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HARVARD COLLEGE 
LIBRARY 




FROM THE BEQUEST OF 

MRS. ANNE E. P. SEVER 
OF BOSTON 

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THE EAGLE 



A MAGAZINE 



SUPPORTED BY 



MEMBERS OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE 



VOL XXIX 

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CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

Notes from the College Recx>rds — continued .1 

Strada d'Allemagna ..... 33 

Sketches .34 

The Dromedary ..... 40 

Alma Mater .41 

Confessions from the Memoirs of Mr Primrose 45 

A Lament .50 

Corstopitum ...... 51 

Sir Robert Calder .58 
Obituary : 

Professor Thomas Wilson Dougan M.A. 64 

Rev Canon Charles Isaac Atherton, M.A. . .65 

The Johnian Dinner 1907 .... 71 

Our Chronicle .73 

The Library ...... 120 

List of Subscribers, 1907-8 

Frontispiece — 

Our Jubilee ..... 125 

To The Eagle .128 

Notes from the College Records — Continued 130 

The Art of Poetry .162 

After Seventy Years ..... 164 

A Warning ...... 168 

A Rowing Nightmare . 170 

Ghost-Ballad .174 

Allegory ...... 175 

The Hill-Altar .195 



iv. CONTENTS. 

Obituary : PAGE 

Rev Frank Dyson M.A. .... 199 

Sir Denzil Charles Jelf Ibbetson K.C.S.I. . .201 

Rev WiUiam Taylor Newbold M.A. ... 205 

Rev Edward Woodley Bowling .... 208 

For the Year ..... 218 

Our Chronicle .227 

The Library ...... 265 

Notes from the College Records — continued 269 

To a Compositor ..... 300 

Sonnet . . . .301 

lihe Commemoration Sermon .... 302 

The Vanguard .308 

From Catullus 309 

Rhodope . -310 

The Contents of a Letter Box .... 318 

The Tod 325 

Toothache ...... 329 

A Conservative Utopia ..... 334 

Mr Stephens ..... 336 

Thoughts on a Sense of Humour .... 339 

Obituary : 

Sir John EUot, K.C.I.E. .... 341 

Rev Alfred James Poynder M.A. 349 

The Very Rev William Hagger Barlow D.D. . 351 

Thomas Darlington M.A. . 364 

Our Chronicle ..... 373 

The Library ,404 



THE EAGLE. 

October Term jgoy. 




NOTES FROM THE COLLEGE RECORDS. 

(Continued from Vol, xxviii., pa^e 27S)> 

\E commence this instalment with a letter from 
Robert Beaumont, Master of Trinity, to Sir 
William Cecil. In it, it will be observed that 
he recommends the appointment of Leonard Pilkington 
to the Mastership of St John's in succession to James 
Pilkington, who had been appointed the first protestant 
Bishop of Durham. Leonard Pilkington was a son of 
Richard Pilkington ; he took the B.A. degree in 1543-4, 
and was admitted Fellow of the College 24 March 
I544-5* He was appointed a College Preacher on the 
feast of St Michael 1552, being then in Deacon's orders. 
During the reign of Queen Mary he was ejected from 
his fellowship, and, retiring beyond the seas, married 
there. On the accession of Queen Elizabeth he returned, 
and, his wife being dead, was re-admitted a Senior 
Fellow of the College 27 December 1559. He made 
the usual subscription before receiving Priest's orders 
from the Bishop of Ely 24 November 1560. 

VOL. XXIX. B 



2 Notes from the College Records. 

He compounded for First Fruits as Rector of 
Middleton-in-Teasdale 4 March 1 560-1, and as Rector 
of Whitburn 12 May 1563, both benefices being in the 
County of Durham. He was admitted Master of St 
John's 19 October 1561. It would appear from the 
Bishop's letter that the change from Middleton to the 
College must have been a pleasant one, but he did not 
hold the office long, nor was his rule very successful, 
and his brother probably gave him the Rectory of 
Whitburn as a solatium^ collating him also to the 
seventh prebendal stall in Durham Cathedral i August 
1567. He held both livings and his prebend until his 
death. His will is dated 16 November 1598 and was 
proved 8 September 1599, between which dates he must 
have died. He presented a few books to the College 
Library, in each of which is a written slip with the 
inscription: "Ex dono grauissimi viri Leonardi 
Pilkington sacrae theologiae Doctoris, qui olim huius 
Collegii Praefectus fuit." 

The letters from James Pilkington to Cecil point to 
an unsettled diocese, and we may suppose him to have 
been sincere in his wish that he were back again as 
a Sizar of St John's. . 

My bownden dewtie with all humbleness premised. It 
may like your honor to understande that I have sent here- 
with, as ye required, a minister redie and glad to reade 
commune prayers unto your familie, but also to do any 
other thinge which your honor knoweth maye stande with 
his vocation. He is a young Master of Arte, acquainted with 
fewe, but well reported of the godly. I have knowne hinx 
long and truste ye shall finde him faithfull and serviceable, 
he committeth himself wholly to your honor to serve with or 
without wages. 

I beseche yo.ur honor continue your mindefulnes tovvardes 
the Kinges College here, to the spedie comfort and refor- 
mation of that worshipful howse: I wish with all my heart 
Mr Daye to the Kinges College, Mr Leonard Pilkington to 
S. John's, Mr Newton to Jesus College and Mr Robinson or 



Notes from the College Records. 3 

Mr Hutton to Pembroke Hall, then should licentious youthe 
be kepte in awe, learninge floorishe and pure religion take 
better roote to the confusion of our epicurers and carelesse 
worldlinges. I doubte not but your honor will beare with 
myne earnestnes, specially in a thinge so necessarie to this 
erased nourcerie of so noble a Royalme. 

If it maye please your honor to see the copies of the 
Kinges and Queues College grauntes of their backsides, 
I have sent them herewith beseeching your honor so to 
move the Queues Majestie towarde this her grace's College, 
that afore the Townes men enioye their privileges, our backe 
grene on this and thother side of the river may be excepted, 
or if them gotten with such reasonable conditions, as may be 
agreed on before they have their lettres patentes, for elles 
we shall never get it at their handes. I wolde be contented 
to have never a peny in all the worlde so that I might see in 
my tyme the College enioye so necessarie a commoditie for 
so great a nombre. 

I lately moved your honor concerninge the election of our 
Almes men, x or xj commended by Queue Marie are registered, 
but withowt the knowledge of the Master or any of the 
Seniors, savinge only the Burser, which put them into the 
Register; the which notwithstandinge, we thinke we may 
chuse one for another, therefore I beseche your honor peruse 
the Statute, sent by this bearer and tell him your advise. 
The lorde Jesus longe preserve your honour to the main- 
tenance of his true religion and the necessarie staye of this 
Universite. From Cambridge the xxiiijth of September 1561. 
Your most€ bounden at commandement, 
Robert Beaumont. 

Addressed: To the right honorable Sir William Cecill, 
knight, principal Secretarie to the Queues highnes and 
Chancelor of the Universite of Cambridge. 

Endorsed: 24 September 1561, Mr Beaumont to my 
Master, Cambridge. 



Gratia et Pax. Paulus cum bestiis pugnavit Ephesi, ego 
hie imperium habeo in belluas, vtinajn cum Paulo vincar-. 
The more 1 trie the more grefes I finde. Godd be mercifuil 



4 Notes from the College Records, 

to us, here is a double jurisdiction and whither is more trouble 
son I wel know not, onelie I wTastel sub spem coram spem as 
Abraham did. Mr Fletewood surelie hais done gudd here 
for the time, iff I might have such a helper I wolde not dowte 
by God's help to conquer mani things. Iff it please your 
honor to understand the state of the cuntr>'e he can certifie 
you at fulle in writting, possible it were I shudd touche those 
things which your honor wold not most gladU understand. 
But in mi iudgement this I see, that here nedes rather 
authoritie and power to be given, than taken awai. Thei 
understand the taking awai of the bishop's li\ing, wherebi 
his power is the lesse, and so lesse is he regardet. Therle of 
Westmerland lies not here, the Lord Ewri is of no grete 
power, the bishop is not able as he is wonte, who is there 
than to be afraid off? I am afraid to think what may folow 
iff it be not f oresene. The worshipful of the shire is few and 
of smal power; the people rude and heddi, and bi these 
occasions more bold. I can not finde 10 hable Justices of 
Peace of wisdom and authorite off nather religion, the weake 
state of this cuntre therfor bi this, your wisdom mai better 
consider. 

Iff Mr Menel and other, refusing the othe of their 
allegeance, mai be on the counsel in authoritie still, and 
have their doings for gudd, it will encorage other to the 
like or wurs. I am not much skilled in politic myselfe and 
am not able to kepe about me mani such as be, nauther 
in peace nor warre, therfor gudd service must nedes faile 
thogh my will were never so gudd. I beseche your honor 
lett me have the favour in finding these offices off wardes that 
mai be, for it shulde gett me more freinds in the cuntrye. 
I understand that certain whiche felle afore mi predecessor's 
death, bi law mai be turned to me bi your gudd gentil help 
and fauor. 

There is a bridge, called Crof te bridge, betwix this cuntr>'e 
and Richmondshire, so decaied that it is not like to stande all 
winter. Grete summes of monei were gethered long agoe for 
the repairing off it. A litell was bestawed but the great part 
remanes in mennes handes and the bridge not regardet. Iff 
it fall there is no passage possible, what nede so ever be. 
Bi commission it were sonne tried, what was bestawed and 



Notes from the College Records. 5 

what remanes. I beseeche you think on it. I cannot tell 
whether menne mervail more to see a poore, or preaching, 
bishop here; and the outward pompe and power taken 
awaie make other much bolder. 

I trust your honor hais disburdened me off S. Joannis afor 
this, Godd grant theim a gudd one. Mi brother Leonard's 
benefice here lies so nere to theves, having not a hedgg 
betwix him and Tinedale that none dare lie there almost, 
and in winter speciallie. It is pite to here the evill report 
off mis-using the provision of victuals at Berwic for the 
sowdiers if ye enquire of other that will trooli speke as they 
doe here (for I wolde not utter that I here) ye will think all 
is not well. I beseche your honour either stai thexchang of 
Holden, or els that it mai be with lest losse possible. I am 
willed once again to send up the processe that came from 
your Court of Wardes unserved because the direction semet 
to empeche some liberties, as they think, here, being directed 
to the Shireff and not to me, thei trust your honor will not 
be offendet, because the Shireff hais no attornei there and 
three of the parties are come up to answer theimselves and 
the ladie Hilton and BuUen her husband be and have bene 
prisoners long in London and there mai be found at your 
pleasure. I have hadd private conferens with therle of 
Westmerland for his manage, he has declared his autors and 
counsellors, I have said something to the contrari, butt I had 
rather other menne shuld be iudges openlie lest he shuld 
think me an evill neighbour, and where yet we agre wel 
peraventure afterward he might change. 

Ther, for this time, I bidde you farewell and daili in mi 
praiers commend your estate to God's holi tuition, that ye 
mai serve the reame to God's glorie. Iff I mai doe you 
pleasure ye mai worthili command; 13 October. 

Your assured in the lord 
Ja: Duresme. 

Addressed: To the honorable Sir William Cicil, Secretari 
to the Queues Maiestie. 

Endorsed: 13 October 156 L B, of Durham. Concerning 
matters in the North. 



6 Notes from the College Records, 

Gratia et Pax. Most honorable, 1 received letters from 
Mr Sacvile wherein he willes to know mi estate in Howden, 
and the clere valor thereof, making mention of the sute of 
Sir Francis Jopson. I have answered to the effect that 
1 dyd afore to your Honor. 1 will not sai much in it, 
bicause I will not seme to seke mine owne profet oneU, butt 
for the state of the cuntri, that it mai be well governed, 
1 shall sai ferther as I beganne in mi last letters unto your 
Honor, and leave it ferther to your wisdom to consider. 
For the nature of the people, I wolde not have thoght there 
hadd bene so froward a generation in this reame. I doe 
not see that thei will be ruled without a grete power and of 
him whom thei feare. Thei see how small the Bishop's 
power is, and therefor thei contemne it. I am growen into 
such displeasure with theim, part for religion and part for 
ministring the othe of the Queues Superiorite, that I know 
not wither thei like me wurs, or I theim. So gret dissembling, 
so poisonfull tonges and malicious mindes I have not sene. 
Sergeant Memel (and others whose names be returned to my 
Lord Keper), that refused to swere allegiance to the Quenes 
Highnes, remaning on the Counsel at Yorke, and such grete 
authorites, makes mani to think evil of mi doings, bicause 
I will not suffer him to rule here as he hais done. I have 
not herd wurs reports of a manne than of him, that toke 
lesse paines for so grete profets, and yet thei that be like him 
and his freinds, be sore offendet that he mai not bere out 
theim and thei him, as thei be wonte. I am moch destitute 
of gudd officers, and specialli a lawyer, and can get none, 
bicause the fees are small. I am not able to encrese theim, 
and the commodities that shudd otherwise help to recompense 
their paines, are gone and delt among theim. I miselfe am 
unskilful, and therefor must thinges be out of order. The 
temporal juridiction is mi chefe trouble; the Chaunceller's 
fee (that served both in ecclesiasticall and temporall causes) 
is but 40 marcs. All thofficers fees of the Chaunceri be but 
j£14. The Shireffes fee jG20. Yet all Chauncellors were 
promoted to 5S400 at the lest. Sergent Memel with his £14 
purchased £400 lande. The Shireffe now having no lande, 
hais so many fermes of the Bishop that he is the welthiest in 
the cuntre and rules all. Mi ecclesiastical Chaunceler is 



Notes from the College Records. 7 

a poore scholer. For the temporal Chaunceller 1 have en- 
treated Mr Deane for a time. Mi attornie in the Chauncerie 
Mr Laiton, one of Graies Inne, if your Honor remember him. 
The Shirefe having all he lokes for, I think will not long 
continue in it, and all commodities being gone I know none 
that will of frendship doe ani thing in ani of these, the 
troubles being so grete, the complaints so mani, the rude 
importunite of the peple so incredible, mi experiens so 
unhable to determine theim, that the grefes and cares of 
theim, where I had a litell witte at my coming, now have 
left me almost none. I speke these for this purpose, that the 
cuntre, rather than I, shuld be considered. If the people 
were well ruled, I wold I were a Siser in S. Johannis. The 
Queue does not take awai so faste, but everi one here goes 
about to encroche on me and make a hand for theimselves, 
thinking all will awai, and I see no remedi but I must auther 
trie the lawe with divers of the mightest, or else lose a grete 
portion of mi right. Howsoever it will prove in the ende, 
and sureli the law here is endet as a name is freindet. 
I beseche your Honor consider the nakednes of this cuntre 
of gudd governors, and put to your helping hande in time. 
Mi dutie compels me to sai thus muche. I beseche your 
Honor lett me have your favourable helpe for such Wardes 
as be due unto me. If I might have the holle number of 
theim, I wolde have a schole master for theim in my howse^ 
and teche theim some thing to know Godd. I am the 
boulder to trouble your Honor with mani words bicause the 
' mater is weightie, commen, and not private. The Lord for 
his merci sake preserve you long in honor to the lucki 
finishing of that ye have godli begunne, 14 November 1561. 

Yours 
}a. ^uveX/icv. 

The last dai of my visitation a young preist being called 
with his church wardens to take his othe, as the rest, to 
present such fautes as were amisse according to the Queues 
injunctions, refused to swere, bicause he said those injunctions, 
hang on a farther authorite, which he could not alow. This 
he spake openlie afore all the peple, rejoising much at his 
owne doings. After in communication afore a grete number^ 



8 Notes from the College Records. 

he said that he thought that nauther temporal! manne nor 
woman could have power in spirituall maters, but oneli the 
Pope of Rome. This boldnes the peple growe into, bicause 
thei see that such as refuse to acknowlege their due allegians, 
escape not oneli punishment, butt are hadd in autorite and 
estimation. I can not tell whither the cuntre will indite him 
or no that parte. In doing my dutie I forgete my dutie to 
trouble your Honor so long, but surelie these thinges in mi 
opinion wold not be lightli overpassed. Yet ones again 
I take mi leave, and commend your Honor to the Almightie, 
who ever blesse your doings 

Yours assured in the Lord to command 
Ja. ZvviKfiiv, 
Addressed: To the Right Honorable Sir William Cicil, 
these, Secretari to the Queues Majestic. 



Gratia et Pax. With much adoe I have broght this 
warrant for mie restitution thus farre, itt restes now thatt 
as your honor haies well begune itt, so your gudnes wold 
luckilie finish itt. Thei have mie bond to pai so much yereli 
to the Queues Majestie and wold nott sett their hands to itt 
afore ; the grete mater nowe restes for the Queues highnes 
to assigne itt that itt mai passe the greate seale. I am now 
licensed to walke and dare goe abroade in to gardins and 
whan your honor comes to the towne again 1 trust to see you 
and further to talke with you. In the meane time as your 
honor sees occasion ye mai use this warrant and the soner 
that itt is dispatched the soner I shall be able to satisfie your 
request. Thus commending you and your doings to him 
thatt rules all, I cease 

Your honours most bounden 
Ja: Duresme. 

Addressed: To the right honorable Sir William Cecill 
chefe Secretarie to the Quenes Majestie. 

Endorsed: 23 May 1566. Bishop of Duresme to my 
Master for the assignment of the bill for the lands deteyned. 



The following document, without signature or date, 
is clearly a memorial sent to Cecil by some Vice -Chan- 



Notes from the College Records, 9 

cellor ; this may very well have been Robert Beaumont, 
Vice- Chancellor in 1564 and again for part of 1566. 

An account of the University Chests will be found 
in Mr J. W. Clark's Endormtnenls of the UniversUy of 
Cambridge. There were at least seven such chests, the 
object being to allow poor students to contract temporary 
loans without interest, the donor giving a sum of money 
and a box to keep it in. A Master of Arts could borrow 
tos.y a Bachelor 20^., and a Scholar one mark; the 
borrower depositing as pledge a book or object of value, 
but this caution should always have been of greater 
value than the amount of the loan. If the pledge was 
not redeemed the University sold it, recouped itself, and 
returned the balance to the debtor ; in fact the Chests 
formed a kind of academical pawn shop. 

We gather from the Memorandum that the rise in 
prices was rendering official stipends (fixed by Statute) 
inadequate. It is instructive to note that, although this 
fact was well known, the Commissioners of Queen 
Elizabeth paid no attention to it, and proceeded about 
this time to frame fresh Statutes, fixing stipends and 
prescribing duties in the most rigid manner. 

A note of diverse disorders needful to be reformed. 
In the beginning of Michelmas terme, when all lectures 
sholde have begonne, three of the lecturers chosen in June 
before, for Rhetoricke, Philosophye and Mathematikes, viz. 
Mr Hammonde, Mr Bille, Mr Swale utterly refused to reade, 
and neyther by any perswasion, intreaty or threateninge 
wolde be broght to take uppon them their chardges, no nor 
to substitute any for them. It was muche that they weare 
content to suffer the Universitye to appoynt sustitutes in their 
place. The stipend of each of these lectures is fower poundes 
a yeare, for which they that be of any standinge and almost 
of sufficiency disdayne to take paynes seeing they can have 
as much for teaching of an ordinary Pupille, as some of them 
have tolde us, and perhaps for being his Tutor and not 
teaching him at all. 

2. In the beginning of November, when I ertrede into 
VOL. XXIX. C 



10 Notes from the College Records, 

myne office, I understood of the greate disorder in keapinge 
of the Universities Chestes, in which are certaine sommes of 
monyc geven of olde tyme to that ende that small portions 
might be lent to poore studentes uppon sufficient cautiones. 
The accomptes of these chestes sholde have bene finished 
by statute hnef ore I came into office, but for these many yearcs 
through the disorder erf many keepers, which make a common 
bancke of these Chestes to their private proftttes, they have 
bene deferred for halfe the yeare, and sometymes more ; Yea, 
somet3maes perhappes no accompt taken at all. I my selfe have 
been chosen Auditor of some of them, diverse years, but 
never heard any accompt, neyther was I called to any, as 
longe as I continewed in the Towne. Being desirous 
therefore to reforme this greate abuse, I determined to heare 
all the accomptes of those Chestes my selfe, but although 
I used as great severitye as I colde, by thre itening imprison- 
ment of the Keapers, yett colde I not dispatch scarce in twoe 
monethes that which might well have bene done in twoe dayes. 
In hearinge the accompts I founde that the monye for the 
most parte (as apered by the cautiones) was lent out to 
gentelmen of the cuntrye, or occupyers of the towne. Yea, 
certeyne sommes not having the names of any schollers 
entred in the booke for them, as is commonly used to coUor 
the matter. I founde also that mony borowed by the 
Universitye, and repayed to one of these Chestes, is nowe 
Aowhere extant and, that which is directly contrary to the 
Chest Keaper^s othe, instede of a caution of silver or golde, 
I found an obligation of inke and parchment Besyde some 
cautiones verye harde and some playnely defective for such 
sommes as weare borowed uppon them. And in my con- 
science, there was not one cautione so much better in valewe 
then the money lent out uppon it, as it ought to be by the 
Statute. And yett was ther^ amongst the Chestes fower or 
five hundreth poundes lent out, which sommes of money it is 
thought by wise men might be better imployed uppon 
a purchase to increase the Lecturers stipendes, which 
accordinge to these tymes are verye small. Or at leastwise 
might be borrowed by the Universitye as it was in King 
Edwarde*s tyme to the same intent, and repayed by some 
small portions yearely untill the whole weare answered. 



Kolcs ffom the Collegt Reconh, 11 

3. Where it was thought convenient by all heades of 
CoUedges for the better examinatione of such as sholde 
procede Bachilers that the nomber of examiners sholde be 
increased, seeing the nombre of Bachilers is almost tenne 
tymes as many as used to proceade when twoe examyners were 
thought sufficient, this matter propounded to the bodye of 
the Universitye, it was utterly reiected, so we colde have but 
twoe examiners for more then twoe hundreth Bachilers to 
examine them in fow^ dayes. 

4. These, twoe examiners, in their bill of reiectlon, gave 
up the names of almost the one halfe of the examinates, and 
afterwards for mony, allowed them all save one. 

5. Where as of olde tyme, suche as weare forwarde in 
leaminge made greate sute that they might be disputers la 
the Commencements of Bachilers and Masters, nowe that 
office is generally disdayned of all menne, so that the Proctors 
neyther for frendshippe, nor for monye, colde procure any to 
dispute, so that they were fayne to crave ayde of me ; And 
I enforced to laye that chardge uppon the Lecturers of Logike, 
Rhetorike and Philosophy, enioyning the Proctores to geve 
them tenne shillinges apece for their paynes. 

6. Whereas all the Bachilers (except up)on necessary 
cause of sickness, or like urgent occasion) ought to stande in 
the scholes all the Lent to be opposed untill the latter Acte,. 
the Proctors use to dispense with them for mony, so that not 
the one halfe of them that proceade doe stande as they ar& 
bounde by StatuteSi. 

7. Where the Proctores colde by no meanes procure any 
one disputer in Philosophy for the Commencement of Mastersi 
I was inforced to call before me and the heades of CoUedges 
so many Masters of Arte of the wh.... (paper torn).. .University 
as were thought able menne for those places and to suspend 
tenne or twelve of them from their degrees and to committ 
them to the Bedelles to be carryed to prison, before any one 
wolde relent to take that chardge uppon them.. 

8. Beside all these, the excesse of apparell, the excesse of 
banquetting and rioting of scholers, neglect of payment of 
Commons, the neglect of preachinge of ordinary sermones 



12 Notes from the College Records. 

and diverse other abuses, for \ehicfa eyther there is no punish- 
ment, or els to smalle mulct, by the Statutes of the Universitye 
and of particuler Colledges. 

Endorsed: Disorders to be reformed in the University 
of Cambridge. 

(The document has no signature, address, or date). 



To my lovinge freindes D. Beaumont Vicechaunclor 
and to the rest of the heades of Colleges in Cambridge. 
After my very hartie comendacions £where for as much as 
in the common opinion of the best] as the lightnes and 
disorder of your youthe as well in apparell as other behaviour 
is not onely a great hinderance to learninge and a token of 
£reat negligence in ther overseers bothe publicke and private 
but also a staye [at this daye] of manie mennes charities who 
yf these thinges weere more moderatly used and reformed 
wold deale muche more liberally with the poorest sort there 
[as in many plaices sondry doe affirme and pronounce], these 
may be to require youe, and onely in everye one of your 
severall houses, but [you] also [that rest] publickly in 
assistinge the Vicechaunceller to see all suche lightness and 
disordered behaviour represed [presently, and good order 
hereafter contynued] that learninge beinge joyned with 
^odlines, modestie and the glad embracinges of good orders, 
ye may reape [such fruites] and profitably serve to these 
endes whereunto those godly foundations were first erected, 
your diligence and conformities herein shall move me to be 
[in my doynges] more carefuU for your matters abrode 
although in minde I can be no more. And thus I byd you 
hartely well to fayre this xjth of November 1566. 

Endorsed: 12 November 1566. Copy of my master's 
letter to the Vichancellor and reste of the heades in 
Cambridge for reformation of disorders in apparrell. 

Note. The words in square brackets are corrections in 
Cecil's own handwriting. 



The following letter from Matthew Parlcer, Arch- 
bishop of Canterbury, to Cecil, shews that the Warden 



Notes from ilie College Records^ 13 

of the Collegiate Church of Manchester was willing to 
surrender the possessions of that body to the Queen, 
and that, if the scheme had been carried out, the 
endowments might have come to St John's. 

Sir, I understand by the Warden of Manchester Colledge, 
who being very wearie to continue that Colledge with such 
incumbrance as he hath had therby, and hath no hope to be 
releaved hereafter of his trowble except he betraieth that 
Colledge with giving over a lease of the best landes yt hathj 
and he being nowe desirous to relinquishe yt to her Majesties 
disposicion to be converted to sum College in Cambrige, 
who might hereafter send owte sum preachers to inhabite 
that quarter and also by the rest of the revenue maintaine 
sum students. If it please your honor to move her highnes 
to this alteration, I think you shoulde doe a good dede, and 
wheare yowe weare brought upp for the first beginninge of 
your studies in St John's Colledge, I thinke yowe shoulde 
showe yourselfe a good benefactor to torne this Lande 
thereto, with what condicion of order as might seme best to 
your wisdome. And thus wishinge yowe asmuch grace to 
Godwarde as to myself, I committ you to his protection.. 
From my house at Cauntorberie this forth of Maye 

Your loving frende in God 
Matthue Cantuar. 

Addressed: To the right honorable Sir William Cecil, 
knight, principal Secretarie to the Queenes Majestie. 

Endorsed: 4 May 1570. Archbishop of Canterbury to my 
Master ; for the house of Manchester to be assigned to some 
>Colledge. 



The following letter from Andrew Perne, Master of 
Peterhouse and Vice-Chancellor of the year, is interest- 
ing from its reference to the fact that, owing to the 
prevalence of the Plague at Cambridge, the members of 
St John's were living at Hilton. This is a village in 
Huntingdonshire! south of St Ives. The College had 
then, and still has, a farm there. It will be observed 
•that Perne connects the Plague with the State of the 



14 ' Notes from the College Records. 

King's Ditch. In a previous letter to Burghley (printed 
in Cooper's Annals of Cambridge^ ii, 322-3, from the 
Lansdowne MSS.) he refers to ** the corruption of the 
King's Ditch." This ditch, dating from the time of 
King John, was meant for the defence of the Town on 
the south and east, the river being the defence on the 
west. It began at the Mill Pool by the Silver Street 
Bridge, ran up Mill Lane, crossed Trumpington Street 
into Pembroke Street, leaving this at the corner of the 
Chemical Laboratory, where the Spittal or Almshouses 
stood, running across the site of the New Museums to 
a point between St Andrew's Church and the Post 
Office, thence along Hobson Street, across Jesus Lane, 
down Park Street, and joining the river again opposite 
Magdalene College. Towards the end of the sixteenth 
century it had clearly become an open and offensive 
sewer. Perne sent with his letter to Lord Burghley two 
schemes for bringing running water into this ditch. 
The first suggested bringing water from Trumpington 
Ford, that being the point where the water course from 
the Nine Wells at Shelford crosses the Trumpington 
Road at the end of Brooklands Avenue. This plan was 
ultimately carried out in 16 10. The other plan involved 
taking the water at the Kings Mills, these being the 
Mills above the pool by the Silver Street bridge. With 
these two proposals are preserved plans, but these do not 
lend themselves to reproduction in the pages of the Eagle. 

By his will, Perne left ;^io towards the cost of 
bringing water from the Trumpington Ford to the 
King's Ditch. 

There does not seem to be any entry in the College 
Accounts distinctly pointing to a residence at Hilton, 
so far as can be discovered they appear to have been 
kept exactly as usual, though perhaps some unusual 
entry may lurk in the mass. 

My dutie in most humble wise remembred vnto your 
honor. Theis shalbe to certefie the same that the vniuersitie 
is returned againe to theire accustomed exercises of lerning 



Notes from the College Records, 15 

in the scholes, at the begginninge of this terme, which was 
the xiijih. of this January, savinge the schollers of St John's 
Colledge, the which continewe in their exercised at Hilton^ 
the which I wishe should remaine there still vntill the Towne 
be more clere of the plage, for the which we have taken the 
best order that we can to kepe the sicke from the whole. 
And yet the porer sorte for the great desire that theie haue 
to enjoye the contynewance of the relief that is charitably 
made for such howshouldes as be visited, or that dwelleth 
nere vnto them, that theie should not goe abroad, theie do 
wickedly labour so much as theie can by goinge abroade in 
the night tyme to contynewe the plage, wherefor we thinke 
it good to put all those that be poore, that are or shalbe sicke, 
into one place where theie shall haue all thinges necessary, 
owte of the which theie shall not goe vntill it shalbe thought 
convenyent. All the CoUedges, thankes be to God, are 
hitherto free from the plage. There hath died in the Towne 
of the plage sithence my last certeficates, which was the 
xvj of December, vntill this daie, eleven, in Trinity parish 
only. I trust in God that this froste will so purefye the 
whole, and consume the infected, that T trust the wourst 
is past, or elles we shalbe compelled to breke vpp againe, the 
which will be a great decaye and hinderinge of lerninge in 
the vniuersitie, and the vtter vndoinge of the Towne, whereof 
I would be right sory. 

I have accordinge'to your honors commaundment provided 
a workeman from Lynn for the takinge of the leavell of the 
grounde at Trumpington Forde to cdnveye that water into 
the Kinges ditch, for the scowringe the same, whose advise 
and iudgment I do send to your honour here inclosed. There 
is one other in Cambridge who hath taken a leavell, from the 
mylles in Cambridge, to conveye that water into the saide 
Kinges ditch, the which beinge nerer adjoininge together 

maie be done by lesser charge, whose iudgment I likewise 

send vnto your honor, most humbly craving your Lordshippes 
advise therein. I haue in most earnest wise and often tymes 
called vppon Mr Mayor and others that hath partes chargable 
with the scowringe of the said Kinges ditch, that theie should 
nowe in this tyme of wynter and froste, set vppon the 
scowring of the saide ditch, and allso for the renewinge 



16 Notes from the College Records, 

an old composition betwixt the vniuersity and the Towne for 
the cleane and holsome kepinge of the streetes, the neglect- 
inge whereof in tymes past hath been a great occasion of this 
present infection, to the great hinderaunce and daunger to 
the vniuersitie and Towne, as I haue often told Mr Maior and 
his counsellors, the chief whereof is Mr Slegge. I have required 
Mr Maior, in your honors name, to haue speciall regard to 
the diligent accomplishinge of theis thinges, especially at this 
tyme, whoe giveth faier wordes, but he doth nothinge in dede 
hetherto. The last composition betwixt the vniuersitie and 
the Towne, made when Sir Thomas Smyth was Vicechaun- 
cellour, to contynewe for xxj yeres, was expired five yeres 
agoe, sithence which tyme the Maior and his brethren hath 
delayed hitherto to agree to any composition for good order, 
and holsome kepinge of the Towne, wherein the Vicechaun- 
cellour and the scollers haue been allowaies readie. But the 
Maior hath proymsed me within this senyte that he will 
accomplish the same, the which if he shall not I shalbe 
compelled to crave your Lordshippes letters, and the rest 
of the honorable counsell to commaund the same, or elles 
shewe some lawfull cawse to the contrary, for that we are so 
greatly greved daylie by the annoyaunce that cometh thereby. 
And thus I praye allmightie God longe to preserve your 
Lordship in most godly and honorable prosperitie. From 
Cambridge the xviij\h of this January 1574 

Your honors most bounden 
daylie orator 
Andrew Perne. 
Addressed: To the right honorable the lorde Burghley, 
lord high Tresorer of England and high Chauncellor of the 
vnyuersitie of Cambridge. 

Endorsed : 18 January 1574. Peam to my Lord, 

First enclosure: 

A description of the conveyaunce of the water from 
Trumpington ford vnto the Kinges ditch, found owte 
by Richard Browne, keper of the water mylles at 
Lynne, the certentie hereof tryed by the levell the 
;nY;th daie of January 1574. 

First of all this Richard Browne saieth that there is m the 



Koies from the College Records 17 

length from the ix welles in Shelford commons vnto the 
Kinges ditch^ which is abowte the space of a myle^ 17 fbte 
fall, so that the water maye be brought very well, if so be 
that the space betwixt the ix welles and the spittle howse be 
brought to be a made ground, for that there beinge many 
iFallies, these xallies must be made a levell ground with earth 
and claie, that the water maie have his free course over it 
The other space, from the spHttle howse vnto the Kings 
ditch, is highe ground and therefor must haue a vaulte of 
bricke for the water to runne through vnto the Kinges ditch^ 
and thus the water maie very well be conveyed this one 
waye. 

The charges hereof in bricke, morter and workmannshipjie^ 
as he saieth, will come vnto the some of thre hundarith 
poundes. 

Againe the ssjd Brown hath found that the water maie be 
conveyed very well into the Kinges dich another viraie, that is 
to saie from the small brigges into a pipe of lead ty ynches 
hie, the length of it iiijC yardes. And at the end of this pipe 
a myll must be made which must force the water to fall into 
a cesterne of lead, and so to runne into the said pipe above 
the levell of the ground xx foote. And thus allso the water 
maie very well be brought into the Kinges ditch. The cost 
and charges of the worke this waie, for the myll makinge, the 
deuyse within the myll, and the pipe of lead, as he makith his 
accompt, will arise to the sum of iij hundarith poundes. 
And vppon the payment of these somms aforesaid, this 
Richard Browne hath prom5rsed to haue him self bounde 
with good and sufficient suerties for the performance hereof. 

Memorandum that a thousand and a hallf of bricke will 
be sufficient to make xxx foote of the vault, that should be 
from the spittle house to the Kinges dich, which space is 
thought to be abowte iiij hundarith yardes. 

The said Richard Browne saieth that one foote of the 
pipe of lead that should goe from the cistarne of lead at the 
myll vnto the Kinges ditch will conteyn xx poundes of lead 
in every foote. And that the space is iiij hundarith yardes 
savinge tenn wherein the water must be conveyed in a pipe 
from the said fourcinge myll vnto the Kinges ditch, so that 
the pipe alone will cost six score poundes. 

VOL. XXIX. D 



18 Notes from the College Records, 

Endorsed: Richard Brown^ keeper of the water milles at 
Linn. A conveiance of water from Trumpington ford vnto 
the Kinges ditche. 

Second Enclosure: 

A declaracion of the leavell of the ground for the 

conveyaunce of the water to be taken from the mylles 

called the Kinges mylles in Cambridge to the head 

of the Kinges ditch against Pembroke Hall, the which 

was taken by John Bryant of Cambridge, the xviijth of 

January 1574 

The saide Bryant, takinge the measure from the penn 

of the water of the said Mylles to tlie head of the said 

Kinges ditch, doth finde the rise to be nyne foote, and from 

the taile and fall of the said water to the said head of the 

Kinges ditch, he fyndeth the rise to be xi^j foote, and metinge 

the levell of the heade of the said Kinges ditch to the foote 

and lowest end of the same, runninge into the conunon 

streame beneth the high bridge against Jhesus Colledg close, 

he findeth the fall to be ;rjrtie foote. So that from the pen 

of the water of the said myll to the lowest end of the skid 

Kinges ditch there will be eleven foote fall, and from the 

water of the lowest taile of the said myll, there will be 

fower foote fall. 

A great parte of the water that cometh to the said Kinges 
myUe, cometh from Trumpington forde directly to the said 
mylle, the which myll is distant from the head of the said 
Kinges ditch three score and ten poole, after xvf foote to 
the poole. 

The conveyinge of this water from the myll to the head of 
the Kinges ditch must be in a gutter or vaulte made of lyme 
and bricke, the which will coste in the whole as he thinketh 
a hundarith threescore seaventene poundes and ten shillinges. 
And for this somme he will be bounde with good suerties to 
performe the same. 

Endorsed: Jhon Briant of Cambridge. A Declaracion of 
the levell of the ground for the conveiance of the water from 
the Kinges milles in Cambridge to the heade of the Kinges 
ditche. 



}foies from the College Reconh, 19 

The letters which follow relate to the Mastership of 
Dr Richard Howland, Master of St John's from 20 July 
1577 to 1586. Howland was originally a Scholar of 
Christ's College, B.A. 1560-1, M.A. 1564, B.D. 1570, 
D.D. 1578. He was for a short time a Fellow of Christ's, 
then in 1562 became a Fellow of Peterhouse, in 1576 he 
became Master of Magdalene, from whence he removed 
to St John's ; he became Bishop of Peterborough in 
1585, and died 23 January i6oo-t. 

The first letter shewing the opposition of the College 
to the devotion of two Fellowships to the study of the 
Law is rather curious. For some time there had been 
two Fellowships in the College devoted to Medicine. 
It is to be regretted that Howland did not commit to 
writing the official objections of the College. In the 
reign of Charles I the College obtained leave to have 
two Law Fellows. The real privilege enjoyed by these 
Fellows was that they could remain laymen, being 
relieved from the condition, attached to all other 
Fellowships, of taking Priest's orders within a certain 
time. The grievance seems to have been that these 
lay Fellows were relieved from m^ich College drudgery 
which fell on clerical P^ellows, while they occasionally 
took orders- rather laie in life, and then claimed 
presentation to a College benefice in virtue of their 
seniority on the roll. 

My humble dutie in any wise vnto your honorable good 
Lordshippe remembred. These maie be to signifie that as it 
hath pleased her highnes to* difecte her letters vnto- vs her 
Majesties Commissioners for St John^s in Cambridge for the 
placinge of Mr Howland, your Lordships Chaplyn, Master of 
the saide Colledge, in whose behalf e we likewise received 
your honors favourable letters, so haue we allso, accordinge vnto 
her Majesties pleasure therein, proceaded and have procured the 
good likinge and consent of all the feliowes to her Majesties 
request, and then 1 did in her Majesties name, and in the 
visitors and all the feliowes names, pronounce him Master 
of the saide Colledge, and then we the* visitors with all the 
companie of Feliowes and Schollers of St Johannis did 



20 Notes from the College Records, 

accompanie him to the Vicechancellor, of whom he was 
adm3rtted accordinge to the Statutes of the saide CoUedge. 
1 doe assure your honour that if it be, or shalbe, in me at any 
tyme, to pleasure him or to do him good by any kynde of 
meanes, he shall vndoubtedlie, both for your honoris sake and 
allso for the good will I beare towardes him fynde me very 
ivillinge and readie to the vttermost of my small power. And 
allthoughe we haue not as yet alltogither finished the Statutes 
of that saide CoUedge, for that Mr Dr Ithell, beinge one in 
Commission, as your Lordship dothe knowe, and of the 
•quorum, hath had greate occasion not to be certenlie at home 
of a longe tyme, yet are we nowe purposed by God*s grace 
fourthwith to make an ende of the same. I do most humblie 
•desire your good Lordshdpp, that as yt hath pleased you 
oarefullie and favorabhe to helpe the said Mr Howlande 
to that mastershippe of St Johannis, so yt would likewise 
please your honor by your good means and friendshipp 
to preferr Mr Nicolls another of your Lordship's chaplins 
vnto the mastershippe of Magdalen CoUedge, nowe beinge 
voyde, whome I do assure your honor of myne owne 
knowledg, for that I have had better experience of him then 
any other hath had, to be of very honest conversacion, well 
Jerned, and a maynteyner of good order and statutes. So 
•that in myne opinion your Lordship vndoubtedlie therein 
:shall not only doe a godUe and good dede to the estate 
of that saide CoUedge and to the whole societie there, whoe 
dothe willingUe wishe the same, but also shall bynde the 
said Mr NicoUs and me his frende contynewaUie to praie for 
your honor's most godlie prosperitie. Thus not so bould at 
this present as to troble your Lordship any further, I 
oommytte the same into the most blessed tuycion of the 
allmightie. From Cambridge the xxijth of this July 1577 

Your honors dayUe orator 
aUwaies to conunaunde 
Andrew Perne 

Addressed: To the right honorable and his singular goode 
lorde, the Lorde Bourghley, Lorde high Treasorer of England 
:and most wourthie highe Chauncellour of the Universiti« of 
Cambridge. 



Notes from the College Records. 21 

Endorsed^ 21 July 1577. Mr Doctor Perne to my Lord. 
Mr HowLind, Mr Nicolles. 



The State of St Johannis (Right Honorable) is such at this 
tyme, allthoughe quiett in it selfe, so open yet vnto extra- 
ordinarie attemptes from abrode, that except your Honoure 
doe stande still and wholie our good Lord and patrone, we 
are like to receyve (even by that, from whence we loke to 
receyve our quiett government, the Commission I meane) so 
greate hurte, so that our foundation, and quiett estate wilbe 
thereby, if not vtterlie over throwen, maruelously shaken and 
e.npayred. It is geven out that the Commissioners, with your 
Honour's consente, will establishe two fellowshippes for the 
law^e in our CoUedge, and are determined forthwith to place 
two of our fellows (if bothe be fellowes) in the same ; which 
thinge is thought verie inconvenient not onely by the societie, 
but by divers of the Commissioners also; as Dr Pearne, 
D. Hawforde, D. Harvie and D. Binge, whoe say they neuer 
harde, or at the least consented to, any such matter. Wher- 
f or I am humbly to craue of your good Lordship (vpon whom 
onely vnder God we rest for reUefe) that it would please you 
herein alsoe (as in all other matters you haue most honorablie) 
to cast a lovinge eye and care towarde this your poore 
CoUedge, as in this to suspende your honorable consent, vntill 
we may delyver vnto your Lordship the inconveniences like 
therby to ensue, as we by experience of our phisicke places 
.well can and wilbe readie (for my owne parte) to offer vnto 
your honoure, when it shall please you to commande me to 
attende. In the meane tyrae not onely the thinge it selfe, but 
.the parties named thervnto doe more moue me to speake, and 
feare that which is more then likely to fall out therby, as that 
it wilbe the heade and springe of much dissention and the 
breaknecke (if I may with your honoure vse that worde) 
of diuinitie, and of all such as are well inclined that way. 
The constante reporte, and the greate feare that the house is 
n, as also my bturden and care, who (I take God to witnesse) 
doe tender the good and quiett state of the howse more then 
my place and profitt thereby. These all haue caused me thus 
.vppon the hearinge therof to addresse these my letters and 



22 Koles from the College Records. 

man vnto your Lordship in greate hast, humblle beseechinge 
your honoure to stande herin good Lord vnto vs, as to receaue 
first our reasons, whie we doe mislike bothe the men and 
matter moued, before that be laide vppon vs, the only 
rumoure wherof dothe alreadie breede a faction; and that 
noe one man (vppon a priuate respect) be soe preferred as 
that therebie so godlie a societie should for euer in their 
succession be soe greatly damnefied. Wherfor, if it please 
your honoure to direct your letters, or worde vnto the 
Commissioners to stay theim vntill further consultation after 
Easter, or when it shall please your Lordship to appointe^ 
we shalbe, as we are notwithstandinge, wholie and for ever 
bownde vnto your Lordship. Thus letting your Lordship 
vnderstande, that the Earle of Essex and younge Mr William 
Cecill are in good health, vnto whom I haue delyuered your 
token, I commend your Lordship to the mercifuU protection 
of the lyvinge God, longe to continue in health and increase 
of greate honoure. From your CoUedge of St John's, in hast, 
this present Sonday 5 Aprilis Anno 1579. 

Your honours faithefull seruante 
Richard Howlande 

Addressed: To the Right Honorable the Lord Burghley, 
Lord tresuror of Englande, my vearie good Lord and master 
geue these. 

Endorsed: 5 April 1579. Mr Doctor Rowland to my 
Lord ; twoe Lawe roomes purposed by the Commissioners to 
be established in St John's Colledge. 



The Mr Billingsley, merchant in London, referred to 
in the following letter, was Henry Billingsley, admitted 
a scholar of the College in 155 1. He was afterwards 
Lord Mayor of London in 1596, when he was knighted. 
His kinsman, William Billingsley, on whose behalf this 
letter was written, matriculated as a pensioner of 
St John's I October 1579, and was admitted a Found- 
ress' scholar 5 November 1579. The restriction that 
there could not be more than two scholars at a time 
from any county made this admission irregular. Sir 



Notes from the College Records, 23 

Henry Billingsley, who it will be observed had been 
giving money for the support of exhibitioners, conveyed 
some property in Tower Street and Mark Lane, London , 
to the College in 1390 to support three scholars. 
William Billingsley took his B A. in 158 1-3, M.A. 1586. 
He was admitted a Fellow of the College 23 March 
1585-6; he was collated to the Vicarage of Madingley, 
near Cambridge, 8 November 1594, ceding this on 
becoming Rector of Gayton-le-Marsh, co. Lincoln, for 
which he compounded 28 April 1599, this he seems 
to have held for a very short time ; he compounded as 
Rector of Glaston, in Rutland, 10 February 1605-6, 
holding this until 1635. 

The honorable goodwill which your Lordship beareth to 
this our CoUedge of St John's, and the duetie which I owe 
unto the same, draweth me att this present to be an humble 
and earnest suter vnto your honoiu-e. That whereas one 
Mr Billingslie, a marchant in London, havinge byn of longe 
tyme a good benefactor vnto our CoUedge, was an earnest 
suter at our late election for a poore kinsman of his (William 
Billingslie by name) to be made schoUer ; it would please 
your good Lordship booth to pardon our bold attempte 
therin as also with your honorable dispencacion to ratefie 
this our imperfitt election, whose countrie beinge full and 
therefor by statute nott eligible without dispensacion (for that 
he is a Londoner, whereof there are so many alreadie as our 
statutes doe permitt), we presuminge of your Lordships good- 
will and favour have chosen him, notwithstandinge, for that 
countrie ; so that it please your honoure (with the rest of her 
Majesties visitors, of whom we make no doubt) to like well 
thereof and to dispense with our statutes in that part, other- 
wise to stande as not elected. Wherein if we haue offended 
I shall humbly desyre your honoure to understande that his 
request was soe one a sodayne and his suitt so earnest that 
neyther could we expect your Lordships mynde in deferringe 
our election (which hath by statute a standing daye), nor 
durst lightlie caste of so goode a frende in soe small a request 
(as he thought it), but that he should perceyve our readie 
goodwill and thankfulnesse for his greate and many benefites 



24 Notes from the College Records. 

bestowed vpon poore schoUers in our howse. Where for 
these manie yeares he hath geven 12li yerlie exhibicion to be 
bestowed vpon poore schollers at the discretion of the Master 
and Seniors, which also he doth mynde to conferre yerlie 
vpon the Colledge for euer. In consideration whereof if it 
shall please your good Lordship to pardon this our faulte and 
with your honorable subscription to dispence (in this scholler) 
with that branche of our statutes (that notwithstandinge theare 
be three of his countrie he may be scholler), we shalbe (as 
always) herein greatlie bownde vnto your honoure, who 
therbie shall binde that gentleman more sure vnto vs for 
euer, wherein restinge vpon your honorable goodwill and 
direction to doo as your Lordship shall think good and 
commaunde. 

I am once agayne to crave pardon for my boldnesse and 
humblie to recommende vnto your good Lordship one 
Mr Nevill, fellowe of Pembrooke Hall, for whome having 
joyned in request with Mr Doctor Pearne and D. Binge in 
other letters vnto your honoure I thought good to delyuer 
vnto your Lordship in these brefelie the reasons that did 
induce me herevnto, least I mightbe thought vnto your 
Lordship vppon no cause to be ouer busie in an other 
man*s charge, wheare besides the worthines of the person, 
for whome I can take no shame to laboure, and the equitie of 
his cause, being senior in the howse and in all respects most 
fitt. The great care that we all have in procuringe so fitt 
a man for the vniversitie to that place and the trebles like to 
growe vnto the howse in preferringe his Junior, whereof 
(yf I may be bold to say what I thinke) some, who are in dutie 
more nerelie bownde will not (I feare) haue so great a care, 
as they ought. These haue moued me (with the rest) thus 
boldlie and earnestlie to request your honorable goodwill 
and furtherance in the same by your letters vnto D. Fulke^ 
Master of the house, wherby the partie shalbe bounde to pray 
for your honoure by whose onelie meanes he is to obteyne 
that his right, and the Colledge with the whole vniversitie 
shall reape great quiett and good. 

Thus lettinge your good Lordship vnderstand that 
perusinge our licenses of mortman accordinge vnto your 
commawndment, I finde a license for 60// procured by 



Notes from (he College Records. 25 

Mr D. Longworthe in the 10th yeare of her Majestks raigne, 
since which tyme we haue purchased and receyued little 
aboue 2Qli of yerelie rent. 

With humble dutie, although abruptlie I end, desyringe 
the Lord God longe to preserve your good Lordship in 
perfitt health and encrease of much honoure. From your 
CoUedge of St Johnes the 9th of November 1579 

Your honours servant at commawndment 
Rich. Howlande. 

Addressed: To the Right Honorable the Lord Burghley^ 
highe treasurer of Englande hjs verie good lord and master 
geve these. 

Endorsed: 9 Nov 1579. Mr D. Howlande to my Lord. 
The election of one Billingsley of London to a schollership. 
A lycence to purchase in mortmayn for 60/i per annum. 



The two letters of Rowland and Perne which follow, 
relate to Lord Burghley's gift of a rent charge of ;^30 
a year to the College. The deed regulating the 
foundation was printed in the EagUy Vol. XX., p. 370-376. 
The * Mr Robert ' who is mentioned in Perne's letter as 
making such progress in his studies was Lord Burghley's 
second son, afterwards the first Marquis of Salisbury, 
who was at St John's ; Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, 
was at Trinity, and was admitted to the M.A. degree, 
6 July 158'- 

I shoulde hardely have excused my great negligence 
(Right honorable and my verie good Lord) in not answearinge 
your Lordship's letters accordinge unto your commawndment 
before this day, but that it pleased God to lodge me in the 
countrie this Christmas (where I could not here of them) and 
ther to lay his hande so uppon me, that I coulde not ha\e 
written althoughe I would, but nowe uppon my retourne, 
perusinge the same, I thought it my part and dutie with all 
convenient spede to satisfie your Lordship's commawndemen^, 
and therewith to render unto yoiu- honoure most heartie and 
humble thankes in that it hath pleased your Lordship to 
shewe this greate token and seale of your long continude 
VOL. XXIX. E 



26 Notes from the College Records. 

goodwill to this Colledge in my tyme, wherein I acknowledge 
myself more bownde unto your Lordship then if muche more 
bad bine conferred uppon my selfe. Concerninge therefore 
the nombre of the Lady Margarettes fowndatione, these are 
to lett your Lordship understande that our Statutes have 
limited her schoUers not to be above 24// (uppon which 
nombre also our Commissioners are resolved), although 
I coulde have wished tliem 30//, that she should not have 
byn over wayed by the other fownders who have within one 
of thirtie ; to the augmentacion of whose commons, if your 
Lordship shall make their 7d. wekelie 12J., the which will 
arise (as your honor knoweth) to the iust somme of 26/i 
yerelie, which augmentacion wilbe (in my simple opinion) 
a fact more honorable then if you should erect fower newe 
fellowships. Considering especially that our nombre alreadie 
is over great for the recept of our howse, and the lyving (for 
these dayes) verie small. But leving to your honorable 
consideration, I am humblie to desyre your good Lordship 
to vouchsafe your hande and subscription to this dispensacion 
for a poore schoUer, in whose cause I wrote unto your 
Lordship longe since, and for whome (accordinge to your 
Lordship's direction) I have drawen this draught and procured 
the allowance of all our Commissioners here, as appeareth by 
their subscription. Thus ceasing to troble your Lordship any 
further, with dutie as I begane I end, des3rring God to blesse 
your Lordship with longe life, perfiitt healthe and encrease of 
muche honor. From your Colledge of St John's the thirde of 
Februarie Anno D. 1579 

Your honour's faithfull sen.'ant 

RiCHARDE HOWLANDE. 

Addressed: To the right honorable the Lord Burghley 
Lord high Treasurer of England. 

Endorsed: 3 February 1579. Mr D. Howlande. St 
John's Coll. 

There is a note in Burghley's own handwriting : 
26// pro 24 scollers, V^. a weke. 
XX5. to the principall scollar. 
xxs. to the head lector. 
xxs. (blank). 



Notes from the College RjcorJs. 27 

My humble dutie unto your Honour alwayes remembred. 
I have sent backe agayne by Mr Vice Chancellor the articles 
concerninge your honorable gifte unto our Colledge, which 
were delyvered (as your Lordship willed) unto my Lorde the 
bishoppe of Ely and the rest of the Commissioners, who hav« 
sett downe their dispensacion for countries, and donne all 
thinges accordinge to your Honour's letters. The seniors 
likewise of our Colledgis doe so like of the whole in everie 
condition that in greate thankefulnesS' they acknowledge 
themselves bounde unto your Honour for ever. This onelie 
they offer dutiefullie unto your honourable consideracion, that 
where as your Lordship hath referred the proofe of your 
schollers, in difference betwene your Lordship's heires and 
the Colledge, to be determined by the Vicechancellor, or any 
head of any Colledge, it would please your Honour that it 
may rather be compounded within the CoUedge, by bindinge 
us to choose him whom your Lordship's heire shall nominat, 
or one of the two as you shall devise, he or they being of the 
hyest forme in the saide schoole, wherein whatsoever your 
Hoaour shall determine I knowe wilbe thankfuUie taken and 
dutifullie observed. This I am bold in dutiefull manner to 
offer unta your Lordships consideracion, the rather for that 
I doubt not but that the privilege of your Lordships heires, 
which as I am bownde dutiefullie, I would by all meanas 
procure, may as well this way be thoroughlie provided 
[the letter is here torn] ... Judge should come in to the 
preiudice of our CoUedge and strange ex ... inconvenience 
... -ringe ourselves whollie to your Honour with most ... for 
your .... unto our CoUedge and cease to ... -ringe God to 
blesse your Honour with longe life and good health and 
... honoure. From your CoUedge of St John's the thirde 
of Februarie Anno 1580 

Your Honours servant at commandment 

RiCHARDE HOWLANDE. 

Addressed: To the Right honorable the Lord Burghley 
Lord High Treasurer of England. 

Endorsed: 3 Feb. 1581 {Sic). D. Howland to my Lord! 
Statutes finished. 2 schollers to be chosen out of Stamford 
and Westminster by your Lordship. St John's Coll. 



•28 Notes from the CcJkgc Rcconk, 

Aftre my humble commendations onto your honor 
remembred, with my hartye prayer onto Allmightye God for 
the long preservation of your honor in all godlye prosperite 
with most dewtyfuU acknowledginge the singular benefite the 
whiche your honor hathe at this tyme sent to the perpetuall 
releve of the poore scholers of your Lordships College of 
St John's, of the which I do thank God that I have been 
a poore member bothe scholer and felowe, and also for the 
honorable fatherly care that your Lordship doth most 
tenderly beare to the hole estate of the gud and godly 
prosperite of the hole Universite whereof we have particular 
experience dayly, and emong other tokens of your Honor's 
zeale to the Universite wee do greatly reioise in this, that it 
pleasyed your Lordship to sende that yowr worthie and 
godly moniment of your Lordship's gud will towards 
thadvansement of Icrninge to St John's by your honor's 
lovinge son Mr Robert. He hath shewed suche an example 
€)' godly diligence, both at sermons and disputationes, in the 
tyme of his beinge at Cambridge at the commensement that 
he gave just occasion to allewer many other to the imitation 
of his diligence in hering and cariing gud profit from the 
same as djd well appeare in him after every .of the said 
exercise at diner or supper, not only to me but also to others, 
for the whiche I wolde liave wisshed him to liave bene made 
a Master of Arte with my Lord of Essex, yf it had bene yovn 
pleasure, withowt the knowledge wherof nayther he nor wee 
durst attempt any thinge at this tyme. Hopinge that it will 
please your honor to permitt him to returne to Cambridge 
and to do summe exercise thare both for yoiu: Lordships 
honor, for his commendation and incorradgement, and to the 
gud example and provocation of other scholers, at your 
honor's gud pleasure to the rejoisinge of many in Cambridge. 

J have imparted certen notes to Mr Skynner of certen 
matters conserninge the Universite, whereof I most humbly 
pray your honor to have such consyderation as shalbe 
thought most convenient to your honor's godly wisdome, 
liose godly and honorable affayres we dayly pray that they may 
he alweyes blessyd by Allmighty Godd's most gracious spirite. 

Prom Cambridge the ix of July 1581 

Your honor's dayly orator 
Andrew Perne. 



Notes from the College Records. 29 

Addressed: To the right honorable and my singular gud 
Lord, the Lorde Burley, Lord Treasurer of England and 
Chancellor of the Universite of Cambridge. 

Endorsed: 9 July 1581. Do. Peme, Vicechanceller of 
Cambrige, by Robert Cecill. 



The preceding documents have been taken from the 
State Papers, Domestic, in the Record Office. The 
document with which we conclude is copied from the 
Petyt MSS. (Vol. 38) in the Library of the Inner 
Temple. In the Petyt collection it has no heading, 
but in the calendar prepared by the Historical MSS. 
Commission it is described as "Answers by Nicholas 
Shepherd, Master of St. John's, to 20 articles of enquiry 
as to his orthodoxy and conformity." Some of the 
documents in the Petyt collection seem to be originals, 
this is apparently only a copy. The questions have 
not been preserved, but the answers sufficiently indicate 
that Shepherd was desirous of clearing himself from 
some suspicion of sympathy with Thomas Cartwright 
and Puritanism. 

Shepherd took the following degrees: B.A. 1551-3 
MA. 1559, B.D. 1568. He held the second prebendal 
stall in Peterborough from about 1560 until his death. 
He was Rector of Hartlebury, co. Worcester, from 
1561 to 15^4; Archdeacon of Northampton 1570 — 1587; 
Rector of Thorpe-on-the-Hill 1573 — 1576; Rector of 
Welton-le-Wold 1573 — 1585 ; Rector of Hougham-with- 
Marston 1575 — 1587, all these livings being in Lincoln- 
shire; and he was Prebendary of Stow in Lincoln 
Cathedral 1578 — 1587. His will was proved 10 July, 
1587. 

But little is known of him personally or of his rule 
as Master; which office he held from 1569 to 1574. 
Baker refers to the College tradition that Shepherd 
was deprived of his Mastership for not being quite 
hoaest in College business. This is based on the MS. 



30 KjLs from iJij Colb^e Rxonh, 

Latin history of the College preserved in the Muniment 
]<oom, to which Baker more than once refers as "by 
Mr M.," as «MS., D.M./' or "by D.M. a bursar." 
This was David Morton, Senior Bursar from 14 February, 
1667-8 to 16 February 1674-5. Morton thus lived about 
a hundred years after Shepherd ; what authority he had 
for his statement it is difficult to say. The only positive 
evidence on the books is that Shepherd exercised his 
authority as Master to cancel a lease which had been 
granted by the Seniority. Morton's account of 
Shepherd is as follows: 

Nicolaus Sheppard, Westmeriensis, admissus CoUegii 
discipulus (cum multis alijs) per Visitatores Regios (nempe 
Thomam Goodrick, Episcopum Eliensem, Nicolaum Roffen- 
sem, Johannem Checum, Collegii olim alumnum, Edvardi 
6ti Tutorem in Graecis et Latinis, Equestri postea insignitum, 
atque Collegii Regalis, ni male memini^ Praepositum, 
Guilielmum Malum, S.T.D., et Paulini Ecclesiae Decanum, 
atque Thomam Wendeium), July 4to 1549, Edvardi 6ti 
tertio ; electus Socius Mart. 25, 1553, atque Religionis ergo 
a Maria Regina privatus, a D. Elizabetha est restitutus ; 
socius senior et Junior Thesaurarius 1560. Electus Magister 
decemus tertius, Dec. 17, 1569. De quo nihil certi ulterius 
occurrit. Neque enim mihi satis pro comperto est quod 
vulgo perhibent Eum scilicet eo quod officiariorum singu- 
lorum clavibus in ipsius custodiam fraude, et clam se invicem 
traditis, sigillum commune syngraphis seu Indenturis (quas 
vocant) firmarum quarandam a se solo elocaturum. Ipse 
unicas suo solius commodo consulens apposuerit, Magistratu 
(juxta tenorem Statuti in eo casu provisi) fuisse privatum. 



1. As I have heretofore subscribed to the book of 
Common Prayer publiquely aucthorized in this Realme and 
by the like subscription allowed of theis articles sett down 
by the charge in the Synode, 

2. Soe doe I not as yet see any thinge, in either of the 
said, bokes expressed, which is repugnant to the worde of 
God, or which may not be allowed in the Church of God. 



Notes from the College Records. 31 

3. I confesse also that we are necessarilie tyed to that 
vniforme doctrine which thapostells in the primitive church 
preached. But for their orders they vsed I see no suche 
necessitie that in sgme pointes great dangers and absurditie, 
as at this tyme euery ignorant person should have his voice 
in chosinge fytt persons into that ministerie. 

4. 5. I doe nott finde in Godes worde that there be any 
ceremonies appointed for all tyme to be kept of necessitie 
and none others, but all to be conformed to this rule : Lett 
all things be done to edification or otherwise to be receuyed 
or reiected, yet not by any particular person at his will and 
pleasure, but by the churche and whole state. But in this 
myne assertion I doe not call the Sacraments by the name of 
ceremonies, as Mr. Cartwright semeth to terme them, for 
then I should say that none should be received in Christes 
Churche, but such as he himself appointed. And as God 
hath not set downe certeine ceremonies which must be 
reteined and none other ; This doe not I fynde that he hath 
sayed : Synne shalbe punished by this order and this kinde 
of government and none other, by this magistrate and not 
by that magistrate, by a seniorie only and not otherwise. 

4. I doubt not but that we have a right ministerie in the 
Church of England, and that by our ecclesiasticall govern- 
ment synne may be rightly and duely punished. 

6. Itt were to be wished that the realme were so well 
furnished with lerned mynisters that euery particular parishe 
might have one, and that the parishes were hable not only 
to fynde the pastor, but the deacons and elders also. But 
that there is no wayes or meanes lawfull to provide for the 
pore, but by the deacon chosen by the people, or no lawfull 
correction but by seniors chosen by the people also, I coulde 
never vnderstand by any scripture. And to put the choice 
of the pastors into the peoples hands were nothinge but to 
make a blinde man iudge of colors. 

7. In government and iurisdiccion I thinke there ought 
sum mynisters to be above others, for avoydinge of contempt 
and confusion, although all be in mynistracion equal. 

8. ffor the patrimonie geven vnto the churches for the 
mayntenance of learninge and Godds service, 1 am so farre 



32 Notes from the College Records, 

from thinkinge that by Goddes worde it ought to be taken 
away that I vnfaynedly rather wishe that which is ahredie 
with drawen to be restored againe to his former vse. 

9. As I doubt not but that the mynisters of this realme, 
euery one in their callinge, be lawfull mynisters, so can 
I not thinke the mynesterie and ecclesiasticall accion to be 
vnlawfulL 

10. I never herd good reason either why there should 
not be a communion at a mariage or why the newe maried 
should not be exhorted to communicate, or why it were not 
to be wished there were a sermon at euery buriall. 

11. As no lerned man founde in the pointes of true 
religion, and in outward conversation blamelesse, ought to be 
denied to preache Jesus Christ, so, be he neuer so lerned or 
godly, ought he not to thrust himselfe into that office without 
licence. And againe, hauinge giftes and licence, in con> 
science is bounde to preache whether he haue pastorall and 
proper charge or no. 

12. He that seeth his owne infirmitie and slacknes to 
prayer often tymes, cannot doubt but that it is more 
convenient for him and profitable to the churche of Christ 
to have sum prescript order appointed for prayer, then to be 
left to his own spirit. 

13. Although the perfitt papists do farre differ from vs in 
many pointes of the doctrine of Christ, yet because they 
confesse Christ and in his name are baptized, I iudge that 
their children are within the compasse of Godds covenant, 
and so are to be baptized. 

14. Consideringe the smaleness of our ecclesiasticall 
Livings in England, and the greate bountifulnes which is 
loked for at the ecclesiasticall persons handes I dout not birt 
a man may have more then one l5rvinge. 

15. I thinke a man may preache and mynister thoughe 
he haue no peculier flock assigned vnto him. And that the 
mynisterie and ciuill do not so disagree but that thei may be 
ioyned in one person. 

16. The 16 article I vnderstand not fully, but after my 
vnderstandinge I say that Godd commanded nothinge in 
vayene, neyther thappostells, being guided by the same 
spirit. 



Sirada d'Alkmagna, 33 

17. I take the Quene her Majestic to have auctoritie over 
all states ciuill or ecclesiastical. 

18. And althoughe her majestic be but a membre of the 
Church of Christ, yet in that parcell of Christ's churche 
which is in England, she is to be reputed as the cheif and 
supreme governor vnder Christ. The last point of this 
article I vndcrstand not. 

19. I iudgc that the quene of England, concerninge the 
punishment and remittinge of criminall offences is not in all 
pointes tyed to Moses lawc, but sumtymes excede Moses 
sumtymes remitt of his scueritie as the state of the common- 
wealth requireth. 

20. I doubt not but that her majestic of her owne 
auctoritie may appoint ciuill magistrates, that is havinge 
all auctoritie in her selfc may impart sum part thereof vnto 
others. 

Nicholas Shepperd. 

R. F. S. 

(To be continued). 



STRADA D* ALLEMAGNA. 

The mountain-wall surrounds a sacred land; 
The white road stretches forward to the north, 
Where once went caravans of Venice forth 
Unto the Danube and the Baltic strand. 

The ruddy precipice on either hand 
O'ershadows the dusk pinewoods and green earth ; 
The belfry tells the hour, and life seems worth 
Our living but to hear the sound expand 

Through sunlit air. From river- pass to vale, 
From loveliness to loveliness we gaze. 
Fancy dwells by the rocks and down the glades. 

Here ranged the Gods of poem and of tale ; 

Here march'd the legions ; through the sultry ways 
Rode Marcus, haply, to the Rhaetian shades. 

C. W. P. o. 

VOL. xxrx. F 





SKETCHES. 
The Havildar. 

MET him at the foot of a hill, and we walked 
along the track together for two or three 
miles. He was a fine well-built man, looking 
the thorough soldier that he was with his 
neat puggari, his well-kept moustache, his swagger- 
stick and his spotless white clothes. As we walked he 
told me of his regiment and his service. He had 
served in a Baluchi infantry battalion, and had just 
retired, after twenty-one years with the colours, on a 
pension of seven rupees a month and three rupees 
extra for distinguished conduct. His little story ran 
much as follows: — "Yes, sahib, Quetta is the best of 
all places. There are many regiments there both red 
and black (English and native). The country is good. 
There is every kind of fruit, and the sheep are fat and 
big. But it is very expensive for the officers, who have 
an extra allowance for Quetta. The work is very hard 
nowadays ; in the musketry course we had to work all 
day, and there was no rest. My regiment went to 
China with Major-General Gaselee. We went from 
Karachi. For eight days no sepoy could eat. We 
were all ill ; and many said, ' Never again will we take 
Government service.* But afterwards we became 
stronger, except two men, who were ill for twenty-four 
days. These two were two months in hospital in 
Tientsin, and the Colonel sahib used to go to see them 
every day. They had a fowl each in the morning and 
one in the evening, free. We went to Pekin. Soldiers 
from all countries were there, Russians, French, 



Sketches. 35 

Germans, Americans, and Japanese. I could not 
understand the Russian language, but after a time I 
got to know a little Japanese. The Japanese were 
good soldiers. I was wounded once. A bullet went 
through my leg, and the officer told me to fall out. I 
said, ' No, sahib ! it does not matter,' and I went on 
fighting. The Sirkar gave me three rupees a month 
special pension for bravery. See ! this is the scar. It 
does not trouble me now unless I march for more than 
three or four days ; then it hurts a little. 

When we came back from China the sea was not so 

rough, and we had not such illness. When I retired a 

little while ago, I went to pay my respects to the 

doctor sahib who had been a great friend to me. 

I said to him, * Sahib, in my country there are no 

doctors and no medicines, what am I to do?' He 

replied, 'Have you a box?' I said, *Yes;' and he 

told me to bring it to him. Then he filled it with every 

kind of medicine in little bottles, and told me for what 

illness each kind was good After this I came home." 

" What are you going to do now ? " I asked. 

" I have a little farm and| a house,' and I shall buy 

some more land, and then call other men to work for 

me. I have dogs, too, and I shall hunt and have rest. 

Two or three days ago my dogs killed a wild boar over 

against that ridge. One dog was wounded, and I put 

some of the doctor sahib's vaseline in the wound. It 

will be well quickly. Sahib, this is my way. Salaam !" 

And with a salute he turned up a ^narrow path to go to 

his little farm. 

SiDDIQ. 

He is an old, white-bearded man, with a keen face 
and a bright eye, though his back is bent with the 
weight of four-score years. He is quick at hearing and 
understanding still ; even now his stride is firm and 
longf, and he can travel up a mountain-path at a pace 
not usual with the old. He is a picturesque figure with 
his home-spun blanket wrapped round him like a pladi, 



36 \ Sketches, 

his cheerful voice and merry chuckle. But his day is 
done. Long ago he was one of the most famous 
shikaris and trackers of Kashmir. Every kind of 
animal he knew, both its habits and its haunts. Every 
quarter of the country has been trodden by him. Many 
well-known big-game hunters of the sixties and the 
seventies owe much to Siddiq. 

He is full of anecdote. His tales are modestly told, 
and you have to know him a little before he will tell 
you how he got the mark in his ear and the hole in his 
wrist. He was out with an Englishman, and they 
came across a leopard, which got at Siddiq, and began 
to maul him. The light was failing, and he called to 
his master for help just before he fainted away. The 
latter had to fire point blank ; the bullet went through 
Siddiq's ear and his wrist, finally lodging in the 
leopard, which then drew off and Siddiq was saved. 

The old man likes to see and talk with Englishmen. 
He is always independent, but respectful. His inquiries 
after your health are amusing; every time he sees 
you he wants to know whether you are happy and 
contented. He is full of weatherlore. He seems to be 
the great " consulting shikari " of the whole country- 
side. Like many others he mourns for the good old 
days, when markhor were shot by the half dozen, when 
tehr were common as goats, and Kashmir stags always 
to be had. I do not think he is sorry that his time is 
over. Things have changed since he was in his prime. 
But long may he enjoy his well-earned rest, for he is a 
fine old man ! 

The Gujar. 

A log cabin with its back to the hillside and its flat 
roof of mud is his summer-home. In front is a little 
clear space where his buffaloes and cows rest at night, 
and his children play in the day. Sometimes there is 
a little cluster of these huts, but more often they are 
found alone, high up among the woods, to be located 



Sketches, 37 

only at night when the glimmer of the fire is seen even 
from distant hills^ or in the dim light of dawn or 
evening, when the thin wreath of smoke betrays them 
as it curls above the tree tops. In the hottest 
months the Gujar is to be found still higher, near the 
snows and far above the trees. Then his dwelling is 
not so pretentious; a dusky tent, not high enough 
to allow him to stand, gives shelter to him, his family, 
and his dogs. 

He knows nothing of the rulers of the land. No 
thought of politics ever comes into his head. His 
problems are simple ; where is the best grass to be 
found, how much cloth or tobacco, or what sort of 
ornament for his wife, or how big a cooking pot will 
the larder give him for his ghi (butter)? The sight 
of an Englishman is a rare event, and his children will 
run in fear from the wandering sahib to seek the shelter 
of their home and their mother's arms. He is rarely 
ill, and the catastrophes of his life can be traced to the 
descent of a bear or a leopard on his beasts or on himself. 

His animals are his main wealth. A man with fifty 
buffaloes is well to do. It is their ghi that he barters 
for his clothing and other necessaries. His garments 
are simple — and I fancy he has only one suit— a waist- 
cloth, if he be wealthy, drawers, a long homespun 
blanket serving as a coat and a plaid. His desire for 
distinction generally confines itself to a bright-coloured 
skull cap. His wife wears almost the same kind of cap, 
a loose smock and baggy trousers. Her long black 
hair hangs down to her waist in one plait, and she 
shows her husband's wealth by the number of her 
ornaments — clumsy earrings of turquoise, a necklace 
perhaps of the same, and sometimes anklets and 
toe-rings. His children have one garment, only a shirt, 
and the assumption of the blanket seems almost the 
same thing as "going into tails" in England. l[is 
food is milk and butter from his cows; with thick 
chupatties made of coarse maize flour. 



38 Sketches. 

He and the stranger within his gates smoke from the 
same' hookah in turn, as they squat in the smoky house 
or on the mud roof if the weather be fine. 

All the byways of the woods and hills are known to 
him. He is the man with local knowledge, to whom 
the shikari applies to know the haunts of game. Often 
he acts as guide, finding a path in the most unlikely 
spots. Specially pleased is he if he can give informa- 
tion about a bear, his worst foe. 

Of washing he knows nothing. His clothes, once 
made and put on, seem to stay on him till they drop off 
through old age. The only item of cleanliness some- 
times observable makes one laugh. Occasionally a 
little row of squatting persons is seen, the mother at 
the end, then the eldest daughter and so on down to the 
two year old, each industriously overhauling the hair of 
the one in front. Thus there is economy of time and 
labour. Metal implements are rare, an axe with 
a rudely engraved head, a knife, and, if he be wealthy, 
a brass cooking-pot or two. Usually the cooking things 
are earthen. His maize is sometimes ground in the 
hollow stump of a fallen tree with a heavy wooden club. 
The flour for his chupatties he carries in a sheep skin 
that has been taken off in some wondrous way so as to 
leave it practically a bag. The skin is dried, then 
softened by the simple process of treading on it. 

If he moves from one place to another, his wife 
carries the baby in a blanket on her back ; or if the 
child is big enough it sits astride its mother's hip. He 
carries his fire about with him, either as a smouldering 
brand, or in an earthern pot inside a basket. The latter 
method among Kashmiris often serves the purpose of 
keeping the man warm, as the basket is carried under 
the blanket next the body. He shows an easy indiffer- 
ence as to the fate of the giants of the forest. A fine 
old tree with hollows at its base makes a good fire-place, 
sometimes so good that the tree itself catches fire and 
burns for days till it crashes down, a melancholy 
memorial of man's recklessness. 



Sketches, 39 

Such is he in his summer home. As the autumn 
draws on he collects his few chattels and drives his 
herds down to the warmer villages below, there to 
await the return of spring and the melting of the 
snows. 

KoNSA Nag. 

This is a sacred lake, about fifty miles south of 
Srinagar, Kashmir, lying high among the northern 
spurs of the hills that border the vale on its southern 
side. The lake is said to be 15,000 feet above the sea- 
level. It ],is about three miles long, and half a mile 
wide. The word " Nag " means snake, and the spirit 
of the lake is a great snake, which dwells in the green 
silent depths of the waters. The Hindus worship this 
spirit, and make pilgrimages to the lake at various 
times to propitiate the snake and to seek its protection. 

The surroundings of the lake are solemn and 
majestic enough to invest it with holy fear. At its 
eastern end two gray and jagged peaks stand out 
against the blue sky, and the snowfield and glacier in 
the dip between them feed the lake with water. Great 
blocks of ice break oflF from time to time and dot the 
surface of the water with their snowy tops. On the 
north the bank rises steep, but grass covered for a few 
hundred feet, and then begins a sheer wall of rock, 
going almost perpendicularly to the summit of a 
towering peak. The southern side is milder. There is 
more grass, with little levels here and there, covered 
with flowers of many kinds. On the west the lake is 
closed in by a huge mass of earth and rock that looks 
as if some mighty power had thrown it across the 
gorge to stem the waters of the lake. But this dam 
of nature's making has its sluice gate, for half way up 
its side an ice-cold torrent rushes from a tunnel, giving 
the water of the lake to the land beneath. 

No sound is to be heard on the heights above the 
lake, save occasionally in summer the distant whistle 



40 The Dromedary. 

of a shepherd or the bleat of a lamb. There seems no 
life, and the lake looks eternally at rest ; no wind ever 
ruffles Its surface, so deep it lies below the crags. Even 
Mohammedans are not free from awe, for I have seen 
them pray as they come near and again as they leave 
the place. 

J. H. T. 



THE DROMEDARY. 



In dreams I see the dromedary still 
As once in a gay park I saw him stand: 
A thousand eyes in vulgar wonder scanned 

His humps and hairy neck, and gazed their fill 

At his lank shanks, and mocked with laughter shrill. 
He never moved : and if his Eastern land 
Flashed on his eye with stretches of bright sand, 

It wrung no mute appeal from his proud will. 

He blinked upon the rabble lazily; 

And still some trace of majesty forlorn 
And a coarse grace remained; his head was high. 

And his gaunt flanks with a great mange were worn : 
There was not any yearning in his eye, 

But on his lips and nostril infinite scorn. 

Archibald Y. Campbell. 



ALMA MATER. 

In the far out back country, in lands forgotten of God, 
My mate and I were wandering where scarce a man had trod. 
The life was hard and lonely, life good for man to see, 
Where hardest is the wage to earn true hearts will ever be. 

One night I was sitting lonely, for on that day my mate 
Had gone in quest of the horses and wouldn't be back till late, 
The fire flickered gaily, and lost in the looming bush 
A sicada chuTuped gaily and broke the evening's hush. 

The billy boiled unheeded, for my thoughts were far away 
And beyond the sombre mulga I saw the waters grey 
Where hard seas beat on Island cliffs, I dreamed of youth 

again 
As faces known and loved of old came back in ghostly train. 

Whilst I sat thus idly dreaming there came a cheery shout— 

" Good day to you, say matey, is any tucker about ? 

For my water bag's ' most empty, whew ! hasn't the day 

been hot ? 
My oath ! I never reckoned to strike a camp at this spot." 

I gave the best in our ** humpie," such is the out-back law ; 
The stranger's right to the best although his face ye never saw 
Till the fire's glow revealed it, for in this sun-parched land 
Rovers are all brothers sealed in the bond of sun and sand. 

And when the meal was finished and our pipes were well 

alight 
We turned to look at each other across the firelight. 
Talking of gold and its seeking, dearth of water and food. 
The latest find, the newest rush and the price of sandal- wood. 
VOL. XXIX- G 



42 Aiwa Malcr. 

Until some chafice word revealed it, whereat each gave his 

hand 
And we linked across the fire our lives in a far Home land. 
Equals we by the bond of toil in Open Places free 
But more than kin by the elder bond of School and 'Varsity. 

Then arose on the instant, for at times the Gods are kind, 
Gleams of the life that once we loved in days long left behind 
Each heard the echoing feet ring down the old court's 

smooth flagged way 
And saw once more the racing eights and Ditton packed. 

and gay. 

Thus in a lonely country, by the camp-fire's flickering glow 
Came to each the clear seen vision of days of long ago. 
Old red courts by the river side, cloisters and mullioned pane, 
The years rolled back a moment's space to live those years 
again. 

We hear once more the thundering shout, "You're going up, 

up, up." 
We saw the green spread tables and the circling loving cup. 
The old, dead life came back again, from out this sun-baked 

Hell, 
We walked once more by old-time paths in days that each 

loved well. 

Oh, Springtide fair, as they are to-day, each saw his college 

" backs," 
Forgotten life in a weary land where every green thing lacks, 
Forgotten the work of the days to be, the thirst-parched 

brow and tongue, 
Our hearts were tuned a moment's space as when the world 

was young. 

Then after hours of talking over days now past and dead. 
Aye time sped fast before we saw the Cross swing low 

o'er head. 
We silent drank in manner old, for drink we had but tea, 
To Granta's stream, to England's schools, to College and 

'Varsity. 



Alma Mater, 43 

He left again at day-break, he'd nigh on all-day tramp, 
I went back prospecting in the gully behind the camp. 
Each faced his toil with heart made light, for Fate in fleeting 

grace 
Wrested the past from out Time's grasp when we sat face 

to face. 

To you it may seem trivial, a thing of little worth. 

But it means much to we who tread the utter fringe of earth. 

Whose lives are cast in out-back lands, remote from Home 

and friends. 
Who only meet such fellow men as Fate in kindness sends. 

Ye have not known the loneliness bred of the wide-flung veldt 
When twilight deepens on the land and dims the amber belt 
Late marked across the sky line, whereunto our road goes 
And clear above the darkening East the evening planet glows. 

Ye have not watched the sunset flush the pathless mulga 

plains 
E'er falls the gathered darkness from clouds that bring no 

rains. 
As ships on outer chartings rejoice to sight the land 
So we rejoice to meet the men who know and understand. 

How should you understand us, you who live the ordered 

Hfe, 
'Tis not learned of the cities nor taught of the kiss of a wife. 
We are not of the cities who the frontier lands have known, 
Others shall come hereafter and reap where we have sown. 

We were even as you were, save only to us there came 
The Call of Open Places that speaks in Nature's name. 
Over the hum of cities and out of the midst of war 
We heard the calling echo and saw the rover's Star. 

To-day is the desert pathless and our's the newest track, 
But others follow swiftly the path of the men out-back. 
To-day is utter silence beneath the far-flung skies. 
To-morrow's train shall whistle for brakes down yonder rise. 



44 Alnta Mater, 

So is our part allotted : this is our pride and pain, 
First in the face of battle, last in the race for gain. 
" Fools who have had their chances/' aye, fools to a hard 

life's end — 
But fools who fight in the vanguard, fools who stick to a 

friend. 



Gerard W. Williams. 



Laverton, W.A. 
15th May, 1907. 




CONFESSIONS FROM THE MEMOIRS OF 
MR PRIMROSE. 

A SENSITIVE UNDERGRADUATE. 

Sunday eve^nngy March 30. 

|Y little life. I trust you will not disillusion 
me by ever revealing that you have been 
contaminated by the touch of the world. 
It is a primal impulse of the human mind, I 
fear, and I fear especially for you, to be ambitious, to 
court vanity. Omnia vantias. Vanity is a seduction, 
an adventitious self-respect, outwardly sleek as the 
lamb, inwardly a ravening wolf. The men around us, 
each listens for the resonance of his own voice : each 
would repel the insinuation. As friends they are a 
hierarchy of snobs. The fool is at heart the merchant 
of his folly: the man of character the showman of his 
character. Such is the trade of vanity. Everything is 
hollow; so hollow that there is little satisfaction in 
this world, and an appetite for insidious flattery that 
will not die. We are self-consuming egoists. It is 
always I. It is too much, too much. Though it may 
be selfish in me, mea vila^ to abjure temptation, I can 
no longer endure the flagellation of this first person so 
continuously repeated ; and you will pardon me, if our 
relations must become more distant, if^ what is but a 
subterfuge in me, seem but little else than formal 
etiquette to you; but notwithstanding henceforward I 
must be Mr. Primrose, * he ... .' 



46 Confessions from the Memoirs of Mr Primrose, 

March 21, ii a.m. 

Mr. Primrose attained his zenith in that hour, when 
Day and Night were too equally balanced to claim him 
for their own. Then he could, evading the conventions 
both of this world and of that, appear to himself in the 
freedom of his sentimental soul ; he could be a cherub, 
a paladin, a passion, a force, a pathos, a scintillation, 
a cynic, a child. He was passing through these 
transcendental states this morning when the post 
arrived. Illusions vanished, as at the sound of the 
retreating steps he slipped on his dressing gown and 
furtively outwitting the bedmaker stole the letter from 
his table. It was an invitation to dinner on the 30th 
from the Dean. 

March 30, 

The day had come, not without its anticipations. 
So far as the fortunes of this world affected him, Mr. 
Primrose was unfortunately placed. What he had, 
and what he had not, is too delicate an apocalypse for 
any but an ethereal court. His family was old — it had 
all but outlived its annuities — and this, indeed, was the 
one inconvenience to Mr. Primrose's aspirations to 
become the St. George of Conventions. He had all 
the lofty manner of the joust : his mental armour was 
a work of Vulcan and a gift of Venus : but whenever he 
essayed the dragon, his horse was, by the evil spells of 
this world, transformed into a hobby; on which he 
sank to earth with the confused sound of quips and 
scoffs in his ears. 

Walking through the courts sometimes, he would 
be summoning to his inward fancy a tournament of 
souls, whose communings would excel many a 
Decameron, when he became conscious that his boots 
were not on so solid a footing as they might be, and 
were not as rich in colour as they had been. Then fear 
gave speed to his heels. As with his boots, so it was 
with his evening dress. It was, if one may shake the 



i 



Confessions from the Memoirs of Mr Primrose. 47 

curtain and not raise it altogether, a heritage. A quick 
eye might have seen that it shared their occasional 
fault of diminution. Unhappily, no eye was so quick 
as his own. 

March 30, 7 p.m. 

Mr. Primrose dressed. By a long, careful, and 
studied adjustment of cuff and sleeve he at last hoped 
that the sleeve would present a marginal appearance of 
length ; and also he turned inwards the collet of his 
ring to remind hira of his determination to stand erect, 
or inclining, if at all, a little backward, that the coat 
tails might fall, as nearly as human ingenuity could 
attract them, to his knees. For the rest, he confirmed 
himself morally to be witty, to withdraw attention from 
his person to his elegance of mind ; above all not to be 
self-conscious. He walked carefully and quietly to the 
Deanery. Before going in to dinner he re-arranged 
himself, and then, and not until then, was aware that 
he had forgotten a handkerchief. As the door opened, 
he arrested his wandering mind. 

There were no ladies but the hostess present, next 
to whom he had the honour to sit. The Dean took the 
other end of the table, and there were three other 
guests in siaiu pupillariy with whom he was indifferently 
acquainted. 

The conversation took a strong lead, fittingly 
enough, with the Dean's pet bloodhound. Mr. Primrose 
remembered the golden rule of these occasions — always 
in conversing on animals to assign to them all the 
superior qualities of human beings, and, as a variable, 
to assign to human beings some of the superior 
qualities of animals. 

It was during this prelude that Mr. Primrose noticed 
that, in the effort, smooth as he could contrive it, to 
eat, his cuffs were slowly and remorselessly shrinking 
from the table, and his hands were becoming too 
unpleasantly prominent. This was a calamity he had 



48 Confessiotis from the Memoirs of Mr Primrose. 

not previously rehearsed. There was a lull; and, 
feeling* his opportunity, he turned to his hostess and, 
with all the gravity of a dialectic, inquired, what was 
humour? his hostess thought humour was a queer 
thing. There were a few comments, and then a relapse. 
He was disappointed. 

The first course had ended. The maids austerely 
put the second before him. If Mr. Primrose had only 
not been a St. George of Conventions, he would have 
assumed that the second course was fish ; but he gave 
the chef greater credit for ingenuity than was 
necessary, and believed it was not fish, but a strange 
dish that required a plain fork. He was served first, 
and took up the plain fork ; only to see everyone else 
differ from him, and with a growing colour to gauge 
how many noticed the difference. Speech died in him ; 
his dress clung to him, like a robe of Nessus. Moreover, 
for the rest of the dinner, he was responsible for a fish 
fork. It was impossible to conjecture what courses 
were to follow. The courses followed. They were a 
succession of chefs d'oeuvres ; but their identity was so 
hidden that they would not conform to the canons of 
any menu, and the fish fork found no opportunity. The 
exercise of mind was no less intense than moving" 
pawns under heavy stakes, with the fish fork as queen 
and every course a move to avoid being check-mated. 
Imperceptibly at first, he became conscious that his 
hostess was also using an unusual order of knives and 
forks, and with a shock he felt himself the miserable 
object of another's charity. It was too much, too much. 
Still, in silence, and with bated breath, he worked 
through the game, and with the savoury the suspense 
ended, and he was left a victor with a fish fork. At 
last he was rid of the evil ; and his moral reservations 
rose again and demanded a fluency of wit and epigram. 
He also became aware that five other people around 
him were maintaining a balanced conversation, which 
it was his duty to share. Unfortunately, his nerve was 



Confessions from the Memoirs of Mr Primrose. 49 

gone. He could not interrupt his own silence : even 
had he been able to, he could but think of one topic. 
The conversation had risen again to the human 
facilities and frailties of animals. He himself could 
visualize no animal except a spider; and he would 
have sold his soul to the devil to contrive the opening 
for a comparison between it and the present topic, the 
Dean's blood-hound. And yet so perturbed he was 
that nothing could induce him to leave his grasp of the 
spider; it was the only support to his sinking ship; 
and with the spider he waited through the dessert, even 
to the conclusion. 

The party rose. He fled to a chair, from which 
eventually, almost unnoticed, he rose to go ; and after 
thanking his host for an evening most pleasantly 
passed, he fled into the night. 

« « • • 

It was late before Day would consent to enter the 
conflict with Night: but at length the moment of 
emancipation came, by whose virtues Mr. Primrose 
could again become a cherub, a paladin, a passion, a 
force, a pathos, a scintillation, a cynic, a child. 

And to " mea vita " until to- morrow. 



VOL. XXIX. 



A LAMENT. 

I SING a song of ardour unreturned. 

Of baulked desire, of passion unrequited ; 
Of bosom sore by love's fierce furnace burned. 
Of fond hopes blighted. 

All day she lingers, where to reign she seems, 

Her soft-hued beauty indolently flaunting. 
In garden fair; all night, my broken dreams 
Attest her haunting. 

She speaks not, yet her fearful shrinking serves 

Full well, when tenderly I would approach her, 
To show that I'm, on worthier swains' preserves, 
A base encroach er. 

I know them well. One dares her veil to raise 

And softly fanning, pays his bold adresses: 
And on her cheek with kisses moist assays 
And cool caresses. 

But most I envy one, whose touch hath power 

To warm her in to blushing; oft with dawning 
Comes he, nor leaves her till the evening hour 
For flight gives warning. 

Men call him Phoebus — and his rivals twain, 

Who takes at will those joys that I'm forbidden — 
Zephyr, who fans her: last, the summer rain 
Who flirts unchidden. 

Her veil, of netting tarred, on south walls hig-h 

By gardener's cunning parts me from my darling. 
Oh, fate is hard : — for she's a peach, and I 
A hungry Starling! 

G. V. Y. 




CORSTOPlTUAf. 
IL 

INOTHER season's work has been done on the 
Corstopitum excavations, and the results con- 
tinue to point in the same direction, while the 
finds have been more numerous and more 
important than last year : last year we caught, so to 
speak, a momentary glimpse of something not very 
definite, but now we have material for one or two little 
pictures of episodes in the every day life of the Roman 
city, and even of one or two events in its unrecorded 
history. 

In a former paper some description was given of the 
bridge which once carried the Dere Street, the Great 
North Road of Roman Britain, across the Tyne to 
Corstopitum, and now we have some notion of the actual 
roadway by which the traveller from Eburacum mounted 
the hill towards the posting-house where his day's 
journey was to come to an end^ A fine road it was in 
the flourishing days of the Roman dominion, thirty, sevea 
feet wide, with a continuous kerb of dressed stones on 
either side and a surface of tightly packed cobble-stones 
and gravel which must have been almost as haid as 
solid rock. But her«, as elsewhere, the old tale of 
decadence is repeated : at a later date, — possibly in the 
fourth century, — the road was remade at a higher level, 
and a poor piece of work that remaking was, ruder in 
construction, scantier in material, and narrower in 
breadth, except where the road widens sharply, as it 
approaches the site of the bridge end, forming two- 
nooks or angles, which may have been the resort of the. 



I 



52 Corslopilum. 

loafers of the town and perhaps of its gamblers. Close 
to one of them was found a dice, marked with two aces 
and lacking a six, which seems to indicate that the 
Corstopitan rook was a bird of some ingenuity ; even if 
he himself threw with a dice marked in the ordinary 
way, he would certainly win in th« long run, and the 
pigeon would be less likely to detect th€ trick than if the 
dice were loaded. 

Let us visit Corstopitum somewhere about the middle 
of the second century, and walk up this earlier road, till 
we find a cobbled street branching off to the right. 
Half a minute's walk brings us into the courtyard of a 
large house, which occupies a considerable portion of 
the southern slope of the hill and extends to the brow of 
the steeper declivity above the marshy land beside the 
river. On our left is a low terrace walk, which runs in 
front of a long narrow building ; the latter is divided 
into a series of chambers, the contents of which we 
cannot see, but we venture a guess that they are work- 
shops or storehouses. On our right is the house proper, 
a long edifice with an open corridor on the side facing 
us, and a small enclosed courtyard abutting- against it 
This smaller courtyard takes our fancy immensely : in 
the centre of it is a cistern of clear water, and above 
the cistern stands a sculptured group, representing a 
lion which has just struck down a deer. The latter is 
in a state of collapse, and his tongue protrudes pathetic- 
ally from the side of his mouth, but the lion is useful as 
well as ornamental : he stands upon the back oi Vv\s 
prey, and from his open mouth a jet of water issues and 
falls into the cistern below. 

The Lion of Corstopitum (we must fly back to the 
twentieth century for a moment) has certainly proved 
himself a lion in more senses than one, and the interest 
which his [discovery excited may have given bim some 
compensation for the indignity he suffered vrhen, at 
some period later than our supposed visits be and his 
stag were thrown down into the cistern and buried there 



Corsiopitum, S3 

in rubbish, a drain bein^ar run over the top of his resting 
place as a crowning insult. Perhaps the most flattering 
tribute he received came from a small fox-terrier, which 
one day brought his mistress to visit the excavations, 
•• burst into barkter" at the sight of the lion, and was with 
difficulty restrained from a <x)mbat which would have 
been quite one-sided. It is reported from the Elysian 
Fields that the shade of the nameless sculptor of Corsto- 
pitum has since spent much time in impressing on the 
shade of Zeuxis the fact that a fox-terrier is a far more 
intelligent creature than a bird. However, it is tolerably 
certain that the nameless sculptor never made the 
acquaintance of a lion in real life, and in consequence 
be has given the beast unmistakeably human eyes. 

However, we must return to the second century^and 
examine the house, which need not detain us long : it 
contains a number of rooms and another corridor, and it 
is warmed by hypocausts; but if we visit the place 
again in the fourth century, we shall find these hypocausts 
filled up and disused. A doorway in the south wall 
opens upon a cobbled path, from which a small square 
terrace juts forward beyond the brow of the steeper 
slope. Here we may pause to admire the view up, down, 
and across the valley, and enjoy the sunshine in which 
(clouds permitting) this little pleasance basks from dawn 
to sunset. 

We must now return to the larger courtyard and 
climb by a stairway from the terrace walk to the higher 
level beyond. Here we come upon an open space, and 
a little further to the north is a dene or hollow running 
down the slope towards the west, at the bottom and 
along- the sides of which rubbish-pits are being dug, to 
get rid of the broken pottery and other refuse of the 
adjacent houses. Into one the fragments of several 
. . broken amphorae are being thrown, and we pause to 
^ J^ moralise on the benefits which mankind has derived from 
'd ^ ^.J the invention of the barrel: one can burn a disused barrel, 
,^^ ,4 but a broken amphora must have been a distinct 



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54 Conlopiium. 

nuisance in an orderly household. Broken Samian 
bowls are going the same way ; into another pit goes a 
bronze jug with a hole in the bottom, and some one else 
has discarded a pretty little glass bottle, once suspended 
by a now broken bronze chain. 

We pass round the head of the dene and presently 
come to a broad paved street, which runs east and west, 
almost through the heart of the town, — an important 
thoroughfare, to judge by its width of thirty-six feet 
at the point which we are standing; and just in front 
of us the building line on the southern side is for some 
distance set back another five yards. On our right, 
as we look eastwards, are substantial buildings: on our 
left is a large structure, the nature of which we cannot 
exactly determine, but evidently it is a Government 
building; for a huge and beautifully carved tablet 
informs us that it was erected by the Second (Augustan) 
Legion under Quintus Tollius Urbicus, in the third 
year of the Emperor Antoninus Pius, — the year 
A.D. 140, that is to say; and we remember that at 
that date Lollius Urbicus was on his way north for the 
campaign which ended with the construction of the 
turf wall between the Clyde and Forth. 

There is another large slab fixed in another wall of 
the same building, and on it is carved a representation 
of a legionary standard, which for a moment almost 
takes our breath away ; for the accompanying inscrip- 
tion informs us that it is the VEXILLVS of the Second 
Legion. There were days when, for us, the Latin word 
for standard was a neuter substantive of the second 
declension. Is it possible that the Romans could make 
mistakes in their own language ? However, presently 
we reflect that as Englishmen possess and exercise 
the privilege of making mistakes in theirs, the Roman 
legionary must be allowed equal latitude, especially 
when, as was usually the case at the date of our visit, 
he was made in Germany. But we do catch a glimpse 
of Corstopitum as the base or depot from which 



Corslopilunu 55 

Lollius Urbicus, or at any rate part of his army, 
inarched against the Caledonians, and we see the 
customary disquiet of the busy town aggravated by the 
presence of at least one legion : a detachment of the 
Sixth may have been here at the same time, and the 
Twentieth may have gone north or returned south by 
this route. However, this does not make Corstopitum 
a military station, though details may have been left 
here when the army marched north, and these may 
have included the official stonecarver of the Second 
Legion, whose services would not be needed till the 
completion of the campaign gave occasion for the 
erection of other buildings. 

Let us pass on and inspect the next building to the 

east, beside which we shall perhaps find a livelier scene. 

It is a public fountain, and in front of it is a large stone 

tank, from which the inhabitants of this quarter of the 

town draw supplies of water in their own jugs or other 

vessels. The fountain itself is based on a platform of 

massive masonry: in front is a low screen of carved 

stone panels, through apertures in which the water jets 

into the tank from a reservoir behind ; above this rises 

a colonnade of four slender columns, supporting a 

narrow frieze, carved with cpnventional laurel leaves 

and berries, and above the central part of the frieze is 

a pediment, with two winged Victories holding a 

circular panel, enclosed in a wreath, and bearing an 

inscription to the effect that the structure was built 

by the Twentieth Legion. Over the pediment and the 

ends ot the frieze runs an openwork interlaced cable 

moulding, and at each side of the fountain is a tall stone 

pedestal supporting a statue. It is an interesting 

structure, — did the Twentieth Legion build it as they 

marched south after a successful campaign? — but 

perhaps the crowd in front of the tank is more 

interesting still: it is a motley and to some extent a 

cosmopolitan assembly, composed mostly of women and 

phildren of the lower classes and household slaves of 



56 Corsiopiliim. 

those who stand a little higher on the social ladder, and 
we hear the latest scandal of Corstopiturn told, repeated, 
distorted, and exaggerated in Latin of various degrees 
of uncouthness. Wells have been notorious gossiping 
places from a date long before the time of Rebecca. 

We must now make use of our magician's wand, 
and transport ourselves to the closing years of the 
fourth century. Corstopitum is still a Roman city, 
but in worse repair than when last we saw it: the 
broad street has been remade at a higher level and 
with a rougher pavement ; the fine buildings have for 
the most part disappeared, but here on the south 
side of the street a little structure has been raised on 
the foundations of an older edifice. The walls are of bad 
masonry, and the roof seems to be of wattles and clay, 
but we enter nevertheless, and to our astonishment find 
ourselves in a Pottery Shop. There is a narrow space 
between the front window and the counter, and behind 
the counter are tiers of shelves. Here on the right are 
the show pieces of the establishment, cups, bowls, and 
dishes of red Samian ware, — plain vessels, with 
straight sloping sides, most of them bearing the stamp 
of some Gallic potter : they have no right to be here at 
all in (let us say) a.d. 390, because modern authorities 
have determined that their manufacture ceased almost 
a century earlier ; but here they are nevertheless, and 
of good quality too, standing ready to go through fire, 
breakage, and burial, and to revolutionise the ideas of 
experts when they are unearthed more than fifteen 
hundred years afterwards. 

On the other side of the shop are'shelves of British- 
made ware, brown and grey, and right across the back 
are tiers and stacks of huffish white food-vessels, such 
as Corstopitum needs for the preparation of its every- 
day meals; and just between the latter two classes 
is the till in which the shopkeeper locks up his money, 
but trade is not brisk at present, and the till contains no 
more than nineteen bronze coins of small value. 



Corstopitum. S7 

There is one more scene for us to witness, before we 
leave Corstopitum for the season. The Pottery Shop 
has caught fire, whether by accident or malice of the 
Emperor's enemies we cannot tell; but in a few 
minutes the whole place is in a blaze : one by one the 
burdened shelves bum away, and the pottery comes 
crashing down to the clay floor, where it lies broken 
into thousands of fragments among the wood ashes. 
The wattled roof is alight also, and presently more 
wood ashes and burnt clay come tumbling down to 
cover the scorched and broken stock. That is the end 
of the Pottery Shop, and perhaps it is only an episode 
in the end of Corstopitum itself. 

R. H. F. 



iroL. XXIX. 







f£ 



SIR ROBERT CALDEft. 

AN ADMIRAL OF 1805 AND HIS REWARD. 

|MONG the many skilfol and gallant Admirals 
who served this country during the naval 
wars of the French revolution, the subject of 
this sketch may, fairly, both by the services he 
rendered and the reward he received, claim a prominent 
place in the grateful remembrance of his countrymen. 
Robert Calder, the fourth son of Sir James Calder, Bart, 
and his wife Alice, daughter of Admiral Robert Hughes, 
was descended from the Calders of Muirtown in Moray- 
shire, but was born in Kent, where his father had 
established himself, on the 2nd July 1745. At the age of 
fourteen he entered the navy and joined the Chesterfield, 
Captain Sawyer, whom he followed to the Active, in 
which vessel he shared in the capture of the Spanish 
register ship Hermione on the 21st May 1762, probably 
one of the richest prizes ever taken, the midshipman's 
prize money amounting to ^1800. He was promoted 
Lieutenant on the 31st August 1762, and on being 
advanced to Post Captain on the 27 th August 1780 spent 
three years on the Home, Station- His next active 
service was in the revolutionary war, when he com- 
manded the Theseus 74 in the Channel Fleet, and in 
1796 we find him serving as Captain of the Fleet to Sir 
John Jervis in the Mediterranean, and it was in this 
capacity that he took part in the battle of Cape St 
Vincent and was selected to carry home the Admiral's 
despatches. That his services are appreciated is proved 
by the fact that he received the honour of knighthood 
in March 1797 and a Baronetcy in August 1798, while 



Sir Robert Calder. 59 

he was advanced to the rank of Rear Admiral on the 
14th February 1 799. In the year 1 800 he hoisted his flag 
on board the Prince of Wales 98 in the Channel Fleet 
under Lord St Vincent, and on promotion to Vice 
Admiral in April 1804, soon hoisted his flag, again on 
the Prince of Wales, and joined Admiral Cornwallis off 
Brest. On the 3rd February 1805 he received orders to 
lay off Ferrol, with five sail of line, to watch ten Franco- 
Spanish ships lying in that harbour, where two other 
ships were also fitting out. The enemy, however, 
declined to leave the shelter of their jforts, and on the 
15th July Calder was joined by the squadron from off 
Rochefort, giving him a total of 15 ships, with whom 
he was ordered to stretch out west of Finisterre to 
intercept the French and Spanish fleets returning from 
the West Indies. At the same time he was warned by 
the Admiralty and the Commanders-in-chief of the 
Channel and Mediterranean fleets to be on his guard 
against a junction of the Ferrol and Rochefort squadrons 
with the West Indian fleet, which would give his 
opponents 40 sail of the line. 

To truly appreciate subsequent events it is necessary 
to consider the circumstances under which this order 
was given. On the morning of the 7th July the brig 
Curieux, Captain GL E. R. Bettesworth, which had 
been sent forward by Nelson from the West Indies 
to warn the Admiralty of the return of AdmiraJ 
Villeneuve to European waters, arrived at Plymouth. 

Captain Bettesworth reached the Admiralty at 1 1 p.m« 
on the 8th, but the despatches were not handed to the 
First Lord until early on the morning of the gth. He 
was very angry at the delay of seven or eight hours, 
which had thus occurred, and without waiting to dress, 
wrote at once to Admiral Cornwallis to detach Rear 
Admiral Sterling from off Rochefort to join Admiral, 
Calder. By 9 a.m. the messengers were on their way 
to. Plymouth and Portsmouth, and on the nth Admiral 
Corix^allis received his despatches, N.apoleon, oti 



(50 Sir Robert Calder, 

learning that the blockading fleet had left Rochefort, 
was unable to believe that the Admiralty could have 
issued orders with such promptness, and his own words 
were **ce ne que \e to messidor (July 8th) que le brick 
le Curieux est arriv6 en Angleterre. L'amiraut^ n'a pu 
se decider dans les vingtquatre heures sur les mouvemens 
de ses escadres : dans ce cas il n'est pas probable que 
I'ordre k I'escadre devant Rochefort soit arrive en trois 
jours. Je mets done en fait que cette escadre a lev6 sa 
croisi&re par des ordres ant^rieure k I'arriviSe du Curieux 
k Londres." Fully recognising himself the importance 
of a delay even of a few hours on the approaching crisis, 
he failed to recognise that the Admiralty had also 
gfrasped the position and acted with the necessary 
decision and promptitude. 

Acting then on these orders, on the 22nd July Admiral 
Calder fell in with Admiral Villeneuve's fleet, which 
consisted of 20 ships, though he had understood that 
there were only 16. In spite of this and of the fact that 
the English fleet had the leeward position, Calder 
forced an action, the weather at the time being thick, 
which resulted in the cutting off and capture of two 
Spanish ships, the Raphael 84 and the Firme 74, after 
hard fighting, and serious damage to the Windsor Castle. 
The next day was clear, but although Villeneuve had 
the advantage of the wind, he thought that his orders 
forbade him to fight except on compulsion, while Calder 
was anxious to secure his prizes and to cover the 
Windsor Castle, and at the same time to avoid being 
caught by the* combination of the West Indian, Ferrol, 
and Rochefort fleets. The opponents therefore lost 
touch on the 24th, and Admiral Calder's precautions 
against a combined attack were justified by the fact 
that the Ferrol and Rochefort squadrons were on the 
23rd at the spot on which his action was fought on the 
22nd. Villeneuve now steered for Ferrol, but hindered 
no doubt by damage received in action, and having 
head wind and heavy sea, he went to Vigo and 



Sir Robert Calder. 61 

anchored there on the 26thy reaching Ferrol, where he 
effected a junction with the two squadrons, on the 
I St August. 

We must now consider what Napoleon's plans for 
Admiral Villeneuve had been, and to what extent 
they were affected by the action of the aand of July. 
Villeneuve had been despatched to the West Indies in 
order to draw Nelson away from Europe, and he was 
ordered to avoid giving battle to the English fleets, 
while returning as speedily as possible to a friendly 
European port, in order to effect a junction with the 
other French and Spanish fleets, which would give him, 
for a short time, an overwhelming superiority against 
the scattered English ships, and permit him to protect 
absolutely the transport of the French army across the 
Channel. 

Napoleon's own words in his letter of instruction 
dated St Cloud on the 26th of July 1805 were: **Mon 
intention est que vous ralliiez k Cadiz les vaisseaux 
espagnols qui s'y trouvent, que vous d^barquiez vos 
malades, et que sans sojourner k Cadiz plus de quatre 
jours au plus, vous remettiez k la voille, vous vous 
reportiez sur le Ferrol, vous vous joignniez aux 15 
vaisseaux combines qui sont dans cette rade, et qu'avec 
toutes ces forces r^unies vous vous portiez devant Brest, 
et de lit devant Boulogne, oii, si vous me rendez maitre 
pendent le seul espace de trois jours du Pas-de-Calais, 
et avec I'aide Dieu, je mettrai un terme aux destins et 
h I'existence de I'Angleterre. .• .votre seul passage 
nous rend, sans chance, maitres de I'Angleterre." We 
see, therefore, that had Admiral Calder not forced on 
the action of the 22nd, Admiral Villeneuve would by 
the 23rd or 24th have had under his command a fleet 
of 40 efficient ships, which would have enabled him to 
hold the entrance to the Channel during the time 
that the English were collecting their squadrons to 
attack him, and there seems no reason to doubt that 
this time would have been sufficient for Napoleon to 



62 Sir Robert Caldef. 

have effected the transport of his army of invasion to 
English shores. As a fact, however, we find that he 
did not succeed in combining his] fleets until the ist of 
August, and did not sail from Ferrol for the Channel 
until the 9th, and then with only 29 sail of line. It can 
hardly be doubted that the time thus gained to England 
by the necessity. under which Villeneuve was placed to 
repair his ships, and the hesitation produced in a 
character at all times prone to vacillation, did actually 
cause the ultimate abandonment of Napoleon's scheme 
of invasion. Napoleon himself appears to have first 
heard of the action on the 8th of August, and wrote to 
Cambac^r^s on that day, after seeing the disappoint- 
ment expressed in the English papers that the action 
had not been renewed, that the account published in 
the Montteur should make it appear that the French 
had gained the victory, as their fleet had safely arrived 
at Vigo. It was not until the nth August that, 
hearing Villeneuve had put into Ferrol, he realized that 
the delay had now ruined all his efforts, and he sent for 
Count Daru, his secretary, who found him transported 
with rage, and was bidden to sit down, listen, and 
write. Then, without stopping to consider. Napoleon 
dictated to him on the spot the whole of the plans, in 
detail, for the campaign of Austerlitz, from the breaking 
up of the camp before Boulogne to the date of arrival 
and positions assigned to each of his army corps. 

But we must now again follow the fortunes of this 
Admiral, whose victory would thus appear to have 
altered the course of the world's history. The news of 
his victory was received in England with the greatest 
joy, but the following paragraph of his despatch was 
suppressed by the Admiralty : — " At the same time it 
will behove me to be on my guard against the com- 
bined squadrons in Ferrol, as I am led to believe they 
have sent off one or two of their crippled ships last 
night for that port ; therefore, possibly, I may find it 
necessary to make a junction with you (Cornwallis) 



Sir Robert Calder. 63 

immediately off Ushant, with the whole squadron." 
The nation was thus led to expect that a further 
engagement would at once ensue, and when news 
arrived that Calder had drawn off his fleet, there came 
a re-action from joy to indignation, which was further 
inflamed and led to a court martial being demanded 
on the Admiral, when the French claims to victory 
appeared in the Mantteur. On the 30th August, having 
joined CoUingwood off Cadiz, Calder learnt that he was 
blamed for his conduct on the 23rd and 24th July. He 
himself at once applied for a court martial. The 
Admiralty had, independently, ordered Nelson to send 
him home, which he did, allowing him the honour of 
sailing in his ship of 90 guns, even at that critical time 
when such a ship could ill be spared. The court 
martial assembled on the 23rd December, and found 
that he had been guilty of an error of judgment, 
sentencing him to be severely reprimanded. The result 
of the trial brought to a close Sir Robert's active 
service, although he became an Admiral by seniority 
on the 31st July, 1810. Even during his life it appears 
to have been admitted that the treatment he received 
was unjust, for Dr Halloran, in his poem on the Battle 
of Trafalgar, speaks of " the force by brave but injur'd 
Calder led," and affixes a note supporting the epithet. 
Admiral Calder had married in May 1779 Amelia, 
daughter of John Michell, of Bayfield, in Norfolk, but 
had no children. He died on the 31st August, 1818, 
his portrait being placed in the Painted Hall at 
Greenwich. 

P. C. T. 



Professor Thomas Wilson Dougan M.A. 

Professor Dougan, who died suddenly on the 3rd erf July 
last, at his residence, Salernum, Holywood, Belfast, was a son 
of the Rev John Dougan, presb3rterian minister of Lough- 
morne, co. Monaghan. He was born at Loughmorne 6 July 
1852 ; his father died while he was still a boy, but it was 
from him that he received his first impulse to the study of 
Classics. 

He was educated at the Royal Academical Institution, 
Belfast, passing from there to Owens College, Manchester, 
where he studied under the late Prof. A. S. Wilkins. He 
entered St John's in October 1875 and took his degree as 
third Classic in 1879. He was awarded one of Browne's 
medals for a Latin epigram in 1878, and was highly dis- 
tinguished in the examination for the Chancellor's Medals. 
In 1878 he was elected Langton Fellow of Owens College, 
and in 1881 he took the M.A. degree in the University of 
London, with the gold medal. He was elected a Fellow 
of St John's in 1879. 

In 1882 he was appointed Professor of Latin in Queen's 
College, Belfast, which post he held until his death. At 
once a true scholar and a man of most retiring disposition, 
he lived his own life of unwearied seeking after knowledge 
in his favourite field of study. Never content with second- 
hand imformation he went to the fountain head, and spent 
much time in studying the manuscripts of classical authors in 
many continental libraries, balancing authoritative opinion oh 
the most delicate points. He edited ThucydideSy Book VI., 
published in 1884; and in 1905 brought out an edition of 
Cicero's Tusculan Disputations^ Books I and II. These were 
annotated with the greatest care and have been most favour- 
ably received. 

He was a kindly inspiriting teacher, ever ready to give 
assistance to his students. A man of deep convictions oa 



Obituary, 65 

all questions which he had thought out, he held his opinions 
with courage and tenacity. Though he took no public part 
in politics he was a Liberal and a follower of Mr Gladstone, 
views which were not popular in the Ulster of later years. 

He married in 1890, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of the 
Rev Dr Alexander Field of Dorrock, co. Antrim, who 
survives him. 



Rev Canon Charles Isaac Atherton, M.A. 

The Rev Canon Atherton, who died in the Close, Exeter, 
1st October 1907, was a son of Samuel Atherton and was 
bom at Nottingham in 1841 ; he entered St John's in 1860 
and took a degree, without honours in 1863. 

We take the following notices of him from The Guardian 
for 9th October 1907 :— 

" In the passing away of Charles Isaac Atherton, 
Treasurer and Canon of Exeter Cathedral, a remarkable 
personality goes from us — one of those personalities that 
seem made to give direction and force to religious movements. 
His special power was shown in Home Mission work, 
but he was far more than merely a participator in this 
form of Church labour — he was born to inspire it and 
make it stand out. He was great as an organiser, bringing 
to this work, among other qualities, much business capacity, 
which showed itself first when, at an unsually early age, 
he w^as chosen as head cashier in a Midland bank. His 
p>ower of dealing with figures followed him through life, 
and was found of much service in those constant acts of 
kindness towards individual cases of need to which he was 
prompted by a thoughtful and affectionate nature. In 
this position at the bank his power also of strenuous 
endeavour began to be evident, and he made time for the 
bard work which prepared him for the University. After 
taking his degree from St John's College, Cambridge, he 
was admitted to Holy Orders, and served his first curacy 
at Pensnett, in Shropshire, of which place he was eventually 
Vicar, on the nomination of Lord Ayard, afterwards Earl 
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66 Obituary. 

of Dudley. Here his work was among colliers, and here 
his attachment to Mission-work was first developed. Here, 
too, he was brought under the influence of Richard Twigg, 
Vicar of Wednesbury, and here the lifelong friendship 
with George Body,^ the famous Missioner of after-years, 
who is still spared to us, was formed. It is said that the 
immediate occasion of Charles Atherton*s first interest in 
Mission-work was the sudden death from a stroke of 
lightning of a godless parishioner, which made a great 
impression on the collier nature. Mr Atherton seized 
upon it and used it as the starting-point of a remarkable 
spiritual revival in the parish. A great love of souls hence- 
forth possessed his heart and he went forth on Mission 
enterprises far and wide. 

From Pensnett he removed to Nympsfield, among the 
Cotswold Hills, leaving the colliers of his former parish 
for a population of labourers and farmers, amongst whom he 
worked no less successfully, bringing a whole parish to 
Sunday worship, and wielding an influence which led many 
back to the fellowship of the church. After a ministry of 
fibout two years he was transferred to the important parish 
of St. PauFs, Bedminster, in Bristol, and came into contact 
with a population of fourteen thousand, largely consisting 
of labourers and artisans. It was this wide acquaintance 
in different parishes with different classes which made 
him at home in after-years with all sorts and conditions 
of men. At Bedminster he had full opportunity for the 
exercise erf his organising power. The development of 
Church life during the seven years of his ministry was 
noteworthy. He had a wonderful power of leading on his 
Confirmation candidates to Communion, and the roll of 
commimicants numbered from 1,000 to 12,000. All the 
time, while immersed in countless parochial activities, 
he found it possible to sally forth on Mission work in many 
directions. It is not surprising that after a strenuous 
ministry of seven years his health gave way under the 
strain, but a short rest enabled him to take the lighter 
work of Snaith, in Yorkshire, where he was made Rural 
Dean by Archbishop Thomson. Eventually Bishop Bicker- 
steth, quick to recognise special aptitudes, sent him to 



Obituary, 67 

Farringdon^ a Devonshire village, in 1887, and, after a short 
period of service, found opportunity for conferring upon 
him a Canonry in Exeter Cathedral, and set him over the 
entire Mission-work of the Diocese. During the last 
twenty years of his life he gave himself to the work 
which he specially loved with a power and devotion which 
were patent to all eyes, and won for him increasingly 
the appreciation and respect of a Diocese which is not rash 
or hasty in pronouncing its verdicts. His supporters were 
amongst both High and Low Churchmen. Though he 
was himself strongly attached to the Church, and found 
on its wide platform full opportunity for all the work which 
he loved, it would be impossible to identify him with any 
one section of Churchmen ; special views were all merged 
in one supreme desire to draw all through the power of 
Christ. The large number of clergy which he gathered 
round him as a band of Missioners, and the devotion 
.for their chief which inspired them, was a remarkable 
feature not often seen elsewhere, and it induced many 
leading Chiurchmen of all ecclesiastical parties and from 
all parts to accept the invitations which he freely sent out 
to help in his annual meetings at Exeter. At such seasons 
not a few of those who are most prominent in the Church 
life of our times have impressed the Churchmen of the 
West and have been themselves impressed by the notable 
sight of a great diocesan assembly gathered under the 
chairmanship of the Bishop to join in the work over which 
Canon Atherton presided, and which he inspired with 
something of his own fervent spirit. It is doubtful whether 
anything of such a special character as these yearly gatherings 
could be found elsewhere. 

In days of abounding organisation Canon Atherton's. 
genius in that direction, had it stood alone, might have 
passed unnoticed ; but beneath it lay his passion for 
winning souls. This embraced not only the many but the 
individual. Thus, while he swayed great congregations, he 
followed single lives with affection and constant care. It is 
rare to find a man who was a truer friend to a greater 
number of persons, whether in spiritual or bodily need. 
All over the Diocese of Exeter, as doubtless elsewhere^ 



68 Obituary. 

are those who owe to him their own souls, and the relief of 
their troubles in times when the strain of life was hardest. 
It was this personal thought which increasingly won for 
him the confidence and affection of colleagues. Unlike some 
other great organisers, he was always at pains to fit in his 
work with that of fellow-workers in other departments. He 
was quick to recognise their work, and gave it its due place. 
Thus, they always found him an ally ; he took one of the 
surest ways to convert a colleague into a personal friend. 
Coming as a stranger, and one unused to Cathedral Ufe, into 
Devonshire, he so lived and worked that, now that he has 
died, after twenty years of service, he leaves personal 
memories that will not die. There will, no doubt, t>e 
need to learn new lessons and methods in Mission- 
work as time goes by, but the principles on which 
Canon Atherton built his work will remain, and among 
the chiefest of them will stand his consideration for others 
and the attraction of a loving heart. It was natural that 
such a man should draw those who stood .nearest him in 
human relationship into spiritual fellowship with his life and 
work. The memory of Canon Atherton will always be 
associated with that of the wife who shared and helped his 
every effort. 

E. G. S. 



The death, on Tuesday in last week, of Canon Atherton, 
well known throughout England as Diocesan Missioner of 
Exeter, is an event of more than local interest and more than 
diocesan importance. For nearly twenty years — slowly at first^ 
and then more and more quickly — he made room in the 
sphere of his influence, which was always widening before 
him, for the exercise of a great gift, and every year saw him 
more firmly established in the use of it, more fully accepted, 
more fraternally received. There are few tests of character 
that do not try a man and his wc^k in the coarse of twenty 
years, if the work is done in the light of day and the 
workman holds a conspiciuous post. Such tests came to him, 
and left him assured of the esteem and, in no small degree, 
the admiration and the love of his episcopal chiefs, of his 
Cathedral colleagues, and, as the remarkable demonstration 



Obituary, 69 

at his faneral showed, the strong attachment of a great 
body of clerical and lay workers, representing the best 
influences of the Diocese at large. When the final test came, 
somewhat suddenly, a fiery trial destined to last through 
many months, till the last enemy was welcomed as a friend, 
then in all the simplicity of a child, patient, humble, loving, 
he committed the keeping of his soul to God and fell asleep. 
Of him it may truly be said that in his patience he possessed 
his soul. Unentangled in the machinery even of his own 
work, free of all partial or party aims or hopes, he never 
failed to listen to the comfortable words of which he had 
been the minister to others, and never failed to hear them 
in the deep of his own heart. 

Twenty years ago, except to a few contemporaries, he was 
unknown in Devonshire. He came to take a place where 
eminent men had preceded him. He came at the call of a 
new Bishop, himself not as yet fully established in authority 
as before long he came to be. He came to a Diocese which, 
if not insular, is at least peninsular. He came to try a great 
experiment certain to arouse opposition, to kindle jealousies, 
to stimulate passive resistance. That experiment is still in 
part experimental, still tentative, but Canon Atherton's work 
in some form will abide, and it will largely be due to his 
character and administration that it is placed beyond cavil or 
dispute that the forces of the Church can be organised and 
directed, distributed and concentrated, without breach of 
order or surrender of parochial responsibility, where the 
Bishop is as happy in his choice of the Missioner as Bishop 
Bickersteth was in his. 

There was favouring circumstances at Exeter when Canon 
Atherton went there which helped him greatly in carrying out 
his plans, and went far to neutralise other influences less 
helpful. The Bishop's support, unvaryingly given, carried 
with it a large amount of lay co-operation such as is rarely 
withheld from objects commanded by authority. The Cathe- 
dral was the centre of the devotional activities of the Mission, 
the Chapter-house was its place of conference. That was so, 
and is still so, with other great balancing spiritual enterprises. 
Each in its turn has its opportunity. None is cramped ; 
there are overlappings of sympathy — one good custom is not 



70 Obituary, 

suffered to corrupt the world. The Diocesan Mission has 
invented no catchwords or watchwords for esoteric use. As 
far as possible, the aim kept steadily in view is the rousing of 
dormant religious life, the awakening to spiritual responsi- 
bilities and blessings of the aimless, the careless, the ungodly, 
the general uplifting of the level of Church life. 

To this work Canon Atherton gave himself with con- 
spicuous success. In it he lived and moved. His next highest 
ambition was to be a good colleague. He gave the pledge 
of his love to his brethren when he came, they took it, and he 
redeemed it. He has been the teacher of multitudes, the 
friend and helper of other missioners of more conspicuous 
names than his, but none on the whole more competent, few 
experienced, as tactful, or as wise. 

W. J. E. 






v^. 



THE JOHNIAN DINNER 1907. 




(HE sixth of the dinners given by the Master 

and Fellows, to Masters of Arts of the College 

on the Boards, was held this year on June 20th. 

On this occasion members of the College who 

graduated in the following groups of year were invited : 

1856-1863; 1876-1881; 1892-1897. 

The following is a list of those present at the dinner, 
with the dates of their first degrees. Those resident in 
the University have an asterisk. 



*Thb Master, 1862. 
*The President, 1848. 

Mr H. M. Adler, 1897. 

Dr F. J. Allen, 1879. 

Mr 6. R. Alston, 1881. 

Mr W. F. Aston, 1895. 

Dr F. Bagshawe, 1857. 

Mr W. Baily, 1860. 
•Dr H. F. Baker, 1887. 

Dr W. H. Bansall, 1881. 
•Mr W. Bateson, 1883. 

Ven. Archdeacon Bevan, 1878. 
•Mr F. F. Blackman, 1891. 
•Mr V. C. Boddington. 

Dr W. A. Bond, 1879. 
•Dr T. G. Bonney, 1856. 

Mr T. A. Brock, 1895. 

Dr W. L. Brown, 1892. 

Mr H. R. Browne, 1880. 

Mr R. P. Burnett, 1876. 
•Mr L. H. K. Bushe-Fox, 1885. 

Mr W. D. Bushell, 1861. 

Dr A. Caldecott, 1880. 

Mr H. D. Catling, 1892. 

Mr A. Chappie, 1897. 

Sir E. Clarke, 1894. 

Mr F. W. Clarke, 1880. 

Mr J. Clay, 1880. 



Mr A. Coore, 1894. 

Canon G. Crossley, 1881. 
•Mr E. Cunningham, 1902. 

Mr J. B. Dale, 1893. 

Mr H. N. Devenish, 1896. 

Mr F. H. Dinnis, 1862. 

Mr J. Dixon, 1878. 

Mr W. H. M. Ellis, 1858. 

Mr G. L. Farthing, 1859. 

Mr J. Francis, 1861. 

Mr A. Fuller, 1856. 

Dr J. R. Garrood, 1895. 

Mr F. G. Given-Wilson, 1892. 
•Mr T. R. Glover, 1891. 

Mr P. F. Gorst, 1862. 

Sir W. J. Goulding, 1879. 
•Mr C. E. Graves, 1862. 

Mr C. G. Griffinhoofe, 1880. 

Mr W. H. Gunston, 1879. 
•Mr A. F. Hall. 

Mr J. M. Hardwich, 1895. 
•Mr G. 8. Hardy. 1905. 
•Mr A. Harker, 1882. 
•Mr T. H. Havelock, 1900. 

Mr G. Hibbert-Ware, 1894. 

Mr L. G. Horton-Smith, 1893. 

Mr R. H. Horton-Smith, 1856 

Prof. W. H. H. Hudson, 1861. 



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Mr A. L. Hunt, 1876. 

Mr D. S. Ingram, 1862. 

Mr A. Jackson, 1859. 

Mr E. J. F. Johnson, 1879. 

Mr W. K. Kefford, 1897. 

Mr H. A. King, 1892. 

Mr P. A. Kingsford, 1893. 
•Mr H. C. H. Lane. 
•Mr J. J. Lister, 1880. 
•Prof. G. D. Liveing, 1850. 

Mr W. S. F. Long, 1880. 

Mr W. B. Lowe, 1877. 
•Dr D. MacAlister, 1877. 

Canon J. McCormick, 1857. 

Mr J. H. MacFarland, 1876. 
•Dr J. E. Marr, 1879. 

Mr J. R. Marrack, 1860. 
*Mr P. H. Mason, 1849. 
•Mr E. H. P. Muncey. 

Mr R. Nevill, 1878. 

Mr F. C. Newbery. 1892. 
♦Mr G. Northorp. 

Mr W. NuUey, 1892. 

Dr G. Parker, 1877. 

Mr P. P. Pennant, 1857. 

The Dean of Peterborough, 1857. 

Mr R. D. Pierpoint, 1861. 

Mr H. C. Pinsent, 1878. 

Canon A. H. Prior, 1880. 

Mr J. E. Purvis, 1893. 

Mr G. H. Raynor, 1876. 

Mr C. M. Rice, 1892. 



•Mr W. H. R. Rivers, 1898f, 

Mr J. Robinson, 1893. 
•Mr C. B. Rootham, 1897. 
•Dr J. E. Sandys, 1867. 
♦Mr R. F. Scott, 1875. 

Prebendary Selwyn, 1862. 

Mr. H. J. Sharpe, 1861. 
•Dr L. E. Shore, 1885. 
•Mr E. E. Sikes, 1889. 

Mr H. W. Simpkinson, C.B., 1876 

Mr £. L. Simpson, 1892. 

Mr J. B. Slight, 1859. 

Mr J. Snowdon, 1863. 

Mr J. H. Spokes, 1877. 
•Mr H. F. Stewart, 1886. 

Mr T. Stone, 1880. 

Mr H. A. Swann, 1877. 
•Dr J. R. Tanner, 1883. 

Mr P. C. Taylor, 1896. 

Dr H. H. Tooth, C.M.G., 1877. 

Mr R. Viney, 1879. 

Mr J. A. Voelcker, 1894. 

Mr H. Wace, 1876. 
•Mr J. T. Ward, 1876. 

Mr E. J. Warmington, 1863. 

Mr W. Warren, 1877. 

Mr H. St J. Wilding 1878. 

Mr A. Williams, 1880. 

Mr H. A. Williams, 1878. 

Canon J. M. Wilson, 1859. 

Mr R B. Worthington. 1856. 

Mr P. T. Wrigley, 1880. 



The Toast list was as follows: **The King," pro- 
posed by the Master ; " The Guests," proposed by 
Dr. Sandys, responded to by The Dean of Peterborough 
and Sir W. J. Goulding. 



OUR CHRONICLE. 



Michaelmas Term igoy. 



The list of * Birthday Honours/ issued on June 28, on the 
occasion of the official celebration of His Majesty's birthday, 
contained the names of two members of the College. 

A Peerage of the United Kingdom was conferred on Dr 
Alexander Peckover. Dr Peckover is descended from the 
Edmund Peckover who served under Cromwell, and who on 
leaving the Army became a Quaker, the principles of which 
body the family have ever since retained. Dr Peckover was 
born 16 August 1830, and was for some 45 years managing 
partner in the Wisbech Bank. He retired in 1893, when he 
was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, an office 
he resigned in November 1906. Dr Peckover takes the title 
of Lord Peckover of Wisbech. 

Vice-Admiral Sir Wilmot Hawksworth Fawkes, K.C.V.O., 
formerly a Fellow Commoner of the College, was appointed 
an Ordinary Member or Knight Commander of the Military 
Division of the Second Class of the Most Honourable Order 
of the Bath (K.C.B.). 

The list of honours issued on November 9 contain the 
name of Mr Jeremiah Colman (B.A. 1882), on whom a 
baronetcy of the United Kingdom was conferred. 

On the 30th of July last it was announced that the King 
had been pleased to approve of the appointment of the 
Rev W. Page Roberts (B.A. 1862), Canon of Canterbury, 
to the Deanery of SaUsbury. The Times in making the 
announcement had the following paragraph : 

" Canon Page Roberts D.D. has been long and eminently 
known as an exponent of liberal Churchmanship to a con- 
gregation which probably includes more men of intellectual, 
especially scientific, attainments than any in London. He is 
in his 72nd year, and married, in 1878, a daughter of the 
fourth Lord Rivers, some of whose family reside in the 
diocese of Salisbury. He was educated at Liverpool College, 
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74- Orcr Chront'dr. 

and, afier entertaining for a time the intention of entering (he 
Wesleyan ministry, graduated at St John's College, Cambridge, 
in 1862, and in the same year became curate of St Thomas, 
Stockport, in his native diocese of Chester. As vicar of Eye, 
Suffolk, from 1864 to 1878 he became known as an able and 
cultivated preacher, and for the last 29 years he has worthily 
filled the pulpit of St Peter's, Vere Street, which is associated 
with the name of Frederick Denison Maurice. Lord Rose- 
bery appointed him to a residentiary canonry at Canterbury 
in 1895, and he has lately entered the Lower House of Con- 
vocation as Proctor for the Dean and Chapter. His doctrinal 
and ecclesiastical position is well expounded in a volume of 
sermons (he has published three in all) entitled * Comformity 
and Conscience.' '* 

On July 2nd last it was announced that the King had been 
pleased, on the nomination of the Prime Minister, to appoint 
Dr Donald MacAlister (B.A. 1877), FeUow of the College 
and Principal of the University of Glasgow, to be a Crown 
member of the Governing Body of the Imperial College of 
Science and Technology to be founded at South Kensington. 
The new institution is sometimes spoken of as the ** British 
Charlottenburg." The Chancellor of the Exchequer has 
appointed Dr MacAlister to be a member of the Treasury 
Committee on the work, equipment, and needs of the 
University of Wales and its Colleges. 

Tlie Rev A. J. Tait (B.A. 1894), Principal of St Aidan's 
College, Birkenhead, has been appointed Principal of Ridley 
Hall, Cambridge, in succession to the Rev Dr T. W. Drury, 
Bishop designate of Sodor and Man. Mr Tait was a founda- 
tion scholar and Naden Divinity student of the College and 
was for sometime tutor at the Church Missionary College, 
IsHngton. Mr Tait has also been appointed an examining 
Chaplain to the Bishop of Liverpool. 

Dr JR. C. Maclaurin (B.A. 1895), Professor of \Lithematics 
in Victoria College, Wellington, New Zealand, was on 
No\-ember 4th appointed Professor of Mathematical Physics 
ia Columbia University, New York. Professor Maclaurin is 
a former Fellow of the College ; he obtained a Smith's Prize 
in 1897, and a Yorke Prize for Law in 1898. 

Mr AbduUa ibn Yusuf-Ali (B.A. 1895), LC.S., was on the 
15th of June last appointed to officiate as Secretary to the 
Government of India in the Finance Department. The 
Council of the Society of Arts awarded one of their medals to 
Mr Yusuf-Ali for his paper : " The Indian Mohammedans, 
thtir Past, Present, and Future.'* 



Our Chronick. 75 

The Bojurd of Treasury have appointed Mr W. Blain C.B. 
fB,A. 1884) to be an Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, 
The Lords Commissaoners of His Majesty's Treasury have 
appointed Mr Blain to be Auditor of the Civil List 

Sir Clement Kinloch Cooke (B.A. 1878) was in July last 
appointed to serve as a representative of the London County 
Council on the Central Unemployed Body for London. He 
has also been appointed by the same authority to be a member 
of the governing body of the Impeiial College of Science and 
Technology. 

On September 23 the Emperor of Japan promoted Baron 
Suyematsu (B.A. 1884) to the rank of Viscount, on account of 
his public services during the late war. 

On the 29th of June last the University of Manchester 
conferred the Honorary Degree of LL.D. on Baron Kikuchi 
(B.A. 1877)» late Minister of Education in Japan. 

Mr V. H. Blackman (B.A. 1895)", formerly Fellow of the 
College, was in July last appointed Professor of Botany in 
the University of Leeds. Mr Blackman has been for some- 
time an assistant in the botanical department of the Natural 
History Museum, South Kensington. 

Professor A. E. H. Love (B.A. 1885), D.Sc, F.R.S., was 
President of Section A (Mathematics and Physics) at the 
meeting of the British Association at Leicester. 

In the Eagle for June last mention was made of the 
Parliamentary Jubilee of Sir Francis S. Powell (B.A. 1850). 
The following letter, which appeared in The Yorkshire Post 
for July 4, gives a full account of his parliamentary career. 
SIR F. S. POWELL'S ELECTION RECORD. 
To the Editor of The Yorkshire Post. 
Sir, — In connection with the 80th birthday annives- 
sary last Saturday (June 29) of Sir F. S. Powell, M.P. 
for Wigan, and also with his Parliamentary ** Jubilee '* 
some weeks ago, I have seen three times in different 
newspapers the statement that he has fought " thirteen '* 
contested Parliamentary elections, the correct number 
being nineteen. This fine old Churchman and indefati- 
gable Conservative fighter has, in fact, fought in 
thirteen general elections, since and including that 
of 1852, when he was 25 years old; and hence, 
I presume, the origin of the mistake. But he has 
also contested six by-elections, making nineteen con- 
tests in all. He has never had the luxury of being 
returned without a contest. 

I am sure many politicians of all parties would like 
to have in full a Parliamentary record in some respects 



76 



Our Chrohidc. 



unique ; and hope you will be able to find space for it 
as follows. I have indicated in each instance whether 
the contest is a " by " or is in a general election : — 



i852.--Wigan, Gen. Elec. 
R. A. Thicknesse (L)... 366 

Col. J. Lindsay (C) 356 

F. S.Powell (C) 324 

1854.— Wigan— By-Elec. 

Joseph Acton (L) 339 

F.S. Powell (C) 334 

1857.~Wigan, Gen. Elec. 

F.S. Powell (C) 493 

Hy. Woods (L) 447 

Col. J. Lindsay (C) 276 

1859.— Wigan, Gen. Elec. 

Col. J. Undsay (C) 503 

Hy. Woods (L) 470 

F. S. Powell (C) 276 

1863.— Cambridge, By-Elec. 

F. S. Powell (C) 708 

Prof. H. Fawcett (L)... 627 

1865.— Cambridge, Gen. Elec. 

W. Forsyth (C) 762 

F. S. Powell (C) 760 

Lt.-Col. R. Torrens (L) 726 
W. D. Christie (L) 725 

1868.— Cambridge, Gen. Elec. 
Col. R. Torrens (L) ... 1,879 

W. Fowler (L) 1,857 

F. S. Powell (C) 1,436 

John E. Garst (C) 1,389 

1871.— Stalybridge, By-EIec. 

N. Buckley (L) 2,182 

F. S. PoweU{C) 2,033 

1872.— N.W. Rdg. Yks.,By-Elec. 

F. S. Powell (C) 6,961 

Issac Holden (L) 6,917 



1874.— N.W. Rdg. Yks., Gn. EL 
Ld.F.C. Cavendish (L) 8,681 

Sir M. Wilson (L) 8,590 

F. S. Powell (C) 7,820 

W. FisonCQ 7,725 

1875.— Manchester, By-Elec. 

Jacob Bright (L) 22,535 

F. S. Powell (C) 20,974 

1880.— N.W. Rdg. Yks., Gn. El. 
Ld. F. C. Cavendish (L) 10,873 

Sir M. Wilson (L) 10,732 

F. S. Powell (Q 7,140 

S. C. Lister (C) 7,090 

1881.— Wigan, By-Election. 

F.S. Powell (C) 3,003 

J. Lancaster (L) 2,245 

Voided on petition. 

1885.— Wigan, Gen. Elec. 

F. S.PoweU(C) 3,637 

G. H. Lea 2,721 

1886.— Wigan, Gen. Elec. 

F. S. PtowclMQ 3,371 

C. McL. Percy (C) 2,780 

1892.— Wigan, Gen. Elec. 
Sir F. S. Powell (C) ... 3,422 
T. Aspinwall (L. Lab.) 3,312 

1895.— Wigan. Gen. Elec. 
Sir F. S. Powell (C) ... 3,940 
T. Aspinwall (L. Lab.) 3,075 

1900.— Wigan, Gen. Elec. 
Sir F. S. Powell (C) ... 3,772 
Col. W. Woods (L) ... 3,130 

1906.— Wigan, Gen. Elec 
Sir F.S. Powell (C)... 3,572 
Thorlev Smith (Lab.).. 2,205 
Col. W. Woods (L) ... 1,900 



As regards the 1863 Cambridge contest, I can 
remember, though I was then rather a non-political 
juvenile, the sensation (of a mild kind) among my 
seniors at the defeat of the famous Radical Professor 
Fawcett by a comparatively unknown Mr. F. S, 
Powell, who had last previously been heard of at 
Wigan. 

Much better within any middle-aged memory, how- 
ever, is the vastly greater sensation nine years later 
that ensued on the same Mr. F. S Powell's defeat 
of Mr. Isaac Holden (afterwards Sir Isaac) at the 
by-election for the Northern Division of the West 
Riding in 1872. The constituency was supposed to 
be impregnably Radical, Sir Francis Crossley and 
Lord F. C. Cavendish having been elected twice 



Our Chronicle, 77 

without a contest; and this startling result was 
attributed to the double discontent of Churchmen 
on the one hand and extreme Nonconformists on 
the other with Mr. W. E. Forster's Education Act. 
Two years later the satisfaction of Radicals in the 
constituency was proportionately great when, although 
the country as a whole went Conservative, Mr. Powell 
and Mr. Wm. Fison were defeated by Lord F. C. 
Cavendish and Sir M. Wilson. 

Again, a year later, immense interest was taken all 
over the country in Mr. F. S. Powell's Manchester 
by-election tussle with Mr. Jacob Bright. The 
Manchester poll on this occasion was in fact ten 
per cent, heavier than it had been in, the previous 
year's general election, when the Manchester Con- 
servatives had shown a majority of 304 voters, but 
(on the then minority method in three-member 
constituencies, under which each voter could only 
vote for two candidates) had carried only two seats 
out of the three. Considering the much heavier poll 
at the by-election, Mr. Powell was regarded as having 
done remarkably well against the great prestige of the 
Bright name. 

During last week's debate in the House of Commons 
on the House of Lords, Sir F. S. Powell spoke briefly, 
touching upon the Labour attitude on the question. 
In the polling record it will be noted that he himself 
has had " Labour experience " in Wigan ; for his 
narrowest contest there in modern times was against 
the Liberal- Labour candidate in 1892 ; though his 
victory over the same man three years afterwards was 
decisive. Again, as regards the Wigan "triangular" 
contest last year, it will be seen, if due allowance 
be made for the increased poll as compared with 
the year 1900, that the Labour candidate must have 
secured some hundreds of normally Conservative votes 
as well as those which he withdrew from the Liberal 
side. 

But the 1906 feather in Sir Francis' cap is seen on 
looking round that year's results in the other Lanca- 
shire boroughs. Leaving Liverpool aside, those 
boroughs in 1900 elected twenty Conservatives. In 
1906 they elected two. One is Sir F. S. Powell, the 
other is Sir W. H. Hornby, at Blackburn ; and he has 
as colleague the well-known Labour leader, Mr. Philip 
Snowden. — ^Yours, etc. 

Old Politician. 

Bradford, July 2. 



78 Our CkronicU, 

If the title of * Father of the House of Commons * were 
given to the member for the time being whose original 
election dated back the furthest, Sir F. S. Powell would now 
be regarded as the Father. The usual convention is, however, 
to give the title to that member who has served for the 
longest continuous period, a rule which excludes Sir F. S. 
Powell, as it did Lord Palmerston in his day. During the 
nineteenth century the College had two Fathers of the House. 
Sir Charles Merrik Burrell (B.A. 1795), who was returned as 
M.P. for New Shoreham in Sussex, 4 November 1806, and 
sat for the same constituency (for which he was returned no 
less than sixteen times) until his death, 4 January 1862. The 
other was the Right Hon Charles Pelham Villiers (B.A. 1824), 
who was returned for Wolverhampton, 10 January 1835, and 
sat for the same constituency until his death on 16 January 
1898. 

The Right Hon Sir J. T. Hibbert (B.A. 1847) was installed 
as Constable of Lancaster Castle on the 11th of October last; 
he was appointed to the office by the King in succession to 
the late Sir W. W. B. Hulton. Sir John occupies many 
important public posts. He is chairman of the Lancashire 
County Council, chairman of the Associated County Councils, 
president of the North- Western Poor Law Conference, 
and chairman of the Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster. He 
also holds various other public offices, and has, indeed, spent 
a lifetime in the public service. The office of Constable of 
Lancaster Castle is honorary, but it is much coveted, because 
it is always conferred directly by the reigning Sovereign. 
The post is one of very great antiquity, and it is believed to 
have existed before the Conquest. At the installation 
ceremony there was a large assembly of notabilities, county 
magnates, and magistrates, who met Sir John at the Judge's 
lodgings, and went in procession to the ancient Castle. The 
rendezvous was in the Constable's room, which is part of 
the suite used by John O'Gaunt when he held his Court at 
Lancaster, and here the installation ceremony took place, 
the King's patent appointing Sir John being read. From 
this part of the Castle there was another procession to the 
Courts, where in the Shire-hall, or county-hall of the Palatine 
of Lancaster, Sir John hung his shield. In this hall there is 
a collection of 234 shields of Sovereigns, Constables of the 
Castle, and High Sheriffs of the county. They are complete 
from 1689 to the present time. 

The issue of The Freemason for October 10, 1907, contains 
an article on the Masonic Jubilee of V.W. Bro. and Ex. 
Comp. Richard Horton Smith, K.C. (B.A. 1856), formerly 



Our Chronicle. 79 

Fellow of the College. Mr Horton Smith has been a member 
of the craft for over half a century, having been initiated at 
Cambridge in the Scientific Lodge on 11 November 1856. 
In the Grand Lodge of England he was appointed Past 
Grand Registrar 27 April 1898. He is President of the 
Committee of General Purposes in the Supreme Grand 
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons. He has also held many 
other ofHces in the Masonic body. The article has a portrait 
of Mr Horton Smith. 

At the annual Fellowship election, held on November 4th, 
Mr Percy Cooper Sands (B.A. 1904) was elected Fellow of 
the College. Mr Sands was placed in the first division of 
the First Class of Part L of the Classical Tripos in 1904, and 
in the First Class of Part II. (History Section) in 1905. He 
was awarded a Thirlwall Prize in 1907. Mr Sands submitted 
a dissertation entitled : The Client Princes of the Roman 
Empire under the Republic, 

Dr J. R Tanner, Fellow, Tutor, and Lecturer of the 
College, has been elected a member of the Council of the 
Senate of the University. 

Mr W. H. R. Rivers, Fellow of the College, has been 
appointed University Lecturer in the Physiology of the 
Senses. 

Mr R P. Gregory (B.A. 1901), Fellow of the College, has 
been appointed University Lecturer in Botany. 

Mr E. Cunningham (B.A. 1902), Fellow of the College, 
has been appointed Assistant in the Department of Applied 
Mathematics in University College, London. 

Mr D. G. Taylor (B.A. 1904) has been appointed 
Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at University College, Cardiff. 

Mr F. Fletcher (B.A, 1900), late deputy Director of 
Agriculture, Bombay, has been appointed Principal of the 
Khedivial College of Agriculture, Ghizeh, Egypt. 

Mr Sydney Buxton, Postmaster General, has appointed a 
Committee to consider various accounts and returns pre- 
sented to Parliament in connexion with the telegraph and 
telephone services ; Mr W. Blain, C.B. (B.A. 1884), a 
Principal Clerk in the Treasury, is one of the members of 
the Committee. 

The Electoral Roll of the University, for the current 
academical year, contains 652 names ; of these 73 are 
members of St John's, 



80 Our Chronicle, 

Sermons have been preached in the College Chapel 
during the Term, as follows : October 13, The Master ; 
October 27, Mr L. B. Radford, Rector of Holt ; November 10, 
Mr H. F. Stewart, Dean; December 1, Mr J. H. B. 
Masterman, Honorary Canon of Birmingham, Hulsean 
Leeturer. 

The Burleigh Preachers for the College this year were : 
At Hatfield, the Rev St. J. B. Wynne Willson (B.A. 1890), 
Headmaster of Haileybury College, and at Stamford the 
Rev C. W. Bourne (B.A. 1868), Rector of Prating. 

At the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society, held on 
November 30, the following members of the College were 
elected into the Council of the Society for the ensuing year : 
Secretary^ Prof J. Larmor (B.A. 1886) ; Members of f he Council^ 
Dr H. F. Baker (B.A. 1887), Hon C. A. Parsons (B.A. 1877), 
and Prof A. C. Seward (B.A. 1886). 

At the Annual General Meeting of the Cambridge 
Philosophical Society, held on Monday, October 28, the 
following Fellows of the College were elected to serve on 
the Council of the Society for the ensuing year : Mr F. F. 
Blackman (B.A. 1891), Mr A. Harker (B.A. 1882), and 
Professor Larmor (B.A. 1880). 

At the Annual General Meeting of the London Mathe- 
matical Society, held on November 16th, the following 
members of the College were elected members of the 
Council and officers of the Society for the ensuing year : 
Treasurer, Prof J. Larmor (B.A, 1880) ; Secretary, Prof A. E. H. 
Love (B.A. 1885) ; Members of the Council, Dr H. F. Baker 
(B.A. 1887) and Mr T. J. TA. Bromwich (B.A. 1895). All 
are Fellows of the Royal Society and past or present 
Lecturers of the College. 

Sir Edwin Durning- Lawrence has presented to the 
Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery a portrait, by John 
Russell, R.A., of the Rev Rowland Hill (B.A. 1769), the 
eminent preacher. 

Major J. R. Thomas (B.A. 1889), 2nd Middlesex Royal 
Garrison Artillery (Vols.), has been awarded the Volunteer 
Officers* Decoration. Part of the qualifying service for this 
was performed in the St John*s (then B) Company, C.U.R.V. 
(1886 — 8). The decoration is awarded for 20 years' service 
as a commissioned officer, the half of any period served in a 
lower rank being permitted to count as the equivalent of 
commissioned service. 

Ds T. B. Franklin (B.A. 1904) has been appointed to 3 
mastership at Fettes College, Edinburgh. 



Out Chronicle. 81 

Mr T. A. Lawrenson (B.A, 1889), who has been Head- 
master of the Runcorn Institute School since 1897, has been 
appointed by the South Shields Education Committee to be 
Headmaster of the Westoe Road Secondary School. 

Mr Charles H. Tovey (B.A. 1891, LL.D. Dublin), Assistant 
Master at the Grammar School, Wellingborough, has been 
appointed Headmaster at Shaftesbury Grammar School. 

Mr C. H. Ross (B.A. 1896), second master at Kingston 
Grammar School, has been appointed Headmaster of Thorn- 
bury Grammar School. 

Ds F. A. R. Higgins (B.A. 1906) has been appointed to a 
temporary Science mastership at Eton College. 

Ds P. J. Lewis (B.A. 1906) has been appointed to a 
mastership at Malvern College. 

Ds C. L. Druce (B.A. 1907) has been appointed to a 
mastership at the Cambridge County School. 

Ds E. J. Mills (B.A. 1907) has been appointed Mathe- 
matical master at the Sir William Turner Grammar School, 
Coatham, Redcar. 

T. B. Vinycomb, advanced Studeut of the College, Junior 
Fellow in Experimental Physics of the Royal University of 
Ireland, has been appointed Chief Assistant in the Physics 
Department of the Woolwich Polytechnic. 

From the Report of Local Lectures Syndicate for 1906-7 
we take the following : Mr J. W. lUffe (B.A. 1884) has been 
appointed Lecturer on the Art of Teaching. Sessional 
courses of lectures were given by Mr E. E. Foxwell (B.A. 
1875) at University College, Nottingham, on ** Japan of to-day 
as interpreted by Study of her History," and by Mr A. H. 
Thompson (B.A. 1895) at Southport on "The History of 
Gothic Architecture in England." 

Mr E. E. Foxwell gave a Terminal Course of Lectures 
during the Lent Term on *• Japan " at Bishop Auckland and 
Newcastle-on-Tyne. Mr A. H. Thompson gave similar 
courses during the Michaelmas Term at Truro on " Victorian 
Poets and Novellists ;" during the Lent Term, at Leicester, 
on " The Beginning of Gothic Architecture in England ;" 
at Lichfield, on " Chaucer and the Birth of the Renaissance ;" 
at Market Drayton, on ** Shakespeare ;" at Shrewsbury, on 
" Four 19th Century NoveUists ;" and at Grantham on ** The 
History of Gothic Architecture in England." 

Short courses were given by Mr A. H. Thompson on 
"Victorian Poets and Novellists" at Penzance, St Austell, 
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82 Our Chronicle, 

and Ironbridge during the Michaelmas Term. Dr F. J. 
Allen (B.A, 1879) gave a short course at Clare on "English 
Mediaeval Architecture " during the Michaelmas Term. 

The list of those who had obtained places in the Civil 
Service Competition of 1907 was issued in October last. The 
list contained 80 names ; the names of the members of St 
John's, with their places, are as follows ; 
3 A. R. Dalai (B.A. 1907), 

18 E. J. G. Titterington (B.A. 1906). 

22 D. D. Nanavati (B.A. 1907). 

32 C. A. Jackson (B.A. 1906). 
Mr Jackson obtains a post in the Home Civil Service, in the 
General Post Office. Mr Dalai and Mr Nanavati, places in 
the Civil Service of India. Mr Jackson was first in Elementary 
Mathematics, and Mr Dalai iirst in Botany, Zoology, and 
EngUsh Law. 

Mr E. L. Levett, K.C. (B.A. 1870), was in June last 
appointed Vice-chairman of the General Council of the Bar. 

Mr T. F. R. Macdonell (B.A. 1898) was in May List 
appointed Assistant Government Advocate, Rangoon. 

Ds K. N. Majumdar (B.A. 1907) was called to the Bar at 
Gray's Inn on the 12th of June last. And Ds Panna Lall 
(B.A. 1906) was called to the Bar, also at Gray's Inn on the 
18th of November last, 

Mr A. K. Cama (B.A. 1895), I.C.S., has been appointed 
Assistant Collector at Thana, Bombay. 

Mr Alma Latifi (B.A. 1901), I.C.S., on his return to India 
from language leave for the study of Arabic in Eg>'pt, passed 
the Higher Proficiency examination in Arabic at Bombay on 
July 3rd 1907, and assumed charge of the office of Deputy 
Commisioner, Jhang, Punjab, on July 7th. On October 9th 
Mr Latifi passed in Arabic by the degree of honour and was 
awarded a prize of ^R&^5(XX), with a gold medal and diploma. 

At the ordinary quarterly comitia of the Royal College of 
Physicians of London held on Thursday, July 25, Dr H. D. 
RoUeston (B.A. 1886), formerly Fellow of St John's, was 
appointed a member of the Library Committee ; and Dr W. 
Hunter, formerly John Lucas Walker student, one of (ho 
Curators of the Museum. Dr H. H. Tooth, C.M.G. (B.A. 
1877) was appointed an assessor to the examinations of the 
London School of Tropical Medicine for the year ending 
June 1908. 

At the ordinary quarterly comitia of the Royal College of 
Physicians of London, held on July 25, Mr. H. B. Carlyll 



Onr Chronicle. 83 

(B.A. 1903 ; Guy's Hospital) had a licence to practice physic 
granted to him ; and at a meeting of the Royal College of • 
Surgeons held on July 26, he was admitted a member of that 
College. 

At a meeting of the Council of the Royal College of 
Surgeons of England, held on the 13th of June last, the 
Diploma of Fellow was conferred on the following members 
of St. John's ; F. A. Hepworth (B.A. 1900), F. W. Goyder 
(B.A. 1899), and F. A. G. Jeans (B.A. 1899). 

At the ordinary quarterly comitia of the Royal College of 
Physicians of London, held on October 31, Dr S. E. Dore 
(B.A. 1894) of St Mary's Hospital was admitted a Member of 
the College ; and Mr R. McC. Linnell (B.A. 1904), of the 
London Hospital, had a Hcence to practise physic granted 
to him. 

Mr H. C. Cameron (B.A. 1901) has been appointed 
Medical Registrar ; Mr P. P. Laidlaw (B.A. 1903) Demon- 
strator in Physiology, and Mr H. Chappie (B.A. 1904) Patho- 
logical Assistant at Guy's Hospital, London. 

Ds R. F. Jones (B.A. 1907) has been awarded an entrance 
Scholarship at St George's Hospital. 

The Rev. J. M. Wilson (B.A. 1859), Canon of Worcester 
Cathedral, has been appointed Rural Dean of East Worcester. 

The Rev J. S. Wilsden (B.A. 1853, as Pickles), Vicar of 
Wooler, Northumberland and Honorary Canon of Newcastle- 
on-Tyne, has been appointed Chaplain to the Bishop of 
Newcastle. 

The Rev D. W. Sitwell (B.A. 1861), Rector of Leamington, 
Hastings, has been appointed Rural Dean of Southam. 

The Rev A. K. Cherrill (B.A. 1862), headmaster of Upton 
School, Adelaide Road, London, has been appointed Rector 
of Trevalga, Boscastle. 

The Rev Canon J. D. Evans (B.A. 1862), Vicar of 
Walmersley, Lancashire, has been appointed Rural Dean of 
Bury. 

The Rev W. P. Sharrock (B.A. 1867), Vicar of Driffield, 
has been appointed Canon or Prebendary of Husthwaite in 
York Minster. 

The Rev R. A. Squires (B.A. 1870), Vicar of St Peter's, 
St Albans, has been appointed Rural Dean of St Albans. 

The Rev R. A. -Storrs (B.A. 1882), who has since 1887 
been an Army Chaplain in India, has been appointed to the 
Vicarage of Camberley by the Bishop of Winchester. 



84 Our Chronicle. 

The Rev A. W. Callis (KA, 1877), Headmaster of King 
Edward the VI. Grammar School, Bury St Edmunds, ha& 
been presented by Lord Bristol to the Rectory of Sproughton^ 
near Ipswich. 

The Rev T. H. Irving (B.A. 1879), Vicar of Lindale in 
Cartmel, has been appointed Rural Dean of Cartmel. 

The Rev A, C. Scott (B.A, 1883), Vicar of St. Albans, 
Bordesley, Birmingham, has been appointed an Honorary 
Canon of Birmingham Cathedral. 

The Rev Henry Arthur Hall (B.A. 1884), of Trendle, 
Redhill, has been appointed by the Bishop of Southwark to 
the Vicarage of Holy Trinity, Eltliam, Kent 

In July last the Bishop of St As»ph appointed the Rev 
Daniel Davies (B.A. 1886), Rector of Denbigh, Rural Dean 
of Denbigh, and Proctor in Convocation, to the Vicarage of 
Wrexham. 

In July last the Bishop of London appointed the Rev 
J. A. Beaumont (B.A. 1887), minister of St John's Wood 
Chapel, to be Vicar of the Church of the Annunciation, 
Bryanston Street 

The Rev W. H. Ainger (B.A. 1888), Vicar of AU Saints, 
Gosforth, has been appointed Acting Chaplain to the Second 
Volunteer Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. 

The Rev Canon J. H. B. Masterman (B.A, 1893), Professor 
of History in Birmingham University, has been appointed by 
the Bishop of Worcester to the Vicarage of St Michael's, 
Coventry. It is understood that Canon Masterman retains 
his professorship ; he has resigned the wardenship of 
Queen's College, Birmingham. 

The Rev G. A. Browning (B.A. 1900) has been appointed 
Chaplain and Naval Instructor to H.M.S. Bulwark. 

The following members of the College were ordained oq 
May 26, Trinity Sunday : 

Priests. 



Kamc, 


Degree. 


Diocese. 


Widdowson, T. 
Varley, T. 
Bennett, C. W. 
Bell, R. E. T. 


(1885) 
(1887) 
(1901) 
(1905) 

Deacons. 


London 
Winchester 
Chester 
St Albans 


Name. Degree. 


Diocese. 


Parish. 


Fleet, W. W. S. (1906) 
Wilkinson, E. R, (1904) 
Raven, C. O. (i892) 


Winchester 
Liverpool 
St Albans 


Woking 

St Paul's, Princes Park 

Bancrofts School, 

Woodford 



Our Chronicle. 



85 



The following were ordained on September 22 : 
Deacons. 

Sumner, C. C. W. (1899) Durham Hunwick 

Clissold, W. J. (1906) Birmingham St Nicholas, 

Priests. Birmingham 

Lamplugh, A. A. F. (1904) Ripon 

Long, G. H. (1905) St Albans 

The following were ordained on September 29 : 
Deacons. 
Bentley, J. H. (1906) York St Mark's, Broomhall 

Skene, C. M. B. (1906) York St Mary's, Walkley 

Hay, W. K. (1907) Manchester Christ Ch., Patricroft 

Stead, W. J. V. (1907) Manchester Christ Gh., Patricroft 

The following ecclesiastical preferments are announced : 



Name, Degree. 


From 


To be 


Johnson, J. 


(1863) 




R. Tarleton, Preston 


Chambers, W. H. 


(1891) 


V. Whitchurch, 

Tavistock 


V. S Luke's, Brighton 


Hopton, C. E. 


(18a3) 


V. St Stephen's, 


V. St Michael's, 






Worcester 


Bowes Park, N. 


Beaumont, J. A. 


(1887) 


P.C. St John's Wood 


V. Ch. of the Annun- 






Chapel, Marylebone 


ciation, Portman Sq. 


Gibbings, W. T. 


(1900) 


C. Holy Trinity, 


P.C. Holy Trinity, 






Northampton 


Northampton 


Warren, W. 


(1877) 


V. Poslingford 


R. Black Notley 


Woodman, H. 


(1873) 


V. Holdenhurst, 


V. Bunbury, 






Christ Church 


Tarporley 


Lancaster, T. T. 


(1887) 


C. Heaton Mersey, 


V. Lydgate, Lees, 






Stockport 


Oldham 


Moxon, T. A. 


(1899) 


C. St Anne's, Soho 


V. Alfreton, DerbyVe 


Doherty, E. J. 


(1877) 


R. Burgh Castle, 

Suffolk 


R. Burston, Diss 


Drake, H. 


(1892) 


C. Woodside, 


R. Braiseworth, 






S. Norwood 


Suffolk 


Stroud, F. R. 


(1892) 


C. St Andrew's, 


V. Gt. Redisham, 






Catford 


Suffolk 


Williamson, F. J. 


(1882) 


V. Lydgate, Oldham 


R.Marehaven-le-Fen, 
Lincolnshire 


Tiarks, L. H. 


(1893) 


R. Haroldston West, 


R. St Magnus, 






Broadhaven 


Lerwick, Shetland 


Thompson, A. J. K. 


(1894) 


Chaplain to Warwick 


Chaplain to Armley 






Gaol 


Prison, Leeds 


Alexander, H. R. 


(188&) 


C. Checkley, Tean 


V.Ch.CUpperTean, 
Stoke-on-Trent 


Earle,A. 


(1893) 


C. Naiferton 


V. Wansford, 

Driffield 


Litchfield, V. 


(1879) 


P.C. Broughton 


V.St Peter's, Brough- 
ton, Stafford 


Parker, F. W. 


(1887) 


C. St Saviour's, 


R, Twyford, and V. 






Paddington 


Guist, Dereham 


Walker, D. E. 


(1890) 


C. All Saints', Hamer, 


R. St Paul's, New 






Rochdale 


Cross, Manchester 


Hopton, C. E. 


(1883) 


V. St Stephen's, 


V. St Mary's, 






Worcester 


Moseley 


Sargent, D. H. G. 


(1900) 


C. St Mary, 

Cheltenham 


R. Cusop, Hay 


Giles, A. L. 


(1892) 


V. Okehampton 


V. Paignton 


Ucs, H. C. 


(1892) 


V. St John's, Kcnil- 
worth 


V. Christ Church, 






Beckenham 



E---k.-i • 



T-z.^ K 


r^T-i-^c^. 


C -rci c< I 




'.:.; VijiT. ,. 




r IV - r.*:- 


\XT-A-..- 




d^:>;L rj- 


r^.vL-.>c:^ ^ 








0-V-C!Zii Cdc. 


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Our Ckronkk, 



87 



purely that they might be the better able to 
' suffering poor around them. They are supposed 
cen m^ityred under Diocletian^ with all the usual 
fices of horron At the buitom o( the central panel 
: tvviRg inscription : ''To the Glor>^ of God and In 
■ f John Hammerton Edwards, M,D.^ of Cambridge^ 
oii All Saints' Day, 1905, aged 45/' 

R- S, Mead (B.A, 1884) has been delivering a course 

t tures in the lecture room of the Theosophical 

u Albemarle Street, London. The general title 

rse was '^Tm^o Rituals from the Mysteries,** and the 

■f the several lectures as follows: November 5, 

u and Dance of Jesus; November 12, A Ritual 

Jii from the eiuliest Christkn Mysteries ; November 

Religion of Mithra the unconquerable ; November 26, 

f tbriac Mysteries ; December J, The only known and 

discovered Mithriac Ritual; December 10, The 

the eagle or apotheosis. 

Unx Rosenhain (of 68 Belsize Park Gardens, Hamp- 

IMS, through Professor E.J. Rapson, presented to the 

n electrotype copy of a very rare medal of Sir John 

The original medal is thought to he the work of the 

edallist Caviro of Padua. Cheke is represented in 

the garb of a Roman philosopher, as is custoiuiiry 

e of scholars in Italian medutUc portraits of the 16th 

On the medal are the names loannes, Checus, 

ther side of the head. The likeness is thought 

to resemble the engraved portraits of Cheke^ but, 

it the face is bearded, it requires the faith of the 

identify it with the portrait of Cheke in Henry 

Heroologia Anglica (opposite page 53). The 

3 been deposited io the College Library-. 

i lowing item occurs in a recent catalogue of old 

TTFFOLK. An Idea of Arithmetick at first de- 

ise of thfi Free-Schook at Thurlow in Suffolk. By K, B. 

fhcrc. Sill. 8vo{l preUmiiiary Icai missingJt haU morocco, 

tzs Golding botikplate, IT/i I'^SS 

•,* An extremely rare School book. 
1 to be almost certain that R B., the author^ was 
of St John'^. 

iShngsley, Master of the School at Thurlow, sent 

11 of pupils to the College; the first to enter was 

: Owen of Hundon, Suffolk, admitted 4 April 1656» 

'IS William Soame of Little Thurlow, admitted 

XT 1660. Mr Billingsley then began sending 

iu liad been educated under him at Bradley^ and the 



88 Our Chronicle, 

last from him, and from Bradley, was Thomas Golding of 
Poslingford, admitted 8 June 1675. 

A Robert Billingsley was instituted Rector of Great 
Bradley, in Suffolk, a parish adjacent to Little Thurlow, 
8 September 1662, and his successor was appointed in 1675. 
This seems to establish that the Master of Little Thurlow 
School was Robert Billingsley. 

Now Robert Billingsley, son of WilUam BiUingsley, of 
Glaston, Rutland, educated at Shrewsbury School, was 
admitted to the College 8 December 1646, matriculated 
17 December 1646, and took the degrees of B.A. 1650-1 and 
M.A. 1654. These dates would allow him to start as a young 
schoolmaster at Little Thurlow after taking his degree, to 
write the above book and to send N. Owen to the College. 
William Billingsley, the father of Robert, was also a member 
of the College (see anie^ p 23). 

Among the contributors to the first volume of the Cambridge 
History of English Literature recently published by the 
University Press, we notice the names of two Fellows of 
the College. Dr Sandys is the author of the Chapter on 

* English Scholars of Paris and Franciscans of Oxford,' or 

* Latin Literature of England from John of Salisbury to 
Richard of Bury'; while Mr J. W. H. Atkins, Professor 
of English at Aberystwyth, has written the Chapter on 

* Early Transition English ' and the second of the two 
Chapters on ' Metrical Romances, 1200—1500.' 

Our readers may be interested in the remarkable rendering 
of the words * St John ante portam Latinam * included in the 
following extract from Dr Sandys' account of Giraldus 
Cambrensis : — 

" The Gemma Ecclesiastica was its author's favourite work. It 
may, perhaps, be described as a lengthy archidiaconal charge of an 
exceptionally learned and lively type. It certainly presents us with 
a vivid picture of the state of morality and learning in Wales, 
illuetrated by not a few stories of ignorance of Latin among the 
inferior clergy. Thus a priest once interpreted *St John ante 
portam Latinam ' to mean that St John, ante^ first, portam^ brought, 
Latinam the Latin language (into England). 

....The Book of his Acts and Deeds^ in the midst of much that is 
purely personal, tells the story of the holy hermit who prayed that he 
might attain the mystery of thei Latin language. He was granted 
the gift of the Latin tongue, without that of the Latin syntax ; but 
he successfully overcame all difficulties of moods and tenses by 
always using the present infinitive." 

Dr G. C. Moore Smith, Professor at the University of 
Sheffield, has published through the University Press an 
interesting volume from a MS. in the Library of the College, 
It is entitled : *' Club Law, a Comedy acted in Clare Hall 



Our ChronijL\ ^') 

Cambridge, about 1599-1600." The following is an extract 
from Professor Moore Smith's introduction : 

1 Fuller in his History of the University of Cambridge 
^1655) gives an amusing account of the production of a play 
called Club Law at Clare Hall in one of the last years of the 
J6th century. The play, we are told, which was writtten in 
EngHsh, was *merry (but abusive)/ being intended by the 
young scholars who composed it as a piece of revenge on the 
townsmen of Cambridge by whom they considered them- 
selves wronged. Individual members Of the corporation 
were personated to the life with their characteristic gestures 
and expressions, and, though many of the incidents of the play 
were imaginary, some came * too near to truth ' to be pleasant 
to the persons travestied, who had been invited to the 
performance and were constrained by their hosts to see it 
out, 

2. In June, 1906, when examining manuscripts of Latin 
academic plays in the Library of St John's College, Cambridge, 
I asked to see one which had been described by the late 
Dean Cowie in his catalogue of the manuscripts of the 
College, printed about 60 years ago, in the following terms : 
* S. 62. Translation of some Latin Play (I conjecture). MS, 
Folio paper. The beginning is wanting.' 

On examination it seemed clear that the play before me was 
not a translation from the Latin, but an original English 
play, and one that dealt with the relations of University men 
to the corporation of a town. For the moment I had to 
leave the matter there, but on reading soon afterwards 
Fuller's account of the play Club Law it occurred to me that 
the Cambridge manuscript was probably that comedy. In 
August, 1906, I transcribed the manuscript, and it became at 
once clear that the lost Club Law had come to light." 

The following books by members of the College are 
announced: Time and Clocks; A description of ancient and 
modern methods of measuring time^ by H. H. Cunynghame 
C.B., M.I.E.E. (Constables) ; Studies in Irish Epigraphy^ Part 
IILy by R. A. S. Macalister (Nutt) ; Elementary Statics^ by 
W. G. Borchardt (Rivingtons) ; Robbing God^ by Augustus 
Jessopp D.D., Rector of Scarning (Fisher Unwin) ; Notes on 
New Testament Criticism^ by Dr Edvdn A. Abbott (Blacks) ; 
Memoir of Sir Henry Norman^ by Sir Wm. Lee- Warner (Smith, 
Elder) ; A History of Classical Scholarship^ From the end of the 
Middle Ages to the Present Day^ by Dr J. E. Sandys (University 
Press) ; Spiritual Truths^ a volume of Sermons by the late 
Prebendary Whitworth (Macmillans) ; Preventable Blindness^ 
by N. Bishop Harman, Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Belgrave 
Hospital for children, etc. (Bailliere, Tindall, and Cox) ; 

VOU XXIX. N 



90 Our Chronicle, 

Decursus Primus. A first Latin Grammar^ with exercises^ by 
Prof T. G. Tucker Litt.D. (Macmillans) ; Greek Lives^ from 
Plutarch, by C. E. Byles (Arnold) ; The Queen Bee, and other 
nature Stories, translated from the Danish of Carl Ewald, by 
G. C. Moore Smith (Nelsons) ; Algebraic Equations, by 
G. B. Mathews F.RS. (University Press); An Introduction 
to the theory of Multiply Periodic Functions, by H. F. Baker 
F.R.S. (University Press); The Life of William Sterndale 
Bennett, by his son J. R. Sterndale Bennett, Fellow of King's 
College, London (University Press). 

The following University appointments of members of the 
College have been made since the issue of our last number : — 
Mr E. Edwards to be a Member of the Court of Governors 
of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth; Canon 
J. H. B. Masterman to be Hulsean Lecturer and also Lecturer 
at Affiliated Local Lectures Centres ; Mr G. T. Bennett to be 
an examiner for the Mathematical Tripos, Part L, in 1908 ; 
Mr J. J. Lister to be Demonstrator of Comparative Anatomy ; 
Professor E. J. Rapson to be one of the representatives of the 
University at the International Congress of Orientalists to be 
held at Copenhagen in August 1908 ; Mr T. R. Glover to be 
a member of the Special Board for Classics ; Mr T, S. P. 
Strangeways to be an examiner in General Pathology for the 
Degree of M.B. ; Dr J. R. Tanner to be a member of the 
Provision of Examination Rooms Syndicate ; Prof E. J. 
Rapson to be an examiner in Sanscrit for the Previous 
Examination ; Mr L. H. K. Bushe-Fox to be an examiner 
for the Law Tripos ; Mr K. J. P. Orton to be an examiner in 
Chemistry ; Mr. F. F. Blackman to be an examiner in Botany ; 
Mr A. W. Flux to be an examiner for the Economics Tripos ; 
Mr W. H. Gunston to be an examiner for the Previous 
Examination. 

The East Anglian Daily Times has a weekly column of 
* Notes and Queries ' on subjects of local history. In its 
issue for the 24th of August 1907 are some extracts from 
the Account Books of Christ's Hospital, Ipswich, in which 
the following entries appear: 

Payments too the Master of the ffree 
Schoole. 
To Mr. Cave Becke ffor Twoe quar- 
ters waiges as Master of the 
ffree Schoole by two Recypts, A^ 

pere ."'. .' 05 16 08 

To Mr. Becke ffor one quarters 
waiges ffor the usher, ending 
24th June, 1659, as by Recypt 
A pere 00 15 00 



Our Chronicle, 91 

Cave Beck, son of John Beck of St James/ Clerkenwell, 
was admitted a pensioner of the College 13 June 1638, aged 
15; took the degrees of B.A. 1641 and M.A. 1643, and was 
also created an M.A. at Oxford, from Christ Church, 17 
October 1643. He was admitted a student of Gray's Inn 
1 August 1642. He became Master of the Free Grammar 
School at Ipswich about 1655. He was instituted Rector of 
Witton in Droitwich 7 July 1660, Rector of St Helen's in 
Ipswich 20 November 1662, and Rector of Monk Soham, 
Suffolk, 30 October 1674. He held the latter living until his 
death in 1706. The dates of his preferment would lead us to 
infer that he was a Royalist. In Wordsworth's " Who wrote 
Eikon Basilike ? " a letter of Cave Beck's is quoted in which 
he says : " For my part I am apt to believe no person was 
able to frame that book but a suffering King, and no suffering 
King but King Charles the Martyr." Cave Beck is, however, 
chiefly known for his work: *'The Universal Character, by 
which all Nations of the World may understand one another's 
conceptions, reading out of one common writing their own 
mother tongues. An invention of general use, the Practice 
whereof may be obtained in two hours space, observing the 
grammatical directions. Which character is so contrived 
that it may be spoken as well as written." The book was 
published in London in 1657, octavo, 8 leaves not paged, 
then pp. 35, followed by 69 leaves not paged; printed by 
Thomas Maxey for William Weekley, and to be sold at his 
shop in Ipswich. The work is dedicated to Nathaniel and 
Francis Bacon, then the Representatives in Parliament for 
the Borough of Ipswich. 

Thus Cave Beck was an early Esperantist, but his name 
does not seem to have been mentioned at the Esperanto 
Congress, held in Cambridge last summer. 

University Examinations, June 1907. 

Mathematical Tripos, Part I. 
Wrangler. Senior Optime. Junior Optime. 

20 Bhide, M. V. 37 Mills, E. J. (6r.) 62 Ohm, D. McK. [br.) 

Mathematical Tripos, Part II. 

Class 1, Division 3. 

Piaggio, H. T. H. 

Mechanical Sciences Tripos, Part I. 

Class 2. Class 3. 

Rennie, D. W. Taylor, G. M. C. 

Mechanical Sciences Tripos. 
Quali/ying Examination in Ekmentary Mathematics and Mechanics^ 
- Bilsland, J. A. Penfold, H. L. 



92 



Our Chranklc. 



Classical Tripos, Part X. 

Class 1. Class 2, 

Division 1. Division I, 

Campbell, A. Y. Darwin, J. H. 

dedstone, F. F. Division 2. 

Twinn, F. C. G. Anderson, L. R. D. 

Division 3. Laidlaw, H. A. L. 

Gandy,.H. Stewart, D. M. 

Stead, W.J. V. Divisions. 

Stanford, H. C. 

AfoRAL Sciences Tripos, Part I. 

Class 2, Division 2. 

Lewis, E. O.- 



Natural Sciences Tripos, Part I. 



Class 1, 
Allott, C. B. S, 
Dalai, A. R. 
Lim, G. C. 
Nanavati, D. D. 
Parnell, F. R. 
Sathe, J. L. 
topley, w: W. C 
Whiddington, R. 



Class 2. 

Ds Bfelgrave, A, C. 
Dawson, R. T, 
HiiTTie, P. J. 

Ds Jackson, C. A. 
Jones, R. F. 
Patuck, R. S.' 
Rose, F. G. 
SiMy, T. M. 



Class B. 
Habich, L. S. M, 
Jenkins, F. 
Khong, K. T. 
Philp, C. H. G. 



Natural Sciences Tripos, Part If. 
Class 1. Class 3. 

Ds Bosworth, T. O. (Geology) Adams, F. 

Lucas, E. C/ 

ITheological Tripos, Part L 

Class 1. 

Gripps, R. & 



Theological Tripos, Part II. 
Class 2. Class 3. 

i>s Yming^ P. N. F. Ds Bentley, J. H. 

Ds Johnston, A. B. 

Law Tripos, Part I. 

Class 2. 

2 Wood, T. E. {6r) 



Class 1. 

2 Swords, W. F. 

3 Ds Brown, A. E 



Class 3. 
Willett, E. W. 
Hobbs, V. W. J, 
Thorne Waite, A> 



Class 1. 

Cranford, L. G. 
Ds LaH, P. 



Law Tripos, Part IL 

Class 2. 

thomas, H. A. 



Historical Tripos, Part I. 
Class 1. Class 2. 

Prcvite-Orton, C. W. Subbarao, N. S. 



Class 3. 
Johnston, F. 



Class 3. 
Jackson, J. E. N. 



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93 



Historical Tripos, Part II. 
Class 2. Class 3. 

bs Ellis, A. I. Geake, A, 

Hay, W. K. 
Jolly, E. H. P. 
Wadia, N. J. 
Yhe Gladstone Memorial Prize, for distinguished proficiency in History^ 
is awarded to C. W. Previte-Orton. 

Medieval and Modern Languages Tripo». 
Class 2. Class 3. 

Bolderston, W. N. Druce, C. L. 

Economics Tripos, Part I. 

Class 2, Division 2. 

Itichards, R. 

College Awards at the Annual Election, June 1907. 





PRIZEMEN. 






Mathematics. 




Third Year. 


Second Year, 


Third Year. 


Tripos Part II, 


Class 1, 


Class 1. 


Ds Piaggio 


Dunkley 


Clough 




Barnes ) 
Lees ) 


Thompson, A. R. 


Trifos Part I, 


Weightman 


Bhide 








Jones, R. M. 


Dalvi 
Freke 








Leonard 


Fewings 




Classics. 




Third Year. 


Second Year. 


Third Year, 


Tripos Part I. . 


Class 1. 


Class 1. 


Campbell, A. Y. 


♦Rose, H. A. 


Barrett 


Gledstone 






Twinn 


Kraus 


Ireland \ 




Dodd 


Morton, F. D. 


Gandy 




•Russell-Smith ' 


Stead 




*TiUard 




English Essay Prizes. 


Third Year. 


Second Year. 


First Year, 


Ds Brown, A. E. 


Druce 
Theology. 


Dodd 


Tripos Part I. 


First Year. 


Cripps 


Natural Sciences. 


Class 1. 
Short 


Second Year* 


First Year, 


Class J 


1 


Class 1. 


Marrack 




Gonehalli 
Green 


Tripos Part II. Ds Bosworth 


Lister 


Tripos Part /. 




Sheppard,W. a 


AUott 


Parnell 


Shore 


Dalai 


Sathe 


Smith, O. C. 


Lim 


Topley 


Wilmott 


Nanavati 


Whiddington 





94 





Our Chronicle, 








History. 




Tripos Part I. 




First Year. 


Previte-Orton 




Class 1. 








Cheshire ) ^^ 
Constable P^' 














Fraser 






Law. 




Second Year, 


First Year, 


Tripos Part 11. 


Tripos Part I. 


Class 1. 


Crauford 


Swords 




Arias 


Ds Lall, P. 


Ds Brown, 


A. E. 






Elected to Foundation Scholarships. 


ns 


Allott 


ns 


Marrack 


m 


Bhide 


tts 


Parnell 


I 


Crauford 


h 


Previte-Orton 


ns 


Green, N. 


c 


Stead 


c 


Kraus 


I 


Swords 


tn 


Lees 


tts 


Whiddington 




Foundation Scholarships Continued. 


ns 


Adams 


tn Ds Lall. P. 


tn 


Barnes 


tn 


Leonard 


ns 


Ds Bosworth 


tts 


Lister 


I 


Ds Brown, A. 


E. h Ds Meldrum 


c 


Campbell, . 


A. Y. m DsPiaggio 


tn 


Clough 


tnech 


Rennie 


th 


Cripps 


c 


Rose, H. A. 


c 


Dodd 


c 


RusseU-Smith 


tn 


Dunkley 


c 


Scougal 


h 


Fraser, D, 


S. tnech 


Taylor, G. M. C. 


c 


Gandy 


ns 


Topley 


c 


Gledstone 


c 


Twinn 


tts 


Hume 


ec 


Ward, D. W. 


ns 


Jolly, E. H 
Jones, R. I 


.P. m 


Weightman 


tn 


A, tts 


Wilmott 




Elected to Exhibitions. 


I 


Arias 


ns 


Nanavati 


h 


Cheshire 


ns 


Sathe 


h 


Constable 


ns 


Sheppard, W. G. 


tts 


Dalai 


ns 


Shore, T. H. G. 


tn 


Dalve 


th 


Short 


tts 


Gonehalli 


tts 


Smith, O. C. 


ns 


Ireland 


tn 


Thompson, A. R. 


ns 


Lim 







* Absent from part of th« Examination. 

c classics; tn mathematics; h history; th theology; mech mechanical 
scietices; I law; ns ttatural sciences; ec economics. 



Mason Prize 

{for Hebrew). 
Not awarded. 



Adams Memorial Prize. 
Dunkley 



Hebrew Prize.. 
Di Toone 



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Hughes' Prizes. Reading Prizes. Hockin Prize 

Third Year. 1. Dodd {for Physics), 

Campbell, A. Y. ) 2. Muncey ) ^ Sathe 

Gledstone [acq. Ross r^^' 
Twinn J 

Wright's Prizes. Newcome Prize 

Second Year. First Year. [for Moral Philosophy), 

Dunkley Lees Not awarded. 
Rose, H. A. Barrett 
AUott Green, N. 

Previte-Orton Cheshire 1 Hutchinson Exhibitions 

Swords Constable j ^* {for Research). 

Arias Ds Bosworth 
Ds Hill, J. R. 

Cam A Prize. Hughes Exhibitjon 

Nissim, J. (for Ecclesiastical History). 

Cripps 

Open Scholarships and Exhibitions, December 1906. 

Foundation Scholarships of £8o : 

(for Mathematics) Mordcll, L. J. (Central High School, 

Philadelphia, U.S.A.) 
(for Mathematics) Chasteney, H. E. (Nottingham High Sch.) 

(for Mathematics) Tait, H. N. (Clifton College) 

(for History) Marchand, G. I. C. (Aldenham School) 

Foundation Scholarships of £6o : 

(for Mathematics) Spargo, F. VV. (William Ellis 

Endowed School) 
(for Classics) Parker, H. (Nottingham High School) 

Foundation Scholarships of £40 : 

(for Classics) Hellings, G. S. (Christ's Hospital School, 

West Horsham) 
(for Classics) Fisher, F. B. (Marlborough College) 

(for Natural Science) Morris, T. N. (Cambridge & County Sch.) 

(for Natural Science) Stocks, A. V. (Manchester Grammar Sch.) 

Minor Scholarships of £60 : 

(for Classics) Green, S. M. (St Paul's School) 

(for Natural Science) Dollman, H. C. (St Paul's School) 

(for Natural Science) Laidlaw, C. G. P. (Perse School) 

(for Modern Languages) Waterhouse, G. (Manchester Grammar 

School) 
Exhibitions of £jo : 

(for Classics) Halsey, R. T. (Oundle School) 

(for Classics) Patterson, R. F. (Oundle School) 

(for Natural Science) Holtzapfell, J. G. H. (Merchant Taylors' 

School) 
(for History) Burton, H. P. W. (Hereford Cathedral 

School) 
(for Modern Languages) Irving, J. C. (Trent College) 



96 Our Chronicle, 

Close and Open Exhibitions, June 1907. 

Open Exhibitions of £jo : 

{for Mathematics) Allen, L. A. (Merchant Taylors' School) 

(for Mathematics) Wellisch, E. M. (University of Sydney, 

N.S.W.) 

{for Classic^ Dale, F. (Woodbridge School) 

{for Classics) Dutton, H. (Warrington Grammar School) 

{for Classics) Guest-Williams, A. A. (Durham School) 

{for Natural Science) Evans, P. E. (Newport Grammar School) 

ifor Natural Science) Naunton, W. J. S. (Woodbridge School) 

(for Natural Science) Paulley, H. (Framlingham College) 

{for Natural Science) Spencer, G. W. (Preston Grammar School) 

Dowman Sizarships : 

Bentley, A. J. (St Bees' School) 

Quick, E, K. (City of London School) 

Smith, L. D. (Bedford) 
School Exhibitions: 

iDowmanf) Donovan, E. L, (Pocklington School) 

{Dowman) Jackson, H. D. (Pocklington School) 

.« « ] Stocks, A. V. (Manchester) 

{Somerset) | Waterhouse, G. (Manchester) 

Burton, H. P. W. (Hereford). 
(Somerset) Donne, R. F. (Hereford) 

JOHNIANA. 

In Blackwood's Magazine for August 1907 is an article on ' The Alpine 
Club' which celebrates its Jubilee this year. We make the following 
extracts : — 

The original suggestion for the formation of a club of climbers 
was made on the 1st February 1857 by Mr William Mathews, of the 
Leasowes, Worcestershire, and appears in the collected correspondence of 
Professor Hort, which was published a few years ago. It ran as 
follows : — 

" I want you to consider whether it would not be possible to establish an 
Alpine Club, the members of which might dine together once a year, say, 
in London, and give each other what imformation they could. Each 
member at the close of any tour in Switzerland, or elsewhere, should be 
required to furnish to the President a short account of all the undescribed 
excursions he had made, with a view to the publication of an annual 
or biennial volume. We should thus get a great deal of useful information 
in a form available to the members. " 

[Mr William Mathews was a member of the College ; see a notice of 
him in The Eagle, xxiii, 83-89]. 

Some of the most thrilling narratives of adventure in the whole range 
of literature have been given to the Club at its monthly meetings. One 
that happens to stand out among my old recollections must have been read 
more than thirty years ago, and described the first ascent of Monte Rosa 
from the Italian side. Everybody knows that the climb from the Gorner 
Glacier presents no particular difficulty or danger. But from Macugnaga 
the rosy peak is separated by huge cliffs of ice, which rise for a sheer 
height not far short of nearly 10,000 feet from the valley, and are perhaps 
the most imposing sight in the Alps. Some of the boldest guides in 
Switzerland were asked to try the ascent, but when they saw that on each 
summer afternoon the whole mountain-side was raked by discharges of 



Our Chronicle. 97 

hundreds of tons of snow and ice and rocks they declined to subject 
themselves and their employers to the prospect, which in their opinion 
almost amounted to a certainty, of being under fire as dangerous as that of 
the most deadly artillery. However, a local guide named Imseng believed 
he had thought out a route which would be fairly free from avalanches, 
and three members of the Alpine Club (one of them a distinguished Senior 
Wrangler) were ready to make the attempt On 26th July 1873 the party, 
consisting of Messrs W. M. and R. Pendlebury and the Rev (X Taylor, 
with Gaber, Imseng, and Oberto as guides, spent the night on some 
precipitous rocks just below the great icefall, and start^ at 2 a.m« 
From five o'clock onwards their course was eagerly scanned from the 
balcony of the Macugnaga Hotel. Deviously and slowly they ascend ; 
but their guide has chosen his track with consummate wisdom, and the 
avalanches fall elsewhere. They are seen to stop for their morning meal, 
and a shudder runs through the watchers below, who note where the halt 
is made. For just above the party there is a huge scrac^ containing 
perhaps 1000 tons of ice, which is being rapidly loosened by the summer 
sun, and is evidently tottering to its fall. Will they be swept to swift 
destruction ? It is a mere question of time, and with a feeling of relief the 
spectators see them deliberately continue their course. It is not till they 
are far out of the way of danger — so far, indeed, that they are not aware 
of the escape which they have had — that the huge mass stowiy heels over, 
detaches itself from the mountain, and plunges down, breaking into 
countless fragments in its descent to the glacier t>elow. Along narrow 
ledges of rock with little resting-place for foot or hand, over crags so 
steep that the first man seems to wriggle up by enjoying a special 
immunity from the ordinary laws of gravitation, although by judicious use 
of the rope progress is made possible for his successors, up couloirs of 
hard ice in which each step has to be laboriously hewn, across crevasses 
thinly bridged, and along ridges of snow with a yawning gulf on each side, 
they make their way, and at last their boldness is crowned with success. 
They attain the topmost peak of Monte Rosa, make a tedious passage over 
snowfields soft with the afternoon sun, and finally reach the Riffel Hotel 
in the evening after one of the most risky expeditions on record. 

[The Rev C. Taylor is our present Master, Mr R. Pendlebury was a 
Fellow and Lecturer of the College, see The EagUy xxiii, 348-56. See also 
an account of the ascent by the Master viii, 309-325]. 

In a volume, preserved in the Bishop of London's Registry, containing 
Subscriptions before Ordination, or on being licensed to Curacies or 
Schoolmasters places for the period 1663-1674, the following entry 
occurs : 

Ego Titus Oates in Artibus Baccalaureus jam licentiandus ad 
instruendum pueros in East Smithfield infra parochiam Sti 
Buttolphi Algate in Comit. Midd. tribus hisce praefixis articulis et 
singulis in iisdem contentis (in quantum quod hie Spectant)^ lubens 
et ex animo subscribo, Novembris 25*, 1669. 

Titus Oates* 
The entry is interesting in several ways. In the first place it gives us 
a clue to the start in life of Titus Oates. , Again, as he was admitted to 
Gonville and Caius College 29 June 1667 and to St John's 2 February 
1668-9, we see that he could not be of standing before November 1669 to 
be a Bachelor of Arts, so that he started on his career of " terminological 
inexactitudes" at an early date. The words in brackets are an inter- 
lineation in the original and do not occur in other subscriptions. 

Died 13 September 1794, aged 48, respected by all for the mildness of 
his disposition and the propriety of his conduct, Mr Jonathan Sharp, 
organist of St John's College, Cambridge, and one of the singing-men of 
King's and Trinity College. In his profession he was allowed to be a 

VOL XXIX. O 



98 Our Chronkh. 

most useful performer, having acquired, with very little assistance from 
instructors, a considerable degree of skill on several instruments, and a 
facility of singing at sight even of intricate musick, and was frequently 
admitted to the society of the musical part of the University, GentUman^s 
Magazine, 1794, ii, 870, 

The following passage is taken from a *• Turn Over * in the Globe. 
Benlowes entered St John's at the age of 16. His portrait hangs in the 
Library, to which he presented books which have a special lM>ok-plate in 
them which was printed in The Eagle xi, 4,5. 

Some ingenious triflers endeavoured to carry the semblance out in 
sound as well as in shape. Edmund Benlowes, a minor poet of some 
three centuries past, some of whose verses have appeared in recent 
anthologies, with reviving effect upon his reputation, was one of them. 
Butler, of Hudibrastic fame, wrote very caustically of him in the " Charac- 
ter of a Small Poet," " As for altars and pyramids in poetry," he says, 
" he has outdone all men that way ; for he has made a gridiron and 
a frying-pan in verse, that besides the likeness in shape, the very tone and 
sound of the words did perfectly represent the noise that is made by these 
utensils, such as the old poet called sartago loquendi. When he was a 
captain he made all the furniture of his horse, from the bit to the orupper, 
in beaten poetry, every verse t)eing fitted to the proportion of the thing 
with a moral allusion of the sense to the thing : as the * bridle of 
moderation,' the * saddle of content,' and the * crupper of constancy ' ; so 
that the same thing was both epigram and emblem, even as a mule is both 
horse and ass." Master Benlowes, on Butler's testimony, must clearly 
have been a very remarkable man. His method may give a hint to the 
competitors for the motor-car shaped poems prize. If, besides imitating 
the shape of the car in verse, they can only convey some suggestion of 
the sound and fragrance thereof, they will assuredly achieve lasting fame. 

The following is the programme of a performance of 
Sacred Music given in the College Chapel on Sunday 
evening, December 1st. The Conductor was Mr C. B. 
Rootham, the College Organist, 

J. 150 Psalm for Chorus and Organ,.. Char Franck 

[1822-1890] 
At the Organ Mr. Ronald Hurry. 

Hallelujah 1 O praise ye the Lord : Praise God in His 
temple : Praise ye the Lord in the firmament of His |>ower. 
Praise ye Him for His mighty acts : Praise ye Him according 
to His majesty. Praise ye Him with the sound of the 
trumpet : Praise ye Him with the psaltery and harp. Praise 
ye Him with the timbrel : Praise ye Him with the dances. 
Praise Him with the organ and stringed instruments. Praise 
ye Him upon the loud cymbals : Praise ye Him upon the 
High-sounding cymbals. 

Let everything that hath breath : Praise the Lord. 
Hallelujah ! 

[Cesar Franck was born at Liege, where he studied till the age of 
fifteen. The greater part of the remainder of his life was spent 
in Paris, where he was organist of St Clotilde for 32 years. In 
1870 he was a^ppointed a professor at the Paris Conservatoire 



Chir Chronicle. 99 

from that time he devoted himself excludively to teaching and to 
composition. 
His style is quite "modem," and is characterised by a kind of 
mysticism that is all his own. His compositions embrace every 
branch of musical art. His best known works are ''Les 
Beatitudes," for chorus, solo voices, and orchestra, the symphonic 
poem "Le chasseur maudit," the quintette for pianoforte and 
strings, and the sonata for pianoforte and violin.] 

Concerto in D minor for Organ and Orchestra... 

Handel (1685-1759) 
{a) Adagio. (6) Allegro. ' (c) Allegro. 

Soloist Dr Alan Gray. 

This is No. 4 of the second set of Concertos, op. 7. 

Mass in D Major '(op. 86) for Chorus, Semichorus, 

Orchestra and Organ Dvorak (1841-1904) 

At the Organ Mr. Ronald Hurry. 

Semichorus • The Chapel Choir. 



Kyrib Eleison 

Chorus and Semichorus. 
Gloria in Excelsis Deo 

Chorus and Semichorus, 
Credo in Unum Deum 

Semichorus and Chorus. 
Sanctus 

Chorus. 
Benedictus qui Venit 

Chorus. 

Agnus Dei 

Semichorus and Chorus. 

[Antonin Dvorak, one of the most famous of modern composers, was 
the son of a butcher and innkeeper at Mlillhausen in Bohemia. 
At the age of 16 he was sent to study music in Prague. For the 
next 14 years he studied and composed, making a scanty 
livelihood by playing the violin in town and theatre bands. By 
1874 his works had become sufficiently well known to procure 
him a pension of £50 a year from the Cultusministerium in 
Vienna ; and in the following year he met Johannes Brahms, 
whose encouragement and friendship were of the greatest value 
to him in years to come. In 1891, he received the honorary 
degree of Mus. Doc. at Cambridge University. 

Dvorak's works, which number well over a hundred, embrace all 
styles of composition, sacred and secular. The Mass in D is 
very characteristic of the composer's style and methods.] 



100 



Our Chronicle. 



Lady Margaret Boat Club. 



Balance Sheet for 


Receipts. 








£ 5. 


d. 


Balance at the Bank 


25 13 10 


Junior Treasurer's Bal.... 


4 


2 


General Athletic Club ... 


314 





Entrance Fees, etc 


17 14 


6 


Subscriptions towards a 






New Eight •*.„.„.. 


27 18 


6 



£385 11 



the year 1906—7. 

Expenditure. 

C.UJa.C Assessment..... 67 

„ Entrance Fees 12 

Horse Hire 11 

Horses Standing 1 

Boat House r 

Rates 14 

Taxes 2 

I nsiu-ance 1 

Water Rates 8 

Gas Rates..... 

I nsurance of Club Servants 

Foister, Washing 14 

Coal and Coke 1 

Bills, Repairing & Main- 
tenances 55 

Ayling for Oars 36 

Wages, Foister & Taylor -78 

Blazers, etc.,'f or Boatmen 3 

Sundries 3 

Royston, Painting Names 

Hire of Bicycles 5 

Ferries and Locks , 3 

Prizes 25 

Cheque Book 

Balance at the Bank 34 



5. 


</. 


6 


6 


12 





4 





7 


6 


15 





18 


4 


10 





1 


2 


17 


2 


14 


3 


12 





10 


7 


18 


1 


12 


6 


7 


6 


17 


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10 





19 


7 


5 


6 


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17 


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£385 11 O 



Audited and found correct, R. F. ScoTT» 
30th October, 1907, 



J. J. Lister, Treasurer^ 



Amalgamated Athiletic Clubs. 
Statement of accounts for the year ended October 1st, 1907. 



Receipts. 

£ s. d. 
Balance in Hand at com- 
mencement of Year 63 8 7 
Subscriptions......^ 698 17 6 



£762 6 1 



Expenditure. 

£ s. 
To Lady Margaret Boat 

Club .^. 314 

„ Cricket Club 125 



„ Football Clubs 58 3 10 

„ Athletic Club 3110 O 

„ Lawn Tennis Club... 71 17 1 

„ Fives Club..... 15 16 O 

„ Hockey Qub 17 6 11 

„ I-acrosse Club 5 3 4 

„ Collector's Fee 20 13 10 

„ Painting Names : 

Cricket & Foot. Clubs 1 10 

„ Printing 16 O 

„ Cheque-book & Stamps 15 

Balance in Hand 99 14 1 



£762 6 1 



Audited and found correct, J. J. Lister, 
Eth November, 1907, 



R. P. Gregory, Hon. Treasurer. 



Our Chronicle. 101 

Long Vacation Cricket Club. 
Results :— Played, 13. Won, 5. Lost,!3. Drawn, 5. 
The season was a very successful one on the whole, and 
the results hardly do justice to the strength of the team. 
Apart from one inexplicable collapse the batting was good. 
J. A. Fewings, R. P. Gregory, and A. C. Belgrave all scored 
hea\'ily, and R. Brice-Smith was very consistent. A. M. 
Dawson played in the latter part of the matches with 
conspicuous success. The bowling was also fairly strong, 
only one side scoring over 200 against us. The fielding was 
poor at the beginning of the season, but steadily improved. 
We had a most enjoyable game with the College Mission on 
August Bank Holiday, the result being an even draw. The 
College Servants' match was productive of plenty of good 
batting on both sides, and was followed by a very successful 
supper and smoking concert. 

Batting Averages, 

TimM Highest 

Batimon. Inning, not oat. Rant. Score. Aver. 

A. M. Dawson 7 ... 4 ... 201 ... 55* ... 67 

J. A. Fewings 10 ... 2 ... 347 ... 107 -... 4335 

R. P. Gregory 9 ... ... 357 ... 112 ... 39 66 

A. C. Belgrave 7 ... ... 231 ... 72 ... 33 

R. Brice-Smith 10 ... ... 214 ... 55 ... 21-4' 

H. C. H. Lane 6 ... 2 ... 76 ... 37 ... 19 

V. W.J.Hobbs 11 ... 2 ... 166 ... 58 ... 18*44 

K, H. Scougal ., 9 ... 1 ... 140 ... 37 ... 175 

A. E. Evans 9 ... 1 ... 117 ... 42 ... 1462 

J. H. Arnold 9 ... 1 ... 80 ... 16 ... 10 

F.D. Morton 9 ... 1 ... 62 ... 21 ... 7 75 

V. C. Beddington 4 ... ... 10 ... 7 ... 25 

Also batted : F. Northorp, 9, 4, 36* ; A. Thorne-Waite, 0, 10* ; D. M. 
Stewart, 0, ; H. Whewell, 8* ; L. R. D. Anderson, 1* ; L. H. K. Bushe- 
Fox, 0. 

* Signifies not out. 

Bowling Averages. 

Bowlert. Overt. Maident. Rant. Wickett. Aver. 

A. E. Evans 99 ... 15 ... 334 ... 24 ... 13-91 

F.D.Morton 161 ...28 ... 598 ... 37 ... 1580 

R, P. Gregory 75 ... 4 ... 319 ... 16 ... 19-93 

R. Brice-Smith 37 ... 3 ... 162 ... 4 ... 40-5 

V.W.J. Hobbs 35 ... 3 ... 190 ... 3 ... 63*33 

Also bowled : A. C. Belgrave, 9-1-18-4 ; K. H. Scougal, 12-2-36-3 ; 
I. A. Fewings, 2-0-16-1 ; A. Thome-Waite, 9-2-18-0 ; J. J. Uster, 2-0^17-0: 
F. M. Cheshire, 4-0-14-0. 

The following list of the Characters of the 1907 Cricket XI. was 
intended for the Jtme number of The Eagle^ but was unfortunately 
mislaid : 

Characters. 

P. N. F. Young.^ThG revered and keen captain of the side, who has used 
much judgment during the bad season. He is a good wicket-keeper, 
and has done some brilliant stumping. He is a fashion plate bat, 
and is, of course, much more at home with good bowling than wit^ 
bad. In trying to hit lobs, he is inclined to remove the " air." 



102 Our Chronicle, 

V. W. I. Hobbs. — Has made an excellent secretary; developed into a 
useful change bowler ; must persevere for a better length ; improved 
his fielding, but, except on one brilliant occasion, has not come o£F 
with the bat Has many attractions. 

H. L. Gorringe. — As delightful as ever ; has played more in Trial matches 
than for us. We condole with him in not capturing a blue. A showy 
field. 

R, BriceSmiih, — An artist j^ bat, who has played with much greater effect 
this year ; ought to learn to cut. A useful change bowler, with few 
opportunities this season. Fielding improved all round. 

H. W. McCowan. — Has twice stopped a rot by excellent batting, but must 
learn to bring his foot across to the ball. A really good bat on a fast 
wicket, with an especially good cut. Field short slip with success. 

/. M. Swift. — Has improved his batting materially, playing more freely all 
round the wicket. Has bowled with more resource, but needs to 
use his head a great deal more. Has not been blessed by fortune in 
either branch* Throws in badly — less idiosyncratical. 

I. A. R. Ihursficld, — Has been rescued from the river to become the t>cst 
bowler on the side. Might vary his pace more, and guard against 
underpitching. Has an excellent straight drive, but no other strokes. 

/. A. Fewings. — Has batted well and consistently throughout, especially 
when runs were badly needed ; wants a forcing stroke or two. 
Ground fielding and catching brilliant, but should throw in more 
smartly. 

F. D, Morton. — Bowls good length, and with his head ; should take a lot 
of wickets next year. His batting excellencies have been rather 
overlooked. His length counts for much in the field ; a charming 
cricketer. 

C. L. Drucc. — A good unauthodox bat, especially on bad wickets. A most 
energetic and improved field. 

W. E. Hill. — Bats with resource, with a very good off-drive, but should 
use his body and shoulders more, and not bend his knees. A useful 
bowler, throws in well, but would do better to take the ball in more 
usual fashion. 

C. Gathorne. — Fields well at cover, and has made some useful scores— an 
excellent raconteur. 

Cricket Field Improvement Fund. 

As is generally known, a proposal has been on foot for 
months to level the College Cricket Field by raising the 
south-east corner. If this were done the area on which it is 
possible to play would be sufficiently enlarged to permit of 
two football grounds being used at the same time, and thus 
many more games would be possible. In addition, the 
expense of hiring a ground for hockey would be saved, and 
the field would be improved for purposes of cricket An 
adequate space in the centre of the field would still be pre- 
served from wear during the winter for the pitches of the 
following summer. The raised portion would be carried 



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103 



down in a short slope to the avenue, which would thus not 
be affected by the change. The total cost of this improve- 
ment has been roughly estimated at £250; and a committee 
has been formed to raise a fund and carry out the work as 
the money is obtained. In May last the Committee issued an 
appeal for financial support, in November the total sum at its 
disposal was iS38 9s. As this seemed insufficient to justify 
the starting of the levelling this winter, the Committee called 
a meeting of the members of the cricket, football, and hockey 
teams to discuss the question. The meeting expressed itself 
strongly in favour of the immediate commencement of the 
work, and on an appeal for subscriptions to the colours of the 
four clubs mentioned an additional £24 135. 6d, was promised. 
The Committee, feeling in consequence that the work, if put 
in hand, will receive general support throughout the College, 
have decided to make a beginning at once and to procure 
a contractor's estimate. Only a part of the work can be 
carried out during the coming winter ; but it is hoped, if the 
weather prove favourable, to get a sufficient area levelled to 
make possible the use of the two grounds next Michaelmas 
Term. The work will be completed the following winter if 
funds and opportunity permit. Subscriptions should be sent 
to the Treasurer, Mr. E. A. Benians. An appeal will be made 
to junior members of the College early in the Lent Term. 
Appended is a list gf subscriptions and promises up to the 
present date. 



Concert per Mr L. H. K. 

Busbe-Pox 

Mr W. E. HeiUand 

Prof G. D. Liveing 

Kev A. J. Stevens 

P. N. F. Young 

Mr W. E. Heitland 

Dr T. G. Bonney 

Prof A. Marshall 

Mr T. A. Brock 

Rev J. Robinson 

Rev T. Gwatkin 

P. J. Lewis 

Mr E. A. Benians 

A. R. Higgins 

>r L. E. Shore 

R. V. J. S. Hogan 

F.W. Hicks 

F. A. James 

F. D. Morton 

J. A. Fewings , 

W. E. HiU 

C. L. Druce 

J. M. Swift 

G. A. R.Thursfield 



£ s. d. 



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22 13 

1 1 
5 

2 2 
10 

1 1 

2 
2 2 

10 
1 1 
10 

1 1 

2 2 
10 

2 2 



i 5. d. 

C. D. D. Hogan 110 

C. L. Holthouse 10 6 

H. Whewell 10 6 

H. C. MacCowan 110 

F. M. Moseley 1 1 

R. Brice-Smith ., 110 

£, L. Donovan 110 

V. W. J. Hobbs 110 

C. H. Ritchie 110 

A. J. Bentley 1 1 

A. E. Evans 110 

A. Thorne Waite 110 

G. A. Beresford 110 

J. W. G. Stokes 1 1 

C. E. Averill 10 6 

M. W. Paterson 10 6 

W. Veevers 10 6 

J. H. Bentley 1 1 

H. R. Hasse 10 6 

L. C. Levy 10 6 

W. Treleaven 10 6 

A. R. Thompson 110 



£71 12 



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Association Football Club. 

Captain— R, Brice-Smith. Secretary—], A. Fewings. 

In spite of the fact that only three old colours have been 
playing regularly we commenced the season in very promising 
fashion, winning three of the first four League matches. 
Unfortunately the crocking of two of the XI. necessitated 
a re-arrangement of the side, and since then we have 
consistently lost ground. 

When at full strength the forward line is above the 
average. The halves and backs are good individually, but 
lack weight, and consequently are at a disadvantage on the 
heavy grounds to which we are accustomed. Our own ground 
is very bad when the weather is at all wet. We are pleased 
to hear there is a good prospect of its being improved before 
uext season. 

Congratulations to A. R. Thompson on playing in the 
Seniors* Match, and S. L. Thompson and C. Beale in the 
Freshmen's Match. Colours have been given to H. Whewell, 
£. L. Donovan, and C. Beale. 

The following matches have been played :-^ 

Caius Won 5 3 

King's Won 3 1 

Trinity Rest Won 4 2 

Newmarket Won S 3 

♦Christ's Won 7 2 

•Clare Lost 1 4 

Emmanuel Won 1 

Mr A. L. Gorringe's XI Lost 1 7 

•Pembroke Won 3 2 

Trinity Rest Drawn 3 3 

Sidney Won 4 1 

Queens' Won 5 

Clare Won 1 

King's Lost 3 S 

•Christ's Won S 4 

•Jesus Lost 3 7 

•Trinity Rest Lost 2 

Selwyn Drawn 2 2 

•Queens' Lost 1 14 

•Pembroke Lost 7 

• League Matches. 

Cricket Club. 

At a Committee Meeting held on November 22nd the 
following officers were elected : 

President— Dv L. E. Shore. Treasurer—'^v E. A. Beniana. Captain — 
V. \\\ J. Hobbs. Secretary— V. D. Morton. 



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Lacrosse Club. 

PresiHcnt—H. R. Hasse. Captain— M, W. Paterson. 
Secretary — L. C. Levy, 

There has not been much regular practice, except on the 
part of a few, but two games were played towards the end of 
the Term. 

We have been fairly well represented in University matches. 
M. W. Paterson has been shining as usual, and H. R. Hasse 
has also played for the 1st XII., whilst, for the 2nd, C. B. S. 
AUott, R. S. Jeffreys, L. C. Levy have been playing regularly, 
and W. Veevers and C. G. Freke have also appeared. 

We have enhsted several recruits, some of whom are very 
promising and have every prospect of a successful season. 

We hope to arrange a good many matches next term, 
including a fixture with St John's College, Oxford. 

The Chess Club. 

President— Mr W. H. Gunston. Vice-Pn.sidcnt—'D. M. Stewart. 
Committee— H. R. Hasse, R. F. Hurst. Secretary— Vf , H. Weightman. 

Owing to the departure of the late Secretary with its funds, 
and to the scattering of its property in many directions, the 
Chess Club came nigh to extinction at the beginning of the 
term, but it has been resuscitated and is now in a fairly 
flourishing state, the number of members being an improve- 
ment on last year. 

Only two matches have been played so far (against 
Pembroke and Trinity), both of which were lost. There is 
a match of ten boards against Queens* before the end of the 
present term. 

Mr Gunston has kindly consented to play the members of 
the Club simultaneously at the beginning of next Term. 

The first eight boards have been played by the following : — 
D. M. Stewart, H. C. H. Lane, R. P. Dodd, W. H. Weightman, 
H. R. Hasse, R. F. Hurst, A. R. Thompson, and A. R Yorke. 

Musical Society. 

President — Mr H. S. Foxwell. Treasurer — Dr Shore. Librarian — 
Mr Rootham. Secretary— A, F. Hall, Committee — Prof Rapson, Rev 
H. F. Stewart, J. Fraser, A. Y. Campbell, E. H. P. Muncey, A. C. 
Churchward, V. C. Boddington, A. Thorne Waite, J. K. Deane, C. L. 
Holthouse, H. F. Russell-Smith, C. H. Ritchie and R. Hausfield. 

The Society continues to flourish — though it has, so to 
speak, * changed hands.' Dr Sandys, after holding the office 
of President, and Rev A. J. Stevens the office of Treasurer, 
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106 Our Chronicle. 

for many years, have both resigned, and with them go our 
sincere regrets at their departure and our very best thanks for 
the splendid work they have done for the Society. 

we welcome with much joy Mr Herbert Foxwell and 
Dr Shore, who have very kindly consented to fill the posts of 
President and Treasurer respectively. 

The Chorus has been very busy throughout the Term 
practicing for the performance of sacred music in the Chapel, 
which was given on Sunday, December 1st, and was a great 
success, a great many people being unable to obtain tickets. 
A programme of the performance appears on page 98. 

The Society is in great need of instrumentahsts. If only 
freshmen (and members of other years too, alas I) would 
overcome their shyness as to their instrumental powers, and 
bring their treasures up with them and say so, the College 
orchestra might cease to be hypothetical I 

Three Smoking Concerts have been held this Term, on 
Thursdays, October 24th, November I4th, and December 5th, 
We are exceedingly grateful to Mr Gregory, Mr Lister, and 
Dr Shore, who respectively so very kindly took the chair for 
us on those three occasions. 

The following are programmes of Smoking Concerts held 
on October 24th and November I4th :•« 

First Concert — 

PART I. 

1 Song ,., /♦The song of Hybrias the Cretan *'.., „„...£//f<j# 

R. W, Hyde. 

2 Pianoforte Solo... Prelude in C sharp minor Rachntaninoff 

G. A. G. BONSER. 

3 Song "A Birthday" C0ffcn 

V. C, BODtMNGTON, 

4 Violin Solo Sonatina ,„ , , ,.,Dvordk 

H. H. H. LORENZ. 

5 Duet..,,,..., " Is it the wind of the dawn?" Stanford 

V. C. BoDDXNGTON and A. Thorne Waite. 

PART 11. 

6 Pianoforte Solo.,,. ..Nocturne in G minor) ^. . 

Walze in D flat ] Chapsn 

A. A. Guest Williams. 

7 Song "Out on the deep" F. iV. Uhr 

R. W. Hyde, 

8 Violin Solo 2nd Concerto in G minor Wicniawiski 

H. H. H. LoRENZ. 

9 Devonshire Reading ,.,, Stewer 

A. F. Hall. 

JO Song " The sands of Dec " Clay 

A. Thorne Waite. 
GOD SAVE THE KING, 

Chairman — Mr Gregory. 



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Second Concert — 

PART 1. 

1 Pianoforte DuET...Vorspiel, "Meistersinger" Wagner 

A. C. Churchward and J. L. Troubridge. 

2 Song "Glorious Devon" German 

A. E. J. iNGLis (King's). 

3 Clarionet Solo Airs from "Faust" Gounod 

H. A. Rose. 

4 Vocal Quartette..." Love in my bosom 

like a h^e" ,, .Cunningham Woods 
E. H. Muncey. V. C. Boddington. 
R. Stansfeld. a. F. Hall. 

5 Song "A jolly old Cavalier" Dix 

F. Northorp. 

PART II. 

6 Pianoforte Solo.. .5th Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt 

J. L. Troubridge. 

7 Song , "The Ballad of Kingslea Mere" Rootham 

Mr Rootham. 

8 Vocal Quartette "Absence" Hatha 

E. H. Muncey. V. C. Boddington. 
R. Stansfeld. A. F. Hall. 

9 Song " I'll sing thee Songs of Araby " Clay 

A. E. J. Ingus (King's). 

10 Song "Myself when young" Lehmann 

(from " A Persian Garden ") 

A. F. Hall. 

GOD SAVE THE KING. 

Accompanist—]. L. Troubridge. 

Chairman — Mr Lister 

Lady Margaret Boat Club. 

President— ^v L. H. K. Bushe-Fox. Treasurer— Mr. J. J. Lister. 
15/ Captain — H. A. L. Laidlaw. 2nd Captain — L. R. D. Anderson. Hon. 
Sec. — C. J. W. Henslow. Junior Treasurer— T. M. Sibly. 1st Lent 
Captain— V. C. Boddington. 2nd Lent Captain— C. L. Holthouse. 3rd 
Lent Captain— H. F. Russell-Smith. Additional Captain— G. A. Allen. 

There were two events which took place too late to appear 
in our last issue — ^these were the Freshmen's Sculls and the 
Bateman Pairs. 

There were only two entries for the Freshmen's ScuUji 
J. M. Short and H. L. Penfold. The race was rowed oa 
June 11, Short having front station. Penfold was to have had 
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108 Our ChronicU. 

Sethe proved more attractive than Cam, so Short paddled 
over in great form. In the evening, however, he gave 
Penfold the opportunity erf beating him, and he availed 
himself of it Penfold led to Post Corner, but took a bad 
Grassy, and short was " up " at Ditton ; in the Long, Penfold 
came " up " again and beat Short by a length. 

The Baieman Pairs proved a more popular event, there 
being five entries. June 12 was the first day of the race, the 
first heat being : — 

First Station. Second Station, 

bow H. F. Russell-Smith how L. R. D. Anderson 

stroke C. J. W. Henslow stroke H. A. L. Laidlaw 

As it was the second time the first of these two had been 
out together they were naturally hot favourites. The race 
soon promised to be exciting. Laidlaw's crew held their 
opponents at the start, who made a diversion in the direction 
of the Ditch, and after running on Post Corner found them- 
selves many yards down at the Grind. At this point the 
steering gear of the first pair broke, and matters began to 
mend immediately. In the Long Reach Henslow quickened 
the stroke, and, backed up well by the rest of the crew, 
gradually drew off. Here an unlooked for event occurred, 
intoxicated with the prospect of victory stroke caught a crab^ 
the craft overturned within 30 yards of the finish, and the 
other crew got safely home. 

Three Pairs had to be rowed in the second heat : — ^ 

First Station. bow J. Fraser 
stroke P. J. Lewis 

Second Station bow P. A. Irving 
stroke J. E. C. Ross 

Third Station. bow C. L. Holthouse 
stroke H. L. Penfold 

Had it not been the morning after the College Ball the 
First Station pair would have been favourites ; as it was the 
last couple were regarded as possible winners — the middle 
couple being handicapped by not having practised together 
previous to the race. This heat soon assumed a more serious 
aspect when it was seen how the pair that should didn't, and 
that which couldnH might ; ultimately it did, and an exciting 
final took place the next day between : — 

First Station. Second Station, 

bow P. A. Irving boiv L. R. D. Anderson 

stroke J. E. C. Ross stroke H. A. L. Laidlaw 

In this heat the first pair led to Post Corner but no further, 
for Laidlaw and Anderson coming steadily up won by about 
20 seconds. 



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Henley Regatta, 1907. 

The performance of the May boat in the bumping races 
at Cambridge made the problem of sending a crew to 
Henley purely a financial one. As there is no established 
" Henley" fund for sending a boat annually to represent the 
College in the Regatta the inevitable subscription list was 
started. Would that all financial problems which from time 
to time confront a boat club were as readily settled I The 
response that came from every direction showed that sporting 
instinct was quite a reality among all members of the 
College, and the compatibihty of this instinct with the more 
serious walks of life was proved by the generous support 
given by the senior members. 

Headed by a handsome gift from the Master, the list 
ultimately amounted to a sum sufficient to cover all expenses, 
and, together with the rest of the about- to-be-fulfilled 
promises, to leave a balance to be devoted to a Henley fund 
for some future occasion. 

The 17th of June was a great day for Henley. That 
evening the Lady Margaret crew arrived in all its glory, 
though most of the glory was not yet unpacked, for not until 
the next morning did the happy band appear in full Henley 
uniform. 

Our days began at seven — at least most of them did — but 
there were occasions when a certain enthusiastic member 
would rise earlier than the rest, and armed with bell, whistle, 
and purri alarm clock, would cry unto the house, "Sleep 
no more." However, by dint of still more forcible arguments, 
this early bird was brought to realise that it was better not 
to anticipate the worm. At 7.30 Father Thames would hold 
his reception ; he generally struck us as cold and somewhat 
reserved. By 8.15 our hearts were well in our work, and by 
noon all Henley had witnessed a profession of faith in the 
dignity of labour. 

Our progress to lunch was seldom a very rapid one. 
Those who went by land found many obstacles in the form 
of multicoloured Sibyls imploring them to exchange reason 
for revelation. Those who ventured into the punt — ^generally 
canying more than was good either for the punt or the 
comfort of its passengers — ^had many risks to face ; not only 
wtDuld the river suddenly become bottomless, and the punt 
unmanageable at a moment when eights were bearing down 
on us, and fractious scullers trying to do starts in our 
direction, but the puntman himself would prove a source of 
very great danger to clothes and tempers by virtue of his 
incompetence ! Yet in spite of all delays few were unready 
at the appointed hour for lunch. Having had lunch we 



110 Our Chronicle. 

crawl into the garden ; here, dotted about round the laWd, 
might be seen various members of the crew asleep with open 
books on their laps, or others — ^more wide awake — whiUng 
away the time with " Bridge." The possibilities afforded by 
this scene for the snap-shot photographer were duly appre- 
ciated, but, alas, our periodical is not illustrated. 

Sooner or later we were wending our way— or, rather, 
our punt — over the river for our second outing. The outings 
themselves were not often very eventful except in the fours 
when the piles were rather de trop^ not to mention scullists 
trying to do a course. On one occasion the Visitors Four — 
after nearly upsetting an enthusiastic " Diamond " from the 
sister University — sought to disarm slander by the confession 
— ** I fear we ran into you this morning " — his reply, which 
left us wondering, was — " Oh, very likely." 

After more rowing more meals, and by 7,30 we were in 
full appreciation of the inventive genius of Kirby. After this 
once more unto the punt, and this time we could doze full 
length — tolerably full length — confident of our safety with 
the pilotage in the hands of Mr Bushe-Fox. By 10.30 any 
visitor to "Tonfridas " would have found sleep in undisputed 
possession. 

The health of the crew throughout was, on the whole, 
excellent, doing credit to Kirby's reputation as a " training " 
expert. 

The crews entered for the three events were as follows : — 

Thames Challenge Cup. 

L. R. D. Anderson (6our) 10 3 

2 H. A. L. Laidlaw 10 13 

3 C. L. Holthouse 11 2 

4 H. F. Russell-Smith 11 13 

5 C. J. W. Henslow 12 4 

6 M. Henderson 11 11 

7 J. Fraser 11 3 

P. J. Lewis (stroke) 10 10 

L. G. Crawford (axe) 8 9 

Wyfold Challenge Cup, Visitors Challenge Cap. 

•L. R. D. Anderson (bow) 10 3 *J. Fraser (bow) 11 3 

2 F. A. R. Higgins 11 8 2 H. F. Russell-Smith 11 13 

3 C. L. Holthouse 11 2 3 C. J. W. Henslow 12 4 

M. Henderson (stroke) ... 11 11 P. J. Lewis (Urokc) 10 10 

* Signifies steerer. 

The first event on. the first day was our heat with Kingston 
for the Wyfold Cup. At the start our Four certainly " put 
them in," but Kingston drew away at once and had three- 
quarters of a length at the quarter-mile, at the half-mile our 
Four had got some of it back, and another quarter of a length 
by Fawley. After a time, however, Kingston drew away 



Our Chronicle, 111 

again, and in spite of a hard spurt by our crew towards the 
finish won by a length in 8 mins. 15 sees. 

At 4 o'clock the same day came our first heat for the 
Thames, against St John's, Oxford. We were not nearly 
smart enough off the start, and at the quarter-mile the Oxford 
crew had a quarter of a length's lead, but coming steadily up 
we led at Fawley. Nearly half a length to the good at the 
mile we held our own without much trouble, and won by 
half a length in 7 mins. 23 sees. 

At about 1 o'clock on the Wednesday we met Emmanuel 
in our second heat for the Thames. This time we started 
better and got a lead by the quarter mile ; at the mile we 
had a length, and never in any real danger. We won by a 
length and a half in 7 mins. 51 sees. 

The same evening we had our heat for the Visitors' Four. 
The start was not inspiring, the Jesus Four getting away very 
quickly led by about two lengths at the quarter mile, and, 
fully aware of their superiority, we did not press them to our 
utmost— to say the least-^and they won easily. 

At 3.15 on the Thursday we rowed our last heat ; it was 
against Corpus. Our start was rather better than usual and 
we got a lead by the top of the island ; at Fawley we were 
still leading, but here we met the full force of the gale which 
was blowing at the time, and rowing in what was undoubtedly 
the worst station suffered far more than Corpus. From this 
point Corpus went steadily ahead, rowing in comparatively 
still water, and won by two and a half lengths in 8 mins. 
42 sees. 

In the races themselves the form shown was far less 
disappointing than the results. It is an open secret that the 
Fours were purely a matter of education, and as such were 
a complete success. In the Thames Cup, had our crew had 
the other station, the final would have been very different. 

To Mr Bushe-Fox the thanks of the entire College are 
due for the untiring energy and zeal which he showed in 
doing everything that could be done towards bringing the 
crews up to the highest standard possible. 

While at Henley the entire party was invited to lunch at 
Fawley Lodge by Captain Douglas Jones, an Old Johnian, 
who rowed an effective blade in a May boat of '89 ; this visit 
was most enjoyable, and his kindness was thoroughly 
appreciated. 

The shortcomings of this account would be greatly 
enhanced by omitting congratulations to L. G. Crawford, 
not only on his coxing but also on his excellent conception 
of the whole duty of cox. It is to be hoped that circum- 
stances will enable him to join us at Henley another year. 



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The Long Vacation. 

There was, unfortunately, no Cambridge Regatta this 
year. But those members of the Club in residence during 
the Long found outlet for their energies — which were not 
small — in the Bedford Regatta, held on July 25th. Three 
crews practised for over a fortnight on home waters, and 
entered, in due course, for the three four-oared events. The 
immediate results were, perhaps, disappointing, as the first 
and second fours did not survive their first heats, although 
the third four was only beaten in the final by a small margin. 

The Senior Four scarcely did themselves justice, and 
were unfortunate in the indisposition of the bow and three 
two days before the race, and in obtaining ship with a 
pecularly vicious form of sliding seat. They were drawn 
against the Jesus College four, and, on the outside station, 
succeeded in holding them as far as the Bridge ; their 
opponents then drew away, and kept their lead to the finish. 
They would doubtless have been more successful if they had 
rowed in a coxswainless boat, as they had done fairly 
creditable times in that form of craft during practice on the 
Cam. 

The Second Four met a strong crew in Bedford R.C., 
and, although they rowed very pluckily, and put up a good 
race, they were unable to hold the slight lead they obtained 
at the start, and were beaten. 

The Third Crew were more fortunate, and easily defeated 
the Bedford Modern crew. The cox is especially to be 
congratulated on the remarkable feat of steering his crew to 
victory with crossed rudder lines. In the final they met 
Bedford Town, and after an exceedingly plucky race, the 
result of which was in doubt to the last half minute, passed 
the post half a length behind their opponents. 

The day was rainy, but not unenjoyable despite the 
results. 

It is good to see so much keenness shown in Long 
Vacation rowing ; for quite apart from material results much 
can be learnt in rowing and racing, and those who rowed 
this year certainly benefited by their experience. 

The crews were : — 

Grand Challenge Guy Pytn Challenge Walter Attcnborougk 

Cup. Cup. Challenge Cup. 

L. R. D. Anderson (bow) C. Dixon [bow) A. J. D. Torry {bow) 

2 C. L. Holthouse 2 G. A. Allen 2 D. E. Cniickshank 

3 K. S. Thomson 3 C. R. Allen 3 J. E. Cross 

H. A. L. Laidlaw [stroke) H. L. Penfold {stroke) P. A. Irving {siroki) 
X. Worrall {co.v) N. Worrall {cox) K. Khong {cat) 



Our Chronicle. 113 

Coxswainless Fours. 

On Thursday, October 4, the Four came up to start 
rowing. For the first week of practice Mr Bushe-Fox was 
unable to coach. The weather was fairly good throughout, 
but strong winds during the first fortnight entailed too 
much rudder work, and the crew could not get together for 
a long time. About four days before the race, however, 
a marked improvement was shown, and, dropping together, 
they began to show pace, but just too late to become a really 
formidable crew over any stretch. They were drawn against 
First Trinity, and, with front station, kept their distance 
comfortably to the Grind; from this point First Trinity 
came steadily up, and, in spite of a hard spurt at the railway 
bridge by our crew, won pretty easily. The steering through- 
out Uie race was good. 

Crew, St. lbs. 

how L. R. D. Anderson (steerer) 10 1 

2 H. F. Russell-Smith 12 

3 C. J. W. Henslow 12 5 

stroke H. A. L. Laidlaw 10 13 ' 



Pearson and Wright Sculls. 

The Pearson and Wright Sculls were rowed on Friday 
and Saturday, November 8 and 9. The first day, J. E. C. 
Ross, with front station, sculled against W. Montgomery; 
leading almost at once Ross continued to draw away all over 
the course and won easily. 

In the second heat A. J. D. Torry had front station and 
Lr. R. D. Anderson back station. Anderson held Torry for 
about a minute, and then the latter began to draw off, and 
ijras quite up at Grassy, but from here Anderson steadily 
came up, and, in spite of a good spurt up the Long Reach by 
Torry, won by 20 yards. 

The final was between Ross and Anderson, the latter 
ha\ing back station. Anderson held Ross at first, but was 
soon down, and Ross, still gaining all the way, won without 
much trouble by about 60 yards. 



The Colquhoun Sculls. 

An exceptionally large entry this year necessitated three 
in the first two heats ; this proved unsatisfactory in the event. 
Lr.M.B.C. were represented by T. M. Sibly, who was sculling 
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114 Our Chronicle, 

far above his last year's form; he had front station in the 
first heat, R. C. Martin (Clare) had second, and R S. Hooker 
(Emmanuel) third station. Sibly sculled strongly all over 
and well within himself, not knowing Hooker was up on him 
at Ditton, Martin being right down ; but, realizing too late, 
he was beaten by Hooker by a length in 8 mins. 11 sees. 

An exceptionally fine race was witnessed in the final 
between E. W. Powell (Third Trinity) and O. A. Car\er 
(First Trinity). Powell had back station and gained at the 
start ; by the Grind he had two lengths in hand, but Carver 
kept going well, and Powell did not gain any more. In the 
Long Reach Carver made a hard race for it, but was beaten 
by about 25 yards in 7 mins, 25 sees. 

The College Trial Eights. 

The Trial Eights have been well up to the average this 
year. Though lacking in weight the Freshmen have shown 
enthusiasm, and good Lent Boats are probable, as several 
men of the Second and Third year are rowing. Tho races 
were rowed on Tuesday, November 26. Belgrave's crew 
had front station, Short's the middle, and Jones' the back one. 
Short's crew and Jones' both went up on Belgrave's at the 
start, and at the grind Short's crew were about 6 feet up on 
Jones', and both right upon Belgrave's ; the latter, however, 
lost no more, but Jones' crew fell off a length in the Long 
Reach and Short's crew won. 

Considering the conditions, which were about as bad as 
they could well be, the times done were good, especially by 
the Senior boats. 

Winning Senior Crew. Winning Junior Crew, 

St. lb. St. lb. 

S. E. Sewell, how 10 8 G. W. Spencer, bow 9 10 

2 H. P. VST. Burton 10 2 2 A. C. Nicholls 9 12 

3 J. C. Irving 10 7 3 H. S. Barrett 10 12 

4 L. A. Allen 11 2 4 S. G. Askey 10 9 

5 R. Meldrum 12 12 5 S. Lees 9 7 

6 D. E. Cruickshank 11 11 6 J. R. Stoddart „I0 13 

7 C. Dixon 10 10 7 B. T. Vine 8 12 

J. M. Short, s^ro*« 11 7 A. J. D. Torry, s/rofaj 9 

H. E. Chasteney, cov 8 1 O. Hughes Jones, cojp 8 3 

Coach — M. Henderson. Coach — L. R. D. Anderson. 

Among the Junior crews great keenness was shown. A 
" Rugger boat," stroked by C. L. Holthouse, became so fast 



Our Chronicle. 115 

that on the day of the race it was handicapped two lengths. 
Unfortunately the stroke of one of the Juniors was laid up a 
few days before the race, and K. T. Khong stroked in the 
race. The rugger boat did not come up very fast at first, 
as it was not using quite all its oars, but when it got all eight 
going the pace shown was considerable, and it came up on 
Khong's boat fast. Torry's crew soon drew off from both 
the others after Post Corner, and, going very nicely, won by 
about a length and a half, having gained steadily all the way. 
Khong's boat went very pluckily, but was soon outpaced by 
both the others. 

The University Trial Eights were rowed at Ely on 
Thursday, November 28th. Several representatives of 
L.M.B.C. were tried during the Term, and C. J. W. Henslow 
represented the Club in the race, rowing at five in the crew 
stroked by F. H. Jerwood (Jesus) ; this crew led all the way 
after the first minute, and ultimately won by two and a half 
lengths. 

Two enthusiastic eights went down to Ely to see the race. 
The weather being perfect they thoroughly enjoyed their 
trip ; no casualties were reported, and fast times were done. 
Lunch at the " Cutter " Inn was a great success, after which 
the crews paddled down to the Adelaide Course, and got out 
at the Bridge to see the race from the mud-path. 

They returned by train in the evening in various costumes. 

A most successful dessert and impromptu "smoker" 
combined was held in Lecture Room VI, on the evening of 
November 28th, with Mr L. H. K. Bushe-Fox in the chair. 
Speeches, songs, and toasts, both suitable and varied, were 
the order of the evening. 



Classical Society. 

President— R. P. Dodd. Secretary— H. S. Barrett. Committee— Mr 
Gutch, A. Y. Campbell. 

The following papers have been read this term i 
Oct. 31st. " The Greek view of a future life," by H. S. Barrett, 
Nov. 21st. " The Lydians," by W. K. Guest WiUiams. 

The Society, after a temporary lapse at the end of last ycari 
has re-asserted itself, and the attendance at meetings has been 
better than usual. 



116 Our Chronicle. 

Natural Science Club. 

President— Y. R. Parnell. Treasurer— Dv J. E. Marf. 
Secretary — H. R. Hasse. 

The following papers have been read this term : — 

Oct. 21st, " Metabolisim and Food," by J.' R. Marrack. 

Nov. 4th. •* The Conversion of Energy/' by G. A. Tomlinson. 

Nov. 18th. " The Chemistry of Soils," by Mr Adie. 

Dec. 2nd. " The Making of Weather Forecasts/' by Mr Gold. 

Messrs T. H. G. Shore, P. A. Irving, C. G. Sharp, W. E. 
Hill, and T. O. Bell have been elected members of the Club 
during the Term. 

The rules of the Club have been revised, and the printed 
list of members and of the papers read has been brought 
up to date. 



The THEaLOGiCAL Society. 

President— H. E. Stuart. Secretary—]. M. Swift. Treasurer^U, W., 
PatersoD. Cofmt$ittee—K. H. P. Muncey, J. E. W^dker.. 

The foilovring papers and addresses hgive been given this 
term : 

Oct. 25th. " The Need and Methods of Church Defence," by the Rev 
H. B. Pim M.A,, Member of the Church Committe^jfor 
Church defence and Church Instruction." In Mr G. A. R, 
Thursfield's Rooms. 

Nov. Xst.. "Penitential Discipline in the Early Church," by the Rev 
G. A. Weefces M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Sidney Sussex^ 
In Mr F. A. A. W. Heaton's Rooms^ 

Nov.. 8th, "Missions," by Professor Mayor, President of St John^i 
College. In Mr J. E. N. Jackson's Rooms. 

Nov. 22nd.. "Prayer," by the Rev H. F. Stewart B.D., Fellow and Deac^ 
of St John's College. In Mr R. P. Dodd's Rooms. 



Debating Society. 

President— Vt. P. Dodd. Vice-President— \, D. AHen. Secretary — 
W. Veevers. Committee— V. W. J. Hobbs, M. W. Patterson and 
J. E. C. Ross. 

The Society in the first place is to be congratulated on 
a highly successful Term. Marked keenness has characterised 
all the proceedings, and quite an air of enthusiasm has-per* 



Our Chronicle, 117 

vaded the debates. The Society has also with great satis- 
faction welcomed the undoubted debating powers possessed 
by some of this year's new members ; and it is pleasant to 
• note that several of its members have been taking in the 
Union Society's discussions, and have on the whole been 
most favourably criticised. In this connection we would 
most strongly urge members, and especially freshmen, to 
speak as often as possible at this representative University 
Debating Society, and so do their utmost to maintain the 
prestige and reputation of the College in this sphere of 
academic activity, which, from modern exigencies, has now 
come to to be recognised a most important factor in the 
equipment of any university education. 

The Debates have been on the whole interesting and 
educative, and this has been shown by the good attendances, 
which have been above the average of previous Terms. 

Our Visitors' Debate proved a great success in every way, 
Mr H, L. Pass, a former President of the Society, was to have 
l>een the opener in this Debate, but unfortunately, owing to 
illness, was unable to be present. Mr Benians, at extremely 
short notice, kindly consented to take his place, and the 
Society's best thanks are due to him. The excellent speeches 
made by our visitors were greatly appreciated. And, in 
conclusion, we may be permitted to remark, there can be no 
doubt that a visit of capable exponents of the vis oratoria 
cannot fail to infuse new vigour and impetus into a Sogiety 
whose aim is to develop the debating qualities of its members. 

The following Debates havQ been held this term : — 

Saturday^ October i^th. At the first Meeting A. D. Allen 
(Vice-President) moved that " The Craze for Novelty is the 
bane of Modern Existence." W. Veevers (Hon. Secretary) 
opposed. For the motion there spoke M. W. Paterson, J. M, 
Swift, T. Clough, P. A. Irving, C. R. Allen, J. E. C. Ross, and 
H. C. Dollman ; against the motion, V. W. J. Hobbs, P. N. F. 
Young (Ex-Pres.), G. A. G. Bonser, D. S. Fraser, C. J. W. 
Henslow, W. S. Montgomerie, S. M. Green, and M. Kraus. 
The motion was lost by 7 votes. Seventy-five members and 
pthers were present during the evening. 

Saturday, October 26th. C. R. Allen moved that " The life 
of the Hermit is the highest attainment of Happiness." T^ 
Clough, in the unavoidable absence of J. E. C. Ross, opposed. 
M. Henderson (Hon. Auditor), A. R. Tremearne, and A. C. 
NichoUs spoke for the motion \ and against it R P. Dodd 



118 Our Chronide. 

(Pres.), W. S. Montgomerie, Z. N. Brooke (Ex-Pres.), J. M. 
Swift, W. L. Shepherd, J. E. Walker, M. Kraus, G. W. 
Spencer, T. H. G. Shore, and J. C. Irving. The motion was 
lost by 20 votes. Fifty-three members were present during 
the evening. 

Saturday^ November 2nd, Freshmen's Debate. G. A. G. 
Bonser moved that " This House disapproves of the killing of 
Animals for Sport." S. M. Greed opposed. For the motion 
there spoke H. P. W. Burton, S. G. Askey, C. W. Previte- 
Orton, J. O. Whitlock, O. C. Nicholls, J. E. Walker, and 
G. I. C. Marchand; against, J. C. Irving, H. C. Dollman, 
A. D. Allen (Vice-Pres.), and R. M. Jones. The motion was 
lost by 1 vote. Forty-three members were present during 
the evening. 

Saturday^ November gth, J. G. Dollman moved " That this 
House approves of Vivisection." A. R. Tremearne opposed. 
There also spoke for the motion, H. C. Dollman, M. W. 
Paterson, Z. N. Brooke (Ex-Pres.), S. G. Askey, P. A. Irving, 
and T. H. G. Shore. Against the motion, C. W. Previte-Orton, 
R. S. Cripps, and J. E. C. Ross. The motion was carried by 
31 votes. Sixty-five members and visitors were present. 

Saturday^ November i6th. J. M. Swift moved "That this 
House would view with dismay the Disestablishement of the 
National Church." J. K. Deane opposed. For the motion 
there spoke C. L. Druce, A. R. Tremearne, W. L. Shepherd, 
and R. C. Cripps; against it C. J. W. Henslow, P. N. F. 
Young (Ex-Pres.), J. E. N. Jackson, W. G. Constable, 
T. Clough, H. N. Tait, and F. M. Cheshire. The motion 
was lost by 4 votes. Forty-seven members were present 
during the evening. 

Saturday^ November 23rd. H. F. Russell-Smith moved 
"That the House deplores the education of the masses." 
W. G. Constable opposed. T. H. G. Shore, S. G. Askey, 
A. D. Allen (Vice.Pres.), and E. W. Willett spoke in support 
of the motion ; against it G. I. C. Marchand, W. F. Ireland, 
M. W. Paterson, J. M. Swift, R. M. Jones, H. N. Tait, G. A. G. 
Bonser, C. W. Previte-Orton, F. M. Cheshire, A. Hughes, P. A. 
Irving, H. Leeser, S, M. Green, and J. C. Irving. The motion 
was lost by 16 votes. Forty-nine members were present 

Saturday^ November 30th. The Visitors' Debate. Mr E. A, 
Benians (St John's College) moved that " Intellectual Activities 



Our Chronicle. 119 

should be the main factor in an Academic Education." Mr J. K. 
Mozley (Pembroke College, Ex- President of the Union Society) 
opposed. There also spoke for the motion E. H. J. N. Dalton 
(King's College) ; against the motion, E. Evans (Trinity Hall) 
and Z. M. Brooke (Ex-Pres.). 

At the time of going to press we learn that the retiring 
President will move at the last (change of officers') Debate 
" That Beauty is not Truth, nor Truth Beauty." This will be 
opposed by Z. N. Brooke (Ex-Pres.). 



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Aristophanes. The Frogs, Ecclesiazusae, Thesmophoriazusae, Birds, and 

Plutus. The Greek Text revised with a Translation into correspond- 
ing Metres, Introduction, and Commentary, by B. B. Rogers. 5 vols. 

sm. 4to. Lond. 1902-7. 7.18.46-50. 
British Museum. Subject Index of the modem Works added to the 

Library of the British Museum in the Years 1881-1900. Edited by 

G. K. Fortescue. 3 vols. roy. 8vo. Lond. 1902-3. 14.6.7-9. 
^Calvert (A.). School Readings in the Greek Testament. 12mo. Lond. 

1887. 9.11.87. 
Cambridge Modem History. Vol. X. The Restoration. roy. 8vo. 

Cambridge, 1907. 1.2.59. 
Crashaw (R). Steps to the Temple, Delights of the Muses, and other 

Poems. The Text edited by A. R. Waller. (Cambridge English 

Classics). 8va Camb. 1904. 4.31.4. 
Dictionary (New English) on historical Principles. Edited by Dr. J. A. H. 

Murray. (Piper-Polygenistic). 4to. Oxford, 1907. 
•Fcnncr (C. J.). Horae Poeticae. Privately printed. 8vo. Lond. 1841. 

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Harrison (Jane E.) Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion. 8vo. 

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I.C.S., Allahabad, India 

52, Comeragh Road, West Kensington, W. 

Clitheroe, Lanes. 

Khedivial Agricultural Society, Cairo 

Crossbeck House, Ilkley 



fBarlow, The Very Rev. W. The Deanery, Peterborough 

H. (D.D.) (E. 1909) 
Barnes, G. G. 
Barnes, Rev J. S. (E. 191 1) Daresbury, Warrington 



Barradell-Smith, S. 
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Bashforth, Rev F. 
Bass, R. A. 
Bateson, W. (Fellow) 
Bayard, F. C. 
Beith, G. 

tBcith, J. H. (E. 1912) 
Bell, Rev R. E. T. 
Bell. T. O. 
Belgrave, A. C. 
Belshaw, Rev P. 
Benians, E. A. (Fellow) 
Bennett, N. G. (E. 1908) 
Bennett, G. T. (E. 1909) 
Bentley, Rev J..H. 
Bcresford, H. A. 
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Minting Vicarage, Homcastle 
St Peter's House, St Albans 

2, Cloisters, Temple, E.C. 
Little Firs, Lower Shiplake, Ozon 
Fettes College, Edinburgh 
Hopefield, GreenhiU, Evesham 



260, Waterloo Street, Oldham 

Hillcrest, Green Lane, Northwood, Middlesex 
Emmanuel College, Cambridge 



Hoby Rectory, Leicestershire 
Tamerton^Foliot, Crown Hill, S. Devon 

Besant, Dr W. H. (Fellow) (E. 1910) 

Best, G. A. H. (E. 191 1) Haden Hill, Old HiU, Staffs. 

Best, I. J. Westfields, Leek, N. Staffs. 

tBevan,VenH.E.J.(E.*io) The Rectory, Church Street, Chelsea, S.W. 

Bilsland, J. A. 

Binns, A. J. Wittenberg, St. Andrew's Road, Gt. Malvern 

Blackman, F. F. (Fellow) (E. 1910) 

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Body, L. A. 
Body, Rev C.W.E. 
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Address. 
Brecon House, Sherborne 



The College, Durham 
4, Chelsea Square, New York, U.S.A. 
Wesley Manse, Poole, Dorset 
Bonney, Rev T. G. (Fellow, 9, Scroope Terrace, Cambiidge 
Sc.D.) (E. 1909) 

The College, Cheltenham 

21, Amherst Avenue, Ealing, London, W. 

Freshwater, Isle of Wight 

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Briiikley Rectory, Newmarket 

Broadmoor, Crowthome, Berks. 

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fBowling, Rev E. W. 

Bown, Rev P. H. 

Boyt, J. E. 

Bray, Rev W. H. (E. 1910) 

Brayn, R. F. 

Brewster, T. F. 

Biice-Smith, R. 

Briggs, M. B. 

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Brown, A. E. 99, Chesterton Road, Cambridge 

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The Maisonette, Harrow-on-lhe-Hill 
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4, Devana Terrace, Cambridge 
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Brown, P. H. 
Brown, S. R. 
Brown, Prof W. Jethro 

(E. 1907) 
Brownbill, J. 
Browning, K. C. 
Brownson, R. D. D. D. 
Bruton, F. A. 
Bryan, Rev W. A. 
Buchanan, G. B. (E. 1909) 
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Lingfield Vicarage, Surrey 
13, Buckingham Terrace, Glasgow 
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Buahe-Fox, L, H. K. (E. '08) tFellow) 
fBushell, Rev W. D. (E. '09) Harrow 
Bader, A. G. Gladstone, Queensland 

Byron-Scott, W. Grammar School, Cam el ford, Cornwall 



fCaldecott, Rev A., D.D. I, Longton Avenue, Sydenham, S.E. 

(E. 1910) 
Caliis, Rev A. W. (E. 1910) The School Hall, Bury St. Edmunds 
Calvert, E. 

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Ouida House, Bury St Edmunds 

7, Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park, N. W. 

The Ivies, St Julian Farm Road, W. Norwood^ 

S.E. 
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The Vicarage, Chilvers Coton, Nuneaton 
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Carliell, E. F, 

Carlyll, H. B. (E. 1909.) 

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Chadwick, Rev R. 
Chamberlain, Rev J. S. ff. 

(M. 1912) 
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Chappie, H. 
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Clark, Prof E. C. (LL.D.) 

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Clough, C. T. (E. 191 1) 
Clough, T. 
Coad, C. N. 
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Cobb, Mrs (£. 190S} 
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College Library 
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CoUison, H. (E. 1909) 
Collison, C. (E. 1910) 
Colman, Sir J. 
Colson, F. H. (E. 191 1) 
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Coombs, A. G. 
Coombes, Rev H. E. H. 

(E. 1909) 
Cooper, Rev C. E. (E. 1910) S. Saviour's Church, Victoria, West British 

Columbia 
Cooper, T. Blatchingley Place, Nr. Seaford, Sussex 

fCoop, W. Albemarle, Ashton-under-Lyne 

Coote, Sir Algernon, Bt. Ballyfin House, Mountratfa, Ireland 

(L. 1907) 
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London, E.C. 
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fCowie, H. (E. 1911) 
Cox, H. S. 
Cox, Rev W. A. (Fellow) 
Cradock, J. D. 
Craggs, E. H. 
Craggs, G. C. 
Crauford, L. G. 

Crees, J. H. E. (E. 19JI) 
Cripps, R. S. 
fCroggon, J. F. S. 
tCrole Rec», Rev H. S. 
Crowther, C. R. 
Crowther, J. A. 
Craickshaiik, D. E. 
Cmickshauk, G. E. (E. 191 1 ) 
Cruickshank, G. M. 
Cubitt, Rev S. H. (E. 1908) 
Callen, A. E. 
Cullis, L. 
Cummins, C. A. 
Cummings, R. R. (E. 191 1) 
Cunningham, E. (Fellow) 

(E. 1909) 
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Cuthbertson, F. E. L. 
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Paik, N. 

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Technical College, Auckland, N.Z. 

Forcadso, S. Nigeria 

Royal Naval College, Dartmouth 

19, Redston Road, Hornsey, N. 

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Dalvi, V. G. 
Darwin, J. H. 
Davey, A. A, 

Davidson, £. 
Davies, Rev J. J. 
Davis, A. J. (E. 1907) 

Dawes, H. E. T. 
Dawson, A. M. 
Dawson, R. T. 
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Decs, F. W. 
Denham, H. A. 
Densham, A. T. (E. 1909) 
Devenisb, H. N. (E. 191 1) 



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Station Road, Esher, Surrey 

Rotherwood, Ivanhoe Road, Denmark Paik, 

S.E. 
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Cape Colony 
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DIbdin, Sir L. T., K.C. 

(M. 1911) 
Dixon, C. 
Dodd, R. P. 
Dodgshun, E. J. 
DoUman, J. G. 
tDouglas, S. M. (E. 1910) 
Douglas, A. F. (£. 1912) 



Nobles, Dormans, East Grinstead 



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Drake, Rev C. B. (E. 19 10) Leveringlon Rectory, Nr. Wisbech 

Drake, Rev H. 30, Woodside Road, S. Norwood, S.E. 

Druce, C. L. 

Dunkley, H. F. 

Dyer, Rev C. H, Allandale, De Freville Avenue,' Cambridge 

Dyson, Rev F., late (E. 19 10) 



Easton, Rev J. G. (E. i9o8)^Murston Rectory, Sittingboumc 



Eastwood, A. W. (E. 1907) 
Edmonds, H. 
Edmunds, C. (E. 1908) 
Edmunds, L. H. (E. 1908) 
Edwardes, H. F. E. 
Edwards, Rev N. W. A. , 

Elliot-Smith G. 

Ellis, A. L 

Elsee, RevC. (E. 191 1) 

Evans, A. E. 

Evatt, Lieut G. R. K. (E. 

1908) 
Every, J. M. 
Ewbank, Rev A. (E. 1909) 



30, Chalfont ^Road,j^Oxford 

The Clergy House, Aston, Birmingham 

6, Crouch Hall Road, Crouch End, London, N. 

I, Garden Court, Temple, E.C. 

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Lady Margaret Mission, Chatham Street, 

Walworth, S.E. 
Cairo, Egypt 

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The Clergy House, Parish Church, Leeds 

Middlesex Regiment, c/o Cox & Co, 16, Charing 
Cross, London 

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Fayerman, A. G. P. 
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Fergusson, L. R. 
Fewings, J. A. 
Fewings, P. J. 

Field, Rev A. T. (E. 191 1) 

Field, A. M. C. 

Field, Rev F. G. E. 

Finch, H. K. 

Fleet, C. S. 

Fleet, Rev W. W. S. 

Flux, A. W. (E. 191 1) 



Hillside, Kenil worth, Warwickshire 

The Duke of Cambridge Own, ^ Wellington 

Barracks, Dublin 
The Hydro, Malvern 

Kingsbridge House, West Marlands, South- 
ampton 
Ryther Rectory, near York 
7, Mayfield Road, Gosforth, Newcastlc-on-Tyne 
Grammar School, Southport 
34, Clapham Road, Bedford 

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Forslcr, R. H. (E. 1910) 
Forstcr, T. E. (E. 1908) 
Foxwell, E. E. (E. 1909) 
tFoxwell. H. S. (Fellow) 

(E. 1911) 
Francis, Rev J. (M. 191 1) 
Fraser, D. S. 
Fraser, J. 

Frean, H. G. (E. 1910) 
Freke, C. G. 
Fryer, S. E. 



Address, 
Brooklyn Lodge, Mill Hill, Barnes, S.W. 
3, Eldon Square, Newcastle-on-Tyne 

I, Harvey Road, Cambridge 
80, Shaw Street, Liverpool 

Westminster College, Cambridge 
Cranicombe, The Avenue, Bournemouth 

55, Childebert Road, Balham, S.W. 



Gamer-Richards, D. B. 

(E. 1910) 
Gamett, W. (D.C.L.) 
tGanett, H. L. 
Gaskell, W. (£. 1908) 
Gauvain, H. J. 
Gaze, E. H, 

Genge, Rev E. H. (E. 1910) 
George, Rev J. 
Gibbings. Rev W. T. 

Gibson, J. 

Giles, R., CLE. (E. 1910) 
Gill, R. G. 
Gillespie, T. 
Gledhill,W. G. 
Gledstone, F. F. 
Glover, F. B. (E. 19 10) 
Glover, Dr L. G. 
Glover, T. R. (Fellow) 
Gold, E. (Fellow) 
Godson, F. A. 

Godwin, Rev C. H. S. 

Gonehalli,V. H. 

Gorringe, A. L. 

Gorst, Rev P. F. 

Grabbam, G. W. 

Grant, F. H. S. 

fGraves, Rev C. E. (Fellow) 

(E. 1908) 
Green, E. W. 
Green, N. 

Grccnhill, Prof A. G. (E, '09) 
Greenlees, J. R. C, 



Brandon, Suffolk 

1 16, St Martin's Lane, London, W.C. 

Queen's College, Hong Kong 

Dehra Dun,\U.P., India 

57, Chancery Lane, London 

c/o E. Balding, Esq., 9, Pemberton Gardens, 

Upper HoUoway, N. 
Lilley Rectory, Luton 
HoIIington, Sevenoaks 

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ampton 
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17, Belsize Park, N. 



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Manchester 

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Chyngton, Sussex 

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Department of Works, Khartoum 

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Greenstreet, W. J. (E. 1908) The Marling School, Stroud, Gloacester 
Greenup, Rev A. W. (L. '08) St John's HaU, Highbury, N. 
Gregory, H. H. Studleigh, Ceylon Road, WestcUffe on Sea 

Gregory, H. L. (£. 191 1) Englefield House, Highgate, N. 
Gregory, R, P. (Fellow) (E. 191 1) 

Grenfell, J. S. G. Heath Mount, Hampstead, N.W. 

Grigson, P. St. J. B. East Harling Hall, Thetford 

Groos, A. W. J. (E. 191 1 ) 12, Farquhar Road, Upper Norwood, S.E. 
Gruning, J. F. Dibrugarh, Assam, India 

Guest- Williams, W. K. 

Gumey, T. T. (E. 1908) Chesterton Hall, Cambridge 
Gwatkin, Rev T. (E. 191 1) 3, St Paul's Road, Cambridge 
Gwatkin, Rev Prof H. M. 8, Scroope Terrace, Cambridge 
Gwatkin, Rev F. L. Oak Lodge, Crawley, Sussex 



fHaigh, P. B. c/o Messrs Giindley Groom & Co., Bombay 

Hall, A. F. 

Hall, Rev T. Howard Sproatley Rectory, Hull 

Hallack, W. C. 66, Tyrwhitt Road, Brockley, S.E. 

Hallam, G. H. (M. 1907) The Park, Harrow on the Hill 

Hamilton, A. J. S. HoUyholm, Hulse Road, Southampton 

Hamilton, K. L. B. 25, Fairfax Road, S. Hampstead, N.W. 

Hammond, F. The School House, Market Harborough 

Hannam, Rev F. A. (E. 08) Meliose Villas, Valley Road, Lye, Stourbridge 

Hardy, G. S. Lemsford Road, St. Albans 

Harding, W. I. (E. 1908) Churchfield*s House, S. Woodford, Essex 

Harding, W. H. 

tHardwich,RevJ.M.(E.'ii) St John's, Horton Crescent, Rugby 

Harker, A. (Fellow) (E. '08) 

Harker, RevG. J. T. (E. '09) Aldenham '.Grammar School, Elstree, Herts. 

Har Kishan Singh (E. 1909) c/o Dr S. Rain, Mianwali, Punjab, India 

Harman, N. B. (E. 1907) 108, Harley Street, W. 

Harnett, Rev F. R. c/o Hongkong U Shangai Bank, Colombo, 

Ceylon 
Harris, H. Wilson (E. 191 1) Spencer House, Plymouth 
Hart, J. H. A. (Fellow) 

Hart, S. L. (Sc. D.)(E. 1906) London Mission, Tientsin, China 
Harwood, S. F. D. BatUsford Hall, Needham Market 

Haslam, F. W. C. Canterbury College, Christchurch, New Zealand 

Haslam, Rev A. B. (E. 1908) Royal Grammar School, Sheffield 
Haslam, V. H. 
Hass6, H. R. 
Hathornthwaite, J. T. Raeburn, Boscombe, Bournemouth 

(M. 1912) 
Hatten, A. W. Bodle Street Green Rectory, Hailsham, Sussex 

Havelock, T. H. (Fellow) Rockliife, Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne 

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Hawcridge, R. S. 
Hawkes, W. J. 

tHayes, J. H. 
Hayraan, C. H. T. 
Hayter, K. S. R. 
Hayward, A. W. 
Hay, Rev W. K. 
Hcaloii, F. A. A. W. 
Heath, F. C. 
Heitland, W. E. (FcUow) 

(£. 1910) 
Henderson, M. 

Henslow, C. J. W. 
Herring, Rev J. 
Hibbert, H. 
Hicks, F. W. 

Hicks, Prof W. M. (Sc.D.) 
fHiem, W. P. (E. 191 1) 
Higgins, F. A. R. 
Hill, A. 

Hill, RevE. (£. 191 1) 
HiU, F. W. 
Hill, J. R. 
Hai, W. E. 
Hill, Rev W. N. 
HiUeary, F. E. (LL.D.) 
Hoare, H. J. (E. 1908) 
Hobbs, V. W. J. 
Hodges, C. F. 
Hogan, C. D. D. 
Hogan, R. V. J. S. 
Hogg,R. W.(M. 1908) 
Holmes, H. T. 
Hohbouse, C. L. 
Honeybourne, H. C. 
Honeyboume, V. C. 
Hornibrook, M. 



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The Woodrough School, Church Road, 

Moseley, Birmingham 
The Leys, Cambridge 
Edwinstowe Vicarage, Newark, Notts. 
Chigwell School, Essex 
Holmlea, Ongar, Essex 
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Tudor Hall, Hawkhurst, Kent 
Carmefield, Newnham, Cambridge 

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Broughton Grove, Grange -over-Sands, Camforth 

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The Castle, Barnstaple 

Burnham Thorpe, Eton 

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EUerton, Mill Hill Park, W. 



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Catherington Ifield, Crawley, Sussex 

St James* Vicarage, Bury St Edmunds 



Christ's Hospital, W. Horsham 

12, Bedford Road, S. Tottenham, N. 

Royal Grammar School, Guildford 

c/o Messrs Holt & Co., 4, Whitehall Place, S.W. 

31, Upper Hamilton Terrace, St John's Wood, 

N.W. 
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Horowitz, S. 
Horlon, F. (Fellow) 

fHorton-Smith, L. (F.S. A., 53, Queen's Gardens, Lancaster Gate, W. 

Scot. (E. 1910) 
Hough, J. F. The School House, Brentwood 

Hough, S. S. (E. 1909) Royal Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa 
Houston, W. A. (E. 1909) The Ministry of Public Instruction, Cairo, Egypt 
How, Rev J. C. H. (E. 1909) Trinity College, Cambiidge 



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Hoyle, J. J. 
tHudson, ProfW. H. H. 

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Hudson, E. F. 
Hughes, A. 
Hulme, T. E. 
Humfrey, J. C. W. 
Hume, P. J. 
Humphries, S. 

Hunt, Rev A. G. L. 
Hunt, Rev A. L. (M. 191 1) 
Hunter, Di W. 
Hurst, R. F. 
Hutchinson, F. D. 
Hutton, Rev W. B. 
Hyams, A. 



Address, 
The Experiment Station, Fusa, Behar, Bengal 
Johannesburg, South Africa 
34, Birdhurst Road, Croydon 

Churcher*s College, Petersfield 

63, Gower Street, W.C. 
Wilden, Nr. Stourport 

City of London College, White Street, Moor- 

fields, E.C. 
Great Snoring Rectory, Fakenham 
Great Snoring Rectory, Fakenham 
103, Harley Street, Cavendish Square. W. 

Great Wilbraham, Cambs. 
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Ilifie, J. W. Central Higher School, Sheffield 

Ingram, RevD. S. (E. 1909) Great Oakley, Essex 

Ingram, RevA.R.(L. 1909) The Lady Margaret Mission, Walworth, S.£. 
Ireland, W. F. 
Iremonger, £. V. 
Irving, P. A. 

Irving, J. B. 14, Heath'Hurst Road, Hampstead, N.W. 

Irwin, W. L. c/o Col L. Hunt, Elmsholme, Weathersfield, 

Vermont, U.S.A. 



Jackson, Rev A. 

Jackson, E. W. 

Jackson, J. E. N. 

James, F. A. 

James, G. 

JeflFreys, R. S. 

Jenkins, F. 

Jessopp, Rev A. (D.D.) 

Jinarajadasa, C. 

tjoce. J. B. D. 

Johnson, Rev A. R. (M. '10) 

Johnson, Rev E.J. F. (E.* 10) 

Johnston, A. B. 

Johnston, F. 

Jolley, E. H. P. 

Jolly, L. J. P. 

Jones, H.T. G. (E. 191 1) 



All Saints' Vicarage, Northfleet, Gravesend 
2, North Teirace, Grantham 



King's College, Stiand, W.C. 

6, Edgefield Road, Sheffield 

Seaming Rectory, E. Dereham 

Corso Garibaldi 20, Milan, Italy 

The Strand, Bideford 

Marwood Rectory, Barnstaple 

Sarsden Rectory, Chipping Norton, Oxon. 

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Jones, Rev B. T. White 
Jones, Key G. (E. 191 2) 
JoneSy R. M. 
Jose, C. H. 



Addnsi, 
GlyntaflT, Troedyrhiw, GUm. 
38, St John's Road, Bedminsteri Bristol 
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Kershaw, R«y A. 

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Bexhill Lodge, Hollier's Hill, Bezhill-on.Sea 
Folkton Rectory, Ganton, Yorks. 
Much Hadham, Herts. 

Wheelside, Hindhead, nr. Haslemere 
Metallurgical Laboratory, South Rose Deep, 

Germiston, Johannesburg 
Shearing Rectory, Harlow, Essex 
Vedawain Chambers, Axim, Gold Coast Colony 
Ascham School, Eastbourne 

I, St Mary's Passage, Cambridge 
Scrivelsby Rectory, Horncastle 

Uflford Rectory, Stamford 

Merstham Rectory, Surrey 

The College, Maritzburg, Natal 



21, Priory Road, Sharrow, SheflBeld 
Evendine Court, Colwall, Malvern 



Yapp, R. H. 
Yeoh, G. S. 
Yorke, A. R. 
Young, P. N. F. 



University College of Wales, Aberystwyth 
4, St Mary's Square, Paddington, W. 



Lent Term Xgo8. 



OUR JUBILEE. 




|iTH the issue of the present number Th€ EagU 
enters on the fifty-first year of its career. The 
story of its "First Flight" was given by 
Canon J. M. Wilson in our fifteenth volume 
(PP- 325 — 3^7). From this we learn that The Eagle -wa,^ 
founded by a certain Shakespeare Society consisting of 
five members, then all undergraduates of St. John's, 
namely: W. G. Adams, T. Ashe, T. H. Bush, W. E- 
Mullins and J. M. Wilson. These all took their degrees 
in the Mathematical Tripos of 1839, Wilson being Senior 
Wrangler. 

The first prospectus closed with the words : 

It is respectfully requested that those who are 

disposed to become subscribers, or to contribute 

articles for The Eagle^ will communicate before the 

end of the month with the Secretary, Mr. W. H. 

Barlow, B.A., St. John's College. February 23, 1858. 

We may assume then that the first number was 

issued at the end of the Lent Term of 1858. An 

enthusiastically accurate bibliographer has recently 

requested to be informed of the exact day of issue of the 

first number ; of this there is no ofiicial record, though 

it may perchance be recorded in the pages of some 

private diary. 

VOL. XXIX. S 



126 Our Jubilee. 

We give as the frontispiece of the present number a 
reproduction of a photograph of our founders. With 
the exception of T. Ashe, who died 18 December 1889, 
all are still living. 

W. G. Adams was for many years Professor of 
Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in King's College, 
London, and has been President both of the Physical 
Society and of the Society of Electrical Engineers. 
T. H. Bush is Vicar of Christ Church, Hants. W. E. 
Mullins was a Master at Marlborough College from 
1S60 to 1898 and is now an Alderman of the London 
County Council. J M. Wilson, Headmaster of Clifton 
College from 1879 to 1890, is now Canon of Worcester. 
W. H. Barlow is the Dean of Peterborough. 

With these younger members of the College was 
associated Mr Joseph B. Mayor, to whose "influence and 
wisdom" we owe it " that The Eagle was born with so 
healthy a constitution as to have survived all the College 
vicissitudes and successive generations " for fifty years. 

The printers of The Eagle have throughout heen 
Messrs Metcalfe of Trinity Street; they have kindly 
inspected their books and from these we learn that of 
No. 3, issued in November 1858, four hundred copies 
were printed. By 1875 the number had risen to6oow 
During the eighties the numbers printed varied from 50a 
to 750. At the present time the number printed varies 
between 900 and 950. Of Nos. 114 and 129 one 
thousand copies were issued. 

A glance back through the pages of past volumes 
reveals the fact that the editors have had two sources 
of anxiety; first the supply of literary matter, and 
secondly the more prosaic but not less urgent necessity 
for funds. The first difficulty is always with us, but of 
the various improvements in management which have 
been introduced from time to time none has been more 
successful than the change introduced by Dr D- 
MacAlister, when senior editor, whereby for the payment 
of one guinea a subscriber secures the Magazine for five 



Our Jubilee, " 127 

years. This has greatly simplified fiaance, relieving 
Editors from anxiety and the Subscribers from the worry 
of constant requests for small sums. 

Our Chronicle^ now perhaps the most popular feature 
of successive issues, was started in the number for the 
Michaelmas Term of i860. The Eagle may justly pride 
itself on the fact that it has formed the model for the 
magazines of other Colleges : The Caian^ The Christ's 
College Magazine^ and The Emmanuel College Magazine 
are flourishing contemporaries. We find in their pages 
the features, now familiar to our readers, of a literary 
section, notes from College history, an obituary and a 
chronicle. Other Colleges have from? time to time 
started similar ventures, but unless they have adopted 
the characteristic feature of The Eagle of combining on 
the editorial stafiFa senior and nK>re permanent element, 
with the more changing but perhaps more enthusiastic 
body of the junior members, these fade away with th^ 
departure of those who started them. 

The editorial introduction to- our first numi)er con- 
cludes with the words r 

" Only let us all pull together in this concern, with 
a strong pull and a steady swing, that The Eagle may 
be a rallying point and a watchword among us ; 
sanething. to foster College spirit on when here ; 
something by which we can carry it down with us 
when we go away ; the spirit of Old Brookes* ; the 
spirit which cracks up its own as the best College* 
in the best University in the best country in the 
world." 

This is an ideal which we dor not wish to alter;- 
we adopt it for ourselves, and looking forward to^ 
the time when The Eagle will celebrate its centenary,. 
we commend it to our successors*. 



* The reference is to Tom Brown's School Days.- 






TO r^^ EAGLE. 

The Eaglets Fiftieth Birthday ! Near and far, 
From every land where loyal Johnians are, 
The same enthusiastic note is heard, — 
** Congratulations to our noble bird \ " 

Yes, here at home, and yonder over sea, 
Let Johnians keep The Eagle's Jubilee; 
Let each take down a volume from the shelf 
And read some little record of himself 
(Perhaps the first that ever saw the light 
In the charmed guise of printer's black and white), 
Or of the friends who in those golden years 
Were his staunch comrades and his trusted peers. 
Recall their looks, their voices, and their ways. 
And all that happened in the good old days* 

Upon the mind a thousand memories crowd, — 
How A was senior, and how B was ploughed, 
How well C rowed, how cunningly D steered. 
While E and F ran on the bank and cheered. 
How G brought off that most astounding catch, 
How by a place-kick H just saved the match. 
How I was lazy and how J was keen. 
How K had trouble with the Senior Dean, 
How many times L missed the Little Go, 
How M and N once ragged the rooms of O, 
How P was quite ' the Rupert of Debate,' 
How Q's bad sliding spoilt the Second Eight, 
How R and S played tennis in the Long, 
How T would always sing one comic song. 
How U and V went racing on the sly, 
How W was picked instead of Y, 
How Z beat record on the cinder-track. 
Open The EagU^ and it all comes back. 



To ''The Eagle:' 129 

Yes, it comes back, the glamour and the strife, 
And Johnian spirit leaps again to life. 
Once more we feel the magic of the chain 
Which draws our hearts back to St John's again : 
Once more the Gateway comes before our eyes ; 
Once more in thought we cross the Bridge of Sighs ; 
Once more we dream of things we used to do. 
And wake up wishing that the dream were true. 

Fifty years oldl What changes have been rung 
Since those far years in which our Bird was ypung! 
In youth he saw the College Chapel rise, 
And countless Dons have passed before his eyes, 
New Syndicates and Triposes galore. 
And sliding seats and the non-coxswain four. 
But still, though Senior Wranglers know their doom. 
Though dire constraint has scuttled Wordsworth's room, 
True to the promise of his opening page, 
754^ -ffo^/^ does not and he shall not age : 
"A rallying point and watchword" still we see 
For Johnians past and Johnians yet to be. 

Congratulations to the Bird once more, 
And a bright future, which shall hold in store 
Centenaries, succeeding each to each, 
Till a huge pile of scarlet volumes reach 
High as the Chapel Tower, and the Hall 
Be far too little to contain them all! 

Also our gratitude] For you have kept 
Alive a spirit which might else have slept. 
Your pages tell us that through good and ill 
The College claims us as its children still. 
Bonds of pure gold St. John's and us unite, 
But 'tis TA^ Eagle keeps the gold so bright. 

R. H. F. 



NOTES FROM THE COLLEGE RECORDS. 

(Continued from page 33^. 



The documents which follow are taken from the State 
Papers, Domestic, of the reign of King James I, pre- 
served in the Record Office. 

In reading these one is at once conscious of a change 
of attitude in the Sovereign and his advisers. During 
the long reign of Elizabeth, William Cecil, Lord 
Burghley, was for fifty years Chancellor of the Uni- 
versity. The Earl of Essex was Chancellor from 1598 
to 1 60 1, and Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, from 
1601 to 1612. 

Lord Burghley, in his letters to the University and 
Colleges, spoke with the authority of the Sovereign, 
but that authority was treated as a power in reserve, 
one rather to be dreaded and avoided by those 
subject to it, and only to be directly exercised in the 
last resort. 

The power of King James, and of the other Stuart 
Kings, was exercised in a much more direct and 
personal manner and that from a very early date. 
King James succeeded to the throne on the 24th March 
1602-3 ; the letters which follow show that within four 
months he was intent on a scheme for restoring im- 
propriate tithes to the parochial clergy. It seems 
doubtful whether his letters to the Chancellors of the 
Universities and to the Heads of Colleges were ever 
sent ; the mere idea that such a scheme, as that fore- 
shadowed in them, should be put forward clearly 
alarmed Whitgift, who perceived that the practical 
efiect of the change would be far-reaching. His 



Notes from the College Records, 131 

experience as Master of Trinity College (much of 
whose revenues consist of impropriate tithe) and as 
Archbishop bringing the matter very near to him. 

Right trusty etc. The zeale we have that Religion might 
be well planted in this Realme and in all other our domynions 
hathe caused us to enter into consideracion of all meanes that 
might best serve to the furtherance thereof. Wherein 
fynding that no one thing is a greater ympedyment then 
want of competent lyving to maintaine learned men in suche 
places of our kingdome, where thordinarie benefit of the 
vicarages doth not suffice, and the parsonages are impropriate 
and in lay mens hands. We have found that there could not 
be a readyer way to supply that defect then yf these impro- 
priacions of ty thes might be converted again to the right use^ 
for which they were first instituted. Wherein we have by 
God's grace a good purpose to do in such of them as are or 
shall be in our owne handes whatsoever our estate may well 
beare, by which example of ours we presume to induce all 
others possessed of the like to ymitate us as farr as with their 
abihtys they may. In the mean tyme wee have considered 
that to give begynning of so good a work none were more 
fitted then the CoUedges in our Universities, who being so 
eminent members of our estate and having divers of them 
many such Impropriacions and some of them also a desire, as 
we are informed, to provyde for suche parsonages owte of 
such livinges as they shall fall within their power to dispose^ 
their example would have great efficacy with all good men in 
this sort to advance the glcMy of Christ his gospell. And 
because there may occur in the performance hereof some such 
particuler difficulties as are yet unknown unto us We have 
thought good, before we entered further into it, to recommend 
this matter to your consideracion, requiring you our Chan- 
cellor, and in your absence the Vice-Chancellor, and Heads 
of Houses to assemble yourselves in congregation, and such 
other discreet men of all the Colledges as you shall thinke 
meet for such a consultacion, and to propose that matter 
amongst you, and to consider and sett downe some speedy 
courses how upon thexpiracion of the yeares in beinge of any 
lease of tythes or glebe impropriate the same may be after- 



132 Notes from the College Records. 

wards so demysed as Ecclesiastical persons bredde in the 
howses to whome the same belonge respectively may be 
maintained and enabled to execute their functions and yet the 
Colledge provided of such things as are necessary for main- 
taining the cause whereof we have no intention to wish any 
preiudice knowing well how fitt it is that they be supported 
by all good meanes whatsoever, of which your dehberation 
and resolution we do require you to advertize us with as con- 
venient speede as you may, both by writing under your 
handes and by some discreet persons to be sent to us or our 
Councell to make report of your doinges therein. 

Endorsed : Touching Impropriacions, to the Universitiesi 
8 July, 1603. 

Note: This a draft, very much erased and corrected, 
of a letter from King James to the Chancellors of the 
Universities. 



Whereas there hath beene a petition exhibited unto us by 
suche as are well affected to relligion that we would be 
pleased to take order for the sufficient maintenance of the 
preaching ministers throughout our dominions. These are to 
give you to understand that tenderinge the safety of the soules 
of our subiects as also the advancement of learninge we are 
resolved, so often as the leases of the Impropriacions within 
our gifte shall expire, to plant in them learned and painful 
preachers reservinge unto us the accustomed rentes. This we 
thought good not to conceale from you, who beinge one of 
the lights of the lande, we rest assured will not fayle to goe 
before others by your example, so often as the lease of the 
same nature shall determine, by placing in them sufficient 
preachers of your owne CoUedges. Herein shall you shew 
your forwardnes in discharging your duty which you owe 
unto the churche of God and make us the more w^lHnge to 
extend our favor towards you for the advancement of your 
forwarde students, the honor of your Academy. We expect 
your answer by the bearer hereof with the names of the 
students of every Colledge already fitted for the ministry that 
there may care be had for their placing accordinge to their 
meritt. 



Motes from the College Records. 133 

Endorsed : A drawght of a lettre for the better maintenance 
of preachers. 

Note: This letter of King James was intended for the 
Heads of Colleges. 



tt may please your Majesty, I am informed that Mr 
Gallawaye and some others altogether ignoraunt of this our 
State have procured from your Highnesse some kynde of 
warrant, or Lettres, to the Universities to forbeare the 
lettinge of their Benefices Impropriate to any other then to 
the Vicars or Curates, and that upon the old accustomed 
rentes. I humbly beseeche your Majesty that you will be 
pleased to make staye of any suche proceedinge untill oppor- 
tunitie may serve mee to attend upon you and to make knowen 
the inconveniences that may ensue thereof, not onelye to the 
said Universities, but to other places also of lyke condition. 
For sure I am that it will be in time the overthrowe of the 
Universities and of learning, which I knowe is no part of your 
Majestie's meaninge. And so cravinge pardon for this my 
boldnesse, I beseeche Allmightie God long to preserve you to 
his glorie and to the good of his Churche. 

From Croyden the ixth of July 1603 

Your Majesties most ilmble subiect 
Jo. Cantuar. 

Addressed : To the Kinges most excellent Maiestie. 

Endorsed: 9 July 1603. To the King's Majesty from the 
Archbishop of Canterbury, for stay of lettres about Impro- 
priations. 

With this is enclosed the following memorandum : 

That Impropriations belonging to the Uni- 
versities and other ecclesiasticall places and 
persons cannot be altered without great in- 
conveniencies. 

It appeareth by the reasons following. 
1. All Cathedrall and Collegiate Churches, all or the most 
parte of Bishopricks in this land, all or the most of the 
CoUedges in both Universities, and the state of many private 
VOL. XXIX. T 



134 Notes from the College Records. 

persons doth consist of Impropriations. And therefore to 
endevoure any alteration in them would breed great discon- 
tentment, as tendinge to such an innovation, as hath not been 
hearde of in this kingdome for long tyme. 

2. Neither would it worke that effect which is presupposed 
but rather the contrarie, for diminish the mayntenance 
ordeyned for the studie erf Divinitie, or take away the reward 
of the best learned and worthiest Divines in the land and then 
consequentlie both learninge and Religion cannot but decay. 
But the cheefest reward for learned Divines in this kingdome 
are Bishopricks and Cathedrall and CoUegiat Churches, which 
speciallic consist of ImpropriacionsL 

3. Impropriations belonging to Bishopricks, Cathedrall 
Churches aud Colledges in the Universities are imployed to 
their right and lawful use, and therefore ought not to be 
otherwise restored or altered. 

For the originall use and end of Tithes was not onely to 
maynteyne everie particular Minister of a parish, but allso to 
provide for the general necessities of the whole church ; 
Whereunto everie particular is by the rule of nature to yeeld 
and give place. 

The generall necessities /I. The Government of the Church, 
of the diurch doe con- -12. The Doctrine of the Church, 
cerne. ^3. The supplie of Church Ministers. 

1. For the better government of the Church there is 
reserved out of the tithes of everie parish, the first fruites, the 
tenths, and Subsidie to the King, the procuracion and other 
pencions, and the Impropriacions of some parishes to the 
Bishoppe and other ecclesiasticall governors, wherein what- 
soever benefite the particular Minister doth forgo is very 
necessarilie and profitablie imployed for the good of the 
Church in generall. 

2. For the better preservacion of Doctrine in the Church 
the greater Tithes of some parishes have been impropriated 
unto Cathedrall Churches, to the end there might bee alwayes 
men of learninge and wisdome about the Bishoppe, who 
might confute and suppresse such heresies and schismes as 
might arise in the Diocesse. And that such men as deserved 
well might be well rewarded and others incouraged in their 



}^ole$ from the College Rcconk. 135 

studies. And therefore the Impropriacions belonging to 
Cathedral Churches are rightlie and lawfullie imployed. 

3. For the better supplie of Church Ministers diverse 
Impropriations I havebeen assigned to the Universities and to 
the CoUedges therein for the education and mayntenance of 
students, who are to serve in the Church and in the Common- 
wealth, the beneiite whereof is so great, both to the Church 
in generall and to everie severall parishe, as that the 
Impropriations and Church tithes cannot be better imployed. 

Now the taking away or diminishing any one Impro- 
priation belonging to the Universities, may help to maynteyne 
some one man, who is peradventure of no great desert, but in 
the mean time it decayth and hindreth manye (yea, ten for 
one), that are students of great hope, whom it nourisheth 
while the CoUedge and Universitie enjoyth it. 

No CoUedge in either Universitie is able to maynteyne 
itself upon the olde rents in respect of the dearnesse of all 
thinges, which hath increased since the first foundacion, so 
as diverse CoUedges at this present are growne to be very 
poore and indebted. In consideracion whereof the ParUa- 
ment of late made an Act for the increase of their Revenues, 
by provision of Corne, leaving allso the fines to their owne 
discretion. In what case should they then be, if either their 
Impropriacions should be taken from them, or the beneiite 
thereof in any sorte diminished by restrayneing them to their 
old and accustomed rent ? 

And where it is said, that Universities should begin to 
give good example, etc. It seemeth greater reason to begin 
with those Impropriations which are in the hands of meer 
lay men, which are not at all imployed for the Government, 
Doctrine, or Seminarie of the Church, or any other ecclesi- 
asticaU use, then that Universities (who do rightlie use them 
and do the Church great service by them) should adventure 
or diminish their estates to give an example, not lykelie to be. 
followed by other men. 

Where allso it is alledged that some CoUedges are willing 
of themselves, etc. It may be answered that the members of 
such CoUedges are suche as seeke their owne particular and 
are forgetfuU of their oathes, being sworne to be true to the 
CoUedge, and by no meanes to consent, or to procure the 



136 Notes from the College Records. 

diminishing of the revenues thereof, or to any other thing 
that may indammage them. 

Where allso it is sayd that Impropriations do respectively 
belong to the Ecclesiasticall persons bredd in the same 
CoUedge. It may be answered that they do not belong unto 
them ut singulis sed ut universis^ for CoUedges are Cor- 
poracions. and their possessions do not belong to any one 
particular person, but to a succession. And suerlie it 
seemeth a very unreasonable thinge that those who have had 
their breeding and bringing up in CoUedges by the benefit of 
the Impropriacions should after their going abroad take the 
Impropriation to belong to themselves or seeke to hinder the 
students that succeed them of that benefite which they them- 
selves have reaped and so to drie up the nurse that hath given 
them, such that she shall never be able hereafter to nourish 
any other. A thing odious to God and man, and argueth a 
bad nature in such as seeke it. 

This very letter, if it should be sent (what successe soe\'er 
it hath) will have such an impression in the mynds of manye, 
that (having before an opinion, that his Majesty would rather 
increase their livinges in the University than diminish them, 
and seeing now an intencion to the contrarie) they would 
rather leave the Universitie and divert their studies from 
Divinitie, or not come to the Universities at all, where they 
cannot be maynteyned and where they see their state to 
depend upon such Universities. 

I doubt not, but there are as many sufficient Hvings not 
impropriated as are able to maynteyne a competent number 
of learned men, and as manye as the Universities can yeild if 
order might be taken that whensoever such Uvinges shall fall 
voyd they might be bestowed upon Universitie men according 
to their degrees and worthinesse, before any others. This 
would make the Universities to flourish, breed encouragement 
and contentment in the students, and drawe manye to the 
studie of Divinitie which now^e, for lack of sufficient reward 
and seeing others their inferiors preferred before them, 
followe other courses to live by. 

Likewise if a generall order were taken that at the renewing 
of the leases of all Impropriations as well in the hands 
i)l lay men, as of others, some augmentation might be 



Notes from the College Records. 137 

yeelded to the mayntenance of the Vicar by the farmoure, 
where the Vicaradge is but small (for in diverse places the 
Vicaradge is of more value to the Vicar then the Parsonage is 
to the Proprietarie) and that the Tithes belonging to the 
Vicar might be duly answered without uniust molestacion, it 
would satisfie any reasonable man and give contentment to 
manye. 

Jo. Cantuar. 

Endorsed: My Lord of Canterburyes reasons for con- 
tinewance of Impropriacions as they are. 



The letter of King James which follows is an 
example of the many efiforts made durinfj his reign to 
secure uniformity of doctrine in the Universities. 

James R. 

Right trusty and right wellbeloved Councellor, we greet 
you well. The two Universities in this our Kingdome of 
England being the nurseries of good education and learning, 
it specially behoveth us in our Princely care for the Peace of 
the Church and consequently of our estate, to provide that 
they be kept in order and remayne freed from all faccions, 
novelties and schisms, the cankers and banes of all Christian 
unytie. For the eschewing of which evills and that the 
studentes in our saide Universities may be the better knitt 
and ioyned togither in one profession of Christian Religion 
and true worship of God, we have thought it our best course, 
^nd (as the tymes are) most necessary, that we followe and 
put in practice the example of our worthye predecessor King 
Edward the sixt, who in the year 1553, when the Communyon 
book had been carefully revewed and certain Articles of 
Religion agreed upon, the same year in a Synod at London 
did by the aduyce of his Counsell and authoritie given to 
certain Commissioners assigned for such matters prescribe 
and appointe that the said Booke and Articles should by the 
Graduats in the saide Universityes be approved by an oath. 
Accordingly therefore to this resolution upon so good a 
President for as much as we have the like occasion uppon 
;some froward opposition to the great preiudice of the Church 



138 Notes jrom the College Records. 

and of our very extraordynarie paynes taken for uniformitie 
as well in hearing and decydinge of certaine controversies, as 
also not only in our declaration and inlargement of some 
thinges in the saide Booke by way of explanation, pursuing 
therein the strength and power of our prerogative royall and 
supreme authoritie in causes ecclesiasticall, and the true 
direction and meaninge of certaine branches of some Statutes 
in that behalfe, but lykewise in our perusal! and ratification of 
the Articles of Religion agreed upon in a Synod in the 
year 1562 differing nothing in effect from the said Articles 
that were framed and estabhshed in King Edward's tyme. 
We doe hereby straightly charge and command you the 
Chancellor of that University and every your successors in 
that office and, in your or their absence, the present Vice- 
chancellor and all others who shall succeed him here after in 
that office, and every deputie or deputies supplying at any 
tyme that place in the absence of the Vicechancellor, as 
you or they doe or shall tender our favour, or feare our 
displeasure, that neither you nor any of them suffer here- 
after any person to be admitted to take any degree of 
schooles whatsoever except presently after he hath taken 
the oath of our supremacie, as by the lawes of the Realme 
is elsewhere prescribed, he shall likewise at the same time 
in the same place and in the same presence willingley take 
this oathe foUowinge the same being little discrepant from 
the forme of that oath which was set downe and appointed 
as is aforesaid and in King Edward's dayes was taken 
accordingly by every such graduate as herein is specified. 

Ego N. N. promitto et spondeo primum me veram 
Christianam religionem iu Ecclesia Anglicana Legibus 
huius Regni iam stabilitam omni animo complexurum 
scriptura authoritatem Hominum iudiciis prepositurum, 
Regulam vitae ac summam fidei ex vero Dei petiturum 
caetera quae ex verbo Dei non probantur pro humanis et 
non necessariis habiturum contrarias verbo Dei opiniones 
omni voluntate ac mente refutaturum vera consuetis scripta 
non scriptis ante habiturum deinde me credere ac tenere 
formam Ecclesiastici regiminis quae apud nos est per 
Archiepiscopos et Episcopos legitimam esse et sacris 



Notes from the College Records, 139 

scripturis consentaneam novamque illam ac popularem quae 
praesbyterii nomine usurpatur (vtemque alicubi appro- 
batam) Monarchiae tamen recte instituae minime con- 
venientam Insuper iudicare me ac pro virili mea astructuram 
librum seu libros publicae Liturgiae ac Episcopos Presby- 
teros et Diaconos ordinandi et conservandi nihil in se 
continere quod verbo Dei sit contrarium formamque precum 
publicarum et administrationis sacramentorum in eodem 
prescriptam pie et licite posse et debere observare neque 
eandem vocatione mea id postulante et non aliam (quoties 
ita res feret) observaturum Postremo me articulos Religionis 
(qui triginta novem citra ratificationem numerantur) in quos 
consensum est ab Archiepiscopis et Episcopis vtriusque 
Provinciae ac reiiquo omni libero in Synodo Londinensi 
Anno Domini 1562 ad toUendam omnem distensionem et 
consensum verae Religionis firmandum pro veris et certis 
habiturum et in omni loco tanquam consentientes cum 
verbo Dei defensurum et contrarios articulos in scholis et 
pulpitis vel alibi (pro vitae mea instituto) oppugnaturum 
Haec omnia in me recipio meque sedulo facturum pro- 
mitto ac spondeo ita me Deus adiuret per Christum 
Jesum. 

This oath we require you to be registered in a Book and 
diligently kept by the Register of that our Universitie, and 
likewise that every one who shall take it do testifie his willing 
receiving of the same by subscribing his name with his owne 
hand in the said booke. 

Endorsed: Lord Cranborn. A warrant given for Graduats 
to take their oath. King James. 

Note : The above is copied from State Papers Domestic, 
King James I. ; Vol. X., No. 68. The signature of the King 
at the beginning of the letter is autograph. The document is 
not dated, but in Vol. XIII., No. 63, there is another copy of 
the same document with the date, 8 April 160S. It appears 
to have been intended for the Chancellors of the Universities. 



The documents which follow give us a glimpse of the 
wish of King James to have Scotch students admitted 



140 Notes from the College Records, 

to the full privileges of the English Universities. Sir 
Thomas Lake was Keeper of the records at Whitehall. 
It is somewhat singular that no reference occurs in 
these documents to the fact that at Sidney Sussex 
College a change had recently been made in the 
Statutes enabling that College to elect Scotchmen or 
Irishmen to fellowships. Not only was the power 
there, but it had been exercised in 1606, when John 
Young, son of Sir Peter Young, tutor to King James, 
was admitted a fellow of Sidney. Young was an M.A« 
of a Scotch University and had been admitted ad 
eufidem at Cambridge. He has been claimed as " the 
first Scottish man who ever took a degree in the 
University." Mr Mullinger in his History of the 
University of Cambridge draws attention to the well- 
known fact that Nathanael and Eleazar Knox, the 
sons of John Knox, the Scottish Reformer, were both 
scholars and fellows of St John's. They both matri- 
culated on the same day, 2 December 1572; with 
that pleasant variety of spelling in which our pre- 
decessors indulged, the one appears in the Praelector's 
matriculation list as Nathanael Knoks and the other as 
Eleazar Knokys. Nathanael was B.A. 1576, M A. 1580 ; 
Eleazar, B.A. 1577, M.A. 158 1, B.D. 1588. In the 
College Register of admissions to scholarships and 
fellowships they describe themselves as of " Richmond- 
shire" and it is just possible that they owed their 
eligibility to the accident of their birth in England. 

The Statutes of the Colleges at this time were full of 
County and other local restrictions, and for long after 
this period St John's was much hampered in its choice 
of Fellows. 

King James, however, did his best for his fellow- 
countrymen. He tried ineffectually to get a Scotchman 
elected a Fellow of King's, that College appears to have 
been unloyally stubborn. He succeeded in March 
1619-20 in getting George Seaton, ScotuSy admitted a 
Fellow of St John's mandato regie. The fellowship was 



Koies from the College Rceonh, 141 

A specially created one and for some years the College 
had a good working grievance, culminating in Seaton 
continuing to hold his fellowship after he was beneficed 
and married and then trying to pass it on to a friend. 
He is no doubt the Oeorge Seaton who compounded for 
First Fruits as Vicarof Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, 
8 November 1626, ceding this on his institution as 
Rector of Bushey, Herts, 19 December 1631, being 
presented to the latter by Kin^ Charles I. ; Seaton 
resigned Bushey in 1642. 

My duty to your Lordship most humbly remembred. 
This morning it pleased his Majestie to signe the lettre to the 
Turke and the Commission for the ships, which I received 
from Mr Levinus and have sent back to him. At the same 
time his highness delivered me this lettre enclosed from the 
lord Hotham with this direction to your lordship, that of the 
matter he had not heard before from either syde, and was 
not to believe a single lettre against a Deputy and Councell, 
but did desire before he could give any direction in the case 
to know whether your lordship had heard anything from the 
lord Deputie or any of his Councell, or officers there, con- 
cerning this matter, and if you had his Majestie wold compare 
both informations togither before he iudged of it. But if 
your lordship had not heard from them, or any of them, then 
his Majestie thought fitt your lordship should send this lettre to 
the lord Deputy, or to him and the Councell, and requyre their 
answeare to it for his Majesties satisfaction. And in the 
mean t3rme his Majestie wold suspend his iudgement. 

After his Majestie was returned from the Sermon, he gave 
me other commandments to writt to your lordship of these 
two points. The one that he had been informed from the 
lord Gerrard that his Majesties copier woods in Wichwood 
forest were now in leasing, which his Maiesty sayth he 
cannot beleave to be true and told my lord Gerrard so, for 
that your lordship had promised that woods lying in any his 
forests should not be leased, but that his highness should first 
be acquainted with the conditions of the lease and he doth 
assure himself it wilbe so, and the rather for that having 
pressed my lord to know whether he knew in his own know* 
VOL. XXIX. U 



J 42 Notes from the College Records, 

ledge that such leases were in making, his answeare was, 
that only he had receaved the advertisement from his 
Keepers. So that although his Majestie beleaves it is not so, 
yet he would have your lordship know the report. 

Another direction was this. That his Majesty doth finde 
the CoUedges here at Cambridge, and heareth the like of 
Oxford, to be backward in receaving of Scottishmen, which 
troubleth him much. And the rather for that they ground 
themselfes uppon some auncient statutes made heretofore 
upon like occasions as the hostile lawes were made. And 
seeing the parlament howse (though otherwise backward in 
the Union) yet have thought it reasonable to retake those 
lawes His Majesty mervayleth why the CoUedges, whose 
statutes in that point were made uppon like ground should 
not have so much discretion as to annull their private statutes 
founded upon the same reason and being as great a marke of 
hatred and hostility as the other. But because his Majesty 
thinketh they may for ther parts pretend that they have no 
power to vary from their statutes, to take that pretence away 
his highness wold have your Lordship as Chancellor of this 
University to conferre with my Lord of Canterburye as 
Chancellor of Oxford how some visitation may be heald of 
the University in which those locall statutes, where any be 
against those of that nation, may be taken away for it is so 
great a marke of indignity as his Majesty will not endure to 
remain. And hopeth that the CoUedges in such a visitation 
shall be found tractable for their parts, his Majesty having 
been to them all so good and gracious a patron, but if it 
shall appeare otherwise by the visitation and that they shall 
show unwillingness, His Majesty shall have cause to make 
them see he can be otherwise then he hath been if they 
give him cause. This direction his Majesty was loth to 
troble yoiu* lordship with in the terme tyme, but that being 
past and your lordship having some more leasure, his 
Majesty wold have some spead to be had between my 
Lord of Canterbury and you before his coming that he 
may find you prepared against his returne how to proceed 
in it. 

My Lord of Dunbar keepeth his chamber still troubled 
with a swelling in his face. His Majesties returne is yet 
vncertain. 



spates from the College Records. 143 

And so I most humbly take my leave. From the Court 
at Newmarkett, this 10 December 1609. 

your lordships most humbly to command 
Tho. Lake. 

Endorsed: December 10, 1609, Sir Thomas Lake to my 
Lord, from Newmarkett. 

That the CoUedges in Cambridge and Oxford be back- 
ward to receave Scotishmen. 



My duty to your Lordship most humbly remembered* 
This morning his Majesty commanded me to writt to your lord- 
ship to this effect. That seeinge it appeared that the sickness 
in the City was now so farre abated as it might be accompted 
in a manner overcome, it would be a shame to* him and to 
your Lords of his Council, and to the City also, that by negli- 
gence or want of provision it should revive again, having 
especially so much shewed himself e and so earnestly as he hath 
don. And therefore would desire your lordship either of 
yourselfe or by my lords of the Councell ioyntly to lett the 
lord Mayor understand what his Majesties conceipt thereof 
is. And that if now it revive again it cannot but be imputed 
to their imprudence and to require them to remember his 
Majesties instructions and employ their endevors to the vtter 
extinguishinge of it. For seeing it appeareth now that 
wether and means may abate it and that it is no speciall 
visitation from heaven, which cannot be resisted when it 
cometh, it must needs be ascribed as a great fault to the state 
if it be not carefully kept down. 

His Majesty asked me also if I had not receaved aunswears 
to such lettres as I had written to your lordship by his com- 
mandment. I told him that not and that I did not remember 
any thing that neded any present aunswers, but that his 
directions were such as your lordship wold speake of with 
him at his return, and that so I had written. I ghosse his 
meaninge is about the CoUedges. 

I thought it my duty to advertise your lordship that I 
purpose to morrow, or on Friday, to depart from hence 
homeward to wayt on your lordship, his Majesty removing on 



144 Notes from the College Records. 

Saturday. The match is ended yestei day and yelded by my 
lord of Dunbar and your lordship will shortly hear of a byll 
of charges about it 

And so 1 most humbly fake my leave. From the Court at 
Newmarket this 13 December 1609. 

your lordships most humbly to command 
Tho. Lake. 

Addressed: To the right honorable the Earle of Salis- 
bury etc. 

Endorsed: 1609 December 13. Sir Thomas Lake to my 
Lord. Concerning the sicknes. 



My duty to your lordship most humbly remembred. I 
have thought fitt to returne your lordship these byls which 
his Majesty signed this evening after supper, although I pur- 
pose to depart homew^ard to morow because my jorney will 
not be with so much haste. His Majesty wold not give me 
leave untill he had receaved your lordships aunsweare to 
such tliinges as I had by his commandment written. He is 
very well satisfied with your lordships lettre especially in that 
point touchinge the CoUedges. 

And so I most humbly take my leave. From the Court at 
Newmarket this 13 December 1609. 

your lordships most humbly to command 
Tho. Lake. 

Addressed: To the right honorable The Earle of Salis- 
burye etc. 

Endorsed : 13 December 1609. Sir Thomas Lake to my 
Lord. 



My most humble duty premised. Ther having ben (as 1 
understand) heertofore a motion made unto both the Univer- 
sityes for the enterteyning some sett number of Scottish 
young men to be trayned up in our Academicall studyes and 
inured to the discipline of this Church, the same being also 
now by Mr Deane of Westminster, in your lordships name, 
revived to be anew considered, and joyntly consulted by the 



NoUs from the College Records, 145 

heads of CoUedges in this University. I have according to 
my duty made already some aitrance into that consultacion 
and entend (God wiUing), when I can gett a more full meeting 
of some heads now absent, to endeavor my best care and 
readynes for the returne of some satisfactory awnser (if it be 
in our power) to his highnes pleasure and your lordships 
mocion herein. 

In the mean time I cannot omitt our due and humble 
thanks for your Lordships tender care of our Immunityes 
upon the referring by his Majestie the request of the Towne 
of Cambridge for the enlardgment of their Priviledges to the 
Lord Chancellor and your Lordship, suspending your appro- 
bation of that suite untill it might appeare from our body 
whether it would not tend to our preiudice. We have heer- 
upon received from that body a breif of the titles onely of 
their desired augmentacion of dignity and have been soUcited 
to testify to your Lordship our consent thereunto. But we 
tbinke it more safe for the indempnity of our body that our 
Counsaile may have the sight of their intended Charter, when 
it is drawne at lardge, well knowinge that the stile and words 
niay possibly extend farther to our preiudice then the puiport 
of their proposed articles pretendeth, we having also iust 
cause of important excepcion against some points already 
{M-opounded tending (as we iudge) to some shortning our 
Priviledges. 

We are in like manner to yeild our thanks for your Lord- 
ships late interposing for the maintenance of our Charter 
impeached by writts lately sent out of the King's Bench. If 
it be your Lordships pleasure the party heer imprisoned, upon 
accion of debt confessed, must and shalbe sent upy upon a 
new writt which we expect forthwith though wee have no 
precedent of any sent up in such case, but on the contrary 
that the awnser of the Vicechancellor hath ben that it is^ 
against his oath to send any up, though the cause and person 
be by that court remanded hether againe. 

Which remaundinge though perhappes the Judges of that 
Court will now vouchsafe, yet in other causes hereafter they 
may retaine them at their pleasure. And even now this 
intended breach of our Privilege hath begott another in 
another Court, namely in the Common Pleas, whither one of 



146 Notes from the College Records/ 

our University is cyted to appeare in the beginning of this 
next Terme. My duty and oath to the University and the 
place I now (though unworthye) susteyne under your Lord- 
ship make me thus bould to your Lordships trouble in such 
matter of consequence for which I humbly crave pardon, and 
wishing to your Lordship, as I am most bound, all encrease 
of honour I take my leave. From the King's College in 
Cambridge this xvijth of January 1610. 

Your Lordships in all duty to 
be commaunded. 

FoGGE Newton, Procan : 

Addressed: To the right honorable the Earle of SaHs- 
bury etc. 

Endorsed: 17 January 1610, Mr Fogge Newton to my 
Lord. 



Concerning Scottish students to be admitted 
into Cambridge. 
The Heads of Houses have answered* 

First that they cannot admit them into their Societyes 
either as scollers or fellowes, because it is contrary to the 
local statutes of their severall houses, as appears by the 
special branches of the same statutes sent up in writing 
which forbid Eleccion to be made of any borne out of the 
Realme of England. 

Again they say they cannot otherwayes mainteine them 
out of any allowance from their CoUedges, both because their 
foundations are alrcdy full with fellowes and schollers, which 
makes their expenses equal with their revenues, als also for 
the distribution and ordering of such allowances and the 
disposing of al remainders, if any such be, is not in the power 
of the Maisters alone, but respectively referred by their 
statutes to the consent of the major part of fellowes also, who 
(they xcare), wilbe adverse and backward to any such good 
purpose, because whatsoever is this way to be allowed must 
be ot necessity defalked from them. 

In some houses the woords are that none shalbe chosen 
extra regnum Angliae, 

In some they are to be chosen Infra limites Angliae, 



Notes from the College Records, 147 

In other houses the woords are that they may be chosen 
in quibuscunque comitatibus Angliae. 

Endorsed : University causes. Concerning the Admissions 
of Scottish Students. 

Note : The last three sentences are added in the hand- 
writing of Lord Sahsbury. 



The letters of John Chamberlain to Sir Dudley 
Carleton, which follow, give us some account of the 
Royal visits to Cambridge in the spring of i6i5> 
and of the gaieties connected with the visits. Extracts 
from these letters, especially from the second, will be 
found printed in various authorities on University 
history. They are here printed in their entirety ; 
they are sometimes unconsciously amusing and at 
least give an idea of the Court gossip of the day. 
Chamberlain was a Trinity man, but did not graduate. 

The John " Dun," whose D.D. degree seems to have 
been granted by the University with so mugh reluc- 
tance, was John Donne afterwards Dean of St Paul's. 
Although the University authorities in the end sub- 
mitted to Court pressure they appear to have fperhaps 
purposely) neglected to record the fact in the University 
Register. 

My very good Lord, though I be nothing in tune to write 
or do anything els yet I will force so much upon my lasie and 
dull distemper as to geve you thanks for yours of the 18th of 
the last. The truth is I have kept my chamber now almost 
three weekes and dayly grow worse and weaker. I have 
been purged four or five times within this fortnight, and 
whereas when I entered into Phisick I complained only of 
want of appetite and a kinde of heaviness all over, my heade 
sounde, my sleepe goode. I am now come to that passe that 
my stomack is quite gone and can receve nothing but buthes, 
posset ale, or drinck. My head extremely distempered and 
my sleep vtterly lost, ever since Saturday (that I tooke a very 
vile piu-ge) I have suncke very fast, and yesterday I tooke 
^another to correct that, so that I am now come to mine old 



148 Notes from Ihc College Reconh. 

opinion that phisick is a very casuall thing and doth ordinarilie 
more harme then goode, and yet I have the advise of a man 
well reputed of and one that studied five yeares at Padova, 
but sure he has mistaken his marke and missed the cuishion 
in my cure, so that now I am resolved to commit myselfe to 
good order and government and let phisick alone, and if I 
had done so from the beginning I make no doubt but I had 
been a sound man by this time. Sir William Barnes was 
with me on leusday and doth acknowledge your great favour 
and kindness towards him with much thanckf ulness. Yester- 
day he dehvered me a booke from you and then went to visit 
Sir Henry Savile and his (ady, but could not have acces, for 
she had taken phisick and Sir Henry was in his fit, an ague 
having caught hold of him, as your sister Williams can tell 
you, who hath been with him twise or thrise, so that he must 
of necessitie be absent from the great funerall at Oxford on 
Monday next. Which is the last act of Sir Thomas Bodley's 
vanitie, which doth every day appeare so much that though 
I never had any excellent conceit of him, yet I did not thincke 
he had been so vainly ambitious as he discovers himself many 
wayes. 

Sir James Cromer lies at Sir Matthew Carewe's daun- 
gerously sick and is thought will hardly escape. Mr Tollerbie 
after a long languishing sickness ever since before Michaelmas 
is lately dead and brought to towne from Canterburie two 
dayes since, his wife died some two or three moneths before 
him ; he left Sir Richard Smith and the Lady Bois his 
executors and to his sonne a lOOli a yeare, but yi the 
executors shall in truth and conscience find that he mends 
his manners and reforme himselfe then he is to have 400/f 
a yeare, land and lease, otherwise yt is to be disposed to 
other children or other vses. Langley, our town clarke, is 
lately dead of the home sicknes, for takeing his wife tardie 
with one of his men, yt drove him into such a distemper of 
melancholie and frensie that within foure or five daies made 
an end of him. He was a limmer of the late Lord Treasurer's 
and by him thrust upon the citie, and though he bore a high 
sayle yet he died a pore man and in debt. The Kinge came 
to towne on tuesday and by the way at Roiston drew his 
sword to make foure or five knights ; young Smith was 



hfotes from the College Records. 149 

sent for by his agents to Knebworth but by mischance he 
was out of the way. Yesterday was the great tilting at 
Court, where there was more gallantrie, both for number 
and braverie, then hath been since the King came in. 
There were five Earles, Lennox, Arundell, Rutland, Pem» 
broke, Dorset and Montgomerie ; five lords, Clifford, 
Walden, Chandos, North, Haye and Dingwall ; sixe knights. 
Sir Thomas Somerset, Sir Thomas and Harry Howard, Sir 
Robert and Sir Henry Rich, and Sir John Harrington, 
besides the two Alexanders. They all performed their 
parts very well especially Sir Harry Rich with Sir Sigismund 
Alexander. 

The King is very angrie and Out of love with 6ur Ciskm- 
bridge men for their questions at the Palsgrave's being 
there, specially whether electio or successio were to be pre- 
ferred in kingdomes and is out of patience that it shold be 
so much as argued in dcholes. 

Here is a flieing report (but I dare not beleeve yt) that 
there is a Bull come from Rome against the King, and 
clapt upon the court gate and that the Pope prepares 
forces both in Italic and Spaine for Ireland, in the mean- 
time we sleep isecurely. Here is a general! stay of all 
shipping that none may go foorth till the Lady Elizabeth 
be gon, which shewes a great penurie and decay of navi- 
gation, they cannot provide 2500 mariners to furnish eight 
or nine of the King's ships without all this ado and noise, 
theyre departure holds firme for thursday in Easter week* 
We heare the Duke of Savoy hath taken Easton, the 
notable pirat, into protection, as the news came there was 
one going to him with a pardon, which whether it proceed 
now or no I know not. 

The Lord Chancellor and the Barle of Salisburie were in 
hand to make over theire farmes (the one of currens and 
Venice gold, the other of silks) to the King, but the Master of 
the Rolls (being appointed, among others, a Commissioner in 
the business) firmly withstoode yt alleging that in the next 
parliament these wold be specially complained of as principal! 
grievances, so that yt wold be neither for the Kings honor nor 
profit with redy monie to buy theyre envie and transfer yt 
upon himself. I heare that Sir Edward Cecill is to be 
VOL. XXIX. X 



150 Notes from the College Records. 

lieutenant of the ordinance, Sir Roger Dallison lieutenant of 
the Tower and Sir William Wade to be put to his pension. 
Here is whispering that the Count Henry of Nassau hath a 
moneth's mind to my Lord of Northumberland's daughter, 
which yf yt shold fall right might prove a great match 
for her. 

Soe with all due remembrance to my lady and Mris 
Carleton, I commend you all to the protection of the 
Almighty. From London this 25th of March 1613. 
your Lordships to command 

John Chamberlain. 

Addressed : To the right honorable Sir Dudley Carleton, 
Knight, Lord Ambassador for his Majestic at Venice. 

Endorsed: 2S March 1613. Mr Chamberlain to my 
Lord. Farmes of Currens and Venice gold, grievances in 
parliament. 



My very goode lorde 

I am newly returned from Cambridge whether I went 
some two dayes after I wrote you my last. The King made 
his entrie there the 7th of this present with as much solemnitie 
and concourse of gallants and great men as the hard weather 
and extreme fowle wayes wold permit. The Princes came 
along with him, but not the Queue, by reason (as yt is saide) 
that she was not invited, which error is rather imputed to 
theyre Chancellor than to the schollers that understand not 
those courses. Another defect was that there was no am- 
bassadors, which no doubt was upon the same reason, but the 
absence of women may be the better excused for default of 
language, there being few or none present, but of the 
Howards or that alliance, as the Coimtesse of Arundell with 
her sister the Lady Elizabeth Gray, the Countesse of Suffolk 
with her daughters of Salisburie and Somerset, the Lady 
Walden and Henry Howard's wife, which are all that I 
remember. The Lord Treasurer kept there a very great port 
and magnificent table with the expense of a thousand pound 
a day, as is saide, but that seemes too large an allowance, but 
sure his provisions were very great, besides plenty of presents, 



Notes from the College Records, ISl 

and may be in some sort estimated by his proportion of wine, 
\i^hereof he spent 26 tunne in five days. He lodged and kept 
his table at St John's College, but his lady and her retinue at 
Magdalen College, whereof his grandfather, Audley, was 
founder. The King and Prince lay at Trinitie College where 
the playes were represented and the Hall so well ordered for 
roome that above 2000 persons were conveniently placed, the 
first nights entertainment was a comedie made and acted by 
St John's men, the cheife part consisting of a counterfeit Sir 
Edward Ratcliffe, a foolish Doctor of Phisick, which proved 
but a leane argument and though yt were larded with pretty 
shewes at the beginning and end, and with somewhat too 
broade speach for such a presence, yet it was still drie. The 
second night was a comedie of Clare Hall, with the helpe of 
two or three good actors from the other houses wherein 
David Drummond in a hobby-horse and Brakin, the recorder 
of the town under the name of Ignoramus, a common-lawer 
bare great parts. The thing was full of mirth and varietie 
with many excellent actors (among whom the Lord Con^ton's^ 
Sonne, though least, yet was not worst), but more than half 
marred with extreme length. The third night was an English 
comedie called Albumazer, of Trinitie College's action and 
invention, but there was no great matter in yt, more then one 
good clownes part. The last night was a Latin pastorall o£ 
the same house excellently written and as well acted, which: 
gave great contentment, as well to the King as to sdl the rest 
Now this being the state of theyre playes, theyre acts and 
disputations fall out much after the same manner. For the 
Divinitie Act was performed reasonablie well, but not answer- 
able to expectation ; the lawe and phisick acts starke naught, 
but the philisophie act made amends and in deed was very 
excellent, in so much that the same day the Bishop of Ely 
sent the moderator, the awnserer, the varier or prevaricator, 
and one of the repliers, that were all of his house, twenty 
angells apeece. Now for orations and concios ad clerum^ I 
heard not many, but those I did were extraordinarie good and 
the better for that they were short. The Universitie Orator, 
Nethersole, though he be a proper man and thincke well 
of himselfe, yet he is taxed for calling the Prince Jacobissime 
Carole^ and some will needs adde that he called him Jacohulus 



152 Notes from the College Records, 

toe, which neither pleased the King nor anybody els. But 
sure the King was exceedingly pleased many times, both at 
the playes and disputations, for I had the hap to be for the 
most part within hearing, and qften at his meales he would 
expres^e as much. He visited all the Colleges, save two or 
three, and commends them beyond Oxford, yet I am not so 
partiall, but therein I must crave pardon not to be of his 
opinion. Though I endured a great deal pi pennance by the 
way for this Ijttle pleasure, I wgld not have missed yt for that 
I see therby the partialite qf both sides. The Cambridge 
men pleasing and applauding themselves in all, and the 
Oxford men as fast condemning and detracting all that was 
done. Wherein yet I commend Corbet's modestje while 
he was there, who being seriously dealt withall by some 
frends to say what he thought, awnsered that he had left 
his malice and iudgment at honie and come thither only 
to commend. 

Paul Tomson, the gold-clipper, hath his pardon and not 
only so, but is absolved a poena et culpa whereby he kepes 
his livings and never came to triall, and I heard he had 
the face to appeare in the towne while the Kinge \vas 
there 

Sir Arthur Ingram is in a sort desarcommi fqr Sir 
Marmaduke Darrell is appointed to keep the table and 
discharge the business of the coferer, and he only tg 
retaine the name till Michaelmas, that the accompt may be 
made up and in the mean time order taken that he may 
be reimbursed of such monies as he hath lawfully laid out 
pr can challenge . . . this cause. 

Old Sir John Cutts is lately dead, and here is such a speech 
of I/)rd Rosse, but there is no great credit given to jrt, because 
it comes only out of the Low Countries. Your nepheiy 

Carleton is arrested by the small pockes, which hindered his 
iourney to Cambridge. I had almost forgotten that almost 
all the courtiers went forth Masters of Art at the King's 
beeing there, but few or no Doctors, save only Younge, 
w^hich was don by a mandat, being sonne to Sir Peter, the 
King's Schoolmaster. The Vicechauncelor and Universitie 
were exceeding strict in that point and refused many impor- 
tuni'i^s of great men, among whom was Mr Secretarie, that 



Notes from the College Records. 153 

made great meanes for Mr Westfield, but yt wold not be, 
neither the King^s intreatie for John Dun wold prevayle. 
Yet they are threatened with a mandat which yi yt come yt 
is like they will obey, but they are resolved to geve him such 
a blow withall that he were better be without yt. Indeed 
the Bishop of Chichester, Vicechauncellor, hath ben very 
stiffe and caried himselfe very peremptory that way, wherein 
he is not much to be blame4 being a matter of more conse- 
quence then at first was ymagined; he did his part every 
way, as wpU in moderating the Divinitie Act as in taking 
great paines in all other things and keping exceedinge great 
cheere. I have here sent you the questions in briefe for 
otherwise they would beare to gr^t a bulk. And so I com- 
mend you to the protection of the Almighty. From London 
this 16th March 1614 

your Lordships to command 

John Chamberlaix. 

Addressed : To the right honourable Sir Dudley Carleton, 
Ambassador for his Majesty at Turin. 

Endorsed: From Mr Chamberlain, the 16 of March 1614, 



My very good lord 

Here was litle or nothing to write the last weeke, 
neither have we much more now, for this world goes plodding 
on after the old sort without any sensible or remarquable 
alteration. The King came to town this day sevenight to the 
solemnisinge of his 24th of March, which passed in the 
ordinarie course of prayers, preaching, shooting of ordinance, 
ringing and running at tilt, which was but barely performed 
every way. The number not exceeding fowreteen which 
were the Lords Lennox, Arundell, Pembroke, Montgomerie, 
Dorset, Walden with his two brethren Thomas and Henry, 
Haye, Dingwell, Sir Thomas Somerset, Sir Robert Rich and 
the two Alexanders. Hp made no longer stay here then till 
Monday after dinner, for it seems the ayer or business of this 
town do not agree with his constitution, but his iourney was 
no further then Hampton Court, Oking, or some places there 
about, whence he returns upon Saturday. During his abode 
here he was troubled once or twise with Sir Arthur Ingram, 



154 Notes from the College Records, 

who is loth to dislodge, or leave his hold, being no doubt 
animated vnder hand to wrangle and struggle against the 
King's expresse wordes and meaninge, which were that he 
should only retain the name and the fee till Michaelmas, when, 
his monie being repayed, he shold leave the place. In the 
meantime he should neither kepe the table, nor meddle with 
the accounts. Now having furnished his lodging at Court 
with rich hangings, bedding and silver vessels, on friday last 
he sent for his diet, which being refused him by the officers, 
complained and by the assistance of some great Lords 
prevayled thus far that yt was to be allowed him till this day, 
by the King's owne appointment, who saide he had deserved 
better of him then to be sent away vtterly discountenanced. 
The next week he is to go into Yorkshire about the allum 
business for the King, and at his returne he pretends to go to 
Span for his health, whither yt was saide likewise that the 
Lady of Suffolk had a meaning to make a iourney this 
summer, but I thincke yt will not holde. Yf this business of 
Ingram's had not been I knowe not how we shold have 
entertained ourselves, for this whole moneth together yt hath 
filled both Court and Citie with dayly newes and discourses 
wherein some proceed so far as to make the successe thereof 
a matter of greater consequence and that concernes men of 
higher ranck, though for mine owne part I can yet disceme 
no turninge of the tide, but that the water runs still the same 
way. Once Ingram himself is anatomised in every part and 
so canvassed too and fro, that he had been a hundred times 
better to have ben without this new honor, though they say 
he be in possibilitie to be a Clarissimo^ yf (according to 
articles) he should marrie Mris Clare, a faire gentle maide 
that hath a fine boy of her owne. And now in matter of 
boyes and wenches the Lord Cooke's eldest Sonne's wife 
(sister to the younger Lord Barkley) brought him lately a 
sonne which lasted but a few dayes. The lady of Mont- 
gomerie, the Lady Haddington, and Sir Horace Vere's lady 
lie in all at once of daughters. Here be two proclamations 
come out this weeke, the one against sending of children or 
reliefe to seminaries abrode, the other against exportations of 
gold or silver plate or iewells. The Earl of Tomond, by the 
King's consent, bath compounded with the Lord Danvers for 



Notes from the College Records, 155 

the Presidentship of Mounster in giving him 3200 ti^ which 
comes yll to passe for Sir Richard Morrison who had long since 
geven earnest upon that bargain. Mayern or Turquet the 
french phisician is returned out of Fraunce and brought over 
Moulins the minister with him, but I thinke not to remaine here. 
Dr. Smith the Provost of King's College in Cambridge 
is lately dead, and much canvassing for the place. Doctor 
Melboum, deane of Rochester, hath his congi dcslire for St. 
David's in Wales. John Dun and one Cheeke went out 
Doctors at Cambridge, with much ado after our coming 
away, by the Kinges expresse mandate ; though the Vice- 
chauncellor and some other of the Heades called them 
openly filios noctis and tenehriones that sought thus to come 
in at the window when there was a fayre gate open, but the 
worst is that Dun had gotten a reversion of the Deanerie of 
Canterburie, yf such graunts could be lawfull, whereby he 
hath purchased himselfe a great deale of envie, that a man 
of his sort should seeke per saltum to intercept such a place 
from so many more worthie and auncient divines. The 
Kinge hath a meaning and speakes much of yt to go again 
privatly to Cambrige to see two of the playes and hath 
appointed the time about the 27th of the next moneth, but 
yt is not likely he will continue in that mind, for of late he 
hath made a motion to have the actors come hither, which 
will be a difficult thing to perswade .... [letter torn] . . • 
of them being preachers and bachelors of Divinity ... to 
become players anywhere but in the University . . . which 
was incongruitie enough, and whereto the Oxford men took 
iust exception. They have offered ... at two or three 
bold ballets which are such poore stuff that they be not 
worth the looking after, but I heare they have hit it better 
in a freshman's letter to his mother, wherein he relates 
somewhat handsomely all that passed ; yf I can come by it 
. . . that yt be worth the sending, you shall heare of yt. 
And so I commend you to the protection of the Almighty, 

1615 

your Lordships to command 
John Chamberlain 
Addressed : To the right honorable Sir Dudley Carleton. 
Endorsed : From Mr Chamberlain the 7 of April 1615. 



156 Notes from the College Records. 

My very good Lord 

Upon notice of the present departure of a messengei' 
towards Turin, I wrote yesterday to your sister upon very 
short warninge, but vnderstandinge since that his despatch 
was prolonged till this day I wold not omit to advertise that 
litle we have here stirring, though I know you shall have a 
more ample and perfect relation of all things by Mr. Wake's 
letters and shortly by himseife, he beinge to come towards 
you within five or six days at farthest. I doubt not but the 
post despatcht to you above a fortnight since is arrived 
before this time, by whose letters you may perceave we are 
so inclined to peace ourselves that we wish all our friends to 
be of the same minde and to refuse no conditions. And we 
are so credulous in this point, that let the other side do 
what they will, so they say they have a goode meaninge, we 
are redy to beleeve them, for facile credimus quod volumus^ 
and indeed as the case stands yt is the best way for vana sine 
nimbus irae^ and yt were to no purpose to show our teeth 
unless we could bite. You may easilie ymagin how well we 
are provided to'furnish our frends abrode when we have not 
meanes to discharge ordinarie and necessarie expenses at 
home and that continuall clamor and importunitie cannot 
procure Ambassadors entertainments that are so far in 
arrierages* Yet still there are promises that they shalbe 
supplied and dayes appointed from weeke to weeke yet no 
payments come, nor any appearance whence they should 
come, but you must not be discouraged for delays will have 
an end and when matters are at the worst they must amend. 
This terme draws to a conclusion and hitherto hath brought 
forth little noveltie, only young Owen, that I wrote of, was 
arraigned at the King's Bench on Wensday and condemned 
for divers most vile andtraiterous speeches, confessed and 
subscribed with his owne hande. As, among others, that 
yt was as lawfull for any man to kill a King excommunicated 
as for the hangman to execute a condemned person. He 
could say litle for himseife, or in maintenance of his desperat 
positions, but only that he meant it not by the king and that 
he holds him not excommunicate. He is not yet executed 
nor I heare not when he shall. There was one Ogihie, a 



Notes from the College Records, 157 

Jesuite, lately executed at Glasgow in Scotland for the same, 
or such like, opinions. 

On Monday our new Knights of the Garter, Lord Fentoil 
and Lord KnoUis, ride to Windsor with greate preparations 
to revie one upon the other who shall make the best show. 
And though I am of opinion that the latter will carrie yt by 
many degrees by reason of his alliance with the houses of 
the Howards, Somerset, Salisburie, Dorset, with many other 
great families that will bring him their frends and most part 
of the pensioners, yet most are perswaded that the other will 
beare aWay the bill, as having the best part of the Court, all 
the Bedchamber, all the Princes servants and followers, 
with an hundred of the guard that have new rich coates 
made of purpose, besides Sir George Villiers, the new 
favourite and Mr Secretarie, whose presence had been better 
forborn in my iudgment for nlany respects, but that every 
ftian abounds in his owne house. The place of Lord 
Warden of the cinq ports hath since the death of the Earl 
of Northampton remained in the Lord Chamberlain's hands 
as in deposaia^ of late there hath ben speech to bestow it on 
the Lord Zouch, or rather as the voyce goes now on the 
Lord of Montgomerie. But the Lord Chamberlain makes 
profession to hold yt still, and whersoever the stop was his 
patent was drawne above a m'oneth agon, and though perhaps 
he make no great vse, nor account of yt, yet he would not 
have yt seen that yt can be wrested from him, in which 
regard he makes more shew now the world thinks him in 
the maine than ever heretofore. His lady is geven out to be 
with child, but most men (upon what ground I know not) 
are of opinion yt will not prove so. 

On Saturday last the King went again to Canjbrige to 
see the play Ignoramus, which hath so netled the kiwers 
that they are almost out of all patience, and the Lord Cheife 
Justice, both openly at the King's Bench, and divers other 
places, hath galled and glounered at schollers with much 
bitterness. And there be divers Inns of Court men have 
made rimes and ballades against them, which they have 
awnswered sharply enough. And to say truth yt was a 
scandall rather taken than geven, for what profession is 
there wherein some particular person may not be iustly 
VOL. XXIX. Y 



I5S Koies from (he College Records. 

taxed without imputation to the whole. But it is an old 
saying conscius ipse sihi and they are too partiall to thincke 
themselves sacrosancii^ that they may not be touched. The 
King had a Latin sermon on Sonday and disputations on 
Monday, before comming away. Dr Nevile, Dean of 
Canterbury and Master of Trinitie College died three weekes 
since. The Deanerie is given to one Fotherbie that was 
Archdeacon there before. The mastership of Trinitie 
College is not yet bestowed but lies betweene Dr Richardson 
the Divinitie reader and Dr Pa . . . that was of the lower 
house. 

The Bishop of Salisbury is lately dead and great meanes 
made that D ... of Oxford should succeed him. Sir William 
Lowre died not long since in Wales, his lady after long 
absence was come to him litle more than a moneth before 
his decease. Sir Humfry May hath newly buried his lady 
that was Sir William VdalFs sister, and died here in childbed. 
I . hear Sir Henry Savile and his lady and daughter are in 
town but I have not scene them. Young SuUey is gon into 
Fraunce where Christofer the frenchman that served Sir 
Thomas Bodley might have don him goode service, but he 
parted with him before his going upon what occasion 1 
know not. 

Sa with all due remembrance to my lady I commend you 
to God's holy protection. From London this 20th of May, 
1615 

your Lordships to command 
John Chamberlain. 

Addressed : ta the right honourable Sir Dudley Carleton. 



The following letter from Henry Howard, first Earl 
of Northampton and Chancellor of the University, 
shews that the exercise of the Royal prerogative of 
nominating to the Headship of a College was not 
popular. The Prince, Northampton's young Master, 
was Prince Charles, afterwards Charles I. At this 
time he was not quite twelve years old, so that it 
would appear that he took quite a precocious interest 
in University promotions. The Dr Sharpe on whose 



Koles from Ihe College Records. 159 

behalf the Prince was working was probably Dr Leonel 
Sharpe, of Eton and King's, who was at this time one 
of the Royal Chaplains. His suit was not successful, 
but, through the influence of King James, William 
Smythe, another King's man, was appointed Provost, 

It will be observed that the Earl claims to have 
obtained for St. John's liberty of choice at their last 
election, that of Dr Owen Gwyn to be Master, 

For purpose of comparison we give a letter from the 
State Papers, Domestic of Elizabeth, Vol. 2bi, No 72, 
shewing that at the election of Dr Clayton to be Master 
of St John's in 1595 a limited freedom of choice was 
granted to the College. 

The time being now come, worthy Sir Charles Cornwalleys 
that the King's Colledge by vacancie is voide, accordinge to 
the Prince's request, which is more than a commandment to me, 
I have comended D. Sharpe to the King for the sufficiency of 
his partes. If it please the Kinge to make choice of him, this 
is all that I can doo and somewhat more for the Prince's sake 
then I should doo, for though the Doctor for his quality maye 
take his turn with other competitors, yet I knowe that the 
King must break a statute before he thrust him in. For the 
statute of the founder gives libertie of election, so long as the 
fellowes are free they will die before they will elect him, and 
1 for my part fearinge nowe in the twilight of my age an 
eternal iudgment for a temporary tricke dai'e go no furder 
then to say that Doctor Sharpe is worthy in my knowledge 
for his learning and good conversation and other worthy 
parts. To the last point which he requires that I should 
presse the Kinge to put him in against the voices of the 
Colledge, beside the bonde of conscience I dare not for fear 
of damnation. 

Beside I had my first enstruction in that Colledge, I holae 
myself as much bounde to the Statute as if I wear sworne. I 
am Chauncellor of the University. My example wold make 
an entery upon all the howses of the towne and I was the 
man that at the last election in St John's Colledge prevailed 
with the Kinge so farre as that against the violence of many 
importuninge suitors it pleased him at the laste to stand for 



160 Notes from ihe College Records. 

the statute against many precedents, and leave their election 
at liberty. I conclude with the last instance besid those 
before that in case I should oppose against the freedom of 
electione in recompence of all their love and favour I should 
returne ingratitude and make myself among them the most 
hateful man ever was brought up in that body. 

I denie not that Kinges have placed Provostes not de jure 
but de facto^ and so have they granted many pardons for 
wilful murder. But that awnser made to the Pharisees by 
Christ, ah initio nan fuit sic, or, ab initio sic esse non debuit, 
gives a quick despatch to all that maie be saide for the facto 
out of i precedent against the right out of originall. And 
therefore let me crave of you, worthy Sir Charles Corn- 
walleys, out of my confidence ^nd love, that you will make 
good this moderation to my gratious younge Master, for my 
ppnscience at this present, and he perhaps hereafter wold 
call me knave in case I should speak or write otherwise. 

Thus putting my trust in you for improvinge what I 
doo and excusinge what I dare not dpo I leavQ you to 
the gratious protection of our Lord, and ever rest, 
your affectionate and faythfull 
frend till death 

Northampton. 

Addressed : To my dear and worthye freind Sir Charles 
Cornwaleys, Thresorer to his highness. 

Endorsed : 1612, 10 August. The Lord Privy Scale, 



The course that was helde in the last 
election of the Mastership of St Jhon'3 
CoUedge in Cambridge. 

1. The Statute of that Colledge appointeth the twelfth 
daye after the vacation to be the daye of their election, and 
noe othen 

2. The greater part of the fellowes of that Colledge weare 
made for Mr Alvey, a Senior fellowe of that house. 

3. The Lord Treasurer, bejmge informed that Alvey was 
an unfitte man, sent down an inhibition in the Queene*s name 
to deferre tlie election, which inhibition was obeyed. 



J^otcs from the College Records. 161 

4. The twelfth day beynge past and no further poure left 
the fellowes to chuse, the Lorde Treasurer sent letters the 
seconth time in the Queene's name, nominating Dr Clayton 
and Dr Stanton and commandinge the fellowes to chuse one 
of them twoe, and noe other. 

5. Bye authoritie of those letters they did chuse Dr 
Clayton, who continueth nowe Master of that CoUedge. 

Endorsed : (This is torn) M . . . M . . . the Dr Clayton, 
the Mr of St John's CoUedge, 22nd December 1595. 



Note. 

Professor G. D. Liveing writes as follows : 

In the last number of the Eagle in the account of the 
diversion of the overflow from the conduit into the King's 
ditch, you have, I think, made a mistake about the position of 
the •* Spitalhouse." This house was standing until after I had 
taken my M.A. degree, and was an isolated block in Trum- 
pington Street, nearly opposite to the gate of Scroope House, 
where Mr J. W. Clark lives. 

You may still see some houses set back there from the 
general building line. That was where the roadway passed 
on the east side of the Spitalhouse, Two new houses were 
built over part of that roadway up to the general building 
line of the street when the old hospital was pulled down, so 
that the fact that the roadway east of the hospital passed 
there is pot so conspicuous as it used to be. 

I think the houses which stood there before these two new 
houses were built are still in the rear of the new houses. 

In Brown's specification, p. 17, the spittle house is said to 
be 400 yards from the King's ditch, which shews that it could 
not have been near the Chemical Laboratory, of which the 
wall next Pembroke Street is actually in the ditch. The brick 
vault was probably to carry the water under Lensfield Road ; 
/or the water used to flow in an open channel behind the 
bouses. 

R. F. S. 
(To be continued). 






THE ART OF POETRY. 
Wiih apologies to the Heavy Dragoon. 

Who is athirst to become Poet-Laureate, 

Shine in the land as its mightiest bard? 
It is a post you get honour and glory at. 

Yet to acquire it is easy, not hard. 
Take a few facts which are semi-historical, 

Mix them all up in a haphazard way, 
Add a few legends and tales allegorical. 

They'll form a base for your poem or play. 
Strew in some scraps from the poets preceding you, 

Jumble them up till their meaning they lose ; 
Never mind whither the language is leading you. 

If you're obscure, 'tis the fault of the muse. 
Mingle in snippets of phrase Tennyson ian. 

Season with classics (from rendering Bohnian) 
Stir in some Burns, the unparalleled song-fellow, 

Add Hiawatha, as treated by Longfellow; 
Finally pepper with Stephen and Praed, 

This is the way my productions are made. 
It is a miracle. 
Yea it is magical, 
Satires satirical. 
Tragedies tragical, 
All that is reckoned a blessing by men 

Floweth with ease from my wonderful pen. 

Pour in some Calderon, writer Iberian, 

Seize from the dramas of Marlowe some sheets, 

Add some old English — some ante-Chaucerian, 
Cut out some lines from the poems of Keats. 



The Art of Poetry. 163 

Borrow from Browning (a man philanthropical), 
Add some of Calverley's wonderful wit, 

Make some sarcastic remarks that are topical, 
Tickle the taste of the men in the pit. 

Take from the writings of Shakespere a particle. 
Season it down with a flavour Bret-Hartical 
Lyrics from Gilbert, with jolly old jingle, o, 
Congreve and Coleridge and Pope and Jean Ingelow, 
Homer, Pinero, Ben Jonson and Poe, 
That is the way that my versicles grow. 

It is a miracle. 

Yea, it is magical. 

Satires satirical, 

Tragedies tragical, 
All that is reckoned a blessing by men 
Floweth with ease from my wonderful pen. 

R. F. P. 




AFTER SEVENTY YEARS. 

[E have pleasure in printing short accounts of 
the boat races in the year 1837 between the 
University and Leander, on the Thames, and 
between the Lady Margaret and Queen's 

College, Oxford, at Henley. These are from the pen of 

Mr. Richard Hale Budd, a member of both crews, and 

now resident near Melbourne, Australia. 

The book to which Mr. Budd refers is The History of 

the Lady Margaret Boat Club^ by Messrs. Forster and 

Harris. 

Recollections of the Boat Races. 

•* In the year before I went to Cambridge the races 
between Oxford and Cambridge were revived and in 
1836 Cambridge won. 

In the next year Cambridge challenged Oxford to 
row on the London river. Oxford refused, so Cambridge 
challenged the Leander, then the crack gentlemen's 
club of England. The crew of the Cambridge boat 
were: Stroke^ Grenville of Corpus; 7. Fletcher of St 
John's; 6. Penrose of Trinity (an old Rugby school- 
fellow) ; 5. Brett of Caius ; 4. Keane, also a Rugby 
boy; 3. Budd of St John's; 2. Green; 1. Nicholson. 
We went to London for the previous two or three weeks 
and used to row the course, there and back six miles, 
every day. The race was from Westminster Bridge to 
Putney. 

We took our place on the Middlesex side of the 
middle of the river, and at a pistol shot we started. 
I simply went to work without looking. When we got 



Afier Seventy Years, 165 

to Battersea Bridge I looked up for the first time 
(no man would dare to look behind him, my eyes 
would be fixed on the shoulders of the man in front 
of me), and then I saw the bow of the Leander boat 
just about on a level with my oar. The betting before 
the race was all against the Cambridge crew. We were 
considered a set of bumptious young fellows for daring 
to challenge a London boat. We were told that if 
once we got ahead of them that we should win, as they 
would not have the grit in them to stick to it. After 
that we had it all our own way. When we got to 
Putney Bridge we eased oflF after the race was won. 
The first thing I remember was having an orange, 
ready peeled, stuffed into my mouth. A Cambridge 
boat was waiting for us ; we were taken to an inn, 
stripped, groomed and dressed* We were very glad to 
get in I can tell you. 

The crews dined together afterwards, and of course 
there were speeches. I do not remember, but suppose 
that the Captain of the Leander boat proposed the 
health of the Cambridge crew. He said we must 
remember that there were several bald heads in his 
crew. They were men not past their prime. Our 
Captain replied in his speech,. ' That if they had bald 
heads we had beardless chin-s.' 

We went up from Cambridge to London in a coacb 
and four, in grand style, dining at Ware on the way." 

The Race o^ Henley^ 

" In the book you have sent it is stated, * As the two* 
Universities were net able to meet this year.' There 
was nothing to prevent their meeting. Cambridge 
challenged Oxford to row on the London river. Oxford 
declined, but would have rowed at Henley, which 
Cambridge would not do. Then the Lady Margaret 
crew challenged Oxford. Oxford said they could not 
row against a single College, but would send their 
head boat to row against them. 

VOL. XXIX, z 



166 Ajter Seventy Years, 

Again it is stated that two members did not 
practise with the crew, * as they had promised.' We 
made no such promise, we could not have practised 
with them, as we were practising in London with the 
crew which was to row against the Leander. 

Mr Cooper not only lent his garden to keep the 
Lady Margaret ship in, during her stay, but also his 
game-keeper and dog to watch the ship all night lest 
any tricks should be played with her. 

The betting ran very high on this occasion." 

Mr. Budd has also kindly sent the following outline 
of his career in life : — 

** Richard Hale Budd was born on March 6th, 1816. 
Was educated partly at home, partly at Rugby under 
Dr Arnold. Graduated in honours at Cambridge in 
1838. He rowed in the St John's crew, which was 
head of the Cambridge river, against the head crew of 
the Oxford river at Henley in 1837, a^d in the 
Cambridge crew against the Leander Club on the 
Thames in the same year. 

He arrived in Victoria in 1840, and engaged in 
sheep-farming, and for many years had interest in 
pastoral pursuits. In 1843 he went to Tasmania and 
opened a school at Campbelltown. He returned to 
Victoria in 1845, and opened a school in Melbourne. 
On the arrival of Bishop Perry this school became the 
Melbourne Diocesan Grammar School, the first Public 
School established in Victoria. In 1854 he resigned 
this and joined the Denominational School Board as 
Inspector. Became Secretary in 1856, then Chief 
Inspector. In 1859 he joined the two offices in his 
own person. In 1862 he was appointed Inspector- 
General of Schools under Mr Heales' Education Act 
and retained this office until the passing of the 
Education Act, now in force, in 1872. Having retired 
on his pension in 1874, he opened a Classical School 
for Girls on the principles of the English public schools 
for boys, the first of its kind in Victoria. 



After S^dHty Years, 167 

He carried on this school until 1899, when advancing 
years compelled him to close it. He still lives at 
'Rooding,' Brighton, Victoria, in the enjoyment of all 
his faculties except his hearing." 

Mr R. H. Budd holds a double record; he is not 
only the oldest of living Boating Blues, but also the 
Blue of greatest length of years. The next to him is 
an Oxonian, Frederick Luttrell Moysey, of Christ 
Church, Oxford, who rowed in 1836; born 9 November 
18 1 5, he died 13 August 1906, thus reaching 90 years 
and 9 months. 

Mr R. H. Budd is the son of a Johnian, the Rev 
Henry Budd, who entered the College, from Winchester, 
as a pensioner 27 July 1793 ; he was afterwards Rector 
of White Rooding(or Roothing), Essex, where he died 
27 June 1853. His father (the grandfather of R. H. 
Budd], Richard Budd, son of Richard Budd, of New- 
bury, Berks, matriculated at Oxford, from Balliol 
College, 30 October 1764, aged 18; migrating to 
Cambridge, he entered at Jesus College as a pensioner 
7 October 1768 and took the degrees of M.B. 1770, and 
M.D. 1775. He became physician to Christ's Hospital, 
where he introduced potatoes as part of the school diet ; 
he died 2 September 1821. It is worth noting as a 
link with the past that Dr Richard Budd, whose life 
overlaps that of Mr R. H. Budd, entered Jesus College 
in the year in which Thomas Gray, the poet, was 
appointed Regius Professor of History, and probably 
saw him in the streets of Cambridge one hundred and 
forty years ago. 

R. F. S. 



A WARNING. 

When boon companions throng around 

The board, and wine flows free: 
When toasts begin, we see no sin 

If maidens toasted be. 
But while they drain the cup to Joan, • 

Belinda — Belle — Marie, 
I drink in silence and alone. 

For there's no one girl for me. 

The bee, they say, roust through her day 

To one flower constant be : 
The butterfly loves where he may^ 

A roving gallant he. 
Then why can't I, like butterfly. 

From galling chains be free. 
And flit from pink and rose, and cry, 

•*Ah! that's the flower for me!" 

For here's a lass with cheeks like pinks, 

And here the rose we see, 
And this complexion blends, methinks, 

The cream and strawberry. 
From violet eyes I sip my fill 

Of Cupid's honey-tea, 
Then 'witching hazel gilds the pill 

That waits on gluttony. 



A Warning, 169 

But goodly store of sweets put by 

Rewards the drudging bee, 
While butterfly lies down to die 

In starving misery. 
So, when you find **The fair, the chaste. 

The inexpressive She" — 
Don't waver, but proclaim in haste, 

"Ah! you're the girl for me!" 

G. V. Y. 




A ROWING NIGHTMARE. 

DON'T know whether it was the lobster 
mayonnaise or over«-work, possibly it was a 
combination of both. I had been grap- 
pling all the evening with that elusive foe 
Mechanics for the General. I rose from my littered desk 
in an incorporeal condition. My head was teeming 
with dancing formulae, but my feet had gone fast to 
sleep. My fire had gone out, and being the middle of 
May, it was naturally bitterly cold. I experienced the 
pleasurable feeling of having been a martyr to duty for 
at least one evening. In an ecstacy of self-pity I lit my 
spirit stove, and soon my jolly little brass kettle was 
purring in a manner "grateful and comforting." 
Fumbling about tor the cocoa tin, I put my fingers 
into something cold and juicy. It was the remains of 
the lobster mayonnaise over which Robertson-Jones 
and I, had made merry some hours ago. With a 
smile of recognition I placed it on my table, being 
suddenly stricken with the fact that I was famished. 
The chimes were tumbling over each other in their 
anxiety to be first out with the news that it was half- 
an-hour past mid-night as I sat down to business. 
By ten minutes to one the mayonnaise had gone the 
way of all such perishable goods, together with two 
cups of cocoa, a dozen chocolate biscuits, and half a 
preserved pine-apple. 
Then I went to bed. 

Dreams are like bad oarsmen. They have no begin- 
ning worth mentioning, and their finish is often jerky 
to a degree. They are like bad dramas, paying no 
attention to the Unities. 



A Rowing Nightmare, 171 

I don't know who was responsible for placing me on 
the steps of St Paul's Cathedral in the scantiest attire. 
It seemed to me to be a sorry sort of job without pro- 
logue or apology. At any rate, there I was, and before 
me stood one whom I instinctively loathed I recog- 
nised in him the embodiment ^of everything offensive I 
had ever found in the personalities of everyone I had ever 
met. His laugh was the most hideous thing imaginable. 
It was as if someone were whistling the " Cock o' the 
North," while a dentist's drill played on an exposed 
nerve in my tooth, and someone else made a piece of 
chalk squeak on a blackboard. I cannot say more. 
His face was never clearly defined. I only knew it was 
very hideous and I longed to put my fist through it, but 
my arms hung powerless at my side. 

" Go away," I groaned. 

•*Hal ha!" he snarled, " I am a better man than 
thou." 

" You are loathsome," I shrieked ; " I would not touch 
you." 

"Nevertheless," he replied, "I am a better man 
than thou." 

" It isn't possible," I murmured faintly, as an awful 
dread came over me lest it should be so. 

" We shall see," he said. 

I felt my heart sink (I suppose it was the mayonnaise). 
I knew there was a Titanic struggle in front of us and 
I dreaded it. 

" I will bump you before you get round Grassy," he 
said. 

An icy hand clutched at my heart. (This, I pre- 
sume, was the preserved pine-apple). 

" Your style will damn you," he chortled. " You will 
never see the Glass Houses." 

" I can't help my style," I groaned, " but I will row 
till my muscles burst." 

"Its no use doing that with a swing like yours. 
Furthermore you will dig." 



172 A Rowing Nightmare, 

" No, No," I gurgled, burying my face in my hands. 

*' Not that ! Not that !! I have cured myself of it with 
bitter toil and sweat of my brow." 

** There will be a return of the malady." 

** Give me an oar," I shouted, with arms uplifted. 

By this time I was seated in an eight — a wretched 
decrepit thing with distorted riggers and gaping seams. 

The water oozed up through the floor boards and 
my stretcher consisted of a piece of brown paper pasted 
on to a frame. 

St Paul's Cathedral had disappeared, there being no 
further use for it. 

The fiend handed me an oar. 

" This is a stroke-side oar," I said ; " I am a bow-side 
man." 

" You must row bow-side with it." 

" Where is the rest of the crew r " 

" You must row the boat yourself." 

" Impossible," I gasped. 

Someone started to play ^'La Matchiche" on a 
harmonium. 

"That's the gun," said he who was my enemy; 
"shove her out." 

I found myself in mid- stream ; someone on the bank 
was counting. 

" Louder ! Louder ! " I yelled. 

" S = ut + i ft' " droned the voice. 

" What's the use of that bally idiot," I roared, in a 
frenzy. 

" Find the cube root and you will know when this 
gun is likely to go oflF," the voice replied. 

Crash! (I discovered next morning that the wind 
had got up and overturned my looking-glass). 

I gathered myself up for a mighty shove and drove 
against the stretchers with all my might. My feet shot 
through the brown paper and I sat down heavily in the 
bottom of the boat. 

I cannot write what I said. 



A Rowing Nightmare. 173 

I only hope that, if I were talking in my sleep, 
nobody heard me. 

I could see the one whom I hated coming up on 
me in a "funny." He had a beautiful start and 
I could see his back swinging like a pendulum. 

In agony I shoved my feet through the bottom of the 
boat, which was filling rapidly, and I rowed and rowed. 
Every other stroke my blade curled underneath the keel, 
and I knew that I was digging. 

I could see Grassy out of the corner of my eye. It 
never altered. I was eternally rounding it, but never 
getting round it, and he whom I hated was hard 
on me. 

" It's on a pivot," shouted someone from the bank. 
" It's going round against you. You're rowing on the 
tread wheel principle. You can't get round." 

" I will, I will," I yelled, for already he whom I hated 
was overlapping me, 

I saw his bows one inch away from me ; with a yell 
I stood up and leapt from the boat. 

Then I woke up. 

I met Robertson- Jones in the Courts that morning. 
" I say old man," he said, as he took my arm, " I vote 
we sign off lobster mayonnaise in future. I had a rotten 
night." 

"A rotten night?" 

" Yes. I dream't my tutor vowed he would send me 
down if I refused to take Oriental Languages Trip, in 
a week. It was no use telling him it would interfere 
with my Labs." 

•* We mealed at six-thirty, didn't we ?" I asked. 

"Yes," he said. 

" Jones, old man," I whispered, " I had some more of 
that mayonnaise at twelve-thirty last night. I'm ofif to 
see if I can't go down for the week end." 

"Poor old chap," said Robertson -Jones. 

C. R. A. 

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GHOST-BALLAD, 

•'Who are you standing- there so white 
Beside this drunken head of mine?" 

**I am your ghost here in your sight; 
I am come to you for a sign" — 

" I will not speak with you this night : 
Go to some other bed than mine. 
Your body is all cold and white. 
Your finger-tips with sulphur shine. 

" I will not speak with you this night : 
I've been where gay companions dine 
With toping in the gaudy light 

And the high clamours of the wrne." 

" I am your ghost here in your sight : 
I am come to you for a sign 
That there shall never from this night 
Be spoken any speech of thine." 

"What will I do after this night?" 
"Sleep in the mould that has been mine: 
Your body shall be cold and white, 
Your finger-tips with sulphur shine." 

" What will you do after this night ? " 
" Sit in your place when you should dine : 
Sit moping in the gaudy light, 
Mute in the clamours of the wine." 

A. Y. Campbell. 




ALLEGORY. 

|IK£ much else of the more delicate and artificial 
enjoyments of civilized life, the use of allegory 
has perhaps its origin in the mental habits 
of primitive man; habits transformed and 
developed almost beyond recognition, but still con- 
taining an element of permanence. Collective man can 
no more escape his history than the individual his. 
This relish for speaking of things by similitudes, this 
desire to look at facts aside, perhaps arose from a want 
of power to describe them objectively. Men spoke and 
thought of external things in terms of man. It was that 
same extreme anthropomorphism, which has produced 
the mythologies of the world. In a more advanced stage 
of thought the sense of the difference between man and 
his surroundings becomes more acute, and the would-be 
description becomes a similitude. Lastly it is the 
conscious use of similitude which has given rise to 
allegory and metaphor, that is, the sustained and the 
momentary figurative expression. 

Like the rest of European culture, as distinct from 
material civilization, the Allegory of the West draws its 
source from Homer; and it there appears in an 
incidental form which has lasted down to our own day. 
One may quote the passage (Iliad IX. 502-7) — 

Koi yap T€ Atrai dat Aiog Kovpai /tieyaXo/o, 
X(i>Xa£ T6 pvaal re Trapa^Xdnig r o^BaXfUo^ 
a? pa T€ Kol pEToiriaO^ "Arijc aXiyovai Ktovaai. 
ri "Aril aOsvapri re koi apTiwogj ovvBKa iraaag 
?roXXoy xjiriKirpoOhiy 00a yse ^i t€ Tratrav lir alav 
pXanrovcr avOpdjTTovg' ai 8' i^aKiovrai oirlaau). 



176 Allegory. 

Here the characteristic merits and charm of Allegory 
are already well-marked. The vivid picture called up 
by the personification of Mischief and Prayer adds to 
the stately melancholy of the thought. It is Western 
too. Would an Oriental have personified Prayers ? 

True it is not easy to distinguish very accurately from 
metaphor this incidental usage of Allegory in an other- 
wise direct narrative. But in later Latin literature 
the sustained form is in full vigour. Vergil, as one 
might expect, goes far beyond mere outline in his 
description of Fame — (Aen. IV. 173-98). 

**Monstrum horrendum, ingens, cui, quot sunt corpora 
plumae, 
Tot vigiles oculi subter (mirabile dictu), 
Tot linguae, totidem ora sonant, tot surrigit aures.** 

and the well-known lines that follow these. 

Still the allegory here has a decorative value and 
is not so much a chosen vehicle of thought as a sally 
of the fancy. It gives variety more than it aids 
expression. At the entrance of Hades, on the other 
hand, the similitudes, so brief as to be almost metaphors, 
have an essential place. The poet's meaning could 
hardly come home to us without them. Nor are they 
simply personifications: their dwelling makes them 
allegoric. (Aen. VI. 273-81) — 

^^Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus Orci 
Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae ; 
Pallentesque habitant Morbi, tristisque Senectus, 
Et Metus, et malesuada Fames, ac turpis Bgestas, 
Terribiles visu formae, Letumque Labosque ; 
Turn consanguineus Leti Sopor, et mala mentis 
Gaudia, mortiferumque adverso in limine Bellum, 
Ferreique Eumenidum thalami et Discordia demens, 
Vipereum crinem vittis innexa cruentis." 

The whole effect of the passage depends on the 
allegoric form. A kind of awe is aroused by these 
ghostly figures who possess a dreadful reality. 



Alhgory, 177 

'^Tum consanguineus Leti Sopor, et mala mentis 
Gaudia." 

Vergil no longer uses the personification to attract the 
eye by vivacious colouring, but to rouse the imagina- 
tion and put in words an otherwise ineflfable emotion. 

The classical civilization of the West, however, 
cannot be said to have greatly tended to Allegory, 
Even the Vestibule of Hell is an incident, though a 
great one, in a direct narrative. The independent 
Allegory, forming itself the main theme of a work, 
reached its height in a non-classical literature of 
antiquity. What in Greek or Latin can compare with 
the allegories of Ezekiel, that of Assyria as the Cedar 
in Lebanon, or that of the dry bones ? or with Israel 
the vine in the 8olh Psalm ? The literary form was 
more congenial, perhaps, to a trope-loving Oriental. 
In these passages it is dominant, it is in the main current 
of the thought, and we are not far from the point where 
the whole structure of the composition depends on 
allegory. In plastic art this last stage seems already 
reached with "the oiled and curled Assyrian bulls." 
In those composite figures, we have the bull's horns and 
lions of strength, the eagle's wings of swiftness, the 
mitred human head of wisdom and dominion. The genii 
of Babylonia were in form allegorical. In literature the 
same stage seems first apparent in the fable or parable, 
where the Allegory is short and has one definite moral. 
There can be no question that perfection here too was 
attained in the East, though it appears to us in the 
Greek of the Gospels. Turning aside from their sacred 
aspect, the literary merit of the parables is hard to 
overpraise. Their vividness, their simple outline, their 
congruity, their unity, have never been equalled ; and 
they fulfil the main purpose of Allegory by their 
emotional and imaginative appeal. 

There is a vast descent to the distant Western 
kindred of the Parables, the fables of Esop, with their 
bare and skinny narrative, uncoloured and unreal, and 



178 Allegory, 

their humdrum morals. Satiric humour is their best 
quality, as in the fable of the dog and his reflection, 
or in that of the fox who lost his tail. But after all it 
is a barren kind of wit, which could be as well attained 
by a simpler artifice, and it tends to degenerate into 
a mere trick of hand. Animals replace men in some 
simplified situation, and primeval beast-stories are 
forced into moral apologues. 

In contrast to these pedestrian compositions there 
blossoms under the Antonines a poetic tale, which 
we may either call the latest of the myths or the first 
complete Allegory of the West. A peculiar charm 
dwells around Psyche, 

" Latest born and loveliest vision far 
Of all Olympus' faded hierarchy." 

Few creations of such delicacy have like it an universal 
appeal. And the invention is most happy. Love, first 
the unrecognized beloved, then the unseen sustainer, 
and last the eternal possession, answers to something 
in the human heart in any century. Like the classics 
in general, the tale of Apuleius is curiously near to us, 
for it is the work of an adult civilization like our own ; 
and it is also far apart, for our civilization has grown up 
from different beginnings. 

There remains to notice another variety of Allegory 
in the Ancient World. It is not a true variety indeed, 
but a disease of taste and criticism, namely, the shadow 
or fictitious Allegory, sought in a great work by its less 
happy admirers. One may give it as a sign of a 
decadent culture or of the inappreciative efforts of an 
infant one, which has not depth enough to find 
satisfaction in the direct, profound meaning or the 
intelligible beauty of the objects of its admiration. As 
we know it, shadow- allegory, perhaps, is again of 
Eastern origin. In any case it received a great impetus 
in Western literature from the early Christian expositors, 
in particular from the great Origen with his pneumatic 
sense of the Scriptures. The far fetched and arbitrary 



Allegory, 179 

allegories in the interpretation of the Bible, in which 
he and some of the Fathers indulged, had their reaction 
on their rivals, the Neo-Platonists. By the latter, 
wonder-tales, like those of the Odyssey, were forced to 
bear an allegoric interpretation. Circe became a type 
of Vice, her enchantments its effects, even Hermes and 
the plant Moly were transmogrified under this strange 
light cast on them into the unwelcome guise of moral 
Virtues. It is true that these interpretations did little 
or no harm to the masterpieces they attacked : they 
only gave bad reasons for liking them. But they did 
injure contemporary and later literature, by proffering a 
false model of excellence under a prestige not its own. 
The East went sooner thus astray. It required an 
infusion of barbarism to infect the soberer West. 

The true path of Allegory lay in its appeal to the 
imagination, in bringing home to the mind the reality, 
the inwardness of the things figured, and in recalling 
their true proportion and beauty rather than investing 
them with any outside and alien attraction. Thus» 
besides happy invention and the common graces of art, 
there is an especial need of congruity in incident and 
kinship in form to the ideas and actions, symbolized. 
Peace must be placid, Modesty feminine. Then the 
figures and personifications employed must be such as 
to make the thought symbolized more real, more 
impressive than would the bare literal statement, 
should attempt to bring out their full value. And the 
incidents of the tale should be congruous with the 
nobility or baseness they represent. But the belief in 
these shadow-allegories led and leads in exactly the 
opposite direction. Arbitrary personification takes the 
place of natural symbolism, and the better part will be 
seen victorious in some sneaking or cruel action. 

Scarcely less dangerous to good literature and even 
duller intrinsically, is the straightforward statement 
masquerading with a few properties of Allegory, as if 
the figure were a mere adornment to be stuck here and 



180 Allegory. 

there about a reasoned argument. Such is the tale 
of Melibee which Chaucer included in the Canterbury 
Tales. Both perversions carry a partial antidote with 
them. They tend to be intolerably lifeless and insipid. 

Every one of the possible virtues and vices of Allegory 
was exemplified in medieval literature, in the most 
abundant and perhaps the Golden Age of symbolical 
composition. It was natural that the new races, which 
were reconstructing Europe after the downfall of the 
ancient civilization, should be specially inclined to the 
type of expression, which they utilized both in literature 
and plastic art. The recent devolopment of the Teutonic 
invaders from barbarism made figurative expression the 
easiest in which to word and embody the new ideas 
crowding in on them. They were still in a mythopoeic 
and metaphoric stage of thought. The nine nights of 
their week could become in their tales the eight times 
multiplied ring of Odin. It was while they were still 
under a quasi-Homeric dispensation, that they were 
indoctrinated by the Christian Church with Allegory in 
its full-blown form. The perfected instrument was 
placed in hands whose delight it was to use it. No 
doubts assailed the medieval writer of the great, almost 
the supreme, beauty of his comparison. 

As may be seen in the theories of the time, there 
was an assumption of an easy symmetry in the created 
world: its component parts all proceeded from the 
thought of God, and must be in concinnity. In 
consequence allegory and metaphor were handled 
as conclusive arguments in religion and philosophy. 
Was not the Pope, or occasionally the Emperor, the 
head of the Body Christian, and therefore sometimes its 
sovran guide, sometimes but one of its members? 
"Caput meum doleo" could be employed as a text 
to recommend a king's deposition. That money was a 
metal and barren was held to prove that the taking of 
interest was unnatural. Life itself almost had become 
an allegory of the life to come. 



Allegory, 18A 

The naive intellect of the new European nations thas 
had matter to its hand. Its passion for allegorizing 
was mingled with a belief in its essential truth. 
In Allegory we have the medieval reading of the 
Universe. It is a reading of the Universe more than of 
man, for man takes part in these figures, but is scarcely 
their hero. He has, if he can, to move in unison with 
the Sun and other stars. The passions and accidents of 
life appear as greater than he. He enters their domain : 
he does not contain it. The Dance of Death enchants 
and mocks him ; Avarice, Lust and Pride meet him by 
the way: but Sin came into being with the fall of 
Lucifer, and Death was its wages. Even Fame, the 
most purely human of abstractions, takes in Chaucer's 
poem the role of an extra-human queen within whose 
palace the mass of mankind come and go. 

It is largely to its whole-heartedness that medieval 
Allegory owes its remarkable beauty. Paradoxical as 
the phrase is, it is real : it does in deed represent the 
thoughts and feelings of the Middle Age. And it is 
through the quality of genuineness that it contains the 
charm and the highest aspirations of the time. The 
inimitable freshness of the Middle Ages, that freshness 
which is the prevailing note of Chaucer and of the 
ballad*writers and sonneteers of Italy, is associated in 
medieval Allegory with all the profundity of thought 
and artistry of construction of w^'xh the then Europe 
was capable. 

The English Chaucer's House of Fame is an example 
of the style. He is borne in vision to an aery castle 
with fitly symbolic appurtenances. Within surrounded 
by heralds sits allegoric Fame (how diflferent from 
Vergil's Titaness!), many-eyed and eared and tongued. 
Round the hall stand the great poets and historians. 
And to her foot-stool come the desirous and undesirous 
of Fame, false or true, to whom she gives her 
capricious awards. 

Hence the poet is conducted by a bystander out of 

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182 Allegory. 

the castle, to where in a valley stands, or rather revolves, 
the labyrinth. This is the Home of Rumour, made 
appropriately of wicker-work, ** ful of rouninges and of 
jangles" and of a whispering, conjecturing throng* 
messengers, pilgrims, hoc genus omne. Here — and it 
is not unfitting perhaps — the poem breaks oflF abruptly ; 
and we are left uncertain of what Chaucer learnt from 
Rumour and what he begged of Fame. 

Allied in conception to Chaucer's poem are the 
allegoric pictures of Lorenzetti, displaying good and 
bad government. Here too men are the vassals of the 
Personification of their deeds; serving it with its 
attendant Virtues, or Vices, as the case may be. There 
is a further medieval characteristic in the painter's 
preoccupation with the community, not the individual. 
It would be an anachronism to say he treats of the State, 
but he does of the Body Politic. Similarly the superb 
allegories of Giotto on the Franciscan virtues depict 
St Francis espousing them almost as the representative 
of his Order. 

Yet the medieval genius touched its highest point 
not in direct and pure Allegory, but in the sidelong 
and incidental Allegory of the Divine Comedy. That 
quintessence of the Middle Age needed to have 
Allegory as one of its more potent elements: but 
symbolism could not be the sole or the most important 
one ; it shared its dominion with reality. All through 
the Comedy bears a double interpretation : it is a 
Vision of the World to come ; it is an Allegory of this 
life. Thus the punishments of the damned are the 
physical representatives of the mental pangs, the soul- 
agony of the sinner in this world. They are both 
literal and symbolic. The rushing blasts of the First 
Circle are a fitting accompanying torment for the wild 
bursts of passion they requite. And if the physical 
pain is superadded after death, the spiritual commences 
with and is identical with the sin in this flesh. How 
fearfully that Allegory and expressive embodying are 



Allegory, 183 

carried out needs no dwelling on. The leaden cope of 
the hypocrites, the slow bubbles that exhale from the 
sullen in the marsh, the frozen pain of the deepest pit 
of hate and treachery congealed in immutable agony, 
crowd upon the memory. 

Allegory of a purer kind runs through other parts 
of the poem. The opening canto is mainly of this type 
when it describe the seiva selvaggia of life and the 
three opponents to Dante's ascent towards the dileUoso 
monU of holiness. He meets the panther of Luxury, 
the lion of Pride, and the lean wolf of Avarice. In this 
light Vergil, too, plays the part of Human Philosophy, 
as Beatrice that of Heavenly Wisdom, St Lucy of 
Illuminating Grace, and the Madonna of Divine Mercy. 
Then a wholly figurative interpretation is needed for 
the last Cantos of the Purgatorio, such as the Triumph 
of the Church with its symbolic details and the 
Allegoric history of Church and Empire. 

Thus in the crown of medieval literature Allegory 
is the chosen vehicle to express generalized and 
systematic thought. But it is more than that. We 
are constantly met with the difficulty of distinguishing 
the literal and the allegoric interpretation. The 
Allegory of the Rose of the Blessed was not a mere 
figure to Dante in the way it is to us. It was rather 
the material, visible side of the relation of the Elect 
to God. Allegory was an aspect of the world, not 
only a figure for it. Extremes had met. The imagi- 
nation and the fact had a certain inner identity. 

At the close of the Middle Age we find ourselves 
at the dawn of the Renaissance, and if it is, so far as 
Allegory goes, a fall to a rise, in some respects it is 
a fall indeed. Perhaps it is unfair to take Boccaccio's 
Ameto as a typical instance. It belongs to the border- 
land, neither modern nor medieval, combining renais- 
sance pedantry with the elder lack of perspective. One 
would say its tasteless Allegory belonged solely to the 
decline of a literature, were there not signs of a new 



184 Allegory. 

outlook on life. No longer have we the universe and 
its workings symbolized : it is the growth of the human 
spirit, of the individual mind of which Boccaccio treats. 
The change is unconscious, perhaps, but it is there. 

In his half-pastoral romance, prototype of so many 
Pastorals and Allegories, the principal theme is the 
conversion of the rustic Ameto, its hero, into a perfect 
human being by the power of love. But his mistress is 
also the quality of Faith. Now it is hard to think 
seriously of a symbolism, where the operations of the 
Seven Theological and Cardinal Virtues are repre- 
sented with unsparing detail as the intrigues of married 
women, as cicisbeism in fact, a strange notion surely of 
combining edification and amusement. Possibly some 
reality has crept into the tales and some of the Virtues 
had earthly forerunners. All seven, it should be said, 
Prudence, Justice, Temperance, Fortitude, Charity, 
Hope, and Faith or Lia, recount their ancestry, lives, 
and amours to Ameto on a summer-noon at Fiesole, 
preluded by a contest, also allegoric, between the good 
and bad pastor, and wound up by the completed 
regeneration of Ameto by Venus Urania, who here 
practically signifies with unintentional irreverence the 
Holy Trinity or at least the Divine Love. It is easy to 
laugh at this quaint medley, which revels in all the 
faults of Allegory, the incongruity of the personages 
and the qualities they are forced to represent, and the 
still greater incongruity of their actions and what they 
are meant to typify. Nevertheless, it belongs to some- 
thing quite other than mere decay. Such a barren 
nomenclature as that of the tale of Melibee or the 
wearisome metaphors of the Boke of the Duchess in 
Chaucer may show the decline of the Middle Age. 
Boccaccio, though he much recalls it, yet in the main 
heralds a new era and a new destiny for Allegory. He 
begins the Renaissance and some idea of the Reforma- 
tion is apparent. Man the individual now dominates 
his worlds and it only remains for him to attain a new 



Allegory, 185 

reading of life and an organized system of ideas to 
express it. 

Towards this new development Italy continued to 
progress during the Renaissance. Painting was as 
important as literature for the new movement, and by 
its necessary reduction of ideas to visible form was 
naturally susceptible to allegoric influence. Boiardo, 
in his fantastic epopee, tends towards a distinctly 
conservative allegory at times, though he gives no 
consistent fable even by the way. Ariosto, with his 
accustomed irony, employs it at least once in the 
episode of Alcina and Logistilla, Desire and Reason, 
who sway one after another his quasi-hero Ruggier. 
The human interest keeps increasing. In painting the 
new tendencies appear markedly in the cinquecento. 
We have Titian's Sacred and Profane Love, which, 
whatever its literal meaning, contains surely an 
Allegory of solely human significance. In Raphael's 
Vision of a Knight, also, we see the individual between 
the two alternatives of Toil and Pleasure : 

" Choose well ; your choice is 
Brief and yet endless." 

Then, as we go further North, the note is struck more 
severely. DUrer's Knight, with Death at his side and 
the bestial Devil dogging his horse's steps, already 
journeys on a kind of Pilgrim's Progress in the Valley 
of the Shadow. The joyous world of Raphael has 
disappeared. 

But the acme of the new intent of Allegory was 
reached in England. More akin to the Renaissance 
than Germany, more earnest than Italy, and in the full 
current of the Reformation, freer than either, if we lake 
the whole period, in its individualism, England was the 
very country to employ Allegory to express the 
contending forces of the mind and the experiences of a 
complete life. The new religious views — ^Justification 
by Faith— supplied the necessary system ; national 



185 Allegory, 

patriotism and what one might call the individual cult 
of virtue, the necessary fire. 

The first great exemplar of this English Allegory is 
the poet Spenser. The Faerie Queene lacks indeed its 
final scene, which was to unify and link together the 
rest. Magnanimity, the sum of the other virtues, 
makes in the person of Arthur but sporadic appear- 
ances, which have not always a very clear interpretation. 
But the constituent Virtues, which form the subjects of 
the several books left complete, are allegorized in a 
manner surpassing praise. Godliness or piety holds 
the .first place, and the adventures of its patron, St 
George, typify in most happy unison both the history 
of Christianity and that of the individual Christian from 
the Protestant point of view. The separate episodes 
have both colour and interest. The characters and their 
adventures show the typified qualities in action with 
exquisite congruity. What descriptive scene is better 
than that of the Cave of Despair r And Despair's own 
utterance is a living voice : 
"What if some little payne the passage have, 
That makes frayle flesh to feare the bitter wave, 
Is not short payne well borne that bringes long ease, 
And layes the soule to sleepe in quiet grave? 
Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, 
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please." 
And the palace of Lucifera, the Pride of the Eyes, the 
castle of Orgoglio, the Pride of the Spirit, with its 
gaoler Ignorance, are not far behind in merit. 

Sir Guyon follows as patron of Temperance. Here 
we have the wonderful cave of Mammon, the confused 
glories of this world, the siege of the Soul by its rebel 
Passions, fleeting, routed, but immortal, and the 
gardens of Voluptuousness, best of all translations, 
where Tasso's fancies take a wider meaning. If of 
Britomart's, Chaste Love's, emprises, we dwell more 
on the glorious masque of Cupid : 

^^ Be bolde^ be bolde^ and everywhere. Be bold;" 
''Be not too bold:'' 



Allegory. 487 

than on the rest; and if the cantos of Friendship are 
confused and those of Justice rather barren, the idyll of 
courteous Calidore makes amends by its consistent 
plan, and the fragment of Mutability shows the poet at 
his best. Not that it is all beauty and excellence even 
in the finest books. The disciplining of the Red-cross 
Knight under Faith and Hope and Charity, and the 
unimaginative, unhumorous body-home of Alma, the 
soul, in the book of Sir Guyon, are lapses not easy to 
pardon. But they are at worst small deductions from 
the greatness of the whole work. 

One may note that this individualizing of man 
himself was accompanied by the individualizing of 
nations, of historic groups of men. Thus English 
patriotism takes an apt and natural place in the Faerie 
Queene, and we feel the same force even when it rather 
inspires than forms the theme of the Allegory. Milton's 
Comus, the next illustrious work on an allegoric plan, 
breathes a spirit peculiarly English and Puritan. The 
wild rout of Comus, deformed by what they are, the 
curious rapture of their surroundings, where Nature 
seems an accomplice and a partner in the trial of the 
Lady, are a fit symbol of the intellectualized riot of 
playhouse and court, through which the Puritan poet 
made his way without contamination. It is the epic of 
self-reliance and of single communion with God : 

" And, if Virtue feeble were, 
Heaven itself would stoop to her." 

It is difficult to praise the greatest writers. So much is 
contained in a personality hard to define. Style, 
adventures, setting, all but the shadowy, unemotional 
characters, are perfect. 

Milton led the way to the greatest of English 
Allegories, the Pilgrim's Progress, next to the Divine 
Comedy, perhaps, the greatest achievement in allegoric 
literature. Bunyan, indeed, by native genius, obeyed 
the conditions, and perceived the true aims of Allegory. 
And he was preserved from some pitfalls at least by 



188 Allegory, 

the deficiencies of his education. He could hardly be 
pedantic or inappropriately learned. But he was a 
born story-teller. Descriptive talent and a pithy style 
were his. His fable is interesting throughout. Its 
events are dramatically arranged. Its characters have 
the rare merit of typifying qualities and yet being 
complete persons. Their actions, battles, and failings 
are congruent with the virtues and vices they represent : 
they are not mere arbitrary acrostics to spell out some 
word, like Boccaccio's and even Spenser's in his weak 
moments. For all the inner meaning and the allegoric 
veil, there is a real generalization of life in the incidents 
as they stand, in Vanity Fair for instance, and the 
colloquies of the City of Destruction. The plan, again, 
of each part is sustained, and has no break in it. 
Bunyan's power of delineating character in the briefest 
speeches, a power worthy of the Decameron, his 
humour and his grip of fact, enable him to give a true 
picture of life in a continual similitude. Humour and 
effective Allegory seem at first sight inconsistent 
qualities : but Bunyan's plain-dealing simplicity sur- 
mount that Hill of DiflSculty and frees him from the 
suspicion of irony. His defect of overmuch preaching 
of a rather narrow kind is actually a help in this 
respect, though otherwise a drawback. There is 
nothing, too, really recondite in him, as there is in 
Dante. All his little congregation could have followed 
every syllable. And one cannot help believing some 
of them are in his book. Faithful and By-ends and 
Ready-to-Halt, Mercy and Christiana, seem too alive 
to be purely fictitious : but perhaps this is an unimagi- 
native view. In any case they are living now and old 
acquaintances, a strange fate for the figments of an 
Allegory. 

Thus by the vivid impression that it leaves, the 
Pilgrim's Progress fulfils its purpose. Its allegory is 
more effective in its appeal to the imagination than a 
matter-of-fact tale would have been, the only adequate 



Allegory, 189 

defence for any artistic contrivance. One may wonder 
whether its morality is the highest conceivable. Chris- 
tian is very preoccupied with his own salvation ; but 
who would blame a fiction of no interest ? The Valley 
of the Shadow of Death and Doubting Castle become 
real in his pages. We have before us the Puritan 
version of Man's life. 

Allegory, as an independent form of literature, con- 
tinued to enjoy its vogue for the next century. Dryden 
used it in the Hind and the Panther to describe a 
religious controversy. But on the whole there was a 
marked decline in excellence. Arbitrariness appeared, 
as before, in the personification and the symbolism. 
Addison's Allegory of the Public Credit in the Spec- 
tator is a good example. The charm of imagination 
and appropriateness was abandoned for facility of 
invention. There is the steady tendency to a barren 
play of names, to copious detail and an insipid fable. 
Johnson's Voyage of Life is perhaps as good as any : yet 
there is a fatal coldness in it. Too often there is the 
belief that Allegory has purely decorative uses, and thus 
the heart is taken out of it. Allegory, too, was in need 
of the Revolution which was to revivify Europe. 

The French Revolution took for its motto the words, 
"Liberty, Equality and Fraternity," and the last of 
these at any rate implied Internationalism. Though it 
would be impossible to regard the nations of Europe as 
leading an isolated existence in preceding times, never- 
theless for the three hundred years since the Renais- 
sance they had formed as much as possible self-sufficing 
units. There was little or no comity of nations. Now 
the new spirit, though by its enmity to mere dynastic 
interests and class divisions it fostered national feeling 
and solidarity, was cosmopolitan in its essence and in 
its effects. It preached the brotherhood of nations ; and 
the same doctrine is to be seen inspiring the literature 
which accompanied it, and which its evolution intensi- 
fied. While the Middle Age had regarded the world 
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190 Allegory, 

and man as the symbol of the divine idea and the post- 
Renaissance had been intent on the spiritual life of the 
individual, it is the universal destiny of man which now 
engrosses thought. Diverse indeed are the schemes 
and systems in which this preoccupation shows itself ; 
but it is always to the fore even in materialism. It 
is the Riddle of Life on which men have become 
absorbed. 

"Into this Universe and Wlty not knowing, 
Nor Whence^ like Water willy-nilly flowing, 
And out of it like Wind along the Waste, 
I know not WhitJier^ willy-nilly blowing." 

No longer is it the special qualities of men, or their 
special paths of life, which seem of the highest import : 
it is the general destiny of the thinking species and 
even of their unthinking "companions and fellow- 
mortals." 

To this new development Allegory lent itself with 
singular power ; and thence it took a new lease of life 
as a supreme form of literature. Already in the years 
just preceding the Revolution it appears in the First 
Part of Faust, somewhat, it is true, as a side>issue in a 
work which, though symbolic, is too direct in meaning 
to be completely allegorical. Faust is rather an ideal 
instance of a soul in its temptation and fall, accom- 
panied by an interpretation of evil : 

"The active spirit of man soon sleeps, and soon 
He seeks unbroken quiet : therefore I 
Have given him the Devil for a companion 
Who may provoke him to some sort of work 
And must create for ever." 

The same prologue contains the summary of Goethe's 
optimism.. The Lord again addresses Mephistopheles : 

"And stand ashamed, when failure teaches thee 
That a good man, even in his darkest longings, 
Is well aware of the right way.'' 

Evil then is vanquished, because Good, because real 



Allegory. 191 

Life, IS indestructible Negation cannot touch the 
eternal Positive. 

But though Faust may be a symbol of the Human 
Spirit, and Mephistopheles der Geist der stets verneint, 
the tale is a tale for all that. Margaret is no type of 
beauty or such like. We touch pure Allegory only in 
the Walpurgisnacht, that wonderful witches' frolic, the 
riot and tumult of the world, into which Faust plunges 
in the vain hope to satisfy the spirit by the passions of 
the flesh. 

The Second Part of Faust is much more allegoric 
than the First, and there it is the macrocosm of all the 
society of men that fills the scene. The actors in 
human life come forward and declare the import of 
their being. The marriage of Faust and Helena, it is 
said, actually symbolizes "the union of the classical 
and romantic schools " of literature : their child 
Euphorion is Byron. We may well ask — 

" Is this the face that launched a thousand ships, 
And burnt the topless towers of Ilion?" 

Faust's regeneration is accomplished by his engaging 
in "beneficent activity," thus fulfilling man's better 
destiny. At the last he is blessed with fore-knowledge 
of the continuance of his work. He has not lived in 
vain. This interpretation has, to be sure, an incom- 
plete appearance. But Goethe is hard to fathom : we 
yet see only an arc of his circle. 

Faust is the great exemplar, and even in the First 
Part, the prototype of modern Allegory. Shelley faces 
like problems of humanity in the Prometheus Unbound 
and in his maturest work. The Triumph of Life, where 
the Allegory, which Dante and his two successors 
framed from the festival-processions of their time, is 
turned to describe existence and to ask its unanswered 
questions. 

"Struck to the heart by this sad pageantry, 
Half to myself I said, *And what is this? 
Whose shape is that within the car ? And why — * 
I would have added — *is all here amiss?'" 



192 Allegory. 

Later in the century, one of Tennyson's master- 
pieces, The Palace of Art, deals also with the true 
purposes of Life. 

"I send you here a sort of Allegory 
(For you will understand it) of a soul, 
A sinful soul possessed of many gifts, 
A spacious garden full of flowering weeds, 
A glorious Devil, large in heart and brain. 
That did love Beauty only, — 

— or if Good, 
Good only for its beauty." 

The case, be it noted, is a general one. Any real 
play of individual character disappears. It is the 
sacrifice of the heart to the intellect. All the achieve* 
ments of Europe are stored in the Palace, Poetry and 
Art and Thought. All the memories, all the dreams, 
the freedom, the insight and the imagination of the 
Past, are there enjoyed by the Soul and enjoyed 
alone. 

"Yet not the less held she her solemn mirth, 
And intellectual throne." 

She does not realize her loss and cuts herself 
willingly adrift from mankind. But, as time drives 
on, her very possessions, her knowledge and under- 
standing, having no object, slip from her. Isolation 
becomes an Inaction which is torment. The unused 
thoughts turn on the thinker. 

Generalized as this Allegory of Tennyson's is, it 
concerns a particular destiny, compared to some of 
those in contemporary pictures of Watts. The famous 
painting of " Love and Death " describes an universal 
fate, and blinded "Hope" with her broken lyre is 
peculiar to no walk of Life or special person. If one 
may pass a criticism on many of Watts' pictures, it is 
that the meaning is hard to read. But this is not the 
fault of "Love and Death." He who runs may read; 
and the two protagonists speak to us the primal forces 
they figure- 



Allegory, 193 

Universal life, also, appears in Hilton's painting 
" Nature blowing bubbles for her children," though the 
thought is shallow compared to Watts'. Even in the 
re-use of medieval legends universal cases predominate. 
Is Tennyson's Holy Grail solely and distinctively 
Christian in meaning ? And the curse of the Gold, to 
which William Morris gives new meaning in the 
Nibelungen Lied, belongs to no one community or 
character. 

A wholly modern character, however, belongs to a 
modern Italian Allegory of Leopardi's. It is an 
instance of the new solidarity of European literature 
that his chef d'oeuvre in prose, the History of the 
Human Race, should display much the same features 
as the Palace of Art, should deal with the same 
universal humanity as Goethe's Faust. The play of 
character, indeed, wholly disappears. Individual destiny 
is lost in that of all. Its power lies in the truth of its 
psychology, one-sided truth to be sure, in its extra- 
ordinary beauty of style and its profound irony. The 
last of these is almost a new departure in serious 
Allegory, happily compelled, it may be, by the 
strictures of the Tuscan censorship. Contrived as it is 
with a melancholy that never jeers, it redoubles the 
pessimism of the thought. The classic beauty of the 
style is unsurpassed. The melody of the sentences, 
the clean-cut, simple phrase with no word too much, 
the absence of strain after effect, the Greek harmony 
and proportion, aad the exsict expression of the 
thought, all go to make it a masterpiece of prose. And 
Leopardi's imaginative power gives it a vivid, unlavish 
colouring which brings the implied thought home. 

The faults of his theory are obvious on the surface. 
It is a jaundiced view of life he takes. But the faults 
of his Allegory are few. Poignant in phrase, drawn 
with a sure touch, his scenes of human existence are 
.draped and blent with the history of the species. The 
.allegoric form is used by an artist of the highest 



194 Allegory. 

rank. And one may doubt whether he will soon be 
surpassed or even equalled. The typical Allegory of 
an age, perhaps, cannot be reproduced indefinitely. 
And the French Revolution is already a century old. 
When and whence will the new inspiration come ? The 
history of Allegory, like that, with wider scope, of 
Literature, is the history of a department of human 
thought. And real novelty, real originality come but 
rarely. Doubtless there lies on the knees of the Gods 
some new outlook on Life and the World, which will 
seek its new expression : but to all appearance we are 
descending into the trough of the wave. Perhaps the 
predominantly critical character of the present time, 
the very excellence of its judgments, is a symptom of 
this. It is to the closing centuries of a dispensation 
that the text belongs, " Let us now praise famous men." 

C W. Previt^ Orton. 







THE HILL-ALTAR. 

O YE who pass in rushing cars, 
Wild-whirling over sounding ways, 

Who seek beyond the outer stars 

Honour and wealth and length of days, 

It profits much to muse alone 

Upon an ancient altar-stone. 

Though lost the race which wrought and reared 
Trilithons 'gainst the summer moon, 

With all they loved, and all they feared, 
With their weird worship, rhyme and rune. 

Sun-temples on the misty downs. 

Long-laboured, hollow, earthen towns. 

Grey granite boulders in the grass 
Brought with vast labour from afar. 

Strange hillocks crowned with herbage sparse^ 
The tombs of long-dead tribal war. 

Primeval temples in decay. 

Cold ashes of an ancient day. 

Yet lives in these a spirit still. 

Nor mean of mind are those who hold 

The Shape expression of the Will, 
And Matter but its form and mould. 

That Thought in kind is constant ever, 

The Works of Thought unchanging never. 

Ere man had lured from underground, 
In pride of strength and lust of gain. 

The coal-black devil iron-crowned — 
Lay in this land no happier plain 

Than where, enriched by far-off showers. 

The Trent its shining water pours. 



196 The Hill-Altar. 

A pleasant vale of summer leaves 
And misty far- oflf hills of shade, 

Rosy with fruit and crown'd with sheaves, 
The many-curvfed river made, 

And fretting ever southward wore 

Incessantly its yielding shore. 

No alien rock that crag which towers 

Enormous o'er the dusty way, 
Deep-rooted where dissolving powers 

Of rain and tempest ground to clay, 
Less stedfast stone from which its form 
Sprang in a million years of storm. 

Its barren clefts are dry and brown. 

There lives nor herb nor moss save where, 

Ill-nourished, round its naked crown. 
The bramble clings like hoary hair, 

Unchanging, savage, stark, and lone. 

Called from of old the Himlack Stone. 

In high Midsummer's fragrant nights, 
Beneath the mild slow-mounting moon, 

The clinging ghosts of nameless rites 
Man's spirit to themselves attune, 

"Which, standing in a charmed place, 

Meets the Time-Spirit face to face. 

Lo! oft upon this crag a bird 

Descending, lights, none knoweth whence; 
Though scarce relaxed, her wings are stirred 

None knoweth whither, parting hence; 
Some say the soul of man sublime 
Thus pauseth on the crags of time. 

Ten thousand times a thousand years 
Erase, and still the world is old; 

Not in her records e'er appears 
Effortless time, an age of gold. 

Perfection, and the soul's desire. 

Like her, is born in fervent fire. 



The HilUAliar. 197 

Far-gleaming wastes of shining sand 
The moon-drawn waters overspread, 

And, gliding o'er the forming land, 
The warring currents strew their bed 

With waste of cliffs which endlessly 

Pay tribute to the unresting sea. 

Of shapeless sand the stone is born, 

Compacted by the rolling years 
To a rock-nature, but the worn 

Storm-wasted covering disappears; 
Strong in repose it standeth still 
Gigantic, watching from its hill. 

The ever-shifting scene reveals 

Long ridges by a silent shore. 
No print it bears of grounding keels, 

It knows nor sail nor sound of oar ; 
But the voice of the sea in a dumb creation 
Moans for a mightier generation. 

Spirit of man ! Elusive flame ! 

Bright meteor of the eternal dark! 
Thou knowest not the source whence came 

Thine own divine Promethean spark; 
Should Earth ignited rend in twain. 
To thee 'twere neither loss nor gain. 

There floats a dream of baleful light 
Round the hill-altar — many-scarred. 

Strange figures hover robed in white, 
Fantastic priests who straitly guard 

The savage worship of their race. 

Murmuring round their holy place. 

One lies upon the altar-stone 

Fast bound upon a fearful bed. 
Falls on the ear a shuddering groan; 

The knife descends and rises red, 
A ghastly dew the altar dyes 
From the completed sacrifice. 

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198 The HilUAltar. 

The gods have closed his sum of days. 

He saw with wide and wistful eyes 
Woods whispering in a silver haze. 

Soft lustre of the midnight skies. 
Then the last moment's awesome life, — 
Darkness descending with the knife. 

His ancient race was ground to dust 
By armM years of ceaseless strife. 

The warring nations which were thrust, 
In wave on wave of surging life, 

Over the land toward the west, 

Have sunk like wandering fires to rest. 

In curvfed mirrors as one views 
His natural face in curious wise. 

E'en so the mind of man construes 
Eternal truth in varying guise, 

A mocking image! None the less 

Beyond the glass is loveliness. 

P. A. I. 



Rev Frank Dyson M.A, 

The Rev F. Dyson, Fellow and for some time Dean of the 
College, died on the 30th September 1907 at 30 Devonshire 
Place, Eastbourne. We take the following notice of him 
from The Cambridge Review of October 24: 

Frank Dyson was born at Chesterton in 1855, and in due 
course became a pupil of the Perse Grammar School, Cam^* 
bridge, where he was one of the ablest among the band of 
earnest students whom the then Headmaster, Frederic 
Heppenstall, inspired with his love for the classics, and his 
passion for accuracy. From school he went up to St John's 
as Senior Classical Scholar, and, after three years of steady 
work, varied by long walks with intimate friends, volunteering, 
music, and studies in German, he graduated in 1877, as third 
in the First Class of the Classical Tripos. He had early made 
up his mind that he would be a schoolmaster, and a school- 
master he became, almost immediately after taking his 
Degree. In 1879, he was elected to a Fellowship, and in 
the same year he took Holy Orders as chaplain and classical 
master at Kelly College, Tavistock. Among his fellow- 
ordinands was Canon J. M. Wilson, then Headmaster of 
Clifton, who subsequently offered him a post under him. 
After three years at Clifton, he was appointed to the Head- 
mastership of the Godolphin School, Hammersmith, from 
which he went to Liverpool in 1888, as Principal of the 
College. His predecessors, Howson, Butler, and E. C. 
Selwyn, had done great things for the College, and Dyson 
worthily maintained its reputation : under him the numbers 
steadily increased, and, in spite of difficulties and keen com- 
petition, progress was made in all directions. In many 
respects, Dyson was an ideal schoolmaster. He was inflexibly 
just : he had a commanding presence, great teaching powers, 



200 Obituary. 

and a knowledge of, and a sympathy with, boy nature, which, 
accompanied as it was by a keen sense of humour, made him 
loved and respected by his boys. Many of his friends antici- 
pated for him a still more important post in the world of 
school ; and it is an open secret that he was one of the two 
finally selected for the Headmastership of Tonbridge in 1898 ; 
but he himself was beginning to feel the strain of school 
work, and he gladly welcomed the opportunity of a return to 
Cambridge, when in 1900 the authorities of his old College 
re-elected him to a Fellowship, and appointed him Junior 
Dean. The years of Cambridge work were probably the 
happiest of his life. His duties were comparatively light. 
He had leisure for Theological study and for Music, and he 
had a pleasant circle of congenial friends. He found time to 
become a University representative on the Town Council, 
and did valuable work on the Education Committee, where 
his sound judgment and conspicuous fairness were specially 
useful. In 1904, he was pro-Proctor, and in October, 1905, 
was admitted to the office of Senior Proctor, but the 
mysterious malady, from which he was beginning to suffer, 
grew suddenly worse. He was compelled to resign, and a 
few months later to leave Cambridge, — ^for a time, as he and 
his friends then hoped. But he was never to return to the 
college he loved so well. It soon became plain that he could 
not recover, though at first a partial restoration to health was 
predicted by the specialist he consulted. After a time even 
that hope was abandoned. He bore, with wonderful patience 
and sweetness, the long illness with its pitiful weakness and 
helplessness, which must have been peculiarly trying to an 
active man who had scarcely known illness before. The end 
came almost suddenly, just before the beginning of the 
October Term. He passed from unconsciousness to death 
without suffering. Thus Cambridge has lost a loyal and 
devoted son. If his death seems premature, those who loved 
him have the consolation of knowing that he had lived a full 
life of usefulness and service to his fellows. Of him it may 
be* most truly said : f After he had served his own generation 
by the will of God, he fell asleep.' 



Obituary 201 

Sir Denzil Charles Jelf Ibbetson K.C.S.I. 

Sir Denzil Ibbetson, for a short time Lieutenant Governor 
of the Punjab, died in London on the 21st February 1908. 
We take the following account of him from The Times of 
February 22 : — 

We regret to announce the death, which occurred yester- 
day, in his 61st year, in pathetic circumstances, of Sir Denzil 
Charles Jelf Ibbetson, K.C.S.I., who less than a year ago 
(March, 1907) succeeded to the Lieutenant-Governorship of 
the Punjab. After stemming the tide of " unrest" which arose 
in that province last spring, Sir Denzil was stricken with 
cancer, and, in spite of an operation performed in London in 
the summer, was compelled by the development of the 
malady to resign his post in January last. So recently as 
February 14 we recorded that Sir DenziFs departure from 
Lahore was the occasion of general expressions of deep 
regret that severe bodily affliction should necessitate his 
premature relinquishment of the high office which was the 
fitting consummation of his career, uniformly meritorious and 
successful, in the Indian Civil Service. The earnest hopes 
then expressed that return to this country might be followed 
by recovery of health have been doomed to disappointment. 
The few friends who saw Sir Denzil on his arrival were 
distressed to notice the marked change for the worse since 
he returned to India in the autumn. It was evident that the 
mahgnant disease held him in its grasp, and that his end 
must be near. 

Born at Gainsborough in 1847, the son of a clergyman, Sir 
Denzil Ibbetson passed his early years in South Australia, and 
studied at St Peter's College, Adelaide. Subsequently enter- 
ing at St John's, Cambridge, he sat in the Indian Civil 
Service examination of 1868 and took first place. Going out 
to India after the customary two years' probation, he was 
posted to the Punjab. He first came into notice for the 
painstaking thoroughness with which he carried out the 
revenue settlement of the Karnal district. His graphic and 
comprehensive report gave evidence of the keen interest he 
maintained to the last in the ethnology, customs, and folklore 
of his province ; and it earned for him selection to compile 



202 Obiiuary. 

the Punjab census report for 1881. His official chiefs hinted 
to him that he was too voluminous and detailed in his 
collection of data^ and unnecessarily precise in his verification 
of facts. But all competent observers acknowledged his 
census report to be an admirable and trustworthy account of 
the origin, religion, and customs of the many interesting races 
inhabiting the land of the Five Rivers. Though a census has 
since been twice taken, the report has not been superseded ; 
it remains, in conjunction with his separate ^^ Handbook of 
Punjab Ethnography," the standard authority on the subject. 
In the editorship of the Punjab Gazetteer^ which followed, 
Ibbetson was hampered by the severe limitations of space and 
treatment imposed ; but it goes without the saying that the 
work was well done. After serving for a brief period as 
Director of Public Instruction, he went back to ordinary 
revenue work. If at times his subordinates thought him a 
hard taskmaster, they knew him to be a just one, and 
acknowledged that, though the standard of duty he enjoined 
was high, he led the way in its observance. 

By this time Mr Ibbetson, as he then was, had more than 
a provincial reputation. He was president of a commission 
which in 1893 investigated the vexed subject of cantonment 
regulations regarding contagious diseases. His first impor- 
tant work of this order, however, was a year or so earlier, 
when he sat on the Commission to inquire into the working 
of the Deccan Agriculturists' Relief Act The knowledge 
thereby gained of the problems connected with agricultiu^ 
indebtedness was of value to him when, in 1894, he succeeded 
Sir Edward Buck as Secretary to the Government of India in 
the Agricultural and Revenue department. Here he had much 
to do with shaping the policy and working out the details of 
the epoch-marking Punjab Land Alienation Act, the first far- 
reaching measure to stem the evil of peasant expropriation 
and serfdom at the hands of the professional moneylender. 
In July, 1898, he followed Sir Charles J. Lyall, in the Chief 
Commissionership of the Central Provinces, but before the 
end of the following year he was in Calcutta acting for six 
months as a Member of the Executive Council. Service on 
the important Irrigation Commission over which Sir Colin 
Scott- Moncrieff presided was followed in March, 1902, by his 



Obituary. 203 

substantive nomination to the Executive Council, where he 
held the Revenue and Agriculture portfolio. In the following 
January he received his knighthood in the Order of the Star 
of India. At this time Lord Curzon's reforming activity was 
in full operation, and in Sir Denzil Ibbetson, with his well- 
deserved reputation for solid worth and steadfast application, 
the Viceroy found a colleague thoroughly to his liking, and 
one on whose judgment and discretion he placed high value. 
To the devoted co-operation of the Revenue Member Lord 
Curzon owed no small measure of his success in effecting 
many of the far-reaching agrarian reforms which are to be 
placed to the credit of his Administration, including the new 
and enlarged organization of agricultural education, experi- 
ment, and research, and the measures to develop co-operative 
credit for agrarian pmposes. 

Sir Denzil Ibbetson had acted as Lieutenant-Governor of 
his old province for six months in 1905, and his selection to 
succeed to the post when Sir Charles Rivaz retired in March, 
1907, accorded with general expectation. The times were 
critical. The Colonization Bill, passed by the local Legis- 
lature, just before Sir Charles Rivaz left, was being grossly 
misrepresented to the ignorant cultivators by seditious 
agitators, who also turned to political account the plague 
epidemic afflicting the province. Sir Denzil, with his 
intimate knowledge of the Punjab and its people, was soon 
able to appraise the situation. It was too late to avert the 
storm which broke almost immediately after his arrival in 
Lahore, serious rioting occurring there and at Rawalpindi ; 
but he dealt with the crisis decisively and firmly yet temper- 
ately. It is probable that disastrous results would have 
ensued if weakness or indecision had been shown by the new 
Lieutenant-Governor. The measures he proposed and 
effected had a prompt and salutary effect, and met with 
the full, if reluctant, approval of Lord Mioto and Mr 
Morley, the latter subsequently informing the House of 
Commons that, notwithstanding bitter criticism from a small 
section of Labour and Radical members, he intended to 
offer no apology for sanctioning the temporary deportation 
of two of the agitators. Unhappily at the very moment 
when the dangers of the situation had been resolutely faced 



204 Obituary, 

and averted, Sir Denzil was compelled to take leave, and 
come to this country to undergo an operation for cancer 
on the lip. The operation was much more serious than 
was publicly known at the time, and it was only uuder a 
characteristic sense of duty that Sir Denzil returned to his 
important charge in the autumn. There had been base 
insinuations against him of timidity in the least reputable 
section of the vernacular Press when illness compelled him 
to come home, and it is quite possible that his resignation 
before the expiry of his leave would have been wilfully 
misconstrued as an indication that he had lost the confidence 
of his official .chiefs. So he returned to Lahore, and, in 
spite of grave physical disability, laboured for a few months 
longer with fortitude and zeal, making the impress of his 
strong personality felt on all branches of the Administration. 
From the same sense of duty he resigned his charge when 
no longer able to fulfil its obligations efficiently, and he 
came home to certain early death, calm and courageous to 
the last. 

Though Sir Denzil Ibbetson's disposition was retiring, his 
intimates knew him to be a brilliant and entertaining conver- 
sationalist, and he was a pianist of exceptional merit. Lady 
Ibbetson, whom he married before going out to India in 
1870, was a daughter of the late Mr Samuel Coulden. There 
are two daughters, one of whom is married to a Bombay 
civilian. 

Sir Denzil was the recipient of many public and private 
expressions of regret at the premature termination of his 
high office. The Punjab Chamber of Commerce passed a 
resolution expressing profound sympathy with Sir Denzil and 
Lady Ibbetson "in the circumstances which have thus inter- 
rupted a brilliant, useful, and honourable career," and an 
earnest hope that Sir DenziPs departure from India might 
prove "the first step towards a complete recovery to his 
wonted health and activity." At a great gathering of 
Mahomedans at the Royal Mosque, Lahore, the Hon. Main 
Shah Din made a short speech in which he expressed the 
profound regret felt by the Mahomedan community at the 
unfortunate circumstances which had compelled Sir Denzil 
to resign. At his suggestion prayers were offered by the 



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assembly for the speedy recovery of the retiring Lieutenant- 
Governor and for the stability of the British Raj, At a 
special meeting of the executive committee of the Punjab 
Anjuman-i-Islam, with Nawab Fateh Ali Khan in the chair, 
a resolution was passed of concern and sincere regret that 
Sir Denzil had been compelled by ill-health to retire, "at 
a time when his long experience of the Punjab and its 
people would have enabled him to do much for their 
welfare." 



Rev William Taylor Newbold, M.A, 

Mr Newbold, who died at Aldridge Rectory, Staffordshire, 
on the 7th of January 1908, was a son of Mr Joseph Newbold, 
of Springs, Bury, Lancashire. He was born 20 May 1850 
and was educated at Brewood School, Staffordshire, under 
the Rev Richant Wall, a member of St John's, Newbold 
was admitted a pensioner 7 June 1869, his College Tutor 
being the late Dr Parkinson ; he was admitted a foundation 
scholar 13 June 1871 ; he took his degree as fifth in the 
Classical Tripos of 1873; he was admitted a Fellow of the 
College 9 November 1875, remaining a Fellow until his 
marriage. He entered on School work immediately after 
taking his degree. He was presented by the College 
to Aldridge Rectory 22 June 1903, and was instituted 
6 September following. We take the following notice of 
him from The Guardian of January 15 : — 

On Saturday, at the Cemetery, Bury, Lancashire, were 
laid to rest the mortal remains of the Rev W. T. Newbold, 
M,A., Rector of Aldridge, Staffordshire, formerly Fellow of 
St John's College, Cambridge, second master of Lancaster 
Grammar School, and for about twenty-four years Head 
Master of St Bees. He was only fifty-seven years of age. 
The Rev C. J. Woodhouse, Vicar of St Peter's, took the first 
part of the service in church. The Lesson was read by the; 
Rev E. W. Newmarch, curate of Aldridge. The committal 
was taken by myself. To Aldridge he was presented by his; 
College in 1903, but in a short time his health broke down,, 
and he had to undergo hospital treatment for a severe 
internal trouble. Soon his friends realised sadly, and only 
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too surely, that even his robust health and undaunted courage 
were no match for so insidious and malignant a foe. Alas ! 
his parish folk were never able, much to their loss, to see 
and know him at his best. Knowing him and loving him as 
I did and do, he would not be in his proper sphere and setting 
unless he, the picture of strength and vigour and freshness 
and Englishness, was framed with a golden frame — of dutiful 
masters, and well-disciplined, busy, and withal respectful and 
affectionate boys. 

His eager, almost brusque, manner at times seemed best to 
suit us of the ways and temper of the sturdy North. St Bees 
was his real mission and life work, and for it he did much 
and hoped to do more. At Aldridge he did what he could, 
and was thoroughly well liked and respected by those who 
had time to get to know him. There was no mistaking that 
those who shared the privilege of meeting there in September 
and at his interment had clear eyes for a brave and patient, 
a sterling and straightforward man when they saw him, and 
that they meant not to give him up till the grave received 
him. His young wife had nursed him for months, almost 
night and day, with unceasing love and devotion. Latterly 
two extra nurses had been required. 

At St Bees Mr Newbold saw the Head Master's house 
built, the swimming-bath built and paid for. The school 
chapel was built and opened after his departure, but the 
building had been one of the dreams of his hfe. He started 
the idea, fanned it, and probably raised half the cost painfully 
and patiently. He took a deep and real interest in matters 
parochial — Priory Church, School Board, and Parish Council. 
He served as Chairman of the Canon Knowles and the Rev 
J. Smallpeice Testimonial Committee. About 1,200/. were 
raised in a few weeks for these veteran educationists. He 
did well for the Organ Fund from the beginning, and a most 
successful bazaar was held at the school for it. Old masters, 
old boys, and old friends found in him a charming host. 

Mr Newbold was a great buyer of books and a ready 
lender. He was most liberal, too, with his knowledge, and 
he had great supplies over and above what would be taken 
for granted in a Fifth Classic in a strong year. He once toJd 
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out would be for me or some one else he knew and liked to 
come and read Homer with him. How fond, twenty years 
ago, was he of a walk to Cleaton, or Sandwith, or Whitehaven 
with a friend and his old setter, " Rab." Busy as he was, 
and not likely to leave the school for many hours at a stretch, 
he would always help a sick clergyman, preach a harvest or 
Easter sermon, and walk three miles there and back to do it 
And the country people at Sandwith, as well as his boys, 
heard him gladly. His were no merely narrow views, and he 
could look at things from a layman's point of view. In short, 
I never met any one yet who brought nearer home to me, in 
the best and truest way, the gist and value of Terence's 
words : — 

" Homo sum, homani nihil a me alienmn puto." 
Few of the large numbers present from all parts will ever 
forget what was, perhaps, one of his greatest achievements at 
St Bees — ^the starting and the splendid carrying through of 
the Tercentenary of Archbishop Grindall's famous foundation 
in 1888, when William Thomson, Archbishop of York — him- 
self a Whitehaven man — ^was the preacher in the Priory 
Church. Canon Rawnsley, of Crosthwaite, Keswick, then 
in an inaugural ode happily described him. One trait of his 
character was a wonderful gift of writing letters in a delight- 
ful style of English. We who knew him well and who loved 
him dearly and now mourn him greatly shall miss him sorely 
in advice, direction, help, encouragement. It breaks in upon 
us that we need early to " repair our friendship " if we can. 
His like will not soon again cross or rather join our way. 
And yet he is not lost to his boys. For friendship is secured 
and deepened by death, and the pleasant and holy memories 
of old and fast friendships help to keep us always growing 
in heart. We, who have the blessing of kindred and friends 
increased so richly by that spiritual oneness of heart which 
flows from a common faith and a common aim heavenwards, 
can surely enter into the deep, sweet words of St Augus- 
tine : — " He alone cannot lose any that are dear to him, to 
whom they are all dear in Him Who cannot be lost." 

Rees Keene. 



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Rev Edward Woodley Bowling. 

Edward Woodley Bowling, who died last December, was 
born at Nice on Christmas Day, 1837. His father, Mr Thomas 
R, Bowling, was an English medical man who was in practice 
at Nice. The Bowling family, as I understand, originally 
came from Yorkshire. Mr Thomas Bowling had married 
a young French lady, the daughter of Captain le Jeune, who 
had been an officer in Napoleon's army and a friend, it is 
said, of Marshal Ney. Captain le Jeune's wife was a Miss 
Masterson, a member of an Irish family. 

Five sons, of whom Edward was the third, were the issue 
of the marriage ; and soon after the birth of the youngest the 
father died. Happily Mrs Bowling was not unequal to the 
charge thus laid upon her. Never were boys more f(^timate 
in their mother. She was a woman of sound clear sense and 
very deep religious feeling. She had an unusual charm of 
manner, a simple winning grace, which came from a 
singularly refined and unselfish nature. 

On her husband's death the widow with her five children 
came to England \ and they made their first home at Hammer- 
smithy where Edward was sent to a lady's school at Turnham 
Green. Then the family went to Chester, where most of the 
brothers went to the school of Mr Jonathan Elwell ; and when 
Mr Elwell moved with part of his school to Weston-super- 
Mare the boys and their mother followed him. From Weston 
Mrs Bowling with her children went to Birmingham, where 
she was fortunate in obtaining nominations for all her sons 
to King Edward the Sixth's Grammar School, of which at 
that time Dr Gifford, afterwards Archdeacon of London, 
was Headmaster. With him Edward Bowling remained on 
terms of intimate friendship till the time of Dr Gilford's 
death. Bowling rose to be captain of the school and 
gained the first Exhibition on leaving in 1856. Meanwhile 
Mrs Bowling had married Mr George Whateley, a member 
of an eminent and well-known firm of Birmingham solicitors ; 
and her home was in Birmingham, or Edgbaston, till 
Mr Whateley's death in 1878. 

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1856, and showed at once that he was a scholar of power 
and promise. In those days the Port Latin Exhibition, of 
the value of £50, was awarded annually to the best Classic 
among the freshmen. Bowling divided this distinction with 
R. W. Taylor, afterwards a Fellow of our College, and sub- 
sequently Master of Kelly College, Tavistock. He was also 
elected to a Foundation Scholarship ; and, from his unusual 
facility and brilliance in Greek and Latin composition, was 
generally looked on as the Johnian champion of his year. 
He was essentially a good all-round man, good at cricket, at 
rowing, and especially at racquets ; while his sociability, his 
genial manners, his unfailing humour and ready wit made 
him an universal favourite. In 1860 he took his B.A. degree, 
obtaining a First-Class in the Classical Tripos, though owing 
to a breakdown in health in the examination his place was not 
so high as he might have fairly expected. Then he accepted 
a mastership at Bromsgrove school, under Dr Collis, and was 
away from Cambridge till 1862 ; when he came again into 
residence in October, having been elected to a Fellowship in 
the preceding May. For the next eleven years he resided in 
College. He took pupils, and repeatedly acted as College 
examiner, besides holding successively the posts of Steward 
and Junior Bursar. But, though a College officer, he was 
far removed from the typical don. He kept up most cordial 
relations with the undergraduate world, taking a keen interest 
in all manly sports and games ; he won the Newbery Chal- 
lenge Racquet Cup on several occasions ; he was President 
of the L.M.B.C. from 1862 to 1873 ; he was always to the 
fore on the occasion of the annual cricket match with the 
college servants. 

In 1867 Bowling was ordained by the Bishop of Ely, 
He was appointed curate of Newton, some six miles fro^i 
Cambridge, and also gave assistance for some time to the 
vicar of the neighbouring parish of Thriplow. 

In 1873 he was presented by the College to the Rectory 
of Houghton Conquest, near Bedford, and the consequent 
resignation of his Fellowship brought his connexion with 
Cambridge to an end. Succeeding in his Rectory an eminent 
Johnian, Archdeacon Henry John Rose, Bowling devoted 
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210 Obituary. 

I can testify to the manly, conscientious, and unsparing way 
in which he threw himself into parish work. A sound 
churchman, though not holding extreme views, he greeted 
all his parishioners, churchmen or nonconformists, with a 
frank and ready courtesy which disarmed rudeness or 
opposition and made him everywhere welcome as a friend- 
It was not that he shrunk from reproof when needed, or 
winked at wrong-doing; on the contrary, he spoke out 
fearlessly and plainly alike on matters of faith or conduct. 
He was in truth a faithful steward; and so, in a parish 
where many looked on the Church with suspicion or dislike, 
he won respect and regard, increasing year by year ; so much 
so that, when there seemed a prospect of his exchanging 
the living for one in another county, there came an almost 
universally signed petition to beg him to remain. Country 
life suited him in many ways, for he was fond of exercise ; 
he loved horses and dogs; nor did he scruple to appear 
at times in the hunting field. Unfortunately the climate 
of Houghton, or the soil, did not suit him ; and asthma, 
which had been a long-standing enemy, became so severe 
that, after a struggle of many years, he felt constrained to 
resign his incumbency. This was in 1897, and Bowling 
then went to live in Bedford, where he joined his only 
surviving brother. 

Freed from the anxiety of parish work, and on a more 
congenial soil, he seemed for a while to gain re-estabhshed 
health. Though relieved from the daily pressm-e of routine 
duty, he led no idle life at Bedford, nor was he satisfied with 
literary leisure. There were constant demands on his 
counsels or his pen ; and he was ever ready to serve a 
good cause on the platform or in the pulpit. Witness the 
following paragraph from a notice in the Bedford Standard^ 
which appeared after his death. 

"Since leaving Houghton Conquest Mr Bowling had 
resided in Bedford with his brother, where he took the 
greatest interest in all good works. Mr Bowling was one of 
those clergymen whom the Church can ill afford to lose. 
Although for some years past he had been obliged to limit 
his clerical work to occasional duty, he had, even during this 
period of his Ufe, afforded to all those whose privilege it 



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was to know him personally, or hear him preach, a bright 
example of quiet Christian goodness. His earnestness was 
perhaps made more impressive by the delicacy of his health. 
With a singular charm of manner, slow to take offence, 
always kind, cheery, and with a keen sense of humour, no 
wonder is it that he had a host of friends, and probably not 
an unfriendly critic in the world. A keen supporter of all 
manly games, he was often wont to look to the achievements 
of the athletes of old for a simile on which to base his 
reasoning in the pulpit. As a contributor to this journal we 
shall miss him greatly, for our files for many years past con- 
tain contributions — mostly in verse — ^from his able pen. In 
a letter received within the last month he wrote, * I read the 
Beds. Standard every week, and wish it and its staff and the 
good cause all good things.' " 

Though he derived some benefit from the change of 
place, it became increasingly evident that he was not the 
man he had been. Asthma and bronchial and rheumatic 
troubles came at shorter and shorter intervals; his still 
vigorous frame was gradually bent, and his walk grew 
slower. An annual summer holiday at his favourite Capel 
Curig seemed indeed to give fresh strength, but it was only 
for a time ; it could not restore him to permanent health. 

In the spring of last year the brothers left Bedford and 
took a house at Ealing. There they found a more in- 
vigorating air and bright surroundings, which gave promise 
of a fresh lease of life. But it was not to be. In December 
there came an attack of more than usual severity, complicated 
by heart weakness, from which Bowling had not the strength 
to rally. He was prepared to go and fully conscious to the 
last He died on Wednesday, December the 18th. On 
Christmas Day he would have completed seventy years. 

In accordance with his own earnest wish he was buried 
at Houghton Conquest, on the north side of the church 
which he loved so much, on Monday, December 23rd. The 
main part of the funeral service was conducted by the Rev 
P. S. P. Jones, now vicar of Scraptoft, who was for many years 
curate of Houghton. This is Mr Jones' testimony to his 
friend. "He was never forgotten by his old friends and 
parishioners. He was a good, faithful, generous, and liberal- 



212 Obituary, 

minded pastor and friend, and the world is all the better for 
his having lived — ^God bless his memory." 

It always seemed to me that the principle of Bowling's 
Lfe was an abiding sense of duty. It was an Englishman's 
duty, he believed, to interest himself in public matters ; he 
was not content to be a mere critic or a cynical spectator. He 
had studied history, and he studied the questions of the day, 
and spoke out his convictions. Thus he earnestly supported, 
alike in the pulpit and in the local papers, the efforts of 
Lord Roberts to enforce the obligation of national defence. 
And any movement in Bedford which seemed to him right 
found in him not merely a well-wisher, but an active helper. 
In his parish too he had always at heart the material as well 
as the spiritual welfare of his people. Whether they agreed 
with him or not — and there were many who were ready to 
cavil and suspect — they learned to know that they had an 
honest and impartial friend, whose advice; would be sensible 
and well-considered, who would speak without fear or 
favour. 

He had the same sense of duty in his social life. The ties 
of kinship and the claims of friendship were in his eyes 
a sacred bond. There was no caprice in his affection, no 
danger of misunderstanding or offence, but a frank and 
hearty comradeship, wherein one felt secure. He had 
indeed a wonderful gift of friendship. Warm-hearted and 
out-spoken — anything rather than reserved — he loved a man 
or woman with whom he might talk at leisure and with 
freedom. " Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the 
countenance of his friend," was a text wfiich he realized in 
his life. So he had friends everywhere — in England, with 
high and low ; in Welsh homesteads ; amongst Swiss land- 
lords and Swiss guides. And he never forgot or failed his 
friends, but "kept his friendships in repair." He seemed 
never to lose a discriminating sympathetic interest in their 
likings and in their lives. Some appropriate token, a special 
message, a photograph, a set of verses, something always 
came to show that former days might be gone, but their 
memory lived still. 

My own debt to Bowling is indeed great. For more than 
forty years he has been our intimate friend. He was my 



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guide in many ways. On literature, classical or modern, his 
talk was stimulating and suggestive, mostly original and 
independent ; so was his outlook on public men and matters. 
He led me to take an interest in athletics ; and was the first 
to introduce me to the rocks and ice- world of Switzerland, 
and the winter delights of Snowdon and the Glyders. Many 
pleasant tours were due to his craft in planning routes and 
finding little-known places of sojourn away from the 
beaten track. Here often came in his quick linguistic 
aptitude ; he could make folks understand him who talked 
no language which we knew, and one often said that it 
made little difference whether he knew their tongue or 
not. 

He had a great delight in natural scenery, ^ind a better eye 
than most men for mountain contours and the topography of 
districts. On the other hand, he cared little, so far as I could 
judge, for architecture or pictures, except in a general sort of 
way. He had a good ear, and appreciated music. He was an 
enthusiastic member of the Alpine Club, and a successful 
climber. Muscularly strong and active as he was, I cannot 
but think that he drew too much on his capital of vitality by 
.Jong and arduous " courses." The glorious air of a glacier , 
the animating light and the splendour of mountain scenery, 
make a man feel capable of anything at the moment, but 
over-taxed nature bides her time and must be reckoned wjth 
in the end. 

Readers of the Eagle need not be reminded of Bowling's 
literary gifts. From his first contribution, on "Valentines 
and Album Verses," which is in Vol. I., p. 159, he has 
brightened our pages with verses grave and gay, all instinct 
with his peculiar nimbleness of wit, and dexterity in the use 
of words. He made fun of us all, but there was no malice 
in his laugh, and nothing which sins against reverence or 
purity. Boating, Alpine climbing, and girl graduates were 
among his favourite themes. His lines often appeared in 
Punchy The Globe^ and other papers ; and many are collected 
in the little volume entitled SagUtulae^ published by Metcalfe 
in 1885. It would be difficult to award the meed of excellence ; 
but certainly the translation of " Don Fernando Gomersalez " 
(Eagle^ VI. 57) into Greek hexameters is deserving of special 
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mention. Nor was he less successful .in serious poetry ; he 
was four times awarded the Seatonian Prize. 

One and the same year has deprived us of two loyal sons 
of Margareta, Bowling and Stanwell. They were nearly con- 
temporaries, and they were alike in many ways ; in their love 
of literature, and especially of poetry ; in their classical 
enthusiasm, and in their attachment to Cambridge and St 
John's. Both served their College during residence for a 
considerable time, and then both undertook the duties of 
a country parish. Both leave behind them a memory which 
** smells sweet and blossoms in the dust.'' 

C. E. Graves. 



It was m 1857 that I first made the acquaintance of 
Edward Woodley Bowling. I found in him a man of very 
definite ideals, possessing also a wholesome sense of humour^ 
and an exceptional facility in Composition, more especially 
verse. For Mathematics and for Science he cared nothing. 
I remember that in his examination for the Little-go two 
simultaneous equations were propounded ; these he solved 
separately, and independently of one another, to his entire 
content ; nor could he be persuaded afterwards that the 
examiners were blameless for not giving him a clearer 
indication of their wishes. For Greek and Latin however he 
had a very different aptitude, though even there his ideal was 
strictly limited to scholarship. The geography of Greece or 
the details of the Athenian constitution had but little charm 
for him. It was in translation that he excelled ; there he 
displayed a refined and delicate touch which placed him 
very near to Stanwell, Arthur Holmes, and other eminent 
composers of his day. His place however in the Tripos^ 
equal eighth, was no slight disappointment to us all, and 
certainly did not fulfil his earlier promise ; he was however 
far from well while sitting for his degree, and it was only at 
the advice of his friends that he agreed to persevere in the 
examination. 

And the refinement he evinced in the domain of letters 
found expresion also in his social estimates. Conservative by 
nature, it was the country gentleman of the older school, the 



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servant and the protector of the poor, unostentatious, self- 
respecting, simple in his ways and dress, who most appealed 
to his imagination. And amongst the men of our own time 
his hero was George Paley, than whom possibly no member 
of the College ever represented better that straightforward 
manliness and wholesomeness of living, which we desire at 
all times to associate with our public schools and Universities. 
Designed himself for Holy Orders, he had also little love for 
the modern type of seminary priest ; a clergjrman, to 
meet with his approval, needed to be first of all an English 
gentleman, and then a cleric. For all vulgarity and push 
he had the greatest detestation. Not a rich man, he was but 
little troubled by his somewhat scanty means ; what he most 
cared for was the maintenance of all those little courtesies 
and self-restraints which characterized for him the English 
gentleman. 

Perhaps an anecdote may illustrate this trait, which was 
a very marked one in his character. The College hospitality at 
Christmas-tide was, as we all know, somewhat lavish in 
the olden time ; so, in a speech which he was called upon to 
make as Junior Fellow on the last night of the feast, he took 
occasion to remind us of the true idea of hospitality, by 
quoting Denham*s invocation of the Thames : 

"Ohl could I flow like thee and make thy stream 
My great example, as it is my theme 1 
Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; 
Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." 

But no appreciation of our friend would for a moment be 
complete without full recognition of that sense of humour 
which has found from time to time for the last forty 
years such frequent and such admirable illustration in those 
Arrows of a Bowling, Arcnli Sagittce^ which have adorned the 
pages of our College Magazine. This characteristic, however, 
I leave to others to deal with in detail. 

The favourite weapons of our friend were four ; the oar, 
the pen, the alpenstock, the racquet. Of these, although he 
rowed in the second boat, he was, perhaps, least skilful with the 
first ; yet, as is often the case, he loved it best. For my own 
part however, when I look back upon our undergraduate days, 
it pleases me to picture him not on the river or in the 



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racquet court, but rather on some Alpine slope, or on the 
frozen sides of Snovvdon. To the latter happy hunting 
ground he loved to take me in the winter time, and from our 
base of operations at Beddgelert or Pen-y-gwryd lead me to 
the conquest of the giants of the Snowdon range, clothed in 
their winter garb of white. Of an ascent of Monte Rosa also 
in 1863 I have a singularly happy memory, my companions 
being three Johnian Fellows — ^all of whom however are 
now behind the veil — George Richardson, R. W. Taylor, and 
Edward Woodley Bowling. 

Such are my memories of early days. Of Bowling's later 
life it will be given to others to write. Yet I am glad to think 
that it was also mine to be with him, last of his College 
friends, the day before he died, and so to be present at the close 
of a life, not very widely known perhaps, yet characterized 
by a fidelity to duty and by a religious spirit, unobtrusive but 
sincere, which places him among the faithful who were never 
famous, but who have done their Master's work and done it 
well. 

W. D. B. 



I have been asked to write a few words about my old 
friend, Edward Woodley BowUng. One difficulty presents 
itself on the threshold. My relations with him were purely 
personal. I was never able to accept his often-repeated 
invitation to visit him in his Bedfordshire parish, and I know 
nothing of his previous work as a schoolmaster except at 
second-hand. He was my senior by four years, and I think 
I did not even make his acquaintance until after I was elected 
a Fellow of the College. But we were soon drawn together 
by similarity of tastes ^nd because we had several common 
friends, and our friendship grew stronger, as time went on. 
Now and then we arranged to be together, in Switzerland or 
Wales or in the English Lake-district, and our excursions 
and conversations are among my most pleasant recollections. 
He was always so kindly, so genial and so good-humoured, so 
shrewd in his observations on men and things, and possessed 
with such a genuine enthusiasm for literature, especially in its 



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poetical form. He often spoke to me of the inspiration which 
he drew as a school-boy from the teaching of a distinguished 
old Salopian and old Johnian, the late Dr Gifford, and, no 
doubt, it was to Dr Gifford's fine scholarship and stimulating 
teaching that he owed his love (no weaker word is strong 
enough) for the Greek and Latin languages. In his Greek 
and, even more, I think, in his Latin verses he showed how 
wide and exact was his acquaintance with ancient authors. 
Eaiglish verses flowed with equal facility from his pen. The 
Seatonian Prize wjis awarded to him four times. The readers 
of The Eagle for many years enjoyed the graceful, and often 
humorous, lines in which under the nom de plume of 
"Arculus'^ he commemorated current events. And, if a 
suitable occasion of a more private character prompted his 
Muse, it was a delight to him to dash off a few appropriate 
stanzas for the perusal of his friends. He was fond of little 
children. A little girl of my acquaintance, whom he came to 
know, while staying in her father^s house, received from him 
from time to time a succession of poetical greetings, which 
she, now no longer a little girl, treasures carefully. Strong and 
active in his younger days, he suffered much from ill health 
in the later stages of his life. But his cheerfulness never 
deserted him. When we were staying together at Montana 
a few years ago, he was confined to his bed from the day of 
our arrival almost until the day of our departure. He 
always revelled in the beautiful scenery of the Alps, and his 
disappointment must have been keen, but I do not recall a 
single word of complaint from his lips. On the contrary he 
was full of gratitude for every attention which was paid to 
him by those who were staying in the hotel, among them the 
present Bishop of Lincoln, whose kindness to him was great. 
Many Johnians have exhibited more commanding powers and 
have filled a larger space in the public eye. I doubt whether 
St John's has ever had a more loyal son than E. W. Bowling. 
The College was always one of his favourite topics of con- 
versation. He was always deeply interested in everything 
that concerned its welfare. When he was a candidate 
for a College Fellowship, it is said, instead of giving 
proof of high mathematical attainments, which for obvious 
reasons was impossible, he showed up some moving verses* 



218 Obituary. 

in which he craved the privilege of becoming " a Johnian 
Fellow."* He was elected, — ^whether because of his poem or 
in spite of it, I do not know. Probably there was no event 
in his life to which he looked back in after years with greater 
satisfaction. 

H. W. Moss. 



The following members of the College have died during 
the year 1907 ; the year in brackets is that of the B.A. 
degree : 

Rev Canon Charles Isaac Atherton (1863) ; died 1 October at The Close, 
Exeter, aged 68. See p. 65. 

Robert Adeane Barlow ; admitted pensioner 28 October 1844, commenced 
residence October 1845, resided till the end of 1846 ; his name 
removed from the boards 4 March 1847. Mr Barlow had a very 
singular career ; he was born at Canterbury 12 February 1827, and 
was admitted to Rugby School in 1840, at first in the School House 
under Dr Arnold, then in Mayor's. His father, the Rev William 
Barlow, was some time vicar of St Mary Bredin, Canterbury, after- 
wards Rector of Coddington, Cheshire, and Canon of Chester. His 
mother, Louisa, was a daughter of Robert Jones Adeane, esq, of 
Babraham. Mr R. A. Barlow died 29 September in the Enfield Poor 
Law Infirmary, aged 80; he had lived in and about Enfield for 
some years. After his death a number of paragraphs appeared in 
the newspapers purporting to give an account of his career, these 
seem to have been compiled from recollections of his conversation 
embellished from the fancy of the reporter. He claimed to have 
been an officer in the English Army, to have been a Brigadier- 
General in Burma in 1864, defeating dacoits in an attack on a 
treasure-boat 10 June 1864, to have been Commissary of Transport 
in Abyssinia in 1868, and Captain-General of Abyssinia in 1877. The 
War Office curtly state that his name does not appear in the Army 
Lists, nor in the Abyssinia Medal Rolls. He appears, after leaving 
College, to have visited Pernambuco, Bahia, Ria Janeiro, and the 
mining district of St John del Rey, and to have been connected in 
1857 with the house of W. H. Hornby and Co. Later he visited 
Upper Burma in search of concessions, and appears to have served 
the King at Mandalay. In his later years he had first family troubles 
and then monetary ones, and for the last twelve years of his life was 
an inmate of the Workhouse Infirmary. He stated that he was the 
father of the Princess Clovis Bonaparte, daughter-in-law of Prince 
Jerome Bonaparte. 

Edward Baron (1864), eldest son of Edward George Baron, surgeon, of 
Ulceby, Lincolnshire, baptised there 12 January 1842. Admitted a 
Student of Lincoln's Inn 1 June 1869, called to the Bar 7 June 1873. 
He was for some time Professor of Mathematics in the Education 
Department of the North West Provinces, India. Died 30 April at 
his residence, Sackville House, Hove. 

* The verses may be found in Vol. iv., p. 37, of the Eagle. 



Obituary. 219 

Rev. John Fitzherbert Bateman (1851), died 2 April at 119, Fordwych 
Road, N.W. (see vol. xxviii., 334). Mr Bateman married, first 
21 November 1861, at Aston-on-Trent, Susan Elizabeth, eldest 
daughter of E. A. Holden, esq., of Aston Hall ; secondly 23 January 
1878, at Christ Church, Cheltenham, Georgina Caroline, youngest 
daughter of the late William Ambrose Morehead, of the Madras Civil 
Service. His only child, Susan Margaret, died 21 June, 1886, at 
Lopham Rectory, aged 21. 

Philip Baylis (1872), only son of Philip Baylis, of Homeend, Ledbury ; 
baptised in the parish of Ledbury, co. Hereford, 21 June 1848 ; 
educated at Hereford Cathedral School. Admitted a student of the 
Inner Temple 15 November 1872, called to the Bar 7 June 1875 ; a 
member of the Oxford Circuit. He was appointed Deputy Surveyor, 
under the Crown, of the Forest of Dean about 1895. He died 
suddenly near his residence, Parkend, 7 June, while walking up from 
the Station. By his will, after certain specific legacies, he left the 
residue of his real and personal estate to his sisters for life, and, after 
the decease of the survivor, the whole of his estate is to go to the 
Master, Fellows, and Scholars of St John's College, Cambridge, to 
found a Mathematical Scholarship to be called the Philip Baylis 
Scholarship, of the value of £100 per annum, to be held by the best 
mathematical scholar of the year, aud to be held for three years. 
During that term the holder must reside in the rooms in the Third 
Court occupied by Mr Baylis while an undergraduate. Certain 
carved and antique furniture is left to the College, to be placed in the 
Library and Combination Room. His estate was valued for probate 
at £11,179 gross, and £9,339 net. 

Rev Thomas Wall Beckett (1874), son of Thomas Beckett, of Wellington, 
Salop, baptised at Wellington, 25 December 1836. Second Master 
of Burton-on-Trent Grammar School 1874 — 84 ; Headmaster 1884- 
1900 ; Lecturer of Burton-on-Trent 1877-78 ; Curate of Tattenhill 
1879-80 ; of RoUeston, Staffordshire, 1880-84. Vicar of Anslow, near 
Burton-on-Trent, 1900-1907. Died 19 March. 

Joseph Bell (1846), son of Joseph Bell, of Nottingham, born 4 January 
1824 ; educated at Nottingham School. Sometime of Bishop Stort- 
ford, Herts. Died 23 July at 29, Forest Road, East N^ottingham, 
aged 83. Mr BeU married 26 July 1856, at St Paul's, Deptford, Mary 
Anne, second daughter of T. Marchant, esq., of Deptford. 

Rev John Blanch (1865), son of William Blanch, born at English Bicknor 
Gloucestershire, baptised 15 January 1843 ; educated at Monmouth 
Grammar School. Mr Bland was ninth wrangler in 1865, and was 
elected a Fellow of the College. He was appointed an assistant 
master at the King's School, Sherborne, in 1869, and remained there 
until his death. He suffered latterly from ill-health and nervous 
prostration ; he committed suicide 8 January. Throughout his 
career he was most popular both with masters and boys at Sherborne. 
In the Sherborne Pageant he played a prominent part, his role being 
that of second master, or usher, in the scene in which was depicted 
the presentation of the Charter to the School. With the public life 
of Sherborne Mr Blanch was closely associated. He was a member 
of the Council of the Sherborne Ladies College, and Governor of 
Foster's and Digby's Schools. He was also on the Committee of the 
Sherborne Technical School, and was one of the masters of St John's 
Almshouses. Though bluff in outward manner, John Blanch was 
known to Sherborne boys of many generations for the kindness of 
his heart. Naturally most reticent, he did not often reveal to others 
the depth of his own feeling, but sometimes it was shown in 



220 Obituary. 

unmistakable force. Mr Blanch married 13 August 1879, at St 
Mark's, Bishopwearmouth, Mary, second daughter of T. S. Tumbull, 
of High Barns, Sunderland. 

Rev Edward Woodley Bowling (1860), son i of Thomas Robinson Bowling, 
born at Nice, Italy, 25 December 1837 ; educated at King Edward s 
School, Birmingham. Fellow of the College 1862-73 ; Curate of 
Newton, near Cambridge, 1867-73 ; Rector of Houghton Conquest, 
Beds., 1873-97, when he retired. Died 17 December at his residence, 
Amherst Avenue, Ealing. 

Right Rev Charles Henry Bromby (1837), son of the Rev John Healey 
Bromby, vicar of Trinity, Hull ; born in Hull 11 July 1814, educated 
at Uppingham School. Curate of Chesterfield from 1838 to 1839, 
vicar of St Paul's, Cheltenham, and joint founder of Cheltenham 
Training College, from 1843 to 1864. He accepted the See of 
Tasmania in 1864, being the last colonial Bishop nominated by the 
Crown, and was consecrated in Canterbury Cathedral, together with 
Bishop Jeune and Bishop Crowther, the three prelates representing 
respectively the home, colonial, and missionary spheres of the 
Church's work. Dr Bromby's episcopate was marked by the 
consecration of St David's Cathedral, Hobart, in 1874. He resigned 
in 1883, and, returning to England, was appointed by the late Lord 
Powis Rector of Shrawardine with Montford, Salop, in 1882, where 
he remained till 1887. Assistant Bishop to the Bishop of Lichfield 
(Dr Maclagan) from 1882 to 1891 ; and warden of St John's Hospital, 
Lichfield, from 1887 to 1891. In ISVl he was appointed Assistant 
Bishop to the Bishop of Bath and Wells (Lord Arthur Hervey), and 
his commission was continued by Bishop Kennion, but he resigned 
in 1900. The Bishop was one of those Churchmen who, while 
sympathising largely with the principles of the Liberal party, were 
unable to support it on account of its attitude towards the Church, 
He died 14 April at All Saints' Vicarage, Clifton, the residence of his 
son, the Rev H. B. Bromby. Another son, Charles Henry Bromby, 
called to the bar at the Inner Temple 18 November 1867, was a 
well known barrister in Tasmania, and was Attorney-General of the 
Colony for a short time during his father's episcopate. Dr Bromby 
married in 1839 Mary Anne, daughter of Dr Bodley, of Brighton. 
He published: Wordsworth* s Excursion with Notes; Pupil Teachers* 
History and Grammar of the English Language; Church Students 
Manual, 

Dr Edward Calvert (1852), son of Edward Calvert, baptised at All Saints', 
Derby, 11 October 1829; educated at Southwell Grammar School. 
Mr Calvert became an assistant master at Shrewsbury Sthool in 
August 1852, under the late Dr Kennedy ; in the year 1858 he went 
to the West Indies to be Headmaster of the Government School at 
Trinidad, but did not hold this post long. Returning to England he 
was again appointed a master at Shrewsbury in 1860, resigning in 
1863. For some time he had charge of a preparatory institution at 
Coton Hill for Shrewsbury School. In 1886 he became School 
Bailiff and Treasurer of Shrewsbury School, an office he held until 
1897. As an antiquary he attained considerable distinction, and was 
a valuable member of the Shropshire Archaeological Society. He 
edited the ancient registers of Shrewsbury School, and, with the 
assistance of others, he arranged and catalogued the Borough 
Records, dating back to the reign of Henry I. He also laboured 
unweariedly in arranging the School library. As a justice of the 
peace and in other departments he did good public service, being one 
of the Governors of Allnatt's School. He died at his residence. 



Obituary. 221 

Kingsland, Shrewsbury, 27 May, aged 77. Mr Calvert married 
17 February 1859, at St John's, Paddington, Emily Wissett, widow of 

A. Middleton, esq., Surveyor, R.N. 

Isaac Whiteley Clay (1886), son of Isaac Clay, born at Soothill, Hanging 
Heaton, Yorks, in 1865 ; educated at Batley Grammar School. 
Admitted a Solicitor in December 1889. Mr Clay was accidentally 
killed by falling from an express train, at Sileby, near Leicester, 
17 April. It appears that he left Leeds by the midnight express for 
Londoo, beiBg alone in the compartment of a corridor train, and that, 
opening the wrong door, he fell on to the line. He practiced at 
Batley and Dewsbury ; he left a widow and two children. 

Rev Edward Farrington Clayton (1853), son of William Clayton, banker, 
baptised at Preston, Lancashire, 11 September 1830 ; educated at 
Sedbergh School. Curate of Stapleton 1854-56 ; of Stoke with 
Walsgrave, near Coventry 1856-58 ; of Winwick, Lancashire 1858-61 ; 
of Sonning 1861-65; of Putney 1865-66; Rector of Ludlow, Salop 
1867-1907 ; Rural Dean of Ludlow 1873-97 ; Prebendary of Putson 
Major in Hereford Cathedral and Proctor for the diocese of Hereford 
1880-1907. Died at Ludlow Rectory 24 November, aged 77. 
Mr Cla>'ton married 9 April 1874 the Hon. Victoria Alexandrina 
Clive, daughter of the Hon. Robert Henry Clive and the Baroness 
Windsor, she was a godchild of Queen Victoria. 

Dr Edwin John Crow (Mus. Bac. 1872, Mus. Doc. 1882), son of Richard 
Crow of Sittingbourne, where he was baptised 17 October .1841. 
Early in life Mr Crow displayed musical ability and was articled to 
Dr J. L. Hopkins, organist at Rochester Cathedral. In 1874 he was 
appointed organist of Ripon Cathedral ; there he was commissioned 
by the Dean and Chapter to inspect the best English organs before 
the construction of the present instrument was undertaken at the cost 
of £4000. Dr Crow was a member of the Society of Musicians and 
Organist of the Grand Lodge of Mark Masons of England. He died 
at Harrogate 6 December, aged 66. 

Rev Frank Dyson (1877), son of James Dyson, of Chesterton, born 
17 February 1855 ; educated at the Perse School. Fellow of the 
College. Chaplain and Assistant Master Kelly College, Tavistock 
1879-81 ; Assistant Master at Clifton College 1881-84 ; Headmaster 
of Godolphin School, Hammersmith 1884-88 ; Principal of Liverpool 
College 1888-1900 ; Junior Dean of the College 1900-1903 ; Senior 
Dean and Lecturer 1903-1907. Died, after a long illness, at 
30 Devonshire Place, Eastbourne. Mr Dyson married 1 August 1882 
at St Paul's Church, Cambridge, Sophia, only daughter of the late 

B. Caulton Leeson, esq., formerly of St Catharine's College. 

Thomas Wilson Dougan (1879) ; died 3 July at Salernum, Holywood, 
CO Down. See p. 64. 

Frank Stratton Ellen (1873), son of Fredeiick Ellen of Andover, born at 
Andover 4 October 1850 ; educated at Shrewsbury School. Mr Ellen's 
father was the founder of the firm of Ellen and Son, auctioneers to 
the Crown for the New Forest. He served his articles with 
Mr Thomas Lamb, Clerk to the County Magistrates for the Division 
of Andover ; he was admitted a Solicitor in 1876, and in 1879 was 
elected as assistant solicitor to the Metropolitan Board of Works. 
This he resigned in 1883, and entered into partnership with Mr Holt, 
solicitor, of Great Yarmouth. In 1885 he was appointed Clerk to the 
Magistrates of the Borough of Lowestoft, and of the Mutford and 
Lothingland Petty Sessional Division ; this he held for 21 years, 
when, owing to failing health, he resigned in August 1906. On his 
resignation the magistrates presented him with a massive silver 

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222 Obituary, 

salver. He was a prominent member of the Norfolk and Sufifolk 
Yacht Club, honorary solicitor to the Gorleston Cottage Hospital and 
a prominent Freemason, He died 6 March at St Anne's, Oulton 
Broad, Lowestoft. Mr Ellen married about 1890 a daughter of 
Mr Thomas Palgrave of North Wales, who, with two children, 
survives him. 

Rev Richard Francis Follett (1854), son of the Rev Richard Francis 
Follett, of Bishops Hull, Somerset, baptised at Bishops HuU 
17 August 1828. Curate of East Pennard, Somerset 1857-60; of 
Hemyock 1860-63 ; Vicar of Winscombe, Somerset 1863-95. Latterly 
resided at Winscombe Court, Weston-super-Mare, died there 13 June^ 
aged 79. 

Rev James Francis (1863), Curate of St Mary, Leeds 1863-4 ; of AmcliflFe 
1864-5 ; Assistant Chaplain of Wakefield Prison 1865-6 ; of Milbank 
Prison 1866-7 ; Chaplain to Dartmoor Prison 1867-72 ; Curate of 
Ross, Herefordshire 1872-3 ; of Neenton, Salop 1873-4 ; of St George's 
Hulme 1874-5 ; Vicar of St Anne, Lancaster 1874-83 ; Vicar of 
Dunham on Trent 1883-1906 ; Rector of Hawerby with Beesby 
1906-7. Died 5 October at Grimsby, aged 72. Mr Francis married 
2 July 1890 at St Mary's, Stanton, Emily, younger daughter of the 
Rev John Mickeburgh, Vicar of St Mary's Piatt, Wrotham, Kent. 

Rev George Frewer (1844), son of Isaac Frewer, born in London 23 April 
1822 ; educated at the Mercers School, London. Assistant Mathe- 
matical Master at Eton College 1844-73 ; Divinity Lecturer at St 
George's, Windsor 1854-70; Rector of Hitcham, Bucks 1873-1905. 
Latterly resided at Hillside, Brede, Sussex ; died there 26 May, 
aged 85. 

Rev Andrew Hollingworth Frost (1842), third son of Charles Frost, 
solicitor of Hull, born there 26 April 1819 ; educated at Oakham 
School. Mr A, H. Frost was a brother of the Rev Percival Frost, 
Fellow first of St John's, afterwards of King's College, who died 
5 June 1898. Their father, Mr Charles Frost, who died at Hull 
5 September 1862, aged 81, was for 33 years Solicitor to the Hull 
Dock Company. He was at one time Vice-President of the British 
Association and several times President of the Hull Literary and 
Philosophical Society. He was author of "Notices relative to the 
early history of the Town and Port of Hull, 4to 1827 " ; there is a 
portrait of him in the Hull Subscription Library, Mr A. H. Frost 
was Curate of Holy Trinity, Burton on Trent 1848-50; Perpetual 
Curate of Meltham Mills, Huddersfield 1850-53 ; Church Missionary 
Society's missionary at Nasik, Bombay 1853-69 ; Secretary to the 
Church Missionary Society 1869-70 ; Principal of the Church 
M!->i' i?,u V Srivictv's Cullege, Islington, 1870-74 ; Rector of Thistleton, 
RutUnd 1875-78 ; Cur.ite of Croxton, Lincolnshire 1878-82. Mr Frost 
l^ided ?it 20} Chesterton Road, Cambridge, and was lecturer 
atid GLsJLrati in the University ; he died at Cambridge 
a^cd s7. He contributed papers to the Quarterly 
ithanaiics on " Nasik Cubes " and other subjects. 

rtopher Frost (1884). Curate of St Andrew the Less, 
,1884-87 ; oi Farington, Lancashire 1887-89 ; Rector of 
, MantliesltT 1889-1904 ; Rector of Marcham-le-Fen, near 
incislnshire 1904-7 ; died at the Rectory 1 June, aged 60. 

f (1*62 1, seventh son of Jonas Jones, Judge of the Court 

Bftch, vijid afterwards Chief Justice, Toronto. Born in 

' lohcr 1838, educated at Upper Canada College, and 

1^55 at Trinity College, Toronto. He entered 

185^^ and was 20th wrangler in 1869. He was popularly 




Obituary. 223 

known during bis undergraduate career as "Choctaw Jones/ He 
was an assistant master at Sedbergh School 1862-3 ; in 1863 he was 
appointed Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College Toronto, and 
Dean of the College. In 1891 he was appointed Dean of the 
University, having also acted as Registrar since 1875. He died at his 
residence in Trinity College, Toronto, 7 October. By his will he left 
legacies of jC20 to each of ten couples at whose marriage he had 
officiated or assisted, and to one couple at whose marriage be was 
prevented from so acting by illness. 

Rev Canon Charles Nevill Keeling (1865). Died 10 March aged 64 
(see Vol. xxviii, 331). 

Rev Edwin Alfred Kempson (1852), son of the Rev Edwin Kempson, 
incumbent of Castle Bromwich, baptised in the Chapelry of Castle 
Bromwich, Aston juxta Birmingham 18 May 1830. Curate of Send, 
Surrey 1853-56 ; of Hales Owen 1856-62 ; Vicar of Claverdon with 
Norton Lindsey, Warwickshire 1862-87 ; Vicar of Merton, Surrey 
1887-99. Latterly resided at The Briers, St Leonards on Sea ; died 
there 11 January, aged 76. Mr Kempson married 3 January 1860, 
at Hove Church, Ellen, daughter of C. Eley, esq., of Hove, Sussex ; 
she died 16 January 1886, at Claverdon Vicarage. 

Frederic Francis Leighton (1899), son of Robert Leighton Leigh ton, 
Headmaster of Bristol Grammar School ; born 12 February 1877, at 
Wakefield, Yorks. Studied medicine at Bristol ; admitted B.C. 1906. 
Sometime assistant House Physician at the Leicester Inlirmary. 
Resident Pathok)gifit at the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool. 
Died 1 July at that Hospital of typhoid fever. 

Edward Dclanoy Little (1859), son of John Little of Eldernell, Whittlesey, 
CO Cambridge, baptised at Whittlesey 1 November 1837 ; educated 
at Uppingham, where he was captain of the School. He became an 
Assistant Master at Uppingham in 1867 ; leaving Uppingham he 
became Headmaster of a Preparatory School at Northallerton. Died 
3 April at his residence, Rother Cottage, Midhurst, aged 69. 

Richard Norman Lucas (1884), son of Robert Lucas, born 16 March 1861, 
at Ardrishaig, Argylleshire. Engaged in journalism in London ; 
committed suicide 9 April in the Kingsway Station of the Piccadilly 
Tube Railway while temporarily insane. 

Rev William Lutener (1847), son of William Lutener, of Sever nside, born 
at Severnside, co Montgomery 22 March 1825 ; educated at Shrews- 
bury School. Curate of Harthill, Cheshire 1849-50; Rector of 
Harthill 1850-98. Latterly resided at 8 Curzon Park, Chester ; died 
there 9 December, aged 82^ 

Rev Felix Augustus Marsh (1846), son of Richard Marsh, of Stratford, 
surgeon, born 22 August 1820 ; educated at the Forest School, 
Wsdthamstow. Curate of Gravesend 1846-55 ; Acting Chaplain to 
the Forces at Milton Barracks 1855-1903 ; Vicar of Christ's Church, 
Milton, next Gravesend 1855-1907. In 1906 he was present at a 
double jubilee — ^that of his vicariate and of the dedication of the 
church of which he alone had had sole charge. Mr Marsh's brother, 
his eldest son, and two of his brothers-in-law have all been members 
of the College. Died 17 July, aged 86. 

Vt Joseph Marsh (1855), son of George Marsh, born at Stannington in the 
parish of Bradfield, Yorks 12 July 1837. Dr Marsh had a somewhat 
unusual career. About 50 years ago he went out to India and 
engaged in educational work in the Independent States, not under the 
InSan Government proper. He worked first at Kumbakonam, and 



224 Obituary. 

was afterwards Principal of St Peter's College, Tanjore, from 1866 to 
1870 ; his work there is, we believe, commemorated by the " Marsh 
Memorial Hall." Of late years he had been in the service of the 
State of Jeypore and in the Northern Circars. In early youth he 
formed the ambition of being a Doctor of Laws of Cambridge, and, 
greatly to his satisfaction, he was able to carry out his intention. He 
kept terms as an ordinary undergraduate during the years 1870-71 
and 1884-5, utilising his leaves for the purpose. He lived, as far as 
possible, the usual Ufe of the place, a life he confessed to be some- 
what trying to a man of his years and experience. He made no 
complaint, but used, with a sigh, to refer to the time " when I was 
Mr Bultitude." He was admitted B.A. 16 December 1885 ; M.A. and 
LL.M. 14 February 1889. In 1898 he submitted a thesis on "The 
Laws of Ryotwari and Zemindari," and was admitted to the LL.D. 
degeee 8 December 1898. He died at sea, 7 October, on board the 
Golconda^ Calcutta to London. 

Rev Henry Mitchell (1852), son of the Rev John Mitchell, t)orn at Langton 
MalUavers, Dorset, 26 June 1829 ; educated at St Paul's School, 
Southsea. Curate of Silverton, Devon 1855-58 ; of Winteringham, 
Lincolnshire 1861-63 ; of Beaconsfield 1863-4 ; of Chessington 
1864-66; of Longparish, Hants 1866-67; of Ampthill 1867-71; of 
Westbury on Trym 1872-75 ; Vicar of Leighland, Somerset 1875-76 ; 
Rector of Loxbeare, Devon 1876-92 ; Vicar of Stinsford, Dorset 
1892-1902. Latterly resided at Wilby, Wellington Road, Bourne- 
mouth ; died there 22 May, aged 77. 

Frank Everitt Murray (1897), son of Walter Everitt Murray, of Roode 
Bloem, Cape Colony ; born at Graaf Reinet, Cape Colony 27 March, 
1873. After taking his degree in the Natural Sciences Tripos he 
entered at St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1901 he qualified M.R.C.S., 
L.R.C.P., and in the -same year took his M.B. and B.C. degrees. 
During 1902 he acted as House Surgeon at St Bartholomew's 
Hospital, and in the following year became a Fellow of the Royal 
College of Surgeons of England. Returning to South Africa he 
practised for a short time at Cape Town, but settled down to practice 
at Graaf Reinet, where his abilities were soon recognised. About 
August 1906 he had an accident in the hunting field, sustaining a 
severe fracture of the thigh. This accident kept him in bed for four 
months, and seriously weakened his constitution. Within a month 
of returning to work he was attacked with a virulent form of enteric 
fever, which proved fatal in ten days ; he died 1 February at Graaf 
Reinet. He leaves a widow and two young children. 

Thomas Henry Goodwin Newton (1858), eldest son of William Newton, 
of Whately Hall, Warwickshire, born in Birmingham 29 March 1836. 
Admitted a student of the Middle Temple 3 May 1858, called to the 
Bar 26 January 1861, but never practised. He was a County 
Magistrate, High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1887, and also one of 
the original members of the Warwickshire County Council. Mr 
Newton was one of the largest owners of freehold property in 
Birmingham, deriving a large income from ground-rents. He was 
Lord of the Manors of Ullenhall and Aspleigh in Warwickshire and 
Oldberrow in Worcestershire. He also owned BarreU's Park, Henley 
in Arden, where, in . onjuiiction with his brothers, he erected a 
church as a memorial to their parents. He was also the owner of 
Bryn Bras Castle, Carnarvonshire, and the adjoining estate, which 
includes the slate quarry at Llanberis, worked by a company, of 
which he was the largest shareholder. He also owned estates at 
Glencripesdale and Landale in Argyllshire, and the island of Cama, 
an estate of 25.000 acres, which afforded plenty of shooting and deer- 



Obituary. 225 

stalking. He died 2T March at Barren's Park. The gross value of 
his estate was sworn at £279,321. Mr Newton was three times 
married : (i) 9 May 1861 to Mary Jane, daughter of William 
Berrowes, of Milveiton, co Warwick, she died in 1862 ; (ii) 3 October 
1865 Matilda, second daughter of the late William Thomas Mackrell, 
esq, of Wandsworth, she died in 1894 ; (iii) in 1898 Alice Maude, 
eldest daughter of the late John Eyre, esq, of Eyre Court, Galway, 
and widow of Captain Blair Miller, of the 8th Hussars. 

Rev William Herring Poulton (1856), eldest son of the Rev William 
Poulton, of Highgate, afterwards Rector of Aylsham, Norfolk, 
baptised at St Michael's, Highgate 6 October 1834 ; educated at 
Fauconbergh School, Beccles. In 1857 he was appointed Mathe- 
matical Tutor and Chaplain to Queen's College, Birmingham. Two 
years later he became Senior Tutor, and continued in that office until 
the passing of the Queens' College Act in 1867, when he was 
appointed Sub- Warden and Chaplain of the College. In 1874 he 
became Warden of the College, combining with that office the office 
of Head of the Theological Faculty. On the theological side he was 
instrumental in making it compulsory that the students should pass 
the Cambridge Preliminary Examination for Candidates for Holy 
Orders before obtaining the College certificate, and he also obtained 
for the College the privilege of sending students who had obtained 
the College certificates to Durham University for one year, at the end 
of which they were permitted to sit for the B.A. examination. In 
1876 he was elected a member of the Birmingham School Board, and 
with one brief interval he was associated with the public educational 
work of the town until 1888, when he retired from the Board. In 
1901 he was presented to the Rectory of Arley, near Coventry, which 
he held until his death on 20 July, aged 73. Mr Poulton married : 
(i) 9 September 1861 at St James', W^eybridge, Surrey, Harriett Mary, 
eldest daughter of Robert Harcourt, esq, of Weybridge ; (ii) 25 April 
1889 at All Saints', King's Heath, Louisa, widow of W. Whitehouse, 
esq, late of Hands worth. 

Rev William Lowe Pownall (1840). Curate of Littlehampton 1842-44 ; 
Vicar of Barnham, Sussex 1844-50 ; Curate of Swansea 1850-51 ; 
Second Master of Derby Grammar School 1851-53 ; Curate of 
Painestown, co Carlovv 1853-60 ; Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of 
Leinster 1860-69; Curate of Shankhill, co Kilkenny, 1869-74; 
Incumbent of Shankhill 1874-1905. Latterly resided at Shankhill, 
Gowran, co Kilkenny ; died at Kilkenny 1 June, aged 89. He had 
Hved in the reigns of five sovereigns ; there is a portrait of him in 
Black and White 22 June 1907. 

Rev John Prowde (1864, as Proud), died 3 January. See Vol. xxviii, 328. 

Rev Walter James Scarlin (1867), son of James Matthew Scarling (the 
name was afterwards altered to Scarlin), born at Horringer, Suffolk 
26 November 1843 : educated at Bury St Edmunds School. Curate 
ot Long Sutton 1867-73 ; of St Hilda, Leeds 1873-75 ; of Wilmslow 
1875-78 ; of St John Baptist, Tue Brook, Liverpool 1878-80 ; of W^est 
Derby, Liverpool 1880-86; Vicar of Stanley, Liverpool 1886-1907. 
Died in October, aged 63. 

George Henry Shepley (1900), eldest son of George Shepley, of Mytham 
Bridge, Derbyshire, born at Sheffield 22 September 1878. Mr Shepley 
served as an officer in the South African War ; died 18 January at 
St Moritz, Switzerland, aged 28. 

Rev David Simpson (1850), son of David Simpson, born 16 July 1826 at 
Nelson Terrace, Stoke Newington, Middlesex. Curate of St 
Bartholomew's, Grays Inn Road 1852-55 ; Chaplain to the Military 



226 Obituary. 

Orphan Asylum, Madras 1855-65; Chaplain at Lyons 1862-82; 
Summer Chaplain at Cannes 1882-1904; Chaplain at Antibes, 
France 1884-1900 ; and at Golfe Juan 1900-1906. Died at AnUbes 
2 April, aged 79. 

Rev Charles Stanwell a859), died at Ipsden Vicarage 20 March, aged 70. 
See VoL zz\iii, 317. 

Rev Henry V>-vyan (1845, as Henry Vyvyan Robinson), third son of 
Philip Vyx-yan Robinson, of the 69th and 88th Regiments ; bom at 
Roundwood, Feock, Cornwall 12 December 1821 ; educated at 
Helston Grammar School. Curate of Street, Devon 1847-50; of 
Stokenham, Devon 1850-51 ; of Poughill, Cornwall 1851-56; Vicar 
of St Giles* in the Wood 1856-59 ; of Seaton with Beer 1869-82 ; of 
Chertsey 1882-87 ; of Dawlish 1887-95. Latterly resided at 44 Polsloe 
Road, Exeter ; died there 24 March, aged 85. 

Sir Arthur Townley Watson, K.C. (1852), only son of Sir Thomas Watson, 
a President of the Royal College of Surgeons and one of Queen 
Victoria's Phj'sicians in Ordinary, who w^as created a baronet in 1866. 
Bom in Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square 13 September 1830; 
educated at Eton. Admitted a student of Lincoln's Inn 2 March 1852, 
called to the Bar 26 January 1856 ; Q.C. 1885 ; Bencher of the Inn 
1888. Died 15 March at his residence 39 Lowndes Square, aged 76. 
He married 3 October 1861, Rosamond, daughter of Charles Powlett 
Rushworth, of London. Sir Thomas Watson, the father, was B.A. 
1815, and a Fellow of the CoUege ; he died 11 December 1882. See 
Vol. xii, 359. 

Rev Austin West (1868), son of the Rev J. West; bom at Sunbury, 
Middlesex, in 1838. Curate of Woodbridge 1869-70 ; of Hingham, 
Norfolk 1870-72 ; of DigsweU 1872-74 ; Chaplain at Stockholm 1874 
at Christiania 1875-80 ; Rector of St John, Buenos Ayres 1885-88 
Vicar of Allestree 1889-1903. Died 25 May suddenly at Roslin, 
Shortlands. 

Rev John William Young (1847), son of Captain Young, of Lee Park, 
Blackheath, born in Seymour Place, Marylebone, baptised 11 March 
1825 ; educated at Harrow. Curate of Eltham 1853-55 ; of Christ 
Church, Lee 1855-56; Chaplain iu Bengal 1857-80; Stationed at 
Tounghoo, Burma 1857-62 ; at Nowgong 1865 ; Chunar 1866, 1874, 
and 1877 ; Agra Cantonments 1866-68 ; Subathoo 1868 ; Nowshera 
1870-72 ; Futteghur 1877 ; Moradabad 1878-80. Lattedy resided at 
Glan Severn, 61 Burnt Ash Road, Lee, S.E. ; died 4 May, after a 
severe operation, aged 85. 



Richard Hodgson (1882), see Vol. xxvii, 272; died 20 December 1905. 
In memoriam notices of Mr Hodgson, by Mrs Henry Sidgwick, 
Mr J. G. Piddington, and Mr M. A. de Wolfe-Howe, appear in the 
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research^ Vol. xix, part 52 ; 
where a portrait of Mr Hodgson is also given. 

George Darby Haviland (1880), M.B. 1886. Son of the Rev George 
Edward Haviland, Rector of Warbleton. Leave has l)een given by 
the Court of Probate to assume the death of Mr G. D. Haviland. He 
was living at Stievyre, Estcourt, Natal, and left at the beginning of 
July 1900, presumably on an expedition to the Hill District of Colenso. 
Nothing was ever afterward heard of him, though his bicycle was 
found. Mr Haviland had a very interesting scientific career, of 
which we hope to give an account in a future number. 






OUR CHRONICLE. 
Lent Term igo8. 

On the 10th of December last it was announced that the 
King had been pleased to approve of the appointment of 
Vice-Admiral Sir Wilmot Hawksworth Fawkes K.C.B., 
K.C.V.O., to be Commander-in-Chief at Devonport from 
March next. Sir Wilmot H. Fawkes, who is a former 
Fellow Commoner of the College, relinquishes the command 
on the Australian Station to which he was appointed in 
December 1905, having before that commanded the Cruiser 
Squadron. As a Captain he was chosen to act as Naval 
Adviser to the Inspector General of Fortifications. For 
many years he was Private Secretary to the First Lord of 
the Admiralty. He was an A.D.C. to Queen Victoria, was 
made K.C.V.O. in 1903 and K.C.B. in 1907. 

The list of Indian Honours and Appointments, issued on 
January 1, 1908, contained the name of Mr Francis Alexander 
Slacke (B.A. 1875) I.C.S., Member of the Board of Revenue, 
Bengal, and an Additional Member of the Council of the 
Governor General for making laws and regulations, who was 
appointed a Companion of Most Exalted Order of the Star 
of India (C.S.I.). 

The Rev W. E. Pryke (B.A. 1866), Vicar of Ottery 
St Mary, Devon, has been appointed a residentiary Canon 
of Exeter Cathedral, the duties of which will include the 
continuance of the late Canon C. I. Atherton^s work as 
Diocesan Missioner. The Illustrated Western Weekly News 
for 30 November 1907 has a portrait of Canon Pryke and 
some notes on his appointment, from which we extract the 
following : — 

" The appointment by the Bishop of the Rev W. E. Pryke, 
one of his own diocesan clergy, will give great satisfaction 
throughout the diocese, and more especially to Churchmen 
of moderate views, for the new Canon is recognised as a man 
of broad and liberal mind, and of much earnestness. He did 
not come into the diocese until 1893, when he was presented 
by his old College (St John^s, Cambridge) to the College 



228 Our Chronicle, 

Living of Marwood, North Devon. Here he set on foot 
a plan for the restoration of the interesting parish Church, 
which has been completed by his two successors, the late 
Canon H. T. E. Barlow, and the present Rector, the Rev A. R. 
Johnson. He showed marked ability and organizing power, 
at the same time securing by his wise counsels, his scholar- 
ship, and the special facility which he showed in adjusting 
differences, a prominent position in the religious life of the 
community. He was transfeiTed to the more important 
Living of Ottery St Mary in 1900, and his work was soon 
recognized by his brother clergy, and for some years he has 
held the position of Rural Dean. As a member of the 
Diocesan Council of Religious Education he showed a good 
grasp of educational matters, as might have been expected 
from his earlier work as Headmaster for 21 years (1872-93) 
of the important Grammar School at Lancaster. Like his 
church work, his educational work was marked by toleration 
and breadth of view, and on the passing of the Education 
Bill of 1902 he was co-opted a member of the Devon Educa- 
tion Committee, on which he still serves. He also represents 
the Diocesan Council on the Church Central Council of 
Secondary Education in London. 

" As testimony to his ability and sound judgment, it may 
be mentioned that when the House of Convocation and 
House of Laymen for the Province of Canterbury appointed 
a joint committee to consider the question of *The moral 
witness of the Church in social and commercial matters,* 
Mr Pryke was one of the sub-committee selected to draw up 
the report, which he subsequently presented to the Lower 
House of Convocation, and afterwards to the Representative 
Church Council, and the manner in which he performed 
the important task produced considerable effect upon both 
assemblies, which recognized in him a powerful speaker and 
debater, and a man of active spirit in promoting the Christian 
side of social service. It was by reason of his ha\ing taken 
so prominent a part in the consideration of this subject in 
the House of Convocation, that he was selected to bring 
forward the question at the recent Diocesan Conference at 
Exeter. 

On the 7th of February last Mr E. A. Goulding (B.A. 1885) 
was returned as (Unionist) M.P. for the city of Worcester. 
Mr Goulding has already had ten years' experience of Parlia- 
ment, having set for the Devizes Di\ision of Wiltshire from 
1895 to 1906. At the General Election in 1906 he gave up 
what was then regarded as a safe seat to contest Central 
Finsbury, where he was defeated by 640 votes. Mr Goulding 
was a member of the London County Council from 1895 to 



Our Chronicle. 229 

1901. He is Chairman of the Organization Committee of th« 
Tariff Reform League, and Chairman of the Committee of 
the Constitutional Club. 

Upon the occasion of the installation of Lord Avebury as 
Lord Rector of the University of St Andrew's, on the 16th of 
January last, the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon 
Dr Donald MacAlister, Principal of the University of Glasgow 
and Fellow of the College. 

Mr W. Bateson (B.A. 1883) F.RS. has been appointed 
University Reader in Zoology. 

It is announced that the Rev Prebendary H. W. Moss will 
retire from the Headmastership of Shrewsbury School during 
the coming summer. Mr Moss was appointed Headmaster 
of Shrewsbury by the College 5 June 1866. He had pre- 
viously been appointed a College Lecturer in Classics, in the 
place of the Rev Joseph B. Mayor, on 9 April 1864. The 
appointment of the new Headmaster no longer rests with the 
College, but with the Governors of the School. There have 
been but three Headmasters during the last 110 years. 
Samuel Butler, afterwards Bishop of Lichfield, was appointed 
by St John's 7 July 1798; to him succeeded Dr B. H. 
Kennedy, afterwards Regius Professor of Greek, appointed 
in 1836, and lastly Mr Moss. 

At the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of 
London held on February 21 the following members of the 
College were appointed officers of the Society for the ensuing 
year: President, Professor W. J. SoUas (B.A. 1874); Vice- 
Presidents, Dr Aubrey Strahan (B.A. 1875) and Mr J. J. H. 
Teall (B.A. 1873). The Murchison Medal was awarded to 
Professor A. C. Seward (B.A. 1886). 

Mr G. T. Whiteley (B.A. 1895) has been appointed Clerk 
to the Justices of the Croydon Division of the County of 
Surrey, and Clerk to the Commissioners of Taxes for the 
Wallington Division of the same County. 

Baron Kikuchi (B.A. 1877) was in England last spring and 
summer for the purpose of delivering a course of lectures in 
the University of London on Japanese Education. On his 
return to Japan he delivered a lecture, at a meeting of the 
Yokohama Literary Society on 13 December 1907, on 
** England and English Life." The lecture was printed in 
the Japan Times ^ and from this report we take the following 
passages : — 

" Baron Kikuchi, who w^as given a very cordial welcome 
on rising to address the members, expressed the pleasure it 
VOL. XXU. HH 



230 Our ChronUh, 

gave him to accede to tlie invitation of the Committee to 
lecture before the Yokohama Literary Society. As to the 
subject of the paper, it was suggested that his impressions of 
English Hfe would be very interesting. While he was in 
England he was asked by the editor of a newspaper to write 
a brief article giving his impressions of England as a repre- 
sentative Japanese. He refused this offer, partly because he 
thought that his time would be better spent in getting those 
impressions rather than in writing them up. He had often 
felt very glad that the English papers did not, like the 
American and Japanese papers, send reporters to interview 
people, whether they liked it or not — to ask for their impres- 
sions of the country in which they had just landed, how they 
liked the country and the people, and what they were going 
to do, such interviews being very often reported not according 
to what the victims actually said, but rather according to 
what the reporters thought they ought to have said. One 
evening during his recent stay in San Francisco, when he 
returned from dinner with his Consul, and was preparing to 
rest after a rather tiring day, a reporter came in to ask what 
he thought of the exclusion of Japanese from the schools, and 
iinally a man with a camera came into the room and took his 
photograph by means of the magnesium light, and in con- 
sequence of the fumes he was unable to sleep for some timeu 
He must confess, however, that he preferred the English 
methods of journsdism in such matters^ and hoped the English 
papers would not take to imitating the American and Japanese 
journals. 

" Another reason, for his refusal io accede to the request 
was that his impressions of England could scarcely be called 
those of a representative Japanese, for without going back 
to his grandfather, father, and uncles, who were pioneers of 
the importation of Western knowledge into Japan, he himself 
received more than half his education in England. He went 
to England in the winter of 1 866, when eleven years of age, 
in company with thirteen other young men, among whom 
were Count Hayashi, the present Minister of Foreign Affair^ 
and the late Professor Toyama. They were sent by the 
Shogun's Government, and came back in the Spring of 1868^ 
when the Shogunate was overthrown. He was sent to 
England again in 1870 — this time by the Imperial Govern- 
ment — and entered the same school as before, namely, 
University College School in London, whence in 1873 he 
went to Cambridge, where, at the age of twenty-two, he 
graduated in the Mathematical Tripos in 1877. At the Uni- 
versity College School there were one or two other Japanese 
l>oys, but during the nine out of ten terms he spent at 
Cambridge he was the only Japanese student. He thus had 



O^r Chronicle.. 231 

to associate almost entirely with English boys and young 
men during seven years of his boyhood — at that period of 
life when one's mind was most open to impressions. Before 
he (the speaker) left Japan on this last visit, he felt almost as 
though he was returning to a home he had not visited for 
a long thne-^indeed, his friends here told him the same 
thing; and when he arrived m England not only was he 
welcomed by his old friends with a warmth beyond expecta- 
tion, but wherever he went he met someone whom he knew 
at Cambridge in the olden days. He greatly enjoyed visiting 
old familiar scenes, or places whose names were at least 
familiar to him; he went to his old school, and there the 
boys of the school cheered him as only English schoolboys 
can cheer : he did not feel at all that he was a stranger m 
a foreign land. Such being the case, his impressions of 
England would certainly not be those of a representative 
Japanese." 

The list of Select Preachers before the University for the 
academical year 1907-8 contains the names of the following 
members erf the College : 1907, December 1, the Rev J. H. B. 
Masterman (B. A. 1893), Vicar of St Michael's Church, Coventry,, 
Honorary Canon of Birmingham, Hulsean Lecturer; 1908, 

January 19, the same ; February 23, the Very Rev W. Page 
Roberts (B.A. 1862), Dean of Salisbury ; March 15, the Rev 
St J. B. Wynne Willson (B.A. 1890), Headmaster of Haileybury 
College. 

Sermons have been preached in the College Chapel 
during the Term as follows: January 26, Dr T. G. Bonney; 
Febitiary 9, Mr A, R. Ingram, Senior Missioner at Walworth ; 
February 16, Canon E. A. Stuart; and on February 23, the 
Dean of Salisbury (Mr Page Roberts). 

Mr W. A. Houston {BA, 1896), formerly Fellow of the 
College, has been appointed Professor of Mathematics at 
Queen's College, Galway, in succession to Mr Bromwich. 
Mr Houston has been in the Egyptian Educational Service. 

Mr W: A. D. Rudge (B.A. 1899) has been appointed 
Professor of Physics in the Gray University College, Bloem- 
fontein. Orange River Colony. 

Mr T. A. Lawrenson (B.A. 1889), who has been Headmaster 
of the Runcorn Institute County Secondary School, Cheshire, 
since July 1897, has been appointed Headmaster of the South 
Shields Municipal Secondary School. 

Mr W. R. Lewis (B.A, 1893), of Dulwich College Pre- 
paratory School, has become one of the joint Headmasters of 
St John's House School, Rosslyn Hill, London, N.W, 



232 Our Chronicle, 

Mr Manohar Lai (B.A. 1902) has been appointed Lecturer 
in Political Economy in the University of the Punjab; he 
has also been nominated by the Chancellor to a Fellowship 

in the University. * 

Mr R F. Charles (BA. 1873) was on the 25th of January 
last elected a Membei of the Council of the College of 
Preceptors. 

Mr T. F. R. MacDonnell (B.A. 1898), Barrister-at-Law, 
Assistant Government Advocate, Burma, has been appointed 
Secretary to the Burma Legislative Council, and Assistant 
Secretary to the Government of Burma, as a temporary 
appointment 

Mr R Casson LC.S. (B.A. 1900), Assistant Commissioner, 
Burma, was in the autumn transferred from Bassein to the 
charge of the Kyauktan subdivision, Hanthawaddy district ; 
and early in January appointed to o£&ciate as District Judge 
of Bassein and Henzada. 

Ds M. V. Bhide (BJV. 1907), recently appointed to the 
£ndian Civil Service, has been stationed at Amritsar in the 
Punjab as Assistant Commissioner. 

At a meeting of the R)yal Ccilege of Surgeons of England 
held on 12 December 1907, H. Hardwick-Smith (B.A. 1899) 
M.B., L.RC.P., of St Bartholomew's Hospital, having passed 
the required examinations and conformed to the bye-laws, 
was admitted a Fellow of that College, 

Mr H. C. Cameron (BA. 1901) M.A., M.B., L.RC.P., of 
Guy's Hospkal was on Thursday, January 30, admitted a 
Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 

Mr F. Worthington (B.A. 1901), B.C. 1906, obtained the 
12th place in the list of successful candidates for Commissions 
in the, Royal Army Medical Corps. 

Dr C. F. Lillie (B.A. 1894) has been appointed House 
Surgeon at the Albany General Hospital, Graiiamstown. 

Mr B. L. T. Bamett (B.A. 1896) M.B. passed the 
Intermediate Examination of the Law Society held on. 
January 1,5 and. 16 last. 

The Adjudicators for the Smith's Prizes state that they 
are of opinion that the essays sent in by Ds H. R. Hasse 
(B.A. 1906), "On some problems in the theory of metallic 
reflection," and by Ds H. T. H. Piaggio (B.A. 1906), on 
** Perpetuant syzygips of the wth kind," are deserving of 
honourable mentipn.. 



Our Chronicle, 233 

A. Y. Campbell, Scholar of the College and one of our 
Editors, received honourable mention in the examination for 
the Chancellor's Classical Medals. 

The First Whewell Scholarship in International Law has 
been awarded to Ds D. W. Ward (B.A. 1907), Scholar of the 
College and one of our Eklitors. 

On January 17 the following were elected to MacMahon 
Law Studentships in the College of jGlSO for four years : — 

(1) Ds A. E. Brown (B.A. 1906), First Class in Parts I 
and II of the Historical Tripos and First Class in Part I of 
the Law Tripos. 

(2> Ds D. W. Ward (B.A. 1907), First Qass in Part I of 
the Historical Tripos and First Whewell International Law 
Scholar in 1907. 

The Adams Memorial Prize for 1907 has been awarded to 
S. Lees, Scholar of the College. Mr Lees chose for the 
subject of his essay " Reciprocal Theorems in Physics." 

Mr J. R. HUl (B.A. 1906), Hutchinson Student of the 
College, has been appointed to a research post at the. 
Imperial Institute in London. 

The Bishop of St Albans has appointed the Rev R. A. 
Squires (B.A. 1870), Vicar of St Peter's, St Albans, to be 
Rural Dean of St Albans, in the place of Canon O. W. Davys 
(B.A. 1851), resigned. 

The Rev E. T. Burges (B.A. 1874), Superintendent of 
Native Missions and Canon of Maritzburg Cathedral, has. 
been appointed Archdeacon of Maritzburg. 

The Rev C. P. Cory (B.A. 1S82), Chaplain at Maymyo, has- 
been appointed Archdeacon of Rangoon, Burma. 

The Rev W. R. Shepherd (B.A. 1883), Rector of Kirby 
Underdale, Yorkshire, has been appointed Rural Dean of 
Pocklington. 

The Rev H. EL H. Coombes (RA. L889), Chaplain of the 
Mission to. Seamen at Barry Docks, has been presented by 
the College to the Vicarage of North Stoke with Ipsden, in 
the County of Oxford, vacant by the death of the Rev C. 
Stanwell. 

The Rev W.. H. Harding (B:A. 1S92), Diocesan Curate, 
Gloucester, has been appointed Vicar of Churcham with 
Bulley, Gloucestershire. 

The Rev E. J. H. Benwell (B.A. 1895) has been appointed 
Rector of St Adamnan's, Duror, Argyllshire, by the Episcopal 
Synod of Argyle and the Isles. 



234 



Our Chronicle. 



The Rev S. N. Rostron (B,A. 1905), formerly Naden 
Divinity Student of the College, and Curate of St George's, 
Hulme, Manchester, has been appointed Lecturer at the 
Scholae Episcopi, Manchester. 

The following ecclesiastical preferments are announced : 



Name Degree 


From 


To be 


Bamber, J. (189(9 


V. Crowle and 

R. Broughton, Hackett 


R. West Didsbur>% 
Manchester. 


Butler, F. C. B. (1880) 
Ewbant, A. (1892) 
Goulthard, E. N. (1881) 


C. St Matthew, 
Croydon.. 

C St Saviour,. 
Islington. 

V. St James, 
Bermondsey. 


V. Bramford, 

Ipswich. 
V. St Peter's, 

Islington. 
V, St Paul's, 
Winchmore HiU. 



The following Members of the College were ordained, 
at the Advent Ordinations. 



Name. Degree. 


Diocese. 


Parish. 


Macaulay, D. (1^6) 


Londoff 


St John's, Notting Hill. 
St Botolph, Lincoln. 


Gathorne, C. (l^S) 


Lincoln 


Booker, E. (1903) 


Norwich 


Great Yarmouth. 


Johnstone, A. B. (1906) 


South wark 


St Anne, Bermondsey. 


Green, E. W. (1906) 


Chichester 
Priests. 


H^ Trinity, Eastbourne. 


Name. 


Degree. 


Diocese. 


Edmonds, H. 


(1905) 


Birmingham. 


Sleight, A. B. 


(1903) 


Chester. 


Rostron, S. 


(1905) 


Mancliestef. 


Clements, W. T. 


(1897) 


Newcastle. 


Cheese, W. G. 


(1905) 


Peterborough. 


Crole-Rees, H. S. 


(1906) 


South wark. 


Clay, W. K. 


(1902) 


Worcester. 



The Ordinations at Birmingham', Norwich, Peterborough, 
and Worcester took place on December 21, in the other 
Dioceses named on December 22. 

The following books by members of the College are 
announced : The supreme literary gift^ by T. G. Tucker LittD. 
(Melbourne, Lothian) ; Society versus Socialism^ Three Fiscal 
Essays^ by G. E. Manisty I.C.S. (Exeter, Besley and Dalgleish) ; 
The Christian Life here and hereafter ^ being a selection from the 
Sermons of the late Frederic Watson D.D.^ Edited by C. B. 
Drake, Rector of Leverington (Skeffington) ; Indices to Diaics- 
sarica^ with a specimen of Research^ by E. A. Abbott (Black) ; 
A Jacobite Admiral^ by R. H. Forster (Long) ; The Theory of 
Lights a Treatise on Physical Optics^ by R. C. Maclaurin, sometime 
Professor of Mathematical Physics, Wellington, New Zealand, 
Professor of Mathematical Physics in Columbia University, 



Our Chronicle. 235 

New York ; New Zealand revisited — recollections of the days of 
my Youth^ by the Right Hon Sir John Eldon Gorst (J. Pitman) ; 
Before and after Waterloo^ Letters from Edward Stanley^ sometime 
Bishop of Norwich (Fisher Unwin), 

The following University appointments of members of the 
College have been made since the issue of our last number : 
Mr R. F. Scott to be one of the Sex Viri ; Mr F. F. Blackman 
to be a member of the Botanic Garden Syndicate ; Mr J. E. 
Purvis to be a member of the Local Examinations and Lectures 
Syndicate ; Professor A. C. Seward to be a member of the 
Museums and Lecture Rooms Syndicate ; Mr H. F. Stewart 
to be a member of the Highest Grade Schools Examination 
Syndicate ; Mr L. H. K. Bushe-Fox to be a member of the 
Proctorial Syndicate ; Dr L. E. Shore to be a member of the 
State Medicine Syndicate ; Mr G. T. Bennett to be a member 
of the Special Board for Music ; Dr J. E. Marr to be a member 
of the Board of Geographical Studies ; Dr P. H or ton-Smith 
Hartley to be an examiner for Part II of the Third Examina- 
tion for M.B. degree ; Dr H. F. Baker to be Chairman of the 
Examiners for the Mathematical Tripos, Part II ; Mr J. E. 
Purvis to be an Examiner in State Medicine; Mr E. E, 
Foxwell to be a Lecturer at Affiliated Local Lectures Centres ; 
Mr R. F. Charles to be an Examiner at Affiliated Local 
Lectures Centres ; Mr C. A. A. Scott to be a member of the 
Special Board iot Divinity ; Professor Seward and Mr T. H. 
Middleton to be members of a Syndicate for the erection of 
a building for the Department of Agriculture; Mr H. F. 
Stewart to be a member of the Special Board for Medieval 
and Modern Languages, and also to be a member of the 
Degree Committee of that Board ; Dr D. MacAlister to be 
a member of the Board of Electors to the Professorship of 
Anatomy ; Dr J. N. Langley to be a member of the Board of 
Electors to the Professorship of Botany ; Mr W. H. Hudleston 
to be a member of the Board of Electors to the Woodwardian 
Professorship of Geology ; Mr T. H. Middleton to be a member 
of the Board of Electors to the Drapers Professorship of 
Agriculture ; Mr J. Gibson and G. F. Stout to be examiners 
for the Moral Science Tripos; Mr J. H. A. Hart to be an 
examiner f qr the Special Examinations in Theology ; Mr J. 
Gibson to be an examiner ior the Special Examination in 
Logic; Mr A. H. Peake to be an examiner for the Special 
Examinations in Mechanism and Applied Science ; IVfr H. L. 
Pass to be an examiner for the Stewart of Rannoch Scholar- 
ships ; Mr T. R. Glover to be an Adjudicator of the Prince 
Consort Prize; Dr J. E. Marr to be an examiner for the 
Special Examinations in Agricultural Science, and for Part I 
of the examination for the Diploma in Agriculture ; Dr L. E. 



236 Our Chronicle. 

Shore to be an examiner in Part II of the examination for the 
Diploma in Agriculture ; Mr W. E. Heitland to be an examiner 
for the Porson Prize. 

Mr G. R. S. Mead (B.A. 1814) is delivering a course of 
six lectures in the lecture room of the Theosophical Society, 
in Albemarle Street, London, during the months of March 
and April. The lectures are on " The Cross of Light *' and 
** The Gnosis of the Fire " (The Chaldean Oracles). 

Mr VL F. Russell-Smith has been elected an Editor of the 
EagU in the room of Mr Roy Meldrum, resigned. 

The following letter from Christopher Hull appeared in 
The Sedberghian for July 1907. C. Hull was a son of John 
Hull of Marton, Lancashire ; he was admitted to the College 
22 January 1761. After serving some curacies he was 
nominated by the College to be Headmaster of Sedbergh, 
his old school. He died at Sedbergh 3 January 1799. 

TO 

Mr John HuU 
at Great Marton 
near Poulton in the File, 
By Caxton) 

LANCASHIRE. 

L, 



St John's College Cambridge Jan 1st 1762. 
(a single sheet) 
Dear father, 

I have received Mr Abbots Bill which I send you 
enclosed in this together with an account of what I have Laid 
out which {unless you consider the place I am in) you'll be 
apt to think is too much. Yet I can assure you there is scarce 
anyones Bill so moderate as mine and what I have exp)ended 
has been either on customs that must be complied with or 
necessaries which I co'd not have done without I have been 
put to some small expense by practices not very agreeable to 
the character of an honest & reasonable man. I mean by 
riott which are frequently made in or about my room for 
which reason I shall be obliged to change it The first time 
they rioted my I was terrably frighted for I co'd not persuade 
myself that it was any of the College but that it was some- 
body come to rob my and accordingly hid my money in the 
Bedstraw another time they had broke my door to pieces 
before I co'd get hold of my trusty poker which I had got 
lay'd anew for a weapon of defence & after I had repuls'd 
tliem they rally*d again with great fury, & I took them upon 
the stairs which was the only time they were catch'd but if 
J had informed they had been rusticated as I prophecy some 



Our Chronicle. 237 

of them will before winter be over but I am so fortifiy'd 
against 'em now that unless they unlock my Door they cannot 
get into my room. Hutton has suffer'd a good deal by 'em 
for they throw everything down as soon as they get in & make 
as big a noice as if all Bedlam was let lose« We are likewise 
often imposed on by p)eople that do anything for us but if 
Mr Abbott know it and he's very careful about our Bills he 
immediately turns them of if they have any imployment in 
Coll. My Laundress he turned away for charging me 
2 shillings too much & my bedmaker I suspect of stealing 
my coals & the first time I catch him I'le send him a packing. 
I had a hare & a Barrel of Oisters given for making my 
opponent a declamation on the opposite side of the subject 
to my own which we read at l^v Cravens Lectures. The 
Oisters I gave Mr Hutton and the Hare cost my 7 shillings to 
get her eaten. The following is a full and particular account 
of what I've spent since I took leave with you at Kirkham : — 

Journey ..« ..« 

Spent at the Red Lion before I went into CoU. 

A pair of shoes 

A pair of buckles 

A pair of stockings 

Caution money to Mr. Abbott 

In the Hall to Butteryman Plate tablecloth 

knife & fork 

Customs to Laundress bedmaker & barber*.. 
Candle sticks snuffers & extinguisher 

Inkstands ink wax & seal & paper 

Saunderson & Euclid 

Lexicon Greek Test. & Lockes Essays 
Zenophon & pens in Mr. Abbotts Bill ... 

Minute Books scale & compasses & lined books 

Ben Johnson & Hutchs Philosophy 

Milk butter oisters cream apples nuts .,. 
China teaspoons & Kettle & pots &c. bel. ... 
Bunch Bowl Ladle & straner * 

1 & i oz. of tea & a lb. of sugar 

Gotch Bason Statpot pint cup 

Cap gown & surplice 

8 bands 

A Wig 

3 Knifes & forks comb & plate 

Key Tinder box Lock poker fireplace & 

windows mending 

Carriage of my box & saddle bridle whip &c. 
Brushes soap & whitening 

4 dusters .... & a Key piecing 

Wigpins needles & thread 

Gown & door mending gave to Cask & Xmas 

Boxes 

At Communion Table 

2 Bottles of Rum 2 of wine ale lemons &c.... 



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Since I begun of writing this I received your Box which is a 
very acceptable New Years Gift and have turned a Uttle of 
the mince pie over my tongue & have the work of Peggy's 
httle hands about my legs. I expect a pair of stockings of 
her handywork by & by. I sought a good while for Nelly's 
sixpence & at last it came tumbUng out of the garters to my 
agreeable surprise. 

I have sent Mr Abbott two pots who returns you his compli- 
n>ents and thanks you for the favour and when I go to him he 
seldom fot^ets to ask after your health the following is his 
Bill which you'll please to return cash for or Bill. 
Hull, Debt to Michaels. 



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Our Chronicln, 239 

sufficient for the 1st quarter at least but if you substract the 
income of my room i.e. the price ot the furniture & what 
was due to Michaels together with what Ive laid on books, 
Journey &c which I shall not want for the future you'll find 
the necessary expense does not exceed eight pounds I hope 
you are persuaded I shall be as careful as I can without 
letting the world see I am over much so. I can live more 
genteely for 40 than many can in our Coll for 70 pounds a 
year & keep better Company out of all ray care & Study I 
shall alway be most careful to deserve your love & am dear 
Father your dutiful son 

Chris. Hull 



JOHNIANA, 

The following letter appears in the GenUeman*s Magazine for 1797, 
Vol. i, 102—3. 

Feb, 6 [1797] 
•Mr Urban, 

From some authentic documents which I have lately seen, I am 
'able to state that Anthony Wood was under a mistake when he supposed 
that Robert Herrick, the poet, was either at St John's or All Souls at Oxford* 
He speaks indeed with hesitation on the subject ; which implies that 
he entertained some doubts. 

There was a Robert Heyrick at St John's at Oxford, who was intended 
for the law, but quitting that study for a more active life, died at Wesel, 
a lieutenant in the army, in 1639. 

Robert, the poet, was a fellow-commoner of St John's College, Cambridge^ 
from 1615 to 1617, in which last year the following " note nf hand " of his 
occurs, now transcribed to shew the forms of that age^ and the absurdity 
of some which have lately been published. 

Be it known to all, that I Robert Heyrick, fellow commoner 
of St John's Colledg in Cambridg, acknowledg myself to stand 
indebted unto my uncle, Sir William Hearick of London, knight, 
in the some of tenn poundes, for so much receaved of him ; 
to be repayed unto him at all times. I saye receaved tenn 
poundes, by me 

Robert Hearick. 

The early part of his personal history will also be illustrated by the two- 
following, undated, letters to his unde.. 

(1) After my abundant thanks for your last great loue (worthie 
Sir) proud of your fauoure and kindness shewne by my Ladie to 
my vnworthie selfe, thus I laye open myself ; that, forasmuch* 
as my continuance will not long consist inthe spheare where 
I nowe move, I make known my thought, and modestly crave 
your counsell Whether it were better for me to direct my study 
towards the Lawe or not ;. which if I should (a&it will not be. 
impertinent), I can with facilitie laboure myself into another 
Colledg appointed for the like end and studye, where I assure: 
myself the charge will not be so great as where I now exist ; 
I make bold freely to acquaint you with my thoughts ; andi 
I entreat you to answere me ; this being most which checks me, 
that my time (I trust) being short it may be to a lesser end and 
smaller purpose; but that shall be as you shall lend direction.. 



243 Our Chronicle, 

Nothing now remaines but my perfect thankfulness and remem- 
brance of your hopeful promises ; which when Heaven, working 
with you, shall bring them to performance, I shall triumph in the 
victorie of my wishes ; till then, my prayers shall inuocate 
He wen to powre upon you and your posteritie the vtmost of all 
essential! happiness, Yours eyer servcieable, 

R. Hearick. 
Sir, 

Trinitic Hall, Cam. 
(2) The confidence I have of your both virtuous and generous 
disposition makes me (though with some honest reluctation) 
the seldomer to sollcite you ; for I have so incorporated belief 
into me, that I cannot chuse but perswade myself that (though 
absent) I stand imprinted in your memor>' and the remembrance 
of my last beeing at London served for an earnest motive (which 
I trust lives yet unperisht) to the effectuating of my desire, which 
is not but in modesty ambitious, and consequently virtuous ; but, 
where freeness is evident, there needes no feere for forwardness ; 
and I doubt not (because fa>'th gives boldness) but that Heaven, 
togeither with yourself will bring my ebbing estate to an indiffer- 
ent tyde ; meane while I hope I haue (as I presume you know) 
changed my Colledg for one where the quantitie of expence wil 
be shortened, by reason of the priuacje of the house, where 
I purpose to Hue recluse till time contract me to some other 
calling, striuing now with myself (retayn^ng vpright thoughts) 
both sparingly to Hue, thereby to shun the current of expense. 
This is my desire (which I entreat may be performed), that 
Mr Adrian Marius, bookseller, of the Blackfryers, may be payd 
ten pounds as heretofore, and to take his acquitance. Trusting 
wherto, He terminate your sight and end ; hoping to see your 
dayes many and good, and prosperitie to crown yourself and 
issue : Euer Seru|ceable to your virtues, 

R. Hearick. 

May 1 request some Cambridge friend to state the dates of his admission 
and degrees at St John's, and at Tf inity Ha^ ; the first beUeved to be abou( 
1614, Uie other 1617 ? 

LN, 

So far as is known no direct answer was ever given to the request for 
information as to Herrick's entry at St John's ; it would appear that 
the only answer which can be given is that there is no evidence in the 
College Records. Herrick appears in the list of graduates as Robert 
Hearick, of Trinity Hall, B.A. 1616-7, M.A. 1620. The general Register 
of Admissions' at St John's does not begin until January 1629-30, Priof 
to that date we have a Register of the Admissions of Fellows and 
Scholars commencing in 1545, and this also contains occasional lists 
of persons admitted as Pensioners and Sizars, but not of Fellow Commoners. 
There is however one source from which the names of some Fellow 
Commoners can be gleaned. In the earlier volumes of Accounts we 
find the names of Fellow Commoners occurring under the heading 
Rccepta Forinseca; a heading which seems to include all payments to the 
College from its members, and other receipts not derived from the rents 
pf estates. Thus in the year 1559 we find the entries : 

Imprimis of Mr Coortesse 

for th admission of Mr 

Higforthe and Mr Hennyage 

in to ye felowes commons 26$. 8^, 

Item of Mr Wiborne for 

the admission of Mr Stafforde 

in to ye felowes commons. 13s. 4d. 



Our Chronicle. 241 

That is to say, Coortessc and Wiborne, Fellows of the College and 
acting as Tutors, paid these sums on the admission of their pupils 
as Fellow Commoners. From the University Registers we find that 
Edward Stafford and John Hickforthe matriculated as Fellow Commoners 
of St John's on 10 November 1559 ; while Michael Henyage matriculated 
as a pensioner 17 May 1559 and took the degrees B.A. 1562, M.A. 1566. 
But after a time such entries disappear from the Accounts. Then about 
the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century the 
names of Fellow Commoners appear in the Accounts under the same 
beading of Recepta Forinseca for another reason. The College had built 
a Tennis Court for the use of its members and the names of Fellow^ 
Commoners appear as paying for the use of the Court. For example : 

1621 
First Quarter 
Received for the tennis court 
pro Mro Lucio et Lorenzo 
Cary, pro singulis 5s. 

105. 

And this appears to be the only entry in the College books of the name 
of Lucius Carey, afterwards Viscount Falkland, the famous cavalier ; 
Lorenzo or Lawrence Carey was his younger brother. 

Repeated search has failed to disclose the name of Robert Herrick as 
making any such payment ; at the time when he entered St John's Fellow 
Commoners did not matriculate, so that his name does not appear in the 
University Register as of St John's. The documents printed above 
however make it quite clear that he was a Fellow Commoner of the 
College, but finding the expense too great migrated to Trinity Hall, where 
he entered as a Pensioner or Sizar. 

There is just a trace of another man of the same name in the accounts 
for 1595, where in the third quarter we have the entry : 

For the tennis court, of Mr Heigham, 

Mr Heyrick, Mr Wagstaffe, and 

Mr Carey 205. 

English Essay Prizes. 1907. 

Prizeman., 
No Candidate. 
C. W. Previte-Orton. 
R. P. Dodd. 
W. G. Constable. 
F. M. Cheshire. 



Entrance Scholars and Exhibitioners. 

Elected 13 December 1907. 
Commencing residence October 1908. 

Foundation Scholarships of £8o : 

Wren, W. T. (Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith) for Mathematics, 
Carter, W. H. (Liverpool College) /or Mathematics. 
Rogerson, W. J. L. (St John's School, Leatherhead)/<7r Classics. 
price, N. J. (King Edward's School, Birmingham) /or Natural Science. 



Year. 


Subject. 


Third. 


Autobiographies. 


Second. 


Allegory. 




Proxime accessit 


First. 


Charles Lamb. 




Proxime accessit 



242 Our Chronicle. 

Foundation Scholarships of £60 : 

Davis, H. J. (King's School, Chester) ybr Mathematics, 
Braunholtz, H. J. (Oundle School) /or Classics, 

Minor Scholarships of £60 : 

Ottley, W. H. T, (Malvern College) /or Classics. 

Baynes, F, W. W. (Harrow School) /or Classics, 

Conder, J. M. (Windermere Grammar School) /or Natural Scienu, 

Jackson, G, E. (Denstone College) /or if 15/ory, 

Foundation Scholarships of £40 : 

Street, R O. (Bournemouth School) /or Mathematics. 

Long, A. P. (Perse School) for Natural Science, 

Wells, W. D. (Lycee Malherbe, Caen) for Modem Languages. 

Denham, J. P. (Merchant Taylors' School, London) /or Hebrew, 

Exhibitions of £30 : 

Gillson, A. H. S. (Cambridge and County School) /or Mathematics, 

Carpenter, C. G. (City of Ix)ndon School) /or Mathematics, 

Williams, P. M. W. (City of London School) /or Mathematics, 

Todd, H. W. (City of London School) /or Classics, 

Moody, B. (Marlborough College) /or Classics, 

Thompson, C. B. (Shrewsbury School) /or Classics, 

Wilmore, A, N. (Manchester Grammar School) /or Natural Science, 

Knox, R. U. E. (Dulwich School) /or Natural Science, 

Fryers, J. L. (Merchant Taylors' School, London) /or if o<<. Languages. 

Shore, L. R. (Dulwich College) /or Natural Science. 

Mr C. B. Rootham, College Organist, gave a Recital in 
the Chapel on the evening of Sunday, March 1st The 
following is the programme : — 

1. Chaconne in £ minor ••..•• Buxtehude 

(Born in Denmark 1637 ; died 1707) 

2. Chaconne in F major Henry Purccll 

(? 1658—1695) 

3. Passacaglia in C minor /. S. Bach 

(1685—1750) 

4. Chaconne in E minor C, V, Stanford 

5. Basso Ostinato in D major A, S, Arensky 

6. Introduction & Passacaglia in D minor. .Max Reger 

The most obvious and easily realisable means of arriving at symmetry 
and proportion in musical works is by repetition of subject-matter. The 
Ground Bass (Italian basso ostinato) which consists of constant repetition 
of a phrase in the Bass with varied figures and harmonies above it, is one 
of the earliest " variation " forms used by composers. The Passacaglia 
was originally an Italian or Spanish dance ; but by the 17th century it 
had lost its purely secular character, being treated by composers in 
somewhat the same way as a Ground Bass. It is written in triple time, 
and usually consists of a melodic theme of eight bars, continually 
repeated, each time with a varied accompaniment. The Chaconne, 
probably also in its origin a Spanish dance, is again in triple time, but 
the melodic theme begins in the Soprano part, and on the first beat of the 
bar ; whereas the theme of the Passacaglia begins on the third beat and 
is usually in the Bass. 



Our ChronicU, 243 

Examples of these three kindred variation-forms are to be found in 
the works of the great composers from the 16th century onwards. Apart 
from music written expressly for the organ, we find a great number of 
instances in Purcell's Operas, notably Dido's death song, **When I am 
laid in earth," from "Dido and Aeneas." The "Crucifixus" in Bach's 
great B minor Mass, and several of the finest choruses from Handel's 
oratorios can also be cited. More recently Johannes Brahms produced 
two fine examples in the Finale to the Variations on a theme of Haydn, 
and in the last movement of his fourth Symphony in E minor. 

Athletic Club. 

President— A. Thome Waite. Hon, Sec—F, R. Pamell. Committee-- 
T. M. Sibly, D. W. Ward, A. R. Thompson, A. Hughes, H. A. L. 
Laidlaw (Capt. L.M.B.C.) 

The Sports were held at Fenner's on Thursday, February 6, 
and Friday, February 7. 

The results were moderate on the whole, the 100 yards 
and the 3 miles being the best times. 

The events and winners were as follows : — 

100 Yards—]. M. Swift 1, T. M. Sibly 2, S. U Thompson 3. Won by 
2| yards ; one foot between 2nd and 3rd. Time, 11 4-5ths sees. 

120 Yards Handicaf^—T, M. SiWy, 3 yards, 1 j J. M. Swift, scr., 2. 
Time, 12 4-5ths sees. Won by 4 feet. 

Quarter Mile^ OpenS, L. Thompson 1, T. M. Sibly 2. Time, 55 4-5ths 
Won by half yard. 

Quarter MiUy Handicap — S. L. Thompson, scr., 1 ; T. M. Sibly, 3 yards, 
2. Time, 56 l-5th sees. Won by 3 yards. 

Half Mile—T, M. Sibly 1, A. R. Thompson 2. Time, 2 mins. 10 sees. 
Won by 10 yards. 

Mile— A. Hughes 1, A. R. Thompson 2. Time, 4 mins. 55 sees. Won 
by 90 yards. 

Three Miles^ Handicap — ^A. Hughes, scr., 1 ; N. Green, 250 yards, 2 ; 
H. P. W. Burton, 100 yards, 3. Time, 16 mins. 6 sees. Won by 350 yards. 

High Jump—C. A. Barber and W. S. Soden tied for 1st, 4 ft. llfin. ; 
T.M. Sibly,3,4ft. lOiin. 

Long Jump—T, M. Sibly, 1, 18 ft. 2\ ia ; J. R. Marrack, 2, 17 ft 7\ in, ; 
C. B. S. AUott,3, 17 ft. 7in. 

Hurdles— C A. Baker 1, F. Dale 2. Time, 20 3-5ths sees. Won by 
2 yards. 

Puttifig the Weight— VJ. Veevcrs 1^ 28 ft. 7iins. ; C H. Ritchie 2, 
25 ft li ins. 

Fresbmcn'^s 200 Yards— S^ L. Thompson 1, A. J. Bentley 2, Time, 
22 2-5ths sees. Won by 2 feet. 

l,.M.B.C, 300 Yards Handicap— H, F. Russell-Smith, 15 yards, 1; 
R, W. Hyde, Z 

College Servants' 200 Yards Handicap— U. Randall, 20 yards, 1 ; 
J. Sparrow, 30 yards, 2. 

A fixture has been arranged with Keble College, Oxford, 
to take place at Fenner's on Tuesday, March 10. The team 
and results will be published in next term's Ea^e. 



244 Our Chronicle, 

Association Football Club. 

Captain — R. Brice-Smith. Secretary — ^J. A. Fewings. 

After a very encouraging start, the season has been a 
disappointing one. The bad luck which commenced last 
Term has been with us to the end. With a team disorganised 
by the large number of * crockings/ we are rather reheved to 
have played the last match. 

Under the circumstances it is most satisfactory that we 
have kept well above the bottom of the League. With 
practically the whole of the present team available we 
anticipate a better object next season than to escape relega- 
tion to the second division. 

The 2nd XI has played a large number of matches and 
won a fair proportion. At the time of writing the * getting 
on' matches for the third division of the League have not 
been played. We have great hopes, and with good reason, 
that our team will be the successful one. 

1st XI colours have been given to H. C. H. Lane and 
E. K. Quick. 

The following 1st XI matches have been played this 
Term :— 

Goals 
Opponents. Ground, Result. For. Agst. 

♦Caius St John's Lost 1 ... 4 

*Jesus „ Drawn... 3 ... 3 

•Trinity Rest „ Drawn... 2 ... 2 

Caius. Caius. Drawn... 2 ... 2 

Clare Clare Lost 2 ... 3 

•Queens' St John's Lost 2 ... 6 

♦Clare Clare Lost 1 ... 4 

Mr R. E. Newbery's XI St John's Won 4 ... 3 

•Caius Caius Lost ... 7 

• League Matches. 

Characters : 

W. E. Hill (goal). Not *' discovered " till near the end of the season. Had 
plenty to do, and did it well. 

E. L. Donovan (right back). Neat full back. Lacks pace, and is light, 
but shows good judgment, and worked hard the whole season. 

/. A. Fewings (left back). Started the season, as usual, at centre forward. 
Later, in response to urgent entreaties, came to full back. A neat 
and powerful kick, tackling and heading well. A great acquisition 
to the defence. 

E. K, Quick (right half). A very energetic half. Tackles hard and passes 
accurately. Uses his head well. 

R. BriceSmith (centre half). Has captained the team well, showing a 
pleasant optimism during all our misfortunes. Tackles and passes 
excellently, and works very hard in defence and attack. 

C. Beale (left half). Has played a consistently good game the whole 
season. Is fast, a strong tackier, and uses his weight well. 



Our ChronicU. 245 

P. A. Janus (outside right). A much inrtproved forward. Puts plenty of 
life into his game. Has developed a fine cross shot 

H, Whewcll (inside right). Has the makings of a really good forward. 
Fast, clever, and an excellent shot. Very inclined to get out of his 
place. 

A. R, Thonipsort (inside left). A good, hard working forward. Feeds his 
wing well, and combines neatly with his centre. 

ii. C. H. Lane (outside left)i Has shown great pace on the wing. Com- 
bines well with his inside, and centres with judgment A good shot. 

Rugby Union Football ClUB. 

The season, on the whole, has been rather disappointing, 
the freshmen, With a few exceptions, not fulfilling expecta- 
tions. The team did not do itself justice against weaker 
opponents, but always rose to the occasion when opposed to 
stronger teams, nevertheless the season was a distinct im- 
provement on the last, and next season should see an even 
greater improvement. 

The second XV are to be congratulated upon their 
marked success, being defeated only on three occasions. 

Characters of the Team : 

A^ Thorne-Waite (captain, three-quarter). Has been a most energetic 
captain both on and off the field, brilliant tackier, and runs straight 
when he gets the ball ; has done his hardest to get the team together, 
and it is no fault of his that the season has not been as successful as 
it might. 

C. D. D. Mogan (hon. sec., half). Returned to his old position of half, 
where he proved a great source of strength to the side, his tackling 
and spoiling Work being particularly effective. An energetic secretary, 
whose help both on and of( ,e field has been of the greatest value. 

A. E. Evans, Only turned out once for the College, as his services were 
always required for the 'Varsity. His advice to the forwards was 
always extremely useful. 

J. R. Hill (three-quarter). A sound and reliable inside three-quarter, 
particularly useful in defence, 

F. W. Hicks (forward). Led the forwards very well during the whole 
season. Very consistent, and knows the game thoroughly. One of 
the few forwards who helped the backs in their defence work. His 
advice to the forward line has been extremely useful. 

C. £. Averill (forward). A stout forward, good in the loose and out of 
touch, but should not forget to work hard in the scrum. 

W.H. Weightman (forward). A light but energetic forward, goes hard 
all the time, and tackles keenly. 

/. W, G. Stokes (forward). Works hard, but is apt to be erratic. 

F. M. MoseUy (wing three-quarter). Very plucky in defence, especially in 
falling on the ball. Must learn to run straight and hard. 

VOL. XXXIX. KK 



246 Our Chronicle. 

A. J, Bcntley (wing three-quarter). Most useful in attack and defence. 
Knows the game thoroughly, and was responsible for a large number 
of tries. 

C. L. Holthousc (forward). Useful forward, and hard worker. 

C. H. Ritchie (forward). Good in the loose, and tries hard in the scrum, 
but hardly knows the English game thoroughly. A good place kick 
on his day. 

//. F. Russell-Smith (forward). Good out of touch, and a conscientious 
worker, but inclined to be clumsy in the scrum. 

H. A. Rose (forward). Has played some good games, but should be more 
consistent 

The following have also played for the College on a few occasions : — 

£. iV. Wilkinson (forward). Plays a good game in the loose, but must 
learn to pack properly, even though in the back row. Too much 
inclined to wing, but should prove useful next season. 

£. Y. J. Brash (scrum and flying half). Has played some very good games, 
but is very liable to be drawn, and is rather slow. 

F, B, Fisher (scrum and flying half). Very useful kick with both feet, but 
lacks enthusiasm. 

/•. /?. Marrack (full back). An extremely plucky full back^ but must leara 
to find touch, and keep his head. 



Lady Margaret Boat Club. 

Presidetrt— Mr L. H. K. Bushe-Fox. Treasurer— Mr J. J. Lister. First 
Captain—H. A. L. Laidlaw. Second Captain — L. R. D. Anderson. Hon. 
Scc.—C J. W. Henslow. Junior Treasttrer—T, M. Sibly. First Lent 
Captain — V. C. Boddington. Second Lent Captain— C, L. Holthouse. 
Third Lent Captainr-H. F. Russell-Smith. Additional Captain— G, A, 
Allen. 

The crews came up to start practice for the Lents on 
January 9th, though about ten days later a short spell of 
sharp frost put a stop to all rowing for a few days. The 
most important event of the first fortnight was the visit of 
P. J. Lewis and F. A. R. Higgins (whose names are still Boat 
household words), who showed great interest and enthusiasm 
in coaching during the early stages of practice. From tlie 
very first it was obvious that the First Boat had great 
possibilities, as there was a good deal of heavy material 
eligible. A new boat was ordered at the end of the 
Michaelmas Term, to be built by Messrs Pocock, for use 
as a fixed-On sliding-seated eight ; it was taken out first in 
the last week in January, and after some slight alterations had 
been made, including the minor consideration of making it 
water-tight, it was found thoroughly serviceable and very 
easy to sit. Although some time elapsed before this heavy 
crew showed any signs of life, yet as the races drew nearer 
the stroke was quickened and the hard "shove" was 



Our Chronick, 247 

rendered the more effective by increasing smartness. The 
Club had to forego the valuable services of Mr. Bushe-Fox, 
as for the first part of the term he was busy with the 
University boat, and then was laid up with influenza, so the 
First Boat Captain sprang into the saddle. 

The First and Second boats were exceptionally lucky in 
escaping " flu." In the First Boat, at times, ** Five " found 
his health rather a burden to him, and seemed to bear all the 
ills of the crew, but who says it did not have a beneficial 
effect on his blade ? 

The First boat was certainly favoured by fortune on the 
First Night ; getting off well from the start it gained steadily 
on Emmanuel, who gained equally steadily on Trinity Hall, 
and all the way up the Long Reach a remarkably fine race 
was witnessed ; our boat was only a few inches from 
Emmanuel, who were overlapping Hall for the last two 
minutes, but we made our bump at the Bridge — thanks 
(largely) to the fine race which Hall gave Emmanuel. 

On the Second Night we did not go so well till Ditton, 
where Hall had their distance. Coming into tha Long Reach 
a stiffish head wind steadied our crew, and going up all the 
way we caught Hall at the Glass Houses. 

The Third Night provided the greatest surprise of all. 
Getting off well our boat went very well up the Gut (where 
it generally rather failed) and caught Caius at the beginning 
of the Plough Reach after a smart piece of rowing. 

On the Last Night a slight following wind somewhat 
unsteadied us, and we did not go up on First Trinity very 
fast at first, but at Ditton we were right up and fairly rowed 
them down at the Long Reach Inn.. 

First Boat. 

St. lbs: 
V. C. Boddington {bow) 11 2 

2 P. A. Irving ^ 11 6 

3 K. S. Thomson 12 7 

4 H. F. RusseU-Smith U 13 

5 R. Meldrum « 13 2 

6 C. J. W. Henslow 12 12 

7 C. L. Holthouse 11 6 

J. M. Short (s^ra*€) 11 10 

H, E. Chasteney {cox) 8 9* 

Coach — H. A. L. Laidlaw. 

First Lent Boat Characters: 

Bow — Did not row up to form in the early stages of practice. He 
recovered his old form before the races, however, and rowed a hard 
blade. He has not quite cured himself of " lugging " with the arms 
at the beginning — a triok which tends to make his finish short. 



248 Our Chronicle. 

Two— Makes a speciality of Post Corner, He is a useful if not a pretty 
oar ; but must remember always to hold his finish well back, and to 
use both legs together. 

Three — Rows well for a short distance. When getting tired his back 
gives at the finish, aud his body falling away makes his blade leave 
the water too soon. He gets a good hold of the l>eginning. 

Four — Has loosened out this year ; his hands come away faster ; but he 
is still at times inclined to get ** hung up " at the finish. His blade is 
a little slow in covering itself, but consistently "moves mountains" 
when in the water. 

Five — Was a great asset to the crew. He has an easy action, and gives 
one some idea of what fixed-seat rowing should be. He does not 
always take the water with the full blade, but seems to have learnt 
the joy of honest work, 

Si;v— Took some little time to get used to fixed seats and to stroke side ; 
but, once settled in, he did as well as any man in the boat. He does 
not always finish the stroke firmly to his body, which is, perhaps, 
the natural result of his exceptionally long reach forward* 

Seven — Has a good idea of body rhythm, somewhat marred when paddling 
by a queer trick of holding his hands still over the stretcher while his 
body •* bobs " down ; when rowing he shows some tendency to 
bucket. He made the most of himself in the races. 

Stroke — Is a variable oar. During practice his slowness with his hands 
at both ends of the stroke infected the rest of the crew. He does 
much better when he has no leisure to be slow. During the races he 
seemed to have his crew better in hand, and rowed with excellent 
spirit. 

Cox — Is in the fortunate position of knowing more about steering than his 
coach. He takes corners very well, Iq the race? he kept his head, 
and did nothing rash. 

The Second Boat benefited by being left unchanged for 
some time. In the earlier stages of practice it compared 
very favourably with the First Boat, though did not come on 
very much during the last week. It seemed rather as though 
the rate of striking increased a little too soon, and at the 
expense of length. The crew rowed with plenty of life, and 
well deserved their two bumps. On the First Night our boat 
was within half a length of Corpus when the latter caught 
Third Trinity (who only rowed seven men) ; as there was 
a " hold up " the Jesus Second boat had to chase our men the 
next morning, Jesus got a very bad start, but came up 
steadily the whole way and bumped our boat about 30 yards 
above Ditton. ^ In the afternoon it rowed over comfortably, 
as the boat immediately behind ran on the bank; this 
necessitated another row for our men the next morning in 
front of Hall II., in which they were not at all pressed, and 
got over comfortably. On the Third Night our boat easily 
s;aught Third Trinity, making their bump at the Ditch. The 



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Fourth Night provided the easiest task of all When Sidney, 
whose chances in the races had been ruined by " flu," fell 
easy victims at the gravel-shoot. 

Second Boat 

St lbs. 

C. Dixon [bow) 11 2 

2 H. L. Penfold 11 12 

3 J. C. Irving 10 12 

4 J. G. H. Holtzapffel 11 8 

5 C.H.Ritchie 12 1 

6 D. E. Cruickshank 12 1 

7 G. A. Allen 10 12 

R. F. Donne (stroke) 10 

R. W. Hyde {cox) 8 6 

Coach — M. Henderson. 

Second Lent Boat Characters, 

Bow—Hais improved much since the beginning of the Term. Still rather 
short in his swing and weak at the beginning of the stroke, but kept 
the boat straight. 

Two — Fails to use both his legs at the same time and bounces forward. 
Rows a short stroke, but a good one. Never slack. 

T^r^^— Is improving with practice. He is still short in his swing and 
inclined to dig. Tries hard. 

Four — Swings comparatively well. Works hard as a rule, but inclined to 
go to sleep occasionally. Not always as heavy-handed as photographs ' 
would lead one to suppose. 

Five — Still swings out of the boat, but now manages to keep his elbow 
out of the water at the finish. When he manages to sit up and be 
light with his hands he will become a really good oar. 

Six — Always tries hard. Still short wiih his swing and unsteady over the 
stretcher. Uses his legs well. 

Seven — Is better than he looks. A tendency to bucket and rather short at 
the finish. Works hard, but not absolutely with stroke. 

Stroke — ^A better stroke than an oar. Must try and keep his blade covered 
longer. Though short himself, he manages to give his crew time at 
the finish. Rows hard and keeps it lively all over the course. 

Cox — Has greatly improved in his comers and is fair, but not perfect, in 
the straight. Kept his head and steered well in the races. 

The Third Boat also started well ; it gradually acquired 
a nice easy rhythm, with a good steady swing. As the Term 
went on certain changes had to be made, and a vacancy 
occurring in the Second boat this crew were somewhat 
disturbed : then influenza came in, and all chances of 
retaining its high position and reputation were practically 
ruined. On the First Night they got a very bad start, and 



250 Our Chronicle. 

were severely pressed by 1st Trinity III., but held out well 
into the Long Reach. On the Second Night our crew got 
a good start, and finished up just their distance from " 1st III." 
The race for the Third Night proved short but sweet (for 
Magdalene I.). On the last night a bump being made in 
front of them they had to content themselves with keeping 
away from Selwyn I., which they easily did. 

Third Boat. 

St. lbs. 

G. W. Spencer [bow] 9 11 

2 F. A. A. W. Heaton 10 1 

3 J. B. Ronaldson 10 13 

4 H. P. W. Burton 10 5 

5 T. Clough 12 1 

6 L. A. Allen 11 1 

7 S. E. Sewell 10 13 

K. H. Scougal {stroke) 11 1 

O. Hughes-Jones [cox) 8 9 

Coach — L. R D. Anderson. 

Third Lent Boat Characters. 

B(np— Painstaking, but rather weak; his flop forward is changing to a 
swing, but his weak back prevent him from having a finish. 

7\i;o— Unsteady over the stretcher, and consequently slow over the begin- 
ning. He can, but does not always, get his hands away. 

Three — Very kindly came in a week before the races. His experience 
made up for his finish. 

Four — Has unfortunately never been allowed to stay on the same side for 
more than a fortnight His swing is unsteady and his hands are slow, 
but his legs are effective and should take him further. 

Five — Is still monumental. Has many good points, notably a good length ; 
but he is rather heavy. 

Six — A hard worker with a good leg drive ; his back is weak and his finish 
uncertain, but with practice and care he should improve. 

Seven — An improved but variable oar, who rowed very well in the races. 
He should think of his legs as a coupling between his shoulders and 
the stretcher. 

Stroke — On a week's practice at stroke did very well. He has hardly the 
requisite verve (or finish) for a stroke ; as an oar he is rather superficiaL 

Car— If he got few kicks at least did not get the ha'pence he deserved. In 
the races he steered sound, if not brilliant, courses ; with practice and 
more confidence he should turn out very useful. 

A Non-Smoking "Smoker.^* 

On the evening of Tuesday, February 25th, a "Non- 
Smoking Smoker" was held in Lecture Room VI. In the 



Our Chronicle. 251 

absence of Mr L. H. K. Bushe-Fox, Mr R. P. Gregory kindly 
took the chair. A carefully drawn up programme was found 
most engrossing in the rendering, to the accompaniment of 
pine-apple and port. As usual the evening closed with the 
traditional rendering of "The Old Grey Fox" and the "Lady 
Margaret Boat Song." 

A " Getting-on " boat was started fairly early in the Term 
with a crew of enthusiastic hght-weights, but was later 
succeeded by an eight chiefly composed of superannuated 
Lent colours, who had been unearthed from various pursuits 
more congenial to their advancing years, who dropped in as 
influenza claimed more victims. The first day they were 
drawn against King's III., and although King's gained 
a little at the start the experience of the veteran crew told 
in the matter of avoiding crabs, and they drew away, winning 
by over two lengths. On the second day they continued 
their victorious career, having drawn a bye ; in great form 
a start was effected for a paddle over ; at Grassy the 
monotony of this phantom race proved so exasperating to 
the cox that by way of a diversion he entangled the stroke 
side oars with the legs of a camera. 

The final was rowed against Magdalene in a hurricane, 
when the veteran crew, with first station, kept in front the 
whole way and then vanished from sight and have not been 
heard of since. 

Bump Supper, &c. 

This event, especially the "&c.," was indeed a flaring 
success, almost worthy of the occasion. The Bump Supper 
was quite the largest on record. Mr L. H. K. Bushe-Fox 
(President) took the chair, and many other senior members 
of the College were present. Songs, speeches, loving-cup, 
and laughter followed one another in rapid succession. The 
healths of King, coxes, coaches, crews, and President having 
been drunk with fitting honours, a move was made in the 
direction of the second court, where rockets and bonfire 
terminated a most successful " Lents." 



L.M.B.C. Concert. 

On Shrove Tuesday, March 3rd, the Annual L.M.B.C, 
Concert was held in the College Hall, which had been nicely 
decorated for the Occasion. We were glad to see repre- 
sentatives from several other College Boat Clubs. The Hall 
was very fairly full. A programme, arranged by a special 
committee, was thoroughly enjpyed, the Boat Song at the 



252 Our Chronicle. 

end, sung by all the 1st May Colours, being most effective. 
The following was the programme :— 

PART h 

1. Pianoforte Duet Overture " Egmont ** 4 ,... Beethoven 

J. L. Troubridge & A. A. Guest- Williams. 

2. Song "The Roadside Fiie" Vaughan Williams 

H. G. Baynes. 

3. Vocal Quartette..." The Long Day Closes" , Sullivan 

E. H. Muncey, V. C. BoDDiNGTON, R. Stansfeld, A. F. Hall. 

4. Song "The Little Irish Girl" L^ht 

J. B. Ronaldson. 

5. Violin Solo *• Souvenir " Drdta 

H. LORENZ. 

6. Song " Vilannelle" ^Dcl Acqua 

V. C. Doddington. 

7. Song " The Bell Ringing " 

Mr Gregory. 

PART II. 

8. Piano Solo Andante & Rondo Capriccioso Mendctssokti 

J. L. Troubridge. 

9. Song "Ethiopia Saluting the Colours" Wood 

H, G. Baynes. 

10. Vocal Quartette..." The Franklyn's Dogge" Mackenzie 

E. H. Muncey, V. C. Boddington, R. Stansfeld, A. F. Hall. 

11. Song "The Two Magicians 

Mr Gregory. 

12. Song ."Two Elizabethan Lyrics" Lane Wilson 

A. F. Hall. 

13. Solo and Chorus..." Lady Margaret Boat Song " Garrett 

Solo by First Boat Colours. 



Natural Science Club. 

President — H, R. Hasse. Treasurer— Dr J. E. Marr. Secretary — 
R. Whiddington. 

The following papers have been read this Term : — 

Jan. 27. " Anaesthetics." By T. H. G. Shore. 

Feb. 10. " Yeast." By Mr J. E. Purvis. 

Feb.'24. " Recent Glaciation." By P. A. Irving. 

Mar. 9* " Geology and the Exact Sciences." By Mr A, Harker. 



Our Chronicle, 253 

Lacrosse Club. 

President— H, R. Hasse. Captain— -U, W. Palcrson. Eon, Scc,-^ 
L. C. Levy. 

The season has been a very successful one on the whole, 
and might have been still better had we not been handicapped 
in nearly every match by losing the services of one or two of 
the regular team. We have been able to run two teams as. 
usual, but could have wished for a greater number of recruits 
from among the Freshmen^ 

This season has been more prolix in matches than those 
of the past few years, and we have had the satisfaction of 
producing a fixture card. The match arranged with St John^s 
College, Oxford, had unfortunately to be scratched, owing to 
the inability of the Oxford College to raise a team. 

The team as a whole reached a fairly high degree of 
efficiency, but did not always play well together. The attack 
require to pass more quickly and accurately, and the defence 
should watch their men^s bodies more closely. 

We congratulate L, C. Levy op getting his 2nd 'Varsity 
Lacrosse colours. 

The 2nd XI played with great dash, but should try to 
forget hockey and cricket when playing lacrosse. They were 
unfortunate in not getting more matche^K 

Results are as follows : — 

1st XI — Cup Matches, played 3, won 1, lost 2. Goals for, 8 ; agst., 16. 

„ — Friendly Matches, played 8, won 5, lost 3. Goals for, 61 ; agst., 41. . 
2nd XI— Played 3, won 1, lost 2. Goals for, 16 ; agst, 21. 

Characters: 

R. S. Jeffreys (1st home). Is much more at home with his *crosse thb 
season, but a little weak in shooting and passing. Considering his 
light weight, has done very well. 

H. R'. Hass^ (2nd home). Has been a very sporting President to turn oat 
for the team. We advise Plasmon.as a good generator of. energy. 

W. C. Lcty (3rd home). Has made an excellent Secretary, and has played 
a consistently good game throughout the season. Plays centre well 
on occasion. Should move about more. 

A. R. Thompson (right attack). Considering his versatility, has shown 
good promise. Requires more experience of the game to become 
efficient. Also plays a fair defence game. 

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254 Our Chronicle. 

C. B. S. Allott (left attack). A different man from bst season. His pace 
and 'crosse handling have stood him in good stead. Apt to get 
aurried, and trusts a little too much to individual effort. 

AT. W. Paterson (capt., centre). His knowledge of the game and experience 
make him an excellent captain. Rallies his team well when they are 
inclined to give up, 

r. M, Swift (left defence). Has at last learnt the principle of watching his 
opponent's body, though he sometimes fails to put it into practice. 
Should refer to last year's character, and remember that he has now 
four years in which to become a lacrosse player, 

H. Whewell (right defence). By far the best defence man on the side ; 
with a little experience he should become a really fine player. Lacks 
finish in " passing tactics " through want of practice. 

C. E, Averill (cover point). Plays a sound and strenuous game anjrwherc 
on the field, but requires practice in clearing, and picking up the ball. 

W, Veevers (point). If words were deeds, Mr Veevers would have 

represented England years ago. He is always ready to offer 

advice, but we should prefer more substantial assistance. His passes 
are wont to soar high and fall short. For lacrosse purposes it would 
be difficult to choose between Mr Veevers 'crosse stick and a sparrow 
net, 

A. C. Belgrave (goal). His tennis has given him a remarkably auick eye 
in goal. Has brought off some really fine saves considering his short 
acquaintance witli I the game. Must learn to clear quickly and use 
boUi hands. 



Musical Society. 

President — Mr H. S. Foxwell. Treasurer — Dr Shore, Librarian — 
Mr Rootham. Secretary — ^A. F. Hall. Committee — Prof Rapson, Rev H. F. 
Stewart, J. Fraser, A. Y. Campbell, E. H. P. Muncey, A. C. Churchward, 
V. C. Boddington, A. Thorne Waite, J. K. Deane, C. L. Holthouse, H. F, 
Russell-Smith, C. H. Ritchie, and R. Hausfield. 

Practices for the May Concert have already started on 
Monday evenings at 8 p.m. It is not too late to join the 
Chorus even now, and we hope that all those who can sing 
and have not joined before will do so at once, and that all the 
members of last year's chorus who are up will continue to 
help us. May we repeat our remark about instrumentahsts 
that we made in last Term's Eagle. 

Two Smoking Concerts have at present been held on 
January 30 and on February 13. Our best thanks are due to 
t'ae Dean for taking the chair at the first, and to Mr How for 
fulfilling the double rSIe of chairman and performer at the 
second. 



Our Chronicle. 255 

Appended are the programmes : — • 

First Concert:—* 

PART I. 

1. PiANOFORTB DuBT *V. Rinisky Korsakaw, &l* 

** Variations on the Moscow Belis " 
J. L. Troubridge and A. F. Hall. 

2. SoxG " Kathleen Ni Hoolhaun '* .,.arr. by Arthur Somervell 

A. Thorne Waite. 

3. Vocal Trio " Dame Durden " Harrington 

V. C. BoDDiNGTON, R. Stansfbld, and A. F. Hall. 

4. Violin Solo Allegro Brilliante, op. 19 W. Ten Have 

C. R. Wright (Christ's). 

5. SoXG " Corporal's Ditty" Squire 

Mr A. C. H. Young. 



PART li. 

6. PiAN*OFOilTB SoLO......" Valse de la Reine" *...S. Coleridge Taylor 

G. A. G. BONSER. 

7. Song * " Pretty Polly Oliver *\,.arr, by Arthur Somervell 

A. Thorns Waits. 

8. Violin Solo « Spanishe Tanze No< 3 « Moszhowski 

C. R. Wright (Christ's). 

9. Vocal Trio " Peter Piper " * Jarvis 

V. C. BoDDiNGTON, R. Stansfeld, and A. F. Hall< 

10. Song * " Pipes of Pan " , Elgar 

R. W. Hyde. 

GOD SAVE THE KING. 
Accompanist J. L. Troubridge. . 

Chairman — Mr Stewart. 



256 Our Chronicle, 

Second Concert: — 

PART I. 

1. Planoforte Solo^/' Staccato Study in C Major" Rubinstein 

J. L. Troubridge. 

2. Song "Where'er you walk" Handel 

E. H. MUNCEY. 

3. Vocal Quartette " The GosHngs '* Bridge 

E. H. MuNXEY, V. C. BoDDiNGTON, R. Stansfeld, and A. F. Hall. 

4. Song " Shepherd, see thy horse's foaming mane "•....jF. Korbay 

V. S. Brown (Jesus). 

5. SoNG^»... »..." Danny Deever " »..».....Co&6 

Mr How. 

PART IL 

A D,.«r^>,^n.n» c^w r^o j Inter mczzo in E flat Brahms 

6. Piawoforte Solos ...{capriccio D.Scarlatti 

Mr ROOTHAM. 

7. Song " When love is kind " Old Melody 

E, H. MUNCBY. 

8. Song " The Vagabond " R. V, Williams 

A. F. Hall. 

9. Song .,.. "The first Friend".... „ German 

From "Ju3t So Stories" (Kipliog) 
V. S. Brown (Jesus). 

10. Song "Thou little tender flower ".....«.* T. del Riego 

H. C. H. Lane. 

Accompanists Mr Rootham and J. L. Troubridge. 

Chairman — Mr How. 



Cricket Field Improvement Fund. 

The Committee are glad to report that considerable 
progress has been made with the work of levelling the cricket 
field. The appeal for subscriptions within the College has 



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257 



been so far successful that it has been possible to carry out 
a larger part of the work this year than had originally been 
expected. Much more, however, remains to be done if the 
scheme is to be properly completed and the full benefits of 
the improvement enjoyed. The amount received up to the 
present date is j687 6s. IIJ., of which j676 175. 7d. has been 
already expended, and another £2S will probably be required 
to meet expenses before the work is stopped for this season. 
The Treasurer begs to acknowledge the following subscrip- 
tions received during the current term : — 



£ s. d. 

Balance (March 14, 1907) 23 12 11 
Subscriptions previously 

acknowledged 20 1 6 

Mr Lister * 5 

C. L. Dnice » 10 6 

A.J. Bentley 1 1 

C. G. Freke 2 6 

J. A. Bilsland 1 

A. R. Dalai 3 

E. C. Dewick 5 

J. H. Arnold 5 

G. G. Barnes 6 

T. O. BeU 5 

T. Clough 5 

W. Gaskell 110 

F.W. Hicks 110 

A. C. Belgravc 4 

Z.N.Brooke 10 

P. G. Alexander 5 

R. C. Alexander 2 6 

E. L. Adeney 2 

H. S. Barrett 5 

V.J.W. Hobbs 1 1 

A. Lilley 3 

R. Meldrum 10 

T. M. Sibly 10 

H. C. Stanford 10 

F.D.Morton 1 1 

E. L. Donovan 10 6 

H. C. Dollman 10 6 

W.E.Ferris 4 

S. M. Green 6 

F. B. Fisher 10 6 

A. A. Guest-WiUiams ... 10 6 

R. T. Halscy 10 

S. L. Ho 10 6 

LC. Irving 10 

Eraser 10 

. G. Constabie 5 

D. E. Cruickshank 5 

V. C. Boddington 10 

]. A. Fewings 110 



£ s. d. 

W. F. Swords 10 

A. R. Tremearne 5 

J. L. Troubridge 10 

C. V.Wooler 10 6 

T. E. Wood 5 

E. W. Willet 10 6 

C. E. Averill 10 6 

J. M. Short 10 6 

L. B. Tillard 10 6 

O. C. Smith 10 

A. V. Stocks 7 6 

T.H.O. Shore 5 6 

O. Hughes Jones 5 

J. B.Sterndale Bennett.. 5 

C. H. Ritchie 110 

W. I. Harding 2 2 

Mr Brindley 10 6 

A. E. Evans 110 

C.S. Fleet 5 

D. S. Eraser 5 

N. Green 2 

W. R. Guest-Williams... 10 6 

V. K. Haslam 10 6 

F. A. W. Heaton 5 

P. A. Irving 10 6 

L. J. Mordell 2 

F. W. Mosely 110 

Mr Sikes 1 10 

L.C.Levy 10 6 

H. C. H. Lane 10 

W.H. Shepherd 5 

H. T. Piaggio 10 

F. F. Gledstone 5 

Rev H. F. Stewart 10 

G. Waterhouse 10 

E. K. Quick 10 

R. F. Patterson 10 

J. R. Stoddart 5 

H. H. Lorenz 2 6 

L. D. Smith 5 

J. C. Perry , 5 

£87 6 11 



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Cricket Club. 
Balance Sheet 1907. 



Receipts. 



£ s. d. 



Grant from the Amalga- 
mated AthleUc Clubs 142 

Long Vacation Grant 

from ditto 20 

Deficit 12 3 9 



£174 3 9 



Expenditure. 

£ s. d. 

Deficit from 1906 10 8 6 

Wages for Groundman.. 40 

General Expenses, in- 
cluding wages of 
labour, payment of 
umpires, rolling and 

cutting, rates & taxes 75 18 7 

University Cricket Club 

Poll Tax 5 5 

Bats, Balls, and Teas ... 13 4 

Miscellaneous accounts: 

Moyes 2 15 

LiUey 2 1 3 

Metcalfe 110 

Pleasance, Repairs to 

Pavilion, etc 13 1 5 

Gibson 13 6 

Gray 1 10 3 

Macintosh 5 13 3 

GenUe 10 6 

Broom 14 6 

Cash items 17 

£174 3 9 



Audited and found correct, L. E. Shore, 
12 December 1907. 



Historical Society* 



The Historical Society, its life refreshed by a considerable 
number of new members, has now almost completed its third 
year of existence, and may claim to rank as one of the older 
institutions of the College. Last Term, in addition to papers 
by Mr Benians (" A Chapter in the Life of Cardinal Pole ") 
and D. S. Eraser (" Hungary in the XIX^ Century), Prof Bury 
was kind enough to speak to us on ** Ancient and Modem 
Ideas of History," The meeting was naturally well attended 
and followed by a discussion of somewhat animated nature. 
This Term flights into new regions were attempted by the 
Limelight Lecture of Prof Rapson on " Coins and Medals o£ 
Elizabeth," The lantern, after a somewhat skittish interlude, 
settled down tosteady work, and helped to make the actors of 
the Tudor period more living to those present than ever l>efore. 
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Our Chronicle, 259 

received renewed support from the extraordinarily vivid 
contemporary portraits presented to us. We hope this may 
prove a prelude to meetings of a similar kind. In addition 
there have been papers by F. M. Cheshire (^' The Venerable 
Bede ") and G. W. Constable (" Montesquieu and his Relation 
to Later PoHtical Thought."). 



Theological Society. 

President — ^J. M. Swift. Ex-Presidents (in residence)—]. H. A. Hart, 

E. C. Dewick, H. E. Stuart. Secretary— Pl. D. Allen. Treasurer — 

F. A. A. W. Heaton. CommitUe—M. W. Paterson, W. H. Woollen. 

The Society is in a very flourishing condition, and the 
meetings have been marked by larger attendances than usual. 

There are now 50 members and associates in residence. 

The papers, both interesting and instructive in character, 
which have been read during the Term are as follows : — 

January 24th "The Church and Human Thought." 

(Pan-Anglican Congress 1908 subject, section B.) 

Rev S. C. Carpenter M.A., Caius College, Vice-Principal of 
Wescott House. 

In C. S. Fleet's rooms. 

January 31st "The Site of the Crucifixion." 

Rev J. Campbell M.A., St John's College. 
In W. K. Guest- Williams' rooms. 

February 7th..." The Evangelization of the World by the light of the Old 
Testament." 

Rev A. J. Tait M.A., St John's College, Principal of Ridley Hall. 

In A. R. Tremearne's rooms. 

February 14th "The Divine and the Human in Our Lord." 

Rev J. F. Bethune-Baker B.D., Fellow and Lecturer of 
Pembroke College. 

In W. L. Shepherd's rooms. 

February 21st " Baptism." 

Rev J. C. H. How M.A., St John's College, and Precentor at 
Trinity College. 

In C. L. Holthousc's rooms. 



260 Our Chronicle. 

At a private business meeting held in Mr A. D. Allen's 
rooms on March 4 (Ash Wednesday) the following members 
were elected to serve as officers and on the committee during 
the May Term 1908 :— 

President— A. D, Allen. Secretary— F. A. A. W. Heaton. Treausrer — 
W. H. WooUen. Cwnmittec—C. S. Fleet, J. E. N. Jackson. 



The College Mission, 

President — ^The Master. Vice-Presidents — The President, Mr Mason, 
Vtr Graves, Dr Sandys, Mr Cox. Cammittee — Mr Bushe Fox, The Dean, 
Mr Hart (Senior Secretary), Mr How, Mr Rootham, Dr Tanner, Mr Ward 
(Senior Treasurer), J. Fraser, P. N, F. Young, L. R. D. Anderson, A. D. 
Allen, R. Brice-Smith, G. M. Cruickshank (Junior Secretary), F. W. Hicks, 
V. W. J. Hobbs, F. A. James, J. E. C. Ross, J. W. G. Stokes, J. E. Walker, 
Y. K. Haslam, C. J, W. Henslow, C. L, Holthouse (Junior Treasurer), 
E. H. G. Sargent, and W. H. Weightman, 

On August Bank Holiday a party came up. They visited 
the tower and then had lunch in Hall. After lunch they were 
taken in * tubs ' on the river, and some went to watch the 
great cricket match. After tea in Hall they went home, after 
a very pleasant day. Thanks are recorded to those who 
helped to entertain. 

Now we come to last Term. The chief feature was the 
meeting held in the Dean's rooms on Monday, October 21, 
to which all freshmen were invited. After coffee, we listened 
to Mr Ingram. He gave a brief account of the history of the 
Mission and then went on to tell us what it was doing now. 
He also gave us examples of the life down there, and invited 
us to come down during the vacation and help. 

We are sorry to say owing to circumstances the subscrip- 
tions were not collected last Term. 

This Term a large meeting was held in lecture room VI on 
Sunday, February 9, the Master presiding most willingly, as 
he always does on these occasions. We were glad to welcome 
at the meeting two of our parishioners, Mr Poulton and Mr 
Duffy, and also the Rev J. P. Milne, who was at the Mission 
for a month while Mr Ingram was away in Palestine for 
a holiday. Mr Ingram spoke first (as the head of the parish) : 
Mr Poulton spoke next, and told us of the early history of the 
Church in which he took part ; Mr Duffy spoke about many 
things — the work of the Church (spiritual and social), Sunday 
Schools, Mothers' Meeting, and Clubs ; they both spoke as 
members of the parish : next came Mr Milne, who comes 



Our Chroniele, 261 

from Australia ; he spoke as one outside the parish, and was 
able to compare it with the part of East London in which he 
is now working. 

Subscriptions are being collected and have nearly finished. 

It is hoped that all who can will go and spend some of the 
Vacation at the Mission. Any further information can be 
obtained from G. M. Cruickshank or C. L. Holthouse. 



The Debating Society. 

President — A. D. Allen. Vice-President — W. Veevers. Secretary — 
C. J. W. Henslow. CommitUe—P. A. Irving, H. P. W. Burton, W. G. 
Constable; Ex-officio—Z. N. Brooke, P. N. F. Young, R. P. Dodd, R. 
Meldrum, H. A. L. Laidlaw, J. Fraser, D. W. Ward. Hon. Auditor — 
M. Henderson. 

The Society has had quite a successful Term. The 
members of the present year have shown continued interest 
in the debates. 

We all deplored the loss, through illness, of one of our 
most promising members, C. R. Allen, who had been elected 
secretary at the end of last Term. 

An efficient though somewhat revolutionary successor was 
found in C. J. W. Henslow, who kept the House alive during 
the earlier part of the Term by appearing in a blazer ill- 
befitting the Benjamin of the Society, this being condemned 
by the more conservative section of the House ; his later 
innovation, however, in the form of a Leander tie, could 
hardly offend the most aesthetic taste, and on this we 
heartily congratulate him. 

The chief event of the Term has been the debate afforded 
us by the visit of two ex-presidents, Mr H, W. Harris and 
Mr M. F. J. McDonnell. 

We hoped to have had a joint debate with the Queens' 
College Society, as in previous years, but owing to the 
limitation of our dates, and theirs of speakers, the event fell 
through. 

The following debates have been held this Term : — 

Saturday^ January 2$. W. Veevers (vice-president) moved 
'^ That, in the opinion of this House, the present Government 
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262 Our Chronicle, 

is unworthy of the confidence of the country." Mr C, J. W. 
Henslow (hon. sec.) opposed. For the motion there spoke 
P. A. Irving, D. S. Fraser, J. C. Irving, H. C. Dollman, 
W. K. Guest- Williams, A. C. Nicholls ; against the motion, 
H. P. W. Burton, J. Forbes-Smith, R. P. Dodd (ex-president), 
C. Beale. The motion was lost by 1 vote. Thirty-five 
members were present during the evening. 



Saturday^ February i, D. S. Fraser moved "That the 
present tendency towards leniency in enforcing punishment 
for criminal offences is greatly to be deplored." H. F. Russell- 
Smith opposed. For the motion there spoke E. W. Willett, 
G. A. G. Bonser, P. A. Irving, R. P. Dodd (ex-president), 
C. J. W. Henslow (hon. sec), A. A. Guest- Williams, W. K. 
Guest- Williams ; against the motion, H. N. Tait, V. K. 
Haslam, M. Henderson (hon. auditor), H. C. Dollman, 
H. T. H. Piaggio, S. M. Green. The motion was carried by 
3 votes. Thirty-one members were present during the 
evening. 



Saturday^ February 8, A. Y. Campbell moved " That this 
House supports the movement towards the political and 
economic equality of the sexes." M. Henderson (Hon. 
Auditor) opposed. For the motion there spoke S. M. Green, 
G. S. C. Marchand, W. K. Guest- Williams, F. M. Cheshire, 
D. W. Ward ; against the motion, H. C. Dollman, R. P. Dodd 
(ex-president), J. C. Irving, P. A. Irving (neutral). The 
motion was carried by 2 votes. Forty-five members were 
present during the evening. 



Saturday^ February 15. J. K. Deane moved "That this 
House disapproves of compulsory military training." G. J. C. 
Marchand opposed. For the motion there spoke G. A. G. 
Bonser, W. G. Constable, P. O. Whitlock, S. M. Green, 
T. Clough, W. Veevers ; against the motion, C. Beale, C. J. W. 
Henslow (hon. secretary), C. P. G. Laidlaw. The motion 
was carried by 4 votes. Twenty-nine members were present 
during the evening. 



Saturday^ February 22, Mr H. W. Harris (ex-president) 
moved "That this House views with disquietude the increasing 
lack of stability in the British character." Mr M. F. J. 
McDonnell (ex-president) opposed. There spoke for the 



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263 



motion P. N. F. Young (ex-president), T. Clough; against 
the motion, Z. N. Brooke (ex-president), G. S. C. Marchand, 
R. Meldrum, W. G. Constable, D. S. Eraser, Mr J. H. A. Hart 
(ex-secretary), A. Y. Campbell. The motion was lost by 
5 votes. Forty-seven members were present during the 
evening. 



Saturday^ February 29. The last night of the Lent Races 
is not a very good night to choose if one wishes to ensure 
a full house, especially when the First Boat has just made 
its fourth bump. The President came — the Vice-President 
came — even one speaker came — but neither bell, book, nor 
Secretary were there, yet the President was enabled to 
excommunicate the House by the Vice-President demanding 
a count out. The officers then joined the members in the 
more congenial atmosphere of loving-cups and fireworks. 



Saturday, March 7. J. M. Swift moved " That this House 
disapproves of the Nationalisation of Railways." F.' M. 
Cheshire opposed. There spoke for the motion F. B. Fisher, 
G. A. G. Bonser, D. S. Fraser ; against the motion T. Clough. 
The motion was carried by 3 votes. Twenty-three members 
were present during the evening. 



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264 Our Chronicle. 

Classical Society. 

President— R. P. Dodd. Secretary— H. S. Barrett. 

The following papers have been read this Term : — 

Jan. 23. " Philosophy in'the Early Empire." By R. P. Dodd. 

Feb. 6. " Greek appreciation of Nature." By H. F. Russell-Smith. 

Feb. 20. " Literature and Art at Athens in the Fifth Century." By 
W. F. Ireland. 



THE LIBRARY. 

♦ The asterisk denotes past or present Members of the College. 

Donations and Additions to the Library during Quarter 
ending Christmas, 1907. 

Donations, 



Clifton College Register, Sept. 1862 to Dec.\ 
1889. Compiled and arranged by £. M. 
Oakeley. With a historical Preface by 
Rev. J. M. Wilson.* 8vo. Lond. 1890. 
5.43.30 :.... 

Wordsworth (Chr.). The Precedence of Eng- 
lish Bishops : and the Provincial Chapter. 

8vo. Camb. 1906 

Esperanto publications : 

Bunyan (John). Progresado de la Pilgrimanto. 
8vo. Lond. 1907 

Shakespeare (W.) Hainleto. Tradukis L. 
Zamenhof. 8vo. Paris 1907 

La Tria Universala Kongreso de Esperanto. 
Kembrigo, Augusto 10-17, 1907. 8vo. 
Lond. 1907 

The Third Esperanto Congress, with 32 photo- 
graphic Illustrations by Ian Wilson. 8vo. 
Lond. 1907 

Ellis (R.). Catullus in the XlVth Century. 8vo. 
Lond. 1905 

The British Academy. Proceedings 1905-1906. 
8vo. Lond. 1906. 4.28.2 y 

*Mathews (G. B.). Algebraic Equations. (Camb.) 
Tracts in Maths, and Math. Physics, No 6). [ 
8vo. Camb. 1907 ) 

Club Law, a comedy acted in Clare Hall, Cam-^ 
bridge, about 1599-1600. From a MS. in 
the Library of St. John's College, with an 
Introduction and Notes by G. C. Moore 
SmiUi.* 4to. Camb. 1907. 4.30.5 

•Bennett (J. R. Sterndale). The Life of William 
Stemdale Bennett.* 8vo. Camb. 1907. 
11.44.1.4. 

Calendar of Letter-Books preserved among the" 
Archives bi the Corporation of the City of 
London at the Guildhall, Letter-Book H, 
circa a.d. 1375-1399. 8vo. Lond. 1907. 
5.40 

Duckworth (W. L. H.). An Account of certain\ 
anomalous Conditions of the Cerebrum. I 
(•Raymond Horton-Smith Prize Thesis f 
1905). roy.Svo. Lond. 1907. 3.43.19 / 



Professor Mayor. 



The Author. 



The Syndics of the 
Camb. University Press. 



The Town Clerk of the 
City of London. 



The Author. 



266 



The Library. 






John Rylands Library, Manchester. Catalogue v 
of the Selection of Books and Broadsides 
illustrating the early History of Printing, 
exhibited in June, 1907. 8vo. Manchester* 
1907 

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Bibles 

illustrating the History of the English 
Versions from WicUf to the present time. 
8vo. Manchester, 1907 

A brief historical Description of the 

Library and its Contents. 8vo. Man- 
chester, 1907 

Shakespeare (W.), A new Variorum Edition. 
Edited by H. H. Furness. The Tragedii 
of Anthonie and Cleopatra. 8vo. Phil*. 1907 
4.3.33 

Physical Society of London. Abstracts of 
Physical Papers from Foreign Sources. > 
Vol. I.-HL 8vo. Lond. 1895-7. 13.21.20-22 

Science Abstracts. Physics and Electrical 
Engineering. Vol. L-X. 8vo. Lond. 1898- 
1907. 13.21.23 

Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. 
Memoirs and Proceedings. Vol. XLVL- 
LJ. 8vo. Manchester, 1901-7. 3.44.61-66 

The Mathematical Gazette. Vol. I.-IH. 8vo. 
Lond. 1896-1906, 3.49 76-78 

{Also several volumes of the Monthly Notices of 
the Royal Astronomical Society and Pro- 
ceedings of the American Academy of Arts 
and Sciences.) 

Lloyd (H.). Elementary Treatise on the Wave- 
Theory of Light. 2nd Edition. 8vo. Lond. 
1857. 4.22.43 

Airy (G. B.). Mathematical Tracts on the Lunar 
and Planetary Theories, &c. 4th Edit. 
8vo. Camb. 1858. 4.22.44 

•Marshall (A.). Principles of Economics. Vol. I. 
5th Edit. 8vo. Lond. 1907. 1.33.12 

Ewald (Carl). The Queen Bee and other\ 
Nature Stories. Trans, from the Danish I 
by G. C. Moore Smith.* sm. 4to. Lond. f 
1907. 4.9.22 ) 

♦Maitland (F. W.). The Life and Letters of ) 
Leslie Stephen. 8vo. Lond. 1906. 11.42.17 j 

New Testament. Translated from the Latin' 
in the Year 1380 by John Wiclif, to which 
are prefixed, Memoirs of the Life, Opinions, 
and Writings of Dr. Wiclif. By Rev. H. H 
Baber. 4to. Lond. 1810. 9.1.47 

Moses Maimonides. Mischne Tora [Corpus\ 
Juris]. Ace. Index per David Nuiiez-I 
Torres. 4 Vols, (in 2). 15 Amst. 1702-14. | 

AB. 2 ) 

Whittaker (E. F.). The Theory of OpUcaH 
Instruments. (Camb. Tracts in Maths, and \ 
Math. Physic, No. 7). 8vo. Camb. 1907... J 

* White (H. Kirke). Poems, Letters, and Prose ^ 
Fragments. Edited with an Introduction !- 
byJ.Drinkwater. 16mo. Lond. 1907. 4.31.21 J 



The Librarian, 
John Rylands Library. 



Dr. Sandys. 



Professor Larmor. 



Professor Marshall. 

The Translator. 
Dr. Tanner. 

Rev. R. C. Atkinson,M.A. 

The Master. 

Mr. Leathem. 
The Editor. 



The Library, 267 

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Loan Collection of Antiquities, Curiosities, 

and Appliances connected with the Art of 

Printing, South Kensington. Edited by I j, g Howard Hall 

G. Bullen. 8vo. Lond. 1877. 14.14.1 f ^^^- ^' "^^^^^^ "***■ 

Novum Testamenlum. (Interleaved copy in 

2 vols.). 12mo. Cantab, apud Tho. Buck, 

1632. S. 12.11,12 ^ 

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S a^^T4.^SrirPa'rtt ^^/^S: Dr. Donald MacAHster. 
Lond 1Q02-6 / 



Additions, 



Acts, Public General, passed in the seventh Year of King Edward VIL 

8vo. Lond. 1907. S.L. 13.67. 
Anthologia Graeca cum Versione Latina Hugonis Grotii. Edita ab 

Hieronymo de Bosch. 5 Vols. 4to. Ultrajecti 1795-1822. 7.47.31-35. 
Apuleius. Opera quae supersunt. Vol. I. Recens R. Helm. Teuhner 

Text. 8vo. Lipsiae, 1907. 
Caecilius Calactinus. Fragmenta. Collegit E. Ofenloch. Teuhner Text 

8vo. Lipsiae, 1907. Octagon Table. 
♦Call (W. M. W.). Final causes, a Refutation. 8vo. Lond. 1891. 11.11.56. 
Cambridge Historical Essays. No. XII. The fallen Stuarts. By F. W. 

Head. 8vo. Camb. 1901. 1.8.21. 
No. XIII. The Second Athenian Confederacy. By F. H. Marshall. 

8vo. Camb. 1905. 1.8.22. 
No. XIV. The Life of Alexander- Severus. By R. V. N. Hopkins. 

8vo. Camb. 1907. 1.8.23. 
Carlyle (T.). Critical and Miscellaneous Essays. 2 Vols. 8vo. Lond. 

N.D. 4.29.1,2. 

Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825). Life of John Sterling (1851). 

8vo. Lond. 1893. 11.26.75. 

Latter-Day Pamphlets. 8vo. Lond. 1897. 4.29.3. 

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels. Translated from 

the German by T.C. 8vo. Lond. N.D. 4.29.4. 

Chadwick (H. M.). Studies on Anglo-Saxon Institutions. 8vo. Camb. 1905. 

5.38.83. 
* Clarke (G. R.). Images in the Windows of Churches. Protest against 

them. 8vo. Lond. 1868. 
♦Colenso (J. W.). The historical credibility of the Pentateuch and Book 

of Joshua examined, with Notes on the Book of Genesis. Privately 

printed, 8vo. 9.10.31. 
Crabbe (G.). Poems. Edited by A. W. Ward. 3 Vols. (Cambridge 

English Classics). 8vo. Camb. 1905-7. 4.30.6-8. 
Dictionary (New English) on historical Principles. Edited by Dr. J. A. H. 

Murray. Niche-Nywe. 4to. Oxford, 1907. 
•Griffinhoofe (C. G.). The unwritten Sayings of Christ. 8vo. Camb. 1903. 

9.11.92. 
Henry Bradshaw Society. Vol. XXXIII. Missale Romanum Mediolani, 

1474. Vol. II. A Collation with other Editions printed before 1570, 

by Robert Lippe. Indices by H. A. Wilson. 8vo. Lond. 1907. 

11.16.70. 
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Ancaster, preserved at Grimsthorpe. 8vo. Dublin, 1907. 6.8. 

Report on MSS. in various Collections. Vol. IV. 8vo. Dublin, 1907. 6.8. 

Report on the MSS. of the Duke of Portland, preserved at Welbeck 

Abbey. Vol. VIII. 8vo. Lond. 1907. 6.8. 



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NOTES FROM THE COLLEGE RECORDS. 

(Continued from page 161 j. 

|E commence with an amusing account of an 
Undergraduate hoax taken from the State 
Papers, Domestic, of the reign of King 
Charles II. The documents supply inci- 
dentally an explanation of how a curious account of 
some proceedings against the Nonconformists (printed 
in TAe Eagle, xxvii, 341-2) came to be preserved in 
College. This has been again printed to make the 
story complete. 

It is an account by one Stephen Perry of some 
proceedings under the Conventicle Act against the 
Nonconformists at Toft in Cambridgeshire. The 
Conventicle Acts passed in the reign of Charles II. 
were exceedingly severe, making it an oflFence for 
any person over sixteen years of age to attend Non- 
conformist worship; the only exception being in the 
case of mere family prayers, at which not more than 
five persons, not belonging to the actual household, 
were present. The first Conventicle Act, passed in 
1664, exposed offenders, on their third conviction, to 
a penalty of ;^ 100, or of seven years' transportation if 
they could not pay the fine. It expired in 1667, but 
was renewed in 1670 by a less stringent Act. Under 

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270 Notes from the College Records, 

this latter, if two witnesses appeared before a Justice 
of the Peace, and swore to having seen anyone, 
aged 1 6 or more, at Nonconformist worship, the 
Justice might there and then fine that person, without 
seeing him or hearing his defence, a sum of five 
shillings, or for a second oflFence, ten shillings. It 
was added, probably on account of the very summary 
character of the proceedings, that every prosecution 
must take place within three months after the offence. 
Of the fines, which, in case of a numerous attendance 
at the service, would amount to a substantial sum, 
one-third was to be paid to the informers. We thus 
get a clue to the motives of Stephen Perry and at 
the same time see a reason for the contempt with 
which he was evidently regarded. 

Sir Thomas Slater, the Justice, is still remembered 
as a benefactor to Trinity College, and lies buried in its 
Chapel. He had been fellow there, but, as a Royalist, 
was deprived of his fellowship under the Common- 
wealth. He was made a baronet after the Restoration ; 
he ultimately resided at Catley Park near Linton. To 
him Perry applied for a warrant, this Sir Thomas 
presumably could hardly refuse, and started on his 
mission. He drew a blank at Waites' house, the 
indispensable five persons not being present; later he 
was more successful at Eversden's house. The next 
step was to take his information to Sir Thomas Slater 
and get a warrant to distrain on the goods of Eversden 
and his fellow-worshippers for the amount of the fines. 
Sir Thomas had a variety of reasons for putting Perry 
off until the three months, the longest time allowed by 
the Act, had expired. What happened then is a matter 
of inference, but it seems as if Eversden had taken 
proceedings against Perry, perhaps for malicious prose- 
cution, and the penalty-hunting Informer was now the 
Defendant In his difficulty he went to Dr Francis 
Turner, then Master of St John's, afterwards as Bishop 
of Ely one of the "Seven Bishops" sent to the Tower 
by King James II. 



Notes from the College Records. 271 

One can picture the situation: the troubled Perry 
pleading that his zeal should be brought to the notice 
of the King and the Duke (no doubt George Villiers, 
Duke of Buckingham, shortly afterwards elected Chan- 
cellor of the University); the "slight and dilatory 
answer" of Dr Turner, which Perry interpreted as in 
his favour, and his bragging of this to the Under- 
graduates. 

Lewis Maidwell, who now comes on the scene as the 
hero of the subsequent proceedings, was a son of 
Godfrey Maidwell of Cranford, Northamptonshire; he 
was admitted as sizar to the Master, Dr Gunning, 
30 June 1668, from Westminster School; he was 
admitted Scholar, on the Bishop of Lincoln's Founda- 
tion, 8 November 1770. Undergraduate hoaxes at the 
expense of their seniors are not unknown in our own 
time, the visit of the Sultan of Zanzibar being the most 
recent ; still to counterfeit the signatures of the King 
and of a Secretary of State, and to direct that the bogus 
letter should be shewn to the Mayor of Cambridge, was 
a pretty bold step. 

Joseph Williamson, to whom the Vice-Chancellor 
and Dr Turner had recourse, was an old Westminster 
boy and a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford. He was 
probably tickled by the "Westminster trick," and as 
nothing more appears about the matter in the State 
Papers it was perhaps somehow hushed up. Maidwell 
took his B.A. degree a year later. Up to the present 
his career has not been traced, but a Mr Maidwell, who* 
kept a private school in Hatton Garden, London, 
appears in the College Register as sending Scholars to 
the College, and this may be the same man. 

These are to certifie that I, Stephen Perry, received a 
warrant for Toft graunted to me the 25th of June 1670 by Sir 
Thomas Slater. On the day following I went to Toft, and 
hearing that there was a meeting in John Waites his house 
there, Simon Priest being with me, takeing the cunstable with 
us we went thither, and found onely fower persons there, by 



272 Notes from the College Records, 

and by while we were there, came in John Waites and the 
speaker, but perceiving that we were there, they went to 
William Eversden's house in the same towne. After that we 
had parted with the cunstable (having charg'd him to search 
the suspected places, which he did not) we went aside, and 
after that return'd again towards night. Hearing that there 
was a meeting in WiUiam Eversden's house, we sought for 
the cunstable and church wardens but could not find any one 
of them. We came to the house of the said WiUiam Eversdea 
and knock't severall times, none answering ; after that we had 
continued a long time knocking, he came to the door him- 
selfe, whome we requiring to open his door (having seen 
through a casement a companie rising up) he refused, sajdng 
that we were a couple of rogues come to rob his house, and 
then returned into his house, in the mean while we saw the 
number of 15 persons conveyed out of a back-doore, afterward 
he came and opened his door and bid us come in, then we 
show'd him our authority, which while he read we charged 
assistance of 3 neighbours, but they refused (their names wc 
being strangers to the towne did not know). The day 
following I alone went to Sir Thomas Slater who (I makeing 
my complaint to him, relating to him all the passage at Toft) 
tooke the warrant <rf me, and I requiring a conviction of the 
persons, telling him that Simon Priest, who lives within 2 or 
3 doors from his house would be ready. Then Sir Thomas 
Slater said he was not at leisure. The next day I went io 
him, then alsoe he made answer that he was busie, then the 
next, being the 29th, I went to him again, takeing Edward 
Walls and Richard Billops along with me to witnesse, and 
then he bid us come in to the roome next to his office, and 
when he understood what we came about, he said he was not 
at leisure. Afterward I alone went to his house about 6 or 7 
times, and his servants told me that he was gone to looke 
after his harvest. Afterward I and Simon Priest went 
together, and he bid us goe to Dr Ead's house and said he 
would come to us, as he did, and swore us there in Dr Ead's 
hall. When he had swore us, he bid us come to his house 
and he would give us a warrant of distresse for the conviction. 
Afterward I alone went to his house the next day and he (as 
tiis servants said) was not within, but l^t word with his 



Notes from the College Records. 273 

servant to bid (if we should enquire for him) that we should 
come to him on Munday after the Friday that I was there. 
Then I went on Munday and spoke with him desiring a 
warrant of distresse and he said it was too late, the three 
months were expired. After this seeing the conviction did 
not proceed, the aforesaid William Eversden went to Mr 
Bryan Kitchinman, being an attourney (whose daughter 
Dorothy Kitchinman hath been taken in a meeting, always a 
neglecter of Divine Service) he himself an encourager of the 
ffanaticks to trouble us. Who graunted him a writ to arrest 
us. Hence Simon Priest and I were arrested and soe forced 
to stand tryall. Hence alsoe we are like to be undone by it 
unlesse we shall be back'd out from above. (Daniel Low, 
Edward BuUein, Thomas Brand, Edward Richardson) 

Whom and whose I serve 
to the utmost of my endeavours 
Cambridge. Stephen Perry. 



Emmanuel College, Cambridge 
Feb. 28th, 1670 

May it please your Lordship 
My Lord 

Here hath lately been an vnhappy mis-carriage in a 
young schc^ar of which my duty requires me to give your 
Lordship account. The framing of a letter in his Majesty's 
name with a pretended Seal affixt and your Lordship's name 
subscribed. 

Vpon a diligent enquiry I find nothing but folly and 
wantonnes at the bottom; the boy designing to abuse the 
credulity of one Perry a buisy informer against the Fanatiqs, 
but a very mean person, who gave out that he had written 
letters against them to be showed to his Majestye. The 
SchoUer is of St John College, of which Dr Tiu-ner is Master, 
•by whose care and diligence he was discovered to be the 
.author. Dr Turner will shortly wayt upon your Lordship 
with such further information in all particulars of this affair 
as your Lordship shall please to receive. In the mean time 
Jbaving sent the letter and examination to your Lordship with 



274 Notes from ihe College Records, 

these and having secured the person of the writer of it, I 
humbly desire to receive your Lordship's commands con- 
cerning him in all humility and obedience to be observed by 
My Lord 

your Lordship's most humble servant 
John Breton. 
Addressed: To the right honorable My Lord Arhngton, 
Principall Secretary of State to his Majesty, At Whitehall, 
These. 

First enclosure : 

-Vniversity Town of Cambridge 

The examinacion of Lewis Maidwell, Student 
in St John's College in the Vniversity of Cam- 
bridge, taken upon oath the 26th day of February 
in the yeare of our Lord 1670 before me John 
Breton, Doctor in Divinity, Vice Chancellor of 
the Vniversity, and one of his Majesties Justices 
of the Peace there. 
The said Examinant saith that the writing to which this 
his examinacion is annexed is all his proper hand writinge 
and the superscription likewise and that he also fixt the seale 
to the same and that he caused the same to be delivered to 
Stephen Perry, not out of any ill intencion, but to make sport 
with the saide Stephen Perry, haveinge heard that he had 
sent a letter to the Kinge concerning Sir Thomas Slater and 
the Fanaticks. 

Lewis Maidwell. 

Taken the daye and yeare 
aboussaide before me 

John Breton, 
Vicecan, 

Second enclosure : 

Charles R. 

Wee have received your letter from the hands of our 
Secretary, wherein wee are informed of your complaints 
against Sir Thomas Slater, Justice of our Peace, how he hath 
not proceeded according to the order prescribed in our late 
Act, ratifyed in our late Session of Parliament. Wee do will 



Notes from the College Records, 275 

and require you in our name forthwith to acquaint the said 
Sir Thomas Slater to be more vigorous in his proceedings, or 
he shall appeare before our Council Board to answer those 
things objected against him. Wee do furthermore authorise 
you to goe on in that part of a loyal subject as you have 
begun and in our name to show these our letters patents to 
our Maior of Cambridge, that he may uindicate you with his 
authority in your office, delivered in the presence of our 
Chief Secretary. 

Arlington. 
Given at our Court of Whitehall 
February 17, in the year of our Lord 
1670, in the three and twentieth yeare 
of our reign. 

Addressed : To our Trusty and wellbeloved Stephen Perry^ 
Brasier, Cambridge. 



Sir 
I am ashamed to thinke of my owne vnlettered rudeness 
(as a friend of mine vsed to call it in himself e) that I writt you 
no answer to your business about the Manuscript, which you 
desired to have transcribed out of Bennet Library. The truth 
must be my best apology. The Master of the College was 
absent and so soon as he returned I procured the booke and 
employed a young hand in our owne College to write it fair, 
which will be finisht I hope this week, and on Munday next 
my occasions will draw me to London and I purpose to bring 
it with me (after I have compared it with the original). In 
hope of waiting uppon you so suddenly I had not troubled 
you now, but for an odd accident, which troubles me much 
and I must freely and truly acquaint you with it. There is an 
honest poore fellowe that serves our Colledge and is also an 
Informer against the Conventicles (which have been impudent 
enough in this towne of Cambridge). This fellow thinks 
himselfe injured by one Sir Thomas Slater, a Justice of Peace,, 
for not executing the Act uppon information against those 
fanatique meetings so vigorously as it ought to have been^ 
and tother day he brought me a narrative of the wrongs done 



276 Notes from the College Records. 

him, ridiculously drawn up, to be presented (by all means) to 
the King or to the Duke. I was loth the poore wretch 
should be laught at for his loyalty and well meaning. There- 
for I received his paper, gave him some slight and dilatory 
answer and made no more of it. But he could not forbear 
bragging among the boys that hee had acquainted his Majesty 
with all his matters, for either Sir Thomas Chichley, to whom 
he sed had sent such a narrative, or else I (no doubt) wottld 
acquaint the King with it, from whom he assured himselfe of 
a gracious and a speedy answer. Heeruppon that very boy, 
whom I had employed to write out the transcript for you, and 
whose hand was perfectly well knowne to me on that account, 
to abuse the simplicity of the man, and make himselfe sporty 
Hee drawes upp this enclosed answer, as if it had come from 
the King, counterfeits his Majesty's hand, and claps a piece 
of wax to it impresst with a crowne piece, and caused it to be 
delivered to this Stephen Perry. He presently carrys it to 
the Maior and one of the Aldermen, who both gave credit to 
it. Then with a great deal of joy he brings it to me. I knew 
it immediately to be a cheat and suspected the Knave that 
acted it. With much adoe, I persuaded Mr Maior and our 
Informer that they were both guU'd. I put a stopp to the 
busines presently, so that little notice is taken of it. But Mr 
Maior thought it his duty to bring the busines before Mr 
Vice-Chancellor, Dr Breton. Wee then convented the boy 
and he could not deny it. His impudence is inexcusable, but 
we are all satisfied there was no malicious designe, but pure 
roguery. This I must needs say for him: He has bin 
studious and inoffensive in all his carriage, except this great 
misdemeanor, and he is one of excellent facultys. He comes 
to us from the top of Westminster Schools, and thought this 
but a Westminster trick, not consideringe the consequence^ 
Mr Vice-Chancellor thought fitt to write to my Lord 
Arlington, but sends you his letter open, that you may seale 
and deliver it, or suspend it until I attend you on Munday 
next (by God^s leave). I know not how much his Lordship 
will thinke fitt to be forgiven to the inexperience of a raw 
youth, but it would bee a very great favor to Mr Vice 
Chancellor and my selfe, if you please but in two or three 
words by the next post to let me know what measures wc 



Notes from the College Records. 277 

Ought to take in this scurvy business, which is so childish 
and foolish that I am half ashamed to have importuned you 
in it, and yet so bold and dangerous that we thought our- 
selves bound to send you (at least, if not my Lord Arlington) 
an immediate account of it, I am Sir 

your most faithfuU humble servant 
Francis Turner. 

St John's Coll. Camb. 
Febr. 28, 1670. 
Note : This letter was sent to Joseph Williamson, after- 
wards Clerk to the Council ; he was an old Westminster boy 
and an Oxonian. 



Turning back to the early days after the Restoration 
we give a selection of documents from the State Papers 
relating to the College or its members. The first is a 
petition from certain of the Fellows against the Master, 
Dr Anthony Tuckney. It was hardly to be expected 
that Tuckney, who was a rigid Puritan, would adapt 
himself to the new state of affairs. What further steps 
were taken in his case do not appear to be recorded, but 
he resigned his mastership on 22 June 1661. 

May it Please your Maiesty, 

Whereas your sacred Majestic following the example of 
your noble and pious progenitors hath to the Glory of 
Almighty God, your owne immortal praise and renowne, And 
great contentment of your truly dutifull subjects, been in 
nothing more evidently exercised of late, then in a just 
vindication of God's holy Church, and your Vniversityes, and 
because wee truly believe that your Majestic cherishing the 
same zeal still, is alwaies ready to receive a just complaint 
and likewise to redresse it. Wherefore it is that your 
Majesties most dutifull subjects and Fellowes of your 
Colledge of St John's in your Vniversity of Cambridge, 
haveing according to our bounden duty, your majesties late 
gratious declaracion, the Canons and holy Constitutions of our 
Mother the Church, and locall Statutes of our said CoUedg, in 
all awfull respect, and having no other direct meanes for 
VOL. XXIX. O O 



278 Xotes from the College Records. 

procming (according to your Majesties injunctions) an 
vniversall obedience to the same amongst us, then by aa 
humble address and intimacion to your Princely Wisdome, 
Do humbly crave leave to acquaint your Majestie : That your 
said Colledge of St John's, formerly of an early obedience to 
the lawfull Commands of their King, and the Sacred Consti- 
tutions of the Church of England, is become of late, especially 
in that part which beares rule amongst us, notoriously remiss 
and negligent in both. And that for want of due government, 
as wee conceive in him whom it chiefly concerns, the Master 
of your said Colledge. His withdrawing and absenting him- 
selfe from your said Colledge Chappell, which has been of 
very bad consequence amongst us, and which, till the intro- 
duction of the Common Prayer, he was never obser\'ed to 
doe. His not using such habetts (To the great incouragement 
as wee dayly experience of both Fellowes and SchoUers in 
the like Inconformity) as are wee conceive generally wome in- 
your said University. His superseding to all manner either 
of direction or command (contrary to his practice in the time 
of the Directory) in things apperteyning to the worship and 
searvice of God, which by his corporall oath and Statutes of 
your said Colledge hee's mainly consemed in. So that wee 
can truly averr to your Sacred Majestie, that there is nothing 
either of Devine Service, the Rites or Ceremonies thereunto 
apperteyning, now in use in your said Colledge Chappell, 
which have found either countenance or direction from him. 
But that whatever shew of God*s worship is at present 
amongst us, it hath, either to the dishoner of Almighty God 
been stolne into your said Chappell, during his absence, or 
else through a resolution in some few, which should rather 
have received direction then begun a Reformation in your 
said Colledge, been brought in amongst us. Wee need not 
acquaint your Majestie what the sequell is like to bee, if not 
timely prevented by your gratious provision for your said 
Colledge, it being never as yett observed amongst us, that 
one in his place was ever found alone in any opinion or 
matter of acting. 

We doubt not your Majesties gratious provision and care 
for your disconsolate Colledge, especially since so considerable 
a part of your Vniversity as your said Colledge amounts to ia 



Notes from the College Records. 279 

involved in it. Which that your Majestie may condescend 
to will be the happiness of your said CoUedge, And is 
the humble request of your most dutifull Liegemen and 
Subjects. 

Ni. Bullingham, Dec. Sen. 
William Hughes. Jonathan Brideoake. Mich. Adams. 
Da. Morton. Lau. Ray. William Crouch. 

Chr. Fulthorp. Tho. Thurlyn. Wm, Potten 

James Pilkington. Tho. Wolsey, Sam. Leach. 

Tho. Briggs. Tho. Davison. Humphry Gower. 

Brian Turner. John Tomlinson. John Peck. 

Sam. Fuller. Hen. Moreland. Martin Lister. 

Peirce Brackenbury. John Boughton. 

Endorsed : R. 6 Febr. 1660. Petition of Senior Dean and 
Fellowes of St John's Colledge in Cambridge, against Dr 
Tuckney. 

Complaine of his Nonconformity to the Commands of his 
Majesty and the Church, of his absenting himself from the 
Chapel contrary expressly to the Statutes of the College, since 
the Common PrSyer hath been there used. His nurseing in 
some part of the Fellowes a Nonconformity, and neglect of 
direction to his College in things of Divine Service, to which 
he is especially by Statute bound. 

To be referred to the Bishops of Ely, Durham and 
Sarum, or any two of them. 

With this is preserved the following : — 
All the Court at Whitehall, February 14th 1660—1. 

His Majesty is graciously pleased to referre this Petition 
to the Right Reverend Fathers in God, John Lord Bishop of 
Durham, [Matthew] Lord Bishop of Ely, and [Humphrey] 
Lord Bishop of Sarum, or any two of them, who are to call 
before them the partyes concerned in the Petition and 
haveing heard and examined the truth of what is therein 
alleadged to state the matter of fact and to certify tp his 
Majesty what their Lords conceive fitt to be done therein for 
the better ordering and government and the said Colledge 
according to the Statutes and fundamental! Constitutions 
of the same. And then his Majesty will declare his further 
Pleasure. 



280 Notes from the College Records. 

The following petition from Dr John Barwick shews 
that even the most enthusiastic Royalists had to look 
after their own interests in the scramble for prefer- 
ments. The Patent Rolls shew that King Charles 
presented Barwick to Houghton le Spring "on the 
death of Hamlett Marshall," the Common wealth 
incumbent not being recognised, and he was instituted 
13 July i6§o. Barwick became Dean of Durham 
I November 1660; then Dean of St Paul's, London, 
and Prebendary of Oxgate 16 October 1661, and he 
was instituted Vicar of Therfield, Herts, 1 1 September 
1662. He held his southern preferments until his 
death in 1664. 

Dr Barwick's Petition to preserve his title to Houghton 
Rectory. 

To the King's most Excellent Majestie The 
humble petition of John Barwick, Doctor in 
Divinity and one of your Majesties Chaplaines 
in ordinarie. 

Sheweth 

That your petitioner upon the first day of May 1653 
was collated, instituted and admitted into the Rectorie of 
Houghton de le Spring in the Diocese of Duresme (then voyd 
by the death of Hamlett Marshall, Doctor in Divinity), by the 
late Bishop of Duresme, the true and legall Patron thereof, 
and wanted nothing to complete his title thereunto but 
induction or actuall possession, out of which he was then 
kept by violence for his Loyaltie to your Majestie, and hath of 
late obtained it as farr as the law requireth in such cases. 

Yet nevertheless (as your Petitioner is informed) one Mr 
Battersby (the present Intnider, putt in there by Oliver 
Cromwell and John Blakiston) hath by false suggestion 
surreptitiously obtained your Majesties presentation to the 
said Rectorie, which your Petitioner humbly conceiveth 
your Majestie would not have granted if you had been truly 
informed of his loyall title to it. 

May it therefore please your Majestie for the security and 
further corroboration of your Petitioner's just title to the said 
Rectorie to grant him your Majesties Presentation thereunto 



Notes from the College Records, 281 

under your great Seall of England, with such clauses for 
a full and effectuall Revocation of the said surreptitious 
presentation as are necessarie or convenient in such cases. 
And your Petitioner shall pray etc. 



William Kings, on whose behalf the following man- 
date was sent, was, in obedience thereto, admitted a 
Fellow of the College 19 March 1 660-1 ; it is to regretted 
that the nature of his employment was not specified. 
He was a son of William Kings of London and was 
admitted to the College 8 June 1654, aged 16. He is 
perhaps identical with the William King, of Harns- 
worth, Middlesex, admitted to Gray's Inn 27 April 1653, 
if so he was a lawyer and not a clergyman. William 
Kings, of St Sepulchre's, London, bachelor, aged 24, 
received on 19 August 1661 a licence to marry Rebecca 
Nevill, of Lambeth, spinster, aged 18, daughter of 
Thomas Nevill, of St Margaret, Westminster, gentle- 
man ; the age it will be observed corresponds with that 
of the member of the College. 

Trusty and Wellbeloved Wee greet you well. As wee 
cannot out of that tender affection wee have ever had for 
Piety and Learninge but with griefe reflect on the sad in- 
fluence the late disorders have had, more eminently upon our 
two Vniversities, so have Wee since our Reestablishment in 
our Kingdomes made it a particular part of our Royall care to 
find out and improve all occasions of recovering Our said 
Vniversityes and every particular Society therein of that 
generall decay of Learninge and Good Order, wherein we 
found them, into their ancient strength and beauty. Being 
therefore (as well by sufficient testimonialls as the nature of 
his present employment) persuaded of the hopefull parts and 
good deseruing of William Kings, schollar of the Colledge, 
Wee have thought good by these Our Letters effectually to 
recommend him to your immediate choice into a fellowship 
of your said Colledge, to which as he might reasonably 
pretend from that his capacity of schollar of your House, so 
Wee cannot thinke that you will any way suffer his present 
employment to prejudice him in that preferment, which he 



282 Notes from the College Records, 

seemes to Vs thereby the better to desenie. And as we 
cannot doubt of all due regard in you to this Our just 
Recommendation so Wee assure you that such your com- 
plyance with our pleasure herein shall find in Vs a ready and 
kind acceptance. 

And so Wee bid you farewell. 

Given at our Court at Whitehall this — day of September 
1660. 

By His Majesty ^s Command. 

Endorsed : Instructions, Master and Fellowes of St John's 
CoUedge, Cambridge, for a fellowship. 



The petition of Emmanual Utye which follows seems 
to shew that mistakes were sometimes made and the 
same benefice conferred on two persons: Utye matricu- 
lated as a sizar of St John's ii December 1602, so that 
he was a fairly old man at the Restoration. Two letters 
from him to Dr Gwyn were printed in TAe EagUy xvi., 
138-9. He was admitted Fellow, 15 March 1607-8; and 
was instituted Vicar of Chigwell, Essex, 31 January 
1615-6. He either held this benefice all throngh the 
Commonwealth, or, if ejected, recovered it at the 
Restoration, for he died possessed of it. He was in- 
stalled Prebendary of Barton David in Wells Cathedral 
30 June 1660. It appears from the Bishop of London's 
Registers that he was instituted Vicar of Stepney 
8 September 1660, then this difficulty arose and he was 
reinstated 8 April 1661 on the presentation of King 
Charles, who revoked a former presentation to Francis 
Horton. Utye became Prebendary of Henstridge in 
Wells Cathedral 3 July 1661, but did not enjoy his 
prosperity long for he was buried at Stepney i Sep- 
tember 1 66 1. 

To the Kings most sacred maiestie the humble 
Petition of Emanuell Vtye, Doctor of Diviriit^'e, 
Chaplaine to your Maiestyes late Father of ever 
blessed memory and now Chaplaine in Ordimu-y to 
your Majesty. 



Notes from the College Records. 283 

Humbly sheweth 

That whereas for his great sufferings and Loyalty to the 
King and Church, the Earle of Cleveland was pleased after 
your Maiestyes happy restauration to your right and dignityes, 
to conferre upon your Maiestyes petitioner the Vicaradge of 
Stepney, which is now attempted to bee wrested from your 
petitioner upon pretense of a grant from your Maiestye under 
the great Seale to one Mr Horton, as a liveing lapst to your 
maiestye. Your petitioner haveing received institution and 
induction from the Bishop of London, hath for this six 
months peaceably inioyed it. And should hee be now turned 
out it would expose him to great want and penury. Most 
humbly therefore prayeth your said Petitioner that he may 
have a repeale of your Maiestyes grant, and a confirmation 
from your Maiestye that hee may continue his possession of 
the said vicaridge in peace 

And your petitioner shall ever pray etc. 



Two letters from Brian Turner, a Fellow of the 
College follow. The first seems to shew that, in the 
press of such matters, recommendations were sent to 
the College without very clearly specifying the person 
on whose behalf they were sent. Turner did not get 
Willinghara, but his loyalty was rewarded with other 
preferments: he was instituted Rector of St Faith's, 
London, 29 August 1662 ; Rector of Chillesford, Suffolk, 
13 October 1662. In July 1663 King Charles sent a 
mandate to the College directing that Turner should 
have all the advantages of his Fellowship during his 
absence as Chaplain to the Earl of Carlisle, ambassador 
to Russia; he also held the livings above mentioned 
during this absence. In 1667 he was presented by the 
College to the Rectory of Soulderne in Oxfordshire, 
and v;as instituted 20 July 1667 ; he became Prebendary 
of Ewithington, in Hereford Cathedral 25 March 1692, 
and in 1697 was nominated Archdeacon of Hereford, 
but he died 20 February 1697-8 before installation, and 
was buried at Soulderne. 



284 Notes from the College Records^ 

Honourable Sir 

Wee were at a loss as to the name of your client till your 
last letter informed us, whom we must needs give our Com- 
mendamus with as a good scholler and person (by us judg'd) 
deserueing, whom wee are so farr from hindring as wee 
wish him success in his enterprize. Only our Byfoundacion 
Fellowshipps wee would desire might not be dispose of in 
that way, there being some that seem born to them with a 
more peculiar right and title than can be pretended to the 
Foundacions themselves. 

Sir the ordinary familiarity in these things wee use with 
you speakes our confidence of your readiness to pleasure us 
and our sense of favors received, for all which if you will 
not give our Society leave to esteem themselves singularly 
obliged, you may indeed force them to judge themselves 
ungratefull. Still they are resolved how they may most 
according to desires acknowledge your curtesies, in the mean 
tyme in the name of the rest (because not able myselfe to 
beare such a weight of bonds) I subscribe myself, though 
more particularly upon myne own account, Sir 

your obliged to honor and seme you 

Brian Turner, 

St John's, Cambridge 
Apr. IS, 1661. 

Addressed: These, for his worthy freind Mr Joseph 
Williamson, att the Principall Secretary's Office, Wliitehall, 

Honoured Sir 

You see the presumption your candor allowes mee 
in my freedome to troble you. I hear there's an Act of 
Parliament passing makeing void and lapsing to his Majesty 
all Liveings wherein the old incumbent is dead and the new 
one not inducted according to Episcopall order. There is 
one place near Cambridge called Willingham, in the Isle of 
Ely, properly appertaining to the Bishop of Elye as patron. 
If such liveinge lapse to the King, I know the present 
incumbent very culpable on many accounts, therefore if the 
Act be passed and such a liveing fall to the King's Donacion 
I entreate you to preferr a Peticion in my behalfe and upon 
the first notice. I'le attend the thing myselfe, a litle tyme 
lost I know is irrecoverable and therefore I entreat your 



NoUs from the College Records, 285 

continuance of that favour that has formerly deeply engaged 
mee to acknowledge myselfe Sir 

your thankful! and ready 
serv^ant in what hee may 
Bjiian Turner. 
St John's, Camb : 
July 8, 1661. 
Addressed : These, For his honoured friend Mr Williamson 
Bitt the Principal Secretary's Office in Whitehall. 



The group of documents which follow relate chiefly 
to Samuel Drake and John Lake, both members of the 
College. John Lake, son of Thomas Lake of Halifax, 
was baptised there 5 December 1624 ; he was educated 
at Halifax School and admitted to St John's 4 December 
1637. During the earlier part of the Civil wars he fought 
in the King's army and was several times wounded in 
battle. He was appointed Vicar of Leeds immediately 
after the Restoration. He became Bishop of Sodor and 
Man in 1^82, Bishop of Bristol in 1684, and Bishop of 
Chichester in 1685. He was one of the Seven Bishops 
sent to the Tower in 1688. Refusing to take the oaths 
to King William and Queen Mary he was deprived of 
his see; he died 30 August 1689. 

Samuel Drake, son of Nathan Drake of Halifax, was 
admitted to the College 26 June 1637, from Pocklington 
School. His father took part in the sieges of Ponte- 
fract during the Civil war and recorded his experiences 
in a Diary which has been printed by the Surtces Society. 
Samuel Drake became a Fellow of the College 20 March 
1642-3 and was ejected during the Commonwealth. 
After fighting in the Army he obtained holy orders and 
settled in the parish of South Kirkby, where the baptism 
of his son Francis is recorded. He was instituted Vicar 
of Pontefract 6 April i63i and Rector of Handsworth 
near Sheffield 18 July 1671. He was also a Prebendary 
of Southwell; he died 28 December 1678 and was 
buried at Pontefract. 

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286 Notes from the College Records. 

Right honorable 

As by reason of the multitude of your weightie 
imployments, I have hitherto forborne to make anie addresse 
of this nature to your Honour, so I had not assum'd the bold- 
ness noMT, but that it is in behalf of one who hath ever 
manifested himself most entirely affected to the person of the 
Father of h^ most Sacred Majesty whilest liveing (in whose 
cause he adventured his Hfe) and to the interests of Monarchic 
and Church Government 

The person I meane Is this bearer, Mr Lake, Vicar of 
Leeds, my very much endeared friend, who himself will 
impart his modest requests unto you. If it was a greater 
matter that he had to sollicit his moat excellent Majesty in, I 
know by your honour's mediacion it would be readily 
obtained, if your honour will vouchsafe to interpose it here, it 
will lay an obligacion unto perpetual! thankfuhiess upon both 
him and also 

your Honour's most humble Servant 
Alexander Butterworth 

Addressed : For the right honorable Sir Edward Nicola^, 
principall Secretarie to his Majestic. 

These are to certifye that Samvell Drake, clerke, Master 
of Arts, is a pious and regular man, being ejected out of his 
fellowship at St John's in Cambridge, hee attended the 
service of his Majesty of blessed memory in the Marching 
Army and. garrison of Pontefract and Newarke till the close 
of the Warre, the estate of his father in tlie interim being 
plundered by the enemy. 

Richard Marshy 

John Neflle. 

Anth. Elcocke. 

This is a true copy agreeing with the originally 
examined by A^ Billop. 

Endorsed : Certificate, Mr Drake from Yorke^ 

October the 28th 1661. 
These are to certify that Samuel Drake, clerke, is 
personally known by us to have been Master of Arts and 



Notes jrom the College Records. 287 

Fellow of St John's Colledge in Cambridge and to have been 
thence eiected for his known loialty to his late Maiesty of 
blessed memory, 

Ed. Stoyte, Ro. Clarke, 

Th, Fothergill, Isa. WorralL 

October the 28th 1661. 

These are to certify that John Lake, Vicar of Leeds, was 
Senior Batchelor of St John's Colledge in Cambridge and 
resided there till he was imprisoned for the expressions of 
his loialty to his late Maiesty of blessed memory, and thence 
escaped with some other prisoners of quality to Oxford. 
Ed Stoyte. Rob. Clarke. 

Th. Fothergill. Isa. Worrall. 

November 6, 1661. 

These are to certify all whome it may concerne, That Mr 
Samuel Drake, Vicar of Pontefract, and Mr John Lake, Vicar 
of Leedes, are two persons whom I knew very well in 
Cambridge to be sober, studious and pious men. And that 
they were both of them driven thence for their loyalty to his 
Majestic. And (as I am informed) have served him faithfully 
in his Armies since that time, And are knowen to be con- 
formable men to the Doctrine of Discipline of the Church of 
England. Ita testor 

Jo. Barwick. 

Cum antiquus et probatus Academiae nostrae mos sit qui 
ad bonarum literarum studium morum probitatem adiunxerit 
publico eruditionis et probitatis suae testimonio honestarentur. 
Nos Johannes Pryse, Sacro Sanctae Theologiae Baccalaureus 
et Collegii Divi Johannis Evangelistae in Academia Canta- 
brigiensi Praeses ejusdemque Collegii socii seniores dilectum 
nobis in Christo Johannem Lake in Artibus Baccalaureum 
eiusdemque Collegii Scholarem qui per hos quatuor annos 
turn in Academia praedicta turn in CoUegio hoc nostro 
studiosum et modestum sese proebuit hisce nominibus omni- 
bus commendatum esse volumus quamque nos de eo opinionenv 



288 Noies from the College Records, 

cx)ncepimus eandem apud omnes libere profitemur subscriptis 
que nominibus nostris confirmamus. 

Dat. e Collegio praedict: 20 die Aprilis 1642 

Johes Pryse, Praeses. Ra. Coates. 

Ro. Allot Joh. Thurston. 

Tho. Thornton. Tho. FothergilL 

Guil. Bodurda. Sam. Peachie. 

October the 22nd 1661. 

These are to certify that Samuel Drake, John Lake and 
John Milner, clerks, are all personally known by us to bee 
pious and regular. To have given very signal testimony of 
their loyalty cleare through the time of the late Warres, both 
by active service and Sad Sufferings. And therefore wc 
conceave them persons deserving encouragement 
Richd. Marshe. Chr. Stone 

Antho. Elcocke. J. Wickham. 

Robt Sersby. Robt Fitch. 

Trusty and welbeloved Wee greet you well Whereas wee 
have perused a Testimonial from the Fellas of St John's in 
Cambridge purporting that S. Drake Master of Arts and once 
Fellow there was eiected for his Loyalty to our Royal Father, 
Together with a letter commendatory from our present Vice 
Chancellor in the behalf of Mr John Lake directed to our 
principall Secretary, As also a f ul testimonial from the Dean 
of the Cathedrall of York concerning Jo : Miller and them all 
ioyntly, that they are pious and regular persons, were very 
active in the service of our Royal Father, and great sufferers 
since upon that account. And whereas they have made 
humble suit unto us for oin- Letters that they might receive 

the degree of as by their standing in the University they 

might have receaved if the Iniquity of the Times had not 
forced them thence. Wee therefore being wel assured of 
your ready complyance with our pleasvre are gratiously 
pleased hereby to wil and command that upon the receipt of 
these our Letters you conferr upon them the said Degree, any 
Statute of the Vniversity, or clause of any Statute, to the 
contrary not withstanding. And the larger Dispensation from 



Notes from the College Records. 289 

Acts you grant to them in regard of their remote northerly 
residence the more satisfactory it wil be to us. Wee doubt 
not of that readiness to give us contentment therein which 
wee retain in our princely remembrance for your benefit as 
occasion shall be offered. 



Trusty etc. Whereas Samuell Drake, John Lake and John 
Milner heretofore members of that our Vniversity, come 
recommended to Vs by divers testimonialls of their piety and 
learning so of their constant loyalty to our Royall father of 
glorious memory and ourselfe during the late times, and this 
approved both by active service in the warrs and by their sad 
sufferings ever since, and having received a good caracter of 
Robert Haslewood, clearke, Wee, gratiously considering the 
iniquity of the late sad times, wherby the said persons were 
debarred from taking their severall respective degrees in that 
our Vniversity in due time, have beene moved, out of our 
sense of their loyall affections to Vs and the Church and for 
their just encouragements in their future services to both, to 
recommend them to you for their severall degrees. Willing 
you vpon receipt hereof to grant unto the said Samuel Drake 
and John Lake the Degree of Doctor in Divinity and unto 
John Milner and Robert Haslewood that of Batchelor in the 
said faculty, any statute, custom, or constitution notwith- 
standing, wherewith wee are gratiously pleased hereby to 
dispense. And in regard of the remote residence of severall 
of the said persons Wee desire you to be the fuller in your 
dispensations to them from all subsequent exercises, etc. etc. 
Given at Whitehall, November 8th, 1661. 

To our Trusty and Wellbeloved, Our Vice- 
Chancellor of University of Cambridge, to be 
communicated to the Convocacion. 



There was another side to all these proceedings. If 
the friends of the King were being rewarded, those 
who had taken a prominent part in the affairs of the 
Commonwealth were having unpleasant experiences. 
The papers which follow relate to Henry Jacie or 



290 Notes from the College Records, 

Jessey as he afterwards called himself. Jessey was bom 
3 September 1601 at West Rounton near Northallerton, 
where his father was incumbent ; he was admitted a 
scholar of the College, on Constable's Foundation, 
6 November 1622, when he signed his name Jacie; he 
took the degrees of B.A. 1623-4 and M.A. 1626. He 
was a prominent preacher among the Nonconformists 
and though he does not seem to have been a Fifth - 
monarchy man himself, he seems to have been associated 
with Thomas Venner, who was executed in 1661, and 
on that account suspected. He had a habit of noting 
down 'prodigies' and 'providential' occurrences, which 
for some reason excited suspicion. Jessey died 4 Sep^ 
tember 1663 and was buried in Bethlehem Churchyard, 
London ; this now forms part of Liverpool Street, 
opposite Broad Street Station. 

The names of the persons who preached at 
Great Allhallowes in London, August 24, at a Fast 
(as they call it) there. 

Knowles. 

Jesse, lodgeth in Southwark near St Magdalene. 
John Sympson, in Coleman Street. 

Mr Bragg is the Rector of Great Allhallowes, who per- 
mitts them. 

The best way to take the 3 persons above mentioned is on 
Wednesdayes or Thursdayes, when they fayle not to meete 
either at Great Allhallowes or some other Conventicle. 

Let the person employed to apprehend them come any of 
these mornings to one Mr Hodgkinson, a printer, over against 
Baynards Castle wall, and he will guide him to them. 

The three persons, above named, doe constantly preach 
on Mondayes, Wednesdayes and Thursdayes at the sayd 
Church and if they fayle their places are supplyed by one 
Carter, a hatter, living at Coleharbor, or by Palmer, a cooper, 
liveinge near the custom house, or some such like person. 

Those that do exercise there, they doe first breed them to 
it, in a house at a Conventicle held in Anchor Lane every 
Sunday, where there are two Pulpitts putt vp togither for 



Notes from the College Records, 291 

prophesying, where this last Sunday Palmer's kinsman 
supplyed the place. 

A Briefe was read this last Sunday at Great Allhallowes, 
the title of the King was muttered over, and that directed to 
the Archbishopps and Bishopps etc. was wholy omitted in 
the reading. And the Clarke who was putt to read it, being 
asked why he left them out sayd, he had speciall order soe 
to doe. 

This information is given by the above 
named Mr Hodgkinson, a printer. 
Endorsed ; R. 11 Septembris 1661 . Intelligence of Preachers 
at Great Allhallowes, where one Mr. Bragg is Rector, who 
permitts them. 



Warrant to John Warbutton, bearing date 27 of November 
to apprehend and bring before the Secretary one Mr Jesse 
(Charles II, Entry Book, Vol. V. p. 59). 



The Examination of Mr Jessey taken the 8th of 
December 1661. 

1. He saith that he observing that severall remarkeable 
accidents had happened did for his own satisfaccion noate 
and sett downe in writinge divers of these events as att sundry 
times they had beene brought to him by reports of credible 
persons, and that he had collected soe manye of them as did 
fill a sheete of paper \_Note in the margin " according to what 
is exprest 101 Psalm, v, 7, 3 ; 45 Psalm, v, 12, 3, 4, 5"]. 
Which sheate of paper at the instance and request of Mr 
Stanbridge (smce deceased) but then livinge att his house in 
the country, and lately a messenger to the usurped powers, he 
did deliver to him. But being ask't where it was that he 
delivered them, he saith that it was not att his owne house, 
but att another place in the citty where he appointed him, 
the said Stanbridge, to goe to receive them. This was about 
November 1660, after which tyme he sayes he neither saw 
nor heard of him, by letter or otherwise, till he heard of his 
death which was about February next. 

2. That besides those particulars collected in that sheete 
of paper he had allsoe made another coUeccion of some other 
remarkables, which weere taken from him (amongst other 



292 Notes /ram the College Records. 

papers) by soldiers, sent by order of his Excellency the Duke 
of Albemarle to search his house and to apprehend him, about 
the 28th December 1660, which paper was never returned. 

3. That one of the remarkeables thus noted by him was 
the strange and sudden death of Major Orde in the Bishop- 
prick of Durham, which the Examinant saith he has heard is 
in the book cald Annus Mirahilis and which he received from 
the information of a cittizen then and now liveing att the 
Angel and Starre in Laurence Lane, whose name the Ex- 
aminant knowes not but supposed him to be partner with 
Mr Willett. And that another remarkable was that of an 
unusuall whirlewinde hapning in the County of Leicester, 
about June 1660, about Springewood, which was inquired 
into by one Mr Snaith who lived within 2 or 3 miles of 
Leicester, att or neere a place cal'd Vnlepp, where he some- 
times used to preache, being a member of Mr Sympson's 
Congregacion, by letter from which Snaith this Examinant 
received his informacion. And whether this particular be in 
the book cald Annus Mirahilis^ or not, this examinant saith he 
knoweth not. 

4. That he has sometimes gone with Lieutenant Collonel 
Danvers to his brother^s house in Soaper Lane and that he 
has seen Francis Smith there in company with the said 
Danvers as he remembers, but att what tyme and how long 
it was since he this Examinant was last there, he does not 
distinctly remember, but thinks it is about a yeere agoe. 

5. That att the tyme of his meetinge there with the said 
Danvers and the said Smith, att the place aforesaid, he this 
Examinant hath discoursed with them about the prodigyes 
that had hapened in severall places about that tyme, and did 
heare them instance in severall accidents of that nature, but 
does not remember that he heard them or either of them 
speake anythinge concerninge any intendment in them or in 
any others to their knowledge either to compile or print the 
same. 

6. That he hath divers tymes within this last yeere (as he 
used to do for divers yeeres before) visited Mr Cockaine att 
his own house in Soaper Lane and that he has some tymes 
had discourse with him about these prodigies and has (att his 
request) given to the said Cockaine severall particulars in 



Notes Jrom the College Records. 293 

writeinge which have come to his knowledge and that the 
said Cockaine has related to him some more of the like 
nature. 

7. That before the time that the pamphlett entitled 
Annus Mirahilis came forth, he this Examinant hath heard 
that there was a book of prodigies likely to be printed, but 
saith upon his conscience that he cannot call to mind from 
whom he received that intimacion. 

8. That after the booke was come forth one of them was 
brought and given to him by one of his acquaintances but 
where itt was this Examinant does refuse to discover. 

Endorsed : Mr Jessey's Examinacion. December 8th 1661. 



Honoured Sir 

Having sent this day to that party of whom I verily 
thought I had (upon my desire) obtained to get that book for 
me, The answer of the party is to this effect : I know nothing 
of this, He never had the book of me, or desired me to pro- 
cure it, etc. The truth is I had thought I had obtained it by 
this parties meanes, but now it appeares I was mistaken. 
And now I cannot say from whom I had it. 

Sir, it being thus, your best advise and furtherance of the 
enlargement of one of known innocency in things charged, 
until a day be set to hear him and accusers face to face (from 
an Inne where by many noyses, till midnight and very early 
hinder rest, have occasioned aches in head, eyes, teeth, 
aguishnes, symptoms of piles, and if not helped may hasten 
death) is humbly desired, By 

Sir an ancient servant of 
Jesus Christ, though an 
uiiworthy one 

H. JesseV 
10 of December 1661, from the Lamb Inn by St Clements 
Danes. 

Addressed: For Mr William Howard, Esq. over against 
St Dunstan's West. 



The full title of the book to which Jessey refers as 
Annus Mirabilis was : " Mirabilis Annus, or the year of 
YOL, XXIX. QQ 



294 Notes from the College Records. 

Prodigies and Wonders, being a faithful and impartial 
Collection of several Signs that have been seen in the 
Heavens, in the Earth, and in the Waters, with many 
remarkable Accidents and Judgments befalling divers 
Persons, all of which have happened within the space 
of one year last past, and are now made publick for a 
seasonable Warning to the People of .these three King- 
doms speedily to repent and turn to the Lord, whose 
hand is lifted up amongst us." It was published in the 
year 1661 and is a little quarto pamphlet of 80 pages 
with 6 pages of preface. The author does not seem to 
be known, but he was clearly a man ot very wide 
reading and considerable scholarship. The Prodigies 
seen in the heavens were, multiple suns, lunar rainbows, 
meteors, armies fighting and so forth. Among the 
Prodigies seen on the earth is the following : 

"Upon the 5 of November 1660 two great Hoggs 
came two severall and very strange unusuall wayes up 
divers steps into the Cathedrall of Canterbury, and went 
into the quire when the Prebends were in the midest of 
their devotion, and there continued till they were driven 
out by the Vergers. The generality of the inhabitants 
of that city do very well remember that a little before 
the downfall of the Hierarchy, in the year 1641, the 
same thing happened in the same place. Malum Omen." 

The account of the death of Major Orde is somewhat 
longer. He had been in the army of King Charles I. ; 
in the beginning of September 1660 he found fault with 
Mr Rowell, the minister at Anwick, for "preaching as 
he conceived it against the Common-prayer book/' 
Orde closed the church and Rowell preached in the 
churchyard ; then he indited Rowell at the Assizes at 
Newcastle-on-Tyne, but the matter was put off. A 
fresh application was made with more success at the 
Assizes at Durham, and Orde "procures something 
wherewith he purposes severely to scourge Mr Rowell." 
Returning from Durham to Anwick on 24 September 
1660, he fell off his horse and was found to be dead, the 
jury could " find no hurt at all about him." 



Notes from the College Records, 295 

Although the presbyterian party are frequently 
referred to as 'Nonconformists' or *Fanaticks' the book 
was clearly written by a member, and in the interests, 
of that form of faith. 

Informacion 

"That Leiftenant Coll. Kingslee had a warrant from my 
Lord Cheife Justice Foster to apprehend Coll: Francis Buffett 
for treason, as being in Venner's business, as doth appeare by 
a letter intercepted and brought by Captain William Dale to 
the Lord Generall Monke, who gave him a Warrant to 
apprehend the said Buffett, which warrant the said Kingsley 
kept in his hands and gave the partyes therein concerned 
notice thereof, which persons compounded with him for 
monyes, that he should not execute the said warrant. Further 
Mr Jessee did affirme to Peter Crabb that Kingslee was a 
good honest man and that they had ordered Mr Beniamin 
Hewland to give the said Kingsley a some of money as a 
reward for his good service towards them. And said that 
Kingsley was the honestest man that was in all the Gaurd. 
And att that time they did mete Kingsley at the Queene's 
Head Taverne, on Snow Hill, London, to knowe of Kingsley 
their accusers. And whereas my Lord Generall Monke was 
pleased to pay to Kingsley five pounds for to give to the 
informers, of the which five pounds he paid to them but 30s* 
and the rest deteyned in his hands, and they at 3 severall 
times came, at each time a letter from my Lord Generairs 
hands, to demand their monys. Whereupon Kingsley did 
say to these informers, Peter and John Crabb : What would 
you have monys for ? ha, for betraying honest godly men, I 
will make knowne what rooges you are, and then you, and 
such roges as you are, shall lye and rotte in a gayle. 

John Crabb, Peter Crabb. 

Captain William Dale sayeth that to his knowledge they 
came to Kingsley's Lodginge and asked for him, but hee 
being not within, they said that they did wonder hee should 
faile to meete them, according to his promise. And desired 
that when Kingsley did come home that hee would come to 
Praise God Barebones house, for there they did all waite and 



296 Notes jrom the College Records. 

tarry for him. And Captain Dale further sayeth that since Jesse 
was lately taken vpp and secured, the said Kingsley hath bin 
to vizett him att the messengers house ; as on Satturday 25th 
of October last Kingsley was with Jessey att least an howers 
space and better. 

Endorsed : Accusation against W. Gerrad's Trooper. 



Examinacion of Lieutenant Kingsley, aged about 
58, taken before the Right Honourable Mr Secretary 
Bennet, 3 November I662. 

Have you acquaintance with Jesse ? Yes. 

How came you to have that acquaintance? By having 
taken him prisoner 2 yeares since by order of the Lord 
Generall. 

That Captain Dale a while agoe told the examinant that 
Mr Jesse, then in a messenger's custody, asked to speake with 
him, whereupon this examinant went to the messenger's house 
and there spake with Kiffin, to knowe what he would with 
the examinant. Kiffin told him it was only to thanke him for 
his former civilityes. 

Had you a warrant from the Lord Chief Justice to appre- 
hend Coll: Buffett ? No, never. 

Did Mr Howland ever give you any money ? No, never. 

Did you ever meet with Hewland and Crabb at a Tavern 
on Snowhill ? No, never. Did not they then ask who were 
their accusers ? No. 

Did you ever receive money from the Lord Generall for 
intelligence ? Yes, 9 li at one time. Did you give it to 
Crabb ? 3 li to them and 2 li to Mastin etc. 

Did you never say upon contest with those you paid the 
3 li mony for intelligence to, that you would give them but 
3 //, what would they be paid for betraying honest men ? 

Were you never at Praise God Barebones ? No, only once 
when I called Jesse to goe to the Lord Chief Justice. 

What discourse had you when you saw Jesse at the 
messengers ? None at all that he remembers. 

Endorsed : Examination of Lieutenant Kingsley. 



Notes from the College Records, 297 

Examinacion of . . . Wickham taken 
November 3, 1662 before Mr Secretary 
Bennet. 

That captain Denton came to the examinants house and 
asked if he had not one Jesse in his custody, he answered, 
Yes. That captain Denton desired to see him, the examinant 
then brought him to Jesse, to whom Denton said : Are you 
Mr Jesse ? Yes. Said Denton, I know you not, but I will 
doe you what kindnesse I can to get you off. 

That Jesse hath been in Wickham's custody 9 weeks. 

Endorsed : Examination of Wickham. 



To the King's Most Excellent Majestic and 
the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy 
Councel. 

The Humble Petition of Henrie Jessey an ancient 
minister still in durance. 

Humbly Sheweth 

That your Majesties Petitioner peaceably in bed on 
August 30th last, early, being seazed on by soldiers as sundry 
others then were, they all generally except your Petitioner are 
released as guiltless, though accused as guilty of a plot ; your 
Petitioner being known to be of peaceable principles, practices 
and expressions. 

That your Petitioner soon after the 30th of August was 
accused before the Noble Duke of Buckingham and the Right 
Honourable Sir Henrie Bennet, for giving notice to one Mrs 
Nickens of a plot for a Rising in London the night following. 
Whereas (as he then declared) about a week before that 
August 30th, your Petitioner, hearing there would be a Rising 
in the night, but not hearing who the Risers were, your 
Petitioner went instantly to the Lord Mayor, and after that to 
the Major General Sir Richard Brown and acquainted them, 
to prevent it, if any such thing were, and told of it to Mrs 
Nickens that she might tell Mr Nickens, his neighbour being 
constable, that he might performe his place therein. Yet 
this course of your Majesties Petitioner was then as matter of 



298 Notes from the College Records. 

charge against him, and it onely was true of what he was 
examined about. 

That upon sundry petitions to Your Maj^stie in Councell 
by your Petitioner sundry good Orders were made tending to 
the releasing of your Majesties oppressed Petitioner, on 
October 3, 15th and 17th last [Oct? 3. That all information 
against your Petitioner be delivered to this most Honorable 
Board by October 8 ;— October 15, That they be at the Board 
by October 17, or else the Board will give order for the 
release of your Petitioner. On October 17, Ordered that 
they be forthwith given in to Mr Attorney Generall]. For 
the performance whereof your Majesties Petitioner hath long 
waited patiently, but none of which good orders were yet 
followed, as your Majesties Petitioner humbly conceives. 

Now to whom on earth should the oppressed innocent 
Petitioner fly for succour but to your Majestie and this most 
Honourable Board as appointed of God to releeve such. 

Your Majesties Petitioner humbly implores your Royal 
Majestie and this most Honourable Board. 

That some of your Majesties foresaid good Orders in 
Councell may be performed to the release of the harmless 
oppressed, seeing that, By Mercy and Righteousness the 
Throne is upholden and established, Proverbs^ xvi, 12 
and 20-28. 

And your Petitioner who is engaged to Fear God and 
Honor the King, and all in authority and to pray for them 
shalbe much encouraged in his duty and praise the Lord. 



Sept. 22, 1663. 
Right Honourable 

Haveing this opportunity I embolden myselfe to 
present your honour with their few lynes to acquaint your 
honour. That the Fifth Monarchy men are now in the same 
mind that they were in Vener's business. And as I am 
informed by Mr Bellshaw who is a very eminent man 
amongst them, that they are to meete in Dukes place, at one 
Mr Stockdale's, a silkethroster (a man very well knowne), one 
night this weeke, and so to conclude upon the tyme when to 
finish the Lord's worke, as they so call it. 



Notes from the College Records. 299 

One word or two concerning Henry Jesse, deceased : that 
there was about 4 or 5 thousand people to accomodate him 
to the grave, and there had been as many more, but that it 
was thought not convenient. Mr Knowles, one that is as 
eminent as he was, stood by him at his departure to take his 
dyeing words, and some other eminent men, but he the 
chiefe. He said that the Lord would destroy the power that 
now is being and did much encourage all the people to put 
their helping hand to that great work, and that the Lord 
would make the tyme knowne unto the Saints here when this 
great worke should be brought to an end. I must let you 
understand that this Knowles hath been in Jermany and 
Holland and did solicitt the States of Holland to lett his 
friends, that went over theither lately, have their freedome, 
and that they would be assistance to the Hollanders upon 
any occasion that they would require. Much rumers in the 
North and much murmarin here amongst the generality, 
wishing they would begin. Some Cavaliers have made solem 
oathes to be assistants to them both here and at Plymouth 
and Bristoll and elsewhere. Captain Gale is come from 
Ireland and I find that they are ready there when opportunity 
served. So no more at present, but that I am your faithful 
servant to serve you in what I may whilst I am. 

Peter Crabb. 

When your honour comes to London I shall desire so 
much favor, that you will be pleased to give me a quarter of 
one houre's discourse. 

Addressed : These, To the Right Honourable Sir Henry 
Bennett, Secretary of State to the King's Majestie, at Bath or 
elsewhere, present. 

R. F. S. 

(To be continued)^ 



TO A COMPOSITOR. 

If e'er unhonoured genius lowly lies 

Meet for reward of academic scarlet, 
To thee we'll vote the palm, to thee the prize. 
Thou printer's varlet! 

O hath some Muse, from far Parnassus' mount. 

Sent thee to earth, to check with artful blunder 
The vernal poet's wild ebullient fount? 
At times I wonder. 

Now do I wot — in calm scholastic ways. 

Where birch and tuck-shop limit youth's horizon. — 
How Shakespeare's grammar nor do masters praise. 
Nor youth relies on. 

Thou, sure, it was didst guide with stern restraint 

(Steeling thy heart his anguish to ignore, sir) 
The pen so orthographically quaint 
Of poor Dan Chaucer. 

But oh, when genius burning to rebut 

My polished numbers incorrect thou findestf 
To quote the Bard (or thee?) "that was the cut 
The most unkindesti ' 



Thee must a harmless poetaster see 

(And brook the wrong), in fiendish joy repelling* 
His timid Muse with faults of gramarye 
And eke of spelynge. 



SonncL 301 

Kind sage, farewell! May gentle sleep atone 

With happy dreams of thy most happy ending: 
A special printer's devil of thine own 
On thee attending; 

An honoured guest, in halls of brimstone smell. 
With sable host taking thy long-delayed ease. 
And well-earned "smoke," in ingle-nook of^well, 
Thou'd'st print it ''Hades!'' 

G. V Y, 



SONNET. 

Her beauty is inexorable form — 
The bronzen gfrace of lamps in peopled rooms: 
She is made up of shapely sheens and glooms 

Cast by her keen gold fires that never warm. 

She's crystal, whom the prism's pernicious charm 

Of rainbow pity bitterly illumes: 

She feigns a soul, and often those calm tombs, 
Her eyes, have the rich semblance of a storm. 

The man who sees her bids his heart be still: 
"That's only passion's phantom in her smile: 

Look not, or look but coldly": and meanwhile 
Gazes, and yet can never gaze his filL 



So she, too wilful to be timely wise. 
Runs the voluptuous gauntlet of all eyes. 



A. Y. C. 



VOL. XXIX. RR 




, THE COMMEMORATION SERMON. 

BY 

The Most Reverend The Lord Archbishop 
OF Melbourne. 

Psalm xlv. 17. Instead of thy fathers Thou shalt have children whom thou 
may est make princes in all lands. 

I HIS psalm has undoubtedly a local colouring 
which makes it the product of the generation 
in which it was written. The author's heart 
is inditing of a good matter and he speaks 
with the tongue of a ready writer. Its language is 
joyous and triumphant, its imagery rich and varied, and 
its illustrations are drawn from warfare and marriage 
rites. When we sing it in Christian worship it becomes 
a new song in our mouths even a thanksgiving unto our 
God. The Bible version of the Psalms does not hesitate 
to describe it as a picture of the Church of Christ, nor 
can the truth of the application be denied. If the Church 
was to be externally beautiful, standing in the world 
like jx queen in a vesture of gold wrought about with 
divers colours, in her internal purity and reverence she 
was intended to be like the King's daughter, all glorious 
within. 

The Church's progress and expansion in the world 
is fittingly symbolised in the picture of children entering 
into the inheritance of their fathers who have been 
leaders and saints of God and so becoming princes in 
all lands. I think the image is especially fitted to set 
forth the duties and fortunes, the continuous traditions 
and the constantly expansive work of such a College 



The Commemoration Sermon. 303 

as this. The past generations of men belonging to us 
who have been great in Church and State have passed 
away. Their memory remains as our greatest inspira- 
tion and we who now hold in our keeping the traditions 
and services of the College can say with truth that we 
have taken its name into all lands. I speak to you 
to-day at your own bidding with mingled pleasure and 
pride. With pleasure at visiting once more my father's 
college, my own, and my son's. Since the time when I 
first entered the gateway of St John's, filled with tremb- 
ling hope and expectation, I have never forgotten the 
encouragement to work I received in my undergraduate 
days, and the friendships made at that time and continued 
through the long years since. Other preachers in past 
years have told you the names of the founders and bene- 
factors. Some of them are as familiar in our mouths as 
household words. On many an occasion in Australia 
and elsewhere I have had the privilege of asking for the 
prayers of all christian people for " the ancient and 
religious foundation of St John's College." Bearing 
fullest testimony to the services of the college for many 
a long year to science and literature and scanning with 
pride the list of honours which mark the names of 
Fellows and Ex-Fellows, I could wish that you would 
give us, as in the past, more men to the ministry of the 
Church. Will you look with me for a moment or two 
at some of the work done by members of this college in 
the great and new countries of the Southern Seas ? 
Surely the man who goes forth from these walls to 
acquit himself with honour in any walk of life is as 
truly a benefactor as he who founds scholarships and 
gives of his wealth for the cause of education. That 
prince of missionary Bishops, George Augustus Selwyn^ 
has written his name indelibly upon the Church in New 
Zealand. The college of the province was named by 
him St John's out of love for this home of learning^ 
The constitution of the Church was his, and it had to 
be framed and commenced in days wh^n men had 



304 The Catnmemoraiion Sermon, 

forgotten or never known what it was for the Church 
to wholly govern itself and to work as a separate 
organisation within the State whilst owing allegiance 
to it in matters touching property and civil rights. 

William Tyrrel, who left England in 1847 for the 
diocese of Newcastle, New South Wales, is another 
noble name belonging to us. In an Episcopate which 
extended over more than thirty years, he exhibited 
every mark of apostolic greatness. The dream of his 
life was to start his new diocese on such secure foun- 
dations that his successors would have endowments for 
men in the newly-formed districts. By great simplicity 
of life and constant frugality he left behind him for his 
diocese a sum of money estimated to produce ;^ 300,000. 
This was invested in large estates and when the periodic 
scourge of Australia came after his death and the long 
droughts devastated the land, it seemed as if all were 
lost. In 1880 Josiah Brown Pearson succeeded him. 
Many of you knew him as Fellow of this College. His 
intellectual force raised him at once into a foremost 
position in Australia. You scarcely realise in England 
the grave responsibility of a Bishop in Australia. The 
clergy so largely depend for their sustenance upon his 
leadership. If he fails he carries with him distress to 
so many of his clergy. 

In the diocese of Newcastle all the great hopes of 
Bishop Tyrrell's endowments were dashed to the ground 
by droughts, and through no fault of his own. Bishop 
Pearson found himself in a position of intolerable re- 
sponsibility. High-minded and intensely sensitive, he 
broke down under the burden. Under brighter days all 
is now well with these endowments and Tyrrell's fore- 
sight is at last justified. 

Need I tell you of James Moorhouse who became 
Bishop of Melbourne in 1876. We rank him now 
amongst the Honorary Fellows of the College and in 
Melbourne a lectureship bearing his name will per- 
petuate for all time the splendid success of his Australian 



The Commemoration Sermon. 305 

Episcopate. If my words reach him in his honoured 
old age I crave his forgiveness, for I know his shrinking 
from fame, but in Australia his is the greatest Church 
name. His matchless gifts of oratory, his courage and 
power as a leader of thought, his wit and humour, have 
all left behind them a just reputation which Melbourne 
treasures and the whole of Australia recognises. 

In Melbourne we have our Church of England 
Grammar School which is celebrating its jubilee this 
month. It has 450 boys, and in equipment and buildings* 
in tone and influence, it is a reproduction of our great 
English Public Schools. Its first Headmaster, to whom 
it owes almost everything, was Dr Bromby of this 
College. I am only selecting a few Johnians who have 
done great things in Australia. Members of the College 
have taken part in every department of life and we 
have had children who have become leaders in these 
lands. 

At the present moment there is one friend of mine 
and yours, late Fellow of this College, who is rendering 
untold benefit to the Commonwealth of Australia by his 
persistent advocacy of classical learning at School and 
the Universities. If it were not for Professor Tucker's 
powerful pen and acknowledged intellectual force it 
would fare ill with culture and classical learning in 
a country where the ideals are so largely utilitarian, 
and the hope of many of us is that he will keep burning 
the torch of Athens and Rome until increasing leisure 
and larger intellectual ideas raise up men to accept it 
from his hands. 

In this service we are commemorating the Benefactors 
of the College. Many of us are prepared to acknowledge 
that our education here was rendered possible by these 
gifts from men of the past. We are living in an age of 
boundless wealth and much public service. In olden 
days the largest gifts went to the Abbeys, the Cathedrals 
and the Parish Churches, and whilst large numbers of 
people have satisfied themselves that the clergy ought 



306 The Commemoration Sermon. 

to be supported by the parishes there is a desire to be 
generous and even lavish in the support of education. 
Many new Universities have sprung up in our genera- 
tion and are receiving every year great benefactions. 
The older Colleges and Universities are supposed to be 
wealthy. There is no wide- spread public knowledge of 
their needs. Until the rulers of each College boldly 
state these and ask for help they must expect to be 
overlooked, I know of no College in this University 
which can with greater confidence ask for help than 
St John's. Our record of new enterprise in educational 
expansion is honourable and universally acknowledged. 
For many generations the intellectual boy without social 
advantages or money has found here the kindest en- 
couragement and the most liberal aid. It is not fitting 
that Fellowships shall be reduced in value and Scholar- 
ships and Exhibitions limited because the benefactions 
of the past are unequal to the needs of the present. 
There are many wealthy members of the College who 
might be induced to become benefactors. 

We ought not to sit still in admiring wonder at gifts 
bestowed upon other Colleges and keep silent about the 
wants of our own. I want to see the College prospering 
in every branch of learning, and I care not for what 
good purpose these gifts are bestowed, but I want also 
to see St John's taking its old and honoured place in 
preparing more men for the ministry of the Church. 
Surely it is better for the Church that men should come 
here to Cambridge than so large a proportion should be 
prepared by a less liberal system of education. Cannot 
we hope that some Churchmen will give scholarships 
for preparing men for orders as well as for other 
purposes ? 

I am told that in the past many benefactions came 
from the Fellows who at the close of their solitary lives 
gave back their money to the one institution they had 
loved, and that the Society of the Colleges which used 
to consist of wealthy bachelors, is now composed of poor 



The Commemoration Sermon. • 307 

married men. This may serve very well as an epigram, 
but it does not meet the argument I am using. There is 
wealth enough in the country for every purpose, wealth 
enough in the hands of members of the College. This 
great College— I use the words advisedly — has educa- 
tional claims unequalled by others. It has needs which 
may justly be pleaded. It has a long and honoured 
history which is the pride of its members. As we 
thank God this day for the Benefactors of the past, as 
we commemorate their services and rejoice in the use of 
their gifts, we must be true to our great traditions and 
do everything in our power to preserve the foremost 
position of St John's in sending forth a supply of men 
duly qualified to serve God in Church and State. 

Our offerings are invited to-day for the work of the 
College Mission in Walworth. This is the earliest of 
such Missions connected with this University, as it has 
been the model by which many others have been 
shaped. It sprang out of an appeal made in a sermon 
in this Chapel twenty-five years ago, in which the 
preacher appealed to his College and its members, as 
the stewards of learning, and wisdom, and wealth, to 
use these for the benefit of the crowded populations in 
London. The Mission has constant needs, and it will 
never, I hope, cease to command the confidence and 
support of every member of St John's. 






THE VANGUARD, 

By roads our fathers never knew, 

In lands with none to trust. 
We press one way, the lonely few 

Who serve the wander-lust. 

The veldt has heard our voices ring 

Old songs to newer skies. 
The Karoo knows our galloping. 

The nights have made us wise. 

From Table Bay to Tuli's Fort, 

Durban to Kimberley, 
We've lived and fought, we've roamed and wrought 

From East to Western sea. 

From Leeuwin's Point to Queensland's Plains, 

Cape York to Sydney side. 
Through mulga wastes or coastal rains 

We spur before our pride. 

The pride that drives us "further out" 

Beyond the loneliest trails. 
The pride that leaves no room for doubt 

Till the last water fails. 

Our pride it is no man to serve. 

To earn no workers' wage. 
But on the new land's savage verge 

Herald the coming age. 



From Catullus. 309 

Our services no man may buy> 

Our love no woman hold. 
Blood-brothers we beneath the sky 

With rivers bom of old. 

The cities know not of our ways, 

The old lands cast us out; 
Nor fame is ours, nor crowning bays. 

But strife and toil and doubt. 

Gerard W. Williams. 

*' Out at the back of Burked 



FROM CATULLUS. 

XLIX. 

To Cicero. 

Most eloquent of Romulus' stock 

That is, that has been, or that is to be. 

The worst of all the poetaster flock 
Catullus, feels much gratitude to thee; 

He is of poets all the very worst, 
As thou of advocates the very first. 



VOL. XXlX. SS 



RHODOPE. 

"Oh^ many are the fortunes of a kissf 
Thus mock'd fair Rhodope of Naukratis, 

"They may be snares, they may be bars of love^ 
Some bought and lost, and some are treasure-trove^ 
Nor in their natures can they live the same^ 
One kiss is fervid a$ volcanic flame, 
And oft is thine — yet 'tis deHght to me — 
As cold as moonlight falling on the sea.^ 
She laugl^'d ia silver echoes^ chiming near 
The bracelet on her arm, the earring in her ear. 
Sweet was her glance, her motion grace, — to trust 
Tales long-ago of what so long is dust, — 
Rosy her cheek, and such a mould her mouth 
That falsehood spoken there were sweet as truth. 
And pretty gestures had she to make known 
The thought sheutter'd not, scarce thought perhaps alone:. 
Near her Charaxos sat, then rose and paced 
The little room with hands tight-interlaced, 
With grave sardonic face, which, when he smfled. 
Seemed haunted by the spectre of the child^ 
And then was quiet again, austere and sad. 
But oh, a little makes a lover glad: 
So when she laugh'd again, his laugh replied, — 
Her mirth was his, — and bending by her side^ 

"O love, yet take my kiss, and let it be 
Of moonlight or of sunlight unto thee, 
Though in my breast there glow intenser fire 
Than all the flaming host of heaven transpire^ 
My thoughts are thine^ my footfalls as I move 
Beat out thy name, but adding that I love 
And hate of oily, villain Xanthos tool" 



She wrjred her mouth and answered " Learn anew, 
Brother of Sappho, how to love and. woo I 
Sweet- voiced art thou, let thy thoughts be sweet: 
And gentle-natured, thereto words be meet: 
Nor rage against inevitable things 1 
Honour and infamy that profit brii\gs« 
Why, 'tis all one to Xanthos, worthy manT' 
Then he: "If there be wealth of mine which can 
Free thee from loathed Xanthos, I would throw 
All in the price and gladly see them go, 
My gardens and my Mytilenian vines, 
My galley and its freight of sealed wines, 
Couldst thou but find content in liberty." 
Then she with softer brow: "O dear to me, 
Too dear for ruin, go, be rich and wise 
And prudent ; for your headlong lover buys 
The mockery of a lifetime and the jeers 
Of Hellas for ever sounding in his ears, 
Hooted a spendthrift at the fest and game, 
Tongue-stabb'd by every mincing Lesbian dame,, 
And winning, too, from men of baser fame, 
Scorn for the wreath and chaplet of his days. 
Beware of me I No spotless robe arrays 
Her who has dwelt with Xanthos : — ^who can flee 
Their dead lifei though 'twas lived unwillingly?'' 

She spoke, and watch'd Charaxos where he stood,, 
'Twixt tears aud laughter wavering in her mood^ 
Over the brightness of her eyes appears 
And slowly grows a glimmering mist of tears.. 
But, ere he could a new avow begin, 
The curtain moved and Xanthos ambled in,^ 
Greeted Charaxos with a sidelong smile. 
And loll'd upon a bench, and talk'd the while: 
^ Good sir, what happiness is yours who wait 
But the new winds to speed your heavy freight 
To Lesbos and the port of Mytilene, 
Who see once more yoxu- home and gardens greeny 
Friends and your kindred and your native land I 
Here live I smother'd up by desert-sand 



512 khodope. 

Or drown'd in river-floods: — you heard the cry? 
The bridal of our father Nile is nigh; 
Tis fourteen cubits and a fruitful year. 
Sure that is Leon's step upon the stair/^ 
Charaxos frown'd, but Leon entered gay : 

" Hail, dear Charaxos I Hail, fair Doricha f 
And soon farewell: the winds are veering soon: 
Now sail I homeward with the summer-moon^ 
To touch at many a fair Aegaean isle 
With summer-purpling vines amid the smUe 
Of the far-spreading waters south and north. 
But when are you, Charaxos, sailing forth? 
What I You delay? Til bear your missive home, 
Tell Sappho that the gods forbid you come» 
Like Menelaos, till the parting rites 
Are done to Love with lingering deUghts^ 
And the strong winds blow contrary till then^ 
To hold you weather-bound with all yoiu: men ; 
WhUe I ran back full-pursed and fancy-free." 

*^ Ay, Leon, sail : Pluto's the god for thee, 
For whom your hecatombs smoke night and mom 
Of cozen'd fools and sheep full closely shorn." 
So saying did Charaxos quit the room, 
And Xanthos foUow'd through the passage-gloom. 

" Indeed," quoth he, " I reckon Leon wise : 
Little we gain here save what none would prize, 
Beast-gods, barbaric gabble, and sore eyes. 
Why, Sir, the money's all: I wish it were 
Siunm'd up, and I at Samos wealthier 
And in my summer-chambers safe and sound, 
The sea before and pleasant gardens round 
And books of choice — my love's Philosophy. 
Most willingly would I yield Rhodope 
For a poor price, even one talent, say, 
A miserable price; and she would pay 
The money ten times o'er; no fairer is 
Or will be ever seen in Naukratis." 

Away Charaxos hasted down the street 
In angry mood ; he clcnch'd his staff and knit 



Rhodope. 313 

His brow in fierce desire to take and slay 
The lover of Philosophy that day. 
*^ Oh me 1 " he said *^ I can no more endure 
To see her trammelled in such fate impure 
And slave to him. The ransom will suck dry 
My means, dismiss me from my patrimony, 
Make me a byword, mark for all men's scorn. 
Far better were it never to be born 
Than be creator of my own disgrace, 
Having the choice of honourable days 
In Lesbos with a chaste and unsoil'd bride. 
But I must free her: hard it is to guide 
Oiu: wild-horse passions: surely 'tis not ill 
To free her: alas, but all will say I fill 
The cup of squandering folly to the brim." 

And thus through Naukratis we follow him, 
Who reach'd at length the Panhellenion : 
There through the clustered throng his way he won 
By booth and stall and heaps of corded wares. 
Such as the Earth in all her realms prepares, 
Corn, wine and oil, woods from the odorous East, 
Greek cup and bowl, adorned for the feast. 
Arid Babylonian broideries, robes for kings ; 
And over all a clamour beats its wings 
Of many voices asking, giving news, 
Chaffering, urging flattery or abuse. 
All things debated there in all tongues mortals use. 
Unto a chamber in the northern wall 
Charaxos came and fill'd the doorway small. 
The usurer within raised his grey head 
From muttering his gains ; and then was made 
The barter, ship and freight, twelve minas told. 
But for the land the usurer was cold. 
" I cannot proffer on so far a pledge," 
He mumbled, ^^and yoiu: Lesbian statutes hedge 
Mc from possession." The other would have brought 
A further plea, when lightly someone caught 
His arm, and Leon's voice was at his ear, 
Pleasant and cool : "I thought to find you here. 



314 Rhodop^. 

Eros, what ghastly haven him awaits 

Who once hath entered through your smiling straits ! 

A music he shall hear which none have heard 

And come thenceforth unperill'd and unscarr'd. 

But all Love drives not to extremity, 

For many a time and oft he woundeth me, 

And I am loser nor of life nor land 

Nor my good name : — my bark hath dear'd the 

treacherous strand. 
Believe me, Doricha will love you more, 
If you go proud and wealthy to her door, 
And honoured : — ^whom the citizens despise, 
She will contemn and hold averted eyes. 
Or if she love you, love you half-ashamed.'' 
Charaxos shook his head : ^^ And who has named 
Me proud or wealthy or for virtuous? 
Little the reputation that I lose. 
Well I believe my end is fair and good, 
To free her from so vile a servitude. 
And let the citizens condemn or spare. 
My choice is taken." " So be it, if you dare I *' 
Said Leon then, "Not harmless, you will find. 
It is to strive against the common mind. 
Care you for that : be governed by your will : 
But truly here you sell your vineyards ill : — 
I heard so much. Now hearken to my words. 
I am a Lesbian : my credit here affords — 
Amyntas too will join with me — to raise 
A talent, a fair price as I appraise 
The land, if you admit me purchaser. 
Believe me, willingly I would not spur 
You on to such a ruin, would restrain 
Your passion, were it possible to rein : 
But if you have determined, sell to me." 
So Leon ended, nodding placidly ; 
Nor did Charaxos falter, but the land 
Soon knew another lord and served another hand. 

Its ancient master back through Naukratis 
Walked slowly j melancholy thoughts were his. 



Rhodope. 315 

He stared upon the pavement, thinking now 
Of his lost home and Sappho's angry brow, 
And now of Leon's words, that Doricha 
Would in the general censure take her way, 
Holding him faulty, though the deed was done 
Only for her and 'twas her freedom won. 
Scarce was he through the doorway when she laid 
Her hand upon him ; eagerly she said, 
Toying the while with bracelet or with braid : 
^'Charaxos, say what has thine errand been. 
Our Xanthos for this hour goes rapt between 
His hope and fear, crying * 'twill come to naught 1 ' 
And fancying that his Samian house is bought: 
Leon went hurrying after thee to buy, 
A very passion of drachmas in his eye. 
What is it? Ruin not thyself for me." 
He answer'd : ^^ Ruin comes not suddenly. 
Forewarned I am and something yet I have 
Over the price, with what my genius gave. 
Strength and power that dwells within the mind. 
Hard though the labour be, I yet will find 
The way to fortune, win the world again ; 
And well it may be won through labour and 

through pain." 
Then came the shufHing sound of Xanthos' feet, 
And volubly he spoke with random wit 
Of Nile and inimdation, Median wars, 
Phoenician biremes and the polar stars, 
And souls, as saith Pythagoras, reborn 
To read again the Book of Life outworn. 
Cut short, he eyed his guest askance and drew 
His lips together, stirr'd, was quiet anew. 
Haggled a little at the offer'd price. 
But fear'd he might too often cast the dice, 
And came to terms : a talent was agreed, 
Taken the oaths, and Rhodope was freed. 



Charaxos went to seek where at the loom 
She stood and with low singing fill'd the -room. 



3516 Rhodope, 

" Doricha," he said, " be glad, for thou art free." 
The shuttle fell, her song luU'd suddenly, 
She turned towards him eyes were full of tears 
And saw strange hope and sad-divining fears. 

Apart from fear and hope awhile were they: 
Then she retook her wonted semblance gay: 
" Now unto Aphrodite must I go 
And pay thanks at her altar kneeling low. 
Now best I can, for now Love best inspires 
Fancies and hopes and longings and desires 
And visions of new times that swiftly bear 
Me to their wonder, visions thou wilt share 
If Eros favoiu: thee and mocketh not my prayer. 
Back will I come before the sunlight dies. 
And teach thee for the future to be wise." 
Thereat she drew herself away and left 
Him of all thought, except of her, bereft. 
And him still standing there old Xanthos found, 
Who straight began : " Ha, Sir, what, are you bound 
In meditation on the coming time? 
Oft we regret at eve the deed at prime. 
The city, true, will chatter for a space ; 
But other stories cover up to-day's. 
And I do not reprove you, for I doubt. 
Were this great woof of custom ravell'd out, 
That we should find its texture all divine. 
Our virtues, now so golden, will they shine 
With a true lustre hence five hundred years? 
Now half-barbaric that old world appears 
Which Homer sang : — 3. wise man's part is this, 
In prudence to enjoy his utmost bliss 
According to the fashion of his age. 
Well, you have broken through its tutelage, 
And * Spendthrift ' must be wedded to your name : 
Perhaps a later time will give a gentler fame." 

So Xanthos : afterward in Samos he 
Lived dabbling still in his philosophy, 
And by his fellows was accounted wise. 



Rhodope, 317 

And Leon )>t-osper'd in his merchandise, 
Was archon, senator, an honoured head, 
Followed his faction with a cautious tread. 
Charaxos, Rhodope,— they lived and loved, 
My author saith, until from life removed, 
Though mighty Sappho scom'd them and let loose 
Her wrath — such power is granted to the Muse. 
Another tells that he, soon undeceived, 
ReturnM to Lesbos and new wealth achieved. 
A third — but you may read elsewhere the tale. 
Not here ; for now the impulse 'gins to fail, 
That led me singing through the summer-day. 
Giver of freedom unto Doricha. 
Hard is it in grave history to find 
The truth, and proof of 't to another mind 
Is near impossible ; but here's no need. 
Who casts a doubt upon the wondrous brede 
That Poesy doth figure o'er her scene? 
There dwell the Gods in gardens ever green: 
There evil shrinks before the purged sight : 
Beauty is goodness there, and right is might: 
There we may help the blind and heed the wise : 
There words create a world, and fairest eyes 
Drive grief from earth for us and open Paradise. 

C. W. P. o. 



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THE CONTENTS OF A LETTER BOX- 

[HE delivery of His Majesty's mails is an 
event of interest to most of us. We may 
have been looking forward to receiving some 
communication, pleasant or the reverse; 
dreading, perhaps, some unpleasant intelligence, or 
unwelcome summons to the performance of a duty 
difficult to avoid. Or it may be that we simply turn 
over the day's delivery in an idle spirit, throwing aside 
one letter as of no interest, opening another the hand- 
writing of which we recognise; puzzling over some 
unusual packet, examining the post marks, making 
futile guesses as to the identity of the sender, before 
the extreme step is taken of opening the letter and 
reading its contents. 

These sensations are multiplied when, in addition 
to any private communications, the receiver has a large 
official correspondence to deal with ; correspondents of 
all stations and degrees of intelligence, not a few 
illiterate to a point hard to realise in these times of 
universal education. There are persons who wish to 
get into communication with the College without any 
definite idea how it is to be accomplished ; others who 
know whom to address without actually knowing how 
to address him ; other possibilities present themselves 
without number. 

The Postmaster-General, in his annual Report, has 
generally a section devoted to incorrectly or insuffi- 
ciently addressed postal packets ; we are asked from 
time to time to admire the almost superhuman skill 



The Contents of a Letter Box. 319 

and cunning of those in charge of the national post 

bags, and to applaud the penetration of those who 

solve the riddles of the mails. Still, it came as a 

shock when one of these astute and liveried officials 

walked in with an exultant air and deposited on the 

table an envelope addressed in unmistakable characters : 

To the Senior Boozer, 

St. John's College, 

Cambridge. 

The gleam of triumph in his intelligent eye was hard 

to bear. 

The title Bursar may be unusual, but when it has 
been borne for many years the holder becomes as used 
to it as to his own name, and only realises by degrees 
how many versions there may be of the simple word. 
The Buzzar, the Bonsor, the Borons, the Bossor, the 
Verser, and the Vesser are pleasing variations; The 
Bercer, seems to suggest Berger^ with its rural and 
idyllic associations. 

So long as these variegated aliasses are confined to 
the envelope, one can keep the knowledge to oneself, 
but when they extend to the enclosures and a finicking 
bank clerk insists that the endorsement on a cheque 
shall correspond minutely with the name of the payee 
on its face, some reluctance to acknowledge the identity 
is perhaps excusable. 

When once the postmen have thoroughly grasped 
the maxim — In case of doubt try the Bursar — letters 
addressed to : The Secretary, Superintendent, Account- 
ant, Registrar, Clerk, Caretaker, Correspondent, Eccle- 
siastical Commissioner, Purser, Governor, nay even 
the Warden, or Warder, the Principal or the Provost, 
seem to drift to one natural home. Some wonder is 
perhaps excited as to the state of mind of a writer who 
addresses one at " St Johnson's College," or, " St John's 
Wood College." To be addressed as " The Chairman 
of the Parish Meeting " causes one furiously to think ; 
the letter did not refer, as some might suspect, to the 



320 The Contents of a Letter Box. 

College Mission, but was a communication from an 
enterprising firm who wished to supply the College 
with "a cheap and reliable line of stationery." To 
be considered) even by a puzzled postman, as "The 
Present Occupier," "The Proprietor," or even "The 
Proprietress*' of our venerable house causes, let us 
hope, the blush of modesty to rise on the hardened 
cheek. 

A letter^ addressed: 

To the Reverend 
St, John 

Cambridge, 
wobbled a little in its course before it reached its 
destination. The postman seems to have faltered and 
sought advice at the Buttery ; there it was considered 
that it must refer rather to ecclesiastical than to secular 
affairs, so it was endorsed "Try the Senior Dean." 
The Dean, on opening the envelope, found the following 
communication :— 
Dear sir 

would you kindly look in the record of your College for 
the names of Metcalfe Between 1700-30 as i want to find 
Bacon Metcalfe and william and John Edward Metcalfe as i 
want to find out where they where Born 

and kindly oblige 

yours faithfully 
Mr Metcalfe 
One glance was'sufiicient for the Dean, he knew tho 
natural home for this sort of thing, he took his pen and 
wrote quickly : " Try the Senior Bursar,*' and felt that 
he had scored a bull's eye. 

Indeed the contents of these mysteriously addressed 
communications are sometimes hardly less weird than 
the superscriptions. Here is one addressed to "The 
Head Versus,*' which sounds like part of the title of 
one of Aesop's fables : 

Poast Oflfice 

White Thorpe 



The Contents of a Letter Box. 321 

To saint 

John colage Cambridge 

Jcntelmen I Feal it My Duty to enform that Tha Hould 
House joinen Tha Parsigens farm at White Thorpe And tha 
ground on Wich Tha Hould House stood Latly occepide By 
Mary Black And Her son WiUiam Tha Hould Lady is Ded 
And Tha son is in tha Vnion And tha Parish as Put it for sail 
Witch Will Take Place Tha 23 if you Think Tha Colage as 
Any Rite or Title to tha said •state you Will not Fail in 
Loocking in to Tha saim Estate as early as Pasobel. Jentel- 
men I Beg to Ramain yours Hombel servant James Bradstreet 
Parish Clark at White Thorpe 

The letter describes the last scene but one in a 
curious little drama played in one of the southern 
Counties of England. There is a little vale at some 
distance from a town of any size; it winds between 
ridges hardly to be dignified with the name of hills. 
A stream or river meanders down the valley ; the 
village and the homesteads cling to its banks. Local 
tradition asserts, probably quite correctly, that the old 
farms all had their bit of * low ' land and their tract of 
•high' land. In the remote past the country folk 
dwelt near the river, which supplied water for man and 
beast, grew their crops on the fertile flat, and got their 
timber for building and firewood from the forest 
covered hills. The corn was ground at the little water- 
mill, long since fallen to ruin and decay ; the women- 
folk spun the wool and wove the cloth which clothed 
the tillers of the soil, and the district was secluded and 
self-contained. The College is the lay Rector of the 
parish ; the parsonage farm, like the rest, stands close 
to the stream, the house surrounded by an orchard, and 
the farm-yard and other buildings lie between it and 
the road. The old tithe barn stands next the road, 
huge, massive, and imposing. Old men still tell you 
how they have heard from their fathers, or grandfathers, 
that the tithe com was stacked in " The tithe barn 
piece " across the way ; all the stacks of the same size, 
in stately rows. Throughout the winter work was 



322 The Contents of a Letter Box. 

always going on ; on a favourable day a stack would 
be taken down, sheaf by sheaf, and carried into one 
end of the barn. There men were constantly threshing 
the corn with the flail and dressing it. Once a week, 
on Thursday, two waggons went off during the night 
laden with corn sacks to the local market town many 
miles away. The yards are large in proportion to the 
size of the farm, for tithe straw was abundant. Thus 
the parsonage farm is noted for its fertility, after 
something like eighty years it has " never forgotten " 
the generous scale on which it was manured. In the 
dim and distant past a youth offered his services to the 
occupier of the parsonage farm, his origin was 
unknown — "a stranger belike." He was a useful, 
handy man, and he was allowed to put up some kind 
of lean-to shanty against the barn in which to live ; 
a humble affair nestling under the thatched eaves of its 
cathedral-like neighbour. He married and had a son, 
and in due course went to his rest by the church . The 
son clung to the old home, and he, too, married and 
had a child, a son of weak intellect. By this time the 
inhabitants of the shanty claimed a freehold in their 
tenement, and those who might at one time have turned 
them out were estopped by their own laches from 
disputing the title. 

Then the second generation went to his rest leaving 
his widow and child still in effective occupation, poor, 
lonely and defiant. The cottage grew worse and worse, 
its condition latterly was pitiable and such as to paralyse 
any sanitary inspector. But the old lady clung to her 
castle and lived to a prodigious age, sitting in her 
doorway on a sunny day, knitting or peeling potatoes, 
and scowling with fierce, black eyes at any passer-by 
who looked too curiously at the bowed figure with 
masses of white hair crowning a weather-beaten face. 

The letter given above describes the last scene but 
one ; the curtain falls on the parish authorities pulling 
down the hovel and claiming its site as part of the 
margin of the road. 



The Contents of a Letter Box, 323 

Here is another letter which has no explanation and 
remains to this day " wrop up in a mistry." 
The address is as follows : — 
Directed For 
Head Director 
over Saint 
Johns CoUedge 
Cambridge 
Cambridgeshire 

July 6, 1894, October 27 
Sir I Now take The Pleasure of Writeing These Few 
Lines To you Hopeing to find you quite Well As It Leaves 
Me At Present Sir I Wrote A Letter to my Aunts an Cousins 
And Never Wrote No Letter Sir Last Summer Time I Wrote 
to W Lambert At Cambridge He sent me A Scample of 
Divcrent prizes of jewellery W Lambert Legge Lane Bradford 
Sir I wrote to We Black 10 Jenkinson Street Leeds Sir He 
Sent me A Prize List to Cambridge Sir I Wrote to R R Burton 
High Holborn London Sir He Sent me A Book of List of 
Prizes He sent me it Last may Sir I hope you anser This 
letter I shall be at Windsor next Tuesday 

Robert Brown 

If any reader of The Eagle can fathom what this 
letter is about, or suggest a suitable reply, he has 
accomplished something that its recipient has totally 
failed to attain to. 



A certain sense of guilt attaches to the possession of 
the next letter, it is addressed : 

The Governess 

of St Margaret's College 
Cambridge 

Angleterre. 
From the appearance of the envelope it would appear 
that the postal authorities were somewhat puzzled. It 
is endorsed "No such College at Cambridge, England," 
and many initials are attached, no doubt those of post- 
men. . Some one in the office with a knowledge of 
Cambridge history clearly had an inspiration, the steps 



324 The Contents of a Letter Box. 

can almost be traced : — St Margaret — Lady Margaret-^ 
St John's. The letter was soon speeding on its career ; 
it reads as follows : — 
Mistress 

y have a yong girl of 14 years and y will send she in a 
English school, because the governess are very sterns. 

I have learn that in England the pupils will be punished 
by the wheepping if she are not laborious. It is this system 
that y will employed with my girl. Can you say me if y can 
expect that this method wUl be employed in your school with 
my daughter. 

Thinks you will excuse me because I have writing English 
very bad. You can reply in French or in Enghsh that I read 
a httle if y not write. 

Expecting your reply I ham Mistress yours truly 

M.N. 
poste restante 

St Gerrans 
Bouches du Rhone 

France. 
P.S. Here are plenty English women, I know some o^, 
and she had said me, that in England I can have the pupils 
tuition like I will have. Show me prospectus, please, with 
your honorate reply. 

This is clearly more of a tutorial than bursarial com- 
munication, but the methods which stimulated Milton 
in his studies at Christ's are no longer employed at 
St John's; nor are We, as yet, afloat on the seas of 
" co-education." Three possible alternatives presented 
themselves : to send the letter to Glrton or Newnhami 
or even better in a cy pris sense to Lady Margaret Hall^ 
Oxford. In the end the greed of the collector overcame 
other considerations and the letter still adorns the 
packet of misfits ; there it reposes, while its unscrupu- 
lous possessor joyfully looks forward to further additions 
to the collection. 






THE TOD. 



A Fragment. Part 1. 

So thickly grew the mushrooms On the nerveless lip there 

scarce was orifice for daily meat — ^nay drink — 
Their growth So wondrous fleet, forbye he duly culled thcnl 

as they sprang to Ufe, their number never lost* 
Above, like to the scarlet maybce, rose the truncated cone, it*S 

nostrils all agloW. 
Under the crag<Uke brow, where sprouted reeds (in deep 

diapason of bukush green) 
Gleamed the twin emerald orbs, whence, o^er the fibrous 

cheeks, the viper's venom ran ; 
While the rich night mosses, nigh the nether ear, shone like 

the mid-night diamond in the lurid sun. 
Dependent from the chin (like to a beard) the deadly night- 
shade hung, in rank luxuriance — 
It's tangled tow-like tufts spread all adown the hirsute breast. 
The skull was thatched, entire, with sea-kale of the Scot — the 

brain — 
One vast unmeaning blank* 

Anent the varied torso — the wild straw held it's own, and — 
As two dorsal fins glittered the scaly arms — their batswing 

digits (membraned and hooked) dank with a clammy 

dew. 
Festoons of shelly bi-valves barred the outward movement of 

the nether limbs, the pedal bones of which — 
United with a close- wove web of some dark juicy fabric of an 

olive green. 
Behind, in amaranthine lengths, a gruesome tail wended it's 

tortuous way — the which — in moments of emotion — 

VOL. XXIX. UU 



326 The Tod, 

Sudden coiled it^s folds, and crept concealed, somewhile, 
beneath the ruddy fur which clothed the creature's 
back — then— ^ 

Startling all the echoes as it fell — 'tv^'ould clash to earth again 

In telescopic joints I 



What fell, dread crime the thing had done that thus it*s 

hideous form Creation marred — no mortal knew, but, 

ever and anon. 
In the dull days of dying autumn, when, at dusky eve, across 

the lone bleak moor — 
(While BLOOD-RED MOONS hung low on either hand) 
And, from the blasted pine, the night owl's screech outvies 

the bittern's boom — 
The passing pilgrim shudders, and lets fall the scalding tear, 
As, o'er the arid waste, in cadence sad, and low, comes the 

\v41d wail of dark mysterious woe — 
'' Lost lo— o— s— t LO— S— T ! ! I !" 



Part II. 



Sprung from a scorpion-eating dam, and nurtured 'mid the 
natterjacks. 

The head scalene — each organ immature — the whole, at first, 

in embryo- 
It sweltered on. Thus then, it's youth. 

And Father William, as he sat at meat, would brush the snow- 
beads from his brow and tell — 

How, when the moon was at the seventh edge, and time and 
tide and place quite problematical. 

He'd seen it sporting on the village green, and draining dry 
the mudwort of it's dew. 

Nor this alone. For, oft, when these foul duties were dis- 
charged and done — 

Distended and encumbered would it he — a thing obscene. 



The Tod. 327 

The clowns in fustian, all agape, the parent sought to urge a 

plan of strict seclusion and a diet spare, 
And she to Father William turned for aid — outspake fhe 

Seer! 
" And, first of all, abjure excessive fondness for roast flesh of 

swine — 
(Unless, indeed, that flesh be juvenile, and duly flanked with 

hot decoctions formed from rum) 
The oils, en bloc, repudiate ; save for the liquid grease yclept 

"Castor" 
All pastry cakes— excepting those light fancy puffs prepared 

by Switzer and by Neapolitan. 
The onion venerate ; nor less the Stubble Goose. 
Avoid like Sathanas the Sausage with the Macaroon — 
All brandied mash and binding condiments. 
At scent of Entrees flee, nor sniff the wind of anything 

"a la" 
Hug close the bracing Nicotine, but sail close-reefed o'er seas 

of alcohol. 
Yet ever smile upon the gentle stimulant termed Rum I " 
Down sat the Seer ; and, one by one, the clowns in fustian 

sought the door — 
All sleepily and nodding, like old men on the wane. 
But, as they neared the portals, lo ! a form. 
One lintel wedged the pedal bones, the other reared from 

iliac to shoulder blade. 
SafiFron the eye — the 'face a parchment soiled — the cone, the 

lids, the ears, a jaded puce. 
Protruding from the mouth a viscid tongue, in brimstone 

furred — 
The lips, a willow grey. 

Fell from each lip the pipe of clay — 
Fell, in a heap, the clowns away — 
Fell, too, the Seer in trying to say — 
" Bring lemons I " 
The fulcrum failed I Projected into space — the bilious frame 

encrowned the apex of the pyramid — 
A mass enchoate. 
The Seer, emerging from the heap at length, with garments 

tattered and with visage stained-^ 



328 The Tod, 

All helplessly, and groping as he stood, with palms out- 
stretched, vociferated " Rum " ! 
And there were those among the fustianed clowns (and 

mostly of the upper tier) 
Who, sliding downwards, gained the outer air. 
Nor long delayed, but with the gentle stimulant returned. 
Uprose the Seer ; one orb upon the thing, the other closely 
focussed on the flask, gave utterance — 
"The Boluses of Holloway, the Pills of Parr, 
The Woodcock Globule, and draught Saline, 
The Pad of Holman, or Magnetic Bands, 
The range entire of modern pharmacy 
Are vain. There is one amulet and only one — " 
And here the Seer applied the flagon to his lips, which 

instantly became so morticed in his valves 
That all the contents slid in one great bolt adown the 

bronchial tubes. 
With gentle parabolic curve, the spinal column swerved from 

plumb to prone— 
'Mid broken speech of " drums and guns and wounds '' he 

peacefully lay down a muttering 
These last intelligible words — 

"The Beacon CALOMEL, the Bulwark RUM," 
Softly, the Seer, they bore away, 
Softly they pitched him up on the hay, 
Softly, as he was trying to say — 
" Jamaica ! " 
And, so, by easy stages (tavern-wise) to London. 




TOOTHACHE. 

(An AlUgoryJ. 

|EING recently afflicted with violent and 
incorrigible toothache, and having tried all 
the usual remedies with little or no success, 
I decided at last to seek a temporary respite 
in narcotic sleep, with the following strange result: — 

Passing imperceptibly into regions of sub-conscious- 
ness I seemed translated into a wild and rocky country 
which was traversed in all directions by lines of 
circular hollows or craters, in appearance much like 
those which are seen in lunar photographs. One large 
and deep crater in my immediate vicinity seemed, as it 
were, palpitating with volcanic unrest, the dull glow 
of but partially-concealed lava was reflected on its 
sides, and I concluded that it was in a state of suppressed 
eruption. This, however, was by no means the most 
curious feature which attracted my notice, for I soon 
observed three small figures of most demoniacal form 
and expression busily engaged in what seemed to 
be quarrying operations in the hollow. 

The first and most active of these was like nothing 
in heaven or earth, being apparently composed of 
incandescent augers. For legs, arms, tail, hair, and 
fingers he had red-hot, constantly turning augers; 
in the centre of his body was a toothed wheel, 
ceaselessly rotating, and out of his eye-sockets sharp 
gimlets grew. 

As I watched, horrified, he inserted his spiral tail into 
a crevice of the rock and spun furiously round, emitting 



330 Toothache, 

a squeaking noise and causing the lava beneath to hiss 
and palpitate. The other two demons were scarcely 
less remarkable though not so demonstrative. Address- 
ing one who was solemnly poking a spear-shaped 
implement into the crevices, I enquired if they would 
kindly inform roe what they found in so barren a cavity 
worth so much labour to extract. (For I should say 
that all this time I was possessed by a spirit of ghastly 
and incredible politeness, which would have been 
ludicrous had it been less horrible.) 

" Indeed it is but just," he replied, " that you should 
know our calling. My two brethren here and I are 
mining spirits and entirely beneficent." 

"Oh," I said. 

" This crater," he continued, " is one of many round 
here, some of which are extinct, some perfect, and some, 
alas, filled with concrete. You are our host and the 
owner of this land, therefore I will be entirely frank 
with you." 

"But," said I, "if I am your host and own this land 
you should have applied to me for permission to ex- 
cavate. Hardly done, eh, to dig up a man's estate 
behind his back, even with the best intentions." 

Here the Jabber (for that name suits his occupation 
as well as any) assumed a most injured expression, — 
the acute pain of a just man wronged appeared to shake 
him from head to foot, and it was with broken voice that 
he spoke as follows : — 

"Can it be, then, O most cruel! That we have been 
deluded with false hopes and now must work out our 
appointed task unwelcome, and denied thy favour? 
Didst thou not invite us, and that most cordially, witb 
a lavish present and extensive offerings of sugar upon 
the hills and sweet things upon the mountains } For 
know this! Once here we cannot go till our task is 
finished, it is not in our power, who are industrious, nor 
will earthquakes move us, and scarcely if this mountain 
were torn from its roots should we depart." 



Toothache. 331 

Then I saw the force of his words and bitterly 
repented me of much good living. 

Then the Screw struck in (the demon with the 
rotating ches.t). Very shrilly he spoke and with 
a certain acerbity, as follows : — 

" While entirely recognising the liberality of our host, 
I must protest against his late attempt to fill this crater 
with concrete. I do not hesitate to say that persons less 
benevolent than ourselves would stigmatize his action 
as a breach of contract. I have blunted two arras and 
a leg in trying to get through it ; just when I was well 
at work on the soft lava too." 

At this point it occurred to me that, perhaps, we did 
not see eye to eye in this matter, and that our points of 
view were possibly somewhat different. I hinted that 
if the three imps were really beneficent it was not their 
fault, but the efiect of some freak of heredity and 
the result of necessity, and that while I appreciated their 
efforts I should be obliged if they would terminate their 
job as soon as possible as I had important engagements 
to fulfil. 

Thereupon the third imp, who had hitherto confined 
himself to digging in the superficial crust with a tool 
which was something between a saw and an army spade, 
leaning upon his implement, coolly said : — 

"Forgive my seeming rudeness in not introducing 
myself before — " 

'* It was unnecessary," I said (for I was becoming 
irritated). 

"As I was about to say, I owe you an apology 
for any apparent-er-gaucherie-on my part, but to tell 
the truth I was so engrossed in my work that I did not 
observe you." 

" I felt as much," I remarked. 

" Oh ! You are too complimentary ! But to come 
to the point, — ^will it please you to afford me, who 
am called the * Digger,' some small testimonial for 
my services ; we are poor imps. Hard lives do we live 



332 Toothache. 

toiling incessantly night and day (well I knew it), 
subject to all dangers, from earthquake, from heat and 
cold, from suffocation with noxious drugs, from floods of 
strange liquor, and many other calamities (here an 
idea occurred to me), forced to labour by our benevolent 
dispositions." 

Seeing me unresponsive the three then resumed 
work with renewed energy, chanting the while a hideous 
stave : — 

" We are three imps of Cocaine 
Who sit at the fountains of pain. 
The Jabber, the Digger, the Screw." — 

I could stand no more. Furious at what I considered 
their canting hppocrisy, I seized a syphon of anodyne, 
pressed the trigger, and drenched the three from head 
to foot, nor did I cease till the whole cavity was filled to 
the brim. 

They laid about in grotesque attitudes, the only sign 
of animation being a feeble turning of the Screw's 
wheel. 

" Hooray," ! I said, " They are either dead or 
hopelessly intoxicated." 

But I was soon to be disappointed. In a short time 
signs of returning consciousness appeared. First one 
and then another feebly tried to rise, and fell back 
again. Then the Digger struggled to his feet, and, 
leaning on his spade, made the following remarks : — 

" Ish thish way t' treat a guesht ? T' r' duce *m shtate 
dishgrashfu' 'tox'cation ? 'Make 'm public shpect'cle ? 
But I mush work ! Work ! ! Work ! ! ! " 

*' Don't for Heaven's sake," said I hastily, ** Consider . 
your condition." 

** Condishun," said he, "Wha' for," and staggered 
away. Then the Screw began, reproachfully wagging 
a slowly turning finger : — 

" Oh shameful ! Shameful ! ! Crater flooded I Work 
imposs'ble! Mush wait'U flood goes down! Yesh^ 
Wait! Wait!!" 



tobihache. 333 

The last to recover his conciousness was the Jabber, 
who was silent except for a few incoherent observations 
about the " terr'ble thundershtorm," and a " 'mark'ble 
sensashun/* 

In a short time they resumed operations chanting 
drunkenly : — 

We are three imps of Coc-a-aine 
Who sit at the foUntainsh of pa-a-ain| 
The Jab 

I awoke. 

"Blow," said I, "At it again ! Little devils ! " 

Beltishazzar, 



VOL. XXIX. XX 



A CONSERVATIVE UTOPIA. 

Yester eve I sat a-seeming to be working, and feU dreaming 
And my brain with thoughts was teeming, some were fan- 
ciful, some not, 

Notions airy as a vapour, hard to formulate on paper, 

'Neath my cranium did caper ; Til attempt to tell you what. 

I was brought {ducenle fato) to a sort of model state oh ! 

A la Thomas More or Plato, or Sir William Gilbert, Knight. 
All was peace and all was plenty, all was dolcefar nienUy 

All stopped growing old at twenty in tliat land of pure 
delight. 

Not a person placed rdiance hi the miracles of science^ 
Everywhere there was defiance to the modern stress and 
strife ; 
Telegraphs were all demolished, railways, motors, 'phones 
abolished, 
Lusitanias all were polished off ; all lived the Simple Life. 

In this country dim and distant Radicals were non-existent^ 
Everybody was persistent in remaining in a groove, 

And to add unto my story's almost superhuman glories 
All the folk were rabid Tories whom no power on earth 
could move. 

All convictions. Socialistic, all religious theories mystic 
Were considered anarchistic, and all agitators slain ; 
No one ever preached a sermon 'gainst the purple and the 
ermine, 
Monarchs were not counted vermin, and, as such, put out 
of pain.. 



A Conservative Utopia, 335 

Girls did not for suffrage gruirible, womenkind were meek 
and humble 
Doing house- work like the bumble bee 4mproved each 
shining hour/ 
I rejoiced nowhere discerning female prodigies of learning, 
* Inexpressive shes^ a-burning to dissect each beast and 
flower. 

When a youth for occupation's sake inveighed against stag- 
nation 
Then his sire with this oration spake his progeny unto: 
"Will your grumbling never cease, sir ? Won't you learn to 
hold your peace, sir ? 
What was good enough for me, sir^ will be good enough 
for yoa" 

Not a person could inveigle pain Into this country regal, 
All exams, were made illegal by a parliamentary act ; 

But alas I the dream that brought us to this place that so 
distraught us 
Fled ; I woke to find that Plautus was a melancholy fact 

RRP. 



l\^#^-^ ^^-^^ 


l,i^'L#^' 





MR STEPHENS. 



[The foHowing extract may appear in the issue of The Thanct Tim€Si 
for June 13, 1908.— "The body of a well-dressed gentleman, identified as a 
Mr Stepherxs of QJapham, was found at the foot oi the cliffs yesterday 
evening. He was a visitor at Margate, The inquest will be held to- 
morrow." It may not appear ^ but if it does, you may account for it as^ 
follow?.] 




|R JOHN STEPHENS was quite a typical ia* 
habitant of Clapham, being a business man,, 
who had to go to th^ city every day^ He 
took in the Daily Chronicle. Like many 
other business men he was married and had three 
children. His two daughters he caUed Mary and 
Martha^ but his son Arcturus. He was himself 
generally known as " Old Dick^" presumably because 
his name was John. He was in most things an ordinary 
man, and his character was above reproach — but he 
had his son christened Arcturus. In the summer the 
Stephen's family usually went to Margate. They liked 
it. And it was at Margate that the tragedy which I 
am about to relate was enacted. 

Mr Stephens, having finished his [morning cigar and 
seen his wife and offspring safe upon the sands, strolled 
gently along the cliff. He began to let his little child- 
like imagination wander. He often did so— ^.^. the name 
Arcturus— and he had done it before that day during 
his bathe. For he bathed every morning before break- 
fast and was very proud to be able to swim. These 
were the lines along which his imagination had been 



Mr Stephens. 337 

straying. "Supposing," he thought, ?*I was swimming 
in the middle of the Atlantic five hundred miles from 
anywhere — except the bottom — what would be my 
feelings ? Would I have the courage to sink without a 
struggle ? " And to make this more realistic, he closed 
his eyes, so that he would not see the land. And now 
as he walked along the cliffs — on an asphalte path with 
iron railings — he got in the same mood again. " What 
would be the thoughts of a suicide," he said, " when 
hurling himself over the cliffs ?" And he pictured some 
love-sick youth slighted by his mistress. His thoughts 
wandered dreamily on — likewise his legs ; and he had 
alteady passed the place, where the asphalte and railings 
stopped, and the green grass began, going very well 
with the blue of the sea. He stopped and chuckled. 
" But how will other people know that it was because 
of his slighted love that the youth committed suicide ? 
They won't know, unless they find his love letters on 
him — No! Stop! He might pin a little remark — an 
epitaph — on his bosom.'" Mr Stephens loved to be 
realistic and so he took out an envelope and on it 
wrote : " She despises me ; I despise Death." He read 
it over and saw that it was good. But surely a lover 
would write poetry ? He pondered for a while and then 
taking out another envelope wrote : 

" Come death, for death's long icy chill is 
Better than slights from Amaryllis." 

And he saw that both his epitaphs were good, and 
pinned both on his coat (to be realistic) and went to the 
edge of the cliffs and began pretending. 

The rain had been heavy during the spring, bringing 
the cliffs into a crumbling state, and notices had been 
put up at regular intervals by a fatherly corporation to 
remind the public of the fact, and to warn them not to 
approach too near the edge. No man knows or will 
know if Mr. Stephens read these. He alone can tell, 
but he will speak no more. 

James Barnes, the sailor, found the body in the 



338 Mr Stephens, 

afternoon, and read the remarks pinned to his bosom. 
" Well," says he, " she don't love I neither, and yet I 
still breathe God's air — zounds," and he takes the body 
to the police. 

Mrs. Stephens is in due time informed of her 
husband's sad death, and her mourning is genuine and 
unsullied. For Barnes, the sailor, just crumpled up 
those epitaphs and threw them into the sea, where the 
waves carried them away to amaze the mermaids. 



THOUGHTS ON A SENSE OF HUMOUR. 

A sense of humour is the one characteristic which 
no man ever considers himself without. 

• • • 

No great man of action ever had a sense of humour, 
it is one of the essential features of his greatness that 
he should be devoid of it. 

• • • 

Genuine humour never dies : Chaucer's laughter is 
still infectious; Fielding's broad jests, though they 
may shock a more squeamish age, still ring true ; to 
this day we are perfectly ready to chuckle with 
Aristophanes over the immemorial joke of woman's 

rights. 

• - • • 

Every age has its own conventions, and every age 
its own peculiar form of humour, and just as the 
conventions which can justify their existence survive 
the age which formed them so the humour which was 
the outcome of the best in human nature at any one 
time will live on to be appreciated by succeeding 
generations. 

» • • 

Humour illustratejs in an extraordinary degree the* 
character and thought of any particular time. A 
hundred years ago a man in the stocks or pillory was. 
considered an extremely humorous sight : it was the- 
same generation which gratified the appetite for 
sensation by taking seats for a public hanging. 



340 thoughts on a Sense ofHtimonn 

Nothing discloses the real person so much k^ 
humour, a man may disguise his inherent vulgarity 
until he tries to be funny. 

• • • 

Amongst people whose taste is not particularly 
educated there is a noticeable partiality for that kind 
of harlequinade hUmoUt* which conisists in one buffoon 
hitting another on the head with a formidable looking 
weapon and being immediately knocked over himself. 

• • • 

Early and Mid-Victorian farces relied principally on 
the continued repetition of " Confound you, sir, what 
the devil do you mean ? " 

• • • 

American humour is of absolutely no value to 
anyone except the owners. 

• • • 

It is fashionable to decry home products and really 
impossible to decide such a question, but on the face of 
it it would seem that except, perhaps, for the French, 
English humour is the best in the market. 

• • • 

We grow out of humour as we grow out of clothes : 
the jokes which we love as children now no longer 
appeal to us. 

• • • 

The possession of the same sense of humour is the 
true bond of friendship. 



^bftuar^ 



Sir John Eliot, k.C.I.fi. 

"Wfe take the following account of Sir John Eliot's c^reet 
Irom Nature for 26 March 1908 :-^ 

The news of the death of Sir John Eliot, KC.I.E., F.R.S., 
in his sixty-ninth year, at his residence, BOn Porto, Cavalairc, 
Var, France, will be received with great regret by a very 
large circle erf friends. His death was extremely sudden, 
'and took place in the early morning of Wednesday, March 18* 
He was walking on a steep hill in his ow^n grounds, super- 
intending the work of his men, when he suddenly sat down 
iand passed away. The cause of death is said to have been 
a|)oplexy. 

Sir John Eliot was throughout his life a most indefatigable 
worker, and since his retirement from the Indian Service 
^bout five years ago he had continued to work with unabated 
vigour. Indeed, the strenuous work which he undertook 
taiay perhaps have undermined his health, and have caused 
his premature death. He was one of the most genial 
companions possible, having a most charming personality, 
together with a keen sense of humour. He was most widely 
read and well infortned in almost every subject, and at 
the ^ine time he was one of the most modest of men. He 
was a most accomplished musician, and played the organ 
and piano with very great execution and feeling. He Was 
also greatly loved and esteemed by his subordinates and 
fellow-workers, and by his many friends. 

Sir John Eliot had a most distinguished career, and 
the major part of his life was devoted to India, at first 
to educational work, and later on to Indian meteorological 
problems. He was born at Lamesly, in Durham, on May 25, 
1839. The details of his earlier education have not been 
recorded, but he went up to Cambridge University about 1866 
VOL. XXIX. YY 



S42 Obituary. 

and took his degree from St John's College in 1869, and was 
second (bracketed) wrangler and Erst Smith's prizeman of his 
year. He was then elected to a fellowship at St John*s 
College, which he held from 1869 up to his marriage in 1877. 
As a young man his health was not Very robust, and he was 
advised to avoid the climate of England, so that after taking 
his degree he accepted an appointment in the Indian Govern^ 
ment Service as professor of mathematics at the Roorkee 
Engineering College. This he held from 1869 to 1872. He 
was then transferred to the regular Indian Educational 
Service as professar of mathematics at the Mutr Central 
College at Allahabad, an appointment which he held from 
1872 to 1874. 

About this time he fumed his special attention io physics 
rather than to pure mathematics, and also undertook certain 
meteorological work at Allahabad. In 1874 he W2is appointed 
professor of physical science at the Presidency College, 
Calcutta, and combined this with the post of meteorological 
reporter to the Government of Bengal, both of which he 
held from 1874 to 1886. He was then appointed meteoro- 
logical reporter to the Government of India and director 
general of Indian observatories, an appointment which he 
held until he retired in January, 1903. On his retirement 
the Government of India published in the Gazette of India 
a most complimentary resolution thanking him for ^* his long 
and meritorious services." 

As an educationist he has left his mark in the various 
colleges in India in which he worked, and also in the 
Calcutta University, of which he was for many years a most 
distinguished Fellow. Many of the present generation 
of educated Indian gentlemen who are holding very pro- 
minent positions are largely indebted to Sir John Eliot, 
not only for his actual teaching, which was of a particularly 
high order, but also for his kindliness and sympathy towards 
his students. The ei^mple shown by his work and character 
had a great effect on all brought in contact with him, and he 
was very greatly respected and loved by his students and 
by all classes of Indian gentlemen, for it may be truly said of 
him that his great abilities were more than equalled by 
his extreme modesty and invariable kindness. 



Obiiuary, 343 

In his capacity as Fellow of the Calcutta University 
he also did very notable work, and by his great influence and 
marked powers of persuasion he was able to introduce many 
considerable reforms into the courses of instruction in 
mathematics and physical science, and in the latter case 
he was specially successful in making the courses more 
practical and more thorough than they had hitherto been. 

As a meteorologist, India also owes htm a large debt 
of gratitude. As meteorological reporter ta the Government 
of Bengal, he largely extended the meteorological system^ 
and introduced daily weather reports with charts based 
on telegraphic information, and he also instituted a very 
cqmprehensive and effective system of storm warnings for 
coast stations round the Bay of Bengal, and of flood warnings 
for inland stations; One of his earliest meteorological papers 
was a " History of the Backergunge Cyclone of 1876," 
in which storm about two hundred thousand people were 
drow^ned in about half an hour by a huge storm wave, which 
swept over the Island of Sandip. 

In this monograph Sir John Eliot largely developed and 
extended the theory of tlie formation of cyclones* This 
publication indeed excited a good deal of attention both 
in India and in England, and in both instances this was 
unusuaL So much attention was directed to this memoir and 
to the* cyclone which it described that a request was made in 
the House of Commons for the report to be produced 
and laid on the table, and it was then made available to those 
interested in England* 

The reputation as a meteorologist which Sir John Eliot 
gained while occupying the post of meteorological reporter to 
the Government of Bengal rendered it a foregone conclusion 
that when the higher post of meteorological reporter to 
the Government of India fell vacant it would be offered 
to him. This post had been created about the year 1875 
or 1876, and its first incumbent was the late Mr H. F. Blan*- 
ford, F.RS. Up to about 1875 there had only been local 
officers in charge of the meteorology of the different 
provinces (such as Bengal, Madras, and Bombay) into which 
India is divided, but it was felt that if Indian meteorology 
was to make any real progress* it must be studied as a whole, 



344 Obituary^ 

and not piecemeal. Hence tlie appointment of meteoro- 
logical reporter under the Imperial or Indian Government 
was created, and all the observations taken in the various 
provinces were, after local uso, sent on to the India^ 
Meteorological Department. Much and most valuable work 
was done by Mr, Blanford in the development of the 
department on an Imperial basis, and ajso in the foundation 
of systematic and organized investigation and in thQ prompt 
diffusion of meteorological information thus obtained, but, as 
in all great schemes, the progress of consolidation qf th^ 
work in its imperial aspects was rather difficult. 

With Mr Blandford's work as a basis. Sir John (then, of 
course, Mr) Eliot was able to make more rapid progress. 
He largely increased the area from which observations were 
received, and also the number of reporting stations in thQ 
area already covered. Indeed, during his tenure of office he 
almost doubled the number of stations which sent in reports, 
and extended them so as to get observations from very high 
altitudes (11,000 feet elevation), and also from outlying 
places like Kashmir and the routes leading towards Central 
Asia, and from such places as Leh, Ladakh, Dras, &c. He 
made the work of the observatories more acute and more 
systematic, and arranged that by telegraphic communication 
the latest meteorological information from all parts of the 
Indian Empire in the form of daily weather reports with 
charts should be at once available at headquarters. 

Indeed, it is not too much to say that from the time hQ 
took over charge of the Indian Meteorological Department, 
its efficiency and usefulness were very largely increased, and 
that he brought it quite into line with the most modem 
meteorological organisations. Under him the department 
published many series of most valuable results and memoirs. 
He also developed a complete system of storm warnings for 
the whole of the coast-line of India and Burmab, extending 
over some thousands of miles, and also establishing flood 
warnings for the whole of India by which telegraphic 
warnings are sent of expected floods to all engineers in 
charge of irrigation and other large works, and in other 
cases where similar damage may occur. Daily reports with 
charts dealing with the sea areas of the Bay of Bengal and 



Obituary, 34S 

Indian Ocean were also established, and, further, he estab- 
lished a most valuable system of seasonal forecasts, which 
gradually became of very great value, though naturally ta 
begin with they were rather tentative and experimental. 

Those who navigate Indian seas are also especially 
indebted tq Sir John Eliot for his work, " Handbook of 
Cyclonic Storms in the Bay of Bengal," which has in all 
human probability been the means of saving many vessels 
and valuable property — possibly from destruction and 
certainly from damage — by enabling such vessels, by the 
rules laid down in that work, to avoid the more dangerous 
parts of these cyclones, and also generally to escape from 
them altogether by the knowledge thus given of the 
indications of the approach of such storms and of the tracks 
usually followed by them in the different months of the year. 

Indeed, it would be an easy matter to prove that in many 
instances the information and warnings conveyed from the 
Indian Meteorological Department have been the means of 
helping that Government and individuals in a most remark- 
able manner, and that, even to put the matter on the lowest 
ground, it has saved the State vast sums of money by giving 
accurate information of the precise meteorological conditions 
of the country, and timely warnings of possible famines, and 
in some cases, when famine seemed looming in the immediate 
future, of timely information of approaching rainfall, which 
gt once would do away with the necessity of starting famine 
relief operations on a large scale. The Indian Meteorological 
Department has far more than justified its existence, for it 
has really proved itself of far greater value than its relatively 
small cost. 

Sir John Eliot was also very greatly interested in the 
subject of solar physics, and he was largely instrumental in 
starting the solar physics observatory at Kodaikanal, in 
southern India, and immediately on his retirement he was 
appointed as a member of the Solar Physics Committee, and 
.also on other scientific bodies, and he worked quite as hard 
as he had always done in India. Indeed, he was at work up 
to the last, for on the Monday before his death he was 
.engaged on his new book, ^^ A Handbook of Indian Meteor- 
ology," and said he was making great progress with it. 



346 Ohilaary. 

One who knows well the w^ork of Sir John Eliot after his 
return to Europe writes as follows : — 

" Sir John Eliot left India full of enthusiasm for the future 
of his department. As a pubUc servant he had the rare 
satisfaction of knowing that a scientific enterprise begun 
with some doubt and misgiving, had, under his direction, 
established its claim to a recognised position, and had 
justified the anticipations of its promoters. His last official 
step was to secure for his successor the increase of the 
scientific staff of which he had himself felt the need. 

"On his return to England he gave expression to his 
experience and his aspirations in an address to the British 
Association at Cambridge in 1904 as president of the 
subsection for astronomy and cosmical physics. Reviewing 
his own work and stimulated by his success, he looked 
beyond the forecasts of to-morrow's weather to anticipating, 
on strictly scientific grounds, the character of the seasons by 
the correlation of meteorological phenomena over extended 
regions of the earth and their possible relation with solar 
changes. He became secretary of the Solar Commission, 
originated ujion the proposition of Sir Norman Lockyer by 
the International Meteorological Committee, which met at 
Southport in 1903. The purpose of the Committee was to 
collect comparable meteorological data from all parts of the 
world and solar data for comparison with them. He spent a 
considerable part of his last stay in England in planning new 
arrangements for carrying out the objects of the Commission. 
In the latter part of his address at Cambridge he advocated 
the organisation of the British contribution to this side of 
meteorological work upon an imperial basis. He realised 
that an imperial combination would treat such questions 
with a breadth of view that is not possible or permissible in 
any single colony or dependency, guided, as it must be, by 
the narrower consideration of its immediate needs. 

" His plan was to provide for organised observations from 
areas too wide to be within the control of any single Govern- 
ment ; to place the material thus obtained at the service of 
workers in all parts of the world by publishing it while it 
was still of direct practical utility and to ensure its apphca- 



Obituary, 347 

tion to the service of the Empire by a special staff of trained 
workers. 

** Anyone who reads the address cannot fail to catch 
something of his enthusiasm. There is a ring of the * land 
of hope and glory ' about this appeal for the extension of our 
knowledge of the facts. * Wider still and wider be . thy 
boundaries set' bespeaks the ideal of his meteorological 
method, and it was to the various parts of the King's 
dominions that he looked for its realisation. The task was 
no light one. The British Association made a beginning, 
but imperial wheels grind very slowly. It says much for 
Eliot and for India that he carried with him the active 
support of the Indian Government for the proposal. He 
welcomed the idea of a meeting of British meteorologists in 
Canada, because it gave him the opportunity of getting a 
step forward, and although conscious of the personal sacrifice 
which it iA\^lved, he undertook to make the journey to 
Ottawa this year for the purpose. The intention cannot be 
fulfilled. 

"It is a bitter disappointment to all his fellow- workers 
that death has brought his efforts to an untimely end. His 
enthusiasm was entirely free from any suggestion of selfish- 
ness or personal ambition ; he could speak from an unique 
position with unrivalled experience. There is no ohe now 
to take his place. But the idea remains, and this country 
seldom wants for men when there is real work to be done. 
Remembering Eliot's achievements we are emboldened to 
fall back upon the refrain, and to add the second couplet 
without misgiving." 

Among the more prominent of Sir John Eliot's publications 
are numerous accounts of cyclones and severe cyclonic 
storms occurring within Indian seas ; also numerous meteoro- 
logical discussions contiibuted to tlie Indian Meteorological 
Memoirs, to the Indian Cyclone Memoirs, to the Journal of 
the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and to the Quarterly Journal 
of the Royal Meteorological Society ; his " Handbook of 
Cyclonic Storms in the Bay of Bengal" (already mentioned), 
and his last publication, which took the form of that most 
valuable work, "The Climatological Atlas of India," pub- 



34ft Obituary, 

lished by the authority of the Government of India only 
a few months ago ; while at the time of his death he was 
engaged in writing a " Handbook of Indian Meteorology " to 
accompany this, also to be pubhshed under the direction of 
the Government of India. 

A. P. 



On Sir John Eliot's retirement the Government of India 
appended a special resolution to the report of the Meteoro- 
logical Department for the year 1902-3, which will be found 
printed in Tlie Eagle^ vol. xxv., 211—13. 

Sir John married 24 March 1877 at St Paul's Chufch, 
Valetta, Malta, Mary, only daughter of the late W. Ne\'ill, 
F.G.S., of Langham, Godalming. 

A notice of Sir John Eliot appeared in The Times of 
20 Marcfh, and a day or two afterwards the following letter 
appeared in that paper :— 

Professor W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., writes from the Central 
Technical College, South Kensington : — Will you allow me 
to add to your somewhat long obituary notice of Sir John 
Eliot, K.C.I.E., F.R.S., Director-General of Indian Observa- 
tories and Meteorological Reporter to the Government of 
India, a fact which proves, if any further proof be necessary, 
how he loved to gain knowledge, and how modest he was 
of his own powers ? This College was opened in 1885, and 
my first post-graduate student was Sir John Eliot. With the 
exception that his special ability, his previous training, and 
his much greater experience gave him many advantages over 
the remaining nine students that attended my first course, 
there was nothing to show that Sir John Eliot had been first 
Smith's prizeman at Cambridge, or that he ^had already been 
professor at three famous colleges. He came with the 
utmost regularity to every lecture I gave during the session, 
and worked with that " zeal and thoroughness " (which you 
refer to) every day in my laboratories, which at that date, 
I fear, were sadly lacking in apparatus. With another of 
my then ten students, Mr Watney, Sir John Eliot carried out 
the first original research that was ever made in my depart- 



Obituary, 349 

ment. During his whole life he was a student in its highest 
sense, being not too proud to come in 1885 to a then almost 
unknown college and to study with a professor much his 
junior in age. 



Rev- ALF'RfiD James Poynder M.A. 

The Rev A. J. Poynder, Rector of Whitechapel, who died 
on May 8, at Seaford, was a son of the Rev. Leopold Poyndef 
(of Trinity College B.A. 1841) sometime a Chaplain in India, 
he was born at Whiston, Northamptonshire, on February 11, 
1860. We take the following account of his career from The 
Guardian for May 13 : — 

The Rev A. J. Poynder, Rector of Whitechapel, died on 
Friday at Littlecouf t, Seaford, Sussex, after a long and painful 
illness. In September last he underwent an operation, and 
since then has lingered on, with no hope of recovery. It will 
be remembered that during the Bishop of London's Mission 
intercessions were offered for him on more than one occasion, 
and he was greatly comforted by the visit which the Bishop 
paid to him, and also by the number of kind messages he 
continually received from all parts of the country. He wa^ 
the son of the Rev* Leopold Poynder, of Southsea, and was 
educated at Brighton College and at St John's College, 
Cambridge, taking his B.A. in 1882 arid his M.A. in 1889. 
From 1882 to 1887 he studied and qualified as a solicitof, 
during which time he acted as a voluntary worket in the 
parish of All Saints', South Lambeth, superintending one of 
the Sunday Schools in Canon Allen Edwards's parish, In 
1888 he was ordained to the curacy of Holy Trinity, Rich- 
mond, under the Rev Evan Hopkins ; in 1890 he moved to 
the curacy of St Matthew's, Bayswater, and in 1893^4 he was 
curate of St Marti n-in- the- Fields. In 1894 he was a{)pointed 
Vicar of St Michael's, Burleigh Street, where he soon brought 
together a large congregation and greatly improved the 
services in the church, which is now pulled down. In 1902 
he was presented by the Bishop of London to the rectory of 
Whitechapel. 

It would be difficult to measure in a short article the work 
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350 Obituary. 

which he has done in Whitechapel. After wiping oflf a big 
d^t he redecorated the church, instalEfng' electrk: hgM^ 
From the first he made op his mmd to give the Jewish wDife 
a proper place in the parish life, and encoctraged the variotW' 
services introduced to meet their special needs. But the 
gipezt problem of how funds were to be raised became a 
serious factor ui his work, A parish of 25,000 gnidnaJly 
becoming absorbed by an aliea peculation, a huge church 
which he felt it his duty to keep in the best possible order, a 
vast organisation for the social and spiritual efevafion of his 
people — these, together with relief work, demanded an income 
of as much as £3,000 a year. Mr Poynder set about in dead 
earnest to get the money. It became apparent that the parish 
could do little to raise such a sum, so he was continually at 
work to gd money. To irnite the East with the West was 
the prominent feature of his schemes. All parts of the West 
End, Cannes, Nice, Biarritz, Honnburg, said c\'cn Rome, have 
heard him plead for one of the most perplexing parishes in 
England. Little by Httle, by his personality and tact, by his 
energy and sincerity, he formed a chain of connections which 
were worked together in the interests of Whitechape!. By 
this means he was able to giwe his people of the besf, and her 
could bind them very closely to the parish for whictr he was. 
slaving. As a preacher, his wonderful voice and nrovhr^g^ 
eloquence attracted great crowds to the church. His harvest 
festival services and watch-night services meant a dosely- 
packed church. In addition to many other offices^ he was a 
member of the Committee of the Colonial and Continental 
Church Society, took an active interest in the Y.M.CJV., be 
wa^ Chairman qf the Whitechapel Foundation School, 
Chaplain to the Whitechapel Infirmary, and a member of 
the East End Emigration Fund Committee. 

His Churchmanship was always decided, though never 
extreme, while thq services in his church had everything 
which belongs to real dignity without being ornate. As a 
man of business he had a remarkable grasp of detail, and he 
combined thoroughness with dispatch in a way that is not 
always connected with his profession. His legal training 
left indelible traces upon his character and methods. Like 
TertuUian of old, he felt that the Church of England was his 



ObiluaryK 351 

client, for whom he must do his best. " Anything will do " 
he knew to be the principle which controlled the detail of 
much religious work. His reply was, ** God must have the 
best ; " so he devoted his energies to see that in the service 
of his Master everything was of the best And the success of 
his pleadings can only be gauged by the wonderful response 
to his appeal. In his private life he was known to be the 
very emblem of kindness. There must be many as they read 
these lines who will recall some of his kind actions, which 
passing years will only bring into bolder relief. As a Kector 
he was known to be a great trainer ; as a friend he was 
always full of real affection. When the call came for him to 
lay down his life's work, it was so sudden and so unexpected 
that at first he seemed stunned; but, as he realised he was to 
make perfect his life by suffering, his submission was beauti- 
ful in its calm resignation. There will be many who will 
stand at his grave and feel that the Church is poorer for his 
early death. While his life is still fresh in our memories, we 
thank God for his consecrated activity ; before his strong 
personality is lost to our vision in the land beyond the grave, 
we marvel at its force ; and as we think of his awful suffering 
and his prolonged exile from the work which he so dearly 
loved, we feel how God taught him not only the great lesson 
of living, but also the more difficult lesson of how to die. 



The Very Rev William Hagger Barlow, Dean of 
Peterborough. 

It is with regret that we record the death at the Deanery, 
Peterborough, on May 10, of Dr Barlow. He was a man of 
varied interests and many activities, among which to the 
readers of the Eagle one of the most interesting is the fact 
that he acted as the first secretary of our Editorial Committee. 
He was always much interested in the College Magazine, and 
quite recently wrote to express a wish that our jubilee should 
be marked by a gathering of Editors. We take the following 
account of his careeer from The Record for May 15 : — 

The late Dean, the Very Rev William Hagger Barlow, 
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352 Obituary, 

Barlow, having been Vicar of Pitsmoor for many 3'ears. He 
received his early education at the Sheffield Grammar and 
Collegiate Schools, and afterwards went to Cambridge as a 
Scholar and Exhibitioner at St John's. His University record 
was remarkable. He took Honours in the Mathematical 
(Jun. Op.), Classical (Second Class), and Moral Science (First 
Class) Triposes, and (Second Class) in the Theological Exami- 
nation, Such a feat was absolutely unprecedented, and it 
has been pointed out that it has only since been surpassed by 
the four " Firsts " of Professor H. M. Gwatkin. Dr Barlow 
also won the Cams Greek Testament Prize. Ordained in 
1858 to the curacy of St James's Bristol, he became in 1861 
Vicar of St Bartholomew's, Bristol^ — a parish where his wx)rk 
is still gratefully remembered by many — and remained there 
till 1873, when he was appointed Rector of St Ebbe's, Oxford, 
While at Oxford he was incorporated M.A, of that University, 
and subsequently, in 1895, took his B,D. and D.D, In 187S 
he entered upon his great work as Principal of the Church 
Missionary College at Islington, which he held till 1882, 
Then the call came to a very different sphere. An important 
suburban benefice — St James's, Clapham Park — fell vacant in 
circumstances which rendered the position one of great 
difficulty and delicacy for any new Vicar. Mr Barlow was 
invited to undertake the charge ; he accepted it, and succeeded 
where many another man might have failed. The work at 
St James's greatly prospered under his fostering care, and 
when the call came to the vicarage of Islington his removal 
was felt to be a loss, not merely to the parish, but to the 
whole of South London. It will be remembered that on the 
death of the Rev Daniel Wilson in 1887 there was a long 
delay in filling up the vacancy at Islington ; but eventually the 
trustees pressed the matter upon Dr. Barlow's consideration, 
and reluctantly he agreed to accept the charge. What his 
work was at Islington, both in the parish and in connection 
with the Islington Clerical Meeting, is well known ; and 
readers of the Record will read with keen interest the cordial 
and sympathetic appreciation of it printed below from the 
pen of his successor, the Rev C. J. Proctor. But, heavy aa 
were his parochial cares, he never allowed them to absorb alt 
his energies or to dwarf his interest in more central responsi- 



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Obituary, 353 

bilities. He was a prominent member of the Church Patronage 
Trust ; he was closely associated with the foundation of 
Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and Ridley Hall, Cambridge ; he 
exercised a strong influence in the government of St John^s 
Hall, Highbury ; and he was Chairman of the Home and 
Colonial School Society. In the work of the C.M.S. he took 
the keenest interest, and a few years since set himself to raise 
£20,000 to clear off a deficit, accomplishing the task in an 
incredibly short space of time. He was Chairman of the 
Colonial and Continental Church Society, and the work of the 
C.P.A.S., the London Jews' Society, and other Evangelical 
organizations always found in him a warm friend. 

His work was recognised by Bishop Creighton, who gave 
him a Prebendal Stall at St Paul's, and in 1901 the Crown, 
on the nomination of Lord Salisbury, presented him to the 
deanery of Peterborough. His loss to London work was felt 
to be great ; but such was his powers that he succeeded in 
retaining many of his more central interests, while at the same 
time developing and extending his work at Peterborough. 
The completion of the restoration of the West Front and 
transepts was successfully carried out by him, and the care of 
the noble fabric was very dear to his heart, 

PERSONAL TRIBUTES. 
Mr F. A, Bevan, 

It has been my privilege to be brought into contact with 
the Dean for the last 25 years or so, and we have often ex- 
changed two letters each in a day. As a personal friend I 
can speak of him with the greatest regard and affection. He 
had the most even temper and one of the best-balanced 
minds I have ever met ; always very calm and deliberate in 
his judgments, he always weighed most carefully the pros 
and cons of any question he had to deal with, and his con- 
clusions were always sound and reasonable. 

It was particularly in connection with Church patronage 
work that we were brought together, and this was the work 
in which he took the greatest interest, and on which he 
bestowed infinite labour, so as to secure the right man for the 
particular parish in which he was to be called to minister. 
He would nearly always pay a personal visit to each parish 



354 Obituary. 

when vacant, so as to make himself thoroughly acquainted 
with all its present conditions, and never was an appointment 
recommended by him till he had satisfied himself by personal 
communication or correspondence, that the clergyman to be 
presented held firm the great principles associated with the 
term " Evangelical," and was besides a diligent pastor and 
faithful preacher of the Word. He was always most for- 
bearing and gentle towards his colleagues on the Trusts, and 
one and all they valued his opinion more highly than that of 
anyone else, though he never forced it upon them, but was 
always ready to listen to what others had to say. 

His death is a great loss to the Church of England, of 
which he was a devoted member, and in whose service he 
spared neither time, nor health, nor life itself. 

As a husband, as a father, and as a friend he was most 
affectionate and tender, and as a Christian gentleman he was 
always consistent, courageous, and courteous. 

Mr R. W. Dibdin. 

I should like to say a few words of regret at the great 
loss which the Church has sustained by the death of the 
Dean of Peterborough. There are many who can speak 
with regard to the efficient manner in which he carried 
out the duties of a parochial clergyman and in which he 
occupied his high position as a dignitary of the Church ; 
but I wish to speak particularly of his great ability as a man 
of business, of his wide knowledge of all business matters 
connected with the Church, and in particular of questions 
connected with Chiu-ch patronage. None who had to do 
with him could have failed to be greatly impressed with these 
characteristics and struck with the unstinted manner in which 
he gave his time and his great talents to the work of the 
Church. There may be some who have thought that in 
particular cases patronage might have been exercised in a 
different way ; but no one acquainted with the facts could 
deny the immense care and trouble which the Dean bestowed 
in endeavouring to find the right man for the right place 
when the responsible duty of filling up a hving had to be 
discharged. 

On many Committees he will be greatly missed, but not 



Ohiiuar^, 355 

least at the Home and Colonial School Society, of ^Vh^ch he 
was Chairman^ For many years the students attended St 
Mary*», Islington ; and, though now removed to their fine 
College at Wood Green, the Dean always retained his interest 
in them and their work. He was to the last received at the 
College with an enthusiastic welcome, due even more, I am 
sure, to hh kindly nature and friendly words than to his 
position as Chairman of the Institution. 

It was a great disappointment that he was unable to 
preside at the annual Meeting at the College on May 4 ; but 
even then (and this must, I think, have been one of his last 
services to the Church) he wrote the important letter on the 
educational crisis which was read at the Meeting, and which 
has since been published in the Recant 

The Rev C. /. Procter, 

I suppose the best way for learning the faithfulness ot 
otherwise of any man's work in any particular office is to 
succeed him in it ; and as it was my lot to succeed Dr 
Barlow as Vicar of Islington when he was appointed to the 
deanery of Peterborough, I am glad to have this opportunity 
of paying a humble and sincere tribute of appreciation and 
affection to the memory of a truly faithful servant of God. 

Dr Barlow never aspired to the gifts and methods of what 
is known as the popular preacher of the day. He was 
essentially a teacher, a wise, thoughtful and helpful ex- 
pounder of God's Holy Word, for which he has ever had the 
profoundest reverence ; and the result of this was not mani- 
fested in crowded congregations, but it was rather seen in 
the strong, mature Christian experience of those who attended 
his ministry, and it is seen in the grateful affection of many 
old friends still resident among us who will never forget what 
Dr Barlow was to them as a pastor and a friend. Truly he 
was a man beloved of his people, the homely man of Ood 
who made others feel at home with him. His kindliness of 
heart was a leading characteristic of his saintly life. He 
could not pass a little child in the parish without some re- 
cognition or some little pleasantry, and they knew it and 
always expected some kind word from the Vicar as he passed 
them. He was himself the soul of generosity. No man ever 



356 Obituary. 

did more good by stealth than he ; but it must be secret — he 
could not tolerate any publishing abroad of his kindness and 
thoughtful sympathy. 

The material equipment of the parish will ever be asso- 
ciated with the memory of Dr Barlow*s splendid services. In 
the Bishop Wilson Memorial Hall we have parochial premises 
of the greatest value. Large, airy buildings they are, ex- 
cellently situated, substantially built, occupied night after 
night by various forms of Christian activity. The splendid 
vicarage, too, built by his unceasing endeavour, will stand, we 
trust, through many generations to remind ourselves and 
those who come after us of the devotion of Islington's fonner 
Vicar. 

In the wider parish of Islington, beyond his own eccle- 
siastical district, Dr Barlow also wielded an untold influence 
for good and earned to a wonderful degree the respect and 
affection of men of all shades of opinion both in religion 
and pontics. His broad-mindedness, his sanctified business 
capacity, earned the profoundest regard of the members of 
the Vestry over whose deliberations he presided for nearly 
fourteen years ; whilst in the religious life of the borough, 
men of all the Churches felt that in him they had a leader 
who walked worthy of the vocation wherewith he was 
called. He retained his interest in his old Islington parish 
unabated to the end, and this very day there are posters on 
our walls announcing that a sale of work will be opened on 
Thursday next by the Dean of Peterborough and Miss 
Barlow in aid of our day-schools. But God has ordained it 
otherwise. The strenuous life, "always abounding in the 
work of the Lord," has now ended its earthly activities, and 
on Friday, at three o'clock, there will be a crowd of sorrowing 
friends gathering round his last resting-place. 

What Dr Barlow has done for the IsHngton Clerical 
Meeting is known and recognised by EvangeHcal Church- 
men everywhere. Its constant expansion year by year, from 
the old Memorial Hall in Church Street to the new and 
larger Bishop Wilson Memorial Hall, thence, when numbers 
compelled it, to the Agricultural Hall, and thence again to 
the Mildmay Conference Hall^ indicated the growing in- 
fluence it exercised under his wise supervision and leadersbipi 



Ohiiiiary\ 557 

iand many of the papers read by the scholarly friends, he 
gathered round him attracted the attention of the Church at 
large. Our prayer is that loyalty to his memory may still 
lead our Evangelical brethren to help forward this great 
gathering in the years to com^^ 

The Rev Prebendary Fox. 

It is very difficult to express the sense of loss experienced 
when an old and trusted friend with whom we have been 
associated closely in common sentiments and common en- 
gagements passes away out of the many interests which we 
havie shared togetherw 

Such a loss has cDme to us in the death of Dr BarloWi 
In the few lines which I have the privilege of offering to 
his memory I can only indicate one or two of the features 
of his character which impressed a personal friend who had 
opportunities of close intercourse with him. Steadfast loyalty 
to principles was conspicuous both in his preaching and in 
his exaniplS, ad well as in the exercise of the very consider- 
able Church patronage in which he was interested* Di^ 
Barlow never swervfed from What he believed to be right* 
No private considerations would ever induce him to nominate 
to a benefice one whom he was not convinced was the best 
tiian for the post. No influence from high places moved 
him from his allegiance to the standards which he had set 
before him, but there were with this a breadth of view 
and a commonsense attitude on many matters which Were 
unexpected by those who did not know him. And through 
it all there flowed a deep stream of earnest piety. None 
who ever knelt by his side will forget the fervent but simple 
prayer which came from a heart in touch with his Lord. 

His influence at the C.M.S. College was admirable. He 
and his charming wife made it more of a home than an 
institution. He laid himself out to gain the confidence of 
the students, while he fully maintained discipline by the 
respect which he secured. 

Quiet and reserved as he was in many ways, there was 

a richness of information and a brightness which showed 

itself freely in the family circle and among his intimate 

friends. Elsewhere his influence was felt more than seen ; 

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358 Obituary. 

and it has been said of him that often his silence was more 
effectual than other men's talk. His capacity for work was 
enormous ; his unsparing devotion brought, in later years, 
almost more than he could bear. It will be impossible for 
any one man to take up the many responsibilities which in 
the course of years he had gathered into his charge. Who- 
ever they are who attempt it, may they be endowed with 
like faitb, like judgment, and like industry to those of our 
dear friend. 

The Rev R. G. Powell 

One cannot be brought into frequent contact with a 
public man without forming a very definite opinion as to his 
methods and motives and power of sympathy. During the 
last ten years I have learned to respect Dr Barlow very 
highly indeed, and to rely implicitly upon his judgment 
Especially in the matter of patronage he has shown most 
scrupulous care and made the most searching inquiries, 
while his desire to secure augmentation for benefices in 
which he was interested brought him repeatedly to Falcon 
Court. The Society has lost a constant friend, who counted 
no toil too arduous to promote its interests, and I have lost 
an adviser who commanded my entire confidence. Leaders 
such as he are not too numerous, and the sense of personal 
loss lies heavy on my heart. 

The Rev /. D. Mullins. 

The late Dean of Peterborough had been for many years 
a member of the Committee of the Colonial and Continental 
Church Society, and shortly after I became Secretary he Vf3s 
elected its Chairman, In this capacity he vras regularly to 
be found in his place as long as his health lasted. Precise 
and expeditious in business routine, imperturbable in temper, 
ca^utious in judgment, he was most to be relied upon in those 
crises which arise from time to time in the history of most 
Committees. In one controversy in particular, where the 
whole of the Society's work in an important diocese was 
threatened, his iumness and counsel were of especial value. 
About four year ago he made a journey to Canada, partly on 
behalf of the Society. The insight he then gained into the 



Obituaiy, 359^ 

needs of the Colony gave him the keenest interest In the 
Society's Colonial work. When he came back he was willing 
to go anywhere as a deputation for the Society, and under- 
took journeys which^ for a man of his age, were remarkable. 
To revert to the Committee room, it is pleasant to recall his 
attitude with regard to appointments whicb had to be made 
from time to time. He constantly asked, in discussing a 
candidate, " Is he a man with a message ? " To the last 
he retained an undiminished desire to appoint men who 
preached and lived Christ. 

The Rev D. J. Thomas. 

The shadow of a great loss is now resting upon the Home 
and Colonial Training College, for it is with no ordinary 
feeling of regret that the staff and students have heard of the 
death of the Dean of Peterborough. This sorrow will be 
shared by many generations of former students. 

His association with the College dates from the year 1887. 
It was on May 2 of that year that he first spoke at the 
annual Meeting of the Home and Colonial School Society^ 
aud for 21 years his connection with the College has been 
unbroken. His appreciation of educational principles, his 
unusual aptitude for business, and his disinterested zeal for 
the work of the College rendered his services as Chairman 
of the College Council peculiarly valuable. From first to 
last he prosecuted it for God, and most firmly believed in the 
saying o£ the founder of this Society " that so long as the 
glory of God is promoted by the Society's existence He will 
support it in answer to faith and prayer, and whenever 
better means are found to supersede it, its supporters may 
well efface themselves and retire content." It was the 
feeling that the real value of a Christian education cannot be 
over-rated, and that in these days it is more needed than 
ever, that caused the Society's work to lay claim to so large 
a share of his time. When the College was located in Gray's 
Inn Road, Dr Barlow, then Vicar of Islington, preached 
regularly on Sunday evenings in the College chapel ; and 
it is well known that the service he thus rendered to the 
College was one of his most delightful duties. 

During the interregnum which took place after the death 



360 Obituary, 

of the Principal (the Rev J, EL Armstrong), Dr Bartow was 
appointed Acting- Principal of the College, and conducted 
the management of the College until the present Principal 
took ofi&ce. Even after his removal from Islington to Peter- 
bkorough, his interest in the College never flagged. With 
one exception — and that owing to the death of Mrs Barlow — 
he was never absent from the annual Meetings of the 
Society. It is touching to remember that his last visit to the 
College was on May 5, 1907, when he addressed the students 
in the College ch^)el, and in the. course of his address he 
reminded his hearers that that day was his birthday, and that 
he could not have wished to spend his birthday in more 
agreeable surroundings and amongst warmer friends. 

The letter which the late Dean wrote, and \rtiich vrzs 
read at the annual Meeting held on May 4 and reported ia 
your last issue, bears evidence oi his warm interest in the 
Society's work, and particularly of his conviction that the 
new Training C<^ege regulations are calculated to hamper 
very materially the religious work of our Church Training 
Colleges. The soundness of his suggestion must commend 
itself to all who desire fairness and justice. It is to be hoped 
that what was probably his last public statement may be prch 
ductive of good. 

A vacancy is left in our ranks which will not cease for a 
long time to make itself felt. The maintenance of a sacred 
trust will descend, under changed conditions it may be, upon 
others. May it be their anxiety and prayer ever to uphold 
the traditions of the Society and to determine, under Divine 
grace, that no deterioration may be experienced in the teaching 
or in the general spirit of the place I After a long period of 
untiring labour Dean Barlow has been called to his rest, and 
has left us the treasure of an almost unique example and thQ 
inspiration of an honourable name« 

The Rev J. C. EllioiL 

The death of the Dean of " Peterborough has brought to 
many of us a keen sense of personal loss. All who knew 
him well loved and trusted him. His place as a scholar was 
too well known to need any mention here. As an organizer 
he occupied the very first rank. His knowledge of men was 



Obituary. 361 

very wide, his judgment of character extremely accm-ate. 
His work as patron was discharged with the greatest care, 
and conscientiousness. As Vicar of Islington and Rural; 
Dean of that great parish his work was of the most thorough 
and abiding character. Many of the some forty Islingtoa 
parishes have permanent memorials of his unceasing and far- 
sighted care. 

As Chairman of the Islington Vestry he will long be 
remembered for his unfailing courte&y and fairness. As a 
Vicar he inspired his curates with lofty ideals and noble 
aimSf and to some of us it is one of the greatest honours of 
our life to have served in that position. To the end the 
thought of the happy days at the Parish Church of Islington 
will be a sweet and blessed memory. His going from us is a 
great loss to the Church, because he was a strong man^ 
holding firmly to the old Evangelical faith, but ever broad in 
his sympathies, seeing the best in all men, however varied 
their position might be from his own. With a large charity 
he noted and spoke of only that which he saw to be good 
and true in men. 

His life was one of unceasing activity, giving himself 
to God and his Church without reserve, with a rare and 
complete unselfishness. The sphere of his influence was 
wide ; at home, in our Colonial Empire, to the furthest 
station of the Mission field, it was felt and left its mark. 

We think of him in his parish work, in his training of 
missionary students, in his responsible work as patron ; but, 
above all, it was the character of the man himself that has 
left a deep impression, by the kindness of his heart and his 
tender, unfailing sympathy ; and we bless God Who has so 
magnified His grace in him. 

We take the following extract from a notice of the late 
Dean, which deals more particularly with his work at 
Peterborough, from The Peterborough and Huntingdonshire 
Standard of May 16th : — 

On the death of Dean Ingram in 1901, Lord Salisbury 
nominated Dr Barlow to the Deanery, to the great satis- 
faction of the Evangelical party in the Church. He was 
a Churchman of the most pronoimced Evangelical type 



362 Obituary. 

(though his nature was devoid of any trace of intolerance), - 
and was the first of this school who had been appointed 
to a Deanery or a Bishopric for some time. Not only did his 
appointment gladden the hearts of so many of his own shade 
of opinion, but many who did not exactly agree with the lines 
which Dr Barlow took, heartily endorsed his appointment, 
knowing it to be fitting and proper reward of a long 
and useful career. Since his appointment to the Vicariate 
of Islington, where he succeeded Daniel Wilson he had held 
a front place amongst the leaders of his party, and had been 
one of the strongest influences in the inner circles of the 
Evangelicals. From the patronage in his own gift as Vicar, 
and from his place on the Peache and other trusts, he 
had almost the influence of a Bishop. An action like 
Lord Salisbury's in appointing him as Dean could not be 
expected to pass without criticism, but beneath the comments 
there was an obvious appreciation of the work he had carried 
out during his clerical career, and an admission of satisfaction 
in that such a fairminded man as Dr Barlow had been found 
to fill the vacancy. "The appointment," observed Truih^ 
** has met with general approval, as it is in accordance with 
the EvangeUcal traditions of the Cathedral. Prebendary 
Barlow has for many years been widely known as one of the 
most popular, active and sensible leaders of the Low Church." 
A writer in the Church Thnes remarked : " We do not grudge 
him his promotion, but we would express the hope that his 
influence upon the services in this Cathedral Church will not 
be depressing." The dread was not justified by the facts, 
for since his advent to the City the Dean has invariably 
shown that though the devotion to Evangelical traditions 
which is inevitably connected with his name, has in no wise 
abated, at the same time his rule at St Peter's has ever been 
characterised by most generous appreciation of the feelings 
of those who differed from him, and no one who attends the 
services to-day can complain that the dignity of worship 
is lacking, or that " the beauty of holiness," instituted under 
an earlier regime, has not been adequately maintained. 
Since his appointment, many imposing ceremonies have taken 
place in the Cathedral, into the spirit of which the Dean has 
undoubtedly entered as thoroughly as anyone. Nor could 



Obituary. 363 

tnj'One complain that in the patronage of the Dean and 
Chapter, in which, naturally, Dr Barlow bore a prominent 
part, his influence was exercised in a one-sided manner. 
Indeed his broad-mindedness and inherent fairness have 
occasionally been the subjects of some criticism from some of 
his less tolerant colleagues. But it is hardly necessary to say 
that such comments bore little or no weight with a man 
of Dr Barlow's stamp. 

By the death of the Dean not only will the Cathedral 
Body lose a valuable member, but the loss will be felt by all 
classes in local Church life, indeed, one may almost say that 
he will be equally lamented by the Nonconformist section 
of the community. His was an unassuming, kindly dis- 
position ; he always had a friendly word of greeting for 
everyone. If upon any matters whatever with which he was 
cognisant, advice was required, it was always given with 
alacrity, and in a manner which left the seeker in no doubt 
as to the wisdom and value of it. The Dean's homely 
character made him greatly beloved by all with whom 
he came in contact, and the phrase used by one gentleman 
recently in reference to him as the " good, kind and gentle 
Dean," was indeed applicable. Perhaps he could not 
be called a brilliant preacher, according to modern ideas 
of oratory, but he was a very agreeable one. His sermons 
were, like the man, divested of all sensationalism or show. 
Modestly earnest, the very simplicity of his utterances 
compelled attention. The peculiar importance which he 
laid upon the reading of the Scriptures could not have failed 
to have impressed one. He had a remarkably clear voice, 
and read with unusual deliberation and emphasis, so that, 
even at the extreme west end of the Cathedral, every word 
he uttered at the lecture could be distinctly heard. Following 
long precedent, Dr Barlow was created a J. P. for the Liberty, 
and, unlike some of his predecessors, he frequently sat upon 
the bench. He was a member of the Ingram Lodge of 
Oddfellows, and had preached at the annual Oddfellows' 
service at the Cathedral, 

Although of the Evangelical shade of opinion, Dr Barlow 
was quite as zealous a guardian of the fabric of the great 
Cathedral as any of his predecessors, and during his seven 



364 Obituary. 

years oi office he v^as most assiduous in his efforts with regard 
to this part of his duties. Whilst inspecting the triforium in 
connection with the restoration, the Dean sustained a very 
nasty fall, as a result of which he was seriously ill for some 
time. He had the satisfaction of seeing the restoration work 
of the West front and transepts completed, and to clear ofif 
the debt he helped to raise about jS2,000. One of the most 
memorable services held in the Cathedral during his tenure 
of office was the thanksgiving service for the completion 
of the restoration of the west front. The then Archbishop 
of Canterbury (Dr Temple) was the preacher in the morning, 
and the Bishop of Ripon (Dr Boyd Carpenter) in the evening« 
Another great service in the church, in which he took 
a prominent part, was that of the dedication of the beautiful 
stained glass west window, erected to the memory of the men 
of the county and neighbourhood who gave their lives 
for their country during the Boer War. The Dean took over 
the custody of the memorial on behalf of the Dean and 
Chapter, from Lord Roberts. 



Thomas Darlington M.A. 

The first time I saw Thomas Darlington was wlien I sat 
opposite to him at the Entrance Scholarship Examination ia 
1882. I did not know his name or anything about him, but a 
certain grave deliberation of manner impressed me, the love 
and habit of learning were written in his face and I felt that, 
if I succeeded in getting in at St John's, he would be among 
my contemporaries. He was not only one of my contem- 
poraries, he was one of my intimate friends, and, though after 
College days were over we saw each other but little, we 
never lost touch. "The best that we find in our travels,'* 
says Robert Louis, "is an honest friend," and he is a fortunate 
pilgrim who finds such a friend as Thomas Darlington, with 
mind so well-stored, with principles so clear and decided, and 
yet always ready to hear the other side and see the good in iti 
always fresh in intellectual outlook and interest, always high- 
minded and good-hearted. To know him was to come into 
touch with what is best in human nature. 



Ohiluar^ 36S 

The events of his life are easily summarised. He was 
born on February 22^ 1864, at a small village oh the borders 
of Cheshire and Shropshire, called Burland. He came of a 
Cheshire yeoman stock which had owned property in Burland 
since the days Of the eighteenth century. Inheriting the 
sturdy quaHties of this English country stock, he was un- 
doubtedly influenced also by the Weldh spirit, if not through 
his ancestry, at any rate through daily contact and assimi'* 
lative sympathy. 

His childhood Was spent in the part of Cheshire which 
rubs shoulders with Wales, he learnt Welsh as a little lad 
from an old barge man with whom he foregathered on his 
way to and from school, and everyone who knew him re- 
Cognised that over and above his command of the Welsh 
language, he had much of the depth of feeling, the quick 
intuition and originality of mind, the intellectual alertness, 
the gift of utterance and the Wistful sense of the world 
beyond the world, which are characteristic of the Welsh tem- 
perament. His first schooling was at the Grammat Schools 
of Acton and Whitchurch ; from Whitchurch he passed, 
through the generosity of Mr Beckett of Whitchurch a pro- 
minent Wesleyan layman, to the Leys School, Cambridge. 
There he came rapidly to the front and quickly reached the 
Sixth. Though not himself excelling in athletics, he learned 
to take a keen part In school games and never lost his pride in 
the athletic eminence of his School and the Old Leysians. Me 
took a keen part also in the religious life of the School, he 
donned the blue ribbon of temperance and persuaded many of 
his schoolfellows to do the same, and he began then his work 
as a Wesleyan local preacher which he never discontinued till 
his appointment as Inspector made it no longer possible. The 
most powerful influence on him at this time was that of 
Dr Moulton ; of the * Doctor ' he always spoke with some- 
thing approaching to reverence, as a scholar, as a man, and 
as a leader of men.* At the University his career was 

* School legend, well authenticated, narrates how he tried to utilise the 
presence of a South African boy among his schoolmates in order to pick 
up the Kaffir tongue, and how the said South African was soon prompted 
by the other boys to supply the young linguist with highly imaginative 
linguistic material. 

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distinguished ; he took his First Part of the Classical Tripos 
in his second year (1884)^ winning a place in the second 
bracket of the first class: only one other man of his own year 
was placed higher. He won the Members* University Prize 
for Latin Essay in 1885. In the following year he took a 
second class in the Classical Tripos, Part ii (History section). 
Had he taken Philology, the result would have been difiFerent. 
At the same time he was following up his London course. 
He had matriculated with honours from School in 1881, he 
took his Intermediate in Arts in the following year, being 
placed second in the first class in Latin Honours and 
qualifying for the Exhibition. In the BJV. Examination, 
1884, he was first in the first class in Classical Honours and 
obtained the University Scholarship. In 1887 he took his 
M.A. and obtained the number of marks quahfying for the 
gold medal. After taking his degree at Cambridge he spent 
nine months in Germany, perfecting his German, studying 
Teutonic philology, and picking up the Flemish language on 
his way to and fro by way of whiling away the tedium of the 
train journey. While in Germany he wrote a " Memoir of 
Edwin Bainbridge" — a schoolfellow of singular tj:ans-t 
parency of character, piety, and gaUantry, who lost his life i)i 
the terrible eruption which overwhelmed the famous Terraces 
of New Z^and in June 1886. At the same time he was 
busy on a volume for the English Dialect Society on the 
^^Folk Speech of South Cheshire," a substantial volume which 
Dr Murray d^cribed in 1891 as "perhaps the most scholarly 
work published by th^ Society — a model of what one would 
wish all such works to be." It was on the strength of this 
valuable piece of original woi^k that "he was elected to a 
Fellowship at his old College In au^tumn 1888. 

Before this Dr Percival had appointed him to a Modern 
Form Mastership at Rugby and after less than a year at 
Rugby he was appointed Headmaster of Queen's College, 
Ts^unton. This school thi^ough a series of unfortunate cir- 
cumstances had fallen on evil days. It needed no small 
pluck to face all the c^ifficulties^ financial and other, that 
confronted the new Headmasteir and nothing more clearly 
demonstrated his capacity as an administrator and his tact as 
a manager of men and affairs than the way in which he within 
9, few years surmounted these diflicutties. 



Ohiluatj, 3fl7 

In summer 1888 he married the sister of the school friend 
whose memory he had enshrined in the little volume which 
was the first thing he published, and his eldest child was 
born at Taunton. The strain of a Headmaster's life left 
him little leisure for study, but his appetite for acquiring 
languages was insatiable and hardly a summer holiday 
seemed to pass without adding to the store. Queen's College, 
Taunton, was, I believe, the only school in England which 
taught Dutch, both Dutch and Spanish were taught by the 
Headmaster, and if Italian, Finnish, Polish, Norwegian, 
Swedish, Danish, Welsh, or Romany had been asked for, the 
Headmaster was qualified to teach them. At College we all 
looked upon him as a second George Borrow. He had 
picked up the Gipsy tongue in his teens, tramping for miles 
after their nomad caravans, squatting with them round 
their camp fire and making notes inside his coat-flap of any 
words or idioms that were new to him. He used to entertain 
us at the Scholars' table with many a story of liis adventures 
with the Gipsies in the neighbourhood of Cambridge, and we 
induced him, by way of a freak, to startle the staid and sober 
pages of the Eagle with a Romany ballad under the name of 
Biwan Kosh — ^which we had to take his word for it — is the 
Romany for Thomas Darlington (Eagle^ xiv, 38-41). I suppose 
it is no exaggeration to say that he was easily the best linguist 
of his time at Cambridge and deserves to be put in the same 
rank with that other Johnian, who passed too soon, Professor 
Palmer. 

In 1893 owing to his wife's ill-health he resigned 
Taunton and lived a life of comparative quiet for three 
years, acting as Secretary to the Court of the University 

of Wales. 

It was in this interval that he wrote two articles in The 
Contemporary on the Disestablishment of the Welsh Church, 
articles which evoked considerable interest at the time and 
were quoted in Parhament. Then in 1896 he was appointed 
one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools in Mid- Wales and 
removed to Aberystwyth. Of his work as Inspector, work 
which does not come much before the public eye but is most 
essential to the efficiency of public education, his Chief, Mr 
A. G. Legard writes as follows : — 



368 Obituary. 

** His district comprised the counties Merioneth, Cardigan, 
and Montgomery, and was almost entirely a rural one. Mr 
Darlington was not unfamiliar with the country, as he had 
served for some time on the staff of Mr Williams. More 
responsible duties now devolved upon him and he threw 
himself with great zeal and energy into his new work. One 
of the first points that occupied his attention was the irregu- 
larity of school attendance. By means of conferences and 
other methods he strenuously endeavoured to remove what 
was certainly a serious blot upon our elementary school 
system in rural districts some twelve years ago. Mr Darlington 
was perhaps seen at his best when he was addressing in the 
vernacular some large conference of Welshmen upon an educa- 
tional subject ; for apart from the matter of his argument the 
form in which he clothed it appealed with double force to 
Welshmen addressed by an EngUshman in their mother 
tongue. 

Another matter in which Mr Darlington took great interest 
was the education of pupil teachers, which has always been a 
problem of the utmost difficulty in the sparsely populated 
districts of North Wales, The Principality owes a great deal 
to him for the efforts that he made to improve the instruction 
of the young persons out of whose ranks the teachers of the 
future will come. 

After the passing of the Education Act of 1902 a great 
deal of work devolved upon the Education Committees of 
the different counties, and here Mr Darlington proved himself 
to be of the greatest use to the bodies who were now entrusted 
for the first time with constructive work of the highest 
importance. Much that they had to do was of a non- 
contentious character and in this the advice of a sympathetic 
Government official with expert knowledge was most helpful. 

In this connection it should be noticed that though Mr 
Darlington's political views were probably well known to the 
managers and teachers among whom he worked, from the 
time that he became a civil servant these views were kept 
entirely in the background, and he most loyally discharged 
his duties in accordance with the best traditions of the public 
service. Again, although he was a Nonconformist he was 
perfectly fair in his dealings with schools that were under the 



Obituary. 369 

control of religious denominations which were different from 
his own." 

Of another .branch of his work in connection with the 
Training Colleges, Mr P. A. Barnett writes : — 

" My opportunities for enjoying the privilege of work with 
Darlington were not very many, but they were as many as I 
could make them. Whenever he was within range, he 
accompanied me on visits of inspection to Training Colleges. 
On these occasions it is an Inspector's duty, amongst other 
things, to assess the quality of certain professional exercises, 
such as teaching, on the things that he sees and the evidence 
placed before him. 

Darlington's judgment was always sound ; his just temper 
prevented him from arriving at hasty conclusions or allowing 
mere opinion to weigh unduly. At the same time, his 
moderation and good humour gave confidence both to his 
colleagues and to the young men and women whose measure 
he was trying to take. Surely to no one could be ascribed 
more truthfully the tnitis sapientia of the real philosopher. 

On matters of general educational interest his views were 
enlightened, clear, and refreshing. He was by no means 
* orthodox' ; he knew too much, and he had seen too much 
of the minds and ways of many men. But he was not 
extravagant ; you could go and do what he advised without 
completely upsetting institutions. 

He was recognised as a real * expert ' both in the history 
and in the practice of education by all sorts of people, from 
the illustrious (if execrated) Pobiedonostseff to the humblest 
teacher in a far-away Welsh village school. He could do 
more than speak their languages ; he was in all languages and 
at all times the kindest, the most genial, the most patient, and 
the most courteous of men. 

The branch of public education with which I am most 
conversant, the preparation of teachers for their profession, 
although Darlington was not directly concerned with it, has 
suffered, in his death, the loss of a trustworthy and farseeing 
counsellor j and those whose duty it is to face the heavy 
perplexities of the administrative and pedagogic problems 
involved will miss him greatly." 



370 Obituary. 

But this work as Inspector did not absorb all the mental 
activity of the last eleven years of his life, even though to it 
were added in course of time an appointment as chief 
examiner of the Board of Education in the Welsh language 
and a place on one of the Standing Committees of the Board. 
The most exacting piece of work that he ever undertook was 
when Professor Sadler, then Director of Special Enquiries 
and Reports, asked him to undertake a history of Russian 
Education and an account of Russian Education as it exists 
at the present day. "To put this in a form that a Depart- 
ment of State could pubhsh was," as Dr Frank Heath says, 
** extraordinarily difficult It was handled not only with 
great tact but also with truthfulness. As the Editor of this 
Report I had to discuss many difficult points with him and I 
never found him anything but reasonable and open-minded, 
though my knowledge of the subject was practically confined 
to what I had learned from him/' Most men would have 
shrunk from the labour of learning a language of special 
difficulty with which they were previously unfamiliar, and 
would have used an interpreter. Not so Thomas Darlington. 
He rightly felt that his mission would be of little value unless 
he could get his knowledge first hand ; hearsay evidence and 
rosewater official phrases would not satisfy him. He 
accordingly set to work to learn Russian and so successful 
was he that on his first visit to St Petersburgh he was able to 
converse with the Minister of Education in his own language 
and was compHmented by the Minister on his proficiency. 
Year after year he gave up his summer holiday to the prose- 
cution of his researches. Of the obstacles which beset him 
those will form the best idea who know most of Russian 
officiahsm and Russian clericalism, but he was determined to 
know the real truth for himself even though he should not be 
able to set out in his report all that he knew. This report 
has not yet been published. He WTOte to me about it in 
1903, and in 1904 he sent me one of the only three copies 
which ever got into circulation. The report is wonderfully 
interesting and able ; it is a model, not only of careful and 
accurate research but also of clear judicial statement. There 
was much that he saw to be rotten in the state of matters 
educational in Russia, and on theae points he had to speak 



Obituary. 371 

guardedly and delicately. It was interesting, for instance, io 
contrast Darlington's diplomatic expressions with the frank- 
ness of such a book as Kropotkin's ^* Memoirs of a Revolu- 
tionist." But even so the Foreign Office were afraid. Russia 
was at the time sensitive. All cause of provocation or irritation 
had to be scrupulously avoided and it is only in the last few 
months that permission to publish has been given. Owing to 
the delay in publication there were several minor alterations 
to be made and in view of this the index had to be revised. 
It will soon see the light now and Englishmen will be able 
for the first time to learn what Russian Education is, and will 
appraise at its true value the work of one of the most gifted 
men in the public service of their own State. 

This was not the only piece of enquiry which he carried 
out for the Board, Last Autumn he visited Germany and 
Switzerland to study the provision made for the care and 
education of children under five in these countries. The 
enquiry was made at the request of tlie Consultative Com- 
mittee and the result, had he lived to complete it, was to 
be incorporated with their Report on the subject. His 
presence on the Continent enabled the Board to appoint him 
one of their representatives at the International Congress 
on Hygiene and Etemography held at Berlin last September, 
and while in that city he also, in conjunction with the Board's 
architect, Mr Felix Clay, inquired into and reported upon the 
temporary school buildings used in certain of the Berlin 
schools. 

Such was his public work and in spite of the strain he was 
happy in it, for he found and found at once the work for which 
he was suited and into which he could throw his heart. There 
were many collateral activities ; he made minute and laborious 
searches into the history of the Darlington family ; he wrote 
articles in various papers \ his favourite subject was Welsh 
nationality, with regard to which he stoutly maintained that 
the thesis which Matthew Arnold first stated and then rare 
away from was the true one, namely, that instead of differen- 
tiating the English and Welsh nationalities as Teutonic and 
Celtic respectively, we should regard them really as two 
variant types of a common British stock, and that the EInglish 
race has " a vast obscure Cymric basis with a vast visible 



372 Obituary, 

Teutonic superstructure, and is only Anglo-Saxon by virtue 
of late admixtures." 

He was a man of social and human ways, of genial gentle 
mind, willing to suffer when Heaven so decreed, but willing 
to rejoice also and taking cheerily the good that Heaven sent 
him. In talking with him there was that combination of 
liveliness and repose which constitutes ease, there was an 
opulent fund of thoughtfulness, a serious drift and much play 
of humour withal, there was width of sympathy, depth of 
thought, height of feeling. I remember that he was secretary 
of the Toynbee Hall Committee at Cambridge, for his demo- 
cratic feeling was of the deeper, religious and not of the 
blatant order, he was fond of Maurice and those writers and 
statesmen whom we may call in Lord Rosebery's phrase 
" practical mystics." There was in him the native unselfish 
nobleness of heart which strives towards all nobleness. His 
eye was single and his whole nature full of light ; he kept 
throughout the crown of his spiritual manhood and never 
more nobly than in the last months of his life. 

" So he is past and gone, 

No moanings holloW, 
While we who are left in the storm and stresd 
Fall in and follow.'' 

J. L* Paton- 



OUR CHRONICLE. 

Easier term I0o8s 

On April 8th it was announced that the King had been 
pleased to approve the appointment of Sir Thomas Gibson- 
Carmichael (B.A. 1881) Bart, as Governor of Victoria in 
succession to the Honourable Sir Reginald Talbot,. K.C.B. 
Sir Thomas Gibson- Carmichael is the 14th Baronet t>£ 
Skirling, in Peebleshire. After acting as private secretary 
to Lord Dalhousie and Sir George Trevelyan, when 
Secretaries for Scotland, he was appointed Chairman of the 
Scottish Board of Lunacy, and at the General Election of 
1895 he succeeded Mr Gladstone as Liberal member for 
Mid Lothian. He retired from Parliament at the dissolution 
of 1900. He has been a Trustee of the National Gallery 
since 1906. 

At the graduation ceremony of the University of Liverpool, 
the Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws will be conferred on 
Dr D. MacAlister (B.A. 1877) Principal of the University of 
Glasgow ; and that of Doctor of Engineering on the Hon. 
C. A. Parsons (B.A. 1877), Honorary Fellow of the College. 

The Chancellor'^s list of Honorary Degrees, to be conferred 
upon the occasion of his Installation on June 17, contains 
the names of three members of the College : The Hon. C. A, 
Parsons (B.A. 1877), Professor G. D. Liveing (B.A. 1850), and 
Mr Alfred Marshall (BJV. 1865) who has just resigned the 
Professorship of Political Economy. All are to receive the 
degree of Doctor of Science. 

Professor Alfred Marshall (B.A. 1865) has resigned the 
Professorship of Political Economy in the University to 
which he was elected in 1884. He thereby vacated the 
Professorial Fellowship in the College, and has been elected 
an Honorary Fellow. 

At the Encaenia to be held at Oxford on June 24 the 
honorary degree of D.C.L. is to be conferred on Mr J. J. H. 
Teall (B.A. 1873), Director of H.M. Geological Survey, and 
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374 Our Chronicle. 

formerly Fellow of the College. At a Convocation to be 
held on July 1, in connection with the Pan Anglian Con- 
ference, the honorary degree of D.D. is to be conferred on 
Dr H. Lowther Clarke (B.A. 1874) Archbishop of Melbourne. 

On June 8, Mr W. Bateson, F.R.S., Fellow of the College, 
was elected the first professor of a newly-founded Oiair for 
BiolQigy^ The Professor is to teach and make researches in 
that Branch of Biology now entitled Genetics (Heredity and 
Variation). 

Professor J. Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society, and 
Fellow of the College, has been nominated in the Irish 
Universities Bill, to be a member erf the first Senate for the 
University to have its seat at Belfast 

Lord Justice Fletcher Moulton, Honorary Fellow of -the 
College, was at the Annual Meeting of the Royal Institution, 
held on May 1, elected one of the Managers of the Institu« 
tion for the ensuing year. 

Professor J. N. Langley (B.A. 1875) has been elected a 
foreign member of the Royal Danish Scientific Society. 

Professor A. C. Seward (B.A. 1886) has been elected an 
Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College. 

Sir Lewis Tonna Dibdin (B.A. 1874), Dean of the Arches, 
has been elected a Bencher of the Honourable Society of 
Lincoln's Inn, in succession to the late Mr Vaughan Hawkins* 

The Rev P. Clementi Smith (B.A. 1871) was on the 17th 
of February last installed as Master of the Guardian Lodge 
No 2625 ; this Lodge was established to provide a meeting 
place for the Guardians of the City of London and others 
associated with the work of the Corporation. Mr Clementi 
Smith is a past Master of the Mercers' Company, past 
President of Sion College and P.M. Middlesex Lodge No 
143 ; he was the founder of the Guardian Lodge, and has 
been Chaplain ever since its consecration. 

The Ven. George Hodges (B.A. 1874), Archdeacon of 
Sudbury, has been appointed Grand Chaplain of the Grand 
Lodge of English Freemasons for next year. 

Mr Ernest Bristow (B.A. 1897) has been appointed Vice 
Consul at Tangier. 

On May 1st, Professor J. Larmor delivered a Lecture at 
the Royal Institution on "The Scientific Work of Lord 
Kelvin." The Chair was taken by Lord Rayleigh, Chancellor 
of the University. 



Our Chronickx 375 

Mr W. H. R. Rivers (M.A. 1898), Fellow of the College 
and University Lecturer in Physiological and Experimental 
Psychology, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. 
The following statement gives an account of his scientific 
work : 

William Halse Rivers Rivers. 

M.D., F.R.C.P., Lecturer on Physiological and Experi* 
mental Psychology in the University of Cambridge. 
Distinguished in Experimental Psychology. Joint Editor 
of the British Journal of Psychology : has made numerous 
valuable psychological and anthropological investigations, 
notably in the Torres Straits Islands, in India, and in Egypt. 
Among his contributions may be specially cited the following: 
" Observations on the Senses of the Todas " (Brit. Journ. of 
Psychology, 1905) ; " Report on the Psychology of the 
Todas and of other Indian Tribes" (Proc. Roy. Soc. 77, 
1905) ; *'The Todas" (Macmillan & Co., 1906) ; *^The Colour 
Vision of the Natives of Upper Egypt" (Journ. Anthrop* 
Inst., 1901); **the Colour Vision of the Eskimo" (Proc. 
Camb. Phil. Soc, 1901); **A Genealogical Method of 
Collecting Social and Vital Statistics " (Journ. Anthrop. Inst., 
1900); "On the Apparent Size of Objects" (Mind, 1896); 
* The Photometry of Coloured Paper" (Jourii. of Physiol., 
1897); *'0n Erythropsia" (Trans. Ophthalmol. Soc, 1901). 
Articles in the Reports of the Anthropological Expedition to 
Torres Straits, 1901-1904; also contributed the article 
" Vision " to Professor Schafer's Textbook of Physiology by 
British Physiologists, vol. ii., 1900. Among papers published 
by him in conjunction with other workers may be mentioned 
" Ueber Ermiidung und Erholung" (with Professor Kraepelin, 
Leipzig, 1896) ; and "The Afferent Nervous System from a 
new Aspect " (with Dr Head, F.R.S., and Dr Sherren, Brain, 
1905). Delivered, the Croonian Lectures of the Royal 
College of Physicians in 1906, on the subject "The Influence 
Of Drugs on Fatigue." 

The Rev Canon J» Howard B. Masterman (B.A 1893)^ 
Professor of History in the University of Birmingham, has 
been delivering during the month of May a series of lectures 
in the Royal Gallery of the Palace at Westminster on : "The 
House of Commons : its Place in National History." These 
lectures are being given under the auspices of the University 
of London Extension Board, in co-operation with the 
Workers* Educational Association. 

The Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery have 
acquired, by purchase, a portrait of Margaret Beaufort, 
Countess of Richmond and Derby, our Foundress ; tha 



376 Our Chronicle. 

portrait is described as an early one, probably ISth century, 
before ^re adopted a reUgious habit. Mr A. E. Shipley, o£ 
Christ's College, has presented to St. John's a large photo- 
graph of the jxjrtrait. 

The College has appointed the Venerable Archdeacon 
Bonsey (B.A. 1868), Vicar of Lancaster, to be a Governor of 
Giggleswick School. 

Lord Gwydyr (M.A. 1831), celebrated his 98th birthday 
on Monday, April 27th at his residence. Stoke Park, Ipswich, 
where he personally received many friends and was the 
recipient of many letters and telegrams of congratulation. 
He enjoys wonderful health, and can read without glasses* 
He still acts as High Sheriff of Ipswich, and is greatly 
interested in public affairs. 

On May 14th a presentation was made to the Very Rev 
W. Page Roberts, Dean of Salisbury, at Blyth House by 
members of the Congregation of St Peter's, Vere Street, with 
which he had been associated for thirty years. Lord Blyth 
himself was to have taken the chair, but domestic bereave- 
ment kept him away. Sir Joseph Dimsdale presided. 
Viscount Midleton made the presentation, which consisted of 
a cheque for a thousand guineas and a volume containing 
views of St Peter's ; Mrs Page Roberts was also presented 
with some etchings of the Church. Viscount Midleton said 
that although they heartily congratulated the Dean upon the 
dignity which the King had conferred upon him, still they 
could not forget that that dignity brought with it the 
prospect of a severance, which, however, would bring to the 
Qean the compensating recollections of duty faithfully 
l^erformed, of powers nobly exercised, of hopes inspired, of 
faith vindicated, and of truth preached wtthout regard to 
the effects it might have on his advancement in the profession 
he adorned. The Dean, in expressing his thanks, gave a 
review of his labours at St Peter's, and of the many close 
friendships he had made in the congregation. 

Mr C, Morgan Webb (B,A. 1894), I.C.S., Burma, has been 
appointed to officiate as Deputy Comn>issioner, and is posted 
to the charge of the Hanthawaddy district. 

Mr J. H. Field (B.A. 1903) has been appointed to officiate 
as Director General of Indian Observatories, during the 
absence on leave of Dr G. T. Walker. 

Mr G. Leathem (B.A. 1904), I.C.S., Assistant Collector in 
the district of Dharwar, has been appointed a Magistrate of 
Vhe First Class in that District^ 



Our Chronicle, 377 

Mr K. R. S. Rau (B.A. 1906) has been appointed Assistant 
Accountant General at Madras. 

Mr M. F. J. McDonnell (B.A. 1904) was caUed to the Bar 
at the Inner Temple on Wednesday, May 14th. 

Mr Gilbert Beith (B.A. 1904) passed the Final Examina- 
tion of the Law Society held in March last, entitling him to 
be admitted a Solicitor. 

Mr J. F. S. Croggon (B.A. 1902) has been appointed an 
Assistant Auditor under the Local Government Board. 

Ds E. J. G. Titterington (B.A. 1906), who was placed 
17th in the Civil Service Examination 1907, has been 
appointed to a Clerkship in the Department of the Local 
Government Board. 

E. H. P. Muncey, Choral Student of the College, was 
bracketted equal with two others for the Second Winchester 
Reading Prize. 

Ds J. H. Bentley (B.A. 1906) has been bracketted with 
Talbot, of Emmanuel College, for the Mason (University) 
Prize for Biblical Hebrew. 

E. H. P. Muncey has been re-elected to a Choral Student- 
ship for a fourth year, and R. Stansfeld has been elected to 
a Choral Studentship for one year. 

P. Johnson-Saint was one of the University candidates 
who -qualified at the examination held in Mcirch last with a 
view to nomination to a commission in the Regular Forces. 

Mr. S. D. Caddick (B.A. 1903) has been appointed to a 
mastership at the Grammar School, Southampton. 

Mr R. Sterndale Bennett (B.A. 1904), at present Music 
Master at Fettes College, has been appointed Music Master 
at Uppingham School in succession to M. Paul David. 

Ds G. Wilson (B.A. 1904) has been appointed to a 
Mastership at Loughborough Grammar School, 

Ds T. O. Bosworth (B.A. 1906), Hutchinson Sttideiit, has 
been appointed to a mastership at the Northampton and 
County Technical School. 

Dr H. R. Hasse (RA. 1906), Isaac Newton Student of the 
University, has been appointed Assistant Lecturer in Mathe- 
matics at the University of Liverpool, in succession to Mr E, 
Cunningham, Fellow of the College. 

Mr H. Williamson (B.A. 1893), M.B., B.C., M.R.C.P-, has 
been appointed Physician to out-patients. City of London 
Lying-in Hospital. 



378 Ou¥ Chfouide. 

Dr John Wharton (B.A. 1898) has been apf^oiilted 
Honorary Assistant Surgeon to the Manchester Royal Eye 
Hospital. 

At the ordinary quarterly Comitia of the Royal College 
of Physicians of England, held on Thursday, April 30th, 
Dr W. L. Brown (B.A. 1892) was elected to the Fellowship. 
And the following members of St John*s, having conformed 
to the by laws and passed the required examinations, had 
licences to practice Physic granted to them : — A. E. Cullen 
(B.A. 1905), of St Bartholomew's Hospital ; H. G. Frean 
(B.A. 1906), of the London Hospital ; G. E. C. Simpson 
(B.A. 1902), of St Bartholomew's Hospital;. T. A. Weston 
(B.A. 1905), of St Thomas's Hospital. 

Messrs Cullen, Frean, and Weston were on Thursday, 
May 14th, admitted Members of the Royal College of 
Surgeons. 

At the quarterly meeting of the Royal College of Sur- 
geons, held on April 9th, Mr G. C. E. Simpson (B.A. 1902), 
M.B., of St Bartholomew's Hospital, was admitted a Member 
of the College. 

The following members of the College were ordained on 
Sunday, March IS :— Deacons, A. Geake (B.A. 1907), by the 
Bishop of London in St Paul's Cathedral, licensed to a 
curacy at St. Paul's, Onslow Square ; and R. J. Whitaker 
(B.A. 1897), by the Bishop of Durham in the Chapel within 
Auckland Castle, licensed to a curacy at Stockton-on-Tees- 
Priest, W. C. H. Moreland (B.A. 1897), by the Bishop of 
London. 

In our Chronicle for last Term we omitted to record that 
F. R. J. Easton (B.A. 1905) was ordained Deacon at Canter- 
bury by the Archbishop, and licensed to the curacy of 
St Peter's, Maidstone. 

The following ecclesiastical appointments ai*e announced j 
Name. Degree. From, To be. 

Telford, J. A. (1891) C. Ramsey, Harwich V. St Nicholas, Harwich, 

Burgess, H. N. (1899) C. St Cuthbert, V. St Anne, 

Sheffield. Netherthorp, Sheffield, 
Tarleton, J. F. (1888) R. Great Warley. R. Aldridgc* 
Lester, I. H. (1868) R. Lexden, Colchester. V. Wembdon, Somerset. 

Powning, J. F. (1883) V. Landkey, V. Cornwood, 

Barnstaple. Ivybridgc. 

Rammell, W. H. (1877) R. High Halden. V. Boughton Blean. 

Scutt, A. O. (1887) C. Hythe. V. Appledore, Kent. 

Bradley, H. W. (1885) V. Birtlcs, Cheshire. P. C. Wrenbury, 

Nantwich. 
Jones, G. J. (1871) R. Southfleet. R. Crayford 

Hairies, G. H. (1893) C. St James', Grimsby. V. Burgh, w. Wintborpc. 



Our Chronicle. 379 

The Rev G. Trundle (B.A. 1872), Vicar of St Martin in 
Coney Street, York, and Vicar Choral of York, has been 
appointed Succentor Vicariorum of York Minster. 

The Rev D. W. Sitwell (B.A. 1861), Vicar of Leamington, 
Hastings, has been appointed an Honorary Canon of 
Worcester Cathedral. 

The following University appointments of members of the 
College are announced since the issue of our last number : 
Dr J. R. Tanner to be a member of a Syndicate to consider 
the steps to be taken for the erection of a Building to 
contain Lecture Rooms, Departmental Libraries and Com- 
mon Rooms for Professors and University Teachers ; 
Mr T. R. Glover to be a member of the Oldham Bequest 
Syndicate ; Dr J. R. Tanner to be a member of a Syndicate 
to consider alternatives for the General Examination ; 
Mr J. E. Purvis to be one of the representatives of the 
University at the Celebration of the Tercentenary of the 
University of Oviedo ; Professor J. Larmor to be a Member 
of the Board of Electors to the Professorship of Chemistry ; 
Mr H. F. Stewart to be a member of the Board for Non- 
Collegiate students ; Mr C. A. A. Scott to be an examiner for 
Part L of the Theological Tripos ; Mr L. B. Radford to be 
an examiner for Part IL of the Theological Tripos. 

The following books by members of the College are 
announced: An introduction to the theory of Infinite Scries, by 
T. J. FA. Bromwich, F.R.S., Fellow and Lecturer of the College 
(Macmillans) ; The Riddle of the Bacchae : The last stage of 
Euripides' s Religious Views, by Gilbert Norwood, Fellow of the 
College and assistant lecturer in Classics in the University of 
Manchester (The University Press, Manchester) ; Morag the 
Seal, a West Highland Romance, by J. W. Brodie-Innes 
(Rebman) ; The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Sir Henry Norman, 
by Sir William I^e- Warner, K.C.S.I. (Smith Elder) ; The 
Influence of Alcohol and other drugs on fatigue, Croonian 
Lectures, by W. H. R. Rivers, Fellow of the College (Arnold) ; 
The Rights and Responsibilities of National Churches. The 
Hulsean Lectures for igoj-S, by J. Howard Masterman, Pro- 
fessor of History in the University of Birmingliam, Vicar of 
St Michael's, Coventry (University Press) ; The Mysteries of 
Mithra, 90 pp., A Mythriac Ritual, 77 pp., The Gnostic Cruci- 
fixion, 83 pp., The Chaldean Oracles, 2 vols., and The World 
Mystery, four comparative studies in general Thcosophy, all by 
Mr G. R. S. Mead, are issued by the Theosophical Publishing 
Society ; The Epistle to Diognetus by the Rev. L. B. Ridford 
(S.P.C.K.); Three Teachers of Alexandria-, Theognostus, Picrius, 



380 Our Chronich. 

and Peter. A study in the early history of Origenism and 
Anti-Origenism, by the Rev. L. B. Radford, Rector of Holt 
(University Press) ; Physical Education ami School Hygiene in 
Japan^ by Baron Dairoku Kikuchi, late Minister of Educa- 
tion in Japan (The Manchester and Salford Sanitary 
Association). 

Dr H. F. Baker, Fellow and Lecturer of the College, is 
editing for the University Press, the Collected Mathematical 
papers of the late Professor J. J. Sylvester, Honorary Fellow 
of the College and Savilian Professor at Oxford. The second 
volume covering the period 1854 to 1873 has just appeared; 
it contains 110 papers, some of which will always be famous 
in the history of mathematical progress. Professor Sylvester 
was one of the most brilliant and original mathematicians of 
the 19th century, yet his powers have hardly received the 
recognition they deserve. For this his own methods are 
chieHy to blame ; he had not the unwearying industry and 
steady concentration of his great contemporary Cayley, though 
in fertility of imagination he probably surpassed him ; nor 
had he the graces of style of Salmon, whose books and papers 
are models of elegance and ingenuity. The following extract 
from a letter of Salmon's to Sylvester himself is a humourous 
and just criticism of Sylvester's ways. The letter is dated 
from Trinity College, Dublin, May 1, 1861. After some 
remarks on some properties of a cubic surface it proceeds : 

" I should be very glad if there was any chance of 
your preparing an edition of your opuscula. There 
have been of course occasional little statements in 
your papers requiring verification. Written as they 
were in the very heat of discovery, they are rather 
to be compared to the hurried bulletins written by 
a general on a field of battle than to the cool details 
of the historian. Honestly however I don't think 
there is the least chance of your going back to these 
former studies. I shall be content to let you off 
some of these if you will do justice to what you 
have done on the subject of partitions. I wish you 
would seriously consider whether it is not a duty 
everyone owes to Society, when one brings a child 
into the world to look to the decent rearing of it. I 
must say that you have to a reprehensible degree a 
cuckoo-like fashion of dropping eggs and not seeming 
to care what becomes of them. Your procreative 
instincts ought to be more evenly balanced by such 
instincts as would inspire greater care of your off- 
spring and more attention in providing for them in 



Our Chronicle, 38 f 

life and producing them to the world in a present* 
able form. 

Hoping you will meditate on this homily and be 
the better for it, I remain 

Yours sincerely, 

Geo. Salmon.'* 

It would be difficult to put the case against Sylvester more 
truly or effectively, the papers in the volume before us are 
evidence for the prosecution. 

Sylvester seldom worked out his discoveries, he dashed 
hot-foot into print, often without the slightest hint of how he 
had arrived at his results, or what they led up to. The 
papers teem with slips of the pen and misprints, some of 
which are corrected in subsequent notes ; he invented special 
names for most of the mathematical forms he discovered, and 
a vocabulary is almost a necessity. With all these drawbacks 
the reader is often carried along in a whirlwind of enthusiasm 
not usually associated with higher mathematics. Non-mathe- 
matical readers who wish to learn something of Sylvester's 
style could not do better than read the paper numbered 100 
in this volume, the famous Address to Section A of the British 
Association ; no one but Sylvester could have written it and 
the tones of his voice can almost be heard through the dull 
medium of the printed page. 

In these days of Smith's Prize Essays and Fellowship 
Dissertations the young mathematician in search of a subject 
might dp much worse than read these volumes. Though 
years have passed since Sylvester poured out his ideas in 
reckless profusion, there must be many of the eggs to which 
Salmon refers which still remain to be hatched. 

During the present Term sermons have been preached in 
the College Chapel, on April 26 by Mr Peter Green, Rector 
of Sacred Trinity, Salford, on May 3 (Commemoration of 
Benefactors) by the Archbishop of Melbourne, on May 17 by 
Mr C. E. Graves and on May 31 by Mr Wynne Willson, 
Master of Hafleybury College. 

The annual dinner to members of the College who have 
taken the M.A. degree and have retained their names on the 
College Boards, is to be held this year on Thursday, June 25. 
Members of the College who graduated in the following 
groups of years are invited on the present occasion : 1864- 
1868 ; 1882-1885 ; 1898-1901. 

It may be convenient for candidates for Fellowships at 

the election for 1908 to know that the following dates have 

been fixed ; Candidates to inform the Master of the subjects 

of their dissertations not later than May 21st ; dissertations to 

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382 dur Chrdnicte, 

be sent to the Master not Liter than Aup^ust 24 ; the exami-" 
nation will be held in the Combination Room on Saturday, 
October 17, The election will take place on Monday, 
November 2. 

The following note on the will of CJeorge Ruggle, the 
author of the famous pLiy ' Ignoramus/ s^peared in the East 
Anglian Daily Times for May 9, 

George Ruggle matriculated as a pensioner of St John's, 
June 26, 1589, and took the degrees of B.A. 1593, and M.A. 
1596. He migrated from St John^s to Trinity and then 
became a Fellow of Clare Hall : — 

No. 2,510— WILL OF GEORGE RUGGLE, 1621. 
(P.C.C. 101 SaviUe.) 

"George Ruggle of the vniversity of Cambridge, Mr of 
Arte, the sixte day of September 1621. Vnto the poore of 
towne of Lavenham in Suffolke, where I was borne, twenty 
markes. Vnto the Chappie of Clare hall twenty markes to 
buy a silver bason to be vsed at the Communion for the 
collection of the poore. Vnto Clare hall in Cambridge One 
hundred pounds, to be titulated by the name of George 
Ruggle's one hundred pounds for a perpetuall stocke. To 
Clarehall Library all my bookes the Mr and fellowes shall 
thincke fitting — the rest to the children of Mr Toby Pallyvicine. 
Vnto my sisters Mary Dandes and Sarae Lymmall, both now 
dwellinge in the Cittie of Westchester one hundred pounds 
H peice. I give one hundred poundes towardes the bringinge 
vp of the Infidells Children in Virginia in Christian Religion." 
Mention is made of my lovinge Aimt Mrs Alice Vigoris, of 
Ipswich, my worthy friend Mr Henry Coppinger. of Laven- 
ham, my worthy friend Mr Nicholas fferrer of Clarehall, and 
Mr William Parker, of Sproughton neare Ipswich. "The 
reste of my goodes vnto my moste lovinge and especiall good 
friend Mr Toby Pallavicine of Babram in the Countye 
of Cambridge, Esquire. And I doe make him sole executor, 
and if he happen to dye before my decease I ordaine Sr 
Edmond Varney, Knight, Executor." Probatum tertio die 
Novembre 1622 Juramento Tobie Palavincino executoris. 

George Ruggle, son of Thomas Ruggle, was baptised at 
Lavenham 13 Nov., 1575, and his aunt Alice Vigerons, was 
doubtless the widow of George Ruggle, his father's brother, 
who was also, as the Daundy pedigree (Harl. Mss. 1560) tells 
us, of Lavenham, (or "Lanham" as it is often written.) He 
was the author of "Ignoramus," a Latin comedy, which was 
acted before King James I. in March and May, 1614. He 
was a great benefactor to Clare Hall, money in those days 
l^eing more valuable than now. 

(From Da\7's notes, Add, MS, 19,147, fo. 296, etc.) 



Our Chronicle. 383 

Professor E. J. Rapson sends us the following note : — 

Mr Benians has sent me for examination seven coins and 
counters which were discovered by the workmen in levelling 
the cricket field. Of these, four have no particular interest ; 
but the other three may perhaps be thought worthy of a 
short note in the Eagle, They include two English counters 
of the fifteenth century, and a Dutch counter struck to c6m> 
memorate the siege of Oran in 1563. The original use of 
these * counters' is indicated by their name: they were first 
employed as aids in the addition of sums of money by means 
of the abacus or 'counting-board/ a mechanical contrivance 
without the aid of which the simplest arithmetical operations 
were almost impossible before the introduction of the Arabic 
system of notation in the last quarter of the fifteenth century. 
At a later date, counters continued to be used chiefly in 
games as at present. The interest which they possess for us 
depends chiefly on the fact that they were frequently used as 
a simple and convenient means of commemorating events. 
The two English counters in question have no historical 
importance of this kind. They are simply poor copies of 
types which were originally borrowed to a great extent from 
the French coinage of the fifteenth century ; and the original 
legend which was usually of a religious character — most 
commonly the beginning of the prayer AVE MARIA GRATIA 
PLENA — appears in such a perverted form on these two 
specimens as to be quite illegible. The Dutch counter 
(bronze), on the other hand, admits of being deciphered with 
certainty. It is a variety of a type published by Van Loon, 
Histoire Meiallique des xvii Provinces dcs Pays Bas (1732^ 
Vol I., p. 65. 

Obv. Bust of Philip II to r. ; inscr. PH(ilippu)S 
D(ei) G(ratia) HlSP(aniarum) REGIS. COMITIS 
HOL(landiae). The name Philip ought, of course 
to be in the genitive. 

Rev. Arranged in the form of a cross, the arms of 
the Provinces of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Fries- 
land and Overyssel with date 1563 : inscr. ORAN A. 
TVRCARV(m). OBSIDIONE. LIBERATA. 

Oran. and Mazarquivir in Algeria had been taken by the- 
Spaniards from the Moors early in the sixteenth century in 
accordance with the advice of Cardinal Ximenes; In 1562 a 
large Spanish fleet which was carrying supplies to these 
African colonies was completely wrecked ; and early in the 
following year the Barbary Moors seized what was apparently 
an opportunity of recovering their ancient possessions, while 
still isolated and lacking provisions. The story of the siege 
of Oran and Mazarquivir, of the valiant defence of the small 



384 Our Chronicle, 

Christian garrisons, the terrible straits to which they were 
reduced, and of the raising of the siege on the appearance 
of the Spanish fleet which had been sent to their aid by 
Philip II, may be read in the picturesque pages of Prescott, 
History of Philip 11^ Book IV, Chapter I. How a counter 
which was struck in the Netherlands to commemorate this 
event found its way to St John's cricket field can only be 
surmised ; but the fact that it should have wandered so far 
afield is in no way surprising, if we consider the intimate 
relations which existed between this country and the Nether- 
lands during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 

Adams Memorial Prize. 

This prize is open to all undergraduates who have not 
entered on their seventh Term of residence at the time whea 
the essay is sent in. 

For the present year the essay is to be on one of the 
following subjects : 

1. Vibration of an elastic medium as a theory of Light, 

2. The theory of the oscillations of ponderable matter, 

3. Invariants of Conies and Quadrics. 

4. Ruled Surfaces. 

The following authorities may be consulted on the essay 
subjects : 

1. Green's Papers. 

2. Rayleigh's Sound ; Routh's Dynamics. 

3. Salmon's Treatises ; Andoyer's Theorie des Formes. 

4. Salmon's Geometry of Three Dimensions ; Darboux's 
Theorie des Surfaces. 

JOHNIANA. 

The Rev Arthur Briarly Browne (B.A. 1878), Rector of Bradfield, 
Yorkshire, has transcribed and edited the Parish Register of Bradfield 
from 1559 to 1722. The Registers occupy 456 closely printed pages, and 
there is in addition an admirable index of 140 pages. The impoilance of 
printing Parish Registers is now generally recognised, and the public 
spirit of men like Mr Browne, who give up time and expense to tlie task 
of making these records accessible, and place their contents beyond the 
risk of loss, cannot be too highly commended. 

The Register contains the names of several members of the College 
and by its aid we can glean some further biographical details. We take 
these in order and add some notes from other sources. 

Two sons of Christopher Wilson, of Bradfield, yeoman, were admitted 
to St John's : 

Thomas, admitted 11 May 1648, aged 20. 

Charles, admitted 8 September 1648, in his 18th year. 



Our Chronicle, 385 

Turning now to the Bradfield Register we find the following entries ^ 
1626. Thomas, son of Xpo Wilson, bapt. the xiiith day of August. 
1631. Charles, son of Xpo Wilson, of Bromhead, bapt. June the xv day. 

Then we have the marriage of the parents : 
1623. Christopher Wilson and Mary Ibotson, married, 29 October. 

And the baptisms of the parents : 
1594-5. Xpher Wilson, son of Xpher Wilsone, bapt. the i day of March. 
1604. Mary, daughter of Mr John Ibotson, bapt. the xviii day of December. 

And the marriage of the grandparents : 
1591-2. Xpher Wilson and Ellen Bramall, maryed the iiird day of 
February. 

Of these two members of the College the career of Charles Wilson is 
the best known. The following account of him is given in The Yorkshire 
Archaeological and Topographical Journal^ V, 103-5 : " Charles Wilson 
was the third son of Christopher Wilson ; his elder brother being in a 
state of incapacity, he succeeded under a settlement of his father to the 
family estates at Bromhead. On 29 August, 1658, he received presbyter ian 
ordination to the work of the ministry at Kimbolton, to which living he 
had been presented by Edward, Earl of Manchester ; the ceremony was 
performed in the church of St Stephen, Wallbrook, by the third classical 
Presbytery of London, to whom he exhibited a testimonial of his good 
life and fair calling to Kimbolton. He conformed on the return of 
Charles II, and took a second ordination from Thomas, Bishop of 
Candida Casa, or the Orcades, at Westminster 8 January 1661. His 
residence at Kimbolton was embittered by troublesome suits of law with 
Robert, Earl of Manchester, the patron, son of Edward ; and though in 
these he had the advantage, he at length relinquished the living, and, in 
1675, was presented to the Rectory of Babworth, in Nottinghamshire, by 
Ann Wortley, alias Newcomen. In 1681 he resigned this living in favour 
of his nephew, Richard Wilson, and in the same year was presented by 
Francis Jessop, of Broomhall, to the vicarage of Shefifield, to which he 
was instituted 6 October 1681. In 1695 he resigned the living of Sheffield 
and retired to his paternal inheritance at Bromhead. He was buried in 
the chancel of the church at Bradfield. [The Parish Register has the 
entry :— 1703. Mr Charles Willson, M.A., late Vicar of Sheffield, bur>'ed, 
September 8.] He married, while at Kimbolton, Ann, one of four 
daughters and co-heirs of John AUott, B.D., Rector of Little Thurlow and 
Wratting, in Suffolk. They had fourteen children, of whom seven died 
young." In one of Joseph Hunter's Manuscripts preserved in the 
British Museum (Addl. MSS. 24,473, fol. 447, or f. 222) there are some 
notes on Charles Wilson ; after giving his preferments he proceeds : 
" He was a great advancer of the family ; I find his purchases thus 
enumerated by his grandson. Two estates at Thurston of Tho. Beevor, 
1690 and 1692. One in Sheffield of his brother, Zachariah Wilson, in 
1685. Fox Hall, alias Bowerhill in FuUwood, of John Bromhead, 1687. 
One at Grenowside of his brother, Zachariah Wilson, in 1685. One at 
Turchell, in Derbyshire, of Joseph Ward, 1701. One at Longside of 
Arthur Hinchcliffe in August 1701. He also built both at Bromhead and 
Wightwick. During the absence of the family from Bromhead the house 
wasted ; David and Abdiel Rich held it from 1679 to 1682, and John 
Morton from 1682 to 1688." After giving some further details he adds 
that Mrs WUson was buried in Bradfield Choir 22 February 1712-3. 

The next Bradfield boy to come to the College was Thomas, son of 
Francis Morton, admitted 21 May 1657, aged 17. The Bradfield Register 
has the following entries: 



386 Our Chronicle, 

1638-9. Thomas, son of Francis Merton, bapt the Z3cvjth daye of 

February. 
1637-8. Francis Morton and Marye Revell, married, February the 1st 

day. 
1614. Ftanches, son of Franches Morton (of Spout House), bapt. the xxi 

day of September. 
1616-7. Maiye, daughter of William Revell, bapt the zxii day of January- 

We find that Thomas Morton, son and heir of Francis Morton, of 
Spout House, parish of Bradfield, co. York, gentleman, was admitted to 
Gray's Inn 18 May 1658. And this is probably the Thomas Morton, of 
Croydon, Surrey, gentleman, aged about 23, who was licensed 16 August 
1662 to marry Anne Boyse, of Nuttfield, in the same county, spinster, 
about 19, with the consent of her father, John Boyse, at Newington. 
Surrey, or St Dunstan-in-the-West (Foster, London Marriage Uiunces). 

George Shaw, son of Robert Shaw, yeoman, of Bradfiekl, was 
admitted to the College 8 June 1650, aged 16. The Bradfield Register 
has the entries : 
1632-3. George, son of Robert Shawe, bapt. the zxth day ef January. 

1618. Robert Shawe and Elizabeth Adamsonn, married the 22 of June. 

Samuel Slack, son of Abraham Slack, of Bradfield, was admitted to 
the College 5 July 1669, aged 17. The Bradfield Register has the entries : 
1651. Samuell, son of Abraham Slacke, baptised 13 November. 
1644. Abraham Slacke and Anne Tomson, married, September the 5th. 

1619. Abraham, sonn of Thomas Slack, baptized, November 29. 
1625. Ann, daughter of George Tomson, baptized, June the xvt^. 

This Samuel Slack, of St John's, was ordained Priest by the Archr 
bishop of York, 23 September 1677. 

Lastly, Jeremy Waterhouse, bom at Bradfield^ and educated at 
Sheffield School, was admitted to the College 9 May 1681, aged 19 ; his 
parentage is not given in the College Register. We find in the Bradfield 
Register the entry : 
1658. Jeramiah, son of William Waterhouse, bom 2 December. 

It will be observed that the age in the College Register does not quite 
correspond with the date of birth in the Parish Register. 

Open Exhibitions, Sizarships, and School Exhibitions. 

Elected 8 June 1908. 

Commencing residence October 1908. 

Open Exhibitions of £30 for two years : 

Watson, T. W. (King Edward VI. School, Stourbridge) (Mathematics). 

Dodd, W. P. (University College, Aberystwith) (Classics). 

Oakley, F. C. (Felsted School) (Classics). 

Pittom, W. W. P. (Northampton and County School) (Natural Science). 

Nicklin, G. N. (Birkbeck College) (Natural Science). 

Goode, R. H. (Private Tuition) (Natural Science). 

Dowman Sizarships : 

Cullen, A. P., Bishop's Stortford College. 
Lloyd, M. T., Aldenham School. 
Winder, R. McD., Cranleigh School. 



Our Chroiiiete. 387 

School Exhibitiom: 

Lupton and Hebblethwaite — Aubry, C. P. (Sedbergh). 
Robins—Cotton, R. H. A. (Sutton Valence). 
Dowman— -Hutton, R. J. (Pocklington). 
Somerset— Watkins, S. (Hereford). 
Somerset— Streeten, B. R. (Hereford). 
Somerset— Woodall, F. E. (Manchester). 
Baker— Guest- Williams, W. K. (Durham). 

College English Essay Pri2!es. 

The following are the subjects for the College Essay 
Prizes : 

For Students now in their Subject. 

First Year Matthew Prior. 

Second Year The Plays of Shakespeare as a mirror 

of the social life of his time, its 
different grades and activities. 

Third Year The use and abu«e ctf allusion. 

The Essays are to be sent to the Master on or before 
Saturday, October 17th. 

Organ Recital. 

An Organ Recital was given in the College Chapel on 
Sunday, June 14th, at 8.45 p.m., by Mr C. B. Rootham, 
College Organist. 

The following is the programme : — 

1. Toccata and Fugue in F major /. S. Bach 

'■ / {a) Gott des Himmels und\ 

I der Erden I 

^ , Two Preludes on Chorales< yMax Reger 

^•'' (Op 67.) (b) Ein feste Burg ist 

\ unser Gott / 

Allegretto in F major (Op. 101.) C. V. Stanford 

3. Slow Movement, Scherzo and Finale, from 

Sonata No. 5, in F sharp Josef Rheiubergcr 

\ (a) Andantino in A flat \ 

4. Two STCDiM IN CANON I major \ Schumann 

) (b) Adagio in B major ) 

5. Epixikion .......C. Bs Rootham 



Cricket Club. 

Captain— V. W, J, Hobbs. Hon. Secretary^F. D. Morton. 

Hon. Secretary 2nd XL — A. R. Thompson. 

Result of the Season :— Played, 17. Won, 5. Lost, 3. Drawn, 9, 

Bad weather has caused a large number of this season's 
matches to be scratched, and we have often had to play upon 
wet wickets. On the whole we have had quite a good 



388 



Our Chronicle, 



season. The batting of the side was not so strong as usual^ 
though better than would appear from the averages. Every 
man was capable of making runs, but there was a certain 
want of consistency. The bowling was fairly good, but 
suffered from lack of variety : we needed a really good slow 
bowler. The unfortunate illness of E, K. Quick robbed us 
of the services of an exceptionally promising Freshman. 

A pleasing feature of the season has been the readiness of 
the older members of the College to assist us when necessary. 
We should like to thank Messrs R. P. Gregory, A. L. 
Gorringe, and P. N. F. Young for their kindness in filling 
up gaps in the team on several occasions. 

We congratulate S. L. Thompson on playing in the 
Freshmen's Match and in a Trial Match, and hope to see 
him go still farther. 

Batting Averages. 

Times Hicbeat 

Batsmen Innings not out score Runs Aver, 

S. L. Thompson 16 ... 3 ... 106 ... 482 ... 371 

J. M. Swift 14 ... 2 ... 55 ... 272 ... 226 

F. D. Morton 12 ... 3 ... 40 ... 181 ... 201 

W. E. Hill 11 ... 4 ... 48 ... 138 ... 197 

V. W. J. Hobbs 12 ... 1 ... 66 ... 216 ... 19*6 

H. C. H. Lane 10 ... ... 49 ... 191 ... 19-1 

G. A. R. Thursfield .12 ... 5 ... 30*... 132 ... 188 

H. W. McCowan 14 ... 1 ... 45* ... 198 ... 152 

A. R. Thompson 9 ... 5 ... 19* ... 60 ... 15 

J. A. Fewings 15 ... 1 ... 50 ... 191 ... 13*6 

R. Brice-Smith 6 ... 1 ... 31*' ... 46 ... 9*2 

* Signifies net out. 
Bowling Averages. 

Bowlers Overs Maidens Buns WickeU Aver. 

R. Brice-Smith 4 ... ... 28 ... 2 ... 14 

J. M. Swift 133 ... 19 ... 498 ... 29 ... 1717 

G. A. R. Thursfield 119 ... 17 ... 469 ... 26 ... 18-03 

W.E.Hill 28 ... 5 ... 91 ... 5 ... 182 

S. L. Thompson 156.1 ... 22 ... 511 ... 28 ... 18-25 

F. D. Morton 160.5 ... 18 ... 616 ... 25 ... 24*64 

V. W. J. Hobbs 32.3 ... ... 214 ... 5 ... 428 

Matches. 

V. Queens'. Won. St John's 123. Queens* 85 (G. A. R. Thursfield 
6 wickets for 27). 

V. Clare. Lost. Clare 154 Q. M, Swift 6 wickets for 52): St John's 123. 
We had 1<X) on the board with only 4 men out, but broke down 
lamentably. 

V. Corpus. Won. Corpus 91 (F. D. Morton 5 wickets for 35). St John's 
92 for 3 (R. Brice-Smith 31 not out). 

V. Trinity Hall. Drawn. St John's 170 (J. A. Fewings 48). Trinity Hall 
142 for 7 (S. L. Thompson 4 wickets for 36). Bad catching probably 
robbed us of a victory. 

V.King's. Lost. St John's 50. King's 51 for 3. We gave a wretched 
display of batting on a tricky wicket. 



Our Chronicle. 389 

V. Jesus. Drawn. A two-day match. Jesus 213 for 7 and 101 for 3. 
St John's 192 (S. L. Thompson 66) and 110 for 6 (V. W. J. Hobbs 66). 
Jesus made a very sporting declaration, and we just failed to score 
123 in 40 minutes, Hobbs hitting very hard. 

V. Caitis. Won. Caius 46 (S. L. Thompson 8 wickets for 22), St John's 
162 for 6. (S. L. Thompson 62 not out). We showed our best form 
of the season, and won by 10 wickets. Thompson's all-round cricket 
was magnificent 

V. Queens'. Drawn. Queens' 306 for 3. St John's 81 for 6 (Hobbs 35 
not out). On a perfect wicket we gave a poor display. 

r. King's, Drawn. St John's 239 (R. P. Gregory 74, H. C. H. Lane 49) 
and 67 for 5. King's 315. 

V. Emmanuel. Won. St John's 149. Emmanuel 129 (S. L. Thompson 
4 for 36). Our two last wickets put on 67, and some steady bowling 
and good fielding gave us a victory. 

V. Christ s. Won. Christ's 129 (Morton 5 for 40). St John's 132 for 6 
(Lane 49, Morton 40). Lane played a really good innings. 

V. Selwym^ Drawn. Selwyn 196 (Swift 5 for 49) St John's 120 for 6. 

V. Pembroke. Drawn, Pembroke 267 for 4. St John's 135 for 7 (S. L. 
Thompson 45 not out). We started badly, but the eighth pair added 
64 without being separated. J. I. Piggott and G. L. Cole batted 
brilliantly for Pembroke. 

V. Downing. Drawn. St John's 219 for 8 (S. L. Thompson 106, W. E. 
Hill 48). Downing 105 for 1. Thompson played a splendid innings. 

V. Caius. Drawn. St John's 253 for 7 (Swift 55, Jewings 50, McCowan 
46). Caius 209 for 3. We scored consistently, and A. F. Leighton 
played a fine innings for Caius. 

V. Sidney Susse.v. . Drawn. Sidney 207. St John's 150 for 2 (S. L. 
Thompson 59 not out, H. W. McCowan 45 not out). 

V. Jesus. Lost St John's 69 and 112 for 5. Jesus 195 (Swift 6 for 78). 
Against some excellent bowling we fared badly, and were beaten 
even more easily than the score indicates. 



Characters of the XL : 

V. W. J. Hobbs (Capt.)— A delightfully inspiring and optimistic captain. 
Has generally made runs when they were wanted, and played one really 
brilliant innings. While retaining most of his former dash, he has greatly 
increased his repertoire of strokes. Bowls leg-breaks with undeniable 
spin but eccentric length. Sets his team a splendid example at extra- 
cover, possessing a safe pair of hands and a lightning pick-up and return. 

F. D. Morton (Hon. Sec.) — Has been a very energetic and capable 
Secretary. Throughout the season he bowled well, but dropped catches 
on several occasions robbed him of wickets ; developed into a fast-scoring 

VOL. XXIX. EEE 



390 Our CItroniclc. 

slashy bat, and thrice made good scopes when runs were needed. He 
is ao excellent slip, with a splendid reach. 

R. Br fceShritb.— ^Tripos work and cricket do not combine well, 
unfortunately. When set he is an attractive bat to watch, with an 
especially pretty leg-stroke. Has had few opportmiities as a bowler, 
but twice broke up long partnerships. 

H. W, McCowan,—W»s rather at sea on the slow wickets at the 
beginning of the season, but did Ijetier later on. Has several good scoring 
strokes on a fast wicket, but his defence has deteriorated. A safe slip. 

/. Af . Swift, — Has batted consistently throughout the season, withont 
doing anjihing brilliant. Would do better, probably, did he not bring 
Theological study on to the cricket field. A greatly improyed bowler, 
who tiuns both ways and keeps a good length. A safe catch, but 
uncertain ground fielder. His admirable keenness might be tempered 
with noore seifHrestraint 

G,A.R. Thursfield. — Under perfect conditions a good bowler, but is 
easily upset. He has played some useful innings and has a good ofJf-drive« 
A sound fiekL His cricket all roimd lack» daslv 

/. A. Fewings.— Is really a good bat, but has been hancHcapped by 
illness. Might watch the ball more carefully, and is apt to get in front c« 
hi« wickets. At mid-off he is safe, and covers a lot of ground. 

W. E. Hill, — ^With somewhat restricted opportunities has batted weH 
on occasions. Has an especially good shot past extra cover, but might 
make better use of his height. A useful change bowler with a good ^dl 
on the leg stump. He must learn to throw in. 

S. L. Thompson.^k really good all-round cricketer. As a bat he scores 
quickly both on the off and the on and watches the l>all well. An excellent 
fast-medium bowler, who commands both a swerve from leg and an 
off-break. A good iield, with occasional relapses into somnoletKe. He 
should go farther than College cricket. 

H. C. H. Lane. — A stylish bat, who played some valuable innings. 
Has a good hook-stroke, but is inclined to be late owing to a flourish. 
An energetic field. 

A. R. Thompson, — Kept wicket with fair success. He stops leg-balls 
well, but is too slow, and should make " taking ** rather than " stopping "• 
each ball his object. A useful bat 



Cricket Field Levelling Fund. 

The work on the cricket field has now been completed. 
Bad weather at Easter and the difficulty of procuring 
the necessary earth dragged it out longer than had been 
expected. The total cost has been^ roughly, jG137, towards 
which not quite j&llO has up to the present date been 
contributed. The Treasurer will be glad of further sub- 
scriptions. Appended is a list of the amounts received sijice 
March 7 last, and a provisional accouat of tlie expenditure. 



Qur CJiroiiiclc 



391 



List of Subscriptions, 



Amount previously ac- 
knowledged 

Dr J. R. Tanner 

Mr R. F. Scott 

G, A. Allen 

L. K. D. Anderson ,...., 
C. B. S. Allot 

E. Calvert 

F. A, James 

K. S. Cripps «^ u. 

C. E. H, Qampbell 

R. F. Donne 

H.. P. W. Burton 

W. S. Montgomerie 

A. J. D. Torry 

G. A. R, Thursfield <^ 

H. WheweU 

E. J. Y. Brash 

S. Butt ..., 



£ 5. d. 



87 6 11 
2 10 
5 
10 
10 
5 
5 
10 
0. 5 

5 

2 

2 

2 

2 



10 
10 
10 
5 



£ 5. 

F.Dale 5 

P. E. Evans ...« 5 

H.W. Woollen 2 

W. H.R.Wright 5 

A. J. Wilmot 2 

R. W. Everitt 4 

W. Montgomerie 10 

A. D.Allen 5 

H. S. BaiTett (2nd Don.) 5 

Mr L..H.K. Bushe-Fox. 2 2 

H. A. Rose 1 1 

H. F. Russel-Smith 10 

G. A. Beresford ......... 1 1 

C. L. Holthouse 10 

Mr T. J. I!A. Bromwich. 1 1 

R: B. Brice-Smith 1 1 

K. S. Thomson 10 





6 

6 











6 



109 13 5 



Account of Expenditure. 



Receipts. 
To Subscriptions , 
PrgsQpt Deficit ..., 



£ 5. 

109 13 

27 5 



d. 
5 
9i 



136 19 2^ 



Expenditure, £ s. d. 

Cost of Labour 114 18 Hi 

Hire of Planks and 

Barrowsv^^ 1 S* Ot 

1200 Turf 6 

Rolling Ground 8 0^ 

321 Loads of earth ... 5 6 

Grass Seed 11 

Repairs and Sundries. 18 3. 

136 19 2i, 



The Lawn Tennis Club. 

President— VLt R. F. Scott. Hon. Treasurer— Mr L. H; K. Bushc-tox- 
Captain— A, E. Evans. Hon Secretary— A, C. Belgrave.- 

The season this year has been a very disappointing One. 
At the commenqement of the Term, we found ourselves in 
the somewhat unfortunate position of having no Secretary 
and only two old Colours. It was still hoped, however, that 
we should obtain the help of some of our '> veterans." Even 
these failed us, and only one, P. H. Winfield, to whom our 
thanks are due, was able to turn out, and only on a very few 
occasions. 

As a result, our score stands : — 

First VL : Played 13 ; Won 1 ; Lost 12. 
Second VL : Played 5 ; Won 2 ; Lost 3. 



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The following have played for us : — 

First VI. : A. E. Evans, A. C. Belgrave, H. C. Stanford, 
C. G. Sharp, G. A. Allen, V. C. Boddington, P. H. Winiield, 
E. H. P. Jolly, and J. S. Cassels. 

Second VI. : J. L. Troubridge, E. W. Willett, F. James, 
C. D. D. Hogan, H. PauUey, H. P. W. Burton, and U G. 
Comey. 

There was a fairly good entry for the Fresher's Tourna- 
ment, which ended in a win for J. S. Cassels, who played 
H. Paulley in the Final. 

Our thanks are due to Mr Bushe Fox for so kindly 
continuing to perform the duties of Honorary Treasurer to 
the Club. 



The full record of the matches is as follows : 

First VI. 
Opponents, Ground. 



King's 

Christ's 

ns' 



uwyn I 

King's , 

Christ's < 

Emmanuel , 

Dulwich Farm.. 

Queens' 

Peterhouse 

Caius 

Trinity 

Emmanuel 

Clare 

Trinity 

Caius ..«•» 



King's 

St. John's.. 
Christ's .... 
St. John's.. 



Queens' , 

St. John's... 

Caius 

Trinity 

Emmanuel . 

Clare 

St John's... 



Caius II , 

Emmanuel II.. 
Westminster .., 

King's II 

Queens' II 

Westminster... 

Caius II 

Queens' II 

King's II 



Second VL 

Caius 

Emmanuel... 

, Westminster , 

St. John's 



If 
Queens', 

King's,. 



Result 
For. Agst 



5 

3 
3 
1 

1 
3 
1 


3 
3 
3 



5 
6 
6 
5 
5 
6 
8 
9 
9 
6 
5 
6 



Scratched 
3 ... 6 
Scratched 



Lost 

Lost 

Won 

Scratched 

Lost 

Won 

Scratched 

Scratched 

Scratched 



Lady Margaret Boat Club. 

President—Mr L. H. K. Bushe-Fox. Treasurer— Mr J. J. Lister. 
Ist Captain — H. A. L. Laidlaw. 2nd Captain — L. R. D. Anderson! 
Hon. Sec.—C, J. W. Henslow. Junior Treasurer— T. M. Sibly. 1st Lent 
Captain — ^V. C. Boddington. 2nd Lent Captain— C, L. Holthouse. 
3rd Lent Captain— H. F. RusscU-Smith. , Additional Captain— G. a! 
Allen. 



Our Chronicle. 393 

Positions of the Boats.. 
May Races. 

First Boat Fourth on the River. 

Second Boat Sixteenth on the River. 

Lent Races. 

First Boat Second on the River. 

Second Boat Thirteenth on the River. 

Third Boat Twenty-fifth on the River. 

The excellent performance of the Lent boat led us to 
venture an entry for the Clinker Fours. Unfortunately no 
good racing ship was available, and we were perforce com- 
pelled to row in a boat quite unsuitable for such a race. 
We were unfortunate in drawing the winners for the first 
heat — ^Jesus coming up on our boat the whole way and 
winning easily. The crew were as follows: — 

St. lbs. 

V. C. Boddington {bow) 11 2 

7 H. L. Penfold 11 12 

3 K. S. Thomson 12 7 

J. M. Short (stroke) 11 10 

H. E. Chasteney (cox) 8 9 

The crews came up for practice on April 21st and are 
indebted to F. H. Jerwood of Jesus for his services as coach 
during the first week or so. 

The material throughout was heavy and promised well. 

The loss of Lewis at stroke, however, was rather hard to 
replace, and owing to the number of aspirants for the seat 
a large amount ot valuable time was lost. Eventually J. M. 
Short, who stroked the first Lent boat with such success, was 
selected. It was soon evident that whatever the boat lacked it 
had its complement of power, deficiency in form being made 
up for by individual hard work. Not till about a week before 
the races could the crew be finally made up, and, had this 
been possible earlier, we might have looked for even better 
results. 

The second boat started off with a fair amount of old 
material, but was considerably knocked out of time when 
its stroke was carried off to take his seat in the first crew. 
However, by the time the races came, owing to the untiring 
energy of the first boat captain, it was hoped that they 
were at least strong enough to retain their position of 
sandwich boat. 

First Night. 

Our first boat started off fully aware of their superiority 
over 3rd Trinity ; this confidence was somewhat shaken when 
3rd Trinity was seen to leap up on our boat from the start, 



394 Our Chronicle. 

and a most exciting race was witnessed to Ditton, with only 
a few feet separating the ball of their boat from our rudder, 
but up the Long Reach our crew^ staying well, drew away 
steadily, and at the post finished several lengths to th^ good. 
The second boat was pressed almost from the start and 
had a very hard race to keep away from Hall II., so much so 
that in their second race in the first division a stately paddle 
over was all they could accomplish. 

Second Night, 

The first boat got a good start and, rowing well, were 
relieved of all further danger from 3rd Trinity by Pembroke 
at the Willows. A change had taken place in front through 
Jesus bumping 1st Trinity the previous night, and though our 
men put out all their efforts to catch 1st Trinity, they failed 
to maike any appreciable impression. 

The second boat had a still harder race than on the first 
night, with Hall II. overlapping, but, thanks to the geo- 
metrical tendencies of their cox, our boat again escaped. 

Third Night 

Again the first boat had some uncomfortable moments, 
Pembroke coming up steadily from the start to the Willows-, 
but here our boat, keeping going very well, drew clean away 
after shooting the railway bridge. 

The second boat was quickly relieved of its pursuer by 
Magdalene, but, in spite of this, in their second race as 
sandwich boat were not able to make any impression on 
King's I. ; perhaps this may be somewhat accounted for by 
their remaining in their clinker boat and not risking them- 
selves in a frailer bark. 

Fourth Night. 

As on the three previous nights our first boat was in little 
danger from behind, but owing to a stiffish head wind First 
Trinity drew away from them, putting our only hope of a 
bump out of reach. 

The second boat at last failed to get over the course, 
being caught by Magdalene in the Plough Reach, and were 
thus removed from that unenviable position of sandwich 
boat. 

Considering the high standard of the first three boats the 
performance of our first boat may be considered satisfactory. 
The second boat, however, we should have liked to have 
seen relieved of its uncomfortable position by going up 
instead of down. 

We cannot close this short survey of the May races 
without reference to the valuable and energetic services of 



Our Chronicle, 395 

our President (Mr L. H, K. Bushe-Fox). There Is no doubt 
that the races of Wednesday and Friday bore witness to his 
experienced handling of the crews during the weeks of 
training. 

The monotony of training w^as most agreeably relieved by 
the kind entertainment of Mr L. H. K. Bushe-Fox, Mr Scott, 
and Mr and Mrs Sikes to breakfast, and Mr and Mrs Collin 
to dessert. 

In conclusion, We heartily wish every success to those 
whom the Lady Margaret Boat Club is about to lose. Would 
that all our members would emulate their example and take 
an active part in the doings of the Club at a time when the 
novelty of rowing has begun to wear off ! 

First Boat. 

st> lbs. 
L. R. D. Anderson (b<yw),„ 10 3 

2 H. A. L. Laidlavv 11 1 

3 C. L. Holthouse 11 4 

4 H. F. Russell-Smith 12 1 

5 R. Meldrum 13 1 

6 C. J. W. Henslow 12 11 

7 J. Fraser 11 5 

J. M. Short [stroke) 11 8 

H. E, Chasteney [cox) ^... 8 9 

Coach-^lj. H. K. Bushc-FoFX, 

Characters : 

Bouf, t)oes Hot show any very substantial improvement on last year's 
form. He finds great difficulty in using his body, and has in 
consequence a weak finish. Keeps going well. 

Two. Does not manage his slide properly ; tho result is that he is slow' 
into the water, and his finish is a lug* A very honest worker, and 
has been an excellent captain ki every way. 

Three. Does not seem to have gained much by his visit to stroke side ; 
tends to hurry his slide, and dip on his front stop, but always work» 
hard. He should endeavour not to be overcome by the excitement 
of the races. 

Four, Was " off form " for a while during practice, but improved in the 
last fortnight. He has still old faults of letting the body fall away 
as the hands come out, and of rowing the blade in instead of covering 
it at once. When in^ his blade always moves water 

Five. Cannot be called consistent in his rowing ; at times he omits to 
swing, which throws the rest of the crew out a good deal. He rows 
better than he did the last time he rowed in ihe May boat, and it 
would have been very hard to do without him. 

Six. Took some time to adapt himself to the methods of the rest, and 
hardly rowed up to his best form duriirg practice r inclined to let hisr 
slide go away, and rows his hands down at the finish } none the less 
he is one of the mainstays of the boat. 

Seven. Has suffered from the changes at the stroke thwart ; he is inclined 
to " hunch " himself on his front stop, let his slide go, a-nd use his 
arms too much at the finish. He has sustained his reputation for hard 



396 Our ChronicU, 

work. A touch of optimism might benefit his own as well as others' 
rowing. 

Stroke. Has come on a good deal during the term, but is still stiff and 
a trifle awkward. It is difficult to preserve a sense of rhythm when 
the button comes away from the thole at the finish. He had a difficult 
position to fill and filled it well. His deliberation when racing is 
remarkable. 

Cox. Is inclined to take Grassy Comer rather late and wide, but on the 
whole steers a sound course. Practice should make him a first-class 
steersman. 

Second Boat. 

St. Ibs« 
V. K. Haslam (haw) 10 1 

2 R. F. Donne 9 10 

3 C.Dixon 11 

4 H, L. Penfold 11 7 

5 D. E. Cruickshank 11 12 

6 P. A. Irving 11 2 

7 K. S.Thomson 12 6 

L. A, Allen (stroke) 11 2 

R. W. Hyde (cox) 8 6 

Coach— H. A. UXaidlaw. 

Characters : 

Bow. An unconventional oar. He has improved considerably during the 
Term ; works well for his weight ; but should realise that a finish, 
to be effective, must be in the water. 

THvo. Has suffered somewhat from his ability to row on both sides. 
When finally settled at two, he came on quickly ; always tries hard. 

Three. A somewhat variable quantity ; when he remembers to work his 
shoulders back he is capable of putUng in good work. 

Four. Has some trouble in getting his blade moving at the beginning, 
and has still a jerky finish. Always a useful oar and races well. 

Five. Does not look altogether happy on bow side. His slowness over 
the stretcher makes it very difficult to get his weight on to the oar 
when rowing anything more than 25. A little more nimbleness 
would double his efficiency. He is an honest trier. 

Six. Has too great a partiality for his back stops — get there too soon and 
stays there too long ; this makes him quick forward and slow in. 
When he learns to control his slide he should prove a great asset. 

Seven. Paddles with ease and a certain nonchalance — ^when rowing 
nonchalance more apparent than ease ; inclined to shy his blade and 
let his finish wash out. When racing he should watch stroke more 
closely. 

Stroke. Has improved out of knowledge during the term ; has still 
a tendency to hurry his finish, but in this respect he is not helped 
much by the men behind him. He rowed piuckily and with 
judgment when pursued over the course. 

Cox. Has taken some good corners, but is rather erratic in the straight. 
He can be relied ou to keep his head when racing, and when starting. 



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The Musical Society. 
The May Term Concert, 

Presidcnt—li. S. Foxwell, UJl. Treasurer— Dr L. E. Shortf.- 
Librarian— C. B. Rootham, M.A. Cof«m///t-e— Professor Rapson, Rev 
H. F. Stewart, B.D;, A. Y. Camptjell, A, C. Churchward, J. Eraser. 
V. C. Bckldihgtott, R. Brice-Smith, J. K. Deane, E. H. P. Muncey, 
A. Thome Waite, J. L. Troubridge, C. L. Holthouse, H. F. Russell-Smith, 
C. H. Ritchie, R. Stansfeld, J. B. Sterndale-Bennett. Hon. Sec^A. F. Hall, 
Conductor— C B. Rootham, M.A., Mus. Bac. 

The Cworv^,— Trebles— The Chapel Choristers. i4/tos— Messrs, Dunn 
and Thompson* Tenors — Prof Rapson, V. C. Boddington, R. Brice- 
Jhlith, J. W. Eastori, F. W. Hicks, H. C. H. Lane, E. H. P. Muncey, 
R. Stansfeld. Basses— Dt F. J. Allert, O. O. Barnes, A. J. Bentleyi 
C. Dixon, A. E. Evans, P. E. Evans, A. F. Hall, C. L. Holthouse, 
J. G. H. HolUapffel, Mr Hunt, O. Hughes Jones, R. W. Hyde, G. J. C. 
Marchaud, R. Meldrum, F. M. Moseley, F. Northorp, H. F. Russell-Smith, 
C. H. Ritchie, K. H. Scougal, J. M. Short, T. M. Sibly, K. S. Thomson^ 
J, L. Troubridge, J. B, Walker, A. R. Ycfrke, Mr Young. 

The programme was as follows : 

PART I. 

1. Enjlsf FOR TWO PIANOS../' Marche Heroique " * Saint-Sains 

J. L. Troubridge and W. A. AschaffenbuRG/ 

2* Madrigals {a) "Sweet Honey-Sucking Bees" Johti Wilhye 

(6) "Ught of my Soul" < ./?. L, de Pearsali 

The Chorus. 

J. B.iss Sk)ix> (With Choni9 for Men's Voices).. < 

"Coronach" * *.... .C. B. Roothdni 

A. F. Hall. 

4. Vioui^ ^L6...Last movement from Sonata in A major......./. 5. Bach 

H. H. H. Lorenz. 

5. Vocal Quartets... <a) " Gifts ".......« ^ ..v^ ....E. T. Sweeting 

(b) " It's oh r to be a Wild Wind"...............£/^r 

E. H. P. Muncey, V. C. Boddington, R. Stansfeld, A. F. Hall. 

6. Part Songs ^ (a) "Love's Fire" ....C. V.Stanford 

(b) "Lullaby of Life" Henry UsHa 

The Chorus. 

interval of 20 minutes, 

PART ir. 

7. Part Songs.. .(a) " Since Thou, O Fondest"..^ * C. H. H. Parry 

(ft) " O, my luve's like a red, red rose" Garrett 

The Chorus. 
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30S Our Chronictt. 

8. Song " There's a bower of roses " C. V, Stanford 

V. C. BODDINOTON* 

9. Pianoforte Solo Ballade in G minor ».....»»»• Chopin 

J. L. Troubridge. 

ra. Vocal Quartets "The Waking of the Fairies" Harvey Ldhr 

H, H. P. Muncey' V. C. BoDDiNGTON, R. Stansfeld, a. F. Hall. 

11. Song " Old Heidetberg" *. ^ Jensen 

A. Thorne VVaite. 

12. Chorus " Lady Margaret Boat Song** Garrett 

Soloists : First Boat Captains. 
Chorus. 

The reader of The Eagle has here before his eyes the 
programme of the May Concert in the order of performattce* 
It only remains to collect the general impression made by 
the music on his ear, and to estimate the value of the sevcnd 
items, considered according to their kind. 

First we note the prominence rightly given to Cambridge 
musicians in general, and, as in private duty bound, to 
St John's Organists m particular, and, secondly, the pre- 
dominance of vocal over instrumental pieces — the relation 
being that of 3 to 1. But what was lacking here in quantity 
was made good by quality, for the two pianists and the one 
violinist supported worthily the claims, if not of art against 
nature, at least of strings against voices. Thus Messrs 
Troubridge and Aschaffenburg were most happrly associated 
in Saint-Saens' march for two pianos, marking well the 
contrast between the flowing trio and the march proper, 
and working up to a iine climax f while the first named 
gentleman, besides discharging with taste and judgment the 
duties of accompanyist, was heard alone, and heard with 
much pleasure, in a ballade of Chopin's. He has good style 
and a nice touch, and the difficulties of the piece, which are 
considerable, were, no difficulty to him. 

The violin part in the last movement of a Bach Sonata 
was played by Mr Lorenz with care and delicacy. It is, 
perhaps, not strictly correct to style the Sonata a violin solo, 
for the piano has an equally important function to perform, 
and it was safe in Mr Rootham's hands. But whatever the 
piece be called it was good to hear. We are fortunately veiy 
familiar with Bach in the College Chapel, whether on the 
organ or through the medium of the choir, but we especially 
welcome the appearance of the famous name in the 
programme of a College concert, for we are well assured 
that this great genius has something to say to every 



Our Ch'omclc. 399 

performer and every hearer in every branch of musical art. 
Some years ago a German artist of renown was asked who, 
in his opinion, was the greatest musical genius in history^ 
He answered, without hesitation, "John Sebastian Bach, 
who turned everything he touched to music," and, we may 
add, turned all he touched to gold. We trust his name will 
often figure in our programmes, and always be atferrded with 
like success. 

The vocal solos were three in number, and were sung by 
bass, tenor, and baritone respectively. Mr Hall had selected 
Mr Rootham's noble setting of Scott*s " Coronach,'* and 
acquitted himself very well. It is, indeed, a work that 
deserves the best it can get on the part of soloist and chorus, 
for not only is it extremely well written, but it is full of 
imagination and poetic feeling. Mr Troubridge played the 
accompaniment with good effect, but we should greatly enjoy 
hearing it scored for a string band^ and trust that the com- 
poser may see his way to gratify our wish. Mr Boddington's 
pleasant voice was admirably suited to Stanford's ballad from 
his early opera, " The Veiled Prophet," one of our Cambridge 
Professor's happiest inspirations. A very welcome number 
was Jensen*s ** Alt Heidelberg du feine," sung, alas I in 
English, but very well sung, by Mr Thorne Waite. It 
is to be hoped that the next time Mr Thorne Waite sings it 
here (and may that time be soon) it will be in the original 
tongue. There is a world of German songs waiting for him 
to conquer, and he will not fail for want of voice or power 
of sympathetic treatment: 

So much for the solos. The part songs call for even, 
higher praise if not for longer comment, for it is these that 
give the concerts of the St John's Musical Society their 
peculiar cachet 

The size and character of the chorus is extremely 
satisfactory, and shews what enthusiasm and energy can 
do when properly directed upon responsive material. And 
in saying this we have most in mind that noble army of 
basses who followed so faithfully and zealously the conductor's 
lead. 

The selection of the part songs was admirable. The new 
is good, but so is also the old, and of all the pieces. 
16th century John Wilbye's dainty madrigal bore the pakn. 
Old and new are cunningly blended in Pearsall's 6 part 
Light of my Soul^ which was rendered most carefully and 
reverently. 

The strictly modern school was represented by Hubert 
Parry's feeling version of an exquisite "shorter poem" cf 
Robert Bridges, by Stanford's fine Love's Fire^ by Garrett's 
familiar and beautiful 0, my Luve^s like a red) red rose^ and by 



400 Our Chronicle, 

a pretty but rather slight thing of Henry Leslie's which 
was, we expect, inserted principally to please the chorus, 
who sang it with evident gusto. 

Besides the larger concerted efforts the College quartet 
wng three pieces in the style to which they have accustomed 
W3. The best, musically, was the Elgar ; we cared less for 
the Sweeting, but this was in great measure due to the 
somewhat commonplace words of James Thomson (not, be it 
noted, the author of The Seasons but him of the City of 
Dreadful Night), The balance of voices in these part songs 
was most happy and the effect delicious. 

The Concert ended, of course, with the Lady Margaret 
Boat Song^ the best of a!u its class, and the fitting crown to an 
evening's music in the College Hall. Now that we have 
it, it is a wonder how they did without it before Mr Glover 
^nd Dr Garrett wedded v§rse and musjc in praise of tlie 
JL»ady Margaret, her foundation, and its possible or actual 
achievement on the Cam. The Solo was supplied by 
the members of the First Boat. They were better together 
in their ship than in the third verse, the sixth line o{ which 
betrayed to the attentive ear a various reading. But they 
sang throughout with that sense of duty which is their 
property, and they looked exceedingly imposing. 

Our hearty thanks are due to the Secretary of the Musical 
Society, Mr Hall, for all he did in the way of organisation 
?ind arrangement, and to its Conductor lor all the good 
that such a pleasant evening means. If music really cgn^es 
back and makes her home in England from whose shores 
a malign combination has tried to banish her, St John's 
College and St John's Musical Society surely will be 
renienjbered as having helped tp the Restoration, 



The QohiEQn Ball, 

By permission of the Master and Fellows the College 
Ball was held in the Hall on Tuesday, June J 6th. Supper 
was served in the Combination Room ; there was a Marquee 
in the Chapel Court, and by permission of the Master the 
garden of tlie Lodge was illuminated, Mr L. H. K. Bushe^ 
Fox and Mr V, C, Boddington were the Secretaries, and the 
following acted as Stewards : Dr J. R. Tanner, Mr R. F, 
Scott, Mr L. H, K. Bushe-Fox, Mr J, Fraser, Mr R. Meldrum, 
Mr H. C. Stanford, Mr V. C. Boddington, Mr R. Brice-Smith, 
Mr F. W, Hicks, Mr V. W. J, Hobbs, Mr F. D. Morton, and 
Mr K. S. Thomson. The Ball was well attended, ancj 
dancing kept up until an early hour pn Wednesday morning. 



Our Chronicle, 401 

Theowgical Society. 

President— Pl. D. Allen. Ex-Presidents in residence—]. A. A. Hart, 
E. C. Oewick, H. E. Stuart, J. M. Swift. Secretary— F. A. W. Heaton. 
Treasurer— \\. H. Woollen. Committee—]. E. N. Jackson, C. S. Fleet. 

The Term has been very successful, and the papers full 
of interest. We ghould particularly like to record our 
deepest gratitude to Professor Kennett for his paper on 
" Isaiah," which will be long remembered by all those who 
had the great privilege of listening to him. The discussion 
which followed has created a record lasting till 11.45 p.m., 
and even then the time seemed too short. 

May 1st. E. C. Dewick, B.A., St John's College and Ridley Hall. 
"The Value of the Septuagint in Old Testament Study." 
H. D. Jackson's Rooms, I First Court. 

May 8th. Rev T. H. Hcnessy, Dean of Selwyn College. "The Old 
Testament in the hands of the Jews," C. J. W. Henslow's 
Rooms, B New Court, 

May 15th, Rev J. P. Whitney, B.D., of King's College. " Bishop Fisher 
and the Reformation in Cambridge." C. S. Fleet's Rooms, 
H First Court. 

May 22nd. Rev Professor R. H. Kennett, B.D., Chaplain of Queens' 
College, " Isaiah lii. 13 and liii." R. F. Donne's Rooms, 
'E, Second Court. 

May 28th. The Festival of the Ascension. 8 a.m. : Corporate Com- 
munion, 8.15 p.m. : Private Business Meeting. 

At the Private Business Meeting the following were 
elected to serve as officers and on the Committee diu ing the 
Michaelmas Term, 1908 :— 

President— F. A. W. Heaton. Sccretary—W. H. Woollen. Treasurer^ 
C. S. Fleet, Committee— \, C. Morton, R. F. Donne. 



The College Mission. 

President — ^The Master. Vice-Presidents — The President, Mr Mason, 
Mr Graves, Dr Sandys, Mr Cox. Committee — Mr Bushe-Fox, The Dean, 
Mr Hart (Senior Secretary), Mr Rootham, Dr Tanner, Mr Ward, Mr How 
(Senior Treasurer), P. N. F. Young, L. R. D. Anderson, A. D. Allen, 
t^. Brice-Smith, G. M. Cruickshank (Junior Secretary), F. W. Hicks, 
V. W. J. Hobbs, F. A. James, J. E. C. Ross, J. W. G. Stokes, J. E. Walker, 
V. K. Haslam, C. J. W. Henslow, C. L. Holthouse (Junior Treasurer), and 
W. H. W^ightman, 



402 Our Chronicta. 

The most important piece of news concerning the College 
Mission is the appointment of the Junior Missioner as an 
Admiralty Chaplain. At the end of June he is to join 
the Battleship H.A/.S. Ocean of the Mediterranean Squadron, 
We wish Mr H. S. Crole Rees a most successful career in his 
new sphere of duty. His loss will be felt very severely at the 
Mission, where his work has been most valuable and very 
highly appreciated, more particularly perhaps by the Mens' 
Club in which he took so great an interest. So far no one 
has been found to take his place, but we sincerely hope tliat 
the Vicar will not be left single handed to do the work of 
three for more than a very short time. 

We also regret that Mr Ward found it necessary to resign 
the post as Senior Treasurer which he has filled for some 
years, but we are quite sure that he will continue to show 
the same interest in the Mission as formerly in his official 
capacity. We welcome Mr How as his successor, feeling 
that the Mission finances will be in safe keeping in his 
hands. 

There has been a most welcome revival of interest in the 
Mission this year throughout the College, which has shown 
itself both in the number of visitors the Mission has 
entertained, and in the increase of the yearly subscriptions. 
These latter have reached a higher figure than they have for 
some years past, and we should like to take this opportunity 
of thanking the collectors for performing their arduous 
and thankless duty in so satisfactory a manner. We 
feel sure that the increase in the subscriptions is largely 
due to their energy, and we hope that in future years 
the collection will continue to increase until it reaches a sum 
more worthy of the size and traditions of the College than it 
is at present. 

We are iglad to say that there has been at any rate 
one tangible result of Mr Ingram's address at the Lent term 
meeting, in the form of a collection on behalf of one of 
the parishioners who has gone blind, but cannot yet be 
operated on. Several members of the College have under- 
taken to collect enough money to give this old parishioner 
an allowance of five shillings a week for a year. A similar 
collection is being made by members of the first year on 
behalf of another old and deserving parishioner who has 
fallen on bad days. Any one who has visited the Mission 
lately will know how grateful they are for this help. 

The usual collection of clothes is being made and we hope 
to be able to include in it this year a few cricket necessaries 
such as bats, pads and gloves. 



Our Chronicle. 403 

We hope that a larger number than ever will be able 
lo come to Cambridge on the August bank holiday, and 
we hope the weather will be as good for it this year as 
it was last. 

At a meeting of the Committee the following new officers 
were elected : 

Rev J. C. H. How {Senior Treasurer)^ C. L. Holthouse {Junior 
Secretary)^ and C. H. Ritchie {Junior Treasurer). 

The following were elected to the Committee : 

A. R. Thompson, A. J. Bentley, H. P. W. Barton, R. F. Donne. 
F. B. Fisher, G. I. C. Blarchand and S. L. Thompson. 



THE LIBRARY. 

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Donations and additions to the Library during Quarter 
ending Lady-Day, 1908* 



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Brown (H.) The true Principles of Gunnery 

investigated and explained. 4to. Lond. 

1777. 6.15.3 / 

•Bonwicke (Ambrose). Life. 2nd Edition.\ 

16mo. Oxford, 1846. 11.29.43 

•White (H. Kirke). Remains. With an account 

of his Life, by Robert Southey. 11th 

Edition. 32mo. Lond. 1825. 4.11.42 

•Norwood (G.) The Riddle of the Bacchae,\ 

the last Stage of Euripides' Religious Views. I jhe Author 

8vo. Manchester, 1908. 7.48.8 ) 

Bhandarkar (R. G.) First Book of Sanskrit. \ 

12th Edition. Revised by S. R. Bhandarkar. 

12mo. Bombay, 1896. 11.33.18 

H. (F. W.) The World's Week of Human 

History. 12mo. Lond. 1907. 11.11.57 

Forster (Rev. C.) The One Primeval Language 

traced experimentally through ancient In- 
scriptions in alphabetic Characters of lost 

Powers from the Four Continents. 2nd 

Edit. 8vo. Lond. 1852. 9.19.34 / 



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DONORS. 

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of the true and catholic Doctrine of the I o^„ . xu o^— .-«« 

Sacrament. With a Preface by Rev. H. f *^^^- ^- ^' Greenup. 

Wace. 8vo. Lond. 1907. 11.8.36 ) 

* Rivers (W. H. R.) The Influence of AlcohoK 

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Lectures delivered at the Royal College of \ The Author. 

Physicians in 1906. 8vo. Lond. 1908.1 

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Foljambe (C. G. S.), Mh Earl of Liverpool, and 

Reade (Compton). The House of Cornewall. 

4to. Hereford, 1908. 10.29.84 

♦Harker (A). Petrology for Students. 4th 
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Additions, 



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Allen (W. C.) A critical and exegetical Commentary on the Gospel 

according to S. Matthew. 2nd Edition. (International Critical 

Commentary). 8vo, Edin. 1907. 9.7. 
Cambridge Modern History. Vol. V. The Age of Louis XIV. 8vo. 

Camb. 1908. 1.2.54. 
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University of Cambridge for the Years 1501-1542, Edited by W. G. 

Searle. 8vo. Camb. 1908. 5.27.21. 
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the Editor's Greek Text and edited, with Introduction, Notes, and 

Indices by R.H.C. 8vo. Lond. 1908. 9.34.46. 
Cornill (C.) Introduction to the Canonical Books of the Old Testament 

Translated by G. H. Box. 8vo. Lond. 1907. 9.40.53. 
*Cotterill (C. C.) Human Justice for those at the bottom : an Appeal to 

those at the top. 8vo. Lond. 1907. 1.37.68. 
Cumont (F.) Les Religions Orientates dans le Paganisme Romain. 8va 

Paris, 1906. 
Cunningham (W.) The Growth of English Industry and Commerce in 

Modern Times. 2 Vols. 8vo. Camb. 1907. 1.43.6,7. 
.Dalberg-Acton (J. E. E.) \st Baron Acton. Historical Essays and Studies. 

Edited by J. N. Figgis and R. V. Laurence. 8vo. Lond. 1907. 5.35.52. 
The History of Freedom and other Essays. Edited by J. N. Figgis 

and R. V. Laurence. 8vo. Lond. 1907. 5.35.53. 
Lectures on Modern History. Edited by J. N. Figgis and R. V. 

Laurence. 8vo. Lond. 1907. 5.35.54. 
Dictionary (New English) on historical Principles. Edited by Dr. J. A. H 

Murray. Polygenous-Premious. 4to. Oxford, 1907. 
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Skelton. Edited by R. L. Ramsay. (Extra Series, 98). Svo. Lond* 

1906. 4.6. 

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Now first edited by W. H. Hulme. (Extra Series, 100). 8vo. Lond. 

1907. 4.6. 

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Papyri. Part V. Edited with Translations and Notes by B. P. 

Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. 4to. Lond. 1908. 9.15. 
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Religion. 2nd Edition. Svo. Lond. 1907. 9.19.62. 
Helbing (Dr. R.) Gramraatik der Septuaginta, Laut-und Wortlehre. Svo. 

Gottingen, 1907. 9.334. 
Historical MSS. Commission. Calendar of the MSS. of the Marquis of 

Bath, preserved at Longleat, Wiltshire. Vol. III. (Matthew Prior 

Papers). 8vo. Dublin, 1908. 



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St. J. B. Wynne Willson*. With numerous Illustrations by A. P. 

Garnett. 4to. Edin. 1899. 4.9.23. 
Martin (J.) Bibliographical Catalogue of privately printed Books. 2nd 

EdiUon. 8vo. Lond. 1854. 14.14.2. 
Milligan (G.) St. Paul's Epistles to the Thessalonians. The Greek Text 

with Introduction and Notes. 8vo. Lond. 1908. 9.7.23. 
Murray (G.) The Rise of the Greek Epic. 8vo. Oxford, 1907. 7.48.7. 
Oxford Historical Society. Vol. L. Remarks and Collections of Thomas 

Hearne. Vol. VIII. (Sept 23, 1722— August 9, 1725). 8vo. Oxford, 

1907. 5.26.99. 
Palaeontographical Society. Vol. LXI. Issued for 1907. 4to. Lond. 

1907. 13.2.13. 
Patres Apostolici. Textum recensuit F. X. Funk. 2 Vols. Editio 2. 8vo. 

Tubingae, 1901. 
Ramsay (Sir J. H.) The Dawn of the Constitution or the Reigns of 

Henry III. and Edward I. (a.d. 1216—1307). 8vo. Lond. 1908. 

5.35.55. 
Rouse (W. H. D.) The Year's Work in Classical Studies 1907. Edited 

by W. H. D. R. 8vo. Lond. 1907. 7.48.21. 
Salmond (J. W.) The Law of Torts. 8vo. Lond. 1907. K.12.5. 
Scargill-Bird (S. R.) A Guide to the various Classes of Documents pre- 
served in the Public Record Office. 3rd Edition. 8vo. Lond. 1908. 

16.3.25*. 
Schubert (H. von). Outlines of Church History. Trans, by M. A. Canney. 

With a Supplementary Chapter by Miss A. Gardner. (Theological 

Translation Library). 8vo. Lond. 1907. 9.40.52. 
Scottish Record Publications. The Register of the Privy Council of 

Scotland. Edited and abridged by P. H. Brown. Second Series. 

Vols. VII. and VIII. 8vo. Edin. 1906-8. 5.2.21,22. 
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Notes from the College Records^'COHHtmed .1 

Strada d'Allemagna ..... 33 

Sketches . .34 

The Dromedary ..... 40 

Alma Mater .41 

Confessions from the Memoirs of Mr Primrose . 45 

A Lament .50 

Corstopitum . . . . . . 51 

Sir Robert Calder . .58 
Obituary: 

Professor Thomas Wilson Dougan M.A. . 64 

Rev Canon Charles Isaac Atherton, M.A. . . .65 

The Johnian Dinner 1907 .... 71 

Our Chronicle . . . . .73 

The Library ...... 120 

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FronUspieu — 

Our Jubilee ;..... 125 

To The Eagle . .128 

Notes from the College Recotd&-~Coniinued . . 130 

The Art of Poetry . .162 

After Sw»venty Years . . . 164 

A Warning .268 

A Rowing Nightmare ..... 170 

Ghost-Ballad . .174 

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The Hill-Aliar . . . . . .195 

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To a Compositor ..... 300 

Sonnet . . . .301 

The Commemoration Sermon .... 302 

The Vanguard .308 

From Cahillus ..... 309 

Rhodope . . -310 

The Contents of a Letter Box . . . 318 

The Tod . 325 

Toothache ...... 329 

A Conservative Utopia ..... 334 

Mr Stephens ..... 336 

Thoughts on a Sense of Humour .... 339 

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Rev Alfred James Poynder M.A. 349 

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