldate, Oxford, and the tithes (as I take it) of
right belong to the minister of St. Aldate's.
Browne Willis esq. being in Oxford, he spent the
evening with us last night in Cat street. He speaks
much against Mr. Salmon's Antiquities of Hartford-
shire, as a thing extracted and epitomized (tho' he
says but very poorly and injudiciously) from sir
Henry Chauncy. Yet I think it better done than
Mr. Willis's own performances, I mean where Mr.
Willis hath been left to himself; for as for the view
of the mitred abbeys in Leland, particular care was
taken by somebody else to have it well done.
March 20. The transporting books from beyond
sea is a vast charge at the custom house in England.
No country but England knows a tax on learning.
The doctrine of Naples, broached by the emperour
Charles V., is Libri sint liberi, and that in a country
fertile of taxes.
March 21. Mr. Henry Wharton, tho' a very
learned man, yet wanted that integrity as archbp.
Sancroft and many expected from him, and for that
reason the suffering men excused him much less
than they otherwise would have done ; which when
he considered, it struck much upon his spirits.
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688 RELIQUT^l 1728-9.
purchassd all Dr. Woodward's fossils for 1000 libs.,
he having bequeathed those that were foreign, to
the said university by will." Fog's Journal for
March 22, 172-f-.
March 28. The dispute at King's college at Cam
bridge was about one Mr. Dale, a good while ago
expelled his fellowship of that college, for reflecting
very impudently and saucily in a set speech there
upon k. Charles I. &c, as if that good king was
justly beheaded. He sues for restoration. A law
suit commences, who is visitor, whether the king or
the bp. of Lincoln : 'tis carried for the bp., who
hath restored Mr. Dale. Upon which Mr. Baker, in
his letter of the 25th, writes thus : " It must be
presum'd, Mr. Dale was guilty of no fault, for the
visitor did not think fit to pass the least censure
upon him, or to give him the least admonition : but
notwithstanding his innocence, I am told he has left
the college in a distracted condition."
April 1. Yesterday morning the foundation stone
at Oriel college was laid for the new building there
for the provost, between the college and St. Mary
hall. April 6. Dr. Freind's books sold high, particu
larly the Oxford editions. Part of these books were
once the property of Cowley, descended to Sprat,
and bought by the Dr. of Sprat's executors. In

1729. HEARNIAN.E. 689
them were several MSS. notes by all three, par
ticularly a fine character of the present duke Whar
ton by the last in an edition of Tully, presented
him by the duke, which character being printed
in some of the publick papers, Dr. Rawlinson did
not send it me, nor indeed have I as yet got it.
There were two stanzas of Sapphicks in a Caesar's
Comment, old edition, sent by the late Mr. Anthony
Alsop to the Dr. as a present.
April 7. Dr. Rawlinson tells me, Dr. (he means
Mr.) Salmon's character as a man of honour is
known, that he was a Cantabrigian, is in double
orders, (though he goes in lay habit,) relinquished
for eonscience, and now practices physick. The Dr.
says his (Mr. Salmon's) Hartfordshire is, he fears,
mostly from Chauncy, with a continuation ; that the
world speaks better of his smaller pieces on tbe
Roman roads, that the defect of indexes to his
works is unpardonable, and that for it he has suf
fered much in his reputation.
April 10. Dr. Rawlinson hath put out another
Auction Catalogue of his brother's books, in which
is another Matt. Parker of the 1st ed. concerning
which the Dr. writes thus : " Our last Matthew
Parker now takes his fate. I am told there is a
latent commission of 50 lb. for it from France,
but I hope England will not lose such a treasure,
tho' I cant well afford to be the master of it."

690 RELIQULE 1729.
April 23. By Mr. A. Wood's papers it appears,
that the king's swarth (formerly called also Port
street) beyond New Parks by Oxford, went over by
a bridge the river Charwell.
April 26. Mr. Ainsworth, the compiler of the
Kempian and Woodwardian catalogues, tells Mr.
West, Mr. Dodwell had seen Mr. Downe's strictures
upon Dr. Woodward's shield, and had wrote a suffi
cient confutation of them, the original of which he
found among Dr. Woodward's papers, and intends to
publish shortly.
Dr. Woodward's books amounted to 1741/. 17*.
His curiosities and antiquities came to no great sum,
abating the shield, which it seems was bought back
by his executors for 100 guineas, the name of captain
Vincent being made use of to prevent the true pur
chasers being known.
May 1. (Out of) Mr. West's letter from the
Inner Temple, April 28, 1789-
" In answer to your's of the 25th," [of April 1729] " in
my catalogue of the earl of Pembroke's collection, it is thus
put down :
" Tabula Antiqua of Richard the Second when young
on his knees in a robe embroidered with white harts with
his three saints in like habits, St. John Baptist, St. Edmund
and St. Edward. On a gold plate under this picture is
engraved this. Invention of Painting in Oyle 1410. This

1729. HEARNIANJE. 691
was painted before in the beginning of Richard the Second
1377. Wen. Hollar graved and dedicated it to king
Charles the First, and calls it Tabula Antiqua of king
Richard the 2nd with his three saints, St. John Baptist, and
2 kings, St. Edmund and Edward Confessors. I am in
formed lord Oxford hath one of these cutts of Hollar. The
earl of Pembroke is ill. When I see him I will send you
a more particular account."
May 2. It appears from the Register of Osney,
in the treasury of Christ Church, that the isle of
Middley, with the Wick and other appurtenances,
came to Osney abbey by gift of the burgesses of
Oxon, in lieu whereof the abbey of Osney gave the
burgesses one mark of silver, which mark of silver
the burgesses assigned to the priory of St. Frides-
wide, (to be paid by the hands of the abbat and
convent of Osney,) for penance enjoyned them for
the death of the clerks (or scholars) formerly hanged
by them.
May 7. Dr. Bently's admission, from the Register
of St. John's coll. Cambridge (sent me by Mr. Baker
May 4th, 1729). Richardus Bentley Ebor. de
Oulton filius Thomas B. defuncti, annos natus quin-
decim, et quod excurrit, literis institutus infra
Wakefield, admissus est subsizator Mai. 24, 1676,
tutore ejus Mro. Johnston, Regr. coll. Jo. So I have
his school, county &c. as well as his age.
Dr. Rawlinson seems to expect 50 guineas for the
last copy of the Antiq. Brit. That is much too high
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a price for Mr. Baker, and so he leaves it to the
men of quality. It is also much too high for me,
had I any great occasion to be greedy of it.
May 11. Last night Mr. Thomas Cockman came
very privately to Oxford to his lodgings at Univ.
coll., the matter being now intirely settled, with
respect to his being master of that college, seven
commissioners having been. appointed by the crown
to visit the college, which accordingly was done in
London, it being judged more proper to have the
visitation there, that the college might not be put
to too great expenses. These commissioners or
visitors soon dispatched the matter, and at the same
time I understand declared five fellowships vacant,
viz. Mr. Denison's, Mr. Nevil's, (by reason of a pa
trimony,) Mr. Lindsey 's, Mr. Cockerill's, and Mr.
Heather's, this Heather being never legally ad
mitted. May 17. Bp. Fell alway designed the ground,
where the new printing house is, for a university
church. But Dr. Lancaster turned it to quite an
other use, for which he is much blamed by honest
men. The old university congregation house at Oxford
was the ground room, at the north side of St. Mary's
church, and over it was the Cobham library, built
by Thomas Cobham bp. of Worcester ; but the books
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of duke of Humfray A. D. 1480, the upper room
became the congregation house, in which upper
room was brave painted glass containing the arms of
the benefactors, which painted glass continued till
the times of the late rebellion.
May 21. Rymer's Foedera are reprinted by Jacob
Tonson at 50 libs, a set, and yet he hath printed five
hundred copies. There were but two hundred
printed for sale of the former impression, besides
what was reserved to the government for presents,
and they were sold at 40 shills. a volume ; and the
whole (there being seventeen volumes) came to 34
pounds. Mr. George Holmes, of the Tower, had
the care of this new ed., and found considerable
mistakes in the transcripts.
June 5. Many years agoe the public prints had
signified, that Dr. William King, archbp. of Dublin,
was dead, but 'twas a mistake, and he did not die
till very lately, (about six weeks ago,) being of an
advanced age, and whereas formerly a bad character
had been given of him, now the papers were lavish
in his commendation for generosity, hospitality, and
charity. What is to be believed I know not. This
I know, that he was in his younger day utterly
ignorant of the Greek tongue, which he therefore
learned, when at Dublin, of Mr. Dodwell, that he
was a time-server, and having acted in favour, of
rebellion, could not look the conscientious non-jurors
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in the face, as may be partly seen in what I have
observed at the end of the Vlth volume of Leland's
Collectanea. July 18. Mr. Alexander Pope, the poet's father,
was a poor ignorant man, a tanner at Binfield in
Berks. This Mr. Alex. Pope had a little house
there, that he had from his father, but hath now
sold it to one Mr. Tanner, an honest man. This
Alexander Pope, though he be an English poet, yet
he is but an indifferent scholar, mean at Latin, and
can hardly read Greek. He is a very ill-natured
man and covetous, and excessively proud.
August 10. Yesterday Dr. Tanner told me Mr.
Henry Wharton went thro' Oxon in his way. to
Bath a little before he died, and called upon Dr.
Charlett, and that he [Dr. Tanner] was then also
with him. Mr. Wharton wrote a diary of his own
life in Latin, even to that very time, that circum
stance of his being then at Oxford being in it. Dr.
Tanner hath seen it, and after Mr. Wharton's death
calling upon his (Mr. Wharton's) father, an old
clergyman, he asked him about it. He replyed,
" My son hath got every thing from me, not leaving
me so much as a book or scrap of paper." This son
was younger than Mr. Henry Wharton, was an
apothecary and great rake, so that 'tis to be feared
this diary and many other things of great value are
utterly destroyed.

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August 12. About a year since died Mr. Richard
Parker, rector of Embleton in Northumberland, and
was preceded by Dr. To vey of Merton college, it
being in Merton coll. gift. This Embleton is the
place where Duns Scotus was born. As for Mr.
Parker, he was formerly fellow of Merton college,
as a member whereof he took the degree of M. A.
Apr. 17, 1697. He was an excellent classick scholar,
and, when of Merton college, was acquainted with
the chief wits of the university, among whom he
would be very merry and facetious, but he was very
modest and even sheepish, and would be very shy in
strange company. He was commonly called learned
Dick Parker, but I know of nothing that is pub
lished of his, unless it be the Account of Isaac Ca-
saubon's MSS. Papers in the Bodleian library, in
pag. 264 of tbe 1st vol. of Catalogus MSStorum
Anglise et Hiberniae, where he is stiled vir eruditus
by Dr. Edw. Bernard, (who had the chief care of
that work, and was) a, great admirer of Mr. Parker,
whom the Dr. observed to have the shape of Tully's
head. August 21. Dr. Rawlinson tells me that his
brother's funeral was expensive, though scandalous ;
the Dr. being at a great distance, that, during an
interim of eight months, expensive commissions of
appraisement were settled, that commissioners were
put in, as he fears, rather to survey and plunder
than do justice to the creditors, himself, or the
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world. He says, the large paper Leland's Itinerary
has never yet appeared x, no more than the first or
dinal of k. Edw. VI. The Dr. is tender of charging
any one person, and yet he tells me something sur
prising with respect to Mr. Mich. Mattaire. He
allows that he would not rob on the road, and yet
would perhaps clandestinely borrow a book or medal,
and think his honour no way impeached. The Dr.
says Mattaire has been observed, at the time of
their commissions, to enter empty and return loaded
from London House, that severall covers of books
of the old editions, as also of those printed by
Stephens, Vascosan, Morel, &c. have been discovered
in odd parts of the library, behind other books, but
the valuable contents gelt. He says he will not, as
some have done, urge this as an argument against
him ; but it being well known, that the rarity of
the Ordinal is very singular, some time since in a
general discourse Mr. Mattaire, before the esqr.'s
death, sighed for such a curiosity, after which, in the
Dr.'s presence, and before Mr. Anstis, he blundered
* This identical copy I saw many years ago when ou a visit at Filkins haU,
near Burford, Oxfordshire, the seat of the Colston's. It is now probably at
Roundway Park, near Devizes ; to which tbe family, having purchased the
estate, have since migrated. I transcribed, at the time I visited Filkins, the
following MS. notes.
Vol. I. Tho. Rawlinson.
Legi suma cu voluptate hunc LibeUum in vUht  apd
Dunington in agro Berks, mense Septembri An.Dom. 1711.
2nd vol. read in Dr. Pellef s copy, my own being mislaid.
Vol. 6. Lectio hujusce Libri incepta fuit in viUa Rev. Andreae Archer rec-
toris de Solihull in agro Warwick A° Dni. 17 ra, mense Julio; finite
vero apd Nantwich die ultimo JubVj 171 2.

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out the possession, and again since hinted he had no
such book, which denyal seems founded on a request
made by one who knew the copy. These are odd
circumstances, and upon them the Dr. says a letter
was sent Mr. Mattaire by an unknown hand, who
promises the Dr. a copy. Herein, it seems, Mr.
Mattaire is charged in the most open manner with
a breach of trust in the library, books purloyned
from the rooms before the times of auctions, and
the anonymous promises Mattaire to inform the Dr.
of particulars more at large. The Dr. is unwilling
to expose Mr. M.'s character, and yet cannot but
insist on some kind of justice, such as a clearing by
oath in chancery, " a request" (says the Dr.) " an
honest man will not refuse, no more than a knave
decline" ; but even after that, the Dr. thinks him
self at hberty to produce suspicious circumstances,
such as I have mentioned. The Dr. observes far
ther, that this good man had swallowed this library
in imagination, as he hoped to have the conduct of
its sale, and that it is almost inconceivable with
what face he could allot the Dr. 10,000 pounds clear
of expences, MSS. and prints ; but such was the
fervent praepossession of the man, that he was little
less than enthusiastic on the point, as has been, at
the Dr.'s expense, more clearly visible to the world.
August 30. Upon Bullington green is a little
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there was (as I take it) a castle, and hereabouts was
the town and church of Bullington, that many speak
of, which raises great speculations among the vulgar.
Sept. 7. The Vocacyon of Johan Bale to the
Bishopric qf Ossorie. This book is so scarce, that
the archbp. of Cant, had not seen it, when he was
assisting father Courayer in the late controversy
concerning our orders ; and at his request I sent it
up to Lambeth. It is printed in 8vo, without date.
So Mr. Baker. But in the copy lent me by Thomas
Rawlinson esq. in 1720, 1 found this date at ye end.
Q Imprinted in Rome (before the castell of S.
Angell (at ye signe of S. Peter) in Decembre) Anno
D. 1553 [Q.Marie].
Which circumstance of it's being printed in Rome
is a downright fiction y. If Mr. Baker's copy really
wants the said date, it is imperfect2. As I remember
Bale's book is puff 'd with other lyes.

y The printer, doubtless, was Hugh Singleton, whose mark is at the end.
I look upon this as one of the rarest volumes of Irish history. It is mentioned
in the Harleian Catalogue, vol. IV., no. 121 11. Herbert's Ames pp.741,
1573. Dibdin's Herbert IV., p. 290. Copies may be found in the British
Museum, and in Malone's and Douce's coUections in the Bodleian. I may
here record another very curious volume, which, although printed nearly a
century after, is nearly as difficult to meet with. This is " The persecution
" and oppression (which, as Solomon saith, is able to make a wise man mad)
" of John Bale, that was caUed to be bishop of Ossory, by tbe sole election,
" without any other man's motion, of that pious king, Edw. 6. ; and of
" Gruffith Williams, that was caUed after the same manner to the same
" bishoprick by the sole election, without any other man's motion, of that
" most exceUent, pious king, and glorious martyr, Charles 1. Two learned
" men, and right reverend bishops of Ossory. London. Printed for the
" author, 1664." 4to, pp.44: at the end, in my copy, with fresh pagination

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Sept. 8. Three or four yeares agoe Dr. Holds-
worth, of St. John's college, told me, that Dr. Stuart
and some others would fain have me put out a new
edition of Capgrave's Legenda Sanctorum, which
is very scarce ; but this I thought fit to wave, it
being (as I judged) sufficient, that it had been once
printed ; and it might be as proper (yea I think
more proper) to reprint the Missal of Hereford,
which is much more scarce than Capgrave. Indeed,
the copies of this Missal (whether printed or MSS.)
are so very rare, that Brian Twine (otherwise a most
knowing man) did not know of it, and therefore
reckons (p. 186 Apol. Ant. Ac. Oxon.) but three
kinds of Missals, viz. Salisbury, York, and Bangor,
omitting that of Hereford, a thing I must tell Mr.
Baker of.
Sept. 9- Mem. To tell Mr. Baker, that Dr. Gerard
Langbaine (a very great scholar, and a great judge
of our English history and antiquities) observed to
.Mr. Selden, (who deservedly consulted the Dr. in
and signatures, pp. 1-67, " The sad condition of the church and clergy in the
" diocess of Ossory ; and I fear not much better in aU Ireland." My late
very learned and very courteous friend, Dr. Routb, was a diligent coUector of
bishop Gr. Williams's works, but could never obtain this tract. Its rarity
may, possibly, be accounted for by the destruction committed upon literature
at the fire of London.
z Sept. 17. The date to Bale's Vocacyon Mr. Baker had not observed till
I directed him to it ; upon the intimation I gave, he finds it as quoted by me
in a letter I lately wrote to him ; but neither at the beginning nor end of the
book, but after the errata. He had it not then, wben he wrote to me, by
him ; being one of the old books he gave to their library, where they stand not
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these affairs,) as may be seen in Leland's Coll. vol.
V. p. 287, " that an extract might be taken of all
the historicall passages in Dr. Gascoigne's Dictio-
narium Theologicum, which in his opinion do as well
deserve to be published as the rest of that great
work does scarce (but for them) deserve the read
ing." Whether such an extract were taken, I know
not, but 'tis certain 'twas never published. If it
were taken, 'tis possible it might be deferred for
another volume of Cornelius Bee's historians, which
however never came out. I have given a specimen
of the historical passages in the Antiquities of Glas
tonbury, and there are many more in Mr. Wood's
Hist, and Antiquities of the Univ. of Oxford. Mr.
Wood, I think, got them chiefly by the assistance of
his great friend and acquaintance Mr. Henry Foulis,
fellow of Lincoln college. I have often been think
ing of making and publishing such an extract, but
indeed I despair of getting it. 'Twas with difficulty
I got the specimen in the Antiq. of Glastonbury.
Partiality obstructs things of this kind, and 'tis to
that we are to ascribe the loss of a great deal of
secret history, while other things of the same kind
for the same reason lye dormant, and are quite hid.
Sept. 14. Mr. Weeksey having, upon his eject
ment from Oriel college, appeal'd to the lord chan
cellour of England, sir Peter King, visitor of that
college, on the behalf of (what they call the king)
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never been of any university, knows nothing of
college affairs ; sir Peter thereupon made null the
election of tbe provost of Oriel college, because the
provost had not every vote, and declared Weeksey's
ejectment (there being no warden) illegal, but after
wards he made Dr. Hodges warden himself, by virtue
of his visitatorial power, and restored Weeksey to
his fellowship, a mandate or decree being come to the
college for that restoration.
Sept. 19- The following copy of an original letter
from k. James 2d, when duke of York, was sent me
by Mr. Baker of Cariibridge Sept. 14, 1729 ; not to
be printed, for indeed it is not worth printing ; but
being only a curiosity, 'tis to be kept by me as such.'
For Mr. Lenthall, speaker of the house of commons.
Mr. Speaker,
I understand, that there was a letter of mine intercepted
going to the king, which I confesse was a fault, and there
fore I desire you to let the house know, that I will engage
my honour and faith never to engage my selfe any more in
such businesses. And my request is that I may continue,
where I now am ; in doing which you will much obligue me,
who am, your friend
St. Jameses, Feb. YORKE.
20, 1647.
Endorsed thus : " Duke of Yorke ; reported 22d Fe-
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This (says Mr. Baker) I can vouch to be taken from
an original ; and if I might acquaint you how I came
by it, you could have no doubt of it.
Sept. 23. Last night I spent the evening with
Mr. Fletcher Gyles and Mr. Charles Davis, London
booksellers. Mr. Whiteside of the Museum, and
Mr. Taylor of Univ. coll. were also with us. The
said Davis is a man that bears little better character
with many honest men than Edm. Curie. He
makes it his business to pyrate books, and hath re
printed something from mine without acknowledg
ment, particularly what I have about lord Cobham
at the end of Titus Livius Foro-Jul. This I men
tioned to him. He said he had it from the Tower,
which is a lye. I had it from Mr. Geo. Holmes,
who transcribed it from the Tower, and Davis stole
it from my book, and he insinuated that he would
do so with respect to other things. He printed this
thing about Cobham at the end of his paltry edition
of lying Bale's trifling book about that lord.
Mr. Gyles said, he hath got in the press Lam-
bard's Topographical Dictionary of Britain, the MS.
of which he shewed me some years ago.
Davis said, he was going to reprint Caius's Anti
quities of Cambridge, and that Mr. Jebb was to
do it.
Sept. 28. On Thursday, Sept, 18, 1729, died
Rich. Graves, of Mickleton near Campden in Glou-

1729. HEARNIAN.E. 703
cestershire, esq., in the 53rd year of his age, being
born April 22, 1677. He was one of the most
worthy and most virtuous gentlemen I was ac
quainted with. He was also a most excellent
scholar and antiquary, a man of great modesty and
of a most sweet temper, and a great friend to his
tenants and to the poor, so that all people are very
sorry for his death, which I hear was very sudden,
tho' he hath been of late much afflicted with the
epidemical feaver and ague that hath raged (and
still rages) so much for these 3 years. He was very
studious, and made great collections ; and was upon
a work he designed to have published, relating to
the antiquities of Evesham and some other abbies.
Sept. 30. Dr. Caius had a mean opinion of John
Wickliff, and therefore he thought the Oxonians
ought not to be proud' that John Wickliff was
educated among them. See the 8vo ed. of his book,
p. 268. When Wickliff's doctrine began to prevail
in the univ. of Oxford, the sermons, before they '
were preach'd publickly, used to be examined by the
Drs. of Div. Ib. pp. 270, 271. Quaere, whether there
were any such thing at Cambridge a.
Oct. 23. On the 9th of this month, being Thurs
day, Mr. John Whiteside, keeper of the Ashm.
Museum, chaplain of Christ Church, and minister
of King's Walden in Hartfordshire, went out of
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town to the said King's Walden in tbe afternoon,
and lay that night at Tring. I knew nothing of
his journey till the next night, tho' he used always
formerly to let me know of his journies beforehand.
He returned on Thursday, Oct. 16. The next day,
(being Friday,) after my return from my walk, I saw
and discours'd with him, and he seemed well.
On Sunday morning he call'd upon me, and stay'd
with me about an hour, and discours'd pleasantly,
but complain'd of an indisposition, as he often would,
having had a great pain in his knee at intervals for
several years. The next day being Monday, I call'd
at the Museum in the afternoon, but not finding
him there, I went to Christ Church, and found him
sitting by the fire. We talk'd as usuajly of many
particulars, and he told me, that his distemper (as it
plainly now appeared) was the yellow jaundice. He
had had the advice of Dr. Lee, and 'twas thought it
would be soon conquered.
Mr. Whiteside told me, the jaundice came by
drinking a pretty deal of bad small beer at Christ
Church after his journey. Tuesday in the afternoon
I call'd upon him again, and found him in bed. He
talk'd well and cheerfully as he used to do, and I
did not apprehend the danger. But yesterday morn:
ing one of his young men at the Museum came to
me, and told me he knew nobody, and that 'twas
fear'd he could not be recover'd. I soon heard this
bad news confirm'd by other hands. I went to him,
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till about half an hour after five o'clock in the even
ing in that manner, and then expired. He was a
very ingenious industrious man, an excellent mathe
matician, and one of the best in England in experi
mental philosophy. He carried on a course of ex
periments for many years at the Museum, to the
great advantage ofthe youth ofthe university.
He took the degree of A.M. June 23, 1704, as a
member of Brase-nose coll., of whicli he had been a
servitor originally b.
Oct. 25. The eight first Reading Mercuries (pub
lished A0. 1723) are valuable upon account of the
relation in them of the bounds of Reading, and of
the list of the mayors from the Xth year of Hen.
VI. A0. 1432, when, it seems, it became a mayor
town. Which account of Reading and of the several
mayors was sent to the press by John Watts esq.,
who was mayor for the year 1722.
Nov. 1. The present dutchess of Brunswick,
commonly call'd queen Caroline, is a very proud
woman, and pretends to great subtlety and cunning.
She drinks so hard, that her spirits are continually
inflam'd, and she is often drunk. This last summer
she went away from Orkney house near Maidenhead
(at which she had dined) so drunk that she spew'd
b Oct. 26. Mr. Whiteside was buried at Christ Church, in the cathedral,
at the time of prayers, at four o'clock in the afternoon, on Friday last, Oct.
24, as I was told on my return from my country walk, for I knew nothing of
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in the coach all her journey as she went along, a
thing much noted.
Nov. 2. My friend Mr. Baker read Blount's Bos-
cobel with pleasure, when he was very young, in his
father's house ; as indeed it is a very pleasant, enter
taining book, and perhaps may contain many things
that were communicated by father Huddleston, whom
Mr. Wood heard at Oxford to relate the whole
story. It is very strange (as Mr. Baker observes)
that the king should only name father Huddleston
once in his long narrative penn'd by Mr. Pepys, and
without due acknowledgment of his services. But
in truth the king is too full of himself, and too much
forgets his friends. When he came to dye, he re
membered Mr. Huddleston " who had preserved him
in the tree, and now hoped would preserve his
soul." Nov. 3. Dr. Caius's bookc, says Mr. Baker, was a
posthumous work, but it was left in very safe and
carefull hands, viz. archbishop Parker's, who bore
part of the expense of the edition, as I find in some
MS. notes of his son sir John Parker. The Dr., in
all appearance, was a Roman catholic; and yet he
joyned in communion with the Church of England
to the last, and came to the chapel, and to our
prayers, as many of the Roman cathohcks did till
towards that time when the pope sent out his
c His Hist. Cantabrigiensis Academia, 4to, Lond. in sedibus Jo. Daii, r574-

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bull &c. His successor Dr.Legge was popishly affected
in a high degree, and probably for that reason was
brought in by him ; and during that reign there was
a popish leaven in that college amongst the fellows
and scholars.
Nov. 8. Mr. Stow was a man much superior both
in skill and probity to Rich. Grafton the printer,
who tho' he used published books, yet he was not
curious enough to consult and collect from old MSS.
Nov. 11. Mr. Randal Catherall was a great anti
quary, and took much pains in collecting materials
from leiger books and other monuments of that kind,
in order to compile some work about the religious
houses, which I doubt not would have been ex
quisite: but he never lived to finish what he had
begun, and what became of his valuable collections
I know not. Perhaps Mr. Catherall of Oriel college
may give some information. Bp. Sanderson had seen
and used them, and look'd upon them as excellent,
for which reason he transcribed many things from
them ; which is the more to be regarded, because
the bp., besides his being a profound divine, was
likewise a great English antiquary, and spent much
time (particularly in his retirement before the Re-
stauration) in perusing old registers.
Nov. 13. Hugh Latymer is said by some to have
very much assisted archbp. Cranmer in compiling
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the Homilies, which I veryly believe to be true,
considering the learning and simplicity of the man,
who however in this work used nothing ludicrous,
as he thought proper sometimes to do in his sermons,
as the occasion required, the better to expose vice
and to please bis auditors.
The mannour of Islip was given to the church of
Westminster by k. Edw. Confessor, who was born
at Islip.
The said mannour was formerly the best wooded
of any mannour that belong'd to Westminster.
There were formerly above two hundred custom
ary tenants that belonged to the mannour.
St. Martin's Le Grand destroy'd in Edw. Vlth's
time. It was a noble college, founded a little before
the reign of Wm. Conq. It is sad to consider in
what a most sacrilegious manner the chappell was
abus'd after the college Mas dissolv'd, part of it
being turn'd into a tavern.
Nov. 18. Thos. Latymer and others were cou-
cern'd in compiling Edward Vlth's Liturgy, yet
Cranmer was the chief person ; insomuch that the
late Mr. Edward Stephens, whom some called father
Stephens, and others abbat Stephens, used to stile it
the Cranmerian Liturgy. This Mr. Edward Stephens
was a good common lawyer, and was great with
judge Hale, whose Meditations he published. After
wards he went into orders, but was for the Greek
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ticular and singular opinions, but was a good, pious,
sincere, and religious man, and died (as I take it) a
non-juror. Notwithstanding his calling it the Cranmerian
Liturgy, he made use of the 1st liturgy of k. Edw.
VI., with some few additions and patches of his own,
as may be seen in the printed ed. he set out of it, of
which, as well as of Mr. Stephens's other things,
there were only very few copies printed. Dr. Grabe
used to communicate with him. He died (I think
in April) in 1706, at which time, as I have been
well inform'd, he profess'd himself to die a member
of the Greek church. He was buried at Enfield by
the care of his son-in-law, (Dr. Udall,) a reverend
Dr. in divinity, who lived there, and taught a great
number of the sons of noblemen and gentlemen,
and had a mighty, and, I believe, a deserved reputa
tion for his faculty that way. Quaere, whether this
Dr. Udall were not a Cambridge man ?
Nov. 24. They had examiners at Cambridge for
Bac. and Drs. of Divinity : but whether with regard
to Wickliff, Mr. Baker cannot say. That university
was noted for orthodoxy, when we at Oxford were
tainted with what they call'd heresy. Dr. Cranmer
was one of these examiners, afterwards archbp.
Mr. Baker remembers only one censure of a Wicliv-
ist at Cambridge, whilst that sort of men were very
numerous at Oxford. And it was this [reputed]
orthodoxy, that partly determin'd Hen. Vlth to be
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a founder at Cambridge. His foundation brought
in the Queen's, before which they were very low.
Nov. 29. Learning is at so low an ebb at present,
that hardly any thing of that kind is sought after,
except it be English, Scotch, or Irish history ; which
probably may make Dr. Grey's catalogue sell well
after Christmas, which I hear is well fraught with
books of that kind. It is said to be very low in
Italy, and yet they have even now a much greater
regard both to religion and learning than we have
in England.
Nov. 30. Last Wednesday died suddenly Mr.
Benjamin Cole, of All Hallows parish, Oxford, and
was buried next day in All Hallows churchyard.
This person was originally a bookbinder, but he per
formed but indifferently. Afterwards he turned in-
graver, and practised heraldry and surveyings He was
a man of parts, but conceited. He might have proved
eminent, had not he been giddy headed, so as alto
gether to follow no one single profession. He pub
lished a map of Port Meadow, another of 20 miles
round Oxford, and a third of 20 miles round Cam
bridge. Some time ago he published proposals for
printing a folio book of heraldry, which he hath
shewed me in MS. several times, being a collection
of arms made by himself; to which would have
been prefixed a discourse about heraldry, and other
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1729. HEARNIANjE. 711
met with little encouragement, by reason 'twas not
thought he had learning enough to write anything
well ou the subject, notwithstanding his collections
might be good. He died in the 63rd or grand cli-
macterical year of his age. He was of non-juring
principles, particularly he was against the abjuration
oath. Dec. 3. On Saturday night came news to the
Vice-Chancellour, Dr. Butler, of the death of Mr.
Joseph Bowles, chief keeper of the Bodleian library,
and fellow of Oriel coll., who died, as Mr. Powell
the beadle told me, at Shaftesbury in Dorsetshire,
the place of his nativity, and was buried there on
Tuesday, Nov. 25, last, so that I suppose he died
either the Saturday or Sunday foregoing. Of this
gentleman (a most vile wicked wretch) frequent
mention hath been made in these memoirs. He
took the degree of M.A. Oct. 12, 1719. 'Tis in
credible what damage he did to the Bodleian library,
by putting it into disorder and confusion, which
before, by the great pains I had taken in it, and by
my taking down every book and examining it, and
thereby making the catalogue compleat, and reduc
ing the additions (after I had first written them in
an interleaved catalogue) into two vols, folio, (all
written with my own hand, which I intitled 'Ap
pendix ad Catalogum impressorum librorum in Bi-
bliotheca Bodleiana,' whicli was designed to have
been printed,) was the best regulated library in the
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world. Yesterday, at two o'clock in the afternoon,
was a convocation for electing a librarian. Can
didates were Mr. Wise, B. D., fellow of Trin. coll.,
and * custos archivorum ' of the university, who hath
usurped my place of second librarian these ten years ;
Mr. Bilstone, chaplain of All Souls', janitor of the
library, who bath got the new keys made, in opposi
tion to the old ones I have by me, (for I never re
signed, though they debarred me for not taking the
oaths,) and Mr. Robert Fysher, B.M., and fellow of Oriel
coll. Bilstone desisted, so the struggle was between
Wise and Fysher, and Fysher carried it by a ma
jority of fifteen votes, to the great mortification of
Wise, Bilstone, the Vice-Chancellour and many
others, who had taken strange methods to get Wise
(an half-strained conceited man) in ; but their tricks
would not do, to the great content of such as hate
such undermining wicked doings. Wise seemed to
be very sure of success, and expressed a concern
that his antagonist was his junior, and vaunted much
of his own service in order to lessen Mr. Fysher's
interest, but maugre all these methods, he was, as
he deserved, baffled. Mr. Fysher had 100, Mr. Wise
85 votes. The Whiggs were all, as it were, to a
man against Fysher, insomuch that Merton, Wad
ham, Exeter, and Jesus, were in a combination for
Wise. As far as I can understand, it was a party
cause, and they rather contended on that score than
for merit. There were 24 votes in Magd. coll.,
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1729. HEARNIANJL 713
a push between Whig and Tory, yet Fysher is by
much the worthier man, as far as I can yet learn. All
the canons of Christ Church were against Fysher.
Dr. Shippen, principal of Brasenose coll., was very
zealous for Fysher.
Dec. 5. On Wednesday morning last Mr. George
Shepheard, B.D. and fellow of Trin. coll., was
chosen keeper of the Ashmolean museum, in room
of Mr. Whiteside deceased. This gentleman (whom
I do not yet know so much as by sight) was senior
proctor of the university in the year 1719. The
electors to this post are, the Vice-Chancellor for the
time being, the dean of Christ Church, the principal
of Brazenose coll., and the regius professor of phy-
sick. Several at first appeared for this place, among
which was Mr. James Fynes, M. A. and fellow of
Magd. coll. But the Vice-Chancellor himself was
against Fynes, (though of his own college, and su
perior in merit to Shepheard,) alledging, that Trinity
college having served their college in electing Dr.
Jenner Margaret professor, he could not but serve
them again ; a strange reason for a Vice-Chancellor,
not regarding merit. Mr. Henry Edmunds of Oriel
coll. likewise appeared, but the dean of Christ
Church having also declared for Shepheard, it was
found at last (one of the proctors being of Trin. coll.)
that it could not be carried against Shepheard, as it
might, had the Vice-Chancellor been guided by prin
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ingly elected. For my own part I was always, and
still am, of opinion that a layman, and not a man in
orders, much less a priest and a B. D., ought to have
this place, which depends so much on shewing knick-
knacks or gim-cracks ; and though Mr. Whiteside
was himself so useful there in carrying on experi
mental philosophy, which he did for himself, and not
as custos musei, and might therefore have done it
elsewhere as well, if he had provided himself of a
room, yet I was ever of opinion, that, for that very
reason, because he was a priest, and had a cure in
the country, it had been better if a proper lay per
son had been fixt upon, as had been done before,
he being the first clergyman that had it, and perhaps
now it may be made a constant practice.
Dec. 6. Martin Bucer, who was much consulted
at the beginning of the Reformation in Edw. Vlth
time, was a moderate man, and far superior to Calvin
or any of the other Puritans, with respect to the
retaining many laudable things, that they were very
zealous of abolishing. He died at Cambridge, and
is there buried. He was much respected by both
universities, who honoured him with verses at his
death. Dec. 13. The lady Jane Grey, who was but a few
months older than Edw. VI., was so beautiful, so
goodnatured, and of so winning a carriage, that she
attracted the love of all, and nothing was wanting

1729. HEARNIA1SLE. 715
to render her an unexceptionable queen but a just
title. Her father-in-law, Dudley duke of North
umberland, was a most ambitious man, and by aim
ing at placing her on the throne, by that means
plainly contrived her ruin ; her own father, Henry
Grey duke of Norfolk, a soft, easy man, being with
out much difficulty drawn and persuaded to consent
to the duke of Northumberland's contrivances, for
which, though duke Henry was at present pardoned,
yet afterwards, for being in another rebellion in
queen Mary's reign, he was beheaded. This lady
Jane was adorned with incomparable parts, and is
said to have had such a genius and forwardness to
learning, as to understand Greek and Latin as well
as her own mother tongue. Instead of those exer
cises other young ladies used to follow, she followed
her book. They say she read Greek with great
pleasure, without any translation. When once at
her father's park there was a great hunting, with
other sports; whilst others were diverting themselves
at it, she was in her room all the time, reading
Plato's Phaedon in the original Greek. Other stories
of like nature are told of her, which though partly
true, yet a great deal must be supposed to be owing
to flattery. I have two of her letters among my
collections written in Latin, but those I transcribed
from a printed book. Quaere, what MS. letters there
are of her's without any regard to Mr. Strype or any
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Dec. 14. Sir James Hales, as Heylin hath ob
served, one of the justices of the common pleas in
king Edw. Vlth's time, was the only person of the
council that most resolutely refused to subscribe the
instrument for disinheriting the lady Mary, and
settling the crown upon the lady Jane Grey, which
as it was a most laudable act, so he was, when queen
Mary came to the crown, most deservedly rewarded
for it. Dugdale makes this sir James Hales not one
of the justices of the common pleas, but one of the
justices ofthe king's bench: and this I think is true.
Quaere about him, and whether the present family
of the Hales's be not descended from him ? Also,
whether he was not a Cambridge man, and a
writer ?
Yesterday Dr. Tanner called upon me, and told
me that he never saw so much as one sheet of the
2nd ed. of Athenae Oxon. till after tbe book was
printed ; at which I could not but admire, when I
have been assured from several, and particularly
more than once from his servant or secretary Jack
son, that the sheets constantly came from the press
to the Dr. ; from whence may be gathered, how
willing the Dr. is to excuse himself about having a
hand in the managing of that spurious • edition, in
which such strange work was made by omissions and
alterations, and yet he never will be able to get it
over, the edition being most certainly to be ascribed
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1729. HEARNIANiE. 717
Dec. 16. Sir Wm. Cordell, in the time of queen
Eliz., was an eminent man, and a great patron of
learning, and he was in particular a great encourager
of Saxton in his work of the maps of England. I
think this Saxton was a great surveyor and drawer,
but (as I take it at present) he would not engrave
himself. Dec. 17. Mr. Taylour told me that Browne Willis
(who came to Oxford last Friday, and went out of
town yesterday, but I did not see him) told him,
that his estate brought him in last year nine hundred
and thirty-five pounds, whereas it used to be looked
upon as worth per annum fifteen hundred pounds.
Mr. Willis came to town partly upon account of
begging (for he goes on, as he always will do, to beg)
for the chappell of Fenny Stratford, it being not as
yet endowed, and money (as he says) being still due
for building it.
Mr. Willis's new 4to book is (I hear) sadly scouted,
I mean that now almost printed, in which he hath
things relating to Oxford. Dr. Tanner shakes his
head at it.
Sir Thomas Sebright hath a fine paper copy of the
folio edition (I hear) of lord Clarendon's history with
draughts, finely done, of all the great persons men
tioned in the history. I know not who drew them,
but I am told they were taken from the originals.
Sir Thomas gave sixty guineas, I hear, for this copy,
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718 RELIQULE 1729.
wards saw it, declared he would have given ten
more guineas for it.
Dec. 22. On Sunday Dec. 7, this month ann.
1729, died at Reading in Berks, where he hath lived
with his wife many years, Mr. Benjamin Shirley,
bookseller, who lived formerly in Oxford, and was a
great auctioneer there, and much noted on that
account, tho' nothing near so eminent that way as
Mr. Edmund MiUington, a London bookseller, whom
he imitated, and who was certainly the most eminent
auctioneer that ever was or ever will be in England.
He, the said Shirley, died in an advanced age, being
near fourscore.
Dec. 25. In Mr. Baker of Cambridge is a great
deal of learning joyned with an uncommon degree
of modesty and politeness.
Dec. 29. Of the old translation of the Psalms in
metre, Mr. Baker hath the same opinion with me :
they have stood their ground against the greatest
men : first archbp. Parker's translation printed by
John Day, 4to, (now very scarce,) which Mr. Baker
hath seen ; and next king James's translation, beau
tifully printed with the privilege of his son. And
Mr. Baker hopes (as I do) will do the like against
our late innovators.
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his letter beforesaid of the 18th inst.) of Mr. Bowles's
death, and as sorry that he that is best fitted to suc
ceed him wants one qualification, which yet I cannot
wish him. The said words are spoke by Mr. Baker
with reference to myself, who am unqualified upon
account of my refusing the wicked oaths.
Dec. 31. On Monday last was to have been a
prize fighting in Oxford between two fellows, and
they had it cryed about with beat of drum for some
time; the mayor, sir Oliver Greenaway, having
given them leave : but they having had no leave
from the Vice-Chancellour, the same was stopt, the
Vice-Chancellour taking one of them up a little
before the time of fighting, and laying in wait yes
terday for the other, or any one else that was to
abett and countenance such a proceeding, to the
great resentment of the townsmen, who aim at de
stroying the privileges of the university, one of which
is to prevent and obstruct all idle, vagrant, dissolute
persons, who carry arms to the disturbance of the
public peace, and of the discipline of the university.
Jan. 2. In Edw. Vlth's time sentences of scrip
ture were painted upon walls in churches and chap
pels, and there were other decorations of that kind,
which were stiled the laymen's books ; but in queen
Mary's time they were defaced. Before the Re
formation there were other decorations upon the
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martyrs, and confessors, with other things very
proper, and even sentences too sometimes of scrip
ture, tho' not in the vulgar tongue.
Jan. 3. In Sept. last died the celebrated sir
Richard Steel, kt., a man that some years ago made
a great noise upon account of a paper called The Spec
tator, which came out a great while together, and
have been since printed together in many volumes ;
but the best of these Spectators were done by Mr.
Addison. Jan. 4. The great house standing in the entrance
into Grampole, over against the lower end of Christ
Church, Oxford, which belonged formerly to col.
Crook, was built by one Mr. John Smith, (shortly
after maior of the city,) and cost him (as 'tis credibly
reported) above 1300£ ; and it cost the col. neer
150£ after he had purchased it, in building of two
stables, one that would hold six horses, and the
other four. The garden plot is not large, and the
hall but small ; and all the other roomes (which are
many) very good. It was some years before 1679
a boarding school, and called Virgin's Hall, because
usually between twenty or thirty young ladies were
boarded in it. So in an original letter written from
Malmesbury, Nov. 19, 1679, to the earl of Anglesey,
lord privy seal, at Anglesey house in Drury lane,
London, by Mr. Thos. Gilbert the independent, who
was then about buying it for his lordship, and adds

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at the same time, " The only inconvenience is that
it neither has, nor can have, a coach house belonging
to it ; but standing in the entrance into Grampole,
over against the lower end of Christ Church, where
are diverse of the canons' coach-houses still standing
empty, choice whereof may be had at easy rates.
The house is no college lease, as the others (you
have formerly been about), but good freehold : the
lowest rate I can yet bring the colonel downe to for
it is 600£, and I verily think it will not stick long
on his hand at that price, when it shall be more
commonly known that he is minded to part with it."
Jan. 29. In Nov. last I had a letter from Mr. West,
dated at the Inner Temple the 19th of that month,
signifying that the town was very sickly, and that
their weekly bills of mortality were never so high
since the plague, and that they encreased every
week. Jan. 31. Mr. Taylor of Univ. coll. told me last
night, what I had not heard before, that some time
ago the present bp. of London, Edmund Gibson,
asked Dr. Felton, principal of Edm. Hall, what con
venticles there were in Oxford, (meaning non-juring
places of worship) and whether I went to any of
them, or whether I went to the ball chappell to
prayers. I know not well what answer Felton made,
unless it be that he said he knew of no conventicles
in Oxford, and tbat I went to no conventicle. As
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for my own part, there being no non-juring place
for worship in Oxford, I continue in my own room
and pray by myself, using the Common Prayer, and
that with greater consistence than go to the public
churches and joyn with them but partly.
March 13. Kingston upon Thames, March 4.
On Monday last (March 2) our sexton, with his son
and daughter, being employed in digging a grave,
part of the antient chappell called St. Mary's (which
is an old Gothick building, where formerly the south
Saxon kings used to be crowned, six of whose pic
tures, together with king John's, whose coronation
ceremony was there performed, are still remaining
on the walls, tho' tis at least 1300 years old) fell in
upon them, killed the sexton and one man upon the
spot, buried and Mounded several others, and buried
in the grave both the son and daughter for above
three hours, during which time many were employed
in digging out the rubbish in order to get at the
bodies that were buried. After the removal of the
timber and several loads of rubbish, they heard very
plainly some loud groans and cries in the grave:
soon after they came to the heads of two persons:
the man was speechless, and almost dead, having his
head closely confined between two stones ; the
woman was not so much pressed ; but being imme
diately taken care of by Dr. Cranmer, they are both
in a fair way of recovery. This church and chapel
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damage, besides the lives already lost, is computed
at above 1000£. Northampt. Merc. March 9,
1729-30. March 15. The river Thames made navigable to
Oxford in the reign of king James I., Dr. King, dean
of Christ Church, being Vice-Chancellour. Twyne's
Apol. p. 93.
From Ant. a Wood's Register of St. John Bap
tist's parish.
George, natural son of k. Charles IL, baptized
Jan. 1, 1665, privately, begotten on tbe body of
Barbara Villiers. He was born in a fellow's cham
ber in Merton coll. on Dec. 28 preceding.
March 24. Dr. Dixon Coleby a physician, for
merly of Merton coll., now a practitioner of his
faculty at Stamford in Lincolnshire, said yesterday
at Merton college, (as Mr. Pointer told me yester
day in the afternoon,) that one Mr. Wylde, a gentle
man commoner, going by St. John Baptist's church
in Nov. 1695, Mr. Ant. a Wood being in the church
and a grave digging, Mr. Wylde asked Mr. Wood
who 'twas for. For myself, replies Mr. Wood, the
nature of my distemper being such, vin. the strangury,
that I can live but a very little while. How true
this may be I cannot say, but I have very often
heard from persons of good credit, that Mr. Wood in
that distemper walked to the place where he de
signed to be buried, pointed to it, and gave direc-
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724 RELIQUIAE 1730.
tions about digging the grave, and some have added,
that he saw part, if not all, of the grave dug him
self. April 2. Yesterday I had a letter from my friend
Mr. Wm. Brome of Ewithington, of the 28th of last
month, in which he tells me, that the week before
there died at Fownehope, 4 miles from Hereford,
our good friend Mr. Patrick Gordon, one of the
worthyest and most learned men belonging to the
church of Hereford. Mr. Brome says he alwayes
enquired very kindly after me. The said Mr. Gor
don was certainly a very learned man. He had been
professor of Hebrew and Humanity at Aberdeen.
At the Revolution he was one of the ejected Scotish
episcopal clergy. Thence he came into England,
and was made master of the free school at Bray
near Maidenhead in Berks, where he was, after the
year 1690, (it was about the beginning of 1693,)
the very first master I had for the Latin tongue, for
I learned my accidence of him. After some time
leaving the school, (being succeeded by Mr. James
Gibson, who was my second master, and was so till I
came to the university,) he was preferred in Here
fordshire, and was one of the prebendaries of Here
ford. He married in the said county of Here
ford, but, I think, had no children. I know not
whether he ever published any thing, but I remem
ber when the "Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence" came
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1730. HEARNIANJL 725
to be the author. He was a man that had a very
great affection for me when he was my master, as
had also my second master, particularly for my dili
gence and promptness, which they both admired, and
would often say that I needed no spur, and indeed
(if I may be allowed to note this) I was never
whipped by either of them, notwithstanding they
were both severe enough to such as deserved cor
rection. April 4. On the 1st inst., being Wednesday, Mr.
Robert Wood, nephew of Ant. Wood, told me that
he is 68 years old. He said he thought his uncle
Antony had been 66 years old at least, whereas (as
I told him) he was not compleat 63. He said (and
so have others) that he looked as if he had been
fourscore. He said there is a paint of Antony in
the hands of Mr. Thos. Wood, a young gentleman
now of New coll., of which he is like to be fellow,
son of the late Dr. Thos. Wood, brother to this Mr.
Robert Wood. This picture, he said, is very little
like Antony, being done when he was young, and
under is put Ant. a Bosco. He said he was at
London when his said uncle Antony died. He
said they were burning his papers two or three days,
the maid constantly tending the fire whilst it was
doing, and 'twas before Antony died. He said his
(Mr. Robert Wood's) sister had abundance of little
papers and little books containing memorandums
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written by Antony, who used to write down every
thing, but that they are now destroyed and lost.
May 1. Mr. Ward, of Barford near Warwick,
lent me "A vewe of Weston park in Hartfordshire,"
as follows :
This is the vewe taken within the parke of Weston, by
Baldok in the covnte of Herteforde, now in the kynge's
handes our souerayn lord the iiird day of Januarii in the
xxijnd yere 0f kyng Herre the VHth, by Rawff Parclow,
gentylman, Thomas Devynysche, Richard Isod, John Har-
mer, John Bamford, Thomas Vnderwod, yomen, Wyllyam
Isod, Wyllyam Warant, Wyllyam Rombold, Thomas Isod,
John Irlond and Robt. Warant, sayth yl at ye day of yc
makyng herof that ther wer within the sayd park uppon
ther onesty by ther perfyt syght of all manner der receivyd
and acampyd viii score der, and as for the lodyche within
the sayd parke, the for sayd Rawff and hys company sayth
y* yt ys in decay of all thynges towchyng repacyons of the
sayd hows and abowt the lodyche to the some of xl mrk.
Farthermer the sayd Rawff & hys company sayth that the
heddysche.of the sayd parke ys in decay of heddyschyng,
whych most nedes be mad xx* scor poll whyche wyll cost
every poll iiid & the old wod In wyttnes to thys they
 ven the sayd Rawff & hys company hath set to ther
seles the day & yer abowe wrytten.
Mr. Ward at the same time lent me a MS. paper
thus:
The hospytaU lande.
Inprimis A capitall measuage, called the hospitall, wth
three acres of pasture thereunto- adioininge.

1730. HEARNIAISLE. 727
A close arrable in severall conteininge fower acres called
the Spittell close.
Also one wood conteininge twentie acres called Spittell
wood. Also fowrtene acres of meadowe lienge in severall, beinge
in a close called Spittell meade.
Also eight acres of arrable land lienge in Wallington
field. There is also lienge dispersed diversly in the parishe of
Clothall twentie acres or theraboutes. Some lie in Rush-
den field, but the number is unknowen.
Indorsed The Hospitall Land at Clothall <Src.
Copies of another MS. paper I received at the
same time, indorsed Charge qf Clothall.
There is a free chappie, called the free chappie of
Clothall, in the countie of Hertf., to wch. doth belonge cc
acres of medow, wood, pasture and arrable lande lyeng in
Clothall Weston Quixwood and Buckland in the county
aforesaid, now possessed by Georg Burgoyn gent, and
Tho. Burgoyn gent., wch. chappie and landes are
graunted in ffee to be held in socag by her majesties
letters patentes. To prove that the same was such a free
chappie as ought [to] come to hir Matie by the statut of
A0. 1. E. VItt yt is certified in A0. xxvit0 H. 8. to be con
tributory to the payment of first fruites and tenthes. Af
terwards upon the generall certificat of all free chappies
and chauntryes made in A°. xxxvii. H. 8. it is agayn there
certified by commission out of the court of chauncery, and
returned into the eschequir that yt was a free chappie
founded for the mayntenance of a priest; of wch. free
chappie and landes neither of the said Mr. Burgoynes have
any estate from hir highnes or any hir progenitors : both
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728 RELIQULE 1730.
the said certificates and inquisicons are remayning of record
in the eschequir3.

May 4. Dr. George Abbot, master of university
college, in the third year of his Vice-Chancellorship
did this piece of service for the university of Oxford,
as to retrieve a book of Epistles written to and by
the university, which had been long lost, and being
found by the Dr. at Winchester, (of which place be
was dean,) he restored it to the university, and took
care to have it lodged in the university archives, as
Mr. Twyne informs us in p. 264 of his Apol. Mr.
Twyne mentions this upon account of a matter of
fact that fell out about the year 1465.
The said vol. of Letters is now among the uni
versity muniments in the school tower. There is
another vol. of the Univ. Letters (being a continua
tion of the other vol.) in Bodley's Archives, A. 166,
ab A0. 1508 et A". 1597.
May 9. Mr. Twyne, in p. 280 of his Apology,
takes notice of a great mistake in Robert Hare's
Memorabilia, of Cantabrigian for Oxonice, as if the
scholars had went from Cambridge to Northampton,
and began to settle an university there upon account
of the contest A0. 1246 ; whereas there was no such
difference then at Cambridge, (which was not in
deed then become an university,) but it was at
a Mr. Ward, at the same time, lent Hearne other deeds and grants relative
to Clothall, in Latin, which are only omitted here to save the space.

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Oxford ; and 'twas certainly from Oxford that the
scholars went on that account, the affronts they had
received from the townsmen of Oxford being so very
great that they could not bear with them. But they
continued not long from Oxford, matters being made
up much to the advantage of the scholars : but 'twas
very much against the inhabitants of Northampton's
inclinations and desires, that schools began to be
opened there should be shut up, and a stop put to
the prospect they were in of their town becoming
an university.
May 16. On the tenth inst., being Sunday, meet
ing Mr. Thos. Wood of the Racket court upon Magd.
bridge as I was walking, between eleven and twelve
o'clock, to Headington to dinner, he told me that
his uncle Antony was not ill used at Merton college,
or ejected the common room upon account of any
difference with the college, but that the ill will
shewed him there was only by sir Tho. Clayton and
sir Thomas's party, because Antony used to give no
better character of him than that he was head of
Merton college and a knight.
May 26. Richard I. was born at Oxon. A0. 1157.
He instituted the first mayor of Oxon., (as he did of
London,) and two aldermen, Henry III. adding two
more. He received the citizens of Oxon. into the
same rights and privileges with the citizens of Lon
don, and gave the mayor of Oxon. a privilege of
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all this favour was granted by him because of his
being born at Oxford. These privileges have been
confirmed by many following kings, and the citizens
of Oxford enjoy them to this day. See Brian
Twyne's Apol. p. 234.
May 31. Thos. Gascoign remarks in his Theolo
gical Dictionary, (as I find by a specimen thereof
communicated to me by Dr. Tanner,) that in old
time, when law and law-suits were not minded in
Oxford, good letters flourished far more than when
contests in law arose and were followed, and 'twas
(it seems) at that time that there happened to be
30,000 students at Oxford . He speaks of this under
the word Lex.
Anno 1327, the mayor and citizens of Oxford,
(Edmund de la Beche being head,) joyning them
selves with the townsmen of Abington, went at mid
night in a great body with torches and candles, and
burnt the manor of Northcote, belonging to the
abbey of Abington ; after which they set upon the
abbey itself, and ransacked it in a terrible manner,
partly killing and partly putting to flight the monks;
for which the ringleaders were afterwards hanged at
Wallingford, as appears from the History of the
Abbey of Abington, quoted by Mr. Twyne in p. 299
of his Apology. Which History is (without doubt)
very worthy to be read all over by such as have an
opportunity.

June 1. It seems the university of Oxford was

so

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damaged by the before-mentioned riot and disturb
ance at Abingdon, that had not the scholars of
Merton coll. continued, very few would have re
mained to carry on the university affairs, as Mr.
Twyne observes, p. 299, from Mr. Stow, and from
certain verses of an uncertain author de revocandis
scholaribus, which the said Mr. Twyne found pre
fixed to Master Dumbleton's Quaestions in Merton
coll. library.
June 8. This spring (1730) they pulled down the
old kitchin and hall of All Souls' coll., and now
they are building new ones, which though they may
be perhaps more fine in appearance, yet all that I
have heard speak thereof say they will be nothing
near so strong as the old ones, which were built as
if the founder designed they should last for ever.
The church of St. Mary in Oxford was the prin
cipal or chief church of the clerus or scholars (for
that was the meaning of clerus in those times) in
the reign of Edward II. , as Brian Twyne observes
p. 301 of his Apology, but how long before that
time it was so, I cannot at present tell precisely,
tho' no doubt but it was some years.
St.Frideswide's fair was in old time a most famous
thing, and merchants and tradesmen used to come
thither from all parts. It was first granted by
Hen. I. to be kept within the bounds of the priory
of St. Frideswide every year, upon the feast of St.
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afterwards Hen. III. translated to St. Frideswide's
day, 19th Oct. It was kept in St. Frideswide's
meadow. During the fair the prior of St. Frides
wide's had vast privileges, and as soon as it began,
the keys of all the gates of the city used to be sur
rendered or delivered up to him by the mayor and
bailyffs in token of his having the custody of the
whole village of Oxford at that time, during which
the religious of that place had the custody of assize
of bread and ale, and of weights and measures. But
it seems great complaints were made in the time of
Edw. Hid of the remissness or negligence of the
canons of St. Frideswide in this affair, which indeed
was so great, that afterwards in the reign of Rich. II.
the chancellour of tbe university put out an edict
forbidding the merchants to come there any more,
and commanding the affair to be discontinued ; and
thereupon the scholars would have thrown down
their booths, broke the cords, and done other mis
chief, had not the king's officer at arms come to
Oxford, and protected the canons from the rage of
the scholars. See Brian Twyne, p. 305.
June 10. On Thursday June 4th, 1730, the earl
of Oxford (Edw. Harley) was at my room at Edm.
hall from ten o'clock in the morning till a little after
12 o'clock, together with Dr. Conyers Middleton, of
Trin. coll. Camb., and my lord's nephew, the honble
Mr. Hay of Christ Church, and Mr. Murray of
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the morning about 8 o'clock by Mr. Whistler, one
of the yeomen beadles, to be held at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon. About 11 o'clock Mr. Whistler came to
my lord at my room, with the Vice-Chancellor's
service to my lord, telling him, that the Vice-Chan
cellor would wait upon his lordship at his lodgings
at sir John Boyce's at 2 o'clock. My lord modestly
replyed, he would wait upon the Vice-Chancellor at
his (the Vice-Chancellor's own) lodgings, but re
collecting a little, he told Whistler (who had his
beadle's staff all the time in his hand) he would be
at home to expect the Vice-Chancellor, his service
at the same time. Then Mr. Whistler addressed
himself to Dr. Middleton, telling him, the Vice-
Chancellor presented him with his service, and
offered, that if he pleased he would have him have
the degree of Dr. of Div. conferred upon him by
way of being presented ad eundem, that is, that he
should have the same honour here with respect to
the degree of D.D. as he had at Cambridge. The
Dr. returned his service to the Vice-Chancellor,
and said, he accepted of the office as a great honour.
Mr. Whistler went off, but returned soon back, and
desired the Dr. would write down his name, which
accordingly he did. My lord after this stayed with
me 'till after twelve, and then went off with Dr.
Middleton, Mr. Hay, and Mr. Murray, two men-
servants waiting all this time below. My lord all
the time he was with me diverted himself with look
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At two o'clock the convocation was held, and a great
concourse there was. My lady Oxford and my lady
Margaret, the earl's daughter and only child, being
there ; my lord (who had many years before had the
honorary degree of M.A. conferred on him) was
created Dr. of Civil Law, and Dr. Middleton was
presented to the degree of D.D., that is, admitted
to what he had before had in Cambridge. My lord
was presented by Dr. Thompson, LL.D., of St. John's
coll. ; who spoke, as I hear, chiefly about his skill
in politics, instead of his being a great friend to
learning, and of his making a most noble collection
of books written and printed. Dr. Middleton was
presented ad eundem by the Margaret professor,
Dr. Jenner. My lord &c. went out of town on
Saturday morning, June 6th, in order for Wimpole,
but to see several places of note as they went along.
June 21. Thomas Gascoigne in verbo Rex tells
us that Hen. V. designed to have reformed the uni
versity of Oxford and the statutes that had been
made by young men, so as that no statute afterwards
should be dispensed with by the regents, and to
have founded a college of divines, to which he would
have annexed all the alien priories in England, but
being prevented by death, his son Hen. VI. gave
them to Eaton college, and to St. Nicholas, i. e.
King's college in Cambridge.
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1730. HEARNIAISLE. 735
should have been at' Oxford in the castle, and was
to have been built just in the same manner as King's
college was after built (at least begun to be built,
for only the chappell was finished) at Cambridge.
'Tis pity this design had not taken effect, and I think
'tis pity that some such college hath not been since
built in the castle of Oxford, which would be a most
glorious ornament to the university and city of
Oxford. June 29. The townsmen of Oxford, being very
much against the privileges of the university, in a
parliament begun at Glos'ter by Hen. IV. petitioned,
with the Berkshire men, that the king's charter, by
which the scholars were to be tryed by no other
judge in quibuscunque proditionis felonice et ma-
hennii qucestionibus but their, own steward, should
be revoked ; and this petition was of such force that
A0. Xli 1410 in the parliament at Westminster an
attempt was made to diminish the university of
Oxford's privileges, but without effect ; the king, on
the contrary, granting that the chancellour of Oxford
might at the end of 20 years signify to the chan
cellour of England the names of such as disturbed
the peace of the university ; a privilege which the
university may still, if they please, make use of. See
Twyne, p. 313.
July 3. The three scholars that were hanged by
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736 RELIQULE 1730.
afforded matter to some historians, particularly to
Matth. Paris. The punishment of the townesmen
was, to go to every church in Oxon. barefooted and
barebacked, with rods in their hands, and to receive
absolution from the parish priests, and to pay a mark
of silver every year to the scholars, which the townes
men got taken off afterwards, upon their giving part
of the land called Middeney to Osney abbey, upon
condition that the abbat of Osney every year paid a
mark to the prior of St.Frideswyde for the use ofthe
university. Moreover, they were to entertain with a
handsome collation, every year upon St. Nicholas'
day, an hundred poor scholars, the abbat of Eyn-
sham being to pay sixteen shillings yearly for the
collation or banquet, which when the said abbat of
Eynsham afterwards refused, he was cited to the
chancellour 's court, and was cast. See Br. Twyne,
p. 269.
July 13. Mr. Baker tells me that he corresponded
with bp. Burnett, and is one of those few that must al
ways speak well of him ; for tho' he used great freedom
in censuring and correcting his two first vols, of the
History of the Reformation, (as we find in the last,)
such as might have justly drawn down his resent
ments upon him, yet he treated him like a friend,
and a man of honour ; and Mr. Bedford being then
under confinement, at Mr. Baker's request he had
undertaken to sollicite his affaire, and would (Mr.
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died whilst it was in agitation ; and Mr. Baker had
the last letter from him, probably, he ever wrote,
dated the day before he was taken ill of that dis
temper whereof he died. " This," says Mr. Baker,
" I must always thankfully remember."
July 15. On Tuesday morning, July 14, 1730,
died Mr. Sam. Parker, son of Dr. Sam. Parker, late
bp. of Oxon. This gentleman, who was once of
Trin. coll. Oxon., but left it without a degree upon
account of the oaths, hath written and published
many things, such as, an Epitome of the Eccle
siastical Historians, Censura Temporum, Biblio-
iheca Biblica 8yc., the best part of which book are
the occasional annotations, most, if not all, of which
were done by other hands. I hear he had a dropsy,
and that he took his bed last Saturday. He was, as
I take it, fifty-two years of age. He hath left a
widow (one of the daughters of the late Mr. Henry
Clements, of Oxford, bookseller) and many children,
the eldest of which, Samuel, from the trade of a
leather gilder became dark of Magd. coll. Oxon.
last Easter term. He was buried in the church of
St. Peter in the East on Friday night, July 17th,
following. July 27. To bp. Burnet Mr. Baker hath no more
to say, than that, instead of compliances, he gave
him the highest provocations, such as most men
would have highly resented, but few (besides him-
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self) would have printed. " But my principle," says
Mr. Baker, " is not so high as you may imagine ; I
hold communion with the establislit church, the
new communion I do not understand." Letter of
July 22nd.
August 1. I have been told for certain that, at
the court at London, the non-jurors are esteemed to
be the honestest part of the nation, and that even
Caroline says so herself. I am also certainly in
formed that the non-juring Church of England gains
ground in London every day.
August 14. What number of MSS. lord Oxford
is possessed of Mr. Baker cannot say, but he thinks
Mr. Wanley once told him he had 14,000 cartce
antiques, which will go a great way towards half
the number I spoke of to Mr. Baker, which was a
matter of 30,000 MSS. Indeed, I have often heard
Mr. Thwaites speak of the vast number of ancient
cartce in the Harleian library ; not that I presume
he was so well acquainted with tbe library himself,
tho' I believe he saw it more than once in the earl's
time, but from his acquaintance with Dr. Hickes and
Mr. Wanley, who were wont often to speak and dis
course thereof to Mr. Thwaites, who had a very great
hand in the Thesaurus linguarum Septentrionalium,
as Dr. Hickes hath gratefully acknowledged. Most
of the said old cartce belonged formerly to sir Simonds
D'Ewes, a man undoubtedly of great skill in affairs
of this kind.

1730. HEARNIANiE. 739
August 27. Copy of part of a letter I wrote to
day to Mr. Baker of Cambridge.
" I want, if I could get it, something more about Mr.
Abraham Woodhead than hath been said by Mr. Wood.
Tho' he was a Roman catholic, yet I always looked upon him
to have been one of the greatest men that ever were bred
in England. Old Will. Rogers of Gloucestershire (now
dead) was his great acquaintance, (as he was also welt
acquainted with Mr. Ob. Walker and Mr. A. Wood,) and
used to tell me that Mr. Woodhead wrote a book of op-
ticks, and that he was certainly the author of The Whole
Duty of Man 8fc. And indeed some others have also
imagined Mr. Woodhead to have been the author. I am
told' lately that Mr. Vinter (who was a contemporary of
Mr. Woodhead's, and an Oxfordian) informed a certain
worthy lady, that he askt Mr. Woodhead whether he was
the author of The Whole Duty of Man, and he made no
answer ; which, considering the great modesty and humility
of Mr. Woodhead, might incline some to think to be a suf
ficient proof of his being really the author; and yet, to
speak my mind freely, I cannot believe that he was the
author, especially when I reflect with myself upon what
was told me on Aug. 24, 1706, by a very learned friend of
mine, who hath been dead more than twenty years, viz.
that being in discourse (about the year 1682) with bp.
Fell in his lodgings at Christ Church, (the occasion of
which discourse my friend did not tell me, nor indeed is it
material to know,) the bp. told him most solemnly, that he
believed that he was the only man then alive in England who
knew who was the author of The Whole Duty of Man. At
that time Mr. Ob. Walker was living and in England, and
was the man with whom Mr. Woodhead had communi
cated his secrets, and had he known who the author was,
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740 RELIQUIAE 1730.
the bp. would not have spoken thus. I wish with all my
heart this good prelate had entrusted my friend or any
other friend with the secret, that the excellent and pious
author might have his deserved tho' undesigned praise in
this world, as he has already his reward in the other.
Some have likewise suggested that archbp. Sancroft was
author, but this is still more unlikely than Mr. Woodhead.
I say no more on this occasion, unless it be that many
'years ago was given to the Bodleian library the original
MS., the very book from which 'twas printed, as appears
(as I remember) from the printer's marks, of The Causes of
the Decay of Xtian Piety. This book I placed in the library
myself, (for 'twas before I was debarred,) and before 'twas
placed there it was shewed to Dr. Henry Aldrich, who said
he believed 'twas not the author's own hand, but that 'twas
written in a disguised hand by bp. Fell : of which opinion
I am also, I having often seen the bp.'s handwriting."
Sept. 17. Dr. Wall, who wrote of infant baptism,
is lately dead. I am well assured that this great
man's study is not worth in all above twenty pounds.
He read what he had, but had not money to pur
chase, and 'tis a shame he was not preferred.
Sept. 29- The old congregation house near St.
Marie's church Oxon., and in the cemitery of the
said church, was formerly called the Semlyhows.
So in Mr. West's MS. fol. in vellum relating to
Mancestre in Warwickshire.
Oct. 18. The old congregation house of the univ.
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1730. HEARNIANJE. 741
long before St. Marie's church was united and ap
propriated to Oriel college. Thomas Arundel, at
that time archbp. of Cant., gave 50 marks to Oriel
college to part with their right, upon condition that
they receive a penny a year, so that afterwards it
should belong for ever to the university. I know
not who that certain old scholar that built it was,
but am apt to think it was originally built in k.
Alfred's time, though it may be rebuilt afterwards
even before Arundel's purchase.
From vol. 128, p. 56. Mr. George Ballard, of
Campden in Gloucestershire, hath lent me a folio
MS. in English containing as follows :
I. An deuise of a seaman touching the expedition in
tended against the Turkish pyrates, written by Nathaniell
Knott, gent., and by him dedicated to the most reverend
father in God William, by Divine Providence lord archbp.
of Canturburie, primate and metropolitan of all England,
AnD. Regni Caroli Regis 10°. an°.que Domini 1684.
P. 9. And that I may beginne first with them whom I
haue placed first, I must call to your mindes the great
abuses that of late yeares hath taken possession of victuall-
inge of his Matie's nauie, who not remembringe the libe-
ralitie and large allowance of his Ma*16, or forgettinge it of
purpose, cutt the saylors shorte of their allowance, soe that
they haue not soe much or soe good as they are payed for,
and where they are preuented in the first they exceed in
the latter. Our eyes haue seene the many hoggsheads of
beere which in a voyage haue beene drawne ouerboarde,
and that not in the end of a voyage, wch. might haue pal
liated their falsehood, but within one moneth after they
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first sett saile. The dammages that ensue hince are more
then at first seight they seeme, for this is the originall of
those diseases wch haunts ours more then the shipps of
other nations. The brewer hath gotten the art to sophis
ticate his beere wth broome insteed of hopps, and ashes in
stead of malt, and, to make it looke the more louely, to pickle
it with salt water : soe that whilst it is newe it shall seem
ingly bee worthie of praise, but in one moneth labor wax
worse then stinkinge water. There are some places for
this arte more noated then others, but I passe them ouer
in silence, you may bee sure it is where most beere is brewed
for this use. There are of theis disorder as of all others
noe doubt many fauourers who will bee readie to saye that
the loue of the pott makes me pleade for stronge beere.
Perhaps such a slanderer scarce deserues of the kingdome
a draught of common water to wash his inkie mouth.
Howbeit wee will endeauour to give him satisfaction, for
first of all I doe not pleade for stronge beere but whole
some. Secondly I will make it appeare that in this consists
the ruyne or happie successe of the voyage : for if either
they cast the beere ouerboard, or drinke it, the voyage h at
an end, the first way through want, the next by diseases
that are ingendred by vnwholsome beere. Little do theis
monster bellied brewes [sic] thinke, or if they doe they
make lesse conscience of the watchinge labour and miseries
of a poore saylor in double danger both of the fight and of
shippwrack, by day parched wth the heate of the sunne, by
night nipt and whipt wth blustringe tempests, and when
he is wett cold and hungrie should not the poore soule haue
a cane of beere to refresh him, but hee must say mors est in
olla when hee drinketh it, or a cake of bread but hee must
* * [hear some base illiterate person hath taken out three
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1730. HEARNIAN^E. 743
II. A briefe discourse of the voyadge made by the Eng
lish who were sent ouer for the reliefe of the French king,
vnder the leading of the L. Willoughbie.
III. The voyadge to Calis in Andaluzia, faithfully re
lated by sir W. Slyngisbye employed in that seruice. Be
gins, "In the yeare 1596. The queene's Matie of England."
IV. A true relation of the voyage to the iles of Azores
by the navie and forces of the late queene Elizabeth of
famous memorie, vnder the conduct of the right honble
Robert Devorux earle of Essex and Ewe, Mr of the horse
and ordinance, lord high marciall of England, one of her
Mate's priuy councell, and knight of the order of the garter,
in the yeare of our Lord 1597, and about the 25th of June
after the English accompt, collected and written accord
ing to the accidents and occurrences obserued from time to
time in the royall shipp called the Wastspight by sir Arthur
Gorges k4. the captaine of the same, with a briefe descrip
tion of those ilands and some passes and collaterall dis
courses incident vnto the matter as occasion is offered.
Wherevnto are alsoe annexed certaine obseruations and
ouertures concerninge the royall nauie and seaseruice ga
thered and sett downe by the same author. Fides fortibus
fraus formidolosis.
P. 20.  Besides that much of our beere aboard these
The abuse of victuallers that followed our fleet with
on on rewers. jjygpg 0f;her prouision was very vile and vn-
sauory of itselfe, by the great abuse of the victuallers and
London brewers, as well by the carelesse brewinge as for
the vnseasonable stinkinge caske which they deliuer, a
fault much vsed among them and to much tollerated, con-
sideringe the infinite rate and gaynes they make of sellinge
Thames water, beyond all good order and proporcion.
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p. 46.  Notwithstandinge the winde begane againe to
Gratiosa Pike bee fauorable, and soe settinge forwards the
and Fagall made. next 0f the ilands that wee made were Gra
tiosa, Pike and Fagall, and as wee ranged by Gratiosa the
tenth of September [1597] about twelue of the clocke at
night wee sawe a large and perfect raynbowe by the moone-
A raynbowe light in the bignes and forme of all other
seene by night, raynbowes, but in coulor much differinge, for
it was whitish, but cheifly inclyninge to the color of the
flame of fire. This made vs expect some extraordinary
tempestuous weather, but indeed it fell out after to be
very calme and hatt [sic]. This raynbowe by the moone-
light I doe the rather take occasion to note, for that I
„,..,. remember Plinie in his Naturall Historie of
rlime his opinion
of raynebowes by the World speaking of meteors denieth anie
™sbi- raynebowe to bee seene but opposite to the
sunne, and neuer in the night season, and yet, saith hee,
Aristotle reporteth for a raritie that in his tyme there was
a raynebowe seene by night, but withall affirmeth that it
could not bee, but att the full of the moone. But in these
parts they are very ordinary, as well when the moone is not
att the full as otherwise, which maketh mee thinke that this
A reason why the (sic) ilands were neuer knowne to the Greeks
GreekesnorRom- t, . ,, ,, «
, nor Romames, nor that those lormer ages
ames euer knewe ' °
theis ilands. did truely conceaue or know many things
that in this latter times haue been discouered, ffor allthough
Salomon saith that nothing is new vnder the sunne, which
noe doubt is most true, (for all things haue had their beeinge
since the first creacon,) yett all things haue not beene
knowne in all places and to all men alike, but as the longe
The aduauntage Hfes of men in the first ages noe doubt made
e a ei ages ^eir knowie(jge the greater by the benefitt of
haue for the ° ° J
knowledge of longe obseruacon, soe againe wee in theis
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1730. HEARNIAN^E. 745
ledge lefte vnto vs and allsoe by the discouery of those
things w<* time hath reuealed, haue found out many se-
cretts to them vnknowne.
P- 79.  The wch (I protest) I doe not speake either
out of any neglect of one that is dead, or to picke a thanck
of anie that liueth, but sincerely out of a resolucon to write
an vnpartiall truth, or els to bee silent ; for those spiritts,
that by base flatterie, seruile feare, or priuate malice, doe
transport in fashionninge their histories, are of all other to
bee reputed the vnworthiest and most pernicious in any
The histories commonwealth, for wee see that those
from flatteries6 heathens wcb- haue written the stories of
or partialities. Cyrus, Pirrhus, Alexander, Hannibal, Scipio,
Sylla, Caesar, Pompey, and of all other those great kings
and renowned heroes doe as well taxe them for their vices
as glorifie them for their vertues, for who liues without
fault ; and soe sincerely and bouldly doe they followe the
truth in their writings, as that they are thereby freed from
malice or reuenge because they are free from all partiallitie ;
or if anie spleene arise yett it is secrett, for the prosecution
of such sinceritie is imputed meere impietie in all sortes,
and flatt tyrannie in princes. And to conclude this impa
tient humour of indureinge riualtie &c.
Dec. 30. " London Dec. 24, 1730. One Mar
garet Coe, of the parish of St. Saviour Southwark,
died a few days since in the 104th year of her age.
She was 21 years of age when king Charles the
First was beheaded, and was a servant at White
hall ; she saw the executioner hold up the head
after he had cut it off, and remembered the dismal
groan that was given by the vast multitude of spec
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was afterwards waterman to king Charles the Second,
and kept bis fish ponds in Southwark, which have
been since filled up : she lived upon milk diet for
about twenty years past, not eating any flesh all the
time." Northampton. Mercury for Monday Dec.
28, 1730.
Jan. 5. Sir Thomas More studied and was edu
cated in St. Mary hall at Oxford, about which time
cardinal Allen, according to Fierbert, presided over
tbe said hall. See Br. Twyne, p. 365.
Feb. 20. Old Mr. Wm. Joyner, who lies buried
in Holywell churchyard Oxford, (with a tombstone
over him,) often desired Mr. Kymber to be his ex
ecutor. But he declined it ; tho' he wished he had,
because after his death, when they examined his
books, they found money stuck in almost every one
of them, in all to the value of three or four hundred
pounds : which I take to be the reason why he never
would let one see his study, tho' often desired to do
it. I was acquainted with Mr. Joyner, and used to
visit him at the mannour house at Holywell, where
he lodged, after dinner, it being his desire I would
come at that time, because of his going to bed al
ways at four in the evening, and rising at four in the
morning. When I used to be with him he would
often mention his books as curious in their kind, but
I could never get him to shew me one, which must
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it appeared that the books were but ordinary.
He would talk very pleasantly, and have a pint of
ale by himself, and a very hard crust. He used to
say hQ loved an old protestant, but could not endure
the puritans. Mr. Wood hath an account of two
things that he printed. His account of cardinal
Poole is but a mean thing. When he gave it to
Mr. Obadiah Walker, Mr. Walker afterwards said
to him, " Mr. Joyner, I like your book well, only you
" mention puritans before they were in being."
" Oh," says Joyner, " they are the greatest rogues
" upon the face of the earth," " Very well," says
Mr. Walker, " then I like your reason for mention-
" ing them very well."
Mr. Joyner told me Mr. Wood used often to come
to him, and that he told him many stories which he
(Mr. Wood) penned down in his presence, and when
any thing pleased Mr. Wood, he would always cry
Hum, upon which Mr. Joyner would go on to ex
patiate. Mr. Joyner told me also to bring my pen
and ink, and write down what old stories he should
tell me ; " and when you say Hum," says he, " then
" I shall know that you are pleased, and will go on. "
But I never did, though I was with him many times
when I was a young master of arts.
March 14. From a MS. paper shew'd me by the
rev. Mr. John Ball, who is now printing Spenser's
Pastoral Kalendar in English and Latin.
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" their majesties king James ye first, and afterwards to
" king Charles the first.
" I also mad a monement for Mer. Spencer the pooett,
" and- set it up at Wesmester, for which the contes of
" Dorsett payed me 401b.11
It is to be remark'd, that this monument was
erected about 1619, as it appears in this book of
Mr. Stone's handwriting.
Also, that the date of 1510, when Spenser was
born, is erroneous. It ought to be 1550.
April 13. The Royal Society sinks every day in
it's credit both at home and abroad, occasioned in
some measure by it's new statutes for election of
foreigners and natives, by posting up their names in
the public room for ten weeks together, and perhaps
at last with much difficulty electing them. 'Tis
observable (what I have been told by one of the
fellows thereof) that this Society is now as much
tinged with party principles as any publick body, and
Whigg and Tory are terms better known than the
naturalist, mathematician, or antiquary.
April 19- Dr. Rawlinson hath lent me,
A true relation of some Passages which passed
at Madrid in the year 1623 by prince Charles,
being then in Spain prosecuting the match with the
lady Infanta. As also severall observations of
eleven ominous presages, some qf them hapning
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Spain, the rest of them hapned from that* time
until his death. With a discovery qf some qf the
wayes which the then Popish. Bps. used to bring
Poperie into this Nation. By a Lover of the
Gospel of Jesus Christ and the welfare of this
nation. Printed at London 1655, 4to, in 20 pp.
April 21. The author, whoever he was, of the
said pamphlett ascribes the original of king Charles
Ist's ruin to his neglect of searching into and ex
amining to the full the murther of sir Thomas
Overbury, which however I fear is false; at least
coming from such a writer tbe story is liable
to suspicion. His words are, p. 5. " But the first
" foundation of his ruin and all their posterity was
" laid by his father king James ; for in the matter
" of sir Thos. Overbury his death, he did send for
"the judges and gave them a strict charge to ex-
" amine the matter throughly concerning the death
" of sir Thos. Overbury ; and did imprecate God's
" curse upon them if they did not discover it to the
" full ; and did upon his knees call for a curse from
" God, and desired that God would never prosper
" him nor any of his posterity, if he did spare any
" guilty person that had a hand in that poisonous
" murther : and the judges having prosecuted the
" business so far that they found Sommerset and his
" lady to be the chief actors in this murther, for
" they found that Sommerset did write a friendly
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" the wayes and means to get his inlargement that
" possibly he could, and in that letter he sent him a
" paper of powder for him to take, as being the best
" thing that himself took in his sicknesse, (sir Thos.
" being then sick of poyson sent him before,) but
" this powder which was sent in this letter was a
" poyson of a lingering nature, whereof (with some
" other poyson which Mrs. Turner had sent him of
" the like nature) he died, and after it was found
" out, there was justice done upon many of the act-
" ors, whereof Weston was the first, then sir Jarvis
" Elway the then "lieutenant of the Tower was the
" next that suffered, and after him Mrs. Turner was
" also hanged, besides others ; and when it was punc-
" tually proved that Summerset and his lady were
" found to be the chief actors of this murther, and
" that he himself had sent the poyson aforesaid, the
" king, contrary to the curse which he had formerly
" called from heaven upon himself and all his pos-
" terity, did pardon both him and her, after the lord
" Coke had passed sentence of death upon them;
" and the lord Coke was ever after in disgrace with
" the king for passing this sentence against them,
" and for some other small matter which he crossed
" the king's humour in ; and so this noble gentle-
" man was poysoned, for no other cause but for
" opposing Summerset in the marriage of Essex his
" wife. But the Lord did shew a great example
" upon them both, but especially upon her, for she
" died a more loathsome death than any woman ever

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751

" died, but for civilities' sake I will forbear the par-
" ticulars thereof" —

May 22. The custom of the gambone of bacon is
still kept up at Dunmowe, as I am told by Mr.
Loveday of Magd. coll , who returned home on
Thursday last, May 20, from whom I had what fol
lows this morning.

Dunmow
nuper Priorat.

At a court barron of the right worship -
full sir Thos. May, knight, there holden on
Friday the 27th day of June in the year
of our Lord 1701, before Thomas Wheeler,
gent., steward of the said manor, it is thus
. enrolled.

Elizabeth Beaumont, spinster.
Henrietta Beaumont, spinster.
Homage -^ Annabella Beaumont, spinster, y Jur.
Jane Beaumont, spinster.
. Mary Wheeler, spinster.
Be it remembered that at this court it is found and pre
sented by the homage aforesaid, that Wm. Parsley and
Jane his wife have been married for the space of three
years last past, and it is likewise found and presented by
the homage aforesaid that Wm. Parsley and Jane his wife,
by means of their quiet and peaceable, tender and loving
cohabitation for the space of three years aforesaid, are fit
and qualified persons to be admitted by the court to receive
the ancient and accustomed oath whereby to entitle them
selves to have the bacon of Dunmow delivered unto them,
according to the custom of the manor. Whereupon at
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752 RELIQUIAE 1731.
Parsley and Jane his wife in their persons, and humbly
prayed they might be admitted to take the oath ; where
upon the steward with the jury, suitors, and other officers.
proceeding with the usual solemnity to the ancient and
accustomed place for the administration of the oath, and
receiving the said bacon ; that is to say, two great stones
.lying near the church door, where the said Wm. Parsley
and Jane his wife kneeling down on the two stones, the
said steward did administer the oath in these words, or to
the effect following.
You do swear by the custom of confession,
That you never made nuptial transgression ;
Nor since you were married man and wife,
By household brawls or contentious strife,
Or otherwise at bed or at board
Offended each other in deed or in word ;
Or in a twelvemonths time and a day
Repented not in thought any way ;
Or since the church clerk said Amen,
Wished yourselves unmarried again,
But continue true and in desire,
As when you joyned hands in holy quire.
And immediately thereupon Wm. Parsley and Jane his
wife claiming the said bacon, the court pronounced sen
tence for the same in these words, or to the effect fol
lowing. Since to these conditions without any fear
Of your own accord you do freely swear,
A whole gammon of bacon you do receive,
And bear it away with love and good leave ;
For this is the custom of Dunmow well-known,
Tho' the pleasure be ours, the bacon's your own.
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1731. HEARNIANtE. 753
the said Wm. Parsley and Jane his wife, with the usual
solemnity. Examd pr Tho. Wheeler gent., steward, Will™.
Hague. July. 23. Yesterday Mr. Richard Peers, vicar of
Faringdon in Berks, called upon me, and gave me
the following note : " At Great Faringdon, Berks,
" in an old churchwarden^ book of accounts, bearing
" date 1518, there is the form (as we suppose) of
" then admitting churchwardens into their office, in
" the following words ; vizt.
" Cherchye wardenys thys shall be your charge to
be true to God and to the cherche for love nor favor
off no man wythe in thys paroche to w'hold any
ryght to the cherche but to reserve the dettys to
hyt belongythe or ellys to goo to the devell."
August 27- In Aldgate church about three weeks
since was delivered in a paper, desiring that prayers
might be offered to Almighty God, to inspire his
majesty to hear the complaints of his subjects, and
to give him the courage to revenge the injuries done
them by the Spaniards ; but this the curate thought
not fit to repeat, though he made no scruple to give
copies. Oct. 26. In Mr. Wood's account of himself, that
I have printed in Caius, is a speech Mr. Wood made
and spoke, when he was a youth, at Merton college,
which shews the custom and humour of that time.
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The custom is since broke off at Merton, but there
is something of it remaining at Brazenose and Balliol
coll., and no where else tbat I know of. I take the
original thereof to have been a custom they had for
merly, for the young men to say something of their
founders and benefactors, so that the custom was
originally very laudable, however afterwards turned
to ridicule, as there are also abundance of ridiculous
things in the book called Festival, notwithstanding
the design of giving an historical narration of the
saints be commendable, and 'tis pity 'twere not kept
up, and at the same time an historical narrative in
terwoven of founders of churches &c. Ask Mr.
Baker whether they have any such custom at Cam
bridge ? I think Mr. Isham, rector of Lincoln college,
hath told me that they have.
Nov. 4. Mr. Bateman of Christ Church preached
there last Sunday in the cathedral, and in his prayer
mentioned Dr. Stratford, who, besides his books to
the college library, left 120£ per an. to augment the
students' places. This was so resented by the canons,
that the subdean afterwards reprimanded him for it;
but I am sure 'twas well done in him, and it were
to be wished all founders and benefactors were duly
and constantly commemmorated, as they used to be
in old time in their pronesa. I am sure we should
" The word prone is of disputed origin, some deriving it from the Latin
prceconium, written in contracted form ; others from the Greek Trpuv= cacu-
men. The meaning of the word is properly the seat or raised platform from
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1731. HEARNIANjE. 755
not then be at a loss to know who are founders of,
and benefactors to churches &c.
Nov. 16. The historie of Great Britannic, de
claring the successe of times and affaires in that
Hand, from the Romans first entrance until the
reign of Egbert c%c. London, printed by Valentine
Simmes 1606, 4to, was wrote by John Clapham, no
very noted author. John Milton (who takes in that
period) I believe is more read ; and yet even Milton
was infinitely better at poetry than history.
Nov. 23. One Barnes of St. Aldates in Oxford, a
freeman of the city, having set up a waggon last
summer, to carry goods to and from London, with
out the Vice-Chancellor's license, he was put into
the Vice-Chancellor's court by Mr. Thos. Godfrey
and the widow Slatford, the two licensed waggoners,
but he declined appearing, upon which he was com
mitted to the castle, where he continued about a
week, and then was removed by habeas corpus to
London, where, no one appearing against him, he
was dismissed immediately, and on Friday Nov. 19th
he returned to Oxford in a triumphant manner, with
a laced hat, as if he designed to insult the uni
versity. Dec. 6. Mr. West, in his letter from the Inner
Temple of the 2nd, tells me 'tis still impossible to
form any guess of our loss in the Cotton library.
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756 RELIQUIAE 1731-32.
They take what pains they can to preserve and re
pair such as are damaged, and the learned world
owes this obligation to the present speaker of the
house of commons [Onslow], whose industry hath
been very great. Mr. West thinks the number of
Cotton's MSS. were 965, of which he says 780 are
entirely saved; so that at that rate 185, and not
only (as Mr. Gale) 160, are lost. The most valuable,
he says, yet missed are the Saxon charters preserved
in the drawers, and the ancient MS. of the book of
Genesis, which we must ever deplore. Dec. 19. The
loss at the Cottonian library is said to be very great,
(as I have several times before suggested,) though
others dispise it, to excuse Dr. Bentley's great care
of himself; for by the stove chimney, lighted to air
one of the rooms, came this accident; add to this,
what the fire did not entirely destroy suffered very
much by water, both very dangerous elements to
MSS. That brought from Alexandria is said to be
safe. Speaker Onslow &c. were present to encou
rage the workmen to save what they could, and
their purses and presence added diligence. The loss
is irreparable. Many transcripts are dispersed up
and down, which now must be looked upon as very
valuable. Jan. 3. Last Sunday in the afternoon preached
at St. Marie's Mr. Henry Newcome, formerly fellow
of Brazenose coll., now rector of Didcot in Berks,
and master of the grammar schole of Ewelm, where,

1731-32. HEARNIAN.E. 757
viz. at Ewelm, he lives, but never taught so much
as one boy since he hath had the school, which hath
been many years, ever since the death of Mr. Howel,
who was a good man, and diligent in the school,
which much flourished ; and he did a great deal of
good there, and was much beloved and much la
mented at his death. The sermon Mr. Newcome
preached at St. Marie's before the university was
the very same, some small matters being altered,,
that Jonathan Colleyb of Christ Church had preached
likewise before the university last New Year's day,
or the day of the Circumcision, which was much
taken notice of and talked of, and as they were just
as it were the same upon the subject of the circum
cision, so they were equally short, hardly a quarter
of an hour long. There was not above ten or a
dozen masters to hear Mr. Newcome, but a pretty
many children (30 or 40 boys) got into the masters'
seats, what is unusual.
Feb. 2. The old spire of All Hallows church in
Oxford fell down on March 8th, being Friday, in
the year 1699, and beat some of the church down.
It was after dinner, and did no hurt, only one stone
hurt a woman's leg at a small distance from it. It
was an handsome plain spire, about 50 yards or 52
yards high, much such a one as that of Shottes-
b I hear since Mr. Newcome had lent a MS. vol. of sermons, written by
Mr. Newcome's father, (who was an ingenious man, but is dead,) to Mr. Col
ley, and that Mr. Colley copied the sermon.
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758 RELIQULE 1731-32.
brooke in Berks : and 'twas then reported that that
and the church were built two years before the Con
quest. Since the whole church hath been rebuilt
and a new spire made, the whole work costing about
five thousand pounds, six hundred pounds of which
were given by the late bp. of Durham, Dr. Crew :
the university were great contributors.
Feb. 19. Dr. Newland of Magd. coll. Oxon. is
elected Geometry Gresham professor, to which I
think his being a citizen's son gave him some title
preferable to others, cceteris paribus. 'Tis a gentile
sinecure, and no wonder a learned man did not get
it, the citizens of London being friends to little else
but trade.
Feb. 22. Though Mr. John Andrews, fellow of
Magd., who is now B.D., was elected keeper of the
Ashmolean museum on Wednesday April 14th last,
and put in possession of his place by the Vice-Chan
cellor on Saturday following, being April 17th, yet
Mr. George Hudford c, now president of Trin. coll.,
having got three of the hands of the electors, (there
being but six in all,) Dr. Shippen, principal of Brase-
ftose, who was one of those three, the bp. of Bristol
(Dr. Bradshaw) and the professor of Physick (Dr.
Woodford) being the other two, was all along so
restless, that he did all that possible he could to get
Andrews out ; and accordingly he (by a most roguish
trick) prevailed with Mr. Battely of Christ Church
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1731-32. HEARNIAN.E. 759
and with Mr. Foxley, the two proctors at present,
to put their hands to Hudford's paper, who by this
means had now five votes, though certainly in equity
the present proctors' votes in this case ought not to
be regarded in opposition to those of the former
proctors, when the election was made. This matter
so frightened Andrews, and indeed the Vice-Chan
cellor himself, Dr. Butler, did not stick by him,
(being without doubt of Dr. Shippen's mind, what
ever outside is put upon it,) that on Monday the
14th of this inst. Feb. he went to the president of
Trin. coll., with Dr. Shippen the pro-Vice-Chan
cellor, (the Vice-Chancellor himself being absent at
London, tho', without dispute, he had as a blind left'
this to Shippen's management,) and surrendered the
keys to him, and on Saturday last, being the l9th
inst., the president paid Andrews fifty pounds on
that account, a plain argument that he allowed An
drews to be the rightful keeper, tho' the invalidity
of his election had been' questioned, as having but
three votes, it being pretended that the Vice-Chan
cellor hath no power of calling a meeting, nor of
doing more on the occasion than either of the other
electors. This is an astonishing affair, what the
university rings of, and 'tis supposed 'twill be of very
pernicious consequence : for though Andrews be not
qualifyed with respect to skill, yet, as he was elected,
he was so far the statutable keeper, and the Vice-
Chancellor should have stood by him, and not have
so tamely agreed with Shippen (commonly called
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760 RELIQUIAE 1732.
Ferguson0) to bring in an head of an house. But
fifty pounds a year being, since Mr. Whiteside's
death, settled upon the keeper, be he where he will,
'tis designed to be a perfect sinecure, and nothing is
to be done by the keeper for the honour of learning,
unless he have a strange inclination to learning, and
will follow it himself of his own natural genius.
March 31. There is nothing at Bath but gaiety
and ludicrous diversions, so that even at London
there is much more privacy and retirement than at
Bath, especially since at Bath all people will be ac
quainted with one, whether one will or no.
April 1. On Wednesday last the rector of Lin
coln coll., Mr. E. Isham, told me at his lodgings,
that a fair offer had been made to him of a lady, if
he had a mind to marry, but he declined it in a very
handsome manner, (for he read his answer, having
then just wrote it, and was going to send it by post
to the gentleman who had wrote to him for the lady,
to me,) signifying that at present he was not inclined
to alter his state and condition of life.
May 3. Mr. George Wigan was some time since
student of Christ Church, where he was a great and
a very good tutor. Leaving that place, he became
principal of New Inn hall upon the death of Dr.
c Hearne says [Jan. 9. 1731] that doctor Shippen was commonly called
Ferguson, from Fergusson the Scottish tricker.

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Brabant, but, what hath been much wondered at,
he hath not had so much as one gownsman entered
at it ever since he had it, but shutting up the gate
altogether, he wholly lives in the country, whereas
'twas expected that he being a disciplinarian, and a
sober, studious, regular and learned man, would have
made it flourish in a most remarkable manner. He
hath been a great while, as I hear, about a work
concerning the Types of Scripture, he being well
versed in Hebrew. I hear he hath, since he hath
been in the country, got considerable knowledge in
the British language.
May 11. To ask Dr. Richardson and Mr. Baker,
whether in a journey into Scotland, it may be safe
travelling for two or three persons out of the high
roads, if they have a mind to seek antiquities, and
to go into by-roads, and particularly if they have a
desire to trace the Picts' wall from one end to the
other ?
May 13. This day I wrote a letter to Dr. Richard
son of North Bierly in Yorkshire, to know if there
be any danger in travelling into the north out of
the common roads into by-roads. May 14* In my
letter yesterday to Dr. Richardson, I likewise asked
him whether it be best to go by land or by water
from Edinburgh to St. Andrews and Aberdeen ? I
put these queries for the sake of Mr. Loveday of
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May 29. Mr. Baker, in a letter from Cambridge
of the 14th inst., sent me the account of lieut.
Bridall alias Brydle's affair, and 'tis remarkable. I
know not of what house this Bridall was, but he
was a scholar and a stout couragious man, and a
great friend of the university privileges. He denied
subjection to the governour of Oxford, collonel
Legg, who charged him with mutiny. He was lieu
tenant of one of the regiments of souldiers raised by
the university, and exempt from the authority of the
governour. At a council of war, in which the go
vernour col. Legg was president, he was condemned.
to be shot to death. Upon this the matter was re
ferred to the house of commons then at Oxford,
and 'twas considered by them, Sept. 8th, 1645. He
claimed and insisted upon his privilege, and the
commons favoured him. What became of it I do
not yet learn, but suppose that, the commons inter
posing, he was pardoned.
June 6. This being the day before the beginning
of term, the Latin sermon before the univ. at St.
Marie's was preached by that most impudent fellow
Mr. John Bilstone, chaplain of All Souls' coll., tho'
he is said to be ignorant of Latin.
July 11. Yesterday the new chappel (just finish
ed) on the south side next Brewers' lane at Pem
broke college, was consecrated by the bp. of Oxford,
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preached there by Dr. Panting, master of the col
lege. July 12. [London, July 4. J " Last week was a
" hearing before the rt. rev. the bp. of Winchester,
" visitor of Magd. coll. Oxford, between the presi-
" dent and fellows of the said college and one Mr.
" Burslam, he claiming a Lincolnshire fellowship, a
" considerable estate having been left some time
" since for a certain number of fellowships in that
" college, to be given to Lincolnshire scholars, which
" has been constantly filled up by others, without
" regard to the intentions of the donor [the donor
" was the founder himself]. Dr. Henchman argued
" for the president and fellows, and Mr. Harpur for
" Mr. Burslam ; and his lordship has ordered Mr.
" Burslam to be put immediately into one of those
" fellowships." [So the prints.] Burslam was ac
cordingly entered fellow yesterday in the afternoon.
He stood last election in 1731, but was rejected,
and Mr. Zinzan of the college [Mr. Burslam being
of Christ Church, and originally of Cambridge, and
only B. A., whereas Mr. Zinzan is M. A.] was elected,
notwithstanding not a Lincolnshire man. Mr. Zin
zan was demie when he was chosen, and Dr. Hollo-
way resigned the Moral Philosophy lectureship in
the college to him, by virtue of which lecture 'tis
said by his friends that he is a statutable fellow, but
the bp. looked upon this as evasion, as I hear. It
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founder's statutes, in which the fellowships are as
signed to certain counties.
July 17. Mr. John Martyn, commonly called Dr.
Martyn, hath put out proposals for printing in 4to
Virgilii Georgica, with various readings and notes.
This gentleman lives at Chelsey, and was of Emanuel
coll. in Cambridge. He designs to embellish the
work with figures. [July 18.] Mr. Martyn is now in
Oxford, chiefly to consult MSS. of Virgil and
Servius. July 23. Yesterday, being Magd. college great
gaudy, there was not tbe least ringing of bells there
all day long, [contrary to former practice,] the pre
sident, Dr. Jenner, &c. being dejected and con
founded at what the visitor hath done lately; and
yet 'tis said the majority of the college are pleased.
N. (The ringing on that day was left off before this
time some years, as some of them say, but 'tis false,
and there was ringing the year after this, viz. in
1733.) July 31. Mr. Taylor, the present librarian of
Cambridge, having met with a note among the late
bp. of Ely, Dr. Moore's, MSS. concerning the author
of The Whole Duty of Man, Mr. Baker hath sent
it me by letter of the 16th, in lieu of a note I sent
him some time ago to the same purpose. It is this :
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sop in Nottinghamshire, (in the presence of Mr.
William Thornton and his lady, Madam Frances
Heathcote, Mrs. Mary Ash, Mrs. Mary Caulton, and
John Hewyt, rector of Harthill,) declared the words
following, viz. Nov. 5, 1689, at Shire Oak, madam
Ayre of Rampton after dinner took me up into her
chamber, and told me that her daughter Moyser of
Beverley was dead, and that in that month she had
buried her husband and several relations, but that
her comfort was, that by her monthly sacraments
she participated still with them, in the communion
of saints. Then she went to her closet, and fetched
out a MS. which, she said, was the originall of The
Whole Duty of Man, tied together and stitched in
8vo like sermon notes. She untied it, saying, it
was Dr. Fell's correction, and that the author was
the lady Packington, (her mother,) in whose hand it
was written. To prove this, the said Mr. Caulton
further added, that she said she had shewn it to Dr.
Covell, master of Christ's college in Cambridge, Dr.
Stamford, prebendary of York, and Mr. Banks, the
present incumbent of the great church in Hull. She
added withall, that The Decay of Xtidn Piety was
hers (the lady Packington's) also, but disowned any
of the rest to be her mother's. This is a true copy
of what I wrote from Mr. Caulton's mouth, two days
before his decease, witness my hand, Nov. 15, 98.
John Hewyt. In the Baronettage of England by
Mr. Collins, vol. 2, page 202, 203, at the Pack
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" reputation of being thought the author of The
" Whole Duty of Man" — " as the manuscript under
" her own hand now remains with the family, there's
" hardly roome to doubt." " And yet notwithstand-
" ing" (says Mr. Baker) "you may find reason to
" doubt." And indeed I now doubt more than ever.
She might (and so without doubt she did) transcribe,
and yet not be the author. As I never did believe
her to be the author, so much less now after this
note is come to me. Bp. Fell certainly knew who
the author was, and he makes him to have wrote all
those pieces that were printed by the bp.'s care in
folio at the Theatre. The author had been at Rome,
and is described in the bp.'s preface as a man. After
all that may have been said to the contrary, Mr.
Woodhead as yet bids fairest.
August 7. dMy friend the honble Benedict Leo
nard Calvert died on June 1, 1732, (old stile,) of a
consumption, in the Charles, capt. Watts commander,
and was buried in the sea. When he left England
he seemed to think that he was becoming an exile,
and that he should never see his native country
more ; and yet neither myself nor any else could
disswade him from going. He was as well beloved
as an angel could be in his station ; (he being go
vernour of Maryland ;) for our plantations have a
natural aversion to their governours, upon account
of their too usual exactions, pillages, and plunfler-
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1732. • HEARNIAISLE. 767
ings ; but Mr. Calvert was free from all such, and
therefore there was no need of constraint on that
score : but then it was argument enough to be
harrassed, that he was their governour, and not only
such, but brother to Id. Baltimore, the lord pro
prietor of Maryland, a thing which himself declared
to his friends, who were likewise too sensible of it.
And the same may appear also from a speech or two
of his on occasion of some distraction, which tho' in
print I never yet saw. I had a sincere respect for
him, and he and I used to spend much time together
in searching after curiosities &c, so that he hath
often said that 'twas the most pleasant part of his
life, as other young gentlemen likewise then in
Oxford have also as often said, that the many agree
able hours we used to spend together on the same
occasions were the most entertaining and most plea
sant part of their lives. As Mr. Calvert and the
rest of those young gentlemen (several of which, as
well as Mr. Calvert, were of noble birth) used to
walk and divert themselves with me in the country,
much notice was taken thereof, and many envyed
our happiness. When Mr. Calvert was at Rome, he
was once secured from insults, if not mischiefs, by
the advice of a particular friend and English gentle
man then at Rome. Mr. Calvert had been once of
the communion of the church of Rome, which being
too well known in that city, he was more indiscreet
than one would have expected from one of his ex
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Jesuits and others of the English college there:
which was the more dangerous, as divers do not
doubt to give out, that the inhabitants of Italy in
general scruple not the use of the stiletto, poison &c,
where they entertain a prejudice. Mr. Calvert de
signed to write a description and history of Mary
land, for which he had suitable abilities, and I doubt
not but he made good progress therein. He wrote
me a long letter from thence, dated at Annapolis
March 18, 1728-9, in which are several particulars
relating to the island, and at the same time sent me
Holdsworth's Muscipula in Latin and English,
translated by R. Lewis, and dedicated to Mr. Cal
vert. 'Twas printed at Annapolis that year, and is
one of the first things ever printed in that country.
Mr. Lewis was then (and perhaps, if living, may be
still) a schoolmaster at Annapolis, and formerly be
longed to Eaton.
Sept. 14. Last week the bp. of Winchester sent
half a buck to Magd. coll. Oxford, (the president
himself being absent,) for the fellows, and about the
same time queen Carolina sent them a whole buck,
(it being had from Whichwood forest,) and they eat
it on Monday last, Sept. 11, going to dinner at one
o'clock. Sept. 27. Mr. Rawlins hath got Mr. Lewis Maid-
well's printed proposals revived, of establishing and
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things for the sea service of the nation. I find he
had his petition delivered into the house of com
mons, Feb. 3, 1699, for the settling his project, but
upon mature deliberation it was thrown out of the
house, chiefly by Dr. Wallis's means, who wrote
against it, whose MS. Mr. Rawlins now hath by him,
as I find by his letter from Pophills of the 6th of
this month, and he hath been informed it was never
made publick. It is in all about six sheets in fol.
He fancies it may deserve a place in my next work.
The project then on foot was for an academy of
exercises in the university, such as riding the great
horse, fencing &c. I well remember the thing to
have been much talked of in the university. I think
it was wisely stopped, because, without doubt, 'twould
have utterly obstructed all true learning.
Dec. 14. On the 6th inst., being Wednesday,
Mr. Nibb an upholsterer was chosen one of the
mayor of Oxford's assistants in room of Mr. Bourne
deceased. My Id. Abbington came in a coach and
six from Rycot that morning on purpose to hinder
him from being elected, and my Id. put up in oppo
sition to him Mr. Lawrence the chandler ; but all
would not do, for Mr. Nibb carried it by a majority
of 18, there being 80 that voted, of which Nibb had
49, and Lawrence 31. My Id. himself voted on
this occasion, and when the election was over, he
invited the mayor and his assistants to dinner at the
Cross inn, some of which went, but the mayor, (Mr.
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Appleby,) being afflicted with the gout, (for which
reason he was carried to the election in a chair,)
could not. After dinner my Id. returned to Rycot,
but before dinner a commissioner of the common
shoar was likewise elected in room of Bourne, and
the choice fell upon alderman Wise. 'Tis observ
able that formerly such a bustle never Used to be
made in the election of assistants.
Tho' Dr. Aldrich (late dean of Christ Church) for
bid any monument to be erected to him, adding that
he would not have any since his father (who is buried
in the same place) had none, yet I heard last night
that a very handsome one is put up at Christ Church
to his memory by Dr. George Clarke, fellow of All
Souls' coll., and that it cost the Dr. an hundred
pounds- [I have not seen it, but understand since
that the inscription is very shorte.]
Dec. 27- Last Christmas day [being Monday]
preached before the univ. at Christ Church Dr. Thos.
Ferry, canon of that coll. ; but the sermon did not
begin till eleven o'clock that morning, and so 'twas
appointed to be by the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Holmes,
and accordingly that hour (that people might not he
deceived) was specified in the bills that were put up.
'Tis the first instance of the sermon being before
the university that hour on Christmas day. The
reason given was, sermons in college-chapells. This
reason might also have been given formerly. But
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the true reason is, that people might lye in bed the
longer. They used formerly to begin in chapells an
hour sooner, and then they were ready for the univ.
sermon. The same reason, viz. lying a-bed the
longer, hath made them, in almost all places in the
university, alter the hours of prayers on other days,
and the hour of dinner, (which used to be eleven
o'clock,) in almost every place (Christ Church must
be excepted) in the university ; which ancient disci
pline, and learning and piety strangely decay.
Jan. 28. On Friday last (Jan. 26) about noon
came very privately into Oxford, in a coach and
four, Dr. John Conybeare, rector of Exeter coll.,
being not met by so much as one soul, and yester
day, at 10 o'clock in the morning, he was installed
dean of Christ Church, but very little or no rejoycing
was shewed on the occasion. He owes this piece of
preferment to Mr. [he is not a university Dr.] Ed
mund Gibson, bp. of London, who hath some private
by-ends in view, to whom he dedicated his Reply to
Christianity as old as the Creation, which book (I
am told, for I have not read it) is spun out to a
great length, whereas all that is material might have
been brought into about a sheet of paper.
Feb. 23. Yesterday, in a convocation at 2 o'clock,
Mr. Jodrell (a gent. com. of Trin. coll.) was created
M.A., though of but about three years standing,
and, I am told, of no manner of merit, the reason, I
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am told, (and none else,) because he is some way or
other related to archbp. Sheldon, notwithstanding
his principles be quite different. Many were against
it, but did not appear in the convocation house.
Dr. Shippen sate as Vice-Chancellour, the Vice-
Chancellour himself being ill of the strange epi
demical cold that hath of late seized almost all
people in England, and many foreign countries, and
carried off many ; such a cold as I never heard of
before, occasioned by an infection of the air, which
arose, 'tis supposed, from a strange mild winter.
March 8. Dr. Robert Freind hath resigned the
head schoolmaster's place of Westminster school,
and is succeeded by the second master, Mr. John
Nicoll. This Dr. R. Freind is a most excellent class
ical scholar, and hath presided over that school many
years with very great reputation. Upon the death
of the late Dr. Bradshaw, 'twas wished, particularly
by the writer of these matters, that considering his
excellent learning, and upon account of his being a
most admirable disciplinarian, he might have been
made dean of Christ Church ; and for my part I
could see no objection, but his being a married man ;
but this was an objection not in the least moved,
nothing being more common now a days than for
bps., deans, canons &c. to be married : but what
was objected to him, when he offered himself to the
queen (as they call her) Carolina, that most covetous
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which he moved that Mr. George Wigan, late
student of Christ Church, and formerly Dr. Freind's
scholar, might be dean, upon which Carolina said it
was promised, and the person, it seems, it was pro
mised to was Dr. Conybeare, a man who makes a
great stir in the college at present, pretending to
great matters, such as locking up the gates at nine
o'clock at night, having the keys brought up to him,
turning out young women from being bedmakers,
having the kitchen (which he visits) cleansed, and I
know not what, aiming at a wonderful character,
even to exceed that truly great man bp. Fell, to
whom he is not in the least to be compared, as
neither is he to dean Aldrich, nor dean Atterbury,
nor even dean Smalridge.
April 9- The man of Ross in Herefordshire,
whose true sirname was Kirle, was never married.
He was a very humble goodnatured man. He was
a man of little or no literature. He always studied
to do what good charitable offices he could, and was
always pleased when an object offered. ' He was
reverenced and respected by all people. He used
to drink and entertain with cider, and was a sober
discreet man. He would tell people when they
dined or supped with him, that he could (if they
pleased) let them have wine to drink, but that his
own drink was cider, and that he found it most
agreeable to him, and he did not care to be ex
travagant with his small fortune. His estate was
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five hundred pounds per annum, and no more, with
which he did wonders. He built and endowed an
hospital, and built the spire of Ross. When any
litigious suits fell out, he would always stop them,
and prevent people's going to law. They would,
when differences happened, say, go to " the great
" man of Ross," or, which they did more often, go
to " the man of Ross," and he will decide the mat
ter. He left a nephew, a man good for little or
nothing. He would have given all from him, but a
good deal being entailed he could not. He smoked
tobacco, and would generally smoke two pipes if in
company, either at home or elsewhere.
April 15. Sir Rob. Walpole, king George's states
man, having received a very great disappointment
last Wednesday in the parliament house, with re
spect to an unheard of tax he had projected upon
tobacco and wine &c, there was such rejoicing in
London at it that the like hath not been heard;
and the news thereof being brought to Oxford late
at night, on Thursday night following (April 12) the
bells rung from between ten and eleven o'clock that
night till two or three in the morning at most of
the parish churches, and there were bonfires also.
Likewise the next day at night, and yesterday at
night were bonfires, throwing of serpents, and other
rejoycings in Oxford upon this occasion. But the
Vice-Chancellour and mayor last night prohibited
those proceedings.

1733. HEARNIAN^E. 775
April 24. Archbp. Laud in p. 129 of the history
of his chancellorship, takes notice of a popish trans
lation of Sales's Introduction to a Devout Life,
purged by Dr. Haywood, the archbp. 's chaplain, be
fore he (Haywood) licensed it ; but afterwards one
Burrowes, a Roman catholic, restored the passages
that Dr. Haywood had expunged, and so 'twas
printed, and gave great offence to protestants, where
upon archbp. Laud had the copies (about eleven or
twelve hundred) seized, and caused them to be burnt
publicly in Smithfield ; but it seems two or three
hundred copies were dispersed before the seizure.
I know not whether there may be any copy at Cam
bridge. I think we have none at Oxford, where
the archbp. used so much diligence to have them
suppressed : if there be any copy with us, it must
be a rarity. I think the impression was made in
1636, or 1637. There are other popish impressions,
but I know not whether the translation be the
same. May 7. They have just pulled down the old great
gate of Durham coll., next Canditch by Balliol
coll., and are building a new gate and wall instead
thereof. May 24. On Whitsunday last (May 13) came to
Oxford on foot fifteen ringers from London, and the
day before came on horseback one Mr. Skelton,
about 14 or 15 years ago a commoner of Queen's
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coll. Oxford, and an excellent ringer, and at this
time register to the bp. of London, (Gibson,) and a
proctor in the arches. The next day (being Mon
day) the Oxford ringers gave them a short peal at
Magd. coll., as they did in the evening a short one
at Christ Church, the Londoners laying still that day,
that they might refresh themselves after the fatigue
of their journey. The day after (being Tuesday,
May 5) the Londoners rang a peal admirably well
at New coll., of about 1500 changes, from a little
before 11 o'clock in the morning till 12. And in
the evening they did the same at Christ Church.
On Wednesday they (the Londoners) began to ring
at Christ Church in the morning, a quarter before
12, and they rung till 2 most incomparably well,
when, the gudgeons being bad, the biggest bell (i. e.
the tenth) fell down, but not through the loft, other
wise they proposed to have rang 5040 changes.
In the evening they rang the eight bells at Magd.
coll., but two or three ropes breaking they could not
proceed above half an hour. On Thursday they
began to ring at New. coll., proposing to ring the
said number of changes (viz. 5040) there. They
began a little before 12, and rang about three
quarters of an hour, when one of the ropes broke,
and so they were stopped. Afterwards they uined
at the Weers, beyond Friar Bacon's Study, and some
(if not all) of them, stepping over to Iffley, they rang
the six bells there (viz. 700 changes upon them).
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resolved to ring the abovementioned number of
5040 changes upon New coll. ten bells, as they had
begun to do before. Accordingly they began a little
before 12, and rang full two hours in the morning;
wanting two minutes, when one of the ropes broke,
and put a stop to the peal, for which all were very
sorry, as they were at the fall of the great bell at
Christ Church ; for their ringing at both places, as
well as elsewhere, was most surprisingly fine, with
out the least fault from beginning to end, such as
never was before in Oxford, and 'tis a scandal that
the bells should not be in good order. Sat. May 19,
they went out of town. On Tuesday, May 22, the
great bell at Christ Church was got up again, and in
the evening the Oxford men rang all ten, and en
deavoured to imitate the Londoners, but they were
soon out, and made poor work of it in comparison of
the others.
July 2. Adam Brome's chappel, at St. Marie's, is
new wainscotted against the approaching Oxford
Act. But an inconvenience attends it, that, by the
Vice-Chancellor Dr. Holmes's order, the openings
are stopt up on the south side next the church, so
that people cannot now hear there, whereas formerly
abuiidance of auditors (particularly in hot weather)
used to be in this chappell, particularly those of the
inferior sort, (gownsmen and others,) which was of
great service, in preventing the over numerous
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July 3. The assize sermon was preached this
morning at St. Marie's by Mr. Thomas Randolph of
Corpus Christi coll. The assizes begun here to day,
and when they are ended the judges go to Abbing
ton, tho' they used to finish the Berkshire assizes
before the Oxford ones. But they altered now, on
account of the approaching Oxford Act, being un
willing to bring any inconvenience by their presence
here at the act to the house where they lodge, which
after they are gone may be let to other lodgers that
have occasion.
July 5. One Handel, a foreigner, (who, they say,
was born at Hanover,) being desired to come to Ox
ford, to perform in musick this Act, in which he hath
great skill, is come down, the Vice-Chancellor (Dr.
Holmes) having requested him so to do, and, as an
encouragement, to allow him the benefit of the
Theater both before the Act begins and after it.
Accordingly he hath published papers for a perform
ance to-day, at 5*. a ticket. This performance be
gan a little after 5 o'clock in the evening. This is
an innovation. The players might be as well per
mitted to come and act. The Vice-Chancellor is
much blamed for it. In this, however, he is to be
commended, for reviving our Acts, which ought to
be annual, which might easily be brought about,
provided the statutes were strictly follow'd, and all
such innovations (which exhaust gentlemen's pockets,
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July 6. The players being denied coming to Ox
ford by the Vice-Chancellor, and that very rightly,
tho' they might as well have been here as Haudell
and (his lowsy crew) a great number of forreign
fidlers, they went to Abbington, and yesterday began
to act there, at which were present many gownsmen
from Oxford.
July 8. Half an hour after 5 o'clock, yesterday in
the afternoon, was another performance, at 5*. a
ticket, in the Theater by Mr. Handel for his own
benefit, continuing till about 8 o'clock.
NB. His book (not worth Id.) he sells for 1*,
July 9- This being Act Monday, after ringing the
little bell at nine o'clock, the inceptors met at St.
Marie's, the beadles of each faculty conducting them,
where, being together in the East chapell, the vicar
of St. Marie's read prayers to them ; which being
ended, 1st the Vice-Chancellor, then the inceptors,
and lastly the proctors, the beadles going before
them, made their offerings at the communion table.
July 11. In the evening, half hour after five
o'clock, yesterday Handel and his company perform'd
again at the Theater, being the 3d time, at five shill.
a ticket f.

f What would have been the amount of Hearne's virtuous indignation, had
he known that in May 1856 madame Goldschmidt (Jenny Lind) sang at a
concert in the Sheldonian Theatre, the tickets being charged one guinea,
fifteen shillings, and half a guinea each, according to the situations filled by
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July 12. Yesterday morning, from nine o'clock
in the morning till eleven, Handel and his company
perform'd their musick in Christ Church hall, at 3*.
a ticket. In the evening of the same day, at half hour after
5, Handel and his crew perform'd again in the
Theater at 5*. per ticket. This was the 4th time
of his performing there.
July 13. Last night, being the 12th, Handel and
his company perform'd again in the Theater, being
the 5th time of his performing there, at 5*. per
ticket, Mr. Walter Powel (the superior beadle of
divinity) singing, as he hath done all along with
them. August 4. The two Edward Brownes were of the
university of Cambridge, Edward Browne the phy
sician (son of the famous sir Thos. Browne) M. Bac.
of Trinity college ann. 1663. (Regr. Acad.) Fas
ciculus Edward says of himself, [Praef. pag. 32]
that he was born at Rochester, fellow collegian to
Job. Moore, (afterwards bp. of Ely, [pag. 27-] and
so it appears from the Register, Edv. Browne, Joh.
Moore Aul. Clar. Art. Bac. aim. 1665, 6. Art.
Mri. Aul. Clar. Joh. Moore, Edv. Browne &c.) Regr.
Acad., and were doubtless intimate friends, being
chaplains to the same family, the bp. to chancellor
Finch, and our author Edv. Br. — in Familid Viri
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Vol. I. p. 478. When or where he dy'd, Mr. Baker
hath not found, probably in his own parish, Sun-
drigice. We have no great reason to deplore the
loss or want of the third volume, unless it might
have fain into better conduct and management.
The first volume when first published was condemn'd
in the Index Expurg., and that might make him
apprehensive of like danger to the second.
August 9- A gentleman (an esquire) lately with
me, tho' he be a complyer in all respects, but a Tory,
acknowledged the non-jurors to be the true honest
staunch men of the nation, namely those who are
intirely non-jurors, and do not go to the publick
churches; and that such as have complyed and ad
hered to pseudo-bishops will never be able to get
over what shall be objected against their defection.

11. London, August 2, 1733. Letters
from Weymouth in Dorsetshire give an account of
a very melancholy accident, that happen'd a few
miles off that place last week, viz. About 13 or 14
gentlemen and ladies having been at Mr. Weld's
seat (who lately had the cause before the delegates)
at Lawthrop hall, and it being a fine day, had a
mind to go in a vessel on the sea, which according
ly they did. After they had got a little way out, a
sudden squall arose, which laid the vessel all on one
side close to the water, the mast lying in, (it's sup
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in this situation they were some short time, when a
gentleman, who was reckon'd the best swimmer, stript
and went in, in order to get to shore for help ; but
before he had swam far his strength fail'd him, and
he turn'd back to get into the vessel ; but being
just spent as he came up to her, caught hold of the
mast to save himself, by which means he pull'd the
vessel over, and all, except one gentleman, were
drowned. Their names were not then known, but
one of the ladies was about 17, and reckoned the
greatest beauty and fortune in that county. North
ampton Mercury for Mond. Aug. 6, 1733.
August 16. Mr. Sanford of Balliol signified to
me on Aug. 13, 1733, Mond., that 'twould be a
good piece of service to the world, if the whole body
of our university statutes, as also if all college
statutes, were printed, considering what vile prac
tices are used now-a-days ; tho' if the statutes were
studiously observed, it would not be at all proper to
print them. Many others (among which my self)
are of the same mind.
August 18. I have at length read over both Dr.
Cockman' and Dr. Seeker's Act sermon, and I find
what hath been reported by all to be very true, that
Seeker's is by much the better discourse. Indeed
Seeker's is rather an essay than a sermon, but 'tis
very handsome and neat, and proper enough for the
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tion of K. George and Q. Caroline, which is no
wonder, since he writes himself in the title LL.D.
prebendary of Durham, rector of St. James's West
minster, and chaplain in ordinary to his majesty.
But Cockman's, as it is rather a lecture than a ser
mon, so 'tis very flat, dull and heavye.
August 20. This day, at 12 o'clock at noon, St.
Marie's great bell rung out for Dr. Matthew Tindall,
fellow of All Souls college, who died this last week
out of the college, where he seldom appeared. He
was matriculated in Lent term 1672, aged 15 or
thereabouts, being comm. of Line, college (where
Dr. George Hickes, as I have often heard, was his
tutor). Thence he removed to Exeter coll., took
the degree of Bach, of Arts, and was chosen fellow
of All Souls, as a member of which he took the
degree of Bach, of Civ. Law Dec. 17, 1679, and
that of Dr. of Civ. L. July 7, 1685. He was a man
of most vile principles, and of no religion, as may
appear from many books he wrote and published, in
which he had the assistance of the late Mr. Collins,
yet without his name to them, amongst which are the
" Rights of the Christian Church," and " Christianity
as old as the Creation."
August 22. On Saturday, Aug. 18, 1733, was the
annual meeting, called the High Borlace, at the
King's head tavern in Oxford, when miss Molly
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in room of miss Stonhouse, that was lady patroness
last year.
August 23. On Monday, Aug. 20, 1733, they
began to dig for the foundations of the new build
ing on the north side of Magd. coll.
Dr. Leigh, master of Balliol coll., was of the High
Borlace this year. This is the first time of a clergy
man's being there.
August 25. One Williams, a Welshman, hath
been several years about the colleges &c. of Oxford.
He is a sorry fellow. He hath just done them at
6 guineas the better, and 3 guineas the worse paper.
They are miserably done, he being neither an expert
drawer nor engraver. Loggan's were done admirably
well, and will always deserve great praise.
Sept. 1. On Thursday the 16th instant, died, ac
cording to the prints, Matthew Tindal, LL.D., and
fellow of All Souls' college in Oxford. In the reign
of king James II. he was reconciled to the church
of Rome, made a formal abjuration, and went pub-
lickly to mass in Oxford ; but the times changing,
as to outward appearance he chang'd, tho' he never
made any solemn recantation, as, being much in
favour, it was not insisted on. He wrote several
pieces, as The Rights qf the Christian Church;
An Answer to Bishop Gibson's Pastoral Letter ;
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been all answered to the satisfaction of reasonable
men, and to the conviction, tho' not conversion, of
the freethinkers of this age. He made himself
known to the court, after the Revolution, by his
determination against those who acted at sea under
king James's commission, then absent, whom he de
clared pirates ; tho' different were the opinions of
the civilians consulted on that nice point. In
G.Parker's Ephemeris of 1711 is erected a scheme
of his nativity.
It is reprinted in the said Parker's Ephemeris for
1734. Sept. 3. On Thursday, Aug. 30, Mr. Weeks was
with me again. He spends fifteen shillings a day.
He is very much in the stocks, being, as I find, a
great dealer in money. He is acquainted with many
Jews. The Jews do not take usury of one another,
but of others they take as much as possibly they can.
Sept. 16. Mr. Sacheverel, who died a few years
since, of Denman's Farm (in Berks) near Oxford,
was look'd upon as the best judge of bells in Eng
land. He used to say, that Horsepath bells near
Oxford, tho' but five in number, and very small,
were the prettiest, tunablest bells in England, and
that there was not a fault in one, excepting the 3d,
and that so small a fault, as it was not to be dis
cerned but by a very good judge.
Horsepath tower is 46 feet high. Garsington
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Oct. 2. Dr. Middleton Massey told me on Satur
day Sept. 29, 1733, that the university is like to
lose twenty thousand libs, from sir Hans Sloane,
upon account of what hath been transacted at the
Ashmolean museum, by making a head of a house,
Mr. Huddesford, president of Trinity coll., keeper of
that place, and fixing upon him 50 libs, a year, whe
ther he do anything there or not.
The Dr. then told me, he hath published nothing
but a catalogue (a small thing which I have) of the
library of Wisbich, and that there were but an hun
dred and fifty printed.
Oct. 3. I hear of iron bedsteads in London. Dr.
Massey told me of them on Sat. Sept. 29, 1733.
He said they were used on account of the buggs,
which have, since the great fire, been very trouble
some in London.
Oct. 21. On Friday, Oct. 19, 1733, they began to
pull down the houses at Queen's college, on the
eastern part of the south side of that college, in
order to erect a new part of that college, queen
Caroline having given them a thousand libs. The
mason is Mr. Townsend, and the carpenter Mr.
Franklin, who are the same that were imployed in
the former new buildings of that college.
Oct. 25. The prints tell us that on Tuesday morn
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house of the duke of Devonshire, in Piccadilly
Westminster, by the carelessness of the workmen,
who had been employ'd all the summer to repair
and beautify it at the expense of f40,000/., and en
tirely destroyed it, but his grace's library, cabinet
of rarities, pictures, plate, and jewels, valued at
100,000/., were saved ; however the damage is com
puted at 10 or 15,000/. I was told also of the same
dismal fire in a letter from Mr. West of the 17th,
from the Inner Temple ; who added, that most of
the pictures and medals he heard were saved, and a
pretty many of the books, and that it was occa
sioned by a joyner's prentice leaving a pot of glue
on the fire.
Nov. 10. Sir Justinian Isham hath a little 4to
MS. on paper, which I read over yesterday, being
delivered to me by his brother Dr. Euseby Isham,
rector of Lincoln college, being Dr. John Cotta's
opinion about the death of sir Euseby Andrew. The
Dr. [Cotta] thus intitles it, My Opinion at the
assizesin Northampton demanded in court, touching
the poysoning qf Sr Euseby Andrew, more fully
satisfied. Signed John Cotta, and then he adds,
My evidence in open court delivered at the assizes
at Northampton 3 seuerall times upon commande.
At the beginning of this MS. sir Justinian hath
written, f " I suppose it should be 4000?." So says T. H. ; had he lived in 1856
he would not have indulged so simple a supposition.
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788 RELIQUIAE 1733.
Ant. a Wood makes mention qf Dr. Cotta, vol.
I. p. 438 of Ath. Ox.
Sr Euseby Andrew descended of a very ancient
family, for several generations seated at Char-
welton in Northntonshire, was son to Thomas
Andrew esq. by Mary his wife daughter of Gre
gory Isham, and sister to sir Euseby Isham qf
Pichely and Braunston in Co. Northn. Knt. which
Thomas being sheriff qf Northamptonshire, at
tended (according to Cambden) upon Mary queen
qf Scots to her execution at Fotheringhay castle.
Sr. Eusebie Andrew married Anne daughter qf
sr. Richard Knightley of Fauesley by his second
lady, Elizabeth daughter of Edward Seymour
duke qf Somerset L. Protector, and as appears by
the inquisition post mortem died on the last day qf
July, 17. Jacob, leaving Edward his son and heir
eleven years of age.
Nov. 13. The wind being very high on Sunday
night last Nov. 2, there had like to have been a
very dismal fire, the wind being south west, at Crab-
tree corner by Smith gate in Oxford. It flamed
out, and did some damage. The engine was sent
for, and good assistance coming, it was happily
stopp'd. Nov. 14. On Monday last, in the afternoon, the
foundation stone (a small one) was laid at the new
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college Oxon. with this inscription, as I hear, for I
did not see it, CAROLINA REGINA Nov. 12,
1733. Nov. 18. The new body of statutes for University
college, drawn up by the master Dr. Cockman, have
not been yet confirmed, tho' many journies have
been made for it, but at last a reason was given,
that by virtue of a late act of parliament, they must
be in English. Upon which the master was put to
a fresh trouble. However, he compiled them in
English, and yet cannot get them confirmed ; nor
do I know when 'twill be done.
Nov. 24. Hardouin his epitaph. From the
Hague. In English.
Here lies the most paradoxical of men,
By Birth a Frenchman, by Religion a Jesuit,
The Prodigy of the learned World ;
The Cultivator, and at the same time the Plunderer of Antiquity.
He play'd the Sceptic piously ;
Was credulous as a child ;
Bold as a youth ; and
Delirious as an old man ;
In a word, Here lies Father HARDOUIN.
Nov. 27. 1555. 16° Octobris Doctor Ridley et
Latimer erant combusti, at the beginning of a little
MS. penes Thomam Ward de Warwick armigerum.
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Dec. 1. About a fortnight since died the duchess
of Ormond ; a lady much lamented on account of
her great liberality, generosity, and charity. As she
had been a very beautiful woman, so she excelled
in all other accomplishments. It must have been
a great trouble to her not to have seen the duke of
Ormond, her husband, after his being banished, for
no other reason but his honesty, so many years, near
twenty. Dec. 19- I understand there is not a single article
of the duke of Devonshire's collection missing by
the late fire, when his fine house at London was
burnt. I am also told, that Dr. David Wilkins is publish
ing in folio all the British, Saxon and English coun
cils aud synodical decrees, wherein will be included
both sir Henry Spelman's volumes. I find archbp.
Wake intended this work, and made collections for
it, near thirty years agoe. I am sure Wilkins was
upon it himself in q. Anne's time, perhaps by the
countenance of Wake, but was then hindered, being
not thought to be a proper person.
Dec. 25. Colonel Valentine Walton, one of the
judges of k. Charles the Ist, who fled from justice a
little before the restauration, married one of the
sisters of Oliver Cromwell, and wrote (as Mr. Jo.
Brookland, one of the Theater printers told me yes
terday) an History of the Civil Wars, which is in

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MS. in the hands of some one related to his family
at this time, and that many original letters of Oliver
Cromwell are in it. Money (five hundred libs.) hath
been offered (it seems) for the copy, but 'twill not
be parted with, Valentine Walton having (it seems)
ordered it to be kept as a secret, and not to be pub
lished, fearing (it may be) lest abundance of his and
other's roguery and villany may be from thence dis
covered. His second wife (it seems) died in a mean
sorry condition in Oxford, a0. 1662, in Cat street,
according to Mr. Wood, but for my part I never
heard her mentioned by any Oxford person what
ever, and yet she was buried in St. Marie's church.
Mr. Brookland abovesaid told me, his brother John
Brookland is the person that gave him an account
of this MS.
Dec. 30. On Thursday, Dec. 20 last, sir William
Bowyer, of Denham Court, near Uxbridge in Bucks,
bart., was married at Radley (by Dr. Thompson,
rector of SunningweU) to Mrs. Anne Stonehouse, a
very fine woman, daughter of the late sir John
Stonehouse, bart., knight of the shire for Berks.
We have an account from Southampton, that the
fine steeple of St. Michael's church, which was re
built this summer, was on Sunday morning, Dec. 16,
last broke in pieces by a violent clap of thunder and
lightning, and some of the stones thrown fifty yards
from the church. We don't hear of much more
damage being done; but it was the most violent
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792 RELIQUIAE 1733-34.
clap of thunder, accompanied with hailstones of the
largest size, known in these parts.
Jan. 2. Christ Church ten bells being now in
very good order, yesterday some select Oxford ring
ers rung them all for a wager. They were every
man of them townsmen, but had received some con
siderable instructions from Mr. Stone, M.A., a man
in orders, and a good ringer himself, fellow of Wad
ham college. The wager was, that they could not
ring the five thousand and forty changes, quater or
cater changes upon them. They were to have six
tryals, and if upon the sixth tryal they did not do it,
they were to loose. Yesterday they began (being
the first tryal) just at twelve o'clock, and finished
the whole 27 minutes after 3 o'clock. This is the
first time that this number of changes was ever rung
in Oxford, the biggest bell at Christ Church falling
down, and the ropes breaking at New college, when
the Londoners rang at both places lately, otherwise
the said Londoners (whp rung at each place above
two hours, and never made the least fault) would
have done it with the greatest ease imaginable. The
Oxford ringers yesterday made many mistakes, so
that 'twas expected they must have given over seve
ral times. I did not hear them till they had been
at it about 3 quarters of an hour, but afterwards I
heard them quite out till they had done, and I ob
served fifty-two faults in the ringing, nine of which
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together, 'twas excellent ringing, and they may glory
of it. The most considerable fault was occasioned
by Dr. Gregory, Regius professor of modern history
aud student of Christ Church, who yesterday broke
in upon the ringers, to their great disturbance.
Jan. 7. The castle of Edinburgh was formerly
call'd castrum puellarum, i. e. the Maiden castle,
because, as some say, the kings of the Picts kept
their daughters in it while unmarry'd. But those
who understand the ancient Scots or Highland lan
guage say the words ma-eden signify only a castle
built upon a hill or rock. This account of the name
is just enough.
Jan. 9- Mr. Baker hath sent me an account I re
ceived this morning of a Latin Phalaris's Epistles
printed at Oxford in the 297th Olympiad after
Christ. Mr. Baker's friend supposes it to be 1484.
I take it rather to have been 1485, and even after
Hen. Vllth came to the crown. I do not remember
to have met with any account of this book before.
Theodorick Rood of Cologn is mentioned as the
printer, as also Thomas Hunte an Englishman as his
partner. Yet Rood a0. 1481 printed at Oxford
alone. Mr. Wood does not seem to have seen this
books. * See Herbert's Ames, iii., 1395, for an account of this most valuable
typographical curiosity. I may state, that the copy of the book mentioned
by Herbert as in the possession of Mr. Randolph, is now in the library of
Corpus Christi college, given by that gentleman.

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Jan. 11. Mr. Baker observes to me, that Maun-
sell's Catalogue is a very scarce, and yet a very use-
full book. This observation is very just. I do not
remember to have seen more than one copy, which is
that in Bodley, where I used formerly often to con
sult it. Few of our writers of the affairs of queen
Elizabeth have let it pass, provided they have been
able to meet with it. It used to be much set by, by
Mr. Thomas Rawlinson, as it did likewise by the late
bp. Atterbury, and by Mr. John Bagford, as it does
now by Mr. John Murray, as well as by the earl of
Oxford, to say nothing of others. I must remember
to ask Dr. Richard Rawlinson, whether he hath a
copy thereof with any improvements ?
Jan. 17. Mr. Baker of Cambridge (who is a very
good, as well as a very learned man, and is my great
friend, though I am unknown in person to him) tells
me in his letter of the 16th of last December, that
he hath always thought it a happiness to dye in
time, and says of himself, that he is really affraid of
living too long. He is above seventy, as he told me
some time since. What occasioned him to speak of
the happiness of dying in time was, my telling him
that bp. Tanner was pretty well recovered of his
late illness, upon which he said he was glad to hear
of the bp.'s tolerable degree of health, and yet the
bp. having so gross a body, Mr. Baker doubts (and
so do I) that the rest of his life will be uncom
fortable.

1733-34. HEARNIAN^E. 795
Jan. 20. " Maunsell's Catalogue I have, much im-
" prov'd from archbp. Harsnet's copy at Colchester,
" and more by my own and a friend's hand. It is a
" book I am often using, but I have left it you by
" will, and I hope you will not stay for it over long."
So Mr. Baker, in his letter to me from Cam
bridge, dated Jan. 5th.h
h I regret that I cannot refer the reader to this very desirable copy of one
of the most valuable bibliographical works of the period. The book will how
ever be found in the Selden library, as well as in Mr. Douce's collection in
the Bodleian. It is now of such rare occurrence, that I may be doing a ser
vice by pointing it out to collectors, as weU deserving their particular atten
tion. The first part of the Catalogue of English printed Bookes : which
concerneth such matters of diuinitie, as haue lin either written in our owne
Tongue, or translated out of anie other language : and haue bin published to
the glory of God, and edification of the Church of Christ in England. Gathered
into alphabet, and such method as it is, by Andrew Maunsell, bookeseller.
Unumquodque propter quid [Windet's device, the pelican, surrounded with
two mottoes, " pro lege, rege, et grege," paraphrased on the outer rim, "Love
" kepyth the lawe, obeyeth the kyng, and is good to the commen welthe"].
London, printed by John Windet for Andrew Maunsell, dwelling in Loth-
burie, 1595. A thin folio of 124 pages, (the last a blank,) besides the title
and six pages containing dedications " to the qveenes most sacred maiestie ;
to the reverend divdnes and louers of diuine bookes ; to the worshipfull the
master, wardens and assistants of the companie of stationers, and to all other
printers and booksellers in generall."
The seconde parte, which concerneth the sciences Mathematicall, as Arith-
metick, Geometric, Astronomic, Astrologie, Musick, the arte of VVarre and
Nauigation : and also of Phisick and Surgerie was printed the same year in
folio, by James Roberts, for Andrew Maunsell, containing pp. 28, (last page
blank,) and, in addition, an address " to the right worshipfull the Professors
of the Sciences Mathematicall, and to the learned Professors of Phisicke and
Surgery," another also to the master, wardens &c. of the company of the
stationers &c. (as in the first part,) and a dedication " to the right honour
able Robert, Earle of Essex and Ewe, Viscount Hereford, Lorde Ferrers of
Chartley, Bourghchier and Louaine, maister of the Queenes maiesties horse,
knight ofthe most noble order of the Garter, and one of her Highnes most
honorable priuie counsell," in all, with title, pp. 6. In the dedication to lord
Essex, Maunsell says that " seeing still many excellent bookes written and
" printed in our owne tongue, and that many of them after twenty or fortie
" yeares printing, are so dispersed out of booke-sellers hands, that they are

796 RELIQUIAE , 1733-34.
Jan. 23. No book sold better formerly than Bur
ton's Anatomy of Melancholy, in which there is
great variety of learning, so that it hath been a
common-place for filchers. It hath a great many
impressions, and the bookseller got an estate by it;
but now 'tis disregarded, and a good fair perfect
copy (altho' of the 7th impression) may be purchased
for one shilling, well bound, which occasiond a gen
tleman yesterday (who observ'd how many books,
that were topping books formerly, and were greedily
bought at great prices, were turn'd to wast paper)
to say, that sir Isaac Newton (he believ'd) would
also in time be turned to wast paper ; an observation
which is very likely to prove true.
Roti, the celebrated graver to king Charles IL,

" not onely scarce to be found, but almost quite forgotten ; I haue thought it
" worth my poore labour to take some paynes heerein — to gather a Catho-
" logue in such sort as I can, of the bookes printed in pur owne tongue;
" which I doe hope will be delightsome to all English men that be learned,
" or desirous of learning : for hereby they may know, euen in their studies,
" what bookes are eyther by our own countrymen written or translated out
" of any other language, that those which desire to set foorth more bookes
" for the benefit of their contrey, may see what is already extant vpon any
" argument." At the back of the title is an excellent woodcut of his noble
patron's armorial bearings. All readers must allow the motives of our com
piler to have been most sensible and legitimate, and no one, who in these
days has occasion to refer to this catalogue, but will confess its merit and
great utility, particularly in enabling us very frequently to attribute ap
parently anonymous works to their actual authors. All will regret the non
appearance of the third and last part, which was to have accompanied the first
and second, but was delayed, " finding it so troublesome to get sight of books,
" and so tedious to digest into any good methode." The loss of this third
part is the more' to be regretted, because it was " to shew what wee haue in
" our owne tongue of Gramer, Logick, Rethoriclce, Lawe, Historie, Poetrie,
" Policie &c. which will for the most part concerne matters of delight and
" pleasure. "

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was so passionate an admirer of the beautiful Mrs.
Stuart, (afterwards duchess of Richmond,) that on
the reverse of the best of our coin he delineated the
face of Britannia from her picture. And in some
medals, where he had more room to display both
his art and affection, the similitude of features is
said to have been so exact, that every one who knew
her grace, at the first view could discover who sat
for Britannia. Mr. Fenton, in p. clv of his Notes
upon Waller's Poems. In p. clxiii he hath had one
of these medals engrav'd. It hath on the obverse
CAROLVS ; A. CAROLO, with k. Charles. lids
head, and under it 1665. And on the reverse,
QVATVOR. MARIA. VINDICO round Britan
nia (viz. the said countess) sitting on a shield, with
a laurel in her right hand, and a shield in her left,
her left leg naked, and underneath BRITANNIA.
Jan. 28. Mr. Robert Burton, who wrote the
Anatomy of Melancholy, was greatly acquainted
with Mr. John Rowse, keeper of the Bodleian
library, and Mr. Rowse used him very kindly, in
furnishing him with such books as he wanted.
Mr. Burton was librarian (when he was student)
at Christ Church.
Mr. Burton look'd upon Christ Church library as
a very good one.
He complains much in his preface of the sixth
ed. of his Anat. of Melancholy of the dull sale of
Latin books, but observes that any thing whatsoever
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Mr. Burton was one of the most facetious and
pleasant companions of that age, but his conversa
tion was very innocent. It was the way then to
mix a great deal of Latin in discoursing, at which he
was wonderfuU ready, (in the manner his book is
wrote,) which is now looked upon as pedantry.
Ant. a Wood was a great admirer of Mr. Burton,
and of the books he bequeathed to the Bodleian
library, a great many of which were little historicall
diverting pamphlets, now grown wonderfuU scarce,
which Mr. Burton used to divert himself with, as
he did with other little merry books, of which there
are many in his benefaction, one of which is The
History qf Tom Thumb.
Feb. 10. King Charles the First's vow concern
ing the retaining Church-lands. Dated at Oxford,
13. Ap. 1646.
I A.B. do here promise, and solemnly vow, in the pre
sence, and for the service, of Almighty God, that if it shall
please His Divine Majesty of His infinite goodness to re
store me to my just kingly rights, and to reestablish me in
my throne, I will wholly give back to His church all those
impropriations which are now held by the crown; and what
lands soever I now do, or should enjoy, which have been
taken away, either from any episcopal see, or any cathe
dral, or collegiate church, from any abbey, or other re
ligious house. I likewise promise for hereafter to hold
them from the church, under such reasonable fines and
rents as shall be set down by some conscientious persons,
whom I promise to choose with all uprightness of heart, to
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God to accept of this my vow, and to bless me in the de
signs I have now in hand, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
CHARLES R.
Oxford 13 Ap. 1646.
Andrew Borde was born at Boord's hill in Holmes
Dayle in Sussex, and not (as seemed to Mr. Wood,
Ath. Oxon. Vol. I. col. 73. ed. 2d) at Pevensey or
Pensey. So we learn from his Peregrination, p. 14,
MS. penes me.
Feb. 11. Mr. Edward Wells corresponded with
Robert Nelson, esq. The last letter the Dr. said
he had the happiness to receive from him was dated
Oct. 12, 1714 ; Mr. Nelson falling ill presently
after. Mr. Nelson was a pious good man, and a
non-juror till the death of Dr. Lloyd bp. of Nor
wich, when with Mr. Dodwell and several others he
struck in with the complyers, and acknowledged
those to be the orthodox true bps. that they had
looked upon as schismatical before. But Dr. Hickes
and others continued unshaken, maintaining tbat
case was still the same, the succession being con
tinued by the care the orthodox bps. had taken of
consecrations, and k. James lids son being the true
king, and insisting upon the same rights his father
and ancestors had. Mr. Nelson was not much won
dered at by Dr. Hickes and his friends for acting
thus, since Mr. Nelson had all along spoke generally
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800 RELIQUIAE 1733-34.
ferers, and had written the life of bp. Bull, that was
one of those that always did comply, notwithstanding
he were undoubtedly a very great man.
Feb. 14. The compiler of the Antiquities of Nor
folk, that bp. Tanner told me of, I understand by
Mr. Baker (in his letter of Febr. 5, 1733) is one
Mr. Francis Blomfield, Art. Bac. of Caius college,
and rector or vicar of a small living in that county,
a young man, but has a genius for antiquities, and
Mr. Baker believes he will perform well : but print
ing in parts, tho' he sent Mr. Baker his proposals, he
could not encourage his design, as he otherwise in
clined to do.
Feb. 15. Before the building of Magd. coll. Oxon.
there used to be a great multitude of fullers and
weavers in Holywell parish.
The rudera or ruines of south St. Michael's church
Oxford were to be seen in Mr. Miles Wyndesore's
time. It appears, according to Miles Windsore, that the
following churches were formerly in Oxford, of which
there is nothing now.
1. South St. Miles : there were ruines there in
Miles Windsore's time : 2. St. Edwards : 3. St.
Mildred's : 4. St. George's : 5. St. Marie Osney :
6. The Augustin Friers church : 7- The White
Friers church : it had a very high spire, built of
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demolished, the noise of the fall was so great, that
it terrified the whole city : 8. The Grey Friers
church : 9- The Black Friers church : 10. Rewley
church: 11. Glocester church: 12. Stockwell
church : 13. North St. John's church, where New
coll. and Hart hall is, in the parish of St. John the
Evangelist : 14..St. Botulph's : 15. St. Olave's.
Feb. 19- The late Lawrence Echard, M.A. arch
deacon of Stowe, and chaplain to William [Wake]
lord archbishop of Canterbury, among other things
wrote and published The History qf the Revolu
tion and the establishment qf England in the year
1688. 8vo. Tho' it be vile enough, shewing that
Mr. Echard did it to get prefeiment, and to ingra
tiate himself, yet it withall is a sufficient proof of
the villanies used to king James II. and his queen
and son, in which villanies the late Dr. Gilbert
Burnet was one of the chief. After they had drove
the king out of his dominions, yea even before he
was gone, they voted that he had abdicated his
crown, whereas all he did was by force, as appear'd
throughout. Abdication is a voluntary act, but the
king was so far from resigning, that he insisted upon
his rights to the last, and even in Ireland appear'd
against his rebellious subjects with sword in hand,
when his son-in-law William prince of Orange,
Anglice Usufructuarius, (as Camden stiles a former
usurper king Stephen, p. 186 ed. 8vo.) fought against
him, and drove him out of Ireland, and would have
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802 RELIQUIAE 1733-34.
shot him if he could. From this very piece of
Echard, notwithstanding the author was a thorough
paced republican, the monstrous ambition of the
prince of Orange is highly evident, as well as his
crafty knavery, and even such as countenanc'd him
were plainly rebells ; and whatever fair pretences
may be alleged on their behalf, yet 'twill never be
accounted for cleerly any otherwise than by acknow
ledging that it was a rebellion, (at least in those
who violated their oaths to king James,) what how
ever few are willing to own, tho' they think, without
doubt, that 'twas so, in their hearts.
The first of Nov. 1688 was a Thursday, yet
Echard, p. 158, makes the next day, which was
Friday, to be Nov. 3d, and yet, p. 159, calls Sunday,
(as it certainly was) the 4th. The said Sunday was
the prince of Orange's birthday, he being born Nov.
4, 1650, and 'twas that day he really landed, (not
withstanding what Echard and others say to the
contrary,) tho' it was ordered not to be observed till
(as it hath been observed ever since on) the 5th of
Nov., which was then a Monday, for fear it should
be forgot unless joyned with the day of observing
the Gunpowder Treason, an artifice that many honest
men now frequently talk of and abhor.
Feb. 20. Notwithstanding what is said above,
since, without doubt, many good men were drawn
into the revolution, and took oaths to the prince
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had taken before to k. James, I would not be so
hard upon them as to brand them for rogues and
villains, but would think rather very favourably of
them, especially since they gave very good reasons
for their proceedings. Much less would I brand
those that took oaths that could not be said to
thwart what they had done before, since they were
not bound by former oaths, having never taken any ;
and there is the greater reason to think very well of
many of these for this very reason, because, tho' they
took the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, yet they
refused to take the oath of abjuration, which was
afterwards imposed, and they used to say that they
took the oath of allegiance in that sense only, (a
sense indeed, which divers of Wm.'s chief friends
said 'twas to be taken in, and Wm. himself did not
gainsay,) that they would live peaceably and quietly.
There is one thing here must not be passed over,
(what even Mr. Echard also observes,) that tho' the
prince of Orange promised, when things were a little
settled, to have the legitimacy of the birth of the
prince of Wales examined into, and set in a clear light
in the parliament, yet when once he and his princess
were declared king and queen, and k. James turned
out, the matter was quite dropt, he being quite afraid
to have it canvass'd, well knowing, as his princess
likewise did, that he was undoubtedly k. James's son,
and born of the body of the queen. Nor is there
any body that since that time hardly doubts of it'.
¦ March 13. Mr. Echard (who wrote the History of England) died at Lin-
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Feb. 21. Last week the organist's house (com*
monly called the Musick School House) on the
north side of Magd. coll. at a little distance from
the college, just by the water side, being on the west
side of the water, was pulled down, on account of
the new additional part that is now erecting of the
college. Feb. 22. There were formerly 7 spires in Oxford,
viz. St. Marie's, All Hallows, St. Frideswydes, St.
Mary Osney, Ruly, The White Fryers, and the
Black Fryers.
There are now in Oxford 4 spires, viz. St. Marie's,
All Hallows, St. Frideswydes, and St. Aldate's.
Osney spire might be seen 15 or 16 miles off, and
in it was a most charming tuneable peal of bells, for
the sake of which abundance of strangers used to
come to Oxford.
Feb. 26. Mr. Ballard in his rambles lately met
with an original picture of Edwin Sandys, archbp. of
York, which discovers him to have been a man of a
very reverend and venerable aspect, his hair of a
light brown, grey ey'd, ruddy of complexion, &c.
March 10. What we commonly say as merry
as a grig, perhaps should be as merry as a Greek.
Levium Graecorum mentio apud antiquos scriptores.
Et quidem ipse Tullius in oratione pro L. Flacco
levitatem Grsecorum propriam esse monuit.
coin in August or Septr. 1729, (at his visitation as archdeacon of Stow,) and
I presume was bury'd there. So Mr. Baker from Cambridge, March 5, 1733-
[Chalmers gives the date as 1 730, and states that he was buried at Lincoln
without any memorial]

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On the 7th inst. Id. Oxford sent me the Chronicle
of John Beverk. He lends it me at my request,
and says he will lend me any book he hath, and
wonders I will not go to London and see my friends,
and see what MSS. and papers are there, and in
other libraries, that are worth printing.
I could give several reasons for my not going
either to London or other places, which however I
r did not trouble his lordship with. Among others,
'tis probable I might receive a much better welcome
than I deserve, or is suitable to one that so much
desires and seeks a private humble life, without the
least pomp or grandeur.
I received the said MS. yesterday, being the 9th.
There are other things in the MS. (which is in folio)
besides Bever that are worth taking notice of, viz.
(1) Dares Phrygius. (2) Martinus Polonus's Chro
nicle. (3) John Merelynch monk of Glastonbury's
Additions to Martinus Polonus. In tbe Martinus
is the ridiculous, fabulous story (for such it is cer
tainly) about a woman pope, tho' other very good
MSS. (in that respect preferable to this) want it, as
Dr. Cave hath observed.
March 15. The prints tell us, that on Ash-Wed
nesday, as his highness the prince of Orange was
going from Newbury to Abbington, (in order to
k This was the last MS. that Hearne transcribed with a view to publica
tion, and he was busily engaged on the work at the time of his decease. See
Appendix No. I. The MS. as fitted for the press, will be found in the Bodr
leian MS. Rawl. B. 185.
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see Oxford) and the road lying through a lane, al
most impassable for a coach, and very dangerous,
a wealthy farmer, whose estate lay contiguous,
threw down the hedges, and opened a way for his
highness to pass through his grounds; which the
prince being acquainted with, was pleased to stop;
whereupon the farmer came up to the coach side,
and acquainted his highness, " That he had now re-
" ceived the most desired honour of his life, in being
" able to contribute to the safety of a prince of the
" House of Orange; that his father had the like
" honour, when the immortal king William, the glo-
" rious deliverer of these kingdoms, passed that way;
" and that the sole thing he had now to desire of
" Providence was, that his son and descendants to
" the latest ages might have opportunities to testify
" their gratitude, by the like zeal to future princes
" of that illustrious family."
The circumstance of the farmer's pulling up the
hedges I am assured is very true, and I hear 'twas
one Colton, a sorry puritan of Milton, and that the
lane is Milton lane, the public road, and might have
been passed well enough, as it commonly is, only
this fellow had a mind to shew his zeal, as multi
tudes else shew their zeal every day to the prince.
Last night were great illuminations all over Ox
ford, and ringing of bells for the marriage of the
prince of Orange with the princess Anne, stiled the
Princess Royal of England, which was celebrated at
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1733-34. HEARNIAN.E. 807
night. He was born Sept. 1, 1711, O. S., and she
was born Oct. 22, 1709-

Mar. 16. Mr. El. Fenton, who put out the late
edition of Waller's Poems, was of Jesus college in
the university of Cambridge, where he took his
degree of Bach, of Arts, proceeded Mr. at Trin.
Hall, where he had Mr. Trumbull, (son of the late
sir Wm. Trumbull) under his private care, with
whom he liv'd and dy'd, and whom he left executor,
who gave him the following monument and inscrip
tion: To the Memory of
Elijah Fenton
of Shelton in Staffordshire, who
dyed at Easthampstead, Anno 1730, aged
Forty-seaven years ; In Honour of his great
Integrity and learning, William Trumbull, Esq.
erected this Monument.
This modest stone, what few vain marbles can,
May truly say — Here lies an honest man ;
A Poet, blest beyond the Poet's fate,
Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great ;
Foe to loud praise, and Friend to learned ease,
Content with science, in the Vale of Peace.
Calmly he look'd on either life, and here
Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear :
From Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd,
Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd. —
A. Pope.
This epitaph (saith Mr. Baker, who sent it me
in his letter from Cambridge of Feb. 19, 1733) con-
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tains Mr. Fenton's true character : it was compos'd by
Mr. Pope, his entire friend ; and yet they were two
men of very different tempers, such as will want no
further explaining to you.
Mar. 19. Learning is sunk so very low, that I am
most certainly inform'd, that nothing is now hardly
read but Burnett's romance or libel, call'd by him
The History of his Own Times. Tis read by men,
women, and children. Indeed it is the common
table-book for ladies as well as gentlemen, especially
such as are friends to the revolution scheme.
Mar. 22. King George the lid. (as he is styled)
and his wife q. Carolina (as she is call'd) and other
courtiers are very much displeas'd that the prince of
Orange met with such a fine handsome reception at
Oxford. Mar. 23. " I take it, that Dr. Nathaniel Johnston,
who wrote the booke [of the King's Visitatorial
Power] you mention, dyed long since, and that his
son (Dr. also) has his MSS. which he valued at
£500. They were some time in an old bookseller's
hand of York (now dead), in order to try if he could
get sufficient subscriptions to raise that summe from
the gentlemen of York ; but it did not succeed, and
they were sent back to him in the south somewhere,
but I have forgot the place, but will certainly satisfy
you from a nephew of the old man, who has a living

1734. HEARNIAN^E. 809
at Beverley, within ten miles of this place : he's a
hearty facetious companion. The old Dr. was cer
tainly a non-juror, and his son, now living (as I be
lieve), is also a non-juror ; I knew and have often
seen the old Dr.'s brother, who was prior of the
English Benedictins at Paris when I was there.
He fled out of England at the assassination plot, and
a reward was offered by k. Wm. to apprehend him,
but he kept out of the way, and dyed at Paris. The
parson in my neighbourhood has had several letters
from him, mildly exhorting him to be of the old re
ligion, telling him that there were but few things
that kept them separate. This good little monk was
no writer, tho' long a superiour : he was a pleasant
good natured man." Mr. Constable.
April 1. As for great and humble Mr. Wood-
head's Life, it is entirely at a stand, and it will be
hard to write his life, partly because few or none
now can give any particulars of it, nor could any
know his private exemplar, and penitential life,
which he purposely hid from the world, to be more
united to his God and Saviour. Mr. Constable (from
whom I had this) hath met with some letters, writ in
his own hand to a friend, of his, a Dr. of Physick,
who became catholic much at the same time as
Mr. Woodhead. There are only three or four letters
of the Dr.'s but they sufficiently shew he was a
learned man. The dates to both their letters was
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one letter of dean Cressy's, which was in the bundle,
dated as to the year, which was 1651. So Mr. Con
stable supposes the rest were writ in the same year,
especially since the matter seems to confirm this
conjecture. Mr. Constable would give an hundred
libs, he had all his letters, writ as these are. They
would conduce much to the making out his life,
and shew the honest heart of that humble learned
man. Mr. Constable will go, if he can, this sum
mer, to learn what he can in the country where he
was born.
Camden hath several conjectures about the reason
of the name of London. I take it to be nothing but
Longdon or Longtown.
Apr. 2. Mr. Constable, in the postscript to his
letter of Febr. 17, 1733-4, tells me some of Mr.
Woodhead's letters were writ in characters or short
hand, and that he had a great and long trouble in
making them entirely out. He seems (saith he)
very cautious and timorous, least he should be dis
covered to alter his sentiments as to religion, and
charges Dr. Welby, his friend, to whom all the
letters are, to burn his letters, arid tell nobody his
sentiments. Dr. Welby is stoute, and tells him he
thinks it's necessary they should declare themselves,
but poor Mr. Woodhead is quite against it ; one rea
son is, that he and the Dr. (he says) might doe more
good undiscovered : he says also that he should be
ruin'd for ever if he declared himself openly.

1734. HEARNIANtE. 811
April 5. Mr. Richd. Clements of Oxon., book
seller, told me yesterday, that Dr. Holmes, Vice-
Chancellor of Oxford, had desired him not to sell
nor disperse any of the copies that should be offered
to him of Mr. Gole of Witney's case, with relation
to Dr. Hudson's daughter, and the like request he
hath made to other booksellers in Oxford. This the
Vice-Chancellor hath done at the desire of sir John
Boys, whose son is married to the said daughter of
Dr. Hudson. This makes people believe that Mr.
Gole hath more right on his side than some have
suggested, and that sir John hath not acted so justly
as he ought in the case, especially too since he gave
200 libs, to Mr. Gole not to stir in the matter, which
however Gole did, tho' it was (contrary to what was
expected at London) given against him.
April 6. Mr. George Ballard hath lately read
over the 1st vol. of Wood's Athena?, with much
pleasure and satisfaction. He wishes Nicholson had
used the same diligence in his " English Historical
Library," and that he had given us catalogues of
every author's works. But in this I cannot agree
with Mr. Ballard ; the bp.'s design being only to point
out what relates to our English history, in which
what he hath done is very usefull, tho' far from
being a perfect work, there being strange blunders
in it, and abundance of defects or omissions.
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per-plate of Hans Holbein's Dance of Death, etch'd
by Hollar.
April 9- Burnet's second romance (so his History
of his Own Time is justly stiled) was published about
7 weeks since. It comes down to the treaty of
Utrecht, and by what I hear from several, (for I
have not read it myself) is much of a piece with
the former, tho' others say, there is less scandal in
it. It is said, the political characters were given
him by the author of a book, which I have formerly
mention'd, now in the catalogue that is printed of
Tho. Rawhnson's MSS. But it seems the MS. of
that book was imperfect, and there is a perfect one
in Rawhnson's collection. But whether Burnett
hath these characters from that book, I leave to
such as will think it worth while to compare both.
Burnett must have been the greatest of villains, in
writing such libells or romances, in order to poison
present and future ages. For tho' honest wise men
will rightly judge of such performances, and be by
no means byass'd by them, yet they bear no propor
tion to others, who will be sway'd by such books,
and will greedily imbibe the principles in them, and
instill them in their children and dependents.
April 11. They write from Bristol, of the 30th
past, [being Sat.,] that the Tuesday before [being
March 26] died the reverend Mr. [Edward] Biss,
minister of St. George, who in the late reign [of

1734. HEARNIANLE. 813
George I.] fell under displeasure of the government,
for preaching a seditious and treasonable sermon,
for which he stood in the pillory, had a long impri
sonment, and was silenced from preaching. — North
ampton Mercury for Mond. Apr. 8. 1734.
NB. The said Mr. Bisse was a battler of Edmund
hall in Oxford, being about a year my junior, where
he took the degree of Bach, of Arts and left the
hall, but after some years he came with his wife to
Oxford again, and as a member of that hall took the
degree of M.A. on May 10, 1710, at what time his
wife lay in in Oxford. Soon after he had taken his
Master of Arts degree, he left Oxford quite, and the
next news I heard of him was the sermon he preach'd,
for which he suffered. When he was of Edm. hall he
was called crazed or mad Bisse, and oftentimes
proud Bisse, by which names he was very properly
called, being indeed a very haughty, crazed, poor
wretch, deserving pity rather than the pillory, only
those that did it, did it purely out of spight to the
clergy. Had they ordered his friends to confine
him, they had done well, for indeed he was not fit
to preach.
Apr. 12. Being yesterday walking between Ferry
Hinksey and Botley in Berks, farmer Kirby of Ferry
Hinksey told me, that at Oddington near Islip in
Oxfordshire, what in other places is called a yard
land, they call a noble of land, saying such a parcel
of ground consists of so many nobles of land instead
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three or four years since at Oddington. He married
his wife from Hinksey, and 'tis that that makes him
live there.
Apr. 16. Mr. Pope had the main of his informa
tion about Mr. Kirle, commonly call'd the man of
Ross, (whom he characterizeth in his poem of the
Use of Riches) from Jacob Tonson the bookseller,
who hath purchased an estate of about a thousand
a year, and lives in Herefordshire, a man that is a
great snivelling, poor-spirited whigg, and good for
nothing that I know of. Mr. Brome tells me in his
letter from Ewithington on Nov. 23d, 1733, that he
does not think the truth is strained in any parti
culars of the character, except it be in his being
founder of the church and spire of Ross, for had he
lived backward the years of Johannes de temporibus,
he could have been born early enough to have been
so, but he was a great benefactor: and at the re
casting of the bells gave a tenor, a large bell. Nei
ther does Mr. Brome find he was founder of any
hospital, and he thinks his knowledge in medicine
extended no farther than kitchen physick, of which
he was very liberal, and might thereby preserve
many lives. To enable him to perform these ex
traordinary benefactions, he had a wood, which per
haps once in about fifteen years might bring him in
between a 1000 and 1500lbs. I will say of him with
Petrarch —
O fortunato, che si chiara tromba
Trovasti, et chi di te si alto scrisse.

1734. HEARNIAN.E. 815
April 18. Yesterday Mr. Matthew Gibson, mi
nister of Abbey Dore in Herefordshire, just called
upon me. I ask'd him whether he knew Mr. Kirle,
commonly call'd the man of Ross. He said he did
very well, and that his (Mr. Matthew Gibson's) wife
is his near relation ; I think he said he was her uncle.
I told him, the said man of Ross was an extra
ordinary charitable generous man, and did much
good. He said he did clo a great deal of good, but
that 'twas all out of vanity and ostentation, being
the vainest man living, and that he always hated his
relations, and would never look upon, or do any
thing for them, tho' many of them were very poor.
I know not what credit to give to Mr. Gibson in
that account, especially since this same Gibson hath
more than once, in my presence, spoke inveterately
against that good honest man Dr. Adam Ottley, late
bp. of St. David's. Besides, this Gibson is a crazed
man, and withall stingy, tho' he be rich, and hath no
child by his wife.
April 30. Just printed and published, A prac
tical Grammar of the Greek Tongue. 'Tis in
English, the author anonymous. He had before
printed and pubhshed "A Practical Latin Grammar:"
both are in 8vo ; the Latin one I have not run over,
but have just perused the Greek one, which is dedi
cated to the honble. John Scrope, esq. This Scrope
is a great whig, and was member of parliament for
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parliament that is just dissolved. He was a zealous
man, and voted for the excise bill. Whoever the
author be, he is a forward conceited fellow, and
endeavours to bring new fangled ways of teaching
into vogue. He would have Greek learned before
Latin, and that children and youth should learn
grammatical rules in English, not in Latin. Yet
his rules are so hard, as that it is impossible for
children and youth to understand them without
understanding Latin. I was soon weary of him, he
is so whiggish, as even to put and recommend Dr.
Clarke (who put out a piece of Homer) both in his
index (for there is an index to this grammar) and in
the book. For my part, I think that should youth
follow Clarke, they would be heterodox both in
divinity and grammar. Clarke, 'tis well known, (and
it hath been often proved,) was heterodox in divinity,
and I have no better opinion (at least since he is re
commended by this anonymous) for his grammatical
skill, especially since his Homer is stolen from
Barnes's edition. Mr. Barnes hath grammatical
notes all along, such as Dr. Rob. Friend used to
make his boys read at Westminster school, whicli
have been stolen by Dr. Clarke, and used as his
own, and 'tis these that anonymous recommends as
curious, without taking notice of Mr. Barnes, the best
skill'd in poetical Greek of any man in the world,
stiling Dr. Clarke " the accurate and most, learned
" Dr. Clarke." He transcribes whole Latin passages
from his beloved Clarke. He writes asperate instead

1734. HEARNIAN^E. 817
of aspirate, purely because of a lenis and asper, but
though asper the adjective be proper, yet aspero is
not so, but aspiro. But since he is for English, he
should have express'd every thing, even lenis, asper,
&c. in English. I never knew such English per
formances as this grammar do good, and I am there
fore far from expecting it from this, no more than
ever I found or heard of any good service that Eng
lish logicks have done.
May 2. Yesterday an attempt was made upon
New college bells of 6876 changes. They began a
quarter before ten in the morning, and rang very
well till four minutes after twelve, when Mr. Brick-
land, a schoolmaster of St. Michael's parish, who
rang the fifth bell, missing a stroke, it put a stop to
the whole, so that they presently set them, and so
sunk the peal, which is pity, for 'twas really very-
true ringing, excepting five faults, which I observ'd
(for I heard all the time, tho' 'twas very wet all the
while) in that part of the Parks which is on the
east side of Wadham college, where I was very
private ; one of which five faults was the treble,
that was rung by Mr. Richard Hearne, and the other
four were faults committed by the abovesaid Mr.
Brickland, who 'twas feared by several beforehand
would not fully perform his part, but they took, him
now, because Mr. Broughton (who otherwise should
have rang) was out of town, attending as barber in
a progress of Magd. coll. Excepting this Broughton
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818 RELIQUIAE 1734,
and Mr. George, the ringers were all the same with
those mentioned under Jan. 24 last. Mr. George's
hands (he is above fifty years old) being not quite
recovered of some blisters he received the last ring
ing on April 15 last, Mr. Nash, a cabinetmaker,
(who came from London, but now lives in Oxford,)
who is an excellent ringer, supply'd his place, and
rang the 3d bell, so they were as follows :

Mr. Hearne thelst.ortreble.
Mr. Vicars the 2d.
Mr. Nash the 3d.
Mr. Terry the 4th.
Mr. Brickland the 5th.

Mr. Yate the 6th1.
Mr. Smith the 7th.
Mr. Barnes the 8th.
Mr. Lloyd the 9th.
Mr. Ben well the 1 Oth or tenor.

When I mention'd afterwards my observations to
ye said Mr. Smith, he told me, that tho' he rung
himself, yet he minded the faults also himself. Upon
which I asked him how many there, were ? He said
three before that which stopp'd them. I told him
there were just five before that, at which he ad
mired my niceness.
They rang in the said two hours and nineteen
minutes 3475 changes, which wanted 3401 of the
number proposed.
May 6. Bp. Burnet has (as Mr. Baker observes
to me by letter of Apr. 28 last from Cambr.) some
where accounted for that Treatise of Polygamy &c,
(i. e. his two cases of polygamy and divorce,) and (as
far as he remembers) disowns it, in the dress and
1 Mr. Yate before rang the jth, and then the sixth was rung by Mr.
Broughton, in whose room Mr. Brickland was now taken.

1734. HEARNIAN.E. 819
manner it now goes abroad. " No man" (saith Mr.
Baker) " ever had more enemies, or has been more
" despitefully treated : I wish you could find time to
" read his life, wrote by his son, which has given nie
" more entertainment than his History has done."
Notwithstanding this, I am pretty sure of the
genuineness of the two cases. I have them in MSS.,
and they are sad wretched vile stuff. I am also
pretty well assured they were in the MS. of his
History (that libell) of his Own Times, however left
out by his son Thomas, author of his Life, who when
young at Oxford bore the same character for modesty,
probity and veracity with his father.
May 8. In the Most excellent Way qf hearing
Mass, printed a0. 1687, 12°. are many curious things
fit for protestants to observe, without regard to the
superstitious errors.
May 12. On Thursday last, being the 9th of May,
St. Mary's (Oxford) weather-cock fell down, as the
great bell was ringing at 9 o'clock in the morning
for a congregation. It had been loose for some time.
The cock fell upon the church, the tail into the
churchyard. Upon the tail was fastened a piece of
lead, on which this inscription :
THOMAS BOWMAN CHURCH WARDENS
THOMAS ADAMS
GEORGE WEST ELECT CHURCH WARDEN
THIS STEEPLE WAS REPAIRED
AN. DOM. 1669-'
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Upon the cock was also an inscription, but, ex
cepting here' and there a letter, defac'd, yet so as,
perhaps, with pains the traces might be explained.
I was told the repair of the steeple cost about
53 libs.
Between 20 and 30 years since, I think nearer 30
years agoe, the said steeple was new pointed by a
man, who was in many parts of England on the
same account. He at that time took down the
weather-cock, and 'twas mended, and afterwards he
fixed it again.
I afterwards heard, that that man was killed from
some steeple he was pointing, the rope breaking
which drew him up in the bucket or frame prepared
for him.
The oldest church rate for St. Marie's is of the
year 1509-
Richard Fitz James, bp. of London, repaired the
said church of St. Marie's. He became bp. of Lon
don anno 1506. He bestowed much money in the
said repair. He died a0. 1521. He was 1st bp. of
Rochester, being consecrated a°. 1496, translated
thence to Chichester a0. 1504, and thence to London
Aug. 2, 1506. Godwin Ed. Engl. p. 203. It is
commonly said tbat he repaired St. Marie's in
Hen. 7th's time.
May 17. Mr. Theobalds (Mr. Baker tells me) is a
very genteel man, and has show'd himself a scholar
in his Shakespeare, which I just run over, and might
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servations. I noted, however, that he had taken too
great liberty. I wish rather he had follow'd the
first editions very exactly, be they faulty or not.
Shakespeare wanted learning. He was guilty of
pseudography, sometimes perhaps designedly. He
(Mr. Theobalds) is too bold in bringing his own
conjectures into the text, which (it may be) will lay
him too open to his adversaries, and make them say
Shakespeare wants as much to be restored as ever,
and that his edition is not of much greater authority
than that of Mr. Pope, who is much inferior to Mr.
Theobalds in learning. Mr. Theobalds hath all along,
very often justly enough, discovered and reflected
upon Mr. Pope's defects, which will, without doubt,
nettle Mr. Pope, who, however, may thank himself,
he having in his Dunciad (a scurrilous piece against
many of the greatest men of the age) treated Mr.
Theobalds in a very barbarous manner, for which
Mr. Pope is much blamed. Mr. Theobalds was not
of the university of Cambridge, nor, I presume, of
any. He wrote a play before he was nineteen years
of age, and has since translated several from the
Greek™- He had a very able schoolmaster, Mr.
m These translations were highly esteemed by the late eminent scholar and
judicious critic, Richard Porson, as I well remember hearing from his friend
and admirer, my old schoolmaster, the rev. Thomas Kidd, then one of the
ushers at Merchant Taylors' school. They were published at intervals, and
copies are peculiarly scarce. I do not believe any one of them will be
found on the shelves of the Bodleian, rich as it is in every species of dramatic
poetry. I subjoin a list that may be useful : they are all in 12°, and should
each have a plate.
1. Eleclra : a tragedy, from Sophocles, with notes. London, for Bernard
Lintott — 1 7 14. Dedicated to Addison.
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Ellis of our university, and some while of the uni
versity of Cambridge, under whom he was well
grounded. May 21. I begin to think that Borde" was author
of the History qf Tom Thumb. It relates to some
dwarf, and he is reported to have been king Edgar's
dwarf, but we want history for it, and I fear the
author Borde (or whoever he was) had only tradition,
the original being perhaps lost before Hen. VIHth's
time. May 22. What makes me think Tom Thumb is
founded upon history, is the method of those times
of turning true history into little pretty stories, of
which we have many instances, one of which is Guy
of Warwick, which, however corrupted and blended
with fabulous accounts, is however in the main very
true, as may appear from Girardus Cornubiensis that
I printed at the end of The Chronicle of Dun-
staple. May 23. Yesterday in the forenoon I accidentally
2. The Clouds : a comedy, from Aristophanes. London, for Jonas Brown —
1 7 15. Dedicated to John Glanville, esq.
3. Plutus ; or the World's Idol : a comedy, from Aristophanes. London,
for Jonas Browne — 1715. Dedicated to John duke of Argyle.
4. Oedipus, Kmg of Thebes : a tragedy from Sophocles, with notes.
London, for Bernard Lintott — 17 15. Dedicated to the earl of Rockingham.
Similar in size and appearance, with a plate, and London, printed for
Bernard Lintott, is Ajax of Sophocles : from the Greek, with notes. This
was however translated by a Mr. Jackson, and revised by Rowe.
n Of Borde, in addition to the usual sources of information, see a good
account in the Sussex Archaeological Collections, vol. 6, (1853) p. 204.

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saw, and exchanged a very few words with, an old
schoolfellow, Mr. Samuel Cherry, whom I had not
seen for many years, never since queen Anne's time,
when I saw him in the Bodleian Gallery, at which
time he was an ensign. He tolcl me he was still a
souldier, being now a lieutenant, and came yesterday
from Bister to see somebody at Oxford. He is the
elder brother of my late friend Mr. Thomas Cherry,
who died in 1706, whom I have mentioned in Le
land's Itinerary. But he is nothing near so person
able a man as his said brother. I went to school
with both of them at Bray in Berks. Their uncle
was Wm. Cherry, esq., father of my best friend Mr.
Francis Cherry. I should have been glad to have
had a pretty deal of conversation with this Mr. Sam.
Cherry, had a convenient opportunity offered, . that
we might have been private, and had not he been of
the Georgian strain, as without doubt he is, being
an ofiicer in George's army.
May 26. Dr. Thomas Parnell was archdeacon of
Clogher in Ireland. He was a very ingenious man.
His poems were published by Mr. Pope. He took
at last to immoderate drinking of mild ale, which
kill'd him when he was hardly 40. 'Tis said he
translated Homer's Iliad into English in excellent
prose, and that Mr. Pope afterwards put it into
verse, and that this is what goes for Mr. Pope's
translation of the Iliad, that he (Mr. Pope) under
stands little or nothing of the original.
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May 27. " A Critical Review of the Public Build
ings, Statues and Ornaments in and about London
and Westminster. To which is prefixed the dimen
sions of St. Peter's Church at Rome, and St. Paul's
Cathedral at London." Lond. 1734, 8vo. Price one
shilling and sixpence.
The author, whoever he is, is an ill-natured, con
ceited, censorious, prophane pedant. 'Tis dedicated
to the earl of Burlington, whom he makes to be the
only true judge of building. He undertook this
book, to be sure, out of spleen, and with a design
that buildings should be pulled down, that others
may be put up in their stead by such as he, who aim
at wealth. I like what he says of king James lid's
statue in brass at Whitehall (pag. 46) ; viz. tbe atti
tude is fine, the manner free and easy, the execution
finish'd and perfect, and ye expression in ye face in
imitable : it explains ye very soul of that unhappy
monarch, and it is therefore as valuable as if it com
memorated the features and form of a hero.
May 28. P. 64 of the abovementioned " Critical
Review " he makes sir Godfrey Kneller's tomb in
Westm. Abbey wretched, tho' the monument was
designed by sir Godfrey himself, and executed by
Rysbrack, and is so far from answering the idea we
might conceive of it from two such great names,
that it hardly excites common attention or curiosity,
unless to read the epitaph, which is exactly of
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Pope's genius, as the design of that is of Kneller's
pencil. Ib. p. 74. The plainness and simplicity of Dr.
[John Friend's] bust [in Westm. Abbey] pleases me
much; and if his epitaph had been in the same
gout, it would have been at least as high a compli
ment both to the scholar and physician.
Ib. p. 75. By the way, I cannot overlook the droll
figure, lately set up [in Westm. Abbey] at the charge
of a noble peer [lord Oxford] to the memory of
[Dr.] Grabe the commentator : he is elevated on a
high sort of a funeral chest, with a lamp by his side
and a pen in his hand, to represent, I suppose, his
unwearied application to study in his life-time ; but
then the ridiculous height of the statue, the clum
siness of the attitude, aud the, odness of the employ,
never fail to excite laughter in all who behold them :
in short, he looks like a boy on a high joint-stool,
kicking his heels about, and afraid of tumbling every
moment. Ib. p. 77. I am always much surpris'd to see [in
Westm. Abbey] so wretched a thing as that erected
to the memory of Mr. [John] Phillips, inscrib'd with
the name of Harcourt. One would have naturally
imagined that whoever aim'd at publick ornament
would endeavour at something like elegance too ;
one would have expected it in a more eminent de
gree from such a name as this : but on the contrary,
nothing is more opposite, nothing can be more con
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and instead of doing honour to the founder, or the
person 'tis consecrated to, indicates very strongly
that either one had not merit enough to deserve a
better, or the other had not spirit and taste enough
to do it justice.
May 29- Mr. Alexander Pope, who is look'd
upon as one of the most cursed ill-natured proud
fellows in the world, was however very kind and du-
tifull to his mother, who hath not been dead long.
June 1. Mr. Wood reflects (by the advice of some
of his popish correspondents) too severely upon
bp. Ponet and Bale, for what they say of Dr. An
drew Boorde's lewdness. One that was no bishop,
Will. Harrison, in his Description of England before
Hollinshead, p. 172, calls this Dr. Boorde " a lewde
popish hypocrite, and an ungratious priest." He was
a priest, being reckoned among the Charterhouse
monks, who were such when they made their sub
mission, as may be seen in Rymer, vol. xiv. p. 492.
So bp. Tanner ; viz. in epta ad me dat. ex JEde
Xts Maii 29, 1734.
But I must needs say, that I think Boorde was a
virtuous man, and did not deserve the character of
being lewd, notwithstanding that two or three have
said to the contrary : Bale's ill-nature and rancour are
well enough known, and I think Mr. Wood's remafk
is just enough.
June 3. Having sent some very cursory notes, re-

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lating to Mr. Theobald's Shakespeare, to Mr. Baker
of Cambridge, in his letter of May 26th 1734, from
Cambridge to me he writes thus :
" You have show'd yourself a true critic upon
" Mr. Th., and a very candid censurer of his adver-
" sary, [Mr. Alexander Pope,] for which I cannot
" blame you, for it is very Christian to be forgiving.
" I must confess, that I, tho' less concern'd, had some
" indignation, and, for that reason partly, became a
" subscriber. I wish Mr. Th. had been known to
" you ; I know of none that could have done him
" better service, if you had had leisure from more
" serious studies. I had gone no further than his
" preface, which bears pretty hard upon his adver-
" sary." June 13. Mr. Pope is extremely nettled with
Mr. Theobald for publishing Shakespeare, and ani
madverting upon him, the said Pope, and Mr. Pope,
as I find, in defence of himself uses nothing but
scurrilities, and the most indecent unbecoming lan
guage, agreeable to his pride, being said by impar
tial men to be one of the proudest creatures living.
June 16. When Mr. West was in Oxford on May
29 last, he gave me Mr. Goole's book about his case
with Dr. Hudson's daughter.
It appears plainly from thence that there was a
most solemn contract between them, and that Mr.
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There is some little controversy at the beginning
about her age, in which Mr. Goole is mistaken, oc-
casion'd by an alteration of the date written by Dr.
Hudson's own hand in a Bible.
I never saw that Bible, in which Mr. Goole ob
serves 'tis corrected 1712, whereas he thinks it
should be 1710, and confirms it by Dr. Hall's pre
face to Josephus, in which Dr. Hall says, Dr. Hud
son's daughter was novem annorum when Dr. Hud
son died a0. 1719-
But Mr. Goole is out in his correction ; I have
the time of her birth put down at the time. By my
account, Dr. Hudson was married Apr. 2, 1710.
His daughter Margaret, about whom the dispute
is, was born Tuesday, July 24th 1711, and baptiz'd
Thursday, Aug. 2, 1711. So she was in her 9th year
when her father Dr. Hudson died.
At the end of Mr. Goole' s book is Dr. Hudson's
will, dated Sept. 27, 1719- But in it is no mention
of his books, all which, viz. as many as were not
there before, he gave by will to University college
Library, and accordingly by virtue thereof they had
them, and the rest were sold by auction.
June 18. Dr. Coxhead, warden of New College,
hath this year made a door out of his lodgings into
the street, a thing much taken notice of as against
the statutes, by persons that are not for innova
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June 19. We have an account from the prints,
that on the 12th inst. new style, James Fitz- James,
(eldest natural son of k. James II.) duke of Berwick,
"was killed before Philipsburgh by a cannon ball,
upon which his sister the duchess of Buckingham
shire, the lady viscountess Falmouth, and the hon.
Mrs. Arabella Dunch of Whitehall, are going into
deep mourning for his death. He was natural son
of the said k. James II. by Mrs. Arabella Churchill,
sister of the late duke of Marlborough, and had the
title of duke of Berwick, as likewise the garter,
conferr'd upon him by that prince. He serv'd in
the French army from his infancy, and distinguished
himself in several actions during the late war. He
rose to be marshal of France, the highest honour the
Christian king can bestow, not more by favour than
by his services to that prince ; and as he was one of
the oldest, so he was the best general the French
had. He has left three sons, the eldest duke of
Fitz-James, the second duke of Liria in Spain, hav
ing received that honour from his catholick majesty,
whose ambassador he was some time to the court
of Vienna, and the third is in the service of the
church. The duke was slain as he was bravely act
ing against the emperor, in behalf of the French, in
the present war between both.
June 28. Sir Clement Cottrell, knt., the present
master of the ceremonies, though in the court in
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from very worthy ancestors. He is a scholar and
an antiquary, and well skill'd in matters of proceed
ing and ceremony.
July 9. Anno 1733 came out at London a little
book in 12°., being the third edition of Campana-
logia, or the Art of Ringing.
One Annables is now putting out a new edition
of the same book, which 'tis said will be the best
book of its kind that ever yet was printed on that
subject. The said Annables is one of the London ringers,
that rung at Oxford at Whitsuntide in 1733. He
rang the 9th bell, and is judged to understand ring
ing as well as, if not better than, any man in the
world ".
July 12. Joseph Scaliger's Elenchus Trihceresii,
tho' a small book, yet excellent, and can never be
commended too much, as is observ'd by Isaac Casau-
bon in his Exercitt. upon Baronius, p. 65.

" Hearne was passionately fond of bell-ringing, (although I do not find that
he practised it himself,) and records many ofthe exploits in that science in
Oxford, which are omitted as not of general interest now, although the cus
tom of gownsmen exercising themselves in this amusement was not uncommon
in the last century. I had an uncle, then fellow, afterwards an incumbent, of
New college, who frequently indulged in a peal on the college bells, and Dr.
Gauntlett the late warden had been no mean performer in his younger days.
Under Dec. 2, Hearne gives a very long account of a peal rung at Ch.
Ch. on the 5th of Nov. preceding. The peal, he says, was spoiled, and
he insinuates that there was a sufficient cause for it, concluding with this re
mark, " Indeed there can never be any true ringing, but by persons that
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July 14. The prints of the 6th of this month tell
us (and 'tis what I had heard by other hands), that
a few days before died at his seat at Ford-Abbey in
Devonshire, aged 91, Francis Gwyn, esq., descended
from the ancient family of the Herberts, earls of
Pembroke, one of this gentleman's ancestors having
changed his name by act of Parliament. He was
clerk of the privy council in the reign of Charles IL,
which post he enjoyed under his successor k. James.
When the said king James was abdicated, he was
appointed to act as secretary to those noble lords,
who took care of the publick peace, till William,
prince of Orange, was proclaimed, and had an un
limited power given him to sign all dispatches and
orders in that critical time. He continued in the
service of the crown from thence till the death of
queen Anne, when, being secretary at war, he was
removed from that and all other employments. He
married Amy, daughter and sole surviving heiress of
— — Prideaux, esq., in whose right he became pos
sessed of that ancient, noble, and spacious seat
called Ford-Abbey, with a fair estate round it, which
now descends to his eldest son, Edward Prideaux
Gwyn, esq.
I have seen at my room, as well as at Christ
Church, some years ago, and conversed at both
places with the said Francis Gwyn, esq. He was a
man of great honour, probity and honesty, of sin
gular good nature and great affability. He was ex
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of this kingdom, as well as of other parts of Great
Britain. He enjoyed a vigorous course of health,
being a temperate man, and using much exercise.
He was my friend, as is also his son the foresaid
Edward Prideaux Gwyn, esq., who was, when he
was of Oxford, one of my intimate acquaintance,
being one of those many young gentlemen (noble
men and others) that used to walk so much with me,
and to meet me so often at divers places, where we
enjoyed abundance of innocent mirth, and discoursed
of antiquities and other useful matters. They have
often said this was the most happy part of their life.
July 17. The prints also tell us, that on Thursday
the 11th inst. the duke of Portland was marry'd to
the only daughter and heiress of the earl of Oxford.
He was born in 1712-13. She is in the 18th year
of her age.
July 19. The duke of Portland, to whom lord
Oxford's daughter is just married, is reported to be
the handsomest man in England. The young lady
his wife is also very handsome. The princess Amelia,
daughter of the present k. George II., is said to have
been wonderfully in love with him, and would fain
have had him if she could. His father was Henry
Bentinck, earl of Portland, and his grandfather Wil
liam Bentinck, earl of Portland, a Dutch man, who
was first of all page to the late prince of Orange,
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posts of honour, the said prince being strangely in
love with him.

Aug. 3. The prints of Thursd. July 25 last tell us,
that they wrote from Bristol, that one day the week
before, a carpenter sitting down in a field near Bed-
minster to rest himself, a viper rushed out of a
hedge, and bit him by the hand : the venom morti-
fy'd all down the side he was bit on, before any re
lief could be applied by the surgeons, and he died
after 4 days languishing, in a very miserable condi
tion. His body was obliged to be burnt without
ceremony, the stench was so offensive. It may be
here noted, that in such accidents as this, sallad oil
applied warm to the wound is an effectual cure.
There are Bristol men in Oxford who confirm the
truth of the preceding story.
Aug. 5. Yesterday call'd upon me, and staid a
little while, a young gent, who said his name was
Fontane. I understood by him that he was a Dutch
man. He wanted to talk with me about MSS. of
Theophrastus, he being about a new ed. I told him
editions were very common. He said, the best were
very scarce. He said, the best ed. was Dr. Pet.
Needham's. I told him, I had sent Needham what
we had at Bodley. He said, he had found some
MSS. notes of Is. Casaubon in Bodley. But 'tis
well known that Casaubon published Theophrastus,
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proper: Dutchmen are for multiplying editions to
no purpose, with burthens of notes to perplex and
amuse the reader.
August 12. I must remember to write to Dr.
Rawlinson, to know who is made a rt. revd. in the
room of Mr. Gandy deceased ?
Also to congratulate him for his benefactions (at
least designed ones) with respect to his giving du
plicate books to the univ. of Oxford, tho' I fear he
met with opposition, not only in that point, but
likewise in his endeavour to obtain some materials
from the Oxford registers, in order to the better
carrying on his book about the non-juring sufferers,
particularly those of the clergy.
August 16. To write to Dr. Archer, to know of
him, whether he hath in his registers or other books
met with John Merelynch, a monk of Glastonbury,
who wrote an account in Latin of some of our Eng
lish and Irish affairs.
[N.B. I wrote to him Tuesd. Aug. 27-]
August 17. The said account of some of our
English and Irish affairs is at the end of Martinus
Polonus, in bibliotheca Harleina. I am now copy
ing it, to be printed by me with John Bever, which
I have also from the same library. Merelynch is of
affairs the 9 first years of pope John, 22 temp. Edv.
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August 19. Dr. Thomas Hyde is now very much
wanted, upon account of his great skill in the Ori
ental languages, particularly in the Persian. He
design'd to have published tbe works of Zoroastres
in Persian and Latin, had he met with any en
couragement ; but this he did not, but the quite
contrary, for which 'tis great pity, since to have had
them printed would have been of wonderfuU service
to the learned world. He had a prodigious genius
for languages, but was wonderfuU slow of speech,
and his delivery so very low, that 'twas impossible
to hear what he said, insomuch that when he
preached one Sunday morning at Christ Church, at
my first coming to Oxford, after he had been in the
pulpit an hour and half, or thereabouts, most ".of ye
congregation went out of ye church, and the Vice-
Chancellor sent to him to come down, which with
much ado he did, nobody being able to hear a word
he said. He was a corpulent man, and when he
walk'd, would hardly ever look on one side or the
other, tho' touch'd by any one, in passing by him.
Yet he would be merry and facetious in discourse.
August 20. Sunday (being the 18th) was the
annual meeting of the High Borlase, but being the
sabbath, the meeting was not held till yesterday, at
the King's head tavern, as usual in Oxford, when
' the company was less than last year. They chose
for their lady patroness miss Anne Cope, daughter
of sir Jonathan Cope of Bruern.
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August 26. Sir Thomas Sebright proposed this
last High Borlace, that Mr. Moseley of Merton
college might be admitted a member of the said
Borlace, but he was rejected.
August 27. Dr. Wm. Baker, late fellow of St.
John's coll. Cambridge, was chaplain formerly to sir
Philip Sydenham, (at my friend Mr. Thomas Baker
of that college's recommendation,) and was pre-
ferr'd by him to the little rectory of Brimpton.
They liv'd together some time in perfect friendship ;
what provocation was after given I cannot surely
say, but sir Philip drew upon him, and the Dr.
closing with him disarm'd him, and broke his sword,
which was never after forgiven. From that time
my friend aforesaid lost sir Ph., and yet he did
not please the doctor, which is commonly the fate
of neuters. The Dr.'s brother (with whom I thought
this quarrel had been, till I was very lately better
inform'd) was of Christ Church, who being left his
executor was lately at St. John's, to adjust accounts
with the college, which are very considerable, the
Dr. dying their bursar. The said Mr. Baker (who
was of Christ Church) is named Thomas. I knew
him. He was famed for singing.
August 28. Wrote to day to Dr. Rawlinson, at
London House, signifying, that as he designed many
special books for the university, so I suppos'd he
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he received full satisfaction with respect to the in
quiries he had to make, the better to enable him to
carry on the worthy work, that was begun about
the non-jurors, particularly the clergy, by Mr. Gandy,
whose successor I desired the Dr. to send me. I
also desired the Dr. to let me know whether Mr.
Wm. Oldisworth (who was of Hart hall) be dead
or no, as I am told he is. He hath liv'd in London
of late. He hath written several things, and pro
fessing honest principles, the Dr. could not be ig
norant of him.
August 30. I was told yesterday, by a gentleman
of Brazen nose college, that Mr. Aynsworth hath
finished and printed his Dictionary, but that 'tis not
yet published.
Mr. Aynsworth formerly kept a boarding school,
and had a very flourishing school. His wife is dead,
but he had no children. He is not in orders. He
was born in Lancashire, in which county he is about ,
making a settlement, being down there at present,
for the poor for ever, having no relations but at a
great distance. He hath been said to be a non
juror. I think he is rather a Calvinist. Enquire
whether he were ever of any university p ? He hath
a very great collection of coins. A maid servant

* Mr. Baker hath seen the Monumenta Kempiana, but knows nothing
more of Mr. Aynsworth than that he is the publisher of that book ; so that
I suppose Mr. Aynsworth was of no university, at least of no English one.
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838 RELIQUIAE 1734.
robb'd him of many gold and silver ones. Dr. Mid
dleton Massey is much acquainted with him. He
is well spoken of in Westminster school.
Sept. 3. K. John died A0. 1216 at Newark. His
physician was the abbot of Croxtun, who was (as
John Beaver in his chronicle MS. penes comitem
Oxon. tells us) in arte medicines eruditus. The
said abbot's name was Thomas de Wodestoke, who
was elected first abbot on Pentecost day 1178. He
died the 2d non. of Dec. 1229. Willis, vol. II,
p. 216.
Sept. 6. A conge-de-elire hath been ordered to
be sent to the dean and chapter of Winchester, for
electing Dr. Benj. Hoadley, bp. of Sarum, to be bp.
of Winch. : also to Sarum, for Dr. Sherlock, bp. of
Bangor, to be bp. of Sarum ; and to Gloucester, for
Dr. Rundall, prebendary of Durham, to be bp. of
Gloucester. N.B. Rundall being violently objected
against by Edm. Gibson, bp. of London &c, he was
set aside, and Martin Benson made bp. of Glouc.
instead of him.
Hoadley kiss'd k. George's hand for the said see
of Winchester on Friday Aug. 30 last.
Sept. 10. Mr. West, in going through part of
South Wales, at Uske met lately with the following
inscription in the churchyard : Here lies the body
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and a Jesuit, and executed the 27th of Aiigust
1679. Beati mortui qui in Domino moriuntur.
Sept. 15. One Charles Davis (a bookseller of Pater
noster Row) wrote to me, that he should shortly put
to the press and reprint bp. Nicholson's English,
Scotch and Irish Historical Librarys, in one
volume folio. He said an intimate friend of his as
sured him that I had corrected and made large ad
ditions to the whole ; if I cared to communicate
them in order to be made publick, he said he should
be glad to make me any reasonable acknowledg
ment. He desired an answer per post.
Accordingly I returned him answer on the 5th,
viz. Sra,
You tell me an intimate friend of your's hath assured
you that I have corrected and made large additions to
bp. Nicholson's English, Scotch and Irish Librarys. You
will excuse me from saying more, 'till you tell me the name
of your intimate friend. I am, Sir,
your most humble servant,
Edmund Hall, Oxford, THO. HEARNE.
Sept. 5, 1734.
Since which I have heard no more from Davis.
Nor is it likely that he will discover the name. For
if any one told him so, he told him a great lye; and
if no one told him so, then Davis himself must have
forged a great lye.
As for the said Davis, he is the same that a few
years since was prosecuted for reprinting a very vile
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book on purpose to get money. So that I should
not care to do any thing for him. Indeed I do not
care to have any thing more to do with any book
sellers, I mean, to write any thing for them, or to
let them have any thing of mine to print, whatever
friendly service I may do for them in other parti
culars. When Mr. Burton called upon me on Tuesday
last, he spoke also of reprinting Nicholson's 3 Hist.
Libraries in one folio, and said Mr. Woodward, a
London bookseller, designed it, but he said not one
word of Davis. Nor did I take any notice of Davis
to him0.
0 Oct. 30. On the 28th of Sept. last Charles Davis wrote me an answer to
mine of the 5th of that month, as follows :
Sir, Sept. 28th 1734.
Having been out of town I was prevented answering yonr letter sooner.
The gentleman's name is Mr. Burton. 1 am, Sir,
Your most humble servant, to command,
To Mr. Tho. Hearne, at Cha. Davis.
Edmund HaU, Oxon. These
Post Paid.
So Davis's letter. Upon which I thought fit to stay, till I had (as I ex
pected) an opportunity of seeing Mr. Burton {viz. Edward Burton, esq.), who
calling upon me last Sunday (Oct. 27) told me, he was so far from being
Mr. Davis's intimate friend, that he did not know him. Upon which I wrote
to day the following letter to Mr. Davis.
To Mr. Charles Davis, Bookseller, in Paternoster Sow, London.
Sir,
I received yours of Sept. 28th last, and on the 27th of this instant October
I saw Mr. Burton, who, it seems, is so far from being your intimate friend,
that he does not know you. Be that as it will, I decline your proposal, and
am Sir,
Your most humble servant,
Oxford, Oct. 30th, Tho. Hearne.
1734-
Nov. 18. Wrote to-day to Edw. Burton, esq. at the Lottery Office in

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Sept. 28. Yesterday being the obit of William of
Wickham (founder of New College) and the festival
of St. Cosmas and Damianus, some of the Oxford
ringers agreed to ring at New college, proposing to
ring 6876 cator changes upon the 10 bells there.
They designed to have begun at eleven in the morn
ing, but 'twas near twelve before they began, for
they had rang only two hundred changes when the
clock struck twelve. They had so many gross
faults, that 'tis not worth while to particularize them
all, only thus much may be noted, that a bob was
miss'd being called before they had got to two hun
dred, and that they strangely blundered a little after
they had rang 600, and so again a little after they
had rang 1100, and so after 1400, and 1900, and at
length when they had rang 2714 (which wants 4162
of the whole) they were quite out, it being then
3 quarters after one. Then they set the bells, and
soon after began again, and rang 650, and made an
White Hall, to know, whether Mr. Wharton's Benedictus Abbas, said to be
prepared for the press, be in Lambeth Library, or what is become of it. Also
to tell him, that Mr. Davis now tells me, that he is intirely a stranger to him,
[Mr. Burton] and that his [Mr. Davis's] intimate friend is Mr. Woodward.
Mr. Davis's letter, in which he tells me this, is as follows :
To Mr. Tho. Hearne at Edmund Hall in Oxon. These Post Paid.
Sir, Nov. ist, 1734.
Yesterday I received yours : as to Mr. Burton I am entirely a stranger to
him, but my intimate friend is Mr. Woodward, a bookseller, who is concern'd
in the undertaking; it was he that told me Mr. Burton should say that you
had got some corrections and additions to bp. Nicholson. When I received
your first letter I sheVd it to Mr. Woodward, upon which he gave me liberty
to make use of Mr. Burton's name : when I wrote, I should have been more
particular ; please to rectify this mistake, and you'l much oblige,
Sir, Your most humble servant to command,
Cha. Davis.

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end at very near half after two, so that the whole
both times were 3364 changes in two hours and a
half, whereas they rang on the first of May last 3475
changes in two hours and nineteen minutes. I was
very apprehensive yesterday when they first began,
that they would not perform their task, the compass
being too wide, and the person that rang the ninth
bell making a bad step even at first, Tho' 'twas so
wet, I heard them all the time, walking for that
purpose up and down in the Parks on the east side
of Wadham college. Had they finished the peal,
and done it well, I should have taken care to trans-
mitt in print (in one of my books that I print at the
Theater) the names of the several ringers to pos
terity, 6876 changes having never as yet at one time
been rung at Oxford. But as the performance was
bad, (considering the character each ringer bore for
his skill in the art of ringing,) as it will not be for
their credit to have their names mention'd, so nei
ther will it be for the honour of William of Wick-
ham to discover who the persons were that per
form'd so lamely on the day he died, which day
ought to be observ'd with all possible decorum, and
the ringing should be then as clean and true as can
be, for which reason I shall pass over (what might
be further observ'd) in silence.
Oct. 2. In the eastern countries at Constantinople,
&c. they call'd formerly the quire of a church Soka,
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the sun. This may appear from the old ceremonial
of crowning kings preserv'd in Cantacuzenus, as well
as in Codinus, though 'tis not so full in Codinus as
in Cantacuzenus. Mr. Selden hath given it in his
Titles qf Honour, where he likewise gives us the
form of crowning elected kings made use of in the
Western empire, and this latter he does from the
Pontificate, which, tho' a printed book, is yet very
scarce. This Pontificate is look'd upon as a book
of great authority, even by Protestants as well as
Romanists. Oct. 14. Benj. Hoadly Aulse Cath. Art. Bac. an.
1695. Ben. Hoadly Aul. Cath. Art. Mr. an. 1699.
[Regr. Acad.] Mr. Baker in his letter from Cambr.
Sept. 14, 1734, who said, he had not yet met with
his degree of Doctor, if he had it there. Dr. Sher
lock, now bp. of Salisbury, was likewise of that little
house (Cath. Hall), and they look upon it as very
much for the honour of riiat little house, that it has
produced two of our principal prelates (Dr. Sherlock
and Hoadly, at Salisbury and Winchester.) The
last has usually (and regularly) gone to an Oxford
man, as Ely to Cambridge.
Hoadly is a man of parts, but superficial learning,
and of vile republican principles ; yet his schemes are
¦ struck in with by abundance of people, even by
many of those that some years since abhorr'd them,
and deny'd upon all occasions Hoadly and his doc
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topick or theme of discourse, and he was preach'd
and wrote against all over the nation, occasion'd
chiefly by a penny sermon of his, which, had they let
it alone, would have died in a fortnight's time: to
such little beginnings do some men owe their rise.
Oct. 15. The late Dr. Henry Aldrich, dean of
Christ Church, had but a mean opinion, and used to
speak slightingly, of Dr. Humphrey Prideaux, dean
of Norwich, as an unaccurate muddy headed man.
Prideaux's chief skill was in Orientals, and yet even
there he was far from being perfect in either, unless
in Hebrew, which he was well versed in. In 1677
he was preparing for the press an edition of Dio-
nysius Halicarnasseus, to be printed at the Thea
tre, but it came to nothing, I know not for what
reason, unless because it was found that 'twould be
as uncorrect as his Marmora Oxoniensia, and that
he would do little or nothing to it, besides heaping
up notes ; and yet from a letter in his own hand I
gather, that he intended to be short in them, and
to make them consist only of references to other
authors, where the several stories were also told.
As for MSS., I perceive from that letter that he
would not trouble himself about any, but rest wholly
upon what had been done to his hands by former
editors. Nov. 2. Dr. Richd. Newton hath just published in
folio in six sheets, A Letter to the rev. Dr. Holmes,

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Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and
Visitor of Hart Hall, within the said University,
By R. Newton, D. D., Principal of Hart Hall.
London : Printed in the year M.DCC.XXXIV.
The title tells not what 'tis about. But 'tis about
his project for getting a charter for Hart hall to be a
college, what he hath made a noise about many
years, but hath not gain'd his point, Exeter college
opposing him, for which he falls upon Dr. Conybeare,
now dean of Christ Church, but formerly fellow of
Exeter college. Dr. Newton is commonly said to
be founder-mad.
P. 1. As the several colleges of the university
have their respective visitors, so the Vice-Chancellor
for the time being is the proper visitor of halls'!.
His settlement only 60 libs, per an. The incorpo
rated society to consist only of five persons, a prin
cipal and four fellows, who are always to have the
care of 32 undergraduate students, and four ser-
vitours, and of no greater a number. 60 libs, per
ann. to be equally divided between the 4 fellows,
with the benefit equally of the pupills, and offices,
and with convenient apartments. The rent of the
rest of the chambers of the hall (with the additional
revenue of a public lecture) to be the endowment of
the principal.
It seems Exeter college have two little messuages,
said to have been left them by their founder, within
the precincts of Hart hall, of 1 lib. \3s. Aid. per an.,
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or, as Newton says, of one lib. only really a year, the
other 13*. 4<d. a year, which [p. 7] the successive
principals of Hart hall anciently paid, as under
tenants, to Exeter college for Black hall and Cat
hall (two other messuages appertaining to Hart hall)
for so long a time as the college held the same by
lease from the university, being now, from and after
the expiration of the said lease in the year 1663,
due and payable to the succeeding lessees of the
university. 'Tis pity charities and benefactions should be dis
countenanced and obstructed. But it sometimes so
happens, when the persons that make them are sup
posed to be mente capti, and aim at things in the
settlement that are ridiculous, which seems to be
the case at Hart hall, as it is represented to me.
However, after all, 'tis better not to publish the
failings of persons, especially of clergymen, on such
occasions, least mischief follow, the enemy being
alway ready to take advantage.
Nov. 9- The MSS in Dr. Rawhnson's last auction
of his brother Thomas's books wTent extraordinary
cheap, and those that bought had great penny
worth's. The Dr. purchas'd many himself, at which
here and there one were disgusted,' tho' all the com
pany supported the Dr. in it, that as a creditor he
had a right equal to any other. My friend Mr. Tom
Brome, that honest gentleman of Ewithington in
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cannot but wonder at the low rates of most of the
MSS., and adds, " had I been in place I should have
been tempted to have laid out a pretty deal of
money, without thinking myself at all touched with
bibliomania." I have heard it said, that the superiors of the non
jurors countenance the non-jurors going to the ser
mons at the publick churches, but not to the prayers.
Enquire. [N.B. Dr. R  tells me they do
not so, that he knows of r.]
Yesterday the Bodleian speech was spoke by
Dr. Pierce Manaton, a physician, student of Christ
Church. Nov. 10. Dr. Rawhnson's estate in Warwickshire
little more than an 100 libs, a year clear of taxes,
repairs &c, which, however, will now, it seems,
bring, as I gather from a letter of the Dr.'s, 3300
libs. Dr. Rawlinson by the sale of his brother's books
hath not rais'd near the money expected. For, it
seems, they have ill answer'd, however good books ;
the MSS. worse, and what the prints will do is as
yet undetermin'd.
Dr. Rawlinson sent several books to the university,
'I am assured, by my friend Dr. Bandinel, that there is undoubted
authority, which will admit of no question, that Dr. Rawlinson himself was
not only one of those admitted to holy orders, but also a member of the non-
juring episcopate, having been regularly consecrated in 1728. See also Per
ceval's Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession, small 8vo, Lond.
1839, p. 225; Lathbury's Hist, ofthe Non-jurors, 8vo, Lond. 1845, p. 368.

848 RELIQUIAE . 1734.
but in what manner they are disposed of, I know no
farther than that they are placed somewhere. He
gave the option to St. John's.
Dr. Rawlinson, in pursuing the work about the non-
juring sufferers (more particularly the clergy), hath
more helps from Cambridge than our parts. A
Mr. Baker is to be met with but in few places. The
Dr. without vanity may say, that he don't give trou
ble without endeavouring a recompense, and this is
what Mr. Baker owns, nor has (as the Dr. assures
me) Mr. Crynes any reason to complain. I mention
Mr. Crynes, because the Dr. apply'd to him, as to a
person that is always traversing the streets, and hath
opportunities of consulting registers, as well as per
sons, and yet is upon the grumble when requests
are made this way. The Dr. desired Mr. Crynes to
send him (what he might easily do, and what indeed
he ought to do) the Cantabrigian Incorporations,
(which should have been taken into the Oxford Cata
logue of Graduates,) but he seem'd to decline a trou
ble he had taken some former years.
Nov. 11. When Dr. Rawlinson wrote last to me
(which was on the 31st of August lasts) he told me
there was then no successor appointed to Mr. Gandy,
who died some time before.
At the same time he told me the old duchess of
Albemarle dyed a few days before, by which fell
700 libs per annum to Christopher Rawhnson's rela-
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1734. HEARNIAN^. 849
tions, which the Dr. doubts not belongs to himself,
Christopher Rawhnson's will confirming such an
opinion. Mr. William Oldsworth (who was formerly of
Hart hall, Oxon, being contemporary there with
Mr. John Leake) dyed above four months since.
Nov. 12. On Sund. last (Nov. 10) Dr. Edw. But
ler, president of Magd. coll., receiv'd the sacrament
in St. Peter's in the East church, to qualify himself
to be register to Benj. Hoadley, bp. of Winchester,
which place he held also in the late bp.'s time. His
witnesses Mr. John Leake and the two church-war
dens, as I hear, and no one of the college.
Nov. 20. Mr. Baker told me some time since of a
discovery made by Mr. Palmer, of a book printed by
Guttenburgh. Mr. Baker hath since receiv'd the
half sheet, showing it to be a mistake, or rather a
cheat. They have long made a trade of counter
feiting medals, and now are beginning with prints,
at least with the colophons.
Nov. 21. Mr. John Wynne (now a Doctor of Div.
and bp. of Bath and Wells) was a great tutor in
Jesus college, when he abridg'd Locke's Essay of
Human Understanding, and being a great Lockist,
he read the same to his pupils, and got many other
tutors in the university to read it to their pupils
likewise ; and I remember one of those tutors was
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Mr. Milles, vice-principal of Edmund hall, who is
now bp. of Waterford, at which time I was of Ed
mund hall ; but tho' I got the book, I never went
to lecture so much as once in it to Mr. Milles, but
always declined it. For indeed I neither then nor
ever since have had any good opinion of Locke, who,
tho' a man of parts, was, however, a man of very bad
principles. Mr. Locke indeed hath been cry'd up
and magnify'd by a set of men of republican princi
ples, but orthodox and truly honest men have de
tected his errors and fallacies, and endeavoured
what they could to obstruct his infection, and yet
notwithstanding that, I understand his essay afore
said is much read and studied at Cambridge and
Dublin, and that young men that are candidates for
degrees at Dublin are examin'd in it.
Nov. 22. The said Mr. Wynne's Abridgment, as
soon as it came out, was sent over to Dublin by
Mr. Locke to Mr. Wm. Molyneux, who was Mr.
Locke's great admirer and correspondent. Mr. Locke
himself was mightily glad of the Abridgment, which
is dedicated to him, and of which there are two edi
tions, but Mr. Molyneux look'd upon it as a dry,
sapless thing, tho' done in Mr. Locke's own words
for the most part, and he wished it had been un
done. The late earl of Pembroke was an admirer of
Locke, and a great friend of Wynne's, and he did
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1734. HEARNIAISLE. 851
Bp. Stillingfleet wrote against Locke's Essay of
Humane Understanding. But Locke defended
himself, and it hath been allow'd by all that Locke
had by much the advantage of the bishop.
Mr. Molyneux aforesaid was an ingenious man,
and a good mathematician, but a downright repub
lican. Locke as well as himself lov'd complements.
They therefore complemented one another in a very
fulsome extravagant manner.
Mr. Molyneux's Dioptricks hath been much cry'd
up. It is now very scarce.
Mr. Molyneux was a pretender to poetryr, and
sometimes exercis'd himself that way. He was a
great admirer of sir Richd. Blackmore's Prince
Arthur and King Arthur, and they used to com
plement Blackmore highly for his skill in poetry, as
sir Richd. used likewise to complement them very
much. But this is no wonder, since sir Richd. was
a republican, and a man that was for making his
way, as well as he could, in the government.. 'Tis
true, sir Richd. was a poet, but he is not placed by
the best judges at the top head, notwithstanding
Molyneux says in his Letters in Locke's works,
p. 568, that " all our Enghsh poets (except Milton)
have been ballad makers, in comparison to him" [sir
Richd.]. Nov. 23. Mr. John Toland was an Irishman born.
He was a very ingenious man, but of most vile prin
ciples, which he took all opportunities of instilling
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into young gentlemen and others. He did some
mischief in Oxford, but more elsewhere. After he
had been beyond sea in Holland, and had continued
some time in England, he returned to Ireland, but
was for his wicked books and principles quite drove
from thence, so as no one would entertain him, and
then he came into England again, where he conti
nued his old course of poisoning young men, &c.
After some years he died. He was a man of learn
ing, but for the most part superficial.
Dec. 18. On Saturd. morn, the 7th inst. died at
London, where he liv'd, the celebrated Mr. James
Figg, the prize-fighter, from Thame in Oxfordshire,
who was reckon 'd to fight with the most judgment
of any of the profession s.
Dec. 22. Yesterday I was with Dr. Holmes our
"vice-chancellor, who is president of St. John's college.
I went to thank him for the trouble he had given
himself in sending to me seven small parcels from
Dr. Rawlinson, containing books, some of which the
Dr. gives me, the rest (viz. the MSS.) he lends me.
The vice-chanc. took an occasion to mention, that
the university would claim their right to that part
of Leland's I tin. and Coll. that is in Bodley, and that
they would print all that, but did not say who would
be the editor. This, it seems, is in opposition to me.
He was wonderfully civil, and said such an ed. would
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do my ed. no hurt, but rather enhance the price.
I told him there were abundance of things in the
univ. library, as well as in college libraries, never yet
printed, which would be more credit to publish than
what had been done already. He owned this, and
said methods would be taken to have such things
printed. Dec. 25. Mr. Wood, col. 1160, vol. ii. of ed. iid.
tells us, Mr. Richard Pearson, younger brother of
Dr. John Pearson, went out Doct. of the Civ. and
Canon Law, upon the coming of the prince of Tus
cany to Cambridge in 1669- Quaere, whether he was
formerly mentioned as a Proceeder in Civil and
Canon Law, or whether as being presented only to
the Civil Law, what we only do now a-days at Ox
ford? (the Canon Law is supposed to be included in
it, tho' I think 'twould be proper enough, if distinct
degrees in Canon Law were still practised.) I knew
a gentleman of Balliol college, a Master of Arts,
who was resolute to proceed first Bach, and after
wards Doctor of Canon Law, but he died before he
did any thing that way, unless it be that he went to
the v. chanc. Dr. Gardiner about it, who told him
they could not hinder it, if he were resolved upon it,
but said, it would give them a great deal of trouble.
The name of this gentleman was Mr. Charles Browne
of Ball. coll. as a member of which college he took
the degree of Master of Arts (being a grand-com-
pounder) on Feb. xi. 1716.
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Dec. 27. When I talk'd tother day with Dr.
Holmes our vice-chanc. I mention'd how much
'twould be for the honour of our univ. and the ad
vancement of learning, to have a number of our
learned men in the univ. set about publishing our
MSS. It would be far more for the honour of a
univ. to do so, than to publish books already well
published, especially since we have such a great
variety in all faculties, and such too as ought to be
printed, and every college and hall should join in
the work. He approv'd of what I said, and said he
would do -what he could that it should be executed.
The like may be observ'd of Cambridge.
Dec. 31. Mr. Thomas Bedford, one of the sons of
my friend the late Mr. Hilkiah Bedford, is now very
inquisitive about the liturgies of St. Basil, St. Mark,
S. James, S. Chrysostom, and other Greek liturgies,
and hath wrote to me about them, to get intelligence
about MSS. thereof in Bodley, well knowing, he
saith, that there is nobody better acquainted with
the MSS. there than myself. He wants the age of
them, and other particulars, and a person to be re
commended to collate such MSS. But having been
debarr'd the library a great number of years, I am
now a stranger there, and cannot in the least assist
him, tho' I once design'd to have been very nice in
examining all those liturgical MSS., and to have
given notes of their age, and particularly of Leofric's
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countenanc'd thereto by Dr. Hickes, Mr. Dodwell
&c. It is call'd Leofric's Missal, because given by
bp. Leofric to his church at Exeter. See Wanley's
catalogue in Dr. Hickes's Thesaurus, p. 82, 83. Some
part of this MS. is of later date than Leofric's time,
and Mr. Bedford therefore desires to have my opinion
of the antiquity of the canon of the mass, which is
one part of it. I wish I could gratify Mr. Bedford.
Jan. 12. I have heard, that the present bp. of
Worcester, Dr. John Hough, often talks of the affair
of Magd. coll. Oxon. at the time of the revolution,
(more properly rebellion,) particularly with respect
to k. James's mandamus for a president. He (Hough)
was then chaplain to the chanc. of Oxon., the duke
of Ormond. He and others, even all excepting
three, were resolv'd to oppose the mandamus, and
they pitch'd upon Dr. Baptista Levinz, bp. of Man,
for president, who accepted of their offer, and said
he would stand, and if elected would zealously main
tain the statutes in opposition to the mandamus.
But Hough says, a little after came a letter from a
very near relation (a brother) of Levinz's, perswad-
ing him by all that was sacred to desist, which ac
cordingly he did ; which being look'd upon as very
dishonourable, they were put to their shifts, but at
last resolv'd to elect Hough, who told them he
would not only accept of it, tho' so ticklish a time,
but would strenuously act against the mandamus.
And it was then resolv'd to chose Mr., afterwards
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Dr., Edward Maynard with him, (for there must be
two,) which being effected accordingly, Hough was
brought in president, to tbe great disappointment of
all that were for the mandamus.
Jan. 13. Just printed and publish'd, An Epistle
from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot. Lond. 1734,
fol. a Poem.
Mr. Pope takes notice in it, more than once, of
Mr. Theobalds, but 'tis only by way of contempt,
and seems obstinate in persisting in errors. Let
him despise as much as he will, 'tis certain Theo
balds shew'd himself much his superior in learning,
and what he undertook to do with respect to Shake
speare. In p. 18 of this poem Mr. Pope hath this note,
Let the two Curls of town and court abuse
His father, mother, body, soul and muse.
In some of Curl's and other pamphlets, Mr. Pope's
father was said to be a mechanic, a hatter, a farmer,
nay a bankrupt. But, what is stranger, a nobleman
(if such a reflection can be thought to come from a
nobleman) has dropt an allusion to this pitiful un
truth, in his Epistle to a Doctor qf Divinity. And
the following line,
Hard as thy heart, and as thy birth obscure,
had fallen from a like courtly pen, in the Verses to
the Imitator of Horace. Mr. Pope's father was of
a gentleman's family in Oxfordshire, the head of
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married the earl oi Lindsey. His mother was the
daughter of William Turner, esq. of York : she had
three brothers, one of whom was kill'd, another died
in the service of king Charles, the eldest following
his fortunes, and becoming a general officer in Spain,
left her what estate remain'd after the sequestrations
aud forfeitures of her family. Mr. Pope died in
1717, aged 75 ; she in 1733, aged 93, a very few
weeks after this poem was finished.
Feb. 8. " Holy David and his Old English Trans
lators clear'dV Lond. 1706, 8vo. The author Mr.
Johnson, as I am told, (tho' his name be not to it,)
that wrote the Fade Mecum.
The old English translation of the Psalter is cer
tainly preferable to the new, and that was the reason
of it's being retain'd by the convocation after the
restauration. The said Psalter is part of that Bible
which is called Henry VHIth's Bible, in translating
and publishing of which three men were chiefly
concern'd, William Tindale, John Rogers, and Miles
Coverdale. This old English Psalter 1st published with the
1 See under March 6. Of this book there were two editions, one 1 706,
here mentioned as published anonymously, the second in the following year,
1707. I may here mention that there will be found in the Bodleian a very
curious copy of Johnson's Unbloody Sacrifice, both parts 8vo, London, 1714
and 1 71 8, abounding in MS. notes by Daniel Waterland, to whom the book .
formerly belonged, and who calls it "Johnson's Romance." Another copy,
of the first part only, is in the same collection, with some remarks by Mr.
Lewis of Margate. Both were given by Dr. Rawlinson. Let me add, that
there is also in the Bodleian a very important copy of Robert of Gloucester's
Chronicle by Hearne, filled with notes by Waterland, that have never been
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rest of the Bible aim. 1535, and dedicated to Henry
VIII by Dr. Coverdale, and was called " Tindale
and Coverdale's Bible," because it was well known
that the former had a share in the performance, as
well as the latter.
Ann. 1539 there was another edition of it, with
considerable alterations, begun at Paris, and after
wards finished at London. Dr. Coverdale had the
care and inspection of this edition committed to
him : this is that which wasc ailed the Great Bible,
and the Psalter now used in our liturgy is according
to this edition, without any observable variations,
except in the spelling. Mr. Rogers in the year
1537 put out an edition of this Bible, under the
borrow'd name of Thomas Matthews, with an index
and notes ; and another in 1551, which (saith Mr.
Johnson in his Praef.) I have seen. These several
editions do so agree in the main, that one cannot
justly call- them distinct translations, and yet in
many particulars they differ from one another.
Feb. 19- Mr. Rawlins of Pophills, in his letter of
Dec. 7th, 1734, says be shall be obliged to me, if I
will give him a succinct history of Saml. Chapell alias
Grater, who formerly liv'd in Oxford. He holds a
grater in his hand, according to the representation
of him, but for what reason Mr. Rawlins says he
knows notu.
I knew this S. Chapell very well. I have heard
u There is a very rare portrait of this Chapell, a mezz. by Faber, of which
I never saw more than one impression.

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it said that he was once of Lincoln college in Ox
ford", and afterwards for some time at Cambridge,
but took a degree at neither place. I have likewise
heard that when he was young he held forth as a
Presbyterian preacher, and that he receiv'd injuries
from one Hugh Hutchins which made him craz'd,
and so he continued craz'd ever after, but he was
for the most part a very sensible man, and would talk
admirably well upon any topic in logic or philoso
phy. He liv'd many years in Oxford after he became
craz'd, and died above twenty years since in Mag
dalen parish, (as I remember,) and was buried there
very decently by contributions. He was an inno
cent, harmless, honest, poor man, and much re
spected. He was very temperate both in eating and
drinking. He would not exceed (at least he would
very rarely exceed) a farthing bread and a farthing-
beer, and if any one offered him above an half-penny
in money, he would return the rest very gratefully,
and declare against their giving him more than a
farthing or an half-penny. He always grated his
bread, carrying with him a grater for that purpose.
Thence he was commonly known by the name of
S. Grater. He was upwards of seventy when he
died. He was a west country man ; if I mistake
not, of Somersetshire. He used to carry his books
about him upon his back in a sack, and would often
sit down upon old timber that lay in the way, and
would there read and write. I have often seen him
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sitting and reading so. He had abundance of books
by him when he died, of his own handwriting, but
most of the writing being short hand, (which he
used himself to,) they could not be of much use,
however as they were, they were greedily catch'd at
by several, who admired his philosophical, innocent,
unostentatious course of life.
Feb. 25. Such as are inclined to gravel must use
themselves to such white wine and oily medicines,
whicli tho' they will not effect an absolute cure, will
render tbe distemper less painfull. Syrrup of marsh
mallow and parsley water, when the fit is upon you,
with warm broth, will give you the greatest ease.
Mr. West, in his letter of the 17th inst. from the
Inner Temple, tells me he had a little before been
fetch'd to Sacomb in Hartfordshire, by a messenger,
to our honest friend John Murray. He is in a very
declining way, occasion'd by a slow fever, acquired
by overheating his blood in his last walk from Lon
don thither, which is look'd upon as 20 miles.
March 3. Mr. John Hickes, executed in the west
for taking part in Monmouth's rebellion, was brother
of the religious, learned and loyal Dr. George Hickes.
See a book called " A new Martyrology : or, the
Bloody Assizes," Lond. 1689, ed. 3, p. 57, 60. He
was a nonconformist. He was executed Oct. 6, 1685.
Dr. Conyers Middleton, of Cambridge, hath just
written and put out a twelve penny pamphlett in
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land ; and makes the Rujfinus or Hieronymus de
Fide, printed in Oxford anno 1468, to be a cheat,
as if there were no such book then printed there, or
at least if there were such a book printed there,
he says, the date should be 1478. He runs down
Atkins' book about printing, as he does also the
register at Canterbury, making the record to be a
forgery, because the register is now wanting. But
his whole performance is poor and mean, and tho'
he endeavours to rob Oxford of an honour that no
one pretended to take from her, yet Middleton,
detrahere ausus hcerentem cajriti, multa cum laude,
coronam, hath plainly shew'd, that he envys us this
glory, which no one need wonder at, that considers a
much bolder stroke of his lately, which made a great
noise, and very deservedly blasted his reputation,
which was his book (for he is known to be the
author, tho' his name be not to it) to prove that
Moses was not an inspired writer. 'Tis certain, that
Middleton is an ingenious man, but he soars at all,
and considerable, very uncommon, must be that
genius that succeeds.
March 4. Certain Queries, proposed by Roman
Catholics, and answered by Dr. Walter Raleigh,
dean of Wells, and chaplain in ordinary to the
royal martyr King Charles I. With a Prefatory
account of the Author. By Lawrence Howell,
A.M. Lond. 1719, 8vo, price Is.
Mr. Howell, (who was a worthy learned non-juror,)
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to the world, he can assure that the MSS. of these
Queries and the Answers were handed faithfully to
him by a gentleman then [1719] living, who had
them from a gentlewoman on her death-bed, whose
name by marriage was Farthing, her husband being
grandson to Dr. Walter Raleigh.
Mr. Wood, in the iid vol. of his Athenae, gives an
account of this Dr. Walter Raleigh, who was a very
worthy, learned and loyal divine, aud was barbarously
murdered for his fidelity to k. Cb. I. But he knew
nothing of these Queries, and therefore says nothing
of them.
March 6. Mr. John Johnson was a very learned
and worthy man. He presented Mr. Baker with
two of his books, viz. The Unbloody Sacrifice &c,
and The Abridgment of Mr. Huntley's Case, which
two books engag'd him in a controversy with his
superior, which cost him much trouble, and possibly
his life. Mr. Baker knows of nothing he has pub
lished, besides what I mention'd to him, except an
epitaph Lat.u for his son, who was fellow of St.
u In Standish Church Lancashire.
H. S. E.
Janes Johnson S. T. B.
Cantianus Coll. D. Joanis Cantab.
Soe. cui senatus istius
Acad: hanc ecclesiam
Unanimi suffragio dederunt.
Vix firmatum est ei hoc
Beneficium, cum ex fracto
Crure periit. V. Id. Jan.
A~0 (" Dom. MDCCXXIII.
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John's college Catnbr., and was presented by the
university of Cambridge to the rectory of Standish,
Lancashire, a living of good value, which he enjoy'd
a very short time.
The father J. J. was of Magd. college Cambr.,
where he took the degree of Bach, of Arts an. 1681.
Remov'd to Corp. Chr. college, where he proceeded
M.A. an. 1685. The precise time of his death
Mr. Baker does not well remember. He marry'd
Dr. Jenkin's sister, and that brought his son to St.
John's college, Dr. Jenkin being fellow, and then
master of that college.
The first time I took any particular notice of the
foresaid Mr. John Johnson's writings, was at the
lodgings of Dr. Arthur Charlett, late master of Uni
versity college, who shew'd me Mr. Johnson's ac
count of occasional prayers in MS. which I remem
ber I took particular notice of, and that leading me
to a further scrutiny about him, after I had perused
some other of his writings, I began to have a great
opinion of him, which continually encreased, and I
am the more confirm'd in it from what Mr. Baker
hath told me of him.
March 9. I was told yesterday morn, that Dr.
Maternis lacrymis atque sororis
Tani chari Capitis. Fata dolentibus
Naturse arbitrio suus est Decor.
At tu Gnate viris flebilis occidis,
Virtutem, et sacra jura colentibus,
NuUi flebilior, quam mihi Bis Patri.
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864 RELIQUIAE 1734-35.
Martin Benson wrote a letter to his couzin Brown
Willis, esq. signifying that the king [k. George IL]
had offered him the bishoprick of Gloucester, but
that he refused it, and that thereupon it was offered
to Dr. Mawson, who declined it, upon which the
king sent for Dr. Benson, and offered it him again,
telling him, that he must accept it, which at length
he did. I can hardly credit thisx.
'Tis certain however, that tho' the bp. of London
(Gibson) obtained his aim in hindering Dr. Rundle
from being bp. of Gloucester, yet Rundle is since
prefer'd to a far better bpk. which is one in Ireland.
March 15. Dr. Rawlinson takes the author of the
Character of a primitive Bp. to be one Pitt, for
merly of St. John's college in Cambridge, and for
many years a non-juror, ordain'd by bp. Loyd some
years after the revolution, but apostatised, true rene-
gado like, abused his old friends, particularly Dr.
Hickes, in his book. It was remarkable, that he was
instituted into a benefice in Norwich diocese by se
cundums Patrick, tho' ordain'd after lay deprivation
by the primus bp. Lloyd, and no objection made to
his orders, so sanguine in gaining a convert.
March 16. At the beginning of the last part of
Bibliotheca Biblica, is an account of the author
Mr. Sam. Parker. I hear Dr. Heywood laid the plan,
but it seems it has passed several hands, none of
which have noticed the time of his death.
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The booksellers and authors have in the House of
Commons a bill for securing their property, but their
scandalous, loose, and extravagant way of running
every thing out in print will bring them under some
difficulties. I am told lord Ha, a man of learning,
and one who has, and still reads, will be one of their
obstacles. This reforming Parliament is entring upon a regu
lation of playhouses and operas, but many think
their reformation is too late thought of to take a due
effect. Dr. Hanbury (who died on the 27th past, Thursd.
and was buried near Mr. Nelson in new burying-
ground of St. George's parish on Tuesd. the 4th cur
rent) has left an hundred pounds to the non-juring
clergy, at the disposal of Mr. Blackbourne and Mr.
Creyk. This Hanbury was a Glostershire man, bred
at Baliol college, well acquainted with Mr. Brome,
the Phillips's &c, and leaving Oxford, took his de
gree of M.D. at Utrecht in 1705, where he published
a very few copies of his Thesis, called them in again
as well as he could, and except his own and one
Dr. Rawlinson hath, Dr. Rawlinson believes another
can't be found,' at least in England. It was De ste-
rilitate mulierum.
March 18. The late Mr. Sam1. Parker, after the
rudiments of learning at school, was removed to the
university of Oxford, and placed in Trinity Collego
under the eye of Dr. Bathurst, the then president.
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Besides the printed pieces, the MSS. collections he
has left are,
1. A collection of observations on the New Testa^
ment. 2. An Index to the most ancient Fathers, con
sisting of references to and passages extracted from
them, upon the most important points in divinity,
drawn out in an alphabetical form.
3. An answer to Le Grand's Defence of Carte-
sius : written in Latin.
4. An Exercise upon Principles and Church Com
munion ; being a specimen of a collection of essays
upon religious subjects, entitled, "Religious Exer
cises upon several subjects ; with a prayer at the end
of each meditation."
5. A large collection of controversial letters.
" His acquaintance as he grew up was usually
pretty large, especially among learned foreigners,
who were generally recommended to him.
" His particular friends were not only those among
the non-jurors of the first note and distinction, Dr.
Hickes, Mr. Collier, Mr. Dodwel, Mr. Leslie, Mr.
Nelson, Dr. Grabe,. &c, with all whom he main
tained an intimate correspondence ; but several per
sons very considerable for birth and fortune.
The motto over Mr. Parker's picture engraved by
Vertue is KTPIOS nOIMAINEI ME.
" He [Mr. Parker] had from the beginning em
braced the principles of the non-jurors, and as he
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1734-35. HEARNIANjE. 867
pies and practice, he thought himself obliged to re
fuse those advantages of preferment, which not only
his parts and education seem'd to entitle him to, but
which were actually offered to him. By this means,
his own fortune being very small, the cares of a
large family fell heavy upon him. But however, as
he has acknowledged, that he wrote under the dis
tresses of very narrow circumstances, so likewise
has he frequently and thankfully remarked, that, as
his old friends dropt off, God had been pleased to
raise him up several new ones far beyond bis expec
tation." Mr. Parker lived and died a faithful son of
the church of England in which he had been care
fully educated ?.
March 19- Mrs. Parker (the widow of the fore
said Mr. Samuel Parker) is 53 years of age ; as her
brother Mr. Richard Clements of Oxford, bookseller,
told me on Sunday last.
Some years ago came out a folio account of the
colleges and other publick buildings of the univer
sity of Oxford. Mr. Parker was said to be the au
thor, and I took him really to be so, because he
several times told me he was about such a thing,
and this account came out some time after he had
told me so, and 'twas design'd to go along with the
prints of the university habits. [N.B. Mr. Richd.
Clements (brother-in-law to Mr. Parker) assured me
, on Good Friday, April 4, 1734, that Mr. Parker was
the author.] 1 Transcribed by Heame, chiefly from the Bibliotheca Biblica.
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March 21. Mr. Parkers Essay on the duty qf
physicians and patients was dedicated to Dr. Mead,
without the Dr.'s leave, at which the Dr. was very
angry. Mr. Parker wrote that essay purely to get a
little money.
Mr. Parker became acquainted with learned foreign
ers purely upon account of his keeping a boarding-
house. There they used to dine and sup in common,
Mr. Parker s wife being a clever, neat woman in
such affairs. One foreigner used to recommend an
other, and Mr. Parker (as I have often heard him
say) found great advantage by their dieting at his
house. Dr. Grabe was an acquaintance, 'tis true, of Mr.
Parker's, but be was no non-juror, contrary to what
is insinuated in the account of Mr. Parker. Dr. Grabe
was a subject of the king of Prussia's, and he had no
occasion to be a non-juror, nor did he therefore ab
stain from the publick churches in England, but fre
quented them, and prayed for the present possessors
of the throne, tho' with respect to the holy sacra
ment, he always kept from it in the manner 'tis ad
ministered at present, and would at such times re
ceive in Dr. Hickes's way, which divers non-jurors
follow. 'Tis said in that account that Mr. Parker con
stantly observed a strict uniformity in his principles
and practice. Which is false. He was warp'd for
some years ofthe latter part of his life, and swerv'd
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1735. HEARNIAN.E. 869
gave offence to the true non-jurors, so they could not
but much blame Mr. Parker for it, who, however, at
the same time was caress'd by the complyers, and
these complyers were the friends meant by what is
said above, that he found in the room of old friends
as they dropt off. This I have several times heard
Mr. Parker mention, who at the same time would
reflect upon Dr. Hickes, and several very consider
able non-jurors, for their deserting him, whereas
'twas so far from being true, that they did not de
sert or leave Mr. Parker, but, on the contrary, Mr.
Parker, by his being warp'd, and by his striking in
with the complyers, forsook his old friends, who
thereupon became shy and jealous of him.
March 24. At the end of the last number of the
vth vol. of Mr. Parker's Bibliotheca Biblica is
printed, " The sacred Chronology of the Pentateuch :
wherein the historical facts are reduced to their pro
per years, both in the Mx& of the World, and that
before the vulgar Christian Epocha. To which are
added critical observations concerning the grounds
and difficulties of that Chronology."
The author whereof was not Mr. Parker himself,
but Mr. John Mason (tho' his name be not to it) a
French refuge ^clergyman, and author of several
books. April 1. Mr. John Murray, who was very dan
gerously ill lately at Sacombe in Hartfordshire, is ,
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since gone to London (as Mr. West in his letter of
March 17, 173-f-) much recovered, so that 'twas
hoped he got strength daily.
April 11. John Bale was a very great enemy to
bells, as may appear from his Apocalypse. And I
believe he did what he could to have all the old
brave bells destroy'd, and there were too many others
of his mind.
St. Anthony, in an old edition of Martial, is done
in wood, having a bell in one of his hands.
April 18. John Lyne, son of one Mr. Lyne town
clerk of Oxford, was of Balliol college, as a member
of which he took the degree of M.A. on Mar 1, 1693.
After which he became vicar of Brixwortb in North
amptonshire, and was a man of that singular good
reputation, that no one in all that county was said
to be of greater honesty, probity and integrity. He
wasjust and punctual in all his dealings, and managed
the affairs of some persons of distinction on that
account, to their exceeding great satisfaction, par
ticularly the affairs of a sister (a widow woman) of
the present sir Justinian Isham. He was withall a
good scholar ; but 'twas his misfortune that he lately
was seiz'd with nervous disorders, and great melan-
cholly, about six weeks after which calamity fell
upon him, he drowned himself in a pond (a small,
but deep one) pretty near the said lady's house,
whose affairs he managed. This was on March 27th
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1735. HEARNIAN^E. 871
widow, -and five children, 3 of which are sons, the
eldest of which is fellow of Emanuel college in
Cambridge, a man of an excellent character for his .
virtue and learning, which hath lately made him a
great tutor ; a second is scholar of King's college in
that univ., and look'd upon to be as good a scholar
for his standing as any in the university. The 3d,
who I think is the middlemost, is drawer at the
King's head tavern in Oxford. I cannot find that
Mr. Lyne's circumstances were bad, or that he was
pinch 'd. For tho' his preferment was small, yet he
managed so, as to be above the world.
April 20. Copies of all editions of the Etymolo
gicon magnum are now very scarce. There are a
great many curious and learned observations in this
work, not to be met with elsewhere. A very good
edition might be put out at Oxford, by the help of
MSS. there, and I wish some qualify'd person or
persons would undertake it. The Baroccian MSS.
should, in such case, be all carefully looked over,
and such glossaries that are either there, or among
other Greek MSS., should be collated with the
Etymologicon, and if anything of moment occurs in
them not already in the Etymologicon, it should be
taken in, yet so as to be distinguished from the
Etymolog. Indeed such additions might make a
new alphabet.
April 22. An. 1707 it was advertis'd, at the end
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of a Welsh almanack by John Jones, that there
would be shortly printed in a large sheet a curious
prospect of the north side of the famous church and
steeple of Wrexham in Denbighshire in North Wales ;
justly esteemed one of the wonders of Wales ; and
would be sold in most market towns in North and
South Wales. Drawn by Mr. Thomas Bradshaw,
junior, of Wrexham.
April 23. Febr. 21, 1702, king Will, a hunting
near Hampton Court, fell from his horse, and broke
his collar-bone.
April 27. Mr. Selden was a great admirer of Dr.
Robert Lloyd, commonly called Robertus de Fluc-
tibus, the physician. In the dedication of the 1st
edition of his Titles qf Honour to Mr. Edward
Heyward (which edition came out at London in 4°
in 1614) he observes, that some years before that
time it was finish'd, wanting only in some parts his
last hand ; which was prevented by his dangerous
and tedious sicknesse ; being thence freed (as he
says Mr. Heyward knew too, that was a continual,
most friendly, and carefull witnesse) by the boun
teous humanitie and advise of that learned physician
Dr. Robert Lloyd, (whom my memorie (says Mr.
Selden) alwaies honors,) he was at length made able
to perfect it.
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1735. HEARNIAN^. 873
considered and censur'd. A Sermon preach' d be
fore the university of Oxford, at St. Mary's, on
Sunday, Dec. 8, 1734. By John Tottie, M.A. fel
low of Worcester College in Oxford. Publish'd
at the request qf Mr. Vice-chancellor (Dr. Wm.
Holmes) and the Heads of Houses. Oxon. at the
Th. Pr. 6d.
The V.-chancellor's Imprimatur bears date, April
% 1735.
The author inscribes it thus,
To the Reverend Dr. Holmes, Vice-chancellor of
ihe university of Oxford, and to the rest of the
Heads of Houses, this discourse (preached and
published with a view to contribute in some degree
to the security of the youth under their care in
those principles they are so happily educated in,)
Is, with all duty and submission,
Inscribed by the Author.
The text, 2 Pet. iii. 3.
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the
last days scoffers.
'Tis a good sermon ; but the misfortune now-
a-days is, that the sermons are more like essays than
really sermons, as having little of Scripture or di
vinity in them, a thing Dr. Grabe used very much
to lament and complain of.
April 29. Coster's name was Laurence Johnson.
Coster is sedituus, 1440.
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one side. See Naudeus's Story of printing in his
story of Lewis Xlth. Draudius's Devices of Print
ers, 12°.
First printing was religious pictures : then cards :
then ballads, 1463.
Peter Sheffer, inventor of single types, the father
of John.
May 12. Yesterday morning (Sunday) died of the
small pox Mr. Sayman, M.A. and fellow of Oriel
college. He died in the college, about three weeks
or a month after his return from the country, Wilt
shire I think, whither he had retired, they say, near a
twelve month since on purpose to avoid the small
pox, which hath been very rife in Oxford, and it was
a distemper he was always very much afraid of.
This is the gentleman, it seems, that occasioned
Dr. Newton, principal of Hart hall, to write his 8°.
book call'd University Education. For Sayman
being of Hart hall had a prospect of coming in fel
low of Oriel. But Newton would not give him a
dicessit, upon which he went to that college without
a dicessit, and the provost of Oriel College, Dr. Car
ter, paid the 40*. forfeited by statute on that ac
count, there being no higher statutable mulct to a
head of a house for entering any one without a di
cessit. Dr. Newton highly resented this, and so
wrote and printed his book, and thereby much ex
posed himself, no one commending him (as I can
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1735. HEARNIANJL 875
May 22. Doctor Mocket translated the Liturgy
into Latin. 'Twas done before in q. Elizabeth's
time. But that edition being worn out, and the
book grown scarce, the Doctor gave it a review and
caused it to be reprinted, together with bp. Jewell's
Apologie, the Articles of the Church of England,
the Doctrinal points delivered in the book of Homi
lies, with some other pieces, which being so re
viewed and published, gave much contentment to
many sober minded men of the Romish party. Hey-
lin's Preface to the Reader.
May 30. One Aaron, a Portuguese Jew, hath re
sided with a wife and children a great while, before
which he had lived a good while and taught Hebrew
at Dublin, having the character of being well skill'd,
but with respect to principles he is but indifferently
qualify'd, and 'tis feared he does much mischieff.
May 31. I hear the Oxford ringers rang this
Whitsuntide above 30,000 changes excellently well
at Warwick.
June 1. Mr. James West call'd upon me this af
ternoon in his return out of Worcestershire to Lon
don. He told me Mr. Thomas Ward of Warwick
has a fine collection of books, which I can easily
believe, especially in our English histories and anti
quities z.
z [This is the last entry made by Hearne in his Diary. He noted down, it
is true, the mere dates of the three next days, but was too unwell to make
any observations.]

877

APPENDIX. No. I.
1 HESE Remains of the Oxford antiquary Thomas Hearne,
are derived from one hundred and forty five small octavo
manuscript volumes, one of which the writer was accus
tomed to carry constantly in his pocket, and in it to note
down, at the moment, or immediately after, what he thought,
what he read, what he saw himself, what he was told by
others; in short, every thing he deemed worthy of pre
servation, or that he fancied might hereafter be useful :
and these observations he accompanies with his own re
marks, which are in many respects the more valuable, as
being the result of his immediate observation and opinion ;
although doubtless in others they would often have been
softened, if not entirely changed, had they undergone more
of subsequent reflection, and been chastened, as it were, by
the more matured judgment and the after-experience of
the author. However, such as they stand, the reader now
has them, genuine and unaltered, except by the omission '
of some few words, here and there, which were objec
tionable on account of their grossness of expression, or
their severity in personal reflection. The volumes date
from July 4, 1705, and extend to June 4 a, 1735. Hearne
continually quotes them in his printed works as " Col
lectanea nostra," and regarded them with peculiar af
fection ; he tells Browne Willis, that on no consideration
would he suffer any of these his note-books out of his own
hands ; and on more than one occasion was apprehensive,
lest the university authorities would break open his rooms
to obtain possession of them. Had they done so, the con-
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878 APPENDIX I.
sequences doubtless must have been most serious ; for the
reader will soon perceive that our author was very un
guarded in his expressions towards the reigning family,
and at no pains to conceal his predilections for that in
exile, which he regarded as having a legitimate claim to
the crown.
Nor must we blame the Oxford antiquary for these
principles. They were the principles of the university.
All the predilections of Oxford were in favour of the
Stuarts. The pedantry of king James the First was .in
accordance with the literary taste of his times ; and Oxford
of course delighted in scholastic exercises, religious con-
ferences,-and quaint disputations. Charles was a peculiar
favourite : Oxford had welcomed him in his prosperity,
nobly supported him in his struggles, and adhered to him
in the time of trouble and defeat. The king's love of
literature, his fondness for the arts, his generous patron
age of the university, his courteous affability towards her
members, and, above all, his maintaining what he con
sidered to be the right course, had endeared him to all
the old members of Oxford, where he was both respected
and beloved ; and these feelings had descended from father
to son even to the days of Hearne. The restoration was
hailed with delight through the whole of England ; but no
where more heartily than in Oxford. Her members had
suffered niore than most during the rule of tyranny and
fanaticism. They had been despoiled of their property,
ejected from their livings, and subjected to every injury
and insult at the hands of a rabble who thought them
selves reformers, but had no other aim than their own
advancement, and the plunder of those who had any thing
to lose. Can we wonder then at the popularity with which
Charles the Second ascended his father's throne ; or be
surprised that Hearne, and those who thought with him, still
adhered, in the following reign, to the race of the Stuarts ?
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to intrude upon their liberty of conscience, and to bring
back popery within the walls of old Oxford. Hearne lived
and died a true protestant, but the Roman catholics were
all Jacobites, and as he continually received much kind
ness from them as individuals, so he always treats the per
sons themselves and their religion with respect. He re
members only that James was the rightful heir to the
throne, he implicitly believes in the legitimacy of the
Pretender, and he continues a true Jacobite to the last,
in common with vast numbers of others in Oxford who
entertained similar principles. All this will, I think, suf
ficiently appear in the foregoing pages.
And here let me, by way of postscript, lament the evil
that has befallen Oxford in these her latter days. Since
the commencement of these volumes, I have lived to see
the constitution of the university, so wisely devised by all
the most learned and experienced men of former times, and,
as it was imagined, so firmly established by archbishop
Laud, overthrown by a revolutionary faction ; the board of
Heads of Houses deposed from the government of the body
by means of vulgar clamour and the most bare-faced mis
representation, without a single fault or fact proved against
ihem, except that they did not proceed to fancied reforms
so fast as the impatience of the would-be reformers re
quired. I have seen a prime minister (himself ignorant of
an university education) dictated to by an individual of the
house of commons, and at his bidding, for the sake of par
liamentary support, granting a one-sided commission em
bracing the fiercest of the reformers themselves. I have
seen, alas! Oxford deserted by the house of peers, her
interests neglected by the bench of bishops, and not as
manfully supported as she should have been, nay, in some
instances betrayed, by her own sons ; I have seen her
members compelled to violate oaths, to disregard the in
junctions of founders, and set at nought the expressed
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away, and new ones enacted, with a wilful pertinacity and
an ill-advised haste that forbad prudence and due considera
tion ; and, lastly, I have lived to see a system of plunder and
confiscation practised upon several ofthe foundations, those
supposed to be the most wealthy, under the sanction of a
second commission, comprising, strange to say, men edu
cated within the walls of Oxford, some of whom even pro
fess the practice of the law, others the administration of
JUSTICE !
Let me put on record, that I had no part or parcel
in these movements ; and, though "feeble in resisting
them, from the first I denounced them as unnecessary,
injudicious, and prejudicial — witness the subjoined letter
to Mr. Gladstone0, who had, with his accustomed politeness,
forwarded to me the many various copies of the University
Reform bill, as it was altered by its promoters, from time
to time, I might almost have said, from day to day, at the
dictation of every academical quack, or self-seeking univer
sity reformer, before it was submitted to the house of com
mons ; a house peculiarly ill calculated to legislate on a
question relative to an ancient university, and from which
almost every man of birth, and country gentleman, has been
excluded, to make way for linnen drapers and dissenting
ministers, rail-road contractors and rail-road speculators.
St. Mast Hall, Oxford,
March 20, 1854.
b Pear Sir,
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of the parliamentary papers relative to
the proposed changes in the university of Oxford, and to thank you for this
kind attention on your part. It would give me 'pleasure if I could coincide
with your views on the subject ; but I confess I contemplate with dismay the
wild and revolutionary scheme proposed by Her Majesty's ministers, which I
cannot but fear, if carried into effect, will result in the total ruin of the
university. I am, dear sir,
your faithful servant,
Philip Bliss.
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APPENDIX I. 881
gamblers on the stock-exchange, and the founders of ficti
tious banks ; nay, the time does not seem far distant, when
this august assembly may be enlarged by the admission of
a Jew stock-jobber, a quack vendor of rasor-strops, and an
advertising tailor ; and all of them, to a man, in name a
liberal, by profession a reformer !

It was at one time meditated to reprint Hearne's' Life,
as given by the late Mr. Huddesford ; but as this would
have extended the book, already beyond its proper limits,
and the "Lives of Leland, Hearne, and Wood," 8vo, Oxford,
1772, are either in the hands of most of the collectors of
Hearne's works, or easily attainable, that intention has
been abandoned. It may however not be out of place to
say a few words touching our author.
Thomas Hearne was the son of George Hearne, parish
clerk of White Waltham, Berkshire ; he was born in July
1678, put to school0 by the benevolence of Francis Cherry
esq. of Shottesbrook, and by him sent to Edmund hall,
where he matriculated in 1695, then in his 17th year.
Being of very studious habits, very moral in his conduct,
c Sept. i, 1718. Yesterday morning called upon me Peter Alexander esq.,
brother to the rt. honble the earl of Sterling. One captain Bartlett who lives
at Bracknel near Windsor was with him.
I went to school with the said Mr. Alexander, and I have not seen him
before a great many years.
He and I were in the same form together, he being immediately next
below me. I was the lowest boy in the schoole when I went first, Mr. Alex
ander being in his grammar when I began my accidence ; but in a little time
(for I was not at the grammar school above 3 or 4 years in all) I got to be
the head boy of the schoole.
Mr. Alexander could not but observe yesterday how I could very rarely be
drawn to play, spending my time at my book while other boys were at play.
Nov. 11, 1729. Peter Alexander esq., one of the clerks of his majesty's
signet office in Scotland is dead. From Fog's Journal, Nov. S. NB. I went
to school with this gentleman at Bray. He would have been earl of Stirling
had he survived the present earl. This Peter was the youngest of four
brothers, that I knew, was very good natured, and died a single man, having
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humble and obliging in his disposition, he soon made
friends in Oxford; and although he was offered prefer
ment in the colonies, so soon as he had been admitted to
the degree of Bachelor of Arts, (in 1699,) he declined to
quit the university. Becoming a constant frequenter of
the Bodleian, he soon made himself acquainted with the
treasures of that noble library, and his diligence and know
ledge being remarked by the principal librarian, Mr. Hud
son, he was appointed, in 1701, assistant keeper, much to
his own satisfaction, and greatly to the benefit of the
library. It may well be imagined, that this period was
the happiest of his life, and continued so for several years.
In 1712 he was promoted to be second keeper of the Bod
leian, which place he continued to hold till the latter end of
1715, when, as he says (vol. 37, 191), " he was debarr'd the
library upon account of the oaths, and new keys were made,
and the lock of the library door altered, tho' he hath got
the old keys by him, having not made any resignation, or
consented to the putting any one into his place." Hearne
then retired to Edmund hall, and as he had early com
menced to be a publisher, his various works being highly
esteemed and earnestly sought after by the curious, he now
continued his literary labours, printing from time to time
such manuscripts as his own collection, or the libraries of
his friends, supplied him with11.
The life of a retired literary man like Hearne cannot be
supposed to supply much of incident or of interest. His
political principles received support from one party, and
provoked a violent opposition from the other. Conceiving
d See his own catalogue of them carefully drawn up, and which will be
found very interesting, at pp. 37-116 of Huddesford's Life. It may be here
mentioned, which I do not remember to have seen elsewhere recorded, that
Hearne, shortly before his death, actually received subscriptions for the
edition of the Chronicle of John Bever, amounting to 30J. gs., which, after
his decease, his executors repaid to the different subscribers. The price
was to have been two guineas the large, and one guinea and a half the small
paper.

APPENDIX I. 883
himself deeply injured, and a continual object of perse
cution, he speaks with bitter asperity of some of the ruling
powers of the university, who on their parts viewed him as
a dangerous character, hostile alike to the throne and the
then dominant party, and a fomentor of dissatisfaction
throughout the place. But in reality Hearne was a quiet,
peaceable man in his own natural character : he bore his
numerous disappointments with resignation, and the many
hard speeches and constant rebuffs received from those in
authority with forbearance, contenting himself with record
ing their failings, and condemning their compliance with
the times, in his Diary, where he equally lauds, in glowing
terms, the virtues and learning and divers good and ami
able qualities of every honest man of his acquaintance;
meaning, of course, every Jacobite and non-juror.
In the midst of all his difficulties, his love of Oxford was
predominant. Considering him as a sort of political victim,
his friends thought, that if removed fi-om the university,
he would be at peace and happy, and accordingly several
prospects were held out to him. It was proposed to him,
to become librarian to the Royal Society ; that he should
receive a considerable pension as the publisher of Petyt's
papers in the library of the Inner Temple ; that he should
be appointed librarian to lord Oxford, and so have the
superintendance of the celebrated Harleian library ; whilst
his friend Browne Willis, had he taken orders, would have
given him the living of Bletchley, and Mr. Thomas Raw
linson held out prospects of preferment in some other
quarter, and of some other kind, the exact nature of which
does not appear e. Nor were his friends in Oxford less
e To Mr. Thomas Rawlinson.
Sir,
Your question is, whether I am fix"d to Omn. immoveable ? To which I
must beg leave to decline giving an answer 'till I am satisfied
i . Whether any place, worthy my acceptance, be really designed for me ?
¦i. What place it is, and upon what terms and conditions it is to be
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884 APPENDIX I.
solicitous to serve him. He was importuned to offer him
self for several offices of reputation and emolument, and
with a certainty of success ; but Hearne was uncompro-
3. How I shall expose either my self or my friends by not answering your
question ? * * * * I am, sir,
your most obliged
humble servt.
Tho. Hearne.
To Mr. Richard Rawlinson.
Dear Sir,
* * I am glad your brother is returned safe from Holland * * my humble
service to him, and thanks for all his favours, particularly his last. I cannot
learn either from his or your letter what the place in view is. I do not know
how to give any answer till I understand what it is, what are the duties of it,
what the salary, and what previous conditions are required; tho' after all I
must acquaint you that I am so much ingaged in business here (which cannot
be done elsewhere) that I cannot, at present, quit this place, I having made a
publick promise to finish what I have begun, and it will be some years before
that can be accomplished; So that this being the state of my affairs, I must
be forced, for a while, to acquiesce, and to be content with » little in this
place, (for more I do not exspect,) rather than settle in any other place with
a much greater income, where I cannot perform what I have undertaken for
the publick, at least not with the same advantage as here.
I am, sir,
your obliged humble Servant,
Tho. Hearne.
(MS. Collect, xlviij.)
To Mr. Rich. Rawlinson.
Sir,
I thank you for your information. But you still keep me in the dark as to
the business and duty of the place yt was designed for me. Nor do you
express either the salary or conditions. I mention conditions ; because, I
suppose, there are certain ceremonies to be performed before one can be said
to be possessed of the place. I am obliged to all my friends for their favours
on this account, and in a particular manner to your brother, to whom I desire
you would present my service and thanks. * * *
Tho. Hearne.
(lxiij. 20.)
Dec. 21, 1 7 13. Dr. Hajley is made secretary to the Royal Society, in room
of Dr. Sloan, who hath resigned. An offer at this time was made to me of
being librarian to the sooiety, and keeper of their museum, which however I
declined, my circumstances not permitting me to leave Oxford, (lxiij. 49.)

APPENDIX I. 885
mising as to his principles, and believing that the acceptance
of any post or office must involve the necessity of taking the
oaths, steadfastly refused to stand. He lived therefore
and died in Oxford without any preferment, having, by
his industry and economy, amassed a considerable sum ; no
less than upwards of a thousand pounds were found in
his room after his decease, which occurred, after A short
illness, June 10, 1735f, at the no great age of fifty-seven.
He was buried in the church-yard of St. Peter's in the
East, where his tomb is still to be seen. It has been more
than once restored, the last time about 1820, by a subscrip
tion set on foot by Mr. Joseph Skelton, the engraver.
Hearne's will, proved in the court of the university, is to
be found in the Appendix to Mr. Huddesford's Life. His
MSS., including his diaries, which had been left to Mr.
Bedford, were sold by that gentleman to Dr. Rawlinson
for £100 : and by him bequeathed to the Bodleian library,
with an injunction that the diaries should not be open to
the pubhc till seven years after his decease. This happened
in 1755s.
f In the Bodleian is a copy, by himself, of the last letter Hearne ever
wrote. Acknowledging the receipt of a sum of money from Mr. William
Bedford, he concludes,
" Dear Sir,
You will pardon my not writing sooner, which hath been occasion'd by the
indisposition of, Sir, your most obliged humble servant,
" Edm. Hall, Oxford, Tho. Hearne."
June 22, 1735."
This discrepancy in the date can only be accounted for by Hearne's forgets
fulness, occasioned by the severity of his illness at the last.
e Hearne's printed books were purchased by Tho. Osborne, who in Feb-
1735-6 sent out " A catalogue of the valuable library of that great antiquarian
" Mr. Tho. Hearne of Oxford, and of another gentleman of note, consisting
" of a great variety of uncommon books, and scarce ever to be met withal."
8vo, pp. 196, with a small head of Hearne, and the well known epigram of
Time and ova antiquary's memory. A copy will be found among Mr. Crynes'
books in the Bodleian.
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886 APPENDIX I.

PORTRAITS OF HEARNE.
I am indebted to one of the best judges of every thing
connected with art, and the most liberal collector of all
relating to Oxford and its antiquities, for this notice of
Hearne's portraits, by far the most perfect, and the only
really accurate, list yet given to the public.
i Full length, sitting in his study, or chamher in Edmund hall,
reading a book which he holds in his right hand, leaning his head
on his left hand and resting his left elbow on a table, with books
and inkstand, a drawer, and carved legs, oval top, with one leaf
let down. He is in the cap and gown of a servitor, a large glove
lying in his lap. On the left hand, within the bottom line, are the
words : " Drawn Engraven and Sold by M. Burghers, in St. Peters
the East at Oxfords." On a slip of paper attached to Mr. Bindley's
impression is the following MS. note : " Designed for Mr. Thomas
Hearne when he was a servitor at Edmund Hall." Mr. Bindley
has subjoined : " N.B. The above is. of the hand writing of Mr,
West, to whom this print belong'd originally — very rare.'' Mr.
Bindley however is mistaken, the handwriting being evidently
that of lord Oxford, as appears upon comparing it with original
letters to Hearne; both from West and lord Oxford, preserved in
the Bodleian library. The engraving is equal to Faithorne, and
the attitude and expression of the head extremely beautiful.
Height 6 inches 3 eighths, width 4 inches 4 eighths.
2 Half length, in a gown and band, his right hand holding an
open book, his left resting on his hip, the face three quarters
looking to the left. Below, "Thomas Hearne, M.A. of Edmund
Hall Oxon. Tillemans d. G. Vertue S. 1723."
Vertue engraved two plates dated 1723, both after Tillemans.
Of the one which has " Rob. of Gloucester" on the open book,
there are impressions before the inscription " Pet Langt" on the
back of the third volume from his right shoulder. The other
3 plate, which is likewise dated 1723, has a different and milder
K In the Bodleian is an impression, given, I believe, by Burghers, wanting
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APPENDIX I. 887
countenance, especially in the expression of the eye-brow. There
are no words on the open book, nor is Pet. Langt. on the back of
the volume, as above. It is also an eighth narrower than the
other plate, being 4 inches six eighths wide, instead of 4 inches
seven eighths. This plate generally occurs with the date altered
to 172!), the words " Dyed X June MDCCXXXV." added, and
" suum cuique" on the open book.
4 Vertue engraved a smaller plate, 4 inches one eighth wide,
without the name of Tillemans, but after the same design as the
others, with no date after the words " G. Vertue Scul." It is
generally prefixed to copies of the " Vindication of the Oath of
Allegiance," 8vo, printed in 1731. It may readily be distin
guished from Vertue's prior plates, by the buttons to the waistcoat
being 8, (whereas there are only 6 in the 4to plates,) and the
words " Oath of Alleg." on the open book. In the later im
pressions, as used for the Lives of Leland, Hearne and Wood in
1772, these words are erased, leaving the open page blank ; and
tlie words " Obiit 10 Junii, 1735, ^Etat. 57" are added under
Hearne's name.
5 The same likeness, about an inch high, is introduced in the
left hand lower corner of the frontispiece to " Ectypa varia "
1737, engraved by Vertue, but without his name.
6 The same design, a mezzotinto, inscribed " Thomas Hearne
M.A. of Edmund Hall Oxon" with "Oath of Alleg." on the
open book ; 5 inches 4 eighths high, 4 inches 3 eighths wide.
1 The same design, 2 inches 5 eighths high by 2 inches 1
eighth wide ; " Parr scul." and " Oath of Alleg." on the open
book. In letterpress around it are the words : Hearnius behold !
in Closet close y-pent, Of sober Face, with learned Dust besprent:
To future Ages will his Dulness last, Who hath preserv'd the
Dulness of the- past." This is a vignette, on the title-page of the
" Impartial Memorials of the Life and Writings of Thomas
Hearne M.A., by several hands." London, printed in the year
MDCCXXXVI.
8 The same design, inscribed " Thos. Hearne M.A. E. Cook
Sculp'.," 5 in. 2 eighths high, 3 in. 7 eighths wide.
There are other modern copies after Tillemans and Vertue,
done for magazines &c, of inferior execution.
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88S APPENDIX I, II.
9 Half length, 3 quarters, looking to the right, in an oval,
under which are two lines :
Pox on't, quoth Time to Thomas Hearne,
Whatever I forget You learn.
This is upon the title-page to the catalogue of his library " to be
sold very cheap, the lowest price mark'd in each book, at T. Os
borne's shop in Gray's-Inn, on Monday the ICth day of Febru
ary, 173j-6," 8vo.
io Full length, in a gown, pointing with his right hand to a ruined
tower, below which is a scroll inscribed " Ectypa varia," intro
duced with other figures in the lower compartment of the Oxford
Almanack for 1 747, the upper part of which contains a view of
the court of St. Edmund hall from the south. Vertue engraved
two plates for tbe Almanack of this year, apparently the same,
but easily distinguished by one having " New Years d.," and the
other "New Years day," in the calendar11.
It may save fruitless inquiry to mention, that two foreign
portraits have been sold as those of Hearne, probably from their
corresponding with verbal descriptions of Vertue's print : " half
length, own hair" and " holding a book." One is the portrait
of " Petrus Van Staveren Amstel. Eccles. Leyd. Pastor," engraved
by Joh. van Munnikuysen, after Will, van Mieris, an impression
of which had the lower margin and inscription cut off ; the other
is an etching of an old man, half length, in a cloak and band, a
cocked hat under his right arm, holding a book with both hands,
the face in profile, looking to the right. There is a cartouche
below without any inscription. The aquiline nose, long chin, and
age apparently beyond 60, render it quite impossible to have
been a portrait of Hearne. 7 inches 3 eighths high, 5 inches
2 eighths wide.
No. II. See p. 50.
" The Genuine Remains of that learned Prelate Dr. Thomas
Barlow, late Lord Bishop of Lincoln, containing divers Dis-
h In the university accounts for 1 746-7 are the following items,
Vertue 2 Aim. plates for 1747  55. 7. 6.
Cole engraving Calendars  12. o. u.
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APPENDIX II. 889
courses fyc. Published from his Lordship's original Papers.
London, Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in the
Poultery, 1693.1'
Such is the title of the book/referred to by Hearne. It
contains nearly one hundred original treatises, many in the
form of letters, by bishop Barlow, and was published by sir
Peter Pett, knt.n, the lineal descendant of the great ship
builder to the royal navy. It was grown so scarce that Dun
ton, in 1705, declares it impossible to procure a copy in
London ; and he would have reprinted it, but for the expense,
and his own poverty. Bishop Barlow's printed books, and
a few of his MSS., almost every volume containing some
valuable MS. remark in his own hand, will be found in the
Bodleian, and Queen's college library. The original build
ing at the latter was indeed erected for the purpose of re
ceiving themj in 1694.
To the reverend Mr. John Goodwin, minister of God's
word in Coleman-street.
Sir,
I always find in the prosecution of your arguments that per
spicuity and acuteness, which I often seek and seldom find in the
writings of others. You assert the universal redemption of all
mankind, without exception, by Jesus Christ. Possibly there
wants not clear rays of truth in your discourse, but I want eyes
to see them. Therefore I lay the blame on my self, well know
ing that you are not bound to find me arguments, and find me
understanding too.
But without more prefatory words; referring to ch. 18, §. 6,
and p. 464 of your treatise call'd Redemption Redeem 'd, where
your argument is this,
If ChHst died not for all men, then all men are not bound to
believe on him.
But all men are bound to believe on him.
Therefore he died for all.
I shall acquaint you that it is this argument of yours I shall
k Of whom see Wood's Athense, vol. iv. p. 576.

890 APPENDIX II.
pitch on, and the rather because it hath been cry'd up by men of
your judgment as the great Goliath of Gath, which no David
could conquer, a kind of argumentum Achilleum. And so Ar
minius calls it himself.
Many of our divines do mistake in untying the Gordian knot :
and tho' several of them deny the major, yet I deny the minor,
and affirm that all men are not bound to believe on Jesus Christ.
And here I shall first give my reasons why I deny it. Se
condly, answer yours.
By all men, it is to be supposed that you mean all men in general,
and indeed you say so in terminis. You say that Christ hath
obtained this favour of God for all men without exception, that
they should receive sufficient means to enable them to repent and
believe. Your conclusion to prove is that Christ died for all, and there
fore your medium which you prove it by must be as large. For
the principles of logic and natural reason tell us, that there
must be a just proportion and adequation between the medium
by which we prove, and the conclusion to be proved. Else the
argument must of necessity be weak and inconsequent.
Now I say that all men have not a legal tie and obligation on
them to believe on Christ. And here, first it will easily be
granted that no human obligation can tie men to this.
For the internal acts of belief and dependence on Jesus Christ
for salvation, as they are not within the compass of human cog
nizance, so no man was ever invested with such a power and
dominium (which is the foundation of all laws) over all mankind,
as to be able to lay an obligation on all men universally, which in
this case is required.
Secondly, Neither is there any divine law which binds all men
to believe in Jesus Christ, natural or positive.
First, not natural. The vopos aypa<f>os, or (in St. Paul's phrase)
vopos rfi Kaphiq eyypacpos, those Koivai evvoiai in Aristotle's language,
or those Trpmra rrjs cpv&eas and TrpoX^yjreis (pwucal (in the dialect of
the Stoicks) those dictates of natural reason, cannot possibly
bind a man to the belief of that which the light of nature cannot
discover. But the light of nature never could, nor can discover
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APPENDIX II. 891
Jesus Christ, seeing the being of such a man and mediator did
not depend on any principles of nature, but solely and wholly on
tbe liberum Dei decretum et beneplacitum, which was not possible
to be known by any created understanding whatsoever, further
than he was graciously pleas'd to reveal and discover it.
For by natural reason we may know first, that God is merci
ful, and may if he please pardon ; but that actually he will, is
beyond the power of any natural understanding to conclude.
For it will no more follow, he is merciful, and therefore he will
pardon, than it doth, he is just, therefore he will punish.
But secondly, admit that we might by the light of nature know
that he will pardon penitent sinners, yet whether he would do it
ex potestate absoluta et jure dominii, or propter meritum Christi,
(seeing he might do either if he pleas'd,) this was above the
finite capacity of any man or angel to know further than God
reveal'd it to them.
'Tis true indeed that on supposition that God had reveal'd to
all the world that Christ should or had died for them, and that it
was his will that all should rely on him for salvation, then the
law of nature would oblige all men (to whom the revelation was
made) to believe accordingly, because nature itself binds us, omni
verba divino credere, when it is discovered to . us : but then the
obligation is not originally and immediately from the law of na
ture, but mediante revelatione Divind ; of which in the next place.
Secondly, Therefore, as no natural law binds all men to believe
in Jesus Christ, so no positive law doth : and therefore all men
are not bound to believe on him.
That this may appear, I say, that to bring a positive obligation
on all mankind, two things are necessarily required :
First, Latio legis.
Secondly, Publicatio.
First, 'Tis necessary such a law should be made. For every
legal obligation pre-supposeth a law made, which may oblige all
those to and for whom it is made. And to the making of such
. a law, there are two things required :
First, potestas, that the lawgiver be persona publicd authori
tate pradita, and have a just power and authority to command,
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892 APPENDIX II.
Secondly, voluntas obligandi, that he be willing to give such a
command as may induce a legal obligation to obedience : Suarez
ibidem, c. 5. Occham in 3. Qucest. 22. A Castro, lib. 2. De lege
poenali, cap. 1 . For if either of these be wanting, it is impossible
to make a law to bind any, much less all.
Secondly, Nor is latio legis sufficient to induce an obligation ;
but there must be a sufficient promulgation of it too. L. Leges
Sacratissima. C. De Leg. Suarez ubi supra, I. 1. c. 11. § 3. p. 35.
For suppose a monarch who hath a supreme nomothetical
power to make a law, and when it is made and written, should
lay it up in archivis imperii, so that it be not known nor publish'd
to his subjects, it is manifest that such a law neither is nor can
be obliging till he takes care for the publishing of it : so that a
legal and sufficient publication must of necessity precede the ob
ligation of any law. Cum lex per modum regulaz constituatur (saith
Aquinas. 1. 2. qucest. 90. art. 4. in Corp. Vasquez ibidem) eam ut
obligandi vim habeat promulgari et ad eorum qui legi subjiciuntur
notitiam deduci oportet.
Thus much in thesi I conceive evident : and now in hypothesi
that I may apply it to our present purpose. Admit that there
were such a law made in the gospel as did intend to oblige all
mankind to believe in Jesus Christ for salvation, yet I deny that
de facto it doth oblige all men to that belief, for want of sufficient
promulgation and publication ; since 'tis clear that many millions
of men never heard of it.
During the legal economy and dispensations of the Old Tes
tament, God did discover somewhat of Christ to the Jews, yet
not so to the Gentiles, which were infinitely the major part of
the world. And of the Gentiles none knew of it but such as
were proselytes, and brought to an union with the Jews, who
were few in comparison of the rest who sat in darkness and in the
shadow of death. Hence it is that when the gospel was published
among the Gentiles, and the apostles preached every where that
men should believe on Christ for salvation, (Act. xvii. 18.) they
called our Saviour £evov haip.6viov, a strange deity or dcemon, not
heard of before. The times of ignorance God winked at; that is, ,"
ihe men of those times, as Grotius on the place. See Deut. xxii.
1, 2, 3, 4. You cannot say that God did promulgate such a law
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for salvation. By the later discoveries of the world, it is apparent
that many nations never heard of Christ. And some say there
are whole nations that worship no God.
Episcopius the Arminian was of this opinion of mine, and quotes
that place, How shall they believe on him that they have not heard
of? And how shall they hear without a preacher, x<»pk taipio-o-ovros,
without a. promulgator or publisher : for so in Suidas the word is
taken, and pradicare is to publish in the civil law.
A third reason why I deny this assertion is because infants are
not bound to believe in Jesus Christ ; and they are a considerable
part of the world. And therefore all men are not bound to be
lieve on Christ. The great and good lawgiver binds none to
impossibilities. And if you can make it appear upon just and
carrying grounds that infants, naturals to whom God hath not
given the use of reason, and those many millions in all ages who
never heard the gospel, are bound to believe in Christ for salva
tion, then I shall grant your minor, and admit your argument to
be good, namely, that Christ died for all without exception,
because all without exception are bound to believe in him.
I shall now weigh your reasons which make you think your
• notion to be as clear as the noon-day.
The first objection of yours is, Now God's commanding all men
to repent, as it is in the Acts.
But Quid hoc ad Iphicli boves ? It doth not follow, because to
repent, therefore to believe. For the light of nature commands
all men who have sinned, to repent of that sin, and would have
done so if Jesus Christ had never been revealed to the world. If
Sempronius hath sinned, he is bound by the law of nature to
repent. For the law of nature obligeth men to love God with all
their hearts, and therefore to repent and turn to him, and be
sorry for their sins. And so the law of nature bound Adam to
repent because he had sinned, and that before the new covenant
was made. Adam had a command to repent from the law of
nature, but not to believe.
Your other objection is, He that believes not shall be damned.
I answer, infidelity is twofold. First, privative, when we do
not believe the things which we are bound to believe. And this
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That principle in the schools is a clear truth, Omne malum
morale est carentia boni debiti inesse pro eo tempore pro quo est
debitum. Secondly, infidelity is negative : and this is taken to be Ca
rentia fidei in iis qui non tenentur credere.
Those reprobates to whom Christ was never revealed shall
not be tried by the law of the gospel, nor the positive law given
to the Jews, nor any part of it, moral, ceremonial, and judicial,
as far as it was positive. For in this sense the Gentiles are said
to have no law, Rom. ii. 14. and therefore not to be judged by it,
Rom. ii. 12. But they shall be tried by the law of nature. For
so St. Augustine hath long since stated the question {Aug. in
Johannem), Eos (speaking of the Gentiles) ad quos evangelii prcedi-
catio non pervenerit, excusari a peccato infidelitatis, damnari propter
alia peccata, quorum excusationem non habent, utpote in legem
natural commissa.
Thus, sir, have I in the way of a libera iheologia communicated
my thoughts to you. If you can convince me that I have therein
erred, we shall both of us be gainers by your so doing : you will
gain the victory, and I the truth. And this is all at present
from, Sir,
Your very humble servant n.
Sept. 1 65 1.
March 8, 1725-6. Dr. Thomas Barlowe, bp. of Lincoln,
tho' a good divine, yet was a very poor preacher, as I a
few days since heard old Mrs. Beisley, a widow woman of
St. Peter's in the East, Oxon., now seventy-three years old,
say, she remembring him very well. K. Charles II. made
him bp. by the endeavours of sir Joseph Williamson, &c,
which sir Joseph was an ungratefull man, and neglected
those that were equally as good scholars, and men of much
better judgment, and far more honesty. For as for Bar
lowe, he was a Calvinistical, trimming divine, and tho1 a
man of great reading, yet of but little judgment.
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Mr. West of Balliol had a Letter against Transubstan
tiation of Dr. Barlow's in MS.
No. III. See p. 54.
The copie of a leter wryten by a master of arte of Cam-
brige, to his friend in London ,- concerning some talke past of
late between two worshipful and graue men, about the present
state, and some procedinges of the Erie of Leycester and his
friendes in England. Conceyved, spoken and publyshed, wyth
most earnest protestation ofal duetyful good vvyl and affection,
tovvardes her most excellent Ma. and the Realm, for whose
good onely it is made common to many.
Job. Gap. 20, Vers. 27.
Reuelabunt coeli iniquitatem eius, terra consurget aduer-
sus eum.
The heauens shal reueile the wicked mans iniquitie, and
the earth shal stand vp to beare witnes agaynst hym. Anno
M.D.LXXXIIII. The running title throughout the book is, " A Letter of
State of a Scholar of Cambrige."
I give the entire title of this most curious volume, one
of the scarcest of the period in which it appeared. It is
in 8vo, containing the title a 1 . The epistle directorie to
to M. C. in Gratiovs Street in London a 2. The Preface
of the conference a 3. The entravnce to the matter a 4.
The whole work, including the title, extending from p. 1. to
p. 199. Then three concluding pages, not numbered, con
taining " pia et vtilis meditatio, desumpta ex libro Jobi.
cap. 20. A godlie and profitable meditation taken out of
the 20 Chapter of the Booke of Job."
That this volume was printed abroad there can be no
doubt, nor is there any reason to question Wood's state
ment, that on its first importation, coming in a green
cover, it obtained the name of Father Parsons's green coat.
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the second edition long before Wood wrote, namely in
1642, the year following its publication, writes in the blank
leaf, " This booke was made by Father Parsons the Jesuite;
and att firste was call'd Greencoat alias Leycester's Comon-
wealth. Vide Dr. James his life of Father Parsons, p. 59."
I call this of 1641 the second edition, because, after a
somewhat extended search, I have never been satisfactorily
convinced that there was any intervening copy. I have, it
is true, seen several manuscripts ; but they all seem to be
exact transcripts from the original printed book of 1584.
The curious reader may refer to Wood's Athense Oxon.
vol. III. col. 74. ed. 4to, for a curious supplement to this
account of lord Leicester, of which I have since ascertained
that the MS. is in Christ Church library, and that I ori
ginally committed an error in ascribing the story to Mr.
Haynes. The name ought to be Poynes, probably one of
the ancient family of Poyntz. The edition of 1641 appeared
both in quarto and octavo 1. To both are appended copies
of Leicester's Ghost, a metrical history of his life, written
much after the manner ofthe Mirror for Magistrates. The
author has not hitherto been discovered ; he thus asserts
his impartiality :
I am not partiall, but give him his due,
And to his soule I wish eternall health ;
Ne do I thinke all written tales are true,
That are inserted in his Common-wealth.
What others wrot before, I doe survive,
But am not like to them incenst with hate,
And as I plainely write, so doe I strive
To write the truth, not wronging his estate.
Of whom it may bee said and censur'd well,
Hee both in vice and vertue did excell.
h To the 8vo there should be a head of lord Leicester by Will. Marshall.
And to the early copies of the 4to a head' is generally prefixed sometimes by
Marshall, in others by Passe, or Elstracke, and I have one " sould by Iohn
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APPENDIX III. 89?
Nov. 14, 1733. Mr. Baker observes, that what I said to
him of 'Leicester's Commonwealth being a very common
MS. is very true. He hath seen several copies, and hath
one of his own, which he saith should have been at my
service, if I had not had it already. He is fully satisfy'd
Parsons was the author ; no one, saith he, could write
such a spitefull book besides himself. What Mr. Wood
says, £hat he is not cited for it by Bibadeneira, is next to
nothing : when the Jesuits write libels, they conceal the
authors. Mr. Collins told me the MS. he gave me had a preface
once in it, not in any copy he had ever seen, but that
lending the MS. to some one that died, it came back again
to him without the preface". Ask Mr. Baker whether
his MS. hath any such preface?
Parsons seems, from some of his books, to have been,
in many respects, a very good man. Such things are in
them as are not agreeable to the rancour shew'd in Leices
ter's Commonwealth. I say rancorous, because tho' many
things may be too true therein, yet there is venom appear
ing in divers places.
Dec. 10, 1733. Mr. Baker hath lately seen Dr. Gray and
Dr. A.'s long letter to Dr. M., which is most taken up with
shewing that time when father Parsons' s book call'd Leices^
ter's Commonwealth was wrote, not till towards the year
1584, and that he has done effectually, for it appears suf
ficiently from internal characters ; and that it was wrote
and printed that year, 1584, appears best from the original
b Mr. fcollins's copy is now among Dr. Rawlinson's'MSS. in the Bodleian.
There is certainly one leaf cut out, but the MS. contains the preface usually
found before the Commonwealth. I may here remark, that all the MSS. I
have yet seen (and they are many) seem to be transcripts from the first
edition, 1584, and not, in a single case, original. There can be no question,
that when the book originally came over, it created a great sensation, and was
eagerly. sought after. Probably very few found their way into England, and
the rarity of the printed copies occasioned the vast number of MS. transcripts
which are still found in all our collections of any magnitude.
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edition printed 1584 according to Mr. Rawhnson's cata
logue. Jan. 4, 1733—4. I have entertained in divers respects a
good opinion of father Parsons, with respect to some of his
books, which I judg'd to be good and pious in many par
ticulars, tho' his book Of the Succession, and some others,
(the Three Conversions ought to be excepted, which indeed
I value,) are of very mischievous consequence, and by no
means to be approved of. Mr. Baker cannot (he tells me
in his letter of Nov. 23d, 1733) come into my opinion, that
Parsons " was in many respects a very good man;" (I spoke
it chiefly with respect to his Christian Directory and his
pious writings.) He takes him to have been a cunning
knave. He allows indeed that he wrote one very good
book, but then he observes, that that is said to have been
stole, in part, from Grenada. He notes that most of the
rest are wrote to serve bad ends, and are not consistent
with one another, and one or more of 'em knavishly father'd
upon the seculars. Dr. Tho. James hath said much of and
against him, to which may be join'd what is said farther of
him by Mr. H. Foulis, lib. x, cap. i, &c, and more in the in
troduction to the Jesuits Memorial, published from k. James's
own copy in 1690, and yet more by the secular priests, all
which may make one have but a bad opinion of him ac
cording to Mr. Baker, which in the main is a just observa
tion enough.
April 6, 1735. On Febr. 24, lTfjj., Charles Eyston, of
East Hendred in Berks, esq., wrote me a letter from
thence, in which he was pleased to write a note about
father Parsons, occasioned by what I had wrote to him
about Dr. Gregory Martin and the said father Parsons :
" If you please to look in the Ath. Oxon. I, col. 170, you will
find Mr.Wood of opinion that Dr. Gregory Martine wrote the book
you mention in your letter ; that the true title, as well as the running
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printed at Doway A.D.'l578. And that it is quite a different
book from the Nine Reasons etc. said by Possevinus and Wood to
be written by father Parsons. And now Parsons falls so pat in
my way, I must tell you I had last week here a gentleman, of as
much reading, and of as much judgment, as most of my acquaint
ance : with whom I had at least halfe an hour's discourse about
Parsons, upon the occasion of what you told me Dr. James
reports of him ; and wee both concluded, that had he been guilty
of robbing the library of Baliol college, (as James reports he was,)
it would certainly have been taken notice of by his contemporary
Cambden." Mr. Eyston added in the same letter,
" You and I have formerly talkt of Leicester's Common-wealth :
perhapps you can informe me who was the real author of it.
Mr. Wood I. 309, tells us, tho' " 'tis commonly reported, that
Parsons writt it, yet he tells you, that Parsons himself disownes
it, in his preface to his Warneword to sir Francis Hastinges's
Wastword, which I find to bee true, by the Warneword itselfe ;
which I have by me. If you have a copy of the Warneword, edit.
1602, you will find it fol. 2nd, on the 2nd side of the leafe. The
gentleman abovementioned, who is the honourable Rowland Be-
lasyse, esq., (and is brother _and uncle to the late and present
viscount Fauconberg,) is your subscriber to Neubrigensis in the
better paper. The gentleman who gave me his subscription
money takes Serjeant Plowden to have been the author of it, viz.
Leycester's Common Wealth."

No. IV. See p. 138.
Mr. Cherry's manuscripts, which are only forty-two in
number, came to the Bodleian library in 1729, and "accord
ing to the Catalogue of Benefactions were actually be
queathed to the university by the will of the possessor
himself, his daughter sending, at the same time with the
books, her father's portrait ; still hanging in the Bodleian
gallery. The MSS. however, I believe, were given at the
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suggestion of Samuel Parker', eldest son of the bishop by
Mr. Cherry's widow, and at her decease forwarded by her
daughter, who had an insuperable antipathy to Hearne.
It was in this collection, No. 7, that Hearne's Vindication
ofthe Oath of Allegiance was discovered; and in order to
disgrace and make him obnoxious in the eyes of his own
party, published by John Bilston, a chaplain of All Souls, who
wrote the preface, Dr. Shippen and George (nick- named Jolly)
Ward being parties to the publication. I well remember
Thorpe the bookseller, having a copy that had' formerly
belonged to Mr. Baker of St. John's, Cambridge, the
" socius ejectus " and Hearne's friend, who had enriched it
with several pages in his own hand, relative to the work
and its author. If the present owner of the volume (one
containing several tracts) sees this note, he will estimate
his purchase. Dr. Rawlinson's copy, collated with the
original MS. by himself and Mr. Ball in 1736, and " some
errours corrected, notwithstanding the pretended accuracy
of the Eev. Mr. Bilston, the editor," is in the Bodleian.
The reader, in the mean while, shall have the following
illustrations from Hearne's Diaries1 :
i He printed, besides many other works, see pp. 737, 865, a "now scarce
volume of letters on several subjects entitled Sylva, 8vo, Lond. 1701.
1 Whilst on the subject of Mr. Cherry's MSS., let me state that among
them (No. 3) is contained a very valuable document alluded to by Burnet,
who had, it seems, seen the original under the king's own hand, but probably
wanting some leaves, whereas Cherry's is perfect, and therefore much more
voluminous. This was an account of the sees which king Henry VIII. de
signed, with the abbies out of which they were to be erected. Burnet, book
3, (i539i) P- 2*>3> wonders that Chester should have been omitted. It is in
Mr. Cherry's MSS., not as a bishoprick, it is true, but for » provost, four
prebendaries, a reader of divinity, a schoolmaster to teach grammar and logick
in the Greek, and Latin, an usher, 24 boys, 4 petite-canons to sing in the quire,
4 laymen to sing and serve also in tne quire, 6 choristers, a master of the
children, a gospeller, a pistoller, a sum of xx li. " to be distributed yerely in
almes amonge pore housholders,'' another sum of hi li. to 12 pore men " de
cayed by warres or in the kinges service," xiii li. vis. viijd. "to be employed
in mending yerely highe wayes," a steward, an auditor, a porter " to kepe
the gates," a butler, a master cook, an under cook, " one cator to bye their

APPENDIX IV. 901
Dec. 26. To the Rev. Mr. Henry Frinsham, vicar of
White- Waltham, near Maidenhead, in Berks.
Rev. Sir,
A gentleman told me yesterday, that he had heard acci
dentally, that a parcel of MSS. which had belonged to a
friend of mine, together with his picture, was either given,
or about to be given, to the Bodleian library, (from which
I have been debarred many years,) and that a MS. of mine
is among them. I desired to know who this friend was,
upon which he told me, his name was one Cherry, a person
he had never heard of before. I was much surprised at
this, and soon resolved to write to you about it. As no
one hath a greater regard for the posthumous fame and
reputation of my best friend Mr. Cherry, so I shall be
very sorry, if any thing should be done contrary to what
he intended.; particularly I shall be much concerned, if
any MS. of mine should be so disposed of, as any way to
be to my disadvantage. If you can, pray be so kind and
just to me, as to let me know the truth of this affair, and
what that MS. is of mine. In doing which you will
oblige, Sir, your most humble servant,
THO. HEARNE.
Edmund Hall, Oxford,
Dec. 26, 1729.
Dec. 27. The gentleman, that told me what is said in
the letter above inserted, was Mr. Owen of All Souls' coll.
Memorand. that thei£ was no good picture of Mr.
Cherry. Mr. Cherry gave me what MSS. he designed to dispose
dietts," and two sextons. The total receipts from Chester were 1003. 5. 3.,
the portions to be paid to the provost, officers, and other expenses, 471. 6. 8.
To remain for his majesty's use 531. o. o. The whole MS. well deserves to
be printed. No. 36 is queen Elizabeth's own MS. of " The Glasse of the
synnefull soule" dated 1544, dedicated to queen Catharine, and bound in a
cover of her (Elizabeth's) own workmanship.
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of, before he died, and I wrote down a note of them, and
left it with Mr. Cherry, but I kept no copy of the note,
never went over for the MSS., (but desired Mr. Cherry to
send them, which however he did not, being hindered,) and
so I never had them, Mr. Cherry dying pretty suddenly.
Among those MSS. I remember was sir John Fortes-
cue's Declaration, many Greek transcripts from MSS. in
the Bodleian library, but these transcripts were taken
(chiefly by my self) from Mr. Dodwell's transcripts, a MS.
of Brute of England, a 4to MS. containing copies of letters
between Mr. Dodwell and others about the schisms, with
some other MSS., the subject of which I quite forget;
only one I well' remember was a 4to MS. in French,
adorned with pictures, being an account of the deposition
of Rich. IL, transcribed by Mr. Cherry himself, from an
old MS. (which I saw, when I was a boy, several times)
that Dr. Hickes had communicated to Mr. Cherry. This
is the same MS. I have mentioned in my preface to Vita
Ricardi II.
Jan. 7. Yesterday I had a letter from Mr. Henry Frin-
sham, vicar of White Waltham, dated Jan. 4, 1729, in
which Mr. F. writes thus :
Sib, i
I received yours of the 26th last past, and would have
giv'n you an answer to't before now, had it not come at so
busy a season; tho"T am apprehensive what I now send
you will be but little satisfactory to you. Some years ago
I took a catalogue of the MSS. you mention, but do not
remember any thing particularly of them, whether there
was any one amongst them that belonged to you or any
other person, but those that had the possession of them,
and in whose custody they were. The best account I can
give you of them at present is, that my mother [Cherry]
gave them by will to the Bodleian library, and that my
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time ago, where I suppose, they are now lodged in the
archives. Mr. Samuel Parker, whom I imagine you are
acquainted with, can give you a better account" what is
become of them than I can, and no doubt will, if you apply
your self to him ; for my sister consulted him about the
sending of them thither, and he indeed, as I have been
informed, first put it into my mother's head to send them
thither. I was no -more concerned in it than you were,
and perhaps dislike the disposal of them, in that manner,
as much as you do ; for had not that notion been infused
into her, 'tis, not very improbable, they might have fallen
into my hands, but no more of that."
Jan. 11. Yesterday between 3 and 4 o'clock, I was with
the Vice-Chancellour (Dr. Butler) about restoring me my
MS. that is (what I had heard) come to the Bodleian
library, and was lent by me to Mr. Cherry, but never given
by me either to him or to any one else, and I design it for
no other place than the flames. It is the original, and is
dated, as I very lately learned, (for I had quite forgot,)
June xi, 1700, thirty years ago. I have not the copy of
so much as a single word of it. It is written by way of
letter about the oath of allegiance, which I took when I
was made batchelor of arts, as afterwards I did when I
was made master of arts, and when I was made beadje ;
and I paid those to whom I took it all the allegiance {that
is just none) that was due to them. All this I readily
acknowledge. But when the abjuration oath was imposed,
I utterly refused it, resigned my place of architypography
and superior beadle, was debarr'd (for I never resigned)
my place of hypobibliothecarius of the Bodleian library,
and I am now so much dissatisfyed with both oaths, (not
withstanding the oath of allegiance can only include all
the allegiance that is due to the prince to whom 'tis taken,
which can in reality be just none, to a de facto king of
England,) that I decline and will decline taking either of
them to the present possessors of the throne, or their suc-
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cessors, in opposition to the rightful heir. Some say that
this letter was wrote by me to induce and persuade Mr.
Cherry to take the oath, whereas the contrary is true ; it
was upon occasion of my taking the oath when I was made
bachelor of arts. I put down in writing the arguments
that persuaded me to take the oath, and this I did by way
of letter, and afterwards I lent it Mr. Cherry, who wanted
to be satisfyed about my reasons, as it was fit he should,
he' having educated me at the university. The arguments
that then satisfied me are far from doing so now. I look
upon them as weak and frivolous, and I am so much dis-
satisfyed with this MS. of mine, that if they will keep it
from me, I nevertheless revoke every paragraph, line, word,
letter and tittle in it, and consign it over to the fire.
When I was a childe, I spake [or reasoned'] as a childe, I
understood as a childe, I thought as a childe ; but when I
became a man I put away childish things. The Vice-Chan
cellor seemed to be against restoring it me, and said every
one of the curators' leaves must be had, and that a ma
jority would not do, tho5 he could not but allow that tho
thing was really mine. Upon which I presently left him,
concluding that he was an enemy.
Feb. 5. My best friend Mr. Francis Cherry was a very
handsome man, particularly when young.
His hands were delicately white.
He was a man of great parts, and one of the finest gen
tlemen in England. K. James II. seeing him on horseback
in Windsor forest, when his majesty was hunting, asked
who it was, and being told, 'the king said he never saw any
one sit a horse better in his life.
Mr. Cherry was educated in the free-school at Bray
under Mr. (now Dr.) King.
.He was gentleman commoner of Edm. hall anno 1682,
Mr. Penton the principal having the chief care of him.
The hall was then very full, particularly there were then
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Mr. Cherry chummed with two more. They call cham-
berfellows by the name of chums.
He behaved himself very genteely in the hall, and very
innocently. He used to allow himself for battelling just nine shillings
a week. He used to complain, that he was not so studious in the
hall as he afterwards wished he had been.
March 9. To Dr. Richard Rawlinson, at London House
in Aldersgate street, London :
Dear Sir,
I know no hurt in changing any opinion for the better,
especially when secular interest is not the motive to it. As
for the juvenile or puerile exercise you speak of, Mr. Samuel
Parker, who (with great weakness) advised the putting of
those MSS. (contrary to Mr. Cherry's design, for he in
tended them for me) in the Bodleian library, can tell you
more of it than I can. I lent it to Mr. Cherry, with a
desire y' it might be return'd- or else destroy'd. Neither
was done, tho' I afterwards made the same request also to
his widow. Whatever it be, for I have no copy either of
the whole or any part of it, (nor indeed ever had any, I
revoke every thing in it, as a boyish performance not fit
to be preserved. The right of this thing belonged, and
does still belong, to no one but myself, and consequently,
notwithstanding it be unjustly detained from me) no one
either had or hath a right of disposing of it but my self.
As far as I can learn, 'tis 30 years ago since 'twas wrote.
What the particulars of it are I cannot tell at such a dis
tance. Let them be what they will, they must not be
looked upon as my present sentiments, or as the result of
what I would write now. Tho' I took the oath of alle
giance, as you and many others did, but went no farther,
yet I much question whether it will appear from this MS.
(to which they say my name is subjoyn'd) that I did so.
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and protest against it's being kept in the library. I repeat
my thanks to you for your hint about Potiphar ; 'tis not
material as to what I alledged it for, whether it be Pharaoh
or Potiphar. However, I may have a proper opportunity
perhaps (for I am always willing to own any mistake) of
signifying, that it should be rather Potiphar. In the mean
time, I am sincerely, dear sir,
your obliged and most humble servant
THO. HEARNE.
Dr. Rawlinson informs me that the title of my letter
about the oath of allegiance is handed about in London,
and that the first news of that MS. came from Mr. West,
who was pleased to tell the Dr. he had ordered a copy,
which he doubted not soon to receive with much satisfac
tion. If this be so, perhaps he employs Mr. Burton. Yet
Mr. Fysher told me more than once, no such thing should
be done, the MS. being not really the library's. The Dr.'s
letter dated March xi, 1729-30.
July 20. Mr .West did tell me Wise of Trin. college was the
first that sent up to London about the juvenile letter they
have of mine about the oath of allegiance. He sent, it seems,
to his former pupil, Lethullier, who made thereupon a
noise, but it hath not had their desired ends, but the con
trary, and good men (and such as act and speak sedately)
say, that they now have a better opinion of me than they
had before, declaring that 'tis an argument that I acted
with deliberation, and not rashly, when I formerly took
the oath of allegiance, and not as those do who take oaths
without considering at all.
July 22. On Saturday last Mr. Browne of Univ. coll.
told me, that' the evening before Dr. Shippen, George
Ward, and Mr. Bilston of All Souls', had been all to
gether for three hours about printing the letter of mine. I
told Mr. Br. that they might be ashamed of keeping it
from me. "Ay," replyed Mr. B., " all people ought to be
" ashamed of such doings."

APPENDIX V. 907
No. V. See p. 213.
GRACES a.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.
After Meat.
Schol. Benedictus sit Deus in donis suis,
Rasp. Et sanctus in omnibus operibus suis.
Schol. Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini,
Resp. Qui fecit coilum et terras.
Schol. Sit nomen Domini benedictum,
Resp. Ab hoc tempore usque in sacula.
Schol. Domine Deus, resurrectio et vita credentium, qui semper
es laudandus, turn in viventibus turn in defunctis, gratias Tibi
agimus pro omnibus Fundatoribus, cseterisque Benefactoribus
nostris, quorum beneficiis hie ad pietatem, et ad studia literarum
alimur, ; Te rogantes ut nos, hisce Tuis donis ad Tuam gloriam
recte utentes, una cum iis ad vitam immortalem perducamur, per
Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum.
Deus det vivis gratiam ; Ecclesise, Reginae, Regnoque nostro,
pacem et concordiam ; et nobis peccatoribus vitam aeternam.
BALLIOL COLLEGE.
After Meat.
Benedictus est Deus in donis suis.
Resp. Et sanctus in omnibus. operibus suis.
Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini est.
Resp. Qui fecit coelum ac terras.
Sit nomen Dei benedictum.
Resp. Ab hoc tempore usque ad saecula.
Tribuere digneris, Domine Deus, nobis omnibus bona facien-
tibus ob Tuum Sanctum nomen Vitam seternam. Amen.
In memoria eeterna erit Justus.
Resp. Et ab auditione mala nunquam timebit.
a I am indebted, in every case, to the best authority in the society, for the
correctness of this No.

908 APPENDIX V.
Justorum animse in manibus Dei sunt. '
Resp. Ne tangant eos instrumenta nequitise.
Funde qusesumus, Domine Deus, in mentes nostras gratiam
Tuam, ut Tuis hisce donis datis a Johanne Balliolo et Dervorguilla
uxore, cseterisque omnibus Benefactoribus nostris, rite in Tuam
gloriam utentes in vitam una cum fidelibus omnibus resurgamus :
per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
Deus pro infinita sua dementia Ecclesise unitatem et concor-
diam concedat, Reginam conservet, pacemque huic Regno Popu-
loque Christiano largiatur : per Jesum Christum Dominum nos
trum. Amen.
MERTON COLLEGE.
, Before Meat.
Oculi omnium in Te respiciunt, Domine.
Tu das escam illis tempore opportuno.
Aperis manumTuam, et imples omne animal benedictione Tua.
Benedicas nobis, Domine, omnibus Bonis quse de Tua benefi-
centia accepturi sumus.
Per Jesum Christum Dominvmi nostrum.
After Meat.
Quod corpora nostra, Deus, cibo potuque abunde refecisti,
agimus Tibi gratias, et Benignitati Tuse quantum possumus maxi-
mas, simulque precamur ut animas nostras Verbo Spirituque Tuo
deinceps pascas, ut mala omnia fugientes, ea quse placitura sunt
Majestati Tuse perfecte intelligamus, diligenterque meditemur, et
ad ea prsestanda toto impetu feramur. Per Jesum Christum
Dominum nostrum.
EXETER COLLEGE.
Before Meat.
Benedictus benedicat. After Meat.
Gratias Tibi agimus, omnipotens et ^Eterne Deus, pro his atque
omnibus beneficiis Tuis. Conserves qusesumus Ecclesiam Catho-
licam, Regnum Britannicum, Reginam Victoriam, totamque pro-
geniem Regiam, desque nobis pacem in Christo seternam.
ORIEL COLLEGE.
Before Meat.
Benedicte Deus, qui pascis nos a juventute nostra et prsebes

APPENDIX V. 909
cibum omni carni, reple gaudio et lsetitia corda nostra ut nos
affatim quod satis est habentes abundemus ad omne opus bonuni,
per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum, Cui, Tecum et Spiritu
Sancto, sit omnis honos, laus, et imperium, in ssecula sseculorum.
Amen. <
After Meat.
Domine Deus, resurrectio et vita credentium, qui semper es
laudandus cum in viventibus turn in defunctis, agimus Tibi gratias
pro Edvardo secundo, Fundatore nostro, pro Adamo de Brome,
prascipuo Benefactore, cseterisque Benefactoribus nostris, quorum
beneficiis hie ad pietatem et ad studia bonarum literarum alimur ;
rogantes ut nos, his donis Tuis recte utentes, ad Resurrectionis
gloriam immortalem perducamur ; per Jesum Christum Dominum
'nostrum. Amen.
QUEENS COLLEGE.
Before Meat.
Benedic nobis, Domine Deus, et his donis, quse ex liberalitate
Tua sumpturi sumus ; per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum.
Amen. After Meat.
Benedictus sit Deus in donis suis.
Resp. Sicut et in operibus suis.
Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini.
Resp. Qui fecit ccelum et terras.
Sit nomen Domini benedictum.
Resp. Nunc, usque et in ssecula.
Dignere, Domine Deus, largiri nobis omnibus Te invocantibus
propter nomen Tuum sanctum vitam seternam. Amen.
Domine Deus, resurrectio et vita credentium, qui semper es
laudandus, turn in viventibus, turn in defunctis, agimus Tibi
gratias pro fundatore nostro Roberto Eglesfield, cseterisque no
stris benefactoribus, quorum beneficiis hie ad pietatem et lite
rarum studia alimur : rogantes ut nos, his donis recte utentes in
nominis Tui gloriam, ad resurrectionis gloriam perpetuam perdu
camur; per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
Deus det vivis gratiam, ecclesise, reginse, regnoque nostro
pacem et concordiam, et nobis peccatoribus vitam seternam.
Amen.

910 APPENDIX V.
[St. Edmund Hall. — Grace before dinner same as at Queens
College. After Dinner. — Agimus Tibi gratias, Deus et Pater, pro tot
beneficiis, quse nobis assidue et pro infinita Tua liberalitate lar-
giris, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.]
NEW COLLEGE.
i . Ante Prandium.
Vers. Benedicite ;
Resp. Domino.
Vers. Oculi omnium spectant in Te, Domine !
Resp. Tu das iis escam in tempore opportuno,
Tu aperis manum et imples omne animal benedictione Tua.
Gloria Patri, &c.
Oratio. Benedic nobis, Domine Deus, et iis donis Tuis quse de
Tualargitate sumus sumpturi, per Jesum Christum Dominum
nostrum.
Resp. Amen.
Vers. Mensse cselestis participes nos facias, Rex seternse glorise.
Resp. Amen. 2. Post Prandium.
Vers. Deus pacis et dilectionis maneat nobiscum semper : Tu
autem, Domine, miserere nostri.
Resp. Deo gratias : laudate eum omnes gentes, laudate eum
omnes populi ejus, quoniam confirmata est supra nos
misericordia ejus, et Veritas Domini manet in seternum.
' Gloria Patri, &c.
Vers. Dispersit, et dedit pauperibus ;
Resp. Et justitia Ejus manet in sseculum sseculi.
Vers. Benedicam Domino in omni tempore ;
Resp. Et semper laus Ejus erit in ore meo.
Vers. In Domino gloriabitur anima mea ;
Resp. Audiant mansueti, et lsetentur.
Vers. Magnificate Dominum mecum ;
Resp. Exaltemus Nomen Ejus, et Ipsum.
Vers. Sit Nomen "Domini benedictum ;
Resp. Ex hoc nunc usque in sseculum.

APPENDIX V. 911
Oratio. Agimus Tibi gratias, Omnipotens Deus, pro his et uni-
versis beneficiis Tuis, quae de Tua largitate accepimus, qui
vivis et regnas Deus in ssecula sseculorum.
Resp. Amen.
Vers. In memoria seterna erit Justus ;
Resp. Ab auditione mala non timebit.
Vers. Justorum animse in manu Dei sunt ;
Resp. Neque tanget eos cruciatus.
Vers. Domine, salvum fac Regem nostrum ;
Resp. Et exaudi nos in die quocunque invocamus Te.
Vers. Domine, exaudi orationem meam ;
Resp. Et clamor meus ad Te veniat.
Oratio. Omnipotens et seterne Deus, qui semper tam es lau
dandus pro defunctis quam orandus pro viventibus, agi
mus Tibi gratias pro Fundatore nostro Guliejmo de Wyke-
ham, reliquisque quorum beneficiis hie ad pietatem et ad
studia literarum alimur; rogantes ut nos, his donis Tuis
ad nominis Tui honorem recte utentes, ad resurrectionis
Tuse gloriam perducamur immortalem, per Jesum Christum
s Dominum nostrum. Amen.
3. Ante Ccenam. *
Vers. Benedicite ;
Resp. Domino.
Vers. Ccenam sanctificet qui nobis omnia prsebet
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Saneti.
Resp. Amen. 4. Post Ccenam.
Vers. Benedictus sit Deus in donis suis ;
Resp. Et sanctus in omnibus operibus suis.
Vers. Adjutorium nostrum est in nomine Domini
Resp. Qui fecit caelum et terram. -
Vers. Sit nomen Domini benedictum ;
Resp. Ex hoc nunc usque in sseculum.
Oratio. Agimus Tibi gratias, &c. (ut post prandium.)
5. Ante Prandium.
Benedic nobis Domine Deus ! atque iis donis Tuis quse de Tua
largitate sumus sumpturi per Jesum Christum Dominum no
strum. Amen.

912 APPENDIX V.
6. Post Prandium.
Vers. Benedictus sit Deus in donis suis ;
Resp. Et sanctus in omnibus operibus Ejus.
Vers. Adjutorium nostrum est iri nomine Domini
Resp. Qui fecit ccelum et terram.
Vers. Sit nomen Domini benedictum ;
Resp. Ex hoc nunc usque in saecula sseculorum. Amen.
Oratio. Agimus Tibi gratias, omnipotens Deus, pro Fundatore
nostro Gulielmo de Wykeham, reliquisque quorum bene
ficiis hie ad pietatem et ad studia literarum alimur, ro
gantes ut nos, his donis Tuis ad Nominis Tui honorem recte
utentes, ad resurrectionis Tuse gloriam perducamur immor
talem, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
Fac Reginam salvam Domine ;
Da pacem in diebus nostris.
Et exaudi nos in die quocunque invocamus Te. Amen.
7. Ante Prandium.
Benedictus benedicat.
, 8. Post Prandium.
Benedicto benedicatur. [Winchester College.
Ante Prandium.
Benedic nobis, Domine Deus, atque iis donis Tuis. quse de Tua
largitate sumus sumpturi, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum.
Amen. - Post Prandium.
Agimus Tibi gratias, Omnipotens Deus ! pro his et universis
donis Tuis quse de Tua largitate accepimus, qui vivis et regnas ; et
es Deus in ssecula sseculorum. Amen.
Te de profundis, summe Rex,
Jehovah, supplex invoco !
Intende voci supplicis,
Ad Te precantem suspice.
Delicta si peccantium
Severus ohservaveris,

APPENDIX V. 913
Quis sustinebit impius ?
Piusve quis non deficit ?
At lenitas paterna Tibi ;
Hinc Te veremur filii ;
Te sustinemur unico
* A lucis orto sidere.
Fiduciam tantamque3- spem
In Te reponit Israel !
Tuo, Deus, qui sanguine
Peccata mundi diluis.
Deo Patri sit gloria ;
Ejusque soli Filio ;
Sanctissimo cum Spiritu D
In sseculorum ssecula.
Oratio. Omnipotens et sempiterne Deus, qui tam es laudandus
pro defunctis &c. ut in Grat. Act. post prandium in Coll.
Nov.]
LINCOLN COLLEGE.
Before Meat.
Benedicas nobis, qusesumus Te, et hisce creaturis in usum no
strum, ut illse sanctificatse sint et nobis salutares, ut nos inde cor-
roborati magis apti reddamur ad omnia opera bona in laudem Tui
Nominis seternam. Amen. After Meat.
JEterne Deus, bonorum omnium largitor, agimus Tibi gratias
pro electione, redemptione, conservatione, praesentique hac re-
focillatione ; atque etiam pro Ricardo Fleming et Thoma Rotheram
Fundatoribus nostris, cseterisque benefactoribus quos excitare
dignatus es ad eximia bona nobis prseparanda ; supplices Te
orantes ut eorum beneficia, quse ad sempiternam donatorum me-
moriam vigent, complures alios ad eandem pietatem semulandam
excitare possint, et eorum quotidie memores non indigni repe-
riamur hac tanta benedictione, per Jesum Christum Dominum
nostrum. Ecclesiam universam, Regem, totum hoc regnum
Deus pro immensa sua bonitate conservet protegat et defendat,
fidem nostram adaugeat, peccata remittat, afflictis solatium af-
ferat, et pacem in Christo nobis sempiternam reddat. Amen.
a Qu. totamque. b Cum Spiritu Paracleto.
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914 APPENDIX V.
ALL SOULS COLLEGE.
Appositis et apponendis benedicat Deus, Pater Filius et Spiritus
Sanctus.
MAGDALEN COLLEGE.
Deus pacis et charitatis dignei;is qusesumus habitare nobiscum,
et Tu Domine miserere nostrum. Amen.
Laudant Te omnia opera Tua, Domine. Laudant Te omnes
Saneti Tui.
Laudate Dominum omnes gentes. Laudate Eum omnes populi
Ejus. Quoniam confirmata est supra nos misericordia Ejus et Veritas
Domini manet in seternum.
Gloria sit Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.
Sicut erat in principio sic nunc est et erit in ssecula sseculorum.
Dispersit et dedit pauperibus. '
Et justitia Ejus manet in sseculum sseculi et cornu Ejus exalta-
bitur in gloria.
Semper benedicam Domino.
.Semper in ore meo laus Ejus.
Cantate Domino et benedicite Nomini Ejus.
Enunciate inter gentes gloriam Ejus et omnibus populis admi-
rabilia Ejus.
..Largire nobis, misericors Pater, miserrimis peccatoribus seter
nam vitam propter Nomen sanctum Tuum per Jesum Christum
Dominum nostrum. *
Hymnus Eucharisticus.
Te Deum Patrem colimus,
Te laudibus prosequimur,
Qui corpus cibo reficis, '
Cselesti mentem gratia.
Te adoramus, O Jesu,
Te, Fili unigenite,
Te, qui non dedignatus es
Subire claustra Virginis.
Actus in crucem factus es
Irato Deo victima :

APPENDIX V. 915
Per Te, Salvator unice,
Vitse spes nobis rediit.
Tibi, seterne Spiritus,
Cujus afflatu peperit
Infantem Deum Maria
^Eternum benedicimus.
Triune Deus, hominum
Salutis Auctor op time,
Immensum hoc mvsterium
Ovante lingua canimus.
In memoria seterna erunt justi.
Ab auditione mala non timebunt.
Corpora eorum in pace sepulta sunt, et nomina eorum vivant a
generatione in generationem.
Sapientiam eorum narrabunt populi et laudes eorum enun-
ciabit Ecclesia.
Domine Deus, Resurrectio et Vita eorum, omnium qui in Te
confidunt, Qui semper benedictus es in donis Tuis et sanctis in
operibus, immortales gratias agimus Majestati Tuse 'pro Gulielmo
de Waynfleet, Fundatore nostro, et pro omnibus Benefactoribus
nostris, amplissimisque beneficiis Tuis, quae nobis per manus
eorum tradidisti; Teque suppliciter obsecramus ut nos hisce
donis Tuis recte utamur ad Nominis Tui honorem, ut una cum
Sanctis Tuis seternse glorise*n coslis participes fiamus, per Jesum
Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen. Amen.
BRASENOSE COLLEGE.
Ante Prandium.
Oculi omnium spectant in Te, Deus ! Tu das illis escas tem
pore opportuno. Aperis manum Tuam et imples omne animal
Tua benedictione. Mensae coelestis nos participes facias, Deus,
Rex seternse glorise. Post Prandium.
Qui nos creavit, redemit et pavit, sit benedictus in seternum.
Deus, exaudi orationem nostram. Agimus Tibi gratias, Pater
coelestis, pro Gulielmo Smith episcopo, et Ricardo Sutton milite,

916 APPENDIX V.
Fundatoribus nostris ; pro Alexandro Nowel et Jocosa Frankland,
aliisque Benefactoribus nostris ; humiliter Te precantes ut eorum
numerum benignissime adaugeas. Ecclesiam Catholicam, et
populum Christianum custodi. Hsereses et errores omnes ex-
tirpa. Victoriam Reginam nostram et subditos ejus defende.
Pacem da et conserva per Christum Dominum nostrum.
Ante Ccenam.
Omnipotens et sempiterne Deus, sine quo nihil est dulce, nihil
odoriferum, misericordiam Tuam humiliter imploramus, ut nos
coenamque nostram benedicas ; ut corda nostra exhilares ; ut quae
suscepturi sumus alimenta, Tuo honori, Tuseque beneficientise ac-
cepta referamus ; per Christum Dominum nostrum.
Post Ccenam.
Quod corpora nostra, Deus optime maxime, cibo potuque
abunde refecisti, agimus Tibi gratias, quantas possumus maximas ;
simulque precamur, ut animas nostras verbo et Spiritu deinde
pascas ; ut omnia mala fugiamus ; ut quse sint Tibi placitura per-
fecte intelligamus, diligenter meditemur, et ad ea praestanda toto
impetu feramur ; per Christum Dominum nostrum.
CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE.
Before Dinner.
Nos miseri et egentes homines, pro hoc cibo quem ad corporis
nostri alimonium sanctificatum es largitus ut eo recte utamur,
Tibi, Deus omnipotens, Pater coelestis, reverenter gratias agimus,
simul obsecrantes ut cibum angelorum, panem verum coelestem,
Dei Verbum seternum Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum nobis
impertiare, ut Eo mens nostra pascatur, et per carnem et san-
guinem Ejus alamur, foveamur, et corroboremur.
After Dirtier.
Infunde, qusesumus, Domine Deus, gratiam Tuam in mentes
nostras ; ut hisce donis Tuis, datis a Ricardo Fox Fundatore
nostro, cseterisque Benefactoribus nostris, recte in Tuam gloriam
utentes, una cum fidelibus defunctis in vitam coelestem resur-
gamus, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum.
Deus pro infinita Sua dementia, ecclesise Suse concordiam et

APPENDIX V. 917
unitatem concedat, Regem nostrum conservet, pacem regno uni-
verso populoque Christiano largiatur, per Jesum Christum Domi
num nostrum.
CHRIST CHURCH.
Ante Cibum.
Nos miseri homines et egeni, pro cibis quos nobis ad corporis
subsidium benigne es largitus, Tibi Deus omnipotens, Pater coe
lestis, gratias reverenter agimus ; simul obsecrantes, ut iis sobrie,
modeste atque grate utamur. Insuper petimus, ut cibum ange-
lorum, verum panem coelestem, Verbum Dei seternum, Dominum
nostrum Jesum Christum, nobis impertiaris ; utque Illo mens
nostra pascatur, et per carnem et sanguinem Ejus foveamur, ala-
mur, et corroboremur. Amen. Post Cibum.
[The Bible Clerk reads from the Greek Test?\
Omnipotens et misericors Deus, qui donis Tuis nos exsatiasti,
effice ut quicquid per nos fieri aut praetermitti velis, diligenter ob-
servemus, mandata Tua universa prompto atque fideli obsequio
obeuntes, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
Antiph. Domine, salvam fac Reginam.
Resp. Et exaudi nos, quando invocamus Te.
Deus in Cujus manu sunt corda regum ; Qui es humilium conso-
lator, fidelium fortitudo, protector omnium in Te sperantium, da
Reginse nostrse Victorise populoque Christiano ut Te Regem
regum, et dominantium Dominum, agnoscant semper et vene-
rentur, et post hanc vitam regni Tui seterni fiant participes ; per
Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
Deus, a quo derivatur omnis munificentia et bonitas, debitas
Tibi gratias agimus, quod felicis memorise Regem Henricum ejus
nominis octavum, ad Ecclesiam hanc fundandam animaveris ; et
rogaraus pro sancta u Tua misericordia, ut cum nos hoc tanto bene-
ficio adjuti, ad laudem Tui nominis profecerimus, una cum omni
bus qui jam in Domino dormierunt, beatam resurrectionem, et
seternse felicitatis prsemia consequamur, per Jesum Christum Do.
minum nostrum. . Amen. a Al. summa.
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918 APPENDIX V.
TRINITY COLLEGE.
Benedictus sit Deus in donis suis :
Qui sanctus est in omnibus operibus suis.
Adjutorium nostrum est in nomine Domini :
Qui fecit ccelum et terram.
Sit nomen Domini benedictum :
Ut nunc est, sic in secula seculorum.
Oremus.
Domine, salvam fac Victoriam reginam nostram :
Et exaudi nos, cum invocamus Te.
Domine Deus, resurrectio et vita credentium, qui semper es
laudandus cum in viventibus turn etiam in defunctis, agimus Tibi
gratias pro Thoma Pope, Militi, Fundatore nostro, et Eliza-
betha, consorte ejus, defunctis, ceterisque Benefactoribus nostris,
quorum beneficiis hie ad pietatem et ad studia Literarum alimur —
rogantes ut nos, his donis ad Tuam gloriam recte utentes, una
cum illis ad resurrectionis gloriam immortalem perducamur, per
Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE.
Before Meat.
Benedic, Domine, nos, et hsec Tua dona quse de Tua largitate
sumpturi sumus.
Pater noster qui es in coelis, sanctificetur nomen Tuum ; adveniat
regnum Tuum, fiat voluntas Tua, sicut in coelo, sic etiam in terra ;
panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et remitte nobis
debita nostra, sicut et nos remittimus debitoribus nostris ; et ne
nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo ; quia Tuum est
regnum, potentia, et gloria, in ssecula sseculorum. Amen.
After Meat.
, Agimus Tibi gratias, omnipotens et sempiterne Deus, pro his et
universis beneficiis : dignare, Domine, misereri nostrum, et manere

APPENDIX V. 919
semper nobiscum, ut auxilio' Spiritus Saneti, mandatis Tuis sedulo
obsequamur, per Jesum Christum Dominmn nostrum. Amen.
Agimus tibi gratias, omnipotens et sempiterne Deus, pro
Thoma White, milite, et Fundatore nostro defuncto, ac Avicia
et Joanna uxoribus ejus, quorum beneficiis hie ad pietatem et
ad studia literarum alimur, rogantes, ut nos, his donis ad Tuam
gloriam recte utentes, una cum illis ad resurrectionis gloriam
immortalem perducamur, per Christum Dominum nostrum.
Amen. Benedicamus Domino.
Deo gratias.
JESUS COLLEGE.
Precatio ante cibum sumendum.
Nos miseri et egentes homines pro cibo, quem ad alimoniam
corporis sanctificatum nobis es largitus, ut eo utamur grati Tibi
Deus omnipotens, Pater caelestis, gratias reverenter agimus ;
simul obsecrantes ut cibum angelorum, verum panem cselestem,
Verbum Dei seternum, Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum nobis
impertiaris ; ut Illo mens nostra pascatur et per carnem et san-
guinem Ejus foveamur, alamur et corroboremur. Amen.
Post cibum Precatio.
Quandoquidem nos, Domine, donis Tuis, omnipotens et mise-
ricors Deus, exsatiasti, effice ut posthac quid per nos fieri aut secus
velis diligenter observemus, atque illud animo sincero effectum
prsestemus, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
Vers. Domine salvum fac Regem.
Resp. Et exaudi nos in die qua invocaverimus Te.
Deus, in cujus manu sunt corda regum, qui es humilium con-
solator et fidelium fortitudo et protector omnium in Te spe-
rantium, da Regi nostro Jacobo populoque Christiano triumphum
virtutis Tuse scienter aexcolere ut per Te semper reparentur ad
gloriam, per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
» Colere as printed by the University Commissioners from a very incor
rect transcript (Addit. MSS. 6044) in the British Museum.
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920 APPENDIX V.
WADHAM COLLEGE.
Cler. Benedictus sit Deus in donis suis :
Resp. Sanctus iri omnibus operibus suis.
Cler. Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini :
Resp. Qui fecit ccelum et terras.
Cler. Sit nomen Dei benedictum :
Resp. Ex hoc usque in secula seculorum.
Cler. Domine, fac salvam Victoriam Reginam.
Resp. Exaudi nos cum invocemus Te.
Cler. Domine Deus, vita et resurrectio credentium, qui semper
es laudandu?, tum in viventibus tum in defunctis, agimus Tibi
gratias pro Nicolao Wadhamo armigero et pro Dorothea uxore
ejus, Fundatoribus nostris defunctis, aliisque Benefactoribus nos
tris, quorum beneficiis hie ad pietatem et studium literarum ali
mur ; rogantes ut nos, his Tuis donis recte utentes, una cum illis
ad resurrectionem glorise perducamur ; per Jesum Christum
Dominum nostrum.
PEMBROKE COLLEGE.
Agimus Tibi gratias, Deus misericors, pro acceptis a bonitate
Tua beneficiis ; enixe comprecantes ut serenissimam nostram
Reginam Victoriam, totam regiam familiam, populumque tuum
universum, tuta in pace semper custodias.
WORCESTER COLLEGE.
Ante Cibum. ¦
Nos miseri homines et egeni, pro cibis quos nobis ad corporis
subsidium benigne es largitus, Tibi Deus omnipotens, Pater
cselestis, gratias reverenter agimus ; simul obsecrantes, ut iis
sobrie, modeste, atque grate utamur. Insuper petimus, ut cibum
angelorum, verum panem cselestem, Verbum Dei seternum, Do
minum nostrum Jesum Christum, nobis impertiaris : utque Illo
mens nostra pascatur, et per carnem et sanguinem Ejus fove-
amur, alamur, et corroboremur. Amen.
Post Cibum.
Omnipotens et misericors Deus, qui donis Tuis nos exsatiasti,
effice ut quicquid per nos fieri aut prsetermitti velis, diligenter
observemus, mandata Tua universa prompto atque fideli obsequio
obeuntes, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.

APPENDIX VI. 921
' Antiph. Domine, salvam fac Reginam.
Resp. Et exaudi nos quando invocamus Te.
AgimusTibi gratias, omnipotens et sempiterne Deus, pro Thoma
Cookesio, baronetto, Fundatore nostro, cujus beneficio hie ad
pietatem, studiumque literarum alimur : simul rogantes ut, his
donis ad Tuam gloriam recte utentes, una cum eo ad resurrectionis
gloriam immortalem perducamur, per Jesum Christum Dominum
nostrum. Amen.
No. VI. See p. 263.
[From the original in the author's own hand, Cowley's Poems, folio,
Lond. 1656. Bodl. C. 2. 21. Art.]
Liber Bibliothecce Bodleiance, ex dono Viri et Poe'tee optimi,
D. Abrahami Cowley, authoris ; qui pro singulari sua in
Bodleium, Musasque benevolentia, Oden MS. insequentem,
Pindari fceliciter imitatricem composuit, et manu propria
exaratam apposuit VI. Calend. Jul. GIO IQ C L VI *.
PINDARIQUE ODE.
THE BOOK
Humbly presenting it selfe to the Vniversitie Librarie at Oxford.
1 .
Hail, Learnings Pantheon ! Hail, the sacred Ark,
Where all ye World of Science does embark !
Wcn ever shalt wtastand, andhast she long withstood
Insatiat Times devowring Flood !
Hail, Tree of Knowledge ! thy Leaves Fruit ! wch well
Dost in ye midst of Paradise arise,
Oxford ye Muses Paradise !
From wch may never Sword the Blest expell.
Hail, Bank of all past Ages, where they lie
T' enrich wth Interest Posteritie !
Hail, Wits illustrious Galaxie,
Where thowsand Lights into one Brightnes spread,
Hail, Living Vniversitie of the Dead !
* This inscription written by bishop Barlow.

922 APPENDIX VI.
2.
Vnconfusfid Babel of all Toungs, W-'n ere
The mightv Linguist Fame, or Time, the mighty Traveller,
That could Speak, or this could Hear ! *
Maiestique Monument, and Pyramide,
Where still the Shapes of parted Soules abide
Embalmed in Verse ! exalted Soules, wch now,
Enjoy those Arts they woo'd soe well below !
Wcn now all wonders printed plainly see
That have bin, are, or are to bee,
In the mysterious Librarie,
The Beatifique Bodley of the Deitie !
3-
Will yee into your sacred throng admit
The meanest British Wit ?
Yee Generall Councell of the Priests of Fame,
Will yee not murmur, and disdain
That I a place amoungst yee claime
The humblest Deacon of her train ?
Will yee allow mee th' honourable Chain ?
The Chain of Ornament, wch here
Your noble Prisoners proudly wear ?
A Chain wch will more pleasant seem to mee,
Then all my own Pindarique Libertie.
Will yee to bind mee with theise mighty names submit
Like an Apocrypha wth Holy Writ ?
What ever happy Book is chained here,
Noe other place or people needs to fear,
His Chaine's a Pasport to goe everywhere.
4-
i As when a seat in Heaven
Is to an vnmalitious Sinner given,
Who casting round his wondring Eye
Does none but Patriarchs and Apostles there espie,
Martyrs who did their Lives bestow,
And Saints who Martyrs lived below,
Wtn trembling and amazement hee begins
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Hee doubts almost his Station there,
His Soule says to it selfe, How came I here ?
It fares noe otherwise wth mee
When I myselfe w*h conscious wonder see
Amidst this Purified Elected Companie,
W"1 hardship they and pain,
Did to this happines attain.
Noe labours I or merits can pretend ;
I think, Prsedestination onely was my Freind.
5-
Ah yb my Author had bin tyed, like Mee,
To such a Place and such a Companie,
Instead of severall Countries, severall Men,
And Busines, wCQ ye Muses hate !
Hee might have then improued yt small Estate
Wcn Nature sparingly did to him give ;
Hee might perhaps have thriven then,
And setled vpon mee, his Child, somewhat to Live,
T'had happier bin for Him, as well as Mee
For when all, alas, is donne,
Wee Books, I mean, you Books will prove to bee
The best and noblest Conversation.
For though some Errors will get in,
Like Tinctures of Original Sin,
Yet sure wee from our Father's Wit
Draw all ye Strength and Spirits of it,
Leaving ye grosser parts for Conversation,
As the best Blood of Man's employ'd on Generation.
No. VII. See p. 267.
Letter to Mrs. Barnes on the death of her husband.
Madam,
I am very sorry to hear of the death of Mr. Barnes, who was
an extraordinary person. As no body had a greater value for
him while living than myself, so no one shall retain a greater
veneration for his memory. And this not only for his own sake,
but, in good measure, for your's, madam, who was pleased to
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924 APPENDIX VII.
ever was necessary for the carrying on his most learned and use-
full labours. Had it not been for this unexpected assistance, he'
must have been reduced to great extremity, and the world would
have been deprived of the benefit of many of his writings, par
ticularly of his admirable edition of Homer. I take opportunity,
madam, of returning you my thanks for whatever you did for
him ; and, at the same time, I make you my sincere acknow
ledgments for those expressions of kindness which you shew
to me.
Dr. Hudson never told me one word of Mr. Barnes's design of
making me a present of ten guineas, otherwise I should have
returned my thanks to my good friend immediately. But, upon
my consulting him since the receipt of your letter, he produced
a letter of Mr. Barnes's, written in March last, in which mention
is made of this present. I am very sorry my friend should die
without receiving my acknowledgments for it ; but you see upon
whom the blame is to rest, and I hope you will excuse me. I
have not deserved any such present, yet I very humbly accept it,
and shall always esteem it as a true token both of Mr. Barnes's
and of your friendship to me, and I shall be glad of any oppor
tunity of doing either yourself, or any of your friends, some real
service. I have talked with Dr. Hudson about the Homers : he
said he would write to you himself about that matter : I hope all
things will be adjusted fairly ; but for my part, I neither knew at
first what number Mr. Barnes sent to the Dr., nor do I know
what number are left, or how any have been disposed of. I was
always of opinion that none ought to be sold under subscription
price ; and 'tis my opinion at present. The price should be rather
inhanced than lessened. Justice to the subscribers commands
this, as well as the excellency of the book. I should be very
glad to look over dny of Mr. Barnes's papers ; and if any should
fall into my hands, I would take care to preserve them faithfully
arid honestly. I writ several letters to him, most about matters
of learning. If he did not burn them, I shall desire that they
may be either restored to me, or at least, that they may not be
exposed, but either destroyed, (as they deserve,) or else (when
you have done with them) lodged in the hands of some person
who may be trusted with the greatest secret. I do not doubt
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to your own prudence and discretion. Great care ought also to
be observed in not letting Mr. Barnes's other papers fall into any
hands but where they will certainly be imployed most to his
honour and credit. I again return my thanks for all your favours,
and if ever I come to Cambridge, or into any parts of that country,
you may be sure I will pay my acknowledgments in person. In
the mean time I am, with the utmost esteem,
honour'd madam,
your ever oblig'd humble servt.
Oxon. Aug. 14, 1712. THO. HEARNE.
As for the present, I suppose Dr. Hudson (who it may be had
forgot to tell me of it in Mr. Barnes's lifetime) will pay it when
he receives your orders. I desire very much to know Mr. Barnes's
age, and when, and where he was buried.
No. VIII. See p. 298.
List of Books by R. B.
The following catalogue will afford some notion of the sort of
cheap literature sought by, and given to, the English public at the
close of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century.
When I originally proposed to give this list, Lowndes's very use
ful " Bibliographical Dictionary" had not appeared, or I should
have hesitated at making such an attempt. Still it is hoped that
it will be found correct. Most of those volumes recorded with
dates have been. personally inspected; all rest upon authority
which, at the time, I had no reason to call in question.
Although I have originally termed them " twelve-penny" com
pilations, I find by the advertisements that some were in the first
instance published as high as 3s. 6d.
i. England's Monarchs. 1685, 1691, 1694, 1702.
2. History of the House of Orange. 1693.
3. History of the two late kings, Charles 2 and James 2. 1693.
4. History of Oliver Cromwell. 1692, 1698, 1706, 1715, 1728.
5. Wars in England, Scotland and Ireland. 1681, 1683, 1684
5th edit, very much enlarged. 1796, 1737.

926 APPENDIX VIII.
6. Historical Remarks and Observations of London and West
minster. 1681,1684, 1691, 1703, 1705, 1730.
7. Admirable Curiosities, Rarities and Wonders in England,
Scotland and Ireland, &c. 1681, 1682, 1684, 1685, 1697, 1718,
1728. 8. History of Scotland. 1 1685. Dublin, 1746.
9. History of Ireland. J 1685, 1692, 1693, Dublin, 1746.
10. History of Wales. 1695, T730.
1 1 . Unfortunate Court Favourites. 1695, 1 706, 1 729.
12. English empire in America. 1685,1698,1711,1728,1735,
1739- 13. English Acquisitions in Guinea and the East Indies. 1686,
1719, 1726, 1728.
14. English Hero; or sir Francis Drake revived. 1687,1695-,
1719, 1729, 1739, 1756.
15. Two Journeys to Jerusalem. 1683, 1685, 1692, 1695,
1699, 1730, 1738, 1759.
16. Extraordinary Adventures, Revolutions and Events. 1683,
1704, 1728.
17. History of the nine Worthies of the World. 1687, 1695,
1703, 1713, 1727, 1738.
18. Female Excellency, or the Ladies Glory. 1688,1701, 1728.
19. Wonderful Prodigies of Judgment and Mercy. 1681,1682,
1685, 1699, 1707, Edinb. 1762.
20. Unparalleled Varieties. 1683, 1693, 1697,1699.
21. The Kingdom of Darkness. 1688.
22. Surprizing Miracles of Nature and Art>, 1683, 1685,1699.
23. General History of Earthquakes. [694,1734,1736.
24. Memorable Accidents and unheard of Transactions. 1693,
1733- 25. Martyrs in Flames ; or Hist, of Popery. 1695,1700,1713,
1729. y I suspect that Crouch derived his adopted Initials and his design from a
rare little volume printed in 1678, and entitled Miracles of Art and Nature,
or a Brief Description of the several varieties of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Plants
and Fruits of other Countreys. Together with several other remarkable things
in the world. By R. B. gent. London, Printed for William Bowtel at the
sign of the Golden Key near Mitre Court in Fleet-street, 1 678. 1 2mo. pp. 20,
title and preface, pp. (6.)

APPENDIX VIII. 927
26. Delights for the Ingenious. 1684, 1732.
27. Winter Evening Entertainments. 1687,1737.
28. Esop's Fables in Prose and Verse. 2 parts, 1712.
29. The Vanity of the Life of Man. 1688, 1708.
30. Strange and Prodigious Religious Customs. 1683.
3 1 . Delightful Fables, 1 69 1 . "
32. Choice Emblems Divine and Moral2. 1684,1732.
33. History of the Lives of those famous Divines who pro
moted the Reformation. 1709,1746.
34. Unhappy Princesses, containing the Secret History of
Queens Ann Bullen and Lady Jane Grey. 1710, 1733.
35. Apprentices Companion. 1681.
36. Adagia Scotica ; or a Collection of Scotch Proverbs ,and
Proverbial Phrases. Collected by R. B. 1668 a.
37. The Young Man's Calling; or the whole Duty of Youth0.
1685, 1695, 1725.
38. Monthly Preparations for the Holy Communion, by R.B-
To which is added suitable Meditations before, in, and after
Receiving. With divine Hymns, in common Tunes ; Fitted for
Publick Congregations, or private Families. The second Edition
corrected. London : Printed by Tho. Bunce for Tho. Parkhurst,
&c. 1706. The preface dated Feb. 3, 1694^, and .signed 'Matthew
Sylvester. 39. Youth's divine Pastime. Two parts. 1737.
40. Lives of the Kings of France. 1693.
41. Divine Banquet. 1707.
42. History of Virginia. 1722.
43. Triumphs of Love, containing fifteen histories. 1730.
44. Ingenious Riddles.
45. English Heroine.
z The same I think with No. 26.
a I cannot fancy this one of Crouch's compilations.
b Adv. in 1683 and 1686 with 12 curious pictures. Not by R. B. I have
seen an edit. Lond. for Nat. Crouch, 1685. The address to the reader is
signed S. C. It is much on a par with Burton's books, but in some respects
more curious, for there are portraits of prince Henry and lord Harrington,
and a very fair abridged account of their lives, and those of Elizabeth, Ed
ward the Vlth, and lady Jane Grey.

928 APPENDIX IX.
46. History of the Holy Lives and Deaths of several young
persons. 47. Kingdom of Darkness.
48. History of Flowers, Plauts, &c. of the Holy Land.
H. Rhodes, next door to the Swan Tavern near Bride Lane in
Fleet-street, was a rival of Crouch's. I have seen some of his
little books greatly resembling R. B., particularly the History of
Monasticall Conventions and Military Institutions. 1686.
No. IX. See p. 300.
The Surfeit. To A. B. C. London, printed for Edw.
Dod at the Gun in Ivy-lane. 1656.
There are two copies of this extraordinary little volume
in the Bodleian, one among bishop Barlow's books : one
in Mr. Malone's collection, which that gentleman bought,
with two other tracts, at Mr. Brand's sale in 1807 (" at the
high price of 4. 7. 0."), Mr. Brand having procured it at
Dr. Farmer's in 1797, paying for it at that time 2. 2. 0.
Speaking of The Surfeit, Malone says, " This piece, as Dr.
Farmer (to whom this book formerly belonged) justly ob
served in a manuscript note, which by the carelessness of
the binder was lost when the book was bound, contains
some curious particulars concerning old English literature.
It was written, I believe, by Dr. Philip King, a younger
son of Dr. John King, bp. of London, and brother of Dr.
Henry King, bp. of Chichester. He was buried March 4,
1666-7, at Langley in Bucks. A. Wood, Ath. Oxon. 2,
132, says that " they were thought, when the poems of
Dr. Henry King were first published, to be written by
Philip, and were entered as such, under his name in the
Bodleian catalogue." §. 1.
Apollo was a gentleman rather then a physician, and yet both :
I apply tg you for counsell in my malady, as a classical compeere
with Hermes and Asclepius. A whole autumne of hypocon-

APPENDIX IX. 929
draical passions and symptomes are fallen upon me, which is a
melancholy disease, and must be handled gently with prepara
tives ; for 'the humour is sturdy, and violence will rent and
destroy all the fabrick. The cause proceeds from a surfeit : of
reading men and books.
I have read over your Ovid's Metamorphosis ; at first view I
took it to be a heape of sand without cement, all independent ;
but upon the review, I take it to be the best piece of a school
boy that hath well laboured and beaten out only two theams.
The first, Ante obitum nemo — which takes up the whole first half
part of the infelicity of Agenors Progenie. The latter part, — Ni
hil est toto quod perstet in orbe. Where the mutations and vicis
situde of things are summarily enumerate.
I have lately read Balzac, where I have been set upon the rack
and torture, expecting some high conceit, and never more de
lighted, then when I most failed, admiring with others what I
least understood. His letters to the cardinail and bishop seems
to be a piece of Davids Psalmes conferd upon man for the most
excellent piece ; to be a courtier, is to be something prophane.
His love letters to Clorinda sound as if thev were translated out
of some old ballads, only leaving out the counterpit play, the
ging of rime. I do passionately disaffect that trite obsolete
valedure ; your most humble, your tres humble and affectionate
servant, it seems like the overworne statute lace of your groome
or footman, and best befits them. In all his letters like Lipsius,
or sir Henry Wotton, ever grumbling and complaining of his
invalitude. I have read over Heywoods, Commentaries upon Merlins, or
rather his own prophesies, until Hen. 2. dayes, speaking of
Rosamond ; so far good and true out of the copies of Jeffery of
Monmouth and Alanus de Insulis expositions ; all the following
is false and faigned, yet a good poet, but no prophet. And what
soever is cited by our late prognosticks as pretended from Merlin,
is forged and supposititious, making newprophesies to fancie their
desires, or sound to the present times and histories.
I, wearied with reading books, began to study men. I made
a survay of all the gentlemens houses, and without a pack of
cards last Christmas plaid alone. I see one a general good house-
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930 APPENDIX IX.
keeper for a very age, he keeps hospitality, payes his servants
wages quarterly : But what's the catastrophe ? He dies, his
servants have spent their wages for their masters honour, and
their own reputation ; when they be dissolved, an habitual idle
ness brings povertie, miserie. An other runns in debt unto his
servants ; but at the close weakens, almost ruines his own estate ;
here are objects of piety ; pitie I can not, I am not yet so weak.
An other out of an ample soul, and unbounded liberal disposition,
flies into high exorbitances, vast expenses, but fore-seeing the
future inconvenience breaks off suddenly ; and this is least to be
lamented, for you shall only find some pantomines and parasites
dishevel' d, and in short time all redintegrated.
And who gets the advantage ? the country farmer will tell you,
these great house-keepers bring all the beggars in a region to his
parts, and never a one of these beggars, but expect from us some
almes, with continual clamours at our doores. Your private
gentleman finds the price of provision raised to a third part, and
therein suffers. And for my part, I am as afraid to lie in a great
gentlemans house as in an inn, besides the abatement of my
content, for I had rather be observed, then observe the will of
an other.
If I look upon the countrie man, he's no other to me then one
that's borne some thousand leagues out of Christendome, or
rather men moving like trees : and if I breath a gentle gale of a
good morrow, they will move and bend with a soft murmur. If
I tread upon a doggs taile by chance, he will turne back and
bite1. In these lumpish passions I have some pleasing intervals, I
can both laugh and sleepe. I take a merry book into my hand,
say it be that Mortuum Caput, old Aristotle his Organon in the
bare Latine text. Oh ! how I can chink at his pretty conceits ;
the burden of all his merry catches is, Necessarium enim est. I
have an other better remidie to my malady ; I take a piece of
that Asiaticke redundance under mine elbow, Galen de tempera-
mentis or his Commentary upon Hippocrates, He undertake he is
so tedious, that before you have read one page and perfectly
understand it, you shall fall asleep.
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APPENDIX IX. 931
better of them, then as a voluntarie before a lesson to the lute,
which is absolutely the best pleasing to the eare ; but after
finished absolutely forgotten, nothing to be remembred or re
peated. I have lately made an essay to beat out a theme tending to
Papisme from the primitive fathers, although I am no Romanist ;
the same on the contrary for the Protestant. I faithfully searched
and copied out with mine own eyes and hands the proofes from
the authors themselves. But the terme of mine intention was
this ; I'me thoroughly perswaded that none of the first 600 cen-
turists knew either Papist or Protestant, as questions not at all
questioned at those times. And therefore I will neither appeal
to them as judges or advocates or witnesses : but like unto pigeon
feathers of which the opticks write, the causes of the variegations
and diversity of lustres proceeds from the contrary lights, or
lookings through mediums diversly tincted : diversity of educa
tion, and discrepancie of the first principles instilled into each
man begets a pertinacy in paradoxes ; in these controversies, the
disputant and latter writers wrest the fathers to their own appe
tite, making them like a bell to sound as they please to interpret,
or like the indented January tablets which represents two several
figures at several stations, like changeable taffeties or marmoles
in a decaying fire, every one phansies his own phantasms.
Bless me, and far be it from me to derogate from the sanctity
integrity and purity of the ancient fathers, but that reading of
them does conduce to knowledge and holiness ; only I averr that
in our quarrels in religion they were neither sticklers or seconds.
Sir, a httle slumber beginneth to seise upon me, and so I
take leave until I awake your most observant.
P. K.
§.2.
History — the reading of the Jews and Romans is superlative
for admiration : and what is to be wondred at in all these except
two, one David, and one Augustus ? The country of Judea a
small canton, some threescore miles over, and sixscore long, an
other Yorkeshire. And for their kings they walked all in the sins
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932 APPENDIX IX.
of their fathers, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord, walking
in the way of his father : and I know not how many times re
peated in walking in the way of Jeroboam : for he walked all the
waies of Jeroboam. The reading of these kings breeds danger;
for they are for the most part writ historically, not exemplarily
for imitation. I writ not this to derogate from the power and
glory of our Saviour ; for the first page of St. Matthews gospel
is sufficient for me to give belief to his descent from David, and
to believe the ten ancestors of Joseph supplied by St. Matthew,
rather then if I had them from the Old Testament : or rather
upon even terms Saint Luke that hath nothing from the Old
Testament untill he come to Nathan the sonne of David, except
Salathiel and Zorobabel. From the cratch to the crosse all our
Saviours proceedings argued his humility ; and therefore no
marvell if he was born in so base degenerous a nation.
For the Romans ! what people more base, more subdued and
enslaved ! The first ten or twelve emperours slain by one another.
The other following all strangers ; so that they have been subject,
I say subdued, by all the barbarous nations of the world. Trajan
a Spaniard, Antonie Pius a Franck, Pertinax of base ignoble
progenie, Severus an Affrican, that great enemy and emulous
compeer to the Roman empire ; Heliogabalus an Assyrian, iEmi-
lian a Mauritane, Probus a Dalmatian, Alaricus the Goth sacked
Rome. And at present they will rather suffer the German, the
Spaniard, the French, then a native Italian prince.
Let us examine the authours ; Livie with Holinshed and Stow
I compare : Livie fild up with the names of consuls and officers ;
and the other with lord maiors feasts and sheriffs of London.
Let Lipsius summe up his syllable, and tel you of his Polybius,
Herodotus, Xenophon, his master Tacitus, and others, and give
you his encomiums and criticisms : as if all the erudition of the
world was confined to that former age : you shall finde as high
polities, as gallant elegant polite phrase, as ever livie, or Sueton,
or any of the ancient writ, if you peruse Mariana for the Spanish
history, Rosiers for the French, Cambden and Polidore for the
English, Buchanan for the Scot ; of all I commend an obscure
man, Egnatius, a sweet compendium of the empire, with a right
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The abbot of Uxsperge I believe to his age (I mean in his
time) writ an elaborate and right elegant stile, though now it
seems barbarous. The same I say of Mathew of Westminster,
Henry of Huntington, Paris the French herald, Hector Boetius,
and Mariana the Scot, with the rest of their age. My reason,
being now translated into our modern languages, they make
perfect language, which in their daies was dissonant to ours : my
conclusion, by how much they differed from the common idiome
at those daies, they seemed so much the more polite, terse, and
gallant. Baronius and his contractor Spondanus for ecclesiastical history
are plain handsome good Latine : but Functius and our renowned
Mountague, the light and honour of our nation and age, upon
the same subject writ with more grace, magnificence and ele
gancy. Where I note unto 'you that Mountague to my knowledge
had been as voluminous as any (whose pieces I believe are extant
still in manuscripts) did not the disingenuous parsimony of our
Enghsh people hinder the glory of our nation in disbursing for
the press.
The Elzevirian edition in small manuals of all the kingdomes
and commonwealths to the number of about forty ; these are
choice pieces selected from all the best authors : but I can not
tell how the authors will take it, to be thus shuffled, and cut,
mutilated, dismembred, and mangled, and thus hashed and made
into an olla-podrina, I know not how (if living) they would
relish it.
Speeds Chronicle is incomparable for good; a party-coloured
cento (Ausonius never writ so good) consarcinated from the only
wits of those dayes ; for the compiler was taken from a manual
trade; amongst the rest the life of Hen. was written by
doctor Barkham, in opposition or rather to suppresse the same
life written by one Mr. Boulton a Roman catholick, who did too
much favour the haughty carriage of Thomas of Becket ; poor
Mr. Draper had a principal hand in composing and collecting all
together. But I have read and run over for use all domesticke and ex-
otick authors ; I have composed a piece, a worke I dare call it,
and greater then all envy own it, if the adstipulation of sir John
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934 APPENDIX IX.
Beaumont the father, Mr. Camden and Mr. Selden will take
place. The contents a genealogy to the protoplast Adam, continued
without any intermission, for the most part above twenty lines,
at the least with seven or six, digested chronologically by cen
turies, to decline deceit with the generation and lives of all the
emperors, kings and princes of the universal world, inoculated
into my greater stemm, provided, if any history have made men
tion of them. This I have writ in Latine called Eugenia. But
O miserable catastrophe ! all this was written for the honour of
the late king Charles : and since he hath lost his life and king-
domes, I must lose my labours. And my deare child (for so I
call it) begot in the vigour of my virility, which I ever hoped
should have been transanimated into an amaranthus, shall now
I fear be metamorphosed to the fading flowre cald filius ante
patrem. Adieu history. §•3-
Languages — English I speak, Latine I write. In the Hebrew
and Greek, I can beat out a theme and a root ; Spanish and
Italian I understand ; and what must I doe with these languages ?
for the former, if I were a publique professor with an annual and
life terminal pension, I could chop and change many readings,
and perhaps add amongst a thousand some new criticisme. For
the latter provincial languages ! will you have me a translator ?
a thing less then my selfe, and an ingenuous English soul to be
a sectarie to any forraigne nation ; and privately to make use,
and assume as mine own invention any of their writings. I
scorn to be a Mango or a Plagiarie. The French language I am
wilfully ignorant of, my reason reserved. Take this excursion,
the Latine within it self is a very empty and hungry language,
borrowes all his words both of arts and offices from the Greek.
Great Tiberius might have sav'd its complement of asking leave
when he named the words Monopoly, and an Embleme : he might
needs have long and tedious circumquaques to expresse them,
which after so many yeers are not yet invented. I ! the Latines
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and so uncivilized, that they, knew not what a pair of gloves was
until they had them from the Greeks. And what beggarly, rude
barbarous eirnames they have for their gentry ; Fabius Piso,
Scipio, Caligula, Asinius, Goodman Bean, and Pease, Mr. Cud-
gell, Gaffer small-breeks, Goodman Ass. And moreover take
notice, it seemes the Venetian was bound for the repayment to
the Greeke. For the grand-seignior, and the Greeks altogether
use in their terms of war and trade the Italian stampe. The
Spaniards and we, I find, have no interchange of words either by
commerce or conquest. I only find these two words common
to both.,, mucho and dozeno, much and a dozen.
But, I speak to the whole world, I have a new repertion, the
Universal Character. Neither will I rake into the great Scaligers
urne ; his device required more then a Caesar to support it. I
cast all up with a few counters ; the labour is already finished ;
the learner, let him be but an ordinary abedarian in his own lan
guage, may read and write within two hours space any missive
letters. This I dare promise for ten languages, if not more : the
China's have a way, so goes report, sure time and traffique had
by this transported it, if either true or seasonable : my way I
could expresse in lesse then a sheet of paper, which if I should
expose to the publique view, would seem no bigger then a ballad,
which not being annexed to a greater volume, my name (which
I have ever studied in an honest way to preserve, and to transmit
to posterity) this name would be lost in so small a trifle.

Musick — I do not love that one of the seven liberal sciences,
nay one of the four and none of the trivials, should be made
a prostitute at every dore with a fidler. Vocal, when, I was
young, I knew, but drawn from it, because those convents begat
good company, but bad husbandry. Instrumental and cathedral,
I have ever been wilfully ignorant of, because I have dearly loved
them, and if I had learnt them to a perfection, this satiety might
have bred a nauseous distast and surfeit, as in other things, and
then I had had nothing to delight in. But, alas ! this conceit
hath failed me, for now all church-musick, my highest terrene
content, is abandoned amongst us. Farewell delights.
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§• 4-
Because Aristotle and Cicero were wise in some things, must
they be demi-gods in all ? perchance I can not be Aristotle if I
would, and what if I could ? I would not. Thus writes Peter
Ramus ; and what if I said as much of them, I ! and of Peter
too ?
They talke of catholick doctrines, which every one is bound to
believe. I know no universals but these three. Two notional,
that there is a God, and number, one, two, three, ten, twenty,
&c, which hath the same accompt amongst all men in all nations.
Numeri una est et eadem apud omnes ubique gentium ratio. You
may add to this a practical universe, your mummarium minutum,
your goldsmiths graine (not a barley come) which is one and
same in all nations of the world inviolate, the same stamp, the
same example conferd.
The third universal is appetite ; every perfect and imperfect
living creature acquires sustenance to eate and drink. For exis
tential or sensual, I grant many, that there is a sun that shineth,
that the fire heateth, &c, yet a blind man and the paralytick
denies both.
Some talk of the virtue of herbs, others of the influence and
effect bf stars, botanology and astrology : both vaine, both false,
because man is prone to become like God to divine and work
miracles, are these toyes or rather pretty conceits thrust upon us.
The merchant to vend his druggs deviseth large promises by
wonders ; and alwayes observe, his last invented carries the
greatest name for miracle. Your herbarist to beget a love to the
knowledge of plants (which indeed is commendable in it selfe,)
but would perish, except upheld by the vain promises of cures.
The event indeed, which is only by accident or imagination, hath
sometimes confirmed the cure. We might spare an abundance
of Mr. Johnsons and Mr. Parkinsons individual and accidental
additions whicli are only lusus luxuriantis naturce.
Astronomy, a noble science of perpetuals, would be neglected.
For I could know the day by the rising and setting of the sun,
and noon by the barne door or church wall sufficient for use.
But hope of divination by astrology does perfect it to every
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and therefore speake with more confidence. Passion a me ! see
where Mr. doctor comes pelting and chafing like his apothecarv ?
Good Mr. doctor a word, we know your trade well enough ; all
is but fast and loose ; bole and jalap, or plantane and spurge will
do all this. Or weele go a little farther and make your whole
business addition and substraction, both which fasting and feast
ing will performe ; fasting with a little barley-water, and feasting
with your aromatical spices, cinnamon, nutmegs and cloves, was-
sal powder, perhaps a little black ambar, which are your chiefest
ingredients for cordials. But now reverend sir, to you that un
derstand without sarcasmes ; if you be master of methode, which
requires long study, great judgement, a few things will suffice ;
neither need ye that emperical trash of numerous simples.
But above all in all, avoid, nay abhor the judgement of the
stars ; it is abominable false, scandalous to infamy ; if you but
once erect a~ figure for experience, you will hear that word con
jurer, a fowle staine, that all the earth of Owburne will not
scowre out.
Now comes in the foure elements, fire, aire, earth, water, the
principles of which man and all bodies are compounded. Malum !
a pox on't there's no such thing. If indeed I were to plant
my selfe and build a house, I would take special care of all these,
wood and coal for fire, the best earth for come and meddow :
faire rivers or springs to have my water without charge ; and a
v good air for the health of my body. I would have my house ndt
composed, but fitted with these elements : but to example these
into the four complexions, and tell me of temperamenlum ad pon-
dus et ad justitiam, 8fC, chips chips, pigeon feathers, trica apinm
quisquiliee. I have seen tall men and low, the bright hair and
the black, all constitutions ; wise and foolish, valiant and coward-
ish, sicke and healthful ; and he that' tells me that fish in the sea
have fire in their bellies, I had as lieve they told me the sea
burnt. But we must supply you with something in lieu of these ;
what say you to virtus stellaris ? cast off your old obsolete words,
occult quality, sympathy' and antipathy, betake you to synente-
bechy and idiosyncresy, these puzzle you, and make you little the
wiser ; well, I will give you an accompt of them the next moone
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938 APPENDIX IX.
be discovered ; betake you to the Atlantis language for raisons in
nature. Say Iliaster Archeeus, that is the internal star, the syderian
spirit, faber occultus, and that this sperma primum or ens seminis
in a grain or wheat is the 8200 part proportio anatica. For
minerals, you may rant it over thus ; concerning their generation,
that they have the seeds of petrification, and sal in gorgon within
themselves, dilating the terrestrial residence by the hands of their
own concretive spirit. Then fall upon the rabbies fifty gates of
intelligence and light. And if you fall upon the extatique phansie
of the oplocrisme, the theory of magnatisme and doctrine of efflux
ions, that this radical activity streames in semi-immaterial threds
of atomes conducted by the mumial efflux, &c, wonder and
amazement ! Never Abrahamman or Parico spake purer lan
guage. An other talks of reason ; I acknowledge none, but that we
are governed by sense. One writes that the soul retired unto
her selfe, into her selfe, and reflexed by the principles of her own
divinity, sees every thing, &c. Toyes, vanities, how many thou
sand chymseras, strange forms, phantomes, illusions, does the
brain retired present, which presently are vanished, when the
eyes doe open and fix upon any known object : where is our faith
but in our eares ? faith comes by hearing : Ob. Yet a mad man
hath his sense yet no reason ! 'Tis denyed, look upon his eyes ;
they stare, they rowle, they are unfixt : place his eyes firme and
you rectifie that which you call reason. Children have feares
and bugbears in the dark ; a candle does disperse them and rec
tifie their weak eyes. Mopsa and Philoclea have the same or
equal soules, only distinguished by breeding or their organs of
sense. I will accompt him a sublime rational, that can discribe
his last nights dreame with all the scenes, variations, motions,
figures, colours, transactions, transcursions : and him a true
rational that can ex tempore speak non-sense ; no man cau do
either that is master of his common sense ; but it is an other
matter if any one will contradict me with his eyes shut, clausis
quod dicitur oculis maledicere.
But I shall have such a skull of sophisters pelting at me with
their ats and ergos, Aristotle and Keckerman hbo e aial rabnale.
Good boyes be a little patient, I will rectifie your masters. Lo-

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gicon and logica are the derivatives of logos ; logos is sermo as
well as ratio, or number, so that you may define a man to be a
living creature that can number, whereas no other creature can
number except man. But rather homo est animal orationale, man
is a creature that can speak. We have no other definition of a
dog, but that he is a four-footed beast that barks ; a cock that
he is a feathered fowl that crowes ; a partridge jeukes &c. The
Latines from the Greeks have a more ready expression for the
inarticulate voice of every creature, and fitter for definition.
Cervus glocitat, lepus vagit, lupus ululat, vulpecula gannit, mus
mintrat, perdix cacabat, accipiter pipat, milvus lipit, passer pipit,
regulus zinzilulat, be. An other talks of seven planets ; amongst
these Mercury ; I acknowledge none such, nay I deny him. I
never saw him, though early and late I have waited for him.
Nay, no man ever saw, him. Origanus and Argalus our only two
ephemerists differ twelve degrees in their calculation, others
seven ; when as in others they misse not a second third or tenth.
Now my merchant Mercury {Mercuricus dicitur d, mercibus) is
never 27 or 30 degrees from the sun ; and if he be within 15 he
is combust and invisible ; by this consequence, when and where
must I go seeke my stilbo ? And what a ridiculous thing is it,
that Mercury never being above 27 degrees from the sun (called
his maxima distantia) should ever appeare, when the moon a more
glorious body, more diaphanous, and more capable of lustre, never
appears untill the prime, which is about three dayes after her de
parture from the sun, and is neer or about 36 degrees. An.Dom.
1652. Jan. 25, 26, 27, Venus and Mercury conjunct, all clear
evenings, Venus most full of lustre ; no other star appearing
neer her by ten yards in the eyes computation, Anno prosdicto
May 18 0 n 8, $ ffi 1, no appearance of Mercury, their dis
tance 23 degrees. But then you will have me take one of the
days out of the week, and marke Wednesday with a black coal,
and brand all antiquity with ignorance. No, we will find a sup
ply, neither assume any thing to our own invention, but revive
antiquity ; I have found out an other Mercury retired into his far
recesse. Your stella Crinita, your blazing star, your comet, he
bears the same office of secretary or herald to denounce war,
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940 APPENDIX IX.
times after his master ; sometimes visible, more oft not appear
ing, yet alwayes in being. Read with me the part of Albohazen
par. 8. lib. compl. in Judic. stellarum in revolutione annorum
mundi, cap. 32. p. 94. Scias etiam quod cum comet, fyc. Know
also that when a comet shall appeare in the revolution of the
yeer, or in any quarter, or in any sign, the occasion will be ac
cording to the place of Mercury in that yeer : if he be oriental,
it will be oriental ; if occidental, the comet will be occidental,
and it will be removed when Mercury shall be combust : Ptol.
trad. 2. c. 9. the star with a tayle is assimulate to Mars and
Mercury in nature.
An other spetious presumption. Hermins amongst the ar-
morists are derived of hermar, squared stones which did resemble
Mercury, or Hermes without a head to adorn sepulchres, so that
every spot should stand, for a Hermas containing the images of
ancestors : our biasing star or comet represents this Mercury
with his flaming haire thus
The Israelites knew this indicial Mercury in their passage
through the wildernesse (Exod. 13.) when the Lord went before
them in the night in a pillar of fire ; and the magi in the New
Testament were guided by the same. These in memory or in
semblance of the Mercurial statues, were fixt in all high wayes
to point the several passages.
Sir, still these are directed to you whose absolute dexterity
and judgement is able either to create a new opinion in me or
perfect our proceedings. I hope I shall take good rest ; till
morning I humbly take leave. §.4.
Upon a slumber a rough survay fell upon me, of the fashion of
ages, and diversity of church governments : how sacred and su
perstitious the antients were in the number of their prayers, their
Pater Nosters ; how idolatrous we are become to the number
seven in idolizing a sabbath, with two sermons and long con
ceived prayers. In q. Elizabeths time when religion was in her
purity, even at very court a few lent sermons served the turne :
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did well consider the 6 of St. Matthew, we ought not to be
Battologists, and Polulogists, like the Gentiles thinking to be
heard for their much babbling : but this mine opinion (God
reforme me if I thinke amiss) Our Father, or rather the Lords
prayer once repeated with a true submission to the ordinance and
a mental energy, we shall have all things sufficient granted, for
so the text promiseth, for the Father knoweth whereof ye have
need before ye aske of him. And the particle ovtos is derived
from the primitive auros quasi 6 avros, i. e. ipse ; the adverb hoc,
idem the same, not varied with a periphrase hoc modo, and the
Greeks will admit of such adverbs as the Latine do not, you may
force one, ipsissime. The Eucharist in the primitive church was
celebrated with only repeating the Lords prayer. St. Luke hath
Xfyere say, and no more.
Tbe numerous volumes of the primitive fathers (in this doubt
in reverence I spare to name them) but let it be Plutarch or
Plinie, I much amaze at them ; all the sheep skins in a region
will not make parchment for one fowle copy, 3000 at least. In
so much that I believe, that posterity using the criticisms of
comparing stiles when the phrase did symphonize, did bestow
other mens writings to other authors classesses of most renown.
I could name some in these our very dayes that have written
stiles masculine and sinewy ; their methode, matter and conceit,
rich, pious, reserched : but I find upon every occasion, they are
pressing into the press, and so become exhausted, grow enervate,
flaccide, have not their pristine vigour and vivacity. lie pass
them by, and only meddle with them whose ashes are covered in
the Flaminian fields ; such in times past was Barnaby Rich the
philologist with his motto malo me divitem esse, that boasted, this
was the ^6 book writ by the author. Or old Mr. Barnard of
Odcomb the theologue, that upon every occasion of controversie
offered in those dayes (which were many) would ever be sure to
be bobbing into print. These were accompted in those days rare
men, but now an act of oblivion hath passed upon all their works ;
and what stile and authors the future age will produce, and whe
ther they will be perpetuate, shall nothing trouble me.
Bellarmine and our countriman Stapleton with some other
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942 APPENDIX IX.
run over. Voluminous men farced up with authorities, and
fathers gathered to their hands, of which if they were devested,
they would appear but poor naked sceletons. Let them lie aside ;
versing with Papists and pitch are alike.
Knoxe the Scot (an argument drawn from the notation of the
name) his discipline hath begot so many knocks that I absolutely
renounce them.
The Attick archaeologist (full of reading, paines and learning)
hath moulded up a piece of antiquity, extracted for the most part
from the poets, Lycophron, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Euripides
and the scholiasts, and obtrudes upon us these to be the general
customes of the Athenians : as if one in future age should make
all England in ages past to be a Bartholomew faire, because Ben.
Johnson hath writ it. Or that the condition of all our English
women may be drawn out of Shackespeers merry wifes of Wind
sor ; or the religion of the low-countrimen from Mr. Aminadab
in the Alchymist : or from Massingers Mr. Greedy, a hungry
justice of peace in Nottinghamshire : or Will-doe the parson of
Gotham the condition of all the couuty. These may be applyed
to Rosinus and Goodwins Roman antiquities.
Oh ! my left side ! now I quarrel with mine old shooes anti
quities ; for why should I value them better then my new ones ?
only they will serve to burn by the fire side, and save my shins,
rather then walk abroad a la mode according to the times.
For armory and algebra, I leave them to great men ; by the
armes in a church window they may know the tenure of lands ;
by algebra the value of their leases and monies.
Hold me not vain glorious ; I speak it to my shame ; Ptolomies,
Copernicus, Sconerus, q. Elizabeth's the prutenick tables, Tycho
I have calculated by them all : vain man that I am, I was not
born to that fortune to be a meer contemplative man ; and the
period of these sciences is to make a ridiculous almanack, or cal
culate a nativity, full of paines, full of falshood, docti errores,
mendacia deliciis plena, operosi ludi, and to the prudent 
And for geometry and trigonometry how ravishing soever in
the reading, I was not born to so low a fortune as to lead the
divel in a chain.
The art of shadowes I know well, and have added new reper-

APPENDIX IX. 943
tions to find a polaritie by the suns ray, to know the less then a
minute by a horizontal ; to take the altitude of the sun or stars
exactly by a house end : simple man that I am (quoth Caxton)
these are fit for none but a brother squire of the clock-house to
attend Bow-bell.
I have read some part of the translation de ovo, and the gene
ration of animals ; exquisite bawdery ; the man is horrible obscene
and scurrilous, yet with the lawes and rules of nature, hee is mad
with reason, and maintaines Aretinisme in the abstract by the
highest philosophy. Had they kept it lockt up in the Latine
vestery, and none but the arch flamines of iEsculapius his temple
to have entred into it, the piece had been incomparable.
Your romances and gazettes are the only harmless useful read
ings; there is pleasure in the reading, and nothing to burden
the memory after : for to speak the Archadias phrase, is an
affectednesse distasted by all, and to relate a story from thence is
ridiculous to the prudent ; only you may say such is a pretty
piece, and such a pretty passage.
I could save you a great deal of labour in buying and reading
your criticks or comments upon any authors, Servius, Beroaldus,
Agellius, Varro, Vitruvius, Julius Pollux ; your civilians de rerum
et verborum significatione, Vlpian, Terentius, Cicilius, Martianus
and a ioo more. You may find all these gathered together in a
handful in Holyocks Dictionary.
Oh ! how the wind riseth and fumes into my head ? your
statute books, your lawes civil and common, you may lay them
aside : for every quarter we have a repeal ; and why should I
read them, when they will not serve for practice ?
For your physitians and philosophers, I find them all to be
but Friday mornings, and Sundayes in the afternoon, nothing
but repetitions and elutriations : only sometimes varying the
methode ; and sometimes the phrase, and many times like pla
giaries stealing whole pages without commemmoration of his
author. And it will anger a man that within less then an age
Bergerdicius should shoulder out my old friend Keckerman, and
Sennertus my dear Fernelius, and my illuminate doctor Leonard ;
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944 APPENDIX IX.
I compare Virgil and Silvester, and write them absolutely the
best poets in their respective languages : Silvester had all from
Dubartas ; Virgil from Homer ; if my assertion faile, Macrobius
will attest it : Homer from an Egyptian poet, and Dubartas from
an old Latine copy which I have seen, composed, as thought, by
some religious man in a riming hexameter.
I far prefer Homers Vlysses before Don Quixote, as the more
exquisite piece of drollery : besides, the phrase in the bare Latine
translation runs like a smooth blanck jambick with a mystick
concealed number.
There's an old school book lies by there, you may know it to
be bound in a sheeps-skin by the mouldinesse, a neglected thing;
but take it up, perhaps it may be the pelt of the golden-fleece;
'tis Palingenius. If you aim at the height and pitch of humane
learning, prefer him before Agrippa, Geber de Fluctibus, Lullius,
Libanius or Hermes, to converse with angels, to attain to the
philosophers stone, the universal medicine, the elixar ; in his
Capricorne and Pisces he excells them all (so by relation given
me, and commended to me) but, good faith I confess though I
have read them over, I understand none of them.
Sir, a little rest. And I beseech you let your fair white
hands be the milken way in this our lower sphere, whereby
these may pass to our lesser gods. If you present it to the
illustrious and illuminate, if they but cast one ray of
their splendor upon it, it may uncloud all mine enveloped
melancholy, and produce in me better thoughts.
§•5-
Oh ! now, now comes the. torture, now my allegorical head
piece is rent with Scotoms. A relapse of the Surfeit of men.
I have exposed my selfe to all sorts and conversed with them ;
the illiterate and proselite in humane letters understands me not ;
the learned will have the same liberty to reject me, or aspire to
the same kind of tvrannie to usurp over me, or rather a livid
passion will possess them ; or at least that they know more and
better things themselves : Alas ! the whole island of Anticyra
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APPENDIX IX. 945
applyed'by Melampus hands ; I must apply to mine own reme
dies. Abstinence in the first place ; hereafter farewel men, fare-
wel books, only some elect and singular reserved.
The parergon is past the result followes
Oi yap CKpiva tov eldevm n iv vp.lv €i ;mj 'introvv Xptorfc Kal tovrov
caravptopsvov. Post-script.
Zo'ili Collyrium Nardinum and Zo'ili Collyrium Nicarium are
two of the best washes for dimm sighted decaying eyes, and old
ulcers.
P. K.
Written by the author of this sentence,
Philippi Tridconta-Syllabo'n
Neminis sanguinem pro mea religione effundi cupio, prater
salvatoris nostri Jesu. Cognomen alias quare

The second reading, an additional survay of men.
Of ihe decay of learning.
A letter written in an exotick language to seignior Giovanni Junctino,
and metaphras'd into our modern times.
Mr dearest Junctino, living, in a manner, out of the pale of
Christendome, where T only see men walking like trees, I wearied
my self with close scrutinie into the cause of the decay of learn
ing and contempt of learned men.
In the first place I found this decay to proceed from want of
flattery. Mistake me not ! adulation is a general terme for com
placency, and blandishment (so saies our great master of the
summes) to commend a man, if not according to what he is, yet
according to that he should be : not so much to praise him, as
to provoke him to make himself worthy of such praise. To
delight a man disconsolate with a tender collubencie least he
faint in tribulation, these are an act of friendship, a laudable
virtue which we call eutrapelia, candor, affability ; society and
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946 APPENDIX IX.
Conversation cannot subsist without delight. If eutrapelia after
the Ephesian dialect be taken in the worser sense, let eucharistia
take place, a grateful recordation of good turns.
The Romanist hath a superlative way of exalting his party : if
the man be dull and cloudy, slow in expression ; oh ! he's a
sanctified man, wrapt with enthusiasme, drawn into himself with
extasies, ravished with divine afflation, and struck into a trans
port. If of more loquacity: he's the sword and target, an
Achilles of the cause ; he formes all his notions into a syllo-|
gistick pyramis, and smites with the point ; he hath an Herculean
energy of some chymical panchreston. If his parts be more emi
nent ; no man speaks more waightily, more concisely ; his pre
vailing eloquence consists in his own grace, an exalted charact :
is this all ? no ! he is the light of his nation and the Christian
world ; the exemplar of sanctity, the salt of the people, the doctor
of the church. Nay, if you find him in a tavern or a brothel
house, saint Mary Mawdlin must be converted : and our Saviour
frequented the assemblies of publicanes and sinners. Nay ! their
region is so full of deities, that you may finde sooner God then a
man amongst them. They ascribe larger horizons than their
circumscription requires, and the people receive them with ampli
fication more then a reality will well admit. I have known by
experience a renowned knight sometimes waving or palliating his
religion ; who when he was a Romanist, was accompted a Vatican
of all the faculties, in whom all vigour of invention and judgement
had fild up all numbers ; but after his revolt was reputed as a
fellow full of fungous and emptie inflations, a terra damnata, no
salt, no nitre in him : but upon his return again to his mothers
lap, he became a competitour with Adam in his state of inno-
cency. Now review what stigma's they have for the adversary the
Protestant. If a temperate man, you shall find his judgement
faint, obscure, imperfect, all his expressions want sunshine. If
of more language, a fellow made up of puft past and cork ; he
hath an affected sprucenesse of speech, an infatuated salt.
Run over with me now the other extreme, what a blandish
ment and palliation they have for their rude and horrid absurdi
ties. If he have a confident presuming garrulity, such as play a

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Geneva gigg upon the Scotch small-pipes without a muzzle ;
Oh ! say they, quench not the Spirit. If he be a saint new dubd
of the last edition, whose asteriske is this, one that is drunk with
the violence of selfe- action and singularity, of a turbulent spirit,
a lunatick conscience and splen, a seminary of seditious motions
and reprovings, a bull of Basan bellowing and beating with his
fore-hoof, an eager from Humber, an hurrican and whirlewind
storming all before him : what say they ? he is a Boanerges, a
sonne of thunder.
Now how faint and frigid are we amongst our selves ! we
quarrel with an emphasie or letter ; whereas these are many times
rather voluntary errors, disdaigning pedantick trivials by a gene
rous carelessness. And if he be some eminent man, we discourse
his wisdome in dividing, his subtilty in arguing his researched
conceits, we wind him up with a periphrase, and transfigure him
to some higher region : then comes in this particle of three let
ters BVT ; worse then Plautus his trium literarum, worse then
the Hebrew Tau, the Greek Theta, or the Latines black Checker
and Cole, worse then our criminal stigmaticks at an English
arraignment, T. R. F. and disjoynts all, dismantles all, blurrs,
blots, dashes all out, and at the highest careere, like a resty jade,
makes a full stop, and casts his rider. And in this we see how
implacable we are in other mens errors, and insensible in our
own detractions. H'e give you some instances. If the man be
of temper mild, and timerous in his message from his Maker,
that durst not trust his own extemporancy, but consults with his
remembrancer, his book, extracted from the best divines, and di
gesting his notions into a congenial coalition, from whom you
may hear things choice and pertinent, succint, and depending,
all apted to the occasion, season, auditor, how disingeniously will
his friend come off scattering these words, Hee's a pretty man,
but I could, read as good a piece out of Dr. Andrews, or Mr. Per
kins sermons : an other thus, If his notes were lost, where was
all his learning ? If a man have emphasie and elocution, whose
conceptions and delivery receive spirit and lustre from each other,
whose gesture breathes out living passions, and whose vocal
hands reign in mens affections, and inspire his auditory ; in whom
you may finde a continued strength without deficiency, without
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948 APPENDIX X.
inequality : how comes he of? his classical friend will cry out he
is a drammatist, fitter to personate upon a theatre a Cassius or a
Cataline. Will you have me then summ a perfection in one man, and
give you an exemplary idea for all mens imitation ? it is impossi
ble, I must borrow an abstract from that Lvstrians Mercury that
elect vessel, his words : spiritual gifts are diversly bestowed : the
eare is not the eye, the foot the hand ; follow after love, it envieth
not, it thinketh no evil ; in this love (my dearest Junctino) let us
concenter : let everv one share his part, if not ad pondus, yet at
justitiam. He can not be so bad, if he be my friend, but I have
something good to say of him : and if we doe slip in our expres
sions, let us rather commend his paines then blame his deficiency.
To the wise it will seeme a friendly error, to intimate, if not what
he is, yet to others it will appear what he ought to be. Ever
declining the two shelves of detraction and blandishment; bland
ishment that sinister genius of flattery, a vice that humors with
intent to gain, to nourish vice, or fraudulently to hurt. Finis.
No. X. p. 302.
OF FOLLOWING THE FASHION.
From " The Truth of our Times : Revealed out of one Man's
Experience, by way of Essay, written by Henry Peacham.
London : Printed by N. 0. for lames Becket, and are to
be sold at his shoppe at the middle Temple gate. 1638," 12mo.
Ecclesiasticus saith, that by gate, laughter, and apparell, a
man is knowne what he is. Truly nothing more discovereth the
gravity or levity of the minde then apparell. I never knew a solid
or wise man to affect this popular vanity : which caused Henry
the 4. of France to say usually of his counsellors, and learneder
sort of his courtiers, that they had so much within them, that
they never cared to beg regard from feathers and gold lace : and
himselfe would commonly goe as plaine as an ordinary gentleman
or citizen, onely in blacke, sometime in a suit no better than
buckram. The emperour Charles the 5. seldome or never ware
any gold or silver about him, save his order of the Fleece. And
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APPENDIX X. 949
very remarkable. King Henry the 8. was the first that ever ware
a band about his neck, and that very plaine, without lace, and
about an inch or two in depth. Wee may see how the case is
altered, hee is not a gentleman, nor in the fashion, whose band
of Italian cut- work now standeth him not at the least in three or
foure pounds. Yea a semster in Holborne told mee that there
are of threescore pound price a piece ; and shoo-tyes, that goe
under the name of Roses, from thirty shillings to three, foure,
and five pounds the paire. Yea a gallant of the time not long
since, payd thirty pound for a paire. I would have had him by
himselfe to have eaten that dish of buttered egges prepared with
muske and amber greece, which cost thirty and five pounds, and
when his belly had beene full, to have laid him to sleep upon my
Ladya N. bed, whose furniture cost her Ladiship five hundred
and three score pounds.
I never knew any wholly affected to follow fashions, to have
beene any way usefull or profitable to the common wealth, ex
cept that way Aristotle affirmeth the prodigall man to be, by
scattering his money about to the benefit of many, tailors, sem-
sters, silkmen, &c. Neither ever knew I any man esteemed, the
better or the wiser for his braverie, but among simple people.
Now this thing we call the Fashion, so much hunted and pur
sued after (like a thiefe with an hue and cry) that our taylors
dog it into France even to the very doore. It reignes commonly
Uke an epidemicall disease, first infecting the court, then the city,
after the country ; from the countesse to the chambriere, who
rather than shee will want her curled lockes, will turne them up
with a hot paire of tongs, in stead of the irons. The Fashion
(like an higher orbe) hath the revolution commonly every hun
dred yeare, when the same comes into request againe ; which I
saw once in Antwerpe handsomly described by an hee and shee
foole, turning a wheele about, with hats, hose, and doublets in
the fashion, fastned round about it, which when they were below,
began to mount up againe, as we see them. For example, in the
time of King Henry the 7 . the slashed doublets now used were in
request, only the coats of the kings guard keepe the same form
they did, since they were first given them by the said king, who was
d Lady Northampton. Malone's MS. note.
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950 APPENDIX X.
the first king of England that had a guard about his person, and
that by the advice of sir William Stanley, who was shortly after
beheaded for treason, albeit he set the crowne (found throwne in
a hawthorne bush) upon the kings head in the field. After that
the Flemish fashion in the time of King Henry the 8. came in
request, of strait doublets, huge breches let out with puffes and
codpieces. In Queene Maries time the Spanish was much in'use.
In Queene Elizabeths time were the great bellied doublets, wide
sawcy sleeves, that would be in every dish before their master,
and buttons as big as table men, or the lesser sort of Sandwich
turnips : with huge ruffes that stood like cart wheels about their
neckes, and round breeches, not much unlike Saint Omers
onions, whereto the long stocking without garters was joyned,
which then was the earle of Leicesters-fashion, and theirs who
had the handsomest legge. The women wore strait bodyed
gowns, with narrow sleeves drawne out with lawne or fine cam-
, bricke in puffe, with high bolstered wings, little ruffes edged
with gold or blacke silke : and maides wore cawles of gold, now
quite out of use. Chaines of gold were then of lords, knights,
and gentlemen commonly worne, but a chaine of gold now (to so
high a rate gold is raised) is as much as some of them are
worth. The like variety hath beene in hats, which have beene but of
late years. Henry the 4. is commonly pourtrayed with a hood
on his head, such as the liveries of the city weare on their shoul
ders. Henry the 6. the 7- and 8, wore onely caps. King Philip
in England wore commonly a somwhat high velvet cap, with a
white feather. After came in hats of all fashions, some with
crowns so high, that beholding them farre off, you would have
thought you had discovered the Tenariffe, those close to the head
like barbers' basons, with narrow brimmes, wee were at that time
beholden to Cadiz in Spaine for. After them came up those with
square crownes, and brimmes almost as broad as a brewer's
mash-fat, or a reasonable upper stone of a mustard querne, which
among my other epigrammes e gave me occasion of this :
Soranzo's broad brimd hat I oft compare
To the vast compasse of the heavenly sphsere :
• Thalias Banqvet, Lond. 1620, Bpig. 1 1. Sig. A. 6. b.

APPENDIX X. 951
His head, the earth's globe, fixed under it,
Whose center is his wondrous little wit.
No lesse variety hath bin in hat-bands, the cipresse being now
quite out of use, save among some few of the graver sort.
Wherefore the Spaniard and Dutch are much to bee commended,
who for some hundreds of yeares never altered their fashion, but
have kept alwayes one and the same.
The Switzers ever since that fatall and finall overthrow which
they gave to the duke of Burgundy at Nancy in Lorrain, have
worn their party coloured doublets, breeches, and codpieces,
drawne out with huge puffes of taffata, or linen, and their stock
ings (like the knaves of our cards) party coloured, of red and
yellow or other colours. * I remember at the taking in of the
towne of Rees in Cleveland, betweene Wesel and Embrick upon
the river of Rhine, (I being there at the same time) when a part
of the Swisse quarter, being before the towne, was by accident
burned, I demanded of a Swisse captaine the reason of their so
much affecting colors above other nations : he told me the occa
sion was honourable, which was this : At what time the duke of
Burgundy received his overthrow, and the Swisses recovering
their liberty, he entred the field in all the state and pompe hee
could possible devise, hee brought with him all his plate and
jewels, all his tents were of silke, of severall colours, which the
battaile being ended, being tome all to pieces by the Swisse soul-
diers, of a part of one colour they made them doublets, of the
rest of other colours breeches, stockings, and caps, returning
home in that habit ; so ever since in remembrance of that famous
victory by them atchieved, and their liberty recovered, even to
this day they goe still in their party-colours. Let mee not forget
to tell you the occasion of this mortal] warre ; it was onely as
Guicciardine tels us, but for the toll of a loade of calves skins
comming,over a bridge, which toll the duke claimed as his right,
and the Swisses theirs. But this by the way.
I have much wondered why our English above other nations
should so much doat upon new fashions, but more I wonder at
our want of wit, that wee cannot invent them ourselves, but when
one is growne stale runne presently over into France, to seeke a
new, making that noble and flourishing kingdome the magazin
of our fooleries : and for this purpose many of our tailors lye
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952 APPENDIX XI.
leger there, and ladies post over their gentlemen vshers, to ac
coutre them and themselves as you see. Hence came your
slashed doublets, (as if the wearers were cut out to be carbo-
nado'd upon the coales) and your halfe shirts, pickadillies (now
out of request) your long breeches, narrow towards the knees,
like a payre of smiths bellowes, the spangled garters pendant to
the shooe, your perfumed perrukes or periwigs, to shew us that
lost haire may bee had againe for money ; with a thousand such
fooleries, unknowne to our manly forefathers.
It was a' saying of that noble Romane Cato, Cui corporis
summa cura, ei virtutis maxima incuria ; and most true it is, since
on the contrary we daily finde by experience, our greatest scho-
lers and statists to offend on the contrary part, being carelesse,
and sometime slovenly in their apparell, that many times (their
thoughts being taken up with studious and profound meditations)
they forget to button or to trusse themselves, they love their old
clothes better than new, they care not for curious setting their
ruffe, wearing cuffes, &c.
Erasmus in Epistolis I remember reporteth of sir Thomas
Moore, that ci puero in vestitu semper fuit negligentissimus ; and I
beleeve it to bee most true that God hath said by the mouth of
his prophet, That he will visit, or send his plague among such as
are clothed with strange apparell.
No. XI. See p. 385.
OLD BALLADS.
As the marvellous collection known as the Roxburgh
Ballads has now, it may be hoped, (although in these days
of revolution and perpetual change, nothing can be pre
dicted with certainty,) found its resting place, it may be
acceptable to the reader to add a few particulars to those
given at page 227. The first notice I find of them is in
the Harleian Catalogue, vol. iii. No. 3557. " A very large
and curious collection of Old Ballads neatly bound in 3
volumes." These being purchased by Hearne's friend
James West, appeared at his sale in 1773, No. 21 12, "A
curious collection of Old Ballads, in number above 1200. bl. 1.,
with humorous frontispieces, 3 voll." and was bought by
major Pearson for 20?. In Pearson's catalogue 1788, No.

APPENDIX XI. 953
2710. " Ancient Songs and Ballads written on various
subjects, and printed between the years 1560 and 1700,
chiefly collected by Eobert, earl of Oxford, and purchased
at the sale of the library of James West, esq. in 1773, in
creased by several additions, 2voll. bound in Russia leather."
Major Pearson, with the assistance of Isaac Read, had
added largely to the collection, which he rebound with
printed titles and indexes in 2 instead of 3 volumes, and in
this state they were bought at his sale by the duke of
Roxburgh for 36/. 4s. Qd. The duke, adding greatly to the
number and value of the ballads, again rebound them in
3 volumes, when they were sold in 1812 for 477£ 15s. Od.
to Joseph Harding, esq. From Mr. Harding's hands they
passed into those of Messrs. Longman, the well known book
sellers of Paternoster Row, who sold them to Benjamin
Heywood Bright, esq. of Ham Green, near Bristol. Upon
that gentleman's death and the dispersion of his very curious
library, in 1845, they were purchased by Tho. Roddn, in
h The catalogue of Mr. Bright's books as sold by auction by Messrs. S. Leigh
-Sotheby and Wilkinson, was drawn up by Rodd, of whom see Notes and
Queries, vol. xii. p. 43, and in whose hands the management of the sale was
placed by Mr. Bright's relatives. The result fully proved their just appre
ciation of Rodd's judgment and their confidence in his advice and integrity.
The Ballads in the Ashmolean Museum formerly Wood's, and Dr.
Kawlinson's volume, are well worthy of inspection. To these may be
, added, a volume in the late Mr. Utterson's library, sold in 1852 for 104?. 10s. o.
Some very extraordinary ballads, historical, biographical and legendary, be
longing to that well known collector Mr. Heber, which at his sale were pur
chased hy the late Mr. Miller ; as well as a collection, not so extensive in
deed, but so far as it extends, quite as, or I should venture to say, even more
interesting than the Roxburghe, in the hands of Mr. George Daniel of Canon-
bury, and obtained by that gentleman under circumstances not more favour
able than romantic. The literary world may indeed consider itself indebted
to Mr. Daniel for the preservation of these wonderful curiosities from acci
dental destruction.
A collection of old ballads, although recently printed, combined with those
of more modern date, has been made and admirably arranged by sir Frederic
Madden of the British Museum : it is now in his private library, and may
close the present list. Let me add that a valuable account of early English
poetry, ballads, &c. is now in course of compilation, I hope also for speedy
publication, by Mr. Samuel Leigh Sotheby, whose peculiar opportunities as
well as fitness for such a task, must be universally acknowledged.

954 APPENDIX XII.
order to be deposited in the British Museum ; Mr. Panizzi,
the then keeper of the printed books, very properly, giving
a liberal commission which enabled Rodd to buy the three
volumes for 535?. A limited but very judicious selection has
since been printed byMr.T. P.Collyer in a single 4to volume.
No. XII. See p. 405.
[From Aubrey's MS. Lives in the Ashmole Museum.]
Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley in com. Oxon. was a gent, of a good
estate and a strong and valiant person. He was raunger of
Woodstock-parke, and (I have heard my old cosen Whitney say)
would many times in his younger yeares, walke at nights in the
parke with his keepers. Sir Gerard Fleetwood succeeded him in
this place, as his nephew sir Wm. Fleetwood did him, and him
the E. of Rochester.
This sir Henry Lse's nephew and heire (whom I remember
very well, he often came to sir John Danvers) was called Whip
and away. The occasion of it was thus. This old hero declining
in his strength by age, and so not being able to be a righter of
his owne wrongs, as heretofore :
Labitur occiduse per iter declive senectse.
Subruit hsec sevi demoliturque prioris
Robora : Fletque Milon senior, quum spectat inanes
Illos, qui fuerant solidorum mole tororum
Herculeis similes, fluidos pendere lacertos.
Some person of quality had affronted him, so he spake to sir
H. L. his heire to lie in wayte for him about the Bell Inne in the
Strand, with halfe a dozen or more lustie fellowes at his back,
and as the partie passed along to give him a good blow with his
cane, and whip and away, the tall fellowes should finish the revenge.
Whether 'twere nicety of conscience or cowardice, sir Henry the
younger absolutely refused, for which he was disinherited, and
setled his whole estate upon a keeper's sonne of Whitchwood-
forest, of his owne, a one-eied young man, no kinne to1 him:
from whom the earle of Lichfield, (as also the lady Norris and
lady Wharton) now is descended. He was never maried but
kept woemen to reade to him when he was abed. One of his

APPENDIX XII.

955

readers was Parson Jones his wife of Wotton. I have heard her
da. (who had no more witt) glory what a brave reader her
mother was, and how sir Harry's worship much delighted to
heare her. But his dearest deare was Mr's Anne Vavasour. He
erected a noble altarTinonument of marble, whereon his effigies
in armour lay ; at the feet was the effigies of his mistresse, Anne
Vavasour, which occasioned these verses, * * *
* *p * :}:

Mem. Some bishop did threaten to have this monument de
faced, at least to remove Mris. A. Vavasour's effigies,
Old sir Henry Lee of
Ditchley com. Oxon. Sir Henry Lee, with = Elenor Wortley, whose mother

one eie, a keeper's
son, adopted byold
sir Henry.

was countesse of Dover.

Harry Lee = .... St. John, daughter of Sir
Jo. St. John of Lydiard Tre-
goze, Wilts, now countesse
of Rochester.
Harry Lee = Anne Danvers, 2a. daughter
of sir Jo. Danvers, brother
and heire of Hen. earl of
Danhy.

James, lord Nor- =
ris of Ricot,since
earl of Abingdon.

. Lee =

1« -
Lee= 
Eldest son of ye
lord Wharton.

\  i i 1 I
Montague, now James
lord Norris.
Old sir Hen. Lee, knight of the garter, and was supposed bro
ther of queen Elizabeth. He ordered that all his family should
be christened Harry's.
This account I tooke from my lady Elizabeth, viscountesse
Parbec, ye eldest daughter of sir Jo. Danvers, sister to the lady
Anne Lee.

956 APPENDIX XII.
Amongst two volumes of transcripts from the Burleigh
Papers in the Bodleian is a copy of the following letter
from sir Henry Lee " to lord Cecyll."
Sir,
Your letter came hither to me one Friday about foure of the
clock in the afternoon. The duke with his company on Saturday
in the forenoon ; where he first saw her majesty's house and
tooke a note of such writings as he found in her majesty's bed
chamber, written in the window by her majty being prisoner
there. From thence he came to this more then simple place for
the entertainment of such a prince upon such a soddayne sent
carefully as it did appeare from her maj'7, written by your own
hand, to signify her pleasure and the estimation she held of him.
All things heere (though at the best being far to mean, and the
more out of order by my own weakness who was not able to
stir, and have not now theis many weekes once cum out of my
bed, nether am yet able to stand or move as the duke can wit
ness, who after his sport woold needs see me mutch against my
will. Such a man, so sent, considering his state, with the care is
had of him, ought to have in this place while I am ruler heere
not the meanest but the best entertainment my fortune and this
barren country in such hast could afford him. Howsoever he
tooke every thing in good part, he shewed both kindness and
bountie, and above all things a mind never satisfied with speak
ing honor of her majty, which disposition of his as I now tooke
pleasure to observe in him, so have I ever endeavoured to make
proofe of in myself, and truly Mr. secretary, I have bin and am
most redy and desirus to see to the ful performed whatsoever
her maj'y shall in this place or elsewhere command me, so long
as any means shall continew, other judge then her sacred selfe I
will not call to witness for the better time of my former race,
spent with a care to serve and please her. To my greefe my
coosen now in the end is trodden down, held with disgrace under
foote, being as some would have him not worthy of life, happely
not deserving better then himself. At my late mooving her
majesty for him, I found more displeasure then hope of better
opinion in her of him. My time is not long, and the shorter

APPENDIX XII. 957
through this and him with her favour, and so I humbly take my
leave. Yours ever redy to doe you service
to my uttermost power,
HENRY LEE.
Woodstock Lodge, this 22d of Dec. 1600.
To the rl. honDle my very good friend sir Rob1. Cecil, principal
secretary to her maj'y, and one of her highness most honor
able privie counseill these.

[I will add lines to be found among Rawhnson's Collection in the Bod
leian marked Rawl. Poet. 148. fol iob.]
In yeeldinge up his Tilt staff, sayd :
1 . Tymes eldest sonne, old age the heire of ease,
Strengths foe, loues woe, and foster to deuotion,
Bids gallant youthen martiall prowes please,
As for him selfe he hath no earthly motion.
But thancks, sighes, teares, vowes, prayers, sacrifices :
As good as showes, maskes, justes, or tilt deuises.
1. Then sit thee downe and say yie Nunc dimittis,
With De profundis, Credo, and Te Deum :
Chaunt Miserere ; for what now so fitt ys,
That, or this ; Paratum est cor meum ?
O that yie sainct would take in worth yie heart :
Thou canst not please her with a better part.
3. When others singe, Venit e escultemus,
Stand by and turne to, Noli emulari :
Ffor Quare frementum, use oramus,
Viuat Eliza 1, for an Aue Mori.
And teach those swaynes y* live about yie cell
To say Amen, when yu doe'st pray soe well.
4. And when thou sadly sit'st in homely cell,
Then teach thy swaynes this carole for a songe :
Blest be the hearts yl wish my souerayne well,
Curst be the soules that thinck her any wronge.
Good God alowe this aged man his right :
To be your beadsman now, yt was your knight.
qd. Sir Henry Leigh.
y Regina in marg.

958 APPENDIX XIII.
In the university accounts. 1578 (y 82) is an item
Solat. pro chirothecis datis Henrico Lee militi
et fratri suo 1 2° Septembris  vij iiijd.
See the third vol. of Nichols's Progresses of queen Elizabeth,
for more of sir Henry Lee and his family, pp. 42 — 44, 47, 125.
No. XIII. See p. 439-
Josias Howe was son of Thomas Howe, minister of Gren-
don in Buckinghamshire ; he was born in 1611, (Reg.
Matric. PP. fo. 130,) entered as a member of Trinity
college, Oxford, in April, and was elected scholar of that
house June 12, 1632, took the degree of bachelor of arts
June 18, 1634, (Reg. Cong. P. fo. 325,) admitted fellow of
Trinity May 26, 1637 ; M. A. Feb. 21, 1637-8, (Reg.
Congr. Q. fo. 197, b,) B.D. July 10, 1646 (Reg. Congr. Q.
fol. 206). Howe, it has always been said, was ejected from
his fellowship by the parliamentary visitors in 1648, and
restored in 1660 ; but see these volumes, p. 440, for Mr.
Collins's opinion on this subject, and he was commonly too
well informed to be considered otherwise than good au-
thorit)'. It is on record that Howe used to fast solemnly and very
particularly on one day in the year, namely a day on which,
when a boy, he had the misfortune to kill a schoolfellow by
accident. MS. Diary, col. 102, 89.
He died in college Aug. 28, 1701, at the age of 90, and
was buried in the ante-chapel, where a plain stone, with an
inscription merely recording his death and age, (given faith
fully in Wood's Colleges and Halls, as edited by Gutch, 4to,
1786,) marks the spot where his remains were deposited.
Mr. Dyerz told Hearne (MS. Diary 102, 36) that Howe
was born at Lower Winehenden in Bucks. He sold his
- But incorrectly, as appears from the following extract: " 1612. Martij
¦29. Josias Howe ye sonne of Thomas Howe." Regist. of Bapt. of Grendon
Underwood.

APPENDIX XIII. 959
books, when old, some time before he died, being appre
hensive, that after his death they would go for little, it
being usual to give but small prices for scholars' books
when they are dead, though the tools of other trades gene
rally bring a good sum.
I am indebted to the unvarying kindness of Dr. Wilson,
the president of Trinity, for the following information and
memoranda extracted from the college registers.
" Josias Howe natus in parochia de Grendon Underwood in
comitatu Bucks dioces. Lincolne decimum septimum setatis annum
agens admissus est scholaris Junii 12° anno 1632. Idem ad-
missus est socius Maij 29, an 1637*.
There appears to have been at the time no book kept for
autographs of admissions.
Formal attestation of the election of Howe as a scholar, to
gether with two others, die Martis, viz. duodecimo die Junii
anno Domini 1632, Dr. Kettellb being then president. He is
described as " annos natus, ut asseruit, septendecim, natum in
parochia Grendon Buckes et diocesis Lincoln."
It appears0 that he was nominated a probationary fellow
by the mandate of Walter, bishop of Winchester, the Visitor, on
the ground (real or pretended) that a Mr. Thomas Jones had by
resignation or otherwise made a vacancy before the festival of the
holy Trinity preceding, (within five days of which the elections
are always to be made,) and the society having neglected to fill
up the place, the right of doing so had devolved upon the visitor.
He was admitted5, being then A.B., and 22 years old, May 29,
1637, and actual fellow, being then M. A., May 30, i638e.
Howe is recorded to have been vice-president, and to have
taken part in the election of Henry Howe as probationary fellow
July 2, 1646. fHis pension, as fellow, pro anno, is charged
in the accounts for 1646-7, and in the same year he is paid as
one of the chaplains, and for journeys, of course, upon college
business, to Luton and Bedford. He is also paid in the next
a Dr. Kettell's Register of Koundationers, No. 222. See Warton's Sir T.
Pope, 2 ed. p. 396, note. b Register A, fol. 68, b. e Register A, fol. 72.
<1 Register A, 72, 72 b. e Ibid. fol. 73. f Computi Burss. pro anno.

960 APPENDIX XIII.
year 1647-8 S, " tempore dissolutionis collegi," as it is expressed,
and when the accounts are signed by Robert Harris, the intrud
ing president. The accounts of the- years 1648-9, and 1649-50,
are either lost or none were kept, in those for 1 650-1, 1652-3,
1654-5, 1655-6, 1656-7, 1657-8, his name does not appear;
those for 1658-9 are lost ; but in 1659-60 n he seems to be paid
for part of a year only, together with another fellow, Mr. Meese,
their pensions being only 5s. iod., while the full sum paid to
others is o,l., which is charged as paid to him in the next and fol
lowing years. His name, it is to be observed, is not found as
having taken part in any college proceedings, where lists of those
present are given, in the years 1652-3, 4-5, 7-8, and in June
4, 1660, but it does occur in an election June 13, 1661', and so
continues till June 8, 1700, the last occasion upon which we find
it, and where he is mentioned as being one taking part in a col
lege election k.
There would appear to be no college record of any proceeding
against Howe. With respect to the story of his having retired
to a college estate at Oakley, Bucks, carrying the college deeds
with him, they certainly possess a small property there, to which
he might have been disposed to withdraw, as it is the nearest
they have to Grendon; and if he carried the deeds with him, he
took good care of them ; for there are only two, and those of
minor importance, at all injured."
The only copy hitherto known of Howe's celebrated ser
mon is now in the Bodleian, given by Dr. Rawlinson. At
the beginning is this note by Hearne.
Suum cuique.
Tho. Hearne, 1723.
Mr. Wood tells us, in col. 737 of the 2d. vol. of his Athence
Oxon. that on June 6, 1646, in a convocation then held, the vice-
chancellour (Dr. Samuel Fell) signified to the members thereof
that several preachers of this and the university of Cambridge
had preached several laudable sermons before the king, court,
and parliament, at Oxon. for which their pains, the delegates
e Computi Burss. h Computi anni. > Register A, fol. 90 b, 91.
k Register B, fol. 26.

APPENDIX XIII. 961
appointed by the university, could think of no other way to
requite them but by conferring on them degrees : which mat
ter being at length decreed by them, and approved by the
chancellour's [William, marquess of Hertford's] letters, their
names then were publickly read, with liberty given to the said
persons to be created when they pleased. After which Mr.
Wood observes (in the same col.) that (among others that were
created that year) Mr. Josias How of Trin. coll. in Oxford, was
created Bach, of Div. on July 10, immediately following, upon
occasion of which Mr. Wood mentions this Sermon in red letters,
(which, however, he had never seen) speaking of it and Mr. How
thus; " This person, who was now" [at the time of his creation] " in
" good esteem for his ingenuity, hath pubhshed A Sermon before
" the King at Ch. Ch. on Psal. 4. 7- Printed as tis said, in red
" letters, an. 1644, or thereabouts, in qu. but this I have not yet
" seen. He hath also several copies of verses that are extant in
" various books, which shew him to have been a good poet. He
" was put out of his fellowship [of Trinity coll.] by the Parlia-
" mentarian visitors an. 1648, was restored in 1660, but was no
" gainer by his sufferings, as many honest cavaliers were not by
" theirs. He is now living, and will tell you the reason why, &c."
" I bought this sermon on Jan. 14, 1723, out of the study of the
late Dr. Arthur Charlett, master of University coll., who had
bound it up, in very ordinary binding, amongst several other very
common sermons ; and nothing being writ, either by the Dr. or
any one else, in the volume about it, occasioned the bookseller
(who purchased the Dr.'s books, and from whom I had it) to
overlook it as an ordinary common thing, and of little or no
value. After I had procured the volume, I had this sermon
taken out, and bound up (singly) in this manner, as very deserv
ing of it, both for the excellency and honesty of the sermon, and
for its wonderfuU rarity, there having been only thirty copies
printed of it, as I have noted in my glossary to Robert of Glou
cester's Chronicle, p. 669. Dr. Charlett us'd often to speak of
this sermon, but I could never get a sight of it from him. Nor
can I find, that he us'd to shew it to any one else of his acquaint
ance. It may be he knew not well where to find it, amongst
3q

962 APPENDIX XIII.
that great variety of Miscellaneous Tracts and Papers (bound up
all in a very confus'd manner, without directing to particulars in
any catalogue) that was in his study. Otherwise there is no
doubt he would have yery readily produced it, he seeming to be
very proud of having so very great a curiosity."
Another tract, similarly printed, is so rare, that I believe
the Bodleian copy to be unique : this was also one of Dr.
Rawlinson's treasures, who has written in the blank leaf :
" N.B. This is so great a curiosity that I desire it may be pre
served amongst my MSS. R. x R."
" The Bloody Court ; or, The Fatall Tribunall ; Being A brief
History, and true Narrative of the strange Designs, wicked Plots,
and Bloody Conspiracies, carryed on by the most sordid'st, vile,
and Usurping Tyrants, in these late Years of Oppressions, Ty
ranny, Martyrdom, and Persecutions ; Discovering,
" I. The Poysonous Asps, King-killing Basilicks, weeping
Hypocrites, and devouring Caterpillars, who in their damnable
Treasons have far surpassed the Powder-Conspiracy, secretly con
triving, but openly acting the Murther of our late Gracious King
Charles, the ruine of all the Royal Issue, the overthrow of all
our Laws, the blowing up of all Parliaments, the subverting of
the whole state of Government; and the setting up of a confused
Babel, watered with the blood of the King and His People.
" II. An Exact Description of these hard-hearted Belshazzars, "
infamous Impostors, Luciferian Brats, wicked Schismaticks, cruel
Hypocrites, desperate Usurpers, Damnable Blood- suckers, both of
King and Nobles, who with Iron Hands, and Adamantine
Hearts, would also have pull' d our present Lord and Sovereign
put of the Arms and Embraces of His Loyal and Leige Subjects.
" III. The Bloody Tragedy of all Tragedies, against King,
Lords, and Commons ; the several Scenes, presenting their most
horrid Villanies ; and the most barbarous and Tyrannical Mas
sacre that was ever heard of since the World began, consulted
amongst the Grandees of the Independent Sword-men, against
the chief Royalists and Presbyterians, both Nobles, Gentry, and
Citizens ; with the manner how it was prevented ; and the ex-

APPENDIX XIV. 963
posing of these Buff- Grandees, and insulting proud Officers, to
their Needles, Hammers, Lasts, Slings, Carts, and Flails ; and all
true Subjects to enjoy their Rights.
Printed for C. Horton ; and published by a Rural Pen, for
general satisfaction."
No. XIV. See p. 457.
I have already given the title, an extract relating to the
writer of the Rawlinson Manuscript of the Baskervilles,
and an account of St. John's college plate and money
given to Charles in his necessities, in a volume containing
the life of Anthony Wood, printed in 1848 by the Ecclesi
astical History Society, which although long since dissolved,
I shall always consider as an undertaking extremely well
imagined, although miserably mismanaged ; for had it
fallen into good hands, and had equal care been bestowed
upon its publications, it might have proved eminently suc
cessful and of great public utility. To all persons in
terested in the history of the university, the Baskerville
volume is of peculiar value, for although the information is
somewhat desultory, there are many unknown or unremem-
bered particulars of the several houses, that well deserve to
be preserved. This however may be safely left to younger
and more energetic persons. For my own part I have
now nearly reached the age of man, and feel it necessary to
desist from collecting materials for publication, fully sen
sible of my own failing powers, and the better ability of
others to make public some of the varied and inestimable
treasures of the Bodleian, which, they may believe me, will
prove an inexhaustible mine of historical, biographical and
bibliographical wealth. To this feeling may be ascribed
an allusion only to the Baskerville volume, instead of an
• analysis of its contents.
No. XV. See p. 464.
The Actis and Constitutiounis of the Realme of Scotland
maid in Parliamentis holdin be the rycht excellent, hie and
mychtie Princeis Kingis James the First, Secund, Third,
3q 2

964 APPENDIX XV.
Feird, Fyft, and in tyme of Marie now Quene of Scottis,
viseit, correctit, and extractit furth of the Registers be the
Lordis depute be hir Maiesteis speciall commissioun thairto.
Anno Do. 1566.
At the back of this title is " The qvenis grace privilege
grantit for Imprenting of his Maiesties Lawis and actis of
Parliamentis." Then the " commissioun" one leaf, " Pre
face the Prefe.ce to the Redar," signed Ed. Henrison, one
leaf, a leaf blank. " The tabill of the actis" from a. j. to
c. 3. Then commences the work itself on A. ij. A. iij. being
numbered fol. iii., and extending to fol. clxxxi. ; fol. xvi.
wrongly numbered xiiii., and a false letter used at fols. xxx.
and xxxi. On the last leaf, the title of the work, and the
following, " Imprintit at Edinburgh be Robert Lekpreuik,
the xij. day of October the jeir of God ane thousand fyue
hundreth three scoir sax jeiris."
Mr. Bridges's copy, mentioned at p. 464, is now among
Dr. Rawhnson's books in the Bodleian, bought at lord
Wilmington's sale in Feb., 1743-4. It is a peculiarly fine
one, and in every respect agrees with the above, but con
tains, in Mr. Bridges's hand, a collation with a copy in lord
Sunderland's library, and a transcript of such acts as are
found there, and supply the place of those omitted from the
October edition. Lord Sunderland's was dated November
28, 1566.
On the subject of the supposed two editions of this very
rare volume, consult the preface to the Roxburghe Cata
logue by Mr. William Nicol, a gentleman who for many
years enjoyed the duke's confidence, and was highly es
teemed by his grace, both for his literary attainments, and
the pleasing vivacity of his conversation. Let me here
give an anecdote which rests upon the authority of the late
venerable Dr. Routh, the president of Magdalen, from whom
I had it in the year 1834. " The duke of Roxburghe told
Dr. Parr, that before he became duke of Roxburghe, he
believed he was one of the proudest men in Christendom,
high in family, low in pocket. Since I came to the title,

APPENDIX XVI. 965
he added, I hope I have seen my folly, and think more
justly of myself and my pretensions, that is, more humbly,"
No. XVI. See p. 602.
The Whipping Story. {From Letters by the late Lord
Lyttleton. 8vo. Lond., 1787, vol.'\,p. 141.)
Mt dear Sir,
I obey your commands with some reluctance, in relating «he
story of which you have heard so much, and to which your cu
riosity appears to be so broad awake. I do it unwillingly, because
such histories depend so much upon the manner in which they
are related ; and this, which I have told with such success,
and to the midnight terrors of so many simple souls, will make
but a sorry figure in a written narration. — However, you shall
have'it. It was in the early part of  's life that he attended an
hunting club at their sport, when a stranger, of a genteel appear
ance, and well mounted, joined the chace, and was observed to
ride with a degree of courage and address that called forth the
utmost astonishment of every one present. The beast he rode
was of amazing powers ; nothing stopped them ; the hounds
could never escape them ; and the huntsman, who was left far
behind, swore that the man and his horse were devils from hell.
When the sport was over, the company invited this extraordinary
person to- dinner : he accepted the invitation, and astonished the
company as much by the powers of his conversation, and the ele
gance of his manners, as by his equestrian prowess. He was an
orator, a poet, a painter, a musician, a lawyer, a divine ; in short,
he was every thing, and the magic of his discourse kept the
drowsy sportsmen awake long after their usual hour. At length,
however, wearied nature could be charmed no more, and the
company began to steal away by degrees to their repose. On
his observing the society diminish, he discovered manifest signs
of uneasiness : he therefore gave new force to his spirits, and
new charms to his conversation, in order to detain the remaining
few some time longer. This had some little effect ; but the
period could not be long delayed when he was to be conducted
3q3

966 APPENDIX XVI.
to his chamber. The remains of the company retired also ; but
they had scarce closed their eyes, when the house was alarmed
by the most terrible shrieks that were ever heard : several per
sons were awakened by the noise ; but, its continuance being
short, they concluded it to proceed from a dog who might be
accidentally confined in some part of the house : they very soon,
therefore, composed themselves to sleep, and were very soon awak
ened by shrieks and cries of still greater terror than the former.
Alarmed at what they heard, several of them rung their bells,
and, when the servants came, they declared that the horrid
sounds proceeded from the stranger's chamber. Some of the
gentlemen immediately arose, to inquire into this extraordinary
disturbance ; and while they were dressing themselves for that
purpose, deeper groans of despair, and shriller shrieks of agony,
again astonished and terrified them. After knocking some time
at the stranger's chamber door, he answered them as one
awakened from sleep, declared he had heard no noise, and,
rather in an angry tone, desired he might not be again dis
turbed. Upon this they returned to one of their chambers, and
had scarce begun to communicate their sentiments to each other,
when their conversation was interrupted by a renewal of yells,
screams, and shrieks, which, from the horror of them, seemed to
issue from the throats of damned and tortured spirits. They im
mediately followed the sounds, and traced them to the stranger's
chamber, the door of which they instantly burst open, and found
him upon his knees in bed, in the act of scourging himself with
the most unrelenting severity, his body streaming with blood.
On their seizing his hand to stop the strokes, he begged them, in
the most wringing tone of voice, as an act of mercy, that they
would retire, assuring them that the cause of their disturbance
was over, and that in the morning he would acquaint them with
the reasons of the terrible cries they had heard, and the melan
choly sight they saw. After a repetition of his entreaties they
retired ; and in the morning some of them went to his chamber,'
but he was not there ; and, on examining the bed, they found it
to be one gore of blood. Upon further inquiry, the groom said,
that, as soon as it was light, the gentleman came to the stable
booted and spurred, desired his horse might be immediately sad-

APPENDIX XVI. 967
died, and appeared to be extremely impatient till it was done,
when he vaulted instantly into his saddle, and rode out of the
yard on full speed. Servants were immediately dispatched into
every part of the surrounding country, but not a single trace of
him could be found : such a person had not been seen by any
one, nor has he been since heard of.
The circumstances of this strange story were immediately com
mitted to writing, and signed by every one who were witnesses to
them, that the future credibility of any one who should think
proper to relate them, might be duly supported. Among the
subscribers to the truth of this history are some of the first
names of this century. It would now, I believe, be impertinent
to add any thing more, than that I am, Yours, &c.
THE END.

. CONTENTS OF THE APPENDIX.
I. See p. 1. Thomas Hearne. Sources ofthe present publication,
with some account of the author and his portraits :
as also remarks on the late changes in the university, p. 877
II. 50. Bishop Barlow, with extract from his " Remains." 888
III. 54. Leicester's Commonwealth  895
IV. 138. Cherry's MSS. " The Oath of Allegiance."  899
V. 213. College Graces  907
VI. 263. Poem by Cowley  921
VII. 267. Letter to Mrs. Barnes  923
VIII. 298. Books of R. B. (Nath. Crowch, or Crouch.)  925
IX. 300. The Surfeit, by Philip King, reprinted entire  928
X. 302. Of following the fashion. . . . ^  948
XI. 385. Old ballads, collections of.  952
XII. 405. Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley  954
XIII. 439. Josias Howe  958
XIV. 457. BaskervUle MS  963
XV. 464. The Black Acts  964
XVI. 602. The Whipping Story  - 965
3Q4

INDEX
OF THE PRINCIPAL MATTERS AND NAMES
IN THESE VOLUMES.

AARON, a Jew in Oxford, 875.
Abbey lands, 435, 457.
Abbot, Geo. abp. of Cant. 51, 539.
Abbots in parliament, 313.
Abdication, 801.
Abingdon, abbot of, 629.
 various particulars of, 639,
642. ancient riot of the towns
men, 730.
 Montague, earl of Abingdon,
769.
Accident near Salisbury, 409.
Acres of Blewberry, 318.
Act in Oxford, 779.
Actis and Constitutionis of Scot
land, 964.
Aelfric, 142.
Addison, Anthony, 73.
Addison, Joseph, 69, 72, 85, 374,
380,432, 439, 720, 821.
Addison, Lancelot, 72.
Addresses, their value, 262.
Adrian, emp., 134.
Ajax from the Greek, 822.
Ainsworth, Robert, 488, 682, 685,
§37-
Album, description of a curious,
35i-
Aldgate church, 753.
Aldate, St., 629.
Aldrich, Charles, 492.
Aldrich, Henry, dean, 55, 78, 89.
his death, 210, 238. his inst.
Germ. 253, 372, 415, 770,844.
Ale taster iri the univ., 38.
Alfred, Oxford older than, 8.
Allam, Andrew, 204.
Allen, George, 369.

Allen, William, 27.
All Souls' college, 121. injunctions
for, 232. mallard, 486, 731.
Alsop, Anth., 40, 57, 587, 689.
Ammon, Jeffrey, 411.
Anathemas, 166.
Andersey, isle of, near Abingdon,
664.
Anderson, James, 592.
Anderson, Jno., 51.
Andrew, sir Eus., 787, 788.
Andrews, John, 758.
Anglesea, lord privy seal, 720.
Anne, queen, dies, 310, 467.
Anstis, John, 337,509, 571.
Anthologia Astrologica, by Vet-
tius Valens, 1 .
Anthony St., engraving of, 870.
Antiquitas Theol. et Gentilis, 1670,
64.
Antiquities, great value of, 264.
Antiquity hall, (since this note d
was written, is altogether de
stroyed, and a modern miserable
house erected on the site,) 411,
497-
Archbishops, curious story of the
two, 217.
Articles, XXXIX., Selden's copy,
83.
Arundel, Tho., earl of, 265.
Arundel, Tho., archbishop, 741.
Ashburnham, blamed on account
of Chas. I., 409.
Ashmole, Elias, 14, 422.
Astrey, sir James, 2, 464.
Atkins, sir Rob., 86, 206.
Atkinson,Mr., fell, of Queens, 203.

INDEX OF PRINCIPAL MATTERS.

969

Athense Oxon., bp. Tanner says he
was not concerned in the edit.
of 1721,, 706.
Atterbury, Francis, 215. installed
dean, 237, 244, 366, 491, 496,
538>54i>572-
Aubrey, John, 204, 417.
Austin, WiU., 27.
Aynsworth, see Ainsworth.
B.
B. R., his books, 298, 924.
Bacon, Roger, 511.
Bacon's, friar, study, 629.
Bacon, Sclater, 406, 414.
Bacon, gammon at Dunmow, 750.
Bagford, John, 295, 472, 488, 562.
Baker, sir James, 593.
Baker, Tho., of St. John's, Camb.,
34, 268, 661, 718, 736, 737, 738,
794, 836.
Baker, Tho.,>f Ch. Ch., 836.
Baker, WUl., of St. John's Cambr.,
836.
Baker, WiU., bp. of Bangor, 527.
Baker's chronicle, 241.
Bale, John, 826, 870. Vocacyon
of, 698.
Belasyse, Rowland, 899.
Balfee, 138.
BaUads, old, coUections of, 226,
385, 562, 952. See also Bind-
ley's Sale Catalogue, 1820 ;
Chappell's " Popular Music of
the Olden Time" ; and a list of
a coUection now on sale by J.
Russell Smith of Soho square.
BaUard, Geo., 596, 662, 741, 811.
Balliol college, decision on the
mastership, 656.
Balzac, 929.
Banbury, John, 642.
Banbury cakes,2i8. epitaph at,5 12.
Bandinel, Dr., dedication, 847.
Barbour, Jeffrey, 643, 646.
Barlow, Tho., 50,202, extract from
his remains, 888, 921.
Barnabee's journal, 596.
Barnard, Rob., 941.

Barnes, Joshua, 106, 107. dies,
267, 816. letter from Hearne to
his widow, 924,
Barnes the waggoner, 755.
Barwick, Life of, 548.
Baskerville family, 457, 668.
Baskervule volume, 963.
Bateman, Christ., 464, 596.
Bateman Mr., his sermon, 754.
Bath, 760.
Bathurst, sir Benj., 74.
Baxter, Rich., no, 450, 495.
Beaufort, Henry duke of, dies, 304.
Bedell hall, where, 320.
Bedford, Hilkiah, 386, 547, 854.
Bedford, Tho., 854.
Bedminster near Bristol, '833.
Bedsteads, of iron, 786.
Begbrook, 394.
Bend, sir Anthony, his will, 1 19.
Benson, Martin, 473, 864.
Bentinck famUy, 832.
Bentley, Rich., 208, 691, 756.
Berkshire, Hist, of, Ashmole's,422.
Bernard, Charles, his death, 207,
234-
Bernard, Francis, 207, 208.
BesUs of Besils Leigh, 643.
Best, Mr., stands for Balliol head
ship, 656.
Bever, John, Chron., 804, 834.
Beza,; Theod., his account of Hugh
Broughton, 361.
Bible, Latin, 1462, 535. 1535, 16.
Field's, 517. Bishops', 461.
Bigg, John, his shoe, 281.
Bilstone, John, 712, 762, 900.
Binsey, 392.
Birkhead, Henry, 137.
Bisse, Edw., 812.
Black acts, 464, 964.
Blackmore, sir Rich. 133, 371,
502, 851.
Bladen, 394.
Blake's oak, 528, 541, 552.
Blechingdon, 627.
Blenheim house, 46, 98, 374, 456.
Bliss, Philip, his opinion and re-

970

INDEX OF PRINCIPAL MATTERS

grets on the state of modern
Oxford, 880.
Blome, Richard, 67.
Blomefield, Francis, 800.
Bloody court, 962.
Blount's Boscobel, 706.
Bobart, Tilleman, 577.
Bodleian library, 70, 288, 542, 591 .
Boleshipton, 541.
Bolingbrook, lord, 367, 433, 495.
Bolton, concerning Nero Caesar,
299, 306.
Bonfire, the, 41.
BonneU, James,' his life by W.
Harrington, 27.
Books seU cheap, 490, 846.
BookseUer' s biU, 865. •
Boothe, Carolus, 93.
Borde, Andrew, 799, 822, 826.
Borlace,thehigh,783,784,835,837.
Borstal house, 521.
Bossuet, J. B., 53.
Bouchier, Roger, 600.
Bowles, Joseph, 682, 711.
Bowles, Dr., 134.
Bowyer, sir Wm., 791.
Brabourn, Dr., 626.
Bracegirdle, Mrs., 58.
Bradshaw, Tho., 872.
Brasenose college, ale verses, 100.
Brasenose quadrangle, 670.
Braechams, plaids, 522.
Bremicham will, 528, 590.
Breton, Rob., 516.
Brewers, their bad conduct, 742,
743-
Brewer's lane in Oxford, 575.
BridaU, lieut., 762.
Bridges, John, his sale, 583. his
copy of the black arts, 464, 964.
Bright, Benj. H., 953.
Bristol, the city's refusal to give
up the bells to k. Ch. I., 291.
Britannia on Chas. II. coins from
the duchess of Richmond, 416.
Britton, Thomas, small coal man,
339'
Brome, Adam de, 673.

Brome's Adam chapel, 777.
Brome, Will., 538, 724.
Brome, Tho., 846.
Bromley Will., loses the speaker
ship, 42. his travels ridiculed,
43. verses to 45, 481.
Broughton, Hugh, 76, his maps
rare, 132,361.
Browne, Edw., 780.
Browne, Chas., 853.
Browne, sir Tho., 278.
Bruno, Jordanus, his Roma trum-
phante, its rarity &c., 234, 460.
Bucer, Martin, 714.
Buchanan's epigrams, MS. by
Charles I., 139.
Buckingham, duke of, 52.
Bugg, Francis, the quaker, 98.
Bulkeley, sir Richard, 148.
BuUein, Will., 448.
Bullingdon Green, 697.
Bunyan, John, 488.
Burges, Cornelius, 67.
Burgess, Daniel, 187.
Burghers, Mich., 629, dies, 886.
Burials, ancient mode of, 360,534.
Burlington, earl of, 824.
Burnet, bp., 35, 736, 737, 808,
812, 818.
Burnett's son Tho. 250, 819.
Burrowes, 775.
Burslam, Mr., of Magd., 763.
Burton, Edw., 841.
Burton, John, 569.
Burton, Rich., or Rob., a fictitious
name, 298.
Burton, Robert, Anat. of Mel.,
288, 796, 797.
Butler, Edw., 711, 713, 758, 849.
Bury, Rich., bp. of Durham, 70.
Busby, Richard, 113.
C.
Csesar, Clarke's, 250.
Caius, Dr., 706.
Calanus, 9, 10.
Calvert, Bened. Leonard, 380,452,
594, 618, 766.
Calvert, George, 76.

AND NAMES.

971

Calvin, 218.
Cambden, William, 212.
Cambridge, Mr. West's account
of, 661.
Camelianus, Pet. 84.
Camisars come to Oxford, 147.
Cambridgenot sooldas Oxford,34.
Campanalogia, 830.
Capgrave's Legenda Sanctorum,
699.
Captives, foundation for the re
demption of, 649.
Carfax church, 661, 681.
Carmen equivocum, 253.
Caroline, queen, 705.
Carr, Nich. 605.
Carte, Tho., 485.
Carter, Geo., prov. of Oriel, 546.
Carter, Will., printer, 25.
Casaubon, Extract from, 117, 833.
 Scaliger's opinion of, 218.
Cassington, 504.
Castelio, 489.
Catalogues, 486.
Catharine haU, Camb., 843.
Catherall, Randall, 707.
Catling, Christ., 70.
Cave, Dr., Hist. Lit., 70.
Caulton, Tho., 764.
Causes of Decay of Christian
Piety, 107, 740, 765.
Caxton's Chronicle, 535.
CecU, lord Burleigh, 405.
Certain Queries by Roman Cath.
861.
Chapel ded. to the Virgin, 446.
ChapeU, Sam., 858.
Character of a primitive bishop,
864.
Charlbury, vicarage of disputed,
626.
Charles I.king, 248, 335, 350,708.
 what led to his ruin, 749.
Charles II., natural son born in
Oxon., 723.
 riddle by, 107, 113. saying
by, 122. letter by, 139, 285,
338,381. his successor, 548,706.

Charlett, Arthur, 168, 961. some
account of, 219, 245, 370, 590,
617,911.
Chaucer, 221. supposed songs by,
269,299.
Cherry, Francis, 89, 293, 823.
his MSS. 138, 899.
Cherry, Sam., 323.
Cherry, Thomas, his death, 114,
232.
Cherry famUy, 823.
Chichester inscription, 523.
Chishull, Edm., 682.
Christ Church meadow, 687.
 buildings at, 85, 86.
Christianity as old as the creation,
answer to, 771.
Church, alarms at, 419.
Churches, early, small, 292.
Church lands, Chas. I.'s^vow con
cerning, 799.
Churches, demolished, in Oxford,
801.
Church wardens' oath, 755.
ChurchiU, Arabella, 829.
ChurchUl, admiral, 48.
Clapham, John, his hist, of Great
Britain, 755.
Clarendon's RebeUion, 51, 229.
illustrated copy, 416, 717,
Clarendon, lord, reflections on by
Wood, 204.
- Clark, the posture master, 349.
Clarke, Geo., 219, 481, 770.
Clarke, Sam., 816.
Cleaveland, John, 341.
Cleveland,duchess 0^381,383,399.
Clements, Hen., 737, 811, 867.
Clergy wear gowns, 437.
Clothall hospital and chapel, Herts,
727.
Cicero de Orat. Dauphin, 582.
Coaches', 553.
Cobham library, 692.
Coe, Margaret, 745.
Cockman, Dr. John, 619.
Cockman, Tho., 619, 666 , 667,
782, 789.

972

INDEX OF PRINCIPAL MATTERS

Coins, account of, 41, 606.
Cole, Benj., dies, 710.
Coleby, Dixon, 723.
Colet, John, 126, 607.
CoUeges, &c., granted to k. Hen.
VIII. 197.
 gracesusedin theseveral,9o7.
Colley, Jonathan, of Ch. Ch., 600.
reprimanded by the dean, and
why, 665, 757.
Collier's dictionary, writers in, 14.
CoUier, Jeremy, 133,371.
Colton, of MUton, 806.
Compton, bp. Henry, 57.
Conduit, John, 661.
Coningsby, Geo., preaches an of
fensive sermon, 636.
Connock, Richard, 105.
Conybeare, John, 771, 773.
Constable, Mr., 810.
Cooke, sir Tho., 617.
Cope, Anne, 835.
Copie of a letter, 895.
Cordell, sir Wm., 717.
Cornbury, lord, his. death, 282.
Cornish Tom, pretends to fly, 333.
Cornwallis, Mrs., 216.
Corsellis, Fred., 426.
Corsellis, John, 427.
Cortex Peruvianus, 677.
Coryate's Crudities, 598:
Costar, Lawrence, 873.
Cotta, John, 787.
Cottrell, sir Clement, 829.
Cotton library, 756.
Coverdale, 858.
Counterfeit medals and colophons,
849.
Cowper, made lord keeper, 39.
Cowper,sir W., dies, his char., 1 15.
Cox, sir Richard, 131.
Coxhead, Dr., 828.
Cowley, Abraham, 102, 263, 68S,
92f.
Cranmer, abp., 707, 708, 709.
Craven, Rob., dies, 513.
Crawford of Balliol, 687.
Creations in the Theatre, 100.

Creech, Tho., 582, 608.
Crew, bp., 70. his wife, 470.
Cripplegate, eminent men buried
there, 297.
Critical review of buildings in
Lond., 824.
Cromwell, Oliver, letter from, 427,
55°. 56l> 796'
Cromwell, Richard, his death, 261,
428. his daughters, 434.
Crouch, Nath., the bookseUer,
298, 925.
Crowley, Rob., the printer, 296.
Crynes, Nath., 848.
Cube of three, a toast, 89.
CudgeU-play, 501.
Curl, Edmund, 370,582, 702, 856.
Cutt-hedge tale, 602.
D.
Dale of the Heralds' coUege, 67.
Dale, Mr., of King's coll., Cambr.,
688.
Dalton, Tho., 121.
Dancing, 260.
Daniel, Mr., his ballads, 953. See
a catal. of them in the London
iUustr. News for Aug. 1856; as
well as one privately printed
(25 copies only) " an Eliza
bethan Garland."
Dartmouth, lord, 201.
Davenant, sir Will., 146.
Davenport, John M., 378.
Davies, John, of KidweUy, 61.
Davila, Hist, of France, 54.
Davis, Charles, bookseller, Hearne
has a bad opinion of him, 702,
839-
Dewes, sir Simon, 738.
Daye, John, the printer, satyrical
lines on, 279.
Degrees in the univ., 378.
Denison, Mr., of Univ. coll., 666.
Denniston, Walter, 302.
De Foe, Dan., 45.
Denton Court, Oxon., 673.
Denyse, William, 256.
Dining, hour of, 771.

AND NAMES.

973

Ditchley house, 381. Hearne's
visit to, 390.
Divinity, books in, recommended,
233-
Dobyns, Robert, 78.
DodweU, Henry, 20. his notion
ofthe soul, 95, 133. his death,
227, 230, 236, 242, 293, 576.
Dodwell, Hen., son of the former,
576.
Dodwell, William, 673.
Doilley, sir Rob., 662.
Domesday book, 684.
Don Quixote, 944.
Dorobernia, 685.
Dorrington, 27.
Downes, Theoph., 387.
Drake, James, 2. his works, 4,
11,47.
Draper, Mr., a compUer of Eng
lish history, 933.
Drury, Anthony, executed, 610.
Dryden, John, 53. epitaph on,
133, 610.
Dubartas, 944.
Dudley, duke of Northumb., 715.
Dudley's memoirs, 47.
Du-Gain reflects uponk.WiU.,123.
Dugdale, sir WiU., 307. his works,
437.46i.545-
Dunch, Edmund, and the old fa
mily of, 429.
Dunmow, gammon of bacon, 750.
Durham, ancient rites of, 60.
Durham coU. gate, 775.
Dyer, Rich., 204.
Dyke, sir Tho., 619.
Dyson, Humphrey, 318.
E.
E for I used by the ancients, 207.
Earbury, Matt. 474.
East bridge, 629.
East India company's motto, 85.
Earle, Hen., 122.
Eater, great, 446, 447.
Eaton boys flogged for not smok
ing, 450.
Echard, Laur.,387,462,801, 803.

Eclipse, 326.
EdgehiU fight, 551.
Edinburgh castle, 793.
Edmund hall, account of, 254.
Edmunds, Hen., 713.
Edward Confessor, 253.
Egyptians, mourn their kings, 320.
Elections, various in the univ., 615.
Elizabeth, queen, a book of her's,
105, 139,901. verses on,t34. let
ter from, 144. her vanity, 378.
Ellis, Will., 38.
ElUspn, Cuthbert, 418.
Elstob, Eliz. and Will., 166.
Elzevir editions, 933.
Ensham abbey, ioi.
Epidemic, 772.
Erasmus, 126.
Etymologicon magnum, 871.
Evans, Mr., his sermon, 69.
Evelyn, John, 265.
Eugene, prince, 116.
Eustace, Edward, 554.
Eutychius' annals of the ch. 15.
Execution in France, 540.
Exeter college, fire at, 177.
Exeter coll., 846.
Exhibitions by lady Holford. 446.
Eyston, Charles, 475. letter from,
476, 586. F.
Fabian's chron., 461.
. Fabricius, Albert, letter from, to
Dr. Hudson, 19.
Facio, 149.
Faithorne, WiU., 379.
Falstaff, sir John, 337, 459, 462.
Faringdon, church warden's oath,
753-
Fashion, of following the, 948.
Fell, John, 238, 377, 736, 773.
Felton, Henry, verses by, 132.
Fenton, Elijah, 807.
Fermyn, Tho., author of hist, of
Unitarians, 86.
Ferry, Tho., 770.
Festivall, the, 517.
Fiddes, Dr. Richy 468, 560.

974

INDEX OF PRINCIPAL MATTERS

Field's Bibles, 517.
Figg, James, the prize fighter, 852.
Fillian, the engraver, 379.
Finch, Leopold Wm., 65.
Fire in Oxford, 177, on London
bridge, 573, at Devonshire
house, 787, 790.
Fitz-James, James, 829.
Fitz-WiUiams, Dr., 358.
Flamstead, John, 353.
Fleetwood, sir Gerard, 954.
Flogging, 602, 965.
Fluctibus, Rob. de, 872.
Fluyd, Rob., commended by Sel
den, 532.
Fontane, 833.
Forbes, Mr., refuses to drink to
Will. III., 138.
Foster, Tho., the Pretender's ge
neral, 469.
Fox, John, 99, his Book of Mar
tyrs, 556, 640.
Franciscans, 585.
Francfort upon Oder, 100.
Fraser, phys. to Ch. IL, verses by,
"3-
Freebairne, king's printer of Scot
land, 503.
Frewin, Dr. Richard, speaks over
dean Aldrich's grave, 212, and
at dean Atterbury's installation,
238.
Frideswide, St., 602.
 fair, 731.
Friend, Dr. John, 39, 459, 688,
825.
Friend, Rob., 573, 772, 816.
Frinsham, Henry, 929.
FuUer, Will., 48.
Fynes, James, 713.
Fysher, Rob., 712. G.
Gale, Roger, 571.
Gale, Samuel, 548.
Gandy, Mr., 169.
Garden, Dr. James, 417.
Gardiner, Bernard, 444.
Garrett, Walter, 261.

Garth, Dr., 382.
Gascoigne, Tho., 21, 290.
Gascoigne's Dictionarium Theol.
700.
Gastrel, Francis, 578.
Gazette, 122.
George I., king, 310, 311, 316,
disrespectfully mentioned, 331.
George II. , king, 808.
George III., king, a collector of
books, 614.
George, Saint, 172.
Germany, travelling in, 533.
Gibson, James, 684, 724.
Gibson, Matth., 815.
Gibson, Dr. Edmund, 434, 771.
Giffard, Francis, 240, 243.
Gilbert, Tho., 720.
Gilman, Mr., touched for the evil,
681.
Gladstone, rt. hon. W. E., letter
to, 880.
Glastonbury, 292, 407, 435.
Gloucester haU and Worcester
coll. 617.
Godolphin, lord, dismissal of,
205.
Godwin de prsesulibus, 438.
Golafre, sir John, 644.
Goodwin's Redemption redeemed,
48.
Gole's case, 811, 827.
Goodwin, John, 889, 894.
Gordon, Patrick, 724.
Grabe, Ern. 88, 125, 357, 621, ac
count of, 709, 868.
Graces, 213, copies of the various,
907.
Grafton, Rich., 707.
Grammatical Exceptions, 685.
Grandpont bridge, 629.
Granger, Tho., 595.
Gravel, cure of, 860.
Graves, Rich., of Mickleton, 702.
Grater aUas ChapeU, Sam., 858.
Gray, Henry, duke of Norfolk,
715-
Gray, lady Jane, 714.

AND NAMES.

975

Garsington, 785.
Greek grammar, 815.
Greenaway, sir Oliver, 719.
Gregory, Edm., 14, 122.
Grey's, Dr., books, 710.
Griffin, lord, dies, 209.
Grig, merry as a, 804.
Grosthead, Robert, 86.
Grymbald, St., 588.
GuiUim's Heraldry, 67.
Gunpowder plot, 516.
Guy of Warwick, 822.
Gwyn, Edw. Prideaux, 304, 832.
Gwyn, Francis, 831.
H.
Hadrian wore a beard, 272.
Haines, Edward, 368.
Hale, sir Matthew, judge, 98, 450,
708.
Hales, sir James, 716.
HaU's Chronicle, 487.
HaUey, Edm., 48, 326, 483.
Halstead, Rob., 614.
HamUton, duke, visits the Bod
leian, 240, 273, his death, 274.
Hammond, Edward, 366.
Hammond, Dr. John, 493.
Hanbury, Dr., 865.
Handel comes to Oxford, 778—
780.
Harbin, Geo., 387.
Harding, Joseph, 953.
Hardouin not truthful, 91. his
Epitaph, 789.
Hardyng's Chronicle, 412.
Harley, Rob., earl of Oxford, 43,
see Oxford.
Harleian library, 738.
Harris, Rob., 480, 960.
Harrison, ehapl. of Ch. Ch., 611.
Harrison, WiU., 826.
Hart hall, 845.
Hats, 537.
Hawkesworth, Robert, 269.
Headington, antiquities found
near, 172. the property sold,
578.
Hearne, Tho., pleased at being

invited by Atterbury, 239. his
persecution, 283. letters from,
277.292.580,586,597,605,839,840, 883, 884, 885, 901, 905,
923. his works rise in value,
304. his diaries in danger, 369.
portrait of, 480. assists many
authors, 625. does not like to
lend his books, 686. suspected
of frequenting conventieles,72i.
good judge of ringing, 818,842.
his love of a humble life, 805.
some account of these volumes
and their source, 877. short
memoirs of the author, with
remarks on his principles, 878,
881. his death, 885. MSS. and
library, 885. his portraits, 886.
his annoyance on account of
the publication of the oath of
aUegiance, 900.
Helwys, Thomas, works by, n.
Henry I, king, 99.
Henry V, king, 4, 130, 734. his
' chamber at Queen's, 628.
Henry VII no title to the crown,
134-
Henry VIII, king, on articles,
139. his collar of rubies, 251.
Hephsestion, 585.
Hereditary Right, account of the
book, 387.
Hereford Missal, 699.
Heyman, John, 269.
Heyward, Edward, 872.
Heywood, Dr., 864.
Heywood's Comment, upon Mer
lin, 929.
Hickeringill, 124.
Hickes, Dr. Geo., 27,168,169,218.
his death, 355, 358, 420, 783,
799, 869.
Hickes, John, 860.
Hieronymus de Fide 1468, 861.
Higden, WUL, 154, 167, 169.
Historians compared, 933.
History of the Court of Poland, 6.
Hoadley, Benj., 838, 843.

976

INDEX OF PRINCIPAL MATTERS

Hobbes, Tho., 53, 54, 451.
Hodges, elected provost of Oriel,
670, 67 1 .
Hoffman, 28.
Hody, Humph., 20, 621.
Holbein, Hans, 812.
Holdsworth of Magd., 442.
Holford, lady, 444.
Holland, Philemon, 525.
Hollar, Wenc, 691, 812.
HoUingshed's chronicle, 413,
500:
Holmes, Geo., 693, 703.
Holmes, Will., 852, 854.
Holt, chief justice, 296.
Holy David, &c, cleared, 857.
Holywell church and yard, 637.
parish, 800.
Homer, bust of, 491.
Honywood, Michael, 152.
Hooke, 659.
Hooker, Rich., monument to, 1 15.
Hooper, bp., 578.
Horns, drinking, 418.
Horsepath bells, 785.
Horses, price of, 604.
Horsley, chosen clerk of St. Mar
tin in the Fields, 619.
Hough, bp., John, 357, 855.
Howard, Henry, 83.
Howe's, Josias, Mr., red letter
sermon, 318, 439. account of
him, 439, 958.
Howell, Lawrence, 861.
HoweU's Synopsis Can., 138.
Huddesford, Geo., 75S, 786.
Huddleston, father, 706.
Hudson, John, 14. letter to, from
Fabricius, 19. from Zacagnius,
46,48,811,828,925.
Hudson, Margaret, 828.
Hudson, Mich., 409.,
Humane reason, Obs. on, 59.
Humfrey's, Duke, library, 693.
Hutohins, Hugh, 859.
Hunting distiches, 397.
Huchion, John, 642.
Hyde, Tho., 408,835.

Hymn to the Virgin for k. Henry
V,4-
Hyppolitus, or Josephus, extract
from, 29. I.
Ibbetson, Rich., 121.
Index libr. prohib. 1614, 12.
Indifferent, Will., 38.
Indulgence, 193.
Inoculation, 465.
Irish scholars in Oxford, 671.
Isham, Eus., 760.
Isham, sir Justinian, 787, 870.
Isla, lord, 865.
Isis, rightly so caUed, 213.
IsUp, 708. J.
James I., king, 74, 206, 432.
James IL, king, 247. hischildren,
274.
James the Third, (so called,) 217,
235. 240, 330, 332. print of,
333, 348, 367> 492. 5°3. 595-
James, Richard, verses by, 9.
James, St., 99.
Jebb, lives written by, 665.
Jenkins, Henry, dies at 169 years
old, 172.
Jenkins, judge, 204.
Jenner, Tho., elected Margaret
prof., 676.
Jerry at Godstow, 605.
Jews in Oxford, 663, 785.
Jodrell, Paul, 771.
John, king, 838.
Johnson, John, 857, 862, 863.
Johnson, Lawrence, 873.
Johnson, Nath., 808.
Jones, John, 872.,.
Jorden, Will., 686.
Joyner, WiUiam, 2, 51, 247, 746.
K.
K. P., i.e. Philip King, 931, 945.
Keil, John, 465.
Keith, George, 6.
Ken, Tho., 218, 551.
Kennett, White, has 200I. for the
Hist, of Engl., 141, 371.

AND NAMES.

977

Kerr, John, memoirs of, 635.
KettleweU's Works and Life, 420.
Kidd, Tho., 821.
Kidlington, 489.
Kidner, Tho., 486.
KUburne, William, on Field's
Bibles, 517, in which note o,
read Kilburne for Lilburne.
King, sir Edm., 171.
King, sir Peter, 700.
King, Philip, 300, 928.
King, William, 276, 693.
King, pr. of St. Mary hall, 481.
Kingston upon Thames, chapel
falls, 722.
Kingsale, lord, visits Hearne, 544.
Kirle, the man of Ross, 773, 814,
815.
Kirtleton, 489.
Kitcat club, 70.
KneUer, sir Godfrey, 54, 824.
Knight's lives of Colet and Eras
mus, 607.
Knightley, 788.
Knott, Nath., 741.
Kuster's Aristophanes, 171.
Kynaston, sir Fran., 220.
L.
Lamb, lady of the, 489.
Langbaine, Gerard, 699.
Lancaster, Dr. Will., 219, 618.
Langhorn, Daniel, 241.
Languages,modern,profes8orships of, 659.
Lardner, Tho., one of the pre
tended prophets, 148.
La Roche, 581, 607.
Latimer and Ridley, 789.
Latymer, Hugh, 707, 708.
Laud, abp., 51, 139. his speech
in the Star Chamber, noted on
by abp. Williams, 155, 165, 205.
enemy to the Roman cath., 266,
775-
Law, degrees in canon and civU,
853-
Leake, John, 849.
Learning, decay of, 945.

Lee, sir Henry, 383, 399, 404, 954.
Leek, why worn, 735.
Legg, col., gov. of Oxford, 762.
Legge, Dr., 707.
Leicester, earl of, 950.
Leycester's Commonwealth, 47,54,
895—899.
Leigh, Theoph., 656, 676, 784.
Legenda sanctorum, 699.
Le Neve, John, 407.
Leland's Antiq. and CoUect., in
creased value of, 304. large
paper of it in, 696.
Letter, private, on departed souls,
57-
Leofric's missal, 855.
Lesley, 21, 23, 41, 169.
Levinz, baptist, 855.
Lewis, B., 768.
Lewis, Edw., 838.
Lewis of Margate, 473.
Lichfield, Charlotte, lady,38i,383.
LiUy, WiUiam, 353.
Lilly's Grammar, 684.
Little, Francis, 645.
Llhuyd, Edw., writes hves fdr
Collier, 14. his qjiar., 101, 204.
Lloyd, Rob., 872.
Lloyd, WUl., bp. of Norwich, 186.
Locke, John, 15. goodchar.of,355.
Locke, John, his principles, 850.
Locke on the Underst. abridged,
839,850.
Loggan, David, 630.
London, buildings of, 216. deser
tion of in 1721, 479. fire of, 786.
name, 810.
Longolius, Christ., I.
Longinus by ToUius, praised, 208.
Lord's Prayer by Wicliff, 146.
Lorraine, duke of, ordered to re
move the pretender, 287.
Lovelace, lord, 251.
LydaU, Robert, 365, 676.
Lydiatt, Tho., 96.
Lyne, John, 870.
Lyserus, Joh., 57.
Lyttleton, Geo., lord, 965.
3r

978

INDEX OF PRINCIPAL MATTERS

M.
Macartney, general, 273, 274.
Macmur, an Irish rebel, 181.
Madden, sir Fred., 953.
Magdalen bridge, 629.
Magd. coll., 763, 764, 768, 804.
 coUege walk, 503. oak, 529.
Magliabecchi, 549, 594.
Maidvvell, Lewis, 768.
Man, whole Duty of- — the author,
108. See Whole Duty, &c.
Manaton, Pierce, 847.
Margaret professorship, 676.
Marlborough, duke of, attacks the
French, 1 1 . dines with the lord
mayor, 115. fights at Mons, 152.
with his masons, 456. his fu
neral, 484.
 Sarah, duchess of, 68, 78.
Mattaire, Michael, 569, 571, 6g6.
Marlow in Bucks, 485.
Marriage, curious, between two
deaf and dumb, 601.
Marry, sir ! an invocation to the
Virgin, 520.
Martin, Gregory, account of, 25,
898.
Martins, St., in the fields, 619.
Martins le grand, 708.
Martyn, John, 764.
Mary I., queen of Engl., 103.
Mary, daughter of James IL, 412.
Mary, queen of Scots, 280, 592.
Mary, St., church, 819,731.
Mason, sir John, 646, 648. his
epitaph on sir Tho. Wyatt, 402.
Mason, or Masson, John, 869.
Mass, way of hearing, 819.
Massey, dean of Ch. Ch., 558.
Massey, Middleton, 786, 838.
Massinger, Philip, 942.
Matthews, Tho., 858.
Maud, empress, 99.
Maunsell, Andrew, 794, 795.
Mawson, Dr., 864.
Maynard, Edw., 856.
Mayne, Jasper, 504.
Mayor of Oxford, attempt to per

suade him to proclaim the pre
tender, 312.
Mayors, letter sent to several, 289.
lord Oxford's letter on it, 290.
Mead, Mrs., defended, 436.
Mead, Dr. Rich. 382, 436, 564,
568.
Medley, 393, 694.
Memorial of the ch. of England,
2, 6,8, 11, 22, 24,41.
Memoirs of literature, 581.
Merelynch, John, 834.
Merton coU. custom, 753.
Merton walks, 503.
Muscipula, by Lewis, 768.
Musick, 935.
Muskham, WiU., 627.
Middleton, Conyers, 733, 860.
MiU, Dr. John, 40, 243, 590, 617,
621, 625.
MiUemet, Walter de, in.
MiUes, The, bp~ of Waterford, 58,
85c.
MiUington, Ed., the auctioneer,
506, 718.851.
Milton, John, 2. did not die a
papist, 109, 755.
Minstrels well paid, 646.
Mirrour for magistrates, 8.
Missals, Engl., 699.
Mocket, Dr., 875.
Modern history professorship,
535. 659-
Mohocks, the, 249.
Mohun, lord, kiUed, 273.
Molyneux, WiU., 850.
Monastic orders, 202.
Monk; general, 338, 435, 561.
Mons, battle of, 152.
Monument, the, 252.
Moore, John, bp. of Ely, 12.
More, John, no idiot, 71.
More, sir Tho., 746, 952.
Morgan, Tho., 435.
Mortahty, great in Lond., 721.
Moscovitici Fasti, 213.
Moseley, Charles, 836.
Moyle, Walter, 607. his works,635.

AND NAMES.

979

Murder, horrid, in France, 507.
the murderers executed, 540.
Murray, John, 562, 564, 595, 860,
869. N.
Narborough, sir John, lost, 133.
Needham, Peter, 833.
NeUe, Tho., 534.
Nelson, Robert, 321, 799.
NevU, archbp., his inthronization,
183.
New coUege, ancient site of, 653,
new door-way, 828.
Newcome, Henry, 756.
Newland, Dr., of Magd., 758.
Newton, sir Isaac, 553, 620, 657,
660.
Newton, Rich., 277, 546, 844, 874.
Nibb, chosen assistant, 769.
Niblett, Steph., 676.
Nicholson, WiU., bp. 487, 648,
811, 839.
NicolL John, 772.
Nicoll, WUl., 964.
Nonjurors, 738, 781, 847.
Non-such palace, 342.
Noon from nones, 225.
Norden's, John, Cornwall, 596,
608.
Norris, letter to lady, on the death
of her son, by q. Eliz., 144.
Norris, lord, 955.
North, George, 262.
Northampton, Hen., earl of, 83.
Northampton, lady, 949.
Northampton, university removes
to, 728.
Northcote, near Abingdon, de
stroyed, 730.
Northmore, custom at, 552.
Northumberland, duke of, 388.
Nottingham, lord, called dismal,
414.
Nunn haU, where, 320.
O.
Oates, Titus, 8.
Oaths, 511, 661, 802.
Observators, 23.

Occleve, Tho., 222.
Ochinus, Bern., 57,
Oclandi ProeUa Anglorum, 378.
Oddington, 813.
Oldcastle, John, 3.
_01disworth, Will., 837, 849.
Onslow, speaker, 756.
Orange, prince of, 802, 805.
Organs, 557.
Oriel college, 465, 741. election
of provost, 669-71. ancient al
lowance to fellows &c.,\ 673.
new building at, 688.
Ormond, duchess of, dies, ,790.
Osney abbey, 255. dUapidations
of, 677, 69.T. spire and bells,
804.
Ostrich dies, 576.
Otho, coin of, 453.
Overbury, sir Tho., 748.
Oxford, antiquity of, 8, 319. arms
of, 82. comparison of the pyra
mids with part of, 216. old
schools in, 257. fever there,
269. riot there, 330. degrees,
378. printing at, 426, 861. hour
of dinner &c, 487. siege of, 528,
541. disputes in, 586. castle,
662. Wm. Conq. takes away
exhibitions, 664. new parks,
690. printing house, 692. old
Congregation house, 692, 740.
scholars leave, 731. privileges,
735. custom at Merton, 754.
spire of AU Saints' falls, 757.
city, 729, 735. rejoicing on re
jection of taxes, 774. demolish
ed parish churches, 800. spires,
804. St. Mary's weathercock
faUs, 819. weUs in Oxford, 391.
Oxford, lord, 290, 367, 375, 538,
624,733.738.832. See Harley.
P.
Packington, sir John, 80,
Packington, lady, 765.
Pancake, 487.
Panizzi, Antonio, 954.
Panting, Matthew, 334.
3 R 2

980

INDEX OF PRINCIPAL MATTERS

Paper, tax on, 250. origin of, 301.
making of, 414.
Parker, Geo., curious anecdote of,
498. his Ephemeris, 785.
Parker, abp., Matth., Antiq. Brit.,
267, 689,691, 706, 718.
Parker, Rich., 695.
Parker, Sam., of Trin., 727, 864,
865, 900.
Parkinson, Cuthbert, 585.
ParUament, of whom it consisted,
315-
Parnell, Tho., 823.
Parr, Dr. Samuel, 964. <
Parr, Tho., 483.
Parsley, Wm. and Jane, claim
the flitch of bacon, 751.
Parsons, Robert, 27, 47, 54, 895.
Parsons, Robin, 73.
Paston family, 618. lady Beding-
field is, I beheve, the only sur
viving daughter of the last Mr.
Paston.
Peacham, Henry, 302, 948.
Pearce, Rob., 40.
Pearce, Zachary, 620.
Pearson, Richard, 853.
Pearson, Tho., princ. of Edm.
hall, 124.
Peck, Francis, anecdotes of, 600.
Peers, Rich., 753.
Peche, WiUiam, 488.
Penn, WiUiam, 98.
Pembroke coU. buUt, 677.
Pembroke coll. chapel, 762.
Pepysian library, Camb., 226,662.
Perizonius, 342.
Perrot, Rob., 650.
Peterborough, Henry earl of, 614.
Peters, Hugh, 550.
Peter's, St., in the East, 638.
Peter's, St., le Bailey, 674.
Petersham, fire there, 470.
Pett, Peter, 889.
Phalaris, by Theo. de Rood, 793.
PhiUips, John, 825.
Picture, ancient, 690.
Pierce Plowman's Crede, 529.

Pindar, Will., 73.
Pitcairne, Archib., 302.
Pitt, of St. John's coll. Camb. 864.
Pittett (? Petty), sir Wm., 41.
Plate at Faversham, 603. the
reader who desires to see an
account of the ancient plate in
Oxford is referred to the edi
tor's Life of Wood, 8vo, Ox
ford, 1848, p. 14, 15, 16, 127.
Plague, curious dialogue on, 448.
Plebeian, a weekly paper, 420.
Pliny, editions of the Epistles,
377-
Pliny, Dauphin, 582.
Plott, Robert, 47. wants the head
ship of AU Souls', 65.
Plowden, serjt., 899.
Pocock, Edw., 15, 631.
Poets, old English, 449.
Poetry, professorship of, 137.
Pole, cardinal, letter to, from
queen Mary, 103.
Pole, De la, John, 644.
Polonus, Martinus, 834.
Polygamy, 57.
Ponet, bp., 826.
Pontificate, 843.
Pope the, makes concessions to
Protestants, 554.
Pope, Alexander, 376, 418, 694,
807, 808, 814, 823, 826, 827,
856.
Porson, Rich., 821.
Portland, duke of, 832.
Potter, Dr. John, prints Clemens
Alex. 150. Hearne's opinion of
him, 151, 620, 682.
Poverty of authors, 96.
Powel, Walter, 780.
PoweU, John, of Sandford, 484,
669.
Practical Grammar of the Greek,
815.
Prayers for the dead, 522.
Presbyter, sir John, ludicrous
arms of, 674.
Prescot, Mr., of Chester, 236.

AND NAMES.

981

Pretender, the legitimate prince
of Wales, 55, 287, 309.
Price, Mr. Baron, his charge, 20.
Prickett, Edw., 38.
Prideaux, Humph., 844.
Prideaux, Amy, 831.
Prime, a time of prayer, 225.
Prince of Wales, depositions on
his birth, 217. medal of, 233.
Printer's holydays, 627.
Printing, cost of, 136. invention
of, 199. house, 602. early
printers, 424, 873, 874.
Prior, Matthew, 420, 42 1, 469, 49 1 .
Programma, 683.
Pritius, George, 19.
Prophets, so caUed, come to Ox
ford, 14*7.
Provisions, price of, 154, 182, 183.
Prynne, WUl., his publications,
433. 533-
Psalms, transl. of, 718, 857.
Psalms, translators of, 515.
Psalter Enghsh, 858.
Pullen, Joseph, 47, 192, 529. his
tree, 577.
Pyramids, 216. Q.
Quakers, 98.
Queen's college, new budding,
214, 457. the ancient buddings
there, 627. election of provost,
658. foundations of new buUd-
ing, 788. R.
Raby, lord, letter by, 126.
Race, a foot, 442.
Radcliffe, Dr.Anth., 87.
RadcUffe, Dr. John, 55. his death,
319-
Radley, 668.
Raed or rede, 513.
Raleigh, Dr. Walter, 86.
Raleigh, sir Walter, reason of his
death, 115.
Randolph, Herbert, 502.
Randolph, Tho., 778.
Ravensworth, Mr., 468.

Rawlinson, Richard, reprints
Laud's speech, 156. letter to
277. 423. 594. 6°7. 834, 837.
his account of his travels, 632,
659, 689, 695. his income, 847,
848.
Rawlinson, Thomas, 155, 268.
letters from, 283, 423, 436, 442,
490, 562, 563, 695. his auction,
846, 847.
Reading Mercury, 705.
Reasons that Catholikes &c, 24.
Reeve, Charles, 617.
Registers, parish, 197.
Ringing exploits in Oxford, 775,
792,817,830,841,875.
Rich, Barnaby, 941.
Richard I., k., born at Oxon, 729.
Richard III., king, 84.
Richardson, John, 252, 639.
Richmond, Charles duke of, 494.
Richmond, dutchess of, 797-
Ridicule, so far as it affects Reli
gion, 873.
Ridley and Latimer, 789.
Robinson, bp. of London, 464.
Rochester, earl of, 243. his house
burned, 470.
Rochester's verses on k. Ch. II. ,
114.
Rodd, Thomas, 953.
Rogers, Nich., 121.
Rogers, Will., 739.
Rogers's Bible, 858.
RoU, account of an ancient, 192-
197.
Roman names of Enghsh places,
141.
Rosamond, fair, 549.
Ross, man of, 773, 814.
Roti the engraver, 796.
Routh, Martin Joseph, 964.
Rowe, Nich., 342.
Rowney, Tho., 481.
Roxburgh baUads, 227, 952.
Roxburgh, John, duke of, 953,
964.
Royal Society, 747.

982

INDEX OF PRINCIPAL MATTERS

Rundall, Dr., 838, 864.
Rymer's Fcedera, 693.
S.
Sacheverel of Denmans, famous
for his skill in beUs, 785.
SachevereU, Henry, 84, 169, 178,
181, 185, 187, 191, 200, 538.
St. Amand, James, 91.
St. John, sir Richard, 67.
St. George, Henry, 337.
St. George, chev., his bravery,
153. 453-
Saints, bodies of very dear, 260.
Salmon's Antiq. of Hertfordshire,
687, 689.
Salamander, 217.
Sale's Introduction, 775.
Salisbury, Sally, 490, 527, 545.
Samford, Dr., 134.
Sancroft, WiU., 48. supposed
author of The Whole Duty of
Man, 109.
Sandys, Edwin, 804.
Savile, Mr., of Merton drowned,
285.
Saxony, account of the monarch,
127.
Saxton's maps, 717.
Sayman, Mr., 874.
Scaliger, Joseph, 1, 830. *
Scahger's grandmother a writer,
140. his high opinion of Cal
vin, 218, 247.
Schisme, Treatise of, 24, 898.
Schools in Oxford, various, 257-
260.
Schydyard Street, 683.
Scotland, union of, with Engl., 28.
Scrope, John, 815.
Seals in wax, first used by Edw.
Conf., 253.
Seaman, Lazarus, his books sold,
486.
Sebright, Mr., and his party mur
dered, 507.
Sebright, sir Tho., 717.
Seeker, archb. 782.
Seckworth, village of, 675.

Sefton, Mr., a non-juror, 348.
Selden, John, 1, 2, 15, 53, 450,
532. 631, 872.
Seller, Ahr., 70.
Sentences on walls of churches,
719.
Sermon, remarkably short one,488 .
Shakespeare and Davenant, 146.
Shakspeare's Merry Wives of
Windsor, 942.
Shakespeare by Theobald, 821,
827.
Sheffer, Peter, 874.
Sheldon, Ralph, 484.
Shepheard, Geo., 713.
Sherlock, 843.
Shippen, Rob., 713.
Shippen, William, sent to the
Tower, 384.
Shirley, Benj., 718.
ShoveU, sir Cloudesley, lost, 132,
Shrewsbury, duke of, marries, 37.
142.
Shrove Tuesday, 487, 555.
Shurle, John, 38.
Silvester, 944.
Sleepers, seven, 593.
Sloane, sir Hans, 786.
Slyngsbye, sir W., 743.
Smalridge, bp., 333.
Smith, John, 720.
Smith, Rich., his collection of
books, 317.
Smith, capt. Rag, 184.
Smith, Dr. Tho., died, 198. leaves
Hearne his papers, 199.
Smith, John, elected speaker of
house of commons, 42.
Smoking, 450, 504.
Snape, Andrew, 437.
Snow, deep in 1709, 143.
Solen, 842.
Somerset, earl of, his marriage
with lady Essex, 750.
Somerset, lord Chas., dies, 191.
Somner's Dictionary, 581.
Sotheby, James, 563.
Sotheby, Sam. Leigh, 953.

AND NAMES.

983

Souls, departed, 57, 95.
South, Dr., 68. his death, 365,
37°-
Southampton, steeple at, thrown
down, 791.
Southsea bubble makes money
scarce, 479.
Spanish match, 748.
Speakership of h. of c, contest
for, 42.
Spectator, the, aUudes to Oxford,
219, 720.
Speed, John, 77, his Chron., 933.
Spelman, sir Henry, 21. his li
brary sold, 171.
Spendelowe, Roger, his account
of a horrid murder, 508.
Sprat, 688.
Stanley, sir William, 950.
Stapylton, Miles, 90.
Steele, sir Richard, 122, 219, 303,
720.
Stanislaus, account of king, 130.
Stephen, k., 199.
Statues on the Clarendon, 380.
Stephens, Edward, and list of his
works, 59-64, 450, 708.
Stewart, sir James, 385.
Stews, the, 296.
Stillingfleet, bp., 617.
Stone, Mr., of Wadham, 792.
Stone, William, founds a hos
pital, 519.
Stonehouse, Anne, 791.
Stonehouse, sir John, 668.
Stowe, John, 707.
Statutes of the univ., purity of,
782.
Stradling, William, 419.
Strafford, earl of, his death pro
cured by perjury, 121.
Stratford, Dr., of Ch. Ch., aug
ments the students' places, 755.
Strathmore, lord, 367, 370.
Streat, Rich., 516.
Strype, John, 28, 682.
Stubbe, Henry, 416.
Stukeley, WiUiam, 485, 542.

Stuart family, 476.
Stuart, John, 595.
Sunderland, lord, 200, 964.
SunningweU, custom at, 555.
Surfeit, the, 300. reprinted entire,
928.
Swinford, Catharine, 134.
Sydenham, sir PhiUp, 435, 584,
836.
Symon, Father, 90
T.
Tabor, the, 249.
Tack, verses on, 38.
Tanner, Tho., 526, 794.
Taverns in Oxford, 1636, 210.
Tarantula, 216.
Tax on literature, 687.
Taxes refused, 774.
Tayler, Rich., 442, 566.
Taylor, the water poet, 483.
Test, 116.
Thames river, 213.
 made navigable, 723.
Theobald, Lewis, 820, 827, 856.
Theophrastus, 833.
Thomas, Hugh, 366.
Thompson, Francis, 657.
Thoresby, Ralph, of Leeds, 252.
Throgmorton, sir Rob., 417.
Thuanus, 54.
Thwaites, Edw., 498, 738.
Tickell, Tho., 209, 374.
Tilleman's portrait of Hearne, 480,
886.
Tillotson, abp., 66.
Tindall, Matthew, 783, 784.
Toft, Anne, the rabbij; breeder,
614.
Toland, John, 851.
Tom, great and little, 239.
Tompion, the watch-maker, 298.
Tom Thumb, 798, 822.
Tonson, Jacob, 814.
Tottie, John, 873.
Trinity coU., Dublin, 46.
Trinity hall, an old foundation in
Oxford, 654.

984

INDEX OF PRINCIPAL MATTERS

Trafles, Richard, inscription on,
by himself, n.
Trapp, Joseph, 137, 501.
Trial by jury, 505.
Trumbull, WiU., 807.
Turl gate puUed down, 483.
Turner, Will., 857.
Turner, col., Edmund,. 574.
Tutchin, 23, 45.
Twyne, Brian, 664.
Tyngewike, Nicholas, 259.
Tyrrell, capt., opposes Browne
WiUis for Buckingham, 71.
Tyrrel, James, 15, 182.
Tyrrell, Walter, 539.
U.
UdaU, Dr., 709.
Underhill, Tho., 76.
Unitarians, hist, of, 66.
University college, Uberal to k.
Ch. I., 131. election, 534. Case
heard. Statutes of, 789.
University epistles, 728.
Upton, 583,
Urry, John, his death, 321.
Usher, archbp., 94, 134.
V.
Vanburgh, sir John, 317.
Vander Aa, bookseUer, 92.
Vavasour, Anne, 955.
VentrUoqui, 113.
Verstegan, 297.
Vespasian, 133, 666, 692, 789.
Vettius Valens, 1, 533.
Violet, Arth., 611.
Viper, bite of, 833.
Virgil, MS. by, 286, 944.
Virgins' hall, 720.
Vitruvius, new edit, wanted, 85.
Vossius, Isaac, 2. his hbrary, 205,
206. W.
Wadham coUege,educationat, 431.
Wagstaffe, Tho., 420.
Wake, abp., meditates a Concilia,
790.
Walden, Lionel, murdered, 441.
Wales, princess of, has a son, 458.

Walker, John, his Sufferings of
the clergy, 305.
Walker, Obad., 55, 747.
Walker, Rich., epitaph on, 56.
Wall, Will., 740.
Walter, Edmund, epitaph by, 430.
Wallingford castle, 300.
Wallis, John, 6, 13, 14, 55, 69,
4°8, 559. 769-
Walpole, sir Robert, 594, 774.
Walton, Valentine, 790.
Walton- weU, 391. for way, line
11, read well.
Wanley, Humphrey, 13, 467,471,
589-
Wantage'fairs, 500.
Ward, Geo., called Jolly Ward,
666, 900.
Ward, John, M.P. stands in the
pillory, 641.
Ward, Seth, 435.
Ward, Tho., 875.
Waterland, Daniel, 857.
Warton opposed as poetry prof.,
501.
Warts, to cure, 225.
Watkins, Henry, 482.
Watts, John, 705.
Watts, Rob., 305.
Weeks, 785.
Welds, Mr., accident at, 781.
Welby, Henry, 209.
Welby, Dr., 810.
Welchmen's jubilee, 434. ¦>
Wellesley, Dr. Henry, his account
of Hearne's portraits, 886.
Wells, in Oxford, 391.
Welton, Dr., of Whitechapel, 599.
Wesley, Samuel, statement by, 35.
subscription for, 37.
West, James, 605, 953.
Weston park, Herts, 726.
Wharton, Henry, 205, 687, 694.
Wharton, sir George, 385.
Wharton, lord, severe lines on,
210, 689.
Wheat, dear price of, 154.
Whichcott, col., 36.

AND NAMES.

985

Whiston says the world is to end,
103, 622.
Whiteside, John, dies, 703.
Whitlock,sirWiU.,remarkby, 287.
Whitsunday, 517.
Whole Duty of Man, 107, 164,739.
Whorwood family, 578.
Whyte,Rich., of Basingstoke, 461.
Wicksey or Weeksy, 669, 670,681,
700.
Wigan, Dr. Geo., 622, 760, 773.
Wiggins, Sylvanus, 300.
Wightman, 675.
WUd, Henry, the learned tailor,
328, 438.
WUd, Jonathan, 559.
Wilkins, David, 790.
William III., king, 48, 121, 123,
285, 347, 802. faUs from his
horse, 872.
WUliams, Griffith, 698.
WiUiams's Oxford, 784.
WiUiamson, sir Joseph, 894.
WUUs, Browne, 70, 71. letter to,
281, 428, 579, 580, 609, 687,
717.
WiUyot, John, 260.
WUmot, lady, 131.
Winter, severe, 359, 382. warm,
455-
WUson, bp., Tho., 504. his son,
648.
Wise, Francis, 601, 712, 906.
Wolsey, cardinal, 93, 246, 317.
Wolvercote, 391, 392. miU, 414.
Wood, Anth., his life in CoUier,
14. bust of, 40. his assiduity,
99. 438. 484. had much from
Key, &c, 664. superintends his
own grave, 723. his death, 725,
729. 753-

Wood, Nicholas, 447.
Wood, Rob. 725.
Wood, Tho., 725, 729.
Woodchester, 226.
Woodhead, Abraham, 738, 766,
809, 810.
Woodroofe, Dr., 617.
Woodstock, old palace of, 97.
Hearne's forebodings touching
the new house, 98, 286. Hearne
visits and abuses it, 374, 394,
423-
Woodward, Dr., 122. letter to
from T. H. 124, 230, 266, 688,
690.
Worcester coUege, 617.
Wotton, 6, 34.
Wren, bp., 677.
Wren, sir Christ., 278, 366, 389,
658.
Wrexham, view of, 872.
Wright, Will., or Jos. Mich. 343.
Wulph, Rein., 299.
Wyatt, sir Thomas, epitaph on,
402.
Wycliff, 146, 703, 709.
Wynne, Dr., Hugh, 443.
Wynne, John, 849. Y.
Yard-land, 813.
Yarnton, 393.
York, badges of the duke, 356.
York, duke of, after James II, 701 .
Yorkshire, danger in travelling
there, 761.
Young, Patrick, 74.
Z.
Zarah, queen, 78.
Zinzan of Magd., 763.
Zouche, Richard, 608.

END OF RELIQULE HEARNIANiE.

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Thomas ffearne and Ms Little World.

331

^J*111-' pov*ty, and attorneys ;
, and tHCTB-^aa cbrsed fellow there
with eyes wid§>ajlgn and ears erect,
and all sorts of totsaqgd arrows of
the law to shoot] at poo>>s«aiyfarers
like me ; and' thaf s the reasonS*^
I'd rather buy our! modest tea£»p§"in
London, and not bfe somaefias heard
of in NauntonY^-Don't look so
frightenedjjifettewpman, every fellow
has ajjaaferous dun or two, and I'm
Galf so much In peril as fifty I

could name. Only lhy father:
you know, and wl e^^tfiat quarrel
gets to be known-it mayn't help my
credit, m>arake dins more patient.
So^Hfiist keep wel I earthed here till
"the dogs are quiet again ; and now,
wise little house! :eeper will devise
dinffl>^jough for on r hungry brother,
who wilTaiii^e, in two hours' time,
with the appetfa .Jjhatj Cressley
Common gives evei pieltestwith as
little to trouble him as Harry*

/«Y

THOMAS HEARNE AND HIS LITTLE WORLD. 'f^T^D ^L

HEARNE S JACOBITE PROCLIVITIES.

°.vro-'

Among the many unselfishly loyal
hearts to Church and King whom the
grand old University of Oxford boasts,
Thomas Hearne holds a foremost
place. He did not occupy a high
rank as lecturer, nor as wielder of
college authority, but for a consid
erable time he enjoyed an office
entirely congenial to his literary
instincts and impulses, the privilege
of examining, and classifying, and
studying the rare treasures of the
Bodleian Library.
The Stuarts had endeared them
selves to Oxford. James I. delighted
as much in " scholastic exercises,
religious conferences, and quaint dis
putations" as ever did the fellows-
senior or junior of that learned cor
poration. " Charles I. was a peculiar
favourite. Oxford had welcomed him
in his prosperity, nobly supported him
in his struggles, and adhered to him
in the time of trouble and defeat.
The King's love of literature, his fond
ness for the arts, his generous patron
age of the University, his courteous
affability towards her members . .
had endeared him to all the old
members of Oxford, and respect and
love had descended from father to
son, even to the days of Hearne. The
Restoration was hailed with delight
through the whole of England, but
nowhere more heartily than in Oxford.
Her members had been despoiled of
theirproperty, ejected from their liv

ings, andsubjectedto injury andinsult.
Can we wonder then at the popularity
of Charles IL, or be surprised that
Hearne and those who thought with
him still adhered in the following
reign to the race of the Stuarts. They
continued to do so even after James
had sought to intrude upon their
liberty of conscience. . . Hearne
lived and died a true Protestant, but
the Roman Catholics were all Jaco
bites ; and as he continually received
much kindness from them as indivi
duals, so he always treats themselves
and their religion with respect. He
remembers only that James was the
rightful heir to the throne, he impli
citly believes in the legitimacy of the
Pretender, and he continues a true
Jacobite to the last in common with
vast numbers in Oxford who enter
tained similar principles."*
We do not find in the work quoted
below much indulgence for the Roman
Catholic religion. Hearne loved it
little, but he hated Presbyterianism
and other modes of dissent. Though
it is not said in the work in so
many words, it may be gathered that
Roman Catholic priests, devoted to
letters, and fond of lingering in the
old libraries, received much attention
from the eccentric lover of old books.
One of these, Rev. William Joyner,
was nearly as eccentric as Hearne
himself. He lived in the Manor
House of Holywell, and the two

* The remains of Thomas Hearne, M.A., of Edmund Hall ; heing Extracts from his
Diaries collected : with a few notes. By Philip Bliss, late FeUow of St. John's CoUege,
now Principal of St Mary Hall in the University of Oxford. London: John EusseU
Smith.

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cronies spent many an evening toge
ther. Thomas Hearne, son of George
Hearne, parish clerk of White Wai-.
tham, Berkshire, was born July, 1678,
educated at the expense of George
Cherry, Esq., of Shottesbrook, and
sent by him to Edmund Hall, Oxford,
where he matriculated in 1695.
" Being," as the editor of the present
work remarks, "of very studious
habits, very moral in his conduct,
humble and obliging in his disposi
tion, he soon made friends in Oxford,
and although he was offered prefer
ment in the colonies as soon as he had
been admitted to the degree of Bache
lor of Arts, in 1699, he declined to
quit the University."
Showing a strong inclination to
lose himself among the works in the
Bodleian library, he was noticed by
the principal librarian, Mr. Hudson,
and appointed his assistant in 1701.
No one could better discharge the
duties of that office than Hearne.
His heart was in his work, and no
one could be happier. In 1712 he
became second keeper, and throve in
this occupation till the end of 1717,
when, as he says, " he was debarred
the library on account of the oaths,
and new keys were made, and the
lock of the library door altered, tho'
he hath got the old keys by him,
having not made any resignation, or
consented to the putting any one into
his place."
He retired to Edmund Hall, and
there vegetated for eighteen years,
publishing various works and steadily
refusing different offices outside, and
seeking none within, as he would, on
acceptance, be obliged to take the
oaths of allegiance. He lived under
James II., William, Anne, and the
first two Georges. He died on the

10th day of June, 1735, at the early
age of fifty-seven, and was buried in
the church-yard of St. Peter's in the
East, where his tomb may be still
seen. During this latter portion of
his life he was disliked an,d mistrusted
by some of the dons, as they con
sidered him a dangerous person. But
in reality they had no cause. He was
merely a quiet grumbler, abused the
present order of things, sitting of
evenings with his Jacobite sympa
thizers, and intrusted his sentiments
and opinions to his note books, of
which he filled one hundred and forty-
five small octavo volumes. He lived
free from want and pecuniary em
barrassment, owed nothing, and left
upwards of £1,000 behind him. His
MSS., including the diaries, were left
to a Mr. Bedford, who sold all to Dr.
Rawlinson for £ 100. He deposited
them in the Bodleian Library* with
an injunction not to open the diaries
till seven years after his death.
HARE VOLUMES AND VALUABLE LIBRARIES.
Keen as were Hearne's eyes in ex
ploring the recesses of his darling
library, there was one volume among
the books once belonging to Thomas
Seldent which he was unable to dis
cover. A certain Mr. Wanley wrote
to Dr. Charlett ofthe library, request
ing to be informed if it contained a
book with this title-page : — " Sacrce
JBiblice Tomus Primus, in Quo Conti-
nentur Quinque Libri Moysi, Libri
Josiub et Judicum, Liber Psalmorum,
Proverbia Salominis, Liber Sapien
tial, et Novum Testamentum Jesu
Christi. Londini, Excudebat
Thomas Bertheletus, Regius Im-
pressor. Anno mdxxxv., Mense
Jul." Mr. Wanley judged that the work
was published at the express order

* The Oxford Library, commenced by Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, was much en
larged in 1597 by Sir Thomas Bodley (born at Exeter in 1544) and has since borne his
name. •(¦This great scholar was born near Worthing, in Sussex, December 16, 1584. His first
written work was a treatise on the civil government of Britain before the Norman Con
quest. It was composed when he was twenty-two years of age (16Q6), but not published
till 1615. His Jani Anglorum Facies Altera, a work on the laws of England up to the
time of Henry II., was published in 1610. His work on the Syrian Gods, in 1617, three
years after the appearance of his Titles of Honour. He was imprisoned in 1621, andagain
in 1630, for the expression of his political opinions. In 1640 he was member for the Uni
versity of Oxford. Though a sincere parliamentarian, he was strongly opposed to the
execution of the King, and afterwards took but little part in politics. He died November
30, 1654. His Table Talk, published by his amanuensis in 1689, is a book highly es
teemed. His collected works, too numerous to be here mentioned, form three folio
volumes, 1726.

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of Henry VIII., and that he had
written the preface or dedication him
self. This was, in all probability, the
fact, as will appear from a couple of
extracts translated from the original
Latin, the dedication being " To the
Pious Reader," not any great man
in particular.
" I have considered how the Lord
our God, with whose words or Scrip
tures this is concerned, has ordained
that the King, settled on the throne
of his kingdom, should get it written
and keep it by him, so that he might
read therein every day of his life,
thereby to learn to fear the Lord His
God and keep His Word. . . .
" Although our eyes through God's
goodness are as yet sufficiently strong,
yet as they may with age become
weak, as is mostly the case, we have
adopted a type more convenient and
legible (than the ordinary size), al
though others might be considered
more agreeable and elegant, but which
if they excel it in some respects, are
much inferior to it in others. Our
will was that these Scriptures of the
Old Testament should be united to
the Evangelical Scriptures, in which
is better expressed the history of hu
man life, with precepts, moral doc
trines, duties, and modes of living.
This book in which we have resolved
to take such pleasure, is appointed to
be our constant resident and com
panion." Mr. Wanley seemed to think that
spectacles for reading were not used
in the reign of Henry VIII., and that
feeling his sight fail, he introduced a
larger type than the one in use, though
large enough already, as the printers
and publishers had the convenience of
the greater portion of their readers at
heart, and these were mostly clergy
men and scholars of advanced years ;
but spectacles had been in use since
the days of Friar Bacon. The rims,
however, being of a clumsy make, the
king probably did not wish to injure
his appearance by a pair of goggles.
The volume not discoverable by
Hearne may be seen at this day
amongst Selden's Books, 4to., B. 1.,
Th BS, wanting the title and the
preface quoted by Wanley. The ver
sion is that of the Latin Vulgate. We
have had in our possession a small
4to. published by that defender of
the faith in English, date 1541, if our
memory serves us right, in which he
explained to his loving subjects ah the

dogmas of faith and the good works
necessary for salvation. It was not
calculated to meet the wants either
of his Roman Catholic or Protestant
readers. Hearne's equanimity was not proof
against such national losses as the one
quoted below, which he recorded
November 2, 1705.
" Narcissus Marsh, Archbishop of
Armagh, gave 25,000 libs, (sic.) for
Bishop Stillingfleet's library, which,
like that of Dr. Isaac Vossius, was
suffered to go out of the nation, to
the eternal scandal and reproach of
it. The said Archbishop has built a
noble repository for them."
Isaac Vossius's library was sold to
the University of Leyden for .£3,000,
his nephew reserving Ptolemy, Hesy-
chius, Lucretius, and Manilius, for
himself. These had been prepared
for the press by the great scholar, the
son of a greater scholar, Gerard Vos
sius. Isaac, born in 1618, lived some
time at the Court of Christina of
Sweden, travelled in Italy, came to
England in 1670, and died there in
1688. He was not incumbered with
a religious spirit, but that did not
prevent Charles II. from appointing
him to an ecclesiatical office.
IRISH LITERARY MATTERS.
The non acquisition (for Oxford)
of Archbishop Usher's library was
another thorn in our brave old book
worm's side. He endeavoured to con
sole himself in a fashion anything
but charitable —
" The library of Trinity College in
Dublin, where the noble study
(library) of Bishop Usher was placed,
is quite neglected, and in no order,
so that 'tis perfectly useless, the pro
vost and fellows of that coll. having
no regard for books and learning."
Oh ! Mr. Hearne !
Hearne, as may be easily guessed,
did not worship Oliver Cromwell to
such an extent as would meet Mr.
Carlyle's approval, but he warmly
commends him for the friendship and
great respect which he showed to our
great scholar, Archbishop Usher. He
records that he expended two or
three hundred libs, on his funeral, and
deducted as much out of the pay of
his officers and souldiers in Ireland
as purchased his great library for
Trinity College, Dublin.
Dr. Parr, in his life of the archbi
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for purchasing the library from the
pockets of his Irish army than Dean
Swift did to Agmondisham Vesey for
the building of the memorable
bridge. He says that Cardinal
Mazarin and the King of Denmark
empowered their agents here to give
a high price for the fine collection,
but the administrators of the de
ceased prelate were ordered to dis
pose of it to no one but with the Pro
tector's consent. His army in Ireland
being encouraged and excited by
some public spirited literary men, did
make the purchase on easy terms, not
only obtaining the printed books, but
valuable manuscripts and coins. The
books* being brought to Dublin,
Cromwell, considering that the gift
would be unattended with suitable
eclat if buried among the college
treasures, was minded to build a house
for its reception. Other engrossing
occupations prevented this being done,
and the books lay a long time at the
Castle neglected and in disorder.
After the Lord Protector's death, and
during the confusion that followed,
several of the printed books and valu
able MSS. were abstracted; but when
Charles II. was restored, he gave all
that remained to the charge of Trinity
College. So far, Dr. Parr.
Connected with Irish literature,
there existed a very scarce book in
the library at Cambridge which Mr.
Thomas Baker was happy to lend
to the Archbishop of Canterbury,
when that prelate was assisting the
French priest, Courrayer,with his work
on the validi .y of Anglican orders.
The work was so scarce that the
Archbishop had not seen it before. It
was undated, but Thomas Rawlinson,
Hearne's great friend, lent him a
copy which bore this imprint at the
end : —
"Imprinted in Rome (before the
Castell of St. Angell (at y" signe of
Peter) in Decembre) Anno D. 1553
(Q. Marie)."
The title of the work is " The Vo-
cacyon of Johan Bale to the Bishop
ric of Ossorie." The date given above
is fictitious, the book having been
printed in London by Hugh Single
ton. Copies are to be found in the
British Museum and in Malone's and
Douce's collections in the Bodleian.
Another volume on the same subject
is nearly as difficult to be met with,
though printed about a hundred
years later. We copy the title —

" The Persecution and Oppression
(which, as Solomon saith, is able to
make a wise man mad) of John Bale
that was called to be Bishop of Os
sory by the sole Election without any
other Man's motion, of that pious
King, Edw. 6 : and of Gruffith Wil
liams, that was called after the same
manner to the same Bishoprick by
the sole Election, without any other
Man's motioD, of that most excellent
King and pious Martyr, Charles I.
— Two learned Men and Right Reve
rend Bishops of Ossory. London :
Printed for the Author, 1664."
Dr. John Bale was born at the
village of Cove, in Suffolk, in 1495.
Having become a Protestant after
some time spent as a Carmelite monk,
he was obliged to seek an asylum in
Flanders, where he wrote several
works during a period of eight years.
Being recalled at the accession of Ed
ward VI., he was appointed to the
living of Bishop Stoke in Hampshire,
and afterwards to the see of Ossory.
His zeal for Protestantizing the na
tives was so badly approved of by
them, that on the death of Edward
his house sustained a siege, lives were
lost, and he himself made his escape
with some difficulty. On the acces
sion of Elizabeth, he was made pre
bend in the Cathedral of Canterbury.
He died in 1563, leaving behind him
a biography of the writers of Great
Britain, a very valuable compilation,
though not without defects, such as
mention of men as authors who never
published anything. It was issued
in 1548.
From certain letters written hy
Mr. James Garden, professor of Theo
logy in Aberdeen, we gather the ideas
entertained by the learned of that
time concerning the original use of
those stone circles, so numerous in dis
tricts once inhabited by the early
Celts. He says they are called Caers
(Gaelic, Cathair), the word meaning
(according to him) a throne, an oracle,
or a place of address. It properly
means a city or cathedral, having the
same root as the last word.
The late Dr. Petrie, after a careful
examination of many of these circles,
concluded that they were originally
places of interment, the remains of
princes or great chiefs being deposited
under the central cromleach, and
those of subordinate chiefs beneath
the stones in the boundary of the
ring. Such a locality would natu-

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rally be selected later in time as a
place for worship, or for a tribe's deli
beration on a question of public inte
rest. So it is probable that the opi
nions of the two divisions of archaeo
logists who disagree on the ancient
uses of these monuments may be cor
rect. In the entry from which we
quote, Oct. 15, 1718, a place is men
tioned in Aberdeenshire, parish of
Ellon, called Fochell, and its name
explained " under the chapel," one of
these circles being on a higher ground
in its neighbourhood. The etymology
is correct enough, Fa meaning under,
and ceall church.
In the parish of Strathawen, with
in fourteen miles of Aberdeen, there
is a place called Templetown, from
two or three monuments of this kind.
The people in the neighbourhood of
these monuments call them also
" Law stones " and " Temple stones "
indifferently. The writer strangely
enough acknowledges his ignorance of
the reason, which is manifest from
the explanation given above.
It is evident that our archaeologist
took but slight interest in Celtic anti
quities ; it was not at all fashionable
among Enghsh writers of his day to
say much to the credit of the Celts
themselves, especially those dating
from the western shore of the Irish
sea. He is consequently not sorry to
detract from the undeniable love of
learning possessed by the Irish youth
of ancient days, who thronged to the
English universities. He forgot, at
least omitted to mention, that some
centuries before the date selected, the
Irish colleges were the resort of Eng
lish and continental students. These
are his words, Oct. 25, 1727 : —
"In the time of Henry V. were
abundance of Irish scholars in Oxford,
and from their living there, one street
going from Gloucester Hall (now
Worcester Coll.) towards High-bridge
was called Irishmen's-street. Here,
viz., in that street were many halls or
houses for entertainment of them,
but a great many of them at that
time {viz., in the reign of Henry V.)
were so rakish that (under the name
of chamberdekyns) they committed
strange disorders. So they were ex
pelled this place (and their housesbe-
gan to decay and the street to lose its
name), and then they went to Cam
bridge, where they were guilty of the
same enormities, which occasioned
them at length, by order of Parlia

ment in the reign of Henry VI., to be
banished the nation with injunction
not to come hither into England any
more with an intent to settle at our
Universities." The discovery of the names of the
main body of these roystering youths
would be desirable, so that we might
lay the blame on the deserving party,
i.e. on the sons of the native gentry,
or those of the Anglo-Irish. It is not
at all likely that young Duine Uasals,
bearing the names of O'Connor,
O'Neil, O'Donnel, or Macarthy, were
sent to an unfriendly country to re
ceive their education.
Our mercurial atmosphere had so
affected the blood and animal spirits
of the Anglo-Irish as to render their
youth intolerable to their square-
toed cousins, when they resorted to
them as college students.
Hearne's esteem for the estimable
Celtic scholar, Edward Lhuyd, was
deservedly high. Under the date of
May 14, 1706, he mentions his great
proficiency in the knowledge of fossils,
and the opinion expressed by Sir
Hans Sloane, of his being the best
naturalist in Europe. At that time
the first volume of his archaeological
works was only about being published.
" I tell you (writes Hearne) that he
is a person of singular modesty, good
nature, and uncommon industry. He
lives a retired life generally, three or
four miles from Oxford, is not at all
ambitious of preferment or honour,
and what he does is purely out of
love to the good of learning and his
country. But notwithstanding these
deserts he could never get anything
but to be keeper of the museum,
which is buta mean place, seeing there
is no salary, and his business requires
two or three under him."
Of this rare old Celtic scholar and
good man, and his researches in Ire
land, mention has been made in former
numbers of this Magazine. A Gaelic
dictionary is part of his literary re
mains. Having selected from our diligent
filler of scrap-books a fair proportion
of memorandums in which Ireland or
its literature is concerned, we pass to
literary curiosities of a miscellaneous
character. NON-AUTHORSHIP OF " THE WHOLE DUTY
OP MAW."
It is evident that Hearne made
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the author of the "Whole Duty of
Man." Mr. Keble (appropriate name),
a bookseller near Temple Bar, sent to
the Bodleian, in the end of July, 1706,
the original MS. of the " Causes of
the Decay of Christian Piety " by
the same writer. Dr. Aldritch and
Mr. Hearne examined it carefully,
and concluded that the handwriting
was that of Bishop Pell. However,
Mr. Barnes, on being shown the
manuscript, pronounced it the handy-
work of Archbishop Sancroft ; espe
cially as Dr. Holbeach, one time an
intimate with this prelate, had averred
that once visiting him, he happened
to see some papers in his handwriting
"which, he would take his oath, were
part of what was afterwards printed
under the title of the ' Whole Duty of
Man.' " This, of course, unsettled for
the time the claim of Bishop Fell.
_ August 27, 1730, Mr. Hearne found
himself still at sea on the subject, and
was not certain that Mr. Abraham
Woodhead, a Roman Catholic gentle
man of great learning and piety, had
had not written it. His reason was
that Old Will Rogers of Gloucester,
well acquainted with Mr. Woodhead,
had said so. Moreover, Mr. Vinter,
another acquaintance, "informed a
certain worthy lady (name not men
tioned), that he asked Mr. Woodhead
whether he was the author of the
' Whole Duty of Man,' and he made
no answer." Mr. W. being a modest
humble man, his silence seems to have
weakened with our antiquary Bishop
Fell's title. However, another learned
friend of his (Mr. Hearne's) assured
him that, being in Bishop Fell's com
pany, he was informed that he (Bp.
F.) was the only man then living
who knew the author's name. So the
onlyconclusion Mr. Hearne could then
arrive at was that if the bishop was
not bona fide the author of the work,
he at least copied the " Causes," &c,
for the press. It was provoking
that some twenty-five years before,
Mr. Hearne had been shown by Dr.
Charlett a letter written by Sir John
Packington to Dr. Lloyd, Bishop of
Worcester, in which, after complain
ing of the aspersions the said bishop
had cast on him as a drunken
debauched person, and of sundry
offensive things said of his ancestors,
he alleged that, " on the contrary, they
had deserved well of the Church of
England." Dr. Charlett acquainted
Mr. Hearne at this interview that he

had spoken with one who had seen
the MS. of "The Whole Duty of Man,"
in Lady Packington's handwriting.
Under the date, July 1732, our
puzzled scholar committed to his
paper-book his latest discoveries on
the subject, obtained from a Cam
bridge friend, Mr. Baker.
The new light came in the shape of
a declaration, signed by Rev. Thomas
Caulton, Vicar of Worksop, in Not
tinghamshire, October 31, 1698, two
days before his death ; and, in pre
sence of sundry persons of quality, the
Rev. John Hewett retaining the
paper. Here is a portion of it —
" November 5, 1689, at Shire Oak,
Madam Ayre of Rampton, after din
ner took me up into her chamber, and
told me that her daughter Moyser, of
Beverley, was dead, and that in that
month she had buried her husband
and several relations, but that her
comfort was, that, by her monthly
sacraments, she still participated with
them in the communion of saints.
Then she went to her closet, and
fetched out a MS. which she said
was the original of " The Whole Duty
of Man," tied together and stitched
in 8vo. like sermon notes. She un
tied it, saying it was Dr. Fell's cor
rection, and that the author was the
Lady Packington (her mother), in
whose hand it was written."
This lady, Madam Eyre, declared
to the Rev. Mr. Caulton that she had
shown the manuscript to several other
distinguished personages, and that
the "Decay of Xtian Piety" was
hers, the Lady Packington's, also ;
but none of the others attributed to
the author. All this was not suffi
cient to decide our anxious searcher,
who acknowledged that he remained
in more doubt than ever.
" She might (he says), and so with
out doubt she did, transcribe, and yet
not be the author. As I never did
believe her to be the author, so much
less, after this note is now come to
me. Bp. Fell certainly knew who
the author was, and he makes him to
have wrote all those pieces that were
printed by the bp s care at the
Theater (Oxford Press). The author
had been at Rome, and is described
in the bp's preface as a man.
After all that may have been said to
the contrary, Mr. Woodhead as yet
bids fairest."
This, however, could scarcely be.
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write volumes on those Christian
doctrines and practices common to
both Churches, and pass for a sound
Protestant if he chose. But it would
be impossible for him to handle the
circle of subjects comprised in the
works in question without leaving
traces of his fine Roman hand.

SOME MORE RARE BOOKS.
St. Francis de Sales, Bishop of
Geneva (Temp. Henri Quatre), whose
least gestures and modes of life were
as closely watched by the Bishop of
Belley as those of Dr. Johnson by
Boswell, was the idol of all the
devoutly-minded ladies of Italy,
France, and Savoy, to whom he wrote
letters for their spiritual guidance
as leisure occurred. Several of these
were collected during his lifetime and
arranged and printed without his
knowledge, the volume being called
" An Introduction to a Devout Life."
It is by no means of a controversial
character. Mr. Henry Dodwell, a
gentleman much admired by Thomas
Hearne, revised for the use of Protest
ants an English translation which he
found done to his hands. It appeared
in Dublin in 1673, and disappeared
so rapidly that Mr. Hearne never had
a copy of it, and the reviser could
not even gratify him with the sight
of one.
Dr. Haywood, Archbishop Laud's
chaplain, finding a translation of the
book made by a R. Catholic, revised
it, expunged passages, and licensed it.
" But (we use the text), one Burrowes
a Roman Catholic, restored the pas
sages that Dr. Haywood had ex
punged, and so 'twas printed, and
gave great offence to Protestants.
Whereupon Archbishop Laud had the
copies, about eleven or twelve hun
dred, seized and caused them to be
burnt publicly in Smithfield, but it
seems two or three hundred copies
were dispersed before the seizure. . .
I think the impression was made in
1636 or 1637." The author's death
occurred in 1622 at the age of 56
years. Sound Protestant as was Thomas
Hearne, he loved his old city and its
University so much that he wrote of
the local patroness in the style of a
hagiographer, her festival occurring
on the 1 4th of the Kalends of Novem
ber, Oct. 19.
VOL. LXXI1I.— NO. ccccxxxv.

" Saint Frideswide flourished about
the year 740. She was the ornament
and patroness of the most illustrious
City and University of Oxford. Her
father's name, Didan, a person of
noble quality, and her mother's, Saf-
reda. From her infancy she had an
aversion to all delicacies. . . Her
ordinary diet was barley bread with
a few herbs and roots, and her drink
only water. By her example twelve
other virgins forsook the world. . .
By the munificence of the king, she
built a monastery into which she
entered with her companions. . .
Alard, a young prince, being smitten
with her beauty, she leaves the
monastery and flies to Oxford, whither
Alard pursued her, but was struck
blind as he entered the city, but re
stored to sight by her means at his
repentance. Princes were afterwards
scrupulous about entering the city at
that gate. . . 'She built another
monastery at Oxford, and there she
was buried. There is a shrine called
St. Frideswide's Shrine now at Christ
Church." Thomas Hearne marked Febr. 22,
1723-24 with a white stone, for on
that auspicious day he purchased for
Is. 6d., out of the library of the late
Dr. Charlett, " The Vision of Pierce
Plowman," whereunto is annexed
"The Crede of Pierce Plowman,"
neverimprinted with the booke before.
The " Crede" is seldom found bound
with the " Vision" which seems to
have been written in 1362. It is
rather surprising that the rare volume
should have been parted with for
such a trifle. " Pierce the Plow
man's Crede 4to. 1553, produced ten
guineas at the Duke of Roxburghe's
sal 3, 1812; Cowley's edition of the
Vision, 1550, realized six guineas and
a-half. Of William Langland, the reputed
author of the " Vision" nothing is
known beyond his work.
The Crede was, of course, revealed
to an anxious inquirer, who br-' ¦ ,'
applied to some members of religious
communities, found them too intent
on exalting their own merits at the
expense of their rivals, to be able to
spare time to give him instruction.
He is in consequence, much mor
tified, till he finds Pierce the
Plowman in the following miser
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"As I wente .by the waye, wepinge for
sorowe,
And seigh1 a sely8 ma me by, open1
the plow hongen.
His cote was of a cloute that cary was
ycaUed,
His hod6 was f uU of holes, and his heare
oute,
With his knoppede shon6 clouted full
thykke,
His ton'' toteden out as he the londe tre-
dede."*
How much to be envied was a
zealous Biblical antiquary with a
week or two at his disposal, and
under the pilotage of Thomas Hearne
exploring among the old manuscripts
and early printed books. Chief
among these literary treasures was a
quarto volume executed in the reign
of Edward III., and illuminated with
the effigies of the chief people about
the cort, drawings of arms, birds,
beasts, &c. King Edward and Queen
Philippa figure in the pages next after
the contents. In the second page
are the arms of the king, and these
are followed by. the arms of the
Prince of Wales, of the Earl of Nor
folk, of Edmund de Woodstock,
Henry Earl of Lancaster, &c, with
likenesses of some of the nobility.
At the beginning of the contents a
heading in Latin is placed, which
may be translated : "The Rubrics
(headings) of the chapters of this
book of the Nobilities, Wisdoms, and
Prudences of Kings, compiled in
Honour of Our Illustrious Lord, Ed
ward, by the Grace of God, King of
England, who began to reign in the
year of Our Lord from the Incarna
tion, the thousandth, three hundredth,
and seventy sixth." The shoes of
the figures are without heels, and
the coats without sleeves. The
writer of this unique volume was
Walterus de Millemete, who, it ap
pears, had transcribed Aristotle's
work, " De Secretis Secretorum," for
the use of his royal master some time
previous. Scribe and king might
have been better employed. The
copy now to be seen in Christ Church
Library seems to be the identical one
presented by the writer to his royal
master. EARLY PRINTED BOOKS.
If not so curious and valuableas this
rare work, a printed volume mention

ed by Scaliger would be in high esti
mation if still in existence. It is thus
referred to in his Epistles (Page 571
of the edition consulted by Hearne).
" I myself have seen a book call
ed ' Horae Matutinse,' the author
whereof was my grandmother, Beren-
ica Ludronia, which was the first
book that was printed after the inven
tion of this noble art. It was printed
in vellam (sic), not in the same man
ner that we use to print in now, but
the letters were at some distance,
and the make of the letter was
exactly agreeable to our running
hand, insomuch that it was very hard
to distinguish whether the book was
written or printed. My father valued
the book very much, not only because
it was written by his mother, but
because it was the first book that
ever was printed. The cover was of
wood wrought over with silk, but in
the middle of each side and at each
corner were silver crosses gilt. On
the inside was fixed a silver crucifix
with the image of the Virgin Mary
and St. John the Evangelist, and un
derneath was written in a woman's
hand, and in the Italian language,
'Bejenica di Ludrone della Scala,
with spme other words in the Ger
man language which I could make
nothing of, being then very young
when I saw the book, and I have
not been able to get a sight of it since,
because 'twas soon after torn to pieces
by a grey hound."
This account we fear must he
placed among the tall words of the
Scaligers, father and son, who insist
ed on a noble descent, though the
elder was in all likelihood the son of
a geographer and portrait- painter of
Padua, where he was born in 1484.
His name was Giulio Bordoni, but he
alleged he was ofthe Scalas of Verona,
and his birth place the Castle of
Riva on Lago di Guarda. He was
married to a young French lady, and
his tenth son, Joseph Justus, exceed
ed him in the multiplicity of his
literary acquirements, which were
almost beyond belief. Both were very
ambitious to be thought of noble
descent, and exceedingly irritable and
abusive. The elder died in 1558, and
the younger in 1609. How the
alleged Italian lady could have writ-

• 'saw; %eemly; 3man ; 'upon; %ood; "shoes; Hoes.

1869.]

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339

ten the first book ever printed, and
have that operation performed at
Harlem, or Strasburgh, or Mayence,
and no later archaeologist out of her
own family ever mention the circum
stance, is not easily to be accounted for.
Heame was of course curious as to
the dates of the first efforts in print
ing and the performers, the Dutch
giving the palm to Coster, who, they
say, printed books at Harlem between
1422 and 1426. The Germans glory
in books being printed by Hans
Ganzfieisch (John Gooseflesh), of the
family of Guttenburg in 1438. Faust's
early operations date from Mayence
about 1452. The Latin Bible was
printed by Guttenburg at that city
between 1450 and 1455, and Faust
and Scheffer brought out theirs in
1462, the early type being made to
represent the ordinary current hand
of the time. The earliest attempts
were made with wood blocks, such as
the Chinese use at this day. With
these Faust got out the " Spiegel, or
Looking-Glass of Our Salvation " at
Mayence about 1455. Guttenburg
exercised himself for some time at
Harlem, printing first with blocks,
and then with moveable types, being
assisted by Frederic Corsellis. Bour
chier, Archbishop of Canterbury,
sensible of the great advantages to
be derived from the new invention,
urged Henry VI. to have a " printing
mould" introduced into England,
and on his consent being obtained,
Robert Tournour, Master of the Robes,
and William Caxton, a London
citizen, furnished with 1500 marks
by the King, and 300 by the Arch
bishop, smuggled the above mention
ed Corsellis to Oxford to teach the
art and mystery to select and eager
practitioners. A guard attended onhis
movements, and all precautions were
taken that he should not escape from
English ground till he had trained
workmen to produce books as they
did in Harlem, Strasburg, and May
ence. Corsellis having honestly ful
filled his engagement, settled at Ant
werp, and thither in 1470 was he
followed by William Caxton, who
aspired to the dignity of master prin
ter. Hieronymi Expositio was print
ed at Oxford in 1468, doubtlessly by
Corsellis. Some of that ingenious
man's descendents, direct or collateral,
came to England in Elizabeth s time
and settled in Essex. Theodore Rood
of Cologne next exercised the art at

Oxford, and printing continued to be
done there till 1681. From that time
till Winkin de Worde revived it in
1500, the presses were idle in the old
city. Grope Lane, where he worked,
was afterwards called Winkin Street,
and in Hearne's time it was known by
the trifling name of Magpie Lane.
The common people were not much
the better for some time for the great
invention. The earliest printed books,
even as the earliest MSS. in Christian
times, consisted of portions of the
Bible, and rituals in the Latin tongue.
By the time of Henry VIII. proficients
in reading could enjoy things in their
native tongue, for we find that care
ful father of his people permitting them
toperuse Chaucer's Canterbury Tales,"
" Grower's Confessio Amantis," the
" Legenda Aurea " and the Scriptures.
EPITAPHS, OLD BALLADS AND"BURTONS.
Occasionally Mr. Hearne turned
aside from the grave matter of
authors, and their books, and biblio
graphical antiquities, to disport among
old ballads and monumental inscrip
tions. One of the most curious and
bizarre things in this way was to be
seen in the belfry of the Church of
Rudgwick in Sussex, the body of the
bepraised defunct being deposited out
side in the church-yard. "Without this WaU
Lyeth the body of Crandly Dr. Edward
Haines,
For to maintaine his famUy spared not
for paines,
To ride and to run, to give releife
To those which were in paine and grief e ;
Who the 30th of April entered Death's
straite gate,
From the Birth of our Saviour, 1708,
And about the age of 33,
And had his father's virtues in every
degree.
And left behind him when he left this
Ufe,
Two likely sons and a loveing wife,
And about 36 weeks after,
His wife and releck was brought a bed
with a daughter,
Which 3 we desire may live,
Not to beg but to give,
His eldest son, Edward, was then 6 years
and 10 months old,
And John about 3, both dapper and
bold.
Amongst aU the doctors, tho there are
many,
He is as much mised (sic.) as any,
Like to most mortals, to his practise he
was a slave;
He catched the smaU pox, and died, and
is here in his grave." 23*

340

Thomas Hearne and his Little World.

[March,

From poetical epitaphs to the
ballads of the people is not a very
long stride. Mr. Hearne made a
collection of these efforts at min
strelsy, which brought twelve guineas
at the Duke of Roxburgh's sale in
1812. The first English collection
appears to have been made by Selden.
It came into the possession of Samuel
Pepys, and is now to be seen in five
volumes in the Pepysian collection at
Magdalen College, Cambridge. " In
the Ashmolean museum, among
Wood's* books, are five volumes of
the same description — Nos. 400, 401,
402, 416, 417 ; and in the Bodleian
Library are, several printed collec
tions, and a volume of single-sheet
ballads, once belonging to Dr. Raw
linson." The most wonderful collection,
perhaps ever made belonged to Lord
Oxford. It passed after his death
successively into the hands of Os
borne the bookseller, Mr. West,
Major Pearson, the Duke of Rox
burgh, and Mr. Harding. The Duke
enlarged it by Edinburgh and other
ballads. The collection, bound in
three folio volumes, with titles and
indexes, was obtained at the me
morable auction of 1812 for four
hundred and fifty-five guineas. From
Mr. Harding's hands the volumes
Eassed into the stock of Messrs.
ongmans, the eminent booksellers,
who sold them to Benjamin Hey
wood Bright, of Ham Green, near
Bristol. That gentleman dying, and
his books being dispersed in 1845,
Mr. Rodd, the bookseller, purchased
them on commission for the British
Museum at an outlay of ^535 . Mr. T.
P. Collier has since published a judi
cious selection, in 4to. from the
collection. Other collections worthy
of quotation are those in, the Ash
molean Museum, in the late Mr.
Utterson's library, sold in 1852 for
£104 10s. ; in the late Mr. Miller's
library, formerly Mr. Heber's; and
in that of Mr. George Daniel's, of
Canonbury. Recent papers in the
numbers of the Dublin University
Magazine for February and August,

1868, have been occupied with the
" Percy Ballads," and the labours of
Mr. Furnivall and Mr. Hales for the
preservation of the waifs and strays
of street and cottage minstrelsy.
From ballads to those popular
books called Burtons the transition
is easy. Contemporary with Mr.
Hearne lived a bookseller in London,
by name Nathaniel Crowch. Hearne
notices him under the date 1713.
For business purposes, and perhaps
with a view to displace some of the
Holywell street literature of his day,
he began to issue compilations made
by himself from "Baker's Chronicle,"
"Wanley's Wonders of the Little
World," " God's Revenge Against
Murder," &c. He affixed the name
Richard Burton to the title page of
each, and sold them at a shilling.
He probably adopted the name from
the initials R. B., found on the title
page of a book published in 1678, and
professing to exhibit the miracles of
Nature and Art. Here are some of
the titles : — " Admirable Curiosities,"
" Unfortunate Court Favourites,"
" English Hero — Sir Francis Drake
Revived," "The Nine Worthies,"
"Wonderful Prodigies of Judgment
and Mercy," "The Kingdom of
Darkness," " Winter Evening Enter
tainments," " Choice Emblems-
Divine and Moral," " Lives of Queen
Anna Bullen and Lady Jane Grey,"
" Triumphs of Love, containing
Fifteen Histories," " Ingenious
Riddles,'' some biographies and many
histories. The prices of some of the
volumes went as high as 3s. 6d. Our
Irish imitations were only a British
sixpence each, and, indeed, were not
in general ofthe edifying character of
Mr. Nicholas Crowch's Burtons.
" The Old, Old, Very Old Man, being
the Life of Thomas Parr," by Taylor,
the Water Poet, 4to., 1635, ought
to have been reprinted in the list.
It was a curiosity even a hundred
and fifty years since, Mr. Hearne
being obliged to give 2s. for a scrubby
copy in wrapper. Think of that,
after securing " Pierce Plowman "
for Is. ed.

* This versatile genius was born at Oxford a.d. 1632. Being, when young, in easy
circumstances, he diverted his leisure fiddling and painting. The perusal of Dugdale's
"Antiquities oi Warwickshire," in 1656, fired his soul with a noble rage for Archaeology.
Old Mortality never laboured so diligently among old tomb stones as Anthony a Wood.
His chief literary remains are "The History and Antiquities of Oxford," and the
A thenat Oxonienses. For reflecting in this last work on the character of Lord Claren
don, he was expelled the college. His death occurred on 29th November, 1695.

1869.]

Thomas Thame end his Little World.

341

Most of these books just mentioned
are in our time rather rare of occur
rence. One which Hearne takes
notice of with warm praise, viz., " Mr.
Henry Maundrell's journey from
Aleppo to Jerusalem," in which he
discovered a pair of Mongrel Round
Towers, is comparatively easy to
procure. Our authority says it was
several times printed at the Theater,
a circumstance which accounts for its
frequent turning up at auctions. We
have had a French translation in our
possession. Mr. Hearne's judgment of another
book often met by him was not well
founded. We copy his own words : —
" Jan. 23, 1733-1734. No book sold
better formerly than Burton's "Ana
tomy of Melancholy," in which there
is a great variety of learning, so that
it hath been a common place for
filchers. (Those pickers and stealers
have had imitators long since
Hearne's day.) It hath a great
many impressions, and the book
seller got an estate by it ; but now
'tis disregarded, and a good, fair.
perfect copy, altho' of the 7th
impression, may be purchased for one
shilling, well bound, which occa-
sion'd a gentleman yesterday (who
observed how many books that were
topping books formerly, and were
greedily bought at great prices, were
turned to wast paper) to say that
Sir Isaac Newton (he believed)
would also be turned in time to wast
paper — an observation which is very
likely to prove true."
Of the author in person, Mr.
Hearne has nothing but what's
pleasant to relate.
" Mr. Burton was one of the most
facetious and pleasant companions 5f
that age ; but his conversation was
very innocent. It was the way then
to mix a great deal of Latin in dis
coursing, at which he was wonderful
ready (in the manner his book is
wrote), which is now looked upon as
pedantry. " Ant. Wood was a great admirer
of Mr. Burton, and of the books he
bequeathed to the Bodleian Library,
a great many of which were little
historical diverting pamphlets, now
grown wonderful scarce, which Mr.
Burton used to divert himself with,
as he did with other merry little
books, of which there are many in
his benefaction, one of which is
'The History of Tom Thumb.

This "merry, facete, and juvenile"
man, as Anthony Wood styles him,
was born at Lindley, in Leicester
shire, in 1576. Though appointed to
two livings when upwards of forty
years of age, he continued all his life
at Christ Church, Oxford. He died
in 1640, his book having gone through
five editions in his lifetime. In
Hearne's day it was neglected, but
afterwards became popular again.
Let no auction frequenter now expect
to have Hearne's luck in procuring
it for a shilling British.
AUCTIONS AND CATALOGUES.
Much information is to be found
in Mr. Hearne's Mems. concerning
auctions. He says that the first he
can find in which a catalogue was
used was that of Dr. Lazarus Sea
man, whose books brought £700, and
the next, that of the Rev. Thomas
Kitchiner, of Hartfordshire (sic),
which began February 6, 167°. In
November, 1709, the library of the
learned Sir Henry Spelman (1562-
164 L) was sold by auction, together
with the library of Sir Edmund King.
Upwards of 200 MSS. of Sir Henry
were then dispersed, and there are
few English libraries of note which
do not possess some of them.
In 1595, was issued by Andrew
Maunsell, bookseller in Lothbury, a
most useful work, the early precursor
of Lowndes' catalogue, thus intitled,
" The first Part of the Catalogue of
English printed Bookes, which con
cerneth such matters of diuinitie as
have bin either written in our owne
Tongue ortranslated out of anie other
language, and have bin published to
the glory of God and the edification
ofthe Church of Christ in England;
gathered into Alphabet, and such
method as it is, by Andrew Maunsell,
Bookseller." This volume was a thin
folio of 124 pages. The second part,
embracing scientific subjects, followed
it the same year. Alas ! the earnest
Andrew Maunsell, "finding it so
troublesome to get sight of bookes,
and so tedious to digest into any
good methode," never issued the third
volume, which was to include "Gram-
er, Logicke, Rethoricke, Lawe, His
toric, Poetrie, Policie," &c.
Forty-six pages of the appendix of
the "Hearnianse" are occupied
with a catalogue of Hearne's library,
which, as already mentioned, was
presented to the Bodleian.

342

'Thomas -Hearne and Ms -Littte World.

[March,

HEARNE'S » AlLINGS AND MERITS.
In the beginning of this paper was
mentioned the Jacobite tendencies of
Thomas Hearne. Had his life taken
an active instead of a contemplative
turn he would have been a stirring
partizan, and perhaps have left his
head on Sheriff Muir, unless it hap
pened to adorn a spike in the neigh
bourhood of" Her Majesty's Tower."
With the utmost difficulty he could
utter a word in praise of a Williamite
or a Georgite, or a word in dispraise
of a Jacobite. His memorandum
books he looked on as treasures liable
to be searched for, found out, and
used as proofs of disloyalty to the
Governments under which he lived ;
and certainly they would have fur
nished damning proofs. He was in
constant dread of a domiciliary visit
from the College authorities, with in
tent to seise his treasured paper-books,
and lay himself in irons strong. Prob
ably the Heads of Houses never
troubled their heads about his goings
on, as he was chary of unbosoming
himself except when spending a
social evening with some honest*
gentleman, either a non-juring Protes
tant or Roman Catholic clergyman
or man of letters. He more than once
quoted with much complacency a
sentiment expressed by his friend,
Rev. Mr. Joyner, " I love a good old
Protestant, but can't endure a dis
senter." Living a retired life among
his books and manuscripts, he was
subject to resentments a'nd'dislTkiiigs'
of a petty character, which the outer
man of the world, sometimes wr^sl^
ling with his opponents, and some
times receiving good offices at their
hands, or rendering them in turn,
would think beneath him to enter
tain. Readers of the " Heart of Mid
Lothian," who cherish the fine por
trait of Queen Caroline, drawn by the
matchless painter as she conversed
with Argyle and Jeannie Deans, will
not relish our prejudiced antiquary's
report of her, which we hope rested
on a falsehood. *
"Nov. 1, 1729. The , present
Dutchess of Brunswick, -commonly
called Queen Carolineyis'a very proud
woman, and pretends to great sub
tlety and cuaning. She drinks so
hard that. Her spirits are continually
inflamed,' and she is often drunk.

This last summer she went from
Orkney House, near Maidenhead, at
which she had dined, so drunk, that
she needed a bason as she went along,
a thing much noted."
Would a woman of that stamp
have preserved the deep respect of
the fiery, headstrong, inconstant
little king, as she is known to have
done even to the day of her death 1
Among his little failings Mr. Hearne
indulged a strongly developed spirit
of credulity where his darling pre
judices were concerned. Thus he
wrote, August 6, 1706: —
" We have an account from White-
church, in Shropshire, that the dis
senters there having prepared a great
quantity of bricks to erect a capa
cious conventicle, a destroying angel
came by night, and spoyled them all,
and confounded their Babel in the be
ginning, to their great mortification."
Enough is now said to the dis
paragement of the loyal, if prejudiced
man of books. Let us see what Ed
ward Gibbon, whom no one will sus
pect of enthusiasm about a sincere
believer, thought of him.
" The last who has dug deep in to
the mine (of English History) was
Thomas Hearne, a clerk of Oxford,
poor in fortune, and indeed poor in
understanding. His minute and ob
scure diligence, his voracious and un-
distinguishing appetite, and the
coarse vulgarity of his taste and
£tyle, have exposed him to the ridi-
' cule"of idle 'witsfT'f cannot, however,
be denied that Thomas Hearne has
"gathered many gleanings of the har
vest, and if his prefaces are fjjled
with crude and extraneous -nlatter,
his editions will be always recom
mended by their accuracy and use.
. For fidelity, and frequently
for intrinsic worth', Hearne's historical
labours are in all respects admirable.
His judgment in selection may be
sometimes very justly questioned,
anji'his frivolous digressions and half
v crazy conclusions provoke the laugh
ter, if not the wrath of the critic, yet
our obligations to him are great. He
has rescued much from oblivion, if
not from perdition, and forgetting all
the .peculiarities, if not weaknesses of
the man, we must unite in bestowing
our heartiest commendations on the
editor.

* This word, as used by Thomas Hearne and his sympathisers, meant faithful to the
descendants of James IT.

1869.]

rEha-¥hwti>*'&>ydrr3ti2^^

343

" His works which present us with
portions of history, chiefly local, are
now coveted by the antiquary, and
respected by the scholar. The
ridicule and satire which once pur
sued the person and the publications of
the author are now forgotten, and
Hearne stands on a pedestal which
may be said to have truth and honour
for its basis."
Dr. Dibdin considered no biblio
maniac truly wrapped in Swansdown,
until he possessed a set of Hearne's
works on large paper, and clothed in
primitive calf or good Morocco.
In the portrait which accompanies
the work, we find a good intellectual
forehead, strongly-marked eye-brows,
piercing and brilliant eyes, but the
other features of the most ordinary
type. Observation and research are
evident in the whole expression, but
not a trace of poetry, or one of its
essential qualities, imagination.
The editing of this remarkable book
could not have fallen under the care of
a gentleman better qualified for the
task by regard for the subject and.
evident pleasure in the task, the result
of interest taken in the labours of an
ancient fellow-collegian, and in the
honour of the glorious old institution
itself. He does not seek to conceal
the weaknesses and strong prejudices

of Hearne, but he omits nothing that
can conduce to his credit as an earnest
and conscientious labourer in the
field of archaeological science. He
has enhanced the value of the work
by judicious notes, elucidating and
sometimes correcting mistakes in the
statements. He has reprinted the
catalogue of Hearne's library, and
furnished a full and most useful
index— specially useful to a work of
such a disjointed structure as this is.
We have not been able to give more
than a glimpse of the varied con
tents. For the curious pieces of
news of the day, some requiring a
yery strong belief in the recipient,
interesting information concerning
defunct and contemporaneous char
acters in literature and other walks,
and for the many anecdotes told in
disparagement of Whigs and dis
senters, we must refer our readers to
the three nicely got-out volumes.
The publisher to whom archaeology
is as much indebted as poetry to the
Moxon Family has spared no pains
to produce a work grateful to the
eyes and fingers of Bibliophilists and
Bibliomaniacs. Such possessors of
archaeological libraries as neglect to
secure copies till the work is re
ported O.P., need expect but little of
our sympathy.

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¦yV^N the Dublin manager looked
over nfe^available cards previous to
the opening of the season of 1845-
46, he foundYliem sadly diminished
in number and vahje . Tyrone Power,
still unreplaced, hacNpsappeared for
more than two years un8«rthe billows
of the Atlantic. Mr. andnirs. Wood
had retired into private life, a*id the
Keans were in America, follov
up a brilliant tour, as yet not
completed. There were new^rlames
in the list of London celebrities, but
several of the most ppelninent were
only dawning into^notice. "Time
and the hour" were yet wanting to
plant them steadily in the Irish me
tropolis. /
Mr. Jgalcraft commenced his six-
teenincampaign on Saturday, Oct.
8^1845, with, for the first time, anew

English version of Donizetti's
of " Lucia di Lammermoor;LK2U<cia,
by Mrs. Alban Croft ;Jw William
Ashton, Mr. Alban Croft. Four years
had elapsed since^their former visit.
The representative of Edgar Ravens-
wood ¦wapAffl.r. J. Sims Reeves, it
being-Ms first appearance in Dublin.
was then comparatively in his
novitiate, but at once gave evidence
" extraordinary powers, and laid the
fou^ation of the fame he subse-
quentr^attained. Many predicted,
without ns§jtation, that his fresh,
noble voice, afti^d by experience and
cultivation, woulcF^fihice him in the
position he soon acqhirad and has
permanently maintained/^ the best
English tenor since the be&tdays of
Braham. This engagementSasted
thirteen nights, and was followea

344

[March,

bat of Madame Vestris and Mr. C.
athews. On their second appear
ance the admission to the dress boxes
wasVeduced to four shillings,fi rst price ;
two shillings, second price ; at which
scale ft thenceforward remained.
Durmg the fifteen performances
of Madame Vestris and C. Mathews,
several Bght pieces, written exclu
sively foAthem, were produced in
rapid succession. Douglas Jerrold's
five-act comedy of "Time works Won
ders" had bean reserved for this op
portunity. ' iK pleased moderately,
but excited no enthusiasm, and only
obtained four ^repetitions. " The
Golden Fleece," \ne of Planches
most successful burlesques, on a clas
sical subject, was hem back for the
last night, and fell rather flat. This
style of extravaganza,, for which
Planch^ had a special talent, greatly
followed in London, lost i\s peculiar
charm on our side of the\channel.
Mr. Dennis Leonard playedNfor six
nights, from the 17th to the ZBnd of
November, and on Monday the >!4th,
Mr. Macready, who had not v&ited
Dublin for nearly four years, appeared
as Hamlet ; the Queen by Mrs. T^r-
nan, whose services were retains
for this particular occasion.
On Saturday, December 6th, Mr.
Macready performed, for the first
time in Dublin, his celebrated original
charstcter of Cardinal Richelieu, in
Sir E. L. Buhver's play of thfe same
name, which was repeated/on the
following Tuesday. This/was the
only novelty. The engagement occu
pied sixteen nights, on Ml of which
the theatre was well filled. On his
return from Belfast, Mr. Macready
played Hamlet on the 20th of De
cember ; this formed; an additional
night. The house then closed until
the Christmas holidays. On Friday,
December 26th, ihe annual panto
mime was produced, with the now
equally annualiBoleno family. The
spectacular opening, written by Cap
tain Leicester/Vernon, on the subject
of the French Biche aux Bois, and
called the f Enchanted Fawn," was
generally ^considered the best that
had been' exhibited for many years.
In addition to the usual magnifi
cent scenery and many new mechan
ical inventions of a startling charac
ter, tne dialogue abounded in point,
humour, and smart incidental appli
cations. This pantomime had an un
interrupted run of thirty-two nights.

On Saturday, the 17th of January,
1846, Miss Helen Faucit appeared as
Antigone in the lyrical tragedy from
the Greek, so successfully produced
for her during the precedingvear. On
the following Monday, MffCreswick,
from the Theatre Royalf Liverpool,
who was engaged to play the corres
ponding parts with/her, presented
himself as Romeo, And was flatter
ingly received. Oil the 27th, Mr.
Henry Farren, son of the long-re
spected favourit/e, William Farren,
made his first appearance as Nicholas
Flam, Attornery-at-Law, one of his
father's origiijal creations. On the
29th he acteol Modus iu the " Hunch
back," and/on the 31st, Touchstone
in " As You Like It." On the 4th
of February, a new tragedy by A., S.
Troughton, esq., was produced called
" Nina/Sforza," of which character
Miss H. Faucit had been the original
representative in London. It was re
peated two nights after, but not asked
for/a third time.
/On Thursday, February 12th, His
Excellency Lord Heytesbury, the
'Lord Lieutenant, visited the theatre
in state, and commanded the " Hunch
back," with the farce of " Young
England." The house was well at
tended, and all passed off tranquilly.
^It was a novelty to get through a
Command Night without an exten-
sWe impounding of sticks at the pit
door, or the occasional episode of
Kentish fire, variegated with shouts
for O'Connell and "Repale" from the
gallenes. Miss H. Faucit's engage
ment, \yith renewals, extended alto
gether \o thirty-one nights, and was
the most successful she had yet
played in\ Dublin. "Antigone"
showed no \ymptoms of waning at
traction, ancl was repeated eight
times. On thA16th of February the
manager took ^J£ing John " for his
benefit, not actecl for fifteen years.
On this night, Mis\H. Faucit under
took the Lady Consbance for the first
time. It was a great success, and
twice repeated. She also appeared as
'The Lady in " Comus "\n her own
night. The name of JSfilton, the
beauty of the poetry, and iih§ charm
of Dr. Arne's music, have aster and
anon led to the revival of this re
nowned Masque, but the resufl
always been unproductive to Mhe
managers and disappointing to rfce
public. During the long series of classica\

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