} �)I �1 l£ 4::. .t� NOTES FROM THE COLLEGE RECORDS. �--� ' 1'- � � . t (Confimtcd from page 37). t etc:._ ..t � . HE frontispiece* to the present number of the ' Eagle is a reproduction, by the collotype di """ · At � f 1 process, of a letter to the Prior of St. � � Bartholomew's in Smithfield from Bishop ,_.. � �· � �� Fisher. i t� .t It will be observed that the letter was written by an -t . o amanuensis and signed by Fisher, who has added a � � Ill. : couple of lines in his own handwriting. It reads as � ..tt � t follows : �� 1 l ! J' . � g · Brother prior I pray you to delyuer vnto the brynger � � � � r 'hereof, Roger N otte, ffor my ladyes power ffolke at Hatfeld ciiij li. And this byll assigned with my hande shalbe your discharge ffrom Lambeth Marsh, the xiiijth daie of June. �· l.:Lt�i� j ��'t:..:J..rttl .:JL1 Jo. ROFFS. � +r�� � �· . ..:. l1. � t And I pray you do so moch to se Peter's work for my laclyes tomb and when ye have oones seen I will comm my ��z !; t J self thycler. -;� ·�"J ·� Addressecl: To the prior of Sent Bartylmewes .this be �.q_t. clelyuered. AI t·i The contract with Pietro Torrigiano for the tomb of the Lady Margaret has been printed in the Eagle (Vol. tt� ��� ...Q xviii, 3 41-345 ). The supervision of the work was �� t �� 6 ;z/;·l thereby given to the Bishop, Henry Hornby, and * The Editors are indebted for the frontispiece to the kindness of the Master, who presented the Eagle with copies for the current number. VOL. XXXI. U 146 Nolts from tht Collegt Records. Notes jrolll the College Records. 147

William Bolton, Prior of St Bartholomew's. Th e latter injured by wet. To unroll it now would require the seems to have had the chief oversight, fo r in the Accounts skill and patience of those who so treat Egyptian papyri. of the Executors of the Lady Margaret (printed by It has been for many years rolled up with an early copy Professor Mayor in Cooper's Lijeof tlze Lady Margarot, endorsed: "Shorton's accompte fo r buildinge the p. 201) we findthe entry: Colledge being truly copyed, Octobris primo 1638, out " Item [paiede J to the prior of Seint Bartilmews for of the Origin all thereof being decayed with rain e.'' In his counsell in devisynge the seide tombe, and for his this copy there are some blanks, corresponding doubt­ labour costis and expensis in surueyinge and coun­ less to the decayed portions of the original. trollynge the werkmen of the same tombe at diuerse Another copy of the account has been preserved in and sondry tymes and ffor sendynge for diuerse the volume of inventories from which the list of players' werkmen ffrom beyende the see for makynge of the apparel, printed in the last number of the Eagle, was seide tombe." taken. In this copy, which seems to date from about The sum paid to Bolton is not entered, there being a 1547, a word or two is occasionally missing owing later memorandum "the prior of Seint Barthilmews is perhaps to careless copying, the handwriting is more­ no thinge allowed yet fo r his labour." over far from easy to read. The statement which Bolton seems to have been better known fo r his follows is made up by a comparison of the two copies. architectural skill than fo r his theological attainments, fo r Collegium Sancti Johannis Euangeliste infra we find tha t one of Cardinal Wolsey's correspondents, Vniuersitatem Cantebrigie. writing in 1518, says that the king must have assurance Bona Fundatricis data huic Collegio Sancti of Bolton's learning, as well as architectural skill, before Johannis Euangeliste in Cantabrigia. he advances him to a bishopric (l.c. p. 260 line 26-28). It may therefore be the case that Bolton made the Computus Magistri Roberti Shorton Sacre Theologie design fo r the tomb while Torrigiano executed the professoris Magistri Collegii Sancti Johannis Euangeliste in work. vniversitate Cantabrigia computantis tam in omnibus et receptis ex Reuerendo Fisher's letter is an order to Bolton to pay over singulis denariorum summis per ipsum permissione diuina J ohanne certain moneys fo r the support of the Lady Margaret's in Christo patre et domino de Magistro Henrico Homeby et Magistro pensioners at Hatfield. It was therefore no doubt Roffensi episcopo gone Assheton tribus executoribus nuper excellentissime presented to the Executors by him as a voucher for the Hu principisse Margareta Comitisse Richmondie et Derbie ac accuracy of his accounts and thus came to be preserved matris domini Regis Henrici Septimi defuncti pro noua in College. The letter was written in June of an constructura et fabricacione dicti Collegii Sancti J ohannis unmentioned year ; the date of the contract with sumptibus et expensis dicte nuper principis ac de consimili bus Torrigiano is 2 3 November r 5 r 1. denariorum summis per dictum computantem similiter de diuersis aliis personis ad usum dicti Collegii quam de The document which fo llows is of considerable omnibus et singulis denariorum summis per ipsum solutis interest ; it is the final account of Dr Robert Shorton, circa premissa et pro dicto Collegio videlicet ab ultimo die first Master of St Joh n's, being in fact a statement of Januarij anno Regni Regis Henrici Octaui secundo vsque the cost of building the college. What appears to be festum Sancte Agnetis virginis anno septimo eiusdem domini the original computus roll has at some time been much Regis scilicet per quinque annos integros u2 148 N ales from the College Records. Notes from the College Records. 149 Arreragia. Et de ... xxvijli xvjs per dictum computantem similiter Nulla quia iste est primus 1compotus per prdatum Robertum recepta de supradicto magistro Henrico Horneby, videlicet redditus xvijmo die J ulij anno Septimo Regis predicti xxli vicesimo die Summa . . . nulla Julij anno eadem vjli et xiijmo die Septembris dicta anno Sed recognoscit : Septimo xxxvj s Et sic in toto vt supra ex recognicione dicti Recepta denariorum scilicet de computantis super hunc compotum. Memorandum quod dicta billa Magislri Hugonis Ashton Summa ... MCxjli xvj s. remanet penes dominum Episcopum Roffensem Domino Episcopo Roffensi. Magistro H ugone Ash ton Et de ... DCClx li per dictum computantem similiter Memorandum quod dicta obligationes remanent penes dominum Johannem Roffensem episcopum. recepta de magistro Hugone Ashton ad diuersas vices infra Sed recognoscit. tempus predictum vt patet per vnam billam manu propria De ... MM.li per dictum magistrum Robertum Shorton ipsius computantis scriptam datam xvijmo die marcij anno recepta ex dicto Reverendo patre domino Johanne H.offensi quinto Regis predicti receptam summe predicte testificantem episcopo ad diuersas vices infra tempus huius compoti super hunc compotum ostensam et inter memoranda eiusdem videlicet prima vice decimo sexto die J uli j an no tercio Regis remanentem. Summa . . . DCClxli. predicti Mli secunda vice eisdem die et anno CCCCl. li tercia vice decimo tercio die Augusti anno tercio predicto Jacobo Morice D li et quarta vice xxiiij die N ouembris an no tercio predicto Et de . . . DCxixli xs. per ipsum similiter recepta de l.li ut patet per tres billas propria manu eiusdem compu­ Jacobo M01·ice ad diuersasvices infra tempus huius compoti tantis scriptas super hunc compotum ostensas et examinatas videlicet vicesimo die Aprilis anno quinto Regis Henrici ac inter memoranda eiusdem remanentes. Et de D.li per Octavi Cxl/i primo die J ulij dicto anno quinto xlixli vicesimo ipsum computantem similiter recepta de prefato episcopo in die N ouembris dicto anno quinto CC!i sexto die Aprilis promptis denariis ex mutuo infra tempus predictum pro eodem anno iiijxxzi vicesimo die Julij anno sexto Regis qui bus idem Computans cum aliis Sociis suis Collegii predicti predicti xl/i die Decembris dicto anno sexto xxli tenentur eidem episcopo per scriptum suum obligatorium decimo die Januarij eodem anno xliiijli xxj0 die Januarij sub sigillo communi eiusdem Collegii cui us datum est decimo eodem anno xxli x s et xxvj0 die Januarij eodem anno xxvjli octavo die mensis Januarij anno quarto Regis Henrici Octavi vt patet per librum dicti computantis ac ex recognicione sua super hunc computum ostensum et examinatum vt per dictum super hunc compotum. scriptum plenius apparet. Summa . . . DCxixli x s. Summa ...MMD .li. Hugone Edwards Et de ...xxviij/i vs ixd per ipsum recepta de Hugone Magistro Henrico Horneby. Edwards infra tempus predictum vt patet per librum eiusdem Et de ... M iiijxx iiijli per dictum computantem similiter coinputantis ac per recognicionem suam super hunc com­ recepi:."l de supradicto magistro Henrico Horneby ad diuersas potum vices infra tempus huius compoti vt particulariter patet Summa ...xxviijli vs ixd. plenarie per vnam indenture pergamani manu propria ipsius J ohanne Straunge computantis in xiij separalibus summis super hunc compotum Et de ...xxli per ipsum similiter recepta de Johanne ostensam et examinatam ac inter memoranda predicta Straunge primo die Julij anno quinto Regis predicti infra remanentem. tempus huius compoti vt patet per librum dicti magistri 150 Notes fr om the College Records. Noles from the College Records. 151 - Roberti Shorten ac ex recognicione eiusdem super hunc Receptoris terrarum et tenementorum pertinentium Collegio compotum predicto pro anno septimo Regis predicti prout in pede Summa ...xxli. compoli sui eiusdem anni plenius conlinetur. Et oneratur H.ecepta denariorum de certarum terrarum venditarum se gratis de vs ijd de parte vj/i xiijs iiijd per ipsum receptum Et de ...CC xxli per dictum computantem recepta de de Magistro Henrico Horneby pro dinersis solucionibus precio certarum terrarum nuper dicti Collegij iacentium in fiendis in Scaccario domini Regis et alibi pro custodibus Iselham sic per ipsum venditarum infra tempus huius compoti legis et aliis habitis circa causas Collegij Sancti J ohannis infra ac ex recognicione sua super hunc compotum tempus predictum vltra vj/i viijs ijd de residue dicte summe Summa . . . Cxxli. vjli xiijs iiijd per ipsum solute et exposito causa predicta. Recepta denariorum Summa ...xiiijli xviijs ijd ob. Et de ...xxxli per ipsum similiter recepta de J ohanne Recepta Forinseca Davy nuper i1rmario cuiusdam tenementi iuxta Castrum Et oneratur se gratis de ..xlli per ipsum recepta de Cantabrigie pertinentis Collegio predicto de debito eiusdem magistro Johanne Riplingham theologie professor ad vsum J ohannis prius mutuato ex recognicione dicti computantis Collegij predicti ex dono eiusclemJ ohannis per recognicionem super hunc compotum suam super hunc compotum. Summa . . . xxxli. Summa ...xl!i. Recepta denariorum ex mutuo Summa totalis Recepte ...vM iiijc xxxijli ixs xjd ob Et de ...xl/i per ipsum similiter recepta de magistro Soluciones denariorum pro ten·is perquisitis. Collegij regij Cantabrigie ex mutuo super diuersa J ocalia cle Idem computat in clenariis per ipsum solutis Edwardo bonis diet� Collegij Sancti J ohannis eidem impignorata ex Bestney pro certis ten·is iacentibus in Iselham ex eodem recognicione eiusdem super hunc compotum Et de ... perquisitis ad vsum Collegii preclicti infra tempus predictum .. xxxviij/i per ipsnm similiter recepta de magistro Collegij Clxx/i. Et in consimilibus clenariis per ipsum solutis Ricardo Christi ex mutuo super diuersa J ocalia de bonis prefati White pro certis ten·is iacentibus in Foxton ex eodem Collegij Sancti Johannis eidem impignorata infra tempus Ricarclo ad vsum dicti Collegij infra tempus predictum predictum ex recognicione sua super hunc compotum. perquisitis ...xljli xiijs iiijd. Summa ...lxxviijli. Summa ...CCx jli xiijs iiijd.

Exitibus terrarum de novo perquisilorum in Iselham Expensis in lege circa causas dicti Collegij. Et de ...xli per ipsum similiter recepta de exitibus Et in denariis solutis Johanni Wode legisperito pro certorum terrarum et tenementorum iacentium in Iselham de consilio suo habito circa terras positas in feofamento in novo perquisitorum ex Edwardo Bestney ad vsum Collegij manibus diuersis feofatas pro securitale earunclem et pro predicti videlicet pro vno anno integro tenninato ad festum aliis abstractibus et munimentis dictas ten·as concernentibus Sancti Michaelis anno septimo Regis predicti infra tempus infra tempus preclictum videlicet termino Michaelis anno predictum accidens ex recognicione dicti computantis super quarto Regis preclicti per mandatum domini episcopi hunc compotum Roffensis xxli altera vice eodem termino vij/i xiijs iiijd Summa . . . xli. termino Pasche tunc proxime sequente iiijli iijs iiijd et Oneratur denariorum de arreragiis officii receptoris termino Trinitatis Michaelis et Hillarij anno quinto Regis terrarum dicti Collegij. preclicti xiiijli vijs vjd vt patet per quatuor billas manu dicti Et oneratur super compolum de ...xiiij/i xiijs ob et iiij magistri Henrici Horneby subscriptas super hunc compotum capons de claris arreragiis clicti computantis officii sui ostensas et inter memoranda preclicta remanentes . . . . 152 Notes from lhe College Records. Noles from lhe Collc;ge Records. 153

xlvjli iiijs ijd. Et in consimilibus denarijs solutis in scaccario Olivero Scales domini Regis et alibi pro diuersis causis dictum Collegium Et in consimilibus denariis per ipsum similiter liberatis Sancti Johannis tangentibus vt patet per vnam billam Olivero Scales clerico operum clicti Collegij pro diuersis de particulis inde manu propria dicti h1agistri Henrici prouisionibus et solucionibus ad vsum clictorum operum Horneby subscriptam super hunc compotum ostensam et fiendis ad diuersis vices infra tempus huius compoti videlicet restitutam ...xxxiijli xvjs xd. a festo N atal1s domini an no secundo Regis predicti vsque Summa ...iiij xxzi xijd. diem Sabbati proximum post feslum sancte Agnetis virginis Elemosina. anno tercio Regis predicti ... MMxxiiijli et a dicta die Non per billam ostendendam. Sabbati anno tercio predicto vsque festum Sancte Agnetis Et in consimilibus denarijs per dictum computantem anno quinto Regis predicti MMlv/i xviijs iijd vt patet per solutis pro exhibicione diuersorum pauperum existentium diuersas billas inde super hunc compotum ostensas et apud Hatfield ibidemque orancium pro anima prefate domine restitutas ac per recognicionem eiusdem Oliveri super hunc Margarete nuper Comitisse Richmondie et Dcrbie ad duas compotum. vices infra tempus huius compoti ..xviij li. MMMMlxxixli xviijs iijd. Summa ...xviijli. Et in consimilibus denarijs liberatis Olivero Scales causa Regarda. preclicta ad diuersas vices a festo Sancte Agnetis anno quinto Memorandum quod dictam generalem acquitanciam Regis predicti vsque idem festum anno septimo eiusclem delibatur Magistro . Ala no Percie Magistro Collegii Sancti Regis infra tempus huius compoti accidens videlicet per J ohannis ad vsum eiusdem Collegi j salvo custodiendo. manus dicti Magistri Shorton CCCCxliiijli ix5 iiijd per manus Et in. denariis per dictum computantem solutis Magistro Christoferi J eneson lxli et per manus Magistri Ricarcli Sharpe Willielmo Tomlyn nuper Magistro dicti Collegii Sancti Ciiijxxviijli xvjd i11 toto vt patet per billas preclictas ac ex Johannis vt in regardo eidem data pro resignacione officii recognicione c\icti Oliueri super hunc compotmn. sui dicti Magistratus eiusdem Collegii infra tempus predictum DCiiijxxxij/i XS viijd. vt patet per \'nam generalem acquietanciam ipsius Willielmi Magistri cloctori Thomson. super hunc compotum restitutam ...vjli xiijs iiijd. Et Et in consimilibus denarijs liberatis magistro Thome in consimilibus regardis datis cuidam clerico Humfridi Thomson cloctori theologie ac Magistro Collegij Ghristi pro Coningesby pro labore suo habito in materijs et causis cliuersis reparacionibus Jiendis in et super dictum Collegium dicti Collegij infra tempus predictum per mandatum magistri infra tempus huius compoti vt patet per vnam billam inde Henrici Horneby vt patet per vnam billam inde super hunc manu propria eiusclem Thome scriptam super hunc compotum compotum restitutam . . . xxs. ostensam et inter memoranda preclicta remanentem . . xxli. Summa ...vijli xiijs iiijd. Summa liberata MMMMDCCCCxxxijli viijs xjd. Liberacionum denariorum videlicet. Summa omnium allocacionum et liberaturum prediciarum. Domino Episcopo Roffensi. VMCCxlixli xvjs vijd. Et in denariis per dictum computantem liberatis Reverenclo xiijs iiijd ob. Quos liberaYit in Christo Domino Johanni Roffensi Episcopo ad duas vices Et debet . . . Ciiij""ijli Roffensi et Magistro infra tempus predictum videlicet prima vice vltimo die reverendo domino J ohanni episcopo Aprilis anno sexto Regis predicti xlli et secunda vice Henrico Horneby cluobus executoribus clomine Margarete super hunc die anno predicto ...Cli ex recognicione eiusclem comitisse Richmondie ex recognicione eorundem episcopi super hunc compotum. eom potu m. Per me RoBERTUIII SHoRTON. Cxl/i. 15+ Notes fro Ill t!te College Records. Noles from the College Records. 155 . The declaracion of the arrerages within written received We may summarise this in modern figures and form as by the Reverend father in God John, Busshope of Rochester follows : and Mr Henry Horneby of the within named Mr Robert BALANCE SHEET OF DR ROBERT SHORTON. Shorton in manner and forme followeinge that is to say Master of St John's College, Cambridge. Ciiifxijli xiijs iiijd ob. where of For the 5 years from 31 January, 1511 to 21 January, 1516. ffirste receaved in an obligacion of John Lete payable at Receipts. E.,.;penditure. Michaelmas next comeinge. £ s. d. £ s. d. xli. Arrears 0 0 0 Iselham and Foxton Fisher...... 2500 0 0 lands 211 13 4 Item in certain pledges delivered by Mr J eneson. Horneby ... 1111 16 0 Legal expenses 80 1 0 Ash ton 760 0 0 Masses for Foundress 18 0 0 vijli xiijs iiijd. Mm· ice 619 10 0 Compensation money 7 13 4 Edwards 28 5 9 Bishop Fisher 140 0 0 Item in iwo saltes of silver and gilte wayghinge xxiiij Straunge 20 0 0 Oliver Scales ... 4772 8 11 40 0 0 ounces delivered to the said College. Davy ... 30 0 0 Dr Thomson ... I selham land ... 220 0 0 iiijli xviijd. Jewels pledged 78 0 0 Iselham rents 10 0 0 Item in the stipend of the said Mr Robert Shorton Master Miscellaneous 14 18 2} of the Colledge of St. John for halfe a yeare ended in festo Riplingham ... 40 0 0 Balance ... 182 13 -I} annunciacionis beati Marie anno sepiimo Regis Henrici £5432 9 11} £5452 9 111 Octavi. xli. This balance is accounted for as follows : £ Item in money delyuered by the said Mr Shorton to one s. d. Obligation of John Lete 10 0 0 called Bentley for xl acres of lande of him bought at Pledges delivered by Mr Jeneson 7 13 4 4 1 6 Bassingborne in part payment. by the knowledgeyng of Two salts delivered to the College Mr Shorton's Stipend } year L.D. 10 0 0 Mr Alan Percie. Bassingbourne lands ...... 5 0 0 Cs. 140 ells of linen for the College 4 0 0 Oliver Scales on account ... 103 18 6} Item in Cxl ells of linen cloth bought by the said Plate and Jewells redeemed from !he Master of Christ's College ... 38 0 0 Mr Shorton and cleliuered to those of the College of St J olm. Balance as shewn above £182 13 4} iiij li. Item in recly money by the said Mr Shorton delivered to The letters which follow relate chiefly to Shrewsbury Oliver Scales clerke of the new workes in part of recompens School and more especially to the appointment of of a more summe to hym due upon a surplusage as in the fote Mr B. H. Kennedy to be Headmaster. of his accompt of the said workes de anno septimo Regis The correspondence is really supplementary to what predicti more planely aperith. appears in "The Life and Letters of Dr Samuel Butler, Ciiijli xviijs vjd ob. Headmaster of Shrewsbury School 1798-1 836, and after­ Item in certayne plate and other J ewelles of the go odes of wards Bishop of Lichfield," edited in r896 by his the said College of Saynte John pleged to the Master of grandson (See Volume ii, I 19-137)· Christes College for xxxviijli and by the said Mr Shorton The first letter here printed is of an earlier date. restored to the s.-1.id Colege. The law suit therein mentioned commenced in 1779 xxxviij/i. 156 Notes fr om the College Records. Notes from the College Records. 157 · too much and was not finally decided in favour of the Trustees of urged both of these men to say that it interferes reason, the School till the end of the year 1825. with their other engagements, and to give no other il to their friends, but Dr Butler's dislike of the Union Society is interesting, and particularly to avoid disparaging that dislike appears more than once in his corres­ to content themselves merely with letting their example Whether Kennedy will comply I do not pondence. It may be noted that Mr B. H. Kennedy work as it may. know-I only hope he will-I am sure Peile will. was Treasurer of the Union Society in the Lent Term of To revert to the law suit. I found in January that the 1825, and President in the May Term following. Lord Chief Baron had determined to give it his early Shrewsbury, attention and therefore suspended my intended application February 26, 1825. to Parliament. Judge then of my vexation on finding that Dear Master of St John's he declared in the course of the term just ended, that he You will have received ere this, from Lord Clarendon, the would give judgement in every case but this. Whether he history of the Albrighton cause, to draw up which I have had will give judgement in Easter or Trinity term is still un­ to wade through an enormous quantity of rubbish. I shall certain, but if he do�s not, no power shall prevent me from thank you not to send it me till you have an opportunity of bringing the case before Parliament in the beginning of their doing so by Price or Butterton, or some steady Shrewsbury next Session. Not that Parliament can grant any relief but man, as I should be unwilling to trust the MS. to a common that I am determined to give publicity to such a shameful, coach conveyance. and I may almost say wilful delay of justice. I rejoice to hear that Price and Butterton did so well at At this moment. I suffer the following privations .and shalL the examination for the Davies Scholarship, especially con­ continue to do so till the cause is ended. sidering the former was so ill as hardly to be able to get into Deduction from Salary ...... 110 the Senate House. It is certainly no small gratification to me Deduction from Usher's Salary (which I to have had it gained two years successively by freshmen, am obliged to make good to him) . .. 10 and to have hact.four candidates this term all of whom have Do Writing Master ...... 10 clone well. Second Assistant's Salary, all of which Between ourselves I have been striking a bold stroke since I am obliged to pay ...... 80 Peile has been elect_ecl to the Davies Scholarship. Knowing Third Assistants' Do ...... 80 his steadiness, and that I can depend upon him, I have written to him to request that he will never become a £290 member of the Union spouting club. And I ·have written an Besides being obliged to be at all repairs which the. mgent letter to Kennedy, to beg he will withdraw, or at trustees used to undertake, and several minor expenses, least, if he has not fortitude to take his name out, will cease Duram-11ec levius fit patienta. to frequent it. It occurred to me that if I could quietly inflnence young men of such high distinction in the Believe me very truly yours, University as these, not to give it their countenance, others S. BuTLER. perhaps might follow their example, and that its fashion as a literary Society would then begin to fade ; so that when only I· sent you. a book written by an author at present second-rate men were members of it, it would either fall into unknown, or aLleast .not named. I found him in poverty decay, or at least would not be productive of such fatal and obscurity. I corrected his book for the press and mischief as it has been to men of first-rate talents. I have though I have told him that I cannot always agree with Notes jro11l the College Records. 59 158 Notes from the College Records. 1 him, yet I think him so powerful and original a writer, and so In what fo llows we have the correspondence leading dose an arguer, that I am glad to give him encouragement. up to the appointment of Mr B. H. Kennedy to be Headmaster of Shrewsbury School, so far as it has Addressed: The Very Reverend, The Master, St John's been preserved in the College. The persons mentioned College, Cambridge. all became eminent in the Scholastic world. Dr E11dorsed by Dr Wood: Butler, Answered March 11, The Mr Welldon, mentioned in the letter of 1825, Shrewsbury School. 19 December, 1835 was Mr James Ind Welldon, who had just been appointed Second Master of Shrewsbury With the preceding has been preserved the following School; he afterwards was Headmaster of Tonbridge fragment of a letter to Lord Clarenclon. School (Eagle, xix, 479-493) . On those who are actually mentioned as candidates for the Headmastership of My Lord Shrewsbury the fo llowing notes may be usefu l. I now send you according to my promise, the History of the Shrewsbury School cause which I drew up from an The Rev J. F. Isaacson was Senior Classic and first immense mass of documents, for the information of the Chancellor's Medallist in 1825. On the resignation of Trustees, to whom I have addressed it. At the end of it you the Oratorship by Mr Tatham there was a contested will find some curious tables of expence, and the draft of a election on 4 January, 1836 ; the Rev Christopher petition, which I drew up, to the Lord Chief Baron, and Wordsworth of Trinity College receiving 264 votes which tl1e Trustees sealed with the School seal and presented and Mr Isaacson 169. Mr Wordsworth resigned in to him. the same year and on April 27th there was another I find that some progress has been made in the course of election, when the Rev Thomas Crick, of St John's this term, owing I firmly believe to the steps I had taken and (afterwards Rector of Staplehurst) received 358 votes the determination which the lawyers saw on my part to bring and the Rev Thomas Thorp of Trinity College 318. the affair before Parliament this Session, if there appeared on Mr Isaacson was presented by the College to the theirs the same disposition to delay. I announced this half Rectory of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight 4 July, a year ago and should now act on it, had I not every reason 1839 and held that living until his death on r 9 August, . to expect a decision before long. 1886 (Eagle, xiv, 236-8). George James Kennedy was When you have clone with it I should be glad if you would Senior Classic in 1834. He afterwards became an forward it to the Master of St. John's, desiring him to send it Assistant Master at Rugby School under Dr Tait, and to me, when he has clone with it, by some safe conveyance : died there 11 September, 1847. and if your Lordship would have the goodness to send this Mr George Ash Butterton was 8th Wrangler and part of my letter with it he would see at once what is the third Classic in 18 27, when Mr B H. Kennedy was pt·esent state of the case. I have reason to believe that the Senior, he and Kennedy were admitted Fellows of St expences incurred since the last of these stated in this John's on the same day, 25 March, 1828. In 1835 bill is not yet come history are very considerable, but the in Butterton was Headmaster of the West Riding and I cannot tell the amount. Proprietary School at Wakefield. In 1839 he became I have placed Lady Clarendon's donation on my chimney Headmaster of Uppingham and in 1845 Headmaster of piece-there is an old officer herewho was at the siege and Giggleswick (Eagle, xv ii , l It is worth noting who I have no doubt will go off at score as soon as I tell him 59-6•f · that Butterton was not mistaken in the promise of his what they are and whence they come .... 160 Notes fr om the College Records. Notes from the College Records. 161

pupil William Spicer Wood, who in 1840 was 7th lists of the school for the last three years ; and have the Wrangler, bracketted thirrl in the Classical Tripos and honour to be, Reverend Sir was also second Chancellor's Medallist (Eagle, xxiv, Your very obedient servant, 2 19-233): S. BUTLER. Of Mr afterwards Professor B. H. Kennedy it is Endorsed by Dr Wood : Dr Butler. Intimation of unnecessary to write. His academic career had been Resignation. December 14, 1835. one of extraordinary brilliance and success. In a poetical skit of 1827 he is referred to as follows:

11 Spangled all with medals o'er (I think he won some ten With this has been preserved the following, lithographed, a clay) circular letter. Proudly charges.on the foe the thrice-illustrious Kennecly." Shrewsbury, December 10, 1835. There can be no doubt that Dr Butler from the first Dear Sir wished Kennedy to succeed him. In consequence of the serious attack which Mrs Butler Dr Wood's letter to Butler announcing that the experienced in the autumn of this year, it is necessary to Master and Seniors had unanimously -decided to relieve her, not only from the actual fatigue of her usual appoin-t Kennedy to Shrewsbury is dated 6 March exertions but from that mental anxiety of which it is 1836 (Bu ' tler s Life and Letters, ii, 136), so that the la st impossible she can divest herself, even if released from the of Dr Butler's letters was unnecessary. care of superintending so large a family by delegating that duty to others. I therefore beg to announce to you my Shrewsbury, intention of retiring at Midsummer next from a station in December 9, 1835. which I have been for 38 years laboriously, and I hope not Revel-end Sir altogether unsuccessfully, employed. rests with the Master and I request you to inform 'the Master and Fellows of St The choice of my successor and though I John's College, of my intention to resign the Head Master­ Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge, of their choice, I am ship of the School·at Midsummer next. cannot guess who will be the object most anxious and S1JOuld they be pleased to lix on my successor before the perfectly satisfied that they will exercise gentleman whose talents 25th of Match next (though they may not formally elect him impartial deliberation in fixing on a prospect that this great till my resignation) it is my wish to invite him to my house and character will give them every prosperity they are so during the last quarter, from Lady Day till Midsummer, that and important foundation, in whose of its celebrity by the he may see the mode of instruction and discipline which I materially interested, shall lose nothing have hitherto adopted, may become acquainted with the change of its Master. I shall be anxious to Trustees and assistant Masters, and the boys, and some of To whomsoever they may appoint not only on his first the principal inhabitants of this town and neighbourhood, offer every assistance in my power ; as it is my intention to and may thus enter on llis career with advantages which it coming, but at all subsequent periods of the school. was not my fortune to possess, but which I shall be happy to reside within ten minutes walk with regard to discipline, or put into the power of my successor. Every information therefore, any time require, I shall always I inclose one of the circular letters which I have addressed instruction, which he may at and shall take as great an to the parents of the boys under my care. I also inclose be ready and anxious to give VOL. XXXI. X 162 Notes fr om Lhe College Records. Noics jr olll the College Records. 163 . interest in the prosperity of the School and the welfare and nectecl and for which I have always entertained the sincerest improve ment of the boys, as I do at the present hour. They feelings of grateful and affectionate attachment. will ther efore, I trust, lose nothing in this respect, while it Report says, I know not how truly, that a gentleman of will be an important advantage for them, that a young ancl distinguished classical attainments, whom I have not the well qualified Master should take my place, before my own honour of knowing personally (unless by chance I may have strength is so far exhausted as to make me incapable of my seen him in the Hall or Combination room) is likely to be my usual exertions. successor. I shall be at Cambridge about January 1, and Should the College, as I earnestly hope, and venture to ready to give the fullest information re�pecting the appoint­ recommend, agree on the choice of my successor at least ment, in the meantime I would say that it is of great 3 months before my actual resignation, I shall make a point importance to J1x as soon as possible on the gentleman who of inviting him to my house, that he may spend the last is to be appointed on my resignation, as it might very quarter with me, and thus become familiarized to the present possibly be the means of preventing the withdrawal of many system and arrangements, before he enters 011 the immediate boys, should I be able to announce de11nitely, on the conduct of the School. reassembling of the boys, that a man of high talents and He will also I trust have the advantage of acting with the ch

I was much pleased with what I saw of him and shall be intended resignation of the much revered Master of Shrews­ very desirous of contributing every thing in my power to his bury School. As a Fellow of St John's, elected in a way welfare and convenience. Begging that you will present my which I must ever remember with gratitude-at the earliest kind regards to the Master and such of the Seniors as I am period when such an honour could be expected, in the face known to, believing me, Dear Sir of many distinguished competitors, and when the vacancies faithfully yours allowed the admission of only two candidates, I ·presume S. BuTLER. that no testimonials are required of me, and will therefore recall facts to your notice with which you are already Addressed : Shrewsbury, December twenty 1835. The merely Revel The Bursar, St John's College, Cambridge, Franked, in great measure acquainted. Having received my education BERWICK. at Shrewsbury School, and being therefore intimately acquainted with the admirable system of instruction and 19 Upper Wob urn Place discipline which has raised that Establishment to its present Tavistock Square eminence, it would be in my power, as it would also be my January 4, 1835 (sic). My dear Sir, most earnest wish, to pursue the same course without any deviation. My excellent friend Kennedy having been I take the liberty of writing to you on the subject of compelled by illness to quit school before the termination of Shrewsbury School. I do not know whether or not it is customary for Fellows of our body to offer themselves as the half year I left Shrewsbury with the rank of head boy, candidates in these cases ; but should it be so, I hope I do but the almost exclusive attention required by my mathe­ of my retaining in the not trouble you too much by asking if you will be kind matical studies destroyed all chance University that station in Classics next to my dear friend and enough to signify for me to the Master and Seniors that I should be glad to be appointed to the Mastership. I shall school-fellow which had been mine at Shrewsbury, though I be 25 years of age next month. It was my intention to take there had Peile, the University Scholar and Medallist, as one Orders at Easter, but I could do so sooner, having kept the of my competitors. Notwithstanding this disadvantage one Divinity Lectures. I remain, Dear Sir, only intervened between Kennedy and myself in the Classical with great respect Tripos, and he was one whose studies in the University had yours very sincerely been chieOy devoted to Classical literature. But passing GEORGE JOHN KENNEDY. over these early periods of my life I may be allowed to plead in excuse for my apparent presumption in the present Addressed : To the Revd Ralph Tatham, President of instance my later experience in teaching at Bristol and St. John's College, Cambridge. Wakefield and the extraordinary success of the latter school. Emlorsed : In Mr Tatham's hand : Mr G. J. Kennedy, At Bristol, although nominally the Vice-Principal or second answered 5 January 1836. Shrewsbury School. Master, the entire superintendence of the School for some time devolved upon me, as the Principal from ill health and other causes very rarely attended during the last year of my Eccleshall, Staffordshire continuance there and ample proofs were given by the Public January 6th 1836. Directors of the satisfaction they felt in my manage­ My clear Master and the ment. At Wakefield we commenced in Midsummer 1834 It is with the utmost respect and diffi dence that I venture with 90 boys and by the corresponding period of the year to offer any claims to the notice of yourself and the Seniors 1835 that number had considerably more than doubled, the of St John's on the approaching election occasioned by the School exhibiting on its lists during the last half year the 166 Notes fr om the College Records. Nolt!s fr om the College Records. 167

names of 214 students, and that increase being still rapidly Addressed : The Very Reverend The Master of St John's progressive. It may be wrong to anticipate individual College, Cambridge. instances of success, but so strong is my opinion in favour of a student, named William Spicer Wood, whom I hope to Colkirk, near Fakenham, send up to St John's next October, that I can confidently 24 January, 1836. assert he will reflect great credit on the West Riding School. It is my intention to send for the perusal of yourself and the Dear Master Seniors a copy or two of the proceedings at \Vakefield from I take the liberty of sending you a copy of a letter which I the opening of the School to the present time, they will shall transmit to the Vice-Chancellor by this clay's post. For contain all my half yearly reports to the proprietors, and will some time past I have had it in contemplation to resign the therefore give a sure indication of the progress of the oratorship, which many persons, I apprehend, will think I Establishment, and they will likewise contain some specimens have held much too long : and as the business of the term has of the very boy whose name I have above mentioned. again assembled the resident members of the Senate, I trust it Could I with any propriety explain to you private will be considered a convenient time for electing my successor. circumstances, they would sufficiently vindicate me from th e I would fain hope that our own College may supply a successful imputation of a love of change in making this application, competitor for the office. I intend to return to College on and I trust the increase and prosperity of Wakefield School Thursday next, when I trust I shall find yourself and the under my management, joined to your knowledge of my Fellows all well. attainments, will vindicate me from the imputation of too Believe me, Dear Master, great presumption. very sincerely yours Experience and affliction have I trust by the mercy of R. TATHAM. Providence wrought a beneficial effect on my temper and The time limited by the Statute for filling up the vacancy is habits, and have served to correct any defects which the short. I do not recollect what interval elapsed between thoughtlessness of youth may have rendered too apparent to Dr Outram's resignation and my election. Barforcl's resigna­ those who kne\v me at college. In conclusion, whatever the tion was announced to the Senate on the 20th February 1768 decision of yourself and the Seniors may be, though I can and Beadon was elected Orator on the 27th. scarce hope to be the object of your choice, I shall cheerfully abide by it under the confident expectation that it will conduce to the benefit of that Establishment which I shall Colkirk, near Fakenham, Norfolk, ever revere as the place of my Education and the foundation Copy. 23rc1 January, 1836. of my fortunes. May I request you to communicate this to the Seniors at your next meeting, and in order to prevent Mr Vice-Chancellor any possible injury to the School over which I now preside I beg most respectfully to signify to you and the Senate may I also request the knowledge of my application to be my resignation of the office of Public Orator. In making confined as much as possible lo yourself and the other this communication, I hope I may be allowed to express to Electors. Believe me to be with the sincerest respect and Members of the University the deep sense of obligation, which gratitude, My clear Master I have always felt, for the honour conferred upon me by that appointment, and to assure them that I shall ever remember yours most faithfully with the liveliest gratitude the kindness and indulgence with G. A. BuTTERTON which, for six and twenty years, they have invariably received 168 Notes from the College Records. Notes from Lhe College Records. 169

my ende;wours faithfully to discharge the duties of the office. fore may be the mi.ture of your reply, I shall take no I have the honour to be further step until I hear from Butterton. &c., &c., With respect to George, no one will doubt my interest in R. TATHAU. his welfare, which I believe I shall best consult by dissuading To the Revel the Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge. him, at his age and under all his circumstances, from under­ taking an Atlantean task. Addressed : The Very Reverend The Master, St John's Pray excuse a letter which I write with great personal College, Cambridge. reluctance but in deference to the advice of those whom I am bound to respect and believe me, dear Sir, Harrow, ever yours most faithfully, January 29, 1836. BENJ. H. KENNEDY. My clear Sir Eudorsed : (In Dr Tatham's hand) Rev B. H. Kennecly. I had determined to take no step in the matter of Shrews­ bury School. Indeed I have been disposed to believe that it would be indelicate towards the College and any Fellows With the above is preserved the following copy of who might be candidates if I were to do so. The pressing Dr Tatham's reply. St John's College instance of others-the assurance I have received that any 30 January, 1836. applications might be made without indelicacy-and lastly My clear Sir the circumstance of Mr Isaacson being a candidate for the I have had a conversation with the Master on the subject Oratorship-han:! induced me to modify my determination. of your letter ; and as we have as yet had no means of Relying on your often experienced kindness, I venture ascertaining the sentiments of the Seniors with respect to privately to ask (and your reply shall be regarded as the Mastership of Shrewsbury School it appears to us that I confidential) whether the College has resolved-or will cannot do better than state to you the position in which the resolve-to nominate one of the actual Fellows to the matter now stands. Mastership, or whether they intend to elect any candidate Mr Isaacson has not declared whether he continues to be who in their judgment may appear most likely to maintain a candidate or not ; and when Mr Butterton's letter, in which the prosperity of the School. I am sure that you yourself he offers himself for the Mastership was read at a late would dissuade me from being a candidate without the Seniority meeting, no observation whatever was made upon it assurance that fitness, and fitness alone, would guide the by any of the Seniors. Your brother George's name was choice. also mentioned at the same meeting ; and it is said that, in I have indeed no right to suppose that you can answer the event of Mr Isaacson's retiring, another of the Fellows this question as on the part of the Seniority, but I can see no will propose himself as a candidate. objection to your mentioning it to the Master, with my best You perceive therefore that, at the present stage of the respects, and I should regard your joint opinion as quite business, I am unable to say what line the Seniors will take authoritative enough for my purpose. in the election of a Master of the School. While I was in Devonshire I had a letter from Butterton, Yours etc., intimating that he should not come forward if I did, and R. T. in my reply I urged him to be a candidate, and assured him Endorsed : Copy of answer to B. H. Kennedy's letter I had no intention of offering myself although I should of 29 January, 1836. accept the appointment if offered to me. Whatever there- 1 70 Notes from the College Records. Noles from the College Records. 171

Shrewsbury May I ask you to inform me whether I may say so much. 1 February, 1836. I think I can prevail on him to offer if I may, and I add, if My dear Master you can find a better candidate by all means elect him in Mr Isaacson's announcement of offering himself for the preference. Believe me with the greatest regard and respect, Oratorship is a plain proof to me that he is luke \.varm to Dear Master, most truly Shrewsbury, and in fact if he subsequently offers himself and and affectionately yours, is elected he will come here with much less grace and I may s. BUTLER add less welcome from the town and neighbourhood, than if Addressed : he had not tried for the Oratorship. But between ourselves The Very Heverend, The Master, The Lodge, St. John's College, Cambridge. I am inclined to think that he is afraid to venture on so great an undertaking, and I might add, with every respect for his talents and character, that his personal appearance is sadly against him, and this, in a school, is a point not to be wholly Harrow despised. I have therefore been turning my thoughts most February 1, 1836. anxiously to consider who might be a fit candidate, looking My dear Sir on Mr Isaacson as likely to be Orator and also as uncertain in Mr Tatham's letter otherwise very kind, leaves me still in his determination of offeringhims elf-and I have found every doubt whether the College desires to receive the applications qualification I can hope for in Ben Kennedy, if he will come of any candidates for Shrewsbury School. I shall therefore forward. interpret his silence as affirmative and forward to you the The public voice in London, here and in Warwickshire, I enclosed letter. Yet I shall feel deep regret if your j udg­ may add in both Universities, loudly calls for him. The ment should disapprove the step which I thus take. My most brilliant scholar I ever sent forth, an assistant here till he motives you will learn from the letter itself. went to Harrow, and within the last 3 or 4 years a Fellow of Believe me, dear Sir, your College. I am persuaded I could prevail on him to with sincere respect offer, if I could only say this to him, "the College do not feel your most faithful servant, bound to elect an actual Fellow, but electing on oath, will BENJ. H. KENNEDY: chuse the fittest candidate, with that natural preference io Addressed : To the Very H.everend lhe Master of St John's a man of their own society which is allowable with such an College, Cambridge. obligation. I mean that caeteris paribus they would prefer a Johnian to a man of any other College." Now I think it far more for the interest of the College to maintain the reputation To the Very Reverend the Master of this school, which if maintained will always be the most the H.everend the President and the splendid piece of preferment in its gift, and will always be Senior Fellows of St John's College, sending up a supply of distinguished young men, than Cambridge. merely to obtain for once a vacancy in the fellowships by Gentlemen giving it to an actual Fellow. All I wish to ask therefore is, l respectfully present myself to your choice as a candi�late may I say to Kennedy that the College, electing upon oath, for the Head Mastership of Shrewsbury School, and I request will not bind themselves to elect an actual Fellow, but such a your indulgence while I briefly state my motives for a step man as they shall consider the fittest of the candidates to do which may be deemed unusual. vV ben Archdeacon Butler's credit to the appointment. resignation was announced, I supposed that the nomination 172 Notes jrol/l the College Records. N oles from the College Records. 173

of his successor was in your unrestricted patronage, and that V. The confidence which Parents will naturally acquire you could deal with it according to your discretion. Upon from a knowledge of these facts. this supposition I conceived that it ·would be indelicate in me It will I presume, be needless, to offer testimonials of to interfere with your decision, while I thought it right to acquirements and ability to those under whose eye my consider ::m d determine my own duty in the barely possible University education was conducted, and who have honoured contingency of your offering the appointment to me. I have me with various proofs of their good opinion. But I shall since been assured, on authority which I may not venture to take the liberty of submitting to you Dr Longley's testimony question, that you are bound to choose from among the to the zeal and success of my instructions and perhaps I may actual candidates. Such being the case, did I refuse to add that of the Bishop of London as a parent satisfiedwith avow my wishes, I should withhold from you the option of my exertions for his step-sons improvement. I have the nominating me, from myself the possibility of being chosen, honor to be, gentlemen to undertake a charge which has many claims upon me. your most obedient humble servant What I lately deemed an indelicacy thus presses itself upon BENJ. H. KENNEDY Harrow me as a duty. Yet, in surrendering my strong reluctance to February 1, 1836 appear as a candidate, I yield not only to my own tardy

• conviction, but also to the advice and instance of several friends. Shrewsbury In seeking this appointment emolument is not my object. February 18, 1836. My dear Master of St John's I already enjoy enough for my wishes. I solemnly profess When I say that your letter, for which I most heartily myself to be mainly influenced by the desire-if God should thank you, has given me the greatest pleasure, I am sure you so bless me-to promote ' sound learning and religious will not attribute this to any feeling of disrespect on my part education,' and to maintain Shrewsbury School, the beloved towards Mr Isaacson. From all that I have heard of him I nurse of my boyhood, in that eminent station to which it has believe him to be a man of high character and sound learning, been raised by the erudition, lhe talent, the skill and the but from the moment I saw him I confess to you I trembled unwearied exertions of Archdeacon Butler. for the welfare of this School and for his own. It is essential, My hopes of being enabled lo accomplish this arduous absolutely essential, that the Master of a great school should task I found-not on my own feeble attainments and have at least an ordinary degree of personal appearance. unsupported energies,-but on the following grounds. Mr Isaacson's person and infirmity of sight are such that he I. The generously promised support and encouragement never could have kept up his authority, and that being gone, of Archdeacon Butler. the school is gone of course. The only man whom I ever II. The zealous cooperation which I can anticipate from knew that kept up authority with personal defect was our the friendship of the Assistant Masters. friend Keate, but then he was only under size-his frame Ill. My iritimate knowledge of the Shrewsbury system, was powerful and his activity great-once when the boys had acquired by : (1) 4� years residence as a pupil, during 3 of barricadoed him out of his desk he laid his hand on the top, which I held the responsible post as Head-boy of the School. vaulted into it, called up all the boys he suspected, and (2) One year's residence as Assistant Master. flogged everyone who was not well prepared. And the boys IV. The experience of six years at Harrow in the details had also been used to him at Eton as an Assistant. But of a Public School, in the instruction of boys of all ages when personal defects are united with a slender frame, there and degrees of progress, and in the household management can be no hope of success. In truth also from the moment of -l-0 boys, more or less. 17-1- Noles from the College Records. Notes from lhe College Records. 175

Mr Isaacson offered himself for the oratorship, he did an standing that he should be elected my successor, as I must ungracious thing to Shrewsbury. Besides which, coming as stay here in fact till Midsummer and could easily arrange that a man unexperiencecl in school tactics, to the management of with him and the Trustees. Still I may add that should the a great school-unused to house-keeping, to a great domestic College resolve on electing any other candidate I am ready to establishment-and if he took a wife, which he could do all that I undertook to do in my letter of December 10. hardly avoid doing, unable to give her the benefit of any I will never fail in duty, or promise, whatever may be my advice or experience in her department of superintending his personal feeling of disappointment. I only hope in such case family, he had nothing to look to but his appointment. He that my successor may reap greater advantages than I dare has chosen wisely therefore for his own comfort and happi­ expect for any man who comes here as superseding Kennedy. ness, and none of his best frieoc.ls can have reason to regret With the most affectionate regard believe me, Dear Master. his decision. truly yours I have but one earnest wish left, which is that Benjamin S. BUTLER. Kennecly may be the successful candidate. Not from mere I continue to be greatly pleased with Mr Welldon. affection to him, for heaven is my witness no private feeling Addressed : The Very Reverend The Master, The Lodge, enters into those high and I might almost say holy motives which influence my wish. You, my dear Master, who have St. John's College, Cambridge. done so much for St John's, and to whom your College is endeared by the same ties as Shrewsbury School is to me Harrow can, I am sure understand me. Were my own son a candi­ March 2, 1836. date, and were Benjamin Kennedy even personally unaccept­ My dear Sir able to me, I pledge myself to you I would say as earnestly as I think it right to inform you, and the Seniority of St I now do, elect Kennedy. Elect him because he is the man John's College, that Dr Longley's elevation to the see of not only to continue but to advance the reputation of this Chichester (or Hereford, for it is yet uncertain which) makes School, in which he was himself educated, and in the no change in my wishes with regard to Shrewsbury School. prosperity of which I am so deeply interested, having I remain, dear Sir devoted my life, my fortune, and such talents as God has your most faithfully obliged servant given me, to its improvement. BENJ. H. KENNEDY. It is of the highest importance that the intention of the Addressed : The Very Reverend the Master of St John's College should be known by Lady-clay at the latest, and the College, Cambridge. sooner than that the better. I wish to know therefore if it is possible that the College, if they do not proceed to actual Shrewsbury election, can pass a resolution that they will elect him when March 4, 1836. the actual vacancy occurs. Or at least can enable me to My dear M aster notify the anxious enquiry of parents, which I am daily Dr Longley having the promise of the Bishopric which receiving, that there is every reasonable expectation of his will be vacated by a removal of one of the present Bishops to succeeding me at Midsummer. The suspense is injurious to Durham, Harrow School will be vacant, and I have reason to the interests of the school here and to his own interests think Kennedy, if he offered, would be likely to succeed. at Harrow. But to his honour and ours he is so much attached to Shrews­ If by my immediate resignation I can facilitate his election bury that he informs me he is very anxious to be here. I am ready to resign immediately, but only on the under- Now it would be a cruel thing indeed if in case he should 176 Notes from lhe College Records. Nales from the College Records. 177

not offer for Harrow from his hope of having Shrewsbury, he I wish you to know it, because it will account for my should lose that also-and I do hope the College will take apparent importunity. this into consideration, and elect him at once to succeed me I was informed from most unquestionable authority, that on my resignation, or at leasl let him know that they mean to from the moment Dr Longley's possible removal from Harrow do so. I am ready to resign instantly if he shall be chosen to to the Divinity Chair at Oxford, now so unfortunately filled up, succeed me, but I cannot otherwise and if you will only tell was talked of, there was a prevailing wish on the part of some me that you have agreed to elect him on receiving my of the most influential trustees to have Kennedy as his resignation and wish to have it immediately I will send it successor. Since that time I know that splendid offers have forthwith. I write in haste to save a post. I rejoice that my been in contemplation which have not actually been made Johnians have done so well this ye;;1r in the Classical Tripos. him, but which soon would have been. I should have acted Believe me Dear Master unfairly to Kennecly to have advised him to adhere to his very truly yours wish of succeeding me, without also freely and fully com­ S. BUTLER. municating with him on these particulars, and also giving Addressed : The Very Reverend The Master, St. John's him a fair account of what he might expect here as his College, Cambridge. income, rebus sic stantibus, a;; at present. He has known all and has not changed his mind ; but it would have been cruel to him to advise him to reject Harrow without a moral March 6, 1836. My dear Master certainty of succeeding me here. burn this letter-it explains At the risk of being thought troublesome and intrusive Pray let this be private-and which without such I must write again to urge you to come to some immediate I trust an importunity on my part Believe me decision about Kennedy,-Harrow is vacant.-! know that it explanation might appear almost disrespectful. is of the utmost importance to secure Kennedy for this Dear Master, most truly and gratefully yours School, and unless you are quick in doing so it will I fear be S. BuTLER. impossible. You may use this letter as my actual resignation : The Very Reverend The Master, St John's of Shrewsbury School if you will elect him. Believe me Adaressed Dear Master College, Cambridge. faithfu!Iy yours S. BUTLER. Shrewsbury Addressed : The Very Reverend The Master, The Lodge, May 11, 1836. St John's College, Cambridge. Mr Mayor I beg leave hereby to inform you o£ my resignation of the office of Head Master of Shrewsbury School, and to request Shrewsbury you will be so kind as to make this known to the Master March 10, 1836. John's College Cambridge at your earliest My dear Master and Fellows of St I have the honour to be Mr Mayor In the letter which I wrote yesterday, and which I thought convenience. Your very obedient you possibly might show to some of the Seniors, I could not and faithful servant communicate a fact which I wish you to know, but which from S. BUTLER. the very confidential way in which it came to my knowledge I could not make more public. To the Right Worshipful, The Mayor of Shrewsbury. VOL. XXXI. y 178 Notes from the Colleg' Records.

Shrewsbury May 12, 1836. Gentlemen I beg to hand you the enclosed letter, containing the resignation of the Venerable Archdeacon Butler, of the office of Head Master of Shrewsbury School, and I am sure I express the general sentiments of this town in adding my regret at the loss that will be sustained I am Gentlemen HYMN TO APHRODITE. your most obedient Servant J. H.. HAZELDINE (From Sappho). Mayor of Shrewsbwy. To The Master and Fellows of St John's College, 0 DAUGHTER of Zeus the almighty, Cambridge. Immortal one, throned on high, R. F. S. 0 weaver of wiles, Aphrodite, I pray thee, give ear to my cry. Oppress not with sorrow and grieving (To be COI!tillliCri) . My spirit, but come to me, come, If ever before thou cam'st, leaving Thy sire's golden home.

Then straight to my prayer thou cam'st hearkening, And yoked'st thy chariot on high : And the birds, thy swift coursers, flew darkening With the beat of their wings the mid sky. Full quickly to lone earth they brought thee : And thou, with thy grace from above, Dicl'st smile upon me who besought thee, Fair goddess of love.

" What aileth thee ? Why dost thou call me ? '' Thou asked'st. " 0 love-frenzied heart, "What desirest thou most to befall thee ? " So, I grant thee Persuasion's strong art. "Whom would'st thou it summon to woo thee,

' ' 0 my servant ? Who cloth thee this wrong ? "Though she flee thee now, yet shall she sue thee, "Nor wait overlong. Y2 180 To Sleep.

"Yea, scorns she the gifts thou clost proffer? " Yet gifts shall she bring unto thee. "Doth she hate thee now ? Soon shall she offer "To love, though unwilling she be." So come to me, and from the thronging, Sick sorrows that burden me now, Release me, and grant my heart's longing. 0 fight for me, thou. THE OCTOGENARIAN RECOLLECTIONS OF A MEMBER OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE.

name, which I am proud to think still remains there, was placed on the books of my St John's College early in the year I847·­ My first Collegiate recollections are those of the Installation of Prince Albert as Chancellor of the TO SLEEP. University ; I had not then come into residence, but fared better than if I had done so, for I was admitted, (After Statius Silv. v. 4). by special permission, to the floorof the Senate House, and fo und myself mixed up with the learned of the WHAT fault, what sin have I committed, Sleep, land. I thought that our dear, kind Queen looked tired, That I alone thy blessing have not found ? and bored with all the weight of her learned surround­ The mountain-torrents have subdued their sound ; ings, and it was whispered that H.M. was not best In silence lie the birds, the beasts, the sheep. pleased that a candidate had been nominated in The curved hill-tops seem to slumber deep ; opposition to her husband. The Prince Consort The sea is quiet, to earth's bosom bound however having been elected by a considerable majority, It sleeps ; the seventh moon bath now come round thought it best to let by-gones be by - gones and sat And seen mine eyes sev'n weary vigils keep. smiling graciously beside the Queen, in a chair of state, dressed in the superb array of his office. Another, ah ! locked in his love's embrace Elections then, as now, were not always conducive The livelong night repels thee, gentle god ! to good temper or refined manners, and it was said, Come thence ! thou need'st not o'er mine eyelids sweep a With thy strong wings ! let those in happier case "I tell the tale as t'was told me," that one Master of Ask that : but touch me gently with thy rod, College had informed another that his own fixed opinion was that he was " no gentleman," to which the Or lightly pass with hovering foot, 0 Sleep ! other promptly replied that he was "no judge.'' R. F. P. When I came up to see my rooms and get my outfit, I was introduced to Professor Adams, then one of the Lecturers, as the Tutor on my "side " had not then returned from the Long Vacation. I made further 182 Octogwarian Recollections of a Mc111ber of St John's. Octogenarian Recollections of a Member of St John's. 183

acquaintance with that "Senior Wrangler incom­ his Rectory at Holt, which I found most picturesquely parabilis," and discoverer of Planets, when subsequently situated ; it was early spring, the path was bordered attending his lectures on Conic Sections, and having with aconites and snow-drops, and I found my good been so much among the stars, we occasionally heard tutor wonderfully well, his room garnished with splendid him descend heavily upon the Earth, represented by cathedral engravings, and attending to the duties of his the floorof his bedroom, soon after we had been seated church and parish without a Curate, the neighbourhood, in his lecture room ; when the rapidity of his toilet was being as he said "a Paradise fo r Octogenarz'ans." Two only equalled by his graceful urbanity, and we were soon things however troubled him, one that he had been immersed in the wonders which could be illustrated by driven to give up daily service at Holt because the sections of a Sugar Loaf. '' nobody came to it," the other that at the Consecration On arriving at Cambridge with my Father, we. met .of the new Chapel of St John's he was refused admit· the then Master of St John's on the railway platform, tance, "for want of a ticket." How it happened he did and on my being presented to him, he cordially shook not know, neither do I, but he has now, good man, hands and desired that I should soon call upon him at passed from all the vexations of a troublesome world. his Lodge. Af ter a respectful interval therefore I did I only knew the great Senior Wrangler, Dr Hymers, this, an important footman opened the door, to my by sight; he too in after years accepted a College Living, question, "is the Master at home ? " he replied with a and he confided to one of his old pupils, who told me most emphatic no, in a manner which implied "you are the story, that while at Cambridge men hung on his a green one," and returned with an ill-concealed grin to words, his parishioners were so unsympathetic as to his quarters ; so that I have never known from that day arrange themselves carefully fo r slumber as soon as he to this whether that Master ever saw my card, though I entered the pulpit ! hope fo r my own reputation that he did. This sort of Another well known figure in my time at St John's thing I believe to be now quite " Ancient History." was that of Dr Reyner, afterwards Rector of Staple­ There were two "sides " then at St John's, under burst; he lectured us in Algebra, and was a Dean of the Dr Hymers and Mr Brummell as College Tutors, I was College, and to his indulgent opinion I am indebted for placed with the latter, and shall always remember his some beautiful volumes, which I received as the Prize kindness and sympathy. We once I regret to say upset awarded for reading the Lessons in our College ChapeL his lecture-room by uncontrollable merriment; one of Another of our Lecturers was Dr Atlay, subsequently our number, blessed with a remarkably prominent nose, Vicar of Leeds, and Bishop of Hereford ; he became and soothed amidst the mysteries of Mathematics, later the Tutor on our side, and to him I shall always sought repose during a careful drawing on the black­ owe a deep debt of gratitude for his kind help, whe!_l board by our lecturer, when the fe ature before-named suffering from the effects of a distressing illness in my unfortunately came into violent collision with the table ! last Term, while later I enjoyed the hospitality of Result-hopeless confusion, and the close of the lecture Hereford Palace in some happy visits at the time of the by our much annoyed Tutor. Some of us soon called Musical Festivals. upon him to explain and apologise, and found him I went up to Cambridge fairly prepared by an quietly willing to enter into our amusement. I had the excellent private tutor, a J ohnian wrangler, afterwards happiness of visiting Mr Brummell many years later at a Lincolnshire Vicar ; my private Tutors at St John's 184 Octogenarian Recollections of a Member of St John's. OCtogenariatt Recollections of a Member of St John's. 185

were, at first, Mr Parkinson and Mr Field; they were all Simeon and Carus, was being met by the advancing tide kindness, but too clever fo r me, and the Mathematics of the High Church movement, it was however still run­ which helped my places in our College examinations nirrg with some strength in its upper reaches, and I was were impressed on my memory by the worthy Mr asked to be a teacher in "the Jesus Lane Sunday Bower, who so much objected to my saying that "I School," but such gifts as I had did not flow in that thought " I saw points, that he requested at times direction, and my sense of '' decency and order '' was that I would tell him " no lies." seriously offended by what proved to be practically Among my many friends some were conn ected with a religious ." Bear garden." the Cambridge Architectural Society, and others with · Preachers there were, lights of varying brilliancy the Cambridge Musical Society, and though never able shone in the Pulpit of Great St Ma ry's on Sundays to handle a fiddle myself, I learnt much at the Concerts in the morning and evening, and once we were treated of the latter which has been of service to me in subse­ to a religious and intellectual banquet in a sermon quent train ing of Choirs and conducting rehearsals; by a preacher who held us all entranced, Melville, one some of us too used to meet for choral practices in our of the finest preachers of his day in Christendom. The rooms, while others were carefully taught vocal work general run of "select " preachers at St Mary's in the by a well-known professional Tenor in the University afternoon was far too select for me, and made me Choir. Our efforts, however, on "Singing nights " sympathise in the feelings of a well-known Esquire in Chapel were once seriously damped by Prof essor Bedell of that date, who, having been obliged by his W'almisley, who; like musicians generally, had no taste office to listen to them all for a long succession of years, for congregational performances, and said to me one is reported to have "thanked God that he was still day : "You two men make such a noise ! " a Christian." At the meetings of the Architectural Society we had But a brilliant light had sprung up in a passage the benefit of the presence of Mr George Williams, behind King's Parade, where Harvey Goodwin refreshed Fellow of King's, and the author of the well-known and instructed large congregations, chiefly oL under­ volumes on "The Holy City," as our President, whi1e graduates, at St Edward's, with thoughtful sermons at times Professor Willis most kindly addressed us. 15 minutes in length, on Sunday evenings. A Church­ The Lectures of that great and learned archceologist yard cross, seen from the slopes of Skiddaw, with before the members of the University can never be Derwentwater beyond, impressively marks at Cros­ forgotten; his wonderful models showing the con­ thwaite the all too early grave of this skilful- "fisher structive growth of ou·r· great churches, and his lucid of men " an� devoted Bishop. descriptions, both at Cambridge and at the gatherings As to worship, the College Chapels, better attended of the "Archceological Institute," were unrivalled. His than they appear to be now in these days of "religious advice too, eagerly sought, was most kindly given in liberty," offered little but plain Matins and Evensong, difficult ma:tters- of Ch urch Restoration, and fo r this we but as a treat we had a musical service at St John's on have here good reason to be thankful. Wednesday and Sunday evenings. A peripatetic choir Writing as a clergyman I must briefly refer to the of men rushed from King's to Trinity and from Trinity state of churchmanship in Cambridge in my time ; the to St John's, King's only securing their regular services Evangelical revival, as illustrated by such teachers as on weekdaJ.S ; they offer.ed themselves to Jesus College, 186 Octogenarian Recollections of a 11Ie111ber of St John's. Octogenarian Recollections of a Member of St John's. 187

but the offer was declined, when Sir Richard Sutton word,'' as fa r as he personally was concerned, "he organised that College Choir, and set an example of a full might sleep in his surplice.'' Non residence, too, and and not semi-choral service, in course of time fo llowed frequent absence from duty, were causing trouble in elsewhere, with the Priest's part duly chanted. Of the several dioceses, an evil which our lecturer illustrated Holy Communion service, the only weekly celebration by a case within his knowledge, where a clergyman, then in Cambridge was given quite plainly at St Giles' going fo r his holiday, got over the difficulty of finding Church, while there were celebrations once in a term in a substitute by locking his church door and putting the St John's Chapel, accompanied often by a wearisome key in his pocket. sermon. There were other lectures, of which those on "The As to the preparation of those intending to be clergy­ Duty of a Parish Priest,'' by Dr Blunt, then Lady men, Theological Colleges were then unknown, but Margaret Professor of Divinity, were most interesting

St John's did the best in that way that it could for us. · and helpful. Among much thoughtful advice I remem­ We had admirable lectures from Dr Atlay in the Greek ber this : "If you have a school to build, place it as Testament, we studied Paley's Evidences and Moral near the Parsonage gate as you can, fo r it should be Philosophy, in a higher flight we reached Butler's the basket fo r all the odds and ends of your time." Analogy, and Scripture History was studied chiefly This good counsel I have been able to follow, and with the aid of a condensed publication by a well­ happy experience has shown that the basket has not known clerical Fellow of the College, in which, among often contained was/a-paper. other advantages we were fo rmally introduced to each The so-called "voluntary " Theological examination, of the four Herods, whose doubtful individuality with then lately provided, was undertaken by most of us some of us needed that honour. after taking our degrees. I read for it chiefly in There were the University Lectures by the Norrisian Cambridge, the College most kindly granting me the Professor, attendance at which had been required by continuance of the tenancy of my rooms, but fo und most of the Bishops, and we were privileged then to sit Keswick agree with me, and Justin Martyr, better than under a learned and sagacious Divine, who, unfortun­ Cambridge air in the height of the summer. ately, in his earlier days, had apparently not been Looking to the spread of Christianity .in the world, taught to read, and whose nasal elocution, though StJohn's may well be proud of that great Missionary "I guess," acceptable at New York, was not equally Pioneer, and chief fo under of the Colonial Episcopate, appreciated by the younger men at Cambridge. I Bishop Selwyn. I had the privilege of knowing his regret to record that a wag once inscribed on the door, brother, but I never met the Bishop until he was so '' Nothing to pay here, not even attention," and that well chosen to preach the sermon at the Consecration others sat deep in the study of a lighter form of of the new Chapel, and a most touching sermon it was literature, in their caps ! After a lengthy reading of, on the example to all of us Johnians given in the I am sorry to say I totally forget what, a little kindly character and life-work of the beloved disciple. Among clerical advice was given to us, flavoured in my time those in the large congregation were the two Members with positively two jokes ; "preaching in the surplice" of Parliament fo r our University; one of them was, at was then a burning question, which our lecturer met that time, Secretary for the Home Department, and as with the suggestion that if a man truly "preached the good a man as ever lived, though of somewhat too 188 Octogenarian Recollections of a Member of St lolm's.

sensitive a nature fo r that often try ing position. There had lately been trouble in London, and some Park railings had been pulled down by the roughs, an angry deputation from the neighbourhood had waited on the Home Secretary, and had so unkindly repre• sented the matter that the newspapers, in describing the interview, had written, "at this point the Rig ht Honourable Gentleman shed tears.'' This was too good to escape the notice of their " facetious contemporary," COLLEGE and a picture shortly appeared in Punch in which tears REFORM IN THE FIFTIES. of magnificent proportions fo rmed a leading feature. As the good Bishop added pathos to pathos in the BOUT the mi:ddle of the last century, most affecting sermon I ever listened to, most of us got there was a strong feeling among the lumps in our throats, and I observed that those around - younger Fellows, possibly an after-effect me, like myself, had a hard task to keep moisture from of the year of revolution ), that it was time to set their eyes, when I noticed "the Right Honourable ( 1848 their own house in order ; that the existing College system was Gentleman," in a stall near me making vigorous use of in many respects unsatisfactory, seeing that his pocket-handkerchief, and was comforted. while it failed on the one hand to carry out the intenti I cannot follow others, who have written their on of the original Foun-< ders in keeping up a supply of men reminiscences, down the river, except on the bank. duly qualifiedto serve God in Church and State, it I was not strong enough to be a rowing man, but have was on the other hand far from realizing the best modern uutlived nearly all my contemporaries who were. Our ideas as to what a College should be as a seat of learning first LadyMargaret boat, stroked by Hudson, who, alas, and science. Perhaps the grounds of this dissatisfaction -was one of the victims of the first Matterhorn tragedy, will be more intel­ ligible to men of a younger generation was head of the river, and others of my friends main­ if we follow the career of a College tained the honour of our College in pairs and sculling­ Tutor of that time from his matriculation to his final retirement to a College as I wander through our well loved courts I seem to living. St John's probably recognise those athletic fo rms, and hear those merry did more than any other College to assist men of li voices, and as I look at the windows of my old fri ends' mited means, partly through its numerous appropriated

Of these there were 56 in all, making r8 or 19 to be it is scarcely too much to say that in St John's, owing to awarded each year by open competition to Freshmen at the total absence of classification, the time spent in the beginning of the Michaelmas Term, and tenable lectures by fairly trained students, whether classical or fo r three years. The money value was not large, but mathematical, was time wasted. This naturally led to this was increased, often to a considerable amount, by the custom of reading with private Tutors, a custom open exhibitions, and a Sizar paid lower fees both to which was indeed commonly recommended to promising College and University than a Pensioner. The fact students by their College Tutors, especially fo r the that Sizars dined at a different table and that they were practice of Composition and Unseen Translation, and expected to be more economical than others, separated for Mathematics other than elementary. Those who them to a certain extent from general society, but could not afford this luxury, or who had sufficient implied no kind of disability, though this might be energy and independence of mind to prefer working inferred from some stories of University life. The by themselves, might possibly find their profit in the qualities which won popularity or respect in the case of long run, but for the time they felt themselves handi­ a Pensioner were just as effective in the case of a Sizar, capped in the race for University honours. especially among reading men. Still the Sizarship If our student took a sufficiently high place in had nothing of the prestige of the valuable Entrance a tripos, he would in due time obtain a Fellowship, Scholarship which had dolle so much for Balliol, and which, if he were ordained, would be held by him till the fact remained that the great mass of men preferred his marriage or succession to a living of over a certain to enter as Pensioners, with no better prospect of help value. If he remained a layman, he vacated his Fellow­ than the chance of a Scholarship of some£:zo, while the ship in the seventh year after becoming M.A. or upon annual expenses were certainly not less than £ 150. his marriage, supposing that he married before that The firstthing which would strike a freshman coming date. Thus three possible courses offered themselves up from a fa ir classical school was the drop from the on taking the B.A. degree. Looking fo rward to the standard of his old Sixth Form to that of the mis­ future, a man might determine to prepare himself at cellaneous gathering in the College lecture-room, where once for his life's work by entering on the duties of a considerable proportion of the students were scarcely a profession for which he might regard himself as able to make out the Greek characters, and where what already more or less fitted by his College training, such professed to be instruction in Logic and Moral Philo­ as clerical or scholastic work. Other professions, such sophy, consisted in making the student learn off small as Law or Medicine, entailed a long and arduous course epitomes, wh ile the function of the Lecturer, who was of study before he could hope to become self-supporting. also the compiler, was limited to asking such questions Life in College among congenial friends was far more as 'Well, and what does the man say next ?' What attractive, and might even present itself under the fo rm made such teaching all the more provoking was that, of duty as affording an unrivalled opportunity for self­ on the other side of the wall, Thompson was lecturing improvement. The more stoical course was strongly on Plato, Cope on Aristotle, Munro on Lucretius, and recommended by the famous mathematician, Todhunter, W. G. Clark on Aristophanes-lectures inexorably who used to say that, looking through the Calendar, he closed to all but members of their own College. Pre­ found the men who had most distinguished themselves viously to the institution of the 'Voluntary Classical ' in after life were those whose names appeared just College Refo rm in the Fifties. 193 192 College Refo rm in the Fifties. below the Fellowship line in the Tripos lists. There provide a very noble and useful career, combining what may have been a little exaggeration in this, but cer­ is generally understood by that term with the social tainly in those days men who stayed up after their teaching of the German "Seminarium." But the degree were prone to fall into idle and luxurious habits ordinary fete a trUe is often a great waste of the teacher's or to contract within a narrow circle the interests and time, as he has to repeat the same thing over again experience of life. to each pupil, and such teaching is naturally without There were of course instances of men who did good the :stimulus which comes from the consciousness of service to College and University during their residence, being engaged in a common work for a common end. and who, when they went down to a College living, The natural consequence of this uncertainty as to were recognized by rich and poor, by clergy and laity the future was to unsettle the minds of those who would alike, as burning and shining lights in their new sphere. otherwise have devoted themselves to research, but who But succession to livings was determined solely by had constantly before them the time when they must seniority without any evidence of fitness for parochial cast themselves adrift from their favourite pursuit, and work, and the clerical Fellow who stayed on in College, seek employment for which they were far less fitted waiting for the chance of a rich living, without having by nature. any regular duty, was hardly likely to do credit to the One other grievance which was felt by many of College as a training place fo r those who were to serve the Fellows was the unsatisfactory constitution of the God in the Church, whatever may have been the case Governing Body of the College. The Master was with those who were to serve Him in the State. merely a figure-head, not a worker as at Oxford. The Take the case now of one who fe lt no vocation fo r Acting Council consisted of the oldest residents, that is, a clerical life, but was keenly interested in science of the men who would generally be among the least or literature, and had a genuine love of teaching. enterprizing and energetic of their own year, men that Nothing could be more appropriate than that such had been left stranded in Cambridge, while others had a man should continue in College as Lecturer and found their place in the world outside, men, in a word, Tutor, and should eventually succeed to a Professorship who were least likely to guide with wisdom a great in the University. But, according to the Statutes of institution in the difficult times that were at hand. that time, he must cease to be Tutor when he ceased to ·The changes then which were chiefly desired were : be a Fellow, and there was no certainty that a Pro­ 1. A better use of the College Funds to assist men of fe ssorship would be waiting for him. He might tt;y ability to obtain the benefits of University Education. doubtless for a Headmastership ; but experience as an 2. Improved system of tuition by means of (a) the Assistant Master is almost indispensable fo r such a post, classification of the students ; (b) the retention of which in any case is so overwhelmed with business as to those who had proved their ability as Lecturers, leave little time for scientific or literary work. He whether or not they were married or laymen ; (c) the might think of Medicine or the Bar, but fo r these he better payment of such Lecturers ; (d) dispensing with should have started ten years sooner, and he probably private tuition in all but exceptional cases; (e) allowing feels no special aptitude for either. He finds himself undergraduates of one College to attend the lectures driven to eke out an income as a private Tutor : and at another College. may private tuition, as was shown by Mr Hopkins, J. Tenure of Fellowships. All to be terminable VOL. XXXI. z ' 194 College Refo rm in the Fifties.

when the Fellow attained a certain standing, with the exception of Fellows who were doing or had done good rac� service as College or University Officers. Obligation of celibacy to be abolished. Each clerical Fellow to have had experience of parochial work before succeed­ COLLEGE REFORM UNDER THE ing to a College living, and to be entitled to the choice CAMBRIDGE UNIVE RSITY ACT OF 1856. of two benefices in turn, and no more. 4· The Council to be in part composed of officials, and in part elected annually by the Fellows. N April 1850, on the proposal of Mr J ames Heywood, in the House of Commons, the }OSEPH B. MAYOR. O Government consented to the issue of two Commissions of Inquiry into the Universities of Oxford and Cam bridge and the Colleges thereof. Th e Cambridge Commissioners were the Bishop (Graham) of Chester, fo rmerly Master of Christ's College, Dean Peacock, Sir John Herschel, Sir John Romilly (Master of the Rolls), and Professor Adam Sedgwick. They appointed Mr Bateson, Senior Bursar of St John's, to be their secretary. The Commission was viewed with strong disfavour by many, possibly most, resident me mbers of th e University, and, not having compulsory powers, the Commissioners met, in some cases, with difficulty in getting full information. St John's, with some other Colleges, fu rnished the Commissioners with a copy of their Statutes, and in one way or other the Commissioners obtained suffi­ cient information respecting th e Colleges generally. Their Report was made 30 August 1852, and it con­ tained numerous reco mmendations, many of which have since been carried into effect notwithstanding considerable opposition. In May 1855, four of the Commissioners, with their Secretary, addressed a letter to Lord Palmerston urging attention to the Report. Their action was successfu l. In 1856 (29 July) an Act of Parliament was passed providing a new govern ment for the University, allow­ ing the reception of students in Hostels as well as in ... College Refo rm under the Act of 1856. 1 97 1 96 College Refo rm under the Act of r8s6. The Act prohibited the exaction of any oath, the Colleges, and appointing a Commission to make declaration, or subscription whatever fr om a student and approve new Statutes fo r the Colleges. The Com­ matriculating or taking a degree, and prohibited any missioners were Bishop (Lonsdale) of Lichfield, Bishop declaration of religious opinions or oath on obtaining a (Graham) of Chester, Lord Stanley, Mr Matthew T. College Scholarship or other undergraduate emolument; Baines, Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood, Sir but provided that no degree was of itself to qualify fo r Laurence Peel, Dean Peacock, and Rev Dr Vaughan membership of the Senate or fo r holding any office, (Headmaster of Harrow School). The Commissioners hitherto confined to members of the Church of England. we:-e empowered to deal with the eligibility of persons While this bill was going through Parliament, an for Headships, Fellowships, and Scholarships, with attempt was made to limit the Governing Body of the tenure consolidation and division of such emolu­ St John's and Trinity to the Master and eight Senior ments, and with the redistribution of the College Fellows, who were the ordinary Governing Body by revenues, part of which might be made available for the College Statutes, but this attempt was fr ustrated the purposes of th e University at large. Power was by petitions from the rest of the Fellows, and the Act given to abolish any right of preference in elections to accordingly defined the Governing Body of a College fellowsh ips and other College emoluments, '' so as to fo r its purpose to be the Head and all Graduate ensure their being conferred according to personal Fellows thereof,. Bye-Fellows excepted. merits and fitness," th e rights of some schools being, The Statutes in force for St John's at the time were however, reserved under certain conditions. In the made in the year 1849 by the College, with the approval first instance the Governing Bodies of Colleges were of the Visitor and sanction of the Queen. They were a empowered to make such statutes and submit them to revised copy of the Elizabethan Statutes, and were the Comm issioners fo r approval. If by the 1st January intended in the main to legalize the existing practices, 1858 this power had not been exercised by the College and especially to give legal authority to the division to the satisfaction of the Commissioners, the initiative among the Master and Fellows of the surplus annual passed to the latter. Statutes made by the Com­ revenue, in augmentation of the antiquated petty missioners, if not objected to within a limited time by stipends and allowances which alone had statutable two-thi..rds of the Governing Body on the ground that, authority. But they made no attempt to reorganise in their opinion, any such statute would be prejudicial the general arrangements fo r teaching, or to fol low to the College as a place of Learning and Education, "the will and mind of the Foundress " in a propor­ were to be laid before the Q.ueen in Council and tionate redistribution of the revenue, or to remove the published in the Gazette so as to give opportunity fo r restrictions imposed by various fo unders on the eligi­ the College or others interested to petition against bility and tenure of Fellows and Scholars. For this them. They were then, after a due interval, to be laid last purpose the power of Parliament would no doubt before both Houses of Parliament, and if not then have been necessary. objected to would become law by the approval of the The government of the College at this time was, as Queen in Council. Statutes made by the Commissioners has been said, in the hands of the Master and eight in lieu of any obj ected to and Stf;l.tutes made by the Senior Fellows. The Master was elected by all the College with the Commissioners' approval followed the Fellows of the degree of M.A. at least. The Seniors same course. , 198 College Refo rm under Lhc Act of r8s6. College Refo rm 1111der the Act of 1856 . 199

were elected severally when a vacancy occurred, by the staff was made partly in consequence of a memorial Master and remaining Seniors, the Senior on the list to the 1\Iaster and Seniors fr om 23 of the Junior of Fellows being chosen, unless he was brother of the Fellows, dwelling on the insufficiency of the College Master or of one of the Seniors, or for other grave tuition, and the consequent prevalence of private cause. If any of the elected Sen iors were non-resident tuition. Mr John E. B. Mayor, 1\Ir Todhun ter and Mr or absent, the next on the list supplied his place. The Besant were among the subscribers. The arrangement elected Seniors whether resident or not, received a made in Bishop Fisher's original statutes for an adequate share of the dividend half as large again as a Junior body of Lecturers paid fr om College fu nds had been Fellow. The assent of the Master and four of the allowed to fall into abeyance, only the names (Praelec­ Acting Seniors was required fo r a College order or tors, Examiners Lectores and Stto-Lectores), and some election. The Master was required to be in Priest's insignificant stipends remaining to preserve the memory Orders. All the Fellows had to be in Priest's Orders of it. Mr Mullinger's History of the College may be within seven years from the M.A. degree, with the referred to fo r further details. exception of fo ur, two of whom were (but this was The number of Fellowships on the Lady Margaret not always enforced in practice) to take a degree fo undation were 32 unrestricted : on various later in Civil Law, and two in Medicine within twelve fo undations (all except one within the sixteenth Cen­ years from their M.A. degree. All were to be celibates, tury) 2 I, restricted variously by requiring, either as and unless leave was granted by the Master and absolute or pref� rential qualification, kinship to the Seniors, not to be absent fro m College for eighty days founder, or birth in some particular town or county, in the year besides the Long Vacation. or education in some particular school, or the holding The education was carried on by two distinct sets of of a particular Scholarship. Some Fellowships, indeed, Tutors, working almost as independently of each other were restricted in more ways than one. There were as if they belonged to different Colleges. Each set also seven Bye-Fellows on Mr Platt's foundation and consisted of two Tutors and two, raised in I853 to fo ur, one on :M r Webster's fou ndation ; these received smaller Assistant Tutors. The Senior Tutor of each set emoluments from the proceeds of their own fo under's received the tuition fe es, appointed the others subject estate, and were not entitled to the privileges of the to the approval of the Master, and arranged with them ordinary Fellows. fo r their salary, keeping the rest of the fe es fo r himself. The Scholarships in the College were I 24, of which This system of conducting the instruction was entirely 32 were open and the rest variously restricted. The extra-statutable until I849, when a fe w general words value of an open Scholarship was under £20 a year, an legalizing it were added at the end of the chapter on amount much infe rior to that of the Scholarsh ips at the Steward and Bread and Beer Bursar. Besides Trinity and other Colleges. Some of the restricted these there was one Lecturer on Algebra for the whole Scholarships were of higher value. The more promising Co11ege, on the fo undation of Lady Sadler, with a stipend Scholars often received an augmentation from certain of £4o a year, and there were appointed in I853 two exhibition fu nds, at the disposal of the Master and Lecturers in Moral and Natural Science who also Seniors. assisted in the general instruction and were paid from The first meeting of the Governing Body under the the College fu nds. This enlargement of the teaching Act of I856 was on 20 November r856, and was held, 200 College Reform under /he Act of 1856. College Refo rm u11der the Act of 1856. 201

as were the ¥sequent meetings, in the Larger Combi­ respected Dean of the College. It may be added that nation Room (now included in the Hall). Mr Liveing Mr Bateson was supported mainly by the more active was appointed Secretary, and the Minute Book kept by of the Junior Fellows, but also by some of his old con­ him is now in the College archives. The then Master temporaries ; Mr France by the older men generally. (Dr Tatham) was too ill to preside. The President A somewhat similar division was usually to be seen (Mr France), acted as Chairman at this and the next at the voting in the College meetings fo r Reform of the meeting held 4 December. At the first meeting l\lr Statutes. Bateson proposed "that the necessary steps be taken In the in terval caused by Dr Tatham's death, three under the Cambridge University Act, fo r placing all the Fellows circulated printed papers of suggestions among Foundation Fellowships of the College, upon one uni­ the members of th e GoverningBody. l\1r Liveing dealt form fo oting in regard to the right of election and with the presentations to the Coll ege benefices, the the qualifications of candidates." This resolution fo r provision of a staff of College Lecturers in place of th e abolishing appropriations was carried by 29 votes to 3, existing system of Tu tors and Assistant Tutors, the two besides the Chairman not voting. At th e second amendment of the Government of the Coll ege and of meeting he proposed "that the necessary steps be taken the tenure of Fellowships, especially in connexion with to remove the restrictions imposed by the several Holy Orders and celibacy. Mr R. B. Hayward dealt founders of appropriated Scholarships and Exhibitions, with the latter point. Mr Roby contrasted the existing so far as the powers of the College under the Act may system of government and instruction, and the appro­ extend," and carried it by 24 to 8. A Committee was priation of the College revenue, with that provided and appointed to negotiate with such Schools as were contemplated in the original Statutes drawn up by interested in any Scholarships or Exhibitions of the Bishop Fisher. All these papers advocated similar College, and whose rights were reserved by the Cam­ reforms in the tenure of Fellowships, and proposals bridge University Act, with the view of commuting to carry them into Statute were made by their authors such Scholarships into Exhibitions, and placing the in subsequent meetings. . Exhibitions then connected with the Schools on a more The meetings were resumed on the 3rd March , 1857, useful and effective footing. This was carried by 28 to 2. when the new Master took the ch air. In accordance Further it was agreed that a competent number of open with a proposal of his, the foundation of M r Platt was Scholarships of adP.quate value be provided. ' amalgamated with the general fo undation of the College, The proceedings were interrupted by the death of the three existing Fellows being with their consent 2 1 r 859, at the bottom of the the Master, on 1 9 January, 1857, and the election of his placed as from December, successor. There was an active, but not unfriendly, list of Foundation Fellows, all with the same rights and contest for the Mastership between Mr Bateson and emoluments. Mr Webster's fo un dation was merged in '' Mr France, the latter of whom withdrew after it had the general funds of the College. with been ascertained that Mr Bateson would probably have The appropriated Scholarships were dealt ne.w the majority of votes. Another candidate had been put according to the plan already mentioned, and fo rward by some Fellows, on the ground chiefly of Statutes wNe made fo r certain Exhibition Funds and 6o open stronger ecclesiastical views, F. W. Collison, Rector Sizarships. A Statute was passed establishing the of Marwood, and not long before a much liked and Scholarships of not less than £50 a year each, 203 202 Cot.'ge Reform uuder the Act of 1856 . College Refo rm under the Act of 1856.

additional charge on the general revenue fo r these funds to the tuition fe es. But though the specific and some exhibitions being £ 2, 200 per annum. Four proposals made were voted down, the principle of minor Scholarships were open every year for compe­ applying som e part of the College reven ue to this tition among students not yet in residence or only in purpose, of the amalgamation of the two tutorial sides, their first Term. They were to be tenable for two and of th e distribution of the tuition fees by the College years or until election to an ordin ary Scholarship. was assented to by large majorities. Proposals by The Master's income and privileges came up fo r Mr Liveing and 1\Ir Roby for mod ifying the right of settlement. He proposed and it was agreed to abolish the Fellows in order of seniority to the Co1lege livings the right of option to one of fo ur livings given him by requiring further qualification in the persons to be by Lord Keeper Williams. Sir Isaac Pennington had presented, and limiting the number of refusals allowed left an annuity of £.200 a year to the Master, provided to each Fellow, were defeated, notwithstanding con­ he held one of these livings, Freshwater-the annuity siderable support. to accumulate if he did not hold it, and the Master Mr Reyner proposed stringent resolutions for en­ to receive the interest of the accumulations. Mr fo rcing the Church of England profession of all Fellows. Courtney raised the question of the application of Not only was each Fellow to declare himself a member the Thellusson Act to these accumulat ions. Roundell ef the Church before admission to a Fellowship, and to Palmer's opinion was taken by the College, and in fo rfeit his Fellowship if he ceased to be a member, but accordance with that the bulk of the accumulations the Master might at any time of his own motion require was merged in the general fu nds of the College. A any Fellow to make a declaration to that effect, and Statute settling the emoluments of Lhe Uastership was he was compellable to require such a declaration if amicably agreed to. requested by a majority of the Seniors. Further, the A Statute was also passed on the proposal of the Visitor and the Vice-Chancellor severally might, at Master for giving him a casting vote in lieu of an any time, require such a declaration. Eventua1ly these absolute veto in the transaction of business by the proposals were withdrawn : and the only part which Master and Seniors. was approved and submitted to the Commissioners was The Commissioners eventually approved the Statutes that requiring a declaration before admission as a for these purposes wholly or with slight amendments. Fellow. It may be mentioned here that the reforming The tenure of Fellowsh ips was the sub ject of party announced at one of the Colleg e meetings that numerous proposals and much debate and contest, they did not intend to raise the question of opening the modification of the requirements of Holy Orders and Fellowships to Non conformists, in the belief that such celibacy being urged in various forms by the Junior a proposal would not succeed and would only disturb Fellows, chiefly on the proposal of Mr Hayward, and the other proceedings of the Govern ing Body. Mr defe ated by the more conservative members. A similar Reyner's statute was not approved by the Commis­ fa te befel proposals by Mr Roby fo r a partially elective sioners, but a declaration of bona fide membership of fu rther declaration, Governing Body, and the establishment of a body of the Church of England, and a in the old statutes College lecturers with improved status and longer nearly in the words of the oath ad mission, was included tenure of their Fellowships, and for the enlargement of required from a Fellow before Open secession their salary by an adequate addition fr om the College by them in the new code of statutes. from the Church was to fo rfeit a Fellowship. 20{ College Refo rm under tlte Act of 1856. College Refo rm u11der tileAc t of 185f1. 205 It would� tedious to enumerate the many diffe rent University, or the office of Public Orator, Librarian or proposals made at the College meetings fo r amending Registrary in the same, shall be entitled to retain his the tenure of Fellowships and the existing arrange­ Fellowship unrestricted to Holy Orders or celibacy, so ments fo r instruction in the College. But it may be long as he continues to hold such office, provided the well to give the form which they ultimately assumed. emoluments of such office do not exceed £500 per The Commissioners in May 1858 sent to the Fellows a annum. draft body of Statutes, and in reply certain of them 5· Every Fellow who shall at the expiration of ten made th e subjoined proposals (partly taken from the years from the date of his admission be actually dis­ Commissioners' draft) as, in their judgment, better than chargi ng the duties of College Lecturer, and shall have those suggested by the Commissioners, and more likely actually discharged the said duties for at least three to secure the assent of the Governing Body. These years befo re the expiration of such period of ten years, proposals were signed (November 1858) by 1 9 of the shall be entitled to retain his Fellowship so ·long as he Fellows, and had they been adopted by the Commis­ continue to discharge the said duties, ·provided sioners would presumably have become law, as two­ shall that he remains unmarried. Every Lecturer so. retain­ thirds of the Governing Body (53 Fellows and the ing Fellowship shall receive a salary of not less Master) were required by th e Act to veto a proposal his £100 per annum, either from the tuition fe es or of the Commissioners. The Fellows signing this paper than from the general funds of the College. The number of were R. B. Mayor, Ch. Babington, John E. B. Mayor, College Lecturers shall be determined fr om time to Besant, Hayward, J os. B. Mayor, Liveing, Sprague, by the Master and Seniors. Roby, Burbury, Beresford, Eastburn, Courtney, Rees, time Hancock, Elsee, Hadley, Rowe, and Brodribb. 6. There shall be six Praelectors who shall be of the College in virtue of their office, and Proposals submitted to the Commissioners Nov. 1858 : Fellows shall moreover be entitled severally to £200 per 1. Every Fellow shall be entitled to retain his annum in addition out of the revenues of the College, Fellowship for ten years from the date of his admission, and also to a share of the tuition fe es. No one shall whether he be in Holy Orders or not. be disqualified from holding a Praelectorship by reason 2, Every Fellow shall be entitled to retain his of his not ueing in Holy Orders, or of his being married. Fellowship fo r ten years from the date of his admission, Every person who has discharged the duties of Prae­ whether he be married or unmarried. lector not less than twenty years shall be entitled to 3· Every Fellow who shall have entered into I-Ioly retain a Fellowship for life. No Praelector shall hold Orders before the expiration of five years from the date his office more than thirty years. The duty of the of his ad mission shall be entitled to retain his Fellow­ Praelector shall be to take such part in the College ship fo r life provided he remains unmarried, and also Lectures, &c., as shall be determined fro m time to time either reside in College or be engaged in parochial by the Master and Seniors. work. 7· Any M.A. Fellow resident in College may be 4· Every Fellow who shall at the expiration of ten appointed by the Master to be tutor, " in loco parentis" years from the date of his ad mission be actually hold­ for the purpose of discipline and general supervision, ing any Professorship or Public Lectureship in the but no Tutor shall have more than 40 Un dergraduate pupils in all at any one time. 206 College Refo rm under lh� A cl of 18s6. College Reform under the Act of 1859. 207 8. The distribution of the tuition fe es among the Praelectors, Lecturers to entirely and Tutors, shall be determined after the M.A. Praelectors were obj ected by the Master and Seniors. by the majority. The Commissioners adhered to their 9· The proposal of Praelectors, but made their number, duties, appointment of the Praelectors and of the other College and emolument to be at the discretion of the Master Lectur·ers shall be made by the Master and Seniors, and the Statute became a dead letter. and two Senior Praelectors. Marriage was still to vacate all Fellowships, unless the 10. No married Fellow shall reside in College. Fellow was a Professor, or Public Lecturer in the Uni­ I 1. No married Fellow, not more than half the versity, or Public Orator, Registrary, or Librarian. full number of Praelectors, and not more than fo ur The requirement of taking Holy Orders was not to Laymen shall have places on the board of Master apply to any Fellow holding one of these offices or and Seniors. being Tutor, Praelector, Lecturer, or Senior Bursar

Mr Joseph Mayor in the College, or to Fellows who had held one or more drew up and circulated (in February 500 1859) a paper showing of these offices fo r ten years. An income of £ from that the average number of elections to Fellowships private property, or of£ Boo fr om Academical office was under some such rules as those just set fo rth would to vacate a Fellowship. For all Fellows not holding be 4� per annum, compared with 4J the aboved named offices the old requirement of Priest's under existing arrange ments. Mr Roby published in February I858 Orders within seven years from M.A. was retained a second pamphlet discussing College with the old exception of two Fellows fo r Civil Law, reform at some length. The Commissioners and two for Medicine. sent to the members of the The bulk of the Commissioners' Code of Statutes Governing Body in I 859 an amended draft code of received the assent of the Queen in Council, l7th statutes which was considered at several meetings of the Governing Body in February I 86o. The old Statutes were repealed, March dl59· Adverse reso­ lutions on ma except so far as they related to emoluments, tenure ny of the points, especially on the tenure of office, right of prae-option of livings, and other of Fellowships, on the arrangements fo r tuition, and interests of a pecuniary nature of the present Master, the making a contribution to th e University were and of the Fellows elected before 22nd February I86o, carried by large majorities. The proposal any of whom might, however, claim to come under the fo r a contribution fr om the College revenues to University new Statutes. purposes was dropped by the Commissioners. It will be seen fr om the above that while on some Obviously a general Statute applic­ able to all Colleges important matters, such as the Government of the was required fo r this purpose. The College, proposals for reform had little success, arrangements fo r the tuition were modified. On the tenure of Fellowships on others such, as the arrangements fo r tuition, there Mr Parkinson proposed, and the was partial improvement. As regards the requirements majority of the Governing Body resolved, that every Fellow should vacate his of Holy Orders and Celibacy a substantial advance was Fellowship on marriage ; and ma Commissioners would have gone further that every Fellow should de. The vacate his Fellowship at the end of ten years on this as on other matters had not the conservative after obtaining the standing of M.A., opposition been firm. Nor can one be surprised at the unless he had taken Holy Orders within five years opposition. The semi-monastic institution, intended by I 209 College Refo rm under the Act of 856. 208 College Refo rm 111uier the Act of I 8s6. Parliament and to was left to subsequent Acts of its fo under to train for the study of Divinity, at a time It fu rther than Commissioners to carry the reform when the clergy were required to be Celibates, was other the very important work was possible at present. But obviously exposed to great transformation if this founders the restrictions imposed by their basis was, interfered wi th. Was such transformation of removing and the creation some Fellowships and Scholarships, required ? Three centuries had in practice greatly on adequate amount a good number of Scholarships of softened the rigidity of the early statutes, had freed the of it involved was done with very general consent, though Fellows as such fr om almost all duties and burdens, the existing body. pecuniary sacrifices on the part of had redueed all payments from Coll_e ge funds fo r the H. J. R. instruction of scholars and pensioners to the merest 7 October 1909. fraction, and had applied the bulk of the College income to the maintenance of the Master and Fellows, and money payments to them. So that any one who was willing in the course of a few years to take Holy Orders could wait quietly, either in some clerical or scholastic post in the country, or in the pleasant society of the University, with enough to live upon, till a College bene­ fice came to his turn, and he could leave College aud marr:r if he chose. Meantime, inclusion in the College staffor private tuition enabled many resident Fellows to add considerably to their income, and succession to the Head Tutorship prought, to a fe w, opporlunities of acquiring wealth. On the other hand, however able a Fellow might be, however much disposed to give _h imself to the work of instruction in the College, he cmlld . not (unless one of the lucky fe w) expect to get therefrom ,adequate remuneration ; he could not in any way make it the work of his life, unless he aban­ doned or indefinitely postponed th e idea of marriage, and was prepared without any real vocation fo r the ministry to submit to the imposition of Holy Orders. The younger Fellows naturally chafed at restrictions which they could not see to be necessary for the work of the College, as an organ of education and a home of scientificstudy, and they failed to findin the College, as it existed in the nineteenth century, any such resemblance to Bishop Fisher's ideal as to justify the retention of restrictions, when time had so largely changed its othGr fe ature�. VOL. XXXI. AA To Clf:onymus. 211

Still, I think your name is mentioned far more frequently than most (It was an awful pity that you ever left your post !) It must have fairly sickened you to hear in every play About "clear old Cleonymus, who threw his shield away ! " TO CLEONYMUS. And then, I can imagine, when you walked about the town, (From a Sy mpathiser.) You would hear a father whisper to his infant, bending down, "You see that fat old man, my clear, that very fat old man ? CLEONYMUS1 how was it, when you scuttled off the field, That fat old man's Cleonymus, who dropped his shield That-of all things in creation !-you should go and drop and ran !" your shield ? And even then presumably you might have lived at ease, It got beyond a joke : you thought the thing would If it hadn't ever reached the ears of Aristophanes. never drop. You dared not go outside ; you had to shun the barber's shop. Cleonymus-p[tfaCT7TL(;'-he has dinned it in our ears, If ever you went out, no doubt some ragamuffin squealed, Your terrible misfortune, for a good two thousand years : '' Excuse me, Sir ! Cleonymus ! I think you've dropped In each successive play there is the same shield-dropping your-shield ! " tale- Well, don't you think, Cleonymus, it's getting rather stale ? Yet, sickening though it was, perhaps it wasn't quite so bad If you had a sense of humour-and I like to think you had. Though perhaps you weren't a hero, still it must be past I like to think you saw the plays and quite enjoyed the fun, a joke And, when you heard " p[tfaa7TLt;"1 roared as loud as anyone ! To be mercilessly badgered by these comic-writer folk ; And perhaps, all things considered, the unvarnishecl truth If I were you, Cleonymus1 if now you freely mix to say, With the others of that company who dwell beyond the Styx, You were not the only warrior who dropped his shield I'd collect Cleon and Lamachus, a few such men as these, that day. And go and knock the stuffing out of Aristophanes ! Cleonymus1 if you should meet me Though your name's come clown the ages, still your fame When my turn comes, has come down too- there, And the latter much distorted-which is rather bad for you. When I've swum across the Styx (to save the boatman's In the notes of modern text-books you will read such threepence fare), words as these- Will you kindly introduce yourself, when I've got safe on " Cleonymus.-A favourite butt of Aristophanes." land ? For, hnng it nll, Cleonymus, I'd like to shake your hand ! They're a goodly crowd whose feelings he so mercilessly F. C. 0. cuts : Euripides and Socrates were also "favourite butts " ; To these add that prime-minister-the leather-selling man­ You form a goodly party : find a better if you can ! A.-\ 2 J.

THE VICAR AND CHURCH OF LITTLE MAPLESTED.

ARDS the end of last summer I had nOWoccasion to go into North Essex, and, when my business was done, went on a fe w miles to Little Maplested. There is no villag-e there and the church stands by itself, so I stopped at the ., cross roads, where three or fo ur labourers' cottages stand back in gardens, to enquire where the church­ L1rT7l.E M.APll.ESTRA.lll ·G.lliT:JH"'....B. "E::lS.EX.

key would be fo und. In one of these cottage gardens SOtl :I -:A�T VlZ:.W -·- a small notice-board had written on it "the Vicar,' but _...�Jd!i.dtlld Pu. before I could get up to the gate a woman appeared, holding up a key, who said she would let me into the church. I had therefore no excuse fo r troubling the vicar, yet could not help being struck by the quaintne�s of the vicarage, which seemed to betoken somewhat the character of its occupant. V.�hen I got home Crock­ fo rd's directory informed me that the vicar, the Rev. J. Harward, was a Johnian, who had taken his M.A.W. degree when I was a fr eshman, and has held the incumbency of Little Maplested ever since 1855· He is now ninety years old, but has not lost his vivacity, preaches twice every Sunday, and is otherwise active. His parish, to be sure, is small enough, with hardly more inhabitants than one large fa rmer and the people " l :• t.: .J .1. he employs. ..:'a"'l.t.,,r 4.Fe.."t Soon after my visit he seems to have been inter­ viewed by a correspondent of the Daily A:fail, and a characteristic paragraph thereafter made known to the readers of that Journal something of his personality. The Vicar and Church of Little Maplested. 213

He is contented with a very poor living, derived from about 20 acres of glebe and a rent charge of £ 10 on the manor, with some small grants from Queen Anne's bounty and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. There is no house, and the vicar, a widower since 18Sz, lives alone, without a servant, in the cottage he hires for £5 a year, neither smoking or taking alcohol, cheerful in his simple life and independence, happy in being able to perform his duties, and proud of his church. The Church of which he is vicar is quite as interest­ ing as the parson. A good history of it, by W. W alien, F.S.A., was published in 1836 by Weale, and is the chief authority, beyond my own observations, fo r what I have to say about it, and from it Mr Wallen's plan and view of the church are here reproduced. The parish, and the priest there, are mentioned in the Doomsday survey, but nothing is there said of the church. In 1185 Juliana, daughter of Richard Dosnel, gave the whole parish, including the church, to the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, and the grant was confirmed the fo llowing year by her husband, William Fitz-Adhelin de Burgo.• . This year u85 is remarkable in this connexion because, according to the inscription which used to be over the door of the Temple Church in London, now gone but preserved in Strype's edition of Stow's survey,t the Temple Church was in that year dedicated by Heraclius, patriarch of the Church of the Holy Resurrection. The Hospitallers erected at 1Iaplestead a commandery, subject to the Priory at Clerkenwell, which subsisted until the disso­ lution of the religious houses, and was surrendered about 1540. No vestige remains of the buildings of the commandery, or of the original church, which was very likely a wooden one, perhaps like the Saxon Church at Greensted, near Ongar. There can be no doubt that Little Maplestead Church was built by the

"' Dugdale Monast. II. p. 544. t Ed. 1720 Bk. III. p. 272. 214 The Vi car aJLd Church of LiUle Maplesled. The Vicar and Clmrch of LiUle !JIaplesled. 215

Hospitallers, who were Lords of the Manor, but no Church. The dimensions are given by the plan, which record of its building has survived. The style of the also shows the peculiar form of the chancel. Perhaps architecture reveals fa irly well the date of it, fo r the original fo rm of the chancel of the Cambridge it is decorated, of a ty pe p revalent in the latter Round Church may have been like it. Whether it is part of the thirteenth century, as is seen ·in the the reproduction of a fe ature of the Church of theHoly tracery of the windows, the form of the pillars and the Sepulchre as it was in the thirteenth century I cannot mouldings of the arcade, and particularly in the beauti­ say. The present Church at Jerusalem dates only from ful western doorway, with the moulding of jambs and last century, and does not resemble it at all. arch decorated with a double row of quatrefoils , and There is a tradition in the parish that, before the the label moulding with trefoils, very similar to some repairs above-mentioned, the Church was so neglected in Westminster Abbey of known date 1269 and 1270. that the sheep which grazed the churchyard walked Mr Wal len gives good reasons fo r thinking that the into and through the Church. The Church was neg­ Church was built all at one time, so fa r as the masonry lected, as I can remember, but the sheep could not is concerned, and has since undergone no changes have walked into it unless the children who went to the except the loss of the upper parts of two buttresses of school, which opened into the Church, left the door the chancel. He thinks, however, that the round part open. was originally covered with a dome, and cites the In Crockford' s clerical directory the benefice of example of the round church in Paris, destroyed at the Little Maplested is said to be in the gift of the Revolution. That church, j udging by the picture of it Sabbatarians. That is not quite correct, but it is in he gives, was a very solid Romanesque building with a the gift of Davis' Trustees, who hold the Manor in trust clerestory, and a dome over the central part only. fo r the Sabbatarian congregation attending the Chapel Maplested Church is very lightly constructed ; the in Mill Yard, Goodman's Fields, London. The Manor, outer walls are only 27 inches thick, and the arcade after the dissolution of the commandery, was sold by equally slight. There is no clerestory, and no indica­ the Crown, and, after changing hands more than once, tion of the fo rmer existence of one. If there ever were was purchased in 1705 by Mr Jos. Davis, a Sabbatarian, a dome it must have been a wooden one. But it seems and was left by him, with some other property, to to me that the present construction is such as it was at Trustees fo r the maintenance of the Chapel, payment first. The superstructure of the round part is entirely of the minister, and the poor people of the congregation. of wood, and a hexagonal wooden belfry is carried up The Sabbatarians, sometimes called Seventh Day above the arcade which is hexastyle, as is shown in Baptists, used to keep holy the seventh day as the Wallen's etching. That etching shows the Church as original sabbath, though many of them observed the it was in 1836, but it was repaired not long after, about first day also ; and represented (as Mr Mullinger has 1850 if my memory does not fail me, and then the informed me) the reaction which set in among the schoolroom at the west end was removed and the west Puritans after the issue of the Book of Sports in 1618. doorway opened to view. At the same time the tumble­ By the beginning of last century the sect had so down chimney at the east end, which belonged to a dwindled that there were no members of the congrega­ fireplace in- the vestry fo rmed by screening off the apse, tion fit to be trustees, and a scheme was obtained fr om was pulled down, and the apse again opened into the the Court of Chancery fo r the administration of the 216 The Vicar aud Church of Little Maplesled.

Trust, which, so fa r as I can gather from the reports of the Charity Commissioners, is still in force. The net income of the estate is ne arly £ soo a year, of which most is paid to the minister, clerk, and sexton, and to the poor who seem to fo rm all, or nearly all, the congregation, which is the only one of the sect in England, It is evident that the Sabbatarians exist fo r the endowment, not the endowment fo r the Sabbatarians.

G. D. L. SUNSET.

I WAS alone at sunset where ihe sand stretched far away, When the sea lay idly rolling to the gates of the western day ; The crimson cloud's reflection dripped blood on the waters grey, And my spirit sighed With the evening tide And the depth of the blushing ray.

The wild duck rushed from seaward, like blots on the living sky, And the black sails glided silent to the haven waters nigh ; The smoke of the solemn steam-boat rose murky, soaring high, And faint and dim Like a vesper hymn Came the roll of the curlew's cry.

Such times as these bring feelings which sweep through the heart of man, And bid him rise triumphant and spurn the ocean's span ; They loose his soul within him and free his spirit wan, Like the gust which springs 'Neath the osprey's wings From the stroke of the ocean's fan. 218 Sunset. � -,.;;;·'"i i! j r �-�. . e · ' ·� . ., � f" , ':'" , " . _, . - . ¥ �� . �-Y>\ . . ,;;·-� ;11t·_ ,Y- {��-o )\::.:-- · ,·,;>-..·� ,,·; � The cloud-banks tottering, shattered, and formed anew ; · · . .ai..:�' �.-,.-;.�<;t �4- .. ""-:'·qc�-�·;..-Zfr. ..._/¥1.'�· · \'-::-if ��it� . i·:.ll.t ���'-' � :·• ..--.:- tt-. ��...... '-' ,.- � !J 'i�f�;_� J...'lj � �-1\ �� �-"'---"" 1l • .,;j; 'f and swelled J In dappled pillars dipping in the redness freshly welled ; But the misty distance pm·pled and drooped as the day was knelled, And a darkness loomed "GRAVE DISORDER." O'er the sun entombed, Like a pall o'er the dead upheld. T has frequently been pointed out that the adjustment of the human body to its physical And still I looked with wonder, and a sadness keen and environment is exceedingly delicate. Thus, deep, for instance, various eminent persons have Through the wreathing sh ades descending which stooped declared that, in the event of an increase in the pro­ to the sea asleep ; portion of oxygen in the atmosphere, the human race And the moaning tide came drifting like a scythe which glides to reap, would live so fast that it would at length come to an end When, white and fair, in a delirium of unexampled and universal merriment. From a cloud-hung stair, In a certain year when the 2oth century was still in Rolled the orb which compelled its sweep. its youth there entered St John's College one Edison:B. Spokes. He brought with him a distinctive personality E. V. and no small amount of the inventive faculty which is associated with his famous namesake. There were, however, about him certain mannerisms and eccentrici­ ties of behaviour which caused his absorption into the collegiate organism to be attended with considerable friction. During this process of absorption there occurred the ever-memorable event which we are about to narrate. Now the mind of Edison was of the most extreme modernity. This did not, however, prevent a certain narrowness which caused him considerable unpopularity. Thus, having ordered at the kitchens, and failed to obtain, "chewing-gum," and having returned the gum arabic which was supplied as the nearest available approxi­ mation, he complained to his Tutor of the absence in the College of most of the necessaries of life . He received the reply that all such matters pertained to the Steward's department, and was recommended to take up a m0re philosophic attitude. , 220 "Grave Disorder.'1 "Grave Disorder. 221

On the whole, Edison's first term was not a success. the long-suffering exterior. Not without significance of He placed his name on the rowing-list and was duly was it that men became accustomed to the sight courts "tubbed," getting indeed as fa r as a junior " crock"; but Edison B. Spokes, staggering through the that here his career ended, owing to a difference with the beneath a load of weird and uncanny parcels, or coach on the subject of his personal dignity, complicated these latter were distributed among his fri ends. by an aggressive demand for a motor in the stern of For an account of the working out of the vengeance an the boat. we must make use of the opportune record of eye­ His Possessing, as we have stated, an inventive turn of witness, which has recently fallen into our hands. as mind and not lacking a certain attractiveness, Edison veracity is beyond question and his story somewhat became the nucleus of a small and exclusive set who follows :- the discovered a bond of union in eccentricity and found a "Owing to various social engagements during into certain fel lowship in seclusion. These men, devoting Christmas Vacation of 19-, I happened to come l. themselves chiefly to obscure mechanical pursuits, residence fo r the Lent Term slightly later than usua a became known as the "Independent Labour Party." Driving up in a hansom I noticed with surprise What That a certain hostility should exist towards such a considerable crowd outside the College gate. an d sect is only natural. That it should wear itself out with was my astonish ment when, in place of the stately I was time is also in the ordinary course of things. The · digni6ed reception to which I was accustomed, ! I number of practical jokes adapted to life in College is received with peals of unrestrained laughter could limited. These having been conscientiously worked qw�stioned various functionaries. Not a man fe ebly through, there remains nothing but satiety or the vanity reply in coherent language ! Some were leaning of repetition. against the walls, others dancing in an irregular manner, erous Now when Edison found his crockery pulverised he others again running races with a somewhat pond might took a severely practical view of thecase and purchased luggage-barrow. Astounded, I inquired if I also and th at iron cups and saucers. When, on getting)nto bed, his share the jest. All the answer I received, . accustomed fe et encountered fra gments of fu el, he put up a notice with difficulty, fr om one whom I had been ect that every­ stating that he had already purchased a hot-water to regard as a taciturn person, was to the eff of my bo.x,­ bottle. Finding this one day fu ll of beer, he drank the thing was a joke,-the rain,-the weight Everything latter and published a report that he was a strict teeto­ my hat,-the College,-life itself in general. unexampled taller. Wh en, again, his gyp drew his attention to a afforded occasion fo r unrestrained and herring which had lain fo r a fortn ight beneath his hilarity. I inadvertently carpet, he erected an apparatus which was capable of Being thoroughly disturbed by now, Roars of detecting the odour of fish to the extent of one part offered a bad half-crown to my cabman. a t ha! in lOO,OOOJ laughter followed ! ·' It's bad!" he yelled "H the best ! This kind of thing at length tired out the fa cetious ha ! Oh ! you're a sportsman, Sir. ! One of him drive of£ persons and the I. L. P. receded into obscurity and Oh lord ! what a joke. !" I watched I saw it,-I too saw the apparent lifelessness. Let it not be supposed, however, shrieking with laughter. Then of a base coin. that this superficial meekness was anything but a mask, humour that lurked behind the passing extraordinary deficient. fo r indeed a most subtle scheme of revenge lay beneath How du11 we had been ! How '' Grave Disorder." 223 222 "Grave Disorder.'' · mind. It seems that he ha d invented a process of in sense of the grotesque ! Wonderful elation took efficiency for manufacturing oxygen. This possession of me. I swarmed a lamp-post and began incredible set going in secret in three distinct parts of to deliver an oration. No-one listened, but I only saw he had College. He had raised the proportion of the gas in this f1·esh occasion for mirth. the immediate atmosphere to some three times the My attention was soon attracted by a group of in the amount. The calmness of the weather had figures on a grass-plot surrounded by a considerable normal and his apparent insignificance was crowd. Bedders ! Bedders dancing what is, I believe, helped his plans, nst suspicion. He had had his revenge. called a "saraband " in broad daylight in the open a defence agai for many years to come the im­ court ! Rushing through the "screens " shouting wild He had destroyed y which broods upon an ancient seat greetings I passed through the second court. From all memorial dignit He had converted academic repose into sides came the sound of singing and laughter, and of learning. carnival. At the same time he from the Combination Room a noise as of sustained and a vast and scandalous ted his own academic career. calculated revelry ! Reaching my rooms I laughed to had abruptly termina to be seen among us and there the point of exhaustion, and slept fitfully until "hall " Very soon he ceased which began by prohibiting "the pos­ time. The din in "hall " was deafening, and collisions appeared Edicts apparatus " and ended with the were continually occurring amongst the waiters, who session of unusual 'grave disorder.' " ran wildly about endeavouriug to satisfy the insatiable significant words demand for food. (This was before the institution of P. A. I. the five-"ha lls '' -a-day scheme). Far away at the end of a vista of tables I noticed a small untidy individual. He was very solemn and his solemnity struck me as so incongruous that I again became subject to ungovernable mirth. He was Edison B. Spokes I Why, however, relate all the events of that furious week ! The perpetual bonfires in all four courts as well as on the Chapel Tower-the vast consumption of food, -the extraordinary fatigue of perpetual laughter ! Let us pass on to the day when to these things there came an end, and when to delirium there succeeded a most unhappy awakening. It was on the following Saturday that I en­ countered Edison B. Spokes on the Bridge of Sighs. He was hysterical. He contemplated suicide. He "guessed the gas had given out." Then I saw and understood. Our wild week of insanity was due not to demoni­ acal possession, not to the Comet, but simply to Edison B. Spokes' outraged dignity and his ingenious THE SAME RENDERED INTO ENGLISH. FROM A LATIN HYMN ON ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST John the poisoned chalice drained, Yet that virgin life, unstained, Power of faith maintaineth : Haurit virus hie letale To the torturers' amaze, Ubi corpus virginale In the torturing oil ablaze Virtus servat fidei: Him no torture paineth. Pcena stupet quod in pcena Sit loannes sine pcena Saint that by his word of might Bullientis olei. Changed e'e.1 stones to jewels bright, Nature's law subduing : Hie naturis imperat At his bidding branches green Ut et saxa trausferat Stiffen, take gold's ruddy sheen, In decus gemmarum : Nature new enduing. Quo iubente riguit, John unbars death's fast-shut door, Auri fulvum induit Bids the grave to life restore Virgula silvarum. * Whom the venom slew : Hie infernum reserat, Stops the mouths of Ebion, Morti iubet referat Cerinthus and Mm·cion, Quos venenum stravit : Impious barking crew. Obstruit quod Ebion, Eagle soaring beyond sight, Cerinthus et Marcion Never winged a loftier fl ight Perfide latravi t. t Prophet old or seer : Volat avis sine meta Things that have been, things to be, Quo nee vates nee propheta None the secrets saw that he Evolavit altius : Read in vision clear. (TTerbmn Dei, Dco Tam implenda quam impleta,t These lines are stanzas 6-9 of the Latin hymn nalttm) to the school of .Adam of Saint Victor (Cent. xii). The other Nunquam vidit tot secreta assigned stanzas, eight in number, speak of St John's doctrine. These, which tell Purus homo purius. of his miracles, are here given to illustrate a paper in the last number, to be completed (it is hoped) in the next, on "Legends of St John." Trench * Of this legend, very popular in of the Middle Ages, more in the next (Sacrcrl TJ ali11 Poetry, 1849) omitted the stanzas 6-8, apparently as being number. little profit or interest to the Protestant reader. The fine last stanza he or t "Vox latrandi est usitatissima de h::ereticis, quos amant cum canibus course gives. Olshausen prefixed it to his SI Jolm's Gospel, as Prof. Swete conferre antiqni." Daniel, ii 167. recently to his Apocalypse. It deserves to be known to all readers of this t " The i111ptenda are the Apocalypse, the impleta the Gospel." Trench. magazine. W. A. C. VOL. XXXI. BB . ' ·- . · ...· . .... Vo luularies . 227 ·:., ,�! -._-:-·�...-······,f . .· �-�,.., ... ;I (� I ·t ·� '";�'fi' ,T--·�·'71( fe eling of having made some part of the entertainment. - �,·-r� , �'�l-·��'-',-� "���t��·-:.; �) ft'\�;�.,-�._-��.,-* � / *'.,;t� � ?!!.��� :��,A�.\\ In the theatre the effect left by the most sombre of tragedies is dispelled at the end by the playing of some jaunty air, while in church the congregation file out of their pews to tl1e accompaniment of a cheerful

VOLUNTARIES. voluntary. I remember very well staying some years ago in a village in Dorsetshire and repairing on Sunday to HERE is a desire very deep in the hearts of service in the old church. It was a fine June morning, most men to leave anything which may have and the sun was streaming through the diamond-paned been occupying their attention for a period windows, lighting up the stone pillars and arches in of time iu a graceful and becoming manner. a way that lent a wonderful reality to their graceful It is closely allied to th e passion of the actor to make fo rms. There was no music in the service except to what, in the phraseology of the stage, is known as accompany the hymns, and never, I thought, had the "an effective exit." It is prom pted by an appreciation words of the Common Prayer sounded more beautiful of the art of manners, by a dislike of the discordant and than they did that day, spoken with admirable feeling abrupt. In private relations it is frequently to be by an old clergyman whose tremulous voice seemed to observed. Two men parting fo r a comparatively short linger on the passages he fe lt and loved most deeply. time will fo recast their next meeting with great care, The blessing had been pronounced and I was preparing though that meeting be inevitable in a few hours. They to leave with the impression still upon me, when the will recall the most important point of their conversation village org anist, exerting the full capacities of his and reiterate their decisions, though there can have harmonium, burst into the wildest of Irish jigs. I been no doubt as to their fi nal ity. "I shall see you glanced round half expecting to see the portly wife to- m orrow," says the parting guest, when there can be of the village squire dancing down the aisle with her no question of his doing otherwise. "I shall buy the husband, but, from the respectable stolidity of their shares you mentioned," says the host, when the matter faces, it was obvious that thf-!Y were well accustomed was settled half-an-hour previously. These and a to the vagaries of their village musician. hundred other devices they employ to make their The incident impressed me at the time, and interview end on a rlecisive note. I wondered at the supposed necessity fo r a musical In public meetings superfluous votes of thanks or accompaniment to the departure of this village con­ the singing of the National Anthem bring affairs to gregation. It was, however, as I soon realised, nothing a graceful conclusion. The frequent use of the National more than the desire fo r the effective exit which is Anthem is, I take it, not so much due to any expression implied in the very nature of the Voluntary. of loyalty as to the delight which most people find in There are few sensations more pleasing than to leave the singing of it. It gives rein to the pent up energies a ceremony to the strains of appropriate music. It is of the listener, it provides an opportunity fo r the exercise a conclusion which fe w who have anything of the of a voice which has been unemployed fo r an hour or so, dramatic in their nature can resist. It is a relic of and the audience take their leave with the gratifying an age in which pageantry played a larger part in the 228 Vo luu taries. daily life of the people, and can, of course, only be used on those occasions in which pageantry still has some place. In ordinary life we are reduced to meaner - expedients. My friend W , with whom I have talked on the subject, tells me that he has made a life­ study of the art of leaving-- a room in a successful manner. He has many ingenious devices, one to which TilE HYMN BOOK. he reverts as a last resort, and he assures me that hP. has never known it to fail, is to turn off the electric ET me say at the outset that this book is a light as he reaches the door. credit and a distinction to the College. The conception is wholly admirable, and the execution appears to me to be generally excellent. The points on which I should dissent from the judgment of the compilers are chiefly points on which difference of opinion is not only necessary but desirable. Hymns and hymnology are a matter in which literary judgment must always give way to the force of personal association. Hymns are the true "Volks­ lieder " of the English people. They are the one fo rm of poetry which old and young, rich and poor, educated and illiterate share alike : and they are almost the only form which has any close asssociation with music. Compilers of hymn books have always recog­ nised this. Their weak point has been that they have not realised that historical association is, or may become, with some minds as potent as personal association. It is right enough that we should be fo nd of a hymn because it recalls certain memories in our own lives. But the life of the Church is greater tban our life, and the part that a hymn has played in the life of the Church is to some minds more important than the part it has played in their own lives. As an example of this we need not look further than the first hymn of this book,-St. Ambrose's morning hymn. Those pure and austere lines have no doubt won much admiration and affection on their merits. But how much increased is their power when 230 The Hy mn Book. The Hy mn Book. 231 we realise the centuries that they have belonged to given without the original, are certainly those in which the Church, and associate them with the great and the original can best be dispensed with. The only august figure which won Augustine and awed Theo­ exceptions which I should make to this general state­ dosius ! ment are the Adoro te devote (" Thee we adore," No. 156), The great merit of our hymn book is that more than and perhaps I·:hc bre'l/e vz'vziur, with its sister hymn­ any other collection (at least of those known to me) " Brief life" and "Jerusalem the Golden." The name it recognises and fosters the historical interest of hym­ ' and fame of its writer, the Angelica! Doctor, the nology. It does this chiefly by a fo ur-fold apparatus, greatest of the School men, makes the fo rmer one of the which is excellently arranged. To the hymns them­ mo�t interesting of Latin hymns : the latter is perhaps selves are appended only the name and date of the chiefly remembered for its metrical peculiarities. If writer. But at the beginning of the book there are the Latin is not inserted, I think that attention might also biographic.-tl notices of each author, and at the end be called in the notes to special beauties and quaint­ notes on the hymns. Finally, besides the ordinary nesses of phrase. Thus in Adoro te devote, probably alphabetical index of hymns, there is an index of everyone we>Uld be interested to .know that the original writers, so that the reader can see at a glance how of " Fountain of Goodness " in the third verse is many and what hymns of each writer are inserted. j;t'e petlt'cane. I suppose-in fact I am sure-we Both the biographical notices and the notes are of the cannot, as one hymn book does, sing "Pelican right length and nature on the whole. * The biographies of mercy ;" all the same we can appreciate the perhaps sometimes consist too much of bald facts, and thought. omit the distinguishing touches by which the writer is l'he classification and arrangement of the hymns has chiefly remembered in history ; and one feature of many merits. In particular we may note that a chrono­ interest might, I think, have been added to the notes. logical order has been adopted in all hymns of the same Many hymns have occupied a place in literature or in cl ass. Some individual points in the classification are great men's lives that is worth recording, and the open to question. "Gracious Spirit " (No. 125) is appendix of notes to a hymn book might do on a surely for Quinquagesima, not Whitsuntide. Nu nc suzs small scale fo r hymnology what Prothero's book has ta1tdem ( " Lo from his desert home" No. 59) belongs to done fo r the Psalms. June 24th, as would be clear if the fourth verse had An extremely important fe ature is the insertion of not been somewhat needlessly excised. "Blest are the the originals of Latin hymns. I am inclined to think pure in heart" might have been kept, as E:,ebleint ended that this might have been done with advantage in all it, fo r the Purification, and indeed in the version here cases where the translation is given, but assuming that given is hardly intelligible except in that connection. this is not desirable, the compilers have ex.ercised a wise On the other hand it is a fine taste which has ranked choice. The Latin hymns in which the translation is the great Jesu du lc zs· memorz'a as a communion hymn. I may here note one curious omis sion. There * There is an error jr{ the note to 56. The hymn comes from the are no harvest hymns. Harvest thanksgiving comes "Lay," not from the " Lady of the Lake." Here it may be noted that by fa irly within the range of the October Term, and is, I a curious slip "Vexilla Regis " is attributed, in the Index of Authors, to Prudentius as well as to its real author Forlunatus. These are the only presume, as suitable a fo rm of service to a College mistakes which I have noted. Congregation as to any other ; while on the other hand 232 The Hy mn Book. The Hy 11111 Booh. 233

the ordinary hymn books have several harvest hymns Now for what in all compilations is the really im­ which seem to me good and are certainly popular. portant matter, the selection of hymns. Every reader The compilers of hymn books have no task more will of course notice that a large number of very difficult or delicate than that of excision of verses. popular hymns are omitted, while many that are quite Many, perhaps most, hymns are so long that the thing unfamiliar are inserted. Opinions will no doubt differ has to be done. Here again, I must admit, there are as to the wisdom of this. On the whole, and after much some cases where my judgment would differ from dubious reflection, I believe the compilers are right. that of the compilers. I should like to mention one A College Chapel is open fo r service only for a part of case, that of Keble's "There is a book " (No. 79). In the year, and the bulk of the congregation attend it for spite of my deep admiration for the poet, I never can only three or four years of their lives. If they miss help feeling that this is the one hymn in this (and most) some hymns which have won their affection they will collections which is really bad. It seems to me to have ample opportunity of hearing them at other times inculcate a way of " reading the book " of nature, which and in other places. On the other hand, the College is utterly unnatural, and certainly alien to the feeling Chapel can teach them to know and apptoeciate many not only of the great secular poets of nature, but also sacred poems of great interest and beauty which to that of the great nature hymns, such as the 104th otherwise they would never read or hear. In saying Psalm, or the hymn of St Francis. But if we must this, I do not mean that the editors' choice of familiar really treat nature in this way and think of "our sister hymns would exactly correspond with mine. I could the moon," chiefly as running a wondrous race with mention several for whose insertion I would fain have the Church, at any rate the rest of the parallelism should pleaded. Foremost amongst these I should place be given, and we should also be taught that "Nearer to Thee." I do not forget that Matthew The Saviour lends the light and heat Arnold said of some certainly oddly expressed lines in Which crown His holy hill, this hymn, that God is "dispraised and disserved " The Saints like stars around His seat when we sing such doggrel. All the same this ls a Perform their courses slill . hymn of which I should say securzts fudzcat orbt·s. The idea of the great Dead shining '' like the stars I believe it owes its fame mainly to the fact that it is a for ever and ever " is at any rate scriptural and true beautiful interpretation of an Old Testament story poetry. On the other hand there are many cases where which has been always felt to have a peculiar charm, our compilers have made great improvement by which touched in a special degree the imagination of restoring verses omitted in common usage. Here l\Iilton and Ruskin, and which moreover is appointed again I may quote a single case, also one of Keble's in our lectionary to be read three times in the course of hymns. In "New every 1\Iorning," the fifth verse the year. And here by way of digression may I say ending that it seems to me that it should always be remembered The secret this of rest below that a hymn is part of a service, and that one which is usually omitted. But as the compilers have seen, interprets other parts of the service is particularly it is really necessary to br ing out the full meaning of valuable. Several hymns in this volume do this, for the sixth verse ; instance Wordworth's "Songs of Thankfulness " is Only, 0 Lord, in thy clear love an admirable interpretation of the general course of Fit us for perfect rest aboz•c. The Hy m·n Book. 235 734 The Hy mn Book.

of well-known poems, though this is the Church services fo r the Sundays after Epiphany. Many these are the time they have been treated as hymns. But perhaps there might have been more of such perhaps first the common hymn books hymns. Probably their absence from preciosity of phrase, To resume, I should have liked to have seen room is due to a certain quaintness or of the religious poetry made for "The roseate Hues," "Hark my Soul it is the which runs through so much doubt there are Lord," "There is a Fountain " (in spite of some lines of the 16th and 17th centuries. And no them which it may at first seem which repel), "Thine for ever," "Through the Night of lines or phrases in Probably this feeling will doubt,'' and perhaps above all "On the Resurrection strange to sing in church. cc.me as naturally to the Morning," a hymn which has a certain unearthly soon wear off, and they will book. Secondly, beauty, found to my mind in no other English hymn. ear as the archaisms of the prayer such as But, as I have said, the omissions may be defended. there are hy mns of well-known hy mn-writers, or other Less defensible I think is the omission of certain hymns Baxter, Wesley, and Watts, which somehow from the Latin. I should note particularly for Christmas have not before obtained a place in Anglican collections at any rate. And, finally, there are some by writers the Conie Na tus of Prudentius (" Of the Father's love whose names are to me at least unfamiliar. The co m­ begotten "), and for Easter, Ad Agm· regzas dapes derstood to imply (" At the Lamb's high feast "). Both of these are very pilers in the preface may perhaps be un these devotional ancient, have been in constant use in the Church, have that others may regard some of It always seems to me most spirited translations, and one at least is set to lyrics as uncongregational. It may be well a magnificent tune. Next to these I should put both that this term has very little meaning. i as a rule to exclude hymns which express a degree tle · Pa nge Lz"nguas, the Stabat jVJaler and still of ecstasy or emotion which is clearly beyond ordinary more the 0 Deus ego amo te consecrated by the often breaks down name and work of St Francis Xavier. Also one regrets people, though even this canon in practice. Satirists scoff(ju stly enougl)) at the man the evening hymns L7-�,cz"s Creator op tz1ne, and Te who declares that the realm of nature were an offering luczs ante te rmz1zum. Readers of Dante may remem­ his pocket for ber that the latter is sung in perhaps the best-known far too sma11, while he is fe eling in shilling. Yet fo r all this, who pas�age in the Purgatorio. It seems to me that a book a sixpence instead of a hen I survey�� from the which aims at giving some idea of the history of would propose to banish "W the personal or intimate hymnology should not omit hymns which have sunk so hymn book ? In general, that of not unfit it fo r public use is deep into the heart of Christendom as these. It must nature a hymn does proved by experience, and above all, as the com­ be remarked that the argument that the omitted hymns amply y of the Psalter. I have will be heard elsewhere hardly applies to these. Few pilers remark, by the histor be found too personal. hymns of Latin origin are in very common use, and no fe ar that these hymns will they are too much in the few congregations have an opportunity of learning much If they have a fa ult it is that •' they have this fault, and about the authorship and the original form. Dorian mood." But even if is a fa ult, I do not doubt that there are many The unfamiliar hymns inserted by the compilers even if it be fe lt to be a very valuable addition to the fall under three heads. In the first place, there are which will and a credit to their discoverers. I would like hymns by great or well-known poets, Spenser, book, particularly to mention " The night is come " (I 7 ), Herbert, Vaughan the Silurist, Fletcher, and Wither. 236 Halley's Co/1/el.

"Hark my soul, how everything " (4 1), "That so Thy blessed birth " (75), "Love unto Thine own " (144), " Come my Way " (147), "He wants not friends " (189), "How shall I sing " (191), "When came in flesh " (262), and "Christ hath a garden" (3oo). We may confdently hope i that these and others will strike deep root in the minds and affections of those who use this book. '' CORNISH BREAKERS."* F. H. COLSON. HIS small volume of poems should possess a special attraction to readers of the Eagle who are familiar with the author's numerous contributions to this magazine. "Cornish Breakers," the longest of its contents, is an account in blank verse of the effect of a motor HALLEY'S COMET. accident in a Cornish lane on a "sensitive and neurotic temperament." Now we cannot resist a OuT of the depths and secret places,­ certain feeling that the workmanship is superior to Sightless motion and tireless flight,­ the theme ; possibly because the latter is very remi­ Mystic moth from the outer spaces niscent of an incident characteristically described by a \Vhirling awhile in the House of Light ! well-known lady novelist. In fact, the details are in some cases identical. Though the wild words of the \V ho shall sing of thee now returning, father, on seeing his little son apparently slain by a Fairest guest of the roving train ? motor, are natural enough, we cannot help feeling that Who shall measure thy fire unburning, the attributes of motoring are not wholly Satanic, Who unravel thy glowing skdn ? though a car can be incong ruous enough in the peace­ It is the friction of Wandering ghost in the heavenly stations ful setting of a country lane. that Sign and author of dreadful things ; adjustment of a new fo rce to its environment Shedding of old on the quaking nations, causes the trouble. Dearth, disaster, ruin of kings. Passing, however, to the verse itself ;-we enjoyed intensely much of the description of nature on the rent Now no more at thy beauty paling, and rocky Cornish coast, where- Fear we the sword of fiery wrath. '' The far gray headlands, draped in silver mist, Mighty message of Law unfailing, Lean their dark shoulders to the silver sea," Hail thou, meeting us ! Fare thou forth ! of Tintagel, "legend-haunted hold of GorlOis," and P. A. L that haunted realm of Arthur, "rex quondam, rexque futurus."

* C. E. Byles, "Cornish Breakers and other poems," 1909, ls., Post ls. ld. 238 " Cornish Breal1ers."

In fact, the aid of the excellent photographs is hardly necessary to bring the coast-scene vividly before us. There is much -I pathos in the last lines where the distracted wife comes to seek her husband by the sea, ®bttuar\?. into which, deluded and despairing, he had cast him­ self. The following members of the College have died during The shorter pieces give indication of considerable the year 1909 ; the year in brackets is that of the B.A. power. There is a note of melancholy running through degree : them. Mr Byles sings of the trees in Kensington Ht:v Filzhcrbert Bt:resford (1900), son of the Rev vV illiam Beresford, Gardens, the Park in May, the chafingof spirit repre­ VH:ar of St Luke's, Leek, Staffordshire ; born 2 April 1878, at sented Stafford ; educated, first at the old Leek Grammar School and by "Rus in Urbe " (cf. however, "Urbs in afterwards at Grantham School. Ordained in 1 <)01 to the curacy of Rure." Eagle, December, 19 ) "Two Shrines Bt:rk:>wich with Wallon ; here weak health set in, and he removed 09 . " is to the curacy of Tamerton Foliot in South Devon ; this he held till a felicitous description of Clevedon and Morwenstow 1907. His health gave way again, and he took temporary curacies where- at Leek and South Scarlc. He died 18 March at Kirton Rectory, near Ollerton, the residence of his uncle, the Rev Alfred Campion. 11 Hissing up the sheer cliff-faces, Fierce foam-crests flow." Henry Mason Bompas, K.C. (1858). Died 5 March at 4, Phillimore Gardens, London, W. See Vol. xxx, p. 346. On the whole we think readers of the Eagle will be well Ven Archdeacon 'William Bonsey (1868). Died 13 January at Lancaster. repaid in purchasing this small collection of the works See Vol. xxx, p. 207. of a J ohnian poet. Rev Thomas Christopher Bradberry (1872), son of David Bradberry, of Doddington Grove ; born in Kensington 4 April 1849 ; educated at P. A. I. Chesterfield School. Curate of Crick, Derbyshire 1872-75 ; of Holy Trinity, Chesterfield 1876-83 ; of Ault-Huckna11 1884-87 ; of St John, Huddersfield 1888-90 ; of Cavcrswall 1890-1900 ; of Boulton 1900- 1901 ; of Hayton with Talkin, near Carlisle 1901-1909 ; died at Talkin Parsonage 28 February.

Hcv John Cavis-Brown (1878 as John Brown ; he took the name of Cavis­ Brown by deed poll dated 25 March 1884), son of William Brown, of Peel Hall Street, Preston, Lancashire ; baptised at Preston 22 June 1856 ; educated at Preston Grammar School from 1865 to 1874. Master at Manchester Cathedral Choir S�hool 1878-80 ; Curate of Manchester Cathedral Hl79-80 ; of Holy Innocents, Fallowfield, Manchester 1880-81 ; Chaplain to \Vesthampnelt Union 1882 ; Priest Vicar of Chichester Cathedral 1882-97 ; Succentor 1886-97 ; Chaplain to Bishop Otter's College, Chichester 1895-97 ; Vicar of St John the Evangelist, \Voolwich, and Chaplain to the Training Ship JVarspite 1897-<.J\1 ; Vicar of Shifnal and Chaplain to the Shifnal Union 1!:!99- 1902 ; Hector and Vicar of Selsey, near Chichester 1902-1909. He died, somewhat suddenly, at Langen-Sch walbach, Germany, 30 Aug. He was the author of "History of Selsey, Episcopal, Manorial and Parochial," 1907. He married 16 April 1884, at the Church of the Holy Inn ocents, Fallowfield, Evelyn Lucy, daughter of the late Richard Howard Ashton, of Fallowlielcl, Manchester.

Richard Hale Budd (1838). Died 27 March at Rooding, Brighton, Victoria, Australia, aged 93. See Vol. xxix, 164-167 ; Vol. xxx, 344. Mr R. H. Budd married 13 June 1843, at St Luke's Church, Campbel­ town, Tasmania, Elizabeth, daughter of Lidcllc and Mary Pm·vis, of Berwick. 238 "Cornish Breakers."

In fact, the aid of the excellent photographs is hardly necessary to bring the coast-scene vividly before us. There is much pathos I.; in the last lines where the �bituar\?. distracted wife comes to seek her husband by the sea, into which, deluded and despairing, he had cast him­ self The following members of the College have died during The shorter pieces give indication of considerable the year 1909 ; the year in brackets is that of the B.A. degree : power. There is a note of melancholy running through them. Mr Byles sings of the trees in Kensington Hev Filzhcrberl Beresford (1900), son of the Rev vVilliam Beresforcl, V1<.:ar of St Luke's, Leek, Staffordshire; born 2 April 1878, at Gardens, the Park in May, the chafing of spirit repre­ Stafford ; educated, first at the old Leek Grammar School and sented by "Rus in Urbe" (cf. however, "Urbs in afterwards at Grantham School. Ordained in 1':101 to the curacy of Berk:,wich with Walton; here weak health set in, and he removed Rure." December, 1 Eagle, 909). "Two Shrines" is to the curacy of Tamerton Folio! in South Devon ; this he held till a felicitous description of Clevedon and Morwenstow 1907. His health gave way again, and he took temporary curacies at Leek and South Scarle. He died 18 March at Kirton Rectory, where- near Ollerton, the residence of his uncle, the Rev Alfred Campion. '' Hissing up the sheer cliff-faces, Henry Mason Bompas, K.C. (1858). Died 5 March at 4, Phillimore Fierce foam-crests flow." Gardens, London, W. See Vol. xxx, p. 346. On the whole we think readers of the Eagle will be well Ven Archdeacon William Bonsey (1868). Died 13 January at Lancaster. See Vol. xxx, p. 207. repaid in purchasing this small collection of the works of a J ohnian poet. Rev Thomas Christopher Bradberry (1872), son of David Bradberry, of Doddington Grove ; born in Kensington 4 April 1849 ; educated at P. A. I. Chesterfield School. Curate of Crick, Derbyshire 1872-75; of Holy Trinity, Chesterfield 1876-83 ; of Ault-Huckna11 1884-87; of St John, Huddersfield 1888-90; of Caverswall 1890-1900; of Boullon 1900- 1901; of Hayton with Talkin, near Carlisle 1901-1909; died at Talkin Parsonage 28 February. Hev John Cavis-Brown (1878 as John Brown ; he took the name of Cavis­ Brown by deed poll elated 25 March 1884), son of William Brown, of Peel Hall Street, Preston, Lancashire; baptised at Preston 22 June 1856; educated at Preston Grammar School from 1865 to 1874. Master at Manchester Cathedral Choir !:khool 1878-80 ; Curate of Manchester Cathedral 1879-80; of Holy Innocents, Fallowfielcl, Manchester 1880-81 ; Chaplain to vVesthampndt Union 1882; Priest Vicar of Chichester Cathedral 1882-97 ; Succentor 1886-97 ; Chaplain lo Bishop Otter's College, Chichester 1895-97; Vicar of St John the Evangelist, Woohvich, and Chaplain to the Training Ship JVarspite 1897-99; Vicar of Shifnal and Chaplain to the Shifnal Union 1899- 1902 ; Hector and Vicar of Selsey, near Chichester 1902-1909. He died, somewhat suddenly, at Langen-Schwalbach, Germany, 30 Aug. He was the author of "History of Selsey, Episcopal, Manorial and Parochial," 1907. He married 16 April 1884, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, Fallowfield, Eve::lyn Lucy, daughter of the late Richard Howarcl Ashton, of Fallowfleld, Manchester. Richard Hale Budd (1838). Died 27 March at Rooding, Brighton, Victoria, Australia, aged 93. See Vol. xxix, 164-167; Vol. xxx, 344. Mr R. H. Budd married 13 June 1843, at St Luke's Church, Campbel­ town, Tasmania, Elizabeth, daughter of Liclc!lc and Mary PLU·vis, of Berwick. 2-+0 Obituary. Obituary. 2-+1

l�ev Thomas Henry Bush (1859), son of Cornelius Bush, born at \Valcot, 1856-70; Curate of St Botolph 1873-75 ; of Lancing 1875-81 ; Chaplain Somerset H January 1831, educated by T

Recce, Thomas Roxburgh Polwhele (1856), son of Captain Thomas Polwhele, of Maurice Geot·ge Bernard Reece (1904), son of Eclward Bernarcl Hoath, the 42nd Regiment of Native Infantry (afterwards a General in the coroner, Cardiff ; born 23 November 1882, at Newport I�oad, for Army) ; born at Agra, India 3 May 1831, and baptised in St George's Cardiff ; educated at Felsted School ; obtained his "Half Blue" Competition Church, Agra 27 June 1832. He was first admitted to the College Boxing. Entered the Indian Civil Service after the open Punjaub 21 March 1851, and re-admilled 17 March 1855. He was cox of the of 1905 ; arrived in India 26 November 1906. Served in the of Lady Margaret Second Boat in the May Term of 1854. While an as Assistant Commissioner; became Assistant Commissioner undergraduate Mr Polwhele was one of the original members of the Kaithal, in the Karnal district. Died 4 October at Karnal. A.D.C. His name is frequently mentioned in Mr F. C. Burnancl's volume, "The A.D.C., being personal reminiscences of the University Harry Govier Seeley, son of Richard Hovill Sceley of 28, Grafton Street, Amateur Dramatic Club, Cambridge" (see pp. 32, 34, 40, 43, 44, 76, London, born 18 February 1839. Educated privately. In charge of 87, 92). lie was the first "Slag<: 1\Ianager " of the Club, and Mr the vVoodwarclian Museum and Scientilic assistant to Professor Aclam Burnand writes : "The gentleman who took the place was Mr T. R. Scdgwick 1860-70. He lirst enten�d at Sitltwy Sussex College, then Polwhele, of St John's, who was in every way the very man for the migrated to Sl John's, where he was admillecl 26 November 1863; he oftit:e. He was ingenious, which was excellent to begin with; he did not graduate. Professor of Geol-(raphy at King's College, London was practical, which was first rate to go on with ; and he was 1876; University Extension Lecturer, anti Lecturer for the Gilchrist economical, which was capital to finish with. If it had not been for Educational Trust.· Lecturer on Geology al the Royal Engineering Pohvhele's care from the first, we should have run further into debt College, Cooper's Hill J 890-1905; Professor of Geology and Geography than we actually did. For my own part, I had not my equal for a of with Mineralogy in King's College, London. He was member ordering everything we wanted, and everything else we didn't want ; he several English, Foreign, and Colonial Scientific bodies. In 1885 but fortunately, as a safeguard, I had agreed that no orders should be awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society. He published valid unless countersigned, 'T. Pohvhele.' This saved us pounds. was R works on Geological subjects and many papers in Scientific It is also clue lo his care that the early records, now before me, are several A life of him, with a list of his works and writings, will be so clear and so well kept." Again, in summing up the work of lhe journals. found in "The Geological Magazine " for June 1907 (241-253), where Club at the end of the first year of its existence, Mr Burnand writes : Park there is also a portrait of him. He died 8 January at 3, Holland "1\Ir Polwhcle having taken his degree at lhe beginning of the year at Sl Court, London, \V., aged 70. He married 18 February 1872 (1856), had only been stopping up out of real liking for the A.D.C. Church, Bath, Eleanora Janc, only daughter of the late work, and in order to hand il over in lhe best possible slate to his Mark's Mitchell of St George's Lodge, Bath. successor, whoever he might be. \Vithoul Mr Polwhele'� careful vVilliam management, the Club could never have made such progress as it did son of John Shuker of Enhoshill, Salop ; baptised in its one year of life. He was an ingenious carpenter, and was Abraham Shaker (1872), eo. Stafford 29 October 1848. Second Master of Trent never so happy as when looking after the mechanical appliances of al Stockton, Died 11 February at his residence Longsclon, the A.D.C. and making the best of them, such as they were." After College 1873-190-+. aged 61. going out of residence 1\fr Polwhele received an appointment on the Stoke-on-Trent, not graduate) Geological Survey in 1857 ; he became an F.G.S. in 1858. He was Captain Edward Algernon Strickland (matricnlated 1891, did engaged in the mapping of parts of Oxfordshire and Buckingham­ Died 13 February, aged 36. See Vol. xxx., p. 213. shire ; more especially in lhe areas occupied by the 111iclclle Oolites and of the Bagshot group in Hampshire and Surrey. His geological Frecleric LanghorneThompson (1878), son of the Rev Corneliu� Thompson, born 31 notes bt:ing published in the Memoirs of the Geological Survey. On Vicar of Elkesley, Notts (of Trinity College, B.A. 1828); was succeeding to the family estates at Polwhele, near Truro, he resigned, December 18�3; educated al Granlham School. Mr Thompson but after in March 1862, his post on the Survey, but still retained his interest first admitted a member of the College 11 October 1862, l-Ie was then in geology, taking part in the work of the Geological Society of a short period in College he went out of residence. near Man­ Cornwall, of which he was President in 1896 and 1897. His successively for four years a master in a private school School ; addresses, in the respective years, were on "The relation of other chester ; then for six years a master at Stockport Grammar He then sciences to geology" and "The physical geology of the earth." He and laslly for lwo years a master at Grantham School. also took part in the life of a country gentleman ; he was a J.P. and After taking returned to College and was readmitted 8 October 1875. D.L. for Cornwall ; became a Captain in the Royal Cornwall and taking pupils; his degree he resided for some years itt Cambridge, Devon miners artillery militia 7 December 1870, and Major 4 April near Diss: he latterly he took pupils at The Cottage, Wckinghall, 1883. He was a handsome man, with somewhat delicate features ; died there 11 February, aged 65. he had a gentle persuasive voice, rather retiring in manner, but liked Gale Dalton Thring by all who knew him. He died al his rt:siclence Polwhele, Truro Rev John Charles Thring (1848), son of lhe Rev John baptised at Alford 2 September, aged 78. Mr Polwhele married 11 June 1861, at St of Alford, Somerset (of St John's, B.A., 1809), st 1824. Curate Mary's, Cheltenham, Fanny, only child of lhe late Thomas Carne, (of which his father was Rector a'ncl Patron) 11 Augu ; of Overton, Esq., and grancl-claughler of the late Joseph Carne, Esq., F.R.S., of of Alford 1847-55 and 1870-74; of Cirencester 1855-57 School 1859-66; Penzance, Cornwall. They had a family of six children. \/\Tills 1857-59; Assistant Master at Uppingham Union 1875-91. Latterly resided al The George Hale Puckle (1848), son of the Rev Benjamin Puckle, of \1\Thel­ Chaplain to the Bradford died there 3 October, aged 85. Mr Thring nalhan (of Queens' College, afterwards Hector of Graffham, Hunts.); Park, Dunmow, Essex ; at Hacldington, Lyclia Eliza Dyer, younger baptised al Great Whelnalhan 10 April 182-+. For several years married 27 May 1858 Samuel Mercclilh, R.N., of Haddington House. Principal of Windermere College, of which he was one of the daughter of Captain a brother of Henry, first Baron, Thring and founders; author of a Treatise on Conic Sections. Died 8 December 1\Ir "J. C. Thring was Headmatitct of Uppingham. at his residence, Nine Oaks, Windermere, aged 8-+. of the Rev Edwarcl Thring, 2-1-6 Obituary.

Rev Canon Alexander Alien Vawdrey (1865), son of the Rev Alexander Alien Va\'l(drey, Vicar of St Agnes, Cornwall (of St John's, B.A. 1831.) Vicar of Mabe, Cornwall 1868-80 ; Rural Dean of Carnmath 1886-87; Vicar of St Sithney, Cornwall 1880- 89; Rural Dean of Kirrier 1887-89; Vicar of St Gluvias, Cornwall 1889-1909; Rural Dean of Carnmath 1904-1910; Honorary Canon of Truro 1905-1909. Died 21 March at St Gluvias Vicarage, aged 67. Canon Vawclrey married: (1) 22 July 1868 at Cheltenham, Ellen Gerlrude, only child of the late John Neale, Esq., of Cheltenham; she di.ed 6 October 1889 at St Gluvias Vicarage: (2) 27 December 1890 at St Gluvias, Elizabeth Catherine, only daughter of the late Major Griffin RA. OUR CHRONICLE.

Rev John Farrer Wilkinson (1854), son of James Wilkinson of Rawfolds, Lwt Term 1910. baptised in Liversedge Church, Birstal, Yorks 23 July 1824. Curate of Brandesburton 185-J.-56; Vicar of Flamborough 1866-90; Rector of Folkton, near Ganton, Yorks 1890-1910; died at the Rectory 28 June. On January 13 it was announced that the King had been William Wills (1873); died 26 May at Matlock, aged 57. See p. 79. pleased to approve the appointment of Captain H. E. S. Cordeaux C.B., C.M.G. (B.A. 1892), His Majesty's Com­ The following deaths were not recorded last year : missioner and Commander-in-Chief in Somaliland, to be Rev Thomas Bainbridge Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Uganda. Captain (1871), son of George Bainbridge of Lincoln, born in Lincoln 16 September Cordeaux was formerly a Minor Scholar of the College and 1847; educated at Shrewsbury School. Before entering Shrewsbury he had been the leading treble in Lincoln took his degree in the Classical tripos of 1892. Cathedral, and when only 16 acted as assistant Organist there. Curate of Uffington Lord Rayleigh, Chancellor of the University, has appointed and Battlefield 1870-72; Vicar of Uffington, Salop 1872-75; Vicar of Battlefield, near Shrewsbury 1872-1908; died T. R. Glover (B.A. 1891), Fellow and Lecturer of the College, 24 October 1908. Mr Bainbridge was an excellent shot and a strong to be his representative on the Court of the University of supporter of the Shrewsbury Harmonic Society, for which he com­ posed much music. Bristol.

Rev William Edmund The Hon C. A. Parsons (B.A. 1877) has become a member Smith (1857), son of Robert Sn,ith, Commander, R.N., baptised at Portsea, of the Shipwrights' Company on the introduction of Lord Hants, 8 November 1833. Curate of Burnham, Essex 1858; of Brad well-juxta-Mare 1851-59; appointed Pirrie. Chaplain RN. and Naval Instructor 1859, served in H.M.S. Termagant 1859-62; Mr J. E. Purvis (B.A. 1893) has been appointed University Severn 1862-66; Royal Oak 1866-67; Oww 1867-70; St VincCILt 1871-72; Royal Adelaide 1872-74; Dnile of Lecturer in Chemistry and Physics in their application to Welliugtolt 1875-77; Royal Marine Depot and Hoyal Marine Battalion Hygiene and Preventive medicine. at the Cape 1877-80; Royal Dock Yard, Chntham 1880-82; Inspector of Naval Schools 1882-88 Mr E. L. Levett K.C. (B.A. 1870) has been elected Vice­ ; placed on the Retired List 1888 ; Rector of Wark-on-Tyne 1888-92. Latterly resided at La Gardinet, Caste! Chairman of the General Council of the Bar for the ensuing Guernsey; died there 22 October 1908, aged 75. year. The following members of the College have been returned to the House of Commons at the General Election of January last: G. '''· Agnew. (B.A. 1874) Salford, West. L. E. A. Goulding. (B.A. 1885) Worcester. U. Sir C. Kinloch Cooke. (B.A. 1878) Devonporl. U. E. Marshall Hall K.C. (B.A. 1883) Liverpool, Toxteth. U. A. A. !VIoncl. Swansea Town. L. Sir H. S. Samuel. (B.A. 1876) Lambeth, Norwood. U. E. J. Soares. (B.A. 1884) Devon, Barnstaple. L. A. Williams (B.A. 1880) Plymouth. L. Mr G. W. Agnew was a partner in the firm of Thomas Agnew and Sons, art publishers, and is a former President of the Printsellers Association; he is a member of the Court of Governors of Victoria University and has a seat on the Board 2-1-6 Obituary.

Rev Canon Alexander Allen Vawdrey (1865}, son of the Rev Allen Alexander Vawdrey, Vicar of St Agnes, Cornwall (of St John's, Vicar B.A. 1831.) of Mabe, Cornwall 1868-80 ; Rural Dean of Carnmath Vicar 1886-87; of St Sithney, Cornwalll880-89; Rural Dean of Kirrier Vicar of 1887-89; St Gluvias, Cornwall 1889-1909 ; Rural Dean 190+-1910; of Carnmath Honorary Canon of Truro 1905-1909. Died St 21 March at Gluvias Vicarage, aged 67. Canon Vawdrey married 1868 : (1) 22 July at Cheltenham, Ellt!n Gertrude, only child of Neale, the late John Esq., of Cheltenham; she died 6 October 1889 at Vicarage St Gluvias : (2) 27 December 1890 at St Gl uvias, Elizabeth Catherine, only daughter of the late Major Griffin R.A. OUR CHRONICLE. Rev John Farrer Wilkinson (1854), son of James Wilkinson of Rawfolds, baptised Lent Term I9IO. in Liversed$e Church, Birstal, Yorks 23 July 1824. of Brandesburton Curate 18:>4-56; Vicar of Flamborough 1866-90; Rector of Folkton, near Ganton, Yorks 1890-1910; died at the Rectory 28 June. On January 13 it was announced that ihe King had been William Wills (1873); died 26 May at Matlock, aged 57. See p. 79. pleased to approve the appointment of Captain H. E. S. Cordeaux C.B., C.M.G. (B.A. 1892), His Majesty's Com­ The following deaths were not recorded last year : missioner and Commander-in-Chief in Somaliland, to be Rev Thomas Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Uganda. Captain Bainbridge (1871), son of George Bainbridge of Lincoln, born in Cordeaux was formerly a Minor Scholar of the College and Lincoln 16 September 1847; educated at Shrewsbury School. Before entering Shrewsbury he had been the leading treble in Lincoln took his degree in the Classical tripos of 1892. Cathedral, and when only 16 acted as assistant Organist Curate there. Lord Rayleigh, Chancellor of the University, has appointed of Uffington and Battlefield 1870-72; Vicar of Uffington, Salop 18 72-75; Vicar of Battlefield, near Shrewsbury 1872-1908; T. R. Glover (B.A. 1891), Fellow and Lecturer of the College, 24 October died 1908. Mr Bainbridge was an excellent shot and a strong to be his representative on the Court of the University of supporter of the Shrewsbury Harmonic Society, for which he com­ posed much music. Bristol. Rev William The Hon C. A. Parsons (B.A. 1877) has become a member Edmuncl Smith (1857), son of Robert Srnith, Commander, R.N., baptised of the Shipwrights' Company on the introduction of Lord at Portsea, Hanls, 8 November 1833. Curate of Burnham, Essex 1858; of Brad well-juxta-Mare 1851-59; appointed Pirrie. Chaplain R.N. and Naval Instructor 1859, served in H.M.S. Termagant 1859-62 Mr J. E. PUL·vis (B.A. 1893) has been appointed University ; Severn 1862-66; Royal Oak 1866-67; Oaan 1867-70; St Vincent 1871-72; Royal Adelaide 1872-74; Dnke of Lecturer in Chemistry and Physics in their application to Welliugtolt 1875-77; Royal Marine Depot and Royal Marine Battalion Hygiene and Preventive medicine. at the Cape 1877-80; Royal Dock Yard, Chatham 1880-82; Inspector of Naval Schools 1882-88; placed on the Retired List 1888 ; Rector Mr E. L. Levett K.C. (B.A. 1870) has been elected Vice­ of Wark-on-Tyne 1888-92. Latterly resided at La Garclinet, Caste! Chairman of the General Council of the Bar for the ensuing Guernsey; died there 22 October 1908, aged 75. year. The following members of the College have been returned to the House of Commons at the General Election of January last : G. W. Agnew. (B.A. 1874) Salford, West. L. E. A. Goulding. (B.A. 1885) Worcester. U. Sir C. Kinloch Cooke. (H.A. 1878) Devonport. U. E. Marshall Hall K.C. (B.A. 1883) Liverpool, Toxteth. U. A. A. Mond. · Swansea Town. L. Sir H. S. Samuel. (B.A. 1876) Lambeth, Norwood. U. E. J. Soares. (B.A. 1884) Devot1, Barnslaple. L. A. Williams (B.A. 1880) Plymouth. L. Mr G. W. Agnew was a partner in the firm of Thomas Agnew and Sons, art publishers, and is a former President of the Printsellers Association ; he is a member of the Court of Governors of Victoria University and has a seat on the Board 2-1-8 0 u r Ch rouicle. Our Chronicle. 2-1-9

of the Manchester Children's Hospital. He sat for the same 11 Co-partnership.'' He contested l\Iid-Kent in the Liberal constituency in the last Parliament. interest in 1906. Mr E. A. Goulding is Chairman of the Organization Com­ The following unsuccessful candidates were members of mittee of the Tariff Reform League. He sat in the House the College : for the Devizes Division of Wiltshire from 1895 to 1906 ; T. Arnold Herbert. (B.A. 1887) Bucks. Wycombe. L. Sir ' contested Central Fins bury at the General Election of 906, [. E. Gorst. (B.A. 1857) Preston. L. I Massie. Wills, Cricklacle. L. but was defeated. He was returned in February 1908 for J. (B.A. 1866) Worcester, which was disfranchised for a period. He was On February 21 it was announced that the King had been called t0 the Bar at the Inner Temple 22 June 1887. pleased to appro\'e of the appointment of l\Ir E. J. Soares M.P. Sir Clement Kinloch Cooke was called to the Bar at the to be a Junior Lord of the Treasury (unpaid). Inner Temple 17 November 1883, and has filled many legal \Ve have to correct one or two mistakes or misprints and educational offices. He was legal adviser to the House in the last number of The Eagle. On page 79 it is stated of Lords Sweating Commission, private secretary to Lord that the Senior in the Moral Sciences Tripos of 1872 was Dunraven as Under-Secretary for the Colonies, . examiner Mr Alfred Lyltleton ; this is a mistake. The Senior was under the Civil Service Commission for factory inspector­ Mr Arthur Temple Lyttleton, afterwards successively Master ships. He was sometime editor of "The Pall Mall Gazette," of Selwyn and Bishop of Southampton. On page 8-1-, line 10 founder and editor of "The Empire Review," and is the from the foot, for '' Rhine " read " Rhone" ; the same cor­ author of a number of books. He was knighted in 1905. rection should be made in the last line of page 82. Mr E. Mat·shall Hall K.C. was called to the Bar at the On page 99, in the paragraph relating to Dr T. G. Bonney, Inner Temple 6 June 1883 ; he took silk in I 898 and has for "Geographical Section " read ''Geological Section." practised in London and on the South Eastern Circuit. He uary last Mr William Bateson (B.A. 1883), represented the Southport Division of Lancashire from 1900 On the 21st of Jan in the College on resigning the to 1906, but was defeated at the General Election of 1906. who vacated his Fellowship Professorship of Biology in the University, was elected an Mr A. Mond sat in the last Parliament for Chester. He Honorary Fellow of the College. is a son of the late Ludwig Mond and managing director in January Mr A. C. Sewarcl (B.A. 1886), the firm of Bruntier, Mond, and Co., Chemical manufacturers On the 28th of the University, was elected to the Pro­ of Northwich. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple Professor of Botany in 18 April 189-1-. fessorial Fellowship in the College vacated by Mr Bateson's resignation o£ the Professorship of Biology. Sir H. S. Samuel was for sometime a partner in the firm 8, the committee of the Athenaeum of Montefiore and Co., retiring in 188-1-. He contested the On Tuesday, February the rule which empowers the annual election Limehouse Division of the Tower Hamlets in 1892, and sat Club, under " of distinguished eminence in for that constituency from 1895 to 1906. He was knighted by the committee of persons in 1903. science, literature, the arts, or for public sen·ice,'' elected Mr Bateson (B.A. 1883), F.R.S., Honorary Fellow of Mr E. J. Soares was vV. admitted a Solicitor in 1888, and was the College, and Director of the John Innes Horticultural for some time a partner in the firm of Alien, Prestage, and Institute, Merton, to be a member of the Club. Soares of Manchester. He has acted as private secretary to Mr Herbert Gladstone. He was returned for the Barnstaple Professcrr E. J. Rapson (B.A. 188-J.) was elected President Division of Devon in 1900 and 1906. of the Cambridge Philological Society for the year 1910 at the Annual General Meeting of the Society held on 27 January. Mr A. Williams was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple 29 ' January 188-1-. He was an acting partner in the Linthorpe At the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of Ironworks, Middleborough 1886-1890; and a member of the London, held on February 18, the following members of the executive of the Labour Co-partnership Association 1892. College were appointed 0111cers of the Society for the en­ He is the Chairman of the first GardenCity (Limited), of the suing year : Vice-Presidents-1\lr A. Harker (B.A. 1882), and execuli\'e of the Land Nationalization Society, of the Inter­ Professor W. J. Sollas (B.A. 187-1-) ; Treasurer-Dr Aubrey national Co-operati\'e Alliance. He was the first editor of Strahan (B.J\. 1875). 250 0 ur Ch roniclc. Our Chronicle. 251

Mr F. A. Slacke I.C.S. (B.A. 1875) has been appointed as Second Lieutenant K. S. Thomson (B.A. 1909), King's the official representative of the province of Bengal in the Colonials Yeomanry, was gazetted Second Lieutenant, Un­ enlarged and reconstituted Imperial Legislative Council of attached List, Indian Army, 20 January 1910, with a view to India. his appointment to the Indian Army. Mr J. Nissim I.C.S. (B.A.190-l),Bombay, has been appointed Sermons have been preached in the College Chapel during to act as political agent in Surgana. the past Term as follows : January 30, Canon J. M. Wilson of Worcester; February 6, Dr G. Bonney; February 27, Mr J. H. Darwin I.C.S. (B.A. T. 1907) has been posted to Hev. C. H. Beeching, Canon of Westminster. the Jhansi district, United Provinces, as Assistant Magistrate and Collector. The result of the J1rst election to the Beit Fellowships for Medical Research was published on February 26th. The Mr E. H. P. Jolly I.C.S. (B.A. 1907) has been appointed Fellowships are of the value of £250 for three years and are Assistant Collector of Nasik, Bombay. granted "to any man or woman of European descent, graduate of any approved University in the British Empire." Mr N. J. \Vaclia I.C.S. (B. A. 1907) has been appointed of the College appear in the Assistant Collector of Poona, Bombay. The names of two members list of the Erst ten elected. Namely, Dr Otto May (B.A. 1900) Dr F. Silnger (B.A. 1896), who is now a medical missionary and Mr F. W. Edridge-Green, who was admitted to the in China, has presented to the University Library over 100 College as an Advanced Student 7 October 1904, but did not Chinese books. Among the most important are various proceed to a degree at Cambridge. editions of poetical remains and anthologies dating from 1670 We take the following statements from the official list: downwards ; among them is an illustrated edition, datecll711, MAY. of the poems of the 0TTO famous Scholar Emperor K'ang Hsi, Degrees and Qualifications.-M.D., M.B., B.C., B.A. Can­ accompanied by an in terleaved translation in Manchu. tab, M.R.C.P. e Scholarship St. John's Mr J. H. Towle (B.A. 1900) has been appointed Principal Scientific Distinctions.-Entranc of the College at Aligarh. College, Cambridge. First Class, Part I. and Part II. Natural Science Tripos, Cambridge (1904). Entrance V.le have om1tted to note in a previous number that Exhibition, University College Hospital (190+). Gold Mr A. E. Kenny Kirk (B.A. 1900) has been appointed Head­ Medals in Medicine and Clinical Surgery and Atchison master of Milton Abbas School, Blandford, Dorset. Scholarship, University College Hospital (1906). Re­ search Scholarship, British Medical Association (1908). Ds W. G. Constable (B.A. 1909) was elected to the second Contributions to Science, Medicine, and Research.-Author vVhewell Scholarship in International Law in Decem ber last. of papers on Physiological and Clinical Subjects. On the 28th of January the following members of the Appointments.-Demonstrator of Anatomy and later of College were elected to the McMahon Law studentships in Physiology, Cambridge (1900-04). Medical Registrar, the College of the value of £150 a year : Middlesex Hospital (1909). Physician to Out-patients, (i) Ds L. G. Crauford (B.A. 1907) for four years. Mr Evelina Hospital (1909). Authorized.-Clinical and experimental Crauford was placed in the second class of Part of the Law Nature of Research I Lesions of Peripheral Nerves. Tripos in 1906, and in the first class of Part II of that Tri pos research on the in 1907. Place of Research.-University College Hospital Medical School. (ii) Ds N. S. Subbarao (B.A. 1908) for two years. Mr Subbarao was placed in the second class of Part I of the FREDERICK WILLIAM EDRIDGE- GREEN. Historical Tripos in 1907, and in the first class of Part II of Degrees and Qualifications.-M.D. Durham, B.S., F.R.C.S., the Economics Tripos in 1909. L.R.C.P. Scientific Distinctions.-Golcl Medal M. D. Durham; First Ds E. L. Oliver (B.A. 1907) has passed the examination Class Honours M.B., B.S. Durham; Scholarships at St. in Experimental Psychology for the degree of D.Sc. in the Bartholomew's Hospital; Medals for Botany and Materia University of London. Medica, Apothecaries' Company. 253 Our Chronicle. 252 Our Chronicle. Stone-Wigg. Mr Sharp, New Guinea in succession to Bishop Contributions to Science, Medicine, and Research.­ of the College, was ordained who was a Somerset Exhibitioner N umerous contributions and researches chiefly dealing 1890 by the Bishop of Bath Deacon in 1889, and Priest in with Vision and Colour Vision ; Inventor of the Colour Rowbarton, Somerset, from and Wells. He was Curate of Perception Spectrometer. ly Innocents, Hammersmith , 1889 to 1893, and Curate of Ho Appointments.-F onnerly Adviser to the Board of Trade he has been Vicar of Whit­ from 1893 to 1898. Since 1898 on Eyesight and Colour Blindness, and a Member of the in Brisbane Cathedral. kirk. M r Sharp is to be consecrated International Code of Signals Committee. on December 19. The Bishop Nature of Research Authorizecl.-Various problems con­ The Ordinations took place Bishop of Southwark. The Rev nected with Vision and Colour Vision, especially in of Woolwich acted for the Sacred Trinity, Salford, was the relation to the correct reading of signals on land and sea. Peter Green, Rector of Place of Research.-Institute of Physiology, University preacher at Manchester. has been Rector of College. Rev F. Coleby (B.A. 1870), who The has been ap­ The following ecclesiastical appointments are announced : Annan in the diocese of Glasgow since 1887, Vicar of Charlestown, Cornwall. Name. Degree. From. To b�. pointed ughton­ Osborn, G. S. (1894) C. Prestwich. V. St Peter, Oldham. Winckley (B.A. 188 1), Rector of Ho The Rev S. T. o£ Cassels, J. W. (1869) C. St Marlin, R 1\IiJlbrook, Beds. has been appointed by the Bishop Bedford. on-the- Hill, Leicester, Rural Dean of Goscote, Jirst deanery. Trotter, H. E. (1878) R. Altborpe, V. St Paul, Morton, Peterborough to be Doncaster. Gainsborodgh. 188-t), Vicar of Hope, Adarns, H. J. V. Stoke Ferry, Rackheath. The Rev J. A. Patiinson (B.A. R appointed Sub-dean of Norfolk. Pendleton, Manchester, has been Marsh, J. B. (188.f) V. Belcbamp R. St Giles, Colchester. Cathedral. St Paul, Essex. Brisbane has been appointed HornbySteer, W. H.(1885) V. St Philip, V. St Paul, The Rev W. W. Nicholson (B. A. 1888) Kennington. Cpper Holloway. H.M.S. Bulwark. Tapper, H. M. St C. (1894) V. Bransgore, V. Romney. Chaplain to Christchurch. was ordained Deacon Mr David Ow�n }ones (B.A. 1901) Jones, J. S. (1877) C. Olley. V. Pool, Wharfedale. his Cathedral on Sunday by the Archbishop o£1 Yod{ in Curacy of St Augustine's, The following members of the College were ordained at February 20th, and licenced to the the Advent ordinations : Sheffield. ege are DEACONS. books by members of the Coll The following written Name. Diocese. Parish. u A comedy probably Degree. announced: Fuc s Histriomasti.r:: Beresford, H. A. (1907) Heath Town, \Volverhampton. College, Cambridge, Lichfield. by Robert Ward, and acted at Queens' Hicks, F. W. (1908) Ripon. St Aidan's, Leeds. with an introduction in Lent Term 1623, now first printed, Thursfield, G. A. R. (1908) Southwark St John's, Battersea. Professor of English and notes by Dr G. C. Moore Smith, PRIESTS. University of Sheffield Language and Literature in the Name. Dc{!,rec. Diocese. Character of the Roman (University Press) ; Language and Robinson, H. J. (1906) York. of Oscar Weiss, by A. Y. Trernearne, A. R. (1908) London. translated from the German People, Trench, and Co.); The Castle, G. H. (1906) \Vinchester. Campbell and another (Kegan, Paul, Young, P. N. F. (1906) ·Winchester. Fellow of the College Ro11wn Republic, by W. E. Heitland, Alexander, P. G. (1908) Bristol. Slabs of Clon 111acnois, J(i11g' s (U niversity Press) ; The 111e111orial Grimes, G. H. (1905) Hereford. S.A. (Dublin, University , by R. A. Stewart Macalister, F. Bee, P. R. (1899) Lincoln. County by C. E. Byles ; Atkinson, M. (1906) Manchester. Press); Cor11ish Breahers and oilier poe111s, Hnghes, I. (1908) Asaph. of lectures upon L£/eralurc E. St Things war! !I lhiuki11g about. A series Churchwarcl, A. C. (1906) South warlc (Melbourne, Lothian; and a11d Cnl/urc, by T. G. Tucker E. C. (1906) Southwark. Short Treatise Dewick, Scott Publishing Company); Spi11oza's \Valter and edited with his wcll-bei11g. Translated On 8 December 1909 it was announced that the Arch­ on God, !1Ia11, and a life of Spino:::a, by A. \Volf, Assistant bishop of Canterbury had designated the Rev Gerald Sharp aJt l11lroduc!ion, aud (B.A. 1886), Vicar of Whitkirk, near Leeds, to be Bishop of 25-+ Our Chronicle. Ottr Chronicle. 255 Professor of Philosophy at University College, London (Black); W. H. R. Rivers tu be a member of a Syndicate to up u Make yo r Minds. A Letter to Doublers, Ly Prof. Clark E. C. make arrangements for the building of a Laboratory of (Bowes and Bowes) ; Th n r a e Passi g of the G e t Fleet, by Experimental Psychology ; Mr J. G. Leathem to be one L. Graham H. Horton-Smith (Sampson Low and Co.) ; The of the Auditors of the University Accounts ; Mr H. F. Trtte Truth about L11e Navy, by the same ; Political Satire in Stewart to be an examiner for the Medieval and English Poetry, by C. W. Previte Orton (University Press); Modern Languages Tripos ; Mr C. B. Rootham to be a11 Selections frol/1 the State Papers of the Govcmor-General of India, examiner in Sacred Music for the Stewart of Hannoch edited by G. W. Forrest, C.I.E., Ex-director of Records, Scholarships ; Professor Sir J. Larmor to be a member of Government of In dia (Constable) ; Hector and chilles : talt: a A A the Board ot Electors to the Alien Scholarship ; Mr Bateson of Tr y, rcnde1·ed into English r afte the Chronicle of Homer, by to repres�nt the University at an International Congress of R. Sheepshanks, of the Indian Civil Service (Blackwood); Entomology to be held at Brussels in August 1910 ; Professor Colour-Blinduess and Colour-Pc1·ception, by F. W. Eclridge­ Sir J. Larmor to be a member of the Board of Electors to the Green, F.R.C.S. (International Scientific Series) ; Hymns for Jlrofessorship of Chemistry ; Mr A. J. Tait to be an examiner use i11 the Chapel of St Jo!w's College, Cambn'dge (University in the Special Examinations in Theology ; Mr H. Guns ton Press) ; The Collected Mathematical Vv. Papers of lames loseph to be an examiner in the Special Examinations in Mathe­ Sylz•ester, Vol. 1870-1883, Ill, edited by Dr H. F. Baker matics ; Mr W. E. Heitlancl to be an examiner in the Special (University Press) ; acula Pmdwtum. J Vet·se and Prose from Examinations in Classics ; Professor H. M. Gwatkin to be a11 the Ger11wn. firs/ A German Reader, by Prof. J. E. B. Mayor examiner for the Lightfoot Scholarships ; Mr W. H. R. Rivers (University Press). to be an additional member of the Special Board for Moral We notice that two works by members of the College Science ; Mr J. Percival and Mr P. Lake to be examiners for appeared have in the "Wiener Beitraege zur Englischen Philo­ the Special Examination in Agriculture and for the exami­ logie," namely: Erasmus Darwin's Botanic Garden, edited nations for the Diploma in Agriculture. by L. Brand!, and Charles Churchill, sein Lcben unLl seine Werke, edited by F. Putschi. JOHNIANA. The following has for some years past in current issues University appointments of Members of the The Ti111es reprinted its College have extracts from its pages of one hundred years ago. In the issues for been made since the issue of our last number: January 18th and 19th of this year appeared the following extracts l\Ir H. L. :- Pass to be an examiner for the George Williams Prize in 1910 From The Times of 1810. ; Mr F. H. Colson to be an examiner for the Previous Examination THURSDAY, JANUARY 18. ; Mr J. Robinson to be an examiner for Previous "The appointment of a successor to Mr GEORGE V LLIERS, as Pay­ the Examination ; Mr R. F. Scott to be a member I of the Financial master of the Marine Force, is calculated to excite much greate11 indignation, Board and to be one of the Sex Viri ; Dr E. Shc)l:e to than the occurrence itself which has vacated tbe ol11ce. Public men L. be a member of the Botanic Garden Syndi­ complain the odium under which they labour, of being intent only cate of upon ; Mr W. H. R. Rivers to be a member of the Antiquarian national plunder; and certainly the instance which we are now going, on Committee; the authority of the Treasury Journals, to allege, is but oddly calculated Mr E. A. Benians to be a member of the Uni­ versity Library Syndicate to remove these suspicions. General PtHPPS, we understand, is· to.succe<.:d ; Dr Bonney to be a member of the as Paymaster of Marines. What a noble indifference there Select P1·eachers Syndicate J\'lr Vll.LIEHS ; I\lr J. H. A. Hart to be a exists in this family throughout, to contemn the petty gains of place! member of the Special Board of Di\'inity; Mr T. R. Glover \Vhat an anxiety to provide efficient Members, unembarrassed by multi­ to be farious situations, for the public service! How pure, and uuobtrusivc, a member of the Special Board for Classics; Dr T. J. l'a and uncraving, are its several members, and their noble head ! And how Bromwich to be a member of the Special Board for Mathematics does thei•· disinterestedness put to flight all our remarks upon the sordid ; Dr J. E. Marr to be a member of the Special passions and selfish views of public men ! But it is with General PHIPPS Board for Biology unly that we have now to do. The situation to which he is, it is said, and Geology; Dr J. R Tanner to be a member to be appointed, requires a man to business and dexterous at of the Special Board of History ; Mr C. B. Rootham inured to be member aco.:ounts. As to his competence for this office, from habit and education, a of the Special Board for Music ; Mr P. Lake to be a memb.er may not doubts be reasonably entertained ? But, exclusive of this, the of the Board of Geographical Studies ; Mt· Gt:ncral is already provided for at ll1e public cxpence : he is a Colonel A. Benians a E. to be a member of the Special Board for of Regiment, having a battalion in the sixtieth ; and surely this may Economics surtice a man so apparently disqualified, \\'ithoul loading him with the and Politics ; Mr J. E. Plll·vis to be an examiner in State Paymaslership of the Marine Eslablishm<.!nl, now amounting to thirty Medicine and at Affiliated Local thousand Centres i Mr men J" Our Chrouicle. 257 256 Our Chronic!�:.

take his M.A. degree until 1790. He was gazeltecl an Ensign in the 85th FRIDAY, JANU.\RY 19. Foot, 17 March 1780 ; rising rapidly in the Army he became a Major­ "\Ve confess that we did think (for it was not exposure but prevention General 29 April 1802, Colonel Commandant of the 60th Rifles 25 August that was our aim), when we slated yesterday morning the personal 1807, and a General in the Army 12 August 1819. He died at Venice disqualifications of General PHIPPS, that a common principle of decency, 1+ September H!37. He was well known in fashionable society and was a modest compliance with public feeling, would have induced this Gentle­ nicknamed "The Governor of Finland," for, owing to a stroke of paralysis, man to decline the laborious and responsible ofiice of Paymaster of the his right arm hung down like the fin of a turtle. Marines, being already General in the Army, and a Colonel of the 60th His brother, the Commissioner of Excise, was t11e Hon Auguslus Regiment of Foot. Our opinion, however, originated in the noble pro­ Phipps, who was admitted to the College as a Pensioner 4 June 1782, and fessions of disinterestedness, made last year by public men in their behalf, after residing six Terms took the M.A. degree in 1784. He was appointed has be.en, it appears, erroneous ; General PHJPPS having already at the a Commissioner of Excise, Stamps, Taxes, and Inland J�evenue 7 July 1792, time we wrote kissed hands, as appointed to his new situation. Oh ! how and one of the Lords Commissioners of Excise for the United Kingdom galling these things are to a suffering people-to see place upon place, in in Septl!mbt:r 1823, an offlce he held until his death in 1826. this season of national danger, without pity or remorse-prudence, how­ It will be observed that all these men, after about two years' residence, ever, bids us abstain. \Ve shall, therefore, calmly state some of the public proceeded direct to the M.A. degree. This they did as sons of Noblemen, gains of Lord MULGRAVE's family, and, be it observed, that it is not now fmrquam uobiles as the phrase ran, under the Statutes of Elisabeth . .at the appropriation of single offices to single persons that we are indig­ nant. No ; we will suppose his Lordship born of a family, every membet· A correspondent sends the following abstract of a document which of which was possessed of a natural capacity for public service ; and, gives a clue to the parentage of Nicholas Shepht!rd, l\Iaster of the College therefore, let them live upon it ; and we will suppose the same. too, of her from 1569 to 1574. It is preserved among the Deeds of Strickland Ladyship's relatives ; and this is at least an allowance of wonderful powers of Sizergh . in these families ; but why are they to have two or three places apiece? Indenture dated 1 November, 12 Elizabeth (1570), between Nicholas Lord MULGRAVE is a General in the Army, a Colonel of a Regiment, Shippercl, master of St John's College, Cambridge, B.D., and Alice Governor of Scarborough Castle, and now First Lord of the Admiralty. Stricklancl of Syserghe, widow :-Whereas John \Vhitgyfte, D.D., master The first brother of his Lordship is a Commissioner of Excise, a of the College of Holy Trinity in Cambridge and the Fellows and Scholars situation requiring incessant attention ; but then he is also a Paymaster of the same, by Deed indented under lbeir common seal bearing dale the at Gibraltar. last day of October last past, demist:d to Alice Strickland all their lithe The second brother, as we have seen, though a General in the Army, barns of Nalland, Whynforth and Sysergbe, parcel of the Rectory of and a Colonel of a Regiment, is now made Paymaster of Marines. Kirkby in Kendall, with all their tithe corn yearly growing, for the term Her Ladyship has one brother-in-law Colonel in the East India service; of 32 years; Now Nicholas covenants for himself and Calherine Shippercl, and the same Gentleman is Chairman of the Victualling Board. his mother, and their executors and assigns, that Alice Slricklancl and her Another is a Lord of the Admiralty ; but he has, on his retirement assigns shall peaceably hold and enjoy the lithe barns and tithe corn a from this office, pension of one thousand a year, as Ex-under-secretary without auy disturbance of them. If the barns and tithe at any time oi the Foreign Department. within the said term be recovered from Alice by lithe given before the Mr MALING, the father of her Ladyship (no youth sed cruda viro elate hereof, Nicholas shall pay her in one payment 41s. 8d. for every year fliridisque seuectus, we suppose), was recently appointed to the difficult unexpired and rateably if part be recovered. office of Commissioner ol Excise ; we apprehend he has likewise another situation in Barbacloes. Sig11cd: By me-Nicholas Sheppard. Now, is it not cruel, after this statement, in the stony hearted people There is a seal of reel wax bearing the letters N. S. of this kingdom, to accuse those disinterested creatures, our public men, of being selfish, grasping, and intent only upon private emolument? A correspondent sends the following notes with regard to Ambrose Observe again, that we are allowing a wonderful extent of talent of two Heighinglon, who was admitted a Pensioner of St John's 20 April 1672 families and their affinities, in supposing their Membt:rs thus generally from Durham School. qualified for the discharge of public duly : il is the plurality of ofiices only His father, \Villiam Heighington, gentlemen, was buried 29 November that we quarrel with. These things must be altered, or England cannot 1693 at St Margaret's, Durham ; his will is dated 13 March 1692-3. long resist the most ferocious tyrant that �:ver oppressed mankind." Ambrose Heighington was baptised at Sl 1\Jargaret's, Durham, 30 May It is worth noting that of the persons whose preferments were so 1654, and was buried at Sl Margarel's 5 May 1683, agc:d 29. He married displeasing to The several wcr<:: members of St John's. Calherine daugher and co-heiress of lhe Rev Thomas Musgrave, D.D., 1 imcs Prebendary of Durham; the marriage bond being dated 26 September 1676. The Hon George Villiers, third son of Thomas, first Earl of Clarenclon• They had the following children : \Villiam Heighington, baptised entered the College as a Fellow Commoner, 1 July 1776, and took his at St Margarel's, Durham 12 March 1677-8; Musgrave Heighington, M.A. degree in 1779. On 25 August 1775, when IH: was about 16 years baptised at St Mary the Less, Durham 2 March 1679-80 ; Catherine, of age, he obtained a grant in reversion to be Clerk of the Council and who is mentioned in her grandfather's will; Mary, buried at the Cathedral Keeper of the Records of the Duchy of Lancaster; this he held from 1792 20 June 1683; Maria, a posthumous child, baptised 20 June 1683, buried at or a little earlier onwards. He was also Registrar at Gibraltar and I�anger St Margaret's 27 August 1684. of Craoborne Chase, until his death on 21 March 1827. \Villiam Heighington, matriculated 16 June 1Q.9-I at Queen's College, General Edmoncl Phipps was a son of Constantine, first Baron Oxford ; he became a Captain in the Life Guards. Mulgrave, he was aclmillt:d to the Co!legt: as a Pensioner, 14 January 1778, Apropos of the m·ticle Sdwyn in our number for Easter on the same clay on which James \\'oocl, afterwards 1\Iasler of the College, on Bishop was aclmitlecl a Sizar. Edmond Phipps resided for five Terms, but did not Term and more especially of his skill as an oar and swimmer (see Vol. DD VOL. XXXI. Our Clirouicle. 259 258 o�ll' Chronicle. Great Ev-ns follow'd on the wal'ry road, xxx., 334-5), Mr R. Giles, C.!. E. (B.A. 1869), has sent to the Editors a poem by his father, lhe late Ven. John Of Patagonian height and shoulders broad : Douglas Gilcs, Archdeacon of Stow and Second to none in naval arts was he, Precentor of Lincoln Cathedral. Archdeacon Gilt:s was al Eton, as a tutor, Or only second, Ps-eh-1-te ! to thee. while Selwyn was there and the verses commemorate an incident in which Now, as they near'cl, one watchful candle show'd, Selwyn was the hero. Mr Giles, hims who refers lo elf as the "youth Amphibious Tollaclay thy clrear abode ; unknown lo fame " and the "unhappy steersman," I was a member of Of cads expectant they could hear the din, the Psychrolulic Club, a skilful swimmer, and a personal friend of G. A. Selwyn. And a shrill tongue, which rul'd the storm within. Great S-lw-n's wherry "spirting " swept along, THE I'UNT. The stream was rapid, and the chief was strong, The caitiff on the bridge with glee beheld AN HEROIC PoEM. How for the punt direct her way she held : Au"Tol 6' ucp' aUTWV Ef1{30AOL< xaAKOO''TOpOL< vVith beaked bow she charg'd the sleepy side,

, , , .. , •.•...... , She rose, she bounded, from her native tide, llalovT' , V7r-rtoUTo Of. The gunwale gain'd, but here, suspended high, �KrlcfHJ vu;;v, eaxa uua 0' OuKiT' �V lOe'iv Perforce she stopp'd, for wherries cannot fly : Nnuaylwv ?rA>/6ouua. 1Esch. Pers. 41 5· The lubber punt lay trembling with the shock, The hero sate, unshaken as a rock, Ingens a vertice (puntus ?) Thrice from his seat a mighty effort made In puppim ferit ; excutitur, pronusque magister To grasp the punt, and thrice in vain essay'd, Volvitur in capul. The fourth had gain'd it, and his vig'rous arm lEn. 1. 114. Had held his wherry from the destin'd harm, THE punt I sing, the punt whose side profane But that frail boat her balance might not keep, Great S-lw-n's wherry charg'cl, but charg'd in vain, She plung'd, she totter'd, downwards lo the deep, As clown lhe stream her rushing course she held The hapless sternsman from his seat was hurl'd, And matchless strength to matchless speed impell'd. And, vainly struggling, clown the current whirl'd : Say, mighty Ps-ch-1-te ! what hostile hand The hero mark'd his wherry's sinking state, Anchor'd the punt, and the dire ambush plann'd? His comrade lost, and own'd the hand of fate, vVhat fell schismatic, stung with jealous pains Mindful e'en then of Ps-ch-1-lic fame, For emptied chapel and climinish'cl gains ? To fall with glory was his latest aim, Unconscious wretch ! wherries may founder clown, A wondrous header from the side he gave, Capsiz'd or smash'cl, but S-lw-n cannot drown. Sank not beneath, but lightly skimm'cl lhe wave, The moon was full, and her transparent light Then shew'cl his placid visage o'er the flood Thy rusty bridge, 0 \\'incisor ! gave to sight : Like father Thames, or Neptune, rev'rend God- A sallow Roman nose and crafty eye, The chiefs stood wond'ring at the God-like man, Th' approaching fleet of Eton to descry, Then in swift wherry to the rescue ran; Look'd out behind the iron balustrade, Th' unhappy sternsman long they sought in vain, Watching the mischief which himself had made. Whom native lead forbade to rise again : Three goodly wherries Boat the Thames along, As on some puppy in the water thrown The first was thine, 0 man sublimely strong ! Remorseless hands have tightly tied a stone, Broad as a barge, she reslad on the flood, The baleful burden sinks his nose and ears, Sturdy and long, she held her distance good, Still o'er the tide a struggling tail appears ; Firm at her bow, in either hand an oar, So far'd the wretch, his helpless heels they see, Great S-lw-n toil'd, and kept her well before : Sad tokens ! flound'ring where his head should be; ·with him was join'd a youth of humble name, The chiefs beheld, they reach'cl a timely oar, Of feeble strength, and all unknown to fame. Their hitchers plied, and lugg'd him to the shore. Two men of force immense and lasting wind Transcendant Ps-ch-1-te i while men repair In emulation vain push on behind, To woo the morning freshness of thy weir, To reach lhe Commodore they twist and strain vVhile "S-lw-n's bush " is green by Thames' side, vVith blister'cl hands and fundamental pain : And thine own Athens tow'rs above the tide, Laborious heroes I \Vinclsor knows you well, ln each and all shall future heroes see Her farthest alleys can your prowess tell, A glorious monument, and worthy thee : Your will commisssions many a master's rod, In that renown the willow'cl eyot shall share, And sleepy rectors quicken at your nod. For S-lw-n look his noblest header there. Alas I that pleasure ever should betray, And break the loving tenour of your way ! The following lines were added on the first lustrum-celebraled 0 I let not vain delight your league destroy, June 13 1836. Hesign, C-pl-st-n ! the empty joy : 0 Transeenclant Ps-ch-1-le I if we rehearse In this alone ye never can agree, Thy deeds amiss, forgive the feeble verse ; Misippic D-It-n will not ride with thee. DD 2 260 Our Chronicle. Our Chronicle. 261

It now remains, on this ausp1ctous day, Exhibitio11s of £3o : We promise all that humblest pupils may, (for Mathematics) Fison, A. K. (Aldenham School). Not thee to rival, for th' attempt were vain (for Classics) Chadwick, B. L. (Shrewsbury School). To match pe/fcction on it's own domain : (for Classics) Stephens, J. S. (Leighton Park School, But bid th y flock at earliest dawn repair, Reading). Or issue forth at midnight, lo the weir, (for Histo1:y) Grear, E. J. L. (Mill Hill School). Or bid a pyramid sublime arise, (for H isfory) Harris, J. F. (Denstone College). And lake ethereal headers from the skies ; (for Modem Laugnages) Bain, G. vV . (Marlborough College). Though thickest ice invest the wintry flood, (for Modem Lauguages) Englefield, F. R. H. (Mill Hill School). Though keenest winds benumb the freezing blood, Though small our strength and frail our courage be, Great Ps-ch-1-te ! we still will bathe with thee. LADY MARGARET BOAT CLUB. ADAIIIS ME1110IUAL PRizE, 1909. Presidwt-Mr L. H. K. Bushe-Fox. Treasurer-Mr J. J. Lister. First The Adams Memorial Prize has been divided between Boat Captain-H. F. Russell-Smith. Secoud Boat Captain-R. F. Donne. the following candidates : Secreta1:y-]. G. H. Hollzapffel. Juuior Treasnrer-L. A. Allen. First H. E. Chasteney Lent Captain-C. G. Carpenter. Secoud Lent Captain-H. E. Chasteney. L. J. Mordell Third Leut Captain-B. R. Streeten. Fom·th Lent Captain-C. P. Aubry. H. N. Tail T. L. Vhen In spite of the very short practice this Term the Lent their essays being of equal merit. boats were quite up to, if not above, the average. Fewer Mr Chasteney and Mr Tai t chose for the subject of their changes were made this year than last ; and as a result the essays "The Theory of Diffraction ; " Mr MOt·dell chose crews got together sooner than they would otherwise have "Doubly-periodic Functions" and Mr Wren, "The properties clone. The First Boat \overe again fortunate in having Mr of a general Cubic Surface " (see vol. xxx1 p. 370). Bushe-Fox to coach them ; and considering the material which he found when he took on the coaching he produced ENTRANCE SCHOLARS AND EXHIBITIONERS. a really remarkable crew. Its success is yet another tribute Elected 17 December 1909. to his coaching. Our best thanks are due to H. A. L. Laicllaw for giving up so much of his time to the club. He with Commencing residence October 1910. L. R. D. Anderson shared the coaching of the Second Boat, Fouudation Scholas!ups of £8o : but unfortunately got ill, together with some of his crew a (for !lfatlwmatics) Whitfield, E. H. D. (King's School, Chester). week before the races. This necessitated the introduction of (for !lfa/hemalics) Gilbert, B. W. (Nollingham High School). (for Natural Science) Trought, T. (King Edwarcl's High School, a third coach for the Second Boat at this late stage. The Birmingham). Third Boat was coached by the First Captain, and the Fourth (for Modern Lauguages) Herzl, H. (Clifton College). Boat ushered on to the river by the Second Captain. The Fomtdaliou Scholarslups of £6o : Master once more started the boats in all three Divisions (for Natural Science) Quass, P. (University College School). each night. (for Natural Science) Roberts, C. E. (Northampton and County The First Boat was again one of the lightest crews in the School). First Division, and again L.M.B.C. proved that by pure hard Mi11or Scholarships of £6o : work a crew can get pace withoul consisting of twelve­ (fur Matfwmalics) Morris, F. M. (Victoria University, stoners. They were stroked all through practice by their Manchester). very plucky fashion, and his racing on (for M at!lematics) Jeffreys, H. (Armstrong College, Newcastle­ last year's cox in a on-Tyne). the last night was above all criticism. They deserve all (for Classics) Hall, G. N. L. (Bedford Grammar School). credit for going head on the second night. Their defeat next (for History) Blumharclt, H. H. F. (Malvern College). night was due to a large extent to the moral effect of the by Fou11daliou Scholars/ups of £-1-o : knowledge that their previous victory had been assisted a boat. Yet it was almost worth sacrificingthe (for Classics) Scott, T. T. (Wolverhampton Grammar crab in the Jesus School). headship to be able to put up a race like that of the last (for Classics) Whitehouse, B. R. (King Edward's H igh night. No Lady Margaret man and very few men from School). other clubs will forget it. It takes some pluck to race a (for Natm·al Scie11cc) Edwards, G. R. (St Paul's School). you, right over the course. (for History) Dunlop, J. K. (Mill Hill School). boat1 that has already bumped 262 Our Chronicle. Our Chronicle. 263 . Fourth the headship was the finest A litlle less vv ind, a few more pistol shots, or in fact any­ Nighi.-The race for thing might have given them the headship. seen for a long time in the Lents. The First Boat got within During the greater part of the practice the Second Boat a quarter-of-a-length at Grassy, and from here to the finish was as pretty as any crew on the river. But owing to illness the distance varied from six feet to a quarter-of-a-length. they were unable to put in any bard work during the last At Mm·ley's Holt they made a fine spurt, and got very week of training, and so were neither fi.t nor trained for close indeed. They rowed magnificently, and considering the races. the wind and the fact that they were lY lbs. lighter per The Third Boat., which had not appeared very promising man than the Jesus crew, proved conclusively that again in practice, pulled themselves together durin.� the last week, they were the best boat on the river. and became a fast though rather rough crew. With better The Second Boat completed its downward progress, and luck in the arrangement of t.he boats ahead of them their will appear till next year below Pembroke Il. They made fortunes would probably haYe been different. a fine effort to rebump Caius II., but unfortunately could not The great triumph of the Club appears in the Third keep it going quite long enough. Division, where the long-looked-for L.M.B.C. IV. has at The Third Boat bumped King's I. at the Post corner, and last made an appearance. the Fourth Boat caught Magdalene Il. on Grassy. In the getting-on races Ill., I they beat King's Caius V., First Boa/. and St Catharine's ll., and finally bumped 1st Trinity VI. st lbs. at Ditton. Their good fortune did not follow them so closely H. Parker (bow) ...... 10 0 after this, as on the first three nights t.he two boats in front 2 H. C. Evans ...... 10 0 3 C. C. Gale ...... 12 1 insisted on "playing about " instead of rowing properly. 4 W. P. Dodd ...... 11 0 5 P. A. Irving ...... 11 First Night.-The Frst Boat went up on 1st Trinity I. Si 6 R. S. Clarke ...... 12 8 from the start, and made their bump round Ditton. 7 C. G. Carpenter ...... 12 1 The Second Boat succumbed to Queen�;'. H. E. Chasteney (stroke) ...... 8 13 The Third Boat had the bad luck to have a bump made A. G. Cardwell (eo.'�') ...... 8 7t in front of them, but succeeded in getting within a length Coach-Mr L. H. K. Bushe-Fox. of an overbump. First Boat. The same thing happened to the Fourth Boat, Christ's Bow-Has a long swing, but has to learn to control it by keeping his feet Ill. bumping Magdalene in front of them. firmly planted against the stretcher. With this fault cured he will be useful as he rows a clean and hard blade. Second N£ght.-The First Boat did not go up much at the ·r �e>o-Is short forward and his finish flavours of the "salt,'' so that his start, and Jesus practically held them until the glass houses, stroke is wanting at both ends, but he has the knack of using his where bow, in the Jesus Boat, caught a crab, and got his oar weight and legs together, and never seems to tire. behind his back, when our boat went up and gained the Th1·ee-Has a good swing forward, but has to be reminded to take his body headship about :rviorley's Holt. back as the blade takes the water. Must use his legs more. The Second Boat was bumped, this time by Third Trinity. Four-Is slow with his hands and recovery, and his swing forward is The Third Boat bumped Pembroke Ill. in the Gut. consequently hurried and uncertain, and the beginning weak. Is a Magdalene bumped Christ's Ill., robbing the Fourth Boat very hard worker and good stayer. Has improved out of all recog­ of its rightful prey. nition this term. Five-Also needs to be smarter wilh hands and recovery, and quicker Third Night.-A very strong head wind prevented the getting a grip of the water. Variable in practice, but can be relied on First Boat from showing lo advantage, and, rovving a much to do his best, and a good best in a race. slower stroke than Jesus, they were bumped from the head­ Si.v-Came on a lot and filled his place very creditably. Has all the ship at the glass houses, after a hard fight. makings of a good oar except life. Must be quicker applying his work, carry his shoulders lurthco;r back at the finish and be smarter The Second descended again, Caius Il. being the victors. with his hands. The Third Boat got within six feet of Clare II. before Sevw-Has a nice easy style with perfect control over his movements, and the latter bumped King's I. brings his blade hard and clean through the water, but must lake the The Fourth Boat rowed over, Christ's rebumping water quicker. Vastly improved and had much to do with the success Magclalene. of the crew. 264- Our Chronicle. Our Chronicle. 265

Sfrokc-·\Nas splendid. Three-A deep-sea oar who rows better than he paddles. He should to swing further forward and not lie so far back at the finish. Cox-Has still much to learn, and must remember that whether in practice learn The secret of success is a straight back. or in a race be must use as lillle rudder as possible and take the shortest course from point to point. In trying conditions from wind Four-He would give himself more time to swing steadily forward if he and stream, he did well in the races. sat up more at the finish and got his hands out. He must try and use his outside arm and shoulder (cf. photographs passim). He improved Seco11d Boat. vastly during the week before the races. sf. lbs. K. S. Waters (bow) ...... 10 1� Five-Being constitutionally rigid he has not enough swing. But he is 2 W. S. Laidlaw ...... 10 5 a neat oar, and with a little more smartness at the beginning he should 3 S. G. Askey ...... 11 1 do well. 4 C. P. Aubry ...... 11 2} Si.v-Rows hard all the time and, unlike some other members of the crew, 5 R. McD. Winder ...... 12 4} never takes a rest. He must sit up more at the finish and take care 6 L. A. Alien ...... 11 11 not to over-reach. What is wanted is a straight back. 7 J. C.Irving ...... 11 91, B. R. Streeten (sir.) ...... l1 0 SIWw-A hard worker with a rather un steady swing. If he could make W. Raffle (cox) ...... 9 4} his swing firmer, he might turn what is at present a magnified peck at the water into a respectable stroke. Secottd Lent Boat Characters. Stroke-Keeps it going well. But by slicing his blade into the water and Bow and Two-Neat oarsmen with nice natural swing. Handicapped by not bringing his oar on to his body he does not give himself a chance lack of weight, but should use what weight they have smartly at the of getting any length. He might do more work at the beginning beginning of the stroke. of the stroke. Three-Finds it difficult to swing out ; should get his shoulders over more Cox-Should be rather smarter in practice, and in the races should siick to quickly. his own course and not follow the boat in front of him. Four-A cheerful oarsman. Must swing as far as possible from his hips Fourth Boat. without over-reaching with his shoulders. st. lbs. W. M. Pollard (bou•) ...... 10 2 Five-Much handicapped by illness. Uses his legs well, but must swing his body. 2 N. V. Holden ...... 10 10 3 W. A. C. Darlington ...... 11 1 Si.v-Always a keen, hard worker, but a variable oar. Must go for length. 4 A. E. Hedgecock ...... 11 11 5 S. I. Levy 11 8 Seveu-If he could sit up at the finish,and get his hands out he would 6 H. Dutton 9 make a very useful oar. His best feature is length. sr 7 A. P. Cullen 9 5� Stroke-Very unfortunate in being kept on stroke side. Stroked splendidly H. P. Griffiths(stroke) ...... 9 11! in the races. He must not over-reach with his shoulders. H. L. Rees (cox) ...... 9 3 Co.�:-A useful and a pleasant cox. He must watch the time sharply and Coach-R. F. Donne. use his stentorian voice more often. Fourth Lent Boat Characters. Third Bot1f. from lack of sf. lbs. Bow-A hard worker but not a finished oar. Suffered B. L. Watson (bow) ...... 10 7 practice at the beginning of Term. 2 A. C. Nicholls ...... 10 1! Two-A neat oar but needs more cl ash; looks rather like a Chinese god. 3 H. Vale ...... 11 3 E. 1. does plenty of work, but 4 R. B. Odgers ...... 11 13 Tli rce-vVill make a useful oar. Fairly neat, 5 B. l\Ioody...... 11 6t must get longer. 6 J. H. Cole ...... 10 8 Four-Must get beginning and finish with the rest of the crew, and must 7 W. D. Wells ...... 10 5} swing out and row more naturally. W. H. Hattersley (stroke) ...... 10 8� E. Davies (cox)...... 9 0 Five-Has a useful weight which he uses effectively ; his back is not a fast stroke he will have to get smarter. Coach-H. F. Russell-Smith. straight, and to row Si.v-A very light hard worker ; by persevering he improved enormously Third Lent Boat Characters. during practice. Buw-His beginning would be stronger if he did not flop over the stretcher, Scvw -Aiso a feather-weight, but did plenty of work ; justified his posilioa and his finish if he sat higher up. He pushed consistently all the at seven by keeping the stroke beautifully long and by holding the term and made a pleasant bow. crew together. Must sit up at the finish. Two-Is inclined to over-reach and then sugar along the top of the water. Stroke-Naturally short, but managed to give plenty of time. Kept the He has a delightfully straight back. swing going and would not be hurried. 266 Our Chronicle. Our C!Jronicle. 167

great pity that he is not Co.r-A a lillle lighter. Very keen, but has Clwraclers : a wonderfully cool head. On the last night he gained the last half length by a beautiful "Grassy." In his element amongst barges. T. R. Bannister (gnal). A powerful kick. Has " kept" in very good style, and has been very consistent. He should try to use more judgment when pressed. NON-SMOKING SMOKER. M. 1'. Lloyd (right back). His kicking is quite good, but he lacks power At the Non-Smoking Smoker held on Tuesday, Feb. 15th, to stop a rush. He must be quicker when passed, and learn to cover his another performance similar to the "Joily Pot-Hunters " was partner. given by some members of the Club. F. Dale (left back). Has shown himself to be a p.Jucky and energetic player. Ilis kicking is apt to be wild. We were indebted for the scheme of the play to J. L. H. Clw/1 (right half). He is a powerful half-back, but rather clumsy. Fryers, while the Lyrics were "adapted " by P. A. Irving. B. Thompson (centre half) is to be congratulated on fillinghis position N. G. Head, of Jesus, very cleverly worked in some inciden C. tal on many occasions in the 'Varsity team. His defence and attack are music, which rounded off the general effect in a most pleasing both admirable. As Secretary he has shown great enthusiasm. fashion. C. TJcale(lcfl half). A model of indefatigable energy : he is able by his The whole play was on a much more lavish scale than pace to bring relief to his backs when hard pressed, and passes well before, sceuery and properties of a most complicated to his forwards. As Captain, displayed tact and resource throughout kind the season. being used. A Drop-curtain was also fitted up by the P. TValson (outside right). Has found it difficult to adapt himself to his " Stage-Carpenters." position. He is qLJite fast. The first scene opened upon the Coach's sitting-room-a H. F. Bricc-Smilh (inside right). Allhough he is slow he is a good somewhat cramped enclosure, to which someone referred individual player. He fails, however, to combine with his partner, who is (very rudely), as a gyp-room ! consequently rather isolated. The second act was more ambitious-" Three wretched G. D. Read (centre forward). Uses his weight extremely well, and a good Hags " impersonated by P. A. Irving, B. Streeten and shoots splendidly on occasion. His style prevents him having R. understanding with the -other forwards. L. A. Alien were discovered seated round their cauldron. been on the top of his form The lighting of A. R. Tl10mpson (inside left). He has the scene was very effective and represented throughout the season. The splendid understanding he has with the moonlight.

Long Jump-A. R. Thompson 1 ; G. N. Nicklin 2. Distance 18 ft. 2 in. THE HOCKEY CLUB. High Ju111p-G. N. Nicklin 1; W. S. Soden 2. Height 5 ft. 1 in. by the Htwrlles-G. N. Nicklin 1; F. Dale 2. Time 20 2-5 secs. The Hockey team has been greatly handicapped amount of bad weather we have had this term and the Weight-G. D. Read 1 ; H. R. Ragg 2. Distance 31 ft. 2� in. consequent lack of practice. At the time of w1·iting we Freshmen's 200 Ya rds-N. B. Jobson 1; R. S. Clarke 2. Time 25 1-5 secs· cannot tell whether we shall retain our position on the L.M.B.C. 300 yards Handica p-R. B. Odgers, 18 yards, 1 ; R. S. Clarke, 2nd division of t.be League or be relegated to the 3rd scr., 2. Time 37 secs. division. As last season, the defence has been much better College Servants' 200 yards H audicap-G. Palmer 1 ; A Randell 2. iban the altack, and it is to the latter that we chiefly owe A fixture has been arranged with Keble College, Oxford, our lack o( points ; all the forwards being ineffective in the to take place at Fenner's on Saturday, March 6th. circle. But, nevertheless, this season's hockey team has undoubtedly shown an improvement on last year's ; and we Congratulations to B. F. Annitage, who has been chosen hope that next year's will be correspondingly better. We to run third string in the Three Miles for Cambridge against of which we have won 3, lost 5, and Oxford, at Quenn's Club, on March 19th. have played 10 matches, drawn 2.

CRICKET AND FooTBALL CLuBs. F. B. Fis!ter (Capt.), centre-half. Has had rather a discouraging time ill his position, the forward line being disappointing ; gets through Balance Sheet, 1908-9. more than his fair share of work, and feeds his forwards really welL Has made a good Captain, his thorough knowledge of the game Receipts. E:.;pwditure. being especiaUy useful. £ s. d. £. d. s. Du rant, centre forward. Unrortunately could not play in first few Grant from the Amalga- Deficit...... 10 9 2 JTT. li!. games, and is now handicapped by bad sight. Imparted much-needed mated Athletic Clubs ... 192 0 0 \Vages of Groundman 40 0 0 vigour rorward line, but is inclined to get out of place and thus Long Vacation Grant University Cricket Club to muddle his inside forwards. Shoots hard, and works well. from ditto ...... 20 0 0 Poll Tax ...... 5 5 0 Extra Grant for Pavilion General Expenses (inclu­ E. J. Y. Braslt , lert half. A hard-working half, especially goodin defence Improvements ...... 15 0 0 ding wages of labour, He feeds his wing with judgement, but is apt to be rather too Returne::d by Metcalfe ... 0 3 6 payment of Umpires, vigorous in his tackling. rolling and cutting, BeufJcy, outside right. One of the best men in the forward line, gets £.227 3 6 rates and taxes) ...... 85 6 6 A. J. through a lot of work, and is well served by his pace ; his centring Deficit...... 6 3 1 R.U. Capitation and Cup however should be harder and more to the back of the circle. Tie Fees...... 3 3 0 has Bats, Balls, and Teas ... 37 1 6 S. L. T!tOmpsoll, right back. Although handicapped by a weak knee Pavilion Improvement. .. 13 15 9 played very consistently this sfiason. A sound tackler and a strong Miscellaneous Accounts : hitter. Northfield ...... 5 15 10 H. Parry, inside left. A conscientious for·ward, who is good in mid­ Macintosh ...... 8 16 1 J. field and tackles his back well, but is rather slow and is weak in the Pleasance ...... 6 4 9 Gray ...... 2 4 0 circle. Gibson 1 14 0 H. Itl. Lloyd, left back. One of the best men in the team, has a good eye, Gentle ...... 0 9 0 tackles well, and clears hard ; should come on considerably. Hall ...... 7 6 1 Hockey, has fillecl Sanders ...... 0 16 0 E. [(. Qnicll, goal keeper. Although his fi.rst season at with great credit. Brown ...... 2 5 the hard and thankless position or goal-keeper 0 really brilliant saves. Metcalfe ...... 2 11 6 Clears hard, and has brought off some Lilley ...... 2 1 0 H. Paulley, right half. Tackles

11 ...... TVilliam By rd President-vV. S. Soden. Treas11rer-Dr J. E. Matr. 2. (a) Lullaby ' (b) 11 Sir Patrick Spens " ...... R. de Pem•sall SccretaiJ'-E. J. Y. Brash. L. St JOHN'S COLLEGE CHORUS. The following papers have been read this Term :- P l 3. SoNG ...... " A astora " ...... arr anged by Laue Wilson Feb. 9th ...... " Polar Exploration " ...... P. A. Irving Miss HILDA i\IARCHAND. Feb. 16th ...... " Limestone Regions " ...... Dr J. E. MatT 4. PIANOFORTE SOLO ...." Novellelte (No. 8) " in F sharp minor ... G. Mar. 2nd " Ancient Monuments in Britain and Brittany" ...Dr T. Bonney SeT!!111/a 11 n Mr E. P. TAYLOR. The attendances at the Meetings this Term have shown , Fairies " ...... C. Sta11jo rd a marked improvement, and it is gratifying to note an in­ 5. (a) "The V. pretty w g and sing" creased interest taken by the Honorary Members. (b) "Come, a , ...... C. H. H. Parry St JOHN'S COLLEGE CHORUS. During the Term the following gentlemen have been { 1 1 A Broken Song'' } ,, ...... o elected Members of the Club :-11Iessrs. S. G. Askey, J. R. SONGS 11 a C. V. Stanf rrl (>, Back to Irel nd Stoddart, and C. G. P. Laidlaw. i\Ir ROBERT ClliGNELL. 272 Our C!tromclf:. Our Chronicle. 273

PART II. ST. JoHN's CoLLEGE RIFLE CLuB. 7. VIOLIN SOLO ...... " Air in F minur " ...... llfal'ion Scoff Prcsidc1�t-The Master. Vicc-Presidcuts-J Miss MARION 'SCOTT. . G. H. Holtzapffel, R. U. E. Knox. Captain--F. G. Burr. Hon. Sec.-R. McD. Winder. Committee­ BARITONE SOLO WITH CHORUS FOR MEN'S VoiCES 8 11 Coronach " H. S. Barrel!, E. J. Y. Brash, H. F. Brice-Smith, R. F. Donne, G. I. C. . C. B. Roo/ha111 March and. Mr ROBERT CHIGNELL AND THE COLLEGE CHORUS. The club, which was revived last year, has shown abundant {(a) "Blackbird's Song " ...... Cy ril Scott · SONGS ...... signs ...... of vitality this season, a large 9 "It was a lover and his lass " . . . .. Coafcs number of Freshmen have . (b) Enc joined, Miss HILDA MARCHAND. among them being several well-known Public School shots. Last Term our Second VI. easily VOCAL UARTETS defeated Trinity 10. Q Second VI., and a rather weak First (a) "Love in my bosom like a bee " ...... F. Cumringham Woods VI. was beaten by seven ...... points in (b) " Springtime " ...... Bcctho7•CJ� a match with Trinity and Caius, who tied for the Messrs V. C. BODDINGTON, R. STANSFELD, R. McD. 'WINDER, first place. This Term a College VI. was a good second to C. H. RITClllE. Jesus in a match against three other Colleges. In the "Wale Plate " ...... Competition (open to teams of CHORUS ...... Song " . . . .. Garreit four, rapid firing) the 11. . . " Lady Margaret Boat Club team was third by one point, out of nine competing First Smoking Concert. teams. In the inter-unit Miniature Competition we defeated Jesus last Term by 15 points. This term two other teams PART I. have scratched against us, thus placing us in the final round ...... 11 ...... Brahms 1. PIANOFORTE SOLO . . Walzer " ...... with Caius. BRAUNHOLTZ. A. A. GUEST-WILLIAMS, H. J. On March 4th, the Inter-College Bowl and Medals were ...... H. Bembcrg 2. SoNGS . .... (i) "Hincloo Song " . shot for on the Town Range, in which competition we (ii) "Vesti la giubba " (Pagliacci) ...... Leoucavallo finished third out of four competing teams. WORKII!AN E. M. (Trinity). Our place was attributable to a general break-down at . . VIOLIN SoLo ...... Haudcl 200 : 3. . . . . Sonate in D ...... yards, owing to nervousness G. T. :M. Bevan, who Larghelto-Allegro. made a brilliant 34, and who finally made top score with H. H. LORENZ. 95, must be excepted. At this distance we were six points ...... Sclm be1't clown 4. SoNG ...... " Hark, hark, the lark " ... on the leading team, at 500 yards we did little better A. A. GUEST-WILLIAMS. and were eighteen points down, but at 600 yards the team

...... found its usual form and VOCAL QUARTET ...... "Maiden, Listen " . . . C. F. A dam finished only eight points behind 5. ' V. C. BODDINGTON. C. H. RlTCHIE. Trinity and four behind Jesus. R. STANSFELD. R. McD. WINDER. The scores were :-Trinity 548 ; Jesus 544 ; St John's 540 ; Caius 500. PART II. Colours have been .. given this term to G. L. Ritchie, ONG ...... " A Voice by the Cedar Tree " ...... 6. S A. Somervcll G. T. M. Bevan and G. I. A. P. LONG. C. Marchand, while of the old Colours F. G. Burr, R. McD. Winder and R. U. E. Knox a ...... VocAL uARTET ... in my bosom like bee " . C. Woods 7. Q " Love again found a place in the team. Of the Freshmen, G. V. BoDDINGTON. C. RITCHIE. L. C. H. Ritchie and G. T. M. Bevan have been R. STANSFELD. R. McD. \V INDEl�. the most prominent. Bevan has won no less than six spoons since he came SoLO ...... " Sclttwlmlll 8. PIANOFORTE . . " Davidsbiindler ...... into residence, including prizes for Short Range Shooting, H. J. BRAUNHOLTZ. Revolver, and Rapid Firing. { (i) " Let us wander " ...... } VOCAL D UET .. p ce 11 G. L. Ritchie won both the College Freshmen's Com­ 9· . . . leave decoying" . ur (ii) "Shepherd, Shepherd, petition and the 'Varsity ; and at present is leading in the GuEsT-vVILLIAMS, R. A. A. B. Oocmns. Baker Cup, while Bevan won the Freshmen's Revolver ...... SoNGS ...... :: Nina ...... Pergolcse 10. . (!) ·: ·:·;; . Spoon, and a Spoon open to the 'Varsity, beating several (11) Pur D1cesll ...... Lol/i other Colours. \Vo RKMAN tl E. M. (Trinity). Next Term's fixtures will include the Competition for the Chairman-Dr Tanner. College Cup and Medals, the Tyro Medals, a match with VOL. XXXI. EE Our Chro11ick 274 Our Chronick 275

Harrow at Harrow (eight a side), and probably matches with THE CLASSICAL SociETY. several other Public Schools. The Club will probably be well rept'esented in the President-R. F. Patterson. Hon. Sec.-H. W. Todd. Trial VIII.'s next Term, and we hope that at least one more Committce-Mr Glover, L. D. Tillard, H. Parker. member will obtain the Half-Blue, and a place in the 'Varsity The following papers have been read :­ against Oxford, especially R. McD. Winder (rowing per­ this term Feb. mitting), who was prevented from going to Bisley last year 13lh. "The Oracle at Delphi," by H. J. Braunholtz. by illness. Feb. 25th. "Longinus," by W. J. L. Rogerson. On March 8th Mr. D. S. Robertson has kindly consented OFFICERS' TRAINING CoRPS. to read a paper on "Apuleius."

Offi cer Com111a11ding-2nd Lieut. J. G. H. Holtzapffel. Col.-Sel·gts.- H. S. Barrett and E. J. Y. Brash. Sergts.-R. F. Donne, F. G. Burr, THE DEBATING SOCIETY. R. U. E. Knox, and Moody. H. Presidw f- H. P. W. Burton. Vice-Prcsidc11t-F. B. Fisher. Hou, G Company (St John's). Sec.-H. N. Tait. Committcc-W. G. Constable, G. I. C. Marchand. H. F. Russell-Smith, P. A. Irving, J. B. Slerndale-Bennett, H. R. Ragg, B. The work this term has been confined to a field day on L. Tillard, C. F. Smith. Hou. Auditor-F. D. Mm·ton. February 22nc1, and night operations on March 1st. G Com­ The Debating pany was unfortunately very badly represented at both these, Society still continues to be in a flourishing condition. The particularly at the latter, when only 14 men out of 82 turned Meetings this Term have been characterised by considerable out. It is to be hoped that the section commanders will take enthusiasm-especially those which dealt with political more trouble to look up their sections for field days, &c., in subjects. The subjects discussed have been of a refreshing future. A team of twenty-five is to be chosen shortly to variety, embracing metaphysical discussions on War, and compete in the night-marching competition on March 9th. Imperial ideals, as well as the rather more flippant questions of modern sensationalism, and the Scotch character. Undoubtedly the event of the Term THEOLOGICAL SociETY. was the visit of Mr Lowes Dickinson, and the debate which ensued Prcsideut-R. H. Cotton. E.v-Presidcuts ia Rcsidc11ce-J. H. A. Hart, was probably one of the most serious and successful in the M.A., R. F. Donne. Hou. See1•eta ••y-E. J. Toase. Hon. Treasnrer- annals of the Society Streeten. Committee-H. W. Todd, A. Bentley. B. R R. The Meetings held have been as follows :- The papers this term have been full of interest and instruction. Canon Southwell's paper was very helpful to First Debate.-On Saturday, January 22nd, Mr H. N. Tait (Secretary) those who might possibly be doubtful concerning the proposed "That this House welcomes the many recent efficiency of Clergy Training Colleges. Mr. Stewart's paper Unionist victories, and recognises in them the returning sanity on the '' New Hymn Book " was extremely interesting to of the British Public." Mr A. Watkins opposed. There Johnians, and attracted many to the meeting. Canon Kennett's also spoke : for the motion, Messrs L. B. Tillard, H. N. Leakey, paper was full of originality, and is chiefly memorable for the P. A. lrving, G. W. Spencer, J. H. Cole, excellent discussion that it suggested. Unfortunately Mr. H. P. W. Bm·ton, F. G. Burr. Against the motion, Messrs T. Clough, Mozley's paper has not yet been given. The following is the G. I. C. Marchand, G. E. Jackson, J. B. Sterndale­ Bennett, list of papers :- E. F. Sayers, F. B. Fisher, S. M. Green. On a division there appeared for the motion 20 votes ; against Jan. 21st. "Post-graduate Training for Holy Orders," by Rev. Canon the motion Soulhwell, M.A., Principal of Newcastle Theological 13 votes. The motion was therefore carried College, in R. F. Donne's rooms, E, Second Court. by 7 votes ; 39 members were present during the evening. Feb. 11th. "The New Hymn Book," by Rev. H. F. Stewart, B.D., in R. A. Bentley's rooms, 0, Second Court. • Second Debate.-On Saturday, January 29th, Mr F. B. Fisher Mar. 4th. "Old Testament Ideas of Righteousness and Sin," by l�ev. (Vice-President) proposed "That the Scotch take life too B.D., in J. P. Denham's rooms, F, Third Canon Kennett, seriously." Mr F. D. Mm·ton (Hon. Auditor) opposed. There Court. also spoke : Mar. 11th. "Modern Tendencies and the Permanence of Christianity," by for ,the motion, Messrs J. B. Sterndale-Bennett, Rev. J. K. Mozley, M.A., in H. W. Todd's rooms, D, New H. F. Russell-Smith, H. N. Leakey, H. P. W. Bm·ton, C. F. Court. Smith ; against the motion, Messrs A. G. Clow, P. A. Irving 1 276 Our Chronicle.

A. Watkins, C. C. Gale. On a division there appeared for the motion 12 votes ; against the motion 12 votes. The Chair­ man gave his casting vote against the motion ; 29 members were present during the evening.

Third Debate.-On Saturday, February 5th, Mr H. F. l{ussell Smith proposed "That a Self-Sufficing Empire is a false ideal.'' Mr P. A. lrving opposed. There also spoke : for the motion, Messrs \V. G. Constable, F. B. Fisher, G. I. C. Marchand, G. E. Jackson, R. K. Haslam, M. J. THE LIBRARY. Antia, H. R. Ragg ; against the motion, Messrs. F. Kidd, H. N. Tait, T. Clough, L. B. Tillard, C. F. Smith, F. D. "' The asterisk denotes past or prcswt Members of the College. Morton. On a division there appeared, for the motion 17 votes, against the motion 12 votes ; 37 members were present Donations and Additions to the Library during Quarter during the evening. ending Christmas, 1909.

Fourth Debate.-On Saturday, February 12th, Mr C. F. Smith proposed "That this House deplores the modern craze Donalions. DONORS. for novelty and the sensational." Mr S. M. Green opposed. } There also spoke : for the motion, Messrs H. R. Ragg, Flelcher (\V. J.). The Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby : her connection wilh T. Clough, J. B. P. Adams ; against the motion, Messrs G. E. Wimborne Minster. 8vo. Bournemouth, N.D. Mr. Cox. a Jackson, F. B. Fisher, H. N. Leakey, M. J. Antia. On I i · t i · .. division there appeared for the motion 11 votes, against the �'v�.������: . . � .��.�� ..�� .��� .��..:� ��.�:.���:.:.��:: motion 12 votes ; 27 members were preseut during the Carnegie (A.). Armaments and their Results. } . 8vo. Lond. 1909...... TI1e p eace S octet y. evening. } London College of Divinity, St. John's Hall, Highbury. Calendar 1909-10. Refe rence Table Fifth Debate.-On Wednesday, February 23rd, Mr G. Commentary of Rabbi Meyuhas B. Elijah on the Rev. A. W. Greenup. Lowes Dickinson proposed "That War at the present day is Pentateuch. Edited by A. W. Greenup* and opposed both to the material and normal interest of Nations." C. H. Titterton. Genesis. 8vo. L:md. 1909. } Dr J. A. Tanner opposed. There also spoke : for the motion, *Greenhill (Sir G.). La Courbe Balisiique. (�x�rait dn Memorial de I'Artillerie Navale. The Author. Rev. J. K. Mozley, Messrs T. R. Glover, F. Ronnfeldt, W. G. 2 hvr. de 1909). 8vo. Pans, 1909 ...... } Constable ; against the motion, Mr G. G. Butler. On a "'Bushell (Rev. W. D.). Church Life on Harrow division there appeared for the motion 32 votes, against the Hill A.D. 767-A.o. 1547. Octocentenary Tracts. motion 18 votes 100 members and visitors were present 8vo. Camb. 1909. 5.42.2 ...... Rev. W. D. Bnshell, j Hymns for the Chapel of Harrow School. 6th during the evening. Edition. 12mo. Oxford, 1908. 11.11.67...... } Si:dh Apollonins Pergrens. Conicorum Lib. V. VI. VII. Debate.-On Saturday, March 5th, Mr H. C. Nicholls A?ditus in calce Archimedis Assumptorum Rev. J. J. Milne. proposed " That the result of the General Election does not L1ber. fol. Florenbae, 1661. KK.6.49 ...... justify the introduction of measures to limit the Veto of the "'Love (A. E. H.). Elements of the Differential} House of Lords." M�· E. F. Sayers opposed. There also The Author. �scUl������� ..���� �.�.��: ... . ���.'... . .������: .. :.:�:: spoke : for the motion, Messrs H. N. Leakey, L. B. Tillard, * Marr (J. E.). \Vestmorland. (Cam bridge County } E. J. Toase, J. B. P. Adams, F. G. Burr ; against the motion, Geographies). 8vo. Camb. 1909. 10.32.25 ... } The Author. Messrs G. I. C. Marchand, W. G. Constable, H. F. Russell­ Calendar of Letter-Books preserved among the Smith, S. M. Green, R. K. Haslam, M. J. Antia. On a Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guildhall. Letter Book I. The Town Clerk of the division there appeared for the motion 17 votes, against the circa A.D. 1400-1422. Edited by R. R. Sharpe. City of London. motion 14 votes ; 38 members were present during the 8vo. LonE!. 1909. 5.40 ...... evening. *Quevedo (S. A. Lafone). Tipos de Alfareria en} la Region Diaguito-CalchaquL (De la Revista del Museo de La Plala, tomo XV). r0y. tlvo. Tlle A u tl1or. Buenos Aires, 1908. 10.11.21...... '176 Our Chronicle.

A. Watkins, C.C. Gale. On a division there appeared for the motion 12 votes; against the motion 12 votes. The Chair­ man gave his casting vote against the motion; 29 members were present during the evening.

Third Debate.-On Saturday, February 5th, Mr H. F. H.ussell Smith proposed "That a Self-Sufficing Empire is a false ideal.'' Mr P.A. Irving opposed. There also spoke: for the motion, Messrs \V. G. Constable, F. B. Fisher, THE LIBRARY. G. I. C. M::trchand, G. E. Jackson, R. K. Haslam, M. J. Antia, H. R. Ragg; against the motion, Messrs. F. Kidcl, "' The asterisk denotes past or present Members of the Collece. H. N. Tait, T. Clough, L. B. Tillard, C. F. Smith, F. D. Morton. On a division there appeared, for the motion 17 votes, against the motion 12 votes ; 37 members were present Donations and Additions to the Library during Quarter during the evening. ending Christmas, 1909.

Foarlh Debate.-On Saturday, February 12th, Mr C. F. Smith proposed "That this House deplores the modern craze Donations. DONORS. for novelty and the sensational." Mr S. M. Green opposed. } Fletcher (W. J.). The Lady Margaret, Countess There also spoke : for the motion, Messrs H. R. Ragg, of Richmond and Derby : her connection with T. Clough, J. B. P. Adams; against the motion, Messrs G. E. Wimborne Minster. 8vo. Bournemouth, N.D. Mr. Cox. a ·· ' Jackson, F. B. Fisher, H. N. Leakey, M. J. Antia. On ' t � i · :��.�.��.�����:.:.��:: division there appeared for the motion 11 votes, against the "X.l����:.. �.��.�:.. ��.����.i.��·. . Carnegie (A.). Armaments and their Results. . motion 12 votes ; 27 members were preseut during the } Tl1e peace Soc1e ty. Svo. Lond. 1909...... •...... evening. } London College of Divinity, St. John's Hall, Highbury. Calendar 1909-10. Reference Table Ftjth Debate.-On Wednesday, February 23rd, Mr G. Commentary of Rabbi Meyuhas B. Elijah on the Rev. A. W. Greenup. Lowes Dickinson proposed "That War at the present day is Pentateuch. Edited by A. W. Greenup* and opposed both to the material and normal interest of Nations." C. H. Titterton. Genesis. 8vo. Lond. 1909. *Greenhill (Sir G.). La Courbe Balislique. } Dr J.A. Tanner opposed. There also spoke : for the motion, (Extrait du Memorial de l'Artillerie Navale. The Author. K. Rev. J. Mozley, Messrs T. R. Glover, F. Ronnfeldt, W. G. 2• livr. de 1909). 8vo. Paris, 1909 ...... } Constable ; against the motion, Mr G. G. Butler. On a "'Bushel! (Rev. W. D.). Church Life on Harrow division there appeared for the motion 32 votes, against the Hill A.D. 767-A.D. 1547. Octocentenary Tracts. Svo. Camb. 1909. 5.42.2 ...... Rev. W. D. Bushell, motion 18 votes i 100 members and visitors were present Hymns for the Chapel of Harrow School. 6th during the evening. Edition. 12mo. Oxford, 1908. 11.11.67 ...... Apollonius Pergreus. Conicorum Lib. V. VI. VII. } Si:dh Debate.-On Saturday, March 5th, Mr H. C.Nicholls A?ditus in calce �rchimedis Assumptorum Rev. J. J. Milne. proposed " That the result of the General Election does not Ltber. fol. Florenltae, 1661. KK.6.49 ...... } justify the introduction of measures to limit the Veto of the *Love (A. E. H.). Elements of the Differential The Author House of Lords." Mr E. F. Sayers opposed. There also . �����.�.��: .. �.��.' ... .�����: .. :.:�:: ��s�.l;.����·��.. .. . spoke : for the motion, Messrs H. N. Leakey, L. B.Tillard, *MatT (J. E.). Westmorland. (Cambridge County } E. J.Toase, J. B. P.Aclams, F. G. Burr ; against the motion, Geographies). 8vo. Camb. 1909. 10.32.25 ... } The Author. Messrs G. I. C. Marchand, W. G. Constable, H. F. Russell­ Calendar of Letter-Books preserved among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of Smith, S. M. Green, R. K. Haslam, M. J. Antia. On a London at the Guildhall. Letter Book I. The Town Clerk of the division there appeared for the motion 17 votes, against the circa A.D. 1400-1422. Edited by R. R. Sharpe. City of London. motion 14 votes; 38 members were present during the Svo. Lond. 1909. 5.40 ...... } evening. •Quevedo (S. A. Lafone). Tipos de Alfareria en la Region Diaguito-Calchaqui. (De la Revista Th e Auth 0r • del Museo de La Plata, tomo XV)...... rvy..... 8vo.... . Buenos Aires, 1908. 10.11.21 ...... 278 The Libra1y. The Libra!)'. 279

Raymond (G. Lansing). Art in Theory, an Introduction to the Study of Comparative Aesthetics. 2nd Edit. 8vo. New York, 1909. Additions.

10.15.3? ...... o -- -- The Representative Significance or Baines (T.). Yorkshire, past and present: a History and a Description f Form. 2nd Edition. 8vo. New York, 1909. the Three Riclings of the Great County of York, including an Account of the Woollen Trade of Yorkshire. 2 vols (in -t). 4to. Lond. 10.15.33 ...... •...... - ---- Poetry as a Representative Art. 5th [1871-77]. 12.10.25-28. Edition. 8vo. New York, 1909. 10.15.34.... Baker (W. M.) and *Bourne (A. A.). Elementary Geometry. Books I-IV. -- -- Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Svo. Lond.1903. 2.54.71. 2nd Edition. 8vo. New York, 1909. 10.15.35. \ The Author. 13ergson (H.). L' Evolution Creatrice. 5me Edition. 8vo. Paris, 1909. ---- The Genesis of Art-Form. 3rd Edition. 1.2-+.40. Cambridge History of English Literature. Edited by A. W. Ward and 8vo. New York, 1909. 10.15.36 ...... ---- Rhythm and Harmony in Poetry and A. R 'Valler. Vol. IV. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Music. 2nd Edition. 8vo. New York, 1909. 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M�J.l0.40--t3. Dictionary (New English) on historical Principles. Edited by Sir J. A. H. do his duty." 8vo. Lond. 1908 ...... (H. H. Brindley, Esq. Secret l�emedies, what they cost and what they Murray. (Prophesy-Pyxis). 4to. Oxford, 1909. 12.2. contain. Based on Analyses made for the Driesch (H.). The Science and Philosophy oi the Organism. (Gifford British Medical Association. 8vo. Lond. 1909. Lectures 1907, 1908). 2 vols. Svo. Loncl. 1908. 1.24.38,39. Essays on some Biblical Questions or the Day. By Members oi the ...... 3.44.30 ...... Calverley (C. S.). The Literary Remains of. } Gniversity of Cambridge. Edited by H. B. Swete. 8vo. Lond. 1909. 9.37.28. With a memoir by Sir W. J. Senclall. 3rd Professor Mayor. Euclid. The Thirteen Books oi Euclid's Elements translated from the Edition. 8vo. Lond. 1892. 4.29.11 ...... } text of Heiberg with Introduction and Commentary by T. L. Heath. *Latifi (Alma). Effects of War on Property. With a Note on Belligerent Rights at Sea by 3 vols. roy. 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Jesus or Christ? Essays. (Hibbert Journal Supplement for 1909). 8vo· Lond. 1909. 15.16. Klussmann (R.). Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorum et Graecorum et Latinorum. Die Literatur von 1878 bis 1896 einschliesslich umfassend. Band I. Teil 1. Scriptores Graeci. Collectiones : Abercius bis Homerus. 8vo. Leipzig, 1909. 7.48.56. Maitland (F. ·w.). Equity, also the Forms of Action at Common Law : Two Courses of Lectures. Edited by A. H. Chaytor and W. J. Whittaker. Svo. Camb. 1909, 14.7.27. Myers (C. S.). A Text-Book of Experimental Psychology. 8vo. Lond. 1909. 1.49.8. Parish (W. D.). List of Carthusians 1800 to 1879. Svo. Lewes, 1879. 5.42.45. *Parkinson (R.). The Old Church Clock. 4th Edit. 8vo. Lond. 1852. 4.10.62. *Pendlebury (C.). Arithmetic. lOth Edition. 8vo. Lond. 1897. 2.54.72. Easter Term, I9IO. Psychology, The British Journal of. Edited by James Ward and W. H. R. Rivers*. Vols. I and I I. 1904-1908. roy. 8vo. Camb.1904-8. 1.23.25,26. *Read (H. N.). Lectures on the Chemistry of Common Things, delivered at Bishop's Storlford, Oct.-Dec. 1881. 8vo. Bishop's Stortford, 1881. Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History. By various authors. NOTES FROM Vol. Ill. 8vo. Camb. 1909. 14.7.3. THE COLLEGE RECORDS. Stanton (V. H.). The Gospels as historical Documents. Part 11. The Synoptic Gospels. 8vo. Camb. 1909. 9.8.12. (Continued from page 178). Texts and Studies. Vol. VIII. No. 1. The Liturgical Homilies of Narsai. By Dom R. H. Connolly. With an Appendix by Edmund Bishop. 8vo. Camb. 1909. MONG the documents preserved Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. Vol. Ill. Fasc. v. Cesso-cito. 4to. Lipsiae, in the College Treasury are 1909. 12.1. a number relating to its earliest *Tooke (J. Home). A Catalogue of the valuable Library of J. Horne days; fragments Tooke, sold by auction May 26, 1813. 8vo. Lond. 1813. Gg.l5.73. of accounts, receipts for Wash burn (Margaret F.). The Animal Mind : a Text-book of Comparative moneys paid and the like. They are uncon- Psychology. 8vo. New York, 1908. 1.49.9. nected and fragmentary, and Westermarck (E.). The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas. it would be difficult to weave the 2 vols. 8vo. Lone!. 1906-8. 1.24.36,37. facts they record into a connected *Wilson (Ven. J. M.). Six Lectures on Pastoral Theology. 8vo. Lond story, but here and there they throw 1903. 11.34.94. light on the events of those early days. The first document here printed is a statement of payments by Henry Hornby, one of the most active of the Lady Margaret's executors; he had been her Secretary and Chancellor, and in 1509 was appointed Master of Peterhouse. The payments range between February 1509-10 and February I5IG-II, thus com­ mencing seven months after the Lady Margaret's death. Work was clearly still going on at Christ's College, while we learn something of the steps being taken to wind up the affairs of the old Hospital of St John and to found the new College. We may infer that this was being pressed with some speed when we learn that the Town Clerk of Cambridge wrote all night at one of the deeds. . There is aiso mention of VOL. XXXI. FF