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HEARNE'S 

REMARKS   AND   COLLECTIONS 
VOL.  II. 


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PRINTED  BY  HORACE  HART,   PRINTER  TO  THE  UNIVERSITY 


REMARKS   AND    COLLECTIONS 


OF 


THOMAS    HEARNE 


§>uum  caique 


VOL.    II 
(MARCH    20,    1707  — MAY    23,     1710) 


EDITED   BY 


C.    E.    DOBLE,    M.A. 

WORCESTER   COLLEGE,    OXFORD 


PRINTED   FOR   THE   OXFORD    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY 
AT    THE    CLARENDON    PRESS 

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VIRO   HUMANISSIMO,   INGRAM    BYWATER, 

AMATORI   LITTERARUM,   LITTERATORUM    HOMINUM    AMICO, 

HAEC  ANTIQUARII   NOSTRI   COLLECTANEA 

BONA   EIUS  VENIA  GRATUS   DEDICO. 


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THERE  is  but  little  that  need  be  added,  at  the  close  of  this  second 
volume,  to  the  few  lines  prefixed  to  the  first  instalment  of  the 
present  edition  of  HEARNE'S  Collections.  I  have  already  devoted  to  this 
task  very  much  of  the  leisure  of  three  years ;  and  yet  we  who  have  under- 
taken to  place  before  the  members  of  the  OXFORD  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY 
this  singularly  complete  picture  of  an  eighteenth-century  scholar's  life 
can  only  claim  to  have  made  a  substantial  beginning. 

As  regards  the  text,  I  have  continued  to  follow  the  rules  laid  down  for 
my  guidance  when  I  first  took  the  work  in  hand,  and  have  found  it 
increasingly  difficult  to  make  many  large  excisions  without  seriously 
diminishing  the  value  of  the  book.  I  have  spared  no  pains — with  after 
all  but  imperfect  success — to  present  my  readers  with  an  accurate  repro- 
duction of  Hearne's  manuscript.  The  abstract  of  the  correspondence 
has  been  made  perhaps  unnecessarily  full,  even  at  the.  risk  of  occasional 
repetition,  in  order  to  clearly  indicate  HEARNE'S  sources  of  information, 
and  the  use  which  he  made  of  them.  In  the  notes,  I  have  drawn  as 
largely  as  I  was  able — though  much  less  copiously  than  I  could  have 
wished — upon  material  which  is  still  unprinted.  RAWLINSON'S  MS. 
Collections  for  a  Continuation  of  the  Athenae  Oxonienses — here  quoted 
as  Rawl.  J.  quarto  and  folio — have  been  consulted  throughout.  One  can 
only  hope  that  a  scholar  in  every  way  competent  for  the  task  may  speedily 
be  induced  to  carry  on  the  great  work  of  ANTONY  WOOD.  I  have  like- 
wise made  a  cursory  examination  of  the  BALLARD  collection  of  Letters, 
which  throws  more  light  on  HEARNE'S  diaries  than  perhaps  all  other 
authorities  put  together.  Often  as  it  has  been  laid  under  contribution, 
this  vast  body  of  correspondence  still  contains  many  a  vein  of  information 
hitherto  unworked  that  will  richly  repay  the  historian  and  the  biographer. 
It  is  no  exaggeration  to  say  that,  when  rendered  accessible  to  students  of 
the  eighteenth  century,  the  BALLARD  collection  will  be  recognised  by  them 
as  one  of  the  most  interesting  and  valuable  masses  of  documents  for 
certain  aspects  of  their  subject  which  are  anywhere  extant.  I  have  set 
aside  much  material  collected  from  printed  books,  in  order  to  include  as 
many  illustrative  quotations  as  possible  from  the  sources  here  indicated. 

It  must  again  be  mentioned  that  the  Index  is  a  merely  temporary  one, 
though  it  will,  it  is  hoped,  be  found  to  contain  the  greater  part  of  the 


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important  names  occurring  in  the  present  volume.  It  is  proposed  to 
issue  a  full  Index  on  the  completion  of  the  work,  which  is  unfortunately 
some  years  distant ;  and  we  have  thought  that  it  would  be  a  waste  of 
labour  and  a  vain  expense  to  compile  an  elaborate  and  permanent  Index 
to  each  successive  portion  of  it. 

I  have  only  to  repeat  my  obligations  to  those  friends  to  whom  I  have 
already  professed  myself  indebted,  and  to  the  officials  of  the  Bodleian 
Library,  whose  patience  I  must  often  have  sorely  tried,  but  have  never 
yet  found  to  fail.  Nor  must  I  forget  to  express  my  sense  of  the  kindness 
of  my  critics,  who,  while  furnishing  me  with  many  valuable  suggestions, 
have  welcomed  most  generously  and  indulgently  a  piece  of  work  of  the 
deficiencies  of  which  I  am  painfully  conscious,  but  which,  under  circum- 
stances of  much  difficulty,  has  been  the  best  which  I  could  offer.  To 
edit  these  Collections  as  they  might  and  should  be  edited  would  require 
many  years  of  leisure ;  and  it  was  perhaps  presumptuous  in  me  to  attempt 
'  to  stand  in  the  gap.'  I  must  be  satisfied  if  each  succeeding  volume 
shows  an  advance  on  its  predecessors.  And  I  shall  be  truly  grateful  for 
any  corrections  and  suggestions  which  students  of  HEARNE  and  his  period 
may  think  fit  to  send  me.  Even  so,  it  is  scarcely  permissible  to  hope 
that  this  work  will  be  found  wholly  worthy  of  one  who  to  use  the  words 
of  DR.  THOMAS  SMITH — himself  one  of  the  most  learned  men  of 
a  learned  generation — 'ran  away  with  burdens  upon  his  shoulders 
which  would  crush  others  to  atoms.' 

C.  E.  D. 

OXFORD  : 
September  29,  1886. 


REMARKS    AND    COLLECTIONS. 


Sbuum  cutgue. 


THOMAS   HEARNE. 


VOL.  XIV. 

March  20,  1707  (Th.).  Antiquae  urbis  splendor  per  Jac.  Laurum. 
To  be  consulted  for  Livy.  —  Sr.  William  Whitlock  and  Mr.  Bromley  have 
written  to  Dr.  Hudson  signifying  the  Miscarriage  of  the  Bill  for  Printing. 

March  21  (Fri.).  Yesterday  was  incorporated  A.M.  Mr.  Stevens, 
Master  of  Arts  of  Edinborough.  He  has  a  Living  not  far  from  Oxon,  &  is  a 
great  Favourite  of  BP.  Burnett's.  He  is  reckon'd  by  those  that  know  him 
a  Learn'd  Man,  &  I  am  told  was  requested  by  two  or  three  BPS  to  answer 
Mr.  Dodwell's  Epistolary  Disc,  but  he  declin'd  it.  His  being  incorporated 
is  an  Innovation,  for  a  M.  of  Arts  of  Scotland^  us'd  only  to  be  Bach,  of 
Arts  with  us.  But  this  is  owing  to  Dr.  Lancaster,  Vice-chanc.,  who  is  a  10 
second  Smooth-boots. 

March  22.  H.  to  Thoresby.  Printed :  Correspondence  of  Ralph  Thoresby, 
ii.  48  sq.  Hickes  to  H.  About  31  years  ago  Hickes  gave  several  Roman 
coins  and  six  or  seven  Roman  weights  to  the  Library ;  he  hears  that  about  ten 
years  since  they  were  still  in  the  same  bag,  and  that  the  weights  have  now  dis- 
appeared. Asks  H.  to  make  confidential  enquiries.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H. 
Please  look  again  into  Leland  for  Walter  Hilton,  under  the  name  of  '  Gual- 
therus  Reclusus.'  Richard  Hampole  author  of  similar  works ;  wonders  that 
some  have  not  been  translated  by  the  Benedictines  (d.  Feast  of  St.  Michael 
1349,  and  afterwards  canonized).  Hy.  Cuffe,  Fellow  of  Merton,  transcriber 
and  translator  of  Cotton  MS.  Nero  D.  x.  i  de  rebus  gestis  in  S.  Concilia  Nicaeno; 
author  of  Greek  verses  prefixt  to  Camden's  Brit.  Remarks  on  J.  Vignoli  de 
columna  Imperatoris  Antonini  Pii  Dissertatio  (Rome  1705)  ;  Bagford  and  Wallis 
on  printing ;  Sloane's  Jamaica ;  Letter  from  Geneva  to  the  University  of 
Oxon,  with  answer. 

March  23.  Fra.  Brokesby  to  H.  Will  make  enquiries  for  Burton's  & 
Chetwynd's  collections  for  a  History  of  Leicestershire,  and  will  send  himself 
several  corrections  of  the  Additions  to  Camden,  if  an  Appendix  is  designed. 
Mr.  Dodwell  advises  H.  to  write  himself  to  Gronovius  about  the  inscription. 


1  Yet  however  there  is  a  statute  for  it  and  this  Statute  hath  been  made  use  of  upon 
occasion,  as  for  John  Keil,  &c.  tho'  it  hath  been  much  clamour'd  against. 
VOL.  II.  B 

T.>   V 


2  H  EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

March  24  (Mon.).  Dr.  Chelwood  is  made  Dean  of  Gloucester.  Mr. 
Chamberlayne  Dashwood  having  made  some  Interest  for  Member  of  Par- 
liament for  the  County  of  Oxon  the  next  Sessions,  in  opposition  to  my 
Ld.  Realeton,  my  IA  Guildford  writ  him  the  following  Letter,  which,  (with 
some  arguments  from  the  Earl  of  Abbingdon.,  who  has  turn'd  about,  & 
cring'd  to  the  Whiggish  Interest  again,  as  several  others  have  done,) 
occasion'd  him  to  desist,  to  the  Amazement  of  several  Honest  Gentle- 
men. 

Sr.  I  would  not  be  understood  by  this  to  depart  from  my  Engagements  to 
10  you,  which  I  do  assure  you  shall  be  as  firm  as  ever,  if  you  think  fit,  not- 
withstanding this,  to  stand  for  the  County.  But  considering  how  dubious  the 
Event  of  the  Election  will  be,  and  the  Great  Merit  of  the  Duke  of  Marl- 
borough,  &  how  serviceable  it  would  be  to  us,  and  the  Nation  in  general,  if  on 
this  occasion  of  serving  his  son,  we  could  oblige  him  in  our  Interest,  &  thereby 
make  the  whole  County  more  easy,  &  Sr  Robert  Jenkinson  more  secure  ;  I 
take  the  Liberty  to  propose  to  you,  the  accepting  my  Interest  in  Banbury,  in- 
stead of  that  of  the  County.  I  do  not  mean  by  this  a  precarious  Interest,  but 
such  a  one,  as  never  to  oppose  you,  when  you  think  fit  to  stand  for  that  Cor- 
poration, and  to  assist  you  whenever  you  shall  command  me.  My  Affairs 
20  won't  permitt  me  to  wait  on  the  Gentlemen  myself  ;  but  I  should  be  parti- 
cularly oblig'd  to  you,  if  you  would  communicate  this  to  them,  &  let  them 
know,  that  I  expect  no  Fruits  of  this  Letter,  without  they  think  it  for  the 
Service  of  the  County,  &  will  readily  come  into  it. 

<>* 

*>  » 

I  am, 
Your  most  faithfull 

humble  Servant 

GUILFORD. 

London  Mar.  nth.  1706. 


30  Dr.  Hudson  having  perform'd  the  office  of  Bursar  last  year  much  to  the 
Credit  of  University  College,  as  well  as  of  himself,  they  have  this  day 
resolv'd  to  continue  him  another  year. 

March  26  (Wed.).  Mr.  Badger  tells  me  that  he  has  in  his  Study 
Hesychius  with  several  MS*  notes,  critical  &  valuable,  of  Dr.  Gerard 

Langbaine's. 

March  27  (Th.).  This  Day  the  RA  Hon^e.  fames  Cecil  Earl  of  Salisb. 

was  created  A.M.  of  this  university,  being  presented  by  the  Orator  who 

spoke  as  usual,  upon  the  occasion.   —   A  New  Building  on  the  North 

side  of  Queen's  Coll.  being  now  carrying  on  Dr.  Hudson  has  contributed 

40  towards  it  20  Guineas. 

March  29  (Sat.).  InPtgnon'uss  Symbolic  Epistles,  8°.  P.  12.  A  rt.  Seld, 
Ep.  44.  is  a  large  Defence  of  Livy  against  Benius,  which  must  be  con- 
sider' d  in  my  Preface. 

1  If  H.  writes  himself  M.  A.  and  Keeper  of  the  Public  Library,  .  .  he  may 
thence  conclude  that  it  will  ly  in  your  Power  to  gratify  him  when  he  may 
have  Occasion  to  consult  you.' 

March  27.  Kent  to  H.  It  is  true  that,  being  unhappily  engaged  in  mad 
company,  he  did  take  a  shilling,  but  not  with  any  intent  of  listing.  Hopes  to 
get  out  of  the  difficulty. 

March  29.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  When  he  sees  Tanner,  will  press  him 
to  publish  his  collections  on  Leland  ;  H.  has  already  transcribed  the  Itinerary. 


March  24- April  3.]       VOLUME  XIV,  PAGES  2-10.  3 

March  31  (Mon.).  The  Master  of  Univers.  Coll.  has  in  8™.  a  MS* 
containing  some  of  Tutty's  Epistles.  —  The  Place  Mr.  Milks  has  quoted  in 
his  Answ.  to  MX  Dodw.  p.  108.  out  of  Justin  is  read  thus  in  the  Paris 

Edition  of  Rob.  Stephens  An.  1551 Mr.  Milles  has  translated  these 

last  words,  but  the  other  will  be  punished :  Since  'tis  by  God's  Pleasure  that 
they  both  exist  and  are  punished,  as  if  KoXafomu  were  the  future  Tense  :  & 
by  his  correction  &  interpunction  made  nonsense  of  the  Greek,  whereas 
as  they  are  commonly  printed  they  are  plain  and  signify  thus  much,  but 
as  for  the  other,  (the  bad  souls)  they  are  punished  as  long  as  God  pleases 
they  should  both  exist  and  be  punished.  —  Just.  1.  2.  v.  Valde  (inquit  10 
J.  Fr.  Gron.)  suspicor  Trogum  Pomp,  scripsisse  nee  armorum,  sed 
dominiorumjure  vincendos.  Vide  Gronov.  ad  Senec.  de  Constantia  sapientis 
cap.  14. 

April  2  (Wed.).  Yesterday  Mr.  Wilson,  BP.  of  the  Isle  of  Man,  coming 
to  the  Publick  Library,  he  was  very  curious  in  seeing  the  MSSte  &  other 
Rarities,  and  told  me  that  lately  were  found  several  Urns  in  the  Isle  of 
Man  under  Barrows,  full  of  Bones,  &  that  no  Coyns  were  found  near 
them.  Without  doubt  they  were  Danish,  the  Danes  using  to  burn  their 
Bodies.  He  also  says  several  Axes  were  found,  which  I  suppose  might 
be  Sacrificing  or  at  least  Battle  Axes.  Several  Inscriptions  also  he  men-  20 
tion'd  to  have  been  discover'd  there ;  but  the  Letters  he  could  make  nothing 
of.  Perhaps  Runick.  Qucere  ?  He  promis'd  to  send  Dr.  Hudson  an  exact 
copy  of  ym. 

April  3  (Th.).  The  BP.  of  Man  was  created  Dr.  of  Divinity  this  day. 
At  the  same  time  Mr.  Shaw,  a  Gentleman  Commoner  of  Trinity,  of  about 
6  years  standing  had  his  Degree  of  A.M.  given  him,  by  virtue  of  the 
Chancellor's  Letters.  He  is  son  of  Sr.  John  Shaw  Baronett.  &  has  the 
character  of  an  Ingenious  Gentleman.  —  In  the  window  of  a  Chamber 
on  the  West-side  of  the  Quadrangle  of  University  College  is  the  Picture 
of  Mr.  Charles  Greenwood  (as  'tis  suppos'd,  from  the  Painting  of  green  30 
trees  by)  &  in  another  window  some  armes,  with  1625,  the  year  when  K. 
Charles  the  first  came  to  ye  Crown,  added.  I  believe  this  was  Mr.  Green- 
wood'^ Chamber,  and  perhaps  his  picture  was  put  in  the  window,  (as  also 
the  said  date  and  arms,  &  the  Regal  Crown  of  England  in  the  Study)  by 
Sir  Simon  Bennett,  a  very  great  Benefactor  to  University  College,  and 
Pupil  to  the  said  Mr.  Greenwood.  N.B.  Over  the  Door  is  put  C.  G.  which 
shows  'twas  Greenwood's  room.  —  ...  A  Book  in  Selden's  Library, . .  intit. 
Epistola  Fratris  Roger ij  Baconis,  de  secretis  operibus  Artis  &f  Natures,  § 
de  utilitate  MagicB.  Operd  Johannis  Dee  Londinensis  e  pluribus  exemplar  i- 
bus  castigata  olim,  et  ad  sensum  integrum  restiluta.  Nunc  verb  a  quodam  40 
verilatis  amatore,  in  gratiam  ver<z  scientite  candidatorum  for  as  emissa ; 
cum  notis  quibusdam  partim  ipsius  Johannis  Dee,  partim  edentis.  Hamburgi, 


Oxford  literary  gossip.  'Some  time  since  I  was  told  that  King  Charles  II 
design'd  that  you  should  have  publish'd  the  Alexandrian  MS*.  I  would  fain 
know  what  hindred?  Mr.  Stephens  (Edinburgh)  incorporated  M.  A.  (instead 
of  B.  A.  as  usual)  through  influence  of  Dr.  Lancaster,  &c.  New  buildings  at 
Ch.  Ch.,  C.  C.  C.,  Queen's.  Intends  to  examine  Mr.  Badger's  Hesychius  with 
above  200  critical  notes  by  Dr.  Langbaine. 

March  31.     P.  Gordon  to  H.     Hopes  to  get  some  subscriptions  to  Livy. 

B  2 


4  H  EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

Ex  Bibliopolio  Frobeniano.  Anno  CIC  .1C.  CXVIII.  Remember  to  tell 
Dr.  Smith  of  this,  who  has  not  taken  notice  of  it  in  his  Life  of  Dee.  The 
Epistle  itself  contains  70  pages  ;  the  Notes,  8.  Various  Readings  &  con- 
jectures are  added  throughout  in  the  margin.  .  . 

April  7  (Mon.).  Mr.  Humph.  Smith  formerly  of  Queen's  Coll.  now  of 
Dartmouth  in  Devonsh.  is  writing  the  Life  of  Dr.  Pocock.  He  has  writ  to 
Mr.  Osborne  of  Exeter  Coll.  about  it,  &  tells  him  'twill  be  ready  for  the 
Press  by  Midsommer  next.  'Tis  to  be  in  English.  He  wants  the  Name 
of  his  Tutor  whilst  he  was  of  Corpus  Christi.  None  of  that  House  can 
10  tell  it.  He  should  consult  Ant.  a  Wood's  3d  vol.  in  Mr.  Tanner's  Hands. 
Ask  also  Dr.  Smith.  —  'Tis  Joan.  Verwey,  who  publish'd  a  greek 
Grammar,  Goudce  1691.  8°.  is  the  Person  who  designs  a  new  Ed.  of 
Hesychius. 

April  1O  (Th.).  The  Master  of  university  tells  me  that  he  knows 
several  things  of  Dr.  Pocock  which  may  be  proper  to  be  added  in  the  Life 
of  him  now  doing  by  Mr.  Smith.  —  Ask  LX  Smith  whether  the  Funeral 
Sermon  upon  ArchbP.  Usher  was  ever  printed.  —  One  Giffard  a  Non- 
conformist is  writing  a  chronology.  I  am  told  he  was  a  Cambridge  Man. 
Queer e  ?  —  To  be  put  in  the  Index  of  Livy  :  Calva  xxiii.  24.  Elicere  ad 
iQcertamen  xxiii.  26,  27.  Contracta  certamina  xxiii.  26.  Obstinare  animis 
xxiii.  29. 

April  12  (Sat.).  The  BP.  of  Worcester,  as  I  am  told,  says  he  was  made 
Bach,  of  Arts  the  next  day  after  Edge-Hill  Fight1,  and  that  he  was  A.M. 
at  1 7  years  of  Age.  (See  the  2d  Ed.  of  Ath.  Oxon.)  —  In  RushwortKs 
Hist.  Coll.  Part  2d.  vol.  2d.  P.  980.  &  p.  1348.  A  Letter  of  ArchbP.  Laud 
to  BP.  Hall.  Consult  it.  More  correct  in  Heytin's  Life  of  ArchbP.  Laud, 


April  5.  Hickes  to  '  Mr.  Joseph  Hearn.'  Regret  at  Mr.  '  Bushes' 
death.  '  I  have  200  copies  of  my  book  at  Oxford,  of  wch  he  was  to  send  me 
up  30,  and  he  had  711  odd  money  of  mine  in  his  hand,  wch  he  was  to  pay  to 
Mr.  Presid*  of  C.  C.  C.  for  Mr.  John  Hall,  and  I  do  not  doubt  but  it  is  safe.' .  . 
Has  written  to  the  Principal  to  send  him  the  final  portion  of  the  Gospels  through 
Hearne.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  Hopes  that  Leland  de  Scriftoribus  &  Boston  of 
Bury  will  be  published  by  a  competent  hand ;  will  carefully  examine  Vol.  I.  of 
the  LXX.  Expected  Dr.  Bentley  or  some  one  under  his  direction  to  edit 
Hesychius,  Bp.  Pearson's  emendations  &c.  of  that  author  being  all  preserved 
in  Trinity  College  Library. 

April  10.  Barnes  to  H.  Asks  for  a  transcript  of  a  few  lines  from  MS. 
Barocc.  n.  203.  Could  have  Pindar  ready  in  a  fortnight.  Nearly  ready  with 
Iliad  I-VI ;  no  proposals  from  Oxford,  so  '  forced  to  be  content  ye  work  be 
done  at  Cambr.'  Dr.  Tudway  fully  restored  by  '  Duke  Marlborough's 
interest.' 

April  12.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  Sends  title  of  Friar  Bacon's  Letter  de 
Secretis  Operibus  Artis  et  Naturae  corrected  by  John  Dee  (Selden,  Art.  B.  75, 
8vo.),  not  noticed  by  Smith  in  the  Life  of  Dee.  Bp.  Wilson  created  D.D.  on 
the  3rd  inst. ;  several  coins  (probably  Danish,  with  Runic  inscriptions)  lately 
found  in  the  Isle  of  Man.  Book  received  from  Dr.  Charleton  ;  though  printed 


1  It  was  Oct.  25. 


April  3-14.]  VOLUME  XIV,  PAGES  10-16.  5 

p.  4O0.1  —  Calvin  upon  a  piece  of  Seneca  to  be  put  in  the  Bodl.  Cat.  See 
in  one  of  the  last  vols. 

April  13  (Sun.).  Queer e  about  a  Book,  newly  publish'd  in  8V0.,  call'd 
the  Phoenix,  which  pretends  to  give  an  Account  of  Fragments  from 
MSSts,  in  which  the  2  Author  says  he  has  been  conversant  for  about  20 
years.  —  Mr.  Proast,  Mr.  Borscough,  Mr.  Wall,  Mr.  Smith  of  Queen's 
Coll.  all  Excell*  Scholars,  yet  not  of  the  North.  The  first  ded.  his  Argu- 
ment about  Toleration  to  the  Master  of  University,  Dr.  Charlelt ;  but  the 
Master's  Name  mention'd  only  in  some  few  Copies.  The  Master  put 
him  upon  that  Subject.  —  Newly  printed  at  the  Theatre  the  Geneva  10 
Letter  to  our  university,  with  the  university's  Answer  :  in  two  sheets  of 
Paper  in  folio.  The  Letter  of  Geneva  is  since  reprinted  in  the  Courant 
which  came  to  Town  last  night,  &  in  the  next  Courant  the  Answer  is 
promis'd.  Several  honest,  understanding  Members  of  the  university  seem 
to  be  averse  both  to  the  design  of  the  Answer  itself,  &  the  Publication  of 
it.  —  Mr.  Smith,  lately  of  University  Coll.  has  done  some  good  service 
(as  the  Warden  of  All-Souls  says,  who  understands  little  or  nothing  of  the 
Business)  in  Endorsing  the  Papers  there.  —  Newly  come  out  an  Answer 
to  TyndaM*  Rts  of  the  Church,  call'd  The  Wolf  Stript,  Part  IK  I  am  in- 
form'd  'tis  done  very  well.  The  first  Part  of  the  Wolfe  Stript,  was  done  by  20 
Mr.  Lesley,  &  'tis  generally  said  he  is  the  Author  of  this :  But  in  one  of 
the  Couran/s  is  an  Advertisement  intimating  that  the  Author  of  the  Courant 
(who  is  taken  to  be  Mr.  Lesley)  neither  writ  nor  had  any  hand  in  it.  — 
The  BP.  of  Exon,  Sir  Jon.  Trelawny,  translated  to  Winchester.  —  Remember 
to  look  into  a  Tragcedy  call'd  Sophonisba. 

April  14  (Mon.).  In  the  Latin  Bible  printed  at  Paris  in  fol.  in  most 
magnificent  Characters,  in  8  vols.  are  Curious  Borders,  tayl-pieces  & 
Letters,  which  Dr.  Mill  should  have  consulted.  There  is  a  compleat  set 
in  Edm,  Hall  Library.  —  The  D.  of  Ormond  turn'd  out  from  being  Ld. 
Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  &  Ld.  Pembroke  put  into  his  Place,  &  Ld.  Summers  30 
'tis  sd  will  be  made  President  of  the  Privy  Council  in  room  of  Pembrooke.  — 
Dr.  Potter's  Father,  now  living  at  Wakefield  in  Yorkshire,  a  Tradesman,  is 
a  rank  Presbyterian,  and  a  continual  Frequenter  of  their  meetings.  —  Mr. 
Matlier  whilst  of  C^m/-Church  was  very  forward  &  much  taken  notice  of 
for  his  skill  in  Greek ;  but  since  he  is  lessen'd  (tho'  of  great  Industry)  &  his 
new  Book  about  Dialects  not  much  admir'd  at  Westminster  or  elsewhere, 
that  I  can  hear  of.  He  has  a  Collection  of  all  sorts  of  Lexicons.  —  The 
Ceremoniale  for  consecrating  the  Chapel  of  Edm.  Hall  was  drawn  up  by 


at  the  Theatre  there  was  no  copy  in  Bodley.     Mr.  Humph.  Smith  wishes  to 
know  who  was  Pocock's  tutor  while  at  C.  C.  C. 

April  14.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  Sends  Dr.  Wallis's  Notes  on  Oxford 
printing  for  Mr.  Bagford.  In  the  Ch.  Ch.  coffee  house  is  a  waggish  paper 
lodged  against  Milles  called  A  Lesson  for  the  Greek  Professor  fyc.  (Enclosed  are 
'  Some  Notes  cone.  Printing  by  Dr.  Wallis,  transcrib'd  from  a  copy  of  St.  Jerom's 
[or  rather  Rufinuj's]  Expositio,'  &c.,  with  remarks  by  Hearne.) 


1  'Tis  also  printed  in  Pryn's  Account  of  the  Tryal  of  ArchbP.  Laud. 

9  The  Publisher  sd  to  be  Mr.  Collins  who  had  a  Hand  in  the  Rights  of  the  Church. 


6  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1707 : 

BP.  Fell.  The  Master  of  University  tells  me  he  has  a  Copy.  The  Register 
also  of  the  university  can  give  a  sight.  —  The  MSS.  of  the  4*^  Decad  of  Livy 
(such  as  appear  hitherto)  not  very  antient.  See  Gronovius's  Notes  ib. 
p.  77.  —  Dr.  Mill  has  a  Sermon  in  print,  publish'd  at  ye  Request  of  a 
Lady,  only  an  hundred  Copies  were  printed.  Qucere!  —  LX  Walt. 
Charleton  has  sent  down  to  the  Publick  Library  his  Book  about  Animals 
printed  at  the  Theatre  in  BP.  Fell's,  time,  in  which  are  a  great  number  of 
MS*  Additions,  which  seem  to  be  curious  &  will  be  worth  printing  if  the 
university  shall  think  fit  to  reprint  a  Book  written  by  one  who  deserves  so 
10  well  of  us  in  particular,  as  he  does  of  all  Loyal  &  Learned  Men  for  his 
signal  service  done  in  his  younger  years.  He  is  now  very  old,  &  in  great 
want,  &  a  certain  worthy  Gentleman  who  took  care  to  have  the  Book 
convey'd  to  Dr.  Hudson  put  him  in  mind  of  some  Present  from  the 
University. 

Apr.  15  (Tu.).  Preachers  this  Easter  before  the  university,  Good- 
Friday  Mr.  Sprat  (son  to  the  BP.  of  Rochester)  of  Christ-Church  ;  Easter  - 
day  Dr.  Baron  Master  of  Baliol ;  E.  Monday  Mr.  Wallis  of  Magd.  C. ; 
Easter  Tuesd.  Mr.  Rogers  of  Oriel.  This  last  one  of  the  Woodcock 
Eaters  at  All  Souls  on  the  Martyrdom  of  K.  Charles  Ist.  had  something 
20  against  Mr.  Dodwell  very  abusive,  &  little  or  nothing  to  the  purpose,  he 
not  seeming  to  have  look'd  into  either  of  Mr.  Dodwell'?,  Books.  NB.  This 
Sermon  bears  the  Character  of  being  one  of  the  worst  that  ever  was 
preach'd  in  S*.  Marie 's,  especially  upon  this  occasion. 

Apr.  16  (Wed.).  Sr.  Simon  Harcourt  married  his  Father's  maid  and 
afterwards  liv'd  querely  at  chipping- Nor  ton  as  I  am  told.  But  qucere 
about  this  ? 

Apr.  17  (Th.).  The  Queen  has  sent  a  Letter,  which  is  printed  in  the 
Post-Man,  to  the  ArchbP.  of  Canterb.  to  be  communicated  to  the  Lower- 
House  of  Convocation,  signifying  her  displeasure  at  some  of  the  Members 
30  stiffly  persisting  in  their  Opinion  about  the  Power  of  Adjourning,  & 
denying  the  Power  of  the  ArchbP.  in  that  Point ;  and  declares  that  she 
will  proceed  to  the  utmost  Severity  if  they  continue  so  longer.  —  Mr. 
Brent,  formerly  A.M.  of  Baliol-Co\\.,  now  a  Minister  in  Bristol,  is 
Author  of  an  Essay  upon  Lying;  and  An  Oration  Sacred  to  the  Imperial 
Majesty  of  Q.  Anne :  both  done  sillily,  as  I  am  told.  He  married  a 
rich  wife. 

Apr.  18  (Fri.).     I  am  told  Mr.  Francis  Fox  (commonly  call'd  Father 

fox)  of  whom  I  have  given  a  particular  Account  in  one  of  these  Books, 

is  turn'd  from  his  Whiggish  Principles,  &  that  he  has  prevail'd  in  some 

40  measure  with  Sir  Owen  Buckingham  to  do  the  same,  &  that  he  is  sorry 

for  ever  espousing  the  Cause  of  the  Party  *. 

Apr.  19  (Sat.).  Mr.  Kennett  of  Corpus  (Basil)  publish'd  a  little  Book 
of  Prayers.  Quaere  ?  —  Mr.  Prynn's  Book  in  folio  by  way  of  Addition 

1  June  18.  1708.  He  is  since  tum'd  again,  &  Burnet  BP.  of  Sarum  has  given  him 
a  Living,  w°h  was  formerly  the  famous  Mr.  Hooker's.  April  32.  1712.  He  hath  since 
left  that  Living,  the  BP.  having  given  him  a  much  better. 


April  14-22.]  VOLUME  XIV,  PAGES  16-24.  7 

to  Judge  Coke  has  very  good  Tables,  one  of  Religious  Houses,  which 
will  be  of  use  to  one  that  shall  write  of  the  Monasteries.  Mr.  Tanner 
I  believe  did  not  consult  this  Book  in  his  Notitia  Mon.  —  Just  publish'd 
Mr.  Hunt'?,  Edition  of  Theodosius's  Sph&rics  Gr.  Lai. 

Apr.  20  (Sun.).  Repeater  of  the  JZas/er-Sermons  this  morning  was 
Mr.  Trebeck  of  Xf.  Church,  who  did  it  much  to  his  Credit,  and  put 
Rogers'?,  Sermon  into  some  form,  which  it  wanted  before.  —  Amongst 
BP.  Barlows  Books,  in  Bib.  Bodl.,  is  one  . .  intitl.  Some  sweet  sipps  of  some 
spiritual  wine,  fyc.  Lond.  1649.  ^n  tne  beginning  of  which  BP.  Barlow 
has  added  a  note  signifying  that  the  Author  was  Abiezer  Coppe.  But  10 
Ant.  a  Wood  has  no  such  thing  in  his  Account  of  that  Person.  —  8°.  Z. 
1 06.  Th.  in  Bibl.  Bod.  a  Book  in  which  is  a  commemoration  Sermon 
occasion'd  by  the  Death  of  Mrs.  Mary  Hampson  of  Taplow  in  Bucks, 
a  most  virtuous  young  Lady ;  with  a  short  Account  of  her  Life.  The 
Author's  name  not  to  it.  She  died  in  August  in  1677.  Ask  some  one 
of  that  place,  or  at  Maidenhead,  about  it.  —  Mre.  Winford,  a  curious 
Lady  of  Worcestershire,  and  niece  to  Sir  Tho.  Cook,  who  left  the  10000 
libs,  to  Oxon,  gave  several  Coyns  and  medals  to  the  Publick  Library,  an 
Account  of  which  hereafter.  —  'Tis  said  that  the  D.  of  Marlb.  and  Ld. 
Treasurer  and  some  other  Grandees  of  the  Court  had  a  design  of  send-  20 
ing  for  some  Forreigners,  or  men  of  the  best  note  for  Learning  beyond 
Sea  and  to  plant  them  here  in  England:  but  'twas  objected  against  this 
(i)  because  they  would  bring  ill  Principles  with  them  which  might  be 
prejudicial  to  the  Nation.  (2)  That  if  our  own  Men  were  encourag'd 
they  would  make  as  good,  if  not  better,  Scholars  than  any  could  be 
fetch'd  from  abroad. 

Apr.  22  (Tu.).  Mr.  Milles  of  Christ-Church  last  Easter-day,  under 
pretence  of  being  ill,  desir'd  one  of  the  other  Chaplains  to  read  Prayers 
for  him :  which  accordingly  was  done.  Yet  such  was  the  impudence 
of  the  man  that  he  appear'd  in  the  Hall  at  dinner,  was  present  at  four  3° 
a  clock  Prayers,  as  also  at  Supper  and  at  Za//'«-Prayers  at  9  of 
the  clock.  —  This  being  the  day  immediately  before  the  Term,  Mr. 
Milles  of  X*.  Ch.  preach'd  the  Latin  Sermon  on  Ep.  Jude  v.  3.  in  which 
he  discours'd,  his  way,  a  great  deal  against  Heresies  &  new  opinions, 
exhorted  much  to  contend  for  the  Faith,  told  what  Faith  was  &  how  to 
be  preserv'd,  concluded  with  a  complement  upon  the  Queen's  Defence 


April  19.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  Early  printing.  Will  endeavour  to  pro- 
cure for  H.  Cornelius  a  Beughem's  Inc unabula  Typographica  (Amsterdam,  i2m0., 
1688)  that  he  may  supply  defects,  especially  in  English  books.  Does  not  expect 
much  from  M.  Verwey's  work  at  Hesychius.  Bp.  Pearson  had  not  much 
esteem  of  Schrevelius'  ed. ;  his  papers  came  to  Trin.  Coll.  from  Dr.  Gale,  who 
received  them  from  Dr.  Thane,  the  Bp's  nephew.  Quotes  Meric  Casaubon  on 
Pearson  from  his  notes  on  Hierocles  on  the  golden  verses  of  Pythagoras. 
Was  present  at  Dr.  Bernard's  Sermon  on  Ussher.  Thanks  for  information  of 
Dee's  designed  ed.  of  Bacon's  De  Secretis  Operibus  •  wishes  some  one  could  find 
his  Speculum  Unitatis,  or  Apology  Jor  Roger  Bacon.  H.  would  do  well  to  cultivate 
the  Bp.  of  Man.  Glad  that  Mr.  Smith  of  Dartmouth,  who  consulted  Smith  five 
years  since,  is  in  earnest  about  the  Life  of  Pocock.  Hopes  to  send  H.  a  copy 
of  the  reprint  of  the  Life  of  Cyril  Lucar  immediately. 


8  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

of  the  Church  of  England,  her  Charity,  Beneficence,  &c.  which  made 
People  smile,  as  did  his  Repetition  of  the  old  Arguments,  which  hundreds 
of  Books  furnish  us  with.  His  Discourse  was  stuffd  with  Anglicisms, 
&  now  &  then  he  us'd  a  Greek  Expression,  as  being  Greek  Professor. 
—  A  List  of  the  Medals  and  Coyns  wch  Mrs.  Winford  gave  to  the  Publick 
Library  [24-27].  .  .  . 

Apr.  23  (Wed.).     This  day  the  old  Proctors  went  out  of  their  Office, 

&  new  ones  succeeded,  viz.  Mr.  Tuffion  of  Magd.  Coll.  and  Mr.  Stephens 

of  Merton.     Mr.  Carter  the  Senior  Proctor  for  the  preceding  year  made 

10  a  Speech,  as  usual,  upon  laying  down ;   which  was  handsome  enough, 

but  not  extraordinary,  save  only  that  'twas  full  of  Flattery. 

Apr.  25  (Fri.).  4°.  A.  17.  A rt.  Seld.  Aristotle's  Ethics  translated  by 
Arretine.  At  the  End,  this  Note  printed.  Explicit  textus  Ethicorum 
Aristotelis  per  Leonardum  Arretinum  lucidissime  translatus  correctissi- 
meque  Impressus  Oxonijs  Anno  Dm  M.CCCC.LXXIX. 

Apr.  26  (Sat.).  Memorandum.  That  Mr.  Milks,  after  he  had  ended 
his  Latin  Sermon  at  S*.  Marie's  did  not  receive  the  Sacrament  as 
usual;  which  is  much  taken  notice  of;  as  also  is  his  not  receiving 
the  Sacrament  on  Easter-fay  at  Christ-Church  the  reason  whereof 

20  is  because  Mr.  Hutchins  the  Chaplain  consecrated  the  Elements,  from 
whom  he  said  he  could  not  receive.  —  Dr.  Mill  after  he  had  made 
his  Dedication  of  his  Test,  to  the  Queen  shew'd  it  to  the  BP.  of 
Worcester,  who  alter'd  several  things  in  it.  After  which  'twas  com- 
pos'd  and  given  into  the  Book-binder's  hands,  but  upon  the  Dr.'s 
Arrival  at  London,  whither  the  Book  when  bound  is  to  be  sent  after  him, 
he  show'd  a  Copy  of  it  to  some  whiggish  Friends  who  quite  alter'd  it 
again,  &  'tis  printed  over  anew.  He  would  not  let  Dr.  Hudson  or  any 
honest  principled  Man  see  it  before  it  went  to  the  Press,  because  I 
suppose  'twould  not  please  them  (but  we  shall  judge  of  that  in  a  little 

30  time)  tho'  I  doubt  not  but  if  Dr.  Hudson  had  seen  it  'twould  have 
been  done  with  more  Judgment  &  more  Accuracy :  &  he  might  (were 


April  24.  H.  to  F.  Cherry.  Did  Mr.  Dodwell  receive  a  packet 
of  MS.  forwarded  by  H.  from  his  unknown  antagonist  in  the  North?  Mr. 
Gordon,  H.'s  old  schoolmaster,  B.D.  of  St.  Andrews,  is  at  Oxford  with  intent 
to  be  incorporated,  but  the  V.  C.  (whom  some  Waggs  call  a  second  Smooth- 
boots)  refuses  in  all  such  cases.  Mr.  Rogers  (of  the  Woodcock  Club) 
mentioned  Mr.  Dodwell  in  an  Easter  Sermon,  but  his  remarks  made  several 
smile,  and  would  be  an  answer  to  any  learned  book. 

April  26.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  Mentions  an  Oxford-printed  book  not 
noticed  by  Wood,  viz.  Aretine's  Translation  into  Latin  of  Aristotle's  Ethics 
(Oxford,  1479,  4to).  Notes  on  other  early  books  in  Bodley.  Last  Tuesday 
Mr.  Milles  preached  the  Latin  sermon  on  Jude  3.  Was  Abiezer  Goppe  author 
of  Some  sweet  Sipps  of  some  Spiritual  Wine,  an  odd  rambling  book  printed  at 
London  in  8vo.,  1649  ?  Mr.  Oddy  is  engaged  on  Dion  Cassius  ;  H.  has  recom- 
mended him  to  get  an  exact  collation  of  the  MS.  at  Florence,  but  fears  he  is  not 
fit  for  such  an  undertaking.  H.  to  F.  Cherry  [April  28].  Still  anxious  about 
the  MSS.  sent  to  Mr.  Dodwell.  Mr.  Milles  is  told  that  he  will  in  all  probability 
have  some  great  preferment  in  Ireland.  '  He  was  strangely  mortify'd  yester- 
day at  Mr.  Vice-Chancellor's  sconsing  him,  according  as  the  Statute  directs, 


April  22-28.]  VOLUME  XIV,  PAGES  24-35.  9 

he  not  an  opiniator}  have  gather'd  as  much  from  Dr.  Hudson'?,  altering 
his  Title-Page,  which  before  was  as  long  as  some  Prefaces,  &  was  hardly 
in  one  or  two  Places  Latin,  at  least  'twas  hardly  sense.  His  Proposals 
also  should  have  been  done  as  Dr.  Hudson  directed,  being  as  they  are 
now  perfect  nonsense  in  the  Judgment  of  the  whole  world,  even  Whiggs 
themselves.  —  Qucere  about  Mr.  Ellis,  formerly  of  Oriel-College,  (I 
suppose  James  Ellis,  who  went  out  A.  M.  in  1688,  July  6)  afterwards  of 
Camb.  &  now  at  Thistleworlh  where  he  keeps  a  private  Schoole  purely 
for  grounding  young  Gentlemen,  noblemen's  sons  or  Gentlemen  of 
some  Rank,  in  Classick  Learning,  &  fitting  them  for  the  University,  in  10 
which  Faculty  he  is  of  considerable  Repute.  He  was  for  some  time 
a  non-Juror,  but  not  now  I  think.  —  Tom  Tanner 's  Wife,  Daughter 
to  the  BP.  of  Norwich  died  lately.  She  was  remarkable  for  drinking 
of  Brandy.  She  was  a  short  squabb  dame,  &  uncapable  of  having 
Children,  or  else  Tom  not  able  to  do  it.  After  he  had  married  her  he 
was  forc'd  to  lay  aside  Books,  She  not  caring  he  should  follow  them, 
&  ingage  himself  in  Law  Suits,  relating  to  the  Chancellor-ship  of 
Norwich  which  the  BP.  gave  him,  which  made  the  poor  man  wish  for 
a  Return  to  Oxon  again,  tho'  'tis  said  he  shed  Tears  at  the  Death  of 
his  Wife,  his  dear  Wife,  dear  to  him  upon  many  Accounts  (as  his  Letter  20 
to  Dr.  Charlett  words  it).  It  may  be  he  may  now  take  to  Leland  which 
he  promis'd  long  since.  —  Dr.  Kennett  has  been  married  thrice.  His 
present  Wife  wears  the  Breeches,  and  manages  him  as  his  Haughty, 
insolent  Temper  deserves.  'Twould  be  no  hurt  if  Milks  (or  Mulles, 
as  our  Christ-Ch.  Friends  style  him)  had  such  a  wife,  to  curry  him  now 
and  then.  —  Upon  George  Clarke's  Knocker  on  his  Door.  [Epigram, 
4  lines.]  ...  —  A  Book  pr.  at  Lond.  in  8°.  in  1685.  call'd  Chronicon  Juri- 
diciale,  being  a  Catalogue  of  Ld.  Chancellors,  Ld.  Keepers,  $c.  for  the 
most  part  extracted  from  Sr.  W.  Dugdale's  Origines  Juridiciales,  the  rest 
taken  from  the  respective  offices.  —  Mr.  Llhuyd  of  the  Museum  show'd  30 
me  a  very  good  Coyn  of  Carausius,  Sr.  Andrew  Fountaine  should 
see  it. 

April  28  (Mon.).  Yesterday  the  Vice-Chanc.  scons'd  all  that  were 
without  their  Hoods  at  S*.  Maries  and  Milles  the  Greek  Prof,  was  the 
first  in  the  List,  to  his  great  Mortification.  —  Sir  Andrew  Fountaine  is 
made  Gentleman  Usher  to  Ld.  Pembroke  in  his  Lieutenancy  of  Ireland. 
Dr.  Wyn,  Margaret- Professor,  is  made  his  first  Chaplain.  —  Sr.  Edward 


aod  for  not  having  a  hood  at  S*.  Marie's  ;  But  I  do  not  hear  he  call'd  him  (as 
he  had  done  the  Dean)  haughty  insolent  Ecclesiastic*:.'  Dodwell  to  H.  Has 
received  the  papers,  but  finds  that  his  anonymous  critic  still  insists  on  the 
former  mistakes.  Is  not  sorry  that  Woodcock  Club  men  are  pleased  to  vent 
their  displeasure  against  him.  Robert  Roberts  to  H.  Arrangements  for 
paying  creditors  at  Oxford ;  asks  for  information  concerning  Livy  with  a  view  to 
obtaining  subscriptions.  '  The  people  in  these  parts  [Petworth]  are  already  in 
perfect  distraction  about  choosing  Knights  of  ye  Shire.  Two  of  ye  small 
Burrogh  towns  in  this  neighbourhood  was  like  to  have  been  drown'd  last  week 
by  wine,  cyder  and  good  ale.' 

April  27.  German  Pole  to  H.  Mr.  Brailesford  of  Brailsford  is  writing 
the  Natural  History  of  Derbyshire.  What  answers  to  The  Rights  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church,  Dodwell,  &c.  ? 


TO  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

Northey  is  remov'd  from  being  Attorney  General,  &  Sir  Simon  Harcourt 
is  put  into  his  Place  ;  and  Sir  James  Mountague  is  made  Sollicitor  General 
in  room  of  Sir  Simon.  —  On  Friday  last  died  Dr.  Charleton,  about  90 
years  of  Age,  in  very  poor  Circumstances.  Dr.  Hudson  mov'd  Mr.  Vice- 
Chancell.  on  his  Behalf  for  a  Contribution  to  be  made  for  him  from  the 
University,  but  the  Vice-Chancellor  was  too  slow  in  that  Matter.  —  8°.  R. 
4.  Art.  Seld.  Icones  Illustrium  virorum  per  NIC.  Reusnerum.  Amongst 
them  Argyropylus  and  the  other  Greek  Grammarians.  —  About  Asinius 
PoUws  accusing  Livy  of  Patavinity  in  the  var.  Edit,  of  Seneca  Vol.  iii. 
10  p.  41.  —  Ibid.  p.  61.  Scultingius  in  his  Notes  upon  the  Is*  Book  of 
Controvers.  has  this  Emendation  of  Livy  Epit.  49.  Reliquos,  qui  in  Africa 
militarent,  umbras  militare.  In  quibus  si  manuscripta  suffragarentur, 
legerem,  ut  umbras  volitare.  —  ... 

April  29  (Tu.).  Mr.  Pullen  tells  me  Dr.  Charleton  was  originally  of 
Magd.  Hall.  —  He  also  tells  me  that  a  Gentleman  of  Kent  formerly  gave 
a  curious  MS*  of  Virgil  in  fol.  Vellam  to  Magd.  Hall  Library,  but  that 
the  Book  being  lent  to  Dr.  Plot  it  could  never  be  yet  recover'd,  and  he 
cannot  learn  where  'tis  now.  Dr.  Plot  had  also  a  very  curious  stone 
which  was  given  to  the  said  Library,  but  being  lent  to  him  he  would  not 
20  part  with  it,  &  'tis  thought  it  may  now  be  in  the  Museum. 

May  1  (Th.).  This  day  being  the  beginning  of  the  Union  of  England 
with  Scotland  the  Sermon  (which  should  have  otherwise  been  at  Merlon 
Coll.)  was  preach'd  at  S*.  Mary's,  by  Mr.  Bean  of  Merton,  who  talk'd  very 
extravagantly  upon  the  occasion,  and  was  dislik'd  by  Whiggs  themselves 
who  ridicul'd  him  afterwards.  There  were  very  few  people  at  Prayers, 
but  a  great  number  at  Sermon,  purely  out  of  design  to  hear  what  he 
could  say.  —  I  am  told  by  an  ingenious  Gentleman  that  several  of  the 
London  Clergy  are  of  Mr.  Dodzvell's  Opinion  as  to  the  Natural  Mortality 
of  the  Soul  and  that  they  think  the  Book  has  not  been  fairly  answer'd 
3°  yet. 

May  2  (Fri.).  In  the  Courant  is  a  Protestation  of  the  Lower  House  of 
Convoc.  against  the  sentence  of  Contumacy  denounc'd  against  them  by 
the  upper-House  Apr.  10.  prox.  elaps.  —  The  King  of  Prussia  is  upon 
sending  to  the  Publick  Library  all  the  Gold  medals  of  his  Kingdom 
struck  in  his  time. 

May  1.  E.  Smith  to  H.  The  Bp.  of  Norwich  desires  a  large-paper  Livy, 
and  offers  the  use  of  the  rare  Padua  ed.  of  1694.  Bagford  proposes  to  finish 
his  History  of  Printing  with  all  expedition.  Barnes  to  H.  (Quae  lux  prima 
simul  Scotos  conjunxit  &  Anglos,  Quod  F.  F.  sit.)  Mr.  Richard  Pocock  and 
his  MS.  Life  of  Pocock  the  Orientalist. 

May  3.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  Though  the  compilation  of  a  list  of  early 
printed  books  may  seem  a  trivial  labour,  it  may  have  its  use ;  e.  g.  when  BP. 
Fell  first  designed  to  publish  St.  Cyprian,  Smith  lent  him  a  copy  of  ed.  i 
(Spier  1471),  which  was  extremely  useful  to  him.  Was  prevented  by  bad 
weather  &c.  from  being  present  at  Ussher's  funeral  sermon  on  Selden.  Would 
like  to  see  Milles'  Latin  Sermon,  if  printed.  Knows  nothing  of  the  silly  book 
with  the  fantastic  title  mentioned  by  H. ;  cf.  the  Gangrena.  Glad  the  Univer- 
sity has  dropped  the  business  of  addressing  ;  remarks  on  the  Union  and 
celebration  of  the  event  in  London.  Directions  as  to  4  presentation  copies  of 
Cyril  Lucar  (one  to  Mr.  Samuel  Parker,  of  Holy  Well). 


April  28-May  7.]      VOLUME  XIV,  PAGES  35-45.  II 

May  4  (Sun.).  In  the  Observator  Vol.  vi.  Number  15.  the  Author  is 
very  abusive  of  Sr.  Wm.  Whitlock  and  Mr.  Bromley,  the  former  he  makes 
to  be  the  Picture  of  41,  $c.  The  latter  he  treats  scurvily  upon  Account 
of  his  Grand  Tour,  &  makes  use  of  the  silly  Index  for  that  purpose.  — 
The  Master  of  Univers.  Coll.  has  a  Map  of  Oxon.  ingrav'd  and  pr.  in 
1578.  The  Author  calls  himself  Radulphus  Agasus,  Qu&re1?  —  John 
Laughton  Libr.  Keeper  of  Cambr.  writ  Prcefatio  ad  Vinceniium  Lirinen- 
sem  Cant.  1687.  12°.  very  long.  —  Case  of  Divorce  of  the  Lady  Rosse. 
Lond.  1673.  12°.  The  Author  Sr.  Ch.  Woolesy.  —  Relation  of  the  De- 
feating of  Card.  Mazarine  &  Oliv.  CromwelFs  Design  Lond.  1666.  12°.  10 
The  Author  ST.  Ch.  Cottrell.  —  There  is  in  Dr.  Charlett's  Study  amongst 
his  Miscellanies,  Num.  52,  a  little  Book  8V0.  cone.  ye  Table  &  Altar  at  ye 
Beginning  of  which  there  is  a  Memorand.  y*  the  Author  was  Mr.  Penton. 
The  Memorand.  by  Dr.  Charlett,  I  think.  —  The  None-such  Charles. 
Lond.  1651.  8«.  The  Author  S^.  Ant.  Weldon.  (Q.  ?)-...  Rich. 
Badgers  Collection  of  Hen.  VIII^  &  Q.  Eliz*  Epistles.  There  are  some 
Historical  Notes.  Mr.  Elstob  should  have  made  use  of  it  in  his  Edit, 
of  Ascham.  'Twas  pr.  at  Lond.  1640.  8°.  —  J.  Seobaldi  Fabricij  C. 
Julius  Caesar  Nomismaticus.  It  is  upon  Dion  Cassius.  Mr.  Oddy  should 
make  use  of  it.  Pr.  at  Lond.  1678.  8°.  —  Quccre  whether  Radulphus  20 
Agaso's  Map  of  Oxon  be  not  ye  same  with  that  of  Tho.  Neale,  whereof  an 
Account  in  Ant.  a  Wood's  Ath.  Vol.  I.  —  Tom  Goddard,  Chaplain  to  the 
House  of  Commons  upon  their  Request  is  preferr'd  to  be  prebendary  of 
Windsor,  there  being  a  Vacancy  by  the  Death  of  Dr.  Hearne,  lately 
deceas'd,  who  was  a  very  honest,  charitable  Man,  &  has  given  his  Books 
to  his  two  Curates,  besides  a  considerable  Legacy  in  money.  He  also  left 
a  considerable  sum  to  the  Poor. 

May  5  (Mon.).  Milles,  upon  Dr.  Wynne's  Declining,  is  made  Chaplain 
to  IX  Pembrooke :  with  which  he  is  most  strangely  puff' d  up,  and  seems  to 
despise  almost  all  people.  Dr.  Hudson  talk'd  very  freely  with  him  about  30 
his  Haughty  insolent  temper,  &  told  him  of  his  ignorance  in  Greek  & 
indeed  all  parts  of  Learning;  but  for  all  that  he  keeps  his  conceit,  & 
must  have  this  character  that  he  is  one  of  the  conceitedest  men  living.  He 
told  Dr.  Hudson  at  the  same  time  that  he  would  not  undertake  Dr.  Hodys 
Book  because  he  had  not  time,  &  'twas  not  finish'd.  But  ye  true  reason 
is  because  he  is  not  able.  —  A  Sermon  of  LX  Cole/,  with  his  Life  by 
Erasmus  translated  into  English,  &  usefull  notes  added  by  Tho.  Smith  of 
X*.  Ch.  Cambr.  pr.  in  1661.  8°.  —  Mr.  John  Caswell,  the  Beadle  has 
delineated  &  had  printed  in  Copper  upon  an  oblong  peece  of  paper  the 
13  Polyedra  invented  by  Archimedes ;  usefull  for  the  Understanding  40 
Pappus.  \.  5.  pr.  17. 

May  7  (Wed.).  There  was  lately  admitted  into  the  Publick  Library 
Mr.  Obadiah  Oddy,  the  same  Gent,  whom  I  have  mention'd  formerly 

May  5.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  Sends  the  Catalogue  of  the  MSS.  found 
by  Sir  A.  Fountaine  in  the  cellar  of  his  father's  study  in  the  Middle  Temple. 
Sir  A.  is  made  Gentleman  Usher  to  the  new  Ld.  Lieutenant  of  Ireland.  Bush, 
the  undertaker  of  Livy,  died  suddenly ;  but  the  Work  goes  on. 

1  There  is  one  in  the  Museum,  &  I  have  since  got  one  myself.  It  hath  been  reprinted, 
but  not  exactly. 


12  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

twice.  He  is  upon  an  Edition  of  Dion  Cassius.  He  seems  to  me  to  be 
a  Man  of  Modesty  and  Parts,  and  to  have  a  good  nolitia  of  Printed  Books 
of  all  sorts,  and  especially  Philological ;  but  for  MSSts  I  cannot  find  he 
has  much  genius  that  way,  so  y*  I  am  afraid  he  is  not  altogether  qualify'd 
for  the  Work  he  has  undertaken.  —  IA  Keeper  Cowper  is  made  IA  High 
Chanc.  of  Great-Britain. 

May  8  (Th.).  In  a  little  time  will  come  out  an  Answer  to  Tyndak's 
Rts  of  the  Church  done  by  Dr.  Hickes,  from  whom  is  expected  much  more 
than  from  the  Answer  which  Dr.  John  Potter  has  in  the  Press,  it  being 
10  well  knowne  that  Potter  is  a  Man  not  read  in  this  part  of  Learning,  & 
that  he  cannot  be  any  considerable  Divine,  much  less  so  great  as  the 
Party-Men  make  him,  who  are  always  ready  to  extoll  &  cry  up  those  who 
are  for  them  however  void  of  Parts,  Honesty,  or  Learning.  —  Dr.  Thomas 
Smith  has  just  publish'd  a  new  Edition,  with  considerable  Additions,  of 
his  Life  of  Cyrillus  Lucaris,  to  which  he  has  added  an  Appendix  con- 
taining some  things  by  other  Hands  on  the  same  Subject  and  his  Sermon 
in  Latin  preach'd  formerly  at  Sfc.  Maries,  about  Union,  &  printed  once  or 
twice  before. 

May  9  (Fri.).     There  was  not  long  since  publish'd  in  English  Dr. 

20  Morley's  (fip.   of  Wmch.)  Discourse  about  Invocation  of  S".  written  to 

Janus  Uliiius :  translated  from  the  original  Latin.  Dr.  Hickes  has  a  Letter 

prefix'd  in  which  he  very  highly  commends  the  Translation  \  and  speaks 

something  in  praise  of  the  BP.     Dr.  Hicks  has  also  written  a  Dedicatory 

Epistle  to  the  Dutchess  of  Ormond  of  Instructions  for  a  Daughter,  written 

by  the  Author  of  Telemachus,  and  printed  this  year.     The  translation  Dr. 

Hickes  tells  us  was  made  by  two  Gentlemen  unknown  to  one  another. 

—   Dr.  Smith  has  three  or  four  things  in  the  3d  Vol.  of  Miscellanea, 

publish'd  this  year. 

May  10  (Sat.).     The  Assembly  of  Scotland,  tho'  press'd  to  it,  refus'd 

30  to  set  apart  a  solemn  Day  of  Thanksgiving  for  the  Union.   —   I  am  told 

that  the  Anonymous  Gent,  in  the  North  who  has  writ  an  Answer  to  Mr. 

Dodwell,  not  printed,  is  Mr.  Smith,  formerly  of  Brasen-nose  Coll.    Qu&re  ? 

(His  Name  is  Leigh.) 

May  11  (Sun.).     Mr.  Tho.  Benel  B.D.  &  Master  of  Univers.  Coll.  died 

May  8.  Bp.  of  Sodor  &  Man  to  H.  Will  communicate  anything  of  im- 
portance from  his  Island.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  Thanks  for  Catalogue  of 
Sir  A.  Fountaine's  MSS. ;  hopes  that  he  will  correspond  with  H.  from  Dublin. 
Who  is  to  edit  Tacitus  ? 

May  10.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  Thanks  for  presents  :  Beughem  is  full  of 
typographical  errors.  No  verses  or  orations  in  the  Theatre  on  Thanksgiving 
Day,  but  much  music  at  St.  Mary's.  Has  picked  up  Bp.  Hooper's  copy  of  the 
Testamentum  xii  Patriarcharum  (Paris,  1549),  'ex  dono  Mri.  Sampsoni '  [Dean 
of  Ch.  Ch.].  Tacitus  only  put  into  the  Theatre  List  at  the  instigation  of  Dr. 
Charlett.  Longs  to  see  the  forthcoming  Answers  to  The  Rights  of  the  Christian 
Church  by  Hickes  &  Potter.  Mr.  Milles  to  go  as  Ld.  Pembroke's  chaplain 
into  Ireland  ;  the  V.  C.  has  excused  his  reading  this  and  next  term  on  account 
of  Dr.  Hody's  book,  which  he  will  probably  not  complete. 


1  I  believe  the  Author  of  the  translation  was  the  Reverend  Mr.  Hilkiah  Bedford,  a 
learned  conscientious  Non-Juror. 


May  7-16.]  VOLUME  XIV,  PAGES  45-57 '.  13 

in  1692.  &  in  his  room  was  Elected  Master  Ar.  Charlett  of  Trinity-Coll. 
Mr.  Bennetts,  Arms,  3  Demy  Lyons  Rampant  are  hanging  in  a  Little  Room 
on  the  North  part  of  the  Common  Room  of  University  Coll.  where  are 
the  Pictures  of  K.  Charles  II.  $c.  such  a  veneration  have  this  excellent 
Society  for  the  Memory  of  y*  King  and  other  Good  Men,  Friends  to  the 
Church  of  EngL  —  Leonis  Rogani  Caetani  libri  III  de  urinis.  Neap.  1556. 
8°.  The  master  of  University  has  a  Copy,  which  did  belong  to  Trinity 
Coll.  Library,  being  given  there  by  Dr.  Kettle,  as  appears  from  his  hand  at 
ye  beginning. 

May  13  (Tu.).     Milles  is  printing  his  Latin  Sermon  which  he  will  be  10 
laugh'd  at  for  by  the  very  School-Boyes,  it  being  in  several  Places  not 
Latin.     But  he  thinks  it  excell*.     Dr.  Potter  has  writ  several  Letters  to 
some  of  his  Cronies  in  Oxon.  wherein  he  is  confident  y*  he  shall  be  Dr. 
fane's  successor. 

May  14  (Wed.).  I  am  told  Dr.  Woodward,  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Society, 
and  one  of  ye  Professors  of  Gresham  Coll.  was  originally  a  Linnen  Draper, 
that  he  serv'd  out  his  time,  but  being  a  Man  of  very  quick  Parts,  and 
having  a  genious  to  the  Study  of  Natural  Philosophy,  $c.  he  procur'd  the 
ArchbP  to  give  him  the  Degree  of  Dr.  of  Physick,  tho'  he  never  was  of 
any  University.  He  lately  sent  down  to  the  University  some  Copies  of  ao 
an  Ancient  Shield,  as  he  has  caus'd  them  to  be  ingrav'd,  representing  the 
Taking  of  Rome  by  Brennus,  and  illustrating  the  whole  Story  as  told  by 
Livy.  'Tis  a  great  Curiosity ;  but  yet  for  all  that  there  are  not  wanting 
some  ill-natur'd  men  who  run  it  down  as  a  Banter,  particularly  Dr. 
Gregory  the  Scotch  man  who  understands  just  as  much  of  Antiquity  as 
he  does  of  Greek.  And  yet  some  are  so  wise  as  to  hearken  to  him  both 
in  this  and  other  Matters,  and  to  take  him  for  an  Oracle.  —  The  Writer 
of  the  Gazette  now  is  Captain  Steel,  who  is  the  Author  of  several  Roman- 
tick  things,  &  is  accounted  an  ingenious  Man.  —  The  Map  of  Oxon. 
mention'd  above  as  being  in  Dr.  Charletfi,  Hands  was  done  by  Ralph  30 
Agas,  as  he  is  mention'd  by  An/,  a  Wood  vol.  i.  Ath.  Oxon.  col.  199.  just 
before  his  Account  of  Neale,  but  he  does  not  tell  us  what  this  Agas  was, 
whether  a  Scholar  or  Mechanick  ;  I  believe  the  Latter.  Dr.  Charlett,  is 
going  to  have  it  engrav'd  anew,  and  to  have  the  Colleges  added  as  done 
in  Neale's  Dialogue  in  Bodley's  Archives.  —  Things  about  Baroo  in  Ley- 
cester  Rental,  by  Wm.  Charitee  in  Bodl.  Bib.  In  the  Index,  mention'd — 
Indentura  de  Baro. 

May  16  (Fri.).  Just  publish'd  Dr.  Potter'*  Answer  to  TyndaFs  Rts. 
Also,  Humane  Souls  naturally  immortal,  translated  from  an  Original 
MS*  in  Latin,  by  6".  E.  with  a  Preface  by  Mr.  Jer.  Collier.  —  I  heard  40 
Milles  say  last  Night  that  he  had  seen  Authentick  Evidences  in  Hamp- 
shire enough  to  make  two  or  three  Volumes  more  of  the  Monasticon 
Angl.  and  y*  he  believ'd  other  Counties  would  afford  a  proportionable 
Number.  People  that  heard  him,  who  had  skill  in  these  matters,  laugh'd 
heartily,  he  thereby  sufficiently  showing  his  Ignorance  in  the  Nature  of 
that  Work,  and  discovering  that  he  knew  very  little  of  our  English  Anti- 
quities. —  Dr.  Langbaine  reprinted  in  4to.  in  three  sheets  Scots  Tables 
of  Oxon.  and  Camb.  Qucere  whether  they  are  in  the  Muse'um.  He  made 
Additions  and  Corrections. 


14  H  EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

May  19  (Mon.).  Just  publish'd  in  two  Volumes,  8°.  the  Works  of 
Mr.  Tho.  Browne,  with  an  Account  of  his  Life  by  Dr.  Drake.  —  In  Dr. 
Charlelfs  study  is  Mr.  Lydiats  Epist.  de  anni  Solaris  mensura,  with  MS* 
Additions  fyc.  by  Mr.  Lydiatf^  own  hand. 

May  20  (Tu.).  Last  night  Mr.  Milks  being  at  a  Coffee  House,  he 
took  occasion  to  reflect  upon  Christ-Church,  and  the  Government  thereof, 
notw^standing  a  Gentleman  was  in  Company  who  was  a  perfect  Stranger 
to  him,  and  indeed  the  whole  university.  At  the  same  time  he  said  that 
most  of  the  Coyns  in  the  Publick  Library  are  Duplicates,  &  that  he 
10  formerly  saw  thirty  Duplicates  of  Adrian  in  the  Cabinet.  'Twas  ask'd 
him  what  he  meant  by  duplicates  ?  To  wc^  he  reply'd  Coyns  on  which 
was  the  same  Head,  sufficiently  showing  his  ignorance.  He  likewise  was 
positive  that  Coyns  were  of  no  use  in  History,  and  that  Baron  Spanheim 
had  show'd  a  great  Deal  of  Learning  to  amuse  the  world  on  this  Subject, 
but  y*  he  could  not  see  that  he  had  prov'd  what  he  undertook.  But 
'tis  to  be  thought  Milks  never  read  anything  of  his  Book,  &  'tis  well 
known  he  is  a  stranger  as  well  to  this  as  other  parts  of  Learning. 

May  21  (Wed.).     Dr.  Hickes's  Book  against  Tyndal  is  come  out,  &  is 
done  with  great  smartness  and  Learning  &  is  far  above  Dr.  Potter's 
20  which  is  dull  &  heavy,  and  comes  no  lower  than  Consianline,  &  has 
nothing  in  it  but  what  has  been  observ'd  over  and  over. 

May  22  (Th.).  Mr.  Halley  being  lately  at  Dinner  at  Sr.  Christopher 
Wrenn's  there  came  in  a  Gentleman  who  said  that  he  being  with  a  certain 
Minister  of  State  he  saw  De  Foe  receive  some  money  from  him,  which 
he  believ'd  was  his  pension.  —  Hen.  Earl  of  Northumberl.  died  the 
22d  of  May.  Quaere  in  Sr.  Wm.  Dugd. 


May  17.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  Is  satisfied  that  Fountaine's  MSS.  were 
collected  by  Sir  E.  Coke.  The  angry  common  lawyers  contributed  at  least 
as  much  to  the  dissolution  of  the  Monarchy  as  the  whole  set  of  the  Puritan 
Lords  and  country  gentlemen  in  the  following  Parliaments.  Certain  of  these 
MSS.  would  make  an  additional  volume  to  Spelman's  Councils.  '  But  wee  want 
Bishops  of  a  public  spirit  to  encourage  and  promote  such  like  designes,  wch 
would  tend  to  the  glory  of  our  Church,  and  to  the  advancem1  of  our  Ecclesi- 
astical History.'  Is  amused  by  Charlett's  trick  re  Tacitus.  The  Latin  trans, 
of  the  Testaments  of  the  XII  Patriarchs  was  by  Robert  Grosthead.  Smith, 
before  the  Revolution,  had  the  original  MS.  in  Bodley  transcribed,  BP.  Pear- 
son advising  him  to  edit  it.  Young  Clements  and  Bowyer,  lately  appren- 
tices to  Mr.  Bennett,  undertake  to  procure  all  the  Theatre  Books.  Sends  a 
copy  of  the  King  of  Prussia's  letter  of  thanks  to  the  Queen  re  the  Frankfort 
celebration.  Cannot  find  that  the  Rotterdam  Fleet  has  brought  any  copies  of 
the  new  edition  of  Strabo. 

May  22.  Dodwell  to  H.  'I  am  affrayd  the  Isle  of  Man  will  prove  a 
barren  subject  either  for  MSS.  or  monuments,  though  they  may  retein  several 
customes  and  Traditions  truly  antient,  but  very  difficult  to  be  proved  so.  I 
saw  there  myself  in  82.  a  fellow  of  a  Colledg  in  Cambridge,  one  Mr.  Lolly,  who 
had  been  fixed  there  many  years  before,  as  I  understood  by  a  petty  canon 
of  Sl.  Asaph,  one  Mr.  Gilbert.  If  he  be  still  living,  and  at  the  chief  town 
Castle  Rushin,  he  may,  perhaps,  acquaint  the  BP.  with  what  he  has  met  con- 
siderable for  his  own  time.  I  saw  there  in  the  Castle  a  small  Library  of 
fanatick  printed  Books  given  them,  as  I  was  told,  by  my  Lord  Fairfax.  But 
the  Clergy  there  have  no  purses  for  procuring  rarityes,  unless  they  be  much 


May  19-24.]  VOLUME  XIV,  PAGES  57-64.  15 

May  23  (Frid.).  Dr.  Hudson  being  preparing  materials  for  an  Edition 
of  Josephus  writ  lately  to  Humph.  Wanley  desiring  him  to  procure  two 
MSt8  from  the  Queen's  Library  from  Dr.  Bentley  The  Keeper,  offering 
at  the  same  time  any  Security  for  their  safe  Return.  Mr.  Wanley  carried 
the  Letter,  but  Dr.  Bentley  was  so  far  from  hearkening  to  ye  Proposal 
yt  he  shuffled  saying  yfc  by  the  Oxon.  list  of  Books  preparing  for  ye  Press 
he  gather'd  this  Work  would  not  be  ready  a  great  while  yet,  that  in  a 
short  time  the  Cottonian  Library  wld  be  annex'd  to  the  Queen's,  Sfc.  & 
that  then  Dr.  Hudson  might  have  the  free  use  of  it  in  the  Library,  he 
(Dr.  Bentley}  being  to  be  continu'd  Keeper,  and  then  he  would  show  all  i° 
Civilitys.  This  was  only  shift,  there  being  but  little  Ground  for  saying 
this ;  but  he  must  have  some  plea  for  Rudeness  and  Inhumanity,  $c. 

May  24  (Sat.).  Mr.  Nelson  (Rob.}  in  a  Letter  to  ye  Master  of  Uni- 
versity-Co\\.  tells  him  he  has  read  Dr.  Potter's  Book,  which  he  likes ; 
but  he  does  not  say  it  contains  anything  extraordinary.  At  ye  same 
time  he  calls  Dr.  Hic&es'  an  Admirable  Book.  The  three  first  Quotations 
from  Scripture  in  the  Beginning  of  Dr.  Potter's  Book  are  wrong  &  not 
to  be  found  in  the  Places  he  directs  to.  He  excuses  himself  as  being 
in  hast,  &  he  had  no  time  to  look  over  several  of  ye  Sheets,  especially 
the  last.  I  am  afraid  a  great  deal  of  ye  Book  is  taken  upon  trust.  —  20 
Last  night  came  to  Oxon  one  of  the  Armenian  Patriarchs  *.  The  next 
day  he  was  attended  to  the  Publick  Library  by  Dr.  Charlett,  Provice-ch. 
At  the  Entrance,  Dr.  Hudson,  the  Keeper,  made  him  an  handsome  Com- 
plement in  Latin ;  but  the  Patriarch,  being  about  90  years  of  Age,  and 
understanding  no  Latin,  nor  Greek,  nor  any  European  Language,  but 


improved  since  I  was  there.  We  had  2  fellows  of  our  Colledg  in  my  time  of 
that  Island,  and  (which  was  extraordinary)  one  a  Fellow  commoner,  all  Chris- 
tians, which  is  a  frequent  name  there.  One  of  the  fellows  Mr.  Patrick 
Christian  was  a  very  pious  Person,  and  son  to  him  who  was  shot  to  death,  by 
the  Authority  of  the  Earl  of  Derby  as  King  in  Man,  for  betraying  the  Island 
to  Cromwell  in  his  passage  to  Ireland,  for  which  the  Earl  suffered  severely. 
Mr.  Gilbert  was  there  with  BP.  Barrow,  who  was  from  thence  translated  to  S*. 
Asaph,  and  was  my  friend's  immediate  Predecessor  in  S4.  Asaph.  He  told  me 
that,  in  clearing  the  Castle,  they  found  a  roomfull  of  old  leather  coyn,  such  as 
he  supposed  to  have  been  the  current  coyn  of  the  Island  formerly.  But  they 
had  no  regard  of  it,  but  threw  it  away.  If  the  BP.  can  retrieve  any  of  it,  and 
it  have  any  letters  stamped  on  it,  it  may  be  of  use  to  you.' 

May  23.  Jo.  Abell  to  H.  Will  procure  him  if  desired  the  loan  of  the  ed. 
of  Livy  printed  Moguntiae  (he  suggests  Mons),  15 — . 

May  24.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  Wishes  Smith  had  edited  the  testaments 
of  the  XII  Patriarch  rather  than  Grabe,  who  is  too  hurried.  An  Oxford  phy- 
sician proposes  to  edit  Caelius  Aurelianus  de  Acutls  Mortis,  but  MSS.  are  very 
scarce ;  hears  that  Almeloveen  has  materials.  Visit  of  Thomas,  Patriarch  of  the 
Holy  Cross  in  Gogthan  near  M*.  Ararat  (aged  about  90)  to  Oxford  &  Bodley. 
Query,  age  and  burial-place  of  Dr.  Charleton.  Hickes'  new  book  mightily 
extolled  here.  Bentley  refuses  to  lend  Dr.  Hudson  MSS.  of  Josephus  out  of 
the  St.  James's  Library. 

1  He  is  Patriarch  of  the  Holy  Cross  in  Gogthan  (near  Mount  Ararat}  in  Greater 
Armenia.  He  subscribes  himself  in  his  Speech  to  the  Queen  in  the  last  monthly 
Transaction,  Thomas. 


1 6  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

Italian,  took  but  little  notice  of  any  thing.  He  afterwards  was  carried 
to  Dr.  Charleys  Lodgings  where  he  was  treated.  —  Mr.  Milks  being 
one  time  with  Mr.  Perkes  of  Corpus  ask'd  him  whether  he  had  got  e're 
a  Clemens  ?  Mr.  Perkes  ask'd  him  what  Clemens  ?  Milles  said  Clemens 
Romanus.  No  says  Perkes.  I  wonder  at  that,  replyes  Milles ;  because 
no  one  can  be  a  divine  without  him.  —  IA  Pembroke  has  given  100  libs 
to  Christ-Church  for  carrying  on  the  New  Building  of  Peck-Water. 

May  25  (Sun.).  Being  with  Mr.  Leigh  of  Brazen  Nose  this  Morning 
he  read  to  me  part  of  a  Letter  from  Mr.  DodweWs  Antagonist  in  the 
10  North  containing  an  Answer  to  a  Letter  of  Mr.  Dodwell  to  him,  in  which 
he  gave  several  solutions  of  what  Mr.  Dodwell  had  objected  as  to  infants 
&  Ideots.  But  finding  Mr.  Dodwell  peremptory  in  what  he  asserted,  & 
not  to  be  made  to  retract  his  Heterodoxies  he  was  resolv'd  to  write  no 
more  to  him,  &  to  break  off  conversation  pro  termino  vitce. 

May  26  (Mon.).  Milles's  Latin  Sermon  is  just  publish'd  dedicated 
to  Ld.  Herbert,  son  of  Ld.  Pembroke,  to  whom  Milles  was  Tutor. 

May  29  (Th.).  This  day  was  a  Convocation  in  the  Theatre,  when 
the  ArchbP.  of  the  Holy  Cross  in  Goclhan  was  created  Dr.  of  Divinity, 
and  his  Nephew  Luke  Nurigian  and  Mr.  Cockburn,  son  of  Dr.  Cockburn, 

20  were  created  Masters  of  Arts.  The  Day  before  the  ArchbP.  presented 
to  ye  Publick  Library  several  Books  in  Armenian  which  he  has  caused  to 
be  printed.  Mr.  Wyat  the  Orator  spoke  a  speech  in  his  Commendation, 
&  presented  him,  the  Queen  having  been  pleas'd  to  let  us  be  without 
a  Professor.  During  the  Convocation  several  Papers,  printed  at  ye 
Theatre  were  given  to  ye  D™.,  noblemen  and  some  others,  entitled, 
Reverendissimi  in  Christo  Pair  is  Thom&  Archiepiscopi  Sanctce  Cruets  in 
Goclhan  Per  so- Armenia,  Peregrinalionis  sues  in  Europam,  Pietatis  6f 
Literarum  promovendarum  caussa  susceptce,  brevis  Narratio.  Una  cum 
dicli  Archiepiscopi  ad  Serenissimam  Magnce  Britannia  Reginam  Ora- 

30  tiuncula,  Ejusque  Response.  Accedunt  de  eodem  Archiepisco  Testimonia 
ampla  $  prceclara.  Printed  upon  two  sheets,  fol.  —  A  Commoner  of 
Queen's  College,  upon  ye  Restauration  of  King  Charles  II,  was  so  over- 
joy'd  that  he  swore  a  great  Oath  that  'twas  a  great  sin  not  to  be  drunk 
upon  that  day. 

May  30  (Fri.).  Persecutio  undecima.  The  Churches  Eleventh  Per- 
secution. Land.  1648.  In  it  an  Account  of  all  the  Clergy  turn'd  out  in 
London  by  those  Rogues  the  Puritans.  I  have  by  me  a  List  of  them 
reprinted  lately.  Queer e  whether  it  be  exactly  the  same  ?  .  .  .  —  I  have 
been  told  by  one  who  well  knows  that  Dr.  Lloyd  always  when  he  was 
4°  BP.  of  S*.  Asaph  would  bring  his  Bible  with  him  and  during  Prayers  be 
continually  writing  notes  in  it.  —  Dr.  Grade  waited  upon  the  BP.  of 
Sarum  thinking  he  would  subscrib'd  tow*18  his  Excellent  Design  of  the 
Septuagint ;  but  he  refus'd  and  appear'd  cool  tow^9  learning,  like  other 
Scotch  Men,  who  care  for  nothing  but  just  themselves,  &  'tis  no  matter 
for  Learning  provided  they  thrive.  This  answers  to  all  Scotch  Men 


May  28.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  Dr.  Kenton  thought  that  Mr.  Gandy  had 
already  paid  you  the  [Dr.  Bayley's]  legacy.  The  ArchbP.  of  St.  Cross'  Ac- 
count of  his  Journey  is  printing  at  the  Theatre. 


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here  and  there  one  excepted  such  as  Montross,  Sr.  George  Mackenzy,  and 
John  Urry  of  X'  Church,  an  intire  Man.  —  In  University  Coll.  on  the 
North  side  of  the  Quadr.  the  Rt.  Hand  one  pair  of  Stairs  over  the  Door 
a  Picture  with  this  Inscription, 

The  BP  gafe  the  King  Benediction, 
Then  by  Grace  homeward  made  Reversion, 
And  by  good  Politick  Provision 
Of  an  Abbey  began  Foundation. 

In  the  sd  Chamber  now  Mr.  Merrick  a  Gent.  Commoner  (juvenis 
probus  &  modestus).  10 

June  2  (Mon.).  Mr.  Basil  Kennett  is  taken  into  ye  Inquisition  at 
Leghorne  notwithstanding  her  Majesty's  Letter  for  preventing  it.  Those 
who  know  of  ye  Worth  of  this  Gent:  wish  ye  trimming  Historian 
(Dr.  Kennett)  in  his  room.  (I  am  told  since  y*  he  was  not  in  the 
Inquisition.) 

June  3  (Tu.).  Last  Friday  Dr.  Frampton  of  Magd.  Coll.  was  married 
to  M™.  Molly  Levins,  Daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  Baplista  Levins,  BP.  of 
the  Isle  of  Man.  Which  Mrs.  Levins  is  a  Beautifull  young  Brisk  Lady 
of  about  1 6  or  17  years  of  Age.  ...  —  Memorandum.  That  MT.fohn 
Nevil  Fellow  of  University-Coll,  has  in  his  Study  several  Papers  in  MS*  20 
(as  also  a  great  many  in  Print)  wcn  discover  the  Knavery  and  Roguery 
of  the  Presbyterians  and  Phanaticks,  wcn  he  will  be  ready  to  commu- 
nicate to  any  one  who  will  be  tenacious  of  a  secret.  For  ye  truth  is  he 
is  a  man  of  great  modesty,  and  Integrity,  and  withall  of  sound,  stanch 
Principles,  great  Judgment,  an  Ornam*  to  his  Colledge,  has  done  great 
service  to  it,  especially  when  Bursar,  regardfull  of  his  Studies,  and  always 
free  to  impart  what  will  be  in  his  opinion  of  use  either  to  Religion  or 
Learning.  He  has  a  Relation  of  ye  same  Colledge,  Fellow  also,  Mr. 
Cavendish  Nevil,  a  worthy  Gentleman  and  to  whom  the  writer  of  these 
Matters  is  oblig'd  upon  several  Accounts.  —  Mr.  Davies  of  Cambridge  30 


May  31.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  Almeloveen  undertook  to  edit  Aurelianus 
so  long  ago  as  1694,  so  that  the  way  lies  open  to  H.'s  friend.  Has  sent  several 
queries  to  be  answered  by  the  Armenian  Bishop.  Mentions  the  Latin  Confes- 
sion of  Faith  printed  by  Ricaut  in  his  Present  State  of  the  Armenian  Church  (1679, 
censured  by  Dr.  Marshal).  Smith  when  living  at  Constantinople  had  much 
conversation  with  Armenians,  but  did  not  learn  the  language,  and  therefore 
published  nothing.  Dr.  Charleton,  s.  of  Walter  C.,  D.  D. ;  b.  at  Shipton- 
Mallet,  Som.,  Candlemas  Day  1620 ;  bred  up  in  Magd.  Hall  under  BP.  Wilkins ; 
Ph.  Dr.  1642  ;  travelling  physician  to  Charles  I  ;  d.  April  24,  1707  ;  b.  27th,  at 
St.  Paul's,  Covent  Garden.  Will  H.  give  '  Mr.  Smith'  any  assistance  in  his 
power  ?  Will  read  Hickes'  book  next  week.  Mr.  Hanbury  has  got  himself 
appointed  Keeper  of  the  Cottonian  Library,  but  will  probably  have  to  give 
way  to  Dr.  Bentley.  Will  H.  ask  Dr.  Kenton  to  send  instructions  to  Mr. 
Gandy  (Bartholomew  Square,  Old  St.)  to  pay  Dr.  Bayley's  legacy  to 
Smith? 

June  1.  H.  to  P.  Cherry.  Time  to  secure  a  royal  paper  copy  of  Mill's 
N.  T.  Sacheverel  (brother  to  the  Dr.)'s  account  of  the  Isle  of  Man  much 
better  than  Challoner's.  Will  communicate  with  Dodwell's  correspondent  in 
the  North.  Milles'  publication  of  his  Latin  sermon  ridiculed  by  the  Wags. 

June  3.  Trumbull  to  H.  Returns  Dodwell's  Prelim.  Defence,  with 
remarks. 

VOL.  II.  C 


1 8  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

is  upon  an  Edition  of  Tally's  Tusculan  Questions.  This  is  the  Davies 
whom  I  have  mention'd  once  or  twice  before.  He  has  lately  put  out 
an  Edition  of  Minutius  Felix,  in  which  no  great  Matter.  He  has  some 
conjectures  upon  him,  but  trivial,  and  might  have  been  spar'd  and  left 
to  ye  Judgment  of  others. 

June  5  (Th.).  On  Saturday  last  died  Dr.  Simon  Patrick  BP.  of  Ely, 
being  upwards  of  80  years  of  age,  and  'tis  said  he  will  be  succeeded  by 
Dr.  Moore  BP.  of  Norwich.  —  Sr.  Jon.  Trelawny  was  not  declar'd  BP.  of 
Winch,  'till  Sunday  last.  —  Sr.  Basil  Fire-Brass  a  noted  old  Sinner  of 

10  London  has  shot  himself,  but  'tis  thought  twill  not  prove  mortal,  as  some 
perhaps  could  wish,  whom  he  has  cheated  by  odd  tricks  and  shams, 
from  whence  he  grew  rich,  and  was  able  to  give  20000  lib8.  wth  his 
Daughter  to  the  Earl  of  Denbigh ;  but  notwithstanding  this  he  decay'd, 
thro'  Crosses  &  being  reduc'd  to  some  unexpected  Extremities,  was  the 
cause  of  this  Violence  on  himself.  —  This  day  I  saw  at  y6  Publick 
Library  Dr.  Wm.  Cave  Prebendary  of  Windsor,  who  came  thither  chiefly 
to  visit  Dr.  Hudson  and  some  other  Friends,  and  he  was  pleas'd  at  ye 
same  time  to  tell  the  writer  of  -these  matters,  that  he  wish'd  very  well 
to  the  Edition  of  Livy  now  printing  at  ye  Theatre  in  Oxon.  &  y*  he 

20  should  be  glad  to  see  all  such  designs  carry'd  on  and  encourag'd  as 
they  deserv'd.  He  saw  some  MSS.  and  particularly  discours'd  of  one 
viz.  Choniates's  Thesaurus  which  contains  a  great  deal  of  Ecclesiastical 
History,  which  the  Dr.  sd  he  would  run  thro'  if  he  could  stay  in  Oxon. 
and  had  his  Health.  He  recommended  the  Perusual  of  this  MS*  to 
Mr.  Topham  of  Windsor,  then  present,  who  is  a  Gentleman  who  has 
Years  over  his  Head,  a  man  of  a  strong  Body,  a  Lover  of  Learning,  & 
a  Collecter  of  good  &  curious  Books. 

June  6  (Pri.).  The  Election  of  Fellow  into  Mr.  Smith's  Vacancy  of 
Brazennose  having  lately  gone  cross  to  Mr.  Hyde,  who  would  have 

30  brought  in  another  Man  from  him  Elected,  who  was  Mr.  Leach,  Mr. 
Hyde  endeavour'd  to  do  some  mischief  to  Mr.  Thompson  the  Vice- 
Principal,  who  was  ye  Principle  Contriver  for  bringing  in  Leach,  and 
accordingly  a  little  after  when  the  Society  were  at  dinner  in  the  Hall, 
amongst  whom  were  several  strangers,  Mr.  Thompson  happening  to 
talk  something  ag*  Baker  of  Wadham  as  to  his  being  a  Whig  &  like 
David  Jones  in  some  Respect,  Hyde  took  hold  of  the  occasion,  and 
presently  inform'd  Baker  that  Mr.  Thompson  had  aspers'd  him  as  an  ill 
man,  and  a  Vilifier  of  the  Common-Prayer,  &  was  for  that  reason  worse 
than  David  Jones  who  was  suspended  for  this  reason.  Baker  writes 

40  presently  to  Thompson  and  demands  satisfaction  in  a  Legal  Manner. 
Mr.  Thompson  returns  Answer  y*  what  he  said  was  in  a  quite  different 
sense,  and  appeals  to  the  rest  of  the  Company  who  are  willing  and  ready 
to  attest  ye  same,  and  y*  what  was  said  was  nothing  relating  to  ye 
Common  Prayer,  and  they  are  at  ye  same  time  ready  to  make  oath  y* 
Hyde  himself  did  own  afterwards  y*  the  words  were  not  to  be  understood 
so  as  Baker  had  put  them.  —  Mr.  David  Jones  is  suspended  for  half 
a  year,  because,  besides  his  speaking  against  the  English  Liturgy,  he 
refus'd  to  bury  a  person,  who  was  not  brought  ye  common  way  to 
Church  :  which  could  not  be  done  by  reason  of  a  Fish-Pond,  Mr.  Calvert 


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had  made  in  ye  u-ay.  David  would  have  had  the  Corps  brought  thro' 
the  Pond,  &  when  it  came  to  be  put  in  ye  Ground,  he  leapt  into  ye 
Grave  &  had  ye  mould  thrown  upon  himself,  'till  he  could  stand  no 
longer,  &  forc'd  them  to  take  ye  Corps  up  again,  not  permitting  any  one 
else  to  perform  ye  Office,  so  y*  it  stood  unburied  for  above  a  week ; 
which  being  complain'd  of,  he  was  proceeded  against  as  usual  upon 
such  Crimes. 

June  7  (Sat.).  Sr.  Basil  Fire-Brass  is  dead  of  his  wound,  &  is 
lamented  by  none.  The  Reason  of  his  laying  violence  on  himself  is  y* 
a  Statute  of  Bankrupt  was  out  against  him.  —  Dr.  Moor  BP.  of  Norwich  10 
is  nominated  BP.  of  Ely  and  a  Conge  deslier  is  sent  for  y*  purpose. 
Sr.  Jon.  Trelawny  is  also  declar'd  BP.  of  Winch.  &  a  Cong,  deslier 
order'd  also. 

June  8  (Sun.).  This  being  the  IA  Salisbury's  birthday,  entering  now 
into  ye  1 7<k  Year  of  his  Age,  Mr.  Caesar  of  Hertford  (who  was  put  into 
ye  Tower)  &  several  other  worthy  Gentlemen  came  on  purpose  to  Oxon. 
to  dine  with  his  Ldship  on  this  occasion. 

June  1O  (Tu.).  Mr.  Bean  (Charles)  A.M.  &  Fellow  of  Merton  Coll. 
&  Chaplain  to  ye  Earl  of  Peterborough  has  printed  his  Sermon  preach'd 
at  S*.  Maries  on  the  Ist  of  May  for  the  thanksgiving  upon  Ace*  of  the  20 
Union.  A  poor,  sniveling  discourse,  tho'  cry'd  up  by  some  mean, 
pitifull  Fellows,  and  in  the  Preface  he  insinuates  that  y®  Governours  in  ye 
univers.  should  have  taken  notice  of  it,  if  there  had  been  any  thing  ill  in 
it :  But  they  had  more  regard  to  him  as  he  is  Master  of  Arts,  and  well 
knowing  that  he  has  Interest  with  the  scoundrell  Low  Church  Men,  who 
perhaps  wish'd  some  of  ym  would  have  concern'd  themselves.  —  'Tis  sd 
in  ye  News  Letters  y*  Dr.  Trimnell,  Son  in  Law  to  Talbot  BP.  of  Oxon 
is  to  be  BP.  of  Norwich.  Yesterday  Talbot  had  a  Visitation  of  his  Diocess 
held  in  ye  Church  of  S*.  Marie's  Oxon.  His  Sermon  is  much  commended, 


June  7.  Thoresby  to  H.  Mr.  Gale  can't  procure  any  of  the  golden 
coins  found  at  'Kighley.'  Has  got  4  subscribers  for  Livy.  'As  to  Dr. 
Johnston's  design  of  the  Antiquitys  of  Yorkshire  'tis  I  fear  dead  with  him  ;  his 
Characters  were  so  like  those  of  the  ancient  Runic,  y*  his  own  son  ye  Dr.  is  not 
able  to  read  them.  I  had  for  many  years  a  constant  correspondence  with  him, 
yet  could  seldom  read  his  Lett™  under  a  3d  perusall,  'tis  said  his  bror  the  R.  C. 
Priest  or  Monk,  has  his  key,  but  I  presume  he  dare  not  appear  in  Engld. 
besides  his  proposals  for  5  vols  in  fol°  discouraged  persons,  &  he  grasped  too 
much.  I  am  sure  I  find  the  Topography  &  Hist,  of  this  Parish  (in  the  method 
I  propose)  more  tedious  than  I  expected,  new  matter  continually  suggesting 
itself.'  Has  had  some  severe  losses.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  My  friend  has 
not  yet  resolved  to  print  Caelius.  The  ArchbP.  made  D.D.  Wishes  he  had 
known  that  the  '  Mr.  Smith'  who  was  examining  MSS.  in  Bodley  was  Collier ; 
offers  C.  his  services  in  transcription,  &c.  Dr.  Hody's  books  (5-600)  received ; 
he  was  a  prodigy  of  industry.  Dr.  Cave  called  on  Thursday,  on  his  return 
from  the  Bath  on  purpose  to  see  this  Ancient  Place  of  Learning  once  more 
before  he  died.  Was  interested  in  Livy,  &c.  '  Fellows  of  Houses  might  con- 
sider that  the  world  expects  such  things  from  them,  and  that  they  were  not 
placed  in  Colleges  to  spend  their  spare  Hours  in  Idleness,  but  to  further 
and  Advance  Learning,  which  they  cannot  do  better  than  by  entering  upon 
Designs  of  publishing  antient  Authors.' 

'  C  2 


20  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

especially  by  the  Whiggs,  as  a  Rational  Discourse,  tho'  Randal  of  Oriel 
of  wch  Coll.  the  BP.  was,  does  not  like  him  for  putting  the  Papers  about 
Convocation  upon  him  to  be  read. 

June  12  (Th.).  On  Monday  last  was  publish'd  D*.  Mill's  Edit,  of  ye 
New  Test,  which  is  a  noble  Work,  and  his  Deserts  for  this  undertaking 
will  in  some  measure  make  amends  for  his  Failings  in  other  Respects. 
The  Dedication  however  is  nothing  else  but  a  Libell  &  Piece  of  Flattery, 
(done  in  some  p*  by  ye  BP.  of  Worcester,  Dr.  Lloyd)  &  will  be  always 
look'd  upon  as  such  whilst  ye  Church  of  England  &  true  loyal  Principles 
10  last. 

VOL.  XV. 

June  13  (Pri.).  A  Copy  of  a  Letter  from  Mr.  Dodwell  in  Answer  to 
a  very  long  one  from  an  Anonymous  in  the  North,  cone,  the  Nat.  Mor- 
tality of  the  Soul  [dated  Shottesbrook,  April  26,  1707  (i-n)].  .  .  .  — 
Out  of  a  Letter  sent  from  the  said  Anonymous  to  his  Friend  in  Oxon 
cone,  the  said  long  letter,  which  he  put  into  his  hands  to  be  convey'd  to 
Mr.  Dodwell. 

You  may  observe  how  Mr.  D.  has  magnify'd  the  Platonick  Philosophy  and 
declar'd  the  knowledge  thereof  to  be  absolutely  necessary  for  the  understand- 
ing of  the  Scriptures.  I  have  therefore  endeavour'd  to  prove  that  Plato's 

20  Archetypa's,  Ectypa's,  and  Technical  Termes  are  more  expedient  for  y° 
clouding  than  clearing  of  the  Scriptures.  In  the  next  place  I've  endeavour'd  to 
convince  him  that  his  magnificat  upon  Plato  is  a  disparagement  to  his  Cause, 
making  it  as  clear  as  the  Sun,  out  of  Plato's  Works  that  Eminent  Philosopher 
did  assert  the  Immortality  of  the  Soul :  and  that  he  might  not  suspect  my 
opinion  to  be  singular,  I  have  appeal'd  to  Tully,  Alcinous,  and  Diogenes  Lae'r- 
tius.  And  being  he  pretends  a  mighty  Veneration  for  the  Authority  of  the 
Primitive  Fathers,  I've  summon'd  most  of  the  Fathers  of  the  4  i8t  Centuries 
(to  whom  he  pays  a  singular  Regard)  to  attest  my  Assertion.  So  far  have  I 
already  dispatch'd,  and  from  these  Premises  I  shall  argue  ad  hominem.  Being 

30  (according  to  his  Sentiments)  Platonick  Philosophy  is  so  necessary  for  the  ex- 
pounding of  Scriptures,  and  the  Primitive  Fathers  were  Platonicks  in  their 
comments  upon  the  Scriptures,  therefore  Plato  affirming  the  Soul  to  be  natur- 
ally immortall,  the  Fathers,  his  suppos'd  disciples,  yea  and  the  Scriptures  being 
a  Confirmation  of  the  Doctrine  suggested  before  to  Plato,  must  by  an  invio- 
lable Consequence  declare  the  Soul  to  be  naturally  immortal.  Now  that 
Plato  did  maintain  the  Natural  Immortality  of  the  Soul  is  evident,  not  only 
from  those  Arguments  by  which  Mr.  Dodwell  demonstrates  the  Truth  of  his 
Hypothesis,  but  also  from  his  Principles.  For  the  Knowledge  of  his  Actual 
Immortality  whereby  he  supposeth  the  Soul  to  be  secur'd  from  the  Mortality 

40  of  its  Nature  he  often  asserts  to  be  the  effect  of  Extraordinary  Revelation  & 
reserv'd  for  the  Priviledge  of  the  Gospel  Peculium.  So  that  Plato  living  in 
the  times  of  Ignorance,  he  could  never  so  much  as  dream  of  that  Actual  Mor- 
tality. Therefore  the  Immortality  he  did  assert  must  of  necessity  be  a  natural 
Immortality.  Therefore  if  the  Scriptures  were  inspir'd  in  a  Platonick  style, 
&  the  Fathers  did  understand  'em  in  a  Platonick  sense  they  must  by  the 
Tutoring  of  Plato  maintain  the  same  Doctrine,  and  consequently  declare  the 
Soul's  Immortality  to  be  natural  and  not  actual,  proceeding  from  either  the 
Pleasure  of  God,  which  was  never  to  him  reveal'd,  or  from  an  Immortalizing 
Spirit,  which  is  the  meer  Creature  of  Mr.  D's  overteeming  Fancy.  — 

50  King  Charles  IId  having  given  a  Commission  to  a  Gentleman  to  raise 
a  Company  of  Souldiers,  &  meeting  him  by  chance  a  little  after  ask'd  him 


June  10-21.]       VOLUME  XIV,  PAGE  86-AT,  PAGES   1-18.       21 

how  many  he  had  got?  The  Gentleman  answer'd  but  five,  if  it  please 
your  Majesty.  The  King  reply'd,  then  be  sure  you  keep  them  :  for  five 
is  the  best  Company  in  ye  World,  alluding  to  a  merry  Company  which 
consists  better  of  five  than  any  other  Number.  .  . 

June  18  (Wed.).  Yesterday  was  made  Bach,  of  Phys.  Mr.  Standfast 
of  University  Coll.  This  Gent,  has  some  Design  of  putting  out  a  New 
Ed.  of  Caelius  Aurelianus  de  acutis  Morbis,  which  is  a  Book  much 
desired,  and  was  some  time  since  attempted  by  Almeloveen ;  but  not 
finding  sufficient  Assistance  as  to  correct  Copies,  &  there  being  no  MS* 
y*  he  could  find  he  desisted  :  &  I  believe  Mr.  S.  will  not  proceed  unless  10 
he  light  upon  such  Copies,  tho'  he  has  made  some  Collections  towards 
the  Work. 

June  19  (Th.).  The  Lady  Eliz.  Seymour,  Eldest  Daughter  of  the  D. 
of  Somerset  is  married  to  the  Earl  of  Thomond  of  ye  Kingdom  of 
Ireland.  —  Dr.  Kennett  is  made  Chaplain  to  the  Queen  in  room  of  Dr. 
Herne  deceas'd.  —  Just  publish'd  The  present  State  of  Whiggism,  by 
S.  S.  formerly  of  Christ  Church  Oxon.  N.B.  Christ  Church  men  say 
'twas  none  of  their  House. 

June  2O  (Fri.).  I  have  seen  a  Letter  from  Mr.  S*.  Aman  to  Dr. 
Hudson  signifying  that  ye  Emperor's  Library  is  in  a  miserable  Confusion,  20 
having  no  Keeper  since  Nesselius's  Death,  which  happen'd  two  or  three 
years  since,  y*  the  Books  are  kept  in  a  dark  Room  in  which  are  no 
Windows,  that  Germany  abounds  with  no  Learned  men,  what  they  most 
follow  there  being  Philosophy  in  which  a  little  skill  makes  them  pass  for 
men  of  Learning,  &c. 

June  21  (Sat.).  On  Thursday  Morning  died  Dr.  Sherlock  Dean  of 
S*.  Paul's  in  the  6 7th  year  of  his  Age,  &  is  like  to  be  succeeded  by 
Dr.  Godolphin  Provost  of  Eaton  Coll. 


June  14.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  At  last  Dr.  Mill's  Test,  is  publish'd.  He 
sends  S.  a  small-paper  copy,  bound,  as  a  present.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H. 
Despite  the  superstitions  and  errors  of  the  Armenians  is  glad  that  the  Bp.  was 
well  treated  at  Oxford.  His  Map  of  the  World  copied  from  an  ordinary  chart. 
The  legacy  has  been  paid.  On  June  3,  S.  entered  on  his  yoth  year.  Wishes  to 
find  a  competent  transcriber  for  his  Latin  letters;  and  for  Bp.  Pearson's 
Annotations  on  the  Epp.  of  St.  Ignatius,  which  he  is  anxious  to  publish.  Intends 
to  proceed  gradually  with  his  English  letters.  His  original  papers  (inc.  Dr. 
Bernard's)  he  will  probably  leave  to  H.  Glad  H.  has  made  the  acquaintance 
of  his  old  friend  Dr.  Cave. 

June  19.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  Recommends  Dr.  Hudson  to  borrow,  or 
get  transcriptions  from,  a  copy  of  Josephus  (ed.  Basel,  1544)  in  the  St.  James's 
Library,  containing  marginal  notes  &c.,  by  Isaac  Casaubon,  about  which  he 
wrote  to  Dr.  Bernard  in  May  1692.  Sends  a  list  of  eleven  rare  early  printed 
books  in  the  possession  of  Dr.  Robert  Gray,  which  may  be  of  use  to  supplement 
a  Beughem. 

June  21.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  The  Archbp.  and  his  books.  Has  ac- 
quainted Dr.  Hudson  with  S.'s  intention  of  publishing  Bp.  Pearson's  Annotations 
on  the  Epistles  of  St.  Ignatius.  There  has  been  no  competent  amanuensis  in 
Oxford  since  the  enforced  departure  of  Mr.  Rinman  and  the  other  Suede  ;  but 
H.  will  do  his  best  when  rid  of  Livy.  Is  anxious  to  hear  that  Hickes  has  re- 
ceived his  presentation  copy  of  Mill.  Has  lately  received  from  the  Bp.  of 


32  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

June  23  (Mon.).  On  Saturday  night  about  6  or  7  a  Clock  Dr.  Mill, 
Principal  of  S*.  Edm.  Hall,  Rector  of  Bledchingdon,  and  Prebendary  of 
Canterbury,  was  seiz'd  with  a  kind  of  Apoplectical  Fit,  and  died  this 
Morning  about  7  a  Clock  having  been  for  ye  most  part  all  the  time  from 
his  first  seisure  out  of  his  senses.  He  made  no  Will.  He  has  left  ye 
Character  behind  him  of  a  Learned  Divine,  a  charitable  Man  to  ye  Poor, 
and  in  several  respects  of  a  Publick  Spirit.  He  died  just  a  fortnight  after 
y6  Publication  of  his  Testament,  &  by  his  Death  the  Writer  of  these 
Matters  has  lost  a  great  Friend.  Dr.  Francis  Gregory  Rector  of  H  amble  - 

10  don  near  Great  Wycomb  is  also  dead,  and  ye  Rectory  comes  to  Dr. 
Charlett  of  University  Coll.  who  had  bought  ye  next  Presentation 'several 
years  since.  —  Mr.  Covert  a  Commoner  of  Hart-Hall  having  been  denied 
his  Degree  of  Bach,  of  Arts  3  times,  this  day  the  reason  was  given  to  the 
Congregation,  viz.  That  he  had  asserted  that  King  Charles  \st  was  lawfully 
beheaded,  which  was  attested  before  a  Publick  Notary,  by  Mr.  Luffingham 
&  Mr.  Deering  of  ye  same  House.  Some  exceptions  were  made  to  ye 
Evidence  by  Dr.  Bouchier,  &  something  else  propos'd  for  mollifying  the 
Matter ;  but  Mr.  Stevens  of  All-Souls  standing  up  and  making  a  hand- 
some speech  showing  y*  he  had  asserted  the  same  Doctrine  several 

20  times,  that  he  was  a  loose  person  &c.  The  reason  was  approv'd  as 
sufficient  by  far  ye  greatest  part  of  the  Members  of  Congregation. 

June  25  (Wed.).  This  day  about  4  Clock  Afternoon  was  buried  Dr. 
Mill  at  his  Parsonage  Church  of  Blechingdon,  in  ye  Chancell,  in  ye  same 
Grave  his  Wife  had  been  buried  in  several  years  before.  He  was  attended 
by  several  Coaches  and  a  great  number  of  People,  especially  his  own 
Parish,  most  of  which  came  to  Oxon  on  purpose  to  pay  this  last  Respect 
to  their  Minister  who  had  done  so  much  to  ye  Poor  People  of  that  Place, 
by  placing  out  Children  &c.  not  to  insist  upon  his  Benefaction  to  the 
Church  &  Parsonage  House.  The  Pall  was  held  up  by  Dr.  Turner 

3°  President  of  Corpus,  Dr.  Woodrofe  of  Glouc.  Hall,  Dr.  Dunstar,  Warden 
of  Wadham,  Dr.  Pudsey  of  Magd.,  Dr.  Grabe,  and  Dr.  Irish  of  All-Souls, 
which  were  all  ye  Doctors  y*  were  present,  except  Dr.  Crosthwait,  who 
did  not  go  to  Blechingdon,  tho'  design'd  to  have  been  one  of  ye  Pall- 
Bearers.  At  first  six  of  ye  Fellows  of  Queens  were  appointed  to  hold  up 
ye  Pall,  but  upon  Consideration  that  matter  was  new  order'd.  All  ye  Hall 
had  Rings  and  Gloves,  and  ye  two  Masters  (all  at  present  in  it)  Rings, 
Scarfes  and  Gloves,  as  had  ye  Pall  Bearers  &  ye  Fellows  of  Queens. 
Some  others  were  invited,  such  as  Mr.  Marshall  of  X*  Ch.  Mr.  Grandorge 
of  Magd.  &c.  &  Dr.  Hudson  was  pitch'd  upon  to  have  been  one  to  hold 

40  up  ye  Pall,  but  he  was  out  of  Town.  The  Office  was  read  by  Mr.  Arch- 
Man  The  Principles  and  Duties  of  Christianity,  with  a  translation  in  '  Manks '  — 
the  first  piece  ever  published  in  that  tongue.  Mr.  Tyrrell  has  presented  to 
the  Library  6  vols.  of  Collectanea  of  Archbp.  Ussher's. 

June  23.  H.  to  Kent.  Mill  will  be  sent  on  payment  of  2o/-  more.  Who 
is  the  new  gen.  com.,  Mr.  Bromley  ?  Advises  '  Abraham '  to  be  more  careful  in 
consequence  of  his  late  misfortune.  '  Give  no  occasion  for  their  Idle  Stories, 
which  are  hearken'd  to  so  much,  even  by  men  of  Learning  and  Sense  in  other 
Respects,  and  'tis  done  by  them  purely  out  of  Devotion  to  Whiggism,  which 
prevails  mightily,  and  for  y*  reason  I  like  to  live  in  Oxon  best,  where  we  are 
free  from  the  insults  of  these  Fellows.' 


June  23- July  2.]         VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  18-27.  23 

deacon  Goodwin  (commonly  call'd  Dr.  Goodwin)  who  was  an  intimate 
Friend  of  Dr.  Mill's. 

June  28  (Sat.).  For  Emendation  of  Authors  to  be  consulted  Joan. 
Bertrandi  libb.  II.  de  Jurisperitis.  .  .  Dr.  Mill  in  his  Prolegomena  to  his 
N.  Test,  has  something  cone.  ye  Age  of  the  Author  of  y°  Com.  imperf.  in 
Math.  This  he  had  in  a  Letter  some  time  since  from  Mr.  Dodwell,  as  he 
has  several  times  told  me :  but  he  has  not  acknowledg'd  it  here.  I  think 
Mr.  Dodwell's  Letter  is  pasted  upon  the  Dr'8  printed  Copy  of  y°  said 
Com. 

June  30  (Mon.).     .  .  .  Fabricius  in  his  Preface  to  the  Northern  His-  10 
torians  notes  y*  in  Gataker's  &c.  Edit,  of  Antoninus  L.  Verus's  Effigies  is 
added  by  mistake  for  Antoninus's. 

July  1  (Tu.).  About  a  Week  before  Dr.  Mill  died  he  put  into  ye  Pub- 
lick  Library  6  Volumes  of  ArchbP.  Usher's  Collectanea,  and  two  folio 
MS*.  Volumes,  which  had  been  also  ArchbP.  Usher's,  containing  Divinity 
Lectures  per  Anon.  Which  8  Volumes  were  given  to  ye  Publick  Library 
by  Mr.  James  Tyrrell,  but  lodged  in  Dr.  Mill's  hands  y*  he  might  extract 
from  them  what  would  be  to  his  Purpose  in  his  Edition  of  ye  New  Test. 
And  accordingly  in  one  of  them  he  has  given  this  Memorandum  under 
his  own  hand,  viz.  20 

Variantes  lectiones  N.  T.  in  hoc  libro  comprehensas  &  ab  Erudito  Viro  D. 
Jacobo  Tirryl,  clarissimi  Armachani  Nepote,  ante  aliquot  annos  mecum  per- 
amice  communicatas,  partim  in  Editionis  meae  N.  T.  corpore,  partim  in  Ap- 
pendice,  fideliter  exhibui. 

Oxon.  Jim.  7.  1707.  JOANNES  MILL. 

July  2  (Wed.).  ...  I  am  told  y*  Dr.  Tho.  Bray,  formerly  of  All-Souls, 
is  a  very  conceited  Person,  &  y*  he  was  always  so :  &  y*  ye  School-Master 
who  brought  him  to  y*  College  was  likewise  much  of  ye  same  temper. 
This  Bray,  has  among  other  trite  Books,  written  in  4*°  a  Pamphlett 
wherein  he  gives  a  Catalogue  of  Books  usefull  for  ye  Pastor  of  a  Parish.  30 
—  This  Day  was  presented  to  his  Doctor  of  Divinity's  Degree  Mr.  Har- 
war,  President  of  Magd.  Coll.  —  Dr.  Thomas  Wood  having  prosecuted 
Mr.  Ayloffe  of  New-Coil,  upon  ye  crime  of  Extortion,  &  got  him  ejected 
ye  Vice-Ch8  Court  whereof  Ayloffe  was  a  Proctor,  Mr.  Ayloffe  thereupon 
appeal'd  to  ye  Delegates  of  Congregation,  who,  all  but  Dr.  Hudson  and 
Mr.  Bicklowe  of  New  Coll.  refus'd  to  accept  of  it ;  upon  which  Ayloffe 


June  26.  Jno.  Bennett  to  H.  Asks  for  particulars  of  Mill's  death,  an- 
nounced in  this  day's  Post-Boy. 

June  27.  H.  to  Smith.  Particulars  of  the  last  illness,  death,  and  funeral 
at  Blechingdon  of  Dr.  Mill.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  Suspects  that  the 
Armenian  Bishop's  History  is  the  same  with  the  Historia  originh,  progressus,  et 
indolis  nationis  Armenae,  Auctore  Moyse  Grammatico  (Amsterdam,  8V0.  1696). 
Hoped  they  might  have  presented  some  choice  MSS.  of  the  history  of  their 
country  or  a  collection  of  their  Councils.  Pity  we  have  no  authentic  accounts 
of  the  plantation  and  progress  of  Christianity  in  Armenia,  Syria,  Mesopotamia, 
&c.,  such  as  may  still  lie  hid,  probably  in  the  Syriac  language.  Commends  the 
Bp.  of  Man  for  publishing  the  Manx  Catechism,  and  Mr.  Tyrrel  for  presenting 
Archbp.  Ussher's  collections  to  Bodley.  Laments  the  death  of  Dr.  Mill,  and 
hopes  Dr.  Hudson  will  succeed  him. 


24  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

appeal'd  to  ye  Delegates  of  Convocation,  who  recd  ye  same,  and  upon 
several  Hearings  at  last  readmitted  Ayloffe,  &  declar'd  the  D^8  sentence  pro- 
nounc'd  against  him  by  himself,  as  Assessor,  to  be  unjust  and  unpresidented: 
which  has  so  nettled  Wood  y*  he  has  referr'd  ye  Cause  to  ye  Chancery, 
and  gives  out  y*  he  will  prosecute  Ayloffe  w*k  ye  utmost  Rigour.  —  The 
Editor  of  Cselius  Aurelianus  should  consult  Almeloveen's  Edition  of 
Celsus,  in  which  several  References  are  made  by  Almeloveen  to  Aurelia- 
nus. —  Mr.  Llhuwyd  in  ye  Preface  to  his  Ist  Vol.  of  Arch.  Brit,  lately 
publish'd  takes  notice  of  a  certain  Gentleman  who  had  run  down  ye  Work 

10  as  of  no  great  use,  there  being,  as  he  said  but  3  or  4  who  troubled  them- 
selves about  this  Subject.  Mr.  Llhuyd  has  decently  reflected  upon  him. 
'Tis  said  y6  Gentleman  is  Dr.  Wynne  the  Margaret  Professor,  who  never 
was  a  very  good  Friend  of  Mr.  Llhuwyd's :  but  others  say  'tis  Dr. 
Edwards.  —  The  Dean  of  X*  Church  design'd  for  a  new  year's  Gift  next 
year  Ignatius's  Epistles,  and  accordingly  had  put  his  Ingenious  and 
Modest  Nephew  Mr.  Aldrich  upon  it,  who  consider'd  it  a  little,  but 
Dr.  Aldrich  understanding  from  Dr.  Hudson  y*  Dr.  Smith  is  going 
to  publish  this  work,  with  BP.  Pearson's  notes,  that  Design  is  layd  aside, 
&  we  shall  have  something  else.  He  once  design'd  that  Manuel  Phyle 

20  should  be  ye  Book  printed  from  y6  Curious  MS*  of  this  Author  in 
Bodley's  Archives ;  but  what  hinder'd  or  put  a  stop  to  it  I  know  not. 

July  4  (Fri.).  The  Shield  of  Dr.  Woodward  is  suspected  by  some  for 
this  reason  because  the  Horses  are  represented  without  Bridles.  Consider 
this.  Livy  1.  35.  c.  n.  has,  equi  (numidarum  scil.)  sine  frenis,  deformis 
ipse  cursus.  So  y*  for  Horses  to  be  w&out  Bridles  in  Battle  he  reckons 
strange  and  unusual.  .  .  . 

July  5  (Sat.).  Amongst  other  Books  given  by  y6  Armenian  ArchbP.  to 
ye  Publ.  Library  is  a  History,  at  ye  Beginning  of  which  ye  ArchbP's 
Nephew  put  ye  Following  memorand. 

3°  Historia  Nationis  Armenae  a  Moise  Chorenensi  Grammatico,  Doctore  Ar- 
meno.  Amst.  1650. 

Maij  28.  1707. 

Bibliothecae  Bodlejanae  dono  dedit  Reverendiss.  Thomas  Archiep.  S.  crucis 
in  majori  Armenia.  Per  manum  ejusd.  Reverendiss.  nepotis  Lucae  Nuri- 
gianidis. 

Underneath  which  is  written  at  ye  Motion  of  Dr.  Charlett,  &  by  ye 

Direction  of  ye  sd  ArchbP's  Nephew, 

Auctorem  istius  libri  floruisse  traditur  seculo  quarto  post  Xtum.  — 
Dr.  Grabe  says  y*  if  Dr.  Mill's  Picture  had  been  printed  before  his 
40  Test,  and  he  desir'd   to  write  something  under  it   should  have  been, 

consummavi  opus  quod  mihi  dedisti  consummare  in  terris.     Dr.  Grabe  in 


July  5.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  Sends  a  copy  of  Mem.  inserted  in  the 
Moyses  Grammaticus  presented  by  the  Armenian  Archbp.  to  the  Library  ;  his 
gift  not  worth  the  £100  worth  of  books  presented  by  the  University  at  the 
instigation  of  Dr.  Gharlett.  Mill  died  intestate  ;  doubtful  how  his  books  will 
be  disposed  of.  Sorry  so  many  persons  regard  Dr.  Woodward's  Shield  as  '  a 
banter.'  Hudson  and  Thwaites  spoken  of  for  Principal.  The  Dean  once  de- 
signed for  his  next  New  Year's  gift  Manuel  Phile  de  Animalibus,  whereof  there 
is  an  excellent  copy  in  Bodley's  Archives. 


July  2-13.]  VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  27-34.  25 

ye  Prol.  to  ye  first  Vol.  of  ye  LXX  now  just  printed  amongst  other  things 
gives  an  Account  of  Patrick  Young's  undertaking  this  Work  &  says  y*  his 
Specimen  of  it  was  injudicious,  &  y*  by  pretending  to  alter  ye  Alexandrian 
Copy  in  several  places  he  [showed]  himself  to  be  rash  &c.  He  also  takes 
notice  of  Dr.  Tho.  Smith's  being  put  upon  the  same  work  of  whom  he 
gives  a  laudable  Character  as  y*  he  is  well  skill'd  in  Greek  &  y°  Oriental 
Tongues  &  y*  he  is  an  ornam*  to  ye  College  of  which  he  was  fellow  & 
every  ways  qualified  for  y6  undertaking.  Quod  verissimum.  —  Silius 
Italicus  IV.  148.  de  2°  Bello  Pun.  Consider  y6  Place.  Something  there 
to  illustrate  Woodward's  Scutum.  —  A  Gentleman  gave  three  Coyns  to  ro 
the  Publick  Library  of  Silver.  .  .  . 

July  9  (Wed.).  Mr.  Tanner's  Brother  of  Queen's  Coll.  who  took  his 
Master  of  Arts  Deg.  this  day  tells  me  that  his  Bro.  is  now  very  hard  at 
work  upon  Leland,  &  y*  'twill  be  ready  for  the  Press  in  a  little  time.  — 
Religious  Pictures  were  printed  first.  Then  Cards.  Then  Ballads.  —  Mr. 

Higgins  has  printed  his  Sermon  preach'd  at  — which  gave  so 

much  offence.  To  which  is  since  come  out  a  Postscript  by  way  of 
Dialogue  betw.  ye  ArchbP.  of  Cant,  and  himself.  —  Dr.  Mill  in  his  Ded.  of 
his  Test,  to  ye  Q.  has  reflected  upon  the  memory  of  K.  Charles  II.  by 
saying  he  died  a  Papist,  for  which  the  Dr.  (as  well  as  for  some  other  20 
things)  is  much  blam'd,  &  a  day  before  he  fell  ill  he  was  told  roundly  of  it 
by  a  very  honest  Gent,  of  this  university,  &  he  took  great  notice  thereof, 
&  I  believe  was  sorry  for  what  he  had  said. 

July  12  (Sat.).  Dr.  Hudson  tells  me  that  in  Selden's  Library  is  a 
much  more  compleat  Index  to  ye  Scholiast  of  Lycophron  than  y*  pub- 
lish'd  by  Dr.  Potter  in  his  Edit,  of  Lye.  the  Index  of  ye  Authors  to  which 
was  drawn  up  by  Mr.  Dechair  of  Line.  Coll.  —  Mr.  Dodwell  has  publish'd 
A  Farther  Prospect  of  the  Case  in  View,  in  a  small  8V0.  being  in  answer  to 
some  objections  offer'd  since  y6  Publication  of  ye  former  Discourse. 

July  13  (Sun.).     This  Day  being  Act-Sunday  Mr.  Tho.  Yalden  of  30 
Magd.  Coll.  a  little  Effeminate  Fantastical  Person  preach'd  at  S*.  Mary's. 
The  Sermon  was  as  he  uses  to  preach  nothing  but  what  might  have  been 
s*1  by  one  who  has  any  thing  of  Pts,  w^out  Divinity.     The  Afternoon 
Sermon  was  preach'd  at  X*  Church  by  Mr.  Newton,  &  'twas  ye  Reverse. 


July  12.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  More  and  more  satisfied  that  the 
statement  of  the  antiquity  of  the  History  of  the  Armenian  Church  and 
Nation  is  false,  but  knows  of  no  one  since  the  death  of  Dr.  Gise  who  can 
translate  a  portion  for  purposes  of  comparison.  Thinks  a  present  of  money 
would  have  been  better  than  a  gift  of  Theatre  books.  Glad  that  Ussher's 
Variantes  Lectiones  N.  T.  are  preserved  among  his  collections ;  surely  Dr.  Mill 
should  have  given  him  some  better  title  than  that  of  clarissimus.  Has  '  looked 
over  the  ectypon  of  Dr.  Woodward's  Shield  with  a  very  transient  eye,  and  is 
satisfied  of  its  genuineness ; '  a  Dissertation  by  one  of  the  objectors  would  be 
very  curious  and  interesting.  Troubled  that  Dr.  Hudson's  chances  of  the 
Principalship  are  small.  Phile  de  Animallbus  hardly  worthy  of  Dr.  Aldrich's 
care  or  recommendation. 

July  13.  Barnes  to  Hudson.  Sends  an  '  Encomiastic  '  to  be  prefixed  to 
Hudson's  edition  of  Dionysius. 


26  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

Written  in  a  Window  at  Woodstock. 

A  German  Princess  once  adorn'd  this  Isle, 
Another  German  Princess  owns  this  Pile : 
This  equals  that  in  Manners,  Birth,  Estate, 
Oh !   that  this  Princess  shar'd  ye  J  others  Fate- 

—  This  Act,  among  others,  Mr.  Baker  Senior  of  Wadham  Coll.  had  a 
Letter  read  for  his  Degree  of  Dr.  of  Div.  The  Convocation  was  but  thin, 
several  People,  who  design'd  to  have  been  there,  being  interrupted.  So  the 
Letter  pass'd.  When  his  Grace  was  propos'd  a  certain  Gent,  a  Friend  to 
10  ye  university  denied  it ;  but  ye  Proctors  however,  misapprehending  the 
thing  (for  so  we  must  suppose)  pronounc'd  it  granted.  And  he  was 
accordingly  afterward  presented  :  tho'  the  Gent,  who  had  denied  it  made 
some  motion  to  ye  contrary,  but  'twas  too  late. 

July  14  (Mon.).  Hadr.  Relandus's  Diss.  Miscellaneae,  the  ist  Part.  .  . 
Tis  a  Philological  Book.  —  Historia  Hamelensis,  defensa  a  Franc. 
Worgero.  .  .  This  book  to  be  consulted  cone.  ye  Story  of  the  Rat- 
Catcher,  which  was  printed  several  years  since  by  Verstegan,  whence  I 
had  ye  Rel.  in  Duct.  Hist.  —  On  Saturd.  Mr.  Charles  King,  one  of  the 
Organists  at  S*.  Paul's  Lond.  perform'd  in  y6  Theatre  his  Exercise  for  ye 

20  Degree  of  Bach,  of  Musick,  &  ye  same  day  had  his  Grace  :  and  was 
presented  to  ye  same  Degree  in  Congregation  this  Day,  by  Mr.  Jo.  Keil 
A.M.  of  X*  Church,  for  want  of  one  in  y*  Faculty  to  do  ye  Office.  The 
Habit  he  was  presented  in  was  ye  same  w*h  yt  of  a  Bach,  of  Law,  it 
being  so  many  years  since  any  one  went  out  in  this  Faculty,  y*  no  one  in 
ye  University  it  seems  remembers  ye  Habit  proper  for  it;  nor  are  ye 
Magistrates  so  carefull  as  to  preserve  Patterns,  as  they  ought.  —  Mr. 
Holland  of  Merton  Coll.  was  presented  this  day  to  ye  Degree  of  Dr.  of 
Divinity.  —  This  Afternoon  I  talk'd  at  ye  Library  w^  one  who  belongs 
to  ye  Queen's  Houshold,  who  tells  me  y*  some  time  since  were  found  at 

30  Leonhard's  Hill  near  Windsor  a  great  number  of  Coyns  such  as  Mark 
Antony,  Antoninus  &c.  I  had  heard  of  'em  before.  But  I  do  not  find 
any  are  rare.  But  quaere  further.  —  Quaere  whether  the  Historia  Marty- 
rum  quoted  by  BP.  Bramhall  be  in  Apologia  Martyrum  .  .  —  Note  in 
Exposit.  Hieronymi  in  Symb.  Apost.  pr.  at  Oxon.  in  1468.  In  the  Mus. 
Quaere  ? 

July  17  (Th.).  Yesterday  a  Gentleman  brought  to  y6  Publick  Library 
certain  Coyns  &c.  with  an  Offer  of  what  were  wanting  to  y*  Place, 
amongst  which  were  two  scales,  the  Impresses  whereof  are  put  at  y6  End 
of  this  Book  in  wax.  One  of  them  is  remarkable  for  ye  name  of  Roger 
40  de  Bentun,  whom  I  take  to  be  Roger  de  Bethun  mention'd  in  ye  2d  Vol. 
of  Mon.  Ang.  for  being  a  Witness  to  ye  original  Paper  for  Founding  ye 
Abbey  of  Cockersand  in  Lancashire,  in  ye  time  of  Hen.  II.  —  This  day 
was  Elected  Rector  of  Blechingdon,  vacant  by  ye  Death  of  Dr.  Mill,'  Mr. 
Scott  Senior  Fellow  of  Queen's  Coll.  —  There  is  just  publish'd  The  Hd 
Part  of  The  Pulpit  Fool,  by  John  Dunton  a  poor  craz'd  silly  Fellow.  In 


July  14.    Barnes  to  H.     Reports  progress  with  his  Homer. 
1  She  was  hang'd. 


July  13-21.]  VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  35-44.  27 

it  he  gives  Characters  of  ye  chief  &  most  Learned  (as  he  calls  'em)  of  y6 
Low  Clergy  Dissenters  as  well  as  others. 

July  18  (Fri.).  Dr.  Godolphin,  Provost  of  Eaton,  is  made  Dean  of 
S*.  Paul's.  —  Memorandum.  That  Mr.  Dalton  of  All-Souls  would  not 
be  dispens'd  w*b,  as  the  other  Masters  according  to  custom  are,  this  year 
for  one  year  of  his  Necessary  Regency  on  purpose  y*  he  might  defer  his 
going  into  orders  the  longer,  the  Coll.  Statutes  obliging  to  take  orders  two 
years  after  Necessary  Regency  is  compleated ;  tho'  I  am  told  by  one,  who 
knows,  y*  there  was  no  need  for  this  shift,  because  ye  College  Statutes 
allow  two  years  for  necessary  Regency.  —  Memorandum.  Also  y*  M*.  10 
Code  of  y*  Coll.  was  presented  to  ye  Degree  of  Dr.  of  Physick  this  Act 
Term,  tho'  he  should  have  staid  another  year  by  ye  Coll.  Statutes,  which 
require  five  years  standing  Bach,  of  Phys.  before  he  proceed  Dr.  whereas 
Code  is  but  four. 

July  19  (Sat.).  IX  Smoult  Fellow  of  S*.  John's  Coll.  in  Cambr.  & 
Professor  of  Casuistical  Divinity  in  y*  university  is  lately  dead,  leaving 
two  Hundred  lib8,  to  ye  Publick  Library  there,  two  hundred  lib8,  for  ye 
Augmentation  of  that  Professorship,  two  hundred  lib8.  Charity  for  poor 
Clergy  Men's  Widows,  &c. 

July  20  (Sun.).     I  saw  this  day  a  north-Country  poor  man  who  said  20 
he  went  to  school  with  Dr.  Mill,  y*  his  (the  D1""8)  Father  is  a  weaver  by 
Trade,  y*  he  has  an  estate  of  7  lib8,  a  year  which  Dr.  Mill  his  son  pur- 
chas'd  for  him,  &  y*  Dr.  Mill  died  in  about  ye  63d  (his  great  Climackterick) 
year  of  his  Age. 

July  21  (Mon.).  Last  Week  died  Sr.  Rob.  Clayton,  at  Rygate,  leaving 
behind  him  4000  libs,  per  an.  to  a  Nephew  of  very  ordinary  Education, 
with  40000  libs,  to  the  Hospitals  in  London  &  for  other  charitable  uses, 
to  attone  for  his  way  of  getting  it,  which  was,  he  being  but  a  Scrivener  by 
Trade,  per  opus  &  usus.  —  Mr.  Dodwell  has  just  publish'd  a  2d  Edition  of 
his  Ep.  Discourse.  —  Simon  Miller  a  Bookseller  on  Ludgate-Hill  when  he  3° 
us'd  to  be  over  his  Bottle  had  commonly  this  Expression  come  tip  away, 
whereupon  ye  Waggs  made  this  Epitaph  on  him  : 

Here  lyes  Simon  clad  in  clay, 
Who  while  he  liv'd  cry'd  tip  away. 

—  Mr.  Wright  who  writ  ye  Antiquities  of  Rutlandshire  (&  several  other 
Pieces  in  verse  &  prose  tho'  w^out  his  Name)  is  an  ancient  Barrister 
of  ye  Middle  Temple.  He  was  borne  at  Yarnton  in  Oxonsh,  His 
Father  being  a  Parson  of  y*  place  &  formerly  fellow  of  S*.  John's. 
—  When  Dr.  Hudson  was  Bach,  of  Arts  he  happen'd  to  be  in  company 
(in  London)  with  Mr.  Dixon  then  fellow  of  Queen's  Coll.  &  afterwards  4° 
Dr.  Dixon  &  Parson  of  Wey-Hill,  &  after  a  free  glass  or  two,  he  (Mr.  H.) 
happen'd  to  discourse  wtn  him  ab*  several  Matters  relating  to  ye  Coll. 
&  one  particular  he  very  well  remembers  is  y*  he  sd  to  Mr.  Dixon,  he 
wonder'd  they  did  not  always  make  choice  of  ye  best  scholars.  Mr. 
Dixon  told  him  y*  if  ever  he  (Mr.  H.)  was  Fellow  he  would  cease  to 
wonder  at  that ;  for  then  he  would  know  y*  all  things  were  manag'd  by 
Parties,  Intriegues  &  self  Interest.  —  Laurence  Humphreys  translated 
into  Latin  Origen's  Dialogues  contra  Marcionistas.  At  ye  End  of 


28  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

Origan's  Works  printed   at  Basil   1571.     See  Wetstenius's  Preface  to 
several  Pieces  of  Origen,  which  he  publish'd. 

July  25  (Fri.).  Memorandum  y*  Mr.  Dechair  in  his  Preface  to 
Athenagoras  calls  Mr.  Worth  eruditus  admodum  editor  Tatiani.  He  also 
acknowledges  himself  to  be  oblig'd  to  Dr.  Mill  a  person  he  says  of  great 
name  amongst  the  Literati  for  some  Assistance,  as  likewise  to  Dr.  Potter, 
who,  it  may  be,  had  some  hand  in  ye  Dedication,  which  is  dull  &  hardly 
latin,  at  least  not  very  intelligible.  The  var.  lectt.  in  ye  Eton  MSfc  he 
had  from  Mr.  Worth,  whom  I  help'd  to  collate  y*  MS*  at  Eton,  whither 

10  I  went  on  purpose.  At  ye  same  time  I  took  a  specimen  of  ye  Hand, 
which  Mr.  Worth  met  wth  since  Dr.  Mill's  Death  in  his  Study,  &  carry'd 
it  off,  as  himself  told  me,  &  it  may  be  other  Papers.  —  Dr.  Grabe  in 
his  Epistle  to  Dr.  Mill  has  been  noted  for  his  Complement  to  Dr. 
Charlett  whose  humanity  he  calls  inusitatam.  The  same  Complement 
he  uses  to  Dr.  Aldrich  in  his  Preface  to  ye  Oxon.  Edit,  of  ye  IId  Apol.  of 
Justin  Marty[r]  where  he  calls  his  munificence  inusitatam.  In  ye  same 
Preface  Dr.  Grabe  promises  a  3d  vol.  of  Justin  martyr  to  contain  his 
Dialogue  w*11  Tryphon,  also  a  fourth  to  comprehend  Justin's  Supposi- 
titious Pieces  &c.  In  pag.  14.  of  y*  second  Apol.  in  ye  Notes  GRARE 

20  is  written  for  GRABE.  I  believe  'tis  full  of  faults.  Dr.  Grabe  in  ye 
Preface  to  ye  first  Vol.  of  his  Ed.  of  ye  Sept.  just  now  printed  makes 
honourable  mention  of  Dr.  Thomas  Smith,  whom  he  takes  notice  of 
upon  Account  of  his  being  put  upon  this  Work  by  K.  Ch.  II.  which 
however  he  was  forc'd  to  desist  from  by  reason  of  ye  troublesome  times 
coming  on  &c.  At  ye  same  time  Dr.  Grabe  speaks  of  Mr.  P.  Young 
as  a  man  of  little  Judgment:  qd  tamen  non  verum.  ArchbP.  Usher 
has  a  note  in  his  Coll.  thus, 

Ruffus  Festus  Avienus  in  antiquis  Codd.  Abidenus  dicitur,  &  in  Servij  etiam 
commentarijs  ;  ubi  (cum  de  cometis  disserit)  Avienum  scribit  fecisse  Vergilianas 
3°  fabulas  lambicis  versibus,  &  historica  quaedam  ex  libris  Livianis  in  libro  de 
maritimis  secutum  se  testatur  (praeter  Annales  Punicos)  &c. 

In  ArchbP  Usher's  MS*  Collections  are  Excerpta  out  of  ye  Saxon 
Annals  wfch  some  Excell*  Observations  by  ye  ArchbP. :  which  Dr. 
Gibson  knew  nothing  of  when  he  publish'd  y*  Work.  —  There  is 
lately  publish'd  Modena's  History  of  ye  present  Jews  translated  from 
ye  Italian  by  Mr.  [S]im.  Ockley,  Author  of  y6  Introductio  ad  Linguas 
orientales,  who  has  added  some  Notes  of  his  own  to  this  Translation. 
There  is  a  Dedication  prefix'd  to  it  to  Elias  Abenaker  of  Lond.  Gent, 
written  by  John  Owen  (whose  Name  is  subscrib'd)  the  undertaker  I 
40  think,  in  which  he  has  reflected  upon  Dr.  Bentley,  tho'  Bentley's  Name 
be  not  added.  —  Dryden  printed  a  poem  in  Memory  of  ye  Countess  of 
Abbingdon  Lond.  1692.  She  died  in  the  33d  year  of  her  age.  —  Mr. 
DodwelTs  Case  in  view  is  grounded  upon  §  31,  &  33d  of  his  Preface  to 
ye  Defence  of  the  Vindication  of  ye  Depr.  BPS.  Qusere  ? 

July  26  (Sat.).     Memorandum  y*  Taubmannus  in  ye  Preface  to  his . 
Com.  upon  Virgil's  Culex   has  printed  a  fragment  of  Der-  Winsbeke,  a 


July  26.    Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.     Please  send  any  further  objections  against 
Woodward's  Shield, '  for  I  have  not  yet  lost  my  relish  for  such  like  juvenile 


July  21-27.]  VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  44-54.  39 

noble  Poet  of  Germany  who  flourish'd  under  y6  Empire  of  Fred. 
Barbarossa.  In  ye  same  place  also  he  has  given  another  Fragment  of 
Wernherus  coeval  with  Winsbeke.  —  In  pag.  338  of  ye  Comment,  of 
y6  8V0.  Edition,  is  P.  Scipio  Africanus's  Epitaph,  viz.  HEIC  EST  ILLE  SITVS, 

QVOI    NEMO  CEIVl'    NEQVE  HOSTIS   Q VISIT  PRO    FACTEIS    REDDERE    OPER.E  PRE- 

TIVM.  |  —  There  is  a  IId  vol.  of  Fabricius's  Bibliotheca  Greca  come  out. 
It  comes  down  to  X*.  The  same  Diligence  show'd  as  in  ye  former 
Indexs  of  Authors  Classical  added  occasionally,  also  Fragments  with 
Notes  &c.  —  At  y6  End  of  ye  BP.  of  Worcester's  Bible  is  a  Table  of 
Weights,  Measures,  &c.  taken  from  BP.  Cumberland.  The  BP.  makes  10 
a  Shekel  to  be  2s.  ^d.  3^.  whereas  Brerewood  makes  it  half  a  Crown,  & 
Roman  Denarius  to  be  ye  fourth  part  of  it,  viz.  ^d.  —  Dr.  Mill  in  his 
Notes  upon  N.  Test.  p.  13.  insinuates  y*  some  later  Person  was  Author 
of  Ye  Calech.  Mysiagog. 

[Notes  from  Voss.  de  Arte  Gram.  1.  v.  c.  3 ;  1.  iii.  c.  6  ;  1.  iv.  c.  17.] 

Remember  when  Justin  is  reprinted  to  note  where  Civitatium  is  printed 
yt  yt  is  right,  &  refer  to  Vossius  de  Arte  Gram.  1.  iv.  c.  17.  ... 

July  27  (Sun.).  Yesterday  was  in  y6  Publick  Library  Dr.  Edw. 
Wetenhall  formerly  of  Line.  Coll.  &  afterwards  BP.  of  Corke  &  Ross, 
being  attended  only  by  Dr.  Ar.  Charlett  always  at  hand  upon  such  20 
occasions,  which  Wetenhall,  now  an  old  man,  has  written  &  publish'd 
several  things  as  a  Sermon,  4°.  of  Gifts  &  Offices  in  ye  Publick  Worship 
of  God,  in  3  parts  8°.  The  Church  Catechism  w**1  marginal  Notes  8V0. 
&  a  Preface  to  Dr.  Ez.  Hopkins's  Expos,  on  ye  10  Commandments  4°. 
—  The  Dean  of  X*  Ch.  (Dr.  Aldrich)  has  read  over  Obrechtus's  Edit, 
of  Quinctilian,  &  he  is  of  opinion  y*  'tis  a  most  accurate,  nice  Per- 
formance, &  exceeds  Dr.  Gibson's  Work  at  Oxon.  who  took  little  Pains 
in  it,  ye  MSS.  being  collated  by  young,  raw  lads  not  curious  nor  skillfull 
in  such  business,  nor  to  be  at  all  rely'd  on  in  ye  most  critical  &  un- 
common variations,  which  they  usually  pass  over  as  trivial,  insignificant  30 
Matters. 

[Note  on  Quintil.  xii.  3.] 

Mr.  Dodwell  in  Pag.  16  of  his  Preface  to  his  Defence  of  the  Vind. 
has  these  words.  Nor  does  it  appear  the  AbP.  chang'd  his  mind 
aftrwds.  The  only  thing  insisted  on  by  our  Historian  to  prove  it,  is  his 
subscribing  a  Book  (ask  Mr.  Dodwell  wfc  Book  it  is)  set  out  soon  after, 
which  teaches  y6  contrary.  —  Dr.  Wettenhall  as  soon  as  ever  he  was 
made  Regent  Master  got  to  preach  before  y6  university  at  S*.  Maryes, 
for  which  he  was  scons'd  by  y6  Vice-Chanc.  according  to  ye  Statute  of 
not  preaching  'till  four  years  standing  Master  being  then  strictly  observ'd  4° 
tho',  like  other  things,  scandalously  neglected  since.  He  was  always  a 
forward  dapper  Man,  &  was  once  a  stickler  for  King  James.  When 
young  he  was  School-Master  in  Exeter.  —  Dr.  Hudson  having  got  a 


studyes  and  entertainm*8.'  Severe  remarks  on  Dr.  Mill's  Dedicatory  Epistle 
—a  scandalous  libel  on  the  memory  of  King  Charles  II— which  he  begs  of  H. 
to  keep  secret. 


30  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

Warrant  for  the  Delivery  of  the  MSfc  Josephus  in  ye  Queen's  Library  for 
his  use,  Dr.  Trimnell  had  ye  Keys  of  ye  Library  deliver'd  to  him  by 
Dr.  Bentley's  order  to  take  it  out ;  but  when  he  came  to  look  for  it,  the 
MS*  was  not  to  be  found,  which  is  suppos'd  to  be  a  trick  of  Dr. 
Bentley's,  who  has  no  great  Affection  for  carrying  on  this  Work.  The 
Fees  which  Dr.  Hudson  pays  for  ye  warrant  comes  to  i/.  i2s.  6d.  which 
would  have  arisen  to  six  libs,  had  not  the  Ld.  Sunderland  abated  his 
Fees.  The  MS.  was  found  &  sent  to  y6  Doctor.  —  Dr.  James  Talbot 
who  put  out  at  Cambridge  in  a  Beautiful  Letter,  both  in  4to  and  8V0. 

10  Horace,  —  is  now  Chaplain  to  ye  D.  of  Somerset  &  Rector  of  Spofforth 
in  Yorksh.  He  has  also  printed  The  Christian  Schoolmaster  &c.  & 
Christian  Equity  in  a  Sermon :  both  for  ye  use  of  ye  Religious  Societies. 
—  In  Burnett's  Reflections  on  ye  Oxon.  Theses  he  mentions  in  pag.  29. 
a  sheet  well  and  decently  writ  (as  he  saith)  to  prove  that  Q.  Eliz.  was  a 
Bastard.  Enquire  ab*  it  ?  —  There  is  lately  come  out  at  Amst.  in  two 
Vols.  fol.  by  Almeloveen  an  Edition  of  Strabo  Gr.  Lat.  with  Casaubon's 
&  others  Notes.  To  which  is  added  Strabo's  Chrestomathiae  as  printed 
at  Oxon  by  Dr.  Hudson  whose  Notes  are  subjoyn'd  &  to  them  is  pre- 
fix'd  Mr.  Dodwell's  Dissertation. 

20  July  29  (Tu.).  Mr.  Du-Gain,  an  Irish  Gentleman,  having  been 
inform'd  against  for  words  spoken  at  least  four  years  agoe  touching 
upon  King  William's  Memory,  after  the  thing  had  been  moved  from 
Place  to  Place,  to  his  great  loss,  at  length  it  was  brought  before  the 
Judges  last  week  at  ye  Assize  in  Oxon.  But  ye  Witnesses  disagreeing  in 
their  Evidence,  &  the  word  infernum  (for  so  'twas  brought  in  viz.  that  he 
should  say  that  if  there  were  any  Hell  he  beh'ev'd  King  William's  Soul  to  be 
in  it,  which  they  interpreted  infernum)  being  ambiguous,  the  matter  was 
laid  aside,  &  the  Informers  came  off  with  no  small  Disgrace.  Yet  for  all 
that  'tis  believ'd  they  will  still  prosecute  this  poor,  unfortunate  Gent,  out 

30  of  Malice  &  only  to  bring  him  into  Trouble  &  Charges.  —  John  Wood- 
ward of  S*.  Mary  Hall  in  Oxon.  writ  a  Copy  of  verses  before  Mr.  John 
Middleton's  Practical  Astrology,  pr.  at  Lond.  in  1679.  8°. 

July  31  (Th.).  Last  Sunday  was  inducted  into  his  Living  of  Blech- 
ingdon  Mr.  Tho.  Scott  of  Queen's  Coll.  —  Erythraeus  in  his  Index  to 
Virgil  in  ye  word  AVCTOR  referrs  to  a  great  Dictionary  of  his.  Quaere  whether 
'twas  ever  publish'd  ?  Erythraeus  in  his  Index  to  Virgil  voce  CONCVBITV 
mentions  an  Index  y*  he  made  to  Caesar's  Commentaries.  ...  —  Mr.  Milles 
is  made  Dr.  of  Divinity  at  Dublin  &  (as  I  am  told)  Sr.  Andr.  Fountaine 
Dr.  of  Lawe.  —  ...  There  is  a  MS*  of  Virgil  (an  Antient  one  it  is)  in 
40  ye  Vatican  Library  very  diligently  (diligentissime)  kept  as  Erythraeus 
says  in  his  Index  to  Virgil ;  in  the  word  cum.  In  which  place  he  notes 
y*  quum  is  ye  right  way  of  writeing  cum  when  'tis  an  Adverb  of  time,  tho' 
he  follows  the  common  way. 

[Miscellaneous  notes  from  the  same  work.]  .  . . 


Aug.  2.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  General  surprise  and  horror  in  Oxford  at 
the  fulsome  character  of  Dr.  Mill's  Dedication.  Particulars  of  his  parentage 
&c.  from  a  North-countryman.  Mr.  Pearson  to  have  the  Principality.  The 
Dean  has  fixed  upon  Epictetus  and  Theophrastus  for  his  New  Year's  gift,  to  be 
edited  by  his  nephew.  Has  at  last  seen  the  Amst.  ed.  of  Strabo.  Dr.  Hudson 


July  27-Aug.  7.]          VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  54-62.  31 

Aug.  3  (Sun.).  .  .  .  Memorand.  y*  Dr.  Hyde's  Catalogue  should  be 
mended,  where  he  says  Joannes  Nidus  Rossius  :  it  should  be  Joannes 
Victor  Roscius.  And  give  a  Note  at  Janus  Nidus  Erythraus  y*  'tis  a 
feign' d  Name  for  Joannes  Victor  Roscius. 

Aug.  4  (Mon.).  In  1649  was  pr.  at  Lond.  a  little  Pamphlett  4°.  intit. 
Chris  fs  Birth  not  mistimed :  or,  a  dear  Refutation  of  a  Resolution  to  a 
Question  about  y  time  of  Xfs  Nativity,  By  R.  S.  pretending  to  evidence  by 
Scripture,  That  Jesus  X'  was  not  borne  in  Dec.  'Tis  neatly  written  and 
suppos'd  to  be  done  by  BP.  Pearson.  Dr.  Hammond  *  in  some  part  of  his 
works  mentions  it  as  J.  P.'s.  Quaere?  I0 

Aug  7  (Th.).  Mr.  Wasse  of  Cambridge,  now  Chaplain  to  ye  Earl  of 
Kent,  has  so  swell'd  his  Salust,  which  he  is  publishing  with  Notes,  y*  the 
undertaker  is  quite  weary,  who  tells  me  y*  his  Index  will  be  upwards  of 
20  sheets.  —  In  the  year  1705  Mr.  John  Dyer  y®  News  Writer  having 
inserted  in  his  Letter  that  at  Bristow  on  y°  30*  of  Jan.  they  drest  up  a 
dog  &  led  him  out  very  formally  &  cut  off  his  head  in  derision  of  y®  Day, 
he  has  been  forc'd  to  retract  ye  story  &  to  insert  his  Retraction  in  his 
Letter  of  last  night  viz.  That  he  was  impos'd  upon  by  some  ill  designing 
People,  &  y*  he  begs  Pardon  of  ye  Mayor,  Aldermen  &  Citizens  of 
Bristoll.  —  ...  20 

'  lately  obtain'd  a  warrant  for  ye  Delivery  of  Josephus  in  MS.  in  the  Q^s 
Library  for  his  use.  Accordingly  Dr.  Bentley  order' d  the  Keys  to  be  deliver'd 
to  Dr.  Trimnell,  but  when  he  came  to  search  the  Book  was  not  to  be  found. 
The  Fees  on  this  occasion  came  to  £i  i2s.  6d.  and  they  would  have  arisen  to 
5  or  6  libs,  had  not  my  Ld  Sunderland  abated  his.' 

Aug.  5.  Hickes  to  H.  Wants  tor  a  friend  a  large-paper  copy  of  Mill's 
Grk.  Test,  in  quires. 

Aug.  8.  Dodwell  to  H.  Further  remarks  on  his  '  Northern  Anonymous 
Friend's '  letter.  Remarks  and  suggestions  on  the  fact  that  the  horses  on  Dr. 
Woodward's  Shield  are  represented  without  bridles  (and  pvrf)pos).  Asks  him 
to  look  up  a  point  in  the  Byzantine  ed.  of  Zonaras  in  the  St.  John's  Library. 
P.S.  from  Brokesby.  Will  make  further  enquiries  for  Burton's  papers  relat- 
ing to  Leicestershire.  Hudson  to  H.  Sends  an  account  of  his  rambles. 
Northampton  ;  Oundle  ('  What's  remarkable  in  this  place  you  have  in  Camb- 
den,  unless  it  be  a  well,  wch  is  call'd  ye  Drumming-well ;  from  the  beating  of  a 
Drum  in  it  at  some  certain  seasons.  I  was  told  by  my  obliging  Landlord,  who 
was  ye  best  and  most  knowing  man  in  ye  Town,  y*  he  heard  it  beat  on  ye  very 
day  we  had  ye  great  overthrow  in  Spain.  This  matter  is  so  well  attested  by 
all  ye  people  thereabouts  y*  I  do  not  in  ye  least  suspect  ye  truth  of  it.'  Peter- 
borough :  [ '  the  minster]  has  lost  of  its  monuments  of  antiquity  by  ye  barbar- 
ous rage  of  ye  late  times.'  .  .  As  I  went  into  ye  Ch.,  just  as  ye  evening  prayer 
was  ended,  I  mett  ye  Bishop,  &  beg'd  his  blessing :  I  told  him  y4  1  was  a 
Traveler  y*  came  from  Oxon,  &  y*  my  name  was — .  He  reply'd  a  very  good 
name,  &  so  went  his  way.  I  was  a  little  surpris'd  at  this,  &  while  I  was  a 
viewing  ye  Ch.  could  not  but  reflect  now  &  then  upon 't.  Yet  before  I  left  y* 
place,  by  w*  sudden  turn  I  cannot  imagin,  ye  BP  comes  into  ye  Ch.,  &  offer'd 
to  show  me  anything  y*  might  be  remarkable  in  it.  I  return'd  his  LordshP  my 
thanks  for  y4  great  civility ;  assuring  him  y*  1  thought  I  had  seen  everything 
y*  could  gratitie  my  curiosity  in  y*  place.  He  then  walkt  out  wth  me,  &  show'd 
me  a  piece  of  Antiquity.  .  .  He  then  invited  me  to  drink  a  glass  of  wine  or 
ale  wth  him  in  his  House,  hard  by  ye  Ch  :  which  I  believe  had  been  part  of  ye 

1  See  Vol.  ist  of  his  works,  pages  536,  537. 


32  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

Aug.  9  (Sat.).  On  Thursday  last  about  2  in  ye  Afternoon  died  Mr. 
Pooly,  Member  of  Parl.  for  Ipswich,  &  is  much  lamented  especially  upon 
Account  of  his  Excellent  Parts,  skill  in  ye  Law,  &  his  Loyalty.  There  is 
some  Account  of  him  before  in  one  of  these  Books.  Quaere  ?  I  think 
'tis  a  Mistake.  —  This  Day  about  3  in  ye  Afternoon  was  '  admitted  Prin- 
cipal of  S*.  Edm.  Hall  Mr.  Tho.  Pearson  A.M.  and  Fellow  of  Queen's 
Coll.  who  deservedly  bears  ye  Character  of  a  modest,  good  natur'd  Man, 
and  a  plain  practical  Preacher.  The  Electors  were  for  some  time  put  to 
it,  none  of  ye  College  being  willing  to  accept  it,  (the  Hall  being  but  thin 

10  at  present)  unless  upon  very  considerable  Terms  of  Advantage  from  y° 
Coll.  Accordingly  therefore  at  last  2  they  agreed  that  if  Mr.  Pearson 
would  take  it  he  should  have  ye  Option  of  a  Parsonage,  and  in  ye  mean 
time  have  a  Pension  from  ye  Coll.  equivalent  to  a  Fellowship :  which  is 
nothing  else  but  an  Evasion  of  the  Statute  which  says  none  shall  be 
socius  &  Principal  at  ye  same  time  ultra  sex  menses.  It  was  expected  y* 
Dr.  Hudson  should  have  been  elected  by  them ;  but  ye  present  smooth- 
booted  Provost  was  one  of  ye  chief  who  formerly  got  him  turn'd  by  a 
Fellowship,  and  he  thought  'twould  be  a  Reflection  upon  himself  to  have 
him  made  Principal.  Mr.  Hill  one  of  ye  Fellows  was  a  great  Manager  of 

20  this  Affair,  as  he  was  in  bringing  in  Dr.  Lancaster  Provost,  tho'  if  he  had 
mov'd  for  Dr.  Hudson  &  ye  Provost  thought  fit  to  have  been  of  y*  mind 
too,  we  should  have  had  a  Man  of  great  Industry  &  Learning  as  well  as 
Probity  to  be  Head,  and  the  world  might  have  seen  several  persons  train'd 


Lodgings  of  ye  Abbots  of  y*  place.  Wn  I  went  in  he  offer'd  me  my  choice  of 
Wine  or  Ale ;  I  told  him  wch  his  Lordship  pleas'd  ;  and  then  there  came  a 
tankard  of  excellent  drink  such  as  Heddington  cannot  afford.  After  a  little 
discourse  I  took  my  leave  of  his  LordshP,  without  having  an  invitation  to  dine 
with  him  ye  next  day.  I  fancy  ye  reason  was,  y*  all  his  daughters  wr  dispos'd 
of.  Four  of  ym  being  married  to  Clergymen.'  Crowland,  Spalding,  Boston, 
Alford,  Theddlethorp. 

Aug.  9.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  Gives  over  the  sheets  of  the  Bp.  of  Worces- 
ter's General  Chronology  as  irretrievable.  Has  received  part  of  Mr.  Burton's 
Latin  MS.  Britanniae  Romanorum,  and  finds  that  scarce  any  light  can  be  de- 
rived from  it  for  illustrating  the  Antiquities  of  Britain  beyond  what  we  have 
already  in  his  printed  Commentary  on  the  Itinerary  of  Antoninus.  Rhenferdius 
writes  that  he  would  reprint  the  Greek  Onomasticon  of  Eusebius  Caesariensis  if 
he  could  meet  with  a  MS.  to  collate  Bonfrerius'  ed.  by.  Is  any  MS.  known  to 
H.  or  Dr.  Hudson  ?  '  It  is  shamefull  &  scandalous,  that  no  booke  can  bee 
borrowed  out  of  the  Royal  Library  without  paying  such  exorbitant  fees, 
of  wch  so  little  care  is  taken,  &  to  wch  accesse  cannot  bee  had  without 
great  difficulty  in  the  absence  of  Dr.  B.  But  this  is  not  Dr.  Hudson's  case 
alone.  About  a  yeare  or  two  since  I  desired  the  Keeper  of  ye  Paper- 
Office  at  Whitehall  to  let  mee  have  a  sight  of  several  Papers  there,  where 
formerly  I  was  readily  admitted':  but  hee  made  a  great  difficulty  of  it,  and  told 
mee  that  hee  could  not  do  it  without  a  warrant  under  the  Queenes  hand.  I  re- 
plyed  with  a  just  indignation,  that  I  had  no  other  designe,  but  to  serve  the 
public,  and  would  not  bee  at  such  an  excessive  charge  to  satisfy  my  curiosity,  of 
wch  I  should  not  reape  one  peny  advantage ;  and  so  left  him,  and  never  thought 
fit  to  make  any  other  attempt.' 

1  The  Instrument  wch  was  sign'd  by  y6  Provost  &  Fellows  (and  was  read  by  Mr. 
Thwaites  in  y6  Hall  Quadrangle)  bears  date  Aug.  viil. 
4  This  was  done  on  Friday  the  i&t  Aug. 


Aug.  0-14.]  VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  62-69.  33 

up  in  good  Literature,  who  would  be  an  ornament  to  y6  university.  — 
Since  ye  writing  this  Mr.  Thwaites  tells  me  Mr.  Hill  was  against  Mr. 
Pearson's  having  such  Terms,  and  y*  himself  was  ye  Principal  of  the 
Fellows  who  got  ym  procur'd.  —  Dr.  Whitby  has  just  publish'd  a  Book 
against  Mr.  Dodwell's  Epistolary  Discourse.  —  Pompey  the  Great  con- 
sulted y°  most  Learned  Persons  (A.  Cell.  1.  19.  c.  14.)  whether  in  ye 
Temple  of  Victory  should  be  writ  TERTIO  or  TERTIVM  CONSVL.  And  when 
they  disagreed,  he  went  to  Tully,  who,  that  he  might  not  seem  to  disprove 
the  opinions  of  these  Great  Men,  advis'd  to  write  TERT.  See  Vossius  de 
Arte  Gram.  1.  i.  c.  44.  —  Mr.  Higgins's  Postscript  to  his  Sermon,  in  10 
which  ye  ArchbP.  of  Cant.  &c.  is  reflected  on,  has  been  taken  into  Con- 
sideration by  ye  Parliament  at  Dublin,  &  they  have  order'd  it  to  be  burn'd, 
which  has  been  accordingly  executed. 

Aug.  10  (Sun.).  Memorandum.  That  Col.  Allestrey  of  X*  Church  was 
Author  of  y6  Song  about  Mob  Elections  wck  begins  thus, — To  Cairfax 
hey  !  there's  Ale  &  Beef  &c. 

Aug.  14  (Th.).  Last  week  Mr.  Hickeringall  the  famous  Parson  of 
Colchester,  who  has  so  long  ridiculed  his  Profession  &  ye  Xtian  Religion, 
as  a  specimen  of  his  morality  was  indicted,  tryed  and  found  guilty  at  ye 
Assizes  for  Forgery,  and  fined  400!.  He  carryed  himself  with  that  in-  ao 
decency  to  ye  Court  that  he  was  thought  to  be  mad.  He  was  educated  at 
Cambridge.  —  In  Oriel  Coll.  Libr.  Foxe's  Acts  &  Mon.  Lond.  1570. 
Also  Vincentius  Bell.  pr.  in  1474.  Tully's  Offices  of  the  Ist  ed.  in  1465. 
there  likewise.  At  ye  beginning  the  Possessor  notes  it  cost  him  but  6d. 
Also  Salustpr.  in  1417.  [stc]  wth  several  wooden  Cutts.  —  John  Malverne 
Fellow  of  Oriel  Coll.  in  ye  Reign  of  Edw.  3.  in  1342.  was  Author  of 
Pierce  Plowman's  Vision.  So  in  a  pr.  Copy  in  Oriel  Coll.  —  This  day 
came  to  ye  Publick  Library  Mr.  Phil.  Stubbs,  formerly  Fellow  of  Wadham 
Coll.  now  a  Minister  in  London.  He  has  publish'd  some  Sermons  & 
other  Things.  He  has  some  Books  which  he  designs  to  present  to  ye  Publ.  3° 
Libr.  He  tells  me  y*  he  had  sometime  since  given  him  a  great  Heap  of 
MSS*  Papers,  most  of  them  of  Sr.  Hen.  Spelman's  Writing.  Amongst 
them  is  the  History  of  Sacrilege  much  larger  &  fuller  than  y*  which  was 
printed  some  years  since.  There  are  also,  as  he  says,  several  Papers  of 
Mr.  Jeremy  Stephens,  who  was  a  compleat  Scholar,  &  a  great  Assistant 
to  Sr.  Hen.  Spelman. 

[Notes  on  Zonaras  Tom.  i.  Edit.  Du  Fresnij.    Par.  1686.  p.  414.] 

There  were  lately  given  to  ye  Univers.  of  Dublin  2  Coverings  for  Urns 
wth  a  Busto  on  each ;  on  the  one  is  this  Inscription.    A  .  AY2IMAX  HN 
THN  $IAANAPON  O  0PE*AC  0HAYMITPHC.    the  other  has  one  corner  40 
broke,  &  has  only  the  following  Letters  entire  :::::::  NEAN  *  MYHSlcoN 
nOAIN  :  :  :  :  :  T1A2  ATTIKO2. 


Aug.  12.  Hickes  to  H.  Approves  of  the  new  Principal.  Sorry  to  hear 
Thwaites  is  '  consumptif.'  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  Remarks  on  the  knavery 
of  the  Oxford  carrier,  who  demanded  a  shilling  while  the  servant  would  only 
pay  eight  pence,  so  that  the  parcel  was  sent  off  with  carriage  unpaid. 

1  I  believe  'tis  the  City  MTHS  in  Ionia  mention'd  by  Stephanus,  who  tells  us  the 
Nomen  Gentile  is  MTH2ION. 

VOL.  II.  D 


34  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

Aug.  18  (Mon.).  Dr.  Edw.  Hannes  of  Xt  Ch.  one  of  ye  Queen's  Phy- 
sitians  taken  last  week  w*k  y6  dead  Palsey.  —  Yesterday  in  ye  Afternoon 
Dr.  John  Blackborne  of  Brazennose,  who  was  formerly  noted  for  a  great 
Ringer,  upon  which  subject  with  ye  Assistance  of  another  he  publish'd  a 
Book,  being  to  preach  at  S*.  Marie's,  he  happen'd  to  be  in  ye  Country 
about  30  Miles  off  at  his  Parsonage,  &  did  not  set  out  'till  yesterday 
Morning  for  Oxon,  &  came  too  late  to  be  at  S*.  Marie's,  upon  which  the 
Congregation  was  dismiss'd  by  ye  Vice-Chancellor  without  any  service  to 
ye  no  small  scandal  of  ye  university,  which  will  be  the  greater  if  the  Vice 
10  chancellor  shall  not  punish  ye  offender  as  such  a  stupid,  illiterate  Man 
deserves  &  as  ye  Statute  directs.  But  to  show  ye  Vicechancellor's  Civility, 
&  ye  Respect  he  has  for  ye  Credit  of  ye  University  it  must  be  noted  y* 
Mr.  Smith,  of  Brasenose,  a  man  of  great  Modesty  &  a  known  scholar  when 
he  saw  Dr.  Blackburne  would  be  absent  sent  to  ye  Vice-Chancellor  by  ye 
Beadle  &  told  him  he  would  preach  for  ye  Dr.  if  he  would  give  leave  :  but 
ye  Vice-chanc.  bluntly  return'd  Answer  y*  the  Congregation  had  staid 
long  enough  already,  &  so  went  out  of  Church. 

Aug.  19  (Tu.).  The  Duke  of  Devonshire  died  yesterday  in  the  6  7th 
year  of  his  Age  &  is  succeeded  in  Honour  &  Estate  by  his  son  y6  Mar- 
go  quiss  of  Hartington.  —  In  Aringhus's  Roma  Siibterranea  1.  iv.  c.  xxvii : 
&  in  Fabrettus's  Inscriptions  p.  no.  is  the  following  Inscription,  which 
shows  how  zealous  some  of  the  Xtians  were  not  to  have  their  Graves  de- 
filed after  yeir  Deaths:  MALE  .  PEREAT  .  INSEPVLTVS  |  IACEAT  .  NON  . 

RESVRGAT   |   CVM  .  IVDA  .  PARTEM   HABEAT  |  SI  .  QVIS  .  SEPVLCHRVM  .  HVNC   | 
VIOLAVERIT   |   .  . 

Aug.  20  (Wed.).  I  am  told  by  Mr.  Wilkins  a  Prussian,  now  a  student 
in  ye  Publ.  Libr.  that  y6  Books  which  go  under  ye  Name  of  Faustus 
Socinus  were  written  by  another  Socinus  who  was  unkle  to  Faustus,  and 
a  man  of  Prodigious  Parts  and  a  wonderfull  clear  Head ;  whereas  Faustus 

30  was  not  very  ingenious,  which  is  ye  Reason  that  he  did  not  answer  y6 
Books  which  came  out  against  him. 

Aug.  22  (Pri.).  The  Fellows  of  Trinity  Coll.  in  Cambridge  have  con- 
ven'd  their  President  Dr.  Bentley  before  them  to  answer  divers  objections 
for  Acting  contrary  to  Statute.  What  y6  Issue  of  this  Business  is  I  do 
not  yet  hear.  —  Mr.  Baker  of  Sfc.  John's  Coll.  in  y*  University  is  writing 
the  Antiquities  of  Cambridge  as  they  say,  &  is  reckon'd  to  be  a  Gent, 
qualify'd  for  it  having  made  it  his  Study.  —  This  day  Dr.  More  lately 
BP.  of  Norwich  now  of  Ely  comeing  to  y6  Publick  Library,  and  amongst 
other  things  talking  of  Indices  Expurgatorij,  I  brought  down  to  his  Lord- 

40  ship  the  Index  Expurg.   printed  at  Madrid  which  stands  amongst  ye 

Aug.  16.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  Has  threatened  Mrs.  Bartlett  in  conse- 
quence of  her  over-charge  for  carriage.  Glad  to  hear  that  Rhenferdius  con- 
templates an  ed.  of  Eusebius'  Onomasticon ;  sends  particulars  of  a  transcript  in 
Bodley  in  a  different  order  from  the  ed.  of  Bonfrerius.  Mr.  Phil.  Stubbs  has 
many  MSS.  by  Spelman  and  his  assistant  Jer.  Stephens,  including  a  more  full 
and  complete  copy  of  the  History  and  Fate  of  Sacrilege.  Admission  of  the  new 
Principal :  H.'s  hopes  &  fears. 

Aug.  19.  The  same  to  the  same.  Sends  a  specimen  of  the  transcript  of 
the  Onomasticon  from  Bernard's  MSS.  H.  to  Thoresby.  Printed  :  Corres- 
pondence of  Ralph  Ihoresby,  ii.  68  sqq. 


Aug.  18-26.]  VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  09-77.  35 

Divinity  Books  and  has  a  memorandum  of  Mr.  Wanley's  &  Dr.  Wallis's. 
His  Ldship  thereupon  told  me  y*  he  had  one  in  his  Study,  printed  at 
Madrid  before  this  but  that  'twas  in  a  worse  Letter  &  was  less  beautifull 
too  in  other  Respects.  He  likewise  told  me  y*  Mr.  Tanner  was  not  very 
forward  with  his  Work  of  Leland. 

Aug.  23   (Sat.).     A  Gent,  show'd   me  a  Coyn   of  Constantius  y* 
Younger,  on  which  ....  CONSTANTIVS  p.  F.  AVG.  Conslantij  Caput.  R.  GLOW 

(For  GLORIA  EXERCITVS.)     Duo  milites,  inter  quos  labarum. 

Coyn'd  I   believe  when   he  vanquish'd  Magnentius.   —   The  Duke   of 
Devonshire  made  his  own  Epitaph  which  is,  Bonorum  principum  subditus  10 
fidelis,  tyrannis  infestus.   —   This  Morning  about  4  Clock  Mr.  Tho.  Holt 
Bach,  of  Div.  &  Fellow  of  Magd.  Coll.  died  suddenly  of  an  Apoplexy. 

Aug.  24  (Sun.).  Tis  customary  w*h  Gronovius  not  to  reply  to  those 
who  Answer  his  Railings  &c.  So  Perizonius  in  a  Letter  to  Dr.  Hudson 
xi  Kal.  Maj.  1702.  —  Gottef.  Xtianus  Goetzius  sent  Dr.  Hudson  from 
Leipsick  several  things  relating  to  y6  3d  Vol.  of  his  Geographers,  which 
he  design' d  himself  to  have  publish'd  if  he  could  have  prevail'd  with  any 
Bookseller  to  print  them.  —  Gottef.  Olearius  about  an  Edition  of  Philo- 
stratus.  — Aug.  6,  1700.  Dr.  Bentley  sent  Dr.  Hudson  his  opinion  of  an 
obscure  Passage  in  Dicaearchus,  beginning  AVTT;  ir6\is  tvff  'EXAjjw  &c.  He  ao 
also  read  over  y°  whole,  &  made  alterations  and  conjectures.  —  Mr.  Badger 
has  Justin's  Hist,  cum  jEm.  Probo  pr.  at  Ven.  per  Aid.  1522.  8°.  There 
was  an  Edition  pr.  at  Col.  Agrip.  1576.  Ann.  Victor  is  there,  with  the 
Emperors  Heads  in  wood,  &  ye  var.  Sections  are  in  the  Margin. 

Aug.  26  (Tu.).     To  Dr.  Woodward,  Professor  of  Natural  Philosophy 
at  Gresham  Coll. 

Honrd  Sir, — This  Morning  Dr.  King  of  Merton  Coll.  was  pleas'd  to  com- 
municate to  me  certain  Letters  relating  to  your  Antient  Shield,  a  Copy  of 
which,  as  you  had  caus'd  it  to  be  ingrav'd  I  recd  by  your  order  some  time 
since.  I  have  not  as  yet  had  any  time  to  consider  it  fully  ;  but  at  first  sight  I  30 
concluded  it  to  be  done  long  after  ye  time  of  Camillas  the  Dictator.  I  do  not 
however  believe  it  to  be  so  modern  as  some  would  perswade  us.  Without 
doubt  'twas  done  by  one  of  ye  gens  Furia,  to  revive  the  Memory  of  the  Dic- 
tators driving  the  Gauls  from  Rome ;  and  none  seems  more  likely  to  have  been 


Aug.  23.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  Thanks  for  specimen  of  the  Onomasticon; 
there  is  no  copy  of  Bonfrerius  in  St.  Martin's  Library.  Please  find  a  qualified 
amanuensis  to  copy  the  whole  of  Dr.  Bernard's  transcript  of  the  MS.  in  the  Library 
of  the  King  of  France  :  H.  is  on  no  account  to  do  it  himself.  Smith  will  forward 
the  specimen  to  Rhenferdius,  and  send  his  instructions  hereafter.  '  Mr.  Stripe, 
a  very  paultry  £  injudicious  writer,  is  publishing  another  Rhapsody,  woh  wil 
onely  be  valued  for  the  Appendix.  Hee  has  some  yeares  since,  lighted  upon  a 
curious  &  noble  Collection  of  Papers,  woh  formerly,  if  I  am  rightly  informed, 
was  found  in  the  cabinet  of  a  grandson  of  a  Secretary  of  the  Lord  Treasurer 
Burleigh  :  some  of  wch  hee  has  formerly  printed  :  and  of  wch  hee  knows  not 
how  to  make  a  true  and  right  use.'  Hopes  well  of  Collier's  Church  Hutory  and 
of  Howel's  Synopsis  Canonum  (despite  the  barbarous  Latin  of  some  of  his  re- 
commenders  in  the  Proposals).  Will  be  glad  to  learn  from  Dr.  Hudson  whether 
there  is  any  chance  for  Dr.  Charleton's  book,  which  he  wishes  he  had  purchased 
in  Dr.  C.'s  life-time  to  help  to  pay  his  small  debts.  Message  from  Mr.  Collier. 
The  carrier  a  lying  and  exacting  creature. 

D  2 


36  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1707  : 

y°  Author  of  it  than  that  Furius  Camillas  who  is  mention'd  by  Suetonius  in 
his  Life  of  Claudius,  who  was  descended  from  ye  Dictator  &  by  his  own  Mili- 
tary Actions  did  add  fresh  Honour  to  ye  Family,  as  is  observ'd  by  Tacitus  in 
his  Annals.  This  thing  being  done  so  many  years  after  might  cause  some 
particulars  of  ye  History  to  be  left  out,  as  y*  of  the  Geese.  And  because  the 
Numidians  were  famous  for  fighting  on  Horses  without  Bridles,  the  Horses  on 
this  shield  might  be  represented  wthout  Bridles  on  purpose  to  shew  that  the 
Romans  were  not  at  all  inferior  to  them  in  Guiding  their  Horses,  unless  we 
will  rather  suppose  that  in  this  shield  the  Rules  given  us  by  ye  Authors  of  ye 

10  Strategicks  are  nicely  follow'd,  who  tell  us  that  for  a  charge  the  Antients 
thought  it  more  convenient  to  use  the  full  natural  Strength  of  their  Horses 
without  any  curb  such  as  is  given  by  ye  Bridle,  wch  ye  Greeks  call  anb  pvrfjpos. 
However  if  neither  of  these  be  ye  true  reason  why  the  Horses  are  thus  repre- 
sented, yet  the  thing  ought  not  to  appear  more  absurd  than  that  of  ye  Romans 
being  represented  on  Trajans  Pillar  fighting  with  ye  Dacians  with  their  bare 
Fists  without  any  Arms.  I  have  by  me  the  Draught  of  your  Gem  which  when 
ye  Text  of  Livy  is  off  I  will  consider  &  compare  with  the  votive  Shield  in 
Spon's  Miscellanea. 

I  am  wth  the  greatest  Respect, 

20  Sir, 

Your  most  oblig'd  humble  Serv* 

T.  H. 
Edm.  Hall  Oxon.  Aug.  26.  1707. 


Spon  design'd  to  publish  a  Book  which  he  calls  Sicilia  vetus  $  nova. 
See  his  Miscell.  p.  176.  —  To  Day  Dr.  King  of  Merton  shew'd  me 
certain  Letters  which  he  had  recd  from  Dr.  Woodward  cone,  the  Shield 
above  mention'd,  an  Account  of  which  follow[s]. 

Illustri  &  Amplissimo  Viro  Nicolao  Witsen  S.  D. 
Gisb.  Cuperus. 

30  Cum  jam  in  eo  essem,  ut  nummos  tuos  aureos  examinare,  &  pro  modulo 
ingenij  mei  explicare  vellem,  ecce  intercedit  clypeus,  cujus  ectypum  mecum 
communicasti,  &  qui  servatur  in  Anglia  in  Musaeo  Woodwardiano. 

Rogasti  me,  ut  quid  de  eo  sentiam,  tibi  aperirem,  Vir  eximie,  atque  illud 
nunc  facere  constitui,  ut  inde  perspicias,  me  bonum  nomen  esse,  &  dictis  pro- 
missisque  fidem  praestare.  Nullum  igitur  mihi  dubium,  quin  historia  captae  a 
Gallis  Romae  in  eo  summa  cum  arte  sculpta  sit ;  et  quanquam  anser  non  con- 
spiciatur,  tamen  satis  validum  indicium  est  ensis  lanci  staterse  vel  librae  injectus. 
Narrabas  mihi,  nisi  plane  me  fallo,  nonnullos  hoc  insigne  opus  retulisse  ad 
tempus  illud,  quo  Roma  incensa  &  capta  est,  excepto  Capitolio;  sed  ijs  quidem 

40  ego  vix  assentiri  possum  ;  quia  animadverto  amphitheatra  lapidea,  quae  Romas 
exstrui  primo  coeperunt  tempore  Augusti,  quo  ipsius  suasu  id  aggressus  est 
opibus  &  sumptu  suo  Statilius  Taurus  A.  v.  c.  725.  teste  Dione  lib.  51.  Antea 
opera  ilia  magnifica  fuerunt  tantum  ex  ligno,  uti  pulchre  docet  Lipsius  in  libro, 
quo  Amphitheatra  illustrat,  qui  etiam  statuit  ipsa  ilia  lignea  videri  sero  irrep- 
sisse,  et  haud  diu  ante  tempora  Reip.  desinentis.  Neque  etiam  theatrum  lapi- 
deum  locum  suum  obtinere  potest  tempore  capta:  urbis,  si  forte  quis  statuat 
talis  operis  cerni  ruinas,  quia  primus  Cn.  Pompejus  exstruxit  mansuram  theatri 
sedem,  teste  Tacito  14  Ann.  20.  id  est  saxeam,  mirorque  illustrem  Scaligerum 
velle,  Ausonium  tradere  id  primo  factum  esse  a  Muraena  et  Q.  Gallic,  cum  luce 

50  meridiana  clarius  sit,  eum  per  potentes  designare  Pompejum,  Balbum,  &  Caesa- 
rem  Octavianum,  quos  mox  nominal ;  &  hsec  verba  Murxna  sic  et  Gallus  referri 
per  TO — sic  debeant  ad  praecedentia. 

SEdilis  olim  scenam  tabulatam  dabat  subito  excitatam,  nulla  mole  saxea ; 
Murxna  sic  <&•»  Gallus ;  nota  eloquar.  Hinc  opponit  theatris  ligneis  ilia,  quae  ex 
lapide  constructa,  postquam  potentes  &*  verentes  sumptuum,  &  quae  alia  ibi  se- 


Aug.  26.]  VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  77-89.  37 

quuntur;   adeo  ut  nullam  ob  causam  Jul.  Caesar  Bulengerus  lib.  i.  c.  14.  de 
Theatre  fluctuare  de  hac  expositione  debeat. 

His  splendidis  aedificijs  annumero  columnas,  &  obeliscos,  qui  utique  Romae 
illo  tempore  non  fuerunt ;  &  inde  conjectura  fieri  potest  elegans,  hunc  clypeum 
elaboratum  non  esse  nisi  postquam  istiuscemodi  opera  exstrui  &  obelisci  erigi 
coeperunt. 

Quin  &  vix  puto  tempore  captae  urbis  sculpendi  artem  tain  excultam  fuisse  ; 
nisi  velis  factum  scutum  esse  a  Graeco  quodam  vel  Etrusco  artifice ;  qui  ultimi 
tamen  duriores  erant,  juxta  illud  Quintil.  12  Instit.  10.  Similis  in  statuis  differ- 
entia. Nam  duriora  fy  Tbuscanicis  froxima  Calon  atque  Egesias,  jam  minus  10 
rigida  Calamis,  molliora  adhuc  supra  dictis  Myron  fecit :  si  modo  a  statuis  ad 
cadatores  argumentum  deduci  &  sumi  potest.  Atque  haec  sunt,  vir  illustris, 
quae  mihi  in  mentem  venerunt  post  inspectum  pulcherrimi  &  antiqui  operis 
clypeum.  Si  quid  ijs  inest,  quod  tibi  placet,  erit  utique,  quod  laeter;  si  non, 
scripta  non  scripta  putes.  Vale.  Daventriae,  21  Junij  1707. 

Upon  the  said  Letter  Dr.  Woodward  has  written, 

V.  Cl.  Gisb.  Cuperus  Viro  ampliss.  N.  Witsen,  Daventriae, 

21  Junij  1707. 

De  Clypeo  Woodwardiano.     Summa  cum  arte  sculptus,  vix  autem  temp, 
ipsius  Camilli,  nisi  praestitum  id  erat  a  Graeco  vel  Hetrusco  quodam  Artifice  ;  20 
sed  potius  post  exstructa  Amphitheatra,  aevo  Augusti. — pulcherrimi  sane  & 
antiqui  operis  Clypeus.     (Copia.  manft   Excellentiss.  D.  P.  Valkinierij  de- 
scripta). 

Mr.  Thwaites  has  a  great  many  good  Observations  in  MS*,  added  to  a 
Copy  of  Mr.  Thompson's  (Alias  Dr.  Crosthwait's)  Case  of  Electing 
a  Provost  of  Queen's  Coll.  He  promises  this  for  the  Publ.  Library. 

CELEBERRIMO  VIRO  JOHANNI  WOODWARD  HADRIANUS  RELANDUS. 
Rem  mihi  gratissimam  praestitisti,  quod  imaginem  antiqui  illius  Clypei,  quem 
possides,  ad  me  transmiseris.  Conspiciendam  illam  dedi  amicis  meis,  qui 
istiusmodi  Xet^di/ou  veteris  aevi  delectantur.  Miramur  equidem  singulare  3° 
artificium,  quo  clypeus  ille  fabricatus  est :  sed  hoc  ipsum  artificium  suadere 
videtur  non  ad  tempora  liberae  reipublicae  Romanae,  quibus  has  artes  ad  illud 
fastigium  nondum  pervenerant,  sed  ad  ilia  Imperatorum  Romanorum  quibus 
cum  Britannis  res  fuit,  ilium  referri  oportere.  Nee  tamen  ulla  se  indicia  mihi 
obtulerunt,  ex  quibus  indubie  liqueat  sub  quo  imperatore  sit  elaboratus.  Prae- 
terea,  quum  ferrum,  ex  quo  constat,  minime  temporis  sit  patiens  &  nummi 
quidam  antiqui  ferrei,  etiam  illi  qui  aere  fuerunt  obtecti  vehementer  exesi  & 
corrupti  ad  nos  pervenerint,  hie  autem  clypeus  rerum  imagines  accuratissime 
exhibeat,  eo  magis  incline,  ut  credam  saeculo  primo  vel  secundo  post  Christum 
natum  hujus  fabricam  esse  attribuendam.  Quod  si  ipsum  ilium  clypeum  40 
manibus  &  oculis  usurpare  liceret,  certiora  forte  quaedam  se  mihi  offerrent. 
Ferrum  vero,  quod  non  excisum  sed  malleo  ductum  &  pustulatum  redditum 
sit,  id  an  &  hodie  fieri  possit  in  Britannia  vestra,  cujus  opifices  in  hac  arte  fer- 
rum &  chalybem  elaborandi  nobis  praestant,  optime  poteris  edoceri.  Ferrum 
apud  Romanes  olim  malleo  ductile  fuisse  certum  est :  &  olim  apud  Britannos 
vestros  maximum  ferrum  usum  obtinuisse  ex  Julio  Caesare  constat,  sic  ut 
nummorum  quoque  loco  ferrum  adhibuerint.  Si  locus  ipse  e  quo  Clypeus 
erutus  est,  mihi  notus  esset,  &  qua  occasione  inventus  fuerit,  inprimis  autem 
si  majori  pollerem  scientia  rerum  antiquarum,  satis  facere  magis  Tno  desiderio 
possem.  De  qua  re  si  me  aliquando  certiorem  reddere  velis,  erit  id  mihi  per-  50 
gratum.  Vale,  Vir  Eruditissime,  &  me  ama.  Si  data  occasione  duo  vel  tria  ex- 
empla  picturarum  clypei  Tui  ad  me  transmittere  volueris,  ad  amicos  meos  in 
Gallia  &  Italia  ea  deferri  curabo,  &  quid  illi  sentiant,  ad  Te  perscribam. 
Dabam  Trajecttad  Rhenum  a.d.  VII.  Jul.  CID.  IDCCVII. 


38  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS,  [1707: 

(On  ye  Backside  Dr.  Woodward  has  written, 

Hadr.  Relandus  7  Julij  1707  Ultrajecti.  Singulars  artificium  Clypei  Wood- 
wardiani.  Fabricatus  i°  vel  2°  post  Christum  natum  seculo.  De  Roman.  & 
Britan.  Operibus  ferrarijs). 

III.  Upon  a  Letter  in  French  from  Monsr.  Le  Clerc,  thus  : 

D.  Jo.  le  Clerc  (propria  manu)  ampliss.  V.  D.  C.  Valkanerio.  Amst.  28  Junij 
1707.  De  Clypeo  Woodwardiano. — Esse  Clypeum  Votivum  suadeat  ipsa  artis 
praestantia.  Factus  primorum  Caesarum  aevo,  jussu  cujusdam  nobilis  qui  talia 
impensa  &  sumptus  sustinere  potuit.  Opera  ferraria  apud  priscos  magis  quam 
10  hodie  exculta.  Clypeus  iste  est  sane  pulcherrimum  Artis  Romanae  vetustae 
monumentum. 

IV.  On  one  in  French  from  P.  Valkenier,  thus  : 

Vir  Excellentiss.  P.  Valkenier  J.  Woodwardo,  Haga;  &  Julij  1707.  De 
Clypeo  Woodwardiano. — D.  Witzen,  uti  &  ipse  D.  Valkenier,  in  eadem  circa 
clypeum  sententia  est  cum  D.  Cupero.  Ille  Clypeus  immanem  prorsus  ad- 
mirationem  movit  D.  Jac.  Gronovio :  ut  ac  D.  Perizonio,  qui  simul  cum  D. 
Uries,  D.  la  Faille,  &  plurimis  alijs  eruditis,  hunc  clypeum  extemplo  censent 
esse  votivum :  &  factum  vel  sumptibus  ipsius  Camilli,  Brenni  &  Gallorum 
suorum  debellatoris,  ab  opifice  quodam  Graeco,  vel  cujusdam  e  Camilli  pos- 
20  teris,  in  viri  istius  magni  &  Familise  Furianae  decus  &  honorem;  primorum 
autem  Caesarum  aevo,  cum  maxime  inclaruerunt  Artes  apud  Romanos,  atque 
forsitan  istius  Furij  Camilli  qui  sub  Claudio  Imp.  vixerit. 

V.  Upon  one  from  Basnage  to  Valkenier,  thus : 

D.  Basnage.  6  Julij  1707.  De  C[I]ypeo  Woodwardiano. — Clypeus  iste  opus 
praestantissimum,  seculi  Augusti,  vel  sequentis,  quum  Artes  florebant,  &  ulti- 
mam  assecutae  sunt  perfectionem :  non  vero  Camilli.  Opifex  facinus  adeo  prae- 
clarum  selegit,  quo  melius  suae  Artis  Excellentiam  ostentaret.  Usus  hujus 
Monument!  ad  demonstrandum  Praelij  instrnendi  apud  antiques  ordinem,  ar- 
morum,  &  vestimentorum  formas,  atque  id  genus  alia. 

30  Aug.  29  (Pri.).  Mf.  Thwaites  tells  me  he  has  a  conjecture  upon  a 
place  of  Livy  of  his  own  which  he  mention'd  to  Charles  Bernard  &c.  who 
appro v'd  of  it.  Get  it  of  him.  He  says  that  upon  several  Accounts  he 
has  examin'd  the  Papers  cone.  Queen's  Coll.  viz.  it's  Foundation, 
Revenues,  Benefactors  &c.  &  that  he  concludes  y*  ye  Ground  on  the 
North  &  East  part  of  S*.  Peter's  Church  in  ye  East  once  belong'd  to  it, 
but  y*  'twas  parted  with  when  Wm.  of  Wickham  built  New  Coll.  He  has 
a  thin  Book  in  Folio  wherein  he  has  abstracts  &  Observations  relating  to 
y6  Coll.  as  likewise  some  cone.  Edm.  Hall.  He  has  also  Corrections  of 
ye  Coyns,  Anglo.-Sax.  publish'd  by  Sr.  Andr.  Fountaine.  In  a  little  8VO  of 

40  Tully's  Epistles  he  has  some  Remarks  upon  words  which  he  takes  to  be 
sphalmata.  He  has  observ'd  something  in  Tatian  of  ye  Oxon  Edition 
which  neither  ye  Editor  nor  Dr.  Mill  seem  to  have  understood. 

Aug.  30  (Sat.).  Vossius  in  his  Book  De  Philosophia  $  Philosophorum 
sectis  says  that  for  Antonius  Musa  the  Physitian  is  to  be  writ  Artorius 
Musa,  &  quotes  Valerius  Max.  Lactantius,  Calius  Aurelianus  6,-c.  for  his 


Aug.  28.  Charlett  to  H.  Have  you  in  Bodley  any  entire  regular  trans- 
cript of  the  Records  in  the  Tower  ? 

Aug.  30.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  Will  transcribe  the  whole  of  the  Onomast. 
for  Rhenferdius,  if  necessary.  Has  no  very  good  opinion  of  Strype  or  his 
mode  of  work.  Fears  that  Collier's  book  will  only  be  fit  for  novices.  Howell 


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Authorities.  Upon  which  a  certain  Gent,  who  has  some  design  of  pub- 
lishing Ccuh'us  Aurelianus  plumes  a  little,  &  maintains  y*  Vossius  is  in  the 
wrong,  as  without  doubt  he  is  :  but  then  this  Gent,  is  to  consider  y*  this 
Tract  of  Vossius  had  not  ye  last  hand  &  y*  'twas  a  posthumous  Work,  & 
'tis  believ'd  that  in  his  original  Copy  was  written  Antonius.  However  if 
he  did  not  write  Antonius,  yet  ye  Editor  must  consider  whether  the  best 
Editions  of  the  Authors  cited  by  Vossius  have  Artorius  &  whether  it  be 
so  in  ye  MSS.  He  should  likewise  consult  Books  which  treat  of  y6 
nomina  Gentilitia  of  ye  Romans,  such  as  Sigonius,  Panvinius,  Scaliger, 
Index  to  Gruter  (in  which  Artorius  &  Artoria  occurr)  Fabrettus's  Inscrip-  10 
tions  &c.  —  lamblichus's  Life  of  Pythagoras  in  4*°  is  just  publish'd  w*b 
very  great  Improvements  by  Kuster  who  publish'd  Suidas.  —  At  nostri 
proavi  Plautinos  &  numeros  et  Laudavere  sales  nimium .  patienter  utrum- 
que  .  ne  dicam  stulte  mirati.  Sic  interpungend.  This  is  Mr.  Thwaites's 

Conjecture.     Alij  distingunt  post  sales.   —   Horace  lib.  I sic 

lege  ccelo  tonantem  credidimus  Jovem  :  Regnare  prsesens  Divus  habebitur 

Augustus Regnare  prsesens  est  Phrasaeologia  Horatij.     This  is 

Mr.  Thwait's  Conjecture,  &  w^out  doubt  right.     He  had  y6  Approbation 

of  several  Ingenious  Men,  to  whom  propos'd.  — Virgil's  uEn.  lib.  vi 

in  ye  Vulg.  Editt.  'tis  credo  equidem.  Mr.  Charles  Bernard  y6  Surgeon  20 
conjectures  y*  it  should  be  cedo  equidem.  —  Horace  Odar.  lib.  i.  od.  .  .  . 
.  .  .  leuesque  Sub  noctem  susurri,  composita  repetantur  hora  .  interpretes 
fere  composita  h.  e.  constituta.  At  certe  per  composita  intelligit  Herat,  res 
quiete  compostas,  —  Mr.  Thwaites  is  now  reading  Abgarus's  Epistle  to  X* 
&  Xt>s  Answer.  He  has  a  design  (which  I  hope  he  will  go  through  wtk) 
of  writing  them  just  as  he  thinks  they  were  writ  by  Abgarus  &  X*. 

Aug.  31  (Sun.).  This  Day  M'.  Pearson  Principal  of  Edm.  Hall  read 
the  Morning  and  Evening  Prayers  in  Edm.  Hall  Chapell,  as  also  the  39 
Articles  of  Religion,  &  gave  his  unfeign'd  Assent  &  Consent  to  all  &  every 
Thing  contain'd  in  them.  30 

Sept.  3  (Wed.).  .  .  .  [Gruter]  found  great  advantage  from  the  Scrinia  of 
Commelinus,  which  he  had  divers  Inscriptions  from.  Commelinus  printed 
this  Work  of  Gruter,  and  was  himself  a  learned  and  curious  Man.  .  .  . 
Gruter  is  so  exact  in  what  he  transcrib'd  himself  that  even  he  gives  the 
false  lections  and  the  Position  of  the  letters,  whether  in  a  straight  or 
crooked  line,  as  he  found  them,  with  sic  put  over. 

[Notes  from  Gruter's  Corpus  Inscriptionum  and  Barthius*  Adversaria^ 

Sept.  4  (Th.).     On  Monday  last  ye  Duke  of  Devonshire's  Body  was 
drawn  in  great  state  to  his  seat  in  Derbyshire,  (&  there  deposited),  one  of 
y6  Queen's  Coaches  amongst  ye  rest  attending,  and  of  ye  Company  was  4° 
Dr.  Kennet,  who  preach'd  ye  Funeral  Sermon,  and  'tis  likely  that,  being 
a  renown'd  Historian,  he  may  write  Memoirs  of  ye  Life  of  this  Great  Man, 


(the  non-juror) ;  his  bad  Latin.  Sends  a  transcript  of  his  letter  to  Dr.  Wood- 
ward, dated  Aug.  26,  and  incorporating  DodwelPs  remarks.  He  attributes  the 
Shield  to  Furius  Camillus  mentioned  by  Sueton.  and  Tac.  P.  Stubbs  to  H. 
Please  return  the  Irish  MS.  to  Mr.  Ch.  Blake  (St.  John's),  and  send  to  Mr. 
Thwaites  (Queen's)  for  a  Missal  'part  vulgar  part  Sclavonian  '  and  two  books 
for  the  Library.  Will  arrange  about  the  [Spelman]  MSS.  shortly. 


40  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

famous  for  Debauchery,  Lewdness,  &c.  —  In  the  Vatican  Library  was 
once  a  MS*  Virgil  in  Capitals  in  which  Aetgerius  was  writ  for  jEthereus, 
as  is  noted  by  Aldus  in  his  Orthogr.  p.  20.  where  he  says  'twas  given  to 
the  Libr.  by  Rodulfus  Pius,  but  that  when  he  search'd  after  it  he  could 
not  find  it  (tho'  he  saw  it  before)  &  that  he  believes  'twas  stole. 

Sept.  5  (Pri.).  Cosmus  dell'  Arena  writ  excellently  well  of  ye  Etruscan 
characters,  and  drew  up  an  Alphabet.  Quaere  whether  printed.  'Tis 
mention'd  by  Augustinus  in  his  Gemms  Ed.  Gron.  p.  61.  —  Memorand. 
that  Dr.  James  (who  had  good  skill  in  Books)  his  Cat.  of  the  Bodlejan 

10  Library  was  done  by  his  own  hand,  and  was  always  reckon'd  very  exact. 
The  Cat.  of  the  Books  in  Mr.  Selden's  Library  was  done  by  Dr.  Lockey 
himself,  who  was  a  very  curious,  nice  man,  and  reckon'd  at  that  time  the 
best  in  the  University  for  Classical  Learning.  —  One  John  Workman, 
formerly  of  l  All-Souls,  and  afterwards  a  celebrated  Preacher  in  Peter- 
borough, lyes  buried  in  Peterborough  Cathedral.  BP.  Couzins  was  Dean 
of  y*  Ch.  His  Wife  lyes  buried  there.  Tho.  Greaves  Medicinse  Doctor 
lyes  buried  there.  Quaere  2  about  him  ?  David  Llewellin  lyes  buried  there. 
Also  BP.  Dove,  the  first  BP.  there  (as  'tis  sd.)  after  ye  Reformation. 
Quaere  ?  Rob.  Holcate  ArchbP.  of  York  founded  an  Hospital  at  Hemsworth 

20  in  Yorksh.  in  1555.  —  A  Woman  in  Lincsh.  had  8  Husbands,  &  the 
last  of  them  had  8  Wives.  —  Over  ye  West  Door  of  Peterborough  Ch.  is 
ye  Picture  of  a  Sexton  whose  name  was  Scarlet,  underneath  wck  are  these 
verses, 

You  see  old  5hw/£#'s  Picture  stand  on  high  And  this  Town's   House-holders  in  his 

But  at  Your  feet  here  doth  his  Body  lie.  Life's  Space 

His  Gravestone  doth  his  Age  and  Death-  Twice  over.     But  at  length  his  own  time 

time  show.  came, 

His  Office  by  these  tokens  you  may  know.  What  he  for  owers  did  for  him  y6  same 

A  scarbabe  mighty  voice  wth  visage  grim.  Was  done.  No  doubt  his  sould  doth  live 

3 for  aye 

30  He  had  interr'd  two  Queen's  wthin  this  In  Heaven  tho'  here  his  Body's  clad  in 
place  clay. 

—  Mr.  Thoresby  has  a  MS*  Copy  of  y6  Statutes  of  New  Coll.  which 
belong'd  to  one  of  ye  Deans  of  y*  House,  as  appears  from  ye  Beginning 
of  ye  Book,  where  is  Liber  decani  Juris  &c.  He  has  a  MS*  of  ye  Life  of 
Wm.  of  Wickham  which  beginns  thus,  Gul.  Wickam  non  tarn  illusiri  quam 
honesia  stirpe  &  ends  thus,  ac  propagetur.  He  has  likewise  an  old  Edition 
in  4to  of  Pomponius  Mela,  in  a  large  Roman  Letter,  wtjlout  any  date  when 
or  Place  where  printed.  Also  Aldus's  Edition  of  Lucretius  in  4*°  in  a 
Roman  Letter  in  ye  year  1500.  at  Venice.  Also  Ptolemie's  Geogr.  Lat. 
40  fol.  Ven.  1511.  w™  Mapps.  Likewise  Lactantius  de  Ira  dei  &  opificio 
hominis  in  MS*.  He  has  a  MS*  Treatise  of  ye  Isle  of  Man  containing  a 
Description  of  ye  Island,  of  ye  Inhabitants,  ye  State  Ecclesiastical,  of  ye 
Civil  Government  &c.  by  Mr.  Challoner  (tis  Printed).  Also  a  MS*  wth 
this  title,  A  Brief  History  of  ye  Original  Antiquity,  Conqueste,  Continew- 
ance,  Dissents  &  Events  of  ye  He  of  Manne  from  the  first  inhabiting 
thereof  untill  y6  same  came  to  y6  hands  of  the  English  Nation  .  .  col- 
lected translated  &  faithfully  fram'd  by  S.  Stanley.  —  A  laudable  Ace*  of 

1  He  was  Fellow  after  ye  King  came  in  I  think,  &  was  a  very  honest  man. 
a  I  have  been  told  that  he  was  Fellow  of  All-Souls,  &  that  after  ye  King's  Restaura- 
tion  he  resign'd  his  fellowship  to  one  Hoskin,  as  great  a  Knave  as  any  in  England. 
3  A  verse  wanting. 


Sept. 4-10.]  VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  100-108.  41 

Rhenanus  in  Erasmus's  EpHles  p.  73.  of  Froben's  Edition  w*  I  have. 
—  Mr.  Farrar  of  Hemsworth  in  Yorksh.  has  Xenophon  printed  Halce 
Suevorum  an.  1540.  8V0.  —  Mr.  Fabricius  in  p.  28.  Bibl.  Gr.  Vol.  i.  makes 
Iscanius  (being  talking  of  Dares  Phrygius)  &  Excestriensis  (wch  signifie 
the  same)  to  differ.  Fabr.  ib.  p.  74.  calls  Hercules's  Pillars  Abyla  &  Calpe 
sive  ut  alij  Alyba  &  Abenna.  Quaere  whether  Alyba  &  Abenna  be  not  y» 
same  w*  Abyla?  Look  in  Eustath.  upon  Dionys.  —  In  Sr.  Andr.  Foun- 
taine's  Sax.  Coyns  Tab.  vi.  num.  Edw.  19  NTINC.  Mr.  Thwaites  takes  it 
to  be  HVNTINC.  But  quaere  whether  N  ever  stands  for  HVNl  —  There 
is  an  Account  of  Erasmus's  Works  in  his  Epistles  by  Hadr.  Barlandus  in  10 
an  Ep.  to  his  Bro.  Cornelius.  Amongst  wcl1  is  commended  his  Transla- 
tion of  Euripides's  Hecuba  &  Iphigenia. 

Sept.  8  (Mon.).  Valesius  in  his  Notes  upon  Euseb.  p.  68.  has  given 
us  a  new  Version  of  an  Epistle  of  Ignatius,  because  ye  former  version  had 
mistaken  ye  sense.  —  Natalis  Comes  translated  Maeander  Rhetor  into 
Latin.  See  Dr.  Hudson's  Preface  to  his  IId  Vol.  of  Geographers  whether 
he  be  not  rrention'd  there  to  have  translated  Plutarch  de  fluminibus.  — 
...  Dr.  Wallis  has  an  English  Copy  of  verses  on  M».  Corbett  Wife  to 
Dr.  Edw.  Corbett,  at  ye  End  of  her  Funerall  Sermon  preach'd  by  Dr.  Hen. 
Wilkinson  &  pr.  at  Oxon.  1657.  8°.  —  Erasmus  did  not  learn  Hebrew  20 
'till  after  he  was  near  50  years  of  age.  Dr.  John  Colet  did  not  learn 
Greek  'till  he  was  of  y*  age  too,  as  he  insinuates  in  an  Epistle  to  Erasmus. 
Erasmus  turn'd  of  50  when  he  publish'd  his  noble  Edition  of  S*.  Jerom's 
Work*;,  in  which  ''is  to  be  question'd  whether  he  be  at  all  outdone  by  ye 
Benedictines.  Quaere  ? 

Sept.  10  (Wed.).  There  is  a  new  Edition  come  out  in  fol.  of  200 
Pages  of  Eusebius's  Onomasticon,  with  Bonfrerius's  Notes  and  Improve- 
ments from  the  MS*  at  Paris,  &c.  By  Mr.  Le  Clerc.  See  in  the  Bibl. 
Choisie  for  1707.  —  1  After  Dr.  Jerem.  Taylor  publish'd  his  Book  about 
Prophesying,  which  was  in  1647,  ne  was  n°t  near  so  much  respected  by  30 
K.  Charles  i8t  &  ye  Loyal  Part  of  ye  Clergy  as  before,  he  having  in  yfc 
Book  given  great  Liberty  to  the  Fanaticks,  &  brings  Arguments  for 
tolerating  them  :  &  to  show  y6  King's  dislike  of  ye  Book  it  was  a  general 
Report  in  those  times  (tho'  there  be  no  mention  of  any  such  thing  in  any 
printed  Book)  that  his  Majesty  turn'd  him  out  from  2  being  one  of  his 
Chaplains  :  which  Report  seems  not  groundless,  because  the  Dr.  is  never 

Sept.  6.  Dodwell  to  H.  .  Complains  that  his  so-called  friends  are  so  loath 
to  receive  a  just  Defence.  Thanks  for  the  transcript  from  Zonaras.  Dr. 
T.  Smith  to  H.  It  will  probably  be  unnecessary  to  transcribe  the  whole  of 
the  Onomasticon.  Sends  an  extract  from  a  letter  of  Almeloveen  showing  that 
he  still  thinks  of  editing  Caelius  Aurelianus,  but  will  be  glad  to  learn  whether 
H.'s  friend  of  Univ.  Coll.  is  in  earnest.  Hears  of  a  proposed  new  ed.  of  Stow's 
Survey,  in  which  Strype  is  to  take  part ;  Stow  should  have  been  simply  re- 
printed, as  a  venerable  original,  and  the  additions  given  in  a  different  character. 
H.  should  contract  the  sum  and  substance  of  his  Letter  to  Woodward  into 
Latin,  for  an  Appendix  to  Livy,  or  improve  it  into  a  little  Dissertation. 

1  Consider  w*  Mr.  Wall  has  sd  in  p.  271  of  ye  4'°.  Ed.  of  his  Hist,  of  Infant  Baptism. 

a  Tis  certain  y'  he  retir'd  into  Wales  some  time  after  &  there  writ  a  Discourse  of 
Baptism,  &c.,  together  IVth  a  Consideration  of  y  Practise  of  y1  Church  in  Baptizing 
Infants  of  believing  Parents,  &c.,  w°h  was  printed  at  Land,  in  1652.  4°. 


43  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

after  in  any  printed  Book  mention'd  as  among  y6  King's  Chaplains,  nor 
did  he  preach  afterwds  before  ye  King.  —  In  Eutrop.  1.  vi.  where  he  is 
speaking  of  Marcus  Lucullus's  subduing  the  Bessi  is  Buziam  omnem  cepit. 
So  in  Valesius's  Book,  who  for  it  corrects  Bizuam  $•  Scythiam  omnem  cepit. 
See  his  Notes  upon  Soc[r]ates's  Eccles.  Hist.  p.  53. 

Sept.  11  (Th.).  For  Pedius  Foetus  in  Nonius  is  to  be  read  P.  JSh'us 
Foetus.  See  Ursinus  de  Fam.  Rom.  p.  4.  —  In  the  MS*  (w°h  we  call  L. 
i.  in  y6  Oxon  Edition)  of  Livy  at  1.  28.  c.  19.  is  meminebant.  Vossius 
conjectures  in  his  Analog.  1.  3.  c.  39.  that  ye  ancients  us'd  memino, 

10  because  he  finds  meminens  in  some  places ;  &  this  word  meminebanl  con- 
firms him.  —  In  some  of  the  Coyns  of  King  Offa  publish'd  by  Sr.  Andr. 
Fountaine  is  sci  PETRI  wcb  were  Peter  pence  coyn'd  by  King  Offa.  On 
three  of  them  is  a  sword  which  neither  Sr.  Andrew  nor  Mr.  Thwaites  can 
tell  ye  meaning  of.  I  believe  twas  put  by  K.  Offa  to  shew  his  civil 
Authority ;  or  perhaps  there  might  be  some  Jarrs  between  him  and  ye 
Pope,  &  that  might  cause  the  King  to  stand  up  for  his  Prerogative,  tho' 
afterwards  I  believe  he  repented,  &  perhaps  that  was  one  reason  of  his 
going  to  Rome  &  taking  upon  him  ye  Habit  of  a  Monk.  —  ... 
Sept.  14  (Sun.).  Letter  from  my  *  IA  Raby  to  *  *  * 

ao  My  Lord, —  I  will  tell  you  as  a  particular  Friend,  that  even  without  leave 
(which  ought  to  have  been  had)  I  did  venture  the  other  day  to  ramble  into 
Saxony  to  satisfy  my  Curiosity  in  seeing  those  different  things  there,  and  pene- 
trating as  far  as  I  could  how  Matters  stood  there,  and  how  our  Fate  is  like  to 
be  determin'd  by  y*  Gothick  Hero,  who  with  an  Handfull  of  Men  makes  him- 
self dreaded  and  courted  by  all  ye  Powers  of  Europe.  As  for  his  Person,  he 
did  not  dementir  ye  Description  I  had  of  him.  He  is  a  tall  handsome  Gentle- 
man, but  immoderately  dirty  and  slovenly.  His  Behaviour  and  Carriage  more 
Rustick  than  you  can  imagine  in  so  young  a  man  should  be  ;  and  that  the  out- 
side of  his  Quarters  should  not  belye  the  Inside,  he  has  chosen  the  dirtyest 

30  Place  of  all  Saxony  and  one  of  ye  saddest  Houses.  The  cleanest  Place  is  the 
Court  before  the  House  where  every  Body  is  to  alight  off  his  Horse,  and  is  up 
to  ye  Knees  in  dirt,  where  his  Horses  stand  with  hardly  any  Halters,  and 
Sackings  instead  of  Cloaths,  wthout  either  Racks  or  Mangers.  The  Horses 
have  rough  Coats,  thick  Bellyes,  thin  Buttocks,  and  switch  Tails.  The  Grooms, 
that  look  after  them  seem  not  to  be  better  cloath'd,  nor  better  kept  than 
their  Horses,  one  of  which  stands  always  ready  saddled  for  the  mighty  Mon- 
arch, who  runs  out  commonly  alone,  and  bestrides  his  Steed,  and  away  he 
gallops  before  any  one  else  is  able  to  follow  him.  Sometimes  he  will  go  ten 
or  twelve  of  these  Country  Miles  in  a  Day,  which  is  forty  or  fifty  of  our  Eng- 

40  lish  Miles,  now  in  the  Winter  time  bespatter'd  all  over  with  Dirt  like  a  Pos- 
tillion. I  should  make  my  Letter  too  long,  if  I  should  tell  you  his  Dress,  his 

Sept.  13.  R.  Roberts  (Petworth.)  to  H.  His  Oxford  debts  have  kept  him 
very  poor.  Dr.  Felling  (his  Rector)  is  about  to  put  out  a  third  book  proving 
the  existency  of  a  God ;  he  has  also  published  discourses  against  Popery. 

Sept.  14.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  Has  seen  an  account  of  Le  Clerc's  ed.  of 
the  Onomajticon,  but  hopes  R.  will  persevere.  '  If  there  be  any  MS*,  of  Caelius 
Aur.  in  Oxon,  'tis  known  only  to  Dr.  Lyster  himself.'  Almeloveen  has  printed 
the  Epitome  of  Strabo  with  Dr.  Hudson's  Observations  "verbatim  without  ac- 
knowledgment. Reported  that  Mill's  Grk.Test.is  reprinting  in  Holland  with 
additions  under  Kuster's  superintendence ;  this  seems  '  downright  knavery.' 
Asks  whether  it  is  true  that  Jer.  Taylor  was  deprived  of  his  chaplaincy  to 
Charles  I  on  account  of  the  Liberty  of  Prophesying. 

1  Ask  Mr.  Pearson  Principal  of  Edm.  Hall. 


Sept.  10-14.-]  VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  108-121.  43 

Eating,  Drinking  and  Sleeping;  but  not  to  let  it  intirely  alone,  I  will  tell 
you  his  Coat  is  plain  Blew  with  ordinary  brass  Buttons,  the  Skirts  pinn'd  up 
behind  and  before,  which  shews  his  Majesty's  old  Leathern  Wastcoat  and 
Breeches,  which,  they  tell  me,  are  sometimes  so  greasy  that  they  may  be  fry'd  ; 
but  when  I  saw  him  they  were  almost  new  ;  for  he  had  been  a  Gallant  a  little 
before.  He  had  been  to  see  K.  Augustus's  Queen  upon  her  Return  to  Leip- 
sick,  &  to  be  fine  he  had  put  on  those  new  Leathern  Breeches,  spoke  not 
above  three  words  to  her,  but  talkt  to  a  foolish  Dwarf  she  had  about  a  quarter 
of  an  Hour,  then  left  her.  He  wears  a  black  crape  Cravatt,  but  y*  Cape  of 
his  Coat  button'd  so  close  about  it,  that  you  cannot  see  whether  he  has  any  or  10 
no.  His  shirt  and  wristbands  are  commonly  very  dirty :  for  he  wears  no 
Ruffles  or  Gloves,  but  on  Horseback.  His  hands  are  commonly  of  y*  same 
Colour  of  his  Wristbands  ;  so  that  you  can  hardly  distinguish  y"».  His  Hair 
is  light  brown,  very  greasy  and  very  short,  never  comb'd  but  with  his  Fingers, 
He  sits  upon  any  Chair  or  stool  he  finds  in  the  House,  without  any  Ceremony,, 
to  dinner,  and  beginns  with  a  great  Piece  of  Bread  and  Butter,  having  stuck, 
his  Napkin  under  his  chin  ;  then  drinks  with  his  mouth  full  out  of  a  great  silver 
old  fashion'd  Beaker  small  Bear,  which  is  his  only  Liquor.  At  every  Meal  he 
drinks  about  two  English  Bottles  full ;  for  he  emptyes  his  Beaker  twice.  Be- 
tween every  bit  of  Meat  he  eats  a  Piece  of  Bread  and  Butter,  which  he  spreads  20 
with  his  Thumb.  He  is  never  more  than  a  Quarter  of  an  Hour  at  dinner, 
eats  like  a  Horse,  speaks  not  one  word  all  ye  while.  As  soon  as  he  rises,  his- 
Life-Guards  sitt  down  at  ye  same  Table  to  ye  same  Victuals.  His  Bed-Cham- 
ber  is  a  very  little  Dirty  Room,  with  Bare- Walls,  no  sheets  nor  Canopy  to  his 
Bed,  but  ye  same  Quilt  that  lyes  under  him  turns  up  over  him  and  so  covers- 
him.  At  his  Beds-feet  stands  his  Close-stool,  a  sad  dirty  wooden  thing.  His 
writing  Table  is  of  a  slit  Deal,  wth  only  a  stick  to  support  it,  and  instead  of  a 
standish  a  wooden  thing  with  a  sand-Box  of  ye  same.  He  has  a  fine  Gilt  Bible 
by  his  Bed-side,  the  only  thing  that  looks  fine  in  his  Equipage.  He  is  a  very 
handsome  Man,  well  shap'd,  and  a  very  good  face,  no  stern  Countenance,  but  30 
he  is  very  whimsical  and  positive,  which  makes  all  ye  Allyes  afraid  of  him :  for 
he  risques  himself  and  his  army  as  easily  as  another  would  fight  a  Duel.  He 
has  not  shown  much  Generosity  to  K.  Augustus  who  sent  Chart  Blanch  to 
make  a  Peace,  and  to  recommend  himself  to  his  Friendship,  but  does  still  every 
day  do  very  hard  things  to  that  poor  Prince  whom  he  treats  always  like  one 
he  has  intirely  in  his  Power,  and  K.  Augustus  is  as  well  a  bred  Man  as  you 
shall  see,  and  very  obliging  in  his  Person  and  Behaviour,  lik'd  by  every  one. 
But  now  he  pays  for  all  his  false  unfaithfull  Politicks,  and  finds  too  late  that 
one  Prince  should  not  intirely  submitt  to  another.  But  that  my  Letter  is  too 
.long  already  I  would  give  you  some  account  of  ye  Polish  Court  of  K.  Stanis-  40 
laus  :  For  being  incognito  only  with  a  Friend  and  one  Footman,  and  impossible 
to  be  known,  I  would  take  a  Tour  to  Leipsick,  where  I  not  only  saw  y'  King, 
but  he  very  civilly  came  and  spoke  to  me  and  my  Friend,  seeing  we  were 
strangers.  His  Court  has  much  a  better  air  than  that  of  his  Maker,  and 
his  Mother  and  Wife  were  there,  a  Couple  of  well  bred  Women,  well 
drest,  and  both  spoke  very  good  French.  He  is  a  tall  handsome  young 
Man,  with  a  great  Pair  of  Whiskers  in  ye  Polish  Dress,  but  inclinable  to  be 
fatt,  and  a  little  upon  ye  dirty  as  all  ye  Poles  are.  He  was  lodg'd  in  a  very 
pretty  Castle,  belonging  to  K.  Augustus,  but  against  y*  King's  will,  who  will 
never  see  him  and  cannot  abide  to  hear  him  spoke  of,  yet  the  Swedes  would  5° 
oblige  him  to  see  him,  which  they  say  he  ought  to  do  by  ye  Treaty.  You  us'd 
to  tell  me  (my  Dear  Lord)  you  lov'd  to  hear  of  my  Rambles,  and  I  believe  this 
may  please  you  better  than  my  former,  being  a  very  true  Description  of  this 
mighty  dirty  Monarch. 

Mr.  John1  Lancaster,  Clericus  &  Thesaurarius  Ecclesiae  Cath.  Sarum 
1  Quaere  w*  house  ? 


44  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

admitted  Principal  of  Edm.  Hall  26  Feb.  1564.  He  is  not  mention'd 
in  ye  List  publish'd  by  Ant.  a  Wood.  Witnesses  Tho.  Key,  Mr.  of 
Univ.  Coll.  Job.  Bodye  Bac.  Leg.  Joan.  Collins  famulus  Doctoris  J  Whitt 
&  Hen.  Crosse  Notario,  ad  prcemusa  vocati  $  requisiti.  Mr.  Lancaster 
came  in  Principal  immediately  after  Mr.  Ralph  Rudd,  &  before  Mr.  Nic. 
Cooke.  Mr.  Tho.  Pearson  elected  Principal  anno  1540.  Sept.  21.  was 
certainly  Fellow  of  Queen's  Coll.  So  in  the  Register  of  y*  Coll.  cui  tit. 
H.  pag.  8 1 1.  —  Mr.  Charles  Bernard  has  but  an  indifferent  opinion  of 
Dr.  Lyster's  Edition  of  Apicius.  —  Mr.  Thwaites  has  a  good  conjecture 
10  upon  the  Oxon  Ed.  of  Tatian  in  pag.  32.  1.  15.  he  thinks  that  dvavdpia 
is  to  be  read  for  dvSpia2:  which  seems  to  be  right  from  ye  sense.  — 
Quaere,  if  we  have  IX  Bernard's  Books  in  Catalogue;  he  was  the 
Brother  of  Charles  Bernard  Surgeon,  calld  in  the  Dispensary  HOROSCOPE. 
(This  &  what  follows  in  the  next  Page  Mr.  Thwaites's  handwriting). 

Dr.  Edw.  Bernard  Prof.  Astron.  Oxon.  went  into  Holland  to  Heinsius's 
Auction,  in  his  journey  he  call'd  upon  Dr.  Bernard  Physician  Lond.  &  told 
him  he  was  desirous  to  take  his  commissions  &  to  serve  him  (there  was  noe 
acquaintance  before)  the  Dr.  (Bernard  Lond.)  was  well  pleased  and  gave  him 
Commission  for  30  or  40  books,  &  large  prices  annexed.  The  Doctor  (Ber- 
20  nard  Oxon.)  returned  and  told  the  Dr.  of  Lond.  that  the  prices  ran  beyond  the 
Commission  ;  but  afterwards  the  Heinsian  Catalogue  came  over,  &  the  prices 
marginal,  &  there  appeared  not  one  price  that  came  up  to  the  London  Doc- 
tor's commission,  'tis  plain  the  Oxon  Dr.  Came  to  the  London  to  know  what 
books  were  worth  buying.  — 

In  Queen's  Coll.  Regr.  H.  in  pag.  29.  is  Dr.  Barlow's  memorandum 
from  Ross,  or  Rouss,  of  Warwick's  Book  entit.  Quatuor  atates  Mundi 
(which  Book  he  does  not  tell  us  where  to  be  found)  that  King  Hen.  V. 
was  of  Queen's  Coll.  in  ye  Chambr.  over  the  Gate  (next  Edm.  Hall)  & 
y*  his  uncle  Cardinal  Beaufort  was  his  Tutor.  The  Cardinall's  arms 

30  are  in  one  of  ye  Windows  of  y6  Coll.  Hall.  —  Erasmus  in  a  Letter  to 
Cardinal  Wolsey  pag.  161.  of  Froben's  Ed.  of  Erasmus's  Epistles  men- 
tions libellus  quidam  written  by  ye  Cardinal,  but  tells  us  not  y6  Title. 
No  such  Book  set  down  by  Ant.  a  Wood.  —  Dr.  Langbain  had  a  Design 
of  enlarging  Br.  Twyne's  Apology  for  ye  Antiq.  of  Oxon.  &  Godwin's 
Hist,  de  Pra;s.  Angl.  in  ordr  to  wch  he  had  collected  a  Heap  of  Materials, 
consisting  of  Letters  &c.  Mr.  Tho.  Tanner  told  M>.  Thwaites  (from 
whom  this  Relation  comes)  y*  Ant.  a  Wood  told  him  y*  upon  Dr.  Barlow's 
promotion  to  ye  Provostship  of  Queen's  Coll.  he  came  to  visit  him. 
The  Provost  being  then  engag'd  put  him  into  a  little  Room,  where  upon 

40  y6  Table  he  found  three  or  four  Heaps  of  Paper,  wch  Mr.  Wood  con- 
sulting, found  ym  to  relate  to  ye  Antiquities  of  Oxon.  An  armfull  of  ym 
he  took  home,  covering  them  with  one  flap  of  his  Gown.  After  he  had 
put  them  in  his  little  museum  of  MSS.  (as  he  calls  it  in  his  Ath.  Oxon.) 
he  return'd  to  the  abovesd  little  Room,  whence  he  took  ye  Papers. 
After  he  had  staid  some  time  there  &  the  Provost  not  appearing  the 
2d  time  (his  Strangers  not  being  gone)  Wood  fill'd  his  Gown  again  with 
the  Remains  of  ye  sd  Papers,  which  he  carri'd  (the  Boys  hooting  him 
thro'  the  street,  especially  about  Logick  Lane)  to  his  own  Study.  This 
done  he  returns  again  to  y6  Room  where  he  waited  some  time,  &  ye 

1  Lege  Kennal.     (Ita  Mr.^hwaites.)  a  al.  avavSptia. 


Sept.14-16.]  VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  121-132.  45 

Provost  when  his  strangers  were  gone  finding  him  suspected  nothing  of 
the  Fraud,  as  being  not  acquainted  with  this  sort  of  Learning,  &  not 
knowing  y*  Dr.  Langbain  had  any  such  Papers. 

Sept.  15  (Mon.).     Mr.  Charles  Bernard's  Letter  to  Mr.  Thwaites. 

Dear  Sr,  Sept.  xi. 

I  thank  you  for  your  northern  Greek  ;  but  what  is  ye  reason  y*  a  Paeda- 
gogue  cannot  write  6  lines  of  Latin  without  discovering  his  Trade  ?  For 
surely  Mr.  Banks's  Preface  was  patch'd  up  out  of  Winchester  Phrases.  But 
what  think  you  of  primus  statuit  (ni  me  longe  fallat  augurium)  Ph.  Labbeus 
&c.  Was  guessing  what  has  been  call'd  augury  by  ye  ancients  ?  Why  could  not  10 
conjectura  have  served  ?  But  ye  schoolmaster  must  be  metaphorical. 

I  have  no  MS*  of  G.  Aurelianus  &  ni  me  longe  fallat  augurium,  there  is 
scarce  any  to  be  had  in  England.  I  would  be  glad  to  know  what  Editions  the 
Gentleman,  who  intends  to  publish  it,  has.  I  suppose  he  knows  y*  it  is  almost 
finish'd  already  in  Holland.  I  take  it  for  granted  that  he  consults  ye  Nation  of 
Criticks,  who  have  made  that  sort  of  Learning  their  Business.  But  above  all 
Reinesius  in  his  various  Lections  has  not  a  little.  Aurelian  indeed  is  a  very 
us  full  Writer,  but  obscure  (the  Misfortune  of  his  Age  &  Nation)  &  incorrect. 
&  to  publish  him  with  advantage  requires  a  Person  y*  is  &  has  been  conversant 
in  y*  sort  of  Lore.  ao 

Anton.  Musa  is  neither  scarse  nor  valuable.  I  have  several  Editions  of  him. 
He  is  among  those  published  by  Aldus.  Some  have  thought  Apulejus  the  Au- 
thor of  y*  Peice  de  Betonica.  But  'tis  so  slight  y*  I  should  hardly  attribute  it 
to  any  considerable  Man,  much  less  to  any  ancient.  Yet  under  his  name  and 
with  his  Peice  de  virtutibus  herbarum  (if  at  least  that  be  his)  with  some  varia- 
tion 'tis  publish'd  by  Wechel  at  Paris  1529.  fol.  Humelbergius  who  com- 
mented upon  Apicius  &  Q^.  Serenus  Sammonicus  has  thought  it  worth  his 
while  to  publish  them  both  with  notes  in  4°.  &  thinks  him  to  be  ye  same  who 
was  Physitian  to  Augustus,  but  his  arguments  need  no  other  Confutation  but 
ye  futility  of  ye  Book.  This  Humelbergius  does  indeed  explain  his  Authors  30 
generally  very  well,  &  therefore  in  my  opinion  his  Editions  of  them  are  ye  best 
and  most  usefull  (not  excepting  Keuchenius's  of  Sammonicus,  much  less  Lis- 
ter's of  Apicius)  but  he  had  always  ye  luck  to  publish  those  that  are  spurious. 
But  you  are  by  this  time  weary  of 

Your  affectionate  Serv* 

GHA.  BERNARD. 

Sept.  16  (Tu.).  About  a  Week  or  Fortnight  after  S^.  Wm.  Dugdale's 
MSS.  came  into  ye  Museum  Ashm.  Dr.  (then  Mr.)  Kennett  came  there 
with  some  strangers,  and  desiring  to  look  upon  some  of  them,  he  told  y6 
strangers  y*  he  had  read  them  all  over.  Mr.  Llhuyd  taking  notice  of  40 
y*  said  /  suppose  that  was  Sr  before  they  came  here.  No  says  Dr.  Kennett 
since.  But  says  Mr.  Llhuyd  again  They  have  been  here  but  a  week  or 
fortnight.  Which  somewhat  nettled  Kennett,  it  thereby  plainly  appearing 
that  his  way  of  reading  MSSt8.  is  like  his  good  natur'd  humble  Brother 
Dr.  Bentley  of  Camb.  who  (besides  his  reading  the  MS*.  Phalaris)  when 
he  was  last  in  Oxon  had  deliver'd  to  him  all  y6  MSS.  Horaces  in  y® 
Bodlejan  Library,  &  a  study  in  ye  Picture  Gallery  was  allow'd  him  to 
collate  them  in.  He  was  there  one  or  two  Afternoons  &  made  an  End 
of  all,  &  the  Book  will  come  out  (if  ever  it  does  come  out)  with  such 
an  Elaborate  Collation.  —  Mr.  Llhuyd  tells  me  y*  Dr.  Gibson  is  now  50 
revising  the  English  Translation  of  Cambden  in  order  to  a  new  Edition. 
—  Dr.  Gibson  then  Bach,  of  Arts  publish'd  the  Bibliotheca  Dugdaliana 
4*  Tennisoniana  yel  Clarendoniana  without  Mr.  Llhuyds  Permission,  whose 


46  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1707 : 

leave  (he  being  Keeper  of  ye  Ashm.  Museum)  he  ought  to  have  had  with 
Respect  to  Sr.  Wm.  Dugdale's  MSS.  being  put  upon  ye  Business  by 
Dr.  Ar.  Charlett.  This  Bibliotheca  Tennisoniana  (as  he  very  falsly 
calls  it)  made  him  gracious  w^  ArchbP.  Tennison,  with  whom  he  con- 
tinues great  still  &  is  like  to  do  so  while  he  makes  it  his  Business  to 
cringe,  flatter,  write  for  ye  Whiggs.  &c. 

Sept.  17  (Wed.).  . . .  Memorandum  that  in  Queen's  Coll.  is  a  MS*,  of  Sr. 
Jos.  Williamson's  Gift  containing  several  Copies  from  Originals,  with  y6 
Seals  accurately  drawn  relating  to  ye  Foundations  of  Religious  Houses  in 

10  England.  Several  of  them  not  taken  notice  of  in  ye  Mon.  Angl. 
Mr.  Hall  says  there  is  one  of  Lynwood's  Provincial  Printed  in  1437. 
1  Look  into  it.  They  have  also  a  Book  wth  Sr.  Robt.  Cotton's  own  Hand- 
writing denoting  that  it  cost  above  an  hundred  pounds.  Which  Book 
Dr.  Halton  bought  of  old  George  West  the  Bookseller  for  ten  shillings. 
The  Book  is  a  Book  of  Precedents  relating  to  ye  Church  of  Lincoln. 
Robertus  Cottonus  Bruc&us  (Q  ?)  is  writ  upon  the  top  of  the  i*  (Q  ?)  Page.  — 
Anlonius  de  fluminibus  i.  e.  Ant.  Earl  of  Rivers  translated  a  Book  from 
ye  French,  call'd  ye  Sayings  of  the  Philosophers  which  is  in  Queen's  Coll. 
Library  printed  in  an  old  English  Letter,  about  y6  Time  of  Will.  Caxton. 

so  Quaere  whether  in  y«  Bodl.  Library.  —  Mr.  Jo.  Arundel  A.  M.  of 
Queen's  Coll.  gave  it  there,  thinking  y*  it  had  been  a  MS*,  there  is 
another  Book  at  y6  End  call'd  Gesta  Romanorum  w*k  old  Figures  in 
wood.  There  are  sevrl.  in  MS4,  in  Bodley.  —  Mr.  Thwaites,  when  he 
was  Librarian  of  Queen's  Coll.  came  to  y6  Bodl.  Library,  and  demanded 
several  Books  y*  they  had  taken  (Q?)  out  of  Dr.  Barlow's  Library,  in 
number  twenty  nine,  all  wc^  he  took  away  w^  him  (Dr.  Hide  being 
stupify'd)  one  of  wct  was  Duglass's  Translation  of  Virgil.  But  it  appeareth 
now  y*  y6  said  Douglass  hath  in  it  a  Treatise  call'd  The  Palaice  of 
Honour,  which  Mr.  Thwaites  tells  me  (this  night)  is  not  in  y6  Copy  in  y6 

30  Bodlejan  Library.  —  Sr.  Rich.  Cox  lately  Ld  Chanc.  of  Ireland  is  come 
to  Oxon  to  consult  Books  there  for  some  time  &  to  have  y6  conversation 
of  the  Learn'd.  He  has  written  several  Books,  &  has  19  Children  now 
living. 

Sept.  18  (Th.).  Viro  clarissimo  eruditissimoque  D.  Joanni  Hudsono  S.  P.  D. 
F.  Mich.  Lequien,  Ordis.  Praedicat. — Felici  tandem  fortuna,  die  luns  praeterita, 
incidi  in  hominem  qui  tuam  ad  me  epistolam  Parisios  attulerat  datam  Oxoniae 
Julij  25.  MDCCVI.  nee  de  ea  mihi  reddenda  prorsus  cogitabat.  Exemplar 

Sept.  18.  Jno.  Woodward  to  H.  '  Tis  with  great  satisfaction  I  learn  y* 
ye  Icon  of  ye  Shield  was  so  much  to  ye  Gust  of  a  Gentleman  of  your  Learning 
&  good  Sense.  .  .  .  Twas  not  to  be  expected  ye  Geese  should  be  represented 
in  a  Piece  so  small.  Besides  that  would  not  have  squared  with  ye  present 
Scene :  but  broke  in  upon  the  Unity  of  ye  Representation.  The  Business  of 
ye  Geese  was  over  before  ye  coming  of  Camillus  :  &  what  is  here  set  forth  is 
only  Things  as  they  were  at  that  precise  Moment.  In  wch  indeed  consists  one 
great  part  of  ye  excellency  of  ye  Design  of  ye  Artist.  As  to  Bridles  they  were 
not  in  use  at  ye  Time  of  that  Action  ;  to  wch  probably  ye  Designer  had  regard. 
And  you  see  ye  Gent,  abroad  are  not  positive  but  y*  ye  Shield  might  have  been 
done,  by  some  Greek,  or  Hetruscan,  in  those  Times.  I  am  of  another  Opinion, 
&  rather  think  it  done  about  ye  Time  that  you  do.' 

1  Certainly  a  Mistake. 


Sept.  14-19.]  VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  132-144.  47 

Dionysij  tui  Londini  relictum  dixit,  huj usque  in  causam  fuisse  D.  Bennet 
bibliopolae  Londinensis  obitum.  Immensas  vero  tibi  grates  habeo  pro  tam  pre- 
tioso  praestantique  dono  quod  mihi  destinasti.  At  non  sine  rubore  audivi,  quod 
nullo  meo  merito,  singulari  epistola  secundo  tomo  praefixa  me  apud  Remp.  lit- 
terariam  detuleris,  tanquam  eximium  quendam  in  Dionysij  Halicarnassensis 
libris  elaborandis  adjutorem.  quod  sane  tuae  benevolentiae  potius  argumentum 
erit,  quam  redditum  veritati  testimonium.  minora  sunt  quae  praestiti,  quam  ut 
ea  solemnitate  publicari  debuissent,  eo  maxime  quod  tibi  jam  ante  majorum 
tibi  debitor  eram.  Gaudeo  te  accuratam  Josephi  librorutn  editionem  moliri. 
Priusquam  enim  de  Joanne  Damascene  edendo  cogitarem,  antiquitates  Judai-  10 
cas  in  usum  meum  contuleram  cum  Regijs  codicibus,  quorum  varias  Lectiones 
apposui  marginibus  exemplaris  Graeci  Frobenianae  Editionis  quod  apud  me 
habeo.  Has  tibi  ultroneus  offero,  plures  ex  collatione  Godicum  aliorum  cum 
libris  de  bello  Judaico  &  contra  Appionem  identidem  excepturus,  si  modo  mihi 
pollicebere,  silentium  in  posterum  exactissimum,  ut  abs  te  nusquam  nominer, 
ne  indicer  quidem.  Nam  clarissimi  doctissimique  D.  Boivin  alterius  Biblio- 
thecae  Regiae  custodum  frater,  vir  immanis  eruditionis,  a  multo  jam  tempore 
palam  apud  omnes  significavit,  se  consimilem  Josephi  Editionem  parare.  quam 
pro  certo  norunt  omnes  absolvendam  non  esse,  imo  nee  inchoandam,  quamvis 
infinita  prope  modum  earn  in  rem  congesserit.  Est  enim  vir  assiduissimi  ao 
laboris  &  ingenij  feracissimi,  qui  annotationes  subnotationesque  novas  in  dies 
comminiscatur.  Insuper  Dissertationem  eruditam  habeo  viri  cum  genere, 
turn  eruditione  &  scientia  illustrissimi  de  testimony's  de  Xto  &  Joanne  Baptista, 
quae  apud  Josephum  occurrunt,  cui  observatiunculas  itidem  meas  adjeci.  quia 
vero  tam  Dissertatio  quam  observationes  idiomate  Gallico  scriptae  sunt,  signi- 
ficare  mihi  poteris,  an  eas  nostra  lingua  legere  pervium  tibi  futurum  sit.  Statim 
enim  tibi  describendas  curabo.  Puto  jam  in  Angliam  vestram  penetrasse 
exemplaria  Cosmae  Monachi  Indicopleustae,  quern  cum  Eusebianis  pluribus  & 
Athanasianis  Doctissimus  amicus  meus  D.  Bernardus  de  Montfaucon  anno 
praeterito  publici  juris  fecit,  quin  immo  unum  ipse  mihi  exemplar  tradidit  mit-  30 
tendum  clarissimo  amico  nostro  Grabio,  quod  postremae  sororis  meae,  Poloniae 
commorantis,  litterae,vLondinum  jam  pervenisse  asseverant.  Ad  Damascenum 
meum  quod  attinet,  ejus  Editionem  auspicor,  &  die  crastina  26  Augusti  praela 
sudare  incipient,  quod  felix  faustumque  sit.  vix  dies  ullus  labitur,  quin  claris- 
simi viri,  D.  Shadwelli  reminiscar.  Hunc  impense  colo,  teque  etiam  atque 
etiam  rogo  ut  eum  meo  nomine  velis  salutare.  Vale  vir  Honoratissime  meque 
tibi  tuisque  devinctissimum  amare  perge. 

Parisijs  viii  Kal.  Augusti  MDC[C]VII. 

Sept.  19  (Fri.).  Last  night  the  Vice-Chanc.  catch'd  Mra.  Gratiana 
Crook's  black  Wench  in  a  Gentleman-Commoner's  Chamber  in  Queen's  40 
Coll.  &  broke  open  y«  Door  upon  them.  Memorandum  yfc  y6  sd  Gra- 
tiana Crook  is  ye  Daughter  of  a  Presbyterian.  —  Mr.  Stepney  the  English 
Envoy  to  ye  State  of  Holland  is  dead,  &  is  much  lamented  by  divers  for 
his  great  Parts  &c. 

The  following  note  out  of  University  Coll.  Treasury. 

Memorandum  quod  circa  annum  Domini  800  Rex  Alredus  alias  Alfredusfund- 
avit  Collegium  istud,  cujus  exhibitio  sumebatur  i  Scaccario  Regio  continue  usque 
ad  conquestum  saltern  exclusive.  Tune  Willelmus  Conquistor  pro  vinous 
nitens  distruere  linguam  anglicanam,  dictam  exhibitionem  retraxit,  nolens 
ulterius  nutrire  clericos  ad  praedicandum  fidem  in  nostro  vulgari  idiomate  :  Et  50 
tune  vixere  scholares  Gollegij  diu  ex  sola  devotione  diligentium  linguam  nos- 
tram  quousque  ut  sequitur  indotabatur.  Quod  satis  evidens  quidem  ex  qui- 
busdam  patentibus  literis  munimentis  Regijs  in  hac  parte,  et  quidem  ex  veteri 
scriptura  in  fine  parvi  missalis  &  alijs  archivis  Collegij. 

University  Coll.  lent  King  Charles  the  Ist  150  lib8.   A  Receipt  for  it  in 


48  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1707 : 

ye  Treasury.  They  maintain'd  a  certain  number  of  Souldiers  at  4s.  per 
Week  for  a  Month,  according  to  y6  King's  Letter  in  y«  Treasury.  —  Tho. 
Ken,  formerly  Fellow  of  New  Coll.  afterwards  BP.  of  Bath  and  Wells,  and 
ejected  for  his  Loyalty  to  his  Sovereign  K.  James  II.  He  has  publish'd 
a  Catechism  for  y6  use  of  ye  Scholars  of  Winchester  and  a  manual  of 
Prayers.  Quaere  what  else?  —  John  Kettlewell  first  of  Edm.  Hall, 
afterwards  chosen  Fellow  of  Lincoln  Coll.  and  afterwards  made  Vicar 
of  Coleshill  in  Warwickshire  in  y6  Gift  of  ye  Ld.  Digby,  whom  he 
influenc'd  to  give  up  the  Large  Tythes  of  y*  Place  to  y6  Vicar, 

10  turn'd  out  of  it  at  ye  damn'd  Revolution  for  not  complying  wtn  the  Oaths 
then  tyrannically  impos'd  by  a  sett  of  Renegado  Rascally  Parliament  Men. 
He  writt  several  Books,  as  y  Measures  of  Christian  Obedience,  &c.  He 
died  not  long  after  he  was  ejected,  but  where  I  do  not  yet  know.  Quaere  ? 
A  Postumous  Piece  of  his  was  publish'd  in  24°.  by  Rob.  Nelson  Esqr. 
Tis  ag*  Prodigality.  —  Dr.  Tho.  Lamplugh  Fellow  of  Queen's  Coll.  in  ye 
time  of  King  Charles  Ist,  a  man  of  good  Character  for  his  Loyalty  and 
Integrity  in  those  bad  Times.  He  was  one  of  the  Lecturers  at  Cairfax 
where  he  always  preach'd  at  4  clock  in  the  Afternoon  on  Sundays,  and 
all  the  Honest  Loyal  Men  in  Oxon  came  to  hear  him.  After  this  he  was 

20  Vicar  of  S*.  Martin's  in  y6  Fields  &  afterwards  was  preferr'd  to  y6  Bpprick 
of  Exon,  and  just  before  y6  Revolution  for  some  Instance  of  his  Loyalty 
(viz.  his  sending  King  James  an  Ace*  of  King  William's  Declaration 
being  read  by  Dr.  Burnett  in  ye  Cathedral  of  Exeter.  See  more  in  Boyer's 
Life  of  K.  Will.  &  Bohn's  Hist,  of  ye  Desertion)  to  ye  distress'd  K.  James 
was  made  ArchbP.  of  York,  that  See  having  been  kept  voyd  for  some 
considerable  time,  wcl1  he  would  certainly  have  been  defeated  of  if  all 
things  had  not  pass'd  ye  Seals  before  ye  Rogues  came  into  Power.  He 
has  printed  a  sermon  preach'd  before  y6  House  of  L**8  on  Nov.  5.  at 
which  time  Tillotson  who  got  afterwards  to  be  ArchbP.  of  Cant,  in  Room 

30  of  Dr.  Sancroft  depriv'd  for  his  Loyalty  preached  before  y6  H.  of  Com- 
mons quite  contrary.  N.  B.  He  was  Rector  of  Charleton  wch  Living  he 
held  in  commendam  for  some  time  wtjl  his  BPprick  of  Exon,  &  was  suc- 
ceeded in  it  by  Dr.  Tim.  Halton,  then  Provost  of  Queen's  Coll.  He  left 
a  son  Thomas  Lamplugh1  who  was  likewise  Dr.  of  Divinity,  a  little 
sneaking  stingy  self-interested  Fellow  who  'tis  said  hinder'd  his  Father 
from  many  good  Works  which  he  was  naturally  inclin'd  to  do.  —  Walter 
Skirlaw  the  Munificent  Founder  of  three  Fellowships  in  University  Coll. 
was  once  Prebendary  of  York  &  Benefactor  to  y*  Church.  —  Mr.  Peter 
Lancaster  of  Baliol  Colledge  (A.M.)  has  translated  some  Part  of  Plutarch's 

40  Morals.  —  Lancaster  (Will.)  of  Queen's  Coll.  He  was  originally  a  little 
Petty  Schoolmaster  in  Westmorland.  From  wcn  Imployment  he  was 
taken  to  wait  upon  Sir  John  Lowther  (afterwards  Lord  Lonsdale)  at 
Queen's  Colledge,  where  in  time  he  became  Fellow.  When  he  was 
a  Young  Master  he  was  look'd  upon  as  an  ingenious  Preacher,  which 


1  He  communicated  a  Copy  of  Alex.  Henderson's  Death  Bed  Recantation  to  Dr. 
Hollmgworth  when  the  Controversy  was  hot  betw.  him  &  the  infamous  Toland,  who 
publish'd  several  papers  ag*  King  Charles  the  ist's  'ElKwv  Baff«A.««i)  under  the  Name  of 
Col.  Edm.  Ludlow.  See  Dr.  Hollingworth's  Defence  of  King  Charles's  Book,  intit. 
The  Character  of  K.  Charles  Ist,  &c.  Land.  1692.  4°.  in  pag.  Ist.  See  also  the  Ep. 
Ded.  of  his  Sermon  on  the  3oth  of  Jan.  in  pag.  2d. 


Sept.  10.]  VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  144-154.  49 

Faculty  it  seems  he  afterwards  lost  by  his  Idleness  and  Sotting.  He  was 
a  great  Favourite  of  Dr.  Halton's,  by  which  means  he  had  most  of  ye 
Pupils  in  that  Coll.  whom  he  shamefully  neglected.  He  was  the  chief  of 
those  who  manag'd  y6  Plot  for  turning  Dr.  Hudson  by  a  Fellowship, 
having  no  Regard  to  any  but  his  Drunken  Companions  such  as  ye 
notorious  Brabourne  of  Magd.  Coll.  one  Bernard  Gardiner,  &c.  By  Dr. 
Halton  he  was  recommended  to  ye  BP.  of  London  to  be  his  Chaplain, 
who  in  a  little  time  after  made  him  Vicar  of  S*.  Martin's.  In  this  Station 
having  some  little  Places  to  gratify  the  Hungry  &  necessitous  Fellows  of 
Queen's,  he  slighly  carry'd  on  an  Interest  to  succeed  Dr.  Halton  in  ye  10 
Provostship,  as  he  afterwards  did  by  y6  Baseness  and  Knavery  of  some 
in  y*  Society,  as  is  plain  to  any  one  y*  shall  read  over  ye  Case  of  Electing 
a  Provost  of  Queen's  Coll.  printed  in  4*°.  (More  of  him  hereafter.)  — 
Lasher  (Joshua)  Fellow  of  S*.  John's  Coll.  and  Dr.  of  Physick.  He 
married  a  Barber's  Daughter  and  so  liv'd  in  ye  Town  as  a  Practitioner  of 
Physick.  He  was  noted  for  a  silly,  Puritannical,  prick-ear'd  Whigg,  and 
as  fit  to  be  made  a  Cuckold  of  as  any  of  his  neighbouring  Towns-men. 
He  has  printed  a  Pharmacopoeia,  which  he  dedicated  to  Dr.  Hough  BP. 
of  Oxon  who  presented  him  with  Cooper's  Anatomy,  which  ye  Dr.  shews 
to  his  Visitants  at  ye  same  time  with  his  Wife.  —  Paul  Latham  of  Pern-  20 
broke  Coll.  is  perhaps  y6  Author  of  two  Sermons.  Quaere  ?  —  Leighton- 
house  (Walter)  A.M.  and  Fellow  of  Lincoln-College  has  printed  some 
Sermons  quos  videsis.  —  Baptista  Levins  of  Magd.  Coll.  was  Proctor  and 
so  got  the  Moral  Philosophy  Lectureship.  He  married  a  Daughter  of 
Dr.  Hyde's,  Principal  of  Magd.  Hall,  who  being  a  little  related  to  the 
Family  of  Chancellour  Hyde,  this  Dr.  Levins  by  the  Interest  of  ye  Ld. 
Clarendon  or  else  ye  Ld.  Rochester  got  to  be  Prebendary  of  Winchester 
&  BP.  of  Man.  He  was  reckon'd  an  ingenious  Man,  &  a  good  Preacher. 

—  Martin  Lister  the  Author  of  several  Books  in  Physick,  &  Editor  of 
Apicius.   —  Adam  Littleton  Doctor  of  Divinity  of  X*  Church  author  of  30 
the  Dictionary,  and  a  Volume  of  Sermons  in  folio.  —  Will.  Lowth  Fellow 
of  S*.  John's  College,  afterwards  Chaplain  to  Peter  Mew,  BP.  of  Win- 
chester who  gave  him  noble  Preferment.    He  is  y6  Author  of  a  little  Book 
about  ye  Inspiration  of  ye  Holy  Scriptures,  printed  at  Oxon  by  Wilmot. 

—  Thomas  Lyndsey  of  Wadham  Coll.  a  Man  of  a  loose  Life  but  ready 
Wit,  who  afterwd8  got  to  be  Chaplain  to  one  of  y8  Ld.  Lieutenants  of 
Ireland,  and  so  was  preferred  to  y°  Bpprick  of  Killaloe.    He  has  printed 
one  Sermon.  

Sept.  20.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  Sorry  that  Dr.  Lister's  assurance  that  there 
is  a  MS.  of  Caelius  Aurelianus  in  Oxford  was  groundless.  Condemns  Alme- 
loveen  for  a  want  of  honest  and  fair  dealing  toward  Dr.  Hudson.  Remarks 
on  the  project  of  reprinting  Mill's  N.T.  in  Holland.  'But  what  can  you 
exspect  from  Dutchmen,  who  have  no  regard  to  conscience,  and  honesty,  and 
equitable  dealing,  if  they  stand  in  the  way  of  their  gaine  ?  I  know  no  remedy 
can  be  applyed  to  this  threatned  evil  to  Dr.  Mills's  Administrator,  unless  hee 
can  procure  a  privilege  to  forbid  the  importing  of  such  an  impression  into 
England :  wch  it  will  bee  difficult  &  chargeable  to  obtaine,  and  it  may  bee, 
these  cunning  Knavish  Hucksters  will  so  disguise  this  worke  by  their  additions 
and  alterations,  as  that  it  shall  appeare  to  be  wholly  different.'  Jeremy  Taylor's 
design  in  publishing  the  Liberty  of  Prophesying  was  apparently  good,  but  the 
consequences  mischievous ;  '  hee  seeming  to  introduce  an  indifference  of  re- 

VOL.  II.  E 


50  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

Sept.  21  (Sun.).  Marcellus  lib.  Digester.  48.  Titul.  ad  leg.  Corneliam 
de  Sicarijs  &c.  amended  in  Erythraeus's  Index  to  Virgil,  voc.  LVSTRAVIT- 
QVE  VIR[O]S.  Erythrseus  writ  a  Book  de  Navi.  See  his  Index  voc.  MALVS. 
Julianus  y6  Lawyer  corrected  there  voc.  ead.  Erythraeus  writ  a  Book  de 
Insults.  See  there  voc.  NAXON. 

Sept.  22  (Mon.).     Zacagnius  to  Dr.  Hudson. 

Clarissimo  Eruditissimo  Viro  JOANNI  HUDSONO 
Bibliothecae  Bodlejanae  Praefecto 
LAURENTIUS  ALEXANDER  ZACAGNIUS 

10  S.  P.D. 

Quod  sero  nimis  literis  tuis  respondeam,  Vir  clarissime,  non  negligentiae  in 
exequendis  mandatis  tuis,  sed  potius  rei  difficultati,  varijsque  occupationibus 
meis  pro  tua  humanitate  velim  adscribas.  Cum  enim  in  Bibliothecis  nostris 
Festi  avieni  carminum  Geographicorum  scriptum  exemplar,  quod  cum  editis 
conferrem,  diu  frustra  quaesierim,  Casinum,  Mediolanum,  ac  Florentiam  scripsi, 
ut  desiderio  tuo  fieret  satis.  Sed  nee  in  harum  urbium  Bibliothecis  ea  Festi 
carmina  reperiri,  certior  factus  sum  ab  amicissimis  viris,  qui  ea  inquirendi  onus 
susceperant.  Verum  dum  tuo  jussu  Geographicos  Vaticanae  Bibliothecae 
Codices  perlustro,  nactus  sum  rarissimum  exemplar,  frustraque  a  Parisiensibus 

20  Benedictinae  familiae  Monachis  quaesitum,  Anonymi  illius  Ravennatis,  quern 
an.  1688.  Cl.  Porcheronius  Parisijs  typis  mandavit.  Hujus  codicis  varias 
lectiones  libenter  mittam,  si  opus  illua  dignum  duxeris,  quod  in  tua  Geo- 
graphicorum veterum  collectione  locum  habeat.  Extat  etiam  in  Vaticanae 
Bibliothecae  Codice  signato  num.  173.  Gemistius  Pletho  in  Strabonis  Geo- 
graphiam  cujus  operis  initium,  Oure  rfjv  ddXaa-a-av  rfjv  Kaa-a>iat>.  In  altero  sign. 
n.  175.  Synopsis  maris  sinuum  ex  Strabone  incerti  auctoris,  quae  incipit,  on  % 
Kaff  fjnas  olnovfjifvr).  In  alio  signato  num.  178.  Incerti  descriptio  tabularum 
Europae,  Asiae,  &  Africae,  cujus  Exordium,  ndvrajs  iriva^  rf/s  evpairris.  Denique 
in  Cod.  sign.  n.  208.  habentur  Theonis  Alexandrini  tabulae  positionum  astro- 

30  nomicarum  Civitatum  insigniorum  totius  orbis.  Habeo  insuper  in  musaeolo 
meo  Nicephori  Blemmydae  o-vvTonorepav  -yfa>ypa(piavt  quae  paraphrasis  est 
Dionysij  Alexandrini  de  situ  orbis,  hoc  initio,  BouXojuc vos  8rj  as  tv  a-wro/Mco,  quae 
omnia  si  inedita  sint,  tantique  esse  putaveris,  ut  ceteris  abs  te  edendis  adjungas, 
dabo  operam  ut  accurate  transcribantur. 

Josephi  Hebraei  librum  contra  Apionem  nee  Vaticana,  nee  alia  ulla,  quod 
sciam,  Bibliothecarum  Urbanarum  habet.  Antiquitatum  tamen  Judaicarum 
libri  xx  in  tercentorum  circiter  annorum  Vaticano  Cod.  sign.  n.  984.  servantur. 
Decem  priores  libros  exhibet  alter  Codex  sign.  n.  1304.  recensquidem  scriptus, 
sed  optimae  notae,  Fulvij  Ursini,  ad  quern  olim  pertinuit,  observationibus  in- 

40  signes.  His  antiquitate  praestant  Vaticanus  sign.  n.  147.  &  Palatinus  sign.  n. 
14.  hie  enim  sexcentorum,  ille  vero  quingentorum  annorum  antiquitatem 
superare  videntur ;  sed  Palatinus  incipiens  a  lib.  xi.  initio  mutilo,  reliquos 
usque  ad  totum  xvii.  complectitur.  Vaticanus  vero  postremam  tantum  partem 
lib.  III.  &  sequent es  libros  usque  ad  pene  totum  lib.  XV.  continet,  ac  praeterea 
adnotationes  habet  in  margine  aeque  vetustas,  quarum  nonnullae  memoriae 
tantum  causa  factae  fuisse  videntur.  Libri  de  bello  Judaico  habentur  in  Cod. 
num.  983  &  984.  Bibliothecae  Vaticanae,  necnon  in  duobus  alijs  pulcherrimis 
Biblioth.  Urbinatis  signatis  num.  84  &  85.  itemque  in  Palatino  Cod.  num.  284. 
qui  omnes  ante  quingentos  ad  minus  annos  script!  fuerunt.  Liber  de  Macha- 

50  baeis  in  duobus  Passionarijs  Vat.  Bibliothecae  annorum  circiter  septingentorum 
signatis  in  819  &  823.  asservantur.  Liber  de  vita  sua  ad  calcem  mutilus  in 


ligion,  or  at  least  .  .  to  confirme  people  in  their  several  mispersuasions,  &  it 
is  certaine,  that  he  has  written  more  plausibly  in  favour  of  the  Anabaptists, 
than  any  of  that  Sect.' 


Sept.  21-25.]  VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  155-169.  51 

memorato  Palatine  Codice  num.  14.  ejusdem  Antiquitatibus  Judaicis  subjun- 
gitur,  quarum  etiam  Epitomen  usque  ad  totam  Thobiae  historiam  exhibet  non 
admodum  vetus  Codex  Urbinas  sign.  n.  95.  Haec  tibi  nota  esse  volui  Vir 
Clarme,  ut  quae  adjumenta  ad  novam  Joseph!  operum  Editionem  ex  Vat.  Bib- 
liotheca  suppeditari  possunt,  non  ignores.  Vidi  in  Ambrosiana  Bibliotheca 
Mediolani  rarissimum  Codicem  antiquitatum  Judaicarum  in  Phyllira  ab  anti- 
quissimis  temporibus  exaratum,  de  quo  etiam  egit  Cl.  Mabillonius  in  Itinere 
Italico  pag.  12.  Hunc,  si  cum  editis  conferri  curares,  literariae  Reipublicae 
rem  utilissimam  faceres,  cum  ex  versione  Rufini,  si  emendatior  ejus  codicis 
ope  haberejtur,  non  modicam,  ut  arbitror,  Josephi  Graecus  contextus  lucem  10 
acciperet.  Redditum  mihi  fuit  exemplar  nitidissimum  tuae  Editionis  operum 
Dionysij  Halicarnassei,  cujus  praefationem  ut  Clarmo.  Perizonio,  mihique  in- 
scriptam  vidi,  admiratus  maxime  sum  nobilitatem  animi  tui,  qui  officia  mea 
longe  minora,  quam  quae  tibi  jure  merito  debeantur,  tot  tantisque  grati  animi 
significationibus  prosecutus  fueris.  Erubui  quoque,  ut  par  erat,  ad  eas  laudes, 
quibus  me  pro  tua  humanitate  ornasti ;  licet  non  modicam  inde  voluptatem 
perceperim,  non  quod  illis  me  parem  censeam,  sed  quia,  quo  magis  tenuitatis 
meae  modulum  excedunt,  eo  magis  tuam  erga  me  benevolentiam  plane  singula- 
rem  testatam  faciunt.  Quis  enim  sese  gaudio  non  efferat,  cum  a  Viro,  qui 
inter  Doctissimos  primas  tenet,  se  amari  ac  diligi  certissimis  argumentis  de-  20 
prehendat  ?  Quantum  itaque  &  pro  munere  auro  gemmisque  praestantiori,  & 
pro  hac  egregia  tua  erga  me  voluntate  tibi  debeam  Vir  Qme.  facilius  potest 
animo  concipi,  quam  verbis  ullis  explicari.  Maximas  autem  pro  tot  tantisque 
tuis  beneficijs  tibi  gratias  ago,  majores  etiam  habeo ;  spondeoque  mihi  anti- 
quius  mihi  futurum,  quam  ut  in  te  excolendo,  tibique  inserviendo  nemini 
cedam.  Ab  encomijs  tuo  praeclaro  operi  debitis  tempero,  gnarus  me  quantis- 
cunque  illud  laudibus  prosequar,  ne  minimam  quidem  earum  partem  fore  asse- 
cuturum.  Tu  interim  cura  ut  valeas  Vir  clarissime  et  me  tui  amantissimum 
semper  dilige.  Romae  Id.  Maij  1707.  Advena  quidam  Anglus  de  facie  mihi 
tantum  notus,  postulavit  a  me  ut  cuncta  adnotarem,  quae  ex  Vaticana  Biblio-  30 
theca  ad  illustrandam  Anglicanae  gentis  historiam  suppeditari  possent,  idque  in 
gratiam  ignoti  mihi  Viri  Doctissimi,  qui  meliori  luce  donandis  antiquis  Angliae 
Historicis  operam  navat.  Ego,  ut  par  erat,  libenter  id  oneris  suscepi,  eique 
nonnullos  Codices  indicavi  simulque  pollicitus  sum,  me  ceteros  quoque  cum 
ipso  communicaturum.  Cum  autem  ex  improviso  Roma,  ut  arbitror,  deces- 
serit,  nam  annus  fere  est  cum  hoc  a  me  postulatum  fuit,  Rogo  te  Vir  Claris- 
sime ut  haec  omnia  Viro  illi  Doctissimo  indices,  meque  eidem  offeras  ad  omnia 
mandata  paratum.  Clarissimo  Grabe  plurimam  nomine  meo  salutem  dicas 
velim.  Iterum  vale. 

Superscrib'd,  40 

Praestantissimo  Viro  D.  JOANNI  HUDSONO  Oxoniensis  Bibliothecae  Przfecto. 
Oxonium. 

In  a  Coyn  of  Ursin's  in  his  Imagines  Illustrium  vtr.  num.  24.  is  the 
Head  of  Apollonius  Tyanccus,  in  which  he  is  call'd  Teanens  badly,  see 
Faber's  Comment,  upon  y6  Imag.  A  lection  of  Cicero  defended  against 
Manutius  by  Faber  in  his  Com.  there  p.  18.  —  ArchbP.  Lamplugh  writ 
y6  Preface  which  is  printed  before  the  IId.  Edition  (for  'tis  not  in  ye  Ist) 
of  Dr.  Langbain's  Review  of  ye  Covenant.  .  .  . 

Sept.  25  (Th.).  This  Morning  about  nine  of  ye  Clock  died  Mr.  Will. 
Thorneton  A.M.  and  Principal  of  Hart  Hall,  having  for  some  time  been  5° 
troubled  with  ye  Gout  in  ye  Head.  He  has  left  behind  him  y6  Character 
of  a  Learned  Divine,  and  a  man  of  very  great  Probity  and  Integrity.  — 
P.  Lathom  publish'd  a  sermon  entit.  The  Power  of  things  from  God 
preach'd  in  ye  Cath.  Ch.  of  Sarum  June  29.  1683.  upon  occasion  of  y° 
Detection  of  ye  late  Horrid  Plot,  ag*  ye  Life  of  his  S.  Majesty.  4°.  at  wch 

E  2 


52  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

time  he  was  Prebendary  of  y*  Church.  —  Ace*  of  ye  Churches  or  Places 
of  Assembly  of  the  Primitive  Xtians  &c.  by  Sir  Geo.  Wheeler  Prseb.  &c.  of 
Durham.  12°.  it  contains  pages  130.  Ded.  to  Dr.  Hickes,  who  was  his 
Tutor.  —  Rich.  Blechingdon  Bach,  of  Div.  of  S*.  John's  Coll.  &  Rector 
of  Crick  in  Northamptonsh.  in  wch  Rectory  he  was  succeeded  by  Arthur 
Buckridge  B.  Div.  of  y6  same  Coll.  He  was  uncle  to  Dr.  Blechingdon 
(Rich.}  now  Fellow  of  y*  Coll.  &  Rector  of  Kingston-Bagpuze  in  Berks. 
The  said  Mr.  Rich.  Blechingdon  has  written  at  least  one  Book,  which  is 
intit.  Two  cases  resolv'd.  —  Mr.  Edw.  Waple  Bach,  of  D.  of  S*.  John's, 
10  of  which  House  he  was  Fellow  &  an  Eminent  Tutor.  He  was  presented 
to  the  Rectory  of  S*.  Sepulchres,  London,  in  wcl1  he  succeeded  Dr.  Bell, 
who  had  enjoy'd  it  about  40  years  (I  think).  He  has  publish'd  a  Com. 
in  4to.  upon  the  Revelations,  &  perhaps  other  things.  Quaere  ?  — 
Worldly  Benion  A.  B.  of  the  same  Coll.  Poetically  inclin'd  has  pub- 
lish'd a  Poem  on  y6  Death  of  y6  D.  of  Glouc.  fol.  in  3  sheets  intit.  * 
*  *  writ  handsomly.  He  had  when  in  ye  Coll.  a  Rambling  Head,  & 
where  he  is  now  we  know  not. 

Sept.  26.  (Fri.).     To  Dr.  Woodward. 

Honrd  Sir, — I  thank  you  for  your  kind  Letter,  and  ye  offer  you  make  of 

20  what  Copies  of  ye  Shield  I  may  have  occasion  for  ;  and  I  wish  I  were  able  to 
make  a  suitable  Return.  I  am  very  unwilling  to  dissent  from  a  Gen*,  of  your 
great  Sagacity  and  approv'd  Learning;  but  I  humbly  beg  leave  to  think  y* 
Bridles  were  in  use  among  the  Romans  some  considerable  time  before  ye 
taking  of  Rome  by  the  Gauls,  wch  was  An.  U.  C.  365.  Nor  do  I  know 
of  any  place  to  show  y*  the  Roman  Authors  thought  otherwise.  Livy  speaks 
of  ye  Numidians  fighting  against  ye  Romans  wthout  Bridles  (and  they  were 
famous  for  it)  but  he  tells  us  that  it  seem'd  strange  and  unus[u]al  to  ye 
Romans  ;  which  he  would  not  have  done  had  he  been  of  opinion  that  Bridles 
were  not  very  soon  amongst  them.  They  were  famous  for  War  even  from  ye 

30  very  Foundation  of  ye  City.  I  am  inclin'd  to  think  y*  the  Ancestors  of 
Romulus  coming  from  Troy  brought  this  Instrument  with  them,  which  cer- 
tainly, as  appears  from  l  Homer,  was  in  use  in  the  Wars  between  the  Grecians 
and  ye  Trojans.  'Tis  true  indeed  Livy  mentions  the  Latins  as  being  rudes 
artium ;  but  y*  is  to  be  understood  only  of  the  Liberal  Arts,  he  being  in  y* 
place  speaking  of  the  bringing  over  of  Letters  by  Evander.  If  he  had  in  ye 
Annals  found  any  the  least  hint  y*  Bridles  were  not  early  he  would  have  noted 
it ;  because  he  appears  to  have  been  very  particular  in  other  Respects  in  set- 
ting down  things  of  less  moment.  Nor  can  I  imagine  y*  in  Claudius's  time 
(when  you  agree  the  shield  was  done)  the  Designer  could  be  of  Opinion  y*  ya 

40  Romans  in  Camillus's  time  were  wthout  the  use  of  ye  Bridle  ;  since  he  saw  the 
contrary  represented  on  Coyns  (amongst  which  were  those  that  exhibited  the 
triumph  of  Camillus  in  a  Chariot  of  White  Horses),  and  other  Monuments  of 
y4  kind,  if  we  may  guess  from  w*  we  have  remaining  at  present,  which,  even 
those  y4  are  ancienter  than  Claudius,  constantly  make  y8  Horses  in  ye  trium- 
phal chariots  to  have  Bridles.  But  whatever  be  ye  reason  of  the  Horses  being 
thus  represented,  'tis  certain  ye  Learned  World  is  highly  indebted  to  you  for 
ye  expence  you  have  been  at  in  the  Engraving  the  Shield :  and  I  am  heartily 
glad  y*  such  a  valuable  Monument  fell  into  so  good  Hands.  Men  of  skill  & 
Judgment  will  always  set  a  Price  upon  such  Curiosities,  and  will  despise  the 

50  little,  trivial  Objections  ignorant  Persons  may  make  ag*  their  being  genuine. 
I  am  told  Dr.  Gibson  is  revising  his  Edition  of  Camden's  Britannia  in  order  to 
a  new  Impression.  I  hope  he  will  take  care  to  make  good  Improvem*8.  I  do 


1  'Ev  Si  pvrijpfft  ravvaOtv,  IA.  if.  475. 


Sept.  25-20.]  VOLUME  XV,  PA GES  169-181.  53 

not  question  but  y*  he  might  have  several  Materials  from  you  which  would  be 
a  great  ornament  to  the  Work.     I  am, 

Worthy  Sr, 

Edm.  Hall.  Oxon.  Your  most  oblig'd 

Sept.  26.  1707.  humble  Serv* 

T.  H. 

Sept.  27  (Sat.).    Last  Tuesd.  in  ye  Evening  John  Tutchin  Author  of  a 
scandalous  Libell  call'd  ye  Observator  died  in  ye  Queen's  Bench  Prison. 
And  his  Brother  Libeller  Dan.  de  Foe  is  under  the  Hands  of  Justice  by 
complaint  of  ye  Swedish  Embassador  for  abuse  of  his  Master.  —  The  10 
following  Inscription  put  over  the  Monument  of  Mr.  Robert  Philips  in 
the  Abbey  Church  at  Bath  wch  gave  great  Offence  to  the  time  changing, 
sneaking  People.     The  words  Veritas  and  Constantia  put  on  the  two 
Pedestals.     This  Coll.  Rob.  Philips  conducted  King  Charles  IId.  to  a 
place  near  Salisbury.     See  Ld.  Clarendon — Motto — Tout  jour  Fidele.  | 
Inscriptio. — Exuvias  hie  deposuit  Robertus  Philips,  |  Jacobo  2do  Thronum 
possidente  |  Ducatus  &  Comitatus  Palatini  |  Lancastria?  Cancellarius.  | 
Roberti  Philips  de  Monte-acuto   |  In   agro   hoc    Somersetensi  Equitis 
aurati  |  Filius  natu  secundus.  |  Qui  regnantibus  Carolo  i°.  Carolo  2do. 
Et  Jacobo  2do.  |  Ecclesise,  |  Necnon   Legalis  Monarchise  Anglicanse      so 
Contra   omnes    Perduelles  tarn  Scotos  quam  Anglos  |  Veritas  Strenuus 
&   constans    assertor   extitit.    Consiantia   \    Temporibus   mutatis   |   non 
mutatus  in  illis.   |  Natus  i°.  Feb.  ^Irae  X«.  MDCXVIIK   |   Denatus 
2i<>  junij  ^]rae  Xti.  MDCCVII°. 

Sept.  29  (Mon.).  Mr.  Principal  Thornton  was  buried  last  night  about 
six  clock  in  S*.  Peter's  Church  in  the  East  near  y6  Pulpit.  There  were 
Heads  of  Houses  to  hold  up  the  Pall,  &  some  few  others  at  the  Funeral, 
besides  those  of  the  Hall.  The  Funeral  was  handsome  enough,  but  not 
expensive,  the  Principal  dying  but  in  mean  circumstances,  which  was  the 
reason  he  made  J  no  Will,  letting  the  Law  have  it's  course.  He  was  30 
Rector  of  *  *  *  Pall  Bearers  \f«re  D^.  Aldrich  (Dean  of  Xt.  Ch.) 
Dr.  Turner,  Dr.  Paynter,  Dr.  Bayley,  Dr.  Blathwait,  &  Dr.  Charlett.  — 
Memorandum,  That  Mr.  Bickford,  commoner  of  Edm.  Hall,  when  .he 
was  about  to  leave  us  came  to  me  and  ask'd  me  whether,  since  he 
design'd  to  be  a  Benefactor  to  y6  Hall  Library,  it  were  better  to  buy  a 
Book  himself,  &  see  it  put  in  before  he  went,  or  put  20  shillings  into  ye 
Principal,  Dr.  Mill's  Hands,  to  be  layd  out  in  a  Book  by  him.  I  advis'd 


Sept.  27.  H.  txj  Dr.  T.  Smith.  Asks  for  a  more  direct  answer  to  the 
query  cone.  Jeremy  Taylor.  Mr.  Thorneton,  Principal  of  Hart  Hall,  died 
intestate  on  the  25th ;  succeeded  by  Mr.  G.  Smith,  of  B.N.C.  Bagford  makes 
but  slow  progress.  Has  had  some  conversation  with  Dr.  Moore,  Bp.  of  Ely, 
who  thinks  we  may  wait  a  great  while  yet  for  Tanner's  work  of  Boston  and 
Leland.  Tanner  stops  the  way  for  other  editors.  Has  likewise  had  a  conver- 
sation with  Hickes.  '  The  Dean  of  X*  Ch.  and  Dr.  Hudson  went  over  lately 
to  take  a  view  of  My  Ld  Leominster's  Statues  in  Northamptonsh  ...  I  wish 
they  were  all  engrav'd.  'Twould  be  a  considerable  Appendix  to  the  History 
of  Northamptonsh.  now  doing  by  a  Gent,  of  the  County.' 


1  I  understand  he  did  make  a  Will.     Ask  Mr.  Heywood  of  Holywell,  who  was  an 
Executor. 


54  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

him  to  buy  a  Book  himself,  because  I  could  give  several  Instances  of 
Money  being  lodg'd  in  Dr.  Mill's  hands,  which  he  never  layd  out  in 
Books,  or  at  least  if  he  ever  did  buy  any  Books  (which  however  he  very 
seldom  did)  he  put  extravagant  Prices  upon  them.  Particularly  Mr. 
Francis  Cherry  gave  10  libs.  to  buy  Books.  Dr.  Mill  puts  in  Baudrand's 
Geography,  which  he  set  down  at  303.  whereas  the  Price  is  well  known 
to  be  but  15.  and  dear  at  yt,  besides  two  or  three  more  Books  he  took 
out  of  his  own  Study,  and  put  in  at  Great  Rates,  &c.  which  Account 
when  Mr.  Cherry  understood  he  much  resented ;  &  'tis  the  reason  he  has 

10  not  been  a  farther  Benefactor.  Likewise  when  Sr.  Littleton  (Quaere  ?) 
Powis  a  few  years  since  gave  5  Guineas  to  buy  Books,  Dr.  Mill  buys 
Baronius's  Annals  in  12  Volumes  which  he  claps  into  his  own  Study, 
and  in  room  of  it  puts  another  Edition  in  six  Volumes  not  a  quarter  of 
ye  Value,  and  puts  down  the  Price  5  Guineas.  Also  he  put  down  Brown 
of  the  Muscles  20  shills.  which  cost  him  but  10,  as  appears  from  his 
Name  among  ye  Subscribers  printed.  However  notwithstanding  this 
Mr.  Bickford  afterwards  talking  with  Mr.  Musson  the  then  Vice-Principal, 
he  advis'd  him  to  leave  ye  Money  with  him,  which  he  did,  and  'twas  put 
into  Dr.  Mill's  Hands  by  Mr.  Musson ;  but  no  Book  bought  w*h  it  from 

20  that  time  to  this.  —  Every  Person  when  he  takes  a  degree  whether  y*  of 
Bach,  or  A.M.  in  Edm.  Hall  pays  20  shills.  for  y6  use  of  the  Library. 
None  of  this  Money  ever  lay'd  out  on  y*  score  since  Dr.  Mill  Principal, 
Dr.  Mill  after  his  coming  to  ye  Hall  encreas'd  the  Fees  of  A.  M.  20  shills. 
the  reason  because  he  would  not  have  Act  Suppers  any  more.  This 
unreasonable,  because  Act  Suppers  are  never  made  but  when  there  is  a 
Publick  Act,  which  rarely  happens.  However  at  y*  time  when  this  was 
mov'd  by  him,  there  had  been  an  Act  Supper,  and  therefore  ye  Masters 
easily  comply' d,  especially  when  he  told  them  that  ye  Money  should  go 
towards  ye  Library,  or  should  be  layd  out  some  other  way  to  ye  Ad- 

30  vantage  &  Credit  of  y6  Hall.  This  Money  all  dispos'd  of  no  Body 
knows  how.  —  The  following  [9]  Coyns  found  at  Clifton  in  Yorksh.  .  .  . 
These  given  to  ye  Library  by  Dr.  Hudson,  under  whose  Name  to  be  put 
in  y6  Index  of  this  Volume  [184-186;  187-8  blank].  — 

A  Copy  of  the  Duke  of  Devonshire's  Epitaph  made  by  himself,  and 
order'd  to  be  put  upon  his  Tombe. — Hie  jacet  |  Gulielmus  Dux  Devonian 
|  Bonis  Regibus  subditus  fidelis,  |  Tyrannis  vero  inimicus  &  invisus. — 
English'd  thus,  Here  lyes  |  William  Duke  of  Devonshire  |  A  faithfull 
subject  to  good  Kings,  |  To  Tyrants  an  Enemy  &  dreaded  by  'em.  | 
Burlesqu'd  thus,  Here  lies,  William  Duke  of  Devonshire  |  To  bad  kings 

40  a  doughty  Foe  \  To  good  Kings  a  deadly  Friend. — Paraphras'd  thus  in 
Latin,  Hie  |  jfEre  alieno  obrutus  |  In  aeternum,  |  Jacet,  |  Gulielmus  De- 
voniae  Dux  |  Regum  optimis  inimicorum  infestissimus,  |  Tyrannorum 
pessimis  subditus  fidelissimus.  |  Mcerens  posuit  |  Creditorum,  Scortorum, 
Aleatorum  &  Regicidarum  |  Turba  infinita ;  |  Bipedum  nequissimum  pro 
rostris  laudante  |  Whito  Kennetto.  |  Mendici,  mimi,  balatrones,  hoc 
genus  omne  |  Moestum  &  sollicitum  est. — In  English  thus,  Here  with 
Debt  o'rewhelm'd  for  ever  lies  |  Devonshire's  Great  Duke :  j  To  the  best 
of  Kings  the  worst  of  Foes  |  To  Tyrants  base  a  baser  slave.  |  This 
Monument  |  In  token  of  their  Grief  |  erected  was  |  By  Creditors,  Rooks, 

5°  Whores.    &   Regicides ;  |  Kennett  White  extolling  high  |  The   impious 


Sept.  29.]  VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  181-197.  55 

Wretch  for's  Piety. — Twas  originally  thus,  Hie  |  Sub  aere  alieno  |  In 
seternum  jacet  |  Gulielmus  Dux  Devonias,  j  Bonis  Regibus  inimicus  & 
invisus,  |  Tyrannis  vero  subditus  fidelis:  |  Posuit  moerens  |  Creditorum, 
Scortorum,  Aleatorum,  Regicidarum  |  Turba  infinita.  |  Mendici  &c.  — 
Most  People  believe,  for  all  Lancaster's  Friends  denying  it,  that  he  did 
when  Vice-chanc.  favour  John  Brabourn's  Pretensions  to  Hart-Hall ; 
this  being  no  more  unlikely  than  that  he  should  some  years  agoe  resign 
the  Vicarage  of  Okeley  to  this  same  Brabourn,  when  a  great  many  of 
the  Fellows  of  his  own  College  would  gladly  have  accepted  of  it.  — 
There  were  formerly  18  Silver  Spoons  belonging  to  Edm.  Hall.  When  10 
Cox  was  Mancipal  10  were  stole.  IX  Mill  made  him  pay  5  lib8,  to  buy 
new  ones.  But  ye  Money  never  laid  out. 


Out  of  a  Letter  from  Mr.  Charles  Bernard  to  Mr.  Thwaites  dat. 
Sept.  28. 

You  are  mistaken  in  your  conjecture  about  Artorius.  For  there  was  cer- 
tainly such  a  Man  &  Physitian  to  Augustus.  Vossius,  Casaubon  &  Lambecius 
are  of  opinion  y*  Antonius  Musa  &  Artorius  were  ye  same  Person,  but  they 
are  mistaken  too.  Certain  it  is  that  Musa  was  ye  Man  y*  cured  Augustus  by 
altering  ye  Method  of  ye  former  Physitian.  Horace  could  not  be  mistaken  in 
his  Name.  Suetonius  &  Pliny  &  Dion  Cassius  agree  in  it,  &  I  question  not  20 
but  ye  Author  of  ye  Tract  de  Betonica  took  his  Name  to  recommend  his  Book. 
That  Augustus  had  another  Physitian  whose  name  was  Artorius  &  mention'd 
by  several  authors,  not  for  healing  but  preserving  him  by  a  dream  I  think 
there  can  be  no  dispute.  I  will  not  trouble  myself  with  long  Quotations  but 
refer  you  to  some  Authors  for  a  Proof  both  of  ye  Name  and  of  ye  Profession 
too.  See  Valerius  Max.  1.  i.  c.  7.  Vel.  Pat.  1.  2.  c.  70.  who  both  liv'd  in 
Tiberius's  time.  Plutarch  in  Bruto.  Lactantius  1.  2.  c.  8.  Eusebius  is  parti- 
cular in  ye  time  &  manner  of  his  Death.  Artorius  Medicns  Augusti  post  Ac- 
tiacam  victoriam  naufragio  perijt.  I  suppose  'twill  not  be  disputed  but  y*  ye 
Illness  of  which  Musa  cured  Augustus  hapned  a  good  while  after  his  Victory  30 
at  Actium.  So  y*  if  what  Eusebius  says  be  true,  Artorius  &  Musa  could  not 
be  the  same  man.  'Tis  plain  from  all  the  authorities  above  y*  Artorius  was 
Augustus  his  Physitian  before  Brutus's  Death,  &  then  Augustus  was  very 
young.  'Tis  plain  from  Eusebius  that  Artorius  was  drown'd  A.  U.  C.  723.  and 
from  Dion  Cassius  that  ye  sickness  of  which  Musa  cur'd  Augustus  was  about 
8  years  after.  So  y*  'tis  in  my  opinion  very  probable  y*  Augustus  had  two 
Physitians  who  succeeded  one  another.  Artorius,  who  preserv'd  him  by  a 
dream,  and  Antonius  Musa  who  recover'd  him  by  cooling  Medicines.  But 
what  will  you  say  to  an  Inscription  upon  a  Cenotaph,  (publish'd  by  Cha.  Patin) 
literis  uncialibus,  in  little  ones  thus,  40 

MdpKov  'ApTwpiov  ' A.cnc\r)md8T)v 
Qfov  Km'crapos  2fj3a<rroC  'larpoi/ 
'H  |3ouXij  6  Ai)/4O?  T£>V  'Sfivpvaitav 
'ETinrjcrav  "Hpa>a  TroXu/iatfe'ar  \dpiv. 

Why  the  Smyrnaeans  should  pay  this  Compliment  to  Augustus  his  Physitian 
seems  to  be  hinted  in  ye  last  line.  Had  it  been  for  Recovering  him  from  any 
dangerous  sickness,  surely  that  could  never  have  been  omitted,  being  a  greater 
Complement  to  Augustus  &  not  less  to  Artorius  than  the  bare  mention  of  his 
Polymathia.  but  'tis  much  y*  this  Artorius  should  deserve  so  much  from  ya 
Smyrnaeans  for  his  variety  of  Learning  &  yet  be  mention'd  by  no  author  that  50 
I  know  of  for  any  thing  but  a  dream.  By  this  time  I  hope  you  are  convinc'd 
that  in  Scaliger,  Gruter  &  others  'twas  no  mistake  of  a  letter  &  y*  Artorius  is 
ye  true  Reading.  The  story  of  Augustus's  being  sav'd  by  a  Dream  is  men- 


56  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

tion'd  also  by  Appian  but  ye  Person  not  nam'd,  and  by  Suetonius,  who  says  he 
•was  amici  somnio  monitus. 

Sept.  30  (Tu.).  The  Master  of  Univ.  Coll.  has  ye  Pictures  of  Sr.  Geo. 
Mackenzy  &  Dr.  Pococke.  These  he  promises  to  give  hereafter  to  y6 
Publick  Library.  —  Quaere  who  was  author  of  the  Reasonableness  of  ye 
Augmentation  of  Poor  Vicarages,  printed  some  time  since  in  Cambr.  4°. 
for  ye  Author. . . .  [Notes  on  MSS.  &c.  of  Livy.]  —  Mr.  Thwaites  of  Queens 
show'd  me  two  Coyns  to  day,  both  Syrian,  one  of  Seleucus  Nicator,  the 
IId  Demetrius  II  sirnam'd  Nicator,  of  whom  see  Justin  1.  39.  His  head 
10  is  on  the  front,  and  on  ye  Reverse  is  2IAQNIQN,  and  Europa  on  a  Bull. 

—  The  Lady  Wilmot,  Wife  of  Sr.  Geo.  Wilmot  (Quaere  whether  related 
to  mad  Earl  of  Rochester)  of  Grove  near  Wantage  in  Berks,  order'd  her 
Skull  to  be  preserv'd  in  Wantage  Church,  where  she  together  with  her 
Husband  &  Son  is  interr'd.     Which  Skull  is  according  to  her  desire 
preserv'd  in  a  Chest  in  y*  Church,  the  several  Parts  of  the  Skull  being 
describ'd  and  explain'd  by  a  Surgeon.     On  it  are  these  verses  writ  as  'tis 
guess'd  by  herself,  viz. 

Ladies  when  yon  your  Perfect  Beauties       I  was  as  you  are  now  young  fair  and  clear 
see  And  you  must  once  be  as  you  see  me 

20  Think  'em  but  Tenants  to  Mortality :  here. 

—  Writers  of  S*.  John's  Coll.  Oxon.  Dr.  Abr.  Markland,  Dr.  Sayer  Arch- 
Deacon  of  Surrey  (he  publish'd  at  least  one  Sermon)  Mr.  Coningsby,  Mr. 
Tho.  Parsel,  Sr.  John  Packington,  Sam  Philips,  —  Asgil  (that  Atheistical 
Villain,  notorious  for  a  Book  to  prove  that  we  may  go  to  Heaven  without 
Dying)  Sr.  Wm.  Dawes,  Dr.  Laurence  Smith,  Mr.  Ambrose  Bonwick,  Mr. 
Blake.     ('Tis  conjectur'd  that  the  last  of  these  Persons)  Mr.  Blake,  pub- 
lish'd Musseus's  Poem  de  Herone  &  Leandro  in  English,  pr.  in  a  collection 
of  Poems.     Quaere.   —  Dr.  Markland  (abovesd)  wrote  a  Poem  upon  ye 
Dutch  War,  in  wch  he  calls  the  Dutch  men  Tall  Roundabout,  &  gives  much 

30  other  language  of  y*  nature,  in  so  much  y*  it  made  good  sport  in  ye  uni- 
versity, and  particularly  it  was  laugh'd  at  by  one  Mr.  Birstow  of  All  Souls 
Coll.  who  had  ye  Character  of  an  ingenious,  good  natur'd  man.  This 
displeasing  the  Dr.  he  sometime  after,  upon  news  of  Mr.  Birstow's  Death 
in  ye  Coll.  caus'd  a  Paper  to  be  stuck  up  on  (or  else  over)  the  Coll.  Gate, 
with  these  verses  on  it, 

Drunkards  and  Swivers 

Are  never  long  livers. 

This  Markland  was  Chaplain  to  the  late  BP.  of  Winch.  &  had  a  son 
afterwards  of  S*.  John's  Coll.  of  wck  he  became  Fellow,  since  dead.    The 
4°  Dr.  was  presented  to  ye  Living  of  S*.  Mary  Cross  (Quaere)  at  Winchester 
where  he  now  lives,  &  is  likewise  Prebendary  of  that  Church.  .  .  . 


Sept.  30.  Hickes  to  H.  'I  am  heartily  sorry  for  Mr.  Thornton's  death, 
whose  excellencies  none  knew  better  than  myself.  He  hath  not  left  a  more 
learned,  or  orthodox  divine  behind  him.  He  knew  the  primitive  divinity  of  ye 
first  four  centuries,  and  iudged  all  other  writers  since  the  reformation  by  them. 
As  for  Dr.  Taylors  Liberty  of  Prophecy  ...  it  is  certain  at  the  Restauration 
that  book  was  objected  ag*  him,  and  hindered  him  from  being  an  English 
bishop.  In  truth  the  good  he  did  by  all  his  other  works  scarce  compensat  for 
the  evill  that  hath  done.' 


Sept.  30-Oct.  3.]     VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  197-209. 


57 


The  Dialogue  between  the  ArchbP.  of  Cant.  &  Mr.  Higgins  in  verse. 
A  new  song.     To  the  Tune  of  *  *  * 


Th^re  happen'd  of  late  a  learned  Debate 

Concerning  y°  Zeal  of  ye  Gown 
'Tween    Archdeac'n    Higg    &    ArchbP. 

Whigg 

Which  much  has  diverted  the  Town. 
Says  Higg  to  His  Grace  I  am  come  to 

your  face 

To  justify  w*  I  have  done ; 
I  have  preach'd  at  S*.  Brides  &   some 

Places  besides 

Of  Matters  as  clear  as  ye  Sun. 
His  Grace  then  reply'd  tho'  it  can't  be 

deny'd 

But  wfc  you  have  sd  may  be  true, 
Yet  men  of  your  Heats  put  us  all  into 

sweats 

And  y8  Church  &  the  state  will  undoe. 
You  were  once  of  our  Party  A  Williamite 

hearty 

But  now  you  have  alter'd  your  Tone. 
Says  Higg  'tis  a  shame  to  King  Wm's  name 

If  an  Honest  Man  must  not  be  one. 
It  is  hard  says  ye  Priest  if  the  Doctrines 

of  Christ 

May  not  be  asserted  wth  Zeal : 
I'll  summon  ye  Crowd  &  cry  out  aloud 

What  God  has  been  pleas'd  to  reveal. 
I'm  resolv'd  to  be  hot  'till  yor  Ldship  has 

got 

Some  Ecclesiastical  Birch : 
To  whip  those  y'  cast  us  as  lowasErastus 
In  ye  Rights  of  y°  Xtian  Church. 


At  length  you'l  confine  us  to  suffer  Socinus 

To  scatter  his  Poyson  abroad : 
And  before  you'll  exhort  a  great  Man  of 

ye  Court 

You'll  let  him  declare  there's  no  God. 
Such  Books  should  for  shame   be  con- 

demn'd  to  ye  Flame 

As  Toland  &  Asgill  have  printed  :  lo 

Vile  Notions  yon  see  of  the  Mystical  three 

By  Emlin  and  others  invented. 
Says  His  Grace  tho'  such  Men  have  pro- 

vok'd  wth  their  Pen 

'Tis  the  prudenter  Way  not  to  know  it : 
For  Busby  in  truth  has  but  tickl'd  the 

Youth 

By  Foolishly  guelding  the  Poet. 
Mr.  Asgil  by  Fits  they  say's  out  of  his 

Wits  20 

Which  is  rather  a  Case  of  Compassion  : 
He  raves  of  some  Trick  Sir  wth  his  Mag- 
num Elixir 

To  immortalize  Men  by  Translation  : 
As  for  Tyndal  &  those  who  the  Church 

Rights  oppose 

We  may  thank  the  late  BP.  of  Worcester : 
Neither  would  we  allarm  the  BP.  of  Sarum 
Or  my  very  good  Brother  of  Gloucester. 
Says  Higg  to  his  Grace  if  this  be  y°  Case  30 

Farewell  our  Religion  &  Laws : 
We  Presbyters  fight  for  y«  Churches  old 

Right 
But  our  BPS  sneak  to  the  old  Cause. 


Oct.  2  (Th.).  Sr.  Tho.  Churchyard  in  his  Sparke  of  Friendship  & 
Warm  Goodwill  pr.  Lond.  1588.  in  the  dedication  to  Sr.  W.  Raleigh  men- 
tions a  Great  Book  in  Latin  printed  above  400  years  before  y*  time.  In 
1588  the  English  pronounc'd  i  like  e.  So  Laten  for  Latin.  They  also 
us'd  the  Plural  for  Singular.  So  there  Churchill,  the  whole  Benefiies  that 
Paper  bringes.  (Naudseus's  Life  of  Lewis  the  XIth  to  be  bought  when  to  40 
be  met  wth.)  The  Florence  Edition  of  Victorius's  Tully  said  to  be  ye  best. 
That  at  Venice  Fabricius  calls  optima  &  rarissima,  but  he  is  mistaken,  as 
it  seems. 

Oct.  3  (Fri.).  The  3d  Booke  of  ye  Maccabees,  which  is  in  all  Editions 
of  ye  Sept.  was  translated  into  English  by  Gwalter  Lynne  and  printed  at 
Lond.  1550.  8°.  at  ye  End  of  his  Briefe  and  compendiouse  Table,  in  Maner 
of  a  concordaunce,  openyng  the  waye  to  y  principall  Histories  of  the  whole 
Bible.  &c.  —  Mr.  Penton  of  New  Coll.  has  a  Book  printed  in  English 
&  written  by  my  Ld.  Scales,  who  liv'd  in  Edw.  IV*118  time.  'Twas  printed  . 
in  or  about  1470.  —  Petrus  Erycus  Recenius  (mention'd  in  Dr.  Hickes's  50 
Preface  to  his  Thes.  Lingg.  Sept.  or  else  in  Pref.  Gram.  Sax.)  writ  a  Book  entit. 
Principium  Philologicum  i  Mysterio  renaium.  Many  things  in  it  are  taken 
out  of  John  Dee'&  Monas  Hieroglyphica.  Lond.  —  8°.  —  Mr.  Tho.  Smith 
senr  Fellow  of  Braz.  Nose,  is  made  Principal  of  Hart  Hall  &  was  admitted 


58  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

yesterday  in  the  Afternoon.  —  Historise  Romange  Scriptores  Latini  veteres, 
qui  exstant  omnes  &c.  Ebroduni  1621.  fol.  Livy  is  the  first,  &  at  ye  End 
is  a  large  Index  to  the  whole.  'Tis  in  Merton  Coll.  Libr.  (Of  no  value.) 
The  Following  verses  by  Mr.  Hen.  Felton  formerly  of  Edm.  Hall  now 
of  Queen's  Coll.  occasion'd  by  a  Ladies  making  a  copy  of  Verses. 

In  Antient  Greece  when  Sappho  sung  But  sweeter  Notes  &  softer  Layes 

And  touch'd  wth  matchless  Art  ye  Lyre,  From  your  Diviner  Numbers  spring 

Apollo's  Hand  her  Musick  strung  Such  as  himself  Apollo  plays 

And  all  Parnassus  form'd  ye  Quire.  Such  as  ye  Heavenly  Sisters  sing. 

Oct.  4  (Sat.).  The  Antients  sometimes  pronounc'd  ij  as  ei.  So  in  MS. 
Laud,  of  Livy.  —  Two  Coyns  of  Prusias  King  of  Bithynia  in  Consul 
Rayes  Collection.  He  is  mention'd  by  Livy,  &  therefore  should  come 
among  ye  Coyns  there.  —  Mr.  Thwaites  has  made  several  Discoveries  of 
omissions  in  IX  Mill's  Test,  particularly  in  Parallel  Places.  —  Ad  c.  VI. 
Apoc.  v.  2.  Tis  Kal  ?8e  in  Cod.  Bar.  not  78*  only  as  express'd  in  Dr.  Mill. 

Oct.  6  (Mon.).  'Tis  Mr.  Dav.  Jones  who  publishes  the  Yearly  Account 
of  the  State  of  Europe.  —  In  Arch.  C.  Bodl.  are  divers  Chinese  Books, 
done  up  several  of  them  together  in  Blew  Covers  after  a  new  manner. 
The  Leaves  are  double,  &  the  dog  Letter  is  upon  the  fore-edge. 

Upon  a  Brass  Plate  in  S*.  John  Baptist's  Church  appropriated  to  Merton 
Coll.  the  following  Inscription. 

En  Clerke  Walterus  iacet  hie  *  que  federe  clerus  |  Iste  Magistror[um]  voluit 
2num[er]aresuorum  |  Moribus  ornatus  fuit  et  natu  veneratus  |  Brigida  per  sacra 
vocat  hunc  ad  gaudia  clara.  |  M  bis  x  post  1.  xi  post  c  quater  adde  |  Qgaeso 
preces  summe  pro  me  clerke  clerice  funde. 

Paul  Tarczali  who  was  Author  of  Brevis  Dissertatio  de  vocatione  Gen- 


Oct.  4.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  Does  not  believe  that  Charles  I.  ordered 
Jeremy  Taylor's  name  to  be  struck  out  of  the  list  of  his  Chaplains.  After  his 
betrayal  by  the  Scots,  '  his  Majesty  was  deprived  of  the  assistance  of  his 
Chaplains :  wch  most  unchristian  &  barbarous  behaviour  of  these  Deviles  to- 
ward him  afforded  him  in  his  solitudes  &  imprisonment  just  matter  of  com- 
plaint, and  was  very  irksome  to  him :  of  wch  he  has  left  to  the  world  his  just, 
his  pious,  his  divine  thoughts  in  one  of  the  Chapters  of  his  ~EIKO>V.'  His  '  pre- 
terition '  at  the  Treaty  in  the  Isle  of  Wight  not  to  be  imputed  to  his  prejudice, 
as  several  other  eminent  persons  were  omitted.  But  his  good  and  politic  de- 
signs cannot  justify  his  publishing  that  unhappy  book.  Condemns  Mr. 
Thornton's  neglect  in  not  making  his  will.  Hopes  Mr.  Bagford's  History  of 
Printing  will  be  of  value,  though  the  subject  requires  better  judgment  and 
more  comprehensive  knowledge.  Looks  forward  to  Vol.  II.  of  Llhuyd's 
Archaeologia,  which  he  finds  excelhnt,  though  the  generality  of  subscribers 
are  dissatisfied  with  it.  Wishes  that  H.  or  some  qualified  person  would  antici- 
pate Tanner  by  publishing  Leland  &c.  Lord  Leominster  bought  the  Arundel 
statues  of  the  Relict  of  the  Duke  of  Norfolk  for  very  little.  '  I  doubt  not  but 
that  if  the  Duke  had  lived,  and  had  been  addressed  to  by  Dr.  Yerbury,  as  was 
designed,  hee  would  have  given  us  the  Statue  of  Pallas  to  place  it  in  our  College 
Quadrangle.'  Harduin  has  printed  7  vols.  of  the  Councils,  which  will  not  be 
published  till  the  whole  is  finished  ;  and  Blasius  Caryophilus  is  printing  at  Rome 
the  Greater  Prophets  out  of  Origen's  Hexapla. 


1  Lege  qui.  a  Ant.  &  Wood  has  printed  it  miniare. 


Oct.  3-9.]  VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  209-218.  59 

Hum  &c.  Oxon.  1672.  not  taken  notice  of  in  Ant.  a  Wood.  —  Mr.  Rob.  Con- 
ingsby  of  S*.  John's  Coll.  Oxon.  of  which  he  was  Fellow,  &  after  that  chosen 
usher  of  Merchant  Taylours'  Schoole,  at  which  time  he  writ  and  publish'd 
Mythologia  sive  quarundam  fabularum  explicatio  Gr.  Lat.  in  us.  Scholae 
Merc.  Sciss.  Land.  1693.  He  also  writ  and  pr.  on  a  Broad  side  of  a  sheet 
of  Paper  The  Contract  verbs  and  verbs  in  mi  at  full  length  :  &  on  a  half 
sheet  Copper  Plate  An  Explication  of  ye  Greek  Abbreviations.  About  ye 
year  1 700.  he  left  Merchant  Taylours',  being  then  chosen  Head  Master 
of  ye  Free  Schoole  at  Ipswich,  where  he  now  lives. 

Oct.  7  (Tu.).  The  antients  pronounc'd  cohacti  for  coacti.  —  Quaere  10 
whether  A  nonymus  Ravennas  be  not  the  same  with  Jornandes  who  was  Epis- 
copus  Ravennas  ?  —  There  are  four  Maps  in  Hebrew;  one  of  Palestine,  &  the 
other  three  of  the  other  Pte  of  ye  World,  done  by  Hugh  Broughton  &  printed 
at  Amsterdam.  Mr.  Bagford  (who  is  compiling  a  History  of  Printing)  says 
he  never  saw  but  one  copy  of  them,  which  was  at  Leyden  where  he  purchas'd 
them  &  brought  them  into  England,  &  are  now  in  ye  Hands  of  Mr.  Clavel 
of  ye  Inner  Temple.  —  Quaere  whether  the  Dean  of  X*  Church  had  not 
his  MS*  the  Author  Walter  de  Millemet  of  Mr.  Brown  Willis?  —  Some 
time  since  was  printed  a  Paper  of  a  Collection  of  Pamphletts  in  London, 
which  it  seems  are  to  be  dispos'd  of.  Mr.  Bagford  is  ye  Manager.  The  20 
Collection  commences  with  ye  year  1638  or  thereabts  &  reaches  to  1666.  — 
Memorandum  to  ask  Dr.  Charlett  for  y*  Part  of  Caesar's  Commentaries 
translated  into  French  by  ye  present  King  of  France,  &  printed  magnifi- 
cently in  a  thin  folio.  —  Above  stairs  Dr.  Charlett  has  Roman  Urns,  &c. 
Ab*  fourteen  years  since  on  ye  North- West  of  London  was  found  large 
Elephants  Bones,  amongst  ym  Teeth,  &  near  to  them  a  flint  like  our 
Scotch  Elf  Arrows,  which  some  Curious  Persons  are  apt  to  think  was  y* 
with  wch  ye  Elephant  was  kill'd.  Dr.  Charlett  has  it.  —  Quaere  whether 
Leland's  Vindication  of  King  Arthur  was  not  in  some  measure  taken  from 
Caxton's  Life  of  King  Arthiyr  ?  See  also  whether  that  Book  of  Caxton's  30 
be  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  ? 

Oct.  9  (Th.).  On  Friday  last  died  Mr.  William  Petit,  in  ye  71**  year 
of  his  Age ;  being  one  of  ye  oldest  Benchers  of  ye  Inner  Temple,  and  an 
Eminent  Antiquary,  and  made  Gustos  Rotulorum  by  ye  late  King  William, 
for  his  Republican  Principles.  —  This  Day  at  one  Clock  was  a  Convoca- 
tion for  reading  the  Chancellor's  Letter,  nominating  Dr.  Lancaster  to  be 


Oct.  8.  Thoresby  to  H.  Cannot  tell  what  further  to  desire  of  Dods- 
worth's  MSS.  Anxious  to  visit  Oxford.  Gives  a  brief  sketch  of  his  projected 
book  on  Leeds  and  Neighbourhood.  Thoresby  to  [Hudson].  Compli- 
mentary letter  on  Hudson's  visit  to  his  Museum.  '  The  famous  Spanhemius 
acquainted  me  yesterday  with  your  safe  arrivall  at  Oxford.' 

Oct.  9.  John  Bennett  to  H.  Suggests  that  each  Bp.  should  give  direc- 
tions to  every  incumbent  in  his  diocese  to  transcribe  the  inscriptions  in  his 
own  parish  Church,  and  to  return  them  to  his  Lp.  Strype  not  very  far  ad- 
vanced with  his  Survey  of  London,  the  '  sculptures  '  taking  so  long  to  engrave. 
'  Mrs.  Tylliard,  whom  you  may  I  believe  remember  in  St.  Marie's  Church, 
having  married  a  Sea-Surgeon  in  our  Parish,  because  he  stay'd  abroad  about  a 
fortnight  longer  than  he  promis'd  her,  thought  fit  in  a  melancholy  fit  to  hang 
her  self  upon  ye  bed-post.' 


6o  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

Vice-Chanc.  again  for  ye  Year  ensueing,  which  was  unanimously  con- 
sented to.  After  wcl1  Dr.  Lane,  made  a  speech  containing  a  complement 
upon  the  Chanc.  &  an  Account  of  Theatre  Books  the  last  year,  among 
wcl1  was  Dr.  Mill's  Great  Work,  which  he  said  was  to  be  applauded  by  all 
nisi  in  ipso  prselimine  contra  mores  Evangelicos  peccasset,  meaning  his 
Reflecting  upon  the  Memory  of  his  Royal  Sovereign  K.  Charles  II.  &  ye 
.  Parliaments  of  y*  time,  as  also  his  Acting  contrary  to  w*  himself  once 
preach'd  up,  Passive  Obedience.  —  Bonaventurse  Dieta  Salutis.  Parisiis 
1499.  8°.  Impress,  per  Magistrum  Petrum  le  Dru  pro  Johanne  Petit  com- 

10  morante  in  vico  Sancti  Jacobi  ad  intersignium  leonis  argentei.  —  See  Lan- 
gius  4°.  L.  15.  Th.  Seld.  p.  298.  upon  a  Place  of  Livy  in  ye  first  Book  ab* 
Numa's  altering  ye  Year  —  ...  Mr.  Laughton,  who  once  pass'd  for  a  Non- 
Juror,  &  was  very  great  with  most  of  the  Non-Jurors,  (&  for  wclx  reason 
Dr.  Hickes  dedicated  a  small  Piece  to  him)  was  in  the  Rye-House-Plot. 
He  has  brought  a  son  to  Line.  Coll.  who  is  Gent.  Commoner,  &  Pupil  to 
Mr.  Hind,  to  whom  he  was  recommended  by  Dr.  Potter.  —  To  be  put  in 
ye  Benefactors'  Book  of  ye  Publ.  Library.  [Benefactions  of  Hody  and 
Mill.]  .  .  . 

Oct.  1O.  (Fri.).     Enquire  of  some  of  Queen's  Coll.  w*  became  of  Mr. 

20  Tho.  Macell's  Papers  after  his  Death,  he  having  been  of  y*  College  & 
having  had  ye  Character  of  a  good  Antiquary.  —  Tho.  Manningham  Dr. 
of  Div.  formerly  Fellow  of  New  Coll.  now  Rector  of  S*.  Anne's  Holborne, 
has  printed  several  sermons,  three  or  four  of  them,  when  he  was  Young, 
being  in  a  strange,  elevated  Style.  —  John  March  Bach,  of  Div.  &  Vice- 
Principal  of  Edm.  Hall,  afterwds  Vicar  of  New-Castle  upon  Tyne,  has 
a  Vol.  of  Sermons  in  print,  w°h  I  think  came  out  after  his  death.  Quaere 
whether  he  was  not  a  Non- Juror  &  a  sufferer  upon  y*  Account.  —  Quasre 
about  Narcissus  Marsh  Fellow  of  Exeter  Coll.  &  Doctor  of  Divinity, 
afterwards  Principal  of  Alban-Hall,  Provost  (I  think)  of  Trinity  Coll.  in 

3°  Dublin,  and  at  length  after  some  other  Preferments  ArchbP  of  Armagh 
&  Primate  of  Ireland.  I  think  he  new  model!' d  Du  Trieu's  Logick  for 
ye  use  of  ye  University  of  Dublin.  Quaere  what  else  he  has  done,  besides 
his  buying  Longolius's  MSS.  &  BP.  Stillingfleet's  Library  for  ye  Library 
of  Trinity  Coll.  —  Sam.  Masters,  Bach,  of  Div.  &  Fellow  of  Exon.  Coll. 
has  publish'd  a  discourse,  about  Afflictions,  I  think.  —  Henry  Maundrill, 
A.M.  &  Fellow  of  Exon.  Coll.  Chaplain  to  ye  Factory  at  Aleppo  (Q  ?),  pub- 
lish'd a  Book  in  8V0.  of  his  Travells,  pr.  at  ye  Theatre,  in  Oxon.  —  Hen. 
Maurice  Dr.  of  Div.  &  Fellow  of  Jesus  Coll.  was  Chaplain  to  ArchbP. 
Sancroft  &  Rector  of  Newington  near  Oxon  &  was  the  Lady  Margaret's 

4°  Professor  of  Divinity  in  y*  university,  which  he  held  but  a  very  little 
time,  dying  not  long  after  he  was  chosen.  He  has  publish'd  two  Books, 
one  against  Baxter  &  ye  other  ag*  Clarkson,  &  one  sermon  or  more.  — 
Matthew  Morgan  Dr.  of  Laws  of  St.  John's  Coll.  translated  a  Life  of 
Cornelius  Nepos,  something  of  Plutarchs  Morals  &  writ  a  dedication  to 
one  of  ye  Volumes  of  y*  Work.  He  also  writ  a  Poem  upon  ye  Death  of 
Mr.  Boyce,  &  several  other  Poems  which  are  of  no  great  Note.  —  Will. 
Musgrave  Bach,  of  Phys.  &  Fellow  of  New  Coll.  afterwd8  Practitioner  in 
Physick  at  Exon.  has  writ  several  things  in  Physick.  —  Quaere  whether 

1  Quaere? 


Oct.  9-18.]  VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  21 8-230.  6 1 

the  things  publish'd  under  ye  Name  of  Mr.  Newcome  belong  to  any  of 
yeOxon  Newcomes?  —  Will.  Nicolls  first  of  Wadham  Coll.  &  then  chosen 
Fellow  of  Merton,  has  writ  Discourses  against  the  Deists  and  several 
other  things.  —  There  was  publish'd  some  year[s]  since  a  Conference 
between  John  March  &  Dr.  Welwood  cone,  the  Revolution.  I  believe 
the  Author  Mr.  March. 

Oct.  12  (Sun.).  [Various  authors  corrected  in  Ursinus  de  Fam. 
Rom.]  Quaere  whether  ArchbP.  Usher's  Sermon  ab*  the  Rfc.  of  Primogeni- 
ture be  in  ye  Publick  Library?  —  In  pag.  231.  of  Historia  Flagellantium, 
printed  at  Paris  1700.  is  mention  made  of,  and  an  Extract  taken  from  10 
an  old  French  Writer  cone.  King  Arthur's  Round-Table  and  the  Gests 
of  Sr.  Lancelot  du  Lac,  publish'd  at  Paris  by  Ant.  Gerard  1494.  i.  Julij. 
In  ye  Publick  Library  is  another  Edition  in  two  Vols.  the  Ist  Vol.  printed 
at  Roan  1488,  the  other  at  Paris  the  same  Year.  At  ye  End  'tis  sd  y* 
Walter  Map  was  Author.  —  Mr.  Cartier  formerly  of  X*  Ch.  writ  an 
Explanatory  Discourse  upon  Hippolytus's  Canon,  wch  he  did  at  ye 
Request  of  Dr.  Mill.  (This  I  have  in  MS.  amongst  Dr.  Smith's  Papers.) 
—  Christophilus  Dialithus  an  Hungarian  and  a  student  in  Oxon  where 
he  had  a  Chamber  in  Glouc.  Hall  publish'd  Xpjja/iwSia  Parabolico- 
Prophetica  &c.  Oxon.  1699.  8°.  20 

Oct.  16  (Th.).  Mr.  Penton's  Epitaph  made  by  himself. — Here  lyes 
what's  left  of  Stephen  Penton  Rector  |  Who  tho'  dead,  yet  speaketh 
now  once  for  all,  |  My  Belov'd  Parishioners !  |  Since  any  of  you 
may  be  ye  next  |  Let  every  one  of  you  prepare  to  be  so.  |  To  pre- 
pare for  Death  devoutly  receive  ye  Sacramk,  |  To  prepare  ag*  sudden 
Death  receive  it  often.  |  Make  your  Wills  whilst  you  are  well  &  in  good 
Health,  |  That  you  may  have  leisure  to  dy  wisely.  |  If  you  hope  to  dy 
comfortably,  |  You  must  resolve  to  live  righteously.  |  God  send  us  all  an 
happy  meeting. — Born  at  Winchester,  Fellow  of  New-College,  Rector  of 
Tingewick  Com.  Bucks,  &  of  Glympton  Com.  Oxon.  Principal  of  30 
Edmund-Hall:  Rector  of  Wath,  Prebendary  of  Ripon  Com.  Ebor. 
Aged  1 67.  obijt  17°.  Octobris  An0.  X*'.  1706. 

Oct.  17  (Fri.).  Demetriua  Nicator  is  always  to  be  read,  not  Deme- 
trius Nicanor.  See  Faber's  Comm.  upon  Ursin's  Imag.  111.  n.  53.  ... 

Oct.  18  (Sat.).  Mr.  Hinton  Chaplain  of  Corpus  X*«  has  a  Copy  of 
Godwin's  Hist,  of  ye  Bp8  with  divers  MS*.  Additions,  wctl  will  be  of 
use  to  him  that  shall  put  out  a  new  Edition.  —  Franc.  Nicholson  of 


Oct.  11.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  Agrees  tkat  Bagford  wants  judgment  as  well 
as  learning ;  he  will  re-write  the  Life  of  Caxton.  Dr.  Lancaster  in  his  speech 
as  V  .C.  for  another  year  gave  an  account  of  Theatre  books,  inc.  Dr.  Mill's  40 
Test,  which  he  said  was  to  be  applauded  by  all,  '  nisi  in  ipso  praelimine  contra 
mores  Evangelicot  pcccasitt!  Has  seen  Victorius'  ed.  of  Tully,  Venetian  impres- 
sion ;  is  told,  in  opposition  to  Fabricius,  that  the  Florentine  excels  it.  Mr. 
Thwaites  has  shown  him  two  coins,  of  Seleucus  Nicator  and  Demetrius  II. 
Petrus  Erycus  Recenius  wrote  Principium  Pbilologicum  e  mysterio  renatum, 
containing,  H.  is  told,  many  things  from  Dee's  Monas  Hieroglyph. 

1  It  shld  be,  69. 


62  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

Univers.  Coll.  A.M.  preach'd  a  Sermon  at  Sfc.  Marye's,  somew*  favouring 
Popery,  wcl1  he  was  forc'd  to  retract.  In  King  James's  time  he  declar'd 
himself  a  Roman  Catholick,  and,  as  'tis  said,  has  writ  several  things  in 
Defence  of  y*  Religion  of  which  Inquiry  must  be  made.  —  Will.  Nichol- 
son of  Queen's  Coll.  of  which  he  was  Fellow  and  afterwards  Chaplain  to 
Dr.  Rainbow  BP.  of  Carlisle,  by  whom  he  was  preferr'd  to  ye  Archdeaconry 
of  Carlisle.  When  he  was  Undergraduate  'twas  observ'd  that  he  had 
good  strong  Parts,  but  was  a  very  drunken,  idle  Fellow.  When  Bach, 
of  Arts  he  grew  a  little  better  and  apply' d  himself  to  ye  Study  of  y? 

10  Saxon  Language,  which  made  him  known  to  BP.  Fell  and  Dr.  Marshall. 
The  first  of  them  I  suppose  perswaded  Sr.  Joseph  Williamson  to  send 
him  a  travelling  into  High-Germany,  purposely  to  perfect  himself  in  ye 
Saxon  Tongue.  When  Master  of  Arts  he  was  pitch'd  upon  by  Moses 
Pitt  to  do  something  in  the  English  Atlass,  &  he  did  one  volume  of  it. 
'Tis  carelessly  done,  being  nothing  more  than  a  hasty  transcript  out  of 
other  Authors,  whom  he  never  mentions.  When  Archdeacon  of  Carlisle 
he  espous'd  y6  Interest  of  Sr.  Xtopher  Musgrave,  who  had  a  great  hand 
in  preferring  him  to  ye  BPprick  of  Carlisle.  Before  yfc  time  he  was  look'd 
upon  as  firm  and  stanch  to  good  honest  Principles,  which  he  has  since 

20  most  shamefully  renounc'd,  courting  y6  favour  of  ye  Logger-head  at 
Lambeth.  He  has  printed  some  Sermons,  but  very  mean  and  hardly 
remarkable  for  any  thing  but  his  asserting  ye  Jus  Divinum  of  Monarchy 
&  Defending  Passive  Obedience.  This  Sermon  I  think,  was  dedicated 
to  Mr.  *  *  Musgrave  eldest  son  to  Sr.  Christopher  Musgrave  &  at  y* 
time  one  of  ye  Clerks  of  ye  Privy-Council.  He  has  writ  several  other 
things  amongst  which  is  his  English  &  Scotch  Historical  Librarie  in 
3  vols  8V0.  He  was  always  a  Persecutor  of  Dr.  Hugh  Todd,  &,  it  may 
be,  has  hinder'd  him  from  doing  that  service  to  ye  Publick  wch  he  was 
inclin'd  to,  &  was  expected  from  him.  Something  of  his  Character  may 

30  be  known  from  a  Pamphlett  writ  by  y6  said  Doctor  in  Defence  of  the 
Curate  of  Penrith  in  answer  to  another  Pamphlett  writ  by  Mr.  Wm. 
Pearson  archdeacon  of  Nottingham.  —  John  Norris  first  of  Exon.  Coll. 
afterwds  Fellow  of  All  Souls,  had  always  the  Character  of  an  ingenious, 
sober  and  industrious  Man.  Having  an  inclination  to  a  married  life  in 
a  little  time  he  quitted  his  Fellowship  for  a  very  small  Living  in  y6 
Diocess  of  Sarum.  He  has  writ  a  great  Number  of  Books,  the  first 
of  them  I  think  were  a  Translation  of  (Warren's)  Amoris  Effigies, 
Hierocles's  Comm.  upon  Pythagoras's  Golden  Verses,  a  Piece  in  Latin 
against  Reprobation  &  Predestination,  Miscellanies  pr.  at  ye  Theatre,  a 

40  Sermon  preach'd  at  Sfc.  Peter's  in  Lent.  One  Piece  was  about  Penal 
Laws  obliging,  notwithstanding  ye  Act  of  Toleration.  (Ask  Dr.  Charlett.) 
Most  of  his  other  things,  I  think,  have  his  Name,  &  are  printed  for  a 


Oct  18.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  The  V.  C.'s  censure  on  Mill's  Epistle  too 
mild  ;  it  ought  to  be  censured  by  the  University  in  Convocation.  Will  enquire 
after  Recenius.  Remarks  on  Dr.  Mackenzie's  Proposals  for  printing  the  Lives 
and  Characttrs  of  the  eminent  Scotch  Writers  :  he  should  contract  his  two  large 
folio  vols.  into  a  narrower  compass,  and  write  in  Latin.  Sorry  that  he  has 
given  Dr.  Hudson  so  much  trouble  about  Dr.  Charleton's  executrix.  Will 
take  no  further  steps  in  the  matter,  but  cannot  help  upbraiding  the  Curators 
for  their  disingenuity  and  ingratitude. 


Oct.  18.]  VOLUME  XV,  PAGES  230-239.  63 

Bookseller  in  Cornhill  near  ye  Royal  Exchange.  —  John  Northleigh 
Bach.  Civ.  Law  of  Exon.  Coll.  has  writt  several  things.  Quaere  of 
Mr.  Vermin  of  Exon  Coll.  &  ye  rest  of  y*  Society.  —  Tim.  Nourse  A.M. 
and  Fellow  of  University  Coll.  a  man  of  Excellfc  Parts  &  good  Learning. 
—  Will.  Oldyss  Fellow  of  New-Coil.  &  Dr.  of  Civil  Law,  afterwards  an 
Eminent  Practitioner  in  Dr'8.  Commons.  He  translated  as  I  think  one 
of  ye  Lives  of  Plutarch.  —  Charles  Palmer  A.M.  of  Line.  Coll.  now 
Minister  of  Toucester,  has  written  several  things.  —  James  Parkinson 
A.M.  &  Fellow  of  Line.  Coll.  a  rank  stinking  Whigg,  who  us'd  to  defend 
ye  Murther  of  King  Charles  1st.  &  recommend  Milton  &  such  other  10 
Republican  Rascalls  to  his  Pupills;  for  which  &  his  Maintaining  Anti- 
Monarchical  Doctrines  he  was  complained  of  to  Dr.  Tim.  Halton  then 
Vice-Chanc.  who  upon  a  full  hearing  &  proof  of  what  was  alledg'd 
against  him  ventur'd  to  expell  him.  This  Parkinson  when  y6  Factious 
Townsmen  of  Birmingham  had  got  their  honest  School-master  Mr. 
Hickes  (then  Fellow  of  Magd.  Coll.  &  afterwds  Dr.  of  Div.  &  preferr'd  to 
a  good  Living  by  ye  Duke  of  Bedford  whom  he  was  Tutor  to  in  Magd. 
Coll.)  unjustly  turn'd  out,  &  then  petition'd  Tillotson  archbP.  of  Cant,  to 
recommend  another  to  them,  was  ye  Man  that  ye  said  Tillotson,  who  had 
all  ye  World  to  choose  out  of,  treacherously  impos'd  upon  them.  In  20 
King  Wm'8  Reign  (when  ye  sneaking  Villains,  like  Worms  upon  a  Rain, 
crawl'd  out  of  yeir  lurking  holes,)  he  appear'd  in  Print  in  a  small 
Pamphlett  against  Dr.  Halton.  —  Rich.  Parr,  Dr.  of  Div.  of  Exon.  Coll. 
Quaere  whether  'twas  not  he  y*  was  Author  of  ArchbP.  Usher's  Life  ?  — • 
Rob.  Parsons  A.M.  of  Univers.  Coll.  now  Archd.  of  Glouc.  printed  a 
sermon  preach'd  at  ye  Funeral  of  Mad  Earl  of  Rochester.  —  Rich.  Peers 
A.M.  &  Stud*,  of  Christ  Ch.  afterwards  supr  Beadle  of  Arts  &  licenc'd 
to  Practise  Physick,  was  a  Man  of  GREAT  &  good  Parts.  He  was  one 
of  those  who  translated  Wood's  Antiq8.  of  Oxon.  into  Latin.  He  also 
writ  a  Vol.  of  ye  English  Atlass  &  translated  a  Life  in  Cornelius  Nepos.  30 
Quaere  whether  he  did  not  do  one  in  Plutarch.  He  publish'd  y« 
Catalogue  of  Oxon.  Graduates  8V°.  —  Rob.  Pitt,  Dr.  of  Phys.  &  Fellow 
of  Wadham  Coll.  afterwards  remov'd  to  London  where  he  practis'd 
Physick  &  has  writ  some  Books,  particularly  one  against  ye  Apothe- 
caries. —  Several  of  ye  Pittis's  have  been  Authors,  among  w°k  I  think 
was  Dr.  Pittis  of  Lincoln.  There  was  a  Pittis  who  writ  ye  Visions  of 
Purgatory  (quaere  who).  There  was  a  Pittis  of  New  Coll.  who  writ 
some  things.  He  is  mention'd  I  believe  before.  —  Dr.  Plott's  Life  is 
writ  by  Mr.  Llhuyd  &  publish'd  in  ye  IIId  vol.  of  Collier's  Dictionary.  — 
Edw.  Pocock  A.M.  Stud*  of  X*  Ch.  &  Son  to  ye  famous  Dr.  Pocock,  4o 
translated  into  Latin  out  of  Arabick  Philosophus  avro8i8aKTos.  'Tis  said 
he  understands  Arabick  &  other  oriental  Tongues  very  well,  but  wanted 
Friends  to  get  hirn  into  ye  Professorships  of  Hebrew  &  Arabick  at 
Oxon,  which  latter  was  obtain'd  by  Mr.  Wallis  who  if  ever  he  understood 
ye  Language  may  be  suppos'd  now  to  have  forgott  it,  he  having  ye 
Character  of  one  y*  keeps  much  Company  and  few  Books,  intirely 
neglecting  his  Studies. 


64  NEARNESS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 


VOL.  XVI. 

Oct.  19  (Sun.).  Mr.  Hinton  Chaplain  of  Corpus  yesterday  show'd  me 
all  ye  Coyns  y*  Dr.  Sykes  left  behind  him  to  be  sold  to  any  one  yfc  shall 
think  fit  to  purchase  them.  There  are  between  two  and  three  hundred, 
but  most  of  them  common.  There  are  some  Greek  ones,  as  one  of 
Athens,  two  of  Hieros,  one  of  w°h  Gold,  one  of  Antiochus  Philopater. 
Three  or  four  of  ye  Consular,  among  which  two  of  Scipio  Africanus. 
The  Imperial  ones  are  Augustus,  Claudius,  Otho,  Vespasian,  Antoninus, 
Commodus,  Constantine  ye  Great,  Constantinus,  Julian  the  Apostate, 
Claudius  Gothicus,  and  some  of  the  other  Emperours. 
10  [Notes  from  Ursinus'  Illustrium  imagines  and  Familiae  Romanae,] 

Mr.  Thwaites  has  in  his  study  a  Copy  of  Godwin  de  Prses.  with  MS*. 
Notes  throughout  by  Bryan  Twyne's  own  Hand.  It  belong'd  to  ye 
Schoole-Tower,  'tis  likely,  where  many  of  Twine's  Papers  are.  At  least 
it  belong'd  to  Corpus,  the  Society  of  wcl1  place  say  they  want  some  of 
Twine's  Papers.  This  w*1*  y*  wth  MS*.  Notes  in  ye  Possession  of 
Mr.  Hinton  of  Corpus  will  be  of  great  use  in  a  new  Edition. 

Oct.  20  (Mon.).  Cicero  and  Suetonius  amended  in  Ursin's  Fam. 
Rom.  p.  273. 

Oct.  21  (Tu.).     Out  of  a  Letter  from   Dr.  Hickes  to   Dr.  Charlett, 
20  dated  Oct.  u.  1707. 

Since  my  return  I  have  read  over  the  Excellent  little  Book  of  worship- 
ing towards  ye  Altar,  and  find,  that  it  was  written  before  ye  Great  Rebel- 
lion, as  is  very  probable,  when  that  controversy,  and  others  about  ye 
Christian  Altar  were  on  foot,  about  1637.  I  have  not  ye  book  by  me,  and 
so  cannot  refer  to  ye  Pages,  where  ye  Notes  of  ye  time  are  when  it  was 
written.  I  am  resolved  to  print  it  with  a  Preface,  and  I  think  another 
Edition  of  it  will  be  seasonable  at  a  time,  when  so  many  of  the  Clergy  forget 
ye  antient  notion  of  Priest,  Sacrifice,  and  Altar,  which  are  all  there  treated 
of  with  much  perspicuity,  and  strength  of  Reasoning,  and  when  the  antient 

30  devout  Custom  of  worshiping  towards  ye  H.  Altar  is  quite  laid  aside  in  some 
Cathedrals,  and  Colleges,  and  begins  to  be  disused  in  others,  and  as  I  hear,  in 
another  place,  wcl1  I  shall  not  name.  I  formerly  read  above  30  years  ago  a 
little  tract  in  Latin  de  Adoratione  versus  Altare,  by  Dr.  Duncon,  one  y* 
followed  K.  Ch.  II.  in  his  Exile,  and  could  I  get  it,  I  would  print  it  with  ye 
other.  Wherefore  I  pray  you  to  inquire  after  it  in  Oxon,  and  if  you  meet 
with  it  procure  it  for  me.  Dr.  Brevint's  Christian  Sacrament  and  Sacrifice 
in  1 6°.  was  printed  at  ye  Theatre  in  1673.  The  fairness  of  ye  Letter  makes 
me  think  it  was  printed  by  the  University,  or  it  may  be  only  by  Dr.  Fell : 
if  by  the  University,  I  desire  to  know  whether  they  will  give  leave  it  may  be 

40  re-printed  here  ;  for  in  my  answer  to  ye  Rig&ts  1  wished  it  might  be  printed 
again,  if  not  I  wish  they  would  give  it  another  Edition  themselves.  Since  I 
returned  home  I  met  with  another  Excellent  little  Book  in  12°  entitled  A 
Modest  flea  for  the  Clergy,  London  1677.  I  never  saw  it,  nor  heard  of  it 
before  ;  if  you  can  learn,  who  was  the  author 1  I  should  be  glad  to  know  his 
Name.  A  second  Edition  of  it  with  a  Preface  suitable  to  these  times, 
wherein  ye  Clergy  and  Priesthood  have  so  many,  as  it's  sworn  Enemies, 
would  be  very  seasonable. 


1  Dr.  Tomkins  was  Author  I  am  told. 


Oct.  19-25.]  VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES   1-12.  65 

This  day  in  a  Convocation  between  9  and  ten  of  ye  Clock  my  IA 
Charles  Sommerset,  Brother  to  ye  Duke  of  Beaufort,  was  created  A.M. 
and  presented  by  ye  Orator,  who  spoke  something  in  his  Praise,  as  he 
deserves,  being  a  modest,  ingenious  Gentleman,  and,  as  ye  Vice-Chanc. 
sd  when  he  propos'd  it,  magnce  spet.  .  .  . 

Oct.  22  (Wed.).  Part  of  Pliny's  Epist.  to  Trajan  ab*  ye  Xtians  is  in 
Niceph.  Callistus  p.  245.  Ed.  Paris  .  .  —  Pet.  Ciacconius  writ  Notes  and 
made  Emendations  from  MSS.  &c.  upon  Pliny's  Natural  History.  See 
in  his  Life  published  with  Caesar's  Comm. 

Oct.  23  (Th.V  .  .  .  Lewis  Du  Moulin  translated  into  French  Milton's  10 
Apologia  pro  Populo  Anglicano.  See  the  Reply  to  y6  Reflector  on  ye 
Glouc.shire  Petition  in  behalf  of  ye  suspended  BPS.  &c.  Lond.  1693  4°. 
p.  59.  —  Mr.  Professor  Halley  has  settled  y*  part  of  Antoninus's 
Itinerary  w°h  relates  to  Britain,  and  he  wishes  y*  the  Peutingerian  Tables 
were  adjusted  according  to  the  Itinerary  of  Antoninus  and  ye  Rodes  put 
into  their  true  Scituation.  —  Mr.  Thorneton,  Principal  of  Hart  Hall,  'tis 
said,  was  Author  of,  A  Vindication  of  the  twenty  third  Article  of  the 
Church  of  England,  from  a  late  Exposition  ascribed  to  my  Lord  BP.  of 
Sarum.  Lond.  1702.  4°.  three  sheets.  —  Mr.  Leveling,  Parson  of 
Banbury,  has  printed  a  Sermon  and  several  other  things.  He  was  A.M.  20 
of  Trinity-Coll.  Oxon.  and  has  married  a  Widow  of  good  Fortune.  Ask 
Dr.  Charlett,  who  knows  him.  —  Mr.  Bolton  an  undergraduate  of 
Braz.nose,  now  a  quack-Physitian  in  London,  Epitomiz'd  all  Mr.  Boyle's 
Phil.  Works,  and  has  writ  two  or  three  things,  as  a  Discourse  ag*.  Dr.1 
Colbach,  upon  the  Circulation  of  ye  Bloud.  Ask  more  of  Mr.  Lindsey 
of  Univers.  Coll. 

Oct.  25  (Sat.).  Mr.  Penton,  Nephew  to  Mr.  Stephen  Penton,  Fellow 
of  New.  Coll.,  has  bought  Dr.  Mill's  Study  of  Books  for  about  two 
hundred  libs.  The  Matter  was  in  some  measure  manag'd  by  Mr. 
Thwaites,  who  has  been  in  this  case  so  unjust  to  ye  Hall  as  to  encourage  30 
Langhorne,  the  Person  commission'd  by  Dr.  Mill's  Father  as  Adminis- 
trator, to  cheat  ye  Hall,  and  to  carry  off  those  very  Books  which  Dr.  Mill 
had  bought  w*^  Benefactors'  Money  &  put  into  his  own  Study.  As  un- 
just they  have  also  been  in  other  Respects  to  ye  Hall,  tho'  ye  Writer  of 


Oct.  23.  Kent  to  H.  Repents  leaving  Hertfordshire.  Wishes  to  see  H. 
but  not  in  Oxford ;  would  gladly  meet  him  at  Woodstock. 

Oct.  25-  Barnes  to  Hudson.  Reports  progress  with  Homer.  Speaks  of 
Hearne  as  '  your  industrious  Livian  Hero.'  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  Thinks  Dr. 
Grabe  has  presented  his  Octateuch  to  the  Q^ere  this.  Knows  only  Geo. 
Mackenzy  (adm.  to  the  Library  1702).  Sends  copy  of  Epitaph  on  Mr. 
Stephen  Penton.  Helps  for  a  new  ed.  of  Godwin's  History  of  the  Bishops 
will  be  :  (i)  a  copy  annotated  by  B.Twyne  in  Mr.  Thwaites'  study;  (2)  one  in 
the  hands  of  Mr.Hinton  of  C.C.C.;  (3)the  observations  of  Dr.Hutton  of  Aynhoe. 
Mr.  Penton  of  New  Coll.  has  bought  Dr.  Mill's  books  for  about  200!.  Mr. 
Worth  carried  off  a  whole  trunkful  of  papers,  and  Queen's  has  got  divers. 
Bodley  has  got  nothing  ;  Mr.  Langhorne,  who  managed  things  for  Dr.  Mill's 
father,  being  more  for  self,  than  public  interest. 


1  N.B.  This  Colb.  was  an  Apothecary  at  Worcester,  and  has  writ  a  Treatise  ab* 
Acids  and  Alcali. 


VOL.  U. 


65  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1707  : 

these  Matters  freely  told  them  what  he  knew  was  due  to  ye  Hall,  and 
gave  in  a  note  to  ye  Principal  Mr.  Pearson  y*  he  might  secure  ye  Books 
'till  the  Hall  was  satisfy' d.  But  this  is  little  minded  ;  which  indeed  ought 
not  to  be  wonder'd  at,  when  they  play  such  tricks  in  other  cases,  and 
particularly  with  respect  to  a  debt  they  pretend  Dr.  Mill  ow'd  the  Coll. 
ever  since  he  was  Bursar,  of  between  twenty  and  thirty  libs,  for  which 
they  stopt  24  of  his  Testaments  which  were  distributed  amongst  ye 
Fellows:  which  is  a  most  shamefull,  scandalous  Act,  Dr.  Mill  haveing 
some  time  since  given  ye  Coll.  fifty  libs,  which  if  he  ow'd  them  anything 

10  (as  I  have  been  told  he  did  not)  was  without  doubt  design'd  as  a  Paym*, 
with  an  Addition  for  their  staying  so  long.  Dr.  Mill  us'd  allways  to  say 
y*  he  design'd  y*  ye  Publick  Library  should  have  all  ye  Books,  whether 
MS*  or  printed,  y*  were  wanting  out  of  his  Study ;  but  Langhorne  has 
had  no  regard  to  this,  which  was  certainly  his  Will,  but  let  ye  MS*  Papers 
be  taken  off  by  People  who  care  nothing  for  Dr.  Mill's  credit,  but  their 
own  Interest.  Mr.  Worth  carried  off  a  whole  trunk  full  of  Papers,  and 
Queen's  Coll.  got  w*  they  pleas'd  before  Mr.  Penton  bargain'd  or  saw 
the  Catalogue ;  nay  the  Managers  were  so  poor  spirited  y*  they  would 
not  let  any  see  ye  Catalogue  who  they  thought  knew  Dr.  Mill's  Mind, 

20  and  were  willing  to  have  it  fullfill'd.  Amongst  other  Books  in  his  Study 
was  St.  Cyprian's  Works  of  Bp.  Fell's  Edit,  which  I  collated  throughout 
with  ye  MS*,  sometime  since  in  Line.  Coll.  Library,  and  put  ye  Varia- 
tions in  ye  Margin,  and  y6  Life  of  St.  Cyprian  I  collated  wth  a  MS*  in  St. 
John's  Library.  A  Copy  of  his  New  test,  was  there  also  wcl1  I  collated 
wth  a  MS*  in  ye  Hands  of  Dr.  Haley.  He  had  also  Beza's  Copy  of  ye 
Gospels  and  Acts  accurately  writ  out,  and  divers  things  of  that  Nature  fit 
to  be  preserv'd  in  Bodley.  —  Mr.  Thwaites,  if  Mr.  Hill  pleases,  has  ye 
first  impression  of  Hervagius's  Edition  of  Livy,  in  1543.  —  I  have  been 
told  that  Sr.  Wm.  Dugdale's  Short  History  of  the  Troubles  was  seen  by 

3°  Dr.  Crosthwait  and  (as  I  think)  by  Dr.  Lamplugh  Archb?  of  York  in 
Dr.  Langbain's  study,  written  with  Dr.  Langbain's  own  hand,  whence  my 
Friend  conjectures,  y*  Dr.  Langbaine  was  ye  Author,  it  seeming  unlikely 
that  he  (who  was  so  great  a  scholar)  should  be  at  ye  Drudgery  of  trans- 
cribing a  book,  which  he  himself  must  know  was  design'd  to  be  put  in  ye 
Press  in  some  time,  or  at  least  would  move  it  should  be.  (N.B.  Dr. 
Hudson  has  since  told  me  y*  only  the  Parallell  at  ye  End  was  seen  written 
in  Dr.  Langbain's  Hand.)  —  Mr.  Hill  has  Erasmus's  Edition  of  ye 
Historiae  Augustae  scriptores,  Frob.  1517.  Amongst  ym  Eutropius.  — 
Mr.  Thwaites  had  his  Godwin's  BPS  from  Mr.  Brome,  who  had  it  from 

40  Dr.  Barlow's  study,  with  a  great  Number  of  other  Books  &  Papers, 
several  of  which  he  (unfortunately)  burnt.  —  Mr  Hill  has  Schonhovius's 
Edit,  of  Eutropius  and  the  Imperij  Dignitates  printed  1559.  8V0.  'Tis 
collated  in  the  Oxon.  Edition.  But  quaere  whether  this  be  not  of  another 
Impression.  He  has  Dionysius  of  Halicarnass.  Mr  Hill  the  Publisher 
of  ye  Periegesis  was  once  Possessor,  and  in  it  appears  his  Hand-writing, 
&  there  were  once  in  it  several  of  his  Notes,  but  ye  negligent,  ignorant 
Bookseller  partly  cut  ym  out,  and  ye  rest  he  got  out  with  aqua 
fortis 

Oct.  27  (Mon.).     [Notes  from   Franc.  Fabritius,   Perron's  Antiq.  Celt., 
50  Ursin's  Virgil,  scriptorum  graecorum  collatione  illustrat.  &c.]  . .  . 


Oct.  25-Nov.  1.]         VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  12-25.  67 

Oct.  30  (Th.).     A  Discourse  about  y6  ancient  way  of  binding  Books 
in  Vossius  upon  Catullus,  p.  51. 

Oct.  31  (Fri.).  Remember  in  a  new  Edition  of  Pliny's  Epistles  to 
take  in  Vossius's  Emendations  of  him  in  his  Notes  upon  Catullus.  In 
pag.  144  there  he  quotes  Vulcatius  Gallicanus's  Expositions  upon  Cicero's 
Verrinae,as  unpublish'd  but  altogether  worthy  of  seeing  light.  —  I  have  been 
told  y*  a  certain  Danish  Gentleman  looking  over  the  Bp.  of  Man's  Book 
publish'd  in  ye  Manks  language,  said  y*  he  had  never  read  any  of  ye 
words  in  any  other  language,  but  y°  Tartarian,  which  have  several  not 
only  like,  but  exactly  ye  same  with  this.  —  Quaere  who  was  Author  of  10 
Defence  de  la  Religion  Reformee,  &  de  la  Monarchic  et  Eglise 
Anglicane,  printed  in  1650.  8V°.  'Tis  conjectur'd  y*  'twas  done  by 
Durell,  tho'  others  think  'twas  rather  done  by  Peter  du  Moulin  the  son. 
'Twas  translated  into  English  and  printed  at  London  in  1660,  8VO  under 
this  Title,  viz.  The  History  of  y  English  and  Scotch  Presbytery,  &c.  — 
It  is  said  that  Petavius  borrow'd  a  MS*,  of  one  of  the  Fathers  of  a 
certain  French  Gentleman,  in  wch  there  were  some  things  directly 
contrary  to  ye  Popish  Doctrines,  and  y*  when  'twas,-return'd  him  upon 
looking  it  over  he  found  the  Leaves,  in  wch  ye  sd  Passages  were,  cut  out. 
This  was  told  by  Dr  Justell  to  Dr.  Allix  and  Mr.  James  Tyrrell.  ao 

Nov.  1  (Sat.).  Augustinus  de  nom.  p.  4,  quotes  an  Elegant  Epistle 
of  Cardinal  Bembus  in  wch  a  Passage  of  Tully  is  accurately  explain'd.  — 
In  Lilly's  Almanack  for  y6  year  165  .  .  is  the  Hieroglyphick  of  a  Creature 
resembling  a  Lyoness,  pawing  upon  ye  arms  of  France  and  ye  Half- 
Moon1,  having  the  Letters  A  R  upon  its  side ;  which  Lilly  declares  would 
not  be  understood  'till  y6  year  1 702 2.  —  Dr.  Richardson,  Master  of 
Peter  House  in  Camb.  and  Fellow  of  Eton-Coll,  and  formerly  Preacher 
to  ye  Society  of  Grey's-Inn  Lond.  died  lately.  He  recover'd  30  libs  per 
an.  for  maintenance  of  poor  sick  Scholars,  and  perform'd  several  Acts  of 
Charity.  He  was  wthall  an  eminent  practical  Preacher,  and  voted  against  30 
Annesley  and  Windsor,  two  honest  Church  of  Engl.  Gent.,  as  y6  rest  of 
ye  Heads  of  Houses  in  y*  Univy  did.  —  Mr.  Tho.  Johnson  has  now  in 
ye  Theatre  Press  a  second  Vol.  of  Sophocles.  This  Mr.  Johnson  has 
publish'd  several  schoole  Books,  but  is  of  Whiggish  Principles  and  was 
formerly  Fellow  of  King's  Coll.  in  Cambr.  and  afterwards  one  of  the 
Assistants  in  Eton  Schole.  He  is  married  to  a  Woman  of  a  very 
indifferent  Character,  whom  he  has  lately  divorc'd,  and  has  had  ye 
misfortune  to  have  his  Goods  seiz'd.  He  was  put  in  Goaf,  but  is  at  last 


Nov.  1.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  Criticises  Mr.  Penton's  epitaph.  Suggests 
the  publication  of  St.  Cyprian's  Life  by  Pontius ;  St.  Augustin's  by  Possidius, 
some  genuine  Acts  of  the  sufferings  of  primitive  Saints  and  Martyrs,  all  the 
several  pieces  of  St.  Hippolytus  Portueusis,  &c.  Mr.  Wharton's  censure  of 
Godwin  de  Praeiulibus  Angliae  in  the  Preface  to  his-Anglia  Sacra  very  rash  and 
unjust,  with  something  of  the  juvenile  fervor  in  it.  Formed  no  great  good 
opinion  of  Bryan  Twyne's  Additions  and  Animadversions. 


1  Which  "are  y*  arms  of  Sr.  Cloudsly  Shovell.    Quaere  ? 

2  Mr.  George  Parker  reprinted  y*  prodigious  Figure  in  his  almanack  for  the  year 
17... 

F   2 


68  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

got  out,  and  now  absconds  in  Eton  Coll.  —  Mr.  Weston  second  Master 
of  Eton  Schoole  is  lately  made  Fellow  of  y*  Coll.  in  room  of  Mr.  Upman 
deceas'd.  He  is  a  right1  honest  Man,  and  of  substantial  Learning,  and  is 
succeeded  as  second  Master  by  (one)  Mr.  Carter.  He  has  put  out  short 
running  notes  upon  Ovid's  Epistles,  &c.  .  .  . 

Nov.  3  (Mon.).  On  Wednesday  last  was  sennight  at  8  Clock  in  ye 
Evening  our  Vice-admiral  Sr  Cloudesly  Shovell  returning  with  ye  Fleet 
from  ye  Streights  was  lost  with  all  the  rest  of  ye  Crew,  about  500  or  600 
Men,  the  Association  being  beat  to  pieces  on  the  Rocks  of  Scilly.  Two 

10  other  Men  of  war,  as  also  a  fire-ship  or  two  are  missing.  This  is  but  a 
dismal  Piece  of  News,  and  the  worse  by  reason  we  have  had  so  bad 
Fortune  all  this  last  summer  both  by  Sea  and  Land :  and  about  a  Week 
before  we  had  news  of  four  Men  of  War  taken  and  destroy'd  by  ye 
French.  So  y*  ye  Whiggs  will  find  it  a  difficult  task  to  silence  the  Mob 
and  keep  ye  Country  from  Grumbling  at  Taxes  and  other  new  Imposi- 
tions w°k  must  be  contriv'd  after  such  Frustration.  Sr.  John  Narborough, 
Son-in-Law  to  Sr.  Cloudesly,  was  in  y6  same  ship  w*k  Sr.  Cloudesly,  as 
also  his  Brother  Mr.  James  Narborough,  who  made  his  Will  before  he 
went  out  of  England,  and  by  it  left  at  least  500  libs,  towards  y6  Building 

ao  of  Peckwater  in  X*  Church.     Sr.  Cloudesly's  Body  has  been  taken  up. 

Nov.  5  (Wed.).  Nath.  Bisbie,  Dr.  of  Div.  and  Student  of  X*  Church. 
This  Loyal,  Religious  Divine  had  a  Parsonage  of  about  300  Ibs.  per  an. 
which  he  relinquished  after  ye  Revolution  in  the  time  of  King  William, 
commonly  call'd  old  Glorious,  and  could  never  be  brought  to  side  w*h 
ye  times  or  take  y6  oaths,  tho'  he  had  as  good  motive  to  it  as  any  man, 
having  a  large  family.  He  died  very  poor,  and  has  printed  a  Sermon  in 
4to  on  Phil  1.29  entit.  Prosecution  no  Persecution,  preached  at  Bury  St. 
Edmunds  in  Suffolk  22<1  March  1681.  being  ye  time  of  ye  General 
Assizes  there  held.  In  which  he  shews  himself  to  be  a  man  of  Integrity, 

30  Stedfastness,  and  true  Zeal.  —  Francis  Digby,  A.B.  of  Queen's  Coll. 
Oxon.  afterwards  an  assistant  to  one  of  y6  Masters  of  Westm.  Schoole 
translated 2  about  half  Quintius  Curtius  into  English,  y6  other  part  being 
translated  by  *  *  *  *.  He  was  reckon'd  an  Excell*.  Poet,  and  I  believe 
has  several  Copies  of  Verses  in  print,  but  one  I  am  sure  of  y*  was  spoken 
in  ye  Theatre  by  Mr.  Tracy  a  nobleman  of  Queen's  Coll,  entit.  (as  I 
think)  Regina  ad  Thermas  Bathonienses.  Of  ye  Tracys  there  were  3 
Brothers  Noblemen  of  Queen's  Coll.  under  y6  Tuition  of  one  Mr  E. 
Skelton,  senior  Fellow  of  Queen's  Coll.,  who  was  afterwards  Chaplain  to 
Bp.  Barlow,  and  was  preferr'd  by  him  to  ye  archdeaconry  of  North- 

40  ampton,  and  ye  Mastership  of  ye  Hospital  there,  and  a  good  fat  Living 
besides,  where  one  Sr.  Wm.  Langham  lives,  a  good  Grecian.  This 
Skelton,  as  'tis  said,  got  a  great  part  of  Tom  Heylin's3  Estate  by 
Gameing,  and  being  a  stout  Claretteer  kill'd  as  the  Report  goes  an 
Apothecary  at  Northampton  by  hard  drinking,  and  to  make  his  Widdow 
amends  for  this  like  an  old  Doating  Fool  married  her,  who  to  be  even  w*h 


1  But  he  is  now  turn'd  a  great  Whig.     (Dec.  18,  1711.) 

2  Quaere  whether  he  be   not  ye  same  Francis  Digby  y*  translated  into  English 
Xenophon's  Life  of  Cyrus,  8T0. 

3  This  Tom  Heylin  of  X*.  Church. 


Nov.  1-9.]  VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  25-37.  69 

him  for  ye  Death  of  her  former  Husband  made  an  End  of  him  in  a  short 
time.  He  died  suddenly  without  a  Will  and  so  baulk'd  y°  Men  of 
Queen's  Coll.  who  expected  all  that  he  had.  But  by  the  way  it  may  be 
observ'd  y*  'tis  not  likely  he  would  have  left  them  anything,  being  turn'd 
by  ye  Provostship  by  Tim.  Halton  and  his  drunken  Adherents  upon  BP. 
Barlow's  Advancement  to  ye  See  of  Lincoln.  —  Tho.  Coney  A.M.  of 
University  Coll.  and  afterwards  preferr'd  to  a  good  Living  near  Bridgwater 
in  Somersetshire  has  writ  and  publish'd  a  Poem  in  folio.  He  is  a  man  of 
a  fair  Character  in  y*  Country  and  of  good,  stanch  Principles,  which  he 
imbib'd  whilst  Pupil  to  Dr.  Hudson.  —  I0 

EPITAPH  UPON  MR.  JOHN  DRYDEN  : 

Here  lyes  John  Dryden,  who  had  Enemies  The  other  two  maintain'd  y"  Field  : 

three,  But  had  our  Poet's  Life  been  holier 

Old  Nick,  Sr. 1  Dick  and  Jeremy 2.  He  had  knick't  both  Devil  &  y* 
The  Fustian  Knight  was  forc'd  to  yield,  Collier. 

ON  MRS.  DAVIES,  Mother  in  Law  to  Will.  Sherwin  ye  Beadle  : 

,  Here  lyes  Mother  Davies,  who  in  her  grave  is, 

And  sold  Ale  and  Beer  and  Pipes  and  Pots, 
To  such  sots  as  3Cary  and  Troheer. 

Note  y*  ye  said  John  Troheer  when  Bach,  of  Arts  was  reckon'd  (as  also  ao 
was  Gary)  the  best  Disputant  in  Oxon.      But  Troheer  afterwards  was 
more  than  ever  remarkable  for  a  sot. 

Nov.  7  (Fri.).  Titus  Vespasian  a  very  Eloquent  and  learned  Prince. 
See  Pliny's  Nat.  Hist.  1.  i.  in  ye  Preface. 

Nov.  8  (Sat.).  This  day  was  ye  Visitation  of  ye  Publick  Library. 
Speaker  of  ye  Speech,  Mr.  Terry,  Student  of  X*  Church. 

Nov.  9  (Sun.).  About  3  years  since  the  Workmen  in  digging  the 
Gardens  that  formerly  belong'd  to  S*.  Frideswyde's  Oxon.  found  a 
Crucifix,  the  figure  in  Pontifical  Robes,  enamell'd  and  gilt,  with  Stones 


Nov.  8.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  '  I  am  very  sensible  that  BP.  Fell,  when  he 
was  about  his  noble  edition  of  S*.  Cyprian,  look'd  into  all  the  MSS.  in  this 
University  ;  but  being  ingag'd  in  Business  of  another  Nature  he  had  not  time 
to  collate  them  himself,  but  committed  that  care  to  other  People,  who,  if  I 
am  not  mistaken,  were  young,  and  not  us'd  to  this  sort  of  Learning :  whence 
it  happen'd  that  several  Lections  of  moment  were  omitted,  amongst  which 
must  be  reckon'd  divers  in  the  MS*  of  Lincoln  Coll.  which  I  collated  anew  for 
Dr.  Mill.  I  wish  the  Acts  of  S*.  Cyprian  were  printed  with  other  Acts  in  a 
distinct  vol.  in  the  method  you  propose,  in  order  to  which  should  be  carefully 
look'd  over  the  four  antient  MS*  Vols.  given  to  the  Public  Library  by  BP  Fell. 
And  'tis  not  unlikely  but  several  materials  might  be  found  in  some  other  MSS. 
of  this  Excellent  Prelate  that  came  into  the  Hands  of  Mr.  Jones  of  Sunning- 
well,  lately  deceas'd.'  Visitation  of  the  Public  Library ;  speech  by  Mr.  Terry, 
Ch.  Ch.  Was  Dr.  Tomkins  author  of  A  Modest  Plea  for  the  Clergy  (London, 
8°.,  1677)  ;  and  P.  du  Moulin  jun.  of  Defense  de  la  Religion  Reformee  (1650,  8°. 
trans.  1660)?  Halley  about  to  print  a  specimen  of  A pollonius  in  fol.  Grabe 
proposes  to  put  out  a  new  ed.  of  Mill,  and  so  defeat  the  designs  of  the 
Hollanders,  but  he  has  too  much  upon  the  anvil. 


Sr.  Rich.  Blackmore.  a  Mr.  Jeremy  Collier.  s  Both  of  Queen's. 


70  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

in  ye  Arms  and  Brest.  It  came  into  ye  Hands  of  Mr.  Edw.  Thwaites 
of  Queen's  Coll.  who  has  been  so  generous  as,  amongst  other  thinges,  to 
give  it  to  ye  Publick  Library,  and  'tis  reposited  in  the  Physical  Schoole 
belonging  to  y*  Place.—  .  .  .aesar.  Teste  Wormio  ad  §.  XXVIII. 
Epicedij  Regneri  Lodbrog  regis  Danorum  :  dese  sunt  quae  mortis 
rationes  gubernare  credebantur.  Huic  affine  tuo-a  falum.  Suetonius 
Aug.  XCVIL  Sub  idem  tempus,  ictu  fulminis  ex  inscriptione  Statuae 
ejus  (Aug.)  prima  nominis  littera  effluxit.  Responsum  est;  centum  solos  dies 
posthac  victurum,  quern  numerum  C  littera  notaret,  futurumque  ut  intra 
10  deos  referretur ;  quod  AESAR  ....  Etrusca  lingua  Deus  vocaretur.  — 

In  ye  walls  of  Bath  this  broken  Stone :  ITIVS.  SA  |  is  vx  sc  From  Mr. 
Thwaites. 

Near  ye  North  Gate  .  . . 

DEC  .  COLONAE 
GLEV  .  VIX  H^l 
AN  .  *  LXXXVIII 

[Query  on  the  Runic  Calendar.]  .  .  . 

In  another  stone  near  ye  North  Gate,  Hercules  cum  clava  in  dextra, 
laevam  elevans.     (Mr.  Thwaites  saw  it.)  — 

20      At  y6  West-Gate,  An  Inscription.     Two  Boys,  one  holding  Cornu- 
copie  (Quaere  ?)     From  Mr.  Thwaites. 

D  .  M  . 
SVCC  .  PETRONIAE  .  VIX  . 

ANN  .  Ill  .  M  .  IIII  .  D  .  IX  .  VRO 
MVLVS  .    3~   .  VICTSARINA 
FIL  .  KAR  .  FEC. 

In  ye  Burgh  Walls  a  Broken  Stone  wth  these  Letters  left  on  it : 

2VLIA  |   ILIA. 

At  ye  Entrance  of  y6  Abbey  Church  at  Bath,  St.  Paul's  Statue  in 
30  Stone,  under  wca  this  Inscription  (not  all  legible) 

furor  Sauli conversio  Pauli. 


Tooker's  Book  about  ye  King's  Evil  is  translated  into  English  by 
one  *  **  Ask  Mr.  Thwaites,  who  says  'tis  literally  translated  wtljout  acknow- 
ledgment. —  At  a  Mill  under  ye  Grove  at  Bath  is  to  be  seen  ye  Mark 
of  an  high  Water,  thus  JVLY  12.  1696.  high  Water -floud  (about  5  Yards 
above  common  Water.)  The  Mill  call'd  Monk's  Mill 

[Scandalous  anecdote  of  the  Lord  Grey.]  . .  . 

Mr.  David  Whitford  (Student  as  I  think  of  X*.  Ch.)  publish'd  in  4*0. 
Musasus  Gr.  and  Lat.  a  very  beautifull  Edition.  He  was  Brother  to  one 
40  Whitford  who  kill'd  Dorislaus 

Nov.  12  (Wed.).  . .  -.  The  first  Stone  of 'S*.  Paul's,  Lond.,  was  laid 
June  21,  1675.  —  Rochester  wth  37  churches,  burnt  1137.  — 

Nov.  12.  Woodward  to  H.  Has  been  robbed  by  a  confederacy  of  Irish 
villains  of  a  bank  bill  of  50/5  and  several  sums  of  guineas ;  '  &  they  have  used 

1  So  Mr.  Thwaites.     But  onely  LXXX  appears  on  the  stone  now. 

a  F.  legendum,  (ut  conjicit  Thwaitesius)/|  VLIA  |  FILIA.  \  H.S.E. 


Nov.  9-12.]  VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  37-47.  71 

Aug.  17,  1689.     Th.   Street  died,  aged  69,  buried  at  Westminster. 
Epitaph  : 

Here  lies  the  Earth  of  one  that  thought  Above  the  Stars  his  heighten'd  mind  did 

some  good,  fly, 

Altho'  too  few  him  rightly  understood  :  His  happier  sp'rit  into  Eternity. 

Mr.  Edlin  observ'd  from  (5  t  J?  $  in  £  1664  that  Great  fires  would 
happen  'ere  1666  were  over,  and  a  plague  in  — 65,  or  — 66.  —  Humphr. 
1  Prideaux,  D.D.  and  Stud*  of  X*.  Church,  a  great  Favourite  of  BP.  Fells. 
He  publish'd  the  Marmora  Oxoniensia,  a  piece  of  Maimonides,  the  Life 
of  Mahomet,  &c.  He  was  preferr'd  by  BP.  Fell  to  y6  Rectory  of  Bladon  10 
near  Oxon.  and  by  ye  Interest  of  IA  Nottingham  was  made  Prebendary 
of  Norwich  and  then  exchang'd  the  Living  of  Bladon  for  one  in  or  near 
Norwich.  (Quaere  ?)  Afterwards  he  was  made  Archdeacon  of  Norwich 
and  at  length  Dean  of  y*.  Church.  He  is  married.  —  Mr.  Prince  of 
Exeter  Coll.  writ  ye  Worthies  of  Devonshire,  and  has  publish'd  a  sermon 
or  two.  —  Jonas  Proast,  A.M.  of  Glouc.  Hall,  afterwards  made  Chaplain 
of  Queens,  and  then  Chaplain  of  All-Souls,  who  (when  there  happen'd 
a  Contest  between  Dr.  Finch,  Warden  of  y*  Coll.,  and  Mr.  Dodwell 
about  ye  History-Professorship)  was  turn'd  out  of  his  Chaplainship  by  ye 
sd.  Warden,  because  he  voted  for  Mr.  Dodwell.  Upon  which  he  appeal'd  20 
to  ye  Visitor,  ye  Archbp.  of  Cant,  and  after  a  great  deal  of  trouble  and  Pains 
at  last  was  restor'd,  and  ye  Warden  was  forc'd  to  make  him  satisfaction : 
a  little  after  wch.  Mr.  Proast  resign'd  ye  Chaplainship  and  retir'd  to  Edm. 
Hall,  and  was  made  official  of  Berks  by  his  Friend  Mr.  Richards,  and  upon 
Mr.  Richards's  resigning  ye  Archdeaconry  was  made  Archdeacon  of  y*. 
Place.  He  has  writ  three  Letters  cone.  Toleration  ag*.  Mr.  Lock.  — 
Rodderick  (Rich.)  Bach,  of  Div.  and  Student  of  X*.  Ch.  He  has  printed 
a  Sermon,  or  more.  He  was  Brother  (I  think)  to  Dr.  Rodderick,  School- 
master of  Eton.  —  Sandfoi  d  (Austin)  of  Magd.  Hall.  Quaere  whether  he 
has  not  publish'd  something  ?  —  Quaere  whether  one  Sclatter  of  Merton  30 
did  not  write  somewhat  ?  —  Tho.  Spark,  D.  of  Div.  and  Student  of  Xt. 
Ch.  When  Master  of  Arts  he  put  out  (upon  ye  Instigation  .of  BP.  Fell) 
Lactantius  wtn  notes,  wch  is  but  a  poor  Performance,  the  Text  being 
very  uncorrect  and  ye  Notes  from  MSS.  very  mean,  he  having  taken  no 
pains  to  collate  ym  accurately.  He  was  Chaplain  to  Ld.  Jefferies,  &c.  — 
Staynoe  (Tho.)  D.D.  of  Trinity  Coll.  has  publish'd  some  sermons  and 
a  Book,  the  title  I  don't  know.  (Quaere).  He  has  an  Archdeaconry 

such  cursed  Arts  to  stave  off  Prosecution,  that  I  never  heard  of  such  an  Exer- 
cise as  I  have  met  with.'  .  .  '  As  to  ye  Remark  you  make  of  ye  Horses  wanting 
Bridles  in  ye  Shield,  I  have  only  Leisure  to  rejoin  y*  twas  some  time  after  y« 
Deluge  before  Horses  were  commonly  taken  up  and  tamed  any  where  :  &  in 
some  Countryes  they  were  not  made  use  of  for  several  Ages.  And  when  they 
were  caught,  and  tamed,  twas  a  great  while  before  Bridles  were  used  :  &  the 
most  ancient  Statues  of  Horses  were  without  any  at  all.  The  Designer  of 
this  Shield  doubtless  had  those  Statues  in  View :  &  follow'd  them  in  his  Design. 
This,  in  my  judgment,  was  made  in  ye  first  times  of  ye  Empire ;  and  ye  Work- 
man aim'd  at  expressing  a  Manner  more  antique  than  that  of  his  own  Age ; 
without  considering,  or  perhaps  being  able  rightly  to  inform  himself,  whether 
Bridles  had  obtained  in  ye  time  of  Camillus  or  not.'  Looks  forward  to  Livy. 

1  He  publish'd  An  Account  of  all  the  BP»,  Deans,  &  Prebendaries  of  Norwich  from  ye 
times  of  Hen.  VIII.  to  1 706.  printed  on  one  side  of  a  Broad  sheet.   Printed  at  Norwich.    • 


73  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

and  a  Church  in  London.  (He  is  since  dead.)  —  Will.  Stevens  Bach, 
of  Div.,  of  Edm.  Hall.  He  has  publish'd  some  Sermons  and  a 
Pamphlett  in  w0*1  he  reflects  on  ye  Duke  of  Marlborough,  &c.  He 
is  a  Man  of  very  ill  Principles  and  of  a  loose  Life.  —  One  Mr.  Shipp- 
ling  (I  think  Chaplain  of  New  Coll.)  has  printed  a  sermon.  —  Rob. 
Stubbes  of  Wadham  Coll.,  A.M.  has  publish'd  several  Sermons.  —  Tho. 
Sykes,  Doct.  of  Div.  and  President  of  Trin.  Coll.  has  publish'd  a 
Sermon  preach'd  at  ye  Consecration  of  y6  New  Chapel!  of  y*  Coll. 
He  was  brought  in  Margaret  Professor  of  Div.  upon  ye  death  of  Dr. 

I0  Maurice.  Dr.  Bull  was  put  up  against  him,  but,  as  'tis  said,  had  but 
two  Votes,  viz.  Dr.  Bury  of  Exeter  and  Dr.  Mill  of  Edm.  Hall.  He 
died  very  rich,  but  left  very  little  to  publick  uses.  —  Will.  Talbot,  of 
Oriel-Coll,  was  preferr'd  by  y6  Interest  of  the  Duke  of  Shrewsbury  to 
ye  Deanry  of  Worcester  upon  ye  turning  out  of  Dr.  Hickes,  and  was 
afterwards  made  BP.  of  Oxon.  He  has  printed  several  Sermons,  has 
been  twice  married,  once  after  he  was  BP.  He  was  before  his  Prefer- 
ment look'd  upon  as  a  very  loose  Liver,  and  has  but  a  very  little  smatter- 
ing of  Learning.  —  Dr.  Taylor  of  Trinity  Coll.  Quaere  whether  he 
has  writ  anything?  —  Dr.  Taylour  of  St.  John's  Oxon.  has  writ  an 

30  History  of  y*  Coll.  'Tis  in  MS*,  amongst  Ant.  a  Wood's  MSS.  in 
Museo  Ashm.  —  Matthew  Tyndale,  of  All  Souls  Coll.  Doctor  of  Law 
and  Fellow  of  y*  Coll.  He  has  writ  several  things,  amongst  which 
he  is  reported  to  be  author  of  ye  Rts.  of  y«  Christian  Church,  a  most 
Virulent,  poysonous  Book,  and  levell'd  against  ye  Church  of  England. 
He  was  always  reckon'd  a  great  Libertine,  both  in  Practise  and  Belief. 
In  King  James's  time  he  turn'd  Papist,  and  upon  ye  Revolution  grew 
a  mighty  Williamite.  —  Tod  (Hugh)  of  University  Coll.  He  was 
first  of  Queen's  where  he  was  A.B.  and  thence  chosen  Fellow  of 
University.  From  thence  he  was  made  Prebendary  of  Carlisle  by  Dr. 

30  Smith,  BP.  of  y*  Place.  He  had  a  Living  from  y°  Ld.  Preston.  He 
has  written  ye  Antiquities  of  ye  Diocess  of  Carlisle  in  English,  which 
is  in  MS*,  and  sometime  since  he  publish'd  Proposals  for  translating 
it  into  and  printing  it  in  Latin  :  but  he  had  no  Encouragement.  He 
has  also  printed  a  Pamphlett  in  Vindication  of  y6  Vicar  of  Penrith  against 
another  Pamphlett  writ  by  Mr.  Wm.  Pearson,  Archdeacon  of  Notting- 
ham. He  was  in  ye  latter  end  of  ye  year  1707.  for  denying  the  BP. 
of  Carlisle's  Visitatorial  Power  of  ye  Cathedral  and  asserting  ye  Queen's 
Rt.  and  Prerogative  prosecuted  by  that  Northern  Bear  y°  BP.  in  ye 
Court  at  Carlisle,  and  after  several  Processes  Excommunicated.  Upon 

40  wcl1  he  appeal'd,  and  there  was  a  Tryal  in  Hilary  Term  i  fof-,  in  ye 
Court  of  Common  Pleas,  where  the  BP.  was  overthrown  to  ye  great 
joy  of  all  good  Men.  —  Joshua  Stopford,  B.D.  of  Bras.  Nose  Coll. 
Quaere  whether  he  be  not  Author  of  ye  Book  call'd  Rome  Pagan  and 
Rome  Xtian.  8vo.  —  One  Taylour  is  Author  of  The  two  Covenants  with 
God  and  Mankind.  Quaere  what  Taylour  ?  —  Welchman  writ  A  Practical 
Discourse  of  Dives  and  Lazarus.  Quaere  whether  not  ye  same  wth  him 
yt  was  of  Merton  Coll.  ?  —  Dr.  Davenant  of  Bal.  Col.  has  writ  several 
things,  as  an  Essay  upon  Ballance  of  Trade,  Essay  upon  Peace  and 
War,  Discourses  upon  y«  Publick  Revenue,  Tom  Double  in  two 

£0  parts,  &c.  —  Nic.  Brady  Student  of  X*.  Church  has  publish'd  several 


Nov.  12-18.]  VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  47-57.  73 

Sermons.  He  was,  or  should  have  been,  expell'd  X*.  Ch.  for  offering 
some  Affront  to  ye  old  Lady  Abingdon.  He  afterwards  went  into 
Ireland,  took  orders,  and  got  in  Dublin  to  be  Dr.  of  Div.  and  was  made 
Vicar  of  Richmond.  —  Dr.  Lucas  of  Jesus  Coll.  now  a  London  Divine. 
He  has  published  several  Practical  Discourses.  —  Sam.  Parker  Com- 
moner of  Trin.  Coll.  now  a  Non-juror  in  Oxon.  He  has  publish'd 
several  Things,  amongst  wch  an  Abridgment  of  Eusebius's  Ecclesi- 
astical History,  as  also  an  Abridgm*.  of  y6  other  Ecclesiastical  His- 
torians. —  Dr.  Xtopher  Potter  Provost  of  Queen's  preach'd  a  Sermon 
before  ye  Commissioners  at  ye  Treaty  at  Uxbridge,  which  was  never  10 
printed,  but  is  now  in  MS*,  in  ye  Hands  of  M™.  Lamplugh  in  West- 
minster. 

Nov.  14  (Fri.).  In  a  MS*,  comm.  upon  Juvenal,  writ  about  5  or 
600  years  since,  in  Bib.  Bodl.  .  .  'tis  said,  Hannibal fuit  rex  Affrorum, 
quern  Cipio  avus  Cornelia  interfecit.  But  the  Author  quotes  no 
Authority,  as  he  does  not  in  any  other  Parts,  unless  now  and  then. 
'Tis  generally  very  trivial,  and  full  of  monkish  Ignorance.  At  y® 
beginning  is  a  short  Account  of  Juvenal,  whom  he  unskillfully  makes  to 
be  catt'd  funius  because  borne  in  ye  Month  of  June. 

Nov.  15  (Sat.).     .  .  .  Sometime  since  Mr.  Dodwell  read  over  Pliny's  20 
Natural  Hist,  with  Mr.  Cherry  of,  Shottesbrooke,  and  extracted  all  ye 
Chronological  notes  out  of  it,  by  wch.  he  gathers  that  this  work  was 
compiled  in  ye  space  of  a  year. 

Nov.  17  (Mon.).  Lactantius  put  out  at  Cambridge  in  8VO  was  done  by 
Mr.  Shorting.  —  Mr.  Tim.  Nourse  writ  of  Natural  and  Reveal'd 
Religion.  Land.  1691.  8°.  and  of  the  Nature  and  Faculties  of  Man. 
Lond.  1697.  8°.  —  Mr.  Rogerson  writ  a  Letter  to  Mr.  Dodwell,  which 
Mr.  Dodwell  answer'd  in  a  Printed  Letter  which  he  intitles :  A  farther 
Prospect  ofy  Case  in  view,  8V0. 

Nov.  18  (Tu.).  Dav.  Lloyd,  who  writ  The  Memoirs  of  the  Sufferers  30 
in  King  Charles  \sfs  time,  was  author  also  of  Dying  and  Dead  Men's 
Living  words :  or,  Fair  Warnings  to  a  careless  World.  Lond.  1682.  12°. 
which  was  afterwards  improv'd  by  Dr.  Jos.  Woodward.  —  Peter  Du 
Moulin  ye  Son  was  Author  of  a  tract  call'd  y  Devil  of  Mascon,  as  'tis 
sd  in  the  Examination  of  Dr.  Scott 's  Cases  of  set  Forms  of  Prayer,  ye 
Author  whereof  Mr.  Collins  a  dissenting  Teacher.  4*°  1 700.  p.  1 9.  — 
Mr.  West  formerly  of  Magd.  Coll.  was  Author  (as  it  seems  from  ye 
Preface  to  Dr.  Atterbury's  Sermons  in  8V0.  1707)  of  ye  Letter  in  w^b  he 
reflects  upon  Dr.  Atterbury's  Sermon  at  Mr.  Bennett's  Funeral. 


Nov.  15 .  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  La  defense  de  la  Monarchic  etc.  deserves 
careful  attention.  Never  heard  that  Dr.  Tomkins  was  author  of  A  Modest 
Plea.  Mr.  Jones  designed  several  years  since  to  write  the  Life  of  his  uncle 
Bp.  Fell.  Will  endeavour  to  get  into  his  study  Gruter's  Inscriptions  (price  ^5). 
Hears  from  Dr.  Sloane  that  he  had  lent  to  Mr.  Tanner  two  MSS;  of  John 
Bale  de  Scriptoribus  Ordinis  Carmelitarum,  with  directions  to  present  them  to 
Bodley  when  he  had  used  them ;  recommends  H.  to  look  after  them  and  de- 
mand them.  Who  was  the  Fellow  of  Univ.  killed  23  or  24  years  since  by  the 
overturning  of  a  coach  between  Amiens  and  Brussels?  [Note  by  H.  Mr.  Legard. 
He  went  a  travelling  with  Sr  John  Bland.] 


74  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707  : 

Nov.  19  (Wed.).  Mr.  Ayres  of  St.  John's  show'd  me  to-day  a  Book  of 
Heraldry,  containing  the  Arms  (neatly  illuminated  and  accurately 
blazon'd  in  French,  with  some  Historical  Remarks  in  y*  Language,  in 
verse,)  of  all  ye  Nobles  present  with  King  Edw.  Ist  at  ye  taking  of 
Estreveling  in  Scotland,  about  ye  year  1300.  'Tis  a  Copy,  exactly 
transcrib'd  from  ye  original  (writ  presently  after  ye  taking  of  ye  Castle) 
&  did  once  belong  to  Mr.  Robert  Glover,  one  of  ye  Heralds,  who  attests 
at  ye  Beginning  y*  'tis  a  most  accurate,  exact  copy. 

Nov.  20  (Th.).  Charles  Palmer,  A.M.  of  Line.  Coll.  now  Vicar  of 
10  Towcester  in  Northamptonshire  has  written,  A  Perswasive  to  Parochial 
Communion  in  two  Parts.  Lond.  1706.  2d  Edition.  8V0.  —  That 
Piece  which  is  published  by  Dr.  Wallis  under  ye  Name  of  Porphyry  upon 
Ptolemy's  Harmonicks  was  done  by  Pappus  as  Holstenius  has  remark'd 
from  ye  Vatican  MS*. 

Nov.  21  (Pri.).  Mr.  Tho.  Bennett,  who  abridg'd  ye  London  Cases, 
has  just  publish'd  a  Book  in  8VO  about  Sett  Forms  of  Prayers,  in  wch  he 
has  an  Emendation  of  ye  Latin  Translation  of  Dionysius  Hal.  &  ye  Book 
seems  to  have  some  Learning  in  it,  but  I  believe  he  is  but  a  hasty 
Writer,  and  wants  Conveniency  of  Books.  —  There  was  lately  publish'd 
ao  a  penny  Pamphlett  giving  an  Account  of  the  Tryall  of  certain  Lewd, 
debauc[h]'d  Bestial  Fellows  for  Sodomy  in  London  :  which  Paper,  not 
fit  to  be  publish'd  or  to  appear  in  sober,  innocent  Conversation,  is 
distributed  in  and  about  Oxford  by  one  Robert  Wats,  a  Civilian  of  St. 
John's  Coll,  &  a  member  (as  I  am  told)  of  the  Religious  Societies,  & 
great  wth  Dr.  Kennett,  who  sent  him  a  Copy  of  his  new  Book  in  Praise 
of  y*  notorious  Debauchee  &  Rebell  ye  late  Duke  of  Devonshire ;  such  is 
ye  Spirit  of  these  Prickear'd,  starch,  sanctify'd  Fellows  y*  under  a  Pretence 
of  Reformation  they  will  cry  up  the  greatest  Villains  for  saints,  &  publish 


Nov.  19.  H.  to  F.  Cherry.  H.  is  anxious  to  have  his  transcript  of 
Leland's  Itinerary  returned  as  soon  as  possible.  Expects  Livy  to  be  finished 
a  little  after  Xmas,  Vol.  V  being  almost  printed  off.  Dr.  Hudson  is  collecting 
materials  for  an  ed.  of  Josephus.  Dr.  Mill's  study  sold  to  Mr.  Penton  of  New 
Coll.  for  aoogs.  E.  Smith  to  H.  Has  transmitted  to  Dr.  Sloane  a  dis- 
covery of  '  a  very  aroamatic  [sic]  Shrub  peculiar  to  this  part  of  Norfolk,  not 
taken  notice  of  by  Mr.  Ray  or  any  of  our  English  florists.'  Transcribes  '  A 
Character  of  ye  English  '  (18  vv.)  out  of  Claudii  Quilleti  Callipaedia,  seu  de  ratione 
pulchrae  Prolis  habendae  poema  didacticum  (Paris  c.  1655).  Mentions  Inauguratio 
Oliveriana,  Autore  Fitz-Payno  Fishero  (London  1654),  'a  most  elegant 
Heroick  peice  upon  so  vile  an  occasion.'  Madam  Mordant  a  neighbour  has  a 
considerable  collection  of  coins  &c. ;  Sir  A.  Fountaine  offered  sgs  apiece  for 
some.  Particulars  of  the  Church  &  antiquities  of  Castle  Rising.  Hopes  he  is 
now  free  of  the  air  of  the  country,  which  is  very  agueish.  '  My  Parishoners 
are  wretched  poor.'  Longs  to  be  nearer  Dear  London  again.  Please  to 
secure  a  copy  of  the  small  Clarendon  now  printing  at  Oxford. 

Nov.  21.  H.  to  Barnes.  Lit.  news.  '  Dr.  Mears  is  in  a  declining  condi- 
tion ;  but  Peggy,  who  us'd  to  look  out  at  Window  when  you  pass'd  by,  Keeps 
up,  brisk,  fair,  &  modish.'  Dean  of  Ch.  Ch.  '  upon  y*  mending  hand.'  Mr. 
Hen.  Jones,  Rector  of  Sunningwell  near  Oxon  &  Broth,  in  Law  to  ye  BP  of 
Worcester,  died  lately,  and  has  left  about  an  hundred  MSSte  to  our  Publick 
Library.  Suspects  the  rumour  of  an  Ath.  Cantabrigienses  to  refer  to  a  paper 
which  Owen  designed  to  print  on  purpose  to  abuse  Dr.  Bentley. 


Nov.  10-25.]  VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  58-66.  75 

Books  in  their  Praise  on  purpose  to  make  other  People  as  bad,  and  bring 
them  into  a  Knavish  Society  for  carrying  on  Rebellion  and  Wickedness, 
wch  End  they  need  not  fear  to  get  as  long  as  their  Clergy  make  them 
believe  they  shall  be  rewarded  ex  abundanti  for  it.  —  Since  ye  Publica- 
tion of  ye  sd.  Penny  Paper  has  been  publish'd  an  Account  of  ye  Tryal  of 
IA  Audley  Earl  of  Castlehaven  and  two  of  his  Servants  for  Sodomy,  for 
w*  wicked  Act  ye  said  Earl  was  beheaded  in  ye  Beginning  of  King 
Charles  ye  iet'8  Reign.  This  Book  in  4*°  has  been  handed  about  in 
MS*,  but  hardly  appear'd  in  print  'till  now,  when  everything  is  done  y* 
the  Rogues  can  think  will  be  prejudicial  to  ye  Church,  and  men  who  are  10 
religiously  dispos'd.  —  The  Obligations  Christians  are  under  to  shun 
Vice  and  Immorality,  And  to  practise  Piety  and  Virtue,  shewn  from  ye 
express  words  of  Holy  Scripture,  printed  first  at  Oxon.  on  one  side  of  a 
Broad  sheet  of  Paper,  in  three  Columns,  and  afterwards  several  times  in 
two  Columns.  The  Author  Francis  Fox,  A.M.  of  Edm.  Hall,  commonly 
call'd  Father  Fox.  —  Dr.  Gibson  publish'd  Family  Devotion  :  or,  a  plain 
Exhortation  to  Morning  and  Evening  Prayer  in  Families,  &c.  for  ye  use 
of  y6  .Inhabitants  of  Lambeth  Parish,  of  which  he  is  parson.  Lond. 
1705.  8V0.  —  Mr.  Watt's  (Rob.)  of  S*.  John's  wrote  and  publish'd  in 
one  page  of  a  broad  sheet  in  folio  An  Elegy  on  the  Death  of  y'  Ld.  20 
Chief  Justice  Treby.  Lond.  1700.  (He  has  also  publish'd  a  small 
Catechism  in  half  a  Sheet  of  Paper,  publish'd  in  1 708.  Done,  I  suppose, 
for  ye  use  of  the  Religious  Societies  of  wch  he  is  a  member.) 

Nov.  24  (Mon.).  There  is  lately  come  out  a  small  Pamphlett  in  4*° 
proving  that  y6  Prince  of  Wales  is  ye  son  of  Sr.  Theoph.  Oglethorp. 
'Tis  done  by  a  Woman  lately  come  from  France  ;  but  such  inconsistent 
Proofs  as  have  been  offer'd  before  and  are  offer'd  now  are  ridiculous,  and 
are  rather  arguments  for  his  being  the  Son  of  K.  James.  —  Mr.  Llhuyd 
is  of  opinion  y*  Elmet  is  for  Elved.  There  is  a  Country  in  Wales  call'd 
Elved,  which  according  to  old  orthography  is  writ  Elmet.  —  ...  Lately  30 
come  out,  Gulielmi  Nicholsij  Presbyteri  Defensio  Ecclesiae  Anglicanae. 
Praemittitur  Apparatus,  qui  Historiam  Turbarum,  e  secessione  ab  Ecclesia 
Anglicana,  exortarum  continet.  Lond.  1707.  8°. 

Nov.  25  (Tu.).  Pliny  seems  to  have  travell'd  over  y6  Alps  & 
Apennine  Hills  himself,  and  to  have  made  experiments  there.  Vide 
N.  H.  1.  i.  §.  82.  —  There  is  just  come  out  a  Book  in  8™  pages  255 
intit.  The  Truth  and  Divine  authority  of  ye  Gospell  asserted  ag*  ye 
Adversaries  of  reveal'd  Religion.  The  Author  sd  to  be  Mr.  Vermin  of 
Exon.  Coll.  —  'Tis  said  that  y6  Romans  us'd  Ephippia  on  their  Horses 
first  of  all  in  ye  time  of  Nero.  So  in  De  Xiphilin's  Epit.  of  Dio,  4° 


Nov.  22.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  Never  thought  Tomkins  was  author  of 
The  Plea  ;  gives  5  reasons  for  thinking  that  P.  du  Moulin  jun.  was  author  of 
La  Defense.  '  I  never  heard  before  that  Mr.  Jones  design'd  to  write  the  Life 
of  BP  Fell ;  but  when  I  see  Mr.  Worth  I  will  make  inquiry  what  Progress  he 
made  in  it.'  Are  there  many  new  inscriptions  in  the  just-published  Collec- 
tion ?  Will  try  to  retrieve  from  Mr.  Tanner  the  two  books  of  John  Bale,  given 
by  Dr.  Sloane  to  the  Library. 

Nov.  25.  P.  Gordon  to  H.  Is  anxious  to  have  his  6  copies  of  Grabe's 
Octateuch  as  soon  as  possible.  Subscribes  for  Livy. 


76  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

p.  212.  Lugd.  1559.  8°.  If  so  no  wonder  that  Dr.  Woodward's  Shield  is 
represented  w*^  Horsemen  wthout  Bridles.  But  I  think  this  is  refuted 
in  Fabrettus's  Inscriptions.  Quaere  ? 

Nov.  27  (Th.).  Customary  wth  Vespasian  to  converse  w*k  his  Familiar 
Friends  before  day,  sometimes  in  bed.  Amongst  these  Pliny  the  Elder. 
See  Xiphiline  ib.  p.  243.  —  MX  Thwaites  of  Queen's  show'd  me  to-day 
an  Antient  Seal,  on  which  three  Chevronells,  on  one  side  a  Crescent,  on 
y6  other  a  Mullet :  round  wcl1  these  words,  si :  COMVNITATIS  :  BVRGI. 
DE  TRILL.  Found  in  St.  Clement's  Parish  in  Oxford.  There  is  a  small 
10  place  in  Devonshire  in  ye  Hundred  of  Exminster  call'd  Trill,  and  I 
believe  one  of  Our  Kings  might  indulge  to  it  ye  Privileges  of  a 
Community,  at  wch  time  it  had  this  seal.  Quaere  ? 

Nov.  29  (Sat.).  I  am  told  y*  Mr.  Wm.  Wotton  had  all  or  most  of  the 
Materials  for  his  Reflections  upon  Antient  and  Modern  Learning  sent  him 
by  other  hands,  as  Mr.  Halley,  Mr.  Charles  Bernard,  &c.  which  is  prob- 
able enough,  he  being  but  an  Empty,  Flashy,  talking  fellow.  —  The 
Dorians  sometimes  us'd  to  write  upon  Toad-stools.  See  Xiphiline,  pag. 
270.  —  Adrian  ye  first  Em  per.  who  shav'd  his  whole  Beard.  Former 
Emperors  only  shav'd  ye  Chin.  Ib.  p.  274.  —  The  Romans  often 
20  pull'd  off  the  Bridles  of  their  Horse  in  Fight.  Vide  Livy  1.  40,  c.  40.  — 
In  ye  year  981  The  Danes  destroy 'd  ye  Monastery  of  S*.  Petroc  in 
Cornwall.  So  in  ye  Saxon  Chron.  Cott.  as  quoted  by  Mr.  Somner  in 
Lex.  (voc.  Petroces  Stow)  and  Sr  Wm.  Dugd.  in  Mon.  Angl.  but 
omitted  by  Dr.  Gibson  in  his  Edit,  as  he  has  omitted  divers  other  things, 
which  are  material.  So  Mr.  Thwaites,  who  is  admirably  well  qualify'd  to 
give  us  an  Accurate  Edition,  was  pleas'd  to  shew  me. 

Dec.  1  (Mon.).  Mr.  Masson,  who  writ  ye  Life  of  Pliny  Junr.  printed 
in  ye  Oxon.  Edition,  has  just  publish'd  ye  Life  of  Horace,  in  which  he 
commends  Dr.  Bentley. 


Nov.  29.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  Satisfied  that  P.  du  Moulin  was  author  of 
La  defense.  When  Mr.  Jones's  MSS.  arrive,  please  try  to  discover  from  what 
MS.  Ignatii  Antiocheni  Epistolae,  Graece  was  transcribed  (?  from  that  in  the 
Library  of  the  town  of  Leicester).  In  conversation  with  Bp.  Fell  about  a  new 
edition  of  the  Liturgies  of  St.  Basil  and  St.  Chrysostome,  Smith  acquainted 
him  that  he  had  several  years  before  seen  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  Traherne,  then 
chaplain  to  the  English  Factory  at  Smyrna,  a  venerable  copy  of  these  ancient 
liturgic  books,  and  suggested  that  that  gentleman,  now  beneficed  in  Dorset- 
shire, might  have  brought  the  book  home  with  him.  The  Bishop  addressed  to 
him  for  the  loan  of  it  and  he  readily  communicated  it :  '  wch  hee  shewed  mee 
upon  my  next  going  to  Christ  Church,  where  I  usually  went  once  a  week  by 
his  kind  &  obliging  desire  &  order  to  dine  with  him.'  The  design  of  publish- 
ing this  and  many  other  works  became  abortive  by  his  death.  Now,  is  No.  38 
in  Mr.  Jones's  Catalogue  this  MS.  or  a  transcript  of  it  ?  Is  Dr.  Hudson  still  in 
the  mind  to  purchase  Genebrard's  French  translation  of  Josephus  ?  Asks  for 
account  of  the  death  of  Mr.  Leger,  whose  name  he  has  recovered.  [Note 
by  H.  Mr.  Boyse,  formerly  fellow  of  University  Coll.,  and  now  resident  in 
London  at  Sr  John  Hales's  in  Dover  Street  can  give  an  Account.  This  Mr. 
Boyse  turn'd  Rom.  Catholick  in  Mr.  Ob.  Walker's  time.  Mr.  Leger  fell 
from  his  horse  in  France,  being  travelling  with  Sr  John  Bland,  and  receiving 
thereby  hurt  in  his  leg,  it  put  him  into  a  Feaver,  of  wch  he  died.] 


Nov.  25-Dec.  6.]       VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  6G-73.  77 

Dec.  2  (Tu.).  Remember  to  ask  Dr.  Smith  whether  he  knows  who 
'twas  put  ye  Concordance  of  Kircher  in  y6  Bodlejan  Archives  in  order  so 
as  to  answer  ye  Hebrew.  —  In  1702  Tho.  Brown  publish'd  State  Letters 
of  IA  Arlington  &c.  amongst  these  Letters  some  of  Mr.  Cowley's.  — 
Some  time  since  was  expell'd  Trinity  Coll.  Mr.  Knolles  a  Gent. 
Commoner  only  because  he  made  some  little  observations  (not  fit 
to  be  taken  notice  of  in  such  a  manner  by  men  of  manly  sense)  upon 
some  of  y6  Fellows  Miscarriages,  particularly  upon  those  of  Mr.  John 
Barber  (a  turbulent  sort  of  Fellow,  one  that  will  do  the  greatest  Villany 
for  self  interest,  and  has  no  regard  for  Reputation),  since  which  he  has  10 
taken  methods  to  make  an  Appeal  to  y6  Visitor ;  but  that  being  somew* 
difficult,  he  being  not  upon  ye  Foundation,  the  Majority  of  Fellows  have 
proceeded  to  Expulsion  of  some  of  those  who  stand  up  in  his  Behalf,  and 
they  have  accordingly  actually  expell'd  Dr.  Fry  and  Dr.  Budgen,  the  former 
a  low-Church  man  indeed  but  in  all  likelihood  a  man  y*  would  be  a  great 
Benefactor  to  them  if  civilly  us'd,  he  being  very  rich  and  having  liv'd  all  his 
time  at  ye  Coll.  the  latter  an  honest  Gent,  and  in  a  condition  too  of  being 
a  good  Benefactor  if  they  had  dealt  prudently,  which  they  have  not  done 
by  any  means,  if  we  may  believe  the  general  talk  of  ye  university,  w°k 
brings  in  y6  Head  Dr.  Dobson,  (of  whom  I  have  sd  before  something  20 
to  his  praise,)  who  it  seems  has  in  this  affair  acted  like  a  poor-spirited, 
weak,  half-witted  Man :  notw^standing  'tis  said  he  has  been  with  y6 
Visitor,  who  countenances  ye  Proceedings ;  and  for  y*  reason  one  of  ye 
Fellows,  viz.  Mr.  Gwinnett  is  put  out  of  commons  for  taking  Mr.  Lewis's 
part,  who  was  Mr.  Barber's  Pupil.  —  There  is  just  publish'd  A  Vindica- 
tion of  Ld.  Peterborough's  Conduct  in  Spain,  8V°  by  y°  most  Ingenious 
Dr.  John  Friend,  ye  same  who  writ  and  publish'd  an  ingenious  Book 
call'd  Emmenologia.  —  Dr.  Barlow  in  a  Copy  of  it  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  has  a 
Memorand.  y*  Dr.  Tho.  Tully  was  Author  of  the  Translation  of  a  Brief 
Relation  of  ye  Present  Troubles  in  England,  written  from  Lond.  the  22  30 
of  Jan.  1644  to  a  Minister  of  one  of  ye  Reformed  Churches  in  France. 
(The  original  in  French  and  Dr.  Barlow  is  good  authority,  because  he 
had  ye  Book  by  Gift  from  Tully)  printed  at  Oxon.  1645.  4to.  Inquire 
who  was  Author  of  the  Brief  Relation  &c.  ?  —  Inquire  ab*  Dr.  Hickes's 
quotation  (in  his  Pec.  Dei,  p.  20)  of  a  Sermon  intit.  The  Lord  of  Hosts t  & 
who  was  Author,  whom  he  has  not  mention'd. 

Dec.  6  (Sat.).  There  is  just  come  out  a  Six  Penny  Paper,  intit. 
Stricturse  breves  in  Epistolas  D.D.  Genevensium  &  Oxoniensiutn  nuper 
editas,  iterumque  juxta  Exemplar  Oxoniense  typis  mandatas.  4°.  — 
Last  Wednesday  night  died  the  Ld.  Granvill  of  an  Apoplexy,  being  a  40 
very  Honest,  worthy  Gentleman,  and  by  his  death  we  have  lost  a  good 
Patriot,  and  ye  Church  a  good  Friend.  —  About  35  years  agoe  Mr. 

Dec.  4.  Bagford  to  H.  Remarks  about  Michael  Manzolinus  Parmensis, 
&c.  Offers  of  service. 

Dec.  6.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  Desires  an  edition  of  the  Ancient  Liturgies 
by  some  qualified  person.  Dr.  Hudson  still  wishes  to  procure  Genebrard's 
French  translation  of  Josephus.  Can't  find  much  concerning  Mr.  Ledgard  of 
University  :  consult  Boyse,  formerly  fellow,  who  turned  Papist  in  O.  Walker's 
time.  Has  read  the  Latin  Strictures  upon  the  Geneva  &  Oxon  Letters.  '  Mr. 
Thwaites  of  Queen's  sent  me  last  week  an  impression  in  Wax  of  an  Antient 


78  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

Ayres,  who  is  now  a  Fellow- Commoner  of  St.  John's  Coll.  Oxon. 
translated  into  English  and  publish'd  a  Book  call'd  The  Reuniting  of 
Xtians.  It  was  since  reprinted,  and  lately  a  3d.  Impression  is  come  out 
with  great  Alterations  from  Mr.  Ayres's,  and  without  any  acknowledg- 
ment (as  Mr.  Ayres  tells  me  himself)  of  ye  former,  just  like  ye  Dutch 
Rogues  who  print  other  Men's  things  as  their  own  without  Acknow- 
ledgment. 

Dec.  7  (Sun.).       Before    King  Alfred's   Life   publish'd   by   Arch**?. 
Parker  is  King  Alfred's  Picture,  which  is  exactly  ye  same' with  that  made 
i°  for  Rich,  y6  2d  Duke  of  Normandy,  in  his  Edition  of  Thomas  Wal- 
singham's  Ypod.  Neustria. 

Dec.  8  (Mon.).  NE.  10.  5  MS.  Bodl.  a  Marianus  Scotus  fairly 
written  on  Vellam  with  a  Continuation  to  ye  year  1131  by  another  hand. 
There  are  also  very  large  Additions  in  ye  History  before  ye  Continuation 
beginns,  not  to  be  found  in  ye  Printed  Copies. 

Dec.  9  (Tu.).  I  have  been  told  by  an  ingenious  Gent,  of  X*  Church 
yt  Dr.  Atterbury  was  ye  Principal  if  not  ye  sole  Author  of  y6  Book  against 
Dr.  Bentley,  wch  goes  under  y6  Name  of  Mr.  Boyle.  —  Thomas 
Walsingham  extracted  from  Radulphus  de  Diceto.  See  in  his  Ypodig. 
20  Neustriae,  p.  45.  Ed.  Park.  —  The  hole  which  King  Rich.  ist  made  in 
ye  Wall  of  ye  little  Hall  when  he  rose  from  Dinner  upon  news  of  ye  King 
of  France's  invading  Normandy,  and  swore  y*  he  would  not  turn  his  Face 
till  he  had  fought  wtlx  him,  was  to  be  seen  in  Tho.  Walsingham's  time. 
Vide  Hyp.  Neust.  p.  49.  —  Quaere  whether  ever  any  answer  was 
publish'd  to  Scrivener's  Actio  in  Schismaticos  Angh'canosl  or  whether 
ye  Passage  quoted  in  ye  Strict,  breves  upon  the  Gen.  and  Oxon.  Letters 
was  ever  answer'd  by  any  English  Writer  ? 

Dec.  10  (Wed.).  This  day  Mr.  Cox  and  Mr.  Lewis  Gent.  Commoners 
left  Trinity,  upon  Account  of  ye  late  unjust,  unparallel'd  Expulsion  of 
3o  three  of  ye  Members  of  y*  House.  Mr.  Cox  was  deny'd  a  Testimonium 
from  ye  President,  &  ye  latter  a  Discessit.  I  have  been  informed  from  a 
good  Hand  yfc  Dr.  Fry  made  his  Will  about  3  years  since  &  by  it  left  a 
thousand  libs,  to  Trinity  Coll.  but  upon  this  Rascally  Act  he  burn't  the 
Will  in  Mr.  Nourse's  Chamber  in  Kettle  Hall :  (which  Mr.  Nourse  has 

Seal,  on  which  three  Chevronells  :  on  one  side  of  them  a  Crescent,  on  ye  other 
a  Mullet,  and  round  about  sigillum  COMVNITATIS  :  BVRGI.  DETRILL.  I  re- 
turn'd  him  answer  that  .  .  it  might  not  be  unlikely  that  it  might  be  ye  Seal  of 
the  Town  of  Trill  in  Exminster  Hundred  in  Devonshire,  which,  tho'  small, 
yet  is  ye  Seat  of  a  Baronett,  &  perhaps  had  formerly  the  Privileges  of  a  Com- 
munity or  Corporation  indulg'd  to  it.  Mr.  Thwaites  is  now  printing  at  ye 
Theatre,  in  a  sheet  and  half,  some  Observations  upon  the  Coyns  publish'd  by 
Sr  A.  Fountaine  at  ye  End  of  Dr.  Hickes's  Thesaurus.  They  are  to  go  along 
with  Mr.  Wotton's  Abridgment  of  that  Work,  which  Abridgment  is  printing  in 
London  8°.'  ?  author  of  Kircher's  Concordance  with  order  inverted  in  Bod- 
leian Archives ;  and  of  The  Lord  of  Hastes,  a  sermon  (Hickes*  Peculium  Dei, 
p.  207). 

Dec.  8.  Dodwell  to  H.  Don't  send  Almeloveen  by  the  Oxford  carrier. 
Your  Leland  MS.  is  safe.  His  Defenses ;  no  defence  can  signify  anything  with 
his  censurers.  Sorry  that  Grabe  meets  with  so  little  encouragement,  &  that 
prejudices  have  been  taken  against  his  work  by  the  learned  men  in  Cambridge. 


Dec.  6-13.]  VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  73-81.  79 

taken  his  Discessit  &  gone  from  Trin.  Coll.)  —  A  Notable  Instance  of 
Inconstancy  &  Disloyalty,  p.  57.  Tho.  Walsingham's  Yp.  Neustr.  p. 
57.  Ed.  Park.  —  Something  ab*  Oxford  ibid.  p.  57.  Concerning  Otho 
ye  Pope's  Legate  bad  Treatment  at  Oxford,  see  ibid.  p.  59. 

Dec.  11  -(Th.).  In  Dyer's  news-Letter  that  came  last  night  was  ye 
following  Passage  :  viz.  Not  only  Defoe  has  plaid  the  Buffoon  in  reflecting 
upon  my  Ld.  Havershanis  Speech,  but  a  Learned  Gent.  Vice-president 
of  a  Hall  in  Oxon.  has  done  something  like  it  by  writing  a  Comment 
on  it,  which  is  handed  about  in  MS'.  $  'tis  thought  will  be  printed  that 
the  Author s  Parts  may  be  more  conspicuous  in  y*  Common-Wealth  of10 
Letters.  The  said  Gent,  is  Mr.  Rob.  Pearse,  Vice-Principal  of  Edm. 
Hall,  (of  whose  Temper  I  have  given  a  notable  Instance  in  one  of 
the  foregoing  Volumes)  who  made  Remarks  upon  and  inserted  them 
into  the  Margin  of  a  Copy  of  the  Ld.  Haversham's  Speech  which  he 
made  lately  relating  to  our  111  Success  last  Campaign ;  But  ye  said 
Remarks  are  of  such  a  nature,  consisting  of  Scraps  of  Logick,  such  as 
quo  modo  probas,  lapsus  lingua  non  est  error  mentis,  &c.,  that  he  is 
ridicul'd  for  them  all  over  the  University,  and  is  perfectly  asham'd  of 
them,  containing  in  them  nothing  of  Scholarship,  Parts  or  Breeding. 
No  one  y*  I  know  of  is  sorry  for  him,  he  having  been  always  observ'd  20 
to  be  an  impudent,  haughty,  pragmatical,  pert  Coxcomb;  which 
was  ye  reason  of  his  reflecting  upon  the  Society  of  Lincoln  College  in 
a  Declamation  that  he  made  there :  for  which  reason  he  was  forc'd 
to  beg  pardon.  Some  time  after  which  being  Bach,  of  Arts  he  was 
made  by  Dr.  Mill  (upon  the  Recommendation  of  y*  famous  Low-Church 
Man,  Dr.  John  Potter)  Vice-Principal  of  Edm.  Hall,  where  he  now 
continues  and  is  as  famous  for  his  Impertinency  as  ever  his  two 
renown'd  Predecessors  were  Dr.  White  Kennett  and  Mr.  Tho.  Milles.  — 
1Mr.  W.  Wynne,  A.M.  and  Fellow  of  Jesus  Coll.  Oxon.  writ  & 
publish'd,  The  History  of  Wales  comprehending  y  Lives  and  Succession  30 
of  y  Princes  of  Wales,  &c.  Lond.  1697.  8°.  The  greatest  part  is  only 
a  translation  of  Caradoc  of  Lhancarvan's  British  History,  as  'twas 
publish'd  formerly  in  English  by  Dr.  Powell.  —  Formerly  thought 
unlawfull  for  Kings  to  enter  ye  Village  Oxford,  it  being  thought  y* 
S*.  Frideswyde  would  not  permitt  it.  Yet  Henry  King  of  France  did 
not  mind  it,  but  came  and  did  his  Devotion  at  her  shrine.  Vide  Tho. 
Walsingh.  p.  63. 

Dec.  13  (Sat.).  .  .  .  This  Day  Dr.  Hudson  declar'd  yt  half  he  has, 
in  Goods  &  Money,  shall  goe  when  he  dies  to  y°  Publick,  meaning 
University  Coll.  and  ye  Publick  Library,  &  ye  Proportion  is  University  40 

Dec.  11.  Barnes  to  H.  Asks  him  to  disperse  copies  of  the  Proposals  and 
Specimens  [for  Homer],  receipts,  &c.  sent  herewith  to  the  Colleges,  Heads  of 
Houses,  Coffee-houses,  &c.  Has  asked  Lord  Salisbury  to  accept  the  Dedica- 
tion. 

Dec.  13.  Kent  to  H.  '  Please  fix  yr  Place  &  Day,  for  I  have  forgot  ye 
best  Inns  in  Woodstock.'  Asks  for  a  tcstimonium  of  his  good  behaviour  and 
conformity  to  the  Church  of  England  during  his  stay  at  Oxon.  Woodward 

1  This  Mr.  Wynne  was  formerly  Fellow  of  Jesus,  since  dead,  and  Brother  to  Dr.  Rob. 
Wynne,  the  present  Chancellor  of  St.  Asaph. 


80  H  EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

Coll.  to  have  six  Parts  &  ye  Publick  Library  four.     What  he  leaves  to 
the  Coll.  is  to  be  for  Scholarships,  of  which  none  to  be  capable  but 
such  as  are  born  within  ye  Province  of  York. 
1 1  allow  of  this, 

witness  my  hand 
J.  HUDSON  1 
J.  NEVILE 
Ric.  IBBETSON 
THO.  HEARNE. 

10  Dr.  Thomas  Crosthwait  was  then  also  present.  (Dr.  Hudson  is  since 
married  to  a  young  Girle,  the  only  Daughter  of  Sir  Rob.  Harrison  of 
Oxford.  He  was  married  a  little  after  Easter  in  1710.  She  is  about 
25  Years  of  Age. — May  20,  1711. 

A  little  before  he  died  he  made  a  new  will  in  1719.)  — 

Mr.  Lockes  Epitaph  by  himself .  .  . 

Dec.  14  (Sun.).  Remember  to  ask  Dr.  Wynne  or  •  Dr.  Crosthwait 
what  Mr.  Thomas,  Chaplaine  of  X*.  Church,  writ.  For  Dr.  Hudson 
believes  he  was  Author  of  a  Pamphlet  call'd,  Remarks  on  y  Protestant 
Reconciler,  A  Preface  prefix'd  to  a  Book  of  Daille's  translated  into 

20  English,  in  which  he  defends  Mr.  Chillingworth  against  Knot,  and  'tis 
probable  he  writ  Remarks  on  Dr.  Stillingfleet's  unreasonableness  of 
Separation.  —  Mr.  Ob.  Walker  caus'd  Ockham's  Logick  to  be  printed 
at  Oxon.  (after  he  had  publish'd  his  Ars  Rationis)  and  writ  a  very 
handsome  Preface  to  it.  —  There  was  printed  at  Cambr.  a  Pamphlet 
in  4to.  in  yf>  year  1642  intit.  A  Protestant's  Account  of  his  Orthodox 
Holding  in  Matters  of  Religion,  &c.  Dr.  Hudson  has  it,  &  to  it  'tis 
prefix'd  by  some  body  a  Memorand.  that  Sr.  John  Spelman  was 
Author.  —  Quaere  who  E.  Y.  is  who  writ  The  Parliament's  Power  in 
Lawes  for  Religion,  pr.  at  Oxon.  in  4*°.  1645.  —  •  •  •  Livy  a  very 

30  Religious  Man.     Vide  1.  43.  c.  13. 

Dec.  15  (Mon.).  Acta  S.  Polycarpi  ab  Usserio  edita  Lond.  1647, 
4*°.  collata  cum  MS.  membranaceo,  admodum  vetusto,  in  Bibl.  Bodl. 
inter  codd.  Baroc.  num.  238.  fol.  14.  b.  .  .  .  [pp.  86-93.] 

Dec.  20  (Sat.).     There  is  just  publish'd  a  Book  intit.  'H  Xa/ns  Ao0eZ<ra 

to  H.  Expresses  his  high  opinion  of  Grabe,  H.,  and  Hudson,  and  hopes  they 
will  one  day  have  their  deserts.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  Remarks  on  the 
Geneva  and  Oxford  Letters  ;  hopes  that  Dr.  Smalridge  or  some  other  fit  person 
will  answer  the  Strictures.  Wotton's  Notitia  of  Hickes'  Thesaurus  to  be  pub- 
lished shortly.  Though  differing  on  many  points  from  Mr.  Chishull's  views  in 
his  Oxford  sermon,  Smith  is  satisfied  with  his  Appendix.  The  Apocalyptic  men, 
with  all  their  pretences  to  learning  and  exact  calculation  of  times,  are  but  one 
degree  removed  from  downright  Enthusiasts.  For  the  author  of  The  Glorious 
Name  of  the  Lord  of  Hosts,  see  Mr.  Foulis's  Collections.  Asks  H.  to  collate  for 
him  Ussher's  edition  of  the  Greek  Acts  of  the  Martyrdom  of  St.  Polycarp  with 
Baroccian  MS.  238  ;  he  has  lost  his  own  collation,  executed  some  20  years 
since. 

Dec.  20.    Barnes  to  H.  Hopes  he  has  received  the  parcel  of  100  Specimens 


1  [i-i  In  Dr.  Hudson's  hand.] 


Dec.  13-23.]  VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  81-98.  8l 

2  Tim.  i.  g.  That  is,  The  Holy  Spirit  the  Author  of  Immortality, 
or,  Immortality  a  Peculiar  Grace  of  ye  Gospel,  no  natural  Ingredient 
of  the  Soul ;  proved  from  the  Holy  Scriptures,  and  Fathers,  against  Mr. 
Clark's  Bold  assertion  of  the  Soul's  Natural  Immortality,  against 
Scripture,  the  Doctrine  of  the  Church  in  the  Purest,  and  most  Primitive 
ages  of  it,  and  Reason  guided  (as  it  ought  to  be)  by  the  Word  of  God. 
Wherein  the  Holy  Fathers,  and  most  Sacred  Scriptures,  are  rescued 
from  his  plain  Misrepresentations,  and  it  is  solidly  proved,  that  he  hath 
not  one  Sentence  of  the  Fathers,  or  one  Text  of  Scripture  on  his  Side. 
Being  a  Vindication  of  Mr.  Dodwell's  Epistolary  Discourse  from  all  10 
the  Aspersions  of  ye  foresaid  pretended  answerer.  With  some  Animad- 
versions on  Mr.  Chishul  and  Dr.  Whitby.  By  a  Presbyter  of  ye  Church 
of  England.  (The  Author  Mr.  Pittis.)  N.B.  The  said  Book  is  done 
with  much  smartness,  Diligence,  Learning  and  Judgment:  and  by  it 
appears  (as  indeed  Men  of  Impartiality  were  before  perswaded)  that 
Mr.  Dodwell  has  &  will  have  much  the  advantage  of  his  adversaries 
y*  have  hitherto  appear'd  publickly  against  him,  they  being  quite  as 
it  were  ignorant  in  the  Subject,  and  not  conversant  with  ye  Fathers.  — 
Mr.  Norris  (John)  of  All  Souls  translated  into  English  Hierocles 
upon  ye  Golden  Verses  of  the  Pythagoreans.  Lond.  1682.  8°.  —  ...  20 

Dec.  23  (Tu.).  Mr.  Milles  (or  Mulles)  the  Rhapsodist  having  had 
ye  Degree  of  Dr.  of  Divinity  conferr'd  upon  him  at  Dublin,  since  his 
Return  into  England,  according  to  his  usual  Modesty,  requested  ye 
Vice-Chancellor  by  Letter  that  he  might  be  presented  ad  eundem 
in  this  university:  And  he  has  since  waited  upon  the  Vice-Chancellor 
upon  the  same  Account  in  London,  in  relation  to  which"  the  Vice- 
Chancellor  writ  ye  following  Letter  to  Mr.  Thwaites : 

DEAR  SIR,  S.  Martin's,  Dec.  20.  1707. 

I  received  yours  this  Evening,  and  have  since  I  came  to  this  place  received 
two  Visits  from  Dr.  Milles.     The  first  was  so  rough,  that  I  would  not  venture  30 
to  see  him  the  second  time  without  a  Witness;  so  I  took  in  Mr.  Yates  to  see 
his  Behaviour.     I  told  him  I  could  not  think  of  admitting  ad  eundem  a  Mem- 
ber of  our  own  University,  and  therefore  he  must  either  take  his  Degree  re-- 
gularly,  or  get  ye  Chancellor's  Letter  to  Convocation :  for  that  they  may  do 
what  they  please.     He  will  hear  of  neither  of  these  wayes,  nor  will  he  (as  he 
says)  give  a  shilling  for  that  trifle  of  a  Degree,  but  will  abide  by  the  Degree  he 
has  or  not  come  to  Oxford  'till  we  allow  it  there. 
My  humble  service  to  Mr.  Dean  &c. 
I  am,  Dear  Sir, 

Your  very  affect6  humble  servant  0 

W.  LANCASTER. 


and  100  Receipts:  it  was  delayed  sthrough  the  direction  wearing  off.     Com- 
pliments of  the  season. 

Dec.  22.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  Sends  a  collation  of  the  Baroccian  MS.  of  the 
Acts  of  St.  Polycarf  with  Archbishop  Ussher's  edition.  Mr.  Chishull  has  not  a 
very  good  character  in  Oxon.  He  is  taken  to  task  in  an  anonymous  book 
called  The  Holy  Spirit  the  Author  of  Immortality.  '  Some  time  this  Christmass 
will  wait  upon  you,  with  a  Letter  from  Mr.  Tyrrel,  one  Mr.  Wats,  a  Civilian 
of  S*  John's.  I  desire  you  would  please  to  have  a  care  how  you  trust  him,  he 
being  (as  you  will  soon  perceive)  a  pert,  conceited,  forward  person,  a  thorough 
pac'd  Republican,  and  imploy'd  by  Dr.  Kennett  &c.  to  gather  up  Pamphletts, 
Stories  &  the  like,  which  has  made  him  odious  in  this  Place.' 

VOL.  II.  G 


82  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

In  ye  year  1706  Sept.  when  ye  Race  was  at  Woodstock  &  Port 
Meadow,  the  Duke  of  Richmond  wtb  one  Mr.  May  and  his  Chaplain, 
Mr.  Bradley  of  St.  Mary  Hall,  after  two  of  ye  Clock  in  the  afternoon  came 
to  y6  Publ.  Library.  Mr.  Bradley  brought  them  to  Dr.  Hudson,  who  re- 
ceived them  with  all  due  Civility,  and  shew'd  them  the  Curiosities  of  y* 
Place  :  after  wch  ye  Duke  leaving  y6  Library  Mr.  Bradley  came  to  ye  Dr. 
inviting  him  to  dine  wth  ye  Duke  that  afternoon  at  St.  Mary  Hall  in  ye 
Common  Room,  where  MX  Bradley  had  provided  a  dish  or  two  of  Meat 
for  Entertainment.  The  Dr.  at  y6  earnest  Request  of  Mr.  Bradley  went 
10  to  St.  Mary  Hall,  where  he  found  the  Duke,  Mr.  May,  Principal  Wyat  & 
Mr.  Bradley.  Soon  after  his  going  thither  ye  Dinner  came  in.  At  Dinner 
time  and  afterwards  the  chief  Matter  of  Discourse  was  ab*  ye  Duke's  pro- 
fessing himself  to  be  a  Whigg,  his  charging  ye  University  in  general  wth 
Jacobitism,  and  his  being  for  Carter  against  Sr.  John  Walters  in  ye  City 
Election.  The  Duke  was  oppos'd  by  ye  Dr.  in  all  ye  said  particulars  & 
perhaps  not  without  some  sharpness  &  Reflection.  But  for  all  that  ye 
Company  seem'd  to  part  very  good  Friends,  &  the  duke  express'd  him- 
self well  pleas'd  with  ye  Company  &  Entertainment ;  so  y*  no  one  was 
apprehensive  of  any  Mischief  likely  to  follow  from  it.  Yet  in  the  follow- 
so  ing  year  1707  in  Michaelmass  Term  there  was  a  letter  communicated  to 
Dr.  Hudson  from  Dr.  Smalrich,  writ  to  a  third  person,  wherein  'twas  said  y* 
he  had  heard  it  from  a  Reverend  Prelate  y*  ye  said  Dr.  H.  in  St.  Mary 
Hall  in  Company  of  the  Duke  of  Richm.  &c.  should  begin  a  Health  to 
ye  Prince  of  Wales,  &  refuse  to  drink  another  to  ye  Protestant  successipn. 
Upon  wch  the  Dr.  writ  to  Dr.  Smalrich  a  full  Ace*  of  the  whole  Matter  as 
above  related,  particularly  shewing  how  improbable  it  was  that  he  should 
begin  such  a  health,  when  his  design  was  to  vindicate  ye  university  from 
ye  Charge  of  Jacobitism.  Mr.  Wyat  who  was  in  Company  at  ye  Bottom 
of  ye  Letter  writ  to  Dr.  Smalridge  attested  ye  Truth  of  every  particular, 
30  and  that  he  heard  no  such  Health  propos'd  in  Company.  Moreover  he 
writ  to  Mr.  Bradley  ab*  this  Matter,  who  gave  him  a  fair  answer  y*  he 
knew  of  no  such  thing,  and  wonder'd  what  should  be  ye  occasion  of  such 
a  Report.  Yet  it  has  been  spoke  particularly  by  ye  Duke  of  Marlborough 
at  his  own  Table  &  in  several  other  publick  Places,  y*  the  Dr.  drank  such 
a  Health  &c.  — 

At  y6  End  of  Martial  MS*.  NE.  D.  3.  10  is  Pliny's  Epist.  21. 1.  3.  which 
is  here  collated  with  ye  Oxon.  Edit.  ...  —  Quaere  about  ye  Writings  & 
Character  of  Matthew  Scrivener.  —  The  Master  of  University  Coll.  has 
Patin's  Discourse  about  Artorius  ye  Physitian.  —  Oxford.  John  Wicliff. 
40  Vide  Tho.  Walsinghami  Yp.  Neustriae  p.  135.  Ed.  Park.  Et  p.  139. — 
Isle  of  Man.  ib.  p.  147.— 

Dr.  Dobson's  Letter  (in  relation  to  JVfr.  Knollys  Gent.  Commoner  of 
Trinity,  expell'd)  to  Mr.  John  Foyle  of  the  Middle-Temple. 

Sr,  Trin.  Coll.  Nov.  ye  ioth.  1707. 

I  receiv'd  your's,  and  am  not  much  surpris'd  at  ye  Resentment  you  express 
in  it.  To  be  sure  there  have  been  very  false  representations  made  of  this 
Matter  in  which  your  Kinsman  is  unhappily  concern'd ;  but  a  wise  man  knows 
how  to  make  allowances  in  things  of  this  nature,  and  an  honest  man  will  sus- 
pend his  censure  'till  he  has  fully  inform'd  himself.  I  know  no  necessity  I  lye 
50  under  of  making  a  Defence  unless  I  were  before  a  competent  Judge  :  But 
because  one  of  your  Quere's  is,  For  what  your  Cousin  was  expell'd  ?  (as  you 


Dec. 23.]       .  VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  99-113.  83 

affect  to  call  it)  I  shall  give  you  this  short  answer.  It  was  because  we  found 
it  impossible  for  us  to  enjoy  any  quiet  in  the  College,  while  he  continu'd  with 
us.  When  a  person  takes  a  particular  Delight  in  disturbing  the  Peace  of  the 
Society  he  lives  in,  and  when  no  admonitions  will  prevail  with  him  to  return 
to  a  more  sober  Behaviour ;  when  he  demonstrates  a  Resolution  to  persevere 
in  that  Humour  of  affronting  his  Governours  without  any  Provocation,  I  think 
the  Removal  of  such  a  one  (be  his  Qualitie  what  it  will)  absolutely  necessary : 
I  am  certain  no  Society  that  pretends  to  any  Government  will  bear  what  we 
have  born.  You  ask  what  Immorality  he  was  guilty  of?  If  by  Immorality 
you  mean  Drinking,  Whoring,  or  Swearing,  I  charge  him  with  none  of  those ;  10 
but  I  charge  him  with  being  disobedient  and  insulting  and  very  abusive  to  the 
Society ;  which  I  think  are  Immoralities  with  a  Witness. 

This  young  Gentleman  was  one  that  I  think  the  College  was  more  than  or- 
dinary civil  to  ;  &  his  Carriage  'till  of  late  I  thought  deserv'd  such  Treatment : 
But  about  half  a  Year  since  or  something  more  he  appear'd  strangely  alter'd  ; 
and  we  were  all  amaz'd  to  find  him  so  imbitter'd  against  the  College  as  he  has 
shown  himself  ever  since  upon  all  occasions  I  am  sure  without  any  just  grounds : 
his  sowr'd  humour  work'd  so  high  as  not  only  to  show  a  constant  uneasiness 
himself  &  to  infect  others  with  prejudices  against  the  College  as  if  they  were 
cheated  and  abus'd,  but  to  revile  us  all  publickly  in  the  Hall,  to  reflect  severely  ao 
upon  me  in  particular  several  times,  for  no  just  reason  I  am  satisfied ;  and 
pursuing  this  humour  so  constantly,  that  the  Fellows  whenever  they  went  into 
the  Hall  expected  of  course  to  be  affronted  by  his  means :  and  to  give  you  one 
Instance  in  which  his  disobedience  will  sufficiently  appear.  When  the  Dean 
put  y*  usual  Sconce  for  missing  Prayers  upon  his  Name,  he  struck  it  off  in 
Defiance  which  you  know  is  flying  in  the  Face  of  the  Government  of  the  Col- 
lege ;  and  these  things  we  pass'd  by  in  hopes  he  would  in  time  be  prevail'd 
upon  to  behave  himself  like  a  Gentleman,  to  which  end  he  had  several  times 
admonitions  from  myself  and  others  and  by  his  Tutour ;  but  he  went  on  and 
grew  still  more  insulting.  At  length  to  crown  the  rest,  he  made  a  publick  30 
Disturbance  in  the  Chapell,  while  Divinity  Disputations  were  perform'd,  he 
with  some  others  setting  up  a  loud  Laugh  (an  unheard  of  Insolence)  to  affront 
the  Vice-President  in  the  Execution  of  his  Office  ;  and  to  show  what  we  were 
to  expect  for  the  future,  he  own'd  the  Evening  after  this  publick  Insolence  in 
the  Chapell  that  he  came  there  with  premeditated  Designs  to  affront  ye  Vice- 
President,  and  that  he  would  affront  him  whenever  he  met  him.  I  must  do 
the  Vice-President  Justice — That  when  he  (before  me  and  ye  other  Officers) 
demanded  of  Mr.  Knollys,  whether  he  had  done  any  thing  to  disoblige  him, he 
had  not  any  thing  to  charge  him  with.  Now  if  these  things  are  to  be  born, 
and  we  must  tamely  sit  down  under  publick  affronts ;  we  must  even  give  up  40 
all,  and  never  pretend  to  execute  any  authority  again ;  which  will  be  the  most 
effectual  way  to  sink  the  College :  for  I  can't  think  any  Gentlemen  will  ven- 
ture their  Sons  here,  when  we  have  made  ourselves  unable  to  govern  them. 

Your  former  Kindness  in  recommending  Persons  to  the  College  (which  you 
seem  now  to  repent  of)  we  are  really  to  own  with  Thankfullness,  because  no 
doubt  you  design 'd  a  Benefit  to  the  College  by  it ;  but  whether  such  Recom- 
mendations prove  advantagious  or  not  is  to  be  estimated  from  the  Behaviour 
of  the  Persons  recommended.  A  young  Man  of  a  turbulent,  mutinous  Tem- 
per, that  is  not  only  ungovernable  himself  but  makes  it  his  business  to  infect 
others,  and  infuse  groundless  prejudices  against  the  Society,  which  generally  50 
are  greedily  imbrac'd  by  Young  Men,  and  usually  propagated  'till  'tis  beyond 
the  power  of  any  sober  Man  to  stop  them,  may  be  really  an  inestimable  damage 
to  such  a  Society  as  ours.  It  may  be  better  for  us  to  loose  5oolib8.  than  have 
the  company  of  one  so  prejudic'd  and  sowr'd  against  us.  I  know  not  what 
satisfaction  this  may  give  you  or  any  prejudic'd  person;  I  am  very  well  satis- 
fi'd  myself  in  this  matter,  as  having  done  nothing  but  what  the  young  Gentle- 
man himself  by  his  incurable  behaviour  made  necessary  to  be  done.  No  man 
I  hope  will  think  us  so  void  of  sense  as  to  disoblige  any  Gentleman  out  of 

G  2 


84  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [170?: 

choice  without  an  absolute  necessity.  We  aim'd  at  nothing  but  quiet  ;  if  we 
could  have  had  it  with  Mr.  Knollys  his  Company,  he  had  been  always  very 
welcome  to  us.  If  the  account  of  the  Battles  here  added  could  have  been  had 
sooner,  you  had  heard  from  me  by  yesterday's  Post.  You  need  not  fear  any 
Violence  to  be  offer'd  to  your  Kinsman's  Chamber.  You  shall  have  no  reason 
to  expect  anything  but  what  is  civil  from  us,  particularly  from, 

S', 

Your  respectfull  servant, 
_  W.  DOBSON. 


10      Mr.  Foyle's  Answer,  to  wch  Dobson  did  not  reply. 

Cr 

"  ) 

I  rec'd  the  favour  of  your's  by  which  I  perceive  you  will  not  permit  me 
(because  you  say  I  only  affect)  to  account  my  Kinsman  a  person  expell'd. 
And  since  the  particulars  you  mention  in  your  letter  are  such  as  for  which  I 
presume  your  Justice  would  not  inflict  such  a  Punishment  on  him,  especially 
when  you  have  not  been  so  severe  on  others,  who,  as  you  well  observe  were 
guilty  of  the  same  faults  ;  I  hope  you  will  so  far  gratify  me  as  to  let  me  know, 
whether  he  be  really  expell'd  or  no,  whereby  you  will  oblige 

Your  very  humble  servant 

J.  F. 

Two  Testimonies  from  the  College  in  behalf  of  ye  said  Mr.  Knollys  : 

Whereas  the  Reverend  Wm.  Dobson  Dr.  of  Divinity,  and  President  of 
Trinity  College  in  Oxori,  on  Monday  the  27th  of  October,  1707.  did  actually 
expell  Henry  Knollys,  Esqr.  Fellow-Commoner  of  ye  sd  College,  and  strike 
his  Name  out  of  the  Book,  that  is  kept  for  Registring  the  Names  of  the  Mem- 
bers of  that  Society  : 

Now  least  the  sd  Henry  Knollys,  Esqr.  should  suffer  in  his  Reputation,  by 
being  thought  to  have  been  unwilling  or  uncapable  of  performing  the  publick 
Exercises  of  the  said  College  ;  We  whose  Names  are  underwritten,  and  we  who 
20  have  been  the  publick  Lecturers  of  the  said  College  from  very  near  the  time  of 
the  admission  of  the  said  Henry  Knollys  into  the  said  College,  (which  is  now 
near  four  years  since)  do  by  these  Presents  declare,  that  he  has  all  along  re- 
gularly and  decently  perform'd  the  Exercises,  that  are  appointed  Gentlemen 
of  his  Gown  : 

Having  moreover  acquitted  himself  with  Reputation  by  constantly  attending 
the  Greek  Lecture  for  one  whole  year,  altho'  that  is  an  Exercise  which  has 
not  in  our  Remembrance  been  perform'd  by  or  ever  as  far  as  we  have  been 
inform'd  requir'd  of  Fellow-Commoners. 

In  Witness  whereof  as  far  as  in  each  Year  he  has  been  Auditor  to  one  or 
40  more  of  us,  we  set  our  Hands. 

Mr.  GUINNET  \  Tutor 

Mr.  OVERTON  >   T 

M*.  FINCH       (  Lecturers. 


Whereas  the  Reverend  Wm.  Dobson,  Dr.  of  Divinity  and  President  of 
Trinity  College  in  Oxon  on  Monday  the  27th  of  October  1707.  did,  as  we  have 
just  reason  to  believe  at  ye  Instigation  of  John  Barber  Clerk  reputed  one  of 
the  Fellows  of  the  said  College,  actually  expell  Henry  Knollys  Esqr.  Fellow 
Commoner  of  the  said  College,  and  did  strike  his  Name  out  of  the  Book,  that 
is  kept  for  Registring  the  Names  of  the  Members  of  that  Society,  and  all  this 
50  without,  what  is  requir'd  by  the  Statutes  of  the  said  College,  previous  pre- 
caution that  we  ever  heard  of  to  the  said  Henry  Knollys  Esqr.  or  any  Notice 
thereof  given  either  to  his  Tutor,  or  any  of  his  Relations  : 

Now  this  suddain  way  of  Expulsion  being  the  greatest  Punishment  that  the 
said  President  notwithstanding  his  pretended  arbitrary  Power,  by  which,  as 


Dec.  23.]  VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  113-130.  85 

Mr.  Knollys  informs  us,  the  President  said  he  expell'd  him,  can  inflict,  and 
what  is  appointed  by  the  Statutes  of  the  said  College  to  be  put  in  execution 
super  crimine  Hereseos,  Simonise,  Perjurij  manifesti,  furti  notabilis,  Rapinae, 
Homicidij  voluntary',  gravis  percussionis  socij,  vel  (quod  deterius  est)  ipsius 
Praesidentis : 

Lest  any  therefore,  who  should  hear  -of  this  formal  Expulsion  of  the  said 
Henry  Knollys  Esqr.,  Should  imagin  him  to  be  guilty  of  these  or  any  such  like 
Crimes,  and  he  thereby  should  causelessly  suffer  in  his  Reputation  ;  We,  whose 
names  are  hereunto  subscrib'd  do  by  these  Presents  declare,  that  we  could 
never  understand,  that  there  was  anything  alleg'd  against  him  at  the  time  of  10 
this  Expulsion  more  than  that  he  laugh'd  in  the  Chapell  of  the  said  College  at 
the  time  of  Divinity  Disputations,  that  he  kick'd  at  the  Cat  of  Thomas  Hasker, 
Clerk  and  Burser  of  the  said  Coll.  which  Cat,  (as  it  was  said)  ran  afterwards 
into  the  Chapell :  and  that  he  behav'd  himself  with  Incivility  to  some  of  the 
Society,  but  the  Persons,  Time  or  Place  were  not  particularly  mention'd  to 
him,  whereby  he  was  render'd  altogether  uncapable  of  making  any  Excuse  for 
himself. 

And  we  do  hereby  farther  testify,  that  the  said  Henry  Knollys  all  the  while 
we  have  known  him  a  Member  of  our  Society,  where  he  has  continu'd  for 
near  four  years,  in  all  which  time  we  have  been  intimately  acquainted,  and  20 
frequently  conversant  with  him,  hath  well  and  regularly  demean'd  himself,  not 
being  known  or  in  the  least  suspected  to  be  guilty  of  Cursing,  Swearing, 
Lying,  or  any  other  prophane  Discourse,  immoderate  Drinking,  whoring,  or 
any  other  Vice  or  Immorality  whatsoever  ;  which  is  what  we  are  the  more  con- 
firm'd  in,  for  that  the  President  himself,  (as  we  are  inform'd)  said  soon  after 
he  had  expell'd  him,  and  has  since  given  it  under  his  Hand,  that  he  had  nothing 
of  that  Nature  to  lay  to  his  Charge. 

This  Testimonial  was  sign'd  by 

Dr.  FRY. 

Dr.  BUDGEN.          3° 

Mr.  CRANK. 

Mr.  GUINNET. 

Mr.  OVERTON. 

Mr.  FINCH. 
Mr.  SHAW. 
Mr.  KNAPP. 
Mr.  NOURSE. 
Mr.  CURZON. 

...  A  piece  of  the  libri  Lintei  (namely  the  former  part  as  publish'd  by 
Mr.  Dodwell)  in  Graevius's  Notes  upon  Suetonius.  In  Boeder's  notes  to  40 
Herodian,  Dion  Cassius  emend,  p.  372,  408.  Eutrop.  illustrat.  p.  391. 
Horatius  emend,  p.  419.  Abt  ye  reading  of  Abgarus,  p.  421. — Titus 
Livius,  Sarisb.  Nug.  Cur.  1.  3.  c.  10.  Pliny  Jun.  ib.  1.  iv.  c.  8. — Epistle  of 
Plutarch  to  Trajan,  ib.  1.  5.  c.  i. — Justin  &  ye  Prologues  amended  several 
times  in  Cuper's  Observatt.  1.  4.  c.  10,  n. — See  Jo.  Sarisb.  abt  Justin.  1. 
6.  c.  17.  [127,  128  blank.] 

Dr.  Hudson's  Answer  to  a  Letter  from  Dr.  Allix. 

Clarissimo  doctissimoque  Viro  Dno.  Dri.  Allix  Joannes  Hudsonus  S.  P.  D. 

Quantum  debeo  humanitati  Michaelis  Lequien,  haud  ita  pridem  publice 
testatus  sum  :  quod  grati  animi  ergo  factum,  palam  omnibus  est.  Cum  vero  50 
ita  res  ceciderit,  ut  ejus  in  me  beneficiis  alius  forsan  se  Ixsum  existimet,  non 
possum  non  ejus  voluntati  morem  gerere  :  quamvis  parum  ingenui  esse  videa- 
tur  non  fateri  per  quos  profecerim.  Qua  de  re  utinam  per  te  ccrtior  fiat, 
quamprimum  ad  ilium  rescripturus  sis.  Hoc  ipsum  etiam  rogavi  Grabium 


86  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1707: 

nostrum,  qui  virum  istum  clarissimum  Hteris  saepe  interpellare  solet.  Subsidia 
ista,  quae  in  Josephi  Editionem  conquisierat  Fellus  6  fjLaKapirrjs,  post  mortem 
Bernard!  ad  nos  redierunt  omnia.  Verum  ilia,  quae  sua  &  amicorum  cura 
comparaverat,  utrum  comburi  jusserit  (ut  quidam  suspicantur)  an  peregrine 
cuidam  (quod  ferunt  alij)  uxor  ejus  tradiderit  nondum  mihi  compertum.  adeo 
ut  necesse  babeam  doctorum  auxilia  implorare,  ut  mea  qualicunque  opera 
tandem  praelo  paretur  Josephus :  qui  mole  sua,  ut  credo,  aliorum  fatigavit  in- 
dustriam.  Quin  aliquid  de  tuis  si  melius  depromptum  aliquando  nanciscar, 
dubitare  non  sinit  egregia  qua  polles  humanitas.  Vale,  Vir  eruditissime, 
10  meosque  in  re  literaria  conatus  juvare  perge.  Dabam  Oxonij  23  Dec.  1707. 

Dec.  24  (Wed.).  Harduin  of  opinion  that  the  Inscription  in  Gruter 
about  L.  Metellus,  p.  377.  is  spurious.  See  Not.  ad  Plin.  1.  7.  p.  127. 

Dec.  25  (Th.).  Anno  875.  Danos  depopulates  esse  Pilitos  Cum- 
Irosque  scribit  Fabius  Ethelwerdus ;  Pictos  &  Wallenses,  Matthaeus  Flori- 
legus;  Pictos  &  Stratdzttlenses  Asserius  de  rebus  gestis  Alfredi  &  eum 
secutus  Florentius  Wigorniensis ;  Peohtas  &  Straecled  Wealas,  Annales 
Anglosaxonici ;  Pictos  &  Strecledenses,  alij  Latini  annales  Asserio  per- 
peram  attributi.  —  Hegesip.  de  excid.  Hierosol.  1.  5.  c.  15.  validissimum 
genus  hominum  perhibetur,  &c.  vox  dicta  perhibeiur  subdititia  Usserio 
20  (Coll.  MSS.)  videtur,  utpote  Josephi  quae  hie  agitur  orationi  minime  con- 
gruens.  Confer  Isidor.  lib.  9.  Origin,  c.  2.  — 

'  This  Translation  is  ended  in  a  Thorsday  the  eyghth  day  of  Averyl  the  year 
of  our  Lord  1387.  the  twey  year  of  Richard  the  second  aftir  the  Conquest  of 
Engelonde,  the  yere  of  my  Lords  age  Sire  Thomas,  Lord  of  Berkeleye  that 
made  me  make  this  Translation  fyve  and  thritty.' 

(Ad  calcem  Polychronici  MS*.  Bibliothecae  Stradlinganae,  in  castro  S. 
Donati.)  —  D.  Bowles  Doctor  of  Divinity  married  the  daughter  of  D. 
Samford  Doct.  of  Phys.  and  vice  versa,  D.  Stamford  the  Daughter  of  D. 
Bowles,  whereupon  the  2  Women  might  say  to  the  2  Men  These  are 

3°  our  Fathers,  our  sonnes  &  our  Husbands.  (Out  of  ArchbP  Usher's  MSS. 
Coll.  penes  Jac.  Tyrrel).  —  ...  Ad  calcem  4  Evangeliorum  in  anti- 
quiss0.  Codice  Armachano  :  Matthaeus  versus  habet  2  700.  Marcus  1 600. 
Lucas  2900.  Johannes  2300.  &facittotum  9400.  —  See  whether  Dr.  Lyster 
in  his  Ed.  of  Apicius  has  remark'd  what  Ryckius  has  observ'd  in  ye  84*^ 
page  of  his  animadv.  upon  Tacitus  .  .  .  Nicandri  Alexipharmac.  Scholiast. 
p.  97.  *Eort  8e  TO  y[r]8iKov  p,rj\ov,  8  ecrn  vfpdvdiov.  (an  nostrum  Orange  ?) 
Usher's  coll.  MSS.  —  Henricus  Crump  scripsit  de  fundatione  omnium 
monasteriorum  Anglice  a  tempore  Byrini  Dorcestrensis  Episcopi  ad  tempus 
Roberti  Grosthed.  libello  ejus  usus  est  auctor  rythmorum  qui  de  vita  S. 

4°  Edithae  scripti  sunt  in  Biblioth.  Cotton.  44.  numer.  3.  —  Henry  the  7th 
had  no  title  at  all  to  y6  Crowne,  either  by  Father  or  Mother  (ye  Children 
of  Catherine  Swinford  being  illegitimate,  and  made  legitimate  by  Act  of 
Parliament,  only  for  to  succeed  in  their  Father's  Patrimony,  and  not  to  ye 
Crowne :  as  in  ye  Parliament  Rolles  imprinted  is  in  special  Termes 
provided)  but  only  by  his  wife.  Howsoever  the  vulgar  Error  runne  of 
his  joyning  the  Roses,  or  2  Houses  together.  Usher's  Coll.  MSS.  —  In 
Bibliotheca  publica  acad.  Cantabrig.  Ex  Bezae  lib0.  Graeco  MS0.  4. 
Evangeliorum  .  .  .  [136-138].  —  Ex  MS0.  Biblioth.  Bodlej.  (de  Pente- 
coste)  Illi  susceperunt  (legem)  in  tabulis  lapideis,  &c.  quum  usque  ad 

5°  spiritualem  intellectum  literae  non  pertingebant.  Sed  Spiritus  Sanctus 
patus  est  72  discipulis  in  corde  digito  Dei  spiritualem  intellectum  intus 


Dec.  23-Jan.  8.]      VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  130-156.  87 

dedicante.  Ideoque  dies  intellectus  dicitur,  i.  Witsonenday  (Saxon) : 
vel  item  Vitsonenday  quod  praedecessores  nostri  omnes  lac  ovium  & 
vaccarum  suarum  solent  dare  illo  die  pauperibus  pro  Dei  amore;  ut 
puriores  efficerentur  ad  recipiendum  donum  Spiritus  Sancti.  — 

Usher's  Coll.  MS. 

Scriptum  sub  signo  Praepositurae  Civitatis  Dublin,  28°  Februar.  an0.  17°.  R, 
Edv.  4.  (with  my  Gosen  Rob.  Ussher  of  Cwinlyn). 


ARLANDUS  USSHER 
DE    DUBLIN    MERCA- 
TOR:   QUI  TUM  VIXIT 


intayled  after  him  to 

1.  John  Ussher  and  he  dying  wthout  Heyres  to 

2.  Robert  Ussher.  and  so  to 

3.  Philippe  Ussher. 

4.  Christoforo  Ussher. 

5.  Thomae  Ussher. 

6.  Anna  Ussher  &  Margareta  Ussher. 

Arlandus  ille  dedit  &  concessit  unam  domum  in  venella  vocata  Burnellis 
lane  (now  Skipper's  lane,  beneath  Schoolehouse  lane)  pauperibus  Deo  ibidem 
servientibus.  20 

An  old  piece  of  Plate  with  him,  having  the  Scutcheon  of  the  Usshers  Armes 
(embraced  by  a  Beare)  viz.  in  a  fielde  azure,  3  Usshers  rods  argents. 

Bostonus  Buriensis  *  in  suo  scriptorum  Catalogo  de  Alfredo  Magno  inquit : 
totumferc  testamentum  in  linguam  anglicam  transtulit.  .  .  . 

Dec.  29  (Mon.).  [Note  on  Justin.  1.  xi.  c.  10,  from  Gronovij  Obser- 
vatt.  in  Script.  Eccl.  p.  66,  p.  113]  ...  Enquire  about  BP.  Andrews's 
notes  upon  ye  Liturgy,  which  are  frequently  quoted  .  .  . 

Dec.  31  (Wed.).  Notulae  Is.  Casauboni  in  Jos.  Scaligeri  Canones 
Isagogicos  ex  Usserij  MSS.  Collectaneis,  penes  Jac.  Tyrrel  armigerum, 
descriptae  ....  [142-155].  .  30 

Jan.  8  (Th.).  This  day,  in  the  Afternoon,  was  chosen  Fellow  of 
University  Coll.  in  room  of  Mr.  Greenwood,  who  has  got  a  Living,  Mr. 
Baynes  A.M.  There  was  no  one  in  y*  Coll.  that  oppos'd  him  ;  but  some 
time  since  there  was  one  viz.  Mr.  Middleton  a  Modest  good  natur'd, 
honest  Gentleman,  Bach,  of  Arts,  and  an  ingenious  excellent  Scholar, 
who  appear'd  against  him,  &  had  good  Interest :  &  there  was  great 
probability  that  he  would  have  carried  it,  if  they  had  went  to  Election  so 


Jan.  6.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  84).  Thanks  for  collations  of 
the  MS.  Acts  of  the  Martyrdom  of  St.  Polycarp.  Will  probably  leave  his 
work  upon  St.  Ignatius,  together  with  Bp.  Pearson's  Annotations,  to  H.'s 
care.  Has  not  yet  seen  the  new  book,  written  in  defence  of  Mr.  D.'s  odd 
hypothesis  by  one  Mr.  Pittis,  a  non-juror.  Is  heartily  grieved  for  our  learned 
and  pious  friend. 

Jan.  7.  H.  to  Thoresby.  Printed  :  Correspondence  of  Ralph  Thoresby  y  ii. 
88  sqq.  

1  quern  MS.  penes  me  habeo  inquit  Usserius. 


88  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

soon  as  was  expected.  But  Mr.  Baynes,  having  got  Dr.  Radcliff  &  some 
others  to  speak  in  his  Behalf,  &  Mr.  Middleton  being  in  a  Consumption, 
&  standing  more  upon  Merit  than  any  thing  else,  the  Master  &c.  got  the 
Election  deferr'd,  from  time  to  time :  so  y*  at  last  Mr.  Middleton  being 
irrecoverable  was  forc'd  to  retire  into  ye  Country,  and  upon  News  of 
his  being  either  dead  or  very  near  death  they  proceeded  to  Election, 
and  ye  Point  (which  had  been  so  long  contriving)  was  carried  for  Mr. 
Baynes,  who  has  deservedly  the  Character  of  a  good  Scholar  and  an 
honest  Man,  &  he  may,  if  he  please,  prove  very  usefull. 

10  Jan.  9  (Fri.).  Notae  Rich.  Thomsoni  in  Scaligeri  Animadversiones 
Eusebianas  (e  Collectaneis  Usserianis  penes  Jac.  Tyrrell.)  .  .  .  [158- 
168.] 

Jan.  10  (Sat.).  On  the  7th  Instant,  the  Queen  declar'd  Dr.  Blackball 
BP.  of  Exeter ;  Sr.  W™.  Dawes  BP.  of  Chester ;  and  IX  Trimnell  BP.  of 
Norwich  :  and  their  Conge"  D'FJires  are  order'd  to  the  respective  Deans 
and  Chapters.  At  the  same  time  She  declar'd  Dr.  John  Pottej  to  be 
Regius  Professor  of  Divinity  in  Oxon.  which  Place  has  been  kept  vacant 
ever  since  the  Death  of  Dr.  Jane.  'Twas  expected  Dr.  Smalridge,  who 
officiated  several  years  for  Jane,  should  have  been  the  Man,  but  it  seems 

20  he  is  an  eloquent,  ingenious  Gentleman,  an  Excellent  Divine  and  of  a 
deep,  rational  Understanding ;  a  true  Friend  to  the  Church,  resolute  and 
brave,  of  steddy  Principles  and  not  likely  to  be  turn'd  as  ye  Party  would 
have :  whereas  Potter  as  he  is  the  Son  of  a  profess'd  Presbyterian,  so  he 
has  taken  care  to  imbibe  republican  Principles,  &  is  withall  of  a  coole, 
heavy,  flat  temper,  (wcl1  the  Party  usually  call  moderation  &  prudence), 
never  much  apply' d  himself  to  Divinity,  has  writ  a  late  dull  Book  about 
the  Church  which  he  design'd  as  an  answer  to  y  Rights,  tho'  he  has 
specify'd  no  such  thing  in  the  Book,  (he  being  afraid  of  displeasing 
some  great  Men  of  the  same  Stamp  wth  ye  Author  of  y*  wicked  Tract) 

30  is  of  a  right  flexible  Disposition,  and  every  way  made  to  side  with  ye 
Party  Interest.  As  for  the  three  Bps.  they  are  reckon'd  good  Preachers, 
but  for  matters  of  Learning  I  never  heard  any  thing  extraordinary  of 
them ;  Learning  being  now  reckon'd  a  very  ordinary  Qualification  for  ye 
Mitre,  &  not  suitable  with  ye  Designs  hatching  against  Church  & 
Universities.  The  Parishioners  of  S*.  Dunstan's  in  the  West  have 
invited  Dr.  Smalridge  to  accept  of  their  Lecture,  worth  about  1 30  libs. 
per  an.  in  room  of  Dr.  Blackball.  Dr.  White  Kennett  (that  notorious 
Republican,  &  preacher  of  Rebellious  Doctrine)  is  made  likewise  Dean 
of  Peterborough  in  room  of  Dr.  Freeman  deceas'd,  so  well  does  the  Q. 

40  observe  the  motto  of  Semper  eadem. 

Jan.  11  (Sun.).  .  .  .  The  Letter  to  a  Convocation  Man,  which 
occasion'd  Dr.  Wake's  first  Book  upon  this  Subject,  was  writ  by  Sr. 
Barth.  Shower.  —  Ab*  a  Lection  of  Sappho,  see  Voss.  Ep.  p.  100. — 
Cone.  Scaliger's  Observations  upon  Josephus,  &  his  Indulging  Conjec- 
tures ib.  p.  105.  —  Just  printed  and  publish'd  at  Lond.  8V0.  The 
Mathematical  &  Philosophical  Works  of  BP.  Wilkins.  Prefix'd  his  Life 
per  Anon,  different  in  several  things  from  Ant.  a  Wood.  —  The  Ld 
Arundell  who  collected  the  stones  in  ye  Theatre  Yard  design'd  to  have 
writ  a  description  of  Athens,  perhaps  like  Gyllius's  Byzantium.  Vide 


Jan.  8-22.]  VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  156-177 '.  89 

Vossius's  Epp.  p.  145.  —  Dr.  Bathurst  left  twenty  Pounds  to  Mr. 
Stone's  Hospital  (in  S*.  Clement's)  wcb  (as  I  am  well  inform'd)  was  by  ye 
D".  Executor  paid  to  Delaune  (y6  then  Vice-Chanc.)  &  (as  I  am  farther 
told)  was  not  in  the  beginning  of  this  year  (1708)  paid  to  the  sd 
Hospital,  neither  can  any  body  tell  when  'tis  likely  to  be  paid. 

Jan.  21  (Wed.).  Mr.  Clarke  is  made  Minister  of  S*.  James's,  in 
room  of  Dr.  Trimnell  advanc'd  to  Norwich.  He  was  oppos'd  by  a  very 
worthy  Man  Dr.  Moss.  —  I.  Vossius  had  a  design  of  giving  us  a  new 
Ed.  of  Marianus  Scotus.  In  wch  Author  ArchbP.  Usher  also  took  much 
Pains.  Vide  Vossij  Ep.  p.  1 88.  ... 

Jan.  22  (Th.).  On  Monday  Mr.  Win.  Gregg,  a  Scotch  Man,  &  one 
of  ye  Under-Secretaries,  had  his  Tryal  for  High-Treason,  charg'd  upon 
him  upon  account  of  divers  secrets  communicated  by  him  by  Letters  to 
France.  To  all  the  Articles  he  pleaded  Guilty,  &  has  had  Sentence  of 
Death  pronounc'd  against  him  .  .  . 


Jan.  12.  Prof.  Barnes  to  H.  (Rawl.  24.  10).  Asks  for  collations  of 
various  MSS.  of  Homer  [Rawl.  24.  n,  which  bears  the  same  date,  and  is  en- 
tirely occupied  with  Homer,  was  evidently  addressed  to  Dr.  Hudson.] 

Jan.  17.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  10).  Some  of  Mr.  Jones's  MSS. 
missing.  '  Besides  these  Books,  Mr.  Marshall,  one  of  Mr.  Jones's  Executors, 
permitted  us  to  look  over  a  large  Trunk  full  of  other  Papers  ;  but  most  of 
them  are  trivial :  yet  there  are  some  Papers  of  BP.  Fell  cone,  the  Print  House 
wch  wjn  De  very  serviceable  to  us  in  getting  the  Extravagant  Prices  at  the 
Print-House  to  be  lower'd,  which  might  easily  be  done  if  the  Curators  would 
heartily  concur,  and  be  very  cautious  who  they  put  into  John  Hall's  place, 
now  vacant  by  his  Death.'  Believes  that  Dr.  H.  received  the  letter  in  ques- 
tion. '  I  design'd  this  last  Xtmass  to  have  taken  a  little  Journey  into  the 
Country,  and  had  prepar'd  a  Horse  for  y*  purpose  ;  but  a  day  or  two  before 
the  time  fix'd  on  I  was  taken  so  ill  that  I  was  for  some  time  confin'd  to  my 
chamber ;  but  I  thank  God  I  am  now  so  well  recover'd  that  I  hope  to  live  to 
finish  the  Work  I  have  undertaken.'  The  correctors  have  not  been  suffi- 
ciently diligent  in  the  new  edition  of  Gruter's  Great  Body  of  Inscriptions. 
Please  send  a  line  or  two  on  A  Description  of  London, 

Jan.  20.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  26).  Sends  money  for  the  Almelo- 
veen.  Complains  of  unfair  dealing  in  favour  of  his  adversaries.  Suggests  a 
Vocabulary  &c.  to  Livy,  and  a  Table  to  Leland.  Sorry  for  the  discourage- 
ment of  Smalridge ;  Potter's  notions  are  generally  very  right,  but  he  is  too 
cautious  of  offending  even  public  enemies. 

Jan.  21.  H.  to  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  i).  Can  only  spare  half  a  day  or  so 
for  collating  MSS.  for  Barnes  at  present.  '  Who  to  propose  in  our  Univer- 
sity in  truth  I  cannot  tell.  There  is  so  little  Encouragement  in  this  Sort  of 
Study  that  I  know  not  one  young  man  that  cares  to  bestow  any  time  in  what 
he  is  sure  not  to  be  the  better  for  in  the  way  of  Preferment.'  The  Dean  of 
Ch.  Ch.  will  be  a  good  encourager  of  Barnes'  Homer.  Literary  notes. 

Jan.  23.  Thoresby  to  H.  (Rawl.  10.  54).  Subscriptions  to  Livy.  'One 
of  the  Clergymen  (ot  whose  slowness  to  encourage  such  works  of  Learning  I 
am  really  ashamed)  has  given  me  the  slip  after  I  had  pd  the  first  subscription 
for  him,  tho  he  has  pounds  for  my  pence,  and  no  children  &c.'  Will  avoid 
Dr.  K.'s  tediousness  as  to  private  evidences.  Hopes  to  wait  on  H.  at  Oxford. 
Who  designs  a  History  of  Printing  ?  [On  the  fly-leaf  is  a  note  (55)  addressed 
'  For  The  Honourable  Albemarle  Bertie,  Esq.,  At  the  Parliament  House, 
London,'  who  had  franked  Hearne's  letter  to  Thoresby,  asking  for  a  similar 
favour.] 


90  H  EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

Jan;  24  (Sat.).  There  was  lately,  (&  I  believe  it  still  continues)  set  up 
at  Lond.  a  Club  call'd  the  Blaspheming  Club  &  the  Devil's  Light-House 
Club,  on  purpose  to  run  down  all  Religion,  &  carry  on  all  manner  of 
Debauchery.  The  present  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Commons's  Son  was 
one  of  the  persons  of  it.  —  ... 


MY 


Child's  Coffee-House  Jan.  28.  i7o|. 

To  the  Bp.  of  Ely,  Dr.  More. 


I  was  surpris'd  to  hear  in  this  Place  that  your  Ldship  introduc'd  Mr.  Step- 
10  hens  ]  to  kiss  the  Queen's  Hands  for  ye  Gr.  Professorship  at  Oxon,  who,  as  the 
Gentlemen  of  that  University  say,  is  by  no  means  qualify'd  for  that  Profes- 
sion ;  he  having  neither  skill  in  the  Greek  Language  nor  Industry  to  prosecute 
ye  study  of  it.  The  Oxonians  do  extremely  resent  the  late  Affronts  put  upon 
'em  by  ye  Court,  &  do  very  much  blame  ye  Bps.  of  your  University  for  in- 
teresting themselves  in  the  Promotion  of  unworthy  Men  to  Places  in  their 
University.  They  stick  not  to  say  that  you  endeavour  to  raise  the  Reputation 
of  Cambridge  by  sinking  that  of  Oxon.  The  Archbp.  of  Cant,  suffers  upon  ye 
Account  of  Dr.  Potter  whom  impartial  Men  openly  declare  to  be  not  half  so 
well  qualify'd  for  ye  Chair  as  Dr.  Smalridge.  Who  were  concern'd  in  making 
so  Milles  Professor  I  know  not  ;  but  they  say  he  was  as  meer  an  Ignoramus  in 
Greek  as  ever  pretended  to  it  :  and  as  for  Mr.  Stephens  they  will  hardly  allow 
y*  he  can  read  it,  all  his  Studies  lying  in  Modern  Poetry  &  French  Authors. 
If  these  things  be  true,  my  Ld,  as  I  fear  they  are,  'twill  be  a  great  discourage- 
ment to  Learning  in  that  University,  &  will  perhaps  have  a  malignant  Influence 
upon  ours  ;  and  when  Men  that  have  done  something  for  ye  Honour  of  ye 
University  &  ye  Nation  are  postpon'd  &  never  regarded,  there's  little  prob- 
ability that  ye  Young  Men  will  pursue  their  Steps  when  they  find  them  only 
lead  to  Poverty  &  Contempt.  Your  Ldship  has  had  the  Character  of  a 
Patron  of  Learning  ;  but  'tis  to  be  fear'd  that  ye  Men  of  Letters  will  not  allow 
30  it  you  long,  when  they  are  convinc'd  you  are  not  for  advancing  the  Interest 
of  it.  I  had  not  presum'd  so  far  as  to  lay  these  Matters  before  you  but  out  of 
Respect  to  your  Ldship,  to  whom  I  wish  all  happiness  &  prosperity,  &  remain, 
your 

Ldships  most  obedient 

&  dutifull  Servant 

R.  O. 


Jan.  24.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  85).  Sorry  to  hear  that  the 
Library  is  like  to  be  deprived  of  the  best  part  of  Bp.  Fell's  MSS.  '  In  BP. 
Fell's  lifetime  the  prices  of  printing  at  the  Theater  were  very  moderate  :  but 
afterwards  the  excessive  rates  you  referre  to,  were  brought  in  by  the  cunning 
&  artifice  of  John  Hall,  who  knew  how  to  influence  his  new  Masters,  and  at 
the  same  time  to  make  a  good  hand  of  it  to  his  own  profit  &  advantage.' 
Glad  of  H.'s  recovery,  and  to  learn  that  Livy  vol.  vi  is  in  the  press.  Hopes 
when  H.  is  delivered  from  this  drudgery  to  put  him  on  a  more  useful  study. 
Very  much  disappointed  with  the  new  ed.  of  the  Inscriptions  Antiquae.  En- 
closes letters  to  and  from  Rhenferdius,  &c.,  and  two  inscriptions  sent  from 
Ireland,  for  H.'s  explication.  Mr.  Watts  a  very  forward  young  man.  Is  it 
true  that  you  are  to  reprint  Barnabas'  Epistle,  with  DodwelPs  large  Commen- 
tary? 


N.B.  Mr.  Stephens  did  not  get  the  Place  but  Mr.  Thwaites.     See  below,  pag.  228. 


Jan.  24-30.]  VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  \  77-185.  91 

To  Mr.  Joshua  Barnes  of  Cambridge. 

From  ye  Grecian  Coffee  House, 

Lond.  Jan.  28.  170^. 
Mr.  PROFESSOR, 

By  chance  I  met  with  one  of  your  Proposals,  with  wch  I  was  extremely 
pleas'd,  being  sensible  how  much  it  is  for  ye  Honour  of  our  University  to  have 
so  learn'd  a  Professor  in  it.  I  show'd  your  Proposals  the  next  day  to  some 
Oxonians  who  did  approve  of  'em  &  applaud  your  design,  &  wish'd  they  could 
be  so  happy  in  their  University.  This  surpris'd  me  a  little,  &  I  ask'd  'em  the 
meaning  of  it.  To  wch  they  reply'd  that  their  Greek  Professorship  within  the  10 
Compass  of  one  year  had  been  dispos'd  off  to  two  Persons  by  no  means  quali- 
fy'd  for  it.  For  after  the  death  of  Dr.  Hody  a  silly,  empty  pretender  to  Greek 
crept  into  the  Chair ;  &  now  tother  day  'twas  fill'd  with  one,  if  it  be  possible, 
of  far  meaner  Abilities.  Upon  this  we  joyntly  lamented  the  decay  of  Learn- 
ing, &  ye  little  Encouragement  y*  was  given  to  such  as  apply'd  themselves  to 
it.  We  agreed  y*  Mr.  Barnes  deserv'd  some  of  ye  dignitys  in  ye  Church,  in- 
finitely better  yn  ye  Haranguing  Tribe  y*  fills  them.  Upon  ye  whole  matter 
we  concluded  y*  every  one,  who  had  a  regard  for  Learning,  should  promote 
such  designs,  as  you,  &  some  few  others,  are  willing  to  ingage  in.  We  resolve 
to  promote  your  subscriptions  as  far  as  possible,  tho'  we  are  afraid  that  you  20 
will  be  a  considerable  sutferer  by  ye  undertaking.  You  can  never  exspect  to 
get  above  300  Subscribers,  &  Booksellers  will,  of  course,  obstruct  what  you 
intend.  I  wish  you  heartily  good  success,  &  liberall  encouragement  in  your 
Studies. 

Your  humble  Servant 

R.  O. 

I  hear  y*  some  designs  at  Oxon  are  like  to  prove  abortive,  &  that  their  Press 
is  like  to  be  utterly  ruin'd  for  want  of  due  care  &  Encouragement. 

Jan.  27  (Tu.).     Yesterday   Morning   Mr.    Knollys,   who   was  lately 
expell'd  Trinity,   was   restor'd  to  ye  Coll.  &  put  on  his  Gown  again,  30 
by  order  of  the  Visitor,  then  in  Town,  &  Vice-Chanc.  &  the  President 
consented  to  it. 

Jan.  30  (Fri.).  Yesterday  was  install'd  Canon  of  Christ  Ch.  ye  New 
Low  Church  Professor  of  Divinity,  Dr.  Potter.  — 

Two  Inscriptions,  upon  the  Covers  of  two  Urns,  which  Covers  were 
lately  given  to  the  University  of  Dublin. 

KA^AYCIMAXI-NTHN(f>IAANAPON 
O0PEtAC0HAYMlPHC  $ 

HSllMNNEANMYHZIWNnoAIN 

HI!i!TIAZ<ATTIKoZ  4° 


Jan.  27.  Prof.  Barnes  to  H.  (Rawl.  24.  12).  Asks  H.  and  Dr.  Hudson 
for  a  specimen  ot  the  Baroccian  MSS.  of  Homer.  His  undertaking  will  stand 
him  in  near  .£1000,  but  he  is  full  of  courage, '  as  conscious  that  Homer  will  be 
more  himself  than  in  these  modern  ages  ever  before.' 

Jan.  81.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  n).  Remarks  on  Le  Clerc's  ed. 
of  the  Onomasticon.  Transcribes  from  a  note-book  first  impressions  on  the 
Dublin  inscriptions  ;  he  has  had  a  copy  showing  considerable  variations  from 
'  an  ingenious  Gent,  in  this  Town.'  Sends  his  opinion  of  recent  promotions, 


92  H  EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

Feb.  3  (Tu.).  On  the  30^  of  Jan.  The  Archbr.  of  York  (Sharp) 
preach'd  before  ye  Queen,  &  made  a  very  high  Sermon  ;  the  BP.  of 
Line.  (Dr.  Wake)  before  the  House  of  Commons,  in  Defence  of  Passive 
obedience  :  &  Dr.  Ayres  before  the  House  of  Commons  a  most  Excellent 
Sermon,  which  would  have  made  ye  Ears  of  ye  Whiggs  glow  had 
they  heard  it;  which  is  the  more  extraordinary  considering  who  the 
Persons  were  that  got  him  put  up.  —  The  Gentlemen  of  St.  Dunstan's 
in  the  West  have  unanimously  chosen  Dr.  Smaldridge  for  their  Lecturer, 
&  he  has  accordingly  accepted  it. 

10      Feb.  4  (Wed.).     A  Lection  of  Quinctilian  defended  by  Morhoff.  de 
Pat.  Liv.  p.  502. 

Feb.  6  (Fri.).  Mr.  ChishuU's  Book  against  Mr.  Dodwell's  Vindicator 
is  publish'd,  and  in  it  he  has  shown  the  same  Gall,  Conceit,  and 
Malice  as  in  his  former.  'Tis  done  in  great  hurry,  &  far  from  answering 
the  Expectations  of  unbiass'd  men. 

Feb.  7  (Sat.).  The  present  BP.  of  Ely,  Dr.  More,  has  a  son,  who 
was  sometime  since  of  Catherine- Hall  in  Camb.  from  wch  place  he 
was  expell'd  for  his  lewd  vicious  way  of  Living.  —  Coyns  have 
been  frequently  found  in  Stratton-Audley  Feilds ;  which  place  being 
30  within  4  Miles  of  Alchester  I  suppose  they  are  of  ye  same  sort  with 
those  found  there. 

Feb.  8  (Sun.).  Just  come  out,  Linguarum  Veil.  Septentrionalium 
Thesauri  Grammatico-Crrttci,  $•  Arch&ologici,  Auctore  Georgia  Hickesio, 
Conspectus  brevis  per  Gul.  Wottonum,  S.T.B.,  &c.  The  sd  Conspectus, 
is  a  trivial,  mean,  Performance ;  but  every  way  agreeable  to  Mr. 
Wotton's  Character,  of  being  a  conceited  Pretender  to  Learning,  & 


that  S.  may  see  how  little  he  is  biassed  by  any  discourse  of  the  Bp.  of  Wore, 
or  any  other  great  man.  Mr.  W.  a  very  busy,  bustling  person.  Mr.  Dodwell 
will  scarcely  print  Barnabas  at  Oxford,  being  displeas'd  with  Dr.  H.  about  the 
type  &c.  used  in  his  Dissertation  upon  the  Geogr.  Gr.  Minores. 

Feb.  6.  Bagford  to  H.  (Rawl.  21.  2).  Sends  a  small  parcel  of  books  for 
Oxford  friends.  Messages  to  Hudson,  Thwaites,  &c.  '  Mr.  Wanley  hath 
lately  hapined  on  some  very  ould  Alphibets  antiqe  of  y*  Sorte  of  printing  cut  on 
wood  which  I  shall  exhebite  in  my  Booke  as  sone  as  I  have  got  them,  but  I 
shall  send  you  a  specement  of  them,  and  I  dare  say  will  please  you  when  you 
se  them.' 

Feb.  7.  J.  Bennett  to  H.  (Rawl.  2.  95).  Remarks  on  common  friends, 
and  Livy  ;  general  news  &c.  '  P.S.  I  had  almost  forgot  a  great  peice  of  News 
from  Devonshire,  which  is  ye  Marriage  of  William  Bickford  Esq.,  the  Honour 
of  Edmund  Hall,  to  a  Lady  of  ye  same  Country.  His  Brother  is  gone  down 
to  wish  him  Joy,  and  see  his  new  Relation.  I  have  heard  some  Merry  Story's 
of  his  Courtship,  but  least  some  of  em  should  be  only  Invention,  I  shall  for- 
bear to  publish  'em.' 

Feb.  7.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  86).  The  two  Greek  inscrip- 
tions from  Dublin  may  be  depended  upon.  The  new  promotions  in  the 
Church  ;  the  High  Churchmen  and  Universities  are  justly  punished  for  their 
defection  at  the  Revolution.  Masson's  Life  of  Ovid  (similar  to  that  of  Horace) 
is  printed  in  Holland.  There  ought  to  be  a  Latin  answer  to  the  Stricturae 
breves.  Praises  the  Censura  temporum  ;  would  like  to  undertake  a  larger 
work  with  a  select  number  of  6  or  7,  who  may  pretend  to  the  title  of  a  Port 
Royal  here  at  London. 


Feb.  3-14.]  VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  186-193.  93 

we  may  gather  thus  much  from  it  that  Mr.  Wotton  by  thus  addicting 
himself  to  Middle-Age  Antiquity,  may  in  time  come  to  have  a  much 
better  opinion  of  ye  Ancient,  Classical  Authors  whom  in  his  Reflections 
upon  antient  $•  modern  Learning  he  has  postpon'd  to  ye  Moderns. 
Upon  the  Conspectus  a  certain  anonymous  Person  (whom  however  I  take 
to  be  Mr.  1Will.  Elstob)  has  made  certain  Notes,  which  are  for  ye  most 
part  light  and  are  here  printed  at  ye  End.  There  are  some  other 
things  added,  particularly  two  Instruments  and  Mr.  Thwaites's  Notes 
upon  ye  Saxon  Coyns  publish'd  by  Sr.  Andr.  Fountaine.  In  wch  Mr. 
Thwaites  has  observ'd  divers  things  very  well.  —  Trogus  Pompejus  I0 
mention'd  by  John  Wethamstede  in  some  Excerpta  out  of  his  Gran- 
arium,  see  MS.  Bodl.  NE.  F.  2.  18  at  ye  beg.  of  ye  sd  Excerpta.  —  ... 

Feb!  9  (Mon.).  In  order  to  carry  on  y6  unworthy  Promotions, 
the  Queen,  upon  ye  Recommendation  of  ye  IA  Pembroke,  (who  is 
not  a  man  of  y*  deep  Penetration,  nor  of  y*  profound  Learning  he 
is  taken  to  be)  has  appointed  Mr.  Tho.  Milles  the  Rhapsodist  to  be 
BP.  of  Waterford  and  Lismore  in  the  Kingdom  of  Ireland,  in  room  of 
Dr.  Foy  deceas'd.  Of  this  Place  some  years  since  was  BP.  Dr.  Atherton, 
who  had  ye  Misfortune  to  be  hang'd  for  most  infandous  Crimes ;  but 
there  is  this  difference  between  ye  present  new  BP.  Mr.  Milles  &  him,  20 
that  whereas  Atherton  was  a  man  of  admirable  Natural  Parts,  great 
Elocution,  &  equal  Learning,  and  was  not  at  all  unqualify'd  for 
a  BP.  excepting  his  Want  of  Honesty,  on  ye  other  hand  Milles  has 
not  one  Qualification,  either  as  to  Parts,  Learning,  Prudence  or  Honesty, 
&  I  do  (as  also  do  others)  really  take  him  to  be  the  most  meanly  fitted 
for  BP.  that  was  ever  preferr'd  in  this  Manner  from  y°  first  Establish- 
ment of  Episcopacy  in  these  Parts. 

Feb.  10  (Tu.).  Ab*.  Gunns,  the  time  of  their  Invention,  see  Voss. 
Epp.  p.  424.  Ep.  CCCCLXXXIII.  -  Peter  Needham  yt  ungratefull  Wretch 
(as  appears  from  his  Geoponicks,  the  best  part  of  ye  Notes  whereof  he  ,0 
had  from  the  Pub.  Library  of  Oxon.  without  acknowledging  &  most 
ranck  Whigg,  is  Nephew  to  Mr.  Nicholson  of  Univ.  Coll.  who  turn'd 
Papist  in  King  Charles  ye  Hds.  time. 

Feb.  12  (Th.).  Mr.  Harley  has  resign'd  the  Office  of  Secretary 
of  State,  &  'tis  thought  will  be  succeeded  by  Mr.  Dalrimple  one  of  ye 
Scotch  Members  of  Parliament  of  Great  Britain. 

Feb.  14  (Sat.).  The  Honble.  Mr.  Boyle  Chanc.  of  ye  Excheqer. 
is  put  into  Secretary  Harley's  Place.  At  ye  same  time  y*  Mr.  Harley 
resign'd  there  resign'd  also  Sr.  Thomas  Mansell  Comptroller  of  her 
Majesty's  Houshold.  Since  that  Sr.  Simon  Harcourt  Atturney  General  40 

Feb.  12.  R.  Roberts  to  H.  (Rawl.  9.  36).  'These  parts  are  overgrown 
with  Whigs,  and  in  prudence  I  very  little  thwart  them,  but  conceal  my  Prin- 
ciples till  better  times.'  Sends  directions  for  paying  various  small  debts  in 
Oxford. 

Feb.  14.  Dr.  Woodward  to  H.  (Rawl.  12.  87).  Dr.  King  will  show  H. 
letters  from  Gronovius  and  Cuperus  concerning  the  Shield ;  asks  for  a  few 
copies  of  the  engraving.  Commends  L.  Patarol's  Series  Augustorum,  Augus- 
tarum,  Caesarum,  &c.  (Venice  1702). 

1  Not  Elstob,  but  Dr.  Hickes  himself  was  Author,  as  I  am  since  inform'd. 


94  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

and  Mr.  S*.  John's  Secretary  of  War  have  resign'd.  All  wch  Resignations 
were  made  much  ag*  ye  Queen's  Desire ;  but  she  could  not  resist 
ye  Request  &  Motion  of  two  Great  Men,  who  manage  every  thing,  ye 
XD.  of  M.  and  The  IA2  Tr.  -  The  BP«.  of  Exeter,  &  Norwich 
were  consecrated  this  day  sennight;  &  two  or  three  days  after  the 
BP.  of  Chester. 

Feb.  15  (Sun.).  There  is  lately  printed  and  publish'd  (half  a  Sheet 
in  8V0.)  a  Pamphlett  call'd  Predictions  for  jf  Year  1708.  By  Isaac 
Bickerstaff,  Esqr.  'Tis  a  merry  Banter  upon  Astrology  &  is  much 

!°  bought  up.  I  am  told  an  old  Gentleman  of  Camb.  is  Author.  —  A 
Second  Vol.  of  ye  Phoenix,  containing  divers  scarce  Papers,  &c.  was 
lately  publish'd.  The  Publisher  Mr.  Collins,  who  is  of  Deistical  Re- 
publican Principles,  &  'tis  sd  had  a  very  great  Hand  in  ye  Rights  of 
y  Church.  —  ...  There  was  one  Traherne  (Tho.)  of  Braz.  Nose  Coll. 
Quaere  whether  he  was  author  of  a  Book  call'd  Xtian  Elhicks  ?  — 
Trelawny  (Sr.  Jonathan,)  Baronet,  was  Student  of  X*.  Church,  and 
from  thence  made  BP.  of  Bristol  (quaere  whether  by  K.  Charles  II. 
or  8K.  James?)  afterwards  by  King  Wm.  translated  to  ye  Bpprick  of 
Exon.  He  was  one  of  those  popular  BPS.  y*  were  put  in  ye  Tower 

20  upon  Account  of  King  James's  declaration  for  Liberty  of  Conscience. 
He  sat  in  ye  See  of  Exon  several  years,  &  did  some  good  offices  for 
ye  Church  in  it,  but  a  great  many  more  bad  ones.  At  length,  for 
betraying  the  Interest  of  old  England  &  promoting  ye  Designs  of  ye 
IA  Treasurer  Godolphin,  &  ye  base  corrupt  Court,  he  was  preferr'd 
to  ye  Bpprick  of  Winchester,  wch  he  was  by  no  means  qualify 'd  for, 
either  upon  y6  Score  of  Learning,  Religion,  Probity  or  even  common 
Discretion.  One  Instance  of  this  may  be  his  taking  Dr.  Newey, 
amply  preferr'd  in  ye  Church  of  Exeter,  &  a  libertine  divine,  (yclipit 
Dick  Duke,  who  was  Prebendary  of  Gloucester  and  had  a  good  Living) 

3°  to  be  his  Domestick  Chaplains,  when  there  were  so  many  worthy  Men 
in  ye  University  better  fitted  for  yfc  Imployment  &  without  ye  least 
Prospect  of  any  Preferment.  He  has  publish'd  a  Sermon  or  two.  — 
Tully  (Geo.)  Fellow  of  Queen's  Coll.,  Nephew  to  Dr.  Tho.  Tully 
principal  of  Edm.  Hall,  was  a  noted,  florid  Preacher  in  the  Beginning 
of  King  James  IId'8.  Reign.  A  little  after  he  became  Fellow  of  Queen's 
he  was  made  Chaplain  to  ArchbP.  Sterne,  who  gave  him  some  little 

Feb.  15.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  12).  Takes  the  Centura  Temp. 
to  be  an  honest,  useful  paper.  Has  also  '  read  over  another  Paper  in  8VO  writ 
by  Mr.  Bickerstaff,  which  is  a  good  Banter  upon  ye  Astrologers  and  is  much 
bought  up  in  this  place.'  Mr.  Hall  is  resolved  to  publish  Leland  de  Scriptoribus, 
which  is  a  pity  if  Mr.  Tanner  really  intends  to  put  it  into  the  press  speedily. 
Mr.  Wotton's  conspectus  of  Hickes'  Thesaurus  (as  also  the  notes,  ?  by  Wm. 
Elstob)  a  very  mean  performance.  Several  of  Mr.  Thwaites'  observations  on 
the  Saxon  coins  ridiculous.  He  indulges  conjecture  too  much  ;  e.g.  his  view 
that  the  passage  in  Quintilian  concerning  Livy  beginning  his  History  with  an 
Hexameter  Verse  is  spurious,  is  wholly  unsupported  by  the  MSS.  Please 
send  remarks  on  the  Greek  inscriptions,  and  on  the  Fragments  of  Livy  as  col- 
lected by  H.  Vie<w  of  London  done  by  a  bookseller ;  fears  that  the  continuation 
of  Weever  will  not  be  '  an  absolute  work.' 


1  Duke  of  Marlborough.  *  Treasurer  Godolphin.  3  By  King  James. 


Feb.  14-20.]  VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  193-203.  95 

Preferment  in  y6  Church  of  York ;  but  ye  ArchbP.  dying  a  little  time 
after  Mr.  Tully  return'd  to  Oxori.  and  married  a  beautifull  Woman, 
one  Mre.  Witty.  While  he  liv'd  in  Oxon  he  us'd  now  and  then  to 
get  a  turn  of  preaching  before  y6  University.  One  of  his  Sermons 
being  very  severe  against  Popery,  which  is  printed,  King  James  caus'd 
him  to  be  suspended  from  his  Preferment  in  York;  which  made  him 
a  bitter  Enemy  to  ye  said  Prince,  and  moreover  even  to  Monarchical 
Government  it  self.  Upon  ye  Revolution,  I  think,  he  got  a  Lectureship 
in  New-Castle,  and  a  Living  call'd  Gateshead  near  New-Castle.  He 
herded  with  ye  Fanetical  Tribe  of  y*  Towne,  and  grew  very  dissolute  10 
in  his  Life  and  Conversation.  He  has  printed  two  or  three  other  Sermons, 
and  a  Discourse  About  ye  Government  of  ye  Thought.  —  Thomas 
Tully,  A.M.  of  Edm.  Hall,  Nephew  likewise  to  Principal  Tully,  became 
Chaplain  to  Dr.  Rainbowe,  BP.  of  Carlisle,  and  was  preferr'd  by  him 
to  ye  Chancellorship  of  y*  Church.  He  was  always  a  Favourer  of 
the  Whiggish  Interest  in  those  Parts,  and  by  the  Ld.  Lonsdale  was 
made  Chaplain  to  y*  Mongrel  King,  call'd  William  IIP.  By  this 
means  he  got  a  good  Living,  but  his  Preferment  being  very  remote 
from  London  I  think  he  quitted  his  Chaplainship  a  little  after.  He 
has  printed  a  Sermon  upon  ye  Funeral  of  BP.  Rainbow,  and  added  20 
to  it  an  Account  of  his  Life :  both  trite  stuff  and  mean  Performances.  — 
Francis  Turner,  of  New  Coll.,  afterwards  BP.  of  Ely.  Quaere  what 
Ant.  Wood  has  sd  of  him?  —  Tyler  (John)  of  Magd.  Coll.  now  BP. 
of  Landaff.  Qu.  whether  he  has  printed  any  thing  ?  —  Tyson  (Edw.), 
A.M.  of  Magd.  Hall  became  a  Practitioner  of  Phys.  in  London,  and 
rais'd  himself  to  some  Eminency.  After  this,  by  ye  Perswasion  of  some 
intimate  Friends,  was  prevail'd  with  to  commence  Dr.  of  Phys.  in 
Cambridge.  Being  a  Man  of  Parts  and  Ingenuity  he  prepar'd  his 
Exercise  before  he  went  down  to  y*  University;  but  when  he  came 
there,  (as  he  himself  was  pleas'd  to  tell  his  Friend  and  Fellow-Student  30 
Dr.  Plott,)  they  would  not  let  him  do  his  Exercise,  but  insisted  upon 
having  his  Money  instead  of  it.  Which  Dr.  Tyson  took  so  very  ill 
yt,  tho'  he  accepted  of  his  Degree,  as  not  knowing  well  how  to  avoid 
it,  yet  he  frequently  said  y*  he  could  not  well  look  upon  himself  as  a 
Doctor  of  Physick.  He  has  writ  a  great  many  things,  partly  printed 
in  ye  Phil.  Transactions,  and  partly  by  themselves,  a  Catalogue  of  w011 
may  be  seen  in  his  Book  call'd  Ouran-Outang.  —  Matthew  Hole, 
late  of  Exon  Coll.,  hath  just  publish'd  Lectures  upon  y«  Church  Cate- 
chism, 4°.  He  hath  also  printed  other  things. 

Feb.  17  (Tu.).   Mr.  Lesley  in  one  of  his  last  Rehearsals  has  very  hand-  40 
somly  and  clearly  vindicated  Mr.  Dodwell's  Ep.  Discourse  cone,  the 
Soul  from  the  Attacks  of  his  pert,  ignorant  answerers. 

Feb.  2O  (Fri.).  Mr.  Walpoole  is  made  Secretary  of  War  in  room  of  Mr. 
St.  John's.  —  Old  Glossary  for  y8  Latin  Tongue,  MS.  Laud.  D.  47, 
Baroc.  50.  p.  109.  b,  Laud.  D.  63,  G.  71,  Super  Art.  67.  p.  138  b.  Mus.  92, 
152.  p.  192.  Jun.  116.  O.  Jun.  117.  G.  —  Ad  lib.  i.  Carminum  Horatij,  in 
od.  ad  Iccium  in  y8  last  verse  'tis  in  ye  common  Editions  tendis  ;  but  in 
Lambin's  temnis,  as  Victorius  would  also  have  it  read.  See  how  'tis  in 
MSS.  Bodlejanis. 


96  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

Feb.  26  (Th.).  Last  Week,  on  Wednesd.  died  Sr.  Edw.  Seymour,  of  a 
great  Age,  at  his  Seat  at  Maiden-Bradley  in  Wilts.  He  burnt  his  Will  a 
day  or  two  before  ;  &  his  Estate  comes  to  his  Son,  a  worthy  Gentle- 
man. —  .  .  .  Inscriptio  de  Bacchanalibus  explicata  .  .  .  .  [204-208.]  — In  ye 
Coyn  ingrav'd  by  Sr.  A.  Fountaine  p.  162.  Diss.  Ep.  on  both  sides  appear 
GO  &  just  under  ye  Chin  -n.°Jo,  without  v  s  on  one  side,  or  A  2  on  ye 
other,  as  Burghers  has  represented  it  .... 

March  4  (Th.).     Cod.  MS.  Baroc.  47.  contains  a  Paraphrase  upon 

Homer  in  Greek  :  In  wcb  oftentimes  are  added  in  ye  Margin  &  oftentimes 

10  between  ye  lines  by  ye  same  Hand  Synonymous  Words  and  Explications 

Feb.  21.  Prof.  D.  Gregory  to  H.  (Rawl.  6.  157).  'In  the  beginning  of 
the  last  week,  before  I  left  Oxford,  I  subscribed  for  a  Livy  in  large  paper,  and 
pay'd  you  ten  shillings  in  hand.  The  Note  which  I  then  got  from  you  is  fallen 
by  hand :  but  I  hope  you  will  by  your  letter  make  it  up,  by  owning  what  I 
now  have  said.'  Please  bespeak  two  large-paper  copies  of  Clarendon  in  8vo. 
I  presume  the  University  keeps  some  (as  in  the  former  editions)  for  this  very 
purpose  to  supply  scholars  that  desire  it  ? 

Feb.  21.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  87).  Sends  notes  on  the  Dublin 
busts.  Numerous  inscriptions  lately  transcribed  at  Aphrodisias  by  gentlemen 
of  the  factory  of  Smyrna,  which  should  be  incorporated  in  a  new  edition  of  the 
Marmora.  Has  again  refused  to  communicate  Bp.  Cosin's  papers  to  Mr.  W — . 
'  There  is  no  such  man  as  Isaac  Bickerstaffe  Esquire.  The  productions  of 
this  jocular  Author,  thousands  of  wch  have  been  sold  here,  are  pure  invention, 
and  published  to  cheat  people  of  their  pence,  and  amuse  the  mob.'  Bp.  Nicol- 
son,  though  cast,  will  not  take  off  the  excommunication  of  Dr.  Todd,  who,  if 
he  were  discharged,  would  set  immediately  upon  printing  his  Notitia  of  the 
Diocese  of  Carlisle.  Wishes  that  Leland  de  Serif  toribus  were  published,  though 
he  cannot  approve  of  Mr.  Hall's  disingenuity.  Mr.  Wotton's  Conspectus  brevis 
of  Dr.  Hickes'  great  work  is  trivial ;  the  notes  to  the  notitia  in  the  Acta 
Eruditorum  were  written  by  Hickes  himself.  Thwaites  a  man  of  fancy. 
Hutton's  Fie<w  of  London  a  slight  performance;  has  not  heard  of  any  design  for 
carrying  on  Weever's  Essay  all  over  England.  Please  consult  Actio  in  H.  Gar- 
nettum  (Life  of  Gamden,  xliv). 

Feb.  23.  Pat  Gordon  to  H.  (Rawl.  6.  109).  H.  seems  to  have  been  out 
of  humour  when  he  wrote  last ;  remarks  on  H.'s  Livy  and  on  Grabe's  Penta- 
teuch and  Dissertation  on  the  LXX.  '  I  thank  you  for  the  account  you  gave 
me  of  New-books,  tho'  they  are  pretty  much  out  of  my  way  ...  I  want  to 
know  what  the  Learned  world  saith  of  Mr.  Collier's  Church  Hist,  of  great 
Brittain,  and  how  Mr.  Echard's  Hist,  of  England  takes.' 

Feb.  28.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38. 1 3).  Thanks  for  notes  on  Dublin 
busts.  A  new  edition  of  the  Oxford  Marbles  would  be  for  the  credit  of  the 
University.  Remarks  on  Mr.  Watt's  '  base  disingenuous  dealing  by  him.'  Mr. 
Hall  fit  enough  to  print  Leland.  Sorry  Dr.  Hickes  should  condescend  to 
write  notes  on  Wotton's  Conspectus  bre-vis.  Several  of  Thwaites'  conjectures 
on  the  Saxon  coins  extravagant ;  certain  additions  in  the  representation  of 
the  golden  piece  of  Edward  the  Confessor  in  our  Archives  probably  due  to 
Thwaites,  who  directed  the  engraving,  and  used  to  sit  by  Burghers  when  at 
work.  Dodwell  now  inclinable  to  print  Barnabas. 

Mar.  1.  Mary  Cherry  to  H.  (Rawl.  4.  78).  Thanks  for  H.'s  trouble  in 
her  late  brother's  affairs. 

Mar.  4.  H.  to  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  28).  Will  be  able  to  do  all  in  the 
Bodleian  relating  to  Homer.  Sends  Iliad  Book  i  collated  with  the  Baroccian 
MS.,  and  one  of  Laud's,  together  with  a  specimen  of  the  Paraphrase.  Literary 
notes.  '  I  think  by  and  by  to  walk  to  Heddington,  where  we  will  remember 
you  both.' 


Feb.  26— March  7.]      VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  203-214.  97 

of  some  Passages  in  red  Letters.  'Tis  a  Paper  MS*,  and  writ.  betw.  3  and 
400  Years  since.  The  Author  unknown  ;  but,  as  I  found  upon  collating 
some  part,  the  Interpretation  is  much  like  Didymus's,  &  was  in  all  likely- 
hood  taken  from  it,  y6  Author  sometimes  however  using  his  own  Expres- 
sions. —  A  little  time  since  Mulles  writ  a  Letter  to  ye  Vice-Chanc. 
signifying  y*  he  had  design'd  to  preach  in  his  own  turn,  but  y*  being 
hinder'd  by  Business  he  desir'd  him  to  put  up  whom  he  pleas'd.  The 
Letter  was  directed  for  ye  Reverend  Dr.  Lancaster,  wthout  any  Specifica- 
tion of  Vice-Chancellor  or  Provost  of  Queen's.  Much  ab*  ye  same  time 
Sr.  Andrew  Fountaine  writ  to  Mr.  Thwaites  telling  him  that  he  had  been  10 
with  Bp.  Milles  &  told  him  y*  her  Majesty  had  pitch'd  upon  Mr.  Thwaites 
for  Professor  of  Greek,  &  y*  he  hop'd  his  Ldship  (Milles)  would  resign  ye 
Seals ;  but  he  refus'd  &  said  he  would  continue  Greek  Professor,  having 
no  manner  of  reason  to  do  Mr.  Thwaites  any  such  Kindness,  he  having 
been  a  great  Instrument  in  getting  his  Degree  deny'd  in  Oxon.  Thwaites 
writ  Sr.  Andrew  a  very  civil  Letter,  shewing  y*  Milles's  being  deny'd  was 
to  be  attributed  to  himself,  by  his  affront  upon  ye  University,  yfc  he  had 
crept  into  his  Acquaintance  without  his  seeking,  &  pretended  to  be  his 
Friend  for  about  eight  years ;  y*  he  never  recd  any  ye  least  real  Friendship 
from  Milles  but  ye  quite  contrary  by  his  undermining,  malicious  tricks,  ao 
(just  as  he  had  dealt  by  Mr.  Dodwell,  whom  he  has  abus'd  at  ye  highest 
rate,  which  however  Mr.  Dodw.  will  pardon  in  hopes  he  will  prove  a  better 
Bp.  than  he  has  done  a  Friend)  one  of  wch  was  his  getting  two  Or  three 
Colleges  in  Oxon  to  be  Mr.  Thwaites's  Enemies  by  a  story  told  by  Milles 
relating  to  Mr.  Geo.  Clarke. — When  Mulles  was  with  some  Gentlemen  y* 
were  Mr.  Thwaites's  particular  Friends  a  Discourse  arising  about  Mr. 
Thwaites  y6  Gentlemen  said,  y*  Mr.  Thwaites  had  undergone  his  affliction 
with  wonderfull  courage.  Mulles  maintain'd  (after  his  usual  way)  that 
twas  not  Courage  but  Obstinacy. 

[Editions  of  classical  authors  in  Coll.  Coddrington's  Study.  .  .]  30 

March  5  (Fri.).  This  Morning  ab*  one  Clock  died  Dr.  Wm.  Breach  a 
noted  Physitian  and  Student  in  X*  Church.  He  was  buried  on  Friday  5 
Clock  in  ye  Evening  March.  18.  He  died  worth  about  5  or  6  thousand 
pounds  wc'h  comes  to  his  two  Sisters  &  a  niece,  he  dying  intestate  .... 

March  7  (Sun.).  The  first  Edition  of  Pliny's  Epistles  came  out  at 
Bononia,  by  y6  Care  of  P.  Beroaldus,  in  ye  year  1498,  4°.  This  Edition, 
wcl1  is  very  different  from  all  ye  Common  Editions,  contains  only  9  Books, 
&  yt  wch  commonly  goes  under  ye  name  of  ye  8*b  is  there  call'd  the 
pth  &  vice  versa,  &  they  are  both  plac'd  accordingly.  Four  years  after  the 

March  6.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  88).  Will  be  glad  to  see  the 
text  of  Dod well's  edition  of  the  Epistle  of  St.  Barnabas,  but  is  anxious  as  to 
the  commentary.  Cannot  yet  determine  how  to  dispose  of  St.  Ignatius.  H. 
has  thoroughly  overthrown  Thwaites'  conjecture  about  the  golden  Saxon  coin. 
In  Centura  temporum  Numb.  II.  the  author  flags  very  much  from  his  first  per- 
formance. Hears  that  Caelius  Aur.  is  printing  in  Holland.  Memoirs  of  the 
family  of  Cavendish  published  by  Kennett  at  the  end  of  the  Funeral  Sermon 
&c.,  for  which  he  received  50  gs.  Notes  on  Cavendish's  Life  of  Wolsey.  Is 
An  Account  of  the  Examinations  and  Confessions  of  the  Powder-Traitors  in  Bodley  ? 
Glad  to  hear  that  Rights  of  the  Church  is  to  be  censured  by  Convocation  at 
Oxford. 

VOL.  II.  H 


98  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

ioth  Book  was  Publish'd  in  4to  by  Hieronymus  Avantius  Veronensis,  but 
ye  order  of  the  Epistles  is  quite  different  from  the  later  Editions.  (It 
beginns  with  the  Epistle  de  lacu  Nicomedensium  (reckon'd  here  Ep. 
XXVII  without  any  Epistles  preceding,  by  wcl1  it  should  seem  ye  MS*  was 
imperfect)  cujus  princ.  Intuenti  mihi  $  for  tuna  twz,  $c.  I  have  this 
bound  up  w*h  Beroaldus's  Ed.  of  ye  9  Books.  (The  Panegyrick  wanting.) 
In  ye  Margin  of  ye  sd  Copy  w°h  I  have  are  divers  MSS.  lections  &  correc- 
tions by  some  learned  Hand.  This  Book  confirms  Mr.  Dodwell's  Opinion 
in  his  Annales  Plin.  w°h  I  have  formerly  look'd  over  y*  Pliny's  Epistles, 
10  (quce.  a  Plinio  ipso  collects  $•  publicatce  sunt  non  servato  temporis  or  dine,  L  i. 
Ep.  i)  have  been  put  by  the  Editors  into  a  different  order  from  y*  in  wch 
Pliny  plac'd  ym  himself.  —  Happening  to  be  w**1  Mr.  Johnson,  the  Editor 
of  Sophocles,  last  night  he  spoke  somewhat  slightingly  of  Mr.  Josuah 
Barnes  of  Cambridge,  &  of  Mr.  Upton  late  of  Eaton,  and  said  that  he 
had  discover'd  a  great  many  considerable  Faults  in  Mr.  Barnes's  Anacreon, 
&  talk'd  much  of  himself.  .  .  . 

March  10  (Wed.).     Dr.  Beveridge  BP.  of  St.   Asaph   died   Saturday 
Morning  last,  in  ye  7 Ist  Year  of  his  Age. ...  —  Marm.  Oxon.  p.  277  ... 

March  12  (Fri.).     [Books  in  the  Bodleian  Library  on  the  history  of  the 
20  Gunpowder  Plot  &c.].  .  . . 

March  13  (Sat.).  The  present  Vice-Chanc.  (Dr.  Lancaster)  was  ye 
Person  who  preach'd  before  ye  University  ye  Thanksgiving  Sermon 
for  ye  Birth  of  ye  Pr.  of  Wales ;  &  he  is  the  first  Mover  now  for  an  Address 
to  be  made  by  ye  University  to  ye  Q.  upon  Ace*  of  an  Invasion  discours'd 
of.  —  The  Life  of  Cardinal  Wolsey  by  George  Cavendish,  one  of  his 
Gentlemen  Ushers,  MS.  I.  66.  Laud.  His  Picture  Engrav'd  by  Ren. 
Elstrack  is  pasted  in  at  the  beginning,  but  'tis  not  so  well  done  as  that  in 
Monsieur  de  Larrey. — That  in  Bodley's  Archives  (B.  182.)  is  a  Trans- 
cript, but  faulty  and  wants  about  a  Leaf  at  ye  Beginning. — Not  specified 
30  there  who  was  Author.  —  At  9  Clock  this  Morning  was  a  Convocation 


March  9.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  27).  Loth  to  venture  an  opinion 
on  the  Inscription  of  Gronovius.  Does  not  desire  Dr.  Hudson  to  trouble 
himself  concerning  Barnabas  if  the  booksellers  in  Oxford  be  unwilling  to  un- 
dertake it.  Remarks  on  Livy,  and  gives  references  for  his  Catonian  chrono- 
logy. Mr.  Chishull  unreclaimable. 

March  11.  Bagford  to  H.  (Rawl.  21.  3).  Asks  for  translation  of  any  pas- 
sage in  Greek  or  Latin  relating  to  the  antiquity  of  paper,  parchment,  or  ink. 
Has  been  very  curious  in  his  observations  of  bindings ;  sends  remarks  on  two 
in  Bennet  Coll.  Has  sent  specimens  of  old  paper  (for  water-marks  &c.),  an 
old  Josephus  for  Dr.  Hudson,  &c.  Messages  to  Thwaites,  Charlett  and  other 
friends. 

March  13.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  14).  Part  II  of  Centura  Tem- 
porum  very  inferior  to  Part  I.  His  Oxford  friend  pursues  his  design  of  cor- 
recting &c.  Caelius  Aur.  Never  much  admired  anything  of  Dr.  Kennett's. 
Remarks  on  MS.  copies  of  Cavendish's  Life  of  Wolsey.  The  only  piece  in 
Bodley  relating  to  the  Powder-Treason  S.  10.  Jur.  Narratio  fidelis  (4to). 
'This  day  an  Address  to  the  Q^occasion'd  by  the  talk'd  of  Invasion,  pass'd 
the  Convocation,  and  the  Vice-Chanc.  &c.  go  with  it  on  Monday  next.  The 
Vice-Chanc.  was  the  first  mover  for  it,  and  drew  it  up  himself:  which  is  the 
more  remarkable,  because  he  was  the  Person  that  preach'd  before  the  Univer- 
sity on  the  Thanksgiving  day  for  the  Birth  of  the  P.  of  W.  He  expects  a 


Itarcb.7-20.]  VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  214-223. 


99 


in  wch  the  Address  to  ye  Queen,  drawn  up  by  Dr.  Lancaster  himself,  was 
read  &  agreed  to. 

A  NEW  BALLAD  TO  Ye  TUNE  OF  CHEVY  CHACE. 


Wn    Good    Queen    Bess    did    rule   this 
Land, 

A  Lady  of  great  Fame ; 
There  liv  d  a  Man  of  great  Command, 

And  Essex  was  his  Name. 

This  Essex  did  some  wondrous  things, 

By  Sea  and  Land  he  fought, 
He   serv'd  y6  French,  drubb'd   Spanish 
Kings, 

But  did  not  this  for  nought. 

Places  and  Pensions,  Grants  good  store 
The  Queen  did  give  unto  him  ; 

The  more  he  had,  he  crav'd  ye  more, 
Which  did  at  last  undo  him ; 

This  Earl  grew  proud  &  not  content 

With  his  too  happy  Case  : 
His  power  made  him  insolent, 

Which  did  ye  Queen  amaze. 


The  General  thought  'twixt  hopes  &  fears 
High  Words  would  gain  upon  her : 

The  Queen  took  Courage,  box't  his  Ears 
And  bid  him  learn  more  manners. 

He  puffd  &  blow'd,  complain'd  of  Fate 

And  his  hard  usage  too : 
Swore  she  should  move  some  Min'sters  10 
of  State  : 

But  that  she  would  not  doe. 

He  Treason  hatch'd  and  often  spread : 

When  to  prevent  this  Evil, 
The  Queen  enrag'd,  lopt  off  his  Head, 

1  And  then  he  was  more  civil. 

Thus  reign'd  Queen  Bess  :  thus  blest  by 
God, 

Her  Subjects  Hearts  she  won. 
She  bid  her  Gen'rals  talk  big  abroad,         20 

But  here  she'd  rule  alone. 


March  20  (Sat.).  On  Monday  the  Vice-Chanc.  Dean  of  X*  Church, 
&  some  other  of  our  Heads  went  up  to  London  w^  their  Address,  which 
is  printed  in  Last  Night's  Gazette.  —  Rich.  Crooke  of  King's  Coll.  Cam- 
bridge was  ye  first  publick  Orator  of  y*  University,  a  man  highly  honour'd 
in  ye  Records  of  y*  University.  He  first  brought  ye  Greek  Tongue  into 
Germany,  &  taught  ye  famous  Joach.  Camerarius  Greek.  One  Aldrich 
was  a  famous  Man  in  Hen.  VIIItn'B  time.  Quaere  what  he  has  writ  ? 
(Vide  Mountague  of  Tyths  ag*.  Selden,  pag.  116,  117,  Ed.  1621.)  — Some 
say  the  Author  of  ye  Etymologicon  Magnum  was  Marcus  Musurus,  but  BP.  30 
Mountague  thinks  'twas  done  by  some  older  Grammarian.  Vide  ibid.  p. 
164. — For  original  of  Paper  vide  rtotas  in  Liv.  Ed.  Oxon.  p.  243.  >—  An 


;  and  w*  will  not  that  do  amongst  some  Men  ? '  Sorry  for  death  of 
Dr.  Beveridge.  'About  one  Clock  on  friday  Morning  5th  Instant  died  sud- 
denly Dr.  Wm.  Breach  Student,  and  a  noted  Physitian  of  Christ  Church.  He 
made  no  Will,  but  left  a  great  deal  of  Wealth.  His  Estate  goes  to  his  Bro- 
ther, a  common  Souldier  (which  service  he  has  been  in  about  40  years)  now 
at  Lisbon,  and  the  rest  will  be  divided  betw.  him  and  a  sister  or  two.' 

March  20.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  89).  '  In  these  difficult  and 
troublesome  times,  notwithstanding  the  danger,  to  wch  I  am  exposed,  I  thank 
God,  I  retaine  a  perfect  serenity  of  mind,  am  prepared,  the  grace  of  God  as- 
sisting mee,  to  undergo  the  utmost  rigour  of  the  new  Acts,  if  they  shal  thinke 
fit  to  execute  them  upon  mee  :  supporting  myselfe  with  that  divine  Sentence 
of  S*.  Paul,  ol&a/iei/  on  Tolf  ayanSxri  rbv  Qfov  Trdvra  avvtpyel  els  ayaGov '.  wc" 
containes  in  it  more  solid  ground  of  comfort,  than  all  the  flourishes  of  Seneca 
or  Epictetus.'  Remarks  on  a  just  censure  of  Kennett's  reflections  on  Mary 
Q.  of  Scots  and  James  I.  Portrait  of  Wolsey  in  the  President's  lodgings  at 
Magdalen.  What  about  Wolsey's  Life  ?  Is  amazed  at  the  Address  of  the 
University. 


1  Other[s]  read  it,  And  then  he  went  unto  y*  Devil. 
H  2 


100  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708 : 

Excell*.  Picture  of  Cardinal  Wolsey  (only  half  his  Face)  at  Sr.  John 
Osborn's  of  Chicksand  in  Bedfordshire. 

March  22  (Mon.).  The  French  King  having  set  out  a  Navy  to  Land 
upon  Scotland  w^1  the  P.  of  Wales,  (who  had  promises  from  a  great 
number  in  y*  Kingdom)  it  miscarry'd  by  reason  of  a  storm  &c.  and  a  Ship 
was  taken  w011  they  had  lately  taken  from  us,  viz.  y6  Salisbury,  in  wch 
were  about  700  Men,  amongst  whom  the  Ld  Griffin,  a  very  worthy  honest 
good  natur'd  Gentleman,  the  Ld.  Middleton's  two  sons  &c.  all  which  'tis 
expected  will  be  sacrific'd  by  ye  Fanatick  Republican  Party,  (quod  avertat 
10  Deus.) 

SUCCESSION  OF  THE  KINGS  &  Qs.  OF  ENGLAND. 

Bis  Will.    |    Hen.  Steph.  Hen.    |    Rich.  Jo.  Hen.       |    Ed.  tria  Richard. 
Hen  tria.  |  bisque  Ed.  |  Rich.  Hen.  bis.  |  Ed.  Mar.  |  l  Elque  Jacobus  .  .  . 

March  24  (Th.).  This  day  Mr.  Lindsey  was  Elected  Bursar  of  Uni- 
versity Coll.  for  y6  Ensuing  Year,  in  room  of  Dr.  Hudson,  who  perform'd 
that  Office  for  two  years  with  great  care  &  Fidelity,  to  ye  no  small  Benefit 
of  the  College.  —  IX  Kennett  in  Parochial  Antiq.  p.  316  has  given  the 
following  specimen  of  the  old  Taxation  Book  by  Pope  Nicholas,  (in  Bib. 
Bodl.)  [Hearne  gives  the  true  readings  of  the  MS.  as  compared  with 
20  Kennett's  readings.]  .  .  . 

March  28  (Sun.).  This  Last  Week  Mr.  Edw.  Thwaites  A.M.  & 
Fellow  of  Queen's  had  ye  Seals  brought  him  for  being  Greek  Professor  in 
this  University  in  room  of  Milles  preferr'd  to  y6  Bpprick  of  Waterford. 

March  31  (Wed.).  Just  come  out  in  London  in  8°.  in  a  most  neat 
Character  Cl.  Quilleti  Callipaedia.  Formerly  printed  in  France  and  after- 
wards in  Holland  at  Leyden  under  ye  false  Name  of  Calvidius  Letus. 


March  24.  Rev.  J.  Bear  to  H.  (Rawl.  2.  10).  [In  Latin].  Asks  for  in- 
formation concerning  H.'s  forthcoming  edition  of  Cicero,  and  Dr.  Hudson, 
'  editorum  sui  seculi  decus.' 

March  29.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  15).  Sends  a  passage  from 
the  old  Valor  Beneficiorum  by  Pope  Nicolaus  in  Bodley,  parallel  with  Dr. 
Kennett's  transcript  in  Par.  Antiq.,  to  show  how  '  unaccurate '  the  Doctor  is. 
The  book  would  have  been  fuller  of  faults  had  not  Dr.  Mill  taken  particular 
care  of  some  things.  Believes  the  Glossary  to  be  owing  in  great  measure  to 
MS.  notes  inserted  in  a  copy  of  Skinner's  Glossary  formerly  in  Dr.  Mill's 
hands  (?  where  now).  Thanks  for  mem.  of  Wolsey's  picture ;  believes  that 
the  projected  Life  of  the  Cardinal  will  come  to  nothing.  Returns  letters,  and 
sends  copy  of  engraving  of  Woodward's  shield. 

April  3.  Rev.  "Wilfrid  Lawson  (of  Galtrum)  to  Hudson  (Rawl.  7.  152). 
Apologizes  for  his  ignorance  in  applying  for  his  recommendation  to  Bp.  Milles. 
Describes  Dean  Stearne  as  'an  extraordinary  person,  Learned  &  modest, 
&  the  more  extraordinary  for  ye  last  Quality  wch  is  of  so  rare  a  growth  in 
y8  Soyl  &  Climate  ...  I  perceive  you  take  Ireland  to  be  still  Insula  Sanc- 
torum, and  because  it  admitts  of  no  venomous  beasts,  therefore  it  cannot  har- 
bour humane  venom,  but  perhaps  ye  less  of  natural,  the  more  there  is  of  moral 
poyson,  especially  among  an  order  of  men  who  are  bid  to  be  like  serpents ;  be 
ye  Wise  as  8fc.  and  for  your  English  plants  being  translated  hither,  its  very 

1  Al.  Elza. 


March  20-April  11.]    VOLUME  XVI,  PAGES  223-250.  IOI 

April  11  (Sun.).  This  day  being  ye  day  for  repeating  y6  Lent  Sermons 
before  ye  University  ye  Business  was  perform'd  by  one  Hutchinson,  Fellow 
of  Queen's,  and  Chaplain  to  Sr  Steph.  Fox,  who-  did  it  well  enough,  tho' 
the  Sermons  were  but  indifferent  as  being  (the  three  last  especially)  almost 
impertinent  &  foreign  to  ye  time.  —  Mr.  Hoadley  has  lately  printed  a 
Sermon  in  which  he  has  an  animadversion  on  ye  last  smooth  booted,  sneak- 
ing Oxford  Address,  drawn  up  by  Lancaster,  for  whom  'tis  impossible  to 
clear  ye  Scandal  hereby  given,  it  being  most  absurd,  &  ridiculous  for  those . 
to  speak  against  Revolution  Principles  who  were  for  it  when  the  Dutch 
Pretender  came  into  England.  — 

The  Song  call'd,  The  Boar's  Head,  sung  every  year  on  Christmas  day 
and  three  or  four  days  before  by  the  Taberders  of  Queen's  Coll.,  accord- 
ing to  ancient  Custome. 

The  Boar's  Head  in  hand  bear  I  Being  thus  bedeck 't  with  a  Gay  Garland 

Bedeck't  with  Bayes  &  Rosemary ;  Let  us  servire  cantico. 

And  I  pray  ye  my  Masters  merry  be  Caput  &c. 

Quot  estis  in  convivio. 

Caput  apri  defero  Our  Steward  has  provided  this 

Reddens  laudes  domino.  ^  honour  of  ye  King  of  Bliss, 

.Which  on  this  day  to  be  served  is 

The  Boar's  Head  as  I  understand  In  Reginensis  Atrio. 

Is  ye  bravest  dish  in  all  ye  Land  :  Caput  &c. 


much  if  a  sound  healthy  one  don't  degenerate  upon  ye  remove  to  y8  Soyl  and 
clymate,  but  that  this  air  or  Soyl  should  restore  or  recover  one  whose  out- 
ward hew  &  Aspect  does  bewray  ye  inward  distemper  &  rottenness,  would 
be  a  Prodigy  allmost  as  great  as  ye  Subject  we  are  upon.'  Recommendations 
will  oblige  to  the  Lord  Primate,  Bps.  Crow,  Morton  &c. 

Aprils.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  90).  Has  received  Pratt's  Re- 
flections on  Kennett,  and  is  extremely  well  pleased  with  H.'s  exposure  of  the 
blunders  in  K.'s  specimen.  Will  send  the  papers  to  H.  by  a  safe  conveyance. 
Reported  that  Thwaites  will  be  Greek  professor,  through  the  V.  C.  and  the 
Address.  Presumes  that  Livy  will  be  published  by  the  Act.  Would  not  have 
H.  be  lavish  in  his  commendation  of  Woodward. 

April  7.  J.  J.,  C[lare]  H[all],  Cambridge,  to  ...  (Rawl.  7.  83).  List 
of  '  The  Books  now  in  our  Press.'  '  Not  much  News  stirring  among  Us.  .The 
Right  Reverend  Dr.  Moor  will  settle  at  His  House  in  Ely  for  the  Summr  very 
shortly,  and  He  makes  His  Primary  Visitation  soon  after  Trinity  Sunday. 
Mr.  Harvey,  Eldest  Son  to  My  Lord  Harvey  Baron  of  Ickworth,  will  be  ad- 
mitted a  Nobleman  of  our  Colledge,  a  Week  or  two  hence,  and  the  Learned 
Mr.  Richd  Laughton  is  to  be  Tutor  to  Him.  We  are  beautifying  our  College, 
and  the  Avenues  to  it,  for  the  Reception  of  My  Lord  of  Ely  (once  Fellow  of 
Our  House)  who  will  doe  Us  the  Honor  to  lodge  with  Us,  when  He  holds  His 
Visitation.  The  Learned  Dr.  Croon,  once  of  Emanuel  College,  has  left  2001. 
per  Annum  for  Eight  Lectures  in  Algebra,  in  so  many  Colleges,  of  this  Uni- 
versity, &  Emanuel,  Kings,  S*.  Johns,  &  Trinity  are  to  be  of  the  Quorum.' 

April  8.  Bear  to  H.  (Rawl.  2.  n).  Orders  3  small-paper  Livys.  Sug- 
gestions for  getting  subscriptions  for  Livy  and  Cicero.  Would  like  to  see 
Plutarch  published  in  1 2  or  14  vols.  from  the  Theatre.  Dr.  Hudson's  Josephus 
will  highly  oblige  the  English  clergy. 

April  [10].  Obadiah  Oddy  to  H.  (Rawl.  8.  169).  Would  be  glad  to 
hear  of  a  good  Hospes  at  Oxford,  as  he  designs  to  see  H.  shortly.  Admires 
his  Livy.  Dio  is  finished,  except  the  Index.  Please  excuse  a  '  Dithyrambick 
Rhodomontade,  as  writ  over  a  Glasse,  on  purpose  to  make  you  laugh.'  Is 
anxious  to  get  the  Florentine  MS.  collated. 


102  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

VOL.  XVII. 

The  Printers  say  they  had  18  shillings  per  sheet  for  composing  LA 
Clarendon's  History.  They  had  15  shillings  per  sheet  for  composing 
Pliny's  Epistles.  16  shillings  for  Livy  per  sheet.  Mr.  Thorpe  gave  but 
10  pence  per  hundred  for  working  off  his  Plates  to  Schutzer.  The 
Printers  say  Dr.  Mill  paid  to8,  per  sheet  for  composing  the  text  and  notes 
at  Bottom  of  ye  New  Test.  Bennett  pd  1 2s.  per  sheet  for  composing 
Thucydides.  .  .  . 

Apr.  14  (Wed.),  1708. 

A  CATCH  UPON  THE  SCOTS. 

10  Three  py'd  Lice 

Bred  at  Dundee, 
I  took  'em  up  at  Edenborough 
And  carry'd  'em  all  ye  country  thorough. 
Three,  &c. 

—  For  Mr.  Bugg's  Book  call'd  Goliah  he  pd  but  13s.  for  Composing,  & 
all  other  things  belonging  to  the  Press,  and  for  Paper  seven  shillings  per 
Ream. 

[Gold  coins,  of  Valens  and  Valentinian,  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Wase,  of 
Corpus.]  . . . 

20  Jonathan  Swift  (Dr.  of  Div.)  was  of  Hart  Hall  in  Oxon.  &  writ  ye  Book 
call'd  The  Tale  of  a  Tub,  &  that  Jocular  Pamphlett  call'd  Isaac  Sicker- 
staff's  Predictions.  He  likewise  writ  The  Dissension  between  the  Lords  and 
Commons  of  Athens  &  Rome  at  ye  Request  of  Ld.  Somers  &  IA  Berkley, 
he  being  then  Chaplain  to  Ld.  Berkley.  The  Reason  of  his  Writing  this 
last  Book  was  y*  ye  House  of  Commons  had  at  y*  time  impeach'd  IA 
Somers,  IA  Hallifax,  IA  Orford,  &  Portland.  —  Dr.  Prideaux  cannot 
now  endure  to  hear  of  his  Ed.  of  Marmora  Oxon.  notwtnstanding  he  has 
shewn  great  Learning  in  it,  &  far  beyond  his  years,  being  then  very 
young.  But  w*  is  the  chief  thing  the  transcripts  were  very  negligently 

30  perform'd.  —  In  ye  nd.  Vol.  of  the  Phoenix  are  two  Papers  which  ye 
Publisher  says  are  suppos'd  to  be  Mr.  Hales's  of  Eaton.  This  was  lately 
animadverted  upon  in  one  of  ye  Postmen.  Upon  w°h  in  a  Post-Man 
since  there  is  an  advertisement  inserted  signifying  y*  the  Authors  wch  the 

April  12.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  29).  Sends  suggestions  for  Barnes 
'if  his  edition  be  intended  to  improve  the  Dutch  4°  Homer; '  also  for  Dr. 
Hudson's  edition  of  Dionysius  Periegetes. 

[?  c.  April  12.]  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  16).  Thwaites  (actually 
Greek  Prof.)  has  the  chief  hand  in  printing  Leland.  '  Mr.  W.  has  troubled 
me  two  or  three  times  since  his  Return  from  London  with  his  nauseous  Im- 
pertinences.' Returns  inscriptions.  Sends  list  (with  notes)  of  books  in  the 
Press  at  Cambridge,  including  Bentley's  Horace,  Wasse's  Sallujt,  Barnes'  Homer, 
Needham's  Hierocles,  Whiston's  New  Theory  of  the  Earth  ed.  2,  and  Sir  Is. 
Newton's  Principia  ed.  2.  '  Specimens  were  likewise  given  out  some  time 
since  for  a  famous  and  most  accurate  ed.  of  Lucian's  Works,  in  fol.  by  Mr. 
Moses  de  Soul.  But  I  am  afraid  this  will  miscarry,  the  Editor  being  now  im- 
ploy'd  in  ye  Family  of  ye  R*.  Honble  the  Earl  of  Wharton.  Abk  two  years 
since  I  sent  him  the  Copy  of  a  very  large  Letter  cone,  one  Piece  of  Lucian 
writ  by  Mr.  Dodwell,  to  Mr.  Pet.  King  .  .,  which  Mr.  D.  gave  me  free  leave 
to  let  him  have.' 


April  14-23.]  VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  1*-10.  103 

Publisher  depended  upon  are  Dr.  Heylin  in  his  Life  of  ArchbP.  Laud,  BP. 
Parker  &  Mr.  Ant.  a  Wood.  —  Martini  a  Baumgarten  Peregrinatio  in 
^Egyptum,  Arabiam,  Palaestinam  &  Syriam.  Norib.  1594.  4*°.  (Martinus 
a  Baumgarten  no  obscure  man  &  of  good  credit  every  way.  His  Book 
is  not  very  common  to  be  had,  nor  perchance  very  commonly  known. 
See  Meric.  Casaubon  in  his  Treatise  of  Use  and  Custom,  p.  34.  Ed.  Lond. 
1638.  Mr.  Lock  in  his  Essay  about  ye  Understanding,  b.  i.  c.  3.  quotes 
the  Voyage  of  Baumgarten  as  a  Book  not  every  day  to  be  seen.)  —  ... 
De  natura  populor.  &  de  linguar.  ortu  atque  immutatione,  per  Xtophorum 
Besoldum.  Tubingce  1632.  4°.  Tell  Mr.  Llhuyd  of  this.  There  are  10 
in  it  a  great  many  things  to  his  purpose  [p.  129  mention  of  coins  dug  up 
near  Tripoli;  p.  74  piece  of  a  Saracen  song.]  .  .  . 

Apr.  19  (Mon.).  Mr.  Howell  &  some  other  Nonjurors  are  order'd  by 
ye  Ld.  Mayor  of  London  to  have  ye  Oath  of  Abjuration  tender'd  to  'em, 
whereby  they  will  be  Papists  convict  if  they  refuse  to  take  it,  tho'  we  are 
assur'd  on  y®  contrary  y*  several  Roman  Catholicks  have  taken  it,  by 
which  they  must  be  therefore  reckon'd  as  Protestants.  —  ...  Mr. 
Downes  of  Baliol  (Fellow  there)  a  Nonjuror  who  has  travell'd  several 
times  abroad  with  young  Gentlemen  writ  a  small  Book  about  ye  Nature 
of  Allegiance.  His  name  not  to  it.  ...  20 

Apr.  21  (Wed.).  Yesterday  Mr.  Rob.  Watts  of  S*.  John's  Coll.  (a 
busy,  pragmatical,  conceited,  confident  Coxcomb,  &  Son  of  a  Profess'd 
Presbyterian)  was  deny'd  his  Degree  of  Bach,  of  Civ.  Law  in  Congrega- 
tion. The  Reason  I  hear  is  this  that  he  said  that  the  Dissenters  had  as 
much  reason  to  seperate  from  the  Church  of  England,  as  the  Church  of 
England  had  to  seperate  from  that  of  Rome.  There  are  several  Witnesses 
to  attest  the  words.  Besides  other  wicked  tenets  wch  he  braggs  of  as  y* 
Sidney  &  other  Rebells  were  Martyrs,  &c.  .  .  . 

Apr.  23  (Pri.).  This  Morning  ab*  3  Clock  Dr.  Royce,  Dean  of 
Bristol,  Rector  of  Newington,  &  Provost  of  Oriel  Coll.  (a  smooth  Preacher,  30 
and  a  rank  Whigg)  died,  having  been  struck  about  a  Quarter  of  a  year 
since  w**1  the  Apoplexy.  —  Dr.  Levett,  Dean  of  Bristol!  and  Principal  of 
Magd.  Hall,  was  Chaplain  to  the  Earl  of  Clarendon  and  was  with  him  in 
his  Exile.  —  M".  Wharton,  Daughter  of  Sr.  Thomas  Wharton,  a  York- 
shire Lady  of  seven  Thousand  Pounds  Fortune  refus'd  to  be  marry "d  to 
an  accomplish'd  young  Gentleman  of  three  thousand  Pounds  per  annum, 
because  he  is  a  Whigg.  —  One  Kannell  (Jos.)  lately  A.M.  of  Lincoln 


April  17.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  91).  Bentley's  Horace  will 
probably  be  attacked  by  Gronovius.  Commends  St.  Chrysostom  nepl  ifpoxrvvrjs. 
Is  it  true  that  Mill  withdrew  a  draft  of  a  different  Dedication  at  the  instance 
of  Archbp.  Tenison  and  Bp.  Lloyd  ?  The  Smyrna  inscriptions  have  been  sent 
to  the  Earl  of  Pembroke.  Desires  H.  to  send  a  brief  list  of  his  publications. 
Has  received  through  Mr.  Lombard  (Chaplain  to  Lord  Raby  and  fellow  of  St. 
John's)  a  copy  of  Leibnitz'  valuable  Collection  of  Writers  relating  to  the  History 
of  the  Affairs  of  Brunswick. 

April  22.  Barnes  to  H.  (Rawl.  24.  13).  Has  written  a  poem — Greek 
heroics  of  about  200  vv. — to  maintain  a  new  point,  viz.  that  Solomon  in  effect 
wrote  Homer.  Mrs.  Barnes  firmly  believes  Solomon  in  his  Wisdome  might 
make  so  usefull  a  jest.  Advises  H.  never  again  to  refuse  such  an  offer  as  that 
of  the  chaplaincy  of  C.  C.  C. 


104  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

Coll.  &  a  person  much  of  ye  same  sense  with  Watts  of  S*.  John's  has 
published  a  silly,  snivelling  Paper,  which  he  calls  The  Case  of  the  pretender 
stated,  in  a  sermon,  &c.  (He  died  not  long  after.) 

Apr.  29  (Th.).  Dr.  W".  Fleetwood,  Fellow  of  Eton  Coll.  and  Canon 
of  Windsor,  is  made  BP.  of  S*.  Asaph  in  room  of  ye  most  Learned  & 
Pious  Dr.  Beveridge  deceas'd.  Wcil  Dr.  Fleetwood  is  a  man  of  time- 
serving Principles,  a  plausible  Preacher,  of  some  Learning  in  Antiquity, 
as  appears  from  his  Book,  call'd  Chronicon  pretiosum  &  his  Synopsis 
Inscriptionum,  tho'  were  it  not  in  such  an  age  as  ours  he  would  not  be 
10  thought  to  have  neare  enough  learning  or  other  Qualifications  for  a  BP. 
—  Last  Night  between  five  &  six  Clock  Dr.  Royce  was  buried  in  ye 
Chapell  of  Oriel  Coll.  The  Speech  was  made  by  Mr.  Ibbetson  Fellow 
of  y*  House,  who  some  time  since  dedicated  an  Edition  of  Marcus 
Antoninus  to  ye  Dr.  He  spoke  much  in  the  Drs.  Commendation ;  but  if 
you  will  enquire  of  impartial  Men  y*  knew  ye  Dr.  they  will  tell  you  he 
deserv'd  to  have  little  said  in  his  Praise. 

Apr.  30  (Fri.).  On  Wednesday  last  Mr.  Wm.  Gregg  the  Scotch  Man 
was  hang'd  for  high-treason,  tho'  nothing  was  prov'd  ag*  him;  nor 
indeed  if  any  Proof  had  been  offer'd  would  it  have  amounted  to  high- 
20  treason,  the  Act  made  in  ye  Reign  of  ye  late  K.  Wm.  (of  Glorious 
Memory  as  they  term  it)  for  making  it  high-treason  to  correspond  by 
Letters  with  France  exspiring  w*11  ye  late  War.  —  [Note  on  Livy,  1.  37.  c. 
3]  ...  At  ye  End  of  Philelphus's  Ed.  of  Livy.  .  .  . 


April  24.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  17).  « The  Report  about  Dr. 
Mill  is  true.  The  Dedication  was  several  times  revis'd  and  alter'd  by  the  BP. 
of  Worcester,  who  was  then  in  Oxon.  When  the  Dr.  went  to  London  to  wait 
upon  the  Q^  he  left  the  Book  he  design'd  to  present  to  her  Maj.  in  the  Book- 
binder's hands  wth  Directions,  when  bound,  how  to  be  sent  to  him.  After 
'twas  bound  he  sent  a  Copy  of  the  Dedication  from  London  (different  from 
the  other)  to  Mr.  Pearce  Vice-Principal  of  our  Hall,  and  desir'd  he  would 
carry  it  with  all  speed  to  the  Press,  and  take  care  that  nobody  but  himself 
should  see  it,  (particularly  he  caution'd  him  to  hinder  it's  coming  to  the  sight 
either  of  Dr.  Hudson  or  me).  'Twas  quickly  dispatch'd  at  ye  Press,  and  a 
Copy  given  to  the  Binder,  who  was  forc'd,  tho'  not  without  some  difficulty, 
(as  he  has  since  told  me  more  than  once)  to  take  the  other  out  and  put  in 
this,  which  has  given  so  great  offence  to  the  true  Members  of  the  Ch.  of  Engl.' 
Has  heard  nothing  concerning  the  Smyrna  inscriptions.  Wishes  that  Masson 
'  would  contrive  to  be  short  rather  than  long,  and  that  his  Lives  were  prefixed 
to  the  Editions  of  the  respective  Authors.'  Sends  a  list  of  his  own  works.  '  I 
have  not  yet  seen  Mr.  Lombard  (who  repeated  the  Easter  Sermons  at  S*. 
Marye's  3  or  4  Years  ago)  to  give  him  your  Thanks.'  Death  of  Dr.  Royce. 
Mr.  Watts  twice  denied  the  degree  of  B.C.L.,  and  'tis  talked  he  will  be  denied 
the  third  time.  He  is  said  to  have  stiffly  maintained  in  Company  that  '  the 
Dissenters  had  as  much  reason  to  separate  from  the  Church  of  England,  as  ye 
Church  of  Engl.  had  from  tf  of  Rome.' 

April  25.  H.  to  F.  Cherry  (Rawl.  36.  17).  Dodwell's  presentation 
copies.  Death  of  Dr.  Royce.  Note  and  query  on  Livy  37.  3.  Fears  that 
Barnes'  Homer  will  not  go  on  for  want  of  due  encouragement,  though  '  no 
man  is  more  able.'  It  will  be  a  great  while  before  the  Cambridge  Lucian 
appears.  What  does  Dodwell  think  of  Norris  on  the  Immortality  of  the 
Soul? 


April23-May6.]         VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  10-19.  105 


These  Letters  on  a  stone  found  lately  under  a  Walnut  tree  rooted  up 
in  the  Great  Storm  at  Godstow  in  the  Place  where  formerly  the  Chapell 
stood.  It  seems  to  have  been  ye  Foundation  Stone  of  the  Chaunterie  & 
I  believe  the  part  lost  had  y6  Name  of  ye  Founder  of  ye  Nunnery. 
Perhaps  the  I  now  remaining  is  the  Initial  letter  of  Ida,  or  Editha,  who 
is  sd  to  have  founded  it  A.D.  1138.  ab*  ye  3d  year  of  ye  Reign  of  Hen.  2d. 
tho'  Tho.  Walsingham  says  (Hyp.  Neustr.  p.  56.  Ed.  Park.)  'twas  founded  10 
by  King  John  for  Nuns  to  pray  for  ye  Soul  of  Rosamund  his  Father's 
Concubine,  &  so  the  I  will  be  the  First  Letter  of  this  King's  name. 

May  4  (Tu.).  Mr.  Pittis  has  publish'd  a  Defence  of  his  Vindication 
of  Mr.  Dodwell's  Epistolary  Discourse,  against  Mr.  Chishull's  Reflections, 
in  w«b  he  has  sufficiently  expos'd  the  Confidence,  Pride,  Ignorance,  Envy, 
Malice,  &c.  of  y*  Pert  Gentleman,  &  shevv'd  himself  to  be  a  Scholar  &  a 
man  of  Parts.  His  Name  fc  prefix'd. 

May  6  (Th.).  This  Day  Mr.  George  Carter  Fellow  of  Oriel  College, 
and  a  worthy  ingenious,  sober  Gentleman,  and  a  good  Scholar,  was 
unanimously  chosen  Provost  of  Oriel  Coll.  —  To  the  Charity  Schoole  at  20 
Windsor  the  Queen  subscribes  an  hundred  pounds  per  an.  &  ye  Duke  of 
Marlborough  only  five  Pounds  per  annum.  (N.B.)  —  The  Register1  of 
ye  University  being  to  read  ye  Precept  for  Choice  of  Parliam*  Men  in  the 
Convocation  of  Oxon,  wch  was  in  Latin  he  read  ye  words  short  as  written 
(according  to  ye  Lawyers  way)  &  when  he  came  to  anno  Domini  1  708  he 
read  anno  Domini  in  Latin  but  ye  Date  (1708)  in  English  (which  made 
them  all  laugh. 

Letter  from  Dr.  Smalridge  in  Behalf  of  Mr.  Robert  Watts. 

MR.  VICE-CHANCELLOR,  —  I  am  desired  by  Mr.  Robert  Watts  of  S*.  John's 
College  to  attest  what  I  know  of  his  Affection  to  ye  Church  of  England.  30 
I  never  saw  Mr.  Watts  before  last  Winter  nor  have  I  often  convers'd  w*11 
him.  He  was  pleas'd  then  to  visit  me  twice  or  thrice  at  my  house,  &  to  com- 
municate to  me  some  Papers  which  he  had  drawn  up  in  defence  of  ye 
University  and  Church  against  ye  Strictures  breves.  He  hath  been  very 
diligent  and  very  successfull  in  collecting  numerous  Testimonies  of  forreign 
Reform'd  Churches  and  Divines,  in  which  they  declare  their  Approbation  of 
ye  Church  of  England,  and  their  Disapprobation  of  those  who  separate  them- 
selves from  her  Communion.  He  express'd  an  eager  desire  of  serving  the 


May  1.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  92).  Is  not  surprised  that  Mill 
was  so  wrought  upon  by  the  '  old  Prophet '  (Lloyd),  as  his  fickleness  had 
brought  upon  him  the  name  of  '  Jonny  Wind-Mill ; '  he  seems  to  have  been 
afraid  of  P.  Simon.  Fears  that  Masson,  who  is  competent  and  has  a  copy, 
will  publish  in  Holland  the  Smyrna  inscriptions.  Will  print  St.  Ignatius  and 
Polycarp  at  Cambridge  if  the  Greek  types  at  the  Theatre  are  fully  employed 
by  Hudson  and  Dodwell.  Will  assist  Mr.  Wilkins  in  his  Antiquities  of  the 
Church  of  Alexandria  if  he  proves  truly  qualified. 


1  Ben  Cooper,  an  ignorant,  illiterate,  Fellow,  who  knows  not  a  word  of  Latin 
hardly. 


io6  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

Church,  either  by  writing  himself  in  her  Vindication,  or  by  imparting  the 
Materials  he  had  gather'd  to  any  one  else  who  would  make  use  of  them  to  y* 
good  purpose.  I  spent  many  hours  in  looking  over  his  Papers,  and  in  discours- 
ing \vth  him  upon  the  subject  of  them,  &  he  seem'd  to  me  both  by  his 
Writings  &  by  his  discourse  to  have  an  hearty  Zeal  for  ye  Church  &  a  just 
Abhorrence  of  that  Schism  which  our  Dissenters  are  guilty  of  in  their  cause- 
less seperation  from  it.  I  found  no  reason  to  suspect  his  sincerity,  nor  did 
I  take  him  to  have  the  knack  of  disguising  his  Sentiments.  If  there  be  any 
positive  allegation  against  him  I  have  nothing  to  say  in  answer  to  it,  but  being 

10  desir'd  by  him  in  a  Letter  which  just  now  came  to  my  hands  to  certifie  w*  I 
knew,  I  could  not  in  justice  deny  him  so  reasonable  a  Request.  I  shall  be 
very  glad  if  anything  I  have  here  declar'd  may  be  of  service  to  one  whom 
I  am  willing  to  believe,  when  he  solemnly  professes  to  me,  That  he  abhors  & 
detests  ye  ill  Principles  which  he  hears  are  laid  to  his  Charge,  &  that  he  will 
always  with  God's  Grace  promote  ye  Interest  of  ye  Church  to  ye  utmost  of  his 
Power. 

I  am  Reverend  Sr 

Your  most  humble  serv* 

GEORGE  SMALRIDGE. 

20          Westminster,  May  ye  ist,  1708. 

[Mr.  Watts'  apologia  in  Latin,  pp.  22-25]  •  •  • 

May  7  (Fri.).  Mr.  Watts  of  S*.  John's  Coll.  having  been  denied  his 
Degree  ye  3d  time,  the  reason  was  given  into  ye  Vice-Chanc.  namely  y* 
which  I  have  put  down  above.  'Twas  this  day,  in  a  very  full  Congrega- 
tion approv'd  of,  there  being  very  few  that  were  for  him.  'Twas  exspected 
speeches  would  have  been  made,  wc^  no  doubt  there  would  had  Dr. 
Smalriches  Letter  been  read  w°h  I  have  put  down  above,  &  Mr.  Watts's 
Profession  of  his  Abhorrence  of  ye  Doctrine  charg'd  against  him  been 
insisted  on  as  'twas  not.  The  words  were  spoke  last  Michaelmass  term, 

30  &  'twas  just  before  or  after  Christmass  that  he  waited  upon  Dr.  Smalridge 
with  his  Papers,  being  then  apprehensive  that  he  should  be  denied  his 
Degree,  &  therefore  he  design'd  to  get  a  Certificate  by  this  Means  from 
ye  Dr.  as  he  endeavour'd  to  insinuate  himself  into  ye  Favour  of  divers 
other  Honest  Men,  such  as  Dr.  Turner,  President  of  Corpus,  the  BP.  of 
London,  &c.  But  amongst  them  must  not  be  forgot  Dr.  Thomas  Smith, 
the  learned  non-juror,  to  whom  he  carried  his  Papers  much  about  ye 
time  he  waited  upon  Dr.  Smalridge,  but  he  being  sensible  y*  he  might 
make  use  of  his  Name  to  his  Disadvantage  declin'd  the  reading  of  them 
or  of  lending  him  any  of  his  own  Papers  as  he  requested.  —  This  Day 

40  at  9  Clock  Dr.  John  Potter  ye  Regius  Professor  made  his  Inaugural 
Speech  in  ye  Divinity  Schoole,  in  wch  he  begun  with  the  great  Concern  he 
was  in  for  so  weighty  and  great  a  Charge  conferr'd  upon  him  purely 
wthout  his  seeking  or  Desire.  After  y*  he  hinted  at  y6  Qualifications  of 
a  Divine,  &  asserted  y*  considering  the  universal  Learning  requir'd  'twas 
impossible  to  say  that  there  ever  was  or  will  be  any  one  compleat  in  y* 
Profession.  Next  he  proceeded  to  give  an  Account,  I  think  from  Wood's 
Antiq.  of  his  Predecessors,  beginning  w*h  ye  last  &  so  carrying  them  up 
backwards.  That  done  he  again  express't  his  unqualification  for  ye 
Place,  yet  said  y*  since  Providence  had  rais'd  him  to  ye  Place,  he  would 

50  make  it  his  whole  Business  to  answer  ye  Expectations  wc^  might  be 
rais'd  of  him,  &  at  last  laid  down  ye  Heads  he  would  insist  upon  in  his 
Lectures,  viz.  The  Defence  of  the  Holy  Scriptures,  &  ye  explaining  of  y® 


May  6-8.]  VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  19-33.  107 

Fathers,  in  wch  he  designs  to  clear  ye  most  obscure  Passages  &  vindicate 
ym  from  ye  misrepresentations  of  Hereticks,  Schismaticks,  &c.  'Twas  a 
very  flat  immethodical,  &  poor  leaden  Discourse  (such  as  was  made  by 
Dr.  Hoyle  in  1648.  when  he  succeeded  Dr.  Sanderson.)  And  how  he 
can  be  said  to  be  a  modest  Man  I  cannot  see,  having  declin'd  nothing  y* 
has  been  offer'd  him,  he  having  now  lately  had  y6  rich  Parsonage  of  New- 
ington  conferr'd  on  him  (being  as  good  again  as  Monks  risborough,  wcl1 
Monks  risborough  is  given  to  one  Mandeville  (loaded  wth  other  Prefer- 
ments) a  pitifull,  sneaking,  whining  Puritan,  related  to  ye  Loggerhead  at 
Lambeth,  which  he  must  now  leave.)  It  looks  rather  y*  he  is  an  am-  io> 
bilious,  conceited,  proud  Man.  But  let  us  not  judge.  — 

Books  in  Merton  Coll.  Library  to  be  consulted,  Parker's  Antiq.  Brit. 
Eccl.  Lond.  Rob.  Stephens's  Rhetorick  Gallice.  Simon  Bosius  in 
Ciceronis  Epistolas  ad  Atticum. 

May  8  (Sat.).  On  Wednesday  last  a  Paper  was  publish'd  in  London 
left  behind  by  Mr.  Wm.  Gregg,  different  from  either  that  publish'd  by  ye 
Sheriff  or  by  ye  Ordinary,  which  pleases  all  honest  Men.  In  it  after 
asking  Forgiveness  of  God  &  ye  Queen  he  clears  Mr.  Rob.  Harley, 
saying  that  he  knew  nothing  either  directly  or  indirectly  of  his  corre- 
sponding by  Letters  with  France,  &  that  upon  his  confinement  God  was  20 
pleas'd  so  powerfully  to  touch  him  y*  he  could  not  prostitute  his  Con- 
science to  save  his  Life,  which  plainly  implys  y*  great  offers  were 
made.  —  Admiral  Bing  was  Page  to  the  Lady  Middleton.  —  Memor- 
andum that  on  Wednesday  last  between  4  and  5  Clock  Mr.  Watts  came 
to  me  at  y6  Publick  Library  and  desir'd  of  me  whether  I  were  a  Congre- 
gation Man.  I  told  him  y*  my  Regency  was  expir'd,  and  y*  besides  if 
I  were  he  must  not  expect  I  should  favour  a  Cause  so  pernicious  to  ye 
Church  and  University.  He  did  not  deny  but  y*  he  spoke  ye  Words 
objected  against  him,.  &  moreover  told  me  yfc  I  and  some  others 
carried  Passive  Obedience  too  high.  I  ask'd  him  whether  he  were  for  30 
Passive  Obedience  ?  He  said  he  was,  but  in  a  qualify'd  sense,  so  as  y*  a 
sovereign  Prince  might  be  resisted  when  it  plainly  appear'd  for  y6  good 
of  y6  Country.  This  Answer  made  to  me  with  great  Pertness  .& 
forwardness,  &  an  eager  desire  of  running  on  farther,  mov'd  me  so 
much  y*  I  desir'd  him  to  be  gone,  adding  y*  I  would  talk  wth  him  no 
more.  — 

Out  of  Mulles's  (alias  Tho.  Waterford's)  Letter  to  Dr.  Arthur 
Charlett  :— 

Somebody1  or  other  has  given  an  account^v/v  of  a  very  great  Indiscretion,  which 
was  reported  of  Dr.  Hudson  that  he  drank  the  Pretender's  health  &  Success  2,  4° 


May  8.  J.  Bennett  to  H.  (Rawl.  2.  96).  Subscription  lies  now  under 
great  disadvantages,  by  reason  of  some  knavish  tricks  that  have  been  played 
here  in  Town  by  some  indigent  booksellers.  Gives  '  a  short  History  of  that 
Paper  call'd  Jos.  Cannell's  Sermon.'  Mr.  Fox  preferred  to  the  living  of 
Boscum,  Wilts  (value  ^100  per  annum). 


1  That  is  Mulles  himself;  for  I  believe  the  Report  would  never  have  went  thither 
unless  he  had  carried  it. 

a  Sutcess :  that  word  I  suppose  was  added  by  him,  for  that  was  never  in  ye  Report 
currant  in  England,  ye  Health  being  suppos'd  to  have  been  drunk  two  years  agoe. 


"lo8  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

•which  has  open'd  the  Mouths1  of  many  against  the  university,  and  2  my 
having  been  acquainted  <wth  him  has  been  mention'd  to  me  by  some  of  the 
chief  Men  here.  Indeed  I  think  the  Dr.  would  do  very  well  by  advertisement 
or  some  other  publick  way  to  vindicate  himself  from  so  scandalous  an  Imputa- 
tion. 

May  12  (Wed.).  This  day  at  one  a  Clock  Mr.  Thwaites  Greek 
Professor  made  his  Inaugural  Speech,  which  was  nothing  else  but  an 
History  of  y6  Greek  tongue  in  ye  old  beaten  road,  which  seems  to  have 
been  ye  reason  why  he  kept  it  private,  no  one  knowing  hardly  of  it  till 
10  just  before,  not  thinking  he  would  have  chosen  this  day  but  Saturday 
which  Dr.  Hody  &c.  us'd  to  read  on. 

May  16  (Sun.).  This  Morning  a  certain  conceited,  muddy-headed 
Person,  lately  fellow  of  Exeter  Coll.  called  Thomas  Wise  preach'd  at 
S*.  Maries  before  ye  University.  His  Discourse  I  am  told  was  at  least 
an  hour  and  a  Quarter  long  (wcl1  is  the  usual  time  he  allows  for  his 


May  9.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  18).  Mr.  Watts  has  been  denied 
his  degree  the  third  time,  without  any  public  Vindicator  of  him,  for  the  reason 
already  mentioned.  Sends  copy  of  a  letter  in  Mr.  Watts's  favour  addressed  by 
Dr.  Smalridge  to  the  V.  C.  '  Mr.  Wilkin  has  been  a  student  in  the  Library 
about  a  year  .  .  He  is  between  twenty  and  thirty  Years  *of  Age,  is  of  a  civil, 
Courteous,  and  modest  behaviour ;  but  I  do  not  take  him  to  have  either 
Judgment  or  Learning  enough  to  perform  to  purpose  the  Undertaking  you 
mention.  Josephus  is  not  yet  in  the  Press.  Nor  is  Mr.  Dodwell  willing  any 
scholar  (if  a  Bookseller  refuses)  should  put  himself  to  the  hazard  of  being  a 
looser  by  his  Barnabas.  Apollonius  is  going  on.  There's  little  else  stirring ; 
nor  have  I  any  Interest  in  the  Vice-Chanc.  (nor  am  I  ambitious  of  it)  to  know 
what  will  become  of  the  Press.  Dr.  Potter  made  his  Inaugural  Speech  on 
Friday.  "Twas  a  very  immethodical,  flat  Discourse,  and  far  from  answering 
the  Character  given  of  him  by  ye  Party,  who  think  no  Preferments  too  much 
for  him,  which  is  the  reason  that  he  has  got  Dr.  Rpyce's  Parsonage  of  New- 
ington.  Mr.  George  Carter  is  Provost  of  Oriel.  He  was  fellow  of  that  Coll. 
and  was  one  of  the  head-Proctors  two  years  since.' 

May  13.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  30).  Strahan  should  by  his  agree- 
ment have  delivered  the  presentation  copies  of  D.'s  last  book  bound.  Hears 
that  Mr.  Parker  has  been  troubled  by  the  new  urgers  of  the  Abjuration. 

May  15.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  93).  Thanks  for  account  of 
Mr.  Watts ;  wishes  that  the  Congregation  had  had  a  greater  regard  to  Dr. 
Smalridge's  letter.  Had  not  a  high  opinion  of  Dr.  Royce.  '  Formerly  there 
was  that  great  regard  had  to  the. Heads  of  Houses  in  both  Universityes,  that 
the  vacant  Bishopricks  were  usually  supplyed  hence,  but  then  they  were  men 
of  great  gravity,  and  learning,  and  made  a  considerable  figure  in  the  Church, 
before  they  came  to  bee  admitted  to  so  great  a  share  in  the  governm1  of  it : 
but  now  the  chiefe  qualification,  as  it  has  been  since  the  Revolution  is  to  be  a 
London-Minister,  and  to  bee  able  to  preach  a  florid  Sermon  at  Court,  and  by 
their  flattery  insinuate  themselves  into  the  favour  of  great  men  and  women, 
who  have  an  influence  on  such  as  can  dispose  of  Church-preferm*8.'  Thanks 
for  account  of  Wilkins :  he  should  have  consulted  H.  Cannot  find  a  book- 
seller for  Ignatius  and  Polycarp. 

1  The  Mouths  of  none  but  his  &  of  some  others  of  the  same  Kidney  wth  him  who 
have  discarded  all  Principles  of  Religion  &  common  Honesty. 

2  'Tis  improbable  any  one  in  Ireland  should  be  acquainted  wth  y*  Dr.  unless  Mulles 
had  inform'd  them.     I  suppose  he  meant  it  has  been  mentioned  to  me  by  some  ofy"  chief 
Men.     If  so  that  I  am  perswaded  is  a  figment  of  his  own,  he  being  us'd  to  make  such 
when  in  Oxford. 


May  8-19.]  VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  33-39.  109 

Sermon)  and  most  of  it  against  Mr.  Dodwell,  but  so  wretchedly  dull,  & 
stufFd  w^  such  bombast,  uncouth  Expressions,  y*  it  serv'd  only  to  make 
people  smile,  &  to  expose  himself  as  a  dark,  immethodical  Prater.  Which 
Character  he  had  several  times  before  made  good,  not  only  in  his 
Sermons,  but  his  Abridgmt  of  Dr.  Cudworth's  Intellectual  System,  in  two 
large  quarto's,  wcl1  if  printed  together  would  make  as  big  a  work  at  least 
as  Dr.  Cudworth's  Book  itself.  This  Day's  Sermon  I  believe  is  part  of 
a  Book  he  had  (as  I  have  been  inform'd  from  several  hands)  prepar'd 
against  Mr.  Dodwell,  but  ye  Booksellers  understood  ye  Author  so  well 
that  they  would  not  print  it.  —  Memorandum  that  Fordun  publish'd  by  10 
Dr.  Gale  at  Oxon.  reaches  to  ye  End  of  ye  i  Ith  Chapter  verbatim  of  ye 
fifth  of  Elphanston's  History  of  Scotland  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  inter  Codd. 
Fairfaxianos.  —  Dr.  Langbain  left  his  MSS.  Collections  to  ye  Publick 
Library,  2 1.  volumes  of  wcl1  are  now  there  (besides  those  given  by  Ant.  a 
Wood)  but  one  volume  marked  T  Aries  was  lost  by  BP.  Fell  to  whom 
'twas  lent  before  they  came  to  ye  Library.  It  came  afterwards  (as  it  has 
been  hinted  to  me  by  one  y*  knows)  into  ye  Hands  of  Dr.  Halton  Provost 
of  Queen's  Coll.  &  'tis  likely  'tis  now  in  y*  College.  Quaere  ? 

May  17  (Mon.).  The  following  words  said  of  England — Anglica 
gens  optima  flens,  pessima  ridens.  —  That  vain  Gentleman  Mr.  ao 
Edmund  Chishull  being  nettled  at  ye  Reply  of  Mr.  Pittis  to  his  last  Book 
has  publish'd  an  advertisment  in  ye  Courant  y*  he  will  have  nothing  more 
to  do  wth  him  but  proceed  w**1  Mr.  Dodwell  himself,  as  being  assur'd 
that  he  shall  outdo  him  in  point  of  Raillery,  tho'  not  in  argument.  Thus 
one  may  see  ye  strength  of  this  pert  Gentleman  even  when  he  is 
attacqu'd  wtn  his  own  sort  of  weapon.  —  Tho.  Ittigius  has  publish'd  a 
Book  de  Bibliothecis  &  Catenis  Patrum,  in  wct  all  ye  Authors  in  those 
Books  are  accounted  for.  'Twill  be  necessary  for  rectifying  Mistakes  in 
the  Bodlejan  Catalogue. 

May  10  (Wed.).     Yesterday  was  placed  in  the  Publick  Library  an  30 
Excell*  Picture  of  Mr.  Selden,  purchas'd  by  ye  University.     'Tis  put  in 
his   Library,   &   ye  old  one   wcn  was  there  before  is  remov'd  into  ye 
Gallery.  — 

Made  upon  certain  Whiggish  Gentlemen  drinking  at  Heddington,  by 
two  or  three  honest  Gentlemen  of  X*.  Ch.  (extempore). 

There's  Dunstar  '  ye  Lowzy,  and  Royce a  y*  Bouzy, 
With  the  slye  Informer  Rye  *, 


May  18.  Barnes  to  H.  (Rawl.  24.  8).  Thanks  for  H.'s  transcripts  and 
collations,  and  remarks  on  his  forthcoming  edition  of  Homer. 

May  10.  H.  to  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  15).  Sends  the  Lections  of  Iliad  II 
(Laud's  MS.).  '  We  drank  Mrs.  Barnes's  and  your  Health  in  a  glass  of  good 
Wine,  with  your  Friend  of  Brasenose  and  Land-Lord  Prickett.'  Dr.  Hudson 
cannot  learn  that  there  is  any  MS.  of  the  Odyssey  in  Oxon.  'What  you  write 
about  Solomon's  being  ye  same  wth  Homer  is  a  Paradox  ;  but  I  do  not  ques- 
tion but  you  will  make  it  clear.  .  .  I  take  care  to  be  very  exact  in  ye  Collating 
MSS.  and  therefore  have  put  down  even  the  most  minute  Lections.'  Sends 
Dodwell's  remarks  relating  to  Barnes  and  his  Homer. 


1  Dr.  Dunstar  Warden  of  Wadham,  who  had  then  an  odd  Distemper  upon  him. 

a  Dr.  Royce  Provost  of  Oriel,  a  drunken  &c.  Fellow. 

3  One  Rye  Fellow  of  Oriel,  who  is  reported  (tho1  others  say  'twas  Dr.  Mill)  to  have 


110  H  EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

And  White  l  y«  Dull  that  paves  wth  Skull 
The  way  for  y*  Princess  Sophi. 

—  Gosselin  has  writ  a  Book  de  Historia  veterum  Gallorum,  or  some  such 
Book,  w0*1  Bochart  has  made  large  learned  Remarks  upon  at  ye  End  of 
Geographia  Sacra. 

Miay  21  (Fri.).  The  Chronicle  of  Hugo  Floriacensis  .  .  to  be  con- 
sulted for  Eutropius  &c.  as  also  for  Justin's  Epit.  of  Trog.  he  taking 
several  things  out  of  them.  See  in  Rottendorfius's  Preface  to  him. 

May  25  (Tu.).     The  Chimney-Sweeper  in  Disgrace,  or  A  Dialogue 
10  between  y6  IA 2  BP.  of  Ely  and  Tom  Negroe,  Chimney- Sweeper  in  S*. 
Margarets  Parish.     To  the  Tune  of  Cheivey  Chase. 

ALL  in  the  City  West-minster  B.  Mear  Scandall  all !  I  know  him  well, 

There  does  a  Prelate  dwell ;  And  ne're  saw  ought  of  Evill : 

In  Daughters  foul  and  Authors  fair,  Oft  have  I  heard  my  Daughters  tell 

Long  known  for  to  excell.  How  he's  a  Knight  most  civil. 

So  sweet  his  looks,  so  glib  his  tongue,  T.  But  then  he  breaks  the  Sabbath-lday 

His  words  so  soft  and  smooth ;  With  wicked  Cards  and  Dice : 

More  wily  none  the  vulgar  throng  Should  I  but  sweep  as  he  does  play, 

With  gentle  speech  to  sooth.  He'd  hang  me  in  a  trice. 

20  Yet  when  the  godly  cause  requir'd  B-  Come  leave  <*»*  High-Church  Cant; 

True  Zeal  he  never  lack'd ;  an?n  . 

And  so  with  heavenly  warmth  inspir'd  A  To Squire  Boyle  He  bring  thee  : 

Tom  Negro  thus  attack'd.  An0d  by  his  Power  thou  shalt  soon 

bcower  the  Queen  s  own  Chimney. 
B.  Welcome,  good  Friend,  I've  long'd  to       T    Q ,  may  j  ^  for  eyer  ^ ^ 

j  Tom  Negro  then  did  say  : 

How  you  this  Age  have  sped  :  *    f      h     ^ Kniht 

And,  Ctndercola,  how  does  she,  M    Consdence  to  bet 

Fair  partner  of  your  bed. 

B.  Hence  wicked  Man,  depart  this  Room, 

Sir  Harry  I  hope  has  done  you  right  Thou  art  of  Tory-Strain : 

30      And  his  Respects  are  paid  :  My  Chimneys  with  highflying  broom, 

For  he's  a  true  right  honest  Knight,  NO  longer  thou  shalt  clean  ». 

And  well  deserves  your  Aid.  ' 

T.  Then  be  it  so  the  Sweeper  cry  d, 

T.  Quoth  Tom  I  fear  he's  not  so  good  For  I  will  never  Poll: 

As  does  your  Worship  deem  :  Your  Pills  my  Body  oft  have  try'd, 

For  oft  I've  heard  a  Story  odd  But  I  will  save  my  Soul. 

Between  his  Neice  and  him.  Chimney-sweep,  sweep,  sweep. 

Mr.  Bromefield  of  Univ.  Coll.  has  Rob.  Stevens's  Edit,  of  Justin's 
Hist,  and  several  Peices  of  Tully  of  ye  same  Ed. 


May  21.  Bear  to  H.  (Rawl.  2.  12).  Orders  four  copies  of  Livy;  to  be 
40  sent  to  Mr.  Bonwicke's,  bookseller,  at  the  Red  Lion  in  St.  Paul's  Church- 
yard. 

May  23.  Barnes  to  H.  (Rawl.  24.  9).  Has  come  to  his  old  lodgings  at 
Cambridge,  where  he  thinks  to  continue  till  Homer  is  quite  finished.  Hopes 
to  hear  shortly  from  Hearne,  Hudson,  Grabe,  and  other  friends,  '  especially 
in  matters  relating  to  Homer.' 


inform 'd  against  an  Honest  Gentleman  of  Magd.  Coll.  viz.  Mr.  Hart,  y6  History  of  wch 
I  have  given  in  one  of  these  vol8. 

1  The  Story  in  a  former  vol.  8  Dr.  Moore. 

3  Thou  ne're  shalt  clean  again. 


May  19-31.] 


VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  39-47. 


Ill 


ALL  SOULS  MALLARD. 


Griffin,  Bustard,  Turkey,  Capon 
Let  other  hungry  Mortals  gape  on, 
And  on  their  bones  their  Stomachs  fall  hardf 
But  let  All  Souls  men  have  the  Mallard. 
O  I  l  the  blood  of  King  Edward 
It  was  a  swapping,  swapping  Mallard. 

Stories  strange  are  told  I  trow 

By  Baker,  Hollingshead  &  Stow 

Of  Cocks  and   Bulls,  and  other  Queer 

things 

That  were  seen  in  the  Reigns  of  their  Kings. 
But  OI— 

The  Romans  once  admir'd  a  Gander 
More   than   they  did    their   chief   Com- 
mander, 


Because  he  sav'd,  if  some  don't  fool  us 
The  place  that's  call'd  from  t'head  of  Tolus. 

Poets  say  Jove  turn'd  a  swan 
But  let  'em  prove  it  if  they  can  : 
As  for  our  proof  'tis  not  at  all  hard 
That    this   was    a  swapping,    swapping 
Mallard. 

Swapping  he  was  from  Bill  to  Eye, 
Swapping  he  was  from  Wing  to  Thigh : 
His  swapping  Tool  of  Generation 
Out  swapped  all  ye  winged  Nation. 

Then  let  us  sing  and  dance  a  Galliard 
To  y°  Remembrance  of  ye  Mallard  : 
And  as  y°  Mallard  does  in  Pool 
Let's  dabble,  duck  and  dive  in  Bowie. 


May  31  (Mon.).  Mr.  Tanner  sometime  since  lent  a  certain  Gent,  a 
Copy  of  ye  Chronicon  Saxonicum  in  wcl1  he  had  inserted  in  the  Margin 
divers  notes  of  his  own.  The  book  was  not  return'd  him  ;  but  he 
thinks  'tis  in  Mr.  Thwaites's  hands,  wc^  I  really  believe  true,  because  Mr.  20 
Thwaites  once  told  me  he  had  a  Chron.  Sax.  w**1  MSS.  Notes,  but  he  said 
that  he  added  them  himself.  He  would  not  show  me  ye  Book,  wcl1 

May  27.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  33).  Directions  as  to  presentation 
copies.  The  schism  not  yet  closed,  as  he  could  wish  it  had  been.  '  I  had  the 
news  myself  nearer  London  that  Mr.  Cherry  and  I  had  communicated  with 
the  Publick  when  we  were  in  London.  But  it  was  news  to  ourselves.'  Who 
is  the  German  who  has  written  a  large  book  on  Natural  Immortality  ?  'An- 
other little  thing  of  mine  on  the  Dialogue  of  the  Old  Man  and  S.Justin  in  the 
larger  one  with  Tryphon,  will  soon  be  published.' 

May  29.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  19).  'We  are  . .  like  to  have 
another  Case  of  a  more  hainous  Nature  brought  into  Convocation  House  con- 
cerning a  Gentleman  of  Wadham  Coll.  who  has  had  the  impudence  to  parallel 
the  Actions  of  the  late  K.W.  with  the  Sufferings  of  our  Saviour.  Our  new 
Prof,  of  Div.  propos'd  for  the  Subject  of  his  Lectures  The  Defence  of  the 
Holy  Scriptures,  and  ye  Explaining  the  Fathers.  .  .  On  Wednesday  12th  In- 
stant at  one  Clock  Mr.  Thwaites  made  his  Inaugural  Speech  as  Greek  Pro- 
fessor, wch  was  nothing  else  but  a  short,  dry  Account,  in  the  old  Road,  of  the 
Greek  Letters,  and  the  Progress  of  that  Language  in  the  Western  Parts  of 
Europe,  without  the  least  mention  .  .  in  it's  Praise,  or  of  his  Predecessors. 
Nor  did  he  think  fit  to  tell  his  Auditors  what  should  be  the  Subject  of  his 
future  Discourses.  Not  long  since  walking  to  Wolvercote  I  had  the  Curiosity 
to  goe  into  the  Gardens  of  Godstowe,  wheret  one  of  the  men  show'd  me  a 
Piece  of  a  Stone  found  lately  under  a  Walnut  Tree  rooted  up  in  the  Great 
Storm.  On  it  are  these  Letters, 

Goticstotoe :  fmc  : 

©habntcde  :  J 

It  seems  to  have  been  the  Foundation  Stone  of  the  Chaunterie,  and  I  believe 
the  part  lost  had  the  name  of  the  Founder  of  the  Nunnery.  Perhaps  the  I 
now  remaining  is  the  Initial  Letter  of  Ida  or  Editha,  who  is  said  to  have 
founded  it  A.  D.  1138,  about  ye  3d  Year  of  the  Reign  of  Hen.  2d,  tho'  Tho. 
Walsingham  says  (Hyp.  Neustr.  p.  56.  Edit.  Park)  'twas  founded  by  King 
John  for  Nunns  to  pray  for  the  Soul  of  Rosamund  his  Father's  Concubine, 
and  so  the  I  will  be  the  first  Letter  of  this  King's  name.' 

1  It  should  be  O  !  by  y»  Blood,  &c. 


H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

makes  ye  Suspicion  more  just.  —  A  Book  in  4*°  being  a  Critical  History 
of  the  Dogmata,  Rites,  &c.  by  Jurieu:  wth  an  Appendix  containing 
divers  Letters  of  Cuperus,  Mr.  Mass9n,  &c.  lately  publish'd  in  French, 
and  since  translated  into  English. 

June  2  (Wed.).  Dr.  Whitby  has  writ  a  discourse  in  Latin,  in  a 
creeping,  obscure  style,  against  Dr.  Mill's  Elaborate  Edition  of  the  New 
Testament,  &  'tis  going  to  be  printed ;  but  we  must  not  expect  much 
from  one  that  has  not  been  vers'd  in  this  sort  of  Learning,  nor  hardly 
knows  what  a  MS*,  is,  or  indeed  y6  use  of  the  Lections  wclx  may  be 
10  gather'd  from  them.  —  Blanchini  has  publish'd  in  folio  Jul.  Csesaris 
Kalendarium  wtjl  Hippolytus's  Canon,  &  Remarks  upon  Antonini 
Columna  &c.  —  Vigniola  has  likewise  writ  upon  the  Columna  in  wcl1  he 
has  also  given  us  divers  Antient  Inscriptions. 

June  4  (Fri.).  Yesterday  Sr.  Charles  Cotterell,  Master  of  y6  Cere- 
monies, was  in  Congregation  incorporated  Dr.  of  Civil  Law,  having 
taken  yi  Degr.  formerly  at  Camb.  as  a  Member  of  Trinity  Coll.  He  was 
presented  by  Dr.  Savage  of  Xfc.  Church  who  made  a  short,  pertinent 
Speech  upon  ye  occasion.  —  ... 

June  8  (Tu.).  Dr.  Frampton  y®  Depriv'd  BP.  of  Gloucester  died 
20  lately  to  ye  great  Reluctance  of  all  good  men.  —  Memorand.  y*  y® 
Carmina  Marciana  in  Livy  1.  xxv.  c.  12.  are  ingeniously  express'd  in  verse 
by  Capellus  (as  without  doubt  they  were  by  ye  Oracle)  in  Historia  sacra 
&  exotica,  p.  544  .  .  —  Memorand.  to  tell  ye  Editor  of  Ignatius's  Epistles 
that  his  Epistle  to  ye  Romans  in  Greek  is  printed  by  y6  Benedictines  in 
a  4to  Collection  from  a  MS*.  I  believe  it  may  be  seen  in  Trinity  Coll. 
Library.  Mr.  Dodwell  tells  me  y*  S*.  Jerom's  order  in  his  de  Scriptoribus 


June  2.  Dr.  Charlett  to  ...  (Rawl.  4.  47).  A  Livy  (i2mo.)  with  Freins- 
hemius'  Supplements,  copious  Index,  &c.  is  printing  at  Utrecht. 

June  4.  Bear  to  H.  (Rawl.  2.  13).  Orders  4  copies  of  Freinshemius* 
Supplement. 

June  5.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  94).  Does  not  wonder  so 
much  at  the  impudence  and  impiety  of  the  young  Gentleman  at  Wadham 
College  as  at  the  negligence  of  the  Warden  &c.  who  have  not  expelled  him  for 
his  blasphemous  comparison ;  but  it  is  now  more  dangerous  to  speak  against  the 
Usurpations  of  P.  O.  than  against  the  divinity  of  our  B.  Saviour.  Wishes  that 
Potter  would  publish  Clemens  Alexandrinus.  Gives  particulars  of  a  gold  medal 
of  Nero  found  1 8  or  20  years  since  near  Maldon  (Essex),  criticising  unfavour- 
ably by  the  way  Selden  and  Gibson. 

June  6.  H.  to  Barnes  (R'awl.  35.  8).  Sends  collations  of  the  3d  Iliad 
with  MS.  Barocc.  203. 

June  7.  H.  to  F.  Cherry  (Rawl.  36. 1 8).  Sends  two  presentation  copies 
of  Livy.  Hopes  to  see  Mr.  Cherry  this  afternoon.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith 
(Rawl.  38.  20).  Remarks  on  Potter,  and  Mill's  exaggerated  Encomiums 
of  him,  and  on  Thwaites'  edition  of  Ephraem  Syrus  as  compared  with 
that  proposed  by  Grabe.  Will  be  cautious  enough  for  the  future  with 
Thwaites,  since  he  appears  so  shy  in  this  and  some  other  literary  matters. 
The  Maldon  Medal.  Glad  of  S.'s  intention  for  Oxon.  Will  send  on 
June  15,  by  Mrs.  Matthews's  waggon,  a  small-paper  copy  of  Livy.  'Two 
or  three  days  since  I  heard  from  a  student  of  X*  Church  that  the  Dean 
.  .  had  got  an  exact  Copy  of  ye  MS*  of  Ignatius's  Epistles  at  Florence,  and  y* 
he  has  imploy'd  his  nephew  .  .  to  prepare  things  for  the  Press,  designing  it  for 
his  next  year's  new  year's  Gift. .  .' 


May  31- June  13.]         VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  47 '-57 '.  113 

Ecclesiasticis  seems  to  be  the  true  order  in  wch  these  Epistles  were 
written.  He  reckons  them  by  one,  two,  &c.  Mr.  Dodwell  if  he  had 
time  would  write  a  short  Dissertation  about  this  Order.  —  Remember  to 
tell  those  Gentlemen  that  object  that  Mr.  Dodwell's  Epistolary  Disc.  &  his 
other  Books  in  Defence  of  it  are  useless,  y*  the  Uses  of  it  may  be  seen 
at  ye  End  of  ye  Epistolary  Disc.  &  in  ye  Fragments  of  Mr.  Faulkner's 
Letter  in  the  Premonition  to  ye  Discourse,  viz.  the  Accounting  for 
Original  Sin,  Reprobation,  Eternity  of  Hell-Torments,  Case  of  Heathens 
&  Infants  &  Ideots,  &c.  —  Cigalini  has  writ  a  very  good  Discourse  de 
Patria  Plinij,  prefix'd  to  ye  Dutch  Edition  of  Pliny's  Nat.  Hist,  in  3  10 
gvos.  _  The  Isle  of  Athelneie  is  call'd  in  a  MS*.  wch  I  have  seen  (in 
Bibl.  Bodl.  inter  Codd.  Digb.  n.  f.  157  a.  intit.  Brutus)  Mechelingenia. 
In  y*  MS*,  it  is  sd  y*  King  Alfred  built  a  Monastery  at  Winchester,  quod 
multis  ditavit  possessionibus. — Ibid.  In  Proverbijs  ita  enituit  ut  nemo 
post  ilium  amplius.  —  King  Alfred  reign'd  only  28  years  according  to 
an  old  MS.  de  regibus  Angliae,  (Laud.  C.  22.)  f.  i.  a. — There  f.  2.  a.  'tis 
sd  Alfred  was  buried  in  Hyde  Abbey,  wtbout  saying  any  thing  of  his 
being  buried  before  in  Winton  Monastery. 

MS.  Laud.  B.  23. 

Will.  Con.,  Will.  Ruphus,  Hen.  pri.,  Stephan.  Henque  secundus,  ao 

Ri.  Jo.,  tercius  Hen.,  tris  Edward,  Rque  secundus. 
Henricus  quartus,  Hen,  quintus,  Hen.  quoque  sextus, 
Edwardus  quartus,  Ri.  tertius,  septimus  est  Hen. 

June  13  (Sun.).  Next  Wednesday  is  appointed  for  ye  Execution  of 
y6  Ld.  Griffin,  taken  in  ye  Salisbury,  &  condemn'd  by  virtue  of  a  Record 
of  outlawry  made  against  him  in  ye  late  Reign.  When  the  Record  was 
read  to  him  he  objected  against  it,  saying  that  he  went  into  France  upon 
account  of  his  Debts,  that  he  had  not  been  in  Council  wth  ye  French 
King  all  ye  time  of  his  Absence  nor  had  borne  Arms  against  her 
Majesty,  that  he  knew  nothing  of  his  Outlawry,  &  that  he  took  ye  oppor-  30 
tunity  of  coming  into  England  to  settle  his  Affairs  &c.  But  this 
signify'd  nothing,  so  he  was  order'd  to  prepare  to  dye.  The  Ld.  Keeper 
since  this  has  made  an  Excellent  Speech  in  Council  for  Mitigation  of  his 
Penalty,  but  Ld.  Wharton  and  others  are  averse  &  altogether  for  his 
Death.  My  Ld.  Griffin  has  Petition'd  that  Dr.  Hickes  and  Mr.  Cook, 
Nonjurors  may  be  admitted  to  prepare  him  for  Death,  but  this  most 
reasonable  Request  has  been  deny'd.  —  In  a  Genealogical  History 
(Laud.  E.  3,  f.  10.  b.)  'tis  said  King  Alfred  reign'd  29  years  and  a  half. 
Ibid.  Iste  Aluredus  fundavit  Universitatem  Oxon.  a°.  Domini  occcLxxiii. 
sed  Cantabrigia  erat  fundata  a  Cantabro  duce  ante  incarnacionem  40 

June  12.  Barnes  to  H.  (Rawl.  24. 14).  The  paper  for  Homer  (imported 
from  Genoa)  was  sent  to  the  Printing-House  last  week ;  the  mere  carriage  of 
it  will  cost  ,&io.  Hopes  to  present  the  world  such  a  piece  as  they  never  saw 
before.  In  his  Disquisitions  on  Homer  and  Solomon  ('wchsome  admire> 
others  not  comprehending,  are  afraid,  tho'  none  can  answer  ye  Reasons,  I  bring, 
but  it  must  pass  only  for  a  Lusus  Poeticus,  till  ye  Arguments  are  canvass'd '), 
he  has  discovered  that  King  Ebrank  founded  Oxford  University  near  Solo- 
mon's time  ;  it  was  anciently  called  Cair  Minver  =  the  city  of  Minerva.  Mes- 
sages to  friends  at  Oxford.  Will  venture  his  reputation  and  all  that  he  has  on 
his  Homer. 

VOL.  II.  I 


114  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

annis  cccLxxxxiiij.  &  a  Philosophis  inhabitata.      Et  sic  Cantabrigia  erat 
ante  Universitatem  Oxon.  per  mille  nongentos  viginti  &  novem  annos. 

June  17  (Th.).  This  day  Mr.  Carter  Provost  of  Oriel  accumulated 
ye  Degrees  of  Bach.  &  Doct.  of  Divinity,  Mr.  Boothe  Dean  of  Bristol 
in  room  of  Dr.  Royce,  &  formerly  nobleman  of  X*.  Ch.  was  presented  to 
his  Degree  of  Bach,  of  Div.  Mr.  Smith  Principal  of  Hart  Hall  was  made 
Dr.  of  Divinity. 

June  18  (Fri.).  Mulles,  Bp.  of  Waterford,  was  lately  seen  at  Bath,  & 
he  waited  upon  Dr.  Gardiner  of  All  Souls  and  Mr.  George  Clarke  of  that 
10  Coll.  He  told  both  of  them  that  he  was  going  speedily  for  Oxon,  & 
that  he  design'd  to  have  a  tryal  for  his  Greek  Professorship,  impudently 
affirming  that  he  was  not  render'd  unqualify'd  by  being  Bishop.  He  was 
seen  openly  to  accost  and  kiss  l  a  great  many  Ladies,  insomuch  that 
divers  ask'd  what  kissing  Parson  that  was  ?  but  were  well  enough  pleas'd 
when  'twas  answer'd  y*  he  was  the  Bishop  of  Waterford,  saying  they  were 
glad  kissing  was  Canonical. 

June  19  (Sat.).  The  IA  Griffin,  who  was  to  have  been  executed  on 
Wednesday,  had  a  Reprieve  sent  him  early  that  Morning  for  14  Days. 

June  20  (Sun.).  The  Arch^P2  of  Cant,  being  talking  with  some  Great 
20  Men  who  were  for  saving  the  Lord  Griffin,  seem'd  much  concern'd  & 
express'd  himself  to  this  Effect,  Hei  day !  fine  Work !  that  neither  ye 
Lord  Griffin,  nor  y6  Ld.  Middleton's  Sons,  should  be  hang'd !  At  this 
rate  we  shall  have  noone  hang'd !  —  In  MS*.  NE.  B.  1.6.  f.  50.  mention 
of  a  Woman  Pope  thus :  Johannes  Anglicus  nacione  manguntinus  sedit 
papa  annis  2  mensibus  4.  Femina  enim  fuit.  848.  —  A  fragment  from 
Trogus  in  a  MS*,  of  Sr.  Ken.  Digby's,  196.  Remember  to  collate  it  wt}l 
the  same  in  Justin.  There  is  also  a  Bill  of  Costs,  wct  will  be  usefull  for 
improving  the  Book  call'd  Chronicon  pretiosum.  —  Something  for 
Testimony  of  Livy  in  Willerm.  Gemeticensis  p.  1042.  —  A  Great  many 
30  very  considerable  Fragments  of  Tully  &  other  old  Authors  in  a  MS*  of 
S^  Tho.  Bodley.  NE.  B.  2.  i. 

June  14.  J.  Bennett  to  H.  (Rawl.  2.  97).  Will  try  to  dispose  of  six 
Livys.  Please  enclose  letters  to  '  my  father  Sr.  John  Bennett,  Serjeant  att 
Law,  Member  of  Parliament  att  his  house  in  Essex  Buildings  in  ye  Strand, 
and  then  they'l  be  frank't  at  ye  Posthouse.  .  .  .  'Tis  hotly  discoursed  to  day  in 
Westminster  Hall,  that  Mr.  Wright  your  Recorder  of  Oxon  will  be  made  a 
Judge,  in  ye  room  of  Baron  Smith,  who's  gone  to  Scotland.' 

June  15.  H.  to  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  22).  Sends  collations  of  Iliad  IV. 
Dr.  H.  sent  B.  this  week  some  copies  of  Livy,  which  he  will  probably  take  out 
in  Homers. 

June  17.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  95).  Thanks  for  Livy,  re- 
ceived yesterday  evening.  Expects  no  great  matter  from  the  designed  edition 
of  several  of  the  Homilies  of  Ephraem  Syrus.  Would  not  advise  H.  to  rely 
too  much  on  the  editor's  (Thwaites)  friendship.  Will  bring  down  a  list  of  the 
extant  Homilies,  compiled  by  Patrick  Young. 

June  21.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  28.  31).  'I  have  inquired  at  Mra. 
Maidman's  (the  place  you  once  lodg'd  at)  for  a  Room,  but  they  are  all  taken 

1  Quid  est  aut  nequius,  aut  turpius  effoeminato  viro  ?     Cicero  Tus.  Quaest.  p.  1 08. 
ed.  Erasm.  Bas.  (Frob.)  1543,  4to. 

2  Tennison. 


June  13-23.] 


VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  57-67. 


June  23  (Wed.).  This  Day  was  a  Convention  at  S*.  Marie's  Church 
for  Choice  of  Proctors  for  the  Diocese  of  Oxon,  to  sit  in  Convocation  the 
Ensueing  Sessions  of  Parliament.  No  one  thought  'till  within  about  a 
Week  that  the  two  old  Members  Dr.  De  Laune  &  Mr.  Moore  would  have 
been  oppos'd ;  but  at  ye  Instigation  of  y6  Heavy  Arch^P  of  Canterbury, 
Gibson  and  some  other  virulent  Enemies  to  ye  Church  of  England  & 
Universities,  such  as  are  for  bringing  in  a  Comprehension  and  estab- 
lishing every  thing  that  makes  for  the  Whiggs  and  Presbyterians  clandes- 
tinely made  an  Interest  for  our  White  Liver'd  Professor  Dr.  John  Potter. 
The  Instruments  they  made  use  of  on  this  occasion  were  some  other  10 
white-liver'd,  silly,  ridiculous  Fellows,  such  as  Rye  the  Informer  of  Oriel, 
Goodwin  the  Leyden  Dr.  of  Physick  &  Archdeacon  of  Oxon,  Hynde  of 
Lincoln  Coll.,  a  pitifull  Pretender  to  Greek  History  (of  wcb  he  has 
given  a  most  dull,  empty  Specimen  lately)  &  some  others ;  but  when  the 
votes  came  to  be  cast  up  it  appear'd  that  Mr.  More  had  78,  Dr.  Delaune 
66,  &  Potter  but  43;  so  ye  notwt^standing  ajl  the  Diligence  wch  the 
Whiggs  could  possibly  make,  &  the  Sly  tricks  of  getting  votes  by  Proxy 
(a  thing  w0*1  has  not  been  practis'd  before  in  this  place  for  a  great  many 
years)  &  the  threats  of  ruining  some  Men  if  they  did  not  close  wfcl1  them, 
these  devilish  People  have  been  baffled,  and  Potter  has  plainly  discover' d  20 
himself  to  be  a  poor  silly  tool,  of  an  ambitious  conceited  temper,  &  fit  to 
be  rank'd  only  w^  Mulles,  &c.  —  I  have  formerly  seen  in  the  Bodlejan 
Library  a  Book  in  which  there  is  a  note  that  Mulles  signifies  nebula,  ncevus 
&c.  And  the  English  word  mole  is  the  same.  So  likewise  in  Saxon. 
And  Mr.  Llhuyd  tells  me  that  they  have  in  one  part  of  Wales  the  word 
maullish,  which  he  says  is  a  silly,  insignificant,  craz'd  fellow. 

MS.  Bodl.  NE.  C.  2-6.  f.  2 1.  a. 

In  potu  primo  purgatur  guttur  a  limo. 
Gaudia  sunt  nobis  solennia  quum  bibo l  bis. 
Nil  valeant  vina  nisi  sit  potatio  trina : 
Cumque  quater  poto  hinc  later  pectore 

toto. 
Ad  quintum  potum  mens  labitur  in  para- 

disum. 


Sextus   vult    potus    ut    nemo    sit    mihi 

notus. 

Potu  septeno  frons  efficitur  sine  freno.        30 
Octavo  potu  sum  debilis  &  sine  motu. 
Nono  tractatur  ut  corpus  sepeliatur. 


up.  I  desir'd  her  to  recommend  me  to  a  place.  She  mentioned  Kettle-Hall ; 
but  upon  talking  with  M™.  Finch  who  letts  the  Rooms  out  she  told  me  that  a 
Gentleman  of  Hart-Hall  had  bespoke  the  only  room  she  had  left.  I  have  in- 
quir'd  at  two  or  three  other  Places,  but  wthout  Success,  'till  at  last  I  met  wth 
one  at  Mr.  Duell's  just  by  Mr.  Clements's  the  Booksellers,  which  is  convenient 
enough  for  the  Library,  and  I  have  nothing  to  object  against  it  only  'tis  up 
two  pair  of  Stairs  ;  but  ye  Stairs  are  good  enough.  Dr.  Potter  puts  up  for 
Convocation  Man  here,  &  the  Election  will  be  on  Wednesday  next.  Matters 
have  been  for  some  time  clandestinely  carried  on,  &  the  Party  have  been  very 
industrious  to  get  Dr.  De  Laune  or  our  other  Member  outed,  but  we  hope 
they  will  be  baffled.  The  BP.  of  Waterford  is  now  in  England,  &  is  making 
for  Oxon.  He  has  told  several  People  that  he  will  have  a  Tryal  for  the  Greek 
Professorship,  pretending  that  'tis  not  vacant ;  tho'  he  withdrew  the  Caveat 
himself  y*  he  had  put  in  against  it's  being  fill'd  up,  and  besides  he  was  never 
legally  possess'd,  having  neither  subscribed  before  the  Vice-Chancellor,  nor 
read  any  Lecture.'  Thanks  for  S.'s  very  fair  account  of  Livy.  Barnes'  Homer 
goes'on  at  Cambridge,  he  having  got  paper  from  beyond  sea. 

1  f.  bibero. 

I   2 


Il6  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

. . .  About  5  years  since  was  printed  a  Book  in  English,  4to.  to  prove 
that  Swallows  at  Winter  fly  into  ye  Moon. 

June  30  (Wed.).  I  am  inform'd  for  certain  that  Mr.  Parker  is  Author 
of  the  Pamphlett  call'd  Censura  temporum  (And  he  is  so  for  certain.)  — 
MS.  NE.  D.  i.  22.  f.  89.  a.  [Sentence  of  excommunication  against 
'  Henricus  Derby  cum  ceteris  suis  fautoribus.'  (Consult  Wharton's  Anglia 
Sacra,  Vol.  2.)  68-71.] 

In  a  new  Edition  of  Justin  in  the  Annotation  about  Alexander  y6 
Great,  in  w°k  I  have  inserted  a  fragment  from  a  MS*,  cone,  the  Cities 
lo  built  by  him,  this  to  be  added,  or  at  least  taken  notice  of,  from  another 
MSt.  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  NE.  D.  2.1.  f.  72.  a. 

Is    Rex    dum   vixit    duodenas    condidit  Set    memor  est    prosa  nomina   quaeque 

urbes,  docens. 

Nomine  regali  quaeque  vocata  fait :  Si  cupis  6  lector  illorum  nomina  scire, 

Versus  non  patitur  illarum  nomina  scribi,  Littera  quse  sequitur  nomina  cuncta  docet. 

—  Prima  Alexandria  quae  dicitur  Ypresell,  secunda  quse  dicitur  Repo- 
porum,  tercia  Scithia,  quarta  Ricontrisa,  quinta  Yardaco,  sexta  Busiphalon, 
septima  quae  dicitur  *  *  * 

A  Story  cone.  BP.  Burnett  in  the  large1  Review  of  ye  Summary  View 

20  °f  y  Articles  exhibited  against y  Bp.  of  St.  Davids  Sfc.  p.  in.  Ask 
IX  Smith  ab*  it.  'Tis  cone,  a  namesake's  of  the  BP'S,  of  excellent  Parts 
and  Learning,  considering  his  Years,  who  came  out  of  Scotland,  upon 
ace*  of  Episcopacy  being  abolish'd  there,  to  be  ordain'd  by  his  Ldship ; 
who  refus'd  it,  and  bid  him  to  return  into  his  own  Country,  and 
acquiesce  in  the  Presbyterian  Discipline.  At  wch  the  young  Gentleman 
was  strangely  amaz'd,  he  forsook  y6  Church  of  England  and  embrac'd 
the  Roman  Catholick  Religion,  wc^  he  profess'd  at  St.  Omar's  when  the 
said  Book  was  writ.  —  To  be  got  into  ye  Publick  Library  Dacier's 
Edition  of  Anselm's  Epistles  &  Eadmer's  History.  —  Ant.  a  Wood  to  be 

30  inlarg'd  &c.  in  his  Ace*  of  Hadr.  Saravia,  Vol.  i.  col.  765.  from  Saravia's 
Epistle  to  the  Ministers  of  ye  Isle  of  Garnsay,  &c.  at  ye  End  of  Burnett's 
Clavi  Trab.  .  .  See  also  Is.  Walton's  Life  of  Hooker  p.  96.  Lond. 
1670.  

June  24.  H.  to  F.  Cherry  (Rawl.  36.  19).  If  Dodwell  had  staid,  he 
might  have  seen  his  old  friend  the  Bp.  of  Waterford.  '  The  day  before  his 
arrival  he  got  printed  Papers  stuck  up  at  College  Gates  signifying  that  the 
Greek  Professor  would  read  the  next  day  at  ten  a  Clock.'  .  .  though  '  we  never 
have  Lectures  in  Act  Term,  unless  there  be  a  publick  Act.  .  .  He  lodges  at  ye 
Angel,  but  he  is  not  so  much  as  taken  notice  of  hardly  by  one  person  in  this 
Place,  except  by  Dr.  Charlett  who  has  invited  him  to  dinner.'  The  contest 
for  Proctor  in  Convocation ;  most  of  Dr.  Potter's  votes  were  by  proxy,  '  a 
thing  which  the  Archbp.  admitted  of  at  this  time,  tho'  disus'd  in  this  place  for 
a  great  Number  of  Years.'  Importance  of  tha  victory.  How  many  Livys 
does  Mr.  Cherry  subscribe  for  ?  The  work  is  successful  in  spite  of  the  com- 
bination of  the  booksellers  against  it. 

June  26.  H.  to  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  17).  Sends  the  sth  II.  by  Mr.  Whis- 
haw  [B.N.C.].  Begs  B.  to  lay  aside  all  thoughts  of  making  him  any  pecuniary 
satisfaction  for  his  work  ;  '  'tis  enough  to  me  that  I  can  any  way  serve  Learn- 
ing.' Return  of  the  old  members  to  Convocation  to  the  disappointment  of 
the  W — gs. 

1  The  Author  whereof  Mr.  Ferguson,  a  Scotch  Man. 


June  23-July  7.]        VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  68-76.  117 

July  2  (Fri.).  Mr.  Jones  of  Sunning-well  bequeath'd  all  his  MSS. 
(that  are  put  down  in  the  printed  Cat.  of  the  MSSts.  of  England  and 
Ireland)  to  the  publick  Library.  When  ye  Cat.  come  to  be  examin'd 
several  of  them  were  found  wanting,  among  wc^  is  Ignatius's  Epistles  in 
Greek,  wch  was  BP.  Fell's.  This  very  Book  I  have  found  in  Mr. 
Thwaites's  hands  having  been  lent  to  Dr.  Mill,  and  by  y*  means  it  came 
amongst  a  great  many  other  Books  to  him,  &  ought  to  be  claim'd  as  a 
Library  Book.  At  ye  beginning  is  the  following  Memorandum  by  BP. 
Fell's  own  hand : 

Septembris  17°.  A.  1673.  cum  ex  itinere  Harburiam  Comitatus  Leicestriae  10 
pertransirem ;  codicis  hujus  copia  mihi  facta  est ;  eundemque  dono  dedit 
egregius  vir,  &  de  re  literaria  optime  meritus  Dnus  Johannes  Berry,  scholar 
ibidem  grammaticalis  ludimagister.  Codicem  ipsum  Oundleiae,  in  agro 
Northamptoniensi,  apud  bibliopolam  neglectam,  &  inter  scruta  delitescentem, 
pretio  satis  exiguo  redemit.  J.  FELL. 

Dr.  Thomas  Smith,  who  is  about  printing  S*.  Ignatius's  Epistles,  tells 
me  y*  'tis  a  Copy  of  ye  MS*,  in  Leycester  Library,  &  that  there  is  nothing 
of  value  in  it. 

July  7  (Wed.).  1  Fees  for  Degrees  in  Div.  as  I  had  them  from  Mr. 
Wm.  Sherwin,  inferior  Beadle  of  Div.  20 

The  fees  of  a  Bach,  of  Div.  Petty  Com.  Non.  Com.  n   19  10 

To  ye  Queen  02  oo  oo 

THE  EXERCISE. 

Disputing  3  times,  and  preaching  a  Latin  Sermon. 

A  DR.  OF  Div. 

Fees        33  06  04 
Queen     02  oo  oo 

EXERCISE  THREE  LECTURES. 

Accumulating  both  Degrees  three  Lectures  only  ;  and  the  Fees  for  both 
Degrees  are  much  the  same  as  to  proceed  seperately.  —  In  ye  year  16^0  30 
was  printed  at  London  in  8V0.  a  Sermon  call'd  Prudent  Silence.  The 
Author  Dr.  Cornelius  Surges.  The  whole  Title :  Prudent  Silence.  A 
Sermon  preached  in  Mercer's  Chapell,  To  the  Lord  Mayor  and  City,  Jan. 
14.  1648.  Shewing  the  great  Sin  and  Mischief  'of  destroying  Kings  :  de- 


July  3.  P.  Pox  to  H.  (Rawl.  5. 116).  How  soon  will  the  Bodleian  Cata- 
logue be  printed  ?  F.  has  a  prospect  of  getting  some  German  books  for  the 
Library,  if  they  can  be  sent  in  time  to  be  put  into  the  Catalogue.  R. 
Roberts  (Petworth)  to  H.  (Rawl.  9.  38).  Directions  for  paying  various 
small  debts  in  Oxford,  including  gs.  to  '  goody  Vesey  my  bedmaker  at  X* 
Church,  one  shilling  to  goody  Earl  a  Scout  y*  belongs  to  Oriel  Colledge,' 
&c.  Hopes  to  be  able  in  a  little  time  to  send  H.  a  larger  token  to  drink,  but 
asks  him  now  to  take  a  shilling  for  himself  and  Mr.  Gunnis. 

July  5.  Rev.  Benj.  Marshall  (Hartlebury  Castle)  to  H.  (Rawl.  8.  i). 
The  Bp.  of  Wore,  will  take  the  6  Livys.  Please  get  from  Mr.  Clements  a 
copy  of  Howel's  Synopsis  Canonum.  Sorry  that  Dr.  Smith  has  not  yet  received 
the  sheets  of  the  Bishop's  Chronology ;  H.  may  pick  them  out  himself. 


1  Compare  this  with  my  folio  Book  of  the  University  Fees  for  Degrees,  &c.  as 
I  most  carefully  drew  all  up  after  I  was  elected  Superior  Beadle  of  Civil  Law. 


Il8  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

hor ting  from  taking  away  our  late  Soveraign  ;  and  deterring  all  from  like 
wickedness.  On  Amos  5.  13.  Ant.  a  Wood  never  saw  this  Sermon;  w°k 
makes  him  (vol.  2.  p.  237)  committ  a  great  mistake  in  making  him  print 
a  Sermon  on  Amos  5.  13.  and  another  call'd  Prudent  Silence  &c.  as  if 
they  were  two  different  discourses.  In  this  Sermon  he  says  (in  the  Ded. 
to  K.  Ch.  II.)  he  was  servant  to  King  Charles  istand  K.  James  ist.  Mr. 
Wood  only  mentions  his  being  servant  to  K.  James.  For  penning  this 
Sermon  he  says,  &  for  penning  a  Vindication  of  the  Ministers  in  and  about 
London,  he  was  threatned  to  be  tried  for  his  Life ;  &  y*  in  order  thereunto 

i°  he  was  convented1  before  the  then  House  of  Commons :  when  he  publickly 
to  their  Faces  said  y*  if  he  had  thought  in  the  least  that  they  design'd  to 
murder  the  King  he  would  have  been  hang'd  up  at  his  own  do9r  before 
he  would  have  stirr'd  or  spoke  a  word  in  their  Cause :  with  other  words  to 
that  purpose  cone,  his  detestation  of  y*  wicked  Villany.  —  In  page  2  4 5th 
of  ye  large  Review,  above  mention'd,  is  a  hint  of  another  story  of  BP. 
Burnet  (which  I  remember  about  8  years  since  I  heard  discours'd  of,  & 
was  told  it  in  particular  by  MX  Fr.  Fox,  who  has  now  got  a  Living  from 
the  BP.  concern'd,  he  being  then  undergraduate)  viz.  that  he  would  have 
debauched  the  Daughter  of  a  person  where  he  had  an  Interest  and 

80  Authority,  and  turn'd  her  Father  (whose  name  was  Mr.  Toffts,  a  Scotch 
Man,  &  very  honest)  out  of  his  place  and  employ,  because  the  Daughter 
had  Chastity  and  Vertue  to  abhorr  his  Sollicitations.  But  afterwards  upon 
the  young  woman's  upbraiding  him,  and  threatning  to  divulge  the  ways 
and  methods,  he  had  us'd  for  corrupting  her,  the  BP.  did  not  only  both 
get  the  Father  to  be  restored  to  his  place,  and  reimbursed  him  whatsoever 
he  had  lost,  during  the  time  of  his  dispossession,  but  moreover  plentifully 
rewarded  him. 

July  10  (Sat.).  Note  of  some  books  to  be  got  into  the  Publick 
Library  .  .  .  [78-79].  —  Mr.  Covert  of  Hart-Hall,  who  was  deny'd  his 

3°  Degree  of  Bach,  of  Arts  last  year  for  a  great  Crime,  stood  again  this  Act 
for  ye  same  Degree,  and  having  been  deny'd  three  times,  the  reasons  were 

>  given  into  ye  Vice-Chanc.  and  were  yesterday  read  in  Congregation,  & 
are  viz.  i.  That  he  had  not  done  Juraments.  2.  That  he  had  not  been 
resident  ever  since  his  Denyal  in  ye  University.  3.  That  he  said  if  [he] 
had  reak'd  and  whor'd  as  others  in  ye  University  do  he  should  not  have 
been  deny'd  his  Degree.  The  last  was  principally  insisted  on  and  was 
approv'd  as  sufficient.  This  young  Gentleman  after  his  Denyal  last  year 
got  two  Parsonages.  —  Dr.  Framton  BP.  of  Gloucester,  a  most  excellent, 
religious,  conscientious  Divine,  &  well  belov'd  by  all  ye  Clergy,  of  Loyalty 

July  10.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  96).  Thanks  for  H.'s  and 
Hudson's  kindness  during  his  visit  to  Oxford,  '  which  instead  of  a  paradise  is 
become  a  wilderness  to  mee.'  But  he  will  ever  esteem  this  little  excursion 
very  happy,  in  having  procured  the  printing  of  St.  Ignatius  at  the  Theatre 
Press.  Please  accept  a  box  of  books  in  recognition  of  literary  services,  and 
pass  on  Spanheim's  Gat.  of  the  Leiden  Library  to  Hudson.  Rymer  has  pre- 
sented S.  with  his  sixth  volume.  Hopes  the  attempts  to  repeal  the  Test  and 
Corporation  Acts  will  be  defeated.  Asks  H.  to  procure  for  his  use  the  letters 
of  Lloyd,  Dodwell,  Noris,  Pagi,  Fell's  dedication  of  his  St.  Cyprian,  two  letters 
of  Bochartus  to  Clerke,  &c. 

1  Feb.  5,  1648. 


July  7-11.]  VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  76-84.  119 

&  Integrity  in  his  Diocess,  contrary  to  what  Dr.  Fowler,  his  Williamite 
Successor  is,  dy'd  on  Whit-tuesday  last,  in  the  86*  year  of  his  Age  (?), 
and  was  buried  in  the  Chancell  of  his  Parish  Church  of  Stanley  in 
Gloucestershire,  at  which  were  present  a  great  number  of  Clergy-men 
and  others  of  note ;  but  'tis  observable  that  Dr.  Chetwood,  y*  Whiggish 
Divine,  Chaplain  to  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Marlborough,  &  Dean  of 
Gloucester,  would  not  let  the  College  bell  ring  at  his  Funeral.  It  begun 
to  be  rung  by  the  contrivance  of  one  or  two  who  had  a  great  Respect  for 
the  Bp. ;  but  as  soon  as  ye  Dean  heard  it  was  for  the  BI>.  he  order'd  it  to 
cease.  The  BP.  had  all  the  Church  of  England  service  read  at  his  10 
Funeral,  as  he  order'd  it  should  by  his  Will,  without  any  Sermon. — When 
the  Prince  of  Orange  was  about  to  land  in  England  BP.  Frampton  happen'd 
to  meet  with  Mr.  Fowler  (For  I  think  he  was  not  Dr.  then)  and  told  him 
that  he  must  needs  be  sensible  of  the  approaching  Revolution,  &  of  the 
Design  the  Prince  had  of  being  King  of  England,  &c.  He  told  Mr. 
Fowler  he  should  be  depriv'd  of  his  BPPrick,  as  not  being  able  in  Con- 
science to  submitt  to  the  terms  that  would  be  impos'd,  &  said  he  believ'd 
he  would  be  put  in  his  place.  Mr.  Fowler  reply'd,  Indeed  my  IA  I  will 
not  presume  to  take  the  BPPrick  as  long  as  your  Lordship  lives.  But  as 
soon  as  ever  'twas  offer'd  him  by  the  Prince  of  Orange  he  accepted  it.  ao 

July  11  (Sun.).  This  being  Act-Sunday,  Dr.  John  Potter,  our  Regius 
Professor  of  Divinity,  preach'd  in  the  Morning  at  Christ-Church  upon  2 
Tim.  i.  10— and  hath  brought  life  and  immortality  to  light  through  the 
gospel.  His  sermon  (to  speak  without  any  manner  of  prejudice  or  par- 
tiality) was  worse,  if  possible,  than  his  late  Inaugural  Speech.  He  pro- 
pos'd  to  show  what  light  the  Gentiles  had  of  a  future  state ;  what  the  Jews 
had  of  it  &  how  far  their  knowledge  in  this  particular  exceeded  that  of  the 
Heathens,  &  lastly  how  our  Saviour  had  clear'd  this  point  &  remov'd  all 
the  doubts  that  were  entertain'd  about  it  by  plainly  revealing  to  us  that 
there  was  not  only  to  be  a  future  state  of  Rewards  and  Punishments  but  30 
that  this  state  shall  be  Eternal.  But  alass  !  in  this  Discourse,  he  show'd 
nothing  either  of  Learning  or  parts.  It  had  been  done  by  ArchbP.  TiHot- 
son  and  others  to  far  greater  Advantage  both  in  respect  of  Style  and 
argument.  Besides  after  a  dry,  heavy  Account  he  made  no  manner  of 
Application.  So  that  I  cannot  imagine  w*  the  party  can  say  in  his  vindi- 
cation, or  w*  Account  Admiral  Churchill  (Brother  to  ye  Duke  of  Marl- 
borough)  &  some  others  of  the  party  present  at  the  preaching  this 
Sermon  can  alledge  in  his  Commendation,  or  how  they  can  with  modesty 
any  longer  commend  him  who  cannot  upon  a  common  Topick  make  a 
better  Discourse  than  any  the  meanest  &  youngest  Master  of  Arts  in  4° 
Oxon,  the  sermon  that  was  preach'd  in  the  Afternoon  by  Mr.  Hey  wood  of 
S*.  John's  (who  yet  is  a  man  but  of  very  ordinary  parts  and  learning) 
being  preferable  to  his.  —  Memorand.  that  Mr.  Wright,  who  writ  ye 
antiquities  of  Rutlandshire,  was  author  of  ye  Abridgment  of  ye  Monasticon 
Anglicanum.  He  likewise  translated  into  English  from  French  the  New 
Description  of  Paris.  8V0.  He  also  was  author  of  Country  Conversations, 
8V0.  printed  at  London  for  Bonwick  about  10  years  since1,  Dedicated  to 
y®  Wits.  . 

1  [Lond.  1694.     (Dr.  Bliss).] 


120  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

July  14  (Wed.).  Mr.  Caswell  told  Dr.  Hudson  this  Morning  that 
the l  Vice-Chancellor  seriously  assur'd  him  (w*h  some  mark  of  astonishment 
and  admiration)  that  the  late  Address  sent  from  the  University  to  ye  Queen 
upon  Ace*  of  ye  Late  Expedition  on  Scotland,  cost  the  University  six 
score  pounds.  —  On  Friday  last  the  Statutes  were  read  in  Convocation 
and  approv'd  of  for  a  Professorship  of  Poetry  founded  by  Mr.  Birkhead 
formerly  of  All- Souls  Coll.  and  this  day  was  a  Convocation  at  9  clock, 
for  Electing  a  Professor,  when  Mr.  Trapp  of  Wadham  Coll.  a  most  in- 
genious, honest  Gent.  &  every  ways  deserving  of  y6  Place  (he  being  also 
10  but  in  mean  circumstances)  was  chosen  without  any  opposition  to  the 
great  satisfaction  of  the  whole  University.  (It  must  however  be  observ'd 
that  this  Mr.  Trapp  is  somewhat  given  to  cringing  and  is  a  great  corn- 
mender  of  the  Tricks  of  Lancaster.  Sept.  29.  i 709.)  —  A  list  of  Religious 
Houses  in  England  in  a  Roll,  on  ye  back  side,  inter  Codd.  MSS.  in  Bibl. 
Bodl.  Arch.  A.  200. 

c.July  15.  H.  to  Barnes  (RawL  35.  21).  Sends  Iliad  Z  and  H.  Mr.  T. 
Johnson  of  Eton  claims  to  have  discovered  a  great  many  mistakes  in  Barnes' 
ed.  of  Anacreon,  and  to  have  hit  on  a  great  many  new  emendations.  Dr.  T. 
Smith  was  lately  in  town. 

July  16.  H.  to  Thoresby.  Printed  :  Correspondence  of  Ralph  Tboresby,  ii. 
107  sqq. 

July  17.  J.  Bennett  to  H.  (Rawl.  2.  98).  '  I  .  .  do  very  much  approve 
of  your  Edition  of  Livy  ;  only  I  think  the  Paper  is  not  so  good  as  I  expected. 
'Tis  pity  since  the  English  make  ye  best  paper  in  the  World,  they  wont  imitate 
ye  Dutch  in  ye  use  of  it,  which  adds  so  much  to  ye  beauty  of  a  Book,  &  is  not 
the  least  of  those  advantages  which  make  the  Variorum  Editions  so  valuable. 
However  Yours  is  pretty  well  as  Printing  goes  now.'  Hopes  to  hear  about 
the  passage  in  Asser  Menevensis.  '  We  expect  dayly  a  further  progres  of  our 
late  Victory,  which  is  look't  upon  here  a  certain  Earnest  of  a  speedy  Peace. 
And  there  is  mighty  Expectation  at  Court  from  ye  secret  design  of  ye  Imbar- 
kation  at  ye  Isle  of  Wight.'  H.  to  Dr.  T. Smith  (Rawl.  38.  22).  Thanks  for 
letter,  box  of  books,  and  present  of  a  guinea  left  with  Dr.  H.  Dr.  S.'sbook  or- 
dered for  Press,  and  paper  approved.  H .  and  Dr.  Hudson  have  made  some  queries 
on  the  ist  sheet.  Is  satisfied  that  Bp.  Pearson  intended  his  annotations  for  press ; 
*  as  for  what  Dr.  Ch.  .  .  suggested,  I  do  not  at  all  wonder  at  it,  he  being,  not- 
withstanding his  pretenses,  a  great  obstructer  of  real  Learning,  and  no  true 
friend  to  any  that  have  a  gust  for  it.'  The  Leyden  Cat.  was  in  the  Library 
before.  Sr.  Wm.  Whitlock  will  probably  give  us  Vol.  VI  of  Rymer.  Sheets 
of  the  Bp.  of  Worc.'s  Chronology  have  been  lodged  'for  Dr.  S.  with  Mr. 
Wakelyn  an  Apothecarie  over  against  St.  Martin's  Church- Yard.  '  Mr.  Covert 
of  Hart-Hall,  who  was  deny'd  his  degree  of  Bach,  of  Arts  last  year  (June  2  3d) 
.  .  for  a  very  great  crime,  stood  again  this  Act  for  the  same  Degree,  and  hav- 
ing been  deny'd  3  times,  the  reasons  were  given  into  the  Vice-Chancellor  and 
were  read  in  Congregation  Friday  ye  9th  Instant.  They  are,  i.  That  he  had 
not  done  Juraments,  2.  That  he  had  not  been  resident  in  the  University  ever 
since  his  former  denyal.  3.  That  he  said  if  he  had  rak'd  and  whor'd  as  others 
in  the  University  do,  he  should  not  have  been  deny'd  his  Degree.  The  last 
was  principally  insisted  on  (tho'  the  first  is  a  very  good  one)  and  was  approv'd 
of  as  sufficient.  This  young  Gentleman,  after  his  Denyal  last  year,  got  two 
Parsonages.  .  .  The  same  day  Mr.  Covert  was  deny'd  the  Statutes  for  the 
Poetry  Professorship  were  read  and  approved  of  in  a  Convocation,  and  on 
Wednesday  last  Mr.  Trapp  of  Wadham  Coll.  was  chosen  the  first  Professor 
without  any  opposition.' 

1  Lancaster. 


July  14-24.]  VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  85-89.  121 

July  18  (Sun.).  Account  of  ye  four  great  High  ways  in  England  in 
fol.  355.  b.  of  ye  IId  Vol.  of  Leland's  Collections.  —  Dr.  Thomas  Wood, 
lately  Fellow  of  New-Coil.  &  Assessor  in  ye  Vice-Chancellor's  Court,  has 
just  publish'd  (without  his  Name  added  to  it)  a  Letter  to  a  head  of  House 
in  Oxon.  being  advice  to  Tutors  to  instruct  their  Pupills  in  the  Law,  &  for 
yt  end  proposes  that  fit  qualify'd  persons  should  be  appointed  for  Tutors 
in  this  Study,  giving  his  opinion  freely  that  'twould  be  much  more  credit- 
able to  the  University,  &  of  more  advantage  to  young  Gentlemen,  to  lay 
their  time  out  upon  the  Law  of  this  Kingdom,  than  to  study  the  Classicks, 
Logick,  &c.  and  amongst  other  things  says  'tis  enough  for  4  or  five  in  ye  10 
university  to  spend  their  time  in  Criticisms,  collecting  various  Readings, 
&  the  like,  which  he  thinks  to  be  a  dry,  empty  Employment,  &  of  very 
little  use.  But  now  it  must  be  noted  that  this  Dr.  Wood  writes  of  things 
he  has  no  skill  in,  it  being  very  notorious  that  he  never  knew  any  thing  in 
his  Life  of  Classical  Learning  (so  y*  when  he  writ  the  Notitia  Angliae  in 
Latin,  he  was  not  able  to  express  himself  truly  and  like  a  scholar,  which 
made  Dr.  Wallis  say  when  he  saw  a  sheet  of  it  at  ye  Press  that  the  Writer 
ought  to  be  sent  to  schoole  again  and  severely  scourg'd)  nor  indeed  of  any 
Academical  Learning.  And  though  he  may  value  himself  much  for  his 
skill  in  ye  Common  Law,  (for  he  is  very  conceited  &  proud)  yet  those  20 
who  are  the  best  judges  are  of  opinion  that  he  is  but  as  'twere  a  dabbler.— 
The  make  of  King  Henry  VIII^'8  hand  as  appears  from  his  own  Hand- 
writing in  a  MS*,  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  Mus.  12  ... 

July  24  (Sat.).  Mr.  Rich.  James  seems  to  have  perus'd,  or  at  least 
to  have  consulted,  Boston  of  Bury.  See  his  MSS*.  Coll.  in  Bibl.  Bodl. 
Vol.  XI.  p.  134.  Vide  quoque  ibid.  p.  190.  &  p.  240.  in  posteriore  loco 
quaedam  ex  illo  adduxit,  dicitque  exstare  in  Bibliotheca  Regia.  —  John 
Hall,  chief  Printer  of  ye  Theatre-Press,  dying  just  before  Christmass  last, 
after  he  had  held  that  place  several  years,  to  his  great  advantage,  but  wth 
no  less  loss  to  the  University,  he  having  a  particular  knack  of  squeezing  30 
from  the  Persons  concern'd  in  the  Press  and  of  soothing  them  up  (accord- 
ing to  ye  Custom  of  all  blockheads  and  Rascalls)  a  little  while  after  y° 
shewing  of  ye  Theatre,  which  Hall  had  by  particular  favour  granted  to 
him,  was  given  to  Mr.  William  Sherwin  the  Inferior  Beadle,  &  Dr.  Arthur 
Charlett's,  &  some  others,  Director,  he  having  the  Confidence,  or  rather 
Impudence,  (which  some  style  Industry)  whereof  he  has  no  small  stock, 
to  ask  it  of  a  considerable  Person,  under  pretence  of  being  a  Friend  to 


July  24.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  97).  Thanks  for  Bp.  Lloyd's 
Chronological  Tables,  Approves  of  the  action  of  Congregation  in  denying  the 
young  man  of  Hart  Hall  his  degree  a  second  time.  '  I  knew  Dr.  Birched,  for- 
merly of  All-Soules  Coll.  and  pityed  his  weaknes  and  conceitednes,  in  leaving 
at  his  death,  as  it  was  then  given  out  by  way  of  legacy  a  considerable  summe 
of  mony  to  the  Society  of  Poets  :  of  wch  I  knew  no  such  formed  establishment : 
and  this  is  the  man,  I  suppose,  to  whom  you  are  obliged  for  the  new  Profes- 
sorship of  that  faculty.  I  should  be  glad  to  know  two  or  three  of  the  Statutes 
of  the  Foundation,  and  what  is  the  annual  pension  settled  for  the  maintenance 
of  it,  and  how  Mr.  Trap  came  to  be  pitcht  upon,  and  chosen  so  unanimously 
without  the  trouble  of  any  competition.'  Is  afraid  that  Locke's  letters  will 
tend  to  the  disservice  of  religion,  the  edition  being  procured  by  one  who  had 
a  great  hand  in  the  impious  Rights.  Please  print  the  text  of  Ignatius  separately, 


122  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

John  Hall's  Widow.  His  Request  was  accordingly  granted,  &  MX  Hall 
&  he  have  jointly  agreed  to  carry  on  the  showing ;  M".  Hall  having  all 
along  too  had  y6  Management  of  ye  Press :  but  yesterday  such  delegates 
as  were  in  Town  had  a  meeting  &  Mr.  Giles  Thistlewhait  who  upon  the 
death  of  Ger.  Langbain  was  chosen  by  Convocation  (to  whom  the 
Matter  belongs)  Arche-Typographus  &  consequently  Superior  Beadle  of 
Law,  was  put  in  possession  of  his  Place  (having  been  kept  out  of  it  by 
Hall's  being  in  Possession  for  many  years),  tho'  tis  well  known  all  over  ye 
university  that  he  is  altogether  unqualify'd  for  that  place,  since  he  knows 

io  nothing  belonging  to  Printing,  &  is  a  very  illiterate  Man.  But  it  seems  the 
Convocation  chose  him  because  the  Archetypographus's  Place  was  already 
possess'd  by  Hall  (tho'  a  common  Printer  &  every  way  unequal)  &  they 
knew  very  well  that  if  they  elected  a  learned  Man  yr  he  should  be 
hindered  of  it,  as  Mr.  Wase  had  been,  &  as  afterwards  myself  (viz.  in 
1 7 if )  was  robb'd  of  it,  tho'  elected  in  a  very  honourable  manner  by  Con- 
vocation, by  the  Contrivance  of  Dr.  Gardiner,  Dr.  Charlett,  &  Dr.  Hudson. 
What  I  have  said  of  Dr.  Lancaster  on  this  score  is  very  unjust,  he  being 
certainly  in  the  right  in  putting  Thistlethwayt  in  possession  of  y6  place, 
(notwithstanding  unqualifyed)  to  wcl1  he  had  been  elected  by  Convoca- 

20  tion. 

July  27  (Tu.).  Amongst  other  things  in  the  Statutes  for  y6  Poetical 
Lecture,  'tis  decreed  that  ye  Professor  shall  have  the  Place  but  5  years, 
that  ye  same  person  shall  not  be  chosen  above  twice,  y*  he  shall  not  have 
but  25  Pounds  a  year  &  y*  he  shall  read  5  times  a  year,  once  the  first 
tuesday  in  every  full  term  &  once  in  ye  Act  time.  'Twas  propos'd  by  ye 
Dean  of  X*.  church  that  there  should  be  Encaenia  for  young  Gentlemen  to 
speak  verses  &  speeches  once  every  term  &  yfc  ye  Professor  should  at  y° 
same  time  make  a  speech,  but  that  was  not  comply'd  with. 

July  29  (Th.).  A  Saxon  pound  about  3  libs,  of  our  Money.  King 
30  Alfred  gave  his  4  Daughters  by  his  Will  (see  at  ye  End  of  Parker's  Edit, 
of  Asser)  400  libs,  which  is  about  1 200  libs,  of  our  Money.  See  Mr. 
Camden's  Remains,  p.  167. 

July  31  (Sat.).  We  hear  from  Dublin  that  one  Mr.  Forbes  having 
lately  taken  his  Degree  of  A.M.  and  treating  as  usual  upon  that  occasion, 
a  health  was  begun  and  went  round  to  ye  Pious  Memory  of  King  William  ; 
but  he  refus'd  it  &  drunk  another  to  y6  Memory  of  one  Balfee  a  notorious 
Rapparee,  Executed  a  little  before.  The  Company  was  very  much 


so  as  to  leave  time  for  another  revision  of  the  notes :  Charlett  has  written 
for  a  copy  of  Bp.  White's  exceptions  to  Smith's  specimen  of  Pearson's  notes 
(1695). 

July  26.  P.  Fox  to  H.  (Rawl.  5.  118).  Sends  four  books  for  Bodley. 
Suggests  an  '  Index  materiarum '  at  the  end  of  the  Catalogue.  Would  try  to 
procure  any  pieces  of  Mr.  Stephens's  which  are  wanting  in  the  Library. 

July  29.  H.  to  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  23).  Sends  collations  of  Iliad  6  and  I. 
Remarks  on  the  Poetical  Lecture. 

July  31.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  23).  Mr.  Alsop  of  Ch.  Ch.  for- 
merly made  interest  for  the  Poetry  Professorship,  but  did  not  stir  for  it  now 
on  account  of  the  smallness  of  the  Salary  (.£25).  Sends  in  confidence  an  ac- 
count of  how  the  first  method  of  printing  the  Annotations  at  the  end  of  every 
Ep.  of  Ignatius  came  to  be  altered ;  also  some  errata  in  the  quotations.  Has 


July24-Aug.2.]        VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  89-92.  123 

incens'd  &  desir'd  he  would  explain  himself.  He  said  that  he  drunk 
Balfee's  Health  because  he  profess'd  himself  to  dye  in  the  Roman 
Catholick  Religion,  but  he  could  not  find  that  ye  other  had  any  Religion  at 
all.  He  was  presently  after  degraded  &  expell'd  ye  College,  and  ye 
Attorney  General  had  orders  to  prosecute  him  to  ye  utmost. 

Aug.  2  (Mon.).  Sr.  Sim.  Dews  design'd  to  have  written  an  accurate 
Discourse  of  our  English  Coyns,  &  to  have  subjoyned  it  to  ye  Deeem 
Scriptores,  but  Death  prevented.  Vide  praefat.  Dr.  Rogeri  Twysdeni  ad 
X  Script. 

seen  a  specimen  of  the  Ch.  Ch.  ed.  of  Ignatius ;  the  copy  is  said  by  Thwaites 
to  have  come  out  of  Dr.  Mill's  study. 

Aug.  3.  H.  to  F.  Cherry  (Rawl.  36.  20).  Wishes  to  borrow  for  Dr. 
Smith  the  MS.  book  of  letters  written  between  Mr.  Dodwell,  the  Bp.  of 
Worcester,  &c. 

Aug.  3.    Hudson  to  H.  (Rawl.  7.  76). 

'  Mr.  HEARN — This  day  I  received  your  letter :  wch  I  shall  answer  after  I 
have  given  you  a  short  ace*  of  my  rambles.     That  morning  I  left  Oxofi  twas  my 
luck  to  meet  wth  Jn  Busby  at  home,  who  entertain'd  me  very  handsomely,  & 
oblig'd  me  to  pass  y*  day  wth  him  &  ye  fair  Ladys  at  his  house.     Early  ye  next 
morning  I  made  for  Bedford :  wch  is  but  a  very  mean  place,  &  as  I  fancy  much 
short  of  w*  it  has  been  formerly.    After  dinner  I  sett  out  for  Cambridge  :  & 
ye  heat  of  ye  weather  making  me  call  at  a  little  town  in  ye  edge  of  y*  County, 
I  mett  wth  such  incomparable  liquour,  as  would  have  stopt  you  from  reaching 
ye  University  that  night.     In  ye  strength  of  it  I  gott  safe  to  Cambridge :  & 
noe  sooner  was  alighted,  but  Joshuah  came  bouncing  upon  me ;  his  lodgings 
being  next  door  to  my  Inn.     A  little  after  I  had  Professor  Sykes,  Davis  & 
Crownfield  :  who  wth  our  merry  Greek  tosst  a  bottle  &  debated  some  matter 
ab*  books  -&  printing.     The  morning  following  I  went  to  yr  press :  wch  is  a 
pretty,  large,  &  lightsome  room :    wth  another  over  it,  very  convenient  for 
drying  ye  sheets.     Besides  our  Friend's  Homer,  they  are  a  going  on  wth  Hier- 
ocles  &  a  piece  of  Tully :  wch  will  be  beautyfull  books,  &  I  believe  well  done. 
After  I  had  subscrib'd  for  Cole's  map  &  given  ym  a  little  money  to  drink,  I 
visited  two  or  three  friends  &  dispatch'd  ye  little  business  I  had :  &  then 
I  waited  on  Dr.  Bentley,  who  received  me  wth  a  sort  of  haughty  civility,  such 
as  it  seems  is  natural  to  him.      I  talkt  a  little  wth  him  ab*  Josephus  &  yr  Col- 
lege-chappell  (wch  is  the  statelyest  &  finest  I  ever  saw)  &  then  wth  Professor 
Sykes  call'd  upon  John  Laughton.     He  did  not  so  much  as  invite  me  either 
to  eat  or  drink  wth  him  ;  wch  he  might  have  done  wthout  being  in  danger  of  my 
accepting  his  offerr :  neither  could  he  be  prevail'd  with  to  take  a  single  copy 
of  Livy.     Leaving  this  poor  mortal,  we  call'd  on  Joshuah,  who  went  wth  us  in 
his  Jerkin  to  ye  Tavern.     Here  we  had  a  good  dinner  y*  cost  us  nothing  & 
excellent  wine  at  2od  a  bottle.    We  sent  for  Geoponic  Needham,  &  wr  as 
merry  both  here  &  at  my  Inn  in  ye  evening  as  you  can  well  imagin.     By  four 
in  ye  morning  I  mounted  Ball  &  jogg'd  on  to  Thetford :  wch  is  nothing  but  y8 
poor  scantling  of  an  ancient  spatious  town,  as  one  may  conjecture  from  ye 
ruines  of  a  castle  &  some  churches.     In  ye  evening  I  gott  to  Norwich,  a  large 
&  beautyfull  City,  at  y*  time  in  all  its  glory.     After  a  little  refreshm*  I  call'd 
on  y*  Chancellor,  &  had  a  great  deal  of  discourse  wth  him  on  various  matters. 
I  did  not  forgett  to  remind  him  of  Antony  a  Wood :  &  am  in  hopes  of  pre- 
vailing wth  him,  to  put  his  book  into  our  hands.     He  show'd  me  his  copy  of 
Leland,  &  another  in  Bales's  own  hand,  w*11  several  things  in  it,  not  to  be 
found  in  or  book,  the  Queens-men  print  from  :  whether  he  had  a  better  copy 
cf  Leland,  or  has  interpolated  it,  I  know  not.     In  ye  morning,  I  waited  on  ye 
BP  &  ye  Dean,  who  courteously  received  me,  &  invited  me  to  dine  wth  him. 
But  this  I  declind,  being  willing  to  reach  Linn  y*  night.  wch  I  fail'd  of,  ye 


124  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

Aug.  5  (Th.).  Sir  John  Spelman  the  Heir  of  his  Father's  Studies.  Vide 
Sr.  Henry  Sp.  Pref.  to  his  family. 

Aug.  9  (Mon.).  A  Week  or  fortnight  since  Dr.  Tyson,  an  Eminent 
and  honest  Physitian,  and  Master  of  Bedlam  Hospital  dy'd,  worth  about 
thirty  Thousand  pounds.  —  [Emendations  &c.  of  classical  authors  from 
Joseph  Scaliger's  Epistles.  .  .  .  ] 


Norfolcians  giveing  a  larger  measure  to  yr  miles  yn  to  yr  cloth.  By  eight  the 
next  morning  I  arriv'd  there,  &  sent  for  my  old  Acquaintance  Dr.  Littel ;  who 
show'd  me  all  ye  curiositys  of  ye  place,  as  K«  John's  sword,  &  a  Golden  cup, 
wch  jvjr^  Mayor  fill'd  with  Sack,  a  noble  church,  &  some  ruines  of  a  religious 
House.  He  made  me  dine  wth  him,  &  officiously  conducted  me  to  ye  Ferry. 
I  was  forc'd  to  stay  so  long  for  ye  tide  at  the  Washes  I  was  to  pass  over,  y*  I 
mett  wth  but  very  poor  lodgings  y*  night.  A  short  &  hard  bed,  &  ye  stinging 
of  ye  Gnats  occasion'd  my  rising  early  ye  next  morning.  But  my  boy  was  so 
tir'd,  y*  1  had  much  adoe  to  gett  him  to  Boston  (wcl1  was  wthin  six  miles)  ye 
next  morning.  After  Five  or  six  hours  rest  here,  we  sallied  forth,  pass'd  by 
ye  ruines  of  Bullingbrook  castle,  &  pretty  late  at  night  came  to  this  place.  I 
need  not  relate  w*  noble  entertainment  is  here :  it  fully  answering  ye  accts  I 
have  formerly  given  you.  Florence  is  ye  liquor  we  remember  or  friends  in  ; 
&  good  Port  wine  &  water  passes  for  or  small  beer.  .  .  The  weathr  grows  so 
hott,  y*  I  do  not  wonder  at  some  people's  madness.  The  Low-Ch.  men  must 
cry  up  one  anothr,  or  else  no  body  would  hear  of  yr  merits.  Mr.  Thwaites  is 
out  in  w*  he  says  of  ye  Dean's  Ignatius,  for  I'm  sure  he  has  an  exact  copy  of 
ye  Florentine  MS1,  y*  must  be  put  in  ye  Public  Library,  as  soon  as  ye  Dean 
has  done  wth  it.  My  Service  to  all  ye  Common-room,  particularly  to  Mr. 
Dugdale :  who  I  hope  wants  not  yor  assistance. 

I  am  y08 
J.  H. 

Aug.  5.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  32).  The  excellent  person  that  oc- 
casioned the  whole  dispute  is  perfectly  of  D.'s  mind.  Remarks  on  H.'s  Pliny, 
Pearson's  Adversaria,  and  Hudson's  Dionysius  Periegetes.  Is  Dr.  Smith's 
landlord  named  Smith,  or  is  he  his  brother-in-law?  Encloses  his  answer  to 
the  Thesis  against  Absolute  Monarchy,  sent  by  H.  from  Perizonius.  How 
about  the  Bp.  of  Waterford  and  his  professorship  ?  Is  there  anything  of  con- 
sequence in  a  late  ed.  of  the  Periegesis,  mentioned  in  the  Lipsick  Acts  ?  Dr. 
T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  98).  Will  deal  with  Charlett's  charges  in  his 
Preface.  Sorry  that  his  design  is  become  the  ordinary  talk  of  common-rooms, 
but  will  appeal  to  the  judgment  of  learned  men.  Thanks  for  correction  of 
errors  in  quotations.  Much  concerned  that  the  sheets  cannot  be  sent  him 
before  they  are  worked  off.  Will  stop  or  modify  the  work  if  H.  and  Hudson 
advise.  '  In  the  chagrin  humour  I  am  in,  I  begin  to  repent,  that  I  print  my 
book  at  Oxon.' 

Aug.  7.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  99).  Please  send  up  all  the 
written  notes  and  two  printed  sheets  by  Matthews  on  Tuesday  next,  and  see 
that  no  use  is  made  of  any  part  of  the  work  for  the  Ch.  Ch.  edition.  What  is  the 
expense  of  a  sheet  ?  Much  discomposed  about  the  many  false  quotations. 

Aug.  0.  H.  Topping  to  H.  (Rawl.  10.  117).  Asks  for  a  letter  and  Ox- 
ford news.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  24).  Very  sorry  to  hear  of  the 
Waggon's  being  accidentally  burnt  upon  the  road.  Sends  the  substance  of  a 
letter  forwarded  by  it,  containing  an  account  of  a  conversation  with  Dr.  Char- 
lett  and  Mr.  Wilkins  on  the  subject  of  Dr.  S.'s  Ignatius.  Dr.  G.  predicted 
that  the  University  would  not  vend  300  copies.  H.  replied  that  though  learn- 
ing was  at  so  low  an  ebb,  yet  he  did  not  question  but  even  here  in  England 
there  would  be  scholars  enough  to  take  off  the  impression.  He  also  com- 


Aug.  5-16.]  VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  93^99.  125 

Aug.  12  (Th.).  Mr.  Howell,  who  lately  published  Synopsis  Canonum 
in  fol.  made  a  dedication  of  it  to  ye  Earl  of  Salisbury,  and  'twas  printed 
and  sent  bound  in  ye  Book  to  my  Lord ;  but  his  Lordship  having  not 
been  desir'd  this  favour,  &  thinking  ye  Patronizing  a  Non-Juror  would 
be  taken  ill  by  ye  Governm*  refus'd  to  accept  it,  and  'twas  return'd  back. 
So  all  ye  Copies  are  without  it.  —  Cone.  MX  Martin,  Mr.  Spinkes,  Mr. 
Jones,  Mr.  Dickson  &  Dr.  Beaches  enjoying  Benefit  of  Places  tho'  non- 
jurors  in  ye  Diocess  of  Sarum,  See  BP.  Burnett's  Vindication  p.  62,  63. 
—  The  Notes  upon  and  Corrections  of  Gruter's  Inscriptions  at  ye  Ende 
of  ye  Indexes  were  made  by  Joseph  Scaliger,  who  also  was  Author  of 10 
ye  Indexes.  See  his  Epistles,  1.  i.  num.  90.  p.  254.  The  Corrections  are 
upon  above  350  Inscriptions.  —  Jos.  Scaliger  transcrib'd  all  Vettius  Valens 
with  his  own  hand.  I  suppose  with  a  Design  to  have  printed  it.  But 
from  w*  copy  I  know  not.  Vide  Ep.  L.  2.  n.  112.  —  Dr.  Pocock  was 
born  in  1 S^  Peter's  in  ye  East,  Oxon.  He  was  first  of  Magd.  Hall,  then 
of  Corpus  Xti.  whence  outed  for  Insufficiency,  by  ye  Visitors 2,  afterwards 
canon  of  X*  Ch.  -  Consult  W».  Patten's  Book,  call'd,  The  Expedition 
into  Scotland.  —  About  Vettius  Valens  see  Scaliger's  Epist.  1.  2.  n.  114. 
He  hints  there  y*  he  writ  at  ye  same  time  with  Ptolemy,  under  Hadrian 
and  Antoninus.  so 

[Various  notes  from  Scaliger's  Epistles  .  .  .  96-98.  Wanting  in  the  Public 
Library  Delrio  against  Eusebius'  Ghron.  of  Scaliger's  ed.,  and  Onuphrius's 
Book  of  ye  Antiquities  of  Verona  &  of  ye  Learned  Men  of  y*  Place.]  .  .  . 

'Twas  Thomas  Kempe,  BP.  of  London,  &  not  Humphr.  Duke  of 
Gloucester,  as  is  commonly  reported,  that  built,  for  ye  most  part,  ye 
Divinity  Schools  at  Oxford,  as  they  stood  before  Sr.  Tho.  Bodley's 
Foundation ;  wtn  Walls,  Arches,  Vaults,  Doors,  Towers,  and  Pinnacles, 
all  of  square,  smooth,  polisht  stone,  and  artificially  depainted  the  Doctor's 
chaire,  to  ye  lively  Representation  of  ye  Glorious  Frame  of  the  Celestial 
Globe.  Vide  Weaver's  Funeral  Acts  &  Mon.  p.  361.  30 

Aug.  16  (Mon.).    There  lately  dyed  in  London  one  Russel  a  Scrivener, 


plained  that  Mr.  Thistlethwayt  had  been  put  into  John  Hall's  place,  by  which 
the  University  is  not  only  like  to  suffer  in  the  disposing  of  their  books,  but 
the  correcting  the  press  is  like  to  be  very  negligent.  Does  not  think  it  will 
be  necessary  to  reprint  the  first  sheets.  The  Dean  has  really  got  an  exact 
transcript  from  the  Florence  MS.  Is  very  careful  in  keeping  Dr.  S.'s  papers 
to  himself. 

Aug.  12.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  100).  Directions  as  to  dis- 
posal of  certain  printed  papers  of  Rhenferd.  Hopes  that  Messrs.  Wilkins  and 
Schelswig,  with  H.'s  assistance,  will  collate  the  Bodleian  transcript  of  Euse- 
bius' Onomaiticon  for  R.  Please  ask  Petrus  Cluver  if  still  in  Oxford  to  pay  S. 
another  visit. 

Aug.  14.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  101).  Bp.  Pearson's  citations 
must  be  set  right  by  some  means,  and  Gotelerius'  corrections  may  be  added. 
Ep.  ad  Romanes  to  be  ppnted  for  Ruinart.  Thanks  for  H.'s  concern  on  his 
behalf.  Returns  the  two  sheets  by  Mr.  Clements.  Wishes  he  had  staid  a 
week  or  ten  days  later  in  Oxford  to  examine  the  citations. 

Aug.  16.    Barnes  to  H.  (Rawl.  24.  15).     Gives  a  rapturous  description  of 


1  One  Mr.  Hopkins  an  Apothecary  lives  now  in  y8  House,  near  ye  Angel  Inn. 
[2  How  so  ?  when  he  rec11  the  living  of  Childrey  from  his  College  ?    P.  B.]. 


136  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

who  made  his  will,  which  is  to  be  seen  in  Doctor's  Commons,  beginning 
In  nomine  Domini,  &c.  As  for  my  Body  I  leave  it  to  be  dispos'd  of  as  my 
Friends  shall  think  fit,  nor  do  I  care  more  for  my  soul,  since  as  Galen 
says  man  is  but  an  upright  beast :  I  shall  fare  as  well  as  my  Neighbours. 
—  [Notes  from  Scaliger's  Epistles.  .  .  .  ] 

Aug.  17  (Tu.).  Yesterday  at  three  Clock  in  the  Afternoon  was 
entertain'd  with  a  Consort  of  Musick  in  ye  Theatre  a  certain  German 
nobleman  call'd  Count  Hambledon.  This  Gentleman  was  recd  by  ye 
Vicechancellor,  (at  y6  Request  of  ye  Chancellor,)  who  offer'd  to  him  the 

10  Degree  of  Dr.  in  ye  Civil  Law  and  order'd  a  Convocation  for  y*  intent ; 
but  this  poor  Gentleman  refus'd  y*  honour,  saying  that  he  had,  according 
to  Custom,  taken  an  oath  in  ye  University,  where  he  was  educated  upon 
his  taking  his  Degree  not  to  take  it  in  any  other  university  whoever ; 
which  however  is  look'd  upon  as  a  Lye,  there  being  no  such  Instance  to 
be  produc'd  :  &  'tis  thought  that  ye  true  reason  is  Poverty,  very  common 
to  ye  German  Peers,  he  being  not  in  a  Condition  to  make  presents  to  ye 
Beadles  &c.  as  is  usual  upon  such  Honorary  Degrees.  —  We  have  put 
into  ye  Publick  Library  Thomasinus's  Catalogue  of  MSSts.  at  Venice,  by 
Mr.  Whalley  of  Wadham's  procurement.  I  have  been  told  by  Dr.  Grabe 

20  y*  Dr.  Hody  had  it,  and  y4  he  borrow'd  it  for  him.  Quaere  about  this,  & 
how  it  came  to  be  miss'd  in  the  Examination  of  his  study,  it  being  a  great 
Rarity?  It  consists  chiefly  of  ye  MSSts.  of  Cardinal  Bessarion,  who 
made  his  Benefaction  anno  1468.  Lawfull  by  his  will  for  any  one  in  y° 
city  of  Venice  to  borrow  out  of  ye  Library  any  MS*,  to  be  transcrib'd, 
read  or  study'd,  upon  condition  to  be  immediately  restor'd.  —  Quaere 
ab*  John  Parry,  BP.  of  Ossory.  he  has  writ  a  Recommendatory  Epistle 
before  Sr.  James  Ware's  Book  de  Hiberniae  Episcopis.  —  [Notes  from 
Scaliger's  Epistles.  .  .  ]  —  Consult  Tho.  Lydiat.  81.  H.  10.  Med.  & 
8°.  P.  158.  Art.  Latinam  versionem  Platonis  Timaei  fecit  Cicero,  cujus 

30  fragmentum  ad  nos  venit  cura  Vallae  ad  finem  Comm.  in  Ciceronem  de 
Fato.  Ven.  1492.  fol.  Vide  Fabricij  Bibliothec.  Gr.  vol.  3.  p.  23. 


a  very  charming,  ingenious  and  learned  lady,  who  came  into  the  country 
<f)r)p.T)v  fjfj.fTfprjv  8t£r]p.fi>t],  and  is  now  staying  with  Mrs.  Barnes.  Yet  Homer 
goes  on.  Designs  shortly  to  put  out  another  specimen,  with  some  of  the 
greatest  names  in  the  kingdom  as  subscribers.  Three  Livys  are  gone. 

Aug.  17.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  102).  'I  spent  the  greatest 
part  of  yesterday  in  reviewing  &  examining  the  BP'S  notes  of  the  third  sheet, 
wch  yOU  say  js  set.  And  truly  I  am  so  amazed  and  disturbed  at  the  many 
gross  false  citations,  written  by  his  own  hand  very  plainly  &  legibly,  that  I  am 
thereby  sadly  convinced,  that  they  wil  be  very  prejudicial  &  injurious  to  his 
fame,  wch  ought  to  bee  as  deare  to  mee,  as  my  life,  &  would  derive  a  great 
blot  upon  my  owne,  if  I  should  suffer  them  to  passe.'  Has  accordingly  deter- 
mined to  stop  the  press  for  the  purpose  of  new  modelling  them.  Directions 
for  the  compositors.  Has  just  learnt  how  the  Bishop.could  make  these  gross 
errors.  Please  send  the  transcript  of  the  notes  in  your  hands.  '  What  I  hoped 
would  have  contributed  to  the  winding  up  of  the  last  scene  of  my  life  with  some 
credit,  gives  mee  great  trouble  and  perplexity  of  thought,  so  that  it  concernes 
mee  to  retrieve  this  great  misfortune,  wch  I  have  brought  upon  my  selfe :  for 
I  say  againe,  I  wil  bee  at  the  whole  charge  of  reprinting  ye  sheets  if  there  can 
bee  no  other  expedient  found  out.' 


Aug.  16-23.]  VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  99-104.  127 

Aug.  20  (Pri.).  The  Professorship  of  Moral  Philosophy  being  vacant, 
(according  to  ye  Statute  of  ye  Founder  Dr.  White,  formerly  canon  of  X*. 
Ch.  of  electing  every  5th  year)  Candidates  for  ye  Place  were  the  two 
Proctors  Mr.  Smithurst  of  Braz.  Nose,  &  Mr.  Terry  of  X*.  Ch.  and 
Mr.  Thwaites  Regius  Professor  of  Greek  and  fellow  of  Queen's  Coll. 
The  Meeting  was  this  Morning  at  9  Clock,  when  Mr.  Thwaites  carry'd  it  by 
ye  Vice- Chancellor's  casting  vote.  (Wc^  Place  however  he  has  hitherto  most 
shamefully  neglected,  as  he  has  that  of  the  Greek  Professorship,  he  having 
not  read  one  Lecture  in  Moral  Philosophy,  &  only  one  upon  the  Greek 
Tongue.  Octob.  i.  1709.)  —  Diodat's  Bible  highly  commended  by  Scaliger  10 
in  Epistolis  pag.  541.  — Scaliger  in  his  Epistles  (1.  III.  n.  273.  p.  571) 
mentions  the  Horae  matutinae  of  Berenica  Ludronia,  which  he  says  is  the 
first  Book  y*  was  printed.  He  saw  it  himself,  &  tells  us  'twas  printed  in 
vellam,  &  yfc  'twas  hardly  distinguishable  whether 'twas  MS*,  or  printed.— 
About  3  Books  of  Conic  Sections  by  Apollonius  Pergseus,  which  Golius 
procur'd,  being  translated  from  Arabick  into  Greek  see  Golius's  Letter  to 
Vossius,  inter  Epistolas  ad  Vossium  p.  51. 

Aug.  23  (Mon.).  An  Emendation  of  Strabo  in  BP.  Pearson's  Prolego- 
mena to  Hierocles,  w°k  is  omitted  by  Almeloveen,  who  also  omitts  an- 
other of  Meursius  taken  notice  of  by  y«  BP.  — Desire  of  Mr.  Dodwell  to  20 
say  something  of  Dionysius  Byzantius,  of  whom  Gyllius  has  preserv'd 
some  fragments  wch  Dr.  Hudson  designs  to  publish.  Ask  him  also 
whether  Apollonius  Pergaeus  y*  writ  ye  Conicks  be  not  ye  same  Apollonius 
that  is  mention'd  in  Livy.  Also  y*  he  should  write  something  about 
Rufus  Festus  Avienus.  Reinesius  has  somewhat  about  him  in  ye  Preface 
(as  I  take  it)  to  his  Inscriptions.  —  Cellarius's  Dissertatio  De  Poetis  Scholse 
publicae  utilioribus,  to  be  sought  after.  See  Fabricius's  Bibliotheca  Latin  a, 
where  he  has  said  something  about  Ruf.  Fest.  Avienus  &  Priscian.  — Ask 
Mr.  Dodwell  whether  he  thinks  it  proper  to  publish  ye  Latin  Translation 
w.th  Dionysius  of  Eustathius's  Scholia  ?  There  are  two  Translations  of  30 
them.—  .  .  .  

Aug.  19.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  25).  Thanks  for  the  Discourses 
of  Rhenferdius.  Will  enquire  who  the  Danish  gentleman  is.  '  We  both  agree  . 
that  BP.  Pearson's  Notes  should  continue  to  be  printed,  and  'tis  my  opinion 
that,  since  there  is  letter  for  four  sheets,  two  of  Text  and  two  of  Notes,  two 
Proofs  at  a  time  should  be  sent  constantly  up  to  you.  . .  Charges  . .  we  do  not 
concern  our  selves  about,  it  being  a  University  Book.'  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H. 
(Smith  127.  103).  Has  left  a  letter  for  Dr.  Hudson  at  the  Crown  in  St. 
Giles's,  to  be  carried  to  Oxford  by  the  coach ;  '  wch  conveyance  I  never  be- 
fore made  use  of,  as  being  somewhat  diffident  of  the  care  and  honesty  of 
Coachmen.'  Sends  corrections  for  Ignatius. 

Aug.  21.  Rev.  S.  Clarke  to  H.  (Rawl.  4.  87).  Please  send  a  large-paper 
copy  of  Livy  to  the  Bp.  of  Ely's  house  in  Petty  France. 

e.  Aug.  25.  H.  to  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  24).  Sends  Iliad  K  and  A.  Glad 
B.  is  entertained  with  the  company  of  so  charming  a  lady.  '  I  have  enclos'd 
Dr.  Hudson's  method  for  new  Proposals  to  your  Homer,  which  he  would  have 
you  observe,  without  any  commendation  of  your  own  Work.  He  thinks  'twill 
be  a  prejudice  to  you  to  print  any  Names  of  Subscribers  in  the  proposals. 
He  would  have  any  two  pages  that  are  working  off  annext  to  the  proposals. 
This  plain  and  unaffected  method  he  thinks  will  be  most  for  your  Credit 
and  advantage,  and  conjures  you  by  all  yta  dear  and  good  to  observe  these 
directions.' 


138  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

Aug.  28  (Sat.).  There  is  just  reprinted  in  8V0.  John  Fisher  BP.  of 
Rochester's  Funeral  Sermon  upon  Margaret  Countess  of  Richmond  from 
the  Edition  of  Winken  de  Worde,  collated  with  a  MS*.  There  is  prefix'd  a 
large  Preface  giving  a  farther  Account  of  this  Great  Lady's  Benefactions, 
a  List  of  y6  Margaret  Professors  in  both  Universities  &c.  The  Publisher 
seems  to  be  Mr. 1  Baker  of  St.  John's  Coll.  in  Cambridge.  At  ye  End  of 
ye  Preface  he  mentions  a  MS*.  History  of  St.  John's  Coll.  done  by  him- 
self, which  may  perhaps  at  one  time  or  other  be  publish'd.  —  Is.  Casauboni 
Notae  in  Josephum,  -ex  coll.  ejus  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  Vol.  3.  fol.  65.  a.  ... 
10  [107-146.] 

Aug.  30  (Mon.).  Look  into  Jo.  Holtes  Lac  puerorum.  William 
Herman's  Vulgaria  puerorum.  Sr.  Thomas  Elyot's  Translation  of  a 
Piece  of  St.  Cyprian.  —  Some  time  since  as  they  were  digging  the  Foun- 
dations of  a  House  at  Winchester,  an  Urn  was  found,  in  wc^  was  a  small 
stone,  like  a  seal,  on  w°h  the  following  characters  :  .  .  . 

BVCELTAHM 
MOCOMITE 
F^EIELES 

—  Mr.  Dodwell  has  corrected  a  place  of  Josephus  in  his  Parenesis,  pag. 
30  23.  — Pliny  in  Epp.  &  Paneg.  corrected  &  defended  by  Theod.  Marcilius 
in  Sueton.     See  at  ye  End  of  Casaubon's  Edition, 


Aug.  26.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  26).  Please  read  proofs  as 
soon  as  you  can,  and  consider  queries  on  the  other  side.  Sends  Annott.  of 
the  last  four  Epistles,  which  he  hopes  S.  will  reform  with  all  expedition  ; 
otherwise  the  Compositors  must  stand  still.  Wishes  S.  had  printed  the  text 
exactly,  and  not  relied  upon  Voss.  who  is  very  faulty.  Dr.  T.  Smith,  to  H. 
(Smith  127.  104).  Sends  new  transcript  of  the  Bp.'s  notes  on  the  Ep.  to  the 
Ephesians,  and  amendments  to  notes  on  the  Ep.  to  Polycarp.  Has  not  re- 
ceived the  proofs  as  promised.  Will  be  guided  by  advice  from  Hudson  and 
H.  whether  to  proceed  or  to  stop,  but  hopes  they  will  recommend  him  to 
proceed.  Longs  for  the  return  of  their  former  easy,  diverting  and  useful  cor- 
respondence. Has  desired  Wilkins  to  compare  Euseb.  Onomasticon  with  Dr. 
B.'s  transcript. 

Aug.  30.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  105).  Returns  proofs  cor- 
rected, with  remarks.  Expresses  great  obligations  to  Hudson  and  H.  [This 
letter  is  repeated,  with  trifling  alterations,  and  Nos.  106  and  107  dropped.] 

Sept.  2.  H.  to  F.  Cherry  (Rawl.  36.  21).  Perizonius  has  expressed  a 
very  good  opinion  of  H.'s  Livy ;  what  Gronovius's  sentiments  are  H.  knows 
not  yet,  but  his  opinions  are  '  generally  very  partial,  and  in  opposition  to  all 
other  Men  of  Learning.'  Sends  an  Anglo-Danic  inscription  on  a  stone  in 
shape  of  a  seal  found  in  an  urn  lately  dug  up  at  Winchester. 

Sept.  4.  H.  to  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  14).  Sends  Iliad  M  and  N  collated 
with  the  Baroccian  MS.  '  Mightily  pleas'd  that  the  work  goes  on  so  success- 
fully, which  is  owing  in  a  very  great  measure  to  the  Influence  of  Mrs.  Barnes 
and  the  other  ingenious  Lady.'  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  27).  Would 
not  advise  S.  to  reprint  the  three  sheets ;  the  Bp.'s  Annotations  are  Adversaria 
only.  Sends  queries  on  sheet  D  of  the  text.  Will  send  by  the  waggon  his 
transcript  of  S.'s  English  letter  cone.  Mr.  Seller,  and  his  Lat.  letters  to  Leibnitz. 


1  He  is  certainly  ye  Publisher. 


Aug.  28-Sept.  9.]      VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  105-149.  129 

Sept.  9  (Th.).  The  note  upon  Justin  1.  44.  c.  3.  about  minio  to  be 
alter'd,  so  as  it  should  be  read  auroque,  &  a  parenthesis  in  the  text. 
Something  to  Illustrate  this  place  see  in  Colomesij  Kfi/j..  Literar.  c.  6  sub 
finem.  —  Justin  lib.  21.  c.  3.  lin.  15.  voc.  attaminet.  See  Tanaquil  Faber 
upon  Terence  pag.  371.  — For  Authors  in  Elmenhorstius's  Index  to 
Apulejus.  .  .  . 

Papebrochius  will  take  some  time.  '  I  am  at  last  come  to  a  firm  Re- 
solution of  publishing  all  Tully's  Works  that  are  exstant,  to  which  I  have  been 
drawn  partly  by  the  Importunity  of  Friends,  and  partly  by  the  good  Reception 
the  late  Edition  of  Livy  meets  with  from  Men  of  Learning  and  Judgment : 
which  kind  Reception  truly  is  the  best  Encouragement  I  have  to  proceed  with 
anything  more  in  Matters  of  Learning.  In  that  I  acquiesce,  and  have  already 
begun  to  collate  the  MSS.  which  we  have  in  great  variety  ;  tho'  if  I  had  had 
sufficient  Countenance  I  would  rather  have  undertaken  something  in  our 
English  History  :  but  that  I  leave  to  a  better  day.'  More  remarks  on  Igna- 
tius. '  I  am  of  opinion  that  'tis  less  trouble  to  have  the  MS1  of  Eusebius's 
Onomasticon  transcrib'd  than  collated  with  Bonfrerius.  I  am  sure  that  would 
be  the  method  I  should  take.  But  I  will  not  be  positive  for  others,  who 
perhaps  may  not  be  so  expeditious  in  writing.  It  contains  15  sheets  and  an 
half,  is  a  fair  legible  hand,  and  the  pages  not  crowded.'  Please  excuse  delay 
in  the  three  Epistles  out  of  Dr.  Hudson's  MS. ;  has  not  yet  recovered  himself 
from  the  late  fatigue  in  publishing  Livy.  P.S.  The  Printers  demand  per  sheet 
14-r.  for  composing  and  5^.  for  working  it  off.  '  There  are  26  quires  and  an 
half  of  small-Paper,  and  4  Quires  and  4  sheets  of  large,  us'd  in  printing  a 
sheet ;  by  which  you  may  make  a  computation  of  the  whole  charge,  if  you  get 
from  Baskett  what  the  Paper  is  a  Ream.  'Tis  not  unlikely  but  we  may  get 
an  Abatement  in  the  Printers'  demands,  at  least  we  shall  endeavour  it,  if  you 
think  fit  to  print  any  sheets  over  again,  which  the  Dr.  is  not  against  provided 
you  are  willing  to  be  at  the  Expense.' 

Sept.  6.  E.  Gardner  to  H.  (Rawl.  6. 63).  Has  made  enquiries  on  behalf 
of  H.  at  post-offices  in  Lombard  St.  Please  send  certificate  of  G.'s  B.A.  de- 
gree (1702)  to  be  used  in  taking  an  M.A.  degree  at  Cambridge,  if  the  fee  does 
not  exceed  $s.  On  second  thoughts  withdraws  request,  in  hopes  of  obtaining 
the  degree  easily  at  his  own  University  when  the  Queen  makes  a  progress  to 
Oxford. 

Sept.  7.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  108).  Will  reprint  the  first 
two  sheets  of  notes,  if  necessary.  Has  desired  Mr.  Wilkins  not  to  collate  the 
Greek  MS.  of  Eusebius.  '  I  perceive,  you  are  come  to  a  fixt  resolution  of 
giving  us  a  new  edition  of  all  Cicero's  works.  I  admire  your  courage,  un- 
wearyed  diligence  &  patience :  under  ye  difficultyes  of  wch  worke  another 
would  sinke.  But  Dr.  H.  and  you  run  away  with  burdens  upon  your  shoul- 
ders, wch  would  crush  others  to  atomes.'  Please  send  copy  of  proposals  when 
ready.  Has  lent  to  Mr.  D.  the  Chronological  Dissertation  about  the  year 
when  St.  Ignatius  was  condemned  at  Antioch. 

Sept.  9.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  28).  Remarks  on  Ignatius.  Mr. 
Thwaites  has  the  Moral  Philosophy  Lecture.  The  V.  C.  had  promised  the 
Dean  to  vote  for  Mr.  Terry  (Ch.  Ch.),  a  particular  favourite  of  the  Dean's, 
but  himself  put  up  Mr.  Thwaites.  It  may  be  the  Dean  is  the  more  earnest 
upon  that  account  in  printing  of  Ignatius. 

Sept.  11.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  109).  Thanks  for  transcrip- 
tion of  Latin  letters.  Best  to  stop  printing  of  Ignatius  for  a  time.  Dodwell 
is  not  dissatisfied  with  the  work  so  far.  Hopes  to  see  H.  in  London  here- 
after. Please  send  Smith's  own  Annotations  on  Friday  without  fail.  '  I  pray 
Almighty  God  to  continue  to  you  good  and  vigorous  health,  woh  you  are  to 
take  care  of,  and  not  to  prejudice  by  excessive  &  immoderate  study.'  The 
same  to  the  same  (Smith  127.  no).  The  quickness  of  the  compositors  has 

VOL.  II.  K 


130  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

Sept.  12  (Sun.).  Dr.  Hales,  late  of  Trinity  Coll.  Oxon.  is  made 
Physitian,  by  a  great  Majority,  of  Beth[l]ehem  Hospital  in  room  of  Dr. 
Tyson  deceased.  This  Hales  was  reckon'd  a  good  Physitian,  &  a  Man 
of  Parts,  whilst  in  Oxon,  &  had  good  Business,  but  his  Reputation  began 
to  sink  upon  Account  of  his  using  opiats  too  much,  so  y*  he  retir'd  to  ye 
great  City,  where  he  has  establish'd  a  good  character.  —  Caesar  at  one  time 
kill'd  and  destroy'd  430  thousand  Germans,  without  y°  Loss  of  one  Man. 
See  4th  Book  of  his  Comm.  de  bello  Gall.  p.  72.  Amst.  1644. 

Sept.  13  (Mon.).  Quaere  who  Author  of  the  Modest  plea  for  y°  Clergy.  — 
10  See  whether  in  ye  Publick  Library  Dr.  Hey  tin's  Reply  to  Dr.  Hakewell's 
Dissertation  touching  ye  Sacrifice  of  ye  Eucharist,  Lond.  1641.  Athen. 
Oxon.  p.  1 86.  — Quaere  about  Daniel  Hagalsonus  Anglo-Britannus  qui 
edidit  Annotationes  in  litteras  Gregorij  XV.  Pont.  Romani  Regi  Persarum, 
A  Joanne  Ciampolo  ejus  Secretario  scriptas. — Prodierunt  anno  1627.  8V0. 
Vide  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  8°.  A.  49.  Th.  Seld. 

Sept.  19  (Sun.).  From  Mr.  Falconar,  who  occasion'd  the  Dispute 
cone.  ye  Soul,  to  Mr.  Dodwell. 

HONORED  AND  EXCELLENT  SIR, — I  intended  many  Years  agoe  to  have 
signified  by  wreating  the  acknowledgments  I  owe  you  for  the  most  beneficial 

20  Instructions  I  have  reaped  from  your  excellent  books  but  the  sense  of  my 
inabilities  joyned  with  the  desire  of  passing  my  Life  in  obscuritie  hath  hitherto 
restrained  mee  from  that  expression  of  my  bounden  duty.  Had  I  not 
trespassed  on  modesty  first  by  wreating  to  Mr.  Gaderer  and  then  to  another, 
some  weak  exceptions  agent  that  your  accurate  and  usefull  notion  cone.  ye 
humane  Soul,  perhapes  you  had  been  saved  much  trouble  and  to  be  sure  I  my 
self  had  been  freed  of  no  litle  inward  disquiet  since  I  reckoned  myself  the 
unluckie  occasion  of  at  least  accessarie  to  ye  bad  and  unjust  treatment  you 
mett  with.  Your  wreatings  were  to  me  so  convictive  that  I  could  not  but 
practise  upon  them,  yea  and  perswade  all  on  whom  I  could  have  influence  to 

30  doe  the  like :  but  then  that  thought  (though  only  revived  by  you)  became  ane 
handle  to  such  as  raised  cavills  against  your  principles,  and  I  being  intent  to 
have  that  stumbling  block  removed  therefore  wrate  once  and  again.  However 
as  I  ask  your  pardon  for  the  injuries  done  you  through  my  unadvisednes  and 
misunderstanding :  as  I  entreat  your  favour  which  to  mee  is  more  valuable 
than  that  of  any  other  mortall :  so  I  comfort  myself  with  the  hope  of  obtain- 
ing both  from  one  of  your  goodnes  and  generositie.  I  am  verie  sensible  of  the 
honor  and  kindness  you  have  done  mee  in  sending  first  a  copy  of  the  Epistolary 
Discourse  and  now  of  late  your  other  two  on  that  subject  of  the  distinction 
betwixt  Soul  and  Spirit.  At  the  first  reading  of  the  premonition  to  ye  Episto- 

40  lary  Discourse  my  Mistakes  evanished,  and  then  I  was  perswaded  of  that  which 
I  suspected  before  even  my  misunderstanding,  and  this  I  desired  to  be  signi- 


broken  his  measures ;  sends  general  and  running  title  for  his  notes,  with 
directions  for  printing.  '  I  thanke  you  for  ye  advertisem*  you  have  given  mee 
at  the  end  of  your  letters  about  the  election  of  a  Moral-Philosophy  Lecturer. 
Let  them  do  their  worst :  I  feare  them  not.' 

Sept.  13.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  29).  Remarks  on  Ignatius ; 
does  not  think  it  advisable  to  reserve  the  Acta  and  St.  Polycarp's  Epistle  to 
be  printed  after  the  notes  on  Ignatius'  Epistles. 

Sept.  16.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  30).  Remarks  on  Ignatius. 
Goes  to  Mr.  Dodwell's  on  Saturday  next  if  the  weather  prove  fair,  returning 
on  Tuesday  night.  The  roads  are  so  very  bad  that  the  journey  will  be  rather 
a  fatigue  than  pleasure. 


Sept.  12-19.]          VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  150-160.  131 

fied  to  you  by  that  Freind  to  whom  I  wrote  the  second  Letter.  The  pre- 
liminarie  Defence  I  did  read  long  agoe  with  great  satisfaction :  but  I  being 
casuallie  in  the  House  of  a  worthy  Gentleman  who  owns  himself  your  disciple 
when  your  books  came  to  my  hands  he  snatch'd  the  just  Defence  from  mee,  so 
that  as  yet  I  have  not  read  it,  he  liveing  in  another  County,  and  not  intending 
(as  hee  writes  mee)  to  restore  the  book  till  the  next  week.  Our  poor  Church 
suffereth  not  so  much  by  the  loss  of  her  secular  Interests  as  by  the  Enemies 
shee  hath  as  a  part  of  ye  Church  Catholick.  It  is  obvious  that  the  Presbi- 
terian  consider  her  as  it's  rival  &  therefore  wisheth  and  endeavoureth  her 
utter  extinction.  The  Libertin  insults  her  more  than  ever  since  he  hath  been  10 
furnisht  with  weapons  from  the  book  of  Rights  &c.  though  'tis  hoped  that 
contagion  shall  be  stop't  partlie  by  the  answers  that  are  made  to  it,  partlie 
through  the  aversion  which  men  have  to  it  because  of  the  oblique  aspect 
it  hath  on  Christianitie  it  self.  The  pious  people  who  follow  M.  Bourignion 
seem  to  maintain  a  necessarie  connexion  betwixt  holienes  and  everlasting  and 
indefective  happines  and  then  the  consequences  to  the  disadvantage  of  the 
visible  kingdom  of  Jesus  are  verie  obvious.  The  generalitie  of  our  Laicks  are 
so  worn  out  of  all  principles  by  the  repeated  alterationes  made  by  secular 
powers  that  they  incline  tamelie  to  strike  in  with  any  thing  which  hath  the 
sanction  of  a  Law,  and  in  the  mean  tym  Irreligion,  impietie  and  Lukewarmnes  20 
abound.  This  lamentable  state  of  things  hath  moved  some  serious  persons 
betwixt  whom  &  mee  there  is  a  Christian  Friendship  to  propose  that  I  should 
draw  up  a  short  and  plain  account  of  Christian  and  Church-principles  accom- 
modated to  the  capacitie  and  genius  of  our  Scots  Laicks :  but  the  too  good 
reason  I  have  to  distrust  my  own  inabilities  (even  though  a  presbiter)  forbids 
to  venture  on  such  ane  undertakeing,  which  if  done  amiss  may  prove  rather 
hurtfull  than  usefull  to  the  publick.  Nevertheless  your  advice  and  direction  in 
this  matter  is  humblie  and  earnestlie  craved,  to  which  you  may  let  fall  one 
hour  of  your  tym  of  leisure  and  send  it  so  as  that  I  may  not  be  seen  in  it  to 

Honored  Sir  30 

Your  most  humble  servant  &  most  oblidged  beneficiarie 

JOHN  FALCONAR. 

Carnbie  in  Fife  July  5th  1708. 

SIR,  If  you  incline  to  honour  mee  with  a  letture  direct  for  mee  at  Carnbie  in 
Fife  to  ye  care  of  Mr.  Robert  Simpson  at  ye  Post  Office,  Edenburgh.  It  will 
be  very  comfortable  to  your  unknowen  Freinds  in  this  place  to  know  if  you  be 
in  good  health.  For  Scotish  Laicks  I  should  have  wrote  Vulgar. 


Out  of  a  Letter  to  Mr.  Dodwell  dated  from  Norwich  Aug.  13.  1708. 

.  .  .  Most  of  the  considerable  Clergy  of  this  Country  have  given  their 
opinion  in  your  behalf,  &  highly  commend  the  Expostulation.  40 

Out  of  a  Letter  from  a  Clergy-man,  dated  from  Westacre  Jul.  27.  1708. 
in  Norfolk  near  SwafFham. 

.  .  .  I  cannot  in  ye  least  question  but  your  adversaries  will  be  glad  to  be 
silent  for  ye  future,  your  Notion  gaining  ground  daily,  &  prevailing  with  even 
the  Dissenters,  one  of  whom  an  acquaintance  of  mine,  and  a  Man  of  good 
Parts,  having  preach'd  it  up  5  or  6  Sundays  together  in  his  Meeting  to  ye  great 
Satisfaction  of  his  Adherents. 

Some  MSSts.  y*  I  saw  in  Mr.  Cherry's  Hands.     Mr.  Cherry  has  a  4*°. 
Book  of  Buchanan's  Epigramms  in  MS*,  fairly  written  by  King  Charles 
I8t's  own  hand. — He  has  also  a  4*°.  Book  written  neatly  in  vellam  by  Queen  50 
Elizabeth's  own  Hand,  being  a  Translation  out  of  French  verse  into  Eng- 
lish Prose  of  a  Book  call'd  The  Glasse  ofy  Sinfull  Soul.     The  Author  of 

K   2 


132  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

this  Translation  was  Queen  Elizabeth  herself,  &  she  has  dedicated  it  to 
her  Mother  Queen  Catherine,  which  Epistle  Ded.  is  dated  in  1544.  At  ye 
End  a  Prayer  written  in  another  Hand,  but  ye  Author  of  it  was  Q.  Eliz. 
The  Cover  is  neatly  wrought  with  a  needle  by  ye  Queen  herself,  in  the 
Middle  of  either  side  K.  p. — He  has  a  Letter  of  King  Charles  IId.  (dated 
at  Cologne  Nov.  ioth,  1654.)  to  his  Brother  the  Duke  of  York,  to  prevent 
his  changing  his  Religion  for  y*  of  Rome.  Mr.  Cherry's  is  only  a  Copy 
taken  from  ye  original  in  the  Custody  of  Mr.  A.  Boyer. — He  has  also  a 
MS*.  Collection  of  Letters  which  pass'd  between  Archbp.  Laud  &  Bp. 

10  Williams,  all  fairly  transcrib'd  from  ye  originals. — The  Earl  of  Devon- 
shire's (Montjoy)  Apollogie  for  his  Marriage.  4°. — Commentarius  in  Libros 
Aristotelis  de  Cselo.  A  Thin  Paper  MSS*.  in  a  late  Hand,  w*h  it  Quaes- 
tiones  de  Anima. — Paraphrasis  Epistolae  Pauli  ad  Romanes  Andreae 
Melvini,  in  Latin  verse.  A  thin  Paper  MS*. — King  Henry  VTII*11'8  De- 
claration cone,  three  of  ye  six  Articles,  throughout  corrected  w*h  his  own 
Hand.  After  y*  follows  a  List  of  Episcopal  Sees  and  Colleges  that 
were  design'd  A.  1539.  to  be  founded  by  K.  Henry  VIII*11  upon  the  dis- 
solution of  Religious  Houses.  (See  BP.  Burnett  Hist.  Ref.  Part.  i.  P.  262.) 
— A  Paper  MS*,  fol.  neatly  bound.  Given  to  Mr.  Cherry  by  Mr.  Leigh 

20  Atwood,  &  it  formerly  belong'd  to  Mr.  Patrick  Young.  In  ye  List  you 
have  the  several  stipends  design'd  for  ye  Officers. — Ey  Comance  le  con- 
tempnement  de  vaine  plaisance  fait  &  compose"  par  Rene  Roy  de  Sealle. 
A  Paper  MS*,  folio  neatly  bound. — A  4°.  MS*,  of  Paper  in  the  Irish 
tongue  &  Character. — A  4°.  MS*,  in  French  verse  containing  the  History 
of  ye  Deposition  of  Rich.  IId.  neatly  transcrib'd  from  an  original  MS*.  w*k 
illuminations  to  illustrate  the  several  Parts  of  the  History,  very  usefull  to 
understand  the  Habits  of  y*  Age.  The  MSS*.  above  said  are  Mr. 
Cherry's.  

Mr.  Dodwell  has  finish'd  of  his  Dissertation  cone.  Dionysius  who  was 
30  Author  of  ye  common  Periegesis  above  20  §  and  has  fix'd  his  Age  to  y® 
latter  End  of  Heliogabalus.  'Tis  remarkable  that  with  Salmasius  from 
Festus  Avienus  he  has  discover'd  a  Lacuna  at  v.  919.  which  verse  is  pub- 
lish'd  in  ye  common  Editions  without  any  Note  of  defect.  See  Salmasius 
upon  Vopiscus's  Aurelian.  Mr.  Dodwell  has  observ'd  other  Lacunae  by 
collating  Dionysius  w*h  Priscian,  &  he  has  remark'd  them  in  a  Copy  of 
Mr.  Thwaites's  Edition.  Remember  to  inquire  where  the  Copy  of  Dionysius 
w*h  MSS*.  notes,  &  Additions  of  whole  verses  from  a  MS.  which  was  in 
Grsevius's  hands  is  now ;  [it]  is  mention'd  in  Fabricius's  Bibliotheca 
Gr.  vol.  iii.  p.  27.  The  Edition  there  is  said  to  be  that  at  Paris  in  1577. 
40  4°.  Look  also  at  y*  Place  into  y6  MSS.  in  y0  Bodlejan  Library.  —  Mr. 
Dodwell  thinks  it  proper  enough  to  publish  a  Latin  version  to  Eustathius, 
provided  it  may  not  very  much  prejudice  y6  sale  of  ye  Book.  He  cannot 
judge  of  either  of  ye  Translations  because  he  has  not  seen  them.— 
Cotelerij  Monumenta  Patrum,  in  Mr.  Dodwell's  study,  with  some  few 
MSS*.  Notes  of  BP.  Pearson,  whose  proper  Book  it  was.  He  has 
Irenaeus  with  a  great  Number  of  MS*.  Notes  of  BP.  Pearson,  which  Dr. 
Grabe  did  not  know  of  'till  after  he  had  publish'd  his  Edition.  Most  of 
'em  are  collations.  Divers  are  valuable  notes  of  his  own. — Also  Dalleus 
de  Scriptis,  quae  sub  Dionysij  Areopagitae,  &c.  with  divers  Remarks  in  MS*. 


Sept.  19.]  VOL  UME  XVII,  PA GES  160-171.  133 

of  BP.  Pearson.     Reinesius's  Inscript.  with  some  small  Remarks  upon  ym 
by  BP.  Pearson. 

These  following  MSS.  formerly  in  y»  Hands  of  IA  Bulstrode 
Whitlock  : 

1.  Ordo  Lectionum  in  Festis  Sanctorum  manu  antiqua.     8°.  Praefigitur  haec 
nota.     Iste  liber  est  Domus  Beats  Mariae  de  Witham.    Ordo  curtus.  ex  dono 
Magistri  Willelmi  Loryng.  Pergamen. 

2.  An  old  English  History  beginning  thus — Here  may  a  man  here  how 
England  was  first  called  Albion,  and  carried  down  to  ye  vi  yere  of  Kyng 
Henries  Reign  the  V.  Fol.  Pergam.  10 

3.  Bibliorum  exemplar  ex   Interpretatione    Sancti    Hieronymi.  fol.  deest 
Apocalypsis. 

4.  Records  le  Liver  special,  de  N.  qu'on  disoit  estre  brusle. 

5.  Of  ye  Common  Lawes  of  Englande.     The  first  Chapter  bearing  this 
Title — Authors  refuted  that  helde  ye  Court  of  Common  Pleas  was  first  erected 
in  9  Hen.  3.     That  Glanvill  the  chiefe  Justice  of  England  wrot  ye  Treatise  of 
ye  Common  Law :  and  y*  the  chief  Justice  of  England  &  ye  chief  Justice  of 
ye  King's  Bench  were  all  one  Officer,    in  two  Vols.  fol.  ending  wth  wardship 
and  conversion  of  King's  Service  into  Socage. 

6.  Collection  of  Orders,  Instructions  &  Letters  relating  to  ye  Admiralty  20 
Ordinance  &  Sea-Affairs.  Foil. 

7.  Proceedings  in  ye  Starr  Chamber  by  Mr.  Isaac  Cotton.     A  Survey  of  ye 
Court  of  Starr  Chamber  by  Mr.  Hudson.     Divided  into  three  parts  with  their 
several  and  distinct  considerations,  fol. 

Note  about  Dionysius's  Periegesis. — At  vers.  918.  in  MS*.  Baroc.  78. 
before  the  word  Aurop  there  is  an  Asterisk  in  ye  Margin,  which  I  suppose 
might  be  put  to  show  that  here  is  some  defect.  In  MS.  Laud.  C.  31. 
vers.  918,  &  the  five  following  in  the  same  hand,  as  it  seems,  but  in  less 
letters.  V.  917.  in  MS.  NE.  E.  2.  16.  is  put  in  ye  Margin  by  a  later 
hand.  No  note  of  a  lacuna  in  MS.  Baroc.  145.  (not  147.  as  printed  by  30 
M*.  Thwaites1.) 

Order  in  wct  Dr.  Smith's  Edition  of  Ignatius  &c.  to  be  printed. 

i.  Epistolx  Genuinas  from  Vossius :  but  that  to  ye  Romans  from  Ruinart, 
p.  700. 

2  2.  Acta  Martyrij  S.  Ignatij,  the  Greek  from  Ruinart.  p.  696.  &  ye  Latin 
from  Archbp.  Usher  p.  i. 

The  Testimonia  to  come  before  this  Epistle. 

8  3.  S.  Polycarpi  ad  Philippens.  Epistola,  Gr.  Lat.  from  Archbp.  Usher, 
p.  15. 

*4.  S.  Polycarpi  Acta,  Gr.  Lat.  from  Archbp.  Usher,  p.  13. 

5.  Mem.  y*  Bp.  Pearson's  Annott.  are  to  be  put  at  ye  Bottom  of  ye  Page,  40 
his  Dissertation  de  anno  Martyrij  S.  Ignatij  to  come  at  ye  end  of  ye  said 
Annott.  &  after  y*  the  D™  own  notes  to  be  put. 

6.  The  little  notes  in  y6  Margin  to  be  plac'd  as  he  has  done  them. 

Dr.  Smith  put  into  my  Hands  to  have  transcrib'd,  Letters  to  Pape- 
broch,  in  number  9. — To  Leibnitz,  num.  15.- — A  Letter  to  a  Friend  cone. 
Mr.  Seller's  notes  upon  ye  Palmyr.  Inscriptions. — Reflections  upon  ye 
Cavendish  family.  —  The  History  of  Isuf  Bassa,  was  written  by  Sr. 

P  Four  and  a-half  blank  pages  follow.] 

"  Before  y°  Acts  of  S.  Ignatius  is  to  be  put  Dr.  Smith's  Preface  upon  them  :  &  his 
Annotations  on  y°  Acts  to  be  plac'd  at  y"  Bottom. 

3  Dr.  Smith's  Annott.  to  be  put  at  ye  Bottom  of  ye  P. 

4  His  Notes  to  be  put  at  ye  Bottom. 


134  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

Thomas  Higgons.  Pr.  at  Lond.  in  1684.  8vo.  —  Ask  Mr.  Dodwell 
who  was  Author  of  the  little  book  about  ye  Nativity  of  X*.  It  has  J.  P. 
Quaere  whether  Pearson  ?  Also  who  was  Husband  to  ye  Lady  Frances 
youngest  Daughter  to  ye  Earl  of  Clarendon.  — 

Mr.  Dodwell  has  a  thick  MS*,  in  folio  containing  a  Comment  upon 
the  Psalms  out  of  S*.  Austin  and  Cassiodore,  by  Gualterus  Magalonensis, 
whose  Preface  is  publish'd  by  Mabillon  in  his  analecta,  with  an  Account 
of  ye  Collector.  At  y«  End  of  this  MS*,  is  the  4th  Book  of  Thomas  a 
Kempis,  at } e  End  whereof :  Explicit  liber  4tu8  tractans  de  Sacramento 

10  Altaris.  Then  follows,  Incipit  liber  quintus  de  Disciplina  Claustralium. 
At  the  End,  Explicit  libellus  de  Disciplina  claustralium.  Then  comes  his 
tract  de  Humilitate,  at  ye  End  whereof,  Explicit  de  humilitate  quam 
quidem  doctrinam  composuit  quidam  Canonicus  Regularis  de  ordine 
Sancti  Augustini  ad  laudem  Dei  beataeque  Virginis  Mariae.  Next  is 
libellus  de  Spirituali  Exercitio.  Then,  libellus  de  Recognitione  propriae 
fragilitatis.  Then,  Epistola  quaedam  satis  utilis  ad  quendam  Regularem 
seu  Religiosum,  de  conservatione  devotionis  &c.  After  ye  Epistle  is, 
libellus  de  Elevatione  Mentis  ad  summum  bonum.  Afterwards,  a  Tract 
de  mortificata  vita  pro  Christo. — After,  Incipit  quaedam  brevis  ammonitio 

20  spiritualis  exercitij.  At  the  End  of  the  foresaid  Tracts  this  Memorand. 
Opuscula  praedicta  composuit  frater  Thomas  Kemper  Canonicus  Regu- 
laris de  ordine  Sancti  Augustini.  After  wch  concludes  the  Book, 
Incipit  Revelatio  facta  Sancto  Bernardo  Abbati  a  beata  Maria  virgine 
de  dolore  ipsius  quern  habuit  in  passione  dilectissimi  filij  sui  Domini 
nostri  Jesu  Christi. 

Mr.  Dodwell  has  an  old  English  Translation  of  Thomas  a  Kempis, 
printed  at  Lond.  in  1568.  But,  which  is  remarkable,  the  Author  of  this 
Translation,  Mr.  Edward  Hake,  does  not  tell  us  'tis  a  Translation,  but 
dedicates  it  to  his  Patron  as  if  'twere  his  own  Book,  all  the  Hint  y4  he 

30  gives  us  as  being  another's  being  only  his  Commendation  of  it.  Here 
are  only  the  first  three  Books,  the  4th  being  quite  omitted. 

Sept.  22  (Wed.).  Whereas  Mr.  Forbes  of  Dublin  was  degraded  & 
expell'd  that  university  for  speaking  some  words  which  were  judg'd 
reflecting  upony6  Memory  of  ye  late  K.  Wm.  (See  above  July  31),  and  for 
y*  reason  a  Report  was  spread  y*  ye  said  university  encourag'd  &  foster'd 
divers  Persons  y*  were  Enemies  to  ye  Government,  the  Vice-Chancellor, 
Doctors  and  Masters  in  Convocation  publish'd  a  Declaration  printed  in 
ye  Courant  of  Tuesday  last,  signifying  that  they  firmly  believe  y*  the 
Safety  of  y6  University  as  well  as  of  ye  Church  is  perfectly  owing  to  ye 

40  late  Revolution,  &  ye  Succession  as  now  settled,  &  y*  they  will  proceed 
with  the  utmost  severity  against  any  of  yeir  Members  y*  shall  speak  any- 
thing against  y*  opinion,  &  not  permitt  him  to  continue  amongst  them. 

Sept.  22.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  31).  Returned  last  night  from 
Shottesbrooke.  '  Mr.  D.  is  mightily  pleas'd  with  the  two  sheets  of  the  BP'S 
Annott.  which  you  show'd  him,  being  far  beyond  his  Expectation.  He  wishes 
you  had  follow'd  S*.  Hierom's  order ;  but  I  suppose  you  will  give  your  reason 
why  you  do  not  in  the  Preface.' 

Sept.  23.  H.  to  F.  Cherry  (Rawl.  36.  22).  Thanks  for  kindness  re- 
ceived at  Shottesbrooke.  Hopes  to  examine  all  the  MSS.  and  coins  there 
hereafter.  The  old  MS.  of  English  history  differs  materially  from  Caxton's 


Sept.19-29]  VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  171-179.  135 

Sept.  29  (Wed.).     Scaliger's  Epistles  p.  571. 

I  myself  have  seen  a  Book  call'd  Hone  matutinx  the  Author  whereof  was  my 
Grandmother  Berenica  Ludronia,  which  is  the  first  Book  y*  was  printed  after 
the  invention  of  this  noble  Art.  'Twas  printed  in  vellam,  not  in  ye  same 
manner  that  we  use  to  print  in  now ;  but  the  letters  were  at  some  distance,  & 
the  make  of  the  letter  was  exactly  agreeable  to  our  running  Hands  :  insomuch 
that  'twas  very  hard  to  distinguish  whether  the  book  was  written  or  printed. 
My  Father  valu'd  the  Book  very  much,  not  only  because  it  was  written  by  his 
Mother,  but  because  'twas  the  first  book  that  ever  was  printed.  The  cover 
was  of  wood  wrought  over  with  silk  ;  but  in  the  middle  of  each  side,  &  at  each  10 
corner  were  silver  Bosses  gilt.  On  the  Inside  was  fix'd  a  silver  Crucifix,  with 
the  Image  of  the  Virgin  Mary  &  S*.  John  the  Evangelist :  &  underneath  was 
written  in  a  Woman's  Hand  &  in  the  Italian  Language,  Berenica  di  Ludrone 
della  Scala,  that  is  Berenica  Ludronia  Scaligera ;  with  some  other  words  in  the 
German  Language,  which  I  could  make  nothing  of,  being  then  very  young 
when  I  saw  the  book,  &  I  have  not  been  able  to  get  a  sight  of  it  since, 
because  'twas  soon  after  torn  to  pieces  by  a  Greyhound. 


Horace  MS.  NE.  C.  2.  30.     1  M  thege  Msg>  haye  intaminatis  in 

£f  £•  i-  24.       Od.  L IIL  num  2> 

NE.  C.  i.    9.      j  20 

Edd.  cum.  Notis  MSS.  D.  2.20.  Art.  Seld.  T.  1. 1.  Art.  8<>.  D.  96.  Line. 
Lambin.  in  his  Notes  upon  the  Place  says  that  all  the  MSS.  he  had  seen 
both  in  Italy  &  France  have  intaminatis,  &  that  those  who  conjecture 
incontaminatis  have  no  old  Book  to  ground  their  conjecture  upon.  Nor 
indeed  have  any  of  our  MSS.  or  Books  collated  wth  MSS.  in  yeBodlejan 
Library  incontaminatis.  There  is  no  doubt  but  if  Lambin  could  have  met 
wth  Authority  he  would  have  admitted  incontaminatis  into  ye  Text,  he 
being  very  liberal  in  his  Alterations  where  he  has  any  manner  of  ground, 
as  appears  from  w*  he  has  done  in  Tully.  —  The  Scotch  Psalms 
printed  in  1620.  At  the  latter  End  is  ye  Act  of  Parliament  for  keeping  30 
the  Vth  of  November  in  Prose.  In  the  next  leaf  is  the  same  Act  printed 

Chronicle.  Perhaps  Sir  W.  Whitelock  may  present  his  MSS.  to  the  Library. 
A  fragment  in  a  Bodleian  MS.  proves  that  the  Duke  of  Lancaster  and  his  ad- 
herents temp.  Richard  II  were  excommunicated.  'The  Archbp.  of  York  was 
the  chief  Promoter  of  the  Excommunication :  which  I  believe  to  be  the 
reason  why  the  D.  of  Lancaster,  then  Hen.  IV.  proceeded  afterwards  with  so 
much  Violence  against  him.'  Suggestions  for  improvement  of  the  new  ed.  of 
Gibson's  Camden's  Britannia^  which  should  be  in  Latin.  Remarks  on  Diony- 
sius'  Periegesis,  and  the  MSS.  and  editions  of  it.  Early  English  translations 
of  the  Imitatio;  the  oldest  in  Bodley  (1585)  attributes  it  to  John  Gerson,  and 
mentions  a  yet  earlier  trans,  by  Master  William  Atkinson,  but  not  that  by 
Edw.  Hake.  In  this  trans,  are  4  Books,  and  the  translator  says  that  Book  IV 
was  translated  out  of  French  into  English  by  Margaret  Countess  of  Rich- 
mond. Sorry  that  Mr.  Holden  should  bring  himself  into  trouble  by  a  too  high 
value  of  himself. 

Sept.  24.  H.  to  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  13).  Sends  collations  of  Iliad  S  and 
O.  Is  preparing  for  his  ed.  of  Tully,  proposed  some  years  since  by  Mr.  Cock- 
man  of  Univ.,  4  had  not  his  Eyes  fail'd  him,  occasioned  by  the  Small-Pox.' 

r.  Sept.  24.  Barnes  to  H.  (Rawl.  24.  31).  On  Monday  last  returned  with 
'  the  Lady '  to  Cambridge  :  she  went  for  London  early  next  morn,  and  left  B. 
with  Homer.  Reports  progress.  Orders  some  copies  of  Livy.  The  Lady 
often  had  you  in  her  mouth  and  sometimes  in  a  glass.  Near  300  pp.  of  Homer 
are  done.  Is  lodging  with  Mr.  Crownfield  at  the  Printing-House. 


136  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1708  : 

in  verse  to  be  sung  \vtb  ye  Psalms  in  churches.  Mr.  Bagford,  who  picks 
up  a  great  many  things  of  this  nature,  has  it.  —  Enquire  about  BP. 
Parker's  Bible  in  English,  which  he  caus'd  to  be  printed  by  Rich. 
Jugg.  —  Delaune's  Latin  Version  of  ye  Bible  a  rare  Book,  printed  in 
4to.  by  John  Mayler,  in  153.  .  Look  after  it.  —  Mr.  Pepys  has  a  Shield 
us'd  at  ye  taking  of  Bulloign,  which  since  has  had  the  whole  History  of 
the  Siege,  &  ye  taking  thereof  painted  on  it  by  Hans  Holben,  as  is  con- 
jectur'd.  —  Look  upon  JElredus  Rhievallensis,  cum  varijs  Lectionibus, 
per  Gibbonum.  'Tis  in  University  Coll.  Library.  T.  12.  Mr.  Wood 

10  mentions  a  2d  Edition  in  1682.  of  the  Ist  Vol.  of  Monasticon 
Anglicanum,  &  'tis  in  University  Coll.  Library.  —  De  antiquitate  Acad. 
Cantabrigiensis.  8°.  Lond.  1568.  8°.  K.  28.  Fuller  D.  4.  u.  —  Consider 
whether  part  of  Sr.  Hen.  Savile's  Translation  of  Tacitus's  annals  was  not 
printed  at  Eton.  Mr.  Bagford  gives  me  a  hint  y*  half  of  it  was  printed 
there.  —  Sr.  Rob.  Diggs  a  Norfolk  Man,  &  a  noted  Physitian,  but  could 
neither  write  nor  read,  &  yet  he  had  a  considerable  Collection  of  Books ; 
but  his  ignorance  happen'd  once  to  be  discover'd  upon  his  telling  a 
certain  Gentleman  y*  he  had  a  valuable  &  rare  book,  which  ye  Gentle- 
man desiring  to  see,  he  willingly  took  it  out  &  look'd  upon  himself,  but 

20  it  happen'd  to  be  y*  the  wrong  End  was  upwards  &  so  he  deliver'd  it  (as 
if  he  had  been  right)  to  ye  Gentleman.  His  way  of  writing  Receipts  was 
certain  odd  marks  wc^  pass'd  well  enough  with  his  Apothecary,  who 
knowing  ye  Distempers  of  ye  Patients  prescrib'd  accordingly.  He  died 
in  a  poor  shabby  condition,  being  taken  ill  suddenly  in  ye  street,  &  was 
carried  of:  An  Account  whereof  you  may  find  in  some  of  ye  Publick 
Papers.  —  Endeavour  to  get  a  sight  of  ye  Ist  Edition  of  Hollingshead's 
Chronicle,  in  wch  I  am  told  are  divers  wodden  Cutts,  &  yere  are  some 
Historical  Observations  which  are  omitted  in  ye  second  Impression.  Also 
about  y6  Ist  Impression  of  Fox's  Acts  &  Monuments,  in  English,  wherein 

30  'tis  to  be  observ'd  that  ye  Interrogatories  against  BP.  Gardiner  are  left 
out  to  ye  Number  of  60  Pages  :  &  y*  ye  IId  Impression  w*k  Additions,  in 
1572,  referrs  in  several  places  to  ye  Ist.  Mr.  Wood  saw  none  before  ye 
4tlx  Impression.  Dr.  Stillingfleet  when  he  was  Dean  could  not  meet  with 
ye  jst  Impression,  which  however  he  made  great  Enquiry  after.  There  is 
one  in  Magd.  College  Library,  wch  is  the  only  one  in  Oxford.  —  Mr. 
Bagford  tells  me  that  he  has  seen  an  Impression  of  Thomas  a  Kempis 
in  English  before  y6  year  1 500,  which  I  would  fain  see  or  at  least  have 
some  account  of  it  to  know  whether  ye  4*h  Book  be  there,  &  w*  ye 
Translator  says  of  ye  work.  —  Look  upon  Chaucer's  Translation  of 

40  Boethius  de  Consolatione,  in  8V0.  p[r]inted  at  ye  Exempt  Monastery  of 
Tavistoke  in  Denshire.  —  The  Copy  of  Petrus  Victorius's  Ed.  of 
Tully  wch  ye  BP.  of  Ely  has  was  printed  at  Florence.  Ld.  Sunderland's 
is  at  ye  same  place.  — 

At  ye  End  of  y®  Translation  of  Boethius  by  Chaucer,  (quaere)  4°.  L.  2  r. 
Art.  in  Bibl.  Bodl. 

Here  endeth  the  boke  of  comfort  called  in  latyn  Boecius  de  consolatione 
Phil.  Enprented  in  the  exempt  monastery  of  Tavestok  in  Denshyre.  By  me 
Dan  Thomas  Rychard  monke  of  the  sayd  monastery  |  To  the  instant  desyre 
of  the  ryght  worshypful  esquyer  mayster  Robert  Langdon.  Anno  D'.MDXXV. 

Deo  Gracias. 


Sept.29-0ct.8.]     VOLUME  XVII,  PA GES  179-187.  137 

Underneath,  in    a    Field  Argent,  a  cheveronelle  sable    between    three 

Heads  erased,  &  under  that  Robert  Langdon.    (I  wrote  a  Letter 

afterwd8  to  Mr.  Bagford  about  the  said  Book,  and  I  have  since  printed  it 
in  Robt.  of  Gloucester.) 

Oct.  5  (Tu.).  Mr.  Humph.  Wanley  is  writing  the  Life  of  Cardinal 
Wolsey.  having  gotten  several  MSSte.  which  will  be  of  great  service  in  yt 
work,  not  seen  by  BP.  Burnett,  or  any  who  have  written  heretofore  of  our 
English  Affairs,  as  I  have  been  inform'd.  He  likewise  receives  great 
Assistance  from  Mr.  Strype  who  has  a  great  Collection  of  MS1.  Papers  of 
this  nature.  —  Mr.  Mataire,  who  put  out  some  time  since  an  octavo  10 
Book  cone,  the  Greek  Dialects,  is  now  writing  the  Lives  of  the  Stephens's 
and  an  Account  of  the  Books  they  printed,  &  he  has,  as  I  am  inform'd, 
got  excellent  materials  for  the  work,  &  made  a  great  many  observations 
wch  have  not  been  touch'd  upon  by  any  others.  —  Dr.  Hen.  Hill  of 
Corpus  Xt{  Coll.  (who  was  always  reckon'd  a  man  of  whiggish  Principles) 
was  Author  of  the  Pamphlett  call'd  A  Dialogue  between  Timotheus  <$f  Judas, 
concerning  a  Pamphlett  called,  The  Growth  of  Deism  in  England.  Lond. 
1696.  4°.  —  Tully's  Select  Orations,  &  his  Epistles  ad  Fam.  newly  come 
cut  wth  notes  by  Cellarius.  The  former  3^.  6d.  in  sheets  &  the  latter 
2s.  6d. — Orthographia  from  old  Monuments,  wth  Cardinal  Noris's  Dis-  20 
course  upon  y*  subject  newly  come  out — the  price  zs.  in  sheets. — De 
Mensuris  &  ponderibus  by  Eisensmidius.  8V0.  2$.  price  in  sheets. — A  Syriac 
Lexicon  concordantiale  &  the  New  Testament  4*°  both  of  ym  30  shillings 
in  sheets,  at  15^.  per  Book. 

Oct.  8  (Fri.).  I  have  been  told  by  Mr.  Bagford  that  BP.  Walton 
dedicated  his  Polyglott  Bible  first  of  all  to  Oliver  Cromwell  (who  besides 
the  gift  of  Paper  gave  500  libs,  for  carrying  on  that  most  noble  work)  and 
yt  he  has  seen  the  Dedication  printed  ;  but  y*  the  King  coming  in  not  long 
after  he  alter'd  his  Design  &  made  a  new  one  to  his  Majesty.  —  There 
is  just  publish'd  a  Book  in  4*°.  call'd  Philologia  Barbaro-Graeca,  by  30 
Michael  Langius,  4to.  in  wch  is  Homer's  Batrachomyomachia,  in  Gr.  Lat. 
of  wch  Mr.  Barnes  must  have  an  account.  —  The  Book  call'd  Anti- 
Normannica,  in  8V0.  is  said  by  some  to  be  writt  by  Mr.  Disney ;  the  same 
Disney  who  was  hang'd  for  being  concern'd  in  Monmouth's  Rebellion. 
Quaere  whether  one  Disney  of  Lincolnshire,  a  Justice  of  Peace,  &  author 
of  a  Book,  cone.  Justices  of  Peace,  (lately  publish'd)  be  not  related  to 
him  ?  —  Yesterday  Dr.  Lancaster,  by  virtue  of  ye  chancelor's  Letter, 
was  confirm'd  in  Convocation  Vice-chancellor  for  y6  year  1 708,  being  the 
3d  year  that  he  has  born  y*  office.  He  made  a  speech  as  usual,  in  which 
he  spoke  much  in  praise  of  the  Doctrine  of  Passive  Obedience,  &  com-  40 
mended  ye  university  for  instilling  y*  Doctrine  into  ye  Young  Gentlemen  : 
but  it  must  be  noted  yfc  this  smooth  Dr.  never  acted  according  to  this 
Doctrine,  but  was  always  for  closing  as  he  found  it  suited  with  secular 
Interest,  &  y*  he  has  neither  Integrity,  nor  it  is  to  be  fear'd  courage 


Oct.  3  [?].  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  (Rawl.  38.  32).  Explanation  of  his  sugges- 
tions on  Sheet  F  of  text :  '  I  find  at  X*.  Church  they  are  most  nice  in  following 
the  spelling  of  their  MS*,  and  giving  the  true  Reading  in  the  Margin.' 

Oct.  5.  H.  to  Barnes.  (Rawl.  35.  16).  Sends  Iliad  n  collated  with  the 
Baroccian  MS.  We  want  to  see  the  new  specimens. 


I38  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

enough  to  practise  it.  —  Mr.  Took  told  Sr.  Philip  Sydenham  y*  he  paid 
Dr.  Kennett  200  libs,  for  his  share  in  ye  3  vols.  of  English  Historians, 
besides  about  100  libs,  y*  it  cost  them  in  treats.  —  Sir  Philip  Sydenham 
has  Tully's  Tusculan  Questions  printed  at  Paris  cum  notis  variorum. 
Also  Tully's  Fam.  Epistles  cum  Castigationibus  per  Robertum  Stephanum. 
He  has  also  other  pieces  of  Tully.  —  In  the  year  1598,  (or  1589,  Quaere) 
was  printed  a  Book  in  4*°.  call'd  A  Discourse  of  y  false  Church,  the 
Author  whereof  was  Mr.  Henry  Barrow.  Most  of  the  Impression  was 
burnt  by  publick  Authority,  as  being  a  very  pernicious  Book.  It  has  been 
10  within  this  two  or  three  years  reprinted  in  8V0.  under  this  Title,  A  Dis- 
course of '  y*  false  Church,  or  a  second  part  of  y*  Rights  of  y*  Christian 
Church.  The  person  that  handed  it  to  ye  Press  was  Dr.  Salmon  of  Lon- 
don, a  Man  of  Republican  principles,  a  Publisher  of  several  Books  in 
Physick,  and  a  great  Collector  of  Books  in  all  Faculties.  — 

Epitaph  upon  John  Lilburn,  said  to  have  been  made  by  Judge  Jenkins : 

Is  John  departed,  and  is  Lilburn  gone  ?          Let  them  not  both  in  one  grave  buried  be. 
Farewell  to  both,  to  Lilburn  &  to  John.         Lay  John  here,  lay  Lilburn  thereabouts, 
'  Since  they  are  dead,  take  this  advice  of  me,       For  if  they  meet,  they  will  fall  out. 

This  Lilburn  was  buried  in  ye  Quakers  Place  of  Burial  in  Moor  Fields.  — 
20  Look  after  Sir  Walter  Raleigh's  History  of  Mahomet,  which  is  a  rare 
Book,  &  judg'd  by  divers  men  of  Learning  to  be  the  best  Account  of  y* 
Impostor.  —  One  Slatter  writ  a  Book  call'd  Palyolbion  in  verse  folio, 
and  likewise  ye  Genealogy  of  King  James  ye  Ist,  from  Adam,  in  a 
Genealogical  Method,  ingrav'd  in  Copper.  Another  Slatter  has  publish'd 
ye  singing  Psalms,  some  part  only  I  think,  in  Hebrew,  Greek,  Latin  & 
English :  a  rare  Book  to  see.  'Tis  ingrav'd,  &  Mr.  Short  says  'tis  the 
best  ingrav'd  letter  he  ever  saw  of  y*  nature.  One  Xtian  Raves,  who 
came  from  Berlin  to  collect  MSS*8.  for  several  Great  Men,  as  BP.  Usher 
&  others,  has  put  out  an  Oriental  Grammar,  in  which  he  says,  he  did  not 
30  question  but  in  some  years  he  should  make  our  Ingravers  in  England  cut 
the  best  oriental  Letters  in  the  World,  of  which  he  has  given  us  divers 
specimens  in  ye  said  Grammar.  'Tis  a  rare  Book.  This  Raves  also 
publish'd  a  Catalogue  of  ye  oriental  MSSts.  in  ye  Escurial.  —  Look  into 
a  Book  in  1 2°.  call'd  The  Surfeit,  in  w^  are  a  great  many  pretty  observa- 
tions relating  to  ye  English  History,  as  particularly  he  tells  us  who  assisted 
Mr.  Speed  in  compiling  his  English  History,  &c.  —  Mr.  Bagford  has  had 
a  German  printed  Book  of  the  Alphabet  drawn  exactly.  It  contains 
nothing  more  yn  the  Alphabet,  only  here  and  there  a  sentence  in  German 
inserted  in  ye  Letters.  They  are  all  of  a  very  large  size  for  ye  use  of  ye 
40  Illuminators,  &  are  made  up  of  several  figures,  as  heads  of  Men,  &c.  The 
z  is  made  s,  exactly  agreeable  to  y*  Letter  as  I  have  seen  it  represented 
on  divers  Coyns,  &  'tis  so  written  in  some  MSS.  &  particularly  in  a  MS*, 
of  Homer  inter  Codd.  Barocc.  He  has  another  Alphabet,  the  letters  of 
a  stranger  form.  They  are  made  up  in  Knotts  with  scroles  of  parch- 
ment. He  has  ye  Heads  of  Aldus  Pius  Manutius,  &  Paulus  Manutius 
Aldi  F.  with  ye  Heads  of  two  others  of  the  Manutian  Family,  taken  from 
ye  original  Monument  at  Venice.  — 

In  ye  Bodlejan   Library,  amongst   Mr.   Selderis  MSSts.  .  .  is  a   fair 
Copy  in  paper  of  Vettius  Valenss  Anthologia.     'Tis  a  folio  Book,  con- 


Oct.  8.]  VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  187-195.  139 

taining  292.  Pages,  and  it  appears  from  ArchbP.  Usher's  Letters,  p.  322, 
&  from  some  notes  of  Mr.  Selden  in  his  Book  De  Dijs  Syris  &  his  Edition 
of  ye  Arundelian  Marbles  that  it  formerly  belong'd  to  the  famous  Mathe- 
matician John  Dee ;  to  whom  it  came  I  believe  after  ye  Death  of  Christo- 
pher Longolius,  who  was  ye  person  that  got  it  transcribed  for  ye  Charge 
of  about  6  libs.  10  shillings,  as  appears  from  ye  following  Memorandum 
written  at  ye  Beginning  of  this  Book :  Curavit  hunc  librum  describendum 
Christophorus  Longolius  precio  octingentorum  sesterliorum  nummum,  hoc  esl 
vicenis  aureis  ducalis.  De  LongueiL  'Tis  thought  by  some  that  this  is  ye 
only  Copy  of  this  valuable  Collection  that  is  now  exstant,  &  y*  ye  other  10 
more  Antient  Copy  wch  belong'd  to  Aldus  from  wch  Longolius  got  this  to 
be  transcrib'd  is  now  unfortunately  lost.  I  remember  Joseph  Scaliger  more 
than  once  mentions  a  Copy  of  Vetlius  in  his  Epistles,  but  it  does  not 
appear  whether  'twas  ye  same  with  this  of  Longolius,  or  that  of  Aldus,  or 
whether  'twas  different  from  either.  'Tis  certain  from  ye  said  Epistles 
(1.  II.  n.  cxii.)  that  Scaliger  intended  to  have  set  out  Vettius  Valens  ;  but 
dying  before  he  could  accomplish  what  he  had  resolved  upon,  some  years 
since  Huetius  (as  Sir  Edward  Sherbourne  observ'd)  had  a  design  of  print- 
ing him  at  Parts,  and  Dr.  Edward  Bernard  sent  him  a  specimen  for  that 
Intent :  but  what  hinder'd  him  is  uncertain.  Mr.  Selden  has  given  us  two  2° 
or  three  Fragments  in  the  Books  mention'd  above,  and  so  has  Salmasius 
in  his  Book  de  annis  climaclericis ;  and  since  that  Mr.  Dodwell  has 
publish'd  an  extract  out  of  him  in  his  Epistolary  Discourse  cone,  y  Immor- 
tality ofy  Soul.  And  I  think  some  other  Learned  Men  have  mention'd 
him  as  an  Author  worth  publishing,  as  he  most  certainly  is,  if  at  ye  same 
time  Julius  Firmicus  be  printed  with  him.  Immediately  after  ye  Note 
above  mention'd  cone.  ye  sum  of  money  Longolius  gave  for  having 
it  transcrib'd  is  added  an  Explication  of  ye  several  Notes  made 
use  of  in  the  Book,  in  which  are  some  different  from  those  publish'd 
by  Dufresne  in  his  Greek  Glossary.  Mr.  Selden  &  others  have  vary'd  3° 
about  ye  time  when  this  Author  liv'd ;  but  it  appears  from  divers  notes  in 
him  y*  he  liv'd  after  the  time  of  Antoninus.  He  mentions  Indictions  in 
some  places,  the  use  of  wch  did  not  begin  'till  about  ye  time  of  Maxentius. 
There  is  another  note  wc^  brings  him  as  low  as  Severus,  he  mentioning  a 
person  whose  nativity  he  accounts  for  in  the  year  200  after  X*  or  there- 
abouts. And  this  is  ye  lowest  note  I  have  met  with  in  y*  wch  is  the  proper 
Valens  cited  by  Mr.  Selden  &  others  ;  for  ye  latter  part  of  ye  work  seems 
to  have  been  done  by  another  Valens,  one  of  ye  Books  in  fol.  181.  b. 
being  call'd  fiiffriov  fovrtpov,  whereas  before  the  6th  &  7th  if  not  more  are 
mention'd  in  due  order.  There  are  two  considerable  notes  cone.  ye  Age  4° 

of  this    latter   Valens,  viz.  €Y7rd8«y^a  &  &IOK\VTICIVOV  eras  pp.£  (or  147)  TujSlt'S 

(is  it  &p.  y.  (in  fol.  177  b.)  which  brings  him  as  low  as  an.  X^  431.  And 
in  fol.  178.  a.  he  mentions  the  Death  of  Valentinian  IId  in  ye  36^  year  of 
his  Age,  by  wch  he  is  brought  down  to  about  ye  Year  391.  — 

Epitaph  upon  Elizabeth  Hampton,  who  lyes  buried  in  ye  Church  Yard 
of  Hallywell  in  Oxon.  She  liv'd  formerly  in  Hallywell  Street,  where  her 
House  was  daily  frequented  by  divers  Young  Gentlemen,  who  were  well 
gifted  &  lov'd  to  appear  very  devout.  Here  they  had  Prayers,  &  this  de- 
form'd  old  Maid  us'd  often  to  read  Prayers  her  self,  &  perform  other 
Spiritual  Exercises ;  &  wtjlall  made  them  water  Gruell,  whence  they  were  50 


140  H  EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

call'd  the  sect  of  ye  Gruellers.     See  Mr.  Wood's  Athense  Oxon.  in  vol. 
Second  under  BP.  Parker. 

Heavenis  hampton  Court  here's  but  a  cell,  Are  now  embracing,  and  have  made  since 
Where  putrid  bones,  ashes  and  worms  do  death 

dwell.  Another  Virgin  Queen  Elizabeth. 

This  sacred  Maid  deaf  to  ye  taking  charms,  Shee  needs  not  us,  but  dearly  miss  shall  we 

Of  all  ignoble  Love,  immortal  arms  Our  she  Professor  of  Divinity. 


Look  into  a  Book  of  Le   Roy's  intit out  of  which  Mr. 

Wotton  seems  to  have  borrow'd.   —   Look  after  a  thin  Book  in  folio 
10  call'd  ye  Customs  of  London,  in  wcl1  there  is  printed  an  old  Ballad  call'd 
The  Nut-Brown  Lass. 

Oct.  13  (Wed.).  Jcjhn  Grange  writ  a  Book  &  dedicated  it  to  ye  Lord 
General  Cecill.  &c.  I  have  ye  Dedication.  See  about  him.  —  See 
about  John  Stockwood,  who  translated  several  pieces  of  Beza  into  English. 
BP.  Cooper  writ  a  brief  Exposition  of  such  Chapters  of  ye  old  Testament 
as  are  usually  read  in  ye  Church  at  Common  Prayer  on  y6  Sundayes,  &c. 
See  if  in  Ant.  a  Wood.  I  believe  divers  things  in  our  late  Expositions 
taken  thence. 

Oct.  16  (Sat.).  Lately  dyed  Dr.  John  Batley,  Archdeacon  of  Canterb. 
20  &c.  Upon  his  Death  bed  he  declar'd  himself  very  uneasy  upon  Account 
of  his  having  Pluralities.  He  was  a  good  Scholar,  &  was  serviceable 
formerly  to  BP.  Fell  &  others  in  collating  MSSts.  &c.  &  the  BP.  has  men- 
tion'd  him  several  times  upon  that  Account.  —  We  have  just  now  recd. 
news  of  the  Death  of  Dr.  David  Gregory  our  Scotch  Professor  of 
Astronomy.  His  Distemper  was  a  Consumption. 

Oct.  9.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  31).  Thanks  for  Festus  Avienus. 
When  does  Hudson  intend  to  begin  his  impression  of  it  ? 

Oct.  10.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  33).  Sends  sheet  *K  of 
Annott.  Please  send  only  a  single  sheet  in  a  letter,  'they  making  me  pay  i2d. 
for  the  two  Sheets  and  Letter.  .  .  .  You  need  not  trouble  yourself  about  ye 
Charge  of  reprinting  the  two  pages ;  for  there  will  be  some  vacant  pages 
in  ye  last  Sheet,  which  will  serve  for  this  purpose,  without  any  extraordinary 
charge,  the  Compositors  usually  insisting  for  as  great  a  price  in  a  Sheet  which 
has  two  or  three  vacant  pages  as  if  it  were  printed  full.'  Saw  this  last  week 
Sir  P.  Sydenham  in  Town,  who  is  wonderfully  pleased  with  Ignatius ;  it  was 
the  first  time  H.  ever  saw  him,  and  H.  is  extraordinary  well  pleased  with  his 
conversation. 

Oct.  11.  E.  Gardner  to  H.  (Rawl.  6.  64).  Offers  his  services,  especially 
with  Grabe,  who  is  in  town.  Mr.  Kent  well  approved  of  where  he  is.  He 
has  commissioned  the  writer  to  pay  S.T.  6d.  to  H. 

Oct.  13.  H.  to  Dr.T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  34).  Remarks  on  Sheets  *L  and 
*M  of  Annotations.  Compositors  hindered  by  the  editor's  absence  from  the 
Press.  Paid  the  pressmen  is.  6d.  extra  for  the  last  sheet  worked. 

c.  Oct.  16.  H.  to  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  19).  Sends  collations  of  Iliad  P 
B.  should  consult  J.  M.  Langius'  Philologia  Earbaro-Graeca.  News  received 
to-day  of  Dr.  Gregory's  death. 

Oct.  16.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  in).  Will  prepare  Preface 
and  Indices.  Death  of  Dr.  Gregory,  in  his  48th  year.  Thoresby  to  H. 
(Rawl.  10.  57).  Sends  subscriptions  to  Livy.  Is  much  of  H.'s  mind  as  to 
Woodward's  noble  Shield.  '  I  am  sorry  ye  MS.  you  enquire  of,  cannot  be 
found  at  Mr.  Savile's,  ye  family  wch  abounded  with  Learned  men  in  Sr.  Henry's 
time,  seems  wholy  to  have  neglected  it  ever  since,  there  are  yet  some  MSS. 


Oct.  8-22.]  VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  195-201.  141 

Oct.  19  (Tu.).  This  day  at  3  Clock  Mr.  Trapp  of  Wadham  our 
Poetical  Lecturer  read  the  first  time  in  ye  Natural  Philosophy  Schole.  The 
Drift  of  his  Lecture  was  in  praise  of  Poetry,  &  he  concluded  with  a  very 
short  but  flattering  complement  on  our  Vice-Chancellor,  who  w^out  doubt 
was  pleas'd  with  it. 

Oct.  22  (Fri.).     Epitaph  upon  BP.  Stratford  of  Chester. 

NICOLAVS  STRATFORD  s.T.p.  |  Natus  apud  HEMSTEAD  in  Com.  Hartf.  ^nno 
1633  |  Factus    est  |  Coll.    S.   S.   Trinitatis    Oxon.    Socius. — 1656.  |  Collegij 
Christi  apud  Mancunium  in  Com.  Lane.  Guardianus. — 1667.  |  Sanctae  Mar- 
garettae  Leicestriae  in  Eccl.  Lincoln.  Praebendarius. — 1670.  |  Ecclesiae  Asaph-  10 
ensis  Decanus. — 1673.  |  In  Ecclesia  Aldermanbury  London.     Concionator. — 
1683.  |  Ecclesiae  de  JVigan  Rector,  &  Cestr'uz  Episcopus. — 1689.  |  Mortuus  est 
12°.   die   Feb. — 170^.  J  Ex  vita,  per   18   annos  Hie  sanctissime   instituta,  I 
Memoriam  sui  reliquit  |  Omni  marmore  perenniorem.  |  Reformatam  Fidem  I 
Eruditis  contra  Pontificios  scriptis  strenue  asseruit,  |  Ecclesiae  Defensor  prius 
quam  Pater.  |  Illorum,  quos  adeptus  est,  Honorum  nullos  ambijt  |  Nonnullos 
sponte  deposuit.  |  Divitiarum  adeo  erat  non  cupidus,  |  Ut  post  40  annos  inter 
dignitates  Ecclesiasticas  exactos,  |  Rem  sibi  relictam  non  solum  non  auxerit, 
Sed  in  tuendis  Ecclesiae  Ipsi  creditae  Juribus  |  Earn  libentissime  imminuerit. 
Morum   Simplicitate,   Caritate   in    omnes,   Pietate    in    Deum,     Erat    plane  20 
Primaeva.  |  Episcopate  munus  ea   fide   administravit,  |  Ut  qui   ordinem   non 
agnoscerent  |  Virum  faterentur  esse  revera  Apostolicum.  |  Laboribus  magis 
quam  Annisfractus  occubuit  |  AChristo,cui  soliserviebat,  |  Promissum  Dispen- 
satori    fido    praemiutn   laturus.  |  Guilielmus   Stratford  S.T.P.    Filius   unicus  | 
Archidiaconus   Richmondiae  |  ^Edis  Christi  apud  Oxon.  Canonicus  |  Optimo 
Parenti  j  P.  | 

The  following  Memorand.  before  ye  old  valor  Beneficiorum  in  the 
Bodlejan  Library,  written  in  a  more  modern  hand : 

Quaere  an  liber  subsequens  non  fuit  compositus  anno  vicesimo  Edwardi 
primi,  per  inquisitionem  factam  ratione  Commissionis  factae  Episcopis  Winton.  30 
&  Lincolniae,  pro  taxatione  beneficiorum  per  totum  Regnum  Angliae,  ut  patere 
videtur  in    archivis   Ecclesiae   Cathedralis   Lincolne,   &    Recordis    in    Turn 
Londinensi  custoditis,  quae  videntur  concordare.  &  hie  fol.  24.  a. 

I  know  not  by  whose  Hand.  Then  opposite  to  this  in  a  different 
Hand : 

v.  fol.  24.  ubi  mentio  est  Episcoporum  Winton.  &  Line,  ubi  agitur  de 
Hospital!  de  Sherburn  in  Dioc.  Dunelm. 

Underneath  in  a  third  Hand : 

Ranulf.  Cestriens.  in  An.  Dn.  1289.  17.  Ed.  I.     Circa  hunc  annum  jubente 
Papa  Nicholao,  taxatae  sunt  ecclesiae  Anglicanae  secundum  verum  valorem :  40 
&  vacavit  ex  tune  taxatio  Norwicensis  facta  prius  per  Innocentium  quartum. 


but  lodged  in  a  place  wr  vast  summs  of  money  are  deposited  y*  makes  persons 
loath  to  desire  the  sight  of  them,  not  knowing  who  may  chance  to  come  there 
after  them/  Is  much  discomposed  with  a  cold. 

Oct.  18.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  35).  Remarks  on  various 
sheets  of  Ignatius.  Thanks  for  account  of  Dr.  Gregory's  death :  Mr.  Keil 
went  up  to  London  on  Saturday  morning  last,  with  a  design  to  make  interest 
for  the  place. 

Oct.  20.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  36).  Next  sheet  will  conclude 
Ignatius.  '  Yesterday  at  three  Clock  Mr.  Trapp  deliver'd  his  first  Lecture,  in 
the  Natural  Philosophy-Schoole.  He  spoke  much  in  commendation  of  Poetry, 
and  of  some  of  ye  best  Writers  in  it,  and  ended  with  a  short  but  flattering 
complemt  upon  the  Vice-Chanc.' 


142  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708  : 

See  Dr.  Kennett's  Parochial  Antiquities  p.  315.  cone,  this  Book,  where 
he  has  given  us  a  specimen,  in  wcl1  are  most  gross  Blunders,  he  seeming 
not  able  to  read  ye  Hand.  (See  another  Copy  being  a  Roll  in  Parchment 
in  Arch.  Bod.  125.) 

In  fol.  126.  b.  of  the  old  valor  Beneficiorum  in  Decanatu  de  Radyng: 

Ecclesia  de  Beneham  Abbatis  (f.  Abbas)  Radyng  Rector  ix  marc. 

(This  Church  is  since  destroy'd,  &  nothing  to  point  it  out  remains  but  ye 
Heath,  wcl1  is  call'd  Beneham's  Heath.     But  there  is  another  Benham 
Church  standing.) 
10     fol.  127.  a. 

Ecclesia  de  Wengrave  (now  call'd  Wargrave)  abbas  Radding  Rector  xviii. 

marc. 

Pensio  abbatis  in  vicaria  ejusd.  indet.  xviii.s. 

Ecclesia  de  Wyneksfeld  xii.  marc. 

Pensio  abbatis  Abendon  in  eadem  i.  marc. 

Ecclesia  de  Waltham  Sancti  Laurencij  cum  vicar,  indet.  Prior  de  Hurle 

[xx  marc. 

Ecclesia  de  Waltham  Abbatis  cum  vicar,  indet.  xx.marc. 

Pensio  abbatis  de  Certesey  in  eadem  vs. 
20      Ecclesia  de  Sottesbroke  xiii.  marc. 

Oct.  24  (Sun.).  Yesterday  in  ye  Afternoon  died  an  old  Rich,  miser- 
able Fellow  of  All-Souls,  Dr.  Thomas  Sergeant,  Dr.  of  Laws.  He  came 
into  his  Fellowship  in  ye  Visitation  in  ye  late  damnable  Rebellion,  as  being 
a  Man  of  true  Republican  Principles,  and  has  ever  since  eat  ye  Founder's 
Bread  wthout  doing  ye  least  Good  y*  ever  I  could  hear  of.  He  died  rich, 
but  made  no  will.  There  is  an  Epitaph  upon  him  that  goes  about  amongst 
some  waggs,  viz. 

Here  lyes  Doctor  Sergeant  wthin  these  Cloysters, 
Whom  if  ye  last  Trump  don't  wake  then  crye  Oysters. 

30  'Twas  made  upon  him  some  years  since,  &  was  occasion'd,  as  they  tell 
you,  because  the  Doctor  would  never  ansv/er  or  come  to  any  one  hardly 
that  knock'd  at  his  Door ;  but  if  a  Crye  of  Oysters  was  rais'd  he  would 
immediately  come  out,  being  a  great  admirer  of  them,  as  indeed  he  was 
of  other  good  eatables  as  well  as  Drinkables.  —  Quaere  who  translated  into 
English  Selden's  Jani  Anglorum  facies  altera,  pr.  at  Lond.  1683.  in  a  Book 
intit.  Tracts  written  by  John  Selden  of  ye  Inner  Temple,  Esquier.  Dr. 
Hickes  in  his  Pref.  to  his  Thesaurus,  p.  26.  guesses  at  Dr.  Adam  Littleton. 
He  is  call'd  in  ye  Book  Redman  Westcot,  whom  Antony  a  Wood  also 
calls  alias  Adam  Littleton.  — Wic-stow  which  signifies  a  place  of  Encamp- 

4°  ing  or  a  Fort.  —  8°.  D.  108.  The  Fragments  of  the  Poets,  in  wck  some 
corrections  of  Tully. — Silceaster.  Silcestria  in  agro  Hantoniensi.  Sil- 
chester  in  Hampshire  :  so  called  (after  Mr.  Camden)  q.  urbs  magna.  ('Tis 
writ  Cilcestre  in  the  old  Valor  Benef.  f.  123.  a.)  Sele,  Aula,  palatium,  a 
Palace,  a  Hall,  a  Prince's  Court,  or  House. 


Oct.  23.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  112).  The  author  of  the 
Rehearsal  will  be  able  to  give  us  particulars  of  Dr.  Gregory  and  his  sense  of 
religion  in  the  last  part  of  his  life.  Are  the  Greek  inscriptions  from  Aphro- 
disias  in  Caria  being  printed  at  the  Theatre  ? 

Oct.  24.  H.  to  Thoresby.  Printed :  Correspondence  of  Ralph  Thoresby, 
ii.  1 20  sqq. 


Oct.  22-28.]  VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  201-209.  143 

Oct.  25  (Mon.).  As  if  Dr.  Lancaster,  our  present  Vice-Chancellor  (for 
he  is  continu'd  another  Year)  had  not  given  sufficient  Evidence  of  his 
being  a  Person  of  a  smooth,  tricking,  trepanning,  &  I  know  not  what, 
principles,  he  last  week  made  Assessor  of  his  Court  Dr.  Irish  of  All-Souls 
Coll.  a  Man  of  a  whiggish  Kidney,  &  ignorant  in  the  Business  of  ye  Court, 
&c.  — Look  for  ye  names  of  ye  BP".  of  Dorchester  in  Mr.  Leland's  ist  vol. 
of  collections,  p.  393.  See  likewise  his  Itinerary  vol.  2.  f.  10.  —  The 
speech  spoken  by  Mr.  Edw.  Hales  upon  ye  setting  up  of  King  James  the 
lid8  Statue  in  y°  Quadrangle  of  University  Coll.  7.  Febr.  1686.  is  in  MS1, 
amongst  Mr.  Ant.  a  Wood's  Collections  in  Museo  Ashmoliano  vol.  103.  10 
f.  58.  The  said  statue  was  set  up  wholly  at  ye  Charge  of  Mr.  Wm.  Rogers 
a  very  honest  Roman  Catholick  of  Gloucestersh.  who  was  once  of  this 
College,  &  has  always  had  a  most  gratefull  Respect  to  that  Society.  The 
Arms  in  Dorchester  Church  were  collected  by  Mr.  Wood  and  are  amongst 
his  Papers  also.  The  said  Mr.  Hales  was  afterwards  kill'd  at  ye  Boyn  in 
Ireland  most  couragiously  fighting  for  his  Master  King  James.  The 
Master,  Dr.  Charlett,  has  ye  Speech  printed,  bound  up  with  Philpot's 
Hist,  of  Kent. —Cone.  Abbingdon  vide  Dodesworth's  Coll.  Vol.  106.  f.  5. 
—  Peter  Randall  A.M.  and  Fellow  of  Oriel  College  was  born  at  Tysoe  near 
Edge-Hill  in  Warwickshire.  His  Father  was  a  noted  Grazier  of  Wealth,  20 
&  he  has  now  an  Elder  Brother  the  Heir  (his  other  brother  of  Magd.  Hall 
being  dead  sometime  since)  &  two  sisters  all  three  unmarried.  His  said 
Elder  Brother  sometime  since,  things  not  thriving  so  well  wtjl  him,  as  he 
desir'd,  &  being  indebted  to  ye  said  Peter  Randall  his  Brother,  in  the  sum 
of  two  hundred  libs.,  for  which  the  two  sisters  were  bound,  attempted  to 
cut  his  own  throat,  purely  out  of  design,  as  'twas  thought,  which  made  his 
Brother  Peter  come  down  to  Tysoe,  or  at  least  to  Radley,  where  he  settled 
Matters,  being  however  at  some  trouble,  (&,  unless  I  am  mistaken,  a  looser, 
upon  account  of  ye  said  debt  of  200  libs.)  &  afterwards  Mr.  Randall 
recover'd  himself  &  lives  now  in  very  good  circumstances  in  the  said  30 
Parish  of  Tysoe.  —  See  Claudius  Boteroveus's  Book  intit.  Recherches 
curieuses  des  Monnoyes  de  France,  which  is  an  Excellent  Tract  &  scarce. 
See  Dr.  Hickes's  Preface  to  his  Thes.  pag.  xli.  —  Sir  Simon  Dewes  writ 
Lexicon  Theutonico-Latino-Anglicum,  in  two  volumes,  MS*.  See  his 
Letter  to  Mr.  Selden  in  Dr.  Hickes's  said  Preface,  p.  xliii. 

Oct.  28  (Th.).  Mr.  William  Whitfield,  late  of  X*.  Church  in  Oxford, 
and  now  Chaplain  in  ordinary  to  ye  Queen  has  publish'd  a  Sermon,  on 
John  18.  36.  intit.  The  Kingdom  of  Jesus  X*,  In  answer  to  some  Points 
treated  of,  in  the  Ris.  of  the  Christian  Church,  preach'd  before  the  said 
BP.  of  Winchester  at  his  primary  Visitation  at  Guilford,  July  5.  1708.  40 
'Tis  a  good  rational  Discourse,  &  in  one  place  he  reflects  in  short  on  one 
of  BP.  Burnett's  Expositions  of  ye  xxxix  Articles.  —  Mr.  Cavendish  Nevill 


Oct.  25.  B.  Roberts  to  H.  (Rawl.  9.  39).  Sends  directions  for  pay- 
ment of  other  petty  debts,  including  4^.  to  'a  Shooemaker  at  Cassington,  his 
name  I  can*  tell,  but  he  is  a  tall  fellow  y*  brings  Shooes  to  Oxford  very  often 
...  I  have  another  creditor  at  Oxford,  therefore  let  no  body  know  my  place 
of  residence  ...  Dr.  Felling's  Lady  dyed  suddenly  last  friday  morning  .  .  She 
was  never  over  kind  to  ye  Dr.'s  curates. 

Oct.  28.  H.  Topping  to  H.  (Rawl.  10.  118).  [In  Latin.]  Remarks 
on  antiquities,  Thwaites,  new  buildings  at  Ch.  Ch.  and  elsewhere,  &c. 


144  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

of  University  College  tells  me  y4  he  saw  lately  in  Yorkshire  an  Excellent 
Copy  of  ye  Statutes  of  New.  Coll.  suppos'd  to  be  writ  in  ye  Founder's 
Life-time,  &  some  think  'tis  ye  best  Copy  remaining.  'Twas  convey'd,  as 
they  say,  from  Oxon  in  the  late  unparallel'd  Rebellion.  —  Mr.  Dugdale,  a 
Gentleman1  Commoner  of  University  College,  of  very  great  hopes,  tells  me 
that  his  Great-Grandfather  Sir  William  Dugdale  drew  up  an  Index  to  Dr. 
Watts's  Edition  of  Matth.  Paris,  which  is  at  ye  End  of  a  Copy  of  it  now 
in  his  Father's  Custody,  &  y*  'tis  much  more  compleat  &  perfect  than  the 
Index  of  Dr.  Watts. 

10  Oct.  29  (Fri.).  Hallywell  in  Oxon  was  formerly  only  a  Chapell  of 
Ease,  as  was  also  Wolvercote,  call'd  in  ye  old  Valor-Beneficiorum  Walgar- 
cote.  S*.  Peter's  in  ye  East  was  y6  Mother-Church  of  both.  Binsey 
(call'd  there  Benesey)  was  likewise  a  Chapell  of  Ease  &  belong'd  to  y® 
Prior  of  S*.  Frideswyde.  —  I  have  just  now  seen  a  Book  in  8V0.  call'd  Acta 
Litteraria  ex  Manuscriptis  eruta  atque  collecta,  cura  Burcardi  Gotthelffii 
Struvij.  Editio  2da.  fence  1706.  He  is  Library  Keeper  in  Academia 
Salana.  The  said  Book  is  a  usefull  Book,  and  the  Author  shews 
himself  to  be  a  man  of  skill,  particularly  in  MSS.  concerning  which 
the  first  part  treats  wholly  being  intit.  De  Criterijs  Manuscriptorum, 

20  wherein  pag.  5.  he  takes  notice  that  Lambecius's  Catalogue  of  ye  Vienna 
MSS*8.  is  preferable  by  far  to  the  Oxon  Cat.  of  MSS*8.  because  Lam- 
becius  has  given  us  a  great  many  things  relating  to  ye  knowledge  of 
MSSts,  whereas  y*  of  Oxon.  (as  well  as  some  others)  only  gives  us  an 
Index  of  ye  MSS*8.  without  telling  the  time  in  which  they  were  writ,  or 
whether  publish'd,  &  indeed  is  without  any  other  notes  to  distinguish  the 
value  of  them.  Mr.  Bagford  should  consult  this  Book,  in  wct  are  divers 
things  cone.  Vellam,  Paper,  Ink,  &c.  He  should  also  consult  Petrus 
Maria  Caneparius  De  Atramentis  cujusque  Generis,  Ven.  1619.  4°.  & 
Lond.  1660.  4to.  — See  Thomas  Bartholinus  de  libris  legendis  Diss.  VII. 

30  p.  246.  In  ye  6th  Century  there  was  an  odd  way  of  writing  words  short. 
So  in  ye  Florentine  MS*,  of  the  Pandect  Dactyliotheca  M earn  for  Dactilio- 
ihecam  meam  :  In  a  MS*,  of  Symmachus  sa  TEMporis  for  sat  te  temporis. 
In  a  MS*,  of  Apulejus  in  lemur ES  re/ormant,  for  in  lemures  se  reformant. 
So  Bartholin.  &  Struvius  p.  27.  — Read  over  Joannes  Lascares's  Epistle 
prefix'd  to  his  Epigrammatarium  Grsecum  publish'd  by  him  in  Capital 
Letters  at  Florence  1484.  4*°.  About  ye  old  way  of  Binding  Books  there 
pag.  42.  §  xl.  — Thursday  last  between  one  &  two  Clock  dy'd  His  Royal 
Highness  George  Prince  of  Denmark  in  the  55*^  year  of  his  Age.  He 
was  buried  about  12  at  Night  (Saturday)  Nov.  13*^  following,  in  a  vault 

40  where  K.  Charles  the  IId  &  K.  William,  &  all  the  Issue  he  has  had  by 
the  Queen,  were  buried,  in  Westminster  Abbey.  — The  Picture  of  Mr. 
Selden  in  ye  Publick  Library  (lately  put  in)  done  by  Sir  Peter  Lilly.  — 
Mr.  Ralph  Freke  of  Hannington  in  Wilts  gave  about  500  Coyns.  After 
which  his  Brother  Mr.  William  Freke  of  ye  same  Place  gave  us  at  ye  same 
time  a  great  number  of  Coyns  together  with  a  most  Curious  Cabinet  in 
wch  not  oniy  his  &  his  Brother's  Coyns  are  now  contain'd  but  likewise 

Oct.  30.    H.  to  Barnes.   (Rawl.   35.  18).     Sends  collations  of  Iliad  2 
and  T. 

1  Dr.  Hudson  is  his  Tutor. 


Sept.  28-Nov.  5.]      VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  209-217.  145 

those  which  were  given  by  Archbp.  Laud,  Mr.  Nourse,  Consul  Ray  &c.  — 
Robert  Langelande  was  ye  Author  of  ye  XX  Satyrs  call'd  Pierce  Plowman. 

Nov.  2  (Tu.).  4to.  D.  3.  Th.  BS.  taken  out  of  ye  Publick  Library  by 
Mr.  Wium.  "Pis  upon  his  Name  in  the  Subscribing  Book,  and  he 
return'd  it  to-day  by  his  Man.  —  Such  Names  of  Places  as  terminate 
w*  Chester,  ceaster,  caster,  &c.  are  Roman,  we  having  no  instance  in 
England  of  any  such  Place  but  what  we  are  sure  was  a  Roman  Garrison. 
See  Burton's  Itinerarie  &  Dr.  Gibson's  Regulae  Generales  De  Nominibus 
Locorum  at  y6  End  of  ye  Saxon  Chronicle.  —  'Tis  commonly  said  that 
the  City  Alchester  that  was  formerly  in  Oxfordshire  was  so  call'd  from  10 
Allectus  quasi  Allectus-Chester.  I  much  doubt  it,  &  am  inclin'd  to  think 
that  tho  'twas  a  Roman  City  of  Note,  yet  that  the  first  syllable  1  Al  is 
Saxon,  compendiose  for  Attle,  Adle,  or  sethel,  i.e.  noble  :  as  being  a  Town 
of  Great  Note.  —  JElfric  in  ye  Saxon  Preface  to  his  Grammar  conjures 
those  y*  should  transcribe  his  Grammar  hereafter  to  be  very  cautious  in 
ye  true  writing  of  it.  'Twas  customary  for  authors  so  to  do  in  y® 
Monkish  times  as  I  have  seen  in  divers  MSS.  some  of  which  have  an 
anathema  added  against  such  as  should  be  negligent. 

Nov.  5  (Fri.).  On  Tuesday  last  were  presented  to  y6  Degree  of  Dr. 
of  Divinity  Mr.  Thomas  Pearson,  Principal  of  S*.  Edm.  Hall,  Mr.  Yates  20 
of  Queen's  (who  accumulated)  &  Mr.  Smith  of  Queen's.  At  ye  same  time 
Mr.  Hutchinson  of  that  College  was  made  Bach,  of  Divinity,  which  had 
been  before  granted  by  virtue  of  ye  Chancellor's  Letter  in  consideration 
of  his  Repeating  the  last  Easter  Sermons.  — 

Under  Sir  Thomas  Bodley's  Statue  in  the  Publick  Library  : 

THOMAS  SACKVILLVS  DORSET.  COMES,  |  SVMMVS 
ANGLLE  THESAVRAR.  ET  |  HUJUS  ACAD.  CANCELLAR.  | 

THOM^E  BODLEIO  EQUITI  AURATO  |  QUI  BIBLIOTHE- 
CAM  HANG  INSTITUIT  |  HONORIS  CAUSA  P.P. 

The  Head  of  K.  Charles  i*t.  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  Given  by  ArchbP.  Laud,  30 
wth  several  MSSte.  July  9*^.  1636.  cone,  which  Head  he  writes  thus  to  ye 
University  in  a  Letter :   (vide  Hist.  &  Antiq.  Univ.  Oxon.      T.  i.  p. 
342.) 

Mitto  etiam  effigiem  Sereniss.  Regis  Caroli,  ne  fama  ejus  acre  perennior  suo 
sere  destitueretur.  Nullibi  autem  melius  locari  potest  Rex  Musarum  Patronus, 
quam  apud  vos  &  inter  Musas.  Volo  autem  ut  in  Claustris  illis  ubi  libri  mei 
MSS.  siti  sunt  collocetur  caput  hoc  nunquam  satis  venerandum,  ut  in  memoriam 
vestram  revocet,  cujus  dignatione  (sub  Deo)  factum  est,  ut  ilia,  qualia  qualia 
sunt,  quae  in  vestram  gratiam  facta  sunt  praestare  possem.  Et  ut  veluti 
inspector  ibi  stet,  nequis  libros  quasi  sub  intuitu  Regis  positos,  ullo  modo  40 
violare  ausit. 

On  Tuesday  last  the  Ld.  Viscount  Hatton,  of  X*.  Church,  a  most 

Nov.  2.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.11 3).  Intends  to  send  Preface 
and  Indices  on  Monday.  Advises  H.  to  collect  accounts  of  learned  men,  their 
birth,  studies,  &c.  Dr.  Gregory  and  his  proposed  monument.  '  I  hope,  that 
Sir  Isaac  Newton  will  take  care  of  his  young  Godson,  Isaac  Gregory,  &  breed 
him  up  a  mathematician ;  tho'  the  Dr.  left  an  estate,  &  has  made,  I  beleive,  a 
pretty  good  provision  for  his  children.' 

1  Alchester  is  rather  Ealdchester. 
VOL.  II.  L 


146  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

Virtuous,  Studious  &  modest  young  Gentleman,  was  created  Master  of 
Arts,  and  was  presented  to  ye  Vice-Chancellor  by  Mr.  Wyatt  ye  Orator, 
who  spoke  in  his  Commendation. 

Nov.  8  (Mon.).  This  Day,  as  usual,  was  ye  Visitation  of  ye  Bodlejan 
Library,  when  both  Mr.  Terry  and  Mr.  Thwaites  observ'd  to  be  wanting 
amongst  the  MSSts.  Sr.  Hen.  Spelman  of  Testaments  num.  *  *  * 
(Quaere  ?)  The  Speech  was  spoke  by  Mr.  Wm.  Periam,  A.M.  and  Student 
of  X*.  Cn.  an  ingenious,  Modest,  candid  Gent.  &  a  good  Scholar.  — 

Upon  Sr.  Cloudesly  Shovel's  Monument  at  Westminster,  occasion'd  by 
10  the  Prayer  made  by  the  ArchbP.  of  Cant.  &  his  being  cast  away  upon 
ye  Rocks  call'd  the  BP.  and  his  Clerks : 

As  Lambeth  pray'd.  so  was  ye  dire  Event,  Nor  did  kind  Heaven  a  wise  Petition 
(Else  we  had  wanted  here,  one  Monument.)  mock. 

That  to  our  Ships  kind  Heaven  would  be  To  what  the  Metropolitan  did  pen 

a  Rock,  The  Bp.  and  his  Clerks  did  cry  Amen. 

Consult  George  Stiernhielmus's  Gothick  Glossary,  for  ye  Gothick 
Language.  —  The  Saxons  seem  sometimes  to  have  pronounc'd  Twe  as 
we  do  ge.  For  they  call'd  Twede,  Gewcede. 

To  MR.  FRANCIS  BROKESBY. 

20  REVEREND  SIR, — Three  or  four  Days  since  I  recd.  your  Letter  by  Mr.  Hayes, 
in  which  you  have  given  an  ample  Specimen  of  your  great  Skill  in  the  Choro- 
graphical  Parts  of  Mr.  Camderfs  Britannia.  By  yr  leave,  I  will  take  effectual 
care  that  it  shall  be  communicated  to  Dr.  Gibson,  who,  I  doubt  not,  will  be 
very  cautious  that  none  of  the  Mistakes  you  have  observ'd,  pass  uncorrected 
in  his  designed  New  Edition.  I  agree  with  you  that  'twill  be  very  proper  for 
him  to  procure  an  exact  Account  of  the  Recovery  of  the  Ground  which  you 
mention  in  the  River  Humbre.  Several  Years  since  I  collected  divers  His- 
torical Relations  of  Places  that  have  been  gain'd  from  Water,  which  I  did 
only  by  way  of  Exercise,  and  the  better  to  imprint  them  in  my  Memory. 

30  I  remember  that  amongst  the  rest  I  observ'd  that  Sundry  Royal  Commissions 
had  been  formerly  issu'd  not  only  for  repairing  the  Banks  and  Sewers  upon 
the  Humbre,  but  also  for  regaining  such  Lands  as  had  been  lost  by  continual 
overflowing ;  of  all  which  Sr  William  Dugdale  has  publish'd  an  exact  Account 
in  his  History  of  Imbanking  and  Drayning  :  and  there  is  no  question  but  had 
ye  Accidents  you  mention  happen'd  before  ye  Publication  of  that  Work  he 
would  have  added  these  to  the  other  Instances  he  has  there  given. 

I  am  intirely  of  Sr.  William  Dugdale's  opinion  that  the  Flints  he  tells  us  to 
be  found  at  Oldbury  are  British  Axes.  There  have  been  of  them  found 
at  other  places,  &  the  other  Instruments  of  Flint,  as  their  Arrow  and  Spear 

40  Heads,  sufficiently  show  that  they  made  use  of  Flint,  the  way  of  working  in 
Iron  being  quite  unknown  to  them.  It  must  indeed  be  granted  that  the 
Romans  us'd  such  Flints  too  for  Weapons,  and  'twas  from  them  that  ye 
Britains  learn'd  the  Art  of  working  them:  yet  for  all  that  I  am  inclin'd 
to  think  that  most  if  not  all  these  found  in  this  Isle  are  British,  the  Romans 
having  quantity  of  Iron  &  being  well  skill'd  in  working  of  it:  whereas  the 
Britains  were  altogether  Ignorant  in  this  Art,  &  if  they  had  been  skill'd  they 
had  such  an  inconsiderable  Quantity  of  Iron  that  they  turn'd  it  into  money  as 
the  most  scarce  &  pretious  Commodity  they  had.  I  have  seen  of  their  Arrow 


Nov.  6.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  114).  Sends  in  unpaid  parcel 
by  the  carrier  an  authentic  MS.  of  Cyril  Lucar,  and  his  own  Preface,  Indices  and 
Emendanda.  Please  examine  ref.  to  Hudson  and  yourself  in  the  Preface. 
Suggestions  for  printing. 


Nov.  5-22.]  VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  217-225.  147 

Heads  my  self,  we  having  several  of  them  in  our  Repositories.  They  are 
frequently  found  in  the  North  Parts  of  England,  but  more  commonly  in  Scot- 
land, especially  near  Aberdeene,  where  they  are  call'd  Elf-Arrows,  &  they 
think  that  they  drop  from  the  Clouds.  We  have  an  Iron  Ax  (which  was 
certainly  Roman)  made  exactly  in  ye  form  of  these  Flint  ones,  &  'twas 
fastened  to  an  Helve  in  ye  same  manner  as  the  Indians  use  at  this  day,  who 
have  likewise  Elint-Axes,  several  of  which  are  lodg'd  in  Mr.  Ashmole's 
Museum.  But  now  tho'  I  agree  with  Sr.  William  Dugdale,  that  these  Instru- 
ments found  at  Oldbury  are  British,  yet  you  have  given  me  sufficient  proof 
that  here  are  Flints  near  this  place,  &  that  therefore  he  (as  well  as  his  I0 
Transcriber  in  ye  Additions  to  Camden)  must  be  mistaken  in  asserting  that 
there  is  no  Flint  in  this  part  of  the  Country,  nor  within  more  than  XL.  miles  from 
hence.  I  have  transcribed  his  very  words,  because  you  seem'd  to  doubt  whether 
the  Author  of  the  Additions  had  cited  him  fairly.  Now  these  Axes  found  so 
near  in  some  measure  prove  that  'twas  a  place  of  great  Antiquity ;  but  this 
appears  most  of  all  from  the  Rampires  still  remaining,  &  from  the  Name  Old- 
burie,  Aldbury  or  Ealdburie,  which  I  take  to  be  ye  same  in  signification  with 
Alchester  in  Oxfordshire.  I  know  indeed  y*  the  Anonymous  Author  of  the 
History  of  Allchester,  at  ye  End  of  Dr.  Kennett's  Parochial  Antiquities, 
deduces  the  Name  from  Allectus,  whom  he  makes  the  Founder  of  it ;  but  not  20 
to  observe  that  his  whole  History  is  built  upon  Conjecture,  that  'tis  very 
injudiciously  compil'd  &  that  there  is  no  Foundation  in  any  antient  writer  y* 
Allectus  built  the  place,  'tis  certainly  more  agreeable  to  the  Rules  of  Etymo- 
logy to  make  it  ye  same  in  signification  with  Aldechester,  Aldceaster, 
or  Ealdceaster,  of  which  opinion  was  also  Mr.  Camden.  If  we  admitt  of  this 
the  Antiquity  of  ye  Place  may  be  carried  higher  than  Carausius ;  but  I  shall 
not  insist  upon  that,  as  being  of  little  or  no  moment  in  ye  present  case. 

What  you  write  concerning  one  Francis'  Harris,  aged  180  years,  some  odd 
iweeks  8f  daies,  is  very  remarkable  &  ought  to  be  enquir'd  into.  I  wish  all 
Instances  of  this  Nature  in  Britain  were  collected  and  rang'd  together,  &  as  30 
distinct  Relations,  as  possible,  publish'd  of  the  several  occupations  of  ye 
Persons,  their  Constitution  of  Body,  the  particular  methods  they  observ'd  as 
to  Eating  &  Drinking,  Exercise,  &c.  This  has  been  done  as  to  Thomas  Parr 
by  Mr.  Taylor  the  Water-Poet,  &  others.  And  we  have  also  Accounts  of 
others  that  were  very  aged,  in  ye  Philosophical  Transactions,  Dr.  Plot's 
natural  Historic  of  Oxon  &  Staffordshires,  &  several  other  Books,  amongst 
which  must  not  be  forgotten  the  Ld  Bacon's  History  of  Life  &  Death,  which 
is  only  a  specimen  of  a  compleat  work.  And  now  you  have  given  me  occasion 
to  speak  of  longliv'd  persons,  I  cannot  but  mention  to  you  w*  perhaps  you 
may  not  have  observ'd  cone,  two  very  late  Instances  of  this  kind.  The  first  40 
is  inserted  in  ye  Mercure  Galant  for  January  1708,  where  we  are  told  of  two 
Letters,  one  written  to  ye  French  King  &  the  other  to  a  Great  Lady  of  ye 
Court,  both  by  ye  Marquiss  of  Aucaze,  a  Gentleman  of  Auvergne,  born  about 
ye  year  1598.  These  Letters  were  writt  by  his  own  Hand,  wtbout  ye  Help  of 
Spectacles.  His  Father  liv'd  to  ye  Age  of  98,  &  his  Mother  to  92 ;  so  that 
all  three  make  about  300  years.  The  second  Instance,  which  is  more  strange, 
is  of  one  Timothy  Blanche,  a  Merchant  in  ye  South  west  Parts  of  France,  who 
tho'  aged  one  Hundred  and  seventeen  years  &  three  months,  had  married 
a  Girl  of  eighteen,  &  that  his  said  young  spouse  was  suppos'd  to  be  wth  child 
by  him  at  ye  writing  of  ye  Letter  in  which  we  have  this  Account,  a  Fragment  50 
of  which  is  publish'd  in  one  of  ye  Monthly  Miscellanies. 

It  seems  to  me  certain  y*  the  Banks  you  took  notice  of  in  Yorkshire  for 
several  miles  together,  are  Reliques  of  some  of  ye  Roman  ways ;  but  whether 
they  are  part  of  ye  Greater  ways,  or  only  Branches  of  them,  is  very  doubtfull, 
all  Authors  who  have  written  of  ye  Tracts  of  those  principal  ways  giving  us 
different  Accounts  of  them,  &  being  inclin'd  to  various  Opinions  according  to 
ye  observations  they  have  either  made  themselves  or  recd.  from  others. 
W"k>ut  doubt  Dr.  Gibson  may  procure  a  sight  of  Dr.  Johnston's  large  collec- 

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148  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

tions,  in  which  I  suppose  are  amass'd  together  \\7tever  he  met  \vth  relating  to 
ye  antiquities  of  Yorkshire ;  but  'tis  pity  the  Dr.  had  not  had  more  Regard  to 
ye  Benefit  of  Posterity,  &  took  care  to  write  his  Papers  in  such  a  Hand  as 
might  be  read  by  others  besides  himself.  I  am  assur'd  from  one  that  was  his 
acquaintance  that  he  us'd  a  particular  cypher  for  expedition,  &  that  even  when 
he  did  not  use  characters,  his  hand  at  best  was  very  indistinct. 

Your  observation  that  ye  names  of  divers  places  in  England  are  Appellatives 
is  very  just  and  true,  and  I  could  add  a  great  number  of  Instances  to  those  you 
have  brought  if  I  were  not  highly  sensible  that  you  are  particularly  acquainted 

jo  with  this  as  well  as  with  other  curious  Parts  of  Learning.  I  shall  however 
offer  a  few,  not  y*  I  think  I  can  give  you  any  Information,  but  purely  that  I 
may  be  directed  if  I  happen  to  committ  any  mistake  not  only  from  your  self, 
but  those  other  two  excellent  Judges,  whose  conversation  you  have  the  Happi- 
ness now  to  enjoy,  Mr.  Cherry  and  M1'.  Dodwell.  Wargrave,  (near  Henly 
upon  Thames)  call'd  in  ye  old  Valor  Beneficiorum  made  in  ye  time  of  Edw.  Ist. 
fPengrave,  (by  an  error  of  the  Transcriber)  I  take  to  be  ye  same  with  Wer  i.e. 
War  or  Man,  and  Graf  a.  grave  or  place  of  Burial.  Nor  is  it  at  all  unlikely  that 
hereabouts  might  have  been  a  considerable  Battle  in  ye  Saxon  times  when  we 
know  several  Actions  happen'd  in  ye  Adjacent  parts  ;  and  perhaps  a  great 

20  number  might  afterwards  be  buried  in  this  place.  Wmfield  near  Windsor,  so 
call'd  perhaps  from  a  Battle  formerly  fought  here,  Win  signifying  in  Saxon 
Battle,  &  always  when  prefix'd  to  any  Towns  name  is  to  be  so  interpreted. 
Nor  should  I  have  any  reason  to  doubt  of  this  Derivation  did  I  not  find  in  ye  old 
Valor  Beneficiorum  that  'tis  writt  Wynekesfeld ;  by  which  it  should  seem  that 
either  some  general  call'd  Wyneke  obtain'd  a  victory  here,  or  else  that  he  was 
ye  Chief  Gentleman  that  had  any  Title  to  ye  Lands  of  this  Place.  'Tis  also 
call'd  Winekfeld  in  ye  old  Register  of  Abbingdon,  in  ye  Fragments  publish'd 
from  it  in  ye  Monasticon  Anglicanum,  the  Monks  of  which  place  had  of  ancient 
time  a  Right  to  a  great  Share  of  ye  Wood  in  this  Parish,  &  'twas  confirm'd  to 

30  ym  by  ye  Conqueror.  Walt  ham,  in  Saxon  Wealt-ham,  i.e.  a  woody  village, 
Seat,  or  Habitation.  There  are  several  of  these  in  England,  &  most  of  them 
are  distinguish'd  by  some  word  added  to  them,  while  Waltham  near  to  ye  Place 
where  you  now  are  is  call'd  in  the  old  Valor  Beneficiorum  and  other  antient 
evidences  Abbot's  Waltham.  I  believe  White  is  a  late  Addition,  upon 
Account  that  some  considerable  man  perhaps  of  y*  name  was  either  a  Bene- 
factor to  ye  Church,  or  was  eminent  here  upon  some  other  Account.  Wooley 
in  the  said  parish  of  White  or  rather  Abbot's  Waltham,  I  think  is  the  same 
with  Wulfes-lea?,  (we  turning  the  Saxon  lea^  into  ley)  i.e.  a  place  of  wolves. 
'Tis  not  at  all  unlikely  that  this  place  was  antiently  much  infested  with  them, 

'40  especially  if  we  consider  that  the  woods  were  here  as  well  as  in  all  these  Chil- 
tern  Parts  far  thicker  than  they  are  at  present  &  were  a  Refuge  for  Robbers 
(as  well  as  for  wild  Beasts)  which  was  the  reason  that  the  Manner  of  Flamstede 
was  given  by  Leofstan  Abbot  of  S1.  Albans  to  a  certain  valiant  souldier  call'd 
Thurnoth  with  this  condition  that  he  should  in  lieu  of  it  take  effectual 
Methods  to  have  most  of  ye  woods  cut  down,  &  the  Robbers  dispers'd  which 
accordingly  he  carefully  perform'd.  This  is  related  in  the  Appendix  of  Dr. 
Watts's  accurate  edition  of  Matthew  Paris ;  but  I  do  not  remember  to  have 
found  it  in  any  other  publish'd  Author.  Shottesbrooke,  or  as  others  write  it 
Shattesbroocke,  where  you  now  reside,  may  possibly  come  from  Sceat  a  corner , 

50  &  Broca  or  Brooke,  as  being  in  ye  corner  of  a  Brook ;  or  else  it  may  be  so 
call'd  from  the  Churche's  spire  steeple  (just  as  Shattsbury  was  according  to 
Mr.  Camden)  the  Saxons  calling  such  figures  Shafts. 

Motstone  in  ye  Isle  of  Wight  so  call'd  from  a  certain  great  stone  not  far 
from  the  Place,  which  is  suppos'd  to  have  been  a  Monument  erected  for  some 
Noble  Man  there  buried  by  the  Romans.  This  conjecture  is  the  more 
probable  because  about  sixty  yards  from  the  stone  are  some  Reliques  of  an  old 
Castle.  Now  ye  stone  being  call'd  Mortis-stone  upon  Ace*  of  the  Great 
Person  there  buried,  the  same  name  was  given  to  ye  adjoyning  Town  ;  and  'tis 


Nov.  22.]  VOLUME  XVII,  PAGES  225-241.  149 

call'dbythat  Name  in  old  Leases,  if  we  may  credit  some  MS*.  Notes  of  an  Anony- 
mous Author  now  in  my  Hands.  This  name  Mortis-stone  partly  by  corruption 
of  speech,  &  partly  by  contraction,  was  at  length  turn'd  into  Motstone,  &  'tis 
now  so  pronounc'd.  Bath  in  Somersetshire,  so  call'd  (as  all  know)  from  the 
use  of  the  waters.  In  ye  Saxon  chronicle  \ve  meet  wth  it  thus  written,  Ba$, 
Ba'Se,  Ba¥an  and  Ba^an-cester  (whence  Eadecestre  in  Henry  Huntingdon,  the 
Saxon  ¥>  being,  by  an  easy  change,  turn'd  into  d.)  wch  answers  to  ye  Present 
name.  In  ye  same  Book  'tis  call'd  Acemannes-ceastre  (or  as  another  copy  has 
it  Acemannes-be'ri  i.e.  a  City  for  Reception  of  diseas'd  &  sick  persons. 

And  now  I  have  instanc'd  in  Bath,  I  shall  mention  a  Place  about  a  mile  10 
northwest  of  it,  (which  shall  be  the  last  Instance  I  will  now  trouble  you  with) 
call'd  Walcot,  Wai  in  Saxon  signifies  a  diseas'd  or  sick  person,  &  cot,  cote  or 
coat  an  House  or  Habitation.  So  that  I  believe  that,  notwthstanding  it  be 
now  discontinu'd,  this  Place  was  formerly  made  use  of  for  Reception  of  those 
that  were  most  distemper'd,  &  that  all  Accommodations  for  yl  End  were  here 
provided  for  them,  on  purpose  to  prevent  Infection  at  ye  Bath,  if  they  should 
be  allow'd  the  Privilege  of  living  there.  Perhaps  upon  Increase  of  the  City  of 
Bath  the  custom  might  cease.  And  as  it  was  imploy'd  to  this  use  in  ye  Saxon 
times,  so  I  believe  it  was  so  long  before.  Ftom  the  Inscriptions  found  here 
&  publish'd  by  Mr.  Camden,  &  from  others  found  since  his  time,  it  seems  to  20 
have  been  of  note  in  ye  time  of  the  Romans.  Some  make  the  Fosse  way  to 
have  pass'd  thro'  it  ;  but  of  that  we  are  uncertain.  A  little  while  since  was  a 
Roman  Monument  found  here,  on  woh  is  an  Inscription,  which  being  com- 
municated to  me  by  Mr.  Halley,  our  Savilian  Professor  of  Astronomy,  I  shall 
transcribe  it,  on  purpose  that  I  may  have  not  only  your  own  but  Mr.  Cherry's 
&  Mr.  DodwelPs  opinion  of  it.  [See  Life  of  ^E  If  red  the  Great,  pp.  226 


Thus  Sr  have  I  writ  down  some  of  my  observations,  occasion'd  by  your  late 
excellent  Letter.  I  am  very  conscious  of  my  own  Inabilities,  &  cannot  think 
that  anything  I  can  offer  is  worthy  your  consideration  ;  yet  I  am  at  ye  same  30 
time  assur'd  that  what  I  do  will  be  candidly  receiv'd  by  you,  &  be  interpreted 
as  a  token  of  Gratitude  &  Respect.  Be  pleas'd  to  give  my  service  to  Mr.  C. 
&  Mr.  D.  &  to  accept  the  same  yourself,  from  Sr. 

Your  most  oblig'd  humble  serv*. 

TH.  H. 
Oxon.  Nov.  22.  1708. 

Out  of  Mr.  Somner's  Dictionary.  ...  —  Thirteen  Livy's  small  Paper  for 
Mr.  Ibbetson.  Thirteen  small  stand  by  the  Ladder  to  be  dispos'd  of  to 
such  as  want  them.  Fourteen  small  Paper  in  Crabb's  Study.  Ten 
large  in  ye  same  study.  If  Mr.  Yalden  sends  he  is  to  have  i  large,  &  2  40 
small,  and  one  Septuagint  8V°.  Ed.  in  ye  Drs.  Chamber.  —  If  any  Bills 
come  in  ye  D".  Letters  payable  in  London  send  them  to  Mr.  Fisher 
in  New  Street  near  St.  Martin's  Lane.  Ab*  4  days  after  he  is  gon  to 
be  writ  to  at  Mr.  Newcomen's  at  Theddlethorpe  to  be  left  w«  M«. 
Browne  in  Lowthe  Lincolnshire.  If  any  letters  come  signifying  that 
Passioneo  will  be  in  Oxon  in  less  than  a  fortnight  after  the  Dra.  Leaving 
it  an  express  Messenger  to  be  sent  to  him.  —  The  Life  of  King  Alfred 
in  English,  if  done  at  ye  Theatre  according  to  y6  specimen  I  have  had 
set,  will  come  to  in  all  i  lib3.  8s.  per  sheet  besides  correcting,  if  750  be 
printed.  —  Thiloe't's  Dictionarie,  improved  by  John  Higgins  some  time  50 
Student  of  Oxon,  &  printed  at  London  1572.  Ant.  a  Wood  mentions 
Mr.  John  Higgins  by  ye  by  in  two  or  three  places  as  an  eminent  Poe't, 
but  has  not  his  Life,  nor  does  he  so  much  as  mention  this  Book.  —  Old 
Thomas  Parr  eighty  years  old  before  he  married.  She  died  after  she  had 


150  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708  : 

liv'd  with  him  32  years.  He  afterwards  continu'd  widower  ten  years,  and 
then  married,  out  of  Affection  to  his  first  wife  call'd  by  ye  same  Name, 
one  Jane,  widow.  In  his  first  wive's  time  at  ye  age  of  105  he  committed 
Adultery,  &  did  Penance  for  it.  He  was  of  a  thick,  Robust  constitution, 
&  very  chearfull.  His  usual  drink  was  Ale,  which  he  drank  freely,  but 
always  in  season,  &  sometimes  a  Glass  of  Sherry.  Sr.  John  Hawkins  the 
first  that  brought  tobacco  into  England,  in  ye  year  1565  ;  but  it  was  first 
brought  into  use  several  years  after.  —  [Notes  for  Smith's  ed.  of 
Ignatius.  .  .  .]  —  269.  and  |  small,  49.  4  Sheets  large  Paper,  us'd  in  a 

10  sheet  of  S*.  Ignatius.  For  working  a  sheet  at  Press  55.  145.  per  sheet 
composing.  —  On  the  first  of  June  next  will  be  publish'd  an  Edition  of 
Livy  in  six  Volumes  8VO  printed  at  y6  Theatre  in  Oxon  with  great 
Accuracy  &  considerable  Improvements,  from  MSS,  antient  Coyns  & 
Inscriptions,  &c.  The  price  to  Subscribers  (who  come  in  before  y6  first 
of  June)  being  1 5s.  y6  small  Paper  and  twenty  five  the  large.  Proposals 
are  likewise  given  out  for  Printing  Freinshemius's  Supplement  to  Livy  in 
4  Volumes  8VO  on  ye  same  Paper  w*h  this  Edition  of  Livy,  and  the  same 
Letter  with  the  Edition  of  ya  Ld.  Clarendon's  History  in  8T0.  'Tis 
offer'd  to  subscribers  for  i28.  6d.  in  small  Paper  wth  ye  Advantage  of  a 

20  seventh  Book,  &  for  1 7s.  in  large.  Such  Persons  as  desire  to  have  these 
Supplements  are  to  pay  their  subscription  Money  (viz.  5s.  for  the  large 
Paper,  &  2s.  6d.  for  ye  small)  before  the  i4th  of  July  next  to  Mr.  H.  at 
the  Publick  Library  or  John  Clarke  at  y6  Printing  House  near  y6 
Theatre.  —  ...  Aqua  fortis  mix'd  with  water  &  rubb'd  with  quickness 
wth  a  Brush  upon  the  Coyns,  a  good  way  of  cleansing.  .  . 

Nov.  11.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  37).  Both  Dr.  Hudson  and 
himself  are  quite  satisfied  with  Dr.  Smith's  Preface.  Will  soon  begin  to  ex- 
amine the  emendanda.  Desires  that  S.  would  consider  of  a  new  title-page, 
'that  which  you  left  with  me  seeming  not  agreeable  at  all  to  the  method  we 
have  observ'd  in  Printing.  I  have  written  in  my  Paper  the  following  one, 
which  you  may  model  as  you  think  fit,  but  let  it  be  as  short  as  you  can.' 
Thinks  it  would  be  better  that  Dr.  Gregory  should  have  no  honorary  monu- 
ment at  St.  Mary's.  Bagford  to  H.  (Rawl.  2 1.  5).  Will  send  one  volume 
of  the  Catalogue.  Parcel  received. 

Nov.  12.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  38).  Sends  emendanda  re- 
arranged, with  query.  Suggests  change  of  the  word  molior  in  the  Preface. 

Nov.  13.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  34).  Returns  Hudson's  transcript  of 
Festus  Avienus,  and  his  German  ed.  of  Dionysius  by  Ursinus,  with  remarks. 
What  prospect  is  there  of  a  bookseller  for  Barnabas,  and  on  what  proposals  for 
copy-money  and  copies?  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Rawl.  38.  64).  Returns 
H.  his  Emendanda,  with  additions  and  remarks,  and  sends  amended  title-page. 
Thanks  Hudson  and  H.  for  their  expeditious  care.  Brokesby  to  H.  (Rawl. 
3.  116).  Glad  that  H.  approves  of  his  proposals  for  promoting  the  Gospel  in 
our  American  Plantations.  Points  out  numerous  errors,  especially  in  the 
Maps,  in  Gibson's  ed.  of  the  Britannia,  particularly  in  Staffs,  Leicestershire, 
and  the  East  Riding  of  Yorkshire  (where  B.  had  his  station  for  above  20 
years).  Remarks  on  Sunk,  an  island  in  Humber,  which  was  observed  as  a 
novelty  about  40  years  ago ;  and  on  the  recovery  of  a  great  parcel  of  ground 
out  of  Humber,  which  was  left  by  the  water,  adjoining  to  the  commons  of 
South  Cave.  Flintstones  at  Oldbury,  Warwickshire.  '  The  flourishing  con- 
dition of  Le-verpool  in  Lancashire  is  taken  notice  of  in  the  Additions  to 
Camden,  but  not  so  particularly  as  is  now  requisite,  it  being  vastly  increased 
in  the  erecting  of  new  Streets  &  Buildings  since  that  edition  of  Camden, 


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VOL.  XVIII. 

[Notes  on  Motstone  in  the  Isle  of  Wight  and  Christchurch  in  Hampshire, 
apophthegms  and  anecdotes,  Latin  and  English,  not  in  Hearne's  handwriting. 
1-35-] 

Bathe,  antiently  call'd  by  ye  Saxons  Ace-mannesceaster,  as  being  a  City 
to  receive  diseas'd  &  sick  Persons. — Athelney  in  Somersetshire,  or 
./Edelinga  igje,  i.e.  an  Isle  of  Nobles. — The  Saxons  also  called  Bath, 
agreeably  to  the  modern  name,  Batfan-cester,  Badhon,  Bad,  and  Bade. 
Huntingdon  calls  it  Badecestre,  the  Saxon  tS,  as  frequently,  being  turn'd 
into  d. — Bampton  in  Oxfordshire,  &  other  places  of  this  name,  call'd  so, 
quasi  collis  stipitibus  seu  trabibus  refertus.  See  Gibson  at  the  end  of  Saxon  10 
Chron.  Creeklade  does  not  come  from  the  settlement  of  Greeks 
here  formerly  to  teach  y6  Greek  Tongue,  but  from  Crecca  that  signifies 
a  River,  or  Brook  that  falls  into  a  Greater  River,  &  ladian  to  exonerate. 
For  at  this  Place  y6  waters  fall  into  the  River  Thames.  —  Fabricenses 
stride  dicuntur  illi,  qui  faciunt  arma  publica,  &  in  publicis  fabricis,  &  non 
alias,  &  dantes  primicerio,  qui  reponat  in  publicis  armamentis,  large  tamen 
sumitur  pro  omni  ferri  percussore,  quandoque  pro  tignario.  Divers 
colleges  of  Fabricenses  in  ye  Eastern  and  Western  Parts  of  y6  Roman 
Empire,  &  I  believe  there  was  one  particularly  assign'd  to  Britain.  They 
were  under  a  Governour  or  chief  Master,  who  was  call'd  Primicerius  20 
Fabricae,  &  sometimes  magister  officiorum.  They  were  distinct  from  the  Bar- 
baricarij (sometimes  writt  faultily Barbarici  &  £ra&artcanj,)\vhose  Business 
was  only  to  adorn  or  Beautifie  the  Instruments  made  by  the  Fabricenses. 
And  'twas  by  one  of  these  Barbaricarij  that  the  Antient  Shield  of  Dr.  Wood- 
ward &  others  of  that  kind  was  beautified  with  Animals,  &c.  They  were 


besides  other  things  which  are  observable.  It  formerly  had  only  One  Church, 
that  of  S.  Nicolas,  &  that  only  a  Chappel  to  Walton.  But  since  the  Town  is 
become  so  vastly  populous,  they  are  by  Act  of  Parliament  made  a  distinct 
Parish,  and  have  built  another  fair  Church,  dedicated  to  S.  Peter,  being  con- 
secrated June  29  Anno  Dni  170 — ,  being  but  one  Parish,  tho  having  Two 
Churches,  &  Two  Joint- Rectors,  on  whom  a  Competent  Maintenance  is 
settled  by  the  forementioned  Act  of  Parliament,  in  the  Method  by  which  the 
London-Clergy  are  provided.  Besides,  their  Trade  to  Barbuda's  the  Caribee 
Islands,  Virginia,  Maryland  &c.  has  bin  so  considerable,  that  as  their  Customs 
have  before  bin  the  greatest  in  England,  next  to  London  &  Bristol,  so  in  some 
Years  of  late  they  have  equalled,  &  possibly  a  little  exceeded,  those  of  Bristol' 
Mentions  a  picture  of  one  Francis  Harris  (at  Red  Hill  near  Nottingham),  aged 
180  years;  and  several  Banks  (like  Avesditch  Bank  in  Oxon)  in  various  parts  of 
Yorkshire.  Suggests  that  many  names  of  rivers  and  towns  are  appellatives. 

Nov.  16.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  115).  Remarks  on  title-page 
&c.  of  his  book. 

Nov.  18.  Bagford  to  H.  (Rawl.  21.  4).  The  price  of  the  collection  is 
700  guineas.  Sends  one  volume  of  the  Catalogue  (in  12  vols.).  containing  the 
letter  A. 

Nov.  21.  H.  to  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  20).  Sends  Iliad  Y.  Dr.  Hudson 
will  be  an  agent  for  B.  for  getting  subscriptions.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith 
(Rawl.  38.  39).  All  but  latter  part  of  Preface  now  finished.  The  Press  is 
very  busy  printing  verses  upon  the  Prince.  Hears  no  more  clamours  against 
Smith's  book. 


152  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS,  [1708: 

also  under  the  Magister  officiorum.  The  Imperij  Notitia  to  be  consulted, 
quae  Fabricas  Armorum  sigillatim  enumerat,  turn  in  oriente  turn  in 
occidente.  The  primicerius  Fabricae  sometimes  call'd  Tribunus  Fabrica, 
prtzpositus  Fabrica,  &  Subadjuva  FabriccB.  The  Notitia  Imperij  mentions 
VIII  fabricae  to  have  been  in  France,  &  it  mentions  others  for  other  places, 
but  none  for  Britain.  The  Fabricenses  were  oblig'd  to  make  y6  Publick 
Arms,  &  they  had  a  publick  salary  for  it.  They  were  to  take  care  that 
all  the  Arms  they  made  were  imploy'd  to  ye  Publick  service  of  the  Empire 
&  that  they  were  lodg'd  in  publick  Armories,  &  they  were  not  to  work 

10  for  any  but  the  Officers  under  whom  they  were.  —  Caresbrook-Castle  in 
ye  Isle  of  Wight  is  call'd  in  y®  Saxon  Chronicle  Wihtgarabyrig,  i.e. 
Wihtgar's  Castle.  The  Isle  of  Wight  was  given  by  Cerdick  &  Cynric  to 
this  Wihtgar  &  Stuffus  in  ye  year  534.  —  Salisbury  call'd  in  the  Saxon 
Annals  Searbyrig.  Searobyrig.  Searebiri.  Saeresberi.  antiently  call'd 
Sorbiodunum.  —  Eynsham  call'd  Egones-ham  ibid.  an.  DLXXI.  in 
which  year  'twas  taken  w*k  other  Towns  by  Cuthwulf.  —  Towns 
antiently  fortified  with  Hedges. — So  ibid.  an.  DLVII.  &  he  (i.e.  Ida) 
timbrode  Behbanburh.  seo  was  aerost  mid  hegge  betyned.  &  par  sefter 
mid  wealle.  —  Ciceter  in  Gloucestershire,  call'd  in  Sax.  Chron.  Cyren- 

20  ceaster  &  Cyrnceaster,  from  cyran,  i.e.  vertere,  fledere  ;  the  Roman  Great 
or  Consular  ways  here  cutting  one  another  athwart  ('). 

Begun.  Angl.  Sax.  ongon.  To  lead,  laedan  Sax.  Had  sett,  or  con- 
stituted, geseite  Sax.  fought,  gefeaht.  Here  (or  this  year)  Her.  Forces 
faerde.  fulfilled,  gefyld.  should,  sculan,  scoldan.  Escaped  or  burst  out, 
atbaerst.  Thence,  J>anon.  gone,  agan.  lived,  leovode.  herd  or  flock, 
hyrde.  Belief  geleafan.  Whole,  or  sound,  halan.  got,  ^eyde. 

Nov.  22  (Mon.).  Paeanius  liv'd  in  the  time  of  Diocletian.  See 
Selden  de  Synedrijs  vet.  Hebr.  lib.  i.  c.  14.  pag.  578. 

Nov.  23  (Tu.).     Dr.  Crosthwait's  verses  upon  the  Birth  of  ye  Prince 

30  of  Wales,  printed  in  ye  Oxford  Collection  upon  that  occasion. 
Salve  blande  puer  .  .  .  Lux,  Calor,  atque  vigor. 


Nov.  23.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  35).  Death  of  Mr.  Holden  of  a 
violent  fever  in  his  head,  which  never  suffered  him  to  enjoy  any  considerable 
relief  by  sleep  till  it  made  an  end  of  him.  '  Mr.  Rehearser  came  from  the 
Bath  (where  he  had  been  upon  a  cure  of  the  Gout  gotten  into  his  Stomach) 
some  while  before  he  intended,  in  complaisance  to  Dr.  Gregory.  When  he 
came  to  Maidenhead,  he  wrote  a  letter  to  Mr.  Cherry,  signifying  his  arrival 
there,  and  his  design  of  giving  us  a  visit,  when  he  might  be  at  liberty  from  his 
necessary  Office  for  the  Dr.'s  wife,  the  Dr.  himself  being  then  past  hopes. 
The  next  day  I  saw  him  at  the  Grey-hound  Inn.  But  the  Dr.  was  then  dead, 
and  they  were  providing  for  his  Funeral  in  the  Chappel,  where  he  was  buryed 
in  the  Chappel  by  Mr.  Blith  that  night,  but  after  my  return  home.  Mr.  Cherry 
staid  'till  the  Funeral  was  over,  but  came  home  that  night,  accompanyed  with 
the  excellent  Rehearser.  We  enjoyed  his  delightfull  and  improving  conver- 
sation 'till  he  was  called  away  from  us  by  another  Office  of  Charity.  His 
Rehearsals  are  full  of  excellent  reasoning  as  well  as  wit,  and  very  well  contrived 
for  the  Security  of  our  Constitution  and  good  Principles,  and  the  Church, 
and  the  Personal  Reputation  of  the  Clergy  attacked  by  Slanders  of  the  wicked 
Party.  I  praise  God,  your  information  concerning  my  own  ill  state  of  health 


(')  Not  so,  but  from  the  river. 


Nov.  22-30.]  VOLUME  XVIII,  PAGES  38-47.  153 

I  have  seen  a  Paper  printed  on  one  side  of  a  Broad  sheet,  entitled  A 
Letter  from  a  Minister  of  the  Church  of  England  communicated  to  y1  R*. 
Honb[e  the  Ld.  Mayor:  relating  to  Thomas  White,  alias  Whitebread,  who 
zvas  lately  executed  for  High-Treason.  'Tis  without  date  &  the  Author's 
Name  not  added.  'Tis  very  remarkable,  &  gives  an  Account  of  the 
Learning  of  this  White,  his  feigning  himself  mad,  &c.  —  Ant.  a  Wood 
in  his  Life  of  John  Morwen  mentions  his  opuscula  Gr.  Lat.  from  another 
author  as  being  in  the  Bodlejan  Library ;  but  says  after  all  his  searches 
he  could  not  find  them  there  himself.  I  have  seen  them  there  in  the 
MSSts  of  New  End.  in  a  thin  folio.  —  'Tis  said  one  Lambert  is  to  be  10 
made  an  Irish  Bishop,  upon  the  following  Account.  In  the  great  Tryal 
betw.  ye  Duke  of  Montague  &  the  Earl  of  Bath,  this  Lambert  was  ye 
principal  Man  concern'd  in  suborning  Witnesses  in  favour  of  ye  Duke  of 
Montague.  For  which  after  ye  Tryal  he  was  indicted  &  found  guilty,  & 
thereupon  fled  into  Ireland.  The  Duke  has  already  got  him  Preferment 
to  ye  value  of  800  lios.  per  an.  &  'tis  said  the  Duke  gives  it  out  that  he 
will  have  him  preferr'd  to  a  Bishoprick.  —  King  Alfred's  translation  of 
Bede  at  the  beginning  very  different  from  the  Original,  &  therefore  trans- 
lated ad  verbum  by  Whelock  in  his  Edition. 

Nov.  27  (Sat.).  The  Contents  of  y®  beginning  of  Whelock's  Bede  20 
added  from  a  Saxon  MS*.  Bede  seems  to  have  added  none  himself,  no 
MS*,  y*  Mr.  Whelock  us'd  of  it  in  Latin  having  them.  Without  doubt 
they  were  made  by  K.  Alfred.  —  Wihtred  King  of  Kent  committed  the 
choice  of  BPS.  &c.  to  ye  ArchbP.  of  Cant.  &  would  have  nothing  to  do  in 
the  Governing  of  ye  Church  or  disposing  of  the  Revenues  of  it.  See 
Chron.  Sax.  sub  an.  694. 

Nov.  28  (Sun.).  The  Letter  X  not  in  use  till  the  time  of  S*.  Augustin. 
Before  they  us'd  for  it  GS  or  CS.  So  Isidore  &  Petrus  Diaconus ;  but 
wrong  as  appears  from  several  Monuments  of  Antiquity.  Noris  in  his 
Orthographia  pag.  58.  of  the  late  Edition  at  Wittemberg  in  8VO  notes  the  30 
Inconstancy  of  Jac.  Gronovius  in  his  Edition  of  Livy,  sometimes  writing 
exsullo,  with  an  s  as  it  should  be,  sometimes  exulto,  without  an  s,  particu- 
larly in  L.  xxvii.  c.  2.  4.  —  Quodannis  anciently  for  quotannis.  &  so  in 
some  very  old  MSS.  w°k  however  have  both  ways. — IMPERI  in  old 
Inscriptions,  &  MSS.  the  i  being  not  doubled,  nor  made  long,  as  we 
observe  it  sometimes  IMPER!.  The  same  to  be  observ'd  also  in  other 
words.  See  Noris.  ibid.  p.  67.  Tully  is  there  corrected  in  severaj 
places,  see  pag.  79.  from  MSSts. 

Nov.  3O  (Tu.).  Finis  in  the  Feminine  Gender  several  times  in  Livy, 
&  is  confirm'd  there  from  MSSts.  So  also  in  some  other  Authors  :  and  40 
in  the  Pisan  Inscriptions,  but  in  no  other  Inscription  hitherto  found  out 
as  is  noted  by  Cardinal  Noris  Orthogr.  p.  96.  —  The  Antients  were  of 
opinion  that  a  vowell  cannot  be  doubled.  Therefore  they  did  not  put 
two  vowells  together,  but  Davus  they  writ  Davos,  for  servus,  servos  &c. 


had  no  ground,  that  I  know  of,  unless  possibly  the  decaying  of  my  sight.' 
Does  not  promise  himself  much  from  Mr.  Chishull's  encomiums  of  his  own 
performances. 

Nov.  25.    Maurice  Atkins  to  H.  (Rawl.  14.  16).     Intends  to  print  500 
small-paper  and  25  large,  which  will  come  to  a  guinea  per  sheet. 


154  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

afterwds  indeed  the  first  u  was  made  a  consonant ;  but  y*  being  doubtfull 
Claudius  the  Emperor  brought  in  ye  ^Eolic  digamma  j.  So  we  have 
XVjIR,  VIIjIR  &c.  but  after  his  Death  u  was  us'd  as  a  consonant 
again.  — 

Athenae  Oxonienses  col.  186.  in  Peter  Heylin.  Reply  to  Dr.  Hake- 
well's  Dissertation  touching  the  Sacrifice  of  the  Eucharist.  Lond.  1641. 
4to.  This  Piece  seems  not  to  have  been  printed  ;  for  I  find  it  mention'd 
both  in  Mr.  Vernon's  &  Mr.  Barnard's  Life  of  IX  Heylin  as  being  in 
MS*,  but  writ  in  the  year  1641.  when  Dr.  Hakewell's  Book  came  out. 

10  Mr.  Wood  has  added  several  things  in  MS*,  to  an  interleav'd  Copy  of  his 
Athenae  in  the  Museum  of  Mr.  Ashmole ;  but  he  has  made  no  alteration 
of  this  Place,  but  it  stands  as  printed.  —  Bede  died  in  the  year  734 
according  to  ye  Saxon  Annals.  — 

In  the  Pisan  Table  of  Lucius  Caesar,  vers.  1 2  'tis  cosesum  by  a  mistake 
of  the  Cutter  for  consensum.  And  in  the  last  line  for  omnia  is  omia. 
Namely  there  should  have  been  a  stroke  ( — )  over  the  line  for  the  n.  And 
so  in  the  Inscription  found  at  Wolcot,  in  the  volume  immediately  pre- 
ceding, near  Bath  the  n  is  wanting  by  mistake  in  Fabricieses,  or  rather 
Fabriceses.  —  See  always  in  the  MSSts.  of  Tully  how  nondum  be  written 

20  whether  seperately  non  dum,  or  together  nondum.  In  the  Pisan  Marbles 
tis  seperate,  &  so  Noris  says  it  shld  be,  p.  120.  which  is  also  the  opinion 
of  Manutius  in  his  Orthography,  &  he  quotes  a  place  of  Tully  for  it. 
Dum  taxat  also  in  several  Inscriptions. — Impraesentiarum,  for  in  praesentia 
us'd  antiently.  See  Noris  ibid.  p.  122. —  In  the  Pisan  Inscriptions 
Magistral™  is  thus  divided  at  the  End  of  the  Line  MAGIS-TRATUS, 
&  not  as  commonly  magi-stratus. — Accents  sometimes  in  Inscriptions. 
So  there  MA'NIBUS  to  distinguish  the  Dij  Manes  from  Manus  Hands. 
And  PECU'NIA'  shewing  'tis  the  ablative  Case,  &  that  the  2d  syllable  is 
long.  &c.  See  there  in  Noris  pag.  140.  &c.  —  Mr.  Thomas  Philipot  who 

30  writ  Villare  Cantianum  was  of  Clare-Hall  in  Cambridge  &  was  Son  to 
John  Philipot,  Esqr.  wcl1  John  drew  up  the  Historical  Catalogue  of  the 
High-Sheriffs  of  Kent,  publish'd  w*h  the  Villare.  Mr.  Wood,  Athenae 
Oxon.  vol.  II.  col.  719.  says  the  Father  was  really  Author  of  the  Villare 
it  self,  who  writ  also  other  Books,  and  made  additions  to  Mr.  Camden's 
Remains  printed  at  Lond.  1637.  &c.  4*°.  See  also  the  first  vol.  of 
Athenae  Oxon.  in  the  Incorporations  for  the  year  1640.  — 

Particular  Care  taken  by  our  former  Kings  to  hinder  the  Incroach- 
ments  of  the  Sea  upon  Land,  especially  in  Romney  Marsh.  See  Philipot 
in  Kent  pag.  3. — In  the  Romans  times  there  was  an  Earl  or  Lieutenant 

40  of  the  Saxon  Shore,  who  was  by  the  Help  of  Garrisons  set  all  along  upon 
the  Shore  to  repress  the  Incursions  of  Barbarous  People  particularly  of 
the  Saxons,  ibid.  pag.  8.  Such  an  officer  was  also  in  other  Parts,  &  is 
styl'd  by  Am.  Marcellinus  Tractus  maritimi  comes.  The  Formalities  & 
Ensigns  of  his  Commission  instituted  about  the  time  of  Theodosius  II. 
wcb  was  towards  the  Declension  of  the  Roman  Government  in  these 
Parts. — Mr.  Philipot  design'd  to  publish  a  particular  Treatise  concerning 
the  Immunities  of  the  Cinque  Ports  &  of  their  just  Right  to  take  cogni- 
zance of  the  Fishery  .at  Yarmouth,  ibid.  pag.  14.  Quaere  whether  ever  it 
came  out. — Mr.  Darrell  and  Mr.  Mersh  quoted  by  Mr.  Philipot,  pag.  41. 

50  as  good  Antiquaries.     Quaere  ? — Edward  Chowt  Esqr.  a  great  Patron  of 


Nov.30-Dec.4.]       VOLUME  XVIII,  PAGES  47-58.  155 

Learning,  ibid.  p.  43. — L.S.A.  in  divers  Antient  Evidences  w°h  signifie 
that  such  wcl1  were  given  by  charter  to  the  Church  should  be  libera  sicut 
Aldisham.  Aldisham  is  in  Kent  &  had  divers  Immunities.  See  ib.  p.  44. — 
The  Tomb  of  Catigern,  slain  by  Vortimer  the  valiant  British  King,  on  the 
Hill  w°k  looks  down  upon  Cosenton  in  Kent,  delineated  ibid.  pag.  48. 
His  Brother  Horsa,  slain  at  the  same  time,  had  such  another  Monument, 
since  defaced,  erected  at  Horstead  near  Rochester,  ibid. — He  there 
quotes,  pag.  53.  a  passage  out  of  Leland's  Itinerary,  for  the  Antiquity  of 
Richborough,  w°h  shews  that  here  has  been  more  Roman  Money  dug  up 
than  in  any  Parts  of  England.  See  the  Place  in  Leland ;  for  'tis  cer-  10 
tainly  not  taken  right  in  Philipot. — Original  of  the  Lovelaces,  ibid.  pag. 
72.  where  he  discourses  of  Bethersden  Lovelace. — Cone.  John  Capgrave 
ibid.  pag.  74. — Julaber,  or  the  Place  of  Laberius  Durus's  Tomb,  see  there 
pag.  117.  Divers  Coyns  &  other  Roman  Antiquities  found  at  Chilham.  ibid. 
— Ditmarius  Mersepurgius's  Chronicle  lib.  8.  there  quoted,  pag.  161. — Ibid, 
pag.  162.  In  Memory  of  ye  many  Camps  that  have  been  here,  Certain 
places  w*hin  this  (that  is  East  Greenwich)  Parish  are  called  Combes, 
namely  East  Combe,  where  that  godly  good  Gentleman  William 
Lambert,  Esq.  dwelt,  that  gave  us  the  first  Description  of  this  Country, 
in  his  Perambulation,  &  made  this  work  the  more  easy  to  any,  that  20 
should  endeavour  further  Progress  therein  :  Facile  est  inventis  addere, 
difficile  invenire. — An  Hospital  of  Mr.  Lambert's  Foundation  mention'd 
there  pag.  163.  He  was  the  first  Protestant  that  built  an  Hospital.  Other 
Lamberts  there  mention'd. 

Dec.  2  (Th.).  Ignorance  very  much  prevail'd  in  the  time  of  Theodoras 
ArchbP.  of  Cant,  who  therefore  visited  all  the  English  Churches  &  took 
care  to  have  the  True  Faith  preach'd,  the  Scriptures  read  and  explain'd, 
&  metrical  Arts  (or  as  others  say  Grammatical  Arts)  (Stef-crafts  Sax.)  to 
be  taught.  See  the  contents  to  Bede  in  Wheloc's  Edition  ad  lib.  iv.  c.  2. 
—  The  Earl  of  Pembroke  is  made  Ld.  High-Admiral  of  England,  in  30 
room  of  Pr.  George  deceas'd ;  the  Ld.  Wharton  Ld.  Lieuten.  of  Ireland 
in  room  of  Ld.  Pembroke ;  &  Ld.  Summers  Ld.  President  of  the  Council 
in  room  of  Ld.  Wharton.  —  Cone,  the  Family  of  the  Twisden's  (whereof 
was  Sr.  Roger  Twisden)  see  Mr.  Philipott's  Villare  Cantianum  pag.  172. — 
Edmund  de  Hadenham,  a  Chronicler  of  great  Antiquity,  ibid.  p.  209. — 
Account  of  divers  Roman  Urns  found  in  the  Parish  of  Newington  in  Kent, 
ibid.  p.  249. — Account  of  the  BPS.  of  Rochester  pag.  290. — Ortelius  first 
mov'd  Mr.  Camden  to  write  his  Britannia,  see  ye  Preface. — Mr.  Camden 
himself  understood  so  much  of  the  British  and  Saxon  Tongues  as  serv'd 
for  ye  Etymologic  of  Places  names.  40 

Dec.  3  (Fri.).  The  three  following  Coyns  [of  Nerva,  Trajan,  and 
Gallienus]  show'd  me  by  Mr.  Thomas  Blake  of  Oxford  .  .  .  The  two 
first  in  the  Bodlejan  Library,  the  last  wanting.  —  Ab.  Markland  of  S*. 
John's  Coll.  Author  of  a  Sermon  before  the  Court  of  Aldermen  at  Guild 
Hall  Chapell  Oct.  29.  1682. — Poems  on  K.  Char.  2ds.  Restoration,  P*. 
Rupert,  &  the  D.  of  Albermarle's  victories  ag*  the  Dutch  &  the  Plague 
&  the  Fire  of  Lond.  Lond.  1667.  40.  —  Wm.  Lowth  of  S*.  Johns,  Author  of 
Directions  for  ye  profitable  Reading  of  Holy  Scripture  1707.  12°. 

Dec.  4  (Sat.).     [Notes  from  Camden's  Britannia  .  .  .  (58-63).] 


356  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1708 : 

Dec.  6  (Mon.).     Twenty  8  Cities  of  Great  Note  formerly  in  this  Island, 
besides  innumerable  Castles  of  less  Account.  Bede  1.  i.  c.  i. 

Dec.  7  (Tu.),  and  Dec.  10  (Fri.).  [Notes  from  Camden's  Britannia.] 
Dec.  12  (Sun.).  Mr.  Camden  receiv'd  great  assistance  from  Mr.  Tho. 
Talbot.  see  Brit.  p.  132.  —  On  Thursday  last  (Dec.  9.)  was  chosen  Fellow 
of  University  Coll.  Mr.  George  Ward,  A.M.  of  the  same  House.  He 
succeeded  Mr.  John  Nevil,  who  lately  resign'd  upon  account  of  a  good 
Estate  fallen  to  him.  .  .  . 

[Notes  from  Camden's  Britannia  (65-68).] 

10  A  great  many  Roman  Coyns  Brass  &  Silver  found  at  Dorchester  in 
Dorsetshire,  which  the  vulgar  call  King  Dornus's  Pennys,  vainly  believing 
one  King  Dornus  built  the  Town.  —  The  following  [6]  Coyns,  [of  An- 
toninus Pius,  Hadrian,  Titus,  Faustina  (2)  and  Theodosius]  shew'd  me  by 
Mr.  Thomas  Blake  of  Oxford.  [(2)  and  (6)  wanting  in  the  Public  Library.] 
...  —  In  Mon.  Angl.  T.  i.  p.  169.  are  printed  the  verses  that  were  formerly 
painted  in  the  windows  of  the  Library  of  S*.  Alban's,  by  which  we  under- 
stand that  there  were  several  classical  Authors  in  it.  They  are,  with  other 
verses  there  printed,  (that  were  put  in  the  windows  of  the  cloyster  for  the 
better  understanding  the  History  of  the  Figures  depicted  also  in  the  win- 

20  dows)  taken  from  a  MS*,  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  Laud.  E.  31.  The  Pictures  also, 
of  the  several  Authors  mention'd  in  the  verses  of  the  Library  were  added  in 


Dec.  5.  H.  to  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  25).  Sends  collations  of  Iliad  <£. 
Davies"  ed.  of  the  Tusculan  Questions  is  good,  and  will  be  useful  for  Hearne's 
ed.  of  all  Tully's  works. 

Dec.  10.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  40).  Explains  a  misprint  due 
to  Smith's  marks  in  the  margins  being  misunderstood ;  the  sheets  are  dispersed 
up  and  down  in  the  Warehouse,  so  that  it  would  be  a  matter  of  some  difficulty 
to  alter  the  place  with  a  pen  [this  was  afterwards  done].  The  V.  C.  has  signed 
the  imprimatur  with  his  own  hand ;  he  will  talk  with  Dr.  S.  next  week  about 
a  gratuity. 

Dec.  12.  Brokesby  to  H.  (Rawl.  3.  117).  [Partly  printed:  Letters 
from  the  Bodleian  i.  180  jqq.]  Mentions  Roman  mines  on  the  other  side  of 
the  Severn  sea,  in  Monmouthshire,  the  Remainders  of  which  are  brought 
up  the  Severn  to  Bewdley,  and  employed  by  the  artificers  of  Bromicham 
in  making  the  Plates  of  fine  Locks,  it  being  more  pliant  than  any  other 
Iron  we  have.  Cf.  Yarrington's  England's  Improvement  by  Sea  and  Land. 
Remarks  on  longevity ;  Mr.  Dodwell  had  an  account  of  a  Lancashire  woman, 
called  commonly  the  Cricket  of  the  Hedge,  who  remembered  Bosworth  Field, 
and  B.  was  acquainted  with  a  woman  in  Yorkshire  who  gave  out  that  she  was 
seven-score  years  old.  '  She  was  born  before  Registers  were  kept  in  Country 
Parishes,  which  was  not  till  the  3d  or  4th  year  of  Q"  Elizabeth,  tho  there 
were  Injunctions  for  them  in  K*  Edw1*  ye  6th  Reign.  She  said  her  eldest  son 
was  born  at  52,  which  raised  her  age  to  about  113.  This  poor  Woman's 
Habitation  could  help  little  thereto,  tho  such  as  she  was  well  pleased  with;  all 
being  but  One  Room,  a  Hearth  against  the  End-wall  built  of  a  coars-Stone, 
&  a  Hole  above  to  let  out  the  Smoke.  Her  food  was  plain  ;  Parsneps  boiled 
or  soused  in  Whey,  &  sweetned  with  Sugar  or  Molasses,  was  a  choice  great 
Dish  with  her,  &  I  believe  chiefly  used  by  her.  A  Pigeon,  or  the  like,  &  a 
draught  or  2  of  Ale  were  very  acceptable.'  Mr.  Dodwell  considers  H.'s  de- 
rivation of  Wargrave  only  an  ingenious  conjecture.  Remarks  on  etymology 
of  Place-names  (partly  communicated  to  John  Ray) ;  and  full  notes  on  an 
altar  found  in  East-gate  Street,  Chester,  in  July  1693. 


Dec.  6-12.]  VOLUME  XVIII,  PAGES  63-83.  157 

the  windows. — The  said  verses  printed  in  ye  Monasticon  collated  with  the 
MS*,  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  ...  In  the  3d  line  of  the  Verses  De  pictura  Presby- 
terij  Monasterij  supradicti,  is  a  lacuna  in  the  Print,  for  wch  in  the  MS*, 
tis  plain  juvisse.  —  Hollingshead's  Chron.  Vol.  III.  p.  648.  b.  William 
Caxton  of  London  Mercer  brought  Printing  into  England  about  the  year 
1471:  and  first  practised  the  same  in  the  Abbie  of  Saint  Peter  at  West- 
minster ;  after  which  time  it  was  likewise  practised  in  the  Abbies  of  S. 
Augustine  at  Canterburie,  Saint  Albons,  and  other  Monasteries  of  Eng- 
land. — 

See  MSSt.  Laud.  K.  49.  10 

King  Alfred  founded  Shaftsbury,  as  appears  from  an  Inscription  pub- 
lish'd  by  Mr.  Camden  pag.  157,  from  Malmsbury  De  Gestis  Pontif  Angl. 
1.  2.  p.  251.  He  tells  us  'twas  wanting  in  all  the  Copies  he  had  seen 
except  in  one  of  the  Ld.  Burley's,  See  in  the  Copies  we  have  in  Oxford,  & 
account  for  it  in  the  notes  to  King  Alfred's  Life.  The  Inscription  is : 

''ANNO  DOMINICAE  INCARNATIONIS  AELFREDUS  REX  |  FECIT  HANC  VRBEM. 
DCCCLXXX.  REGNI  sui  vm. 

[Notes  from  Camden's  Britannia.]  .  .  . 

The  Exemption  of  Monasteries  from  Episcopal  Jurisdiction  was  begun 
by  S*.  Austin  the  Monk,  &  frequently  practis'd  afterwards.  How  far  20 
Tavistock  was  exempted  (for  there  are  several  sizes  of  Exemptions,  see 
Burnett's  Hist.  Ref.  Vol.  i.  p.  187.)  may  be  seen  in  the  Monasticon 
Anglicanum. — Tavistoke  Monastery  founded  by  a  certain  Earl  call'd 
Ordulf,  who  was  father  of  Elfrid,  that  afterwards  married  King  Edgar,  of 
whom  he  begot  King  Ethelred.  (Mon.  Angl.  p.  217.  b.  218.  a)  'Twas  King 
Ethelred  who  granted  ye  Exemption  (see  there  p.  218.  b  &  p.  996.  b.)  in 
Imitation  perhaps  of  his  Father  Edgar,  who  was  famous  for  such  Grants 
(See  Bf.  Burnet  Vol.  i.  loc.  cit.)  &  perhaps  Ethelred  might  in  great 
measure  be  mov'd  to  it  by  his  said  Mother  Alfthrith,  who  was  living  when 
ye  Grant  was  made,  &  was  one  of  those  that  confirm'd  it.  (See  Mon.  30 
Angl.  p.  218.  b.  30.  the  Monastery  dedicated  to  S*.  Mary,  ib.  p.  996.  a 
15).  —  In  ally6  Greater  Abbies  there  were  Persons  appointed  to  take 
notice  of  the  principal  occurrences  of  the  Kingdom,  &  at  y6  End  of  every 
Year  to  digest  them  into  Annals,  (see  Mr.  Tanner's  Pref.  to  Noti[ti]a 
Mon.  &  Dr.  Gibson's  Praef.  in  Chron.  Sax.  Also  Angl.  Sacr.  T.  i.  p.  409.) 
Loss  of  Learning  by  ye  dissolution  of  Monasteries.  Tanner's  Pref.  e.  6. 
—  Odyham  mention'd  in  a  charter  in  Mon.  Angl.  p.  219.  Perhaps 
Odjam  in  Hampshire.  —  Robert  Langton,  D.LL.  of  Queen's  Coll.  in 
Oxford  &  Archd.  of  Dorset,  Nephew  to  Thomas  Langton  (successively 
BP.  of  S4.  Davids,  Sarum,  &  Winchester)  died  in  the  month  of  June  1524.  40 
(Ath.  Oxon.  vol.  i.  col.  550.  also  col.  26.  &  col.  638.  &  col.  641.) 

Dec.  14.  H.  to  P.  Cherry  (Rawl.  36.  23).  Hopes  that  Dodwell  will 
have  his  Discourse  on  the  Periegesis,  and  Barnabas,  printed  at  the  Theatre : 
H.  will  see  that  everything  be  done  accurately,  and  for  Mr.  D.'s  reputation. 


1  This  Inscription  is  extant  in  the  MS*,  of  Malmsbury  given  to  ye  Bodlejan  Library 
by  Mr.  Seller  (Arch.  D.  30.  Pag.  62.)  &  is  thus  worded :  Alfredus  enim  rex  fecit  hanc 
urbem  anno  incamationis  Dominicae  DCCCC.LXXX0,  regni  vero  sui  octavo.  But  in  a 
MS*,  of  Archbp.  Lauds  (K  49.)  I  found  several  leaves  were  wanting,  to  one  of  woh 
belong'd  this  Passage. 


158  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1708: 

Dec.  15  ("Wed.).  Three  Dialects  of  y*3  Saxon  Language.  Consider'd 
by  Dr.  Hickes.  See  Saxon  Gram.  cap.  19.  —  Presently  after  y6  End  of 
the  old  Translation  of  Boetius  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  follows  these  words,  collectis 
insequentibus  cujuslibet  lineae  primis  litteris,  non  solum  Translatoris,  sed 
&  Transferri  procurantis,  nomina  cum  cognominibus,  investigare  poteris. 
Then  follow  the  verses  mention'd  in  these  words,  by  which  we  gather 
that  ye  Translation  was  procur'd  by  ELISABET  BERKELEY.  &  that  ye 
Translator  was  JOANNES  WALTWNEM.  —  The  Langtons  of  Lancashire  bear 
Arms,  Azure,  an  Eagle  displayed  with  two  Heads,  vert. Of  Lincolnsh. 

10  Quarterly  Sable  and  or,  a  Bend  Argent.  Langhton  of  Lancas1*.  Argent, 
three  Cheveronels  gules.  —  The  Translator  of  Boetius  has  a  Preface  to 
ye  ivth  &  Vth  Book  in  verse.  —  Dr.  Bathurst  writ  a  Letter  to  Dr.  Lang- 
bain  (to  whom  Sr.  Wm.  Dugdale  had  communicated  his  collections)  to 
encourage  the  Monasticon  Anglicanum,  &c.  see  Mr.  Tanner's  Preface  to 
ye  Notitia  Mon.  'Tis  printed  in  some  few  copies  of  ye  Ist  volume.  — 
The  Epitome  of  ye  Monasticon  Anglicanum  but  an  indifferent  Perform- 
ance. See  there.  Mr.  Wright  ye  Epitomizer.  —  Quaere  about  Henry 
Crump  a  Cistercian  Monk  &  Doctor  of  Divinity  of  this  University  who 
writ  a  Book  about  the  year  1380.  cone,  the  Foundation  of  all  the  Monasteries 

20  in  England,  from  the  time  of  Se.  Birin  the  first  &.  of  Dorchester,  till  the 
age  of  Robert  Grosthead  Bp.  of  Lincoln.     Quaere  whether  exstant.     Mr. 
Tanner  mentions  it  there,  &  doubts  whether  it  be  in  being.    —   ... 
Dec.  19  (Sun.),  and  Dec.  21  (Tu.).     [Notes  from  Camden's  Britannia.] 
Dec.  23  (Th.).    Lacrima  not  lachryma  in  some  old  MSS.  of  A.  Gellius. 


Mr.  Llhuyd  has  given  H.  the  title  of  Mr.  Cherry's  small  Irish  MS.  (once  BP. 
Barlow's).  Most  of  the  older  historical  pieces  of  the  Irish  affairs  are  of  no  great 
authority.  A  knowledge  of  Irish  useful  for  the  early  history  of  Wales  and 
Cornwall,  as  well  as  of  Ireland.  An  English  trans,  of  Herodotus,  in  a  vols. 
8vo.,  is  announced.  '  I  am  sorry  to  see  so  many  of  our  Classicks,  both  Greek 
and  Latin,  after  the  French  mode,  appear  in  English ;  which  is  certainly  pre- 
judicial to  Learning,  Young  Gentlemen  being  by  that  means  induc'd  to  neglect 
the  Originals,  and  apply  themselves  to  this  more  easy  way  of  Reading  .  .  . 
When  I  was  undergraduate  I  read  over  both  [Herodotus  and  Thucydides] 
together,  and  I  remember  .  .  .  that  I  observ'd  several  Mistakes  and  Omissions 
in  Dr.  Gale's  Edition.  He  was  certainly  a  very  Learned  Man ;  but  all  his 
Editions  of  Books  are  full  of  Faults,  he  not  taking  due  care  (which  is  the 
first  and  indeed  the  most  considerable  thing  in  an  edition)  to  have  them  nicely 
corrected.'  Will  not  Mr.  Cherry  undertake  an  ed.  of  Herodotus,  adding  his 
chronology  in  the  margin  ?  The  Character  of  a  Primitive  Bishop  (said  to  be  by 
Mr.  Pitts,  Mr.  Dodwell's  advocate)  a  rational  and  learned  discourse.  Dr. 
Hickes  to  H.  (Rawl.  7.  43).  Is  now  convinced  that  Heylin's  answer  to  Dr. 
Hakewill  was  never  printed.  Hopes  it  is  true  that  the  University  intends  to 
censure  the  Rights.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  116).  Final  directions 
about  his  Ignatius :  please  send  the  Ch.  Ch.  edition.  Wishes  that  H.  were 
advanced  to  a  better  post  in  the  University. 

Dec.  16.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  41).  Congratulates  Dr.  S.  on 
his  deliverance  from  this  excellent  but  troublesome  work,  and  complains  of 
the  ignorance  of  Thistlethwayte  the  Architypographus.  The  Dean  prints  a 
small  number  of  his  Ignatius,  for  presentation  only,  so  that  H.  despairs  of 
getting  one.  Thanks  for  S.'s  kind  expressions  and  for  the  guinea ;  H.  does 
not  think  himself  worthy  of  any  promotion,  nor  is  he  at  all  ambitious  of  it. 

Dec.  23.    Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith    127.  117).     The  trouble  being 


Deo.  15-28.]  VOLUME  XVIII,  PAGES  83-92.  159 

But  in  MSS.  of  Tully  de  natura  Deorum,  consulted  by  Franciscus  Philel- 
fus  'twas  lachryma ;  &  so  Philelphus  would  have  it.  Vide  Philologic. 
Epist.  cent,  unam  e  Goldasti  Bibliotheca,  Franc.  1610.  8°.  Epist.  IV. — 
An  Epistle  there  num.  IV*11  of  the  same  Philelfus  to  Lapus  Florentinus, 

about   this    verse    of   Homer,  BovXo/x'    eyo>    \abv    a-oov    f^tvai    f)    dir6\fo-0ai, 

Philelfus  tells  us  q  here  signifies  4'  non>  &  not  aut  as  others  had  trans- 
lated it.  ... 

Dec.  24  (Pri.).  Witney  given  to  Winchester  by  Alwinus.  See  Mon. 
Angl.  vol.  I.  inter  Addenda,  p.  980.  Writ  Witteney  &  Wytteney  in  the 
old  Valor  Beneficiorum,  fol.  100.  b.  —  In  a  MS*.  Book  of  Sr.  Kenelm  10 
Digby's  num.  14.  in  a  Note  at  ye  End  :  No/a  quod  sunt  in  Anglia  ecclesise 
parochiales  XLV.  mil.  XI.  Villae  autem  LII.  mil  IV°r.  —  A  Conjecture 
upon  Pliny's  Natural  History  in  the  Centuria  Epistolarum  of  Goldastus,  p. 
50.  —  Fermannus  the  Glosser  and  Interpreter  of  Rushworth's  MS.  of 
the  Gospels  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  (Quere)  Doctor  Hicks's  Thes.  vol.  I.  p.  90. 

Dec.  25  (Sat.),  Dec.  26  (Sun.),  and  Dec.  27  (Mon.).  [Notes  from  Cam- 
den's  Britannia.] 

Dec.  28  (Wed.).  In  the  Publick  Library  amongst  Sr.  Thomas 
Bodley's  MSSte.  is  a  MS*,  in  8V0.  being  the  Bible  in  Latin  of  the  vulgar 
Translation,  written  in  Vellam  in  a  small  but  neat  hand.  In  the  said  20 


now  happily  over,  is  not  very  solicitous  for  copies.  Will  make  the  V.  G. 
a  visit  next  week.  Will  be  glad  to  see  Dr.  H.  in  town.  '  Your  modesty  and 
humble  acquiescence  in  your  present  condition  neither  will,  nor  ought  to 
hinder  your  friends  from  endeavouring  to  advance  you  to  a  better  post,  that 
you  may  pursue  your  studyes  with  greater  ease,  and  thereby  become  more 
usefull  to  the  public.  I  have  read  over  your  letter  in  the  last  Monthly  Mis- 
cellany, and  wish,  that  it  had  found  a  place  in  a  better  paper.  I  am  very  wel 
pleased  with  your  Account  of  several  Antiquityes  given  in  it,  and  have  nothing 
to  except  to,  but  your  conjecture  about  deriving  the  name  of  Weycock  from 
the  Saxon.  But  bee  it  so,  or  not  so,  you  have  given  the  world  a  good  specimen 
of  your  genius  &  inclination  toward  English  History  &*  Antiquity:  woh  to  mee 
is  no  new  discovery,  tho'  it  bee  to  others ;  who,  I  believe,  will  agree  with  mee, 
that  you  seeme  as  it  were  to  bee  cut  out  for  those  studyes  (you  having  given 
mee  several  cleare  proofs  of  it  in  your  letters) — wch  you  may  at  your  leisure 
houres  cultivate  without  prejudice  to  your  other  designes  of  learning.  What 
you  say  of  the  Silver  coin  of  Amyntas  is  considerable.  I  have  not  scene  the 
Numismata  of  Monsr  De  Wilde  but  will  enquire  for  it  after  the  Holydayes.' 
Hopes  to  get  a  sight  of  the  Book  of  Verses  presented  by  the  University.  Asks 
for  particulars  of  the  Ch.  Ch.  Ignatius,  and  University  news. 

Dec.  24.  H.  to  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  n*).  Sends  collations  of  Iliad  X, 
and  a  note  in  a  passage  of  Homer  from  Centuria  Epistolarum  .  .  .  e  Goldasti 
bibliotbeca  (Francofurt  1610).  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  42).  Has 
forwarded  by  Mrs.  Bartlett's  Waggon  five  large-paper  copies  of  Ignatius;  the 
rest  as  soon  as  they  can  be  gathered.  Sends  extract  from  DodwelPs  letter  of 
Nov.  23  relating  to  the  death  of  Dr.  Gregory. 

Dec.  25.  Bagford  to  H.  (Rawl.  21.  6).  Thanks  for  the  Boetius  &c. 
Paper  for  H.'s  book  sent  away  about  12  days  since  in  an  Oxford  barge.  Has 
looked  in  his  Catalogue  (which  is  entirely  of  stitched  books),  and  can  find 
nothing  between  1641  and  1661  of  the  book  written  by  Heylin  against  Dr. 
Hakewill  of  the  Sacrifice  of  the  Eucharist.  It  was  probably  a  bound  book, 
and  therefore  not  included  in  his  Catalogue. 

Dec.  27.  H.  to  Thoresby.  Printed:  Correspondence  of  Ralph  Ikoresby,  ii. 
135  sqq. 


160  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1708  : 

Library  are  several  others  in  the  same  hand  &  in  the  same  volume,  &  I 
have  one  of  the  same  sort  in  my  Study.  At  the  beginning  of  this  of  Sr. 
Thomas  Bodley's,  is  this  Memorand. 

IF  Istum  librum  emit  magister  Johannes  Hychecoks  de  magistro  Johanne 
Smyth  tune  presbitero  parochiali  ecclesiae  Sancti  Jacobi  juxta  collegium 
Richard!  Whytyngton  cujus  dictus  magister  Johannes  Hychecoks  est  socius 
perpetuus,  pro  vi.  marcis  &  xl.  d.  Anno.  Domini  M°.  LXII.  (a  wrong  number)  & 
4to  die  mensis  Junij  ejusdem  anni  hijs  testibus  Magistro  Thoma  Englys 
&  Magistro  Wyllelmo  Twyktwyn  socijs  perpetuis  dicti  collegij. 

10  There  is  a  number  put  by  a  late  hand 1  at  the  top  of  every  leaf,  by  which 
we  gather  that  there  are  in  the  Book  741  leaves.  I  believe  there  was 
something  else  belonging  to  the  Book  besides  the  Bible,  which  has  been 
left  out  in  the  Binding,  for  at  the  End  is  this  note,  in  a  hand  somewhat 
different  &  of  a  later  date,  as  it  seems,  from  that  in  wcl1  the  note  above  is 
written,  viz.  There  byn  ix.  c.  xix.  levys.  &  a  little  below  is  another  note,  in 
the  very  same  hand,  viz.  Liber  *  *  *  ex  legato  Magistri  Johannis  Hych- 
koks  Avunculi  sui  cujus  animae  propicietur  Deus.  Amen.  The  name  is 
not  added,  only  the  first  stroke  of  the  first  letter  in  the  Christian  Name  is 
drawn,  which  seems  to  have  been  an  I.  I  believe  the  Book  was  bequeath'd 

20  to  this  younger  Hitchkock  by  will,  &  that  it  came  into  his  hands  after  his 
Uncle's  death,  which  may  be  the  reason  of  his  pious  ejaculation  for  his 
Soul. — Executors  of  Rych.  Whittington  John  Coventres,  John  Carpenter, 
&  William  Grove,  who  obtain'd  a  confirmation  of  his  Will  for  founding 
Whittington  Coll.  10.  H.  6.  (Mon.  Angl.  vol.  3.  p.  99.  b.  41.)  .  .  . 

Dec.  29  (Th.).  Master  Ralph  Germeyne,  Precentor  of  the  Church  of 
Exeter,  gave  a  chest  (call'd  from  him  Germeyne  Chest)  with  300  libs.  an. 
1316.  And  the  like  Benefaction  a  little  while  after  was  made  by  Rich. 
Grenfeild.  Ex  utriusque  autem  cista  pecuniam  gratis  mutuabantur  socij, 
interposita  tantum  de  eadem  rependenda  cautione.  (See  Mr.  Wood's  An- 

30  tiquities  of  Oxford  in  the  IId.  Part,  in  his  Discourse  of  Exeter  Coll.)  — 
When  the  last  Impression  of  the  Lord  Clarendon's  History  in  folio  was 
almost  finish'd,  I  told  one  of  the  Compositors  that  he  should  not  begin  to 
print  the  Index  (which  I  drew  up)  'till  he  had  receiv'd  my  Corrections. 
When  the  History  was  compos'd  the  said  Compositor  came  to  me,  and 
desir'd  that  I  would  deliver  him  my  Copy  as  corrected  by  me.  I  told  him 
that  I  would  deliver  it  as  soon  as  I  had  any  Orders  from  the  Vice-Chan- 
cellor. Upon  which  he  told  me  that  'twas  a  thing  of  no  concern  to  the 
Vice-Ch.  but  said  I  must  write  up  to  London  to  Mr.  Baskett  who  had  the 
whole  charge  of  the  Impression.  I  writ  up  to  Mr.  Baskett,  but  receiv'd 

40  not  the  least  Answer.  Some  time  after  the  Vice-Chancellor  comeing  to 
Town,  the  Compositor  waited  upon  him,  &  told  him  that  I  had  made 
severall  Corrections  in  the  Index  w°h  he  staid  for  in  order  to  compleat  the 
Work.  The  Vice-Chancellor  bid  him  come  to  me,  in  his  name,  for  the 
said  Corrections ;  which  accordingly  I  deliver'd.  When  a  sheet  was  com- 
pos'd he  brought  it  to  me  to  correct.  I  told  him,  that  Mr.  Terry  had 
corrected  the  Book  it  self,  that  Mr.  Hill  of  Queen's  College  was  the  Person 
appointed  by  the  Vice-Chan cellor  himself  to  correct  the  Press  for 
university  Books,  &  that  therefore  I  could  not  pretend  to  correct  this 
without  express  order  from  the  Vice-Chancellor  himself.  The  Compositor 

1  Non  venale  in  the  same  hand. 


Dec.  28-31.]  VOLUME  XV11I,  PAGES  92-103.  l6l 

went  a  second  time  to  the  Vice-Chanc.  who  sent  word  that  I  should  cor- 
rect the  several  sheets,  &  that  I  should  have  due  -satisfaction  for  all  my 
pains,  it  being  his  intent  to  propose  the  Matter  to  the  Delegates  of  the 
Press  when  they  met  to  set  a  Price  upon  the  Book.  Accordingly  I  cor- 
rected every  sheet,  &  about  2  or  3  Months  after  the  Price  was  set  upon  ye 
Book  I  call'd  at  Mre.  Halls,  Mr.  Thwaites  being  then  with  me,  for  my 
Money.  Mrs.  Hall  told  me  that  the  thing  was  not  so  much  as  men- 
tion'd at  ye  Meeting  of  ye  Delegates,  at  least  she  had  no  orders  for  paying 
any  Money  on  Account  either  of  Corrections  to  the  old  or  new  Index. 
Afterwards  I  mention'd  this  with  some  wonder  to  Mr.  Thwaites,  who  10 
reply'd  that  I  had  given  an  uncivil  answer  to  Mr.  Vice-Chanc.  This  I 
should  not  have  taken  any  Notice  of  had  I  not  heard  of  late  from  a  certain 
Person  that  Mr.  Thwaites  mention'd  it  anew,  as  being  a  reason  why  I 
should  be  turn'd  by  a  place  in  ye  University  w0*1  some  Friends  of  mine  of 
great  Honesty  and  Integrity  had  thought  me  deserving  of  (tho'  I  am  as 
far  from  so  thinking  as  the  most  malicious  person  can  think  himself).  I  told 
the  whole  story  to  the  said  person,  &  added  that  I  thought  the  Method  I 
took  was  not  only  out  of  respect  to  Mr.  Terry,  but  to  Mr.  Hill  who  was 
order'd  to  be  corrector  by  the  Vice-Chancellor  himself.  With  this  he 
said  he  was  well  satisfied,  &  seem'd  to  be  concern'd  that  Mr.  Thwaites  20 
should  trump  up  this  poor,  pitifull  objection  against  me,  in  wck  I  had  been 
not  only  a  sufferer  upon  account  of  Misrepresentation,  but  also  by  the 
Loss  of  the  just  due  for  my  Pains,  having  not  recd.  one  farthing  for  the 
said  Index  of  the  last  Impression  (not  to  mention  the  being  not  paid  for 
correcting  the  press  in  the  last  Impression  in  8V0.)  to  this  Day.  But  I 
leave  the  matter,  &  am  sorry  Mr.  Thwaites  should  pretend  to  be  my  Enemy 
who  always  seem'd  to  be  my  Friend. 

Dec.  31  (Fri.).  In  the  Bodlejan  Library  (NE.  A.  i.)  is  a  Vellam  MS*,  (a 
thick  Book)  in  8V0.  written  between  3  &  400  years  since,  being  a  Miscel- 
laneous Collection,  at  the  beginning  of  which  this  Note.  Item  lego  30 
collegio  Exon.  librum  in  pergameno  scriptum  continentem  tabulam 
Nicholai  de  Lira  super  Bibliam  &  cum  c'.  &  volo  quod  transeat  in  communi 
electione  librorum.  Teste  Richardo  Smyth. — A  little  below  wch  in  ye 
same  hand,  Ex  legatione  M.  Jacobi  Babbe. — At  the  End :  Liber  Magistri 
J.  Collis.  emptus  a  Domino  W.  Palett  a°  Dni.  1472.  Precium  vii.  s. — 
Underneath  wch  in  another  hand :  Hsec  est  cautio  Magistri  Babbe, 
1  Magistri  Merefyld  &  Johannis  Mane  posita  in  cista  Germeyne  (or  rather 
Vermeyne)in  6to  die  mensis  Octobris  a°.Dni  M.CCCC.LXXIX°,&  est  liber 
cum  diversis  contends.  &c.  Nunc  legatur  autem  &jacetpro.  xlvi".  viiid.  — 
In  Jesus  Coll.  Hall  ye  Picture  of  Queen  Elizabeth.  The  Inscription  40 
under  seems  to  be  the  same  with  that  in  the  Publick  Library.  It  seems 
to  be  from  the  Foundation. 


Jan.  1.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  121).  Remarks  on  presentation 
copies  of  Ignatius.  The  Monthly  Miscellany  for  November  has  printed  part  of  a 
letter  of  H.'s;  'it  contains  several  misprints,  which  I  do  not  wonder  at,  when 
I  consider  their  usual  murdering  way  of  printing  at  London.'  Sends,  purely 
in  compliance  with  Dr.  Smith's  order,  a  list  of  the  small  charges  he  has  been 
at  during  the  printing  of  Ignatius,  which  he  has  transcribed  as  it  stands  in  his 
Almanack  (total,  o i/ — iu — 6d — ooq).  Will  return  Dr.  S.'s  papers.  H.  would 
not  have  lent  those  relating  to  Ephraem  Syrus  to  Thwaites,  it  he  had  under- 

VOL.  II.  M 


1 62  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

Jan.  3  (Mon.),  and  Jan.  4  (Tu.).  [Notes  from  Selden's  Hist,  of  Tythes.] 
.  .  .  Look  into  Thomas  Elmham's  (who  was  Prior  of  Leuton)  Chronicle 
of  Hen.  V.  'Tis  quoted  there  pag.  10.  as  being  in  Bibliotheca  Bodlejana 

MS 

Jan.  5  ("Wed.).  The  old  English  Bible  in  the  Bodl.  Library  was  printed 
at  Lond.  1535.  &  stands  inter  Libb.  Seld.,  B.  3.  4.  Th.  Seld.  'Tis 
Coverdale's.  K.  Henry  the  Vllltk8  Translation  of  the  Bible,  set  forth 
An.  1541.  K.  Edw.  Vlths.  an.  1549,  &  1551.  Q.  Elizabeth's  in  the  2d. 
Year  of  her  Reign.  —  Tyndale  was  martyr'd  at  Fylford  in  Flanders  in 

io  the  latter  End  of  the  year  1536.  He  translated  the  New  Test,  first,  &,  by 
the  Help  of  John  Frith,  the  Baruch  to  Jeremy.  That  was  publish'd  by 
itself. — Then  he  began  with  the  O.  T.  &  finish'd  it  from  Genesis  to 
Nehemiah  inclusively,  but  translated  none  of  the  Prophets,  but  Jonah, 
being  hinder'd  by  Death.  He  was  assisted  by  Miles  Coverdale. — Bible 
Anglice  Lond.  1537.  B.  3.  i.  Th.  by  Thomas  Matthew.  Imperfect. — B.  i.  5. 
Th.  Seld. — Lond.  1539.  B.  2.  n.Th.  Seld.  Revis'd  by  Rich.  Taverner. — 
W.  Tyndall's  Works.  Lond.  1573.  T.  6.  2.  Th.  His  Prologues  are  upon 
the  Pentateuch,  Jonas,  &  the  N.  Test.  Dated  An.  1530.  Jan.  17.  See 
Mar.  364  &  8°.  B.  224.  Line.  —  Pieces  oftentimes  taken  in  old  Canons 

20  for  Parish  Churches.  Selden's  H.  of  Tythes,  p.  in.  —  Monast.  Angl. 
Tom.  i.  p.  980.  a.  1 6.  Alwinus  episcopus  Wintonise,  dedit  eidem  ecclesiae 
(i.  e.  Wintoniensi),  novem  maneria ;  Sioneham,  duas  Meones,  Neuton 1, 
Wileney,  Heltng,  Melbrok,  Polhampion,  &  Hodington.  This  is  taken  out 
of  Leland's  Coll.  vol.  i.  p.  613.  —  Ivo  corrected.  Selden's  H.  T.  p. 
1 25.  —  Consider  what  the  signification  of  the  word  cwiran  is  in  Dr.  Gibson's 
Edition  of  the  Saxon  Chronicle,  p.  115.  Dr.  Gibson  is  doubtfull,  but 
conjectures  that  the  signification  is  retro,  &  that  it  comes  from  cyrran 
redire. 

Jan.  6  (Th.),  and  Jan.  7  (Fri.).     .  .  .  Look  into  John  de  Grandisono's 

3°  MS.  Life  of  Thomas  Beckett,  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  Also  into  Joannes  Angli- 
cus's  Historia  Aurea  in  the  same  Libr.  . 


stood  the  latter's  disingenuity.  Coolness  and  shyness  of  Dr.  Charlett.  Has 
been  with  Wolfius  and  Schelwig  above  two  hours,  and  S.'s  health  was  drunk. 
They  report  that  Wilkins  is  mightily  caressed  in  London  by  the  Archbishop 
of  Canterbury,  the  Bps.  of  London,  Sarum  and  Ely,  and  Dr.  Grabe.  They 
consider  the  ed.  of  Ignatius  a  most  accurate  performance. 

Jan.  3.  H.  to  F.  Cherry  (Rawl.  36.  24).  Sends  the  Monthly  Miscellany 
for  November  last. 

c.  Jan.  5.  J.  Bennett  to  H.  (Rawl.  2.  104).  Talk  of  the  D.  of  M. 
bringing  over  a  peace  with  him.  '  Wee  have  had  such  Weather  this  Christmas 
as  has  not  been  known,  since  ye  famous  Great  Frost.  The  Thames  is  so  hard 
frozen  over,  that  People  walk  cross  continually ;  but  several  Children  venturing 
too  soon,  were  drowned.  And  then  it  has  snovv'd  so  prodigiously,  that  there 
is  scarce  any  Passage  in  ye  Streets.  The  Parliament  meet  on  Monday  to  pro- 
ceed on  Ways  &  Means ;  but  their  greatest  Difficulty  will  be  to  raise  ye 
Recruits.  I  wish  we  might  have  no  occasion  for  'em.'  Remarks  on  Dr. 
Gregory's  successor,  and  Trapp,  the  new  Professor  of  Poetry ;  Dr.  Sacheverel 
is  in  Town,  and  preaches  at  St.  Paul's  next  Sunday.  Queries  as  to  Grabe's 
J.XX  and  Selden  of  the  Judicature  in  Parliaments;  remarks  on  Livy,  Tully 
and  Homer. 

1  It  should  be  Henton,  and  so  in  the  MS*,  of  Leland. 


Jan.  3-18.]  VOLUME  XVIII,  PAGES  103-109.  163 

Jan.  9  (Sun.).  Tame  in  Oxfordsh.  a  place  of  Note  in  the  Saxon 
Times.  There  Oskytel  ArchbP.  of  York  dyed,  an.  970.  Saxon  Chron. 
p.  121. 

Jan.  11  (Tu.).  Consult  Hieronymus  Ferrarius,  qui  Philippicas 
orationes  Cic.  expurgavit.  Vide  Robortellum  de  Arte  critica.  N.  5.  .  . 

Jan.  13  (Th.).     Ptolemy  corrected  in  Camden's  Brit.  p.  318. 

Jan.  16  (Sun.).  Thomas  de  la  Moor's  History  of  K.  Edw.  IId.  was 
written  by  him  in  French,  and  afterwards  translated  into  Latin  by  Walter 
Baker,  alias  Swinborne,  Canon  of  Osney  besides  Oxford.  (And  so  'tis  to  be 


Jan.  8.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  118).  Has  received  papers, 
and  expects  more  copies  of  Ignatius.  The  V.  C.  promises  that  a  fit  allowance 
shall  be  made  to  H.  for  correcting  the  press,  and  shall  be  thrown  into  the 
charge  of  the  impression.  H.'s  account  might  have  been  comprised  in  one 
line.  Directions  for  presentation  copies.  H.  need  not  be  concerned  about 
Dr.  Charlett's  unjust  prejudice  against  him.  '  I  have  several  things  to  say  to 
you  about  your  owne  studyes  from  a  hint  Dr.  H.  gave  mee  of  your  having 
purchased  Dr.  Hlckei  Thesaurus.  I  wil  onely  say  to  you,  w*  frequently  occurs 
in  your  Cicero  in  his  letters  to  his  familiar  Friends,  Valetudinem  tuam  diligenter 
cura.' 

Jan.  10.  H.  Topping  to  H.  (Rawl.  10.  119).  Thanks  for  H.'s  letter, 
which  he  will  always  keep  by  him  as  one  of  the  choicest  things  he  has.  Has 
written  to  Mr.  Prescott,  Register  of  Chester,  asking  him  to  contribute  any 
materials  that  may  be  of  use  to  H.  ;  he  has  a  great  reputation  for  his  skill  in 
coins,  &c. 

Jan.  11.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  122).  The  V.  C.  expects  a 
presentation  copy ;  Dodwell's  may  be  sent  from  Oxford.  Has  declined  the 
guinea,  which  Dr.  H.  offered  him  twice,  as  being  still  in  S.'s  debt.  The  Dean 
gave  Dr.  H.  three  copies  of  the  Ch.  Ch.  Ignatius,  one  of  which  Hudson  will 
send  to  S.  H.  has  purchased  one  by  chance,  and  finds  it  the  best  performance 
that  has  yet  come  from  the  hands  of  his  ingenious  friend,  though  far  inferior 
to  S.'s.  Has  bought  Hickes'  Thesaurus  '  in  large  Paper,  neatly  bound.  But 
'twas  no  small  burden  to  my  Purse.'  Has  been  with  the  Warehouse-keeper, 
to  desire  him  to  get  S.'s  35  copies  ready,  but  received  for  answer  that  he  would 
not  deliver  so  much  as  one  book  till  he  had  express  orders  from  the  V.C.  him- 
self, and  that  'twas  not  usual  to  deliver  copies  out  to  any  man  till  books  were 
published.  '  I  leave  the  use  to  yourself.' 

Jan.  12.  O.  Oddy  to  H.  (Rawl.  16.  30).  Yesterday  in  company  heard 
an  Ass  upon  Record  cried  up  for  a  man  of  the  greatest  learning  in  the  world. 
Applies  to  Mill  the  words  of  Pedo  :  Quod  potuit  tribuisse  dedit ;  -victoria  parta 
est :  |  Auctor  abit  operis,  sed  tamen  extat  opus.  Congratulates  H.  on  undertaking 
Tully,  on  his  situation  and  opportunities :  '  here  every  Wheelbarrow  is  ready 
to  run  over  a  Man  of  letters.  Money,  Money  is  all  ye  Cry  :  How  go  Stocks, 
&  how  stands  ye  Bank.'  Our  Dio  &c.  sleeps  for  the  present.  Asks  H. —  who 
is  sans  complem*  Humanity  itself — to  look  into  a  few  books  named,  which  O. 
had  not  time  to  consult.  His  address  is  Mr.  Ogden's,  an  Apothecary's,  in  St. 
Katherine's  near  the  Cays. 

Jan.  13.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  ray.  119).  Directions  as  to 
presentation  copies.  Intends  to  come  to  Oxford  about  May  next,  to  discourse 
with  H.  at  large  about  his  papers.  Begs  H.  not  to  refuse  the  guinea  sent 
through  Dr.  H. :  '  I  wil  take  care,  that  there  shal  bee  no  occasion  given  of  any 
cooling,  much  less  of  any  rupture  of  the  friendship  I  have  with  you,  on  my 
part,  &  I  hope,  you  wil  do  the  like  on  yours :  wch  your  scrupulosity  forces  me 
even  against  my  inclination  to  suspect.'  Wishes  to  have  the  Ch.  Ch.  Ignatius, 
and  Leland  de  Scriptoribus  :  remarks  on  the  ed.  of  Ephraem  Syrus. 

M  2 


1 64  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

mention'd  in  the  Bodlejan  Catalogue).     See  Mr.  Stow's  Annals,  Ed.  fol. 
p.  227. 

Jan.  19  (Wed.).  [Notes  from  Camden's  Brit^\  .  .  .  For  Pliny's 
Epistles  see  Mr.  Dodwell's  Diss.  Cypr.  p.  246.  &  Reflexions  upon  his 
opinion  in  Tillemont's  Eccles.  Memoirs.  Tom.  2.  Part  2.  p.  18.  8°. 

Jan.  22  (Sat.).  This  Day  the  Delegates  of  the  Theater  Press  met,  to 
set  a  Price  upon  the  two  Books  printed  at  the  university  Charge.  The 
first  Ignatius's  Epistles  in  4to,  neatly  and  accurately  printed  by  the  care 
of  the  Learned  Dr.  Thomas  Smith,  who  besides  his  own  Notes  has 

10  published  the  postumous  Notes  of  BP.  Pearson.  The  Price  in  large 
Paper  is  four  shillings,  in  small  2s.  &  3d.  The  second  is  Leland  de 
Scriptoribus,  publish'd  from  the  MS*,  in  the  Bodlejan  Library,  by  one 
Ant.  Hall,  A.M.  &  fellow  of  Queen's  Coll.,  a  dull,  stupid,  sleepy  Fellow. 
The  price  5s.  large  &  4s.  small.  'Tis  in  two  8VO  Volumes,  &  he  was 
put  upon  it  by  Mr.  Thwaites,  and  was  assisted  by  divers  of  the  College 
besides,  tho'  here  is  not  one  new  observation  in  the  Book,  being  done 
purely  out  of  a  design  of  prejudice  to  Mr.  Thomas  Tanner,  A.M.  and 
Chancellor  of  Norwich,  who  about  fifteen  years  since  undertook  to 
publish  this  work  of  Leland's  (which  is  the  only  one  Mr.  Leland  left 

20  digested  for  the  Press)  with  large  Additions,  &  a  Continuation ;  &,  as  I 
saw  from  a  Letter  shew'd  me  sometime  since,  he  has  been  continually 
drudging  at  it,  no  one  day  escaping  without  some  Improvements.  So  that 
when  Mr.  Hall  put  the  Book  into  the  Press,  it  somewhat  startled  Mr. 
Tanner,  having  had  no  Letter  from  him  to  ask  his  Leave,  nor  has  he  so 
much  as  receiv'd  one  Line  since  from  him  about  it,  it  being  Mr.  Hall's 
opinion  that  Mr.  Tanner  ought  rather  to  have  written  to  him.  But 
however  Mr.  Hall,  &  the  rest  of  Queen's  Coll.  may  brag  of  the  Perfor- 
mance, they  are  &  will  be  condemn'd  by  all  men  of  Ingenuity  &  sincerity, 

Jan.  18.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Raw],  38.  123).  Very  much  concerned 
with  reading  S.'s  last  letter,  and  is  not  conscious  that  he  has  in  the  least 
violated  his  friendship.  As  there  was  some  part  of  the  two  guineas  remaining 
he  was  unwilling  to  accept  a  third.  The  V.G.  says  there  will  be  a  meeting  of 
the  Delegates  very  speedily,  and  that  then  order  shall  be  given  for  the  delivery 
of  S.'s  copies.  Cautions  S.  against  entering  into  any  correspondence  with  the 
editor  of  Leland,  or  any  other  of  Queen's  Coll.  Mr.  Hall  generally  condemned 
for  not  conferring  with  Tanner,  who  writes  that  he  has  spent  three  times  more 
money  in  procuring  materials  than  he  can  expect  for  the  copy,  and  looks  on 
Mr.  Hall's  action  as  a  breach  of  good  manners,  especially  when  there  is  such 
a  vast  quantity  of  unprinted  material  in  Bodley  and  other  libraries.  Mr.  Hall 
adds  nothing  of  his  own ;  he  is  a  great  admirer  of  Le  Clerc.  Dr.  H.  sends 
word  that  there  is  in  Bodley  a  duplicate  of  the  Swedish  Bible  (Riga,  2  vols). 

Jan.  20.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  120).  Mr.  Tanner  has  been 
very  ill  dealt  with,  but  he  should  have  published  his  ed.  of  Leland  13  or  14 
years  ago.  John  of  Boston  should  be  added  ;  S.  has  heard  that  the  MS.  was 
procured  for  him  from  Mr.  Gale,  who  is  said  to  have  received  it  from  Sir  W. 
Dugdale.  Mr.  Chamberlaine  has  a  Swedish  Bible,  with  several  others  in  the 
modern  languages.  Thinks  the  time  long  till  he  receives  his  copies  of  St. 
Ignatius. 

Jan.  21.  J.  Bear  to  H.  (Rawl.  2.  14).  Will  not  H.  undertake  Tully  ? 
Hopes  that  Hudson  goes  on  with  Josephus,  and  Potter  with  Clemens  Alex. ; 
mightily  pleased  with  the  Ch.  Ch.  Ignatius.  Recommends  H.  to  undertake  a 
good  ed.  of  Plutarch,  in  several  vols.  8vo. 


Jan.  16-28.]  VOL  UME  XVIII,  PA  GES  1 09-1 15.  1 65 

such  as  are  guided  by  a  publick  spirit,  &  are  not  for  discouraging  Men  of 
known  Abilities,  such  as  Mr.  Tanner  is,  who  is,  I  really  believe,  the  best 
qualify'd  (considering  his  own  Natural  Genius,  &  the  Great  Assistance 
from  Mr.  Wood's  Papers,  &  other  Papers  communicated  to  him  by 
Friends)  for  making  this  a  compleat  Work  of  any  Man  in  England.  Yet 
I  am  very  glad  the  Book  is  printed,  provided  he  had  had  Mr.  Tanner's 
Leave.  —  Clarke  a  Priest  executed  in  the  Beginning  of  K.  James  the 
Ist'8.  Reign.  He  writ  a  Dialogue  between  a  Gentleman  and  a  Scholar, 
concerning  The  obedience  $  Loyally  of  Subjects  towards  their  King.  See 
Stow's  Annals  Ed.  fol.  p.  831.  —  The  exact  manner  of  King  James's  10 
(I8*'8)  Style  of  Spelling  see  in  his  warrant  for  superseding  the  Execution 
of  Lord  Cobham  &c.  in  Stow's  Annals.  Edit.  fol.  pag.  833. 

Jan.  25  (Tu.).  [Notes  from  Camden's  Brit.,  Asser  Men.,  and  Godwin  de 
Episcopi  .] 

Jan.  28  (Pri.).  This  day  was  a  Convocation  at  nine  of  the  clock  to 
pass  several  Letters  for  Degrees.  Amongst  the  rest  was  one  for  Mr.  Charles 
Heron,  above  twenty  years  since  of  Queen's  College.  He  never  had  any 
Degree ;  but  being  a  Gentleman  of  Excellent  Parts,  and  of  great  skill  in 
Business,  he  was  taken  into  Favour  by  the  BP.  of  Exon,  afterwards  BP.  of 
Winchester,  Sir  Jonathan  Trelawny  to  whom  he  has  been  a  sort  of  20 
Steward,  &  for  his  signal  service  in  that  office  his  Lordship  has  been 
pleas'd  to  give  him  two  Livings,  for  holding  which  he  has  got  the 
Chancellor's  Letter  for  his  being  made  Dr.  of  Civil  Law.  The  Vice- 
Chancellor,  a  soft,  sneaking,  designing  Person,  as  I  have  often  hinted, 
was  (to  advance  himself,  if  possible,  to  a  BPPrick,  or  Deanery)  his  Friend  in 
the  Case  ;  but  the  Letter  was  thrown  out  by  a  great  Majority,  to  the  great 
Resentment  of  the  Vice-Chancellor,  &  his  Admirers.  The  same  Fate 
had  also  another  Letter  in  behalf  of  one  Burrough  a  Doctor  of  Law  of 
Leyden,  who  desired  he  might  have  the  Degree  of  Bach,  of  Law  conferred 
upon  him  here,  purely,  as  I  have  been  inform'd  from  good  hands,  to  30 
qualify  himself  for  a  good  fat  Living  in  England,  wch  it  seems  was 
design'd  for  him,  if  the  Project  (which  was  carried  on  also  by  the 
trimming  Vice-Ch.)  had  taken  effect.  But  we  have  had  sufficient  Experi- 
ence of  the  mischief  of  such  concessions,  particularly  from  Tim  Goodwin, 
that  unworthy,  illiterate  Fellow. 

But  notwithstanding  this  Baulk,  the  Vice-Chancellor  immediately  after 
the  Denyal  sent  away  to  the  Chancellor  for  other  Letters,  wct  his  Grace 
granted,  and  they  were  on  Tuesday  following,  being  February  the  first, 
read  in  a  full  Convocation  at  two  of  the  Clock ;  but  with  this  Alteration 


Jan.  24.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  36).  Suggests  the  publication  in  a 
separate  volume  of  his  Discourses  on  the  Bath  inscription  and  on  one  sent  him 
some  years  since  by  Mr.  Goetz  (now  Prof,  at  Leipsick),  and  also  that  on 
Dionysius ;  the  last  might  also  be  printed  in  a  fair  character  together  with 
Hudson's  forthcoming  text,  as  well  as  separately,  if  the  Dr.  wishes.  Messages 
to  Schelwig,  Wolf,  Fabricius  and  Dr.  T.  Smith.  P.S.  by  Brokesby. 

Jan.  25.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  124).  Sends  by  the  carrier 
3  large-  and  25  small-paper  copies  of  Ignatius,  beside  a  copy  of  the  Ch.  Ch. 
ed.  and  a  Catalogue.  The  Delegates  have  priced  the  book  at  4J.  large,  and 
2s.  id.  small.  They  '  were  mindiull  of  correcting,  which  however  I  did  not 
exspect,  what  I  did  being  purely  out  of  kindness  and  respect  to  you.' 


l66  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

that  Mr.  Burrough  should  have  only  the  Deg.  of  Bach,  of  Arts,  wcl1  was 
granted  by  a  great  Majority:  and  Mr.  Heron  carried  his  point  also  for 
the  Deg.  of  Dr.  of  L.  tho'  with  some  difficulty. 

The  Vice-Chancellor  having  gain'd  his  point,  (by  great  Application  & 
Address  to  the  several  Heads  of  Houses,  many  whereof  influenc'd  their 
respective  Societies)  on  Thursday  (Feb.  3)  Heron  was  presented  to  the 
said  Degree  of  Dr.  of  Laws,  but  wthout  having  his  Grace  propos'd  as 
'tis  the  sense  of  several  of  the  University  he  should  have  had.  This  is  a 
new  Instance  of  our  Ambitious,  self-interested  Vice-Chancellor's  Acting 

10  against  the  Credit  &  Honour  of  the  University,  wct  must  need  sink  in  it's 
Reputation  if  Degrees  are  made  so  easy,  &  given  to  those  who  were 
hardly  so  much  as  ever  in  it,  or  ever  did  any  service  to  it,  but  on  the 
contrary  are  perfect  Enemies  to  it. 

Feb.  4  (Pri.).  A  Coyn  of  Domitian's  found  in  the  Tin- Works  in 
Cornwall,  w0*1,  not  to  mention  other  Pieces  of  Antiquity,  is  an  Argument 
that  the  Romans  wrought  in  the  Tin-Mines  here.  See  J.  Childrey's 
Britannia  Baconica,  p.  7. — In  St.  Cleeres  Parish  in  Cornwall  upon  a 
plain  are  six  or  eight  Stones  like  those  on  Salisbury-Plain,  ibid.  p.  24. — 
Upon  Exmore,  in  Devonsh.  are  also  such  stones ;  and  one  of  them  hath 

20  Danish  Letters  upon  it,  directing  Passengers  that  way.  ib.  p.  28. — The 
Hotness  &  Tincture  of  the  Bath  waters  proceeds  from  Bitumen,  Sulphur, 
&  Nitre,  ib.  p.  33. — The  Countrey  about  Bath  full  of  Coal-Mines, 
especially  about  Bristoll,  &  the  Southermost  parts  of  Glocestershire,  &c. 
ib.  p.  32. — At  St.  Vincent's  Rock  is  a  well  of  warm  water,  like  the  Bath 
water  which  Johnson  in  his  Mercurius  Botanicus  is  of  opinion  proceeds 
from  a  vein  of  Iron,  wcl1  he  conceives  to  be  hid  there  in  the  Bowells  of 
the  Earth ;  but  Mr.  Childrey  notes  that  Iron  causes  no  such  Heat  to  ye 
waters,  instancing  in  other  waters  where  Iron  Mines  are,  w°h  give  no  such 
Tincture  &  Heat  to  them :  so  he  thinks  that  this  Effect  here  proceeds 

30  from  the  same  cause  that  ye  Bath-waters  do.     See  ibid.  p.  36. — Others 

Jan.  30.  H.  to  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  n).  Sends  collations  of*.  Re- 
marks on  Smith's  Ignatius.  Mr.  Prickett  has  lately  buried  his  wife. 

Feb.  1.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  (Rawl.  38. 125).  Sends  as  a  present  Leland 
in  sheets,  small  paper.  The  publisher  a  conceited  person.  '  Your  Ignatius 
was  fetch'd  away  from  the  Theater  very  fast  as  soon  as  the  Price  was  set  upon 
it,  which  made  the  Vice-Chancellor  raise  the  Price  to  zs.  (>d.  the  small  paper. 
Notwithstanding  which  the  Sale  continu'd  brisk  ;  which  Peisly  the  Book- 
seller being  inform'd  of,  he  has  bought  the  whole  Impression.  I  have  heard 
some  Foreigners  give  it  a  great  Character ;  but,  under  the  rose,  the  Dean  of 
Christ-Church  has  spoke  but  slightingly  of  it,  saying,  that  Mr.  Ledgard  could 
not  read  the  MS*.  This  I  had  from  a  friend  of  our's  that  din'd  with  him  on 
Sunday  last.  I  was  Yesterday  with  the  Vice-Chancellor  to  present  him  with 
your  Book,  but  he  could  not  be  spoke  with,  being  compell'd  by  the  Gout  to 
keep  his  Bed.  I  was  also  with  the  President  of  Magdalen,  but  his  servant  told 
me  he  was  busy.'  Dodwell  longs  to  see  the  book.  Dr.  H.  has  had  his  share 
of  the  gratuity  ordered  by  the  Delegates  for  correcting. 

Feb.  3.  O.  Oddy  to  H.  (Rawl.  8.  168).  The  state  of  learning  here,  and 
probably  at  the  other  end  of  the  Town  among  the  courtiers,  is  a  state  of  ignor- 
ance. Says  of  Alfred,  Macte  •virtute  esto!  Sends  respects  to  Dodwell.  Glad 
that  the  MSS.  of  Tully  answer  H.'s  expectation.  Davies'  altered  title  to  the 
Tusc.  Quxst.  seems  to  him  scarce  Latin.  Three  MSS.  of  Dio  must  be  collated 
—the  Florentine,  the  Vatican,  and  that  of  the  Augustine  Friars  at  Naples. 


Jan. 28-Peb. 6.]   VOLUME  XVIII,  PAGES  115-120.  167 

think  that  the  Heat  of  the  Bath-waters  proceeds  from  certain  chalky  stones 
wch  have  been  found  here  &  there  to  work  out  of  the  Ground.  See  ib.  p. 
38. — Mendip-Hills  in  Somersetsh.  afford  great  Abundance  of  Lead.  ib. 
p.  44. — Many  Iron  Mines  in  Sussex,  ib.  p.  57. — No  Mines  in  Kent,  but  a 
little  Iron  ab*.  Tunbridge,  ib.  p.  60. — That  part  of  Glouc.sh.  beyond  the 
River  Severn  (called  the  Forrest  of  Dean)  stored  with  Iron-Mines, 
ib.  p.  71. 

Feb.  5  (Sat.).  Dr.  Hickes  does  not  at  all  doubt  but  that  the  Author  of 
Peirce-Plowman  was  vers'd  in  the  Saxon  writers.  See  Thes.  Ltngg.  Sept. 
p.  103.  Lib.  i.  &  p.  107.  I0 

Feb.  6  (Sun.).  Unlawfull  to  bury  within  Cities.  See  Gutherius  de  Jure 
manium  lib.  II.  c.  33.  This  true  not  only  with  respect  to  Rome,  but  other 
Cities.  See  there.  They  buried  therefore  either  near  high  ways,  aut  in 
propriofundo,  aut  in  locis  publice  ad  sepulturam  assignaiis  vel  SC'°.  aut  De- 
curionum  decreto  datis.  ibid.  Yet  for  Persons  of  more  than  ordinary  Note, 
after  ye  Publication  of  the  Laws  of  the  XII.  Tables,  'twas  sometimes  per- 
mitted that  their  Bodies  should  be  buryed  within  the  City.  See  Alexandri 
Nigri  Historico-Mystica  Lectio  Maniliani  Bononiensis  Monumenti  in 
Caroli  Casaris  Malvasice  monument  Felsinea,  p.  298.  — Dr.  Gilbert 
Burnett  BP.  of  Sarum  has  lately  buried  his  wife.  It  may  be  observ'd  that  20 
this  was  his  third,  &  that  the  first  was  a  Scotch-woman,  the  Second  a 
Dutch-vt.  and  the  last  an  English  woman.  —  Girl  or  Gyrl  (wcl*  now  denotes 
a  wench]  formerly  signify'd  a  Man.  See  Dr.  Hickes  s  Thes.  p.  106.  It 
comes  from  the  Saxon  ceorl,  i.  e.  vir,  mas. 


Feb.  5.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  121).  Thanks  for  present  of 
Leland :  will  send  H.  his  judgment.  Expected  better  things  from  the  editor 
of  the  Ch.  Ch.  Ignatius;  mentions  an  oversight  in  his  own  ed.  The  Ch.  Ch. 
editors  clearly  had  the  use  and  perusal  of  our  clean  sheets ;  the  Dean  acted 
wisely  in  deferring  his  ed.  for  a  year.  Pleased  with  the  good  sale,  and  the 
confusion  of  a  certain  Doctor  [Charlett].  Masson's  Life  of  the  Younger 
Pliny.  Please  send  binder's  bill. 

Feb.  7.  R.  Roberts  to  H.  (Rawl.  9.  40).  Asks  H.  to  'go  to  one  Mr. 
Simmons,  a  Barber  who  lives  in  corn  market  Street  near  North  Gate  ...  to 
encourage  Him  to  make  me  a  wig:  I  am  in  a  manner  a  stranger  to  Him,  yet 
I  writt  to  Him  by  this  post  relating  to  the  matter,  w*  I  desire  of  you,  is,  to 
give  all  encouragement  you  possible  can  to  make  me  a  good  one  by  telling 
Him  y*  He  will  be  infallibly  paid  ye  sum  I  promised  Him  viz.  30  shillings  upon 
demand,  wch  I  design  (God  willing)  to  commit  to  yr  Hands  in  order  to  pay 
Him,  by  ye  time  y*  ye  wig  will  be  finished  wcb  I  hope  will  be  ready  by  Lady 
day.  I  am  mightyly  grieved  y1  I  can*  pay  my  remaining  creditor  in  yr  City, 
who  truely  is  ye  only  creditor  (God  be  praised)  y*  I  have  in  ye  world,  I  hope 
to  make  a  good  step  towards  it  by  Lady  day ;  at  wch  time  I  have  above  ten 
pounds  due  to  me  from  Dr.  Felling  who  is  as  indigent  as  myself  notwithstand- 
ing he  has  nigh  six  hundred  pounds  per  annum.  I  shall  make  great  effordsfor 
ye  said  sum  at  y*  time  but  I  despair  of  having  all.'  Please  ask  Mr.  John 
Jones  and  Mr.  Gunnis  to  encourage  this  barber  to  make  the  writer  a  good 
wig. 

Feb.  8.  Barnes  to  H.  (Rawl.  24.  17).  Thanks  for  your  penultimate 
rhapsody.  The  great  frost  retarded  the  work,  and  now  he  is  at  Hem- 
ingford,  to  meet  his  only  brother  Jacob,  who,  after  32  years'  absence, 
made  a  voyage  from  Virginia,  where  his  wife  and  children  are,  only  to  see  the 


1 68  H  EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

Feb.  9  (Th.).  Marius  Victorinus,  (Art.  Gram,  in  Putschtus,  col.  1456.) 
tells  us  that  in  Annius,  Lucullus,  Memmius,  &c.  the  Antients  did  not 
double  the  consonants,  but  they  put  a  note  over  \vcl1  signify'd  that  they 
ought  to  be  doubled.  —  Tignum  me  in  domicilio  suo  posuit  vElfredus  Angl. 
Rex.  e  fossa  post  octicennium  extrahi  atque  ea,  quam  vides  figura  donari 
jussit  Hon.  Dominus  Tho.  V.  Comes  de  Weymouth  A.  D.  1707. — A  MS*, 
of  Matt.  Westm.  inter  Codd.  Laud.  L.  44.  Mus.  193.  Fairfax  20.  Hatton. 
97. — Bp.  Spratt's  Hist,  of  ye  Conspiracy  .  .  .  not  entered  yet  in  our 
Catalogue. —  .  .  .  Bede  corrected  by  Junius,  amongst  his  MSSts  in  Bibl. 
10  Bodl.  num.  10. — Feb.  4*  Dr.  Hudson  had  of  me  6  small  Ignatius's  &  3 
large,  the  ist.  at  as.  pd.  per  Book,  the  latter  at  43.  6d. — i.  10  o.  .  .  . 


VOL.  XIX. 

[Notes  from  Pancirollus,  ed.  Graevius,  on  the  several  kinds  of  instruments 
made  in  the  Fabricae  of  the  Eastern  Empire  ;  also  from  Cujac.  Gothofred., 
Du  Fresne's  Glossary,  Johannis  a  Felden  Jus  Publicum  Justinianeum,  &c.  A 
box  for  Mr.  Roberts's  Wig  6d.  For  Carriage  of  his  Wig  to  London  6d.]  .  .  . 

Iron  is  found  in  many  Places  of  England,  as  in  Sussex,  Kent,  Weredale, 
Mendip,  Walshall,  as  also  in  Shropshire,  but  chiefly  in  the  Woods  betwixt 
Belnos  and  Willocke  near  Manchester,  and  elsewhere  in  Wales.  See 
20  Harrisons  Descr.  of  Brit.  p.  238.  Ed.  1587.  Is  dicitur  fabricensis,  qui  in 
fabricis  publicis  arma  cudit.  See  Vosst'us's  Etymolog.  voc.  faber. 
Besides  Pancirollus,  see  cone,  the  Fabrtcenses,  &  the  Barbaricarij,  NIC. 
Bergierium  de  Publicis  &  Militaribus  Imperij  Romani  vijs,  lib.  iv.  §  xxi, 
xxii.  where  he  has  in  substance  the  very  same  things  that  are  said  by 
Pancirollus.  —  ...  See  about  Fabrigesis  or  Fabriciesis,  and  Fabrica  &  Fab- 
ricia.  See  about  CALEGO  in  the  Bath  Inscription  communicated  to  me 
by  Mr.  Halley.  —  Mr.  Coytmore  of  Jesus  College  subscrib'd  to  Homer  small 
Paper — IDS. 

Feb.  12  (Sat.).  [Palaeographical  Notes  from  Schoppius  de  Arte 
30  Critica,  Jos.  Scaliger's  Grammatical  Index,  &c.]  .  . .  Ursatus,  de  notis 
Romanorum,  .  .  .  tells  us  that  the  XX*11  Legion  residing  in  Britain  was 
call'd  Valeriana  victrix.  He  quotes  the  55th  Book  of  Dio  for  it.  Pan- 
cirollus calls  it  Valeria  victrix.  —  Mr.  Thwaites  show'd  me  to-day  from  a 
very  good  &  antient  MS*,  in  BibL  Bodl.  that  in  S*.  Paul's  Ep.  i.  ad  Cor. 
c.  13.  v.  5.  for  OVK  avxwovfi  is  to  be  read  ov  Kavxnpovf'i,  w°h  answers  exactly 
to  the  vulgar  Latin  taken  notice  of  by  Dr.  Mill,  but  no  Greek  copie  that 
he  consulted  agreed  to  this  Reading,  wcl1  seems  to  be  right. 

Feb.  13  (Sun.).     Points  put  after  words  in  Inscriptions,  that  the  words 


writer.  Considers  two  pence  per  sheet  cheap  '  for  such  Work  and  Paper,  not 
to  say  pains,'  as  characterise  his  Homer.  Messages  to  the  noble  Dean  &c. 

Feb.  12.  Bagford  to  H.  (Rawl.  21.  7).  Thanks  for  Leland  and  account 
of  Boethius.  Sends  specimen  of  Gale's  ed.  of  Antoninus'  Itinerary.  '  ye  last 
weke  1  sent  you  a  parsell  and  among  them  you  have  a  Statute  Booke  printed 
at  large  in  ye  dayes  of  Queene  Elizabeth  which  is  no  smale  rarity  and  not  often 
sene  in  it  you  may  find  more  stepes  of  ye  Reformation  then  in  any  of  our 
Church  Historys.' 

Feb.  13.    H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  126).     Sends  some  detailed  cri- 


Feb.  9-15.]      VOL.  XVIII,  PAGE  1 20 — VOL.  XIX,  PA GES  4-1 2.   1 69 

might  not  be  confounded.  Yet  divers  have  no  Points.  Hence  very 
difficult  to  read  them  as  appears  from  the  Chron.  Marm.  &  the  Covenant 
between  the  Smyrn&ans  and  Magnesians.  And  even  the  two  first  words 
in  the  Dedicatio  S lattice  Regillce  Herodis,  publish'd  by  Salmasius,  are  con- 
founded, tho'  the  words  otherwise  are  there  all  along  seperated  from  one 
another.  The  two  first  words  are  Aefy'  ire,  but  in  the  Stone  itself 

AEYPITE.  Also  there  ME0HPQNHCI  for  fitff  f]po>vr)(Ti.—  .  .  . 
Feb.  14  (Mon.).  [Notes  from  Pancirollus  on  the  Fabricae  &c.] 
Military  Affairs  in  Britain  executed  by  3  several  Officers  under  the 
Magister  Militum  of  the  West,  w0*1  were  Comes  Britanniarum,  Comes  10 
Littoris  Saxonici,  and  the  Dux  Britanniarum  ;  but  the  whole  Island  being 
at  that  time  almost  overrun  by  Barbarians  we  have  no  Account  in  the 
Notitia  as  to  the  Forces  under  them,  nor  the  Places,  at  least  very  imper- 
fect.— Both  Britain  &  Spain  were  subject  to  the  Superintencie  of  the 
Prasfectus  Galliarum,  who  had  three  vicarij,  one  for  Spain,  the  second  for 
Gaul,  &  the  third  for  Britain.  The  Vicarius  Britanniarum's  Symbols  were, 
the  Draught  of  those  five  Parts  of  Britain  that  were  subject  to  the  Romans, 
wch  Were  call'd  Britannia  prima,  Britannia  secunda,  Flavia  Caesariensis, 
Maxima  Cassariensis  and  Valentia.  But  this  was  only  as  to  the  Civil 
Government.  For  the  Military  Government  the  Immediate  Officer  next  20 
under  the  Emperor  was  the  Magister  Peditum  Prsesentalis  &  the  Magister 
Equitum  Praesentalis,  who  had  under  them  six  Military  Counts  of  Pro- 
vinces, &  XII.  Dukes.  Amongst  the  Counts  was  the  Count  of  Britain,  & 
of  the  Saxon  Coast  or  the  Comes  littoris  Saxonici.  Amongst  the  Dukes 
was  the  Duke  of  Britain.  The  Count  of  Britain's  Government  was  in 
the  Southern  Parts  of  the  Island;  and  though  here  was  a  Duke  of 
Britain,  yet  it  seems  that  all  that  Part  of  the  Island  which  the  Romans  had 
when  the  Notitia  was  made  was  generally  under  his  Care,  and  the  Duke's 
Government  was  added  for  Assistance  to  him. 

Feb.  15  (Tu.).     [Notes  on  ancient  mines  in  England,  from  Childrey.]  30 

Look  into  a  Book  call'd  Yarrington's  England's  Improvement  by  Sea  $• 
Land,  publish'd  above  30  years  agoe.  —  Infinite  Quantities  of  Raw  Iron 
made  in  Monmouthshire  in  the  Forest  of  Dean.  Great  Deal  of  Iron 
Stone  there,  and  Cinders.  See  Yarrinton's  England's  Improvement  by 
sea  and  land  pag.  57.  Great  Deal  of  Pit  coals  there  also,  ibid.  The  best 

ticisms  on  Hall's  Leland.  Delivery  of  presentation  copies  of  Ignatius.  What 
S.  mentions  will  be  no  blemish  to  his  excellent  edition.  Had  already  purchased 
Mr.  Masson's  new  ed.  of  his  Life  of  Pliny  the  younger.  See  op.  cit.  p.  44 : 
'  'tis  no  wonder  no  lection  should  be  noted,  when  there  is  no  MS*,  in  the  World 
of  the  Xth  Book  now  extant  that  we  can  hear  of.  So  that  several  learned 
Men  doubt  of  the  Genuiness  of  it.  I  have  the  first  Edition  of  it,  which  is  said 
to  be  publish'd  from  a  MS*.  Yet  the  Lection  agrees  with  the  Vulgar  Editions. 
I  lent  it  to  Mr.  Masion  the  last  time  he  was  in  Oxford,  which  he  acknowledges. 
And  'tis  me  that  he  means  by  his  amicus  in  his  Dedication,  the  Copy  of  Pagi's 
Letter  being  communicated  by  me  to  him,  at  the  time  I  was  publishing  the 
Edition  of  Pliny.'  The  binding  of  the  V.  C.'s  copy  came  to  5^.,  the  others, 
being  plain  and  lettered,  to  is.  6d.  apiece. 

Feb.  14.  Benj.  Marshall  to  H.  (Rawl.  8.  2).  The  Bishop's  thanks  for 
Smith's  Ignatius  ;  please  keep  Grabe's  LXX  for  the  writer.  The  Bishop  will 
give  H.  encouragement  for  his  ed.  of  Cicero,  and  will  probably  subscribe  for 
half  a  dozen. 


170  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

Iron  there  produc'd,  &  the  Cinders  are  call'd  the  Roman  Cinders  ibid. 
That  shews  that  the  Romans  made  use  of  them.  The  sow  Iron  there 
made  of  the  Iron  Stone  &  Roman  Cinders  the  best  in  the  known  world — 
ibid.  In  Worcestershire,  Shropsh.  Staff,  sh.  Warwicksh.  &  Derbysh.  there 
are  great  &  numerous  quantities  of  Iron-works ;  and  there  is  much  Iron 
made  of  Metal  &  Iron  Stone  of  quite  different  Nature  from  that  in  ye 
Forrest  of  Dean.  ib.  p.  58. — The  Cinders  in  the  Forest  of  Dean  &  there- 
abouts (of  which  our  best  Iron  is  made)  is  nothing  else  but  the  Rough  and 
Offal  thrown  by  in  the  Romans'  time ;  they  then  having  only  foot-blasts  to 

10  melt  the  Iron  Stone,  but  now  by  the  force  of  a  great  wheel  that  Drives  a 
pair  of  Bellows  twenty  foot  long,  all  that  Iron  is  extracted  out  of  the 
Cinders  which  could  not  be  forced  from  it  by  the  Roman  Foot-blast. 
And  in  the  Forrest  of  Dean  &  thereabouts,  &  as  high  as  Worcester,  there 
are  great  and  infinite  Quantities  of  these  Cinders  ;  some  in  vast  Mounts 
above  Ground,  which  will  supply  the  Iron-works  some  Hundreds  of 
Years,  and  these  Cinders  are  they  which  make  the  prime  and  best  Iron, 
and  with  much  less  Charcoal  than  doth  the  Iron  stone.  Ibid.  p.  59,  60. 
Great  quantities  of  Coal  Pits  as  well  as  Coppices  or  Woods  where  the  Iron 
works  are.  ib.  p.  60.—  .  .  .  Cuthbert  Tonstall  publish'd  St.  Ambrose  in 

20  Apocalypsin,  at  Paris.  4*°.  C.  104.  Th.  not  taken  notice  of  by  A.  Wood. 

Feb.  16  (Wed.).  [Notes  from  Isidore  Origines  I.  1 9,  and  Justus  Lipsius 
in  Epistola  de  Distinctionibus^\ ...  —  Some  think  that  Pointing  began  under 
the  Emperor  Hadrian,  because  in  Suidas  'tis  said  of  Nicanor  the  Gram- 
marian that  he  writ  TTtpl  or/y^s  TOU  KadoXov  /3i/3X/a  e£,  and  also  nep\  o-Tiynrjs  TTJS 

Trap'  'Onr)pa),  KOI  TTJS  napa  KaXXi/ia^o).     Suidas  also  [says]  that  for  these  Books 

he  Was  by  Some  waggS  Call'd  ^Tiy^arLus — e'<p'  fj  irpay^iaTda  (TKcoTTTOfifvos  npos 

TIVOIV  ^Ttyfjiarias  eVcaXerro.  But  Suidas  is  to  be  understood  only  of  some 
endeavours  to  have  it  brought  in,  not  that  it  was  allow'd  off.  So  that  it 
was  brought  in  afterwards,  but  when  Lipsius  does  not  determin,  nor 
30  is  it  certain.  He  only  notes  that  the  best  Account  he  can  meet  with 
about  Pointing  is  in  Diomedes  the  Grammarian,  who  calls  it  Appositio 
puncti,  which  he  explains  from  Cassiodorus,  &  is  much  the  same  with 
what  I  have  given  out  of  Isidore,  namely  that  'twas  three  ways.  Putean 
also  notes,  that  the  Ancients  first  of  all  had  either  no  Points,  or  at  least  that 
their  Points,  being  full  Points,  were  after  every  word  (Eryc.  Putean.  De 
Distinct.  Syntagma  c.  iv.)  This  he  proves  from  Inscriptions,  quae 
nulla  omnino  puncta,  aut  ad  singula  verba  reprassentant.  That  there 
were  none  he  instances  in  Quintilian  ibid. 

Feb.  17  (Th.).     [Palaeographical  Notes  from  Gruter's  Inscriptions.]  .  .  . 

4°      Last   Saturday   (Feb.    i2)h)    at    4   Clock  in   the  afternoon  the  Rt. 
Honourable  the  Earl  of  Salisbury  was  married  in  Lincoln's  Inn  Chapell 
to  the  Lady  Anne  Tufton,  2d.  Daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Thannet. 
Feb.  18  (Fri.)  [Notes  from  MSS.  of  Tully  in  the  Bodleian  Library.] 

Feb.  19  (Sat.).  Yesterday  was  Sennight  died  Dr.  Lane,  formerly 
Fellow  of  Merlon  College,  an  Eminent  Civilian  of  Dr"s.  Commons.  — 


Feb.  19.    Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  122).     Has  been  suffering  for 
a  fortnight  from  a  terrible  fit  of  the  gout.     Dr.  Harwar  should  have  sent  his 


Feb.  15-26.]  VOLUME  XIX,  PAGES  12-21.  171 

<£0ar«  for  (fidavrcs  in  Origen's  Philosophoumena,  taken  Notice  of  by  Mr. 
Wolfius  in  his  Edition,  p.  16.  —  Our  Saviour  never  laugh'd  if  we 
believe  S*.  Chrysostom  Homil.  v.  in  Matth.  &  Salvian.  lib.  vi.  c.  5.  de 
Gubernat.  Dei,  &  Lentulus's  Epist.  to  Tiberius.  —  On  Wednesday  last 
Mr.  Caswell,  Superior  Beadle  of  Divinity  was  Elected  Savilian  Professor 
of  Astronomy  against  his  opposer  Mr.  John  Keil  of  X*.  Church. 

Feb.  21    (Mon.).      tyvatyav   for   fyvn^av   in  the   Baroccian  MS.  of 
Homer's  Iliads  (Num.  203.)  lib.  ult.  v.  274. 

Feb.  26  (Sat.).     [Notes  from  MS.  Bibl.  Bodl.  super  Art.  A.  2.  of  Tully's 
de  Divinat.J  ...  —   Ibid,  in  the  verses  out  of  Accius  there  is  in  the  MS.  10 
linquier  for  liquier,  wch  is  the  true  reading,  as  even  Gruter  &  Gronovius 
has  also  noted  out  of  the  best  MSS.     Liquier  came  into  y6  vulgg.  Edd. 


man  to  H.  after  his  two  visits  with  the  presentation  copy.  Fully  agrees  with 
H.'s  censures  on  the  publisher  of  Leland.  Bishop  Fell  intended  to  publish 
one  or  more  vols.  on  the  same  argument.  Wonders  the  Ch.  Ch.  people  are 
not  ashamed  of  their  Ignatius.  Wishes  to  be  informed  of  everything  relating 
to  his  own  book.  Hears  that  Caswell  will  succeed  Gregory,  and  hopes  that 
H.  will  succeed  the  former  as  Superior  Bedel  of  Divinity.  '  You  deserve 
better :  &  I  was  heartily  troubled,  that  you  were  nominated  [sic]  by  Archb.  T. 
to  a  fellowship  in  All-Soules.  But  however,  this  wil  do  better,  than  the  place, 
you  are  possessed  of  in  the  Library :  the  drudgery  of  wch  is  not  countervailed  by 
the  accruements  of  it.  I  hope,  that  if  you  succeed  in  your  just  pretensions, 
Dr.  H.  wil  take  care  that  you  shal  have  the  same  access  to  ye  Library,  as  you 
now  enjoy.' 

Feb.  25.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  37).  Has  acknowledged  the  Ignatius 
•  to  Dr.  Smith.  Will  suffer  Hudson  to  add  his  Discourse  to  the  ed.  of  the  text, 
provided  D.  may  have  a  separate  ed.  in  a  large  print  for  gratifying  his  other 
friends,  and  may  be  secured  against  any  transpositions  or  alterations.  Please 
let  Schelwig  know  that  D.  is  now  on  a  new  Disc.  cone.  Theophilus  and  the 
time  of  his  writing.  '  Excuse  my  writing  to  Mr.  Woolf.  I  have  a  natural 
averseness  to  writing.  But  the  present  weather,  and  the  badness  of  my  Ink, 
adds  very  considerably  to  the  averseness  of  my  nature  ...  I  would  much 
rather  discourse  than  write.'  Is  not  for  having  his  Discourse  on  the  Bath 
inscriptions  mangled.  Can  H.  find  a  bookseller  that  will  undertake  it  on 
tolerable  proposals  ? 

Feb.  26.  Matthew  Gibson  to  H.  (Rawl.  6.  90).  Was  presented  about 
ten  days  ago  to  a  living  far  beyond  his  expectation.  It  will  however  be  of 
little  present  benefit  to  him  ;  '  the  Gentleman  that  was  presented  to  it  about 
40  Years  agoe,  not  being  able  to  take  the  Oaths  which  were  Injoyn'd  at  The 
Revolution.  But  by  the  Favour  of  Dr.  Gregory  lately  deceased,  he  had  the 
full  Enjoyment  and  Profits  of  it,  which  he  shall  still  have  entirely  for  me ;  who 
am  very  amply  satisfied  with  the  Honour  my  Lord  has  conferr'd  upon  me, 
without  the  least  base  Thought  of  doing  him  any  Prejudice  in  the  Rightfull 
Possession  of  it.'  Wishes  H.  success  in  his  undertakings  of  Tully,  and  will  be 
proud  to  collate  or  to  transmit  to  H.  any  MSS.  or  printed  copies  worth  his 
observation  in  the  hands  of  any  gentlemen  in  these  parts. 

Feb.  27.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  127).  ...  'As  for  Mr.  Hall's 
Design  of  another  Vol.  of  English  Historians,  I  believe  at  present  'tis  nothing 
else  but  amusement,  he  being  a  Man  of  no  Industry,  it  being  common  with  him 
to  lye  abed  'till  very  near  dinner  time,  and  to  drink  very  freely  of  the  strongest 
liquors.  About  a  Fortnight  since  I  din'd  in  Queen's  College,  and  being  after- 
wards in  the  Common- Room  with  Mr.  Thwaites,  and  only  two  more  of  the 
Fellows,  Mr.  Hall's  advertisement  was  mention'd,  and  they  all  agreed  that  it 
should  not  have  been  added,  they  being  sure,  that  he  would  never  do  anything. 


172  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

wtbout  doubt  because   it  was   so   in  the   MS.   from   whence  the   first 
Impression  was  made,  the  Mark  for  the  n  being  wanting  in  it.  ... 


Mr.  Thwaites  at  the  same  time  condemn'd  the  latter  Part  of  his  Edition  of 
Leland,  as  being  negligently  done,  which  he  said  might  have  been  done  much 
better  if  he  would  have  condescended  to  have  let  him  look  over  the  Sheets,  as 
he  did  of  the  first  Part,  which  he  said  was  very  well  corrected,  and  accurately 
perform'd,  tho'  I  knew  the  quite  contrary,  notwithstanding  I  said  nothing.' 
On  Saturday  was  Sennight  the  title-page  of  Ignatius  was  wrought  off  in  order 
to  be  sent  to  London,  to  have  the  book  published  there.     '  Above  a  Year  and 
an  half  since  I  was  offer'd  a  Chaplainship  of  C.  C.  (without  any  Solicitation)  by 
the  President,  who  sent  one  or  two  of  the  Fellows  to  propose  it  to  me,  but 
'twas  with  this  Condition  that  I  should  keep  my  Post  in  the  Library  with  it,  the 
Ghaplainship  itself  being  not  a  maintenance.     He  farther  offer'd  that  I  should 
not  be  oblig'd  to  take  the  Oath  of  Abjuration,  which  was  extraordinary  kind : 
but  Dr.  Hudson  would  not  consent  that  I  should  keep  the  Library  and  Chap- 
lainship together :  so  I  waited  upon  the  President,  return'd  him  my  Thanks, 
and  told  him  the  Case.     He  was  extremely  civil,  and  wonderfully  urgent  with 
me  to  accept  it,  advising  me  to  propose  the  Matter  to  the  Curators.     I  told 
him  I  was  unwilling  to  do  that,  well  knowing  that  'twould  exasperate  my  kind 
Friend  Dr.  Hudson.     Upon  which  I  declin'd  it,  and  took  my  leave,  after  I 
had  acquainted  him  that  I  intended  the  next  Vacancy  to  put  up  for  Superior- 
Beadle  :  at  hearing  of  which  he  seem'd  something  concern'd,  and  plainly  told 
me  that  that  Post  would  be  very  difficult  to  get ;  yet  Dr.  Hudson  had  as- 
sur'd  me  to  the  contrary,  he  being  the  Person  that  first  propos'd  it  to  me, 
saying  that  my  Prospect  was  certain,  and  that  for  that  reason  I  should  not 
take  the  Chaplainship.    I  therefore  follow'd  his  Advice,  as  likewise  I  did  when 
another  Chaplainship  at  All-Souls  was  soon  after  offer'd,  but  with  the  same 
Condition  that  I  should  not  resign  my  Place  in  the  Library,  which  Condition  . 
when  Dr.  Hudson  heard  he  would  not  in  the  least  submit  to.     Upon  Prospect 
of  Mr.  Caswell's  succeeding  Dr.  Gregory,  Mr.  Hackett  formerly  Gentleman 
Commoner  of  Merton  College  made  Interest  for  Beadle ;  upon  which  my 
Friends  desir'd  me  to  move  forthwith,  which  accordingly  I  did,  letting  the 
University  know  that  I  design'd  to  appear.    My  Pretensions  were  approv'd  off, 
and  'twas  commonly  said  that  I  should  certainly  be  the  man.     Soon  after  we 
had  news  that  Mr.  Cooling,  Bach,  of  Law,  Fellow  and  Sub-Warden  of  New 
College  appear'd,  and  had  the  Vice-Chancellor,  your  College,  and  a  great 
many  more  on  his  Side :    which  prov'd  true  enough,  the  Vice-Chancellor 
having  got  all  Queen's,  except  one  or  two,  and  divers  others  to  be  for  him. 
But  notwithstanding  this,  I  should,  in  the  opinion  of  observing  men,  have  out- 
number'd  him,  had  not  Mr.  Lhuyd  of  the  Museum  struck  in.     Upon  notice  of 
which,  all  my  Friends  agreed  that  Mr.  Lhuyd  and  I  must  adjust  matters,  and 
not  oppose  one  another,  unless  we  design'd  both  to  loose  it.    I  easily  assented, 
especially  when  soon  after  we  had  news  of  the  Death  of  Mr.  Hackett,  whose 
Interest,  except  two  or  three,  went  over  to  Cooling.     In  the  Evening  of  the 
same  Day  that  we  heard  of  Mr.  Caswell's  being  elected,  I  met  Mr.  Lhuyd, 
and  tho'  upon  conferring  our  Interest  it  appear'd  that  I  had  a  Majority  of 
Voices,  yet  because  he  is  Senior,  is  a  man  of  far  better  merits  than  I  can  pre- 
tend to,  and  withall  because  he  is  my  intimate  Friend,  I  fairly  agreed  to  desist. 
I  had  not  done  this  so  soon  had  not  Dr.  Hudson  that  Afternoon  in  the  Public 
Library,  and  in  Mr.  Halley's  Hearing,  told  me  that  'twould  be  the  better  way, 
adding  that  he  was  sure  that  all  my  men  would  upon  that  go  over  to  Mr. 
Lhuyd,  but  that  not  one  of  Mr.  Lhuyd's,  in  case  he  should  desist,  would  come 
over  to  me.     But  to  confront  the  Dr.  Mr.  Halley  told  him  immediately  that 
he  would  be  for  me,  but  that  he  would  not  vote  for  Mr.  Lhuyd,  but  would 
stay  at  home  all  the  time  of  the  Election.     And  to  shew  that  the  Dr.  was  out 
in  his  Assertion,  several  of  my  Friends  since  we  made  up  the  Matter  de- 


Mar.  2-6.]  VOLUME  XIX,  PAGES  21-23.  173 

March  2  (Wed.).  Leland's  Itin.  to  be  consulted,  vol.  viii.  p.  7.  — 
Enquire  after  Sylburg's  Edition  of  Patres  Apologetici  breviores  printed 
at  Paris  in  1594.  fol.  typis  Commelinis.  —  Caligationem  for  Colh'ga- 
lionem  in  the  abovesaid  MS.  of  Tully,  ad  lib.  i.  §.  127.  de  Divinat. — In  Ep. 
i.  Cor.  c.  13.  v.  4  is  nepneptveTai,  the  true  signification  of  w°k  is  procaciter 
loquitur,  as  appears  from  Ephrem  publish'd  by  Mr.  Thwaites  323.  It 
bears  an  analogous  sense  to  Trappijo-idfo/im,  with  which  it  is  joyn'd. 

March  5  (Sat.).  There  is  newly  publish'd  Vita  Stephanorum  cum 
Calalogo  librorum  ab  tilts  impressorum,  in  a  thick  8V°.  by  Mr.  Mattaire, 
who  writ  De  Dialectis  greeds.  This  book  was  formerly  publish'd  by  Mr.  I0 
Almeloveen,  but  that  growing  scarse,  Mr.  Mattaire  undertook  to  print  it 
again,  and  his  Improvements  are  so  large  as  to  make  it  seem  quite  a  new 
thing. 

March  6  (Sun.).  Last  night  died  Mr.  Smethurst  (James)  Fellow  of 
Brasnose  College,  and  Senior  Proctor  of  the  university  of  Oxford, 
leaving  the  Character  behind  him  of  a  good  Scholar,  an  Honest  Man, 
and  of  a  true  and  faithfull  Friend  to  his  College,  in  which  he  was  the 


clar'd  for  Cooling.  I  hope  however  that  Mr.  Lhuyd  will  carry  his  Point,  tho' 
'twill  infallibly  be  with  very  great  Difficulty,  especially  if  Mr.  Caswell  continues 
Beadle  six  Months  longer,  as  'tis  said  he  will,  insisting  upon  the  Statute.  Thus 
have  1  miss'd  of  a  Place  which  would  have  been  very  agreeable  to  me,  and  have 
made  my  Studys  much  more  easy  than  they  are  at  present.  But  I  am  per- 
fectly contented.'  Has  disposed  of  his  copy  of  the  Ch.  Ch.  Ignatius.  Learns 
from  Mr.  Wolfius  that  S.  has  made  kind  mention  lately  of  H.  in  a  letter  to 
Wolfius. 

March  1.  Maurice  Atkins  to  H.  (Rawl.  14.  17).  Will  pay  for  cut  on 
receipt  of  plate;  let  it  be  in  the  title,  which  please  show  before  it  is  worked. 
How  many  sheets  does  the  book  make  ? 

March  5.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  123).  Is  pretty  well  re- 
covered. Sorry  that  H.  has  desisted  from  keeping  up  his  pretensions  to  the 
place  of  Superior  Bedel  in  favour  of  Mr.  Llhuyd.  '  Wee  are  here  under  a 
perfect  infatuation,  and  God  onely  knowes,  what  will  become  of  the  Church  of 
E.  If  it  bee  further  depressed,  not  to  say,  ruined,  it  is  no  more  than  w*  they 
have  deserved,  and  it  is  but  a  natural  consequence  of  their  defection.  They 
are  now  striking  at  the  foundations  of  the  Colleges  of  both  Universityes,  under 
the  pretense  of  having  the  Statutes  repealed,  wch  oblige  the  Fellowes  to  take 
H.  orders:  but  it  is  visible,  that  there  is  a  Snake  in  the  grasse,  and  the  de- 
signe  is  mischievous,  upon  the  Supposition  of  their  being  established  in  the 
times  of  ignorance  and  Superstition  :  wch  will  equally  hold  to  diminish  the 
number  of  Dignityes  in  Cathedrals,  and  by  degrees  draw  on  the  sacrilegious 
invasion  of  their  revenues,  to  maintaine  this  holy  warre  against  Popery,  and 
introduce  Presbyterian  parity  &  poverty  among  our  Clergy.  Heu  pietas,  et  [sic] 
friscajides.  It  is  said  here  that  this  scandalous  &  wicked  pamphlet  came  from 
Oxon.  th6  for  a  blind  the  Author  gives  Cambridge  the  preference.'  Agrees  with 
Dr.  Hudson  that  H.'s  accepting  of  a  chaplainship  would  have  been  inconsistent 
with  his  place  under  him  in  the  Library.  '  Hee  is  your  perfect  friend,  &  I 
beeleive  will  serve  you,  when  he  can  or  may,  to  the  utmost  of  his  power.* 
Has  written  a  letter  to  a  friend,  containing  reflections  on  the  Ch.  Ch.  Ignatius, 
to  be  disposed  of  as  judged  fit  after  his  decease. 

March  6.  H.  to  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  9).  Sends  last  Iliad;  has  taken 
notice  throughout  of  the  most  minute  variations.  Dr.  H.  working  for  sub- 
scriptions ;  he  did  not  speak  to  Mr.  Paul  as  if  himself  thought  B.'s  Homer  too 
dear.  Death  of  Mr.  Smethurst,  B.  N.  C.  Election  of  Mr.  Caswell. 


174  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

chief  Tutor.  —  Dr.  afterwards  BP.  Burnett  us'd  often  to  come  to  Sr. 
William  Dugdale,  on  purpose  to  Benefit  himself  by  conversing  with  that 
Learned,  Religious,  and  Worthy  Kn*.  But  after  he  had  publish'd  his 
History  of  the  Reformation,  coming  to  Sr.  William,  after  some  Discourse 
had  pass'd  they  fell  into  the  Subject  of  that  History,  when  Sr.  William 
plainly  and  freely  told  him  that  he  was  a  Knave,  which  Dr.  Burnett 
resented  so  much  that  he  left  off  all  Correspondence  with  him,  as  I  have 
been  inform'd  by  Sr.  William's  Great  Grand-son,  now  Gentleman 
Commoner  of  Univ.  College.  —  Last  Night  was  publish'd  in  Oxford 
10  Dr.  Smith's  Accurate  Edition  of  S*.  Ignatius's  Epistles  in  4*°,  &  Leland's 
Book  de  Scriptorib.  in  8V0.  the  last  by  one  Mr.  Hall  A.M.  and  Fellow  of 
Queen's  College,  in  which  he  has  commited  most  gross  Errors  as  I  find 
by  comparing  only  the  first  Sheet  with  the  MS*,  which  neither  himself 
nor  the  Persons  he  imploy'd  could  read.  'Tis  also  full  of  Typographical 
Errors. 

March  7  (Mon.).  Homer's  Batrachom.  to  be  consulted  &  collated  for 
Mr.  Barnes.  See  Cod.  Baroc.  46.  fol.  180.  Also  num.  50.  fol.  358.  and 
num.  64.  num.  71.  is  also  mark'd  in  the  Printed  Cat.  but  wrong,  as  like- 
wise is  1 66. 

20  March  9  (Wed.).  [Coin  of  Vespasian  given  to  the  Bodleian  Library  by 
Mr.  Wase  of  C.  C.  C.,  and  three  coins,  (i)  consular,  (2)  of  Constantine  the 
Great,  (3)  of  Valentinian,  shewn  to  Hearne  by  Mr.  Tho.  Blake  of  Oxford.] 

March  10  (Th.).  On  Tuesday  Night  about  6  Clock,  Mr.  Smethurst  the 
Senior  Proctor  was  buried  in  Bras.  Nose  Coll.  Chapell.  The  Speech 
was  made  by  Mr.  Dod,  one  of  the  junior  Fellows.  —  This  Morning  at 
9  Clock  was  a  Congregation,  when  Mr.  Caswell  was  admitted,  by  Virtue 
of  the  Electors  Instrument,  Professor  of  Astronomy  in  Room  of  Dr. 
Gregory. 

March  11  (Fri.).      This  Morning  at  8  Clock  was  a  Convocation  for 
30  Electing  a  Superior  Beadle  of  Divinity  into  the  Place  of  Mr.  Caswell. 
Upon  Prospect  of  a  Vacancy,  Mr.  Hackett  formerly  Gentleman-Com- 
moner of  Merlon-College,  afterwards  married  &   lived  in   S*.  Aldate's 


March  7.  Thoresby  to  H.  (Rawl.  10.56).  Mightily  pleased  with  H.'s 
contribution  to  the  Monthly  Memoirs.  Saw  Sloane  and  Woodward  in  London. 
'  I  constantly  attended  ye  R.  S.  every  Wednesday  in  yr  Room  near  his  lodg- 
ings at  Gresham  Col :  wr  besides  my  old  friends  and  acquaintance,  I  met  with 
several  new  ones  lately  added,  as  Seignr  Cornaro  ye  Venetian  Ambassadour, 
whose  hand  &  signet  (with  ye  hontle  Augmentation  to  his  Arms,  relating  to 
the  Union)  I  have  in  my  traveling  Album,  togethr  with  ye  Autographs  of  ye 
famous  Spanhemius  (who  was  surprized  with  ye  Cat.  of  my  Coins,  &  took  ex- 
cerpta  of  some  rare  ones)  who  resides  in  ye  same  Quality  from  ye  King  of 
Prussia,  Sr  Isaac  Newton,  &  many  other  Learned  Authors.'  Carried  up  the 
additions  and  emendations  for  the  new  ed.  of  Gibson's  Camden.  The  Bp.  of 
Carlisle  told  him  that  the  coin  mentioned  by  H.  is  in  the  new  ed.  of  Occo  and 
Mediobarbus.  Remarks  on  Burgdunum  and  Burdenbead.  Autographs  received 
from  Sir  A.  Fountaine.  Dr.  Hickes  has  perused  his  MS.  topography,  and 
gives  him  great  encouragement. 

March  9.  J.  Spavan  (the  Savoy)  to  H.  (Rawl.  9. 129).  Enquires  as  to  the 
possibility,  conditions,  expense,  &c.  of  taking  a  B.C.L.  degree  at  Oxford  with- 
out residence,  from  which  he  is  prevented  by  the  cure  of  near  thirty  thousand 
souls. 


Mar.  6-12.]  VOLUME  XIX,  PAGES  23-32.  175 

Parish,  made  some  motion  for  it;  upon  which  the  writer  of  these 
matters  was  immediately  advis'd  by  his  Friends  to  stir  for  it,  wch  accord- 
ingly he  did,  as  did  also  Mr.  Cooling,  Bach,  of  Law  &  Subwarden  of  New- 
College.  Not  long  after  Mr.  Lhuyd,  Keeper  of  Mr.  Ashmole's  Musdum, 
put  in  :  upon  which,  he  being  my  intimate  Friend,  &  (to  omitt  other 
reasons)  being  my  Senior  in  the  university,  as  soon  as  we  had  news  of 
Mr.  Caswell's  being  made  Professor,  I  met  Mr.  Lhuyd,  and,  notwith- 
standing I  had  a  Superior  Interest,  clos'd  with  him  :  it  seeming  impos- 
sible that  either  of  us  should  carry  it,  if  we  stood  it  out.  By  this  means 
Mr.  Lhuyd  (tho'  some  of  my  Friends  went  over  to  Cooling)  rais'd  his  10 
Strength  so  much  that  upon  casting  up  the  votes  it  appear'd  that  he  had 
20  more  than  Cooling,  Mr.  Lhuyd  having  196,  and  Mr.  Cooling  176. 
This  Business  has  been  a  very  considerable  Baulk  to  old  Smoothboots 
the  Vice-Chancellor,  who  left  no  Stone  unturn'd  to  get  it  for  Cooling, 
who  nevertheless  would  not  have  had  near  so  many  if  he  had  not  procured 
a  great  number  of  bad  Votes.  This  Cooling  is  a  Boon-Companion,  & 
good  for  nothing  but  eating,  drinking  &  smoking,  having  not  one  dram 
of  Learning  ;  wch  'tis  likely  got  him  so  much  the  more  Interest.  (Several 
People  told  me  after  the  Election  y*  if  I  had  stood  it  out  I  should  have 
carried  it  against  both  Mr.  Lhuyd  and  Mr.  Cooling.)  20 

March  12  (Sat.).  Mr.  Stanley,  Fellow  of  Brazen-nose  Coll.  is  made 
Senior  Proctor  in  room  of  Mr.  Smithurst  deceas'd.  He  was  before  Pro- 
Proctor.  —  On  the  9th  Instant  died  the  Duke  of  Montague,  of  a 
Pleurisy,  in  the  71st  year  of  his  Age,  between  5  and  6  of  the  Clock  in  the 
Afternoon.  The  same  Day  in  the  Morning  his  Son  and  Heir  the  Mar- 
quess of  Monthermer  was  bless'd  with  a  Daughter.  —  Proposals  are 
printed  for  printing  by  Subscription  the  Works  of  that  Notorious  Repub- 
lican Samuel  Johnson,  commonly  call'd  Julian  Johnson,  in  folio.  —  The 
Grammar  Lecture  becoming  vacant  by  the  Death  of  the  Senior  Proctor, 
&  a  Person  to  be  elected  into  the  same  for  the  remaining  half  Year  by  ye  30 
Statutes  lying  in  the  Nomination  of  the  Heads  and  Masters  of  Halls,  a 
Meeting  for  that  Election  was  held  to-day  in  the  Apodyterium,  when  Mr. 
Thead,  of  New-Inn-Hail,  was  chosen. 


March  13.  G.  Pole  to  H.  (Rawl.  9.  15).  Sends  money  for  binding  of 
Livy.  Has  had  some  difficulty  in  getting  Ductor  Historicus.  Please  keep  a 
copy  of  Alfred.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  128).  'Since  my  last  I 
was  with  Peisley,  and  told  him  that  I  suppos'd  the  Ignatius  was  almost  gone. 
He  said  nothing  more  than  that  he  hop'd  'twould  go  off  in  a  little  time.  It 
was  not  publish'd  here  till  Saturday  Night,  being  the  5th  Instant.  Leland  was 
publish'd  at  the  same  time.  I  find  them  both  since  in  the  Daily  Courant.  They 
add  them  together  on  purpose  that  Ignatius  may  carry  off  Leland,  of  which 
however  there  were  (as  they  say)  but  500  printed.  Because  you  desire  me  to 
let  you  know  all  circumstances  relating  to  the  Fate  of  Ignatius,  I  cannot  but 
now  acquaint  you  that  about  a  Month  before  it  was  finished  Dr.  Grabe  came 
to  Dr.  Hudson  and  desir'd  of  him  that  the  Book  might  be  put  into  some 
proper  Judges  Hands  before  it  was  publish'd,  particularly  the  Dean  of  Christ- 
Church's.  The  Dr.  referr'd  him  to  me.  Accordingly  he  came  to  me,  and 
mention'd  the  same  thing,  adding  withall  that  some  of  the  Sheets  should  be 
dispers'd  in  Book-sellers  shops,  and  he  wonder'd  you  had  not  given  such 
Directions.  I  told  him  plainly  I  had  no  such  Orders,  nor  could  I  ever  re- 
member to  have  seen  any  Instance  of  it.  Besides  I  told  him  that  I  would  not 


176  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

March  16  (Wed.).  Cod.  MS.  2  Carol!  Hattoni  in  Bibliotheca 
Bodlejana  est  Juvenalis,  in  membranis,  tercentis  aut  circiter,  abhinc  annis 
nitidissime  scriptus  ;  cujus  ad  initium  hanc  notam  inveni :  Hoc  opus  est  h 
mePetro  Carmeliano  emptum  die  xiii  Decembris  M°.CCCCLXXXXI°.  in 
civitale  London,  pretio  duorum  nobilium  auri.  —  Tully  himself  when  a 
Child  learn'd  the  XII.  Tables,  as  a  necessary  Poem,  which  however  he  said 
afterwards  were  so  neglected,  as  that  no  body  learned  them .  Discebamus 
enim  pueri  xh\  ut  carmen  necessarium  :  quas  jam  nemo  discit.  De  Leg.  L. 
ii- §-59 

in  the  least  consent  to  hearken  to  his  Proposal,  which  tended  so  much  to 
abuse  my  Friend,  and  to  bring  upon  me  an  indelible  Mark  of  Insincerity.  He 
still  urg'd  me,  and  said  that  'twas  what  he  did  himself.  I  told  him  that  sup- 
pose that  was  true,  yet  I  could  see  no  reason  that  you  should  take  the  same 
Method,  since  I  was  very  sensible  that  you  had  consulted  competent  Judges, 
and  that  you  did  not  use  to  write  in  Post-Hast.  So  I  left  him,  and  I  did  not 
comply  in  a  single  tittle.  Mr.  Caswell  was  admitted  Professor  in  a  Congrega- 
tion at  9  Clock  on  Thursday  Morning  last,  and  next  day  (contrary  to  what 
had  sometime  before  been  exspected)  at  8  Clock  was  a  Convocation  for  filling 
up  the  Beadle-ship.  Mr.  Lhuyd  had  196,  and  Mr.  Colinge  176  Votes.  I  am 
heartily  glad  Mr.  Lhuyd  (who  had  not  a  Farthing  Salary  from  the  Museum, 
but  only  made  what  he  could  by  Shewing,  as  I  do)  has  carried  his  Point,  which 
is  purely  owing  to  my  desisting.  Most  people  say  I  had  a  much  better  interest 
than  he,  and  I  am  pretty  sensible  of  it ;  but  I  would  not  stand  contending, 
since  by  so  doing  we  should  have  both  infallibly  lost  it.  This  is  a  great  Baulk 
to  the  Vice-Chancellor,  who  made  all  the  Interest  possible  for  Colinge,  who 
has  nothing  to  recommend  him  but  a  good  personable  appearance,  without 
one  Dram  of  Learning.  Yet  for  all  that  most  of  the  Heads  of  Houses  were 
for  him.  I  should  be  exceeding  glad  if  I  had  some  such  post,  by  which  I  might 
follow  my  Studies  with  greater  Ease,  and  be  able  to  be  a  Benefactor  to  that 
Place  to  which  I  ow  so  much,  I  mean  the  Publick  Library.  I  had  resolv'd  to 
have  given  5  or  ten  Pounds  per  annum  to  that  Place  out  of  my  Perquisites  if 
I  had  succeeded,  besides  what  I  intended  at  my  Death ;  which  Resolution 
was  made  not  out  of  any  Vanity,  but  merely  with  a  true,  honest  Design  of 
promoting  Learning.  But  God  knows  now  when  I  shall  be  in  any  manner  of 
Capacity  of  performing  such  a  service.  I  submit  intirely  to  his  Will,  and  am 
altogether  content.  I  desire  you  would  keep  this  as  a  Secret,  I  having  not 
revealed  it  to  anyone  besides,  that  I  might  avoid  (if  possible)  everything  that 
borders  upon  Vanity,  or  looks  like  a  Design  of  purchasing  a  Place.  'Tis  talk'd 
here  that  one  of  All-Souls  Coll.  was  author  of  the  scandalous  and  wicked 
Pamphlett  you  mention,  being  mov'd  to  it  by  reason  that  the  Warden  designs 
to  declare  his  and  some  others  Places  vacant,  upon  account  of  their  neglecting 
to  take  H.  Orders,  as  the  Statute  appoints.'  Hopes  to  get  some  day  a  copy 
of  the  Ch.  Ch.  Ignatius. 

c.  March  15.  Barnes"  to  H.  (Rawl.  24.  30).  Thanks  for  Q,  received 
about  a  week  since.  The  work  goes  on  as  well  as  the  weather  will  permit. 
'  There  is  a  Zoilus,  whom  you  all  know,  y*  has,  as  I  hear,  talk'd  heinously 
of  me  &  ye  Work ;  but  because  I'll  forgive  him,  &  so  convert  him,  or 
heap  coals  of  fire  on  his  head,  &  am  sure  to  make  him  a  Lyar,  I'll  not  tell  you 
his  Name,  tho  he  has  been  already  known  for  opposing  some.'  Messages  to 
friends. 

March  19.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  124).  -Comments  severely 
upon  Grabe's  attempt  to  prevail  on  Hudson  and  H.  to  put  Ignatius,  not  long 
before  it  was  published,  into  '  some  proper  judge's  hands,'  and  particularly  into 
Dr.  Aldrich's.  He  is  troubled  that,  by  the  wickedness  of  the  times,  he  is  ren- 
dered incapable  of  serving  H.  as  he  wishes  and  desires.  Remarks  on  Llhuyd's 


March  16-26.]  VOLUME  XIX,  PAGES  32-38.  177 

March  23  (Wed.).  There  is  just  publish'd  Tully's  Tusculan  Ques- 
tions, with  a  Commentary  by  Mr.  Davis  of  Cambridge,  in  8V0.  To  which 
are  added  divers  Emendations  by  Dr.  Bentley.  —  In  the  Courant  for 
last  Night  is  a  large  Advertisement,  put  in  by  Mr.  Tanner,  signifying  that 
his  Bibliotheca  Britannica  will  be  shortly  put  into  the  Press,  in  which  he 
will  give  a  large  Account  of  the  British  Writers,  to  the  Year  i7oo(q)  and 
will  likewise  print  Leland  and  Boston  of  Bury  with  it,  the  former  of  which 
will  be  larger  than  Hall's  corrupt  Edition  at  Oxford,  by  ye  Help  of  a  MS4, 
at  Cambridge. 

March  26  (Sat.).     [Out  of  Mr.  Dodesworth's  MSS.  Coll.  Vol.   XXII.  10 
f.  152.  a.  E  Registro  Ayloffe  fol.  22.  1519.  22.  Aug.  (Will  of  John  Colet,  Dean 
of  St.  Paul's).] 

Sr.  William  Dugdale  says  that  Hen.  IA  Norris  (who  liv'd  temp.  Eliz.) 
was  buried  at  Rycott ;  which  is  a  Mistake,  he  being  buried  at  Inglefield  in 
Berks,  as  appears  from  the  Parish  Register.  Consult  Mr.  Hinton  about 
the  Year  and  Day.  His  3d.  Son  Edward  is  likewise  buried  there.  And 
the  Lady  Elizabeth  Norris  Countess  of  Kelly,  who  perhaps  was  his 
Daughter  in  Law.  See  Dugdale. 

election,  and  his  obligations  to  H.  for  desisting.  '  I  have  several  manuscript 
papers  of  my  ovvne  &  of  others,  wch  I  should  bee  glad  to  see  printed,  before  I 
retire  into  my  grave :  but  I  have  done  wth  Oxon,  where  I  have  met  wth  such 
ill  usage  :  but  however,  if  I  should  be  induced  to  make  anything  public,  I  wil 
have  recourse  to  Cambridge,  where  I  know,  I  shal  be  wel  received :  for  I  wil 
send  no  more  bookes  into  Holland  to  bee  defac'd  &  mangled  by  ignorant  and 
careless  Correctors.'  Please  send,  to  oblige  a  friend,  a  summary  of  Dean 
Colet's  will  (a  copy  of  which  is  in  Dodsworth's  Collections,  4164.  vol.  22.  p. 
194  b). 

March  21.  H.  to  Thoresby.  Printed  :  Correspondence  of  Ralph  Tboresby, 
ii.  146  sq. 

March  26.  D.  Evans  (Carmarthen)  to  H.  (Rawl.  5.  i).  Asks  H.  to 
read  over  the  first  three  tracts  of  his  book,  to  correct  any  errors  he  meets 
with,  and  to  give  it  to  a  printer  or  book-seller,  only  stipulating  that  the  author 
is  to  receive  a  certain  number  of  copies. 

March  27.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  129).  Glad  that  he  has  had 
some  small  share  in  handing  so  excellent  an  edition  as  S.'s  Ignatius  to  the 
public,  and  that  the  author  ot  the  Centura  lemporum  has  done  S.  so  much  jus- 
tice. Will  send  a  short  relation  of  Dr.  C.'s  malignancy  in  a  short  time,  but 
asks  for  the  utmost  secrecy,  that  H.  may  not  be  prejudiced,  when  he  appears 
candidate  for  any  vacant  place.  Renews  his  thanks  for  S.'s  kindness,  and  is 
sorry  that  anyone  should  be  deterred  from  making  use  of  our  Theatre  Press, 
which  is  so  very  well  furnished  with  types.  Sends  Dodsworth's  extract  from 
Colet's  will.  Remarks  on  the  advertisements  of  Tanner's  Bibliotheca  and 
Davies'  ed.  of  the  Tusculan  Questions,  with  Dr.  Bentley's  Emendations.  '  The 
Questions  I  had  before,  but  it  seems  the  Copies  not  dispers'd  were  reserv'd 
for  these  Additions  of  Dr.  Bentley,  which  I  am  now  looking  over,  and  I  find 
in  them  several  good  Conjectures,  tho'  they  are  deliver'd  with  an  Air  of 
Ostentation.' 

c.  March  29.  Wolf  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  61).  Acknowledgments  of  offers  of 
assistance.  Has  seen  Cave  and  Dodwell ;  found  the  latter  pipXtodrjKi)*  e^u- 
Xoi/,  Kal  nova-t'tov  irfpiTrarovv.  Much  pleased  with  his  elaborate  dissertation 
on  Theophilus.  Thinks  that  scholars  will  not  be  displeased  with  his  view  as 
to  the  order  of  the  books  of  the  ad  Atitolycum,  though  objections  may  be  urged. 
Glad  to  hear  of  Tanner's  intentions  with  regard  to  Leland.  Has  received  the 
collation  of  the  Philosophumena  of  Origen  with  the  Medicean  MS.,  which  has 

VOL.  II.  N 


1 78  H  EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

March  30  (Wed.).  Dr.  Bentley  has  some  Thoughts  of  publishing 
Emendations  upon  Terence  and  Plautus,  a  specimen  of  which  he  has 
given  us  in  his  Emendations  upon  Tully's  Tusc.  Quaestt.  p.  49,  50,  53. 

March  31  (Th.).  We  hear  from  Yeovill  in  Somersetshire  by  very 
good  Hands  that  lately  in  the  hard  Season  a  Poor  Woman  of  that 
Country,  going  to  Chard  to  sell  her  Yarn,  at  her  Return  home  fell  so  very 
ill  that  she  was  forc'd  to  put  in  at  a  little  House,  and  being  towards 
Evening  she  desir'd  the  People  that  they  would  let  her  sit  up  by  ye  Fire 
all  Night,  she  being  so  very  sick  as  not  in  any  Condition  to  go  home. 

jo  This  was  deny'd.  Upon  which  she  went  out,  and  coming  to  a  Hedge 
she  was  forc'd  to  lye  down  under  it.  It  snow'd  very  hard,  and  in  a  little 
while  she  was  almost  cover'd  with  it.  At  last  a  Man,  one  of  her  Neigh- 
bours came  by,  who  seeing  her  took  her  up  and  desir'd  she  would  by  all 
means  go  home,  it  being  not  (says  he)  at  so  great  Distance.  She  follow'd 
him  a  little  way,  but  being  not  able  to  hold  out,  left  him  and  return'd  to 
ye  Hedge  again,  where  she  lay'd  her  self  down,  and  the  Snow  falling  still 
very  hard  she  was  soon  quite  cover'd  with  it.  Thus  she  continu'd  for  at 
least  a  Week  ;  so  that  her  Neighbours  made  great  Enquiry  after  her,  but 
no  one  could  give  any  Account,  except  ye  Man  before  mention'd,  who 

20  however  was  forc'd  to  be  silent,  least  he  should  have  been  taken  up 
upon  Suspicion  of  having  made  her  away.  During  this  Surprise  a  poor 
Woman  of  ye  same  Place  dream'd  one  Night  that  she  lay  under  an  Hedge 
in  such  a  Place.  She  acquainted  her  Neighbours  with  ye  Dream,  who 
immediately  went  to  ye  Place  with  sticks,  which  they  forc'd  thro'  the 
Snow.  At  last  one  of  them  upon  putting  his  Stick  down  thought  he 
heard  something  groun ;  upon  which  he  forc'd  it  down  with  more 
Violence,  which  made  the  Woman  cry  out,  6  for  God  sake  do  not  kill  me. 
She  was  taken  out,  to  ye  great  astonishment  of  them  all,  and  was  found 
to  have  eaten  a  great  Part  of  her  upper  Garments  for  Sustenance.  Upon 

3°  Inquiry,  she  told  them  that  she  had  layn  very  warm,  and  had  slept  most 
Part  of  the  time.  One  of  her  Leggs  lay  just  under  a  Bush,  so  that  'twas 
not  quite  cover'd  with  Snow,  by  which  it  became  almost  mortify'd,  but  'tis 
like  to  do  very  well.  The  Woman  is  in  a  chearfull  condition,  and  there 
has  been  a  Person  in  Oxford,  who  saw  her  walk  the  Street  since  this 
amazing  Accident.  She  lay  under  ye  Hedge  at  least  seven  Days.  — 


confirmed  his  own  conjectures.  Schelwig  is  about  to  leave  for  Cambridge ; 
Wilkins  left  yesterday  for  Windsor :  and  Ritter  will  probably  accompany 
W.,  Pfaff,  Lochner,  and  Feller  to  Germany.  R.  Roberts  to  H.  (Rawl.  9. 
43).  Hopes  the  wig  is  finished  :  H.  will  speedily  receive  2oj.  from  Mre.  Owen 
Griffith,  the  Two  Brewers,  Hart  Horn  Lane,  near  Charing  cross  ;  this  he  will 
kindly  make  up  30^.  The  wig  is  to  be  sent  with  a  special  charge  to  the  car- 
rier to  take  care  of  it.  Congratulations  to  Mr.  Lloyd.  '  I  hope  y*  ye  next 
beadle  place  will  fall  to  yr  lot.  Keep  ye  Dean  of  X*  Church  yr  friend  then  you 
need  not  Question.  .  .  I  am  just  going  to  a  merry  Xtenins.'  M.  Atkins  to  H. 
(Rawl.  1. 134).  Has  a  draught  of  the  Bath  inscription  cut  in  copper  for  Gale's 
book,  and  suggests  its  insertion  in  Alfred.  (On  p.  2  is  a  draft  letter  from  H. 
giving  his  consent,  provided  that  of  Mr.  Gale  be  likewise  obtained.) 

March  30.  J.  Bennett  to  H.  (Rawl.  2.  99).  Asks  for  an  answer  to  his 
last  letter.  Was  a  posthumous  book  entitled  John  Selden  of  the  Judicature 
of  Parliaments  an  authentic  piece  of  that  author  ? 


March  30-April  4.]        VOLUME  XIX,  PAGES  39-46.  179 

Just  publish'd — The  French  Favorites,  or  The  seventh  Discourse  of 
Balzac's  Politicks.  Publish'd  by  ye  Reverend  Dr.  Kennett,  Dean  of 
Peterborough,  February  13^  170^.  Lond.  1709.  8™.,  a  single  sheet, 
pr.  2d.  Full  of  antimonarchical  Doctrine,  agreeably  to  ye  Tenents  of 
ye  Dr. 

April  1  (Pri.).  Yesterday  Morning  died  Dr.  Bayly  Principal  of  New- 
Inn-Hall.  He  was  buried  in  S*.  Peter's  church  in  ye  Baily,  the  Sunday 
Night  following.  .  .  . 

April  3  (Sun.).  In  the  Courant  is  an  Advertisement,  signifying  that 
Dr.  Kennett  had  no  hand  in  publishing  the  French  Favourites,  but  that  10 
'twas  done  w^-out  his  Privity.  But  whether  he  had  or  no,  'tis  certain 
that  'tis  taken  from  a  Book,  call'd  Balzac's  Politicks,  translated  from 
French  by  his  Brother  Mr.  Basil  Kennett,  &  publish'd  by  ye  Dr.  in  the 
absence  of  Mr.  Basil,  who  is  now  at  Leghorne,  and  the  Dr.  himself  writ 
the  Preface  to  that  Translation  out  of  wch  there  is  an  Extract  prefix'd  to 
this  sheet  in  Commendation  of  the  Book  itself.  —  Dr.  Tyndale  the  sup- 
pos'd  author  of  the  Rts  of  the  Church  was  lately  summond  to  appear 
before  the  Warden  and  Fellows  of  All  Souls  to,  give  in  answer  why  he 
went  out  of  Town  without  Leave.  But  upon  his  appearance  he  brought 
Witness  y*  he  had  leave,  in  which  the  Warden  and  the  rest  were  forc'd  20 
to  acquiesce  tho'  the  Warden  could  not  remember  y*  he  had  given  any 
such  leave. 

April  4  (Mon.).  About  4  Years  since  I  took  a  Copy  of  the  Life  of 
King  Alfred,  written  by  Sr.  John  Spelman,  from  the  original  MS.  in  the 
Bodlejan  Library,  and  afterwards  added  divers  Notes  to  it  from  MSS.  and 
the  best  printed  Authors.  Several  Years  before  there  had  been  a  Trans- 


April  2.  Woodward  to  H.  (Rawl.  12.  91).  What  was  the  King  of 
Prussia's  present  to  the  University  in  recognition  of  their  Act  in  honour  of 
the  University  of  Francfurt?  Dr.  T.  Smith,  to  H.  (Smith  127.  125). 
Thanks  for  copy  of  Dodsworth's  extract  from  Colet's  will.  A  London 
bookseller  is  going  to  reprint  Colet's  Devotions ;  does  H.  know  of  any  ed. 
older  than  1640  ?  S.  read  his  Monition  to  a  Holy  Life  and  Sermon  to  the  Con-vo- 
cation in  1511,  many  years  ago,  and  did  not  find-the  least  taint  of  Popery  in 
them.  Doubts  not  that  Tanner's  Bibliotheca  will  be  well  received.  '  1  wil 
looke  into  the  new  edition  of  Tullyes  Tuscu/an  Questions,  merely  upon  the  ac- 
count of  Dr.  Bent/eyes  emendations.  His  Horace  hangs  stil  in  the  presse :  &  I 
cannot  learne,  when  hee  wil  publish  it.  The  Waggs  of  Cambridge,  where  hee 
is  not  loved,  make  sport  with  this  long  designed  &  long  exspected  edition,  and 
pretend  to  say,  wch  you  may  bee  sure,  is  an  idle  phansy,  that  hee  is  displeased 
with  the  common  reading  of  the  first  verse  of  the  booke,  &  would  have  it  read 
thus,  Mecxnas  at  avis  (dividing  ye  word)  edite  Regibus  :  but  another  replyed, 
that  hee  had  better  have  corrected  it,  in  favour  of  his  great  Patron,  the  P.  of 
O.  Mecxnas  Batavis.  But  I  ought  not  to  entertaine  you  with  these  fooleryes. 
When  ever  the  edition  is  made  public,  Gronovius  will  fall  upon  it,  who  is  a  fit 
match  for  him  :  &  it  is  a  question,  not  easily  to  be  decided,  wch  of  the  two  is 
the  more  insolent  &  haughty  Critic.' 

April  3.  H.  to  P.  Cherry  (Rawl.  36.  25).  Printed  :  Letters  from  the 
Bodleian,  i.  191  sqq. 

April  4.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  48.  128*).  Sends  presentation  copy 
of  the  Life  of  King  Alfred. 

N  2 


i8o  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709 : 

lation  into  Latin  made  of  it  by  Mr.  Christopher  Wase,  Superior  Beadle 
of  ye  Civil  Law  in  Oxon.  and  'twas  publish'd  from  the  Theater  Press  in 
a  thin  Folio,  with  a  Commentary,  by  Mr.  Obadiah  Walker,  Master  of 
University  College.  But  several  Gentlemen  being  desirous  of  the  English 
Copy,  in  wc^  Language  'twas  written  by  ye  Excellent  Author,  I  was  for 
that  reason  induc'd  to  undertake  the  Publication.  After  I  had  drawn  up 
ye  Notes,  Dr.  Charlett,  the  present  Master  of  University  College,  being 
about  to  print  a  List  of  the  Theater  Books,  sent  for  me  to  John  Hall's  at 
ye  Theater,  and  desired  to  know  of  me  what  was  preparing  for  ye  Press. 

10  Amongst  other  Things  I  told  him  of  Livy,  which  he  immediately  put  in ; 
and  at  the  same  time  I  mention'd  my  Design  of  printing  Alfred's  Life,  with 
which  he  was  well  pleas'd,  and  put  y*  in  also,  and  after  all  at  ye  Bottom 
of  the  Paper  he  put  an  imprimatur  and  his  Name.  This  Paper  he  has 
several  times  since  reprinted,  and  order'd  his  Name  to  stand,  and  did  not 
so  much  as  shew  any  Dislike  of  Alfred,  but  let  it  continue  in  the  Paper. 
Yet  after  Mr.  Lhuyd  was  elected  Beadle,  when  I  waited  upon  the  Dr.  to 
thank  him  for  his  having  promis'd  me  his  first  Vote,  and  upon  my 
Desisting  for  his  giving  his  Vote  for  my  Friend  Mr.  Lhuyd,  he  receiv'd 
me  very  civilly  at  first ;  tut  when  I  came  to  mention  this  Life  of  Alfred, 

20  and  to  inform  him  that  it  was  almost  finish'd  at  ye  Press,  he  fell  into  a 
great  Passion,  and  began  to  call  Names  (according  to  his  usual  incon- 
siderate, rash  Method)  adding  y*  he  wonder'd  I  should  print  ye  Life  of 
King  Alfred  without  his  Privity.  I  told  him  y*  I  could  not  imagine  he 
would  have  resented  this  thing,  when  he  seem'd  all  along  so  well  pleas'd, 
and  put  it  himself  into  ye  Theater  Paper.  I  likewise  said  that  the  Vice- 
Chancellor  being  in  Town  when  'twas  first  put  to  ye  Press,  I  had  his 
Imprimatur,  otherwise  I  should  have  come  to  himself.  This  however  did 
not  satisfy  him,  but  he  continu'd  his  Raillery,  and  said  he  would  have  me 
call'd  to  account  how  I  came  by  ye  Copy.  I  told  him  y*  ye  Copy  was  in 

30  ye  Publick  Library,  free  to  ye  View  of  any  one  y*  desir'd  it.  After  all  he 
said  King  Alfred  was  their  Founder,  and  y*  'twas  a  great  Affront  upon 
him  and  the  rest  of  University  College  for  me  to  undertake  the  Publica- 
tion of  his  Life.  But  alass  !  this  is  a  poor,  pitifull  argument,  and  fit  only 
for  such  as  Charlett,  who  in  reality  (notwithstanding  all  his  Pretenses) 
rather  obstructs  Learning  and  such  as  encourage  it  than  any  ways  pro- 
motes it.  He  might  have  express'd  his  Rancour  rather  against  the  Wise 
author  for  writing  of  it,  he  being  a  Cambridge  man,  than  against  ye 
Publisher,  who  was  always  of  this  university,  has  been  a  constant  Attend- 
ant in  the  Publick  Library  ever  since  his  taking  ye  Degree  of  Bachelor  of 

40  Arts,  was  born  in  ye  same  County  that  King  Alfred  himself  was,  has  for 
about  3  or  four  Years  convers'd  every  day  in  University  College,  and  eat 
and  drank  generally  every  day  with  them,  insomuch  that  some  took  him 
for  one  of  the  Society ;  so  y*  he  thought  the  publishing  the  Book  would 
be  a  Piece  of  Gratitude  to  ye  College  for  the  Kindnesses  he  had  receiv'd, 
and  he  thought  the  Master  would  have  so  esteem'd  it.  There  was  not 
one  of  the  Fellows,  or  one  man  else  in  ye  College,  that  shew'd  any  Dislike, 
but  ye  quite  contrary,  Nor  did  any  one  of  them,  that  ye  Publisher  knows 
of,  ever  declare  y*  he  had  a  mind  or  Design  to  publish  it  himself,  which 
indeed  might  have  been  more  proper,  as  he  was  a  Member  of  that  College. 

50  Dr.  Charlett  might  as  well  have  objected  against  Mr.  Camden  for  publish- 


April  4.]  VOLUME  XIX,  PAGES  46-58.  181 

ing  Asser's  Life  of  Alfred  and  for  writing  and  printing  the  Life  of  Queen 
Elizabeth  who  was  Foundres  of  Jesus.  He  might  withall  have  spoke 
agt  ArchbP.  Parker  for  publishing  the  same  Life  by  Asser,  and  against 
several  considerable  Men  besides,  which  I  shall  pass  by,  only  note  y*  he 
might  much  better  have  fallen  into  an  angry  Fit  against  his  Friend  and 
Crony  Humphrey  Wanley,  who  is  now  actually  writing  ye  Life  of  Cardinal 
Wolsey,  without  any  leave  from  the  Dean  of  Christ-Church,  or  any  one 
else  that  we  know  of  of  that  Noble  and  Learned  Society.  But  y6  true 
Reason  of  the  Dr'8.  Spleen  against  the  Publisher  is  that  he  was  concern'd 
in  Dr.  Smith's  Excellent  Edition  of  Ignatius,  which  Charlett  strenuously  10 
oppos'd  and  took  all  occasions  to  run  it  down,  tho'  he  had  not  seen  so 
much  as  one  word  of  it.  He  knew  yk  the  Publisher  was  a  true  Friend  to 
Dr.  Smith,  and  always  took  care  to  vindicate  him,  when  he  found  him 
aspers'd.  This  Malice  proceeded  so  far  y*  when  I  waited  upon  him  to 
desire  his  Vote  and  his  Interest  for  Beadle,  he  promis'd  me  but  coolly, 
and  he  did  not  so  much  as  speak  to  one  Person  in  my  Behalf  or 
endeavour  to  get  me  one  Vote.  So  y*  I  am  of  opinion  that  if  he  could 
have  done  it  with  any  manner  of  Credit,  he  would  have  voted  for  Colinge. 
For  tho'  he  afterwards  voted  for  Mr.  Lhuyd,  yet  he  did  not  I  am  per- 
suaded do  it  heartily,  he  having  all  along  spoke  but  scurvily  of  him,  and  20 
I  have  been  told  that  he  wish'd  that  Lhuyd  and  I  might  have  stood  it 
both  out,  which  would  have  been  an  infallible  way  to  have  got  Colinge  in, 
and  to  have  put  us  both  by.  However  by  this  Publication  of  Alfred,  he 
has  an  opportunity  given  him  of  raising  a  Plausible  Story  against  ye 
Publisher  (wch  yet  will  not  be  regarded  by  Men  of  true  sense  and  Honour) 
of  appearing  against  him  whenever  he  stands  for  any  Place  hereafter ;  but, 
God  be  thank'd,  the  Publisher  is  far  from  being  discourag'd  from  such 
unmanly  Proceedings,  but  will  acquiesce  in  w*ever  station  it  shall 
please  God  to  place  him,  especially  when  he  is  conscious  that  he  has 
done  nothing  to  the  Disgrace  of  the  university,  but  has  always  made  3° 
it  his  Business  to  act  as  much  as  possibly  he  could  for  the  Honour  and 
Credit  of  it,  and  he  does  not  question  but  all  candid,  impartiall  and 
ingenuous  Persons  will  think  so.  After  the  Book  was  finish'd,  I  waited 
upon  the  Master  with  a  Copy  of  large  Paper  neatly  bound,  and  offer'd  it 
him  as  a  Present ;  but  he  refus'd  to  accept  it,  and  said  he  would  have 
nothing  to  do  with  me.  Another  reason,  as  some  think,  and  I  am  apt  to 
think  so  too,  why  the  Dr.  is  so  violent  in  this  Case  against  the  Publisher, 
is  that  'tis  not  dedicated  to  him ;  but  ye  Publisher  thought  it  proper  to  add 
no  Dedication  of  his  own,  but  to  prefix  the  Dedication  of  the  author  him- 
self to  the  Prince  of  Wales  afterwards  King  Charles  II.  'Tis  probable  40 
had  the  author  had  no  Dedication  the  Publisher  might  have  dedicated  it 
to  ye  Doctor  and  the  Society  (in  which  he  would  have  ask'd  their  Leave) 
but  there  being  a  Dedication  of  the  author  to  so  great  a  Patron  'twould 
have  been  a  Diminution  to  ye  Prince  to  have  fled  for  Protection  to  any 
Inferior  Person.  Nor  was  this  ye  opinion  only  of  ye  Publisher,  but  of 
others  with  whom  he  consulted.  Now  tho'  there  be  no  Dedication  to  ya 
Doctor,  yet  the  Publisher  has  taken  care  to  mention  him  with  all  due 
Respect,  upon  Account  of  a  Book  with  MSS.  Notes,  that  he  shew'd  him 
whilst  he  was  drawing  up  Notes  to  this  Life,  which  was  of  some  use  in 
giving  Account  of  the  King's  Works  as  to  Learning ;  and  he  thought  this  50 


l8a  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

would  have  been  kindly  taken  and  interpreted  as  a  mark  of  his  true  sense 
of  Gratitude :  and  so  it  would  have  appear'd  to  any  man  that  is  not 
byass'd  by  Prejudice  and  Partiality,  and  that  has  any  thing  of  a  Spirit  of 
Generosity.  After  he  had  talk'd  at  this  rate,  as  is  above  specify'd,  to  the 
Publisher,  he  next  day  sent  for  Mr.  Thistlethwayte  the  Ware-House 
Keeper  at  the  Theater,  and  rattled  him  off  for  Printing  the  Book.  Mr. 
Thistlethwayt  told  him  y*  what  he  had  done  was  done  by  the  Vice- 
Chancellor's  Leave  and  Permission.  This  did  not  content  him,  but  he 
said  he  would  hinder  ye  Publication  of  the  Book.  Upon  which  a  Copy 

10  of  it  was  deliver'd  to  him  by  Thistlethwayte  (which  however  ought  not  to 
have  been  done)  on  purpose  that  he  might  peruse  it,  and  see  if  there  were 
any  thing  against  Religion  or  good  Manners  in  it.  The  Publisher  did 
not  hear  of  this  'till  some  time  after ;  but  when  he  understood  it,  he 
immediately  concluded  that  this  Malicious  Proceeding  was  purely  to  ruin 
the  Credit  of  the  Book.  I  had  twenty  Copies  allow'd  me,  10  large  and 
ten  small,  to  present  to  my  Friends  ;  but  I  could  not  get  a  Book  from  the 
Theater  by  Reason  of  Dr.  Charlett's  stopping  them.  I  went  soon  after 
to  the  Dr.  and  desir'd  he  would  be  pleas'd  to  assign  some  reason  for  this 
hindering  the  Books  to  be  deliver'd.  He  granted  that  he  had  done  this, 

20  but  said  he  had  nothing  at  all  to  object  against  the  Book  or  against  the 
Additions  I  had  made,  but  approv'd  them  very  well.  All  he  had  to  say 
against  it  he  said,  was  the  method  of  publishing  it.  By  which  words  I 
understood  that  he  would  have  had  his  Imprimatur  to  it,  and  that  it  should 
have  been  done  by  his  Direction,  such  is  the  Humour  and  Vanity  of  him. 
I-desir'd  that  he  would  give  orders  to  Mr.  Thistlethwayte  for  Delivery  of 
my  Copies.  He  told  me  he  would,  and  that  he  would  not  in  the  least 
oppose  it's  being  publish'd.  After  this,  I  went  that  afternoon  to  Mr. 
Thistlethwayte,  but  not  meeting  with  him  at  home,  I  left  him  a  note,  signify- 
ing that  Dr.  Charlett  liked  the  Book  and  the  Notes  very  well,  and  that  he 

30  would  not  hinder  it's  being  publish'd,  and  that  therefore  I  desir'd  he 
would  deliver  my  Copies  to  y6  Binder  that  I  should  order  to  call  for  them. 
When  Thistlethwayte  return'd  home,  upon  reading  the  Note,  he  went  to 
Charlett  and  shew'd  it  him.  Charlett  could  not  forbear  his  Venom,  but 
however  he  consented  that  the  Books  should  be  deliver'd  accordingly, 
which  was  done  faithfully.  But  his  Malice  stopp'd  not  here  ;  he  sent  for 
Burghers  the  Ingraver,  and  demanded  of  him  by  whose  orders  he  ingrav'd 
King  Alfred's  Head  prefix'd  to  the  Book.  He  reply'd  by  the  Direction, 
and  at  ye  order  of  the  Publisher :  at  which  he  huifd  very  much,  and  ask'd 
him  whether  he  was  payd  for  it.  He  said  Yes.  After  which  he  gave 

4P  him  a  strict  charge  never  to  ingrave  any  thing  more  from  ye  Publick 
Library,  without  first  acquainting  him  with  it ;  such  is  the  peevish,  ridiculous, 
mad  temper  of  this  Dr.  and  such  his  Conceit,  as  if  nothing  should  be  done 
in  the  university  without  his  authority.  I  cannot  hear  that  he  talks  hardly 
with  any  one  about  this  Matter,  but  such  as  are  as  ignorant  as  himself, 
and  particularly  with  William  Sherwin,  formerly  a  Barber,  and  now  one 
of  the  Yeomen  Beadles,  a  Pert,  forward,  conceited,  unskillfull  Person,  John 
Prickett  (the  Pragmatical  Butler  of  the  College)  and  with  one  Clarke,  a 
Scrivener,  and  an  empty,  silly,  conceited  Fellow.  These  three  Persons, 
who  are  his  Oracles,  he  consults  in  this  and  other  Affairs,  and  they  al 

50  three  concurr,  and  tell  it  about,  that  a  great  Affront  is  done  to  y6  Master 


Aprils.]  VOLUME  XIX,  PAGES  58-67.  183 

and  College  by  ye  Publisher  in  setting  out  this  Life ;  but  Mr.  Hinton  of 
Corpus  X*i  College,  who  is  one  of  his  Favourites,  told  him  plainly  that  he 
was  of  opinion  that  the  Publisher  had  done  Credit  to  both,  and  ought 
instead  of  having  bad  usage  to  bee  incourag'd,  and  applauded  for  y° 
undertaking.  Nor  is  this  ye  only  Instance  of  Dr.  Charlett's  Malignity  to 
ye  Publisher.  About  3  or  four  Years  since  the  Publisher  had  seen  a 
MSfc.  in  Vellam  in  8V0.  of  Part  of  Tully's  Epistles  in  the  D^8.  Study,  and 
he  took  a  Note  of  it,  and  told  ye  Master  that  'twould  be  of  use  in  a  new 
Edition  of  y*  Excellent  Author.  After  Livy  was  finish'd  the  Publisher 
was  importun'd  by  Dr.  Hudson  (whose  true  Friendship,  and  Generosity  10 
he  must  always  acknowledge)  and  some  others  in  Oxford  &  elsewhere  to 
undertake  an  Edition  of  Tully. 

Now  tho'  the  Publisher  was  highly  sensible  of  ye  Difficulty  of  that 
Work,  and  of  ye  Immense  Pains  requir'd  in  it,  yet  upon  Dr.  Hudson's 
frankly  Promising  to  assist  in  it,  (whose  Readiness  and  fidelity  he  has 
found  certain  hitherto)  he  did  at  length  comply,  and  accordingly  set  him- 
self to  collate  ye  MSS.  Some  time  after  he  had  began  this  Drudgery  the 
Publisher  call'd  upon  Dr.  Charlett,  and  desir'd  that  he  would  be  so  kind 
as  to  lend  him  the  said  MS.  Epistles  of  Tully  above  mention'd.  MS1. 
Epistles  of  Tully  I  (says  the  Dr.)  why  what  wouldst  do  with  that?  The  20 
Publisher  reply'd  he  was  prevail 'd  upon  to  undertake  an  Edition  of  Tully. 
An  Edition  of  Tully  (says  he)  to  what  purpose,  you  can  do  nothing  to  it, 
there  are  Editions  enough  already ;  and  besides  there  is  one  of  our  own 
House  already  about  it,  viz.  Mr.  Cockman.  I  told  him  that  several  Persons 
of  skill  were  of  opinion  that  a  great  deal  might  be  done  to  Tully,  that  I 
found  it  by  experience  myself  by  examining  some  Places,  That  there 
was  no  good  Edition  to  be  easily  procur'd  &  that  as  to  Mr.  Cockman  I 
was  well  inform'd  that  tho'  he  once  design'd  such  a  thing  yet  his  Eyes 
failing  him,  &  he  being  ingag'd  in  Business  of  another  nature,  he  had 
quite  laid  it  aside ;  but  however  that  if  he  was  resolv'd  to  prosecute  it,  I  30 
would  communicate  to  him  my  Collations.  After  this  he  said  no  more, 
but  proceeded  to  talk  of  other  matters,  &  would  not  so  much  as  shew  me 
the  MS.  About  3  Weeks  since  Mr.  Cockman  came  to  Oxford,  and  I 
then  told  him  of  a  Design  of  Publishing  Tully  here  at  Oxford,  but  y*  ye 
Person  ingag'd  would  not  do  it  without  his  Leave.  He  said  he  had 
altogether  laid  it  aside,  and  that  he  left  any  one  at  liberty  to  undertake  it, 
and  should  be  very  glad  to  see  it  perform'd.  (One  of  ye  chief  Reasons 
of  Charlett's  stopping  my  Book,  as  he  told  the  Vice- Chancellor,  to  whom 
indeed  he  offer'd  no  other,  was  because  the  Picture  at  y°  Beginning 
differ'd  from  the  other  Pictures  of  him  that  had  been  before  printed ;  wch  4° 
gave  occasion  to  great  Mirth  in  the  University.) 

April  5.  Schelwig  to  H.  [In  Latin.]  (Rawl.  25.  57.)  Has  postponed  his 
journey  to  Cambridge  in  the  hope  of  receiving  letters  from  home.  Has  seen 
Cave  and  Dodwell ;  the  latter  has  promised  him  a  discourse  on  Theophilus, 
his  views  on  which  he  will  send  to  H.  Has  heard  from  Wolf  and  Ritter  of 
their  safe  arrival  at  Harwich.  Three  other  fellow-citizens  will  be  at  Oxford 
about  Easter.  Will  write  to  Hudson.  Any  commissions  for  Cambridge  ? 
R.  Roberts  to  H.  (Rawl.  9.  41).  Forced  to  alter  his  measures  in  relation  to 
paying  for  the  wig.  Entreats  H.  '  upon  ye  receipt  of  this  to  send  for  Mr. 
Symmons,  and  to  acquaint  Him  from  me,  y*  He  should  send  my  wig  to  a  friend 


184  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

April  8  (Fri.).  Dr.  Busby  had  two  Volumes  of  Greek  Words,  collected 
out  of  divers  Authors,  w°h  were  not  to  be  found  in  Stephens's  Thesaurus. 
Yet  this  no  diminution  to  ye  Credit  of  yfc  Noble  &  Herculean  Work.  See 
Mr.  Mattaire's  Lives  of  ye  Stephens's,  pag.  388.—  .  .  .  The  Lugd. 
Edition  of  Robert  Stephen's  thes.  the  worst,  there  under  Dimidium,  is 
an  Error.  Dimidium  facti  qui  bene  ccept't,  habet.  Bene  is  badly  inserted 
&  not  in  ye  true  Edition.  Nor  is  it  Horace's.  Yet  some  prefer  ye 
Lugd.  Ed.  Ibid.  p.  422.  —  Doctor  John  Brabourn  (lately  of  Magd. 
College)  being  with  ye  Vice-Chancellor  (his  old  Crony)  on  Thursday 
10  night  last,  a  Letter  came  from  the  Earl  of  Rochester  signifying  that  he 
had  y6  Grant  of  ye  Principality  of  New-Inn-Hall ;  so  y*  nothing  remains 


of  his  at  London  next  week  with-out  fail,  &  to  send  me  a  line  by  yr  next  post 
to  let  me  know  where  He  lives,  wch  being  done,  my  design  is  to  send  Dr.  Pel- 
ling's  man  (who  is  to  be  at  London  ye  eighteenth  day  of  this  month)  to  this 
person  for  it  wth  six  and  twenty  shillings  for  Mr.  Symmons'  use,  wch  sum  I  beg 
of  you  to  make  up  30  shillings.  .  .  I  hope  Mr.  Symmons  has  used  me  well,  I 
trust  all  to  his  honesty.' 

April  10.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  58.  130).  I  do  not  question  but 
you  have  receiv'd  the  small  Present  of  King  Alfred's  Life.  This  naturally 
leads  me  to  give  you  a  short  Narrative  of  Part  of  Dr.  Charlett's  Malignity.  I 
transcrib'd  this  Life  about  4  or  5  Years  since  from  the  Original  MS.  in  the 
Publick  Library,  and  afterwards  made  several  Additions  to  it.  Sometime  after 
Dr.  Charlett  being  going  to  print  a  List  of  Theater  Books,  he  sent  for  me  to 
John  Hall's  and  ask'd  me  what  Things  were  going  forwards.  Amongst  the 
rest  I  mention'd  Livy,  which  he  immediately  put  in.  I  also  told  him  that  I 
design'd  to  print  Alfred's  Life  from  the  MS.  He  was  very  well  pleas'd  with 
it,  and  presently  writ  it  down  in  the  Paper,  which  he  caus'd  to  be  printed  with 
his  Name  and  Imprimatur  at  ye  Bottom.  This  Paper  he  has  had  printed  several 
times  since,  and  was  so  far  from  being  displeas'd  at  Alfred,  that  he  let  it  stand, 
and  signifyed  to  no  one  that  he  resented  it.  But  when  'twas  almost  finish'd  at 
ye  Press,  I  waited  upon  him  to  thank  him  for  the  Promise  of  his  first  Vote  to 
me  in  ye  late  Election,  &  upon  my  Desisting  for  his  giving  it  to  Mr.  Lhuyd. 
He  was  civil  enough  'till  I  mention'd  Alfred's  being  printing,  when  he  fell  into 
a  great  Passion,  and  said  that  he  would  call  me  to  account  how  I  came  by  the 
Copy.  I  told  him  'twas  in  ye  Publick  Library,  free  to  be  seen  by  anyone.  He 
insisted  that  I  should  have  had  his  Leave.  To  which  I  reply'd  that  I  had  the 
Vice-Chancellor's  Imprimatur,  and  that  I  thought  'twould  have  been  an  Affront 
to  ye  Vice-Chancellor  to  have  requested  any  one's  License  besides  :  that  how- 
ever if  the  Vice-Chancellor  had  been  absent  I  would  have  come  to  him,  be- 
fore I  had  offer'd  to  have  proceeded ;  adding  withall  that  I  could  not  imagine 
he  could  have  resented  the  printing  of  it,  when  he  seem'd  all  along  so  well 
pleas'd,  and  put  it  into  the  Theater  List  himself.  This  did  not  satisfy  him,  but 
he  dismiss'd  me  very  roughly,  and  the  next  day  sent  for  Thistlethwayte,  and 
rattled  him  off  for  Printing  the  Book.  Thistlethwayte  said  he  had  the  Vice- 
Chancellor's  Orders.  After  that  he  sent  for  Burghers,  and  ask'd  him  who 
order'd  him  to  ingrave  the  Head.  He  said  the  Publisher.  He  then  ask'd 
whether  he  were  paid.  He  reply'd,  Yes.  Upon  which  he  gave  him  express 
Orders  never  to  ingrave  any  thing  more  in  the  Publick  Library  without  his 
Privity  and  Leave.  But  Burghers  only  laughs  at  this.  When  he  had  gone 
thus  far,  he  order'd  the  Book  to  be  stop'd  at  ye  Theater,  and  endeavour'd  all 
he  could  to  have  it  suppress'd,  tho'  he  had  no  Commission  from  the  Vice- 
Chancellor.  Thistlethwayte  being  concern'd  at  this  deliver'd  him  a  Copy 
(which  however  he  should  not  have  done)  to  peruse.  When  I  was  inform'd 
of  this,  I  waited  upon  the  Dr.  about  the  Matter.  He  acknowledg'd  that  he 


April  8-13 .]  VOL  UME  XIX,  PA  GES  67-68.  185 

now  for  installing  this  Gentleman  (who  is  remarkable  for  carrying  on  the 
lifting  Trade  &  for  being  an  ignoramus  in  Learning)  than  ye  Chancellor's 
Letters. 

had  put  a  stop  to  the  Book,  but  that  upon  looking  it  over  he  was  very  well 
pleas'd  both  with  the  Book  and  the  Notes,  and  that  he  would  not  oppose  it's 
being  publish'd,  and  that  he  had  nothing  to  object  against  it  but  the  Method  of 
Printing  it.  By  the  Method  \  suppose  he  would  have  had  his  own  Imprimatur, 
had  it  dedicated  to  himself  (which  would  have  been  a  Diminution  to  the 
Author's  Great  Patron)  and  have  had  the  Direction  of  the  whole.  Upon  this 
Answer  of  the  Dr>s  I  call'd  at  ye  Theater  and  receiv'd  the  Copies  allow'd  me. 
After  I  had  got  some  bound,  I  offer'd  one  in  large  Paper  (of  which  there  were 
but  25  in  all)  wrought  neatly  to  him ;  but  he  refus'd  to  accept  it,  and  said  he 
would  have  nothing  to  do  with  me.  Had  any  one  of  the  College  pretended  to 
have  printed  this  Book,  he  might,  have  had  some  Ground  for  his  Violence  to 
me ;  but  all  ye  Society  were  well  pleas'd  with  me,  and  not  one  of  them  had 
any  such  Design.  Nay  they  thought  it  a  Mark  of  Gratitude  in  me,  for  the 
several  Kindnesses  I  had  constantly  receiv'd  from  the  College  for  about  3  or  4 
Years  together.  But  Charlett  must  have  some  Plea  for  his  appearing  hereafter 
against  me  upon  a  Vacancy,  if  it  should  please  God  I  should  stand.  'Tis  true 
he  promis'd  me  in  the  last  Canvass,  and  he  afterwards  joy  n'd  with  Mr.  Lhuyd  ; 
but  I  really  believe  he  was  not  heartily  for  either,  I  having  full  Evidence  that 
he  spoke  to  no  one  in  my  Behalf,  and  have  as  great  reason  to  think  he  was  no 
more  zealous  for  Mr.  Lhuyd,  of  whom  I  have  always  heard  him  speak  but 
scurvily.  So  that  if  he  could  have  done  it  without  Disgrace  he  would  have 
appear'd  for  Colinge.  ...  I  have  read  over  all  Dr.  Bentley's  Emendations,  and 
reduc'd  them  into  two  or  three  Pages  for  my  own  Use.  I  find  them  much 
worse  than  I  exspected.  They  seldom  agree  with  the  MSS.  I  have  collated ; 
&  the  best  of  them  were  before  all  observ'd  by  Lambin.  I  have  often  heard 
of  the  Emendation  of  Horace  you  mention  ;  but  'tis  only  fit  to  create  Mirth. 
On  Thursday  March  31"*  died  Dr.  Baily  Principal  of  New-Inn-Hall,  and  was 
buried  the  Sunday  night  following  in  S*.  Peter's  Church  in  ye  Baily.  Dr.  John 
Brabourn  of  your  College  is  to  succeed  him.  O  tempera!  6  mores  !  I  have  not 
yet  been  able  to  procure  Christ  Church  Ignatius.  I  made  a  Present  by  the 
Bookbinder  of  a  copy  of  large  Paper  of  my  Alfred  to  the  Dean,  thinking  to 
have  got  a  Copy  by  that  means ;  but  I  hear  of  none  as  yet.' 

April  13.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  38).  Thanks  for  presents  of  the 
Life  of  Alfred.  H.'s  Discourse  on  the  Bath  inscription  has  neither  interfered 
with  nor  superseded  D.'s.  Intends  to  expect  H.  till  Tuesday.  Explains  his 
proposals  to  Hudson  cone.  Dionysius  ;  D.'s  desire  that  he  would  transact  with 
the  bookseller  was  not  so  much  to  trouble,  as  to  oblige,  him.  Has  almost 
finished  his  Discourse  and  Transcript  cone.  Theophilus  Antiochenus  for  Mr. 
Schelwig.  Glad  he  and  his  excellent  companions  have  taken  so  kindly  their 
poor  entertainment  here.  P.S.  by  F.  Cherry.  H.  to  F.  Cherry  (Rawl. 
36.  26).  Has  ventured  to  dissent  in  his  Life  of  K.  Alfred  from  Mr.  Dodwell's 
opinion  cone.  Dioclesian's  persecution.  His  ed.  of  Tully:  hopes  that  Mr.  D. 
will  digest  the  Epistles  for  him  in  chronological  order.  If  H.  visits  Shottes- 
brooke  at  Easter,  he  will  walk,  that  he  may  take  a  view  of  some  places  in  his 
way,  particularly  Ewe-Elme.  Mightily  concerned  at  the  deplorable  accident 
that  happened  at  his  cousin  Stephen  Edwards 's,  who  should  have  suspected 
the  woman  whom  he  admitted  into  his  house  to  be  a  hypocrite.  Longs  to  see 
Dodwell's  Discourse  upon  the  Bath  inscription,  and  recommends  him  to  print 
it  at  London  rather  than  at  Oxford.  Remarks  on  Needham's  literacies  and 
Davies*  ed.  of  Tully's  Tuscu/an  Questions.  Dr.  Bentley's  emendations  appended 
to  the  latter  work  '  are  ingenious,  and  worthy  Dr.  Bentley's  acumen.  The  Dr. 
has  two  or  three  times  fallen  upon  Gronovius,  and  us'd  him  very  roughly.  But 
he  was  provok'd  to  it  by  Gronovius's  first  falling  upon  him,  and  abusing  him  in 


186  H  EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

April  14  (Th.).  Mr.  Bear,  Commoner  of  Wadham  College,  and 
Pupil  to  Republican  White,  Fellow  of  y*  House,  having  stood  for  his 
Bach,  of  Arts  Degree,  he  was  deny'd  three  times,  and  yesterday  the 
reasons  for  ye  Denyal  were  read  in  Congregation,  which  were, — r.  That 
he  had  asserted  that  the  Birth  of  King  William  was  a  greater  Miracle 
than  ye  Birth  of  our  Saviour.  2.  That  the  Bible  was  no  more  penn'd  by 
ye  Holy  Ghost  than  a  common  Legend.  (3).  That  God's  being  said  in 
ye  Bible  to  speak  to  Moses,  was  nothing  but  to  amuse  the  People,  he 
having  really  never  spoke  to  him.  What  aggravated  the  Matter  was  that 

10  when  he  was  charg'd  to  have  spoken  thus  by  some  Persons,  who  ask'd 
him  whether  he  was  not  asham'd  and  sorry  for  such  Words,  he  maintain'd 
that  what  he  said  was  true  and  he  could  not  see  that  there  was  any  hurt 
to  assert  such  Principles.  These  Reasons  were  approv'd  as  sufficient  for 
his  Denyal  by  ye  Congre[g]ation.  —  This  Day,  in  ye  Fore-noon,  Dr. 
John  Brabourn,  the  Toper,  was  admitted  Principal  of  New-Inn-Hall.  — 
In  the  Bibliotheque  Choisie  Vol.  17.  Monsieur  Le  Clerc  has  a  Letter  in 
Latin,  containing  Observations  upon  Dr.  Mill's  Testament.  He  has 
observ'd  a  great  many  omissions  committed  by  ye  Dr.  as  well  as  Mistakes. 
He  however  speaks  well  enough  of  ye  Work,  particularly  of  his  Discourse 

20  upon  S*.  John's  Ist  Epistle,  for  this  reason  because  ye  Dr's.  Arguments  for 
the  Genuineness  of  y*  Passage  are  not  so  strong  as  those  he  has  collected 
against  it,  and  he  believes  the  Dr.  himself  would  have  declar'd  for  its 
being  an  Interpolation  had  he  not  been  afraid  of  the  Clamours  of  his 
Friends.  —  When  Mr.  Bear  (the  notorious  Blasphemer,  who  was  deny'd 
his  Degree)  was  ask'd  by  some  what  he  thought  of  those  Words,  so  often 
repeated  in  Scripture,  andy'  Lord  said  unto  Moses.  He  reply'd  that  he 
acknowledg'd  that  they  were  often  in  the  Bible,  but  that  they  were  words 
of  amusement,  not  as  being  spoken  by  the  Lord.  When  he  was  advis'd 
by  his  Friends  to  recant  these  pernicious  Tenets,  and  to  repent  for  what 

30  he  had  done,  &  consider  better,  he  went  out  of  the  roome,  saying,  <£•  Tobit 
went  out,  and  his  Dog  follow  d  him.  (He  afterwards  got  his  Degree  by 
the  Connivence  of  Old  Will.  Lancaster,  that  Northern  Bear,  who  has  done 
so  much  Mischief  in  the  University.) 


ye  same  rude  Manner  as  he  has  done  his  betters  before.  Whether  Gronovius 
will  retort  I  cannot  tell.  I  believe  not,  it  being  his  way  to  give  over  when  he 
meets  with  one  that  will  stand  stiffly  to  him.  I  exspected  to  have  seen  him 
before  this  time  upon  our  Oxford  Livy ;  but  I  hope  he  may  be  taken  off  by 
other  Business,  or  at  least  that  ye  Booksellers  may  continue  their  Resolution 
of  printing  no  more  for  him,  unless  he  changes  his  unchristian  way  of  Writing.' 

April  14.  Bagford  to  H.  (Rawl.  21.  8).  Fears  that  H.  has  made  a  mis- 
take in  attributing  the  printing  of  Harding's  Chronicle  to  Wynkyn  de  Worde 
instead  of  to  Richard  Grafton.  Do  not  return  anything  B.  may  send  in  a 
parcel.  '  In  a  lettle  time  I  shall  send  you  a  shet  of  paper  by  me  Collected 
Relating  to  ye  seuirall  Imprison  of  Chausier  which  will  geue  you  less  treble.' 

April  16.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  126).  Thanks  for  the 
English  ed.  of  Spelman's  Life  of  K.  Alfred.  Glad  that  H.  has  maintained 
with  Camden,  Walker  and  Wood  the  priority  of  Oxford,  as  against  Ussher, 
Spelman  and  Stillingfleet.  Cannot  but  wish  that  H.  were  not  taken  off  from 
the  study  of  English  antiquities  by  '  undertaking  an  edition  of  all  Tullyes  works  : 
but  Dr.  Hudson,  whom  you  deservedly  call  your  Friend  fy  Patron,  his  judgm* 
must  bee  submitted  to :  &  I  heartily  wish  you  wel  rid  and  quit  of  this  labor- 


April  14-18.]  VOLUME  XIX,  PAGES  68-75.  187 

April  18  (Mon.).  In  the  ancient  form  of  Bidding  of  Prayers,  printed 
at  ye  End,  pag.  338.  of  Sr.  Ham.  L'Estrange's  Alliance  of  Divine  Offices, 
is  ye  following  Passage  :  y"  shulle  bydde  for  tham  that  this  Cherche,  honour 
with  book,  with  bell,  with  vestiments,  with  twayte;  oder  with  lyght;  oder  with 
eny  oder  ournaments  to  roof,  oder  to  groimde  with  londe,  oder  with  rent  wher- 
through  God  and  our  Lady,  and  all  halhen  of  Hevene  beth  the  fairer  inservit 
her,  oder  ellisivar.  The  Transcriber  of  this  Form  of  Bidding  (wch  was 
taken  from  a  Spare  Parchment  Leaf  put  at  ye  Beginning  of  ye  Summs  of 
Guilielmus  de  Pagna  in  the  University  Library  at  Cambridge,  and  so 
must  be  carried  as  high  as  the  13*^  Century)  has  added  several  Conjee-  10 
tures  and  Emendations  in  the  Margin,  &  opposite  to  ye  word  twayte  he 
has  put  qucenam  vox  ista  f  signifying  thereby  that  he  was  ignorant  what 
the  Meaning  of  it  should  be.  Nor  has  Sr.  Hammond  offer'd  at  any  Solu- 
tion. Mr.  Thwaites  of  Queen's  College  is  of  opinion  that  the  word  should 
be  thwayle,  and  that  it  comes  from  the  Saxon  Dweal,  i.  e.  lotio,  ablutio, 
dilutio,  or  from  Dwealu.  lavacra,  Baths,  or  Fonts.  Whereby  'twill  betoken 
baptisleria  or  Fonts.  Which  is  an  ingenious  Conjecture,  and  might  be 
approv'd  of  if  we  could  find  that  the  word  was  at  this  time  us'd  to  signifie 
so,  or  if  it  would  agree  with  the  other  words  wcl1  I  have  transcrib'd. 
They  are  commanded  to  pray  for  those  who  had  made  some  extraordinary  ao 
Benefactions ;  but  Fonts  were  ordinary  and  of  Course  in  every  Church. 
The  Parish  was  oblig'd  to  find  them,  whether  there  were  Benefactors  or 
no.  Besides  they  had  nothing  of  extraordinary  in  their  Work,  unless  now 
and  then.  By  ye  Ecclesiastical  Canons  they  were  to  be  of  Stone,  and  so 
they  have  been  constantly.  The  Rich  Baptisterium  indeed  ofConstantine 
ye  Great  had  within  it  Silver,  &  'twas  adorn'd  with  other  Riches  ;  and  so 
we  read  of  a  few  others.  But  that  was  reckon'd  Princely,  &  altogether 
against  the  common  Course.  We  must  therefore  look  for  something  that 
may  answer  the  other  Extraordinary  Gifts  here  mention'd  in  the  form,  such 
as  might  strike  an  immediate  Zeal  in  the  several  Members  to  put  up  their  3° 
Prayers  for  the  respective  Benefactors.  If  we  have  recourse  to  the  other, 
Form  of  bidding  of  Prayers,  printed  by  Sr.  Hammond  pag.  iSi.the  word 
must  be  equivalent  to  Lamp.  For  so  'tis  express'd  :  Also  ye  shall  pray  for 

ious  worke.'  Commends  H.'s  remarks  on  the  Bath  inscription ;  doubts  not 
that  God  will  raise  him  up  rich  and  powerful  friends,  '  to  make  a  plentiful 
position  for '  him.  Amazed  at  Dr.  Ch.'s  rude  and  barbarous  treatment  of  H., 
who  had  lost  himself  in  the  opinion  of  his  friends  if  he  had  dedicated  his  book 
to  such  a  Fanfaron.  Has  just  borrowed  and  re-read  Colet's  Sermon  before 
Convocation  in  1511,  republished  by  Thos.  Smith,  of  Christ's  Coll.  Cam.  and 
Keeper  of  the  Public  Library  there  in  1661,  8vo.  S.  maintained  a  corres- 
pondence with  this  namesake  till  the  end  of  the  latter's  life.  Cambridge  ed. 
of  the  Tusc.  Disp.  and  that  of  Theophilus  Antiochenus.  '  I  heard  very  lately, 
that  Dr.  Woodroff  has  involved  himselfe  in  great  trouble  by  his  last  marriage, 
&  that  the  revenue  of  his  Prebend  at  Christ  Church  is  extended  to  pay  his 
debts.  I  hope  that  this  latter  part  of  the  information  will  prove  a  mistake.' 
Thoresby  to  H.  ( Rawl.  10.  58).  Thanks  for  Catalogue  of  Pictures  in  Bodley, 
&c.  Remarks  on  Roman  monuments  lately  found  at  the  station  upon  Adel- 
rnoor  (Burgodunum).  The  monuments  lately  found  have  no  inscriptions 
legible ;  one  appears  by  the  discus  to  have  been  a  portable  altar,  the  other 
perhaps  funereal,  though  the  smallness  of  it  amused  him  till  he  observed  others 
of  the  like  size  though  firmer  materials  (these  being  of  the  coarse  millstone 
rag)  in  Mr.  Wren's  and  Mr.  Kempe's  Museum. 


1 88  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

all  those  that  have  honoured  the  Church  with  light,  lamp,  -vestment  or  Bell,  or 
with  any  other  Ornaments,  by  which  the  Service  of  Almighty  God  is  the  better 
maintained  and  kept.  This  might  be  allow'd,  if  the  word  did  at  all  answer, 
or  could  we  suppose  the  word  lamp  could  be  so  much  corrupted.  With 
more  probability  I  take  the  word  Twaite  to  be  the  same  as  Thwaite,  h 
being  left  out  or  retain'd  at  Liberty,  as  appears  from  a  great  Number  of 
Instances.  Twaite  signifies  a  wood  grubbed  up  and  turned  to  arable,  as 
appears  from  Sr.  Edw.  Coke  upon  Littleton  fol.  4.  b.  This  Arable  Land 
being  therefore  given  to  any  Church,  it  could  not  but  be  reckon'd  an  ex- 

10  traordinary  Benefaction,  &  the  Donors  accounted  as  deserving  eternal 
Mention,  &  to  be  always  remember'd  in  ye  Prayers  of  ye  Congregation. 
Such  sort  of  Benefactions  were  frequently  made  about  ye  13^  Century, 
when  Ignorance  had  sufficiently  prevail'd  and  the  Instruments  of  ye  BP. 
of  Rome  had  inveigled  the  People  to  give  their  Best  Riches  to  ye  Church. 
We  then  hear  of  vast  Tythes,  w°k  however  since  have  been  by  ye  Restless 
Fanaticks  taken  almost  quite  away.  This  will  sufficiently  appear  by 
reading  over  that  partial  Book,  written  by  Mr.  Selden  and  styl'd  by  him 
the  History  of  Tythes.  — 

Oratio  habita  a  D.  Joanne  Colet  Decano  Sancti  Pauli  ad  Clerum  in 

20  Convocatione.  Anno.  M.D.XI.  (D.  19.  Laud)  Printed  by  Richard  Pynson, 
in  4to.  The  Year  when,  nor  the  Place  where,  printed  is  not  specify'd  :  but 
I  believe  'twas  the  same  Year  that  'twas  preach'd  in.  It  was  afterwards 
translated  into  English,  and  printed  with  Notes  by  Mr.  Thomas  Smith  of 
Cambridge,  Cambr.  1662.  8°.  The  Translation  is  faithfully  done,  but  the 
Publisher  gives  us  no  Account  how  he  came  by  it,  or  whether  he  did  it 
himself.  It  seems  to  me  to  have  been  done  from  this  Latin  Copy  of 
ArchfeP.  Laud's,  because  the  Latin  was  not  printed  with  Division  into 
Paragraphs,  but  this  Latin  Copy  has  been  divided  into  them  since  with  a 
Pen,  to  wch  this  English  Translation  exactly  agrees.  Nor  is  Rom.  xii.  z. 

30  (the  Place  of  Scripture  in  ye  first  Part  of  ye  Sermon)  printed  in  the  Latin, 
but  is  added  by  a  Pen  since  in  ye  Margin,  w°k  however  the  English 
Publisher  has  printed.  The  Latin  beginns  thus,  Convenistis  hodie  Patres 
&  viri  sapientissimi  inituri  concilium.  And  ends,  Ite  modo  in  spiritu  quern 
invocastis  ut  ejus  auxilio  adjuti  in  isto  vestro  consilio  possitis  ea  excogitare 
statuere  decernere  :  que  sint  ecclesia  utilia  \  que  vobislaudt  \  que  deo  honor i: 
Cui  sit  omnis  honor  et  gloria  in  secula  seculorum.  AMEN.  There  is  no  Pre- 
face, nor  any  thing  else  besides  the  Sermon.  — 

Chaucers  in  ye  Bodlej.  Library,  MS. — Laud.  G.  69.     His  Canterbury 
Tales. — K.  50.     His  Canterbury  Tales,  except  ye  Plow-man's  Tale. — 

40  Of  ye  Astrolabe  Digby.  72. — NE.  D.  i.  16.  Of  ye  Astrolabe. — Super 
Art.  A.  32.  His  Tales. — Archiv.  Seld.  B.  24.  His  Troylus,  with  other 
Poems  of  his. — Arch.  Seld.  B.  30.  His  Tales. — Seld.  Supra  56.  His 
Troilus  and  Cressida. — Seld.  Supra  60.  His  Workes  printed  by  Richard 
Pynson. — Mus.  64.  Of  ye  Astrolabe. — Fairfax  16.  Some  Poems  by 
Chaucer,  &  others. — Charles  Hatton.  Numb.  i.  Chaucer's  Works. — 
Junius  9.  His  Works,  with  some  Marginal  notes  MS.  by  Junius.— About 
Sr.  G.  Chaucer  in  Leland's  Itin.  Vol.  II.  fol.  6.  — Pedigree  of  Geff. 
Chaucer.  See  at  ye  Beginning  of  his  Works.  Edit.  opt.  .  .  .  —Chaucer  in 
his  Man  of  Lawes  Tale,  Part  2d.  calleth  ye  Baptisterium  the  Font-Stone. — 

50  MAURICIUS  AT  FONTSTONE  THEY  HYM  CALLE. 


April  18-23.]  VOLUME  XIX,  PAGES  75-88.  189 

April  22  (Pri.).  Joh.  Frea  was  of  Balliol  College  in  Oxford.  See 
Langbairis  Collections  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  Vol.  19.  p.  40.  — MS.  Digb.  146. 
Aldhelmus  de  Virginitate.  Exemplar  optima  &  antiquissima  manu 
exaratum.  Cum  scholijs  itidem  marginalibus  antiquis,  &  expositione 
Saxonica  interlineari  vocum  singularum  ferme  perpetua  :  unde  Lexicon 
Saxonicum  confecturo  ampla  messis.  This  Book  belong'd  formerly  to  ye 
Abbey  of  A bbingdon,  as  appears  from  the  Beginning.  — Nov.  Test.  Luc. 
I.  35.  tic  a-ov  in  the  common  Editions,  &c.  Ephraem  Syrusin  his  Serm.  de 
Margarita  takes  notice  that  those  two  words  were  not  in  some  Copies  that 
he  had  seen,  (via  r&v  dvriypdffxav  ov  nepif^fi.  TO,  tn  crov'  and  there  is  a  mark  10 
(f®)  in  ye  Margin  of  the  MS.  Baroc.  212.  p.  130.  b.  — There  is  just  pub- 
lish'd  Mr.  Peter  Needham's  Edition  of  Hierocles,  printed  at  Cambridge  in 
8V0.  Amongst  other  Notes,  are  added  Dr.  Bentley's  and  Mr.  Davis's.— 

E  MS.  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  Mus.  9.  Elizabetha  Regina  Dominse  Norn's,  in 
obitum  filij  ejusfoanm's  Norris  militis. 

Although  we  have  differred  long,  to  represente  unto  you  our  graciouse 
thoughts,  because  we  liked  full  ill  to  yeeld  you  the  first  refection  of  our  mis- 
fortunes, whome  we  have  alwaies  sought  to  cherish  and  comfort,  yet  knowing 
nowe  that  Necessitie  must  bring  it  to  your  eares,  and  nature  consequently 
move  both  greefe  and  passion  in  your  hart,  we  resolved  not  longer  to  smother  20 
eyther  our  care  for  your  sorrowe,  or  our  simpathye  of  your  greefe  for  his 
Death,  wherein  that  societie  in  sorrowe  may  worke  diminution  :  We  do  assure 
you  by  this  trew  messenger  of  our  mind,  that  nature  can  have  stirred  no  more 
dolorouse  affection  in  you  as  a  mother  for  a  deare  son,  then  the  gratefullness 
and  memory  of  his  services  past  have  wrought  in  us  (his  Soveraigne)  appre- 
hension of  misse  of  so  worthy  a  servant.  But  now  that  Nature's  common 
worke  is  done,  and  he  that  was  borne  to  dye,  hath  payed  his  tribute,  let  that 
Christian  Discretion  stay  the  flux  of  your  immoderating  greeving,  which  hath 
instructed  you  both  by  Example  and  knowledge,  that  nothing  of  this  kind  hath 
hapned,  but  by  God's  Providence.  And  let  these  Lines  from  your  loving  and  30 
gratiouse  Soveraigne  serve  to  assure  you  that  there  shall  ever  appeare  Caracters 
of  you  and  yours,  that  are  left  in  our  valewing  rightly,  all  theire  faithfull  and 
honest  Endeavours.  More  at  this  time  we  will  not  write  of  this  unsilent  sub- 
ject, but  have  dispatched  this  Gentleman  to  visitte  both  your  Ld  and  you,  to 
condole  with  you  in  the  sense  of  your  Love,  and  to  pray  you  that  ye  World 
may  see,  that  what  time  cureth  in  weake  Mindes,  that  discretion  and  modera- 
tion in  you  in  this  accident,  where  there  is  so  opportune  occasion  to  demon- 
strate true  patience  and  moderation. 

April  21.  Sir  A.  Fountains  to  H.  (Rawl.  5. 115).  Thanks  for  Alfred, 
which  he  has  read  with  great  pleasure.  The  coin  mentioned  by  H.  may  be  of 
the  great  Alfred,  though  Mr.  Walker  believes  it  to  be  of  the  Northumbrian 
King. 

April  23.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  131).  Glad  that  any  of  his 
mean  endeavours  are  pleasing  to  S.  Charlett  condemned  for  his  treatment 
of  H.  as  much  as  for  his  attempt  to  suppress  and  stifle  Mr.  Thwaites's  Dedi- 
cation to  Dr.  Hickes.  Wishes  that  he  had  made  no  mention  of.  him  in  the 
book.  '  I  did  not  referr  to  your  Discourse  in  Vindication  of  Mr.  Camden, 
because  I  was  unwilling  to  bring  you  upon  the  Stage.'  Sends  particulars  of 
the  English  trans,  of  Colet's  Sermon  (R.  Pynson,  4to),  and  suggests  that  it  was 
made  from  MS.  Laud  D.  xix.  Dodwell  will  shortly  communicate  a  discourse 
on  Theophilus  to  Mr.  Schelwig.  '  Dr.  Woodrofs  Canonry  is  sequester'd,  but 
ye  Treasurer  of  Christ  Church,  Dr.  Stratford,  will  not  pay  the  Money,  for 
which  Refusal  he  is  like  to  come  into  Trouble.  I  lately  expostulated  with  Mr. 
Thistlethwayte  about  his  Delivering  Dr.  Ch.  a  Copy  of  my  Book  without  my 


1 90  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

April  24  (Sun.).  [Notes  from  Chaucer  in  the  Clerke  of  Oxenfordes  Pro- 
logue.] .  .  . 

April  27  (Wed.).  See  Mr.  Wood's  MS.  in  Mus.  num.  12.  being  Col- 
lections cone,  the  antiquity  of  several  Towns  &  Villages  in  Oxonsh. 
F.  21.  Vol.  29.  Rewley  Abbey  fol.  221.  — The  Saxon  Tongue  read  in  y6 
Monastery  of  Tavistock  usque  ad  Patrum  Memoriam.  See  Sr.  Hen. 
Savile's  Acct.  of  ye  Foundation  of  Religious  Houses  p.  i.  MS.  in  Bibl. 
Bodl.  Mus.  9. — Ibid.  p.  7.  Ruley  Carmelitarum  Conv.  ab  Edw.  3.  antea 
sedes  Regise. 

Privity,  or  any  Legal  Order.  He  reply'd  he  would  stand  to  what  he  had  done, 
and  that  he  should  always  deliver  a  Copy  of  whatever  Book  is  printed  at  the 
Theater,  to  any  of  the  Delegates  that  should  be  pleas'd  to  demand  it.  By 
which  you  may  guess  how  easy  any  one  of  them  might  come  by  your  Sheets  if 
he  had  a  mind  to  them.'  Mr.  Bear  of  Wadham  denied  his  degree  for  blas- 
phemy. Cannot  get  from  Dr.  H.  his  book  of  letters. 

April  24.  H.  to  F.  Cherry  (Rawl.  36.  27).  [Partly  printed :  Letters  from  the 
Bodleian,  i.  194  sqq.]  Sorry  he  is  obliged  to  defer  his  journey.  The  new  answer 
to  the  Rights  attributed  to  Mr.  Oldisworth,  formerly  of  Hart  Hall.  '  'Tis  done 
in  a  bantering  way,  much  like  that  of  Dr.  Eachard  and  of  my  Friend  Dr.  King 
of  Christ-Church.  I  have  not  read  it ;  but  I  find  it  much  commended  as  a  smart 
Thing,  and  'tis  said  it  works  more  upon  the  Abettors  of  that  wicked  Book 
than  all  the  serious  Answers  that  have  appear'd.'  .  .  .  Mr.  Bear's  case.  '  Dr. 
Smallbroke  preaches  toMorrow  upon  the  General  Resurrection  at  Sl.  Marie's. 
I  design  to  be  there,  and  if  he  offers  anything  against  Mr.  Dodwell  1  shall  not 
fail  to  acquaint  you.  But  I  think  I  have  heard  the  Repeater,  who  is  Mr. 
Woodrof  of  Christ-Church,  (son  to  Dr.  Woodrof ),  whom  Mr.  Dodwell  has 
seen  and  talk'd  with  often  at  the  Coffee-House,  say  that  he  has  not  a  Word 
about  him,  thinking  perhaps  that  his  former  Discourse  remains  altogether 
unanswer'd.' 

April  25.  D.  Evans  to  H.  (Rawl.  5.  4).  H.  may  expunge  or  insert 
what  he  pleases ;  the  papers  were  merely  designed  for  the  vulgar,  and  if  H. 
advises  he  will  not  print  them  at  all.  '  Whether  it  be  the  homeliness  of  the 
language,  or  the  incoherence  of  the  sense  or  sentences,  or  the  rigorousness  of 
them  against  the  magistrates,  Dissenters  and  Grandees,  or  the  inconveniences 
that  may  redound  to  me  be  the  reason,  I  will  desire  of  you  to  resolve  me.' 

April  26.  Dr.  Hickes  to  H.  (Rawl.  7.  44).  Thanks  for  Alfred;  best 
wishes  for  H.'s  promotion.  Sorry  that  H.  meets  with  discouragements,  which 
must  be  met  by  Christian  patience  and  forgiveness.  Wishes  that  H.  were  set 
to  publish  useful  MSS.,  which  would  be  more  profitable,  and  more  for  the 
honour  of  the  University,  than  new  edd.  of  printed  books.  [In  Rawl.  7.  45, 
c.  Nov.  27, 1708,  Hickes  asks  H.  to  make  enquiries  without  mentioning  his  name 
for  a  reply  to  Hakewill's  Dissertation  touching  the  Sacrifice  of  the  Eucharist, 
London  1641,  4to.  (Athen.  Oxon.  col.  186).] 

April  27.  R.  Roberta  to  H.  (Rawl.  9.  42).  Wants  words  to  express 
his  gratitude  to  H.  'I  have  sent  to  M18.  Griffith  . .  twenty  shillings  for  Mr. 
Symmons's  use  munday  last  was  seavennight,  wch  I  hope  He  has  receiv'd  e're 
this :  I  have  likewise  sent  to  her  by  yeasterday's  carrier  2/.  <)s.  6d.,  wch  I  desire 
you  to  send 'for  as  soon  as  possible  you  can,  and  to  dispose  of  them  after  ya 
following  manner.  Six  pence  for  ye  return  of  the  money  into  yr  hands,  a 
shilling  for  Mr.  Symmons,  pray,  tell  Him  y*  I  receiv'd  my  wig,  and  y*  it 
answers  my  expectation  pretty  well,  I  shall  send  him  another  shilling  about 
Miclemas  if  ye  Wig  wears  tolerable:  two  shillings  I  give  to  drink  between  Mr. 
Lloyd,  yrself,  &  Mr.  Gunnis  if  in  town,  you  may  bring  Mr.  John  Jones  fellow 
of  Jesus  Coll :  among  you,  if  you  think  fit.  Be  pleased  accept  of  six  shill : 
yourself;  and  to  give  Mre.  Law  the  remaining  forty.  I  am  ashamed  to  desire 


April  24-May  2.]        VOLUME  XIX,  PAGES  89-93.  191 

April  28  (Th.).  On  Sunday  last  in  ye  Morning  died  Dr.  Williams  BP. 
of  Chichester,  of  a  Mortification  in  ye  Foot.  — Dr.  Gregory,  of  whom 
before  in  the  preceding  Volume,  Professor  of  Astronomy  in  Oxford  died 
September  12th.  last  at  Maidenhead.  —  In  Bibl.  Bodl.  inter  Codd.  Mus. 
num.  Ist. — a  large  Book  of  Offices  for  the  use  of  Salisbury.  It  belong'd 
to  Dr.  Godfrey  Goodman  BP.  of  Glouc.  who  gave  it  to  ye  Library,  and  has 
noted  some  things  at  ye  Beginning,  and  at  ye  End  is  a  short  Account  of 
his  Life  and  Preferm18,  &c.  written  by  his  own  hand,  &  afterwards  printed 
by  Ant.  Wood,  tho'  wthout  acknowledgm*  whence  he  had  it.  At  ye  End 
is  also  a  printed  half  sheet  fol.  of  the  B?8.  sufferings  in  Latin  and  English,  10 
printed  I  think  in  1650.  It  was  ye  original  MS.  of  ye  said  Offices,  and 
y6  rest  were  taken  from  it. 

May  1  (Sun.).  Some  things  publish'd  by  Mr.  Robert  Coddrington, 
wcl1  are  not  mention'd  by  Mr.  Wood  in  his  Account  of  him  under  ye  Year 
1665,  are  accounted  for  in  a  Letter  written  by  the  said  Mr.  Coddrington 
himself,  wcl1  I  have  in  my  Possession  in  one  of  my  folio  MSS.  Collection 
of  Papers,  where  also  is  his  Sceculi  hujus  ferret  in  aureum  Restitulio. 

May  2  (Mon.).  In  Bibl.  Bodl.  Mus.  23.  The  Original  MS*,  of  IX 
Donne  of  Self-Murther.  It  was  given  by  the  Author  himself  to  the  Lord 
Herbert,  to  whom  he  has  an  Epistle  at  ye  Beginning.  The  Lord  Herbert  20 


you  to  appear  my  advocate  before  Her,  she  (I  expect)  will  tax  me  with  in- 
justice towards  Her,  by  detaining  Her  thus  long  from  Her  money,  but  I  beseech 
you  to  satisfie  Her  y*  I  have  not  been  able  to  pay  Her,  and  that  I  mean 
honestly.'  Intends  to  send  her  40^.  more  about  'Miclemas',  and  38^.,  the  re- 
mainder of  his  debt,  at  Xmas,  when  he  will  make  her  any  reasonable  allowance 
for  not  sooner  payment.  Hopes  she  has  failed  to  find  out  his  place  of  abode, 
notwithstanding  her  diligent  enquiry. 

April  30.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl  25.39).  The  weather  alone  sufficient 
reason  for  H.'s  not  visiting  Shottesbrooke.  Hopes  to  see  Schelwig,  Wilkins 
&c.  in  London.  Has  offered  Dr.  H.  as  much  as  he  can  in  reason  expect ;  '  I 
design,  God  willing,  to  have  more  regard  to  the  ease  of  the  purses  of  learned 
Men  .  .  than  to  my  own  profit.'  Will  not  introduce  anything  personal  into  his 
dispute  with  Smalbroke.  P.S.  Makes  another  proposal  to  Dr.  H. — not  to 
make  his  Dionysius  a  part  of  his  IIId  Tome,  but  a  Supplement  to  the  other 
editions  of  Dionysius. 

April  30.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  127).  Cannot  easily  admit 
of  H.'s  excuse  for  not  mentioning  his  vindication  of  the  integrity  and  honesty 
of  Mr.  Camden  in  his  ed.  of  Asserius  Menevensis.  Advises  H.  to  act  so  care- 
fully as  to  give  Dr.  Ch.  no  provocation.  Mr.  Schelwig  informed  S.  that  Dod- 
well has  undertaken  the  chronology  of  Theophilus.  Mr.  Bear  should  have 
been  expelled  with  all  the  marks  of  infamy.  The  Amsterdam  publisher  (de 
Lorme)  of  Harduin's  tracts,  carrying  a  considerable  part  of  his  impression 
into  France,  and  hoping  for  a  quick  vent  there,  upon  his  coming  to  Paris,  was 
seized  upon,  and  sent  to  the  Bastille.  P.  Simon's  Bibliotheque  Critique  enter- 
taining, but  in  the  main  superficial  and  trifling.  Impatient  for  the  arrival  of 
another  Holland  fleet,  to  satisfy  his  curiosity  with  a  sight  of  Montfaucon's 
Palaeographia  Graeca.  Remarks  on  Poncet's  voyage  to  ^Ethiopia,  in  the 
Lettres  cdifiantei  et  curieuscs  of  the  Jesuit  Mission  in  China,  East  and  West 
India,  &c.,  published  in  French  by  P.  Le  Gobien,  especially  his  story  of  a 
golden  wand  hanging  in  the  air  without  any  support,  in  the  chapel  of  a  monas- 
tery, of  which  he  writes  modestly,  not  being  able  to  find  out  the  natural  cause 
of  this  prodigious  phaenomenon. 


192  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS,  [1709: 

gave  it  to  y6  Library,  &  has  written  a  Memorandum  to  signify  the  same,  in 
a  neat  Hand,  at  ye  Beginning  also. —  Quaere  about  a  Book  intitled,  The 
Nullity  of  the  Prelatique  Clergy,  and  Church  of  England  Further  dis- 
covered in  answer  to  the  Plaine  prevarication,  or  vaine  presumption  of  D. 
John  Bramhall  in  his  Booke,  intituled  The  Consecration  and  Succession  of 
Protestant  Bishops  justified,  &c.  And  that  most  true  story  of  the  first 
Bishops  ordination  at  ye  Nagshead  verified ;  their  fabulous  Consecration 
at  Lambeth  with  the  Forgery  of  Mason's  Records  cleerely  detected  by 
N.N.  Pr.  at  Antwerp,  in  ye  yeare  1659.  —  Quaere  whether  Mr.  Seller  (Abed- 
10  nego)  be  Author  (as  'tis  said  he  is  in  Dr.  Wake's  Catalogue)  of  a  Pamphlett 
intitled,  A  Plain  Answer  to  a  Popish- Priest,  questioning  the  Orders  of  the 
Church  of  England.  Lond.  1689.  4*°.  Dr.  Charlett  says  (as  I  am  in- 
form'd)  that  he  publish'd  the  first  Edition.  See  if  that  be  really  so. 

May  3  (Tu.).     The  Lord's  Prayer  out  of  WicklifFs  Translation  of  ye 
New-Test.  MS.  Bibl.  Bodl.  Mus.  62.  ad  Matth.  6.— 

Oure  Fadir  that  art  in  heuenes  halewid  be  thy  name  |  thi  kingdom  come  to. 

be  thi  wille  don  :  in  erthe  as  in  hevene  |  give  to  us  this  day  oure  breed  over 

othere  substaunce  |  and  forgiue  to  us  oure  dettis :  as  we  forgiuen  to  oure 

dettoures  |  and  lede  us  not  in  to  temptacioun.  but  delyvere  us  from  yvel 

20  amen. 

May  4  (Wed.).  This  day  the  Proctors  for  ye  Ensueing  year  were 
admitted  viz.  Mr.  Adderley,  A.M.  of  All-Souls,  and  Mr.  Vesey,  A.M.  of 
Lincoln.  The  latter  the  senior.  Pro-Proctors  admitted  were  Mr.  Stevens 
of  All-Souls,  Mr.  Trap  of  Wadham,  and  Mr.  Harcourt  of  Jesus.  Mr. 
Harrison  of  All-Souls  was  chosen  for  Mr.  Adderley's  2d  Pro-Proctor,  but 
not  admitted  because  he  is  Bach,  of  Law.  So  it  was  referr'd  to  Considera- 
tion. Mr.  Stanley,  Senior  Proctor,  at  his  Leaving  the  Office  made  a 
Speech,  in  wc^  he  spoke  in  commendation  of  Mr.  Smithurst  deceas'd, 
something  of  Dr.  Gregory  and  his  successor  Mr.  Caswell,  all  to  their  com- 
30  mendation,  made  a  complement  to  Mr.  Terry  his  Brother  Proctor,  &  so 
ended.  — What  we  call  now  a  Floor  they  formerly  called  a  Barn-Floor, 
Bernes-flore.  See  the  3d.  Chapter  of  S*.  Luke  Edit.  Saxon. — wont  aefter 
hys  gewunan.  Ibid.  Luke  4th. 


May  3.  Bagford  to  H.  (Rawl.  21.  9).  H.  will  receive  on  Thursday  B.'s 
observations  on  the  impressions  of  Chaucer,  all  taken  from  the  books  them- 
selves which  have  run  through  his  hands.  Begs  H.'s  pardon  about  Harding. 
Encloses  an  Irish  Testament  for  Lhuyd,  and  wishes  to  know  printer's  name 
and  where  printed.  Has  sent  this  time  a  parcel  of  rubbish,  but  hopes  the  next 
may  be  better. 

May  4.  H.  Prescott  (Chester)  to  H.  (Rawl.  9.  16).  Some  remains  of 
a  hypocaustum  lately  discovered  in  Wales  about  10  miles  from  this  place. 
Thanks  for  Walcoat  inscription.  Approves  of  H.'s  suggestions  for  the  new  ed. 
of  Camden,  which  would  make  it  a  great  treasury  of  Roman  antiquity,  and 
very  honourable  to  Britain.  Will  consult  Occo  with  Mediobarbus,  and,  if  he 
finds  any  of  his  collection  of  coins  not  described  there,  will  transmit  them  to 
H.  or  Masson.  Hopes  that  H.,  in  his  ed.  of  Tully,  will  bear  in  mind  a 
suggestion  of  Dean  Stearne's,  to  put  out  the  Notes  and  Observations  in  a  dis- 
tinct volume.  Dr.  Stratford  has  surprised  the  writer  with  a  short  summons 
of  his  son  to  Ch.  Ch. ;  hopes  this  occasion  will  bring  a  train  of  happy 
consequences. 


May  2-8.]  VOLUME  XIX,  PAGES  93-1 02.  193 

May  5  (Th.).  The  Easter  sermons  before  ye  university  were  repeated 
last  Sunday  Morning  by  Mr.  Benj.  Woodrof  A.M.  &  Student  of  X*. 
Church.  He  perform'd  very  well,  much  to  his  Credit  and  Reputation.— 
The  English  chid  (i.  e.  rebuke)  cidde  in  Saxon.  See  Luke  4.  35.  With 
might  and  main,  on  mihte  &  on  maegne.  ibid.  v.  36.  a  Moor,  mere, 
beckoned,  bicnodon. 

May  6  (Fri.).  Mr.  Robert  Watts  of  Sl.  John's  College,  formerly 
denyed  his  Degree  for  ill  Words,  stood  this  Day  again,  and  had  his  Grace 
of  Degree  of  Bachelour  of  Civil  Law.  —  Campanarum  usus  in  ecclesias  in- 
troductus  anno  Domini  604.  See  the  History  of  the  Church  of  Lichfield  10 
MS.  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  Mus.  65.  towards  ye  Beginning. — Theodorus  ArchbP. 
of  Canterbury  an  Account  of  him  and  of  his  Skill  in  ye  Greek  Tongue  see 
ibid. — Organorum  usus  in  templis  ccepit.  ibid.  viz.  in  the  time  of  Ethelred 
King  of  Mercia.  —  Ephrsem  Syrus  says  in  a  passage  of  him  in  a  MS*. 
Catena  in  Genesin  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  Baroc.  76.  f.  199.  b.  that  Averts  (viz. 
avQpanrivrj)  is  v\tjs  fji6p(pta(ris.  Look  in  pag.  70.  of  Camden's  Life  by  Dr. 
Thomas  Smith.  —  Dr.  Wood's  Epitaph  upon  his  Wife,  made  by  himself. 

Under  this  Stone  here  lyes  dear  Jenny 
Who  married  a  Doctor,  not  worth  a  Guinea. 

May  8  (Sun.).  Things  missing  in  ye  Anatomy  Schoole,  after  Dr.  20 
Sandolin's  Dissection. —  i.  Image  of  Pallas,  Brass.  2.  Artemisia  Q.  of 
Caria.  There  were  two.  One  is  remaining.  3.  Priamus.  4.  Of  the 
BP"  in  ye  Tower.  5.  A  small  one  of  Otho.  A  counterfeit,  like  silver.  6. 
A  large  silver  Medall  of  Charles  IId.  King  of  Spaine.  and  some  other  things. 
7.  schilling  Piece  of  Silver  of  Oliver  Cromw.— 

Quaere  whether  the  following  Book  be  in  the  Bodlejan  Library,  viz. 
Yet  a  Course  at  the  Romyshe  Foxe.  A  Dysdosyne  or  openynge  of  the 
Manne  of  Synne,  contayned  in  the  late  Declaratyon  of  the  Popes  olde  fay  the 
made  by  Edmonde  Boner  bysshopp  of  London.  Wherby  Wyllyam  Tolwyn 
was  than  nezv lye  professed  at  paules  Crosse  openlye  into  Antichristes  Romyshe  30 
relygyon  agayne  by  a  newe  solempne  othe  of  obedyence,  notwythstandynge  the 
other  made  to  hys  pry  nee  afore  toy  contrarye.  An  alphabetycall  dyrectorye 
or  Table  also  in  the  ende  therof,  to  the  spedye  fyndeynge  out  of  the  pry ncy pall 
matters  therin  contayned.  Compyled  by  Johan  Harryson.  I  have  seen 
this  Book  in  the  Hands  of  Mr.  Edw.  Thwaites  of  Queen's  College,  and 
over  against  Harryson  somebody  has  written  with  a  Pen,  alias  Bale.  Se 
the  Image  of  both  Churches  pag.  i.  At  the  close  of  the  Book,  are  these 
words,  Thus  endeth  the  Manne  of  Synne  wyth  hys  Dysclosynge,  collected  by 
Johan  Harryson,  in  the  year  e  from  Christes  incarnacyon  M.D.X.LIJ.  and 
imprented  at  Zttrik  by  Olyver  Jacobson  Anno  Domini.  1543.  the  .x.  daye  of  '4° 
Decembre.  Here  also  over  against  Harryson  is  written  by  the  same  hand, 
alias  Bale  vide  pag.  i.  And  indeed  the  very  stile,  wch  is  nothing  but 
Raillery  and  Billingsgate,  against  BP.  Bonner  and  other  Roman  Catho- 
licks,  shews  it  plainly  to  have  been  written  by  John  Bale.  And  he 
acknowledges  himself  to  be  the  Author,  in  p.  40.  a.  where  he  cites  The 

Image  of  Both  Churches,  w°h  bears  his  Name,  in  these  Words of 

whom  I  have  written  a  large  volume  called  the  Image  of  both  Churches 
&c.  There  are  two  other  Pieces  annex'd  to  this  Book,  but  not  said  where 
printed,  tho'  I  conjecture  that  the  first  was  also  printed  at  Zurick.  The 

VOL.  II.  O 


194  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

first  is  intitled,  An  Answer  e  to  a  papy  sly  call  exhortacyon,  prelendynge  to 
avoyde  false  doctryne,  under  that  colour  to  maynteyne  the  same.  The  other, 
Two  Epistles,  one  of  Henry  Bullynger,  ivyth  the  consent  of  all  the  lernyd 
men  of  the  Church  of  Tigury  :  another  of  Jhon  Calvyn,  cheffe  Preacher  of 
the  Church  of  Geneve  :  whether  it  be  lawful!  for  a  Chrysten  man  to 
communycate  or  be  partaker  of  the  Masse  of  the  Papysles,  wythout  offendyn 
God  and  his  neyghboure,  or  not.  The  abovesaid  William  Tolwyn,  who 
writes  himself  Persone  of  Saynt  Antonynes,  it  seems  had  deserted  the 
Church  of  Rome  for  that  of  the  Church  of  England,  wcl1  so  much  con- 

10  cern'd  BP.  Bonner  (who  was  a  most  diligent,  zealous  and  learned 
Defender  of  all  the  Principles  of  the  Romish  Church)  and  others  of  that 
Perswasion,  that  he  us'd  all  methods  possible  for  bringing  him  back 
again;  and  they  were  so  effectual  that  he  publickly  renounc'dthe  Church 
of  England,  and  made  this  Publick  Declaration  of  that  Renunciation  at 
Paul's  Cross,  wc^  Declaration  was  really,  at  least  for  the  most  Part,  drawn 
up  by  Bonner  himself,  and  'tis  here  reprinted  and  answer'd  Paragraph  by 
Paragraph.  But  whereas  Tolwyn  has  delivered  himself  in  a  becoming, 
Christian  Manner,  Bale  on  the  contrary  never  spares  to  deliver  himself 
with  all  ye  Scurrilitie  and  venom  he  could,  as  if  the  Cause  he  undertook 

20  were  weak  and  were  not  to  be  defended  with  better  arguments.  We  have 
this  note  at  ye  End  of  Tolwyn's  Declaration,  to  signify  where  and  by 
whom  'twas  printed,  viz.  Imprynted  at  London  in  saynt  Sepulchres  Paryshe 
in  y*  olde  bay  lye,  by  Rycharde  Lant.  Ad  imprimendum  solum.  Which  is 
also  descanted  upon  by  Bale. 

May  9  (Mon.).  Arch.  Seld.  B.  30.  Chaucer's  Canterbury  Tales.  A 
very  good  MS.  written  in  Velam,  I  believe  not  long  after  ye  time  that 
Chaucer  liv'd.  The  order,  (i)  The  Kts  Tale.  (2)  The  Millers.  (3) 
The  Reve's.  (4)  The  Cookes.  (5)  The  Clerke  of  Oxenford's.  The 
six  last  Verses  are  wanting  in  this  MS*.  (6)  The  Wiff  of  Bathes  Tale. 
30(7)  The  Freris  Tale.  (8)  The  Sompnour's  Tale.  (9)  The  Marchauntis 
Tale.  (10)  The  Squyers  Tale.  The  Prologue  quite  different  from  the 


May  8.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith.  (Rawl.  38.  132).  Colet's  Sermon  in  English 
reprinted  in  the  Phenix,  published  by  Mr.  Collins,  who  is  so  great  with  Dr. 
Tindal.  Mr.  Schelwig  has  probably  left  England  ;  he  is  too  forward  and  con- 
ceited. Bear  should  have  been  expelled ;  '  Mr.  Watts  was  sorry  for  what  he 
said,  and  has  behaved  himself  very  well  since ;  insomuch  that  on  Friday  last 
he  had  his  Grace  for  ye  Degree  of  Bach,  of  Law  without  any  opposition.' 
Has  not  yet  seen  the  books  mentioned  by  Smith ;  '  I  long  to  see  the  Palaeo- 
graphia  Graeca ;  but  our  Booksellers  are  very  negligent  in  getting  such  curious 
Books,  and  our  Stock  for  the  Library  is  so  inconsiderable  that  we  cannot  very 
easily  purchase.'  Sends  copies  of  two  letters  relating  to  Smith's  Life  of 
Camden,  written  by  Mr.  J.  Gibbon  to  Mr.  Morgan  the  Herald-Painter.  '  This 
Mr.  Gibbon,  who  always  writes  himself  Johan  Gibbon,  is  now  living  in  London, 
and  I  have  heard  a  great  Character  of  him  for  his  Skill  in  Heraldry,  and  for 
his  excellent  knowledge  in  the  Latin  Tongue,  from  Mr.  Dugdale,  a  Gentleman- 
Commoner  of  University-College,  and  Great-Grandson  to  Sir  William  Dug- 
dale.  But  notwithstanding  this,  I  take  him  to  be  a  whimsical  and  craz'd 
Person.'  Who  was  the  publisher  of  the  Proceedings  in  Magdalen  at  the  be- 
ginning of  the  Revolution  ? 


May  8-9.]  VOL  UME  XIX,  PA  GES  102-108.  195 

Print.  In  pars  3ia  we  have  these  verses  immediately  after  And  there  I 
left,  I  wall  againe  begin,  wcfl  are  not  in  the  Print,  viz. 

Hut  I  here  now  wol  maken  a  knotte,  And  have  here  sporte,  as  wel  as  I 

To  the  tyme  it  come  nexte  to  my  lotte.  And  the  day  passith  certeynly. 

For  here  ben  felawes  behynde  an  hepe  truly  Therefore  oste  taketh  now  good  hede. 

That  wolden  talke  ful  besily,  Who  shal  nexte  telle,  &  late  him  spede. 

Then  follow  the  next  two  verses  wch  are  printed,  but  without  any  Note  of 
a  Lacuna,  (n)  The  Man  of  Lawes  Tale.  (12)  The  Shipman's  Tale. 
The  Prologue  the  same  with  the  Printed  Prologue  of  the  Squire's  Tale. 
(13)  The  Prioresse's  Tale.  (14)  The  words  of  the  Hostess,  with  the  10 
Rime  of  Sir  Thopas.  (15)  Chaucer's  Tale.  It  ends  thus,  being  fuller 
than  ye  Print,  <J-  brynge  us  to  the  blisse  that  nevere  shal  have  ende.  To 
whiche  blisse  he  us  bringe,  that  blod  on  crossefor  us  lete  springe.  Qui  cum 
patre  &c.  (16)  The  Monkes  Tale.  (17)  The  Nonnes  Priest's  Tale. 
(18)  The  second  Nonnes  Tale.  (19)  The  Cannon's  Yeoman's  Tale. 
(20)  The  Doctor  of  Physickes.  (21)  The  Pardoners.  (22)  The 
Frankeleins.  (23)  The  Manciples.  (24)  The  Parson's  Tale,  w°k 
concludeth  the  Book.  The  MS.  concludeth  thus, 

Here  enden  the  Talis  of  Caunturbury,  and  next  thautour  taketh  leve. 
Now  preye  I  to  hem  alle  that  herken  this  litil  tretis  or  reden  |  that  if  ther  ben  20 
any  thing  in  hit  that  liketh  hem  |  that  therof  thei  thanke  our  lord  ihesu  Criste 
|  of  whom  procedeth  al  witte  and  al  goodnesse  |  and  if  ther  be  any  thing  that 
displesen  hem  |  I  preie  hem  also  that  thei  arecte  hit  to  the  defaute  of  myne 
unconnynge  |  and  nat  to  my  wil  that  wolde  ful  fayne  have  seide  better  if 
I  hadde  connynge  |  For  oure  booke  seith  |  al  that  is  writen  is  writen  for  oure 
doctryne  |  and  that  is  myne  entent  |  wherfore  I  biseke  you  mekely  for  the 
mercy  of  god  |  that  ye  preie  for  me  |  that  criste  have  mercy  on  me  |  and  for- 
yeve  me  my  gultes  |  and  namely  of  my  translaciones  |  and  enditynges  of 
worldly  vanytees  |  the  which  I  revoke  in  my  retractions  |  As  is  the  booke  of 
Troylus  |  the  booke  also  of  Fame  |  the  booke  of  xxv.  ladies  |  the  booke  of  the  30 
Duchesse  |  the  booke  of  Seint  Valenty. 

This  Conclusion  conteyning  Chaucers  acknowledgment  of  his  Faults 
&c.  not  in  the  Print.  The  Booke  of  Seint  Valenty,  &  the  Booke  of  xxv 
Ladies,  (unless  it  be  the  same  with  the  Assembly  of  Ladies)  not  in  his 
Printed  Works. 

List  of  ye  Canterbury  Tales,  alphabetical,  from  the  last  Edition  '. 

The  Wife  of  Bathe's  Tale.  i.  2.  3.  4.  5. 

The  Chanon's  Yeoman's  T.  i.  2.  4.  5.  deest  3. 

Chaucer's  T.  i.  2.  4.  5.  deest  3. 

The  Cookes  T.  i.  2.  3.  4.  5.  40 

The  Frankeleine's  T.  i.  2.  3.  4.  5. 

The  Freres  T.  i.  2.  3.  4.  5. 

The  Knight's  T.  i.  2.  3.  4.  5. 

The  Man  of  Laws  T.  i.  2.  3.  4.  5. 

The  Manciple's  T.  i.  2.  4.  5.  deest  3. 

The  Marchant's  T.  i.  a.  3.  4.  5. 

The  Miller's  T.  i.  2.  3.  4.  5. 

The  Monke's  T.  i.  2.  4.  5.  deest  3. 

The  Second  Nonne's  T.  i.  2.  3.  4.  5. 

1  The  mark  i.  denotes  MS.  Arch.  Seld.  B.  30.  when  only  i,  or  2,  &c.  is  put  it  shews 
that  tale  is  in  the  MS. :  but  deest  added  it  shews  that  the  same  Tale  is  wanting.  -The 
Mark  2.  Laud.  K.  50. — 3.  Cod.  super  Art.  A.  32.  4  Pynsons  Edition  of  ye  Tales. 
5  MS.  Caroli  Hatton  num.  i. 

O   2 


196  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

The  Nonne's  Priest's  T.  i.  2.  4.  5.  deest  3. 
The  Clerk  of  Oxenford's  T.  i.  2.  3.  4.  5. 
The  Pardoner's  T.  1.2.  3.  4.  5. 
The  Parson's,  i.  2.  4.  5.  deest  3. 
The  Doctor  of  Phisick's  T.  i.  2.  3.  4.  5. 
The  Plowman's  T.  deest  i.  2.  3.  4. 
The  Prioresse's  T.  1.2.  3.  4.  5. 
The  Prologues  to  ye  whole,  i.  2.  3.  4.  5. 

The  Reve's  T.  i.  2.  3.  4.     This  is  call'd  The  Carpenter's  Tale  in  Cod.  5. 
10      The  Shipman's  T.  i.  2.  3.  4.  5. 
The  Sompnour's  T.  i.  2.  3.  4.  5. 
The  Squire's  T.  i.  2.  3.  4.  5. 
The  Rime  of  Sr  Topas.  i.  2.  3.  4.  5. 

The  Plowman's  Tale  is  not  in  the  MSS.  If  it  were  Chaucer's,  it  was 
left  perhaps  out  of  his  Canterbury  Tales,  for  ye  Tartness  against  the  Popish 
Clergy.  It  is  very  probable  that  it  was  severally  written  by  Chaucer,  and 
not  as  one  of  the  Tales  ;  which  were  supposed  to  be  spoken,  &  not  written. 
For  so  the  Plowman  concludeth  in  the  Print: 

To  holy  Church  I  will  me  bow ;  And  for  my  writeing  me  allow, 

20  Each  man  to  amend  him  Christ  send  space.       He,  that  is  Almighty  for  his  Grace. 

The  same  word  of  writeing  is  there  used  divers  times :  as,  For  my 
writeing  if  I  have  blame — &,  of  my  writeing  have  me  excused.  Ergo,  it  was 
not  delivered  as  a  Tale  told  by  Mouth,  as  all  the  rest  were.  See  a  note 
at  the  Beginning  of  MS.  Laud.  K.  50,  written  by  Mr.  John  Barcham  whose 
Book  it  once  was,  and  was  presented  by  him  to  ArchbP.  Laud,  as  appears 
from  this  Note  of  his  at  y6  Beginning, 

Eminentiss0  Archipraesuli  |  Cant.  Dno.  suo  |  summe  Reverendo  |  Devinc- 
tissimus  |  Devotissimus  |  JOHANNES  BARCHAM.  | 

At  the  Beginning  of  the  Astrolabe  of  the  last  Ed. — 

30  This  Booke  (written  to  his  Sonne  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1391,  and  in  the  14 
of  K.  Richard  2)  standeth  so  good  at  this  day,  especially  for  the  Horizon  of 
Oxford,  as  in  the  opinion  of  the  learned,  it  cannot  be  amended. 

It  was  therefore  written  9  years  before  his  Death,  viz.  in  the  63  Year  of 
his  age,  he  being  72  Years  old,  when  he  died.  See  his  Life,  written  it  was 
to  his  son  Lewis,  whom  he  calleth  his  little  sonne  Lewys,  at  ye  beginning. 

Arch.  Seld.  B.  24.  Troilus  and  Cressida,  and  several  other  Pieces  of 
Chaucer.  At  the  End  of  Troilus  is  this  Note,  written  in  ye  same  Hand 
with  ye  Book,  viz.  Nativitas  principis  nostri  Jacobi  quarti  anno  Domini 
miiijc.  Ixxij0.  &  vij  die  mensis  Marcij,  viz.  in  festo  Sancti  Patricij 
40  Confessoris  In  Monasterio  sanctae  Crucis  prope  Edinburgh.  That  wch 
is  in  ye  Print  call'd  The  Complaint  of  the  blacke  Knight  is  here  call'd  the 
Maying  and  Disporte  of  Chaucer e. 

The  Parson's  Tale  in  Chaucer's  Cant.  Tales  in  MS.  Hatton.  (Caroli) 
num.  i.  wcl1  MS.  seems  to  have  been  written  either  in  the  author's  Life 
Time,  or  very  soon  after,  concludes  thus : 

This  blisfull  regne  may  not  (man  for  not  in  impressis)  purchase  bi  poverte 
espirituel  and  the  glorie  by  lowenesse.  the  plente  of  Joy  by  hungre  and  therst 
And  the  rest  by  travaile  and  the  life  by  deth  and  mortificacion  of  Syn.  Now 
prey  I  to  hem  all  that  herken  this  litul  tretise  or  reden  that  if  ther  be  any  thing 
50  in  it  that  llketh  hem  that  thereof  thei  thanken  our  Lorde  Jesu  Crist  of  whom 
procedeth  alle  witte  and  all  goodenesse.  And  if  there  be  any  thing  that 


May  9-12.]  VOLUME  XIX,  PAGES  108-1 18.  197 

displese  hem  I  prey  hem  also  that  thei  arrecte  it  to  the  defaute  of  myn 
unkonnyng  &  not  to  my  will  that  wold  fayne  have  seid  better,  if  I  hadde 
konnyng  for  oure  boke  seith  that  al  that  is  writen  for  oure  doctrine,  and  that 
is  myn  entent.  wherefor  I  beseche  yow  mekely  for  the  mercy  of  god  that  ye 
prey  for  me  that  Crist  have  merci  of  me  and  foryeve  me  my  giltes  And 
nameli  my  translacions  &  enditinges  wordly  vanitees  the  which  I  revoke  in 
my  retractions  as  is  the  boke  of  Troilus  the  boke  also  of  Fame  the  boke  of 
the  fyve  and  twenty  ladyes  |  The  boke  of  the  Duches  |  The  boke  of  Seint 
Valintyns  day  of  the  Perlement  of  briddes  |  The  Tales  Caunterbury.  tho 
that  sownen  untosyn  |  The  boke  of  the  Icon  |  And  many  another  boke  if  thei  i° 
wer  in  my  remembraunce  &  many  a  songe  |  and  many  a  lecherous  lay  I  Of  the 
which  Crist  for  his  grete  mercy  foryeve  me  the  syn.  But  of  the  translacion 
of  Boete  De  consolation  and  other  bokes  of  Legendes  of  Seintes  and  Omelies 
|  and  moralite  and  Devocion  That  thank  I  oure  lerde  Jesu  Crist  and  his 
blisful  moder  and  al  the  Seintes  in  heven  Biseking  hem  that  thei  fro  hen  forthe 
unto  my  lyves  ende  send  me  grace  to  bewaile  my  giltes  |  and  to  stodien  to 
the  savacion  of  my  soule  |  and  graunte  me  space  of  verrey  penitence  Confes- 
sion and  satisfaction  to  don  in  this  present  life  thorgh  the  benigne  grace  of 
him  that  is  king  of  kinges  and  prest  over  alle  prestes.  that  bought  us  with  the 
precious  blode  of  his  hert  |  so  that  I  may  ben  oon  of  hem  at  the  day  of  doom.  20 
that  shullen  be  saved  and  he  that  wrote  this  boke  also  |  Amen.  Qui  cum 
patre  &c. 

Chaucer  not  of  Oxfordsh.-  or  Barksh.  as  Leland  supposed,  but  of 
London,  as  appears  from  his  Testament  of  Love.  His  Father  suppos'd 
to  be  Rich.  Chaucer  vintner  of  Lond.  in  the  23  of  Ed.  3.  Eliz.  Chaucer,  in 
Rich.  IIds.  time,  a  Nunne,  who  was  perhaps  his  sister,  or  at  least  one  of 
his  Relations.  The  nobili  loco  of  Leland  &  Bale  to  be  understood  of  the 
Place  of  his  Nativity,  he  being  not  of  great  Birth,  as  appears  from  his 
arms,  wcn  were  parted  per  Pale  arg.  &  g.  a  Bend  counterchang'd.  Yet 
this  argument  rejected  by  the  writer  of  his  Life.  Chaucer  came  in  withe  3° 
ye  Conqueror,  as  appears  from  the  Roll  of  Battle-Abbey.  Some  think  his 
Father  was  a  Merchant,  but  y*  is  uncertain.  Tis  however  certain  that  his 
Parents  were  wealthy,  otherwise  they  could  not  have  given  their  son  such 
Education  as  to  render  him  fit  for  the  Court,  &  to  qualify  for  Business  of 
State  abroad.  He  was  educated  both  at  Oxford  and  Cambridge. 

May  12  (Th.).  On  Monday  last  Dr.  Gardiner  Warden  of  All-Souls 
struck  Mr.  Meredith  off  the  Book  from  being  Fellow  of  that  College,  for 
his  not  going  into  orders  at  ye  time  appointed  by  the  Statutes.  —  Mr. 
Watts  of  S*.  John's  presented  to  the  Degree  of  Bach,  of  Law  yesterday.  — 
Memorand.  That  the  39  Articles  of  ye  Church  of  England  of  the  ist  40 
Edition  in  English  mentioned  in  y«  Bodlejan  Cat.  4°.  S.  77.  art.  Seld.  is 
cut  out  of  y*  Book  by  some  Rascal,  and  one  Leaf  of  ye  same  articles  in 
Latin  pr.  at  Oxon.  1636.  is  cut  out  by  ye  same  hand  as  it  seems.  It  is 
that  Leaf  wch  contains  ye  Article  about  ye  authority  of  ye  Church,  viz. 
art.  20.  w*  in  those  early  editions  has  not  ye  first  Sentence  about  Cere- 
monies J. 

This  last  Book  is  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  40.  P.  4.  Th.    At  Cambridge  they  have 

1  This  I  put  down  by  suggestion  of  Mr.  Tyrrell ;  but  'tis  false  there  never  being 
any  Ed.  in  English  of  1562.  in  the  Library,  &  the  Leaf  of  the  Oxford  Ed.  was  cut  out, 
I  think,  upon  the  Account  of  the  Clause's  being  left  out  by  the  Contrivance  of  Dr. 
Prideaux,  or  some  others.  'Twas  reprinted  with  the  Clause,  &  the  Leaf  is  inserted 
in  some  Copies.  [The  paragraph  in  the  teict  is  cancelled.] 


198  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

the  original  Copy  of  the  Articles,  with  the  subscribers.  The  variations 
are  mark'd  in  BP.  Burnett's  Exposition.  In  ye  Bodley  Library  we  have  a 
Copy  of  the  articles  in  Bibl.  Seld.  printed  in  Latin  in  1563.  to  wch  is 
pasted  a  Piece  of  Parchment  containing  the  Names  of  the  subscribers  to 
ye  same  articles  as  confirm'd  in  the  synod  of  1571.  Wcl1  Names  are  here 
written  by  the  subscribers  themselves.  —  Betw.  fourty  &  fifty  urns  dug 
up  in  the  Field  of  old  Walsingham  in  Norfolk  several  years  since,  of 
several  Figures,  some  containing  two  libs,  of  Bones,  distinguishable  in 
skulls,  ribs,  jaws,  thighbones,  &  teeth,  with  fresh  Impressions  of  their 
10  Combustion.  With  other  things  in  them.  See  Sr.  Tho.  Browne's  urn- 
Burial,  p.  14.  —  Troilus  and  Creseida  of  Chaucer  MS.  in  Bibl.  Bodl. 
Seld.  supra  56.  written  anno  Dni.  1441,  anno  Regni  H.  VI.  19. — MS. 
Fairfax  16.  contains  several  Poetical  Pieces.  Some  bear  Chaucer's  Name, 
others  have  no  Name,  but  I  conjecture  that  they  were  however  written  by 
him,  tho'  not  amongst  his  printed  Pieces. 


May  14.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  128).  Is  unable  to  visit  H.  at 
Oxford  this  term.  Desires  H.  to  get  his  copy  of  Colet's  Sermon  transcribed. 
Dodwell  inflexible  as  to  his  singular  opinions  ;  would  have  him  turn  his  studies 
to  the  illustrating  of  ecclesiastical  history  and  antiquity.  Mr.  Schelwig  of 
Dantzig  has  left  for  Holland.  '  Mr.  Wilkin  left  the  towne  a  weeke  before, 
designing  to  go  to  Vienna  and  Rome,  and,  as  I  have  heard  since  his  departure, 
to  Grand  Caire,  in  order,  as  I  imagine,  to  complete  his  History  of  the  Church  of 
Alexandria,  by  a  conversation  with  the  Coptite  Bishops  &  Priests,  from  whom, 
I  persvvade  my  selfe,  hee  wil  find  no  great  satisfaction.  However,  the  designe 
is  laudable :  and  I  wish  him  health  and  successe  in  his  peregrination.  I  know 
not  in  the  least,  who  is  the  Author  of  the  Narrative  of  the  proceedings  in  our 
College ;  before  8f  at  the  Visitation  :  but  I  wil  venture  to  tell  you  at  this  time 
of  day  (tho'  I  would  have  you  reserve  it  in  petto,  as  a  secret)  that  a  friend  of 
yours  has  written  an  Account  of  it,  so  farre  as  he  was  concerned,  wch  hee  wil 
take  care  to  have  published  after  his  death  in  more  quiet  times,  to  do  some 
right  to  the  memory  of  the  horribly  abused  and  unjustly  abdicated  King,  &  a 
little  right  also  to  him  selfe.'  The  character  of  Mr.  Morgan  in  S.'s  Life  of 
Camden  deserved ;  Mr.  Gibbon's  (Blue-mantle)  discourse  and  behaviour  so  odd 
as  to  heighten  the  idea  of  him  received  from  his  books,  especially  his  Day- 
fatality.  Has  received  from  Holland  Amman's  beautiful  ed.  of  Caelius  Aureli- 
anus.  H.'s  friend  being  thus  anticipated  should  reprint  e.g.  Soranus'  Isagoge 
in  artem  medendi  (Basil  1536) ;  there  is  a  MS.  in  the  Cottonian  Library,  Galba 
E.  IV.  9. 

May  15.  Barnes  to  H.  (Rawl.  24.  19).  Thanks  for  the  Batra- 
chomyomachia,  a  noble  Kopwvty  to  the  great  work  which  H.  has  done  with  in- 
comparable zeal,  pains  and  fidelity.  Is  for  nothing  now  but  what  is  taken  to 
be  Homerical.  Sent  H.  half  a  piece  lately  by  Mr.  Wilkins  to  drink  his  health, 
Mrs.  B.'s  and  Homer's.  Will  do  Homer  that  justice  which  he  has  not  had 
this  2000  years ;  he  does  not  expect  such  encouragement  as  may  be  answerable 
to  his  pains,  but  assures  himself  of  the  commendation  of  posterity.  Landlord 
Crownfield  has  brought  back  the  frontispiece,  rarely  designed,  from  Holland. 
4  None  would  imagine  what  service  you  and  I  have  done  Homer.' 

May  16.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  40).  Dr.  Musgrave,  formerly  of  New 
Coll.,  who  now  practises  physic  in  Exeter,  writes  to  desire  that  some  notes  of 
his  own  on  the  Bath  inscription  may  be  printed  at  Oxford,  together  with 
Hearne's  (to  be  translated  into  Latin)  and  Dodwell's.  Is  inclinable  to  gratify 
him.  '  I  pray,  put  Dr.  Hudson  in  mind  that  if  Mr.  Thwaytes's  Eustratius  were 
the  Archbishop  of  Nice,  he  will  prove  equal  in  dignity  with  Eustathius  of 


I 

May  12-18.]  VOLUME  XIX,  PAGES   118-123.  199 

May  18  (Wed.).  Leland  saith  that  Chaucer  was  nobili  loco  natus,  & 
summae  spei  juvenis. — William  Botevil  alias  Thinne  Esqr.  publish'd 
Chaucer  &  dedicated  it  to  K.  Hen.  VIII.  anno  1540.  After  y*  in  1560 
John  Stow  corrected  the  same  with  divers  MSS,  and  added  several  Pieces 
not  printed  before.  Afterwards  in  1597.  he  added  to  it  several  Pieces  of 
Lidgate,  and  drew  up  an  Account  of  Chaucer's  Life,  Preferment,  Issue  & 
Death,  collected  out  of  Records  in  ye  Tower  &  other  Places,  wct  he 
communicated  to  Thomas  Spight  to  be  publish'd,  wct  was  accordingly 
performed.  Stow's  Annals  Edit.  fol.  p.  326. — Thinne  found  the  Editions 
before  his  time  of  Chaucer  very  faulty,  wcb  he  therefore  corrected  accord-  10 
ing  to  MSS.  See  his  Ded.  to  K.  Hen.  8.  His  Edition  was  printed  at 
Lond.  in  1540.  by  Thomas  Bertholet  as  appears  from  Leland. — Mr. 
Ashmole  p.  227.  of  his  Theatrum  Chem.  Lond.  1652.  4°.  has  printed  Geoff. 
Chaucer's  Tale  of  ye  Chanon's  Yeoman,  and  before  it  he  has  added 
Chaucer's  Picture  and  Epitaph  from  Westminster  Abbey.  Pitts  says 
Chaucer  was  born  of  Noble  Parents,  and  that  Patrem  habuit  equestris 
ordinis  virum,  his  Father  was  a  Knight.  — 

The  Plough-Man's  Tale.  Shewing  by  ye  Doctrine  and  lives  of  the 
Romish  Clergie  that  the  Pope  is  anti-christ  and  they  his  ministers,  written 
by  sir  Geffrey  Chaucer,  Knight,  amongst  his  Canterburie  Tales  :  and  now  20 
set  apart  from  the  rest,  with  short  exposition  of  the  words  &  matters,  for 
ye  capacitie  and  understanding  of  ye  simpler  sort  of  Readers.  Lond.  1606. 
printed  by  G.  E.  for  Samuell  Macham  &  Matthew  Cooke.  4°.  S.  77.  Art. 
Seld.  There  is  no  Preface,  nor  any  Account  of  ye  Publisher  in  this 
Copy.  At  ye  Beginning  the  Author  of  ye  Notes  (wch  are  very  good) 
says, 

In  the  former  Editions  of  Chawcer  this  Tale  is  made  ye  last,  but  in  the 
latter,  set  out  by  Mr.  Spight's  advise,  and  commendable  paines,  it  is  the  last 
saving  the  Parson's  Tale,  I  doubt  not  but  this  change  is  warranted  by  some 
olde  coppies  written,  as  ye  corrections  also  of  divers  words :  and  it  seems  to  30 
be  most  reasonable,  that  the  Parson's  Tale  should  bee  the  conclusion  of  their 
morning  werke. 

At  ye  beginning  of  ye  Tale  itself,  this  argument,  A  complaint  against  ye 
pride  and  covetousness  of  the  Clergy:  made  no  doubt  by  Chawcer,  with  the 
rest  of  the  Tales.  For  I  have  seen  it  in  written  hand  in  John  Stowes 
Librarie,  in  a  booke  of  such  antiquitie,  as  seemeth  to  have  been  written  near 
to  Chawcer's  time. 

The  Title  Page  of  our  Pynson's  Edition  of  Chaucer's  Tales,  amongst 
Mr.  Selden's  MSS.  is  wanting,  as  is  also  the  date.  But  there  is  the 
Preface  of  Mr.  Pynson.  From  y*  Preface  it  appears  that  he  printed  these  4° 
Tales  according  to  a  Copy  prepared  in  due  Method  by  Mr.  Wm.  Caxton, 
but  I  much  doubt  whether  Caxton  ever  printed  all  ye  Tales,  &  am  of 
opinion  that  he  printed  only  some  Pieces  of  his  works,  notwithstanding 
what  Stow  and  others  say.  — In  the  Bodl.  Library  is  a  Collection  of  old 
Romantick  Pieces,  the  first  of  wch  is  The  story  of  ye  Noble  Kynge 
Richard  Cure  de  lyon,  pr.  at  Lond.  by  Wynkyn  de  Worde  an.  1528. 

Thessalonica,  and  a  little  his  senior,  and  the  eldest  Greek  commentator  on  his 
Author. 

May  17.  Browne  Willis  to  H.  (Rawl.  n.  14).  Thanks  for  Alfred. 
Hopes  that  H.  may  prosecute  those  studies  which  the  writer's  inclination  leads 
him  to  think  well  of. 


I 

200  H  EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

without  ye  Author's  Name,  but  somebody  has  written  at  ye  Beginning  these 
words,  By  Jeffree  Chawsher  Pooet  Laret.  It  is  adorned  with  wooden 
Cutts.  In  the  29*^  Stanza  of  ye  Plowman's  Tale  thus, 

They  halow  nothing  but  for  hire 

Church,  ne  font,  ne  vestement, 

And  make  orders  in  every  shire,  &c.  — 

John  Shirley  Esqr.  lyes  buried  in  S*.  Bartholomew's  Church  Lond. 
He  was  a  great  Traveller  in  divers  Countries,  &  amongst  other  his»Labours, 
painfully  collected  the  works  of  Geffrey  Chawcer,  John  Lidgate,  and 

10  other  learned  writers;  wc^  workes  he  wrote  in  sundry  volumes,  to  remain 
for  posterity  :  Mr.  Stow  says  he  had  seen  them,  and  that  he  had  some  of 
them  in  his  Possession.  See  Survey  of  London  p.  416.  He  died  anno 
1456.  See  ibid,  his  epitaph.  —  It  must  be  noted  that  after  Mr.  Jacob 
Bobart  had  fmish'd  his  Volume  of  the  History  of  Plants,  he  writ  a 
Preface  to  it,  which  he  shew'd  the  Delegates  of  the  Press ;  but  they  not 
approving  of  it,  because  of  the  Barbarity  of  the  Latin,  advis'd  him  to  get 
somebody  to  mend  it,  &  some  of  them  pitch'd  upon  Mr.  (now  Dr.) 
Hudson ;  accordingly  the  Preface  was  put  into  Mr.  Hudson's  hands,  &  he 
drew  it  up  in  proper  Latin,  &  return'd  it.  'Twas  compos'd  as  Mr. 

20  Hudson  worded  it,  &  a  very  few  Copies  printed  off,  particularly  there  is 
one  of  them  before  Mr.  Dyer's  Copy  of  ye  Book  at  Oriel  College  ;  but 
Bobart,  for  reasons  best  known  to  himself,  had  a  quite  different  one 
printed,  drawn  up  partly  by  himself  &  partly  by  others,  w°h  is  prefix 'd  to 
all  ye  Copies  except  those  very  few  before  mention'd.  —  I  believe  the 
Revocation  annex'd  .to  the  Parson's  Tale  in  some  Copies  of  Chaucer  not 
to  be  genuine,  but  made  by  the  Monks,  who  were  strangely  exasperated 
for  the  Freedom  he  took,  especially  in  the  Plow-man's  Tale  of  exposing 
their  Pride,  Loosness  and  Debauchery,  wclt  was  occasion'd  chiefly  by 
their  Extravagant  Wealth,  wcn  heighten'd  their  Lusts,  and  the  Injunction 

30  of  an  unmarried  Life  impos'd  upon  the  Clergy,  wcjl  about  the  middle  of 
the  14^  Century  became  general  all  over  England,  &  made  the  Clergy 
guilty  of  abominable  Crimes,  such  as  Incest,  Sodomy,  &c.  such  especially 
as  could  not  contain  themselves.  —  Pitts  mentions  among  Chaucer's 
Works  Oratoris  (read  aratoris)  narratio,  wc^  he  takes  to  be  the  same  with 
Pierce  Plow-man,  and  tells  us  'tis  exstant  in  MS*  at  Oxon.  and  Cambridge. 
He  also  mentions  Chaucer's  Canterbury  Tales,  with  his  Retractation,  as 
being  in  MS.  in  the  Lord  Lumley's  Library. 

May  19.  H.  to  T.  Rawlinson  (Rawl.  33.  i).  Thanks  for  List  of  Tullies  ; 
thinks  that  Rawlinson's  collection  of  books  is  more  valuable  even  than  he  had 
been  led  to  believe.  Will  probably  follow  Gruter  in  printing  the  text  of  Tully, 
and  will  arrange  the  Epistles  in  order  of  time,  adding  the  numbers  according 
to  the  common  order.  '  We  have  the  Piece  you  mention  of  William  Thomas, 
and  your  Brother  may  command  the  Use  of  that  and  any  other  Book  I  can 
procure  for  him.' 

May  22.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  133).  Has  employed  one  to 
transcribe  Colet's  Sermon.  '  I  am  very  glad  that  you  mov'd  my  excellent 
Friend  Mr.  Dodwell  to  imploy  his  Studies  in  Ecclesiastical  History  and 
Antiquity,  rather  than  in  writing  Defenses  of  the  Notions  he  has  advanced  in 
his  late  Books,  which  have  given  so  much  Offence,  and  lessen'd  his  Reputation. 
I  have  seen  the  New  Edition  of  Caelius  Aurelianus.  The  two  ingenious 
Gentlemen,  my  Friends  and  acquaintanse,  who  had  once  intended  to  have 


May  18-24.]          VOLUME  XIX,  PAGES  123-126.  2OI 

May  24  (Tu.).  It  appeareth  from  ye  Testament  of  Love  that  G. 
Chaucer  was  in  some  Trouble  in  the  days  of  Rich.  2d.  where  he  complains 
very  much  of  his  own  Rashness  in  following  the  multitude,  &  of  their 


publish'd  him  here  have  now  I  believe  laid  him  aside.  One  of  them  is  Bach, 
of  Physick  and  a  Practitioner  at  Nottingham  ;  the  other  is  lately  return'd  from 
Travelling,  having  been  at  Rome,  Venice,  and  several  other  Places.  In  his 
Journey  he  has  made  Inquiry  about  the  Reputation  of  the  Book,  and  all  the 
Physitians  that  he  discours'd  with  condemn'd  it  as  an  unintelligible  Piece,  and 
seem'd  to  wonder  that  any  one  should  spend  his  time  in  setting  forth  a  new 
Edition.  What  made  him  chiefly  inquir'd  after  here  three  or  four  Years  since 
was  his  being  commended  by  Baglivi  somewhere  in  his  Works,  who  is  an 
Author  of  good  Credit,  at  least  amongst  our  young  Physitians.  The  new 
Edition  seems  to  be  well  printed,  and  it  may  be  correctly  ;  but  'twould  have 
been  more  agreeable  to  our  Buyers  here  (who  however  are  very  few)  to  have 
had  it  in  a  Volume  of  about  4J.  Price.'  Remarks  and  criticisms  on  Mr.  Roger 
Gale's  ed.  of  that  part  of  Antoninus'  Itinerary  which  concerns  Britain,  with  a 
commentary  done  chiefly  by  his  father  Dr.  Thomas  Gale.  Dr.  Hudson  'is  not 
one  of  the  Fellows  of  the  College  that  is  great  with  Dr.  Ch.  and,  unless  I  am 
much  mistaken,  is  far  from  approving  the  Master's  Projects ;  yet  I  have  heard 
him  blam'd  by  one  of  the  present  Fellows,  who  has  otherwise  a  due  respect  for 
him,  for  striking  in  with  the  Master  against  his  own  Pupil  Mr.  Charles  Usher, 
a  very  ingenious  Gentleman,  who  was  expell'd  you  know  some  years  since  for 
certain  Expressions  that  were  objected  against  him  that  had  been  spoken  two 
years  before  .  .  .  About  a  Month  before  Easter  one  Dr.  Sandolans,  a  Scotch- 
man, came  to  the  University,  having  been  recommended  by  Dr.  Sloan,  and 
some  others,  in  order  to  instruct  young  Physjtians  and  others  in  Anatomy.  He 
apply'd  himself  to  the  Vice-Chancellor,  and  desir'd  his  Leave  that  he  might 
dissect  in  the  University-Anatomy-Schoole.  The  Vice-Chanc.  granted  him 
this  Privilege,  and  upon  that  Grant  (and  his  having  had  leave  withall  from  ye 
Professor)  I  let  him  have  one  of  the  Keys  of  the  Schoole,  tho'  much  against 
my  Will,  being  apprehensive  that  it  being  so  near  the  Library  it  would  be  an 
offense  to  Strangers,  and  there  being  a  great  many  Curiosities,  there  would  be 
danger  of  having  some  of  them  lost.  As  I  fear'd,  so  it  happen'd ;  for  continu- 
ing here  at  least  six  Weeks,  in  which  time  several  humane  Bodies  were  cut  up, 
it  made  Strangers  shie  of  coming  into  the  Library,  and,  what  was  worse,  when 
I  came,  after  they  had  done,  to  examin  the  Things  here  reposited  I  found 
some  wanting,  particularly  a  small,  but  antient,  Image  of  Palla,  brass ;  a  Medal 
of  Priamus,  King  of  Troy,  spurious  ;  a  Medal  of  the  BPS  put  into  the  Tower ; 
a  small  one  of  Otho,  like  silver  but  counterfeit ;  a  large  Silver  Medal  of 
Charles  1 1  King  of  Spain  ;  &  a  5  Shill.  Piece  of  Oliver  Cromwell,  silver.  This 
Gentleman  had  been  here  the  Year  before,  but  then  he  dissected  in  another 
Place.  I  am  sorry  the  Vice-Chanc.  was  so  easy,  and  the  rather  because  here 
was  a  Bach,  of  Physick  of  our  own  University,  an  ingenious,  modest  Man,  who 
would  have  done  it  as  well  (if  not  better)  and  much  cheaper.  'Tis  likely  you 
may  give  me  some  account  of  the  Character  of  him ;  but  I  cannot  charge  him 
with  having  convey'd  them  of,  yet  he  should  have  took  due  care,  as  he  pro- 
mis'd  he  would,  to  hinder  any  one  from  either  misplacing  or  meddling  with  any 
Thing  in  the  Room.' 

May  23.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  134).  Sends  the  transcript  of 
Colet's  Latin  Sermon,  which  he  has  collated  with  the  print,  and  explains  his 
method  of  transcribing.  Has  given  the  lad  four  shillings  for  writing  and  help- 
ing to  collate. 

May  24.  Woodward  to  H.  (Rawl.  12. 92).  Thanks  for  answer  to  query 
of  April  2.  Read  H.'s  discourse  on  the  Bath  inscription  with  much  pleasure; 
hopes  that  when  letters  flourish  with  the  return  of  peace,  H.  will  meet  with 
suitable  regards.  Mr.  Llhuyd  '  has  given  so  many  Samples  of  a  Malice  to 


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202  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

hatred  against  him  for  bewraying  their  Purpose.  And  in  that  complaint 
wcb  he  makes  to  his  empty  purse  Mr.  Speght  found  ten  times  more 
adjoyned  in  a  MS*,  of  it  in  Mr.  Stowes  hands  than  is  in  the  Print,  making 
therein  great  Lamentation  for  his  wrongful!  Imprisonment,  wishing  Death 
to  end  his  Dayes.  And  'tis  plain  from  a  Record  in  ye  Tower  that  the 
King  took  Geff.  Chaucer  &  his  Lands  into  his  Protection  in  ye  2d  year 
of  his  Reign,  because  there  was  much  Danger  from  him  by  reason  of  his 
favouring  some  rash  attempt  of  the  common  People.  --  Some  of  his 
Canterbury  Tales  were  translated  and  penned  in  the  Days  of  Rich.  2d, 

10  after  the  Insurrection  of  Jack  Straw,  wc^  was  in  the  4th  year  of  y*  King's 
Reign,  &  whereof  Chaucer  maketh  Mention  in  the  Tale  of  the  Nunne's 
Prest.  —  Leofwin  BP.  of  Lichfield  died  in  the  year  1066.  Circa  ea 
tempora  plerique  Episcopi  erant  illiterati,  pecunijs  &  blandicijs  potentes, 
vestium  apparatu  satellitum  strepitu  muniti,  as  in  the  anonymous  History 
of  ye  Ch.  of  Lichfield,  MS.  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  Mus.  65. 

May  25  (Wed.).  This  Day  in  a  Convocation  at  9  Clock  Dr.  John 
Cockburn  a  Scotch  Divine,  who  took  his  Degree  of  Dr.  of  Divinity  in  the 
year  1688  at  Aberdeen,  and  was  some  time  after  made  Pastor  of  an 
English  Church  at  Amsterdam,  where  he  has  been  ever  since,  and  has 

20  lately  had  a  Parsonage  given  to  him  in  England  by  the  Queen,  had  a 
Letter  from  ye  Chancellor  read  that  ye  Convocation  would  grant  him  the 
Degree  of  Dr.  of  Div.  in  this  university,  w°k  was  agreed  to  nemine  contra- 
dicente,  &  he  is  to  be  presented  in  what  Congregation  he  thinks  fit.  — 
Justin  mended  by  Vossius  ad  Catullum  pag.  no.  It  is  of  lib.  37.  de 
Mithridate.  Sic  nempe  Vossius  e  libro  suo  vetusto :  Hyeme  dein 
appetente,  non  in  convivio,  sed  in  campo ;  nee  in  avocalionibus,  nee  inter 
saddles  ;  sed  inter  cocequales  aut  equo,  out  cursu,  aut  viribus  contendebat.  — 
The  New  Test.  pr.  at  Dublin  in  y®  House  of  Mr.  Wm.  Usher  by  the 
Bridge.  The  Printer  John  Frank.  1602.  Irish. 

30  May  27  (Fri.).  This  Day  Dr.  John  Cockburn  of  Scotland,  who  is 
Uncle  to  Mr.  John  Keil  the  Mathematician,  was  presented  to  the  Degree 
of  Dr.  of  Div.  —  A  Pamphlett  printed  at  London  without  Date  in  4*°. 
call'd  The  Everlasting  Gospel  of  Repentance  and  Remission  of  Sins 
held  forth  and  declared  to  ye  Inhabitants  of  the  Earth  that  they  may 
turn  and  be  converted  to  the  Living  God,  lest  they  perish  in  ye  Day 
of  vengeaunce  wch  is  at  hand.  By  Edward  Burrough.  I  have  several 
Pieces  of  this  Burrough  who  was  a  quaker  in  MS.  —  This  Day  was 
an  Election  of  Fellows  at  Oriel  College.  There  were  three  Vacan- 
cies, and  9  Candidates  for  them.  There  were  2  of  Oriel  College 

40  who  stood  and  one  of  them  came  in,  as  being  Pupil  to  one  of  those 
chiefly  concern'd  in  ye  Election  ;  the  2d  was  of  Merton  and  the  3d  of 
Wadham  College.  Mr.  Johnson  an  ingenious,  good  natur'd,  modest 
Gent,  of  X*.  Ch.  stood  and  perform'd  better  at  least  as  well  as  any ;  but 
Interest  sway'd  (notw^standing  what  was  given  out  both  before  ye  Election 
and  since)  as  I  have  been  inform'd  by  one  of  ye  College,  an  observer  of 
ye  Transaction,  but  perfectly  unprejudic'd  (as  having  nothing  to  do  in  ye 

me,  of  a  Stamp  so  peculiar,  &  of  a  Duration  so  long  beyond  y*  that  humane 
Malice  is  wont  to  last,  that  I  confess  I  think  him  more  an  Object  of  Pity  than 
of  ye  Scorn  y*  he  so  universaly  meets  with.' 


May  24-30.]  VOLUME  XIX,  PAGES  1 26-135.  203 

Election,  one  way  or  other)  &  one  of  ye  Electors  has  himself  declar'd  that 
he  was  engag'd  sometime  before  the  time  of  Tryal  by  a  Gentleman  in 
y«  Country.  So  that  both  in  this  as  well  as  other  Colleges  things  are 
manag'd  by  Interest,  not  by  Merits. 

May  30  (Mon.).  This  Morning  at  8  Clock  Mr.  John  Caswell,  our  new 
Professor  of  Astronomy  read  a  grave  Lecture,  being  his  first  Lecture,  in 
the  School  appointed  for  that  Purpose.  —  Mr.  Roger  Gale  has  publish'd 
that  Part  of  Antoninus' s  Itinerary  that  relates  to  Britain,  with  a  Com- 
mentary, drawn  up  mostly  by  his  Father  Dr.  Thomas  Gale.  At  the  End 
is  that  Part  of  the  anonymus  Ravennas  that  concerns  Britain  also,  with  I0 
various  lections.  This  Book  is  a  thin  4*°  &  contains  a  great  many 
Inscriptions,  some  not  publish'd  before ;  tho'  it  must  be  noted  that  they 
are  very  faultily  printed,  &  that  the  Book  is  full  of  Errors,  &  it  might  by 
a  carefull  diligent  Man  have  been  made  much  more  compleat  and 
exact.  —  P.  49.  Sea-Horse  of  Alfred.  Quaere  what.  Also  Horse- 
whale.  Consider  also  the  Ships  sent  by  Alfred  into  the  East-Indies,  & 
what  likelyhood  there  is  of  it.  Mr.  Tyrrel  suspects  it.  Consider  also 
what  a  Style  was,  &  what  ye  value.  Mr.  Tyrrel  has  given  his  Judgm*.  of 
it  in  his  General  History,  Vol.  i.  (Pag.  155  of  Alfred  the  Horse-whale.) 
If  any  additions  be  made  to  K.  Alfred's  Life,  in  ye  Discourse  of  ye  30 
Jewellers  a  good  opportunity  may  be  offer'd  of  speaking  something  cone, 
the  ancient  piece  in  Dr.  Hickes's  Thesaurus,  where  he  has  given  his 
opinion  of  it.  —  ^Estel.  Indicatorium,  index,  directorium,  festuca.  a  guide 
or  directory;  it.  manubrium,  capulum,  ansa.  a  handle,  or  steal  of  any  thing. 
See  Somner's  Lexicon. — See  Gregory's  Pastoral  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  inter  Codd. 
Hatton.  num.  88. 

May  28.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  129).  Thanks  for  the  tran- 
script of  Colet's  curious  and  valuable  Latin  Sermon.  S.  has  laid  aside  the 
design  of  writing  a  Life  of  Colet.  The  Italian  physicians,  by  passing  such  an 
unjust  censure  on  Caelius,  showed  their  ignorance  of  the  ancient  authors. 
Expresses  a  very  high  opinion  of  Cornelius  Celsus  de  Medicina,  which  is  shared 
by  a  truly  learned  author,  whose  great  work  is  now  in  the  press,  and  of  whom 
more  hereafter.  Baglivi  is  of  a  different  mind  about  Caelius  from  the  common 
herd  of  Practisers  in  Italy.  S.  will  send  H.  a  piece  of  his,  printed  about  a 
year  since  in  Holland.  Will  communicate  to  H.  Camden's  additions  to  the 
Britannia  made  by  his  own  hand  in  the  margin  of  his  last  ed.  1607.  Hears 
that  Dr.  Sandelands  is  a  good  anatomist,  but  is  sorry  that  the  V.  C.'s  easiness 
and  excessive  civility  to  let  him  have  the  use  of  the  Anatomy  School  has  been 
the  occasion  of  the  loss  of  several  curiosities  there  being  purloined  and  stolen  out 
of  it.  Did  not  one  Murer,  a  German,  formerly  lie  under  the  same  scandalous 
imputation  ?  Hears  that  Tanner  will  ere  long  send  to  the  press  Leland,  Bos- 
ton &c.  in  2  vols.  folio.  Thoresby  to  H.  (Rawl.  10.  59).  Thanks  for  H.'s 
agreeable  present.  Thinks  that  Dodvvell's  dissertation  on  the  Bath  inscription 
might  be  spared  after  H.'s  learned  performance.  Begs  for  original  letters  for 
his  collection.  '  This  week  I  procured  one  of  Fox  ye  Founder  of  Quakerisme, 
wch  is  all  of  a  piece  with  his  Will,  &  shews  y1  he  to  wm  books  with  Quotations 
at  least  out  of  Learned  Languages  are  ascribed  was  not  able  to  write  true 
English,  a  holy  Sisters  note  at  the  foot  of  it,  is  both  better  writ,  truer  English, 
&  a  more  judicious  observation.' 

May  30.  H.  to  P.  Cherry  (Rawl.  36.  28).  Sends  the  Monthly  Miscellany 
for  January,  containing  Part  3  of  his  letter,  and  explains  how  the  list  of  the 
pictures  in  Bodiey  was  made  and  how  published ;  also  copies  of  the  Abstract 
of  the  late  Acts. 


204  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

June  3  (Fri.).  The  ambitious  Duke  and  Dutchess  of  Marlborough 
being  not  content  \vth-  the  noble  Palace  now  building  at  Woodstock,  w°k 
is  like  to  cost  (as  it  has  done  already)  such  an  inestimable  sum  of  Money 
to  this  nation,  have  got  a  grant  for  another  near  S*.  James's,  wcl1  is 
actually  begun  the  Dutchess  herself  laying  the  first  stone,  on  w0*1  her 
husbands  &  her  own  Name  were  inscrib'd  with  these  words  also,  anno 
pactfico,  wck  is  so  far  from  being  true  that  notwithstanding  the  Pre- 
liminaries of  Peace  drawn  up  and  sign'd  by  the  Allies  the  War  is  like  to 
be  prosecuted  afresh,  &  the  French  King  will  not  be  brought  in  all 

10  probability  to  part  with  his  Honour  upon  so  easy  Terms.  —  MS.  Mus. 
1 66.  Bibl.  Bodl.  Historia  Gulielmi  Conq.  Regis  angliae.  Quaere  annon 
idem  sit  cum  eo  qui  editus  est  ad  calcem  Historise  de  Gavelkind  a  Sila 
Taylero  in  lucem  protractse?  (Est  plane  idem.)  —  4°.  Th.  B.  i.  BS.  A 
4to.  Book,  printed  in  a  small  Black  Letter,  containing  ye  Pentateucus,  Josua, 
Judges,  The  Psalms,  Proverbs,  The  Book  of  Wisdom,  and  the  New 
Testament,  intire.  The  Title  Page,  and  Preface,  if  there  ever  was  any, 
are  wanting,  and  immediately  before  Genesis  is  Tabula  Historiarum  in 
alphabetical  order.  At  ye  End,  excudebat  Thomas  Bertheletus  Regius 
impressor.  Anno  M.D.  XXXV.  mense  Jul.  —  A.  7.  i.  Art.  in  Bibl.  A 

20  Collection  of  several  old  Pieces  translated  &  printed  at  Westminster  by 
William  Caxton,  and  given  to  ye  Library  by  Moses  Pitt.  A.D.  1680. 
They  are  (i)  Cato's  Distichs,  the  Latin  all  along  added  before  the 
English,  &  the  English  is  a  long  Paraphrase  and  not  barely  a  Translation. 
'Twas  Translated  out  of  French  by  Caxton  &  pr.  at  Westm.  1483.  Ist.  Rich. 
3d  &  finish'd  Dec.  23d.  (2)  Boecius  de  Consolatione  in  English  by 
Chaucer.  Pr.  by  Caxton  at  Westm.  without  date.  (3)  The  Knyght  of 
the  toure.  Out  of  Fr.  into  English  by  Caxton  being  finish'd  Jun.  i.  1483. 
&  pr.  by  him  at  Westm.  ye  last  day  of  Jan.  following  being  ist.  Rich.  3d. 
(4)  The  Fables  of  Esop,  out  of  French  into  English  by  Caxton  1483. 

30  Also  ye  Fables  of  Avian,  of  Alfonce,  of  Poge  the  Florentyn.  Before  the 
whole  is  Esop's  Life  by  Planudes.  There  is  no  date  but  I  believe  they 
were  printed  anno  1483.  being  exactly  ye  same  letter  with  all  ye  other 
Pieces  except  Boetius  w(k  is  in  a  different  letter,  being  of  a  larger  size. 
They  were  all  translated  out  of  French,  &  Esop,  &  ye  other  Fables  are 
adorn'd  with  wooden  Cutts.  —  Mr.  Somner  of  Gravel-kind  p.  101.  of 
opinion  that  King  Alfred's  Will  at  ye  End  of  Asser  is  of  a  latter  Dress 
than  suits  with  ye  time  of  Alfred,  &  this  he  thinks  plain  from  the  word 
feudum  several  times  occuring  there.  —  Consult  Mantinus's  Lexicon 
Philologicum  for  the  word  Allodium,  gafollande  in  Alfred's  Laws.  See 

40  for  it  in  Mr.  Somner  ibid.  p.  144. — Socage-land  as  antientas  King  Alfred 
according  to  some.  See  ibid.  f.  132. 

Fifty  mancuses  or  Marks  amongst  ye  Saxons  was  26  libs  5.  shillings 
of  our  Money. 

June  2.  Bagford  to  H.  (Rawl.  21.  10).  Mr.  Atkins  intends  next  week 
for  Oxford,  and  will  drink  a  glass  of  wine  with  you  and  pay  you  what  he  owes. 
Thanks  to  Llhuyd  for  his  trans,  of  the  title  to  the  Irish  Testament,  which  has 
given  some  more  light  into  the  antiquity  of  printing  in  Ireland. 

June  4.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  41).  Fearing  that  his  last  letter  mis- 
carried, he  repeats  the  substance  of  it.  Would  be  glad  to  see  the  collations  of 
MSS.  that  might  improve  the  text  of  Dionysius.  The  discourse  to  Mr.  Wood, 


June  3-6.]  VOLUME  XIX,  PAGES  135-142.  205 

June  6  (Mon.).     In  Cowley  Church  Yard  upon  a  Grave-Stone, 

Death  seiz'd  me  as  all  other, 
And  laid  me  just  by  my  Mother. 

Upon  a  Ring  of  a  Man  that  had  married  his  sixth  Wife, 

When  she  goes  to  Heaven 
I  will  have  seven. 

The  Person  who  married  these  seven  Wives  being  ask'd  how  many 
good  ones  he  had  of  them,  he  answer'  A  five. 

One  that  married  four  Husbands  put  this  upon  one  of  her  Rings, 

If  I  am  alive  10 

I  will  have  five. 

Upon  one  who  married  MX  Franck  Vein. 
My  Love  is  frank  not  vain. 


of  the  Isle  of  Man,  is  concerning  Incense.  H.  to  Pat.  Gordon  (Abberley) : 
(Rawl.  28.  77).  Sorry  to  hear  of  G.'s  illness.  Tully  and  the  variations  in 
Lambin's  ed.  Alfred  is  well  received,  and  he  has  been  pressed  to  publish  other 
things  of  the  same  nature,  but  Tully  is  like  to  be  better  encouraged.  The 
prospects  of  peace  quite  vanish ;  H.  does  not  think  France  in  so  bad  circum- 
stances as  is  generally  represented.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  135). 
Sorry  that  no  more  materials  can  be  got  of  Dr.  Golet.  Sensible  that  the  cen- 
sure passed  upon  Caelius  Aurelianus  in  Italy  was  rash  and  disingenuous.  Pur- 
chased Baglivi  on  the  Pillar  of  Antoninus  Pius  a  pretty  while  since,  and  another 
for  Mr.  Dodwell,  he  being  mightily  pleased  with  the  novelty,  and  with  the 
relation  there  given  of  his  great  friend  Cardinal  Noris.  '  I  am,  as  I  formerly 
told  you,  enter'd  upon  a  great  and  troublesome  Work,  which  is  the  Edition  of 
Tully,  which  I  continually  prosecute,  and  have  already  collated  all  the  MSS. 
we  have  in  the  Bodlejan  Library,  and  am  now  collating  Lambin's  Edition,  which 
I  find  to  vary  in  an  infinite  Number  of  Places  from  the  vulgar  Editions ;  &  ye 
Variations  are  very  material,  such  as  alter  the  Sense  and  Style,  and  often  agree 
with  our  MSS.  This  Undertaking  I  have  ventured  upon  at  the  Importunity 
of  our  Good  Friend  Dr.  Hudson ;  and  several  other  Worthy  Persons  in  this 
Place.  It  happens  that  these  Gentlemen,  notwithstanding  their  Great  Con- 
cern for  carrying  on  other  Parts  of  Learning,  have  little  or  no  Relish  for  our 
English  History  and  Antiquities ;  so  that  at  present  I  cannot  cultivate  these 
Studies  so  much  as  my  Inclination  prompts  me  to,  by  reason  of  the  Depend- 
ence the  Meaness  of  my  Circumstances  makes  me  have  upon  them,  and  I  am 
oblig'd  to  publish  those  Books  as  more  immediately  fall  in  with  their  Fancies. 
But  if  it  please  God  that  I  be  advanc'd  to  a  beneficial  Post,  and  that  I  am  once 
well  rid  of  Tully,  I  design  then  wholly  to  follow  those  Studies  to  which  I  am 
by  nature  most  inclined,  and  there  is  no  Book  that  will  be  more  agreeable  to 
me  than  Camden's  Britannia,  which  I  am  sensible  might  be  much  improv'd,  and 
I  am  glad  that  his  own  Additions  are  fallen  into  so  good  Hands  as  your's.  It 
happens  very  luckily  that  you  are  so  shy  to  Mr.  Murer,  who  is  certainly  a 
Rascal  as  he  has  plainly  discover'd  not  only  by  the  Violation  of  his  Oath  to 
our,Publick  Library,  from  which  he  stole  several  Books  (which  however  were 
all  happily  recover'd)  but  by  other  notorious  and  abominable  Crimes.  I 
thought  he  had  been  out  of  England,  we  having  not  heard  of  him  a  great 
while ;  but  it  seems  he  now  lurks  in  London,  and  is  for  making  his  Acquaintance 
with  ye  Learned  Men  of  our  Nation.  Your  Account  of  Sandolands  will  be 
kindly  receiv'd  when  you  can  conveniently  transmit  it.'  Sends  a  list  of  the 
Doctors  of  Magd.  Coll.  from  the  Buttery  Book.  Will  be  mightily  glad  to  see 
Mr.  Tanner's  long-expected  work,  for  the  truth  of  it  is  the  Queen's  College 
edition  is  a  very  pitiful  performance. 


206  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

One  of  ye  Fellows  of  Corpus  X*1.  Oxon.  being  married,  put  this  Posie 
upon  his  Ladie's  Ring, 

For  one  C. 

I  have  lost  three. 

...  —  Cicero  mightily  commends  ye  Study  of  ye  Civil  Law.  He  writ 
de  Oratore  when  he  was  in  his  declining  Age,  cum  me  vires  (quod fere  jam 
tempus  adventat]  deficere  c&pissent.  See  de  orat.  1.  i.  §  199. — Tully 
corrected  by  Pighius  in  Valer.  Maxim.  See  Edit.  Varior.  p.  5.  col.  i. 
Also  by  Oliver,  ib.  p.  7.  col.  2.  Illustrated  ibid.  pag.  8.  col.  i. 

10  June  9  (Th.).  Mr.  James  Tyrrell,  ye  English  Historian,  tells  me  he 
was  67  years  of  age  May  5*^  last,  being  born  in  the  year  1642.  — 
Edward  Thwaites,  Gentleman,  had  a  great  Hand  in  carrying  on  ye  Tricks 
of  Eliz.  Barton,  commonly  known  by  the  Holy  Maid  of  Kent.  See 
Somner's  antiq.  of  Cant.  Ed.  4*°.  p.  71.  —  Hodie  Joannes  Ward  A.M. 
Collegij  universitatis  in  sociorum  perpetuorum  numerum  adscitus  fuit.  — 
Postquam  D.  Ar.  Charlett,  indignus  ille  Collegij  Universitatis  magister,  & 
qui  viris  omnibus  literatis  risui  esse  debet,  nihil  praeter  absurda  quaedam 
vitag  Regis  ^Elfredi  Magni,  hujus  Academiae  Instauratoris,  editor!  objici- 
endum  esse  viderat,  barbam  effigiei  libello  praemissae  plane  fictam  esse, 

20  nee  moribus  antiquis  congruam  asseruit ;  quum  tamen  ab  exemplari  ipso 
Spelmanniano  in  Bibliotheca  Bodlejana  nequaquam  discrepet,  cunctique 
viri  ingenui,  modesti,  atque  harum  rerum  periti  longe  meliorem  esse 
iconem  arbitrentur  quam  illae  quse  in  ejusdem  vitae  Editione  Walkeriana 
sculptae  visuntur. 

June  10  (Fri.).  The  University  of  Dublin  having  expell'd  and 
degraded  Mr.  Forbes  (as  is  related  in  one  of  ye  preceding  Volumes)  for 
words  wck  were  interpreted  to  reflect  highly  upon  the  glorious  Memory 
(as  they  call  it)  of  ye  late  Dutch  King  (Usurper)  of  England,  to  shew  their 
zeal  more  signally  they  have  made  (at  ye  Motion  of  ye  Commons  of  y* 

30  Kingdom)  an  Address  to  ye  present  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland  Thomas 
Lord  Wharton,  that  he  would  be  pleas'd  to  intercede  on  their  behalf  to 
her  Majesty  that  she  would  graciously  consider  their  Loyaltie,  and  take 
care  y*  5000  libs  be  bestow'd  upon  them  to  erect  a  publick  Library :  and 
the  reasons  they  alledge  why  such  a  Benefaction  seems  reasonable  to  them 
are,  their  firm  Loyaltie  &  Affection  to  the  late  happy  Revolution  sufficiently 
demonstrated  by  their  Proceedings  against  the  said  Mr.  Forbes,  and  that 
they  may  be  the  better  enabled  to  maintain  and  defend  sound  Revolution 
Principles.  — 

Hac  die  in  Convocatione,  hora  secunda  habita,  literae  ab  Honoratissimo 

40  Domino  D.  Cancellario  lectae  erant,  quibus  petebat  ut  Comitia  solennia 
hoc  anno  intermitterentur.  Unanimes  consentiebant  Doctores  &  Ma- 
gistri.  —  Binas  literas  a  Cl.  DODWELLO  nuper  accepi,  quibus  indicat  Virum 
ingeniosum,  &  rei  medicae  literate  peritum,  (Collegij  Novi  olim  socium, 
jam  vero  Exoniae  vitam  agentem)  D.  Guilielmum  Musgravium  Disserta- 
tionem  in  Inscriptionem  prope  urbem  Bathoniensem  haud  ita  pridem 
repertam  conscripsisse,  atque  petere  ut  ipse  meam  qualemcunque  disserta- 
tionem,  ad  calcem  ^Elfredi  Magni  Vitae  juris  publici  factam,  in  linguam 
Latinam  verterem.  Hunc  nempe  in  finem  ut  simul  imprimantur,  quibus  & 
accessurus  est  Dodwelli  in  idem  monumentum  Tractatus  plane  eximius. 


June  6-13.]  VOLUME  XIX,   PAGES  142-155.  207 

Sed  quo  minus  hoc  praestem  obstant  alia  quibus  pene  sum  districtus 
negotia.  Quod  si  Musgravius  aliusve  quispiam  illud  peregerit,  non 
repugnabo  sed  potius  gratiam  habebo,  modo  sibi  in  damnum  cessurum 
non  censuerit  bibliopola.  Hie  loci  notandum  est  D.  Thomam  Woodium, 
Collegij  Novi  itidem  socium,  Musgravium  (quum  primum  medicus 
evaserit)  non  solum  convicijs  consectatum  fuisse,  sed  etiam  molestia 
affecisse,  libellumque  contra  eundem,  quo,  si  fieri  posset,  infamis  reddere- 
tur,  suppresso  suo  nomine  edi  curasse.  Quo  explorato,  prsefectus  & 
socij  Collegij,  Musgravio  amici,  Woodium  istum,  ad  facinus  tantum 
patrandum  malevolentia,  qua  ceteris  fere  omnibus  praestat,  sola  incensum,  10 
adeo  strenue  prosecuti  sunt,  ut  cum  illorum  turn  Musgravij  laesos  animos 
precibus  mitigare  cogeretur,  &  polliceri  Collegij  statutis  &  bonis  moribus 
se  conformem  posthac  futurum.  —  Eodem  tempore  quo  de  Comitijs 
intermittendis  in  convocatione  litters  perlectae  sunt,  aliae  perlegebantur 
ut  Joannes  Speed  e  Collegio  Novo  Juris  Civilis  Baccalaureus  ad  Gradus 
Baccalaurei  &  Doctoris  in  Medicina  accumulandos  admitteretur,  exercitijs 
prius  praestitis.  Hoc  concessum,  quoniam  virum  probum,  ingeniosum, 
&  rei  medicae,  quam  Southantoniae  feliciter  exercet,  peritum  esse  com- 
pertum  habuimus.  —  Fertur  baud  ita  pridem  nummos  quam  plurimos 
Abbingdoniae  effossos  fuisse  prope  locum  quo  stetit  Monasterium ;  utrum  20 
vero  sint  Romani,  vel  Anglo-Saxonici,  vel  Anglici,  id  sibi  incertum  esse 
mihi  dixit  amicus. 

June  12  (Sun.).  Anno  Dom.  .1636.  &  1638.  in  lucem  prodijt  Dionysij 
Longini  de  grandi  eloquentia  sive  sublimi  dicendi  genere,  &c.  libellus, 
Gr.  Lat.  cum  Notis  per  Gerardum  Langbainium.  Hac  in  Editione, 
praestantissima  quidem,  &  quae  ab  omnibus  literatis  •  diligenter  perlegi 
debet,  versionem  Latinam,  ab  ipso  Langbainio  acri,  pro  more  suo,  judicio 
accuratam,  ex  adverse  Graeco  textui  adlocatam  habemus,  notasque  in 
calce.  Quod  ideo  animadvertendum  censeo  ut  distinguatur  Editio  ab 
alijs  plurimis  insequentibus  minoris  longe  notae,  &  ad  tyronum  tantum  30 
usum  accommodatis.  —  In  Valeric  Maximo,  cap.  2do.  specus  casu 
accusative  neutroque  genere  habemus.  Vide  sis  an  scribi  debeat  specum. 
Consulendi  MSS. 

June  13  (Mon.).      Una   pro  ima  in  quibusd.  Codd.  Valerij  Maximi 


June  11.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Ravvl.  25.  42).  Doubts  H.lost  an  opportunity. 
Mrs.  D.  newly  delivered  of  a  son.  Better  consult  Dr.  Charlett  about  Dr. 
Musgrave's  business,  and  write  to  the  latter  concerning  his  proposals.  Dr. 
T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  130).  Thinks  that  H.  might  employ  his  time  to 
better  advantage  than  on  Tully.  Is  of  opinion  that  little  stress  is  to  be  laid 
upon  conjectures,  as  in  the  late  ed.  of  the  Tusc.  Disp.  Hears  that  Le  Clerc  is 
to  publish  Livy  in  12  vols.  i2mo.  Thanks  for  the  long  bead-roll  of  the  D.D. 
of  M.  C.  Degrees  ought  not  to  be  prostituted,  and  something  more  is  requi- 
site than  bare  standing.  The  low  estate  of  learning  in  Italy  may  be  retrieved 
by  the  present  Pope.  Horrid  neglect  and  ignorance  of  the  Greek  tongue  in 
Florence  illustrated  by  a  paper  of  Mr.  Ledgard ;  cf.  a  Latin  letter  written 
some  months  since  on  the  Ch.  Ch.  Ignatius,  where  H.  will  see  what  a  little  in- 
considerable man  Salvinus  is,  the  tantus  -vir  so  much  magnified  in  the  Preface. 
Will  compare  notes  shortly  about  Mackenzie's  Lives  and  Characters  of  the 
most  eminent  Writers  of  the  Sects  Nation.  Asks  for  news  from  the  Press  and 
University. 


208  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709 : 

ad  lib.  ii.  c.  5  perperam.     Vide  sis    quo   modo   in    MS.   Bodlejano 
legatur. 

June  15  (Wed.).  Londini  ediderunt  Specimen  Editionis  novae 
corporis  omnium  Poetarum  Latinorum,  quam  longe  plures  auctores  quam 
priores  Editiones  complexuram  promittunt  bibliopolse ;  qui  tamen  Londini 
vix  ullos  invenient  qui  opus  tantum  corrigere  possint. 

June  16  (Th.).  Die  Veneris  proxime  elapso  obijt  D.  Edwardus 
Lutwitch  eques  auratus,  Legum  nostrarum  municipalium  peritissimus. 
Regnante  Jacobo  i  ido  unus  erat  Justitiariorum  ad  Placita  coram  Rege 

10  tenenda.  Vir  fuit  Justus  &  bonus,  dogmatumque  monarchicorum  vindex 
acerrimus.  —  Silas  Taylerus  ad  calcem  Tractatus  sui  eruditi  de  Gavel- 
kind  brevem  Rdationem  de  Willelmo  Conquesiore  e  MS.  edidit.  MS. 
iste  jam  in  Bibliotheca  Bodlejana  adservatur ;  olim  autem  Tayleri  erat 
peculium,  ut  e  nota  quadam  ad  initium,  D.  Thomas  Barlovij  manu 
scripta,  constat.  Est  codex  pervetustus,  ad  ipsius  Conquestoris  setatem 
fere  pertingens.  —  Vir  Reverendus  Josua  Barnesius  S.T.B.  mini  ami- 
cissimus,  Graecis  Latinisque  literis  doctissimus,  praeter  alia  industriae  & 
eruditionis  monumenta  eximia,  scripsit  ediditque  forma  majori  vitam 
Edvardi  III.  Regis  Angliae.  Opus  elaboratissimum,  et  Anglicano 

20  sermone  conscriptum ;  ex  omnigenis  scriptoribus,  quibus  aliquid  de  hac 
parte  Historiae  nostrae  conservatur,  fideliter  consarcinatum.  Cl.  Tyrrellus 
earn  in  epitomen  redegit,  plurimumque  laudat.  Sed  proh  dolor !  Bar- 
nesius operae  bene  navatae  laborumque  nullam  adhuc  mercedem  accepit ; 
dum  alij,  homunciones  plane  indigni,  immodesti,  parumque  docti,  ad 
summos  evehuntur  honores,  ut  desidia,  luxuria  voluptatibusque  (ne  dicam 
libidinibus]  secure  fruantur. 

June  17  (Fri.).  Nuper  obijt  Sutor  quidam  vestiarius  Oxon.  nomine 
Marsh,  &  heri  vesperi  in  Ccemiterio  Templi  B.  Mariae  virginis  sepultus 
est,  anno  astatis  96°.  ut  ex  inscriptione  Sandapilae  imposita  constitit.  — 
30  Notandum  quod  quum  rarissima  esset  D.  Cypriani  Editio  Oxoniensis, 
quam  doctiss.  Felli,  TO\>  fiaKapirov,  diligentiae  debemus,  Batavt,  hostes 
illi  rebus  nostris  typographicis  atrocissimi,  Ams/ehdami  denuo  excuderent, 
ijsdem  quibus  Oxoniensis  typis,  adjecta  etiam,  ut  emptoribus  dolos 
struerent,  Theatri  nostri  figura.  De  qua  re  quum  admoniti  essent 
Oxonienses,  ne  in  Anglia  venderentur  exemplaria  pro  virili  cavebant. 
Sibi  tamen  comparabat  exemplar  D.  Doctor  Mill,  Aulae  S.  Edmundi 
Principalis,  quod  cum  Codice  MS.  in  Bibliotheca  Collegij  Lincolniensis 


June  15.  D.  Evans  to  H.  (Rawl.  5.  2).  Asks  H.  to  throw  his  papers 
aside  to  some  obscure  part  of  his  study,  till  E.  may  be  able  to  come  up  to 
Oxford  and  consult  what  is  best  to  be  done.  H.  to  Dr.  Musgrave  [copy] 
(Rawl.  28.  78).  Writes  on  behalf  of  Mr.  Dodwell  and  himself  in  the  matter 
of  the  Bath  inscription.  Gives  free  liberty  to  Dr.  M.  of  making  use  of  his 
Discourse,  but  has  not  time  to  translate  it  at  present.  [On  the  back  is  a 
copy  of  '  My  Answer  to  Dr.  Musgrave's  Letter,'  in  Latin,  dated  iv.  Kal.  Jul. 
MDCCIX]. 

June  16.  F.  Cherry  to  H.  (Rawl.  4.  56).  Introduces  a  gentleman  of 
Balliol  recommended  by  Mr.  Brewster.  Disappointed  that  H.  is  not  coming 
these  holidays.  Is  pretty  well  recovered,  but  Dodwell  has  been  for  the  last 
ten  days  very  much  indisposed. 


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contuli,  marginique  libri  adscripsi  discrepantias.  Hinc  mihi  constitit  de 
erratis  typographicis  corrigendis  parum  sollicitos  fuisse  Amstelodamenses^ 
&  sententias  integras  quibusdam  locis  penitus  omisisse.  — 

Some  think  Oriall  College  in  Oxford  was  so  call'd  corruptly  for  AuL- 
7?<?ya/-College.  See  Mr.  Somners  Antiquities  of  Cant.  p.  205.  Ed.  vet. 
In  Dufresne's  Glossary  mediae  &  infimae  Latinitatis  'tis  noted  y*  oriel  is  a 
middle  Ag'd  word  &  y*  it  signifies  a  Passage.  'Tis  not  therefore  unlikely 
but  y*  this  College  might  be  call'd  so  from  thence,  since  'tis  certain  y* 
before  the  present  new  Building  was  erected  in  former  times  here  was  a 
large  open  Passage.  —  Aulus  Gellius  tells  us  y*  Nigidius  writ  a  great  10 
deal  De  Scriptura  :  but  all  is  now  lost.  Corvinus  Messalla  writ  an  intire 
Book  about  ye  Letter  S.  Passeratius  de  Cognatione  literarum.  Probus, 
Magno,  &  a  Porta  de  Notis.  Trithemius  de  Polygraphia.  —  Am- 
bassadors in  antient  times  amongst  the  Romans  so  modest  that  they 
generally  penn'd  down  the  words  they  were  to  speak,  &  read  them  from 
the  Papers,  for  fear  they  should  mistake.  So  Livy,  Tertullian,  and 
Cicero  acquaint  us.  So  did  also  the  Judges.  —  They  writ  first  of  all 
with  an  Iron  Stylus.  (Herm.  Hugo  de  Scribendi  orig.  c.  ix.)  This  par- 
ticularly us'd  in  antient  Inscriptions,  especially  of  the  Jews.  This  Style 
call'd  in  Job  xix.  by  the  Name  of  Cselte.  where  some  however  falsely  read  20 
certe.  This  Style  made  so  as  that  one  end  was  sharp  for  writing,  the 
other  obtuse  for  rubbing  out  what  was  wrong,  as  may  be  seen  from  ye 
Figure  in  Hugo.  Then  they  had  a  Brass  Stylus.  Then  one  of  Bone. 
This  mightily  approv'd  of  by  the  Romans,  who  made  this  injunction, 
Ceram  ferro  ne  caedito,  as  Isidore  1.  vi.  c.  9.  which  order  however  was 
afterwards  discontinued :  for  in  the  time  of  Martial  they  made  use  of  Iron 
Styli.  So  lib.  xv.  Epigr.  xxi. 

Hrec  tibi  erunt  armata  suo  graphiaria  ferro : 
Si  puero  dones,  non  leve  munus  erit. 

where  Raderus  says  graphiaria  signifies  only  the  Sheaths  of  the  Styli,  and  30 
not  y°  Styli  themselves  as  the  word  is  interpreted  by  Beroaldus  and 
Domitius.  Instead  of  these  Styli  were  afterwards  us'd  calamus,  penna  & 
penicillus,  wc^  were  brought  up  after  the  Invention  of  Paper  and  Parch- 
ment. Opmeerus  in  ye  Beginning  of  his  Chron.  has  these  Words :  In 
pugillares  scribebant  stylis  ferreis  :  in  papyros  autem  arundineis  calami's,  6f 
postmodum  etiam  avium  pennis.  The  first  matter  on  wch  Letters  were 
receiv'd  was  stone  and  Bricks,  whence  Josephus  tells  us  of  the  Pillars  of 
Stone  and  Brick  1.  i.  Antiq.  c.  4.  The  Babylonians  preserv'd  their 
Customs,  Laws  and  Institutes  on  Bricks ;  the  Phoenicians  on  Stones. 
Plin.  N.  H.  1.  vii.  c.  56.  So  also  the  Romans  &  almost  all  Nations,  40 
whence  so  many  ancient  Marbles,  cippi,  &  Stelae.  The  Danes  us'd  to 
preserve  their  Actions  on  Cau/es.  So  Saxo  Gram,  in  Praefat.  Hist.  Dan. 
Stones  succeeded  by  Leaves  of  Trees.  Plin.  says  1.  13.  c.  n.  that  'twas 
first  of  all  writt  on  Palm  Leaves :  that  to  be  understood  of  ye  Egyptians  of 
whom  he  there  speaks,  not  of  ye  Jews.  But  Henr.  Salmuth  in  Notis 
Pencirolli  for  palmarum  in  Pliny  reads  malvarum,  being  lead  by  the  authority 
[of]  Guilandinus.  But  Isidore  tells  us  lib.  6.  c.  vi.  that  they  writ  both  in  mal- 
varum folijs  atque  palmarum,  so  palmarum  to  be  retein'd  as  Scaliger  also 
will  have  it.  Sometimes  also  they  writ  upon  Leaves  of  Flowers.  Afier- 

VOL.  II.  P 


a  10  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

wards  brought  up  the  Inner  Coats  of  Bark  wch  are  call'd  Libri  Arborum. 
Plin.  1.  xiii.  c.  xi.  They  had  also  Wooden  Tables,  these  succeeded 
libri  foliorum,  &  found  out  much  about  ye  same  time  y*  libri  lintei  & 
plumbei  were.  These  Tabellse  lignese  were  call'd  Codices  &  codicilli,  a 
caudice  arborum,  e  quibus  in  scindulas  sectse.  They  were  found  out 
before  Paper  and  Parchment.  See  Isidore  1.  vi.  c.  8.  &  before  pugillares 
cerei.  Then  they  had  cerei  pugillares,  a  cerse  crusta  vel  malthae. 
Pollux,  lib.  x.  c.  xiv.  These  were  also  call'd  quincuplices  from  ye 
Number  of  folia.  Martial  1.  xiv.  Epig.  iv.  There  were,  also  citrei 

10  pugillares  e  citri  ligno.  Martial  lib.  xiv.  And  likewise  eburnei.  ibid.  Epig.  v. 
These  Eburnei  pugillares  the  same  w0^  Vopiscus  calls  libri  elephantini, 
according  to  ye  opinion  of  Turnebus  &  Pancirollus,  approv'd  by  Her- 
mannus  Hugo,  de  Scrib.  orig.  p.  94.  They  writ  on  lead.  Thence  their 
Plumbea  Volumina.  Trithemius  lib.  i.  breviarij  Annal.  Franc,  tells  us 
the  Publick  Monuments  of  ye  Galls  were  silver.  Dionys.  Hal.  lib.  x.  tells 
us  ye  Romans  made  yeir  volumes  of  Brass,  as  being  more  durable  than 
Lead.  See  also  Sueton.  in  Csesare,  &  Machab.  lib.  1.  c.  viii.  Thence  also 
monumentum  aere  perennius.  They  had  their  libri  lintei  as  is  plain  from 
Livy  lib.  i.  Dec.  iv.  therefore  to  be  wondered  why  Turnebus  should  read 

20  in  Vopiscus's  Aurelian.  lutei  for  lintei.  See  Turneb.  lib.  29.  c.  20. 
especially  since  Marcianus  Capella  in  ye  Procemium  to  his  Gram,  calls 
them  carbasini.  Philostratus  calls  them  Sindones.  Parchment  found  out 
before  Paper.  —  Thomas  Jones  of  Oswestry  in  ye  County  of  Salop  writ 
a  Book  call'd  Of  y  Heart  and  its  Right  Sovereign.  &c.  Lond.  1678.  8°. 
He  was  of  University  College,  and,  if  I  am  not  mistaken,  afterwards  a 
BP.  in  Ireland.  Quaere?  (He  was  no  BP.)  — 


Upon  Innocent  ye  Eight. 

Octo  nocens  pueros  genuit,  totidemque  puellas : 
Hunc  merito  poterit  dicere  Roma  patrem. 


3o  A  Penny  amongst  ye  Saxons  3d.  of  our  Money.  Hickes's  Diss.  Epist. 
pag.  109.  Five  silver  Pennys  made  their  Shilling.  &  Thirty  Pennies 
made  their  Mancus,  mancusa  or  Marc.  Some  say  4  of  their  Pennies  made 
a  Shilling,  wck  is  false  as  appears  from  ye  End  of  ^Elfric's  Grammar.  A 
Golden  Mancusa  contain'd  10  Silver  mancusas,  or  five  Pounds  5 
Shillings  of  our  Money.  —  The  Book  w0*1  goes  under  ye  Name  of 
Valerius  Maximus  seems  to  Vossius  to  have  been  only  an  Epitome  of  a 
larger  Book  made  by  Valerius  himself,  &  he  thinks  this  Epitome  is  y* 
done  by  Julius  Paris.  —  Binis  decoratus  umbilicis.  Statius  Sylv.  iiii.  9. 
*Y/i<£aXos  vel  op.<pa\os  Graecis.  notat  umbilicum.  In  libris  quoque  sic  dixere 

40  ossea  vel  eburna  ornamenta  in  medio  integumenti  exstantia.  Martialis, 
lib.  v.  Epig.  vi.  Nigris  pagina  crevit  umbilicis.  Atque  hinc  phrasis  ilia  ad 
umbilicum  ducere,  &  pervenire  ad  umbilicum,  id  est  finire.  Porphyrione 
auctore,  non  lignei  modo,  verum  &  ossei  corneive  erant.  Pingi  quoque 
solitos  ex  Martiale  discimus.  Libris  impositum  hoc  nomen  (volumina 
scil.)  quia  antiqui  eos  convolverent  ad  cylindri  similitudinem.  ut  hodie- 
que  faciunt  Turcse,  non  vero  in  tabellas  componerent,  plicarentque,  quse 
apud  nos  consuetude  obtinet.  — 


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DISSERTAT1VNCULA    de    Voce    Anglo-Saxonica 
[174-201.]  .  .  . 

June  18  (Sat.).  Pluribus  abhinc  annis  Reverendus  admodum  Pater 
in  Christo  Guilielmus  Lloydius,  nunc  Episcopus  Wigorniensis,  (tune  vero 
Asaphensis)  Chronologiam  suam  Universalem,  opus  absolutissimum  & 
ab  omnibus  Historiarum  antiquarum  studiosis  desideratum,  prelo  Shel- 
doniano  mandavit,  &  triginta,  aut  circiter  schedse  impressse  erant.  His 
impressis,  alijs  studijs  se  dedens  Episcopus,  ut  ab  incepto  sisterent  typo- 
graphi  in  mandatis  dedit  ;  adeo  ut  valde  metuant  viri  eruditi  ne  hoc  opere 
nunquam  sint  fruituri.  Lingua  Anglicana  scripsit  Auctor  celeberrimus,  10 
utpote  Latino  sermone  scribere  insuetus  ;  alius  tamen  partem  non 
exiguam  Latine  vertit,  ideoque  utraque  lingua  schedas  prsedictas  impri- 
mendas  curavit  Auctor  doctissimus,  qui  &  ante  paucos  annos  aliud  opus 
prelo  eidem  subjecit,  Anglicano  idiomate  conscriptum,  Explicationem 
nempe  Danielis  Prophetiae,  cujus  duodecim  tantum  schedas  absolverunt 
operae  typographicae,  ne  pergant  ab  ipso  auctore  impedita?.  —  On 
Monday  last  the  Goods  &  Effects  of  John  Stevens,  Bookseller  in  Oxford 
were  seiz'd  upon  by  his  Brother,  Fellow  of  Mer  ton-College,  who  is  gone 
as  Chaplain  to  a  Factory  beyond  Sea.  This  Stephens,  the  Fellow,  is  a 
low-Church-Man,  and  he  has  seiz'd  on  Pretence  of  a  Judgment  from  his  20 
Brother  of  600  libs.  wc^  the  honest  Part  of  the  University  reckon  nothing 
else  but  a  trick,  concerted  on  purpose  to  cheat  the  other  Creditors,  to 
whom  it  is  said  he  ows  about  2000  libs,  and  yet  he  has  not  been  set  up 
above  5  or  six  Years.  But  he  has  been  always  a  careless,  negligent, 
prating  Fellow,  a  great  Spend-thrift,  much  given  to  lifting  and  gossiping, 
an  Admirer  of  Charlett  as  Charletl  was  of  him,  fyc,  Tho'  He  has 

June  18.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  136).  '  I  am,  and  always  was,  of 
opinion  that  'twould  be  for  the  Credit  of  the  University,  and  that  no  small 
service  would  be  done  to  Learning,  to  have  Tully's  Works  accurately  printed 
at  the  Theater.  The  best  Editions,  namely  those  of  P.  Victorias,  Lambin,  and 
Gruter,  are  grown  very  scarse.  And  Gronovius's  is  not  so  common  (not  to 
mention  the  Smallness  of  the  Letter)  as  to  hinder  the  Undertaking.  But  I 
wish  some  others,  I  mean  Fellows  of  Houses,  or  some  Officers  of  the  Univer- 
sity who  have  good  Rewards,  would  have  undertaken  this  laborious  Work,  and 
that  it  had  not  fallen  upon  me.  However  now  I  have  enter'd  into  it,  I  am 
resolv'd  to  prosecute  it,  and  to  carry  it  on  by  degrees,  tho'  I  easily  perceive 
that  'twill  cost  7  or  8  Years  Drudgery.  I  was  inform'd  above  2  Years  since 
of  Le  Clercks  Project.  Yet  that  did  not  at  all  influence  me  to  lay  aside  what 
I  had  begun.  I  have  been  since  told  that  the  Bookseller  upon  appearing  of 
the  Oxford  Edition  has  put  a  Stop  to  that  Undertaking,  with  abundance  of 
Indignation,  that  we  should  be  before  hand  with  him.  All  that  Le  Clerck  in- 
tended was  only  some  Notes,  I  suppose  some  Conjectures,  of  his  own,  and  the 
Text  was  to  be  in  a  small  Letter.  If  he  shall  think  fit  to  proceed,  I  exspect, 
as  well  as  you,  that  his  usual  Malice  will  not  fail  him,  but  that  he  will  reflect 
upon  our  Performance  ;  but  I  shall  little  regard  one  that  is  known  to  be  so 
disingenuous  in  his  Character,  which  need  not  be  wondered  at,  since  he  is  a 
Person  of  very  loose  Principles,  and  no  great  Friend  to  the  Christian  Religion.' 
Commends  S.'s  prudence  in  keeping  the  paper  on  the  subject  mentioned  till  a 
more  convenient  season,  when  it  will  be  greedily  bought  up  and  read  by  all 
true  scholars,  such  as  are  not  biassed  by  prejudice  and  ill  nature.  Mr.  Thwaitcs 


1  This  Disc,  is  printed  in  Vol.  7  of  Leland's  Itin. 
P    2 


212  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

printed  several  things  at  the  Theater-Press,  yet  I  cannot  learn  that  he  has 
paid  hardly  any  thing  of  University  Dues,  in  which  he  is  like  to  come  off 
now,  having  such  Doughty  Patrons  as  his  Friend  Charlett. 

June  19  (Sun.).  D.  Guilielmum  Piersium  Cantabrigiensem  nuperrime 
vidi,  qui  binas  Tragcediarum  Euripidis  edidit.  Huic  editioni  vitam 
Euripidis  praemisit,  e  Barnesij,  quern  tamen  nunquam  citat,  ejusd.  Auctoris 
vita  exscriptam.  In  notis  ipsis  quoque  e  Barnesij  editione  non  pauca 
descripsit,  suppresso  veri  auctoris  nomine.  Est  quidem  Piersius  vir 
doctus,  sed  in  Barnesium  ingratus,  quem  amicum  semper  expertus  est. 

10  Eum  saepe  calumniatur,  sannisque  excipit.  Nee  minus  Piersius  con- 
temnit  Antiquarium  nostrum  diligentem  &  eruditum  Antonium  a  Wood, 
cujus  Arenas  Oxonienses  nugis  &  mendacijs  refertas  esse  asserit. 
Aliter  autem  sentiunt  viri  candidi  justique  rerum  aestimatores,  qui  & 
summo  labore  nee  minore  judicio  Antiquitates  Oxonienses  consignatas 
esse  notant.  Sed  hinc  illae  lachrymae !  Avum  vel  abavum  paternum,  ni 
fallor,  Piersij,  primum  Episcopum  Sarisluriensem  deinde  Archiepiscopum 
Eboracensem,  paullo  liberalius  quam  par  erat  bibisse  animadvertit  Woodius; 
non  tamen  negat  ilium  alioqui  virum  fuisse  integrum,  &  melioribus  literis 
non  leviter  imbutum.  Dolent  insuper  Canlabrigienses  neminem  apud  se 

20  exstare  qui  Historiam  &f  Antiquitates  suse  Academiae  scribat,  &  de 
Auctoribus  ejusdem  praeclaris  commentarios  conficiat.  —  A  great 
Commendation  of  John  Binghairis  Translation  of,  &  Notes  upon 
jEliaris  Tacticks  in  Mr.  Somner's  Antiq.  of  Canterb.  p.  267.  where 
also  he  observes  that  it  was  dear  and  scarse.  In  the  same  Book.  p.  277. 
Mr.  Somner  observes  that  Pits  took  his  Book  de  Scriptorib.  out  of  Bale, 
&  that  'twas  in  his  time  more  common  than  Bale ;  but  now  'tis  more 
scarse,  &  indeed  is  written  in  a  much  better  style  than  Bale.  —  Inscriptio 
apud  Somnerum  ibid.  p.  283.  novo  &  insueto  modo  interpuncta.  — 
Anno  M  :  DC  :  LXXX  :  iv.  prodierunt  e  Theatre  Sheldoniano  Ccelij  Lactantij 

30  opera.  Hanc  Editionem  nitidissimam  Thomse  Sparks,  ^Edis  Christi 
alumni,  sed  nimis  negligentis,  curae  debemus.  Accedit  ad  calcem  cl. 
DODWELLI  Dissertatio  de  Ripa  Siriga.  Post  paucos  annos  hsec 
editio  rara  facta  erat.  Inde  cl.  Hudsono  Lactantiuni  denuo  edere  in 
animo  erat.  In  quem  finem  a  Thoma  Milles,  homine  illo  arrogante, 


has  declared  his  opinion  that  Bp.  Pearson  never  designed  any  of  his  notes  on 
Ignatius  for  the  press,  and  that  they  should  have  been  eternally  stifled.  '  Our 
Booksellers  in  Oxford  are  very  negligent  in  getting  curious  Books.  You  have 
in  that  respect  the  Advantage  much  of  us  in  London.  .  .  .  John  Stevens,  one  of 
our  Booksellers,  a  negligent,  busy,  prating  Gossip,  and  great  with  Charlett,  broke 
the  beginning  of  this  Week,  having  not  been  set  up  above  5  or  6  Years.  He 
is  in  debt  about  2000  libs,  but  his  Brother,  one  of  the  Fellows  of  Merton 
College,  a  rank,  low-Church-man,  being  gone  a  Voyage  as  Chaplain  to  a  Factory, 
seiz'd  all  under  Pretence  of  a  Judgment  for  600  libs,  but  this  is  reckon'd  a 
low-Church  Trick.  Be  it  as  it  will,  this  sneaking  Bookseller  printed  a  great 
many  Things  at  the  Theater-Press,  but  never  paid  any  Dues  to  the  University, 
nor  is  like  to  pay  any  now,  having  had  Charlett  &  such  People  for  his  Patrons. 
Some  time  since  the  Warden  of  All-Souls  struck  out  Mr.  Meredith  from  being 
Fellow  ;  and  Mr.  Adderly,  the  Junior  Head-Proctor  being  next  upon  the  Roll, 
he  designs  to  be  ordain'd  tomorrow  to  prevent  Consequences,  tho'  no  Man 
talk'd  more  warmly  against  ye  Warden's  Proceedings  in  this  Case,  and  was  more 
vigorous  for  Breach  of  Statute,  than  he.'  Mr.  Dodwell  very  ill  of  the  colic. 


June  18-23.]  VOLUME  XIX,  PAGES  206-219.  213 

exemplar  sibi  comparavit.  Hoc  sedulo  perlegit  accurateque  interpunxit. 
Quo  facto,  librum  in  musdo  Protobibliothecarij  Ifodle/am'usibus  assignato 
reposuit.  Sed  ostio  non  obserato,  paullo  post  librum  ab  aliquo  subreptum 
fuisse  deprehendit.  Nee  eum  recuperare  potuit.  Ipsum  Milles,  invidia 
ac  malevolentia  ductum  abstulisse  suspicamur.  utpote  qui  &  alios  non 
semel  perfide  fraudaverit.  —  Guilielmus  Selling,  Ecclesiae  Cantuariensis 
Prior,  antiquarius  erat  peritissimus,  summaque  industria  in  Italia  scriptores 
veteres  cum  Grcccos  turn  Latinos,  quoscunque  potuit,  redemit  &  in 
Angliam  transtulit.  Codices  hosce  quantivis  pretij  in  Bibliotheca  Can- 
tuaricE  reposuit.  Verum  non  diu  post  obitum  ejus  incendio  fatali,  quod  10 
servulorum  aliquot  temulentorum  incuria  contigit,  in  maximum  rei 
literariae  damnum  omnes  perierunt :  in  qui  bus  fuerunt  M.  Tullij  Ciceroni's 
libri  de  republica  ab  eruditis  tantopere  desiderati.  Vide  Somneri  Antiq. 
Cantuar.  p.  295. 


v 


June  21   (Tu.).     Januarij  1 5°   an.   M  :  DCC  :  — .  ad  studendum  in 

Bibliotheca  Bodlejana  admissus  erat  Honoratiss.  Dominus  D.  Joannes 
Carteret  Baro  de  Hawnes  in  agro  Bedfordiensi'-  juvenis  ingenij  acu- 
tissimi,  morum  suavissimorum,  &  in  primae  classis  scriptoribus,  cum  Greeds 
turn  Latinis,  supra  annos  versatus.  In  aede  Christi  study's  deditus  vitam 
agit.  ubi  non  ita  pridem  inter  alios  quos  sibi  acquisivit  melioris  notae  20 
libros,  primam  Caroli  Sigonij  Editionem  T.  Livij  Historiarum  mihi 
ostendit.  —  A  Place  of  Tullys  Timccus  in  Meibomius  upon  Nicomachus 's 
Mustek,  pag.  5oth.  —  Tullij  Tusc.  Quaest.  lib.  i.  c.  7.  An  tu  egressus 
porta  Capena,  cum  Calalini,  Scipionum,  Serviliorum,  Metellorum  Sepulchra 
vides,  miseros  putas  illos  ?  Ad  quern  locum  sic  vir  sagacissimus  Chris- 
tophorus  Wase  in  Notis  quibusd.  MSS.  a  filio  ejus  coll.  Corporis  Xt!. 
Oxon.  socio,  mihi  mutuo  datis  :  Porta  Capena  qua  Capuam  itur.  Veteres 
defunctis  monimenla  secus  viam  posuerunt ;  ornamento  locis  publicis  nescias 
an  viatoribus  majori  documento. — Hoc  ideo  notandum  duxi,  quia  nonnulla 
de  antique  in  vijs  publicis  sepeliendi  more  in  dissertatione  ad  calcem  30 
JSlfrediMagnivilK  observaverim.  quo  loco  &  caussam  hujus  consuetudinis 
adduxi.  Praeter  dictas  notas  MSS.  exemplari  cuidam  impresso  Tullij 
Tusc.  QucEstionum  adjectas,  alias  etiam  chartas  a  patre  sibi  relictas  luce 
dignas  habet  films. 

June  22  (Wed.).  Mr.  Slows  Summary  quoted  by  Somner  p.  335. 
Antiq.  Cant.  Wc^  Summary  I  think  was  printed  either  in  12°.  or  8°.  and 
contains  an  Epitome  of  his  Annals.  (N.B.  It  hath  been  printed  several 
times  both  in  8VO  &  12°.) 

June  23  (Th.).     Mr.  Tho.  Beckonsal,  A.M.   Rector  of  *    *    *   in 
Oxfordsh.  &  lately  Fellow  of  Brazen-nose  Coll.  died  last  Week  at  his  40 
Parsonage  suddenly,  having  been  for  a  great  while  in  a  Melancholly, 
hippish  Condition.      He  has  publish'd  a  Sermon  upon  y6  Resurrection, 
preach'd  at  S*.  Marys  Oxon.    A  Book  about  ye  Law  of  Nature  8V0.  &  a 


June  20.  Dr.  Musgrave  to  H.  (Rawl.  8.  152).  Thanks  H.  for  his  civility 
in  the  matter  of  the  inscription.  What  is  the  earliest  mention  of  the  words 
Belgium  or  Belgae  as  signifying  any  part  of  Britain,  or  of  the  British  people  ? 

June  21.  T.  Davies  to  H.  (Rawl.  4. 1 1  r).  Sends  directions  from  the  Bp. 
of  Ely  to  bid  for  certain  books  on  his  behalf  at  the  ensuing  auction. 


214  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709 : 

Pamphlett  about  the  Press.  &  perhaps  other  things.  —  We  hear  that  Dr. 
Martin,  Warden  of  Mer ton-College,  is  dead  in  the  Country.  —  The 
Records  at  Cambridge  burnt  in  y6  Rebellion  of  Jack  Straiv,  in  Rich  IId'8 
time.  See  Mr.  Somner's  Antiq.  Cant.  p.  356. 

June  24  (Fri.).  Inter  alios  libros,  in  quibus  edendis,  modo  institutum 
hoc  promoverent  Academicorum  principes,  operam  suam  pollicitus  est  cl. 
Grabius,  paullo  post  quam  hue  accessisset,  non  reticeri  debent  Ephrcemi 
Syri  Homiliae.  Ut  hoc  onus  doctus  quispiam  subiret  exoptaverat 
eruditiss.  Caveus  in  Historia  Literaria ;  quod  Grabium  non  mediocriter 

10  stimulavit  atque  excitavit.  Aliquid  impertijt  temporis  huic  negotio,  & 
permulta,  quae  necessaria  fore  praeviderat,  hinc  illinc  congessit.  Sed  re 
paullo  accuratius  perpensa,  ab  eo  solo  qui  linguae  SyriaccB  sit  peritus 
editionem  castigatam  exspectandam  esse  intellexit.  A  proposito  igitur 
resiliit,  &  in  alias  res  animum  defixit  ac  intend.it.  Verum  post  unum 
alterumque  annum  de  Ephrcemo  in  publicum  emittendo  cogitavit  vir  cl. 
Joannes  Millius,  S.T.P.  &  Aulae  S.  Edmundi  Principalis.  Eum  ad  finem 
qusecunque  in  Bibliotheca  Bodlejana  Greece  exstant  sumptibus  proprijs  a 
Sueco  quodam,  cui  Nomen  Wandalinus,  describenda  curavit.  Postea 
aliquanto  Oxonium  venit  D.  Joannes  Hofmannus,  multae  sedulitatis  homo, 

20  &  Syriace  doctus.  Hujus  igitur  fidei  opus  mandavit,  atque  ut  prelo  pro 
virili  pararet  hortatus  est.  Non  pauca  collegit  adnotavitque  Hofmannus; 
sed  quum  inops  esset,  nee  fautores  studiorum  vix  ullos  haberet,  longe 
citius  quam  vellet  Oxonio  discedere  cogebatur.  Collectanea  non  secum 
tulit,  sed  D.  Millio  concredidit,  qui  pollicitus  est  se  ad  Hofmannum  ea 
transmissurum  quamprimum  peteret,  quibus  &  apographum  Graecum 
adjecturum  esse  ajebat,  si  facultates  operis  hujus  in  lucem  proferendi 
Hoffmanno  suppeterent.  Mensibus  paucis  lapsis  obijt  Millius;  sed 
intestato.  Hinc  factum  ut  libri  ejus  impressi  pretio  vili  venderentur, 
ceteraeque  res  miserandum  in  modum  distraherentur.  Quod  dolis 

3°  adscribendum  Collegij  Reginae  sociorum,  Langhornij  praecipue  cujusdam 
&  Edvardi  Thwailesij.  Codices  plerique  MSS.  in  Thwaitesij  manus 
devenerunt ;  in  quibus  erant  Ephrtzmi  Syri  Apographum  Millianum  & 
Annotationes  Hofmanniance.  Thwaitesius  his  subsidijs  fretus,  Ephrizmi 
Editionem,  typis  ijsdem  quibus  &  Millius  in  Novo  Testamento  usus, 
adgressus  est;  nullis  tamen  notis,  praeter  lectiones  quasdam  variantes, 
adhibitis,  vel  versione  Lalina.  Quod  a  Reginensium  moribus  nequaquam 
abhorret ;  quibus  nunc  dierum  solenne  est  aliorum  lucubrationes  invadere. 
Postquam  de  hisce  rebus  certior  redditus  fuerat  Hoffmannus,  ad  cl. 
Grabium  aliosque  literas  misit,  quibus  petebat  ut  schedas  suas  a 

4°  Thwaitesio  impetrarent.  Is  tamen  non  tantum  pertinaciter  abnuit ; 
verum  etiam  Grabium  petulantissimis  verbis  insectatus  est,  cceptumque 
opus  prosecutus,  in  magnum  suum  probrum  atque  dedecus  ad  umbilicum 
tandem  fere  deduxit.  —  Baculum  istum  e  tigno  quodam  domicilij 
^ELFREDI  MAGNI,  Anglorum  regis,  fieri -jussit  Hon.  Dom.  THO. 
Vicecomes  de  Weymouth ;  qui  &  alias  hujus  domicilij  partes  e  fossa  in  insula 
^Ethelingiana  post  tot  secula  erui  curavit. — Bede'sEccl.  Hist.  Laud.  H.  38. 
Digb.  101.  211.  NE.  B.  4.  10.  Super  D.  \.Art.  20.  Mus.  47.  Fairfax  12. 
Hatton  8 1.  Barlov.  39. — In  MS.  Mus.  in  the  Margin  by  a  later  hand  is 
added  Grantebrig  Schola  a  Sigeberio  Rege.  Nations  MS*,  is  at  least  600 

50  years  old,  &  over  against  the  Place  is  added  by  a  hand  almost  of  the 


June  23-25J        VOL.  XIX,  PAGE  219—  VOL.  XX,  PAGE  3.         215 

same  Age,  Notand.  Sigeberlus  primus  instiluit  scolas  in  quibus  pueri 
erudirenlur ;  which  shews  the  sentiments  of  men  of  that  Age,  viz.  that 
Sigebert  founded  only  Grammar  Schools,  for  if  by  Schola  a  University 
must  be  understood,  then  he  founded  several,  wch  is  absurd.  .  .  .  — The 
Letter  m  oftentimes  omitted  in  words,  see  Schurzfleischij  Orthographia 
pag.  28.  The  Letter  N  often  omitted  also.  ibid.  p.  29.  abrotanum  for 
ambrotanum  to  be  consider'd.  'Tis  Kind  of  Herb  in  Pliny,  ibid.  voc. 
abrotanum.  The  word  Alemannia  to  be  consider'd  there.  Something 
under  it  for  correcting  Dion  Cassius. — Bath  call'd  Akemanchester,  i.e. 
(zgrotcrum  urbs,  from  the  great  concourse  of  Sick  Persons  from  all  Parts  10 
of  England.  See  Burtons  comm.  upon  Antoninus  s  Itin.  through  Britain, 
p.  257.  Gul.  Malmsb.  De  Gestis  Pontif.  1.  n.  says  Julius  Ccesar  was  the 
Author  of  the  Baths  at  Bath.  Yet  'tis  certain  he  never  came  to  these 
parts  of  the  Island,  ibid.  p.  258.  therefore  he  could  not  institute  the  order 
of  Knights  of  the  Bath,  as  the  same  author,  Malmsb.  says  he  did.  ibid. 
Legio  II  Augusta  resided  here,  as  appears  from  some  Sepulchral  or 
funeral  Monuments,  ibid.  p.  261. — Gruter  ccccxxxi.  5.  T.  LOLLIVS.  T. 

LOLLII.    MASCVLVS   |   IIIIVIR.    BONDICOMENSIS  |   HIC.    PROPTER.    VIAM.    POSITVS    | 

VT.  DIC  ANT.  PRAETEREVNTES  |  LOLL:.  VALE.  |   . .. — .  Mr.  Baraby  of  Trinity 
Coll.  and  Mr.  Monroe  of  Balliol  did  exercise  Friday  (being  the  second  20 
day)  April   15^  in  Schola  Anatom.  Pd.  nothing  to  me.      Nor  was  I 
paid   the   term   before    for   two   Gentlemen's    Dispp.      Ask   Major   or 
Newlin.  . 


VOL.  XX. 

Resp.  Romana  minus  debuit  Scipioni  &c.  quam  Catoni  qui  bellum 
gerebat  cum  vitijs. 

June  25  (Sat.),  1709.  Heri  D.  Martini,  Collegij  Mertonensis  custodis, 
cadaver  ex  agro  Dorsetensi,  ubi  animam  efflavit,  Oxonium  adductum  est, 
&  in  sacello  D.  Joannis  BaptistcE  ecclesiae  adjuncto,  ac  Mertonensibus  as- 
signato,  hora  decima  postmeridiana  humatum.  Ad  exsequias  cohones- 
tandas  nulli  prseter  affines  quosdam  vocati  fuere.  Loculo  ligneo  corpus  30 
inclusum  in  tumulum  decem  pedes  altum  dimissum  est.  Et  in  his,  ut 
fertur,  votis  ipsius  satisfecerunt ;  qui  etiam  ne  sibi  monumentum  exstrue- 
retur  testamento  ultimo  prohibuit.  Nee  absurde.  utpote  cujus  memoria 
omnis  tolli  funditus  ac  deleri  oporteat.  Homo  enim  erat  vinolentus  & 
indoctus,  suum  quaestum  tantummodo  coluit,  atque  Fundatoris  leges  omnes 


June  25.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  131).  Thwaites  a  creature  of 
C. :  his  opinion  on  Pearson's  Annotations  valueless.  The  publisher  of  Ephraem 
Syrus  should  be  very  careful  and  exact  in  his  Preface  and  Notes.  Remarks 
on  Le  Clerc's  ed.  of  Grotius  de  Veritate  religionis  Christianae,  with  his  discourse 
de  eligenda  inter  dissentientes  Christianas  sententia.  He  has  the  impudence  to 
dedicate  the  book  and  additions  to  Archbp.  Tenison,  whom  he  flatters  and 
admires  as  he  does  the  rest  of  the  Bench :  half  the  money  which  they  present 
him  with  for  his  dedications  would  be  better  spent  on  one  or  two  honest 
Church  of  England  men  in  each  University  for  confuting  his  heterodoxies. 
We  are  in  a  fair  way  to  have  our  religion,  and  the  discipline  and  government  of 


2l6  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

ac  instituta  conculcari  quasi  permisit.  —  Castri  sive  arcis  Oxoniensis 
plurima  exstant  rudera,  &  collem  paullo  editiorem  cofispicimus,  ex  quibus 
omnibus  liquet  locum  fuisse  peramplum  &  augustum.  Turris  quasdam 
Integra  manet,  prope  quam,  ut  opinor,  Matildis  virago  ilia  Anglica, 
Henrici  IIdi.  mater,  albis  vestibus  induta,  ut  specie  nivei  coloris  hostes 
falleret,  noctis  silentio  egressa  est  oppido  Oxoniensi,  a  Stephano  rege 
arctissime  obsesso,  &  scapha  per  Thamesim  vecta,  ad  arcem  Wallingford- 
icnsem  pervenit,  atque  ibi  a  suis  in  arcem  accepta  est.  Castrum  noc  a 
Roberto  de  Oili  exstructum  fuit ;  turris  vero,  de  qua  dixi,  nunc  in  comita- 
10  tus  ergastulum  convertitur.  Magnis  aggestis  molibus,  fossisque  in 
altitudinem  perductis,  praemunitum  erat.  In  vicinia,  ad  occiduam  castri 
partem,  visitur  S.  ThomcE  capella  sive  ecclesia,  regnante  Stephano  ideo 
aedificata,  quod  Oxonia  obsessa  in  ecclesiam  S.  Georgij  parochialem  intra 
castrum  conditam  ingressus  non  pateret.  Nee  procul  positum  fuit  in 
campis  peramoenis,  aquis  placidis  cinctis,  ccenobium  amplissimum  (ut  ex 
parietinis  quibusdam  videre  est)  Osnetense;  cujus  ante  aliquot  annos 
campanile  cernebatur  superbum,  quod  in  rebellione  nupera  exsecranda  & 
detestabili  penitus  dirutum  fuit  ac  excisum.  Inter  fodiendum  in  reliquias 
antiquas  saepe  incidunt  coloni,  quarum  unam  alteramque  magni  pretij  in 
20  ^Edis  Christi  Thesaurario  jam  conservari  fertur.  Ad  partem  septentrion- 
alem  Ecclesiae  S.  Thomce  ab  JSdmundo,  Cornubiensi  Duce,  fundata  erat 
Abbatia  de  Rewley  seu  de  loco  Regali.  Monasterium  hocce  longe  minus 
fuit  quam  Osneiense,  sed  in  loco  aeque  commodo  &  amceno  situm.  In 
chartis  aliquibus  vetustis  Osneia  Septentrionalis  vocitatur.  Et  hie  etiam 
in  hortis  vicinis  nummi  aliaque  antiquitatis  monumenta  crebro  eruuntur, 
in  quibus  numerari  debet  lapis  quadratus  ab  hortulano  ante  quinque  annos 
repertus,  &  nunc  in  Schola  Medicinae  Oxonij  publica  repositus.  Ex  hoc 
antiquitatis  venerandae  monutnento  constat  capellam  istius  abbatiae  ab 
Ela  Longespee,  Warewici  comitissa,  erectam  fuisse  ;  de  quo  tamen  men- 
go  tionem  non  fecerunt  D.  Guilielmus  Dugdalius  alijve,  qui  de  ejus  vita  quid 
prodiderunt.  D.  Antonius  a  Wood  in  Collectaneis  MSS.  de  Urbis 
Oxoniensis  Antiquitatibus,  quae  in  Muse'o  Ashmoliano  collocata  iterum  & 
saepius  inspexi,  Elce  cor  in  hac  Abbatia  sepulturae  traditum  esse  autumat. 
Verum  hac  de  re  non  constat.  Hoc  tamen  exploratum  habemus,  earn 
honorifice  fuisse  inhumatam  in  ecclesia  Monastery  de  Oseney,  quod 
itidem  plurimis  beneficijs  muneribusque  ornaverat.  Vestigia  complura 
restant  abbatiae  de  Loco  Regali  in  ruinas  lapsae,  &  secundum  emissarium 
capellae  sive  ecclesias  pars  haud  exigua  spectatur.  In  cubiculorum  fenes- 
tris  Apostolorum  imagines  depictae  cernuntur,  &  parietibus,  quibus  affixa 
40  fuit  janua,  Fundatoris  incisa  conspiciuntur  insignia. 


the  Church  suffer  by  such  kind  of  Dutch  Divinity,  as  our  civil  government  and 
constitution  has  done  already  by  the  Dutch  invasion  and  the  sad  consequences 
of  it.  Le  Clerc  has  added  two  letters  of  Dr.  Newton  (envoy e  at  Florence), 
who  signs  himself  "  Henricus  de  Nova  Villa,"  containing  testimonies  of  H.  Gro- 
tius'  esteem  for  the  Church  of  England,  which  were  already  known  from  Ham- 
mond, Pierce,  &c.'  Sorry  for  Dod  well's  ill  state  of  health.  Is  the  original 
instrument  of  the  XXXIX  Articles,  subscribed  by  the  Bishops  and  Assessors 
of  the  Lower  House  of  Convocation  1562,  in  Bodley?  S.  heard  formerly 
that  Mr.  Davis  of  Sandford,  sometime  chaplain  of  C.  C.  C.,  had  it  in  his  pos- 
session. 


June  25  29.]  VOLUME  XX,   PAGES  3-22.  217 

June  27  (Mon.).  Heri  vesperi  cum  D.  Stephana  locutus  sum,  Scoto  illo 
Britanno  qui,  Vice-cancellarij  nostri  studio  &  technis,  ad  gradum  magistri 
in  artibus  baud  ita  pridem  evectus  erat.  Vir  iste,  quern  laudibus  ornant 
nonnulli,  multa  legisse  videtur,  pauca  digessisse.  Audax  est,  loquax,  &  • 
vanus;  suas  laudes  crepat,  peritiamque  in  literis  Hebraicis  Arabicisque 
ostentat. 

June  28  (Tu.).  Tribus  abhinc  septimanis  prodijt  (majori  forma  im- 
pressa)  historise  Anglicance  Epitome,  scriptore  Bulstrodo  Whitlock  equite 
aurato.  ILdidit  Jacobus  Welwood,  Medicinse  Professor,  qui  de  auctore  & 
opere  qusedam  praemisit.  Nonnihil  quoque  praefatus  est  Guilielmus  Pen,  10 
armiger,  sectae  tremulorum  (quos  vulgo  QUAKERS  vocamus)  antesignanus, 
&  insulae  Jamaica  Praefectus.  Opus  istud  a  C.  Julio  Ccesare  usque  ad 
Caroli  \\&  regnum  pertingit.  Welivood  antedictus  est  e  secta  Fanaticorum, 
&  paucos  ante  annos  rerum  Anglicarum  commentarium  brevem  juris 
publici  fecit,  qui  tyronum  tantum  manibus  teri  debet.  Nam  continet 
plurimas  fabulas  ineptas  &  aniles. 

June  29  (Wed.).  Die  Lunae  proxime  elapso  in  Ecclesia  omnium  Sanc- 
torum Oxon.  tumulo  mandatus  est  D.  Woodcoc&e,Theologus  Presbyterianus. 
Quamvis  in  hominum  congressu  pauca  loqueretur,  vir  tamen  erat  non 
imbecilli  ingenij.  Sibi  in  uxorem  duxit  puellam  teneram,  formosam,  20 
atque  bene  dotatam,  ipse  aetate  provectior  &  paupertate  laborans.  Illius 
matrem  eum  jam  antea  subinde  compressisse  non  desunt  qui  asserant. 
Praeter  alios  qui  funus  deducebant,  aderant  biniEcclesiae.<4«§r//az«^pres- 
byteri.  —  In  ecclesia  de  Ashbury  in  Com.  Berk : 

Continet  hsec  fossa  de  Walden  ossa  Joannis, 
Quern  Deus  ad  Celsa  ducat  perpetuis  annis. 

—  D.  Joannes  Potter  S.  S.  Theologiae  Professor  noster  Regius,  (quod 
munus  factiosis  debet  quorum  pro  virili  partes  fovet,)  cujusdam  Venner 
filiam  in  matrimonium  nuper  duxit :  feminam  quidem  bellam  &  amplam, 
sed  a  Venner  illo  rebelli  insigni,  regnante  Carolo  IIdo.  suspense,  oriundam.  3* 
Ad  cubicula  sua  in  aede  Christi  non  multis  abhinc  diebus  adduxit  maritus, 
ubi  diligenter  prospicere  oportet  ne  forsan  a  Juvenibus  stuprum  patiatur.  — 

Ingenioso  pariter  ac  doctissimo  Viro 

GUILIELMO    MUSGRAVIO 

Tho.  Hearnius  S.  P.  D. 

Literas  tuas,  Vir  cl.  humanitatis  &  benevolentiae  plenas,  accepi ;  gratiasque 
tibi  ago  quas  eo  nomine  debeo.  Dissertationem  tuam  in  Inscriptionem  Batho- 
niensem  videre  vehementer  aveo.  Hoc  antiquitatis  venerandae  monumentum 
nuper  etiam  edidit  cl.  Rogerus  Galeus,  Thomee  TOV  fumapirov  fil.  ad  pag.  134. 
Antoninl  per  Britanniam  Itineris,  Patris  commentarijs  illustrati.  Nullas  tamen  40 
ad  Inscriptionem  explicandam  adhibuit  notas.  Quin  &  valde  metuo  ne  forsan 
earn  mendose  publico  dederit.  Ab  exemplari  enim  Hallejano,  quod  in  Disser- 
tatione  ad  calcem  JElfrtdi  Magni  vitae  secutus  sum  discrepat.  Plura  non  dico. 
In  praesentia  non  vacat  excutere  auctores  qui  de  Belgarum  veterum  rebus 
gestis  commentaries  confecerunt.  Ex  Julio  autem  Ceesare  constat  Belgas  in 
Britanniam  priscis  temporibus  commigrasse.  Belgarum  item  nostrorum  memi- 


June  27.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  127).  Sends  two  copies  of  the 
List  of  Theatre  Books,  but  the  number  of  works  in  the  press  is  so  small  that  it 
is  almost  a  shame  to  do  so. 


21 8  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

nerunt  Ptolemfcus  &  Antoninus.  Ipsi  uti  &  ceteri  Eritanni  Celtarum  quondam 
pars  erant.  Responsionem  tuam  ad  meas  literas  hodie  peramicam  cum  cl. 
Dodwello,  qui  ruri  habitat,  communicavi.  Graviter  per  aliquot  dies  ex  intes- 
tinis  laboravit  vir  ille  doctissimus;  sed  jam  pene  convaluisse  intelligo.  Vale. 
Oxonij  scribebam  IV.  Kal.  Jul.  M  :  DCC  :  ix. 

July  1  (Fri.).  l  Die  Mercury  proxime  elapso  inter  horam  decimam  & 
undecimam  vespertinam  anno  setatis  49.  de  vita  migravit  amicus  meus 
optimus  &  pereruditus  Edvardus  Lhuydius,  Musdi  Ashmoleani  Gustos  &  in 
S.  Theologia  Bedellus  superior.  Morbus  erat  pleuritis.  Accessit  asthma 

10  quo  per  plures  annos  affectus  fuerat.  Hora  8va.  hujus  diei  de  eligendo 
Bedello  convocatio  est  habita.  Prseter  D.  Colinge  e  Coll.  Novo,  candi- 
datus  erat  harum  rerum  scriptor,  cui  tamen  (quum  eum  desererent  non- 
nulli,  &  Vice-cancellarius,  socijque  collegij  Reginae,a  quibus  benemeritus 
fuerat,  adversaries  sese  praeberent  acerbissimos)  prius  quam  eligendi  hora 
adstaret,  incepto  desistere  visum  est :  quod  ut  faceret  hortabantur  amici, 
in  quibus  prsecipui  sunt  JEdis,  Christi  Decanus,  Canonici  alumnique,  & 
Universitatis,  Orielensis,  Lincolniensis,  Corporis  Christi  atque  Jesu  Collegi- 
orum  socij ;  qui  omnes  fere  (in  gloriam  suam  immortalem  !)  non  temere 
suffragia  ferunt.  Notandum  est  quod  contra  decori  praescriptiones 

20  electio  habita  fuerit  antequam  Lhuydij  corpus  inhumaretur.  Hoc  Vice- 
cancellario  adscribendum,  qui  plane  prsesenserat  se  ea  ratione  quo  minus 
amici  plurimi,  ruri  commorantes,  ad  me  adjuvandum  Oxonium  proficis- 
cantur  obstare.  Sepultus  autem  est  Lhuydius  hora  nona  vespertina  ejusd. 
diei  in  templo  S.  Michaelis  Oxon.  funus  concelebrantibus  amicis  e  Collegio 
Jesu,  &  Academiae  Bedellis. 

July  2  (Sat.).  Ad  domum  quandam,  ubi  Choava  venditur,  (vulgo 
dicitur  Springhall's  Coffee  House)  in  platea  alta  Oxonij,  prope 
Aulse  B.  Maria  vicum,  fornix  pertinet  amplus,  qui  olim  ad  Aulam 
adjacentem,  Bulkeley-Hall  vocatam,  cujus  pars  in  pharmacopolium 

30  convertitur,  spectabat.  Fornices  istiusmodi  Cellaria  appellabantur, 
ut  e  rentalibus  pluribus,  quse  citat  Woodius,  patet.  Sunt  etiam 
Aulse,  ni  fallor,  vestigia  prope  tabernam  librariam,  in  ipso  nempe 
angiportu  qui  ad  Collegium  Wadhamense  ducit.  —  Nuperrime  prodijt 
Libellorum  supplicum  Historia,  ab  Anonymo  Anglice  scriptus.  Adula- 
tionem,  blanditias,  assentationem  atque  levitatem  Anglorum  nostro- 
rum  depingit;  sed  non  satis  accurate  rem  tractavit  Auctor.  —  At  the  End 
of  a  Book  intitled  Five  captious  Questions,  propounded  by  a  Factor  for  the 


July  2.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  138).  Doubts  not  but  Ch.  and 
Thw.  (who  are  very  great,  and  visit  one  another  once  a  day  at  least)  have 
concerted  the  matter  to  run  down  the  Bishop's  Notes  on  Ignatius.  Sends  copy 
of  a  paper  in  Latin  by  a  foreigner,  relating  to  Thwaites'  ed.  of  Ephraem,  and 
showing  his  disingenuity.  Has  but  a  mean  opinion  of  Le  Clerc,  and  does  not 
wonder  that  Archbp.  Tenison  and  others  of  the  same  strain  exhibit  large  sums 
to  him  for  his  flattering  Dedications.  'On  the  23d  of  last  Month  we  receiv'd 
News  of  the  Death  of  Dr.  Marten,  Warden  of  Merton  College.  He  died  in 
Dorsetshire,  and  was  buried  on  the  25th  of  the  same  month  in  Merton  College 
Chapell,  at  10  Clock  in  the  Evening.  None  but  Relations  were  at  the 
Funeral,  which  People  wonder  at,  it  being  usual  for  Fellows  to  be  invited. 


1  He  died  on  the  3oth  Day,  early  in  the  Morning,  about  one  Clock,  as  I  have  express'd 
in  my  Preface  to  the  2d  vol.  of  Leland's  Itinerary. 


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Papacy,  answered  by  a  Divine  of  the  Church  of  God  in  England,  ffc.  Lond. 
1673.  4to.  is  printed  a  Letter  of  Sir  Lucius  Cane  lord  Viscount  Falkland 
to  M".  F.  M.  An,  Dom.  1636.  upon  the  same  Subject  ;  but  not  noted  by 
Ant.  a  Wood. 

July  4  (Mon.).  In  colle  Heddingdoniano  est  fossa  quaedam  cujus  aquam 
particulis  petrosis  repletam  esse  notavit  D.  Plotius.  Et  quidem  ante 
paucos  annos  res  multas  incrustatas  hie  loci  collegi.  Sed  nuper  sepe 
ex  viviradicibus  htc  facta,  scaturiginem  obturarunt  agri  domini.  Juxta 
hanc  fossam  vestigia  aliqua  comparent  particulae  viae  antiquae,  quam 
Ickenild  vocabant.  Cher-vellum  flumen,  ponte  super  eo  aedificato,  transijsse  10 
videtur;  deinde  se  extendisse  ad  Bellositum  antiquum,  in  S. 


His  Grave  was  10  foot  deep,  and  there  is  not  to  be  any  Monument  or  Inscrip- 
tion over  it.  So  he  order'd,  as  'tis  said,  by  his  Will.  But  enough  of  this 
Gentleman,  who  was  no  better  a  Governour  than  Scholar.  Since  that  we  have 
lost  a  very  valuable  Man,  Mr.  Edward  Lhuyd,  Keeper  of  the  Ashmolean 
Museum  and  Superior  Beadle  of  Divinity,  who  was  taken  with  a  Pleurisy  on 
Sunday  last  in  the  Afternoon,  and  died  on  Wednesday  following  between  10 
and  ii  Clock  in  the  Evening,  in  the  49th  Year  of  his  Age.  What  contributed 
to  the  Distemper  was  an  Asthma,  which  he  had  had  for  several  Years.  By  his 
Death  you  and  I  have  lost  a  dear  Friend,  and  Learning  has  suffer'd  in  no 
small  degree.  On  Friday  Morning  at  8  Clock  was  a  Convocation  for  Election 
of  a  Beadle.  There  were  only  2  Candidates,  Mr.  Colinge  and  myself  ;  but 
finding  that  I  should  certainly  loose  it  by  a  considerable  Number,  I  desisted 
the  same  Morning  before  the  Election  came  on,  being  advis'd  so  to  do  by  my 
best  Friends,  and  so  Colinge  has  at  last  gain'd  his  Point.  I  must  upon  this 
occasion  gratefully  acknowledge  the  Favours  I  receiv'd  from  Christ-Church, 
University,  Oriel,  Lincoln,  Corpus  Christi,  and  Jesus  Colleges,  who  were 
almost  all  unanimous  for  me,  and  I  might  have  succeeded  with  ease,  if  some 
Friends  had  not  deserted  me,  and  the  Vice-Chancellor  had  not  appointed  the 
Election  so  soon  ;  which  as  it  was  to  my  Prejudice,  so  was  it  a  Disrespect  to 
the  Defunct,  who  was  not  buried  till  9  Clock  in  the  Evening  after  the  Elec- 
tion. Mr.  Colinge  knew  of  Mr.  Lhuyd's  Sickness,  whereas  I  had  not  the  least 
Notice  of  it,  'till  the  Day  after  his  Death.  By  this  means  Colinge  had 
secur'd  a  great  Number  of  Votes,  which  he  ows  in  a  very  great  measure  to  ye 
Industry  of  the  Vice-Chancellor,  the  Warden  of  All-Souls,  the  Master  of 
Balliol,  &  the  Fellows  of  Queen's.  If  the  Election  had  been  deferr'd  'till  this 
Morning,  as  it  was  exspected,  it  should  (for  the  Vice-Chancellor  promis'd  me 
everything  should  be  transacted  fairly)  I  had  got  a  great  many  Votes  from 
London,  &  elsewhere  ;  but  the  Vice-Chancellor  was  too  sensible  of  the 
Advantages,  which  Colinge  had  over  me  by  a  speedy  Election,  &  it  was  wish'd 
that  in  the  former  Canvass  the  Election  had  been  two  days  sooner,  by  which 
Mr.  Lhuyd  (notwithstanding  all  we  could  do  for  him)  would  have  infallibly 
miss'd  of  the  Place,  a  great  Part  of  his  Interest  lying  abroad,  whereas 
Colinge's  were  near  at  hand,  excepting  some  few.  Mr.  Lhuyd  lyes  buried  in 
the  Church  of  Sl.  Michael.  His  Body  was  convey'd  from  the  Museum  (where 
he  died)  and  was  attended  by  the  Members  of  the  Common-Room  of  Jesus 
College  and  the  Beadles.'  Knows  nothing  of  the  original  instrument  of  the 
39  Articles. 

July  4.  Barnes  to  H.  (Rawl.  24.  20.).  Hopes  that  Hearne  will  go 
through  the  Hymns.  Explains  delay.  Thanks  Charlett  for  his  zeal.  '  I  told 
one  who  talk'd  of  Elzevir's  Edition,  as  sufficient,  y*  it  was  like  a  Woodden 
painted  Cheese,  at  Cheesemongers'  Shops,  in  London,  for  one,  y*  never  eat  any, 
as  good,  &  more  durable,  yn  a  true  Cheese  ;  but  y*  for  a  Judge  &  a  learned 
Man,  y*  would  see  Homer,  in  his  parts  Naturali&us,  never  any  Man,  yB  2000 
yeares  has  seen  such  a  One,  as  our  Work  .  .  will  certainly  be.' 


220  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709 : 

campis  situm.  Hinc  progrediebatur,  prout  suspicor,  ad  oppidum  Witney  • 
ubi  nummos  aliquot  Romanes  non  ita  pridem  erutos  fuisse  a  Radulpho 
Trumbullo,  A.  M.  Ecclesiae  de  Witney  tune  temporis  rectore,  didici :  qui 
&  paucos  eorundem  mihi  donavit.  Atque  hinc  colligitur  oppidum  vetus- 
tius  esse  quam  innuit  Camdenus.  Illud  fbrsan  condiderunt  Romani,  quibus 
propugnacula  ac  praesidia  prope  vias  publicas  collocare  solenne  fuit. 

July  6  (Wed.).  Lapidum  fodinae  Heddingdoniance  variae  sunt,  nee 
mediocriter  extentae.  Antiquissimae  etiam  fuisse  videntur.  Ex  his  fodinis 
saxa  adportarunt  quibus  in  aedificando  B.  Petri  in  oriente  templo  usus  est 

1°  Grymbaldus,  quem  fundatorem  nominal  fragmentum  Assert/  Menevensis 
insigne  a  Camdeno  editum.  Neque  ea  lacinia  spuria  est,  ut  volunt  Canta- 
brigienses.  Saxa  ilia  politissima  fuisse  ait  As  serins;  quae  tamen  si  cum 
nostri  seculi  opificijs  conferantur,  pro  rudibus  &  infimae  quasi  notae  haberi 
debent.  Ceterum  exinde  liquet  lapidibus  in  aedificijs  priusquam  Nor- 
manni  ingrederentur  usos  esse  Brtiannos,  contra  quam  censet  Guilielmus 
Somnerus  in  libro  praestantissimo  de  Cantuarice  Antiquitatibus.  —  D.  Gil- 
bertus  Burnettus  in  prima  quam  ad  Honoratissimum  Robertum  Boileum 
dedit  Epistola  e  MS.  eximio  Vegetij  locum  in  omnibus  vulgatis  Editionibus 
depravatum  feliciter  emendavit  (Vide  Burnett,  pag.  4.  Edit.  3).  Ibi  & 

20  quaedam  e  Codicibus  MSS.  cum  Greeds  turn  Latinis  de  loco  insigni,  (in 
prima  S.foanm's  Epistola,)  ad  SS.  Trinitatem  spectante  adduxit.  Haec 
ob  oculos  habuit  D.  Joannes  Millius,  citavitque  in  annotatione  ad  S. 
Joannem  prolixa. 

July  7  (Th.).  Cl.  Jacobus  Tyrrellus  4tum  Volumen  Anglia  Histories  Vni- 
versalis  absolvit,  &  nunc  in  Introductione  scribenda  occupatur.  In  hac  de 
tribus  regni  nostri  in  Parliamento  statibus  agit,  &  quicquid  alij  de  hac  re 
dixerunt  in  compendium  redigit.  Deinde  quid  ipse  potissimum  sentiat  ex- 
promit,  inferiori  nempe  clero  nunc  temporis  jus  non  esse  in  comitijs 
magnis  sive  Parliaments  assidere.  Inde  occasionem  captat  doctissimum 

30  Atterburium  refutandi,  &  cl.  Wakij  sententiam,  quantum  potest,  tuetur. 
Insuper  quae  sibi  objecit  in  thesauro  Linguarum  Septentrionalium  cl. 
Hickesius  refellit.  A  Richardi  i  idi.  depositione  usque  ad  Reformations 
tempus  pertingit  hoc  volumen,  quo  totum  terminatur  opus. 

July  7.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  43).  Dr.  Musgrave  designs  to  print  his 
Notes  at  Exeter.  '  As  to  what  you  say  concerning  the  Saxon  word  ^Estele, 
methinks  you  had  better  kept  it  in  one  word,  as  you  say  it  is  in  the  MS.  than 
have  divided  it  into  two.  You  may  see  the  footsteps  of  that  word  in  the 
name  of  the  admirable  Gentlewoman  Mrs.  Astel.  The  Saxon  diphthong  is 
E  in  Edward  and  A  in  Alderman,  indifferent  to  either.  And  in  the  excellent 
Du  Cange's  Glossary  of  Latine  words  you  will  find  Astula,  or  Hastula  signify 
a  chip  or  segment  of  wood  cut  off  from  a  greater  piece.  He  quotes  also 
Adamnanus  de  locis  SS.  T.  which  we  have  not  here,  for  that  way  of  writing 
it *  Astola,  as  in  Alfrede.  I  take  it  therefore  for  a  segment  of  wood  indented 
in  the  cover  of  the  Book  (whether  in  the  middle  of  the  Boss,  or  at  the  edg) 
and  of  another  colour,  that  might  make  it  taken  notice  of,  like  the  Opus 
Musivum  with  stones.  And  that  the  sum  of  50  marks  was  written  in  it  as  the 
fine  which  should  be  incurred  by  the  Person  who  should  alienate  the  Book 
from  the  Minster,  or  tear  the  Astele  from  the  Book.  All  the  Punishments 
almost  of  that  Age  were  reduced  to  Pecuniary  sums,  as  you  may  see  in  Lam- 


1  In  Adamnanus  'tis  hastellae,  wch  I  take  to  have  been  splinters  or  small  spears. 


July  4-9.]  VOLUME  XX,  PAGES  33-49.  221 

July  8  (Fri.).  Hesterna  die  Collegij  Mertonensis  socij  tres  viros  elige- 
bant,  viz.  D.  Holland,  S.T.P.  D.  Conant,  LL.D.  &  D.  King,  M.D.  quorum 
unus  Collegij  in  custodem  sive  guardianum  ab  Archiepiscopo  Cantuariensi 
nominandus  est.  —  Malmsbur.  lib.  u.  c.  7.  ad  finem.  Quia privata  utilitaspub- 
lico  damno  non  prajudicat,  immo  dispendium  publicum  private  commodo  pr&- 
ponderat.  Haec  verba  consideranda.  To  non  redundare  censet  cl.  Tyrrellus. 
Sed  retinent  Codices  MSS.  Bodlejam.  —  ln  Rogeri  de  Hoveden  Annalib.  p. 
655.  lin.  12.  quod fidem  portabit  domino  Richardo  regi  Anglice.  Vox  regi 
in  Codice  vetusto,  (quern  inspexit  cl.  Tyrrellus,  inter  MSS.  Greshamenses) 
desideratur;  sed  exstat  in  Codice  Laudino  antiquo  licet  mutilo.  In  10 
proxima  pagina  dux  vocatur  in  Codd.  impressis,  quibus  consentiunt  MSS. 
—  D.  Burnetius  in  Epistolis  ad  Boileum  disciplinam  Genevensem  plurimum 
laudat,  &  Calvinistarum  eruditionem  supra  modum  effert.  Nee  hoc 
mirum.  Idem  enim  &  ecclesiam  Scoto-Britannicam  amplissimis  verbis 
alibi  ornavit. 

July  9  (Sat.).  De  voce  astula  vide  Adamannum.  1.  n.  c.  ii.  de  locis  SS. 
Edit,  a  Greizero,  &  Mabillonio  Tom.  iv.  SS.  Ordinis  Bened.  pag.  499. 
Hesychius  astelas,  vitis  speciem  esse  ait :  fop/tut,  a  mot  aor^Xa?,  ras  « 
(Txoivmv  TrXfKOfjLfvas.  Astilla,  astula,  &  hastula  occurrunt  apud  Du  Fres- 
nium.  Hispani  astillas,  Occitani  estallos  vocant,  quse  Grceci  tdp^rj,  Latini  20 
assulas.  Ex  quercu  Mambre,  sive  Abraham,  hastellarum  particulae  excisse, 
&  ad  diversas  orbis  provincias  asportatse.  —  In  Bibliotheca  Bodlejana  ...  est 
Codex  membranaceus  ante  quadringentos  annos  probe  scriptus,  qui 
prseter  Bedce  Ecclesiasticam  Historiam,  Wilhelmum  Malmsburiensem  de 
Gestis  Regum  Anglorum,  &  Martini  Poloni  Chronicam,  anonymi  cujus- 

bardus's  Archaeonomia.  There  is  a  price  set  upon  the  head  of  every  sort,  of 
Person  in  the  Kingdome,  the  King  himself  not  excepted.  I  know  not  what 
you  mean  by  the  '  Spintheres,  sparks  of  fire,  mentioned  in  your  Contents. 
I  am  apt  to  think  you  meant  Sphinderes  for  the  ligaments  by  which  the  Books 
were  bound.'  Wants  a  passage  from  Montfaucon's  ed.  of  Eusebius'  Commen- 
tary on  Isaiah  (I.  13),  and  Menardus  on  Gregory's  Sacramentary,  for  the 
purposes  of  his  work  on  Incense.  H.  may  send  his  answer  by  Madame 
Wright's  coach,  which  is  to  meet  her  at  Nettlebed  on  Monday. 

July  8.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  137.  132).  Has  received  two  copies 
of  the  list  of  Theatre  books :  cannot  but  deride  the  vanity  of  the  man  who 
puts  his  name  to  the  licence ;  which  is  in  itself  a  thing  silly  and  ridiculous. 
Thanks  for  the  paper  of  the  honest  and  ingenious  foreigner :  will  bear  it  in 
mind  in  judging  of  the  learning  of  the  editor  of  Ephraem  Syrus.  Is  afraid 
that  the  Whig  interest  will  put  by  Dr.  Bateman  a  second  time  as  Warden  of 
Merton.  Heartily  sorry  for  the  death  of  Mr.  Llhuyd  :  wishes  that  H.  could 
succeed  him.  Had  he  finished  Vol.  II.  of  his  Archaeologla  Eritannlca,  and 
what  curious  papers  does  he  leave  ?  Almeloveen  has  written  to  S.  that  he  may 
expect  a  copy  of  Casaubon's  Epistles  by  the  next  convoy  from  Holland.  Dr. 
Lister's  excellent  book,  Dissertatio  de  Humoribus,  is  finished  at  the  press. 
Many  will  envy  him  his  discoveries,  but  truth  will  make  its  way. 

c.  July  9.  Bagford.  to  H.  (Rawl.  21.  n).  Sends  a  parcel  containing  two 
scarce  books,  printed  respectively  at  Canterbury  and  Southwark,  and  Mr. 
Atkins'  present  of  Gale's  Antoninus.  Thanks  for  information  about  Aesop's 
Fables  printed  by  Caxton.  Glad  to  hear  that  the  Alfred  is  well  received. 

1  My  word  is  Spinthera,  made  use  of  by  Plautus.  It  signifies  clasps.  Mr.  Tyrrell 
is  against  this  opinion  of  Mr.  Dodwell,  and  agrees  to  either  of  the  opinions  I  have 
offer'd  in  my  Discourse  upon  the  word. 


222  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

dam  Chronicam  continet,  ad  cujus  initium  haec  habetur  Rubrica :  Hie 
indpit  cronica  de  adventu  Anglorum  in  Britanniam  secundum  Bedam 
Anglorum  istoriographum.  Titulus  male  concipitur.  Paucissima  enimex 
Beda  exscripta  habet,  &  ad  Henrici  IIIU)  regni  partem  infimam  ab  Auctore 
deducitur  Historia.  Desunt  autem  pauca  folia.  Plura  forsan  in  hoc  libro 
insunt  alibi  frustra  quaerenda.  Sed  aliter  sentit  cl.  Tyrrellus,  qui  librum 
inspexit  &  cum  Historicis  impressis  contulit. 


In  Capella  Nosocomij  S.  Bartholomaei  prope  Oxon. 

In  Memory  of  William  Sanders  and  Dorothy  his  Wife.     He  died  March 
10  the  3d  1696.    She  died  August  22.  1697. 


In  Memory  of  Mary  the  Wife  of  Mr.  George  Tubman.  She  died  the  2d 
of  Oct.  1700.  Aged  37. 

Nosocomion  hocce  inprimis,  ut  opinor,  condidit  Margareta  Edvardi 
imi,  AnglicB  regis,  uxor.  Sed  rebus  tandem  hie  loci  perturbatis,  illas  cor- 
rexit  Edvardus  ndus.  eamque  ob  causam  pro  fundatore  vulgb  habetur. 
Multa  de  nosocomio  conservando  ac  fratribus  eligendis  instituit.  Capella 
in  ruinas  pene  lapsa,  regnante  Edvardo  ndo.  reaedificata  est,  eum  ad 
finem  octodecim  marcis  a  Joanne  filio  Laurentij  Serthe  donatis ;  qui 
tamen  ea  lege  dedit,  ut  quamvis  sanus  loco  vacante  in  fraternitatem  co- 

20  optaretur ;  id  quod  factum  est,  ipso  rege  postulante  &  mandante.  Is 
quum  tantus  benefactor  esset,  in  sepulchre  camerato,  ut  videtur,  ad  capellae 
partem  orientalem  inhumabatur.  Atque  illud  ipsum  esse  puto,  quod  in 
tumulo  Tubmanni  praedicti  fodiendo  deprehendebant  operarij.  In  eo 
crania  tria  una  cum  alijs  compluribus  ossibus  inveniebant.  Ex  sepulchri 
hujus  quodam  saxo  oblongo  confectum  fuit  Tubmanni  monumentum. 
Nosocomij  capellanus  sacerdos  olim  erat,  &  pro  labore  sex  marcae  illi  per 
annum  numerabantur.  Nunc  autem  (contra  ecclesiae  Anglican^  canones) 
juvenis  quidam,  sacris  ordinibus  non  initiatus,  e  Collegio  Orielensi  munus 
obit,  cui  solidos  quadraginta  unoquoque  anno  pendet  sodalitium  Orielense. 

30  Capellae  hujus  tenuis  culmen  plumbo  olim  obductum  erat,  sed  bello  civili 
gliscente  milites  sacrilegi  subduxerunt.  Campanam  etiam,  qua  ad  preces 
convocabantur  frates,  surripuerunt  nefarij  illi  homines.  Ex  historiographo 
insigni  Oxoniensi  constat  Academicos  nostros,  Collegij  Orielensis 
prsecipue  alumnos,  ad  quos  spectat  Nosocomion,  peste  grassante  hue 
secedere  solitos  fuisse.  Pestilentia  autem  Oxonienses  crebro  laborarunt, 
priusquam  in  varias  fossas  Chervellus  flumen  dissecaretur.  —  Disinherit- 
ing the  Eldest  Son  is  forbid  in  the  Holy  Scripture,  &  Estates  disinherited 
are  observed  to  be  unfortunate,  of  which  one  might  make  a  large  Collec- 
tion. See  Dr.  Saunder son's  Sermon— where  he  Discourses  of  this  Subject, 

40  and  Mr.  Aubrys  Miscellanies,  p.  32.  —  The  Bills  of  Mortality  at  Lon- 
don, which  went  under  the  Name  of  Captain  J.  Graunt,  were  really  written 
by  Sir  William  Petty,  as  he  tells  us  himself  in  one  of  the  Philosophical 
Transactions.  See  Aubrey,  ibid.  p.  33. 

July  12  (Tu.).  Cl.  Wolfius,  qui  nuper  Oxonij  per  menses  aliquot,  ad 
progressus  in  re  literaria  ulteriores  faciendos,  commorabatur,  mihi  retulit 
eruditissimum  Perizonium  Valerij  Maximi  editionem  novam  prelo  parare. 
In  Bibliotheca  Bodlejana  Codicem  MS.  hujus  auctoris  habemus.  Et  inter 


July  9-16.]  VOLUME  XX,  PAGES  49-74.  223 

libros  &  chartas  MSS.  quos  eidem  Bibliothecae  moriens  dedit  D.  Henricus 
Jones,  ecclesiae  de  Sunningwell  in  agro  Bercheriensi  rector,  plurimae 
habentur  lectiones  variantes,  quae  viri  admodum  Reverendi  Joannis  Felli 
Episcopi  Oxoniensis  aliquando  fuerunt ;  qui,  ut  opinor,  de  Valerio  edendo 
cogitaverat.  —  In  Bibliotheca  Ambrosiana  Mediolani  v&  S.  llufini  versio 
Josephi  Latina,  charactere  Romano  vetusto,  ipsiusque  Rufini,  ut  videtur, 
setate  scripta.  Vide  Burnelti  Epistolas,  p.  118.  Ed.  3. 

July  13  (Wed.).  Joannes  Aubrey  armiger,  Collegij  S.  Trinitatis  Oxon. 
olim  superioris  ordinis  commensalis,  deinde  legum  municipalium  in 
Templo  Medio  Londini  studiosus,  &  tandem  Societatis  Regalis  socius.  10 
Natus  erat  in  Parochia  de  Easton-Piers  juxta  Malmsburiam  in  agro 
Wiltoniensi,  &  in  literis  Grammaticis  sub  Richardo  Latymero  institutus ; 
eodem  nempe  paedagogo  qui  Thomam  Hobbesium  philosophum  ilium 
Malmsburiensem  instituit.  Anno  MDCXCVI.  libellum  in  8V0.  edidit,  sic  in- 
scriptum,  MISCELLANIES,  viz.  i.  DAY-FATALITY,  n.  LOCAL-FATALITY. 
in.  OSTENTA.  iv.  OMENS,  v.  DREAMS,  vi.  APPARITIONS,  vn.  VOICES, 
&c.  Primum  caput  est  tanlum  nova  editio  cujusdam  tractatus  brevis 
quern  de  eodem  argumento  anno  M:DC  :  LXXVIII.  typis  mandavit  Joannes 
Gibbons,  fecialis.  Aubrey  insuper  agri  Wiltoniensis  descriptionem  exorsus 
est,  quam  semiperfectam  in  Musdo  Ashmoleano  reposuit.  Opus  idem  20 
exinde  adgressus  est  Thomas  Tannerus,  primum  collegij  Reginae  alumnus, 
deinde  collegij  omnium  animarum  socius,  nunc  autem  Cancellarius  Nor- 
vicensis.  Sed  frustra  ab  eo  exspectamus.  Alia  quippe  negotia  suscepit, 
Scriptorum  praesertim  nostrorum  vitas,  in  qua  etiam  Bostoni  Buriensis  & 
Joannis  Lelandi  commentaries  exhibebit.  Quum  Artium  bacalaureus 
esset  Tannerus  Notitiam  Monasticam,  bonae  notae  libellum,  Anglice  edidit. 

July  15  (Fri.).  Hodie  hora  nona  Convocatio  est  habita,  in  qua 
litterae  ab  Honoratiss.  Cancellario  legebantur,  quibus  petebat  ut  summae 
spei  juvenis  D.  Montagu  Drake,  Collegij  D.  Joannis  Baptista  superioris 
ordinis  commensalis  ad  gradum  magistri  in  Artibus  promoveretur.  Quod  30 
concessum,  paucissimis  denegantibus.  —  Heri  magister  &  socij  Collegij 
Universitatis  magistrum  Dennison  in  procuratorem  sequentis  anni 
eligebant. 

July  16  (Sat.).  In  bibliotheca  Veneta  S.  Marci  Evangelium  MS. 
habent,  characteribus  majusculis  exaratum.  Hoc  quantivis  pretij  cime- 
liumut  peregrini  inspiciant  nonpermittunt  Veneti,  Quidam  tamen  medicinae 
celeberrimus  Professor  D.  Gilberto1  Burnetto  narravit,  sibi  aliquando 
pansum  fuisse ;  sed  utrum  Greece  an  Laline  esset  non  quibat  decernere, 
quoniam  litterse  adeo  detrita?  erant,  ut  vix  ullae  earundem  particulae  pater- 
ent.  —  Virum  doctissimum  Jacobum  Tyrrellum  roga  de  Reverendissimi  40 


July  16.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  139).  The  Fellows  of  Merton 
have  returned  Drs.  Holland,  Conant  and  King  to  the  Archbp.,  who  is  to  no- 
minate one  for  Warden ;  honest  men  here  wish  it  may  be  the  second.  Is 
content  with  the  dispensations  of  Providence.  Colinge  continues  Sub- Warden 
and  refuses  to  quit  his  fellowship,  though  H.  has  been  told  that  the  Fellows 
upon  admission  take  a  solemn  oath  not  to  hold  any  servile  office.  Cannot 
learn  that  Mr.  Lhuyd  digested  any  part  of  Vol.  II  of  his  Arch.  Brit. ;  he  died 


1  Vide  Bumetti  Epist.  ad  Boyleuttt,  Ed.  3.  p.  135. 


224  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

Usserij  mentis  emotionibus,  de  quibus  charta  quaedam  ante  multos  annos 
prodijt ;  cujus  mentio  facta  in  Aubreij  miscellaneis  pag.  145,  ubi  &  chartae 
illius  auctorem  hallucinatum  fuisse  innuit  Aubrejus.  (Chartam  dictam  errata 
multa  complecti  ipse  Tyrrellus  mihi  dixit,  qui  &  Aubreij  sinciput  non 
sanum  fuisse  ajebat).  —  D.  Bradius  in  Histories  Anglicance  Parte  ima. 
pag.  283.  locum  e  G.  Malmsburiensi  citat.  Sed  Bradij  versionem  sus- 
pectam  habet  cl.  Tyrrellus,  qui  &  mihi  indicavit  vocem  ordinare  idem  valere 
quod  consecrare  sive  coronare. 

July  18  (Mon.).     As/el  nomen  gentilitium  antiquum,  ut  mihi  liquet 

10  ex  Guilielmi  Charitee  Registro  Novo  Monasterij  B.  Mar  ice  de  Pratis 
Leycestrice,  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  inter  Codices  Laudinos  H.  72.  f.  194.  b.  — 
Anno  MDCCVII  e  Theatro  Sheldoniano  prodijt  Edvardi  Lhuydij  Archceologioe 
Britannicce  Volumen  primum,  forma  majori  excusum.  De  linguis  anti- 
quis  Britannicis  agit,  summaque  industria,  ad  earum  intelligentiam  expe- 
diendam,  Grammaticas  atque  Lexica  composuit  auctor.  Volumine  altero 
quicquid  ad  Britannorum  Historias  &  mores  spectat  complecti  instituit. 
Sed  mors  importuna  eum  occupavit  antequam  collectanea  hie  illic  disjecta 
in  ordinem  disponere  liceret.  Nee  quisquam  fere  in  vivis  est  operi 
eximio  absolvendo  idoneus.  Ceterum  ut  cuncta  prospere  procederent,  iter 

20  per  Cambn'am,  Hiberniam,  Scotiam  &  Britanniam  Armoricam  cum  amico 
quodam  fecit,  cuncta  monumenta  ad  propositum  suum  facientia  lustravit, 
&  innumera  pene,  ab  alijs  minus  observata,  congessit.  Praeter  volumen 
prsefatum  Archaeologies  Britannicce,  libellum  praestantissimum  de  Fossilibus 
lingua  Latina  edidit  Lhuydius ;  uti  &  Additamenta  ad  Camdeni  Cambria 
descriptionem,  (in  Gibso ni  Camdeni  Editione  Anglicana  inclusa)  plurimas- 
que  in  Actis  Societatis  Regalis  Philosophicis  Dissertationes.  Lhuydius 
vir  erat  ingeniosus,  modestus,  rerum  naturalium  indagator  indefessus  ac 
peritus,  &  qui  in  Antiquitatum  Britannicarum  scientia  omnes  mortales 
superabat. 

30  July  20  (Wed.).  E  collegio  Orielensi  est  socius  quidam,  in  Artibus 
magister,  cui  nomen  Jacobus  Davenantius.  De  eo  nonnulla  in  antecedente 


intestate,  and  his  curiosities  go  to  Lewis  Price,  of  Cardigan,  Esqr.  '  There 
are  never  wanting  persons  who  think  themselves  qualify'd  for  any  vacant  Post 
in  the  University,  and  there  are  several  who  put  in  for  the  Musium  ;  but  we 
cannot  tell  yet  whom  the  Delegates  will  pitch  upon.  Mr.  David  Parry,  A.M. 
who  travell'd  with  Mr.  Lhuyd,  and  was  always  intimate  with  him,  and  has  serv'd 
under  him  divers  Years,  is  one  of  the  Competitors.  He  seems  to  me  to  be 
best  qualify'd ;  if  he  would  but  be  industrious,  and  apply  himself  to  Business.' 
Would  be  glad  to  see  the  new  ed.  of  Casaubon's  Epistles.  '  Dr.  Lister  is  an 
honest,  learned  Physitian.  I  have  a  great  opinion  of  him,  and  will  inspect  his 
new  Book  as  soon  as  finish'd.  I  believe  he  has  mu.cn  better  Skill  than  some 
of  his  Profession,  such  as  Dr.  RatclifF  &c.  who  decry  him,  and  say  that  he  is  not 
qualify'd  for  a  Physitian,  as  having  his  head  turn'd  the  wrong  way.'  Contents 
of  the  Introduction  to  the  forthcoming  Vol.  IV  of  TyrrelFs  General  History  of 
England.  Gibbon's  Day-Fatality  reprinted  at  beginning  of  Aubrey's  Miscel- 
lanies. Asks  for  short  account  of  Aubrey,  who  seems  to  H.  to  have  been  '  a 
crazed  man.' 

July  19.  J.  Urry  to  H.  (Rawl.  u.  4).  Has  received  a  letter  from  Ox- 
ford saying  that  there  has  been  a  plague  amongst  Wardens,  Beadles,  and  Pres- 
byterian ministers,  and  is  very  sorry  to  find  Llhuyd  in  the  list  of  the  dead. 
Please  send  a  full  account  of  him,  and  who  are  his  executors. 


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quodam  volumine.  Annum  septuagesimum  aut  circiter  vir  iste  implevit, 
eratque  ex  intimis  Timothei  Haltoni,  Collegij  Reginae  praepositi,  familiari- 
bus.  Cum  Haltono  meliuscule  quam  sat  erat  bibere  solebat ;  quam  bibendi 
consuetudinem  ad  hanc  diem  retinet,  cum  Vicecancellario  nostro  Guil. 
Lancaster,  cujus  astutias  &  nequitias  miris  effert  praeconijs.  Non  desunt 
qui  ajant  Davenantium  hunc  bene  doctum  esse,  &  in  Academiae  Oxon- 
iensis  Statutis  versatissimum.  Apage  istiusmodi  adulatores !  Alij  enim 
longe  peritiores  integrioresque  eum  parum  eruditum  esse  censent.  Est 
porro  homo  malignus,  invidus,  &  qui  in  viros  probos  ac  honestos  ita  in- 
cenditur,  ut  omnes  calumniandi  &  nocendi  occasiones  captet.  —  Hesterna  10 
die  David  Parry  A.M.  in  MUS&  Ashmokani  custodem  electus  fuit. 

July  22  (Fri.).  D.  Gilbertus  Burndtus  p.  175.  Epistolarum  ad 
Boykum  innuit  se  suspectam  habere  historian!  de  Papa  Joanna,  citatque 
Martini  Poloni  Chronicon  MS.  quod  in  Anglia  viderat,  in  quo  ait  locum 
ilium  quern  vulgo  adducunt  desiderari.  Vide  an  etiam  desit  in  Codicibus 
Martini  Oxoniensibus.  —  Guilielmus  Charitee,  Prior  Monastery'  augusti 
&  amceni  B.  Maria  de  Praiis  Leycestria,  chartas  omnes  atque  codices  ad 
dictum  monasterium  pertinentes  summa  cura  excussit  perlegitque ;  & 
exinde  librum  ingentem  composuit,  quern  inscripsit :  Rentals  Novum 
Generale  Monastery  B.  Marice  de  Pratis  Leycestr.  Opus  hoc  eximium  20 
inchoavit  Anno  D.  M.CDLXXVII°.  Regis  Edwardi  IVfci  17°  &  ad  exitum  per- 
duxit  A.D.  M.D.II°  aetatis  suse  LXXXI°.  a  Monastics  vitas  habitu  suscepto 
LXIII°.  cujus  exemplar,  ab  auctore  ipso  maximam  partem  exaratum,  in 
Bibliotheca  Bodlejana,  beneficio  maximi  praesulis  &  sanctissimi  martyris 
Guilielmi Laudi,  jam  exstat.  Quod  sane  rerum  Anglicarum  scriptoribus, 
alijsque  rei  antiquariae  studiosis  magno  usui  esse  potest.  Nam  auctor 
erat  (ut  cuilibet  librum  evolventi  constabit)  vir  probus,  sapiens,  sagax, 
diligens,  &  qui  complura  in  monasterium  benigne  contulit.  Unde  mirari 
subeat  nihil  apud  Lelandum,  Baleum  Pitseumve  de  eo  memoratum  oc- 
currere ;  aut  demum  apud  Guilielmum  Burtonum,  agri  Leycestrensis  de-  30 
scriptorem  luculentissimum.  —  Ilia,  quae  de  Guilielmo  Charitee  praecedunt, 
chartis  aliquot,  ex  optimo  ejus  Rental!  a  me  descriptis,  praefixi ;  quibus  & 
sequentem  adfixi  titulum  : 

COLLECTANEA 

ad  Ecclesiam  de  Thurneby,  &  Capellam  de  Stougbton,  in  agro  Leycestrensi, 
spectantia,  Ex  Rentali  No-vo  Generali,  a  Guilielmo  Charitee  confecto,  &  in 
Bibliotheca  Bodlejana  adservato,  in  gratiam  D.  Georgii  Beaumont,  Baronetti,  £ 
T.  H.  A.  M.  fideliter  excerpta  ac  descripta.  xi°.  Kal.  Sextileis  M.DCC:IX°. 


T.  H.  A.  M.  fideliter  excerpta  ac  descripta.  xi°.  Kal.  Sextileis  M.DCC:IX°. 

D.  Joannem  Holland,  S.T.P.  custodem  sive  Guardianum  Collegij  Merton- 
ensis  instituit  Archiepiscopus  Cantuariensis. 

July  23.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  137.  133).  Sorry  that  Llhuyd  had 
not  digested  the  materials  for  Vol.  II  ;  and  hopes  that  Dr.  Hudson  will  secure 
his  papers  for  Bodley.  Wishes  that  Mr.  Parry  (his  assistant)  may  succeed 
him.  What  Mr.  Tyrrell  designs  against  Dr.  Hickes  might  easily  be  refuted  if 
the  wickedness  of  the  times  allowed.  S.  told  him  on  his  publishing  his  Biblio- 
theca Politico  that  neither  Dr.  Brady  nor  himself  had  a  mind  to  be  hanged  to 
gratify  his  challenge.  How  far  down  does  he  deduce  Vol.  IV  of  his  History  of 
England ?  '  Your  censure  of  Mr.  Aubrey  is  just,  as  to  his  published  Miscel- 
lanyes.  Hee  shewed  mee  his  manuscript  papers  before  they  were  printed : 
wch  I  disliked  extremely,  and  would  have  had  him  left  out  several  chapters,  and 


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VOL.  II. 


226  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709  : 

July  24  (Sun.).  Faucis  abhinc  diebus  bibliothecam  Bodlejanam  adijt 
Maximilianus  Misson,  Gallus,  qui  ante  paucos  annos  de  Itinere  suo  in 
Italiam  duo  volumina  lingua  Gallica  evulgavit.  Haec  deinde  in  sermonem 
Anglicanum  (ab  auctore  forsan  ipso)  con  versa  sunt,  quaterque  impressa. 
Aliud  volumen  prelo  parat.  Vir  est  navus  &  industrius,  summaque 
humanitate  prseditus.  —  Intra  aream  castri  Oxoniensis  sunt  domi  antique 
reliquiae,  quam  aulam  fuisse  ajunt  ubi  judices  sive  justitiarij  Assizarum 
olim  assidebant.  Quum  autem  anno  MDLXXYII°.  morbo  quodam 
exitiali,  ex  carceris  foetoribus  oborto,  perplures  morerentur,  ad  Quadrivium, 

10  vulgo  Cairfax,  tribunal  transtulerunt ;  quo  loco  etiam  hodie  istiusmodi 
conventus  habentur  generales. 

July  26  (Tu.).  Aula  Gloucestrensis  Oxonij  multa  prae  se  fert  antiqui- 
tatis  vestigia.  Loco  amoeno  &  a  civium  strepitu  remoto  sita  est ;  aream- 
que  habet  spatiosam  plane  ac  magnificam.  Insignia  hie  illic  apparent 
gentilitia  ;  atque  exiguo  inde  intervallo  ad  partem  orientalem  distat  monti- 
culus  peramcenus,  in  quo  aedes  ornatissimse  &  sane  regiae  olim  conspicie- 
bantur  ubi  Richardus  imus  rex  ille  magnanimus,  nascebatur.  Quin  & 
ibi  domus  fuit  splendida  ac  opulenta  religiosorum  usibus  dicata,  quam 
cum  alijs  id  genus  sedificijs  Henrici  vui1.  manus  sacrilegse  tandem  diruere. 

20  Capellae  hie  loci  exstructae  partem  quandam  adstantem  modo  vidi ;  unde 
occasio  mihi  oblata  majorum  nostrorum  erga  Deum  pietatem  laudandi 
atque  admirandi,  &  vice-versa  eorum  scelera  damnandi  atque  detestandi ; 
qui  sub  specie  religionis,  monasteria,  &  quaecunque  alia  monumenta 
Superstitionem  Papalem,  ut  inquiunt,  olentia  summo  fastidio  nee  minore 
violentia  funditus  sustulerunt.  Ad  domum  hanc  quam  vulgo  the  Beau- 
mont vocant,  saepius  ventitare  solebant  reges  nostri  una  cum  magnatibus. 
Hie  nempe  festa  solenniora  nonnunquam  celebrabant ;  id  quod  &  in  alijs 
suis  Palatijs,  non  Londini  positis,  baud  raro  faciebant.  Hisce  secedendi 
sedibus  aliquando  coronabantur  reges,  qui  olim  plusquam  semel  corona 

30  cingi  consuerunt.  Adeo  ut  mirer  D.  Tyrrellum  opinari  atque  asserere, 
Anglice  moderatores  antiquitus  non  reges  appellatos  fuisse  donee 
coronarentur. 

mended  several  places  in  the  rest :  but  my  advice  was  rejected,  nor  could  I 
prevaile  upon  him  by  any  argum*  or  entreaty.  In  his  latter  yeares  hee  in- 
dulged too  much  to  his  phantasy,  &  was  wholly  addicted  to  the  whimseyes  of 
Astrologers  &  Southsayers,  &  such  like  ignorant  &  superstitious  writers,  wch 
have  no  foundation  in  nature,  philosophy,  or  reason.  Hee  was  very  intimate 
with  Mr.  Ashmole,  and  one  of  his  great  admirers.  Otherwise  hee  was  a  very 
ingenious  Gentleman,  &  abstracting  from  those  foolish  notions,  wch  have  only 
idle  tradition  to  support  them,  could  do  wel  enough  upon  a  better  subject, 
wch  his  history  of  the  antiquity es  of  Wiltshire,  his  native  country,  tho'  imperfect  & 
unfinished,  dos  fully  show :  wch  I  hope  is  deposited  in  the  Museum.  Hee  was 
borne  to  a  very  good  estate,  &  of  a  very  gentile  family,  &  honourably  allyed : 
but  living  profusely  &  farr  above  his  quality,  in  France  for  several  yeares,  & 
afterwards  here  at  home,  run  out  of  it,  and  suffering  himselfe  to  bee  cheated  by 
knavish  Bailiffes,  whom  hee  trusted  with  the  management  of  it,  hee  became 
miserably  poore,  and  lived  at  last  wholly  upon  the  charity  &  bounty  of  his  great 
relations.'  Will  send  H.  on  Monday  a  presentation  copy  of  Lister  de  Humori- 
bus.  This  man  has  Dr.  Rfadcliffe]  in  the  utmost  degree  of  contempt,  and 
looks  upon  him  as  a  sottish  and  ignorant  blockhead,  who  has  no  other  way  left 
of  revenging  himself  but  by  his  silly  and  scandalous  railing  at  him.'  Returns 
to  Dr.  Hudson  his  copy  of  the  Ch.  Ch.  Ignatius. 


July  24-30.]  VOLUME  XX,  PAGES  95-125.  227 

July  29  (Fri.).  In  Bibliotheca  Vaticana  Virgilij  exstant  Codices  litteris 
uncialibus  script!,  quos  Burnettus  Sarisburiensis  Episcopus  inspexit,  si 
fides  Epistolis  ad  Boyleum  adhibenda,  quibus  multa  inseruit  futilia  plane 
ac  insulsa.  —  Heidelbergce  videre  est  Erasmi  tumulum,  in  quo  lamina 
aenea  cum  inscriptione  absque  effigie. 

July  30  (Sat.).  Basilia  sunt  picturae  optimae  vestigia  quam  fecit  artifex 
ille  exquisitus  Hans  Holbcenius.  Mortis  choream  vocant.  Mortem  nempe 
exhibet  cunctos  hominum  ordines  tollentem  atque  delentem,  eo  fere  modo 
quo  &  repraesentatam  videmus  in  tertio  Monastici  Anglicani  volumine,  & 
in  Dugdalij  S.  Paulli  Ecclesiae  Cathedralis  Londini  Historia. 


Mr.  James  Wright  had  once  a  valuable  Transcript  of  Mr.  Leland's 
Itinerary,  which  he  has  told  me  was  written  about  the  time  of  Queen 
Elizabeth,  and  had  no  lacunae  in  ft,  being  taken  from  the  originals  before 
they  took  wet,  as  is  suppos'd.  But,  to  his  and  all  curious  and  learned 
men's  Regret,  the  said  Transcript  was  unfortunately  burnt  (with  the  rest 
of  his  Books)  in  the  Fire  at  the  Middle  Temple  in  the  year  1678.  — 

See  the  following  Names  in  Burnett's  Tra veils,  i.  Erasmus  p.  272. 
Holberis  Death's  Dance,  p.  273.  Basil,  ibid,  the  Library  there,  the 
Library  of  Bern,  p.  274.  The  Medals  and  Library  at  Basil.  274.  The 
Library  at  Slrasburgh,  283.  the  Germans  badly  skill'd  inMSS.  288. —  ...  20 
James  Wright  Esqr.  who  writ  and  publish' d  the  Antiquities  of  Rutland 
in  a  thin  folio,  &  divers  other  Pieces,  some  of  wc^  I  have  specify'd  in  one 
of  the  preceding  volumes,  has  lately  printed  at  London  Phoenix  Paulina. 
A  Poem  on  the  new  Fabrick  of  S'.  Paul's  Cathedral.  4to.  He  has  also 
made  short  strictures  upon  Mr.  Wood's  Athenae  Oxonienses,  which  are 
by  him  in  MSS*.  —  The  old  Duke  of  Ormond's  Picture  in  the  School 
Gallery  was  done  by  one  Ashfield  from  the  original  drawn  by  Sir  Peter 
Lilly.  The  said  Ashfield  also  drew  the  Picture  of  Dun  Scotus  in  the 
same  Gallery,  from  his  own  Invention.  Mr.  Ashfield  had  a  great  Genius 
for  Painting,  especially  for  Craons.  He  liv'd  in  Holborn  Rowe  in  30 


July  30.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  140).  Mr.  Parry  has  got  the 
custody  of  the  Museum.  Of  the  six  Electors,  the  Principal  of  B.  N.  G.  having 
been  non  compos  a  great  while  could  not  vote,  and  the  Prof,  of  Physic  '  was 
absent,  as  he  generally  is,  it  being  his  custom  to  do  the  Duties  of  his  Place  by 
a  Deputy,  &  to  imploy  his  time  -in  whimsical  Projects.'  Mr.  Tyrrell  does  not 
think  it  possible  for  anyone  to  give  a  fair  answer  to  his  arguments  about  the 
Succession  in  his  new  Vol. ;  but  H.  plainly  told  him  that  he  believed  they 
might  all  be  confuted  with  very  great  ease  by  the  gentlemen  more  nearly  con- 
cerned, if  they  had  liberty  of  speaking.  Thanks  for  account  of  Aubrey,  and 
for  the  present  of  Dr.  Lister's  excellent  book  de  Humoribus.  Believes  Dr.  H. 
could  easily  get  a  copy  of  the  Gh.  Ch.  Ignatius.  '  Dr.  John  Holland  being 
nominated  by  the  AbP.  of  C.  Warden  of  Merton  College,  he  came  into  Oxford 
on  the  26th  Instant,  attended  by  several  Hundreds  of  People,  who  rid  up  high- 
street  and  so  through  S'.  Mary-Hall-Lane:  at  which  time  most  of  the  Bells  in 
Town  rang.  No  one  remembers  that  ever  any  Head  of  a  House  was  brought 
in  in  so  great  State  and  Pomp.  He  was  admitted  the  next  Day,  and  I  believe 
will  make  a  better  Governour  than  his  Predecessour.  But  as  for  Parts  or 
Learning  he  has  very  little,  and  upon  that  account  is  commonly  catt'd  DullJotm. 
But  these  are  Qualifications  not  minded  nowadays.' 

Q  2 


228  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

Lincoln's  Inn  Fields.     He  was  a  sober  Person,  &  suspected  to   be  a 
Roman  Catholick. 

'Twas  reported  by  Tradition  in  Oxford  that  Shakespear  as  he  us'd  to 
pass  from  London  to  Stratford  upon  Avon,  where  he  liv'd  &  now  lies 
buried,  always  spent  some  time  in  ye  Crown  Tavern  in  Oxford,  which 
was  kept  by  one  Davenant  who  had  a  handsome  Wife,  &  lov'd  witty  Com- 
pany, tho'  himself  a  reserv'd  and  melancholly  Man.  He  had  born  to 
him  a  Son  who  was  afterwards  Christen'd  by  ye  Name  of  Wm.  who  prov'd 
a  very  Eminent  Poet,  &  was  knighted  (by  ye  name  of  Sr.  William  Dave- 

10  nant)  &  ye  said  Mr.  Shakespear  was  his  God-father  &  gave  him  his  name. 
(In  all  probability  he  got  him.)  'Tis  further  said  that  one  day  going  from 
school  a  grave  Doctor  in  Divinity  met  him,  and  ask'd  him,  Child  whither 
art  thou  going  in  such  hast  ?  to  wcjl  the  child  reply'd,  O  Sir  my  God- 
father is  come  to  Town,  $•  I  am  going  to  ask  his  blessing.  To  wch  the  Dr. 
said,  Hold  Child, you  must  not  take  the  name  of  God  in  vaine. 

Henry  Sampson  formerly  Provost  of  Oriel  College  gave  several  MSS. 
to  that  Place  and  particularly  Eusebius's  Ecc.  Hist,  written  about  500 
Years  agoe  in  Latin. 

The  Testament  in  Modern  Greek,  printed  at  Lond.  by  Benj.  Mott,  in 

20  1703.  8V0. 

Dr.  Friend  commended  by  the  Ingenious  and  learned  Dr.  Lister  in  his 
Book  de  humoribus  in  the  Preface. —  .  .  The  last  Provost  of  Oriel  Col- 
lege, Dr.  Royse,  gave  all  the  Books  to  the  Library  of  the  said  College 
that  should  be  found  wanting  in  it ;  which  are  accordingly  plac'd  there. 
The  Number  of  them  appears  from  the  Benefactors'  Book  to  be  389.  — 
Mr.  Tyrrell's  Discourse  about  Convocations  in  his  Preface  to  his  md.  vol. 
produces  matters  of  Fact  for  valid  Proofs,  when  sometimes  it  is  plain  they 
are  not  to  be  allow'd  of  as  Proofs.  —  Sir  John  Spelman  of  opinion  that 
the  King  or  Queen  makes  the  Ist.  Estate  of  Parliament,  as  appears  from 

30  his  two  Printed  Discourses  quoted  by  me  in  the  Advertisement  before  my 
Discourse  upon  ye  Bath  Inscription.  —  Abbey  of  S*  Mary  de  Pratis  at 
Leycester  founded  an.  D.  ii43.nofaithfull  memorand.  of  their  Rents  for 
an  100  years  after.  So  the  MS*.  Rental  by  Charitee.  —  ...  A  fair 
Copy  of  the  Statutes  of  Queen's  College  in  Dr.  Hudson's  Hands  given 
him,  to  be  put  into  the  Publick  Library,  by  Dr.  Crosthwait.  —  On  Tues- 
day July  26*h  Dr.  Holland,  Warden  of  Merton  Coll.  came  into  Oxford  in 
great  Pomp,  attended  by  about  500  People,  who  rid  up  high  Street  and 
so  through  Sfc  Mary  Hall  Lane.  Most  of  the  Bells  in  the  Town  rung. 
Admitted  ye  next  day.  —  .  .  Mr.  Adams  of  X*.  C\  for  me  for  Beadle, 

40  as  he  promis'd  July  5*^  1709. —  .  .  Joannes  filius  Laurencij  Serthe  de 
novo  sedificari  &  reparari  curavit  capellam  S.  Bartholomaei  prope  Oxon. 
He  gave  18  Marks  towards  it,  &  was  upon  that  Account  admitted  one  of 
the  Brethren  of  the  Hospital  notwithstanding  sanus  by  command  of  Edw. 
III.  1 4  year  of  his  Reign.  The  Chaplain  here  was  to  be  Priest  and  had 
six  Marcs  per  an.  allow'd  him.  Margaret  wife  of  Edw.  1st  Founder. 
Afterwards  restored  by  Edw.  II. 


July  30-Aug.  2.]    VOL.  XX,  PAGE   125-FOL.  XXI,  PAGE  13.    229 


VOL.  XXI. 

About  verse  250  of  Dionysius's  Periegesis  d/^roio,  in  all  the  Editions. 
Quaere  whether  so  printed  in  Dr.  Hudson's.  Mr.  Thwaites  thinks  it 
should  be  d^Toto,  &  confirms  his  conjecture  from  Eustratius  publish'd 
by  himself,  in  which  'tis  depos.  about  the  30.  oXXore  M« "  vrjcrouri.  TrtpiSpo^os. 
it  ought  to  be  7repi8p6fj.os  in  that  place,  as  o£v8po/zoy. — Mr.  Thwaites's  Conjec- 
tures are  both  wrong,  and  against  the  Authority  of  the  MSSts.  'A/UIJTOIO 
is  right  for  harvest,  and  agrees  with  the  Paraphrast's  6tpovs.  Repetition  not 
to  be  stuck  at  in  Poets.  ntpiBpopos  is  taken  actively,  and  is  very  agreeable 
to  the  mind  of  Dionysius. 

Aug.  1  (Mon.),  1709.  Notas  breves  insequentes  e  margine  exemplaris  10 
Homeri  Odyss.  Bair.  &  Hymn,  in  Bibliotheca  Bodlejana  exstantis,  &  im- 
pressi  Vene/ys,  (in  aedibus  Aldi,  &  Andreae  Asulani  soceri.  M.D.XXIIII. 
mense  Aprilis.  8V0.)  in  gratiam  amicissimi  doctissimique  Viri  Josuae 
Barnesij,  S.  T.  B.  literarum  Graecarum  apud  Cantabrigienses  Professoris 
Regij  (cujus  Homeri  operum  Editionem  nitidissimam  &  accuratissimam, 
jam  sub  prelo  sudantem,  avide  exspectant  eruditi  omnes)  excerpsi  &  de- 
scripsi.  [2-9.]  ...  —  Nuper  prodijt  carmen  lepidum  &  ingeniosum, 
a  juvene  quodam  e  collegio  Jt*u\  ut  fertur,  concinnatum,  cui  titulus 
Hoglandice  Descriptio.  Henrici  cujusdam  Sacheverelli,  S.  T.  P.  e  collegio 
Magdalenensi  superbiam,  inscitiam  morumque  pravitatem  breviter  sed  20 
egregie  perstringit.  Sacheverellus  iste,  vir  ignarus,  vinolentus,  loquax, 
audax,  crebro  in  templo  B.  Maria  Virginis  coram  Academicis  conciones 
habuit ;  quo  tempore  vultum  ipsius  plenum  furoris,  oculos  sceleris,  ser- 
monem  arrogantiae  fuisse  omnes  norunt.  Oestro  nimirum  percitus  verba 
contumeliosa  &  pulpito  sacro  prorsus  indigna  effutijt ;  nonnunquam  etiam 
fanaticos  &  rebelles,  ac  si  honestus  homo  esset,  convicijs  lacessivit.  Verum 
est  plane  simulator  improbus,  ut  e  pluribus  ejus  liquet  facinoribus,  quae 
viri  integri  exsecrantur  ac  detestant. 

Aug.  2  (Tu.).     S.  Columbce  Vita  ab  auctore  anonymo  lingua  Cornu- 
biensi  conscripta  &  in  sermonem  Anglicanum  ab  erudito  quodam  versa.  30 
Hsec  penes  D.  Roscarrock  olim  fuit,  qui  &  cl.  Camdeno  communicavit, 
unde  S.  ColumbcE  oppidum  in  agro  Cornubiensi  a  S.  Columbano  Scotorum 
Apostolo   celeberrimo   nomen   sumpsisse   didicit   Vir  eruditissimus.   — 


August  1.  H.  to  Prof.  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  26).  Sends  notes  from  a  copy 
of  the  Odyssey  printed  at  Venice  1524  ;  and  will  send  variations  of  the  Batra- 
chomyomacbia  printed  at  Venice  some  years  earlier,  if  desired.  Dr.  H.  and 
himself  have  drunk  B.'s  and  Mrs.  B.'s  healths  two  or  three  times  with  my  Lord 
Carteret,  a  young  nobleman  of  Ch.  Ch.,  a  subscriber  to  Homer,  and  a  great 
proficient  in  Greek  and  all  polite  learning. 

August  2.  H.  to  P.  Cherry  (Rawl.  36.  30).  Thanks  Mr.  C.  and  Mr. 
Griffith,  to  the  latter  of  whom  he  is  especially  obliged  for  the  first  beginnings 
of  a  liberal  education,  for  their  interest  in  his  candidature  for  the  Beadleship. 
The  V.  C.  took  occasion  to  spread  about  that  H.  is  a  Roman  Catholic,  a  Non- 
Juror,  an  Enemy  to  the  Government,  &c.  It  would  have  been  an  agreeable 


Quodam  (ut  suspicor)  ^Edis  Xti  alumno. 


230  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1700: 

S.  Kentigerni (quern  -S".  Mungo  vocant  Septentrionales  nostri)  vitam  scripsit 
Joscelinus,  Abbatiae  de  Fournes  in  agro  Lancastrensi  Monachus.  In 

Bibliotheca  Cottoniana  adservatur.     Sed  incertum  utrum  etiam  exstet  vita 

ab  ipsius  discipulo  S.  Asapho,  prodente  Baleo,  concinnata.  —  De  S.  Wini- 
fridce  miraculis  varij  scripserunt  auctores,  ut  retulit  D.  Guilielmus  Nicol- 

sonus,  qui  tamen  de  ejusdem  vita  a  D.  Humphreys,  nunc  Episcopo  Here- 
fordensi  consignata  nullam  mentionem  fecit.  Vidit  cl.  Dodwellus,  qui  & 

mihi  denarravit.      Incertum  an  jam  exstet.     Earn  cum  alijs   Chartis   & 

Codicibus  quamplurimis  surripuit  nebulo  quidam ;  sed  vitam  tandem  recu- 
10  peravit  Episcopus,  ut  &  aliquot  chartarum  quas  sustulerat  homo  ille 

nefarius. 

Aug.  3  (Wed.).  De  JElfredi  Bedtz  Historise  Versione  Anglo- Saxonica 
vide  Guil.  Nicholsonum  in  Vol.  II.  BibliotheccE  Historic  CE  Anglicance,  p.  37. 
Ibi  dubium  esse  innuit  an  rex  ille  Magnus  ejus  revera  Auctor  fuisset.  — 
Joannes  Spelmannus  Henricum  Patrem,  virum  sane  magnum  &  judicio  acri 
prseditum,  in  lingua  Anglo-Saxonica  superasse  videtur.  In  Concilijs 
nostris  edendis  Henrico  strenue  laboranti  manus  auxiliares  praebuit 
Jeremias  Stephanus,  prasbendaque  tanquam  prsemio  bene  navatae  operae  in 
ecclesia  Lincolniensi,  martyris  illius  Sanctissimi  Guilielmi  Laudi  beneficio, 
20  donatus  Qr&t.  —  Edmundus  Hollyngus  Eboracenus,  Anglus  libellum  edidit, 
inscriptum,  De  salubri  siudiosorum  victu.  Ingolst.  1602.  Videsis  inter 
libros  Lincolnienses  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  J.  76.  8°. 

Aug.  4  (Th.).  Doctus  quispiam  Conciliorum  Anglicanorum  novam  sus- 
cepit  Editionem.  Id  innuit  D.  Nicholsonus  Bibl.  Hist.  Vol.  II.  p.  43. 
nomine  tamen  celato. 

Aug.  5  (Fri.).     S.  Neoti  vita  carmine  scripta  in  Bibliotheca  Magdalen- 

ensi  exstat.     Auctor,  quicunque  fuerit,  minus  elegans,  opusculumque  futi- 

libus    &   ineptis   fabulis    refersit.  —  Penes   D.   Nicholsonum    Episcopum 

Carleolensem  est  Codex  MS.  de  vita  S.  Wilfridi,  cujus  auctorem  P.  Bles- 

30  sensem  fuisse  censet.     Is  enim  istiusmodi  librum  scripsit,  notante  Baleo. 

Idem  est  cum  Pitsij  Petro  Ripponensi.  —  Anno  M  :  DC  :  LXIII.  Leodij  prodijt 

liber  cui  tit.  Annales  Ecclesice  Britannicce.      Michaelis  A  If  or  d  e  Societate 

Jesu  nomen  fert;  sed  verum  nomen  est  Griffith,  ut  indicavit  Antonius 

Wodius  in  Aihenis  Oxon.  Vol.  II.  p.  387. 

Aug.  6  (Sat.).  De  litibus  inter  Henricum  I  &  Anselmum  librum  scripsit 
Joannes  de  Sarisburia.  In  quo  &  multa  alia  ad  Anselmi  vitam  spectantia 
lectori  exhibuit.  Hunc  scriptorem  plurimum  laudat  Petrus  Blessensis. 
In  Bibliotheca  Lambelhana  exstare  videtur  sub  nomine  Joannis  Carnot- 
ensis.  Sic  innuunt  Vir  eximius  Henricus  Whartonus  Angl.  Sac.  Vol.  I.  p. 


post  because  he  would  not  have  been  obliged  to  take  the  Abjuration  Oath, 
which  he  is  resolved  never  to  do.  His  'Alfred  had  like  to  have  been  suppres- 
sed, chiefly  because  they  said  'twas  dedicated  by  him  to  the  Prince  of  Wales. 
But  it  proved  to  be  the  Author's  own  Dedication.' 

August  6.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  134).  Will  forbear  giving 
his  opinion  about  Domina  and  ordinare  till  T.'s  Introduction  is  printed,  which 
doubtless  tends  to  the  same  evil  purposes  as  his  former  books.  Wishes  that 
some  regulations  were  made  as  to  University  discipline  and  study.  '  But  I  do 
not  pretend  to  set  up  for  a  Reformer.'  Hears  of  little  or  nothing  brought 


Aug.  2-9.]  VOLUME  XXI,  PAGES  13-29.  231 

109.  &  Gut'l.  Nicolsonus  Bibl.  Hist.  Vol.  II.  p.  H^.  — Mauritius  Chanceius 
(nonnullis  Chamneius,  alijs  Chawneius]  de  D.  Thomce  Mori,  Fischeri, 
episcopi  Roffensis,  octodecimque  ordinis  Carihusianorum  (quern  &  ipse 
Chanceius  amplexus  fuerat)  monachorum  misery's  atque  passionibus  fuse 
disseruit.  Opus  prodijt  anno  MDL°.  Moguntice  in  4*°.  cum  hoc  titulo : 
Historia  aliquot  nostri  S&culi  Marty  rum.  Libros  tres  complecti  ait  Joannes 
Pitseus.  perperam. 

Aug.  7  (Sun.).  Baptista  Pigna  Quastiones  Sophocleas  scripsit :  ubi  de 
tota  doctrina  Tragica,  de  Senecae  vitijs,  de  Grczcorum  Tragicorum  virtuti- 
bus,  fuse  tractavit.  —  Aristoieles  doctrina  &judicio  cum  ceteros  omnes,  turn  10 
seipse  quoque  superat,  in  his  libris,  quibus  dicendi  rationem  pulcherrima 
doctrina  explicavit.  —Joannes  Checus  &  Thomas  Smithus,  Cantabrigienses, 
viri  eruditionis  immensae,  &  qui  omnes  fere  facile  superassent  modo  ad 
scribendum  sese  dedidissent.  —  Aschamus  notat  quendam  Oxoniensem  in 
Epistola  secunda  ad  Siurmium  quasi  minus  eruditum,  &  in  Auctoribus 
optimae  notae  mediocriter  versatum. — Reginam  Elizabethan  amplissimis 
laudibus  cohonestat  D.  Aschamus,  illiusque  industriam  simul  &  ingenium 
in  re  literaria  promovenda  eleganter  describit  in  Epistola  II.  ad  Sturmium. 
Gallice  Italiceque  ac  Anglice  locuta  est,  Latine  expedite,  proprie,  con- 
siderate. Grsece  etiam  saepius  collocuta  est  cum  viris  eruditione  prae-  20 
Claris.  Cum  Aschamo  perlegit  integrum  fere  Ciceronem,  magnam  partem 
T.  Livij.  E  quibus  propemodum  solis  duobus  auctoribus  Latinam 
linguam  hausit.  Aschamus  nummis  antiquis  delectatus  &  in  ijs  non 
leviter  versatus. 

Aug.  8  (Mon.).  Anno  M  :  DC  :  XCITI.  prodijt  Errorum  aliquot  ac  defec- 
luum  in  Burnetti  Reformationis  Anglic  ance  Historia  Specimen,  ab  Antonio 
Harmaro,  id  est,  Henrico  Whartono  scriptum.  Libellus  quidem  optimus  & 
a  viris  eruditis,  omnibusque  sequis  rerum  arbitris,  magni  aestimatus. 
Damnat  eum  Nicolsonus,  &  convitia  in  auctorem  fundit,  illumque  levia  fere 
&  docto  indigna  observasse  ait.  Sic  iste,  homo  tumidus  &  superbus !  30 

Aug.  9  (Tu.).  Nicholsonus  praefatus  indicium  nobis  publice  fecit 
virum  quendam,  doctrina  &  judicio  praeditum,  prelo  parare  novum  de 
Episcopis  nostris  commentarium,  in  quo  Parkeri  (seu  potius  Joscelini) 
Godwinique  mendas  innumeras  correctas  dabit,  jurisque  publici  faciet 
quicquid  in  Codicibus  MSS.  &  optimae  notae  scriptoribus  editis  e  re  sua 
futurum  esse  judicaverit.  Quisnam  vero  sit  plane  nescio.  Id  constat, 
doctissimum  Hutionum  de  Ayno  in  agro  Northanioniensi  plurima  e  libris 
MSS.  volumina  congessisse,  &  non  pauca  de  Episcopis  notasse.  Sed  in 
lucem  proferendi  ilium  nondum  incessit  cupido.  —  D.  Thomas  Chandlerus 
olim  Collegij  Novi  custos  sive  guardianus,  necnon  Ecclesiae  Bathoniensis  40 
ac  Wellensis  Cancellarius,  tractatum  scripsit,  cui  tit.  De  laudibus  Bathonitz 
$  Wellies.  Sic  Anlonius  a  Wood  in  Antiq.  Oxon.  Hinc  illustrari  potest 


over  by  the  last  fleet  from  Rotterdam.    Another  vol.  of  Rymer  to  be  pub- 
lished by  Allhallowtide. 

c.  August?.  Bagford  to  H.  (Rawl.  21.  25).  It  is  not  true  that  H.'s 
book  is  being  reprinted.  — .'s  not  visiting  H.  was  due  to  forgetfulness,  for 
*  he  was  kept  warm  in  the  head  all  the  time  he  was  in  Oxford.'  Glad  that  H. 
is  to  put  forth  Leland's  Itinerary. 


232  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

tUsiorio.  Angh'cana.  —  A  Wager  was  laid  some  years  since  that  there  is  no 
such  Translation  of  St.  Paul's  Epistles  in  wch  he  is  call'd  a  Knave  of 
Jesus  X',  as  is  commonly  said.  Upon  wch  search  was  made  in  the  old 
Translations  of  both  of  our  Universities,  &  it  could  not  be  found.  —  Mr. 
Dodwell  has  written  a  discourse,  not  yet  printed,  intitled,  A  Discourse  Con- 
cerning the  Use  of  Incense  in  Divine  Offices,  wherein  it  is  proved,  That  that 
Practise,  taken  up  in  the  middle  Ages,  both  by  the  Eastern  and  Western 
Churches,  is,  notwithstanding,  an  Innovation  from  the  doctrine  of  the  first 
and  purest  Churches,  And  from  the  Traditions  derived  from  the  Apostles. 

jo  Serving  also  to  evince ;  That,  even  the  Consent  of  those  Churches,  of  the  middle 
Ages,  is  no  certain  Argument,  that  even  the  Particulars,  wherein  they  are 
supposed  to  consent,  were  faithfully  derived  from  the  Apostles.  Against  the 
modern  Assertors  of  the  Infallibility  of  oral  Tradition  in  a  Letter  to  a 
Friend.— Joannis  Masson  viri  literati  magnique  nominis  mentio  facta  in 
Sturmij  Epist.  ad  Aschamum  quadam.  Aristotelis  de  Rhelorica  libros  ex- 
plicare  perpetuis  disserentium  sermonibus  statuit  Sturmius.  ibid.  — Jana 
Graia  decimum  quintum  annum  nata  Platonis  Phaedonem  Graece  legit, 
Aschamoque,  illam  audienti,  summam  admirationem  injecit.  Qua  etiam 
aetate  sic  locuta  est  &  scripsit  Graece,  ut  vera  referentt  vix  fides  adhiberi 

20  posset. 

Aug.  10  (Wed.).  Liber  ille  eximius  de  Ecclesice  Britannicce  Antiqui- 
tatibus,  qui  Matthceo  Parkero,  Archiepiscopo  Cantuariensi  vulgo  tribuitur, 
a  Joanne  Joscelino,  viro  erudito  &  rei  antiquariae  peritissimo  revera  compo- 
situs  fuit.  Plura  tamen  instrumenta  porrexit  communicavitque  Parkerus, 
&  opus  relegit  atque  castigavit.  —  Hugo  Todd  S.  T.  P.  non  ita  pridem 
Collegij  Universitatis  socius,  nunc  Ecclesiae  Carleolensis  Prebendarius, 
paucis  abhinc  annis  sermone  Anglicano  Diecceseos  Carleolensis  Historiam 
industria  magna  conscripsit,  &  ejusdem  exemplar  in  Bibliotheca,  ad 
Decanum  capitulumque  spectante,  reponendam  curavit.  Plerisque  earn 

30  inspicientibus  pergrata  fuit.  Inde  de  ea  in  Latinam  linguam  transferenda 
cogitavit  auctor  praestantissimus,  specimenque  versionis  publico  dedit.  Sed 
quominus  procederet  strenue  obstitit  Episcopus  Carleolensis,  aliorum 
laudibus  invidens.  —  In  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  Cicestrensi  conspiciuntur  S. 
Wilfridi  ejusque  successorum  Picturae,  eo  plane  ordine  quo  eos  exhibuit 
Godwinus.  —  In  Bibliotheca  Collegij  Magdalenensis  Oxon.  adservatur  Codex 
MS.  per  auctorem  anonymum  de  Gestis  $•  Ritibus  Cler.  Cambrensis. 
Hinc,  ni  fallor,  Diecceseos  Menevensis  status  vetustus  non  parum  illustrari 
potest.  —  A  Priest  with  his  Shoes  and  his  Chalice  dug  up  in  the  Cloysters 
of  C^jAr-Cathedral  within  the  Memory  of  Man.  —  For  Justin  consiflt 

40  Heideggerus's  Historia  Sacra  pag.  646.  He  says  that  ye  Story  of 
Semiramis  is  all  false.  —  Remember  to  tell  Mr.  Barnes  that  in  Dionysius 
Longinus  irepi  vfyovs  are  several  verses  of  Homer  read  otherwise  than  in  the 
common  Editions.  — Os  femoris  humani,  4tuor  pedes  longum,  in  schola 
anatomica  Oxonice  adservatur,  tribus  annis  ab  incendio  illo  fatali  in 
templo  quodam  Londini  effossum.  Nuper  in  America  repertum  erat  os 
femoris  septemdecim  plus  minus  pedes  longum,  quod  jam  exponunt 
Londini,  una  cum  ejusdem  corporis  dente  quatuor  pondo.  Sic  mihi 
retulit  sacerdos  quispiam,  qui  &  de  hac  re  tractatum  brevem  scripsit.  — 
D.  Maninghamum,  Capellae  Windesoriensis  Regiae  Decanum,  in  Episcopum 

50  Cicestriensem,  loco  D.  Williams  ante  menses  paucos  defuncti,  nominatum 


Aug.  9-12.]  VOLUME  XXI,  PAGES  29-45.  233 

esse  audimus.  —  Mr.  Dodwell  is  of  opinion  that  the  story  of  Semiramis  is 
groundless.  Herodotus  makes  her  about  420  years  before  his  own  time, 
&  Ctesias  says  that  the  Assyrian  Monarchy  lasted  13  hundred  years. 

Aug.  12  (Fri.).  In  Bibliotheca  Cottoniana  est  optimae  notae  Catalogus 
eorum  omnium  qui  Ecclesiae  Dunelmensi  Benefactores  unquam  exstiterunt, 
ab  Edwini  nempe  regis  aetate  usque  ad  Henrici  VIII.  tempora.  De  hoc 
libro  egit  doctissimus  Smilhus  in  Hisloria  $•  Synopsi  Bibliothecce  Cottoni- 
ana,  p.  38.  Litteris  Anglo-Saxonicis  antiquis  folia  quaedam  ad  initium 
sunt  exarata.  Regem  jEthelstanum  monumentum  hoc  venerandum  ali- 
quando  possedisse  conjicimus.  Nam  in  prima  pagina  ejus  conspicitur  10 
nomen,  quod  a  se  ipso  scriptum  fuisse  suspicantur  eruditi.  —  Scripsit  eru- 
ditissimus  Dodwellus,  Amicus  integerrimus,  Dissertationem,  pro  more  suo, 
accuratissimam  de  Dionysij  Periegetce  aetate  &  patria,  quam  brevi  prelo 
Sheldoniano  mandabit  cl.  Hudsonus.  D.  Edw.  Thwaitesius  e  collegio 
Reginae  in  sua  Dionysii  editione  Paraphrasin  vetustam  e  codice  Baroc- 
ciano  publico  dedit.  Hanc  hie  illic  citat  cl.  Dodwellus,  qui  &  notat  earn 
Eustratio  (Episcopo  forsan  Nicceno,  quique  Eustathium  paullulum  aetate 
superat)  tribuendam  esse.  Juniorem  Caracalld  Dionysium  fuisse  probat. 
Nonnunquam  Dionysium  ejusque  Schol[i]asten  egregie  explicat,  &  multa 
loca  in  aliis  auctoribus  illustravit.  Vocem  ov8as  in  v.  803  a  Prisciano  v.  771.  20 
male  mania  verti  notat,  idemque  quod  yfj  seu  «8a0o?  valere  e  Grammaticis 
innuit.  Hinc  urbem  Byzantinam  mcenibus  mulctatam  fuisse  cum  scriberet 
Dionysius  colligit.  Id  autem  factum  a  Septimio  Sever o.  Ex  Avieno  docet 
Dionysium  sub  Elagabalo  scripsisse.  In  parte  posteriore  Dissertationis 
Corinlhium  fuisse  ostendit. — Iste  etiam  Vir  cl.  Dissertationem  pereruditam 
&  satis  luculentam  contexuit,  De  Theophilo  Antiocheno,  vero  Librorum  ad 
Autolycum  Auctore,  illiusque  JEtate;  El  de  vero  eorundem  Librorum  or  dine. 
Hunc  laborem  suscepit  sustinuitque  in  gratiam  D.  Schelw iggij  juvenis 
Hamburgensis,  a  quo  novam  Theophili  editionem  exspectamus.  In  hac 
dissertatione  notae  plurimae  occurrunt  curiosae,  quae  litibus  non  paucis  inter  30 
viros  doctissimos  dirimendis  inservire  queant.  Tillemontium  docte  refut- 
avit,  &  Severi  persecutionis  initio  scripsisse  demonstravit.  —  Reverendissi- 
mus  Cardinalis  Polus  ajebat,  teste  Aschamo,  Epist.  pag.  46.  b.  Ed.  Lond. 
M:D:LXXVIII.  se  semel  2000.  aureorum  consumpsisse,  mittendo  certo 
quodam  homine  in  Poloniam,  qui  Ciceroni's  libros  de  Rep.  perquireret : 
quorum  illic  inveniendorum  spem  quidam  ei  fecerat.  Sed  frustra.  — 
Cardinal  Pole  spent  several  Years  in  gathering  and  obtaining  from  divers 
learned  Persons,  the  various  Readings,  Emendations,  Castigations,  <Jvr.,  of 
Cicero  s  works,  with  Intention  to  have  published  a  compleat  Copy  of  them, 
but  death  seizing  on  him  unexspectedly,  in  the  58th  Year  of  his  Age,  that  40 
good  work  was  stopped,  and  what  are  become  of  the  Papers  of  Correc- 
tions is  uncertain.  See  Wood's.  Athena  Oxon.  vol.  i.  col.  93.  — Manu 
eleganti  scripsit  Regina  Elizabetha,  de  qua  praeclare  Aschamus  in  Epistola 
ad  Sturmium,  Epp.  p.  50.  b.  ubi  &  vocem  quemadmodum,  propria  ipsius 


August  12.  Bagford  to  H.  (Rawl.  21.  12).  Mr.  Atkins  seems  willing  to 
undertake  Leland,  but  would  like  to  see  it.  Asks  for  a  small  abstract  of  cer- 
tain passages  in  Lambecius'  Bibliotheca  relating  to  printing.  Please  tell  Mr. 
Clarke  of  All  Souls  that  B.  has  got  a  Hall's  Chronicle  at  his  service ;  Mr. 
Wanley  some  time  since  desired  to  procure  one  for  him. 


234  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

Reginge  manu  scriptam,  memorat,  quam  nempe  literis  inclusam  Sturmio 
misit. 

Aug.  13  (Sat.).  Heggius  quidam 1  e  Collegio  Corporis  Christi  Oxon. 
vir  non  mediocris  eruditionis,  de  Ritibus  $•  Monumentis  Ecclesia  Dunel- 
mensis  libellum  composuit,  quern  in  lucem  produxit  D.  Davisius  de  Ked- 
welly.  Sed  hsec  Editio  mendis  scatet.  Exemplar,  ab  auctore  ipso 
nitidissime  scriptum,  habet,  ni  fallor,  D.  Tannerus,  qui  &  se  denuo 
editurum  olim  promisit.  Legendam  futilem  appellat  Whilus  Kennettus, 
tergiversator  ille  celeberrimus,  in  cl.  Somneri  vita ;  sed  sententiam  temere 
10  protraxisse  putant  alij.—  Dionysium  Halicarnass&um  credit  Rogerus  As- 
chamus  (Epistt.  pag.  52.  b.)  ilium  fuisse  ipsum  Dionysium,  qui  docuit  in 
sedibus  Ciceroni's,  &  cujus  frequens  mentio  est  in  epistolis  Ciceronis: 
Cicero  ejus  probat  eruditionem  plurimum,  mores  non  item. 

Aug.  14  (Sun.).  Testimonium  de  Ciceronis  Officijs  elegans  &  peram- 
plum  in  Aschami  Epistola  quadam  ad  Reginam  Elizabethajn  (inter  Epistt. 
p,  90.)  quae  hujus  libri  studio  vehementer  delectabatur.  —  Dr.  Kennett  has 
written  and  publish'd  several  small  Pieces  for  the  use  of  the  Children  of  the 
CharitySchoolSjin  one  of  wch  his  Brother  Mr.  Basil Kennett\i2&  put  a  Trans- 
lation of  Solomon's  virtuous  Woman,  very  ingeniously  and  handsomely  done. 
20  —~MT.Z)odweirs  nd.  Son  living  (but  ye  Vth  born)  named  William,  was  born 
the  10^  of  June  last  1709.  being  the  same  day  that  the  Prince  of  Wales 
was  born,  in  1688.  — I  have  been  inform'd  that  the  notes  to  the  Amster- 
dam Edition  of  Clement's  Epistle  which  have  the  Letter  B.  annex'd  are 
Dr.  Bernard's.  The  Gentleman  that  related  this  said  he  had  it  from  Le 
Clerk  himself  the  Editor.  —  Mr.  Prescot  of  Chester  was  of  Trinity  Coll.  at 
Dublin,  &  was  Pupil  to  Dr.  Acton.  —  The  Lady  Backhouse  second  wife  of 
the  present  Ld  Clarendon.  —  The  Book  call'd  Antidodwellism  is  an  English 
Translation  of  Grotius  de  ccena  done  by  Mr.  Wm.  Baxter,  who  publish'd 
Horace,  Anacreon,  &c. 

Aug.  13.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  141).  'We  do  not  exspect  any 
such  Encouragement  at  Oxford  for  publishing  Books  as  Mr.  Rymer  has  at 
London,  tho'  I  durst  venture  any  Wager  that  the  Pains  we  lay  out  in  our  Un- 
dertakings are  far  greater  than  his,  tho'  they  may  not  be  thought  so  by  such 
who  are  unadequate  Judges.  He  has  the  honour  of  the  Work,  but  the  trouble 
of  transcribing  the  several  Papers,  &  of  correcting  the  Press,  is  owing  to  others, 
unless  I  am  very  much  misinform'd ;  so  that  his  Skill  is  to  be  judg'd  of  when 
his  Critical  Supplement  comes  out.  But  I  do  not  say  this  by  way  of  lessening 
his  Character ;  for  certainly  he  deserves  well  of  the  Publick,  and  I  am  heartily 
glad  that  such  a  Work  goes  on  with  so  good  Success.'  'Tis  very  seldom  that 
H.  now  goes  into  the  Theatre  Printing- House  ;  but  he  understands  that  they 
have  just  begun  to  print  Beveridge  on  the  Articles  &  Potter's  ed.  of  Clemens 
Alexandrinus.  Has  not  near  so  great  an  opinion  of  the  learning  of  the  latter 
as  the  Party  have,  amongst  whom  there  are  not  many  competent  judges  of 
true  learning.  Dodwell  has  brought  to  Oxford  his  Dissertations  on  Theophilus 
Antioch.  and  the  Periegesis.  Has  lately  seen  two  thin  books  in  quarto,  printed 
at  Florence,  and  sent  over  into  England  by  Maggliabecchi  (to  whom  they  are 
dedicated),  to  a  learned  man  in  these  parts,  viz.  the  Hodcsporicon  of  Ambrosius 
Camaldulensis,  and  De  varia  Lectione  Adagij  Ba/i/ta  SapdiviaKov,  by  Paulus 
Nurra  Caralitanus.  Critical  remarks  on  the  latter. 


His  Book  was  the  Life  of  S*.  Cuthbert,  &  not  that  published  by  Mr.  Davies. 


Aug.  12-17.]  VOLUME  XXI,  PAGES  45-56.  235 

Aug.  15  (Mon.).  In  Bibliotheca  Bodlejana  exstat  Missale  vetustum 
Laiinum,  characteribus  Anglo-Saxonicis  partim  scriptum.  Ad  calcem 
plura  habentur  de  vita  Leofrici  Episcopi  Exoniensis.  Reliquias  item 
recenset  quas  quo  tempore  liber  fuit  exaratus  possidebat  ecclesia  Exoni- 
ensis.—'The  Statue  of  Homer  describ'd  by  Cedrenus  in  vol.  i.  p.  369. 
amongstthe  Byzantine  Historians.  —  D.  Doctor/Jar,$w«i,Diecceseos  Glouces- 
trensis  Cancellarius,  magno  labore  nee  minori  judicio,  si  fides  Guilielmo 
Nicholsono  in  Bibliotheca  Historica,  de  Ecclesia  Gloucestrensi  volumina 
bina  contexuit,  quorum  primum  inscripsit,  De  Abbatia  antiqua  $  Ecclesia 
hodierna  Cathedrali  Gloucestrensi  librum  memori\_d\lem ;  alterum  vero,  Die-  10 
cceseos  Gloucestrensis  Visitationem  Parochialem.  Opus  hoc,  Anglicano 
sermone  consignatum,  non  pauca,  memoratu  prorsus  digna,  complecten8 
incepit  absolvitque  auctor  dignissimus  hortatu  viri  pereruditi  &  integer- 
rimi  Henrici  Whartoni,  (Reverendiss.  Domino  D.  Guilielmo  Sancroff, 
Archiepiscopo  Cantuariensi  a  Sacris  Domesticis)  qui  &  multa  ex  eodem 
juris  publici  facere  instituerat,  in  quodam  Anglice  Sacra  volumine ; 
sed  fata  non  siverunt. 

Aug.  16  (Tu.).  Robert  Scott,  Stationer  in  London  in  the  time  of 
King  Charles  II.  and  a  great  Dealer  with  BP.  Fell,  Dr.  Yate  and  others 
in  relation  to  the  University  Press,  after  he  had  lived  for  several  years  in  20 
great  Reputation,  at  last  broke  ;  wch  was  occasion'd  by  the  Knavery  & 
Roguery  of  one  Mulles,  who  was  in  his  debt  10000  libs,  of  wc^  he  paid 
him  only  500.  —  Lichfeldice  natus  est  Elias  Askmole,  insignis  ille 
Antiquarius.  Hujus  Urbis  descriptionem  &  historiam  edere  designaverat ; 
in  quern  finem  chartarum  vim  ingentem  coacervavit,  quse  in  muse'o  ejus 
Oxonij  jam  conservantur,  ut  e  catalogo  nuper  impresso  constat.  Haec 
pars  Historiae  nostrae  non  parum  illustrari  potest  e  chronico  Lichfeldensi, 
cujus  exemplar  bonae  notae  in  Bibliotheca  Bodlejana  reponitur  beneficio 
viri  doctissimi  Abedn.  Selleri,  qui  moriens  legavit.  De  eo  in  Prolegomenis 
ad  Angliam  Sacram  egit  Whartonus,  qui  ob  oculos  habuit.  —  Mr.  Dodwell  3° 
of  opinion  that  the  Acts  of  Ignatius  publish'd  by  Ruinart,  and  since  by 
Dr.  Grabe  in  his  Spicilegium  Pair.  vol.  II.  and  by  Dr.  Smith,  in  his 
Excellent  Edition  of  Ignatius' s  Epistles,  are  spurious;  and  he  has 
endeavour'd  to  prove  it  in  his  Diss.  upon  Theophilus  Antiochenus,  §  19. 

Aug.  17  (Wed.).  Monumenta  Sepulchralia  in  Ecclesia  B.  Paulli 
Londini  Cathedrali  omnium  primus  edidit *  Hugo  Hollandus,  cl.  Camdeni 
discipulus,  &  poeta  non  incelebris.  Prodijt  hie  libellus  Londini  M:DC:XIV. 
Non  commemorat  Woodius  in  A  them's  Oxoniensibus,  qui  tamen  aliorum 
Hollandi  opusculorum  indicem  exhibuit.  Ceterum  tenue  hoc  pensum  si 
cum  cl.  Dugdalij  Historia  istius  Ecclesiae  conferatur.  Is  enim  incredibili  4° 
industria  monumenta  omnia  hie  exstantia  fideliter  describi  &  exsculpi 
curavit,  &  quicquid  in  Codicibus  antiquis  hue  pertinens  reperiri  potuit 
excerpsit,  &  a  primis  jactis  fundamentis  serie  continua  ad  avorum  usque 


Aug.  17.     H.  to  Thoresby.     Printed  :  Correspondence  of  Ralph  Moresby,  ii. 


1  Not  Hugh  Holland  but  Henry  Holland  publish'd  S*.  Paul's  Monum1",   &  he  is 
mentioned  by  Mr.  Wood  Ath.  Oxon.  Vol.  i.  col.  425. 


236  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

tempera  Ecclesise  hujus  magnificse  &  peramplse  historiam  deduxit.  — 
Dr.  Richard  Stanihursi  in  his  excellent  work  de  rebus  Hibernids  lib.  iv.  p. 
170.  has  given  a  character  of  Strangboe,  who  did  very  great  Service  in  the 
Conquest  of  Ireland  by  Hen.  II.  where  he  also  gives  us  an  account  of  the 
Death  of  his  Son,  as  he  receiv'd  by  Tradition,  there  being  not  the  least 
mention  of  it  in  Gyraldus  Cambrensis.  He  there  tells  us  that  this  Son  of 
Strangboe  was  a  Young  Gentleman  naturally  addicted  to  war,  of  a  Courage 
far  beyond  his  Years,  and  by  the  great  Deeds  of  his  Father  spurred  on  to 
undertake  an  Enterprise  which,  if  it  had  succeeded,  would  have  rais'd  his 

10  Fame  far  beyond  anything  that  his  Father  had  attempted.  It  seems  the 
Irish  Nobles  being  extremely  mov'd  at  the  Conquest  of  Lemster  by 
Strangboe,  combin'd  together  to  hinder  the  Progress  of  his  Arms,  &  to 
cast  off  all  obedience  to  the  English.  Accordingly  they  rais'd  an  Army ; 
wch  when  Strangboe  understood  he  was  resolv'd  to  oppose  them  with  the 
utmost  vigour.  Upon  the  Day  of  Battle  StrangboJs  Son  came  to  him,  & 
earnestly  desired  of  his  Father  that  he  would  be  pleas'd  to  permitt  him  to 
have  the  Guidance  &  Direction  of  the  Army,  pathetically  telling  him  the 
consequences  of  a  victory  &  what  Influence  it  would  have  in  raising  his 
Fortune.  The  Father  was  a  wise  and  experienc'd  General  &  had  a  fore- 

20  sight  of  the  Issue  if  such  a  trust  were  committed  to  him.  He  plainly  laid 
open  the  numbers  of  the  Enemy  &  showed  the  Disparity  between  the  two 
Armys.  The  English  troops  were  thin  &  pretty  well  worn  out ;  the  Irish 
were  very  numerous  &  divers  of  them  fresh  &  exasperated  with  the  Desire 
of  revenge.  However  the  father  consented  to  the  desire  of  his  Son,  but 
withall  told  him  that  as  he  was  the  Instrument  of  bringing  him  into  the 
world,  So  he  would  be  the  instrument  of  his  Death  if  he  miscarried  in  this 
Rash  Attempt.  The  Son  went  against  them  with  full  assurance  of 
Victory ;  but  at  the  first  onset  his  Courage  fail'd  him,  &  he  return'd  with 
great  Fear  and  Trepidity  to  his  Father,  who,  out  of  a  Religious  observ- 

30  ance  of  his  Protestation,  immediately  cut  him  in  two  with  his  sword,  & 
prosecuted  the  Battle  himself  with  new  vigour,  &  obtain'd  a  compleat 
victory.  The  whole  Story  is  commonly  reported  to  this  Day,  &  there  is 
a  monument  in  the  Church  at  Dublin  dedicated  to  ye  Holy  Trinity  in 
commemoration  of  the  Father  and  Son.  There  is  a  marble  Statue  of 
Strangboe  &  on  the  left  side  of  it  another  marble  Monument  of  the  Son, 
representing  him  holding  up  his  Bowells  with  both  his  hands  in  the 
Posture  as  'tis  suppos'd  he  was  when  he  was  thus  cut  in  sunder  by  his 
Father.  Stanyhurst  cites  this  Monument  as  a  confirmation  of  the  Tradi- 
tion ;  but  it  seems  to  me  rather  that  the  monument  was  put  up  long  after 

40  the  Fact,  purely  upon  Account  of  the  Story,  &  to  conform  with  it.  But 
it  may  be  this  is  only  surmise.  The  Monument  should  be  exactly  and 
nicely  view'd  and  a  Judgment  made  whether  it  be  agreeable  to  that  Age. 
It  seems  to  me  that  if  there  had  been  any  such  thing  Gyraldus  Cambrensis, 
who  is  extremely  particular  in  other  Affairs  of  little  moment,  would  have 
related  it,  &  I  believe  it  could  not  have  pass'd  without  an  Inscription, 
especially  if  we  consider  the  Character  Strangboe  had  rais'd  amongst  all 
sorts  of  People.  His  Funeral  was  solemniz'd  by  the  greatest  Personages, 
&  if  there  were  any  Monument  rais'd  to  his  Memory  they  would  not  in  all 
likelyhood  have  let  it  pass  without  an  Epitaph  answerable  to  his  Courage 

50  &  other  virtues.     It  seems  to  me  that  he  had  a  Monument,  &  that  it  came 


Aug.  17-18.]  VOLUME  XXI,  PAGES  56-64.  237 

to  decay  in  time,  &  that  the  Present  Monument  was  erected  in  complyance 
to  the  common  Story. 

Aug.  18  (Th.).  Whili  Kennetti  Anliqui  fates  Parochiales  laudibus  ex- 
ornat  D.  Nichohonus  Bibl.  Hist.  vol.  II.  p.  145.  Verum  alij  judicij  eum 
expertem  esse  notant,  frustraque  instrumenta  innumera  pene  congessisse, 
quae  lectorem  discruciant  magis  quam  erudiunt.  —  Lambecius  lib.  i  of 
Bibl.  Vindob.  p.  31  gives  an  Account  of  the  original  of  the  Emperor's 
Library.  He  there  tells  us  that  all  the  Emperors  from  Rudolphus  I.  to 
our  times  have  been  naturally  addicted  to  the  promoting  of  Learning,  & 
that  Maximilian  I.  was  not  only  a  great  Warrier,  but  like  Julius  C&sar  10 
writ  commentaries  of  his  own  Atchievements.  He  farther  there  notes  that 
under  his  Father  Frideric,  who  began  to  Reign  A.D.  1440.  humane  Liter- 
ature began  to  flourish  in  Germany  partly  by  the  Invention  of  Printing, 
which  he  says  happen'd  about  the  said  year  1440,  and  partly  by  the 
Restauration  of  the  Greek  tongue,  wcl1  was  chiefly  owing  to  Rudolphus 
Agricola,  (the  Disciple  of  Theodorus  Gaza)  who  after  the  taking  of  Con- 
stantinople by  Mahomet  II.  1453.  with  several  other  learned  men  travell'd 
into  Italy.  After  that  he  tells  us  that  the  above  mention'd  Maximilian  I. 
about  ye  year  1495.  took  care  to  collect  whatever  MSS.  and  printed 
Books  of  value  he  could  and  placed  them  in  a  particular  Room  ;  w°k  it  20 
seems  was  the  first  original  of  this  Excellent  Library.  In  pag.  116.  he 
mentions  ye  same  thing  of  Maximilian  Ist'8.  care  in  erecting  a  Library 
and  collecting  all  manner  of  Books  both  written  &  printed,  &  he  confutes 
Naudccus's  Error  in  attributing  this  Act  to  Friderick  II.  whereas  he 
ought  rather  to  have  given  it  to  Friderick  III.  as  commonly  call'd,  tho' 
he  be  really  Friderick  V. — And  as  for  those  few  Books  that  are  correct, 
thro'  the  Oversight  and  Diligence  of  those  that  have  the  care  of  Discipline, 
they  are  very  rarely  to  be  bought,  being  either  very  diligently  kept  and 
preserv'd  by  the  owners,  or  else  when  the  owners  dye  they  are  greedily 
taken  away  by  those  who  know  the  true  value  of  them.  Those  that  are  30 
to  be  bought  are  extravagantly  dear,  if  compar'd  with  the  Prices  of  our 
Books.  Then  he  gives  an  Account  of  some  oriental  Books  he  had 
purchas'd,  part  of  which  he  design'd  to  print.  —  Stephani  Gun/on 
Historiam  Petroburgensem  magnifice  laudant  Nichohonus  &  Kennettus.  Sed 
in  ea  judicium  require.  —  Fragmentum  quoddam  e  W$>.  Josephi  Devonij, 
Excestrensis  poemate,  quod  vulgo  Daretis  Phrygij  nomen  fert,  edidit 
prsestantissimus  Langbainius  in  notis  ad  Longinum.  Vide  pag.  169. 
Editionis  Tolliana.  In  hoc  fragmento  laudat  Baldwinum  Cantuariensem, 
cui  poe'ma  ipsum  dicavit.  In  pag.  155,  156,  157.  a  Letter  of  Pronto 
DUCCBUS,  in  which  mention  of  some  Books  design'd  to  be  pr.  at  Paris.  40 
In  pag.  185,  1 86,  187,  &c.  an  Epistle  of  Peter  de  Valle  to  Tengnagelius 
about  Oriental  MSS.  He  notes  that  Books  in  the  East  are  scarse  by 
reason  of  the  want  of  Printing;  &  such  as  they  have  are  not  very  correct 
upon  account  of  the  ignorance  &  carelessness  of  the  Scribes,  wcb  may  be 
also  attributed  to  their  over  hastiness  in  writing,  occasion'd  through 
avarice.  —  Quaere  about  an  Edition  of  Osorius  de  Nobilitate  Civili  $ 
Christiana  by  Ascham.  He  seems  to  have  prepar'd  for  the  Press  such  a 
thing,  as  also  Aristaas  &  Apollinarius  upon  the  Psalms.  Vide  Epistt.  p. 
152.  a.  154,  b.  157.  b. 


238  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

Aug.  19  (Fri.).  Petrus  Lambecius  Hamburgensis  xxxv.  annos  natus 
Bibliothecae  Vindobonensis  Volumen  jmum  edidit. 

Aug.  20  (Sat.).  Textus  Roffensis,  antiquitatis  venerandae  monu- 
mentum  optimum,  Leges  multas  complectitur  a  Lambardo  prsetermissas. 
Bello  funestissimo  civili  grassante  curse  D.  Rogeri  Twysdeni  concreditum 
fuisse  e  Dugdalij  constat  Originibus  Juridicialibus.  Chronic  on  Claustri 
Roffemis  in  Monastico  Anglicano  saspius  vocitatur.  —  Lucas  Holstenius 
Romae  sepultus.  Epitaphium  ejus  habemus  impressum  in  libro  imo 
Lambecij  Catalogi  Bibl.  Vindob.  p.  12.  Obijt  anno  setatis  Ixv. 
10  Aug  21  (Sun.).  Sententiarum  ex  Cicerone  &  Poetis  priscis  libellum 
collegit  Rogerus  Aschamus,  quern  D.  S[e]cretario  B.  obtulit.  vide  Epp.  p. 
165. 

Aug.  22  (Mon.).  In  tabella  Schol.  Anat.  Oxon.  Ante  annos  multos 
dum  agrum  Cantianum  perlustraret  D.  Robertus  Plot,  LL.D.  prope 
Sittingburne  in  urnam  hanc  vetustissimam  (jam  casu  quodam  misere  con- 
tritam  &  confractam)  forte  fortuna  incidit ;  ubi  &  alia  baud  pauca  vene- 
randae  antiquitatis  monumenta  a  colonis  eruta  fuisse  compertum  habuit. 
Carbonum  etiam  &  ossium  vim  ingentem  hie  loci  invenit,  quorum  aliquot 
hac  in  schola,  una  cum  patina,  qua  in  sacrifice's  usi  erant  antiqui,  reponi 
20  curavit.  Indejudicium  fieri  potestin  ilia  parte  Can/if  corpora  combussisse 
Romanes.  Quin  et  eodem  tempore  effossum  fuit  vasculum  lachrymale 
oblongum,  fictile,  colli  angustioris,  in  quo  lachrymas  pro  defunctis  fusas 
olim  colligebant  Romani,  casque  cum  reliquis  inferijs,  tumulis  mandabant. 
Hoc  item  habemus. 

Aug.  23  (Tu.).  E  Bibliotheca  Cottoniana  Historiam  Wintoniensem,  a 
Thoma  Rudburno  concinnatam,  in  lucem  produxit  Henricus  Whartonus, 
in  qua  &  plura  de  Episcopis  occurrunt.  Eandem  continuavit  Joannes 
Trussellus,  prout  monuit  Antonius  a  Wood.  Haec  continuatio  ut  tandem 


Aug.  20.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  135).  Expresses  a  very  high 
opinion  of  Rymer  and  his  work  :  wishes  that  he  would  now  give  to  the  world 
his  Volumen  historico-critico-curiosum  (cf.  his  Preface  to  Vol.  I  and  Three  Let- 
ters to  Bp.  Nicolson).  Hopes  that  Beveridge's  Exposition  of  the  XXXIX  Ar- 
ticles will  be  very  carefully  examined  before  printing  at  Oxford ;  he  was 
generally  looked  upon  in  London  as  a  Calvinist  on  many  points.  Hopes  to 
see  Dodwell  on  the  Hfpifjyrjo-is  and  his  ed.  of  St.  Barnabas.  What  is  the 
opinion  in  Oxford  of  the  Hodaiporicon  of  Ambrosius  Camaldulensis  ?  Would  like 
to  see  Nourra  of  Cagliari's  Description  of  Sardinia,  and  would  go,  '  as  lamish  as 
I  am,  the  whole  length  of  London,  to  find  out  another  copy  of  that  Specimen, 
you  mention  to  be  sent  to  Oxon.'  The  little  mistakes  which  he  may  discover 
in  Cluver  will  not  diminish  from  the  fame  which  the  latter  has  justly  acquired; 
cf.  also  Holstenius'  Annotations  (Rome  1660).  Has  bought  Montfaucon's  Pa- 
laeographia  Graeca  for  35^. ;  thinks  that  H.  and  two  or  three  others  could 
publish  an  equal  or  better  work  out  of  the  Bodleian  and  other  English  libraries. 
'  But  you,  it  seemes,  are  tyed  &  staked  down  to  lully :  tho'  I  hope  that  at  your 
leisure-houres  you  apply  your  mind  to  the  study  of  English  History :  of  wch  you 
have  given  so  good  a  specimen,  that  not  onely  here,  but  at  Cambridge,  you 
have  raised  a  great  expectation  of  your  after-performances  in  this  kind  of 
curious  and  usefull  learning  :  to  wch  by  your  genius  and  inclination  you  seeme 
most  addicted,  and  for  the  carrying  on  of  wch  you  are  very  equal  and  fit  in  your 
present  station.  Let  this  suggestion  of  mine  sinke  deep  into  your  memory,  and 
never  be  forgotten,  after  I  shall  bee  turned  into  mold.' 


Aug.  19-26.]  VOLUME  XXI,  PAGES  65-76.  239 

ederetur  optandum.  Utpote  quae  res  gestas  usque  ad  D.  Curli  tempora, 
deduxit.  Sed  non  temere  exspectanda,  quum  episcopi  nostri  &  magnates 
sint  fere  nullius  eruditionis,  &  (quod  maxime  dolendum)  viros  revera 
doctos  contemnant  &  derisui  habeant, 

Aug.  24  (Wed.).  In  the  year  1640.  came  out  at  London  a  Book  in 
Quarto  intitled,  The  Child's  Patrimony  laid  out  upon  the  good  nurture  or 
tilling  over  the  whole  Man.  In  two  Parts.  &c.  Written  by  that  most 
abominable  &  Prophane  Fanatick  Hezekiah  Woodward.  Which  Book 
was  publish'd  again  the  same  year  at  London  in  4to,  the  first  Part  of 
which,  containing  the  Introduction,  I  have,  but  the  Title  is  alter'd  thus,  To 
Vestibulum,  or,  A  Manuduclion  towards  a  Faire  Edifice  by  their  Hands,  who 
are  designed  to  open  the  way  thereunto.  &c.  —  Libros  tres  de  vita  Laurentij 
Medices  luculenter  scripsit  Nicolaus  Crottus. 

Aug.  25  (Th.).  In  Archivis  Cantuariensibus  inter  Codices  Guilielmi 
Lambardi  chartas  plures  ad  Ecclesiam  Wigorniensem  pertinentes  exstare 
censet  cl.  Hickesius.  De  Episcopis  Wigorniensibus  librum  scripsit 
Joannes  Rossus.  Illius  meminit  Joannes  Pitseus,  p.  683.  Citat 
etiam  D.  Plotius  in  Hist.  Nat.  Staff,  p.  407.  Sed  quonam  in  loco 
nunc  reponatur  mihi  incertum.  Historiam  item  Episcoporum  Wi- 
gorniensium  Anglice  composuit  D.  Abingdons.  De  ilia  videsis  Nichol-  20 
soni  Bibliothecam  Historicam.  Stylo  ineleganti  &  plane  rudi  con- 
cinnatam  esse  autumat,  optatque  ut  D.  Hopkinsius,  vfr  eruditus  &  in 
Antiquitatibus  patrijs  versatissimus  tandem  aliquando  expoliret  &  mendas 
aliquot,  quae  hie  illic  occurrunt  corrigeret.  Sed  eventus  non  respondit 
optatis.  Nam  paullo  post  (proh  dolor  ! )  re  intacta  obijt  Hopkinsius.  — 
Alcuini  tractatum  de  Pontificibus  &  Sanctis  Ecclesiae  Eboracensis  orbi 
erudito  primus  indicavit  cl.  Mabillonius.  Deinde  edidit  doctissimus 
Galeus,  una  cum  alijs  id  genus  monumentis.  Chronicam  Pontificum 
Eboracensium  scripsit  Thomas  Stobaeus.  Exstat  apud  decem  Scriptores. 
E  Richardo  de  Hexham  plurima  descripsit  auctor  ille.  Encomijs  tamen  30 
amplissimis  ornant  Gesnerus,  Baleus  atque  Vossius.  Praestantissimus 
Usserius  Historiam  Episcoporum  Eboracensium  anonymam  citat  in 
Antiq.  Brit.  p.  25.  Ubiexstet  non  liquet.  In  Bibliotheca  Cottoniana  aliam 
habemus,  quam  Registrum  vocat  Nicholsonus.  De  rebus  Eboracensibus 
fuse  tractat  ab  Henricp  I.  usque  ad  Edv.  I.  Binae  etiam  alias  ibi  adservan- 
tur  historiae,  quae  consuli  debent ;  ut  Matthaei  Huttoni  taceam  collectanea, 
chartasque  quas  viri  inprimis  eruditi  summo  cum  labore  congesserunt. 
Omnes  autem,  ni  fallor,  superat  Rogerus  Dodesworth,  cujus  volumina  in 
Bibliothecae  Bodlejanae  Archivis  custodiuntur. 

Aug.  26  (Fri.).  The  Government  having  thought  fit  to  receive  into  40 
the  Kingdom  a  great  many  thousands  of  poor  Palatines,  to  be  maintain'd 
here  by  Contributions,  and  to  be  settled  in  all  Parishes  in  England,  we 
may  exspect  the  Consequences  of  these  Concessions  from  a  late  Instance 
of  the  Actions  of  about  40  of  these  poor  People  at  a  place  within  2  miles 
of  Harrow  on  the  Hill  :  where  it  seems  3  or  four  honest  Englishmen 
being  got  together,  and  being  drinking  a  Pot  or  two  of  Ale,  they  happen'd 
to  see  the  said  Palatines  go  by,  and  of  course  they  made  some  Reflec- 
tions upon  the  Receiving  of  these  People  into  the  Kingdom  ;  which 
being  heard  by  one  of  the  Palatines,  he  gave  a  hint  to  his  Companions, 
&  they  all  immediately  came  into  the  Room,  beat  the  Persons  in  a  very  50 


240  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

rude  and  inhumane  manner,  and  were  about  to  have  cut  their  Throats, 
but  the  Constable  being  call'd  in  and  a  number  rais'd  they  were  over- 
power'd  in  their  Attempt ;  but  instead  of  receiving  condign  Punishment 
when  they  were  had  before  a  Justice  of  Peace  they  were  dismiss'd  with  a 
soft  Reprimand,  &  the  answer  given  for  this  Easy  Penaltie  was  that  being 
Forreigners  they  were  ignorant  of  our  English  Laws,  &  'twould  be  a  peice 
of  Barbarity  to  make  them  subject  to  it  as  yet.  —  I  hear  Mabillon's  Ist. 
Vol.  De  re  Diplomatica  is  reprinted  with  divers  Additions  left  behind  by  his 
own  Hand.  The  Publisher  is  Ruinart,  who  has  written  a  large  Preface 

,  10  in  wch  he  has  vindicated  Mabillon  from  the  Objections  made  against  him 
by  Dr.  Hickes  in  his  Thesaurus  Linguarum  Septentrionalium.  This  it 
seems  he  has  done  candidly,  as  he  had  before  us'd  Mr.  Dodwell  in  his 
Excellent  Preface  to  the  Acta  Martyrum.  —  Henrici  Chicheleij  Archie- 
piscopi  Cant,  vitam  scripsit  Arthurus  Duck.  Edidit  D.  Bateus  cum  alijs 
virorum  clarissimorum  vitis  Londini  1681.  4to.  Joannis  Mortoni  Archi- 
episcopi  itidem  Cant,  vitam  scripsit  D.  Buddenus,  Novi  Hospitij  Oxon. 
Principalis.  Prodijt  Londini  1607.  8V0.  Mortonus  vir  erat  sapientissimus, 
&  Regibus,  sub  quibus  vixit,  subditus  fidelissimus.  De  Matthaei  Parkeri 
consecratione  e  Bibliothecae  Corporis  Christi  Archivis  narrationem  eden- 

20  dam  curavit  Academia  Cantabrigiensis.  Prodijt  1688.  4*°.  una  cum  binis 
concionibus  coram  Academicis  a  Domino  Edwards  habitis.  Joannis  Whit- 
gift  vitam,  ut  fertur,  scripsit  D.  Georgius  Paul.  Nunquam  vidi.  Citat 
autem  Godwinus,  nee  sine  laude.  Vide  de  Praesulib.  p.  223.  Meminit  & 
Nicholsonus ;  sed  neque  ipse  viderat.  —  Newly  come  out  Henrici 
Norisij  S.R.E.  Cardinalis  Paraenesis  ad  V.C.  Joannem  Harduinum  S.I.P. 
Opus  postumum.  Accessit  ejusdem  Thraso,  seu  miles  Macedonicus, 
Plautino  sale  perfrictus,  opera  Annibalis  Corradini  Veronensis.  Land. 
1 709.  8°.  Occasion'd  by  a  Letter  printed  by  Harduine  against  Cardinal 
Noris's  Excellent  work  de  Annis  &  Epochis  Syro-Macedonum,  w°k  was 

30  publish'd  under  the  Name  of  Eumenius  Pacalus.  The  Cardinal  had 
prepar'd  it  before  his  Death,  and  copies  were  dispers'd  in  writing  amongst 
some  Friends,  one  of  wc^  has  now  thought  fit  to  publish  it.  Praemittitur 
Cardinalis  vita  ex  Italica  Lingua  in  Latinam  versa.  He  us'd  to  study  14 
Hours  a  day  at  Rome.  w°h  he  continu'd  for  a  great  many  years,  even  'till 
he  was  advanc'd  to  the  degree  of  Cardinal,  wch  was  in  1695.  Obijt  No- 
risius  Anno  M:DCC:IV.  anno  aetatis  Ixxiii.  Vita  ejus  edita  Romae,  inter 
illustrium  Arcadum  vitas,  anno  1708.  Part.  i.  p.  199.  a  Joann.  Mario 
Crescimbenio,  Canohico.  Atque  inde  desumpta  erant  quae  Tractatui 
docto  postumo  praefiguntur.  Per  Arcades  autem  intelligebant  Academicos, 

40  quos  sic  vocabant.  There  is  also  prefix'd  a  Letter,  translated  out  of 
Italian,  to  Franciscus  Mediobarbus  Biragus.  Here  he  shews  several  of 
Harduin's  Mistakes  particularly  in  Chronology,  &  by  it  it  appears  that  the 
Cardinal  understood  Greek,  tho'  I  have  heard  it  said  by  some  Learned 
Men  that  he  did  not. 

Aug.  27  (Sat.).    Galfridi  Plantageneti,  Henrici  11^  ex  illegitimo  coitu 
filij,  vitam  habemus  in  Bibliotheca  Cottoniana,  Auctore  Gyraldo  Cam- 


Aug.  27.     H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  142).     Stands  corrected  in  his 
opinion  of  Rymer.     '  I  cannot  see  at  present  why  any  one,  considering  the 


Aug.  26-27.]  VOLUME  XXI,  PAGES  76-84.  241 

brensi.  Richard!  Scropi  Archiepiscopi  Ebor.  Declaratio  contra  Henrici 
IV*i.  facinora  nefaria  exstat  in  Whartoni  Anglia  Sacra,  qui  &  dementis 
Maydestoni  de  Martyrio  ejusdem  narrationem  divulgavit.  Cardinalis 
Illustrissimi  Thomae  Wolsaei  vitam  scripsit  D.  Cavendish.  Non  semel 
prodijt.  Discrepantiae  haud  leves  in  quibusdam  MSS.  esse  dicuntur.  Sic 
notat  Nicholsonus  Bibl.  Hist.  Vol.  II.  p.  166.  —  Harduin  an  Affected 
Person.  In  Noris's  Paraenesis  p.  i.  Uses  bad  Language  to  him.  2.  Noris  of 
a  quite  contrary  temper.  7.  He  accuses  Noris  of  sending  a  few  Copies 
of  his  Book  to  Friends  before  the  Publication,  that  they  might  correct  the 
Errors,  &  assist  him  with  new  Materials.  This  false.  A  hundred  were  dispers'd  10 
&  publish'd  &  plac'd  in  Libraries.  8.  9.  Noris  acknowledges  always  from 
whom  he  receiv'd  assistance.  10.  Contrary  to  what  Harduine  did.  10. 
Harduin  finds  fault  with  an  Explication  of  a  Coyn,  attributed  by  Noris  to 
Nero  p.  14.  Yet  Harduin  full  of  Errors  about  it.  17.  —  Christopher 
Johnson,  M.D.  &  Master  of  Winchester  School  writ  Ranarum  &  murium 
pugna,  Latino  versu  donata  ex  Homero.  Lond.  1583.  in  abfc.  3sh.  in  4*°. 
He  was  a  most  Ingenious  Man.  See  Wood  Vol.  I.  p.  251.  —  The  univer- 
sity of  Francfurt  upon  Oder  having  printed  in  two  Volumes  in  Folio  the 
History  of  their  university,  &  a  Catalogue  of  the  Books  in  their  Library, 
comprehended  in  one  volume,  and  in  another  Distinct  volume  all  the  20 
Exercise  perform'd  at  the  Celebration  of  their  Last  Secular,  the  King  of 
Prussia  was  pleas'd  to  take  care  that  a  Copy  of  each  volume  curiously 
bound  should  be  transmitted  to  the  university  of  Oxford,  to  be  plac'd  in 
the  Bodlejan  Library,  as  a  Testimony  of  Gratitude  for  the  Honour 
the  university  of  Oxford  did  them  in  having  a  Performance  of  Exercise 


Circumstances  I  am  in,  should  exspect  any  Work  relating  to  English  History 
from  me.  Such  undertakings  ought  to  be  carried  on  by  those  who  have  plen- 
tifull  Fortunes  &  suitable  Posts.  Besides  the  late  Opposition  I  met  with  from 
Persons  of  the  blackest  Malice  has  made  me  cautious  how  I  enter  upon  new 
Experiments.  So  that  what  I  do  this  way  in  all  probability  will  be  only  for 
my  own  private  Satisfaction ;  tho'  I  cannot  but  tell  you  that  I  have  some 
Things  in  my  view  that  upon  prospect  of  a  favourable  Reception  I  might 
easily  be  induc'd  to  make  publick.  Tully  I  have  promis'd,  at  the  Desire  of  my 
Friends,  in  my  Preface  to  Livy ;  &  I  find  'tis  exspected.  For  which,  &  some 
other  reasons,  I  do  something  at  it  every  day,  but  'tis  a  Work  so  extensive  & 
of  so  troublesome  a  nature,  that  I  often  fear  I  shall  never  be  able  to  go  through 
with  it.  They  have  not  begun  as  yet  to  print  Dr.  Beverege's  Exposition  in 
good  earnest,  the  Paper  being  not  sent  by  the  Bookseller,  who  was  lately  at 
Oxford  himself  &  agreed  about  the  Letter  &  Form.  The  copy  is  now  in  the 
hands  of  one  Mr.  Hill,  a  Master  of  Arts  &  Fellow  of  Queen's  College,  who,  it 
seems,  is  to  take  care  of  the  Press ;  but  I  think  I  know  him  so  well  that  I  may 
safely  say  he  will  not  trouble  himself  about  examining  anything  in  the  Book, 
but  will  take  whatever  is  said  upon  trust.  But  I  have  been  told  it  has  been 
sifted  already.'  Criticises  Dodwell's  two  Dissertations,  which  are  too  tedious, 
though  containing  a  vast  deal  of  curious  learning.  He  argues  against  the 
genuineness  of  the  'whole  of  the  Acts  of  Ignatius.  '  'Tis  the  great  Unhappiness 
of  this  excellent  learned  Person  that  he  will  neither  be  advis'd,  nor  expunge 
any  thing  he  has  once  written.'  Threw  by  the  Hodceporicon  as  dry,  rough, 
and  little  entertaining.  On  a  slight  inspection,  accepts  S.'s  view  of  the  Palaeo- 
graphia  Graeca.  Sorry  that  the  notes  marked  '  B.'  in  Le  Clerc's  ed.  of  the 
Epistle  of  Clemens  Romanus  are  by  Dr.  Bernard.  Asks  for  farther  light  in 
this  matter. 

VOL.  II.  R 


242  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

in  the  Theatre  the  same  year  of  the  Secular  purely  for  the  sake  of  the 
university  of  Francfurt  and  to  commemorate  the  Foundation  &  Increase 
&  Flourish  of  the  same ;  which  said  two  volumes  came  into  the  Vice- 
Chancellor's  Hands,  &  from  his  to  Dr.  Charlett's,  &  so  they  were  handed 
about  from  one  to  another  (that  being  the  way  of  our  Heads  of 
Houses,  excepting  the  Excellent  Dean  of  X*.  Church  &  one  or  two  more) 
&  they  were  not  brought  into  the  Library  'till  this  Day,  when  the  Vice- 
Chanc.  was  pleas'd  to  send  them.  —  Caium  Csesarem  magnos  inter 
Decs  a  Gentilibus  Samaritanis  cultum  fuisse  asseruit  Norisius.  Contra 

10  tamen  sentit  Harduinus,  eoque  nomine  arguit  Norisium  ;  qui  sententiam 
ac  assertionem  suam  tuetur  in  Parsenesi,  p.  19.  Firmat  &  Philonis  legatipne. 
Josephum  hominem  planum  ac  fraudulentum  nuncupat  Harduinus. 
Nummum  supra  dictum  Domitiani  non  Neronis  esse  ait  Harduinus.  quern 
egregie  refutat  Norisius  pag.  42.  Neroni  etiam  assignarunt  Antiquarij 
Parisienses,  qui  nummos  Regios  in  ordinem  redegerunt.  Norisius  num- 
mum  ilium  Samaritis  apud  Sebasten  adscribendum  putavit,  qui  ab 
Harduino  ad  Caesaraeam  refertur.  Modeste  opinionem  suam  protulerat 
Norisius,  &  se  dubitare  fatebatur.  Sibilat  autem  Harduinus,  summaque 
cum  arrogantia  virum  plane  doctissimum  contemnit  convicijsque  laedit. 

ao  —  Syri  masculi  ab  anno  setatis  duodecimo  ad  Ixv.  teste  Ulpiano  tribute 
capitis  obligabantur.  p.  55.  ac  insuper,  ut  ait  Appianus  in  Syriacis  centesi- 
mas  solvebant.  Herodem  Ascalonitse  filium  illummet  esse  censet  Hardu- 
inus qui  Caesareae  diris  cruciatibus  extinctus  dicitur  Actorum  Apost.  cap. 
II.  perperam.  60.  Herodiadum  genealogia,  e  nummis  optimisque  auctori- 
bus  exhibebit  Nicolaus  Toinardus.  68. 

Aug.  28  (Sun.).  Dronius  ditissimus  veterum  nummorum  possessor, 
idemque  illorum  interpres  scientissimus.  ibid.  p.  68.  Commodus  anno 
primo  imperij  post  excessum  patris  inijt  annum  aetatis  vicesimum,  &  in 
omnibus  nummis  juvenili  facie,  &  imberbis  scalptus  visitur.  72.  A  Piece 
30  of  Pliny  de  Julia  Traducta  taken  by  Harduin  from  Noriss  without  acknow- 
ledgment, reckoning  himself  the  first  Author  of  the  Explication.  82,  83. 
These  Coyns  of  Probus  wc^  have  CONS,  on  them  Harduin  explains  by 
conservator.  Falsely.  It  should  be  CONSVL.  as  Noris  has  plainly  prov'd, 
89.  In  p.  91.  he  has  two  Coyns  of  Probus,  on  the  face  side  of  the  first  IMP. 
PROBVS  AVG  CONS,  ii.,  &  on  the  Reverse,  CONSERVAT  AVG  T.  xxi.  On  the 
other,  on  the  Face  side  IMP.  PROBVS  AVG.  CONS.  i.  and  on  the  Reverse, 
VIRTUS  AVG  xxi.  A  Coyn  of  JSmilian  p.  94.  on  the  Reverse  PMTRPI.  p.  p. 
These  Letters  T.  R.  p.  i.  signify  Tribunitia  potestate  primum,  Harduinus 


Aug.  28.  Q.  Pole  to  H.  (Rawl.  9.  14).  Directions  as  to  payment  for 
binding  of  Livy,  for  Alfred,  &c.  Please  explain  the  contradiction  that  Pearce, 
so  famous  for  all  sorts  of  learning,  continues  Principal,  and  yet  does  not  fill  the 
hall  with  wranglers  and  philosophers.  '  I  am  glad  to  hear  that  good  eating  &c. 
mends  in  Oxon  but  as  to  Dr.  Sacheverel's  Principles,  if  the  Venison  has  made 
no  greater  Alteration  in  your  Heads  of  Houses,  than  a  place  has  in  him  the 
Duchess  will  have  no  reason  to  think  it  well  bestow'd  :  the  Dr,  being  related 
to  our  Sheriff,  who  is  of  ye  same  name,  preached  the  Assize  Sermon  at  Derby, 
but  by  that,  no  Man  has  any  reason  to  think  that  he  is  turn'd ;  it  is  to  be 
printed  at  the  Request  of  the  Grand  Jury.  I  have  read  your  Poem  call'd 
Hoglandiae  Descriftio,  but  can  find  nothing  in  it  except  that  the  Author  would 
perswade  us  that  Hampshire  Bacon  is  as  good  as  Welsh  Cheese.' 


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inquit  in  nummis  CONS,  semper  esse  CONSERVATOR,  ridicule,  ut  constat  e 
Norisio  p.  95.  —  Hence  if  my  Discourse  upon  the  Bath  Inscription  be 
reprinted  I  may  take  occasion  to  mention  the  TVs  being  left  out  in  Coyns 
or  kept  in  pro  arbitrio ;  &  perhaps  sometimes  a  Mark  might  be  put  over. 
—  Harduin  ignorant  in  the  Roman  Fasti  p.  97.  He  accuses  Noris  of 
having  stolen  most  of  his  things  from  himself,  by  wch  it  seems  he  had  not 
so  much  as  read  the  Cardinal's  Books,  p.  102.  or  else  that  he  was  resolv'd 
to  impose  upon  his  Readers.  The  Epocha  of  the  Antiochians  began  A.V. 
Romae  705.  not  707.  as  Harduin  will  have  it.  103.  Harduin  finds  fault 
with  Noris's  Grammar,  wch  however  is  retorted  upon  himself,  and  whereas  10 
he  says  Noris  should  have  writ  suboluit  for  subolevit,  he  shews  from  Pris- 
cian  that  'tis  both  ways.  And  confirms  it  from  good  Authorities.  — 
About  a  week  since  came  to  Oxford,  and  put  up  at  the  Grey-Hound,  six 
of  the  pretended  Prophets,  call'd  Camisars,  namely  2  men  3  women  and 
a  Girl.  One  of  the  men  was  about  50  years  of  Age,  &  the  other,  whose 
name  is  Thomas  Lardner,  about  30.  They  continu'd  3  or  four  days  in 
Town  without  any  Discovery ;  but  at  last  the  women  had  Agitations,  & 
abundance  of  People  went  to  see  them.  The  two  men  were  Scribes  only, 
and  writ  down  the  words  spoken  by  the  women,  and  would  read  the 
several  Sentences  to  those  that  visited  them.  News  being  brought  to  the  ao 
Vice-Chancellor  of  these  Transactions  between  three  and  four  a  Clock 
yesterday  in  the  Afternoon  he  went  to  the  Grey-Hound,  where  he  found 
vast  crouds  of  People,  scholars  as  well  as  others,  whom  he  dismiss'd 
immediately,  and  order'd  these  deluded  wretches  to  go  quickly  out  of 
Town,  under  Penalty  of  being  sent  to  Bridewell  which  they  promis'd  to 
do  upon  Monday  following.  The  women  were  all  young,  &  the  Girl  not 
above  13  or  14  Years  old.  The  said  Mr.  Lardner  was  formerly  a  Cam- 
bridge Scholar,  whence  he  was  expell'd  for  Lewdness  and  Debauchery. 
About  2  years  since,  as  he  also  acknowledg'd  now  himself,  he  was  in 
Oxford,  &  was  a  great  companion  of  one  Mr.  Parsons's  of  Magd.  College,  30 
a  young  Gentleman  of  a  loose  Life,  and  little  Sense,  who  is  since  taken 
from  the  university  upon  Account  of  his  Extravagances.  As  for  Lardner 
himself  he  is  a  man  of  Parts,  and  has  got  a  ready  knack  of  Defending  the 
whims  &  Tricks  and  Fancies  of  these  Poor  deluded  People.  The  Girl 
has  no  Agitations,  &  is  seemingly  modest.  She  is  however  lead  by  them 
to  yield  to  their  Immodest  Actions,  &  having  some  Beauty  she  is  a  proper 
Instrument  to  gain  upon  their  Affections,  w°b  she  has  particularly  done 
upon  one  Gordon,  a  scotch  Man  and  one  of  the  Sect.  Her  name  is  Ann 
Topham,  and  she  has  receiv'd  a  great  Sum  of  money  (as  the  rest  have) 
from  Sir  Richard  Bulkeley,  to  carry  on  this  cheat,  not  to  mention  other  40 
sums  continually  disburs'd  by  others  upon  the  same  Account.  But  their 
Tricks  will  more  manifestly  appear  from  several  Books  lately  printed  in 
order  to  lay  open  their  Snares  and  Wickedness  and  Immorality,  and 
amongst  the  rest  ought  to  be  consulted  a  Paper  just  printed  at  Oxford  in 
half  a  Sheet,  call'd  News  from  the  Prophets,  in  three  Letters :  or,  A  Dis- 
covery, They  could  not  foresee.  From  the  originals  now  in  the  Bodleyan 
Library.  Wch  Paper  was  printed  by  Leon.  Lichfield  late  last  night.  The 
Letters  were  procur'd  and  communicated  by  Mr.  Thwaites,  Fellow  of 
Queen's  College,  &  Greek  Professor  in  this  University.  It  seems  he  got 
them  yesterday  whilst  he  was  present  at  the  Grey-Hound,  and  he  was  50 

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244  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1700: 

willing  to  do  this  piece  of  service  to  the  Christian  Religion  &  the  Publick 
as  to  have  them  printed,  that  by  these  Letters  People  may  see  what  little 
Pretenses  to  the  Spirit  of  God  these  Persons  have,  whilst  they  speak 
nothing  but  Blasphemies  and  manifestly  declare  that  what  they  do  is 
nothing  else  but  a  sly  method  to  carry  on  Debauchery  and  Loosness. 
As  for  Facio  who  is  the  Author  of  the  first  Letter,  he  is  one  of  the 
principal  Persons  engag'd  in  this  undertaking.  He  is  a  Man  of  strong 
natural  Parts,  is  a  most  excellent  Mathematician,  &  has  no  mean  Skill  in 
several  other  Parts  of  Learning ;  but  it  has  been  always  observ'd  of  him 

10  that  he  is  a  sceptick  in  Religion,  a  Person  of  no  virtue,  but  a  meer 
Debauchee.  He  was  formerly  a  Director  to  y6  Duke  of  Bedford,  whilst 
he  was  of  Magd.  Coll.  in  Oxford,  who,  by  his  Means,  imbib'd  odd 
Principles,  grew  a  great  Gamester  and  Spend-Thrift ;  but  since  Facio  left 
him,  &  since  he  is  grown  to  Maturity,  he  has  laid  aside  this  way  of  Living, 
&  is  become  a  prudent  and  sober  Gentleman.  During  the  time  Facio 
was  with  him,  he  got  by  his  Insinuation  and  cunning  a  vast  sum  of  Money 
from  the  Duke,  &  made  all  the  Provisions  possible  for  his  future  Advan- 
tage. Sir  Richard  Bulkely  was  once  look'd  upon  as  a  sober,  grave  and 
Religious  Gentleman.  He  had  a  design  of  building  a  College  in  Ireland, 

20  and  he  often  writ  to  Dr.  Mill  upon  that  score,  the  Dr.  being  the  Man  it  seems 
who  was  to  be  imploy'd  in  framing  Statutes  for  the  Government  of  it. 
This  the  Dr.  himself  told  me  more  than  once,  and  read  to  me  some  of 
Sir  Richard's  Letters,  wch  I  remember  were  honest  Letters,  and  by  their 
Drift  appear'd  to  tend  to  a  good  End.  But  since  that  time  he  is  grown 
an  Enthusiast,  &  one  of  the  chief  Promoters  of  these  miserably  de- 
luded People,  and  to  shew  his  zeal  the  more  publickly  has  writ  a  vindica- 
tion of  them.  —  Harduin  tells  Noris  he  does  not  understand  Greek,  and 
therefore  impossible  for  him  to  consult  Eustathius  upon  Dionysius's 
Periegesis.  Noris  defends  himself  against  this  Reproach  pag.  122.  of  his 

30  Parsenesis.  Harduin's  Immodesty  &  Abuse  of  Learned  Men  complain'd 
of  in  the  Leipsick  Acts  for  1690.  p.  438.  Harduin  stole  from  others, 
particularly  from  Valesius's  notes  upon  Eusebius.  132.  Yet  in  his  Pre- 
face to  Pliny  he  professes  a  detestation  of  such  Practises.  135.  See  also 
another  Instance  of  Theft  p.  136.  &  140.  Notarum  in  Plinium  magnam 
partem  surripuisse  videtur  Harduinus,  ex  codice  nempe  quodam  a  doctis- 
simo  Episcopo  Monspelliensi  illustrate,  ac  ab  eodem  Bibliothecse  Claro- 
montanae  legato;  qui  Codex  nunc  ibi  desideratur,  ab  ipso  Harduino,  ne 
detegerentur  fraudes,  clam  subductus,  id  quod  suspicantur  eruditi.  151. — 
Harduin  took  a  great  deal  from  Cuperus,  see  pag.  158.  &  from  Salmasius. 

40  158.  without  Acknowledgment.  He  took  also  from  Baron  Spanheim, 
without  confession.  Nay  he  has  follow'd  him  in  the  typographical 
Faults.  For  whereas  the  Printers  had  printed  S.  Hieronymus  in  vita 
Hilarij  for  Hilarionis,  Harduin  has  quoted  it  so  too.  He  upbraids  Toinard 
for  being  so  tedious  in  publishing  his  Historia  Herodiadum.  This  owing 
to  his  Deliberation.  168. 

Aug.  29  (Mon.).      D.  Joannes  Buddenus  de   Guilielmi  Pateni,   cui 
Waynfleti  Agnomen  fuit,  vita  obituque    librum  composuit,   stylo  plane 


Aug.  29.    P.  Gordon  to  H.  (Rawl.  6.  no).     Hoped  that  H.  would  next 
have  publish'd  Frenshemius's  Supplement  to  Livy.     Suggests  that  in  his  Cicero 


Aug.  28-30.]  VOLUME  XXI,  PAGES  92-100.  245 

eleganti.  Laudat  Godwinus ;  licet  earn  nunquam  inspexisse  videatur. 
utpote  qui  auctorem  Guilielmum  Buddenum  vocet,  quum  tamen  satis 
liquet  nomen  fuisse  Joannem.  Joannis  Fischeri  Episcopi  Roffensis  vitam 
scripsit  Richardus  Hall  S.  T.  P.  Exstat  impressa,  ut  opinor.  Ejusd. 
Episcopi  vitse  a  Georgio  Lillio  scriptae  mentionem  fecit  Henricus  Whar- 
tonus.  Quid  autem  sibi  velit  me  sane  fugit.  Nihil  aliud  fortean  [sic]  est 
praeter  encomium  illud  quod  in  Lillij  virorum  illustrium  elogijs  habetur. 
—  The  Pretended  Prophets  went  out  from  Oxford  this  Morning  at  five 
a  Clock.  The  names  of  the  four  Females  are  Betty  Hughs,  Mary 
Turner,  Ann  Topham  and  Anna  Maria  King.  They  went  up  Shottover  I0 
Hill,  &  as  they  went  out  of  Town  they  happen'd  to  differ.  The  youngest 
seem'd  very  much  displeas'd,  &  said  that  she  would  never  have  submitted 
to  their  Allurements  if  she  had  thought  they  would  have  serv'd  her  in  such 
a  manner,  &  that  she  knew  enough  of  every  one  of  them  as  would  hang 
them  if  she  should  discover.  —  In  the  Thraso  seu  Miles  Macedonicus, 
pr.  with  the  Parsenesis,  Noris  calls  himself  Annibal  Corradinus 
Veronensis.  Rarissimum  numisma  Honorise  Valentiniani  Illtti  sororis. 
182. 

Aug.  30  (Tu.).  Harduin  asserts  that  the  Books  wch  go  under  the 
Names  of  Cardinal  Noris,  and  Francis  Sparaverius,  were  really  written  by  20 
Octavius  Ferrarius.  See  in  the  Thraso  p.  1 85.  where  confuted. — Maliciously 
asserts  that  the  Cardinal's  way  of  studying  was  to  read  Indexes.  188. 
Pelagius  mention'd  in  Augustin's  Epistles  a  Monk,  and  call'd  by 
Pope  Zosimus  a  Laick,  as  all  those  were  call'd,  even  Monks  themselves, 
that  were  not  clerici.  190.  Harduin  asserts  that  no  Laic  us'd  to  be  styl'd 
frater,  &  yet  the  said  Pelagius,  who  was  a  Laic,  is  so  styl'd  by  S*.  Augus- 
tin.  And  the  Cardinal  has  given  other  Instances.  All  Monks,  whether 
in  orders  or  not,  styl'd  Fratres.  190,  191.  Accuses  him  of  studying 
Indices  again.  See  p.  192.  The  Cardinal  shews  himself  skill'd  in 
Grammar  in  an  Instance  that  Harduin  had  accus'd  him  of  as  being  false  30 
Grammar.  'Tis  about  the  word  Jubeo  which  from  the  best  Grammarians 
&  from  Plautus  the  Cardinal  has  shewn  is  elegantly  joyn'd  with  an  accusa- 
tive Case,  when  the  conjunctive  Mode  follows.  Thus  Plautus's  Mensech. 
Act.  5.  5.  51.  Tu  servos  jube  hunc  ad  me  ferant.  And  in  Sticho.  Act. 
2.  2.  $\.  Jubefamulos  rem  divinam  mihi apparent.  —  Guilielmi  de  Wick- 
ham  vitam  plures  scripserunt  auctores,  e  quibus  primus  fuit,  ut  videtur, 
Thomas  Chaundlerus,  Collegij  Novi  Gustos  sive  Guardianus.  Illud 
prasstitit  Dialogi  forma,  stylo  eleganti  &  acuto.  Earn  demum  in  epitomen 


H.  should  leave  out  a  great  many  various  readings,  and  give  none  but  what  are 
material  *.  '  But  I  know  that  yo1  Oxford  Friends  &  yorself  know  much  better 
what's  fit  to  be  don  in  these  cases  than  a  poor  Countrey-Parson.'  What  has 
become  of  Dr.  Grabe's  Vol.  II  ?  Sorry  for  H.'s  late  disappointment ;  censures 
the  V.C.'s  partiality.  [*  Hearne  notes  :  '  This  is  only  a  general  objection,  & 
what  I  have  heard  offer'd  against  all  Books  with  Emendations  &  various  Lec- 
tions. I  was  aware  of  it  when  I  began  Livy.  Here  is  not  an  Instance  brought 
out  of  any  one  of  my  observations  to  shew  they  are  useless.  You  should  have 
reterr'd  to  some  Place.  I  consider'd  every  Passage  particularly,  &  they  all 
appear'd  manifestly  to  me  to  have  some  use.  The  Design  of  Readers  is  va- 
rious, some  for  History,  others  for  Grammar,  &c.  Vossius  has  collected  a  great 
Part  ot  his  Ars  Grammatica  from  the  most  minute  Lections.'] 


246  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

redegit  quispiam.  Ab  auctore  ipso  id  factum  putant  nonnulli,  ut  apud 
Whartonum  videre  est,  ubi  exstat.  (vide  Angl.  Sac.  Vol.  II.  p.  355.)  Ibi 
etiam  habemus  libri  alterius  fragmentum,  unde  de  toto  judicari  potest. 
In  quo  qusedam  de  Tho.  Bekintono,  Bathoniensi  &  Wellensi  Episcopo, 
atque  auctoris  patrono.  Bekintoni  in  legib.  civilibus  peritiam  laudat, 
sed  de  ejusdem  contra  legem  Salicam  scripto  (id  quod  Henrico  VI*°  sum- 
mopere  placuit)  nihil  dixit.  Proximus  accedit  Dominus  Doctor  Martyn 
Cancellarius  Wintoniensis.  Multa  e  Chaundlero  descripsit.  Illud  tamen 
non  agnoscit.  Deinde  Doctor  Johnsonus,  Novi  Coll.  aliquando  socius, 

10  &  Scholse  Wintoniensis  moderator,  carmine  Latino  de  Wickhamo  scripsit. 
Ssepius  prodijt  una  cum  alijs  tractatibus.  Vide  Athen.  Oxon.  Vol.  I.  p.  251. 
Quicquid  de  Illustrissimo  &celeberrimohocviro  protulit  Godwinus  a  Josseli- 
no  accepit,  sed  celato  Josselini  nomine.  Quamobrem  nostrorum  sermoni- 
bus  nonnunquam  vapulare  memini.  Johnsoni  carmen  praefatum  ad  calcem 
Richardi  Welleij  (seu  potius  Willis)  Londini  1573.  impressum  fuisse 
innuit  Woodius.  quod  procul  dubio  verum.  Sed  in  exemplari  Bibliothecse 
Bodlejanae  a  me  inspecto  desideratur,  nee  ad  manus  meas  adhuc  per- 
venit. 

Aug.  31  (Wed.).     D.  Whittynghami,  quondam  ecclesiae  Dunelmensis 

20  Decani,  &  unius  de  illis  qui  Davidis  Psalmos  in  linguam  Anglicanam  ver- 
terunt,  vitam  scripsit  Anonymus  quidam.  Hanc  olim  penes  se  habuisse 
testatur  Antonius  a  Wood,  Hist.  &  Antiq.  Oxon.  lib.  II.  p.  34.  Consulas 
etiam  velim  Nicholsoni  Bibl.  Hist.  p.  175.  vol.  II.  Nunc  in  museo 
Ashmoleano,  ni  fallor,  conservatur.  Bernardi  Gilpini  Rectoris  de  Hough- 
ton  vitam  perpolite  scripsit  D.  Georgius  Carletonus,  Episcopus  Cices- 
triensis,  &  Gilpini  aliquando  discipulus.  Prodijt  Londini  1628.  4*°. 
Et  deinde  inter  Batesij  Collectanea.  —  About  the  fourth  Century  names 
of  women  ended  with  the  Terminations  of  men  oftentimes,  as  appears 
from  Ecclesiastical  Writings.  So  Melania  is  sometimes  call'd  Melanius, 

30  &  Albina  Albinus.  See  Thraso  Maced.  of  Cardinal  Noris,  p.  225.  where 
this  opinion  is  confuted.  Yet  Harduin  of  it.  ibid.  —  Above  a  week 
since  died  Dr.  Francis  Carswell,  Vicar  of  Bray,  in  Berks,  and  Rector  of 
Romnham  \sic\  in  Oxfordshire.  This  Dr.  was  an  old  curmudgeon,  of  an 
unsettled  Head,  a  great  Pretender  to  Learning,  and  by  his  way  of  Living 
scrap'd  up  a  great  Deal  of  Money.  He  had  two  Daughters,  the  Elder  of 
wch  was  married  three  or  four  years  since  to  Mr.  Winder's  Eldest  son  of 
Bullocks  Hatch  near  Windsor.  The  Doctor  was  remarkable  for  keeping 
up  to  the  only  Proverb  of  the  County  of  Berks  that  the  vicar  of  Bray  will 
be  vicar  of  Bray  still,  for  which  he  is  particularly  noted  by  honest  Tom 

40  Brown  in  His  Preface  to  his  Dialogue  between  David  Jones,  Mr.  Hickering- 
hill  and  William  Prynn's  Ghost.  He  was  reported  to  have  a  very  good 
study  of  Books,  but  I  believe  'twill  fail  very  much  of  the  Character.  He 
has  two  Sermons  in  print,  preach'd  at  Assizes,  wct  sermons  contradict 
one  another.  A  little  before  died  Dr.  Cawley  Rector  of  Henly  in  Oxford- 
shire, wcl1  Dr.  Cawley  was  always  look'd  upon  to  be  an  ingenious  Man, 
but  of  a  temper  inclined  to  Law  Suits,  wch  run  him  into  Debt  and  brought 
very  considerable  Troubles  upon  him.  He  has  a  small  Discourse  in 
print  of  about  five  sheets  in  Quarto,  being  a  Case  concerning  his  letting 
out  his  Archdeaconry  of  Lincoln  for  a  certain  sum  of  money  per  annum 

50  to  a  Surrogate,  wc&  is  well  enough  written,  tho'  it  cost  him  a  large  sum  of 


Aug.30-Sept.2.]      VOLUME  XX f,  PAGES  100-1 11.  247 

Money  and  much  more  Afflictions  in  the  carrying  it  on,  it  continuing 
under  suspense  for  several  Years.  The  Rectory  of  Henly  is  in  the  BP. 
of  Rochester's  Gift,  and  the  BP.  has  conferr'd  it  on  Mr.  Charles  Aldrich 
M.A.  and  student  of  Christ  Church,  nephew  to  that  Great  and  Good  Man, 
Dr.  Henry  Aldrich  Dean  of  that  Church.  This  Mr.  Charles  Aldrich  is  a 
Gentleman  truly  deserving  of  preferment  as  being  endued  with  modesty, 
Parts  and  Scholarship.  He  has  done  eminent  service  to  the  Republick 
of  Letters  by  putting  out  Homer's  Odysses,  two  or  three  Pieces  of 
Grotius,  Epictetus,  and  a  neat  Edition  of  Ignatius's  Epistles  done  from 
the  MS*  in  Greek  at  Florence.  wcl1  Edition  however  of  Ignatius  does  not  10 
interfere  with  the  beautifull  and  accurate  Edition  of  the  same  Apostolical 
Author  put  out  the  same  time  by  the  truly  learned  and  conscientious  and 
Religious  Dr.  Thomas  Smith,  formerly  Fellow  of  Magdalen  College  and 
now  a  non-juror,  which  he  has  adorn'd  with  ye  Postumous  Notes  of  BP. 
Pearson  as  well  as  with  divers  critical  and  very  Learned  Notes  of  his  own ; 
which  render  it  an  immortal  work. 

Sept.  1  (Th.).  Litteras  a  Christo  ad  Agbarum  &  vice-versa  ab  Agbaro 
ad  Christum  in  Archivis  Edessenis  revera  compertas  fuisse  censet  cl. 
Simonius,  Critic.  Hist.  p.  120.  Genuinas  esse  putat  Grabius  in  vol.  I. 
Spic.  Patrum,  ubi  &  objectiones  a  viris  doctissimis  adductas  refutavit.  Cl.  20 
Whelocus  schedulam  antiquam,  monasteriorum  nostrorum  dotationes  ante 
Conquestoris  in  Angliam  ingressum  complectentem,  citat.  Eodem  volumine 
compactam  quo  &  ^Elfredi  versionem  Bedae  Ecclesiastics  Historiae  para- 
phrasticam  se  invenisse  ait ;  de  ea  tamen  ne  gru  in  Bibliothecae  Cottonianae 
Catalogo  ab  eruditissimo  Smitho  edito.  Excidit  forsan  nebulo  quispiam. 
Fertur  item  alicubi  exstare  narrationem  historicam  vetustam  Monachorum 
ordinis  Benedictini  catalogum  ab  Edgaro  usque  ad  Gul.  Conquestorem 
exhibentem.  —  The  BP.  of  Oxford  has  given  the  vicaridge  of  Bray  to 
one  Mr.  Brown  formerly  M.A.  of  S*.  Mary  Hall,  &  at  present  vicar  of 
Shiplake  near  Henly  :  wct  Mr.  Brown  was  once  Curate  to  Dr.  Carswell.  30 
He  is  a  person  of  no  note  for  Merit,  but  'tis  likely  he  is  of  the  true  Stamp 
for  Principles.  'Tis  given  out  that  the  vicaridge  of  Bray  is  not  worth 
above  3  score  libs  per  annum;  but  this  is  only  to  palliate  their  Error  in  prefer- 
ring worthless  Persons,  it  being  very  certain  amongst  those  that  know  that 
large  Parish  that  'tis  worth  above  twice  that  value.  —  C.  Sempronij  liber 
de  Divisi[o]ne  Italiae,  qui  exstat,  figmentum  merum.  Voss.  de  Hist.  Lat. 
p.  35. — Sextus  Gellius  de  Origine  Gentis  Romanae,  a  Schotto  editus,  con- 
sulendus. — Cellarius  novam  Editionem  Velleij  Paterculi  publico  dedit,  de 
qua  in  Actis  Lipsien.  Emendationes  exhibuit  non  paucas,  ab  alijs 
omissas,  Dodwellique  praefixit  vitae  Vellejanae  Synopsin. — Potestur  apud  40 
Ennium  pro  potest.  Poleratur  etiam  olim  pro  poterat.  Voss.  Hist.  Lat.  p. 
38.  Statilius  Rufus  in  codicibus  antiquis  pro  Rutilius  Rufus.  ib.  39. 

Sept.  2  (Pri.).  Henricus  Crump,  anno  circiter  1380.  ordinis  Cister- 
ciensis  Monachus,  &  in  Academia  Oxon.  S.  T.  P.  de  Fundatione  Monas- 
teriorum in  Anglia  cunctorum,  a  Birino  nempe,  primo  Dorcestriae 
episcopo,  usque  ad  Grostestum,  Lincolniae  episcopum,  continua  serie 

Sept.  1.  Bagford  to  H.  (Rawl.  21.  13).  Thanks  for  account  out  of 
Lambecius.  Mr.  Atkins  is  removing  into  a  new  house,  and  therefore  not  at 
leisure,  though  willing  to  undertake  Leland. 


248  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

Historiam  scripsit;  opus  longe  desideratissimum,  sed  quod  ne  penitus 
deperdatur  valde  metuunt  eruditi.  Videsis  Hist.  &  Antiq.  Oxon.  lib.  I.  ad 
an.  1381.  &  1391.  &  lib.  II.  p.  61.  Nicholsoni  Bibl.  Hist.  Vol.  II.  p.  181. 
Tanneri  praefat.  ad  Notitiam  Monasticam,  pag.  8,  9.  Guilielmus  Buttoner 
(quern  alij  Buttonium,  alij  Guilielmum  de  Wigornia  vocant)  de 
Civitatibus,  Monasterijs,  Abbatijs,  deque  Longitudine  &  Latitudine  eorum 
conscripsit.  Hunc  tractatum,  quern  Antiquarijs  nostris  magno  usui  fore 
auguror,  in  Bibliotheca  Collegij  Corporis  Christi  Cantabrigise  delitescere 
ajunt ;  verum  hoc  in  opere  aliorum  non  pauca  assumenta  esse  asserunt 
10  nonnulli ;  sed  num  fides  illis  sit  adhibenda  me  plane  latet. 

Sept.  3  (Sat.).  In  one  of  these  volumes  I  have  put  down  Langius's 
Philologia  Graeca,  and  noted  that  at  the  End  of  it  is  Homer's  Batrachomy- 
omachia,  wch  I  thought  might  have  been  of  some  use  to  Mr.  Barnes  in  his 
new  Edition  of  Homer,  now  very  forward  in  the  Press  at  Cambridge.  I 
have  since  look'd  into  this  Book,  &  find  that  the  Batrachom.  is  printed 
here  in  the  modern  Greek,  and  the  old  Greek  omitted,  &  that  the  Author 
has  made  no  Emendations.  The  intire  Book  it  self  is  trite,  and  seems  to 
have  very  few  if  any  usefull  observations.  —  Mr.  Thwaites  tells  me  he  is  of 
opinion  that  inverse  160.  of  Dionysius's  Periegesis  for  «r6r  is  to  be  read 

20  fvros.  But  as  this  is  contrary  to  the  MSS.  so  is  against  all  the  Editions, 
and  Mapps,  and  the  Scope  of  the  Author,  as  it  seems  to  me.  &  is  no  better 
than  his  Conjectures  upon  some  Places  of  Livy,  towards  the  Beginning, 
•yvch  he  enter' d  in  the  Margin  of  the  Oxford  Edition.  These  I  saw  before 
that  Edition  came  out,  &  I  consider'd  them,  and  found  that  none  of  them 
were  to  be  approv'd  of,  he  taking  too  great  a  Liberty,  and  indulging  too 
much  to  his  Fancy ;  but  what  is  worst  of  all  he  has  struck  in  some  Places 
several  Lines  together  out  of  this  Excellent  Historian,  as  being,  in  his 
opinion,  nothing  but  Interpolations.  W°h  method  of  correcting  an  author 
is  bold,  and  daring,  and  ridiculous.  Yet  his  Frend  Stevens  the  Scotch- 

30  man  likes  it,  &  is  well  pleas'd  when  he  advances  any  thing  of  this 
Nature  :  but  this  is  no  wonder  since  both  these  Gentlemen  are  much  of 


Sept.  3.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  136).  '  You  having  some  while 
since  purchased  Dr.  Hickes's  Thesaurus,  you  may  in  a  yeare  or  two's  time  with- 
out any  great  fatigue  or  difficulty,  make  yourselfe  Master  of  the  Saxon  lan- 
guage, wch  wil  bee  highly  necessary  to  the  attaining  a  perfect  knowledge  of 
our  English  History,  wch  may  perchance  turne  more  to  account  hereafter,  than 
the  publishing  of  Classic  Authors,  wch  have  been  done  so  wel  already.  ...  I 
have  received  a  full  account  from  the  Bookseller  about  his  publishing  Dr. 
Beverege's  Exposition  on  our  Church  Articles  at  Oxon.  Hee  tells  mee,  that  hee 
onely  designes  to  print  the  first  Article  for  a  Specimen,  &  there  stop :  for  the 
case  in  short  lyes  thus.  This  cunning  man  bought  of  Dr.  B.'s  executor  all  his 
MS.  papers,  as  Sermons  <&°  Discourses,  with  the  Exposition  among  them,  for  wch 
hee  gave  about  sixscore  pounds  :  of  wch  easy  bargaine  hee  has  found  a  mighty 
advantage  already,  &  will  bee  continually  adding  to  it :  hee  having  sold  several 
thousands  of  copyes.  And  I  doubt  not,  but  that  hee  would  get  vastly  by  the 
Exposition,  if  his  copy  were  entire.  But  Dr.  Stanly,  Nephew  to  the  Author, 
retaines  by  him  the  Exposition  of  nine  of  the  Articles,  wcb  at  present  at  least  hee 
wil  by  no  meanes,  or  upon  any  consideration,  part  with  :  pretending,  that  his 
uncle  wrote  them  for  his  own  private  use,  without  designing  them  for  the 
presse.  But  I  think,  that  pretense  ought  not  to  bee  alleged  or  allowed.  But 
let  them  fight  it  out  at  law  :  for  there  it  must  be  determined.'  Remarks  on 


Sept.  2-4.]  VOL  UME  XXI,  PA  GES  111-119.  249 

the  same  Temper.  This  Mr.  Thwaites  was  one  of  the  Fellows  of  Queen's 
College  that  were  violent  against  Mr.  Thompson  when  he  appear'd  for 
Provost  of  Queen's  against  Dr.  Lancaster,  &  was,  as  he  is  now,  very 
positive  that  the  words  e  socijs  in  the  Statute  were  to  be  understood  not 
only  of  actual  Fellows,  but  of  both  Actual  Fellows  and  such  as  had  been 
Fellows;  wct  is  as  ridiculous  as  to  interpret  Tully's  words  in  Epp. 
Famil.  1.  III.  Ep.  I.  ex  meis  domesticis,  atque  intimis  familiar  thus,  not  of 
those  that  were  then,  but  such  as  had  been  formerly  of  his  familiar  Friends 
and  acquaintance,  not  to  mention  other  Instances.  —  Consult  the  MSS. 
about  Tully  de  Senectute  §.52.  Ed.  Gronov.  and  see  whether  it  be  not  in  10 
all  the  Copys  acino  vinaceo.  It  should  be  read  acini  vinaceo  in  the 
opinion  of  Ludolfus,  mention'd  by  Faber  in  his  Dicti[o]nary  voc.  vinacea. 
Sed  valde  dubito.  Ex  acino  vinaceo  habent  omnes  codices  quibus  usus  est 
Lamb.  Sic  &  Bodlej.  MSS.  acino  vinacei  tamen  edidit  Lambinus.  Vinaceo 
etiam  in  Roberti  Stephani  libris,  vinaceusque  inter  adjectiva  posuit.  Sed 
nullum  exemplum  ex  alijs  auctoribus  adduxit.  Acinus  vinaceus  item  in 
Nizolio.  Non  meminit  Paraeus,  alias  diligentissimus.  —  Si  forsan  aliquis 
tertium  edendi  volumen  Monastici  Anglicani  laborem  in  se  susceperit,  non 
pauca  subsidia  praebebit  Tanneri  Notitia  Monastica ;  in  qua  messem  satis 
amplam  codicum,  chartarumque  indicavit,  de  quibus  nihil  commemora-  30 
turn  in  voluminibus  quae  prodierunt  habemus.  Sed  nee  omnes  exhibuit 
Tannerus,  utpote  cujus  opusculum  antequam  evulgaretur  Bibliothecae 
Cottonianae  Catalogus  juris  publici  factum  fuerit.  Exinde  libros  aliquot 
notavit  Nicholsonus,  quorum  ope  augeri  potest  Tanneri  notitia,  qui  &  ipse 
plurima  adjecit,  ut  nuper  mihi  retulit  amicus  quidam  integerrimus.  Adeo  ut 
Editionem  novam  jure  merito  exspectemus,  quum  exemplaria  pleraque  sint 
divendita.raroque  in  Bibliopolijscompareant.  —  Fastoscapitolinos,  quorum 
fragmenta  saepius  edita  habemus,  non  ab  ipso  Verrio  Flacco  sed  ab 
aliquo  recentiore  conscriptos  fuisse  censet  Pighius.  T.  Pomponium  Atticum 
auctorem  volunt~esse  nonnulli.  Dissentiunt  tamen  Vossius  alijque.  Auc-  30 
tor  quicunque  fuerit  Attici  libros  secutus  est.  I.  Voss.  de  Hist.  Lat.  p.  58. 

Sept.  4  (Sun.).  P.  Nigidius  Figulus  post  Varronem  Romanorum 
doctissimus. — Franciscus  Floridus  Sabinus  III  de  bello  civili  libros  Caesari 
abjudicat  Lib.  I.  Subseciv.  Lectt.  c.  3.  &  lib.  II.  c.  2.  Imo  Lud.  Carrio 
ne  quidem  VII  libros  de  bello  Gallico  Caesaris  esse  putat.  Temere 
uterque,  &  inscite.  Hoc  unum  in  Julio  Caesare  culpandum  est,  quod  in 
ijs,  quae  jure  optimo  merito  verterentur  ei  vitio,  non  satis  interdum  veritati 


Dodwell  and  his  studied  affectation  of  singularity  in  matters  both  theological 
and  philological.  He  mentioned  to  S.  several  months  since  his  doubts  as  to 
the  genuineness  of  the  entire  Acts  of  the  Martyrdom  of  St.  Ignatius.  '  Dr.  Ber- 
nard very  unadvisedly  parted  to  my  great  trouble  with  his  Paris -edition  of  the 
Scriptores  Apostolid  by  Cotelerius,  &  was  whedled  into  it  upon  some  meane 
considerations  by  the  flattery  &  artifice  of  an  Agent  of  the  Huguetans,  before 
they  set  upon  that  worke.  I  was  soon  satisfyed,  that  they  had  made  use  of 
the  Doctors  short  notes  &  scholia,  wch  hee  cast  into  the  margin  of  his  booke  : 
but  whether  they  have  dealt  honestly  &  faithfully  by  him,  is  now  scarse  pos- 
sible to  bee  knowne  :  the  booke,  \vch  they  so  easily  &  craftily  published,  being 
in  their  hands:  &  the  whole  depends  upon  Mr.  Le  Clerc's  questionable  inte- 
grity.' Whiston's  Sermons  and  Essays  are  full  of  wicked  and  heretical  doc- 
trine ;  and  yet  this  man  and  his  books  remain  uncensured ! 


350  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

litarit. — Julij  Celsi  Commentarij  de  vita  Julij  Caesaris  primum  prodierunt 
anno  MCCCCLXX. — M.  Brutum  recte  forsan  Caesar  filium  nominavit.  Cum 
matre  enim  ejus  Servilia  consueverat. — Cornelij  Nepotis  fragmenta 
diligenter  collegit  Andreas  Schottus.  Cornelius  Nepos  librum  de  vitis 
Illustribus  non  scripsit,  sed  Aurelius  Victor  idque  primus  deprehendit 
Schottus.  E  Nepote  tamen  pleraque  desumpsisse  videtur. — Oratio  ilia  in 
Ciceronem,  etsi  k  Fabio  tanquam  Sallustij  laudetur,  tamen,  quod  res  in- 
dicat,  omnino  est  alicujus  declamatoris:  forsan  Porcij  Latronis,  vel  alterius 
alicujus  ex  illis,  quos  nominal  M.  Seneca  in  Suasorijs,  &  Controversy's. 

10  Vide  Voss.  de  Hist.  Lat.  p.  71.  Orbilius  Horatij  Praeceptor. — C.  Asinij 
Pollionis  ad  Ciceronem  Epistola  exstat  lib.  X.  ad  Fam.  Primus  Latinorum 
fuit,  qui  gesta  Graecorum  Latine  scripsit,  si  fides  Suidae.  Famae  Ciceronis 
infestissimus. — Augustus  fecit  indicem  rerum  a  se  gestarum.  Luculentum 
ejus  fragmentum  ex  lapide  Ancyrano  transcriptum  superest.  Quam  varia, 
quammulta  prseterea  scripserit,  non  difficile  est  conjectare  ex  aureis  reliquijs 
quas  undique  collegit,  notisque  illustravit,  summus  vir,  Janus  Rutgersius, 
var.  Lectt.  1.  II.  c.  19. — M.  Valerius  Messalla  scripsit  de  littera  S.  Aldus 
Senior  epistola  ea  quam  Perotti  Cornucopias  praemisit  testatur  Trogi  inte- 
grum  opus  apud  amicum  quendam  exstitisse,  qui  &  ejusdem  se  copiam 

20  facturum  esse  promiserat.  Sed  Aldo  imposuit.  nee  puto  ullibi  haberi. 
Particula  tamen  ejusdem  ante  tria  secula  in  Bibliotheca  S.  Mariae  de  Pratis 
adservabatur,  si  catalogum  Bibliothecae  illius  sequamur  a  Guilielmo  Charitee, 
viro  plane  Industrie  &  erudito,  confectum. — Libellum  qui  sub  nomine  Fene- 
stellae  hodie  circumfertur  a  Dominico  Flocco  Florentine,  secretario  Ponti- 
ficis  Romani,  &  Canonico  Florentine,  revera  scriptum  fuisse  agnoscunt 
docti.  Ejusque  nomen  Codices  quidam  MSS.  ferunt. — C.  Julius  Hyginus 
recte  scribitur,  non,  ut  alij,  Higynus,  vel  Higinus.  Nam  ut  ex  vyuia  Kara 
<rvyKonT]v  vyeia  dicitur :  sic  ex  vyifivos  fuerit  vytivos.  Hoc  autem  Latine 
sit  Hyginus,  vel  Hygenus,  prout  in  vett.  Monumentis  Veronensium  id 

30  nomen  exaratum  invenitur.  Hinc  patet  vel  litteram  aliquando  simplicem 
multum  facere  ad  Auctores  antiques  emendandos,  nee  negligendam  esse 
tanquam  rem  levem,  utcunque  aliter  sentiant  viri  plerique.  Hygenus  qui 
Gromatica  scripsit  diversus  ab  Hygino  cujus  Astronomicon  habemus,  ut 
monuit  Vossius  p.  93. — Hoc  interest  inter  memorialia  &  memorabilia.  Me- 
morialia  sunt  res  veteres  memoria  proditse.  Graeci  vocant  foro/if  jj/iofev/xara. 
Memorabilia  dicuntur,  quae  digna  sunt,  ut  memorise  tradantur.  Memori- 
alia apud  aliquos  memoriae  audiunt. — Fragmentum  edidit  Wolf.  Lazius  lib. 
I.  Comm.  Reip.  Rom.  c.  VIII.  quod  Velleij  (sc.  Paterculi)  nomen  fert.  perpe- 
ram,ut  notat  Vossius  de  Hist.  Lat.  ubi  &  animadvertit  idem  exstare  in  Abbate 

40  Urspergensi,  unde,  ut  videtur,  excerpsit  ille,  cui  debet  Lazius. — Valerius 
Maximus  Tiberij  vixit  aetate.  nee  tamen  terse  loquitur.  Alia  id  genus  ex- 
empla  adduci  possunt.  Ciceroque  ipse  conqueritur  corruptum  non 
parum  fuisse  nativum  ilium  colorem  sermonis  Romani,  ob  receptos  in 
civitatem  tot  exteros.  Voss.  p.  113.  Sed  epitomen  Valerij  tantum  habemus, 
ut  conjicit  Vossius,  quam  fecit  Julius  Paris,  vel  saltern  C.  Titius  Probus. 
Brutidius  Niger  inter  Historicos  numeratur  qui  elogio  prosecuti  sunt  M. 
Tullium. — Claudius  Caesar  Historiam  scripsit.  Fragmentum  unum  & 
alterum  citarunt  Grammatici  veteres,  quae  inter  fragmenta  Claudij  Quad- 
rigarij  retulerunt  viri  eruditi,  donee  distinxerit  Is.  Casaubonus. — Mucianus 

50  per  c  scribendum  non  per  t,  ut  volunt  alij.     Ita  enim  in  veteri  lapide. 


Sept.  4-6.] 


VOL UME  XX 7,  PA  GES  119-130. 


251 


Graece  etiam  MOVKIWOS  &  a  Mucius  venit  Mucianus,  ut  ab  uEmilius  ^Emili- 
anus,  a  Licinius  Licinianus. — Asconius  Pedianus  qui  sub  Vespasiano 
floruit  alius  ab  eo  qui  annott.  scripsit  in  Ciceronis  orationes. — Laurentij 
Vallensis  Elegantiae  quum  jam  in  honore  esse  coeperint,  nonnulli,  in- 
vidia  &  malevolentia  suffusi,  eos  jam  olim  in  Germania  repertos 
fuisse  in  vulgus  sparsere,  &  scriptos  insuper  esse  literis  fugientibus  ac 
fatiscentibus  :  tandem  certis  indicijs  cognitum  fuisse  Asconij  Pediani  esse 
opus.  Hujus  calumniae  meminit  Mariangelus  Accursius  in  Diatribar.  suar. 
defensione,  cui  Testudo  nomen  fecit. — Q.  Curtius  liv'd  in  the  time  of 
Vespasian,  as  is  prov'd  from  a  Passage  in  him  by  Vossius,  in  w°h  men-  10 
tion  made  of  his  flourishing  times,  wch  must  be  understood  of  the  famous 
Peace  in  the  time  of  Vespasian,  of  wck  thus  in  Vespasian's  Coyns,  PACI 

ORBIS  TERRARVM. 

Sept.  5  (Mon.).  Guil.  Gillinghamus  Cantuariensis  anno  circiter 
1390.  de  illustribus  ordinis  sui  scriptoribus  tractatum  scripsit,  referente 
Joanne  Pitseo,  p.  552.  Scripsit  item  de  rebus  Cantuariensibus.  Perier- 
unt  ambo.  Anno  i6i9.prodijt  in  minori  forma  liber,  sic  inscriptus :  Con- 
gregationis  Anglicance  ordinis  S.  Benedicti  Troph&a,  auctore  Edwardo 
Maihew,  Joannis  Pitsei  quondam  discipulo.  Pitsei  librum  MS.  de  viris 
Apostoltcis  Anglicanis  frequenter  citat;  quem  nunc  in  Archivis  Ecclesiae  20 
de  Liverdune  servari  fertur.  Modeste  de  Scriptoribus  Benedictinis  egisse 
notavit  Usserius,  Hist.  Eccles.  Brit.  p.  216.  De  obitibus  &  laudibus  Bene- 
dictinorum  Anglicanorum  qui  post  reformationem  exstiterunt  librum  con- 
cinnavit  Tho.  White,  alias  Woodhop,  Monachus  Duacensis.  Obijt  ipse, 
peste  correptus,  Duaci  anno  1654.  Exemplar  istius  libri  penes  se 
habuisse  inquit  Antonius  a  Wood,  Ath.  Oxon.  Vol.  I.  p.  415.  Jam, 
proculdubio,  inter  alios  codices,  quos  Muse'o  Ashmoleano  legavit,  adser- 
vatur. 

Sept.  6  (Tu.).  Haud  ita  pridem  vir  eL  doctissimusque  Martinus 
Lister  novam  editionem  Apicij  librorum  de  re  culinaria  publico  dedit ;  sed  30 
quum  cxx  tantummodo  exemplaria  imprimenda  curaverit,  de  eo  iterum 
edendo  illico  cogitavit  cl.  Almeloveenius.  Observationibus  itaque  quibus- 
dam  adjectis,  quae  Listeri  acumen  diligentiamque  effugerant,  acceptisque 
ab  eruditissimo  Fabricio  Hamburgensi  lectionibus  variantibus  e  Codice 
MS.  vetusto  erutis,  prelo  mandavit,  strenueque  opus  prosecutus  est  : 
quod  tandem  absolutum  Listero  ipsi  dicavit  consecravitque.  Editio  haec 
nitida  jam  in  Bibliopolijs  nostris  prostat,  in  quibus  &  conspicienda  nova 
Editio  magnifica  Coelij  Aureliani,  quam  itidem  Almelovenij  industriae 
partim  debemus.  A  viro  isto,  quicquid  objiciant  obtrectatores  malevoli, 
omni  laude  dignissimo  alia  exspectant  eruditi,  e  quibus  Medicina  anti-  4C 
qua  non  parum  illustrari  potest. 


Alex,  de  Balinghetn 
Ferd.  de  Castro  Palao 
Joach.  Garcaeus 
Mart.  Magisler 
Georg.  Morengns 
Jo.  Joubertus. 


h  de  Temperantia. 


Imperator  M.  Claudius  Tacitus  tanti  Taciturn  Historicum  fecit,  ut 


252  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

imaginem  illius  in  omnibus  collocaret  bibliothecis :  librosque  ejus  decies 
quotannis  describi,  inque  archivis  publicis  collocari  juberet,  ne  deperirent. 

Sept.  7  (Wed.).  Clementis  Reyneri  Apostolatus  Benedictinorum  in 
Anglia,  liber  magna  industria  compositus,  &  in  quo  non  mediocrem 
eruditionem  exhibuit  auctor.  Eum  tamen  Joannis  Jones  (sive  Leandri 
de  Sancto  Martino)  collectaneorum  ope  atque  usu  non  leviter  adjutum 
fuisse  non  desunt  homines  docti  simul  atque  fide  digni  qui  asserant. 
Collectanea  autem  ilia  e  Bibliotheca  Cottoniana  pleraque  descripsit  Jones, 
quam  quum  e  Guilielmi  Laudi,  Martyris  familiaribus  esset,  ssepius  adijsse 

10  constat.  Vide  Smithi  Hist.  &  Synops.  Bibl.  Cotton,  p.  38.  Ceterum 
alij  referunt  Reynerum  usum  esse  chartis  Augustini  Bakeri,  quas  plurimis 
voluminibus  grandibus  comprehensas  atque  compactas  e  Codicibus 
Cottonianis  &  ipse  collegerat.  Vide  Ant.  a  Wood  Ath.  Oxon.  Vol.  I.  p. 
515.  &  Vol.  II.  p.  388.  Verum  utcunque  se  res  habeat,  id  certissimum 
est,  Joannem  Barnesium  Reyneri  opus  refutasse,  eum  in  finem  Oxonij,  ut 
Bibliothecse  Bodlejanae  beneficio  frueretur,  commoratum.  —  Vita  Plinij 
Veronensis,  quae  Suetonij  nomen  fert,  non  genuina.  Vitam  Suetonij 
scripsit  Sicon  Polentonus.  Sed  ea  vix  assis  est :  etsi  doctissimus  Pighius 
non  veritus  sit  illam,  emblematis  instar,  annalibus  suis  inserere.  Com- 

20  memorari  debet  in  Catalogo  Bodlejano.  —  Consulas  Lelandum  de  Elvano 
Avalonio.  Balaeus  ait  eum  scripsisse  librum  de  origine  Ecclesiae  Britan- 
nicae,  sed  de  hac  re  fides  esto  penes  auctores.  Multum  enim  metuo 
ne  fucum  fecerint  lectoribus.  —  Fragmentum  illud  de  accentibus  quod 
Editionibus  vulgg.  Censorini  de  Die  natali  annecti  solet  alij  auctori  quam 
Censorino  attribui  debet.  Censorinus  tamen  ipse  de  accentibus  librum 
scripsit;  quern  tamen  integrum  viris  doctis  perijsse  videtur. 

Sept.  8  (Th.).  There  is  just  publish'd  a  Book  in  8V0.  containing 
Essays  and  Sermons,  by  William  Whiston  A.M.  and  Professor  of  Astro- 
nomy at  Cambridge.  'Tis  a  most  pernicious  Book,  comprehending 

30  several  strange  Doctrines  about  the  Trinity,  and  odd  Explications  of 
Scripture,  particularly  of  points  of  the  greatest  moment.  He  has  also  laid 
down  Rules  for  study  of  Divinity,  and  given  a  Catalogue  of  such  Books 
as  he  would  have  read.  He  is  a  Despiser  of  modern  Commentators,  and 
would  have  young  divines  go  to  the  Fountaine  Head,  and  from  thence 
draw  Explications  of  the  Scriptures  themselves,  without  depending  upon 
or  even  regarding  late  Expositors,  tho'  never  so  good.  Which  Method 
of  study  if  practis'd  would  soon  make  a  vast  number  of  Hereticks  and 
Schismaticks,  and,  'tis  to  be  fear'd,  a  great  many  of  our  Divines  would 
prove  as  bad  as  Mr.  Whiston  himself.  He  has  now  in  MS.  a  Discourse 

40  about  the  Trinity,  wcl1 1  do  not  question  but  he  will  publish  as  soon  as 
possible.  He  tells  us  'tis  at  present  in  the  Hands  of  some  great  Divines, 
who  are  to  read  it  over  and  alter  it  if  they  think  fit.  One  of  these  Great 
Divines  is  the  ArchbP.  of  Canterbury ;  but  I  am  afraid  some  of  these 
great  Men  countenance  this  bold  and  Heretical  writer.  'Tis  said  Dr. 
Grabe  is  to  answer  him  ;  &  indeed  he  has  reported  in  Oxford  himself  that 
he  has  been  desir'd  to  do  it.  If  he  does.  I  doubt  he  will  make  but  an 
indifferent  piece  of  work  of  it,  he  having  some  odd  Notions  himself,  and 
besides  he  is  far  from  being  a  rational  or  a  clear  writer,  as  may  partly 
appear  from  his  Additions  to  BP.  Bull's  works,  wcb  are  nothing  comparable 


Sept.  6-10.]  VOLUME  XXI,  PAGES  130-140.  253 

to  the  B?'9  Discourses  themselves.  —  Ordinis  Cisterciensis  monachis 
originem  dedit  Robertus  Harding,  Anglicus.  Anno  circiter  1220.  hujus 
ordinis  monachus  quidam,  nomine  Hugo  Kirkstede  (vel  potius  Kirstall) 
memorabilia  de  viris  Anglicis,  quotquot  nempe  hunc  ordinem  amplexi 
fuerant,  in  unum  fasciculum  collegit.  Id  testatur  Joannes  Lelandus. 
Meminit  &  Pitseus,  p.  297.  Pitseus  insuper  notat  in  Bibliotheca  Rippo- 
nensi  se  vidisse  librum  inscriptum,  Hisloria  rerun  &  monachis  Cislerciensibus 
gestarum,  ab  eodem  auctore  concinnatum.  Baleus  autem  inquit  illi  opem 
tulisse  Serlonem  abbatem  Fontanensem;  in  quo  hallucinari  inde  constat, 
quod  non  coaevi  fuissent.  —  Libellus  de  origine  Gentis  Romanae,  non  10 
est  Aurelij  Victoris,  cujus  duobus  libris  praemitti  solet,  sed  alicujus,  qui 
fuerit  post  Aurelium.  Scripsit  idem  auctor  de  origine  Gentis  Patavinae, 
ut  ipse  testatur  in  initio  prioris  libelli.  —  Avienus  totum  Livium  Jambis 
expressit.  Non  alius  ab  eo,  ut  videtur,  cujus  libelli  duo  hodie  versibus 
exarati  exstant :  nempe  Treptjjyrjo-t?,  sive  orbis  descriptio,  &  TTfpin\ovs,  sive 
de  ora  maritima.  Theodosij  Imp.  setate  vixisse  ex  Hieronymo  colligit 
Vossius,  de  Hist.  Lat.  p.  190.  An  dissentiat  Dodwellus,  mihi  incertum. 
Versus  aliquot  in  Dionysij  Periegesis  hodiernis  desiderari  exemplaribus  ex 
Avieno  liquet.  Idque  ostendit  Dodwellus.  Nee  dissentiunt  Codices  MSS. 
Dionysij  Oxonienses,  quorum  unus  &  alter  asteriscis  signantur,  hoc  plane  ao 
indicantibus.  Sed  dissimulavit  Thwaites. 

Sept.  9  (Fri.).  Tullius  in  Epistolis  ad  Famil.  lib.  ix.  Ep.  22.  Caudam 
antiqui  penem  vocabant:  ex  quo  est  propter  similitudinem  penicillus. 
At  hodie  penis  est  in  obscenis.  At  vero  Piso  ille  Frugi  in  Annalibus  suis 
queritur,  adolescentes  peni  deditos  esse.  Quod  tu  in  Epistola  appeHas 
suo  nomine,  ille  tectius  penem.  &c.  —  In  Fol.  69.  of  Leland's  Itinerary 
is  the  word  suarning.  In  Mr.  Burton's  Copy  'tis  snarving.  I  cannot  tell 
the  signification  of  it,  but  guess  it  should  be  starving.  —  De  rebus  gestis 
ordinis  Canonicorum  Regularium  S.  Augustini  scripsit  Galfridus  Hardib, 
Canonicus  Leycestrensis,  &  Edvardo  III110  anno  1360.  a  secretioribus  30 
concilijs.  De  illustribus  viris  ordinis  S.  Augustini  egit  Joannes  Cap- 
gravius,  hujus  ordinis  aliquando  Provincialis.  Vide  Pitseum  pag.  492.  & 
p.  672.  Thomae  Eclestoni  liber  de  adventu  Minorum  in  Angliam  in  multis 
habetur  Bibliothecis.  Alium  etiam  librum  ipsum  scripsisse,  de  ordinis 
nempe  impugnatione  per  Dominicanos,  innuit  Pitseus,  p.  442.  quern 
tamen  prioris  partem  esse  conjicio.  In  operibus  Francisci  a  Sancta  Clara 
de  Fratribus  istis  fuse  tractatur.  Quin  &  de  illis  qui  Londini  sedem  fixe- 
runt  notitia  paullo  uberior  e  Registro  cujus  meminit  Antonius  a  Wood 
(Hist.  &  Antiq.  Oxon.  lib.  I.  p.  68.  71.  &c.)  peti  potest. 

Sept.   10  (Sat.).     There  is  now  printing  at  the  Theater  Press  the  40 
works  of  Clemens  Alexandrinus  in  Gr.  and  Lat.  with  Annotations,  by  Dr. 
John  Potter,  our  Regius  Professor  of  Divinity.     This  Edition  is  to  be  in 
two  Volumes  in  folio.     One  volume  to  be  most  if  not  all  of  Notes,  the 
Publisher  having  it  seems  not  Judgment  to  distinguish  between  what  is 


Sept.  10.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  144).  Speedily  threw  aside 
Whiston's  late  book  with  abundance  of  indignation  ;  hears  that  Dr.  Grabe 
designs,  at  the  instigation  of  the  Archbp.  of  York,  to  answer  this  bold  and 
heterodox  writer.  G.  a  man  of  no  small  vanity  and  far  from  a  clear  and  a 
rational  writer,  though  he  has  deserved  highly  from  religion  and  the  republic 


254  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

proper  to  be  put  in  the  work  and  what  not ;  and  therefore  he  prints  the 
Annotations  of  all  those  that  have  written  upon  this  Author  at  large,  not 
omitting  even  Hervetus's  large  Commentary,  wch  is  fit  for  none  but 
Novices  and  such  as  love  scholastic  Writers.  He  has  also  heap'd  up 
a  vast  deal  of  notes  collected  from  Philosophical  writers  and  others,  wch 
I  suppose  he  will  also  call  a  Commentary,  just  as  he  has  his  riff-raff  notes 
upon  Lycophron,  wch  might  very  well  have  been  spared,  there  being 
hardly  anything  of  moment  in  them  but  what  had  been  before  taken 
notice  of  by  Meursius.  Nor  are  his  Greek  Antiquities  any  better,  there 

10  being  not  one  new  observation,  by  w0*1  one  may  discover  anything  in  him 
of  true  Learning.  And  tho'  his  English  book  concerning  the  Church  be 
much  cry'd  up  by  the  Party,  yet  those  that  have  read  it  considerately,  &  are 
unbyass'd,  and  know  how  to  judge  fairly  will  tell  you  the  whole  was  done 
before  in  short  by  Archbp.  Usher.  However  by  this  loose  and  voluminous 
way  of  writing  this  Gentleman  has  rais'd  a  Reputation,  wcl1  is  no  wonder 
since  amongst  Readers  there  are  so  few  Judges.  A  shew  of  Learning 
passes  with  them  for  profoundness,  and  Quotations  at  second  Hand  for 
great  Diligence  and  general  Reading.  —  Londini  nuperrime  prodijt 
Numismatum  antiquorum  Sylloge.  Libellus  hie,  in  Quarto,  uti  dicunt, 

20  impressus,  selectiora  literatae  Antiquitatis  monumenta  complectitur. 
Omnia  autem  in  museo  editoris  nunc  adservantur.  Tabulas  sex  aeneas, 
arte  exquisita  confectas,  praemisit.  Numismatum  elegantissimorum  & 
rarissimorum  ectypa  istse  repraesentant,  ut  &  inscriptiones  paucas  vetustas, 
quas  rei  antiquariae  studiosis  pergratas  fore  videtur. — D.  Andream  Foun- 
taine,  virum  ingenio  &  eruditione  praeclarum,  edidisse  ajunt  nonnulli. 
Verum  aliter  sentio,  eo  argumento  potissimum  ductus  quod  nummum 
quendam  eximiae  raritatis  omissum  esse  videam,  quern  tamen  penes  se 
habere  ex  literis  ipsius  ad  me  scriptis  colligo.  Ad  illas  responsionem 
misi.  Ibi  sententiam  meam  de  nummo  protuli,  quae  turn  D.  Andreae  turn 

30  illustri  Spanhemio,  cui  patefecit,  perplacuit.  Hoc  mihi  ipse  Andreas 
indicavit.  —  B.  Hieronymus  non  solum  Eusebij  Chronicon  vertit,  sed 
multa  etiam  inseruit.  atque  inde,  ubi  desierat  Eusebius  continuavit.  — 
N.B.  The  Book  above  mentioned  ab*  Coins  was  done  by  Mr.  Wren  Son 
of  Sir  Xt°pher  Wren. 

Sept.  11  (Sun.).     Paullinus  Episcopus  Nolanus   poe'ma   de   regibus 
edidit,  in  quo  libros  Suetonij  in  compendium  redegit. — Hormestce  nomen 

of  learning  for  his  work  on  the  Alexandrian  MS.  and  some  of  the  Fathers. 
Who  is  the  editor  of  Numismatum  antiquorum  Sylloge  f  H.  thinks  not  Sir  A. 
Fountaine,  as  it  omits  a  scarce  coin  of  Domitian,  about  which  H.  wrote  to 
Fountaine  four  years  since  a  letter  which  was  shown  to  Baron  Spanheim,  and 
approved  of  by  him.  Mr.  C.  Aldrich  has  become  Vicar  of  Henley  (2oo/.  a 
year)  on  the  death  of  Dr.  J.  Cawley,  and  Mr.  Wm.  Browne,  M.A.,  St.  Mary 
Hall,  a  worthless  person,  but  a  rank  Whig,  Vicar  of  Bray  (200/.  a  year)  on  the 
death  of  Dr.  J.  Carswell.  '  The  Dr.  died  rich,  and  has  left  the  Character  be- 
hind him  of  a  covetous  Person  and  of  having  an  unsettled  head.  He  has  pub- 
lish'd  two  Sermons  preach'd  at  the  Assizes,  which  contradict  one  another. 
He  was  remarkable  for  always  keeping  up  to  the  Proverb  (occasion'd  by  the 
Conduct  of  one  of  his  Predecessors)  that  the  Vicar  of  Bray  will  be  Vicar  of  Bray 
still.'  Mr.  Thomas  Tanner,  with  whom  H.  spent  three  hours  this  evening, 
hopes  to  finish  the  work  of  our  English  writers  by  the  end  of  winter,  and  has 
ready  ed.  2  of  his  Notitia  Monastica  with  considerable  improvements. 


Sept.  10-11.]  VOL UME  XXI,  PAGES  140-149, 

inde  Orosij  libris  historiarum  apponi  censet  Vossius,  quod  jam  olim 
dominum  exemplaris  cujusdam  in  frontispicio  ejus,  ut  fieri  solet,  nomen 
suum  scripsisset.  Hoc  fuisse  Hormisda,  vel  simije  :  id  postea  inscriptionis 
factum  esse  partem  ab  imperito  librario. — Folio  aliquot  Qrosij  Apologiaa 
de  arbitrij  libertate  ex  Augustino  adsuta,  vide  Voss.  de  Hist.  Lat.  p.  204. — 
Uranius,  seu  Uraninus,  (qui  in  libris  nonnullis  Oranius,  vel  etiam  Osanius 
vocatur)  librum  reliquit  de  vita  B.  Ambrosij.  Exstat  apud  Surium. — 
Hilarius,  discipulus  B.  Augustini,  &  Episcopus  Arelatensis,  de  vita 
Honorati  decessoris  sui  scripsit.  Edidit  Vincentius  Barrali,  e  MSS. 
Lerinensibus.  Ejusd.  sermo  de  miraculo,  B.  Genesij  martyris  exstat  apud  i^ 
Surium. — Theodoricus  in  quibusd.  MSS.  pro  Theodosius. — Collationes 
in  aliquot  Codd.  pro  collectiones. — Prosper  Rhegiensis  forsan  legi  debet 
apud  Bedae  Eccles.  Hist.  lib.  I.  c.  10.  pro  Prosper  Rhetor.  Sic  Vossius 
de  Hist.  Lat.  p.  2 1 5. — Paschasinus,  Lilybasi  in  Sicilia  Episcopus,  Isidore, 
perperam  Paschasius  dicitur.  Epistolam  scripsit  de  quaestione  paschali, 
&  fontis  miraculo.  Est  inter  Leonis  Episcopi  urbis,  ad  quem  & 
scripta  fuit,  Epistolas  num.  63. — 'Idacius,  vel  ut  alij  Itacius,  Chronicon 
scripsit.  Lemicensis  in  Gallaecia  fuit  Episcopus.  Fuit  &  alter  Idacius, 
qui  Priscilliani  aequalis,  &  adversarius  infestissimus  fuit.  Tritthemius 
utrumque  confundit.  Non  liquet,  ejvis,  an  alterius  Idacij,  sit  opus  adver-  20 
sus  Varimudum,  in  Bibl.  Patrum  Tom.  IV. — Exstat  vita  S.  Hilarij 
Arelatensis,  ex  antique  codice  membranaceo  monastery'  Lerinensis  in 
chronologia  sanctorum,  &  abbatum,  illustriumque  ejus  monasterij  virorum 
a  Vincentio  Barrali  Salerno  in  lucem  edita.  Nomen  auctoris  non 
additur ;  non  dubitant  tamen  viri  docti,  quin  is  sit  Honoratus,  Episcopus 
Massiliensis. — Tascius  Victorianus  in  nonnullis  libris  Roscius  vocatur. — 
Faustus,  Abbas  Lerinensis,  ac  Maximi  in  Episcopatu  Rhegiensi  successor, 
homiliam  scripsit  de  vita  hujus  Maximi.  Exstat  inter  homilias  Eusebio 
Emisseno  adscriptas,  ex  cura  Jo.Gagneij  Lovanij  editas.  Alij  Emisseno  ipsi 
tribuunt.  Sed  Savaro  in  notis  ad  Epistolam  plane  ostendit  Fausti  esse. —  30 
Ennodius  corrupte  nonnullis  vocatur  Euodius. — Eugippius,  seu  Eugipius, 
vel  Eugepius,  vel  etiam  Eugippius,  scripsit  vitam  S.  Severini.  Legitur  apud 
Surium.  Tom.  i.  ad  Jan.  8.  Honorio  Egippius  corrupte  dicitur,  corrup- 
tiusque  Philippe  Bergomati  Egesippus  nominatur. — Dionysius  Exiguus 
transtulit  vitam  S.  Pachomij  Abbatis.  Hodieque  exstat.  Praefatio 
Dionysij  in  earn  frustra  quaeratur  in  Lipomano  ac  Surio.  Sed  reperitur 
in  vitis  SS.  Patrum,  etiam  illisa  Rosweydo  editis. — B.  Fulgentij,  Ruspen- 
sis  Episcopi,  vitam  scripsit  ejus  discipulus.  Habes  apud  Surium  a.  d.  i 
Jan. — Jornandes  a  Sigeberto  vocatur  Jordanus.  In  libro  de  regnorum  & 
temporum  successione  res  Romanas  a  Romulo  usque  ad  Augustum  plane  40 
exscripsit  e  quatuor  libris  Annaei  Flori :  unde  multa  in  Floro,  ex  Jornande  ; 
in  hoc  item,  e  Floro  possunt  emendari. — Caesarij  Arelatensis  vitam  scrip- 
serunt  tres  ejus  discipuli,  Cyprianus,  Messianus  ac  Stephanus.  Prioris 
libri,  cujus  auctor  fuit  Cyprianus,  partem  maximam  edidit  Surius.  Tom. 

4.  a.  d.  27  Augusti.     Supplevit   deinde   ex   optimis   Codd.  Vincentius 
Barrali  Salernus. — De  Placidi  aliorumque  martyrijs  scripsit  Gordianus. 
Opus  exstat  apud  Lipomanum  Tom.  iv.  &  apud  Surium  T.  v.  die  5  Oct. 
Famulus  erat  B.  Placidi. — Venantij  Honorij  vitas  B.  Hilarij  aliorumque 
quorundam  Sanctorum  exstant  apud  Surium. — Bandoniniae  liber  de  vita 

5.  Radegundis  reginae  habetur  apud  Surium.     T.  4.  ad  13  Aug.  5° 


256  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709  : 

Sept.  12  (Mon.).  They  are  printing  at  the  Theater-Press  BP. 
Beverege's  Exposition  upon  the  XXXIX  Articles  of  the  Church  of 
England.  Mr.  Rich.  Smith  a  London  Bookseller  bought  all  the  MSS. 
Papers  of  the  BP'S  Executor  for  the  sum  of  3  score  Pounds,  by  wch  he 
has  made  a  very  considerable  Gain,  having  already  printed  several 
volumes  of  Sermons  and  other  Tracts,  of  wch  a  great  many  Thousands 
have  already  been  bought  up,  and  the  sale  continues  brisk  still.  But  for 
this  Exposition,  the  9  last  Articles  are  not  come  into  the  Bookseller's 
Hands  as  yet,  the  Executor  being  unwilling  to  part  with  them  because,  he 

10  says,  the  BP.  design'd  these  Discourses  only  for  his  own  private  use  and 
not  for  the  publick :  which  whether  true  or  no  I  cannot  tell.  I  am  apt 
however  to  think  that  he  had  not  put  his  last  hand  to  them,  and  those 
that  look  after  the  Press  ought  to  be  particularly  carefull  about  the  whole, 
&  to  see  there  be  nothing  inserted  that  will  at  all  redound  to  the  dis- 
honour of  the  Church  of  England,  w*  some  are  fearfull  of,  because 
it  was  observ'd  that  the  BP.  (notwithstanding  his  great  Learning)  was 
formerly  in  some  Degrees  a  Calvinist.  The  Bookseller  having  not  been 
able  to  procure  the  latter  part  of  the  Exposition,  he  is  resolv'd  to  print 
the  first  Article  by  itself  as  a  specimen,  and  accordingly  'tis  now  going  on 

20  by  the  care  of  one  Mr.  Hill  a  large  Fellow  of  Queen's  College.  — 
Willhelmus  de  Coventria  de  adventu  Carmelitarum  in  Angliam  scripsit. 
E  libro  verba  quaedam  adduxit  Baleus,  eumque  inspexisse  videtur.  Deinde 
Willhelmus  Greenus  Cantabrigiensis  e  Bibliothecis  Angliae  plerisque  quae- 
cunque  ad  virorum  e  carmelitico  ordine  clarissimorum  vitas  spectant 
collegit,  &  in  lucem  edidit  sub  hoc  titulo.  Hagiologium  Carmelitarum.  Vide 
Pits  p.  493,  662.  Quin  &  tandem  Robertus  Baleus  (inprimis  e  fratribus 
Norvici  Carmeliticis,  deinceps  vero  Burnhami  priori,  ubi  &  obijt  A.D.  1503.) 
Annales  breves  ordinis  sui  scripsit.  Joannes  etiam  Baleus  de  ordine 
hocce,  e  quo  ipse  quondam  fuit,  forsan  historiam  condidit.  Nam 

30  Tannerus  noster  id  genus  aliquid  se  vidisse  D.  Nicholsono  retulit.  (Vide 
Bibl.  Hist.  p.  aoi.Vol.  II.)  Sed  auctoris  ipsius  studio,  postquam  reformatse 
religionis  professor  evaserat,  pars  longe  maxima  deperijt.  —  There  is 
now  printing  at  London  in  two  folios  Corpus  veterum  Poetarum  Latin- 
orum,  upon  a  good,  neat  Letter,  and  upon  fine  Paper.  I  am  told  one  of 
the  Persons  that  takes  care  of  the  Press  is  Mr.  Mattaire,  who  is  a  notable 
Man  and  a  good  Scholar,  &  so  the  work  is  like  to  be  a  better  Perform- 
ance than  I  once  imagin'd  it  would  be.  —  In  the  year  1698  came  out  at 
London  in  8V0.  a  small  Book,  intit.  An  Essay  concerning  Critical  and 
curious  Learning  :  In  which  are  contained  some  short  Reflections  on  the 

40  Controversie  betwixt  Sir  William  Temple  and  Mr.  Wotton ;  And  that 
betwixt  Dr.  Bentley  and  Mr.  Boyl.  By  T.  R.  Esqr.  I  think  this  T.  R. 
is  Mr.  Thomas  Rymer,  who  is  now  Historiographer  to  the  Queen  &  has 
publish'd  several  usefull  volumes  from  the  Records  in  the  tower  of  the 
Fcedera  between  English  and  Forreign  Princes,  &  is  going  on  with  other 
volumes.  But  whoever  is  the  author  of  this  small  Book,  'tis  a  very  poor 


Sept- 12.  Prof  Barnes  to  H.  (Rawl.  24.  21).  Thanks  for  notes  and  all 
services.  Reports  progress  with  the  Hymns,  &c.  Wants  as  many  names  as 
possible  of  Oxonian  subscribers.  Will  probably  need  200  more  reams  of  paper. 
Service  and  thanks  to  Lord  Carteret. 


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and  mean  Performance,  &  the  Author  has  abus'd  the  most  worthy  and 
Learned  Dr.  Aldrich  Dean  of  Christ  Church  in  pag.  64.  as  he  has  also 
the  rest  of  that  Society  for  several  Pages  together.  —  Haraeus  Surij  vitas 
Sanctorum  in  Epitomen  redegit.  Vide  earn. — Photij  major  auctoritas 
quam  Cedreni.  Nam  &  emunctioris  est  naris,  &  majoris  eruditionis,  atque 
industriae.  —  Joannes  Abbas,  nunc  Joannes  Biclariensis>  (utpote  conditor 
Biclariensis  monastery')  nunc  Joannes  Gerundensis  (quia  episcopus  evasit 
Gerundensis)  continuavit  Chronicon,  ubi  Victor  Tununensis  desierat. 
Divulgavit  Henricus  Canisius  in  antiquis  lectt.  —  Isidorus  Hispalensis 
idem  est  qui  Isidorus  Junior  in  multis  codd.  Inscriptionibus  vocatur :  ut  10 
&  \  Sigeberto,  Tritthemio,  &  alijs. — Synodus  Spalensis  eadem  cum 
Synodo  Hispalensi.  Spalis  enim  dixere  pro  Hispalis,  &  Spania  pro 
Hispania. — Audoenus  perperam  Tritthemio  dicitur  Andoenus. — Elerius 
Cambrius  in  literas  retulit  vitam  S.  Wenifridae:  Inde  pleraque  hausit 
Robertus  Salopiensis,  qui  annis  post  prope  quingentis  ejusdem  Sanctae 
Virginis  vitam  composuit. — Hildephonsus  (perperam  aliquibus  Alphonsus) 
Toletanae  sedis  Episcopus. — Jonas,  patriS  Scotus,  Columbani  aliorumque 
nonnullorum  Sanctorum  vitas  consignavit,  quae  in  Suriana  collectione 
leguntur.  Non  desunt  autem  qui  eas  Bedse  male  adsignent. — Eleutherius 
Dorcestrius,  Anglus,  quartus  Visosaxonum,  seu  occidentalium  Anglorum  20 
Episcopus,  commentarium  condidit  de  origine  monastery  Malmsburiensis. 
Videsis  quid  de  eo  retulerit  Godwinus. — Julianus,  Archiepiscopus  Tole- 
tanus,  vitam  scripsit  S.  Hildephonsi.  Earn  mutile  Aloysius,  integrius 
vero  perfectiusque  edidit  Surius.  Nonnulli  male  confundunt  cum  Juliano 
Pomerio.  —  Adamannus  Scotus  (vel  ut  alij,  Adamnanus)  de  locis  terrae 
sanctae  librum  scripsit.  Hunc  tamen  e  Beda  cognoscimus  Arcnulpho, 
Episcopo  Gallicano,  potius  tribuendum  esse.  utpote  a  quo  omnia  acceperit 
qui  \sic\  operi  huic  inseruit.  Nonnulli  Adomnanum,  alij  Adamandum  ap- 
pellant. Quaedam  vitae  Sanctorum  Bedae  falso  tribuuntur  in  tertio  operum 
tomo,  ut  indicavit  Vossius  de  Hist.  Lat.  p.  263. — Felix  Crolandiensis,  3° 
claruit  sub  Ethelbaldo,  Merciorum  rege,  anno  730.  Scripsit  vitam 
Guthlaci  reclusi,  &  Epitomen  vitae  Guthlaci,  item  gesta  abbatum  Guth- 
landiae.  Epitome  quam  dixi  eadem  ipsa  esse  videtur  quam  habemus 
apud  Surium  a.  d.  xi.  Apr. — Anso  Belga,  monachus  Monastery  Laubiensis, 
vitam  S.  Ursmari  Episcopi  scripsit.  Quam  rudius  expressam  postea  expo- 
livit  Ratherius,  Veronensis  Episcopus.  Sic  expolitam  edidit  Surius.  —  Mr. 
Peirce  the  Fanatical,  Presbyterian  Preacher  of  Salisbury,  who  writ  several 
Things  against  Dr.  Wells,  is  writing  a  Book  in  Latin  by  way  of  Answer 
to  Dr.  Nicholson's  Latin  Book  concerning  the  Church  of  England. 

Sept.  13  (Tu.).  Libri  IV.  de  Imaginibus  ab  Alcuino  scripti,  sed  editi  4° 
sub  nomine  Karoli  Magni.  Prelo  eos  primus  divulgavit  Eliphilus,  hoc 
est  Joannes  Tilius,  Meldorum  Episcopus. — Paulus  Diaconus  Longobardus 
praeter  alia  egregia  opera  de  Episcopis  Metensibus  scripsit.  Exstat  MS. 
Eoque  ex  opere  videtur  omnino  esse  illud  fragmentum  de  Arnulpho,  quod 
ex  MS0,  codice  Surius  Arnulphi  vitae  subtexuit;  quodque  testamento 
Karoli  M.  subjunctum  legimus  in  Annalibus  Francorum  a.  Pithceo  editis. 
— De  S.  Ludgero,  sive  Ludigero,  exstant  apud  Vossium  de  Hist.  Lat.  p. 
276.  Joseph},  qui  Alcuini  discipulus  fuit,  versiculi  Latini :  quos  etiam, 
sed  non  adscripto  nomine  auctoris,  praemisere  editioni  vitae  Ludgeri  quae 
a  Joan.  Cincinnio,  typis  Quentelianis,  edita  fuit.  Vita  Ludgeri,  a  Monachis  50 

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258  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

S.  Salvatoris  Trajecti  scripta,  exstat  apud  Surium,  a.  d.  26  Mart.  Sed 
ibi  ea  monachis  Coenobij  Werthinensis,  seu  Werdinensis,  perperam  tribui- 
tur. — Abassinorum  rex  Presbyter  Joannes  ab  errore  vulgar!  profluxit,  quo 
prestegianus  idem  credebatur  ac  presire  Jean.  Atqui  prestegianus  vox  est 
Persica,  ac  notat  Apostolicum.  Vide  Jos.  Scaligerum  lib.  vii.  de  Emendat. 
temp.  c.  eo,  quod  est  de  computo  Ecclesiastico. — Joannes  Rossus,  Anti- 
quarius  Norvicensis,  de  Universitatibus  nostris  scripsit.  Eum  saepius  hac 
de  re  citat  Lelandus;  agnoscit  tamen  exemplar  quo  utebatur  mancumfuisse. 
Penitus  deperijsse  credit  Antonius  a  Wood,  Hist.  &  Antiq.  lib.  ii.  p.  77. 
10  Nee  unquam  exstitisse  putat  Twinus.  Meminerunt  etiam  scriptores  nostri 
ejusdem  Rossi  tractatus  contra  Historiolam  Cantabrigiensem.  Prioris 
tantummodo  fragmentum  esse  censeo.  Sed  &  illud  intercidit.  Porro 
Lelandus  ipse  de  Academy's  nostris  scribere  instituerat,  in  quo  libro  de 
lite  insigni  inter  Oxoniam  &  Cantabrigiam  mota  finienda  pollicitus  fuerat. 
operam  vero  lusit.  futilia  enim  &  puerilia  sunt  quae  hoc  de  argumento  in 
collectaneis  habentur ;  neque  puto  meliora  in  chartis  ejus  MSS.  exstitisse. 

Epitaphium  in 
SAMUELEM    PARKERUM    S.  T.  D. 

nuper  Episcopum  Oxoniensem 

ao  die  20  Martij  1687. 

demortuum. 

i. 

Hie  situs  est  Samuel  Parker 
Archi-Diaconus  Cantuariensis, 

Episcopus  Oxoniensis  ; 
Qui  Patrem,  &  Matrem,  &  Fratres  deseruit. 

O  ter-felicem  ! 

Si  pro  Christo. 

2. 

30  Hac  alieni 

Raptor  honoris, 
Usque  librorum 
Vana  minantum 
Futilis  Autor, 
Ore  bilinguis 
Fronte  bicornis, 
Conditur  urna 
Samuel  Oxon. 

In  the  Minster  at  Lincoln  upon  Dr.  Honywood,  Dean  of  the  said 
4°  Cathedral. 

Here  lyeth  the  Body  of  Michael 
Honywood,  Doctor  of  Divinity ; 
who  was  Grand-childe,  &  one  of 


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50  114- 

238. 
9- 


the  three  hundred  sixty-&- 
seven  Persons,  that  Mary 
wife  of  Robert  Honywood  Esq. 
did  see  (before  she  died) 
lawfully  descended  from  her. 
viz*,  sixteen  of  her  own  Body, 
One  hundred  &  fourteen 
Grand-children,  two  hundred 
&  thirty-eight  of  the  third 
Generation,  &  nine  of  the  Fourth. 


Dr.  Honywood  was  eighty-five  years  of  Age,  &  died  in  the  year  1682. 
De   Walafrido  Slrabone  hallucinatur  Tritthemius,  quum  Walafridum 


Sept  13-14.]  VOLUME  XXI,  PAGES   159-167.  259 

Abbatem  S.  Galli,  &  Strabonem  monachum  Fuldensem,  diversos  esse  ar- 
bitretur. — -/Egil,  sive  Aigil,  seu  Eigil  scripsit  vitam  S.  Sturmis,  seu 
Sturmij,  aut  Sturmionis,  Fuldensis  Ecclesiae  archimandrite,  &  conditoris. 
Hanc  e  MS0  Cod.  Bambergensi  primus  in  lucem  protraxit  Christophorus 
Brouwerus,  S.  J.  Presbyter. — Aimoino  Monacho,  egregio  historiarum 
Francicarum  scriptori  libros  de  miraculis  S.  Benedict!  tribuit.  male,  nam 
hi  auctorem  habent  Ammonium,  seu  Aumonium  ;  qui  vixit  temporibus 
Ottonis  III,  circa  annum  990.  At  Aimoinus  floruit  temporibus  Caroli 
Magni,  Ludovici  Pij,  &  Lotharij. — Haymonis  martyrologium  MStum  in 
Monasterio  S.  Galli  apud  Helvetios  adservatur.  Wandelbertus,  diaconus,  10 
&  monachus  Prumiensis,  martyrologium  heroico  carmine  concinnavit. 
Facile  autem  ijs  accedit  Vossius,  qui  censent,  esse  hoc  opus,  quod  inscri- 
bitur  Ephemerides  Bedcz  ;  inque  primo  legitur  Bedae  tomo.  Saltern  Bedae 
esse  non  possit,  cum  referat  aliqua,  quae  post  ejus  tempora  contigerunt. 

Sept.  14  (Wed.).  Hincmarus  Archiepiscopus  Rhemensis,  aliter  dic- 
tus  Ingumarus,  vel  Igmarus.  Epistolas  aliquot  ab  eo  scriptas  edidit  Bu- 
sseus.  Alias  etiam  bono  publico  divulgavit  Joannes  Cordesius.  Notitiam 
quam  scripsit  villas  Novilliacae  edidit  Sirmondus,  ac  Flodoardo  subnexuit. 
Almannus  Callus  in  plerisque  Codd.  Almantius  nuncupatur. — Paschasius 
Radbertus  perperam  aliquibus  Paschalis  dicitur.  Possevinus  vocat  Rad-  20 
bertum  Paschasium.  vitam  scripsit  S.  Adalardi,  quae  in  Sylloge  Suriana 
exstat.  Vilam  S.  Adelhardce  inquit  Possevinus. — Hubaldus  Caroli  Calvi 
temporib.  vixit.  Alijs  Hugbaldus,  vel  Hucbaldus  dicitur.  —  Memoran- 
dum to  inquire  after  the  Life  of  Sir  Thomas  More  written  by  J.  H. 
(whom  Mr.  Wood  takes  to  be  Hoddesdon)  &  pr.  at  Lond.  in  1662. 
It  seems  to  have  been  mostly  taken  from  Rowper's  Life  of  Sir  Thomas 
More,  which  we  have  in  MS*,  in  the  Bodlejan  Library  in  Archive 
B.  24.  Bodl.  &  from  Stapleton's  Book  de  tribus  Thomis  &  from  Sr. 
Thomas's  Grandson's  Life  of  him  the  said  Sr.  Thomas.  —  Just  come 
out  a  Poem,  in  six  cantos,  call'd  The  Dispensary.  The  Author  Dr.  Garth.  30 
Dedicated  to  Anthony  Henley,  Esq.  There  are  prefix'd  Encomiastick 
verses  upon  this  Poem  by  C.  Boyle,  Chr.  Codrington,  Tho.  Cheek  &  H. 
Blount.  (It  had  been  publish'd  formerly,  but  faultily  &  without  the 
Author's  Knowledge.)  —  In  Bibliotheca  Cottoniana  Volumina  xxi.  plus 
minus  exstant  ad  Antiquitates  &  Privilegia  Universitatis  Oxoniensis 
spectantia.  Exinde  non  pauca  excerpserunt  antiquarij.  Ceterum  char- 
tarum  quae  ex  istis  voluminibus  impressae  habentur  nulla  majorem  fidem 
meretur  quam  Historiola  Oxoniensis,  quae  proinde  saepius  prodijt.  (Vide 
Tho.  Key  Assert.  Antiq.  Oxon.  in  princip.  &  Hist.  Oxon.  lib.  I.  p.  4.  &c.) 
Willhelmus  Wircester,  Worcester  sive  Buttoner  Polyandrum  Oxoniensium  40 
&c.  scripsit ;  in  quo  virorum  clarorum,  quotquot  hac  in  Universitate 
educati  atque  exculti  fuerant,  catalogum  accuratum  exhibuit.  Twinum 
hoc  usum  fuisse  conjicio,  (vide  Apolog.  1.  n.  §  144.)  licet  jam  omnino 
intercidisse  videatur.  Assertionem  Antiquitatis  Oxon.  refutare  conatus 
est  vir  undecunque  doctissimus  Joannes  Cajus  Cantabrigiensis.  Unde  « 
auctor  aliud  opusculum  composuit,  sic  inscriptum,  Examen  Judicij  Canta- 
brigiensis cujusdam,  qui  se  Londinensem  dicit,  nuper  de  origine  ulriusque 
Academics  lati.  Nunquam  juris  publici  factum  erat ;  sed  ejusdem  apo- 
graphum  jam  olim  vidit  Antonius  a  Wood,  (Ath.  Oxon.  Vol.  I.  p.  137)  ex 
cujus  tamen  verbis  luce  indignum  esse  non  absurde  colligamus.  —  Hericus,  50 

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260  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

seu  Ericus,  monachus  Benedictinus,  Altissiodorensis,  sex  libros  carmine 
scripsit,  quibus  complexus  est  vitam  B.  German!,  Altissiodorensis  Epis- 
copi.  Primus  in  lucem  protraxit  Lutetiae  anno  1543  Petrus  Pesseliserus, 
Altissiodorensis  monasterij  coenobita. — Asserij  vita  JSlfredi  Magni  ex 
MSS.  Anglicanis  expressa,  ac  Tiguri  excusa  primum  fuit  anno  1575. — 
Sub  Luitprandi  nomine  editus  est  Liber  de  pontificum  Romanorum  vitis. 
Sed  cujus  inscriptio  non  injuria  suspecta  sit,  cum  liber  is  ex  Anastasio  sit 
excerptus. 

Sept.  15  (Th.).  Antiently  Men  of  Note  that  were  laid  in  Coffins  of 
10  Stone  and  Marble,  were  buried  no  deeper  in  the  Ground,  than  the 
Breadth  of  a  Plank,  to  be  laid  over  them  even  with  the  surface  of  the 
Pavement.  A  great  many  such  formerly  in  the  Church  at  Durham,  but 
most  of  them  most  sacrilegiously  taken  up  &  imploy'd  to  profane  uses 
by  William  Whittingham  Dean  of  that  Church,  and  one  of  the  transla- 
ters  of  the  Psalms  into  Meter,  those  I  mean  w°k  have  W.  W.  before  them, 
and  the  translater  of  the  Geneva  Bible,  &  some  other  things ;  but  tho'  he 
was  a  Reformer  yet  he  was  a  Calvinist,  of  a  warm,  unsettled  Head,  &  did 
a  great  many  unworthy  things.  —  Reckon'd  a  crime  formerly  to  be 
buried  very  near  the  Shrine  of  S*.  Cuthbert  at  Durham.  Anthony  Beek 
20  BP.  of  Durham,  the  first  that  was  buried  pretty  near  him.  See  the  Rites 
and  Monuments  of  the  Ch.  of  Durham,  written  by  Anonymous  &  publish'd 
by  Mr.  Davies  of  Kidwelly,  pag.  3.  There  was  a  window  in  that  Church, 
in  wch  was  painted  the  whole  History  of  the  Life  &  Miracles  of  S*. 
Cuthbert.  pag.  5.  Another  window  w^  the  whole  History  of  Joseph, 
ibid.  —  Briani  Twini  Antiquitatis  Academiae  Oxoniensis  Apologiam 
plurimum  laudarunt  viri  a  partium  studio  alieni.  Molem  tamen  indi- 
gestam  vocat  Thomas  Fullerus  in  Historia  sua  Cantabrigiensi,  libro 
futili,  fabularumque  anilium,  ut  &  ceteri  ejus  libri,  plenus.  Neque  aliter 
de  auctore  hoc  locutus  est  Antonius  a  Wood  in  Athenis  Oxoniensibus, 
3°  oblitus  sane  quod  antea  dixerat,  (in  Hist.  &  Antiq.  Univ.  Oxon.  lib.  n. 
p.  241)  in  eo  nempe  libro  prater  subaclissimum  judicium,  etiam  varia 
lectionis  indicia  passim  spargi.  Sed  forsan  Woodij  verba  hie  loci  mutavit 
Fellus,  6  fiaKapirris ;  qui  plura  in  opere  illo  resecuit,  alia  vero  refinxit  &  in 
methodum  redegit.  Quo  nomine  contumelijs  eum  insecutus  est  Woodius, 
in  patronum  suum,  sanctitate  &  eruditione  conspicuum,  plane  ingratus, 
ceteroquin  probitate  &  sequitate  praeclarus. 

Sept.  16  (Fri.).  Last  week  the  Duke  of  Beaufort's  Lady  was  brought 
to  bed  of  a  Son  and  Heir,  to  the  great  Joy  of  that  noble  Family ;  but 
this  Joy  was  soon  turn'd  into  Mourning  by  the  Death  of  that  noble  Lady 
40  on  Saturday  night,  she  being  the  IId  wife  of  the  Duke,  and  was  a  woman 
of  very  great  virtues.  —  In  Cod.  Baroc.  119.  Herodoti  libellus  de  vita 
Homeri.  f.  98.  —  Thwaites,  one  of  the  Families  of  chief  note  in  North- 
alvertonshire  within  the  Bishoprick  of  Durham.  See  Mr.  Leland's 
Itinerary,  vol.  i.  fol.  76.  Of  this  Family  was  Thwaites  formerly  Master 
of  Balliol  College.  —  Eodem  anno,  quo  prodijt  Twini  Apologia,  in 
lucem  editum  est  Ilium  in  Italiam,  a  Joanne  Sansbury  sive  Sandsbury  e 
collegio  Divi  Joannis  Baptistse  conscriptum ;  in  quo  uniuscujusque 
collegij,  una  cum  versiculis,  reprsesentantur  insignia,  libellus  quidem  non 
magni  momenti,  uti  nee  ille  qui  paullo  ante  prodierat,  Nicholai  scilicet 


Sept.  14-17.] 


VOL  UME  XXI,  PA  GES  167-174. 


261 


1  Fitzherberti  Oxoniensis  in  Anglia  Academics  descriptio.  Utroque  tamen 
admodum  delectantur  peregrin!.  De  Antiquitatibus  Oxoniensibus  Dis- 
sertationem  scripsit  Leonardus  Huttonus,  ex  aede  Christi  Canonicus. 
Jejunae  tamen  &  leves  sunt  ejus  observationes,  si  fides  Antonio  a  Wood, 
qui  inspexerat.  Sed  hallucinatur  Wood.  Optimae  sunt.  Scripsit  & 
idem  auctor  aliud  opusculum,  Historian,  nempe  Fundalionum  Ecclesice 
Christi  Oxon.  una  cum  Episcoporum,  Decanorum  $•  Canonicorum  ejusdem 
catalogo.  Nondum  typis  mandatum,  nee  ubi  exstet  mihi  liquet.  Forsan 
in  Archivis  ^dis  hujus  magnificae  reponitur.  Usui  fore  puto  maximo 
in  vita  illustrissimi  Cardinalis  Thomse  Wolseij  conscribenda ;  quam,  ut  *° 
ajunt,  in  se  suscepit  Humphredus  Wanleius,  ex  Arthuri  Charletti  fami- 
liaribus.  Plura  item  ad  Wolseij  Historiam  pertinentia  cum  e  codicibus 
MSS.  turn  e  libris  impressis  collegit  Browneus  Willisius,  armiger,  non 
ita  pridem  ex  aede  Christi  superioris  ordinis  commensalis  ;  vir  probus,  & 
in  antiquitatibus  patrijs  supra  annos  versatus.  —  S*.  Cuthbert's  Shrine, 
one  of  the  most  sumptuous  Monuments  in  all  England.  See  Antiq.  of 
Durham,  p.  6.  The  Jewells  &  other  Reliques  belonging  to  St.  Cuthbert's 
Feretory  the  richest  in  all  this  land,  p.  9. 

Sept.  17  (Sat.).  Occo  Scharlensis  posteris  prodidit  origines  Frisiae. 
Sane  fidei  non  plus  meretur,  quam  Hunibaldus  Francus,  aut  Gaufredus  20 
Britannus,  &  similis  farinae  scriptores.  —  Ethelwoldus  Wentanus,  Anglus, 
monachus  Gioscaniensis,  librum  edidit  de  Abbatibus  Lundisfarnensibus : 
&  alterum  de  regibus,  regnis,  &  episcopatibus  totius  Angliae :  alium  item 
de  tempore  regum  Britannorum.  Exstant  MSS.  in  Cantabrigiensis  Aca- 
demiae  Bibliotheca  Publica.  —  Dr.  Cawley  writ  a  Pamphlett  call'd  The 
Case  of  Founders  Kinsmen  :  with  relation  to  the  Statutes  of 2  *  *  *  College, 
in  the  university  of  *  *  *  *  pr.  at  London,  4*°.  without  Date,  occasion'd 
by  his  Son's  standing  for  a  Fellowship  of  All-Souls  college,  wcl1  he  miss'd 
of.  Dr.  Cawley  also  writ  a  Pamphlett  about  Surrogates.  —  In  the  year 
1687.  was  publish'd  in  twelves  at  the  Hague,  Familia  Caesarum  Augusta,  30 
accurata  methodo  descripta,  ad  inferendum  lumen  Historiae  Augustas 
scriptoribus ;  Tacito  praesertim,  Suetonio  &  DionL  Opera  &  studio  Godo- 


Sept.  17.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  44).  Thanks  for  pamphlet  relating 
to  the  false  Prophets.  Has  finished  his  Discourse  on  Incense.  Suggests  that 
H.  should  undertake  a  collection  of  the  Ancient  Offices  of  our  Islands.  Mes- 
sage to  Mr.  Lombard  of  St.  John's  cone,  a  passage  in  Maximus  Tyrius,  Diss. 
xxxi.  p.  373  of  the  Oxford  ed.  1677.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  137). 
Thinks  that  Whiston,  the  impudent  Arian,  should  be  refuted ;  strange  that 
recourse  must  be  had  to  a  foreigner,  and  a  Lutheran,  and  such  a  one  as  stiffly 
refuses  to  communicate  with  us  in  our  most  holy  office  and  service.  Knows 
nothing  of  Numismatum  Antiquorum  Sylloge ;  is  it  by  the  late  Archdeacon  Bat- 
tely  ?  Casaubon's  Epistles  and  Petronius  Arbiter  (ed.  Burmann)  have  been 
imported  from  Holland  this  convoy.  '  Whilst  in  Holland,  not  to  say,  else- 
where, they  pretend  to  give  us  new  and  correct  editions  of  the  Greeke  &  Latine 
classic  and  antient  writers,  they  have  no  regard  to  the  growth  of  learning,  wch 
is  stunted  &  overborne  by  such  bulky  annotations,  wch  would  take  up  a 
mans  whole  time  to  read,  wch  ought  to  bee  employed  in  better  &  weightier 
arguments.' 

1  Fallor.  Multa,  notatu  digna,  alibi  frustra  quserenda,  habet  FitzHerbertus. 
"  All  Souls.  3  Oxford. 


262  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709 : 

fredi  de  Peschwitz.  After  the  Table  he  has  added  Historical  Notes,  to 
confirm  every  particular.  This  Book  ought  to  be  consulted  by  Mr. 
Oddy,  who  it  seems  has  writ  himself  about  the  Stemmata  of  the 
Emperours.  He  ought  also  to  look  over  J.  Glandorpius's  Onomasticon 
Historiae  Romanae,  to  which  is  added  praecipuarum  familiarum  Stemma : 
Printed  at  Francof.  1589.  folio.  But  what  will  perhaps  be  of  most  use  to 
him  is  El.  Reusneri  Genealogicum  Romanum  De  Family's  praecipuis 
Regum,  Principum,  Caesarum,  Imperatorum,  Consulum  item,  aliorumque 
Magistratuum  ac  procerum  Imperij  Romani,  ab  u.  c.  usque  ad  haec 
10  tempora  praesentia.  Franc.  1589.  Fol. 

Sept.  18  (Sun.).  Ex  libro  nigro  quodam  de  Antiquitate  Academiae 
suae  mira  proferunt  Cantabrigienses ;  in  quo  &  Historiola  reperitur,  quae 
nullam  plane  fidem  meretur.  Volumen  integrum  chartas  ac  privilegia 
complectitur ;  historiolam  autem  dictam  seculo  proxime  elapso  inseruit 
Guilielmus  Buckenham,  Collegij  Caij  Magister,  &  Academiae  Cantabri- 
giensis  Vice-Cancellarius.  De  Urbe  Caer-Grant  a  Grantano,  Cantabri 
filio,  condita  hie  narratio  insulsa  habetur.  Centum  sunt  ibi  praeterea 
ejusdem  farinse  fabulae.  Profecto  nihil  unquam  legi  vanius,  inquit 
Lelandus  (Com.  ad  Cygn.  Cant,  voce  Granta)  sed  neque  stultius  aut 

Ho  stupidius.  Missas  igitur  facio  has  Antiquitatis  delicias.  Sic  Antiquarius 
eximius,  qui  Academiae  Cantabrigiensis  quondam  Alumnus  fuit.  Quin 
&  auctoritatem  ejus  magni  aestimandam  esse  fatentur  Cantabrigienses. 
Neque  haec  temere  dixit  Lelandus.  Codices  omnigenos  incredibili  dili- 
gentia  consuluerat  atque  evolverat,  &  quid  de  quoque  judicandum  sit 
consulto  pronunciavit.  Plura  apud  Twinum  &  Woodium  habebis,  uti  & 
apud  vindicem  ilium  Antiquitatum  Cantabrigiensium  acerrimum  Joannem 
Cajum.  Neque  levia  exspectamus  a  viro  pererudito  Dno  Bakero,  qui  per 
plures  annos  Antiquitates  Cantabrigienses  excoluit,  &  chartarum  Collec- 
taneorumque  vim  magnam  congessit.  —  Alfricus,  sive  Elphricus,  cogno- 

30  mentoGrammaticus,anno  setatis  xxm  condidisse  diciturChronica  Saxonica, 
quae  inprimis  agebant  de  Ecclesia  Cantuariensi.  Haec  MSa.  superesse 
ajunt  Cantabrigiae  in  collegio  S.  Benedicti,  ubi  &  alia  ejusdem,  itidem 
MSSta.  reperiuntur.  Exinde  forsan  non  pauca  excerpta  sunt  quae  in 
Gibsoniana  editione  leguntur  Chronici  Saxonici,  cui  tamen  nullum 
auctoris  nomen  praefigitur;  utpote  quod  a  pluribus,  pro  illorum  temportim 
ratione,  consignatum  fuerit.  In  Abbatia  Abbingdoniensi  innumera  id 
genus  olim  adservabantur,  sed  temporum  injuria  Laicorumque  manibus 


Sept.  18.  H.  to  Prof.  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  27).  Sends  collations  of  Hero- 
dotus' Life  of  Homer  from  a  Baroccian  MS.  (of  about  350  years  since). 
Advises  B.  to  add  Porphyry's  ZT/r^ara  'OprjpiKd  and  Plutarch's  Discourse  on 
Homer.  [On  fly-leaf  Dr.  Hudson  endorses  H.'s  suggestions ;  would  not  have 
Prolegomena,  and  would  like  to  see  the  Preface  before  publication.  Sends 
advice  about  subscribers,  and  asks  B.  to  help  in  getting-in  payment  for  Livys. 

Message  to  Mr.  Oddy.     '  Mr.  Topham  &  ye  scoundrel  D us'd  you  I  hope 

better  yn  another  ye  D.  of  Richmd  did  me  wm  I  once  happen'd  to  be  in  com- 
pany wth.  He  rais'd  a  story  (for  wch  there  was  no  colour)  y*  we  drank  a  health 
to  ye  Pretender  :  wch  was  spread  all  England  over,  nay  Ireland  too,  purposely 
to  defame  me,  &  hinder  me  from  having  any  Preferm*.  But  if  they  knew  how 
little  sollicitous  I  am  in  y*  matter,  they  wd  not  trouble  yr  heads  wth  roe,  who 
scorns  ye  Illiterati  &  all  they  can  doe  for  him.' 


Sept.  17-18.]  VOLUME  XXI,  PA GES  174-180.  263 

sacrilegis,  Fanaticorum  praecipue,  in  magnum  rei  literariae  (proh  dolor  !) 
damnum  perierunt.  —  Boston!  Buriensis  scriptorum  nost[r]orum  cata- 
logo  usus  est,  &  pag.  346.  operis  de  Historicis  Latinis  in  vita  Joannis  de 
Garlandia  citavit,  &  p.  349,  in  vita  Haymonis  Cantuariensis  Archidiaconi. 
—  Conferenti  Hermanni  Contracti  Chronicon  cum  Beda  patebit, 
Chronicon  Bedae  totum  pene  ad  verbum  exscripsisse :  quod  et  Vasaeus 
observavit,  de  rebus  Hisp.  cap.  5.  —  BP.  Lucy,  as  'tis  thought,  has 
discover'd  the  Name  of  an  Author  de  Ecclesia.  'Tis  in  Queen's  Coll. 
Library,  and  the  Author's  Name  he  says  was  Loe  (ut  accepi,  inquit  ille, 
quicunque  demum  fuerit).  The  Title  of  the  said  Book  is  Querimonia  10 
Ecclesice,  pr.  at  Lond.  1592.  4*°.  And  the  Note  at  ye  Beginning  is,  Is  qui 
confecit  querimoniam  Ecclesice  dicebatur  Loe,  uti  accepi.  —  Matthaeus  Paris 
scripsit  de  Gestis  Brytonum.  —  Will.  Howell's  Institution  of  General  History 
printed  in  one  vol.  in  folio  at  Lond.  1662.  —  David  Lloyd  epitomiz'd 
Plutarch's  Lives  in  English  &  printed  them  in  a  large  8V0.  at  London, 
dedicated  to  the  Duke  of  Monmouth,  the  Duke  being  then  15  Years  of 
Age.  —  An  extraordinary  collection  of  Heraldry  Books,  with  curious 
Additions  in  MSS*.  in  some  of  them,  in  Q.  College  Library,  amongst 
Sir  Joseph  Williamson's  Benefaction.  They  stand  in  the  second  Stall  of 
the  right  Hand.  —  The  first  Specimen  of  the  English  Polyglot,  in  Queen's  20 
Library  inserted  in  U.  14.  24.  Printed  by  Flesher.  BP.  Jewell's  works 
pr.  at  Lond.  1611.  There  is  a  Dedication  to  K.  James,  written  by  Dr. 
John  Overall  Dean  of  S*.  Paul's  as  I  find  noted  in  a  copy  of  it  in  Q. 
College  Library.  E.  13.  i.  —  Theoderit  of  Froben's  Ed.  Bas.  1535,  in 
Queen's  Library  of  BP.  Barlow's  Gift.  Quaere  whether  in  the  Publick 
Library?  —  Captain  Stevens's  Spanish  Dictionary  Folio  published  in 
1706.  The  same  who  translated  Marianus'  Spanish  History.  —  The 
Lawes  and  Acts  of  Parliam1  of  King  James  Ist  &  His  Successours,  pr. 
at  Edinb.  1597.  (Quaere.)  At  the  End  Skene  upon  Terms  of  Law.  — 
The  Hone  Subsecivae  :  or  Death  inflicted  on  Roman  Catholicks,  not  for  30 
Religion,  but  for  Treason,  pr.  at  London  1664.  4*°.  was  written  by 
William  Denton.  Only  the  Initial  Letters  W.  D.  put  in  the  Title  Page. 
A  Notable  Paper  in  MS*,  relating  to  this  Book  in  a  copy  of  it  I  have 
seen  in  Queen's  library.  It  begins  thus, 

Oxford  Broke  the  Urinal  i'th  Case 

Dr.  Ashworth's  Man  Denton  And  lost  a  Groat  more  than  his  Fees. 

An  Errant  was  sent  on  I  will  not  say  this  was  that  Mountebank, 

To  make  a  Lady's  A —  sneeze  who  sent  the  good  Lady  Mary  Bishop 
But  at  Brackley  Race  into  &c.  — 

In  1674.  was  dug  up  in  the  Grounds  of  Sir  Thomas  Spencer  at  Yarnton  40 
near  Oxford  a  Stone  with  Chinese  Characters.  I  have  seen  a  Copy  of 
them  in  a  loose  Piece  of  Paper  in  a  Book  in  Queen's  Library,  (viz.  Bib- 
liotheca  Vaticana  by  Rocco)  C.  n.  26.  —  Quum  Marianus  Scotus  suo 
sevo  meliores  habuerit  codices,  quam  hodie  supersint,  non  pauca  ex  eo 
in  Eusebio,  Cassiodoro,  atque  item  Beda,  &  alijs,  possunt  emendari. 
Mariano  Scoto  Notitiam  Imperij  Romani,  opus  praeclarum,  adscriptum 
it  doctissimus  Cujacius.  De  qua  re  per  litteras  consule  cl.  Dodwellum, 
&  pete  ut  sententiam  paucis  scribat.  Sulcardus  Westmonasteriensis  sub 
Guilielmo  Conquaestore  claruit,  ac  praeter  Sermones,  &  Epistolas,  chronicon 
edidit.  Decessit  circa  annum  MLX  :  hodieque  Westmonasterij  lapis  in  5° 


264  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

templo  inscriptum  habet,  SVLCARDVS  MONACHVS,  ET  CHRONOGRAPHVS.  — 
Ingulphus  Historicus  perperam  nonnullis  Indulphus  dicitur.  —  ...  I  have 
by  me  The  Georgicks  of  Hesiod  translated  elaborately  out  of  Greek  into 
English  by  George  Chapman,  pr.  at  London  in  a  thin  Quarto  in  1618. 
There  was  another  Chapman,  (descended  from  this  George  Chapman, 
as  is  suppos'd,)  a  Pretender  to  Poe'try.  He  liv'd  in  mad  Earl  of  Rochester's 
Time,  and  being  at  the  Bath  when  the  Earl  was  there,  and  Queen 
Catherine  being  in  the  Cross-Bath,  he  the  said  Chapman  made  the 
following  verses  upon  that  Bath : 

10  The  Name  of  Cross  quite  lost  it  hath, 

It  shall  be  call'd  Queen  Catherine's  Bath. 

To  which  Rochester  reply'd: 

The  Name  of  Cross  not  lost  it  hath, 
Chapman's  the  changling  not  the  Bath. 

But  as  for  George  Chapman  the  Translator  of  the  Georgicks  he  was 
always  reckon'd  amongst  some  of  the  best  of  our  English  Poets.  He 
flourish'd  in  the  time  of  K.  Jam.  &  K.  Ch.  i.  and  died  12  May.  1634.  in 
the  77th  Year  of  his  Age,  and  had  a  monument  erected  to  his  Memory  at  the 
charge  of  his  great  Friend  and  Admirer  Inigo  Jones.  He  was  buried  in  the 
20  Yard  on  the  South  side  of  the  church  of  S*.  Giles  in  the  Fields.  He  has 
been  highly  celebrated  for  his  excellent  Translation  of  Homer.  There 
was  one  Henry  Chapman  of  Magd.  Hall  in  Oxon.  who  was  admitted 
master  of  Arts,  he  being  then  advanc'd  in  years,  by  order  of  the  Presby- 
terian Delegates,  Nov.  24. 1649.  which  was  chiefly  done  upon  account  of 
his  being  recommended  by  testimonial  Letters  from  Dr.  John  Wallis,  the 
Mathematick  Professor,  who  was  always  an  Admirer  of  Fanaticks  and 
Presbyterians. 

Sept.  19  (Mon.).  Pitseus  ait  Nicolaum  Cantelupum,  Cambro-Britan- 
num  Historiam  Cantabrigiae  scripsisse.  Carmelitarum  Northantoniae 

30  Prior  fuit,  obijtque  A.D.  1441.  (vide  Pits  p.  635.)  Usserius  Magnus  hanc 
eandem  esse  putat  cum  ilia  quam  in  libro  nigro  exstare  paullo  superius 
observavimus,  ideoque  Cantelupi  Historiolam  frequenter  citat  de  Lucij 
atque  Arthurij  Regum  ad  Cantabrigiam  Ben[e]factionibus.  Nee  dis- 
sentiunt  antiquarij  nostri  recentiores.  At  Fullerus  tractatum  quendam 
adfert  (Hist.  Cant.  p.  65,  66.)  de  Academiae  Cantabrigiensis  Privilegijs 
antiquis  paullo  vetustiorem,  scriptum  nempe  a  Thoma  Markantio,  B. 
Petri  Domus  sive  Collegij  socij,  &  Procuratoris  Junioris  A.  D.  1417. 
Librum  hunc  qualem  qualem  inquit  ab  Auctore  ipso  Academiae  donatum 
fuisse,  &  summa  cura  per  annorum  aliquot  spatium  in  capsula  hunc  in 

40  finem  parata  conservatum ;  tandem  vero  ab  impijs  quibusdam  hominibus 
surreptum,  &  deletum.  Sic  ille,  nugarum  aliarum  complurium  inventor 
pariter  atque  narrator,  quas  nihil  moror.  —  Mr.  Thwaites  tells  me  that 
he  is  of  opinion  that  the  Sylloge  Numismatum  antiquorum  lately  printed 
at  London  was  done  by  Mr.  Wrenn1,  (Son  to  Sr.  Christopher  Wrenn) 
who,  it  seems,  has  a  valuable  Collection  of  Coyns.  —  There  happen'd 
on  the  first  of  this  month  a  bloudy  Battle  between  the  Allyes  and  the 
French  near  Mons.  It  lasted  for  about  9  Hours,  with  very  great 
Obstinacy.  At  last  the  French,  after  they  had  slain  about  19  thousand 

1  It  was  so. 


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of  the  Allyes,  with  the  loss  of  only  7  thousand  men  on  their  own  side, 
thought  fit  to  retire,  which  they  did  in  very  good  order.  The  French  after 
this  Action  and  great  Slaughter  of  our  Men  made  great  Rejoycings  and  sung 
Te  Deum,  as  they  had  reason  ;  and  the  Duke  of  Marlborough  &  Prince 
Eugene  &  the  rest  of  the  Allies  made  also  Rejoycings,  &  news  was  dispatch'd 
into  England  and  other  Parts  of  a  most  compleat  victory,  &  Forms  of  Prayer 
and  Thanksgiving  are  drawing  up  upon  this  occasion,  as  if  gaining  the  Field 
were  sufficient  to  attone  for  such  a  prodigious  Loss.  As  this  has  been  the 
most  obstinate  so  it  has  been  the  most  direfull  Battle  to  England  that  has 
yet  happen'd,  and  there  is  not,  in  the  opinion  of  all  honest  men,  any  the  I0 
least  reason  of  Bragging.  Private  Letters  frequently  come  which  give  most 
impartial  Accounts,  and  we  are  well  assur'd  that  from  the  greatest  to  the 
meanest  Officer  hardly  one  escap'd  but  what  was  either  slain  or  very 
much  wounded,  Prince  Eugene  himself  being  in  the  list  of  the  latter. 
Amongst  others  that  signaliz'd  themselves  on  this  occasion  must  not  be 
forgotten  the  young  King  of  England,  who  fought  under  the  character  of 
the  Chevalier  S*.  George,  &  'tis  by  that  Title  he  passes.  He  shew'd 
abundance  of  undaunted  Courage  and  Resolution,  lead  up  his  Troups 
with  unspeakable  Bravery,  appear'd  in  the  utmost  dangers,  and  at  last 
was  wounded.  This  Act  cannot  but  deserve  the  highest  commendation,  20 
tho'  'tis  slighted  and  undervalu'd  by  his  disloyal  &  rebellious  English 
Subjects,  who  are  for  magnifying  nothing  but  what  makes  for  the 
Interest  of  the  Duke  of  Marlborough,  whom  some  call  King  John 
the  Second  :  wcl»  Duke  tho'  he  be  a  good  Souldier,  yet  all  his  Atchiev- 
ments  will  never  satisfy  for  his  shamefull  Desertion  of  his  Royal  Master, 
K.  James  the  II.  at  Salisbury  Plain,  from  whom  he  had  receiv'd  so  many 
favours  as  one  would  think  could  never  have  been  forgotten  by  any  one 
that  pretends  to  any  Sparkle  of  Humanity. 

Sept.  2O  (Tu.).  .  .  .  Joannes  Lelandus  se  Sigeberti  vitam  scripturum 
pollicebatur.  Sed  re  infecta  obijt.  Quod  si  perfecisset,  non  melior  30 
utique  fuisset  quam  Arthuri  Regis  vita,  in  qua  fabulas  miras  &  legendas 
incredibiles  exhibuit.  Cajus  tamen  eas  magni  facit,  vir  alioquin  judicio 
acerrimo  praeditus.  Eopse  anno  quo  Caij  liber  prodijt,  edebatur  Regina 
Litera,  stve  de  adventu  RegincE  Anglice  ad  Academiam  Cantabrigiensem. 
(Lond.  1568.  8V°.)  Eo  plane  modo  scriptus  est  hie  tractatus  quo  &  Wakij 
nostri  Rex  Platonicus.  Regnante  etiam  Elizabetha  in  lucem  productus 
fuit  Rectorum  &  Cancellariorum  Academiae  Cantabrigiensis  Catalogus, 
cum  Mauritio  (qui  Constantino  Magno  imperante  vixit)  exorsus,  atque  ad 
an.  1585.  perductus.  Impressus  Cantabrigiae  per  Thomam  Thomasium. 
Nondum  vidi.  Auctor  autem  erat  Matthaeus  Stokys,  Academiae  Bedellus  40 
&  Registrarius.  De  Simondsij  D'Ewesij  concione  in  Regni  comitijs  habita 
non  est  quod  loquar.  Curta  est,  &  argumenta  futilia,  &  auctore  (Viro 
pererudito  &  in  antiquitatibus  versatissimo)  prorsus  indigna  offert.  — 
Mr.  Thomas  Newcourt,  who  lately  publish 'd,  in  a  large  Folio,  an  Account 
of  the  several  Churches  in  Middlesex,  (and  is  now  about  those  of  Essex) 
was  formerly  of  Wadham  College.  He  receiv'd  some  Assistance  from 
one  Mr.  Alexander,  who  is  Secretary  to  the  BP.  of  London.  The  said 
Mr.  Newcourt  is  a  non-Juror  and  a  man  of  true  Integrity.  —  Guilielmi 
Gemiticensis  libros  VII.  de  Gestis  Normannorum  (ex  quibus  tres  primi 
polius  Dudonis  dici  merentur)  ab  interitu  vindicavit  Guilielmus  Camdenus.  50 


266  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709 : 

—  G.  and  D.  sometimes  confounded  in  MSSts.     Thus  we  find  Guido 
for  Guigo.   —   Bostonus  Buriensis  citatus  inVossio,  p.  383.  de  Historicis 
Latinis.   —   I  have  been  inform'd  by  a  very  learned  Divine  of  the  Church 
of  England,  a  man  of  very  great  Honesty  &  Integrity,  that  the  Books 
publish'd  by  Dr.  Grabe  (the  Lutheran,)  are  full  of  faults,  and  that  he  does 
not  understand  the  Fathers  he  has  just  put  out,  and  moreover  that  he 
thinks  him  so  far  from  being  qualified  to  answer  Mr.  Whiston  the  proud 
Heretick  that  he  does  not  believe  he  has  thoroughly  studied  any  of  the 
main  Points  insisted  upon  by  him.   —   Robertus  Salopiensis,   sive  de 

10  Shrewsbury  (teste  Joanne  Capgravio  in  Catalogo  Sanctorum  Angliae)  sub 
Stephano  rege  floruit,  ac  post  Wenifridae  e  Cambria  translationem  in 
Salopianum  monasterium,  cujus  antistes  erat,  opus  de  vita  ejusce  virginis 
condidit.  Edidit  Surius,  sed  nomine  auctoris  non  apposito.  Conjecit  tan- 
tummod[o]  Roberti  esse.  Consentit  Vossius.  Ex  fine  enim  constat  non 
fuisse  Elerium  Cambrium,  qui  &  ipse  circa  annum  vixit  660,  vitamque 
Wenifridae  posteris  prodidit.  Satis  tamen  verisimile  est  Robertum  ex 
Elerio  pleraque  exscripsisse.  —  Radulphus  de  S.  Albano,  abbas  fani  S. 
Albani,  floruit  sub  eodem  Stephano  rege,  ac  prseter  vitam  S.  Albani 
carmine  ex  antiquis  concinnavit  historiam  Alexandri  Magni.  In  Bib- 

20  liotheca  Bodlejana  inter  Codices  Laudianos  adservatur  Codex  MStus, 
circa  hujus  regis  tempora  exaratus,  cujus  specimen  in  Editione  Justini 
Historici  exhibui.  Continet  Alexandri  magni  res  gestas,  nee  nomen  prse- 
fert  Auctoris.  Conjecerint  forsan  nonnulli  hunc  ipsum  esse  Radulphum 
de  S.  Albano.  Sed  conjecturis  hisce  non  temere  faveo.  Nam  iste  codex 
Epitome  potius  videtur  majoris  operis.  Quin  &  doctus  Tractatus  Radul- 
phi  quinque  libris  comprehenditur,  &  a  nonnullis  Galtero  Hemlingtono 
tribuitur. 

Sept.  21  (Wed.).     Ponticus  Virunnius  Galfridum  Monumethensem  in 
epitomen    redegit,    fabulis,   quae    sibi   videbantur,   praeteritis.     Adversus 

30  Guilielmum  Neubrigensem,  &  Polydorum  Vergilium,  Galfridum  tuetur 
Joannes  Lelandus.  Nee  penitus  Galfridum  rejiciendum  esse  censet  cl. 
Vossius  de  Hist.  Lat.  p.  393.  Si  forsan  quispiam  culpari  debeat,  is  est 
Gualtherus  Archidiaconus  Oxoniensis,  quern  e  lingua  Britannica  fideliter 
transtulit  Galfridus.  —  Joannis  Sarisberiensis  vita  Thomae  Becketti 
superest  in  Bibliotheca  Vaticana.  Videndum  an  unquam  impressa  fuerit  ? 

—  Laurentius  Dunelmensis,    sub    Henrico    II.  orator    vehemens,  nee 
aspernandus  poe'ta,  librum  de  S.  Cudberto  composuit.     Multa  ejus  ex- 
stant  in  Collegi[o]  Balliolensi.     Forsan  &  liber  dictus.   —   ...  Guilielmus 
Rameseye  vitam   Birini,  Dorcestrensis  Episcopi,  scripsit.     Carmine,   ut 

40  opinor.  Vixit  auctor  sub  Hen.  II.  —  Giraldi  Cambrensis  Topographiae 
Hiberniae  (quam  insulam  ipse  peragravit)  primapars  agit  de  situ  regionis, 
ac  loci  natura  ;  altera  de  mirabilibus,  ac  miraculis,  quae  ibi  contigerunt : 
tertia  de  incolis,  eorumque  gestis.  Huic  tripertito  volumini  triennium  se 
impendisse,  ipse  ait,  Praefat.  in  Descript.  Camb.  Praeterea  fecit  libros 
duos  de  expugnata  ab  Anglis  Hibernia.  Huic  operi  biennio  se  intentum 
fuisse,  idem  refert.  Ibidem.  Scriptor  est  mire  fabulosus,  ut  plerique  alij 
hujus  aevi.  —  Rogerus  de  Windeshora  &  Rogerus  Wendoverus  idem 
auctor.  Pro  diversis  habet  Pitseus.  perperam.  —  Matthaeus  Paris  vivere 
desijt  anno  1259  ad  quern  annum  &  chronicon  sive  Historiam  suam  per- 

50  duxit.     Quae  itaque  sequuntur  usque  ad  annum  ultimum  Henrici  III,  hoc 


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est  annum  domini  1273,  ab  alio  auctore  (quern  Guilielmum  Rishanger 
fuisse  plerique  opinantur)  adjecta  erant.  Sic  notavit  vir  doctissimus  D. 
Wattsius,  Matthsei  Paris  editoris  [sic]  diligentissimus.  —  Anno  1287  floruit 
Guido  de  Columna,  qui  Chronicon  magnum,  libros  36  complectens,  con- 
scripsit.  Item  multa  tradidit  de  regibus  &  rebus  Anglo  rum :  estque  id  opus 
inter  ea,  ex  quibus  sua  hausit  Robertus  Fabianus,  Anglus.  Fabiani  tamen 
Chronicon  nunc  temporis  parvi  aestimandum  esse  monuit  Jacobus 
Tyrrellus  V.C.  in  Praefatione  Historiae  universalis  Angliae  vol.  I.  —  Ger- 
vasius  Ricobaldus  Ferrariensis  Historiam  scripsit,  cui  tit.  Pomerium  vel 
Pomoertum,  Hujus  libri  exemplar  MS.  liabuit  Petrus  Scriverius,  qui  10 
Pomarium  legendum  esse  conjecit,  adsentiente  Vossio,  de  Hist.  Lat.  p. 
465.  Multa  in  hoc  opere  ex  Livio  hausit  auctor.  Vixit  is  anno  1300. 
edere  statuit  Scriverius.  Videsis  num  fecerit?  Dignus  plane  editore 
erudito,  qualem  fuisse  Scriverium  Vossius  alijque  viri  candidi  censent.  — 
Thomas  de  La-Moore  vita  Edvardi  IIdi  scripta  fuit  sermone  Gallico. 
Latine  autem  vertit  Gualtherus  Baker,  Canonicus  Osneiensis.  Edidit 
Guilielmus  Camdenus. 

Sept.  22  (Th.).  Joannis  Bostoni  Catalogum  Scriptorum  Britanni- 
corum  olim  possidebat  Reverendissimus  Usserius.  A  quo  forte  mutub 
accepit  Jo.  Ger.  Vossius,  qui  multis  locis  citavit.  Alium  ejusdem  auctoris  20 
multo  minorem  brevioremque  catalogum  adduxit  Antonius  a  Wood, 
(Hist.  &  Antiq.  Univ.  Oxon.  vol.  I.  p.  58.)  Sed  prior  praeferendus. 
Usserij  apographum  fuit  omnium  optimum,  notante  Nicholsono.  Hujus 
mentionem  factam  reperio  in  Collectaneis  Usserianis  MSS.  penes  cl. 
Tyrrellum.  Ubinam  autem  nunc  exstet  non  liquet.  In  Bibliotheca 
Jacobsea  ante  aliquot  annos  custodiebatur  exemplar  quoddam ;  verum 
nunc  desideratur.  Surripuit  nempe  quispiam.  Id  Antonium  a  Wood 
abstulisse  non  desunt  qui  conjiciant.  Absque  caussa  &  injuste,  ut 
censeo.  Hoc  tarn  certum  quam  quod  certissimum  Thomam  Tannerum 
exemplar  habere ;  sed  neque  illud  constat  an  sit  transcriptum  recentius  3° 
vel  paullo  antiquius.  Ab  eo  Editionem  exspectamus.  E  Bibliotheca 
Woodiana,  ni  fallor,  comparavit ;  unde  &  aliae  chartae  non  infimae  notae 
illi  in  manus  tradebantur.  Eum  nimirum  in  finem  ut  juris  publici  tandem 
aliquando  facial. 

Sept.  23  (Fri.).  Benjaminus  Mareschallus,  A.M.  &  ^Edis  Christi 
alumnus,  sed  qui  vitam  in  doctissimi  Lloydij,  Episcopi  Vigorniensis  (cui 
affinis  est)  aedibus  fere  degit,  tabulas  binas  Historicas  prelo  parat.  Idem 
iste  est  Mareschallus  qui  cl.  Grabio  in  linguis  orientalibus,  dum  in  octa- 
teucho  edendo  occuparetur,  opem  tulit.  Tabulae  istae  Historiam  sacram 
atque  civilem  una  cum  chronologia  accurate  exhibebunt.  Nam  ne  lapsus  40 
majoris  momenti  accidant  cavebit  ipse  Lloydius ;  e  cujus  collectaneis 
chartisque  deducit  &  excerpit  Mareschallus.  Optandum  potius  esset  ut 
quispiam,  rei  chronologicae  peritus,  (qualis  nempe,  si  quis  unquam,  est 
cl.  Dodwellus,)  collectanea  ipsa  digerat  &  in  lucem  edat,  eo  plane  modo 
quo  schedas  circiter  triginta  ante  multos  annos  imprimendas  curavit 
ipse  Lloydius.  Danielis  Prophetiae  Explicationem  exorsus  item  est  Lloy- 
dius, duodecimque  schedas  typis  Academicis  excusas  habet ;  sed  ne 
ceterae  absolvantur  obstant  negotia  alia  leviora  quibus  (proh  dolor  1)  se 
ipsum  dedidit  praesul  iste  eruditissimus.  —  The  Earl  of  Clarendon 


a68  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

assassinated  in  1668.  at  Everues  in  Normandy.  So  a  Letter  I  have  seen 
in  Mr.  Rawlinson's  hands  of  S*.  John's,  written  by  one  Mr.  Oliver  to  Mr. 
William  Griffin  in  that  year. 

Sept.  24  (Sat.).  Triginta  abhinc  annis  Johnsonus  quidam,  £  Collegio 
Lincolniensi  commensalis  superioris  ordinis  Inscriptiones  fere  omnes, 
quae  in  Ecclesijs  Oxoniensibus  exstant,  collegit.  Londini  nunc  temporis 
vitam  agit.  Syllogen  hanc  continuat  beneficio  juvenis  cujusdam  b  collegio 
D.  Joannis  Baptists ;  qui  &  alia  antiquitatis  monumenta  saepe  ad  ilium 
transmittenda  curat.  In  quern  finem  mihi  est  incertum.  In  Antonij  a 

10  Wood  Codicum  MSS.  syllabo  Inscriptionum  in  Ecclesijs  civitatis  Oxon. 
uti  etiam  in  alijs  agri  Oxoniensis  ecclesijs  mentio  habetur :  sed  muse"! 
Ashmoleani  custodes  deperditum  esse  librum  ajunt,  &  ad  oculos  suos 
nunquam  pervenisse.  Forsan  apud  Tho.  Tannerum  est,  vel  Arthurum 
Charlettum,  qui,  quamvis  id  mihi  non  semel  pernegaverit,  Antiquitatum 
Universitatis  Oxoniensis  exemplar,  penes  se  habet  Anglicanum ;  quod 
tamen  quasi  in  muse'o  conservaretur  Ashmoleano  recensetur.  Tanta 
nempe  est  fraus  Charletti,  qui  procul  dubio  plures  libros  possidet,  qui  ad 
Bibliothecam  Bodlejanam  &  museum  antedictum  jure  spectant.  Idem 
forte  de  Tannero  dicendum,  &  Humfredo  WTanlejo,  qui  primas  tenent 

20  apud  Charlettum.  Id  mihi  exploratissimum  est  in  Charletti  Muse'o  esse 
Inscriptiones  permultas  antiquissimas  Romanas,  quas  ad  Bibliothecam 
Bodlejanam  pertinere  conjicio,  &  e  cl.  Bernardi  libris  a  Wanlejo  in 
Charletti  gratiam  furtim  ablatas  fuisse. 

Sept.  25  (Sun.).     Quillett's  Callipaedia,  printed  lately  several  times  at 


Sept.  24.  J.  Bennett  to  H.  (Rawl.  2.  100).  Regrets  the  gap  in  their 
correspondence.  Hopes  that  Mr.  Foxe's  wife  may  prove  better  than  his  pre- 
decessor's. Met  last  week  accidentally  in  Essex  their  old  fellow-collegian 
Mr.  Kent.  Our  late  signal  victory  costs  us  a  great  number  of  brave  men. 
(Rawl.  2.  103,  from  the  same  to  the  same,  bears  date  July  17  ;  the  year  is 
clearly  1707).  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  144).  Suspects  that  the 
Num.  Ant.  Sylloge  was  really  printed  at  Amsterdam  for  David  Mottier.  An 
M.A.  suggests  that  it  is  by  a  son  of  Sir  C.  Wren.  Has  a  much  better  opinion 
of  Almeloveen  than  a  great  many  have  ;  has  lately  seen  his  Apicius.  Fabricius' 
Supplement  to  Vossius  de  historicis  Graecis  et  Latinis.  Dr.  Lancaster  to  be 
continued  V.C.  for  another  year,  to  the  no  small  dissatisfaction  of  a  consider- 
able part  of  the  University.  The  next  New  Year's  gift  is  to  be  a  Latin  trans, 
by  Mr.  Fairfax,  M.A.,  Student  of  Ch.  Gh.,  of  a  small  piece  in  Italian  relating 
to  the  Roman  antiquities.  '  I  have  seen  Burmannus's  Petronius,  and  I  am 
confirm'd  in  my  former  Sentiments  of  him  that  he  is  a  Person  of  no  deep 
Understanding.  'Tis  a  shame  he  should  give  us  a  new  Edition  of  such  a  filthy 
Author  loaded  with  all  these  Comments.  'Tis  better  to  publish  such  Authors 
without  any  Notes.  And  I  hope  those  who  shall  print  ye  Greek  Epigrams  in 
Dr.  Bernard's  MS*,  which  we  have  will  do  it  without  a  Translation,  they  being 
for  the  most  part  lewd,  and  to  be  perus'd  only  by  Persons  of  Discretion.  In- 
deed the  Dutch  Learning  is  generally  at  a  low  Ebb,  &  they  certainly  take  the 
wrong  Method  in  heaping  up  notes  upon  notes.  Any  classical  Author  will 
appear  much  plainer  with  short  critical  Notes  and  Explications,  than  with  long 
tedious  Discourses  written  merely  for  Ostentation.  And  I  wish  all  would 
agree  in  this  Point.'  Is  reading  C.  M.  Pfaffii  Dissertatio  critica  de  genuinis 
hbrorum  N.  T.  Iectioni6us}  which  contains  some  good  observations,  but  is  in  the 
main  light  and  trivial.  Points  out  certain  errors;  e.g.  it  was  Hoffman,  not 
Edwards,  to  whom  Mill  alludes  at  p.  152  a  of  his  Prolegomena. 


Sept.  23-28.]          VOLUME  XXI,  PAGES  196-202.  269 

London,  was  publish'd  by  Mr.  Thomas  Rawlinson,  a  few  years  since 
Gentleman-Commoner  of  S*.  John's  College  in  this  university.  The 
Book  being  very  rare  in  England,  &  not  to  be  met  with  in  any  Librarys 
with  us,  it  was  at  last  found  in  this  Gentleman's  Collection  of  Books 
(wcl1  is  a  very  large  as  well  as  a  very  curious  one,  wcl1  he  is  also  con- 
tinually augmenting)  &  twas  printed  by  his  care,  he  correcting  the  press 
himself. 

Sept.  26  (Mon.).  Anno  1704,  prodijt  Londini  loannis  Inetti  S.  T.  P 
liber  inscriptus,  Origines  Anglicance,  sive  Ecclestce  Anglicance  Hisioria,  ab 
eo  anno  exorsus  quo  hoc  de  argumento  librum  suum  terminavit  cl.  10 
Stillingfletus.  Alterum  etiam  volumen  absolvit  Inettus.  Hoc  nunc  sub 
prelo  Sheldoniano  sudat.  Idiomate  Anglicano  utrumque  concinnavit.  nee 
ineleganter  scripsit  auctor  iste,  vir  plane  probus  ac  integer,  sed  qui 
a  scriptoribus  recentioribus  frequenter  pendet,  neque  vetustiores  ac 
meliores  perscrutatur  ac  excutit.  Inde  non  raro  citationes  mendosae 
comparent.  Ex  hoc  opere  pauca,  si  forsan  ulla,  ab  alijs  auctoribus  quos 
editos  habemus  intacta  exspectari  debent.  Codices  enim  MSS.  non 
inspicit,  Eachardum  Cantabrigiensem,  virum  itidem  ingenio  praeditum, 
imitatus.  Putant  nempe  Tyrrellum  aliosque  satis  superque  in  collectaneis 
congerendis  insudasse,  idque  tantummodo  superesse  ut  in  methodum  20 
reducantur,  &  plurima  quae  absurda  ac  ridicula  videntur  prorsus  rese- 
centur.  Sic  isti.  Sed  frustra,  ni  fallor.  Nam  homines  revera  eruditi 
omnia  ob  oculos  rectius  poni  censent,  ut  de  illis  melius  judicari  queat. 

Sept.  27  (Tu.).  Mulles  BP.  of  Waterford  has  been  at  the  Bathe  for 
about  a  Quarter  of  a  Year,  being  quite  weary  of  Ireland,  where  he  is 
mortally  hated  by  the  Generality.  He  sneaks  and  sharks  about  at  Bathe, 
where  the  Clergy  &  honest  men  do  not  care  to  keep  him  company.  Yet 
this  thin,  meager,  illnatur'd,  illiterate,  low-church  BP.  is  courting  one 
M".  Pontin,  a  Gentlewoman  of  about  1 7  years  of  Age  and  reckon'd  the 
most  celebrated  Beauty  at  Bath.  This  is  carried  on  so  far  as  that  her  30 
Father  has  given  his  consent,  &  some  stick  not  to  say  that  the  Business 
is  already  done.  By  this  Match  Mulles  will  be  render'd  in  all  probability 
as  miserable  as  he  can  well  be  in  this  world,  he  being  of  a  most  jealous, 
suspicious  temper,  and  he  will  be  continually  afraid  lest  Intrigues  should 
be  made  upon  his  wife. 

Sept.  28  (Wed.).  .  .  .  Nicolai  Threveth  vel  Thriveth  (vulgo  Trivett) 
Catalogus  regum  Anglo-Saxonum  durante  Heptarchia  habetur  MS403 
Oxonij  in  Mertonensi  Collegio.  dignus  forte  qui  in  lucem  prodeat.  — 
Gualteri  Burleij  opus,  de  vitis  &  moribus  philosophorum  prodijt  in  lucem 
nascente  typographia,  nee  anno,  nee  editoris  nomine  apposite,  typis  sane  4° 
admodum  rudibus,  ut  turn  fieri  solet.  Hujus  editionis  unum  &  alterum 


Sept.  28.  H.  to  P.  Cherry  (Rawl.  36.  29).  Acknowledgments  to  Mr.  G. 
for  his  kind  visit.  Entirely  agrees  with  Dodwell  that  a  collection  of  Offices 
from  our  old  MSS.  would  be  highly  serviceable  to  the  Church;  the  likeliest 
method  for  getting  such  a  thing  published  would  be  to  print  it  by  parts  by  way 
of  Appendix  to  other  occasional  Discourses,  such  as  that  about  Incense,  cf. 
Burnet's  Reformation,  Wake  on  Convocation,  &c.  But  H.'s  hands  are  quite 


370  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

exemplum  vidi.  Quinet  exemplaria  MSSta.  ejusdem  non  pauca  exstant, 
e  quibus  nonnulla  in  Bibliotheca  Bodlejana  instructissima,  si  quae 
unquam,  possidemus.  Imperitus  plerumque  auctor,  &  Livium  poetam 
tragicum  a  Livio  Historico  celeberrimo  non  secernit.  Ut  demum 
ceteros  ejusdem  errores,  non  paucos,  taceam.  de  quibus  Vossius.  Erat 
tamen  ingenio  praeditus,  imperitiaque  setatis  qua  vixit  infelicitati  tri- 
buenda. 

Sept.  29  (Th.).  Joannes  Strypeus  ad  umbilicum  fere  perduxit  Joannis 
Stovei  Descriptionis  Civitatis  Londinensis  Editionem  suam  novam, 

10  quam  avidissime  exspectant  Antiquitatum  nostrarum  cultores.  Idem  ille 
est  qui  non  ita  pridem  Annales  Ecclesiasticos  in  lucem  protulit.  Ad 
Reginae  Elizabethse  annos  duodecim  priores  spectant.  Qui  liber  licet 
paullo  inelegantiori  stylo  concinnetur  plurima  tamen  alibi  frustra  quae- 
renda  complectitur.  Stoveo  autem  Descriptionem  Londini  pro  statu 
hodierno  adjecit,  &  monumenta,  quotquot  in  ecclesijs  exstant,  exhibuit ; 
ea  itidem  forsan  exhibiturus  quae  in  Ecclesijs  prope  Londinum  reperi- 
untur :  id  quod  olim  prgestitit  Stoveus,  ut  in  Editione  optima  videre  est. 
Illud  etiam  eruditis  gratissimum  erit  si  Guilielmi  Stephanidis  sive  Fitz 
Stephani  Descriptionem  urbis  hujus  amplissimae  pariter  ac  nobilissimae 

20  vetustam  ad  codicum  MSS.  fidem  repurgatam  &  recognitam  denuo  nobis 
dederit.  Alia  item  id  genus  monumenta,  ni  fallor,  delitescunt.  Haec 
itidem  Strypei  diligentiam  merentur.  Neque  alibi  commodius  quam 
apud  Stoveum  edi  possunt.  Stovei  denique  vitam  prsemissurus  est  Editor, 
si  chartae  cuidam  quam  perlegi,  &  nunc  temporis  penes  me  adservatae, 
fides  sit  adhibenda.  —  Dispiciendum  num  unquam  prodierit  Amalri 
Augerij  Chronicon  Pontificale?  Exstitit  MS.  in  Petri  Scriverij  Biblio- 
theca, ubi  &  evolvit  Vossius.  Vide  de  Hist.  Lat.  p.  486.  —  Joannis 
Rochefordi,  nobilis  Angli,  (qui  Henrico  IV.  regnante  clarescebat)  Flores 
Historiarum,  e  Matthaeo  Westmonasteriensi  maximam  partem  collecti,  in 


full  with  his  Tully,  which  will  probably  '  come  out  with  short  Notes,  such  as 
not  only  settle  &  correct  the  Text  but  explain  it  where  there  is  a  necessity. 
The  Generality  of  Readers  are  now  quite  tyr'd  with  the  tedious  Notes  in  the 
Variorum  Editions,  in  which  we  have  Comments  upon  Comments  to  illustrate 
Things  that  are  of  themselves  plain  &  obvious ; '  cf.  the  new  ed.  of  Petronius 
Arbiter.  Employs  his  leisure  hours  in  revising  his  transcript  of  Leland's  Itine- 
rary, to  which  he  will  make  considerable  additions  from  the  Bodleian  MSS. 
Remarks  on  Olearius'  ed.  of  Philostratus ;  Almeloveen's  ed.  of  Isaac  Casau- 
bon's  Epistles,  and  of  Apicius  (only  120  copies  of  Dr.  Lister's  ed.  were  printed) ; 
Fabricius'  Supplement  to  Vossius  de  Historicis  ;  Ruinart's  new  ed.  of  Vol.  I  of 
Mabillon  de  re  diplomatica;  Numismatum  antiquorum  Sylloge;  C.  M.  Pfaffii  Dis- 
sertatio  critica.  '  Mr.  Pfaff . .  is  a  young  Gentleman  of  about  twenty  five  Years 
of  Age.  He  was  a  Student  last  Winter  in  the  Bodlejan  Library,  and  left  Ox- 
ford at  the  same  time  that  Mr.  Schelwig  did,  and  I  think  he  was  one  of  those 
that  accompany'd  Mr.  Schelwig  and  Mr.  Wolf  in  their  Journey  to  Shottesbrook, 
where  you  and  Mr.  Dodwell  were  pleas'd  to  receive  them  with  great  Humanity 
and  Kindness.'  Dr.  Hudson's  Dionysius  quite  printed  off :  Mr.  Dodwell's  Dis- 
sertation &c.  must  go  with  the  third  Vol.  of  Geographers.  '  The  Bishop  of 
Waterford  is  about  marrying  the  most  celebrated  Beauty  at  Bathe,  where  he 
has  been  for  about  a  Quarter  of  a  Year.  Her  name  is  Pontin,  &  she  is  about 
17  or  1 8  Years  of  Age.  Some  think  the  Business  is  already  done,  her  Father 
having  given  consent.' 


Sept.  28-Oct.  i.]     VOL  UME  XXI,  PA  GES  202-210.  271 

Bibliotheca  Collegij  Omnium  Animarum  Oxonij  adservatur.  Quod  ideo 
notandum  duxi,  quoniam  Brianus  Twinus  in  Apologia,  quam  pro  ilia 
Academia  magno  cum  judicio  pariter  atque  industria  scripsit,  raro  inve- 
niri  ait.  —  Vossius  ubi  vitam  Bostoni  Buriensis  adhibuit  nobis  non 
indicavit  quonam  in  loco  exstet  Catalogus  ejus  Scriptorum  ecclesiae, 
eximius  plane,  &  qui  in  lucem  prodeat  prorsus  dignus.  Opere  hoc 
laudem  magnam  retulit.  Vossius  tamen  Codicem  hunc  perlegit,  & 
multa  exinde  descripsit.  —  Poggij  Florentini  translatio  vetus  quinque 
librorum  Diodori  Siculi.  Male.  Nam  Interpres  revera  fuit  Jo.  Phreas 
Collegij  Balliolensis  socius.  Archetyponque  manu  ipsius  Phreae  scriptum,  jo 
jam  exstare  in  Bibliotheca  Collegij  Balliolensis  ait  Brianus  Twinus, 
Pag.  371.  —  Prodijt  Pictavij  anno  1479.  Breviarium  hislortale,  ut 
homines  bonis  pr&teritis  discant  vivere,  $•  malt's  exemplis  sciant  prava 
vitare.  Incipit  autem,  Decel  viros  virtuosos,  &c.,  liber  est  carissimus,  &  in 
paucissimis  adservatur  bibliothecis.  Vidit  Vossius  in  Bibliotheca  Antonij 
Thysij,  nee  aliud  exemplar  unquam  adspexit.  Auctoris  nomen  incertum. 
—  Vide  num  unquam  editum  fuerit  opus  anonymi  auctoris  de  laude  Bra- 
bantise,  de  quo  egit  Vossius  de  Hist.  Lat.  p.  50  b.  ubi  &  p.  207.  indicat 
exstans  se  inspexisse  in  Bibliotheca  Amstelodamensi.  Vossio  vivente 
ineditum  erat.  —  Mr.  Bowack  is  the  Person  who  put  out  the  two  slight  20 
Pieces  in  Folio  of  the  Antiquities  of  Middlesex. 

Sept.  30  (Pri.).  Eutropius,  Historiae  Romanae  Breviarij  Auctor,  ab 
anonymo  auctore  Ravennate  citatus  pag.  55.  —  Fenestrse  Bibliothecae 
&  capellae  Collegij  Balliolensis  eleganter  depicts  cernuntur,  una  cum 
plurimis  versiculis  ac  sententijs  virorum  insignium,  quorum  impensis 
fenestrae  positae  fuerunt,  nomina  exprimentibus.  In  his  omnibus  descri- 
bendis  &  illustrandis  multum  desudavit  Henricus  Savagius  in  Collegij 
Historia,  quam  Balliofergum  inscripsit.  Sed  ibi  mendae  innumerae  corn- 
parent,  prout  nobis  indicavit  Antonius  Woodius.  Savagius  nempe  hoc 
opus  invita  Minerva  suscepit.  Quin  et  Woodius  ipse  saepius  cespitavit.  30 
Sphalmata  tamen  istiusmodi  Editoribus  tribuenda  esse  monuit  Woodius  in 
Athenis  Oxoniensibus.  Quoad  majorem  eorum  partem  id  verum  esse 
non  difficulter  concesserim ;  at  ipsimet  cetera  adscribenda  esse  autogra- 
phon  inspicienti  patebit.  Ita  Guilielmus  Smithus  e  Collegio  Universitatis 
haud  semel  retulit.  qui  insuper  me  docuit  Woodio  solenne  fuisse  e  Briani 
Twini  chartis  quaecunque  ad  rem  suam  faciebant  excerpere.  nee  tamen 
nomen  Twini  agnovit.  Sed  num  Smitho  sit  credendum,  non  constat ; 
utpote  qui  Twini  chartas  nunquam  consuluerim. 

Oct.  1  (Sat.).  Tullius  ipse  Concertationes  quae  vulgo  Quaestiones 
vocantur,  Disputationes  Tusculanas  appellat  in  Epist.  ad  Atticum,  lib.  xv.  40 
n.  4.  —  Georgius  Trapezuntius  admodum  senex  obijt,  &  literarum 
penitus  oblitus.  Antea  fuerat  vir  ingenio  eruditione  praestans.  —  Alex- 
ander ab  Alexandro  testatur  se  in  adolescentia  Philelphum  jam  senem 
audijsse  Tusculanas  Ciceronis  Quaestiones  enarrantem. 


Oct.  1.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  138).  Commends  Almeloveen 
for  his  ed.  of  Casaubon's  Epp.,  and  for  sending  copies  to  Bodley  and  to  Dr. 
Hudson.  Pfaffius's  Dissertation  written  after  the  old  High-Dutch  way,  a  mere 
farrago  collected  chiefly  out  of  Dr.  Mill.  The  long  citation  out  of  Mr.  Dod- 
well  was  wholly  new  to  S.,  who  laid  aside  the  Paraenesis  after  reading  the  first 


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HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS-^. 


[1709  : 


Oct.  2  (Sun.).  Julius  Pomponius  Laetus  purse  dictionis  amator,  & 
Historiae  veteris  scrutator  diligens.  Linguae  Graecse  prorsus  imperitus. 
Earn  propterea  attingere  ausus  non  fuit,  ne  qua  peregrinitate  Latinam 
contaminaret.  Libri  ejus  consulendi,  is  praecipue  qui  ad  Inscriptiones 
pertinet,  quas  summo  studio  collegit ;  in  illo  tamen  libro  stylus  non  tam 
purus  quam  in  ceteris  operibus.  —  Hermolaus  Barbarus,  vir  undequaque 
doctissimus,  adeo  a  fastu  alienus  erat,  ut  saepe,  sicubi  dubitatio  oborta 
esset,  proximos,  ac  familiares  consuleret,  atque  adeo  a  quovis  discere 
paratus  esset.  Obijt  anno  aetatis  suae  39.  —  May  15.  1665.  was  an 

10  ancient  monument  of  a  curious  Frame  discover'd  in  some  Fields  three 
miles  from  Bath.  Quaere  whether  about  Walcot,  and  what  it  is,  and 
whether  any  Inscription  to  point  out  the  Occasion  ?  'Tis  mention'd  in 
the  Historian's  Guide.  —  Vossius  in  his  Book  de  Historicis  Latinis 
mentions  several  Authors  as  writing  in  Latin,  who  really  writ  in  English. 
By  wch  it  appears  that  he  did  not  consult  the  Authors  themselves,  but 
took  what  he  said  upon  trust.  Thus  he  mentions  Lydgate  and  Harding 
for  instance,  both  of  wc^  writ  in  English.  —  Antonium  Nebrissensem, 
virum  omnigena  eruditione  praeditum,  oppressit  repentina  paralysis,  cum 
ad  septuagesimum  septimum  aetatis  annum  pervenisset,  tanto  quidem 

20  corporis  ingenijque  vigore,  ut  nihil  de  studiorum  labore  omnino  remitteret ; 
&,  ut  natura  mulierosus,  ad  supremum  usque  diem  venereis  uteretur.  — 

Found  at  Glascow  an.  1690. 
Glascovij  in  Ara  e  valli  Grahamici  ruderibus  effossa  circa  annum  1 690. 


IMP.    C.    T.    A  E  L  I  O 
HADRIAN  O.    AN  TO 
NINO.    A  VG.    P.    P. 
VEX.      LEG.      VI.      VIC 
P.    F.    OP  VS    .    VALLI 
P.   oo  oo  oo  oo  .  C  .  X  L  I . 


3o      Oct.  3  (Mon.).     From  the  old  Valor  Beneficiorum  in  the  Bodlejan 
Library  it  appears  that  formerly  there  were  two  Churches  in  Oxford  that 


30  or  40  pp.  Received  from  the  publisher  a  copy  of  ed.  2  of  Apicius,  which 
is  chiefly  to  be  valued  for  the  various  readings,  collected  from  a  most  ancient 
MS.  in  the  Vatican  Library.  We  here  look  upon  Dr.  L.  as  a  stout  high- 
church-man  ;  why  is  a  considerable  part  of  the  University  dissatisfied  with  his 
being  continued  V.C.  a  fourth  year  ?  When  will  Ephraem  Syrus  be  printed 
off?  The  publisher  will  please  restore  Patrick  Young's  papers  when  the  book 
is  finished.  Your  young  spruce  conceited  German  deserves  to  be  severely 
corrected  for  his  unjust  censure  on  Dr.  Bernard  about  his  Tabula  Literaria. 


Oct.  2-4.]  VOL  UME  XXI,  PA GES  210-231.  273 

were  dedicated  to  S*.  Michael.  They  are  distinguish'd  there  by  the 
Names  of  S*.  Michael's  in  the  North  &  S*.  Michael's  in  the  South. 

Oct.  4  (Tu.).  Wheat  now  at  14^.  per  Bushell  in  London,  &  about  i2s. 
per  Bushell  in  Oxford,  and  all  Things  else  rise  in  Proportion.  A  Great 
Pestilence  now  at  Dantzick,  and  in  several  northern  Parts.  —  Exstat  in 
Archivis  Bibliothecae  Bodlejanae  libellus,  a  Thoma  Nelo,  Hebrai'cae  linguae 
Professore  Regio,  concinnatus,  ac  inscriptus,  Dialogus  in  advenlum  Regince 
serenissimce  DomincE  Elizabeths  gratulatorius,  inter  eandem  Reginam  6f 
Dominum  Robertum  Dudlceum  Comitem  LecestricB  fy  Oxoniensis  Academics 
Cancellarium.  Quern  scribendi  libellum  occasionem  praebuit  Serenissimae  10 
Elizabethae  ad  Academiam  Oxoniensem  iter,  ubi  summo  cum  gaudio  & 
applausu  recepta  fuit,  plurimumque  delectabatur  Exercitijs  Scholasticis 
tune  temporis  in  ipsius  gratiam  praestitis,  uti  etiam  collegiorum  aliorumque 
sedificiorum  pulchritudine  atque  magnificentia.  Exhibet  autem  iste  Codex 
praestantissimus  Collegiorum  &  Scholarum  imagines,  &  uniuscujusque 
Historiam  carmine  descripsit  auctor  ingeniosus  &  pereruditus,  qui  & 
ceteris  suis  operibus  laudem  summam  reportavit.  De  hoc  libello  in  lucem 
proferendo  nuper  cogitavit  Arthurus  Charlettus,  &  Michaeli  Burghers, 
calcographo  nostro  Belgico,  in  mandatis  dedit  ut  imagines  delinearet 
exsculperetque.  Sed  nondum  id  perfecit  Burghers,  utpote  qui  ne  sibi  20 
pro  tanto  labore  pecuniae  non  numerentur  valde  metuit.  —  Homer  many 
ages  before  Hesiod,  according  to  Tully  de  Senectute,  §  54.  Ed.  Gron.  nor 
do  the  MSS.  vary.  —  King  Richard  ist  surnam'd  Cceur  de  Lyon  was 
Born  in  the  Palace  call'd  the  Beaumonts  at  Oxford  in  the  Year  1157  on 
the  Day  of  the  Assumption  of  the  B.  Virgin  Mary,  in  a  Chamber,  over 
wcn  afterwards  the  Carmelite  Fryers  (namely  after  they  became  possess'd 
of  the  said  Palace  by  gift  of  Edw.  II.)  built  a  Bell-Tower  or  Bell-Fery, 
wch  they  us'd,  out  of  Glory  that  so  Royal  a  Prince  should  be  born  there, 
in  after  times  to  shew  to  Travellers.  The  Entrance  into  the  Area  or 
Court  of  the  said  Palace  or  Carmelite  House  is  to  this  day  call'd  Fryers'  30 
Entry.  —  This  Day  was  brought  to  University  College  a  Statue  of  the 
present  Queen  of  England  done  at  Full  length,  (with  the  Crown  and 
Scepter,)  to  be  put  over  the  Gate  of  the  College.  'Tis  the  gift  of  one 
Mr.  Ward  Brother  to  Mr.  Ward  that  is  now  Junior  Fellow.  Most  of  y6 
Fellows  were  for  placing  the  said  Statue  in  the  Inside  of  the  College  by 
King  James's ;  but  Arthur  Charlett  out  of  his  vain  Glory  would  have  it 
without  side  that  he  might  be  the  more  taken  notice  of.  Upon  wch  these 
Extempore  verses  were  made  by  one  of  the  By-Standers : 

O  Arthur,  Oh !  in  vain  thou  tryes 

By  merits  of  this  Statue  for  to  rise.  40 

Thou'lt  ne're  an  Exaltation  have 

But  that  on  Prickett's  shoulders  to  the  Grave  *. 

—  About  Autumn  last  year  was  admitted  a  student  in  the  Publick  Library 
Christoph.  Matth.  Pfaffius,  a  Person  of  great  Candor  &  Humanity.  This 
young  Gentleman  (for  he  is  not  above  25  Years  of  Age)  has  just  pub- 
lish'd  a  small  Book  in  8™  call'd  Dissertatio  Critica  de  Genuinis  librorum 
Novi  Testament!  Lectionibus,  ope  Canonum  quorundam  criticorum 
feliciter  indagandis  &  a  spurijs  secernendis :  Ubi  &  inter  alia  de  Joannis 
Millij  collectione  variarum  Nov.  Test.  Lectionum  modeste  disseritur. 

1  See  vol.  xxii.  17  [DR.  BLISS], 
VOL.  II.  T 


374  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1700: 

Printed  at  Amsterdam.  Dedicated  to  the  Duke  of  Wittemberg,  who  was 
pleas'd  to  take  early  notice  of  the  Author  upon  account  of  his  forward 
Parts  &  laudable  Industry.  The  Author  thinks  that  there  are  a  great 
many  very  antient  MSS.  of  the  New  Test,  as  yet  preserved  in  the  East, 
wch  if  consulted  all  corruptions  of  these  sacred  Books  might  be  heal'd. 
His  chief  design  in  the  Book  is  against  the  Deists,  shewing  that  this 
variety  of  Lections  does  not  make  for  them,  since  there  are  so  very  few 
of  them  wcl1  are  material,  and  those  wch  are  do  not  relate  to  the  doctrines 
of  Religion.  Le  Clerk  has  a  Book  in  MSS.  upon  this  Subject,  &  also  a 
10  Discourse  upon  some  Texts  sent  him  by  Mr.  Lock.  Mr.  Pfaff  wishes 
they  may  both  be  published.  But  I  wish  otherwise,  Mr.  Le  Clerk  &  Lock 
having  been  both  of  ill  Principles. 

In  pag.  8.  Mr.  Dodwell  cited  about  St.  Ignatius's  not  distinguishing  rightly 
between  the  genuine  Gospel  of  St.  Matthew,  and  the  interpolated  one  made 
use  of  by  the  Ebionites.  P.  22.  He  does  not  approve  of  what  Dr.  Smith  says 
de  Prologo  Hieronymi  in  Epistolas  Catholicas.  Yet  agrees  with  Dr.  Smith  & 
Dr.  Mill  about  the  words  of  St.  Job.  Ep.  i.  v.  7.  Hobbes  of  opinion  that  the 
Canon  of  the  New  Test,  was  not  settled  'till  after  the  3  first  Centuries,  p.  24. 
Mr.  Dodwell  of  opinion  that  the  Canon  was  establish'd  not  very  soon,  but 

20  confuted  by  Basnage.  P.  24.  Basnage  has  also  some  Errors  in  that  particular, 
ibid.  Toland  of  Mr.  DodwelFs  opinion,  ibid.  But  confuted  by  Richardson,  as 
also  is  Basnage,  &  by  an  anonymous  Author,  p.  25.  That  Anonymous  Author 
was  Stephen  Nye,  a  man  of  Learning,  ibid.  Robert  Jenkins's  Reasons  about 
the  Antiquity  of  the  Canon  of  the  New  Testament  commended,  p.  26.  (Quaere 
whether  this  Robert  Jenkins  was  not  a  Non- Juror).  In  pag.  28  a  passage  out 
of  Ignatius's  Epistle  ad  Philadelph.  The  Author  of  this  Dissertation  of  opinion 
that  apxela  is  the  true  Reading  not  dpxaia  as  in  the  Medicean  MS*.  Vossius 
also  of  that  opinion  (as  is  also  Dr.  Smith)  in  his  Notes  upon  the  Place,  tho'  in 
his  Responsio  ad  objectiones  nuperse  criticae  sacrae  he  is  for  dpxaia.  ib.  p.  29. 

3°  Hieronymus  le  Camus  vel  d  S.  Fide  a  feign'd  name  for  Father  Simon,  under  that 
Name  F.  Simon's  Judicium  de  nupera  Is.  Fossij  ad  iieratas  Simonij  objectiones  Re- 
sponsione  came  out.  p.  30.  Father  Simon  has  plainly  shewn  that  dp^eia  is  the  true 
Reading,  ibid.  Dr.  Smith's  Interpretation  of  Ignatius's  words  produc'd  pag. 
3i.*A#iKra  for  SdjjKra  to  be  read.  p.  32.  So  also  Dr.  Smith.  But  Dr.  Nicholls 
conjectures  aarjirra,  absurdly.  Mr.  Pfaff  approves  of  Mr.  Dodwell's  Interpre- 
tation of  ye  Place  in  his  Parsenesis  §.23.  wch  he  has  transcrib'd  at  large,  and  calls 
Mr.  Dodwell  vir  stupendae  eruditionis.  p.  32. — In  pag.  41,  42.  He  takes  notice 
that  St.  Paul  was  the  primary  Author  of  St.  Luke's  Gospel,  for  wch  some 
reason  may  be  gather'd  from  2  Tim.  iv.  n.  This  is  certain  that  these  words 

40  u£io?  6  epydrrjs  TOV  fiurdov  avrov  e'crri  occur  in  I  Tim.  V.  1 8  &  Luc.  X.  7.  (I 
remember  that  several  years  since  Mr.  Dodwell  gave  me  a  notable  Remark 
concerning  these  words,  &  desir'd  me,  I  being  then  at  Shottesbrook  transcrib- 
ing his  Parsenesis,  to  communicate  the  Observation  to  Mr.  Grabe,  then  about 
his  Spicilegium ;  wch  accordingly  I  did  by  a  Letter  written  to  Mr.  Milles,  now 
Bp.  of  Waterford ;  but  I  believe  Milles  never  told  him  of  it,  &  not  putting 
down  the  Memorandum  in  any  other  place  I  have  now  quite  forgot  it).  The 
original  Copies  of  the  Test,  as  well  as  old  all  lost.  p.  44.  Yet  none  continu'd 
so  long  as  that  of  St.  John's  Gospel,  ibid.  'Twas  preserv'd  in  the  Church  of 
Ephesus  till  the  4th  Century.  So  Peter  Alexandrinus,  cited  by  Petavius  in  his 

50  Uranolog.  f.  397.  of  opinion  that  they  were  call'd  Catholick  epistles  because 
written  to  many  churches,  and  for  that  reason  to  be  communicated  to  them, 
tho'  Dr.  Mill  denyes  this  communication  of  the  Catholick  Epistles,  ibid.  p.  48. 
Yet  the  Dr.  brings  no  reason  for  his  opinion,  ibid.  Mr.  Pfaff  not  of  Mr.  Dod- 
well's opinion  in  his  Parsenesis  §.  34.  that  these  Epistles  were  Apostolical 
writings  &  writings  of  the  Archetypal  &  heavenly  church,  ibid,  nor  does  he 


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believe  that  the  catholick  church  is  that  wch  triumphs  in  Heaven,  ibid.  p.  49. 
Mr.  Dodwell  of  opinion  that  the  Authentical  Hebrew  Copy  of  St.  Matthew's 
Gospel  is  referr'd  to  by  St.  Ignatius  ad  Philadelph.  §.  viii.     See  his  Paraen. 
p.  99.     The  copy  of  St.  Marc's  Gospel  at  Venice  doubtfull  from  the  Eaten  and 
worn  Fragments  now  remaining  whether  written  in  Latin  or  Greek,  p.  51. 
So  those  who  have  consulted  it.  ibid.    (Yet  I  remember  that  Mr.  Maximilian 
Misson  in  his  travells  after  a  great  deal  of  poring  and  comparing  several  scraps 
together  inferr'd  it  to  be  written  in  Greek.)    The  Roman  MS*  older  &  pre- 
ferable to  the  Alexandrian  one.  p.  53.  &  therefore  what  Dr.  Mill  says  of  it  as 
being  of  no  great  Authority  is  very  rash  &  unjust,  ibid.  p.  53. — Dr.  Mill  upon  10 
that  account  was  not  very  sollicitous  in  collecting  the  variations  of  it  ibid. 
And  theVefore  without  doubt  his  work  on  that  score  is  very  imperfect,  ibid. 
He  follows  in  that  point  Father  Simon,  whom  he  also  in  other  Places  follows 
too  much.  ibid.     The  Roman  copie  written  1200  years  since,  &  so  Dr.  Mill 
elsewhere  of  opinion,  p.  54.     Dr.  Grabe  almost  of  ye  same  opinion  with  Dr. 
Mill.  ibid.     Schelstrate  thinks  'twas  written  1400  years  since.     It  certainly 
agrees  with  ye  Letters  in  the  Statue  of  Hippolytus.  p.  55.    The  Alexandrian 
MSS.  written,  according  to  Dr.  Grabe  a  little  before  the  year  296,  or  not  long 
after.     Dr.  Mill  not  accurate  in  collating  the  Alexandrian  MS*.     He  depended 
at  first  upon  Huiss's  Collations.  Afterwards  he  collated  himself,  and  added  his  20 
New  Observations  in  the  Appendix.     Yet  negligently,  as  appears  even  from  a 
considerable  Reading  in  Apocalyps.  xxii.  n.    The  common  Books  have  SIKOI- 
coo-drw.    But  the  Alex.  MS.  has  8iKcuo<rvvr}i>  notrja-aTca.    This  Lection  (wch  is  valu- 
able) omitted  both  by  Huis  &  Mill,  yet  observ'd  by  Dr.  Bull  in  Harm.  Apostol. 
Diss.  1.  c.  1.  §.  6.  p.  4.     Dr.  Bernard  the  first  that  laid  down  rules  for  judging 
of  the  Age  of  MSS.     The  Dr.  a  Man  of  great  Reading  but  little  Judgment, 
p.  65.     He  speaks  well  of  Monfaucon's  Palaeographia  Graeca.  p.  66.     Mon- 
faucon  calls  the  Gospel  according  to  St.  Mark  at  Venice  a  Latin  MS.  &  notes 
that  'twas  written  by  St.  Mark's  own  Hand.    A  Lection  of  Matth.  i.  u.  out 
of  a  MS*,  written  in  the  xith  Century,  taken  notice  of  by  Monfaucon.     That  3° 
MS*  in  Bibliotheca  S.  Joannis  de  Carbonaria  RR.  PP.  Augustinianorum  Nea- 
poli. — Beza's  Book  of  the  Gospells  and  Acts  at  Cambridge  tho'  very  ancient 
yet  one  of  the  very  worst  Books  of  the  New  Test,  exstant,  as  being  corrupted 
and  deprav'd,  &  corrected  according  to  the  vulgar  version.     The  Librarian  a 
very  ignorant  Person,  p.  75. — Dr.  Mill  may  be  corrected  in  Pag.  166  b.  of  his 
Prolegom.  from  Monfaucon's  Diar.  Ital.  p.  308.  about  Perron's  MS*.     Dr. 
Mill  has  very  few  Lections  out  of  the  MSS*8  in  ye  Emperor's  Library,  wch 
however  he  might  have  obtain'd  with  Ease.  p.  85.     He  has  given  the  Lections 
of  one  (viz.  num.  xxviii.)  in  the  Appendix  to  his  Testam*.  but  his  Account  of 
it  is  very  unaccurate  in  Proleg.  p.  367.  a.    For  it  contains  the  whole  N.  Test.  40 
&  the  Apocalypse  is  not  wanting,  as  Dr.  Mill  insinuates.     2dly.  'Tis  not  written 
in  capitals  Letters,  as  he  says.     3^.  'twas  not  San-George  Ashe  that  collated 
the  Book  for  Dr.  Mill  but  Gerard  van  Mastricht,  who  communicated  them  to 
Ashe.  p.  86.    Boeder  had  a  most  Excellent  MS*  of  the  New  Test,  the  Lections 
whereof  were  never  yet  gather'd.  tho'  perhaps  Boeder  might  follow  it  in  his 
Edition  of  the  N.  Test.  1660  (what  this  Author  Mr.  Pfaff  has  said  ab*  MSS.  is 
all  taken  from  Dr.  Mill  &  others,  &  he  seems  to  have  little  or  no  skill  himself, 
nor  to  have  seen  hardly  any  MSS.     He  appears  also  empty  &  shallow  in  most 
things.)     Dr.  Mill  collated  very  little  of  what  the  Bp.  of  Ely  has.     I  know  not 
for  what  reason.     See  pag.  100.  Dr.  Mill  finds  fault  with  Robert  Stephens  for  50 
not  giving  us  all  the  Lections  of  the  MSS.  made  use  of  by  him ;  but  without 
reason,  p.  105.    The  New  Testament  printed  at  Paris  in   1642  with  a  great 
number  of  Lections,  woh  Edition  is  pass'd  by  by  Dr.  Mill  p.  no.    Jo.  Saubert, 
not  Salbert  as  F.  Simon  and  Dr.  Mill  call  him,  put  out  a  very  good  Ed.  of  the 
new  Test,  at  Helmestadt  in  1672,  where  he  has  given  a  very  good  Judgment 
of  the  Lections  collected  by  him.  p.  no.    The  Lections  collected  by  Zacag- 
nius,  wch  are  very  considerable,  omitted  quite  by  Dr.  Mill,  wch  is  to  be  won- 
der'd  at.  p.  na.    The  Author  commends  Dr.  Mill's  Diligence  and  Learning. 

T  2 


276  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

p.  112,  113.  notwithstanding  wch  a  vast  number  of  Defects  in  his  Edition,  ibid. 
Dr.  Mill  had  a  design  of  printing  another  Edition  of  the  New  Test,  from  the 
Alexandrian,  Cambridge,  Bodlejan  &  Claromontan  MSS.  exactly,  p.  114. — 
So  Dr.  Bentley  tells  us  in  his  Epistle  to  Dr.  Mill ;  but  Dr.  Mill  seems  after- 
wards to  have  changed  his  mind,  he  having  nothing  of  it  in  his  Prolegomena, 
p.  1 1 6.  Kuster  about  a  new  Impression  of  Dr.  Mill's  Test,  now  at  Amsterdam 
in  wch  he  will  give  also  new  Prolegomena  of  his  own,  and  the  Lections  from  a 
great  many  MSS.  not  mention'd  by  Dr.  Mill.  p.  117.  The  Apocalyps  in  Cop- 
tick  in  the  Bodlejan  Library,  tho'  Dr.  Mill  says  otherwise,  p.  121.  Dr.  Mill  in 

10  pag.  152.  a.  tells  us  of  one,  whose  name  he  does  not  add,  skill'd  in  Coptick.  His 
words  are  Vir  haud  vulgaris  in  hac  literarum  parte  eruditionis.  Mr.  Pfaff  says 
'tis  one  Edwards  an  English  man  he  means,  who  he  also  says  has  now  forgot 
the  Language.  This  is  both  false.  The  Person  meant  is  Mr.  Hoffman  a 
Forreigner,  who  was  resident  in  Edm.  Hall  when  the  Dr.  writ  these  words 
and  he  often  assisted  the  Dr.  nor  has  Mr.  Edwards  forgot  the  Coptick  as  he 
asserts,  being  misinform'd  I  suppose  by  one  Wilkins  a  Prussian  who  studied 
lately  in  Oxford  &  pretends  to  give  us  the  Coptick  Testament.  But  he  is  far 
from  being  a  man  of  Judgment.  See  pag.  121.  He  calls  Father  Simon 
stupendae  eruditionis  vir,  the  same  character  wch  he  had  bestow'd  upon  Mr. 

20  Dodwell.  After  Dr.  Jo.  Fell's  Edition  of  the  Greek  Testament  came  out,  a 
certain  illustrious  Person  (whose  name  Mr.  Pfaff  has  not  thought  fit  to  men- 
tion) design'd  another  Impression  of  it,  &  propos'd  to  publish  Canons  for 
judging  of  the  Genuiness  of  Lections,  a  thing  never  done  yet.  He  publish'd  a 
specimen  of  that  Edition.  This  Edition  I  think  never  came  out.  The  Canons 
Mr.  Pfaff  has  now  given.  See  pag.  123.  They  are  in  number  xxxvii.  In 
Matth.  xi.  16.  Many  copies  have  erepois  for  eraipots.  Not  observ'd  by  Mill. 
The  mistake  arose  from  Pronunciation,  p.  146.  Dr.  Mill  says  in  the  most 
antient  MSS.  are  no  Abbreviations.  False.  Himself  hath  observ'd  some, 
p.  150.  And  therefore  contradicts  himself,  p.  151.  Some  Abbreviations  in 

30  the  Alexandrian  MSS.  p.  152.  In  i  Cor.  xiii.  3  ieavdf)(T<ap,ai  the  right  Reading 
not  Kavxn<ra>nai,  as  in  some  MSS.  particularly  in  the  Alexandrian.  Hermannus 
Wits  writ  an  Eloqu[e]nt  Dissertation  against  Dr.  Bentley.  He  intitles  it  de 
monte  Agar,  &  'tis  against  Dr.  Bentley's  Emendation  of  Gal.  iv.  25,  woh 
Emendation  however  Dr.  Mill  approves  of,  and  yet  not  one  M  S*  countenances 
it.  Such  is  the  Boldness  of  Dr.  Bentley  even  in  sacred  Books.  See  pag.  185. 
The  Hereticks  corrupted  the  New  Testament,  notwithstanding  Dr.  Mill's 
opinion  that  they  did  not.  wcl1  opinion  of  his  is  singular,  p.  191.  Dr.  Mill  of 
opinion  that  the  word  evdeeas  in  Mark  ii.  2.  should  be  left  out,  &  yet  'tis  exstant 
in  most  MSS.  p.  205.  Dr.  Mill  also  in  Error  in  Rom.  i.  32.  where  he  would 

40  have  the  vulgar  Lection  chang'd,  because  the  Fathers  have  otherwise.  But 
most  MSS.  have  the  common  Reading,  &  therefore  to  be  retain'd.  207.  In 
i  Pet.  v.  13.  a  word  wanting  to  be  joyn'd  with  crweKKfurf].  Dr.  Mill  thought 
Peter's  wife  was  to  be  understood.  Forwch  he  could  give  no  probable  reason. 
From  the  Antient  versions,  and  from  CEcumenius,  and  from  the  margin  of 
Lincoln  Coll.  MS*  it  appears  that  (KKXrjo-ia  is  wanting.  211.  Dr.  Mill  some- 
times too  much  rely'd  upon  citations  of  Fathers.  215.  In  Matth.  ii.  18.  In 
some  MSS.  as  also  in  most  versions  dpfjvos  nal  is  omitted,  agreeably  to  the 
Hebrew,  says  Dr.  Mill,  but  badly,  for  the  Hebrew  expresses  it.  So  that  the 
Dr.  seems  to  have  an  Eye  only  to  the  Latin  Translation  of  the  Hebrew,  who 

50  did  not  sufficiently  understand  the  Hebrew.  See  pag.  228,  229.  A  great 
character  of  Dr.  Bentley's  Critique,  in  p.  243.  where  he  approves  of  Dr.  Bent- 
ley's  conjecture  upon  Gal.  iv.  25.  But  Pfaff  is  a  very  poor  Judge  in  these 
Matters  as  yet,  &  pronounces  from  hear  say  &  the  opinions  of  others. 


The  Palace  of  the  Beaumonts  in  Oxford  was  a  most  delightfull  Seat, 
&  was  often  frequented  by  the  Kings  of  England.  Part  of  it  was  stand- 
ing three  or  four  years  since.  I  guess  it  to  have  been  a  Piece  of  the 


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Chapell,  but  it  has  since  been  destroy'd  to  make  room  for  a  large  Pile  of 
very  slight  Building  erected  by  Dr.  Benjamin  Woodrof,  Principal  of 
Gloucester  Hall  and  Canon  of  X*.  Church,  a  Man  of  whimsical  &  shallow 
understanding.  —  Robert  Fludd,  or  Robertas  de  Fluctibus,  as  he  styles 
himself,  M.D.  was  of  S*.  John's  Coll.  in  this  university.  Most  of  his 
Books  are  written  in  Latin,  &  are  very  voluminous,  but  as  they  are  upon 
strange  subjects,  so  is  the  Language  of  them  mean  and  barbarous  &  the 
Author  seems  to  have  had  little  or  no  Judgment.  Yet  he  was  much 
admir'd  by  the  famous  Mr.  Selden,  chiefly,  I  think  for  this  reason,  because 
he  was  of  the  Rosa-Crucian  sect,  and  addicted  himself  to  Chymistry,  of  10 
wch  Mr.  Selden  himself  was  an  admirer,  as  may  partly  appear  from  some 
of  his  MSS.  in  the  Bodlejan  Library.  The  said  Dr.  Fludd  gave  some  of 
his  Books  to  the  Bodlejan  Library,  particularly  his  Philosophise  Amphi- 
theatrum,  at  the  beginning  of  which  he  has  put  the  following  Inscription 
with  his  own  Hand : 

Almae  sui  intemi  Matri,  suavique  charitatis 

spiritualis  proli,  Academise  Oxoniensi,  ubique 

per  mundum  celeberrimse,  Rob.  Fludd, 

Armiger,  in  Medicina  Doctor,  primsevos 

hosce,  quales  quales,  animi  sui  fructus,  3O 

quasi  debitam  sure  gratitudinis  victimam, 

Altari  ipsius  sacrato  inprimis  prsebendam, 

lubens  libens,  offerre  gestit. 

There  is  come  out  at  Florence  a  small  Piece  in  Quarto  written  by  way 
of  Letter  to  the  Famous  Maggliabecchi,  the  Duke  of  Tuscany' s  Library 
keeper,  intitled,  De  varia  Lectione  Adagij  Ba/x/ui  Sap8ma»cw  Tinctura  Sar- 
diniaca  Dissertatio.  auctore  D.  Joanne  Paulo  Nurra  Caralitano  J.  C. 
Patrice  Ecclesice  Canom'co,  Florentice  M:DCC:  VIII.  Pag.  6.  he  notes  y* 
in  Ptolemy  lib.  III.  c.  3.  is  Pupulum  for  Populonium  or  norrXowoi/.  Tinc- 
tura Sardinaica  a  better  Reading  than  Tinctura  Sardianica.  pag.  14.  30 
Strabo  explain'd  there  pag.  19.  The  Author  observes  that  nobody  had 
noted  the  words  before  him.  Lucas  Holstenius  noted  to  be  in  a  great 
mistake  p.  21.  Suidas  also  explain'd  there  p.  16.  the  common  Expositors 
being  in  the  wrong.  He  also  in  that  place  notes  that  in  Jul.  Pollux  lib. 
V.  c.  IV.  is  XiVov  2ap8tof6i/  linum  Sardianum  for  linum  Sardinianum.  The 
like  notes  of  other  Authors.  In  pag.  26.  He  notes  an  Error  in  Cluver  in 
his  Interpretation  of  a  Place  of  Diodorus  Siculus.  He  also  mentions  an 
Error  of  Ortelius  pag.  27.  Cluver  noted  of  an  error  likewise  in  pag.  29. 
Cluver  not  very  accurate  in  the  Affairs  of  Sardinia,  p.  31.  He  notes 
there  that  Cluver  makes  Boaria  and  Bovenna,  of  which  there  is  mention  40 
in  the  Peutingerian  tables  to  be  Isles  wch  he  says  are  certainly  nothing  but 
Rocks,  and  that  he  himself  saw  them  to  confirm  the  Assertion :  and  yet  he 
notes  that  Schelslrate  follow'd  Cluver  in  the  error.  Claudian  explain'd  there 
pag.  32.  &  Caspar  Barthius's  Explication  noted  to  be  wrong. — A  Fault 
in  the  Dauphin  Edition  of  Virgil  corrected  from  Heinsius.  pag.  36.  The 
city  Olbia,  now  destroy'd,  call'd  Phausina  in  the  Roman  Martyrology  i  $d. 
of  May,  for  wch  our  Author  reads  Faustina  with  Vitalis  Tom.  II.  Annal. 
Sardinia.  But  the  Generality  have  Pausania.  Spanheim  mistaken,  pag. 
43.  In  pag.  44.  he  takes  notice  that  the  Common  Interpreters  of 
Lycophron  verse  796.  KeVrpw  Suo-oX^s  eXXon-os  ^,ap8oviK^s  i.e.  Insanabilis  50 


278  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

aculeo  piscis  Sardonici,  are  mistaken.  For  whereas  they  say  piscis  Sardoni- 
cus  here  is  the  pastinaca  marina  he  says  that  'tis  the  purpura  Sardiniaca : 
and  he  says  that  all  Authors  favour  the  Interpretation  who  note  that 
Sardinia  is  famous  for  purpura  &  that  therefore  the  purpura  is  very  pro- 
perly call'd  piscis  Sardonicus.  An  Anonymous  Author  publish'd  by  Jac . 
Gron.  cited  pag.  51.  &  a  passage  out  of  him  produced;  which  Author 
notwithstanding  barbarous  has  a  great  many  excellent  &  usefull  things  in 
him.  In  pag.  52.  he  notes  that  in  pag.  8.  lib.  i.  of  Achilles  Tatius  is 
badly  read  purpura  Lydice.  for  purpura  Lyddce.  Ba/z^a  SapSwiaKov  to  be 

10  read  in  both  Places  of  Aristophanes,  as  in  Erasmus's  Book.  pag.  54.  Ibid, 
he  notes  that  Dalechampius  has  badly  turn'd  the  Poet  Plato  in  Athenceus 
pag.  48.  c.  9.  Ed.  Lugd.  where  he  has  ostro  Sardiano  for  ostro  Sardiniano, 
tho'  Casaubon  rectifies  the  Mistake,  &  ascribes  the  error  to  the  Trans- 
criber of  Dalechampius.  P.  55.  He  notes  that  in  Hesychius  for  Ba^/*a 
2apSai>iaKoj/  is  to  be  read  Ba/x/xa  SapSiviaicov,  notwithstanding  Salmasius  and 
Ez.  Spanheim  be  of  a  different  opinion.  In  the  same  Place  of  Hesychius 
SapSoI  is  to  be  read  for  SapSt  o-i,  of  wch  opinion  was  also  Erasmus.  From 
the  End  of  this  Curious  Book,  w°h  is  full  of  Learning,  it  appears  that  the 
Author  designs  a  Description  and  History  of  Sardinia,  in  order  to  wch 

ao  he  has  collected  a  great  many  excell*  Observations.  —  At  Florence  is  also 
newly  publish'd  in  4*°  this  Book  following,  Beati  AmbrosiJ  Abbatis 
Generalis  Camaldulensis  Hodceporicon  a  Nicolao  Bartholini  Bargensi  C.R. 
congregationis  Matris  Dei  Publics  luci  assertum.  Ex  Bibliolheca  Medicea 
ad  Illustrissimum,  $•  Amplissimum  Dominum  Magliabechi  Screnissimi 
Magnce  Elrurice.  Duds  Cosmi  III.  Bibliothecarium,  &c.  Flor entice^  Ac 
Lucce  apud  Marescandalos  Fratres.  Superiorum  permissu.  —  The  best 
of  Procluss  works  were  his  Commentaries  upon  Timaus. — Brevis  vita 
Homeri  sub  Prodi  nomine  prodijt  cura  Leonis  Allalij  in  libro  de  Homer  i 
vita.  Hanc  conjecit  Fabricius  ex  priore  Chrestomathias  Procli  libro  de- 

30  sumptam  esse. — Opus  in  Timceum  a  Proclo  anno  aetatis  28  elaboratum, 
ipso  Marino  teste.  Hujus  operis  libri  quinque  exstant,  impressi :  ceteri 
(quorum  numerus  incertus)  perierunt.  In  hisce  Commentarijs  Longi- 
num  saepe  refellit.  Pluribus  scatent  mendis,  quorum  aliquot  correxit 
Fabricius,  &  spes  est  virum  doctissimum  tandem  aliquando  Lectori 
erudito  emendationes  communicaturum.  —  Procli  com.  in  Platonis  libros 
de  Republica  prodijt  Tiguri  8°.  1542.  Latinitate  donatus  a  Gesnero, 
qui  inscripsit,  Apologies  quczdam  pro  Homero  6f  arte  Poetica  &c.  Codici 
Mediceo  Procli  Comm.  in  Remp.  Platonis  adtexta  sunt  quaedam  Scholia 
nescio  cujus  auctoris  hactenus  avla^ora. — Procli  Hypotyposis  Astronomi- 

40  carum  positionum  saepius  lucem  vidit.  Sed  Lambecium  omnes  Editiones 
fugerunt.  Unde  ineditis  a<^censuit. — Bainbridgij  Procli  Spherae  editionem 
laudat  Fabricius. — Procli  Comm.  in  Hesiodum  haud  semel  editi.  Hos 
suppletos  vidit  Fabricius  e  codice  quodam  MS.  eximio  in  Bibliotheca 
Gottorpiensi  Serenissimi  Holsatise  Ducis. — Procli  t/Tro'/ii/^a  «r  5\ov  TOV 
"OfjLTjpov.  In  Homerum  integrum  commentarius  temporis  injuria  perijt. 
Solenne  fuit  junioribus  Platonicis  in  Poetarum  Principem  commentari,  ut 
observavit  Holstenius  in  Porphyrij  vita.  Scripsit  item  Proclus  Hept  rS>v 
nap  'O/Liijpo)  decav,  sive  De  Dijs  apud  Homerum.  Quod  opus  quoque  inter- 
cidit.  —  Aschami  Epistolae  inprimis  prodierunt  cura  E.  Grantij  tribus 

50  libris   comprehensse.      Deinde   quarti   libri    adjectione   locupletavit,    & 


Oct.  4-5.]         VOL.  XXI,  PAGE  257-VOL.  XXII,  PAGE  3.  279 

Sereniss.  Reginse  Elizabethse  majestati  utramque  Editionem  dicavit. 
Aschami  praeclarum  in  litteris  conscribendis  artificium.  Praemisit  carmen 
non  inconcinnum  de  Aschami  laudibus  auctor  ingeniosus  &  acutus. 
Praefationem  Grantij  sequitur  carmen  encomiasticum  Thomae  Wilsoni 
Legum  Doctoris  &  Reginae  Elizabethae  a  secretis.  Deinde  in  Aschami 
laudem  sylva  per  Guil.  Camdenum,  Historicum  ilium  plane  immortalem.  — 
Gravis  saepe  subit  dolor  ob  amissos  illos  libros  Dionys.  Halicarnassei, 
quos  doctissime  &  fusissime  scripsit  de  Imitatione  &  oratoria  &  Historica. 
Hos  libros  ipse  Dionysius  caeteris  suis  omnibus  anteposuit.  —  Laurentius 
Pignaaureolus  [sic]  Horatij  librum  de  arte  Poetica  rara  doctrina  magnoque  10 
judicio  ut  &  Aristotelis  de  Arte  Rhetorica  libros  explicuit.  —  Mr. 
Randall  of  Oriell  Coll.  has  a  Tully  with  Lambiris  Emendations  put  in  the 
Margin.  In  Folio,  Vol8.  2buB.  Cost  3  libs.  —  Mr.  Carter  IK  Master  of 
,£a/0«-Schoole.  Mr.  Newborough  Head  Master  of  -£<2/0»-Schoole.  His 
Father  was  Minister  of  Milver  Stoke  in  Shropshire  &  his  Brother  Minister 
of  Stanton-Lacy  in  ye  same  County.  —  ...  Dr.  Hudson  at  Theddle- 
thorpe  near  Lowthe  where  he  will  stay  till  Thursday  come  sennight 
A  Letter  next  Friday  may  reach  him.  After  that  he  will  be  at  Mr.  Spin- 
all's  at  Pauler's  Pury  near  Towcester  on  Sunday  or  Monday  following. 
A  letter  on  ye  Friday  after  he  leaves  Mr.  Newcomen's  will  come  to  20 
him.  —  ... 

VOL.  XXII. 

Oct.  5  (Wed.),  1709.  Mr.  Thomas  Rawlinson  of  the  Middle  Temple 
has  got  a  Copy  of  Weaver's  Funeral  Acts  &  Monuments,  with  large 
MS S*.  Additions  by  Mr.  Weaver's  own  Hand.  —  In  Sir  Thomas  Bod- 
ley's  Library  is  a  Copie  of  Milles's  Catalogue  of  Honour  in  large  Paper, 
examin'd  and  corrected  by  Mr.  Camden  &  the  Author  himself,  as 
appears  from  the  following  memorandum  at  the  Beginning  written  with 
Mr.  Camden's  own  Hand:  Examined,  and  the  Printers  Errors  and 
Translator's  mistakinges  in  sundray  Places  corrected,  by  William  Camden 
alias  Clarentieulx  chiefe  Kinge  of  Armes,  and  Tho.  Milles,  Head-  3° 
Customer  of  Sandwich  &  the  Member-Portes  in  Kent,  the  Publisher 
heerof ;  and  by  him  dedicated  to  Posterity  in  Sir  Tho.  Bodley's  Library 
of  Oxforde.  — *  A  Young  Gentleman,  call'd  John  Herman  Schmincke 
has  written  a  Letter  from  Utrecht  to  Dr.  Hudson  to  get  the  MSSts.  of 
Eginhardus's  Life  of  Charles  the  Great  collated  with  our  MSS.  he 
designing,  it  seems,  to  put  out  a  new  Edition  of  him.  But  I  exspect  no 
great  matter  from  this  Gentleman,  no  more  than  I  do  from  some  other 
of  the  spruce,  flattering  Gentlemen  in  these  Parts  of  the  World.  Tis  an 
odd  way  of  setting  up  for  Authors  and  Publishers  of  Books  from  the 
Collections  of  other  Men,  as  they  generally  do  in  these  Countries.  —  4° 
Magnum  sibi  nomen  paravit  Paullus  jEmilius  Veronensis  opere  inclyto 
de  rebus  gestis  Francorum,  cui  annos  xxx  impendisse  dicitur.  —  Nicolaus 
Locenicus  a  Venere,  Baccho,  &  Somno  nimio,  admodum  sibi  temperabat. 
Obijt  annos  natus  96.  —  A  certain  worthy  Gentleman  writes  me  word 
from  London  that  they  there  look  upon  Dr.  Lancaster  as  a  slout  high- 
Church-man,  and  are  very  glad  to  learne,  that  hee  would  be  continued  Vice- 
chancellour  a  fourth  Yeare.  He  also  desires  to  be  acquainted  for  what 


280  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [l?00: 

reasons  a  considerable  Part  of  the  University  is  dissatisfyed  Voith  it.  In 
answer  to  w°h  it  may  be  observ'd  that  this  Dr.  Lancaster  is  a  Person  who 
drives  at  nothing  but  Self  Interest,  and  is  a  Man  of  no  steddy  Principles, 
being  of  an  ambitious,  haughty  Temper,  and  will  act  any  way  if  he  find 
'tis  for  advancing  him  to  a  higher  Post.  The  most  impartial  and  most 
honest  Part  of  the  University  think  that  he  has  dealt  very  unworthily  in 
contriving  to  get  Thistlethwayt  to  be  made  Keeper  of  the  Ware-House 
at  the  Theater.  They  cannot  think  that  a  man  in  his  Post  can  be 
sincere  when  they  see  him  break  his  word  and  be  regardless  of  solemn 

10  Promises.  They  believe  that  he  has  no  regard  to  the  Honour  and 
Reputation  of  the  University,  when  they  see  that  he  is  for  promoting 
ignorant  People,  and  uses  all  his  Power  to  prostitute  the  Degrees  of  the 
University:  of  which  he  has  given  two  most  notorious  Instances,  in 
raising  a  Congregation  of  Men  of  his  own  stamp,  to  vote  that  MT.  Stevens 
a  Scotch  man  (who  never  resided  a  day  in  the  university,  or  was  ever 
enter  d  of  it)  should  have  the  Degree  of  Master  of  Arts  conferr'd  upon 
him ;  and  in  procuring  a  Letter  from  the  Chancellor  that  one  Heron,  an 
Undergraduate  who  formerly  was  in  the  University  for  about  2  Years, 
and  no  more,  should  be  created  Dr.  of  Law.  Wc]l  Letter  was  deny'd ; 

20  but  the  Vice- Chancellor  immediately  sent  for  another,  wcl1  came  down 
very  speedily,  &  the  Business  being  manag'd  with  secresy,  it  was,  tho'  not 
without  great  Difficulty,  carry'd  for  him,  &  he  was  accordingly  soon  after 
presented  to  that  Degree.  Wch  instance  itself  is  enough  to  ruin  Lan- 
caster's Character  amongst  all  sober  and  virtuous  Men,  it  being  suf- 
ficiently known  that  Heron  is  a  lewd,  debauch' d  Person,  notwithstanding 
he  is  a  Gentleman  of  good  Parts  and  Sense.  Moreover  this  Lancaster 
permitts  Dr.  De  Laune  to  run  away  with  some  Thousands  of  Pounds  of 
ye  university  money ;  he  was  the  very  man  who  brought  in  Mr.  (now  Dr.) 
Pearson  to  be  Principal  of  Edmund-Hall,  and  let  him  keep  his  Fellowship 

30  after  the  half  Year  was  expir'd,  wch  yet  he  should  not  by  the  Statutes 
have  done.  And  what  is  the  more  remarkable  in  this  Act  is  that 
Lancaster  was  the  very  man  who  manag'd  the  Business  of  turning 
Dr.  Crosthwait  out  from  being  Principal  because  he  insisted  upon  his 
Fellowship  with  the  Principality,  and  he  got  Dr.  Mill  put  into  the  Hall 
for  that  reason.  Besides  Pearson  does  not  answer  the  Exspectation  of 
any  conscientious  Man.  This  Lancaster  also  was  the  Man  who  preach'd 
the  Thanksgiving  Sermon  before  the  University  for  the  Birth  of  the 
Prince  of  Wales,  and  yet  afterwards  drew  up  the  Address  against  him,  to 
[o]mitt  other  Objections.  —  In  the  North  of  England  when  a  man  com- 

40  plains  they  say  he  camples.  Cample  i.  e.  to  complain.  Costrel,  i.  e.  vas 
cenophorum.  from  cisterna  or  cisternella.  In  the  north  they  say  a  costrel 
of  Tarr  for  a  barrell  of  Tarr.  A  Custard  non  a  gustando  sed  a  cheese 
tart.  Emps  piece  a  word  us'd  commonly  in  Lincolnshire.  It  signifies 
a  great  or  no  small  Portion.  Mr.  Thwaites  of  opinion  that  'tis  the  same 
with  Alms  piece,  seu  Elemosynaria  portio.  Almes  is  the  word  in  most 
parts  of  the  North,  w°h  we  call  Alms  in  one  syllable.  —  Bigott  ab  Anglo 
Saxon,  voce  begettan.  Sic  cl.  Thwaitesius  in  Additt.  ad  Skinnerum 
suum  luculentissimis.  qui  insuper  notat  vocem  Bittackle  non  a  Belg. 
Bitte,  morsus  &  Tackle,  sed  a  Gallicis  vocib.  Battan-aiguille  lintris, 

50  cymbseve   acicula  pro  venire.     Porro  deducit  Adder  ab  Hydra.  &  Ambry 


Oct.  5-6.]  VOLUME  XXII,  PAGES  3-12.  281 

ab  Elemosynarium.  &  Amerce  mercedem  significare  idem  valere  quod  ad 
mercedem  innuit.  Byspel  homo  nihili ;  Ita  Angli  Boreales.  Aby  vel 
byj.  &  Spel  sermo.  Sic  quoque  Thw.  qui  &  multas  nostras  voces  ad 
obrussam  vocum  Graecarum,  Latinarum  &  Anglo-Saxonicarum  exegit. 
Canopy  from  KWVOS  &  ty.  —  Penes  Prsesidem  Divi  Joannis  Baptistae  habetur 
Codex  MS.  recentior,  inscriptus,  nativitas  <Sf  vita  6f  mors  Thomce  White 
militis  aurati,  D.  Joannis  Baptista  collegij  fundatoris.  Auctore  Griffino 
Higgs  dicti  Collegij  alumno  &  Artium  Baccalaureo.  Carmine  panxit,  & 
multa,  notatu  digna,  &  ab  alijs,  ni  fallor,  scriptoribus  intacta  complectitur. 
hie  liber,  in  folio,  uti  dicunt,  compactus.  —  Mr.  Rawlinson  of  the  Middle  10 
[Temple]  has  a  MS*,  in  wcb-  is  contain'd  Phsedrus's  Fables,  a  Piece  of 
Tully,  &c. 

Oct.  6  (Th.).  This  Day  at  one  of  the  Clock,  that  old,  hypocritical, 
ambitious,  drunken  sot,  Will.  Lancaster  Provost  of  Queen's  College  was 
admitted  Vice-Chancellour,  being  the  4th  Year  of  his  entering  upon  that 
office.  'Twas  done  (as  usual)  by  virtue  of  the  Chancellor's  Letters,  wcn 
styl'd  him  a  Person  of  extraordinary  Conduct  and  Prudence,  and  said 
that  the  University  had  had  sufficient  Experience  of  it.  After  the  Letters 
were  consented  to  by  the  Convocation,  wcn  was  the  thinnest  Convocation, 
that  ever  I  knew  in  my  Life,  upon  such  an  occasion,  there  being  but  20 
one1  Noble-man  at  it  (who  is  a  very  poor  one,  namely  Sr  Christopher 
Powell  of  Queen's  College)  and  a  small  number  of  Masters,  this  haughty 
Gentleman  made  a  speech,  or  rather  a  Libell,  void  of  Religion,  Modesty, 
Sense  &  common  Civility.  The  Burthen  of  it  was  a  most  scandalous 
and  uncharitable  Reflection  upon  Christ-Church,  as  if  they  were  bitter 
and  inexorable  Enemies  to  the  University,  and  were  for  undermining  & 
destroying  it's  Privileges,  and  setting  up  a  Court  in  Distinction  to  that 
of  the  Vice-Chancellor.  The  occasion  whereof  is  nothing  else  but  a 
Cause  relating  to  Dr.  Benjamin  Woodroffe,  against  whom  a  suit  had 
been  commenc'd  for  Debts,  and  Dr.  Stratford  Treasurer  of  Christ-Ch.  30 
had  orders  for  Paying  part  of  them,  and  was  for  Refusal  prosecuted  in 
the  Vice-Chancellor's  Court,  the  Penalty  of  wch  however  he  avoided  by 
standing  stoutly  up  for  the  good  of  his  own  College,  the  Privileges  of 
w°h  he  knew  well  enough  to  be  broke  in  upon  by  this  Instrument  of 
Prosecution.  And  this  was  also  the  sense  of  that  august  Body,  and  they 
had  their  Evidences  to  produce,  and  for  that  reason  they  appeal'd  to 
Chancery,  as  they  ought  to  do  when  their  Charter  freed  the  Dean  and 
Chapter  as  such  from  being  subject  to  the  Vice-Chancellor's  Court. 
Nor  did  they  only  in  this  but  likewise  in  another  Instance  stand  up 
closely  for  the  Interest  of  their  own  College,  and  that  is  the  hindering  40 
one  Hoard  from  alienating  a  Piece  of  the  College  Ground  at  the  Castle, 
w°h  he  would  have  given  away  in  perpetuum  under  the  Pretence  of 
Charity  and  of  Erecting  a  Chapell  &  maintaining  a  Chaplain  for  the 
good  of  the  Prisoners.  This  courageous  maintaining  the  Privileges  and 
Titles  of  the  College  (for  the  Point  was  carried  for  X*.  Ch.)  exasperated 
smooth-Boots,  and  some  others  so  much,  that  they  could  not  think 
of  a  more  effectual  way  to  be  reveng'd  than  that  the  Vice- Chancellor,  the 
said  smooth-boots,  should  make  a  libell  (for  I  cannot  call  it  any  other, 

1  There  was  one  Inferior  Nobleman  besides. 


282  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

by  the  Statute)  in  wc^  he  gave  such  words  as  were  not  proper  to  be 
utter'd  in  such  a  House  as  the  Convocation,  or  be  so  much  as  mention'd 
to  a  venerable  Society.  So  that  it  happen'd  very  luckily  that  there  were 
so  few  Auditors,  especially  of  Persons  of  ye  younger  sort  who  might  have 
been  infected  by  his  Billingsgate  and  rancorous  Language.  After  this 
Part  of  his  speech  was  over  he  was  pleas'd  to  touch  upon  the  Case  of 
All-Souls  College,  some  one  of  \9^  had  lately  made  an  offer  and  writ  a 
Pamphlett  to  get  the  Statute  annull'd  whereby  the  Fellows  of  Colleges 
are  oblig'd  to  take  Holy  orders.  In  this  Part  the  Vice-Chancellor  spoke 

10  false  Latin.  Next  he  was  pleas'd  to  mention  Dr.  Wynn's  Lectures  of 
Jesus  College  as  being  learned  and  instructive,  but  spoke  in  vain  because 
of  the  fewness  of  Auditors.  He  also  mention'd  Dr.  Potter's  Edition  of 
Clemens  Alexandrinus,  w^  he  did  not  question  but  would  be  done  to  the 
honour  of  the  University.  And  after  that  he  insisted  in  two  or  three 
words  upon  Mr.  Halley's  Labours  in  putting  out  the  ancient  Mathe- 
maticians: and  then  he  concluded  with  some  transactions  against  the 
Citizens,  and  two  or  three  flattering  words,  on  purpose  to  insinuate  him- 
self into  Favour.  It  must  be  here  observ'd  that  whereas  he  spoke  now 
well  of  Dr.  Wynne  he  spoke  very  scurvily  of  him  sometime  agoe,  and 

20  was  pleas'd  to  run  down  Mr.  Lock  in  the  Convocation-House,  whom, 
nevertheless  Dr.  Wynne  always  greatly  Admir'd,  &  was  at  the  Pains  of 
abridging  his  Essay  of  Humane  Understanding.  The  above-mention'd 
Dr.  Stratford,  Steward  of  Christ  Ch.  is  son  to  Dr.  Stratford  that  was 
lately  BP.  of  Chester,  and  the  Heir  of  his  Virtues  as  well  as  Estate.  He 
is  a  Gentleman  of  a  generous,  Publick  spirit,  has  a  true  Regard  for  men 
of  merit,  and  makes  it  his  Business  to  get  such  preferr'd,  he  hates  all 
sneaking  and  tricking  Persons,  and  highly  resents  the  several  Acts  of  the 
present  Vice-Chancellor  &  some  others  who  have  most  shamefully  post- 
pon'd  the  Credit  and  Interest  of  the  University  to  their  own  private,  selfish 

30  &  ill  Designs. 

Velleij  Paterculi  verba  (lib.  i.  c.  6)  Assyrij  principes  omnium  gentium 
&c.  ad  populum  Romanum  pervenit  e  glossemate  esse  suspicantur  nonnulli. 
Retinent  codices  MSS.  nee  abjicienda  esse  censet  cl.  Vossius  de  Histo- 
ricis  Latinis  p.  618,  619.  ubi  &  aliorum  hanc  in  rem  sententiam  protulit. 
—  Ad  Cnoberi  urbem  (in  agro  Suffolciensi)  vel,  ut  nunc  vocant,  Burgh- 
castle  Romanorum  numismata  subinde  eruuntur. 

Oct.  7  (Pri.).  The  Statue  of  the  Queen,  mention'd  in  the  Close  of 
the  preceding  Volume,  was  put  up  Yesterday  over  University  College 
Gate  next  to  High-Street,  and  cost  about  50  libs.,  or  perhaps  40  libs., 

40  tho'  others  say  80  libs,  to  magnify  the  Gift.  'Tis  observ'd  to  be  but 
clumsily  done,  and  to  have  some  disproportions  in  the  Members.  — 
There  being  no  Roman  coyns  found  at  Oxford,  &  there  being  no  mention 
of  it  in  the  ancient  Itineraries,  it  seems  that  'twas  not  a  place  of  note  in 
the  times  of  the  Romans;  but  to  overthrow  that  Argument  it  may  be 
consider'd  that  other  Accounts  make  it  to  be  much  older,  notwithstanding 
there  are  not  wanting  those  who  with  great  vigour  oppose  these  Authors 
as  fabulous  &  of  no  credit;  which  whether  so  or  not  I  shall  not  now 
insist  upon.  I  have  however  been  told  of  Coyns  that  have  been  found  in 
New-Parks,  across  wcl1  one  Branch  of  the  Roman  Ikenild  way  pass'd, 

5o  and  so  went  by  Witney,  where  also  there  have  been  Coyns  of  the  Romans 


Oct.  6-7.]  VOLUME  XXII,  PAGES  12-21.  283 

discover'd  lately,  some  of  wch  were  given  .me  by  Mr.  Trumbald  Rector 
of  the  Place :  by  w6*1  it  seems  that  Witney  was  of  a  much  earlier  Date 
than  Edward  the  Confessor,  beyond  whose  time  Mr.  Camden  had  met 
with  no  authentick  Memorial.  Oxford  was  in  the  time  of  the  Romans 
call'd  Bellesitum  or  Bellositum  and  was  situated  more  north-west  than 
'tis  at  present  And  'tis  likely  there  might  have  been  anciently  more 
Memorandums  of  it's  State  in  their  Times,  wch  might  be  destroy'd  by 
the  Danes  &  other  barbarous  People.  —  In  one  of  the  old  MSSte  of  Tully 
that  I  receiv'd  from  Merton-College  is  a  tract  De  Paupertate  wcl1  is 
ascrib'd  to  Tully  by  the  very  same  Hand  that  writ  the  whole  MSfc.  10 
I  suppose  he  went  upon  the  Authority  of  the  Book  whence  he  copied  it, 
he  being  himself  very  ignorant  of  the  Latin  Tongue,  as  is  plain  from  the 
prodigious  Corruptions  both  in  this  tract  &  in  the  other  Parts  of  the 
Volume.  The  greatest  Part  of  this  Tract  if  not  at  all  [sic]  is  a  Collection 
of  Sentences  about  Poverty  out  of  Seneca,  of  whom  there  are  several 
Pieces  in  this  Book.  —  Ad  Caster,  olim  Venta  Icenorum,  in  agro  Nor- 
folciensi  pauculi  Romanorum  nummi  subinde  fossoribus  se  exhibent. 
Parietinae  etiam  conspiciuntur  quse  suo  ambitu  quadrato  xxx.  plus 
minus  jugera  complectuntur. 


Oct.  8.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38. 145).  Mr.  Dodwell  was  put  upon  his 
Paraenesis  by  Grabe  and  Milles  when  H.  was  a  freshman.  H.  was  sent  for  to  Shot- 
tesbrooketo  transcribe  it,  and  writ  over  two  copies,  but  had  forgotten  the  passage 
about  Ignatius  till  reminded  of  it  in  reading  Pfaffius.  Condemns  Pfaffius'  reflec- 
tion upon  Dr.  Bernard,  '  whose  Learning  and  Judgment  far  exceeded  almost 
everything  that  I  have  hitherto  seen  produc'd  in  Germany,  notwithstanding  it  be 
so  large  a  Country.'  '  Dr.  Lancaster  was  admitted  V.C.  for  a  fourth  Year  on 
Thursday  by  a  Convocation  which  was  held  at  one  of  the  Clock.  'Twas  one 
of  the  thinnest  Convocations  that  ever  I  knew,  there  being  very  few  Masters 
present  and  only  two  inferior  Noblemen,  one  of  which  was  Sir  Christopher 
Powell  Baronett  of  Queen's  College,  tho'  there  be  several  Noblemen  resident 
at  Christ  Church,  besides  a  great  Number  of  Masters.  The  Chancellor's 
Letter  characteriz'd  Lancaster  as  a  Person  who  had  manag'd  his  Office  with 
no  small  Conduct  and  Prudence,  of  which,  he  said,  the  University  had  had  a 
late  Instance.  After  the  Letter  had  been  read  and  consented  to,  the  V.C.  made 
a  Speech  as  usual,  which  some  honest  and  observing  Men  call  a  Libell,  as  being 
for  much  the  greatest  Part  a  severe  and  unjust  Reflexion  upon  the  whole  So- 
ciety of  Christ-Church,  and  in  particular  upon  Dr.  Stratford  the  Treasurer, 
chiefly  on  account  of  the  late  Proceedings  relating  to  Dr.  Woodroffe.  He 
also  reflected  upon  All-Souls  College,  as  casting  their  Pearls  before  Swine. 
And  in  this  part  he  was  observ'd  to  speak  false  Latin.  He  commended  the 
Lectures  of  Dr.  Wynne  of  Jesus,  which  he  said  were  elegant  and  learned  and 
wanted  nothing  but  Auditors.  Yet  formerly  he  decry'd  this  Gentleman  as 
being  a  Lockist.  He  said  nothing  of  the  Press,  only  took  notice  of  Dr.  Pot- 
ter's Clemens,  which  he  did  not  question  but  would  be  a  Master- Piece,  and  of 
the  Labours  of  Dr.  Halley  in  publishing  the  ancient  Mathematicians.  He 
concluded  with  two  or  three  flattering  Expressions,  purely  to  insinuate  him- 
self into  Favour.  'Twas  the  worst  Speech  I  ever  heard  in  the  Convocation- 
House.  .  .  'Tis  certain  what  I  said  in  my  last  Letter  that  a  considerable  Part  of 
the  University  is  dissatisjied  <witb  it.  Nor  are  the  reasons  inconsiderable.  For, 
among  the  rest,  they  observe  (i)  That  he  was  the  very  Man  who  was  so  for- 
ward to  draw  up  an  Address  with  his  own  Hand  against  the  Chevalier  Sl. 
George,  tho'  he  had  formerly  preach'd  before  the  University  a  Thanksgiving 
Sermon  for  his  Birth,  (a)  He  has  often  since  he  has  been  V.  C.  broke  his 


384  .   . 'HE 'ARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

Oct.  9  (Sun.).  Ad  Brancaster  in  agro  Norfolciensi,  viculum  nunc 
temporis  rusticanum,  Romanorum  nummi  antiqui  soepius  erauntur. 

Oct.  1O  (Mon.).  Some  time  since  came  out  a  Book  call'd  A  View  of 
the  English  Constitution,  with  respect  to  the  Sovereign  Authority  of  the 
Prince,  and  the  Allegiance  of  the  Subject.  In  vindication  of  the  Lawfulness 
of  Taking  the  Oaths,  To  her  Majesty,  by  Law  required.  Lond.  1709. 
There  have  been  two  impressions  of  this  Book,  wct  was  written  by 
William  Higden,  M.A.  who  was  always  reckon'd  a  man  of  Parts 
&  Honesty,  &  he  stood  out  and  refus'd  the  Oaths  'till  of  late.  This 

10  Book  has  been  cry'd  up  as  unanswerable  by  a  great  many,  especially  by 
those  who  are  for  republican  Principles  and  would  perswade  us  that  our 
Government  is  not  Hereditary.  But  as  Dr.  Hickes  answer'd  Johnson's 
Life  of  Julian,  w°k  was  also  said  to  be  unanswerable,  with  great  strength 
of  Reasoning  and  clear  matter  of  Fact,  so  some  judicious  Person  has  just 
given  us  an  answer  to  this  Book  of  Mr.  Higden's,  and  quite  baffled  him, 
and  overthrown  all  the  Arguments  he  has  brought  both  from  Law  and 
History,  &  plainly  made  out  that  this  is  an  Hereditary  Kingdom  &  that 
Allegiance  therefore  is  only  due  to  those  in  the  Lineal  Descent  &  not  to 
those  who  break  in  upon  the  true  Heirs,  however  they  may  be  coun- 

20  tenanc'd  by  Great  Subjects  &  be  confirm'd  by  Parliamts.  —  Cambori- 
tum  call'd  by  ye  Saxons  Grant-ceaster  &  Gront-ceaster ;  Gron  signifies 


Word  and  fail'd  in  his  Promises.  (3)  He  has  prostituted  the  Degrees  of  the 
University  (as  in  the  case  of  a  certain  Scotchman,  who  is  great  with  BP.  Bur- 
net,  and  of  a  certain  undergraduate,  who  had  never  been  above  two  years  of 
the  University,  and  whom  he  got  to  be  created  Dr.  of  Law.)  (4)  He  got  Mr. 
(now  Dr.)  Pearson  to  be  made  Principal  of  Edm.  Hall  and  permitted  him  to 
keep  his  Fellowship  all  along  after  the  half-Year  was  expir'd,  contrary  to  the 
express  Words  of  Statute,  tho'  he  was  the  man  that  got  Dr.  Crosthwait  re- 
mov'd  for  pretending  to  keep  a  Fellowship  and  the  Principality,  and  'twas  he  that 
was  the  chief  who  carried  the  Election  for  Dr.  Mill  afterwards.  (5)  It  cannot 
but  be  highly  resented  that  he  should  make  Thistlethwayte  Keeper  of  the 
Theater-Press,  since  he  and  all  people  know  he  is  a  most  illiterate,  worthless 
Person.  (6)  He  has  let  Dr.  De  Laune  run  away  with  near  3ooollbs  of  the 
University  Money.  This  I  think  may  satisfy  you  in  your  Request.'  Will  be 
glad  to  see  Vavasour's  works.  Mr.  Thwaites  will  look  out  S.'s  papers  by 
Monday  next. 

Oct.  9.  Bagford  to  H.  (Rawl.  21.  14).  Has  sent  a  copy  of  Mr.  Sturt's 
Arch,  in  Prospective,  imperfect,  but  to  be  valued  for  the  two  titles  by  him  made 
with  a  pen  before  the  book  was  finished.  Also  two  editions  of  the  Imitatio ; 
one  Latin,  of  which  he  wishes  to  know  title  and  date  in  English,  with  H.'s  view 
as  to  the  author,  particulars  of  impressions  &c. ;  the  other  in  English  (1585), 
which  B.  thinks  was  printed  beyond  sea.  Prof.  Barnes  to  H.  (Rawl.  24. 
1 8).  Intends  to  print  Porphyry's  ^r^/iara  'O/^piKa,  Plutarch's  Life  of  Homer 
(which  he  takes  to  be  by  Dionysius  Halicarnasseus),  Herodotus'  Life  of  Homer 
and  Certamen  Homeri  et  Hesiodi.  Does  H.  know  of  any  MSS.  of  them  ?  Hopes 
to  get  more  than  50  subscribers  from  Oxford.  Copies  of  his  Prospectus  too 
lavishly  dissipated  there.  Is  now  employed  on  the  Indexes.  Engages  iooo/. 
and  reputation  in  the  work.  500  reams  almost  done  ;  sends  eras  for  80  more, 
at  is.  (>d.  per  ream.  '  I  take  no  notice  in  all  ye  Work  of  my  Hypothesis  Sle- 
lomo,  'OmeloSj'O/iTjpor.  The  World  can't  bear  it,  but  I  may  take  a  time,  when 
Malice  may  not  turn  it  to  my  Disadvantage.'  In  answer  to  Dr.  Hudson's  re- 
quest, remarks  that  he  '  can't  dun  folks.'  [On  back  is  a  draft  of  a  letter 
from  H.  to  Dodwell,  dated  Oct.  13,  asking  for  information  for  Barnes  &c.] 


Oct.  9-13.]  VOLUME  XXII,  PAGES  21-31.  285 

a  fenny  Place,     From  Grant-ceaster  (now  only  a  little  Village)  the  present 
Cambridge  had  its  Rise. 

Oct.  11  (Tu.).  There  is  just  publish'd  Tfie  Serviiour :  A  Poem.  Written 
by  a  Serviiour  of  the  University  of  Oxford,  and  faithfully  taken  from  his 
own  original  Copy,  &c.  London.  1709.  8V0.  In  a  single  Sheet  of  Paper. 
Mr.  Richard  Rawlinson  Gentleman-Commoner  of  S*.  John's  College,  and 
Brother  to  Mr.  Thomas  Rawlinson,  whom  I  have  often  mention'd,  tells 
me  that  he  had  the  only  Copy  that  he  knows  of  in  England  of  this  Poe'm, 
and  that  he  lent  it  to  one  Mr.  Giles  A.B.  of  S*.  John's  College,  who  he 
thinks  got  it  printed.  —  Goodmanchester  or  rather  Gormonchester  in  10 
Huntingdonshire  so  call'd  from  Gormon  the  Dane  to  whom  'twas  given 
by  King  Alfred  after  he  had  concluded  a  Peace  with  him.  'Tis  the  same 
with  Antoninus's  Duroliponte  or  rather  Durosiponte,  and  here  are  found 
divers  Roman  Coyns.  —  Thomas  Rawlinsonus  Armiger,  e  Collegio 
Divi  Joannis  Baptistae  Oxonij  nuper  commensalis  superioris  ordinis,  nunc 
legum  nostrarum  municipalium  in  Templo  medio  Londini  studiosus, 
librorum  cum  manuscriptorum  turn  impressorum  summa  industria  nee 
minore  judicio  vim  magnam  collegit;  alios,  quotque  melioris  notse 
nancisci  poterit,  collecturus.  Juvenis  iste,  optimis  sanctissimisque 
moribus  ornatus,  Ecclesiae  Anglicanae  jurium  contra  Fanaticorum  rabiem  20 
assertor  strenuus,  ut  de  suo  &  de  postero  seculo  praeclare  mereatur,  viris 
literatis  in  auctoribus  primae  classis  edendis  occupatis  manus  auxiliares 
praebet,  &  quicquid  in  muse'o  suo  delitescit  prompte  porrigit.  Nee  me 
haec  temere  dicere  inde  liquet  quod  cl.  Mattairius  in  Stephanorum  vitis 
concinnandis  se  plurimum  Rawlinsono  acceptum  referre  palam  fecerit. 
Quin  &  ipse  Rawlinsonus,  antistites  aliosque  in  artis  typographies 
primordijs  majorum  gentium  homines  imitatus  typothetarum  mendis 
corrigendis  se  nonnunquam  immiscet.  Inde  factum  ut  Quilletti  Callip<z- 
dicB,  carminis  venusti,  sed  quod  in  bibliopolarum  nostrorum  officinis  nus- 
quam  comparebat,  exempli  apud  se  forte  fortuna  adservati  copiam  30 
faceret,  operarumque  sphalmata  propria  manu  castigaret.  — 

Inscriptio  Tumuli  Ailwini  Monasterij  Ramseiensis  in  comitatu  Hunting- 
doniensi  fundatoris.  e  Camden.  Brit.  p.  368.  .  .  . 

Oct.  12  (Wed.).  I  have  in  my  study  three  or  four  Editions  of  the 
Book  wch  goes  under  the  Name  of  Thomas  a  Kempis  de  Imitatione  X*'. 
One  of  them  has  some  other  Pieces  printed  with  it,  &  it  bears  the  Name 
of  John  Gerson.  All  the  four  Books  are  printed.  I  see  in  the  Bodlejan 
Catalogue  that  there  are  two  Impressions  of  this  Book  under  y6  name  of 
John  Gerson.  The  first  without  Date  4°.  G.  56.  Th.  And  the  other  pr. 
in  1585.  without  the  Place's  Name  being  added.  8°.  F.  23.  Th.  40 

Oct.  13  (Th.).  Thomae  k  Kempis  de  Imitatione,  libri  iv°r  vetusta 
impressio  habetur  inter  Codices  Laudinos  B.  28.  Prodijt  nempe  A.D. 

1485- 

Codex  MS.  Laud  D.  4.      }     „   ,.       .  ,.  „,,  x 

>£  g  I    Codices  isti  Thomam  a 

Seld.  supra  93.  J        KemPis  continent. 

The  foresaid  Edition  of  Thomas  a  Kempis  has  all  the  4  Books,  but 
neither  the  Printer's  Name  nor  the  Place  where  printed  are  specified. 
Nor  does  it  appear  from  any  Note  in  the  Book  that  Thomas  a  Kempis 


286  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

was  Author,  however  express'd  that  he  was  so  in  the  Catalogue.     At  the 
End  is  added : 

Explicit  liber  de  imitacione  Jhesu  Christi,  conscriptus  a  quodam  viro  reli- 
gioso,  qui  forte  ob  humilitatem  suam  noluit  sibi  asscribere  hujusmodi  librum  per 
proprium  suum  nomen.  Ea  tamen  racione  quia  ignoratur  compositor  praesens 
liber  non  est  refutandus.  cum  juxta  Senecae  dictum,  non  te  move  at  [sic]  dicentis 
autoritas.  nee  quis  dicit,  sed  quid  dicatur  diligenter  attende.  Ex  quo  in  hoc 
libro  valde  utiles  continentur  doctrinse,  si  quis  secundum  eas  vivere  conetur, 
omni  dubio  semoto  vitam  aeternam  possidebit.  Summa  ergo  cum  diligentia 
10  hie  liber  est  diligendus. 

The  MS.  B.  i.  4.  Laud,  was  written  about  the  time  of  Henry  the  6th 
but  has  no  name  to  it,  only  a  more  modern  hand  has  added  Joannes  de 
Kempis.  It  contains  the  four  Books. — Neither  is  there  any  name  to  the 
MSfc.  of  Thomas  a  Kempis  in  Seld.  supra.  93.  Tis  there  intitled  Musica 
Ecclesiastica,  and  it  contains  only  3  Books,  at  ye  End  of  ye  last  whereof 
is  this  Kubrick, 

Scriptus  erat  liber  iste  anno  verbi  incarnati  Jhesu  millesimo  quadringente- 
simo  LXIX°.     Et  anno  invictissimi  Principis  &  domini  nostri  Domini  Edwardi 
dei  gracia  regis  Anglise  &  Franciss  ac  veri  &  indubitati  heredis  Regum  Cas- 
ao  tellae  &  Legionum  octavo. 

The  said  Kubrick  is  written  in  the  same  Hand  with  the  whole  Book. 

Oct.  14  (Fri.).  One  John  Charlet  Doctor  of  Divinity  gave  five 
Pounds  towards  the  Building  of  ye  Publick  Schools  and  Gallery  at  Oxford. 
Quaere  whether  he  was  any  way  related  to  busy  Charlett  Master  of 
University  College  ?  

ROBERTO  GRAIO  Scoto 
Londini  Medicinam  profitenti 
ARCHIBALDUS  PITCARNIUS  Scotus 
S. 

,0  Hie  qui  terns  latitat  Britannis, 

Solus,  aut  nullo  sapiens  amico, 
Ille  quam  debet  miser  inque  felix 

Vivere,  Grai? 

Audijt  nunquam  meditante  Scoto 
Carmina  Eoas  domitura  tigres, 
Proximum  aut  Phcebo  Priorum  canentes 

Dulce  camcenas. 

Ille  quid  credat  redeuntia  astra 
Solis  ac  Lunae  sibi  dedicari, 
4O  Se  nisi  ut  solum  miserumque  possit 

Ssepe  videre  ? 

Quid  putes  ml  nunc  animi  esse  soli, 
Postque  tot  raptos  inopi  sodales, 
Te  fere  solo  superante,  Te,  ca- 

rissime  Grai  ? 

Namque  nos  liquit  decus  illud  aevi 
Scotici,  sic  Di  voluere,  liquit 
Regise  stirpis  decus  atque  fama 

Gregorianse. 


Oct.  13-14.]  VOLUME  XXII,  PAGES  31-42.  287 

Ille  Nentonum  incolumem  lubenti 
Narrat  Euclidi  Siculoque  Divo, 
Miraque  Angusti  docet  almus  Angli 

Coepta  stupentes. 

Deinde  Pergseum  reducem  novumque 
Acris  Hallaei  studijs ;  sed  ipse 
Quam  graves  naper  tulerit  labores 

Dicere  parcit. 

Ista  nequicquam  memoramus :  Ille 

Immemor  nostri,  patruoque  gaudens,  IO 

Nos  ope  &  cura  sapientis  orbos 

Liqoit  amici. 

Carmina  ista  paullo  obscuriora  panxit  Archibaldus  Pitcarn  Medicinse 
Doctor  Glascoviensis,  qui  etiam,  ni  fallor,  nonnulla  edidit.     (Quaere  ?). 


The  following  Verses  upon  the  Picture  hanging  in  the  Presidents  Hall 
of  S*.  John's  College. 

Cemitur  hie  Thomas  Whitus  sub  imagine  picta, 
Cernitur  hac  vita  melius  sub  imagine  vera : 
Et  pater  &  praetor  Londini  miles  in  illo, 
Providus  Oxonise  fautor,  fundator  in  ilia. 
Bristollij  decus  eximium,  laus  prima  Redingse ; 
Gloria  Tunbrigise,  tibi  Causa  Coventria  famae. 
Urbis  hones,  Orbis  prudentia,  gemma  senectse. 

Under  it  Sr.  Thomas  White's  Arms,  and  immediately  after  Auxilium 
meum  a  Domino. 

Edm.  Marten  de  antiquis  Monachorum  Ritibus  libri  quinque.  Tomis 
duobus.  Lugd.  1690.  4°. — Idem  de  antiquis  Ecclesise  Ritibus  libris 
quatuor,  Rotomagi  1700.  1702,  &  Lugd.  1706.  4*°.  in  4  Volumes.  Both 
these  Works  taken  from  MSSte. 

In  ye  Year  1637.  June  14^  the  most  reverend  and  learned  Archbp.  30 
Laud  made  an  excellent  Speech  in  ye  Star  Chamber  at  ye  Censure  of 
John  Bastwick,  Henry  Burton  &  Will.  Prinn;  concerning  pretended 
Innovations  in  the  Church.  Which  Speech  was  printed  the  same  Year 
in  Quarto  at  London. .  I  have  seen  a  Copy  of  it  in  ye  Hands  of  Mr. 
Richard  Rawlinson  of  S*.  John's  College  with  marginal  MSS*.  Notes 
added  throughout.  These  Notes  Mr.  Rawlinson  transcrib'd  from 
another  Copy  of  them  in  ye  Hands  of  his  Brother  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
and  this  last  Copy  was  taken  by  Sir  Peter  Pett  from  a  Copy  that  he  found 
in  the  Study  of  John  Williams  Archbp.  of  York,  to  whom  he  was  Heir 
and  Exsecutor.  It  seems  they  were  written  by  Archbp.  Williams's  own  40 
Hand,  but  'tis  uncertain  who  was  the  Author ;  nor  is  it  very  material  to 
inquire  since  they  are  a  most  vile,  abominable  Libell  upon  the  most  pious 
Martyr,  are  stuffd  with  nothing  of  Reason  or  Learning,  nor  drawn  up 
with  any  tolerable  Judgment  or  Discretion.  And  yet  some  Fanatical, 
republican,  antiepiscopal  Persons  have  been  so  pleas'd  with  them  that 
they  have  offer'd  a  considerable  sum  of  Money  for  them,  on  purpose 
I  suppose  to  bring  a  Disgrace  upon  ye  Character  of  that  Great  and  Good 
Man,  wch  they  never  will  be  able  to  do  amongst  any  sober,  understand- 
ing and  honest  Men. 


288  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

Oct.  16  (Sun.).  The  ancients  did  not  only  add  Anathemas  at  ye  End 
of  yeir  Books  to  any  that  should  steal  or  abuse  them,  but  oftentimes  they 
pronounc'd  a  Curse  upon  such  as  should  carp  at  ye  Composition  of  ye 
Book.  Thus  in  ye  Bodlejan  Library  in  Archiv.  B.  num.  38.  there  is  a 
Paraphrase  on  ye  Psalms  in  English  verse,  and  at  ye  End  this  Anathema, 
Quicunque  alienaverit  anathema  sit.  Qui  culpat  carmen  sit  maledicus. 
Amen.  —  In.  Arch.  B.  90.  Mr.  Nic.  Fuller's  Hebrew  Concordance, 
given  by  himself  &  written  perhaps  by  his  own  Hand.  That  part  of  his 
Will  w*  relates  to  it  is  added  at  ye  Beginning,  &  is,  I  give  and  bequeath  to 

10  Sir  Thomas  Bodley's  Library  in  Oxford,  my  new  Translation  in  Latin  of 
the  Hebrew  Concordance,  w'h  manifold  Notes  therein,  though  not  throughly 
perused  nor  perfected  by  me  ;  that  yf  any  good  thing  be  found  therein,  y  may 
be  forth-coming  for  the  studious  Reader.  —  Queen's  College  claim  Edward 
Lord  Herbert  Author  of  ye  Life  of  K.  Hen.  VII  I>  &c.  to  yeir  Society, 
whereas  he  was  really  of  University  Coll.  &  Edw.  Herbert  of  Queen's  was 
different  from  him,  as  is  noted  by  Mr.  Wood.  The  Ld.  Herbert  gave 
his  original  MS*,  of  ye  Life  of  K.  Hen.  8th  to  ye  Bodlejan  Library  in 
1643,  &  twas  printed  in  1649.  the  Year  after  his  Death.  —  At  the  Begin- 
ning of  y6  old  Statutes  of  Oxford  in  Bodley's  Archives  A.  9 1 .  A  short 

20  account  of  ye  University's  being  translated  from  Grekelade  to  Oxford, 
formerly  call'd  Belle-situm.  Ant.  a  Wood  has  printed  it  in  pag.  4.  Hist. 
&  Antiq.  Oxon.  but  very  faultily. 

Oct.  17  (Mon.).  One  Hummelston  was  Sweeper  to  ye  Custom-House, 
&  got  thereby  a  great  Sum  of  Money,  and  by  his  Will  he  left  a  good 
Part  of  it  to  build  a  Church  in  Lincolnsh.  call'd  Hummelston.  Quaere  ? 

Oct.  18  (Tu.).  Mr.  Thwaites  is  of  opinion  that  in  v.  377.  of  Diony- 
sius's  Periegesis  for  eVoXiWaro  should  be  read  dn-oXfvaro,  and  confirms  his 
conjecture  from  ye  Paraphrast  wch  has  eTrop&jo-e,  as  'tis  also  in  a  Gloss  in 
one  of  ye  MSSts.  in  y6  Bodlejan  Library.  But  all  ye  MSS*8.  as  well  as 
30  Eustathius  &  Priscian  are  against  him.  —  Boethius's  Picture  in  an  old 
MS*,  of  him  IE.  A.  i.  17. 


Oct.  15.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  139).  The  Numismatum  anti- 
quorum  Sylloge  by  Mr.  Wren,  who  went  in  the  train  of  Bentinck  to  Paris  soon 
after  the  Peace  of  Ryswick.  He  is  but  a  dabbler  in  this  sort  of  learning, 
though  his  industry  and  curiosity  are  very  commendable.  Hopes  in  a  month 
or  two  to  be  able  to  give  a  full  account  of  Battely's  papers  about  the  Roman 
antiquities  in  Kent.  We  were  afraid  here  that  the  disgusts  of  Ch.  Ch.,  arising 
from  their  being  disappointed  of  their  expectation  of  the  Moral  Philosophy 
Lecture,  would  have  been  so  prevalent  as  to  put  Dr.  Lancaster  by.  Approves 
of  the  two  answers  to  Higden,  but  fears  that  the  authors  may  get  into  trouble 
by  indictments  and  informations,  as  it  is  very  dangerous  to  expose  and  over- 
throw the  principles  of  the  Revolution.  Can  H.  find  time  to  transcribe, 
within  two  or  three  months,  the  copies  of  from  40  to  50  letters  of  Smith  to 
Mons.  Almeloveen  ? 

Oct.  18.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  45).  Sorry  for  report  of  the  death 
of  Mr.  Schelwig,  who  was  indeed  Greek  Professor  at  Dantzick.  Please  pro- 
cure Pfaffius  on  Mill.  Sends  hearty  wellwishes  to  Barnes'  good  design,  but 
excuses  himself  cone.  Plutarch's  Life  of  Homer,  as  not  having  '  his  and  your 
gift  of  quickness.'  '  I  know  not  when  I  can  hope  to  find  what  Ruinartus  has 
written  against  Mr.  Dean  unless  I  find  it  with  you  in  Bodeley,  who  cannot  get 


Oct.  1-20.]  VOLUME  XXII,  PAGES  43-55.  289 

Oct.  19  (Wed.).  Saxa  ilia  stupendae  magnitudinis  in  planitie  campestri, 
quae  Sarisburiam  undique  cingit,  non  viva  esse,  id  est,  naturalia  &  excisa, 
sed  factitia  ex  arena  pura,  &  unctuoso  aliquo  coagmentata  censet  doctissi- 
mus  Camdenus.  Quam  sententiam  argumentis  validissimis  labefactavit 
vir  ingenio  &  eruditione  conspicuus  Inigo  Jones,  operum  publicorum 
regnante  Jacobo  imo  curator.  Is  enim  summa  cura  monumento  hocce 
lustrato,  &  cunctis  quae  in  orbem  complectitur  saxis  delineatis,  non  multo 
post  de  eodem  librum  plane  aureum  emisit.  In  ultimam  antiquitatem 
penetravit  auctor  clarissimus,  codicibus  qui  restant  undique  conquisitis 
&  excussis  veterum  in  urbibus,  templis,  alijsque  aedificijs  condendis  i° 
normas  oculis  subjecit,  &  antiquarijs  nostris  in  his  tenebris  cespitantibus 
lumen  saepenumero  praetulit.  His  praelibatis,  deinde,  calculis  recte  sub- 
ductis,  aperte  ostendit  substructionem  istam  insanam  Romanis  deberi, 
illisque  hac  in  insula  commorantibus  in  templi  locum  cessisse.  Opus 
hoc  eximium  plausu  arripiebant  &  excipiebant  omnes  literarum  amantis- 
simi.  Neque  hanc  opinionem,  scriptorum  gravissimorum  testimonijs 
fultam,  coarguere  quispiam  ausus  est,  donee  Gualterus  Charletonus, 
medicus  undequaque  doctissimus,  necnon  Regibus  Carolo  imo,  ejusque 
filijs  Carolo  &  Jacobo  subditus  fidelissimus,  a  Danis  erectum  fuisse 
probatum  iverit.  Id  praestitit  in  libro  hac  de  re  in  lucem  edito  :  quern  20 
demum  argute  &  docte  refellit  Joannes  Webbius,  armiger,  idem  ille  qui 
de  lingua  primaeva  librum  optimum  composuit.  Quicquid  asseruerat 
Jones,  strenue  ac  nervose  tuetur,  atque  Romanorum  hoc  opus  fuisse 
paullo  fusius  exposuit.  Quid  quod  hie  loci  nulla  indicia  compareant  quae 
ut  Danis  tribuatur  suadeant  ?  quum  tamen  non  raro  Romanorum  numis- 
mata  eruantur,  quae  illis  adscribendum  esse  non  parum  firmant. 


In  Hallywell  Church- Yard,  Oxford. 

ANNA  RAINESIA. 

Virgo  pia  prudensque  vale  in  Christo 

a  die  quarto  Maij  A.D.1  CIDIDXC  post  annos  xvi.  30 

Mens.  iv.  Dies  iv.  Innocentia  admirabili 

actos,  Caremus  te  lux  domus  nostrae 

Te  multum  desideramus  animo  sequenti. 

Edvardus  Bernardus          »J<          Anna  Rainesia 

avunculus    S?    Lydia  8  soror    V    mater. 

Oct.  20  (Th.).  There  is  just  come  out  An  English-Saxon  Homily  on 
the  Birth-Day  of  S'.  Gregory:  anciently  used  in  the  English-Saxon 
Church,  Giving  an  Account  of  the  Conversion  of  the  English  from 
Paganism  to  Christianity.  Translated  into  modern  English,  with  notes,  40 
&c.  By  Eliz.  Ehtob.  Lond.  8™.  Which  Book  tho'  it  bear  the  Name 
of  M".  Elstob  yet  is  chiefly  owing  to  her  Brother  Mr.  William  Elstob, 
lately  Fellow  of  University  College,  &  now  Rector  of  S*.  Swithun's  in 
London.  This  small  Work  is  design'd  to  promote  and  advance  Saxon 
Knowledge ;  but  I  am  much  mistaken  if  it  will  not  have  a  quite  different 


his  4°  against  myself,  nor  his  other  Editions  of  Authors.'     Could  answer  H.'s 
Reply  if  he  had  leisure  and  the  conveniency  of  the  Press. 


1  1690. 
VOL.  n.  u 


290  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

effect,  &  make  it  look  mean  and  little.  The  long,  tedious  Dedication  and 
Preface,  containing  above  three-score  Pages,  the  Latin  Letter  of  Mr. 
Elstob  to  his  Sister,  occasion' d  by  his  turning  this  Homily  into  Latin, 
(printed  also  here)  the  Bedrol  of  Subscribers  names  at  the  End,  with 
several  other  Particulars,  are  such  odd  Flights  of  Vanity  that  they  do  and 
will  make  the  Book  ridiculous,  and  Expose  both  Brother  and  Sister  to  the 
Reflexions  of  those  who  are  always  ready  to  run  down  and  despise  such 
vain,  affected  Performances.  But  leaving  this  Farrago  of  Vanity,  I  must 
here  observe  that  the  Answer  to  Mr.  Higden's  Book  y*  I  have  mention'd 

10  above  (p.  21.  &c.)  is  done  by  way  of  Discourse  between  A.  &  B.  &  who- 
ever was  ye  Author  he  has  shew'd  himself  to  be  a  Man  of  Religion, 
Honesty,  Integrity,  &  true  Courage.  'Tis  done  with  great  Strength  of 
Reason,  Learning,  &  Judgement.  He  has  thoroughly  detected  the 
Sophistry  of  Mr.  Higden  &  clearly  overthrown  whatever  is  alledg'd  by 
him  in  behalf  of  his  wild  Notion  about  Possession's  giving  a  Title  to 
Allegiance,  and  withall  he  observes  that  Oaths  are  to  be  taken  in  the 
same  sense  that  they  are  impos'd  by  the  Legislators,  &  that  those  Gentle- 
men who  take  them  only  for  the  Sake  of  Preferment  &  have  secret 
Reservations  within  themselves  will  have  a  most  dreadfull  charge  to 

ao  answer  for  at  one  time  or  other.  We  have  too  many  of  these  now  in 
England  who  have  violated  their  Oaths  to  their  undoubted  Sovereign 
King  James  and  struck  in  with  those  who  are  Usurpers,  to  whom  they 
have  likewise  taken  Oaths  in  opposition  to  him  to  whom  they  were  before 
oblig'd  by  the  same  sacred  tyes  of  Conscience.  Besides  this  Answer 
I  understand  there  is  another  came  out  done  with  ye  same  Skill  and 
Smartness.  Which  tis  impossible  for  Mr.  Higden  and  all  his  Lawyers 
together  to  reply  to ;  and  therefore  'tis  fear'd  that  some  other  Method 
will  be  taken  to  run  down  these  two  honest  &  learned  Gentlemen,  by 
endicting  them  as  Enemies  to  ye  Government  &  by  that  means  draw 

30  upon  them  a  great  deal  of  Trouble  and  Charge.  A  certain  Master  of  Arts 
waiting  very  lately  in  the  Morning  upon  Dr.  Charlett  at  his  Lodgings  in 
University  Coll.  found  before  him  a  new  Book,  which  he  took  up,  and 
said,  What,  Master,  this  is  an  answer  to  Higden  ?  Ay,  reply'd  Charlett, 
such  a  one  as  it  is,  done  in  the  usual  method  observd  by  Non-Jurors.  The 
Gentleman  said,  /  am  of  opinion  that  f  Preface  at  least  was  written  by 
jy.  Hickes.  Say  you  so,  says  Charlett,  and  went  on  no  farther,  he  having 
some  small  Interest  with  Dr.  Hickes,  for  whom  however  I  believe  he 
cares  no  farther  than  he  perceives  'twill  be  for  his  own  Interest,  and  in 
all  probability  he  would  have  all  ye  Non-Jurors  punish'd  with  ye  utmost 

40  Severity,  it  being  his  Business  now  to  act  and  talk  for  ye  Whiggs  on 
purpose  that  he  may  get  Preferment,  which  however  he  will  hardly 
obtain,  notwithstanding  his  Project  of  Setting  up  Statues,  &c.  —  One 
Mr.  David  Bell,  A.M.  in  Scotland  &  a  Divine  in  the  Diocese  of  Carlisle 
having  by  the  Interest  of  the  BP.  of  that  Diocese  &  some  others  in  y<* 
same  Parts  procur'd  ye  Chancellor's  Letters  that  he  might  be  admitted  to 
ye  same  Degree  in  this  University,  they  were  read  this  Day  at  two  Clock 
in  Convocation,  &  were  deny'd  by  a  great  Majority.  'Twas  reported 
about  that  he  was  recommended  by  the  Ld.  Clarendon  and  some  other 
very  honest  Gentlemen,  &  so  'twas  express'd  in  the  Papers  sent  to  the 

50  several  Houses,  wcli  made  some  inclinable  to  him,  but  upon  Reading  the 


Oct.  20-22.]  VOLUME  XXII,  PACES  55-68.  291 

Letters  in  Convocation  'twas  found  to  be  nothing  but  a  trick  of  y°  Vice- 
Chancellor  and  some  of  his  Cronies,  that  he  might  be  advanc'd  to  this 
Degree  at  Oxford  on  purpose  to  render  him  the  better  qualify'd  for  two 
Livings;  and  ye  Vice-Chancellor  was  ye  more  zealous  in  his  Behalf  because 
it  seems  he  is  somewhat  related  to  Dr.  Thomas  Pearson  Principal  of  Edm. 
Hall.  —  Juxta  Herlaxton  viculum  in  agro  Lincolniensi,  aeneum  vasculura 
patrum  memoria  inquit  Camdenus  aratro  erutum  fuit,  in  quo  cassis  aurea 
antiquissimae  forma?  gemmis  distincta  reperta,  quae  dono  data  Catherine 
Hispanae  Henrici  Octavi  dotariae. 

Oct.  21  (Fri.).  Mr.  Rob.  Watts  of  S*.  John's  has  publish'd,  A  Discourse  i<j 
concerning  the  Lawfullness  and  Right  manner  of  keeping  Christmass,  and 
other  Christian  Holy-days,  by  way  of  Question  and  Answer.     Intended  for 
the  Use  of  a  Charity- School.     Lond.  1708.  8V0.  in  a  sheet  and  half.     Mr. 
Watts  reports  that  the  BP.  of  Ely,  Dr.  More,  is  pleas'd  with  this  little 
Book,  and  that  he  has  desir'd  him  if  he  reprints  it  to  do  it  by  way  of 
Epistle  to  the  Religious  Societies.     In  pag.  6.  he  quotes  Dr.  Smith's 
Account  of  ye  Greek  Church  about  strict  and  Religious  Observation  of 
ye  Festivals  &  Fasts  of  ye  Church,  &c.     'Tis  a  very  silly,  ridiculous  paper,     , 
unskillfully  taken  from  Nelson  &  two  or  three  more.   —  Just  printed  on 
one  side  of  a  half  sheet  of  Paper,  The  Lady's  Journey  to  Oxford,  or  the  ao 
secret  History  of  a  Silver-Chamber-Pot. 

Oct.  22  (Sat.).  Mr.  Thomas  Allen  A.M.  and  Fellow  of  University 
College  having  been  lately  in  Kent  he  procur'd  there  an  old  MS*.  Latin 
Glossary,  written  in  an  obscure  hand  upon  vellam  :  which  MS*,  he  has 
been  pleas'd  to  give  to  ye  Writer  of  these  Matters.  We  have  two  or 
three  in  the  Bodlejan  Library  written  much  about  ye  same  Age,  and  Du 
Fresne  made  use  of  several  in  his  Excellent  Glossary  mediae  &  infimae  • 
Latinitatis ;  but  I  cannot  find  that  either  ours  or  his  were  in  ye  same 
nature  of  this  wck  I  had  from  Mr.  Allen,  wcl1  is  done  by  way  of  Etymo- 
logy &  contains  divers  curious  particulars  that  I  do  not  remember  to  have  30 
seen  anywhere  else.  The  Author  derives  baratrum  from  voro,  and 
insinuates  that  'twas  formerly  pronounc'd  voratrum.  B  &  V.  we  know 
are  confounded  in  MSSte.  &  perhaps  after  voratrum  they  might  call  it 
varatrum  &  then  baratrum.  Bacilla,  wch  he  says  are  vascula  apta  ad 
rotandas  pruinas  vel  carbones,  he  derives  from  veho,  quasi  vectilia.  They 
therefore  pronounc'd  it  formerly  vacilla. 

Oct.  22.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  146).  Spanheim  mentions  Mr. 
Wren's  collection  of  coins  in  his  great  work.  Has  bought  the  Sylloge,  but 
finds  it  merely  a  dry  list.  Mr.  Higden  resolves  all  he  has  to  say  into  Posses- 
sion. The  Answer  to  it  managed  between  A.  and  B.  is  done  with  much 
learning  and  judgment;  and  when  H.  came  to  look  again  upon  Higden,  he 
wrote  in  the  title-page  Prodijt  responsum  ad  hunc  libellum,  in  quo  quicquid  asse- 
ruit  Higdenus  egregie  refutavit  auctor  anonymus.  Two  or  three  gentlemen  of 
honesty  plainly  declared  the  other  night  that  they  were  of  opinion  that  Mr. 
Higden's  compliance  was  purely  out  of  a  principle  of  interest.  An  M.A.  tells 
H.  that  '  going  to  Dr.  Charlett's,  he  found  lying  upon  the  Table  a  new  Book,  . 
which  he  took  up  and  said,  What,  here's  an  Answer  to  Higden,  Master  ?  Ay, 
replyes  the  Master,  such  a  one  as  'tis,  done  in  the  usual  <way  that  the  Non-Jurors 
take'  The  book  is  said  to  lose  its  character  very  fast.  Will  gladly  transcribe 
S.'s  letters  to  Almeloveen.  Looks  upon  Mrs.  Elstob's  ed.  of  the  A.  S.  Ho- 
mily on  the  Birthday  of  St.  Gregory  as  '  nothing  but  a  farrago  of  Vanity.' 

U  2 


29 a  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

'  Oct.  24  (Mon.).  There  is  lately  Publish'd  Secret  Memoirs  and1 
Manners  of  several  Persons  of  Quality,  of  both  Sexes,  From  the  New 
Atalantis,  an  Island  in  the  Mediteranean.  8V0.  There  are  two  Impressions 
of  it  already.  This  Book  gives  a  lively  Description  of  ye  abominable 
Corruptions  of  humane  Nature,  &  exposes  the  abominable  Vices  of 
several  Great  Persons,  under  fictitious  Names ;  wcb  makes  y*  'tis  not  so 
easily  understood.  There  is  a  Key  handed  about,  a  Copy  wherof  follows : 

The  Characters  mention'd  in  the  Memoirs  of  the  New  Atalantis. — Page  12. 
....  Sr  Cloudesly  Shovell,  Lord  Torrington.  13 Marquess  of  Caer- 

lo  marthen.  14 Ld  Dursley.  21 Duke  of  Marlbo[ro]ugh,  Mrs. 

Wright,  Dutch,  of  Cleveland.  22.  K.  Charles  IId.  23.  M18.  Godfrey,  The 
Ship  Lenox.  24.  His  Motto,  Fidelis  sed  infortunatus.  26.  Sarah  Jennings 
Dutchess  of  Marlborough.  30.  Jermin,  Lord  Dover.  41.  Duke  of  Mon- 

rnouth,  K.  James,  Prince  of  Orange.  44.  Ld  Portland.  50 Mrs. 

Howard,  Maid  of  Honour  to  Queen  Mary.  51 Ld  Woodstock.  73. 

.  .  .  .  Ld  Berkley  (now  Portland).  85 Duke  of  Buckingham.  88. 

....  M18.  Coke  of  Norfolk.  89 Mr.  Coke.  107 Sr  Edmund 

Bacon.  114 Lady  Emly.  131 Bish.  of  Sarum.  133 

Ld  Cholmondeley.  134 Sr  Robert  Howard.  135 Duke  of 

30  Shrewsbury.  154 Quainton-Meadow  Race,  Ldy  Wharton,  Duke  of 

Somerset.  155 Duke  of  Richmond.  156 Ld  Wharton.  157. 

•  ....  Collonell  Shrimpton.  Sr  Richard  Temple.  158.  Dr.  Egerton,  who 
married  M1*.  Field  the  Poetess.  163.  Hyde  Parke.  165.  Duke  of  Ormond. 
166.  Lady  Eliz.  Vere.  167.  Ld  Thanet.  168.  Duke  of  Albemarle,  Mre. 
Finch  of  Kent  before  Kingmill,  Maid  of  Honour.  171.  Duke  of  Grafton, 
Mra.  Knight,  now  Onslow,  Lady  Ann  Popham,  Ld7  Carlisle.  172.  Earl  of 
Nottingham,  Mre.  Hammond.  173.  Ld  Dursley.  175.  Henry  S*.  John,  M™. 
Granville.  178.  Ldy  Hyde,  Duke  of  New-castle.  179.  Duke  of  Beaufort,  Sr. 
James  of  the  Peak.  180.  Mrs.  Peashull,  Ld  Kent.  182.  Sr  Rich.  Temple, 

30  Ldy  Renelaugh.  183.  Ld  Hallifax,  Vice-Chamb.  Coke  of  Derby.  184.  Mre. 
Laurence.  186.  Ldy.  Withers.  187.  Mr.  Steel  the  Gazzetteer.  194.  Mr. 
Manley  the  Cornish  Member.  197.  M18.  Newington,  Sr  Tho.  Laurence. 
198.  Mr.  Lee  Warner  of  Bucks  brother  to  Coll.  Lee  of  Canterbury,  Ldy  Lau- 
rence of  Chelsea.  202.  Mr.  Withers  of  ye  Custom-House.  203.  Coll.  God- 
frey the  Son.  205.  Dutch,  of  Marlborough.  206.  Ld  Fitzharding.  210. 
Bracegirdle  and  Barry.  211.  Sr  R.  Blackmore,  Dr.  Garth.  213.  Ld  Somers, 
old  Sr  Wm.  Cowper,  Ld  Chancellour  Cowper,  Councellor  Cowper.  214.  M18. 
Cullen.  217.  Mr.  Sambrook.  219.  Sarah  Stout  the  Quaker.  — 

The  Judgment  and  Decree  of  ye  University  of  Oxford,  Past  in  their 
40  Convocation  July  21.  1683.  &c.  was  drawn  up  by  Dr.  Jane.  'Tis 
reprinted  at  y6  End  of  a  Quarto  Pamphlett  intit.  Proteus  Ecclesiasticus  : 
or,  Observations  on  Dr.  Sherlock's  late  case  of  Allegiance,  &c.  in  a  Letter 
to  Mr.  P.  W.  Merchant  in  London.  Lond.  1691.  4*°.  —  In  Livy's  Epit. 
52.  for  Bimulo  admodum  somebody  reads  pumulo  admodum.  Which 
Lection  I  take  to  be  wrong.  'Tis  certainly  against  ye  Authority  of  MSS. 
Puero  admodum  is  much  righter,  and  is  warranted  by  a  good  MS.  made 
use  of  by  Delrius,  as  I  have  noted  in  ye  Oxford  Edition.  —  We  hear 
from  Northampton-shire  that  a  man  there  of  22  years  of  Age,  without 
Feet  and  Arms  is  married  to  a  woman  of  69  Years  of  Age,  without 
5°  Legs,  only  stumps,  and  as  deaf  as  an  Adder. 

Oct.  25  (Tu.).     Sir  Thomas  Moore  was  famous  for  his  Learning 
before  he  was  twenty  Years  of  Age  ;  and  he  was  envy'd  upon  yfc  account 

1  The  Author  Mrs.  Manley. 


Oct.  24-27.]  VOLUME  XXII,  PAGES  68-86.  393 

by  some  malicious  Persons,  particularly  by  Germanus  Brixius  a  German, 
who  writ  a  reproachfull  Book  against  Sr.  Thomas,  call'd  Antimorus. 
This  Book  was  answer'd  by  Sr.  Thomas,  &  publish'd,  but  soon  after 
receiving  a  Letter  from  Erasmus  that  'twould  be  more  commendable  to 
let  such  a  rancorous  Adversary  alone,  he  endeavour'd  by  all  means  pos- 
sible to  get  all  ye  Copies  again  &  to  suppress  ye  Book;  so  y*  it  is 
become  exceeding  scarse  &  is  very  rarely  seen.  See  The  Life  of  Sr. 
Thomas  More  written  by  his  Great  Grandson  Mr.  Tho.  More,  pag.  24, 
25.  Which  Life  is  done  most  admirably  well,  &  is  scarse.  —  Lambin 
had  so  great  a  Veneration  and  respect  for  Peter  Ramus  that  he  died  10 
presently  after  Ramus  meerly  for  sorrow  at  the  Loss  of  so  great  a  Man 
&  so  Learned  and  true  a  Friend.  —  Mihi  videtur,  auctorem  verura 
libelli,  de  quo  supra,  p.  54,  &c.  contra  Higdenum  praestantissimi  esse  cl. 
Georgium  Hickesium,  virum,  si  quis  in  Anglia,  doctissimum,  integerrimum, 
sagacissimum,  &  ab  ambitione  &  honorum  atque  divitiarum  cupiditate 
(tanta  est  ejus  virtus  modestiaque)  procul  remotum.  (Mr.  Gandy  is  ye 
Author,  as  he  tells  me  himself.)  —  I  have  Thomas  a  Kempis  de  Imita- 
tione  Xti  in  1 2°.  It  contains  all  ye  4  Books,  John  Gerson  Chancellour 
of  Paris  is  said  to  be  the  Author  at  ye  Beginning  of  ye  first  Book,  and  so 
at  ye  End  of  ye  fourth.  'Twas  printed  at  Paris  by  John  Petit  living  in  zo 
St.  James's  Street  in  year  1505,  the  5th  day  of  May. 

Oct.  26  (Wed.).  Doctor  Whitforde  a  very  holy  and  grave  Man,  and 
Chaplain  to  Fisher  BP.  of  Winchester,  translated  the  Following  of  Christ 
into  English,  as  is  noted  by  Mr.  More  in  the  Life  of  Sr.  Tho.  More,  p.  54. 
He  does  not  there  tell  us  ye  Author  of  y*  Book.  Quaere  whether  that 
translation  be  not  ye  same  with  that  which  is  said  to  have  been  done  by 
Margaret  Countess  of  Richmond  and  Mother  to  King  Henry  VII^? 
Dr.  Whitford  eminent  in  King  Hen.  Vila's  Time.  The  said  Transla- 
tion of  Tho.  a  Kempis  is  not  mention'd  by  Ant.  a  Wood,  who  has 
however  given  an  account  of  Dr.  Whitforde  as  an  Oxford  Man.  It  must  30 
be  different  from  ye  Countesses's  because  she  is  said  to  have  translated 
only  y«  4^  Book.  Dr.  Whitforde  himself  mentions  his  being  desired  to 
translate  this  little  Book,  wch  he  calls  Gersons.  This  he  does  at  ye  End 
of  his  Book  call'd  The  Pype  or  Tonne  of  the  Lyfe  of  Perfection,  pr.  at 
London  in  Fleete  streets  by  Robert  Redman  dwelling  in  saynt  Dunstones 
Parysshe  next  the  Churche.  anno  1532.  the  23  daye  of  March.  We  have 
a  Copy  of  this  Book  of  Perfection  in  Selden's  Library  corrected  through- 
out I  believe  by  Dr.  Whitfordes  own  Hand.  —  Quaere  num  unquam  pro- 
dierint *  in  Ciceronem  epitaphia  a  duodecim,  non  mediocris,  ut  videtur, 
eruditionis  viris  confecta.  Exstant  in  Codice  vetusto,  in  membranis  40 
scripto,  Bibliothecae  Mertonensis  Oxonise.  Codex  iste,  a  scriba  linguae 
Latinae  perito  exaratus,  Ciceronis  non  pauca  continet ;  uti  &  Palladij  de 
re  rustica  libros,  quos  utinam  aliquis,  ad  hanc  rem  idoneus,  cum  Editioni- 
bus  impressis  accurate  conferret ;  quippe  qui  stylo  paullo  elegantiori  (sic 
enim  judicant  eruditi)  sint  scripti,  &  in  bibliopolijs  raro  inveniantur. 

Oct.  27  (Th.).  Just  come  over  from  Holland  Menandri  &  Philemonis 
Fragmenta  Gr.  Lat.  cum  Notis  H.  Grotij  &  Joan.  Clerici.  1 709.  4*°.  — 
On  Friday  last  stood  for  ye  Degree  of  Master  of  Arts  Mr.  F.  Littleton 

1  prodierunt  in  Editione  principe  Officiomm.     Exstant  nempe  ad  calcem. 


294  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

Fellow  of  All-Souls  College,  and  about  14  or  15  Years  standing  in  the 
University.  His  Grace  was  denied,  as  also  'twas  in  two  Congregations 
immediately  following.  Upon  which  the  reasons  were  given  in  to  ye 
Vice-Chancellor.  There  were  only  two  deponents  upon  this  occasion. 
The  first  alledg'd  that  in  February  last  coming  in  the  Coach  from  London 
with  the  said  Mr.  Littleton  he  heard  the  said  Mr.  Littleton  defend  the 
Book  call'd  The  Rights  of  y  Christian  Church,  particularly  that  Part  of 
it  in  which  ye  Author  endeavours  to  prove  that  the  Original  of  Governmt. 
was  from  the  People.  (2)  He  farther  depos'd  that  the  said  Mr.  Littleton 

io  at  the  same  time  defended  Fornication.  (3)  He  lastly  depos'd  that  Mr. 
Littleton  at  the  same  time  acknowledg'd  that  he  had  a  hand  in  drawing 
up  the  printed  Paper  which  offers  reasons  why  the  Statutes  for  taking 
Holy  Orders  in  Colleges  should  be  alter'd.  The  other  Deponent,  who 
was  in  the  Coach  at  the  same  time,  averr'd  that  he  heard  Mr.  Littleton 
speak  words  in  defence  of  the  Rts.  of  the  Christian  Church,  but  that  he 
was  not  sure  whether  he  spoke  them  as  being  his  own  opinion  or  others. 
(2)  That  he  acknowledg'd  that  he  had  dispers'd  several  Copies  of  the 
above  mention'd  Paper  relating  to  the  Statute  for  taking  Holy  Orders. 
This  Morning  at  Nine  Clock  was  a  Congregation,  and  the  several 

ao  Reasons  being  read  and  the  Suffrages  taken  it  appear'd  that  being  not 
thoroughly  made  out  they  were  not  reckon'd  as  sufficient  for  turning 
Mr.  Littleton  by  his  Degree,  and  therefore  his  Grace  was  pronounc'd 
granted.  'Tis  observable  that  upon  this  occasion  there  was  not  one  Head 
of  a  House  present  but  ye  Vice-Chancellor,  nor  one  Dr.  of  Divinity  except 
Dr.  Hudson.  This  whole  Transaction  is  reckon'd  by  the  Generality  to 
have  been  manag'd  purely  out  of  Malice,  and  out  of  a  partial  Design 
of  pleasing  and  caressing  the  Warden  of  All-Souls,  Dr.  Gardiner,  between 
whom  and  divers  of  the  Fellows  of  that  College  there  is  great  Enmity, 
w°k  is  carried  on  with  ye  utmost  heat  and  Fury  on  both  sides ;  and  it 

30  happening  that  this  Mr.  Littleton  being  a  bitter  Enemie  to  ye  Warden, 
the  Warden  out  of  Revenge  has  taken  all  occasions  possible  to  get  him 
out  of  the  College,  &  in  order  to  that  contriv'd  to  have  him  turn'd  by 
his  Degree.  And  to  this  End  his  old  Crony  Dr.  Charlett  &  some  others 
have  so  concerted  ye  matter  as  to  have  these  above  mention'd  reasons 
produc'd  and  sworn  to ;  which  reasons  had  they  been  better  made  out 
would  have  been  highly  sufficient  for  not  only  turning  him  by  his  Degree 
but  expelling  him  the  University.  It  must  however  here  be  observ'd 
that  ye  said  Mr.  Littleton  is  really  guilty  of  several  imprudent  Expres- 
sions, wcl1  tend  to  shew  him  a  Favourer  of  the  Principles  in  the  Rights. 

40  (But  notwithstanding  all  this  'tis  the  Opinion  of  divers  honest  Gentlemen 
in  the  University  that  his  Degree  should  have  been  stop'd,  and  y*  at 
the  same  time  they  should  have  proceeded  to  condemn  that  Wicked 
Book  in  Defense  of  wch  Mr.  Littleton  unhappily  spoke  the  beforemen- 
tion'd  Words ;  and  they  think  moreover  that  this  Concession  will  highly 
reflect  upon  ye  University  &  y*  the  Author,  or  Authors,  and  Abettors  of 
this  Book  will  triumph  and  declare  y*  ye  Book  is  approv'd  of  by  ye 
University.  But  this  ought  not  to  be  wonder'd  at  since  'tis  too  notorious 
yt  y«  University  has  in  several  late  Instances  shew'd  its  Defection  from 
the  Principles  and  Doctrines  yt  it  once  strenuously  and  most  vigorously 

5°  defended.) 


Oct.  27-20.]  VOLUME  XXII,  PAGES  86-99.  295 

Oct.  28  (Fri.).  In  Bibl.  Bodl.  IE.  A.  4.  i.  Several  Pieces  of  S*. 
Augustin  in  an  old  Hand  on  Vellam,  a  fair  MS*.  At  the  End,  in  red 
Letters,  Hunc  librum  scripsil  /rater  Willhelmus  de  Wodecherche,  laicus 
quondam  conversus  Pontis  Roberti.  Cujus  anima  in  pace  requiescat.  Imme- 
diately under  wch  in  a  somewhat  different  Hand,  Liber  scancta  [sic]  Marias 
de  Ponte  Roberii.  Qui  eum  abstuleril,  aut  vendiderit,  vel  quohbet  modo  ab 
hac  domo  ah'enaverit,  vel  quamlibet  ejus  partem  absciderii,  sit  anathema 
Maranatha.  Amen.  This  Book  came  afterwards  into  ye  possession  of 
John  BP.  of  Exeter1,  who  hath  struck  out  ye  said  Anathema,  and  writ 
under,  Ego  Johannes  Exon  Episcopus  nescio  ubi  esl  domus  prcedicta  ;  nee  10 
hunc  librum  abstuli,  sed  modo  legittimo  adquisivi.  N.  B.  Robertsbridge 
was  a  Cistertian  Abbey  in  Surrey  built  to  the  honour  of  the  V.  Mary. 
See  Notitia  Monastica  p.  224.  —  In  M.  B.  i.  15.  There  is  ye  ist  Book 
of  Thomas  a  Kempis.  Written  much  about  y6  time  of  Hen.  Vlth.  The 
other  Books  have  been  there  but  cut  out,  and  perhaps-  other  Things 
with  them.  —  I  have  heard  it  reported  by  Mr.  Thwaites  of  Queen's 
College  that  besides  those  Reasons  that  were  read  in  Convocation  against 
Mr.  Littleton,  there  were  others  given  into  the  Vice- Chancel  lor  and 
sworn  to,  wch  were  more  clearly  &  strongly  made  out  than  those  read. 
But  the  Vice-Chancellor,  upon  what  account  God  knows,  thought  fit  to  ao 
conceal  them.  'Tis  withall  said  by  some  who  know  Littleton  very  well 
that  the  Tenour  and  Course  of  his  Life  for  several  Years  has  been  agree- 
able to  those  loose  and  wicked  Expressions  above  recited,' and  moreover 
I  heard  a  Master  of  Arts  of  some  standing  say  that  when  he  was  lately 
examin'd  for  his  Master  of  Arts  Degree  he  could  not  answer  or  say  any 
thing  to  one  Question  in  ten,  and  yet  the  Masters  set  their  Hands  to  his 
Certificate,  particularly  Mr.  Shippen  of  Brazenose  Coll.  which  is  the 
rather  to  be  observ'd  because  this  Shippen  appears  Candidate  for  ye 
Principality  of  Brazenose  in  Case  of  a  Vacancy,  wch  is  exspected  the 
Principal  having  been  for  a  considerable  time  under  a  Great  Indis-  3° 
position. 

Oct.  29  (Sat.).  This  Day  at  nine  of  ye  Clock  was  a  Congregation, 
when  Mr.  Littleton  of  All-Souls  was  presented  to  ye  Degree  of  Master 
of  Arts.  At  this  time  a  very  ingenious  Gentleman  of  Christ  Church, 
Mr.  Fairfax,  a  Young  Master  of  Arts,  and  student  of  y*  Place,  made  an 
excellent  Speech,  in  wc^  he  desir'd  of  ye  Vice-Chanc.  that,  whereas 


Oct.  28.  R.  Roberts  to  H.  (Rawl.  9.  45).  Thanks  for  accommodating 
matters  with  Mrs.  Law.  Please  send  to  Mr.  F.  Cox  (at  the  sign  of  the  Chichester 
in  Southwark)  for  a/,  oj.  6</.  Hopes  at  Xmas  to  be  able  to  send  H.  a  token 
to  drink.  Sorry  to  hear  that  Llhuyd  was  succeeded  by  Cooling ;  but  hopes 
that  H.  will  succeed  Mr.  Cox.  [March  17, 1715,  Roberts  is  expecting  a  letter 
from  Mr.  Gunnis  relating  to  his  wig  by  every  post.] 

Oct.  20.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  140).  Remarks  on  Mrs.  Elstob's 
ed.  of  the  Saxon  homily  ;  she  should  not  have  been  allowed  to  digress  so  much 
in  praise  of  Austine  the  Monk,  and  in  dispraise  of  the  British  Bishops,  who,  all 
things  considered,  were  better  Christians  than  himself  and  his  associates.  Has 


1  Perhaps  John  Voyssey  alias  Harman  in  y«  time  of  Hen.  8.  tho'  the  Hand  seems 
more  ancient. 


296  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

Mr.  Littleton  had  got  his  Degree  notwt^standing  ye  abominable  Words 
he  spoke,  he  would  be  pleas'd  to  give  leave  that  that  wicked  Book  call'd 
ye  Rights  of  ye  Christian  Church  might  be  brought  before  the  Convoca- 
tion, that  so  it  might  be  censur'd  by  them  and  all  Scandal  taken  off  from 
y6  University,  and  y*  by  this  Means  a  stop  might  be  put  to  ye  Rumour 
wcl1  is  like  to  be  rais'd  that  this  Act  of  letting  Mr.  Littleton  have  his 
Degree  is  ye  Act  of  ye  University,  whereas  'twas  only  ye  Act  of  some 
inconsiderate,  hair-braind  Persons.  They  say  the  Vice-Chancellor 
promis'd  he  would  do  what  he  could.  But  I  exspect  no  such  matter 

10  from  one  of  his  Principles.  He  is  reported,  and  I  am  apt  to  believe  it, 
to  have  been  for  Littleton ;  and  besides,  do  w*  they  can,  they  cannot 
remove  ye  Reproach,  when  the  Heads  of  Houses  stay'd  away,  and  did 
not  oppose,  being  fearfull  and  thinking  y*  it  might  be  against  yeir  secular 
Interest.  Christ-Church  are  always  couragious,  and  ready  to  do  what 
they  can  for  ye  Good  and  Benefit  and  Credit  of  ye  University,  and  ye 
Dean  is  highly  to  be  commended  for  taking  care  that  this  ingenious 
Gentleman  should  speak  this  speech.  All  y*  College  was  against 
Littleton ;  but  notwithstanding  that  'tis  said  that  there  were  not  above 
1 8  against  him  and  that  50  were  for  him.  If  ye  Vice-Chancellor  were 

20  heartily  against  Mr.  Littleton,  he  might  have  produc'd  the  other  reasons 
against  him,  and  have  by  that  method  hinder'd  his  Presentation;  but 
alass !  he  is  of  a  pittifull,  sneaking,  complying  Temper,  always  wavering 
and  willing  to  joyn  with  any  that  are  like  to  promote  his  own  private 
Ends.  In  short,  I  take  him  to  be  a  man  of  little  or  no  religion. 

Oct.  31  (Mon.).  When  Mr.  Littleton  was  standing  for  his  Degree  he 
said  to  several  Persons  he  did  not  matter  it  if  he  was  deny'd,  since  he  was 
sure  to  have  most  of  ye  Young  Masters  for  him,  when  it  came  to  a  tryal. 
—  There  are  publish' d  Proposals  for  reprinting  in  one  Volume  all  y6 
Works  of  Mr.  Sam.  commonly  call'd  Julian  Johnson,  that  antimonarchical, 
30  Republican  Divine,  who  was  so  much  admir'd  by  all  ye  Friends  of  ye 
late  Revolution.  —  Ethelwerd  seems  to  have  had  a  more  intire  Copy  of 
Julius  Caesar  than  is  now  exstant.  For  in  lib.  4.  c.  4.  There  he  says, 
Hilerniam  peiunt,  Britannidem  olim  h  Julio  magno  Ccesare  vocatam.  But 
y6  word  Hibernia  for  Ireland  occurrs  nowhere  in  ye  present  Commen- 
taries. See  Mr.  Selden's  Mare  Clausum  p.  120. 

Nov.  1  (Tu.).     Prodijt  Thomae  Rymeri  cura  Fcederum  inter  Reges 


heard  one  of  the  greatest  complying  Bishops,  who  is  the  civilest  of  the  party 
to  the  Non-jurors  and  is  ready  to  do  us  all  manner  of  services,  cry  up  Higden's 
pamphlet  as  an  extraordinary  piece,  and  as  it  were  unanswerable.  The  Go- 
vernment now  regard  his  performance  as  a  great  disservice,  as  what  justifies 
any  prosperous  usurpation.  The  Case  of  Allegiance  to  a  King  in  Possession 
(1690),  and  other  tracts  written  about  the  same  time,  overthrow  the  idle  and 
scandalous  reflection  of  the  knave  mentioned  by  H.,  that  the  Dialogue  man- 
aged between  A  and  B  is  done  in  the  usual  way  that  the  Non-jurors  take, 
which  way  is  certainly  most  suitable  to  the  fundamental  constitution  of  an 
hereditary  monarchy,  to  the  law  of  nations,  &c.  '  But  woe  wil  betide  mee,  if 
this  letter,  in  wch  I  write  so  freely,  should  be  broken  open  or  fall  into  any 
hands  but  yours.'  Releases  H.  with  thanks  from  his  promise  to  transcribe 
Smith's  Latin  letters. 


Oct.  29-Nov.  4.]       VOLUME  XXII,  PAGES  99-113.  297 

Angliae  aliosque  Principes  Volumen  nonum.  Opus  hoc  summo  judicio 
collectum  Historiarum  &  Antiquitatum  Anglicanarum  studiosis  maximo 
fore  usui  auguror.  Quin  &  Rymeri  conatibus  fauturos  esse  erudites 
omnes  spero,  Deumque  O.  M.  obnixe  precor  ut  vitam  ejus  prosperam 
longamque  reddat.  Nam  collectione  ista  ad  umbilicum  perducta  anno- 
tationes  in  eandem  criticas  scribere  in  animo  habet,  aliaque  antiquarijs 
gratissima  in  lucem  proferre. 

Nov.  2  (Wed.).  There  is  a  second  Answer  come  out  to  Mr.  Higden's 
Book,  w°b  is  done  with  ye  same  smartness  with  the  first  Answer,  and  I 
take  the  Author  to  be  Mr.  Lesly l,  who  is  a  very  Great  Master  of  10 
Reason.  These  two  Answers  put  Mr.  Higden  to  abundance  of  Trouble, 
and  he  is  not  able  to  make  any  just  reply.  Nor  is  the  Government  like 
to  thank  him  for  his  Performance,  since  he  resolves  all  into  Possession, 
and  makes  all  Usurpers  have  a  title  to  Allegiance,  not  excepting  even 
Oliver  himself. 

Nov.  3  (Th.).  On  Monday  last  about  4  Clock  in  ye  Afternoon  died 
the  R*  Honble  Henry  Earl  of  Clarendon,  after  a  fortnight's  Indisposition. 
He  is  succeeded  in  Honour  by  his  Son  ye  IA  Cornbury,  now  in  America. 
This  Noble  Lord  was  Steward  to  the  University  of  Oxford,  and  eldest 
Son  of  the  Late  Lord  Chancellor  of  England.  He  was  so  true  to  ye  Oath  20 
of  Allegiance  y*  he  had  taken  to  King  James,  who  had  married  his 
Sister,  y*  he  did  not  close  in  ye  least  with  the  Revolution,  but  stood  firm 
to  ye  last,  tho'  he  almost  wanted  bread  to  eat,  and  yet  ye  Queen,  his 
Niece,  durst  not  relieve  him,  for  fear  of  some  great  Subjects,  who  hate 
y6  very  name  of  an  honest  Non-Juror.  —  The  Author  of  the  Atalantis 
is  said  by  the  Generality  to  be  Mre.  Manley  formerly  belonging  to  ye 
Play-House,  and  an  old  sinner,  tho'  the  Book  be  carried  on  under  all  ye 
semblance  of  Virtue. 

Nov.  4  (Fri.).  There  being  4  Fellowships  vacant  in  All -Souls  College, 
there  was  an  Election  this  last  week  for  filling  them  up.  There  were  30 
a  great  many  Candidates ;  but  ye  4  Persons  pitch'd  upon  are  Mr.  Isham 
of  Christ  Church,  Mr.  Neusham  of  Merton,  &  Mr.  Webbe  and  Mr.  Stead 
of  Balliol-College.  The  first  of  these  4  is  Bach,  of  Arts,  and  was  before 
Gentleman-Commoner.  He  is  son  to  Sir  Justinian  Isham,  and  has  ye 
Character  of  being  a  Gentleman  of  excellent  Parts,  of  very  good 
Learning,  considering  his  standing,  and  of  being  indued  with  honest 
Principles.  The  last,  Mr.  Stead,  is  Bach,  of  Arts  of  considerable  standing, 
and  he  obtain'd  his  Point  with  great  Difficulty,  notwithstanding  he  had 
appear'd  five  times  before.  And  here  I  cannot  but  touch  upon  ye 
Honesty  and  Sincerity  of  Dr.  Gardiner  the  Warden  of  All-Souls.  This  40 
Gentleman  has  shew'd  himself  in  several  Instances  to  be  of  the  same 
tricking,  false,  insidious  Temper  with  his  Brother  Epicursean  Dr.  Lan- 


Nov.  4.  Bagford  to  H.  (Rawl.  21.  28).  Mr.  Atkins  is  content  to  print 
H.'s  book  on  his  terms.  Sends  a  roll  of  catalogues,  with  a  parcel  containing 
an  imperfect  Boethius  (?  printed  at  Tavistock),  list  of  books  printed  by  Aldus, 
&c.  Mr.  Floyd's  friend  [?]  to  transcribe  the  Selden  MSS.  relating  to  music, 
for  i  zd.  per  sheet.  

1  He  is  the  Author. 


298  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

caster.  I  shall  now  only  give  one  Instance,  being  what  naturally  comes 
in  in  mentioning  this  late  Election.  Mr.  Nourse  of  University  Coll.  A.B. 
an  ingenious  Young  Gentleman,  one  who  has  approv'd  himself  to  be  a 
Person  of  Sobriety,  Innocence  and  Scholarship,  standing  last  Year 
amongst  other  Candidates  for  a  Fellowship  of  All- Souls,  he  found  so 
great  Encouragement  y*  ye  Warden  and  all  ye  Fellows  that  were  on  his 
side  declared  unanimously  for  Mr.  Nourse,  and  y'e  Warden  and  these 
Gentlemen  were  so  much  the  more  zealous  for  him  because  he  is  a 
Founder's  Kinsman.  However  the  Majority  of  Fellows  being  against 

10  y«  Warden,  he  was  not  able  to  carry  it  for  Mr.  Nourse,  and  so  let  it 
come  to  a  Devolution.  The  matter  therefore  being  brought  before 
Tennison  of  Canterbury,  after  abundance  of  grave  Deliberation  and 
Consultation,  and  after  ye  several  Candidates  had  spent  considerable 
Sums  of  money  in  attending  and  waiting  upon  him,  without  any  Regard 
to  conscience  or  the  Statutes  of  ye  Founder,  w°k  are  express  about 
Founder's  Kinsmen,  he  put  by  Mr.  Nourse ;  and  did  not  stick  to  tell 
him  that  he  was  an  impudent  young  Man  for  pretending  to  such  Claim, 
and  yet  his  Pedigree  had  been  plainly  made  out  at  ye  Heralds'  Office. 
This  Piece  of  injustice  made  much  noise,  and  ye  Warden  and  his  Party 

20  exclaim'd  against  it  as  a  most  hainous  Crime,  and  a  notorious  Breach  of 
Trust.  Yet  to  keep  Mr.  Nourse  in  countenance,  the  Warden  promis'd 
him  to  be  his  Friend  the  next  Vacancy,  and  he  told  him  y*  he  need  not 
fear  Success,  since  he  should  certainly  the  Year  following  have  y° 
Majority  of  Fellows  on  his  side,  as  indeed  it  prov'd.  Accordingly  there- 
fore Mr.  Nourse  stood  again  this  Year,  and  he  did  not  so  much  as  dream 
yt  ye  Warden  would  be  against  him.  But  when  ye  Matter  came  to  be 
open'd  he  declar'd  himself  against  Mr.  Nourse,  as  did  also  most  if  not  all 
of  the  Warden's  Party,  to  ye  Resentment  of  all  men  of  Integrity  and 
Religion.  So  that  now  most  begin  to  think  that  'twas  not  real  Kindness 

3°  that  influenc'd  him  last  Year  to  be  for  Mr.  Nourse,  but  pure  self-interest, 
he  well  knowing  that  Mr.  Nourse  was  y°  best  Instrument  (as  having  the 
best  claim)  to  make  use  of  against  his  adversaries  in  y6  College.  This 
Mr.  Nourse,  whose  Circumstances  also  strengthen  his  Title  to  a  Fellow- 
ship, is  related  to  the  famous  and  religious  &  publick-spirited  Mr.  Nourse 
that  was  formerly  fellow  of  University  College  and,  besides  the  other 
Good  he  did  in  it,  became  a  Benefactor  to  the  Library  there,  as  also  he 
did  to  ye  Bodlejan  Library.  But  I  have  made  mention  of  him  formerly. 


Nov.  5.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  147).  When  he  can  meet  with 
a  copy  of  The  Case  of  Allegiance  to  a  King  in  Possession,  he  will  carefully  peruse 
it.  Gives  a  full  account  of  the  proceedings  in  the  matter  of  Mr.  F.  Littleton, 
of  All  Souls'.  '  After  Mr.  Littleton  had  thus  obtain'd  his  Grace,  he  visited  and 
circuited ;  but  'tis  remarkable  that  in  his  Visitation  Mr.  Adderly  the  Proctor 
accompany'd  him  all  round  the  University,  to  his  immortal  Scandal,  and 
against  the  Rules  of  Discipline  establish'd  in  the  Statutes.'  He  was  presented 
Oct.  29,  when  Mr.  Fairfax,  of  Ch.  Ch.  ('for  Christ-Church,  as  they  generally 
vote  for  the  Reputation  of  the  University,  were  against  him,')  made  a  most  in- 
genious speech,  reminding  the  V.  C.  of  his  promise  to  bring  the  Rights  before 
Convocation.  The  V.  C.  answered  that  he  would  do  what  he  could  to  have 
this  book  condemned.  Thwaites  says  that  there  is  little  in  S.'s  papers  con- 
cerning Ephraem  Syrus ;  but  a  more  industrious  person  would  have  thought 


Nov.  4-6.]  VOL  UME  XXII,  PA GES  113-128.  299 

Nov.  6  (Sun.).  In  ye  Year  1677,  Dec-  J4-  Mr-  Wm-  Nicols  of  Christ 
Church  took  the  Degree  of  Master  of  Arts.  He  was  afterwards  preferr'd 
in  the  Diocess  of  Chester,  where  he  now  lives.  He  has  writ  several 
Things,  wch  he  designs  for  the  Press,  particularly  a  Discourse  in  Latin 
in  VI.  Books  concerning  the  Original  and  use  of  Letters.  But  this  being 
done  in  verse,  perhaps  it  were  most  advisable  for  the  Author  to  hinder  it 
from  coming  abroad,  unless  he  think  fit  to  put  it  into  Prose,  and  take  care 
to  make  some  curious  Observations,  such  as  have  not  been  taken  notice 
of  by  Hermannus  Hugo,  and  others  ;  wch  'tis  likely  he  is  able  to  do,  being 
a  Man  of  some  Learning,  and  having  been  formerly  much  conversant  in  10 
MSSte.  For  (w°h  is  the  chief  reason  I  mention  him)  when  he  was  at 
Christ-Church  he  was  Amanuensis  to  BP.  Fell,  who  had  a  great  kindness 
for  Mr.  Nicholls.  He  collated  MSS.  and  did  other  Drudgery  of  that 
nature  for  the  space  of  at  least  7  Years.  When  the  BP.  was  upon  his 
Noble  Edition  of  S*.  Cyprian  Mr.  Nicholls  had  ye  chief  trouble  in  collect- 
ing the  Lections  from  MSSts.  wch  much  impair'd  his  Health.  Dr.  Mill 
(then  of  Queen's  Coll.)  Dr.  Burton  of  X*.  Church,  Mr.  Massey  of  Merton 
(afterwards  made  Dean  of  X*.  Ch.  by  K.  James)  and  Mr.  Nicholls  were 
ye  persons  who  together  with  BP.  Fell  collated  the  MSSte  of  S*.  Augustin 
(of  w°h  we  have  great  variety  &  of  very  good  note)  in  the  Bodlejan  ao 
Library  and  other  Libraries  in  Oxford  for  the  Use  of  the  Benedictins  at 
Paris.  The  Lections  were  sent  to  Paris  by  the  BP,  and  a  most  noble 
Edition  of  S*.  Augustin  came  out  some  time  after,  done  wth  singular  Care 
and  Judgment,  with  Emendations  from  ye  above-mention'd  MSSts.  and 
others,  tho'  there  is  not  that  due  mention  made  of  the  Assistance  that  BP. 
Fell  and  others  very  generously  gave  as  ought  to  have  been ;  nor  is  there 
a  distinct  Account  given  of  ye  several  MSSts.  As  Mr.  Nicholls  was  much 
belov'd  and  favour' d  by  BP.  Fell,  so  he  was  made  privy  to  a  great  number 
of  Particulars  relating  to  the  Affairs  of  that  Excellent  Prelate  that  either 
none  or  few  besides  knew  of,  and  he  is  the  only  Person  now  living  that  3° 
can  furnish  any  qualify'd  Person  wth  abundance  of  Materials  for  writing 
his  Life.  I  have  heard  Mr.  Nichols  say  that  he  knows  much  concerning 
the  Author  of  ye  Whole  Duty  of  Man,  and  of  the  writing  of  the  other 
Pieces  which  go  under  his  Name,  but  that  he  will  not  discover  so  great 
a  secret ;  this  however  he  said  that  the  Lively  Oracles  was  written  not 
by  one,  but  by  divers  hands.  He  said  withall  that  the  Primacy  of 
Ireland  was  offer'd  to  ye  BP,  w°k  he  modestly  declin'd.  He  saw  ye  very 
Letter  the  BP.  sent  upon  this  occasion,  wc^  he  said  was  written  with 
wonderfull  humility  &  prudence,  and  that  the  BP.  shew'd  how  unfit  he 
was  for  so  high  a  Post,  when  he  found  himself  to  be  unqualify'd  for  that  4° 
wch  he  had  accepted  already.  When  the  BP.  and  Dr.  Bathurst  and  Mr. 
Nicholls  were  going  once  to  London,  amongst  other  Learned  men  then 
discoursed  of  was  BP.  Pearson,  whom  the  BP.  said  he  believed  to  be  the 
most  learned  Man  then  in  the  World.  This,  I  think,  was  much  about  ye 


otherwise.  They  contain  a  reference  to  an  Arundelian  MS.  which  he  should 
have  consulted.  Jas.  Wright  to  H.  (Rawl.  12.  141).  H.  may  command 
his  utmost  endeavours  with  regard  to  Leland.  Wishes  to  purchase  a  copy  of 
Somner's  Saxon  Dictionary,  8vo.,  said  to  be  printed  at  Oxon  by  a  gentleman 
of  Queen's  Coll. 


300  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709 : 

time  that  BP.  Pearson  writ  his  Annales  Cyprianici,  w0*1  was  ye  last  Work 
he  did,  and  being  done  with  wonderfull  Accuracy,  it  quite  turn'd  him,  & 
destroy'd  his  Memory,  wch  he  could  never  after  recover.  Several  have 
reported,  and  continue  still  to  report,  That  BP.  Fell  was  for  ye  Bill  of  Ex- 
clusion. Mr.  Nicholls  being  ask'd  by  Dr.  Hudson  concerning  this 
Report,  he  reply'd  that  the  BP.  kept  this  as  a  secret ;  but  nevertheless,  he 
sayd,  he  believ'd  that  the  BP.,  tho'  he  well  foresaw  the  Mischiefs  that  were 
like  to  follow,  was  against  it,  he  having  often  heard  him  spake  against 
it  with  much  Concern.  The  only  time  he  remembers  to  have  seen  the 

10  BP.  in  a  Passion  was  after  Dr.  Barlow  became  BP.  of  Lincoln,  and  'twas 
for  this  reason  that  Dr.  Barlow  did  not  ordain  in  his  own  Diocess,  but  in 
Lincoln  College,  within  BP.  Fell's  Diocess  just  as  if  he  design'd  it  on 
purpose  to  affront  him.  One  Morning,  being  just  before  the  ordination, 
BP.  Fell  went  early  to  Lincoln  College,  where  BP.  Barlow  then  was,  and 
expostulated  the  Case  very  warmly  with  him,  told  him  that  'twas  a  shame 
for  him  to  act  thus,  that  'twas  against  the  Canons,  and  that  he  would  have 
him  punish'd.  Barlow  reply'd  that  he  would  justifye  what  he  did,  and 
that  he  did  not  value  his  Threats.  Upon  wcl1  BP.  Fell  went  away  with 
much  Indignation,  and  just  at  the  College  Gate  he  met  Dr.  Marshall  for 

20  whom  he  had  a  very  great  Respect,  yet  now  he  told  him  also  that  he 
would  make  him  sorry  for  what  he  had  done  in  admitting  BP.  Barlow  to 
come  and  ordain  in  the  College  within  his  Diocess,  without  his  Permission. 
What  became  of  the  Matter  afterwards  I  know  not ;  but  this  is  certain 
that  he  had  but  an  ill  opinion  of  Barlow,  whom  he  look'd  upon  as 
a  Calvinist  and  a  time-server.  Which  opinion  was  well  grounded, 
Barlow  being  of  an  unsettled  mind,  &  for  striking  in  with  y*  Government 
wch  Was  uppermost,  and  he  afterwards  sneak'd  and  cring'd  to  the 
Usurpers  of  ye  Revolution  in  1688,  and  writ  pitifull,  weak  Reasons  for 
taking  the  Oaths  to  them  in  the  Margin  of  some  of  his  Pamphletts  that  are 

30  since  come  into  the  Bodlejan-Library.  He  was  thought  to  be  of  the 
Calvinists  Principles  with  Respect  to  Election  and  Reprobation,  whence 
it  was  yl  once  when  BP.  Fell,  Dr.  Lamphire  and  some  others  were  going 
by  Queen's  College,  one  of  the  Company  mention'd  going  in  to  see  Dr. 
Barlow,  as  being  a  piece  of  Respect  and  good-manners.  Upon  wcjl  Dr. 
Lamphire  (who  was  otherwise  look'd  upon  as  a  grave  Person  and  far 
from  being  Jocose)  said  he  thought  'twould  be  the  best  way  to  pass  by 
without  going  in.  For  said  he,  my  Lord  you  know,  &  so  do  ye  rest  here, 
that  Dr.  Barlow  loves  preelection,  and  will  not  think  ill  of  us  upon  that  score. 
This  made  them  laugh,  and  so  they  went  on  without  making  him  a  visit. 

40  Thomas  Chace,  a  York  Man  by  Birth,  was  Master  of  Balliol  College 
12.  H.  4.  about  An.  D.  1410.  &  being  Chancellor  of  the  university  in  1427. 
4.  H.  6.  or  later,  he  built  the  lower  Part  of  Balliol-College  Library,  ad- 
joyning  to  y6  Hall  (at  wch  time  perhaps  ye  Hall  it  self  was  built)  &  at  ye 
same  time  the  upper  Part  thereof,  adjoyning  to  the  Chapell,  was  built  by 
Robert  Abdy  Master  of  the  College,  about  wcl1  time,  that  wct  is  now  the 
Masters  Hall,  was  built  by  B.  Gray  (the  Great  Furnisher  of  Balliol- 
College  Library  with  rare  MSSts.)  as  appears  by  his  Coat  of  Arms 
engraven  in  stone  upon  the  three  Brachets,  under  the  out-side  of  the  Bay 
window  thereof.  The  Make  of  the  Building  shews  it  to  have  been  the 


Nov.  6.]  VOLUME  XXII,  PAGES  128-144.  301 

Chapel,  and  to  have  been  done  after  ye  Mode  of  those  Times ;  &  tis  not 
unlikely  but  that  George  Nevill  contributed  either  to  ye  Building  or 
Glazing  of  it,  since  his  Coat  of  Arms  is  yet  to  be  seen  in  the  West- 
Window  of  the  same  Place ;  together  with  Beauchamp's  Coat  of  Arms, 
who  was  Earl  of  Warwick  before  this  George  Nevill's  Brother  :  But 
Beauchamp's  Heirs  Males  failing,  the  Earldom  of  Warwick  devolved  to 
his  Sister,  whom  Nevil  marrying,  he  was  created  Earl  of  Warwick  in  her 
Right.  (Quaere.)  There  were  several  Benefactors  in  those  times  to 
Balliol  College,  whose  names  are  mention'd  in  the  Windows  of  the 
Library,  &  their  Bounty  was  mostly  imploy'd  in  Building,  and  partly  in  TO 
adorning  the  College  with  windows,  or  enriching  the  Library  with  Books. 
In  the  East  Window  of  the  Library,  looking  into  the  Chapell,  is  the 
Picture  of  S*.  Katherine,  in  the  right  Light  thereof,  with  her  wheel  before 
her,  and  her  sword  behind  her,  with  this  Motto, 

Si  servitis  ei,  vos  tegit  aula  Dei. 

In  the  other  Light  is  Thomas  Chase  and  his  Fellows  adoring  her,  with 
this  Motto : 

1.  Hie  tibi  dans  celis  Thomam  Chase  comitantes. 

2.  Hanc  patrona  velis  munire  domum  fa  mul  antes. 

In  the  first  Window,  on  the  South  side  of  the  Library,  is  the  Coat  of  20 
Arms  of  George  Nevill  (which  are  the  same  with  those  in  the  Masters 
Hall  aforesaid,  and  on  the  Top  of  the  Divinity-Bedell's  Staff,  which  he 
gave)  in  Pale  with  the  Arms  of  his  Archiepiscopal  See,  in  the  first  Light : 
and  in  the  second  Light  of  the  same  Window,  is  a  Coat  of  five  Annulets 
argent,  in  a  Field  Gules,  quarter'd  with  chequy,  Or  and  Sable,  with  this 
Motto  in  a  Wreath  about  them ;  viz.  the  first  about  the  first,  &  the 
second  about  the  second. 

1.  Fige  dies  cursum  nee  perdat  virgo  triumphum. 

2.  Conditor  ecce  mei  Skipton  Ricarde  fuisti. 

(It  must  be  here  noted  that  the  said  Nevil  was  ArchbP.  of  York,  &  that  30 
the  Difference  of  the  Arms  of  Canterbury  and  York  is  this  :  Canterbury 
bears  a  Staff  in  Pale  Sol,  &  upon  the  top  of  that  a  Cross  Patde  Luna,  over 
all  a  Pall  Luna,  but  not  fringed.  But  the  antient  Arms  of  York  differed 
from  these,  in  that  the  Cross  on  the  Top  of  the  Staff  w.as  Sol,  &  the  Pall 
was  fringed,  as  there  may  be  seen :  though  the  Arms  of  the  same  See  be 
at  present  clean  another  thing.  When  this  changed  is  uncertain.  The 
Heralds  at  this  day  do  not  paint  the  present  Archiepiscopal  Arms  of 
Canterbury  in  any  thing  differing  from  those  anciently  appropriated  to 
the  See  of  York.) 

The  two  Coats  of  Arms  in  the  second  Window,  on  the  same  side,  have  40 
likewise  these  verses  in  a  wreath  about  them,  viz.  The  first,  the  first ;  & 
the  second,  the  second, 

1.  Tnclitus  ille  Thomas  Horrow  fenestratuit  me. 

2.  Ad  tempus  mensis  vocitati  rite  Decembris. 

The  third  Window  in  like  manner  hath  two  verses  : 

1.  Gandeat  unita  totalis  &  hec  comitiva. 

2.  Claram  luce  fore  Carpenter  nempe  Johannes. 

Below  is,  Orate  pro  anima  Johannis  Carpenter,  &  Johannis  Herys,  with 


302  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

the  Picture  of  John  Herys,  not  of  John  Carpenter.  Johannes  Harrisius 
primus  8{  proecipuus  Thomce  More  seer e  tar  ius,  1579.  confessor,  obijt  Namurci 
regnante  Eliz.  scripsit  collectanea  ex  Sanctis  Patribus.  But  he  is  thought 
to  be  another  Herys. 

The  fourth  Window,  in  the  first  Light,  hath  a  Coat  that  bears  Pale  of 
nine  Pieces  Azure  and  Gules,  over  all  a  Chevron  Argent,  charged  with 
three  Crosses  pomete'es  Or,  and  a  Mitre  on  the  Point,  with  this  Motto. 

i.  Me  tuus  Antistes  Vigomia  fecit  honore. 
The  second  hath  this  motto ;  viz. 
10  2.  Conditor  ipse  mei  Walter  Ricarde  fuisti. 

The  fifth  window  hath  BP.  Gray's  and  Abdy's  Arms,  with  this  Motto, 

1.  Hos  Deus  adjecit,  Deus  his  det  gaudia  cell. 

2.  Abdy  perfecit  opus  hoc  Gray  presul  &  Ely. 
Under  is, 

i.  Orate  pro  bono  statu  Magistri  Johannis  Spens. 

The  sixth  Window. 

1.  Hi  duo  mitrati  pro  donis  sint  memorati. 

2.  Sint  consummati  celesti  sede  locati. 

The  seventh  hath  in  one  light,  the  Arms  of  Thomas  Percy  Earl  of 
so  Worcester,  which  are  the  same  with  the  Earls  of  Northumberland  in 
University  College  Hall :  and  those  of  Nevil  Earl  of  Warwick  in  the  other 
Light,  with  these  verses  in  wreaths  about  them, 

1.  Snnt  benefactores  Comites  hie  nobiliores. 

2.  Luceat  eterna  Lux  his  requiesque  superna. 

The  Eig[h]th  is  in  honour  of  William  Firbit  of  Bridlinton  in  York- 
shire. 

Firbit  Wilhelmus  semper  sit  morte  retentus, 

Et  Bridlintone  domus  additur  extra  corone.         or  commune  [in  margin], 

The  Ninth, 

3°  Has  aliquando  fores  vitro  clausere  priores  . 

Claustri  Mertone  vigent  mercede  corone. 

The  tenth  hath  a  Scheme  of  the  Holy  Trinity  in  one,  and  the  Blessed 
Virgin  Mary  with  the  Babe,  in  y6  other ;  given  by  Robert  Brotliber  of 
Malvern  in  Worcestershire,  with  these  verses. 

Gilbert!  Brotliberi  Malvernensisque  Johannes. 
Continuis  annis  placeat  socijs  ministrare. 

On  the  north  side  of  the  Library,  the  first  window  hath  the  Arms  of 

BP.  Gray,  wc^  are  a  Lyon  ramp.  arg.  in  a  Field  Gules,  a  Border  engrail' d 

argent :  and  Abdy's  Arms,  wcn  are  a  shield  arg.  a  chevron  sable,  betw. 

40  three  Eagles   display'd  of  the  second.     The  verses  in  wreaths  about 

these  are, 

1.  Conditor  ecce  novi  structus  hujus  fuit  Abdy. 

2.  Presul  &  huic  Edi  Gray,  libros  contulit  Ely. 

Below  this  is, 

Orate  pro  bono  statu  anime  Magistri  Roberti  Abdy  Magistri  hujus  Collegij,  qui 
istam  partem  edificavit. 


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The    second  window  hath  Arms,  and   these  verses   about  them  in 
wreaths,  as  all  the  other  have  ;  viz. 

1.  Me  fecit  socius  hie  Stanhop  nempe  Radulphus. 

2.  Militis  esto  memor  Wodden  Dens  optime  tutor. 

The  Third  window  hath  Nevill's  Arms  in  Pale  with  those  of  the  Sea 
of  York,  &  by  themselves  in  the  other. 

i.  Sit  presul  alma  tibi  requies  sine  fine  Georgi. 
a.  Me  fordas  vitream  Stavely  Wilhelme  fenestram. 

The  fourth  window  hath  these  verses  in  a  wreath  about  the  Coats  of 
Arms. 

I.  -  Somnum  • 

a.  Me  Petrus  Pekkam  vitravit  sponte  fenestram. 

The  fifth  window  hath  likewise  about  the  Arms, 

Aspera  flabat  hyems  brumoso  frigore  fervena. 
Cum  Miniorita  vilis  fuit  ista  fenestra. 
Beneath  is, 

Orate  pro  Johanne  Burton,  quondam  socio  hujus  domus. 

The  sixth  window  hath  the  Arms  of  Tho.  Chace,  which  are  a  Shield 
arg.  charged  with  three  Talbots  Heads  erased  sable.     The  verses  are, 

2O 

i.  Condidit  hanc  edem  Thomas  Chace  meque  vitravit. 
a.  Huic  superis  sedem  des  sibi  nate  David. 
Below  is, 

Orate  pro  statu  &  anima  Magistri  Thomze  Chace  de  Ebor.  Th.  Professoris,  Cancel- 
larij  Hibernise,  Oxon.  &  S.  Pauli,  London,  olim  hie  Socij  fratris  mei,  Anno  Dom. 


The  seventh  Window's  Verses  imply,  That  Clifford  BP.  of  London  was 
a  greater  Benefactor,  than  to  own  the  glazing  of  a  Window. 

i.  Clifford  Ricardus  Antistes  Londoniensis. 
a.  Fusis  expensis  tale  non  avit  opus. 

Given  by  Nich.  Herbury,  Archdeacon  of  Gloucester,  therefore  under-  3° 
written  thus;  viz. 

Orate  pro  anima  Magistri  Nich.  Herbury,  quondam  Archi  :  Gloucest. 

The  eighth  Window,  given  by  Jo.  Patrick,  valet  of  the  Wardrobe  to 
Humphrey  Duke  of  Lancaster  and  Gloucester,  hath  the  Dukes  Arms, 
wclx  are  those  of  England,  but  bordered  argent,  with  these  verses  1, 

Nov.  7  (Mon.).  The  Earl  of  Clarendon  was  buried  in  K.  Hen. 
Vila's  Chapell  in  Westm.  Abbey  on  Friday  last  in  ye  Evening.  — 
Librum  eximium  de  dominio  maris  edidit  Seldenus  anno  1635.  Sed 
eum  inceperat  regnante  Jacobo  imo,  qui  ut  scriberet  hortatus  est,  imo 
jussit.  Sic  nimirum  ipse  Seldenus  monuit  in  praefatione.  Neque  id  40 
reticuit  Antonius  a  Wood  ;  qui  tamen  Petrum  Heylin  ea  de  re  citat. 
Meminit  Heylin  in  Laudi  sanctissimi  vita  ;  ubi  &  alia  de  Seldeno  lectu 
digna  habet.  Nonnulla  exscripsit  Woodius.  Hinc  inde  numismata 
antiqua  occurrunt,  quae  explicuit  Seldenus.  In  ijs  Allecti  nummus  con- 
spicitur  triremi  insignitus.  Unde  liquet  triremem  in  aversa  parte  ideo 

*  See  the  rest  in  Savage's  Ballio-fergus.  [pp.  71  *?•]. 


304  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

positam  fuisse,  quod  maris  Britannici  imperium  usurpasset  Allectus. 
Idem  &  de  alijs  nummis  observandum,  ac  prsecipue  de  illo  plane  rarissimo 
quern  olim  possidebat  D.  Sykes  collegij  SS.  Trinitatis  Oxon.  praefectus, 
in  Archivis  Bodlejanis  reposito.  Ibi  CEA  in  parte  antica  legitur,  pro  CAE, 
ni  fallor ;  &  in  parte  postica  triremis  visitur,  quam  victoriam  aliquam,  ab 
historicis,  qui  supersunt,  non  memoratam  denotare  conjecerat  cl.  DOD- 
WELLUS.  Male  autem  vir  doctissimus.  Nam  ad  maris  dominium  spec- 
tare  e  Seldeno  satis  manifestum.  Quin  &  auctores  plurimos  illustravit 
Seldenus,  &  passim  emendavit.  In  posteriore  parte  de  rebus  nostris 
10  Anglicanis  praecipue  agit,  &  tributum  illud,  Danegddum  vocatum,  pro 
pecunia,  classi  navali  solvenda,  accipiendum  esse  docet.  Classis  autem 
ilia  in  maris  Britannici  dominio  asserendo  occupata  erat.  Nomen  suum 
a  Danis  tributum  antedictum  duxit,  sed  in  temporibus  sequioribus  pro 
tributis  ad  Danos  nihil  pertinentibus  saepe  utebantur  scriptores  nostri. 

Nov.  8  (Tu.).  The  Visitation  of  the  Bodlejan  Library  was  to  day,  as 
usual.  The  Speech  was  spoke  by  Mr.  Rich.  Sadlington  A.M.  and 
Student  of  Christ-Church. 

Nov.  10  (Th.).  M1^.  Manley,  who  formerly  belong'd  to  the  Play- 
House,  and  is  said  to  be  ye  Author  of  the  Ist  Part  of  ye  New  Atalantis, 

20  is  taken  up  and  committed  to  New-Gate  by  y6  Queen's  Order,  and  ye 
4th  Impression,  being  just  wrought  off,  is  seiz'd  on,  and  y6  Book  is  now 
become  scarse.  The  IId.  Part  is  nothing  near  so  well  done,  &  is  said  to 
be  by  another  Hand.  —  This  Day  at  nine  Clock  was  a  Convocation, 
in  wch  Letters  from  the  Chancellor  were  read  that  one  Mr.  Lewis,  a 
Gentleman-Commoner  of  New-Coil,  of  something  above  2  Years  standing, 
might  be  made  Bach,  of  Civil-Law  upon  Condition  that  he  pay  all  Fees 
&  perform  all  Exercise.  This  Request  was  consented  to.  The  majority 
of  Votes  was  but  small,  &  without  doubt  he  would  have  been  deny'd,  had 
not  the  old  Hypocrite  of  Queen's,  according  to  his  usual  Custom,  trick'd 

30  even  in  this  Affair.  For  the  Notes  about  this  Matter  were  sent  about  to 
Colleges  and  Halls  three  Weeks  ago,  when  People  seem'd  generally 
dissatisfy'd  with  the  Request :  which  the  Vice-Chancellor  perceiving 
he  deferr'd  having  a  Convocation  'till  this  Morning.  A  great  many 
People  thought  the  Thing  had  been  drop'd,  and  they  did  not  dream 

Nov.  10.  D.  Evans  to  H.  (Rawl.  5.  3).  Begs  H.'s  pardon  for  passing 
through  Oxford  last  summer  without  seeing  him ;  the  reason  was  want  of  time, 
caused  by  the  exigency  of  a  long  suit  in  Chancery.  '  Mr.  J  :  Collier  sent  me 
•word  about  2  months  ago  for  to  come  &  speak  with  him,  but  ye  Jacobites  are 
so  discountenancd  here  in  London,  that  upon  second  thoughts  he  would  not 
be  seen  afterwards,  as  Mr.  Sare  of  gray's  Inne  his  friend  told  me.  Last 
Saturday  being  ye  Vth  of  Novemb.  D :  Sacheverel,  your  mighty  Boanerges 
thunderd  most  furiously  at  paul's  against  ye  phanaticks  for  Condemning  ye 
King  of  high  treason  against  his  supream  subjects,  as  he  express'd  it.  He 
spoke  very  freely  of  ye  toleration  Act,  &  charged  ye  Mayors  and  Magistrates 
with  want  of  zeal  for  ye  Church,  &  playd  particularly  &  expressly  upon  ye  B : 
of  Sarum  :  whom  he  hoped  was  no  great  friend  to  popery  he  said,  but  by  his 
exposition  on  the  Articles  one  wd  think  he  was  halfe  Channelled  over.  We 
were  about  30  Clergymen  in  ye  Quire,  &  among  ye  Rest,  ye  Minister  of  Bat- 
tersea  who  is  lately  come  over  to  our  Church,  Sacheverell  having  heard  of  his 
Conversion,  levelled  his  arguments  &  anathemas  most  virulently  against  him, 
and  ye  whole  tribe  of  em  :  in  so  much  that  All  ye  Congregation  were  shaken 


Nov.  7-10.]  VOLUME  XXII,  PAGES  155-166.  305 

that  'twould  have  come  on  this  Morning,  otherwise  the  House  would 
have  been  fuller,  and  the  Letter  would  in  all  probability  have  been 
thrown  out,  tho'  he  had  made  great  Interest,  and  his  Friends  had  can- 
vass'd  about  for  him.  'Tis  true  there  have  been  Precedents  of  such 
Concessions  of  late ;  but  the  most  sober,  thinking  Part  of  the  university 
well  perceiving  that  these  Requests  are  like  to  be  frequent,  and  to  be 
made  a  common  Practise,  (to  ye  notorious  &  Scandalous  neglect  of 
Discipline,)  they  are  resblv'd  to  put  a  stop  if  possible  to  the  farther 
Progress  of  these  Favours,  wch  us'd  to  be  allow'd  to  noble-men  only,  and 
to  those  that  had  deserved  well  from  the  university  by  some  signal  under-  10 
taking.  Whereas  this  Lewis  is  so  far  from  having  a  title  to  any  such 
Claim  that  neither  himself  nor  any  of  his  Relations  (that  I  can  learn)  ever 
did  any  service  for  ye  university  for  w°k  he  might  be  allow'd  such  an 
extraordinary  Favour.  Some,  who  were  for  this  Grant,  in  defence  of 
themselves  said  that  by  it  he  is  like  to  do  no  mischief  to  the  university, 
having  no  vote  thereby  in  the  Convocation  House,  being  secur'd  by  a 
good  Estate  so  as  he  is  in  no  need  of  any  Preferment.  But  in  oppo- 
sition to  this  it  may  be  observ'd  that  one  Mr.  Curson  of  Trinity  College 
who  had  ye  Favour  of  the  Degree  of  Dr.  of  Law  conferr'd  upon  him 
lately  is  now  admitted  into  D1"8.  Commons,  tho'  at  ye  same  time  the  same  v> 
Plea  of  being  Heir  to  a  good  Estate  was  made  for  him,  &  his  Friends 
were  sure  he  would  make  no  benefit  of  ye  Degree.  We  know  of  several 
that  are  in  orders,  and  yet  have  much  better  estates  than  Mr.  Lewis,  who 
now,  if  he  think  fit,  may  take  orders  being  capacitated  for  noble  Prefer- 
ment, without  any  more  trouble.  And  what  should  hinder  him  from 
making  use  of  ye  opportunity  if  it  should  offer  I  cannot  well  see. 
Withall  we  frequently  see  men  of  very  good  Estates  in  time  strangely 
decay,  and  ye  same  accidents  may  happen  to  Mr.  Lewis  as  well  as  to 
others.  The  University  therefore  cannot  be  too  shy  in  conferring  their 
Favours.  And  truly  if  such  favours  be  granted  at  all  they  should  rather  3P 
be  made  to  men  of  small  Fortunes,  such  as  are  not  able  to  live  in  ye 
university ;  I  mean  upon  supposition  that  the  Persons  of  higher  Rank 
take  orders  or  put  themselves  into  other  Posts  by  virtue  of  their  Degree, 
for  otherwise  if  we  were  certain  they  would  make  no  benefit  of  it  the 
Preference  should  be  given  to  those  of  more  liberal  Fortunes,  A  great 


agen  at  the  terrour  of  his  Inveterate  expressions.  The  whigs  says  he  are 
Conformists  in  faction,  halfe  Conformists  in  practise,  &  non  Conformists  in 
Judgment,  formerly  they  Labour'd  to  Bring  ye  Church  into  y*  Conventicle,  but 
now  they  Bring  ye  Conventicle  into  ye  Church,  which  will  prove  its  inevitable 
ruine  His  text  was  this  word:  In  perills  among  false  brethren,  &  his  Ser- 
mon upont  was  so  violent  that  I  think  my  Ld  Mayor  &  Court  of  Aldermen 
will  hardly  desire  him  to  print  it :  but  if  it  be  printed,  He  endeavr  to  get  it 
you,  provided  I  happen  to  be  then  in  Town.  David  Jones  is  a  soft  mild 
Preacher  in  Comparison  to  this :  and  now  I  speak  of  D.  Jones,  last  Sunday  I 
was  preaching  at  Aldgate  Church,  from  whence  I  was  Invited  by  a  gentleman 
of  my  Acquaintance  to  Come  &  see  a  miracle  in  ye  Queens  Bench  prison,  viz. 
to  see  D.  Jones,  but  yesterday  I  was  prevented,  for  I  met  him  accidentally  in 
Westminster  Hall,  &  hardly  knew  him,  his  Complexion  were  so  alterd ;  he 
shewd  me  his  head,  &  his  Coalblack  hair  was  turned  milk  white  of  a  night  he 
said  for  ye  greatness  of  his  troubles.' 

VOL.  II.  X 


306  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709 : 

many  other  things  might  be  offer'd  upon  this  occasion;    but  I  omitt 
them,  and  leave  them  to  time,  \vck  will  shew  the  Consequences. 

Nov.  11  (Fri.).  Quaere  whether  be  rightest,  Phalereus  Demetrius  or 
Demetrius  Phalereus  ?  Tully  De  finibus  bon.  <$f  mal.  lib.  V.  §  54.  Ed. 
Gron.  has  Phalereus  Demetrius.  And  so  the  MSS.  (Phalereus  Demetrius 
the  best  way.  See  Menage  upon  Diogenes  Laertius,  who  would  have  it 
according  to  ye  MSS.  Laertius  Diogenes!)  —  On  Saturday  last,  being  the 
day  of  the  Powder-Plot,  Dr.  Sacheverel  preach'd  at  S*.  Paul's,  where  he 
thunder'd  most  furiously  against  the  Fanaticks  for  condemning  the  King 

10  of  High-Treason  against  his  supream  Subjects,  as  he  express'd  it.  He 
spoke  very  freely  of  the  Toleration  Act,  and  charg'd  the  Mayors  and 
Magistrates  with  want  of  Zeal  for  the  Church,  and  playd  particularly  and 
expressly  upon  the  BP.  of  Sarum,  whom  he  hop'd  was  no  great  Friend  to 
Popery,  but  by  his  Exposition  (he  said)  on  the  Articles  one  would  think  he 
was  half  chanell'd  over.  There  were  about  30  Clergymen  in  the  Quire, 
and  among  the  rest  the  Minister  of  Battersea,  who  is  lately  come  over 
to  our  Church.  Sacheverell  having  heard  of  his  Conversion,  levell'd  his 
arguments  and  Anathemas  most  virulently  against  him,  and  the  whole 
Tribe  of  'em;  insomuch  that  all  ye  Congregation  shook  again  at  ye 

20  Terrours  of  his  Inveterate  Expressions.  The  Whiggs,  says  he,  are 
Conformists  in  faction,  half  Conformists  in  practise,  &  non-Conformists 
in  Judgment;  formerly  they  labour'd  to  bring  the  Church  into  the  Con- 
venticle, but  now  they  bring  the  Conventicle  into  the  Church,  which  will 
prove  it's  inevitable  ruin.  His  text  was,  In  Perills  among  false  Brethren, 
and  his  Sermon  was  so  violent  (David  Jones  being  a  soft,  mild  Preacher 
in  comparison  of  him)  that  when  some  afterwards  mov'd  the  Lord  Mayor 
and  Court  of  Aldermen  to  have  it  printed  the  Proposal  was  rejected,  & 
indeed  deservedly  he  being  only  a  man  of  much  noise  but  little  sincerity. 
He  preach'd  upon  the  same  Text  at  S*.  Maries  formerly,  &  perhaps  it 

3°  might  be  the  same  Sermon,  with  some  Alterations  and  Additions.  — 
When  Dr.  Potter's  Edition  of  Clemens  Alex,  comes  out,  there  should  be 
a  Book  writ  to  supply  his  Omissions,  w*h  this  Title  Professoris  Cal- 
•Dinistici  Prczteriliones  in  nupera  Edilione  dementis  Alexandrini. 

Nov.  12  (Sat.).  Notwithstanding  the  Majority  of  ye  Court  of  Alder- 
men at  London  were,  when  propos'd,  against  printing  Dr.  Sacheverell's 
Sermon,  yet  'tis  now  actually  in  the  Press  at  London.  —  There  is  just 
publish'd  the  Exposition  of  the  first  article  of  the  Church  of  England  by 
ye  late  Dr.  Beverege  BP.  of  S*.  Asaph.  There  is  an  Advertisement  printed 
at  ye  Beginning  of  it  in  the  Title  page  signifying  that  this  is  only  done 

4°  for  a  specimen,  and  that  the  rest  will  be  carried  on  if  this  be  approv'd  of 
by  Men  of  Learning  and  Judgmfc.  This  first  Article  is  certainly  well 


Nov.  12.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  141).  Relies  not  only  on  the 
integrity,  but  also  on  the  prudence  and  secrecy,  of  H.'s  friendship.  The 
Cambridge  men  have  set  Oxford  an  example  how  the  author  of  the  Rights 
should  be  treated,  in  depriving  Mr.  Whiston  of  his  mathematical  Lecture. 
Wonders  at  Thwaites'  negligence  in  giving  no  account  of  the  MSS.  of  Ephraem 
Syrus  ;  he  was  not  worthy  of  the  civility  shown  him  by  S.  in  communicating 
to  him  the  papers  of  Mr.  Young.  Heartily  laments  the  loss  of  his  excellent 
friend,  the  Earl  of  Clarendon,  High  Steward  of  the  University,  who  died  of  an 


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• 

done,  and  I  wish  the  rest  may  be  perform'd  as  well ;  tho'  there  is  good 
reason  to  fear  the  contrary,  the  IX  having  been  formerly  inclin'd  to 
Calvinism,  and  I  believe  this  Work  was  done  in  his  Younger  Years. 
But  whether  it  be  perfect  or  not,  or  whether  or  no  there  be  any  thing  of 
Heterodoxy,  'tis  certain  the  Executor  has  got  at  least  the  last  nine 
Articles  in  his  Hands,  and  cannot  at  present  be  prevail'd  upon  to  part 
with  them,  pretending  that  the  BP.  never  design'd  the  Work  for  the  Press, 
that  it  has  not  had  his  last  Hand,  and  that  'twill  be  an  indelible  Disgrace 
to  yfc  Great  and  Learned  Person.  And  in  this  Resolution  he  is  counte- 
nanc'd  by  some  of  the  Whiggs,  and  particularly  by  the  Friends  of  BP.  10 
Burnett,  who  are  very  sensible  that  'twill  be  far  better  than  Burnetts  Ex- 
position, &  that  'twill  discover  several  gross  Errours  in  it,  that  BP.  being 
of  Republican,  Presbyterian  Principles,  and  having  but  very  little  skill 
in  either  Prophane  or  Sacred  antiquity,  much  like  the  Generality  of 
the  Low  Church  Herd,  even  the  BPB  themselves  not  excepted,  who 
content  themselves  with  making  Flashy,  Empty  Harangues,  full  of 
false  Doctrine  (if  nicely  examin'd)  as  well  as  void  of  true  Eloquence 
&  common  Learning.  —  Memorand.  That  Dr.  Hammond  writ  in  Latine 
two  large  Volumes  in  Quarto  of  the  way  of  Interpreting  the  New 
Testament,  with  Reference  to  the  Customs  of  the  Jews  &  of  the  20 
first  Hereticks  in  the  Christian  Church,  and  of  the  Heathens,  especially 
in  the  Grecian  Games,  and  above  all  the  Importance  of  the  Hellenistical 
Dialect,  into  w0*1  he  had  made  the  exactest  Search,  by  w°k  means  in  a 
manner  he  happened  to  take  in  all  the  Difficulties  of  that  sacred  Book. 
Of  this  Work  Mr.  Wood  has  made  no  mention,  and  yet  'tis  accounted 
for  by  BP.  Fell  in  his  Life  of  Dr.  Hammond  pag.  57,  58.  where  he  also 
acquaints  us  that  'twas  that  wc]l  gave  rise  to  the  Dr'8.  Annotations  upon  ye 
New  Testament  in  English,  a  great  many  of  wch  are  the  very  same  in 
substance  with  divers  pt8  of  this  Work.  It  afterwards  came  with  several 
other  MSSte.  into  the  Bodlejan  Library  by  the  Gift  of  the  Reverend  Mr.  30 
Henry  Jones  Rector  of  Sunningwell  in  Berks,  and  I  have  a  Copy  of  it 
myself,  written  I  think  (as  is  also  that  in  Bodley)  by  the  D^8.  own  Hand. 

Nov.  13  (Sun.).  On  the  27*^.  Instant  will  be  sold  by  Auction  at 
London  the  Library  of  the  famous  Sir  Hen.  Spelman,  together  with  the 
Library  of  Sr.  Edm.  King  M.D.  In  this  Collection,  besides  several 
curious  printed  Books  in  all  Faculties,  are  3  score  MSSts.  of  Sr.  Edm. 
King's,  and  about  200  MSS.  of  Sir  Hen.  Spelmann's.  Which  MSS*8.  of 
Sir  H.  Spelman  are  said  to  be  ancient,  &  most  curiously  written  and  im- 
bellish'd. 

Nov.  14  (Mon.).     Dr.  Rich.  Busby,  the  most  Eminent  School-Master  40 
that  the  last  Age  produc'd,  besides  a  Latin  and  Greek  Grammar  writ 
a  small  Hebrew  Grammar,  which  after  it  had  been  handed  about  in  MSS*. 


asthma  in  his  72nd  year  on  Monday  Oct.  31  at  4  in  the  afternoon,  and  was 
buried  on  Friday  Nov.  4  at  ten  o'clock  at  night  in  Westminster  Abbey,  none 
being  invited  but  the  six  noble  lords  who  sustained  the  pall.  Hears  that 
Kuster  has  received  200  guineas  for  the  dedication  of  his  Aristophanes  to 
Lord  Halifax.  P.S. — Since  sealing  his  letter,  hears  that  Whiston  has  only 
been  turned  out  of  a  lectureship  in  a  parish  church  at  Cambridge  by  Bp. 
Moore. 

X  2 


308  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

and  continually  transcrib'd  for  the  use  of  the  Boys  of  Westminster  schoole 
was  printed  at  ye  Theater  above  a  Year  since  in  8V0.  in  2  sheets  and  an 
half,  or  thereabouts.  Mr.  Gagnier,  a  French  Gentleman,  who  lately  pub- 
lish'd  Josephus  Ben  Gorion  from  the  Theater  Press,  and  is  now  a  Teacher 
of  ye  Hebrew  Language  in  Oxford,  and  is  esteem'd  by  able  Judges  to  be 
a  compleat  Master  of  it,  has  publickly  affirm'd  That  he  thinks  this  Epitome 
to  be  the  best  that  has  been  yet  made,  and  that  'tis  preferrable  both  to 
Buxtorf's  and  Schickard's.  I  have  been  inform'd  by  one  that  was  lately 
Student  of  Christ-Church  and  once  a  Scholar  to  Dr.  Busby  that  he  also 

10  writ  an  Arabick  Grammar,  w°h  Language  was  likewise  taught  in  that 
schoole,  the  Dr.  having  some  skill  in  it.  The  Dr.  was  for  introducing 
also  some  other  Languages  into  his  School,  on  purpose  that  it  might  be 
said  y*  most,  if  not  all,  learned  Languages  were  taught  in  it,  being  acted 
in  this  Affair  purely  by  whim.  And,  I  have  often  heard  it  said  that  tho' 
he  was  a  truly  learned  man  in  Classical  Learning,  yet  he  indulg'd  strangely 
to  his  Fancy,  and  was  extremely  whimsical,  and  that  his  severe  Discipline 
was  chiefly  owing  to  this  Temper.  After  his  Latin  Grammar  came  out 
he  was  continually  altering  of  it,  almost  every  hour,  and  'twas  usual  with 
him  to  make  his  Scholars  get  those  alterations  by  heart,  tho'  they  had 

so  been  masters  of  his  Grammar  before.  When  any  Scholars  came  from 
other  Schools,  tho'  they  had  read  over  and  got  by  heart  Lilly's  Grammar 
several  times,  yet  he  would  always  make  them  set  about  his  own,  and 
spend  time  in  getting  it  off  intirely.  I  have  also  heard  some,  that  knew 
the  Dr.  very  well,  say  that  he  was  a  better  Judge  of  other  Men's  Com- 
positions than  a  good  Composer  himself,  tho'  he  was  certainly  a  very 
clear-headed  Man. 

Nov.  15  (Tu.).     De  Sylvano  Morgano  e  cl.  Thomas  Smithi  Vita  Guil. 
Camdeni  pag.  70. 

Identidem  Pictores,  cum  Camdenus  e  Pictore  esset  prognatus,  ut  artis  suae 
30  honori  consulerent,  tabulam  ad  vivum  expressam,  hi  &  illi  in  conclavibus  ap- 
pensam  habuere :  ambse  igni  perierunt.  *Icroi/  vero,  antequam  fatale  illud  in- 
cendium  maxime  deplorandam  Urbi  stragem  intulisset,  amore  &  admiratione 
Camdeni  captus  Sylvanus  Morganus,  professione  Pictor,  at  liberalibus  disci- 
plinis  egregie  excultus,  genealogiarumque  admodum  peritus,  quod  liber  ejus 
de  Gnomonica,  &  Sphxra,  ut  ita  cum  venia  reddam,  Gentilitatis  ostendunt,  quan- 
tum artifex  manus  exprimere  poterat,  curavit  delineandum  :  nee  est  hoc  con- 
tentus,  aliud  fieri  jussit,  quod  multiplici  &  quidem  curioso  ornatu  adauctum  pro 
insigni  prse  foribus  habet.  — 

The  Earl  of  Clarendon  dyed  of  an  Asthma  in  the  threescore  and 
40  twelfth  Year  of  his  Age.  He  had  been  a  long  time  before  grievously 
afflicted  with  the  strangury,  and  then,  with  an  involuntary  flux  of  Water  : 
which  being  stopt,  a  humor  fell  upon  his  Lungs,  which  caused  a  Short- 
ness of  Breath,  and  put  an  End  to  his  Life.  His  Brother,  the  Earl  of 
Rochester,  as  'tis  thought  with  the  Leave  of  the  Great  Lady,  to  whom 
they  are  so  nearly  related,  took  care  to  have  him  interred  in  the  Grave  of 
his  Father  and  Mother,  with  all  private  Decency  in  Westminster  Abbey, 
none  being  invited  but  the  6  Noble  Lords,  who  sustained  the  Pall,  viz., 
Dukes  of  Ormond  and  Beaufort,  Earles  of  Berkshire  and  Essex,  Barons 
De  la  Ware  and  Berkly  of  Stratton.  This  noble  Lord  dyed  on  Monday 
50  the  3 1  Octob.  4  of  the  Clock  in  the  Afternoon,  and  was  buryed  on  the 


Nov.  14-17.]          VOLUME  XXII,  PAGES  180-195.  309 

Friday  following  4  Nov.  at  10  of  the  Clock  at  night.  —  Kuster  has 
printed  his  Aristophanes  in  Holland,  which  he  dedicates  to  IA  Hallifax, 
to  whom  the  Publisher  has  sent  a  Copy  or  two,  there  being  no  other  yet 
brought  over :  and  I  am  inform'd,  that  he  has  receiv'd  a  Present  of  two 
Hundred  Guineas  for  his  Dedication,  such  a  profound  Respect  have  we 
for  forreigners,  &  such  lavish  Rewards  have  they  for  slight  Perfor- 
mances !  —  Dr.  More,  BP.  of  Ely,  has  turn'd  Mr.  Whiston  out  of  a 
Lecture,  which  he  had  in  a  Parish  Church  in  Cambridge. 

Nov.  16  (Wed.).  Henry  Jenkins,  a  Yorkshire  Man,  departed  this 
Life  the  8*11  Dec.  1670,  being  then  169  Years  old.  He  remembred  the  10 
Battle  of  Flowden-Field,  wch  was  fought  9*^  Sept.  1513,  very  well,  and 
us'd  to  relate  the  Particulars  of  it.  His  Age  was  clearly  made  out.  Old 
Parre  lived  152  Years  nine  Months;  so  he  exceeded  Parr  16  Years.  As 
to  the  Way  of  Living  of  Henry  Jenkins,  in  the  last  Century  of  his  Life, 
he  was  a  Fisherman,  and  used  to  wade  in  the  Streams.  His  Dyet  was 
coarse  and  sour.  But  towards  the  latter  End  of  his  Days  he  begged  up 
and  down.  He  hath  sworn  in  Chancery  and  other  Courts  to  above  140 
Years  Memory,  and  was  often  at  the  Assizes  at  York,  whither  he  gener- 
ally went  afoot:  and  several  of  the  Country  Gentlemen  have  affirm' d,  that 
he  frequently  swam  in  the  Rivers  after  he  was  past  the  Age  of  one  hun-  ao 
dred  Years. 

Nov.  17  (Th.).  In  the  Year  1690  was  printed  a  small  Book  in  12°. 
call'd  The  Secret  History  of  the  Reigns  of  K.  Charles  II.  and  K.  James  II. 
Neither  the  Author's  name,  nor  the  Names  of  the  Printer  and  Bookseller, 
nor  that  of  the  Place  where  printed  are  added.  Whoever  the  Author  was 
he  was  a  most  vile,  antimonarchical  Rascal,  one  who  had  thoroughly 
imbib'd  republican  Principles,  and  had  so  little  Respect  for  crown'd 
Heads  as  to  asperse  and  vilifye  the  best  of  Kings,  King  Charles  Ist,  whom 
he  has  in  several  Places  represented  as  a  Roman  Catholick,  at  least  as 
a  Favourer  of  the  Romish  Religion,  and  of  being  guilty  of  the  Irish  30 
Massacre.  But  he  falls  most  heavily  upon  his  two  sons,  King  Charles  II. 
and  King  James  II.  of  whom  he  cannot  speak  one  good  word,  but  he  all 
along  makes  them  to  be  the  worst  Enemies  that  ever  the  Kingdom  had, 
and  he  does  not  make  ye  latter  only  to  be  a  Roman  Catholick,  but  even 
ye  former,  who  he  says  was  acted  in  every  Thing  by  Popish  Principles, 
and  that  he  drove  at  nothing  else  but  ye  Ruin  of  these  (for  he  will  not 
call  them  his)  Kingdoms.  'Twas  to  this  End,  he  says,  that  he  gave  him- 
self up  to  Debauchery,  and  that  he  wag'd  War  with  the  Dutch.  The 
Dutch  he  mentions  as  the  best  Friends  to  England,  and  the  Prince  of 
Orange  was,  in  his  opinion,  one  of  ye  Greatest  Heroes  that  ever  liv'd,  one  40 
of  the  best  of  Men,  and  one  of  the  faithfullest  &  most  religious  Friends 
that  England  ever  yet  had.  These  and  abundance  of  other  Particulars 
he  hath  foisted  into  this  Libell,  wch  ought  to  be  burnt  by  y6  Common- 
Hangman,  &  will  be  despis'd  by  all  honest  Men,  such  as  are  true  Lovers 
of  yeir  Country,  are  mov'd  by  Conscience  and  have  a  true  sense  of 
Allegiance  and  Loyalty,  and  are  not  willing  to  favour  and  countenance 
those  who  under  a  Pretence  of  Popish  Tyranny  are  for  bringing  in 
Traytors  and  usurpers,  and  for  turning  our  well  establish'd  Government 
into  Confusion. 


3 TO  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1700: 

About  3  Weeks  since  a  Person  at  Heddington  near  Oxford  opening 
the  Surface  of  the  Ground  in  the  Back-side  of  the  House  found  a  Gold 
Ring,  curiously  wrought,  on  the  outside  of  which  is  the  Figure  of 
S*.  George  treading  upon  a  Dragon,  with  his  Spear  run  into  ye  Dragon's 
Mouth.  In  y6  Inside  of  the  Ring  are  ingrav'd  in  Letters,  much  like 
those  we  see  on  Plates  upon  old  Grave- Stones,  these  Words,  En  kal.  desto. 
For  understanding  which  it  must  here  be  observ'd  that  in  former  times 
there  were  several  Gold  Rings  made  for  the  Use  of  Knights  of  the 
Garter,  which  they  receiv'd  at  their  first  Installment,  and  afterwards  they 

lo  generally  presented  them  to  their  Relations  and  Friends,  to  be  worn  by 
them  in  Memorial  of  so  great  an  Honour  conferr'd  upon  them.  They 
had  often  the  same  motto  with  the  Garter,  and  were  therefore  call'd 
Garter-Rings,  being  cast  into  the  Figure  of  Garters ;  but  then  others 
were  of  a  different  Make,  and  had  different  Mottos,  according  to  the 
Pleasure  of  the  several  Knights  for  whom  Design'd,  &  having  on  them 
the  Image  of  St.  George  they  were  call'd  George  Rings.  And  'tis  of 
this  latter  sort  of  Rings  I  take  this  to  be  which  we  are  now  considering. 
The  Knt.  was  a  Gentleman,  in  all  probability  of  great  Probity  and  In- 
tegrity and  his  Daughter  being  young,  and  endued  with  singular  Virtues 

20  and  incomparable  Beauty,  by  which  she  lay  lyable  to  temptation,  he  was 
pleas'd  to  give  her  this  Ring,  adorn'd  with  the  Figure  of  S*.  George  and 
the  Motto  above  mention'd ;  which  he  thought  might  be  one  Means  of 
securing  her  against  all  Dangers  and  of  preserving  her  Innocence.  Her 
Name  was  Catherine,  and  the  Word  desto,  however  obsolete,  is  properly 
enough  us'd  to  signify  one  that  stands  behind.  Whenever  his  Daughter 
should  happen  to  be  subject  to  any  Temptation,  and  be  set  upon  by  any 
lewd  Persons,  he  would  have  her  think  upon  S*.  George,  that  Great 
Patron  of  the  English,  and  call  upon  him,  &  believe  that  he  was  always 
behind  her  to  guard  and  protect  her ;  which  if  she  did  she  might  assure 

30  her  self  that  he  would  as  infallibly  rescue  her  from  Danger  as  he  had  the 
beautifull  and  Virtuous  Young  Daughter  of  Nemo  a  Lybian  King  from 
the  Jaws  of  the  Dragon  to  which  her  Father  had  been  oblig'd  to  set  her 
aside  for  a  sacrifice. — I  easily  foresee  that  in  opposition  to  what  has 
been  said  it  will  be  objected  that  the  Figure  upon  the  Ring  is  very 
different  from  the  Common  Pictures  of  S*.  George,  and  that  it  rather 
agrees  to  that  of  S*.  Michael,  who  in  the  MSS*.  Breviaries,  curiously 
illuminated,  in  the  Bodlejan  Library  is  represented  standing  upon  a 
Dragon,  and  having  his  Spear  (the  upper  Part  of  which,  like  this  on  the 
Ring,  is  in  form  of  a  Cross)  run  into  his  Body.  In  reply  to  which  it 

40  must  be  noted  that  ye  Painters  and  Ingravers  very  often  in  these  Cases 
follow'd  their  own  Directions,  and  vary'd  as  they  thought  convenient. 
Adrichomius's  Map  of  the  Tribe  of  Asser  represents  the  Dragon  at 
some  Distance  from  8*.  George's  Horse,  contrary  to  the  common  Pictures 
which  represent  him  trampling  upon  it.  I  have  seen  some  Pictures 
ingrav'd  in  the  same  manner  as  S*.  George  is  plac'd  upon  the  Ring. 
And  that  which  is  mention'd  by  Nicephorus  to  have  been  at  Con- 
stantinople varied  from  others  that  we  read  of,  and  there  are  miraculous 
things  related  of  it.  But  not  to  insist  any  farther  upon  this,  which  might 
be  farther  confirm'd  by  variety  of  Instances,  'tis  sufficient  for  our  present 

5°  purpose  that  even  our  Modern  Figures  of  S*.  George  varie  from  the 


Nov.  17.]  VOL  UME  XXII,  PA  GES  196-209.  311 

more  ancient  ones  that  are  found  in  MSS*.  Books  of  Divine  Offices. 
I  have  seen  several  very  curious  and  valuable  ones  in  the  foresaid 
Bodlejan  Library,  and  in  them  the  Libyan  King's  Daughter  is  represented 
kneeling,  sometimes  before  and  sometimes  behind  S*.  George;  which 
Circumstance  is  left  out  in  all  our  modern  Pictures.  But  suppose  that 
this  Circumstance  were  observ'd  in  our  modern  Pictures,  and  suppose 
withall  there  was  no  difference  between  them  and  the  ancient  ones,  yet 
we  cannot  imagine  that  all  these  Circumstances  could  be  put  upon  this 
Ring  in  w°b  so  small  a  Part  is  allow'd  for  the  Figure:  Not  now  to 
mention  that  the  adding  the  Horse  would  have  look'd  too  assuming  in  a  10 
signet,  for  which  this  part  of  the  Ring  seems  to  have  been  us'd.  As  for 
the  latter  Part  of  the  Objection  I  see  no  reason  why  the  Cross  might 
not  as  properly  be  represented  upon  the  upper  Part  of  the  Speare  of 
S*.  George  as  S*.  Michael ;  especially  if  we  consider  that  some  of  the 
Legends  attribute  this  Heroical  Act  of  S*.  George  in  some  Measure  to  ye 
virtue  of  the  Holy  Cross  with  wch  he  several  times  sign'd  himself:  and 
the  Romanists  have  so  great  an  opinion  of  the  Effect  of  signing  with  y» 
Cross,  as  that  it  makes  a  good  part  of  their  Holy  Offices,  wch  is  laudable 
enough  &  what  is  countenanc'd  by  the  earliest  Antiquity  if  they  did  not 
make  it  so  frequent  as  to  be  look'd  upon  as  superstitious.  For  strength-  20 
ening  what  has  been  said  in  behalf  of  S*.  George  it  may  be  added  that 
as  he  was  very  early  highly  respected  by  the  English,  (insomuch  that 
Churches  and  Chapells  were  dedicated  to  him)  so  he  hath  had  a  more  than 
ordinary  Veneration  paid  to  his  Memory  ever  since  King  Edward  III.  an. 
1349.  by  calling  earnestly  upon  S*.  Edward  and  S*.  George,  chiefly  the 
latter,  obtain'd  a  compleat  Victory  over  the  Enemy :  the  Year  after 
which  follow'd  the  Institution  of  that  Noble  Order  of  the  Garter,  dedicated 
to  S*.  George  also :  by  which  he  became  possess'd  alone  of  that  speciall 
patronage,  as  the  more  military  Saint;  w°h  in  the  former  Invocation 
might  seem  to  be  divided  between  S*.  Edward  and  Himself.  What  30 
additional  Honours  after  this  time  were  made  to  S*.  George  (more  than, 
that  the  English,  in  imitation  of  the  King,  call'd  upon  him  as  their 
Advocate  of  Victory)  I  think  needless  to  recite  here ;  this  however  I  will 
note  that  some  time  after  their  were  Gold  Pieces  coyn'd  to  his  Memory, 
which  were  call'd  George  Nobles,  and  Mr.  Camden  in  his  Remains  tells 
us  that  they  had  on  one  side  of  them  the  Picture  of  S*.  George  with  this 
Impress  tali  dicata  signo  mens  fluctuare  nescit.  And  these  Nobles  and 
the  George  Rings  are  of  much  y6  same  Age.  — 

Thomas  Aquinas  took  a  great  Part  of  his  prima  secundce,  &  secunda 
secundce  out  of  the  iet  and  3d  Books  of  Vincentius  Bellovacensis's  Specu-  4° 
lum  Morale. 

Nov.  19.  Matthew  Gibson  to  H.  (Rawl.  6.  92).  Printed  :  Letters  from 
the  Bodleian,  i.  197  sqq.  R.  Roberts  to  H.  (Rawl.  9.  44).  Has  recovered 
a/,  os.  t>d.  given  to  an  acquaintance  six  weeks  ago  for  H.,  who  will  now  receive 
it  from  Mr.  Manning,  an  attorney  at  Petworth.  Prays  H.  to  persuade  Mrs. 
Law  to  be  at  rest  two  months  longer,  when  he  hopes  to  be  able  to  give  her 
full  content.  Believes  that  she  has  not  yet  found  out  his  place  of  abode. 
H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  148).  '  I  am  very  carefull  to  preserve  all  your 
Letters  to  myself,  and  I  am  so  cautious  in  this  Affair  that  I  do  not  permitt  the 
Person  that  tyes  up  my  other  Papers  to  have  one  of  them.  And  therefore  I 


31  a  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

Nov.  21  (Mon.).  The  Chancellor  having  been  pleas'd  to  nominate 
the  Earl  of  Rochester  High  Steward  of  ye  University  in  room  of  the 
LA  Clarendon  deceas'd,  the  Letters  Patents  for  that  purpose  were  read 
in  Convocation  this  Day  at  2  Clock  and  were  approv'd  and  confirm'd  by 
ye  University.  Formerly  the  Orator  of  ye  University  us'd  to  make  a 
speech  upon  this  occasion,  and  ye  Present  Orator  Mr.  Wyatt,  a  very 
honest  Gentleman  and  Principal  of  S*.  Mary  Hall,  made  it  when  the 
Earl  of  Clarendon  was  confirm'd,  and  it  appears  now  in  ye  University 
Register.  He  had  also  drawn  up  a  speech  now,  sitting  up  almost  a 
10  whole  night  to  do  it,  but  two  or  three  Hours  before  the  Convocation 


take  that  trouble  wholly  upon  my  self,  and  I  past  them  into  a  Book  I  have 
prepar'd  for  that  purpose,  BEING  SENSIBLE  THAT  HEREAFTER,  PERHAPS  WHEN 

YOU   AND  I  ARE  IN   OUR  GRAVES,  THEY  WILL  BE  OF  ADMIRABLE  USE  IN  THE 

HISTORY  OF  THESE  TIMES.  The  remissness  of  the  Heads  of  Houses  in  Mr. 
Littleton's  affair  chiefly  on  account  of  some  members  of  their  Societies  that 
were  candidates  for  Fellowships  at  All  Souls'.  '  Dr.  Tyndale  gives  out  that 
the  Election  has  fully  answer'd  his  Exspectations  and  that  he  could  not  for  his 
Life  have  pitch'd  upon  four  Persons  more  agreeable  to  his  Mind.'  As  soon  as 
notice  was  given  of  the  death  of  the  Earl  of  Clarendon,  some  persons  who  are 
very  desirous  of  preferment  proposed  the  Duke  of  Maryborough  for  High 
Steward ;  "but  they  were  laughed  at.  Will  be  glad  to  see  Kuster's  ed.  of 
Aristophanes.  Wishes  that  Lord  Halifax  and  other  noblemen  would  but  be 
half  so  generous  to  their  own  countrymen.  Foreigners  '  are  now  so  much 
admir'd  that  they  are  made  Tutors  and  Governours  to  young  Gentlemen,  as 
if  our  own  Nation  did  not  produce  Persons  capable  of  such  an  Undertaking.' 
'  Mr.  Halley  has  so  near  finish'd  his  Apollonius  that  he  has  not  above  5  or  6 
Sheets  to  do.  This  Great  Man  afterwards  has  a  Design  of  putting  out  a  new 
Edition  of  Ptolemy's  Geography,  in  order  to  which  he  several  Years  since  col- 
lated Mercator's  Edition  with  a  MS*  in  the  Imperial  Library.  He  is  the  most 
proper  Person  I  can  think  of  at  present  for  this  Undertaking,  and  from  what 
I  have  often  heard  him  say  I  very  easily  perceive  that  the  Edition  put  out  by 
Berlins  is  full  of  Faults.  It  were  to  be  wish'd  our  other  Savilian  Professor 
would  lay  out  his  time  as  much  for  the  Publick ;  but  I  exspect  nothing  consi- 
derable from  an  Hypochondriacal  Person,  tho'  he  talks  of  Menelaus's  Sphae- 
ricks,  of  which  we  have  one  MS*  in  Latin,  and  two  in  Hebrew.  The  Hebrew 
are  under  the  Name  of  Myleus.  I  know  of  no  Copy  in  Greek,  nor  do  I  re- 
member that  any  one  is  mention'd  in  Dr.  Bernard's  Synopsis,  which  you  were 
pleas'd  to  publish  to  the  no  small  Advantage  of  those  that  are  learn'd  in  these 
Studies.  We  long  here  to  see  Dr.  SacheverelFs  Vth  of  November  Sermon 
preach'd  upon  these  Words,  In  perils  amongst  false  Brethren.  Upon  which 
Words  I  remember  he  formerly  preach'd  at  S*.  Marie's,  and  'tis  said  'tis  the 
very  same  Sermon,  only  with  some  Alterations  and  Additions.  It  makes  a 
great  Noise,  and  several  give  out  that  he  will  be  prosecuted,  but  that  you 
know  best  at  London.'  The  first  Article  of  Bp.  Beveridge's  Exposition  is 
published.  Thoresby  to  H.  (Rawl.  10.  60).  Has  delayed  answering  in  the 
vain  hope  of  receiving  from  parson  P.  a  dissertation  on  certain  odd-fashioned 
and  antique  instruments  of  brass.  '  As  the  Servants  of  Mr.  Ellis  of  Kiddall 
(father  to  the  present  high  Sheriffe  of  ye  County)  were  plowing  at  a  place 
called  Osmondthick,  near  the  noted  Bramham-moor,  they  discovered  5  or  6 
brass  Instruments,  wch  are  of  different  sizes,  from  litle  more  than  3  to  4^ 
inches  in  length,  &  from  i£  to  23  in  bredth.'  [Description  printed  in  '  A  Dis- 
course concerning  some  Antiquities  lately  found  in  Yorkshire.  In  a  Letter 
to  Mr.  Thoresby  of  Leeds:'  Philosophical  Transactions  No.  322  ;  Leland's  Itine- 
rary Vol.  I ;  Catalogus  operum  Thomae  Hearnii,  No.  xvii.] 


Nov.  21-24.]  VOL  UME  XXII,  PA  GES  210-218.  313 

Arthur  Charlett,  who  sat  as  Vice-Chancellor  (Smoothboots  being  out  of 
Town)  sent  for  ye  Orator,  and  gave  orders  that  there  should  be  no 
speech,  to  ye  no  small  Resentment  of  ye  Orator,  who,  notwithstanding  his 
present  Infirmities,  has  been  a  Man  of  Excellent  sense. 

Nov.  23  (Wed.).  Yesterday  being  appointed  for  a  General  Thanks- 
giving by  ye  Government  for  the  late  Glorious  Victory  (as  the  Duke  of 
Marlborough  and  his  Friends  are  pleas'd  to  style  our  prodigious  Loss) 
near  Mons ;  it  was  observ'd  by  ye  Whiggs  and  Couriers  of  Preferment 
very  solemnly  and  with  much  shew  of  Religion.  The  chief  Design  of  it 
is  to  amuse  the  People  and  to  make  them  believe  we  have  had  a  wonder-  10 
full  Success  on  purpose  to  get  large  Summs  of  Money  from  them  that 
the  War  may  be  still  prosecuted  to  ye  Benefit  of  ye  Duke  of  Marlborough 
&c.  —  At  ye  End  of  Dr.  Huntington's  Epistles  Dr.  Smith  has  publish'd 
Dr.  Edw.  Bernard's  Catalogue  or  Synopsis  of  antient  Mathematicians. 
This  is  also  publish'd  since  by  Fabricius  of  Hamburgh  in  the  third  Book 
of  his  Bibliotheca  Grseca  pag.  564.  —  Dr.  Smallbrook  by  the  ArchbP. 
of  Canterbury's  Option  (he  being  Chaplain  to  his  Grace)  is  made  Canon 
of  Hereford,  which  was  once  discours'd  of  for  Mr.  Basil  Kennett. 

Nov.  24  (Th.).  Amongst  other  Auditors  of  Dr.  Sacheverell's  V*  of 
November  Sermon  was  Mr.  William  Bissett,  who  two  or  three  Days  after  20 
publish'd  Remarks  upon  it ;  but  they  are  loose  and  silly,  just  like  the 
other  Pieces  that  he  has  printed.  This  Mr.  Bissett  is  a  Man  of  Parts, 
but  he  is  a  perfect  Enthusiast,  as  he  has  been  a  great  many  Years.  He 
was  of  Westminster  School,  whence  he  was  elected  into  Trinity  Coll.  at 
Cambridge,  where  when  he  had  been  about  two  Years,  going  one  Day 
into  y6  Fields  and  returning  home  he  declar'd  amongst  ye  Society  that 
he  had  a  Thing  to  communicate  and  propose  to  them  that  mightily  con- 
cern'd  the  Interest  of  the  College,  and  he  desir'd  that  it  might  be  offer'd 
in  a  Full  Meeting.  He  being  a  man  of  Parts  and  look'd  upon  at  that 
time  (tho'  otherwise  since)  to  be  a  Scholar,  they  consented  and  accord-  3° 
ingly  they  were  all  conven'd.  After  which  Mr.  Bissett  was  sent  for. 
He  told  them  that  being  in  ye  Fields  he  had  seen  a  very  strange  Vision, 
which  portended  dismal  Things  to  ye  College  unless  such  and  such 
Regulations  (which  he  mention'd)  were  immediately  made.  This  was  ye 
first  Hint  of  his  Enthusiasm,  and  ye  Effect  of  it  was  y*  ye  Society  bid  him 
prepare  for  a  Livelyhood  and  look  after  his  future  advantage,  for  he 
should  never  come  in  Fellow  there,  as  he  did  not.  He  afterwards 
became  Minister  of  a  Place  in  Northamptonshire,  and  is  Brother  of 
8*.  Katherine's  Hospital  near  ye  Tower  of  London.  This  vain  Man 
is  withall  a  downright  Republican  and  an  admirer  of  ye  Principles  4° 
advanc'd  in  Julian  Johnson's  Books,  and  he  is  so  hated  by  ye  neigh- 
bouring Clergy  in  Northamptonshire  that  not  one  of  them  will  ever  give 
him  a  sermon.  —  Mr.  Blincoe  of  All-Souls  Coll.  (son  to  Judge  Blincoe, 
who  married  a  Daughter  of  Dr.  Wallis's,)  being  one  of  those  who  are 
concern'd  for  the  late  Paper  about  altering  that  Part  of  College 
Statutes  which  relates  to  Fellows  taking  Holy  Orders,  and  being  very 
well  satisfied  that  the  Warden  of  All-Souls  would  put  y°  Statute  in 
Execution  against  him  unless  he  should  qualify  himself  by  being  ordain'd, 
to  prevent  any  such  Consequence  has  apply'd  to  my  Lord  Sunderland, 


314  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1700: 

who  being  a  Libertine  has  written  a  Letter  to  y°  ArchbP.  of  Canterbury 
Visitor  of  All-Souls  in  ye  name  of  ye  Queen,  signifying  that  'tis  Her 
Majesty's  Pleasure  that  Mr.  Blincoe,  being  her  Majesty's  Officer  in 
decyphering  Letters,  when  there  is  occasion,  (for  which  he  has  two 
hundred  Pounds  per  annum)  I  say  he  has  desired  him  by  Letter  to  use 
his  Power  that  Mr.  Blincoe  may  not  be  oblig'd  to  take  Holy  orders,  but 
that  the  Statute  may  be  dispens'd  with  in  that  behalf ;  which  Letter  his 
Grace  has  sent  to  the  Warden,  and  the  Warden  has  communicated  it  to 
the  Society,  telling  them  at  ye  same  time  that  as  to  his  own  part  he 
10  neither  assented  nor  dissented  to  the  Request. 

Nov.  25  (Fri.).  Pitharati  Archontis  mentio  apud  Ciceronem  de  Fato 
§  19.  numeri  Gronoviani.  Hujus  Archontis  meminit  cl.  Dodwellus  in 
tabulis  ad  calcem  Diss.  de  Cyclis.  Sed  Diogenem  Laertium  non  Cicero- 
nem citavit.  —  In  Eadmeri  Editione  Seldeniana  multa  cum  in  Praefatione 
turn  in  nods  atque  Appendice  occurrunt,  notatu  digna  &  quae  Historias 
&  Antiquitates  Anglicanas  plurimum  illustrant.  Stylo  sane  paullo  ob- 
scuriori  scripsit  &  contexuit  Seldenus,  sed  eruditionem  stupendam  recon- 
ditamque  ubique  ostendit ;  quod  &  de  reliquis  ejus  scriptis  observandum. 
De  voce  Domesday  in  Praefationis  pag.  iii.  agit,  &  in  paginis  sequentibus 
20  de  tabulis  illis  quae  hoc  nomine  veniunt  &  Westmonasterij  etiamnum 
adservantur  in  lectorum  doctorum  gratiam  congessit  &  in  lucem  protulit. 
Balaeum  tuetur  pag.  viii.  docetque  Joannem  Picardum  nimia  injuria 
ventosae  inscitiae  eum  postulasse. 

Nov.  27  (Sat.).  This  Morning  preach'd  at  X*.  Church  Dr.  John 
Potter,  our  Regius  Professor  of  Divinity.  'Twas  a  flat,  tedious  Discourse, 
of  above  an  hour  long,  upon  these  Words,  Luke  xiii.  23,  24.  Then  said 
one  unto  him,  Lord^  are  there  few  that  be  saved?  And  he  said  unto  them^ 
Strive  to  enter  in  at  y  strait  Gate  :  for  many,  1  say  unto  you,  will  seek  to 
enter  in,  and  shall  not  be  able.  After  something  by  way  of  Preface 

30  tending  to  shew  that  'twas  not  necessary  to  inquire  who  the  Person  was 
that  ask'd,  or  what  was  the  occasion  of  asking  this  Question,  he  pro- 
ceeded to  the  Duty  enjoyn'd,  namely  to  endeavour  to  attain  to  eternal 
Happiness  by  entering  in  at  the  strait  Gate.  On  this  occasion  he 
consider'd  first  what  is  meant  by  the  strait  Gate.  Secondly  what  by 
striving  to  enter  in  at  it.  And  thirdly  he  insisted  upon  the  Difficulties 
of  entering  in  at  it.  On  the  first  Head  he  observ'd  that  Heaven  in 
Scripture  is  often  call'd  a  House,  and  that  therefore  by  the  strait  Gate  must 
be  understood  the  Gate  to  Heaven.  This  he  illustrated  by  the  ancient 
Philosophers  account  of  the  Way  to  Virtue,  and  he  brought  a  Greek 

40  sentence  from  Aristotle.    As  to  the  IId  Head  he  observ'd  that  that  would 


Nov.  26.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  141  *.)  His  right  eye  has  ex- 
tremely failed  him  for  some  days,  and  he  is  filled  with  sad  fears  and  abodings. 
Designs  to  put  into  H.'s  hands  all  his  letters  and  papers — hereafter,  though  it 
be  40  years  hence,  to  be  deposited  in  the  Public  Library.  He  is  now  in  his 
72nd  year,  and  even  now  enjoys  good  health.  Of  all  the  calamities  of  human 
life,  he  has  a  natural  dread  and  horror  of  blindness.  Flat  voluntas  tua,  Domine, 
cum  misericordia.  '  I  pray  God  Almighty  to  blesse  you  with  health  &  long  life, 
and  to  advance  you  to  a  better  post,  &  to  raise  you  up  worthy  friends  to  sup- 
port you  &  encourage  you  in  your  studyes.' 


Nov.  24-29.]       VOL.  XXII,  PAGE  218— VOL.  XXIII,  PAGE!.  315 

be  best  understood  by  explaining  the  3d  General  iefc  or  rather  by 
considering  them  both  together.  Accordingly  therefore  he  insisted  at 
large  on  the  several  Difficulties,  both  as  they  relate  to  Faith  and 
Practice.  And  here  he  exspatiated  upon  all  ye  Duties  of  Religion  under 
a  great  many  Divisions,  taken  from  the  whole  Duty  of  Man  and  other 
Authors,  and  took  occasion  once  to  reflect  upon  the  Ceremonies  & 
Indulgences  of  the  Roman  Catholicks  but  saying  not  one  word  of  the 
Dissenters  and  Sectarists  &  of  their  Malice  and  Enmity  to  ye  Church. 
This  done  he  insinuated  y*  from  what  had  been  said  it  was  plain  that 
a  Religious  and  virtuous  Life  was  difficult,  and  that  therefore  the  way  10 
to  Happiness  must  be  narrow  and  strait.  After  this  he  advanc'd  another 
Topick  &  that  was  Reconciliation  of  some  Texts  of  Scripture  where  the 
Xtian  Religion  is  represented  as  being  easy.  In  this  point  he  was  long, 
and  had  several  divisions,  but  ye  sum  and  substance  of  all  was  that  first 
Christian  Religion  is  easy  by  reason  it  is  freed  from  the  Jewish  Cere- 
monies. 2dly  a  Christian  is  freed  from  the  troubles  to  which  a  vicious 
man  is  expos'd.  3dly  a  virtuous  and  Religious  Course  of  Life  never 
wants  supports  under  whatever  Afflictions,  &  this  interferes  with  the 
former  Division.  4tljy  that  there  are  Eternal  Rewards  propos'd  to  Good 
Men.  Abundance  of  other  Particulars  were  mov'd  by  him,  &  towards  ao 
ye  Conclusion  he  had  another  sentence  of  Greek  from  Aristotle.  He 
clos'd  with  ye  latter  Part  of  ye  Words  of  ye  Text.  —  ... 


VOL.  xxirr. 

Nov.  28  (Mon.),  1700.     [Notes  on  the  Britons,  from  Camden's  Britannia, 
pp.  7-12]. 

Nov.  29  (Tu.).  Mr.  Sherringham  in  his  Book  de  Origine  Gentis 
Anglorum  dissents  from  Mr.  Camden  and  divers  other  Authors  who  are 
of  opinion  that  the  Britains  had  their  'original  from  ye  Gauls,  and  both 
from  Gomer  the  Son  of  Japhet ;  and  he  inclines  to  Geffry  of  Monmouth 
who  deduces  them  from  ye  Trojans :  and  accordingly  he  explains  Caesar's 
words  of  those  that  dwelt  near  the  Sea  having  their  original  from  Belgium  30 
only  of  ye  Trojans  passing  thro'  Gaul  to  come  into  Britain.  (See  pag. 
7.  &  seqq.)  and  he  defends  Geffry's  account,  which  however  seems  still 
absurd  to  me ;  nor  can  I  well  see  how  Britain  should  continue  uninhabited 
so  many  Years  when  Gaul  so  near  it  had  been  peopled  long  before,  and 
as  Countrys  fill'd  'tis  certain  Colonies  were  sent  out  farther  to  seek  new 
Habitations. — In  another  Place  however  (see  pag.  123.)  he  acknowledges 
that  the  Gauls  and  Britains  were  much  alike,  and  were  gentes  cog- 
natae,  nations  of  ye  same  original,  w°h  yet  a  little  before  he  shews  must 
be  thus  understood,  namely  that  Gaul  was  thinly  inhabited  when  Brute 
came  thither,  &  that  he  and  his  Trojans  soon  conquer'd  it,  built  a  City,  40 
dwelt  there  for  some  time,  &  when  they  had  sufficiently  peopled  it  past 
over  into  Britain  and  settled  here.  Which  is  neither  likely,  nor  does  it 
agree  with  other  Authors  whom  he  quotes  at  ye  same  time.  Nor  can  it 
be  imagin'd  that  Brute  would  quite  desert  Gaul  for  a  Country  of  less 
extent  and  of  less  Profit.  —  Boxhorn  was  of  opinion  that  ye  Scythian 
was  ye  Primitive  Language  &  y*  all  others  was  deriv'd  from  it,  agreeable 


316  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

to  w*  Justin  has  insinuated  of  yeir  being  ye  first  Men.  He  was  ridicul'd 
by  several  for  this  opinion,  &  yet  he  proceeded  in  y6  Defence  of  it,  and  he 
is  so  far  from  being  without  even  modern  Patrons  that  (not  to  mention 
others)  Cluver  has  asserted  that  the  CeltoScythae,  i.  e.  the  Illyrians,  Ger- 
mans, Gauls,  Spaniards,  Britains,  Suedes,  &  Norwegians  us'd  one  and  ye 
same  Language.  wcl1  he  confirms  from  a  great  many  words,  &  from  y® 
authority  of  ye  ancients.  And  others,  amongst  whom  is  Salmasius,  have 
affirm'd  that  the  Germans  had  their  original  from  ye  Getae  &  Daci.  See 
Geor.  Horn's  Preface  to  Boxhorn's  Origines  Gallicse. 

10  Nov.  30  (Wed.).  The  Columna  Trajana  contain'd  the  Representa- 
tion of  all  Trajan's  Exploits  against  ye  Dacians.  In  num.  56.  of  columna 
Trajana  are  Hastae,  spicula  lata  habentes,  quae  sicilices  veteribus  dice- 
bantur,  ut  inquit  Festus,  &  Ennius ;  incedit  veles  vulgo  sicilicibus  latis. 
But  these  Javelins  with  broad  heads  were  quite  different  from  ye  monu- 
ments found  in  Yorkshire  near  Leeds. — The  Heads  of  the  long  spears 
of  ye  Romans  were  made  of  Brass.  See  there  num.  58.  Their  Axes  us'd 
in  their  Sacrifices  represented  there  num.  78.  They  agree  w^  ye 
Modern,  &  were  fix'd  in  ye  same  Manner  y*  we  use. — In  num.  93.  The 
form  of  an  Ax  for  cutting  Trees  to  pieces  that  ye  souldiers  might  the  more 

20  easily  carry  them  into  their  Tents.  These  of  the  same  form  also  w*h  ye 
modern,  but  they  were  either  Brass  or  Iron.  See  Plin.  lib.  vi.  c.  56. 
Penthesilea  is  there  said  to  have  been  ye  first  Inventress  of  this  Instru- 
ment.— Form  of  their  Malletts  like  ours.  See  there  num.  113. — The 
Shoes  of  ye  Dacians,  like  our  modern  ones,  cover'd  all  their  Feet,  not  like 
ye  Roman  Shoes.  See  ibid.  n.  116. — The  Dacians  us'd  only  shields, 
swords,  &  Bows  in  Battle.  See  n.  134. — The  form  of  ye  Roman  Pila  exactly 
represented  there  n.  141.  &  in  other  Places.  The  Top  was  Iron,  &  twas 
triangular,  but  picked  &  sharp  at  top. — In  num.  167.  The  manner,  of  ye 
Romans  fortifying  their  Tents,  where  some  of  ye  souldiers  are  represented 

30  cutting  or  polishing  ye  stones  with  Malletts  &  chissells  made  either  of 
Brass  or  Iron.  These  Chissells  seem  to  have  been  much  like  those  found 
in  Yorkshire.  The  Manner  of  the  souldiers  kissing  the  Emperor's  Hand 
num.  177.  The  souldier  there  takes  hold  of  ye  Emperor's  right  hand 
stretched  out  &  kisses  the  back  part.  Reckon'd  a  very  great  favour  to 
kiss  the  Emperors  hand. — The  form  of  ye  Roman  Axes  again  for 
cutting  down  Trees  in  num.  186.  And  of  yeir  sacrificing  Axes  in 
num.  187.  agreeable  to  ye  former. — Some  of  ye  Roman  Horses  repre- 
sented without  Bridles  in  full  speed  with  their  Riders  against  ye  Enemy, 
ibid.  num.  199. — In  some  fights  the  Dacians  us'd  clubs  and  acinaces. 

40  See  num.  207.  and  Buklers,  and  no  other  weapons. — Common  Roman 
Axes.  See  there  n.  208,  209. — Form  of  Axes  again  num.  252.  In  castris 
autem  muniendis  utebantur  ligonibus,  rastris,  qualis,  alijsque  utensilium 
generibus. — their  Axes  and  Mattocks  in  n.  257.  &  in  n.  290. — There  is 
no  mention  made  of  authors,  by  what  Names  the  British  arms  were 
call'd.  The  Gaulish  Weapons  are  Spatha,  Gessum,  Lancea,  Sparum, 
cateia,  Matara  or  mataris,  Thyreos,  and  cetram  or  cetra. — The  Spatha  is 
call'd  by  ye  Italians  Spada,  and  by  ye  Spaniards  Espada,  and  by  Isidore 
Spata,  &  he  says  'twas  a  two-edged  sword,  with  w°k  they  cut  &  did  not 
thrust,  for  Polybius  &  Livy  say  it  had  no  point. — Festus  derives  Sparum 

5°  from  spargendo.     It  had  as  it  seems  an  Iron  Edge. — Cataia,  according 


Nov.  29-Dec.  1.]  VOL  UME  XXIII,  PA  GES  7-20.  317 

to  Isidore,  is  a  weapon  made  of  ye  softest  metal,  which,  by  reason  of  it's 
weight,  did  not  fly  far,  but  with  great  force  break  forth  wherever  it  lit. 
Bochart  thinks  the  cataiae  are  the  ingentes  clavae  made  mention  of  by 
Ammianus  lib.  31. — Matara  were  their  Darts  flung  out  of  their  Charriots. 
It  is  also  call'd  Mataris  and  materis,  but  by  Hesychius,  madaris.  Strabo 
says  it  is  a  kind  of  Weapon,  call'd  Palta  ;  and  Pollux  saith,  Paltum  was 
a  Medish  Dart. — Gessum  was  a  kind  of  sharp-pointed  spear-dart,  which 
they  used  to  push  or  dart  with  as  they  saw  occasion ;  It  was  made  of  all 
Iron  (as  Hesychius  witnesseth)  and  every  Man  carried  a  Couple  of  them 
in  his  hand. — Cetrae  were  a  short  sort  of  shields.  The  Mauri  called  them  icx 
citurae,  according  to  ye  old  scholiast  of  Juvenal. — Illyrios,  Germanos, 
Gallos,  Hispanos,  atque  Britannos,  unam  eamdemque  inter  se  habuisse 
linguam,  varijs  tantum  dialectis  distinctam,  veterum  probatur  auctorum 
testimony's,  unde  certissimum  indicium,  praedictos  populos  omneis  unius 
ejusdemque  gentis  Celticae,  ab  Aschenare  propagatae,  fuisse  nationes. 
Cluver.,  Germ.  Antiq.  1. 1.  c.  5. — Diodorus  Siculus  lib.  v.  tells  us  ye  Spathae 
were  very  long.  The  Spata  was  two  edged,  &  'twas  perhaps  broad  at 
top,  but  then  'twas  different  from  ye  Yorkshire  Monuments,  which  had 
not  two  Edges. — Vegetius  also  lib.  1 1.  c.  15.  tells  us  of  ye  Semispathae. — 
Polybius  tells  us  lib.  in.  that  they  slash'd  with  ye  Spathae  &  so  Livy  20 
xxxn.  Ramus  however  in  his  Book  de  moribus  veterum  Germanorum 
will  have  it  y*  ye  Spatae  were  us'd  both  to  push  and  slash,  but  contradicted 
by  Cluver  Germ,  antiq.  1.  i.  c.  44.  p.  349.  nor  indeed  has  Ramus  any 
Proof  of  his  Assertion. 

Dec.  1  (Th.).  Some  of  ye  antient  spears  had  two  heads,  one  according 
to  ye  usual  way,  the  other  somew*  different,  but  then  neither  of  them  was 
broad,  as -may  be  seen  by  ye  figure  of  one  of  them  given  us  in  num.  155. 
of  Leonardus  Augustinus  his  Gemmae  &  sculpturae  antiquae  ex  Edit. 
Jac.  Gronovij  Franeq.  1694.  where  also  we  have  y6  form  of  ye  Dagger 
made  use  of  by  Lucrecia  in  stabbing  herself  num.  83.  like  ye  other  3° 
Roman  Daggers ;  and  of  ye  sa[c]rificing  knives  which  had  not  broad 
Tops.  See  num.  139,  &  141.  —  Q.  Lepta  praefectus  fabrum.  Sic  Tullius 
Epist.  ad  Fam.  1.  3.  num.  7.  Mention  of  ye  Praefectus  fabrum  Corcyrae 
in  ye  8*h  Epistle  ibid. 

Dec.  1.  J.  Bennett  to  H.  (Rawl.  2. 102).  Sorry  that  Grabe  will  be  taken 
off  from  his  great  work  to  answer  Whist  on.  '  I  dont  question  but  that  you 
have  seen  Dr.  Sacheverel's  bold  discourse  at  S*.  Pauls  on  ye  5th  November.  I 
had  the  Curiosity  to  hear  it,  &  so  can  assure  you  tis  Verbatim  as  twas  preacht. 
It  lasted  a  full  hour  &  a  half,  &  was  delivered  with  all  the  Assurance  &  Con- 
fidence, that  violent  Preacher  is  so  remarkable  for.  I  could  not  have  imagined 
if  I  had  not  actually  heard  it  my  self,  that  so  much  Heat,  Passion,  Violence,  & 
scurrilous  Language,  to  say  no  worse  of  it,  could  have  come  from  a  Protestant 
Pulpit,  much  less  from  one  that  pretends  to  be  a  Member  of  the  Church  of 
England.  If  I  had  heard  it  in  a  Popish  Chappel,  or  a  Conventicle,  I  should 
not  have  wonder'd :  but  in  a  Cathedral,  it  greatly  surprized  me.  I'm  sure 
such  Discourses  will  never  convert  anyone,  but  I'm  afrayd  will  rather  give  the 
Enemies  of  our  Church  great  advantage  over  her ;  since  the  best  that  her  true 
Sons  can  say  of  it,  is  that  the  Man  is  mad  ;  and  indeed  most  People  here  think 
him  so.'  Asks  for  a  list  of  writers  on  English  antiquities,  in  addition  to  a  few 
specified  which  he  has.  Will  send  Mr.  Kent's  address  when  he  gets  it.  Bp. 
Milles  has  paid  him  a  visit.  All  discourse  of  peace  is  blown  over.  Is  informed 


318  HEARN&S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

Dec.  2  (Fri.).  This  Morning  very  early  began  a  Fire  in  ye  Scrape 
Trencher's  Room  of  Exeter  College.  This  Room  being  adjoyning  to 
yeir  Library  all  ye  Inner  Part  of  ye  Library  was  quite  destroy'd  &  only 
one  stall  of  Books  or  thereabouts  secur'd.  The  Wind  being  low  &  there 
being  good  assistance  it  was  extinguish'd  by  eight  Clock,  otherwise  it 
might  have  burnt  the  Publick  Library  wch  is  not  many  yards  distant  from 
it  on  ye  East  side.  This  Library  was  formerly  the  College  Chapell, 
which  so  continu'd  'till  ye  year  1625.  The  Wind  at  this  time  was  West. 
1  Tho'  ye  writer  of  these  memorials  be  not  at  all  given  to  superstition, 

10  and  does  not  easily  give  credit  to  ye  great  number  of  Instances  that  are 
given  in  miscellaneous  Discourses  of  Dreams;  yet  he  cannot  but  here 
observe  two  considerable  Accidents  that  happen' d  to  himself.  The  night 
in  which  the  Fire  broke  out  at  Exeter  College  he  had  little  sleep,  being 
strangely  disturb'd  with  the  Apprehensions  of  Fire,  which  seem'd  to  him 
to  be  so  near  as  to  come  to  the  Hall  (Edm.  Hall)  &  to  catch  the  upper 
Part  of  it.  This  Apprehension  continu'd  violent,  &  he  had  only  a  sort 
of  an  interrupted  broken  sleep,  'till  such  time  as  he  was  call'd  up  to  go 
to  look  after  ye  Library.  Some  years  before  a  fire  broke  out  at  Edm. 
Hall,  just  behind  the  Chamber  where  he  then  lay.  'Twas  suppos'd  that 

ao  it  began  to  gather  about  9  Clock  in  the  evening,  tho'  it  did  not  flame 
out  'till  about  i  in  the  morning.  After  Prayers  (which  is  at  9  clock)  he 
had  about  10  such  an  apprehension  of  Fire  that  he  durst  not  go  to  bed, 
but  was  resolv'd  to  sit  up.  However  at  last  he  prevail'd  upon  himself  to 
go  to  bed,  where  he  slumber'd  &  did  nothing  but  dream  of  Fire,  till  3 
Clock  when  the  Cry  of  Fire  was  all  over  the  Town 1.  — 

The  ancient  Britains  (those  I  mean  call'd  the  Picts)  usually  lived  to  ye 
age  of  six  score.  So  Speed  out  of  Plutarch.  See  Speed  1.  i.e.  7.  This 
he  attributes  to  yeir  going  naked  &  hard  usage,  the  cold  keeping  in  ye 
Natural  Heat.  He  ascribes  their  going  naked  chiefly  to  their  Ignorance 

30  of  making  Cloaths.  ibid.  Speed  gives  us  ye  Figures  both  of  ye  more 
ancient  Britains  before  they  were  civiliz'd  and  those  that  were  civiliz'd. 
But  tells  us  not  whence  he  had  these  Pictures. — In  §.  13.  of  this  Chapter 
he  acknowledges  that  ye  Picture  of  ye  civiliz'd  British  Woman  is  fram'd 
according  to  ye  Description  of  Boadicea.  Her  spear  not  like  ye  other 
Spears.  And  from  ye  next  §.  it  appears  that  he  form'd  the  other  Figures 
according  to  his  own  Fancy.  Herodian  tells  us  that  they  had  narrow 
shields  and  short  spears,  at  ye  End  whereof  (saith  Dio)  was  a  little  Bell 
like  a  Ball.  They  had  also  short  swords  hanging  at  their  naked  sides.  — 
Sr.  Wm.  Dugdale  in  pag.  778.  mentions  divers  flint-stones  found  at  Old- 

40  burie,  about  four  Inches  and  a  half  in  length,  curiously  wrought  by  Grind- 
ing, or  some  such  way,  into  ye  Form  there  exprest ;  the  one  End  shaped 
much  like  ye  Edge  of  a  Pole  Axe,  wcl1  makes  Sr.  Wm.  conjecture,  that, 
considering  there  is  no  Flint  in  all  that  part  of  ye  Countrie,  nor  within 
more  than  40  Miles  from  Oldbury,  they  being  at  first  so  made  by  the 
native  Britains,  and  put  into  a  hole,  boared  through  the  side  of  a  staff, 
were  made  use  of  for  Weapons,  inasmuch  as  they  had  not  then  attain'd 

that  some  misunderstandings  between  the  V.  C.  and  Dr.  Aldrich  have  deprived 
us  this  year  of  an  Oxford  Almanack. 

1-1  [Inserted  on  separate  leaf  after  p.  20  in  MS.] 


Dec.  2.]  VOLUME  XXIII,  PAGES  20-29.  319 

to  the  Knowledge  of  Working  Iron  or  Brass  to  such  uses.  —  Dr.  Plot 
in  his  Natural  History  of  Staffordshire  in  10.  §.  9,  mentions  British  arrows 
and  Darts  headed  with  Flint  as  also  Flint  Instrumt3  like  those  accounted 
for  by  Sr.  Wm.  Dugdale,  which  last  ye  Dr.  takes  to  be  British  Axes.  He 
mentions  Brass  ones  of  ye  Romans  in  form  of  those  found  in  Yorkshire. 
The  Dr.  reckons  these  last  (see  §.  1 9.)  to  have  been  ye  brass  Heads  of  ye 
Bolts  of  Catapultse.  He  mentions  others  there  §.  20.  which  he  takes  to 
have  been  y6  Heads  of  Roman  sacrificing  Axes.  See  Petri  Bellorij  &  P. 
Bartoli  admiranda  Romanarum  antiquitatum  vestigia.  Also  Lud.  Mos- 
cardi  musei  lib.  3.  c.  174.  —  Dr.  Leigh  in  his  Natural  History  of  10 
Lancashire  lib.  i.  p.  181.  mentions  such  both  stone  and  Flint  found  in 
Lancashire.  He  takes  notice  that  Dr.  Plot  is  in  ye  wrong  in  making  of 
ym  to  be  Roman  sacrificing  Axes,  the  one  the  securis  lapidea  &  the  other 
the  securis  cuprea,  &  as  to  himself  he  believes  them  to  be  Indian,  such 
as  they  now  use  in  forming  their  Canoes  and  barking  their  trees.  — 
Gallorum  arma  fuere  spatha,  gessum,  lancea,  sparum,  cateja,  matara, 
thyreos  &  cetrum.  Diodorus  lib.  5.  pro  gladijs  autem  magnas  habent 
spathas  ferreas.  His  Romani  usi  deinceps.  Vegetius  :  Habebant  gladios 
majores  quos  spathas  vocant.  Spatam  definit  Isidorus  gladium  ex 
utraque  parte  acutum,  id  est  Sioropov  ancipitem.  Hoc  csesim  feriebant,  20 
non  punctim,  8ia  TO  /LwjSa/icop  KeVnj/xa  TO  £i'0os  t\ft.v,  quia  mucrone  carebat, 
ut  scribit  Polybius  lib.  2.  Ita  etiam  Livius  lib.  32.  Gallis  praelongi 
gladij,  ac  sine  mucronibus. — Gessum,  gesum  vel  gaesum  quidam  pro 
hasta  sumunt.  Est  tamen  hastile  aut  jaculum  potius  quam  hasta.  Festus, 
gesum  grave  jaculum.  Hesychius :  Taio-os,  e>/3oAioi>  6\o(ri8rjpov  jaculum 
totum  ex  ferro.  Proinde  singuli  bina  gerebant. — Sparum  Gallici  teli 
genus.  Festus  a  spargendo  dici  vult. — Lancea  quid  sit  nemini  ignotum. 
Cateja  Isidoro  genus  est  Gallici  teli  ex  materia  quam  maxime  lenta,  quae 
jactu  quidem  non  longe  propter  gravitatem  evolat,  sed  quo  pe[r]venit,  vi 
nimia  perfringit. — Matara  teli  Gallici  genus.  Qvpebs  idem  quod  scutum,  30 
hoc  est  clypeus  oblongus,  ita  dictus,  ut  multi  volunt,  a  similitudine  januae. 
— Cetra  brevioris  clypei  genus.  Videsis  Boxhornij  libr.  de  Originibus 
Gallicis.  c.  n.  p.  22,  &c. 


Dec.  3.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  149).  '  I  was  seis'd  with  a  Fit  of 
Melancholy  upon  reading  your  last  Letter,  by  which  I  receiv'd  the  sad  News 
of  a  Distemper  that  is  fallen  into  your  right  Eye  ;  but  I  hope  that  by  the  Care 
of  your  Physitians  and  the  Blessing  of  God  you  will  be  able  to  conquer  it. 
And  I  heartily  pray  that  you  may  have  a  perfect  Restoration  of  your  Limbs, 
that  we  may  still  have  the  benefit  of  so  good,  so  pious,  and  so  learned  a  Man  ; 
which  ought  to  be  the  more  desirable  because  in  this  Age  we  have  few,  very 
few,  that  couragiously  and  zealously  stand  up  in  Defense  of  the  true  Religion 
and  for  the  Promotion  of  Letters.  Whatever  Papers  you  shall  think  fit  to  put 
into  my  hands  I  shall  most  carefully  and  punctually  observe  your  several  In- 
junctions, and  I  shall  always  have  a  true  and  just  Regard  to  your  Reputation. 
I  exspect  little  Encouragement  in  my  Studies  and  Undertakings,  which  notwith- 
standing I  prosecute  and  carry  on  purely  for  the  good  of  the  Publick.  Even 
several,  upon  whom  I  once  rely'd,  I  have  found  to  be  unsincere,  and  are  glad, 
when  they  want  substantial  Objections,  to  strike  in  with  the  common  Allega- 
tion of  being  an  Enemy  to  the  Government  and  inclin'd  to  Popery.  But,  I 
thank  God,  I  am  not  at  all  troubled  at  this,  when  I  see  so  many  truly  Great 


320  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709  : 

Dec.  5  (Mon.).  Notwithstanding  the  great  Clamours  y*  were  rais'd 
against  Dr.  Sacheverell  for  his  V*h  of  November  Sermon,  and  ye  Threats 
that  were  pronounc'd  by  some  of  the  Whiggs  against  him,  yet  'tis  come 
out  verbatim  as  'twas  preach'd.  And  to  confirm  what  he  said  about  the 
Doctrine  of  Non-Resistance  there  are  reprinted  two  old  Sermons  of  BP. 
Burnett,  in  w°h  the  same  Doctrine  is  advanc'd  as  high,  notwithstanding 
this  BP.  for  secular  Ends  has  since  renounc'd  this  Doctrine,  and  declar'd 
against  it,  as  several  others  have  done  for  the  same  Ends:  and  Dr. 
Sacheverell  himself  is  not  to  be  excus'd  he  having  taken  ye  Oaths, 

10  whereas  Resistance  is  allow'd  upon  no  account,  and  what  is  usually 
sd  about  y6  abdication  is  all  shain  and  Trick,  the  King  having  no  more 
abdicated  than  his  Brother  King  Charles  IId.  did  when  he  was  forc'd  to 
retire  out  of  his  Kingdoms.  This  Dr.  Sac1  leverell  preach'd  Yesterday 
sennight  at  Lowthbury  Church,  where  was  so  great  a  Concourse  of 
People  that  they  had  like  to  have  pull'd  down  the  Church  Doors  and 
Windows  to  hear  him.  Dr.  Moss  and  Dr.  Smalridge  excus'd  themselves 
from  preaching  before  the  IA  Mayor  and  Aldermen  on  ye  Thanksgiving 
day,  upon  account  of  ye  ill  Treatment  Dr.  Sacheverell  had  met  with  for 
his  late  V*h  of  November  Sermon.  Here  it  must  be  noted  y*  Dr. 

20  Sacheverell  as  he  is  a  man  of  little  or  no  Learning  so  he  is  remark'd  for 


and  Good  Men  suffer  upon  account  of  the  same  Objection.  I  am  perfectly 
content  in  my  present  Station,  being  satisfied  that  'tis  much  better  than  I  de- 
serve ;  and  therefore  those  Persons  who  out  of  Envy  and  Malice  and  other  ill 
Motives  endeavour  to  make  me  uneasy  and  to  do  me  a  Mischief  will  find  them- 
selves not  a  little  mistaken.'  Several  valuable  MSS.  in  Spelman's  Collection 
should  be  bought  for  Bodley,  but  our  money  is  low.  The  collection  of  printed 
books  is  not  so  good  as  H.  expected.  'Our  Chancellour  having  been  pleas'd  to 
nominate  the  Earl  of  Rochester  for  High  Steward  of  the  University,  he  was 
confirm'd  in  Convocation  on  Monday  Nov.  zist.  Mr.  Wyat,  the  Orator,  had 
sat  up  almost  all  night  to  make  a  Speech  upon  this  occasion ;  but  a  little  before 
the  Convocation  began  Dr.  Charlett,  who  sat  Vice-Chancellor,  order'd  him  not 
to  speak  it,  to  the  no  small  Resentment  of  the  Orator,  who  spoke  a  Speech  at 
the  Confirmation  of  the  Lord  Clarendon,  and  'twas  enter'd  in  the  University 
Register.  Yesterday  morning  very  early  a  Fire  broke  out  in  the  Scrape- 
Trenchers  Room  of  Exeter  College.  The  room  was  adjoyning  to  their 
Library,  which  soon  took  Fire,  and  the  greatest  Part  of  their  Books  were 
burnt,  there  being  only  one  or  two  Stalls  that  escap'd.  It  had  almost  taken 
hold  of  their  new  Buildings  just  by.  But  the  greatest  Danger  was  the  Publick 
Library,  which  is  not  remov'd  above  1 2  Yards  East  from  their  Library.  The 
Wind  being  in  the  West,  it  would  have  carried  the  Flame  directly  upon 
Selden's  Library ;  but  there  being  good  Assistance,  and  the  Wind  not  very 
high,  the  Fire  was  extinguish'd  a  little  after  eight  of  the  Clock.  This  is  a  very 
great  Deliverance,  and  'tis  to  be  ascrib'd  to  God's  Providence  that  this  Noble 
Magazine  of  Learning  was  not  destroy'd.  There  are  other  old  Buildings  on  the 
North  side  of  Exeter  Library,  (which  is  almost  consum'd),  and  Selden's  Library 
is  not  separated  from  them  above  a  Yard  or  two.  So  that  the  Deliverance  is 
render'd  so  much  the  more  signal.  I  wish  these  Buildings  and  other  Houses 
that  are  near  the  Publick  Library  were  all  down,  that  it  might  be  the  more 
secure.  We  want  Engines  very  much,  which  I  hope  the  University  will  take 
care  to  provide,  and  to  use  all  other  Remedies  they  can  think  of  for  preserving 
this  immense  Treasure.' 

Dec.  5.     H.  to  Thoresby.     Printed :  Correspondence  of  Ralph  Thoresby,  ii. 
.207  sq. 


Dec.  5.]  VOLUME  XXIII,  PAGES  39-45.  321 

several  Blunders  and  odd  mistakes  in  this  Sermon,  and  particularly  for 
his  making  Comets  to  burst  their  Orbs,  which  is  reckon'd  as  absurd  as 
what  he  once  observ'd  in  another  Sermon  about  Parallel  Lines  meeting.  — 
Mr.  Camden  in  ye  Close  of  his  Discourse  concerning  Stone-Henge  tells 
us  that  a  certain  Table,  or  Plate  of  Metall,  as  it  had  been  tin  and  lead 
commixt,  was  found  in  or  by  the  Monument,  in  the  time  of  King 
Hen.  8.  wherein  were  ingraven  many  Letters,  but  in  so  strange  a 
Character  that  neither  Sir  Thomas  Eliot,  nor  Mr.  Lilly,  Schoolmaster  of 
St.  Paul's,  could  tell  what  to  make  of  it ;  and  so  took  no  care  to  preserve 
it.  They  were  certainly  runick  in  ye  opinion  of  Dr.  Charleton,  &  the  loss  10 
of  them  was  afterwards  much  lamented  by  the  famous  Olaus  Wormius. 
See  Charleton's  Stone-Henge  restored  to  the  Danes,  p.  28,  29.  — 

Mus.  Wormian.  pag.  354.  Ex  Cimbria  duos  Cuneos  aeneos  transmisit  D. 
Axelius  Jue'l,  sub  terra  ibidem  inventos.  Major  longitudine  superat  uncias 
quinque,  latiore  parte  tres.  Ex  angusto  enim  corpore  desinit  in  aciem  latiorem. 
Alter  paulo  minor  est,  sed  crassior,  ad  latera  eminentias  quasdam  habens,  ut 
manu  firmiter  apprehendi  &  firmari  possit.  Usum  in  bellis  habuisse  arbitror, 
cum  cominus  pugnabant.  Si  foramina  habuissent  quibus  manubria  indi  po- 
tuissent,  securiculas  fuisse  arbitrarer. 


ON  A  TABLE  IN  Ye  PHYSICK  SCHOOL.  OXON  :  20 

The  broken  urn,  inclos'd  ia  this  Box,  was  dug  up  with  a  great  many  others,  some 
of  which  were  of  different  figures,  several  years  since  in  the  Field  of  old  Walsingham 
in  Norfolk.  The  Bones,  ashes,  &c.  are  wrapp'd  up  in  two  Pieces  of  course  Linnen, 
and  were  contain'd  in  two  Urns,  one  of  which  is  wanting.  The  Linnen  is  in  the  same 
Figure  with  the  urn.  The  smallness  of  the  Bones  shews  that  they  are  the  Reliques  of 
Children.  Some  think  the  Urn  is  Danish,  but  it  seems  rather  to  have  been  Roman, 
it  being  customary  among  the  Romans  after  the  Bodies  were  burnt  to  wash  the  Bones 
with  Wine  and  milk,  and  afterwards  the  Women  wrapt  their  Children  in  Linnen,  dry'd 
them  in  their  Bosoms,  &  then  put  them  into  Urns  to  be  bury'd.  Sometimes  we  find  in 
Urns,  Lacrymatories,  Lamps,  &c.  &  here  we  have  amongst  the  Ashes  Part  of  a  Lamp,  30 
w°h  was  preserv'd  in  one  of  the  urns. 

D1.  Humphrey  Prideaux  Dean  of  Norwich  a  few  Years  since  printed 
on  one  side  of  a  broad  Sheet,  The  Bishops,  Deans,  and  Prebendaries  of 
the  Cathedral  Church  of  Norwich  in  an  exact  Series  of  Succession  from  the 
new-Founding  of  that  Bpprick,  and  Cathedral  Church,  by  King  Henry 
VIII.  to  the  present  year  1706.  Printed  at  Norwich  in  1706.  — 

The  Contents  of  what  is  written  in  a  fair  Table  of  Parchment  that 
formerly  hung  in  the  Lodgings  of  ye  Principal  of  Edmund  Hall. 

NominaBenefactorum  qui  ad  hujusce  domus(nempe  aube  Stt  Edmundi  Oxon.)  40 
commune  Refectorium  de  novo  ab  imis  fundamentis  exstruendum  sumptus 
contulerunt  A.D.  1659,  aut  alio  quovis  nomine  in  aulam  beneficos  se  exinde 
praestiterunt. 

Praepositus  &  scholares  Collegij  Reginae  Oxon.  3ou.  oo  oo 

D8.  Georg.  Stonehouse  de  Radley  in  agro  Bercheriae  Baronettus     06  oo  oo 

Georgius  Bates  Medicinae  Doctor  inclytus  hujus  Aulae  Togatus  olim,  incola 

tune  :  medicus  Regius  dono  contulit  10  oo  oo 

Guil.  Parsons  de  Langley  Park  in  agro  Buck.  Armiger  05  oo  oo 

Tho.  Gore  de  Aderton  in  agro  Wilt.  Armiger  pro  tintinnabulo  dedit  06  oo  oo 

Geo.  Bond  de  Ogbourne  in  agro  Wilt.  05  oo  oo 

Johann.  Finch  de  Fiennes  in  Parochia  de  White-  Waltham  prope  Maidenhead  5° 

armiger  05  oo  oo 

VOL.  II.  Y 


322  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

Ranulphus  Sanderson  Rector  de  May-Hill  in  agro  Hantoniae,  Collegij  Reginae 
olim  socius  (vir  optimus)  donavit  20  oo  oo 

Thomas  Tullie  Principals  plus  minus  200  oo  oo 

Joannes  Rawlinson  S.T.P.  aulae  quondam  Principalis  legavit  aulae  sex  libras 
annuatim  percipiendas  ex  fundis  quibusdam  in  Cassington  prope  Oxon.  lectionis 
Theologies  publice  ibidem  habendae  salarium,  sed  in  prassentia  ad  Aulam  re- 
deunt  annuatim  4  tantum  librae. 

Richardus  Lyde  S.T.P.  &  ecclesiae  Cathedr.  Sarum  Canonicus  dd.  in  usum 

Aulae  1660.  20  oo  oo 

10      Praepositus  &  Scholares  Collegij  Reg.  donarunt  ad  coemendas  aedes  in  parte 

orientali  Aulae  in  usum  perpetuum  Principalis  pro  tempore  A.D.  1672.  25  oo  oo 

Quo  etiam  fine  erogatae  sunt  viginti  illae  librae  a  D.  Dre  Hyde  donatae ;  reli- 
quum  de  suo  numeravit  Tho.  Tullie  Principalis  SS.  Th.  Professor,  Regiae 
Majestati  a  sacris,  &  hujus  aulae  nuperrime  Principalis,  aedificiorum,  studiorum 
instauratione,  librorumque  donatione,  pecuniarumque  suarum  erogatione,  unus 
instar  omnium  commemorandus. 

On  the  2d.  Column. 

Nomina  superiorum  Ordinum  commens.  qui  libros  vel  numeratas  pecunias 

poculorum  argenteorum  vice  contulerunt. 
20      Littleton  Powys  super.  Ordinis  commens.  in  usum  aulae  loco  poculi  argentei 

numeravit  1664.  o5Ub8.  oo  oo 

Tho.  Littleton  Armiger  super. ord.  Commens.  eodem  nomine  1665.  05  oo  oo 
Guil.  Holcroft  super,  ord.  commens.  eod.  nomine  1665.  05  Ub8. 

Franciscus   Charleton  Armiger,  &  Guil.  frater  super.  Ord.  Gommensales 

praeter  unum  poculum  argenteum  1666.  05  oo  oo 

Edvardus  Swift  Armiger  super.  Ord.  Commens.  eodem  nomine  1666. 

06  13  04 
Johan.  Cell  Armiger  super.  Ord.  Commens.  in  cochleij  '  argenteis  1666. 

08  oo  oo 

30      Pauletus  Piggott  super.  Ord.  Commens.  loco  poculi  argentei  1666.  05  oo  oo 
Tho.  Horton  armiger,  &  Guilielmus  frater  super.  Ord.  commens.  in  pecun. 

1667.  &  1668.  09  15  oo 

Edvardus  Massey  super.  Ord.  Commens.  loco  poculi  argentei  1667.  05  oo  oo 
Johan.  Stocker  super.  Ord.  Commens.  eod.  nomine  1667.  05  oo  oo 

Jacobus  Butler  Armiger  super.  Ord.  Commens.  eodem  nomine  1 668.  06  oo  oo 
Johan.  Goodwin  armiger  super.  Ord.  Commens.  eodem  nomine  1669. 

05  oo  oo 
Johannes  Archer  eques  auratus  dedit  loco  poculi  argentei  pro  filio  suo 

Johanne  super,  ord.  Commens.  quinque  libras,  quibus  ad  cellae  cerevisiariae 
40  fabricandae  sumptus  levandos  quindecim  addere  pro  sua  benignitate  ei  placuit 

1672,  in  toto  20  oo  oo 

Guilielmus  Parry  super.  Ord.  Commensalis  1673  05  oo  oo 

Johannes  Laughton  armiger  1673  05  oo  oo 

Geo.  Huntley  Armiger  1673  05  oo  oo 

Edvardus  Maurice  super,  ord.  Commens.  loco  poculi  argentei  1678  05  oo  oo 
Persius  Fineux  super.  Ord.  Commens.  poculum  dedit  argenteum  cum  oper- 

culo  soluto — 1674. 

On  ye  IIK  Column. 

Nomina  Extraneorum  aut  in  Aula  non  commorantium,  qui  pecunias  aut 
50  Libros,  aut  aliud  aliquod  in  usum  Aulae  donarunt. 

Honoratissima  Domina  Marchionissa  (post  Ducissa)  novo-Cast.  donavit 
operum  suorum  varia  Volumina  in  Fol. 

Joh.  Maynard  Rector  Collegij  Exoniensis  opera  Bellarmini  2  Vol.  Fol. 

1  Cochlearibus  potius. 


Dec.  5-7.]  VOLUME  XX III,  PAGES  45-57.  323 

Richardus  Hyne,  A.M.  Collegij  Mertonensis  socius,  hujus  aulae  olim  studio- 
sus,  donavit  Rosini  Rom.  antiq.  corpus  4*°. 

Thomas  Tullie  Principalis  donavit  Biblia  Vatabli  2  Vol.  4*°. 

Daillie's  Right  use  of  the  Fathers  4*°.     Cowell's  Interpreter  4*°. 

Justini  Martyris  opera  fol. 

Glossarium  Spelmanni  fol. 

Spelmanni  Concilia  ad  Normannorum  introitum  fol. 

Bocharti  Geographiam  sacram.  fol. 

Strabonis  Geographiam.  fol. 

f^f"  These  Benefactions  upon  the  Building  of  the  Present  Chapell  were  10 
all  enter'd  into  a  fol.  Book  in  Vellam  by  ye  Care  of  Mr.  Stephen  Penton 
then  Principal,  in  wch  Book  are  a  great  number  of  other  Benefactors, 
which  were  constantly  enter'd  'till  of  late,  when  there  has  been  a  strange 
neglect,  that  has  given  much  offense  to  several  Gentlemen  that  were 
otherwise  inclin'd  to  be  Benefactors. 

Dec.  7  (Wed.).  No  Fabri  Murarij  on  the  Columna  Trajana.  See 
Raphaelis  Fabretti  Explicationem  columnaa  Trajanae  p.  208. — The 
Legionary  Physitians  in  the  Army  at  that  time  were  Freckon'd  amongst 
the  Souldiers,  and  perform'd  the  Office  of  Soul  diets  as  the  rest 
did,  notwithstanding  their  Liberal  Education.  Fabretti  has  accounted  20 
for  one  there  in  pag.  207.  The  Picture  represents  him  cum  lorica  sep- 
tum alterique  medicas  manus  admoventem.  (And  the  same  was  custom- 
ary with  other  Artists.  They  did  not  only  practise  their  several  Profes- 
sions upon  occasion,  but  acted  as  souldiers.  And  that  is  plain  from  the 
Pillar.)  Non  solum  enim  castra  munire,  fossam  praeducere  &  sarcinas 
ferre  dum  in  agmine  incedunt,  passim  milites  cernuntur :  (ita  ut  absurde 
sane  dicatur  ad  num.  96.  milites  Fabris  murarijs  ad  munitionem  castro- 
rum  inservire ;  ubi  enim  ibi  quos  Fabros  murarios  vocare,  &  a  militibus 
discernere  possint  ? )  Sed  ijdem,  opus  Fabri  lignarij  exercent  circa  eadem 
castra  num.  113.  &  200,  ac  in  structura  pontium  num.  98.  114.  &  117;  30 
ijdem  naves  aedificant  num.  303.;  ijdem  lapides  caedunt  num.  167.,  vias 
sternunt  num.  191.,  calcem  preparant,  murosque  ducunt  num.  167. ;  ijdem 
Ballistas  advehunt  num.  170.  &  202.;  ijdem  currus  &  carrucas  agitant, 
&  veterinorum  curam  gerunt  num.  196.  270.  273.  183.  &  308;  ijdem 
aquatum,  frumentatum,  lignatum,  &  pabulatum  proficiscuntur,  ut  num. 
107.  21 8.  278.  128.  &  213. ;  ijdem  denique  absque  servorum  calonum  ope 
onera  bajulant,  ut  num.  34.  157.  176.  180.  219.  220.  &  296.,  atqueequos 
ad  potandum  adducunt.  Quae  omnia,  vilia  ut  plurimum  munia,  per 
caculas,  ac  mancipia,  &  inutile  Marti  (ut  ait  Silius  lib.  v.)  lixarum  vulgus 
exerceri  solita,  restitutae  a  Trajano  disciplinae  tribui  debe[n]t.  ibid.  pag.  40 
208.) — Amongst  the  Roman  Artists,  Marmorarij,  Quadratarij,  Structores, 
Sculptor es,  Tignarij,  &c.  Structores,  id  est,  aedificatores  seu  fabri  murarij; 
unde  canales  s  true  tiles  a  Vitruvio  lib.  8.  cap.  7.  &  structilis  forma  Palladio 
lib.  9.  c.  ii.  appellantur,  qui  calce  ligatis  lateribus  fabricantur.  A  Paterno 
in  d.  1.  ulti.  dejur.  imrnu.  bucularum  structores  appellantur.  See  Pancirollus 
de  corporibus  Artificum  pag.  18.  Tomi  IIIUJ  Graevij  Thes.  —  The  Lorica 
worn  by  the  better  sort  of  Souldiers.  The  poorer  Souldiers  who  were 
rated  under  a  thousand  Drachms,  instead  of  the  Lorica,  wore  a  Pectorale, 
or  Breast  Plate  of  thin  Brass.  —  The  Romans  fortified  their  Camp  with 
a  Ditch  and  Parapet,  w°h  they  term'd  Fossa  and  Vallum ;  in  the  last,  some  50 
distinguish  two  Parts,  the  Agger  and  the  Sudes.  The  Agger  was  no 

Y  2 


324  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709: 

more  than  the  Earth  cast  up  to  form  the  vallum ;  and  the  Sudes  were  a 
sort  of  wooden  stakes  to  secure  &  strengthen  it.  —  The  more  eminent 
soldiers  were  call'd  Evocati.  —  The  Presses  of  Badius  Ascensius  &  Winkin 
de  Worde  very  uncorrect.  Sir  H.  Savil  complains  of  them  at  y6  End  of 
his  Excell*.  Discourse  de  Militia  Rom. 

Dec.  8  (Th.).  There  died  very  lately  the  IA  Portland,  and  he  was 
buried  last  Week  in  King  Hen.  Vila's  Chapell  at  Westminster,  it  being 
his  desire  to  be  interr'd  near  to  the  Body  of  his  Dutch  Master  the  late  de 
Facto  King  of  England  Wm.  Hid.  by  whose  Favours  he  grew  prodigious 
10  wealthy,  so  that  'tis  said  he  died  possess'd  of  an  Estate  in  England  and 
Holland  to  the  value  of  eight  hundred  Thousand  Pounds.  —  The 
Romans  very  diligent  and  expeditious  in  erecting  their  Bridges  over 
Rivers.  The  Bridge  over  the  River  Isara  made  by  Cn.  Plancus  in  a 
day's  time.  See  his  epistle  to  Tully  in  Tully's  Epp.  ad  Fam.  1.  x. 
n.  21. — The  Romans  placed  their  Tents  by  Rivers.  See  Tully  lib.  x. 
Epp.  fam.  n.  34. 

Dec.  10  (Sat.).     BP.  Barlow  in  his  Directions  for  the  Study  of  Divinity 
recommends  Notitia  Episcopatuum  totius  or  bis  MS.  in  Archivis  Laudinis 
J.  17.  Bill.  Bodl.     Quaere  whether  it  has  not  been  printed?  ('Tis  I  think 
20  in  Beveridge's  Codex  Canonum.) 

Dec.  12  (Mon.).     There  are  just  publish'd  the  two  Sermons  above 
mention'd  preach'd  formerly  by  BP.  Burnett,  the  one  intitled  The  Royal 


Dec.  10.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  142).  His  sight  causes  him  in- 
creasing anxiety.  '  It  renders  mee  very  uneasy,  that  I  am  taken  off  from  my 
studyes,  wch,  next  to  the  divine  assistence,  have  been  my  support  &  comfort 
in  the  midst  of  my  private  sufferings,  as  wel  as  of  the  public  confusions 
brought  upon  us  by  the  wicked  Revolution.'  Begs  H.  (despite  the  quickness 
of  his  eye  and  hand)  to  send  mere  breviates  of  his  materials.  '  The  Whiggs 
are  rampant,  &  thinke  to  carry  all  before  them.  The  Author  of  the  Rehearsal 
revived  fy  the  general  Postscript,  one  Mr.  Stacy,  has  layd  their  villainous  designes 
against  the  Monarchy  &  Church  open :  wch  made  them  mad  and  foame  at  the 
mouth :  and  they  were  restless,  til  they  got  the  poor  man  taken  up,  and  his 
papers  suppressed.  And  Dr.  Sacheverells  two  Sermons,  especially  that  on  the 
5th  of  Novemb :  have  encreased  their  rage  :  but  hee  is  a  Stoic,  and  all  their 
lampoons  &  Satyres  make  no  impressions  upon  him :  and  besides,  hee  finds  a 
good  support  in  the  Church  party.  I  say  nothing  of  his  performances :  but  I 
wish  hee  had  conducted  himselfe  with  juster  measures  of  prudence  &  sobriety 
of  temper.'  Will  be  glad  to  see  a  new  ed.  of  the  Sphaerica  of  Menelaus, 
though  he  expects  nothing  extraordinary  from  the  new  _Professor.  Believes  that 
many  MSS.  formerly  in  Spelman's  collection  have  been  disposed  of,  or  that  it 
is  not  so  curious  as  was  at  first  generally  thought.  Remarks  on  the  MS.  vol. 
of  Josephus  of  the  translation  of  Epiphanius  Scholasticus.  The  Duke  of 
Ormond  did  worthily  in  nominating  the  Earl  of  Rochester  High  Steward,  and 
the  University  in  unanimously  confirming  the  choice.  Where  was  Dr. 
Lancaster?  Was  the  new  High  Steward  actually  confirmed  in  person  and 
admitted  by  oath  ?  '  A  Gentleman  coming  to  see  mee  on  Monday  morning 
acquainted  mee  with  the  great  danger  the  public  Library  was  in,  by  the  fire, 
wch  happened  in  Exeter  College,  the  report  of  wch  at  first  strooke  mee  with 
horror  &  damped  my  spirits  ...  I  pray  God  to  preserve  that  immense  treasury 
of  learning  from  any  such  dismal  and  deplorable  accident,  til  the  last  and 
general  conflagration  of  the  universe.' 


Dec.  7-13.]  VOLUME  XXIII,  PAGES  57-69.  325 

Martyr  &  the  other  Subjection  for  Conscience  sake.  They  were  preach'd 
in  ye  Year  1674,  &  printed  at  ye  same  time,  but  being  grown  scarse  it  has 
been  thought  proper  to  reprint  them,  and  chiefly  for  this  reason  because 
this  BP.  is  one  of  those  that  has  appear'd  hot  and  violent  against  Dr. 
Sacheverell  and  the  Doctrine  deliver'd  by  him,  and  yet  the  BP.  himself  in 
these  two  Sermons  has  maintain'd  the  Doctrine  of  Passive  Obedience  & 
nonResistance  with  great  strength  of  argument,  and  carried  it  as  high  as 
ever  any  one  did,  even  to  the  suffering  the  most  Bloudy  Persecutions. 
But  this  was  in  a  Reign  when  he  thought  that  by  preaching  it  he  might 
get  Preferment,  but  afterwards  when  the  Revolution  happen'd  and  ye  10 
Usurper  got  the  Crown  he  then  forsook  the  Doctrine,  as  some  Thousands 
besides  did,  preach'd  and  writ  against  it,  as  if  what  he  had  asserted  before 
was  all  Mistake,  tho'  he  knew  well  enough  'tis  the  Doctrine  of  ye  Church 
of  England. 

Dec.  13  (Tu.).    BENEFACTORS  TO  UNIVERSITY  COLLEGE. 

George  Abbott  Archbp.  of  Cant,  gave  two  silver  Vessells  for  ye  Communion, 
and  100  libs  to  ye  Library.  1632. — Sr  George  Radcliffe  to  the  Building  100  libs. 
1635. — John  Glyn  Serjeant  at  Law  lol.  1655. — Sr  George  Courthrope  lol. 
1655. —  Robert  Packer  Esqr  20!.  1655. — Philip  Packer  lol.  1655. — Sr  George 
Pratt  5!.  1655. — Dudley  Palmer  lol.  1655. — Sr  Wm.  Portman  Baron*  61.  1655.  20 
— The  Honble  Rob*  Boyle  lol.  1655. — George  Holman  Esqr  5!.  1655. — Edw. 
Wray  Esq.  20!.  1655. — Joshua  Crosse  S.T.P.  lol.  1655. — Henry  Wilkinson  3!. 
6s.  8".  1655. — John  Wall  S.T.P.  icl.  1655. — Francis  Johnson  40!.  1655. — Ed- 
ward Terry  lol.  1655. — Will.  Offley  LL.D.  20!.  1655. — Edward  Anderson  5!. — 
Edward  Farrar  5!.  1655. — Thomas  Thornton  5!.  1656. — Rich.  Griffith  5!.  1656. 
— Anthony  Fidoe  3!.  1656. — Thomas  Harley  5!.  1656. — Sampson  Eyton  5!. 
1656. — Will.  Woodward  5!.  1656.— Nathaniel  Ingelo  S.T.P.  40!.  1656.— John 
Prestvich  7!.  1656. — Will.  Lenthall  5!.  1656. — Hugh  Peters  lol.  1656. — Martin 
Nowell  lol.  1656. — .  .  .  Young  5!.  1656. — Francis  Haywood  5!.  1656. — 
Will.  Day  2!.  1656.— John  Holder  S.T.P.  5!.  1656.— Walter  Cave  5!.  1656.—  30 
.  .  .  Shepheard  Serjeant  at  Law  2!.  1656. — .  . .  Adams  5!.  1655. — .  . . 
Warner  61.  1655. —  Sr  Peter  Wentworth  lol.  1655. — ...Andrews  5!.  1655. 
- — John  Bradshaw  Serjeant  at  Law  aol.  1655. — .  .  .  Warner  61.  1655. — .  .  . 

Squire  5!.  1655. — Thomas  Harley  5!.  1655. — Capt Cressett  2!.  1655. — 

Vikes  Hook  &  Sanders  il.  IDS.  1655. — John  Cartwright  Esqr  20!.  1655. — John 
Ray  20!.  1655. — Rob.  Holman  5!.  1655. — Anna  &  Eliz.  Hoyle  rol.  1655. — .  .  . 
Haywood  and  Tipping  5!.  1655. — Thomas  Thornton  5!.  1655. — Tho.  Cupper 
5!.  1655. — John  Hody  5!.  1655. — .  .  .  Bangor  2!.  1655. — Arthur  Tilliard  il. 
1655. —  .  .  .  Snape  2!. — .  .  .  Maidstone  il.  1656. — Sr  Orlando  Bridgman  50!. 
1662. — Sr  Thorn.  Chichley  Baron*  lol.  1662. — Dudley  Palmer  Esqr  lol.  1662.  40 
—  Leonard  Bilson  Esqr  20!.  1663.  —  John  Walker  Esq.  zol.  1666.  —  John 
Packer  M.D.  5!.  1666.— Tho.  Strowde  2!.  1666.— Abraham  Woodhead  5!.  1666. 
— .  .  .  Gresham  5!.  1660.— Roger  Stere  lol.  1666.— Edward  Cotton  61.  1667. — • 
Timothy  Nourse  2  brazen  Candlesticks  to  the  Value  of  2  libs.  1670. — George 
Holman  Junr  Esqr  5!.  to  the  Library  1670.— Robert  Packer  Esqr  to  the 
Library  20!.  1670. — Philip  Packer  Esqr.  Do.  5).  1670. — John  Packer  M.D.  do. 
5!.  1670. — John  Brown  Esq.  Do.  xol.  1670. — John  Walker  Ditto  lol.  1670. — 
Edward  Hooper  Ditto  5!.  1670.— Thomas  Gape  Ditto  5!.  1670.— John  Darby 
D.D.  Ditto  5!.  1 670.— Richard  Clayton  D.D.  Ditto  20!.  1673.— Thomas  Pierce 
D.D.  Ditto  5!.  1670.— James  Herne  Ditto  20!.  1670.— John  Crosse  Do.  7!.  50 
1670.— John  Prickett  Do.  lol.  1670.— John  Theyre  Do.  5!.  1672. — Tho.  Rad- 
cliff  20!.  and  a  great  Deal  more  before  Ditto.  1670. — John  Fell  D.D.  Ditto  5!. 
1670.— Richd  Allestree  D.D.  Ditto  5!.  1670.— Charles  Hales  Ditto  lol.  1610 
[sic]. — Abraham  Woodhead  Ditto  15!.  1670. — Bolton  James  Ditto  id.  1670. — 


326  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709 : 

Edw.  Button  Ditto  id.  1670. — Nathanael  Chiles  Ditto  5!.  1670. — Sam.  Nalton 
S.T.P.  Ditto  5!.  1670. — Edwin  Sandys  A.M.  Ditto  5!.  1670. — Timothy  Nourse 
Ditto  iol.  1670.— Richd  Clayton  S.T.P.  to  the  East  side  of  the  College  Build- 
ings 20!.  1672.— John  Fell  S.T.P.  Ditto  5!.  1672.— Edwd  Drope  S.T.P.  Ditto 
5!.  1672. — Ranulph  Sanderson  Do.  5!.  1672. — Abraham  Woodhead  Do.  5!. 
1672. — Edwd  Farrar  Do.  5!.  1672. — Joseph  Lodge  Do.  5!.  1670. — Will.  Pindar 
Do.  5!.  1672. — John  Ledgard  Do.  iol.  1674. — Sr  Thomas  Laurence  A.M. 
Baron*.  Do.  20!.  1675. — Nathaniel  Boyse  Do.  5!.  1675. — Barnabas  Long  S.T.B. 
Do.  5!.  1675. — John  Bateman  M.D.  Do.  5!.  1675. — John  Prestwich  Do.  3!. 

10  1675. — Tho.  Adams  Do.  5!.  1675. — Henry  White  Do.  5!.  1675. — Obadiah 
Walker  Do.  20!.  1675. — Tho.  Thomson  Do.  iol.  1675. — Matthew  Price  Esqr 
20!.  1675. — Leonard  Bilson  Esqr  Do.  20!.  1675. — John  Wildman  Do.  5!.  1675. 
—  ...  Shalman  Do.  5!.  1675. —  .  . .  Wolveridge  Do.  20!.  1675. — George  Price 
Do.  5!.  1675.— Sr  Gilbert  Clerk  Do.  iol.  1676.—  ...  Bennett  Do.  20!.  1676.— 
. . .  Paul  Do.  5!.  1676.— Sr.  Tho.  Clayton  M.D.  Do.  iol.  1676.— Rob.  Whor- 
wood  Do.  5!.  1676. — Edw.  Hooper  Esqr  Do.  iol.  1675. — John  Crosse  Do.  5!. 
1675. — John  Brown  Do.  5!.  1675. — Richard  Martin  il. — Richard  Hill  Do.  5!. 
1676.— Gilbert  Sheldon  Archbp.  Cant.  Do.  50!.  1676. — John  Dolben  Bp. 
Rochester  Do.  20!.  1676. — Tho.  Thinne  Esqr  Do.  20!.  1676. — Tho.  Willis 

20  M.D.  Do.  20!.  1676. — Tho.  Lamplugh  Bp.  of  Exon.  Do.  iol.  1676. — Hen. 
Compton  Bp.  of  London  Do.  iol.  1676. — Will.  Pindar  A.M.  lool.  and  all  his 
Books  to  the  Library  1682. — John  Hopkins  Do.  50!.  1682. — John  Ledgard 
A.M.  by  his  Will  all  his  Books  Greek  &  Latin  to  the  Library  1681. — Robert 
Plott  LL.D.  erected  the  stone  of  King  Alfred,  and  gave  many  MSS.  to  the 
Library  1682. — Obadiah  Walker  erected  the  Stone  Statue  of  St.  Cuthbert 
Bp.  of  Lindisfarn  1686. 

To  THE  CHAPELL. 

Tho.  Smith  S.T.P.  iol.  1685  &  1682.— John  Radcliffethe  East  Window  of  the 
Chapell  which  cost  rool.  1687. — Tho.  Bateman  A.M.  Books  to  Value  of  200!. 
30  none  of  them  being  there  before  1689. — Edw.  Carew  40!.  1688. — Will.  Rogers 
of  Gloucestershire  the  statue  of  K.  James  ye  2d  1687. — Albermarle  Bartie  to  the 
Marble  Pavement  of  the  Chapel  50!.  1692. — John  Hudson  Do.  iol.  1692. — John 
Siser  Do.  5!.  1692.— Hugh  Todd  S.T.P.  Do.  30!.  1692.— Arthur  Charlett  S.T.P. 
Do.  20!.  1694. — John  Farrer  Esqr  Do.  iol.  1694. — Will.  Smith  Do.  20!.  1694. — 
Hugh  Todd  S.T.P.  Do.  5!.  1694. — John  HinkleyDo.  20!.  1694. — John  Boraston 
Do.  5!.  1694. — Richd  Farrer  Do.  5!.  1694. — Tho.  Hooper  Do.  5!.  75.  6d.  1694. — 
Samuel  Threapland  M.D.  Do.  5!.  1695. — Francis  Neville  Esqr.  Do.  3!.  1695. — 
Sr.  George  Tempest  Baron*.  Do.  5!.  1695. — John  Rookes  Esqr  Do.  5!.  1695. — 
Joseph  Bingham  A.M.  Do.  5!.  1695. — Edwd  Jeffreys  Do.  20!.  and  ye  Painting 
40  of  the  Sham  Window  whereon  the  History  of  Lot's  Wife  is  describ  d  1695. — 
,  Rober[t]  Jones  A.M.  to  the  Library  40  libs,  to  buy  Books  for  the  Librarian  to 
accommodate  the  poorer  Scholars  of  this  College,  also  2!.  33.  to  buy  two  Salt 
Sellers  for  the  use  of  the  Master  and  Fellows,  also  5!.  pei  annum  for  a  Speech 
on  King  Charles's  Martyrdom  annually. 

This  is  ye  Account  of  the  Benefactions  as  I  had  it  from  a  Copy  that 
was  taken  from  the  original  in  ye  Possession  of  the  Master  of  this  Royal 
College,  but  I  am  very  sensible  that  in  it  there  are  several  Defects,  and 
particularly  with  Relation  to  Dr.  Hudson  who  has  been  a  much  greater 
Benefactor  than  is  here  represented,  as  will  appear  by  looking  over  the 
50  Memorandums  of  him  in  the  preceding  Volumes. 


Dec.  13-16.]  VOLUME  XXIII,  PAGES  69-84.  327 

Verses  spoken  at  Brazen  Nose  College  on  Shrove-Tuesday  by  ye 
Butler,  who  after  presenting  a  spice  Bowie  of  ale  and  speaking  these 
Verses,  has  money  given  him  by  the  House. 

THESE  BY  MR.  SHIPPERY. 

With  age  and  Sickness  though  unactive  grown 

My  Duty  still  shall  in  my  Verse  be  shown, 

And  while  my  Strength  and  sprightly  heat  decays 

My  gratefull  Muse  still  her  attendance  pays. 

For  Aristotle  surely  will  ne're  admitt, 

From  want  of  Health  to  argue  want  of  witt.  10 

Thus  old  and  blind  the  Grecian  Homer  sung, 

His  Muse  was  like  his  Phoebus  ever  young. 

But  though  my  Rhimes  should  heavy  be  and  dull, 

My  Bowl  shall  still  be  good,  shall  still  be  full. 

For  while  this  yearly  Tribute  here  I  bring 

'Tis  much  at  one ;  whether  I  say  or  sing. 

And  if  the  Criticks  should  my  Verse  expose, 

The  Bowl  sounds  well  in  downright  honest  prose. 

Her's  none  of  your  new  fangled  Stuff  brought  from  Vigo, 

This  comes  from  y°  Cellar  where  Michael  and  I  go.  20 

For  this  generous  Liquour  we  nere  cross  the  Main 

Nor  want  either  Commerce  with  France  or  wth  Spam. 

Old  England  affords  us  whatever  we  lack, 

Give  us  Ale ;  and  a  fig  for  their  Claret  or  sack, 

Then  in  true  English  Liquor,  my  Masters  begin 

Six  Godowns  upon  Rep.  to  our  true  English  King. 

In  this  orthodox  Health  let  each  Man  keep  his  Station 

For  a  Whig  will  conform  upon  such  an  occasion. 

Dec.  15  (Th.).  On  Tuesday  last  upon  motion  of  Mr.  Dolben  .  .  . 
the  House  of  Commons  took  into  Consideration  the  two  Sermons  lately  3° 
publish'd  by  Dr.  Sacheverell,  the  first  preach'd  at  ye  Assizes  of  Derby  and 
call'd  The  Communication  of  sin,  and  the  latter  preach'd  at  S*.  Paul's  on 
the  5th  of  November  and  intitled  The  Perills  of  false  Brethren.  Several 
Sentences  were  read,  &  after  a  long  Debate  'twas  voted  that  the  said 
Sermons  are  scandalous,  malitious,  seditious,  &c.  and  they  order'd  the 
Doctor  and  the  Bookseller  (Henry  Clements)  to  attend  the  House  the  Day 
following. — 0!  temporal  o!  mores!  Whatever  is  really  the  Doctrine  of  the 
Church  of  England  and  preach'd  as  such  by  any  Divines  must  now  be  run 
down  as  sedition  &  I  know  not  what  by  self  Interested  Persons,  such  as  care 
no  farther  for  our  Constitution  than  as  it  serves  their  private  advantage.  4° 

As  for  the  Doctor's  Sermons  it  must  be  granted  that  there  are  in 
them  several  Imprudent  Expressions,  &  it  is  thought  by  divers  honest 
men  that  his  sincerity  is  not  to  be  rely'd  upon,  yet  for  the  Doctrine  of 
them  it  is  certainly  consonant  to  our  articles  and  Homilies,  and  if  they 
will  condemn  any  Man  for  preaching  it  they  first  of  all  ought  to  destroy 
both  articles  and  Homilies  &  form  new  ones  agreeable  to  their  own  Schemes. 
— Dr.  Stanhope  the  Present  Dean  of  Canterbury  is  married  to  a  young  Wife, 
Daughter  to  Captain  Wager  .  .  .  Such  a  strong  Inclination  have  ye  low 
Church  Tribe  to  Flesh  and  Bloud  that  even  old  Age  it  self,  the  Highest 
Advance  in  ye  Church,  and  the  strongest  Tyes  of  Conscience  will  not  5° 
engage  them  to  a  strict,  rigorous  Piety,  but  they  are  resolv'd  to  give  the 
greatest  scandall. 

Dec.  16  (Fri.).     The  Resolution  of  the  House  of  Commons  against 
Dr.  Henry  Sacheverell's  Sermon  is  this,  viz.  Resolvd  that  the  said  two 


328  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1709  : 

Books  are  mdlitious,  scandalous,  <$-  seditious  libells,  highly  reflecting  upon 
her  Majesty  and  Government,  the  late  happy  Revolution,  the  Protestant 
Succession  as  by  Law  established,  and  upon  both  Houses  of  Parliament^ 
tending  to  alienate  the  Affections  of  her  Majesty' s  Good  Subjects,  and  to  create 
Jealousies  and  Diversions  among  them.  It  must  be  observ'd  that  tho'  in 
this  Resolution  both  these  Books  are  stil'd  libells  yet  Objections  were 
made  against  the  Epistle  Dedicatory  only  of  the  Assize  Sermon,  and 
therefore  when  Dr.  Sacheverell  on  Wednesday  attended  the  House  and 
was  call'd  to  the  Barr  the  Questions  put  to  him  proceeded  only  upon  the 

10  5th  of  November  Sermon  and  the  Epistle  Dedicatory  of  it  to  my  Lord 
Mayor,  &  upon  the  Epistle  Dedicatory  of  the  Assize  Sermon  which  is 
to  a  near  Relation  of  the  Doctor's,  a  man  of  Wealth  and  Integrity.  The 
Doctor  acknowledg'd  that  the  Sermon  upon  trie  gth  of  November  was 
preach'd  by  him,  and  that  both  the  Epistle  Dedicatory  of  the  Assize 
Sermon  and  this  Sermon  upon  the  5th  of  November  were  written  by 
him,  &  that  both  were  printed,  and  publish'd  by  his  Direction.  Being 
order'd  to  withdraw,  it  was  resolv'd  by  the  House  that  he  be  impeach'd 
for  high  Crimes  and  Misdemeanours.  Then  he  was  call'd  in  again,  and 
being  ask'd  what  he  had  to  say  against  y6  said  Impeachment  he  was 

20  heard,  and  being  again  directed  to  withdraw,  they  order'd  MT.  Dolben 
(the  Member  who  first  inov'd  the  Prosecution)  to  go  to  the  House  of  Lords 
and  at  their  Bar  in  the  Name  of  all  the  Commons  of  Great  Britain 
impeach  the  said  Dr.  Sacheverell  of  High  Crimes  and  Misdemeanours. 
The  Lord  Mayor  of  London  (to  whom  the  5th  of  November  Sermon  is 
dedicated)  was  also  examin"d  whether  (as  the  Doctor  has  insinuated  in 
ye  Dedication)  he  commanded  the  said  Sermon  to  be  printed,  to  wcl1  he 
reply'd  that  he  neither  commanded,  desir'd  or  countenanc'd  the  printing 
of  it,  tho'  the  contrary  be  well  known.  Henry  Clements  the  Bookseller 
being  examin'd  he  declar'd  that  he  receiv'd  the  Copys  of  the  5th  of 

30  November  Sermon  with  the  Dedication  and  the  Epistle  Dedicatory  of  the 
Assize  Sermon  from  Dr.  Sacheverell,  and  that  he  printed  and  publish'd 
them  by  his  Direction.  Then  Clements  being  dismissed  till  such  time  as  he 
be  call'd  for  again,  the  House  appointed  a  Committee  (amongst  whom  is 
Sr.  Peter  King,  one  who  has  written  a  Rhapsodical  History  of  ye  Apostles 
Creed,  and  is  much  cry'd  up  by  the  Party  for  his  Learning  tho'  he  never 
receiv'd  any  Litterary  Education  being  bred  up  to  a  Mechanical  Calling) 
to  draw  up  articles  of  Impeachment  against  the  Doctor,  and  they  order'd 
that  they  have  Books,  Papers  and  Records,  and  to  sit  de  die  in  diem  till 
the  Matter  be  dispatch'd.  Then  they  moreover  order'd  the  Doctor  to  be 

40  taken  into  Custody  of  a  serjeant  at  arms. 

When  these  Resolutions  had  been  made  against  ye  Doctor,  as  a  farther 
Proof  of  their  Intentions,  and  that  ye  World  might  be  no  longer  kept  in 
ignorance  that  they  are  intirely  for  a  Common- Wealth,  they  resolv'd  that 
Mr.  Benjamin  Hoadley,  Rector  of  S*.  Peter's  Poor,  London,  hath  done 
most  eminent  service  to  her  Majesty  and  Government  in  defending  the 
late  Revolution  and  the  Principles  upon  w^  'twas  founded,  and  that  by 
his  Writing  upon  that  Subject  he  has  highly  merited  the  Favour  of  the 
House,  and  they  therefore  order'd  that  an  Address  be  immediately 
presented  to  her  Majesty  to  desire  that  She  would  be  pleas'd  out  of 

50  Consideration  of  the  said  Mr.  Hoadley's  Great  service  conferr  upon  him 


Dec.  16.]  VOLUME  XXIII,  PAGES  84-99.  329 

some  Dignity  whenever  it  shall  fall.  That  Posterity  may  know  what  sort 
of  Person  this  Mr.  Hoadly  is,  I  must  here  beg  leave  to  observe  that  he 
is  a  man  of  good  natural  Parts  and  has  good  Command  of  his  Reason, 
that  he  has  not  much  Learning,  but  however  pretends  to  great  Depth, 
and  is  positive  and  bold  in  all  his  assertions.  He  has  written  two  or 
three  Books  concerning  the  Reasonableness  of  Conformity  to  the  Church 
of  England,  against  Mr.  Calamy  and  the  other  Dissenters.  These  Dis- 
courses were  approv'd  of  by  all  true  sons  of  the  Church  of  England, 
and  had  he  stop'd  here  he  would  have  come  of  with  a  very  clear,  un- 
spotted Reputation.  But  having  done  with  that  Topick  he  set  himself  10 
upon  the  Subject  of  obedience  to  the  Civil  Magistrate  and  printed  a 
sermon  upon  it  preach'd  on  Rom.  13.  i.  which  Sermon  was  condemn'd 
by  all  honest  men  as  full  of  most  poysonous,  republican  Doctrines, 
against  our  Homilies  and  stuff  d  with  such  arguments  as  if  granted  the 
most  wicked  Revolutions  and  Rebellions  (not  excepting  that  under 
Oliver  Cromwell)  might  be  defended  by  them.  Upon  wcjl  several  inge- 
nious and  learned  Gentlemen  thinking  that  much  dishonour  would  be 
derived  upon  the  Church  of  England  unless  his  Sermon  were  reply'd  to, 
they  were  pleas'd  to  answer  it  and  to  take  to  pieces  all  ye  Fallacies  in  it  ; 
wc]l  nettled  Hoadley  so  much  that  he  printed  another  Discourse  intitled  20 
The  Measures  of  Submission  to  the  Civil  Magistrate  consider' d,  in  defense 
of  his  Sermon,  which  is  reprinted  at  large  in  this  Book.  This  occasion'd 
divers  other  smart  Discourses  against  him,  which  he  reply'd  to  in  his  con- 
fident, haughty,  positive  way,  and  was  not  pleas'd  to  confine  himself  to 
his  declar'd  adversary,  but  to  fall  heavily  upon  Dr.  Blackball  the  present 
BP.  of  Exeter  for  a  sermon  preach'd  &  printed  by  him  in  defense  of 
Non-Resistance.  The  BP.  vindicated  himself  and  several  besides  writ  in 
his  Behalf,  and  they  thought  that  no  one  would  have  presum'd  to  have 
desir'd  the  Queen  to  have  advanc'd  one  that  has  publish'd  such  Doctrines 
as  will  destroy  all  Government,  and  bring  in  all  manner  of  Confusion.  30 
But  then  it  must  withall  be  consider'd  that  the  Persons  to  whom  these 
orders  and  Resolutions  are  owing  are  not  all  ye  Commons  of  Great 
Britain,  but  only  some  few.  For  when  these  Proceedings  were  manag'd 
there  were  but  55  in  the  House,  whereof  there  were  50  against  Dr. 
Sacheverell  and  5  for  him ;  (the  latter  of  wch  were  Sr.  William  Whitlock 
and  Mr.  Bromley  Burgesses  for  the  university  of  Oxford,  Mr.  Annesley 
Burgess  for  the  university  of  Cambridge,  Mr.  Oglethorpe  and  one  more) 
so  that  it  may  properly  enough  be  call'd  a  2d.  Rump  Parliament,  which 
word  Rump  had  it's  name  first  from  Mr.  Clem.  Walker  in  his  History  of 
Independency  printed  in  1648.  and  was  given  to  those  scandalous,  head-  40 
strong,  rebellious  members  that  strenuously  oppos'd  the  King  and  ex- 
cluded the  Honest  Members  from  acting  in  the  House,  whom  they  voted 
as  Enemys  to  the  Kingdom,  and  things  are  come  to  that  pass  now  that 
ye  Honest  Members  are  always  outvoted  and  therefore  they  leave  the 
others  to  themselves,  wch  we  here  stile  a  Rump. 

Dec.  17.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38. 150).  Heartily  sorry  to  hear  of  the 
increase  of  S.'s  distemper.  '  I  have  read  over  both  Dr.  Sacheverell's  Sermons, 
that  were  formerly  preach'd  at  Sl.  Marie's,  and  which  have  exasperated  the 
Party  to  that  high  degree  as  to  bring  it  before  the  Parliament,  and  to  put  the 
Author  to  trouble.  I  am  sorry  he  was  not  more  prudent  and  wary  in  the  handling 


330  H  EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1709  : 

Dec.  22  (Th.).  Her  Majesty's  Answer  to  the  Common's  Address  in 
Behalf  of  Mr.  Hoadley  is,  That  she  will  take  a  proper  opportunity  to  gratify 
them  in  their  Request.  —  The  Whiggs  and  Presbyterians  grow  so  very 
rampant  that  they  do  not  scruple  openly  to  advance  and  countenance 
strange  odd  Doctrines  and  the  most  abominable  Vices,  w6*1  gives  occa- 
sion to  the  Dissenting  Ministers  to  be  very  free  with  our  Liturgy  in  their 
Sermons.  One  of  them  lately  preach'd  that  there  is  no  more  sense  in 
the  Common-Prayer  than  in  a  Dog's  Legg,  that  'tis  all  rank  Popery,  and 
abundance  of  such  Ribaldry,  for  w0*1  Words  he  is  under  a  Prosecution, 
10  but  'tis  thought  he  will  come  easily  off. 

Dec.  24  (Sat.).  Dr.  Sacheverell  having  petition'd  the  House  of  Com- 
mons that  he  might  be  admitted  to  Bayle,  a  Committee  was  appointed 
by  them  to  search  Precedents  relating  to  Affairs  of  this  Nature,  which 
was  done  accordingly,  and  the  Report  was  made  by  Mr.  Dolben  (the 
same  who  first  mov'd  for  the  Prosecution  of  the  Doctor)  on  Thursday 

of  each.  Methinks  they  should  first  of  all  condemn  our  Articles  and  Homilies, 
and  then  proceed  to  the  Doctrines  deliver'd  in  the  Sermons.  But  by  that  they 
would  lay  themselves  too  open,  tho'  'tis  plain  enough  to  sober  deliberate 
Persons  that  they  wish  such  a  thing  were  done.  Books  written  by  Tyndales, 
and  Atheists,  and  Deists,  &c.  must  remain  uncensur'd,  but  what  touches  the 
wicked  Revolution  must  be  immediately  branded  as  Sedition.'  Mr.  Caswell 
grown  cold  with  regard  to  Menelaus'  Sphaericks.  '  Mr.  Gagnier,  who  teaches 
Hebrew  in  Oxford,  has  look'd  into  the  MSS.  of  Huntingdon,  and  he  gathers 
that  the  Hebrew  was  translated  from  the  Arabick,  as  'tis  most  probable  the 
Latin  was  also.'  Spelman's  MSS. ;  E.  of  Rochester  confirmed  in  absentia  ; 
Ch.  Ch.  Ignatius.  Mr.  Daubuz,  author  of  a  Latin  Discourse  on  the  Passage  in 
Josephus  cone,  our  Saviour,  offered  to  Kuster  his  critical  Notes  on  Aristophanes 
on  condition  that  he  would  publish  them  entire  by  themselves :  K.  refused,  so 
Daubuz  keeps  them  in  his  own  hands.  Exeter  College  said  to  have  lost  by  the 
late  fire  near  2ooo/.  '  Divers  honest  Men  suspect  Dr.  SacheverelFs  Sincerity. 
He  has  all  along  cring'd  to  Dr.  Lancaster,  and  acted  in  some  Points  upon  that 
score  much  to  his  Disgrace.  I  shall  only  mention  one  Instance.  Sometime 
since  when  there  was  a  Place  to  be  dispos'd  off  in  the  University,  one  of  the 
Candidates  put  him  in  mind  of  a  promise  that  he  had  made  some  time  before 
that  he  would  be  his  Friend  provided  he  appear'd  when  there  was  a  Vacancy. 
He  acknowledg'd  the  merits  of  the  Person,  but  understanding  that  Christ- 
Church  were  for  him  he  declar'd  that  tho1  an  Angel  I  should  come  from  Heaven 
yet  he  'would  not  be  for  him  if  Christ-Church  appear'd  in  his  Behalf' 

Dec.  20.  Bagford  to  H.  (Rawl.  21,  15).  Mr.  Atkins  has  so  many  books 
on  his  hands  that  he  cannot  undertake  Leland.  Suggests  that  the  Pomponius 
Mela  was  printed  at  Paris  about  1 500.  '  About  ye  2  Angels  soporting  the 
Sheld  I  find  them  not  Vsed  ether  by  the  Germans  Itallians  flandresens  nor  ye 
Spanyards.  Ye  french  have  offten  Vsed  ye  Angels  as  Soporters  to  Arms  as 
at  first  ye  Vniuarsatie  of  Oxfords  Armes  ware  soported  by  two  Angeles  as 
may  be  sene  by  some  Bookes  printed  at  Oxford  [by]  Wynken  de  Word  but 
I  shall  make  a  furder  sarch.'  Sends  a  parcel  containing  several  old  titles. 
Thanks  for  letter  relating  to  the  Imitatio. 

Dec.  23.  H.  to  Thoresby.  Printed  :  Correspondence  of  Ralph  Thoresby,  ii. 
21  o  jqq. 

Dec.  24.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  143).  Remarks  on  a  Speci- 
men of  an  Armenian  Grammar,  by  one  Schroder,  a  Hessian.  Hears  that 
Bentley  has  contributed  very  much  to  the  illustrating  and  improving  of  Kuster's 
Aristophanes.  Who  is  Mr.  Daubuz  ?  Advises  H.  to  read  Burmann  on  Le 
Clerc  in  his  tedious  preface  to  Petronius.  Le  Clerc  still  defies  the  Dutch  and 


Dec.  22-31.]          VOLUME  XXIII,  PAGES  100-107.  331 

last;  upon  wclx  a  Debate  of  several  Hours  arising,  and  the  Question 
being  put  whether  he  should  be  admitted  to  Bayle,  it  was  carried  in  the 
Negative.  Yeas  64,  Noes  114.  Twas  observ'd  that  on  Sunday  last  in 
most  of  the  Churches  in  and  about  London  the  3  first  Staves  of  the 
64th  Psalm  were  sung.  In  wcl1  Psalm  David  prayeth  for  Deliverance, 
complaining  of  his  Enemies :  and  he  promiseth  himself  to  see  such  an 
evident  Destruction  of  his  Enemies,  as  the  Righteous  shall  rejoyce  at  it. 

Dec.  26  (Mon.).     'Twas  not  the  64th  but  ye  58th  Psalm  that  was 
sung  on  the  Sunday  mention'd  just  before.     In  this  Psalm  David  re- 
pro  veth  wicked  Judges,  describeth  the  Nature  of  the  wicked,  and  devoteth  10 
them  to  God's  Judgments,  whereat  y°  righteous  shall  rejoyce. 

Dec.  3O  (Fri.).  Colomesius  was  a  very  bad  Preacher,  tho'  a  learned 
Man.  He  is  call'd  by  some  French  Writers,  the  Great  Author  of  small 
Books.  —  Mr.  Charles  Usher  Bachelor  of  Arts  of  University  College, 
and  fellow  elect  of  the  same  House,  is  Author  of  A  Letter  to  a  Member 
of  the  Convocation  of  the  University  of  Oxford  containing  the  Case  of  a  late 
Fellow  Elect  of  University-College  in  that  University.  Lond.  1699.  410. 
in  4  Sheets.  He  had  been  elected  Fellow  of  that  House,  but  Arthur 
Charlett  the  Master  got  him  turn'd  by  and  expell'd  the  University,  for 
reasons  that  may  bee  seen  at  full  in  the  said  Case,  wclx  is  now  exstant  in  20 
the  Bodlejan  Library,  inter  libros  Line.  B.  26.  18.  Inquire  who  'tis  that 
is  meant  there  by  Mr.  K.  a  second  Tom.  Tanner,  p.  19.  Inquire  also  who 
Mr.  M.  is  in  pag.  25. 

Dec.  31  (Sat.).  The  Reverend  Dr.  Browne,  Provost  of  Trinity-Col- 
lege at  Dublin,  is  made  BP.  of  Corke.  I  think  he  is  the  same  that  has 
writ  an  ingenious  and  rational  Discourse  against  Toland.  Quaere  ?  — 
David  Lloyd  of  Oriel  College  has  publish'd  several  Books,  some  of  wch 

French  ministers  and  professors  who  condemn  his  divinity  and  critique,  which 
here  are  too  much  applauded  and  supported.  Please  send  a  transcript  of  Bp. 
Fell's  Ep.  Ded.  intended  to  be  prefixed  to  his  ed.  of  St.  Cyprian ;  will  give  a 
full  account  from  a  learned  friend  of  how  it  came  to  be  omitted.  Will  keep 
up  his  correspondence  with  H.  as  long  as  he  is  able.  Excuse  reflections  on  the 
proceedings  against  Sacheverell,  which  might  be  interpreted  a  crime  contra 
majestatem  populi  Angllcani  assembled  in  the  House  of  Commons. 

Dec.  26.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  46).  Very  well  pleased  with  Pfaffius. 
'  The  Booksellers  dare  not  now  undertake  anything  but  Pamphlets,  but  by 
subscription,  which  is  a  way  I  never  affected.'  Is  coming  to  Oxford  principally 
about  Wolfius  de  Manichaeismo,  which  he  wishes  to  show  to  the  Archbp.  of 
Dublin.  '  My  slowness  in  writing,  now  worse  than  ever,  by  the  decay  of  my 
sight,  and  the  gloominess  of  these  short  days,  make  me  more  willing  to  dis- 
course than  to  write  what  I  have  to  say  to  Kempis.'  Wharton  was  extra- 
ordinarily well  fitted  to  give  an  opinion  as  to  the  authorship  of  the  Imitatio,  as 
he  was  so  conversant  in  the  MSS.  of  these  kingdoms. 

Dec.  28.  Thoresby  to  H.  (Rawl.  ro.  60).  Asks  H.  to  send  his  letter  on 
the  antiquities  lately  found  to  Dr.  Sloane  or  Dr.  Woodward  for  the  Philo- 
sophical Transactions.  Has  no  thoughts  of  publishing  anything  himself  upon 
the  subject.  Hopes  Mr.  Nevile  received  his  letter  with  Mr.  Plaxton's  waggish 
verses. 

Dec.  31.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  151).  The  Author  of  the 
Specimen  of  the  Armenian  Grammar  and  his  work.  Remarks  on  Kuster's 
Aristophanes ;  full  title  of  Daubuz'  Discourse ;  Petronius  &c.  The  Ch.  Ch. 
New  Year's  gift  a  reprint  with  trans,  and  additions  of  Palladius'  Account  of 


333  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

he  was  asham'd  of.  One  of  them  containing  Memoirs  of  those  that 
suffer'd  for  ye  Cause  of  King  Charles  Ist.  bares  his  Name,  &  is  in  folio, 
but  'tis  a  slight,  injudicious  Performance.  At  the  Beginning  is  a  Copper 
Plate  containing  the  Pictures  of  King  Charles  Ist.  and  the  chief  Sufferers, 
w°k  has  been  lately  reprinted  on  one  side  of  a  Broad  sheet,  but  much 
better  done,  &  it  hangs  up  in  the  Chambers  of  several  honest  Gentlemen. 
—  Memorandum  that  by  A.C.  in  Ant.  a  Wood's  Athense  Oxon.  Vol.  II. 
col.  457.  is  understood  Arthur  Charlett,  who  got  from  the  Printer  (by 
means  of  his  (Ar.  Chs.)  great  Crony  John  Prickett)  Mr.  Woodhead's  two 

10  Discourses  cone,  the  Eucharist.  This  Arthur  Charlett  now  Master  of 
University-College,  receiv'd  the  Sacrament  last  Sunday,  being  Christmas 
Day,  in  University- Coll.  Chapell.  As  soon  as  all  the  Service  was  over, 
and  he  was  come  out  of  the  Chapell  into  the  Quadrangle,  he  thought  fit 
to  ask  the  Boursar  whether  he  had  invited  any  one  to  Dinner  upon  that 
Day  ?  He  said  he  had  invited  only  one,  a  Friend  of  his,  and  he  mention'd 
his  Name.  Upon  wc^  Charlett  chang'd  Countenance,  &  look'd  as  pale 
as  Ashes,  and  presently  after  he  told  him  that  he  could  not  dine  that  day 
in  the  Hall  if  that  Person  dined  there.  Which  Uncharitableness  and 
Malice  is  owing  wholly  to  this  that  the  said  Person 1  did  not  consult  Char- 

20  lett  about  Printing  a  certain  Book,  which  not  only  the  Person  himself 
but  all  others  that  are  impartiall  thought  he  ought  not  to  do,  the  Vice- 
Chancellor  having  given  License  for  the  Printing  of  it,  and  'twas  so  far 
from  being  requisite  to  have  any  one's  else  Leave  that  the  asking  of  it 
would  have  been  an  open  Affront  to  the  Vice-Chancellor. 

Jan.  2  (Mon.),  1710.  Rich.  Izacke  Esq.  &  Chamberlain  of  ye  City  of 
Exeter  writ  ye  antiquities  of  that  Place.  Printed  at  Lond.  8V0.  in  1677. 
'Tis  badly  done.  In  p.  66.  he  mentions  an  university  at  Stanford  near 
Oxford,  wch  is  a  gross  Mistake  for  Stanford  in  Lincolnshire.  —  In  Mr. 
Fairfax's  Study  at  University-College  Tully's  Works  in  8VO  by  Boulierius 
30  in  9  Volumes,  pr.  at  Lyons  in  1560. 


Rome.  Grabe  is  answering  Whiston  :  H.  has  copied  a  passage  for  him  out  of 
the  Bodleian  MS.  of  Hermas's  Pastor.  About  50  sheets  of  Part  II.  of  Inett 
are  printed  off  at  the  Theatre.  Keep's  Monuments  of  Westminster  is  reprint- 
ing. '  Mr.  Brome,  who  drew  up  the  Index's  to  Dr.  Hickes's  Thesaurus,  has 
collected  a  vast  Number  of  Materials  relating  to  the  Antiquities  of  Hereford- 
shire, which  he  designs  to  write,  but  'tis  fear'd  that  he  will  not  be  prevail'd  upon 
to  make  the  Work  publick.  He  is  certainly  well  qualify'd.  Almost  two  Years 
since  I  sent  him  by  a  Friend  two  large  Volumes  of  MSS*.  Papers  concerning 
the  Church  of  Hereford,  which  he  has  still  in  his  hands,  and  I  believe  may  be 
of  use  in  the  Undertaking.  About  a  fortnight  hence  will  be  publish'd  a  Dialogue 
between  the  Devil  and  Dr.  Tyndale,  written  by  Mr.  Abel  Evans  A.M.  and  Fellow 
of  S*.  John's  Coll.  They  say  'tis  done  very  ingeniously,  and  that  Dr.  Tyndale 
is  dejected  at  it.'  Has  reminded  Dr.  H.  of  the  Ep.  Ded.  to  St.  Cyprian. 

Jan.  5.  Dr.  Woodward  to  H.  (Rawl.  12.  93).  Would  be  glad  to  see 
H.  in  London.  Did  Parry  come  to  town  ?  Where  is  Dr.  King  ?  Has  been 
reading  H.'s  notes  upon  Livy.  Does  not  understand  Thoresby's  account  of 
the  ancient  weapons  lately  discovered,  but  will  gladly  show  H.  any  in  his 
collection.  

1  Who  is  the  same  that  writes  this  Remarks  [sic]. 


Jan  2-7.]  VOLUME  XXIII,  PAGES  107-118.  333 

Verses  by  Mr.  Plaxton  occasion'd  by  a  certain  stingy,  miserly,  irreli- 
gious Person  of  Leeds  in  Yorkshire's  selling  his  Vote  for  a  good  round 
sum  of  money. 

To  FALLACIO  THE  GOLDFINDER. 

1.  When  Gold  slept  in  it's  native  ore,  4.  Few  Mortals  made  of  Flesh  &  Bloud 
An  harmless  look  &  Power  it  bore,  The  force  of  Guinea  have  withstood 

Unwak'd  'twas  gentle  metall ;  In  Church,  Court,  Camp  or  City. 

Being  rous'd  by  Kings  &  Tyrant  grew,  Now  coyn'd  it  bears  a  Royal  Face, 

Took  lawless  force,  bid  Truth  adieu,  Four  Crowns  &  Scepters  it  displays, 

Resolv'd  where  't  came  to  beat  all.  Rules  all,  the  more  's  the  pity.  IO 

2.  When  Stamp  Imperial  did  appear,  5.  Fallacio  with  one  Foot  i1  th'  Grave 
"Gainst  Law  't  began  to  domineer,  Charm'd  by  it's  Looks  becomes  a  slave, 

Each  day  it's  Rule  grew  wider ;  Falls  down  and  do's  adore  him  : 

And  well  it  might,  Men  did  it  call  Ah  let  him  bring  again  the  Pelf, 

By  Potent  names,  Angel,  Pistol,  Repent  before  he  hangs  himself, 

Jacobus,  Sultan,  Ryder.  As  Judas  did  before  him. 

3.  When  pow'rfull  Guinea  came  in  play         6.  The  Sin  and  Sum  are  near  the  same, 
Angels  &  Sov'raigns  straight  gave  way  They're  Partners  both  in  Crime  &  Shame, 

To  it's  Almighty  Powers  :  For  each  betray'd  his  Master. 

It  Bishops  made,  Judges  and  Priests  Judas  for  Thirty  Pieces  sold,                    2° 

Turn'd  Faith  &  Conscience  into  Jests  Fallacio  for  a  Purse  of  Gold, 

And  Women  into  Whores.  As  sure  as  God  's  in  Glou'ster. 

Jan.  4  (Wed.).  Burmannus  at  ye  End  of  his  tedious  Preface  to  his 
1  e  Edition  of  Petronius  Arbiter  has  pass'd  a  censure  upon  Le  Clerc, 
especially  for  his  late  Edition  of  Pedo  Albinovanus.  But  Le  Clerc  still 
defies  the  Dutch  and  French  Ministers  and  Professors,  who  condemn  both 
his  Divinity  &  Critique,  wcn  are  in  England  very  much  applauded  and 
supported  by  illiterate,  Whiggish  Pretenders. 

Jan.  5  (Th.).  On  Sunday  last  died  Sir  Thomas  Littleton,  formerly 
Speaker  to  the  House  of  Commons.  He  was  of  a  pleasant,  facetious  30 
Temper,  and  frequently  us'd  to  divert  the  House  with  a  merry  Story, 
which  was  always  £  propos.  He  was  Treasurer  to  the  Navy.  —  Tullia 
(M.  Tullij  Ciceronis  f.)  peperit  .puerum  (nra^vuuov,  sed  perimbecillum. 
VideTullij  Ep.  ad  Atticum  li.  x.  n.  18. 

Jan.  7  (Sat.).  Last  Week  died  the  R*.  Reverend  Father  in  God 
William  Lloyd  the  deprived  BP.  of  Norwich,  at  his  house  at  Hammer- 


Jan.  6.  H.  to  P.  Cherry  (Rawl.  36.  31).  Prevented  by  illness  from 
being  at  Shottesbrooke  this  Xmas.  Kuster's  Aristophanes ;  the  fire  at  Exeter 
Coll.;  Tully ;  the  plague  in  Poland;  Gh.  Gh.  ed.  of  Palladius'  Antiquities  of 
Rome  (not  more  than  170  copies  printed);  messages  to  Dodwell  cone.  Origen, 
the  Discourse  on  Incense,  Wolfius,  &c. ;  Chrysostome  de  Sacerdotio ;  Barnes' 
Homer  (a  noble  work,  and  the  Cambridge  gentlemen  say  'tis  one  of  the  most 
creditable  performances  that  ever  yet  came  from  their  Press) ;  Jas.  Wright  on 
Whiston  ;  Prideaux  on  Tithes ;  Le  Clerc's  Fragments — mischievous  character 
of  his  '  Divinity  and  Critique ;'  The  Apparition,  by  Abel  Evans  ;  compliments  of 
the  season. 

Jan.  7.  Brokesby  to  H.  (Rawl.  3.  118).  Wolfius  presented  his  book 
de  Manichaeismo  in  sheets  to  Mr.  Dodwell,  who  has  lost  pp.  16-32.  Will  H. 


334  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

smith,  in  a  good  old  Age.  He  was  a  Man  of  excellent  Learning,  and  of 
a  most  sanctified  Life,  every  way  like  the  primitive  Fathers,  as  may  be 
seen  in  Dr.  Hickes's  Thesaurus. 

Jan.  8  (Sun.).  Dr.  Sacheverell  since  his  Confinement  has  been 
chosen  Lecturer  of  Newinton-Butts,  worth  80  libs,  per  annum.  —  Dr. 
Hickes  has  publish'd  a  IId.  Vol.  of  Letters  against  the  Roman  Catholicks, 
to  wch  he  has  prefix'd  a  long  Preface,  in  wcl1  he  has  deservedly  expos'd 
Dr.  Kennett ;  but  his  other  Characters,  especially  that  of  Dr.  John  Potter, 
are  fulsome  and  far  beneath  him,  it  being  look'd  upon  as  a  Piece  of 
10  Indiscretion  to  cringe  to  low,  fanatical  Fellows. 

Jan.  9  (Mon.).  There  is  come  out  a  Pamphlett  to  lay  open  the  tricks 
that  were  us'd  in  inserting  that  Passage  in  the  XXXIX  Articles  concerning 
Ceremonies,  done  certainly  by  some  Fanatical  Fellow.  I  remember  Mr. 
James  Tyrrell  consulted  our  Bodley  Books  (in  some  of  wcl1  'tis  cut  out) 
I  suppose  for  the  Author  of  this  Paper. 

Jan.  11  (Wed.).  In  Vavasor  de  ludicra  diet,  several  Things  about 
Tully. 

Jan.  12  (Th.).  The  Committee  from  the  Rump  Parliament,  having, 
after  abundance  of  Deliberation  and  Consultation  and  sifting  Dr.  Sache- 

20  verell's  Sermons  from  one  end  to  the  other,  drawn  up  Articles  of  Im- 
peachment against  him,  the  said  Dr.  Sacheverell,  they  were  reported  to 
the  lower  House  on  Tuesday  last  by  Mr.  Dolben,  the  informer,  (2d.  Son 
to  the  late  ArchbP.  of  York  of  that  Name)  and  they  are  four  in  Number, 
viz.  (i)  That  he  had  reflected  upon  the  Principles  upon  which  the  late 
Revolution  was  founded,  and  by  which  it  was  obtain'd.  (2)  That  he 
had  spoke  against  the  Indulgence  and  Toleration,  and  had  reflected  upon 
ArchbP.  Gryndal,  as  if  he  endeavour'd  to  bring  in  the  Geneva  Discipline. 
(Perhaps  Tennison  of  Canterbury  out  of  his  great  Sagacity  may  think 
himself  meant  thereby,  he  being  a  zealous  Patron  of  Le  Clerck  &  others 

$o  of  his  Stamp.)  (3)  That  he  had  preach'd  that  the  Church  of  England  is 
in  Danger,  whereas  the  Parliament  in  1705  voted  it  to  be  in  a  safe  and 
nourishing  Condition.  (4)  That  he  had  reflected  upon  her  Majesty's 
Government  and  Ministry. 

Jan.  14  (Sat.).  The  above  specified  Articles  against  Dr.  Sacheverell 
being  read  a  2d.  time  on  Wednesday  the  u**1.  Instant,  a  Debate  there- 
upon arose  in  the  House  whether  the  Report  should  be  recommitted.  Yeas 
131,  Noes  232.  So  'twas  carried  in  the  Negative,  and  afterwards  the 
Articles  were  order'd  to  be  ingross'd.  Then  the  ingross'd  Articles  were 

have  the  sheet  transcribed  so  as  to  be  fit  for  binding  up  with  the  printed  part, 
and  get  the  book  bound  in  Oxford  ?  D.  intends  to  present  it  to  the  Archbp. 
of  Dublin,  who  is  therein  attacked.  Hoped  that  H.  would  visit  Shottesbrooke 
last  Xmas.  Hans  Sloane  to  H.  (Rawl.  9.  64).  Has  several  of  the  Roman 
brass  instruments,  but  without  the  loop ;  the  last  from  Kent,  supposed  to  be 
used  by  the  Romans  in  their  catapultae. 

Jan.  14.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  152).  Apprehensions  at  not 
receiving  a  letter  from  S.  at  the  beginning  of  this  week.  Dodwell  continually 
writing  answers  to  letters  cone,  the  Schism.  Glad  Hickes  has  lashed  Kennett 
in  the  Preface  to  Vol.  II.  of  Letters  against  the  Roman  Catholics,  but  some  of 
his  characters  are  fulsome  and  beneath  his  reputation.  Hears  that  Mr.  Harris, 


Jan.  7-16.]  VOLUME  XXIII,  PAGES  118-140.  335 

read  Article  by  Article  and  agreed  to  and  sent  up  to  the  Lords,  where 
they  were  read  on  Thursday  &  consented  to  without  any  Alteration,  and 
the  same  Day  Dr.  Sacheverell  was  order'd  to  be  taken  into  Custody  of  the 
Black-Rod,  and  leave  was  given  him  to  tender  his  Bayle,  &  time  allow'd 
to  put  in  his  Answer  to  the  Articles.  Mr.  Harley  and  some  others  spoke 
long  and  well  upon  this  occasion  in  Behalf  of  the  Dr.  but  the  Party  not- 
withstanding outdid  them  &  carried  their  Point. 

Jan.  16  (Mon.).  On  Thursday  last  when  Dr.  Sacheverell  appear'd 
before  the  House  of  Lords  he  humbly  propos'd  four  things  to  their  Lord- 
ships, (i)  That  he  might  be  allow'd  a  Copy  of  the  Articles  of  his  Im-  10 
peachment.  (2)  That  time  might  be  granted  him  for  putting  in  an 
Answer  to  the  Articles.  (3)  That  Councel  might  be  permitted  him. 
(4)  That  he  might  be  admitted  to  Bayle.  The  3  first  were  immediately 
granted,  but  the  last  was  deny'd,  by  reason  'twas  not  ask'd  in  a  regular 
method  by  Petition.  Upon  which  the  next  Day,  he  took  care  to  have  a 
Petition,  wctl  was  the  same  Day  presented  by  the  Earl  of  Rochester,  and 
his  Request  was  granted.  Then  they  requir'd  of  the  Dr.  2  Sureties,  each 
to  be  bound  in  a  Recognizance  of  3000  libs.,  &  the  Doctor  himself  as 
chief  in  6000  libs.  The  Dr.  nominated  Dr.  Lancaster,  our  Vice- 
chancellor,  and  one  Dr.  Paul l  Boes,  (a  Civilian)  lately  Fellow  of  All-  20 
Souls  College,  and  now  Rector  of  New-Rumney  in  Kent.  They  both 
approved  themselves  by  Oath  to  be  worth  three  thousand  Pound  a  man, 
and  their  Bond  was  accepted,  and  the  Dr.  was  allow'd  'till  Wednesday 
next  to  put  in  his  Answer,  tho'  'tis  thought  a  longer  time  will  be  granted 
upon  Application.  —  The  truly  venerable  Dr.  Lloyd,  the  depriv'd  BP.  of 
Norwich,  dyed  on  New  Year's  Day  last,  in  the  73d  Year  of  his  Age.  He 
was  a  very  wise  Man,  and  an  undaunted  Confessor  of  this  depressed  and 


author  of  the  Lexicon  Technicum,  is  digesting  Plot's  papers  relating  to  the 
Natural  History  and  Antiquities  of  Kent :  wishes  a  person  more  adequate  to 
the  work  were  employed  in  it.  The  text  of  Barnes'  Homer  finished :  it  is 
greatly  commended  in  Hughes'  notes  on  St.  Chrysostome  de  Sacerdotio.  *  I 
find  by  the  Advertisements  that  there  is  a  Pamphlett  come  out  call'd  Priest' 
craft  in  Perfection,  which  is  against  the  Passage  in  the  XXXIX  Articles  that  re- 
lates to  Ceremonies.  I  have  not  seen  it.  I  remember,  that  Mr.  James  Tyrrell 
(who  absconds  for  Debts)  last  Summer  came  to  the  Publick-Library  to  con- 
sult our  old  Copies, . . .  but,  to  our  surprise,  we  found  that  in  two  or  three  of 
the  antientest  the  leaf,  which  contain'd  this  Passage,  was  cut  out  by  some 
Knave  or  other.'  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  144).  Fell  on  his  right 
arm  and  shoulder  in  returning  from  prayers  on  the  afternoon  of  New  Year's 
Day,  and  has  scarce  been  able  to  hold  a  pen  in  his  hand  till  very  lately.  '  The 
same  day,  my  misfortune  befell  mee,  dyed  the  truly  venerable  BP.  Lloyd  of 
Norwich  in  the  73d  yeare  of  his  age  :  a  very  wise  man,  &  an  undaunted  Con- 
fessor of  this  depressed  &  afflicted  Church :  upon  whose  life  rolles  Mr.  Dod- 
well's  odd  hypothesis  in  his  Case  in  view.  What  will  bee  the  consequences  of 
it,  time  only  must  shew.  I  went  to  Hammersmithe  on  H.  Innocents  day  to 
receive  this  good  BP«  last  blessing:  and  it  added  to  my  paine  new  degrees  of 
trouble  that  I  could  not  attend  upon  him  to  his  grave  ...  I  hope  you  wil  con- 
tinue to  oblige  mee  with  the  Sentiments  of  ye  University  about  Dr.  Sacheverel : 
for  it  is  the  common  cause  of  ye  Church  for  which  hee  is  like  to  suffer.' 


1  [Corrected  by  D'.  Bliss  to  Richard.} 


336  H  EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

afflicted  Church.  Some  learned  and  pious  Non-Jurors  went  on 
Innocents  Day  to  Hammersmith  to  receive  the  last  Blessing  of  this 
good  BP. 

Jan.  17  (Tu.).  A  Castle  at  Odiham,  in  Hampshire,  in  the  time  of 
Rich.  IId.  who  sent  one  of  the  Sheriffs  of  London  prisoner  thither  in  the 
jgth  Year  of  his  Reign.  See  Stow's  Annals  p.  306.  col.  2. — Mr.  Stowe 
calleth  the  Book  compiled  by  an  anonymous  Author,  and  commonly 
known  by  the  Name  of  Caxton's  Chronicle  a  fabulous  Book.  Annal.  p. 
307.  col.  2. 

10  Jan.  19  (Th.).  An.  1398.  K.  Rich.  IK  kept  his  X^mass  at  Lichfield, 
where  he  spent  in  the  Xtmass  time  200.  tunns  of  Wine,  and  2000.  Oxen 
with  their  Appurtenance.  See  Stow  p.  318.  col.  2.  —  Mr.  Abel  Evans, 
Bach,  of  Div.  and  Fellow  of  S*.  John's  College  has  written  &  just  pub- 
lish'd  an  ingenious  Poem  in  English  call'd  The  Apparition,  by  way  of 
Dialogue  between  the  Devil  and  Dr.  Tyndale.  Dr.  Kennett  and  some 
others  of  the  Trimming,  diabolical  Principles  are  brought  in  as  sharers 
with  Tyndale.  This  Poem  is  printed  in  about  2  sheets  and  half  in  8V0. 
by  Leon.  Lichfield  at  Oxon.  This  Evans  was  once  a  rigid  low-Church 
Man,  as  will  appear  from  what  I  have  formerly  said  of  him,  but  now 

20  turn'd  honest.  —  Votes  of  Parliament  to  make  it  High-Treason  to 
imagine  either  the  Death  or  Deposition  of  the  King.  See  at  the  latter 
End  of  Rich.  IId>s.  Reign  in  Stow's  Ann.  p.  318.  col.  2. — Mackmur,  an 
Irish  Rebell,  in  the  time  of  Rich.  II.  had  a  white  Horse,  which  cost  him, 
as  was  said,  four  hundred  kine.  He  rid  upon  it  without  Saddle  or  other 
Furniture,  and  would  ride  down  the  steepest  Hills  on  it  with  that  Swift- 
ness, that  the  Beholders  said  they  never  had  seen  Hare  or  Deer  to  have 
run  so  fast.  So  Stowe. — The  BP.  of  Carlisle  (i.e.  Merks)  the  only  BP. 
that  inviolably  preserv'd  his  Loyalty  to  K.  Rich.  lid.  Stowe.  —  On  Tues- 
day last  Dr.  Sacheverell  desir'd  longer  time  for  giving  in  Answer  to  the 

30  Articles  of  Impeachment  against  him.  He  is  allow'd  'till  Wednesday 
next. 

Jan.  17.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  47).  Suspends  his  final  resolution  with 
regard  to  the  principles  of  the  Case  in  View  till  the  receipt  of  certain  inform- 
ation. Wants  a  transcript  of  a  sheet  of  Wolfius  de  Manichaeismo,  or  a  complete 
copy  of  the  book,  for  the  Archbp.  of  Dublin.  What  is  the  design  of  Pfaffius 
de  Separatismo?  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  145).  Has  not  yet  the 
entire  and  easy  use  of  his  arm ;  his  dimness,  too,  grows  worse  and  worse, 
and  in  a  few  days  he  fears  he  shall  be  deprived  of  the  total  use  of  his 
right  eye.  Presses  H.  to  transcribe  and  send  him  a  copy  of  the  XXXIX 
Articles  which  is  in  Bodley's  Library  among  Selden's  books,  with  the  original 
subscriptions  of  the  Clergy  annexed  to  it,  and  explains  the  cause  of  his  anxiety 
to  possess  it.  '  I  hope,  that  Mr.  Dodwel  wil  not  bee  inveigled  by  any  artifice 
whatever,  to  make  any  new  disturbance  in  the  Church  by  defending  his  odd 
notions  in  his  Case  in  -view.  Let  him  acquiesce  as  it  becomes  him,  and  not 
Dictator-like  pretend  to  . .  direct  us,  how  wee  should  behave  ourselves  in  this 
juncture.'  P.  S.  Sends  full  particulars  just  received  from  Mr.  Harbin,  of  the 
ed.  of  the  Articles  (in  Latin,  1563)  in  Bodley,  to  which  he  has  referred  above. 

Jan.  19.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  146).  Is  unable  to  write  on 
literary  subjects,  as  he  intended.  Will  respite  the  trouble  of  H.'s  writing  till 
the  28th  inst. ;  meanwhile  let  him  read  Collins'  villanous  pamphlet,  Priestcraft 
in  perfection.  H.  is  the  only  person  he  forces  himself  to  write  to. 


Jan.  10-23.]  VOLUME  XXIII,  PAGES  140-149.  337 

Editions  of  the  XXXIX  Articles  in  the  Bodlejan  Library : 
Articuli  Religionis  XXXIX  in  Synodo  Londinensi,  anno  1562.  Anglice 
4«.  S.  77.  Art.  Seld.  Et  Lat.  Oxon.  1636.  40.  P.  4.  Th.  ut  &  Anglice 
Ibid.  4°.  P.  4.  Th.  (&  B.  9.  10.  Line.) — Latine,  cum  annexis  omnium 
Clericorum  Convocationis  Chirographis  MSStis.  8°.  Z.  41.  Th.  Seld. 
Latine  item — 8°.  Z.  16.  Th.  Seld.  &  impress.  Land.  1575.  4°.  A.  46. 
Th.  Et  Anglice  Lond.  1633.  B.  2.  3.  Line.  Et  Lond.  1662.  C.  8.  22. 
Line.  Et  Lond.  1699.  8°.  ¥.23.  Th. 

Jan.  20  (Fri.).  W™.  of  Wickham  buried  in  the  Church  of  S*. 
Swithen's  Winchester,  the  great  Body  of  which  Church  he  built.  See  "> 
Stowe.  p.  331.  col.  2. — Richard  Scroope  Archbishop  of  Yorke,  with 
several  of  the  Temporal  L**8.  conspir'd  ag*.  K.  Hen.  IV.  in  the  6th.  Year 
of  his  Reign  for  deposing  K.  Rich.  II.  and  yet  this  Scroope  was  one  of 
those  that  before  were  engag'd  against  K.  Ri.  II.  He  was  beheaded  by 
K.  Hen.  IVth'8.  order.  Stowe  p.  332,  333. — John  Leiland  quoted  by 
Stowe.  Ann.  p.  334.  col.  2.  &  p.  335.  col.  i. 

Jan.  21  (Sat.).  Titus  Livius  writ  an  History  of  Hen.  V.  and  dedicated 
it  to  Hen.  VI*.  'Twas  written  in  Latin,  and  afterwards  translated  into 
Engl.  per  anon.  See  Stowe  ibid.  p.  339.  col.  2.  K.  Hen.  Vth  studied  at 
Oxon.  in  New-College  under  the  Governm*  of  Henry  Bewfort  his  Uncle  20 
on  ye  Father's  side,  then  Chanc.  of  Oxford,  after  BP.  of  Winch,  ib.  p. 
342.  col.  i. 

Jan.  23  (Mon.).  Several  Hundred  Copies  of  Dr.  Sacheverell's  Sermon 
have  been  sold  in  Scotland,  and  the  Doctrines  greedily  swallow'd  by 
several  People.  And  'tis  like  to  produce  a  great  Number  of  Converts  un- 
less a  most  vile,  antimonarchical  Book  (taken  from  Doleman  and  other 
pernicious  Discourses  of  that  kind)  wcl1  is  newly  written  &  publish'd  by 
Mr.  Hoadly  be  carry'd  over  as  an  antidote  against  it. 


Jan.  21.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38. 153).  All  three  letters  received. 
Will  very  shortly  send  a  full  account  of  the  controverted  passage  in  the  2oth 
Article,  so  far  as  concerns  the  books  in  the  Bodleian  Library.  Dr.  Woodward 
to  H.  (Rawl.  12.  95).  Thanks  for  H.'s  letter  of  the  9th  inst.  Glad  to  hear 
of  his  Tully.  Will  subscribe  to  Barnes'  Homer.  Some  of  Beveridge's  friends 
say  that  his  work  on  the  XXXIX  Articles  was  not  intended  for  publication. 
Sloane  has  read  before  the  R.  S.  H.'s  letter  on  the  brass  instruments  from 
Bramham  Moor  ;  the  writer  has  several  of  that  sort.  Please  direct  Sloane  to 
erase  the  passage  wherein  H.  mentions  Clamours  against  the  Antiquity  of  my 
Shield. 

Jan.  23.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Rawl.  127.  147).  Would  like  to  see  a 
sober  and  judicious  answer  to  Whiston,  \vho  doubts  not  but  that,  in  seven  years, 
the  Ch.  of  England  will  be  of  his  mind  ;  but  still  thinks  that  Grabe  is  not  fully 
qualified.  Finds  nothing  extraordinary  in  Inett's  Origines  Anglicanae,  though 
the  Curators  of  the  Press,  by  undertaking  the  book,  seem  to  entertain  a  more 
favourable  opinion  of  his  performance.  Mr.  Collier  is  labouring  hard  in  pre- 
paring Vol.  II.  of  his  History.  Will  borrow  the  new  ed.  of  St.  Chrysostom 
Tttpi  ifpu><rvvr]s  for  the  purpose  of  examining  the  prefixed  Dissertations.  Dr. 
Hickes  has  sent  S.  Vol.  II.  of  his  Controversial  Letters,  which  have  done 
good,  and  will  do  more,  as  a  preservative  against  Popish  emissaries,  now  so 
busy.  Expresses  dissent,  however,  from  several  propositions  laid  down  in  the 
discourse  of  A  proper  and  real  Sacrifice  in  the  Eucharist.  When  writing  about 
the  original  '  Instrument  of  the  Convocation '  last  June  25,  he  had  a  faint 

VOL.  IL  z 


338  H  EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

Jan.  24  (Tu.).  An  Excellent  Pamphlett  against  ye  Parliament  pr.  1648. 
4to  in  a  single  sheet,  intit.  Ecce  the  New  Testament  &c.  C.  15.  3.  Line,  fit 
to  be  reprinted  as  justly  answering  the  Acts  of  ye  Present  Parl*. 

Jan.  25  (Wed.).  An.  1416.  in  a  Parliam*  began  y6  15*^  of  March 
the  half  Pence  of  Janua  (commonly  call'd  Galley-half  pence)  were  forbid 
to  be  us'd  as  lawfull  Payment  amongst  ye  English  People.  See  Stow, 
pag.  352.  col.  i.  Quaere  in  the  Statutes  what  sort  of  Money  this  was  ? — 
K.  Hen.  V.  gave  a  Copy  of  Matt.  Westminster's  Flores  Historiarum,  very 
fairly  written  and  curiously  illuminated,  to  Westminster  Church.  Stowe 
10  p.  362.  col.  2. 

Jan.  26  (Th.).  Serjeant  Pratt,  Mr.  Raymond,  Sr.  Simon  Harcourt, 
and  Mr.  Phipps  having  been  assign'd  by  the  lA.  for  Council  to  Dr. 
Sacheverell,  on  Saturday  last  the  two  former  sent  their  servants  (soon 
after  one  another)  excusing  themselves  from  farther  assisting  him,  to  the 
great  surprise  of  ye  Dr.  &  it  may  be  to  his  Prejudice. 

Jan.  27  (Fri.).  Thomas  Montague  Earl  of  Salisbury  slain  at  Orleance 
in  1427.  6.  H.  6th.  He  was  buried  by  his  Progenitors  at  Bisham  in 
Barkshire.  Stowe,  pag.  369.  col.  i. 

Jan.  28  (Sat.).  On  Wednesday  last  Dr.  Sacheverell  deliver 'd  his 
20  answer  to  the  Articles  of  Impeachment  against  him  into  the  House  of 
Lords,  wch  was  long,  containing  19  Presses  of  Parchment,  and  took  up 
three  Quarters  of  an  Hour  in  reading.  They  were  sent  down  to  the 
House  of  Commons,  who  read  them  the  next  day,  and  referr'd  the 
Reply  to  them  to  the  Committe  that  drew  up  the  Articles,  who  are 


remembrance  of  a  parchment  roll,  belonging  to  Mr.  Davis,  formerly  of  C.  C.  G. 
This  however  contained  the  letter  of  the  Barons  of  England  to  Pope  Boniface, 
temp.  Edward  I:,  about  the  business  of  Scotland. 

Jan.  25.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  154).  Will  send  on  Jan.  27  a 
parcel  containing  (T)  An  Account  of  our  Bodlejan  Copies  of  the  XXXIX  Articles, 
stitch'd  up  in  Marble  Paper.  (2)  A  Copy  of  Ignatius  of  the  Christ-Church  Edition 
[cost  H.  3-f.  6^.].  (3)  A  transcript  of  the  Ep.  Ded.  of  the  Oxford  St.  Cyprian.  (4) 
S.'s  papers  relating  to  Ephram  Syrus.  '  I  understand  that  Mr.  Dodwell  is  at 
present  concern'd  to  get  some  informations  concerning  Facts  necessary  for 
determining  justly  by  the  Principles  of  the  Case  in  Fie<w.  He  thinks  himself 
obliged,  in  Equity,  in  the  mean  time,  to  suspend  his  Resolutions  that  he  may 
qualify  himself  for  resolving  according  to  the  Event  of  those  Informations. 
That  respite  is  not  like  to  be  long,  and  then  we  shall  quickly  know  by  his 
Practise  what  Determination  is  agreed  upon.  Sedate  proceedings  will,  he 
thinks,  best  secure  unanimity.  Mr.  Parker's  wife  already  beginns  to  go  to 
Church,  tho'  ever  since  she  was  married  to  him  she  joyn'd  in  the  separate 
Meetings.  Mr.  Clements  tells  me  he  believes  that  Mr.  Parker  himself  will 
also  quickly  act  in  the  same  manner,  waiting  only  for  Mr.  Dodwell,  whose 
opinions  in  this  Case  he  takes  to  be  right,  and  thinks  that  he  ought  to  guide 
himself  by  them.  I  understand  too  that  others  believe  now  that  the  Schism 
is  clos'd,  unless  new  Objections  are  started.  We  are  uneasy  about  Dr. 
Sacheverell ;  but  'tis  not  safe  entering  into  Discourse  about  him,  in  this 
hazardous  Conveyance  of  Letters.' 

Jan.  28.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  148).  Acknowledges  receipt 
of  parcel.  Gives  particulars  of  a  design  of  three  or  four  friends  to  write  a  just 
and  solid  answer  to  Collins.  H.'s  services  towards  this  good  undertaking  shall 
be  duly  acknowledged.  Harbin  is  interested  in  the  work. 


Jan.  24-30.]  VOLUME  XXIII,  PAGES  150-160.  339 

to  sit  where  they  please.  The  Dr.  has  vindicated  all  his  Points  from 
Councils,  Fathers,  the  39  Articles,  and  Homilies,  and  from  the  most 
learned  BPS.  as  well  such  as  are  deceas'd  as  those  that  are  living.  'Twas 
observ'd  that  when  he  took  Coach  at  Westminster  Hall  Gate  some 
Persons  were  so  impudent  (to  speak  in  the  canting  phrase)  as  to  huzza 
him.  —  There  is  reprinted  ArchbP.  Usher's  Book  call'd  The  Power 
communicated  by  God  to  the  Prince,  and  the  Obedience  required  of  the 
Subject.  Which  excellent  Book,  with  the  Preface  written  by  BP.  Sander- 
son may  serve  as  a  just  Confutation  of  the  Hodlejan  (damnable)  Doctrin. 
This  Book  was  first  printed  in  the  year  1661.  in  4*°.  at  London  from  10 
the  Author's  original  MSS*.  by  the  ArchbP'8  Grandson  by  the  mother's 
side  James  Tyrrell  Esqr.,  who  has  dedicated  it  to  King  Charles  IId,  and 
by  it  it  appears  that  Mr.  Tyrrell  was  at  that  time  an  honest  Gentleman, 
and  had  a  right  Notion  of  the  Duty  owing  to  the  Father  of  his  Country, 
notwithstanding  he  has  since  most  shamefully  deserted  those  good  Prin- 
ciples and  taken  up  with  those  that  are  for  deposing  Kings  and  taking 
up  arms  in  Rebellion  against  them,  &  has  publish'd  Books  in  Defence  of 
the  Doctrine.  —  An.  1436,  a  good  Sheep  sold  for  a  Penny,  and  a  Cow 
for  i2d.  Stowe  p.  375.  col.  i. — Queen  Katherin,  Wife  to  Hen.  5th  and 
Mother  to  Hen.  6th  died  an.  1437.  (the  15^  of  H.  6.)  and  was  buried  at  20 
Westminster,  in  our  Ladies  Chapell ;  but  her  body  was  taken  up  by  Hen. 
7^  when  he  built  his  Chapell,  &  not  after  buried,  but  remained  above 
Ground  in  a  Coffin  of  Boords,  behind  the  East  End  of  the  Quire.  Stowe 
p.  376.  col.  i. — John  Leland  quoted  in  Stowe  pag.  377.  col.  2. — Anno 
1438  (17  H.  6.)  Wheat  sold  in  some  Places  for  29.  6d.  per  Bushell,  & 
Wine  at  1 2d.  per  Gallon,  wch  was  reckon'd  an  extravagant  Price.  Ibid, 
p.  377.  b. — King  Hen.  6^  is  call'd  Founder  of  All-Souls  Coll.  in  the 
Charter  by  reason  of  his  giving  several  Lands  belonging  to  Priories  alien 
to  it.  Stowe  p.  383.  b. — Mr.  Stowe  complains  of  his  being  accus'd 
falsly  by  a  wicked  servant,  pag.  385.  b.  —  At  ye  End  of  Pliny's  Epistles  3° 
in  Bibl.  Bodl.  Arch.  A.  151.  is  Humfrey  Duke  of  Gloucester's  own  Hand 
Writing. 

Jan.  29  (Sun.).  Wheat  at  i2d.  per  Quarter,  and  14^.,  and  Mault  at  i6d. 
&  i7d.  per  Quarter  in  1454  (an.  33.  H.  6.)  A  farmer  wanting  Money  in 
y*  Year  sold  20  Quarters  of  ye  best  Wheat  for  twenty  shillings.  Stowe, 
pag.  398.  a. 

Jan.  30  (Mon.).  Sir  Seymour  Pile  is  taken  into  Custody  for  drinking 
Dr.  Sacheverell's  and  some  other  Healths ;  and  will  be  admitted  to  Bayle 
to  morrow.  —  This  Day  died  D*.  Thomas  Crosthwaite  of  Queen's 
College,  leaving  the  character  behind  him  of  a  learned  orthodox  Divine,  40 
and  an  undaunted  sufferer  for  his  Allegiance  to  his  undoubted  Sovereign, 
and  his  adherence  to  the  Doctrine  of  the  Church  of  England.  He  was 
buried  in  Queen's  Coll.  Chappell  on  Wednesday  night  following,  between 
nine  and  ten  of  the  Clock.  —  This  Day  being  the  Martyrdom  of  King 
Charles  i8'  there  preach'd  at  S*.  Marie's  Mr.  Nath.  Whalley,  M.A. 
and  Fellow  of  Wadham  Coll.  His  text  was  2  Kings,  viii.  13.  And 
Hazael  said,  But  what,  is  thy  servant  a  dog,  that  he  should  do  this  great 
thing.  The  Words  were  spoken  by  Hazael  to  the  Man  of  God  who 
foretold  the  Mischiefs  that  should  befall  the  Israelites,  by  the  Hands  of 
Hazael  when  he  should  become  King  of  Syria.  This  Prediction  startled  50 

Z  2 


340  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS,  [1710: 

Hazael,  and  he  seem'd  to  abhorr  the  very  thoughts  of  it ;  but  yet  when 
he  succeeded  in  the  Kingdom  he  acted  just  as  it  had  been  foretold,  pro- 
ceeding by  Degrees  to  the  Height  of  Cruelty.  Hence  Mr.  Whalley  took 
occasion  to  shew  the  Progress  of  Sin,  and  prov'd  that  Men  of  the  most 
consummate  Wickedness  are  generally  calm  at  first  and  that  they  go  on 
step  by  step,  and  he  instanc'd  in  the  Members  of  Parliament  in  1641, 
and  took  notice  that  many  of  them  appear' d  modest  at  first  and  would 
not  be  thought  to  be  Friends  to  Rebellion,  tho'  at  last  they  became  the 
Leaders  of  the  Rebells  and  the  greatest  Sticklers  against  the  King.  This 
10  done  he  took  occasion  to  reply  to  the  most  material  arguments  made  use 
of  by  Mr.  Hoadley  for  the  deposing  doctrine,  and  plainly  shew'd  that  all 
legal  Magistrates  howsoever  wicked  have  their  Commission  from  God. 

Jan.  31  (Tu.).     John  Leland  cited  by  Stowe  Annals  p.  413.  a. 

Feb.  2  (Th.).  Monday  last  being  the  Anniversary  for  the  Martyrdom 
of  King  Charles  Ist  the  Doctrine  of  Passive  Obedience  was  preach'd  up 
in  all  the  Churches  in  and  about  London,  and  the  Churches  rang  with 
the  Hainousness  of  the  Crime  of  murdering  that  excellent  Prince  in  all 
of  them  except  before  the  House  of  Commons,  before  whom  preach'd 
Dr.  West  late  of  Magd.  College  who  was  for  abolishing  the  Observation 

20  of  the  Day ;  so  y*  the  thanks  of  the  House  for  his  Sermon  was  difficultly 
obtain'd.  For  a  debate  arising  about  it  twas  at  last  carry'd  that  thanks  be 
return'd  him,  and  that  he  be  desir'd  to  print  the  Sermon.  Yeas  124, 
Noes  105.  —  In  Archivis  Bibliothecae  Bodlejanae  Nicetse  Choniatae 
Thesauri  Orthodoxse  Fidei  exemplar  Graece  adservatur  ;  codex  grandis, 
nitidus,  &  plane  magnificus,  quemque  dum  ipse  auctor  adhuc  in  vivis 
esset  descriptum  fuisse  non  desunt  qui  sentiant.  Sed  ex  scribendi  ratione 
characterumque  forma,  ut  &  folijs  chartaceis,  quibus  constat,  annos 
trecentos  non  superare  conjicio.  Totius  operis  epitomen  solummodo 
complecti  cum  ex  quinque  libris  prioribus,  quos  publico  cum  doctissimis 

30  notis  Latine  dedit  Petrus  Morellus,  turn  ex  contentorum  syllabo,  quern  idem 
ille  vir  clarissimus  juris  publici  fecit,  mihi  satis  liquere  videtur.  Codex 
noster  in  libros,  pro  auctoris  methodo,  non  discinditur ;  nee  ullibi,  quan- 
tum colligere  possum,  Bogomilorum  in  eo  fit  mentio ;  de  quibus  tamen, 
si  fides  indici  Morelliano,  paullo  fusius  in  libro  vicesimo  disseruit 
Nicetas.  —  George  Darrell  of  All-Souls  College  drew  up  a  Catalogue 
of  the  Chancellors  &  Proctors  of  the  university  from  the  Year  1268  to 
1604  (inclusive)  in  wcl1  last  year  he  was  Proctor  himself.  'Tis  exstant  in 
a  MS*.  Book  of  our  old  statutes  in  Archivis  Bibl.  Bodl.  A.  161.  but  not 
taken  notice  of  by  Ant.  a  Wood  in  the  short  account  he  has  given  of 

40  Mr.  Darrell.  —  Sir  James  Tyrrell  the  Person  who,  by  command  of  King 
Rich.  3d  took  care  to  have  K.  Edw.  5th  and  his  Brother  the  Duke  of 
Yorke  murder'd  in  the  Tower.  So  Sr.  Thomas  More  in  Stowe  pag. 
460.  a.  This  Tyrrell  afterwards  was  beheaded  on  Tower-Hill  for 
Treason,  and  the  Agents  under  him  in  this  wickedness  came  to  bad 
ends,  one  of  them  rotting  away  piecemeal. 


Jan.  31.  Bagford  to  H.  (Rawl.  21.  16).  Mr.  Kempe  has  lately  met  with 
a  helmet  which  is  a  greater  rarity  even  than  Dr.  Woodward's  shield.  Will 
send  at  his  leisure  the  story  of  the  Shield  Gallery  at  Whitehall. 


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Feb.  4  (Sat.).  Mr.  Dolben  having  reported  from  the  Committee  the 
Replication  to  Dr.  Sacheverell's  Answer,  there  was  a  Division  whether 
the  same  should  be  esteem'd  a  just  Reply.  Yeas  182,  Noes  88.  So  'twas 
carried  in  the  affirmative,  and  the  Reply  was  order'd  to  be  ingross'd. 
This  Reply  as  it  is  voted  just,  so  at  y°  same  time  Dr.  Sacheverell's 
Answer  (wch  is  done  with  great  Skill,  and  is  altogether  agreeable  to  the 
Doctrine  of  ye  Church  of  England,  &  conform  to  Acts  of  Parliament 
in  former  Reigns)  was  voted  impertinent,  to  contain  Reflections  upon 
the  House  of  Commons,  to  be  unbecoming  a  Person  impeach'd  and 
agfc  the  Precedents  of  Proceedings  in  such  Cases.  —  We  have  in  the  10 
Bodlejan  Library  amongst  ye  archives  (Arch.  A.  199.  Bodl.)  a  long 
Parchmt  Roll  containing  a  Genealogy  in  English  from  the  Creation 
to  the  time  of  Rich.  IIId.  at  ye  Beginning  of  wch  are  these  Words. 

And  for  the  more  hit  is  to  be  underfunded  Sf  knotuen  that  man  in  his  first  Crea- 
don <was  made  immortal!  nat  by  nature  as  Anngelles,  as  nat  beyng  of  power  to  dye, 
but  by  grace,  that  is  to  say  by  possibilite  nat  for  to  have  died.  For  if  he  had  kepud 
Innocency  he  should  have  had  no  kno^wlege  of  deth.  but  that  immortalite  in  the 
nuhlche  Man  'was  create  is  nat  of  lyke  nature  as  that  that  is  for  to  com.  for  that 
Immortalite  in  whiche  man  <was  made  <was  of  power  nat  for  to  dye.  This  that  is 
to  com  is  never  ofp&wer  to  dye.  for  why  it  is  impossible  Sfc.  fyc.  fyc.  20 

A  Picture  of  King  Alfred  there  with  an  Imperial  Crown,  &  a  scepter  in 
his  right  Hand,  &  a  Globe  in  his  Left,  sitting  in  a  Chair  of  State.  Without 
any  Beard.  'Tis  said  here  that  King  Alfred  was  a  personable  Man.  — 

In  Arch.  A.  181.  is  a  long  Roll  printed  on  Paper  containing  an 
Account  of  the  Feasts  at  the  Inthronization  of  ArchbP.  Warham  of 


Feb.  4.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  155).  Agrees  with  S.'s  judg- 
ment of  Inett.  Dr.  Charlett,  our  most  implacable  Enemy,  was  the  chief  per- 
son who  procur'd  the  printing  of  it  at  the  Theater.  From  queries  sent  to  H., 
he  infers  that  the  Doctor  is  not  qualified  for  the  undertaking.  People  begin 
to  be  clamorous  about  Dr.  Grabe's  laying  aside  the  LXX.  to  attack  Whiston. 
Approves  S.'s  explanation  of  the  passage  in  Justin  Martyr  relating  to  the 
Eucharist.  Mr.  Harbin's  correspondent  here  is  Mr.  Green,  M.  A.,  Ch.  Ch., 
who  received  his  information  by  word  of  mouth  from  H.  '  On  Monday  last 
.  .  in  the  Afternoon  died  Dr.  Crosthwait  of  Queen's  College,  and  was  buried 
on  Wednesday  Night  following  in  the  Chapell  belonging  to  the  College  between 
9  and  10  of  the  Clock.  There  was  a  Speech  spoken  at  his  Funeral  by  Mr. 
Tickel  A.M.  of  that  College,  in  which  he  commended  the  Doctor  for  his  Learning, 
and  Constancy,  and  for  his  Tranquillity  of  Mind  to  the  last.  The  Doctor  left 
his  Books  to  the  College,  with  a  small  Estate,  he  was  possess'd  of,  of  about  30 
libs,  per  annum.  No  one  was  invited  to  the  Funeral  but  those  of  the  College.' 
Mr.  Kempe  and  his  ancient  helmet.  Pritius  engaged  on  the  N.  T.  in  Greek, 
with  the  most  considerable  of  Dr.  Mill's  lections,  and  the  parallel  places. 
Basnage  carries  on  his  design  of  an  improved  ed.  of  Canisius'  Lectiones  Anti- 
quae.  Longs  to  see  Dr.  West's  (he  is  only  a  Lambeth  Doctor)  sermon  on  Jan. 
30,  in  which  he  is  said  to  have  offered  at  reasons  why  the  observation  of  the 
day  should  be  abolished.  Why  was  the  Ep.  Ded.  to  St.  Cyprian  suppressed  ? 
Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  149).  Many  thanks  to  H.,  who,  instead  of 
a  few  Minutes  and  short  Historical  Excerpts,  has  surprised  S.  with  a  book, 
containing  large  collections,  with  observations  of  his  own.  Is  chiefly  con- 
cerned for  Mr.  Hilkiah  Bedford,  but  the  four  who  are  engaged  in  the  reply  to 
Collins  are  Bp.  Trimnel,  Dr.  Smalridge,  Dr.  Fr.  Atterbury,  and  Dr.  Gibson. 


[P.  163  in  the  MS.  is  followed  by  p.  124*.] 


342  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1710  : 

Cant.  &  Arch^P.  Nevill  of  York,  with  several  other  things.  There  is 
fix'd  to  it  this  printed  Paper,  viz.  Certqyne  versis  writtene  by  Thomas 
Brooke  Gentleman,  in  the  tyme  of  his  Imprisonment,  the  daye  before  his 
Deathe  at  Norwich,  the  30  of  August  1570.  Seane  and  allowyd  ac- 
cordynge  to  the  Quenes  Majestyes  Injunction.  Imprynted  at  Norwich 
in  the  Paryshe  of  Saynct  Andrewe  by  Anthony  de  Solempne  1570.  — 
Also  fix'd  to  it,  An  Admonition  to  all  suche  as  shall  intende  hereafter  to 
enter  the  State  of  Matrimony  Godly,  and  agreably  to  Lawes.  Set  forth 
by  ArchbP.  Parker,  and  Imprinted  at  London  by  Reginalde  Wolfe.  Anno 
10  Domini  1571.  —  There  is  also  ArchbP  Cranmer's  Constitution,  agreed 
to  by  the  BPS.  &c.  concerning  the  Number  of  Dishes  &  the  Expences 
to  be  made  at  the  Treats  of  the  ArchbP.  &  BPS. — Also  there  is  Convimum 
in  Installation  Radulphi  de  Bourne,  Abbatis  S.  August.  Cant,  anno 
Domini  1309.  Et  domini  Reg.  Edwardi  secundi  2.  printed  too.  —  At 
the  End  of  the  abovesaid  Account  of  ArchbP.  Warham's  Inthronization 
is  this  Memorandum,  viz. 

Memorandum  that  in  the  selfsame  yeere  Anno  Domini  1504.  when  William 
Warham  was  intronizated,  Matthew  Parker  was  borne,  the  vi.  day  of  August 
next  before,  who  beyng  preferred  to  the  sayd  Archbyshopricke,  &  consecrated 

20  in  the  same  the  xvii  day  of  December  in  the  yeere  of  our  Lorde  1559.  findyng 
the  sayd  Palace,  with  the  great  Hal,  and  al  edifices  therein,  partly  burned  and 
fallen  doune,  and  partly  in  utter  ruine  and  decay,  dyd  repayre  &  reedifie  agane 
al  the  Houses  of  the  same,  in  the  yeeres  of  our  Lorde  1560.  &  1561.  as  it  is  at 
this  day.  The  charges  &  expences  whereabout  amounted  to  the  summe  of 
xiiii.  hundred  and  vi.  poundes,  xv.  s.  iiii  d.  as  appeareth  by  the  particuler  Booke 
drawen  of  the  same. 

The  Provision  at  the  Inthronization  of  ArchbP  Nevill  was  this, 
Wheat  300  Quarters — Ale  300  tunne — Wyne  100  tunne — of  Ipocrasse  one 
Pipe — Oxen  104 — Wild  Bulles  6. — Muttons  1000. — Veales  304 — Porkes  304 — 

30  Swannes  400 — Geese  2000 — Capons  1000 — Pygges  2000.— Plovers  400. — Quails 
100  dozen — Of  the  Foules  called  Rees  200  douzen— Peacocks  104 — Mallards 
&  Teals  4000 — Cranes  204 — Kydds  204 — Chickens  2000 — Pigeons  4000 — 
Conies  4000 — Bitterns  204 — Heronshawes  400 — Fessants  200 — Partridges  500 
— Woodcocks  400 — Curlews  100 — Egritts  1000 — Staggs,  Bucks  and  Roes  500 
and  more — Pasties  of  Venison  cold  4000 — Parted  Dishes  of  Gelly  1000 — Plain 


*  Mr.  Harbin  is  onely  an  Assistent  to  Smalridge  &  Atterbury,  as  hee  has  been 
formerly,  &  a  very  usefull  one  too,  by  communicating  to  them  many  choice 
papers,  wch  were  formerly  Mr.  Seldens,  wch  hee  had  the  good  fortune  to  light 
upon  among  Sir  Matthew  Hales's  Collections,  who  was  one  of  Mr.  Seldens 
Executors,  wch  hee  had  the  use  &  perusal  of  by  the  favour  of  that  Judges  grand- 
Son.'  Believes  that  Atterbury's  pen  will  be  made  use  of  in  drawing  up  the 
designed  Answer.  Remarks  on  Le  Clerc's  favourable  estimate  of  Hearne  and 
his  Livy,  and  his  virulent  attack  on  Burmannus,  who,  S.  is  told,  has  been  de- 
prived of  his  Professorship  at  Utrecht  for  immorality.  Mr.  D.  Wilkins,  in  a 
letter  from  Vienna  of  Jan.  4,  gives  an  account  of  the  deplorable  confusion 
among  the  books  and  MSS.  in  the  Emperor's  library — that  Gentilotti,  a  Nea- 
politan Gentleman,  the  Keeper  of  it,  for  the  three  years  he  has  been  in  that 
post,  has  not  had  a  farthing  of  salary  ;  no  new  books,  either  from  England, 
Holland,  France,  or  Italy,  brought  in  there  these  ten  years,  the  revenue  of  it 
being  employed  in  the  wars.  Fell's  Ep.  Ded.  to  St.  Cyprian  was  regarded  as 
to  the  prejudice  of  the  rights  of  metropolitans.  Glad  that  H.  has  at  last  pro- 
cured for  him  a  copy  of  the  Ch.  Ch.  Ignatius.  Has  in  some  good  measure 
recovered  the  use  of  his  hand  and  arm,  but  his  eyes  continue  still  very  bad. 


Feb.  4-9.]  VOLUME  XXIII,  PAGES  131*-143*.  343 

Dishes  of  Gelly  3000 — cold  Tartes  baked  4000 — Cold  Custards  baked  3000 — 
Hot  Pasties  of  Venison  1500 — Hot  Custards  2000 — Pikes  and  Breams  608 — 
Porposes  and  Seals  12 — Spices,  sugered  Delicates,  and  Wafers,  plenty.  Besides 
all  sort  of  Fish  in  prodigious  plenty. 

Feb.  6  (Mon.).  The  Replication  to  Dr.  Sacheverell's  Answer  being 
carried  up  to  the  House  of  Lords,  they  order'd  his  Tryall  to  be  upon 
Thursday  next  at  the  Bar  of  their  House.  Upon  this  there  was  a 
Division  in  the  House,  whether  he  should  be  try'd  by  a  select  Committee 
or  by  the  whole  House  in  Committee,  Yeas  180,  Noes  192.  So  that 
now  'tis  to  be  done  by  the  whole  House,  and  Scaffolds  are  to  be  rais'd  10 
for  that  purpose.  —  On  Saturday  last  in  the  Evening  died  Dr.  John 
Hall  Master  of  Pembroke  Coll.  in  this  University  (to  w0"  he  was  elected 
in  1664)  BP.  of  Bristoll  (being  consecrated  at  ye  Beginning  of  the  late 
Revolution)  and  formerly  Margaret  Professor  of  Divinity  in  this  Uni- 
versity. He  was  a  learned  Divine,  a  good  Preacher,  and  his  Lectures, 
while  Professor,  were  look'd  upon  by  the  best  Judges  as  excellent  in 
their  kind.  But  notwithstanding  all  this,  as  to  Principles  he  was  a 
thorough-pac'd  Calvinist,  a  defender  of  the  Republican  Doctrines,  a  stout 
and  vigorous  advocate  for  the  Presbyterians,  Dissenters,  &c.  an  admirer 
of  whining,  cringing  Parasites,  and  a  strenuous  Persecuter  of  truly  20 
honest  Men  as  occasion  offer'd  itself.  —  Common  Prayers  in  Bodley. 
Land.  1552.  *L.  7.  4.  Th.  et  A.  n.  9.  Line.  Lond.  1549.  *L.  7.  5.  Th. 
et  *K.  i.  15.  Th.  et  *B.  6.  21.  Th.  Seld.  Lond.  1632.  40.  C.  7.  Th. 
Seld.  Lond.  1565.  8<>.  C.  35.  Th.  Seld.  Lond.  1559.  *K.  i.  14.  Th. 
Lond.  1627.  *A.  20.  15.  Th.  Lond.  1607.  *A.  10.  15.  Th.  Lond.  1571. 
8<>.  Z.  103.  Th.  Lond.  1634.  *K.  i.  16.  Th.  Lond.  1639.  *u-  4- 
n.Th. 

Feb.  7  (Tu.).  Mr.  Stow  tho'  a  very  diligent  Man  yet  fortune  did 
not  favour  him,  and  therefore  he  complains  when  he  is  accounting  for 
the  Life  of  Cardinal  Wolsey,  pag.  499.  a.  Annals.  30 

Feb.  9  (Th.).  The  House  of  Commons  have  address'd  the  Queen 
that  Dr.  Sacheverell  may  be  try'd  in  Westminster-Hall,  to  wch  she  has 
consented,  &  Sr.  Christopher  Wrenn  is  order'd  to  prepare  Scaffolds  in  order 


Feb.  6.  Thoresby  to  H.  (Rawl.  10.  62).  Has  written  to  both  Woodward 
and  Sloane  about  the  brass  instruments,  '  &  I  can  assure  you  by  Letters  from 
both  hands  (I  wish  I  could  not  say,  both  partys)  y*  they  each  strive  for  ye 
honour  to  introduce  it  at  Gresham  Col.'  Perhaps  '  upon  2d  tho'ts  &  hearing 
of  some  Animositys  in  ye  fraternity,'  H.  may  think  it  more  convenient  to  print 
the  Dissertation  at  Oxford.  The  BP.  of  Carlisle  asks  that  a  copy  may  be  sent 
to  him  through  his  son  at  Queen's.  All  relations  are  well  at  Holbech,  we  met 
last  week  at  the  funeral  of  good  old  Alderman  Lawson. 

Feb.  7.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  156).  Will  endeavour  to  give 
Mr.  Bedford  satisfaction  with  regard  to  any  queries  he  may  be  pleased  to  pro- 
pose. Cannot  do  too  much  for  Dr.  Smalridge  and  Atterbury,  having  received 
from  Ch.  Ch.  so  many  signal  favours  as  claim  a  perpetual  acknowledgment ; 
but  is  sorry  they  have  joined  themselves  with  two  of  Whiggish  principles. 
Thanks  Le  Clerc  for  his  fair  dealing  towards  himself  in  the  Bibliotheque  Choisie. 
Sorry  that  Burmannus  is  so  immoral  and  loose  a  man.  Thwaites  probably 
conscious  that  his  Ephreem  is  a  mean  performance.  Bp.  John  Hall  died  last 
Saturday  evening.  He  is  said  to  have  left  all  (except  some  legacies)  to  a  near 
relation,  a  Presbyterian  minister  in  Gloucestershire. 


344  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

to  y6  Tryal  in  that  Place,  the  Queen  herself  designing  to  be  present.  — 
Gothofr.  Voigtij  liber  postumus  de  Altaribus  veterum  Xtianorum.  Just 
published  at  Hamburgh  by  Fabricius  8V0.  with  the  Author's  Life.  — 
Mr.  Kuster  who  publish' d  Strabo  has  lately  put  out  an  Edition  of 
Aristophanes,  in  which  is  a  Scholiast  upon  Lysistrata  from  a  MS.  in 
Bibl.  Bodl.  sent  to  the  publisher  by  Dr.  Bentley  and  Dr.  John  Potter, 
(our  spruce  Regius  Professor  of  Divinity  in  Oxford.)  This  was  first 
transcrib'd  by  Dr.  Bernards  Care,  and  from  his  Copy  taken  by  the  Care 
of  Dr.  Bentley. 

10  Feb.  13  (Mon.).  In  the  South  Porticus  of  the  Quire  of  Xt.  Church 
Oxford  is  a  Monument  in  the  wall,  at  a  small  distance  from  the  Ground, 
with  an  Inscription  to  the  memory  of  Dr.  Robert  King  the  first  BP.  of 
Oxford,  and  the  last  Abbat  of  Osney.  This  Monument  was  formerly 
in  the  North  Porticus,  as  appears  from  Godwin  and  Wood.  In  the 
Window  over  the  monum*.  is  the  BP.  painted  in  full  length,  very 
neatly.  —  Yesterday  were  preach'd  at  Christ-Church  before  the  Uni- 
versity two  most  excellent  Sermons  by  the  Dean  '  and  Dr.  Stratford. 
The  latter  preach'd  in  the  Morning  upon  these  Words,  to  the  poor  the 
Gospell  is  preach'd;  and  the  former  upon  these,  Watch  therefore,  for  ye 

20  know  not  in  what  hour  the  Son  of  Man  cometh.  Both  Sermons  were 
managed  with  great  Perspicuity,  and  the  several  Transitions  were  easy 
and  natural,  and  there  was  not  the  least  affected  Oratory  in  either,  and 
yet  every  thing  agreeable  to  the  most  pure  eloquence. 

Feb.  15  (Wed.).  On  Monday  Morning  last  the  Corps  of  the  BP.  of 
Bristoll  (after  it  had  layn  in  state  several  days)  was  convey'd  from 
his  Lodgings  at  Pembroke  Coll.  (where  he  died)  to  Bromesgrave  in 
Worcestershire,  in  order  to  be  buried  in  the  Church  there,  at  which 
Place  he  was  born.  This  Morning  at  eight  of  the  Clock  came  on  the 
Election  for  a  Master  of  Pembroke  College.  The  two  Candidates  were 

3°  Mr.  Colwell  Brickenden  &  Mr.  Will.  Hunt,  both  of  them  formerly  Fellows, 
but  at  present  Country  Divines.  The  former  took  the  Degree  of  Master 
of  Arts  in  1687,  and  the  latter  in  1696.  Both  of  them  have  the  Re- 
putation of  being  honest  Men,  and  endued  with  true  Church  of  England 
Principles ;  but  then  there  is  this  Difference  between  them :  Mr.  Brick- 
enden has  seven  Children,  Mr.  Hunt  not  above  two  or  three;  Mr. 
Brickenden  is  an  illiterate  Person,  Mr.  Hunt  is  a  man  of  Learning; 
Mr.  Brickenden  is  a  boon  Companion,  or,  as  some  style  it,  a  Sot, 
Mr.  Hunt  is  a  Man  of  Sobriety  &  Discretion,  and  came  recommended 
by  the  Letters  of  the  BP.  of  Bathe  and  Wells,  and  divers  Men  of  Figure, 

4°  Learning,  Temperance  and  Virtue.  In  reference  to  this  Election  I  must 
here  note  that  Mr.  Hunt  had  infallibly  carried  it  had  it  not  been  for  the 
Defection  of  one  Mr.  Mouldin,  who  has  had  hitherto  the  Character  of 
a  man  of  Honesty.  This  Mr.  Mouldin  had  several  times  solemnly 
promis'd  to  serve  Mr.  Hunt  when  a  Vacancy  of  the  Headship  of  Pem- 
broke-ColL  should  happen,  and  'twas  upon  this  Consideration  that  the 
Master  of  Balliol-College  (of  wch  Coll.  Mr.  Hunt  has  an  ingenious 
Brother  Fellow)  made  a  First  Kinsman  of  his  Cook  of  that  College, 
telling  Mr.  Mouldin  expressly  at  the  same  time  that  'twas  with  Intent 

1  Aldrich. 


Feb.  9-18.]         VOL  UME  XXI IT,  PA GES  14  3*- 1 5 4 *.  345 

and  exspectation  that  he  should  appear  for  Mr.  Hunt  if  he  thought  fit 
to  stand  for  Master  of  Pembroke  Coll.  Mr.  Mouldin  gratefully  ac- 
knowledg'd  his  Favour,  and  promis'd  upon  the  Word  of  an  honest  Man 
that  he  would  oblige  the  Master  in  his  Request  to  the  utmost  of  his 
Power,  and  that  nothing  should  draw  him  from  giving  his  Vote  for 
Mr.  Hunt.  But  when  the  time  of  Tryal  came,  whether  upon  Prospect 
of  the  Rectory  of  Sfc.  Aldate's  in  Oxofi  (wch  belongs  to  Pembroke  Coll. 
&  wch  Dr.  Hall  enjoy'd  for  several  Years)  or  for  sake  of  a  Wife,  or 
whether  it  was  upon  any  other  secular  Interest,  'tis  certain  that  a  little 
before  the  Election  he  went  over  to  Mr.  Brickenden's  Party,  and  there  10 
being  13  Electors  in  all,  7  voted  for  Mr.  Brickenden  and  6  for  Mr. 
Hunt,  who  would  have  had  7  had  not  Mr.  Mouldin  most  shamefully 
and  scandalously  broke  his  word,  and  deserted  his  Friends  when  'twas 
exspected  he  should  have  done  a  kindness  and  have  shew'd  himself 
to  have  a  sense  of  gratitude.  —  ...  Ciceronis  Oratio  optima  qus 
longissima.  Vide  Pinedi  Annott.  ad  Steph.  de  Urbib.  p.  418,  62. 

Feb.  17  (Fri.).  Tyndale's  Bible  printed  beyond  Sea  in  the  Year 
153°.  or  thereabouts.  See  Mr.  Stow's  Annals  p.  553.  col.  2. 

Feb.  18  (Sat.).  Two  of  Dr.  Sacheverell's  Council  having  deserted 
him,  he  lately  made  a  Petition  to  the  House  of  Lords  signifying  to  their  ao 
Lordship's  that  Affair,  and  withall  intimating  that  others  were  afraid  to 
serve  him,  and  he  desir'd  that  their  Lordships  would  order  him  for  his 
Council  in  the  room  of  those  that  had  left  him,  Dr.  Henchman,  (a 
Civilian)  Mr.  Dod  (who  is  a  Low-Church  Man),  and  Mr.  Duncan  Dee 
*  *  *  which  Request  was  granted.  —  The  Title  Page  of  the  Lat.  Ed. 
of  the  Articles  in  1563.  Articuli  de  quibus  in  synodo  Londinensi  anno 
Domini,  juxta  ecclesice  Anglicance  computationem,  M.D.LXII,  ad  tollendam 
opinionum  dissensionem,  $•  firmandum  in  vera  Religione  consensum,  infer 
Archiepiscopos  Episcoposque  utriusque  Provt'ncice,  necnon  etiam  universum 
Clerum  convenit.  Regia  author  Hate  in  lucem  ediii,  Londini,  Anno  30 
Domini  M.D.LXIII.  At  the  End,  Excusum  Londini  apud  REGINALDVM 

Feb.  16.  Hilkiah  Bedford  to  H.  (Rawl.  2.  15).  Thanks  for  H.'s  assist- 
ance and  kind  offers.  Three  copies  have  been  found  of  English  Articles  a° 
1571,  with  the  clause  in  them;  surprised  that  Art.  XXIX.  is  left  out  in  the 
Latin  ed.  of  1563.  There  can  be  no  doubt  of  the  label  affixed  to  one  of  the 
two  copies  of  that  year  being  the  original  subscription  of  the  Convocation  of 
1571,  but  B.  would  like  to  have  some  of  the  hands  tested.  Thinks  that  it  may 
not  be  proper,  on  H.'s  account,  to  mention  Mr.  James  Tyrrell  in  his  book. 

Feb.  18.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  150).  We  are  now  returning 
to  our  former  stated  course  and  method  of  correspondence  every  other  Satur- 
day. Very  sorry  for  the  death  of  his  old  friend  Dr.  Crosthwaite.  '  God  for- 
bid, that  hee,  whom  you  call  our  Implacable  enemy,  should  do  you  any  mischief 
or  prejudice  for  my  sake,  either  whilst  1  am  living,  or  after  I  am  retired  to  my 
grave  :  but  as  for  mee,  I  despise  his  impotent  malice,  &  pity  his  ignorance  in 
all  kinds  of  good  literature,  &  detest  his  knavery  &  scandalous  trimming — for 
these  25  or  26  yeares,  wch  is  his  just  character :  and  so  let  us  trouble  ourselves 
no  more  about  him  for  the  future.  Wee  exspect  here,  that  a  Low-Church-man 
will  succeed  into  the  vacancy  of  the  Episcopal  Seat  of  Bristol :  it  may  bee,  such 
another  as  Dr.  Trimnel,  who,  in  his  late  silly  Charge  to  the  Clergy  at  Norwich 
at  his  Visitation,  has  betrayed  the  rights  Sr»  constitutions  of  the  Christian  Church, 
Of  has  overthrowne  the  Christian  Sacrifice  and  oblation  in  the  Sacrament  of  the 


346  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1710 : 

Wolfium,  Regies.  Majest,  in  Latinis  typographum.  ANNO  DOMINI.  1563. 
The  39^  Article  is  in  both  the  Copies  we  have  in  Bodley. — The  Title 
Page  of  the  Latin  Ed.  of  the  Articles  in  1571.  Articuli,  de  quibus  con- 
venit  inter  Archiepiscopos,  $•  eptscopos  utriusqtie  provincicz,  $•  clerum 
universum  in  synodo,  Londini.  An.  Dom.  1562.  secundum  computationem 
ecclesicE  Anglicancz,  ad  tollendam  opinionum  dissentionem,  §  consensum  in 
vera  religione  firmandum.  JEditi  authoritate  serenissimce  Regince.  LON- 
DINI, apud  Johannem  Dayum  Typographum.  An.  Domini  1571. — The 
2 pth  Article  is  omitted  in  the  Edition  of  1563.  —  Barthol.  Bousfeildus, 
?°  A.  M.  Coll.  Regin.  Oxon.  Prsepositus,  an.  1575.  electus.  Hie  autem 
prsepositum  sponte  exuit.  Vide  Ant.  a  Wood  Antiq.  Oxon.  vol.  n. 
p.  1 1 6.  a.  Busfellus  scribitur  a  se  ipso  in  schedula  annexa  Articulis 
impressis  ann.  1563.  in  Bibl.  Bodl. — Johannes  Pierse  Decanus  Ecclesiae 
Xti.  Oxon.  anno  1571.  Sic  in  schedula  supradicta.  —  Several  things 
in  Erasmus's  Epistles  A.  i.  45.  Art.  concerning  the  Style  &c.  of  Tully. 


Eucharist,  8)  the  powerfull  effect  &*  exercise  of  Priestly  Absolution.  What  are 
•wee  not  to  feare  from  these  degenerous  Clergymen,  but  that  they  should  re- 
nounce the  divine  right  of  the  Episcopat,  &  degrade  themselves  into  Presbyters', 
&  content  themselves  with  being  Presidents  &  Moderators  of  Assemblyes,  in 
complyance  with  the  Schismatical  Kirke  of  Scotland,  to  make  the  Union  be- 
tween the  two  kingdomes  more  complete  ?  Dr.  West's  Sermon  is  justly  abhorred 
by  all,  who  wish  \vel  to  ye  Church  of  England,  &  are  just  to  its  establish! 
doctrine  of  non-resistance,  &  have  the  memory  of  the  blessed  Martyr,  K. 
Charles  I.  in  due  veneration.  This  weeke  were  published  Reflexions  upon  it, 
honest  enough  in  the  maine,  but  a  little  trimming,  as  to  the  Revolution,  wch 
Stumbling  block  this  Author  can  never  remove,  tho  hee  treats  the  Haranguer 
before  the  H.  of  C.  over  gently,  yet  hee  has  said  enough  to  overthrow  &  con- 
found his  false  Suggestions  &  lying  insinuations  in  favour  of  the  Grand  Re- 
bellion, and  make  him  ashamed  of  himselfe,  if  hee  bee  not  altogether  hardned. 
There  was  a  great  opposition  against  giving  him  thanks  for  his  performance : 
&  it  is  to  me  a  wonder,  that  they  did  not  addresse  to  ye  Q^  to  preferre  him  to 
some  great  dignity  in  the  Church,  as  they  did  for  that  Rascal  Hoadly.  The 
Whig-party  is  so  prevalent  in  the  House,  that  they  carry  all  things  before 
them :  &  certainly  without  a  miracle  of  Providence,  the  Dissenters,  however 
of  so  many  denominations,  by  their  assistence,  are  united  in  the  same  wicked 
designe  of  ruining  the  National-Church,  and  laying  all  things  open  and  in 
common.  I  will  enquire  about  the  old  Roman  helmet,  now  in  the  possession  of 
Mr.  Kempe,  who  is  very  curious  in  collecting  of  Medals  &  other  Antiquityes, 
wch  he  sells  to  a  great  advantage  ...  By  what  I  have  seen  of  Pritius,  I  cannot 
entertaine  any  beeleife,  that  his  designed  edition  of  the  N.  T.  wil  bee  done  to 
any  good  purpose  for  want  of  judgment.  Dr.  Mill's  vast  heap  of  various  read- 
ings wil  afford  never-failing  materialls  to  ye  dull  Germans  to  exercise  their 
industry  upon.  To  satisfy  your  curiosity  about  what  Mr.  Bedford  has  pub- 
lished, I  know  but  of  two  things,  wch  hee  has  done  lately,  &  they  are  both 
Translations,  of  the  History  of  Oracles,  and  the  Continuation  of  it,  out  of  French : 
for  the  exactnes  and  elegance  of  wch  I  referre  you  to  Dr.  Hickes's  account  of 
it,  printed  before  ye  History  :  but  the  Prefaces  shew  him  to  bee  a  man  of  good 
judgm1  &  learning.  Other  little  things,  wch  hee  has  published,  his  great 
modesty  will  not  suffer  him  to  owne.  Hee  has  spent  several  yeares,  since 
the  Revolution,  in  France  &  Italy,  in  the  company  of  young  Gentlemen, 
committed  to  his  conduct:  wch  trust  hee  discharged  with  great  care  & 
fidelity  to  the  great  satisfaction  of  their  Parents  and  Relations.  Hee  is  a 
Gentleman  of  an  excellent  understanding,  &  steddy  in  his  principles,  &  to  say 
no  more  of  him,  is  very  wel  qualifyed  for  the  worke,  wch  hee  has  undertaken.' 


Feb.  18-23.]       VOLUME  XXIII,  PAGES  154*-162*.  347 

Feb.  19  (Sun.).  The  Picture  of  Geofrey  Chaucer  in  a  MS*,  of  his 
Tales  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  super  Art.  A.  32.  —  An  old  Print  of  our  Saviour, 
with  words  of  a  very  old  print  underneath  in  a  MS4,  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  super 
Art.  D.  5.  Mr.  Bagford  to  be  shew'd  this  when  he  comes  to  Oxford.  — 
Theodoricus  Rood  of  Cologn  was  a  Printer  at  Oxford  in  the  Year  1481. 
at  wch  time  he  printed  Alexander  super  3tium  lib.  <je  Anima.  'Tis  in 
Bibl.  Bodl.  —  Registrum  G.  in  Queen's  College,  containing  the  Accounts 
of  the  College,  in  wch  the  Name  of  Barthol.  Bousfield  (writ  there  Bows- 
fellus)  several  times  occurrs  written  by  his  own  Hand,  and  it  exactly  agrees 
with  the  Hand  in  the  Parchment  Scroul  of  the  Bodlejan  Library  in  1571.  10 
—  Look  into  Ingulph  Ed.  Oxon.  p.  479.  about  a  Charter  concerning  the 
Tythes  of  Wool  (decima  Lanaa)  of  Crowland  Abbey,  &  try  if  that  Charter 
can  now  be  found  anywhere.  —  39  Articles  in  Queen's  Coll.  Library. 
N.  12.  20.  S.  n.  5.  See  also  w*  there  is  in  the  Vol.  F.  6.  29.  —  Vesti- 
bulum  idem  quod  vestiarium,  ut  liquet  ex  fragmento  Statutorum  Warhami 
Episcopi  tune  temporis  Londinensis,  penes  cl.  Edv.  Thwaitesium  e  Coll. 
Regin.  Oxon.  —  Spelman's  Glossary  in  Queen's  Coll.  Library  with  Dr. 
Barlow's  MSS*.  Notes,  in  wc^  he  has  observ'd  divers  words  that  are  not 
in  the  printed  Copies  of  Spelman,  and  perhaps  not  in  Du-Fresne.  par- 
ticularly ye  Word  Nutrimen  wc^  he  explains  from  Pet.  Pithceus  &  Le  ao 
Maistre.  It  signifies  tythes  of  Hogs,  Lambs,  &c.  F.  16.  13,  —  Some- 
thing about  Livy,  Eutropius  and  Pliny  in  Jac.  Lydius  in  Passionem  Xti. 
Mar.  406.  At  the  Beginning  of  w0*1  Book  are  also  very  curious  observa- 
tions upon  some  Part  of  the  New  Testament,  chiefly  relating  to  the 
Readings,  w°h  Doctor  Mill  should  have  consulted. 

Feb.  20  (Mon.).  Cicero  often  cited  in  the  Scriptores  Historiae  Augustae 
per  Sylburg.  A.  3.  6,  7,  8.  Art. 

Feb.  22  (Wed.).     See  an  Account  of  ye  Invention  of  Printing  in 
Gregorius  Queccius  de  nobilitate  &  praestantia  Hominis  p.  226.  A.  6.  n. 
Art.  —  Tully  cited  &c.  in  the  Scriptores  Historiae  Augustae  per  Gruterum.  3° 
A.  4. 19.  Art.   —   Burton  upon  Antoninus.  A.  4.  15.  Art. 

Feb.  23  (Th.).  Jos.  Brookbank  writ  The  well-tuned  organ  ;  or  a  Dis- 
cussion of  the  Question  Whether  or  no  Instrumental  and  Organical 
Musick  be  lawfull  in  Holy  Publick  Assemblies  ?  AfT.  Lond.  1666.  .  . 
In  wch  Year  also  came  out  his  Book  call'd  A  Breviate  of  our  King's 
whole  Latin  Grammar,  vulgarly  call'd  Lillie's.  8V0.  .  .  The  former  Book 
to  be  mention'd  to  Mr.  Dodwell  who  has  written  and  publish'd  an 


Asks  for  notice  when  Ephraem  Syrus  is  published.  '  This  weeke  I  ventured  to 
go  into  the  Strand  to  the  French  Booksellers,  to  look  into  ye  new  edition  of 
Aristophanes :  &  perchance  the  same  curiosity  may  carry  mee  into  S*.  PauPs- 
Church-yard,  to  turne  over  the  leaves  of  the  devout  Syrian  Homilist,  when 
I  heare,  it  is  sent  hither  from  Oxon.' 

Feb.  21.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  48).  Thanks  for  transcription  of 
the  sheet  of  Wolfius.  Dr.  Woodward  got  his  shield  as  old  iron  in  an  iron- 
monger's shop.  D.  suggested  that  it  was  modern,  but  the  Dr.  assured  him 
that  it  had  been  twice  patched  with  modern  iron,  so  that  it  could  not  be  later 
than  the  time  of  Charles  the  Great.  Encloses  a  copy  of  the  Bath  inscription 
as  engraved  for  Dr.  Musgrave's  book.  Buddaeus,  of  Jena,  has  written  against 
Dodwell's  Paraenesis. 


348  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

Excell*  Discourse  upon  Church  Musick.  —  Mr.  John  Twells,  School- 
master in  the  year  1683.  publish'd  in  8TO  at  London  Grammatica  Refor- 
mata,  or  a  General  Examination  of  ye  Art  of  Grammar.  In  the  Preface 
to  wcl1  Book  there  is  a  distinct  and  exact  Account  of  the  Compilers  of 
our  common  Grammar.  —  On  Friday  last  died  the  R*.  Reverend  and 
truly  learned  Doctor  George  Bull,  BP.  of  S*.  David's,  and  he  is  to  be 
buried,  if  he  be  not  buried  already,  at  Brecknock. 

Feb.  24  (Fri.).  Sr.  Robert  Jenkinson  one  of  the  Members  of 
Parliam*.  for  the  County  of  Oxford  dying  lately,  and  a  new  Writ  being 

10  issued  for  an  Election  of  a  new  Member,  the  Sheriff  declar'd  the  Day  for 
Electing  to  be  on  Wednesday  last.  The  two  Competitors  were  Sir 
Robert  Jenkinson,  Son  to  the  late  Sir  Robert,  and  Sr.  Thomas  Read. 
The  Election  began  between  i  and  2  Clock  on  Wednesday  in  the  After- 
noon, and  did  not  End  'till  last  Night.  There  were  above  2600  pol'd 
upon  this  occasion,  and  there  had  been  more  had  not  the  Small-Pox,  wc^ 
is  now  very  rife  in  Oxford  and  fatal,  hinder'd  them  from  coming. 
Others  were  also  upon  the  road  for  Sir  Robert  Jenkinson,  but  they  were 
countermanded,  Sir  Robert  having  no  occasion  for  them.  For  he  carry'd 
it  against  his  Antagonist  by  169  Voices,  to  the  great  Joy  of  all  truly 

20  honest  Men.  This  Sr.  Robert  Jenkinson  was  a  few  Years  since  Gentle- 
man-Commoner of  Trinity-College.  He  is  a  Gentleman  of  great  Virtues 
and  of  singular  Integrity  and  Probity,  of  a  courteous,  affable  Temper,  a 
Lover  of  his  Country,  and  an  Enemy  to  Rebellion;  but  as  for  Sir 
Thomas  Read  he  is  a  Young  Gentleman  that  never  had  any  Litterary 
Education  ;  he  is  a  stanch  Whigg,  a  loose  Debauchee,  and  has  little  or 
nothing  of  Religion.  These  qualities  are  so  notorious  that  even  the 
Minister  of  his  own  Parish  would  not  without  some  difficulty  give  him 
his  Vote.  And  yet  some  Clergymen  appear'd  for  him  such  as  that 
white-liver'd  Fellow  Tim.  Goodwin,  the  illiterate,  impudent  Archdeacon 

30  of  Oxford,  and  others  whose  Names  I  shall  not  now  specify  ;  but  I  can- 
not however  pass  over  our  present  ambidexter  Vice-Chancellour,  Dr. 
William  Lancaster,  who  tho'  he  had  no  vote  yet  gave  his  Interest  for  Sir 
Thomas  Read,  being  desir'd  to  do  it  by  the  Duke  of  Marlborough.  Now 
Lancaster  being  a  Man  of  wonderfull  ambition,  and  having  an  extream 
desire  to  be  a  BP.  he  comply'd  with  the  Duke's  Request,  to  the  no  small 
Astonishment  of  several  who  had  conceiv'd  well  of  him  upon  account  of 
his  late  Stipulation  for  Dr.  Sacheverell.  Yet  these  Men  would  not  wonder 
if  they  did  but  consider  that  Lancaster  obtain'd  leave  first  of  all  from  the 
Duke  of  Marlborough,  and  other  great,  hungry  Courtiers,  before  he 

40  appear'd  Bayle  for  the  Doctor,  these  powerfull  Men  assuring  him  that 
that  Act  should  do  him  no  Prejudice.  This  I  have  had  from  several 
honest,  understanding  Persons  ;  and  Lancaster's  stickling  for  Sir 
Thomas  is  a  plain  Confirmation  of  it.  The  Whiggs  and  Presbyterians 
are  strangely  nettled  at  Sir  Robert's  gaining  this  Point,  it  being  now  highly 
probable  that  the  Ld.  Rialton,  (a  sniveling  Gentleman  of  not  half  the 
sense  with  the  late  poor  spirited  Dick  Cromwell,)  will  be  thrown  out  the 


Feb.  24.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  157).  Sends  for  Mr.  Bedford 
a  collation  of  the  Latin  copies  in  the  Bodleian  of  the  XXXIX  Articles  of 
1563  and  1571. 


Feb.  23-28.]      VOLUME  XXIII,  PAGES  162*-171.  349 

next  Election.  The  Whiggs  made  upon  this  occasion  their  utmost 
Efforts,  and  one  of  them,  Mr.  Bray  who  has  been  Parliament  Man  several 
times,  had  the  Front  as  to  say  at  Sir  Robert  Jenkinson's  own  Table 
sometime  since  that  the  Floud-Gaies  of  the  Treasury  (of  England)  should 
be  set  open  to  pour  out  money  for  making  Interest  in  behalf  of  Sir  Thomas, 
and  others  of  that  Stamp.  —  Petr.  Kirstenius  has  critical  Notes  upon  the 
Gospel  of  S*.  Matthew  &c.  wch  Dr.  Mill  should  have  consulted,  they 
being  deriv'd  from  Collations.  It  stands  B.  3.  n.  Art. 

Feb.  26  (Sun.).  Mr.  Whalley  has  printed  his  3oth  of  January  Sermon 
preach'd  at  S*.  Maries.  He  has  left  some  things  out  at  the  latter  End 
wch  Were  Rules  to  be  observ'd  by  such  as  should  undertake  an  answer 
to  Mr.  Hoadly's  Book.  The  Sermon  is  an  excellent  Discourse,  such  as 
none  can  find  fault  with  but  Whiggs  and  partial  Men.  The  Arguments 
are  close  and  home,  deliver'd  in  a  plain,  familiar  style,  without  any  vain 
affectation  or  gloss  to  set  them  off. 

Feb.  28  (Tu.).  Mr.  Smith  lately  Student  of  X*.  Church,  &  commonly 
call'd  Captain  Rag,  has  just  printed  a  most  ingenious  Poem  to  the 
Memory  of  Mr.  John  Philips  who  died  last  summer,  to  ye  great  Re- 
luctance of  all  those  who  were  acquainted  with  his  good  humour  & 


Feb.  25.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  158).  Does  not  doubt  but  that 
Bp.  Hall's  successor  will  be  such  another  as  Dr.  Trimnell.  Dr.  West's  Sermon 
a  most  vile,  scandalous  pamphlet.  Has  not  yet  seen  the  Reflexions  upon  it. 
Divers  in  Oxford  do  not  stick  to  commend  Mr.  Hoadly's  last  book.  '  I  cannot 
as  yet  learn  particularly  the  Age  of  Dr.  Crosthwait.  "Tis  said  he  was  upwards 
of  3  score  and  ten.  He  was  very  easy  all  the  time  of  his  Sickness,  and  did  not 
shew  the  least  Discomposure  of  Mind.  The  Friday  immediately  before  his 
Death  Dr.  Hudson  was  with  him,  and  he  was  pleas'd  to  declare  unto  him  that 
he  had  acted  always  upon  Principles  of  Conscience,  and  that  he  had  no 
Troubles  upon  him  now  when  he  came  to  dye.  Sometime  after  this  Mr.  Hill, 
one  of  the  present  Fellows,  a  Man  of  Revolution-Principles,  came  to  him  and 
ask'd  him  whether  he  would  receive  the  Sacrament.  The  Dr.  said  ay,  if  you 
will  give  it  in  my  way.  Mr.  Hill  told  him  he  would  give  it  him  in  the  way  of 
the  Church  of  England.  Why,  that  is  my  way,  reply'd  the  Doctor ;  and  accord- 
ingly 'twas  administred  to  him  by  Mr.  Hill.  But  'twas  observ'd  that  as  soon  as 
the  Dr.  had  receiv'd  he  call'd  for  Drink :  whence  some  conclude  that  he  was 
not  then  in  his  Senses.  This  Mr.  Hill,  'tis  said,  is  the  Person  that  contriv'd 
the  Doctor's  Will,  otherwise  perhaps  we  might  have  got  some  of  the  Doctor's 
Books  to  our  Publick-Library.  He  had  a  large  collection  of  Books ;  so  that 
I  believe  they  could  not  be  worth  less  than  between  two  and  three  hundred 
Pounds,  which  with  his  Estate  of  about  30  Pounds  a  Year  must  be  reckon'd 
by  equal  Judges  a  good  Benefaction.  But  notwithstanding  this  they  are  so 
ungratefull,  as  to  say  his  Books  are  not  worth  above  25  libs,  and  to  give  out 
that  the  Doctor's  Donation  is  not  half  a  Recompence  for  the  Kindnesses  he 
receiv'd  from  them  ;  but  how  he  that  is  turn'd  out  of  his  Fellowship  (which  is 
a  Freehold)  and  hardly  permitted  to  have  a  Chamber  in  the  College,  and  is 
ridicul'd  and  scoffd  at  in  the  Common  Room  by  Persons  a  great  many  Years 
his  Juniors  (as  I  have  observ'd  the  Doctor  was,  when  I  have  been  present)  can 
be  properly  said  to  be  so  much  indebted  as  they  give  out,  I  leave  to  yourself  to 
judge."  Funeral  of  Dr.  Hall,  and  election  of  Dr.  Brickenden  as  Master  of 
Pembroke.  The  election  of  M.P.  for  the  county.  Some  say  that  Dr. 
Lancaster  expects  the  vacant  Bishopric  of  St.  David's.  Mr.  Harbin  may  rely 
on  H.'s  readiness  to  assist  him. 


350  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

most  admirable  Parts,  wcl1  sufficiently  appear  in  his  Splendid  Shilling^ 
Bleinheim,  Syder,  &c.  Mr.  Smith  has  writ  divers  other  ingenious 
Pieces. 

March  1  (Wed.).  ...  In  the  most  antient  printed  Books,  as  well 
as  in  MSSts.  written  about  ye  time  that  printing  began,  the  common 
distinction  is  only  this  mark,  viz.  (|).  as  for  example,  Non  ea  so/urn  qua 
timenda  erant  \  sed  omnia  \  ne  aliquid  vos  timeretis  \  oppugnata  domus  \  &c. 
in  Tully.  and  so  in  several  stones.  —  This  being  the  Day  for  electing 
Proctors  according  to  the  Caroline  Cycle,  Mr.  William  Denison  A.M. 
10  &  Fellow  of  University  College  was  elected  by  that  College  (that  being 
one  of  the  Colleges  for  this  Year.)  to  the  great  satisfaction  of  that 
Society  &  the  university.  This  is  the  same  Gentleman  of  whom  I  have 
made  mention  in  a  former  Volume  for  his  most  excellent  Performance 
in  repeating  the  Easter  Sermons  at  S*.  Marie's. 

March  2  (Th.).  Arias  Montanus  for  his  Edition  of  the  Royal  Bible 
was  accus'd  to  the  Pope  as  an  Heretick.  Upon  w°k  he  writ  his  apology 
in  Spanish,  w0*1  is  now  preserv'd  as  a  Great  Rarity  in  the  Oxford  Library, 
&  ought  to  be  printed.  See  Colomesius's  Opuscula,  p.  76.  — 

Monday  last  being  the  Day  wch  the  Parliament,  or  the  supreme  Power 
20  of  the  Nation,  as  they  both  style  and  reckon  themselves,  had  appointed 
for  the  Tryal  of  Dr.  Sacheverell,  Scaffolds  were  erected  by  their  Order  in 
Westminster-Hall,  and  in  the  Morning  the  Dr.  was  convey'd  thither  by 
coach,  attended  with  six  other  Coaches  and  a  vast  Concourse  of  People, 
all  crying  out  and  wishing  long  Life  and  Prosperity  and  a  safe  Deliver- 
ance to  the  Doctor.  He  was  also  pray'd  for  by  Name  at  S*.  Bride's 
and  several  other  Churches  in  London  the  Day  before,  as  he  likewise 
was  in  some  Churches  in  the  Country.  His  Sermon  on  the  fifth  of 
November  and  the  Preface  to  his  Assize  Sermon  in  Derbyshire,  with 
the  Articles  of  his  Impeachment  and  his  Answer  were  severally  read, 
30  and  the  Crimes  alledg'd  against  him  were  manag'd  by  the  advocates 
of  the  Party  with  all  the  aggravating  Circumstances  that  could  be 
invented  by  Diabolical  Malice.  The  Doctrine  of  Passive  Obedience 
was  decry' d  as  a  pernicious,  slavish  Doctrine,  and  Offers  made  in  a 
sly  manner  for  destroying  the  Articles  of  the  Church  of  England,  at 
least  that  article  in  wcl1  the  Homilies  are  enumerated.  The  Queen  was 
present  both  on  Monday  and  Tuesday,  when  they  went  through  the 
two  first  articles  of  Impeachment,  and  of  the  rest  I  shall  have  occasion 
to  speak  hereafter  when  we  hear  further.  The  Mob  both  in  London 
and  elsewhere  (as  well  as  the  most  considerable  Persons  of  Distinction 
40  that  are  fam'd  at  all  for  Integrity)  are  altogether  for  the  Doctor,  and 
they  express'd  themselves  with  the  utmost  fury  when  he  was  convey'd 
to  Westminster  Hall  and  from  thence  against  the  Presbyterians,  Whiggs 
and  all  that  large  Tribe.  The  Dr.'s  Counsel  are  not  permitted  to  speak 
'till  the  advocates  of  the  Party  have  gone  through  all  the  Articles,  and 
exerted  themselves  as  far  as  possible  their  venom  will  carry  them.  — 

The  most  Pious,  humble,  meek  and  truly  Reverend,  as  well  as  learned 
BP.  1  of  Norwich  dying  lately,  and  there  being  now  no  Nonjuring  or 
depriv'd  BP.  that  insists  upon  his  Rights,  and  the  Schism  therefore 

1  Lloyd. 


Feb.  28-Marcli  4.]     VOL  UME  XXIII,  PA  GES  171-183.  35 1 

being  clos'd,  according  to  the  Principles  of  the  Case  in  view,  &  the 
Best  books  that  have  been  written  on  that  subject,  Mr.  Dodwell,  Mr. 
Cherry,  &c.  with  their  whole  Families  now  go  to  Church  again  to  y6 
great  Joy  of  all  that  are  concern'd  for  union.  Mr.  Dodwell  was  at 
Church,  with  Mr.  Cherry  &  both  their  Wives  and  Children  on  Sunday 
last,  and  the  Bells  were  rung  upon  that  occasion.  This  was  at  Shottes- 
brooke  in  Berks.  (NB.  I  did  not  know  then  that  the  Non-juring  BP*. 
had  continued  their  Succession.  T.  H.  Dec.  31.  1732.) 

March  4  (Sat.).  The  Managers  against  Dr.  Sacheverell  finish'd  all 
the  Articles  on  Thursday,  and  the  Evidence  was  summ'd  up  by  Mr.  to 
Lechmore,  a  man  of  Parts  but  a  most  vile,  stinking  Whigg.  He  did 
it  in  about  half  an  hour's  time,  and  told  them  that  in  some  extraordinary 
Cases,  such  as  that  of  the  late  wicked  Revolution,  Resistance  is  lawfull ; 
wch  Distinction  gives  a  handle  to  Rebellion  whenever  a  Majority  shall 
judge  the  Case  to  be  extraordinary,  and  that  ye  Affairs  of  the  Nation 
require  it.  There  were  15  Spiritual  Lords,  and  101  Temporal  Lds. 
present.  As  for  the  Doctor  he  was  convey'd  backwards  and  forwards 
to  Westminster  Hall  by  a  most  prodigious  Conflux  of  ye  Mob,  all 
shouting  and  crying  out  for  him,  and  falling  upon  those  that  did  not 
pull  off  their  Hatts  to  ye  Doctor  as  he  pass'd  by.  They  are  so  zealous  2° 
for  him,  that  they  have  pull'd  down  several  Meeting  Houses  of  the 
Dissenters  in  London,  amongst  wct  is  the  Meeting  House  of  that  old 
presbyterian  Rogue  Daniel  Burgess.  The  Mobb  had  proceeded  farther 
had  not  the  Train-Bands  been  rais'd  that  follow'd  them  from  Place  to 
place.  One  time  the  Dr.  was  convey'd  privately  in  a  Chair  on  purpose 
to  avoid  the  Mobb,  but  they  soon  found  him  out,  and  began  their  usual 
Huzzas  and  acclamations,  such  as  the  Church,  the  Church,  no  forty  one,  &c. 
The  Materials  of  Burgess'es  Meeting  House  were  convey'd  into  one  of 
the  Fields  and  with  them  a  huge  Bonfire  was  made,  and  the  Tub  in 
wch  he  us'd  to  hold  forth  was  plac'd  on  y6  top  of  the  Pile.  Upon  this  3° 

March  4.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  151).  Has  handed  to  Mr. 
Bedford  the  XXXIX  Articles  in  Latin,  collated  by  H.  with  the  two  Latin 
copies  of  1563  and  1571.  He  has  finished  his  answer  to  Collins's  villanous  pam- 
phlet, with  the  exception  of  the  Preface.  Has  of  late  been  sorely  afflicted  with 
the  strangury,  and  H.  and  Dr.  Lister,  whom  he  consults  with  by  letter  as  a 
physician,  are  the  only  persons  he  corresponds  with.  '  I  exspect,  when  the  tryal 
of  Sacheverel  is  over,  and  judgm*  passed  upon  him,  they  wil  endeavour  to  impose 
an  oath  upon  the  Clergy  &  Universities,  and  force  all  to  renounce  the  Slavish 
Doctrine,  as  they  call  it,  of  Non-resistence,  under  the  penalty  of  a  forfeiture 
of  their  preferments :  wch  has  been  so  exposed  &  ridiculed  by  several  of  the 
Haranguers  in  Westminster  Hall  .  .  .  Mr.  Milbournes  last  Sermon  on  ye  30th 
Jan.  in  this  critical  conjuncture  preached  &  published,  has  provoked  the  Whigs 
almost  to  an  outrage :  &  the  foolish  Mob,  who  have  appeared  in  great  multi- 
tudes, attending  upon  Dr.  Sach.  in  his  going  to  &  returning  from  his  tryall, 
besides  their  riotous  misbehaviour  in  pulling  downe  Meeting-houses,  wil  en- 
flame  the  reckoning,  &  wil  bee  aggravated  in  the  Severity  of  the  Sentence, 
intended  to  bee  passed  upon  him.  I  heard  a  Gentleman  say,  who  understands 
the  Court  wel  enough,  that  Dr.  L.  was  in  a  faire  way  to  bee  BP  of  Bristol. 
This  was  before  the  newes  came  of  BP.  Bulls  death :  and  if  the  great  mans 
interest,  Marlborough,  bee  prevalent  enough  it  is  not  unlikely,  hee  may  bee 
either  the  one  or  ye  other :  for  no  man  courts  his  favour,  or  has  flattered  him 
more,  or,  as  I  have  reason  to  beleive  would  bee  guilty  of  baser  complyances  . . . 


353  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1710  : 

occasion  the  Commons  have  address'd  her  Majesty  that  she  would 
issue  her  Royal  Proclamation  against  Papists,  Nonjurors  &c.  as  if  they 
were  the  occasion  of  this  Ryot  &  the  Doctor  himself  is  reckon'd  the 
principal  Cause  of  it.  —  Maffeij  Opiniones  A.  i.  7.  Line,  in  wch  Tully 
is  often  corrected.  —  A  Piece  of  Painting  found  among  ye  Goods  of 
a  Gentleman  of  Colchester  deceased,  done  upon  Leather  with  a  square 
Wooden  Frame  about  i  foot  and  a  quarter  long  and  i  foot  wide,  the 
Picture  of  an  old  Man  from  the  Breast  upwards  (suppos'd  to  represent 
God  the  Father)  that  of  our  Saviour  on  his  right,  &  of  the  Virgin  Mary 
10  on  his  left,  but  both  small.  The  old  man  hath  two  X's  on  his  Neck 
&  something  like  a  Bible  in  his  left  Hand  with  a  X  on  the  outside,  & 

over  his  Head  these  Characters  cFb£  *  Hl/lKOHS,  over  X4.  these  fCXC. 

•^~*""      i+j 

over  the  Virgin  these 


A  POEM  FOUND  ON  THE  QUEEN'S  TOILET. 

O  Anna  see  the  Prelude  is  begun, 
Again  they  play  the  Game  of  forty  one, 
And  he's  the  Traytor  who  defends  thy  throne. 
Thus  Laud  &  thus  thy  Royal  Grandsire  dy'd, 
Impeach'd  by  Clamours  and  by  Faction  try'd. 
Hoadly's  cry'd  up  who  dares  thy  Right  oppose, 
Because  he  crowns  the  Mob,  and  arms  thy  Foes. 
O  stop  y6  dire  Proceedings  er'e  too  late, 
And  see  thy  own  in  poor  Sachev'rel's  fate. 
Fatal  Experience  bids  thee  now  be  wise, 
At  him  they  strike,  but  thou'rt  ye  Sacrifice, 
Let  one  bless'd  Martyr  of  thy  Race  suffice. 


THE  THANKSGIVING. 

In  sounds  of  Joy  your  tunefull  Voices  raise, 
And  teach  ye  People  whom  to  thank  &  praise. 
Thank  prudent  Anna's  providential  Reign, 
30  For  Peace  &  plenty  both  of  Coyn  &  Grain. 

Thank  ye  Scotch  Peers  for  their  firm  unbought  Union, 

Thank  Bps  for  occasional  Communion. 

Thank  ye  Stock-jobbers  for  your  thriving  trade, 

Thank  just  Godolphin  y*  all  debts  are  paid. 

Thank  Marlborough's  zeal  y*  scorn'd  ye  proffer'd  treaty, 

But  thank  Eugene  ye  French  Men  did  not  beat  you. 

Thank  your  own  selves  y*  you're  tax'd  &  shamm'd, 

And  thank  th'  Almighty  if  you  are  not  damn'd. 

40  Among  ye  High-Church  Men  I  find  there  are  several, 

That  stick  to  ye  Doctrine  of  Harry  Sacheverell. 
Among  ye  Low-Church  too  I  find  y*  as  oddly 
Some  pin  all  their  Faith  on  Benjamin  Hoadly. 

I  pray  give  mee  a  short  account  of  the  Author  of  the  Apparition,  as  whether 
hee  is  in  orders,  of  what  standing,  &  where  educated.  His  poeme  is  written 
with  great  wit,  good  sense,  &  wonderfull  honesty.  It  is  wel  if  he  comes  not 
into  trouble  by  his  sly  reflexions  on  the  H.  of  C.  The  Whigs  are  triumphant, 
and  thinke  to  carry  all  before  them :  but  I  hope,  the  Church  &  ye  monarchy 
wil  not  bee  run  downe  so  easily,  as  they  presume  &  imagine.'  Conjures  H.  to 
leave  out  the  word  learned  in  making  mention  of  S.  in  his  letters  to  others,  as 
this  character  does  him  a  prejudice. 


March  4, 5.]  VOLUME  XXIII,  PAGES  183-195.  353 

But  we  moderate  Men  do  our  Judgment  suspend, 
For  God  only  knows  where  these  Matters  will  end. 
For  Sal'sbury,  Burnett  &  Kennett  White  shew 
That  as  ye  times  vary  so  principles  go. 
And  twenty  Years  hence  for  ought  you  or  I  know, 
'Twill  be  Hoadly  the  High,  and  Sacheverell  ye  low. 

March  5  (Sun.).  Every  Parson  and  vicar,  as  well  Bishops  &c.  call'd 
Prelate  in  the  Canon  Law.  — 

Conjecture  about  the  Letters  in  pag.  185.  over  the  Picture  there 

mention'd.  10 

As  for  this  Picture  I  cannot  judge  of  the  time  when  twas  made, 
because  I  never  saw  it,  nor  heard  of  any  other  Circumstances  relating  to 
it  than  those  which  are  above  express'd.  I  do  not,  however,  at  all  doubt 
but  it  did  belong  to  a  Roman  Catholick,  who  contriv'd  it  according  to 
his  own  particular  Humour  and  Fancy.  The  Letters  are  put  to  signify 
certain  Words,  but  what  those  Words  should  be  is  not  to  be  understood 

but  by  conjecture,  only  those  four  Letters  1C.  XC.  do  without  all  doubt 
signify  'irjo-ovs  Xpurros.  We  have  those  Abbreviations  often  in  MSSte. 
and  in  stones,  as  well  as  the  Constantinopolitan  Coyns ;  tho'  in  stones 

for  X"t.  we  have  more  frequently  X  P  C,  which  is  seen  as  well  in  Latin  20 
Inscriptions  as  Greek.     The  Latins  thought  fit  to  make  use  even  of 
Greek  Letters  upon  such  an  occasion  of  mentioning  of  our  Saviour. 
W°h  may  suggest  that  Latin  Letters  are  sometimes  mixt  with  Greek. 
And  here  I  also  once  thought  that  the  p  was  nothing  but  a  p,  and  that 

MJ&A  stood  for  Maria  peperit  (or  parturtjt)  Domt'num,  or  rather  Aeo-Trdnjv 
or  Despotam.  Despota  was  us'd  for  Lord  from  the  Greeks  amongst  the 
Latins  after  the  seat  of  the  Emperour  was  translated  to  Constantinople. 
Particular  Accounts  of  the  use  of  that  word  and  it's  peculiar  Signification 
may  be  seen  in  Mr.  Selden's  Titles  of  Honour,  and  perhaps  some  light 
also  receiv'd  from  the  Curiosities  lately  publish'd  by  Monfaucon  in  his  3° 
Paleographia  Graeca.  What  chiefly  lead  me  into  this  Supposition  is  the 
A,  wcn  I  took  to  be  8,  but  I  now  believe  that  'tis  a,  and  that  the  p  is 
a  p,  so  that  all  the  three  Letters  are  an  Abbreviation  of  Mapla.  And  this 
is  the  most  natural  and  easy  Interpretation,  as  will  sufficiently  appear  to 
those  who  are  conversant  in  MSSts.  The  hardest  Interpretation  is  of 
the  middle  Figure,  w011  represents  an  old  Man,  and  is  thought  by  those 
that  have  view'd  it  to  represent  God  the  Father ;  and  perhaps  they  have 
good  reasons  for  their  Opinion.  But  for  my  own  part  at  present  I  do 
not  take  it  for  God  the  Father,  but  only  another  Representation  of  God 
the  Son,  painted  in  such  a  Posture  as  that  it  may  denote  to  the  Beholders  4° 
that  he  was  much  older  than  the  common  accounts  will  have,  w°k  make 
him  to  be  33  Years  of  Age;  which  Accounts  are  certainly  right  with 
Respect  to  the  time  of  his  conversing  upon  Earth ;  but  then  as  he  was 
God  he  was  from  all  Eternity,  &  the  Contriver  of  the  Picture  in  all  likely- 
hood  had  his  Godhead  in  his  view,  &  would  intimate  that  he  was  as  old 
as  the  Father  himself,  that  he  was  the  logos  or  the  word,  that  the  old 
Testament  as  well  as  the  New  relates  to  him,  and  that  several  of  the 
Prophesies  do  concern  his  Crucifixion.  Hence  occasion  might  be  taken 
to  fix  the  figure  X  on  his  neck,  and  on  the  Book,  wcb  is  suppos'd  to  be 
a  Bible.  The  Adding  the  Bible  also  illustrates  the  thing  so  far  as  to  5° 
VOL.  u.  A  a 


354  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

shew  that  our  Saviour  is  concerned  in  both  Testaments.  From  hence 
I  conjecture  that  the  Letters  over  the  3d  Figure  are  thus  to  be  explain'd : 
cr  for  Sravpos,  betokening  our  Saviour's  Cross,  and  pointing  to  the 
Mark  X.  The  Abbreviation  b^*  I  take  to  be  nothing  but  Bt^Xt'a, 
having  reference  to  the  Book  in  the  left  hand.  I  have  sometimes  seen 
t  for  /3  in  MSSts.  but  if  it  be  a  latin  B  'twill  not  be  absurd,  considering 
that  the  Letters  of  both  Languages,  as  was  before  hinted,  are  often  mix'd 
together.  The  HHKO£1€  I  take  to  be  a  compendious  Expression  for 
TJV  Kvpios  o  \6yos.  In  ye  same  Inscriptions  the  letter  o-  is  sometimes  made 
10  different  ways,  viz.  2  and  C.  &  E.  Of  this  we  have  an  excellent  Instance 
in  the  Theater  Marbles,  particularly  that  to  Aurelia  Fausta,  erected  to 
her  Memory  in  the  time  of  Marcus  Antoninus,  &  now  standing  behind 
the  Apodyterium  of  the  Convocation-House  just  by  the  League  between 
the  Smyrnseans  &  Magnesians,  but  if  there  were  no  Inscriptions  or  other 
Instances  to  confirm  the  ways  of  writing  us'd  in  this  Picture,  yet  'tis 
enough  that  the  Contriver  was  left  at  his  own  Liberty  to  make  use  of 
such  Characters  as  best  suited  with  his  Design,  and  the  Obscurity  he  was 
resolv'd  should  be  couch'd  under  them.  Since  the  writing  of  what  goes 
before  I  have  been  inform'd  that  there  are  no  Rayes  round  the  Head  of 
'20  the  Middle  Figure,  such  as  are  plac'd  round  the  Head  of  such  Pictures 
as  are  made  of  our  Saviour,  whereas  there  are  rays  round  the  Head 

of  the  other  \vck  has  over  it  1C.  XC.  But  it  must  be  observ'd  that  this 
is  a  Circumstance  that  is  sometimes  omitted,  and  is  now  and  then  seen 
about  the  Heads  of  those  Pictures  wck  are  design'd  to  represent  God 
the  Father.  Thus  in  the  MS*.  Historical  Part  of  the  Bible,  preserv'd  in 
ye  Archives  of  the  Bodlejan  Library,  and  most  curiously  illuminated  the 
Picture  of  the  father  is  at  the  Beginning  in  full  length,  and  round  his 
Head  are  seen  such  Rayes,  as  our  Saviour  and  his  Apostles  are  often 
seen  to  have  about  them.  In  other  MSSt8  (particularly  Missals  and 

3o  other  Divine  Offices)  I  have  seen  the  Rayes  both  of  our  Saviour  and  his 
Apostles  left  out;  as  also  I  have  in  such  Pictures  as  are  made  of  our 
Saviour  according  to  the  Descriptions  given  of  him  in  the  Letter  of 
Pontius  Pilate  to  Tiberius  &  of  Lentulus  to  the  Roman  Senate;  wcil 
Letters  however  spurious  are  yet  preserv'd  in  old  MSSts.  and  have  given 
occasion  to  divers  superstitious  &  credulous  Persons  to  draw  our  Saviour 
according  to  the  Accounts  there  deliver'd. 

March  6  (Mon.).  On  Friday  the  advocates  for  Dr.  Sacheverell  began 
their  Defence.  They  went  that  Day  only  upon  the  first  Article,  and 
answer'd  all  the  arguments  alledg'd  by  the  Adversaries  against  the 

40  Doctrine  of  Passive  Obedience  and  Non-Resistance.  Sir  Simon  Har- 
court  was  the  first  that  spoke.  His  Speech  and  Defence  of  the  Doctor 
lasted  two  Hours.  He  defended  the  foresaid  Doctrine  without  any 
Reserve,  and  came  off  with  much  Applause.  The  other  advocates  spoke 
also  very  well.  Next  day  Passages  out  of  the  Homilies,  Councils, 
Fathers,  Civilians,  Common  Lawyers,  &  Acts  of  Parliam*  were  produced 
and  read.  The  Prince  of  Oranges  Declaration  was  likewise  read.  They 
are  to  proceed  on  the  other  Points  to  day.  The  Mob  was  quell'd  by  the 
Militia,  and  several  of  them  are  committed,  and  a  Proclamation  is  come 
out  offering  a  Reward  of  an  hundred  Pounds  to  any  one  that  shall  dis- 

50  cover  and  secure  any  one  of  the  Fomenters  and  Abettors  of  the  Riot. 


March  5-7.]  VOLUME  XXIII,  PACES  195-206.  355 

All  Roman  Catholicks  and  Non-Jurors  that  have  Families  and  are 
Householders  are  commanded  to  go  no  farther  from  London  than 
5  Miles,  and  such  as  have  no  Families  to  go  out  of  London  ten  miles, 
and  not  to  come  nearer  to  the  City  than  that  Distance.  The  Oaths  are 
also  order'd  to  be  tender'd  to  them,  and  such  as  refuse  them  are  to  be 
prosecuted  with  the  utmost  Rigour.  A  Debate  arose  whether  the  word 
Republicans  (who  are  certainly  the  Cause  of  all  this  Mischief)  should  be 
put  in ;  but  that  was  rejected  by  a  great  Majority.  The  Whiggs  and  all 
the  Party  may  by  this  time  see  the  ill  Consequences  of  the  Doctrine 
advanced  by  them  of  the  Original  of  Government's  being  from  the  People,  10 
and  their  chief  Writers,  such  as  Hoadly,  the  Review,  Kennett  &c.  ought 
to  be  punish'd  with  the  utmost  Rigour  for  maintaining  such  arguments 
as  give  the  People  a  Power  of  taking  up  arms,  when  they  shall  think  fit. 
If  these  Gentlemen  could  have  been  found  out  they  had  without  all  doubt 
felt  the  Effects  of  their  Doctrine.  The  Mob  would  have  either  torn  them 
in  Pieces,  or  made  them  undergo  very  great  Disgraces.  For  they  were 
strangely  incens'd,  insomuch  as  they  did  not  spare  the  Master-Builder  of 
the  Conventicle-Houses  in  London.  They  were  going  to  throw  him 
into  ye  Fire,  alledging  this  for  a  sufficient  reason,  that  he  had  set  up 
Houses  in  opposition  to  the  national  Church.  But  they  were  mercifull,  20 
and  only  burnt  his  Night-cap,  that  he  might  remember  what  Danger  he 
had  escap'd. 

The  Dean1  of  X*.  Church  has  a  small  Quarto  MSS*.  consisting  of  14 
Pages,  written  in  a  bad  Hand,  and  containing  Certayne  Observations  of 
Charles  Fettiplace  his  Voyadgefrom  Aleppo  to  Constantinople  by  Land.  In 
it  are  some  good  hints,  but  not  worth  printing ;  tho'  of  use  to  one  that 
writes  an  Account  of  the  Places  there  noted.  —  If  Pliny's  Epistles  be 
reprinted  I  must  remember  to  collate  the  two  Epistles  concerning  his 
Uncle,  with  Froben's  Edition  of  them  prefix'd  to  the  Natural  History. . . 

March  7  (Tu.).     Vincentius  Bellunensis  has  a  great  many  Things  of  3° 
Tally  in  the  4tn  Tome  (I  think)  of  his  Speculum  Historiale. 


A  BALLAD  UPON  THE  OXFORDSHIRE  ELECTION,  ACCOUNTED  FOR  ABOVE 

PAG.  163,  &c. 
i. 

We  are  told  by  the  Town  that  a  2  Man  of  great  Note 

For  the  sake  of  Laun-Sleeves  is  aturning  his  Coate  : 

Yet  in  his  excuse  my  dear  Friends  I  must  grant  ye, 

There  are  twenty  good  reasons  in  a  sede  vacante : 

And  Bristolls3  a  Mitre  may  be  pat  to  his  Mind 

Where  the  Tub  and  Cathedral  so  lately  were  joyn'd.  40 

March  7.  Barnes  to  H.  (Rawl.  24.  16).  Is  engaged  on  the  Indexes  &c. 
to  Homer.  Has  not  yet  met  with  suitable  encouragement,  but  his  zeal  for 
Homer  and  his  own  reputation  surmounts  all.  Has  paid  nearly  soo/.,  all  but 
6s/.,  and  will  have  to  pay  about  so/,  for  the  frontispiece,  which  he  expects 
every  day  from  Holland.  Has  not  yet  touched  Mrs.  Barnes's  purse,  for  fear 
of  breaking  her  heart.  Can  Dr.  Hudson  raise  ioo/.  ?  Can't  yet  think  of  a 
patron,  and  has  not  written  a  word  of  preface. 

1  Dr.  Hen.  Aldrich.  *  Dr.  William  Lancaster,  Vice-Chancellour  of  Oxford. 

3  Vacant  by  the  death  of  Dr.  Hall. 

A  a  2 


356  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1710 

2. 

Tho'  his  old1  solid  Grace  was  preferr'd  cross  the  Water 
For  nicking  the  Tyde,  &  well  trimming  the  Matter ; 
Yet  does  it  not  follow  that  the  Church  of  S*.  Martin, 
Makes  her  Rectors  all  Prelates  for  being  uncertain. 
But  we  find  of  late  days  the  high  Road  to  Promotion 
Is  to  pay  our  Great  Duke,  not  the  Church  your  Devotion. 

3- 

Henceforth  Alma  Mater  must  submitt  to  the  City, 
10  Let  her  Doctors  grow  dull  and  the  Aldermen  witty. 

Let  the  Scarlet  and  Gown  yield  to  Cloaks  &  white  Border 
Since  our  learned  Vice-Can  joyns  Non  Con  ye  2  Recorder. 
With  Dissenters  he  votes  for  a  low  Legislatur 
And  the  Print  of  Geneva  has  Guils  imprimatur. 

4- 

But  if  his  grand  Patron  &  most  bounteous  Requiter 
Should  forget  to  reward  his  good  Friend  wth  a  Mitre, 
And  wipe  out  old  Scores  with  Words  sweet  as  Honey, 
As  he  did  the  past  Service  for  the  Son  of  Volpone, 
20  Why  then  may  we  say  our  defeated  Projector 

Has  paid  for  the  Lord,  and  is  still  but  a  Rector. 

5- 

Give  me  the  poor  3  Vicar  in  ye  Country  resideing 
That  saddles  his  Nag,  and  ne're  spares  him  in  ye  riding, 
For  the  worthy  Church  Member  Heads  in  a  strong  Party, 
Religion's  his  Guide  &  ye  Cause  makes  him  hearty. 
The  great  ones  at  Court  by  Terrors  can't  sway  him, 
And  the  Hopes  of  Lawn  Sleeves  will  never  betray  him. 

6. 
30  Hereafter  in  story  it  will  look  but  odly 

That  our  Oxford  Vice-gerent  should  run  in  wth  Hoadly. 

The  Whigs  must  all  think  the  Church  under  Hatches 

When  the  Court  nicks  his  Conscience  as  Tompion*  our  Watches. 

Not  weather-Cock  Kennett  such  turning  can  show, 

To  bail  High-Church  one  day  &  y°  next  vote  for  Low. 


If  the  Life  of  King  Alfred  be  reprinted  I  must  remember  to  add  some- 
thing out  of  the  3d.  vol.  of  Mr.  Leland's  Itinerary  fol.  72.  concerning  the 
Burial  of  King  Alfred.  —  One  Mr.  Palmer,  a  Divine,  is  suspended  by 
the  BP.  of  London,  by  virtue  of  an  Order  from  the  Queen,  for  praying  for 
4°  Dr.  SacheverelFs  Deliverance  from  Persecution  in  her  Majesty's  Chapelle. 
—  MS.  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  supra  D.  Art.  59.  containing  Libri  duo  Collationum 
24  Patrum  Sanctorum  per  Jo.  Cassianum,  &c.  This  was  once  Mr.  Fox 
the  Martyrologist's  Book,  and  his  Name  by  his  own  Hand  appears  at  ye 
Beginning.  —  A  very  old  MSS*.  of  Prudentius's  Works  in  Bibl.  Bodl. 
supra  Art.  D.  69.  "Pis  one  of  those  Books  that  Leofrick  gave  to  the 
Church  of  Exeter  as  appears  from  a  Memorandum  of  that  Age  at  y6 
Beginning.  —  Supra  Art.  D.  80.  a  very  fine  Latin  MS*,  of  the  Canons 
of  y°  Apostles,  wc]l  once  belong'd  to  ye  Church  of  Exeter.  At  the  End 


1  Dr.  Tennison.  *  Mr.  Wright,  a  great  Whigg. 

3  He  means  the  ingenious  Mr.  Aldrich  Parson  of  Henly,  who  brought  up  a  good 
Number  for  Sr  Robert  Jenkinson. 
*  A  famous  Watch-Maker. 


March?.]  VOLUME  XXIII,  PAGES  206-215.  357 

of  w^k  this  Note,  Hunc  librum  legavit  Waller  us  Gybbys,  Ecclesice  Cathe- 
dralis  Exon.  Canonicus  dum  vixit  in  testamento  suo  ad  usu  (lege  usum) 
ejusdem  Ecclestce,  ibidem  perpetuo  remansurum  :  quern  quidem  librum  execu- 
iores  dicti  defuncti  deliberarunt  Decano  Sf  Capitulo  EcclesicE  Caihedralis 
prcedictce  tercio  die  Mensis  Septembris  anno  Domini  millesimo  CCCCXIIII0. 

—  Supra  D.  Art.  99.     The  Gospells  in  Latin  in  Capital  Letters.   — 
Supra  Art.  D.  104.     The  Bible  in  Latin  written  in  an  antient  Hand.    At 
the  End  in  a  large  and  pretty  old  Hand  :  Orate  pro  Magistro  Willelmo 
Cleve,  in  utroque  Jure  Bac.  Bristollia  nato,  London  conversante,  ac  Rogeri 

$•  Elizabeth  parentum  ejusdem.  (Vel  legendum  ac  Rogero  §  Elizabeth  I0 
parentibus  ejusdem.  vel  acpro  animabus  Rogeri  $  Elizabeth parentumejusdem!) 

—  Supra  Art.  D.  113.     Rich.  Hampole  in  Job,  cum  alijs  quibusd.     At 
the  Beginning,  Istum  librum  dedit  Decano  $  Capitulo  Ecclesice  Cathedralis 
beati  Petri  Exon.  Magister  Johannes  Stevenys  quondam  ejusdem  Ecclesice 
Canonicus,  cathenandum  in  eorum  communi  libraria  post  obitum  Magistri 
Rogeri  Keys.  Etquicuncque  ilium  sine  licencia  prcedicti  Capttuli  absfulerit,  vel 

folium  inde  resciderit,  anathematizetur  eo  facto. 

In  the  same  Book,  at  ye  End  in  a  more  modern  hand  than  ye  Book 
it  self : 

IN  AULA  LANCESTON.  ao 

Supra  tabulam  valettorum. 

Whoso  loveth  wel  to  fare,  Bot  he  have  the  more  good 

Ever  spende  and  never  spare  His  heer  wol  growe  thurgh  his  Hood. 

Supra  tabulam  clericorum. 

Whose  comyth  to  any  Hows  And  but  a  wol  do  so 

Ne  be  he  nought  dangerous  Reson  wolde  accorde  therto 

Tak  that  he  fyndith  To  take  that  he  bryngith. 

Supra  tabulam  garciorum  &  operariorum. 

In  another  mannys  hous  Miche  desire  for  to  have 

Ne  be  thou  never  coveytous  For  that  is  the  condicion  of  a  Knave.        30 

Supra  tabulam  generosorum  &  armigerorum. 
Whoso  wol  his  worship  save  To  say  ye  best  that  he  can 

Honest  maners  he  most  have  Of  every  man  in  his  absence 

Hit  falleth  to  a  Gentelman  And  say  hym  soth  in  his  presence. 

In  fine  aulae  sic : 

Pauperis  in  specie  Christus  cum  venerit  Bonntn  est  adiscere  dum  juventus  durat 

ad  te  Nam  stultus  est  qui  nil  scit  &  nil  scire 

Hoc  partiri *  sibi  quod  dedit  ante  tibi.  curat. 


On  Sunday  last  at  three  in  the  Afternoon  dyed  the  Ld.  Chief  Justice 
Holt,  after  a  long  Indisposition,  in  the  68th  year  of  his  Age.  He  died  4° 
rich,  was  reckon'd  an  honest  Man,  and  was  as  great  a  Common  Lawyer 
as  ever  fill'd  that  Place.  —  On  Monday  Dr.  Sacheverell's  Council  went 
upon  the  3  remaining  articles  of  his  Impeachment,  and  a  great  many  vile 
Books  were  read  in  relation  to  the  toleration.  They  all  spoke  very  finely, 
and  finish'd  the  whole  on  Tuesday,  when  all  was  clos'd  by  the  Doctor 
himself  in  an  elegant  and  Pathetical  Speech,  wch  drew  tears  from  several 
of  the  auditors,  both  Men  and  Women.  The  Queen  herself  was  present, 

1  Forsan  partite. 


358  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

and  was  very  attentive.     The  Doctor's  Speech  lasted  an  hour  and  twenty 
Minutes. 

March  9  (Th.).  The  39  Articles  confirm'd  by  Parliam*  in  1571. 
See  Statutes  in  13°.  Eliz.  cap.  12.  —  The  English  Creede,  consenting  with 
the  true  auncient  Catholiqiie,  and  apostolique  Church  in  al  the  points  and 
articles  of  Religion  which  everie  Christian  is  to  knowe  and  beleeve  that 
would  be  saved.  By  Thomas  Rogers.  The  first  Parte  containing  only  19 
Articles.  At  London  imprinted  by  John  Windet  for  Andrew  Maunsel  at 
the  brasen  Serpent  in  Pauls  Church  Yard.  1585.  fol.  The  second 

10  Parte  came  out  afterwds.  being  printed  at  London  1587.  fol.  by  Robert 
Walde-grave,  for  Andrew  Maunsell,  at  the  Brasen  Serpent  in  Paul's 
Church- Yard,  and  it  contains  the  Remaining  articles.  The  Articles  in 
both  Parts  are  printed  at  large,  and  I  observe  that  the  controverted 
Clause  in  the  2Oth  is  exstant  in  this  Book.  Mr.  Wood  (Athense  Oxon. 
Vol.  r.  col.  341.)  mentions  another  Book,  with  almost  ye  same  title,  viz. 
The  English  Creed  ;  wherein  is  contained  in  tables  an  exposition  on  the 
articles  wcl1  every  man  is  to  subscribe  unto.  Where  the  articles  are  ex- 
pounded by  Scripture,  &  the  Confessions  of  all  the  reformed  Churches  & 
Heresies  are  displayed.  Lond.  1579.  &  85.  fol.  Mr.  Wood  seems  to  be 

20  mistaken,  &  this  very  Book  seems  to  me  to  be  the  same  with  that  I 
mention'd.  Mr.  Wood  perhaps  took  ye  Title  as  he  had  found  it  in  some 
Book,  where  Catalogues  of  Books  of  Divinity  were  mention'd,  &  the 
Titles  of  the  Authors  not  kept  to.  The  Book  I  mention'd  has  all  the 
particulars  mention'd,  nor  is  there  in  the  Preface  the  least  mention  of  a 
former  Edition  or  of  another  Book  of  the  same  Nature.  Nor  does  the 
title-Page  mention  a  former  Edition.  In  the  Preface  he  mentions  only 
the  first  Part  as  coming  out  in  1585,  &  says  that  the  other  should  come 
abroad,  if  it  so  should  please  God,  in  good  time.  The  Preface  is  dated 
at  London  the  6.  of  Februarie,  Anno  1585.  The  latter  Part  of  the  Title: 

30  the  first  Parte  in  most  Loyal  maner  to  the  Glorie  of  God,  credit  of  our 
Church,  and  displaceing  of  all  Haerisies,  and  errors,  both  olde  and  newe, 
contraries  to  the  faith,  subscribed  unto  by  Thomas  Rogers.  The  first 
Part  inscrib'd  to  Edmund  (Scambler  I  believe,  and  not  Freak)  BP.  of 
Norwich.  The  2nd.  Part  to  Sir  Christopher  Hatton,  Ld.  Chancellor  of 
England.  He  was  made  Ld.  Chancellor  in  1587.  What  makes  me  think 
these  Books  the  very  same  is  that  they  are  not  distinguish'd  in  the 
Antiquities  of  Oxford.  —  Catalogue  of  English  printed  Bookes :  which 
concerneth  such  Matters  of  Divinitie,  as  have  bin  either  written  in  our 
owne  Tongue,  or  translated  out  of  anie  other  language  :  And  have  bin 

40  published  to  the  Glory  of  God,  &  edification  of  the  Church  of  Christ  in 
England,  by  Andrew  Maunsell,  Bookeseller.  Lond.  pr.  by  John  Windet  for 
Andrew  Maunsell,  dwelling  in  Lothburie.  1595.  in  2  Parts  folio.  In  pag. 
5.  at  the  word  Articles :  Articles  whereupon  it  was  agreed  by  the  Arch- 
bishops and  Bishops  of  both  provinces  and  the  whole  clergie  in  the  con- 
vocation holden  at  London  1562.  for  the  avoydinge  of  diversities  of 
opinions,  and  for  establishing  of  consent  touching  true  religion,  printed 
by  Richard  Jugge.  1571.  in  4. — Articles  wereupon  it  was  agreede  by  the 
Archbishop  of  Cant,  and  the  other  Bishops  of  the  same  province  in  the 
Convocation  holden  at  Westminster.  1575.  touching  the  admission  of  apt 

5o  and  fit  persons  to  the  ministery  and  establishing  of  good  orders  in  the 


March  7-13.]         VOLUME  XXIII,  PAGES  215-225.  359 

Church,  printed  by  Rich.  Jugge  in  4. — The  same  title  of  the  Book  in 
1579.  with  that  in  Wood.  But  I  believe  that  'tis  a  false  print  in  Maun- 
sel,  because  I  do  not  find  that  he  mentions  the  Book  printed  in  1585. 
wch  without  doubt  he  would  had  these  been  two  different  Books.  This 
of  1579.  he  has  under  Creed.  The  2d.  Part  is  of  mathematicks,  &c.  — 
Mr.  Tho.  Ofield  A.M.  was  a  Benefactor  to  Oriel-Coll.  He  was  Fellow 
and  gave  several  of  his  Books  when  he  died.  —  Mr.  Randal  of  Oriel 
College  has  Tully's  Works  in  two  Tomes  folio  printed  at  Lyons  apud 
Petrum  Santandreanum,  with  Lambin's  Annotations,  and  Emendations. 
He  has  also  the  Edition  printed  at  Amsterdam  and  Leyden  in  two  10 
Quartos  by  the  Junior  Elzevirs,  accurante  Schrevelio.  Gruter's  Notes  in 
this  Edition  at  ye  Bottom  of  the  Page.  —  Mr.  Thomas  Ward  A.M.  & 
Fellow  of  Oriel  Coll.  has  taken  a  great  deal  of  usefull  Pains  in  compar- 
ing an  Edition  of  our  Liturgy  printed  in  fol.  by  Robert  Barker  in  1636. 
with  the  modern  Editions.  The  Variations  are  enter'd  in  the  Margin  and 
in  leaves  inserted,  and  the  Book  is  the  proper  Possession  of  Mr.  Randal 
of  that  College. 

March  11  (Sat.).  On  Thursday  the  Managers  against  Dr.  Sachever- 
ell  began  to  make  their  Reply  to  the  Defence  that  had  been  in  his  behalf 
by  Sir  Simon  Harcourt,  &c.  20 

March  13  (Mon.).  On  Friday  the  abovesaid  Managers  finish'd  their 
Reply.  The  whole  was  clos'd  by  Sir  Thomas  Parker,  Serjeant  at  Law, 
and  one  who  stands  fair  for  being  Ld.  chief  Justice  of  England.  He 
was  very  severe  against  Dr.  Sacheverell,  and  us'd  very  ill  Language  upon 
the  occasion,  calling  him  an  Impostor,  a  false  Prophet,  and  said  that  he 
had  forfeited  his  Orders,  with  abundance  of  other  stuff.  Afterwards  the 
Lords  proceeded  to  the  Debates,  but  were  stopp'd  at  y6  Beginning  by 


March  11.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  159).  Glad  that  Mr.  Bedford 
has  finished  his  excellent  undertaking.  '  Dr.  L.  by  his  base  Complyances,  and 
by  his  Cringing  to  the  Party,  purely  for  the  sake  of  Preferment,  has  lost  his 
Reputation  so  much  amongst  honest  Men,  that  divers  speak  of  him  with  as 
much  if  not  more  contempt  than  they  do  of  Dr.  White  Kennett.  He  has 
been  sufficiently  expos'd  upon  account  of  the  late  Election,  particularly  in  cer- 
tain Verses,  which  are  handed  about,  and  intitl'd  A  Ballad  upon  the  Oxfordshire 
Election,  the  two  last  Verses  whereof  are  these : 

Not  weather-cock  Kennett  such  turning  can  show, 

To  bail  High-Church  one  day,  and  the  next  vote  for  Low? 

The  author  of  the  Apparition  is  Mr.  Abel  Evans,  B.D.,  St.  John's.  His 
Sermon  of  Aug.  33,  1705,  with  its  allusion  to  the  Memorial.  '  Some  time  after 
this  Mr.  Evans  took  occasion  in  a  Speech  he  spoke  publickly  in  the  Hall  of  S*. 
John's  College  to  reflect  upon  and  asperse  Dr.  De  Laune  the  President,  and 
most  if  not  all  the  Society.  For  which  he  was  depriv'd  of  his  Chaplainship. 
The  Dutchess  of  Marlborough  order'd  him  Venison,  and  tho'  he  was  a  loose, 
ranting  Gentleman,  yet  he  was  mightily  caress'd  ;  'till  at  last  he  forsook  his  ill 
Principles,  reform'd  his  Course  of  Life,  declaim'd  against  the  Party,  and  exerted 
himself  with  much  warmth  in  behalf  of  those  whom  he  had  vilify'd  before. 
Upon  this  he  was  restor'd  to  his  Chaplainship,  and  he  set  himself  to  write  the 
ingenious  Poem  before  mention'd,  which  perhaps  may  bring  him  into  trouble.' 
Burmannus  is  about  an  ed.  of  Silius  Italicns ;  Spanheim  lately  sent  to  Dr. 
Hudson  to  get  the  only  Oxford  MS.  of  this  author — that  in  Queen's  Library — 
collated  for  his  use. 


360  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

the  Ld.  Nottingham,  who  propos'd  this  Question  to  the  Judges,  whether 
by  the  Laws  of  England  in  all  Prosecutions  and  Indictements  for  Crimes 
and  Misdemeanours  by  words  or  writing  the  several  Particulars  of  the 
Criminal  ought  not  to  be  specify'd  in  the  Indictement,  and  the  Judges 
declar'd  themselves  unanimously  in  the  Affirmative.  Then  the  Debates 
began  and  after  three  Hours  spent  in  them  the  Ld8.  came  to  this  Resolu- 
tion that  in  the  Tryal  they  would  act  according  to  the  Laws  of  England, 
&  the  Laws,  Usage  and  Customs  of  Parliament. 

March  15  (Wed.).     In  Bibl.  Bodl.  super  Art.  D.  &c.  121.  MS.— Rich. 

10  Ringstede  super  29.  Capita  Parabolarum  Salamonis — At  the  beginning  of 
the  Booke,  Cathenetur  juxta  Holkotte  super  Sapientiam  Salamonis  ;  and 
just  under,  Hunc  librum  dederunt  $•  disposuerunt  Executores  testamenti 
bonce  memories  Edmundi  Lacy  nuper  Exoniensis  Episcopi  Ecclesice  Cath. 
Exon.  cathenandum  in  magna  libraria  ejusdem  Ecclesice  in  perpetuam  me- 
moriam.  Wcl1  last  Note  is  also  at  ye  Beginning  of  MS*,  super  Art.  D.  123. 
—  In  the  Bodlejan  Library  is  a  MS*,  containing  the  Epistles  of  Gilbert 
Stone,  &  divers  other  things  (super  Art.  D.  123)  in  wcl*  at  page  292.  b.  is 
Planctus  Universitatis  Oxon.  contra  Laicos,  tempore  magni  conflictus. 
These  verses  were  made  at  the  time  that  the  said  great  Conflict  happen'd, 

20  wck  was  in  1354.  beginning  upon  S*.  Scholastica's  Day,  at  wch  time  were 
also  other  verses  made,  w°h  may  be  seen  bound  up  with  some  MSS*8. 

March  16  (Th.).  On  Saturday  last  the  Queen  made  Sir  Thomas 
Parker,  (one  of  the  Managers  against  Dr.  Sacheverell,  and  Member  of 
Parliament  for  Derby,  and  Serjeant  at  Law)  Ld.  Chief  Justice  of  England 
in  room  of  Sir  John  Holt,  and  he  was  sworn  on  Monday.  He  is 
reckon'd  a  good  (tho*  not  an  honest)  Lawyer,  and  is  about  45  or 
46  Years  of  Age.  'Tis  likewise 1  said  that  her  Majesty  has  nominated 
one  Dr.  Bradford,  Minister  of  S*.  Mary  le  Bow,  and  Prebendary  of 
Westminster,  BP.  of  S*.  David's,  and  one  Dr.  Barton2,  Vicar  of  Christ 

30  Church,  BP.  of  Bristoll,  both  wcl1  she  has  done  at  the  Recommendation 
of  the  heavy  ArchbP  of  Canterbury.  Barton  was  formerly  of  Corpus 
Christi  College  Oxon.  They  are  both  obscure  Men,  of  no  note  for 
Learning,  having  never  shew'd  one  single  specimen  of  it.  They  are 
however  now  cry'd  up  by  the  Whiggs,  and  are  characteriz'd  to  be 
Scholars,  Men  of  Piety,  Prudence,  and  moderation,  and  'tis  like  enough 
they  are  moderation  Men  in  the  sense  y*  the  Party  take  y6  word,  that 
is  such  as  are  against  the  Church  of  England,  Men  that  are  lukewarm, 
will  sit  still  and  let  ye  Enemy  prevail  without  opposition,  and  will  brand 
those  that  either  write  or  discourse  in  defense  of  the  Church  of  England 

40  and  against  her  Enemies  as  men  of  turbulent  spirits,  Incendiaries  of  the 
nation,  and  Creators  of  Jealousy  in  her  Majesty's  Good  Subjects.  But 


March  15.  Thoresby  to  H.  (Rawl.  10.  64).  Cannot  find  among  his 
miscellanies  a  copy  of  the  Articles,  Latin  or  English,  before  1 600.  Has  tran- 
scribed a  substantial  answer  to  Priestcraft  in  Perfection  by  our  excellent 
Recorder  Mr.  Thornton.  Trespasses  upon  the  Fast  Day  rather  than  miss  a 
post.  Domestic  news. 

1  But  not  truly. 

*  Not  so.     BP.  Hall  was  succeeded  by  Dr.  Robinson,  afterwards  BP.  of  London. 


March  13-18.]      VOLUME  XXIII,  PAGES  225-237.  361 

tho'  the  Queen  has  nominated  Dr.  Barton,  'tis  said  he  declines,  and  now 
some  other  low  Church  Man  must  be  pitch'd  upon,  such  another 
perhaps  as  that  Rascal  Ben  Hoadly,  who  'tis  discours'd  is  to  be  Pre- 
bendary of  Westminster  in  room  of  Dr.  Bradford,  and  'tis  further  talk'd 
that  a  Mandate  is  sent  to  Cambridge  to  create  him  Dr.  of  Divinity.  — 
On  Monday  the  Lords  began  their  Debates  again  about  Dr.  Sacheverell's 
Case,  and  a  Committee  was  selected  for  searching  Precedents.  Wc^ 
Precedents  were  reported  and  read  the  Day  following,  some  of  wch  had 
the  Particulars  of  the  Impeachments  specify'd,  and  others  not.  so  y* 
'tis  fear'd  'twill  still  go  very  hard  against  ye  Doctor.  —  On  Sunday  10 
last  dining  with  Dr.  Aldrich  Dean  of  Christ  Church,  that  Great  Man 
was  pleas'd  to  make  very  honourable  mention  of  Dr.  Olearius,  and  to 
give  a  great  Character  of  his  late  Edition  of  Philostratus,  the  notes  to 
wch  he  says  are  excellent,  and  amongst  other  things  he  observ'd  that 
the  Publisher  had  shew'd  in  some  of  them  good  Skill  in  ancient  Musick, 
of  wch  no  man  is  a  better  Judge  than  this  Excellent  Dean,  as  may  partly 
appear  from  the  Excellent  Remarks  of  his  in  the  Marmora  Oxoniensia 
publish'd  by  Dr.  Prideaux. 

March  18  (Sat.).  The  Lords  having  debated  a  great  while  about 
Dr.  Sacheverell's  Case  on  Tuesday  'twas  voted  in  their  House  whether  20 
'twas  necessary  that  the  several  particulars  of  his  Impeachment  should 
be  incerted  in  the  Inditement,  and  'twas  carried  in  the  Negative.  — 
The  Dr.  has  printed  his  Speech  spoken  at  the  Bar  of  the  House  of 
Lords  on  March  the  7th,  and  dedicated  it  to  their  Lordships.  The 
Cause  of  his  printing  it  is  upon  Account  of  it's  having  been  misrepre- 
sented, &  of  several  false  Interpretations  being  put  upon  it.  He  touches 
in  the  Speech  upon  all  the  Articles  and  Branches  of  his  Accusation, 
and  takes  notice  of  some  things  that  had  been  omitted  by  his  Managers. 
He  had  been  said  to  have  preach'd  up  the  Doctrine  of  Resistance  at  ye 
same  time  that  he  preach'd  against  it,  y*  is  (as  some  explain'd  them-  3° 
selves)  he  preach'd  up  Non-Resistance  to  the  Pretender  and  Resistance 
to  her  present  Majesty.  For  clearing  wch  he  appeals  to  his  publish'd 
Writings,  and  declares  himself  to  have  taken  the  oath  of  Allegiance 
to  her  Majesty  and  the  oath  of  Abjuration  against  ye  Pretender.  In 


March  18.  Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.  (Smith  127.  152).  '  Sir,— I  thanke  you 
for  the  large  account  you  give  mee  of  Mr.  E.  Author  of  the  ingenious  poem, 
call'd  ye  Apparition.  I  am  very  glad  that  hee  has  some  while  since  relinquished 
his  Whig-principles  &  notions,  and  his  vaine  &  loose  way  of  living,  &  is  now  be- 
come an  honest,  virtuous,  &  good  man,  &  I  hope  wil  alwais  continue  so.  It 
pleases  mee  exceedingly  y*  Burman  of  Utrecht,  whether  upon  pure  conviction 
of  mind  &  conference,  or  dissuaded  by  his  friends,  has  utterly  abandoned  his 
impious  designe  of  publishing  ye  Priapx'ia  carmina,  to  wch  his  wanton  phantasy 
had  formerly  carryed  him,  &  is  now  resolved  to  shew  his  judgm*  &  skill  in 
Philological  learning  or  Subjects  of  a  more  important  &  innocent  nature :  th6 
I  wish,  hee  had  chosen  a  better  Author,  than  Siliiu  Italicus.  The  latter  end 
of  ye  last  weeke  a  learned  friend  left  with  mee  for  a  few  dayes  two  pretty  thick 
octavo  volumes,  very  lately  reprinted  at  Lipsick  from  the  Paris-copy,  entitled, 
Bibliotheca  Sacra,  seu  Syllabus  omnium  Jere  sacrae  Scripturae  editionum  ac  •versio- 
num — almost  in  all  languages,  adjunctis  praestantissimis  ccdd.  MSS,  done  by  Le 
Long,  Prefect  of  the  Library  ot  the  Convent  of  the  Oratorians  at  Paris.  A 


363  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1710 : 

short  he  asserts  his  Innocency,  protests  himself  firm  for  the  House  of 
Hanover  &  the  succession  in  the  Protestant  Line  as  by  law  established, 
shows  his  Sorrow  for  the  Loss  of  the  Duke  of  Gloucester,  and  words 
the  whole  in  such  terms  as  one  would  think  cannot  but  move  his  Judges 
to  acquit  him.  —  I  have  been  told  by  a  certain  Master  of  Arts,  a  Divine 
&  Fellow  of  a  College  in  Oxon.  that  Le  Clerc's  Late  Edition  of 
Menander  and  Philemon,  in  Greek  and  Latin,  is  full  of  faults.  —  In 
Bibl.  Bodl.  Art.  C.  i.  7.  is  Wernerus  Roleuincke's  Fasciculus  temporum 
in  a  Broad  but  thin  folio,  done  by  way  of  Tables.  At  the  End,  Fas- 
10  ciculus  temporum  a  Carthusiense  compilatum  Informant  cronicis  figura/um 
Usque  in  annum  1478.  A  me  Nicolao  Gotz  de  Seltzstal  impressum.  See 
about  it  in  Vossius  de  Historicis  Latinis. 

March  19  (Sun.).  Tell  Mr.  Barnes  of  Berglerus's  Edition  of  Homer 
in  2  8V°/S  in  Greek  &  Latin,  in  a  small  Letter.  He  has  corrected  the 
Translation.  —  Dr.  Adam  Littleton  made  a  great  many  Additions  to 
Seberus's  Index  of  Homer,  contain'd  in  5  Interleav'd  Volumes.  So 
I  have  gather'd  from  the  Catalogue  of  Dr.  Littleton's  Books  sold  by 
Auction  in  1695.  at  London.  What  is  become  of  it  I  know  not.  'Twas 
not  bid  for  in  ye  Auction,  as  appears  from  the  priz'd  Catalogue  wch  I 
20  have  seen. 

March  20  (Mon.).  On  Friday  last  'twas  carried  in  ye  House  of 
Lords  that  the  Commons  had  made  good  in  all  Points  their  Charge 
against  Dr.  Sacheverell,  and  now  nothing  remains  but  sentence.  There 
were  only  n  BPS.  present,  whereof  2,  viz.  BP.  Burnett  of  Sarum  and 
BP.  Talbot  of  Oxon  spoke  against  the  Doctrine  of  Passive  obedience, 
and  the  BP.  of  London,  Dr.  Compton,  and  the  BP.  of  Bathe  and  Wells, 
Dr.  Hooper,  spoke  for  it,  but  not  as  the  Dr.  had  manag'd  it  The 
Sentence,  wch  'tis  exspected  will  be  severe,  is  to  be  pronounc'd  to 
morrow.  The  Clergy  may  thank  themselves  for  these  sad  troubles 
30  occasion'd  by  their  Defection  in  giving  up  the  Doctrine  of  Non-resist- 
ance and  Passive-Obedience  in  the  late  Revolution,  and  tho'  they  now 
insist  upon  it,  yet  'tis  only  a  reproach  to  them,  &  they  are  only  laugh'd 
at  for  it,  and  'twill  be  impossible  for  them  ever  to  heal  the  Scandal  they 
have  brought  upon  themselves,  and  they  must  now  be  forc'd  to  acknow- 
ledge that  the  Non-jurors  were  the  only  truly  honest  Men  &  the  best 
Friends  to  the  Church  of  England.  —  ...  The  Descent  of  the  Family  of 
Bruce  by  Mr.  St.  Loe  Kniveton.  In  the  Ashmol.  Museum  inter  Codices 
Woodij  num.  77.  in  Quarto.  C.  6.  It  contains  90  Pages  written  in  a 
large  Hand,  &  some  of  the  Pages  not  full.  At  ye  Beginning  is  a  Genea- 


work  of  great  industry  and  labour :  but  my  bad  eyes  wil  not  suffer  mee  to  look 
into  it,  so  as  to  enable  mee  to  judge  of  the  accuracy  of  his  performance. 
This  booke  you  cannot  wel  bee  without  in  the  publick  Library.  What  hee 
sayes  of  the  English  Biblia  Polyglotta,  &  of  our  Greek  editions  of  y"  N.  T. 
especially  of  that  of  Dr.  Mills,  deserves  to  bee  considered  &  enlarged  upon. 
This  edition,  as  it  is  new  modelled  &  disposed  in  a  better  order  by  Kusterus,  I 
perceive  by  this  Author  p.  509  is  published  very  lately  at  Amsterdam :  wch  I 
do  not  heare  is  yet  brought  over  into  England.  I  have  written  so  farr  with 
great  uneasines  &  difficulty,  &  at  present  am  not  able  to  write  more. — I  am, 
Sir,  Your  humble  Serv*  T.  S.' 


March  18-21.]      VOL.  XXIII,  PAGE  237—  VOL.  XXIV,  PAGE  5.    363 

logical  Table,  wch  I  think  is  y6  substance  of  w*  is  contain'd  in  the 
Book,  wch  is  nothing  but  extracts  out  of  printed  Books,  MSS*.  Charters, 
&c.  —  Some  Remarks  on  Mr.  Whiston's  Dissertation  about  X*'9  Ascen- 
sion &c.  with  a  Postscript  on  Mr.  Dodwell's  opinion  for  the  Natural 
Mortality  of  the  Soul.  By  John  Wright,  M.A.  Rector  of  Kirton,  in 
Nottinghamshire.  Lond.  1  709.  a  small  8™.  .  .  . 

VOL.  XXIV. 

March  21  (Tu.),  1710.  The  Antients  us'd  Brass  Arms  before  Iron 
ones.  Hence  Hesiod,  xaA*<5  S*  fipyd(oi>To,  fj.f\as  8'  OVK  ta-Ke  o-t'S/jpo?.  i.e. 
./Ere  laborabant,  necdum  ferrum  erat  nigrum.  Gsesa  were  darts  proper 
to  the  Gauls,  as  the  Sarissae  were  to  ye  Macedonians,  and  ye  framese  to  10 
ye  Germans.  Servius  also  notes  y*  the  Gauls  call'd  valiant  and  couragious 
Men  by  y6  Name  of  gaesi  :  and  Plutarch  y*  mercenary  souldiers  were 
call'd  by  ym  gaesatae.  See  Caelius  Rhodiginus  Var.  lectt.  1.  xxi.  c.  18.  — 
The  antients  were  of  opinion  y*  there  is  more  virtue  in  Brass  than  in 
any  other  Metal.  And  yi  was  ye  reason  y*  they  us'd  Brass  Instrumts. 
in  their  Sacred  Offices.  Hence  Virgil,  Curetum  sonitus  crepitantiaque 
sera.  And  Corminius  in  ye  nd  Book  de  Italia  notes  y*  ye  Tuscans 
us'd  a  Brass  Plowshare  when  their  Cities  were  built.  And  amongst  ye 
Sabins  ye  Priests  were  shav'd  with  Brass  Instrum*8.  And  'tis  well 
known  y*  the  Antients  made  use  of  Brass  lustrum*8  when  y6  Moon  2° 
was  in  Eclipse,  thinking  y*  by  y°  beating  of  ym  she  would  the  more 
easily  be  brought  from  Labour.  Besides  others  even  Livy  himself 
takes  notice  of  this  Custom,  in  ye  xxvi*h  Book.  cap.  5.  See  Rhodigini 
var.  lectt.  1.  xxix.  c.  6.  —  The  following  Inscription  writ  at  y6  End  of 
an  old  Edition  of  Sallust  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  printed  at  Venice  per  Baptistam 
de  Tortis  M  cccc  LXXXI.  die  xxiii.  decembris,  in  w°k  Edition  are  added 
divers  Lections  from  MSSt3.  by  some  Learned  Hand. 


HOSP6S  Q  DelCO  PAVLVMeST  AST*  "°  AC 
HIC  €STS6PVLCRVM:  HAV  PVLCRVM  PVLCRAI  F6MINA1 
NOMEN  PAR6NT6S  NOMINARVNT  CLAVDIAM  3° 

SVOM  MAR6ITVM  CORD6  DIL6XIT  SOVO 
GNATOS  DVOS  CREAVIT:  HORH'VC  ALTERVNC 
IN  TERRA  LINQT:  ALIVM  SVB  TeRRA  LOCAT 
S6RMON6  LePIDO:  TVM  eTIAM  INC€SSV  COMODO 

DOMVM  S6RVAVIT 

LANAM  F€CIT 

DIXI  AB6I 


In  the  Bodlejan  Library  C.  4.  i.  Art.  is  a  very  thick  folio,  being  a 
Chronicle  from  the  Beginning  of  the  World  to  the  Year  1475.  at  wch 
time  'twas  printed  at  Lubeck  by  Master  Luke  Brandis  de  Schase.  The 
Title  is  Epithoma  Chronicorum  sive  rudimentum  novia'orum,  and  it  de- 
serves to  be  particularly  consider'd  by  Mr.  Bagford.  There  are  Pictures 

1  Supra  lin.  sed  eadem,  ut  videtur,  delevit  manus.  PAVLVMCST  ASTA  AC 


364  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

in  it  of  Cities,  Towns  and  Persons,  &  at  ye  Beginning  are  Genealogical 
tables,  much  like  those  that  were  done  by  Mr.  Speed,  or  rather  Mr.  Hugh 
Broughton,  and  are  commonly  prefix'd  to  our  Bibles.  —  Mr.  Camden 
gave  a  Copy  of  ye  folio  Edition  of  his  Britannia  to  the  Bodlejan  Library 
himself,  and  at  the  beginning  he  has  writ  this  Memorandum  with  his 
own  Hand:  Almse  Matri  Academiae  Oxoniensi  hoc  qualecunque 
epEDTHPiON  Guilielmus  Camdenus  Clarenceux  qui  plura  debet  L.  M.  S. 

March  23  (Th.).     On  Monday  the  IA  Chancellor  took  the  opinions 
of  the  Ld8.  one  by  one  whether  IX  Sacheverell  was  guilty  or  not  guilty 

10  of  the  Crimes  charg'd  against  him,  and  'twas  carried  by  a  Majority1  of 
17  Voices  that  he  is  guilty.  Six  BPS.  were  for  him  &  7  against  him. 
The  next  day  Sentence  was  pronounc'd  against  him,  wch  is  that  he  be 
suspended  from  preaching  for  the  space  of  three  years,  wc^  was  carried 
ag*  him  by  a  majority  of  six  voices ;  but  'twas  withall  carried  by  one 
Voice  that  he  be  in  that  time  capable  of  any  farther  Preferment.  He 
is  likewise  to  exercise  any  of  his  other  Priestly  offices  besides  Preaching ; 
but  his  Sermon  is  order'd  to  be  burnt  by  the  common-Hangman,  and 
the  IA  Mayor  and  Sheriff  are  to  attend. 

This  Moderate  Punishment  caus'd  Bonefires  and  Illuminations  to  be 

20  made  in  London,  it  being  contrary  to  what  was  exspected  by  any  People 
after  the  severe  Proceedings  against  him,  and  the  extravagant  Favours 
shew'd  to  those  that  had  been  the  most  warm  against  him.  But  this 
Mitigation  must  be  owing  in  some  measure  to  the  Dr'B  Speech,  in  wch  he 
has  flatter'd  the  Lords,  declar'd  himself  for  Revolution  Principles  (that  is 
a  Friend  to  the  late  Settlement),  acknowledges  that  he  has  taken  the  Oath 


March  22.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  49).  Thanks  for  favours  received 
from  H.  Hopes  the  helmet  may  prove  to  be  the  fellow  of  Woodward's  shield ; 
remarks  on  bucculae,  and  the  fabrica  of  the  Bath  inscription.  Glad  that 
Wolfius  has  got  the  professor's  place.  '  My  eyes  do  very  much  discourage  my 
Studyes,  though  I  have  no  other  so  gratefull  employment  of  my  little  time.' 
Two  words  (alii gladios)  omitted  in  H.'s  Livy  xliv.  34.  '  I  hope  the  good  news 
cone.  Dr.  Sache^eril  will  reach  you  before  this  can  do  so.' 

March  23.  Bagford  to  H.  (Rawl.  21.  17).  Sends  a  piece  of  St.  Augustine 
(Argentine  1489,  tol.j,  ot  Thomas  Aquinas  (1478),  Marbath's  [sic]  Concordance 
(Grafton  1550),  &c.  Asks  for  translations  of  portions  of  them.  Does  not 
believe  in  the  alleged  origin  of  printing  at  Haarlem.  Expects  that  several 
shields  similar  to  Woodward's  will  in  time  be  produced.  Believes  that  the 
Shield  Gallery  at  Whitehall  was  erected  in  the  days  of  Henry  VIII,  like  the 
Harness  Gallery  at  Hampton  Court,  built  by  Cardinal  Wolsey  but  now  de- 
stroyed. '  King  Hen  ye  8  was  ye  Gratest  prince  in  Europe  and  was  Courted 
by  all  ye  pottentats  :  as  if  you  remember  ye  story  Raphall  when  he  had  finished 
ye  Cartutunes  desined  for  a  set  of  Hangins  for  ye  pope  or  ye  Emperor :  I  will 
not  be  sartane  they  nether  would  or  inded  could  not  purshas  them  his  demandes 
being  grat  but  was  aduised  to  offer  them  to  ye  King  of  England,  our  Kg.  H. : 
ye  8  whou  bought  them  &  now  remane  at  Hamton  Court.'  Perhaps  the 
shields  were  purchased  by,  or  a  present  to,  Henry  VIII,  or  the  Cardinal. 
Believes  that  the  shields  and  helmet  came  out  of  the  Shield  Gallery  at  White- 
hall or  the  Tower  of  London,  whence  they  were  taken  in  1648.  H.  to  F. 
Cherry  (Rawl.  36.  32).  Writes  by  Mr.  Gunnis;  the  V.  C.  grown  rather 
meaner,  in  honest  men's  opinions,  than  Dr.  Kennett.  '  We  cannot  sufficiently 

1  69  Ldi  ag*  him,  &  52  for  him. 


March  21-25.]  VOLUME  XXIV,  PAGES  5-17.  365 

of  Allegiance  to  her  Majesty  and  broke  through  the  other  wicked  Oath 
call'd  the  Abjuration  Oath,  says  that  there  was  no  Resistance  in  the  late 
happy  Revolution,  (so  he  calls  it,  according  to  the  common  Cant)  wch  is 
in  effect  to  allow  Rebellion  in  some  Cases,  there  being  nothing  more 
plain  than  that  that  was  such,  and  by  consequence  he  contradicts  what 
he  had  asserted  in  his  Sermon  namely  that  Resistance  is  lawfull  upon  no 
account  w*ever.  This  is  likewise  the  observation  of  several  others,  who 
think  the  Dr.  has  receded.  There  are  withall  some  other  things  in  his 
Speech  w°h  plainly  show  that  he  is  not  a  man  of  that  Integrity  he  would 
be  taken  to  be,  tho'  it  must  be  granted  he  has  shew'd  himself  in  this  Case  I0 
to  be  a  brave,  bold  Man,  and  in  the  main  truly  honest,  and  he  has 
merited  the  Applause  of  all  good  Friends  to  the  Church  of  England  and 
Monarchy.  — 

A  list  of  the  Names  of  the  Peers  who  gave  Judgment  in  Dr.  Sachev- 
erell's  Tryal,  March  2Oth  17^^ 

March  24  (Fri.).  Last  Night  and  on  Wednesday  N'ght  were  Bon- 
fires in  Oxford  for  Joy  of  Dr.  Sacheverell's  being  deliver'd  with  so  gentle 
a  Punishment,  and  the  Mob  burnt  a  tub,  with  the  Image  of  a  tub  Preacher, 
in  one  of  them.  —  Yesterday  one  Bear  of  Wadham  Coll.  of  whom  I 
spoke  formerly,  renounc'd  his  Blasphemous  Expressions  (spoke  by  him  a  30 
Year  before)  in  the  Apodyterium  before  the  Vice-chancellor  &  Proctors. 

March  25  (Sat.).  Yesterday  Morning  died  of  a  Palsy  or  Apoplexy, 
Dr.  Stephen  Fry,  an  eminent  Physitian  and  lately  of  Trinity  College,  from 
wch  he  was  expell'd  (as  I  have  given  an  Account  before.)  He  died 
very  wealthy,  and  left  a  thousand  Pounds  to  Mr.  Stone's  Hospital  in  S*. 
Clements's  Parish  Oxon.  He  was  Son  to  John  Fry,  one  of  King  Charles 
the  i^'s  Judges,  of  whom  there  is  large  mention  in  Ant.  a  Wood's  Athenae 
Oxon.  Vol.  2.  Col.  246,  247,  248.  —  In  Bibl.  Bodl.  supra  Art.  M.  129. 
a  MS*,  containing  divers  Tracts  of  Richard  Hampole's,  at  y6  End  where- 
of in  a  Hand  of  the  same  Age,  Ricardus  Rolle  Heremita  de  Hampole,  qui  3° 
obijt  anno  Domini  M.CCC.XL.IX.  <$f  jacet  tumulatus  apud  Sanctimoniales 
de  Hampole.  —  I  have  by  me  a  Book  in  folio  call'd  Aurelij  Augustini 
opuscula  plurima.  of  an  old  print.  At  the  Beginning  is  an  index  in  MS*. 

deplore  the  fate  of  Dr.  Sacheverell.  But  the  clergy  may  thank  themselves  in 
a  great  measure  for  these  troubles.'  Reproduces,  almost  verbatim,  Dr.  Smith's 
remarks  on  the  subject  in  letter  of  March  4.  Le  Long's  Biblioibeca  Sacra; 
Kuster's  new  modelling  and  improving  of  Dr.  Mill ;  Dean  Aldrich's  opinion  of 
Olearius'  Philostratus.  Mr.  Schelwig  has  escaped  the  plague.  Small-pox  very 
rife  and  fatal  here. 

March  25.  H.  to  Dr.  T.  Smith  (Rawl.  38.  160).  Thanks  for  the  relation 
cone.  F.  Le  Long's  Bibliotheca  Sacra.  The  author  inserted  an  account  in  the 
Daily  Courant  of  June  9,  1708,  requesting  that  any  gentlemen  having  papers 
or  observations  on  the  same  subject  would  communicate  them  to  him.  H. 
remembers  to  have  seen  a  large  List  of  our  English  Bibles  drawn  up  by 
Wanley  and  Bagford,  on  purpose  to  be  sent  to  Paris  [cf.  Bagford  to  H. 
Rawl.  21.  26,  undated].  Hears  high  commendation  of  Olearius'  ed.  of  Philo- 
stratus, while  Kuster's  Aristophanes  and  Le  Clerc's  Fragments  of  Menander 
and  Philemon  are  said  to  be  full  of  faults.  Sends  a  transcript  of  a  remarkable 
inscription  from  a  Sallust  printed  in  folio  at  Venice  by  Baptista  de  Tortis  in 
1481,  which  he  may  consider  and  publish  hereafter  [printed,  Leland's  Itinerary, 
v.  137].  'We  are  glad  to  hear  that  the  Sentence  against  Dr.  Sacheverell  is 


366  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1710 : 

and  two  notes  of  former  owners  of  it,  one  of  Leonard  Ardern  who 
bought  it  for  33.  4d.  &  the  other  of  John  Powell  who  purchas'd  it  for  35. 
'Tis  printed  upon  very  good  Paper,  in  a  black  Letter,  the  words  abbrevi- 
ated. The  last  part  of  it  is  Possidonius's  Life  of  S*.  Augustine.  'Twas 
printed  at  Argentine  or  Strasbourg  at  ye  Expense  and  by  the  care  of 
Martin  Flach  in  the  Year  1489,  13  Kal.  of  April  (or  the  19*^  of  March) 
and  are  said  to  be  correctly  printed,  according  to  ye  Note  and  verses, 
(according  to  ye  Custom  of  ye  first  Printers)  annex'd.  w°h  verses  do  also 
intimate  that  whereas  the  Taste  of  Readers  is  various,  some  delighting  in 

jo  Poetry,  others  in  Philology,  &  others  in  Divinity,  he  has  endeavour'd  to 
oblige  the  latter  by  printing  these  Pieces  of  Augustin  together  to  be  pur- 
chas'd at  a  cheap  rate,  &  perform'd  w*k  y6  utmost  diligence  by  the  said 
Martin,  who  was  noted  for  a  nice,  accurate  Printer.  —  I  have  also  the 
3d.  Part  of  Thomas  Aquinas's  Summs,  printed  upon  very  fine  Paper,  and 
in  a  clean  Letter,  (the  great  Letters  whereof  are  illuminated  throughout 
with  much  Pains)  in  ye  Year  1478.  the  day  before  the  Ides  of  Maij  ('tis 
printed  pridie  Madij)  (i.e.  the  14*^  of  May)  in  1478.  The  Name  of  the 
Place  is  not  specify'd,  but  the  Printers  names  are  express'd  at  y6  End, 
where  likewise  ye  Date  appears,  viz.  Jo.  de  Colonia  &  Mathen  de  Gheret- 

ao  zem  who  were  co-partners  and  are  represented  to  be  viri  providi,  pru- 
dent and  accurate  Persons.  Perhaps  the  Book  was  printed  at  Cologn. 
But  quaere  in  Beughen.  It  has  additions  also  to  ye  3d  Part  of  the 
Summs.  Beughen  mentions  this  3d  Part  to  have  come  out  by  it  self  in 
the  very  same  Year  above  specify'd,  but  he  does  not  tell  us  where  'twas 
printed.  Nor  indeed  could  he  guess  where  'twas  printed ;  tho'  he  men- 
tions several  Pieces  of  Aquinas  to  have  been  printed  at  Cologne,  &  'tis 
not  at  all  unlikely  that  this  was  one,  if  we  may  guess  from  ye  Sirname  of 
one  of  ye  Printers.  —  I  have  likewise  The  Concordance  of  the  Bible 
compil'd  by  Mr.  John  Marbeck,  who  was  Bachelour  of  Musick  at  Oxford, 

30  according  to  Mr.  Wood's  Fasti,  (Athen.  &  Fasti  Oxon.  Vol.  i.  col.  704.) 
who  also  mentions  divers  other  Books  written  and  publish'd  by  him. 
This  Concordance,  wc^  is  in  Folio,  was  printed  by  Richard  Grafton  in 
the  Year  1550.  &  is  the  first  Concordance  that  ever  was  publish'd  in 
English.  'Tis  now  become  scarse.  The  whole  Story  about  it  may  be 
read  in  Fox's  martyrology,  Vol.  2.  pag.  461.  of  the  last  Edition  at  Lon- 
don 1684.  where  you  will  also  find  the  Troubles  the  Author  underwent 
for  it.  He  was  assisted  in  this  Work  by  Mr.  Richd.  Turner,  of  whom 
Mr.  Wood  has  given  an  account  Vol.  i.  Athen.  Oxon.  Col.  91.  So  Mr. 
Wood,  but  Marbeck  deny'd  to  ye  BP  of  Winchester  that  any  man  assisted 

40  him  in  this  Book.  See  Fox  Vol.  2.  p.  462.  Marbeck  was  but  illiterate, 
understanding  very  little  Latin,  as  appears  from  the  Process  against  him 
and  his  own  Confession.  From  Mr.  Fox  it  appears  afterwds  (pag.  464.) 
that  Marbeck  was  put  upon  the  Work  by  Turner,  wch  might  make  Mr. 
Wood  say  he  assisted  him.  He  was  come  but  to  the  Letter  M  when  he 

not  so  severe  as  was  exspected.  I  am  apt  to  think  that  the  Mildness  of  his 
Punishment  is  in  some  degree  owing  to  his  Speech,  which  tho'  well  penn'd  yet 
I  observe  that  in  it  he  has  flatter5  d  the  Lords,  speaks  well  of  the  Revolution, 
and  in  that  Case  plainly  gives  up  the  Doctrine  of  Passive-Obedience  and  Non- 
Resistance,  acknowledges  that  he  has  taken  the  Oaths  of  Allegiance  and 
Abjuration,  and  declares  for  the  Succession  as  settled  by  Act  of  Parliament.' 


March  25-27.]         VOLUME  XXIV,  PAGES  17-31.  367 

was  examin'd  and  troubled  by  the  BP  of  Winchester  in  1543. — See  ibid, 
p.  464.  He  gives  special  and  undenyable  Proof  y*  he  was  y6  Compiler 
himself  of  this  Concordance,  ibid.  In  ye  Dedication  of  the  Concordance 
to  King  Edw.  VI.  he  saith  he  never  had  any  Litterary  Education,  being 
altogether  brought  up  in  the  College  of  Windsor  in  the  study  of  Musick 
and  playing  on  Organs.  Mr.  Wood  is  not  positive  whether  he  was  Bach, 
of  Musick  or  not,  ye  Register  being  defective. 

March  26  (Sun.).     Not  only  one,  but  both  Dr.  Sacheverell's  Sermons 
are  order'd  to  be  burnt,  and  the  Sheriffs  of  London  and  Middlesex  with 
ye  IA  Mayor  are  to  see  it  done.     The  day  fix'd  is  to  morrow  at  eleven  10 
of  ye  Clock. 

March  27  (Mon.).  The  Business  of  Dr.  Sacheverell's  Tryal  being 
finish'd,  on  Thursday  last  the  Lords  order'd  the  Decree  of  the  University 
of  Oxford  (against  Blasphemous  Books,  and  anti-monarchical  Tenets  &c.) 
made  in  the  Year  1683.  &  the  Cambridge  Address  at  ye  same  time,  to  be 
burnt  upon  this  Day  together  with  Dr.  Sacheverell's  Sermons.  Which 
ought  not  to  be  wonder'd  at,  since  most  of  those  very  People  that  agreed 
to  y*  Decree  acted  in  ye  late  Revolution  quite  contrary  to  it,  and  this  is 
only  to  ridicule  and  upbraid  them.  The  Commons  also  order'd  that  the 
Collections  of  Dr.  Sacheverell,  of  wch  there  are  two  Editions,  out  of  20 
Books  and  Sermons  in  Defence  of  Passive  Obedience,  and  to  represent 
the  horrid  Blasphemies  &c.  advanc'd  of  late,  be  burnt  by  the  common- 
Hangman  on  Saturday  last,  wch  was  accordingly  done.  They  likewise 
order'd  that  the  Rights  of  y®  Christian  Church  with  the  Defenses  of  it,  & 
a  Book  (written  by  one  Clendon,  common-Lawyer,  and  an  old  Villain,) 
call'd  Persona,  wch  is  to  expose  and  render  mean  and  ridiculous  the 
Doctrine  of  ye  Trinity,  be  burnt  also  by  ye  Hands  of  ye  Common  Hang- 
man, and  an  address  is  agreed  upon  to  be  presented  to  her  Majesty  y* 
she  should  be  pleas'd  to  order  y*  the  Attorney  General  do  prosecute  the 
authors  &  Publishers  of  these  &  other  Blasphemous  Books.  —  Mr.  30 
Bromley  has  mov'd  that  an  Address  be  presented  to  her  Majesty  y*  she 
would  be  pleas'd  to  issue  her  Royal  Proclamation  for  a  general  Fast  to 
implore  God's  Blessing,  and  to  avert  his  Judgments  wcl1  are  to  be  fear'd 
upon  account  of  ye  horrid  Blasphemies,  irreligion  and  Prophaness  ad- 
vanc'd and  publish'd  in  several  late  Books  &  Pamphletts ;  upon  wch  a 
Debate  arose  about  a  Clause  to  be  inserted  relating  to  Dr.  Sacheverell, 
viz.  that  the  said  Blasphemies,  Irreligion,  and  prophaness,  have  in  a  most 
irregular,  insolent  manner  been  propagated  by  him  during  his  late  Pro- 
secution, and  'twas  carried  by  a  considerable  Majority  that  it  be  inserted. 
—  The  Sheriff  and  Grand-Jury  at  the  Assizes  for  Gloucester  have  40 
drawn  up  a  very  remarkable  Address  to  her  Majesty,  signifying  that  they 
will  stand  by  her  with  their  Lives  and  Fortunes  in  Defence  of  her 
Majesty's  Person  and  Government,  and  that  they  will  to  ye  utmost  of 
their  Power  maintain  the  Protestant  Succession,  and  appear  upon  all 
occasions  for  the  Church  in  opposition  to  antimonarchical,  schismatical, 
seditious  and  factious  Persons,  and  all  others  that  are  Enemys  to  the 
Church  and  Government ;  wot  Address  'tis  said  is  to  be  presented  by  the 
Duke  of  Beaufort.  —  In  ye  Vlth  Volume  of  Livy  I  have  publish'd  an  old 
Inscription  of  the  Acts  of  Pompey  the  Great,  see  pag.  259.  I  find  the 
same  since  publish'd  in  Mazochius's  Epigrammata  antiquae  Urbis  printed  5° 


368  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1710 : 

at  Rome  1521.  folio  .  .  but  'tis  not  near  so  correctly  and  exactly  prin- 
ted as  I  have  publish'd  it  from  the  MS*.  I  made  use  of;  the  Variations 
however  should  be  specify'd  upon  a  proper  occasion. 

March  28  (Tu.).  We  have  in  Bibl.  Bodl. . .  Summa  Astrologies  Judicialis 
de  accidentibus  Mundi,  quce  anglicana  vulgo  nuncupatur  Joannis  eshcuidi 
•viri  anglici  peritissimi.  So  both  at  the  Beginning  &  at  End  of  y6  Book, 
but  corruptly.  For  it  should  be  Joannis  de  Estenden  as  appears  from  an 
old  MS*,  in  the  same  Library.  'Twas  printed  at  Venice  in  1489.  by  ye 
Care  and  at  ye  Expense  of  John  Lucilius  &  Franciscus  Bolanus.  The 

10  Great  Letters  are  illuminated.  —  The  first  Edition  of  Silius  Italicus  came 
out  in  folio  at  Rome  in  1471.  (See  Fabricij  Bibl.  Lat.  p.  400.)  We  have 
in  the  Bodlejan  Library  a  folio  Edition  of  him  printed  at  Milain  in  1481. .. 
wch  is  the  2d  Edition  of  this  author,  and  not  mention'd  by  Fabricius.  'Tis 
much  more  correct  than  ye  first  Edition,  being  corrected  by  Petrus  Justinus 
Philelfus,  &  it  ought  to  be  exactly  compared  by  Petrus  Burmannus,  who 
is  about  an  Edition  of  this  Author.  At  the  End  of  it  this  Note  .  .  . 
Whence  it  also  appears  y*  he  had  a  hand  in  ye  first  Impression.  At  the 
Beginning  of  this  Edition  is  Pliny's  Epistle  lib.  3.  num.  vii.  cone.  Silius 
Italicus,  wch  ought  to  be  nicely  collated,  there  being  in  it  very  considerable 

20  Variations  from  the  common  Editions. 

March  29  (Wed.).  We  have  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  the  first  Edition  of 
Suetonius,  printed  at  Paris  in  1471.  (or  as  Fabricius,  in  1470.)  wct 
deserves  to  be  accurately  collated.  It  stands  inter  Codd.  art.  D.  2.  13.  — 
We  have  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  .  .  Aristotle's  Ethics  ad  Nicomachum,  Politics, 
Oeconomics,  Magna  Moralia,  &  his  Moralia  ad  Eudemum  printed  in 
Greek  by  Aldus  at  Venice  in  1498.  Mense  Junio.  'Tis  upon  Vellam,  and 
was  given  to  ye  Publick  Library  by  Ralph  Warcupp  Esqr.  the  most 
accomplished  Gentleman  of  ye  age  he  lived  in,  as  you  may  see  in  the  first 
Vol.  of  Mr.  Wood's  Athense  Oxon.  In  the  Beginning  of  this  volume  of 
30  Aristotle  Mr.  Warcupp  has  written, 

Non  tibi  forma  libri  spectanda  est  chare  Rodolphe. 

Exterior,  qua  sunt  interiora  vide. 
Interiora  videns  evade,  doctior,  intus 

Munera  musarum,  multa  secreta  latent. 
Solius  externa  formtz  spectator  ineptus, 

Tegmine,  non  studijs,  namque  peritus  homo. 
&  underneath 

Clarissimo   omnl  eruditionis  genere  Viro,  Thomx  Bodlxo,  6-»  celebre  prudentix 

nomen  suis  mentis  turn  apud  Illustriss.  Germanise,  principes,  turn  apud  Belgas  adepto, 

40  Bibliothecx  Oxoniensis  Instauratori,  Rodolpbus  Warcuppus  de  English  in  Com.  Oxon. 

armiger,  units  Justiciariorum  pacts  Dominae  Reginae  in  eodem  Com.  Oxon.  &*  Aedis 

Christi  quondam  alumnus,  Memorise,  &*  observantise,  ergo  D.D. 

March  30  (Th.).  On  Sunday  Dr.  Sacheverell  read  Prayers,  and  Dr. 
Binckes  preach'd  for  him.  One  Mr.  Lloyd  has  presented  the  Dr.  to 
a  Living  of  two  hundred  Pounds  per  annum. — On  Monday  between  1 2 
and  one  of  the  Clock  his  two  sermons  were  burnt  by  the  Hands  of  y* 

March  28.  Barnes  to  H.  (Rawl.  24.  22).  Has  received  names  of  sub- 
scribers. Has  taken  more  pains  than  ever  yet  was  done  to  any  Greek  author. 
Please  collate  Porphyry's  £>;rq/iara,  which  B.  prints  rather  to  please  Dodwell 
than  himself.  Remarks  about  his  subscribers  and  his  edition. 


March  27-April  6.]  VOLUME  XXIV,  PAGES  31-67.  369 

Common  Hangman,  and  at  ye  same  time  was  burnt  y6  Oxford 
Decree,  lately  reprinted  in  English  under  ye  Title  of  a  Confutation  of 
Mr.  Hoadley,  but  I  do  not  yet  hear  y4  the  Cambridge  Address  was  burnt 
according  to  order.  —  About  Letters  being  omitted  in  Inscriptions, 
particularly  the  Letter  N,  see  Joan.  Baptista  Fontejus  de  prisca  Caesiorum 
Familia,  p.  163.  .  . 

March  31  (Fri.).  Colinaeus  Printed  Aristotle's  Logick  in  Latin  at 
Paris  1543.  &  there  is  a  shield  hanging  from  a  tree,  &  charged  with 
a  knot,  and  supported  by  two  Rabbits.  Tell  Mr.  Reynolds  of  Corpus  of 
this.  See  the  Book  F.  2.  6.  Art.  —  ...  i° 

April  1  (Sat.).  On  Thursday  last  the  Gloucestershire  Address  was 
presented  to  ye  Queen  by  Mr.  Allen  Bathurst,  being  introduc'd  by  the 
Duke  of  Beaufort.  Her  Majesty  recd  it  very  graciously,  and  Mr. 
Bathurst  had  ye  Honour  to  kiss  her  Majesty's  Hands.  The  Ld.  Mayor  of 
London  has  commanded  a  stop  to  be  put  in  the  City  to  Bonefires, 
Illuminations  and  other  publick  Rejoycings  for  Dr.  Sacheverell ;  but  ye 
like  have  been  in  all  parts  of  England,  and  they  are  still  kept  up,  and  in 
Oxford  Mr.  Hoadly  was  burnt  in  Effigie  &  the  Mob  burnt  his  Book,  as 
they  did  also  Dr.  West's  silly,  ridiculous  Sermon.  —  Notae  in  Porphyrij 
Zqrjj/itmi  €O/nj7pi»cd,  &  in  ejusdem  opusculum  de  Nympharum  antro.  Has  ao 
autem  notas  ex  Editione  principe  Romana,  anno  1517.  in  4*°.  impressa, 
&  cum  Editione  Henrici  Stephani,  Homeri  Operum  Editioni  magnificae 
anno  1566  praemissa,  a  me  collata,  summa  cura  hausi.  Ob  oculos  item 
habui  Editionem  Romanam  an.  1518.  4*°,  Basileensem  1551  folio,  ut 
&  de  Antro  libelli  Editionem  Holstenianam,  quae  Romas  in  8yo.  anno 
1630  prodijt.  N.B.  Libelli  isti  sic  inscribuntur  in  Editione  principe 
Romana :  Tlop<pvpiov  <pi\o<r6<pov  'OpypiKa  £T]rt)fMTa.  ToO  avrov  Hop<pvpiov  irepl 
TOV  iv  'o8va-a€ta  -rS>v  vvptpiav  avrpov.  Porphyrij  philosophi  homericarum 
quaestionum  liber.  Et  de  Nympharum  antro  in  Odyssea  opusculum : 
Leonis  decimi  Pon.  Max.  beneficio  b  tenebris  erutum.  impressumque  30 
Romae  in  gymnasio  Mediceo  ad  Caballinum  montem.  cum  Privilegio  ut 
in  caeteris.  M.D.XVII.  Idem  quoque  titulus  in  Editione  Romana  an.  1518. 
servatur.  .  .  .  [44-65]. 

April  3  (Mon.).  About  the  Coyns  w°h  represent  Cicero  see  Lazius's 
Resp.  Rom.  .  .  —  In  ye  City  of  Rome  they  spoke  more  finely  and 
elegantly  than  in  Provinces,  where  their  Expressions  were  vulgar  and 
mean.  See  Tully's  Ep.  Fam.  1.  n.  n.  xi. 

April  6  (Th.).  We  have  receiv'd  news  lately  of  the  Death  of  the  Ld. 
Charles  Somerset,  only  Brother  to  the  present  Duke  of  Beaufort.  This 
young  Gentleman  was  lately  of  X*.  Church  Oxford,  and  he  died  at  Rome  40 
in  his  Travells  of  the  Small  Pox,  to  the  great  Reluctance  of  all  that  knew 
him.  He  was  a  Gentleman  of  a  most  affable,  winning,  good  natur'd 
Temper,  of  great  Probity  and  Integrity,  of  singular  Generosity,  and 
adorn'd  with  all  other  Qualifications  that  might  make  him  valuable ;  and 
what  made  them  more  conspicuous  was  a  natural  Modesty,  easily  dis- 


April  1.    Dr.  T.  Smith  to  H.    Printed  (with  memorandum  of  Hearne) : 
Hearne's  Collection  of  Curious  Discourses  296. 
VOL.  II.  B   b 


370  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1710 : 

cernible  in  all  Companies,  w°k  could  not  but  draw  Respect.  He  left 
500  libs,  to  Christ  Church  to  carry  on  the  Building  of  Peckwater,  and 
the  rest  he  left,  as  'tis  said,  to  his  Sister.  'Tis  reported  that  he  is  to  be 
brought  into  England  and  buried  in  Westminster  Abbey  in  a  sumptuous 
manner. 

April  7  (Pri.).  Antonius  or  Antoninus  prefix'd  to  ye  famous  Itinerary. 
This  Itinerary  contains  bare  Names,  with  ye  Number  of  Miles  from  stage 
to  stage,  being  the  stages  commonly  made  use  of  by  ye  Souldiers,  al.  the 
military  Ways.  About  the  Itinerary  Tables  (Maps)  see  Vegetius  lib.  3. 

ID  de  re  militari  c.  6.  Such  an  Itinerary  Table  is  y6  Peutingerian  Table  pub- 
lish'd by  Velserus,  and  Ortelius,  wch  is  far  the  best  Monum*.  of  ye  kind 
exstant.  The  author  of  ye  Itinerary  wch  goes  under  ye  Name  of  Antoni- 
nus uncertain.  Without  doubt  he  was  a  Geometrician,  one  who  understood 
Places  well.  'Twas  perhaps  enlarg'd  in  ye  time  of  Antoninus  Pius,  and 
publish'd  anew  by  his  command,  and  thence  bore  his  Name,  tho'  cor- 
ruptly writ  in  most  Books  Antonius,  just  as  Constantius  and  Constantine 
are  oftentimes  confounded.  So  And.  Schottus  in  his  Preface  to  Anton. 
Itinerary  of  Surita's  Edition,  wherein  however  he  takes  Notice  y*  Surita 
thought  that  the  author  was  Antoninus  ye  Son  of  Severus  by  reason  y*  ye 

ao  Places  in  Britain  are  mention'd  in  it.  But  in  all  this  we  are  uncertain. — 
It  seems  certain  y*  'twas  compil'd  for  the  sake  of  Generals,  souldiers, 
Proconsuls  &  Praetors  travelling  into  yeir  Respective  Provinces  y*  they 
might  not  err  in  their  Journeys.  Vegetius  tells  us  such  an  Itinerary  was 
necessary  upon  y4  Account,  &  so  does  Ambrose  Serm.  in  Psalm.  118. 
But  they  did  not  use  the  shortest  and  most  direct  ways,  as  they  do  now  a 
days,  but  those  that  were  most  worn  and  most  secure,  w°k  are  call'd  regise 
&  militares  viae  &  solita  Itinera  by  Ammianus.  Concerning  the  viae 
stratae  see  Galen  lib.  9.  methodi  cap.  8. 

April  8  (Sat).  Dr.  W™.  Nichols,  lately  Fellow  of  Merton  College,  and 
3°  author  of  several  Books,  such  as  a  Reply  to  Dr.  Bury's  Naked  Gospel, 
some  Discourses  ag*  Design,  &c.  has  just  publish'd  in  a  large  folio,  an 
Explication,  Paraphrase  and  notes  upon  the  Liturgy  of  the  Church  of 
England,  in  wch  the  Liturgy  is  printed  at  large,  and  he  has  ransack'd  all 
Dr.  Comber,  L'Estrange  and  others,  &  from  them  hastily  compil'd  this 
Farrago  and  would  fain  make  ye  World  believe  that  all  is  the  Result  of 
his  own  Reading.  He  has  printed  ye  Names  of  subscribers,  wck  are 
a  great  Number  of  Persons,  such  as  do  not,  y6  Majority  at  least  of  them, 
know  how  to  distinguish  between  Books  of  value  &  those  that  are  trivial 
and  of  little  or  no  authority.  This  Dr.  Nicholls  is  a  vain,  conceited,  low- 
40  Church  Divine,  and  a  meer  scribler.  At  the  End  of  this  Book  are 
a  great  many  additional  notes,  some  of  wcl1  are  large  ones  of  BP.  Couzins, 
communicated  to  him  by  Dr.  Hickes,  and  I  do  not  question  but  these  are 


April  8.  Bedford  to  H.  (Rawl.  2.  16).  Thanks  for  letters  of  i8th  and 
1 9th  ult.  Dr.  Hutton  of  Aynhoe  mentions  an  original  subscription  of  Articles 
in  James  I's  time,  with  a  book  sewed  to  it,  which  he  bought  and  restored  to 
Bodley ;  will  H.  search  for  it  ?  Printers  very  dilatory.  Dr.  Atterbury  has 
been  to  Cambridge  to  examine  MSS.,  and  Kennett  is  likewise  engaged  on  an 
Answer. 


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good  ones ;  but  then  there  is  here  and  there  one  occurring  of  Dr.  Mills, 
w°h  were  found  in  the  margin  of  a  common-Prayer  Book  in  his  study. 
But  these  are  nothing  else  but  little  extracts  out  of  y6  Fathers  and 
Councils,  and  far  from  being  worthy  of  Printing ;  so  y*  by  publishing 
them  both  Dr.  Nicholls,  and  the  Person  that  communicated  them,  who  was 
Mr.  Pearce  now  Vice-Principal  of  Edm.  Hall,  have  only  expos'd  Dr.  Mill, 
and  done  no  manner  of  service  either  to  Religion  or  Learning. 

April  9  (Sun.).  The  Speech  y*  BP.  Burnett  of  Salisbury  made  against 
Dr.  Sacheverell  in  ye  House  of  Lords,  is  printed  at  London  in  8V0.  It 
contains  nothing  but  a  History  of  Passive  Obedience,  done  with  much  10 
Falsification  &  daub'd  with  abundance  of  false  Paint  (as  is  usual  with  this 
Scotch-Man)  &  in  it  he  endeavours  to  reconcile  his  present  Acts  with  ye 
Sermons  he  preach'd  in  King  Charles  IId'8.  time  in  defence  of  Passive 
Obedience.  This  he  does  by  declaring  that  he  had  several  secret 
Reserves  at  y*  time,  when  he  could  not  safely  utter  them,  &  y*  he  was 
even  then  of  ye  same  mind  he  is  now  if  ye  times  would  have  born  it. 
This  Evasion  will  carry  off  all  Knavery  and  Villany.  But  this  is  just 
enough  that  he  says  of  ye  university  of  Oxford,  namely  that  divers  of 
them  at  ye  Revolution  acted  contrary  to  ye  Decree  they  had  not  long 
before  agreed  to  and  confirm'd  in  Convocation.  This  is  a  Blot  that  will  20 
stick  upon  that  renown'd  Body,  &  they  will  never  be  able  to  wipe  it  off. 
—  The  Itinerary  begun,  as  it  seems  by  one  of  the  Antonini,  &  enlarg'd 
afterwards  by  other  Emperors.  'Tis  certain  it  could  not  be  finish'd  by 
one  of  the  Antonini,  because  it  mentions  Constantinople  &  several  other 
Citys  founded  long  after  ye  Death  of  the  Last  Antoninus.  See  Dr.  Gale's 
Com.  upon  it  pag.  i .  Antoninus  Caracalla  seems  to  have  been  ye  Person 
who  had  a  great  hand,  &  perhaps  he  was  ye  first,  in  this  Itinerary.  'Twas 
in  his  time  the  Romans  were  bounded  by  the  limit  mention'd  in  ye 
Beginning  of  ye  Itinerary  on  the  other  side  of  y6  Wall  of  Severus.  See 
ibid.  pag.  5,  6.  Ptolemy's  Geography  corrected  there  pag.  12.  3° 

April  1O  (Mon.).  Whereas  the  scandalous,  abominable,  Author  of 
the  Paper  call'd  y  Review  has  most  maliciously  asserted  and  publish' d 
in  Print  that  Dr.  Sacheverell  should  speak  words  in  the  Reign  of  ye  late 
King  William,  signifying  that  he  the  said  King  Wm.  ought  to  be  dewitted, 
and  that  he  hop'd  he  should  live  to  see  it  done,  and  further  whereas  he 
has  said  that  these  words  were  spoke  to  one  Mr.  Everard  of  Brimingham 
\_sic\  in  Company  of  3  other  Persons,  one  of  wch  was  Mr.  Everard's  Father 
in  Law,  as  a  Confutation  of  this  assertion  there  is  a  Certificate  printed  in 
the  Courant  shewing  that  Dr.  Sacheverell  never  spoke  any  such  Words 
in  Company  of  Mr.  Everard's  Father  in  Law,  &  the  other  two  Witnesses  4° 
appeal'd  to.  Their  Hands  are  annex'd,  &  the  original  Certificate,  wct 
was  sent  voluntarily,  is  now  to  be  seen  at  Mr.  Hen.  Clements's  Book- 
seller of  London.  —  Quaere  whether  Gale's  Commentaries  lately  publish'd 
in  Quarto  be  not  almost  exactly  the  same  publish'd  by  the  Dr.  himself  in 
folio  in  ye  Historians.  An  Argumt  to  shew  they  are  in  pag.  20.  of  y« 
Ed.  4to.  cone.  Alcuine.  (NB.  Dr.  Gale  in  the  Historians  has  only  pub- 
lish'd Surita's  Notes.) 

April  11  (Tu.).     About  the   cross  Ways,  not  in   a   direct   Manner, 
made  use  of  in  Antoninus's  Itinerary,  see  Gale's  Com.  p.  79.  -  -  The 

B  b  2 


372  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

IIId.  Iter  is  not  in  Vossius's  MS*,  of  the  Itinerary,  so  that  it  is  probable 
that  it  was  added  by  some  more  modern  Itinerator.     See  pag.  82. 

April  12  (Wed.).  Mr.  Wasse  of  Cambridge  has  just  publish'd  his 
Edit,  of  Sallust,  with  long  &  tedious  &  indeed  unnecessary  Notes,  in 
Quarto,  the  large  Paper  is  143.  at  ye  university  Price,  &  the  less  93. 
—  There  is  just  come  out  The  Case  of  Trinity  Coll.  in  Cambridge,  in 
about  6  Sheets  of  Paper  in  8VO,  by  way  of  Letter  from  Dr.  Bentley, 
Master  of  that  College,  to  the  Visitor  of  it  Dr.  Moore,  BP.  of  Ely. 
Occasion'd  by  a  Petition  from  several  of  the  Society  against  Dr.  Bentley's 
10  arbitrary  way  of  Governing,  and  in  order  to  redress  the  Grievances 
caus'd  since  he  became  Head.  —  Vindomis,  i.  e.  Silchester,  in  Hamp- 
shire is  omitted  in  Antoninus's  Itinerary,  tho'  I  believe  it  was  in  it 
originally,  being  in  the  direct  way  between  Winchester  &  Henly.  See 
Gale's  Com.  upon  the  Itin.  pag.  106.  But  it  occurrs  in  another  Place  of 
the  Itin.  See  ibid. 

April  13  (Th.).  There  is  handed  about  an  ingenious  Poem,  (done 
by  an  anonymous  Author,)  call'd  The  Impeachment,  or  the  Nation  mad, 
occasion'd  by  the  late  Tryal  of  Dr.  Sacheverell,  in  which  the  Managers 
against  him,  and  indeed  all  his  Enemies,  are  expos'd  and  represented  as 
ao  phrensical,  craz'd,  irreligious,  pharazaical,  knavish  Persons.  The  thing 
is  well  worth  Printing,  but  it  goes  as  yet  only  in  MS*.  —  The  Bucula 
(so  'tis  writ  in  a  vellam  MS*,  of  Lincoln  College,  and  not  buccula)  men- 
tion'd  in  Tully  de  Divinatione  lib.  i.  c.  48.  (of  the  old  number.)  by  wcl1 
place  it  appears  that  this  sort  of  Shield  was  formerly  accustom'd  to  be 
lodg'd  in  Temples.  That  mention'd  in  that  Place  was  in  Honour  of 
Juno  Lacinia ;  no  wonder  therefore  if  'twas  of  the  Bucula  sort  that  us'd 
to  be  made  in  Honour  of  Jupiter.  Such  I  take  to  have  been  the  famous 
one  of  Dr.  Woodward. 

April  14  (Pri.).  Mr.  James  Wright  publish'd  his  Antiquities  of  Rut- 
33  landshire  in  the  Year  1684.  in  a  thin  fol.  In  the  Preface  he  promises  an 
Appendix  of  additions  and  Alterations,  provided  any  such  could  be 
made.  Accordingly  in  the  Year  1687.  he  publish'd  an  Appendix  in 
2  sheets  and  an  half  in  folio,  I  suppose  by  way  of  Correction  and 
Addition,  but  tho'  we  have  the  Book  it  self  in  Bodley,  yet  we  want  the 
Appendix ;  nor  did  I  ever  hear  the  Author  (tho'  I  have  discours'd  with 
him  several  times)  mention  any  such  Appendix.  He  told  me  when  I 
discours'd  with  him  that  he  was  Author  of  several  Books,  &  some  of 
them  he  own'd  to  me,  &  specify'd  the  Titles,  &  I  have  them  down  in  a 
preceding  Volume.  When  I  enter'd  into  Discourse  with  him  he  always 
4°  blam'd  Ant.  a  Wood  as  an  injudicious,  partial  Man ;  I  believe  because 
Anthony  has  spoke  but  scurvily  of  him,  as  being  asham'd  of  what  he 
writ,  &  as  if  he  did  them  purely  to  get  a  little  Money,  wch  Mr.  Wright 
resents,  and  I  believe  deservedly  enough,  he  appearing  to  me  to  be  a 
candid,  good-natur'd,  honest  Gentleman ;  and  his  Antiquities  of  Rutland- 
shire done  very  well. 

April  15  (Sat.).  An  Inditement  is  found  by  the  Grand  Jury  at  the 
Assizes  of  Stafford  against  one  Sparry  a  dissenting  Teacher  of  Burton 
upon  Trent  for  saying  that  the  Liturgy  of  the  Church  of  England  has 


April  11-17.]  VOLUME  XXIV,  PAGES  80-94.  373 

no  more  sense  in  it  than  there  is  in  a  Dog's  Leg,  and  some  other  Words 
highly  reflecting  upon  it.  —  Editions  of  Antoninus's  Itin.  in  Bodl.  Bibl. — 
8°.  A.  9.  Art.  without  Date,  &  Place.— Par.  1512.  8°.  A.  57.  Art.  Seld. — 
Amst.  i6i8.B.  3.  15.  Art.— Lug.  B.  1618.  L.  i.  2.  Art.  Seld.— Flor.  1519. 
8°.  M.  10.  Art.  Seld.  cum  Com.  Suritse. — Col.  Agr.  1600.  8°.  A.  27.  Art. 
Seld. — Et  cum  Codd.  MSS.  collatum.  Col.  Agr.  1600.  8°.  D.  116.  Line. 
Et  8°.  D.  132.  Line. — Iter  Brit.  cum.  Comm.  Galei.  Lond.  1709.  4°.  U.  4. 
Art.  B.S.  —  The  Greeks  us'd  to  put  a  Gold  Crown  upon  the  Heads  of 
Persons  of  ye  best  Quality  when  they  buried  them.  See  P.  Victorius's 
Var.  Lectt.  1.  n.  c.  7.  where  he  confirms  it  from  Tully  pro  L.  Flacco.  —  10 
The  following  [5]  Coyns,  of  the  Lesser  Magnitude  in  Brass  [of  Tetricus 
and  Victorinus],  shew'd  me  by  Mr.  Bradford  Fellow  of  Balliol  Coll. 
They  were  found  near  Frome  in  Somersetshire  .  .  .  All  these  Coyns 
struck  in  the  time  of  the  30  Tyrants. 

April  16  (Sun.).  The  Notitia  Imperij  was  written  in  the  time  of 
Theodosius  IId.  —  This  Day  being  Low-Sunday,  the  Repeater  of  the 
four  Easter-Sermons  at  S*.  Maries  was  Mr.  Francis  Bagshaw  A.M.  of 
X*.  Church,  a  very  honest,  good-natur'd  Gentleman.  He  perform'd 
well,  &  far  beyond  Exspectation,  he  having  had  for  a  considerable  time 
a  very  severe  Cold,  and  being  withall  a  Man  of  Modesty,  &  of  a  weak  20 
voice.  The  Sermons  were  likewise  extreme  tedious,  and  contain'd  in 
them  Things  that  were  far  from  being  close  &  were  almost  forreign  to 
the  Occasion.  This  gave  Mr.  Bagshaw  no  small  trouble  in  reducing 
them  into  Method,  and  in  lopping  off  several  Particulars,  especially  in 
the  3d.  and  last  Sermons,  wch  were  preach'd  by  a  Gentleman  of  Mag- 
dalen College  &  one  of  Queen's.  Mr.  Bagshaw  finding  soon  after  he 
had  undertook  this  Business  that  the  Cold  he  had  contracted  and  the 
Weakness  of  his  voice  would  not  permitt  him  to  go  thorough  without 
abundance  of  Inconveniency  waited  upon  the  Vice-Chancellor  and 
desir'd  to  be  excus'd ;  but  the  Vice-Chanc.  out  of  his  singular  Humanity  3° 
bluntly  deny'd  him  ye  favour,  and  withall  would  not  allow  him  those 
Privileges  that  had  been  granted  to  former  Repeaters.  —  Several  Things 
ignorantly  inserted  in  Antoninus's  Itinerary  by  busy  Persons,  that  were 
not  in  the  original,  authentick  Copies.  See  Gale's  Com.  pag.  120.  Other 
Places  seem  to  have  been  left  out  by  the  unskillfull,  negligent  Librarians. 
Ibid.  p.  121. 

April  17  (Mon.).  There  are  just  reprinted  BP.  Stillingfleet's  Works 
in  vi.  Volumes  folio.  To  which  is  prefix'd  an  Account  of  his  Life,  and 
at  ye  End  of  it  is  his  Epitaph  from  the  Monument,  erected  by  his  Son, 
in  the  Cathedral  of  Worcester.  The  Epitaph  was  drawn  up  by  Dr.  Rich.  4° 
Bentley  formerly  Chaplain  to  the  BP.  and  succeeded  in  it  by  Mr.  Tim. 
Goodwyn,  now  the  snivelling,  sneaking,  Archdeacon  of  Oxford.  It  was 
observ'd  by  the  best  Judges  that  when  Proposals  were  publish'd  for 
reprinting  these  Works  several  of  them  should  be  left  out,  as  being  not 
worthy  to  appear,  &  inferior  to  the  BP'S  Character,  who  tho'  he  was  an 
able  Divine  &  a  learned  Man,  yet  he  advanc'd  in  some  of  his  first  Books 
some  odd  Opinions,  w°h  gave  Distaste,  &  I  have  heard  one  of  his  great 
acquaintance  &  Friends,  since  deceas'd,  often  say  that  the  BP.  was  a 
hasty  Writer,  &  never  thoroughly  consider 'd  the  subject  he  undertook, 


H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

nor  nicely  examin'd  the  Authorities  he  made  use  of,  for  wc^  reason  they 
are  not  to  be  depended  upon.  —  A  Paper  come  out  call'd  Fair  Warning, 
printed  on  one  side  of  half  a  Sheet  fol.  against  Passive  Obedience. 

April  18  (Tu.).  Newly  Published  Britannia,  A  Poem  humbly  inscrib'd 
to  the  LII  (Not  Guilty}  Lords.  Folio  in  two  or  three  Sheets  of  Paper, 
printed  at  London.  The  Author,  whose  name  is  not  express'd,  in  short 
commends  &  Extolls  those  noble  Lords  who  voted  Dr.  Sacheverell  not 
Guilty  of  the  Crimes  &  Misdemeanours  laid  to  his  Charge.  —  This  Day 
in  the  Morning  died  of  a  dead  Palsy  Mr.  Jonas  Proast  A.M.  &  Arch- 

10  deacon  of  Berks,  being  near  3  score  and  ten  Years  of  Age.  He  was 
originally  of  Queen's  Coll.  afterwards  of  Gloucester-Hall,  &  at  length 
Chaplain  of  All-Souls  Coll.  wch  he  left  upon  Account  of  Troubles  he 
receiv'd  from  Dr.  Finch,  the  late  Warden,  and  then  retir'd  to  Edmund- 
Hall,  (as  I  have  told  you  at  large  formerly)  which  he  also  left  after  some 
time,  and  then  dwelt  in  several  Places  in  the  City  of  Oxford,  having 
been  troubled  for  some  years  with  an  Asthma.  He  was  a  truly  honest, 
wise  Man,  and  a  good  Scholar,  but  was  reserv'd  in  his  Conversation 
and  of  very  few  Words.  —  In  Bibl.  Bodl.  supra  Art.  N.  12.  Valesii  de 
Tharanta  Practica.  'Twas  given  by  Thomas  Trapham,  as  appears 

ao  from  this  Memorandum  at  the  Beginning :  Ex  dono  Thomae  Trapham 
chirurgi  licentiati  Oxon.  qui  etiam  Sceleton  publicum  paravit  in  usum 
Academise  anno  Domini  1634.  —  An  Inscription  at  Bathe  cone,  a 
Person  carried  thither  from  Gloucester,  perhaps  for  ye  Recovery  of  his 
Health.  The  Inscription  says  he  died  in  the  8oth  Year  of  his  Age. 
See  Gale  upon  Antoninus  pag.  129. 

April  19  ("Wed.).  There  is  just  printed  in  half  a  Sheet  8V0.  Baron 
Lovell's  Speech  or  Charge  to  the  Grand  Jury  of  Devon,  delivered  at  the 
Castel  of  Exeter  April  5*.  'Tis  a  most  vile,  malicious  Paper,  highly 
Reflecting  upon  the  Honest  Part  of  the  Nation,  &  particularly  upon  Dr. 

3°  Sacheverell,  whom  he  calls  an  incendiary  &  an  inconsiderable  Fellow.  He 
styles  the  Doctrine  of  Passive  Obedience  a  damnable  Doctrine  and 
acquaints  them  that  the  Queen  is  resolv'd  to  prefer  only  such  Men  as  are 
against  that  Doctrine,  Men  of  moderate  Zeal  &  such  as  preach  up  Love 
and  Unity.  He  recommends  to  them  the  Example  of  the  BP.  of  Exeter, 
&  is  warm  upon  the  Topick  of  the  Great  Stirrs  up  and  down  y6  Nation 
occasion'd  by  ye  Tryal  of  Dr.  Sacheverell.  —  This  Day  in  a  Convocation 
at  one  of  the  Clock  the  Proctors  for  the  last  Year  laid  down  their  office, 
and  new  ones  were  admitted,  viz.  Mr.  Dennison  of  university  College  and 
Mr.  Williams  of  Exeter  College.  Mr.  Dennison's  ProProctors  are  Mr. 

4°  Lindsey  and  Mr.  Neville  both  of  University  Coll.  and  Mr.  Williams's  are 

Mr. and  Mr.  Thorne  both  of  Exeter  Coll.  Mr.  Vesey  of  Lincoln 

College,  the  Senior  Proctor  for  last  Year,  made  a  Speech  as  usual  upon 
laying  down  his  Office,  three  Parts  of  which  was  a  flattering  &  nauseous 
Commendation  of  the  Vice-Chancellor,  in  wch  amongst  other  things  he 
took  notice  of  his  late  Act  in  behalf  of  Dr.  Sacheverell.  He  call'd  those 
who  had  happen'd  to  say  anything  against  the  Vice-Chancellor  (wch 
indeed  a  great  many  have  and  continue  to  do)  homunciones.  He  also 
mention'd  the  Death  of  Mr.  Lhuyd,  and  w*  he  said  on  that  score  was  just. 
He  said  something  likewise  upon  Dr.  Gregory's  Death  &  Mr.  Caswell's 


April  17-21.]       ,  VOLUME  XXIV,  PAGES  94-108.  375 

succeeding  him ;  but  not  a  word  of  the  Press  (unless  a  slight  word  or  two 
upon  Apollonius)  nor  of  any  considerable  thing  done  in  the  university. 

April  20  (Th.).  E  litteris  cl.  Zacagnij  ad  cl.  Hudsonum  Romse  Kal. 
Apr.  MDCCX.  datis. 

Nunc  te  monitum  volo,  Vir  clme,  extare  in  praestantissimo  cod.  Evangeliorum 
Bibliothecae  Vaticano-Urbinatis  signato  num.  2.  testimonium  Dionysij  Longini 
de  S.  Paulo  in  haec  verba  conceptum. 

.    Aoyyii/of  6  Kal  pfjT&p  rfjv  r5>v  /ze-yaXcoi/  prjTOpmv  c\Trapiidp.t]a-iv  crvvfra^fV  ovrtat. 
Kopwvls  8'  eoTw   Xoyou  iravrbs  Kal  (ppovrmaros  (\\TJVIKOV  Aijpo(r6fVT)s  Averi'a?  Ai- 
tr^i'i/j; j  'Api(TT(i8rjs  'loraios  TiVap^or  'IcroKparrjs  &T)(jt.o<T0(vr)s  6  Kal  Kpidivos  S(vo<pa>v,  10 
npos  TOVTOIS  HavXos  6  Tapo'eir,  ovrwa.  Kal  irpwrov  (pTjp.t  TTpoia'Tap.fi'ov  fioy/iarof 
dvanodfiKTov. 

April  21  (Fri.).  This  Day  in  a  Convocation  at  nine  of  the  Clock  an 
Address  of  ye  university  to  the  Queen  was  read,  and  agreed  to.  'Twas 
long  &  bad,  &  indeed,  instead  of  being  agreeable,  contrary  to  the  Oxford 
Decree.  Dr.  Lancaster  Vice-Chanc.  Dr.  Charlett,  Dr.  Holland  (warden 
of  Merton)  Dr.  Adams  (Rector  of  Lincoln)  Dr.  De  Laune  (President  of 
S*.  Johns)  Dr.  King  of  Merton  Coll.  Dr.  Baron  (Master  of  Balliol)  Dr. 
Pearson  (Principal  of  Edm.  Hall)  &  about  one  or  two  more  were  the  only 
Doctors  present  at  this  Convocation,  where  the  Writer  of  these  matters  20 
appear'd  not  as  an  Assenter  to,  but  as  an  Observer  of  what  relates  to, 
this  Address,  wch  he  thinks  will  at  some  time  or  other  redound  to  the 
Disgrace  of  the  University.  — 

Mr.  Josiah  Pullen  of  Magdalen  Hall  has  a  Parchment  Roll  containing 

I.  The  Picture  of  our  Saviour  Christ. 

II.  The  Picture  of  S*.  Veronica  holding  in  her  Hands  the  Napkin  sent  to 
her,  (according  to  the  story  related  in  the  Romish  Legends,)  by  our  Saviour, 
with  the  Print  of  our  Saviour's  Face  on  it.     On  the  right  side  of  the  Napkin 
is  in  red  Letters  SALVE  SANCTA  FACIES,  and  on  the  left  Side  in  red  Letters  also 

NOSTRI  REDEMPTORIS.  3<3 

III.  The  Figures  of  the  3  Nails  which  fasten'd  our  Saviour  Christ  to  the 
Cross. 

IV.  The  Figure  of  the  Crown  of  Thorns. 

V.  The  Figure  of  our  Saviour's  Heart  wounded  with  the  Lance. 

VI.  The  Figures  of  our  Saviour's  Hands  and  Feet. 

VII.  The  Figure  of  our  Saviour's  Coat  without  Seam. 

VIII.  The  Figures  of  the  Dyes  thrown  by  the  Souldiers  for  our  Saviour's 
Coat. 

IX.  The  Figures  of  the  Scourge  &  Rod  with  wch  our  Saviour  Christ  was 
punish'd.  4° 

X.  The  Figure  of  the  Cock  wch  crow'd  when  S*.  Peter  deny'd  our  Saviour, 
with  the  Pillar  on  wch  the  Cock  stood. 

XI.  The  Figure  of  the  Hammer  with  wch  the  Nails  were  fasten'd  to  the  Cross. 

XII.  An  Indulgence  in  red  Letters  of  Pope  Innocent,  without  specifying 
wch  of  the  Innocents,  as  follows : 

Pope  Innocent  hath  graunthed  to  what  man  or  woman  that  dayly  worchyppeht  the 
v.  pryncypall  woundes  of  oure  Lorde  Ihesu  Cryste  with  v  Pater  nosters,  v  Aves  and  a 
Crede,  pyteously  beholdyng  or  remembryng  the  armys  of  Chrystys  Passyon  schall  have 
the  vii.  partes  of  'there penaunce  released yn  the  paynys  of  Purgatory,  and  vii petycyons 
ryghtwysly  asked :  5° 

Thefyrst  he  schall  not  dye  none  evyll  deth. 

The  ii.  he  schall  not  be  slayne  with  no  wepyn. 

The  Hi.  he  schall  not  passe  oute  of  thy  s  wordy  II  withoute  the  Sacrament  of  holy 
fhyrche. 


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[1710: 


The  iiii.fals  wytnesse  schall  not  gr eve  hym. 

The  v.  he  schall  have  suffycyent  goodes  and  honest  lyvyng. 

The  vi.  he  shall  not  be  wrongfully  yuged. 

The  vii.  he  schall  be  defended  from  all  wycked  Sprytes  by  the  Grace  of  God. 

XIII.  The  following  Prayer  in  black  Letters: 

Ihesufor  thyne  holy  name. 
And  for  thy  bytter  Passyon. 
Save  us  frame  Syn  and  schame. 
Andfromme  endles  dampnacyon. 
And  bryng  us  to  the  blysse. 
That  never  schall  have  ende. 
S-wete  Ihesu.    Amen. 

XIV.  The  Virtues  of  the  Cross,  represented  in  the  following  manner  in  red 
Letters : 


INNOMINEIHE      SV        SIONO  :  SIGNO. 


Thys  Crosse 
XV  tymys 

metyn  ys  the  lenght 
of  oure  Lorde  Ihesu 

ao  cryst,  and  what  day 

ye  locke  thereon  and 
blesse  yow  therewith 
there  schall  no  wykked 
spryte  have  no  pow- 
er to  hurte  yow,  no- 
ther  thunder  nor  lyte- 
nyng,  ne  tempeste  on 
londe,  nor  upon  watyr 
schall  not  greve  yow, 

30  nor  ye  schall  not  be 

overcumme  with  youre 
enemy  bodyly  ne  gost- 
ly  ne  comberyd  with  no 
fendys.    And  yef  a  Woman 


NO 


ME 


TA 


YOW 


have  thys  Crosse  on 
hyr  whan  sche  tra- 
vellyth  of  chylde  sche 
schall  sone  be  delyverde, 
and  the  chylde  schall 
have  crystendum  and 
the  mother  puryfy- 
cacyon  of  holy  chyrche, 
Seint *  Cyriase  and 
Seint  Julitte  desyred 
thes  petycyonys  of  God, 
and  he  graunted 
them,  as  hyt  ys  re- 
gesteryd  yn  Rome 
at  Saynte  John  La- 
terens.    ANTIP'. 


1  In  the  margin  Bp.  Barlow, 
to  whom  the  Roll  once  belong'd 
has  writ :  Sanct.  Quiricum  6° 
Julittam  intelligit.  Vid.Baronij 
Martyrologium  Rom.  ad  diem 
if>Junij  lit.  B. 


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XV.  Then  is  added  as  follows  in  black  Letters,  according  to  the  orthography 
there  made  use  of: 

Salve  deeus  pervulorum,  mile  regis  angelorum,  O  Cirite  cum  beate  genitrice  tua 
Julitta.  Christus  &*  Maria  nos  salvet  mortis  in  hora.  K.  Speciosa  est  in  conspectu 
domini.  Jjl.  Mors  seculorum  \sii\  ejus. 

ORACIO  : 

Dens  qni  gloriosis  martiribns  tnis  Cirico  &  Julittae  dira  nephandi  judicis  tormenta 
superare  tribuisti,  michi  famulo  tuo  humilitatem  &  virtutem  gloriosre  longitudinis  tnae 
&  venerabilis  cnicis  tui  preciosi  corporis  et  sanguinis  tui,  &  per  omnipotencias  tuas  & 
virtutes,  per  intercessionem  omnium  sanctorum  tuorum  concedas  michi  triumphum  10 
omnium  inimicorum  meorum,  ut  possim  semper  retinere  constanciam.  Per  Christum 
dominum  nostrum.  Amen. 

XVI.  A  Prayer  to  the  Cross  in  black  Letters,  and  before  it  in  red  Letters 
and  in  English  thus  : 

Whosoever  sayth  thys  prayer  folowyng  devowtely,  there  schall  no  wyked  spryte  have 
power  to  hurte  hym,  nor  he  schall  not  be  combred  withfyre  ne  watyr. 

The  Prayer  it  self  is  : 

Crux  Christi  sit  semper  mecum.  >J<  Crux  Christi  est  quam  semper  adoro.  Crux 
»{<  Christi  »J<  super  at  gladium.  Crux  Christi  »J«  solvet  vincula  mortis.  Ctux  »J< 
Christi  est  armatura  invincibilis.  Crux  Christi  A  est  via  dr>  veritas.  Super  creu-  20 


"isti  »J«  soh 
risti  A  esi 
iristi  »J<  it, 


cem  divinam  tfc  aggredier  iter.  »J«  Crux  Christi  >{<  impedit  omni  malum.  A  Crux 
Christi  A  dat  omne  bonum.  Crux  Christi  »J«  auferat  penam  aternam.  »J«  Crux 
Christi  kj«  salva  me.  »J<  Crux  Christi  sit  super  me.  »J«  ante  me  S*  post  me.  quia 
antiqus  hostis  fugit  ubi  te  vidit.  »{<  In  nomine  patris  >J«  <Sf  filij  >J«  et  spiritus  sancti. 
Amen. 

On  the  Backside  of  this  Roll  Bp.  Barlow  has  written  : 

Orationes  (prasertim  ultima  ilia  ad  Crucent)  sunt  frorsus  impiee.     Deo  patri  et 
salvatori  nostro  Jesu  Christo,  cum  S.  Spiritu  gratias  quas  possumus  maximas  {licet 
quales  &°  quantas  debemus  non  possumus)  agamus  ;  eo  quod  pro  infinita  sua  benigni- 
tate,  e  tenebris,  super stitione,  ignorantia,  d^  tyrannide  Pontificijs,  communvcata  Evan-  3° 
gelij  luce,  nos  licet  indignos  liberaverint.    ytvoiro. 

This  Roll,  written  by  an  ignorant  Scribe,  I  believe  about  300  years  agoe, 
before  it  came  into  Dr.  Barlow's  Hands,  belong'd  to  Dr.  Langbaine,  who  at 
the  beginning  of  it  has  written : 

Lege  6°  luge  majorum  vices,  qui  ignorantia  ctzci  superstitionibus  hujusmodi  obnoxij 
agebant :  tuas  gaude,  qui  ab  his  liberaris.  sed  vide  interim  ut  Christo  liberatori  ser- 
vias  in  sanctitate  &>  justitia  coram  if  so  omnibus  dieb.  tuis. 

April  23  (Sun.).  Mr.  Proast  was  buried  in  the  Evening  of  Wednesday 
last  in  Maudlin  Parish  Church  Oxon.  in  wch  Parish  he  died.  He  left  all 
he  had,  wch  was  near  a  thousand  Pounds,  if  not  full  so  much,  to  a  niece  40 
of  his,  whom  he  had  maintain'd  for  several  Years,  &  who  liv'd  with  him.  — 
For  Antoninus's  Itinerary,  as  revis'd  and  inlarg'd  by  ^Ethicus,  see  Bergierius 
in  his  Excellent  Work  de  publicis  &  militaribus  Romanorum  vijs  lib. 
III.  c.  6.  also  Fabricius  in  the  IIK  Edit,  of  his  Bibliotheca  Latina  pag.  1 76. 
—  To  the  Memory  of  Festus  Avienus,  Son  to  Rufus  Festus  Avienus  the  Poe't 
there  is  a  Monum*  of  excellent  Note  in  Spon.  pag.  99.  by  w°h  perhaps  the 
Age  of  ye  Poe't  may  be  guess'd  at.  —  Not  only  Fabretti,  but  Begerus  writ 
upon  Tabula  Iliaca,  w«b  illustrates  the  Trojan  Antiquities.  Begerus  came 
out  in  4*0.  at  Lips.  1699.  —  Register  Books  began  in  the  Year  1538, 
the  30*!*  Year  of  King  Henry  Villa's  Reign.  Stowe's  Annals  pag.  575.  5° 
col.  2.  —  Mr.  Leland  mentions  the  four  Great  stones  near  Borough 
Bridge  in  the  first  Vol.  of  his  Itinerary  fol.  101.  &  says  he  could  find  no 
Inscription  on  them.  He  takes  them  to  have  been  Trophies  of  y« 


HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

Romans.  —  Shew  Dr.  Hudson  a  Passage  out  of  Malela  wch  must  be 
compar'd  with  Eustathius.  'Tis  cited  in  Prideaux's  notes  upon  Harm. 
Oxon.  pag.  51.  —  In  the  Year  1698.  one  Mr.  John  Husey,  Pastor  of  a 
Congregational  Church  in  Cambridge,  preach'd  a  Sermon  against  Free- 
Will,  &  confirm'd  his  Doctrine  from  one  of  ye  Collects  in  our  Liturgy,  for 
wch  he  was  prosecuted  and  try'd  at  ye  Assizes  at  Cambridge,  but  was 
acquitted.  Afterwards  that  Part  of  his  Sermon  relating  to  our  Liturgy 
was  printed  in  half  a  Sheet  of  Paper  in  folio,  in  wch  there  is  an  Account 
yt  ye  Author  design'd  to  print  several  Sermons  upon  Quinquarticular 

10  Points,  as  also  another  large  Work.  —  The  Basis  of  the  Statue  to  the 
Memory  of  Aurelia  Fausta  in  ye  Theater  Yard  has  an  Inscription  wck  is 
printed  by  Dr.  Prideaux  with  large  notes ;  but  ye  Statue  it  self  is  wanting. 
It  stands  by  the  Covenant  between  the  Smyrnaeans  and  Magnesians,  &  is 
judg'd  to  have  been  cut  and  erected  to  her  Memory  in  the  time  [of] 
Marcus  Antoninus.  'Twas  by  order  of  ye  City  of  Smyrna,  styl'd  here 
Metropolis,  &  to  be  the  most  splendid  and  most  beautifull  City  of  Asia,  by 
wcl1  is  to  be  understood  Proconsular  Asia.  —  According  to  ye  old 
Custom  amongst  ye  Romans,  when  any  Person  was  murder'd  all  that 
liv'd  in  ye  same  House  were  to  be  brought  to  punishment.  See  Tacitus 

so  xiv.  42.  also  xin.  32.  &  the  Case  of  Marcellus's  Death  in  Tully's  Fam. 
Epistles  1.  iv.  n.  12.  &  Cellarius's  Notes  at  ye  Place.  —  Mr.  Dodwell 
tells  me  by  Letter  that  he  much  questions  whether  Cassides  were  in  use 
amongst  the  Romans  before  the  time  of  Tacitus,  thinking  that  they  were 
only  Galeae  before.  But  what  makes  against  his  opinion  is  the  word 
Cassis  in  Julius  Caesar's  Com.  de  bello  Gallico,  1.  vn.  c.  45.  of  Junger- 
mannus's  Edition ;  where  he  speaks  thus :  prima  luce  magnum  numerum 
impedimentorum  ex  castris  mulorumque  product,  eque  ijs  slramenta  detrahi, 
mulionesque  cum  cassidibus,  equitum  specie  ac  simulatwne,  collibus  circumvehi 
jubet. — For  Cassis  in  Propertius  there  is  Cassida  in  the  Nominative  Case, 

30  and  in  Festus  Cassila;  and  so  the  MSSts.  of  Festus,  but  Vossius  in  his 
Etymologicon  in  voc.  Cassis  is  of  opinion  that  Cassida  is  to  be  read  for 
Cassila  in  Festus,  tho'  he  grants  that  D  &  L  are  oftentimes  chang'd  &  the 
one  put  for  the  other.  Virgil  has  Cassida  in  the  nominative  :  .^En.  xi.  v. 
774.  Aureus  ex  humeris  sonat  arcus,  &  aurea  vati  Cassida : — Servius 
there  says  that  'tis  for  Cassis,  &  that  Virgil  us'd  the  Accusative  for  the 
Nominative.  But  Valerius  Probus  on  the  contrary  says  that  'tis  really  the 
nominative  Case  and  not  ye  accusative,  and  that  Virgil  declin'd  it  haec 
cassida.  In  Varro  also  we  have  compeda  for  compes,  &  chlamyda  for 
chlamys.  And  Festus  Itonida  for  Itonis.  Festus  says  :  Cassidam  antiqui 

40  pro  casside  ponelant.  So  this  Place  is  to  be  read  in  the  opinion  of  Luc. 
Fruterius  lib.  3.  Verisim.  cap.  5.  'Tis  in  Gruter's  Fax  artium.  In  MSS. 
we  have  lepulas  for  lepadas,  diviliae  for  dividise,  &  laptilis  for  dapsilis.  — 
From  Dr.  Davis's  Welch  Dictionary,  Bwlch,  incile.  pi.  Bylch.  Adjective 
sumitur,  fractus,  incisus.  unde  Fo2m.  Bolch. — Latus,  a,  um ;  Llydan, 
ehang,  ehelaeth,  &c.  The  word  Cassis  mention'd  in  Plautus. 
Trinum.  10.  98.  Mihi  &  pharetram  &  sagittas  sumpsero,  cassidem  in 
caput.  — 

Quaere  what  is  the  Signification  of  this  Mark  in  Marm.  Oxon.  pag.  70. 
Num.   in.  vers.  6,  namely,  H'£p.      Tis  in  the  Marble  of  Septimius 

50  Publius  Citharcedus,  where  all  his  victories  are  enumerated,  beginning 


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with  those  at  Smyrna,  viz.  2MYPNAN  OAYMHIA  H'pp.  Mr.  Selden  does 
not  know  what  to  make  of  it.  —  Quaere  whether  Claudius  Agathemorus 
a  most  famous  Physitian  be  mention'd  in  any  Books.  There  is  a  monu- 
ment to  the  Memory  of  him  and  his  wife  fix'd  in  the  west  Wall  of  the 
Theater  Yard,  by  which  it  appears  that  he  was  a  Man  of  great  Business, 
and  y*  he  had  extraordinary  Success.  —  A  Charter  of  King  Edward  the 
Confessor's  quoted  in  my  old  Writings  for  a  Lawday  of  the  Dean  & 
Canons  of  Hereford ;  But  this  Charter  I  believe  to  be  recent.  — 

In  Bibl.  Bodl.  Super  Art.  immediately  after  O.  14.  is  a  large  Vellam 
MS*,  being  ye  Bible  in  French,  but  'tis  not  mention'd  in  our  Catalogue  10 
(I  think).  —  Customary  with  the  ancients  for  the  Masters  or  Mistresses 
to  put  up  monuments  to  their  servants  or  slaves.  So  in  the  Theater 
Yard  Annaia  Ferusa  is  said  to  have  put  up  a  monument  to  her  Bondchild 
Annaius  Firm,  who  died  in  the  6th  Year  of  his  Age,  being,  as  is  there 
express'd,  just  5  years  2  Months,  6  Days,  and  6  Hours  old.  —  King 
Edward  the  VI^'s  Injunctions,  printed  by  Rich.  Grafton  at  London  in 
1547.  together  with  his  Homilies.  They  are  in  Bibl.  Bodl.  inter  Codd. 
Seld.  4to.  J.  6.  Th.  On  each  side  of  the  Binding  of  this  Book,  are  the 
Arms  of  England  &  France  ;  and  above  them  a  Rose,  supported  by  two 
Angels,  above  one  of  which  is  a  Flower  de  Luce,  and  above  the  other  a  20 
Cross  ;  and  round  about  are  these  verses,  Hcec  rosa  virtuiis  de  Coelo  missa 
Sereno,  Aeiernum  florens  regia  scepira  feret.  —  In  the  Month  of  June 
1 544,  an.  36  H.  VIII,  the  Letanie  or  Procession  was  set  forth  in  English, 
with  Commandment  by  the  King  to  be  generally  used  in  every  Parish 
Church.  See  Stow's  Annals  p.  587.  a. — Account  of  a  False  Accusation 
against  Mr.  Stowe.  Ibid.  p.  588.  b. — Colleges,  Chauntries  and  Hospitals, 
and  other  Places  specified  in  a  certain  Act,  given  to  King  Hen.  VIII.  in 
ye  37*11  Year  of  his  Reign  an.  D.  1545.  See  Stowe's  Annals  p.  589.  b. 
but  with  condition  that  he  order  them  to  the  Glory  of  God  and  the  Profit 
of  the  Common- Wealth,  ibid. — One  Wm.  Foxley  slept  14  days  and  15  30 
Nights,  &  lived  41  Years  after,  ib.  p.  591.  a. — The  Gospell  and  Epistle 
commanded  to  be  read  in  English  in  1547.  the  first  Year  of  K.  Edw.  VI. 
Ib.  p.  594.  b. — The  same  Year  Texts  of  Scripture  first  written  upon  the 
Walls  in  Churches.  Ib.  p.  595.  a. — A  Benedictine  Nunnery  at  Littlemore 
near  Oxford  dedicated  to  S4.  Nicholas. — The  Manner  of  Sandford  near 
Oxon  given  to  ye  Kte.  Templers  by  Sr.  Thomas  de  Sandford  K*.  A.  D. 
— &  so  it  became  a  Praeceptory. 

In  the  Year  1623  Richard  Tomlins  (of  the  City  of  Westminster)  Esqr. 
founded  the  Anatomy  Lecture  at  Oxford.  By  Virtue  of  the  Statutes  of 
this  Lecture  the  Regius  Professor  of  Physick  is  always  to  be  the  Reader.  40 
The  Salary  settled  upon  it  was  25  Pounds  per  annum;  which  was  after- 
wards, namely  in  the  Year  1638,  enlarg'd.  The  chief  office  of  the 
Reader  is  every  Spring  time,  immediately  after  the  Assizes  are  ended,  to 
procure  an  intire  &  Sound  body  of  one  of  the  Malefactors  then  condemn'd 
or  hang'd ;  or,  if  that  cannot  be  done,  to  get  an  intire  and  sound  Body  of 
some  other  Person ;  which  being  thus  procur'd  he  is  oblig'd  to  have  it 
prepar'd  and  cut  up  by  some  Skillfull  Surgeon,  after  which  he  is  to  read 
in  the  Physick  School,  or  some  other  Place,  four  distinct  Lectures  at  four 
different  times,  (two  Hours  at  each  time)  &  the  body  being  before  him  he 
is,  by  the  Help  and  Assistance  of  the  said  Surgeon,  to  lay  open  and  ex-  50 


380  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

plain  the  several  Functions  and  Uses  of  each  Part  in  an  humane  Body. 
These  four  Lectures  are  to  be  perform'd  in  the  Space  of  two  days,  im- 
mediately following  one  another ;  and  when  they  are  done  the  Lecturer 
out  of  his  Salary  is  bound  to  take  due  &  effectual  care  to  have  the  body 
decently  buried,  for  which  he  is  to  allow  fourty  Shillings ;  as  he  is  with- 
all  oblig'd  to  pay  the  Surgeon  three  Pounds  for  his  Help  and  Assistance 
in  the  operation.  These  Lectures  are  all  to  be  publick,  and  the  Persons, 
as  in  other  Lectures  of  the  University,  to  be  present  are  assign'd  by  the 
Statutes ;  which  likewise  give  the  Lecturer  a  Liberty,  as  he  shall  think 

10  proper,  of  explaining  other  parts  of  anatomy  more  distinctly  within  Term 
time  to  his  Several  Auditors ;  only  with  this  Proviso  that  every  Term 
time  he  be  under  an  indispensable  obligation  of  reading  publickly  three 
times  upon  the  Bones. 

Now  as  all  these  Lectures  are  to  be  publick  so  the  Professor  of  Physick 
is  bound  to  read  in  his  own  proper  Person ;  but  if  there  be  any  just 
hinderance  he  is  then  bound  to  depute  some  other  learn'd  &  proper 
Physitian  to  perform  this  Office.  But  if  the  Deputy  be  unqualify'd,  then 
the  Vice-chancellor  and  two  Proctors  for  the  time  being,  or  any  two  of 
them,  are  to  nominate  and  appoint  one  that  is  sufficient,  the  Deputy  him- 

20  self  having  no  Power  and  Authority  to  nominate  and  constitute  another ; 
contrary  to  what  is  now  practis'd,  when  Dr.  Hoy  being  Regius  Professor 
of  Physick,  and  consequently  Anatomy  Reader,  and  being  a  great  way 
distant  from  England,  he  has  constituted  Dr.  Tadlow  to  be  his  Deputy, 
who  being  either  unwilling  or  else  unable  to  do  the  Duty  of  the  Anatomy 
Lecturer  has  nominated  and  appointed  another  Deputy,  who  is  Mr. 
Monroe,  Bachelor  of  Physick,  and  lately  of  Balliol  Coll.  This  Deputation 
has  been  approv'd  of  by  the  Vice-Chancellor,  Dr.  Lancaster,  who  (as  will 
appear  by  and  by)  may  very  properly  be  call'd  a  Northern  Sear;  and  he 
has  not  only  approv'd  the  Deputation,  but  also,  contrary  to  the  Statutes, 

3°  instead  of  injoyning  him  to  read  publickly,  he  allows  him  liberty  of  read- 
ing in  the  Publick  Physick  School  privately,  &  to  receive  large  Fees  of  every 
Person  he  reads,  to,  without  insisting  at  all  upon  the  Publick  Lecture,  or 
taking  care  to  imploy  the  Money  left  for  that  purpose  to  it's  proper  use. 

In  prosecution  of  this  unstatutable  Concession,  and  of  his  open  neglect 
of  publick  Discipline,  and  as  a  notorious  instance  of  irregular  proceeding, 
he  gave  express  orders  to  Mr.  Monroe  to  come  in  person  and  demand 
the  Keys  of  the  Library  Door  and  Physick  School  from  the  Relater  of  these 
Matters,  by  which  he  might  be  able  to  go  into  and  outof  the  Physick  Schoole 
when  he  pleas'd.  Accordingly  on  Monday  Morning  last1,  between  the 

40  Hours  of  eight  and  nine  of  the  Clock,  Mr.  Monroe  came  to  the  Relater  by 
Virtue  of  the  said  orders,  and  demanded  the  Keys;  which  the  Relater  per- 
emptorily denied,  and  told  him  that  he  would  open  the  Doors  no  otherwise 
than  as  the  Statutes  direct,  having  then  respect  both  to  the  Bodlejan  and 
Anatomy  Statutes.  Mr.  Monroe  having  receiv'd  this  Answer,  waits  upon  the 
Vice-Chancellor  and  acquaints  him  with  it ;  who  gave  him  fresh  Orders 
to  come  and  demand  the  Keys  again  in  his  Name.  These  new  Orders 
were  executed  by  Mr.  Monroe  on  Tuesday  following  in  the  Afternoon 
between  two  and  three  of  the  Clock,  when  Mr.  Monroe  receiv'd  from  the 
Relater  the  same  Answer,  only  with  this  Addition  that  as  'twould  betray 

1  Apr.  17. 


April 23.]  VOLUME  XXIV,  PAGES  136-149.  381 

his  Trust  to  deliver  up  the  Keys,  so  he  had  no  obligation  to  open  the 
Door  unless  upon  account  of  a  Publick  Lecture,  which  was  to  be  per- 
form'd  in  two  Days  time  ;  and  besides  he  show'd  to  him  the  Inconveni- 
ences of  dissecting  Bodies  in  the  Physick  School,  not  only  as  it  gave 
offence  to  those  that  visited  the  Library  by  being  so  very  near  to  it,  but 
as  it  was  now  turn'd  into  a  Repository,  and  persons  not  at  all  sworn  to 
the  Library  being  admitted  as  Auditors  the  things  were  in  danger  of  being 
lost,  as  is  plain  from  an  Instance  last  year,  when  Dr.  Sandolands,  no 
member  of  the  University,  dissected  ;  at  wc^  time  a  Brass  Statue  &  several 
Medals  and  Coyns  were  convey'd  off  and  were  never  yet  restor'd.  10 

Mr.  Monroe  did  not  heed  this,  but  still  insisted  upon  his  orders,  saying 
that  he  was  Dr.  Tadloes  Deputy.  The  Relater  told  him  that  by  the 
Statutes  Dr.  Tadloe  could  not  depute,  he  being  only  a  Deputy  himself. 
To  this  Mr.  Monroe  reply'd  that  'twas  not  the  Relater's  Business  to  ex- 
plain the  Statutes;  to  w0*1  he  receiv'd  Answer,  that  there  needed  no 
Interpretation,  being  very  plain  and  easy:  but  suppose  that  there  was  any 
Difficulty  or  doubt  it  was  to  be  solv'd  not  by  the  Vice-Chancellor  singly 
himself,  but  conjunctly  by  the  Vice-chancellor,  the  Warden  of  New- 
College,  the  Rector  of  Exeter,  the  Principal  of  Jesus,  the  Anatomy 
Lecturer,  and  the  two  Proctors,  or  any  four  of  them,  whereof  the  Vice-  ao 
chancellor  for  the  time  being  is  necessarily  to  be  one.  Having  receiv'd 
this  Answer,  and  finding  the  Relater  fully  resolv'd  to  keep  the  Keys  in  his 
own  Hands,  he  went  off. 

Next  day  being  Wednesday  the  Relater  went  himself  to  the  Vice- 
Chancellor,  between  the  Hours  of  5  and  6  of  the  Clock  in  the  Afternoon. 
He  found  him  viewing  the  Workmen  at  the  new-Building  in  Queen's- 
College  now  carrying  on. 

As  soon  as  the  Relater  came  up  to  him  he  acquainted  him  with  the 
Command  that  Mr.  Monroe  had  brought  in  his  Name.  The  Vice- 
Chancellor  said  it  was  his  Command,  and  he  exspected  that  it  should  be  30 
submitted  to  without  any  Demurr.  The  Relater  told  him  he  could  not 
deliver  up  the  Keys,  wcl1  were  intrusted  to  him,  and  that  by  that  means 
he  should  betray  his  Trust.  Upon  this  the  Vice-Chancellor  grew  very 
furious  and  outragious,  and  utter'd  a  great  many  virulent  and  opprobrious 
Expressions,  and  withall  said  that  Dr.  Hudson  and  the  Relater  acted  as 
they  pleas'd  in  the  Library;  which  last  expression  was  spoke  by  him  upon 
occasion  of  the  Relater's  saying  he  could  not  deliver  the  Keys  into  any 
other  Hands  but  Dr.  Hudson's  from  whom  he  receiv'd  them.  The  Vice- 
chancellor  then  requir'd  the  Relater  to  deliver  the  Keys  into  his  own 
Hands,  saying  that  he  would  get  new  ones  made,  wct  he  would  deliver  40 
himself  to  Mr.  Monroe.  The  Relater  told  him  he  could  not  do  it.  He 
then  said  he  would  take  the  Keys  from  him.  The  Relater  reply'd  that 
the  Keys  could  not  be  taken  from  him  without  a  reason  given,  and  that  if 
that  was  done  it  must  be  by  the  8  Curators  of  the  Library,  whereof  himself 
is  but  one,  and  that  even  then  too  the  Keys  are  to  be  return'd  to  Dr. 
Hudson,  who  has  the  Charge  not  only  of  the  Library  itself,  but  of  the 
Gallery  and  the  Physick  School,  both  Places  being  within  the  Precincts 
of  it,  and  the  things  given  to  either  being  reckon'd  as  part  of  it's  Treasure 
and  the  chief  of  them  are  upon  that  Account  enter'd  in  the  Library 
Register.  50 


382  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

Then  the  Relater  proceeded  to  acquaint  the  Vice-chancellor  with  the 
Statue,  Coyns,  and  Medalls  being  purloyn'd  last  year,  and  to  tell  him 
that  the  School  was  only  design'd  for  publick  Lectures,  that  great  offence 
was  given  last  year  to  strangers  that  came  to  the  Library,  who  could  not 
endure  the  smell  that  was  caus'd  by  the  Bodies  being  cut  up;  that  this 
Year  there  was  like  by  such  operations  to  be  greater  offence  by  reason  of  the 
Rifeness  of  the  small  Pox,  tho'  indeed  last  Year  the  Persons  concern'd  were 
so  inhumane  as  to  let  the  Bodies  of  children  lye  so  long  in  the  school  that 
worms  bred  in  them ;  and  lastly  he  told  him  that  as  to  himself  he  was 

10  under  no  obligation  of  opening  the  Door  but  in  case  of  publick  Dissec- 
tions. This  only  serv'd  to  increase  and  not  to  alleviate  the  Passion  of 
this  unreasonable  Man.  He  said  that  he  was  the  Governour  of  the 
University,  that  he  could  turn  publick  Lectures  into  private  and  private 
into  publick,  when  he  thought  convenient,  that  he  could  see  no  Excep- 
tions that  could  be  made  by  Visitants  of  the  Library,  and  that  as  to  the 
Coyns  &  Medalls  being  lost  he  look'd  upon  them  only  as  Trincketts, 
with  abundance  of  other  the  like  Stuff,  by  which  may  be  clearly  seen  that 
he  has  no  relish  of  true  Learning,  &  knows  nothing  of  it,  when  he  spakes 
\sic\  so  slightly  of  Coyns  &  Medalls,  than  wrhich  there  is  nothing  that 

20  gives  a  greater  Light  to  History  and  Antiquity,  and  for  that  reason  some 
of  the  Greatest  Men  of  late  Years  have  imploy'd  themselves  in  writing 
upon  that  Subject.  He  moreover  declar'd  that  as  for  the  Gentlemen  pre- 
sent he  could  not  suspect  or  think  that  they  would  take  away  any  thing  ; 
but  he  rather  believ'd  that  either  Dr.  Hudson  or  the  Relater  had  sold  and 
made  away  with  them  purely  for  the  sake  of  a  little  Money. 

He  then  demanded  the  Keys  again  but  ye  Relater  deny'd  them  as 
before.  Upon  wcl1  he  said  he  would  be  at  the  School  himself.  The 
Relater  said  he  would  wait  upon  him  when  he  pleas'd,  but  for  delivering 
up  the  Keys  he  had  no  authority  to  do  it.  He  then  fell  into  a  greater 

30  Passion  than  before,  vented  abundance  of  scurrilous  Language  (and  all 
this  in  presence  of  the  Workmen)  and  dismiss'd  the  Relater  abruptly  and 
in  such  a  rude  manner  as  is  not  proper  to  be  told,  more  indeed  out  of 
respect  to  the  Character  of  the  Vice-chancellor  as  such,  then  out  of  any 
Prospect  of  Disadvantage  to  the  Relater. 

There  is  no  doubt  but  that  Mr.  Tomlins,  when  he  founded  this  Lecture, 
foresaw  himself  the  Inconveniences  that  would  ensue  from  the  Physick 
School's  being  so  near  the  Library  ;  but  there  being  no  vacant  School, 
and  Anatomy  being  so  nearly  related  to  Physick,  he  thought  it  proper  to 
settle  it  there  :  tho'  for  preventing  as  much  as  possible  any  Mischiefs  and 

40  Disadvantages,  he  left  the  Lecturer  at  Liberty  to  dissect  in  any  other  Place, 
wcl1  for  that  reason  has  been  generally  done,  and  only  the  Part  of  anatomy 
concerning  the  Bones  has  been  perform'd  in  the  School  wcl1  can  cause  no 
offence.  Besides  when  the  Lecture  was  first  founded,  perhaps  the  Stair- 
Case  into  the  Library  next  Exeter  College  (for  so  it  was  formerly)  might 
not  be  remov'd,  and  new  Passages  made  into  the  Library  where  they  are 
now. 

One  would  have  thought  that  the  Vice-chancellor  instead  of  depriving 
the  Relater  of  the  Perquisites  of  his  Place  (wcl1  tho'  very  mean,  and 
indeed  almost  beneath  the  Degree  of  A.M.  were  it  not  for  the  Benefit  of 

50  Study  in  the  Publick  Library,  yet  chiefly  arise  from  the  Anatomy  school) 


April  23-28.]         VOL  UME  XXI V,  PA GES  149-161.  383 

should  have  endeavour'd  to  make  him  some  retribution  for  the  Injuries  he 
did  him  lately  by  getting  him  turn'd  by  a  benefical  Post  in  the  Univer- 
sity :  And  one  would  have  exspected  that  a  Person  of  the  least  Humanity 
instead  of  abusing  him,  should  have  receiv'd  him  with  kindness  and  have 
propos'd  a  method  for  making  him  some  reasonable  Satisfaction  for  the 
several  Services  he  has  done  in  the  Library  &  University  for  several  years, 
&  is  continually  doing  for  both  Places  ;  for  wc51  however  he  never  receiv'd 
any  other  Gratuity  than  a  bare  Salary  of  eight  Pounds  per  annum.  But 
this  being  a  matter  wct  so  nearly  concerns  the  Relater,  he  judges  it  more 
agreeable  to  the  Rules  of  modesty  to  leave  it  to  the  Reflexion  of  others,  10 
than  to  make  any  more  observations  upon  it  himself. 

April  24  (Mon.).  The  Statue  of  Marcianus  in  the  Theater- Yard  has 
a  girdle  about  it,  such  a  one  perhaps  as  the  common  Souldiers  us'd  to 
wear,  if  it  be  to  the  memory  of  a  common  Souldier,  and  not  of  a  Person 
of  high  rank,  as  it  rather  seems  to  me  :  tho'  whoever  'tis  'tis  certain  'twas 
erected  not  for  the  highest  Acts  of  Virtue,  in  wch  Cases  Cities  us'd  to 
erect  Statues  at  ye  Publick  Expense,  but  'twas  for  the  lower  and  more 
ordinary  Acts  of  it,  in  which  Cases  the  Friends  of  the  deceas'd  us'd  to 
raise  Monuments  by  Leave  from  the  Emperor.  And  so  in  this  Monu- 
ment 'tis  plain  from  the  Inscription  that  the  statue  was  erected  &  put  up  20 
by  Marcianus's  Wife,  who  had  obtain'd  a  Power  from  ye  Emperor  or  at 
least  from  his  Lieutenant. 

April  27  (Th.).  There  is  just  publish'd  on  a  single  sheet  of  Paper 
in  8V0.  &  in  a  very  small  Letter  A  Vindication  of  the  Bf.  of  Salisbury  and 
of  the  Doctrine  of  Passive  obedience ;  in  wch  are  some  Reflexions  on  a 
speech  wck  goes  under  his  Lordship's  name.  This  Paper  is  said  to  be 
writ  by  Dr.  Atterbury ;  tho'  I  rather  believe  it  to  have  been  done  by 
Dr.  Hickes  or  one  of  his  Principles.  But  whoever  was  Author,  'tis  done 
with  great  smartness,  and  the  BP.  of  Salisbury  is  very  severely,  yet  justly, 
reflected  upon  throughout.  The  Author  makes  the  writer  of  yfc  speech,  30 
wch  goes  under  Burnett's  Name,  to  be  guilty  of  the  greatest  Knavery 
&  to  be  govern'd  by  Diabolical  Principles.  He  cannot  think  the  writer 
of  ye  speech  to  be  a  BP,  because  of  the  Doctrines  deliver'd  in  it  that  are 
against  the  Doctrines  of  the  Church  of  England,  against  Scripture, 
Fathers,  Councils,  and  never  maintain'd  or  defended  by  any  true  or- 
thodox BP,  but  wholly  owing  to  Rebells,  men  of  unstable,  hellish  Minds, 
and  govern'd  by  self  Interest,  such  as  will  cut  their  Fathers  throat  to 
possess  his  Estate  &  take  up  arms  against  ye  L*19.  anointed  to  be  exalted 
to  temporal  Dignity,  &  to  have  a  share  in  his  undoubted  Rights. 

April  28  (Pri.).     Just  publish'd  in  8™.  upon  good  Paper  &  in  a  large  40 
Letter.  The  Managers  Pro  and  Con.  Or  An  Account  of  what  is  said  at 
Child's  and  Toms  Coffee-House  for  and  against  IT.  Sacheverell.     'Twas 
writ  by  some  Whiggish  Rascal,  one  that  is  an  inveterate  Enemy  to  y« 
Church  of  England  and  Monarchy.     He  has  abus'd  Dr.  Sacheverell  in 

April  26.  H.  to  Barnes  (Rawl.  35.  5).  Remarks  on  list  of  subscribers ; 
on  Berglerus'  ed.  of  Homer ;  on  the  Tabula  Iliaca.  '  Dr.  Hudson  is  married 
to  the  Daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Harrison  K*  of  this  City.  She  is  a  good 
natur'd,  virtuous  young  Woman,  and  is  like  to  make  him  a  good  Wife.'  Dr. 
Hudson  has  written  or  will  write  in  answer  to  B. 


3 84  H  EARNERS  COLLECTIONS.  [mo: 

such  a  manner,  as  one  would  think  he  were  bred  in  the  same  Place  where 
old  Will.  Lancaster  was.  He  is  also  angry  that  Mr.  Dodwell's  Book 
about  the  soul  was  not  produc'd  in  Dr.  Sacheverell's  Collection  of 
Blasphemous,  Immoral  &  loose  Books. 

May  1  (Mon.).  Dr.  Sacheverell  being  presented  to  a  Welch  Living, 
by  one  Mr.  Lloyd,  of  about  200  libs,  per  annum,  wch  is  consistent  with 
his  Fellowship  of  Magd.  Coll.  he  has  recommended  Mr.  Trapp  for  his 
Successor  in  his  Lecture  at  Newington  in  Surrey,  who  is  accordingly 
elected. 

jo  May  2  (Tu.).  The  University  Address  being  carried  to  London 
yesterday  was  sennight  by  our  Whiggish  Vice-Chancellor  &  some  few 
other  Heads  of  Houses  and  the  two  Proctors,  they  were  on  Thursday 
magnificently  entertain'd  by  the  Duke  of  Ormond  our  Chancellor,  and  the 
next  day  they  were  introduc'd  to  her  Majesty,  who  receiv'd  them 
graciously,  and  all  of  them,  even  John  Prickett,  one  of  Dr.  Charlett's 
Lacqueys,  were  admitted  to  kiss  her  Majesty's  Hand.  But  'tis  no  wonder 
that  a  whiggish,  flattering,  cringing,  complying  Address  should  be  so  well 
receiv'd.  It  had  been  contriv'd  accordingly  by  the  Vice-Chancellor,  who 
sometime  before  having  at  his  Lodgings  in  Queen's  College  got  Mr. 

20  Whalley  of  Wadham,  one  of  his  Great  Cronies,  together  with  Sr.  Christopher 
Powell,  a  young  whiggish  Baronett  of  Queen's  College,  Pupil  to  Mr.  Hill 
who  was  also  present,  and  Mr.  Whalley  declaring  his  Mind  to  the  Vice- 
Chancellor  that  he  thought  'twould  be  highly  proper  at  this  Juncture 
to  have  a  most  loyal  address,  exactly  conform  to  the  Oxford  Decree,  the 
Vice-Chancellor  reply'd  that  he  would  act  nothing  against  the  Sentiments 
of  his  Superiors,  that  if  he  found  they  were  for  it  at  Court  he  would 
manage  the  Point  for  an  address  suitable  to  their  Tempers.  This  I  had 
from  Mr.  Hill  himself  the  same  day.  The  next  day  being  Monday,  old 
Lancaster  posts  up  to  London,  concerts  the  Matter  with  the  Duke  of 

,30  Ormond  and  some  other  Great  Men,  and  finds  that  an  Address,  manag'd 
prudently  as  they  style  it,  (that  is  to  make  the  Queen  have  other  titles 
from  the  People,  besides  her  Hereditary  one)  would  be  kindly  accepted. 
He  returns  in  all  hast  to  Oxford,  calls  a  meeting  of  Heads,  and  having 
got  an  Address  penn'd  every  way  agreeable  to  the  Inclinations  of  his 
whiggish  Friends,  such  a  one  as  he  thought  would  not  prejudice  his  Aim 
at  Preferment,  he  took  care  to  have  it  agreed  to,  and  pitch'd  upon  such 
Attendants  as  he  found  would  agree  in  the  carrying  his  Point.  —  An 
Act  pass'd  the  last  Sessions  intit.  An  Act  for  y6  Encouragement  of 


April  29.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  50).  Thanks  for  copy  of  Origen's 
Philosophumena.  His  unbound  and  imperfect  copy  of  the  Lipslck  Acts  for  1707. 
Remarks  on  Hudson's  Dionysius;  on  Schelwig  and  the  Dissertation  on 
Theophilus  Antiochen. ;  on  cassides,  gaieae,  the  fabrica  armorum,  &c.  Wolf 
to  H.  [in  Lat.]  (Rawl.  25.  58).  A  few  months  after  leaving  Oxford,  was 
appointed  Prof,  of  Philosophy  at  Wittenberg.  Schelwig  Prof,  of  Philosophy 
at  Sedan,  vice  Groddenius,  dead  of  the  plague ;  Lochnerus  at  Rostock ; 
Pfaffius  is  travelling  in  Italy  with  the  heir  of  the  Duke  of  Wiirtemberg.  Some 
observations  of  Casaubon  and  Faber  on  Pausanias  from  the  Library  of  the 
late  Schurfleischius  (from  a  Paris  MS.)  to  be  published  shortly.  '  Ecquid  vero 
Tua  Musa  molitur  ?  Indefessa  certe  et  pertinax  Tua  industria  nihil,  nisi  quod 
ingenio  elaboratum  sit  et  perfectum  polliceri  videtur.' 


April  28-May  5.]     VOLUME  XXIV,  PAGES  161-1 72.  385 

Learning,  by  Vesting  the  Copies  of  printed  Books  in  y®  authors  or 
Purchasers  of  such  copies,  during  the  times  therein  mentioned — Bares 
date  from  the  10^  of  April  last — The  Author  or  Bookseller  who  shall 
print  any  Book  already  printed  shall  have  the  sole  Liberty  of  printing  for 
21  Years  to  commence  from  the  said  iotb  day  of  April — the  Author  of 
any  Book  or  Books  already  composed  &  not  printed  nor  publish'd  to 
have  the  sole  privilege  of  printing  y«  same  for  14  Years,  to  be  reckon'd 
from  the  first  day  of  Publishing — Those  y*  offend  ag*.  this  act  to  forfeit 
their  Books,  unless  they  have  obtain'd  leave  from  the  Proprietors,  &  shall 
forfeit  one  Penny  for  every  Sheet,  the  one  Moiety  to  go  to  y6  Queen  the  I0 
other  to  the  Person  that  sues — No  forfeiture  unless  the  Book  be  first 
entred  in  ye  Register  of  Stationers — For  every  Entry  six  Pence  to  be 
paid — The  Clerk's  Fee  for  a  certificate  of  Entry  sixpence — After  the 
25th  day  of  March  no  unreasonable  Prices  to  be  set  upon  Books — Nine 
Copies  of  every  Book  in  the  best  Paper  to  be  deliver'd  to  the  Ware- 
House  Keeper  of  the  Company  of  Stationers  at  the  Hall  of  ye  Company 
for  ye  use  of  the  Queen's  Library,  the  Libraries  of  each  University  of 
England,  the  Libraries  of  the  four  Universities  of  Scotland,  the  Library 
of  Sion  College,  &  the  Library  of  Advocates  at  Edinburgh — For  default 
to  forfeit,  besides  the  value  of  the  said  printed  Copies,  five  Pounds  for  20 
every  Copy  not  so  deliver'd,  as  also  the  value  of  ye  said  printed  Copy 
not  so  deliver'd, — Suit  for  the  Offence  to  commence  within  3  Months 
next  after  it  is  committed. 

May  4  (Th.).  A  Tryal  of  several  of  those  that  were  concern'd  in  y« 
late  Ryott  at  London  having  commenc'd,  &  divers  of  them  being  found 
guilty,  amongst  others  one  of  the  Queen's  Watermen  was  condemn'd  for 
high-Treason,  but  the  Queen  has  pardon'd  him  at  y6  Intercession  of 
4  Indian  Kings  that  are  now  in  England  being  come  from  the  West- 
Indies  to  concert  and  establish  an  Allyance  against  ye  French. 

May  5  (Fri.).  Mr.  Proast  is  succeeded  in  the  Archdeaconry  of  Berks  3° 
by  Mr.  Richard  West  formerly  Fellow  of  Magdalen  Coll.  and  afterwards 
a  doctor  of  Divinity  of  Lambeth,  and  famous  for  his  preaching  up  anti- 
monarchical,  rebellious  doctrines,  for  wch  he  is  mightily  approv'd  by  the 
BP.  of  Sarum,  who  thinks  he  cannot  be  better  rewarded  for  his  Pains 
this  way  than  by  advancing  him  to  Spiritual  Preferment  instead  of  a 
Gallows.  —  Mr.  Allen  of  University  College  has  given  me  the  Copy  in 
Plaister  of  Paris  of  an  old  Seal,  which  was  found  lately  and  is  now 
in  possession  of  Mr.  Cole,  who  publish'd  the  Map  of  20  Miles  round 
Oxford.  This  Seal  is  very  broad,  and  round  it  are  these  Words, 
jeigtllum  SCUcartoi  "NcuU :  comiti*  :  2Hartoie{ :  fcomini  glomorganeie  et  4° 
morganm.  This  is  the  famous  Richard  Nevill,  Earl  of  Warwick,  who 
perform'd  such  noble  and  almost  unparallell'd  Actions  in  the  Differences 
between  the  Houses  of  York  and  Lancaster.  'Tis  to  his  valour  that 
the  Duke  of  York,  afterwards  Edw.  IV.,  ow'd  his  Advancement  to  the 
Throne,  and  he  continu'd  a  fast  Friend  to  him  for  some  time,  and  did 
him  extraordinary  Service;  but  at  last  he  deserted  him,  espous'd  the 
Interest  of  Henry  VI,  and  rais'd  a  very  strong  Party  in  his  Defense; 
but  coming  to  a  Battle,  he  was  slain  in  it,  as  he  was  most  couragiously 
fighting  on  foot,  having  sent  away  his  Horse  a  little  before.  This  was 

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386  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

the  only  time  he  fought  in  this  manner,  it  being  his  usual  Custom  always 
to  fight  upon  an  extraordinary  good,  swift,  strong  Horse,  accoutred  and 
arm'd  in  the  same  Posture  that  we  see  him  represented  here  upon  this 
Seal,  where  we  see  him  have  a  sword  in  his  Right  Hand,  in  the  Nor- 
mannic  Form,  and  in  the  left  he  has  a  Shield  with  a  Cross  Saltire  and 
a  File  of  3  Points.  On  his  Head  he  has  a  Coronett  and  a  Visor  over 
his  Face;  wcl1  Visors  are  of  a  late  date  and  are  different  from  the  ancient 
Buculae  amongst  the  Romans,  wcl1  were  properly  Shields  and  did  really 
belong  to  the  Cassides,  wch  are  of  great  Antiquity,  even  beyond  the  time  of 

10  Julius  Caesar,  who  mentions  them  in  his  Vlltk  Book  of  the  Gallick  Wars. 
May  6  (Sat.).  Coll.  Handasyde,  Governour  of  the  Isle  of  Jamaica, 
w°h  is  a  Post  of  great  Income,  almost  as  much  as  Ireland,  has  resign'd 
the  same,  having  held  it  for  several  Years.  This  Gentlemen  has  two 
ingenious  Sons,  of  very  great  Hopes,  Gentlemen-Commoners  of  University- 
College,  Pupills  to  Dr.  Hudson.  —  Just  printed  at  London  in  8V0.  of  88 
Pages,  The  true  State  of  Trinity  College  (Cambridge)  in  a  Letter  to  a 
Residing  Felloiv  of  that  Society :  wherein  the  trifling  Impertinencies, 
malicious  Aspersions,  and  bold  Falshoods  of  D1".  Bentley,  are  answer' d  in 
such  a  manner  as  they  deserve.  In  this  Pamphlett  Dr.  Bentley's  arbitrary 

20  Proceedings  in  Trinity  Coll.  his  Imbezzling  and  destroying  the  College 
Revenues,  cheating  the  Fellows  and  spending  their  Money  upon  unneces- 
sary Buildings  &c.  wthout  their  Consent,  his  haughty,  imperious  Behaviour 
towards  those  of  the  Society  that  were  for  acting  according  to  Statute,  his 
expelling  others  by  his  own  Power,  w^out  the  joynt  Consent  and  Appro- 
bation of  the  Fellows  as  he  was  by  statute  oblig'd,  with  abundance  of 
other  most  notorious,  abominable,  ill  natur'd  Practises  are  freely  display'd 
&  laid  open  in  the  Language  Dr.  Bentley  himself  always  makes  use  of. 

May  7  (Sun.).     Mr.  George   Stubbe   A.M.   and  Fellow  of  Exeter 
College,  and  sometime  since  of  University  Coll.  an  ingenious  Gentleman, 

30  has  publish'd  a  Poem  of  two  or  three  sheets  in  folio  call'd  The  Laurell  and 
the  Olive.  Inscrib'd  to  his  dear  Friend  and  Acquaintance  Mr.  Bubb 
a  Gentleman  Commoner  of  Exeter  Coll.  who  is  likewise  an  ingenious 
young  Gentleman,  &  has  a  Copy  of  verses  before  this  Poem  in  two  Pages 
to  Mr.  Stubbe,  and  he  has  a  very  good  Copy  of  verses  in  Latin  in  the 
Oxford  Collection  upon  the  death  of  Prince  George.  —  This  Day  Mr. 
Rawlinson  of  S*.  John's  College  shew'd  me  an  old  Seal,  with  this  Inscrip- 
tion :  MATER  :  DEI  MEMENTO  MET  :  &  the  Figure  of  the  Virgin  Mary  with 
our  Saviour  in  her  Arms,  &  underneath  is  the  Figure  of  a  Man  in  a  praying 
Posture.  It  was  found  in  the  Garden  of  one  Mr.  Clarke  in  Sfc.  Giles's 

40  Oxford,  and  when  I  first  saw  it  I  was  of  opinion  that  it  belong'd  to  some 
Religious  House,  and  that  it  was  their  Common-Seal.  But  what  House 
to  ascribe  it  to  I  found  difficult,  it  not  occurring  amongst  the  Cutts  of 
the  Arms  of  Religious  Houses  prefix'd  to  the  Notitia  Monastica,  nor  do 
I  at  present  remember  to  have  seen  it  put  to  any  antient  Evidences  that 


May  6.  Dr.  H.  Prideaux  to  Dr.  Hudson  (Rawl.  28.  60).  Intended  the 
part  of  his  book  on  Tithes  lately  published  to  be  merely  a  Preface  to  Part  II, 
but  has  been  compelled  to  desist  by  grievous  illness.  Thinks  he  has  said  as 
much  for  the  Clergy's  rights  as  can  be  said  upon  defensible  principles,  and 
whoever  goes  beyond  doth  his  cause  more  hurt  than  good. 


May  5-7.]  VOLUME  XXIV,  PAGES  172-187.  387 

I  have  hitherto  consulted.  I  guess'd  however  that  it  was  the  Seal  of 
some  Religious  House  dedicated  to  the  Virgin  Mary,  and  I  began  to 
think  of  Rewley  Abbey  (for  the  Arms  of  Osney  are  known  to  be  quite 
otherwise)  tho'  I  could  not  be  positive  for  want  of  Papers  to  wch  the  Seal 
of  that  House  is  fix'd.  Nor  does  any  such  figure  appear  in  the  Remains 
of  that  House  as  they  stand  at  present.  This  was  what  I  surmis'd  at 
first  view  ;  but  I  now  begin  to  be  of  another  Perswasion,  and  to  believe 
that  this  Seal  did  not  belong  to  any  Monastery,  College,  or  Corporation, 
but  that  it  was  the  Seal  of  a  private  Person ;  for  notwithstanding  Rewley 
was  dedicated  to  S*.  Mary,  and  the  Person  be  represented  in  a  praying  10 
Manner,  (wc^  may  seem  more  particularly  to  relate  to  that  House,  as  the 
Founder  of  it  had  receiv'd  so  many  signal  Favours,  wcl*  he  attributed  to 
her  Intercession,  during  his  Adventures  in  the  Holy  War,  and  as  the 
Monks  thereof  might  exspect  equal  Blessings  by  a  constant  Perseverance 
in  Prayer  and  other  holy  Exercise,  applying  themselves  always  to  the 
B.  Virgin)  yet  the  Name  of  the  Place  being  not  added,  it  seems  to  me  to 
be  a  plain  Indication  of  it's  being  only  a  private  and  not  a  publick  or 
common-Seal,  wch  us'd  to  have  SIGILLVM  and  the  Name  of  the  Place 
added  after.  And  tho'  the  Seals  sometimes  even  of  Private  Persons,  as 
that  of  Roger  de  Bentun,  which  we  have  in  the  Physick  Schoole,  had  the  ao 
Names  of  the  Possessors  added  with  the  word  SIGILLVM.  prefix'd,  yet  that 
was  left  to  the  Liberty  of  the  Person  himself,  whereas  the  Seals  of  Reli- 
gious Houses,  Colleges  &  Corporations,  seldom  if  ever  were  without  them, 
in  the  more  early  times.  Belonging  therefore  (for  so  I  think)  to  some 
private  Person,  the  occasion  of  the  Figure  was  a  most  devout,  holy  &  ardent 
affection  for  the  Christian  Religion,  and  'tis  likely  that  the  Seal  was  made 
during  the  Holy  Warrs,  and  that  it  belong' d  to  a  Person  actually  ingag'd  in 
them,  and  to  shew  his  Devotion  the  more  clearly,  &  to  imprint  it  the  more 
firmly  in  the  minds  of  those  that  took  part  with  him  he  might  cause  the 
figure  of  the  person  directing  himself  to  the  B.  Virgin  to  be  plac'd  under-  30 
neath.  Just  above  him  there  is  another  Figure  wch  seems  to  be  such  a 
separation  as  are  seen  in  Churches  to  divide  the  Body  of  the  Church  from 
the  Presbytery.  Being  without  this  Division  it  may  perhaps  suggest  that 
the  Possessor  of  the  Seal  was  a  Layman,  the  Priests  only  and  men  set 
apart  for  Divine  Offices  being  anciently  permitted  to  sit  in  the  Presbytery. 
The  make  of  the  Letters  indeed  appear  not  so  very  ancient,  &  the  Seal  is 
very  well  preserv'd  ;  but  then  I  observe  that  tho'  another  sort  of  m,  made 
in  a  round  manner,  in  the  Saxon  Form,  was  in  fashion  in  the  more  early 
times,  yet  we  had  the  same  m  as  soon  as  the  time  of  Henry  II,  as  is  plain 
from  the  above  mention'd  Seal  of  Roger  de  Bentun,  who  was  one  of  the  40 
Witnesses  to  the  Instrument  or  Charter  for  founding  the  Abbey  of 
Cokersand  in  Lancashire,  as  we  are  inform'd  by  the  Monasticon  Angli- 
canum,  vol.  II.  p.  631.  In  w<*  Seal  of  Bentun  the  other  Letters  are  like- 
wise equally  elegant  with  those  in  this,  in  reference  to  w°h  we  must 
further  note  that  over  the  Head  of  the  Virgin  Mary  is  this  Mark  #,  which 
I  think  stands  for  the  mark  of  the  Cross.  Yet  I  must  confess  that  I  do 
not  remember  to  have  seen  in  any  Seal,  Inscription,  writing  or  other 
Monument  such  a  sign  of  the  Cross,  tho'  we  have  various  Forms  in  the 
Monasticon  &  in  Dr.  Hickes's  Dissertatio  Epistolaris,  as  well  as  other 
curious  Tracts.  But  'tis  not  very  material  whether  the  Person  to  whom  50 

c  c  2 


HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

the  Seal  belong'd  was  one  of  those  military  Persons  that  joyn'd  in  the 
Holy  wars.  For  in  those  superstitious  times  upon  all  other  occasions  they 
address' d  themselves  to  the  H.  Virgin,  as  the  best  Refuge  and  Defence. 
Yet  before  the  Norman  Invasion  they  seem  sometimes  to  have  apply'd 
themselves  immediately  to  our  Saviour,  without  any  address  to  the  Virgin 
Mary.  Thence  perhaps  'tis  that  upon  the  famous  Instrument  of  Gold, 
(publish'd  by  Dr.  Hickes,)  wcl1  was  made  by  the  Care  of  King  JElfred,  we 
have  the  Image  of  our  Saviour  (for  so  I  take  it)  without  the  additional 
Figure  of  the  B.  virgin.  I  think  that  was  one  of  his  j-Estel's  put  upon  the 

10  Copys  of  Gregory's  Pastoral.  Upon  all  these  Copys  he  seems  to  have 
plac'd  the  Figure  of  our  Saviour,  as  his  great  deliverer  from  the  Danes. 
But  'twill  be  no  wonder  that  he  should  leave  out  ye  Virgin  Mary,  since 
he  relinquish'd  some  of  the  gross  Errors  of  the  Church  of  Rome,  as  is 
evident  from  Sr.  John  Spelman's  History  of  his  Life.  However  notwith- 
standing K.  yElfred  gave  them  so  much  light,  &  in  some  Degree  destroy'd 
and  abolish'd  some  superstitious  and  even  darling  Errors,  yet  they  soon 
reviv'd  &  were  maintain'd  with  much  greater  obstinacy,  insomuch  that 
strange,  &  even  blasphemous  Petitions  were  made  to  the  Cross,  and  the 
virtues  of  it  mark'd  out  and  display'd  in  writing,  and  Indulgences  granted 

20  to  such  as  sign'd  themselves  with  it.  This  may  partly  be  seen  in  an  old 
vellam  Roll,  written  above  300  years  agoe  in  English,  &  Latin,  &  now  in 
possession  of  Mr.  Pullen  of  Magdalen  Hall,  at  ye  Beginning  of  wcb-  are 
several  superstitious  Pictures  of  our  Saviour,  St.  Veronice,  the  Crown  of 
Thorns,  &c.  This  Practice  of  signing  with  the  Cross  was  so  much  in 
vogue,  that  no  Inscription  upon  any  Grave  stone  was  without  it,  being 
sometimes  put  at  the  Beginning  of  the  Monument  in  this  Manner  ©,  & 
sometimes  at  ye  End  of  it  thus  + ,  and  sometimes  both  at  the  Beginning 
and  End.  And  'twas  also  follow'd  in  Books  of  Chymistry,  especially  in 
such  as  deliver  any  Rules  for  Charms,  of  wcl1  we  have  considerable  Num- 

30  bers  in  our  Oxford  and  other  Libraries. 

May  9  (Tu.).  There  is  just  publish'd  a  2d.  Edition  of  Dr.  Wakes 
Translation  into  English  of  St.  Clemens's  Epistles,  Ignatius's  Epistles,  &c. 
in  wcil  are  great  Improvements,  &  a  very  good  Account  is  given  in  the 
Preface  of  IX  Smith's  Edition  of  Ignatius. 

May  10  (Wed.).  Dr.  Barnard's  Account  of  the  Death  of  Dr.  Atherton 
BP.  of  Waterford  having  been  lately  reprinted,  on  purpose  to  do  disservice 
to  Religion  and  to  bring  a  Disgrace  upon  the  Episcopal  Order,  there  is 
just  come  out  in  a  small  8VO  a  1  Pamphlett  to  clear  the  BP.  from  the 
horrid  Crimes  charg'd  against  him,  at  ye  End  whereof  is  an  Appendix 
40  containing  some  Letters  to  ye  same  purpose. 

May  11  (Th.).  Last  Week  being  two  or  three  times  with  Mr.  Tho. 
Bennett  of  Colchester,  an  ingenious  &  solid  Writer  against  the  Dissenters, 
he  told  me  that  the  late  Mr.  Abednego  Seller  as  he  was  a  very  learned 
Man,  so  he  had  made  large  Additions  to  Dr.  Cave's  Historia  Literaria, 
wch  are  extraordinary  good,  and  have  been  communicated  to  ye  Dr.  who 
'tis  hop'd  will  make  all  due  acknowledgment  &  attone  in  some  measure  for 
his  not  mentioning  of  him  with  honour  before  in  the  former  Impression, 

1  Tis  but  a  poor  Pamphlett,  &  was  done  by  ye  present  BP.  of  Waterford,  Thomas 
.     Milles,  an  Injudicious,  conceited  writer. 


May  7-13.]  VOLUME  XXIV,  PAGES  187-202.  389 

towards  wch  Mr.  Seller  had  been  also  a  great  and  usefull  assistant,  as 
I  have  hinted  in  the  7th  Page  of  the  VI*h  volume  of  this  Diary. 

May  12  (Fri.).  This  Morning  at  half  an  hour  after  5  Clock  died  of 
the  small-Pox  Mr.  Daniel  Osborne,  A.  M.  and  Fellow  of  Exeter-College. 
He  was  a  sober,  honest,  religious  Man  and  a  very  good  Scholar,  and  a 
diligent  Tutor  in  the  College.  He  was  buried  in  the  Chapell  of  the 
College  in  the  Evening  of  the  Day  following.  —  Quaere  about  these 
Words  in  Seneca's  Epp.  1.  i.  n.  i.  eerie  reparabilia — patianiur.  Mr. 
Thwaites  conjectures  arleve  parabilia.  — 

The  Names  of  the  four  Indian  Kings,  lately  come  over  into  England  :  i° 
(Anno  1710.) 

Te  Yee  Neen  Ho  Ga  Prow,    )    of  the 
Sa  Ga  Yean  Qua  Pra  Ton,     j     Maquas. 

(1)  Elow  Ch  Kaom—  )  (i)  The  River  Sachem. 

(2)  Oh  Nee  Yeath  Ton  No  Prow  /  (2)  The  Ganajohhore,  Sachem. 

May  13  (Sat.).  There  is  publish'd  An  Answer  to  the  Address  of  the 
University  of  Oxford.  Also  An  Address  to  the  Oxfordshire  and  other 
Addressers.  —  ...  On  Thursday  Morning  last  between  3  and  4  Clock  died 
my  truly  learned  and  excellent  Friend  Dr.  Thomas  Smith,  in  the  three 
score  and  twelfth  Year  of  his  Age.  He  died  an  undaunted  Confessor  20 
of  the  poor,  distress'd,  and  afflicted  Church  of  England,  and  always 
stood  stiff  and  resolute  to  the  Doctrines  of  it  as  laid  down  in  our  Articles 
and  Homilies.  As  he  was  a  man  of  very  great  Learning,  so  he  was 
withall  modest,  humble,  and  wonderfull  communicative,  of  indefatigable 
Industry,  and  of  more  than  ordinary  Curiosity  in  discovering  and  pre- 
serving the  Writings  of  learned  Men,  especially  those  of  our  own 
Countrey,  w°h  is  much  indebted  to  him  for  the  Lives  of  divers  of  them,  as 
well  as  for  several  other  usefull  &  good  Books.  — 

A  Key  to  the  IK  Vol.  of  the  Atalantis. 

Pa.  7.  Prince  of  Majorca.  D.  of  Ormond  and  the  Lady  Harriat  Gran-  30 
ville,  alias  Vere.  P.  10.  The  Midwife — M«.  Richards.  P.  12.  Sigis- 
mund  &  beautifull  Mistress.  K.  Charles  2d.  Dutch,  of  Cleveland  &  her 
5  Children.  P.  15.  Dutchess  of  Portsmouth.  P.  16.  D.  of  York  and 
D.  of  Monmouth.  P.  17.  Countess  of  Sunderland.  Duke  of  Marl- 
borough,  Ld.  Ross,  Mre.  Tofts.  P.  19.  Harriat — Daughter  to  the  Ld. 
Brook.  Henriquez. — K.  William.  P.  28.  Ld.  Romney,  the  old  old 
chevalier,  Sr.  Ed.  Seymour.  P.  39.  Widow  Lady,  Lady  Howard,  &  D. 
Shrewsbury.  P.  41.  D.  of  Ormond.  P.  42.  Prado.  St.  James's  Park. 
Count  Biron,  Ld.  Godolphin.  P.  46.  The  Lady  Lexington  [sz'c].  P.  48. 
Euphelia,  Mra.  Froud.  March,  de  Lerma,  The  Lady  Fretchville,  Marq.  40 
de  los  Minos,  Ld.  Henry  Scott.  P.  49.  Marchioness  of  Sandomire,  the 
lady  Sandwich.  P.  50.  Vice-Roy  of  Renis  Lady,  Lady  Wharton,  Lindamire, 
Mre.  Tofts.  The  Writer,  Countess  of  Dorchester,  The  Chevalier  Pierro, 
Ld.  Portsmouth.  P.  51.  Lady  Caermarthen,  Mompellier,  Dr.  Garth.  P.  52. 
Daphne,  Mr.  Griffon  alias  Manley.  Fortunatus,  The  D.  of  Marlborough. 
P.  54.  Roscius,  Mr.  Betterton  the  famous  Actor.  P.  55.  Daphne, — M™. 
Griffen  married  to  Mr.  Scarton  a  Divine.  P.  58.  Tuilleries,  S*.  James's 
Park,  D.  of  Buckingham,  the  New  House  for  the  D.  of  Marlborough. 
P.  59.  Spark.  Ld.  Ossulston,  Ld.  Albemarle.  P.  69.  Don  Juan,  Sr. 


390 


H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS. 


[1710 : 


Rob*.  Howard.  P.  96.  Sr.  James  of  the  Peak.  P.  113.  Count  Biron, 
IA  Godolphin.  P.  1 1 8.  K.  James's  Queen,  P.  of  Orange  Queen  Mary 
&  P.  of  Denmark.  P.  119.  Duke  and  Dutchess  of  Marlborough,  P.  of 
Wales.  P.  121.  Duke  of  Candida,  D.  of  Shrewsbury.  P.  134.  Prin- 
cess of  Orange.  P.  144.  A  general  the  greatest  of  the  Age,  IA  Peter- 
borough. P.  145.  Lady  Mary  Churchill  married  the  present  D.  of 
Mountague.  P.  147.  Hilaria,  M18.  Marsham.  P.  148.  Geronimo  de 
Haro,  Secretary  Harley.  P.  151.  An  old  Antimonarchical  pretended 
Patriot,  Archbp.  of  Canterbury.  P.  164.  Duke  of  Beaufort's  House  at 

10  Chelsea.  P.  169.  M*8.  Parker  Daughter  to  the  Lady  Ash.  P.  172. 
Mr.  Peyson  married  to  the  Lady  Granville.  P.  178.  Mr.  Pack  of  Kent, 
or  Sir  Tho.  Powis.  P.  1 80.  D.  of  Beaufort,  Dutchess  of  Ormond,  Mr. 
Tho.  Yalden.  P.  183.  Don  Marcus.  S*.  Tho.  Williams.  P.  197. 
Dutchess  of  Beaufort.  P.  203.  A  Minister  and  Favourite,  the  old  Ld. 
Hallifax.  P.  205.  Lady  Macclesfield  married  to  Mr.  Frett.  P.  206. 
Lady  Carlisle.  P.  207.  Lady  Effingham,  Mra.  Cross.  P.  209.  Earl 
of  Dysert.  P.  210.  General  Talmash.  P.  214.  Ld.  Huntington. 
P.  215.  M1^.  Heneage,  D.  Devonshire.  P.  216.  E.  of  Rivers.  P.  217. 
Mistress,  Mrs.  Calinston,  Old  out  of  Fashion  Ld.  Ld.  Haversham  and  his 

20  Lady,  Ld.  Conningsby,  Lady  Diana  Cassett.  P.  240.  D.  of  Rox- 
borough,  Dutchess  of  Roxborough  Daughter  to  ye  Earl  of  Nottingham. 
P.  242.  Duke  of  Northumberland.  P.  244.  That  Baron,  Ld.  Byron. 
P.  245.  a  certain  chevalier,  Ld.  Hervey.  P.  246.  Mre.  Collier,  Sir 
Richd.  Temple,  Ld.  Mohun.  P.  250.  Barsina,  Mre.  Laurence,  Prince 
of  Sira,  D.  of  Shrewsbury,  Squat  dapper  Gentleman,  Ld.  Fanshaw. 
P.  252.  Ld.  Mohun  and  his  Lady,  Earl  of  Macclesfield.  P.  254.  Ld. 
Conway.  P.  255.  Duke  of  S*.  Albans.  P.  256.  Old  projecting 
Chevalier;  Sr.  Humphrey  Mackworth.  P.  257.  That  Country:  ST. 
Tho.  Colepepper,  Lady  Withers.  P.  258.  Judge  Withers.  P.  261. 

3°  those  2  renown'd  Politicians,  Ld.  Somers  &  Ld.  Hallifax.  P.  262.  Old 
Earl  of  Sunderland.  P.  264.  Ld.  Hallifax.  P.  265.  Ld.  Ranelaugh. 
P.  265.  Earl  of  Dorsett.  P.  269.  Ld.  Barnard  &  his  Son,  Mr.  Vaines's 
Widow,  Mr.  Jollys's  Daughter.  P.  270.  Ld.  Peterborough. 


31 


This  is  the  forme  of  the  Stone  cone.  Godestowe  Chauntery. 


May  13, 14.]  VOLUME  XXIV,  PAGES  202-216.  391 

In  Wolvercote  Church  a  Grave  stone,  on  wcn  a  Brass  Plate,  with  this 
Inscription : 

Ingens  Oxonij  Rainoldus  gloria,  notus 

Fraterna  fama,  nee  minus  ipse  sua : 
Magnus  fortunse,  virtntis  major  alumnus, 

Hie,  sed  parte  sui  deteriore  jacet. 
Mens  ccelum  migravit,  ut  hinc  quoque  praemia  felix 

Sumat,  virtutes  ceperat  unde  suas. 

And  upon  the  stone  itself: 

Hie  jacet  Edmundus  Rainold  in  artibus  magister.    Obijt  21  Novembr.  anno  1630.  10 

setatis  su;u  92. 

This  stone  seems  to  have  been  a  grave  stone  before  the  Reformation, 
&  to  have  been  first  laid  to  the  memory  of  some  charitable  Person  during 
those  times.  And  afterwards,  the  old  Plates  about  it  being  pull'd  off,  it 
was  made  use  of  again,  and  new  ones  put  on  to  contain  the  Inscriptions 
aforesaid,  and  another  signifying  that  the  Person  referr'd  to  was  a  Man 
of  extraordinary  Charity  also.  For  on  the  Western  End  of  it  is  a  large 
oval  Vacancy,  on  w°k  a  Plate  was  once  fix'd,  that  is  since  remov'd,  and 
round  about  are  these  words:  Manum  suam  aperuit  inopi  &  palmas 
extendit  ad  pauperam  (lege  pauperem).  20 

Since  the  writing  of  what  goes  before  concerning  the  Grave-stone  at 
Wolvercote,  which  is  in  the  Chancell  of  the  Church,  I  have  chang'd  my 
mind  as  to  it's  being  a  Grave-stone  before  the  Reformation,  and  I  now 
think  that  'twas  made  purely  for  the  sake  of  Mr.  Edmund  Raynolds,  who 
was  A.  M.  of  Corpus  Christi  College,  and  Brother  to  the  famous  Dr.  John 
Raynolds,  with  whom  he  held  a  publick  Disputation  before  Robert  Earl 
of  Leycester,  an.  1584.  and  gain'd  great  honour  by  it.  He  was  a  Roman 
Catholick,  and  'tis  for  that  reason  that  the  Plate  of  the  Round  form 
resembled  those  of  the  Roman  Catholicks,  and  the  Inscription  or  Words 
round  it  were  ingrav'd  in  the  manner  practis'd  by  them.  He  was  also  a  3° 
Man  of  eminent  Charity  every  way  answerable  to  a  good  Estate,  which 
lay  at  Wolvercote,  and  was  left  by  him  to  his  Sister's  Son  named  Matthew 
Cheriton  Esqr.  This  Mr.  Raynolds  being  of  a  different  perswasion  from 
his  Brother  John  for  that  reason  left  Corpus  X*1'.  Coll.  and  retired  to 
Gloucester-Hall,  where  he  became  a  great  and  noted  Tutor,  wcl1  Imploy- 
ment  he  follow'd  several  Years,  to  the  no  small  Improvement  of  his 
Fortune. 

May  14  (Sun.).  This  Day  sennight  the  BP.  of  Salisbury  preach'd  in 
the  Cathedral  of  Sarum  upon  the  1 3th  of  the  Romans  concerning  the 
Authority  of  Princes,  in  explaining  the  words  whereof  he  was  very  bold  4° 
and  went  contrary  to  the  best  Expositors,  and  maintain'd  the  Doctrine  of 
Resistance,  wcl1  was  much  resented  by  the  Auditors.  Thursday  follow- 
ing his  lAship  ascending  the  Pulpit  of  S*.  Thomas,  and  preaching  in  the 
same  strain,  Mr.  Mayor  and  the  Aldermen  took  their  Halts  off  the  Peggs, 
went  out  of  the  Church  with  the  rest  of  the  Congregation,  and  left  his 
lAship  to  preach  to  the  Walls.  — 

Ex  Origenis  contra  Celsum  Cod.  MS.  in  Bibl.  Collegij  Novi,  ante 
annos  300,  aut  circiter,  ut  opinor  scripto  : 

Ka«    ot   KO\S>s   apxovrts    q/xuv  jStcur&Wc?    urrap^ovcri.   TOU   /jryaAou   /3acriXt<ur 


392  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

dvayKa.£oVTos,  ov  TTfirttcrp.fQa  tivai  vibv  dfov,  \6yov  6tov  1.  KOI  (I  ap^ovcri  ol  KaXak 
appoints  tv  rr)  fKK\rjcria.  2  TTJS  Kara  6fov  irarpibos.  Xe-yeo  8f  fj  fKK\T/(rias  Aeyd/wvoi.  17 
KOI  apxovcri  Kara  ra  VTTO  TOV  6tov  rrpOTfrayfifva,  ov8ev  irapa  TOVTO  fj.d\vvovTfs 


3  NOTES  CONCERNING  GODESTOW,  occasion'd  by  the  Fragment  of  the 
Stone  found  there  mention'd  above. 

The  Benedictine  Nunnery  of  Godestow  was  founded  by  one  Ida  or 
Editha,  a  very  devout  and  pious  Lady,  who  at  the  same  time  built  a  con- 
venient Church,  which  was  consecrated  to  the  Honour  of  the  Virgin 

i°  Mary  and  S*.  John  Baptist  in  the  Year  1138.  which  was  ye  fourth  Year 
of  the  Reign  of  King  Stephen.  The  Ceremony  of  Consecration  was  per- 
form'd  with  great  Solemnity  by  Alexander  BP.  of  Lincoln,  the  King 
himself,  the  Queen,  the  Archbp.  of  Canterbury,  and  several  others  of  the 
Nobility  as  well  as  Prince  Eustace,  the  King's  Son,  being  personally 
present  at  it.  At  the  same  time  many  &  large  Contributions  were  made 
for  Endowment  of  the  Church  and  Nunnery,  and  Editha  her  self  became 
the  first  Abbess,  tho'  we  do  not  find  what  Contributions  were  made  by  her. 
Without  doubt  they  were  very  considerable,  she  being  in  all  probability  a 
Lady  of  Wealth  and  Fortune.  This  is  certain  that  the  Ground  upon 

20  which  this  Religious  House  stood  was  not  originally  her's  but  belong'  d  to 
John  S*.  John's,  who  gave  it  to  this  Lady  in  Frank-Almoigne  for  ever. 
So  we  are  inform'd  by  the  Monasticon  ;  where  likewise  the  several  Con- 
tributors or  Benefactors  at  the  Dedication,  wc^  fell  out  upon  Easter-Eve, 
are  specify'd  out  of  the  Register  of  Godestow,  one  of  which  was  Elwine 
Fitz  Godegose,  who  impropriated  to  it  the  Church  of  S*.  Giles  in  Oxford, 
that  himself  had  founded  a  little  before,  and  gave  besides  18  Solidatae  of 
Land  lying  above  South-Bridge  in  Oxford. 

We  do  not  find  where  this  Ida  was  buried  ;  but  without  question  'twas 
at  Godestowe  :  and  when  I  formerly  saw  this  Broken  Stone,  which  was 

30  rooted  up  in  the  late  great  Storm  in  1  703,  I  was  inclin'd  to  think  that 
'twas  part  of  the  Stone  that  was  erected  to  her  Memory  upon  account  of 
this  Benefaction,  or  at  least  that  it  was  to  the  Memory  of  King  John,  who 
is  said  by  Thomas  Walsingham  (in  his  Hypodigma  Neustriae  p.  56.  of 
ArchbP.  Parker's  Edit.)  to  have  been  the  Founder  of  the  Nunnery,  there- 
by depriving  Ida  of  the  Honour  due  to  her,  and  fixing  it  upon  one  of  the 
Sons  of  King  Henry  II.  to  whom  Rosamund  Clifford  was  Concubine,  & 
was  here  buried.  Walsingham  further  adds  that  the  occasion  of  the 

1  'Two  TTJS  in  Cod.  MS.  Baroc.  paullo  recentiori,  uti  etiam  in  Edit.  Hcescheliana. 
Hoeschelius  tamen  unus  inclusit,  utpote  qui  forsan  vocem  hanc  in  aliquot  codicibus 
desiderari  viderit.  Retinuit  etiam  in  Interpretatione  Latina  ;  nee  aliter  in  Ed.  Cant. 
per  Spenceram.  Sed  in  versione  Latina  ante  Gelenium  deest.  Et  recte  quidem  T&  virb 
legi  puto. 

J  Sic  legendum  &  distinguendum  ex  Edit.  Hoesch.  viz.  ical  «  ap-xovffiv  ol  iea\u>s  apx.- 
ovTts  tv  T?7  eKK\T]ffiq,  (i/ird)  TT/S  Kara  9eov  irarpiSos,  \ty<a  5%  rfjs  tKK\r](Tias,  fK\e~f6f*evoi- 
apxovffi  KdTaL  T&  vno  TOV  Ofov  irpoTtTayfteva,  ovS^v  irapcL  TOVTO  fjLoXvvovTts  TWV  Otruiv 
popiuv.  Quomodo  &  plane  in  codice  Barocciano,  in  quo  &  mox  post  ^/juuv  ad  initium 
sententiae  commate  distinguitur.  Haec  observavi  in  gratiam  Viri  Reverendi  Thomse 
Bennetti  de  Colcestria  in  agro  Essexiensi,  qui  contra  Presbyteranorum  aliorumque  Ec- 
clesise  Anglicanse  hostium  disciplinas  multos  scripsit  libros,  alios  non  minoris  notse  si 
conatibus  faveat  Deus  scripturus. 

3  See  more  of  Godstow  at  the  End  of  the  Vol.  [DR.  BLISS.] 


May  14.]  VOLUME  XXIV,  PAGES  216-228.  393 

Foundation  was  that  Prayers  might  be  made  for  the  soul  of  the  said 
Rosamund.  But  Walsingham  is  so  to  be  understood,  as  if  he  meant  it 
only  of  an  Addition  or  Improvement  that  was  made  by  the  King  to  the 
Nunnery,  and  not  that  he  was  the  first  or  principal  Founder,  it  being 
plain  from  the  Register  that  he  was  not.  'Tis  likely  he  added  a  Chauntery 
or  Chapell  for  one  or  two  Priests,  and  made  a  suitable  Allowance  for 
performing  the  proper  Offices  in  behalf  of  Rosamund.  This  being  so,  I 
now  rather  believe  that  the  Stone  was  placed  in  Memory  of  this  Benefac- 
tion and  not  of  the  other.  For  if  it  had  reference  to  Ida,  'twould  not  be 
styl'd  a  Chaunterie  but  either  a  Nunnery,  or  Church.  There  is  one  10 
thing  indeed  which  looks  as  if  the  Stone  could  not  have  regard  to  either, 
and  that  is  the  meanness  of  it,  and  the  Position  of  the  Letters,  being 
plac'd  round,  as  far  as  we  can  judge  by  what  remains,  just  in  the  same 
manner  that  we  see  in  old  Grave-stones :  whence  I  begin  now  to  suspect 
thai  it  was  nothing  else  but  a  Grave-stone,  laid  flat  upon  the  Ground. 
Yet  it  must  withall  be  granted  that  the  Person  over  whom  it  was  laid  was 
a  Benefactor  to  the  Place,  and  either  erected  a  Chaunterie  (une  Chaunterie) 
himself  at  his  own  proper  Charges,  or  else  joyn'd  with  another  in  doing 
such  an  Act  of  Charity.  Whoever  it  was  his  Name  seems  to  have  begun 
with  an  I,  as  we  may  gather  from  that  letter  which  is  plac'd  just  above  20 
the  Cross,  on  the  left  hand.  But  we  having  so  small  a  part  of  the  Stone, 
'tis  impossible  to  determine  any  way  from  it,  unless  other  Monuments  of 
the  same  Nature  and  Antiquity  could  be  found  here  to  compare  with  it. 

From  the  Monasticon's  mentioning  Elwine  Fitz  Godegose  as  the 
Founder  of  S*.  Giles's  Church,  we  may  inferr  that  the  old  Church  dedicated 
to  the  same  Saint,  and  founded  some  Ages  before,  and  made  use  of  as 
the  University  Church,  had  been  destroy'd  long  before:  perhaps  that  might 
happen  in  the  time  of  the  Danish  Warrs.  Godegose  was  a  Man  of  a 
publick  Spirit,  and  much  addicted  to  Piety ;  wc^  was  the  sole  Induce- 
ment to  these  charitable  Works.  Besides  those  mention'd  by  the  3° 
Monasticon  we  might  in  all  likelyhood  find  others  of  as  good  consider- 
ation if  we  had  a  liberty  of  inspecting  coaeval  Monuments,  and  amongst 
them  we  might  perhaps  find  some  others  of  them  at  Godestowe. 

As  to  the  present  remains  of  the  Nunnery  of  Godstow,  they  serve  to 
little  other  purpose  than  to  shew  that  'twas  of  no  small  extent,  and  to 
raise  in  us  a  Veneration  for  the  Sanctity,  Piety,  and  Generosity  of  our 
Ancestors.  On  the  North  side  there  is  a  good  part  of  one  side  of  a 
Tower  (perhaps  the  Tower  of  the  Church)  standing,  and  on  the  East- 
side  is  a  small  room,  on  the  floor  of  wcl1  lye  two  Stone  Coffins,  and  on 
the  Wall  just  above  them  are  painted  the  common  Verses,  in  Latin  and  4° 
English,  which  are  handed  about  in  Memory  of  Rosamund.  'Tis  com- 
monly said  that  one  of  those  Coffins  was  that  in  which  Rosamund  her  self 
was  laid,  and  the  other  that  which  was  for  her  Keeper.  But  this  we  are 
to  look  upon  as  no  more  than  the  fiction  of  the  Vulgar.  'Tis  however 
likely  that  the  Coffins  were  dug  up  here,  and  were  those  in  which  two 
Nunns,  or  two  other  Persons  (for  others  were  interr'd  here  besides  the 
Members  of  the  Nunery)  had  been  buried ;  but  for  Rosamund  her  self, 
she  was  wrapt  up  in  leather  and  put  into  a  Coffin  of  lead,  according  to 
the  Custom  of  those  times,  as  we  are  expressly  told  by  Hoveden,  fol.  405. 
b.  10.  She  was  first  of  all  buried  in  the  Middle  of  the  Quire,  and,  as  the  5° 


394  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

same  Author  acquaints  us,  her  Tomb1  was  covered  with  silk  and  surrounded 
with  Lamps  and  Tapers ;  but  'twas  after  some  Years  remov'd  out  of  the 
Church,  by  the  express  order  of  the  BP.  of  Lincoln  who  thought  it  a 
most  heinous  Prophanation  of  the  Church  that  the  Body  of  so  debauch'd 
a  Woman  should  continue  in  it.  After  this  Removal  it  continu'd  at  rest, 
till  about  the  time  of  the  Reformation,  when  Mr.  Leland,  in  some  of  his 
Collections  in  the  Cottonian  Library,  tells  us  'twas  taken  up,  with  this 
Inscription  Tumba  Rosamundce ;  but  he  has  not  thought  fit  to  inform  us 
what  became  of  it ;  tho'  tis  probable  it  fell  into  the  Hands  of  some  Zealots, 

10  who  would  not  permitt  any  thing  to  escape  their  Fury  and  Indignation 
that  savour'd  at  all  of  Popery. 

John  Brompton  and  Ranulph  Hygden  take  notice  of  Rosamund's 
Tumb  at  Godstow  at  the  same  time  that  they  are  accounting  for  her 
Amours  and  Intriegues  with  King  Henry  IId.  and  they  tell  us  that  tho'  it 
was  only  two  foot  in  Breadth  (so  I  translate  memuriz  bipedalis)  yet  it  was 
of  most  wonderfull  contrivance,  being  adorn'd  and  beautified  in  the 
most  artificial  Manner  in  use  at  that  time.  For  on  it  were  represented 
the  Figures  of  all  sorts  of  Champions,  with  all  kinds  of  Animals  done  to 
the  best  Advantage.  Cista  ejusdem  puella  vix  bipedalis  mensurce,  admira- 

20  bilts  architecture  ibidem  cernitur ;  in  qua  conflictus  pugilum,  geslus  anima- 
h'um,  volatus  avium,  saltus  piscium  absque  hominis  impulsu  conspiciuntur. 
Which  Words2  are  not  strictly  to  be  taken  of  the  Coffin  it  self,  but  of  the 
outward  ornamental  Parts  of  it,  wcb  Dr.  Plot  in  his  Natural  History  of 
Oxfordshire  chap.  ix.  §.  144.  takes  to  have  been  Wood.  Notwithstanding 
these  Ornaments  were  comprehended  within  a  very  narrow  Compace,  yet 
they  were  exceeding  beautifull  and  struck  the  Eye  almost  beyond  any 
other  Work  of  that  Age.  These  Authors  are  also  to  be  understood  of  the 
state  of  the  Tomb  as  it  was  in  their  time,  and  not  as  it  continu'd  in  the 
Church,  whence  it  had  been  carried  a  great  while  before  they  flourish'd. 

3°  'Tis  likely  that  after  it's  Removal  it  was  plac'd  in  a  very  decent  and  comly 
Chapell  or  Chauntry  adjoyning,  and  that  the  same  divine  Offices  were 
solemnly  and  constantly  practis'd  in  behalf  of  the  Soul  of  this  unfortunate 
Lady  that  had  been  observ'd  before  during  the  time  that  the  Body  had 
layn  in  the  Church.  Nor  did  the  BP.  of  Lincoln  find  fault  with  or  in  the 
least  condemn  these  devout  Acts  that  were  done  by  the  direction  of  her 
pious  Friends  and  Ancestors;  all  he  resented  was  the  Abuse  to  the  Church, 
at  least  the  most  Holy  part  of  it,  by  permitting  a  Lady  that  had  been  so 
infamous  for  her  Lewdness  to  remain  in  it.  There  is  one  Objection  which 
seems  to  make  against  her  Coffin  being  plac'd  afterwards  in  a  consecrated 

40  Chapell,  and  that  is  the  odd  posture  of  the  Figures  of  Men  and  Animals 
insinuated  by  the  aforecited  Authors  to  have  been  about  the  Tomb, 
which  do  not  very  well  agree  with  a  consecrated  House,  and  with  the 
Reverence  due  to  it.  'Tis  therefore  more  likely  that  at  that  time  the 
Tomb  stood  in  the  Chapiter-House  of  the  Nunns,  (as  D'.  Plot  likewise 
observes,)  and  that  these  Ornaments  had  been  contriv'd  after  it's  Removal 
from  the  Church,  partly  by  the  Assistance  of  Rosamund's  Relations,  and 

1  Bromton  says  the  same  also  in  the  Reign  of  K.  Rich.  I. 

2  Or,  it  may  be,  the  Word  cista  is  to  be  understood  of  some  chest  y*  had  belong'd 
to  Rosamund  &  was  still  preserv'd  in  Bromton  &  Hygden's  time,  &  so  will  not  relate 
to  her  Coffin  or  tumb  w°h  is  mention'd  just  before  by  Bromton,  who  calls  it  tumba. 


May  14-10.]  VOLUME  XXIV,  PAGES  228-241.  395 

partly  by  the  Help  of  others,  on  purpose  to  please  the  Eyes  of  those  who 
frequently  came  to  view  her  Tomb,  and  to  see  a  place  that  was  much 
noted  for  so  illustrious  a  Lady. 

Tho'  Rosamund  was  buried  at  Godestow,  yet  she  died  at  Wodestock, 
in  a  most  spacious  &  large  Apartment,  wrought  in  all  respects  like  a 
Labyrinth,  that  King  Henry  IId.  had  caus'd  to  be  made  for  her.  This 
Death  was  not  violent,  as  is  commonly  said  to  be  in  the  printed  Romance, 
which  ascribes  it  to  Q.  Eleanor's  Contrivance,  but  was  natural,  (and  that 
soon  after  she  was  settled  in  the  Labyrinth,)  as  we  are  expressly  in- 
form'd  by  John  Brompton.  The  chief  reason,  it  may  be,  of  her  being  10 
buried  at  Godestow  was  the  great  Affection  her  Father  Walter  Clifford 
bare  to  that  Place,  to  which  he  was  a  Benefactor,  and  was  there  after- 
wards buried  himself,  close  by  his  Wife,  who  died,  I  think,  before  the 
Death  of  her  Daughter  Rosamund. 

May  18  (Th.).  We  have  amongst  Dr.  Bernard's  MSS.  (Num.  10.)  in 
Bibl.  Bodl.  liber  Ceylonicus,  writ  with  a  style  upon  the  Leaves  of  Trees. 
It  consists  of  28.  Leaves,  and  cost  the  Dr.  5s.  Num.  2.  Bernardi,  is  a 
MS*,  containing  the  Notes  of  John  Fred.  Gronovius  upon  Tully's  Offices. 
They  were  dictated  by  him  in  a  private  School  at  Leyden.  —  De  more 
veterum,  qui  suis  in  agris  plerumque  busta  sibi  facere  consuerant,  20 
accurate  ac  fuse  disputatur  apud  P.  Victorium  in  var.  Lectt.  1.  xiv.  c.  21. 
ubi  morem  istum  e  lapidibus  antiquis  in  Italia  crebro  erutis  praeclare 
illustrat.  —  Just  publish'd  A  IId  Part  of  Mr.  Oldisworth's  Answer  to 
the  R's  of  y  Christian  Church,  which  he  intitles  A  Dialogue  between 
Timothy  and  Philatheus.  —  Peter  Nicolls,  Fellow  of  Merton  College, 
left  Ant.  Wood  a  legacy  of  40  shills.  So  himself  testifys  at  ye  beginning 
of  his  vols.  of  Gazettes  in  Mus.  Ashm. 

May  19  (Fri.).  This  Morning  died  Dr.  John  Meare,  Principal  of 
Brazen-nose  Coll.  He  had  been  once  Vice-Chancellor,  but  was  never 
noted  for  Learning  or  any  thing  else.  He  was  buried  in  the  College-  3° 
Chapell  on  Sunday  Night  following.  —  Just  published,  The  Duty  of 
being  grieved  for  the  sins  of  Others,  a  sermon  preach'd  in  S*.  Martin's 
Church  in  Leicester,  April  26th,  1710,  at  y6  visitation  of  the  Archdeacon 
of  Leycester,  by  Edw.  Wells,  D.D.  Rector  of  Colesbath  in  Leicestersh. 
8vo.  Dr.  Wells  hath  also  publish'd  just  now  in  a  single  sheet  Folio,  A 
Letter  to  a  Friend  concerning  the  Great  sin  of  taking  God's  name  in 
vain:  &c.  — 

In  the  Bodlejan  Library  we  have  two  Copies  of  the  Latin  Articles, 
printed  in  1563,  one  of  which  has  a  Scroule  annex'd,  and  has  Corrections 
with  a  Pen,  wct  I  sent  to  Mr.  Bedford  at  London.  The  other  has  also  4° 
Corrections  with  a  Pen,  but  the  Margin  being  cut  too  much  some  of  the 
Letters  are  wanting.  These  corrections  contain'd  in  the  Book  without 
the  Scroul,  which  stands  amongst  Mr.  Selden's  Books,  8vo.  Z.  16.  Th. 
are  as  follow : 

May  15.  Dr.  Woodward  to  H.  (Rawl.  12.  94).  His  time  has  been  taken 
up  with  three  public  lectures  in  the  College  of  Physicians.  Barnes  will  be 
welcome  in  town.  Glad  that  there  is  likely  to  be  so  effectual  an  answer  to 
Priestcraft  in  Perfection.  Dr.  Harris  and  his  collections  towards  a  Nat.  Hist, 
of  Kent ;  will  H.  contribute  anything  in  his  power  ? 


396  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

Art.  I.  The  Comma  after  Deus  is  struck  out,  and  the  Words  after 
invisibilium  are  mark'd  to  make  a  distinct  §. 

Art.  II.  After  essetque  is  added  hostia,  with  this  note  .  .  ic  etiam  .  . 
rrigitur,  for  sic  etiam  corrigitur,  which  referrs  to  the  printed  erratum  at 
the  End. 

Art.  VI.  The  Corrections  are  the  same  as  in  the  other  Copy,  unless 
it  be  that  4  is  not  added  after  majores,  nor  1 2  after  minores. 

Art.  X.     'Tis  corrected  grata  sunt  for  grata  sint. 

Art.  XI.     Domini  is  added  in  the  margin  with  a  note  that  'tis  to  be 
TO  repeated  after  Servatoris. 

Art.  XXI.     'Tis  corrected  ex  hominibus  constent. 

Art.  XXII.  In  the  margin  against  the  last  Words  of  the  Article  are 
these  letters  ....  itur  ....  but  what  the  rest  should  be  I  cannot  guess, 
unless  it  be  that  itur  should  be  legitur,  and  that  MS.  seems  also  to  have 
been  one  of  the  other  Words. 

Art.  XXVI.  The  word  donorum  is  mark'd  under,  &  in  the  margin 
against  it  is  written  .best  (for  abesf)  MS. 

Art.  XXVII.  Suspitienies,  (so  'tis  read  in  the  first  Ed.)  is  mark'd 
under,  and  in  the  Margin  is  written  sic  .  .  .  MS. 

20  Art.  XXVIII.  Medium  autem  quo  corpus  Christi accipitur  $  manducatur 
in  coena,  fides  est :  the  Words  in  cozna  are  mark'd  under,  &  in  the  Margin 
is  written  Se.  in  MS.  But  good  part  of  the  margin  being,  as  I  noted 
before,  cutt  off,  it  does  not  appear  whether  de  was  prefix'd  to  sunt,  that 
the  word  might  be  desuni. 

Art.  XXXIII.  publice  is  mark'd  under,  &  in  the  margin  is  written 
.  .  .  bit  .  .  .  m,  wck  perhaps  should  be  publicam.  These  Corrections, 
(if  we  may  guess  from  the  Letters  MS.  w^  are  added  to  some)  were 
taken  from  a  Manuscript,  and  if  they  do  not  agree  with  the  MSS.  at 
Cambridge,  we  may  inferr  that  they  were  taken  from  another,  which  'tis 
30  probable  was  more  authentick,  and  it  may  be  the  true  Original. 

That  Copy  with  the  Scroule  is  indors'd  twice,  but  in  a  Hand,  I  think, 
some  Years  after  1571.  The  first  Indorsement  is :  The  Subscription  of  the 
lower  House  of  the  Convocation  of  Canterburie.  The  other  is,  The 
Subscription  of  the  Lower  House.  — 

Dr.  Atterbury,  Dean  of  Carlisle,  being  in  Towne,  I  have  transcrib'd 
for  his  use  from  a  Bodlejan  MS.  (num.  3499.)  An  Advertisement  touching 
the  Controversies  in  the  Church  of  England,  which  was  written  by  an 
Anonymous  Author  in  the  Reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  &  takes  up  about 
6  or  7  sheets  of  my  writing.  I  also  transcrib'd  for  him  from  a  MS*,  in 
4°  Mr.  Wood's  Collection  in  the  Ashmolean  Museum ;  (number'd  in  our 
Catalogue  8494.)  A  Petition  of  the  Clergy  of  London  to  the  Convocation 
complaining  of  the  smallness  of  their  Benefices  A.D.  1580.  —  Just  publish'd 
in  8V0.  price  6d.  Some  Considerations  humbly  offer  d  to  the  R'.  Reverend 
the  Ld.  IP.  of  Salisbury,  occasion' d  by  his  Ld ships  speech,  upon  the  first 
Article  oflF.  SacheverelVs  Impeachment.  &c.  —  A  Copy  of  Articles  in 
the  School-Tower.  (Oct.  13.  1615.  Term.  Mich.  Ends  with  July  13th. 
1638.  Restor'd  to  ye  Library  Aug.  10.  1705.  by  Dr.  Charlett,  who  had 
receiv'd  it  from  Dr.  Hutton  April  10*.  1705.  The  Articles  printed  in 
English  in  1612.  4*°.  by  Rob*.  Barker.)  This  Note  relates  to  a  Copy  of 


May  19-21.]          VOLUME  XXIV,  PAGES  241-256.  397 

the  39  Articles,  (printed  in  English  in  1612)  in  the  School  Tower,  wcl1 
has  the  Names  of  Graduats  that  subscrib'd  for  the  time  I  have  mention'd. 

May  21  (Sun.).  The  Reverend  and  learned,  Dr.  Thomas  Smith, 
whose  Death  I  have  mention'd  above  (May  1 3th)  was  buried  on  Saturday 
Night  (May  13*)  between  10  and  u  Clock  in  S*.  Anne's  Church, 
London.  He  left  the  Writer  of  these  Matters  an  excellent  and  large 
Collection  of  MSS*.  Papers  and  Books.  — 

Out  of  a  Letter  I  recd  from  my  Father  George  Hearne  of  White 
Waltham  Berks  last  Week,  dated  the  10^  Instant : 

As  to  the  old  Building  in  Feen's  Ground  (in  the  Parish  White-Waltham,  Berks}  10 
I  have  made  Enquiry  of  Francis  Williams,  who  rented  the  Ground  where  the  Remains 
of  the  Ruins  are,  and  caused  some  of  them  to  be  digged  up  a  considerable  Depth,  and 
he  says  there  were  severall  great  Stones  that  were  broken,  but  that  w°h  you  say  the 
Gentleman  mention'd  he  says  seem'd  to  be  a  made  Stone  to  support  some  arched  Work, 
'tis  thought  under  ground  ;  and  that  they  never  took  up.  I  saw  part  of  it  myself  when 
the  Ground  was  open,  and  it  look'd  like  artificiall,  made  Stone,  such  as  I  have  read  the 
Romans  could  make  formerly,  and  I  am  apt  to  think  it  was  a  Roman  Work.  'Tis  a 
pretty  large  piece  of  Ground,  whereon  the  Building  stood,  and  the  Tile  Shores  and 
broken  Pieces  of  Pavements  are  just  as  they  be  in  Weycock,  and  all  old  antique  Ruins 
that  I  have  seen  about  us,  viz.  in  Berry-Grove,  Teresh-Garden  and  Stouts,  are  the  same.  20 
Remains  of  broken  Tiles.  The  tradition  amongst  old  People  that  now  are  dead  was 
that  the  Building  in  Feens  Ground  was  a  Market  Town  before  Maidenhead  was  built, 
and  that  the  Market  was  on  Mundays,  but  I  suppose  this  to  be  a  Fable,  but  I  believe 
whatever  it  were,  it  was  demollished  in  the  generall  Destruction  made  by  the  Danes. 
They  say  there  were  some  old  Copper  Coyns  found  there  in  digging,  such  as  usually 
are  in  Weycock ;  but  I  cannot  hear  who  hath  any  of  them  as  yet,  but  you  may  be  sure 
when  I  can  I  will  send  you  some  of  them,  or  any  other  I  can  meet  with. 

Over  the  Porch-Doore  of  the  Church  at  Sandford  near  Oxford : 
Condidit  me  domina  Eliza  :  Isham — Anno — Gratiae  1652. 

Porticus  Patronae:  30 

Thankes  to  thy  Charitie  Religiose  Dame, 

Wch  found  me  old  &  made  mee  new  againe. 

At  the  old  Nunnery  House  at  Sandford  found  a  Piece  of  Brass,  with 
an  Eagle  on  it;  as  also  a  small  broken  Box  of  Wood,  &  therein  the 
Fragment  of  an  Image  of  a  Woman,  perhaps  the  Virgin  Mary,  (with  a 
broken  Image  of  a  Man  in  her  Arms,  wcn  is  Perhaps  our  Saviour.  On 
the  Inside  of  that  Part  of  the  Lead  of  the  Box  (for  there  is  only  Part 
remaining)  that  is  now  to  be  seen,  there  are  these  Letters  MAR. 

In  the  Church   of  Sandford   nothing  extraordinary,   unless   several 
Grave-Stones  of  several  of  the  Powells,  to  whom  the  Manour  House,  40 
and  several  Houses  at  Sandford  belong'd,  as  they  also  do  to  the  present 
Mr.  Powell.     The  chief  Monument  is  in  the  South  Wall  of  the  Chancell, 
as  follows : 

Sepulturam  hie  habuit  |  Spe  felicis  in  aeternam  vitam  resurrectio  I  nis  vir 
clarissimus  Gulielmus  Powellus  de  par|co  Rolestonensi  in  par.  de  Tutbury  in 
comitatu  |  Staffordiensi,  eques  auratus  frater  Edmundi  |  Powelli  Armigeri, 
hujus  Manerij  quondam  do  (mini  Serenissimse  hujus  regni  reginae  Elizabe|thae 
stipator  nobilis  atque  augustissimis  ejus|dem  regibus  Jacobo  Caroloque  primo 


May  20.  Dodwell  to  H.  (Rawl.  25.  51).  Wishes  that  H.'s  collections 
concerning  cassis  among  the  Romans  had  been  larger.  Would  gladly  discuss 
the  matter  with  him  at  Oxford,  but  for  the  news  of  the  small-pox  being  there 
and  being  very  mortal. 


398  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS.  [1710: 

cursus  |  Tutuburiensis  in  comitatu  prsedicto,  curator  |  regius  qui  tertium  & 
octogesimum  aetatis  |  suae  annum  agens  xvii.  Calend.  Jan.  anno  Domini 
MDC  |  LVI.  vitam  cum  aeternitate  commutavit  |  in  perennem  cujus  |  memoriam 
necnon  indebitae  ejus  erga  ilium  |  observantiae  piaeque  gratitudinis  testimo- 
nium  |  (quippe  parci  illius  Rolestonensis,  ac  caetera-lrum  praedicti  Gulielmi 
facultatum  haeres  ab  |  eodem  in  totum  assem  constitutus)  Johan  |  nes  Powellus 
armiger,  hujus  Manerij  domin|us  ac  ejusdem  Gulielmi  pronepos  monimen  |  tale 
hoc  marmor  posuit  dicavitque  |  anno  Domini  MDCLXI. 

Upon  a  black  Marble  on  the  Floor  of  the  Chancell :  H.  S.  E.  |  Johannes 
10  Powell  Armiger.  |  qui  obijt  19.  die  Septembris  |  anno  Domini  1678.  On 
the  left  of  which  on  another  black-Marble  Grave-stone  :  H.  S.  E.  j  Anna 
Betham  Vidua  |  Ricardi  Betham  &  filia  |  Edmundi  Powell  armigeri, 
hujus  Manerij  quondam  Dni.  |  Obijt  28V0.  die  Feb.  anno  Dni  1692.  j 
Anno  aetatis  86to. — The  present  Mr.  Powell  has  had  two  Daughters  & 
2  sons  buried  in  the  said  Chancell  (wcl1  belongs  to  the  Powells)  over 
whom  is  a  Grave  stone  of  black-Marble,  just  below  the  other  two  stones. 

May  22  (Mon.).  Pighius's  Annals  has  been  printed  twice,  first  of  all 
in  one  Tome  and  afterwards  in  3,  and  'tis  the  second  Edition  is  to  be 
rely'd  upon.  —  In  the  Beginning  of  Peter  Victorius's  Epistles  &c. 
20  printed  at  Florence  (apud  Juntas)  1586.  (whereof  we  have  a  copy  in 
Bibl.  Bodl.  K.  i.  15.  Art.)  is  Victorius's  Picture  done  from  a  wooden 
Cut,  in  the  87^  Year  of  his  Age.  — 

Hermannus  Hugo  de  Militia  equestri  antiqua  &  nova,  in  folio  (printed 

by  Plantin)  in  five  Books. Sciremus  forte,  si  Sarmenis  equitis  liber 

extaret,  quern  Plinius  primum  scripsisse  de  Equitatu  refert  lib.  34.  c.  8. 
Several  things  about  riding  without  Bridles  towards  the  Beginning  of  this 
Book.  —  Cassis  mention'd  in  Juvenal  Sat.  xi.  v.  103.  &  in  Sat.  vii.  v.  33. 
&  in  Sat.  x.  v.  134.  In  this  last  place  Joannes  Britannicus  in  his  Scholia 
makes  cassis  the  very  same  with  galea.  —  Mr.  Halley  a  great  Assistant 
30  to  Mr.  John  Houghton,  F.R.S.  in  his  usefull  and  excell*  Papers  call'd 
A  Collection  for  Improvement  of  Husbandry  and  Trade.  Mr.  Houghton 
often  quotes  him  with  great  Honour  and  Respect,  and  has  publish'd 
some  of  his  Letters.  —  Mr.  DodwelTs  Brother,  I  think,  was  destroy'd  by 
Gun-Powder.  Quaere  whether  'twas  at  Limerick  Febr.  12.  1694.  when  a 
Magazine  of  Powder  took  fire,  and  destroy'd  and  blew  up  a  great  Part 
of  the  City,  wherof  there  is  a  printed  Account.  J.  i.  19.  Art. 

May  23  (Tu.).  There  is  just  publish'd  in  8™.  a  Third  Answer  to  Mr. 
Higden's  late  Book,  which  is  written  by  an  anonymous  but  judicious  and 
learned  Writer,  and  'tis  entitled  The  English  Constitution  fully  stated.  &c. 

40  —  Lubin's  Interpretation  of  buccula  in  Juvenal  Sat.  x.  v.  134.  is  tegmen 
ferreum  buccce  per  quod  spiritus  ducitur  cassidi  fractce  adhcerens.  Est 
autem  (inquit)  hoc  loco  buccula,  buccarum  tegmen.  Das  Visier.  —  Tell 
Mr.  Dodwell  about  the  Cassides  in  Vegetius  lib.  i.  c.  16.  'Tis  the  common 
Account  relating  to  Childrens  slinging  stones  &  striking  a  Mark.  In 
Stewechius's  Notes  there  are  Figures  of  the  Legionary  Souldiers  from 
antient  Monuments.  —  At  the  End  of  a  MS*,  in  old  English  :  Iste  liber 
constat  Willelmo  Smyth  sacerdoti  cujus  animae  propicietur  Jhesu,  quern 
post  obitum  suum  Johannes  Horder  emebat.  Have  merci  of  $or  soule 
&  love  wel  god.  Jhesus  so  mot  it  be  amen. — The  Book  itself  (w°h  is 

5o  now  in  possession  of  Mr.  Rawlinson  of  S*.  John's)  was  written  by  Walter 


May  21-23.]          VOLUME  XXIV,  PAGES  256-282.  399 

Hilton,  as  appears  from  the  conclusion  thus,  Explicit  liber  Magistri 
Walteri  Hilton  de  vita  contemplativa.  Jhesu  miserere  .  .  .  Jhesu  miserere. 
In  it  this  Memorandum  at  ye  Beginning,  Hunc  librum  &  librum  vocatum 
gratiam  Dei  qui  est  in  custodia  Willelmi  Carente  habeant  Abbatissa  & 
Conventus  Shafton1  in  succursum  animae  Johannis  Horder.  The  Beginning 
of  y6  Book,  In  the  Name  of  our  Lord  Jhesu  Christ  stand  stedfast  &c.  —  ... 
Amongst  Dr.  Bernard's  Books  (MS.  num.  9.)  we  \te\Q,Joan.  Fred.  Gronovij 
Excerpta  Terentiana.  Cod.  MS.  Bernardi  ii.  is  a  MS*  containing  the 
same  Gronovius's  Notes  upon  Part  of  Tully.  —  . .  Gnomon  Renati  Guillonij 
Vindonis.  Which  is  a  very  excellent  and  usefull  Work  for  all  such  as  10 
would  be  skill'd  in  the  true  Pronunciation  of  Words  in  ye  Latin  Poets.  . . 

Priory  of  Sandford  or  Litlemore.  Vol.  3.  p.  13.  The  first  Charter  of 
Roger  de  Thoeni,  who  gave  20  Acres  of  Land  at  Moderul.  The  2d  is  of 
Roger  de  Sanford  in  the  Reign'  of  Hen.  II.  He  gave  the  3d  Part  of  the 
Isle  in  Keniton  between  Keniton  and  Sanford.  The  Church  dedicated 
to  S*.  Nicholaus.  The  3d.  is  of  the  same  in  the  same  Reign  granting 
terram  de  BegheiS.  This  confirmed  by  the  King.  By  it  he  also  granted 
one  Acre — in  Bruholls.  4th  of  Tho.  Bussell  of  Samford,  who  gave 
one  virgat  containing  16  Acres  &  half  in  ye  fields  of  Samford  to  God 
&  to  S*.  Mary  &  to  S*.  Nicholaus  of  Littlemore.  anno  1254.  8°.  H.  III.  ao 
5th  of  Rob.  Abbat  of  Abbingdon  who  gave  to  the  same  (God,  Mary, 
Nich.)  all  the  Tyths  in  Beywurth  Com.  Berk  of  the  Demain  of  Hugo  de 
Sanford.  6th  of  Roger  de  Quency  Earl  of  Winton  by  wch  he  quitclaim'd 
to  the  Nunns  suit  to  his  Court  at  Chinnore.  7th  of  GefFry  de  Vanci 
by  wcl1  he  gave  Lands  in  Lewartone  to  God  &  S*.  Mary  &  S*.  Nicholaus 
&  S*.  Eadmund  of  Sanford.  A  Prioress  &  Nunns. — Bulla  Innocentij 
4ti  Rom.  Pontif.  per  quam  relaxat  x  dies  de  injuncta  pcenitentia  omnibus 
qui  ad  constructionem  Ecclesiae  de  Litlemore  manus  porrexerint  adju- 
trices.  The  Bull  directed  to  the  diocess  of  Lincoln,  Ely  &  Sarum. 
From  1242  to  1254.  Benefactions  made  in  the  time  of  Edw.  ist.  —  3° 

Godstow  Ch.  dedicated  by  Alexandr  BP.  of  Line.  temp.  R.  Steph. 
Founded  by  Editha.  Ded.  to  the  V.  Mary  &  S*.  J.  Baptist.  She  was 
the  first  Abbess.  Dedicated  an.  1138.  anno  4*°.^.  Steph.  A  Parochial 
Church.  The  King  &  Queen,  Arch^p.  of  Cant.  &c.  present  at  the  Ded. 
Wlgaricola.  Sfc.  Giles's  Oxon.  impropriated  to  it.  K.  Stephen  granted 
them  a  Fair  for  3  Days  together  at  the  Feast  of  S*.  John  Bapt.  The 
Land  of  Godestow  given  in  free  Almoigne  for  ever  to  Ida  or  Editha  by 
John  S*.  Johns.  Confirm'd  by  K.  H.  II.  &  R.  I.  S*.  Giles's  Church, 
Oxford  founded  by  El  wine  Fitz  Godegose  (Mon.  Angl.  Tom.  i.  p.  526. 
&  p.  528.)  regnante  R.  Steph.  vel  forsan  paullo  ante  ejus  Regnum.  40 
The  same  El  wine  impropriated  it,  &  also  gave  to  Godestowe  18  solidatse 
of  Land  on  the  other  side  of  the  City  of  Oxford  above  South  Bridge. 
(The  Tomb  of  Rosamund  buried  first  in  the  middle  of  the  choire,  but 
order'd  to  be  remov'd  thence  by  Hugh  BP.  of  Line.  an.  1191.  (Hard. 
fol.  405.  b.  10.)  The  Tomb  at  y*  time  was  cover'd  with  silk,  &  sur- 
rounded with  Lamps  and  cereis.  Tapers.  (She  was  buried  without  the 
Church.)  Leland  tells  her  Tumb  was  taken  up  alate  (Mon.  Angl.  T.  i.  p. 
528.)  with  this  Inscription  Tumba  Rosamundae.  Her  bones  were  closed 

1  An  Shaftsbury  ? 


400  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS,  VOL.  XXIV,  PP.  282-287.  [1710.] 

in  Leather  &  cover'd  over  with  Lead.  The  Cross  perhaps  y*  stood  there 
put  up  soon  after  she  was  buried  to  desire  Passengers  to  pray  for  her 
Soul.  Walter  Clifford  and  Margaret  his  wife,  Father  &  Mother  to 
Rosamund  buried  also  at  Godestow.  Isabell  countess  of  Clare  confirm'd 
the  Donation  of  Maud  her  Mother,  Countess  of  Clare,  who  gave  one 
Mark  of  silver,  to  pray  for  the  Souls  of  her  Father  &  Mother  &  her 
Husband  Roger  Earl  of  Clare.  Clifford's  wife  died  first.  He  a  benefactor 
for  her's  and  his  Daughter's  Soul.  John  Sfc.  John's  for  the  Souls  of  his 
Father,  &  Mother,  &  ancestors.  Hyp.  Neustr.  p.  56.  Ed.  Park.  — 

10  Anatomy  Lecture  founded  An.  1623.  by  Rich.  Tomlins  Esq.  The 
Regius  Prof,  of  Physick  is  the  Reader.  Every  Spring  he  is  to  take  care 
as  soon  as  the  Assizes  are  done  to  have  a  Body  (either  one  of  the  male- 
factors hang'd  or  some  one  else)  to  be  dissected  by  a  skillfull  chirurgeon, 
&  to  shew  the  office  and  use  of  ye  several  Parts  in  4  distinct  Lectures,  in 
the  Physick  School,  two  Hours  at  a  time,  namely  between  9  &  n,  & 
2  &  four,  the  chirurgeon  all  the  time  to  assist.  Every  Michaelmass  term 
he  is  to  read  three  distinct  Lectures  upon  the  Bones.  He  may  also  at 
other  times  (if  he  think  fit)  more  fully  explain  any  pfc  of  Anatomy  or  of  a 
Sceleton.  His  Salary  25  libs,  per  an.  The  Chirurgeon  to  have  3  of  it. 

20  He  is  also  to  pay  40  shills.  for  removing  &  burying  the  Body  in  a  decent 
manner.  If  the  Prelector  be  negligent  &  do  not  provide  a  sufficient 
Deputy,  then  the  Vice-Chancellor  &  Proctors  for  the  time  being,  or  any 
two  of  them  is  to  nominate  &  appoint  one,  &  to  assign  w*  Portion 
of  Money  out  of  the  said  Pension  they  shall  think  fit.  The  necessary 
Auditors,  all  Students  of  physic  &  all  Surgeons  in  the  university.  If  any 
Controversie  Arise  about  the  meaning  of  ye  Statutes  'tis  to  be  determin'd 
&  decided  by  the  Vice-Chanc.  the  Warden  of  New  College,  the  Rector 
of  Exeter,  the  Principal  of  Jesus,  the  Anatomy  Lecturer,  &  the  Proctors, 
or  any  four  of  them  (whereof  the  Vice-Chancellor  for  the  time  being 

30  necessarily  to  be  one)  provided  that  the  Determination  do  not  alter  or 
change  any  essential  mater  or  Clause  in  the  Statutes,  &  if  it  be  not 
decided  within  1 5  days,  or  if  there  shall  be  any  doubt  of  greater  Moment, 
then  'tis  to  be  determin'd  &  ended  by  the  Convocation  of  the  said 
University.  The  Founder  design'd  to  augument  the  Pension.  The 
chirurgeon  to  be  nominated  by  the  Lecturer.  — 

The  Schools  began  in  1612.  which  yr  Sir  T.  B.  dy'd.  The  Western 
part  of  the  Library  began  30  March  1613.  The  first  Professor  of 
Anatomy,  Doctor  Clayton,  Reg.  Profess,  of  Phys.  &  the  first  licens'd 
Chirurgeon  Mr.  Bernard  Wryght.  The  Lecture  Salary  inlarg'd  in  1638. 
40  ...  Mr.  Tilly  preach'd  an  Excellent,  seasonable  Sermon  at  S*.  Mary's  on 
Sunday  May  14^.  morning.  On  the  same  Day  Mr.  Harris  at  the  Temple 
upon  Luke  9.  55.  .  .  —  March  25th.  1710.  Dr.  Pearson  of  Edm.  Hall 
subscrib'd  for  Mr.  Barnes's  Homer,  los  wch  was  pd  next  day  to  Dr. 
Hudson.  —  ...  Octob.  7th  1710.  Paid  the  Sweeper  of  the  Library  10  s. 
being  with  10  s  I  lent  him  the  whole  due  for  last  half  year.  Dr.  Hudson 
then  sent  a  Copy  of  Homer  of  Mr.  Barnes's  Edit,  to  Mr.  Seal,  wch  Mr. 
Barnes  presents  me. 


NOTES  AND   ILLUSTRATIONS. 


VOL.  XIV. 

THIS  volume  is  partially  interleaved  with  a  copy  of '  Mercvrivs  Oxoniensis  ;  or,  the 
Oxford  Intelligencer,  for  the  Year  of  our  Lord  1707.  By  M.  G.  LONDON,  Printed 
for  Egbert  Sanger  at  the  Post-House  at  the  Middle-Temple-Gate  in  Fleet-street.  1707. 
Price  Six  Pence.'  48  pp.  This  Almanack  is  the  only  opus  ascribed  to  Dr.  Charlett 
in  the  Bodleian  Catalogue.  His  authorship  of  this  or  similar  works  is  alluded  to  in  the 
University  Miscellany  17;'  There  will  shortly  be  publish'd  a  Treatise  of  Fairs  by  the 
Learned  Master  of  Un — ty  College,  as  an  Appendix  to  his  Almanack.' 

Page  1,  line  n.  A  second  Smooth-boots.  See  pp.  8,  32,  101, 175,  281,  313. — '  Dr. 
Van  Slyboots '  is  introduced  in  King's  Voyage  to  Cajamai,  '  Habbakkuk  Slyboots ' 
in  The  History  of  John  Bull,  and  '  Humphry  Slyboots '  in  Taller  63.  Dr.  Brewer 
{Dictionary  of  Phrase  and  Fable}  quotes  Adventures  of  Abdalla  (1729)  32,  and 
remarks  that '  Boots  is  a  corruption  and  contraction  of  the  French  butor,  a  blockhead 
or  dolt,  our  butt.'  [?]  Webster  refers  to  Goldsmith.  Cf.  Speech  that  was  intended  to 
have  been  spoken  by  the  Terrae-Filius  (1713)  n  :  '  Proximus  mihi  occurrit  Slyboots. 
And  he  Good  Man  too  has  been  barbarously  used  ;  never  did  Poor  Man  take  more 
pains  to  be  a  Bishop  than  he  has  done,  almost  as  much  as  his  neighbour  the  V.  C. 
[Gardiner]  did  to  be  Queen's  Chaplain  :  At  Dijs  aliter  visum  est.  But  No  One  can 
say  it  was  his  Fault.'  See  also  Spectator  43. 

1.  16.  For  "Walter  Hylton,  see  Kettlewell  Authorship  of  'De  Imitatione,'  89  sqq., 
2nd  Rep.  Hist.  MSS.  Comm.  33.     His  Scala  Perfectionis  has  been  thrice  printed — in 
1507,  1659  (by  A.  Woodhead),  and  1869. — All  the  known  facts  regarding  the  life  of 
Richard  Rolle  of  Hampole  are  given  by  Mr.  Bramley  in  the  introduction  to  his 
edition  of  Hampole's  Psalter  (Clarendon  Press,  1884),  pp.  i.  sqq.,  and  a  list  of  his 
works  which  have  appeared  in  print  at  p.  x.  sq.     He  does  not  seem  to  have  belonged 
to  any  order,  nor  was  he  actually  canonised,  though  Jan.  20  was  appropriated  to  his 
memory.     The  date  of  his  death  is  correctly  given  by  Dr.  Smith. 

2.  i.  For  a  sufficiently  full  account  of  Dr.  Knightly  Chetwode  (ob.  1720),  see 
Atterbury's  Epist.  Corr.  (1789)  i.  430,  where  a  letter  is  printed  from  the  Earl  of 
Sunderland  to  the  Dean  urging  him  to  support  Dean  Willis  for  the  Prolocutor's  chair 
in  opposition  to  Atterbury ;  cf.  p.  119  infra. 

2.  3.  On  the  subject  of  this  election  W.  Bishop  wrote  to  Charlett,  March  17,  1707 
(Ballard  xxxi.  41)  :'  This  Afternoon  I  was  assur'd  y*  the  whole  affair  mention'd  in  yr 
last,  was  projected,  began,  and  ended,  by  the  Ld  Guilford,  y*  He  has  ordered  His  Bror 
to  desist  at  Banbury,  and  Mr.  Daswood  is  to  be  choose  there.' 

2.  30.  Dr.   Hudson  was  likewise  at   this  time  taking  pupils;    see  letter  of  Bp. 
Hough  to  Dr.  Charlett  in  Wilmot's  Life  of  the  former,  p.  147,  dated  April  12,  1707. 
Dr.  W.  Smith  wrote  to  Charlett  (Ballard  xvi.  37)  :  '  Mr.  Allen  it  seems  being  full  of 
complaint,  of  y°  hard  usage  he  has  mett  with,  in  being  putt  by  the  Bursars  place  y°  last 
Election.     But  I  will  say  no  more  of  him,  least  ye  justest  censure  might  seem  to  pro- 
ceed in  me  from  partiality  or  ill  will.     But  who  ever  shall  sett  y°  College  acct8  once 
strait  again;  I  think  the  whole  society  will  be  much  to  blame  to  suffer  any  single  man's 
negligence  to  lett  them  run  again  into  disorder.'     From  the  same  collection  (xxi.  91) 
we  learn  that  Charlett's  official  income  in  1704  was  £109  IQJ.  ^d.  all  told. 

3.  14.  Bp.  "Wilson  was  consecrated  in  1698,  when  the  See  of  Sodor  and  Man  had 
been  vacant  for  five  years.     For  these  Danish  burials,  cf.  Chaloner  Description  of  the 

VOL.  II.  D  d 


402  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

Isle  of  Man  10.  The  Runic  monuments1  of  the  Island  were  etched  by  William  Kinne- 
brook  in  1841.  Though  the  tract  mentioned  p.  22  was  the  first  publication  in  the 
Manx  language,  Bp.  John  Phillips  (1605-1633)  is  said  to  have  translated  the  Bible  and 
Common  Prayer  into  Manx  (Sacheverell  Account  of  the  Isle  of  Man  117).  A  History  of 
Man  was  long  expected  from  Bp.  Wilson  (Thoresby  Ducatus  Leodiensis  388). 

4.  5.  The  Rev.  Humphry  Smith,  had  already  applied  to  Locke  for  information  on 
the  Life  of  Pocock  ;  see  Fox  Bourne's  Life  of  Locke  i.  57  sqq.  and  refs.  According  to 
Walker  Sufferings  of  the  Clergy  (quoted  in  Twells'  Life  of  Pocock  [ed.  1816]  8), 
Pocock's  tutor  in  C.  C.  C.  was  Gamaliel  Chase  of  that  College.  Humphry  Smith  was 
the  author  of  several  sermons,  chiefly  against  the  Dissenters.  There  is  a  letter  from 
him  Ballard  xxxiv.  24 ;  and  the  whole  history  of  Twells'  Life  is  related  ib.  vol.  xxviii, 
which  contains  letters  from  Pocock,  E.  and  J.  Pocock,  Twells,  &c. 

4.  40.  For  references  to  Tudway's  case,  see  vol.  i.  279,  283.     Dr.  Bardsey  Fisher 
writes  (Ballard  xxiii.  33,  May  3,  1707)  :  '  I  doubt  not  but  you  have  heard  of  Dr.  Tud- 
ways  being  restor'd,  soe  y*  he  is  now  altogether  as  he  was  before  the  misfortune  fell 
upon  him.' 

5.  10.  The  original  cause  of  the  '  Geneva  and  Oxford  Letters '  seems  to  have 
been  an  uncomplimentary  reference  to  Geneva  in  the  Oxford  verses  on  the  death  of  the 
Duke   of  Gloucester  (1700).     In   the  Exequiae  Desideratissimo  Principi  Gulielmo 
Glocestriae  Duci  ab  Oxoniensi  Academia  solutae  (Oxford  1 700),  in  a  copy  of  verses 
addressed  to  the  Lord  Keeper  Sir  Nathan  Wright,  Ad.   Langley,   A.M.,  Ch.  Ch., 
wrote : — 

'Ah  cave  sincerum  ne  Tybris  polluat  alveum, 
Ne  Lemana  sacras  squallida  foedet  aquas.' 

This  provoked  a  letter  from  the  Pastors  and  Professors  of  the  Church  and  University  of 
Geneva  to  Henry  [Compton]  Bishop  of  London,  dated  Nov.  26, 1 700,  explaining  their 
loyal  attitude  towards  the  Church  of  England,  and  their  adoption  of  Conartus'  transla- 
tion of  the  Psalms.  The  Bishop  in  his  reply  (dated  March  31,  1701)  accepts  their  ex- 
planation, and  apologises  for  '  some  undecent  reflections '  upon  Geneva  in  the  aforesaid 
verses,  which  are  not  examined  by  the  University,  and  are  only  subject  to  the  supervision 
of  the  Mendus,  '  the  Composition  thereof  being  most  commonly  committed  to  such 
young  Scholars,  as  have  a  Genius  for  Poetry.'  The  prejudice  against  the  Church  of 
Geneva  has,  he  assures  them,  much  abated.  Here  the  matter  rested,  until,  in  May 
1705,  the  Pastors  and  Professors  addressed  a  second  complaint  to  the  Archbishop 
of  Canterbury,  and  likewise  to  the  Bishop  of  London,  complaining  that  they  had  been 
again  accused,  in  Strenae  Oxonienses,  of  '  standing  in  opposition '  to  the  Church 
of  England.  [In  the  Bodleian  copy,  Dr.  R.  Rawlinson  has  appended  to  the  word 
Strenae  in  the  letter  to  the  Bishop  of  London  the  following  note : — '  a  mistake  for 
Pietas  Oxon.  in  Obit.  Gul.  et  Gratulat.  Inaug.  Annae.  Sheet  D  E  F.  2.']  The  Bishop 
replied,  April  30,  1 706,  saying  that  the  ill-feeling  dated  back  to  the  reign  of  Queen 
Mary,  and  to  the  difficulties  caused  by  Goodman,  but  that  the  Heads  of  Colleges  for  the 
future  '  will  take  great  care  to  the  best  of  their  Power,  to  prevent  and  stifle  such  like 
inconsiderate  expressions.'  (The  Bishop  was  evidently  unaware  of  the  fact  that  the 
poem  in  which  the  offensive  passage  occurs  bears  the  signature  of  Johannes  Rogers, 
S.  T.  P.,  Coll.  Magd.  Presses  \  The  verses  complained  of  are  these : — 
'  Illam  O  1  ne  fasdet  \sic\  tetricse  affectata  Geneva 
Penula,  purpureae  aut  speciosa  superbia  Romae' 

The  Pastors,  &c.  thereupon  expressed  themselves  very  well  satisfied  with  the  result  of  the 
Bishop's  intervention  with  the  University,  and  the  same  day  (vii.  Cal.  Oct.  1 706)  wrote 
to  the  University,  expressing  their  satisfaction  at  the  Bishop's  assurance  of  the  good- 
will and  affection  of  the  University  towards  them.  The  answer  of  the  University  was 
approved  in  Convocation  Feb.  12,  1707  ;  and  the  Letter  of  the  Pastors  with  this  reply 
was  printed  in  Latin  (imprimatur  dated  March  26,  1707)  and  in  English  (folio,  with 
Dr.  Charlett's  imprimatur,  May  16,  1707).  The  whole  Correspondence,  which  is  by 
no  means  uninteresting,  was  published  in  English  in  Several  Letters  from  the  Pastors 
of  the  Church  of  Geneva,  to  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  the  Bishop  of  London,  and 
the  University  of  Oxford,  with  their  answers  to  them  (London,  I7°7)- 

The  reply  of  the  University  called  forth  Stricturae  breves  in  Epistolas  D.D.  Gene- 
vensium  dr>  Oxoniensium  nuper  editas  (London,  1707),  which  is  shown  by  Calamy's 

1  Canon  Taylor's  article  in  Manx  Note-Book  No.  2  has  drawn  special  attention  to  them  while 
these  lines  are  passing  through  the  press. 


NOTES   TO   VOLUME  XIV.  403 

Life  ii.  56  to  have  been  by  John  Spademan  (see  The  Nonconformists  Memorial  [1^,02] 
ii.  436),  whose  name  is  written  in  a  contemporary  hand  on  the  Bodleian  copy  of  the 
translation  (410,  1708),  entitled  Some  Brief  Remarks,  &c.  The  Stricturae  was  in  its 
turn  answered  by  Dr.  E.  Wells  in  Epistola  ad  authorem  anonymum  libelli  non  ita 
pridem  editi  ;  cut  titulus  Stricturae,  &c.  (Oxonii,  i6[7]o8). 

Whiston,  in  his  Three  Tracts  (1742),  pp.  13-22,  gives  an  account  of  the  modifica- 
tion of  the  Formula  Consensus,  consisting  of  64  articles,  by  the  Council  of  200  of 
Geneva  in  1706,  and  adds  a  translation  of  a  congratulatory  letter  (dated  May  23,  1707) 
addressed  to  the  Clergy  of  Geneva  in  answer  to  theirs  of  April  22,  from  Frederic  I  of 
Prussia,  who  '  had  the  reuniting  the  Protestants  '  much  at  heart,  and  considered  that  the 
'  wall  of  partition  '  had,  by  the  action  of  the  Church  of  Geneva,  been  broken  down. 

The  two  following  letters  from  William  [Wake]  Bishop  of  Lincoln  to  Dr.  Charlett 
(Ballard  iii.  40,  41)  relate  to  the  correspondence  between  the  Pastors  and  Professors  of 
Geneva  and  the  University  of  Oxford  : — 

I. 

'Buckden  April:  2irt.  1707. 

'  HoNrd  Sr. 

'  The  last  post  brought  me  the  two  letters  you  were  so  kind  as  to  send  to  Mr.  Sare * 
for  me.  I  have  carefully  read  them  both,  &  do  not  see  what  any  one  can  justly  complain 
of  in  the  Substance  of  that  wch  you  will  give  me  leaue  to  call  OURS  ;  If  some  words  or 
phrases  seem  to  be  too  severe,  I  heartily  wish  those  whom  they  touch,  had  never  given 
any  Occasion  for  Them. 

'  But  how  will  Mr.  Dodwell  &  his  Freinds  like  yor  free  declaration  of  your  Opinion 
concerning  those  forreign  Churches  who  want  Bps. ;  &  by  that  meanes  have  no  Minis- 
try, no  Sacraments,  such  as  you  allow  Those  of  Geneva  to  have  ?  As  to  our  practise 
abroad,  We  went,  ordinarily,  every  other  Sunday  to  Charenton  ;  but  none  of  us  ever 
received  the  Holy  Eucharist  there  *.  In  this  they  were  more  free  with  us :  I  have  given 
the  Sacrament  to  some  of  their  Ministers  publickly  in  our  Chappell  ;  &  to  monsr. 
Menard  in  particular,  while  he  was  actually  One  of  the  pastors  of  ye  Church  at 
Charenton.  By  Certificats  from  their  Ministers  &  Antients  (wthout  wch  I  never  did 
it)  I  have  many  times  both  baptized  their  Children,  &  Buried  their  dead  :  And  I  never 
heard  any  exception  taken  ag*  it.  How  ready  those  of  Geneva  were  to  concent  to  the 
Bp.  of  Sarums  officiating  openly  in  One  of  their  Churches,  &  Giving  the  Holy  Sacram* 
to  our  English  in  that  Citty  you  have  doubtlesse  heard  :  And  some  of  their  Ministers 
have  more  than  once  declared  their  desire  to  have  Episcopacy  restored  amongst 
Them. 

'  I  heartily  thank  you  for  your  welcome  present  on  this  Occasion  to  me  &  remain, 
'  Reverend  Sr,  Yor  very  affectionate  Freind  &  Bror. 

'W.  LINCOLN. 

'  Dr.  Charlet.' 

II. 

'  REVEREND  Sr, 

'Yours  of  the  23d  of  May,  &  since  that  the  Letters  mentioned  I  received.  I  con- 
fesse  I  cannot  but  still  think  that  our  Universities  answer  is  well-drawn,  and  ought  not 
to  give  any  just  Offence  to  Any.  Our  Case,  as  to  a  full  satisfaction  of  Communion  wth 
the  forreign  Churches,  is  in  my  opinion  very  different  from  Theirs  with  respect  to  Us. 
They  cannot  except  age  Our  Ministers,  nor  the  validity  of  the  Ordinances  wch  may  be 
supposed  to  depend  upon  it.  Our  Clergy  are  certainly  duly  Ordained ;  w*ever  Theirs 
are  who  want  Episcopall  Ordination.  And  tho'  the  Case  be  vastly  different  between 
communicating  wth  The  Protestants  abroad,  &  Our  Seperatists  here  at  home ;  yet  I 
belieue  no  One  who  could  haue  the  Opportunity  of  an  Episcopall  Church,  even  in  forreign 
Countrys,  would  make  any  doubt  whether  He  should  chuse  to  partake  of  some  of  the 
Gospell  ministrations  wth  that,  or  with  Those  of  the  Presbyterian  way.  My  charity 
leads  me  to  think  &  Hope,  &  Judge,  the  Best  of  Them  ;  But  yet  I  cannot  think  ym  so 
Conformable  to,  at  least,  the  Apostolicall  Pattern  &  Establishment,  as  if  they  were 
setled  on  the  same  Episcopall  Constitution  y*  our  Church  is.  You  see  how  freely 

1  The  famous  bookseller.  See  Ballard  xxxi.  34,  36,  37,  51,  &c. ;  and  for  many  letters  from  him, 
Ballard  xlv. 

*  W.  Bishop  relates  the  following  anecdote  (Ballard  xxxi.  40 ;  March  10,  1707)  :— '  The  Ld  Claren- 
don having  an  Apothecary  One  Morning  to  give  Him  a  glister,  &  desireing  to  be  dismist  as  'soon  as 
Conveniently  His  L-rdship  could,  being  a  lay  Elder  &  to  be  at  Ordination  to  lay  on  his  hands  w** 
the  Presbyters  y«  Morning,  gave  y«  disgust  not  onely  to  his  Lordship  but  to  most  of  the  laymen  then 
in  Fr.  y'  nothing  could  bring  'em  to  communicate  with  y«  Hugen"  &  soe  let  it  rest.' 

D    d    2 


404  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS. 

I  communicate  my  thoughts  to  you  ;  &  without  leisure  to  write  correctly,  or  almost  to 
review  w*  I  scribble.  Pray  do  not  expose  my  Words  ;  My  Sense  I  shall  never  be  un- 
willing, or  afraid,  to  Own. 

'I  am, 
'  Good  Sr,  Yor  very  affecte  Freind  &  [torn] 

•  W.  LINCOLN. 
•June:  3d. 
'1707.' 

Bishop  Hough's  opinion,  which  is  to  much  the  same  effect,  will  be  found  at  pp.  147 
sq.  of  his  Life  by  Wilmot.  Again,  in  Ballard  xiii.  24,  Thwaites,  remarking  on  the 
Observator1^  criticisms  of  the  Oxford  Letters,  suspects  that  Bentley  is  at  the  bottom  of 
the  critique  :  '  'tis  not  soe  bad  latin,  as  they  would  make  it.  tho'  'tis  not  worth  while 
to  observe  the  scurrilities  of  such  a  fellow;'  and  Wariley  writes  (xiii.  71,  April  22, 
1707) : '  lam  abundantly  convinced  of  the  charitable  &  honorable  Sentiments  which  the 
Pastors  of  Geneva  have  for  the  Church  and  Hierarchy  of  England,  from  the  sight  of 
Letters  known  to  be  written  by  them  some  years  ago.'  He  proceeds  to  thank  Dr. 
Charlett  for  his  favours  to  the  Bishop  of  Man  (supra  p.  3).  Bingham  (xv.  8,  May 
29)  remarks :  '  All  Persons  are  extremely  well  pleased  wth  ym,  especially  wth  your 
Answer,  both  for  the  Matter  &  the  Composure  of  it.  Mr.  Lamothe  [cf.  No.  43]  hath 
lately  publish'd  a  Book  in  French,  wch  he  calls  the  Fraternal  Correspondence  of  ye  Ch. 
of  E.  wth  other  Ref.  Ch.  &  in  a  Letter  tells  me  he  has  sent  me  a  Copy  to  Mr.  Watts  of 
S*.  John's  Coll.  [cf.  infra  gon.~\  w611 1  have  not  yet  received.'  The  well-known  non-juror 
Capt.  Hatton  writes  on  May  31  (xxxiii.  n)  that  the  Letters  'have  and  will  make 
a  very  great  noise,  That  from  y6  Professors  of  Geneva,  and  y6  Universities  Answer 
therto.  But  at  ye  same  time  I  must  tell  you,  y*  I  am  one  of  thos  who  do  declare, 
Nolumus  doctrinam  Ecclesiae  Anglicanae  mutari ;  and  therfore  cannot  approue  of  ye 
modish  union  betwixt  the  Temple  or  Kirke  of  Geneva,  and  ye  Church  of  England,  nor 
ye  Jesuitical  equiv[oc]ating  expression  w011  hazards  ye  great  and  deserved  reputation  of 
some  of  our  viri  celeberrimi.'  Charlett 's  kinsman,  W.  Bishop,  has  several  refs.  to  this 
subject  (Ballard  xxxi.  31,  38,  39).  In  No.  38,  March  5,  1707,  he  writes:  '  This  Morn- 
ing I  was  wth  Our  Friend  Dr.  H — ks :  He  ordered  me  to  acquaint  You,  y*  being  at 
present  very  busie  wth  the  Press,  He  cant  write  to  You,  but  will  as  soon  as  He  has 
leisure,  as  allsoe  to  acquaint  You,  y'  the  BP.  of  Oxfd  Yesterday  as  He  was.told  by  one 
y*  heard  Him  quoted  Yor  University  Answer  to  the  Geneva  Lre,  to  Justine  their 
owneing  the  Kirk  of  Scotland.  He  is  very  sorry,  &  soe  are  many  More  y*  the  Univer- 
sity answer'd  y1  Lre  at  ys  time,  &  after  y4  Manner :  to  tell  you  the  truth  all  Indifferent 
People  stile  yr  Answer  to  y*  Lre  trimming  &  think  it  contradictory :  the  BP.  own'd 
some  differrence  between  ye  Kirk  of  Scotld  &  Geneva  :  but  the  owning  the  lawfullnes 
of  conformeing  wth  Geneva  must  necessarily  own  the  lawfulness  of  owning  the  same 
lawful  wth  the  Scotch  Kirk.  He  sd.  All  People  y'  have  a  hearty  Concern  for  the 
Episcopacy,  are  grieved  at  the  University8  Answer  here  :  and  when  it  is  Printed,  There 
will  be  Queries  eno  sent  You  :  for  my  part  I  cant  reconcile ;  antiqua  ilia  Ecclesiae  per 
Episcopos  gubernandae  ratio,  quam  Apostoli  a  Christo  Ipso  fidei  nostrae  Authore 
edocti  &  pleniori  S*'  Spiritus  mensura  perfusi  instituerunt  &c.  &  Authoritate  plusquam 
humana  fundatam  disciplinam,  &c.  with  tanquam  legitimis  Pastoribus  aut  sacramentis 
rite  administratis  penitus  destitutas  wth  w*  goes  before  &  after  :  however  I  am  very 
sorry  it  should  be  made  use  [of]  to  justifie  the  lawfulness  of  joyning  wth  the  Scotch 
Kirk  &  for  the  abolishing  in  y*  Kingdom  Episcopacy  &  I  pray  w*  Necessity  does 
Geneva  lye  under  now,  mayn't  they  have  Episcopacy  from  us :  or  suppose  Governors 
Temporal  should  forbid  Baptiseing,  giveing  ye  Sacram*,  or  useing  any  liturgy,  must  y* 
be  termed  ineluctabilis  necessitatis  lex,  or  are  Gods  Ministers  excus'd  from  doeing  their 
duty  by  their  Loss  of  their  temporalities  :  Pardon  Dear  Sr  ys  Freedom,  You  will  hear 
eno  of  y*  Lre  from  all  Quarters,  &  y*  Lre  quoted  on  all  Occasions  to  invalidate  the 
necessity  of  Episcopal  Ordination.  God  Almighty  turn  every  thing  for  his  Glory  &  the 
Good  of  the  Episcopal  Church.'  And  again  on  March  6  :  '  As  for  the  Geneva  Lre  & 
Answer  there  are  several  Copies  about  Town,  in  the  other  Parties  hands,  &  the  Presby- 
terians &  Low  Ch — ch  congratulate  the  Universitie  comeing  over  to  Them,  viz  y* 
Episcopal  Ordination  is  not  necessary  &  y'  there  may  be  a  true  Church  wthout  it, 
for  Thus  They  enterpret  Yr  answer :  had  there  bin  in  the  answer  any  thing  of  Yr  not 
approveing  of  Geneva  discipline,  or  of  the  Necessity  of  Episcopal  Ordination,  it  would 
have  been  more  clear,  for  if  X*  and  from  Him  His  Apostles  ordaind  Episcopal 
ordination,  as  necessary,  yn  sure  Presbyterian  ordination  is  not  valid,  &  if  wee  Com- 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XIV.  405 

municate  wth  such,  sure  not  as  a  Church,  established  by  X*  &  His  Apostles,  unless  He 
&  They  Established  2  different  Churches :  ys  is  w*  several  in  Coffee-Houses  s^y,  & 
the  BP  of  O.  &  his  Party  cry  up  the  answer,  but  wth  a  sneer,  as  alloweing  owneing  the 
Kirk  of  Scotd  notwthstanding  ye  abolishing  Episcopacy  :  Thus  I  freely  tell  you  the 
talk  of  the  Town.'  These  are  all  the  criticisms  for  which  I  can  find  space  ; 
but  Charlett  seems  to  have  sent  the  Letters  indiscriminately  to  all  his  correspondents, 
who  were  Legion,  and  among  their  acknowledgments  I  have  noticed  those  of  Tanner 
(iv.  43)  ;  Archbp.  Narcissus  Marsh  (viii.  6) ;  Bp.  Lindesay,  Killaloe  (ib.  38) ;  Bp. 
Williams,  Chichester  (ix.  45) ;  Potter  (ib.  58) ;  Lord  Weymouth  (x.  33) ;  Dr.  Delaune 
(xxi.  109,  no,  ill) ;  Dr.  Bardsey  Fisher  (xxiii.  33) ;  Dr.  Gregory  (xxiv.  31)  ;  Hans 
Sloane  (ib.  47)  ;  C.  Goodall  (ib.  67) ;  W.  Ayerst  (xxvii.  n)  ;  Dean  Younger  (xxxiv. 
46) ;  Charles  Leslie  (ib.  51) ;  Samuel  Wesley  (ib.  60) ;  Archdeacon  Percivall  (xxxvi. 
17).  These  references  are  very  far  from  exhaustive. 

5.  24.  The  long  delay  in  filling  up  the  See  of  Winchester  is  very  frankly  explained 
in  a  letter  of  Addison's,  dated  Nov.  15  [1706],  and  printed  in  Rebecca  Warner's 
Epistolary  Curiosities,  2nd  Series,  p.  235  :  '  The  bishoprick  of  Winchester  will  not  be 
disposed  of,  as  it  is  said,  'till  the  next  session  of  Parliament  is  over ;  which  may  prob- 
ably have  a  good  effect  on  the  bench  of  candidates  for  it.'     Bp.  Trelawny  was  Atter- 
bury's  patron,  and  much  information  about  him  will  be  found  in  vol.  i.  of  the  latter 
prelate's  Correspondence.   See  also  the  '  Trelawny  Papers'  in  Camden  Miscellany  vol.  ii.; 
Ellis  Corresp.  i,  4,  233 ;  1st  Report  Historical  MSS.  Comm.  52,  3rd  Report  193  (a 
characteristic  letter  from  him  to  Prior) ;  Ballard  Letters  ix.  35-39  ;  Oliver  Bishops  of 
Exeter  157  sqq. 

6.  6.  Heame  mentions  Oharleton  with  honour  in  the  Preface  to  Peter  Langtoffs 
Chronicle,  §  xx.     That  learned  physician  and  antiquary  was  at  this  time  87  years  of 
age.     The  book  here  referred  to  is  his  Onomasticon  Zoicon,  ed.  3  of  which  was  pub- 
lished at  Oxford  in  folio  in  1677.     Dr.  Gregory,  writing  to  Charlett  June  7,  1707 
(Ballard  xxiv.  31),  says,  'No  body  will  adventure  to  tell  me  whether  they  think  that 
Dr  Charltons  Onomasticon  Zoon  will  bear  another  impression ;  most  encline  to  think  it 
will  not,  even  with  the  advantages  you  mention  :  but  I  shall  inform  myself  further  as 
occasion  offers  &  acquaint  you.'      His  death  is  mentioned  p.  10  infra.      Dryden  ad- 
dressed a  poem  to  him  in  1663.     A  letter  from  him  to  E.  Floyd  (dated  Sept.   29, 
1691),  cone,  a  robbery  of  the  Ashmolean  Museum,  is  in  Ballard  xviii.  I. 

6.  27.  For  a  summary  of  the  proceedings  in  this  Convocation,  see  Lathbury's  History 
403. — C.  Brent,  M.A.  1691,  rector  of  Ch.  Ch.  Bristol,  d.  1729,  likewise  published  several 
sermons.    He  was  a  nephew  of  Bp.  Bull ;  Rawl.  J.  4°.  3.  I  ;  fol.  16.  305  sq. — Francis 
Fox,  vicar  of  Pottern,  Wilts;  of  St.  Mary's  Reading  1724;  prebendary  of  Salisbury 
1713,  res.  1730.    Nichols,  Lit.  Ante.  viii.  429,  quotes  Coates'  History  of  Reading 
1 1 6.     Boscomb  (see  infra  107)  was  Hooker's  Wiltshire  Rectory.    See  Rawl.  J.  4°.  3. 
286;  fol.  17.  133. 

7.  13.  This  sermon  is  dedicated  to  Lady  Hampson,  mother  of  the  deceased.     In 
the  Bodleian  is  a  copy  of  A  plain  and  Compendious  Relation  of  the  Case  of  Mrs.  Mary 
Hampson  (London,  1684).     This  ill-used  lady  was  wife  of  H.  Hampson,  son  of  Sir  T. 
Hampson,  of  Taplow,  Master  of  the  Statute  Office,  and  one  of  the  adventurers  in  the 
draining  of  Fenlands. — The  subject  of  Milles'  sermon  was  De  officio  eorum  qui  dejide 
certant.     A  cursory  inspection  of  the  copy  in  the  Bodleian  leaves  the  impression  that 
Heame's  estimate  is  a  pretty  correct  one. 

7.  44.  The  Life  <Sr>  Death  of  the  Most  Reverend  and  Learned  Father  of  our  Church 
Dr.  James  Usher,  .  .  published  in  a  Sermon  at  his  Funeral  at  the  Abby  of  West- 
minster, Aprill  17,  1656.  And  now  re-viewed  with  some  other  Enlargements,  by 
Nicholas  Bernard,  D.D.  and  preacher  to  the  Honourable  Society  of  Gray's  Inn,  was 
published  1656.  In  the  Preface  the  writer  remarks  '  that  his  Highness  had  extended 
now  to  his,  what  was  before  intended  to  himself,  in  the  grant  of  some  of  the  lands  of  the 
Primacy  of  Armagh  in  Ireland,  for  21  years' 

9.  6.  For  Mr.  James  Ellis,  see  i.  p.  19, 1.  41,  and  n. — 1.  20.  Tanner's  letter  to 
Charlett,  here  referred  to,  is  preserved  in  Ballard  iv.  44,  dated  April  n,  1707 — 
'  a  kind  wife,  who  was  veiy  dear  to  me  upon  many  accounts.  Among  other  virtues, 
she  very  little  hindered  my  Studies  and  very  much  respected  all  my  Friends,  I'm  sure 
She  had  a  great  esteem  for  Dr.  Charlet,  lov'd  to  read  his  letters  and  often  chid  me  for 
not  writing  to  him.' — 1.  35.  It  was  during  his  stay  in  Ireland  in  this  capacity  that  Sir 
Andrew  Fountaine  first  made  the  acquaintance  of  Swift;  see  Forster's  Life  189  aud. 


406  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS. 

passim.  Cf.  Rawl.  J.  4°.  4.  240;  fol.  17.  131.  '  Totam  Hollandiam,  Galliam, 
Germaniam,  et  Italiam  saepe  et  cum  lucro  suo  ingenti  peragratus  est,  Numismata  anti- 
qua  et  nova  omnis  generis  moduli  et  pretii  ipse  mercator  emit  vendiditque,  picturarum 
ad  utile  suum  admodum  sciens,  antiquitates  varias,  easdem  preciosas  sumptibus  suis 
aliorumqne  collegit .  .  .  Constitutus  est  Praefectus  fabricae  ad  monetam  cudendam  in 
Turre  Londinensi,  loco  Gualteri  Carey.  Numisma  penes  me  R.  R.  maximi  moduli 
ejusdem  Andreae  effigiem  referens  cum  lemmate — Andreas  Fountain  Eques  auratus 
anglus — 171 5 — ex  altera  parte  Pallas  cum  attributis,  ad  latus  dextrum  altaria  cum  bustis, 
statuis,  numismatibus  et  columnae  fragmento,  ad  sinistrum  arma  familiae  gentilitia,  et 
columnae  caput,  sub  pedibus  libri,  et  pergameni — A.  SELVI.  F.'  [R.  R.] 

10.  23.  Charles  Bean,  M.A.  1702  (Rawl.  J.  4°.  3. 186  ;  fo.  18.  28).     This  maligned 
but  harmless  discourse  (on  Acts  vii.  26-28)  was  afterwards  published ;  '  Malice  and 
Scandal  have  at  last  forced  it  from  me.'     The  remark  below  illustrates  Macaulay's  note 
on  the  distinction  between  the  town  and  country  clergy  ;  cf.  Life  of  Kettlewell  213,  and 
on  the  whole  subject  Overton  Life  in  the  English  Church  305  sq.     Wake  writes,  Feb. 

5  [1691],  Ballard  iii.  26  :  'The  scene  is  much  changed  from  what  it  Once  was.     We 
know  w*  Censures  we  must  expect  from  our  own  Brethren,  as  well  as  Reproaches  from 
our  Adversaries,  The  London  Clergy  are  now  the  Obnoxious  Men  of  all  y*  Ch.  of 
Engld  ;    &  all  ye  thanks    they  have  for  twice  defending  of  it,   ag*  ye  Dissenters 

6  Papists,  is  to  be  ridiculed  by  those  y*  never  gave  ymselves  any  great  trouble  wth 
Either.     Ye  issue  of  this  day,  the  Novus  Reformator  Vapulans,  tho'  pretending  to 
attacque  a  madman,  yet  was  really  designed  to  expose  the  whole  party  of  a  Convoca- 
tion to  scorn  and  ridicule.'     Cf.  Hickes  in  Ballard  xii.  138  (May  25,  1714)  :  'I  would 
never  have  any  clergyman  govern  himself  by  the  practise  of  the  clergy  in  London, 
where  I  may  say,  as  Justinian  said  of  Rome,  Non  quae  Romaefacta  tarn  spectanda 
sunt,  quam  quae  fieri  debent.     Certainly  there  are  not  more  irregularities  committed 
by  the  clergy  in  any  part  of  the  nation,  than  in  this  city.' 

11.  i.  The  Observator  was  conducted  by  Tutchin,  who  died  in  September  of  this  year. 
A  note  by  Mr.  Bromley  himself  on  a  copy  of  the  edition  of  1 705  containing  the  Index, 
together  with  Dr.  Parr's  comment,  is  printed  in  Bibliotheca  Parriana.     Dr.  Parr 
wrote :  '  I  think  it  a  proper  act  of  respect  and  kindness  for  the  Bromley  family,  for  me 
to  put  it  in  possession  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Davenport  Bromley,  upon  the  express  condition 
that  he  never  sells  it  nor  gives  it  away,  that,  after  reading  it,  he  seals  it  up  carefully, 
and  places  it  where  no  busy  eye,  nor  thievish  hand  can  reach  it.'     For  letters  from  Wm. 
Bromley  to  Charlett,  see  Ballard  xxxviii.  73-102  ;  and  for  the  chief  facts  of  his  life  the 
Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.     He  does  not  seem  to  have  always  been  a  very  ardent  Jacobite,  for 
on  Oct.  7,  1701  (No.  74}  he  mentions  a  report  that  '  Dr.  Wallis  is  writing  an  account  of 
the  P.  of  W.,he  has  detected  the  Imposture  from  several  original  letters,  some  of  which 
he  has  decyphered.' 

11.  6.  Agas's  Map  of  Oxford. — Of  this  celebrated  map  of  Oxford,  made  by  Ralph 
Agas  (see  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.)  in  1578  and  engraved  by  '  Augustinus  Ryther  Anglus  ' 
in  1588,  only  one  copy  is  now  known  to  exist,  which  was  presented  to  Heame  in  March 
172^  by  Thomas  Baker,  the  Socius  Ejectus  of  St.  John's,  Cambridge,  and  is  now  in  the. 
Bodleian,  but  in  poor  condition.  Charlett's  idea  (p.  1 3)  was  carried  out  in  1 7  2  8  by  Robert 
Whittlesey,  and  other  reproductions  were  made  in  1732  by  Williams,  in  1823  and 
1843  by  Skelton,  and  in  1881.  [P.M.]  The  following  note  by  Hearne  is  in  Ballard  xli. 
16  :  '  I  have  heard  Mr.  Dodwell  say  that  Ant.  a  Wood  several  times  show'd  him  an 
old  Map  of  Oxon.  made  not  long  after  Printing  first  began  in  Oxon.  which  I  sup- 
pose came  afterwards  into  Mr.  Tanner's  hands,  or  else  was  lodg'd  in  Mr. 
Ashmole's  Museum.  I  think  I  have  heard  two  or  three  other  Gentlemen  say  they  have 
seen  the  same.  As  I  remember,  they  said  it  was  upon  Wood  ;  which  I  the  rather  be- 
lieve because  ingraving  began  some  time  after,  as  may  be  seen  from  the  first  Specimen 
of  it  in  one  of  Archbp  Laud's  Books.'  Then  follows  a  note  on  Radulphus  Agaso  in 
another  hand.  Neale's  Collegiorum  scholarumque  publicarum  Academiae  Oxoniensis 
topographica  delineatio  was  published  by  Heame  in  1713.  See  Wood- Bliss  Athenae  i. 
576.  A  facsimile  was  issued  in  1882. 

11.  13.  This  was  Stephen  Penton,  of  whom  there  is  some  account  in  Gul. 
Neubrigensis  Historia  782  sq.,  edited  by  Hearne  in  1719.  The  sermon  mentioned  in 
i.  47  of  the  present  ed.  was  probably  by  Henry  the  nephew  of  Stephen  Penton.  There  is 
a  copy  of  Stephen  Penton's  will  in  Rawl.  J.  fol.  18.  200.  The  testator  remarks : 
'  Because  I  know  not  how  to  gett  good  wine,  I  leave  nothing  to  be  drank  at  my  fnnerall .  . 
I  thank  God  I  have  more  freinds  than  Guineas.' 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XIV.  407 

12.  8.  The  work  of  Dr.  Hickes  here   referred  to  is   Two   Treatises,  one  of  the 
Christian  Priesthood,  the  other  of  the  Dignity  of  the  Episcopal  Order,  Formerly 
written,  and  now  published  to  obviate  the  erroneous  opinions,  fallacious  reasonings, 
and  bold  and  false  assertions,  in  a  late  book,  entituled,  '  The  Rights  of  the  Christian 
Church.'     With  a  large  Prefatory  Discourse,  wherein  is  contained  an  answer  to  the 
said  book.     It  is  referred  to  in  Hickes'  letters  to  Charlett  of  Sept.  23,  1707  and  April 
23,  1708,  Ballard  MSS.  vol.  xii.     Some  authorities  for  the  Life  of  Hickes,  which  will 
be  welcome  to  all  students  of  the  history  of  his  period,  are  brought  together  in  Notes 
and  Queries  6th  S.  xii.  401. — 1.  15.  Dr.  Smith's  biography  in  his  Account  of  the  State  of 
the  Greek  Church  under  Cyrillus  Lucaris,  likewise  published  in  Latin,  and  after- 
wards expanded  into  Collectanea  de  Cyrillo  Lucario  (1707) — still  remains  the  great 
authority  for  the  biography  of  Cyril  Lucar,  to  whom  England  is  indebted  for  the 
Codex  Alexandrinus.     See  also  A.  Pichler  Geschichte  d.  Protestantismus  in  der  Ori- 
entalischen  Kirche  im  1 7.  Jahrhundert :   oder,  der  Patriarch  Cyrillus  Lucaris  und 
seine  Zeit  (Munich,  1862). — 1.  48.  Hilkiah  Bedford's  Life  is  in  the  Dictionary  of 
National  Biography.     I  cannot  find,  however,  that  he  was  ever  chaplain  to  Bp.  Ken. 
For  yet  another  trans,  from  his  pen  see  Life  of  Bonwicke  213.     Letters  from  him  are 
preserved  in  the  Rawlinson  MSS.  (see  Index),  and  in   the  Hearne  Corresp.    The 
date  of  his  consecration  (probably  March  22,  1720)  is  given  by  Perceval  {Apostolical 
Succession  224)33  Jan.  25,  1720,  or  April  6,  1721,  the  consecrators  being  Hawes, 
Spinckes  and  Gandy.     There  are  details  of  his  death — the  date,  Nov.  25,  I724>  is 
omitted  in  the  Dictionary  article — in  Reliq.  Hearn.  ii.  210;  see  likewise  Index  to 
same  work.     Bolingbroke  somewhere  speaks  of  '  the  antique  erudition  of  Bedford.' 

13.  i.  Thomas  Bennett,  Master  of  University  1691-2,  was  Proctor  when  James  II 
visited  Oxford  in  1687  {Life  of  Wood  280-8). — 1.  15.  These  statements  are  confirmed 
by  the  careful  biography  of  "Woodward  (1665-1728)  in  Ward's  Gresham  Professors 
283  sqq.,  where  the  story  of  the  Shield  is  told  ;  see  likewise  Martinus  Scriblerus,  &c., 
and  Arbuthnot's  Miscell.  Works  (1770)  i.  166  ;  Tatler  v.  356.     'At  Dr.  Woodward's 
sale,  this  shield  was  purchased  by  Col.  King,  one  of  his  executors,  for  loo/.,  and  at  the 
sale  of  the  colonel's  effects,  in  1768,  it  was  sold  to  Dr.  Wilkinson  for  forty  guineas, 
along  with  the  letters,  &c.,  relating  to  it '  (Chalmers).     The  statement  in  the  Gentle- 
man's Magazine  1768,  p.  92,  that  it  fetched  four  hundred  pounds,  is  clearly  erroneous. 
The  dissertation  alluded  to  by  Warburton  (Elwin-Courthope  Pope  x.  286),  which  the 
editor  has  failed  to  identify,  is  of  course  Dodwell's  De  Parma  equestri  Woodwardiana 
Dissertatio  (1713).     See  also  Nichols'  Illustrations  iv.  101. — Bentley  must  have  had  a 
high  opinion  of  Woodward,  to  judge  from  the  company  in  which  he  places  him  :  — 

'Who  Nature's  treasures  would  explore, 

Her  mysteries  and  arcana  know, 
Must  high  as  lofty  NEWTON  soar, 

Must  stoop  as  delving  WOODWARD  low.' 

13.  7.  The  Life  of  Ralph  Kettle,  D.D.,  is  one  of  the  most  entertaining  in  Aubrey's 
series  {Letters  from  the  Bodleian  ii.  417  sqq.}. 

13.  25.  As  to  the  state  of  learning  in  the  Scotch  Universities,  Tanner  writes  (Ballard 
iv.  47)  :  '  I  had  a  good  deal  of  discourse  wth  one  of  our  Parliam*  men  these  Holydays, 
who  had  come  down  very  full  of  the  cheapness  of  Education  in  the  Scotch  Universities 
— 2  t;lb  per  ann. — and  in  3.  or  4.  years  time  to  go  thro'  the  whole  Encyclopaedia — I 
told  him  that  the  fine  Gentlemen  of  that  Nation  w*  he  met  wth  at  S1  Stephens  Chappel 
had  not  their  Education  at  home — nor  at  the  rate  he  mentioned — that  the  ordinary 
sort  of  Scholars  there  bred  up  were  very  empty  and  ignorant  out  of  their  Systems,  and 
insufferably  pedantic  wth  that  little  they  get  in  them — and  many  of  them  lewd  and 
vitious — We  have  but  few  in  this  Country — but  one  I  sent  packing  since  the  vacancy 
for  scandalous  practices.' 

13.  28.  Steele  held  the  post  of  Gazetteer  from  May  1707  to  Oct.  1710.    (Steele's 
Letters  i.  1 8.)     His  salary  was  '  3007.  a  year,  paying  a  tax  of  45/.'     For  the  circum- 
stances of  his  resignation,  see  Tatler  vi.  95  ;   Dobson's  Steele  54,  u8.     He  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Dr.  William  King  the  Satirist. 

14.  2.  Tom  Brown  had  died  in  1704.    His  works  were  eight  times  reprinted  (Diet, 
of  Nat.  Biog.  vii.  29  sqq.~).   See  Dr.  Johnson's  estimate  of  them  in  his  Life  of  Dryden 
150-1  (Warne's  ed.).    Of  Dr.  Jaa.  Drake  (who  died  March  2  in  this  year)  we  have 
already  heard  as  author  of  the  Memorial  of  the  Church  of  England  and  Historia 


408  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

Anglo- Scotica,  and  as  the  re-publisher  of  Leicester  s  Commonwealth.  An  assailant  of 
Higgins  remarks  that '  Dr.  Drake .  .  never  apprehended  the  Church  of  England  to  be  in 
danger,  till  he  found  himself  disappointed  of  being  a  Commissioner  of  the  Sick  and 
Wounded?  A  propos  of  the  mentions  of  the  Memorial  in  vol.  i.  the  following  letter  to 
Charlett  should  have  been  quoted  (Ballard  xxxiv.  85)  : — '  REVEREND  S», — Being  willing 
to  contribute  what  I  can  to  y6  support  of  y  Government  I  have  out  of  Duty  given  In- 
formation to  R.  Harley  Esq.  One  of  her  Majesty's  Principal  Secretary's  of  State  y*  you 
receiv'd  by  the  Carrier  a  great  parcel  of  y6  Memorials  of  the  Church  &  distributed 
them  about  y«  University ;  but  at  y°  same  time  to  do  you  what  service  I  can,  I  give 
you  this  Notice  y*  if  you  have  a  mind  voluntarily  to  inform  y°  Government  what  you 
know  of  y6  Author  or  Authors.  It  may  perhaps  prevent  a  prosecution  for  what  You 
have  already  done. — I  am  Revd  Sr  Yr  Humble  Servant  JOHN  WHITE.  London.  Jan. 
22.  i7of.' — It  is  quite  true  that  Defoe,  who  was  in  Scotland  in  1707,  was  acting  as  a 
paid  agent  of  Harley  (see  Minto's  Life  70  sqq.}  ;  the  next  year  he  was  in  communi- 
cation with  Lords  Godolphin  and  Sunderland  (see  Private  Corresp.  of  the  Duchess  of 
Marlborough,  &°c.  [1838],  ii.  255  sqq.\ 

15.  8.  On  April  26,  1707,  Sloane  wrote  to  Dr.  Charlett  (Letters  from  tJie  Bodleian 
i.  166)  '  Here  are  great  designs  on  foot  for  uniting  the  Queen's  library,  the  Cotton,  and 
the  Royal  Society  together.'  These  designs  were  realised  in  the  same  year  by  the 
passing  of  an  '  Act  for  better  securing  of  Her  Majesty's  purchase  of  Cotton  House  in 
Westminster'  [for  45oo/.].  Some  most  important  entries  regarding  the  earlier  and 
later  history  of  the  Cottonian  Library  will  be  found  in  the  Calendar  of  Treasury 
Papers  (1702-7)  pp.  204,  282  ;  435,  444,  476,  and  (1708-1714)  361,  362,  615.  Sir 
C.  Wren  remarked,  '  Both  these  libraries  might  be  purged  of  much  useless  trash,  but 
this  must  be  the  drudgery  of  librarians,  &c.'  In  1708,  the  St.  James's  Library  was 
removed  to  Cotton  House,  and  Mr.  Wm.  Hanbury,  brother-in-law  of  Sir  J.  Cotton, 
resigned  the  librarianship  of  the  Cottonian  Library  in  favour  of  Dr.  Bentley,  receiving  in 
the  end  handsome  compensation.  Cf.  Edwards  Founders  of  the  Brit.  Mus.  i.  142  sqq. 

15.  13.  This  letter  of  Robert  Nelson  is  printed  in  Letters  from  the  Bodleian  \. 
166  sqq.  Potter  apologises  to  Charlett  for  the  misprints,  Ballard  ix.  58. 

15.  21.  For  the  visit  of  the  Armenian  Patriarch  to  England,  see  Macray  Annals  of 
the  Bodleian  126-8;  and  letters  of  introduction  to  Charlett  from  Bp.  Compton  in 
Ballard  ix.  31,  and  from  J.  Chamberlayne  (editor  of  the  Present  State,  see  Ballard 
xvii.  70,  71),  in  vol.  xvii.  69  of  the  same  collection. 

15.  27.  The  Manx  Note- Book,  No.  I,  contains  a  genealogy  of  the  Christians  or 
Christins.     See  the  '  History  and  Antiquities  of  the  Isle  of  Man,'  by  James  [Stanley] 
Earl  of  Derby,  in  Peck's  Desiderata  Curiosa  ii.  429  sqq.,  and  Bullock's  Hist,  of  the 
Isle  of  Man  81  sqq. 

16.  19.  In  Ballard  xxvi  (13),  I  find  a  complimentary  letter  in  Latin  (dated  July  30, 
1 709),  addressed  by  Lucas  Nurigianides  Perso-Armenus  to  Charlett  on  this  occasion. 
— 1.  30.  read  Archiepiscopo. 

17-  10.  The  following  paragraph  has  been  accidentally  omitted: — ' Processionale 
ad  usnm  Ecclesiae  Sarum.  Printed  by  Peter  Kaetz  at  Antw.  1523.  15  Oct.  At  the 
End  is  a  note  signifying  that  'twas  corrected  by  Christopher  Endoviensis,  and  that 
there  are  in  it  bonae  notulae  &  bonae  ligaturae  &  stationes  picturatae? 

17.  ii.  Some  account  of  Basil  Kennett's  adventures  as  chaplain  to  the  English 
factory  at  Leghorn  1706-1711  is  given  in  the  Life  of  Bishop  White  Kennett,  pp.  52 
sqq.     He  was  only  saved  from  the  Inquisition  by  a  very  forcible  letter  from  Lord 
Sunderland.     There  are  particulars  of  his  life  and  works  in  Rawl.  J.  4°.  I.  99  sqq.t  4. 
1 7  sqq. ;  fol.  1 7.  365  sqq. — Dr.  Frampton  was  the  nephew  of  the  deprived  Bp.  of  Glou- 
cester; Dr.  Baptist  Levinz  Bp.  of  Sodor  and  Man  1685-1693.      There  is  a  careful 
biography  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Frampton  in  Bloxam  Magd.  Coll.  Register  iv.  57  sq.  &c. 
Bp.  Levinz  m.  in  1680  Mary  d.  of  Dr.  J.  Hyde.     See  Rawl.  J.  fol.  17.  135. 

18.  7.  Bp.  Patrick,  who  records  in  his  interesting  little  autobiography  (p.  192)  his 
completion  of  his  8oth  year  Sept.  8,  1 706  '  in  health  and  strength,  having  few  bodily 
infirmities,  and  the  full  use  of  my  reason  and  understanding/  was  succeeded  by  Bp. 
Moore,  of  black-letter  celebrity. 

18.  9.  Basil,  fourth  Earl  of  Denbigh,  m.  Hester  d.  of  Sir  Basil  Firebrace  1695, 
d.  1717.  For  Sir  Basil  Firebrace,  see  Index  to  Luttrell,  and  Treasury  Papers  (1702-7), 
388,  472.  He  was  Sheriff  of  London  1687;  M.P.  for  Chippenham  1691;  committed 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XIV.  409 

to  the  Tower  1695,  released  1696 ;  created  a  baronet  1698 ;  arbitrator  between  the 
old  and  new  East  India  Companies  1701;  received  io,ooo/.  stock  from  the  former 
1703;  nonsuited  in  a  trial  for  about  ioo,ooo/.  from  the  two  companies  1704;  awarded 
22,5oo/.  by  the  old  Company  1705.  According  to  Luttrell,  he  '  run  himself  into  the 
belly  with  his  sword.' — Dr.  Cave  was  at  this  time  almost  70  years  of  age.  A  Latin 
trans,  of  Books  I-V  of  Choniates'  Thesaurus  orthodoxae  Fidei  sive  Panoplia  dog- 
matica  was  published  at  Paris  1580,  and  the  arguments  to  the  whole  in  Fabricius' 
Bibliotheca  Graeca.  The  MS.  referred  to  is  Bodleian  MSS. :  Roe  xxii.  i. — For 
David  Jones  (d.  1724)  see  Wood-Bliss  Athenae  iv.  663,  666.  He  was  the  author 
of  several  sermons  separately  published,  and  is  one  of  the  heroes  of  the  amusing 
satire  by  Tom  Brown,  entitled  Novus  Reformator  Vapulans :  or,  the  Welch  Levite 

Tossed  in  a  Blanket.     In  a  Dialogue  between  Hick of  Colchester,  David  J —  nes 

and  the  Ghost  of  Wil.  Pryn.  (London  :  Printed  for  the  Assigns  of  Will.  Pryn,  next 
Door  to  the  Devil,  1691.)  He  is  there  spoken  of  as  '  young  Boanerges  ; '  cf.  the  com- 
parison between  him  and  Dr.  Sacheverell  hereafter  pp.  305,  306,  and  his  own  remarks 
in  his  very  characteristic  farewell  Sermon  (1692).  He  is  mentioned  in  Dunton's 
Life  and  Errors  i.  370.  There  is  a  good  deal  of  disjointed  information  about  him  in 
the  entries  in  Rawl.  J.  4°.  2.  194  ;  3.  179.  (He  must  not  be  confounded  with  another 
David  Jones,  of  Magd.  Hall.)  R.  R.  notes:  'See  MSS.  proceedings  age  him  in  the 
Vice  Chancellor's  Court  at  Oxford  am*  my  papers'  (cf.  Luttrell  iv.  644).  And  in  fol. 
20.  298  sqq.  he  writes :  '  by  his  litigious  unwarrantable  behaviour  [he]  tried  all  that 
belonged  to  him.  His  parish  paid  a  Curate,  and  the  parishioners  of  Lombard  Street 
starved  him  out.'  Then  follows  the  presentation  of  the  Churchwardens  of  Marcham, 
Berks,  exhibited  at  the  Visitation  of  Archdeacon  Proast,  April  28,  1701,  which  raises 
a  strong  presumption  of  Jones's  insanity.  In  Dec.  1697,  Smalridge  had  written  of  him 
{Illustrations  of  Literature  iii.  268) :  '  Our  Church  was  very  much  crowded  on  Sunday, 
to  hear  David  Jones,  who  answered  our  expectation  in  the  impetuousness  of  his  voice, 
the  fantasticalness  of  his  actions,  and  the  ridiculous  meanness  of  his  images  and 
expressions,'  &c.  Kennett  writes  (Ballard  vii.  43)  : — '  I  saw  David  Jones  yesterday  in 
Westminster  Hall  a  poor  Prisoner,  but  he  look'd  bigger  and  bolder  than  any  Council 
at  the  Barr.  The  Judges  in  Common  Pleas  adjourn'd  his  cause  to  this  day,  and  wth 
great  difficulty  prevail'd  wth  Him  to  pay  io8  to  his  keeper  for  another  night's  custody  : 
I  doe  not  yet  hear  how  they  dispose  of  Him,  but  I  presume  they  will  remit  him  to 
your  Castle,  unless  they  prefer  him  to  B  .  .  m,  where  I  really  think  there  lies  many  a 
wiser  Creature.' 

19.  27.  A  sketch  of  the  life  of  Bp.  Trimnell,  with  references,  will  be  found  in 
Atterbury's  Epistolary  Corresp.  v.   244  sqq. — To  the  references  to  Dr.  Nathaniel 
Johnston  given  in  Vol.  i,  we  may  now  add  Atkinson  Ralph  Thoresby,  the  Topo- 
grapher;  his  Town  and  Times  (Leeds,  1885),  Vol.  i.  81,  &c.,  a  useful  and  entertaining 
commentary  on  Thoresby's  Diary  and  Correspondence. — Collier,  Hickes  and  Leslie 
were  not  so  strict  in  the  matter  of  assumed  names,  &c.,  as  Kettlewell ;  cf.  the  Life  of 
the  last,  p.  471. — For  Body's  bequest  to  the  Bodleian,  see  Macray's  Annals  126. 

20.  4.  The  delay  in  the  publication  of  this  great  work  had  long  been  a  subject  of 
jest  in  Oxford.     In  1 703  the  Terrae  Filius  had  remarked,  '  Dr.  Mill  hath  made  his 
last  Will,  but  I  fear  will  never  have  done  with  his  Testament '  ( University  Miscellany 
[1713],  p.  4).     The  '  Libell'  in  the  Epistle  Dedicatory,  to  which  we  shall  find  frequent 
reference  hereafter,  is  as  follows : — '  Per  annos  plurimos,  jam  ad  Tuum  usque  Impe- 
rium,  omnia  erant  Nobis  in  turbido.     Hostis  ille,  quicum  bellum  jam  geritur,  Consilia 
nostra  perverterat ;   Senatum,  omnia,  nummis  aliisque  artibus  corruperat ;   Principe 
ipso  dudum  in  Illins,  et  (quod  paucis  turn  notum)  etiam  Pontificiorum  partes  pertracto. 
Hinc  inflammati  summis  inter  se  inimicitiis  e  Reformata  Religione  Subditi :  his  auc- 
toritatem  regiam  ad  ipsum  usque  avre£ovffiuTT)Tos  fastigium  extollentibus,  quo  Ecclesia 
et  Monarchia  forent  in  tuto  ;  illis  contra  (quibus  suboluerat  forte  aliquid  de  Regis  in  re 
Religionis  animo)  in  arbitrariam  Regum  dominationem  palam  ac  pleno  ore  debacchan- 
tibus ;  omnibus  vero  ferali  odio  inter  se  divisis,  ac  in  mutuam  veluti  armatis  perniciem. 
Nempe   hoc    volebat  Ithacus.    In   isto  rerum   turbine   abrepto   CAROLO,  venerunt 
Romani,  suasque  hie  sedes  posuerunt.     Hos  autem  licet  spiritu  suo  difflarit  magnus 
ille  Princeps  Auriacus,  imo  vero  et  in  Solium  jam  evectus  ipse  fuerit ;  valebant  tamen 
eadem,  quae  ante,  Consilia,'  etc.     On  June  16,  Dr.  Lancaster,  writing  to  Dr.  Charlett 
(Ballard  xxi.  45),  expresses  his  fears  that  it  will  be  thought  that  he  licensed  Dr.  Mill's 
'  admirable  dedication.'     And  on  June  7  Dr.  Gregory  wrote  to  the  same  (Ballard  xxiv. 
3):  'Dr.  Arbuthnot  has  gott  from  the  Queen  the  copy  that  Dr.  Milles  gave  her  Majesty: 


410  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

and  if  you  will  send  me  up  a  copy  of  the  Epistle  that  is  publick,  I  shall  send  yon  it 
back  again  collated  with  this,  if  there  be  the  difference  of  a  point  betwixt  the  two.' 
Dr.  Charlett  was  evidently  cognisant  of  the  story  concerning  the  change  in  the  Dedi- 
cation which  is  afterward  told  by  Heame.  In  Ballard  x.  33  Ld.  Weymouth  hopes 
that,  could  Dr.  Mill  have  foreseen  his  sudden  death,  he  would  [not]  have  left  behind 
him  such  reflections  as  Dr.  Charlett  mentions,  '  since  he  is  not  now  capable  of  a 
Bishopric'  (June  27,  1707). 

*si(*  At  the  end  of  this  volume  are  a  London  [sheet]  Almanack  for  1707,  notes  of 
three  errata  in  Mill,  &c.  '  Remember  to  write  immediately  to  Peter  Vanderaa  about 
the  Bacchanal.  .  .  .' 


VOL.  XV. 

Page  21,  line  21.  Von  Nessel  published  a  Catalogue  of  the  Greek  and  Oriental 
MSS.  in  the  Vienna  Library  in  1690.  He  succeeded  Lambecius,  and  was  himself 
succeeded  by  Garelli.  He  was  accused  of  rendering  access  to  the  library  very  difficult, 
whence  a  satirical  epitaph  upon  him,  ending  PATET  BIBL.  VINDOBONENSIS  |  NAM  | 
NESSELIUS  latet.  Edwards  Memoirs  of  Libraries  ii.  387,  391. — Sherlock  had 
been  one  of  the  best-abused  men  in  England  in  his  day ;  see  Macaulay  ii.  262  sqq. 
The  author  of  the  Life  of  Frampton  writes  (p.  186) :  '  Among  the  priests  that  stood 
out  the  Master  of  the  Temple  was  of  the  greatest  note,  who  for  some  reasons  now  in 
print,  but  one  more  prevalent  perhaps  and  now  in  tJie  grave,  thought  fit  to  comply.' 
Cf.  Life  of  Kettlewell  303  sqq. ;  History  of  Faction  65  ;  Dunton's  Life  and  Errors  i. 
365. — Dr.  Henry  Godolpnin,  brother  of  the  Lord  Treasurer,  was  Provost  of  Eton 
1695-1732,  and  Dean  of  St.  Paul's  1707-1726.  See  Lit.  Anec.  viii.  391. 

22.  i.  An  account  of  Dr.  Mill's  death,  from  an  eyewitness  Dr.  Worth,  is  printed  in 
Todd's  Memoirs  of  Brian  Walton,  D.D.  i.  79  sq. — Congratulations  to  Dr.  Charlett 
on  his  rectory  will  be  found  in  Ballard  MSS.  iii.  42  (from  Bp.  Wake),  xii.  96  (from 
Dr.  Hickes),  xxiii.  26  (from  Dr.  Roderick),  xxiii.  36  (from  Nelson),  xxxi.  32  (from 
W.  Bishop),  &c. 

23.  i.  Heame's  sneer  turns  upon  the  fact  that  Goodwyn  was  a  Doctor  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Ley  den. 

23.  26.  For  Dr.  Thomas  Bray  (B.A.  All  Souls,  1678),  see  Rawl.  J.  4°,  2.  131  sqq., 
and  a  full  account  hi  fol.  16.  273  sqq. ;  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  vi.  239  sqq. ;  and  the  well- 
known  Life  and  Designs.  His  Bibliotheca  Parochialis  was  published  in  1697.  It 
was  through  him  that  Hearne  was  offered  the  appointment  of  missionary  and  provincial 
librarian  in  Maryland  in  1 700  {Letters  from  the  Bodleian  i.  1 1 7  sqq.). 

23.  32.  References  to  this  (the  earlier)  Ayliffe  case  will  be  found  in  Dr.  T.  Wood's 
letters  among  the  Ballard  MSS.  (xxii.  81,  80).  On  Feb.  6,  1709,  he  'intends  to  hold 
Ayliffe's  nose  to  the  grindstone ;'  but  on  May  27  following  he  informs  Charlett  that 
his  affair  with  Ayliffe  is  '  at  end,'  the  latter  having  received  Her  Majesty's  pardon. 
See  also  W.  Bishop  in  Ballard  xxxi.  45,  46  ;  and  ii.  120  sqq.  Of  a  second  case,  which 
ended  in  Ayliffe's  expulsion,  we  shall  hear  quite  enough  hereafter.  See  Rawl.  J.  4°.  2. 
29  ;  fol.  1 6.  108  sqq. ;  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  ii.  279  sqq. 

25.  12.     In  Ballard  iv.  38,  48,  50  &c.  are  references  by  Tanner  to  his  projected 
edition    of   Leland.     The    brother  was    John    Tanner. — '  It  is    generally    acknow- 
ledged that  playing-cards  were  printed  in  the  I4th  century,  and  the  celebrated  "  St. 
Christopher"  in  the  Althorp  Library  proves  that  "images"  of  the  Saints  from  wooden 
blocks  appeared  at  least  as  early  as  1423 '  (Caxton  Celebration  Catalogue  45). — There 
is  an  analysis  of  A  Farther  Prospect  of  the  Case  in  View  in  Brokesby's  Life  of  Dod- 
well  ii.  479  sqq. — Yalden  was  at  this  time  chaplain  to  the  Duke  of  Beaufort.     See 
Johnson's  Lives  of  the  Poets  296  (ed.  Wame) ;  Tatler  v.  440  ;  Forster's  Swift  221-5  > 
Craik's  Swift  172.     He  was  a  friend  usque  ad  aras  of  Atterbury,  and  Heame's  depre- 
ciation of  him  is  therefore  remarkable. 

26.  2  sqq.  This  epigram  is  printed  with  variations  in  Whig  and  Tory,  ad  fin. —  The 
Tryall  and  Examination  of  Alary  Moders,  otherwise  Stedman,  now  Carleton  (stiled 
The  German  Princess)/^  having  two  Husbands,  viz.,  Tho.  Stedman  of  Canterbury, 
and  John  Carleton,  appeared  in  1663  ;  the  Memoires  of  Mary  Carleton,  interwoven 
with  strange  and  pleasant  Passages  from  her  Birth  to  her  Execution  in  1673  (she  was 


NOTES   TO   VOLUME  XV.  411 

executed  Jan.  22,  167!);  and  the  Life  and  Character  of  Mrs.  Mary  Moders,  .  .  .  the 
famous  German  Princess  ;  being  an  historical  Relation  of  her  Birth  and  Fortunes, 
with  the  Havock  and  Spoil  she  committed  upon  the  Publick  in  the  Reign  of  Charles  II 
together  -with  her  tragical  Fall  at  Tyburn,  1678  [sic],  at  a  later  date.  There  are 
several  pamphlets  relating  to  her  in  Bodley.  Pepys  notes,  May  29,  1663,  '  Then  with 
Creed  to  see  the  German  Princesse,  at  the  Gate-house  at  Westminster  ; '  June  7,  '  after 
church,  my  Lady  Batten  inveighed  mightily  against  the  German  Princess,  and  I  as 
high  in  the  defence  of  her  wit  and  spirit,  and  glad  that  she  is  cleared  at  the  Sessions ; ' 
and  April  15,  1664,  '  To  the  Duke's  house,  and  there  saw  "The  German  Princesse" 
acted  by  the  woman  herself;  but  never  was  anything  so  well  done  in  earnest,  worse 
performed  in  jest  upon  the  stage.  And  indeed  the  whole  play,  abating  the  drollery  of 
him  that  acts  her  husband,  is  very  simple,  unless,  here  and  there,  a  witty  sprinkle  or 
two.'  (Pepys  here  reminds  one  irresistibly  of  Boswell's  visit  to  Mrs.  Rudd.) 
See  also  Granger  Biographical  History  iv.  221  sq.  Perhaps  some  of  our  Cam- 
bridge friends  can  explain  the  allusion  in  the  Terrae-Filius'  Speech  of  1 703  (  University 
Miscellany,  p.  8):  '  You  [i.e.  Cantabrigienses]  must  not  expect  to  be  treated,  no,  not 
so  well  as  you  did  the  German  Princess  in  Theatre  Cantab.  Anglice  the  Black  Bear 
Inn.' 

26.  6.  June  19,  1707,  Dr.  Lancaster  wrote  to  Dr.  Charlett  (Ballard  xxi.  46):  'I 
have  had  the  players  and  Pinkerman  [sic]  with  me,  but  I  have  refused  everybody  leave 
to  show  at '  [the  Act];  and  on  July  26,  Nelson  remarks  (Ballard  xxiii.  37):  'We  are 
very  much  pleased  in  town  with  the  VCr  resolution  is  not  suffering  the  players  to  have 
an  opportunity  to  corrupt  the  youth  of  ye  University.'  Tempera  mutantur  ! 

26.  15.  The  story  of  the  pied  piper  of  Hamelen  is  told  by  Howell  in  Familiar 
Letters  I.  vi.  49,  and  by  H.  More  Antidote  against  Atheism  (1672)  100,  as  well  as  by 
Verstegan.     Cf.  Notes  and  Queries  3rd  S.  ii.  412,  4th  S.  iv.  364  sq.  &c.,  where  numer- 
ous authorities  are  quoted,  including  Erichius  Exodus  Hamelensis,  Schoock  Fabula 
Hamelensis,  Grimm  Deutsche  Sagen  i.  330,  P.    Gasparis  Schotti  Physica  curiosa 
452,  &c.      Mr.  Browning's  poem  scarcely  needs  mention  here. 

27.  20.  On  music  in  Oxford  at  this  time,  see  Collectanea  (Oxf.  Hist.  Soc.)  i.  304  sq., 
Wordsworth  Social  Life  197  sqq.,  and  esp.  Scholae  Academicae  236.     On  July  10, 
1707,  Dr.  Gregory  wrote  to  Charlett  (Ballard  xxiv.  32)  :  'At  the  Act  1703  I  gott  Dr. 
Wallis  to  write  me  a  long  letter  from  Soundess,  where  he  then  was,  about  D™  of 
Musick.     You  know  he  forgott  nothing.     He  expressly  says  that  the  Savilian  Pro- 
fessors have  nothing  to  doe  with  a  Batchellour  of  Musick.     That  even  when  he  takes 
his  Doctors  degree  the  Proctor  proposes  the  Grace,  and  a  Master  of  Arts  presents  the 
person,  And  the  Savilian  Professor,  whose  turn  it  is,  performes  the  Ceremony  in  the 
Theatre,  only  when  there  is  a  publick  Act.     He  says  that  he  Created  two,  one  in  S* 
Maries,  and  one  in  the  Theatre  when  it  was  first  opened,  and  Sr  Christopher  Wren  one, 
in  S*  Maries.     He  says  he  presented  the  last  in  Congregation  to  his  degree,  but  never 
a  Batchellor.' 

26.  45.  The  reader  of  Dunton's  Life  and  Errors  will  probably  agree  with  Hearne 
that  the  author  was  strongly  tinged  with  insanity.     But  his  sketches  of  contemporary 
booksellers  and  divines  are  of  very  considerable  value ;  and  as  the  anticipator  in  his 
Athenian  Mercury  of  Notes  and  Queries  he  deserves  a  niche  in  the  Temple  of  Fame.     I 
do  not  find  a  work  of  his  called  The  Pulpit  Fool,  but  in  the  case  of  an  author  of  600 
projects  it  would  be  dangerous  to  assert  a  negative.     His  Whipping- Post  had  appeared 
in  1706. 

27.  6.  Probably  the  most  familiar  instance  of  a  difficulty  in  the  interpretation  of 
College  Statutes  on  the  point  of  Necessary  Regency  is  that  related  in  Mark  Patti- 
son's  Memoirs  267  sqq. — Mr.  Dalton  was  one  of  the  '  Woodcock  Club.'     It  appears, 
by  the  way,  that  Clare  College,  Cambridge  was  the  scene  of  a  '  calve's  head  '  outrage 
Jan.  30,  1714  (2nd  Rep.  Hist.  MSS.  Comm.  112).     Dr.  T.  Smoult,  of  St.  John's, 
first  Knightbridge  Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy,  occupied  the  Chair  from  1683-1707. 
— Dr.  Mill  was  born  near  Shap,  Westmorland,  and  was  entered  at  Queen's  as  a  servitor 
in  1661. — For  Sir  Robert  Clayton,  see  Granger  iii.  397,  Dunton  i.  353,  Life  of  Mr. 
T.  Firmin  56  sqq. — Jas.  "Wright  was  likewise  the  author  of  two  poems  on  St.  Paul's 
Cathedral  (1668  and  1 709);  Annals  of  the  last  seven  years  of  the  reign  of  Charles  II ; 
an  epitome  of  the  Monasticon  ;  Historia  Histrionica,  &c.     Mr.  W.  Harrod  projected 
a  new  ed.  of  his  Rutland  in  1788. 

28.  41.  Dryden  is  said  to  have  received  500  guineas  for  this  poem.    Eleonora, 


412  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS. 

Countess  of  Abingdon,  eldest  daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Lee,  of  Ditchley,  died  suddenly 
May  31,  1691. — For  Herr  von  Windsbach.,  called  'The  Winsbeke,'  see  Scherer's 
History  of  German  Literature  i.  212  (English  ed.). 

29.  19.  Dr.  Wetenhall  (Bp.  of  Cork  1679,  of  Kilmore  1699;  d.  1713  aged  77)  was 
the  author  of  Hexapla  Jacobaea :  a  Specimen  of  Loyalty  towards  his  Majesty  King 
James  II  in  six  pieces  (Dublin  1686),  as  well  as  of  numerous  other  works.     See 
Athenae  iv.  562;    Cotton's  Fasti  Ecclesiae  Hibernicae  i.  229  sq. ;    Ballard  Letters, 
Index ;  Noble's  Granger  ii.  104 ;   art.  in  Chalmers ;    2nd  Rep.  Hist.  MSS.  Comm. 
44,  &c. 

30.  8.  Dr.  J.  Talbot,  Trinity,  was  Regius  Professor  of  Hebrew  1699-1703.     His 
Horace  was  published  in  1699  (4*°)  and  1701  (4*°  and  I2mo).     The  types  used  in  this 
work  were   procured  by  Bentley  from  Holland  (Wordsworth  Schol.  Academ.  383). 
Dr.  Talbot's  epitaph  at  Spofforth,  where  he  died  Oct.  20,  1708,  is  given  in  Lit.  Anec. 
iv.  174. 

30.  20.  In  the  Calendar  of  Treasury  Papers  1708-1714  (vol.  cv,  49)  p.  10,  is  an 
entry  dated  Feb.  16,  I7o|,  relating  to  this  trial:  'Report  of  Mr.  William  Borrett  to 
the  Lord  High  Treasurer,  as  to  [relaxing]  the  forfeiture  of  the  recognizances  of  certain 
persons  bound  for  the  trial  of  Walter  Ducaine  at  the  Oxford  assizes,  for  speaking 
seditious  and  scandalous  words.'     The  case  is  mentioned  in  Oxford  during  the  last 
Century  93. 

31.  35.  For  the  Drumming  "Well  at  Oundle,  see  Brand-Ellis  Popular  Antiquities 
ii.  262,  who  quotes  Travels  of  Tom  Thumb  174,  and  Baxter  Certainty  of  the  Worlds 
of  Spirits  157.     Baxter  wrote  in  1691 : — 'When  I  was  a  School-Boy  at  Oundle  in 
Northamptonshire ;  about  the  Scots  coming  into  England,  I  heard  a  Well,  in  one 
Dobs V  Yard,  drum  like  any  Drum  beating  a  March.     I  heard  it  at  a  distance  :  Then  I 
went  and  put  my  Head  into  the  Mouth  of  the  Well  and  heard  it  distinctly,  and  no 
Body  in  the  Well.     It  lasted  several  Days  and  Nights,  so  as  all  the  Country-People 
came  to  hear  it.     And  so  it  drumm'd  on  several  Changes  of  Times.     When  King 
Charles  the  Second  died,  I  went  to  the  Oundle-Camzr  at  the  fiam-Inn  in  Smithfield ; 
who  told  me  their  Well  had  drumm'd,  and  many  people  came  to  hear  it.     And  I 
heard,  it  drumm'd  once  since.'     Cf.  Glanvil,  Sad.  Triumph.  (1681),  Part  ii.  89  sqq. 

31.  42.  Dr.  Richard  Cumberland  was  Bishop  of  Peterborough  1691—1718.     He 
is  now  perhaps  best  remembered  by  the  attractive  picture  of  him  drawn  by  his  great- 
grandson  of  the  same  name  in  his  Memoirs  3  sqq.,  despite  his  De  Legibus  Naturae. 

32.  2.  Hearne  had  recorded  Pooley's  death  in  error  at  vol.  i.  p.  203  supra. 

33.  10.  The  P.  S.  to  Higgins'  Sermon  (published  at  one  penny)  is  in  the  form  of  a 
dialogue  between  the  Archbp.  and  Mr.  Higgins.     Needless  to  say  that  the  victory  does 
not  remain  with  the  former.     It  contains  some  interesting  references  to  contemporary 
persons  and  things.     It  was  ordered  by  the  Lords  Spiritual  and  Temporal  in  Parlia- 
ment assembled  in  Ireland  to  be  burnt  by  the  common  hangman  July  29,  1 707  (MS, 
note  in  Bodleian  copy).     Higgins  was  taken  into  custody  on  the  Secretary  of  State's 
warrant  Feb.  28,  1707.     One  critic  remarks  of  him  that  he  was  'fufnish'd  with  a  large 
stock  of  Assurance,  and  an  Itinerary  Sermon?     In  this  famous  discourse  he  attacks 
Asgill ;  Toland  ('  the  Cat's  Foot  of  the  Party  ;  tho'  I  am  sorry  his  Paws  have  not  yet 
felt  the  Fire ') ;  and  Emlin  ('  That  [the  Toleration]  Act  takes  away  some  Penalties 
Inflicted  by  former  Acts  on  Dissenters  ;  but  not  in  the  least  Repeals,  or  Weakens  one 
Tittle  of  the  Act  of  Uniformity,  which  God  be  praised  is  Yet  in  Force ').     '  Notes  of 
Mr.  [Francis]  Higgins'  Conference  with  the  Archbp.  of  Canterbury,  1 707,'  on  which 
the  P.  S.  was  founded,  are  printed  in  2nd  Rep.  Hist.  MSS.  Comm.  244. 

33.  17.  We  have  already  mentioned  Edmund  Hickeringill  as  one  of  the  inter- 
locutors in  Tom  Brown's  Novus  Reformator  Vapulans.  See  Thoresby  Corr.  i.  447,  ii. 
8 ;  Athenae  iv.  314,  663  ;  Noble's  Granger  ii.  136  ;  art.  in  Chalmers  ;  Index  to  Luttrell, 
&c.  He  had  published  in  March  i7°f  A  Letter  concerning  Barretry,  Forgery,  and  the 
Danger  and  Malignity  of  partial  Judges  and  Jury-men  (Bodleian,  Pamph.  270),  which 
fully  explains  the  general  enmity  which  he  inspired,  and  alleges  the  '  forgery '  to  have 
consisted  in  his  altering,  as  Commissioner,  the  rate-books  brought  to  him  by  the 
assessors  for  the  parish  of  Wix,  in  which  he  was  a  land-owner.  He  seems  to  have 
been,  even  after  death,  a  thorn  in  the  side  of  his  diocesan  (Bp.  Compton). —  Philip 
Stubbs  (Wood- Bliss  Athenae  iv.  742),  in  1691  repetitioner  of  the  four  Easter  sermons, 
which  he  performed  to  the  applause  of  all,  Archdeacon  of  St.  Albans  1 715-1738.  His 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XV.  413 

manner  of  reading  the  service  at  St.  James'  Garlick-Hill  is  highly  commended  by 
Steele  in  the  Spectator,  No.  147.  He  published  numerous  sermons.  See  Noble's 
Granger  Hi.  116.  He  was  the  son  of  another  Philip  Stubbs,  Vintner,  whose  daughter 
Elizabeth  m.  Ambrose  Bonwicke  (see  Mayor's  ed.  of  the  Life).  'In  November  1730 
He  presented  a  valuable  collection  of  MSS.  to  the  University  of  Oxford  wrote  by 
Sr.  Henry  Spelman,  and  Mr.  Jeremy  Stephens  in  vindication  of  our  Monarchy, 
Hierarchy,  Universities,  Spiritual  Courts,  Tythes,  and  against  Sacriledge  (some  sup- 
posed to  be  lost  in  the  fire  of  London  in  1666.)  which  were  kindly  received  and 
handsomly  bound  for  their  better  preservation  in  the  Bodleian  Library '  [R.  R.]  : 
Rawl.  J.  4°.  I.  41,  3.  380;  fol.  19.  91  sqq. — The  first  ed.  of  Sir  H.  Spelman's 
([562-1641)  work  on  Tithes  was  published  posthumously  in  1647,  by  Jeremy 
Stephens,  who  had  also  assisted  in  the  preparation  of  Vol.  i.  of  the  Concilia,  and 
who  afterwards  began  to  print  his  History  of  Sacrilege.  Stephens  was  Prebendary 
of  Lincoln  1639-1665,  editor  of  works  of  Cyprian,  Gregory  the  Great,  &c.,  and  author 
of  an  Apology  for  the  ancient  Right  and  Power  of  the  Bishops  to  sit  in  Parliaments. 
See  Athenae  iii.  670.  Spelman's  History  and  Fate  of  Sacrilege  was  published  in  1698. 

33.  38.  I  am  indebted  to  the  kindness  of  Prof.  Mahaffy  for  a  reference  to  Proceedings 
of  the  R.  Irish  Academy,  No.  27,  Jan.  25,  1841,  49  sqq.,  where  there  is  an  article  on 
these  inscriptions  by  Dr.  Todd.     Heame's  versions  are  both  inaccurate. 

34.  i.  Sir  E.  Hannes  survived  till  July  22, 1710.     For  an  anecdote  of  him,  see  2nd 
Rep.  Hist.  MSS.  Comm.  69  j  also,  Rawl.  J.  4°.  2.  74. 

34.  3.  John  Blackburne,  D.D.  1704,  is  not  noticed  in  Rawlinson's  Collections. 
For  bell-ringing  see  Wordsworth  Social  Life  164  sqq. 

34.  28.  The  uncle  here  referred  to  is  of  course  Laelius  Socinus  of  Siena  (1525- 
1562),  the  correspondent  of  Melanchthon,  Calvin,  Beza,  Ochino,  &c.  (Toulmin 
Memoirs  of  Faustus  Socinus  x.  sqq.},  who  is  generally  regarded  as  the  author  of  the 
opinions  afterward  propagated  by  his  nephew.  Of  David  Wilkins  we  shall  hear 
much  hereafter. 

34.  33.  The  grievances  of  the  Fellows  of  Trinity  at  this  time  are  set  forth  in  Monk's 
Life  of  Bentley  i.  200  sqq.,  Jebb's  Life  101  sqq.     The  crisis  did  not  become  acute  till 
more  than  two  years  later.  —  The  Index  Expurgatorius  has  been  mentioned,  vol.  i, 
14  sq. 

35.  n.  Thomas  Holt  (Bloxham  Magd.  Coll.  Register  vi.  15),  M.A.  1683,  was  the 
senior  demy  expelled  in  1687;  restored  1688;    Bursar  1698.      'A.D.  1707.      Aug. 
Tho.  Holt,  S.T.B.  Socius,  subitanea  morte  abreptus  est '  V.  P.  Reg. 

35.  39.  The  work  which  Strype  now  had  in  preparation  was  his  Annals  of  the 
Reformation,  published  in  1 709.     Posterity  has  scarcely  ratified  Smith's  depreciatory 
estimate.    Strype  was  a  correspondent  of  Charlett,  and  his  letters  to  the  Master  are 
preserved  in  Ballard  xv.  31-40. 

36.  25.  This  was  Charles  King,  D.M.  1692.     See  Brodrick  Memorials  297.     He 
is  of  course  distinct  from  C.  King,  Mus.  Bac.  1707,  mentioned  in  Rawl.  J.  4°.  4.  226. 

37.  25.  This  annotated  copy  never  came  into  the  Bodleian.     The  object  of  Francis 
Thompson's  pamphlet  (1704),  the  materials  for  which  were  supplied  by  Crosthwaite, 
is  to  prove,  that  '  we  can,  in  Conscience,  Vote  for  none,  but  those  who  are  actually 
Fellows''  (p.  30).     '  The  Statutes  are  so  clear  in  this  Point,  that  'tis  matter  of  Wonder, 
that  any  should  appear  for  the  Provostship,  who  is  not  Actually  Fellow  ;  nor  can  I 
give  any  other  Reason,  that  they  should  be  Canvass'd  for,  than  that  for  many  Years 
our  Statutes  have  been  so  closely  kept  from  the  Society,  that  the  very  Senior  Fellow, 
who  is  by  Statute  to  Govern  the  College,  in  the  Provost's  Absence,  never  could  have  a 
Sight  of  them,  from  his  Admission  into  the  Society,  till  about  Three  Weeks  before  our 
late  Mr.  Provosfs  Death,  and  that  from  another  Hand  '  (p.  6). 

39.  12.  Thwaites'  Horatian  conjectures  do  not  seem  happy;  but  Cedo  equidem 
(Virg.  Atn.  vi.  849)  is  the  reading  of  the  Palatine  MS.  It  is  only  fair  to  Heame  to 
say  that '  leuesque '  is  a  misprint  for  '  lenesque.' 

39.  24.  There  is  a  summary  of  '  the  mass  of  ecclesiastical  fiction  which  has  grown 
up  round  the  name  of  Abgar  '  in  Smith- Wace  Diet,  of  Christian  Biography  i.  6.  Bp. 
Samuel  Parker,  Cave  and  Grabe  had  all  shown  an  inclination  to  accept  these  letters  as 
genuine. 


4H  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

39.  32.  Jerome   Commelin  died   at   Heidelberg  in  1598.     He  was  a  friend   of 
Scaliger  and  Casanbon  :  see  Pattison's  Casaubon,  ad  init. 

39.  38.  William,  third  Earl  and  first  Duke  of  Devonshire,  was  born  Jan.  25, 
1641.     See  Index  to  Macaulay,  and  Collins'  Peerage  (1768)  i.  311  sqq.     This  sermon 
of  Kennett's  gave  rise  to  a  warm  controversy,  of  which  there  is  a  sufficient  account  in 
the  Life  of  Kennett  36  sqq.  ;  cf.  An  Answer  to  Clemens  Alexandrinus 's  Sermon  upon 
'  Quis  Dives  salvetur,'  with  Nichols'  notes,  in  King's  Works  iii.  37  sqq.     Dun  ton's 
pamphlet  was  entitled  The  Hazard  of  a  Death-bed  Repentance,  fairly  argued,  &c. 
There  is  an  allusion  to  Kennett's  Dedication  in  Pope  Imitations  of  Horace,  Ep.  ii. 
220  sqq.     I  have  noticed  anecdotes,  &c.  of  the  Duke  in  Tatler  i.  41,  Gibber's  Apology 
58,  6 1  sqq.,  Ellis  Correspondence  (see  Index),  Calamy's  Life  and  Times  ii.  78.     Oddly 
enough,  in  1 704  Dun  ton  (Life  and  Errors  340)  had  written  a  somewhat  fulsome  pane- 
gyric on  his  life  and  character.    Very  soon  after  the  publication  of  this  sermon  Kennett 
was  appointed  Dean  of  Peterborough.     '  This  Preferment,'  writes  his  biographer,  '  (tho' 
not  so  much  to  be  envied)  rais'd  the  fiercer  Spite  and  Malice  of  the  Party  against  him : 
Libels  and  peevish  Sermons  pointed  at  him.     They  got  young  Men  to  tune  the  Oxford 
Pulpit,  and  let  out  their  Press  at  Oxford  to  the  printing,  or  re-printing  a  sorry  Libel 
of  poor_/^«  Dunton,  against  the  deceased  Duke,  and  his  funeral  Preacher.  .  .  .  Had 
the  Preacher  not  been  a  Constitution-Man,  and  a  Whig- Writer,  nothing  in  the  Sermon 
wou'd    have    appear'd    either  odious    or    shocking.'      The   Sermon   maintained   its 
notoriety  to  the  close  of  the  century,  and  is  quoted  in  Mrs.  George  Berkeley's  Preface 
to  her  son's  Poems,  ccclxvii,  where  some  particulars  of  the  Bishop's  descendants  are 
given.     There  is  a  bibliography,  &c.  of  Kennett  in  Rawl.  J.  4°.  1 .  68  sqq. 

40.  9.  Thomas  James  published  ed.  i.  of  his  Catalogue  in  1605.     A  MS.  continu- 
ation by  him  of  the  classified  index  passed  through  the  hands  of  Dr.  Hudson,  Dr.  A, 
Hall,  Heame,  and  Rawlinson  into  the  Library  ;  and  in  1613  he  prepared  an  alphabetical 
catalogue,  which  still  remains  in  the  Library  in  MS.     Ballard  xliv.  consists  of  letters 
addressed  to  him. — Thomas  Lockey  was  the  predecessor  of  Hyde  as  Librarian,  1660- 
1665.      See  both  names  in  Index  to  Macray's  Annals. — 1.   13.  For  the  tombs  here 
mentioned,  see  History  of  the  Cathedral  Church  of  Peterborough  (1790)  67  sqq.     The 
Rev.  John  Workman  was  rector  of  Peakirk,  Northants,  and  Vicar  of  Hamilton,  co. 
Rutland.     Dr.  Greaves  is  said  to  have  been  deprived  under  the  Commonwealth,  and 
succeeded  by  Heron  of  Wadham,  who,  however,  was  replaced  by  Sir  Christopher  Wren, 
the  Warden's  nominee  (Burrows  Worthies  of  All  Souls  207  sqq.}.     For  Cosin's  wife 
(Frances,  daughter  of  Marmaduke  Blakeston,  d.  March.  25,  1642),  see  Smith's  Life 
of  that  prelate   4.     Dove  was  Bishop   1601-1630.     He  was  a  favourite  of  Queen 
Elizabeth,  who  punned  on  his  name,  Harington  Nugae  Ant.  ii.  206,  Athenae  ii.  802. 
His  tomb  was  demolished  in  1643.  The  portrait  of  Scarlett,  with  the  inscription,  is  still 
familiar  to   visitors  to   Peterborough  ;  he   died   in    1594,  aged   98,  and  had   buried 
Catherine  of  Aragon  and  Mary  Queen  of  Scots.     The  missing  line  is,  '  Second  to  none 
for  strength,  and  sturdy  limb  ; ' 

40.  32.  In  the  Catalogue  of  Thoresby's  MSS.  at  the  end  of  Ducatus  Leodiensis, 
No.  15  is  'Statuta  Coll.  Novi  Oxoniensis,  a  Gul.  Wykeham  Winton.  Episc.  fundat.' 
No.    1 6   is  thus  described : — '  Historica  descriptio  complectans  vitam  ac   res  gestas 
beatissimi  viri  Gulielmi  Wicami  quondam  Vintoniensis  Episcopi,  &  Angliae  Cancellarii, 
&   Fundatoris  duoram   Collegiorum,  Oxoniae  &  Vintoniae.      This  is  modern  (writ 
about  1597),  but  *ne  Statutes  seem  as  ancient  as  the  College  itself.     I  bought  them 
out  of  the  Library  of  Mr.  J.  G.  LL.B.  sometime  Fellow  of  New-  College?     At  the  third 
day's  sale  of  the  '  Museum  Thoresbyanum '  in  1764,  the  latter  with  seven  other  MSS. 
realised  Ss.  6d.  (Rashley) ;  and  '  Three  Treatises  of  the  Isle  of  Man,  One  of  them  finally 
wrote  and  beautifully  illuminated '  i  is.  6<f.  (Edmonds).    Two  of  these  are  numbered  80 
(Chaloner)  and  129  (S.  Stanley)  in  the  Ducatus.     The  third  may  be  No.  52  :  '  An  Act 
of  Parliament  passed  7  Jac.  i.  for  assuring  &  establishing  the  Isle  of  Man  upon 
William  Earl  of  Derby,  and  the  Heirs  Males  of  his  Body.'     The  remaining  MS.  is 
No.  96  :  '  Lactantii  Firmiani  ad  Donatum  de  Ira  Dei,  cap.  24.  &  ad  Demetrianum 
de  opificio  hominis,  cap.  21.' 

41.  1 8.  For  Dr.  Edw.  Corbett,  see  Fasti  ii.  117,  &c.,  Brodrick  Memorials  of  Merton 
283  and  Index.     He  and  his  wife  (^Margaret,  d.  of  Sir  Nathaniel  Brent)  were  buried  in 
Great  Haseley  Church,  Oxon  (Some  Remarks  on  the  Church  of  Great  Haseley  81). 

41.  21.  The  passage  referred  to  is  printed  in   Knight's  Life  of  Colet  (1823)  15  : 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XV.  415 

'  Applicabo  me,  si  patieris,  et  adjungam  later!  tuo  ;  exhibeboque  me  tibi  discipulum, 
etiam  in  discendo  Graece,  quanquam  jam  provecta  aetate,  et  prope  senex.' 

41.  30.  Charles  the  First's  dislike  of  the  Liberty  of  Prophesying  is  hinted  at  in  Sir 
Philip  Warwick's  Memoirts  (1703)  301  sq.     I  find  no  special  mention  of  it  in  the 
Lives  by  Heber  and  Willmott.      See  Athenae  iii.  786.     A  propos  of  Dr.  Smith's  re- 
mark at  foot  of  p.  50  infra  it  may  be  noticed  that  Hammond  in  his  Letter  of  Resolu- 
tion to  six  Queres  of  present  Use  with  the  Church  of  England  '  characterizes  Taylor's 
presumptions  against  Paedo-baptism '  as  '  the  most  diligent  he  had  met  with'  (Heber's 
Life  xxviii  sq). 

42.  19.  Lord  Raby,  afterwards  Earl  of  Strafford,  will  be  familiar  to  most  readers 
from  Mr.  Cartwright's    Wentworth  Papers.      With  this  account   of  Charles  XII, 
Augustus  and  Stanislaus,  compare  the  two  letters  to  Mr.  Stepney  from  Dr.  (afterward 
Bp.)  John  Robinson,  dated  respectively  Danzig,  Sept.  I,  1706  and  Leipzig,  Dec.  18, 
1706,  and  printed  in  Rebecca  Warner  Epistolary  Curiosities  2nd  Ser.  223  sqq.     Dr. 
Robinson  was  at  this  time  in  the  army  of  Charles  XII,  with  the  character  of  Envoy 
Extraordinary.     There  is  a  petition  from  him  (1708  or  9)  in  Cal.   Treasury  Papers, 
1708-14,  p.  85.     Ballard  vi.  40,  Gibson  suggests  that  '  Dr.  Robinson  of  Sweden  might 
do  good  service  as  Bishop  of  Carlisle :  His  late  Majesty  always  designed  it  for  him.' 
The  same  volume  contains  three  letters  from  Lord  Raby  to  Mr.  Stepney  (pp.  216  sqq.), 
dated  Berlin,  Dec.  14  and   25,   1706,  and   March  5,  1707.     There  is  a  half-length 
portrait  of  Charles  XII  at  Wentworth  Castle,   Lord  Raby's  seat.     This  letter  was 
probably  addressed  to  Ld.  Godolphin. 

42.  49.  For  Kuster's  ed.   of  Mill,  for  which  he  consulted  r  2  MSS.  unseen  by  the 
latter,  see  Atterbury's  Epist.  Corr.  ii.  130  and  note.     The  Preface  is  followed  by  a 
letter  of  Le  Clerc  cone.  Mill's  work.     Cf.  Ballard  iv.  53. 

43.  55.  Thomas  (notfoAn}  Lancaster  was  Treasurer  of  Sarum  1559,  and  Archbp. 
of  Armagh  1568  (Cotton  s  Fasti  iii.  19),  when  he  preached  his  own  consecration  sermon 
in  Ch.  Ch.  Dublin ;  d.  1584,  and  was  buried  in  St.  Peter's  Drogheda.     Budde  became 
Principal  c.  1546  ;  Cooke  was  admitted  May  22,  1569,  'the  Hall  having  been  void  of 
Scholars  several  years  before.' 

44.  9.  Of  Lister's  Apicius  only  1 20  copies  were  printed — at  the  expense  of  1 8  per- 
sons, including  Archbp.  Tenison,  Ld.  Somers,  (Montagu)  Ld.  Halifax,  Bp.  Moore,  Bp. 
Hooper,  Harley,  Sir  R.  Bulkeley,  Sir  Christopher  Wren,  Isaac  Newton,  John  Flam- 
steed,  Hans  Sloane,  &c.     I  possess  the  author's  presentation  copy  inscribed  '  For  my 
Lord  Treasurer  [Godolphin]  by  his  most  humble  and  most  obedient  Servant  MARTIN 
LISTER.'     Another  inscription  which  will  be  of  interest  to  many  readers  is  :  '  Joannes 
Griffiths  Coll:  Wadh:  Soc.  Nov.  9.  1833.     E  bibliotheca  desideratissimi  viri  Gulielmi 
Tournay  S.T.P.'     See  Rawl.  J.  4°.  2.  94  ;  Macray  Annals  288. 

44.  26.  For  Henry  the  Fifth's  connexion  with  Oxford,  see  Joannis  Rossi  antiquarii 
Warwicensis  Historia  Regum  Angliae,   ed.   Heame,  p.   207  sq.  of  ed.   2. — Barlow 
succeeded  Gerard  Langbaine  as  Provost  of  Queen's  in  1658. 

45.  1 8.  The  first  word  should  be  '  usefull.' — There  is  a  memoir  of  Thwaites  in  Lit. 
Anec.  iv.  141  sqq.  (cf.  Rawl.  J.  4°.  2.  136),  and  some  particulars  of  C.  Bernard's  library 
ib.  iv.  104.    When  Thwaites's  leg  was  amputated,  Bernard  was  the  operator.     The  new 
ed.  of  the  trans,  of  Camden's  Britannia  mentioned  below  was  not  published  till  1722. 
Librorum  MSS.  in  duabus  insignibus  Bibliothecis,  altera  Tenisoniana  Londini,  altera 
Dugdaliana  Oxonii,  Catalogus,  edi-dit  E.G.  appeared  in  1692,  immediately  after  the 
publication  of  Gibson's  ed.  of  the  Saxon  Chronicle.     Dr.  Tenison  had  then  been  newly 
appointed  Bp.  of  Lincoln. — Dr.  Roderick  had  written,  July  12,  1705  (Ballard  xxiii. 
24) :    '  Ye  text  of  Dr.  Bentley's    Horace   has  been  long  printed,  but    his    notes  & 
criticisms  grow  so  upon  his  hands  that  it  will  be  a  great  while  before  they  will  be 
wrought  of  for  publication.' 

46.  8.  This  MS.  is  No.  LXXXVIII  in  Mr.  Coxe's  Catalogue  of  the  Queen's  Coll.  MSS. 
— The  MS.  of  Sir  R.  Cotton's  mentioned  below  (No.  Liv)  is  Liber  Praecedentium  ad 
curias  ecclesiasticas  spectantium. — Three  editions  of  Earl  Rivers'  trans,  of  the  Dictes 
and  Sayings  of  the  Philosophers  were  printed  by  Caxton,  in  1477,  1481,  and  c.  1490  re- 
spectively (Blades  Biogr.  and  Typog.  of  W.  Caxton  ed.  2,  Index). — There  is  a  copy  of 
Gavin  Douglas's  Palis  of  Honour e  in  Bodley  (London  [1553]  4to) — Nov.  14,  1710, 
Swift  wrote  in  the  Journal  to  Stella :  '  Sir  Richard  Cox,  they  say,  is  sure  of  going  over 
lord  chancellor,  who  is  as  errant  a  puppy  as  ever  eat  bread.'     Nov.  15  he  mentions  a 


41 6  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

visit  to  Sir  Chancellor  Cox-comb;  and  on  the  23rd  he  writes:  'Cox  is  not  to  be 
your  chancellor  :  all  joined  against  him.'  See  also  Notes  and  Queries  yth  S.  i.  208  ; 
Ballard  viii.  39,  xxiii.  41.  Letters  from  Sir  K.  Cox  to  Charlett  are  in  Ballard  xi.  47- 
53 :  in  one  he  writes  that  '  five  in  six  of  all  the  nobility  and  gentry  in  Ireland  are  for 
preserving  the  Test.'  In  xxxiv.  94  (Sept.  18,  1707),  J.  Dawson,  introducing  him, 
speaks  of  '  his  pleasant  humour  and  sense.  He  is  a  gentleman  of  great  worth  and 
integrity,  and  much  valued  amongst  us  for  a  great  many  good  qualities  he  is  master  of, 
and  especially  for  being  a  lover  of  his  Country,  and  of  his  Church.' — Michel  Le  Quien 
(1661-1733)  published  his  ed.  of  Joannes  Damascenus  in  1712. — Stepney  d.  at 
Chelsea,  aged  44.  His  Life  was  written  by  Johnson.  In  1706  he  had  been 
transferred  from  Vienna  to  the  Hague;  and  Aug.  28,  1707,  Luttrell  writes:  'Mr. 
Stepney,  our  envoy  in  Holland,  is  expected  here  by  the  next  pacquet  boat,  having  the 
bloody  flux,  in  hopes  his  native  air  may  recover  him.'  Many  of  his  letters  are  printed 
in  the  Lexington  Papers,  and  the  Hill  Correspondence  ;  and  letters  addressed  to  him  in 
the  Wentworth  Papers  10  sqq.  (from  the  Stepney  Collection  in  the  Brit.  Mus.), 
Warner's  Ep.  Cur.  2nd  S.,  69  sqq.  &c,,  and  Rep.  Hist.  MSS.  Comm.  71,  &c.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Kit-cat  Club. 

47.  45.  Hearne  gave  the  substance  of  this  memorandum  in  his  ed.  of  Spelman's  Life 
of  King  Alfred,  146  ».,  and  196  n.,  for  which  he  is  very  severely  taken  to  task  by  Wm. 
Smith  Annals  of  Univ.  Coll.  207  sqq.     The  whole  subject  is  fully  treated  by  Mr.  Jas. 
Parker  Early  History  of  Oxford  52  sqq. — The  College  likewise  presented  Charles  I 
with  plate  weighing  6ilb.  6oz.  §d.  (Gutch  Coll.  Cur.  i.  227).     • 

48.  3.  In  Vol.  i,  note  on  p.  326,  I  ventured  to  express  an  opinion  that  Dodwell's 
evidence  on  pp.  324,  326  was  conclusive  as  to  Ken's  authorship  of  A  Letter  from  a 
Prelate  to  a  Prelate.     In  Notes  and  Queries  6th  S.  xii.  151,  the  Dean  of  Wells  remarks 
that  the  passage  in  question  '  is  practically,  I  think,  decisive,  in  favour  of  the  genuine- 
ness of  the  letter.'     He  quotes  an  entry  in  the  MS.  Catalogue  of  Longleat  by  Ken's 
chaplain   Dr.    Harbin   (1702)   in  which   the   Letter   is  likewise  attributed   to  Ken. 
Further  interesting  refs.  to  Bp.  Ken  will  be  found  in  Atterbury  Epist.  Cor.  i.  280,  282  ; 
Warner  Ep.  Cur.  ist  S.  132  ;  Life  of  Kettle-well  423  sqq. ;  2nd  Rep.  Hist.  MSS.  Comm. 
10 ;  Calendar  of  Treasury  Papers  (1702-7),  97,  98.     At  the  last  ref.  will  be  found  an 
abstract  of  a  letter  dated  March  12,  1706,  from  George  [Hooper]  Bishop  of  Bath  and 
Wells  to  the  Lord  [High  Treasurer].    'A  great  indisposition,  for  which  he  was  directed 
to  go  immediately  into  the  country,  had  kept  him  from  coming  abroad  some  weeks. 
This  had  deprived  him  of  the  ordinary  opportunity  of  waiting  upon  his  Lordship,  and  of 
presenting  Bishop  Kenn's  humble  thanks  for  the  bounty  received  through  his  Lord- 
ship.    He  enclosed  Bishop  Kenn's  letter,  and  wished  to  know  if  his  Lordship  thought 
fit  to  order  any  part  of  the  royal  charity  for  Bishop  Kenn  to  be  paid  into  his  (the 
writer's  hands)  before  he  left  town,  or  whether  anyone  should  be  deputed  to  receive 
the  whole  at  Lady-day.     [Then  follows  Bishop  Ken's  letter.]     He  says  he  had  no  title 
to  the  continuance  of  the  royal  bounty  but  his  Lordship's  unmerited  goodness  to  him, 
which  he  besought  God  plentifully  to  reward,  and  if  his  Lordship  should  forbear  to 
continue  it,  the  discontinuance  would  not  obliterate  his  (the  Bishop's)  grateful  sense 
of  past  favours.' — Nelson  published  Kettlewell's  Five  Discourses  on  so  many  important 
Points  of  Practical  Religion,  with  a  Preface,  in  1696  (see  Secre tan's  Life  of  Nelson 
52).     Kettlewell's  Life  by  Lee,  which  was  published  separately  in  8vo.  1718  as  well 
as  prefixed  to  the  Works,  is,  with  all  its  defects,  one  of  the  most  valuable  authorities 
we  possess  for  the  history  of  the  original  Nonjurors.      There  is  a  less  favourable 
estimate  in  Overton  Life  in  the  English  Church  93  n. — For  a  sketch  of  Archbp. 
Lamplugh  (1615-1691)  see  Salmon's  Lives  of  the  English  Bishops  369  sq. ;  Athenae 
iv.  878  ;  Oliver  Bishops  of  Exeter  155  sqq.      He  does  not  appear  in  Prof.  Burrows' 
Register  of  the  Visitors.    His  son  Thomas,  also  of  Queen's,  was  M.A.  1685,  B.  and  D.D. 
1701 ;  Archdeacon  of  Richmond  1695  ;  Preb.  of  York  1712-1747. — Walter  Skirlaw 
was  Preb.  of  York  1370,  Bp.  of  Lichfield,  and  Bath  1386,  of  Durham  1388,  d.  1405  (see 
Wood-Gutch  Colleges  and  Halls  46). — J.  Lasher  (D.M.  1679)  published  his  Pharma- 
copceus  et  chymicus  symmystae  in  1698.     See  Rawl.  J.  4°.  3.  256 :  '  Professoris  Regii 
medicinae  deputatus,  et  mortuo  apud  Jamaicanos  [Thoma  Hoy]  Professor  ipse  regius ' 
[R.  R.] — There  are  three  Sermons  in  the  Bodleian  printed  Catalogue  under  the  name 
of  P.  Latham,  Preb.  of  Sarum  1672-1687  (Rawl.  J.  4°.  4.  31),  and  two  under  that 
of  W.   Leightonhouse    (ib.   fol.    20.    323). — Baptist  Levinz  was  brother  of  Sir 
Cresswell  Levinz,  one  of  the  counsel  for  the  Seven  Bishops,  and  of  Dr.  W.  Levinz, 
Regius  Prof,  of  Greek  and  President  of  St.  John's.     See  Bloxam  Register  of  Magd. 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XV.  417 

Coll.  v.  255-259,  &c.,  Athenae  iv.  882. — Littleton's  (1627-1694)  best-remembered 
work  was  Linguae  Latinae  Liber  Dictionarius  quadripartitus  (1678).  See  Athenae  iv. 
403,  and  Lit.  Anec.  v.  208  sqq.  &c. — Wm.  Lowth  (1661-1732),  Preb.  of  Winchester 
1696,  published  his  Vindication  of  the  Divine  Authority  and  Inspiration  of  the  O. 
and  N.  Testament  in  1692,  ed.  2  1699.  See  Rawl.  J.  4°.  2.  223  ;  fol.  18.  55  sqq. — 
For  Bp.  Lyndesay,  cf.  i.  187  n.,  and  Ballard  Letters  viii.  30  sqq. — There  is  an 
anecdote  illustrating  the  unscrupulousness  of  Dutch  printers  in  1703,  in  Derham's  Life 
of  Ray,  prefixed  to  Ray's  Select  Remains  (1760),  p.  77.  Fell's  Cyprian  was  reprinted 
in  Holland  without  '  additions  and  alterations  ; '  cf.  p.  208. 

51.  50.  Wm.  Thornton  (M.A.  Wadham)  had  been  Principal  since  1688.  Rawl. 
J.  4°.  5.  172.  'See  pag.  731.  of  the  Index  of  Mr.  Tho:  Hearnes  works  added  to  the 
IId  vol.  of  Adam  de  Domerham  Historia  de  rebus  gestis  Glastoniensibus.  Oxon. 
1727  oct."  [R.  R.]  The  administration  bond  (cf.  p.  53.  1.  30)  is  dated  Oct.  7,  1707. — 
The  book  mentioned  over  the  page  seems  to  have  been  Blechynden's  only 
publication.  See  Rawl.  J.  4°.  4.  248  sqq. — E.  Waple,  Archdeacon  of  Taunton  1682, 
d.  1712,  and  was  buried  in  St.  John's  Coll.  Chapel  (Wood-Gutch  564).  Thirty 
of  his  Sermons  were  published  in  1714.  In  Rawl.  J.  4°.  4.  33  sqq.  are  extracts 
from  his  will,  &c. ;  see  also  fol.  19.  234  sqq.  (236  is  a  pen-and-ink  drawing  of  his 
monument). 

53.  7.  Tutchin  died  in  the  Mint — in  consequence,  it  is  said,  of  a  beating  inflicted 
by  some  victims  of  his  scurrility — at  the  early  age  of  44.  Dunton  wrote  exaggerated 
panegyrics  on  him  (Life  and  Errors  356,  427) ;  see  also  Roberts'  Life  of  the  Duke  of 
Monmouth  ii.  211  sqq. :  Atterbury  Ep.  Corr.  i.  304;  Forster's  Life  of  Swift  250; 
Luttrell,  Index.  A  Pastoral  was  published  on  his  death,  Cat.  of  the  Hope  Coll.  12. 
It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  quote  Pope's  lines  (Dunciad  ii.  147  sq.}  :  '  Earless  on  high, 
stood  unabash'd  De  Foe,  |  And  Tutchin  flagrant  from  the  scourge  below.' 

53.  ii.  Col.  B.  Philips  was  a  joint  commissioner  with  Evelyn  to  execute  the  office 
of  Lord  Privy  Seal  in  1685.  For  his  share  in  the  escape  of  Charles  II  after  Worcester, 
see  Clarendon  vi.  539  sqq. ;  Boscobel  Tracts  174,  273,  358.  There  are  refs.  to  other 
members  of  the  family  in  Henry  Ld.  Clarendon's  Diary  and  Corresp. 

56.  1 1.  I  find  no  mention  of  Lady  "Wilmot's  skull  in  Lysons'  Berkshire. — A.  Mark- 
land,  M.A.  1668,  Preb.  of  Winchester  1679-1728  ;  Rawl.  J.  4°.  5.  122. — T.  Bayer, 
M.A.  1677,  Archd.  of  Surrey  1689,  Preb.  of  Winchester  1700,  d.  1710. — Robt. 
Coningsby,  M.A.  1688,  see  p.  59  infra ;  Rawl.  J.  4°.  4.  20. — T.  Parsell,  M.  A. 
1701  ;  Rawl.  J.  4°.  3.  51. — Sir  J.  Pakington  (see  vol.  i.  125)  published  a  Speech 
in  favour  of  the  Bill  against  Occasional  Conformity. — For  Sam.  Philips,  see  Rawl.  J. 
4°.  a.  267. — Sir  "Wm.  Dawes,  afterward  Archbp.  of  York,  migrated  from  Oxford  to 
Cambridge,  after  about  two  years'  residence  at  the  former  University.  He  was  a 
pupil  of  Ambrose  Bonwicke,  at  Merchant  Taylors' ;  see  Mayor  Life  of  A.  Bonwicke 
116  ;  Rawl.  J.  4°.  I.  215  ;  fol.  20.  172. — Laurence  Smith,  D.C.L.  1686,  published 
Conversations  in  Heaven  1693;  Rawl.  J.  4°.  4.  8;  fol.  ai.  115. — Ch.  Blake,  M.A. 
1691,  published  a  Latin  trans,  of  Musaeus  1694.  He  was  afterwards  sub-dean,  &c. 
of  York,  and  died  1730  ;  Rawl.  J.  4°.  5.  84. 

57-  i.  This  Dialogue  is  a  poetical  rendering  of  the  Postscript  to  Higgins'  Sermon 
(p.  33  supra}. — Gwalter  Lynn,  printer  to  Edward  VI,  is  mentioned  by  Strype 
Cranmeri.  568  sq.  and  Memorials  II.  i.  229,  310  (Oxford  ed.).  He  is  said  to  have 
translated  out  of  'high  Almayn  The  Beginning  and  End  of  all  Popery  and  Popish 
Kingdoms!  There  are  two  editions  of  his  Concordance,  dated  respectively  1550  and 
1563. — Lord  Scales,  afterward  Earl  Rivers,  was  the  patron  of  Caxton  and  translator 
of  the  Dictes  and  Sayings  1477. 

59.  ii.  Jornandes  or  Jordanes and  Anonymus  Valesii  were  contemporaries, and  were 
both  ecclesiastics  of  Ravenna  ;  Hodgkin  Italy  and  her  Invaders  i.  43  sq.,  and  iii.  289. 

59.  19.  The  reference  is  to  the  famous  Thomason  collection  of  Civil  WTar  Tracts, 
which  was  formed  by  George  Thomason,  of  the  Rose  and  Crown  in  St.  Paul's  Church- 
yard (d.  1666).  Its  history  is  told  by  Edwards  Memoirs  of  Libraries  i.  455  sqq.  It  was 
bound  by  the  collector  in  chronological  order  in  2220  vols.,  and  contains  perhaps  from 
33,000  to  34,000  separate  publications.  The  curators  of  the  Bodleian  refused  to  purchase 
it,  though  strongly  urged  to  do  so ;  and  it  was  finally  bought  by  George  III  for  £300  (!) 
in  1762,  and  presented  to  the  British  Museum.  There  are  some  interesting  particulars  in 
a  letter  of  Wanley  to  Dr.  Charlett  (Ballard  xiii.  72),  dated  Nov.  10,  1708.  '  As  to  the 

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41 8  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS. 

Collection  of  Pamphlets  you  was  pleas'd  to  Command  me  to  enquire  after,  they  chiefly 
relate  to  the  Seditions  rais'd,  or  propagated  between  the  years  1640  &  1660,  with  the 
several  Loyal  Papers  publish'd  during  that  Interval ;  But  perhaps,  the  Collection  is  not 
to  be  confin'd  within  that  Compass  of  Time,  nor  to  those  Subjects  alone.  There  are 
likewise,  the  Autographs,  from  whence  some  of  them  were  printed  (which  may  still  be 
of  use,)  and  MSS.  of  other  Authors  upon  the  said  Subjects,  which  were  never  Printed 
at  all.  The  Books  are  well  bound,  and  preserved  in  Presses  ;  and  the  Titles  of  them 
are  entred  into  a  Catalogue  consisting  of  12  Volumes  in  folio.  You  may  imagine,  that 
they  are  not  closely  written,  for  indeed,  fewer  Volumes  would  contain  them.  They 
were  collected  by  the  Command  of  King  Charles  II.  &  by  the  great  Charge,  &  Industry 
of  his  Bookbinder,  but  not  delivered,  because  there  was  no  money  to  pay  for  them. 
And  a  considerable  parcel  of  Printed  Rabbinical  Books,  had  the  same  fate ;  i.e.  to  lie 
hid  in  the  same  Bookbinders  boxes,  ever  since.  Another  Parcel  there  is,  besides  the 
former,  being  books  which  belong  to  the  Royal  Library.  Some  finely  bound  in  Turkey 
Leather,  &  Gilt,  &  others  half  finished,  or  but  begun,  but  which  were  Detaind  upon 
account  of  Debts  due  from  the  Crown.  The  Right  to  the  two  first  Parcels,  i.e.  to  the 
Pamphlets  (as  they  are  called)  and  to  the  said  Rabbinical  Books,  is  (as  I  am  told)  in 
several  Persons,  claiming  from  the  above-mentioned  Person.  And  they  are  now  (or 
were  not  long  ago)  in  the  Custody  of  one  Mr  Sissen  a  Druggist  at  the  Red  Cross  in 
Ludgate-street.  'Tis  said  they  would  have  taken  looo11  ready  money  for  the  said 
Pamphlets,  &  Rabbinical  Books ;  and  proportionably  cheaper  for  either  Parcel.  The 
owners  have  a  respect  for  Mr  Bagford,  and  as  I  hear,  he  ha's  a  better  Interest  with 
them,  than  any  other  Person  that  I  know.'  Cf.  Tanner's  complaint  (Ballard  iv.  45) : 
'  That  varlet  H.  Wanley  came  down  into  this  Country  and  privily  carried  of  the 
best  Library  in  the  Diocese  for  the  Use  of  Secretary  Harley  (I  mean  Sr  Simonds 
Dewes's).'  See  Phoenix  Britannicus  556  sq. 

59.  27.  For  'elf-arrows,'  see  Murray  New  English  Dictionary,  art.  '  Arrow-head,' 
B. ;  Gentleman's  Magazine  Library, '  English  Traditional  Lore,'  1 3 ;  Notes  and  Queries 
ist  S.  i.  500  ;  Brand-Ellis  Popular  Antiquities  ii.  337.  I  do  not  find  a  copy  of  The 
Noble  Histories  of  King  Arthur  and  of  certain  of  his  Knights  in  the  Bodleian 
Library. 

59.  32.  "Wm.  Pettyt,  or  Petyt,  b.  1636,  was  the  author  of  Ancient  Rights  of  the 
Commons  of  England  (1680),  Miscellanea  Parliamentarian  Jus  Parliamentarium 
(posthumously  published  1739),  &c.     He  was  buried  in  the  Temple  Church.     His 
collections  are  preserved  in  the  Inner  Temple  Library.     See  Lit.  Anecd.  v.  130  sqq., 
where  his  epitaph,  which  is  of  portentous  length,  is  given  in  full ;    and  Illustrations 
iv.  71.     Luttrell  ungrammatically  notes  (vi.  219):  'Yesterday  dyed  William  Petyt, 
esq.,  who  was  for  many  years  keeper  of  the  records  in  the  Tower,  and  not  long  since 
resign'd  it  by  reason  of  old  age,  and  is  now  enjoyed  by  Mr.  Topham,  member  of 
Parliament  for  Windsor.'     It  will  be  remembered  that  Anstis  proposed  to  Hearne  that 
the  latter  should  remove  to  London  with  the  object  of  editing  Petyts  MSS.,  for  which 
purpose  Petyt  had  left  £400.     There  is  an  abstract  of  the  Petyt  MSS.  in  the  Second 
Report  of  the  Historical  MSS.  Commission  151  sqq. 

60.  5.  Lord  Weymouth  approved  of  Dr.  Lancaster's  rebuke,  for  on  Oct.  22  he 
writes  (Ballard  x.  37) :  '  I  heare  the  V.  C.  has  done  his  Coate  right  in  discountenancing 
the  liberty  Dr.  Mills  tooke  in  reflecting  upon  ye  memory  of  y6  late  Kg  Charles,  & 
though  being  dead  it  cannot  correct  him,  it  is  seasonable  to  restreine  ye  living  from 
such  meane  artifices.' 

60.  12.  [Charlwood]  Lawton  is  mentioned  by  Hickes  in  Ballard  Letters  xi.  100. 
He  was  the  author  of  Civil  Comprehensions  (1705),  A  Second  Letter  concerning  C.  C. 
(1706),  A  letter  formerly  sent  to  Dr.  Tillotson,  &c.  and  The  Jacobite  Principles  Vindi- 
cated, three  of  which  are  reprinted  in  the  Somers  Tracts.  Hickes  writes  of  him  in  the 
Preface  to  his  Thesaurus  (p.  xlvi):  '  Charlwood  Lawton  armiger,  juris  consul tus:  Qui 
seposito  partium  studio,  ex  omni  populo  bonos  diligit,  a  bonis  omnibus  dilectus.  Qui 
etiam  pro  amicitia,  seu  potius  charitate  sua,  quae  angusta  aut  contracta  res  est,  miseros, 
perinde  alienos,  quam  propinquos,  tarn  qui  diversum,  quam  qui  idem  secum  de  rep. 
&  religione  sentiunt,  adjuvare  studet.  Qui  denique  animum  tarn  moderatum, 
beneque  constitutum  habet,  ut  aliorum  ferre  opiniones,  qui  suas  nequeunt,  facile 
possit.'  Rawl.  J.  4°.  6.  247. 

60.  20.  T.  Machell,  M.A.  1671,  was  the  author  of  a  Letter  to  Sir  W.  Dugdale  on 
some  antiquities  found  at  Kirkby-Thore,  Westmorland  {Phil.  Trans.  158),  and  left  in 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XV.  419 

MS.  a  Treatise  on  the  antiquities  of  that  county  (Athenae  iv.  532).  Six  volnmes  of  his 
MSS.  are  preserved  in  the  Cathedral  Library  of  Carlisle  ;  see  2nd  Rep.  of  Historical 
MSS.  Commission  1 24,  with  the  important  prefatory  remarks  by  Bp.  Nicolson.  See  also 
Index  to  Tanner  MSS. — T.  Manningham,  M.A.  1677,  succeeded  Bumet  as  Preacher  of 
the  Rolls  1684,  and  Bp.  Moore  as  Rector  of  St.  Andrew's  Holbom ;  Dean  of  Windsor  1709 ; 
Bp.  of  Chichester  1709;  d.  1722.  He  was  the  royal  chaplain  who  'did  not  chuse  to 
whistle  the  prayers  of  the  Church  through  a  Key-hole.'  Athenae  iv.  555 ;  Lit.  Anec.  i.  207  ; 
Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  30.  Dr.  Lancaster  writes  1695  (Ballard  xxi.  60):  'Dr.  Manningham 
preached  yesterday  at  the  Clergy  Sons  Feast  and  in  his  prayer  among  Sts  Martyrs  &  Con- 
fessors praised  God  for  John  late  A. B.C.  his  Grace  by  name.'  Aug.  1 7, 1 709  (ib.  100)  Dr. 
Jonathan  Edwards  remarks :  '  It  would  have  been  matter  of  surprise  at  any  other  time, 
to  have  seen  Dr.  Manningham  advanced  to  the  See  of  Chichester,  but  we  live  in  an  Age 
wherein  many  strange  things  come  to  pass.' — J.  March,  M.A.  1664,  was  not  a  non- 
juror  (Athenae  iv.  373).  The  work  referred  to  below  (61.  5)  is  A  Vindication  of  the 
present  great  Revolution  in  England:  in  five  Letters  pass  d  betwixt  James  Well-wood, 
M.D.  and  Mr.  John  March,  vicar  of  Neivcastle  upon  Tyne,  occasioned  by  a  sermon 
preach'd  by  him  on  Jan.  30,  i68g,  for  passive  obedience  and  non-resistance  (1689).  See 
p.  466  infra. — For  Archbp.  Marsh  see  Boase  Register  74,  Athenae  iv.  498,  &c. — S. 
Masters,  M.A.  1669,  published  in  1689  The  Duty  of  Submission  to  Divine  Provi- 
dence. (Athenae  iv.  385  ;  Boase  Register  75  ;  Rawl.  J.  4°.  I.  45). — H.  Maundrell, 
M.A.  1688,  chaplain  at  Aleppo  1695,  d.  1701.  (Pearson  Chaplains  to  the  Levant  Co. 
24  sq.,  Boase  Register  82  ;  Rawl.  J.  4°.  2.  81). — M.  Morgan,  M.A.  1674  ;  see  Athenae 
iv.  711.  The  poem  alluded  to  was  an  elegy  on  the  death  of  Robert  Boyle;  Rawl.  J. 
4°.  4.  231. — W.  Musgrave,  D.M.  1689  (Athenae  iv.  556)  was  a  correspondent  of 
Hearne's.  See  Munk  Roll  of  the  R.  Coll.  of  Physicians  i.  486  sqq.,  a  peculiarly  full 
and  interesting  article ;  and  Rawl.  J,  4°.  2.  95,  222. — I  find  sermons  under  the 
names  of  Henry  Newcome  (Edm.  Hall,  M.A.  1673),  and  Peter  Newcome  (B.N.C. 
1 68 1 )  in  the  Bodleian  Catalogue.  The  former  was  Rector  of  Middleton,  Lanes.,  and 
the  latter  Vicar  successively  of  Aldenham  and  Hackney.  There  are  particulars  of  H. 
Newcome  in  Rawl.  J.  4°.  3.  216,  4.  348,  fol.  18.  138  sqq.  ;  and  of  P.  Newcome  in  4°. 
3.  70,  fol.  18.  142.  The  former  published  The  Compleat  Mother,  or  an  earnest 
perswasive  to  all  Mothers  (especially  those  of  Rank  and  Quality}  to  nurse  their  own 
Children  (Lond.  1695.  Tw.)  R.  R.  notes :  '  This  is  one  of  the  most  useful  and 
entertaining  Tracts  on  this  excellent  Subject,  that  ever  was  read.' — W.  Nicholls,  M.A. 
1688  (Brodrick  Memorials  of  Merton  298,  Athenae  iv.  481),  wrote  an  Answer  to 
Bury's  Naked  Gospell,  A  Short  History  of  Socinianism,  &c.  See  also  p.  75  infra,  and 
Rawl.  J.  fol.  18.  233. 

61.  8.  There  is  a  copy  in  Bodley  of  TTssher's  Rights  of  Primogeniture  (1648). — 
"Walter  Map's  relation  to  the  Arthurian  Legends  is  popularly  explained  in  Morley's 
First  Sketch  of  English  Literature  57  sqq. — Hearne  has  omitted  the  latter  part  of 
Dialithus'  title  :  'de  infausto  Fausti  Socini  asseclarum  exitu  illustrata.'  There  was  a 
second  ed.  in  1701. — F.  Nicholson,  M.A.  1673,  was  the  author  of  an  Appendix  to 
Woodhead's  Discourse  on  the  Eucharist.  There  are  particulars  of  his  Life  (including 
an  account  of  this  Sermon,  which  was  delated  by  Drs.  Wallis  and  Bury)  in  Athenae  iv. 
449. — Bp.  Nicolson  is  well  known  by  his  Correspondence,  pub.  by  Nichols  in  1809  ; 
there  is  some  account  of  Dr.  Hugh  Todd,  also  of  Queen's,  in  that  work  i.  17,  43  sqq. 
&c.  ;  and  of  the  Bishop's  squabbles  with  him,  Atterbury,  Hoadly  and  others.  For 
the  former  see  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  45,  2.  12. — For  John  Norris  of  Bemerton  it  will 
suffice  to  refer  to  Boase  Register  213,  Burrows  Worthies  of  All  Souls  267  sq., 
Overton  Life  in  the  English  Church  282  sq.,  Athenae  iv.  584.  There  is  an  interesting 
letter  of  his  to  Charlett,  dated  April  9,  1707  (Ballard  xx.  22),  in  which  he  states  that 
'  the  clear  income  of  his  parsonage  was  not  much  above  threescore  and  ten  pounds  a 
year,  all  things  discharged.' — J.  Northleigh,  B.C.L.  1681,  Boase  Register  Index, 
Athenae  iv.  502. — For  T.  Nourse,  see  Index  to  Vol.  i. — W.  Oldys,  D.C.L. 
1667,  d.  1708,  contributed  the  Life  of  Pompey  to  a  trans,  of  Plutarch,  in  which 
Dryden  took  part.  He  was  Advocate  of  the  Admiralty  to  James  II  and  William 
III.  His  natural  son,  who  bore  the  same  names,  attained  considerable  distinction  as 
a  man  of  letters:  see  Lit.  Anec.  Index. — C.  Palmer,  M.A.  1685,  published  A 
Perswasive  to  Parochial  Communion,  A  Disswasive  from  Imprecations  and  Cursing, 
and  a  Defence  of  Passive  Obedience  and  Non-Resistance.  Cf.  infra  74. — For  Jas. 
Parkinson  (M.A.  1675)  see  Athenae  iv.  571,  and  MS.  Wood  18  D,  51  a~58b.  He  was 
expelled  by  Dr.  Halton,  Pro-Vice-Cbancellor,  1683,  '  according  to  orders  received  from 

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the  superior  power '  (cf.  Locke's  case),  and  published  an  account  of  his  expulsion 
1689. — For  John  Hickes,  see  Bloxam  Magd.  Coll.  Register  vi.  i  sq.  Dr.  Willes 
writes,  June  30  (s.  a.)  (Ballard  xxv.  12)  :  'I  hear  y*  ye  new  Trustees  for  Birmingham- 
School  have  confirm'd  Mr.  Hicks  for  his  life,  &  yn  he  will  be  a  fit  person  for  you  to 
solicite  for  your  chappell.  ye  major  part  of  ye  new  Trustees  happen  to  be  of  ye  Gentle- 
mens  side,  &  so  they  confirm  all  ye  methods  y6  Gentlemen  proposed.' — K.  Parr 
was  Ussher's  cha*plain  and  biographer :  Boase  Register  67.  —  For  a  remark  on 
Parsons'  Sermon,  see  Sir  Thos.  Browne's  Works  (ed.  Bohn)  iii.  470. — Wood's  opinion 
of  Bichard  Peers  was  not  so  favourable  as  Hearne's  ;  see  Athenae  iv.  290  ;  Wood's 
Life,  Index  ;  Prideaux'  Correspondence. — There  is  a  Life  of  Dr.  R.  Pitt  (d.  1712)  in 
Munk  i.  445  sq. ;  cf.  Athenae  iv.  737,  Rawl.  J.  4°.  3.  161. — T.  Pittis  d.  1687,  Athenae 
iv.  220. — Wm.  Pittis,  Fellow  of  New.  Coll.,  B.A.  1694,  d.  Nov.  1724  (Rawl.  J.  4°.  i. 
248  sqq.\  was  the  author  of  the  Lives  of  Radcliffe,  Sir  Stephen  ^ox,  the  Earl  of  Halifax, 
and  Dr.  South.  In  the  Preface  to  the  second  of  these  works  he  complains  of  having  been 
included  among  '  Mr.  Curll's  hacks '  and  '  Triobularian  [sic]  Scriblers?  He  likewise 
wrote  an  Epistolary  Poem  to  Dryden  (1699) ;  Ichabod  (saucily  fathered  on  Bp.  Ken 
under  the  title  of  Expostulatoria) ;  The  Widow  Lutteretfs  Cry  for  Justice  1722 
(Luttrell  was  the  only  son  of  Mr.  Luttrell  the  famous  Painter  in  Crayons) ;  Horace 
Ode  5  Book  iv.  imitated,  &c.  On  K.  James  IPs  death  ;  On  the  death  of  Mr.  Dryden ; 
Reasons  for  a  War  -with  France  (for  which  he  was  taken  into  custody,  and  admitted 
to  bail,  Dec.  3,  1714),  Poem  to  Mr.  Tate  on  the  taking  of  Namur,  History  of  the  2nd 
and  3rd  Sessions  of  the  Parliament  of  1710  ;  South's  Maxims  ;  Case  of  John  Dormer 
Esq.  and  Thos.  Jones  y*  Footman  ;  Rapes  of  Leeson  and  Lord  Drummond  ;  The  Mitre 
and  the  Purse,  &c.,  and  '  made  posthumous  works  for  Tom  Brown  and  Mr.  Butler ; ' 
was  concerned  in  the  Letters  from  the  Dead  to  the  Living  with  Tom  Brown  and  Cap- 
tain Ayloffe,  &c.  Another  T.  Pittis  (of  Trinity)  was  M.A.  1694. — For  E.  Pocock  the 
younger  and  this  translation,  see  Twells  Life  of  Dr.  Pocock  284,  and  other  refs.  in  the 
Index  ;  Athenae  iv.  651,  and  Ballard  Letters,  vol.  xxviii. 

*#*  Between  pp.  1 8  and  1 9  is  inserted  a  leaf  with  Hearne's  handwriting  as  follows : — 

'Sat   June   21.    1707 Alcraf.     A   small   short 

body,  but  pretty  big.  two  marks  upon  leg  &  privy  parts  near  y6  gutts,  &  a  stripe  upon 
ye  lip.  Eyebrows  hairie  &  pufft  mark  on  right  hand  forehead  brest  or  guts  suck  of  two 
nurses  brown  colour  lustie  &  strong  complexion  well  proportioned  somew*  fat  yreful 
diligent  double  minded  painful  bold  hot  of  mind  &  spitefull  but  soon  appeased  & 
through  anger  for  awhile  will  spare  for  no  talk,  a  great  flux  before  32  years  old,  at  32 
danger  of  death  also  at  80  (die  at  86)  good  fortune  a  sonne  at  30,  at  38  in  pretty  good 
circumstances  a  desire  for  3  husbands.  She  shall  be  envied  &  be  hurt  with  a  sword 
much  vexed  with  the  Collick  let  her  beware  of  water  at  38.  She  shall  suffer  peril  by 
neighbours  She  shall  loose  her  first  husband  &  not  be  grieved  thereat  because  he  will 
love  another  mans  wife.  At  30  she  shall  suffer  danger  by  hot  burning  iron  but  shall 
wth  difficulty  escape.  Before  she  be  married  she  shall  dream  of  two  young  men  & 
fancy  she  lies  with  each  by  turns,  her  desire  being  so  eager  she  knows  not  wch  to  choose 
or  love  best.  Good  days  Mond.  Thursd.  &  Frid.  Evil  day  Tuesday.  WTedn.  & 
Saturd.  indifferent,  better  fortune  towds  the  South  his  Chamber  door  &  bed  to  be 
placed  that  way  only  a  little  chamber  a  little  bed  to  hold  but  one  a  stool  a  table  & 
candlestick.' 


VOL.   XVI. 

Page  64,  line  1 1.  There  are  numerous  copies  of  Godwin  de  Praesulibus  in  the  Bod- 
leian Library,  with  MS.  annotations  by  Sir  G.  Buck,  C.  Bush,  G.  Laingbaine  and  A. 
Wood,  C.  Godwyn,  W.  Etwall,  T.  Delafield,  Camden  Twyne  and  A.  Wood,  Bp.  Wren, 
Twyne  (Bp.  Barlow's  copy),  Matthew  Hutton  (transcribed  by  Hearne),  J.  Anstis  and 
S.  Drake,  J.  Blackbourne,  Bp.  Kennett,  R.  Gough,  &c.  The  original  of  the  letter 
here  printed  is  in  Ballard  xi.  100. 

65.  2.  Lord  Charles  Somerset  d.  in  Italy  in  1710,  aged  21.  His  funeral 
sermon  was  preached  by  Basil  Kennett. — Benj.  Leveling,  Line.,  B.A.  1694,  appears 
in  the  Bodleian  Catalogue  as  the  author  of  five  sermons  (1703-17),  directed 
particularly  against  the  Quakers.  Rawl.  J.  4°.  3.  124. — Rich.  Boulton  published  in 
1699  -An  Examination  of  Mr.  John  ColbatcJis  Books.  See  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  169, 
263  ;  4.  82.  Colbatch,  who  was  knighted  in  1716  and  d.  1729,  is  best  remembered 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XVI.  42,1 

by  his  appearance  in  the  Dispensary.  See  Munk's  Roll  i.  517. — Jan.  2,  1709, 
Bingham  writes  to  Charlett  (Ballard  xv.  9) :  '  Mr.  Penton  of  New  Coll.  is  unani- 
mously chosen  Fell,  of  Winton  in  ye  room  of  Mr.  Fines.' 

66.  21.  Prof.  Sanday  deals  with  Oxford  MSS.  of  Cyprian  in  Appendix  ii  to  Old- 
Latin  Biblical  Texts,  No.  II.  pp.  123  sqq. — Mr.  Gough  is  said  to  have  possessed  a  copy 
of  Dugdale's  Short  View  of  the  late  Troubles  in  England  (1681),  with  MS.  Notes  by 
the  author,  Lit.  Anecd.  v.  263  ;  his  copy,  with  MS.  Notes  by  P.  Le  Neve,  is  in  Bodley. 
— Wm.  Hill  (1619-1667)  originally  published  his  ed.  of  Dionysius  Periegetesin  1658. 
See  Athenae  iii.  800. — Dr.  T.  Richardson  was  Master  of  Peterhouse  1699-1733.  He 
succeeded  Bentley  as  Vice-Chancellor  in  1702. — Dixey  "Windsor,  Fellow  of  Trinity 
(d.  1743),  was  Burgess  for  the  University  in  six  successive  Parliaments  1705-1722  ; 
Luttrell  (vi.  166)  records  May  i,  1707:  '  The  lord  Windsor's  regiment  of  horse  is 
taken  from  him,  and  given  to  col.  Massam.  .  Capt.  Dixey  Windsor,  brother  to  his 
lordship,  .  .  who  had  a  troop  in  the  said  regiment,  is  also  displaced.'  See  Collins' 
Peerage  iv.  95  (ed.  1768). — Arthur  Annesley  represented  the  Univ.  of  Cambridge  in 
the  Parliaments  of  1702  to  1708,  and  became  fifth  Earl  of  Anglesey  1710;  d.  1737 
(Collins  iii.  353).  See  two  letters  from  him,  Ballard  x.  95,  96. 

On  Johnson's  Sophocles,  see  Lit.  Anecd.  ii.  312  sq.,  viii.  410. 

68.  7.  On  the  circumstances  attending  the  death  (or  murder)  of  Sir  Cloudesly 
Shovel,  see  Notes  and  Queries,  passim,  e.g.  6th  S.  x.  150,  250,  432  sq.,  especially 
518.  Shovel's  Life  and  Actions  was  published  in  I2mo.,  1708  ('a  very  mean  per- 
formance by  some  catchpenny  fellow,'  wrote  Edward  Lord  Oxford).  The  best  authority 
on  the  subject  is  J.  H.  Cooke,  The  Shipwreck  of  Sir  C.  S.  on  the  Scilly  Islands 
(Gloucester  1883).  Sir  Cloudesly  m.  the  widow  of  Sir  J.  Narborough,  so  that  his  step- 
sons are  here  alluded  to.  His  coat  of  arms  (see  p.  67)  was  'two  crescents  and  one 
fleur  de  lis'  (N.  &>  Q.  6th  S.  x.  518).— N.  Bisbie,  Ch.  Ch.,  M.A.  1660,  Rector  of 
Long  Melford,  Suffolk,  appears  as  a  non-juror  in  the  Appendix  to  Kettlewell ;  he  died 
1695.  (Athenae  iv.  640  ;  and  esp.  Rawl.  J.  4°.  4.  113.) — For  F.  Digby,  B.A.  1677,  see 
Athenae  iv.  586 ;  he  translated  the  Cyropaedia  jointly  with  John  Norris. — The 
paragraph  about  John  (not  E.)  Skelton  bears  only  a  very  distant  resemblance  to  the 
facts.  He  was  Archdeacon  of  Bedford  1679,  Preb.  of  Lincoln  1683,  d.  1704. — T. 
Coney  was  Rector  of  Chedzoy  1698,  of  Bath  1733,  Preb.  of  Wells  1716,  d.  1752  ;  he 
published  a  few  devotional  works,  dating  from  1710  to  1747,  and  a  Pindarique  Ode 
upon  her  Majesty's  happy  Accession  in  1702.  See  Rawl.  J.  4°.  I.  113  and  fol.  16.  422. 

70.  1 1  sqq.  For  these  inscriptions,  their  history,  explanation,  &c.,  I  need  only  refer 
to  Scarth  Aquae  Salts  10  sqq.  They  were  afterwards  published  by  Hearne  in  Leland 
Itinerary  ix.  154  sq.,  and  had  previously  appeared  in  Camden's  Britannia  and  in 
Guidott's  Discourse  of  Bath. 

70.  38.  D.  "Whitford,  M.A.  1660,  published  his  ed.  of  Musaeus,  &c.  1655.  Accord- 
ing to  the  History  of  King- Killers  (ed.  1719)  part  v,  p.  18,  Dorislaus'  head  was  cleft 
asunder  with  a  broad-sword  by  Col.  Walter  Whitford,  son  of  Dr.  Walter  Whitford,  of 
Monckland  in  Scotland,  Bishop  of  Brechin.     There  is  a  very  interesting  Life  of  him  in 
Athenae  iii.  1016.     Details  of  the  career  and  murder  of  Dorislaus  will  be  found  in 
Notes  and  Queries  4th  S.  iii.  367,  585  ;  iv.  40  sq.     See  Peck  Desld.   Cur.  422,  and 
other  refs.  ut  sup.     There  are  many  allusions  to  his  son  in  Mrs.  Green's  Calendars. 

71.  8.  Prideaux' Norfolk  living  was  Sahara  Tony  (res.  1694).    His  friendly  relations 
to  Bp.  Fell  are  mentioned  in  the  early  part  of  the  Life  of  Prideaux.    He  married  Bridget 
Bokenham  1686.   Readers  of  his  Letters  to  Ellis  published  by  Mr.  E.  Maunde  Thompson 
will  remember  his  pathetic  remark  a  propos  of  his  marriage,  '  I  little  thought  I  should 
ever  come  to  this.'     Tanner  wrote  concerning  Prideaux  to  Charlett,  April  ii,  1707 
(Ballard  iv.  44)  :  '  Some  Gentlemen  that  come  to  me  now  and  then,  would  fain  have 
the  Court  send  you  a  Cht  Church  man  from  this  Neighbourhood  [vice  Jane] — or  for 
fear  that  should  not  send  him  far  enough  hence — think  that  as  he  is  a  Cornish  man  the 
BP*  of  Exeter  would  do  well — But  having  purchased  700"  per  ann  within  10.  mile 
of  this  place — he  seems  resolved  to  set  up  his  staff  here — And  tho'  at  present  he  and  I 
are  very  good  friends,  yet  upon  a  translation  (wch  is  not  improbable,  if  the  BP  of  Ely 
should  drop)  every  body  here  would  wish  another  member  of  the  Church  in  this  See. — 
I  can  assure  you  you  are  in  favour  at  present.'     The  following  paragraph  from  the 
same  letter  is  not  uninteresting :  '  You  were  very  obliging,  in  taking  so  much  notice  of 
the  piece  of  Stuff  I  troubled  you  with — your  kind  acceptance  of  it  made  it  much  more 
valuable,  than  it  was  in  itself — I  bought  more  of  it  at  the  same  time  of  the  Maker — 


422  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

who  I  believe  let  me  have  it  at  the  same  price,  as  he  could  sell  it  to  the  Merchant  or 
Mercer,  wch  was  as  I  remember  2s.  3d.  per  yard.  The  Weaver  that  I  bought  it  of  is 
look'd  upon  here  to  be  as  ingenious  a  man  at  invention  of  New  Flowers  and  Works  as 
any  we  have  and  to  understand  our  trade  as  well  as  any — who  I  remember  when  I  paid 
him  told  me — that  notwithstanding  that  loss  of  the  main  branch  of  our  trade  to  Spain 
and  the  West  Indies,  he  could  make  it  appear  that  there  is  8ooooolb  worth  of  Woollen 
Stuffs  sold  in  this  City  in  a  year — Before  that  I  thought  ioooolb  per  week  to  be  the 
utmost  extent — but  we  have  carried  the  trade  farther  North  than  ever,  to  the  Baltic  and 
Archangel — and  the  Dutch  have  found  ways  to  vent  vast  quantities  in  Germany.' — 
John  Prince,  B.N.C.,  B.A.  1664  (Boase  Register  74,  Athenae  iv.  608),  published  his 
Worthies  of  Devon  1701,  Rawl.  J.  4°.  2.  280  :  '  This  is  an  unfinished  work,  and  the  first 
volume,  but  the  author  was  so  much  discouraged  at  the  undeserved  ill  reception  it  mett 
with,  that  he  never  ventured  the  rest  to  the  press.' — For  Jonas  Proast,  see  Index  to 
Vol.  i.  and  Ballard  xxxv.  i-io. — R.  Roderick,  M.A.  1672. — C.  Roderick  was  elected 
Provost  of  King's  1689  under  circumstances  resembling  those  of  Magdalen,  Oxford,  two 
years  previously  (Lyte  Hist,  of  Eton  Coll.  275  sqq.~}.  For  letters  from  him  to  Charlett, 
see  Ballard  xxiii.  14-27. — Anselme  Sanford,  M.A.  1676  ;  E.  Selater,  M.A.  1679 
(Brodrick  Memorials  296),  do  not  seem  to  be  known  in  literature. — T.  Spark,  M.A. 
1679.  Dodwell  contributed  a  Dissertation  '  de  Ripa  Striga  '  to  his  Lactantius  (1684). 
See  Athenae  iv.  368. — T.  Staynoe,  M.A.  1666,  Archd.  of  Caermarthen  1677,  d.  Feb. 
1708.  Athenae  iv.  678  ;  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  166  (R.  R.  notes  :  'Staynoe  son  of  a  Taylor. 
Dr.  Adams  preached  his  Funeral  Sermon.') — W.  Stephens,  M.A.  1670,  Rector  of 
Sutton  ;  Dunton's  Life  and  Errors  i.  369.  See  the  refs.  to  him  in  the  Duchess  of 
Marlborough's  Letters  (1838)  i.  45  sq.  He  was  only  saved  from  the  pillory  by  the 
intercession  of  the  Duchess.  Athenae  iv.  790 ;  Rawl.  J.  4°.  3.  237. — R.  Stubbs, 
M.A.  1660. — T.  Sykes,  Athenae  iv.  679. — For  Bp.  Talbot  see  Nicolson  Ep.  Corr. 
307  ;  Nichols  Illustrations  i.  417  sqq.  ;  Whig  and  Tory  2nd  S.  2  '  Faithless,  when 

Infrest  bids  him  shift  the  Scene,  |  And  just  as  good  a  B as  a  D n.'     Athenae 

iy-  5°7  5  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  58,  4.  188. — M.  Tindal,  Athenae  iv.  584;  Burrows  Worthies 
of  All  Souls  Index. — J.  Stopford,  d.  1675,  Preb.  of  York  and  Rector  of  All  Saints' 
in  that  city,  was  author  of  Pagano-Papismus  and  The  Ways  and  Methods  of  Rome's 
Advancement.  Athenae  iii.  1053. — Hugh.  Todd,  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  125,  Athenae  iv.  535. 
Several  letters  of  his  to  Charlett  are  preserved  in  the  Ballard  Collection  xviii.  2-1 1 ; 
see  also  Bagot  Col.  James  Grahme,  of  Levens  5,  and  Tenth  Rep.  Hist.  MSS.  Comm. 
Appendix,  part  iv.,  341-3. — E.  Welchman,  Athenae  iv.  481  ;  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  138  'As 
chaplain  to  the  Bishop  of  Lichfield  and  Coventry  a  dispensation  passed  the  great  seal 
3.  Augt.  1736,  to  hold  Lapworth  and  Solihull  together,  a  monstrous  plurality  I  Quid 
non  auri  sacra  fames?''  Cf.  fol.  18.  233  'A  very  diligent  &  Industrious  Tutor  whilst 
at  the  College,  a  true  Orthodox  Church  of  England  man,  &  in  short,  a  good  Scholar 
and  a  good  Christian.'  The  fullest  account  of  him  is  in  fol.  19.  273. — C.  Davenant 
(1656-1714) ;  Athenae  iv.  476,  Rawl.  J.  4°.  1. 185  sqq. — It  is  needless  to  say  that  this  is 
the  Dr.  Brady  (1659-1726)  whose  name  is  commonly  associated  with  that  of  Nahum 
Tate.  See  Rawl.  J.  4°.  3.  261,  4.  310,  5.  305;  fol.  16.  248-265. — Richard  Lucas, 
Vicar  of  St.  Stephen's  Coleman  St.,  Athenae  iv.  722,  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  215,  3.  376;  d. 
1716,  and  was  buried  in  Westminster  Abbey. — S.  Parker,  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  400: 
films  Samuelis  Oxoniensis  Episcopi,  noluit  Auriaco  Principi  fidem  dare,  et  inter 
Oxonienses  aestimatus  vixit  et  hydrope  correptus  obiit  14  Julii  1730'  [R.  R.] — Chr. 
Potter,  Athenae  iii.  1 79. 

73.  30.  There  is  a  Life  of  David  Lloyd  (1625-1691)  in  Athenae  iii.  348^^. — 
Rich.  West,  Magd.,  Preb.  of  Winchester  1706,  Archd.  of  Berks  1710,  d.  1716:  Rawl. 
J.  4°.  1. 114.   Dr.  John  Scott  was  rector  of  St.  Giles's  in  the  Fields  (d.  1694),  Athenae 
iv.  414. — For  these  MSS.  of  Bale,  see  Tanner  Bibliotheca  Brit.  69. — There  is  a  reference 
to  the  attack  on  this  Sermon  in  Atterbury  Ep.  Corr.  i.  395. 

74.  i.  For  Philip  Ayres  see  Rawl.  J.  4°.  I.  197,  5.  220. — C.  Palmer,  M.A.  1685, 
d.  1735:  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  189,5.  105. — R.  Watts  was  Vicar  of  the  historic  parish  of 
Little  Gidding  1715  :  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  219.     We  shall  hear  a  good  deal  of  him  here- 
after.    The  case  here  mentioned  is  reported  in  full  in  the  State  Trials  iii.  401  sqq. — 
Payne  Fisher  figures  in  Pepys'  Diary,  July  14  and  28,  1660.     Dr.  Edmund  Gibson 
was  successively  Bishop  of  Lincoln  and  London  :  Rawl.  J.  4°.  I.  31,  375  J  fol.  20.  219. 

75.  24.  The  tract  referred  to  is  Mrs.  Frances  Ska/toe's  Narrative  of  her  being  in 
Sir  Theophihis  Oglethorpes  Family,  that  the  pretended  Prince  of  Wales  was  Sir 


NOTES  TO    VOLUME  XVI.  423 

Theophilus* s  son,  and  she  was  trick 'd  into  France  and  barbarously  used  to  make  her 
turn  Papist  and  Nun,  in  order  to  prevent  a  Discovery  (small  410.  pp.  30)- 

76.  21.  This  event  is  mentioned  by  Davies  Gilbert,  Parochial  History  of  Cornwall, 
in  the  account  of  Padstow,  iii.  277  sqq. :  see  Earle  Two  Saxon  Chronicles  Parallel  128. 
Padstow  was  the  seat  of  the  Prideaux  family,  and  the  birthplace  of  its  most  illustrious 
member,  Humphrey. — There  is  a  Life  of  John  Masson  (d.  c .  1 750)  in  Chalmers,  and 
some  scattered  notices  in  Lit.  Anecd.  (see  Index).     He  published  his  Vitae  Horatii, 
Ovidii  et  Plinii  junioris  in  3  vols.  1708-1709. — For  some  particulars  of  Philip  Tre- 
herne  (chaplain  at  Smyrna  1670-1674)  see  Pearson  Chaplains  to  the  Levant  Co.  32  sq. 

77.  4.  These  letters  of  Cowley's,  written  from  Paris  1650-1653  (when  the  poet 
was  Secretary  to  Lord  Jermyn)  to  Bennet  afterward  Earl  of  Arlington,  relate  prin- 
cipally to  the  state  of  affairs  in  Scotland.     They  occupy  pp.  130-160  of  Miscellanea 
Aulica,  a  collection  of  unpublished  State  Treatises  forming  a  sequel  to  the  Cabala,  the 
Correspondence  of  Ld.  Arlington,  of  Sir  Wm.  Temple  &c. — There  is  a  life  of  Dr. 
John  Freind  (d.  1728)  in  Atterbury  Ep.  Cor.  iii.  431  sqq.     Samuel  Wesley  wrote  of 
4  afflicted  physic,'  '  She  mourns  with  Radcliffe,  but  she  dies  with  Freind.'     Freind  had 
likewise  published  in  1701  a  Latin  letter  on  some  cases  of  convulsion  occurring  in 
Oxfordshire  :  Munk  Roll  ii.  49  sqq.     Dr.  King  contributed  a  pleasing  sketch  of  him  to 
the  Tatler  (  Works  ii.  305). — 'John  Granville,  second  son  of  John,  first  E.  of  Bath; 
created  Baron  Granville  of  Potheridge,  co.  Devon,  9  March  1 702  ;  ob.  1 707,  s.  p.t 
when  this  title  became  extinct '  (Nicolas  Synopsis). 

.  78.  12.  Marianus  Scotus  has  been  edited  by  WAITZ  (1844),  in  the  Man.  Germ. 
Hist. ;  and  Walsingham  by  T.  H.  Riley  in  the  Rolls  Series  1,1863-4).  For  Balph 
de  Diceto  see  Bp.  Stubbs'  Lectures  (1886)  122,  &c. — Matthew  Scrivener  is  only 
incidentally  mentioned  in  Athenae  (see  Index)  ;  I  do  not  find  any  answer  to  this 
particular  work.  The  reference  is  to  [Spademan]  Stricturae  breves  p.  27.  He  wrote  a 
pamphlet  on  drinking  healths  (1685),  a  subject  which  was  hotly  debated  in  Ireland  at 
a  later  date ;  cf.  Craik  Swift  305. 

79.  7-  Lord  Haversham's  'jeremiad'  of  this  year  is  printed  in  his  Memoirs  (1711) 
26  sqq. — W.  "Wynne  (Rawl.  J.  fol.  21.  232,  4°.  2.  302)  was  son  of  a  secretary  of  Sir 
Leoline  Jenkins,  and  published  a  Life  of  Sir  L.  J.,  and  a  History  of  the  Treaty  of 
Nimeguen.  [R.  R.  notes :  '  I  have  two  volumes  in  fol.  MS.  mostly  wrote  by  Sr  Jos. 
Williamson  Secretary  of  State,  being  instructions  &  letters  to  Sr  Leoline  Jenkins,  to 
which  those  printed  are  answers,  and  those  in  my  possession,  tho'  valuable,  were  never 
printed.']  Cf.  2nd  Rep.  Hist.  MSS.  Comm.  130. — For  the  editions  and  translations  of 
Caradoc  of  Lhancarvan  see  Macray  Manual '13. — The  story  of  St.  Frideswide  has 
been  sympathetically  told  by  the  Rev.  Francis  Goldie,  S.  J.  (Bums  and  Gates,  1881). 
As  Algar  had  been  stricken  with  blindness  on  approaching  the  city,  no  monarch  until 
the  reign  of  Henry  III  dared  to  enter  St.  Frideswide's  Church.  Even  Edward  I  is  said 
to  have  turned  back  from  its  walls  (p.  20). — Locke's  epitaph  is  printed  in  Fox 
Bourne's  Life  ii.  561. — There  is  a  full  account  of  Samuel  Thomas,  chaplain  and 
chantor  of  Ch.  Ch.,  Preb.  of  Wells,  and  a  non-juror  (d.  1693),  in  Athenae  iv.  390. — 
Occham's  Summa  totius  logicae  was  printed  at  Oxford  in  1675. 

79.  37.  The  following  paragraph  has  been  accidentally  omitted: — 'Ask  Mr. 
Dodwell  what  MSSts  he  knows  in  Bib.  Bodl.  of  Euseb.  de  locis  Hebr.  or  of 
Hieronymus's  Interpretation  of  them,  besides  one  in  Greek  which  was  Dr  Bernard's 
&  one  in  Latin  amongst  Fairfax's  Books  num.  5.' 

81.  13.   The   Character  of  a  Primitive  Bishop  (1709)  is  likewise  attributed   to 
J.  Pittis.     Tanner  writes  (Ballard  iv.  54),  Dec.  14,  1709  :  'Mr.  Pits,  the  author  of 
the  Character  of  the  Primitive  Bp.  has  at  last  reconciled  himself  to  the  Oaths,  wch  he 

took  before  me  on  Saturday  last.     He  continues  very  bitter  ags*  Dr  H s.' — The 

original  of  Dr.  Lancaster's  letter  is  in  Rawl.  Letters,  7.  151. 

82.  2.  Charles  first  Duke  of  Richmond,  only  son  of  the  Duchess  of  Portsmouth 
by  Charles  II,  d.  1723. — Hudson,  it  will  be  remembered,  succeeded  Wyatt  as  Prin- 
cipal of  the  Hall  on  the  resignation  of  the  latter  in   1712.     Savile  Bradley  was  M.A. 
1700. — There  are  some  particulars  of  these  races  in  Vol.  i.  p.  287  ;  see  also  Marl- 
borough   Corresp.  i.  66,  Merlon  Walks  14. — Dr.  Hudson's  supposed  indiscretion  is 
alluded  to  by  Dr.  T.  Milles  in  Ballard  Letters  viii.  71   (the  passage  is  quoted  by 
Hearne,  p.  107  infra}.  -  There  are  some  letters  from   Dr.  Dobson  to  Charlett  in 
Ballard  xxi.  106  &c.     In  1709  appeared  A  Letter  from  a  Student  in  Oxford  to  his 


424  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

Friend  in  the  Cmtntry.  Containing  a  short  Account  of  the  late  Proceedings  of  Trinity 
College  in  that  University.  (London  :  Printed  and  sold  by  H.  Hills  in  Black-fryars, 
near  the  Water-side.  16  pp.)  Tanner  wrote  to  Charlett  (Jan.  23,  1708) :  '  Mr.  Wright 
.  .  tells  me  of  mighty  heats  at  your  old  College,  and  that  they  and  his  College 
Brasenose  have  a  mind  to  have  their  Visitors  among  them ' ;  and  later  he  remarks  that 
he  never  saw  the  Trin.  Coll.  pamphlet,  but  is  '  glad  to  hear  things  are  easy  again 
among  them.'  He  likewise  mentions  some  squabbles  at  Caius  Coll.  Cam.  (Ballard  iv. 
47>  5°)-  So  too  Dr.  Roderick,  May  22,  1709  (Ballard  xxiii.  27)  :  'I  wish  you  had 
sent  ye  printed  ace*  of  ye  disturbances  in  Trin.  C.  as  well  as  ye  Vice  Chs  Censure,  I 
shd  have  made  no  ill  use  of  it  nor  be  sure  been  pleased  wth  ye  mutinous  behaviour  of 
turbulent  persons  agst  their  Superiors.'  And  W.  Bishop  (Jan.  16,  1708  :  xxxi.  45)  : 
'There  is  one  Mr  Shaw  here  in  Town  a  Son  or  Relation  of  one  Sr  Jn  Shaw  y*  was 
Gentleman  Comr  of  Tri :  Coll :  y*  has  left  y«  College  and  reports  yl  all  the  rest  of  ye 
Gentlemen  Comrs  either  have  or  will  doe  soe  to,  Mr  Swift  asked  me  about  it  I  satis- 
fy ed  Mr  Swift, 'and  He  will  He  says  talk  wth  Sr  Jn  about  it,  pray  let  me  know  ye 
Particulars  as  to  y*  Gentlemn  who  has  a  fair  Character  here,  y*  I  may  satisfy  Mr  Swift 
who  is  a  man  as  much  for  discipline  &  has  as  great  a  respect  for  yr  Body  as  any  One 
I  know,  &  has  as  much  sense  to  back  w*  He  says  as  most  I  know ;  I  am  often 
attacked  upon  y*  subject,  &  I  think  I  never  left  any  one  y*  would  but  think  seriously 
nnsatisfyed,  Pray  let  me  know  pray  Mr  Shaws  Standing  and  Character,  and  ye  number 
of  Those  y*  have  left  ye  House  :  Mr  Swift  is  a  Man  of  business  &  Large  Acquaintance, 
and  may  doe  the  College  justice  &  has  courage  to  doe  it,  when  He  is  throly  appriz'd 
of  the  state  of  yfc  Affair.'  At  p.  24  sq.  of  A  Speech  that  was  intended  to  have  been  • 
spoken  by  the  Terrae- Filius  (1713)  is  the  following  '  Receipt  for  a  Head  of  a  House  of 
the  Dobson  kind.  Recipe  an  Old  Heavy  Country  Parson,  extract  all  Remains  of 
common  Sense,  and  common  Honesty ;  and  then  put  in  Gravity,  Formality,  Hypocrisy, 
and  Pretended  Conscience,  of  each  a  Large  Quantity.  Add  of  Stupidity  q.  suff.  Fiat 
Compositio  simplex :  Give  him  the  Degree  of  Doctor  in  Divinity,  and  then,  S.  Caput 
Mortuum.  N.B.  The  Use  of  this  Sort  is  to  vote  and  act  as  the  others  bid 
them' 

86.  36.  A  glance  at  Skeat's  Dictionary  shows  that  orange  is  really  for  narenge, 
being  derived  from  the  Persian  naranj.     Prof.  Skeat  also  pronounces  unhesitatingly 
in  favour  of  the  explanation  of  Whitsunday  as  White  Sunday. — In  1.  51  the  d  in  datus 
has  been  misplaced  at  machine. — For  Henry  Crump,  see  Nicolson  English  Historical 
Library  143  ;  Hardy  Descriptive  Catalogue  iii.  132. 

87.  6.  References   to    the   authorities   for  the  history  of  the  family  of  Usher  or 
TTssher  will  be  found  in  Marshall  Genealogist's  Guide  (ed.  1885)  627. 

87.  33.  Benj.  Baynes,  M.A.  1707.     I  cannot  find  that  he  published  anything,  but 
letters  from  him  to  Charlett  are  preserved  in  Ballard,  xxviii.  116  sqq. 

88.  13.  Offspring  Blackall,  Bp.  of  Exeter  1708-1717,  is  best  remembered  by  his 
controversy  with  Hoadly,  Tatler  ii.  94.  161 ;   Whig  and  Tory  (iii.)  31 ;  Dunton  Life 
and  Errors  668 ;  Oliver  Bishops  of  Exeter  160  sq. — Sir  Wm.  Dawes  succeeded 
Sharp  as  Archbp.  of  York  in  1714  ;  see  Life  of  Sharp  i.  322  sqq. ;  Whig  and  Tory  36  ; 
Dunton  Life  and  Errors  365, 669 ;  supra  56.    He  was  brought  up  by  Kidder :  Cassan 
Bishops  of  Bath  and  Wells  ii.  132. — There  is  a  Life  of  Bp.  Trimnell  in  Atterbury 
Ep.  Corr.  v.  244  sqq. — It  was  long  before  the  Queen  could  be  induced  to  pass  over 
Smalridge  in  favour  of  Potter ;  see  Atterbury  Ep.  Cor.  i.  306,  313,  320  sq.,  359,  505 
(his  Life),  v.  5,  272  ;  iii.  433,  iv.  291,  352  ;  Marlborough  Corresp.  ii.  17,  52  ;  Duchess  of 
Marlborough's  Conduct  175  sq. — There  is  a  Memoir  of  him,  with  many  of  his  letters, 
in  Nichols'  Illustrations,  225  sqq.     For  Kennett's  appointment,  see  his  Life  38. 

89.  6.  Full  particulars  of  Dr.  Samuel  Clarke,  whose  Life  was  written  by  Whiston, 
will  be  found  in  Chalmers.     Dr.  Johnson  read  some  of  his  works  in  the  last  days  of 
his  life. — For  W.  Gregg,  see  State  Trials  xiv.  1371  sqq. ;  cf.  Tatler  iii.  9  with  refs., 
Marlborough  Corresp.  i.  128,  ii.  15 ;  Warner  Ep.  Cur.  2nd  S.  47  sqq.     His  cousin  was 
British  Minister  at  Copenhagen  :  Lexington  Papers  17  &c.     (Dr.  J.  H.  Burton's  state- 
ment, Reign  of  Q.  Anne  ii.  33,  that  '  he  had  no  title  to  any  social  position  above  that 
of  the  labouring  community,'  seems  an    exaggeration.)     This   incident   led  to   the 
expulsion  of  Harley  from  the  Ministry,  and  the  publication  of  Swift's  Remarks  upon  a 
Letter  to  the  Seven  Lords  who  examined  Greg:  see  Craik  Life  of  Swift  146  ;  Calendar 
of  Treasury  Papers  (1708-14)  120,  &c.     Greg  is  mentioned  Ballard  x.  38. 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XVI.  425 

89.  25.  Tanner  wrote,  Jan.  23,  1708  (Ballard  iv.  47)  : — '  I  am  sorry  for  John  Hall's 
death,  especially  if  it  be  like  to  embarrass  the  affairs  of  your  Press  wth  farther  difficul- 
ties :  a   mechanical   man  that  understands  buying  Paper,  treating  wth  Booksellers, 
looking  after  Compositors  and  Pressmen  that  they  do  their  Work  well  &c.  seems  to  be 
fittest  to  succeed  him.' 

90.  2.  According  to  Whiston  (Memoirs  155)  there  was  a  Club  at  Court  in  the  reign 
of  George  I  called  the  Hell-Fire  Club.     Capt.  Wm.  Smith,  only  son  of  John  Smith, 
Speaker  at  this  time,  died  without  issue.     Kennett  (Ballard  Letters  vii.  88),  anno  1721, 
expresses  his  disbelief  in  '  Hell-fire  Clubs,  Mohocks  and  the  Calve's  Head  Club.' 

90.  47.  The  following  letter  from  Robert  Watts  to  Charlett  seems  worth  printing  in 
extenso.  (Ballard  Letters  xxv.  43-56  are  from  Watts :  this  is  No.  44.)  He  dates 
No.  45  '  From  my  Father's  a  Grocers  at  the  Signe  of  y*  two  Sugar- Loaves  &  King's 
Armes  in  Watling- Street  ye  corner  of  Bow  Lane.' 

'London  Feb.  6.  170$. 

'  Reverend  Sir, 

'  I  have  hitherto  forebore  writing  to  You,  in  expectation  of  a  little  Book  wch 
will  shortly  be  publish'd  wth  the  Bp.  of  London's  Approbation,  for  ye  Use  of  y* 
Charity  Schools  here,  to  be  leamt  &  perform'd  by  ye  Charity  Children  at  their 
Quarterly  Examinations.  It  is  now  in  ye  Press  &  will  be  call'd  as  I  am  inform'd 
Farther  Instructions  for  Children  that  have  learnt  the  Church  Catechism.  As  soon 
as  it  is  publish'd  I  will  send  a  parcel  down  to  Mr  Thomas,  together  with  an  Ace*  of  ye 
Methods  of  Quarterly  Examinations  in  several  of  ye  Charity  Schools  here  which  have 
been  promis'd  to  me  a  pretty  while.  The  Cloaths  wch  the  Vice-Chancellor  has  bespoke 
here  for  50  Boys  are  as  I  hear  now  making,  &  will  be  finish'd  in  a  month's  Time  or 
thereabouts. 

I  have  made  Enquiry  after  ye  Authors  of  y*  several  Treatises  w°h  You  desir'd  me  & 
am  inform'd  that  y6  Author  of  ya  Observator  is  Mr  Ridpath  ye  Author  of  y*  Flying  Post : 
The  Author  of  ye  late  Paper  which  has  been  some  time  since  dropp'd,  viz,  The 
Observator  revived  was  one  Pearce  an  Exchange  Broker  some  time  since  concem'd  in 
y®  Paper  call'd  Legions  Address  &  forc'd  to  fly  on  that  Ace*  into  Holland.  The 
publisher  of  ye  Phoenix  is  a  Presbyterian  Bookseller  nam'd  J.  Darby  in  Bartholomew 
Close  who  has  told  me  y'  he  was  chiefly  assisted  therein  by  ye  famous  Mr.  Collins  ye 
Author  of  y.  Use  of  Reason  in  Propositions  &c.  &  Dr.  Tindal's  familiar  Acquaintance. 
The  same  J.  Darby  lately  publish'd  y"  3  Vol.  of  State  Tracts  in  fol.  relating  to  the 
Revolution.  He  came  to  me  by  means  of  a  Letter  wch  I  left  for  him  at  a  Coffee-House 
&  I  offer'd  to  help  him  to  some  Tracts  in  Vindication  of  ye  Ch.  of  England,  wch  are 
very  scarce,  &  he  promis'd  to  come  to  me  for  'em,  but  has  not  yet  been  so  good  as  his 
word,  but  I  will  shortly  carry  'em  to  him ;  but  he  told  me  he  should  not  publish  another 
Vol.  till  next  Winter. 

I  have  procur'd  some  new  Materials  for  a  Disc,  concerning  our  Affection  for  y» 
Protestant  Churches  beyond  Sea  particularly  y°  Brief  for  a  Charitable  Collection  for 
y,  Protestants  of  Oberbarmen l  in  y  Dominions  ofy.  Elector  Palatine  to  enable  'em  to 
build  a  Church  there,  together  wth  ye  Letters  of  y6  A.  Bp.  of  Canterbury  and  y*  Bp.  of 
London  to  their  Clergy  in  behalf  of  it,  as  also  ye  copy  of  her  Majestic *s  Letter  to  ye 
K.  of  Sweden  in  behalf  of  y«  Calvinists  in  Silesia  wch  was  publish'd  in  yesterday's 
Courant.  Mr.  la  Mothe  is  desirous  that  I  should  publish  a  Disc,  on  this  Subject  in 
English  while  he  designs  to  publish  a  Continuation  of  his  in  French,  but  I  fear  I  shall 
not  be  able  to  finish  it  during  my  Stay  here. 

As  to  my  Answer  to  y8  Stricture,  if  by  suspending  it  You  meant  forbearing  to 
publish  it  here,  it  was  not  more  than  what  I  design'd  from  ye  very  time  I  began  to  draw 
it  up,  having  promis'd  to  let  You,  &  if  You  thought  fit  y*  Vice-Chancellor  &  other 
Heads  of  Houses  see  it  first  tho'  I  had  rather  Dr.  Smalridge  or  some  other  would 
publish  an  answer  to  it.  I  have  finish'd  it,  but  have  not  yet  shewn  it  to  any  one,  but 
Mr.  la  Mothe  has  promis'd  to  get  Dr.  Smalridge  to  appoint  a  Time  next  Week  for  me 
to  meet  'em  &  to  lay  it  before  'em. 

I  know  not  how  any  one  could  inform  You  (as  Mr.  Thomas  has  told  me  from  You) 
that  an  Answer  to  y*  Strictures  would  shortly  be  publish'd  by  y°  Direction  of  y6  Vice- 
Chancellor.  I  have  not  given  any  Occasion  for  such  a  Report,  neither  could  Dr.  Smith 
from  whom  I  suppose  it  originally  came,  collect  anything  of  that  Nature  from  my 
Words.  I  observ'd  Yr  Directions  in  my  Behaviour  towards  him,  &  knowing  his 

1  Cf.  Lift  of  Bp.  Kennttt  113  sqq. 


426  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

Temper  humoured  him  as  much  as  possibly  I  could.  Mr.  Tyrrel  had  very  amply 
recommended  me  to  his  Acquaintance,  &  I  told  him  of  my  Discourse  cone,  ye  Judgm*. 
of  y6  foreign  reform'd  Churches  cone.  Episcopacy,  &  gave  a  short  Abridgm*  of  it  by 
Word  of  Mouth  wth  wch  he  seem'd  wonderfully  pleas'd.  I  afterwards  ask'd  him 
several  Questions  cone.  Peter  du  Moulin  &c.,  &  shew'd  him  a  Catalogue  of  Books  wch 
I  wanted  to  peruse,  wth  all  wch  he  seem'd  wonderfully  pleas'd,  &  commended  my 
Diligence.  Afterwards  he  ask'd  me  whether  I  had  seen  ye  Strictures.  I  told  him  yes 
&  after  he  had  said  it  was  wrote  very  weakly  I  told  him  it  was  wrote  by  Mr.  Spademan 
wch  he  at  first  would  scarce  believe.  Upon  his  saying  he  hop'd  y6  University  would 
take  care  to  get  an  Answer  wrote  to  it,  I  told  him  that  I  had  prepar'd  some  Materials 
for  an  Answer  but  whether  I  should  publish  it  or  no  I  could  not  tell.  &  I  then  told  him 
that  since  some  in  ye  University  had  disapprov'd  of  our  Answer  to  ye  Geneva  Letter 
after  it  was  pass'd  in  Convocation  &  sent  away,  as  if  it  gave  up  ye  lus  divinum  of 
Episcopacy  it  was  thought  proper  to  publish  something  by  way  of  Vindication  of  that 
Passage  Alienissimum  est  a  nostrd  Charitate  &c.  &  I  humbly  desir'd  him  to  favour  me 
wth  ye  Copies  of  Bp.  Cosins'  Letters  to  Mr.  Cordel  wch  he  had  told  y6  World  he  had 
in  his  Custody.  Upon  this  Request  he  grew  a  little  angry  to  my  great  Surprize,  & 
immediately  ask'd  me  whether  I  was  acquainted  wth  y6  BP.  of  Salisbury,  &  began  to 
pass  several  very  injurious  Reflections  upon  that  part  of  ye  University  wch  approv'd  of 
that  passage.  I  assur'd  him  that  there  was  no  ill  design  pretended  by  y6  University, 
that  they  still  had  as  great  a  Veneration  for  ye  Ch.  as  ever,  &  as  any  could  have, 
&  particularly  for  ye  divine  Right  of  Episcopacy,  &  that  they  intended  to  give  no 
more  Advantage  to  our  Schismatics  than  any  of  ye  best  Defenders  of  ye  Ch.  had  done 
already,  &  even  BP.  Cosins  himself :  All  this  would  not  satisfy  him,  but  he  must  write 
down  to  Oxford  to  know  my  Character,  because  as  he  said  it  was  a  Matter  of  great 
Consequence.  I  could  not  get  a  Copy  of  "em  after  all  I  did  or  could  say.  In  short  I 
humour'd  him  as  much  as  possibly  I  could,  &  staid  with  him  as  long  again  as 
I  intended  because  I  would  not  interrupt  him  in  his  Discourse :  &  I  must  needs  profess 
I  never  was  in  company  wth  so  great  a  Humourist  before.  It  was  upon  this  Occasion 
that  after  he  had  press'd  me  very  much  I  told  him  that  I  made  Collections  for  this 
Purpose  by  yor  Directions  &  plainly  told  him  that  ye  Vice-Chancellor  knew  nothing  of 
it,  unless  you  had  acquainted  him  wth  it,  but  should  see  this  Answer  before  I  publish'd 
it,  If  no  one  else  would  undertake  one.  I  went  to  his  House  yesterday  both  morning 
and  Afternoon  but  could  not  find  him  at  home,  so  cannot  tell  what  Character  Mr. 
Herne  has  given  of  me  to  him,  but  hope  to  know  shortly  &  to  let  him  see  what 
Disservice  I  intend  the  Church  by  shewing  him  ye  Discourses,  which  Mr.  Thomas  lent 
you,  before  You  did  me  ye  Honour  to  send  for  me,  to  yr  Lodginges,  which  I  luckily 
brought  along  with  me  from  Oxford.  There  is  a  short  Answer  publish'd  to  y9 
Strictures  in  a  little  Tract  call'd  Censura  Temporum  just  publish'd  by  one  of 
Dr.  Smith's  Kidney  but  I  cannot  yet  learn  by  whom.  Mr.  la  Mothe  humbly  desires  to 
know,  whether  ye  Approvers  of  ye  University's  Answer  understand  that  passage 
Alienissimum  est  a  nostrd  Charitate  in  that  Sense  w011  ye  Author  of  y*  Censura 
Temporum  puts  upon  it. 

London  Feb.  7.  i7o£. 

Rev.  Sir,  I  wrote  as  above  yesterday  morning,  before  I  went  out  of  Town  to 
pay  a  Visit :  at  my  Return  I  heard  that  Dr.  Smith  had  in  my  Absence  call'd  upon  me, 
&  therefore  I  forbore  concluding  it  &  sending  this  last  night  upon  hopes  of  paying  him 
a  visit  this  morning :  but  a  very  great  Cold  w"*  I  caught  yesterday  &  ye  sudden 
change  of  y6  Weather  oblige  me  to  put  it  off  till  next  Week  after  wcu  You  shall  hear 
further  from  Me. 

I  was  very  lately  in  company  with  Mr.  Strype,  who  gave  me  a  Copy  of  y6  Proposals 
for  printing  his  Annals  of  ye  History  of  Religion  and  other  remarkable  Occurrences  in 
y'  Ch.  of  Eng.  during  ye  i'f.  twelve  years  of  Qu.  Elizabeth's  happy  Reign,  in  wch  he 
told  me  were  abundance  of  curious  Letters  &  Papers  hitherto  unpublish'd  &  desir'd  me 
to  write  to  Oxford  for  Subscriptions.  He  told  me  ye  Book  was  quite  ready  for  y*  Press 
but  was  desirous  to  have  about  40  or  50  more  subscribers  first,  Designing  to  print  but 
100  more  than  shall  be  subscrib'd  for.  He  desires  no  Money,  till  ye  Books  are 
deliver'd,  but  only  ye  Names,  Qualities  and  Places  of  Abode  of  such  as  are  willing  to 
take  it  when  publish'd  at  ye  Terms  of  ye  Proposals,  wch  I  have  not  sent  because 
I  suppose  they  may  be  had  of  ye  Oxford  Booksellers  :  If  You,  or  any  that  you  shall 
speak  to  on  this  occasion  are  willing  to  be  subscribers  I  will  wait  on  Mr.  Strype  with 
your  Names,  &c. 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XVI.  427 

I  hear  y*  long  expected  History  ofy"  ejected  Church  Clergy  will  very  shortly  be  put 
to  y°  Press. 

I  was  very  lately  at  y8  Office  of  ye  Society  for  propagating  y*  Gospel  of  wch  Mr.  de  la 
Mothe  was  lately  chose  a  Member :  &  find  that  it  meets  daily  with  Encourage™*.  Among 
ye  late  Benefactions  to  it,  I  found  3<Do£  given  to  it  by  ye  A.  BP.  of  Armagh,  icojT  by 
Sr.  Rob'.  Atkins,  30^  by  y*  A.  Bp.  of  Cashels,  2o£  by  y3  Countess  Dowager  of 
Northampton,  &  2o£  per  year  lately  promis'd  byy*  A.  Bp.  of  Tuam,  &  find  what  You 
told  me  that  Dr.  Edwards  had  given  50^  to  be  paid  in  5  yearly  payments. 

I  desire  that  Mr.  Thomas  would  be  pleas'd  in  his  next  to  tell  me  how  much 
y*  Subscription  Rolls  of  y*  University  &  Town  do  amount  to.  The  3  new  BP".  were 
this  Day  confirmed  at  Bow-Church,  &  to  morrow  are  to  be  consecrated  at  Lambeth, 
Dr.  Bradford  who  is  made  Canon  of  Westminster  in  y*  Room  of  Dr.  Brevall  lately 
deceas'd  being  appointed  to  preach  ye  Consecration  Sermon. 

The  Author  of  y8  Review  has  lately  gave  a  most  scandalous  Relation  of  an  Indignity 
offer'd  to  ye  Picture  and  last  Speech  of  K.  Wm.  at  Oxford  ;  I  should  be  glad  it  were 
false,  that  I  might  Refute  his  impudence  in  ye  point  as  I  have  already  wth  Relation  to 
ye  Weather  Cock  l  &  ye  carrying  of  ye  Silver  Tankard  instead  of  a  Lanthom  9. 

I  Beg  your  Pardon  for  writing  thus  much,  and  conclude  wth  assuring  You  that  you 
may  command,  while  I  stay  here  any  Service  of  y°r  most  obliged, 

humble  Servant 

ROB.  WATTS. 

The  Presbyterians  here  are  much  dejected  by  hearing  from  their  Correspondents 
at  Scotland,  that  ye  Surpliss  is  us'd  &  our  Liturgy  read  in  most  if  not  all  ye 
Episcopal  Meeting  Houses  there  &  that  [seal]  have  been  opened  since  ye  com- 
mencem*  of  ye  Union.  I  have  not  yet  seen  w*  ye  Author  of  y*  Ace*  ofy'  Govemml  &>c. 
of  y*  Kirk  of 'Scotland 'just  publish'd  says  in  relation  to  this  point. 

{Addressed:— To  the  Reverend  Dr.  Charlet 

Master  of  University  College  in  Oxford,  These.] 

93.  1 6.  The  profound  significance  of  this  appointment  will  be  at  once  perceived 
when  it  is  remembered  that  Milles'  competitor  was  JONATHAN  SWIFT,  and  that  the 
scale  was  only  turned  against  the  author  of  The  Tale  of  a  Tub  by  the  personal 
intervention  of  Archbp.  Sharp.  Swift  wrote  to  Archbp.  King  (Feb.  5,  1 708) :  '  Your 
grace  knows  long  before  this,  that  Dr.  Milles  is  Bishop  of  Waterford.  The  court 
and  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  were  strongly  engaged  for  another  person,  not  much 
suspected  in  Ireland,  any  more  than  the  choice  already  made  was,  I  believe,  either 
here  or  there.'  (Scott's  Swift  [1814]  xv.  263.)  See  Forster's  Swift  210  sqq. ;  Craik 
145.  There  is  some  account  of  Bp.  Milles  and  his  family  in  Lit.  Anec.  ii.  159.  See 
also  Rawl.  J.  4°.  5.  75 ;  fol.  18.  103,  21.  36.  He  died  in  1740,  leaving  his  fortune  to 
his  nephew  Jeremiah  Milles,  afterward  Dean  of  Exeter. —  Mr.  Axon  contributes  to  the 
Dictionary  of  Nat.  Biography  a  sufficient  account  of  Bp.  Atherton  (d.  1640). 

93.  34.  The  secret  history  of  the  important  political  events  here  alluded  to  is  given 
by  Swift  in  a  letter  of  Feb.  12  to  Archbp.  King  (Works,  xv.  265  sqq.).     Mrs.  Masham 
was  the  lever  which  Harley  was  now  using,  and  which,  though  the  instrument  broke 
in  his  hands  for  the  present,  he  was  to  employ  hereafter  with  signal  adroitness  and 
success. 

94.  8.  Hearne's  earliest  information  with  regard  to  the  identity  of  Isaac  Bicker-staff, 
Esq.,  was  not  very  trustworthy,  but  he  soon  learnt  the  true  author  (p.  102  infra). 
Swift's  Predictions  speedily  became  known  all  over  Europe,  and  were  burnt  by  the 
Inquisition  in  Portugal.     The  best-known  among  them  is  that  of  the  death  of  Partridge 
the  Almanack-maker.     Swift  is  said  to  have  taken  this  nom  de  guerre,  rendered  even 
more  familiar  by  the  Taller,  or  '  The  Lucubrations  of  Isaac  Bickerstaff/  from  a  lock- 
smith's sign.     The  Predictions,  &c.,  are  printed  in  Scott's  Swift,  ix.  151  sqq.     See 
Tatler  (ed.  Nichols),  i,  pp.  ix,  xxxvi  sq.,  12,  66^  sqq.   122;    v.  439;  Forster's  Swiff 
221  sqq. 

1  Cf.  R.  J.  Leslie  Life  o/Chas.  Leslie  355  sq. ;  Rehearsal  (ed.  1750),  i.  263,  277  sy.,  280  syy.,  356 
sy.,  411  sq. ;  ii.  177-182  ;  Review  ii.  in,  150,  307,  365;  iii.  103. 

*  The  Tankard  affair  (see  vol.  i.  p.  236)  is  thus  alluded  to  in  an  'Advertisement  '  at  the  end  of 
A  speech  that  was  intended  to  have  been  spoken  by  the  Terrae-Filius  (1713)  '  At  the  same  place  are  sold 
the  Famous,  tho'  New  Invented,  Illuminating  Dark  Lanthoms,  for  Heads  of  Houses,  made  spick  and 


428  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

94.  ~i?>sqq.  Thos.  Traherne  d.  1674 ;  his  Life  is  in  Athenae,  iii.  1016. — Thos.  Newey, 
Ch.  Ch.,  M.A.  1682,  Chancellor  of  Exeter  1706,  Preb.  of  Winchester  1712,  F.R.S.,  d. 

1723.  See  Nicolson  Ep.  Corr.   214;    Atterbury  Ep.  Corr.  i.  329,  332. — Richard 
Duke  figures  in  Johnson's  Lives  of  the  Poets,  who  remarks  that  'with  the  wit  he  seems 
to  have  shared  the  dissoluteness  of  the  times ;  for  some  of  his  compositions  are  such  as 
he  must  have  reviewed  with  detestation  in  his  later  days,  when  he  published  these 
Sermons  which  Felton  has  commended.'     He  became  Rector  of  Witney  1710,  and  died 
1711.     See  Swift  Journal  to  Stella  Feb.  14,  16,  1711  ;  Atterbury  Ep.  Corr.  i.  13. — 
There  is  a  very  favourable  account  of  Geo.  Tully  (d.  1695)  in  Athenae  iv.  423  ;  for 
Thos.  Tully  see  ib.  iv.  792.     He  was  Preb.  of  Carlisle  1684;  Dean  1716 ;  d.  1727. 
The  Life  of  Bp.  Rainbow  was  by  Jonathan  Banks,  B.A.  Cam. — Wood  has  a  pretty 
full  life  of  Bishop  Turner  {Athenae  iv.  545).     See  also  Miss  Strickland's  Lives  of  the 
Seven  Bishops  150-233,  and  Baker-Mayor  Hist,  of  St.  John's,  Cambridge,  Index. — 
J.  Tyler,  M.A.   1686,  Dean  of  Hereford  1692,  Bp.  of  Llandaff  1706-1724  (Bloxam 
Magd.  Coll.  Reg.  ii.  p.  clxiv,  Athenae  iv.  597,  Rawl.  J.  4°.  6.  204). 

There  is  a  Life  of  Dr.  E.  Tyson  (d.  1708)  in  Munk  Roll  i.  426  sqq. ;  Athenae  iv. 
780,  Rawl.  J.  4°.  2.  119.  He  is  the  Carus  of  the  Dispensary. — For  Matthew  Hole, 
Rector  of  Exeter  1716-30,  author  of  Practical  Discourses  on  various  Parts  of  the 
Liturgy  of  the  C.  of  E.,  &c.,  see  Boase  Register  75,  213,  Fasti  ii.  344. 

96.  i.  Sir  E.  Seymour,  d.  Feb.  18,  has  been  sketched  once  for  all  by  Macaulay. 
See  also  Manning  Lives  of  the  Speakers  361  sqq.  He  had  been  M.P.  uninterruptedly 
since  1667  (Boyer's  Annual  List  of  Deaths'). — Cod.  Baroc.  47  is  Michaelis  Pselli 
Junioris  in  Iliadem  Homeri  Paraphrasis  (sec.  xv.). 

97-  31.  "W.  Breach,  D.M.  1687.  Administration  was  granted  March  25,  1708 
(Griffiths  Index  to  Wills}. 

98.  21.  We  shall  hear  much  of  Dr.  Lancaster  in  the  sequel.      According  to  Rawl.  J. 
4°.  i.  65  sq.,  his  only  publications  were  a  soth  of  January  Sermon  before  the  House  of 
Commons  (1697),  and  a  Recommendatory  Preface  to  The  Door  of  the  Tabernacle  (1703). 
Many  of  his  letters,  chiefly  written  during  his  Vice-Chancellorship,  will  be  found  in 
the  Ballard  Collection,  xxi.  28  sqq. — Cavendish's  Life  of  Wolsey  has  been  many  times 
printed — first  in  1641.      There  is  a  copy  in  the  Gough  collection  of  the  ed.  of  1667, 
collated  with  various  MSS.,  &c. — Particulars  of  the  intended  invasion,  and  its  defeat 
by   Sir   George    Byng,    will    be    found    in   Luttrell,   vi.    272    sqq.      The  measures 
referred  to  by  Dr.  Smith  in  the  next  page  were  for  increasing  the  stringency  of  the 
abjuration  oath,  and  for  suspending  the  Habeas  Corpus  Act.     The  royal  assent  was 
given  on  March  n,  to  Acts  for  the  further  security  of  H.  M.'s  person  and  govern- 
ment, and  to  empower  H.  M.  to  secure  and  detain  suspected  persons.     (Cf.  p.  103, 
11.  1 3  sqq.  infra. )     The  Secret  History  of  Col.  Hookes  Negotiations  in  Scotland,  in 
favour  of  the  Pretender,  in  1707,  with  a  translation  of  Letters  containing  a  Narrative 
of  the  Pretender's  Expedition  into  Scotland  in  1708,  and  his  Return  to  Dunkirk,  was 
published  in  1760.      See  also  Boyer  Reign  of  Q.  Anne  324  sqq.     T.  Cockman,  writing 
from  Rome,  May  22,  1708,  O. S.  (Ballard  xxi.  81),  says:    'These  People,  &  par- 
ticularly ye  Brittish  Papists,  were  mighty  uppish  upon  ye  attempt  made  upon  Scotland  : 
they  had  3  days  solemn  prayers,  y6  Pope,  ye  Queen  of  Poland,  and  many  Cardinals 
going  to  'em  in  their  several  churches  for  good  Success  :  and  you'l  imagin  they  are  pro- 
portionably  dejected  at  y°  disappointment,  &  under  grievous  apprehensions  of  their  poor 
Brethren's  being  persecuted.'     (The  word  '  downish,'  by  the  way,  occurs  in  xxxvi.  24.) 

99.  24.  Mr.  Mullinger  sketches  the  career  and  character  of  Richard  Crolle  (c.  1489- 
1558,  Greek  Reader  1519,  Public  Orator  1522)  in  his  University  of  Cambridge,  i.  527 
sqq.,  &c. ;  and  at  p.  499  mentions  Robert  Aldrich,  the  friend  of  Erasmus,  and  Bp.  of 
Carlisle  1537-1557.      His  Black  Book  of  the  Garter was  published  by  John  Anstis  in 

1724.  See  Mr.  Gairdner's  article  in  the  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  vol.  i. — The  editio  princeps 
of  the  Etymologicon  Magnum,  with  a,  preface  by  Musurus,  was  pub.  at  Venice  1499. — 
Granger  (i.  92)  states  that  all  the  heads  of  Wolsey  are  in  profile,  which  is  attributed  to  the 
fact  that  the  Cardinal  had  lost  an  eye. — It  will  be  remembered  that  Dr.  Smith  had  at 
one  time  contemplated  a  Life  of  Mary  Q,.  of  Scots ;  see  his  letter  to  Ken  in  Strickland 
Lives  of  the  Seven  Bishops  297  sqq. 

100.  6.  For  this  event,  see  Luttrell  vi.  281.      There  is  a  note  only  on  his  condem- 
nation in  State  Trials,  19.  736.     Lord  Griffin  finally  died  in  the  Tower  Nov.  1710. 
Lord  Clermont  and  Capt.  Middleton  were  released  on  bail,  after  three  years'  im- 
prisonment.    Dr.  T.  Bayley  wrote  to  Dr.  Charlett  June  18,  1708  (Ballard  xxi.  19): 


NOTES   TO   VOLUME  XVII.  429 

Mr.  Bromley  '  told  me ...  that  there  had  been  a  counsell  the  day  before  about  my  L'1. 
Griffin ;  &  it  was  considered,  whether  he  should  be  executed  that  morning,  or  reprived 
for  14  days.  The  IA  Chancellor  was  for  a  reprieve  ;  The  Ld.  A.Bv.  of  C.  for  execu- 
tion, the  rest  of  the  Board  were  divided,  tho  the  greater  part  were  for  a  reprieve,  &  the 
Queen  herself  joyning  with  them,  that  was  concluded  on :  Tho  there  was  one  of  the 
honorable  Board  that  urged  with  some  warmth  that  the  Ld.  Middleton's  sons  must  not 
suffer  because  they  were  too  young,  &  the  Ld  Griffin  must  not  suffer  because  he  was 
too  old,  &  that  at  this  rate  they  should  have  noe  body  to  suffer.  I  went  from  Mr. 
Bromley  to  the  Coffee  House  near  S'.  James's  House,  &  there  two  or  three  of  the 
colonels  that  had  orders  the  day  before  to  attend  at  the  execution  knew  nothing  of  the 
reprieve,  and  they  with  their  companies  did  attend  at  the  place,  &  the  scaffolds  were 
filled  with  Ladies  &  Gentlemen,  but  they  came  all  back  again  without  seeing  any 
thing.' — The  first  ed.  of  the  Callipaedia  was  printed  at  Leyden  1655  ;  the  second,  with 
Quillet's  name,  at  Paris  1656. — Strype,  writing  to  Charlett  April  20,  1709,  remarks 
(Rawlins'  transcript  is  in  Ballard,  xv.  32) : — '  I  wonder  ye  famous  first  founder  of  Xts 
Church  Cardinal  Wolsey  hath  been  thus  long  wthout  some  public  ace'  of  his  Life  & 
Acts,  &  of  y*  noble  Foundation  of  his — a  Duty  methinks  long  incumbent  upon  that 
Coll. ;  'Tis  true  there  hath  lately  stolen  forth  a  2d  edit,  of  Cavendish :  but  as  I  make 
no  doubt  you  know  very  wrong,  erroneous,  and  imperfect :  as  I  have  found  by  compar- 
ing ye  MSS.  I  W1  fain  know  w*  good  MS.  copies  remain  in  yor  University  of  y*  Book. 
It  might  be  improv'd  considerably.  It  is  pitty  it  is  not  thought  on.' 

100.  26.  The  following  passage  has  been  accidentally  omitted : — 
'  There  was  one  John  Young  in  Hen.  VIII*11'8  time  sacrorum  scriniorum  Magister, 
styl'd  by  Erasmus  in  his  Dedication  of  some  Pieces  of  Plutarch  to  him,  whence  it 
appears  y*  he  was  a  Man  of  Learning.  —  A  great  Commendation  of  Cardinal  Wolsey  in 
Erasmus's  Dedication  of  a  Piece  of  Plutarch  to  him.  —  An  Inscription  ab'  Neomagium 
or  Noviomagum  in  Petr.  Montanus's  Epistle  to  Ger.  Noviomagus.  See  Ger.  Novic- 
magus's  Historia  Batavica,  p.  5. ... 

April  5  (Mon.).  Mr.  John  Norris  has  just  publish'd  a  small  Book  in  8V°.  in  two 
Parts  call'd  a  Philosophical  Dispute  cone,  the  Immortality  ofy*  Soul,  occasioned  by  Mr. 
Dodwell's  Epistolary  Discourse.  'Tis  ingenious  &  the  Question  clearly  stated,  shew- 
ing that  considering  the  Nature  of  things  as  they  are  at  present  the  Soul  must  be  natur- 
ally immortal,  tho'  considering  it  abstractedly  and  as  to  it's  first  original,  'tis  only 
positively  immortal  as  it  depended  upon  the  pleasure  of  God  whether  it  shld  be  immor- 
tal or  not.-Dr.  Wallis's  Epitaph.  .  .  .' 

100.  40.  The  same  correspondent  eloquently  writes  Sept.  20,  1714  (Ballard  xxxvi. 
104) :  '  If  the  most  exalted  character  humane  nature  can  aspire  to  be  that  of  a  Publick 
Spirit  (woh  is  but  another  name  for  Heroick  vertue)  that  age  &  that  Alma  mater  which 
(as  at  one  birth)  brought  forth  a  Lindsey,  an  Atterbury,  a  Smaldridge,  a  Lancaster  & 
a  Charlett,  animas,  quales  non  candidiores  terra  tulit :  must  be  the  most  renowned  of 
all  times  &  places.' 

101.  2.  Michael  Hutchinson,  M.A.  1700,  Preb.  of  Lichfield  1703.     He  died  at 
Hammersmith,  1 740.     There  are  some  interesting  particulars  of  his  life  in  Rawl.  J.  fol. 
17.  334. — 1.  ii.  See  'The  Custom  of  the  Boar's  Head  at  Queers  College,'  Oxoniana 
ii.  51  sqq.    A  very  similar  carol  was  printed  by  Wynkin  de  Worde  in  1521  (see  Gul. 
Neubrigensis  Historia,  ed.  Hearne,  744  sqt.}.    Cf.  also  2nd  Report  Hist.  MSS.  Com- 
mission, 84  b. — There  is  a  full  account  of  Wm.  Croune  (d.  1084)  in  Ward  Gresham 
Professors  320  sqq.     The  Lectures  were  founded  by  his  widow  (d.  1706).      There  is  a 
letter  from  Evelyn  to  him  printed  in  the  Evelyn  Correspondence,  and  dated  July  Ii, 
1663,  in  which  Evelyn  offers  him  the  post  of  tutor  to  the  two  children  of  Henry 
Howard,  afterwards  Duke  of  Norfolk.      His  funeral  sermon  was  preached  by  Dr.  John 
Scott  (p.  73  supra],  and  printed. 


VOL.   XVII. 

Page  102,  line  10.  The  following  poem,  preserved  in  the  Ballard  Collection  (xxix.  29), 
is  perhaps  equal  in  merit  to  the  parody  of  a  familiar  nursery  poem  quoted  by  Heame : — 
'  Cain,  in  Disgrace  with  Heav'n,  retired  to  Nod ; 
A  place  no  doubt  as  far  remov'd  from  God, 


43°  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

As  Cain  cou'd  wish ; — which  makes  some  think  he  went 
As  far  as  Scotland,  e'er  he  pitched  his  Tent; 
And  there  a  City  built  of  ancient  Fame, 
Which  he  from  Eden  Edenburgh  did  name.' 

103.  13.  Laurence  Howell  (c.   1660-1720)  published  his  Synopsis  Canonum  in 
1708-1710  (Tatlerv.  18).      SeeZz/Jr  of  Kennett\6o,  Life  of  Kettle-well  391,  Calamy's 
Life  and  Times  ii.   358 ;  Lathbury  History  of  the  Nonjurors  253,  367 ;  Lit.  Anec. 
Index.     He  was  of  Jesus  Coll.,  Cambridge,  and  was  not  ordained  priest  (by  Hickes) 
till  1712. — Theophilus  Downes,  M.A.  1679,  pub.  Declypeo  Woodwardiano  stricturae 
breves,  an  examination  of  Sherlock's.  Case  of  Allegiance,  and  a  Discourse  cone,  the 
Signification  of  Allegiance.      Athenae  iv.  476  ;  Rawl.  J.  4°.  2.  193. — Some  references 
have  been  given  for  Dean  Koyse  in  vol.  i. ;  and  for  Jos.  Cannel  may  be  added  Rawl. 
J.  4°.  2.  232.     There  has  been  some  correspondence  in  Notes  and  Queries,  7th  S.,  vols. 
i.  and  ii.,  on  Barnes'  theory  that  Solomon  wrote  the  Iliad  and  Odyssey. 

104.  4.  For  a  contemporary  view  of  Bp.  Fleetwood,  see  Dunton's  Life  and  Errors 
366.     The  Preface  to  his  Sermons  (separately  printed  in  Spectator,  No.  384)  was 
described  by  Dr.  Johnson  as  '  overflowiHg  with  Whiggish  principles.'     There  is  a 
characteristic  anecdote  of  him  in  Whiston  Memoirs  305.     He  is  somewhat  leniently 
handled  in  '  The  Seven  Extinguishers,'  Whig  and  Tory  (ii.)  6. — Dan.  Lombard  (see 
103.  43  sup.\  b.  1679,  M.A.  1701,  Rector  of  Lanteglas,  Cornwall,  1714.     Rawl.  J.  4°. 
4.  135  ;  fol.  1 8.  50. 

105.  i  sqq.  Heame  has  dissertations  on  Godstow  in  Leland's  Itin.  ii.  74  sqq.,  and 
Gul.  Neubrigensis  Historia  730  sqq. — Dr.  G.  Carter  d.  1727. 

105.  22.  There  is  something  wrong  here.  Benj.  Cooper,  of  Merton,  Registrar  1659- 
1701,  was  succeeded  by  his  son  Geo.  Cooper,  also  of  Merton  (M.A.  1689).  There  are 
two  papers  in  the  handwriting  of  the  former  in  Rawl.  C.  421.  Is  it  possible  that 
Hearne's  feeling  towards  the  Registrar  was  a  personal  one  ?  At  all  events,  Dr.  Lan- 
caster, writing  June  14,  1707,  of  the  appointment  of  a  new  Registrar,  remarks  (Ballard 
xxi.  44)  : — '  I  know  Mr.  Hern  is  your  friend,  &  wish  I  could  say  any  thing  more  for 
him.  All  that  I  know  of  Him  besides  is  that  He  was  to  do  Quodlibets,  and  I  am  sure 
He  was  not  up  four  minutes,  tho  he  knew  I  was  in  the  Schools^to  be  at  that  Exercise. 
Sir,  I  would  desire  you  not  so  much  to  look  after  a  Register  that  knows  books  as  one 
that  keeps  a  good  Conscience.  I  wish  you'd  tell  him  my  thoughts  of  him,  though  I 
know  you  will  not  tell  them  to  any  else.  /  would  once  have  the  University  not  to  look 
after  friends  so  much  as  men  fit  for  places.  Master,  if  I  were  with  you  I  believe  I  could 
say  something  that  would  move  you  upon  this  subject.  The  place  is  not  without  both 
Honor  and  profit,  and  I  wd  certainly  find  out  one  of  Honor  Honesty  and  Ability  for 
it.  It's  a  place  of  great  Trust  and  a  Man  that  has  no  sence  of  Oaths  or  the  Honor  of 
the  University  should  not  enter  into  my  thoughts  for  it.'  And  June  16,  he  adds  :  '  I 
confess  I  should  have  endeavour'd  to  have  found  out  a  Civilian  for  Regr.,  considering 
the  condition  of  the  V.  Chrs.  Court  where  I  find  the  Acts  mangled  in  Transcribing  for 
want  of  a  little  Learning  in  that  law  or  some  thing  Else.'  The  remark  about  Quod- 
libets reminds  one  of  2nd  Rep.  Hist.  MSS.  Comm.  238 :  'In  fact  we  see  y*  all  ye  exer- 
cises perform'd  at  Oxford  at  ye  publick  scholes  are  mere  trifles,  at  wch  sometimes  only 
ye  doorkeeper  is  present.' — For  Joshua  Hoyle,  Master  of  Univ.  and  Regius  Professor 
of  Divinity  1648-1654,  see  Athenae  iii.  382  ;  Masson  Milton  ii.  519. 

108.  13.  T.  "Wise,  M.A.  1694,  Preb.  of  Lincoln  1720,  d.  1726:  Boase  Register  84 ; 
Rawl.  J.  4°.  T.  147  sqq. — Some  very  interesting  letters  of  David  Wilkins  of  a  later 
date  are  printed  in  Nicolson's  Epist.  Corr.  426,  430,  434,  436  sqq.,  456  sqq.,  533, 
539.  541- 

109.  13.  Two  MS.  volumes  formerly  belonging  to  Gerard  Langbaine  are  now 
numbered  148  and  156  in  Coxe's  Catal.  of  Univ.  Coll.  MSS. — The  book  of  Ittigius 
(1643-1710  :  Prof,  of  Theology  at  Leipzig)  here  mentioned,  was  pub.  at  Leipzig,  8V0., 
1707. 

110.  34.  Bp.  Moore's  love  of  dabbling  in  physic  is  thus  satirised  hi  '  The  Seven 
Extinguishers '  ( Whig  and  Tory  (ii.)  3  sqq.) : — 

'A  Quack-Divine  this  motly  P succeeds, 

That  more  of  Galen,  than  the  Bible  reads  ; 

That  Herbs  and  Plants,  instead  of  Texts,  pursues, 

A  Gossip  for  Prescriptions,  and  for  News; 


NOTES   TO    VOLUME  XVII.  431 

As  he,  from  House  to  House,  for  Patients  stroles, 
And  kills  their  Bodies,  who  should  save  their  Souls ; 
While  he  the  Tide  of  Contradiction  stems, 
By  preaching  up  the  Doctrines  he  condemns; 
And  for  a  new  Translation  in  his  Eye, 
Takes  part  with  such  as  Gospel-Truths  decry.' 

The  Sir  H—  referred  to  was  probably  Sir  H.  Button  Colt,  Bart.,  M.P.  for  Westminster 
in  the  Parliament  of  1705,  but  replaced  by  Thos.  Medlicott  in  that  of  1708. 

111.  i.  sqq.  The  Mallard,  it  need  hardly  be  said,  has  justice  done  him  in  Worthies 
of  All  Souls,  429  sqq.     His  portrait  is  familiar  from  the  title-page  of  the  Complete 
Vindication  of  the  Mallard  (1750). 

112.  5.  There  are  some  remarks  on  the  subject  of  Mill  and  Dr.  Whitby  in  Atter- 
bury  Ep.  Corr.  ii.  125  n.,  130. — This  was  Sir  Charles  Lodowick  (son  of  Sir  Charles) 
Cotterell ;  see  2nd  Rep.  Hist.  MSS.  Comm.  82  sqq.     He  was  succeeded  in  1710  by  his 
son  Clement. — There  is  a  pathetic  account  of  the  death  of  Bp.  Frampton  (May  25)  in 
the  recently  published  Life.     Many  references  to  him  occur  in  the  Tanner  and  Rawlin- 
son  MSS. — The  notes  on  the  next  page  were  afterwards  incorporated  in  Hearne's  ed.  of 
Spelman's  Life  of  K.  Alfred  (p.  168,  &c.),  for  which  he  was  now  making  collections. 
— T.  Cooke,  B.D.,  an  undergraduate  of  Magd.  Hall,  afterwards  of  St.  John's,  Cam- 
bridge, Baker-Mayor  Hist,  of  St.  John's  542,  &c. 

114.  4  sqq.  The  Hon.  Bobt.  Boothe,  M.A.  1684,  was  younger  son  of  Lord  Delamere; 
d.  1730.     Dr.  Thos.  Smith  (of  Hart  Hall)  d.  1710. — This  anecdote  of  Bp.  Milles  was 
related  by  Dr.  Gardiner  in  a  letter  to  Dr.  Charlett,  June  14,  1708  (Ballard  Letters,  xx. 
n).     The  kissing  is  said  to  have  taken  place  '  in  the  face  of  all  the  world  at  the 
Portico.' — For  Baron  (John)  Smith,  mentioned  below,  see  Foss  Judges  of  England 
617.      He  'is  distinguished  by  having  held  a  judicial  seat   in  each  of  the  three 
kingdoms.' 

115.  4.  Farther  refs.  to  Dr.  Delaune  will  be  found  in  Nicolson  Ep.  Corr.  437  ; 
Atterbury  Ep.  Corr.  i.  85,  1 35.      There   are  several  letters  from  him  to  Charlett  in 
Ballard,  xxi.  108  sqq.     Readers  of  vol.  i.  will  have  no  difficulty  in  understanding  the 
purport  of  Dr.  Delaune' s  Declaration,  printed  at  p.  126  b.  of  the  2nd  Rep.  Hist.  MSS. 
Comm.     Sept.  7,  1708,  Lancaster  wrote :  '  Dr.  Delaune  has  the  most  Lodgings,  and 
greatest  choice  of  Houses,  of  any  man  .this  day  in  London.'     See  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  165. 
'  He  died  at  S'  John's  College  in  Oxford  of  a  dropsy,  under  which  he  had  long 
laboured,  on  24  May,  1728.     And  was  buried  in  the  College  Chapell  on  the  26th.    He 
was  a  finished  polite  gentleman,  a  florid  preacher,  a  good  companion,  but  too  fond  of 
grandeur,  profuse  in  his  expenses,  to  keep  up  his  publick  character,  and  addicted  to 
cards  and  dice,  to  supply  which  extrava[ga]nces  he  scrupled  not  to  lay  hold  on  the 
publick  money,  as  well  as  to  disperse  much  belonging  to  his  family,  who  saffered 
severely  from  his  mismanagements.' — Tho.  Hine,  1683-1748  (Rawl.  J.  4°.  4.  341, 
fol.  17.  274),  Vicar  of  Lillingston  Lovel,  Oxon.,  where  he  was  buried,  and  also  (1733) 
of  Sibbertoft,  Northants,  M.A.  1 703,  pub.  London,  8vo,  1 707,  The  History  of  Greece, 
Vol.  /,  containing  the  space  of  about  1660  years  from  the  first  Plantation  of  Greece 
to  the  Peloponnesian  War  (ded.  to  the  Lord  Keeper).     In  the  Preface  he  acknowledges 
obligations  for  revision,  &c.,  to  Dr.  Potter.     He  likewise  pub.  in  1717  a  Sermon  on  the 
Divinity  of  Christ.     Two  letters  from  him  to  Rawlinson  are  printed  in  Rawl.  J.  17. 
274,  in  the  second  of  which  he  gives  a  full  account  of  his  father  Richard  Hine. 

117.  32.  In  addition  to  the  ordinary  sources  of  information  regarding  Dr.  C.  Burgess 
may  be  mentioned  ist  Rep.  Hist.  MSS.  Comm.  108  a. 

118.  16.  Heame  is  here  once  more  descending  to  the  level  of  Atterbury,  who  (Ep. 
Corr.  i.  241)  deliberately  sends  to  Bp.  Trelawny  what  he  himself  styles  'a  very  scan- 
dalous story  indeed '  about  Burnet.     One  is  reminded  of  Addison's  words  in  the  Tatler, 
No.  237  :  '  Is  it  possible,  thought  I,  that  good  men,  who  are  so  few  in  number,  should 
be  divided  among  themselves,  and  give  better  quarter  to  the  vicious  that  are  in  their 
party,  than  the  most  strictly  virtuous  who  are  out  of  it.     Are  the  ties  of  faction  above 
those  of  religion?'     But  the  reader  of  Lake's  Diary  will  be  aware  that  not  even  the 
blameless  life  of  a  Sancroft  availed  to  protect  him  from  calumny. — For  '  Juraments,'  see 
Wordsworth  Scholae  Academicae  217. — Dr.  Smith  had  long  contemplated  an  ed.  of 
Bp.  Pearson's  annotations  on  the  Epistles  of  St.  Ignatius,  and  had  had  a  specimen  set 


432  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS. 

up  and  proposals  printed  in  1695  :  see  his  letters  of  Aug.  22 — Sept.  14  in  that  year  to 
Dr.  Charlett,  Ballard  xvi.  2-6. 

119.  13.  There  is  a  brief  account  of  the  relations  between  Bp.  Frampton  and  his 
successor  in  the  Life,  218  sq.     Of  the  former  there  is  an  attractive  account  in  the  Life 
of  Kettle-well  403  sqq.  (see  his  letter  in  Appendix  Ixvi.,  and  cf.  Life  of  Bull  87). 
Dnnton  has  a  somewhat  exaggerated  eulogy  of  Fowler  in  Life  and  Errors  363. 

120.  6.  Henry  Birkhead,  b.  1617,  was  fellow  of  All  Souls:  Athenae  iv.  573. — Dr. 
Jos.  Trapp,  described  by  Swift  as  a  '  coxcomb,'  sold  the  copyright  of  Part  I  of  his 
Praelectiones  to  Bowyer  in  1710  for  2O/. :  see  Lit.  Anecd.  i.  40,  &c.     There  is  a  full 
bibliography  of  his  works  in  Rawl.  J.  4°.  I.  211  sqq.t  473  sqq. ;  fol.  19.  167. 

120.  40.  Dr.  Bourchier's  opinion  on  Covert's  case  will  be  found  in  Ballard  xxii.  72. 
It  leaves  the  impression  that  the  action  of  Congregation  in  the  matter  was  grossly 
unjust   and  oppressive.     In  Ballard   ix.  46  (Dec.  n,   1707),  Dr.  Williams   Bp.  of 
Chichester  asks  for  information  about  the  affair. 

121.  2.  We  have  heard  of  Dr.  T.  Wood  in  vol.  i.     See  also  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  382  sqq. 
He  died  1722  :  'he  will  be  wanted  in  the  Country  where  he  died,  as  I  hear  from  many. 
— Bishop  to  Charlett,  July  17,  1722'  [R.  R.].     For  letters  from  him  to  Charlett,  see 
Ballard  xxii.  77  sqq. 

122.  33.  The  story  of  Forbes'  expulsion  is  related  in  almost  identical  terms  in  Lut- 
trell  vi.  331.     There  is  an  allusion  to  it  hi  2nd  Rep.  Hist.  MSS.  Comm.  245. 

123.  27.  For  Cornelius  Crownfield,  nominated  Printer  to  the  University  of  Cam- 
bridge 1705,  pensioned  1740,  d.  1743,  see  Bowes  Biographical  Notes  on  the  [Cam- 
bridge] University  Printers  286. 

123.  37.  For  letters  from  Jo  :  Laughton  to  Dr.  Charlett,  of  earlier  date  (1687-9), 
see  Ballard  xxiii.  1-13. 

125.  1 6.  Hearne's  account  of  the  relations  of  the  Parliamentary  Visitors  to  Pocock 
is  not  quite  accurate.     The  great  Orientalist  was  finally  deprived  of  his  Canonry,  Oct. 
24,   1650,  for  not  taking  the  engagement  (Twells'  Life  133).      He  afterwards  got 
into  considerable  difficulties  with  the  Commissioners  '  for  ejecting  of  ignorant,  scan- 
dalous, insufficient,  and  negligent  ministers.'     It  will  be  remembered  that,  long  before, 
one  of  his  Oxford  friends,  passing  through  Childrey,  enquired  of  the  parishioners  what 
sort  of  a  man  was  their  visitor,  and  received  for  answer, '  Our  parson  is  one  Mr.  Pocock, 
a  plain,  honest  man  ;  but,  master,  he  is  no  Latiner  ! ' — Kemp  was  Bishop  of  London 
1450-1489. 

126.  1 8.  For  Tomasinus'  Catalogue  of  Card.  Bessarion's  MSS.  presented  to  the 
Library  of  St.  Mark,  Venice,  1468,  see  Edwards  Memoirs  of  Libraries  ii.  379  sq. — 
John  Parry,  son  of  Edw.,  Bp.  of  Killaloe,  Dean  of  St.  Patrick's  1666;  Bp.  of  Ossory 
1672,  d.  1677  (Cotton  Fasti  ii.  44). 

127.  i.  The  history  of  Whyte's  professorship  is  concisely  told  in  the  Honours 
Register.     It  is  only  fair,  however,  to  add  that  in  Pointer's  Academia  Oxoniensis  a 
continuous  succession  of  professors  is  given  to  the  compiler's  own  time,  ending  with  the 
not  undistinguished  name  of  William  Derham,  D.D.     See  Wordsworth  Studia  Aca- 
demica  123  for  the  state  of  things  in  1790. 

128.  i.  There  are  some  interesting  particulars  of  this  book  in  Masters'  Memoirs  of 
T.  Baker  1 8  sqq.     Baker  had  intended  to  write  a  Life  of  Bp.  Fisher,  but  '  durst  not 
venture,  since  Right  cannot  be  done  him,  without  giving  great  Offence.'     Those  who 
interest  themselves  in  the  history  of  English  culture  and  of  the  English  Universities 
will  not  need  to  be  reminded  that  Baker's  History  of  St.  John's  has  in  our  own 
day  met  with  an  editor  worthy  of  the  work  and  its  author. 

129.  8.  Heame's  intention  of  publishing  an  ed.  of  Cicero  was  never  carried  out,  though 
he  must  have  had  his  materials  nearly  ready  in  I7I5>  when  he  issued  '  Proposals  for 
printing  by  subscription  MARCUS  TULLIUS  CICERO,'  printed  as  Appendix  I.  to  the  Life 
(1772).     The  ed.  was  to  be  limited  to  100  copies,  at  ten  guineas  per  copy,  and  the 
work  was  to  be  put  to  press  at  Lady-day  1716.      But  Hearne  had  long  shown  an  in- 
creasing predilection  for  the  study  of  English  history  and  antiquities,  and  was  already 
at  work  on  his  ed.  of  Spelman's  Life  of  K.  sElfred. 

130.  Richard  Hale,  M.A.  1695,  d.  1728,  was  a  liberal  benefactor  to  the  College  of 
Physicians.     Munk's  Roll  ii.  48 ;  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  284,  4.  324.     '  Towards  the  latter  end 


NOTES   TO   VOLUME  XV If.  433 

of  the  rule  of  George  I.  being  instrumental  in  the  protracting  the  life  of  Mahomet  by 
his  great  Skill  and  care,  he  was  offer'd  a  Patent  of  Baronetship,  and  the  post  of 
Physitian  to  George  I.,  which  he  nobly,  civilly,  and  prudently  refused.'  [R.  R.] 

131.  32.  Colin  Falconar  was  Bp.  of  Moray  1680- 6;  and  Wm.  Falconer,  cons. 
1741,  Bp.  of  Edinburgh  1776,  d.  1784  (Keith  Cat.  of  Scottish  Bishops).— ¥  or  Francis 
Cherry's  MSS.,  42  in  number,  which  passed  into  the  Bodleian  Library  in  1729  by  the 
bequest  of  his  widow,  see  Reliquiae  Hearnianae,  iii.  209  sqq.,  and  Macray's  Annals 
52,  151. — At  p.  132  1.  21  for  '  Ey'  Hearne  should  have  written  'Cy.' 

135.  44.  According  to  Mrs.  George  Berkeley  in  the  Preface  to  her  son's  Poems 
ccclxxi,  Holden  was  in  some  way  connected  with  the  royal  family.     '  Would  James 
the  First  have  acted  by  a  Scot,  as  good  Queen  Mary  and  Queen  Anne  did  by  a  very 
worthy  relation  of  theirs,  a  Mr.  Holden,  who  was  many  years  clerk  to  old  Mr.  Cherry, 
the  Counsellor.     He  always  dined  at  the  second  table,  died  at  Shottesbrooke  House, 
and  lies  interred  in  the  church.     Queen  Anne  allowed  his  aged  mother  twenty  pounds 
per  annum,  and  she  went  to  Court  once  in  the  year  in  her  new  grey  gown,  (she  was  a 
widow  ;)  and  her  Majesty  always  spoke  kindly  to  her,  and  called  her  Cousin  HOLDEN. 
The  Queen  was  not  a  SCOT.' 

136.  26.  The  first  ed.  of  Holinshed  was  published  in  2  vols.  folio,  1577,  and  ded. 
to  Sir  W.  Cecill;  that  of  Foxe's  Acts  and  Monuments,  folio,  by  John  Daye,  156! 
(Lowndes). 

137.  3.  In   this  letter  to  Bagford  (Robert  of  Gloucester  596   sqq.),   Heame   has 
summed  up  the  results  of  his  researches  on  Chaucer,  some  of  which  are  represented  in 
the  present  volume. 

137.  14.  H.  Hill,  M.A.  1667,  appears  to  have  published  nothing  else  (Rawl.  J.  4°. 
5-  208). 

137.  25.  Todd,  Memoirs  of  Brian  Walton,  D.D.,  quotes  a  statement  of  Walton's  to 
the  effect  that  the  Council  of  State  held  out  hopes  of  advancing  £1000  towards  begin- 
ning the  London  Polyglot  Bible ;  but  as  in  his  Preface,  while  acknowledging  the 
exemption  of  the  paper  from  duty — not  the  gift  of  it — Walton  makes  no  mention  of 
such  a  benefaction,  it  seems  doubtful  whether  he  ever  received  any  portion  of  it.  It  is 
true  that,  in  1659,  tne  last  two  leaves  of  the  Preface,  containing  an  acknowledgment  of 
the  favour  of  the  Protector  and  his  Council,  were  cancelled,  and  a  Dedication  to  Charles 
II.  was  inserted.  A  full  account  of  the  whole  transaction  will  be  found  op.  cii.  59,  8  a 
sqq.,  and  the  Dedication  itself  is  reprinted  340  sqq.  (In  a  note  on  p.  36,  vol.  i.,  I  inad- 
vertently spoke  of  the  Polyglot  Bible  as  in  four  vols.  The  work  was,  of  course,  com- 
plete in  six  vols. ;  see  an  analysis  of  it,  ib.  77  sqq.) 

137.  33.  Win.  Disney  printed  the  Duke  of  Monmonth's  Declaration  1685,  and  was 
executed  on  Kennington  Common  June  29 ;  Luttrell  i.  348-50,  Howell  State  Trials 
xi.  465  sq.     I  do  not  find  that  he  was  related  to  John  Disney  (1677-1730),  so  well 
known  by  the  prominent  part  which  he  took  in  the  Societies  for  the  Reformation  of 
Manners. 

138.  7.  Henry  Barrow's  Brief  Discourse  of  the  False  Church  was  published  in 
1590  ;  the  author  was  hanged  in  1593.    See  Dr.  Grosart's  very  interesting  life  of  him  in 
the  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  iii.  297.     Wm.  Salmon  published  Synopsis  Medicinae  1671, 
Pharmacopoeia  Londinensis  1678,  and  other  medical  works ;  Dissertations  on  Water 
Baptism  and  the  lord's  Supper,  1700-1709.      A  priced  catalogue  of  part  of  his 
library  is  in  the  Bodleian  (pp.  119).     The  sale  began  Nov.  16,  1713,  and  there  were 
17891015.     Thos.  Ballard,  bookseller,   describes  Salmon's  Library  as  'a  Collection 
which  apparently  is  as  valuable,  both  for  Quality,  Condition,  and  Number  of  Volumes, 
especially  in  Folio,  as  any  that  ever  was  transported  to  an  Auction-Box,  or  sold  sub 
ictu  Mallei? 

138.  15.  This  epigram  of  'the  magnanimous  Judge  Jenkins'  on  the  'famous  for 
his  infamy  John  Lilbourne'  is  given  in  a  slightly  different  form  in  Athenae  iii.  358. 
For  Raleigh's  [?]  Life  of  Mahomet  (1637)  see  Brushfield  Bibliog.  of  Sir  W.  R.  p.  23  a. 
— Wm.  Slatyer  (1587-1647)  pub.  Palae-Albion  or  the  History  of  Great  Britanie 
(1621),  Genethliacon,  sive  stemma  regis  Jacobi  (1630),  and  The  Psalms  of  David  in 
four  Languages  and  four  Parts,  set  to  the  Tunes  of  our  Church  (1643).  See  Alhenae 
iii.  227  ;  Burney  History  of  Music  iii.  59.  Wood  carefully  distinguishes  him  from  two 
William  Sclaters,  father  and  son,  contemporary  authors  of  sermons  and  minor  theo- 
logical works. — Chr.  Bavius  (1613-1677):  Athenae  iii.  1130;  Twells  Life  of  Pocock 

VOL.  II.  F   f 


434  H  EARNERS  COLLECTIONS. 

60,  138,  219.  I  find  no  mention  of  his  Cat.  of  Oriental  works  in  the  Escurial  in 
Edwards'  Memoirs  of  Libraries.  Ballard  xxxviii.  i  is  a  copy  of  a  portion  of  an 
unsigned  letter  from  Madrid  (dated  Nov.  22,  1689)  giving  a  lamentable  account  of 
Spanish  scholarship  at  that  time.  The  Spaniards,  the  writer  says,  are  incredibly  ignorant 
and  incurious.  There  are  not  half  so  many  books  in  the  Escurial  as  in  the  B.N.C. 
Library.  The  MSS.  suffered  very  much  by  the  fire  in  '71,  and  they  have  not  had  time 
since  to  put  them  into  order,  but  they  lie  in  a  room  in  confused  heaps  without  any 
Catalogue.  —  The  author  of  The  Surfeit,  ace.  to  Halkett  and  Lang,  was  Dr.  Philip 
King,  son  of  Dr.  John  King,  Bishop  of  London  (1611-1621). 

138.  49.  For  Vettius  Valens  see  vol.  i.  p.  i.  Huet's  high  opinion  of  Bernard, 
and  his  still  higher  opinion  of  Thomas  Gale,  is  expressed  in  his  Memoirs  (ed. 
Aikin)  ii.  188,  285. 

140.  i.  Wood  tells  us  (Athenae  iv.  226)  that  Samuel  Parker  (afterward  Bishop 
of  Oxford),  coming  up  to  Wadham  in  1656,  'did,  according  to  his  former  breeding, 
lead  a  strict  and  religious  life,  fasted,  prayed  with  other  Students  weekly  together,  and 
for  their  refection  feeding  on  thin  Broth,  made  of  Oatmeal  and  Water  only,  they 
were  commonly  called  Grewellers.  He  and  they  did  also  usually  go  every  WTeek,  or 
oftner,  to  an  House  in  the  Parish  of  Halywell  near  their  College,  possessed  by  Bess 
•Hampton  an  old  and  crooked  Maid  that  drove  the  Trade  of  Laundrey  ;  who  being 
from  her  youth  very  much  given  to  the  Presbyterian  Religion  had  frequent  meetings 
for  the  Godly  Party,  especially  for  those  that  were  her  Customers.'  Her  house  was 
that  commonly  called  the  ninth  house  belonging  to  Merton  Coll.  Gruel  was  a 
favourite  prescription  with  the  Tatler  for  madmen  and  those  possessed  with  the 
spirit  of  party  (ii.  55,  v.  29,  vi.  209,  213,  ed.  Nichols).  —  The  Customs  of  London  was 
reprinted  by  Francis  Douce  in  1811,  410.  —  John  Grange  published  only  The  Golden 
Aphroditis  (1577).  —  John  Stockwood,  Master  of  Tunbridge  School,  published 
several  works,  chiefly  school-books.  —  Thos.  Cooper  (Bp.  of  Lincoln  1571,  of  Win- 
chester 1584,  d.  1594,  author  of  the  Thesaurus'}  pub.  his  Brief  Exposition  1573.  See 
Athenae  i.  607  ;  Harington  Nugae  Antiquae  ii.  87. 

140.  19.  There  is  a  Life  of  John  Batteley,  author  of  Antiquitates  Rutupinae,  in 
the  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  ;  cf.  Rawl.  J.  4°.  6.  213  sqq.  —  Two  letters  from  Dr.  Arbuthnot 
to  Dr.  Charlett,  describing  the  circumstances  of  Dr.  Gregory's  death,  are  printed  in 
Letters  from  the  Bodleian,  i.  1  76  sqq.  from  the  originals,  Ballard  xxiv.  63,  64.  Sir 
Isaac  Newton's  testimonial  is  No.  13  in  the  same  vol.  ;  and  Nos.  1  8  to  33  are  original 
letters  from  Gregory  to  Charlett.  A  letter  from  Dr.  Smalridge  to  Charlett  on  this 
occasion  is  in  Ballard  vii.  13  (printed  in  Nichols  Illustrations  iii.  279).  In  Ballard 
viii.  7  and  9,  are  remarks  by  Archbp.  Narcissus  Marsh  on  Gregory  and  Halley's  pro- 
posed ed.  of  Apollonius  Pergaeus'  Conical  Sections,  on  the  death  of  the  former  (whom 
he  wishes  to  see  succeeded  by  Caswell),  and  the  high  qualifications  of  the  latter 
(letters  of  March  3,  1708,  and  Jan.  ii,  1 


141.  6.  There  is  a  letter  from  Bp.  Stratford,  expressing  strong  approval  of  the 
Society  for  the  Reformation  of  Manners,  in  Nicolson  Ep.  Corr.  170  sqq. 

142.  22.  Thos.  Sargeant,  D.C.L.  1666.     His  epitaph  (conceived  in  a  different 
spirit  from  that  given  by  Hearne)  is  in  Wood-Gutch  Colleges  and  Halls  302,  where  it 
is  said  of  him  that  '  plusquam  L  annos  infra  egregia  hsec  mcenia  sponte  delimit."     He 
was  75  years  of  age.     His  name  does  not  occur  in  Burrows'  Visitors'  Register.     His 
will  is  entered  in  Griffiths'  Index  to  Wills  55. 

143.  36.  W.  Whitfield,  Preb.  of  Canterbury  1707,  d.  1717.     See  Rawl.  J.  4°.  3. 
354.   He  was  Vicar  of  St.  Giles's  Cripplegate,  '  ubi  obiit  curis  et  litibus  Parochianorum 
injustis  plusquam  annis  oppressus  '  [R.  R.]. 

144.  12.  Hearne  has  an  account  of  Binsey  in  an  Appendix  to  Gul.  Neubrigensis 
756  sqq.     Prince  George's  funeral  expenses   (Cal.  of  Treas.  Papers  Dec.  8,  1708) 
amounted  to  £649  173.  7^d,  of  which  £9  6s,  8d.  was  for  embalming  the  body.     Sir 
Cloudesly  Shovel's  funeral  cost  £687  53.  gd.  ib.  (1708-14)  4.     See  Steele's  Letters,  i. 
64  sqq.     John  Dunton  perhaps  exceeds  all  the  Prince's  other  admirers:     Life  and 
Errors  335-7.     There  are  some  remarks  on  the  Queen's  behaviour  on  the  occasion  in 
the  Duchess  of  Marlborough's  Conduct  222  sqq.  —  Ralph  Freke's  gift  to  the  library 
was  made  in  1657;  Macray  Annals  88.     Wm.  Freke  {Book-Lore  Oct.  1885)  was  his 
son.     This  Lord  Hatton  was  the  son  of  Christopher  Lord  Hatton,  to  whom  most  of 


A'OTES   TO    VOLUME  XVIII.  435 

the  letters  printed  by  Mr.  E.  Maunde  Thompson  in  his  Selections  from  the  Hatton 
Correspondence  (Camden  Soc.  1878)  were  addressed,  and  who  died  1706. 

146.  6.  This  MS.  of  Spelman  was  never  recovered,  and  is  now  missing  in  the 
Bodleian  collection  entitled  e  Musao :  it  stands  as  No.  3693  in  the  Catal.  MSS""* 
Anglia  et  Hibernia,  pars  I  (Oxon.  1697,  fol.).  [F.  M.] 

146.  12.  Mr.  Macray  writes  to  Notes  and  Queries  (6th  S.  xi.  137)  that  he  has  been 
unable  to  discover  the  passage  referred  to  in  this  epigram.  The  '  Bishop  and  his 
Clerks'  became  proverbial:  e.g.  Dec.  14,  1710,  Sir  Simon  Harcourt  wrote  to 
Charlett,  alluding  to  the  wreck  of  the  Whig  Ministry  on  the  Sacheverell  case :  '  Every 
Mariner  that  is  knowing  will  avoid  the  dangerous  Rocks  termed  the  Bishop  and  his 
Clerks '  (Ballard  x.  71). — The  greater  part  of  Brokesby's  reply  is  printed  in  Letters 
from  the  Bodleian  i.  180  sqq.  He  afterwards  very  carefully  worked  up  his  materials, 
which  were  published  by  Hearne  under  the  date  of  May  16,  1711,  in  Leland  Itin.  vi. 
76  sqq. 

150.  1 6.  The  addition  of  Freinshemius  was  very  possibly  suggested  by  Charlett,  to 
whom  Dr.  Gregory  had  sent  word  (Ballard  xxiv.  33,  June  2,  1708)  of  a  Livy  printed  at 
Utrecht  by  Van  de  Water  in  I2mo.,  with  Freinshemius'  Supplements,  Index,  &c. 


VOL.  XVIII. 

Page  153,  line  3.  Thomas  "White,  alias  Whitebread,  was  one  of  the  victims  of  the 
Popish  Plot.  He  was  executed  at  Tyburn,  June  20,  1679.  See  State  Trials  vii.  311. 
Scroggs  charged  the  jury  and  Jeffreys  passed  sentence. — The  Life  of  John  Morwen  is 
in  Athenae  i.  195,  and  a  Latin  poem  by  him  on  Bp.  Gardiner  in  Hearne  Curious 
Discourses  Appendix  ad  Jin. — For  Ralph  Lambert,  see  Cotton's  Fasti,  Index.  He 
was  Precentor  of  Down  1703,  and  Dean  1709;  Bp.  of  Dromore  1717,  of  Meath 
1727;  d.  1731.  He  published  a  Sermon  on  Isaiah  lix.  7,  8  (1708),  and  a  trans,  of 
Abbadie  La  Ve"rite"  de  la  Religion  reformfe. — There  are  several  entries  in  Evelyn's 
Diary  respecting  this  case.  Under  June  18,  1696,  he  writes:  'The  famous  trial 
between  my  Lord  Bath  and  Lord  Montague  for  an  estate  of  £  i  1,000  a  year,  left  by  the 
Duke  of  Albemarle,  wherein  on  several  trials  had  been  spent  £20,000  between  them. 
The  Earl  of  Bath  was  cast  on  evident  forgery.'  See  also  Luttrell,  Index.  The  whole 
case  turned  on  the  question  whether  Ann  Clarges'  first  husband  was  not  living  at  the 
time  of  her  marriage  to  General  Monk.  See  Burke  Extinct  Baronetages  1 16 ;  and 
Notes  and  Queries  2nd  S.  xii.  384,  442,  526 ;  3rd  S.  i.  137  ;  5th  S.  iii.  214. 

156.  41.  This  statement  is  inaccurate.     The  duty  of  keeping  parish  registers  was 
imposed  on  the  parochial  clergy  by  a  royal  injunction,  published  by  Cromwell,  as 
Vicar-General,  on  September  29, 1538  (see  Waters  Parish  Registers  in  England  5  sqq?) 

157.  38.     For  T.  Langton,  cons.  1483,  Bp.  of  Salisbury  1485,  Winchester  1493,  d. 
1501,  see  Athenae  ii.  688  sqq. ;  for  the  Langton  family,  Marshall  Genealogist's  Guide 
372  ;  and  on  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws,  Bp.  Stubbs  Lectures  on  Mediaeval  and 
Modern  History  330  sy.     In  Ballard  xxxi.  36,  Bishop  writes  :  '  Col.  Hatton  asks  how 
you  present  your  Bs  or  Dr  of  Law,  as  B.  or  Dr  of  the  Canon  &  Civil  Law,  or  B.  or  Dr 
of  the  Imperial  Laws.' 

158.  48.  Ballard  xv.  28  is  a  letter  from  Dr.  Inett  to  Charlett  in  commendation  of 
Mr.  Thistlethwaite  as  corrector  of  the  press. 

159.  47.  A  propos  of  paper,  the  following  extract   from  a  letter  of  J.  Willes  to 
Charlett  (Ballard  xxv.  15)  is  not  uninteresting.    '  I  thank  you  for  your  sheet  of  Ensum 
paper,  I  suppose  some  of  ye  paper-makers  have  better  skill,  or  else  one  undertaker  in 
London,  one  Mr.  Cudworth  y4  lives  about  ye  Temple,  would  not  have  gotten  40,000". 
this  year,  principally  by  y*  paper  and  linnen  manifactures.     Wn  I  was  last  at  Lichfield 
there  came  $•  undertakers  to  set  up  y.»  Linnen  manifacture  there,  they  demanded  some 
publick  building  to  be  allowed  them  for  a  work-house  &  store-house,  y*,  because  ye 
poor  would  be  some  time  before  they  would  learn  to  spin  well,  ye  citty  would  main- 
tain all  their  poor  for  one  year  &  let  them  have  ye  promt  of  their  work,  &  after  one 
year  they  would  mantain  all  y*  poor  ye  were  able  to  work  for  ever,  &  would  employ 
500  persons,  if  so  many  to  be  found,  &  did  not  doubt  but  to  make  linnen  worth  IDS 
per  ell.'     I  may  add  a  passage  from  a  letter  of  Dr.  Lancaster's  to  the  same,  dated 

F  f  2 


436 


H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS. 


Jan.  16,  1715  (Ballard  xxi.  59):  'pray  Sir  will  you  do  as  much  as  send  to 
Sir  Wilkinson  of  Queens  and  let  your  serv*  tell  Him  Mr  Basket  will  send  down 
His  paper  on  Monday  for  Aristotles  Ethicks.  tho  I  can  tell  Him  that  the  Brownish 
paper  He  returns  is  the  better  paper  to  print  upon.  All  my  Paris  Editions  are  on 
paper  of  the  same  Dunny  Colour,  and  those  Editions  (for  that  reason  for  one)  excell 
all  other.  I  never  heard  English  printeing  blamed  so  much  for  any  thing  as  the  papers 
being  too  White.  But  as  for  Mr.  Wilkinson,  I  suppose  He  has  promised  his  Subscribers 
very  White  paper  and  they  must  have  it.  Master,  I  have  found  by  Experience  that 
Eyes  are  very  good  things,  and  yet  I  will  not  say  that  I  found  it  out  first,  for  they  say 
Old  Friar  Bacon  knew  it  and  even  some  antedilvuians  [stc]  lived  long  enough  to  have 
discovered  it.  Now  Brown  paper  preserves  the  eye  better  yn  White,  and  for  that 
reason  the  wise  Chinese  write  on  Brown.  So  the  Egyptians,  so  Aldus  and  Stevens 
printed,  and  on  such  paper  or  Velom  are  old  MSS.  written.  Savil  publish'd  his 
Chrysostom  with  a  Silver  Letter  on  Brown  paper,  and  when  Authors  &  Readers  agree 
to  be  wise  wee  shall  avoid  printing  on  a  Glareing  white  paper.' — Hearne  has  notes  in 
Leland  Itin.  v.  122,  124  on  Weycock  and  the  coin  of  Amyntas  here  referred  to. 
— 1.  41.  For  in  read  on. 

160.  25.  See  Boase  Register  of  Exeter  Coll.  vii.  'The  "scriptorium"  of  a  great 
monastery  answered  to  a  modem  printing  house  for  the  multiplication  of  books.  These 
valuable  works  were  unhappily  sometimes  pledged  in  the  various  University  "  chests" 
when  the  College,  which  was  very  poor,  wanted  money.  .  .  There  is  constant  mention 
of  these  "Chests."  Ralph' Germeyn  .. .  founded  a  chest  of  £10  in  1316  for  making  loans 
to  poor  scholars  in  the  College,  and  some  years  afterwards  Richard  Grenfield  Rector 
of  Kilkhampton  in  Cornwall  founded  a  similar  chest.  Robert  Rygge  did  the  same 
towards  the  end  of  the  century;  in  1589  we  hear  of  Bosisto,  Helme,  and  Eveleighe 
being  appointed  "  Keepers  of  the  Germin  chest." '  See  also  refs.  in  foot-note,  and  p. 
i  ;  and  Brodrick  Memorials  of  Merton  Index  s.  v.  '  Chest.' — For  "W.  Merifeld,  J. 
Babbe,  and  John  Mayne,  who  were  contemporaries  at  Exeter,  see  Boase  Register  25. 

162.  2.  Thomas  de  Elmham's  Chronicle  was  published  by  Hearne  1727,  and  in 
the  Rolls  Series  1858.  For  Leuton  read  Lent  on.  For  the  Life  of  Becket  by  John 
Grandison,  Bp.  of  Exeter  1327-1369,  see  Hardy  Descriptive  Catalogue  ii.  356. 

162.  40  sqq.  On  Jan.  25  Luttrell  writes  (vi.  399)  :  '  The  frost  that  began  on  26th  of 
the  preceding  month,  continued  for  above  a  fortnight  with  great  violence  here  in 
England  and  in  foreign  parts,  where  several  were  froze  to  death  in  many  countries,  and 
there  were  very  great  snows  ;  but  about  the  1 1  or  1 2  of  this  month  the  weather  broke 
and  the  snow  melted  very  gently,  but  in  2  or  three  days  after,  before  the  snow  was 
quite  gone,  it  began  to  freeze  again,  and  froze  very  hard  after,  and  a  good  deal  of  snow 
fell  again  ;  and  this  very  day  it  snowed  all  day,  and  there  was  a  very  high  wind,  which 
blew  the  snow  upon  the  ground  up  in  the  air  like  a  whirlwind.'     And  on  Jan.  29  : 
'  Yesterday  the  weather  began  to  give  and  the  snow  to  melt,  so  that  it  was  a  very 
gentle  thaw,  and  continued  the  same  all  this  day.'     There  was  another  severe  frost  on 
Feb.  6,  which  lasted  till  the  i8th.     Cf.  Wentworth  Papers  68. 

163.  8.  The  Chronicle  of  Galfridus  le  Baker,  of  Swinbroke,  was  published  by  Dr. 
Giles  in  1847.     I*  W'U>  we  believe,  be  shortly  re-edited  from  the  Bodleian  MS.  by  Mr. 
E.  Maunde  Thompson  for  the  Clarendon  Press.     See  Macray  Manual  of  British 
Historians  38. 

164.  13.  Letters  of  Ant.  Hall  to  Dr.  Charlett  are  preserved  in  Ballard  xviii.  23-27. 
See  also  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  230  sqq. 

165.  7.  Wm.  Clarke  was  executed  at  Winchester,  for  his  participation  in  'the  Bye,' 
Nov.  29,  1603.     He   wrote,  on   behalf  of  the   secular  clergy,   a  reply  to  Parsons' 
Manifestation.      Gillow    Bibliographical  Diet,  of  English    Catholics  i.   488   sqq.  ; 
State  Trials  ii.  61  sqq. 

167.  22.  See  Trench  Select  Glossary  s.  v.  'Girl;'  Skeat  Etymological  Dictionary,  and 
Piers  Plowman,  Student's  edition,  ii.  21. 

VOL.    XT*. 

***  This  volume  formerly  belonged  to  Hen.  Beresford,  of  St.  John's,  1687.  At 
the  beginning  is  a  list  of  Latin  words,  alphabetically  arranged ;  and  at  the  end, 
when  the  book  is  reversed,  is  a  similar  list  of  Greek  words. 


NOTES   TO    VOLUME  XIX.  437 

Page  168,  line  22.  These  notes  on  Fabricenses,  Barbaricarii,  &c.,  were  worked  up 
by  Hearne  in  '  Remarks  upon  a  Roman  Inscription  found  near  Bath,'  printed  at  the 
end  of  the  Life  of  Alfred,  228  sqq. — 1.  35.  This  reading  does  not  seem  to  be  noticed 
in  subsequent  editions  of  the  Greek  Testament.  The  commentaries  give  other  instances 
of  ir(pTT(p(v(Tat,  on  which  Hearne  has  a  note  at  p.  1 73  1.  5  infra. 

170.  7.  There  are  some  interesting  particulars  of  these  ancient  cinderheaps  in  Iron- 
Making  in  the  Olden  Times,  by  the  Rev.  H.  G.  Nicholls,  pp.  7  sqq.  'Their 
character,'  he  writes,  'is  peculiar,  exhibiting  by  no  means  complete  fusion,  but  rather 
semi-vitrefaction  by  roasting ;  the  ore  retaining,  not  unfrequently,  a  large  measure  of 
its  original  weight  and  form,  explained  .  .  by  charcoal  being  the  fuel  employed.  .  . 
Water-power  was  rarely,  if  ever,  resorted  to  at  this  remote  date,  since  cinders  are  sel- 
dom found  near  brooks  or  streams.' 

170.  45.  Thos.  Lane,  B.A.,  of  St.  John's  Camb.,  incorp.  Ch.  Ch.  1678 ;   M.A. 
Merton  1683;  B-  and  D.C.L.  1686.     See  Brodrick  Memorials  296. 

171.  5.  So  early  as  Oct.  7,  1708,  Dr.  T.  Wood  wrote  to  Charlett  (Ballard  xxii.  82) : 
'  If  Mr.  Carswell  is  made  Professor,  I  hope  that  you  and  my  friends  will  assist  my 
brother  Hackett,  who  will  be  a  candidate  for  his  place  '  (see  p.  172  infra). 

173.  8.  There  is  a  life  of  Maittaire  in  Lit.  Anec.  iv.  556  sqq.  See  also  Rawl.  J. 
4°.  i.  169;  fol.  21.  14.  Almeloveen's  De  vitis  Stephanorum  was  published  at 
Amsterdam  1683. 

1 73.  43.  The  pamphlet  referred  to  is  Reasons  for  the  Repeal  of  that  part  of  the  Statutes 
of  Colleges  in  the  universities  of  Cambridge  and  Oxford  which  require  the  taking  of  orders 
under  a  Penalty.  In  Rawl.  J.  4°.  3.  285,  it  is  attributed  to  W.  Blencoe  (cf.  5.  97) ; 
'  scripsit  et  clam  edidit,'  writes  Rawlinson,  but  the  entry  was  apparently  at  once 
deleted.  See  Smalridge  in  Ballard  vii.  14: — '  We  have  had  a  great  deal  of  Noise  in 
Town  ab*  y*  Repeal  of  ye  Founders  Statutes  requiring  Fellows  of  Houses  to  go  into 
Orders.  A  Paper  was  preparing  in  Answer  to  the  printed  Reasons  (as  they  are  call'd) 
for  such  a  Repeal.  But  that  Matter  seems  now  to  be  drop'd  ;  all  the  BP*  and  sev1 
Members  of  ye  H.  of  C.  (who  might  be  thought  favourers  of  such  a  Repeal)  having 
declar'd  Openly  and  Warmly  ag'  It.  The  Speaker  has  promis'd  to  do  all  He  can  to 
prevent  such  a  Bill's  being  brought  in,  &  to  Oppose  it,  if  mov'd.  Yor  Mr.  Bertue, 
who  was  at  first  a  great  Promoter  of  it,  has,  I  am  told,  graciously  promis'd  to  press 
it  no  farther.  You  will  think  Yor  selves  oblig'd  to  send  Him  the  thanks  of  the 
College  at  least,  if  not  of  ye  University  for  this  Act  of  Condescension.'  So  also  C. 
Dod  to  Thwaites,  Feb.  24,  1709  (Ballard  xxxiv.  50) :  '  Some  factious,  seditious  fellows 
of  Colleges,  not  far  from  ours,  have  printed  a  scandalous  paper  entituled  Proposalls 
for  repealing  those  Statutes  which  require  fellows  of  Colls,  to  take  orders,  they  have 
been  very  buisy  in  dispersing  ym  about  the  court  of  requests  and  sollicking  the  members 
to  be  for  it.  Twas  to  have  been  propos'd  to  day  in  the  house ;  the  Whiggs  seem  to 
be  very  hot  for  it,  they  wou'd  likewise  have  the  fellows  tum'd  out  of  their  fellowships, 
after  soo  many  years,  these  are  glorious  projects  indeed,  the  Chief  Author  of  ym,  is 
Tom  Dalton,  (a  glorious  fanaticall  Heroe  upon  my  word,)  who  wou'd  bring  all  things 
into  Anarchy,  &  confusion.  In  short,  this  is  their  damnd  way  to  pull  the  University 
(a  place  that  I  shall  allways  have  a  great  veneration  &  respect  for)  in  peices,  for  by 
altering  the  least  Statute,  is  striking  at  the  whole  foundation,  &  twill  be  a  precedent  to 
tear  ym  all  in  peices,  (which  I  hope  in  God  will  never  happen)  they  have  desired  me 
to  sollicite  those  members  of  my  acquaintance,  to  espouse  their  cause,  but  I've  given 
them  a  very  rough  deniall.' — Again,  Kennett  writes,  Feb.  26,  1709  (Ballard  vii.  67) : 
'  There  is  a  Bill  projected  upon  a  silly  Paper  wch  you  have  seen,  to  alter  the  Statutes 
in  both  Universities  wcl>  oblige  the  Members  to  goe  into  Orders.  I  confess  I  am  by 
no  means  for  it ;  for  beside  the  danger  of  medling  wth  the  old  Constitution,  I  doubt  it 
may  be  of  ill  Effect  to  break  in  upon  the  Will  and  Wisdom  of  Founders  and  Bene- 
factors. Nor  is  it  so  just  to  take  away  the  Encouragements  allotted  to  the  Studies  of 
Divinity ;  nor  will  such  an  Exemption  from  Holy  Orders  tend  to  any  thing  so  much 
as  to  the  Breeding  up  Sparks  and  Beaux  instead  of  grave  Divines.' — Cf.  ix.  36  (where 
Trelawny,  in  1710,  recommends  Sir  R.  Onslow  to  his  clergy  as  Knight  of  the  Shire, 
on  the  ground  that  he  stopped  this  Bill,  which  is  denied  by  Bromley,  Nov.  9,  1710 
(xxxviii.  86) ;  and  xxiii.  27  where  Dr.  Roderick  writes:  '  I  hope  y"  attempt  against 
our  Statutes  ab*  H.  Orders  is  quasht,  tho  I  doubt  it  has  still  too  many  secret  abettors 
w°h  may  open  upon  some  unlucky  oppertunity,  I  am  glad  ye  first  movers  are  baulkt 
by  an  universal  contempt  &  scorn  at  home.' 


438  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

For  the  later  history  of  the  movement  see  Wordsworth  Social  Life  343  sqq. 

174.  10.  Dr.  Hickes  wrote  Jan.  29,  1709 :  '  I  intend  to  read  the  notes  in  Dr.  Smiths 
Ignatius  very  diligently,  and  then  iudg  between  him  and  the  late  Bishop  of  Peter- 
borough, who  is  the  Bishop  described  in  his  preface.' 

175.  3.  J.  Colinge  is  introduced  in  Rawl.  J.  4°.  6.  222  as  the  author  of 'Ultimum 
Tribunal  et  monitus  ad  opportunam  et  maturam  ante  diem  mortis  resipiscentiam,  in 
usum  extranei  Lectoris.' 

175.  33.  Rich.  Theed,  New  Inn  Hall,  B.A.  1703  ;  Hart  Hall,  M.A.  1706. 

178.  i.  Bentley's  Emendations  of  Plautus  from  his  copy  of  Gronovius  were  edited 
by  Prof.  E.  A.  Sonnenschein  in  the  Anecdota  Oxoniensia  Series,  1883. — Cf.  A  True 
and  Particular  Account  of  the  most  surprising  Preservation  of  three  Women  buried 
in  the  Snow  for  37  Days,  by  Ignazio  Somis  (12™°.,  1768).      See  also  Letters  from  the 
Bodleian  i.  193  n. 

179.  41.  Cf.  Annotations  on  the    '  Tatler?   [by  W.  Wagstaffe,  1710],  quoted   in 
Tatler,  ed.  Nichols,  iii.  42.     '  The  airy,  perhaps,  and  facetious,  who  are  enemies  to 
all  solid  learning,  will  be  very  ready  to  quarrel  with  the  Annotator,  for  making  some 
remarks  that  are  purely  literal.     But  these  know  not  what  it  is  to  be  a  linguist,  a 
scholiast,  and  a  writer  of  notes.     They  never  heard  of  the  controversy  about  uniting 
and  disjoining  the  syllables  of  the  word  atavis  in  the  first  line  of  HORACE'S  Odes.' 

180.  29.  It  is  clear  that  Charlett  was  anxious  to  find  occasion  against  Hearne  on 
account  of  Alfred,  and  it  is  possible  that  Hearne  had  been  guilty  of  anticipating  a  scheme 
of  the  Master's.     Tanner  wrote  to  the  latter  (Ballard  iv.  51,  June  10,  1709) :  '  I  don't 
find  any  mention  of  the  folio  Edition  of  the  English  Alfred,  w°h  you  hinted  at  in  your 
last.'     I  take  the  following  extracts  from  two  letters  of  Dr.  Wm.  Smith  to  Charlett 
(Ballard  xvi.  37,  40).     '  June  22,  1707.     As  to  yor  enquiry  concerning  the  lives  of 
King  Alfred  I  cannot  return  any  positive  answer ;  but  what  number  soeer  were  left 
they  are  now  all  deposited  in  the  Treasury :  for  tho  they  had  been  severall  times 
collated  &  bundled  up  in  dozens  or  scores ;  yet  y°  Curiosity  of  new  Comers  into  ye 
Library  still  Cutt  ye   Strings  &  broke   ym  loose  again ;    wch  was  the  occasion  of 
yr  removall  into  a  place  where  they  will  be  safe  &  secure,  it  is  but  opening  one  bundle 
&  you  may  easily  compute  the  number  of  ye  whole.      Nether  will  ye  value  be  much 
lessend  by  printing  ye  life  in  English  except  it  be  with  Notes  &  then  I  imagine  who- 
ever publishes  it,  will  fall  foul  on  some  of  Mr  Walkers  annotations,  as  being  in  some 
places  derogatory  to  the  honr  of  ye  Author.     There  was  none  ever  sold  save  a  very 
few ;  since  ye  first  disposall  of  ye  Copys  into  booksellers  hands.'     And  again,  March 
31,  1709.     '  I  allways  conceived  that  Mr  Spelman  (sonne  to  Sr  Henry)  did  either  by 
will  or  some  verball  order  bestow  the  MS.  you  mention  (being  the  Life  of  their 
reputed  founder)  upon  the  College  &  that  they  were  accordingly  possessed  of  it  imme- 
diately upon  his  death.     But  whatever  way  they  came  by  it  I  am  sure  it  was  in  their 
Custody  before  I  had  any  the  least  knowledge  of  the  private  affairs  of  ye  College,  & 
had  it  lent  me  to  peruse  when  I  was  Bach,  of  Arts.     He  makes  K.  Alfred  the  founder 
as   well  of   ye   University  as  the   College   &   tho   Mr   Walker  has  taken   him   to 
task  for  endeavouring  to  refute   Mr   Cambden's  interpolation  as  spurious,  in   his 
Edition  of  Asserius  Menevensis,  &  has  fallen  foule  on  Arch  BP  Parkers  memory,  yet  from 
the  account  y*  Mr  Twine  gives  of  his  own  defence  when  in  his  life  time  challenged 
by  learned  men  for  this  forgery  his  defence  is  so  very  lame  that  I  am  forced  to  acquitt 
the  A  BP  and  lett  the  suspicion  of  indirect  proceeding  if  there  were  any  lay  at  his 
door,  as  far  as  my  judgm*  may  make  any  decision  in  this  case.     Mr  Wase  the  beadle 
translated  the  book,  &  it  was  published  in  latine  first  bee.  the  College  did  not  doubt 
of  y*  Sale  of  it  in  English  tho  there  were  an  Edition  in  latine,  but  not  vice  versa.     I 
never  heard  of  any  other  Copy  and  if  there  be  any  other  extant,  I  believe  it  was 
clandestinely  procured  from  our  originall.'     Dr.  Charlett  certainly  liked  to  see  his 
imprimatur  on  '  Theatre  Books  ; '  it  appears,  e.g.,  on  the  Oxford  and  Geneva  Letters. 
It  is  also  true  that  he  had  a  weakness  for  Dedications  ;  on  Oct.  20,  1713  (Ballard  xii. 
131),  Dr.  Hickes  (in  answer  obviously  to  the  Master's  application)  writes  that  he 
would  gladly  have  dedicated  his  Sermons  to  Charlett  if  the  latter  had  written  sooner, 
and  will  dedicate  Vol.  II.  to  him  if  Mr.  Spinckes  thinks  it  worth  his  pains  to  prepare 
another  vol. 

182.  45.  For  Oharlett's  life  and  character,  see  the  account  in  Reliquiae  Heamianae 
i.  218  sqq.,  which  is  chiefly  based  on  Rawlins'  letter  in  Rawl.  J.  fol.  16.  367.     The 


NOTES   TO   VOLUME  XIX.  439 

informant  at  Cambridge  mentioned  p.  221  was  Thomas  Baker  (see  Ballard  xxx.  2). 
It  must  be  admitted  that  Charlett  has  benefited  posterity  more  by  his  fondness  for  '  n 
numerous  correspondence '  than  if  he  had  published  many  volumes.  It  may  be  men- 
tioned that  many  intimate  details  respecting  him  may  be  gathered  from  W.  Bishop's 
letters,  which  fill  vols.  xxxi-ii  of  the  Ballard  collection.  Nov.  27,  1707,  Sir  Simon 
Harcourt  wrote  (Ballard  x.  70) :  '  I  wish  I  coud  make  you  as  successfull  in  the 
Widow  yo"  hinted  at  .  .  ;  Follow  Chaucers  Rule  &  prosperity  may  attend  You.  In 
that  affair  Consideration  is  very  necessary  before  an  Attack,  wl  her  Age  &  expecta- 
tions are,  &  whether  You  wth  one  thousand  can  have  a  good  prospect  if  you  engage 
her  wth  ten  ;  but  after  the  Hare  is  started,  deliberation  whether  You  shall  follow  her 
or  not,  is  not  the  manner  of  Hunters,  but  if  the  Doggs  are  not  in  fault,  they  allwaies 
runn  her  down  &  humble  her.'  The  Oxford  wits  were  never  tired  of  ridiculing  the 
singular  trio,  Charlett,  Sherwin,  and  Prickett.  To  instances  which  will  be  iound 
elsewhere,  we  may  add  University  Miscellany  4  and  u  '  Avolaverunt  ona  Prickettus, 
Sherwinus,  C — s,  tria,  seque  veneranda  capita.  .  .  Pricketti  compotatorem,  Shervini 
pupillum,  Principalis  Meares,  vel  saltern  filiae  tutorem. . .  Cum  Aldrichio  High  Church- 
man, cum  Bentleio  Low  Churchman,  cum  Tindallo  no  Churchman.'  The  mention  of 
Bentley  recalls  a  letter  of  Thwaites  (Ballard  xiii.  31,  Jan.  16,  1697)  :  Christ  Church  men 
begin  to  talk,  y*  Dr.  Charlett  has  been  concerned  on  both  sides  of  the  Controversy  between 
ym  &  Dr.  Bentley,  in  animating  one  agst  the  other,  &  in  y«  last  election  of  a  parliam1  man, 
for  the  University,  he  was  deeply  engaged  for  two  parties — he  canvassed  for  Clarges, 
while  a  grave  man  sat  by,  &  read  a  Letf  of  his,  in  wch  he  promised  Life  &  Limb  for  Sr 
Wm  Trumbal.'  Sherwin  figures  in  the  l  Advertisement '  at  the  end  of  the  Terrae 
Filius'  speech  of  1713.  '  This  to  give  notice  to  all  Gentlemen  and  others,  that  if  they, 
their  Wives,  their  Children,  or  Servants  want  a  Doctor's  Degree,  they  may  repair  to 
the  Apodyterium,  where  Mr.  Sherwin  will  give  constant  Attendance.  If  they  cannot 
come  themselves,  he  will  faithfully  execute  their  Commissions.  There  are  the  very 
best  Degrees,  fresh  and  newly  imported,  and  such  as  no  other  dealers  have  besides  the 
Ordinance1.  All  other  sorts  of  Degrees  are  there  likewise  sold  ready  made,  at 
Reasonable  Prices.'  See  also  Ant.  Alsopi  Odarum  libri  II  (1752)  19  sqq. 

183.  24.  There  are  some  interesting  letters  from  J.  and  T.  Cockman  to  Charlett  in 
Ballard  xxi.  73  sqq.     For  J.  Cockman  see  Rawl.  J.  4°.  5.  81  ;  and  for  the  latter  4°.  a. 
28,  4.  163. 

184.  8.  Dr.  J.  Brabourne,  Rector  of  Charlbury,  d.   1726.     See   Bloxam  Magd. 
Registers  vi.  36  sqq.     John  Hntton,  in  the  letter  quoted  immediately  below,  remarks 
that  he  has  '  no  opinion  of  him.' 

186.  I.  May  3,  1709  (Ballard  xxxv.  67)  John  Hutton  writes  to  Charlett:  'I  haue 
not  seen  any  of  ye  fine  six-peny  Papers  y"  mention,  but  am  mighty  glad  to  hear  y* 
BP  of  Lincoln  has  done  so  well  at  Brasin  Nose  College.  .  .  And  if  it  would  not  look 
like  Flattery,  I  would  heartily  thank  you  for  yr  own  steady  and  Good  Conduct  not  only 
in  ye  late  Election  of  a  Beadle,  but  also  in  yr  sloping  ye  Degree  of  y*  Blasphemous 
Wadamite,  &  thereby  Encouraging  ye  worthy  Efforts  of  Mr.  Whaley.' 

187.  4.  I  think  there  can  be  little  doubt  that  t-wayte  is  here  a  misprint  for  twayle, 
i.  e.  towayle.     Mr.  Cox  quotes  (Forms  of  Bidding  Prayer  33}  a  similar  list  of  bene- 
factions :  '  boke,  belle,  chalyce,  or  vestement,  surplys,  auter  cloth  or  towayle,  londes, 
rentes,  lampe  or  lyght."     The  Librarian  of  the  Cambridge  University  Library  cour- 
teously informs  me  that  he  cannot,  on  a  rapid  examination,  trace  the  copy  of  the 
Oculus  Sacerdotis  here  referred  to.   Most  of  the  MSS.  were  rebound  in  the  last  century, 
and  it  is  possible  that  the  leaf  in  question  may  have  been  displaced  or  even  lost. 

187.  43.  The  secret  of  some  at  least  of  Dr.  Woodroffe's  pecuniary  embarrassments 
is  told  in  the  Calendar  of  Treasury  Papers  1702-7.  In  Ixxx.  113,  we  read  that 
£1105  was  due  to  him  from  the  Crown  on  account  of  the  Greek  youths,  '  which  sum  he 
sought  might  be  reimbursed  to  him,  or  that  a  prosecution  for  a  debt  might  be  staid,  he 
being  proprietor  of  a  rock  salt  pit  in  Cheshire."  See  also  Ixxxvii.  142,  xcv.  n,  xcvi. 
104.  In  xcvii.  27  it  is  stated  that  he  had  for  six  years  been  at  the  whole  cost  of  the 
maintenance  of  these  Greeks  (except  £400  of  royal  bounty),  and  his  charges  had  been 
between  £2000  and  £3000.  The  petition  is  endorsed  by  Godolphin.  '15  Jan.  170$. 
Process  staid  till  next  Michaelmas  term.'  Dr.  Woodroffe  was  b.  '  in  his  own  vault  in 

1  '  Ordinantia  is  a  Meeting  of  the  Heads  of  Houses  (which  they  themselves  call  by  that  Name)  held 
every  Night  at  the  Lodgings  of  one  or  other  of  them,  to  settle  the  Church,  disturb  the  University,  and 
of  late  to  abuse  the  L — d  Chanc — r  H — t.'  Terra*  Filius'  Speech,  1713,  p.  i. 


440  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

the  Church  of  St.  Bartholomew's  behind  the  Exchange,  25  July  1711 '  (Rawl.  J.  4°  2. 
63).  In  The  University  Miscellany  (ed.  2,  I^IT,),  is  the  following  (from  the  Terrae- 
Filius'  Speech  of  1703)  : — '  Quid  existimas,  Captain,  de  hac  Quaestione,  an  Tempus 
est  ens  reale  ?  Qui  concionans  metitur  tempus  per  Hour-glass  and  makes  nothing  of 
it,  &  takes  up  money  super  Bond,  and  pays  neither  Principle  nor  Interest,  illi  tempus 
est  ens  reale,  sed  datur  quidem  Head  of  a  House,  &c.  P.M.  Dr.  Woodroffius  est  quidam 
Head  of  a  House.  Sed  Dr.  Woodroffius,  6°<r.  Ergo,  P.M.  Qui  concionatur  duller 

than  H c  of  Brazen  Nose,  and  longer  than  H r  and  H s  of  Pembroke, 

concionatur  per  Hour-glass  and  makes  nothing  on't.  Sed  Dr.  Woodrojfius.  Ergo 
negatur  minor.  Impossibile  quidem  est  V 

188.  19.  There  is  an  analysis  of  this  Sermon,  with  notes,  in  Knight's  Life  of  Colet 
160  sqq.,  and  the  Sermon  itself  is  printed,  with  an  early  translation,  at  pp.  239  sqq. 
The  text  was  Ep.  to  Romans  xii.  2. 

189.  40.  See  Spelman  Life  of  Alfred  (ed.  Heame)  164 ;  and  Appendix  C  (pp.  366 
sqq.}  to  Mr.  Parker's  Early  History  of  Oxford,  '  On  the  Coins  supposed  to  have  been 
struck  at  Oxford  during  King  Alfred's  Reign,'  and  cf.  Mr.  F.  York  Powell's  review  in 
Academy  May  15,  1886,  p.  337. 

189.  52.  Dr.  Stratford  did  get  into  very  considerable  trouble:  see  Dr.  Lancaster's 
letter  of  June  u,  1709  (Ballard  xxi.  53)  ;  and  that  of  Jos.  Woodward  (ib,  xxxiv.  102), 
which  are  given  below  in  full.  In  xxi.  52,  Dr.  Lancaster  states  that  he  has  retained 
Mr.  Parrot  for  the  Univ.  '  Dr.  Smalridge  says  I  have  stated  the  Case  wrong  to  the 
Heads,  and  Dr.  Str — d  says  I  stated  the  case  wrong  to  Sir  Ed.  Northey,  tho  it  was 
the  Dean  &  Canons  that  stated  that  Case  themselves,  and  the  Chapter  Clark  brought 
that  case  to  Town  and  deliver'd  to  Sir  Ed.  N.  with  His  own  Hand.' 

I. 

xxi.  53.  (June  n,  1709.)  '  (N.B.  Every  word  I  say  of  Dr.  Str11  is  mnltiplyd  and 
sent  to  Town.  Just  since  I  wrote  Dr  Smalridge  has  bin  with  me  and  I  have  allowd 
him  to  reveale  the  Secret.) 

'  I  am  mightily  pleased  with  yours  of  Thursday  wherein  you  have  taken  so  much 
pains  to  satisfie  me  that  I  did  not  sign  the  Warrant  ag*  Dr.  Stratford  ;  it  was  some 
diversion  to  me,  and  in  requital  if  you  will  keep  it  private  give  me  leave  to  divert  you 
again  on  the  same  Head.  I  knew  very  well  I  had  no  hand  in  that  or  anything 
relating  to  the  Court  since  I  gave  sentence  ag*  \Voodrof  Oct.  29.  And  this  my  lord 
of  Ormonde  knows  too.  You  must  understand  Dr  Stratford  being  a  person  of  great 
intrigue  and  art,  just  after  He  came  to  this  Town  stole  privately  from  Dr  Smalridge 
and  went  to  my  Lord  of  Ormonde.  His  Grace  was  pleased  as  privately  to  do  me  a 
very  great  Honor  and  come  to  me ;  where  smileing  He  told  me  Dr  Stratford  had  bin 
with  Him.  Upon  this  I  asked  my  lord  if  he  could  haue  the  patience  to  hear  me  if  I 
should  give  him  a  Relation  of  that  whole  proceeding.  And  it  being  what  He  desired  I 
related  to  Him  the  whole  state  of  the  Case,  and  added  what  I  had  been  told  they  had 
reported  to  my  friends  of  the  hard  Usage  they  had  from  me,  and  with  what  wrath  ag* 
Stratford  I  had  signed  the  Capias  and  bid  the  Bailifs  take  him  as  he  went  to  prayers 
and  carry  Him  to  Gaol  in  his  Hood  &  Surplice.  This  I  had  from  Dr.  Smalridge,  and 
this  I  told  my  Lord,  needed  no  answer ;  but  to  let  his  Grace  know  how  false  these 
reports  were,  I  had  not  since  Oct.  29  till  this  day  done  any  Act  in  Court,  or  in  Relation 
to  it ;  that  they  could  not  but  know  I  did  not  sign  the  Warrant  to  take  the  Trr.  for 
they  must  have  seen  whose  hand  was  to  it.  But  I  said  I  was  content  to  bear  the 
Blame  of  signeing  it  without  being  so  Civil  as  to  signifie  to  the  Treasurer  before  hand, 
because  I  looked  upon  what  the  Court  had  done  to  be  right,  and  that  I  was  ready  to 
take  upon  myself  what  the  Officers  had  well  done,  as  thinking  my  self  obliged  in  honor 
&  Conscience  to  screen  them  and  to  stand  between  them  and  the  Displeasure  of  the 
Dean  &  Canons,  who  being  persons  of  power  and  Interest  might  some  time  hurt  the 
Inferior  Officers  of  His  Court  but  they  could  not  hurt  me.  Since  this  they  haue,  as  I 
am  inform'd,  told  the  Duke  the  Story  of  the  Hood  &  Surplice  and  of  my  Incivility  if 
not  Injustice,  in  not  acquainting  Strd  that  I  was  about  to  sign  the  Capias.  And  do  you 
Judge  what  my  Lord  must  think  of  them,  since  He  knew  what  I  had  to  say  upon 
that  fact. 

1  The  Case  ofB.  Woodroffe,  D.D.  gives  an  account  of  his  purchase  of  the  manor  of  Marbury,  for 
I9,ooo/.,  in  1705.  He  was  unable  to  complete  the  purchase,  and  after  a  lawsuit  the  estate  was  assigned 
to  Lord  Rivers,  the  next  bidder,  who  like  Dr.  W.  had  married  one  of  the  co-heiresses. 


NOTES  TO    VOLUME  XIX.  441 

'  Dr.  Smalridge  has  often  blamed  me  for  not  giving  the  Treasurer  notice  of  the 
Capias  &c.  and  because  He  insisted  so  much  upon  it,  I  sent  to  you  to  know  what  the 
Heads  of  Houses  thought  of  it ;  for  I  knew  I  should  be  blamed  even  to  them.  About 
10  days  ago  Dr.  Smalridge  was  urging  it  again.  I  told  Him  I  could  fully  satisfie 
Him  provided  he  wd  keep  my  Answer  secret,  and  tell  no  body ;  and  on  that  Condition 
I  told  Him  all  the  story  how  I  had  no  hand  in  the  doing  it  &c.  Ever  since,  He  has 
daily  heard  me  Railed  at  and  is  ready  to  burst  with  His  Secret,  but  I  have  still 
persisted  that  He  should  not  reveale,  though  I  haue  shew'd  Him  that  it  is  impossible 
but  Stratford  should  know  He  lyes,  because  He  must  haue  seen  the  Warrant  and  whose 
Name  is  to  it.  I  declared  to  Dr  Smalridge  that  I  would  continue  to  own  it,  because 
as  far  as  I  was  able  I  would  screen  the  Officers.  He  said  that  was  only  to  show  in 
what  Contempt  I  had  Stratford  &c.  Pray  keep  this  to  your  self  &  Dr.  Woodward, 
for  I  would  not  for  any  thing  have  the  Duke's  name  so  much  as  mention'd.' 

n. 

'  Oriel  College, 

'  7  June  1709. 

'  Worthy  Sr, — The  Warrant  to  arrest  the  profits  of  Dr.  WoodrofFs  Canonry  was 
decreed  by  Mr.  Vice  Chr  on  the  22th  of  June  1708  ;  &  made  out  by  me  the  same  day, 
and  was  executed  on  Dr.  Stratford  on  the  23th  of  the  same  June.  The  Decree 
adjudging  those  profitts  to  Mrs  Hide  &  Foulkes  till  their  debt  due  from  Dr.  Wood- 
roff  of  839!.  153.  ood.  should  be  paid,  was  read,  &  signed  by  Mr  Vice  Chr,  on  the  2gth 
of  Octob.  1708  ;  but  the  Monition  for  Dr.  Stratford  to  pay  that  summ  (tho  taken  out 
from  me  soone  after  the  Decree  passed,  when  (as  I  have  been  informed)  the  plaintiffs 
were  treating  fairly  wth  Dr.  Stratford  to  pay  the  mony  wthout  trouble)  was  not 
executed  on  him  'till  the  4th  of  January  last,  and  after  that  time,  the  Warrant  to  arrest 
Dr.  Stratford  was  not  Decreed,  till  the  1 3th  of  April  1 709,  when  it  was  ordered  by  Dr. 
Irish,  (tho  not  taken  from  me  till  Saturday  the  16  of  April),  Mr.  Hyde  still  continuing 
to  use  faire  meanes  to  induce  Dr.  Stratford  to  pay  the  money  as  you  was  informed  this 
morning  by  Worthy  Sr, 

Yor  humble  servant, 

Jos.  WOODWARD.'  . 

191.  I.  Dr.  John  Williams  (Magd.  Hall,  M.A.  1658),  the  friend  of  Tillotson, 
was  cons.  Bp.  of  Chichester  1695.  He  preached  the  third  Series  of  Boyle's  Lectures, 
succeeding  Bentley  and  Kidder.  There  is  a  letter  from  him  in  Evelyn's  Correspondence 
on  the  subject  of  Wotton's  projected  Life  of  Boyle,  and  three  others  in  Ballard  ix.  44-46. 
See  Athenae  iv.  769,  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  218,  3.  175,  and  the  refs.  in  Chalmers.  Also  for 
Dr.  Goodman,  Bp.  of  Gloucester  1625,  dep.  1640,  d.  1656,  Gardiner  Hist,  of  Eng- 
land, Index ;  Ath.  ii.  863.  He  had  been  a  Roman  Catholic  since  1636 ;  so  that 
Gauden's  characteristic  justification  of  him  in  his  Ecclesiae  Anglicanae  Suspiria  637 
is  not  borne  out  by  the  facts.  His  best-known  work  is  his  Court  of  King  James  the 
First,  first  published  from  the  MS.  in  the  Bodleian  by  the  Rev.  J.  S.  Brewer  1839. 
There  are  copies  of  two  short  Lives  by  himself  in  Tanner  MS.  cii. 

191.  19.  Dr.  Donne's  Biathanatos,  a  Declaration  of  that  Paradox,  or  Thesis,  that 
Self-Homicide  is  not  so  naturally  Sin,  that  it  may  never  be  otherwise,  was  published 
by  his  son  in  1644.     Walton,  in  the  Life,  describes  it  as  'an  exact  and  laborious 
treatise,  wherein  all  the  laws  violated  by  the  act  are  diligently  surveyed,  and  judi- 
ciously censured :  a  treatise  written  in  his  younger  days,  which  alone  might  declare 
him  then  not  only  perfect  in  the  civil  and  canon  law,  but  in  many  other  such  studies 
and  arguments,  as  enter  not  into  the  consideration  of  many  that  labour  to  be  thought 
great  clerks,  and  pretend  to  know  all  things.'     The  original  draft  of  Lord  Herbert's 
Life  and  Reign  of  Henry  VIII,  with  corrections,  &c.  by  the  author,  is  preserved  in 
Jesus  College  Library,  and  his  Dialogue  between  a  Tutor  and  his  Pupil  in  Bodley. 
He  wrote  an  elegy  on  Dr.  Donne.    See  Athenae  iii.  239. 

192.  34.  Three  letters  from  Bagford  to  Charlett  will  be  found   in   the  Ballard 
Collection,  xxx.  54-56.     Hearne  acknowledges  his  obligations  to  Prescott,  Leland 
Itin.  vol.  ii.  p.  iii. 

193.  2.  B.  Woodroffe,  jun.,  was  Canon  of  Worcester  1722,  and  of  Winchester 
1726;    d.   1770.     It  may  be  mentioned  that  the  'Repeaters  place'  for  1711   was 
offered  by  Charlett  to  Robt.  Watts,  who  is  mentioned  just  below.     He  declined  it 
for  himself,  but  recommended  for  it  Mr.  Rawlins,  A.B.  of  Harvard,  (if  he  could  be 


442  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

granted  the  degree  of  M.A.),  who  had  come  to  England  expressly  to  receive  episcopal 
ordination.  On  July  4,  1715,  he  writes  that  he  would  then  gladly  undertake  the 
'  Repeater's  place '  (Ballard  xxv.  48  sqq.). — For  the  works  of  John  Bale,  see  Cooper 
Athenae  Cantabrigienses  i.  225  sqq.,  and  for  "W.  Tolwyn,  ib.  i.  203  and  Index  to  Strype. 
194.  25.  These  notes  on  the  editions  of  Chaucer  were  intended  to  be  communicated 
to  Harley  (later,  Earl  of  Oxford).  See  abstract  of  letter  in  the  possession  of  the 
Marquis  of  Bath  (3rd  Rep.  Hist.  MSS.  Comm.  1980):  '1709,  May  28,  Oxford. 
Thomas  Hearne  to  Lord  Oxford  :  concerning  Chaucer ;  and  the  various  editions  and 
copies  of  his  poems.  (8  folio  leaves.)  He  cites  MSS. — Cod.  Fairfax,  16. — Cod. 
Hatton,  i :— Selden's  MS.  B.  30.  Bodl.' 

196.  24.  For  J.  Barcham,  see  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  iii.  214  sq. ;  Athenae  iii.  35. 

197.  36.  March  22,   1709  (Ballard  x.  43),  Lord  Weytnouth,  after  expressing  his 
satisfaction  at  Lhuyd's  success,  adds  :  '  I  wish  yr  Neighbour  has  not  bin  too  hasty  in 
citing  Dr.  Tindall  to  take  orders,  least  it  should  revive  y*  designe  of  altering  the 
Statutes  of  Colledges,  wch  I  feare  would  have  found  too  many  freinds.' 

197.  40.  We  shall  find  some  further  entries  hereafter  on  the  subject  of  the  XXXIX 
Articles.     For  the  present  it  must  suffice  to  refer  to  '  An  Historical  Account  of  the 
XXXIX  Articles  from    the  first  promulgation   of  them   in   MDLIII.   to   their 

final  establishment  in  MDLXXI.  With  exact  copies  of  the  Latin  and  English 
MSS.,  and  Facsimiles  of  the  Signatures  of  the  Archbishops  and  Bishops,  &c.  &c.  &c. 
By  John  Lamb,  D.D.,  Master  of  C.C.C.,  Cambridge  (1829).'  From  a  letter  of 
Dr.  Hickes,  Jan.  28,  1710  (Ballard  xii.  112),  we  learn  that  Dr.  Clarke's  thoughts 
were  then  employed  on  Art.  XX. 

198.  10.  Sir  Thomas  Browne's  Hydriotaphia  was  originally  published  in  1658. 
One  may  hope  that  Dr.  Greenhill  will  hereafter  add  to  the  obligations  under  which 
he  has  laid  all  admirers  of  this  great  thinker  and  master  of  language  by  giving  us 
an  edition  of  the    Urn-Burial. — D.  Wilkins  wrote  to  Charlett   from  Leipzig  on 
Nov.  24,  i7°9>  giving  an  account  of  the  Jubilaeum  to  be  celebrated  at  the  University 
on  Dec.  4.     (Ballard  xxx.  57.)      Ayerst,  April  5,  1710  (N.S.),  sends  extracts  from 
a  letter  of  Wilkins  written  from  Rome,  in  which  he  gives  an  interesting  account  of 
some  Italian  men  of  letters,  esp.  Coronelli  the  cosmographer.     Cf.  Kemble  State 
Papers  and  Letters  274. — On  the  fly-leaf  of  a  copy  of  the  Impartial  Relation  in  the 
Bodleian  Library,  Wood  has  written :    '  Mr.  Tho.  Collins  school  master  of  Magd. 
Coll.  hath  several  times  told  mee  Mr.  Hen.  Fairfax   was  author  of  this  following 
Narrative ; '  and  on  the  title-page,  '  I  have  enquired,  but  cannot  learne  by  whome.' 
— Dr.  Smith's  account  of  the  Proceedings  at  Magdalen  1 686-8  is  included  in  the  deeply 
interesting  volume  prepared  for  the  press  by  Dr.  Bloxam  which  forms  one  of  the  issues 
of  the  Oxford  Historical  Society  for  the  present  year. — Letters  from  Dr.  Musgrave 
to  Dr.  Charlett  are  preserved  in  the  Ballard  Collection,  xxiv.  75-85. 

200.  14.  Jacob  Bobart,  jun.  (1641-1719),  published  vol.  iii.  of  Morison's  Historia 
Plantarum  in  1699.     See  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  v.  286. 

201.  37.  For  'Palla'  read  '  Pallas.' — For  Usher's  case,  see  his  Letter  of  1699  (4to.). 

202.  12.  Leofwin  was  consecrated  1053  and  d.   1067  (Stubbs  Registrum).     Cf. 
p.  193  supra. — J.  Cockburn,  who  was  likewise  a  nephew  of  Patrick  Scougall,  cons. 
Bp.  of  Aberdeen  1664,  was  afterwards  Vicar  of  Northolt,  Middlesex.     He  had  already 
published  Bourignianism  detected,   and  was  likewise  the  author  of  a  Specimen  of 
Remarks  on  Burnet's  Own  Time  (Life  of  Calamy  i.  45,  450).     He  died  1729:    see 
Rawl.  J.  4°.  2.  286 ;    Ballard  xxv.  45. — Edward  Burrough  d.  in  Newgate  1662. 
His  works  were  published  ten  years  later  under  the  title  of  The  Memorable  Works  of 
a  Son  of  Thunder  and  Consolation.     There  was  an  ed.  of  the  tract  here  referred  to 
in   1684.     Memoirs  of  him  were  published  in  1851.     See  Bickley  George  Fox  and 
the  Early  Quakers  91  ;  Index  to  Sewel's  Hist,  of  the  Quakers;  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog. 
vii.  443  sq. 

204.  4.  On  Sept.  23  in  this  year,  the  Duke  wrote  to  the  Duchess:  'I  propose  to 
make  my  court  to  you  this  winter,  by  being  very  much  pleased  with  the  very  great 
advance  you  have  made  in  your  building  at  London.'  Marlborough  Corresp.  i.  230. 
See  also  the  Madresfield  Court  Letters  20  sqq.,  where  the  Duchess  states  (1710)  that 
since  the  Lease  was  made  she  had  paid  £22,000  for  that  building,  and  before  she 
could  use  it  she  must  pay  £10,000  more  at  least,  Wenttvorth  Papers  89 ;  and  the 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XIX.  443 

refs.  under  '  Marlborough  House'  in  Cunningham's  Handbook  of  London. — At  1.  30 
read  'Gavel-Kind.' 

206.  12.  E.  Thwaytes  was  the  author  of  A  miraculous  Work  of  late  done  at 
Court-of-Strtte  in  Kent,  published  to  the  deuoute  people  of  this  Tyme  for  their 
spiritual  Consolation  (1527),  of  which  there  does  not  seem  to  be  a  copy  in  Bodley. 
He  was  afterward  attainted,  but  escaped  capital  punishment.  See  the  article  on 
Elizabeth  Barton  in  the  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  iii.  343  sqq. 

208.  8.  Sir  E.  Lutwyche  was  dismissed  at  the  Revolution.     He  was  buried  in 
St.  Bride's,  Fleet  Street  (Foss  Judges  of  England,  Noble's  Cont.  of  Granger  i.  169). 
For  Silas  Taylor  (1624-1678)  see  Athenae  iii.   1175.      His  History  of  Gavelkind 
was  published  1663;   his  Common-good  in  1692;   and  his  History  and  Antiquities 
of  Harwich   and   Dovercourt,   much    enlarged   &c.   by  Sam.   Dale,  in   1730. — Bp. 
Nicolson's  estimate  of  Barnes'  History  of  Edward  III  in  his  English  Historical 
Library  p.  80  is  somewhat  less  favourable  than  Heatne's :  '  Mr.  Joshua  Barnes  has 
diligently  Collected  whatever  was  to  be  had  (far  and  near)  upon  the  several  Passages 
of  this  Great  King's  Reign.     His  Quotations  are  many ;  and  (generally)  his  Authors 
are  as  well  chosen,  as  such  a  Multitude  can  be  supposed  to  have  been.    His  Inferences 
are  not  always  becoming  a  Statesman  ;  and  sometimes  his  Digressions  are  tedious. 
His  deriving  of  the  famous  Institution  of  the  Garter  from  the  Phoenicians,  is  ex- 
treamly  obliging  to  good  Mr.  Sammes  :  But  came  too  late  it  seems,  to  Mr.  Ashmole's 
knowledge  ...  In  short  this  Industrious  Author  seems  to  have  driven  his  Work  too 
fast  to  the  Press,  before  he  had  provided  an  Index,  and  some  other  Accoutrements, 
which  might  have  render'd  it  more  serviceable  to  his  Readers.' 

209.  4.  Prof.  Skeat   (Etym.  Diet.)  explains  oriel  as   =    '  any  portico,  recess,  or 
small  room,  which  was  more  private  and  better  ornamented  than  the  rest  of  the 
building,'  and  derives  it  from  aureolum  'gilded  or  ornamented  with  gold.'     The  first 
etymology  mentioned  by  Hearne,  however  absurd,  would  appear  to  be  a  very  ancient 
one  from  the  early  deed  mentioned  in  Parker's  Handbook  for  Visitors  66. — On  Job 
xix.  24,  where  it  has  been  doubted  whether  celte  or  certe  is  the  right  reading,  see 
Notes  and  Queries  5th  S.  ix.  463,  x.  73.     The  Athenaeum  points  out  that  the  word 
celte  occurs  in  the  Glossae  in  Sidonium  edited  by  Mr.  R.  Ellis  in  the  '  Anecdota 
Oxoniensia '   (vii.   3    =   p.  50,  11.  7  J??-)  :    '  caelum  hoc  caelum  ut  hoc  celte  celtis 
instrumentum  est  quo  caelatur,  i.e.  sculpitur.' 

210.  23.  Thos.  Jones,  M.A.    1651,  likewise  wrote  Rome  no  Mother-Church  to 
England  (1678),  Elymas  the  Sorcerer  (1682),  &c.     He  died  1682  ;  Athenae  iv.  51. 

211.  i.  For  the  most  recent  discussion  of  the  word  'aestel,'  see  Notes  and  Queries 
6th  S.  ii.  386  ;  iii.  14 ;  iv.  75.   Prof.  Skeat's  conclusion  (at  the  second  reference  given) 
is :  'it  seems  to  be  nothing  but  the  Low  Lat.  astulae  (Ducange),  put  for  Lat.  assulae, 
thin  boards.' 

211.  1 8.  Henry  Stephens,  Fellow  of  Merton  1693,  was  afterwards  chaplain  at 
Oporto  and  Vicar  of  Maldon  1714.     His  pretensions  to  preferment  are  familiar  from 
the  persistent  recommendations  of  Archbp.  Boulter;  see  that  prelate's  Letters,  esp. 
i-  353  s?f-     He  was  at  last  appointed  Prebendary  of  Winchester  1733,  and  d.  1739. 
He  is  mentioned   in  Brodrick  Memorials  of  Merton  299.      See  also  Rawl.  J.  4°. 
i.  129  ;  fo.  19.  65  (where  is  a  letter  from  him). 

212.  4.  Win.  Piers,  fellow  of  Emmanuel  and  rector  of  N.  Cadbury,  published  his 
ed.  of  the  Medea  and  Phoenissae  in  1 703.     For  John  Piers,  Bp.  of  Rochester  1576 
and  Sarum  1577,  Archbp.  of  York  1589,  d.  1594,  see  Index  to  Strype,  and  Athenae 
ii.  835,  where  Wood  remarks  that  at  Quainton  '  'twas  usual  with  him  to  sit  tipling 
in  a  blind  Ale-house  with  some  of  his  Neighbours.' — Mr.  T.  Baker's  intention  to 
publish  Athenae  Cantab,  has  been  already  mentioned;   see  also  Strype  to  Charlett 
(Ballard  xv.  31). — Capt.  J.  Bingham's  trans,  of  Aelian  was  published  in  two  parts, 
1616-31. — T.   Spark,  M.A.   1679,  was  chaplain  to  Judge  Jeffreys,  who  gave  him 
several  pieces  of  preferment ;   d.  1692.     He  likewise  published  Notae  in  libros   VI 
Novae  Historiae  Zosimi  1679.     (Athenae  iv.  368.) 

213.  12.  It  need  hardly  be  mentioned  that  a  substantial  portion  of  the  De  Republica 
was  discovered  by  Angelo  Mai  among  the  palimpsests  in  the  Vatican  in  1823,  and 
printed  at  Rome  in  the  same  year.     Selling  was  prior  of  Christ  Church,  Canterbury, 
1472-1494. 


444  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS. 

John  second  Ld.  Carteret  succeeded  his  father  1695,  became  Earl  Granville  1744  ; 
d.  1763.  Rawl.  J.  fol.  20.  120:  'Went  into  Germany  with  K.  Geo.  II.  was  at  the 
battle  of  Dettinghen  in  Germany,  in  which  the  French  left  the  Field,  and  his  Lp. 
wrote  such  an  account  of  it,  as  was  very  deservedly  burlesqued  in  verse  in  the  public 
newspapers,'  [R.  R.] — T.  Beconsall,  M.A.  1686;  see  Rawl.  J.  4°.  1.394;  Ballard 
iv.  48. 

VOL.  XX. 

Page  215,  line  26.  For  Edmund  Marten,  M.D.,  see  Rrodrick  Me  mortals  of ' Merton 
Coll.  170.  He  died  at  Mapperton,  Dorset  (Wood-Gutch  Colleges  and  Halls  12). 

216.  i  sqq.  A   few  particulars   of  the  history   of  Oxford   Castle,  Oseney   and 
Rowley  Abbeys,  &c.  will  be  found  in  Appendices  to  the  Life  of  Heame  (1772) 
1 29  sqq.,  together  with  references  to  other  works  of  Hearne  in  which  he  has  dealt 
with  the  subject  more  at  length.     The  engravings  of  them  which  were  executed  for 
him  by  Burghers  are  given  in  the  Ectypa  Varia.     See  also  Skelton's  Oxonia  antiqua 
restaurata,  Plates   113,  115,  117,  134,  135;    King   Vestiges  of  Oxford  Castle,  and 
Wood-Peshall  Ancient  and  Present  State  of  the  City  of  Oxford;  but  above  all  Parker 
Early  Hist,  of  Oxford  202  sqq.     For  the  inscription  of  Ela  Longespee  see  Leland 
Itin.  ii.  72  sqq. 

217.  8.  The  book  here  referred  to  is  entitled  Annals  of  the  Universe  &*c.     Penn 
should  have  been  described  as  Pennsylvaniae  Praefectus.     "Welwood's  (1652-1716) 
Memoirs  of  the  most  material  Transactions  in  England  for  the  last  100  years  pre- 
ceding the  Revolution  in  1688  has  been  frequently  reprinted.     Ed.  2  (the  earliest  in 
Bodley)  appeared  in  1700.     See  p.  466  infra. — It  will  be  remembered  that  Pepys  met 
Venner  on  his  way  to  execution  Jan.  19,  1661. 

218.  8.  There  is  a  good  account  of  Lhuyd  in  Chalmers.     Two  letters  from  him 
to  Charlett  are  preserved  in  Ballard  xiv.  44  sq. ;  see  also  Indexes  to  Rawlinson  and 
Ashmolean  MSS. ;  Rawl.  J.  4°,  i.  404,  2.  70;  Letters  from  the  Bodleian,  i.  115  sq., 
134  sqq.  ;  Lit.  Anec.  Index,  esp.  i.  165  sqq.  ;  and  Illustrations  i.  316  sqq.  and  Index  ; 
Correspondence  of  John  Ray  (ed.  Lankester  1848)  212  &c.,  and  Appendix  B  (pp.482 
sqq.) ;  Nicolson  Ep.  Corr.  25,  51  &c.  ;  Notes  and  Queries  4th  S.  vii.  42,  5th  S.  iv. 
89  ;  Britton  Memoirs  of  John  Aubrey  Index ;  &c. 

218.  29.  A  portion  of  Bulkeley  Hall  is  represented  in  Skelton,  Plate  146.  It  was 
originally  called  Tackley's  Inn,  and  was  bought  by  Adam  de  Brome  for  the  purposes 
of  his  foundation.  See  Wood-Gutch  under  Oriel  College;  Wood-Peshall  108. 

219.5.  Cf.  Plot  Nat.  Hist.  Oxfordsh.  34;  and  for  the  Roman  roads  in  the 
neighbourhood  of  Oxford,  St.  Grymbald  &c.,  Parker  Early  Hist,  of  Oxford,  Map  at 
end,  pp.  45  sqq.,  &c. 

221.  42.  July  18,  1707  (Ballard  x.  34)  Lord  Weymouth  hopes  'Mr.  Lloyd's  next 
Volume  will  bee  more  enterteining,  for  this  is  but  drye,  to  old  men  who  pretend  not 
to  learne  Languages,  though  they  are  vsefull  Books  for  Libraries.'   And  Ballard  xxxix. 
14,  Moses  Williams  writes  to  Wanley,  July  19,  1714:   Mr.  Llwyd's  MSS.  'are  se- 
questred  by  the  University  &  will  be  set  to  sale  about  3  quarters  of  a  year  hence.   The 
MSS.  Fossils,  printed  Books,  &c.  will  be  sold  all  together  &  My  Lord  Mansell  is  to 
have  the  first  refusal  of  them.     Mr.  Llwyd's  Debts  are  about  £80 ;  &  whoever  will 
pay  them,  may  (as  far  as  I  understand)  have  all  his  Effects.     If  you  think  to  .buy 
them,  your  best  way  will  be  to  take  a  trip  down  [to  Oxford]  to  see  them.  .  .  .  There 
are  6  large  Voll.  of  Irish  MSS.  in  folio.  Llyfrcock  o  Hergerst  is  put  into  Jesus  College 
Library.' 

222.  8.  On  St.  Bartholomew's  Hospital  see  Oxoniana  i.  191  ;  Wood-Peshall 
273  sqq. ;  Leland  Itin.  ii.  90,  and  refs. — 1.  32,  for  '  frates '  read  '  fratres.' 

223.  8.  Britton's  interesting  Memoir  of  John  Aubrey,  F.R.S.,  was  published  by  the 
Wiltshire  Topographical  Society  in  1845  and  his  Wiltshire  collections  in  1862.     See 
also  the  art.  in  the  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  ii.  224  sq. ;  Ballard  Letters  xiv.  46  sqq. 

223.  21.  This  combination  of  offices  reminds  one  of  Tanner's  own  remark  in  Ballard 
iv.  46,  that  he  has  '  thought  pretty  often  of  the  saying  of  the  Terrae  Filius  of  Sr  Tim. 
Baldwin  of  our  Coll.  that  he  was  Omnium  Animarum  Socius,  omnium  Episcoporum 
Cancellarius,  et  omnium  horarum  homo.' 


NOTES   TO    VOLUMES  XX,  XXL  445 

223.  32.  There  are  many  letters  from  Dennison  to  Charlett  in  Ballard  xxi.  &c., 
and  in  iv.  55  Tanner  mentions  the  fact  of  his  being  Proctor  as  an  inducement  to 
himself  to  come  to  Oxford  for  the  purpose  of  taking  his  D.D.  degree.     See  Index  to 
Ballard  Collection. 

224.  31.  Jas.  Davenant,  M.A.  1664.     Dr.  Hickes  gives  a  more  favourable  account 
of  Dr.  Halton  in  the  Dedication  to  his  Spirit  of  Enthusiasm  exorcised  (1680). 

225.  ii.  In  Ballard  xvii.  36,  Nov.  II,  1708,  Anstis  writes  that  Lhuyd  suggested 
Parry  for  the  Bedell's  place  in  case  of  a  vacancy,  and  recommends  him  to  Charlett. 

225.  13  sqq.  The  principal  literature  bearing  on  the  '  Pope  Joan'  myth  is  indicated 
in  Notes  and  Queries  ist  and  2nd  S.  (see  Index) ;  cf.  3rd  S.  i.  459. — For  "W.  Charyte, 
see  Nichols'  Leicestershire  Index,  and  the  letter  from  Secretary  Windebank  to  Robt. 
Arden,  dated  April  5,  1635,  ib.  iv.  1049,  peremptorily  demanding  the  surrender  of  the 
MS.  of  the  Rentale  to  the  King,  on  the  ground  that,  'being  a  record  of  great  con- 
sequence, it  is  not  fit  to  remain  with  a  private  man.'     The  Rentale  is  Instanced  by 
Hearne,  Leland's  Itin.  (1710)  vol.  i,  p.  ii. 

226.  2.  Francis  M.  Misson,  an  exile  from  France  on  the  Revocation  of  the  Edict 
of  Nantes,  likewise  published  The  Sacred  Theatre  at  Cevennes  (1707),  but  is  now 
remembered  by  his  Memoirs  and  Observations  in  his  travels  over  England,  trans,  by 
J.  Ozell  1719. — There  is  a  very  full  account  of  ihe  Black  Assize  at  Oxford  in  the 
Antiquary  Feb.  1886,  pp.  49  sqq. ;  see  also  Waters  Parish  Registers  62  sq.,  and  refs. 
— For  Gloucester  Hall  and  Beaumont,  see   Oxoniana  i.  188,  iv.  147. — On  the 
significance  of  the  ceremony  of  coronation  see  Stubbs  Const.  Hist.  (Libr.  ed.)  i.  170 
sqq.     Richard  I,  John  and  Henry  III  were  all  crowned  twice  ;  ib.,  esp.  i.  566. 

226.  49.  The  following  uncomplimentary  verses  on  Radcliffe   are   preserved   in 
Ballard  xxxi.  54:  — 

'•An  Answer  to  a  Qu.  TV*  Taxes  shall  leave  off. 
When  Radcliffe  gives  His  visits  to  the  Poor, 
Or  serves  his  Friend  and  slights  His  golden  oar, 
When  dying  Patients  on  Him  may  depend, 
And  find  his  Conscience  and  his  manners  mend, 
When  Bath  shall  court  Him,  and  Her  Waters  Freeze, 
Make  Him  their  God,  His  haughty  Head  to  please, 
then,  then,  shall  Taxes  cease.' 

227.  6.  The  Basle  Dance  of  Death  was  painted  c.  1443,  by  an  unknown  artist,  and 
is  long  anterior  to  Holbein.     It  is  said  to  have  been  destroyed  by  a  mob  in  1806. 
Douce  Dance  of  Death  (1833)  36  sqq. 

227.  41.  For  Dr.   Holland   and   his   Wardenship,    see    Brodrick    Memorials  of 
Merton    Coll.    147  sqq.,   170;    and  for  Edmund  Ashfleld,   Walpole  Anecdotes  of 
Painting;  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  ii.  169. 

228.  3.  This  story  of  Davenant's  parentage  is  hinted  at  in  Letters  from  the  Bod- 
leian ii.  303.     See  Halliwell- Phillips  Outlines  of  the  Life  of  Shakespeare  (ed.  3)  184, 
and  especially  '  The  Davenant  Scandal '  553  sqq.,  where  it  is  conclusively  disproved. 


VOL.  XXI. 

Page  229,  line  19.  The  origin  of  the  Hoglandiae  Descriptio  (London  1709,  16  pp.)  is 
told  in  Chalmers'  Biographical  Diet.,  art.  E.  Lhuyd.  It  was  composed  at  Lhuyd's 
suggestion  by  T.  Richards  (Jesus,  M.A.  1714),  in  answer  to  Muscipula,  written  by 
E.  Holdsworth  (Magd.,  M.A.  1711)  1709,  at  the  instigation  of  Sacheverell.  (A 
translation  of  the  latter  by  F.  T.  was  published  in  the  same  year  under  the  title  of 
The  Welsh  Mouse-trap,  and  several  others  subsequently ;  while  the  former  was 
'  imitated  in  English'  1711.)  The  Hoglandia  was  corrected  by  Lhuyd  and  Anthony 
Alsop.  It  bears  a  picture  of  a  boar  on  the  title-page,  and  the  dedication  ('  Domino 
H —  S — .')  contains  a  hit  at  a  famous  bull  (p.  321  infra)  of  Sacheverell's  ['  Liniae 
veluti  sibi  invicem  parallelae,  quae,  Te  judice,  (quicquid  inepti  contra  garriunt  Mathe- 
matici)  ab  eodem  centra  ducuntur^~\,  and  compliments  on  his  incomparable  modesty  and 
accuracy.  A  propos  of  the  Muscipula,  Sir  R.  Cox  wrote  to  Charlett,  Jan.  6,  1709 
(Ballard  xi.  53) :  '  When  I  tell  you,  That  the  care  of  7  children  and  1 2  Grand- 


446  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS. 

children,  dos  soe  Imploy  me  that  I  cannot  be  Master  of  my  Self  or  my  Time,  I  have 
given  you  such  a  description  of  An  Ecclesiasticall  Mouse-trap,  That  if  the  Welsh 
Animall  had  half  soe  much  notice  of  the  Muscipulum  Taffyes  Ingenious  Engine 
would  not  have  met  with  the  Success  and  Applause  it  did.'  For  E.  Holdsworth 
(d.  1746),  see  Lit.  Anecd.  iii.  67  sqq. ;  Rawl.  J.  4°,  4.  77,  fo.  17.  290  (where  is  a 
complimentary  acrostic  made  on  him  in  Lord  Digby's  family),  and  Spence  Observa- 
tions, Anecdotes  and  Characters  (ed.  Malone)  270  &c. 

232.  3.  See  Wanley's  exposure  of  the  fraudulent  manipulation  of  this  passage  in 
Letters  from  the  Bodleian  i.  95  sq. 

234.  28.  There  is  a  Life  of  W.  Baxter  in  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  iii.  438. 

234.  31.  Full  particulars  of  the  'encouragement'  afforded  to  Rymer  for  the  pub- 
lication of  the  Foedera  will  be  found  in  the  Calendar  of  Treasury  Papers,  1702-1714 
(see  Index  to  each  vol.).  The  total  cost  of  producing  250  copies  of  Vol.  XV  was 
£832  S.T.  od.,  and  of  Vol.  XVI  £642  I'js.  od. 

234.  44.  Dr.    Jonathan   Edwards  wrote   to   Charlett,  Aug.   26,   1709   (Ballard 
xxi.  100) :  '  Mr.  Dodwell  is  in  Town  and  frequents  Jenny's  Coffeehouse,  twice  every 
day,  which  occasions  a  great  resort  there  to  hear  him  discourse  of  Patriarchal  power 
and  Government,  but  cannot  bear  any  opposition.' 

235.  3.  The  Leofric  Missal  was  edited  by  the  Rev.  F.  E.  Warren,  B.D.  for  the 
Clarendon  Press  in  1883. — Roger  North  gives  an  interesting  account  of  Robert  Scott, 
bookseller,  of  Little  Britain,  in  his  Life  of  Dr.  John  North  (4to  ed.  240),  and  states 
that  he  lost  above  half  his  means  through  Mills'  failure.     (Hearne's  spelling  M«lles 
shows  that  he  has  the  Bishop  of  Waterford  in  his  mind.)     He  sold  the  library  of 
Sir  R.  Wyseman  in  1 686,  and  his  own  was  sold  by  Millington  in  the  following  year 
(Lit.  Anec.  iii.  612  sq.\ 

236.  3  sqq.  There  are  some  notes  on  Strongbow  and  his  monument  in  Notes  and 
Queries  1st  S.,  vi.  313. 

237.  33.  Symon  Gunton's  (Preb.  of  Canterbury  1646-1676)  History  of  the  Church 
of  Peterburgh,  with  a  Supplement  by  Symon  Patrick,  was  published  in  1686.     White 
Kennett,  afterwards  Bishop  of  that  see,  wrote  large  additions  in  a  copy  now  preserved 
in  the  Cathedral  Archives  (Lit.  Anec.  i.  398),  and  there  are  copies  with  notes  by  Bp. 
Cumberland,  W.  Cole  &c.,  in  the  Bodleian.  . 

238.  3.  The  Textus  Roffensis  was  published  by  Hearne  from  a  MS.  in  the  library 
of  Sir  Edward  Dering,  Bart.,  in  1720. — Walter  Curll,  Bp.   of  Winchester  1632, 
d.  1647.     Trussell's  Continuation  of  Samuel  Daniel's  History  of  England  was  pub- 
lished 1636. 

239.  40.  The  Palatines  figure  largely  in  the  literature  and  history  of  this  period  ; 
see  e.g.  Tatler,  ii.  65,  179,  282,  and  iii.  355;   Marlborough  Corresp.  (1838)  ii.  321; 
Calendar  of  Treasury  Papers  1708—1714,  p.  xv  and  Index;  2nd  Report  Hist.  MSS. 
Comm.  234,  249,  251  ;    Notes  and  Queries  ist  S.  xi.  87,  172,  251  ;  3rd  S.  i.  252  ; 
Wentworth  Papers  96,  270.     W.  Bishop  writes  to  his  kinsman  Charlett,  Sept.  8  [?] 
1 709  (Ballard  xxxi.  54) :    '  There  are  near  3000  Palatines :  R:  C:  yfc  are  returneing 
home  agD,  y*  petition'd  the  Queen  ye  since  they  were  encouraged  to  come  hither,  & 
as  They  thought  from  Her  Map*  &  had  a  promise  for  the  Free  Exerciseing  of  Their 
Religion,  but  not  performed,  wn  now  here ;   Her  Majestic  out  of  Her  Goodness  & 
justice  would  be  at  the  Charge  of  sending  Them  home,  wch  is  laid  before  the  Com- 
missioners,  &   they  agree   to  it,  find  them   shipping  &  allow  20   shillings  p  head 
for  their  maintenance  back  to  their  own  Countrey.'    Their  poverty  was  proverbial :  e.g. 
Plaxton  writes  ( Thoresby  Corr.  ii.  198):    'I  am  sure  it  [gold]  has  little  footing  at 
Barwick,  where  we  are  all  poor  Palatines  and  Camisars,  i.  e.  hardly  worth  a  shirt.' 

241.  18.  There  are  several  mentions  of  the  Frankfort  volumes  in  Ayerst's  letters 
to  Charlett  (Ballard  xxvii.  20,  21,  24).  See  also  Wordsworth  Scholae  Academicae  98. 

243.  13.  We  have  another  account  of  the  expulsion  of  the  Modern  Prophets  from 
Oxford  in  a  letter  of  Thwaites  to  Charlett,  dated  Aug.  28  [1709],  9  a  clock  (Ballard 
xiii.  257) :  '  The  Prophets  are  at  the  greyhound,  on  Friday  after  5  days'  (or  6,)  re- 
sidence, they  made  ymselves  known,  by  strange  convulsion's  &  abrupt  talk,  yesterday 
I  was  there  at  three.  loo  masters  of  A.  I  think  might  be  there,  &  150  more,  we  stay'd 
an  hour,  but  noe  motion,  there  are  four  prophetick  women  as  the  two  men  call  ym. 
one  of  the  men  was  a  Scholar  of  Cambr.  he  is  cunning,  &  has  temper,  his  name  is 


.VOTES  TO    VOLUME  XXI.  447 

Lardner.    the  other's,  Jackson,    when  Lacy's  warning  was  read  by  one  of  the  men, 
some  of  us  objected  too  much,  &  hindred  the  coming  of  what  they  call  the  Spirit  or 
voice,  (they  haue  more  names  for  it.)     In  the  mean  time  the  V.  C.  came  and  dispersed 
us.     I  can't  express  the  confusion,  but  in  3  minutes  he  made  the  house  easy,  the 
Prophets  were  to  march  by  his  order  in  an  hour,  but  their  linnen  being  out,  &c.  they 
stay  till  tomorrow.     They  are  become  the  Constable's  ward,    some  letters  have  bin 
found,  wch  noebody  may  have  sent  you ;  I  have  enclosed  them,    printed  literatim. 
M-  T-  Mary  Topham.  )       the  G      hound> 
A.  1 .  Anne  1  opham.  \ 
Ed.  Edinburgh. 
A***. 

Molt  Moult *  the  Chym.' 

Gregory  had  written  June  2,  1708  (Ballard  xxiv.  33),  a  propos  of  the  predicted 
resurrection  of  Dr.  Ernes  from  the  dead :  '  The  Camisars  are  quite  confounded ;  yet 
they  say  Mr.  Lacy  has  written  a  very  insolent  Apology.  This  is  the  first  time  I 
beleeve  since  the  Creation,  that  Scaffolds  were  made  to  see  the  resurrection  of  a 
dead  man.' 

A  popular  account  of  the  French  Prophets  will  be  found  in  Burton  Hist,  of  the  Reign 
of  Q.  Anne  ii.  343  sqq.     The  anecdote  which  he  quotes  from  '  some  contemporary 
publication '  about  the  '  nolle  prosequi '  is  related  by  Spinckes  The  New  Pretenders  to 
Prophecy  examined  488.     This  treatise,  which  was  published  together  with  Hickes' 
Spirit  of  Enthusiasm  exorcised  and  [F.  Leigh's]  Hist,  of  Montanism,  may  be  recom- 
mended to  all  who  desire  information  respecting  Lacy  and  his  followers,  and  a  pretty 
complete  bibliography  of  the  subject  may  be  compiled  from  the  author's  copious  refer- 
ences.  See  also  an  important  article  on  '  Cavalier  and  the  Camisards'  in  Kemble  State 
Papers  and  Letters  384  sqq.     At  p.  426  sqq.  is  some  account  of  Nicholas  Fatio  of 
Douillens,  a  geometrician  of  European  reputation  and  the  occasional  cause  of  the  quarrel 
between  Leibnitz  and  Newton.     Dr.  Burton  has  not  identified  him,  merely  remarking 
that  '  Mr.  Facio '  was  '  perhaps  a  foreigner.'    There  is  a  long  letter  by  him  in  [Seward's] 
Anecdotes  of  Distinguished  Persons  iv.  419  sqq. ;  and  Nichols  has   some  interesting 
particulars  of  him  in  his  ed.  of  the  Tatler,  vi.  422.     See  also  Kemble  op.  cit.  426  sqq. 
Fatio  died  in  1753  (Notes  and  Queries,  3rd  S.  viii.  171).   Some  very  interesting  letters 
(dated  1699)  from  Sir  B.  Bulkeley,  regarding  his  design  of  endowing  a  college  or 
colleges  in  Ireland,  are  printed  in  full  in  the  2nd  Report  of  the  Historical  MSS. 
Comm.  238  sq.     Tom  D'Urfey  ridiculed  the  Camisards  in  a  wretched  comedy  entitled 
The  Modern  Prophets :  or  New  Wit  for  a  Husband  (i  709) ;  and  they  were  attacked  with 
weightier  weapons  by  Hoadly  and  Calamy.    Some  very  curious  details  of  Lacy,  Fatio, 
and  Bulkeley  are  given  by  Calamy  in  his  Historical  Account  of  my  own  Life  ii.  71  sqq., 
95s9f->  an(^  197  '•  these  passages  are  indispensable  to  the  student  of  this  curious  phase 
of  religious  enthusiasm  and  imposture,  with  which  I  had  hoped  to  deal  more  fully. 
See  also  Tatler  (ed.  Nichols)  i.  118  (with  numerous  references),  329;  ii.  14, 79  ;  Whig 
and  Tory  iii.  to  (The  Marionite  Prophets,  who  lately  pretended  Divine  Inspiration) ; 
Letters  byj. Hughes, &*c. iii.  182  ;  Whiston's  Memoirs  \-*f>sqq.;  Rehearsal  (ed.  1750) 
iv.  181  sq.,  235.     In  King's  Works  ii.   264,  the  French  prophets  are  oddly  enough 
classed  with  Bp.  Lloyd,  of  Worcester,  their  great  opponent.     The  name  '  Camisard"  is 
derived  by  Littre  from  camisa  or  camisia,  either  because  the  assailants  put  on  their 
shirts  over  their  uniform  in  order  to  recognise  one  another,  or  because  in  their  nightly 
surprises  they  caught  the  enemy  in  their  shirts.    Kemble  prefers  to  regard  it  as  = '  way- 
farers '  or  '  highwaymen,'  from  camis  a  road  or  way.     One  of  the  latest  glimpses  of 
these  Prophets  occurs  in  Ballard  xii.  121,  where  Hickes  writes,  under  date  of  July  24, 
1711:  'The  paper  of  wch  I  here  send  you  a  true  copy,  was  taken  down  by  Capt" 
Hatton  at  the  foot  of  the  staires  in  going  up  to  the  room  (a  danceing  school  at  the 
Blue  bore  in  Holborn)  where  the  prophets  meet,  every  Sunday,  whither  he  went  out 
of  Curiosity  to  hear  them.     There  is  a  License  from  y*  Bishopp's  Court  for  this  meet- 
ing, according  to  Act  of  Parliament,  which  has  made  it  Twenty  pounds  penalty,  on 
any  Person  y'  disturbs  ye  same,  Peace  Officers  will  secure  them.     There  was  abound- 
ance  of  Quakers  wth  them.     I  suppose  they  are  both  united.' 

246.  32.  Mrs.  Berkeley,  in  the  Preface  to  her  husband's  Sermons  (1799)  p.  xsq., 
mentions  that  he  was  only  the  fifth  Vicar  since  '  the  famous  Vicar,  Simon  Semion.  .  .  . 
His  two  immediate  predecessors,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Caswell  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Brown,  both 

1  See  Calamy,  Life,  ii.  102. 


H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS. 

enjoyed  it  more  than  half  a  century.'  She  likewise  tells  an  amusing  story  of  James  I 
and  the  Vicar  and  Curate  of  Bray  in  his  time.  Dr.  Carswell  is  mentioned  Leland 
Itin.  v.  115. 

246.  44.  The  death  of  Dr.  Cawley  and  the  appointment  of  his  successor  are  men- 
tioned in  a  letter  from  Robt.  Clavering  to  Charlett,  of  Aug  24,  1709  (Ballard  ix.  78). 
There  is  a  Life  of  Charles  Aldrich.  in  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  385^^.,  fol.  16.  10;  he  died 
Nov.  8/1737.  '  He  left  his  library  to  his  successors  Rectors  of  Henley  and  in  it  were 
several  curious  books.  Being  left  executor  to  his  uncle  dean  Aldrich's  will  (who  died 
Decr  ye  14.  1710)  some  papers  being  missing  he  commenced  a  suit  in  Chancery  ag* 
Dr  Stratford  the  issue  of  which  we  were  told  in  some  of  the  publick  papers  was  as 
follows,  viz.  1715.  May  3.  Mr.  A.  made  a  submission  for  his  breach  of  priviledge  in 
filing  a  bill  in  Chancery  ag*  Dr  Stratford  Canon  of  X*  Church  Oxford,  and  was  fined 
one  hundred  pounds,  four  score  of  which  was  immediately  remitted  by  Dr  Bourchier 
Professor  of  Civil  Law  and  Judge  of  the  Vice  Chancellor's  Court,  and  a  short  speech 
was  made  by  Dr  Arthur  Charlet  Provice  Chancellor  then  in  Court.'  .  .  .  His  ed.  of 
Ignatius  '  was  one  of  dean  Aldrich  New  Years  gifts  printed  at  his  expence,  and  an 
ace*  of  the  MS.  from  which  it  was  printed  may  be  seen  pag.  183,  184.  in  the  two 
Letters  between  Sr  Henry  Newton  Envoy  at  Florence  and  himself  printed  by  Sr  Henry 
at  Lucca  1710.  4*°.  of  which  book  and  its  castrations  as  I  have  more  than  one  copy, 
mention  shall  be  made,  when  I  come  to  speak  of  Sr  Henry  Newton  formerly  of  Merton 
College'  [R.  R.].  In  the  article  on  Dean  Aldrich  (fo.  16.  16),  there  is  a  list  of  his 
New  Year's  gifts  in  C.  Aldrich's  handwriting.  'He  d.  at  London  Dec.  ye  14  .  .  . 
during  wch  Interval  of  bringing  Him  down  It  was  that  Dr  Stratford  rumaged  the 
Study.' 

248.  29.  On  April  27,  1709,  the  Rev.  J.  Johnson  wrote  (Ballard  xv.  46) :  '  I  am  glad 
to  hear  of  my  Old  Friend  Mr.  George  Stephen :  He  is  the  Prodigy  of  his  Country, 
I  mean  the  most  Learned,  &  Honest  Scot,  that  I  ever  had  the  honour  to  be  acquainted 
wtb ;  but  w*  I  most  admire  him  for  is  Disinterestedness,  for  wch  he  is  the  Miracle  of 
a  North-britainer.' — In  ix.  42  (Aug.  26,  1704)  J.  Waugh  expresses  his  anxiety  that 
Dr.  Lancaster  should  be  elected  Provost.  Francis  Thompson's  pamphlet  on  the  election 
has  been  already  mentioned  in  the  present  volume. 

253.  27.  The  passage  in  which  this  word  occurs  is  printed  in  the  Itin.  i.  53: 
'  Suarning  and  choking  of  the  Haven,  and  Fier  defacing  much  of  the  Toun  hath  beene 
the  Decay  of  it.'   It  is  strange  that  the  obviously  true  reading  should  not  have  occurred 
to  Hearne,  viz.  suaruing,  =  swerving  (as  always  in  e.g.  ed.  I  of  Hooker's  Ecclesiastical 
Politic). 

254.  u.    Jan.  3,  1708,  W.  Bishop  wrote  to  Charlett  (Ballard  xxxi.  43):    'Hickes 
considers  Potter  as  high  and  orthodox  as  to  the  power  and  discipline  of  the  Church 
as  any  man,  [and]  says  that  he  only  wanted  the  polemical  part  to  qualify  him  for  being 
deservedly  in  the  Chair,  but  he  would  in  a  year's  time  be  perfect  master  on't.     Hickes 
is  exceedingly  taken  with  the  easiness  of  Smalridge's  conversation,  the  solidity  of  his 
judgment,  and  the  extent  of  his  learning.'     And  Jan.  29  he  expresses  his  opinion  that 
the  Oxford  Letter  '  lost  Dr.  Smalridge  the  Professor's  Chair,  not  being  liked  by  either 
High,  Low,  or  Middle  at  home  or  abroad.'  .  .  .  255.  4.  For  Folio  read  Folia. 

256.  2.  In  Ballard  xv.  47  (Aug.  17,  1709),  J.  Johnson  writes:  'I  am  glad  to  hear, 
that  we  are  to  have  an  Exp.  of  the  39  Articles  from  such  a  hand,  as  that  of  BP. 
Beveridge.     I  have  run  over  Dr  Wells'  Specimen,  &  like  the  designe  excellently  well : 
&  I  hope  a  person  of  his  Learning,  &  Judgement  will  correct  some  considerable  Errors 
in  the  celebrated  Notes  of  Mr  Lock,  &  others :  but  the  3  Epistles,  wch  the  Specimen 
containes  have  few,  or  none  of  those  Texts,  that  are  controverted  by  the  several  parties 
of  Learned  men  amongst  us.     I  scarce  believe  that  the  Dr  has  hit  upon  the  true  sense 
of  Gal.  hi.  20,  tho'  he  is  not  so  far  from  it  as  Mr  Lock.'     In  No.  45  (Mar.  30)  he  had 
written:  'By  perusing  it  [Dr.  Grabe's  Octateuch  in  2  vols. ;   cf.  infra  267.  38]   in 
several  places  I  find  what  the  Dr  had  said  fully  verified,  viz.  that  the  Alexandr.  (at 
least  in  those  places  that  I  have  had  occasion  to  examine)  is  praeferible  to  the  Vatican  ; 
but  I  find,  that  we  cannot  pass  our  Judgement  on  the  whole,  or  understand  the 
excellency  of  the  performance  to  perfection  til  the  whole  is  completed,  &  we  have 
the  Drs  Notes.' 

257.  37.  There  is  a  Life  of  James  Peirce,  a  terribly  voluminous  writer,  who  after- 
wards took  the  latitudinarian  side  in  the  Nonconformist  dissensions  at  Exeter,  in 
Chalmers.     See  also  the  mentions  of  him  in  the  Life  of  Calamy  ii.  263  &c. 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XXI.  449 

258.  3.  There  are  numerous  refs.   to   Prester  John  in  Notes  and  Queries  (see 
Indexes) ;  cf.  Baring-Gould  Curious  Myths  of  the  Middle  Ages  (1872)  32  j^. 

259.  32.  For  Codrington  see  also  Rawl.  J.  4°.  2.  77  sqq.   On  July  25.  1 710  Matthew 
Hutton  wrote  (Ballard  xxxv.  77)  :  'A  few  such  Legacys  as  Col.  Codringtons  would 
make  your  Colledges  Palaces,  &  your  Fellows  never  able  to  live  in  a  country  Parson- 
age house.' 

260.  14  sqq.  "W.  Whittingham  (1524-1579),  Dean  of  Durham  1563.    SeeAtfanat 
i.  446;  Index  to  Strype;   Hutchinson's  Hist,  of  Durham  ii.  143^^.     He  translated 
five  of  the  Psalms  (inc.  the  ngth)  in  '  Sternhold  and  Hopkins.'    Antony  Bek  was 
Bp.  of  Durham  1284-1311.     For  his  life  and  character  it  is  sufficient  to  refer  to  Canon 
Creighton's  article  in  the  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  iv.  134  sqq. 

The  second  wife  of  Henry  Somerset  Duke  of  Beaufort  was  Lady  Rachel  Baptist 
Noel,  d.  of  the  E.  of  Gainsborough.  His  first  wife  (d.  1705)  was  Lady  Mary  Sack- 
ville,  d.  of  the  Earl  of  Dorset.  In  1711  he  m.  thirdly  the  d.  of  the  Duke  of  Leeds. 
His  untimely  death  in  1714,  when  he  who  'had  often  been  too  hard  for  the  strongest 
Liquors,  fell  a  Sacrifice  to  the  weakest,'  through  taking  a  draught  of  oat-ale  when  over- 
heated, is  familiar  to  readers  of  the  Life  ofRadcliffe. — Robt.  Thwaites  was  Master 
of  Ball.  1451-61 ;  'he  was  Chancellor  of  the  University,  Dean  of  Aukland,  and  gave 
several  MSS.  to  the  Library  of  this  College'  (Wood-Gutch).  For  the  family  of 
Thwaites,  see  Marshall  Genealogist 's  Guide  608. 

260.  46.  For  John  Sansbury  see  Athenae  ii.  58  (Dr.  Bliss  gives  extracts  from  the 
probably  unique  copy  in  Bodley) ;  N.  Fitzherbert's  (Ath.  ii.  1 20)  Oxon.  Acad.  Descr. 
was  reprinted  by  Heame  in  Leland's  I  tin.  vol.  ix,  and  Leonard  Hutten's  (Ath.  ii.  532) 
Dissertation  was  printed  by  the  same  editor  in  Textus  Roffensis  275  sqq. 

261.  II.  Wanley  himself  writes  to  Charlett,  Nov.  10,  1708  (Ballard  xiii.  72) :    'As 
to  your  conferring  with  Mr.  Dean  of  Christ-church  about  my  Intention  of  Publishing 
an  account  of  the  Life  of  Cardinal  Wolsey,  I  return  you  many  Thanks.     But  if  my 
Intentions  shall  have  the  Honor  of  his  Approbation,  I  shall  go  much  farther  than  the 
setting  of  Cavendish  in  his  own  true  light.     For  that  Author  was  not  made  privy  to 
very  many  important  Affairs  which  concern'd  his  Master,  or  pass'd  thro'  his  hands : 
and  which  have  not  been  fully  set  forth  (for  ought  I  have  yet  found)  to  this  day. 
When  the  Parliament  sitt's,  I  will  not  fail  to  wait  on  Mr.  Dean  with  my  Book,  and 
crave  the  benefit  of  his  Advice  thereupon.' 

264.  2.  The  following  passage  has  been  accidentally  omitted : — '  Bostonus  Buriensis 
a  Vossio  citatus  de  Hist.  Lat.  p.  365.  489.  —  Florentius  Vigoraiensis  Chronicon  ex 
Chronicis  ab  initio  mundi  usque  ad  an.  D.  1118.  composuit.  Alius  continuavit  usque 
ad  an.  1163.  Utrumque  e  bibliotheca  sua  primus  publicavit  Guilielmus  Howardus, 
nobilis  Anglus  :  cujus  nomen  memorari  debet  in  Catalogo  Bodlejano.' 

264.  46.  There  is  a  good  deal  of  truth  in  this  account  of  the  Battle  of  Malplaquet, 
Marlborough's  last  great  victory.  It  is  described  by  the  Duke  himself  as  '  a  very 
murdering  battle.'  '  I  believe  there  never  was  a  battle,'  he  writes,  '  in  which  there 
has  been  so  many  killed  and  wounded  as  in  this,  for  there  are  very  few  prisoners, 
considering  the  greatness  of  this  action.'  'There  never  was  a  battle  of  so  many 
regular  troops  in  which  there  was  so  great  a  slaughter  on  both  sides.'  '  I  believe  it 
the  chief  cause  of  my  illness,  to  see  so  many  brave  men  killed  with  whom  we  have 
lived  these  eight  years,  when  we  thought  ourselves  sure  of  a  peace.'  Marlborough 
Corr.  ii.  363  sqq.,  380  sqq.  See  also  Tatler  Nos.  63,  64.  For  a  discussion  of  Marl- 
borough's  conduct  at  the  Desertion,  see  Saintsbury  Marlborough  ('  English  Worthies  * 
Series)  26  sqq. 

264.  45.  A  copy  of  the  Sylloge  in  the  Bodleian  has  MS.  additions  and  corrections 
by  the  author.  Christopher  Wren  (1675-1747)  was  M.P.  for  Windsor  1712  and 
1714.  He  collected  a  great  part  of  the  materials  afterward  pub.  by  his  son  Stephen 
under  the  title  of  Parentalia.  See  particulars  of  his  Life  in  L.  Phillimore's  Sir 
Christopher  Wren :  his  Family  and  his  Times.  I  must  demur  to  the  statement  (op. 
cit.  p.  78)  that  Dr.  Wallis  '  was  employed  by  the  Parliament  to  decipher  the  King's 
cabinet  of  letters  taken  at  Naseby.'  Dr.  Wallis's  denial  of  the  story  is  printed  in 
Hearne's  ed.  of  Peter  Langtoft's  Chronicle,  with  the  explanation  that  no  deciphering 
at  all  was  required.  The  following  characteristic  letter  from  Dr.  Wallis  to  Charlett 
(Ballard  xxiv.  3,  Feb.  1699)  has  not,  so  far  as  I  am  aware,  been  yet  printed: — 
' .  .  .  I  thank  you  also  for  yor  news  &  could  not  but  be  surprised  a  little  y*  three  men 

VOL.  II.  G  g 


450  H EARNERS  COLLECTIONS. 

all  so  famouse  in  their  generations  as  those  you  mention  &  of  so  different  opinions 
should  goe  out  of  y6  world  all  together ;  if  they  should  meet,  how  they  would  wonder 
to  see  themselves  in  ye  same  place  there,  &  to  meet  so  punctually  at  y°  same  time ; 
for  I  suppose  ye  old  Master  will  goe  directly  to  his  place  without  touching  at  purga- 
tory, having  had  so  long  a  time  to  repent,  &  dense  himself ;  besides  being  a  person 
of  so  many  &  great  merits,  he  may  be  so  courtiouse,  as  to  take  all  ye  company  y*  took 
their  exits  at  y6  same  time  along  with  him  ye  direct  road  by  applying  some  of  his 
supernumerary  good  works  to  them  if  they  want  any,  for  it  wld  loock  a  little  churlish  in 
a  fellow  travailler  to  break  company,  &  so  fare  them  well,  for  I  doe  not  intend  to 
follow  them  yet,  though  I  cannot  get  on  my  shoe.  I  had  rather  continue  ignorant 
how  they  agree  this  affair,  y*  could  neaver  agree  hear  in  any  thing,  then  goe  to  see.' 

265.  17.  I  do  not  find  that  the  Chevalier  distinguished  himself  at  Malplaquet.  For 
his  conduct  at  Oudenarde,  see  Swift's  Works  (1814),  x.  435  sqq.  'To  a  steeple  on 
high,  The  battle  to  spy,  Up  mounted  these  clever  young  men ;  But  when  from  the 
spire,  They  saw  so  much  fire,  Most  cleverly  came  down  again,'  &c. 

267.  45.  Lord  Weymouth  wrote  to  Charlett  June  4,  1708  (Ballard  x.  40):  'I  finde 
by  y8  Cata[lo]gue  ye  Bp.  of  Worcesters  Booke  is  still  sub  Prelo ;  wch  shews  it  does 
not  sudare  with  it,  noe  more,  than  the  Author  in  finishing  it.' 

271.  27.  For  Wood's  criticisms  on  Savage  and  his  Balliofergus,  see  Athenae  ii. 
957  SW- 

273.  3.  Strong  measures  were  adopted  by  Parliament  this  year  with  the  object  of 
lowering  the  price  of  corn.  Tanner  writes  to  Charlett  from  Norwich  Dec.  14,  1709 
(Ballard  iv.  54) : — '  Our  Farmers  and  Countrey  Gentlemen  that  have  their  Estates  in 
their  own  hands  having  reckon'd  upon  great  prices  for  their  Corn,  are  much  out  of 
humour  wth  the  Parliam*  for  hindring  its  Exportation,  wch  has  almost  sunk  the  price 
to  half  what  it  was  before.  They  alleged  in  their  Petition  to  y6  H.  of  C.  that  there 
was  3  times  the  Quantity  of  Barley  and  Gates  produced  here  last  year,  than  this  City 
and  County  can  consume — that  'tis  a  discouragem*  to  their  breaking  up  and  improving 
their  barren  Ground — and  that  twas  the  export  of  Corn  that  supplied  this  Country 
wth  ready  money  to  pay  the  Queen  and  Landlord.  They  have  exported  some  years 
at  y8  single  port  of  Yarmouth  near  100000  Lasts  of  all  sorts  of  Grain — wch  produced 
always  ready  money.  But  on  the  other  hand  the  deadness  of  trade  and  the  dearaess 
of  Corn  press'd  the  poor  of  this  City  as  much  as  other  places  ;  and  the  Mob  begun  to 
play  some  unlucky  tricks,  in  wch  'twas  thought  they  were  underhand  countenanc'd  by 
the  Brewers,  who  have  a  g*  share  in  the  Magistracy  of  this  town.' 

273.  6.  Neale's  (Athenae  i.  576)  Topographical  Delineation  was  published  by 
Heame  1713  at  the  end  of  Dodwell  De  Parma  equestri  Dissertatio.  The  illustrations 
likewise  appear  in  the  Ectypa  Varia,  and  the  whole  work  was  reproduced  by  photo- 
lithography in  1882. 

273.  27.  Heame's  etymology  of  belfry  is  of  course,  though  ancient,  utterly  unhis- 
torical :  see  New  English  Dictionary  p.  781. 

277.  4.  For  Bobt.  Fludd,  see  Athenae  ii.  618. 


VOL.  XXII. 

Page  280.  line  40.  For  cample,  costrel,  emps  piece,  and  bispel  see  Halliwell's  Archaic 
Dictionary.  Of  these  etymologies  of  Thwaites's,  '  the  less  is  said  the  better.' — Thos. 
Bawlinson  (eldest  brother  of  Dr.  Richard  Rawlinson),  1681-1725,  was  a  great  book- 
collector,  and  a  fast  friend  and  correspondent  of  Hearne's.  We  shall  hear  much  of 
him  in  the  sequel.  He  is  said  to  be  the  original  of  Addison's  '  Tom  Folio '  ( Tatler 
Nos.  158,  1 60  with  Nichols'  notes).  Atterbury  dedicated  a  Sermon  to  his  father 
Sir  T.  Rawlinson,  Lord  Mayor  of  London  1706  (Ep.  Corr.  i.  395). 

284.  8.  For  Higden  and  the  answers  to  his  book,  see  Lathbury  Hist,  of  the  Non- 
jurors  2  29  sqq. 

285.  3.  A  long  extract  from  the  Servitour  is  given  in  Wordsworth  Social  Life  101 
sqq.     It  contains  ad  init.  a  reference  to  the  Trinity  troubles :    '  Of  Oxford  Act,  and 
Doctors  banter'd  ;  |  A  Master  that  Expulsion  ventur'd  ;'  and  sums  up  thus  :  '  A  clever 
Servitour's  a  Fiction,  |  The  Words  imply  a  Contradiction :  |  For  think  of  all  you  can 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XXII.  451 

in  Fools,  |  Meer  Bumpkins,  and  the  meanest  Souls,  |  Ridiculous,  and  'twill  concur,  |  In 
this  its  Center,  Servitour'  We  may  quote  here  Dr.  Johnson's  criticism  of  Maittaire'a 
Vitae  Stephanorum  (Boswell's  Life,  ann.  1780  ad  init.) :  '  Maittaire's  account  of  the 
Stephani '  is  a  very  heavy  book.  He  seems  to  have  been  a  puzzle-headed  man,  with 
a  large  share  of  scholarship,  but  with  little  geometry  or  logick  in  his  head,  without 
method,  and  possessed  of  little  genius.  He  wrote  Latin  verses  from  time  to  time,  and 
published  a  set  in  his  old  age,  which  he  called  Senilia ;  in  which  he  shews  so  little 
learning  or  taste  in  writing,  as  to  make  Carteret  a  dactyl.' 

285.  35.  On  the  subject  of  the  Imitatio,  the  well-known  Captain  Hatton  [both 
Dr.  Bliss  and  Mr.  Kettlewell  misprint  '  Hutton']  writes  (Ballard  xxxiii.  n),  May  31, 
1 707 :  '  And  pardon  me,  if  I  now  acquaint  you  that  I  was  very  much  snrpris'd,  that 
in  ye  note  you  sent  me,  yon  was  pleased  to  say,  you  was  mad  to  find  Obadiah  Walker 
mention'd  in  a  letter  of  mine  in  Print — I  assure  you  Sr  I  was  very  much  displeas'd  when 
I  saw  y*  letter  made  Publick.     Not  that  I  had  therin  mention'd  his  name,  But  not 
in  ye  least  suspecting  Mr  Lee  wou'd  haue  printed  it ;  I  had  writ  it  in  a  very  loos  and 
negligent  stile.      As  for  Mr  Obadiah  Walker,  tho  I  as  zealously  disaproue  (as  any 
man  can)  his  Popish  Tenents,  and  Practises,  yet  I  must  ever  declare,  that  I  thought 
him  to  be  (what  he  was  and  is  generally  reputed)  a  very  learned  man.     And  in  a 
Point  of  learning  wch  had  no  reguard  to  y°  Popish  religion,  I  thinke  it  no  greater 
a  crime  in  me  to  cite  him  than  it  wou'd  be  in  you  to  owne  y*  you  had  been  aquainted 
wth  Abendana l  ye  Jew,  and  had  had  familiar  conferences  wth  him,  and  discours'd  him 
in  some  points  of  learning.     And  truly  had  you  yr  self  enquir'd  of  me  what  I  had  ever 
heard  relating  to  ye  Controversy  who  was  Author  of  ye  Booke  de  Imitatione  Christi, 
I  shou'd  not  haue  thought  it  any  offence  to  haue  cited  Mr  Walkers  opinion,  wch  I 
cou'd  scarce  refrayn  mentioning,  for  I  never  knew  any  man  more  conversant  therin 
than  he  was.     He  was  at  Paris  at  y6  time  when  it  was  most  warmly  debated,  had  an 
intimate  aquaintance  wth  ye  famed  Naudaeus  and  other  y6  cheif  managers  therin.    And 
I  have  ther  at  my  father's  House  heard  him,  and  Dr  Quatreman  an  English  Benedictin 
Monke  (who  had  signalis'd  himself  in  y4  dispute)  with  some  eagerness  debate  whither 
Thomas  a  Kempis  or  Gessen  was  author  of  the  Booke  de  Imitatione  Christi.     Having 
given  you  this  account  of  ye  knowledge  I  had  how  conversant  Mr  Walker  had  been 
in  ye  controversy,  I  suppose  'twill  be  a  sufficient  Apology  y*  I  cited  him,  when  I  had 
occasion  to  mention  it,  especially  when  several  others  (upon  ye  hint  I  gaue)  who  are 
with  you  in  Oxford  haue  justify'd  what  he  said.'    See  Kettlewell  Authorship  of  the 
'  De  Imitatione''  90  sqq.,  115  sqq.,  &C. 

286.  22.  Another  member  of  the  family  is  mentioned  by  Tanner  (Ballard  iv.  54) ; 
'  I  can't  tell  whether  I  ever  gave  you  this  hint  out  of  the  Institution  book  of  BP  Smith 
of  Lincoln.     Dominus  Gregorius  Charkt  presbiter  institutes  in  Eccl.  de  Harfieden 
(Archid.  Oxon.)  ad praesentationem  Geo.  Forster  Mil.  10.  Aug.  1511.' 

286.  28.  There  is  an  account  of  Archibald  Pitcairne  (1652-1713)  in  Chalmers. 
He  had  published  before  this  time  his  Dissertationes  medicae  (advertised  in  the  Flying 
Post  Sept.  12-15,  17I3>  a  copy  of  which  is  in  Ballard  xxix.  126),  &c.  Ruddiman 
brought  out  in  1727  Selecta  Poemata  Archibaldi  Pitcairnii  et  aliorum.  I  possess 
some  of  his  Latin  poems  printed  on  broadsides  and  some  in  MS. ;  they  are  chiefly 
remarkable  for  their  Jacobite  sentiments,  and  are,  it  must  be  owned,  '  paullo  obscu- 
riora.'  The  Robertas  Graius  to  whom  this  poem  is  addressed  is  possibly  Robert 
Gray,  M.D.,  F.R.C.S.  1687,  d.  ante  1701  (Munk  Roll  of  the  College  of  Physicians  \. 
454).  See  Boswell's  Tour  to  the  Hebrides  (ed.  Dr.  G.  Birkbeck  Hill)  58  ;  Kemble 
State  Papers  and  Corresp.  319. 

289.  1 7.  Dryden,  it  will  be  remembered,  took  Charleton's  side  in  this  controversy. 
See  his  lines,  '  To  my  honoured  friend,  Dr.  Charleton,  on  his  learned  and  useful  works ; 
but  more  particularly  his  treatise  of  Stonehenge,  by  him  restored  to  the  true  Founder ' 
(1663):- 

'Through  you,  the  Danes,  their  short  dominion  lost, 
A  longer  conquest  than  the  Saxons  boast. 
Stonehenge,  once  thought  a  temple,  you  have  found 
A  throne,  where  kings,  our  earthly  gods,  were  crowned.' 

For  a  description  of  Stonehenge  in  1662,  see  Ray's  Itineraries  302  sq. ;  he  counted 
94  stones  in  all.  Cf.  Guest  Origines  Celticae  ii.  211  sqq. 

289.  37.  Many  particulars  of  the  Elstobs  will  be  found  in  Nichols*  Literary  Ante- 
1  For  Abendana  see  Tanner  xxi.  116. 
G    g    2 


452  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

dotes  and  Anecdotes  of  Bowyer.  There  are  letters  from  Wm.  Elstob  in  Ballard  xiii. 
32  sqq.,  and  from  Elizabeth  in  xliii.  1-51  (7  and  32  contain  biographies  of  herself  and 
her  brother  respectively).  The  book  here  mentioned  is  well  printed,  and  one  of  the 
copper-plate  initials  contains  a  portrait  of  Miss  Elstob.  Swift  alludes  to  her  in  Tatler 
63,  as  '  a  certain  lady,  who  is  now  publishing  two  of  the  choicest  Saxon  novels,  which 
are  said  to  have  been  in  as  great  repute  with  the  ladies  of  Queen  Emma's  court,  as 
the  Memoirs  from  the  New  Atalantis  are  with  those  of  ours.'  Nichols  remarks  on  this 
passage :  'She  certainly  was  the  first  of  her  country-women  who,  in  the  prime  of  life 
and  the  bloom  of  beauty,  engaged  in  the  frightful  study  of  the  obsolete  Anglo-Saxon 
language  and  northern  antiquities.  It  is  probable,  says  Mr.  Pegge,  that  she  will  also 
be  the  last.'  See  Tatler  (ed.  Nichols)  v.  395  ;  Index  to  Tanner  MSS.,  and  to 
Thoresby's  Diary  and  Corresp. ;  Rawl.  J.  4°.  2.  2^1  sqq.,  fo.  17.  ^sqq. 

290.  37.      Hickes,  in  his  letters  preserved  in  Vol.  xii.  of  the  Ballard  MSS.,  re- 
peatedly expresses  his  obligations  and  gratitude  to  Charlett.     It  is  clear  that  Charlett 
was  very  urgent  for  preferment  after  the  change  of  Ministry ;  see  e.g.  Dr.  Arbuthnot's 
letters  to  him  on  the  subject  (Ballard  xxiv.  65  sq.,  Sept.  14  and  18,  1712);    Lord 
Weymouth  (Ballard  xxxvi.  6,  Jan.  16,  1711)  recommended  him  to  the  Archbp.  of 
York  for  the  Deanery  of  Ripon,  but  His  Grace  had  already  obtained  it  for  one  of  his 
chaplains;   and  letters  from  W.  Bromley  (ib.  xxxviii.  89  sqq.}  assure  him  of  speedy 
promotion,  which,  however,  never  came.     There  were  many  rumours  of  his  trimming 
about  this  time:   his  cousin  W.  Bishop  wrote  (Feb.  14,  1710;  xxxi.  55),  that  there 
was  great  talk  at  London  that  '  C.  and  others  in  his  post  at  Oxford  were  shifting  sides 
in  hopes  to  recommend  themselves  to  the  Low  Church  and  that  interest,'  and  adds 
sharp  expostulations ;    but  in  his  next  letter,  of  Feb.  20,  Bishop  expresses  his  joy  at 
receiving  C.'s  explanation,  and  states  that  the  chief  informant  against  the  Oxford 
heads  was  Lord  Abingdon. 

291.  losqq.  Watts  alludes  to  this  tract  in  his  letter  of  Jan.  8, 1711  (Ballard  xxv.  47). 

292.  i.  The  author  of  this  very  unedifying  work  is  familiar  to  all  readers  of  Swift, 
and  of  the  Tatler;  see  Nichols'  ed.  i.  394,  413  ;  ii.  321 ;  v.  6is<?.,  311,  448,  and  vi. 
230.   See  also  Steele's  Corresp.  i.  274;  Luttrell  vi.  505  sqq.,  546.    Mrs.  Manley's  friend- 
ship with  Swift,  and  her  intimacy,  quarrel  and  reconciliation  with  Steele,  have  pre- 
served her  memory.     The  New  Atalantis  is  mentioned   in   the  Duchess  of  Marl- 
borough's  Corresp.  i.  236 sqq.     King  (ii.  134)  speaks  of  'the  fluency  of  its  style,  and 
the  tenderness  of  its  love-expressions.'     It  is  mildly  described  as  'a  satire  on  the 
Whigs,'  by  De  Morgan  Newton :    his  Friend:   and  his  Niece,  who  has  some  curious 
remarks  about  her.     But  hardly  anything  can  be  wider  of  the  mark  than  Hearne's 
criticism  of  the  New  Atalantis  at  p.  297,  that  '  it  is  carried  on  under  all  the  semblance 
of  virtue.' 

292.  36.  The  Oxford  Decree  in  favour  of  Passive  Obedience  and  Non-resistance 
was  published  July  21,  1683,  the  day  of  Lord  William  Russell's  execution.     It  is  said 
to  have  embittered  the  last  days  of  Algernon  Sydney.     An  English  translation  ap- 
peared immediately  after  its  publication,  and  was  reprinted  in  1710  as  an  answer 
to  Hoadly  Of  the  Original  of  Government ;   and  it  was  followed  in  the  same  year  by 
University  Loyalty,  &c.,  a  comment  upon  it  from  the  Whig  point  of  view.     There  is 
a  good  account  of  the  Decree  in  the  Life  of  Kettlewell  68  sqq.     The  Dean  of  Glou- 
cester (Dr.  Jane)  is  mentioned  as  the  author,  and  a  summary  history  of  the  Decree 
given,  in  An  Account  of  Mr.  Parkinsons  Expulsion  from  the  University  of  Oxford  in 
the  late  Times  (1689)  17.     See  the  epigram  on  Jane  (Janus  bifrons)  in  Wordsworth 
Social  Life  605  sq.,  and  Amherst  Terrae  Filius  i&sq.     Cf.  Cunningham  Hist.  ii.  286. 

293.  22.  For  Dr.  Whitford,  see  Athenae  i.  132^^.;    and  for  the  early  English 
translations  of  the  Imitatio  Kettlewell  498  sqq. 

There  is  a  very  interesting  account  of  Le  Clerc's  ed.  of  the  Fragments  of  Menander 
and  Philemon,  and  the  bitter  controversy  to  which  it  gave  rise,  in  Monk's  Life  of 
Bent  ley  i.  267  sqq :  '  This  work,  the  demerits  of  which  have  never  been  paralleled,  is  dedi- 
cated to  the  Earl  of  Shaftesbury,  author  of  the  Characteristics.1  Bentley's  reply,  pub- 
lished under  the  name  of '  Phileleutherus  Lipsiensis,'  was  completed  on  Dec.  13,1 709. 

295.  28.  Hearne  has  no  direct  mention  of  the  B.N.C.  difficulty  in  connexion  with 
Dr.  Meare,  which  had  caused  Dr.  Wake,  Bp.  of  Lincoln  and  Visitor  of  B.N.C. ,  great 
searchings  of  heart.  Wake's  letters  (Ballard  iii.  48^^.)  contain  a  good  deal  of  in- 
formation on  this  matter.  Feb.  15,  1709,  he  writes  that  he  would  not  think  of  re- 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XXIL  453 

moving  the  Principal  of  B.N.C.  merely  on  account  of  the  infirmities  of  his  age,  and 
has  no  regard  either  to  Dr.  Smith  or  to  the  V.  P.  March  22,  1709  :  '  I  suppose  before 
this  you  have  had  a  full  account  of  the  very  strange  behaviour  of  some  of  the  fellows 
of  Brasen-nose  College  towards  me.  As  soon  as  they  gave  me  an  ace'  of  the  death 
of  their  Vpr.  I  wrote  to  the  Senr  fellow  to  call  the  Seniors  together ;  &  to  offer  ym  my 
help,  by  a  favourable  Interpretation  of  their  Stat.  de  Electione  Vprincip.  to  proceed 
to  a  Choice,  wch  as  their  Statute  now  stands  they  could  not  make.  They  refused  to 
accept  my  kindness ;  they  elected  wthout  it ;  Ag'  the  protestation  of  their  Brethren, 
&  after  ye  Senior  domus  had  dissolved  the  Meeting.'  April  5,  '  I  am  still  at  a  losse 
to  guesse  why  Men  who  seem  to  have  so  much  desired  a  new  Vice-principall,  should 
have  refused  my  offer  of  putting  ym  in  a  way  to  chuse  one,  that  would  have  been 
wthout  controversie.'  April  19.  'I  blesse  God  I  got  safe  hither  with  my  family  on 
Fryday  last :  I  was  the  very  next  day  applied  to  from  four  of  the  senior  fellows  of 
Br.  Nose  College  in  a  new  case,  wch  I  confesse  gives  me  some  trouble.  It  is  that  of 
a  fellows  going  out  of  Town,  to  let  another  into  the  Seniority  to  vote  for  him,  in  the 
concern  of  a  College  office,  in  wch  He  is  expresly  forbidden  to  Vote  fpr  Himselfe.  I 
make  no  difficulty  but  y*  this  is  so  directly  contrary  to  the  Statute  of  Election  ;  to  the 
founders  Intention,  &  even  the  fellows  Oath ;  y*  it  ought  by  all  meanes  to  be  pre- 
vented for  the  future.  But  how  shall  we  know  whether  a  fellow  absents  himselfe  for 
this  purpose?  Shall  his  absence  on  such  Occasions  be  a  sufficient  presumption  ag* 
Him?  I  wish  you  w41  advise  wth  some  of  yr  Civilians  on  that  point,  &  let  me  know 
their  opinion.  For,  indeed,  if  somew*  be  not  done  for  this  unfortunate  College,  it 
will  I  doubt  come  to  mine.'  May  12:'!  am  obliged  to  you  for  Dr.  Bouchiers  opinion 
in  the  case  of  Brasen  nose  College.  The  Dr  is  certainly  in  the  right  y*  there  is  no 
Occasion  for  the  Visitors  taking  notice  of  the  ill  practice  there  mention'd,  till  he  is 
call'd  to  do  it :  But,  I  think,  I  told  you  y*  I  feared  I  should  be  called,  by  an  appeal 
from  the  College,  to  settle  this  great  point :  And  indeed  thus  far  they  are  in  the 
right,  (wch  I  doubt  you  are  none  of  you  aware  of)  y'  if  they  do  not  settle  it  before 
a  new  Election,  &  the  same  trick  should  be  play'd  ym  again,  the  Visitor  cannot  help 
ym  afterwards ;  nor  vacate  the  Election  upon  such  an  ace*.  For  He  is  expresly  forbid, 
by  Statute,  to  look  into  the  method  of  the  Election  ;  but  must  take  it  meerly  as  it  is, 
by  the  majority  of  the  Seniors,  presented  to  Him ;  and  confirm  it  in  so  many  days, 
or  it  will  stand  good  wthout  his  Approbation.'  Finally,  July  27 :  'I  should  be  glad 
to  know  how  the  principall  of  Brasen-Nose  do's :  I  suppose  Mr.  Freeman's  going  off, 
will  put  an  end  to  all  disputes  about  his  successor.'  In  iv.  51  (June  10,  1709)  Tanner 
expresses  himself  '  heartily  glad  the  BP  of  Line,  has  hit  on  those  measures  at  B.N.C. 
which  are  thought  right  by  the  wise  and  good  part  of  the  University.' 

297.  10.  Hearne's  remark  recalls  Dr.  Johnson's  observation,  '  Leslie  was  a  reasoner, 
and  a  reasoner  who  was  not  to  be  reasoned  against '  (anno  1 784),  and  the  remarks  of 
Johnson's  friend  Psalmanazar  {Memoirs  24  sq.).    Surely  Johnson's  insinuation  against 
the  character  of  the  Nonjurors  generally,  reported  by  Boswell,  under  date  of  March  27, 
1775,  was  merely  due  to  a  desire  of  an  argumentative  victory  at  the  moment. — The 
second  Lord  Clarendon  is  well  known  to  us  by  his  Diary  and  Correspondence.     It 
speaks  volumes  for  his  honesty,  that  after  holding  all  but  the  highest  offices  of  State, 
he  died  poor.   His  son,  Edw.  Lord  Cornbury,  described  by  Luttrell  as  '  now  a  prisoner 
for  debt  at  New  York,'  d.  1723. 

298.  2.  In  Ballard  xvii.  34  sqq.  are  letters  from  J.  Anstis  to  Charlett  in  the  matter 
of  this  claim  of  J.  Nourse.     In  34,  Anstis  proposes  that  his  own  collections  on  the 
subject  should  be  printed  at  Nourse's  expense ;    (35)  he  has  sent  Mr.  N.  to  Judge 
Powell ;  (37)  he  encloses  a  letter  from  the  Archbp.  of  Cant.,  reading  ceteris  paribus, 
instead  of  prindpaliter  et  ante  omnes.    In  (38)  he  states  that  N.  has  appealed.   '  Upon 
this  Appeal  I  thought  it  not  amisse  for  Mr.  Nourse  to  intimate  the  same  to  his  Grace 
by  an  Epistle,  insisting  on  his  right,  which  I  drew  for  him  yesterday  morning,  as  on 
the  other  side,  which  pray  do  not  shew  to  any  saving  Dr.  Clarke  &  Dr.  Code ;    His 
Grace  received  him  by  telling  him  that  if  he  had  not  more  ingenuity  than  manners  He 
was  not  fitt,  (though  he  never  read  over  his  Epistle  &  with  difficulty  received  it)  And 
used  the  poor  Gentleman  ...  in  such  a  manner  as  is  too  long  &  not  fitt  for  me  to 
repeat ;    Dale  went  with  him,  and  lost  his  Noble  Courage,  though  upon  his  asking 
wherein  was  the  defect  of  good  manners,  the  answer  was,  that  he  had  brought  him 
a  packet  of  letters,  whereas  he  called  God  &  men  to  witnesse  no  recommendation 
should  have  any  effect  on  him,  and  run  on  on  caeteris  paribus  &c.  which  shews  he 


454  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

had  not  read  the  Statutes.'     The  later  history  of  the  '  Founder's  kin '  controversy  is 
fully  told  by  Prof.  Burrows  in  Worthies  of  All  Souls  406  sqq. 

300.  10.  See  the  interesting  Life  of  Bp.  Barlow  in  the  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  iii.  224 
sqq.   He  '  resided  so  constantly  at  the  episcopal  palace  at  Buckden,  near  Huntingdon, 
and  was  so  little  seen  in  other  parts  of  the  diocese,  that  he  was  contemptuously  styled 
the  "  Bishop  of  Bugden,"  and  charged  with  never  having  entered  his  cathedral.' — 
Dr.  Marshall,  the  Orientalist,  was  Rector  of  Lincoln  1672-1685. — Praeterition  seems 
to  have  been  an  equivalent  for  '  reprobation '  in  Calvinistic  theology.     Richardson 
quotes  Whitby  On  the  Five  Points  Dis.  I .  Introd. :  '  They  on  whom  God  hath  passed 
this  act  of  reprobation,  or  of  preterition,  may  believe  and  repent,  and  therefore  may 
be  saved.' — On  the  Library  of  Balliol  Coll.,  see  Wood-Gutch  Colleges  and  Halls 
89  sqq. 

301.  30.  On  the  arms  of  Canterbury  and  York,  see  Notes  and  Queries  ist  S. 
viii.  34,  in,  302. 

303.  32.  Dr.  Savage  is  anxious  to  explain  that  the  inscriptions  above  given  do  not 
represent  the  high-water  mark  of  Balliol  latinity  at  the  time,  and  adds  (p.  72) :  '  The 
false  Metre  and  Grammar,  is  not  to  be  ascribed  to  the  ignorance  of  the  times  (which 
produced  so  many  Learned  Men,  even  in  this  Colledge,  Ubi  tune  temporis  nobilium 
juvenum  corona  Celebris  renascentem  imbibebat  eloquentiam  .  .  .)  but  to  the  Glaziers 
or  others,  who  composed  such  as  these  according  to  their  own  understanding,  or  some 
traditional  Conceptions.  There's  one  Marble  Grave-stone  in  the  Church  of  St. 
Burien,  near  the  Lands-end  in  Cornwal,  which  having  a  Cross  on  it,  the  People 
take  it  to  be  some  Deans  Grave-stone  (for  the  Parson  is  now  call'd  Dean  of  Burien, 
and  it  had  once  Prebendaries  too,  as  Mr.  Camden  writes)  but  that  it's  no  such 
matter,  that  which  is  engraven  in  the  border  thereof,  doth  sufficiently  testifie :  The 
true  reading  thereof  may  be  this,  Clarie  la  femme  Geffrei/De  Bolleit 1  gist  icy,  / ' Dieu 
de  fame  ayez  mercie  !  Qui  prient  pour  Fame  auront/Dix  jour  de  par  don  en  ce  viand*. 
I  shewing  my  Transcription  to  a  Gentleman  a  Roman  Catholick,  and  an  Antiquary, 
asked  him,  Who  promised  that  ten  days  of  pardon  to  whomsoever  should  pray  for 
her  soul  ?  He  answered,  That  it  was  a  traditional  thing,  and  ad  placitum  sculptoris, 
who  might  have  put  100  days  as  well  as  ten,  had  he  pleased :  The  Application  is 
easie.' 

303.  44.  Dr.  Kennedy  published  a  work  on  Carausius  and  Allectus,  and  a  gold 
coin  of  the  latter,  in  1756  {Lit.  Anecd.  ii.  283);  and  in  the  same  year  P.  C.  Webb 
printed  A  Short  Account  of  Danegeld.    The  Dauegeld  '  from  1163  ceased  to  appear 
as  a  distinct  item  of  account  in  the  Pipe  Rolls '  (Stubbs  Const.  Hist.  i.  522).      Three 
brass  coins  of  Allectus  bearing  a  trireme  on  the  reverse  are  entered  by  Wise  in  his 
Catalogue  of  Corns  in  the  Bodleian  p.  81.    Cf.  Akerman  Coins  of  the  Romans  relating 
to  Britain  146  sqq. :  '  The  most  common  [reverse]  is  that  with  a  galley  filled  with 
rowers,  and  the  legends  LAETITIA  AVG.,  and  VlRl'VS  AVG.,  the  latter  legend  being 
most  frequent.     A  ship  was  the  favourite  type  for  a  state  among  the  Romans.  .  . 
The  LAETITIA  is  an  empty  compliment  to  the  self-created  emperor  whose  vessel 
soon   foundered.     When  the  VIRTVS   accompanies  this   type,  it  would  appear  to 
denote  that  Allectus  felt  conscious  of  the  advantage  he  possessed,  in  the  fleet  which 
guarded  the  shores  of  his  island.'     Cf.  i.  139. 

304.  48.  The  Vicar   of  Battersea  at  this  time  was  the  Rev.  Nathaniel  Gower, 
instituted  Oct.  20,  1701,  on  the  presentation  of  Sir  Walter  St.  John,  died  at  Bath 
1727,  aet.  59  (Manning  and  Bray  Surrey  [1814]  iii.  341). 

306.  8.  We  are  fortunate  in  possessing  a  plan  to  the  'mighty  maze'  of  literature,  or 
rather  of  printed  matter,  bearing  on  the  trial  of  Sacheverell  in  Mr.  Madan's  Biblio- 
graphy (Oxford :  Printed  for  the  author,  1884).  The  main  facts  of  the  case,  and  the 
marvellous  change  in  English  policy  of  which  it  was  the  occasion,  are  universally 
familiar.  Hearne's  view  of  the  Doctor — tinged,  it  is  clear,  by  personal  feeling — is 
uniformly  unfavourable,  and  it  is  throughout  the  cause,  and  not  the  man,  that  attracts 
his  sympathy.  Some  account  of  David  Jones,  with  whom  he  is  here  compared,  has 
been  given  in  the  note  on  p.  18,  1.  36  supra.  In  Dr.  King's  Vindication  of  the  Rev. 
Dr.  H.  Sacheverell  in  answer  to  Bisset's  Modern  Fanatick  (King's  Works,  ii.  249) 

1  Bolleit  is  a  place  in  that  Parish,  which  I  had  occasion  to  know,  accompanying  some  Friends  that 
have  Estates  in  the  Parish.    (SAVAGE). 

2  Cf.  Camden  Britannia  (ed.  Gough  1789)  vol.  i.  plate  i. 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XX III.  455 

'Whig'  asks:  'But  pray  was  not  this  Sermon  of  the  Doctor's  "a  common  hack  at 
Oxford,"  as  Bisset  affirms,  p.  31  ?  '  To  which  'Tory'  replies  :  'I  have  indeed  heard 
the  Doctor  preach  upon  the  same  subject  at  Oxford  some  years  before  he  preached 
at  St.  Paul's ;  but  two  thirds  of  the  Sermon,  at  least,  were  new,  and  suited  to  the 
occasion  of  the  day  on  which  he  preach'd  ...  I  do  think  the  Clergy  have  the  same 
liberty  in  their  Sermons,  as  the  Queen  has  by  law  in  her  Fleet ;  they  may  build  upon 
the  old  Keels,  and  keep  themselves  within  the  Statute.'  This  Sermon  was  preached 
at  St.  Mary's,  Dec.  23,  1705  (vol.  i.  p.  138).  The  facts  of  Sacheverell's  career  are 
to  be  found  in  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  88  (with  engraving  of  medal),  2.  139  sqq. ;  3.  272; 
fol.  2 1 .  94  sqq. 

308.  3.  There  are  many  mentions  of  Gagnier  in  the  Ballard  Letters.     For  the 
present  it  will  be  enough  to  quote  the  letter  of  Bp.  Lloyd  of  Worcester  (ix.  25), 
Aug.  9,  1708:  'I  will  endeavor  to  persuade  Monsr  Gagnier,  a  Canon  of  S*  Victor's 
in  Paris,  y*  lives  with  me,  and  is  ye  ablest  man  y*  I  know  in  all  parts  of  Hebrew 
Learning,  to  accept  of  ye  employ  m*  on  those  terms  above  mentioned  [48 /.  per  annum], 
and  if  at  any  time  you  dislike  him,  I  will  willingly  receive  him  again.     It  is  y*  [sic] 
translated  Bengorion  &  publisht  his  version  with  very  learned  Notes ;  w011  will  be  of 
great  Use  against  y6  Jews,  when  they  come  to  be  considerd  as  they  deserve.'    In  the 
next  letter,  Nov.  10,  1710,  we  find  Gagnier  still  with  the  Bishop,  having  ten  pupils 
and  £20  a  year.     See  also  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  157,  fol.  17.  155. 

309.  23.  There  was  a  second  ed.  of  this  book  in  the  following  year  in  The  Secret 
History  of  the  four  last  Monarch*.  (8vo). 

310.  13.  For  Garter-Rings  see  W.  Jones  Finger-ring  Lore  193  (quoting  Ash- 
mole's  History  of  the  Order  of  the  Garter). 

313.  19.  Bisset  published  Remarks  on  Dr.  Sacheverelts  Sermon  (1709),  which 
provoked  replies  from  '  Amicus '  and  Wm.  Jones  (Madan,  Nos.  37  sqq.}  \  and,  in  1 710, 
The  Modern  Fanatick,  which  was  answered  by  Dr.  W.  King  (Nos.  139  sqq.).  In 
1711  the  town  was  amused  by  Mr.  Bissefs  Recantation  in  a  letter  to  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Henry  Sacheverell,  which  was  a  forgery  of  Dr.  King's,  aided,  as  in  the  Vindication, 
by  C.  Lambe  and  Dr.  Sacheverell.  He  was  also  introduced  in  A  Dialogue  between 
Dr.  Henry  Sack — ell  and  Mr.  William  B — sset,  written  secundum  usum  Billingsgate, 
1711  (No.  198).  Bisset  was  Rector  of  Whiston,  Northamptonshire,  and  d.  1747  :  see 
King's  Works  ii.  181,  and  Life  in  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  v.  102. 

313.  43.  For  the  significance  of  the  Warden's  action  with  regard  to  Blencowe,  see 
Burrows  Worthies  of  All  Souls  347-363.  Sir  J.  Blencowe  (1642-1726)  m.  Anne, 
eldest  d.  of  Dr.  Wallis.  His  third  son,  William  (1683-1712),  was  instructed  by  Dr. 
Wallis  in  the  art  of  deciphering.  See  their  Lives  in  the  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  iv.  210  sq. ; 
also  Ballard  vi.  15,  25 ;  xx.  39;  xxiv.  6  (endorsed  '  Dr.  Wallis  to  the  ArbP.  of  Cant. 
Sept.  22,  1700* ...  an  Autograph  of  his  &  copy'd  by  Dr.  Charlett  &  sent  to  A.  Bp. 
of  Cant,  in  his  own  name  ab'  y°  art  of  Deciphering  &  teaching  young  Mr.  Blencowe 
of  All  Souls  Coll.  &  Son  to  y«  late  Sr  John  Blencoe  Judge  of  y8  Common  Pleas 
WestmV 

VOL.  XXIII. 

Page  318,  line  i.  There  is  an  allusion  to  this  fire  in  a  letter  of  John  Johnson  in  Bal- 
lard xv.  49  (Dec.  16,  1709) :  he  laments  the  loss  of  Exeter  College  Library,  but  blesses 
that  Providence  which  preserved  the  Bodleian.  See  also  Oxoniana  iv.  224. 

324.  6.  William  Bentinck,  Earl  of  Portland,  d.  at  Bulstrode,  Bucks,  Nov.  23, 1709, 
in  the  6ist  year  of  his  age. 

327.  i.  Brasenose  Ale  Verses.  These  verses,  still  annually  produced  on  the  limited 
subject  of  '  Brasenose  Ale,'  are  one  of  the  most  curious  customs  of  the  University. 
The  usage  is  probably  at  least  as  old  as  the  1 7th  century,  and  at  first  the  poem  was 
made  and  recited  on  Shrove  Tuesday  by  the  Butler  of  the  College,  who  received  £5  for 
them :  in  this  century  the  habit  has  been  to  have  them  written  by  undergraduates,  printed 
by  the  Butler,  and  distributed  in  Hall.  The  verses  preserved  by  Hearae  are  the 
earliest  copy  known,  and  must  be  even  earlier  than  1 709  (cf.  1.  19),  inasmuch  as  Edward 
Shippery  was  Butler  from  1659  to  1705  only.  Collections  of  the  verses  were  privately 
printed  in  1857  and  1878,  the  latter  containing  the  copies  for  1806,  1811,  1815—16, 

1  To  this  point  the  endorsement  is  Charlett's ;  the  rest  is  by  Rawlins. 


456  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

1820—21,  1824,  1826—77,  besides  the  one  here  quoted.  See  the  introduction  to  the 
latter  edition  (by  Thomas  Humphry  Ward,  M.A.)  and  the  Saturday  Review,  Dec.  28, 
1878.  [F.  M.] 

327.  29.  John  Dolmen  was  the  son  of  the  Archbp.  of  York  (1683—1686)  of  his 
names.  He  was  M.P.  for  Liskeard,  and  was  a  disciple  of  Bp.  Trelawny  in  matters 
ecclesiastical  (Nicolson  Ep.  Corr.  376).  There  are  some  savage  attacks  on  him  in 
Whig  and  Tory  (i)  5,  9,  n,  14,  28  ;  (iii)  19,  (iv)  27.  Among  these  are  two  elegies 
on  his  death  at  Epsom,  May  28,  1710.  In  The  History  of  the  Imp — nt,  the  question 
is  asked : 

'  Was  the  Doctor  less  touch'd  in  his  Brain, 
To  stuff  his  Discourse  with  Gun-powder ; 

Or  Do-ben,  who  fir'd  the  Train, 

And  made  it  bounce  louder  and  louder  ? ' 

W.  W.  Wilkins,  Political  Ballads  ii.  84,  quotes  the  following  epitaph  upon  him  : — 
'  Under  this  marble  lies  the  dust  Of  Dolben  John,  the  chaste  and  just :  Reader,  read 
softly,  I  beseech  ye,  For  if  he  wakes,  he'll  straight  impeach  ye  ! ' 

327.  47.  There   is  an   article   on   Dean    Stanhope's   Common-place  Book  in  the 
Saturday  Review,  May  15,  1886,  pp.  670  sqq.     He  died  1728,  aged  68,  and  could 
hardly  be  said  to  have  reached  '  old  age  '  in  1 709. 

328.  44.  The  hero  of  the  Bangorian  controversy  was  at  this  time  only  33  years 
of  age,  and  was  known  in  literature  by  his  tracts  against  Calamy,  his  attack  on 
Atterbury  on  the  subject  of  the  latter's  funeral  sermon  on  Bennett  the  bookseller,  his 
political  sermon,  and  his  apology  for  the  views  set  forth  in  it.     There  is  a  parody 
of  Bp.  Blackall's  reply  to  Hoadly  in  Tatler  Nos.  44,  50,  &c.  (with  Nichols'  Notes). 
See  also  Life  of  Calamy  ii.  225  ;   Dunton's  Life  and  Errors  671  ('He  is  distin- 
guish'd  by  a  life  that's  clean,  His  answering  Blackall  is  his  only  stain ') ;   Life  of 
Kennett  165  sqq. ;  Letters  by  Hughes  &c.  i.  51,  154,  289;  Memoirs  of  Whiston  243, 
Whig  and  Tory  7  ('  A  crippl'd  Priest,  whose  Intellects  are  lame  As  his  Supporters ') 
&c.  For  Offspring  Blackall,  Bp.  of  Exeter  1708—1716,  see  the  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog. 
v.  117. 

332.  9.  Prickett,  the  hero  of  the  poem  printed  vol.  i.  p.  107  sqq.  of  this  edition, 
frequently  appears  in  the  Ballard  Corresp.  from  Jan.  29,  1698  onward,     xxxviii.  8 
is  a  letter  from  him,  giving  an  account  of  a  disturbance  at  St.  Peter's  in  the  East 
(1702);   see  also  v.  70,  100-102,  and  W.  Bishop's  letters  in  xxxi  (122  contains  a 
request '  to  desire  Mr.  Prickett  to  send  in  a  Gally-Pot,  4  or  6  pd  of  Your  best  Oxford 
Sossages,  if  the  Wheather  permit';  and  134  a  statement  that  'Mr.  Prickett8  accusa- 
tion of  selling  Candles  is  in  every-ones  mouth  here,  y*  converses  with  Oxford.').     Mr. 
Prickett  cleared  himself  to  Charlett's  satisfaction  in  the  matter  of  the  candles.     In 
C.  Usher's  Letter  (1699)  he  appears  in  company  with  Wanley  the  Servitor  [alias  the 
informer],  Dennison  (Usher's  successful  competitor),  and  Mr.  Woods,  A.B. ;  and  their 
'  cabals  in  the  cellar '  are  mentioned.   Usher  seems  to  admit  that  he  described  Prickett 
as  '  Pimp-master-general  to  the  Lodgings.'     W.  Bishop  (Ballard  xxxi.  33)  mentions 
'  the  mighty  potent  Mr.  Prickett.'     In  Ballard  xvi.  19  (1693)  W.  Smith  describes  how 
'  We  new  thatchd  Mr  Prickett  at  Henley  &  obliged  him  to  appear  &  converse  in 
y*  disguise  all  day  on  Thursday ;  But  yre  was  a  Storm  rose  y*  night  at  home  y*  blew 
away  all  or  pains,  and  retumd  him  back  to  his  silver  hairs  ye  next  morning.'    In 
xxi.  81  T.  Cockman  humbly  begs  that  Charlett  would  order  Mr.  P.  to  get  a  Preacher 
for  him. 

333.  i.  The  Rev.  G.  Plaxton  was  presented  by  Ld.  Gower  to  the  rectory  of  Ber- 
wick-in-Elmet,  near  Leeds,  in  1 703  (Atkinson  Ralph  Thoresby  i.  430) ;  Thoresby's 
Diary  i.  434,  &c.     In  1712,  T.  '  called  to  see  parson  Plaxton's  grandmother  [?],  aged 
88,  yet  cant  to  admiration.'     '  Notwithstanding  his  jocular  temper  and  satirical  wit, 
(which  displeaseth  some  and  pleaseth  many,)  he  is  very  commendably  serious  and 
industrious  in  his  cure,  and  hath  brought  his  parish  to  an  excellent  order '  (Diary 
ii.  187).     Many  of  his  letters,  which  leave  a  most  pleasing  impression  of  the  writer, 
are  printed  in  Thoresby's  Corresp.  vol.  ii.     Some  further  particulars  of  his  life,  with 
refs.,  are  given  in  Atterbury  Ep.   Corr.  ii.  56  n. — For  Sir  T.  Littleton,  Speaker 
1698-1699,  see  Manning  Lives  of  the  Speakers  400  sqq. ;  Burnet  Own  Time  (1823) 
i.  402  sq.  &c.     He  held  the  Treasurership  of  the  Navy  from  1699  to  his  death. — To 
the  refs.  to  Bp.  Lloyd  already  given  may  be  added  Jessopp  Diocesan  Hist,  of  Nor- 
wich 210  sqq. ;  Life  of  Kettlewell  429;   D'Oyly's  Life  of  Bancroft,  chap.  xi.     The 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XXIII.  457 

date  of  his  death  is  wrongly  given  as  Jan.  30  in  Lathbury  History  of  the  Nonjurors 
209  sqq. 

334.  27.  Sacheverell's  ref.  to  Grindal  called  forth  a  tract  of  30  pp.  entitled  A  Brief 
and  True  Character  and  Account  of  Edmund  Grindal,  D.D.  sometime  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury,  published  to  rectify  some  Misapprehensions  taken  up  of  that  most  Reverend 
and  Godly  Prelate  Sic.  (1710). — There  is  a  Life  of  Sir  Hans  Sloane  in  Edwards' 
Lives  of  the  Founders  of  the  British  Museum  i.  274  sqq.  Charlett's  letters  to  him 
are  preserved  in  MS.  Sloane  4040,  and  some  of  his  replies  to  Charlett  hi  Ballard 
xxiv  (38-50)- 

336.  27.  The  history  of  Bp.  Merks  afterward  attracted  considerable  attention  from 
controversialists:  see  Life  of  Kennett  143,  161,  163.  'That  great  Lay  Dictator,' 
Mr.  D[odwell],  had  years  before  expostulated  with  Bp.  Frampton  for  'going  to  the 
public  prayers  of  the  Church,'  Life  of  Frampton  203. 

338.  5.  'These  galley-halfpence  were  a  coin  of  Genoa,  brought  in  by  the  galley- 
men,  or  men  that  came  up  in  the  galleys  with  wine  and  merchandise,  and  thence 
called  galley-halfpence,  broader  than  the  English  halfpenny,  but  not  so  thick,  and 
probably  base  metal,  because  two  years  afterwards  a  statute  (13  Hen.  IV.  cap.  6.)  was 
made  to  confirm  the  former  law,  considering  the  great  deceit,  as  well  of  the  said 
galley  halfpence  as  other  foreign  money.'    Notes  and  Queries,  2nd  S.,  iv.  252  ;  cf.  5th 
S.  ix.  336,  437. 

339.  37.  Luttrell  notes  (vi.  540) :  'Yesterday  Mr.  Kettilby  mov'd  the  queens  bench 
court  for  a  habeas  corpus  for  sir  Seymour  Pyle,  Mr.  Westby  of  the  6clerks  office,  and 
Mr.  Nicholls,  a  wholesale  grocer,  who  were  committed  by  the  secretary  of  state  for 
drinking  Dr.  Sacheverels  health,  and  by  force  imposing  it  upon  others,  and  this  day 
admitted  to  bail.' 

340.  19.  R.  "West,  M.A.  1693,  was  chaplain  to  Bp.  Burnet.     He  succeeded  Jonas 
Proast  as  Archdeacon  of  Berks,  and  d.  Dec.  2,  1716.    See  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  114;  Le 
Neve's  Fasti  ii.  636. 

340.  35.  For  G-eo.  Darrell,  see  Fasti  i.  322,  Athenae  iii.  554,  &c.     On  Nathaniel 
Whaley  (M.A.  1701),  see  Rawl.  J.  4°.  2.  260;  3.  448;  Cotton  Fasti  iii.  375.     He 
was  Rector  of  Armagh  1730. 

341.  25.  Hearne  has  reprinted  in  Leland's  Collectanea  (1715)  vi.  2-42  :  'The  great 
feast  at  the  Intronization  of  George  Nevell,  Archbishop  of  York ;  the  service  to  the 
Baron- Bishop  within  the  close  of  York;    several  Observations  about  the  prizes  of 
Corn  and  Wine,  and  about  provision  for  the  Poor ;  Intronizatio  Willielmi  Warham, 
Archiepisc.  Cantuar.  anno  Henrici  VII  vicesimo ;  fees  at  the  said  Intronization,  with 
other  things  of  the  same  kind,  particularly  a  Note  about  Math.  Parker ;  Convivium 
in  Installatione  Radulphi  de  Bourne,  Abbatis  S.  August.  Cant.  Anno  Dom.  1309. 
&  Domini  Reg.  Edwardi  secundi  2° ;  A  Dietarie,  or  several  things  about  the  prizes 
of  Victuals,  with  injunction  for  temperate  living,  1315  ;  and  Verses  written  by  Thomas 
Brooke  Gent,  in  the  tyme  of  his  Imprisonment,  the  day  before  his  death,  who  sufferyd  at 
Norwich,  the  30.  of  Aug.  1570.'     Wm.  "Warham  was  Archbp.  of  Cant.  1503-1533  ; 
Qeo.  Neville,  of  York  1464-1476. 

343.  ii.  Calamy  has  an  interesting  note  on  this  Bishop  (Life  i.  271  sq.~).  Mr. 
Thomas  Gilbert,  'an  ancient  [Nonconformist]  divine,  who  then  [1692]  lived  privately 
in  Oxford,'  '  statedly  attended  the  preaching  of  Dr.  Hall,  Bishop  of  Bristol,  (of  whom 
he  was  a  great  admirer,  and  who,  he  commonly  used  to  say,  preached  like  Dr.  Preston, 
the  famous  Puritan,)  [see  Ball's  Life  of  him,  edited  by  Mr.  E.  W.  Harcourt,  1885] 
one  part  of  the  Lord's  day,  as  he  did  on  Mr.  Oldfield,  at  the  Meeting,  the  other. 
Some  few  of  the  Dissenters  in  Oxford  used  to  do  so  too.  This  Bishop  Hall  was  one 
of  eminent  piety,  but  not  much  esteemed  by  the  young  wits  of  the  University.  He 
catechised  at  St.  Toll's,  near  his  College,  every  Lord's  day  evening,  and  I  sometimes 
heard  him.  He  could  bring  all  the  Catechism  of  the  Westminster  Assembly,  out  of 
the  Catechism  of  the  Church  of  England.  I  never  heard  Mr.  Gilbert  applaud  any  one 
more  than  this  bishop ;  a  letter  of  whose,  to  Mr.  Risley,  the  Nonconformist,  which 
I  have  inserted  in  my  Account  of  the  ejected  Ministers,  plainly  shows  him  to  have  been 
of  an  excellent  spirit.'  John  Hall  was  elected  Master  of  Pembroke  1664  ;  was 
Margaret  Prof,  of  Divinity  1676-1691,  and  dying  at  the  age  of  77  was  buried  at 
Bromsgrove.  He  held  the  Mastership  and  the  rectory  of  St.  Aldate's  till  his  death. 
See  Athenae  iv.  900;  Nash  Worcestershire  i.  163.  Dunton  Life  and  Errors  363 


458  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

remarks :  '  he  has  attained  to  great  Eminence  of  Learning  and  Moderation,  and  is 
an  ornament  to  the  Church  of  England.'  His  will  was  proved  Feb.  25  (Griffiths 
Index  to  Wills}.  He  was  severely  attacked  in  the  Terrae-Filius  Speech  of  1703* 
He  was  succeeded  in  the  See  of  Bristol  by  Dr.  John  Robinson,  alterwards  Lord 
Privy  Seal  and  one  of  the  plenipotentiaries  at  the  Treaty  of  Utrecht.  The  quarrel 
between  Sloane  and  Woodward  alluded  to  below  was  of  long  standing :  see  some 
particulars  of  it  in  Edwards  Founders  of  the  Brit.  Mus.  286.  The  death  of  Mr. 
Lawson  is  mentioned  in  Thoresby  Corr.  ii.  145. 

344.  4.  We  learn  from  a  letter  of  Dr.  Roderick  of  Feb.  24,  1706  (Ballard  xxiii.  25) 
that  Kiister's  Suidas  was  not  a  financial  success.  '  Ye  name  of  Dr.  Kuister  minds  me 
of  acquainting  you  that  we  have  a  great  stock  of  his  Suidas's  a  very  valuable  Work 
lying  on  our  hands,  Our  London  booksellers  will  not  help  us  and  we  cannot  manage 
a  forreign  trade  being  mainly  by  exchange  of  books  instead  of  money,  wch  we  want 
most  to  cleer  y6  Presse  debt  to  y8  University,  if  you  coud  put  us  in  a  way  of  getting 
of  some  of  them  it  woud  be  a  kindnesse.'  Charlett  writes  to  much  the  same  effect  of 
the  Oxford  Press  in  1718  (2nd  Report  Hist.  MSS.  Comm.  254  b) :  'As  to  our  presse, 
we  can  never  engage  further  than  for  fair  types,  good  workmen,  and  reasonable  prices 
for  the  use  of  our  materials  or  utensills,  the  vending  of  books  we  never  could  compasse, 
the  want  of  vent  broke  Bp.  Fell's  body,  public  spirit,  courage,  purse,  and  presse,  and 
so  it  did  even  the  great  Lewis  14,  who  was  fain  at  last  to  sell,  as  Bp.  Fell  did,  all 
his  fine  Louvre  editions  of  the  classick  authors,  eouncills,  &c.  by  lotts  or  auction.' 
Oct.  3,  1709  Tanner  wrote  (Ballard  iv.  53) :  '  They  find  the  want  of  Matrices  at  their 
Press  in  Cambridge,  their  Latin  Small-Letter  being  worn  out,  so  that  Dr.  Bentley's 
Horace  and  other  things  stand  still  till  they  can  have  a  new  fund  of  Letter  from 
Holland.  Where  I  here  [jzV]  they  are  reprinting  Dr.  Mills  Testam4.  Mr.  Kuster 
takes  care  of  the  Edition  and  adds  the  collations  of  12.  MSS.  theDr.  had  never  seen.' 

347.  32.  See  the  Life  of  Brookbank  in  the  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  vi.  415.     He  was 
likewise  an  early  spelling-reformer,  on  the  lines  of  Milton,  James  Howell,  and  W. 
Dugard. 

348.  7.  See  Nelson  Life  of  Bull  474  sqq. — Sir  B.  Jenkinson  continued  to  repre- 
sent the  county  of  Oxford  in  the  four  following  Parliaments.   He  m.  Miss  Scarborough, 
Maid  of  Honour  to  the  Queen,  in  1712.     Lord  Rialton  lost  his  seat  in  1710. 

349.  16.   The  Lives  of  Edmund  Smith  (c.  1668-1710:  Rawl.  J.  4°.  2.  85)  and 
J.  Philips  (1676-]  708  :  Rawl.  J.  fol.  18.  215)  were  written  by  Dr.  Johnson,  who  gives 
'  A  Prefatory  Discourse  to  the  [former's]  Poem  on  Mr.  Philips,  with  a  character  of 
his  Writings,'  from  a  MS.  in  the  Bodleian.     '  Captain  Rag  was  a  name  which  [Smith] 
got  at  Oxford  by  his  negligence  of  dress.' 

350.  15.  Benedict  Arias  Montanus  (1527-1598),  a  native  of  Estremadura,  edited 
the  Antwerp  Polyglot,  published  by  Christopher  Plantin  in  8  vols.  folio  1569-1572. 

351.  6.  A  pleasing  article  on  Shottesbrooke,  entitled  '  A  Country  Village  in  the 
Beginning  of  the  i8th  Century,'  appeared  in  Longman*  s  Magazine,  March  1886, 
pp.  487-500,  from  the  pen  of  Canon  Overton. 

351.  9.  Rawl.  J.  fol.  21.  96  is  endorsed  by  Dr.  R.  Rawlinson  'Applications  of 
Classical  passages  to  the  managers  &c.  ag'  Sacheverell  by  Tho.  Rawlinson.'  These 
are  as  follows  :  G.  Sarum — Hie  est  Leviathan  vaegrandis  Bellua  famae.  Audio  Davis. 
[cf.  Book-Lore,  May  and  June  1886,  pp.  166  sqq.,  i  sqq.~\ — B.  OXON.  spargere  voces  In 
vulgum  ambiguas  &  quaerere  conscius  anna. — WAKE,  quod  si  non  nocu[i]sset  mortuus 
esset. — TOMPSON.  Venalis  Ourio  Linguae. — LECHMORE.  Sed  Lingua  melior  Drances. 
— SIR  JNO.  HOLLIS.  Stat  magni  nominis  Umbra. — STANHOPE.  Et  quae  modo 
foemina  tergo  Passa  marem  est  nunc  esse  marem  miramur. — Sr  P.  K.  Cum  sic 
obtrudi  non  potest  itur  ad  forum. — WALPOLE.  nequicquam  patrias  tentasti  lubricus 
artes. — TRIM  NELL.  Acheronta  movebo. — Ld.  Wm.  Rarus  enim  ferme  sensus  com- 
munis  in  ilia  Fortuna. — CONINGSBY.  Sanguine  vescitur  atro. — Jno.  DOLBEN.  Hinc 
subitae  mortes. 

35,1-  1 8.  For  the  riots  which  occurred  during  Sacheverell's  trial,  see  Corresp.  of 
the  Duchess  of  Marlborough  ii.  406  sqq.  Godolphin's  view  of  the  trial  while  it  was 
in  progress  may  be  gathered  from  pp.  390  sqq. 

351.  23.  Dr.  Burgess  and  his  tub  are  very  familiar  in  the  literature  of  the  period. 
He  is  introduced  in  Tatler  Nos.  66,  229  (with  Nichols'  note).  See  also  King's 
Works  ii.  191,  265,  and  iii.  313  ;  Dunton  Life  and  Errors  169  ('Were  it  not  for 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XXIII.  459 

some  little  Comedy,  and  too  much  freedom  of  expression,  he  might  well  be  reckoned 
one  of  the  first-rate  Preachers  of  the  Age ') ;  Brown  Novus  Reformator  Vapulans  iv. 
23  ;  Whig  and  Tory  7  ('  Upon  the  burning  of  Mr.  Burgees  Pulpit'},  14  ('  the  fiery 
Tryal  of  Burges's  Tub'),  n  (ii.)  ('A  late  Dialogue  bet-ween  Dr.  Burgess,  and  Daniel 
a"  foe,  in  a  Cyder-Cellar  near  Billingsgate,  concerning  the  Times  '),  14  (iv.) ;  Wilkins 
Political  Ballads  ii.  81.  He  died  in  1713,  aged  67.  'Henley's  gilt  Tub"  is  men- 
tioned in  Dunciad  ii.  2,  where  the  ed.  of  1729  notes  that  '  the  pulpit  of  a  Dissenter 
is  usually  called  a  Tub.' 

352.  14.    This  poem  is  printed  with  variations  in   Whig  and  Tory,  p.  3  ;    The 
Thanksgiving  is  by  no  means  identical  with  the  piece  of  the  same  name  at  p.  8  of  that 
collection. 

353.  10.  Mr.  W.  R.  Morfill  has  kindly  examined  this  inscription  for  me.     He 
informs  me  that  there  can  be  no  doubt  as  to  the  interpretation  of  the  contractions 
for  CHRIST  and  the  VIRGIN  respectively;  and  he  is  of  opinion  that  the  other  symbols 
(which  Hearne,  being  no  Slavonic  scholar,  has  somewhat  inaccurately  reproduced) 
stand  simply  for  the  great  Slavonic  saint,  SAINT  NICHOLAS. 

353.  30.  For  '  Bellunensis '  Hearne  probably  meant  to  write  '  Bellovacensis.' 

354.  40.   See  Smalridge's  account  of  Sir  S.  Harcourt's  speech  (from  Ballard  vii. 
1 6)  in  Nichols  Illustrations  iii.  280  sq.    But  I  do  not  think  that  the  transcript  is  'in 
Dr.  Charlett's  hand.' 

356.  35  sq.  The  concluding  couplet  of  this  poem  seems  to  have  become  proverbial, 
and  is  quoted  by  the  Terrae  Filius  of  1713. 

357.  40.  Sir  John  Holt  was  appointed  Chief  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench  April  17, 
1689.  He  is  introduced  as  '  Verus '  in  Toiler  14.  See  Foss  Lives  of  the  Judges  351  sqq. 

357.  45.  There  are  in  the  Ballard  Letters  at  least  two  accounts  from  eyewitnesses 
of  Sacheverell's  defence.  Wm.  Bishop,  xxxi.  57,  says  that  the  Doctor  spoke  above 
an  hour  and  a  quarter  :  '  the  Q — n,  the  A  :  B  :  of  Y  :  wth  many  of  y°  .  .  Nobles  all  in 
Tears,  and  All  ye  She*,  many  went  to  their  Homes  not  onely  crying  but  sobbing. 
Never  such  a  speech  nor  such  a  Court  nor  such  a  Concourse  of  People  especialy  of 
ye  best  Rank  :  Sr  P — r  K — g  tho  a  Man  yr  agrt  ye  Dr  owned  as  I  am  told  it  was  a 
speech  of  ye  finest  Oratory  y*  He  ever  read  or  heard  in  any  Language  &  deliverd  as 
well,  wth  all  due  life  &  Courage  joyned  wth  due  &  decent  Modesty,  soe  y*  ye  Dr  was 
not  wanting  in  any  one  thing,  either  in  pronuntiation  or  action  y*  became  His  Gown 
or  the  Circumstances  He  was  under:  His  Enemies  own  it  was  well  deliverd,  but 
made  by  ye  Universitie  of  Oxford,  as  I  heard  one  y"  day  say,  being  asked  whether  ye 
Dr  had  made  His  speech,  ye  answer  was  He  read  a  speech  an  Hour  &  half  long  but 
it  was  made  by  y6  Universitie  of  Oxford  :  y8  was  in  a  great  Coffee  House  &  for  w011 
He  had  a  great  Gr — n.'  Cf.  xxxiv.  49,  C.  Dodd  to  Charlett :  '  On  tuesday  last  the 
Drs  Councell  ended,  &  then  he  made  his  Speech  :  w«h  took  up  near  2  hours  :  'twas 
the  most  moving,  eloquent,  &  unanswerable  speech,  that  e're  was  heard.  I  assure 
you  it  made  both  sex's  weep  ;  especially  the  Ladies  in  Generall  were  full  of  sorrow, 
&  their  tears  flow'd  very  plentifully.'  He  then  describes  the  speech  of  Sir  T.  Parker, 
who  called  the  Dr.  'an  Impostor,  a  false  Prophet,  and  said  he  had  forfeited  his 
orders,  and  was  not  to  be  treated  as  a  clergyman '  (cf.  359  infra). 

359.  38.  The  sub-title  of  the  Apparition  will  indicate  the  nature  of  its  contents : 
A  Dialogue  betwixt  the  Devil  and  a  Doctor  concerning  the  Rights  of  the  Christian 
Church.    A  few   lines   from  the  end  of  the  poem,  which  possess  an  independent 
interest,  may  suffice  to  give  an  idea  of  the  general  character  of  the  satire  :— 
'  George  Fox  to  Lacy  had  some  Warnings  groan'd, 
But  his  stiff  Scribe  was  no  where  to  be  found : 
The  fool  himself  can  neither  Write  nor  Read ; 
The  Motions  of  his  Chops  I  did  not  heed  . . . 
Oliver's  Porter  stop'd  me  at  Hell's  Door, 
And  in  my  Ears  this  Prophesy  did  roar. 
A  certain  circumflex  Enthusiast  Knight, 
Of  Britain-Great,  a  very  little  Wight, 
Sir  R— d  2?[ulkley]  called;   bid  him  but  wait, 
When  Ernes  does  rise,  his  Worship  will  be  Streight. 
In  Winter,  when  at  C-nst-ne's  Yon  meet, 
Pray  tell  that  Club,  I  Kiss  their  Cloven  Feet, 


460  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

And  at  the  Calves- Head- Feast,  when  next  You  Dine, 
Accept  these  Flasks  of  Acherontick  Wine : 
The  Toast — be  Honest  Nollys  good  Health  and  Mine. 
I'le  have  a  Brace  of  Z>[uke]s  within  the  Sennight, 

Spite  of  the  Doctrine  of  that  Doctor  K . 

From  me,  as  from  a  Friend,  his  Reverence  tell, 
We've  Men  of  Sense  and  Quality  in  Hell.' 

Abel  Evans  likewise  published  (Oxford,  1713) '  Vertumnus  :  an  Epistle  to  Mr.  Jacob 
Bobart,  by  the  Author  of  the  Apparition?  the  key-note  of  which  is  struck  in  the 
first  couplet : — 

'  Thank  Heav'n  at  Last  our  Wars  are  o'er ; 
We're  very  Wise,  and  very  Poor.' 

360.  1 8.  These  verses,  by  Tryvytham  or  Trevytham,  were  printed  by  Heame  in  his 
Life  of  Richard  II,  app.  ii,  344-358.  Wood  quotes  some  lines  \nt\\eAnnals  under  1377. 
360.  23.  Sir  T.  Parker,  b.  1666,  Baron  Parker  of  Macclesfield  1716,  Lord  Chan- 
cellor 1718-1725,  Earl  of  Macclesfield  1721,  d.  1732.  See  Foss  Lives  of  the  Judges 
499  sqq. — The  word  '  Moderation '  had  acquired  a  special  meaning  in  the  cant  of  the 
day.  In  1704  was  published  Moderation  truly  stated;  or  a  Review  of  a  late 
Pamphlet,  entitfd,  Moderation  a  Virtue,  and  in  1705  The  History  of  Faction,  alias 
Hypocrisy,  alias  Moderation.  Addison  gives  the  word  a  good  sense  in  his  '  eccle- 
siastical thermometer'  Tatler  No.  220;  cf.  No.  257.  On  the  other  hand,  Atterbury 
£p.  Corr.  i.  131,  133,  writes  that  Lord  Nottingham  'is  thought  to  be  as  deep  as  any 
body  in  all  the  new  methods  of  moderation,'  and  that  'the  spirit  of  moderation 
prevails  to  an  immoderate  degree,  and  the  Church  is  dropped  by  consent  of  both 
parties.'  Kennett  was  on  the  side  of  Addison  (Life  103,  135).  The  word  constantly 
recurs  in  Whig  and  Tory : — 

'  There's  Heresy,  Schism,  and  mild  Moderation, 
That's  still  in  the  Wrong  for  the  Good  of  the  Nation.' 

One  poem  is  entitled  '  The  Rary-Show,  lately  brought  from  the  flaming  Isle  of  Modera- 
tion, all  alive,'  and  another  '  Moderation  unmask'd.'  Cf.  Abbey  &  Overton  i.  402  sq. 
363.  3.  Bentley's  lines  on  Whiston,  in  '  the  only  English  verses  which  he  is  known 
to  have  written,'  express  as  lenient  a  judgment  as  it  is  possible  to  take  of  that  erratic 
genius : — 

'  Who  travels  in  religious  jars, 

(Truth  mixt  with  error,  shades  with  rays,) 
Like  WHISTON,  wanting  pyx  or  stars, 
In  ocean  wide  or  sinks  or  strays.' 


VOL.  XXIV. 

Page  363,  line  28.  This  celebrated  Epitaph  of  Claudia  was  reprinted  in  Hearne's  ed. 
of  Leland's  Itinerary,  in  the  Appendix  to  vol.  v.  (pp.  137  sqq.\  and  is  No.  1007  in 
the  C.  I.  L.  The  best  editions  read  in  1.  I  pellige,  1.  5  horunc  alterum,  1.  7  autem  for 
etiam.  [F.  M.] 

364.  ii.  Hence  the  favourite  joke  at  the  time  that  the  Church  was  'at  sixes  and 
sevens.'  Whig  and  Tory  16  [cf.  34,  ii  (iii),  16  (iii)]  : 

'  Six  B — ps  were  for  him,  but  seven  more  wise, 
Have  sav'd  their  own  Bacon  in  Low-Church  Disguise. 
Their  Votes  so  divided,  as  plainly  does  shew, 
At  Sixes  and  Sevens  Religion  does  go.' 

370.  29.  W.  Nichols,  of  Merton  (Brodrick  298;   Rawl.  J.  4°.  I.  470),  seems  to 
have  been  chiefly  remarkable  for  the  inordinate  length  of  his  title-pages. 

371.  34.   In  1690,  Archbp.  Sancroft  and  four  Bishops  published  a  protestation, 
complaining  that  a  certain  libeller  '  barbarously  endeavours  to  raise  in  the  whole 
English  nation  such  a  fury,  as  may  end  in  Dewitting  us  (a  bloody  word,  but  too  well 
understood).'   (Life  of  Kettle-well  256,  262.)     Cf.  Whig  and  Tory  35  (ii)  ('  Their  Friend 
William,  whose  Reward  was  old  Sorrel,  Ought  to  have  been  dewitted,  but  not  crownd, 
with  Lawrel'),  39  (ii),  44(iv) ;  King's  Works  ii.  235  sq. ;  cf.  Da  vies  Supp.  Gloss,  s.  v. 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XXIV.  461 

373.  30.  The  singularis  humanitas  of  Boyle's  Preface  to  the  Epistles  of  Phalaris 
repeated  by  Alsop  at  the  close  of  his  Fabularum  Aesopicarum  Delectus,  had  passed 
into  a  proverb  when  Hearne  wrote.     It  was  Stillingfleet  (mentioned  just  below)  who 
said  of  Bentley,  '  Had  he  but  the  gift  of  humility,  he  would  be  the  most  extraordinary 
man  in  Europe.'     His  epitaph  by  Bentley  is  given  in  the  Life  of  Stillingfleet  (1710) 
150  sq. 

374.  9.  To  the  references  given  to  Proast  in  vol.  i.  it  may  be  added  that  he  is 
frequently  mentioned  in  the  Bollard  Letters,  and  that  Nos.  i-io  in  vol.  xxxv  consist  of 
letters  by  him  and  documents  in  his  handwriting.    Rawl.  J.  4°.  6.  384  is  a  copy  of 
a  letter  by  him  offering  to  attest  on  oath  an  account  of  Tindal's  open  avowal  of  infi- 
delity.    His  death  is  mentioned  by  Tanner  (Ballard  iv.  55),  who  adds  :  '  Perhaps  the 
Archd.  of  Sarum  may  fall  to  the  share  of  our  old  neighbour  J.  Hoadly,  who  was 
Usher  of  our  Free-School  here,  till  he  went  to  Salisbury.' 

374.  27.  Baron  [Salathiel]  Lovell's  Charge  is  No.  149  in  Mr.  Madan's  Biblio- 
graphy. It  was  ridiculed  by  Swift  in  a  poem  printed  in  Works  (i8i4)x.  427  sqq. 

376.  13.  All  the  notes  on  Oxford  and  the  neighbourhood  which  occur  toward  the 
close  of  the  present  volume  were  afterward  worked  up  by  Hearne  in  '  An  Account 
of  several  Antiquities  in  and  about  the  University  of  Oxford '  appended  to  vol.  ii 
of  his  ed.  of  Leland's  Itinerary.  Thus  Josiah  Pullen's  roll  is  mentioned  op.  cit.  72  ; 
Sandford  Church  and  Manor  &c.  (379,  397  sqq.  post),  92  sqq. ;  the  stone  from  Godstow 
chantry  (390/0^)  74  sqq. ;  and  the  Wolvercote  grave-stone  (391  post)  80  sq. 

378.  15.  Consul  Sherard's  letter  to  Charlett,  dated  Smyrna,  March  25,  1709 
(Ballard  xxvii.  6),  may  be  here  quoted.  (Its  successor  is  given  in  Nichols  Illustra- 
tions i.  347.)  '  The  greatest  part  of  ye  inscriptions  Mr  Chishull  designs  to  print  were 
copied  in  a  voiage  I  made  wth  some  of  ye  factory  three  years  past  to  visit  ye  seven 
churches  of  Asia.  We  made  an  excursion  to  Geira  (Aphrodisias  of  ye  antients) 
where  we  copied  near  an  hundred.  I  have  since  met  wth  some  very  usefull  ones  at  old 
Tetum,  a  days  jorney  hence ;  &  assoon  as  or  convoy  is  departed,  design  (if  I  can 
possibly  make  a  company)  to  go  along  ye  shoar  as  far  as  Halicarnassus,  &  return  by 
Geira  (to  correct  those  already  copied),  Mylassus,  Tralles  &c.  so  yl  wth  what  I  have 
in  my  house  found  here,  (w**  I  design  to  pres'  or  university)  &  what  I  may  expect  to 
meet  in  other  parts,  I  believe  will  furnish-  another  volume  in  folio.'  In  the  same 
volume  (No.  3)  is  a  letter  from  Sherard  to  Wanley  (dated  Sept.  13,  1698),  on  a 
different  topic  :  '  As  to  Musick,  I  sent  last  time  from  Italy  as  much  as  cost  me  above 
30  pistolas.  My  Ld  Marquess  is  making  a  noble  collection,  y*  nothing  of  that  kind 
will  be  wanting  in  Engld.  Here  is  nothing  compos'd  for  ye  Bass  viol,  nor  Flutas, 
they  not  being  us'd  in  this  country.  Corelli  who  comes  once  a-week  to  my  Ld,  is 
printing  on  copper  plates  1 2  solos,  but  will  not  be  out  till  ye  holy  year,  for  w01* 
reason  he'll  part  wth  nothing.  Some  others  not  inferior  to  many  of  his  by  Sigre 
Nicolini,  I  shall  get  copied.'  No.  5  (July  25,  1707)  gives  an  account  of  a  new  island 
in  the  Archipelago. 

380.  21.  The  Terrae  Filius  of  1703  had  remarked:  '  Abest  Creedus,  quia  dibit  Ox- 
Eyes 1  cum  Bedelli  uxore ;  abest  demum  Anatomiae  Professor,  because  he's  afraid  to 
see  a  Skeleton.'  His  successor  of  1713  lays  peculiar  stress  on  Dr.  Lancaster's  northern 
origin :  '  Vir  septentrionalium  septentrionalissimus,  omnia  praeter  Paupertatem  Patriae 
retinens :  From  Northern  Climes  Old  Slyboots  came,'  &c. 

383.  24.  The  Vindication  is  No.  82,  and  The  Managers  pro  and  con  No.  162  (5  edi- 
tions) in  Mr.  Madan's  list. — Tanner  wrote  (Ballard  iv.  55),  May  15,  1710:  'I  find  I 
shall  never  see  Dr.  Hudson  here  again  in  his  way  to  the  Lincolnshire  Widow,  he 
having  fix'd  upon  a  younger  nearer  the  Library.' 

385.  14.  The  number  of  presentation  copies  'was  increased  upon  the  Union  with 
Ireland  to  eleven,  but  finally  reduced  to  five'  (Macray  Annals  of  the  Bodleian  128  sq.~). 
March  15,  1706,  W.  Bromley  had  sent  to  Charlett  a  copy  of  the  '  Bill  for  the  better 
securing  the  rights  of  copies  of  printed  books'  (Ballard  xxxviii.  81  a). — There  is  an 
interesting  letter  from  Benj.  Cole  (cf.  i.  30  &c.)  describing  a  visit  to  Cambridge, 
in  Ballard  xxxviii.  I  (Feb.  15,  1708),  from  which  I  take  the  following  extract.  'This 
day  sennight  I  went  to  see  Oxford  in  Cambridge,  i.e.  Pythagoras  Schoole 2,  a  very 

1  Cf.  Oxford  during  the  last  Century  65 :  'At  Corpus  Christi  were  drinking-cups  and  glasses,  which, 
from  their  shape,  were  called  ox-eyes.  "  Pol,  me  ox-eye-distis,  amici,"  punned  a  young  tippler  as  he 
was  being  helped  to  bed.'  "  Cf.  Oxtmiana  ii.  15. 


462  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

Ancient  Building  as  appears  by  the  Strong  but  rude  Pillars  &  Arches  almost  under 
Ground.  Tis  an  Estate  of  about  100  Acres  of  Land  belonging  to  Merton  Coll.  Oxon 
who  keep  Court  here  once  in  3  years.  ...  At  Hunting  [sic]  is  4  Church  yards  3 
Steeples  2  Churches  &  i  parson,  one  of  y°  Churches  at  wch  O.  Cromwell  was  Bap- 
tized being  destroyed  by  himselfe.' — For  the  story  of  the  King-Maker  it  is  almost 
impertinent  to  refer  to  Lord  Lytton's  Last  of  the  Barons.  In  the  novel,  the  Earl  is 
made  to  stab  his  charger  Saladin. 

386.  ii.  Col.  Handasyde's  intention  to  resign  the  governorship  of  Jamaica  is 
noticed  in  the  Duchess  of  Marlborough's  Corresp.  (1838)  ii.  285.  He  is  frequently 
mentioned  in  Calendar  of  Treasury  Papers,  1702-1714.  E.g.  p.  347  (1711)  is  'a  peti- 
tion of  Brigadier  Thomas  Handasyd  to  the  Queen.  He  had  served  the  Crown  nearly 
37  years,  received  several  wounds,  and  endured  great  hardships  from  the  climates  of 
Newfoundland  and  the  West  Indies.  He  prayed  relief  for  himself  and  regiment,  which 
had  served  there  eight  years.'  Cf.  New  Hist,  of  Jamaica  (1740)  270  sqq. 

For  Bentley's  position  at  this  time,  which  had  been  rendered  more  difficult  by  the 
state  of  political  affairs,  see  Monk  Life  281  sqq.,  where  this  pamphlet  is  noticed. — 
Tanner  wrote  (May  15,  1710:  Ballard  iv.  55)  :  'Here  is  a  most  terrible  War  broke 
out  at  Trinity  College,  Cambridge — both  sides  are  got  into  print — to  weh  I  must  refer 
you,  and  don't  question  but  the  Adventure  of  the  Square  Cap  &  old  rusty  Sword  will 
make  you  smile.' — George  Stubbes,  M.A.  1707,  chaplain  to  Methuen  and  Bubb 
Dodington  at  Madrid ;  see  Boase  Register  of  Exeter  Coll.  86  sq.  We  are  told  in 
Hutchins'  Dorset  that  '  his  first  wife  was  taken  in  by  the  French  prophets.' — '  Mr. 
Bubb '  is  no  less  a  person  than  Bubb  Dodington  the  diarist,  afterwards  Lord  Mel- 
combe.  He  was  b.  1692,  and  'assumed  by  Act  of  Parliament,  in  pursuance  of  the 
testamentary  injunction  of  his  maternal  uncle,  George  Dodington,  Esq.,  of  Eastbury,  co. 
Dorset,  the  surname  of  Dodington '  (Burke  Extinct  Peerages).  There  is  a  life-like 
picture  of  him  in  Cumberland's  Memoirs  i.  181  sqq. 

386.  45.  Tanner  has  several  refs.  to  Prideaux  on  Tithes,  and  to  the  Dean's  health 
in  Ballard  iv.  51-55.  See  Life  of  Prideaux  115  sqq.,  where  the  nature  of  his  illness 
is  explained.  On  June  10,  1709,  9  or  10  sheets  of  his  book  were  printed  off;  Aug. 
10,  he  was  complaining  sadly  of  his  Printer,  who  would  not  do  a  sheet  of  his  book  a 
week;  by  Dec.  14  it  was  finished.  May  15,  1710,  Tanner  wrote:  'As  for  the  busi- 
ness of  Tithes  I  think  he  has  hit  right — but  his  additional  project  of  his  Act  of  Par- 
liam*  I  never  saw  nor  heard  of  till  in  print,  where  if  I  could  have  prevail'd  it  never 
should  have  been— for  I  fear  there  are  many  unguarded  general  Expressions  in  it  ag** 
my  Friends  the  Curates,  (who  as  little  deserve  those  hard  expressions,  as  any  other 
number  of  Clergymen)  wch  ill  men  will  be  too  apt  to  apply  to  the  whole  Order.' 

388.  41.  For  T.  Bennet  see  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  iv.  238  sq.  He  was,  like  most  of 
the  literary  divines  of  his  day,  a  correspondent  of  Charlett ;  three  letters  of  his  are  pre- 
served in  Ballard  xxiii.  29-31.  Dr.  Roderick  writes  (ib.  24):  'Mr.  Bennet  is  a  man 
of  parts,  learning  &  spirit  enough  ;  he  is  y6  Champion  against  ye  dissenters  of  all  sorts 
at  Colchester  :  1  wish  he  would  encounter  their  Goliah  Hickeringill '  (see  Rehearsal, 
ed.  1750,  iii.  207  sqq.\  And  (26)  :  '  he  is  a  serious  learned  man  of  good  design,  but  of 
a  somew*  morose  temper,  w°h  be  sure  his  frequent  contentions  with  ye  Colchester  Dis- 
senters were  not  likely  to  sweeten  ;  th6  there  may  be  too  much  reason  for  his  reflection 
on  Cathedral  practise,  yet  there  was  no  need  he  shd  make  it  so  ruggedly  and  reproach- 
fully to  ye  Governors  of  those  Church's.'  His  own  letters  confirm  these  strictures  :  in 
(30)  he  dwells  on  his  severe  injuries  from  the  Bishop  of  London,  for  which  he  may 
thank  'his  servant  Skelton,  &  yfc  raskally  gang  of  foreign  black  coats,  with  some 
worthless  English  Clergy.'  In  No.  31  (Aug.  9,  1709),  he  states  that  a  presbyter  of 
the  Church  of  England  has  written  reflections  on  his  discourse  of -joint  prayer,  chiefly 
in  defence  of  pulpit  prayers.  Dr.  Edwards  has  taken  him  to  task  in  his  Preacher,  Part 
III,  but  has  been  still  more  unjust  to  '  that  great  Saint  ye  Author  of  ye  Whole  Duty  of 
Man.' 

388.  43.  A  Life   of  Abednego  Seller,  Vicar  of  Charles,  Plymouth,  1686-90,  has 
been  lately  printed  for  private  circulation  by  the  Rev.  J.  Ingle  Dredge. 

389.  4.  For  Daniel  Osborn,  M.A.   1693,  see  Boase  Register  85. — The  Indian 
Kings  have  been  already  mentioned  385.  28  supra.     See  Tatler  No.  171,  and  notes 
in  Nichols'  ed.  iv.  394 ;  v.  9,  39 ;  vi.  380 :  Spectator  No.  50.     Their  lodging  at  the 
Crown  and  Cushion,  King  St.,  Covent  Garden,  is  mentioned  in  Cal.  of  Treasury 


NOTES  TO   VOLUME  XXIV.  463 

Papers  (1708-1714)  ;  and  ib.  cxxi.  43  is  a  Petition  of  Abraham  Schuyler,  inhabitant 
of  Albany,  prov.  New  York,  setting  forth  his  services  since  1688  for  the  safety  of  the 
province.  He  had  mastered  the  language  of  the  Indians,  and  was  always  employed  as 
interpreter  by  the  Comrs  for  Indian  affairs  in  the  city  of  Albany,  and  had  received  no 
compensation.  He  had  come  over  as  interpreter  to  the  four  Sachems  of  the  Five  Na- 
tions. (Dated  April  20,  1710,  and  minuted  '  loo11  for  his  pains  &  charges  as  inter- 
preter to  ye  4  Ind*n  Sachems,  &c.,  pd.')  There  is  an  account  of  the  Sachems  in 
their  own  country  in  Dunton  Life  and  Errors  116  sqq.  They  had  an  interview  with 
the  Queen  April  19;  visited  Greenwich,  Woolwich,  Whitehall  &c.  April  21  ;  were 
present  at  a  review  in  Hyde  Park  April  26 ;  and  were  entertained  by  the  New  England 
&c.  merchants  April  28  (Luttrell  vi.  571  sqq.}. 

389.  19.  It  is  impossible  to  reach  without  regret  the  close  of  Dr.  Thomas  Smith's 
correspondence  with  Hearne,  which  had  been  maintained  since  Nov.  9,  1703,  and 
which  reflects  so  much  credit  both  on  the  young  scholar  and  the  old.  I  know  of  little 
that  can  be  added  to  the  admirable  Life  of  Smith,  which  is  given  by  Dr.  Bloxam  in  his 
Register  of  Magd,  Coll.  iii.  182  sqq.  He  is  barely  mentioned  in  Rawl.  J.  4°.  3.  174. 

391.  43.  There  is  probably  an  allusion  to  this  fabulous  incident  in  Tanner's  letter  in 
Ballard  iv.  55  :  'By  the  by,  what  a  sad  story  that  rogue  J.  Dier  has  pick't  up  about 
his  old  Friend  my  Ld  of  Sarum  and  the  Worshipfull  Mr.  Mayor.' 

392.  5.  Hearne  printed  a  '  Discourse  about   fair  Rosamund  and  the  Nunnery  of 
Godstowe,  with  occasional  notes  about  Binsey,'  at  the  end  of  his  ed.  of  Gulielmi  Neu- 
brigiensis  Historia  (1719)  pp.  730  sqq.     For  the  connexion  of  Fair  Rosamund  with 
Woodstock,  see  Marshall  Early  History  of  Woodstock  Manor  49  sqq. 

395.  24.  W.  Oldisworth  possibly  adapted  the  title  of  this  work  from  Eachard's 
'  Dialogue  between  Philautus  and  Timothy,'  in  which  Hobbes  was  attacked.  Kennett 
attributed  Part  I  of  the  Dialogue  to  Swift  (Ballard  vii.  66) :  '  The  new  Dialogue  be- 
tween Timothy  and  Philautus  in  Answer  to  the  Rights  of  the  Ch.  is  soon  expected  from 
the  Press.  It  is  known  to  be  written  by  Mr.  Swift  the  merry  Author  or  at  least  the 
indiscreet  Publisher  of  the  Tale  of  a  Tub.  He  may  perhaps  well  enough  expose  the 
absurdities  of  an  ill  Book,  but  I  doubt  he  will  do  no  service  to  Religion,  nor  any  hon- 
our to  his  function.'  Oldisworth  afterward  succeeded  Mrs.  Manley  as  editor  of 
the  Examiner.  See  Rawl.  J.  4°.  5.  108  sqq.,  esp.  the  letter  there  quoted  from  Alder- 
man Barber.  'For  many  years  before  he  dy'd,  he  Hv'd  upon  the  Charity  of  his 
Friends ;  he  had  several  Sums  of  me,  (without  Vanity  I  may  say  so  to  you ;)  and 
poor  Man  run  into  Debt  with  every  Body  that  wou'd  trust  him ;  and  at  last 
would  get  into  an  Alehouse,  or  Tavern  Kitchin,  and  entertain  all  Comers  & 
Goers  with  his  Learning  and  Criticisms.  He  at  last  was  sent  to  the  King's  Bench 
Prison  for  Debt,  where  he  dy'd,  and  Mr.  Bl.  the  Non-juring  Parson,  that  was  Corrector 
to  Mr.  Bowyer's  Press,  came  and  told  me  he  was  dead,  and  I  gave  him  a  Guinea  to 
buy  a  Coffin  for  him.  This  is  all  I  know  of  that  unhappy  Man,  who  had  great 
Abilities,  and  might  have  been  an  Ornament  to  his  Country.'  The  following  title, 
in  Rawlinson's  handwriting,  which  closes  his  bibliography  of  Oldisworth,  is  somewhat 
more  humorous  than  we  often  meet  with  in  the  Continuation  of  the  Athenae.  '  The 
advent[ures]  of  honest  Joh.  Cole  y*  merry  old  soul  of  his  antipathy  of  White.  How 
he  became  Presid*  of  ye  Japanners  Comp.  Chairman  of  a  Society  of  Chimny  Sweepers, 
Patron  of  y«  Blacks  of  Waltham,  Clark  of  Blacksmiths  Hall  &  a  Blackw.  Hall 
factor.  His  affections  for  y8  Ch.  and  y*  small  cole  men.  His  turning  undertaker 
&  his  Travels  through  y*  Coal  Mines.  His  Intriegnes  with  several  black  Eyed  Girls 
and  Marriage  with  a  Blackamoor  at  Blackwall.  His  black  Jokes  or  smutty  Songs. 
His  death  and  burial  upon  Black  Heath  under  a  black  thorn  &  his  Epitaph  by  an 
Antegoa  Black  in  the  Creolian  style.'  Swift  writes  of  him  in  the  Journal  to  Stella, 
March  12,  1713  :  'The  chancellor  of  the  exchequer  sent  the  author  [  =  editor]  of  the 
Examiner  twenty  guineas.  He  is  an  ingenious  fellow,  but  the  most  confounded  vain 
coxcomb  in  the  world,  so  that  I  dare  not  let  him  see  me,  nor  am  acquainted  with  him.' 
He  likewise  wrote  a  Life  of  Edmund  Smith  (see  note  on  349.  16  supra). 

395.  38.  Heame's  collections  on  this  subject  were  utilised  by  T.  Bennet  of  Colches- 
ter in  his  Essay  on  the  XXXIX  Articles  (1715).  See  Bennet's  letter  of  Oct.  27,  1712, 
in  Ballard  xxxiii.  39,  in  which  he  states  that  he  is  preparing  a  work  on  the  subject,  ex- 
hibiting the  text  both  in  Lathi  and  English,  exactly  colkted  with  all  the  ancient  copies 
both  Latin  and  English,  and  will  shortly  send  a  packet  to  '  Mr.  Hearn '  for  that  purpose. 


464  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS. 

396.  43.  The  Considerations,  which  ran  through  three  editions,  form  No.  81  in  Mr. 
Madan's  Bibliography  of  Sacheverell. 

397.  8.  The  substance  of  his  father's  letter  is  given  by  Hearne  in  Leland's  Itin. 
(1710),  vol.  i.  p.  x.,  where  the  writer  is  referred  to  as  '  Another  Person,  whom  I  do  and 
ought  always  to  honour? 

398.  30.  There  is  a  ref.  to  Houghton's  work  in  Lit.  Anecd.  i.  449  sq 

398.  33.  Some  interesting  letters  of  Dodwell  are  printed  in  the  2nd  Rep.  of  the  His- 
torical MSS.  Commission  240  sqq.  \  there  are  five  in  MS.  in  Ballard  xxxiv.  1—5  ; 
and  copies  of  two  letters  from  him  to  Francis  Lee,  dated  1698  and  1701,  in  Rawl.  J. 
fol.  20.  179.  A  MS.  note  hi  my  copy  of  Brokesby's  Life  states  that  there  was  (since 
1847)  a  large  mass  of  his  correspondence  in  the  hands  of  Mrs.  Dodwell  of  Pinckney 
Green.  He  was  m.  June  24,  1694,  so  that  Ballard  xxv.  4  (dated  only  June  30),  in 
which  Dr.  J.  Willes  of  Lichfield  writes,  '  We  have  been  much  Alarm'd  here  with 
strong  reports  of  Mr.  Dodwell's  Amours  if  not  Marriage,  its  what  I  least  expected 
from  him,'  was  probably  written  not  later  than  that  year.  His  younger  son  William 
was  afterwards  Rector  of  Shottesbrooke  and  Vicar  of  White  Waltham,  and  is  frequently 
mentioned  in  the  Memoirs  of  G.  Monck  Berkeley  (see  also  Rawl.  J.  fol.  17.  39  sqq."}. 

***  In  this  volume  is  preserved  '  Dr.  Hyde's  letter  to  Dr.  Hudson  about  augmenting 
the  2d  Library  Keeper's  Salary,  &c.  taken  out  of  Hearne's  MSS.  Num.  24.'  See  Letters 
from  the  Bodleian,  i.  1 73  sqq. 


ADDENDA  AND  CORRIGENDA  TO  VOL.  I.1 

Page  2,  line  13.  For  Jonathan  Edwards,  see  Rawl.  J.  4°.  3.  74 ;  fol.  30.  185. 

6.  16.  For  this  coin  of  Amyntas  see  Leland  Itin.  v.  124. 

17.  39.  The  career  of  Psalmanazar  has  since  the  appearance  of  vol.  i.  been  ex- 
haustively treated  by  Dr.  Hill  in  his  ed.  of  BoswelYsJ'oAnson,  vol.  iii.  pp.  443  sqq. 

22.  43.  For  P.  Cherry  read  T.  Cherry  (as  in  Letters  from  the  Bodleian  i.  119  «.)  ; 
Leland  Itin.  v.  124  sq. 

42.  27.  For  Letters  of  Win.  Smith  see  Ballard  xvi.  7-81,  in  several  of  which  his 
amoval  is  alluded  to. 

45.  23.  This  was  afterwards  printed  in  full  in  the  Appendix  to  the  Collection  of 
Curious  Discourses,  as  was  likewise  A.  Morse's  letter,  supra  3.  33  sqq. 

49.  19.  Since  the  publication  of  vol.  i,  an  interesting  Life  of  Susanna  Wesley  by 
Eliza  Clarke  has  been  published  by  Messrs.  W.  H.  Allen  and  Co.  ('  Eminent  Women 
Series'). 

51.  6.  W.  Pittis,  author  of  the  Life  of  Dr.  Radcliffe,  published  (1717)  Memoirs 
of  the  Life  of  Sir  Stephen  Fox,  Kt.,from  his  first  Entrance  upon  the  Stage  of  Action 
under  the  Lord  Piercy,  till  his  Decease,  which  will  repay  perusal. 

51.  36.  Under  Sir  John  Walters,  the  entries  relating  to  him  in  Swift's  Journal  to 
Stella  should  have  been  mentioned. 

57.  2.  For  Antony  Alsop  see  Rawl.  J.  4°.  2.  180  ;  fol.  16.  57  sqq. 

66.  1 6.  The  mention  of  Oxford  botany  suggests  the  newly  published  work  of  Mr. 
G.  Claridge  Druce  on  The  Flora  of  Oxfordshire,  which  would  have  delighted  the 
soul  of  Bobart  and  his  successors. 

67-  2.  In  a  similar  spirit  Gibson  remarks  (Ballard  v.  29),  '  Obadiah  Walker  has  too 
much  of  the  spirit  of  an  Antiquarie  and  a  great  Scholar,  to  think  stealing  of  MSS. 
any  great  sin.'  68.  37.  For  '  Quoiles,'  Hearne  should  have  written  '  Quare's.' 

74.  7  sqq.  For  Shottesbrooke,  White  Waltham,  Weycock,  &c.  see  '  An  Ac- 
count of  some  Antiquities  between  Windsor  and  Oxford,'  Leland  Itin.  v.  109  sqq. 

87.  4-  For  '  Homack'  read  'Womock,'  and  see  the  article  in  Chalmers.  He  was 
Bishop  of  St.  Davids  1683-6  ;  Salmon  Lives  of  the  English  Bishops  234  sqq. 

91.  51.  '  Huish '  is  a  mistake  of  Hearne's  for  George  Hughes:  see  The  Noncon- 
formist's Memorial  (1802)  ii.  56  sqq. 

1  A  few  further  corrections  and  additions  are  incorporated  in  the  Notes  to  the  present  volume. 


ADDENDA  AND  CORRIGENDA   TO   VOLUME  I.       465 

100.  13.  forjacta  est  alea  see  the  Terrae  Films'  speech  of  1703  in  The  University 
Miscellany  (ed.  2,  1713). 

105.  22.  Johnson's  opinion  of  Addison's  Italy  will  be  found  in  Boswell's  Life, 
April  7,  1775,  and  Tour  to  the  Hebrides^  ed.  3,  320. 

106.  46.  The  Cambridge  man  who  was  made  by  Bp.  Talbot  Chancellor  of  the 
Diocese  of  Oxford  was  Dr.  T.  Ayloffe,  Regius  Professor  of  Laws  1703-1714  ;  Nicolson 
Ep.  Corr.  214,  Atterbury  Id.  i.  64.     In  Ballard  xxxi.  49  (April  20,  1708),  W.  Bishop 
writes  that  '  Dr.  Woods  will  be  the  Chanr  if  the  BP'  Tutor  does  not  insist  to  have  it.' 

111.  1 2.  read  '  and  after  he  was  confined  to  his  bed,' 

132.  12.  Mr.  Parker's  Academy  is  introduced  in  The  Oxford  Dialogue  (1705). 

153.  23.  Compare  the  remark  of  the  Terrae  Filius  of  1703  (Univ.  Miscell.  16)  : 
'  Magdalen  Hall  have  painted  their  Gates,  and  are  in  hopes  of  seeing  their  Principal 
the  next  Act,  which  perhaps  may  be  this  time  seven  Years.' 

162.  3.  This  letter  is  now  Ballard  iii.  38.     For  Sir  S.  Dewes'  Library,  see  iv.  45. 
165.  6.  There  is  a  Life  of  Hugh.  Brought  on  in  the  Diet,  of  Nat.  Biog.  vi.  459  sqq. 
186.  17.  See  Calendar  of  Treasury  Papers  1708-1714,  p.  97. 

191.  41.  There  is  a  ref.  to  Sir  Bowland  Gwynne  in  Kemble  State  Papers,  &c. 
323,  and  a  letter  from  him  ib.  382. 

194.  44.  Particulars  of  the  Life  and  Works  of  Elisha  Smith  are  given  in  Rawl.  J. 
4«.  3.  2-12  ;  fol.  19.  43,  21.  in. 

197.  i.  In  Ballard  xii.  64  is  Dr.  Bouchier's  opinion  on  Nicholson's  case. 

220.  10.  Sir  E.  Warcupp  and  his  daughters  are  mentioned  in  the  Terrae  Filius' 
speech  of  1703,  p.  u.  See  also  Ballard  xi.  74-95. 

228.  10.  For  Roger  Altham  see  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  396  ;  fol.  16.  61  sqq. 

230.  6.  There  are  some  particulars  of  E.  Coleire  in  Rawl.  J.  4°.  i.  107,  4.  116  ;  fol. 
16.  394.  Kennett  refers  to  '  the  common  scandal  of  sea  chaplains,'  Ballard  vii.  51. 

230.  34.  There  are  some  particulars  of  the  life  of  James  Badger  in  Rawl.  J.  4°. 
5.  235,  fol.  1 8.  234.     'Schoolmaster  of  New  College  School  above  30  years,  one  of 
y«  most  famous  Schoolmasters  in  England.     Several  Heads  &  Fellows  of  Colleges 
in  this  University  had  been  his  Scholars.      He  had  an  excellent  Memory  &  good 
Judgment  &  a  compleat  Method  of  teaching,  Indefatigable  in  his  School,  &  had 
a  great  Command  of  his  Passions,     wou'd  first  find  out  a  Boys  Temper  &  then 
make  suitable  Applications  either  in  a  Mild  or  Rough  way.     He  had  a  most  curious 
Collection  of  the  Classic  Authors  &  the  finest  Editions.     His  Study  was  sold  for 
500  guineas  to  Sr  Thomas  Seabright.     1  don't  know  that  he  pnblishd  any  other  Book 
but  his  Synopsis  communium  locorum.  (1709).'   J.  POINTER  to  R.  R. 

231.  24.  Tanner  writes  (Ballard  iv.  48)  :  '  What  you  tell  me  of  Mr  Becons.  is  very 
surprizing.     I  did  not  think  so  much  ill  nature  and  spleen  and  matrimony  had  been 
consistent.' 

243.  44.  Heame  has  some  mention  of  this  MS.  of  the  Monk  of  Evesham  at  vol.  ii. 
94  of  Leland's  Itin. 

252.  1 2.  Gudius'  library  is  mentioned  in  a  letter  of  Leibnitz,  Kemble  State  Papers 
&c.  470. — 1.  39.  For  H.  Beverland  see  Rawl.  J.  4°.  4.  300.  There  is  a  letter  from 
him  in  Ballard  xxvi.  16  (Sept.  20,  1692). 

257.  19.  Mr.  W.  R.  Morfill  has  obligingly  pointed  out  that  Philip  Ayres  figures 
in  Campbell's  Specimens  of  the  British  Poets  (ed.  1845)  287.  Cf.  315.  37  infra. 

297.  30.  George  Parker  and  his  Almanack  are  mentioned  in  a  letter  of  Thwaites 
to  Charlett  (Ballard  xiii.  24). 

300.  9.  For  Joseph  GreenhilTs  Art  of  Embalming  &  Lit.  Anecd.  i.  506. 

305.  12.  Letters  of  Creech  are  preserved  in  Ballard  xix.  26  sqq.;  No.  32  is  his 
Agreement  with  Abel  Swallow  for  his  Lucretius. 

305.  35.  There  is  a  fragmentary  and,  it  must  be  added,  very  unfavourable  account  of 
Lord  Crewe  in  Rawl.  J.  fol.  16.  456  sq.  Some  very  important  details  will  be  found 
in  An  Examination  of  the  Life  and  Character  of  Natkanael  Lord  Crewe  (1790). 

VOL.  II.  H    h 


466  HEARNE'S  COLLECTIONS:   NOTES. 

321.  19.  For  Sir  J.  Floyer,  see  Rawl.  J.  4°.  4.  69  sqq.,  and  Boswell's  Zz/£  of 
Johnson,  ad  init. 

322.  27.  The  Terrae  Filius  of  1703  had  not  a  high  opinion  of  Dr.  Hoy's  skill: 
'  Dr.  Hoy,  sicut  ipse  ait,  aegrotum  invisit,  vel  quod  aeger  optaverit,  aegrotat  ipse.' 

338.  31.  There  is  a  very  important  Life  of  Francis  Lee  in  Rawl.  J.  4°.  2. 196  sqq. 

338.  36.  Scheuchzer's  Itinera  Alpina  is  mentioned  in  Ballard  xxiv.  72. 

350.  30.  Delete  last  paragraph. 

358.  45.  For  '  Surrey '  read  '  Survey.'  364.  35.  For  i6fg  read  i6f ?. 


c  DR.  WELWOOD  (Rawl.  J.  4°.  21.  191  a).    See  p.  419. 

o  j 

'  In  yr  letter  you  desire  an  acc°  of  Dr.  Welwood  his  Birth  &t.  but  his  obscurity 
in  his  own  Country  is  soe  great,  y*  you  will  as  soon  find  the  head  of  Nilus  as  the 
origine  of  soe  obscure  &  despicable  a  person.     As  to  his  Education  he  was  bred  at 
Edinburgh  as  Under-Clerk  in  order  to  be  some  petty  Sollicitor,  &  having  by  this 
Imployment  got  a  little  mony,  his  Ambition  cheifely  &  partly  the  Genius  of  the 
Nation  prompted  him  to  travell.     After  he  had  travell'd  a  little  way  in  France 
&  Holland  he  returned  to  Edinburgh,  &  he  who  a  little  before  was  noe  better  than 
a  Clerk  or  Scrivener,  pretended  to  be  a  Dr  of  Physick  who  had  taken  that  degree  at 
Rheims  in    France,  being  not  over  well  beloved  by  the  College  of  Physitians  at 
Edinburgh  partly  upon  the  acc°  of  his  fanaticisme  &  partly  upon  the  acc°  of  his 
pride  &  impudence,  they  summon'd  him  to  an  examination  before  they  would  allow 
him  to  practise.     When  he  offer'd  himself  to  their  examination,  the  first  Question  they 
proposed  was  this,  Quodnam  est  vitium  Presbitarum?    he  replying  nothing   Dr. 
Burnet  the  Physitian  a  fanatick  himself  &  a  Friend  to  all  such  salv'd  his  credit  wth 
saying  they  would  have  noe  reflections  upon  any  mans  Religion.     Dr.  Bumet  it  seems 
was  as  ignorant  as  Welwood,  otherwise  he  might  have  given  a  wiser  Answer  as  you 
may  learn  from  yr  Physitians  y*  make  this  Inquiry,  the  next  question  they  put  to 
Welwood  was  quaenam  est  differentia  inter  Spinam  dorsi  et  Spinam  acidam.  he  knew  the 
Spina  dorsi  but  noe  Doctor  but  such  as  Welwood  would  have  render'd  Spina  Acida 
the  shin  bone  when  in  that  learned  science  it  signifies  barberies,  for  his  ignorance  he 
was  denied  a  license  ad  practicandum,  &  soe  came  to  seek  his  fortune  at  Newcastle 
in  the  reign  of  the  late  K.  James,  when  we  had  noe  magistrates  but  Papists  &  Fana- 
ticks.    his  businesse  here  was  to  insinuate  himself  into  the  favour  of  these  2  factions 
as  he  join'd  himself  wth  the  Fanaticks  &  frequented  their  meetings,   soe  upon  all 
occasions  he  studied  to  ingratiate  himself  wth  the  Papists  conversing  &  caballing  wth 
them  being  as  forward  as  any  to  assist  in  taking  of  the  Test  &  penal  Laws,  &  drink- 
ing wth  great  zeal  confusion  to  the  P.  of  Orang  at  his  coming  over  as  you'l  finde  by  my 
2don  letter  ;  the  truth  of  w°h  can  be  proved  by  some  that  were  present,     his  practise 
here  was  nothing,  soe  that  having  contracted  some  debts,  he  stole  out  of  Town  &went 
to  London  by  sea,  having  not  money  enough  to  bear  his  charges  by  Land,     at  London 
he  printed  those  letters  w011  passed  betwixt  him  &  me,  only  to  get  a  penny,  &  main- 
tan'd  himself  by  scribbling  till  the  BP.  of  Salisbury  made  him  the  New  Observator. 
I  never  heard  of  any  estate  he  had  in  Scotland,  &  his  base  Arts  to  maintane  himself, 
proclaims  he  has  none,     he  was  found  in  France  by  the  BP.  of  Salisbury  &  having 
been  his  Guide  there  in  some  part  of  his  Travels,  &  his  Countriman,  the  BP  has  shown 
him  more  kindnesse  than  he  deserved  ;    &  not  only  soe,  but  is  himself  of  the  club,  & 
furnishes  him  wth  some  obser-vables  to  raise  his  reputation,     as  for  his  being  an  under- 
clerk  at  Edinburgh  you  may  learn  from  the  Case  of  the  afflicted  Clergy  of  Scotland 
towards  the  end,  written  as  supposed  by  Sr  Geo.  Makenzy,  who  is  now  in  the  South 
&  able  to  give  a  larger,  I  believe  not  a  better  character  of  him.     as  appears  from  that 
Pampb.lt  the  Case  of  Afflicted  clergy  at  the  first  part.     As  for  the  Book  and  getting  a 
License  I  fear  it  will  be  too  late,  &  soe  we  will  let  it  sleep,  Story  will  be  shbrtly  at 
London  &  receive  it  of  you :  there  is  noe  creditt  to  be  got  by  writing  agst  such  an 
Adversary,     pray  according  to  yr  promise  conceal  the  name ;  of  Sr 

'  Yr  faithfull  Fr.  &  serv*  'JOHN  MARCH. 

'  Feb.  10.  90.' 
'  For  Mr.  John  Weld,  Book  seller  at  London  near  the  Temple  Gate.' 


INDEX. 


Abell,  J.,  15. 
Abgarus'  Epistle,  39,  247. 
Abingdon,   find  of  coins  at, 
207,  262. 

—  Earl  of,  2. 

Act,  an,  54,  206 ;  Act  Sun- 
day,   119  ;    Act  Suppers, 

54- 
Act  of  Parliament  in  verse, 

135- 

Adams,  Dr.  Fitzherbert,  375. 
Adderley,  R.,  192,  212,  298. 
Addresses,  from  Gloucester, 

367,    369  ;    from    Oxford 

University,  375,  384,  389. 
Aelfric,  262. 
'Aestel,'  203,   211,  220  sq., 

388. 

Agas,  Ralph,  n,  13. 
Alchester,  92,  145, 147. 
Aldrich,  Ch.,   24,   30,   247, 

354.  356. 

—  Dr.  H.,   24,  28,  20,  30, 
53,  59»  99,  "2,  '66,  185, 
247,  256,  344,  355,  361, 

365- 

Alford,  Michael,  230. 
Alfred,  King,  78,  113,  122, 

157,   189,  203,   204,    341, 

388. 

Allectus,  coin  of,  303. 
Allen,  Thos.,  291,  385. 
Allestrey,  Col.,  33. 
Allix,  Dr.  P.,  67,  85. 
Almanacks,  67. 
Almeloveen,  15,  17,  24,  30, 

41,  42,  49,  78,  221,  251, 

268,  271,  288,  291. 
Alsop,  A.,  122. 
Ambrosius      Camaldulensis, 

234,  238,  278. 

Amyntas,  silver  coin  of,  159. 
Anathemas  in  MSS.,  145, 

288,  295,  357. 
Andrewes,  Bp.  L.,  87. 
Annesley,  A.,  67,  329. 
Antoninus'    Itinerary,    370, 

371-  372,  373,  374,  377- 
Antonius  Nebrissensis,  272. 
Aphrodisias,  Greek  inscrip- 
tions from,  96,  142. 
Apollonius  Pergaeus,  127. 


Aretine,  L.,  8. 
Argyropylus,  IO. 
Arias  Montanus,  350. 
Armenia,  Christianity  in,  23, 

35- 

Arthur,  King,  59. 

Articles,  the  XXXIX,  197 
sq.,  216,  219,  334,  335, 
336,  337»  338,  341,  345 
^•-347,  348,  35i »358  sq.t 
360,  370,  395  sq. 

Arundel,  J.,  46. 

—  Lord,  88. 

Ascham,  R.,  231,   232,  233, 

234,  237,  238,  278. 
Asgill,  J,  56. 
Ashfield,  Edmund,  227. 
Ashmole,  Elias,  226,  235. 
Asserius     Menevensis,    220, 

260. 

Atherton,  Bp.,  93,  388. 
Atkins,  M.,    153,  173,   178, 

204,  233,  247,  297,  330. 
Atterbury,   Dr.   F.,    73,    78, 

220,  341  sq.,  343, 370,  383, 

396- 
Aubrey,  J.,   222,   223,  324, 

225  sq.,  227. 

Augustinians,  history  of,  253. 
Avienus,  253,  377. 
Ayliffe,  J.,  23. 
Ayres,  Philip,  74,  78,  92. 

Bacon,  Roger,  3,  4,  7. 
Badger,  Jas.,  2,  3,  35. 

—  R.,  11. 

Bagford,  J.,  i,  5,  10,  53,  58, 
59,  61,  77,  92,  98,  136, 
137,  138,  144,  150,  151, 
168,  186,  204,  221,  231, 
347.  297,  330,  340,  347, 
363,  364,  365- 

Baglivi,  201,  203,  205. 

Bagshaw,  Francis,  373. 

Baker,  Augustine,  252. 

—  Galfridus  le,  163,  267. 

—  Thos.,  34,  128,  262. 

—  Dr.  W.,  1 8,  26. 

Bale,  John,  73,  75,  123,  193 

sq.,  212,  253,  256. 
'  Barbaricarii,'  151,  &c. 
Barber,  J.,  77,  84. 

H  h  2 


Barcham,  J.,  196. 

Barlow,  Bp.,   7,  44,  46,  66, 

68,  77,  208,  300, 324,  347, 

376  sq. 
Barnes,  John,  252. 

—  Joshua,  his  Homer,  &c., 
4,  96,  98,  103,   104,  109, 
113,   115,  123,  127,   128, 
137,   174,  198,  208,  212, 
229,   232,  248,  288,  333, 

335.   362,  369.  383,  395, 
400. 

—  letters  of,  4,  5,  25,  26,  65, 
79,  80,  89,  91,  103,  109, 
no,   112,  113,  125,  135, 
167,   198,  219,  256,  284, 
368. 

—  letters  to,  74,  89,  91,  96, 
109,  113,  114,  116,  120, 
122,  127,   128,  135,  137, 
140,  144,  151,  156,  159, 
166,  173,  176,  229,  262, 
283. 

Baron,  Dr.  J.,  6,  344,  375. 
Barrow,  Bp.  I.,  15. 
-  H.,  138. 
Barton,  Eliz.,  206. 

—  Dr.  S.,  360  sq. 
Baskett,  J.,  160. 
Basnage,  J.,  38,  341. 
Bateman,  Dr.  J.,  221. 
Bath,  149,  151,  215,  264. 

—  inscriptions,  &c.,  at,   70, 
154,  165,   178,  187,  192, 

198,    201,    203,    206,     208, 

272,  347,  364,  374- 

—  Earl  of,  153. 
Bathnrst,  Allen,  369. 


—  Dr.  Ralph,  89,  158,  299. 
ittele 
288. 


Batteley 


calpn,  89, 
,   Dr.  J, 


140,    261, 


Battersea,  Minister  of,   304, 

306. 

Baumgarten,  Martinus  a,  103. 
Baxter,  W.,  234. 
Bayley,  Dr.  T.,  53,  179,185. 
Baynes,  Bej.,  87,  88. 
Btan,  C.,  10,  19. 
Bear,  J.,  100,  101,  no,  112, 

164. 
—  (Wadham),  186, 190, 191, 

365- 


468 


INDEX. 


Beaufort,  Duke  of,  260,  367, 

369- 

Beaumont,  Sir  G.,  225. 
Beckington,  Bp.,  246. 
Beckonsal,  T.,  213. 
Bedford,   Hilkiah,    12,    341, 

343,  345.  346.  348,  35 1, 
359,  37°,  395- 

Bell,  David,  290. 
Benedictines,  history  of,  251 

sq. 
Bennet,  T.  (Colchester),  74, 

338. 

Bennett,  J.,  23,  59,  92,  107, 
114,  120,   162,  178,   268, 

3i7- 

—  Sir  Simon,  3. 

—  Dr.  T.,  12,  13. 

—  Thos.,  14,  73. 
Bentley,  Dr.  R.,  4, 15,  28,  30, 

3J.  32.  34,  35>  45.  74.  76, 
78,  103,  123,  176,  177, 
178,  179,  185,  189,  330, 

344.  372.  373,  386. 
Bentun,  Roger  de,  26,  387. 
Benyon,  W.,  52. 
Berkenhead,  Dr.  J.,  120, 121, 

122. 
Bernard,  C.,  38,  39,  44,  45, 

55-  76. 

—  Dr.  E.,  35,  44,  234,  241, 
249,  283,  289,  312,  313, 

344.  395.  399- 
Beughem,  Cornelius  a,  7,  12, 

21,  &c. 
Beveridge,  Bp.,  98,  104. 

—  on  the  Articles,  234,  238, 
241,   248,   256,  306,  312, 

337- 

Bibles  in  the  Bodleian,  162. 
'  Bickerstaff,  Isaac,'  94,  96. 
Bickford,  W.,  53,  54,  92. 
Bickley,  B.,  23. 
Binckes,  Dr.  W.,  368. 
Binsey,  144. 
Birmingham,  156. 
Birstow,  Dr.  (All  Souls),  56. 
Bisbie,  Dr.  Nath.,  68. 
Bisset,  W.,  313. 
Black  Assize  at  Oxford,  226. 
Blackall,  Bp.  Offspring,  88, 

94.  329.  374- 
Blackburne,  Dr.  J.,  34. 
Blackmore,  Sir  R.,  69. 
Blake,  C.,  56. 

—  T.,  156. 

Bla«d,  Sir  J.,  73,  76. 
Blathwait,  Dr.,  53. 
Blechingdon,  R.,  51. 
Blencowe,  W.,  313  sq. 
Boar's  head  Song,  The,  101. 
Bobart,  Jacob,  200. 


Bodleian  Library,  Visitation 

of,  &c.,  146,  304. 
Bodley,  Sir  Thos.,  125,  145, 

370,  400. 
Boetius,  158. 
Bonwicke,  Ambrose,  56. 
Booth,  Dr.  Rob.,  114. 
Boston  of  Bury,  4,  53,  87, 

121,   164,  177,   223,   263, 

266,  267,  271. 
Bouchier,  Dr.  T.,  22. 
Boulton,  Rich.,  65. 
Bousfield,  B.,  346,  347. 
Bowack,  J.,  271. 
Bowes,  Dr.  R.,  335. 
Bowyer,  J.,  14. 
Boxhom's  Origines  Gallicae, 

315  sq.,  319. 
Boyle,  H.,  93. 
Boyse,  N.,  76,  77. 
Brabourn,  Dr.  J.,  49,  55, 184, 

185,  186. 
Bradford,  J.,  373. 

—  Dr.  S.,  360  sq. 
Bradley,  Savile,  82. 
Brady,  J.,  224,  225. 

—  N.,  72. 
Brailsford,  — .,  9. 
Bramhall,  Bp.  J.,  192. 
Brancaster,  284. 
Bray,  Dr.  T.,  23. 
Breach,  Dr.  W.,  97,  99. 
Brent,  C.,  6. 
Brickenden,  Dr.  C.,  344  sq., 

349- 

Bristol,  31. 

Britannia,  a  Poem,  374. 
Brokesby,  F.,  i,  31, 146, 150, 

IS6.  l65,  333- 
Brome,  W.,  66,  332. 
Bromley,  Rt.  Hon.  W.,  I,  n, 

329,  367- 
Bromton,  J.,  394. 
Brookbank,  Joseph,  347. 
Broughton,  Hugh,  59,  364. 
Brown,  Tom,  14,  77.  24^- 
Browne,  Bp.  P.,  331. 

—  Sir  T.,  198. 

—  W.,  247,  254. 
Bruce,  Family  of,  362. 
Bubb  [Dodington],  G.,  386. 
Buckingham,  Sir  O.,  6. 
Buckridge,  A.,  52. 
Bugge,  Francis,  102. 
Bulkeley,  Sir  R.,  243,  244. 
Bull,  Bp.  G.,   72,  252,  348, 

351- 
Burgess,  Dr.  Corn.,  117  sq. 

—  Daniel,  351. 
Burghcastle,  282. 
Burghers,  Michael,  96,  182, 

184,  273. 


Burleus,  G.,  269. 

Burman,  P.,  268,  330,  333, 

342,  343,  359>  3.6i. 
Burnet,  Bishop  Gilbert,  I,  6, 
16,30,  117,118,  125,  167, 

174,     22O,     221,     223,    225, 

227,  3°6,  3°7.  32°,  324 -r?-, 
362,  371,  383,  385,  391. 

Burrough,  Edw.,  165,  202. 

Burton,  Dr.  T.,  299. 
-  W.,  31,  32,  225. 

Bury,  Dr.  A.,  72. 

Busby,  Dr.  R.,  184,  307 
sqq. 

Bush  (bookseller),  4,  n. 

Buttoner,  W.,  248,  259. 

Byng,  Admiral,  107. 

Caelius  Aurelianus,  15,  17, 
19,  21,  24,  41,  42,  45,  49, 
97,  98,  198,  200,  203,  205, 
251. 

—  Rhodiginus,  363. 
Csesar,  Ch.,  19. 
Caister,  283. 

Caius,  Dr.  J.,  259,  262,  265. 
Calvin,  J.,  5. 

Cambridge,  antiquity  of,  214, 
262,  264,  265,  285. 

—  in  1708,  123. 
Camden,  W.,  265,  279,  289, 

321. 

—  his  Britannia,  &c.,  146, 

147.  J55.  156*  *57»  *58» 
159,  163,  164,  165,  180, 
191,  192,  203,  205,  285, 

315,    364- 
Camisars,  243,  245. 
Cannell,  Jos.,  103,  107. 
Canterbury  and  York,  arms 

of  the  Sees  of,  301. 
Capgrave,  J.,  253,  266. 
Carausius,  9. 

Carmelites,  history  of,  256. 
Carswell,  Dr.  Francis,  246, 

254- 
Carter,  Mr.  (Eton),  68,  279. 

—  Dr.  G.,  8,  105,  108,  114. 
Carteret,   John    Lord,    213, 

229,  256. 
Cartier,  M.,  61. 
Caryophilus,  B.,  58. 
Casaubon,  Isaac,  21,  87,  128, 

224,  261,  271,  384. 

—  Meric,  7. 
'Cassides,'378,  384,  386,  397, 

398. 

Castlehaven,  Earl  of,  75. 

Castle  Rising,  74. 

Caswell,  Prof.  J.,  n,  120, 
171,  172,  175,  176,  192, 
203,  312,  324,  330,374- 


INDEX. 


469 


Cave,  Dr.  W.,  18,   19,  177, 

183,  388. 
Cavendish's  Life  of  Wolsey, 

97,  98,  241. 
Cawley,    Dr.   J.,    246,    254, 

261. 

Caxton,  W.,  157,  204. 
'  Celte,'  209. 
Censorinus,  252. 
Censura  Temporum,  92,  94, 

97,98,  116,177. 
Chamberlayne,  J.,  164. 
Chanceius,  M.,  231. 
Chandler,  Dr.  T.,  231,  245. 
Chapman,  George,  264. 

—  H.,  264. 

Charitee,  W.,  13,  224,  225, 
228. 

Charity  Schools,  105,  234. 

Charles  II,  16,  20,  25,  &c. 

Charlet,  Dr.  J.,  286. 

Charleton,  Dr.  W.,  4,  6,  10, 
17,  35,  62,  289,  321. 

Charlett,  Dr.  A.,  3,  4,  5,  6,  9, 
11,13,14,15,16,22,24,28, 
29,38,46,53,56,59,64,65, 
82,  88, 107,  112,  116,  120, 
121,122,124,143,162,163, 
I?7, 1 80 /?f.,  184  j?.,  187, 

192,  2OI,  2O6,  2O7,  211, 

212,  215,  2{8,  219,  221, 

26l,  268,  273,  290,  291, 

294,  296,  313,  331,  332, 

34i»  345,  375,  384,  396. 

Chaucer,  notes  on,  136,  188, 

190,    194)  sqq.,    198-202, 

347- 
Cherry,  Francis,  54, 152, 208, 

351- 

—  his  MSS.,  131  sq. 

—  Letters  to,  8,  16,  73,  74, 
104,  112,  116,  123,   129, 

134,  157,  l62,  J79,  185, 
190,   203,   229,  269,  333, 

364- 

—  Mary,  96. 
Chester,  232. 
Chetwode,  Dr.  K.,  2,  119. 
Chicheley,  Archbp.,  240. 
Childrey's  Britannia  Bacon- 

ica,  1 66,  169. 

Chinese  books  in  Bodley,  58. 
Chishull,  E.,  80,  81,  92,  105, 

109,  153. 

Choniates'  Thesaurus,  18. 
Christian,  Manx  family  of,  15. 
Chronicle,    unpublished,    in 

the  Bodleian,  221. 
Churchill,  Admiral,  119. 
-  Sir  T.,  57. 
Cicero,  de    Repubhca,   313, 

233- 


—  notes  for  Hearne's  pro- 
posed ed.  of,  &c.,  3,  61, 
67,114,129,135,138,170, 
183,  1 86,   200,  205,   206, 
an,  213,  238,  241,  249, 
270,  271,  283,  293,  324, 
334,  346,   347.  359,  369, 
378. 

Cistercians,  history  of,  at 
Ripon,  253. 

Clarendon,  Edward  Earl  of, 
267 ;  Hearne's  Index  to 
the  History,  160  sq. 

—  Henry  Earl  of,  234,  290, 
297,303,306.^,308,312, 
320. 

Clarke,  — .  (scrivener),  182. 

—  George,  9,  97,  1 14. 

—  S.,  89,  127. 

—  W.,  165. 

Claudia,  epitaph  of,  363,  365. 
Clayton,  Sir  Robert,  27. 

—  Dr.  T.,  400. 
Clements,  H.,  14,  115,  117, 

S2?,  328,  338,  371- 

Clendon's  (J.)  Persona  (cf. 
Luttrell,  vi.  561,600),  367. 

Clerical  fellowships,  propos- 
ed abolition  of,  173,  176, 
282,  294,  313. 

Clifford,  Rosamund,  392-395, 
399  sq. 

Clifton  (Yorks.),  coins  found 
at,  54. 

Club,  the  Blaspheming,  90. 

Cluver,  P.,  238. 

Cock  burn,  Dr.  J.,  202. 

—  P.,  16. 

Cockersand  Abbey,  26,  387. 
Cockman,  T.,  183. 
Code,  Philip,  27. 
Codex  Alexandrinus,  3. 
Coddrington,  Rob.,  191. 
Codrington,  Chr.,  97. 
Coke,  Sir  E.,  14. 
Colbatch,  Dr.  J.,  65. 
Cole,  Benj.,  385. 
Colet,  Dean,  n,  41, 177,  179, 

187,   188,  189,   194,   200, 

201,  203,  205. 
Colinge,  J.,  172,  173,   175, 

176,  218,  219,  223. 
Collier,  Jeremy,  19,  35,  38, 

69»  3°4,  337- 
Collins,  A.,  5,  94,  194,  335, 

336,  338,  34i,  351-  36o. 
Cologne,  works  of  Aquinas 

printed  at,  366. 
Colomesius,  331. 
Columba,  St.,  229. 
Columna  Trajana,  notes  on, 

316  sq.,  323. 


Commelin,  J.,  39. 

Common  Prayer,  editions  of 

the  Book   of,  in   Bodley, 

343. 

Compton,  Bp.  H.,  362. 
Conant,  Dr.  J.,  221,  223. 
Coney,  T.,  69. 
Coningsby,  Rob.,  56,  59. 
Constantius,  coin  of,  35. 
Convocation,  proceedings  in, 

6,  10. 

Cook,  Shadrach,  113. 
Cookes,  Sir  T.,  7- 
Cooper,    Benj.     (Registrar), 

I05- 

Coppe,  A.,  7,  8. 
Copyright  Act,  385. 
Comaro,  Signer,  174. 
Corpus  Poetarum  Latinorum , 

a  new  ed.  of,  208,  256. 
Cosin,  Bp.,  40. 
Cotterell,  Sir  Ch.,  u,  112. 
Cotton,  Sir  R.,  46. 
Courant,    The,   5,  10,    134, 

175.  177,  179,  S^S- 
Covert,  — .  (Hart  Hall),  22, 

Il8,  I2O,  121. 

Cowper,  Lord,  12.  € 

Cox,  Sir  R.,  46. 
Cranmer,  Archbp.,  342. 
Cricklade,  151. 
Crook,  Gratiana,  47. 
Crooke,  R.,  99. 
Croone,  Dr.  W.,  101. 
Cross,  virtues  of  the,  376. 
Crosthwaite,  Dr.  T.,  22,  37, 
66,  80,  152,  228.  280,  284, 

339-  341.  345,  349- 
Crownfield,    C.,    123,    135, 

198. 

Crump,  H.,  86,  158,  247. 
Cuffe,  H.,  I. 
Cum  and  quum,  30. 
Cumberland,  Bp.  R.,  29,  31. 
Cuper,  G.,  36,  37. 
Curll,  Bp.,  239. 
Curzon,  Ch.,  305. 
Customs  of  London,  140. 
Cyprian,  Fell's  ed.  of,  66. 

Dalton,  T.,  27. 
Dance  of  Death,  the,  227. 
Danegeld,  304. 
Darrell,  G.,  340. 
Dashwood,  C.,  2. 
Daubuz,  C.,  330,  331. 
Davenant,  C.,  73. 

—  Jas.,  224  sq. 

—  Sir  W.,  239. 

Davies,  R.,  17,  18,  123,  166, 

177,  189. 
-  T.,  213. 


470 


INDEX. 


Dawes,  Archbishop  Sir  W., 

56,  88,  94. 
Dechair,  E.,  25,  28. 
Dee,  Duncan,  345. 

—  John,   3,   4,   7,   57,  61, 

139- 

Defoe,  Daniel,  14,  53. 
Delaune's  Latin  Bible,  136. 
Delaune,  Dr.  W.,   89,   114, 

280,  284,  359,  375. 
Dennison,  W.,  223,  350,  374. 
Devonshire,  Duke  of,  34,  35, 

39,  54,  74,  97- 
Dewes,    Sir    Symonds,    123, 

143.  265. 
'Dewitting,'  371. 
Dialithus,  C.,  61. 
Diceto,  Radulphus  de,  78. 
Digamma,  the  154. 
Digby,  Fr.,  68. 
Diggs,  Sir  Robert,  136. 
Dionysius  Byzantius,  127, 

—  Periegetes,  132  sq.,  233, 

234- 

Disney,  J.  and  W.,  137. 

Dixon,  Dr.  T.,  27. 

Dobson,  Dr.  W.,  77,  82  sqq. 

Dod,  T.,  174. 

Dodd,  Samuel,  345. 

Dodsworth,  Roger,  239. 

Dodwell,  Henry,  i,  8,  16, 
23,  25,  27,  28,  29,  30,  71, 
73-  81,  85,  87,  90,  92,  97, 
98,  108,  109,  112,  113, 
116,  127,  128,  133,  134, 
139,  156,  157.  177,  i83, 

185,  190,  198,  200,  205, 

206,  2O8,  212,  230,  231, 
232,  233,  234,  235,  238, 
240,  24I,  248,  253,  263, 
267,  269,  270,  271,  283, 

284,  314,  333,  334,  336, 
338,  347,  351,  363,  368, 
S?8,  384-  398. 

—  on  the  Soul,  I,  3,  6,  10, 
J7,  20,  33,  92,   95,   108, 
109,  113,  130,  131. 

—  Letters  of,  9,  14,  31,  41, 
78,  89,  98,  102,  108,  in, 
124,  140,   150,   152,   165, 
171,   185,  191,  198,   204 

207,  220,    26l,    288,    331, 

336,  347,  364,  384,  397- 
-  W.,  234. 
Dolben,  J.,   327,   328,  330, 

334,  341-, 
'Domesday,'  314. 
Donne,  Dr.  J.,  191. 
Dorchester  (Dorset),  156. 
Dove,  Bp.,  40. 
Downes,  Theophilus,  103. 
Drake,  Dr.  James,  14. 


Drake,  Montagu,  223. 
Dryden,  John,  29,  69. 
Dublin,  Greek  inscriptions 

at,  33,  9°>  91,  92,  96- 

Du  Gain,  Mr.,  30. 

Dugdale,  Sir  W.,  9,  45,  66, 
144,  146,  147,  164,  174, 
177,  216,235,  318  sq. 

Duke,  R.,  94. 

Du  Moulin,  L.,  65. 

—  P.,  67,  69,  73,  75. 
Dunster,  Dr.  T.,  22,  109. 
Dunton,  John,  26. 
Durham,  the  Church  of,  and 

its  benefactors,   233,  260, 

261. 

Dutch  printers,  208. 
Dyer's  News-letter,  31,  79. 

Echard,  L.,  269. 
Eclestone,  T.,  253. 
Edward  the  Confessor,  char- 
ter of,  379. 

—  the   Sixth's  Injunctions, 

379- 

Edwards,  Dr.  Jonathan,  24. 

Eikon  Basilike,  48,  58. 

Elections,  2,  9. 

Elf-arrows,  147. 

Elizabeth,  Queen,  189,  233. 

Ellis,  James,  9. 

Elmham,  Thomas,  162. 

Elstob,  E.  and  W.,  Anglo- 
Saxon  Homily,  289  sq., 
291,  295;  W.  Elstob,  ii, 

93,  94- 

Elvanus  Avalonius,  252. 
Ephraem    Syrus,    214,    215, 

218,  221,  272,  343,  347. 
Epitaphs,   posies,  &c.,   205, 

258,  289. 

Erasmus,  41,  44,  227,  293. 
Erythraeus  quoted,  50. 
Estenden,  J.  de,  368. 
Etruscan  language,  the,  40, 

70. 

Etymologicon  Magnum,  99. 
Eutropius,  271. 
Evans,  Abel,  332,  333,  336, 

352,  359,  36i. 

—  D-,  177,  ^o,  209>  3°4- 
Exeter,  books  once  belonging 

to  the  Church  of,  356  sq., 
360. 

Fabian,  Robert,  267. 
'  Fabricenses,'  151,  168. 
Fabricius,    23,    29,   41,    57, 

127,   251,  268,   270,   278, 

313,  344,  368. 
Faccio,  Nicolas,  244. 
Fairfax,  C.,  268,  295,  298. 


Fair  Warning,  374. 

Falconar,  John,  130. 

Farrar,  Mr.,  of  Hemsworth, 
41. 

Fees  for  Divinity  Degrees, 
117. 

Fell,  Bp.  J.,  6,  10,  62,  66, 
69,  71,  73,  75,  76,  89,  90, 
109,  117,  140,  171,  208, 
223,  235,  260,  299,  307, 

342- 

Felton,,H.,  58. 
Finch,  Dr.  Leopold,  71,  374. 
Firebrace,  Sir  B.,  18,  19. 
Fisher,    Bp.   J.,   Sermon  on 

the  Lady  Margaret,  128; 

245- 

—  Payne,  74. 
Fitzherbert,  N.,  261. 
Flach,  Martin,  366. 
Fleetwood,  Bp.  W.,  104. 
Fludd,  Robert,  277. 
Forbes,  Mr.  (of  Dublin),  122, 

135,  206. 
Fountaine,  Sir  A.,  9,  11,  12, 

14,  3°,  41,  42,  74,  78,  96> 

97,  *89,  254. 
Fowler,  Bp.  E.,  119. 
Fox,  Francis,  6,  75, 107,  117, 

118,  122. 

—  Geo.,  203. 

—  J-,  356,  366. 
Foyle,  J.,  82  sqq. 
Frampton,  Dr.  M.,  17. 

—  Bp.  Robert,    112,    118, 
119. 

Franciscus  a  Sancta  Clara, 

253- 
Frankfort    celebration,    the, 

14,  179,  241. 
Frea,  J.,  189,  271. 
Frederick  I,  King  of  Prussia, 

10. 

Freind,  Dr.  J.,  77,  228. 
Freinshemius'  Supplement  to 

Livy,  150,  244. 
Freke,  Ralph  and  W.,  144. 
Frome,  coins  found  near,  373. 
Fry,  Dr.  Stephen,  77,  78,  85, 

365- 
Fuller,  N.,  288. 

—  Thomas,  260,  264. 

Gagnier,  J.,  308,  330. 
Gale,  R.  and  T.,  7,  201,  203, 

239,  371- 

'  Galley  halfpence,'  338. 
Gandy,  H.,  16, 17;  his  answer 

to  Higden,  284,  290,  293. 
Gardiner,  Dr.  Bernard,  5,  49, 

114,  197,  294,  297,  298. 
Gardner,  E.,  129,  140. 


INDEX. 


471 


'  Garter  rings,'  310. 
Garth's  Dispensary,  259. 
Gavelkind,  204,  208. 
Geneva    Letters,     I,   5,   80, 

356. 

Geoffrey  of  Monmouth,  266. 
George,  Prince  of  Denmark, 

144. 

'George  nobles,'  311. 
'  George  rings,'  310^. 
'  German  Princess,'  a,  25. 
Germeyne's  Chest,  160,  161. 
Gerson,  John,  135,  285,  293. 
Gesta  Romanorum,  46. 
Gibbon,  J.,   194,  198,  223, 

224. 
Gibson,  Dr.  E.,  28,  29,  45, 

75,  76,  146,  147,  150,  157, 

262,  341. 

—  Matthew,  171,  311. 
Giffard  (.engaged  on  a  Chro- 
nology], 4. 

Gillingham,  W.,  251. 
Gilpin,  Bernard,  246. 
Giraldus  Cambrensis,  236, 

240,  266. 
Glasgow,    inscription   found 

at  (1690),  272. 
Gloucester,  Humphrey  Duke 

of,  339- 

Goddard,  T.,  n. 
Godolphin,  Francis  Earl  of, 

7»94- 

—  Dr.  H.,  21,  27. 
Godstow,  inscription  at,  105, 

"i,  39°.  393  SW~>  399. 
400. 

Godwin,  Bp.,  de  Praesulibus, 
44,  61,  64,  65,  66,  67,  165, 
231,  232,  240,  245,  246. 

Goetzius,  35. 

Gogthan,  Patriarch  of,  15, 
16,  17,  21,  23,  24,  25. 

Goodman,  Bp.  G.,  191. 

Goodmanchester,  285. 

Goodwyn,  Dr.  T.,  23,  115, 
165,  348,  373- 

Gordon,  — .  (B.D.  of  St.  An- 
drews^, 8. 

—  Patrick,  Letters  from,  3, 
75.  96,  205,  345- 

Grabe,  Dr.  J.,  15,  16,  17,  22, 
24,  28,  65,  69,  75,  78, 
i75»  214,  247,  252,  253, 
266,  267,  283,  317,  332, 

337.  34'- 

Grandison,  Bp.  J.,  162. 
Grandorge,  Dr.  J.,  22. 
Grange,  J.,  140. 
Granville,  Lord,  77. 
Graves,  Thos.,  40. 
Gray,  Robert,  286. 


Green,  W.,  256. 
Greenwood,  Ch.,  3. 

—  W.,  87. 

Gregg,  W.,  89,  104,  107. 

Gregory,  Prof.  D.,  13,  22, 
96,  140,  141,  142,  145, 
150,  152,  191,  192,  374. 

—  Dr.  Francis,  22. 
Griffin,  Lord,  &c.,  100,  113, 

114. 

Grindal,  Archbp.,  334. 
Gronovius,  35, 128,  153, 179, 

185,  395,  399- 
'  Gruellers,  the,'  140. 
Gruter,  J.,  39,  73,  89. 
Guildford,  Lord,  2. 
Guise,  Dr.,  25. 
Gunpowder    Plot,    the,    98, 

99. 
Gunton,  S.,  237. 

Hackett,  Mr.  (Merton),  172, 

174. 
Hale,  Sir  Matthew,  342. 

—  Dr.  Rich.,  130. 
Hales,  Edw.,  143. 

—  John  (of  Eton),  102. 

—  Sir  John,  76. 

Halifax,  Lord,  307,  309,  312. 

Hall,   Antony,    46,   94,   96, 

164,  169,  171,  174,  177. 

—  Bp.  John,  343,  344,  345, 

349.  3?i,  355- 

—  John,  4,  89,  90,  121,  122, 
125,  i  So. 

Halley,  Prof.  E.,  14,  65,  69, 
76,  172,  282,  283,  312, 
398. 

Halton,  Dr.  Tim.,  46, 48,  49, 
63,  69,  109,  224. 

Hambledon,  Count,  126. 

Hamelen,  Piper  of,  26. 

Hammond,  Dr.  H.,  31,  307. 

Hampole,  Richard,    I,  357, 

365- 

Hampson,  Mary,  7. 
Hampton,  Elizabeth,  139, 
Handasyde,  Col.,  386. 
Hannes,  Dr.  E.,  34. 
Harbin,  Geo.,  336,  338,  341, 

342,  349-  . 
Harcourt,  Sir  S.,  6,  10,  93, 

338,  354,  359. 
Hardib,  G.,  253. 
Harding,  Robert,  253. 
Hardouin,   J.,   58,  86,    191, 

240,    241,    242,  243,  244, 

245,  246. 

Harley,  Robert,  93,  107,  335. 
Harrington's  Description  of 

Britain,  168. 
Harris,  Dr.  J.,  334  sq.,  395. 


Hart,  T.,  1 10. 

Harwar,  Dr.  J.,  23,  166, 

Hasker,  Thos.,  and  his  cat, 

85- 

Hatton,  Lord,  145. 
Haversham,  Lord,  79. 
Hearne,  George,  397. 
HEARNE,  THOMAS,  Letters 

of,  i,  2,4,  5,  8,  ii,  12,  15, 

l6,  17,  19,  21,    22,    23,   24, 

3°,  34,  38,  42,  52,  53,  61, 
65,  69,  74,  75,  77,  81,  87, 
89»  91,  94,  96,  98,  102, 
104,  108,  109,  in,  112, 

114,     Il6,     I2O,     122,     123, 

124,  127,  128,  129,  130, 

134,  135,  i37»  MO,  14*1 
142,  144,  146  sqq.,  150, 

«Wi  J57,  !58,  K'i,  162, 
163,  164,  165,  166,  168, 

i?1.  173,  175,  177,  179, 
184,  185,  189,  190,  194, 

200,  201,    203,     205,    208, 
211,    217,    2l8,    223,    227, 

229,  234,  235,  240,  253, 

262,  268,  269,   283,   291, 

298,  311,  319.  320,  329, 

330,  331,  333,  334,  337. 
338,  341.  343,  348,  349i 
359,  364.  365,  383- 

Letters  to,  i,  2,  3,  4, 

7,  9,  10,  12,  14,  15,  17, 
19,  21,  23,  25,  26,  28,  31, 

32,  33.  35,  38,  39.  41,  42, 
46,  49,  56,  58,  59,  62,  65, 

67,  7o,  74,  75,  76,  77,  78, 
79,80,  87,89,  90,  91,  93, 
96,  98,  99,  102,  103,  105, 
107,  108,  109,  no,  in, 
112,  113,  114,  117,  118, 
120,121,122,123,124,125, 
126,  127,  128,  129,  135, 
140,  142,  143,  145,  146, 
15°,  !53,  I56.  *58,  162, 
163,  164,  165,  166,  167, 
168,  169,  170,  171,  173, 

174,  175,  176,  177,  I78, 
179,  183,  185,  186,  187, 
189,  190,  191,  198,  199, 

201,  2O3,  204,  207,  2O8, 
213,  219,  221,  224,  225, 
230,  231,  238,  242,  248, 
256,  26l,  268,  271,  284, 
288,  295,  297,  299,  304, 

306,  311,  312,  3'4,  317. 
324,  330,  33i,  332,  333. 
334,  335,  336,  337.  338, 
34°,  341,  343,  345,  347, 
35',  36o,  361,  364,  368, 
369,  370,  384,  395,  397- 
Heinsius,  D.,  sale  of  his 
library,  44. 


472 


INDEX. 


Henchman,  Dr.  Humphrey, 

345- 

Henry  V,  44,  337. 
Henry  VII,  86. 
Herbert  of  Cherbury,  Edw. 

Lord,  191,  288. 
Herlaxton,  291. 
Hermolaus  Barbaras,  272, 
Herne,  Dr.  J.,  n,  21. 
Heron,  Charles,  165^.,  280. 
Hexham,  Richard  of,  239. 
Heylin,  Dr.  P.,  130,  154, 158, 

159,  i 9°.  3°3- 

—  T.,  68. 

He[a]ywood,  T.,  119. 
Hickeringill,  E.,  33. 
Hickes,  Dr.  G.,  12,  14,  15, 

21,  53,  57,  6°,  78,  96, 
163,  174,  225,  239,  240, 
248,  284,  290,  293,  334, 

337,  346,  37°>  383,  387, 
388. 

—  Letters  of,  I,  4,  12,  31, 
33,  56,  64,  77,  113,  142, 
143,  158,  167,  190,  220. 

—  Dr.  J.,  63. 
Higden,  R.,  394. 

—  W.,   284,  288,  290,  291, 
293,  296,  297,  398. 

Higgins,  F.,  25,  33,  57. 
Higgs,  Griffin,  281. 
Hill,  Dr.  H.,  137. 

—  J-,  32,  33,  66,  160,  161, 
241,  256,  349,  384- 

—  W.,  66. 

Hilton,  Walter,  I,  399. 
Hinton,  [?Thos.]   (Chaplain 

ofC.C.C.),6i,64,65,  183. 
Hitchcock,    J.,   his    MS.    of 

the    Vulgate    in    Bodley, 

160. 
Hoadly,    B.,    101,    328  sg., 

33°,  337,  34°,  347,  349, 

355,  36i,  369- 
Hobbes,  T.,  223. 
Hody,  Dr.  H.,  n,  12,  19,  60, 

91,  108. 

Hofmann,  J.,  214. 
Hoglandiae  Descriptio,  229, 

242. 

Holden,  Matt.,  135,  152. 
Hole,  Matthew,  95. 
Holgate,  Archbp.,  40. 
Holland,  H.,  235. 

—  Dr.  J.,  26,  221,  225,  227, 
228,  375. 

Hollyng,  Edmund,  230. 
Holt,    Sir    J.,    Lord    Chief 
Justice,  357,  360. 

—  Thos.,  35. 
Honywood,  Dr.  M.,  258. 
Hooker,  Richard,  6. 


Hooper,  Bp.  G.,  362. 

Horace,  notes  on,  135. 

Hough,  Bp.  J.,  49. 

Hough  ton,  J.,  398. 

Hoveden,  Roger,  393. 

Howell,  Laurence,  35,  38, 
103,  125. 

Hoy,' Dr.  T.,  227,  380. 

Hudson,  Dr.  J.,  i,  2,3,6,8,  9, 
10,  n,  15,  18,  21,  22,  23, 
25,  27,  29,  30,  31,  32,  35, 

41,  42,  49,  54,  59,  62,  65, 
66,  69,  77,  79,  80,  82,  85, 
100,  104,  107,  118,  120, 
122,  123,  127,  128,  149, 
172,  175,  183,  186,  191, 

198,     2OO,    2OI,     2O5,     212, 

225,  233,  262,  270,  279, 
284,  294,  300,  326,  349, 
359,  375,  378,  381,  382, 
383,  386,  400. 

Hummelston,  288. 

Humphreys,  Bp.  H.,  230. 

-p-  L.,  27. 

Hunt,  J.,  7. 

—  W.,  344  sq. 

Hussey,  J.  (Cambridge),  378. 
Hutchin,  Hugh,  8. 
Hutchinson,  Michael,  145. 
Button,  Leonard,  261. 

—  Dr.  Matt,  65,  231,  239, 

37°,  396. 
Hutton's    View  of  London, 

94,  96. 

Hyde,  Dr.  T.,  31,  46,  49. 
Hynde  [Hine],  T.,  115. 

Ibbetson,  R.,  104,  149. 

Ignatius,  Epistles  of,  24, 112, 
117,  118,  123,  124,  125, 
129,  158,  163,  166,  167, 
J71,  i73t  174,  175,  207, 
247,  342- 

Imitatio  Christi,  134,  135, 
284,285^,293,295,  330, 

331- 
Impeachment,    The,   or   the 

Nation  Mad,  372. 
Index  Expurgatorius,  34. 
Indian  Kings  (Sachems),  the, 

385,  389- 

Inett,  Dr.  J.,  269,  337,  341. 
Ingulfus,  347. 
Innocent  VIII,  210. 
Irish,  Dr.  J.,  22,  143. 
Isham,  J.,  297. 
Ittigius,  T.,  109. 
Izacke,  R.,  332. 

James,  Dr.  Richard,  121. 

—  Thos.,  40. 

Jane,  Dr.  W.,  13,  88,  292. 


Jenkinson,  Sir  Robfert,  348, 

349- 
Jerome,    St.,    Expositto,    5, 

26. 

'  Joan,  Pope,'  114. 
John  of  Salisbury,  230,  266. 
Johnson,  Chr.,  241,  246. 

—  Samuel  ('Julian'),   175, 
284,  296,  313. 

—  Thos.,  67,  98,  1 20. 
Johnstone,  Dr.  N.,  19,  147. 
Jones,  David,   18,    58,  305, 

306. 

—  Henry,  69,  73,  74,  75,  76, 
89,  117,  223,  307. 

—  Inigo,  264,  289. 

—  John,  252. 

—  Thos.,  210. 
Jornandes,  59,  255. 
Joscelin,  J.,  231,  246. 
Joscelinus,  230. 
Justell,  Dr.,  67. 

Justin,    notes   on,    29,   116, 

129,  232. 
Juvenal,  73,  176, 

Keep's  Monuments  of  West- 
minster, 332. 

Keil,  J.,  i,  26,  141,  171,  202. 
Kempe's  Roman  helmet,  341, 

346,  3r>4- 
Kempis,  Thomas  a,  134,  136, 

285^.,  293,  295. 
Ken,  Bp.  T.,  48. 
Kennett,  Basil,  6,   17,    179, 

234,  3J3- 

—  Dr.  White,  9,  17,  21,  39, 
45,  74,  79,  81,  88,  97,  99, 
100,  101,   138,   142,   147, 
179,   234,  237,  334,  336, 

355,  356,  359,  364,  37°- 
Kent,  Abraham,   2,   22,  65, 

79,  140,  268,  317. 
Kettel,  Dr.  R.,  13. 
Kettlewell,  John,  48. 
Key,  Thos.,  259. 
King,  C.  (Mus.  Bac.),  26. 

—  Dr.  C.,  35,  36,  221,  223, 
332,  375- 

—  Sir  Edmund,  307. 

—  Sir  Peter,  328. 

—  Bp.  Robert,  344. 

—  Dr.  W.,  190. 
Kirkstede,  Hugh,  253. 
Knollys,  H.  (Trin.),  77,  82 

sqq.,  91. 

Kiister,  L.,  39,  42,  307,  309, 
312,  330,  33L  333,  344, 
362,  365- 

Lady's  Journey  to  Oxford, 
The,  291. 


INDEX. 


473 


Lambecius,    144,   237,    238, 

247,  278. 

Lambert,  Bp.  Ralph,  153. 
Lamphire,  Dr.  J.,  300. 
Lamplugh,  Archbp.   T.,  48, 

51,  66. 

-  Dr.  T.  Gun.),  gl. 
Lancaster,  J.,  43. 

—  Peter,  48,  81. 

—  Dr.  W.,   I,  8,  32,  48  sq., 
59,  61,  98,  99,  101,  1 20, 
122,   129,   137,  143,   165, 
166,   175,   176,   186,  219, 
225,249,268,272,  279.57., 
281,  283^.,  288,  291,  294, 
296,   298,    304,  313,  324, 
33°,   348»   349,  351,  355. 
359.  364.   373.  374.  375, 
380,  381,  382,  384. 

Lane,  Dr.  T.,  170, 
Langbaine,  Dr.  Gerard,  a,  3, 
13,  44,  66,  109,  158,  207, 

237,  377-. 

—  Gerard  (jun.),  122. 
Langham,  Sir  W.,  68. 
Langhorn,  T.,  65,  66. 
Langton,  Robt.,  157. 
Lardner,  T.,  243. 
Lasher,  Dr.  Josh.,  49. 
Lathom,  Paul,  49,  51. 
Laud,  Archbp.,  4,  145,  252, 

287,  &c. 
Laughton,  J.,  n,  123. 

—  Rich.,  101. 
Launceston,  357. 
Laurence  of  Durham,  266. 
Lawson,  Wilfrid,  100. 
Lawton,  Charlton,  60. 
Leather  money,  15. 
Lechmore,  N.,  351. 

Le  Clerc,  J.,  38,  41,  91,  164, 

186,   207,   211,   215,   234. 

374.  293,   33°,   333.  342. 

343.  362,  365- 
Ledgard,    J.,    73,     76,    77, 

166. 

Le  Gobien,  P.,  191. 
Leibnitz,  103,  128,  133. 
Leigh,  Dr.  Ch.,  319. 

—  T.,  12,  16,  20. 
Leightonhouse,  W.,  49. 
Leland,  J.,  252,  253, 258.  262, 

265,  394,  399  ;  de  Scrip- 
toribus,  2,  4,  9,  25,  35,  53, 
58,94,96,  123,  164,  167, 
174,  175  ;  Itinerary,  72, 
78,173,227,231,233,253, 
460,  270,  356,  377. 

Leofric,  Bp.,  235,  356. 

Leominster,  Lord,  his  statues, 

53,  58. 
Le  Quien,  M.,  46. 


Leslie,  Charles,  5,  95,  143, 
152,  297. 

L'Estrange's  Alliance  of  Di- 
vine Offices,  187. 

Levett,  Dr.  W.,  103. 

Levinz,  Bp.,  17,  49. 

Lewis,  Francis,  304  sq. 

Lhuyd,  E.,  9,  24,  45,  58,  63, 
75,103,115,172,173,175, 
176,  180,  181,  184,  185, 

2OI,     204,     2l8,     219,    221, 
223,  224,  225,  374. 

Liberty  of  Prophesying,  The, 

41,  42,  49,  56. 
Lichfield,    MS.    History    of 

the  Church  of,  in  Bodley, 

193,  202,  235. 
Lichfield,  L.,  243. 
Lilburn,   J.,   Judge  Jenkins1 

epitaph  on,  138. 
Lindsey,  S.,  65,  100,  374. 
Lister,   Dr.  M.,  42,  44,  49, 

86,221,227,228,251,272, 

ML 

Littlemore,  379,  399. 
Littleton,   Dr.  A.,   49,   142, 
362. 

—  F.,  293-296,  298,  312. 

—  Sir  T.,  333. 

Lively  Oracles,  The,  299. 

Liverpool,  1 50  sq. 

Livy,  notes  for  Hearne's  ed. 
of,  &c.,  i,  2,  3,4,6,10,  15, 
18,42, 56, 58, 60, 74,  89, 96, 

101,     112,     114,     120,    128, 

15°,   J53,   180,   245,  292, 
364,  367,  &c. 
Lloyd,  David,  73,  263,  331. 

—  Bp.  W.  (Norwich),  333  sq. 

335  •*?•>  35°  tf- 

—  Bp.  W.  (Worcester),  4,  8, 
16,  20,  29,  32,  104,   105, 

117,  I2O,  169,  211,  267. 

Locke,  John,  274,  282. 
Lockey,  Thos.,  40. 
Lombard,  D.,  103,  104. 
London  clergy,  the,  10,  108. 
Long,  James  Le,  361,  365. 
Longevity,    147,     151,    156, 

3°9- 

Leveling,  W.,  65. 
Lovell,  Salathiel,  374. 
Lowth,  W.,  49,  155. 
Lucar,  Cyril,  7,  10,  12,  147. 
Lucas,  R.,  73. 
Lutwych,  Sir  E.,  208. 
Lydiat,  T.,  14. 
Lyndesay,  Bp.  T.,  49. 
Lynn  in  1708,  12$  sq. 
Lynne,  Walter,  57. 

Mabillon,  239,  240. 


Machell,  T.,  60. 
Mackenzie,   Dr.  G.,  62,  65, 
207. 

—  SirG.,  17,  56. 
Maihew,  E.,  251. 
Maittaire,   Michael,    5,  137, 

173,  256,  285. 
Maldon,  coin  of  Nero  found 

at,  112. 

Mallard,  The  All  Souls,  in. 
Malplaquet,   Battle  of,    264 

sq.,  268,  313. 

Man,  Isle  of,  3,  15,  17,  40. 
Managers,  pro  and  con,  The, 

383- 
Manley,Mrs.,  New  Atalantis, 

292..  297,  304,  389  sq. 
Manningham,    Bp.    T.,    60, 

232. 

Mansell,  Sir  T.,  93. 
Manuel  Phyle,  proposed  ed. 

of,  24,  25. 
Map,  Walter,  6l. 
Marbeck,  J.,  364,  366. 
March,  J.,  60,  61. 
Marcianus,  statue  of,  383. 
Marianus  Scotus,  78, 89,  263. 
Markland,  Dr.  A.,  56,  155. 
Marlborough,      Duke      and 

Duchess  of,  7,  25,  82,  99, 

204,    265,   312,  313,  348, 

351,  359- 
Marsh  (shoemaker),  208. 

—  Archbp.  Narcissus,  60. 
Marshall,  B.,   22,  117,   169, 

267. 

—  Dr.  T.,  62,  300. 
Marten,   Dr.  Edmund,    214, 

216,  218. 

Massey,  J.,  299. 

Masson,  J.,  76,  92,  104,  105, 
169,  192. 

Masters,  S.,  60. 

Matthew  Paris,  266. 

Maundrell,  H.,  60. 

Maurice,  Dr.  H.,  60. 

Meare,  Dr.  J.,  74,  227,  395. 

Memorial  of  the  Church  of 
England,  359. 

Meredith,  Roger,  197,  212. 

Merks,  Bp.,  336. 

Middleton,  E.,  87,  88. 

Mill,  Dr.  John,  5,  6,  8,  17, 
20,  21,  22,  23,  24,  25,  27, 
28,  29,  30,  42,  49,  53,  54, 
55,  58,  60,  61,  62,  65,  66, 

69,  72,  79.  I0°,  I03,  !°4, 

105,   iia,   117,  123,  163, 

186,  208,   214,   220,  244, 

268,   271,   280,  284,  299, 

34',  346,   347,  349,  362, 
37'- 


474 


INDEX. 


Millemet,  Walter  de,  59. 

Miller,  Simon,  27. 

Milles,  T.  (afterwards  Bp.), 
3,  5,  7>  8,9,10,11,  12,  13, 
14,  16,  17,  30,  79,  81,  90, 
9J>  93>  97,  I0°.  rI4>  "5. 

Il6,    124,     212,      269,    270, 
283,  317,  388. 

—  Thos.  (of  Sandwich),  279. 
Milton,  John,  63. 
Minorites,  history  of,  253. 
Misson,  M.,  226. 

'  Moderation,'  360. 

Modest  Plea  for  the  Clergy, 

69,  73,  75.  13°-. 
Monasticon  Anglicanum,  13, 

387,  392.  399- 
Monro,  Jas.,  380,  381. 
Montagu,     Duke     of,     153, 

175- 

Montague,  Sir  Jas.,  10. 
Montfaucon's  Palaeographia 

Graeca,  191,  238,  241, 
Monthly    Miscellany,     159, 

161,  162,  174,  187,  203. 
Moore,  Bp.  J.,  9,  10,  18,  19, 

34,  53,  9°,  92,  101,  no, 

29T>  3°7,  3°9>  372- 
More,  Sir  Thomas,  259,  292 

sq. 
Morgan,  Dr.  Matt.,  60. 

—  Sylvanus,  308. 
Morley,  Bp.  G.,  12. 
Morton,  Archbp.,  240. 
Morwen,  J.,  153. 
Moss,  Dr.  R.,  89,  320. 
Motstone,  148,  151. 
Mott,  B.,  228. 
Moulden,  J.,  344  sq. 
Murer,  — .,  203,  205. 
Musgrave,  Sir  Chr.,  62. 

—  Dr.  W.,  60,  198,  206  sq., 
208,  213,  217,  220,  347. 

Musson,  J.,  54. 

Narborough,  James  and  Sir 

John,  68. 

Neale,  Tho.,  II,  13,  273. 
Needham,    Peter,    93,    123, 

189. 

Nelson,  Robert,  15,  48,  291. 
Neot,  St.,  230. 
Nevile,  Cavendish,   17,  143, 

378- 

—  John,  17,  156. 
Neville,  Archbp.  G.,  342. 
Newborough,  J.,  279. 
Newcome,  P.  and  H.,  61. 
Newcourt,  Thos.,  265. 
Newey,  Dr.,  94. 
Newsham,  T.,  297. 
Newton,  Dr.  H.,  216. 


Newton,  Sir  Isaac,  145,  174. 

—  R.,  25. 

Nicetas'    Thesaurus    Ortho- 

doxae  Fidei,  340. 
Nicholls,  Peter,  395. 

—  Dr.  W.,  61,  75,  370  sq. 
Nicholson,  Franc.,  61,  93. 

—  Bp.  W.  (Gloucester),  257. 
Nicols,  W.,  299  sq. 
Nicolson,  Bp.  W.,  62, 72,  96, 

174.  230,   231,  235,   237, 
239,  240,  241,    248,    249, 

256.  343- 
Noris,   Cardinal,   205,    240, 

241,   242,  243,  244,    245, 

246. 

Norris,  John,  62,  104,  189. 
Northey,  Sir  E.,  10, 
Northleigh,  J.,  63. 
Norwich  in  1708,  123. 
Nottingham,  Earl  of,  360. 
Nourse,  F.,  78. 

—  J-,  298. 

—  Tim.,  63,  73. 
Nurigian,  Luke,  16. 
Nurra,   P.  Caralitanus,  234, 

238,  277  sq. 

Observator,  The,  II,  53. 

Ockley,  S.,  28. 

Oddy,  O.,  8,   II,   101,   163, 

166,  262. 
Offa,  King,  42. 
Ofield,  T.,  359. 
Oglethorpe,  Theoph.,  329. 
Oldisworth,  W.,  190,  395. 
Oldys,  Dr.  W.,  63. 
Olearius,  G.,   35,   270,  361, 

365- 

Oriel,  etymology  of,  209. 
Origenis  contra  Celsum,  391. 
Ormond,  Duke  of,  5,  384. 
Osborne,  Daniel,  4,  389. 
Oundle,  the  drumming-well, 

3i- 
OXFORD : 

Churches : — 

Collection   of  inscrip- 
tions in  them,  268. 

Holywell,  144. 

St.  Frideswyde's,  69. 

St.  Giles's,  392  sq.,  399. 

St.  John  Baptist,  58. 

St.  Michael's,  273. 

St.    Peter's-in-the-East, 
38,  144.  220. 

St.  Thomas's,  216. 
City,  &c.  :— 

Beaumont,  226,  273, 276. 

'  Bellositum,'  283,  288. 

Bulkeley  Hall,  218. 

Carfax,  226. 


Castle,   The,   216,  226, 
281. 

Friars'  Entry,  273. 

Headington    Hill,   219, 
220. 

Osney  Abbey,  216,  387. 

Rewley  Abbey,  216,  387. 

Roman  roads,  219,  282. 

St.  Bartholomew's  Hos- 
pital, 222,  228. 

St.  Giles's,  seal  found  in, 
386  sqq. 

Springhalt's      Coffee- 
house, 218. 

Stone's    Hospital,    89, 

365- 

Colleges  and  Halls  : — 
Balliol,  300-304. 
Brasenose,  18. 
—  Ale,  327. 
Christ  Church,   14,  16, 

68,  261,  281,344,370. 
Exeter,    160,   161,   318, 

320,  324,  330,  333. 
Jesus,  lot. 

Magdalen,  194,  198,205. 
New  College,  38,40, 144. 
Oriel,  33,  202,  222,  228. 
Queen's,  2,  38,  44,  46, 

101 ;  notes  on   books 

in  the    library,    263, 

347- 

St  John's,  72,  287. 
Trinity,  the  disturbances 

at,  77  sqq. 
University,  2,  3,  13,  17, 

47>  273,  282,  325  sq. 


Edmund  Hall,  5, 54,318, 

321  sqq. 

Gloucester  Hall,  226. 
St.  Mary's  Hall,  82. 
University : — 

Anatomy    School,    193, 

201,    203,    232,    238, 

379  sqq. 

Divinity  Schools,  125. 
Physic  School,  &c.,  321, 

379,  38i,  382,  400. 


Decree  of  1683,  292, 
367,  369,  37i»  375, 
384- 

St.  Scholastica's  Day, 
conflict  of,  360. 

Oxford  Almanack,  the,  318. 
Oxfordshire      Election     £of 

1710],    Ballad    on,    355, 

359- 

Padstow,  76. 


INDEX. 


475 


Pakington,  Sir  J.,  56. 
Palatines,  the  poor,  239. 
Palladius'     Antiquities      of 

Rome,  331,  333. 
Palmer,  Rev.  — .,  356. 

—  Ch.,  63,  74. 

Parker,  Archbp.  M.,  136, 181, 
231,  232,  240. 

—  Bp.  S.,  258. 

—  Samuel,  10,  73,  108,  116, 
338. 

—  Sir  T.,  359,  360. 
Parkinson,  Jas.,  63. 
Parliament  (1648),  pamphlet 

against,  338. 
Parr,  Dr.  R.,  63. 

—  Thomas  [Old],  149  sq. 
Parry,  D.,  224,  225. 

—  Bp.  J.,  126. 
Parsell,  T.,  56. 

Parsons,  Dr.  Robert,  63,  235. 

Passioneo,  D.,  149. 

Patrick,  Bp.  S.,  18. 

Patten's  Expedition  into 
Scotland,  125. 

'  Paul,  a  knave  of  JESUS 
CHRIST,'  232. 

Paynter,  Dr.,  53.     • 

Pearse,  Robt,  79,  104,  371. 

Pearson,  Bp.  J.,  7,  14,  31, 
132  sq.,  299  sq. ;  his  An- 
notations on  the  Epistles  of 
St.  Ignatius,  21,  87,  97, 
120,  125,  126,  127,  128, 

I39,    J33«   I4°>    Jf»4.  3I2, 
215,  218,  &c. 

—  Dr.  T.   (Princ.   of  Edm. 
Hall,  1540),  44. 

—  Dr.  T.    (Princ.   of  Edm. 
Hall,  1707),  30,  32,  33,  39, 
66,    145,    242,    280,   284, 

29*.  375-  4°°- 

—  Archdeacon  W.,  62. 
Peirce,  Jas.,  257. 

Peisley  (bookseller),  166,175. 
Felling,   Dr.,  42,    143,    167, 

184. 
Pembroke,  Lord,  5,  9,  n,  12, 

16,  93,  155- 
Penn,  William,  217. 
Penton,  Hy.,  57,  65,  66. 

—  Stephen,  n,  61,  65,  67, 

323- 

Pepys,  Samuel,  136. 
Periam,  W.,  146. 
Perizonius,  222. 
Perkes,  Edmund,  16. 
Petavius,  67. 
Peterborough   in    1707,   31, 

40. 

Pett,  Sir  Peter,  287. 
Petty,  Sir  W.,  222. 


Petyt,  Wm.,  59. 

Pfaff,  C.  M.,   268,  270,  271, 

273,  283,  288,  336,  384. 
Philipot,  T.,    Villare  Canti- 

anum,  152  sq. 
Philips,  R.  (mont.  at  Bath), 

53- 

—  Sam.,  56. 
Phillips,  J.,  349. 
Phipps.  C.,  338. 
Phoenix,    The,    5,  94,   102, 

194. 
Piers,    Archbp.    John,    212 

(Harington    Nugae    Ant. 

ii.    244). 
Piers,  Dr.  J.,  346. 

—  R.,  63. 

—  W.,  212. 

Piers  the  Plowman,  33,  145, 

167,  196,  199,  200. 
Pighius,  252,  398. 
Pigna,  Bapt.,  231. 
Pile,  Sir  S.,  339. 
Pitcairne,  Dr.  Archibald,  286 

sq. 
Pits,   notes  from,    251    sqq.t 

264,  &c. 
Pitt,  Moses,  62,  204. 

—  Dr.  Rob.,  63. 

Pittis,  J.,  81,  87,   105,   109, 

158. 

-  W.,  &c.,  63. 
Plaxton,  G.,  331,  333. 
Pliny,  notes   on,  65-67,  75, 

76,  97,  164,  169,  355. 
Plot,  Dr.  Robert,  10,  63,  95, 

238.  239,  319,  335,  394. 
Pocock,  Dr.  E.,  4,  5,  7,  10, 

56,63,  125. 
Pocock,  E.  (jun.),  63. 
Poem  found  on  the  Queen's 

Toilet,  352. 

Pointing,  history  of,  1 70. 
Pole,  German,  9,  175,  242. 

—  Cardinal  R.,  233. 
Pomponius  Laetus,  272. 
Pooley,  H.,  32. 
Portland,  Earl  of,  288,  324. 
Postman,  The,  6,  102. 
Potter,  Dr.  Chr.,  73. 

—  Dr.  John,  5, 12, 13,  14,  15, 
25,  28,60,79, 88,  89, 90, 91, 
106,108,  in,  115,116, 119, 
217,  234,253^,282,283, 
306,  3i4'j?.,  334,  344. 

Powell  family,  of  Sandford, 

397  s?- 
Powell,  Sir  Chr.,   281,  283, 

384- 

Powis,  Sir  L.,  54. 
'  Praeterition,'  300. 
Pratt,  J.,  338. 


Prescott,  H.,  163,  192,  234. 
Present  State  of  Whiggism, 

21. 

'  Prester  John,'  258. 
Prickett,  J.,   109,   166,  182, 

273,  332,  384- 
Prideaux,   Dr.  H.,    71,   102, 

«3,    321,    361,    378  J?-, 

386. 

Prince,  J.,  74. 
Printers'  charges,  1, 102, 129, 

ISO- 
Printing,  invention  of,  237. 
Pritius,  341,  346. 
Proast,  Dr.  Jonas,  5,  71,374, 

377,  385- 

Proclus,  278. 

Prophets,  the  French  or  Mo- 
dem, 243,  245,  261. 

Prynne,  W.,  6. 

Pudsey,  Dr.  A.,  22. 

Pullen,  Josiah,  10,  375,  388. 

Quakers,  217. 

Quillet's  Callipaedia,  74,  zoo, 
268,  285. 

Raby,  Lord,  letter  from,  42 
sq. 

Radcliffe,  Dr.  J.,  88,  224, 
226. 

Rainbow,  Bp.,  63,  95. 

Raines,  Ann,  289. 

Raleigh's  History  of  Maho- 
met, 138. 

Ralph  of  St.  Albans,  266. 

Rameseye,  W.,  266. 

Ramus,  Peter,  293. 

Randall,  P.,  20,  143,  359. 

Raves,  Chr.,  138. 

Rawlinson,  R.,  285,  287,  386, 

398. 

—  T.,  200,  279,  285. 
Ray,  Consul,  58. 
Raymond,  R.,  338. 
Raynolds,  Edmund  and  J., 

39»- 

Read,  Sir  Thomas,  348. 
Rehearsal,  The,  142,  152. 
Relandus,  H.,  37. 
'  Repeaters,'  7, 101,  104, 145, 

i9°>  J93,  373- 
Review,  The,  371. 
Reyner,  Clement,  252. 
Reynolds,  Joshua,  369. 
Rhenanus,  B.,  41. 
Rhenferdius,  32,  34,  38,  90, 

127. 

Rialton,  Lord,  2,  348. 
Richardson,  Dr.  T.,  67. 
Richmond,  Charles  Duke  of, 

82. 


INDEX. 


Richmond,  Margaret,  Coun- 
tess of,  128,  135,  293. 

Rights  of  the  Christian 
Church,  The,  5,  9,  12,  13, 
88,  94,  97,  121,  158,  190, 
294,  296,  298,  306,  367, 

.395- 

Ring,  a  noteworthy,  310. 
Rishanger,  W.,  267. 
Rivers,  Earl  of,  46. 
Robert  of  Shrewsbury,  266. 
Roberts,   Robert,  9,  42,  93, 

117,    143,   167,  178,   183, 

I9°»  295,  3"- 
Robertsbridge,  295. 
Robinson,  Bp.  J.,  360. 
Rocheford,  J.,  270. 
Rochester,  Earl  of,  308,  312, 

320,  324,  335. 

Roderick,  Dr.  C.  and  R.,  71. 
Roger  of  Wendover,  266. 
Rogers,  N.,  6,  7,  8. 
-  W.,  143. 
Rogerson,  J.,  73. 
Rood,  Theodoricus,  347. 
Ross  of  Warwick,  44. 
—  J-,  258. 

Royal  Society  in  1709,  174. 
Royse,  Dr.  G.,  103, 104, 108, 

109,  228. 

Rudburn,  T.,  238. 
Rudolphus  Agricola,  237. 
Rufinus,  S.,  Latin  version  of 

Josephus,  223. 
Ruinart,  240,  270,  288. 
'Rump,'  '  Rump  Parliament,' 

329,  334. 
Rymer,  T.,   118,    120,    234, 

238,  240,  256,  296  sq. 

Sacheverell,  Dr.  H.,  162, 
229,  242,  304^,306,312, 

313,  317.  320,  324,  325, 
327,  328,  329,  330,  331, 

334,  335,  336,  337,  33§, 
339,  341,  343,  345,  348, 
35°,  35J>  354>356,  357-^-, 
359,  36o,  361,  S62,  364, 
365,  367,  368,  369,  371, 
372,  374>  383,  384>  396- 

Sadlington,  R.,  304. 

St.  Albans,  156. 

St.  Davids,  diocese  of,  232. 

St.  John,  Henry,  94. 

St.  Paul's,  235. 

Salisbury,  James  Earl  of,  2, 
19,  125,  170. 

Salmon,  Dr.  W.,  138. 

Salvinus,  207. 

Sampson,  Dr.  H.,  228. 

Sandford-on-Thames,  379, 
397  *?••>  399- 


Sandolands,    Dr.,    193,   201, 

203,  205,  381. 
Sanford,  A.,  71. 
Sansbury,  J.,  260. 
Sare,  R.,  304. 
Sargeant,  Dr.  T.,  142. 
Savage,  Dr.  H.,  271, 
Savile,  Sir  H.,  136, 140,  324. 
Saxon  Chronicle  quoted,  152, 

153. 

Sayer,  Dr.  T.,  56. 

Scaliger,   87,   88,    124,  125, 

I27,  135,  I39>  209,  258. 
Schelwig,  Gottf.,i83,i85,i89, 

191,   194,   198,  233,  270, 

288,  365,  384. 
Schmincke,  J.  H.,  279. 
Sclater,  E.,  71. 
-  W.,  138. 
'  Sconsing,'  8,  9,  29. 
Scots,  Catch  upon  the,  102. 
Scott,  Robert,  235. 
—  Thos.,  26,  30. 
Scrivener's  Actio  in  Schisma- 

ticos  Anglicanos,  78,  82. 
Scriverius,  267,  270. 
Scrope,  Archbp.,  241. 
Secret  History  of  ....  K. 

Charles  II  and  K.  James 

II,  309. 
Selden,  J.,  10,  109,  139,  142, 

143,  144,   178,   188,   277, 

296,303^,314,342,353, 

379- 
Seller,   A.,    128,    133,    192, 

235,  388  sq. 
Selling,  W.,  213. 
Servitour,  The,  285. 
Seymour,  Sir  E.,  96. 
Shakespeare,  W.,  228. 
Sharp,  Archbp.  J.,  92,  253. 
Shaw,  J.,  3. 
Sherlock,  Dr.  W.,  21. 
Sherringham's     De    Origine 

Gentis  Anglorum,  315. 
Sherwin,  W.,  69,  117,  121, 

182. 

Shippen,  E.,  295. 
Shippery     (butler     B.N.C.), 

327. 

Shottesbrooke,  148,  &c. 
Shovel,  Sir  C.,  67,  68,  146. 
Shower,     Sir     Bartholomew 

(Rawl.  J.  4°.  5.  92),  88. 
Sike,  Prof.  H.,  123. 
Silchester,  142,  372. 
Silius  Italicus,  368. 
Simon's  Bibliotheque  Criti- 
que, 191. 

Sittingboume,  238. 
Skelton,  E.,  68. 
Skirlaw,  Walter,  48. 


Slatyer,  W.,  138. 

Slavonic     inscription,     &c., 

352-4- 
Sloane,   Hans,  73,   74,  174, 

334,  337,  343- 

Smalbroke,  Dr.  R.,  190,313. 
Small-pox  at  Oxford  (1710), 

348,  365,  384,  397- 
Smalridge,  Dr.   G.,   80,  82, 

88,  90,  92,  105,  106,  320, 
341  sq.,  343. 

Smethurst,    Jas.,    127,    173, 

174,  192. 
Smith,  Edmund,  349. 

—  Elisha,  10,  74. 

—  Humphry,  4,  5,  7. 

—  Dr.  Jos.  (Queen's),  145. 

—  Laurence,  56. 

Smith,  Dr.  Thomas,  4, 12,  24, 
25,28,77,94,106,117,124, 

165,  166,  181,   247,   252, 
29r,   3o8,  313,  365,   388, 
389,  397- 

Letters  of,  1, 4,  7, 10, 12, 

14,  21,  23,  28,  32,  33,  35, 
49,  58,  62,  67,  76,  80,  87, 
92,  96,  97,  99,  103,  105, 
108,  112,  114,  118,  121, 
124,  125,  126,  127,  128, 

129,  140,  142,  145,  146, 
150,  151,  158,  163,  164, 
167,  170,  173,  176,  179, 

191,  198,  203,  2O7,  221, 
225,  230,  238,  248,  26l, 
271,  295,  306,  314,  324, 

33°,  335,  336,  337,  338, 
34*,  35i,  361,  369- 

Letters  to,  2,  4,  5,  n, 

12,  15,  19,  21,  23,  30,  34, 
42,  53,  61,  65,  69,  77,  81, 

89,  94,  96,  100,  101,  102, 
104,   108,   in,  112,  114, 

I2O,  122,  124,  127,  128, 
I29,  I30,  134,  137,  I40, 
H1,  150,  151,  156,  158, 

159,  161,  163,  164,  165, 

166,  168,  171,  177,  179, 
184,  186,  194,  200,  201, 
205,  211,  217,  218,  223, 
227,  234,  240,  253,  291, 
298,  3",  319,  329,  33i, 
334,  336,  338,  34i,  343, 
348,  349,  359,  365- 

-  Tho.  (B.N.C.;,  18,34,  53, 

57,  "4- 
—  Thomas  (Camb.),  n,  187, 

188. 

-  W.,  5,  271. 
Smoult,  Prof.,  27. 
Socinus,  F.,  34. 
Solomon,  284. 
Somers,  Lord,  5,  155. 


INDEX. 


477 


Somerset,  Lord  Ch.,  65,  369. 
Somner's     Canterbury,    212 

sqq.,  220. 
Sophonisba,  5. 
Soul,  Moses  de,  102. 
Spademan'sStrtcturae  breves, 

77,  78,  80,  92,  105. 
Spanheim,    Baron,    14,    59, 

*74,  254,  291,  359. 
Spark,  Dr.  T.,  71,  212. 
Sparry,   — .    (of    Burton-on- 

Trent),  330,  372  sq. 
Spavan,  J.,  174. 
Speed,  J.,  207,  318,  364. 
Spelman,  SirH.,  33,  34,  307, 

320,  324.  347- 

—  Sir  J.,  80,  124,  228,  230  ; 
Life  of  Alfred,   149,  153, 
179  sqq.,  184  sq.,  206,  356, 
388. 

Sprat,  T.,  6. 

Stacy's    Rehearsal   revived, 

324- 

Standfast,  W.,  ai. 
Stanhope,  Dr.  G.,  327. 
Stanihurst,  Dr.  R.,  236. 
Stanley,  T.,  175,  192. 
Staynoe,  Dr.  T.,  71. 
Stead,  J.,  297. 
Stearne,  Dean,  100. 
Steele,  Richard,  13. 
Stephens   (?  G.),   I,  3,  217, 

248,  280. 

—  H.,  8. 

—  Henry  and  John,  an,  212. 

—  Jeremy,  33,  34,  230. 

-  R.,    22. 

Stepney,  George,  47. 
Sterne,  Archbp.,  94. 
Stevens,  W.,  72. 
Stilliugfleet,  Bp.,  373. 
Stokes,  Matt.,  265. 
Stonehenge,  289,  321. 
Stopford,  Joshua,  72. 
Stow's  Annals,  336  sqq.,  339, 

34°.  343.  377.  379J  Sur- 

vey,  41,  270. 
Strabo,  127. 
Stratford,  Bp.  N.,  141,  282. 

—  Dr.   W.,    189,    192,   281, 
282,  283,  344. 

Strongbow,  236. 
Struvius,  B.  G.,  144. 
Strype,   J.,   35,   3»>  41,   59, 

137,  270. 
Stuart,  James  (Chevalier  St. 

George),  75,  265,  280,  283. 
Stubbe,  Geo.,  386. 
Stubbes,  Dr.  R.,  72. 
Stubbs,  Ph.,  33,  34,  39- 
Suetonius,     editio    princeps, 

368. 


Sunderland,  Lord,  313. 

Surfeit,  The,  138. 

Surius,  notes  from,  255,  257, 

258,  259,  266. 
Swallows  in  winter,  116. 
Swift,  Jonathan,  102. 
Sydenham,  Sir  P.,  138,  140. 
Sykes,  Dr.  T.,  64,  72,  304. 

Tadlow,  Dr.  C.,  380,  381. 
Talbot,  Dr.  Jas.,  30. 

—  Bp.  W.,  19,  72,  362. 
Tanner,  J.,  25. 

—  Dr.  T.,  2,  4,  7,  9,  25,  34, 
44,  53,  58,  73,  75,94,i", 
"3,   157,   158,  164,  177, 
203,   205,  223,  234,  248, 
249,  254,  256,  267,  268. 

Tarczali,  P.,  58. 
Tavistock,  157. 
Tayler,  Silas,  208. 
Taylor,  Bp.  Jeremy,  41,  42, 

49,  53,  58- 

Tenison,  Archbp.,  46,  107, 
114,  115,  252,  298,  313, 

314,   355- 

Terry,  T.,  69,  127,  129,  146, 
160,  161,  192. 

Test  Acts,  attempt  to  repeal, 
118. 

Testaments  of  the  12  Patri- 
archs, 12,  14,  15. 

Textus  Roffensis,  238. 

J^hanksgiving,  The,  353. 

Theed,  R.,  175. 

Theodore,  Archbp.,  155. 

Theophilus  Antiochenus,233, 

234- 

Thistlethwaite,  Giles,  122, 
125,  158,  182,  184,  189, 
280,  284. 

Thomason  collection  of  pam- 
phlets, 59,  151. 

Thompson,  Francis,  249. 

Thoresby,  R.,  40,  332. 

—  Letters  of,  19,  59,  89,  140, 
!74>   l87,  203,  312,  331, 
343,  360. 

—  Letters  to,  i,  34,  87,  120, 
142,   159,  177,  235,  320, 

33°- 

Thome,  Jas.,  374. 
Thornton,   Dr.  W.,   51,  53, 

56,  58,  65. 
Thwaites,  family  of,  260. 

—  E.,  32,  33,  38,  39,  41,  42, 
44,  45,  46,  55,  56,  58,  61, 
64,  65,  66,  70,  76,  77,  78, 
81,  93,  94,  97,  »<*>,  101, 

IO2,     IOS,     III,     H2,    114, 
117,     123,     I24,    127,     129, 

132,   133,   M6,  161,  164, 


168,     I?!,     172,    173,    IS?, 
189,     193,     198,    211,    214, 

215,    218,   229,  233,  243, 

248,     249,     253,     280,     284, 

288,   295,   298,  306,  343, 

347- 

Tickell,  T.,  341. 
Tillotson,  Archbp.,  48,  63. 
Tilly,  W.,  400. 
Tindal,    Matthew,     14,    72, 

179,    3",   330,  332,  336. 

(See    also  Rights   of  the 

Christian  Church.} 
Tobacco,  150. 
'  To   Cairfax   hey  !    there's 

Ale  &•  Beef:  33. 
Todd,  Dr.  Hugh,  62,  72,  96, 

232. 

Toland,  J.,  49. 
Tolwyn,  W.,  194  sq. 
Tomasinus'  Cat.  of  MSS.  at 

Venice,  126. 

Tomlins,  R.,  379,  382,  400. 
Tompion,  356. 
Topham,  Ann,  243,  245. 

—  R.,  18  (see  Rawl.  J.  4°.  6. 
38). 

Topping,  H.,  124,  143,  163. 
Tracys,  the  (of  Queen's),  68. 
Trapham,  T.,  374. 
Trapp,  Joseph,  120, 121, 141, 

192,  384. 
Trebeck,  A.,  7. 
Treheer,  J.,  69. 
Treherne,  T.,  76,  94. 
Trelawny  (Bp.  Sir  J.),  5, 18, 

19,  94,  165. 
Trill  (Devon),  76,  78. 
Trimnell,   Bp.,    19,   88,   94, 

34 1»  345,  349- 
Trivet,  N.,  269. 
Trumbull,  Ralph,  17,  220, 

283. 

Trussell,  J.,  238. 
Tub  (-pulpit),  351,  365. 
Tudway,  Dr.,  4. 
Tully,  Geo.,  94. 
-  Dr.  T,  77,  94. 

—  T.  (Jan.),  95. 
Turner,  Bp.  Francis,  95. 

—  Dr.  T.,  22,  53,  106. 
Turton  [Tuffton],  W.,  8. 
Tutchin,  J.,  53. 
'Twayte'  [Hwayle],  187. 
Twells,  John,  348. 
Twyne,  Brian,  44,  64,  65,  67, 

258,  259,  260,  262,  271. 

Twysden,  Roger,  238. 

Tyler,  Bp.  J,  95. 

Tyrrell,  Jas.,  22,  23,  67,  81, 
86,  87,  197,  206,  208,  220, 
221,  223,  224,  226,  227, 


INDEX. 


228,   267,   269,  334,  335, 

339,   345- 
Tyson,  Dr.  E.,  95,  124. 

Union,  the,  between  England 
and  Scotland,  10,  12,  19. 

Upton,  — .  (Eton),  68,  98. 

Urry,  John,  17,  224. 

Usher,  C.,  201,  331. 

Ussher,  Archbp.,  4,  7,  10, 
23,  25,  28,  61,  80,  81,  86, 
87,  88,  89,  139,  224,  239, 
251,  254,  264,  267,  339. 

Valesins,  41,  42. 

Valkenier,  P.,  38. 

Valor    Beneficiorum,     The, 

141,  272. 

Vermin,  G.,  63,  75. 
Verwey,  J.,  4,  7. 
Vesey,  W.,  192,  374. 
Vettius  Valens,  125,  138^. 
Victorius,  P.,  398. 
Vienna,  Imperial  Library  at, 

21,  237,  342. 
Vincentius       Bellovacensis, 

3".  355- 

Vossius  quoted,  33,  38  sq., 
42,67,247,249—251,253, 
255,  257»  259,  266,  267, 
270,  271,  272,  282,  362. 

Wake,  Isaac,  Rex  Platonicus, 
265. 

—  Bp.  W.,  88,  92,  220,  388. 
Walker,  Obadiah,  80,  180. 
Wall,  W.,  41. 

Wallis,  Dr.  John,  i,  5,  35, 
41,  74,  121,  264,  313. 

—  J.  (Magd.),  6,  63. 
Walpole,  R.,  95. 
Walsingham,    Thomas,    J8, 

79,82,  105,  392  jy.,  400. 
Walters,  Sir  J.,  82. 
Waltham  (Berks),  148. 
Walton,  Bp.  Brian,  137. 
Wanley,  Humphrey,  15,  35, 

92,    137,    181,   233,    261, 

268,  365. 
Waple,  E.,  52. 
Warcupp,  Ralph,  368. 
Ward,  G.,  156. 

-  J-,  206. 

-  T.,  359- 

Warham,  Archbp.,  341,  342. 
Warwick,   Richard  Neville, 

Earl  of,  385  sq. 
Wase,  Chr.,  180. 
Wasse,  Jos.,  31,  372. 
Watts,  Robert,   74,   75,  81, 

90,  96,  102,  103,  104,  105, 


106,  107,  108,  193,  197, 
291. 

Waynflete,  Bp.,  244. 

Webb,  J.,  297. 

Webbe,  J.,  289. 

Weever's  Funeral  Monu- 
ments, 94,  96,  279. 

Welchman,  E.,  72. 

Weldon,  Sir  A.,  n. 

Wells,  Dr.  Edw.,  257,  395. 

Wei  wood,  Dr.,  61,  217. 

Wentanus,  E.,  261. 

West,  Dr.  R.,  73,  340,  341, 

346,  349.  369,  385- 
Weston,  S.,  68. 
Wetenhall,  Bp.,  29. 
Weymouth,  Lord,  168,  214. 
Whaley,  Nath.,  339^.,  349, 

384- 

Wharton,  H.,  230,  231,  235, 
238,  245,  246,  331. 

—  Thomas  Lord,  155,  206. 

—  Sir  Thos.,  103. 

Wheat,  price  of  (1709),  273. 
Wheeler,  Sir  Geo.,  52. 
Wheelocke,  A.,  247. 
Whiston,  W.,  249,  252,  253, 
261,266,306^,309,317, 

332,  337,  341,  363- 
Whitby,  Dr.  D.,  33,  81,  112. 
White,  T.,  no,  186. 

—  [Whitebread],  Thos.,  153. 
Whitelock,  Bulstrode,  MSS. 

of,  133,  217. 
White  Waltham,  397. 
Whitfield,  W.,  143. 
Whitford,  D.,  70. 
Whitgift,  Archbp.,  240. 
Whitlock,  Sir  W.,  I,  n,  120, 

135,  329. 
Whitsunday,  87. 
Whittingham,  Dr.  W.,  246, 

260. 
Whole  Duty  of  Man,   The, 

299. 

Whytforde,  Dr.  R.,  293. 
Wig,  the  history  of  a,   167, 

168,  178,  183,  190. 
Wilkins,   D.,  34,   105,   108, 

162,  198,  342. 
Wilkins,  Bp.  J.,  88. 
Will,  curious,  125  sq. 
William  III,  95,  104,  324. 
Williams,  Archbp.  J.,  287. 
-  Bp.  J.,  191,  232. 
Williams,  W.,  374. 
Williamson,    Sir    Jos.,    46, 

62. 

Willis,  Browne,  59, 199,  261. 
Wilmot,  Lady,  56. 
Wilson,  Bp.T.,  3, 4,  7, 1 2,  22, 

67. 


Winchester,     inscribed     urn 

found  at,  128. 
Windsor,  Dixie,  67. 
Windsor,  find  of  coins  near, 

27. 

Winford,  Mrs.,  7,  8. 
Winifred,  S.,  230,  257. 
Winsbeke,  28. 
Wise,  Thos.,  108. 
Witney,  220,  282  sq. 
Wolf,  C.,  162,  171,  173, 177, 

222,  270,  331,   333,  336, 

347.  364,  384- 

Wolseley,  Sir  C.,  11. 

Wolsey,  Cardinal,  137,  181, 
261. 

Wolvercote,  144,  391,  399. 

Wood,  Antony,  7,  n,  13, 
44.  59»  63>  72,  "6,  118, 
123,  136,  140,  142,  143, 
149,  153,  154,  160,  165, 

I7O,    190,    191,    212,     2l6, 

218,  219,  227,  230,   231, 

233.  235,  238,  241,  246, 

248,  251,  252,  253,  258, 

259,  26l,  262,  268,  271, 

288,  293,  303,  307,  332, 

340,  344.  346,  358,  3651 
366 -sy.,  368,  372,  395. 

—  Dr.  Thos.,  23,  120,  193, 
207. 

'  Woodcock  club,'  The,  6,  8, 

9- 
Woodcocke,  — .  (of  Oxford), 

217. 

Woodhead,  Abraham,  332. 
Woodhop  (T.),  alias  Wood, 

251. 
Woodroffe,  Dr.  B.,  22,  187, 

189,  277,  281,  283. 

—  B.  (jun.),  190,  193. 
Woodstock,     25,    82,     204, 

395- 
Woodward,  Dr.  J.,  13,  70, 

93,  101,    174,    179,    201, 

332,  337,  343,  347,  3955 
his  shield,  13,  24,  25,  28, 

3i,  35-7,  39,  41,  46,  S2, 
71,  75,  76,  93,  HO,  337, 
34°,  364,  372. 
Woodward,  Hezekiah,  239. 

—  J.  (St.  Mary  Hall),  30. 
Worcester,  the  Church   and 

Bishops  of,  239. 
Workman,  J.,  40. 
Wormius,  Olans,  321. 
Worth,  W.,  28,  65,  66,  75. 
Wotton,  Wm.,  76,  78,  80, 92, 

94,  96,  140. 

Wren,  Sir  Chr.,  14,  343. 

—  Chr.  (jun.),  254,  264,  268, 
288,  291. 


INDEX. 


479 


Wright,  Bernard,  400. 

—  Jas.,  27,  119,  227,  299, 
333,  372. 

—  John,  363. 
-  W.,  356-  . 

Writing,  ancient,  209^. 
Wyatt,  W.,  16,  82,  146,  312, 

320. 
Wyclif,  trans,  of  the  Lord's 

Prayer,  192. 


Wykeham,  William  of,  38, 

4°,  245  *q- 

Wynne,    Dr.  J.,   9,  II,    24, 

282,  283. 
—  R.  and  W.,  79. 

Yalden,  T.,  25,  149. 
Yarrington's  England's  Im- 
provement, 156, 
Yates,  Dr.  T.,  145. 


Yeovil,  strange  occurrence  at, 

178. 
York,  Archbishops  of,  &c., 

239- 

Young,  Patrick,  25,  28,  114, 
272. 

Zacagnius,  letters  of,  50  sq., 
375- 


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