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Dean of Thornton College and the Chapter thereof, granted a 5. A renewal of Ralph Wailer's lease by Queeil Elizabeth in lease of the Rectory to Sir Robert Tyrwit commencing at the twenty-first year of her reign. This lease is for twenty-one An. I. Edwd. viii, i.e. immediately on the College Micha'elmas years and in it Ralph Wailer is again exempted from the pay­ being in possession of the Rectory. And from the writings to ment of £ I to the Prebend of St Martin's in Beverley. be mentioned afterwards it appears that John Scott was in possession of the Rectory and Parish Church when they were 6. Part of a copy of a lease from Queen Elizabeth to R. granted to Thornton College, and that he continued in posses­ Wailer made in the 29th year of her reign. This lease is for sion of the Vicarage till the first of Queen Mary, but not of the three lives. Rectory. 7· A copy of a lease from Queen Elizabeth to Robert

:t. A certificate signed by the Vicar General of the Arch­ Mawburne and others, made in the 38th year of her Reign. bishop of York testifying that Robert Johnson was instituted to This lease is for three lives. And in it the lessee is exempted the Vicarage of Holme on the death of John Scott and in from the annual payment of £1 to the Prebend of St Martin's consequence of a presentation from Queen Mary in the first in Beverley. N.B. In this and in Wailer's lease the annual year of her reign. J ohnson was instituted on the 15th of March payment to the Crown is £20 IlS. 8d. 1533, and the certificate is dated June 9th, 1624. 8. An extract fr om a deed of grant from King James 1St. to 3. A copy of a Record in the First-fruits Office. It is Francis Phellips and Richard Moore, Citizens of London. The extract was made February, 11th Anno 8vo Jac. R. The deed a record of a decree made in the first year of Queen Mary. The copy was taken in 1623. From this deed it appears that Robert is dated November 8th Anno 6to. Jac. R. In it the King Johnson had been presented Py Edward the sixth to the entire grants to those gentlemen all the rectorial property, not by Rectory of Holme in the seventh year of his teign ; that on lease, as formerly, but by Bargain and Sale, to be held in free going to take possession he found it was in the hands of Sir socage not in capite or by knight's service; and also grants to Robert Tyrwit, to whom Thornton College had granted a lease them at the same time and in the same mann'er the Advowson of it for twenty-one years, that Johnson had however previous of the Vicarage of Holme. The said gentlemen are required in to his setting out for Yorkshire, compounded for the Fir�t-fruits this deed, and do covenant in it, to pay annually to the Crown of the Rectory, that he was presented to the Vicarage by QL1een the sum of £20 I IS. Sd. for ever. And they are exonerated Mary in the first yearof her reign, on the death of J. ScoU, and from the payment of all "con-od. feod. reddil. annzdJ. pmszim. that on paying First-fruits for the Vicarage, the composition porlz'an. denar. SU11l11l. et omr. quormncullque, praderqllam de money he had formerly paid for the Rectory was returned him. reddzl. servilii et Imur. sttpen'us prae11lzssa ill hzs praesenhlms nobzs I suppose that King Edward claimed a right of presentation to halredibus et successoribus nos" is reserval." this R�ctory, after he had granted it to Thornton College in A 9. A deed of grant from Francis Phellips and Richard consequence of the College being dissolved about this time. 1100re to Peter Langdale, esqre, of Sancton in Yorkshire. 4. A Copy of an a�signment of Sir Robert Tyrwhit's lease This deed is dated October '7th, Anno 7mo, Jacobi R. In it of the Rectory to Ralph Waller esqr,e. This assignment was Phellips and Moore grant to Peter Langdale, both the Rectory made in the tenth of Queen Elizabeth. The copy was taken in and Vicarage, not by lease, but by bargain and sale, to be held 1622. In this deed of assignment is recited the lease granted of the King in free socage, and P. Langdale covenants to pay to Sir Robert Tyrwit from Thornton College in the 'first year of annually to the Crown £20 I I S. 8d. for ever. N.B. Peter Eclward 6th; and Ralph Wailer is herein discharged from the Langdale bequeathed both the Rectory and Vicarage to his son payment of £1 annually to the Prebend of St Martin's in Marmaduke Langdale. Beverley. At the same time a new. lease is granted to R. 10. A verdict, exemplified, for Sir Marmaduke Langdale in Wallet- for twenty-one years. a lawsuit wherein Robert Procter and George rto<.:tef were 0-=

276 Notes from the Colle,g-e Records. Notes from the College Records. 277

plaintiffs. This verdict was given in Hilary Term An. 2 r, Upon King Charles the Second being restored, the then Jac. R. Lord Langdale petitioned his Majesty that the Rectory of Bolme might be restored to him and his family. In con­ 1 r. An anonymous writing, in which is stated the point disputed between the said Procters and Sir Mannaduke Lang­ sequence of which his Majesty named three Livings to the was in his pale. It seems to have been drawn up by Sir Marmaduke College of St John's in Cambridge, each of which himself; and from it we may infer that the said Procters had Majesty's gift, that the College might chuse which of them imagined they had discovered a flaw in the title deeds. they would accept of in exchange fo r the Rectory of Holme. But the College refused to exchange; alledging that the bene­ 12. During this lawsuit, Parson Procter granted a lease of ficesoff ered by his Majesty were each of them annexed to a cure the Rectory to one Thackwray, and the 12th paper contains of souls; whereas it was Mr Whittington's will that one or more a plea to an ejectment of Thackwray. Impropriations should be purchased with his legacy and assured 13. Three copies of the last Will and Testament of Richard to tbe Church of England for ever. Whittington, parson of Weld rake in Yorkshire. The will is 16. Is a bundle of papers, among which are Lord Langdale's dated April 7th, 16z8, and was proved on April 11th following. Petition to his Majesty, his Majesty's request to the College, In it the testator appoints Phineas Hodson D.D. and Henry Dr Gunning's letter (then Master of the College) to Lord Wickham, Archdeacon of York, his executors ; and leaves to Langdale, Lord Langdale's rtpresentation to the King of Dr them in trust the whole of his estate for the purpose of paying Gunning's answer, with Lord Arlington's request to the Lord a few legacies therein mentioned and of buying one or two Chancellor, that he will endeavour to obtain an exchange from Impropriations to be assured to the Church of England for the College, and a letter from Dr Hodson in which he acknow­ ever. And he further appoints the said executors to be patrons ledges that the parsonage of Bolme was purchased by him of the first turn of the Impropriations to be pnrchased, but that and Dr Wickham with the bequest of Mr Whittington. The afterwards the society €If St john's College in Cambridge shall year is not mentioned in which .Dr Hodson's letter was written. have the patronage for ever. In pursuance of this will the But as it appears from another paper in this bundle, that the exeeutors purchased of Sir Marmaduke Langdale the Rectory box mentioned in the letter was sent to the College in 1636, it and Vicarage of Holme, and presented a Mr Stancliffe to it, is possible the letter was written in that year. upon the first vacancy after they had bought it. Edward It has already been mentioned that the executors of Mr Stancliffe was one of the witnesses to Mr Whittington's will. Whittington presented a Mr Stancliffe to the parsonage of Holme. The first person presented by St J olm's College was 14-. An Indenture of bargain and sale from Sir Marmaduke l\Jr Fothergill; the next was Mr Holden, and the third Mr Carr, Langdale to Phineas Hodson and Henry Wickham dated who refusing to pay the First-fruits and Tenths was prosecuted December 20th, anno 4to Carol. R. By it Sir Marmaduke for the same in the Court of Exchequer. His plea was that conveys to them both the Rectory and Vicarage of Holme for when King James sold the parsonage to Phellips and Moore, the sum of £1400, to be held of the Crown in free socage: his Majesty exonerated them from the payment of all "corrl)d. and they covenant to pay annually to the Crown the sum of fiod. reddil. annUlI. pension. porlion. denar. summ. et oner. quorum £20 1 IS. 8d. for ever. ctmque," that this clause of exemption is general, that the 15. A chirograph of a Fine, where Sir Marmaduke Langdale excepting clause, "praelerquam de nddd. servz'tz·i. . . reservatz''' is acknowledges that the Rectory and Vicarage of Holme in particular, and that therefore did not include the payment of Spaldingmore belong to Phineas Hodson and Henry Wickham, First-fruits and Tenths. The Barons of the Exchequer allowed and whereby all persons are precluded from claiming the said this plea to be just, and discharged the Rectory for ever from Rectory or Vicarage after live years from the date thereof. It the payment of First-fruits and Tenths . .is dated Hilary Term, Ann. Sll). Carol. R. 17. Is a copy of their Decree. It is dated Allno 200 .. J-

278 Notu from the College Records. Nofes from the College Records. :J79

Caroli zdi. And at the end of it is this clause: Salva lamm Langdale of Holme, he returned to his considerable Domino Regt.' Primilz'zs et de cz'mzs pro vicaria praedzc/a modo vel estates in Yorkshire, having lost .£160,000 in his tlnpos/erum debi/ls sl've solvendzs." Another thing to be collected l'ilajesty's service, without any other recompense than from this decree is, that Richard Carr RD. was instituted to conscience of having sufferedin a good cause, acquitted the Vicarage June rrth 1667. The persons presented after him himself bravely, and played the man." to the living by the College were: (I) Reresby; (z) Dakeyns ; Lord Langdale died at Holme, 5 August 1661. (3) Savage; (+) Drake; (5) Anstey in 1753; (6) Dr Kipling in 1784. King Edward 6th being seised in fee of the right of Patronage of the Aduowson of the rectorie of Holme in Spaldingmoore The statement which follows is referred to in did in the firstyea re of his raigne appropriate the said rectorie paragraph 11 of the preceding document. It was to the Colledge of Thorneton in the County of Lincolne after' clearly drawn up by a member of the Langdale fa mily, the death resignacion, deprivation aut alz'o quocunque modo vacare probably by Sir Marmaduke or his father. Sir Marma­ contigeri/ of parson Scott the then present Incumbent. After comes the Statute of dissolucion of Chaunteries whereby all the duke was knighted by King Charles I at Whitehall, possessions came to the King. Parson Scott dyed not till the 5 February 16.%7-8. "He was esteemed a serious and first of Queene Mary, the question vpon the spetiall verdicte in wise man, of most scholarlike accomplishments, and of the Exchequer was: Whether there were woords enough in the good husbandry." During the civil wars he was one of Statute of Edward 6th to carry all things to the King that the the most distinguished of the cavalier generals. At the Colledge should haue had de futuro in case the Colledge had head of a corps raised by himself he defeated the Scots stood. at Corbridge. He defeated Lord Fairfax and raised Cheife Barron Tanfieldand. Barron Altham were of opinion the siege of Pontefract Castle ; he did other good that seing the Colledge was neuer actuallie seised of the rectorie service on the King's side, but was made prisoner at of Holme, therefore the appropriation was ne-uer actually made Preston. He managed to escape and was one of the and settled. And that it was SIcut embrio il: vten ma/ris, and that attendants on King Charles II during his exile, by the King could not be capable to make 'the appropriation to whom he was elevated to the peerage in 1658 as Lord himselfe, and that there was not words· in the Statute to carrie to Langdale of Holme in Spalding-more. He is described the King things de futuro. Baron Bromley was of the contrarie opinion, and vpon as "a very lean and much mortified man, so that the a wrill of error in the Exchequer Chamber it was argued by enemy called him ghost (and deservedly, so they were Mr Noye for me and Mr Deuenport, now Cheife Baron, for haunted by him); and carried that gravity in his con­ parson Procter and after by Mr Hennage ffinch for me and verse, that integrity and generosity in his deali�g!!, that sargeant Hitchame for Procter, where it continued some three strictness in his devotions, that experience, moderation, or four yeares vpon argument, vntil that the lease that Procter and wariness in his counsel, and that weight in his had made to one Thackwray for seauen yeares for the tryall of discourse, as very much endeared strangers to his the tytle was ended, so that he could not have execucion to royal master's cause, and to his own person, in all recouer his tearme. the countries he travelled, as he did in many ; and to Mr Procter then enters againe vpon the rectorie and seales all the armies he engaged in, as he did in most then a lease againe to one Procter for the tryall of his title, which afoot in Europe, till he was restored with his majesty in came to tryall att the Common Place barre some fift(!en yeares 1660 ; when, after appearing in Par1iam�nt as Baron since, before which tryall I found evidence lhat were not shewed 280 Notes .from the College Records. N�tes from the College Records. 281 att the first tryall in the Exchequer that absolutely cleared the although parson Scott dyed not till primo Mariae that he had po)'nt of the Colledge not being seised of it. an)' of the profitts of the rectorie of Holme all the tyine of First by a Record in the Auditor's Officeb), which it appeares Ed ward 6th but rather that he resigned to the Coli edge and that in the first yeare of Ectward 6th the College of Thorneton, tooke some slipende for the life of Sir Robert Thirwhitt, which after the King had appropriated the Rectorie to them, made must necessariJie follow, or else after his death in primo Mariae a lease to one Sir Robert Thirwhitt of the Rectorie, paying 201. when all thinges were fresh in memorie the Deane and Chapter per annum which lease continued vntill the tenth yeare of of Yorlee would not in preiudice of the Church haue made that Queene Elizabeth. And that Sir Robert vpon the dissolucion certificate neither would J ohnson haue left the rectorie and paid his rent to the King and had allowance of the King for taken the vicaradge. This is as much as I can remember att the repaires of the Chancel!' This shewes bothe the Colledge this tyme not hauing thought vpon it this 14 yeares nor haueing and the King were seised of the Rectorie in the life tyme of scene any of the writeings this 1 I or 12 yeares. parson Scott. Secondly by a record foorth of the first fruites office vpon We now reach the point at which Holme passes to discharge of the first fruites of one parson Johnson that after the death of parson Scott was presented to the rectorie of the College. Richard Whittington, whose will follows, Holme in primo Mariae and entered bond for the first fruites. was a St John'S man, taking the degree of B.A. in 1600 And coming down to be inducted fo und opposition by Sir and M.A. in 1604. He was instituted Rector of Wel­ Robert Thirwhitt that had the possession thereof whereupon he drake, Yorks, 4 September 1612, and held the living gott a certificate from the Deane and Chapter of Yorke that the until his death in 1628. As regards his two executors, rectorie of Holme was impropriate and in the possession of Phineas Hodgson (or Hodson) was of Jesus College, Sir Robert Thirwhilt vpon which certificate the Barons dis­ Cambridge, B.A. 1593, M.A. 1597, D.D. 1609. He chardged his first fruites of the rectorie and he was presented to incorporated as an M.A. at Oxford 15 July 1602. He the vicaradge of Holme. was instituted Rector of Etton, Yorks, 13 February The l11aine Obiection is that parson Scott the incumbent 1605-6, was collated Chancellor of York Cathedral dyed not vntill the primo M ariae and except there could be 25 September 161 I, and held both appointments until shewed a resignation or depriuacion the appropriacion was not his death. He was buried at Etton 28 November 1646. good. The answer is that resignacion or depriuacion might be Henry Wickham was a son of William Wickham, priuate deedes betweene parson Scott and the Colledge and Bishop of Winchester. He was admitted to King's lost amongst the Coli edge euidences. But it is plaine that College, Cambridge, in 1608. He took the degree of without some such thinge the Colledge could not be seised of D.D. at Cambridge in 1628, his other degrees do not it nor make a lease thereof to Sir Robert Thirwhitt. And seem to have been recorded. He became Rector of though it might be supposed that the Colledge might doe this Bolton Percy and of Bedale in Yorkshire, was a Canon in hope to be afterwards possessed thereof, yet the lesEee would of York and of SouthweIl, Archdeacon of the West not hane payd 20l. per annum fo r nothing all the tyme of Riding, and one of the Chaplains of King Charles 1. Euward 6th. which was fiue ),eares which came to more then lIe incorporated D.D. at Oxford in 1629, and seems to the reclorie was woortn att that t)'me. have vacated all his preferments in 1641. Besides vpon the first accompt in Edward 6th, the lessee Si r Robert Thirwitt had allowance for th e repaire of the Chan­ cell which he could not have asked if he had not heene in In the name of God, Amen. I Richard Whittington, Parson possession of the rectorie. Neither could it be proued that of Wheldrake, sick in body but of perfect memorie doe make VOL. :XXIII. 00 v� J-

282 ]l.Totes.from the Collego Records. Notes .from the Colleg'e Records. 283 my last Will and Testament this 7th of April! in forme as venp,rabi,lig. viri Ph. Hodson· et Henrico Wickham sacrae in follolVeth. First, I bequeath my soule into the hands of AI­ Th eologi ae plOfessoribus executoribus eodem testamento mightie God in full- hope and assurance that for tlie merittes of Ilominatis cuius communi juris forma juratis praestoque est his deare sonne who died for me, he will receive me to his cautio et n·111Ium. inv.ento.rium fuit exhibitllm·. mercie. Item I bequeath my body to be buried at. the discre­ CbHatione facta fideli concordat hae copia cum testamento tion of my executors.. Item to my curate I bequeath ten pounds originali dicti defuncti per testes probato et in, almae curiae and all my clothes except my best Grogram Gowne and my best consistorii Eborocensis Registro de recordo remanente. Doublet. Item to my other servants all my horses eqllally to be Ex.. per me Thomas Thompson, NQtarium. publicum. divided amongst them. Hem to the poor of Wheldrake forty shillings. Item for the mending of the Cawsey through the WilHarn Bodurda, to whom the next letter is towne six pounds. Item to tlie four wards of Yorke four pounds was was ad­ to the use of the poor to wit t w enty shillings to every ward. addressed, a Carnarv.onshire man, who. Item I forgive the debt of six pounds which Mr ffrancis Taylor mitted a Fellow of St. Joh n' s 22 March 10[5.-6. He cloth olVe me and more over give bim twenty pounds. Item all took the M.A. degree at Cambridge in 1615 and B.D� the rest of my estate and lands leases goods and moveables in 1623. He appears to be identical with the William whatsoever I give Phineas Hodson Doctor of Divinitie and Bodurda who matriculated at Oxfo rd', from. Hart Hall, e l\1r H n ry Wick ham Archdeacon of Yorke to this only use 7 Ap ril 160g, aged 16, and took the B.A. degree there and purpose to raise one entire sum of money and that sum 16 November 1012. He was Rector of Witton in on \\'ith of m ey all convenience and speed to be bestowed Droitwich, co. Worcester, from 4 M ay 1622 until he was improp e upon one riation or two at th discretion of my instituted Rector of South W ootton, Norfolk, [.4 January Executors and this or tbese Impropriations to be assured to 1.&,2 3-4. He was Senior Bursar of the College from v the Church of England for e er, by such course as those I February 1034-5 till 19 December 1638. He was learned in the lawe shall devise. Item of this Lmpropria­ also Chaplain to Archbishop Williams. He lost his tion or those soo bought I make Dr Hodson and Mr Henry Fellowship. and RectorY' during the Comm.onwea..1th. Wickham patrons of the first tume only and afterwards the Societie and Coli edge of St John's in Cambridge to have the patronage for ever, who are to present some one able man of Sir that Co!ledge within six months that it shall be void succes­ I receiued· your Iettres by Mr Huson, and- expected when he sively for ever. It<::m I make the aforenamed Dr Phineas wold call for the writings as he prom�sed me he wold. But Hodgson and IVIr Henry Wickham Executors of this my last hearing not of him since that time I sought out the caryer who will and testament and in consideration of the pains that they sending his sonn.e and wife together I had no liking to trust shall take for settling my estate for the uses aforesaid I b equeath them to his care, till the old man himself came vp by whom e to each of them ten pounds. Witn essess hereof: Edmund I haue sent a Box contayning all th se writinges which haue e Deane, Ed ward Stancliffe, John Stansfield clerk, ffrancis Taylor. come to our hands concerning the ti tl of that parsonage of Dr Et undecimo die mensis Aprilis, Anno Domini millesimo sex­ Holme in Spaldingmore which Wickham and I purchased centesimo vicesimo octavo, Coram venerabili viro Andrea Agar for the church by Mr Whiltington's bequest. I haue withall in legibus baccalaureo substituto venerabilis viri' Willellmi sent you a note in the same Box of the seuerall parcel Is Easdall legum doctoris officialis almae curiae Consistorii Ebora­ of parchment or paper which concerne it, as likewise a coPY of censis legitime fulcitum probatum fuit hoc praesens testamentum the will as you directed, all which I doubt not will safely come testes etc. per commisaql1e fuit administratio omnium et singu­ to you. If we haue bene so slow ill sending them, I desyre you e lorum bonorum jurium et creditorum quae fuerint dic ti clduJlCli to impute it, as indeed it was, lo the want of a trusty mess nger. V�U-:J -

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For the caryer himselfe that now hath the charge of them was in exchange would have received as good an income, not willinge to committ them to his �onne. And I hope the but the trust confided to the College that the impro­ delay wilbe of lesse troble as it falls out, by reason of the priation of Holme should be returned to the Church of adiourning of the tearme which wilbe likly to keep Mr Lany the England would have been violated, and to this the longer in the country and so giue you the more liberty for College would not consent. The objection seems to examining and preparing the busines. And thus with my have proved insuperable even to lawyers of the Stuart seruice to Mr Dr Beal your woorthy Mayster and my loue to period. One can only wonder why King Charles did yourself I l eaue you to God's care not exercise his royal prerogative of the dispensing Yorke, this your very louing frend power, and brushing Mr Whittington's will on one side, 29 August Pa. HODSON excuse the College from its trust, and carry out the Addnssed: To my very woorthy frend I\1r Bodurda, FeIJowof exchange. St john's Coli, in Camb. giue these with a great leather box full of writinges. To the King's most Excellent Maiesty. Endorsed: In this letter Dr Hodson acknowledgeth that the The Humble petition of the Lord Langdale. Rectory or Impropriacion of Holme was purchased by him etc. Humbly sheweth with the bequest of Mr Whittington. That your Petitioner did attend the Colledge of St John in Cambridge with your Maiesty's most Gracious letter about an Exchange with the saide ColJedge for the Rectory of Holme With this is a list of the documents so handed over and the in Spaldingmore in the County of Yorke, and that hee finds the note: "The box was deliuered at St J 01111'S College September 5, saide Colledge willinge to accept of an Exchange, but some 1636." difficulty being propounded by them, which will require the advice of your Maiesty's Learned Councell The documents which follow relate to the steps Therefore your petitioner humbly beseecheth your taken by Marmaduke, second Lord Langdale, to get Maiesty to referre the consideration of this affaire some compensation for his father's losses in the Royal to my Lord Chancellor to findeOt�t some expedient whereby your petitioner may obtaine the intention cause. King Charles was evidently of a frugal mind, of your Maiesty's Grant. and while willing to do something fo r Lord Langdale And your petitioner shall daily pray &c. was not prepared to do so at any pecuniary loss to himself. The attitude of the College is rather striking. MAR. LANGDALE. It will be observed that while willing to meet the wishes On the same sheet is written the following: of the King, they were not prepared to do so at any Att the Court at Whitehall sacrifice of principle. Under the trusts of Richard May 26, 166j Whittington's will the College in its corporate capacity II is l'vlajesty being graciously desirous to perfect h is good received no direct benefit from the bequest, while to intencion to this honourable petitioner and his family in this the College and the individual Fellows waiting fo r suite, is pleased to referr it to the Right Honourablf� the Lord promotion, the patronage of a Rectory of equal or High Chancellor of England who is desired to call to him !\Tr greater value would have been quite as attractive as Atturney Generall and to consider of the equality of the exchange Bolme. The incumbent of one of the benefices offered to be made with the ColJedge (upon their acceptance of his VI V� J-

286 .Notesfrom tile College Record,;. Notes from the College Records. 2S7 Majesty's gracious offfjr, as they have declared it) and of. the Our Colledge We have thought fitt as a particular marke of Our way and methode of perfecting that matter. And to repo. ncely favour to the said Lord Langdale and of the Gracious Pri rt his Lordship's opinion to bis l\Tajesty upon it , if it be fowtd sence Wee retaine of his late Fathers great worth and Loyalty Ilecessary. o.r o.therwise to gratify him in that his suite and accordingly by these presents to give order for the effecting it as his Lordship shall filld litt. effectually to recommend it to you to grant and reconvey to him ARl.INCiTON. the said Rectory of Holme in considl"racion and exchange of one of better value which Wee doe hereby offer and oblige Our Self to grant to your Colledge in good and Sufficient Forme of The Rector of Holme in Spaldingmore in the County of Law att the same time you shall restore that to the Lord Yorke was heretofore the inheritance of the late Lord Langdale, Langdale Whereof that you may rest the more assured Wee and was by him solde about fody years sioce �o Docto.r Hodgson have herein thought fitt to propose to your choice the Rectory for the vse of St John's Colledge in Cambridge. of Po.lebrook in Our County of Northampton. that of Burton At tbe time it was solde, it was an Impropriation, but the Latymer or of Stoke Brewen, bOlh in the samfj County, the yearly Colledge doth now make it Praesentative and giues it to one of value and conveniency of distance of any of these three Rectorycs their Fellows, whoe doth there officiate and enioys all the proposed will Wee doubt not encline you to oblige a family that profitts thereof. hath soe well deserved from Vs, which Wee are very desirous to The Value of this Rectory att Holme is about £ 160 per have accomodated in this matter and doe therefore very par­ annum, but the incumbent pays £23 per annum to the King for ticularly recommend to. you and S0 bid you farewell. Given at a Feefarme Rent. Our Court at Whitehall the 4th day of May 1665 in the qtll The Lord Langdale's desire is, that the King will be pleased yeare of Our Reigne. to make an Exchange with the ColI edge for one of the like By his his Majesties command value that is in his Maiesty's guift, and to confer this of Holme ARLINGTON. on the Lord Langdale. To the Master and Sfjnior Fdlowes of St John's Colledge Cambridge. CHARLES R Trusty and Wellbeloved Wee Greet you well. Whereas Wee to the College have been given to. understand that the late Lord Langdale did The following list of livings offered alienate and sell the Inheritance of the Impropriate Rectory of has been preserved with the King's letter. Holme in Spaldingmore in Our County of Yorke of about the The Value of these Rectorys in the first Fruites Office. yearly value o.f one hundred and sixty pounds unto Dr Hodgson t s. d. for the use of that Our Colledge which considering the many Ebor. Decan : Rectory of Holme in SpaJd­ sufferings he was otherwise exposed to by the calamity of the • Hull alld Harthill. ingmore '27 00 . 00 late times was a considerable diminucion and impaireing of his Rex 29 . 03 • 05 estate. Wee being informed thereof by Our Right Trusty and Com. Northlon : Rectory of Polebroke. Wellbeloved lVIarmaduke, now Lord Langdale, and of how much Com. Northton: Rectory of Burton Latimer. convenience it would be to the present state of his private Rex 29 • 10 . 00 affaires (which remain much burlhened and distressed by his 23 Sept: 1629 Father's eminent loyalty and sufferings)if the said Impropriation could be redeemed into his Family in exchange for some other Corn. Nortbton: Stol,e Brewen. Rex 30 • 00 . 00 Rectory of c::quall or better value to be granted by Us to that 16 Dec. 1625 v� J-

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£ s. J. ohn in Cambridge as an Exchang th e Rectory of Holme, Corn. Lincolne : Rectory of Barneby aNas J e for which is in their guift, and hee did likewise desire that the Rarroby 31 • 01 • 030b. Decan. Wenebtigg 1<.ex. 16 Dec. 1629.Thomas King would be pleased to conferr that of Holme on him and his f mily. and Trehorre cum Hurst a Grantham. The King is pleased to grant his petition and in order there­ vnto giucs him his Gracious letter to the Colledge where he Com. Ebor : Rectory of Wheldtake • . 15 17 . 0% propounds the Exchange to them and offers them the choice of Decan. Bulmer Rex 5 July 1628. George three Rectorys viz. Polebrooke, Burton Latimer, or Stoke Stanhope Brewen. 16,p P e Rf:x.vlt. August et r The Lord Langdale attends the Colledge with this letter, and du Moulin findes them very willing to embrace an exchange, and they doe confesse the worst of these Rectorys to be of better value than HoJme, and that anyone of them would be of greater aduantage My Lord to them than their owne j but they pretend a scruple about a Mysdf and the Seniors present our respects and services to clause in the Will of one Mr Whittington, whoe left a part of Lordshipp and we have according to our promise, sent your h is estate to purchase one Impropriation or two to the Church, now vpp vnto your hands our hum ble representation to his vpon which accompt this of Holme was bought of the late Majestie how the state of that Rectory at Holme is held by vs Lord LangdaJe for the use of St John's Colledge, which cannot the very same perfectly that wee told your Loroshipp by word make any other aduantage of the impropriation than by pre­ of mouth. Wee now humbly pray your Lordshipp to present senting to it according to Mr Whittington's will ; howeuer they this our Addresse to his most sacred Majesly, by w hich His conceiue themselues obliged not to accept of an Advowson, but Majestic will perfectly vnderstand both what concernes vs and do desire either an Impropriation in Exchange, or the Purchase your Lordshipps desire. money (being £1400) repaide to them whereby they may Wee shall (as was told yourself) bee very glad by any way be enabled to buy an Impropriation of the lil{e valne out of co nsorting with our bounden duty to the pious intention of our a Laymans hands. donoure be ready to co mply with your Lordshipps desire for an exchange an d e uer most ready to obey his Majesties sacred commands The negotiations with King Charles having fallen May. 12. 1665 your Lordshipps through, the College continued its fo rmer practice with Friday 2 a clock in very humble servant regard to Holme. On the presentation and institution the a fte rn oo ne PETER GUNNING. of each successive Vicar of Holme, the College, as legal S. J olm. ColI. owner of the impropriate or rectorial property of the Addressed: To to the right Honourable the Lord Langdale benefice, granted to him a lease of this rectorial pro­ at the signe of the Pal me-tree in fleetstreete over against Fetter's perty at a peppercorn rent, so long .as he shou1d be Lane end these. London. Vicar of Holme. The incumbent thus enjoyed the vicarial property in his own right, and the rectorial The State of the Case about Holme Rectory. property as lessee of the College. It being no one's interest, least of all that of the Vicar, to distinguish e of The Lord Langdale did petition the King to giue on nice1y between the two properties, their ownership and those Rcctorys in his Maiesty's Guift to the Colledge of St relative values seem to have got fo rgotten. In process VOL. XXIII. l' P V1 v� J-

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of time the open field system of cultivation, with its or extinguished by the said Act although he or they may be innumerable small plots of land and vaguely defined entitled to some part or parts, species, or particulars thereof and common rights, became inconvenient as methods of therefore to the intent that no injury or prej udice may arise to farming improved, and, with other parishes about that the said Vicarage or the Vicars thereof for the time being by date, Holme got an Act of Parliament in 1773 fo r the reason or fo r want of the same being ascertained or for or on enclosing of the open fields and allotment of land in account of the setting out allotting or awarding of the several thereof. severalty to the various owners, by a body of Com­ lands and grounds above mentioned for and in respect It is hereby provided and declared and we do hereby provide mISSlOners. When in the year i77 7 these Commis­ and declare, order and award and determine that the ten several sioners came to enquire into the ecclesiastical property allotments, or parcels of land, or grounds, hereintofore set out in the parish, they were, owing to the cause above and awarded unto and for the said Christopher Anstey in mentioned, unable to distinguish between the rectorial manner above mentioned are so set out and awarded fo r and and vicarial property. They therefore in their Award in lieu and in respect of all the lands, tenements, hereditaments allotted large areas of glebe land to the Vicar as tithes and other ecclesiastical dues (mod uses only excepted) of incumbent and lessee of the College, and to the College or belonging as well to the said Rectory as to the said Vicarage as Rector in undivided shares ; and proceed as follows : according to the respective estates, rights and interests of the said Master Fellows !lnd Scholars and their successors or assigns And whereas diligent inquiry hath been made by us in order and the said Christopher Anstey and his successors as Vicars to find out ascertain and distinguish what lands, tenements, as aforesaid and not otherwise and that the said Christopher hereditaments, tithes or other ecclestiastical dues or payments Anstey and his successors, Vicars of Holme aforesaid for the the said Christopher Anstey is or which he or his successors time being shall and may from time to time and at all times might be entitled to as Vicars of Holme aforesaid within or hereafter have hold and enjoy and be seized of and entitled to out of or for or in respect of all or every of the said several open such part or parts and so much of all the said several allot­ fieldsetc respectively or elsewhere in the said parish of Holme, ments or parcels of land or ground or any of them as shall be but no endowment of the said Vicarage nor any authentic or equal in proportion to the value which the lands, tenements, satisfactory evidence of the .distinct and separate rights of the hereditaments, tithes or other ecclesiastical dues or payments of said Master Fellows and Scholars or thei r lessee and the Vicars or belonging to him or them as Vicars as aforesaid bear to the of the said Vicarage for the time being hath been produced to lands tenements, tithes or other ecclesiastical dues or payments or pmved before us and all the lands, tenements, hereditaments, of or belonging to the said Rectory or the said Master Fellows tithes and other ecclesiastical .dues and payments belonging as and Scholars or their successors or assigns in respect thereof well to the said Rectory as to the said Vicarage of the parish whenever the same shall be ascertained and distinguished in and parish Church of Holme aforesaid respectively having been case of any division thereof and further that if any such division as far as we can findalways held, enjoyed and received by the shall ever happen then that the owners or occupiers for the time Vicars of the'said Vicarage for the time being as Vicars thereof being of each respective allotment or of any particular part or and as Lessees of the said Rectory under the s;;[id Master share thereof shall for ever afterwards maintain and keep in Fellows and Scholars or in one of these rights without any sufficient repair such of the ditches and fences belonging thereto distinction, we have not been able to discover or nl ake out to as are hereinbefore awarded to be repaired in respect thereof as Ollr satisfaction what part, or parts, species or particulars of far as the said respective allotments or parts or shares thereof sllch lands, tenements hereditaments, tithes, dues, or payments shall extend and not otherwise anything herein contained to thr; the said Christopher Anstey as Vicar as aforesaid or his suc­ contrary notwithstanding. cessors is or would have been entitled to if not compensated for J-

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As matters were left at Holme in J 777 they have both the rectory and the vicarage were appropriated to the continued down to the present day. The endowment Crown ; and the rectorial property thereof until the 6th of of the benefice consists of a large area of glebe land, James I was conveyed by lease at different times to divers part of which belongs to the College as Rectors, in lessees. But in that year the Crown officers granted this pro­ trust under Mr Whittington's will, part to the Vicar, perty and also the advowson of the vicarage to two citizens of London, not as heretofore by lease, but by bargain and sale. but the proper proportions have never been settled. In the J 7th of the same king these two citizens sold the rectory Some questions on the matter seem to have arisen in and the advowson of the vicarage to Peter Langdale Esq of 1817 and to have led to the following letter from Sancton in this neighbourhood, who bequeathed them by will Dr Kipling. Thomas Kipling was born at Bowes in to his son Marmaduke, afterwards Sir Marmaduke, subsequently Richmondshire, the son of William Kipling, a cattle­ Lord Langdale, and an inhabitant of this parish. Wben P. Lang­ salesman. After being educated at Seaton and Sedbergh dale died I do not know. But in the 2 J st of the said King Sir Schools he entered St John's on 28 June 1764. He was Marmaduke was certainly in possession both of the rectorial Senior Wrangler in 1768, and became a Fellow. He property and of the right of presentation to the Vicarage. In was Junior Dean of the College from 1 I April 1783 to the last Will and Testament of Richard Wbittington rector of 15 April 1784. He was presented by the College to Weldrake about J 2 miles from this place, which will was dated the Vicarage of Holme J 7 Novem ber 1784 and received April 7, 1628, P. Hodson D.D. and H. Wickham archdeacon of the usual lease of the Rectory. He held Holme at first York were appointed by the testator his joint executors, and trustees also to his estates. One part of their trust was to buy with the Rectory of Owmby and afterwards with the one or more impropriations to be assured to the Church of Rectory of Fiskerton, both in Lincolnshire. He became England for ever. The meaning of these words appears to be, Dean of Peterborough in 1798, and held his Deanery that those two trustees should purchase one living at least, the with his two benefices until his death. He is perhaps original rcctorial property of which had been severed from it, best known by his edition of the Codex Bezae, which fo r also that they should purchase this rectorial property, and annex party reasons was bitterly criticised. it to the vicarage for ever. The livi ng of Hol me, you will have seen, was a benefice of this kind, viz an impropriate rectory and an endowed vicarage. Holme December 4, 1817 In the 4th of Charles I Dr Hodson and archdeacon Wickham 1\'1y dear Sir pursuant to the will of Mr Whittington bought of Sir Marmaduke I am much obliged to you and Mr Blic1{ for your kind Langdale both the rectory and vicarage of Holme, and on the attention to my interest and request your acceptance of my firstvacancy themselves presented a Mr Stancliffe to the vicarage, sincere thanks, The term of my College lease expired more Mr Whittington having directed in his will that these trustees than 20 years ago. And I neither then thought, nor do I yet should be patrons of the first turn. It was further directed by think it necessary to apply for a new one. My living of Holme the testator, that the said trustees should after this turn vest the is of a singular description. It seems to have been in Henry 8ths rectorial property and the right of presentation to the vicarage time a simple rectory. But in the firstof Edward 6. when it was in St John's College, Cambridge. That this was done there granted by that king to Thornton College in Lincolnshire, this can be no doubt, the College having presented on the next College was required to create a vicarage. And a vicarage vacancy a Thomas Fothcrgill to the vicarage. was founded ; for in the first of Queen Mary one J ohnson was From this recital of facts it will immediately appear, that instituted by the Archbishop of York to the Vicarage of Holmo every vicar presented by St John's College became owner of upon Spalding moor. At the dissolution of Thornton College the vicarial dues by institution and induction, but tha.t, to put J-

Notes .from the College Records. 295 .294 Noles .f1'011l th e College Records . him into possession of the rectorial property a lease was unto the Commonwealth period, when he seems to have necessary. That I mysdf should obtain a lease from the been ej ected. College was necessary for this fu rther reason. In 1773 an act of Parliament was granted for inclosing this parish ; and by one JA:lIES R. clause in this act land was to be allotted to the living in lieu of Trusty and well beloued wee greete you well. Havinge all ecclesiastical property, except mod uses and surplice fe es ; beene peticioned by one of our Servants, who hath a kinsman and by another clause Mr Anstey the then vicar was empowered in your house named J oseph Thurston, borne in the County o f with the consent of the diocesan and patrons to grant a lease of Essex, a Bachilour of Arts, and as wee are informed of good all the glebe lands old and new, rectorial and vicarial, fo r expectacion to prove a ScholIer, and capable of the place he :l0 years. The Commissioners of inclosure allotted in lieu of stands fo r. Wee out of our gratious disposition to the advance� the rectorial property so much land, as they conceived to be an ment of learninge and fo r the better encouragement of such as adequate commutation for it, and also in lieu of the vicarial bend their studies that way, have thought good by these our dues, except as before, a fa ir compen sation fo r them in land. letters of recommendation in his behalfe to require you at the In 1776 all these glebe lands were leased out to two fa rmers next eleccion to make choise of him the said ] oseph Thurston jointly for 20 years. In 1784 I had the honour of being to be one of the fe llowes of that College, in one of the first presented to the vicarage. But owing to this last lease I could places which is or shall become voide, wherein you shall doe not then take possession even of the vicarial glebe. For which that which will be very acceptable vnto vs. Given at our Court reason St John's College granted to me in 1784- a lease fo r at Hinchi nbrooke the xxth day of March in the fo urteenth yea re zo years of all the territorial property, as well vicarial as impro­ of our Raigne of England, ffrance and Ireland, and of Scotland priate ; and by virtue of this lease took I possession in 1796 of the fiftith. all these lands both old and new, vicarial and impropriate. The vicarial I am now entitled to by institution and induction ; Addressed : To our Trusty and well beloved the Master of and I claim the rectorial under the will of Mr Whiltington and St John's Colledge in Cambridge and to the rest of the Ssniors the purchase deed of his trustees and fe llowes of that house. yours, my dear Sir Endorsed : R ec, 3 April, 16 J 7 most fa ithfully T. KIPLING.

Addressed : The Reverend, the Master of St John's College, Cambridge. The following are examplE!s of letters from King Charles 1. John Thompson was admitted a Fellow 1 0 April 161';', and without the King's mandate would We conclude this instalment of records with some have vacated his fellowship through not being in orders. specimens of royal mandates to the College. The first He was returned as M,P. for the Borough of Cambridge is from King J ames I; J oseph Thurston was admitted 2 8 January 1625-6, but did not sit in the Parliament of a Fellow of the College ,30 September 1617 on the 1627-8. He was admitted to Gray's Inl1 20 June 1632, strength of, or in obedience to, the King's letter. He when he is described as of 'Beardon ' (z'. e. Berdon) in seems to have become Rector of Arlesford in Essex, Essex. compounding fo r first fruits 19 April 1627 , ceding this John Hay was admitted a Fellow 2 7 March 1634. living on being instituted Rector and Vicar of Becking­ ham, co. Lincoln, 4 November 1039, his tenure extended ...,. ..� J-

296 Notes from tlte College Records . Notes ./rotlt the College Records. 29 7 election to admit him to the same, and thereof to account him, CHARLES R. Any Statute, Order, or Constitution in the Colledge to the Trustie and Wellbeloved Wee greete you well. Whereas by contrary notwithstanding. Given vnder our Signet At our the Statutes of that our Coliedge of St John the Euangelist in l\1annorat Newmarket The 17th of March In the Ninthe yeare our Vniuersitle of Cambridge, all the fdlowes saving two, whoe of our raigne. 1633. are allowed to make profession of Phissique, are required to apply themselves to the studie of Diunitie, and within six yeares Addressed : To our Trustie and Well beloved William Beate, to take orders, Except wee by our authoritie (to whome the Doctor in Divinity, Master of St John's Colledge in Our power of expounding altering or declaring the said Statutes is Vniversity of Cambridge, and to the Seniors of the said house. expressly therein reserued) shall otherwise appointe. And though wee are most carefull to cherish by all meanes, and to encrease the nomber of good diuines, and Phisitions ; Yet con­ Thomas Displin, who is referred to in the two letters sidering that in most Colledges, there is some reseruation for which fo llow, was admitted a Fellow 19 March 1623-4. the studie of Ciuill lawe, And being informed that John He was instituted Rector of Pensthorpe, Norfolk, Thompson a Master in Artes and one of the ffdlowes of that 14 January 1630-1, and compounded fo r first fruits as house, whoe for our seruice, to which he hath applyed himself Rector of Anmer, Norfolk, 24 November 1653, he was may be more enhabled by the studie of that Lawe. Wee haue episcopally instituted to the latter living, after the thought good, and by theis presentes doe declare and appoint Restoration in 1662, and held both livings until the the said Thompson to be exempted from the necessitie of end of 1678. Robert Balam was not elected a Fellow, taking holy orders, as being one of those whoe are allowed to addict themselues to Phissique, or instead thereof to the Civil! and the Gdgson fe llowship was not filled up by the lawe. Of which our pleasure you are hereby to take notice, and College till April 1633. accordingly to giue order. Giuen at our Pallace of Westminster the fifteenth day of June in the second yeare of our Raigne. CHARLES R. Addressed : To our Trustie and well beloved the Master and Trusty and wellbeloued we greet you well. Whereas we are Seniors of St J ol111's Colledge in Cambridge. ginen to vnderstand that there is a fellowship in your Colledgej which being founded by one Edward Grigson, gent. was by him appropriated to a single man and one borne in the County at CHARLES R. Norfolk, and that at this present the said ffellowshipp is enioyed Trustie and wellbeloved Wee greete you well. Humble suite by one Thomas Displin who is said to be a married man and hath beene made vnto vs on the behalfe of John Hay, Master of consequently vncapable thereof according to the foundacion and Arts in our Vniversity of Edinburg, to bee chosen a Fellow into statutes of your howse. And whereas there hath bin humble your Colledge. Forasmuch as wee are credibly informed of his suit made vnto vs on the behalf of Robert Balam, bred a Scholler sufficiency in good learning and of his honest conversation Wee of the foundacion of your Colledge, and now a Master of Arts therefore are graciously pleased to recommend him vnto You, that we would be pleased to recommend him vnto you to be Requiring You at the next election to make choise of him into chosen into that ffe llowship (now voyd in respect of the said a fellowship. And whereas Wee are giuen to vnderstand, that Thomas Displin's marriage) as being euery way capable thereof, he is no way els ineligible into that Colledge, but onely by the both in respect of the County wherein he was borne and also in condition of Countries wherevnto the places are restraiJlt:cl ; regard of his meritt and degrees. Wee holding it vnfitt that Wee are likewise graciously pleased to dispense wilh you in there should be any such coniuance vsed to suffer a thing soe that behalf, and to enable you to choose him into a place of contrary to the founders intent, and against the Statutes of the . aid Our Countie of Cumberland now voyd, And vpon the s VOL. XXIII. Q Q �" '�J -

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Colledge and likewise being moued to farther (so much as in IJS CHARLES R. lyeth) the preferment of the said Robert BiLlam, and the rather Trusty and wellbeloved, Wee greete you well. Wee haue for his fathers sake, who hath deserued well [o r his constant 1>r11 informed by our right trusty and right wellbeloued Cosen seruice in the Countrey, and hath otherwise a great charge of aI'!d Counsellor the Em·le of Holland, ChanceHour of that our

children, are gratiously pleased by these our letters to recommend vnivcrsity that John Dig-bey, Dachelour of Artes of Christes vnto you the said Robert Balam, to be forthwith so elected into Colledge in the said vniversity hath added to his byrth and the the said ffellowship, not doubting- of your readiness to per[orme advantag-e receaued fr om his parentes such personall qualifica­ the same, and as you shall haue oCl:asion to make use of our tions both for his profil:iency in learning and integrity of fauor we shalbe mindfull thereof to your bel1oofe. Ginen vnder manners as make him worthy of our royaU favour and assistance. onr Signett at our Pallace of Westminster the last day of May in And therefore we are gratiously pleased to take notice of the the eighth year of our Raigne. said J 01111 Digbey in the wayes of his industry and for his Addressed : To our trustie and well beloved the Master and incouragement therein to recommend him to yow by theise our ffellowes of St John's Colledge in our vniversity of Cambridge. lettres in effectual manner, that he may be fo rthwith trans­ planted into your Society and chosen by yow into a feUolVshipp now void there with the rightes and profittestherevnto belonging A letter from the Byshopp of Ely. Wherein wee doubt not but yee will soe apply yourselves vnto Reverend gentlemen the obedience of our royall pleasure, as wee shall haue subiect to remember the same vppon occasion for your good. Given Whereas his Majesty hath been pleased to wryte his highnes vnder our signet At our Mannour at Newmarket The 17th of letters vnto you in behalfe of Mr Balam sometyme scholler of your howse and now Master of Arts, to be presently elected March In the Nineth yeare of our raigne. 1633. fellow of your howse in the roome of one Thomas Disl:ipline, Addressed : To our Trusty and wellbeloued WilIiam Beale whose place is voyd in respect he is a marryed man and certeynly Doctor in Divinity Master of St John's Colledge in Our Vniver­ affirmed to me to have been so these two or three [months ? sity of Cambridge, and to the Seniors of the said house. years ?] past by one Mr John Wortham a pentioner to his Majesty and brother in law unto the wyfe of the sayd Mr Displin. These are therefore earnestly to intreat you not to deferr the A Copy of letter to the Earl of Holland. satysfying of his Majesty's pleasure therein, by any answeres or a delays, both for the avoyding of further complaynts to be made, Right honourable and most noble Chauncellor which may tend to the disparagement of the care and trust Att Ollr late election of fellowes his Majesty was pleased by committed to you in busines of this nature, as also to prevent diverse letters (out of his princely care for the good of our that trouble which may be imposed vppon me, the Visitor, to Colledge) to recommend divers persons to our choyce And in see things reformed that has been so long connived att by you. two of them a Faculty was expressed of full liberty to execute And thus not dOIVting of your due respect and performance his gracious commands. The third on the behalf of one herein I commend you to the Lord Sir Digbey of Christes Coli edge, did the more perplex vs, for that it was no way in our power to gyve reall satisfaction there Dated the 20th of FRA ELIEN. June 1632 vnto. However the partye fo rgatt himself to farr, as neyther to attend the three pubJique dayes of' examinacion, wherein tryall was to be taken of the sufficiency and capability of all the following case the College letter shews why In suiters. Nor after to shew himself to any one of the seniors, the Royal command was not complied with. nor yet to have his name gyven vpp to the electors atL the tyme precisely appoynted by statute vnder payne of ineligibility, to 300 Notes /r o1f� t/to College Records. Notes from the College Records. 301

the end his partes and qualityes might have been inquyred aftcl'. gratiouslie pleased to dispense with you for that particular Yet his sacred Majestyes request would have been tye ynough alsoe: desiring he may be the more respected herein, because vppon vs, his most dutifull and obedient servants to have indea­ he i� now in our service. Giuen under Our Signet at our Court voured the accomplishment of his Royal\ desire had we been at New Castle the lhirteenth day of May in the fifteenlh yeare inabled therevnto by a dispensation with those opposite statutes of our reigne 163<). vnto which otherwise we stand obliged by oath. Pardon vs therefore most Honourable Sir that we presume thus to molest Addressed : To our trustie and wellbeloued the Master and your publique affayres with this relation of our poore Collegiate Senior Fellowes of St John's Colledge in our Vniversitie of occasions. And we hope yow will gyve vs. leave in all humility Cambridge. to implore your mediation, by a candid and fayre presentment of our loyall affections to his most Gracious majesty, and withap C HARLES R. of our iust excuse [o r omitting that which was not in our possi­ Trusty and well beloved wee greete you well. Whereas wee bility to performe. Wee know our own thoughts best and shold are given to vnderstand that by the promotion or maryage of much rejoyce if your Lordshipp wold vouchsafe to vnderstand one Edward Floyd Master of Arts and fe llow of that Colledge, them from ourselues. Which will be a new obligation bynding his fe llowshipp being of a Foundation appropriated to some of vs ever to pray for the increase of your HO)lOurS health and our subjects borne ill one of the Dioceses of Bangor or St Asaph happiness is now voyde and to be filled up at this your next Election. And that there is now present in your Howse one Richard Bu1ckley St John'S in your lordshipps most suppliant . borne in one of these Dioceses, Batchelour of Arts bredd vp Cambridge orators and Servants heretofore at our chardges as one of our scholars in our Schoole March 27, 1634. The Master and Seniors. at Westminster and now a Schollar of your howse of the fo unda­ tion of the Bishop of Lincoln, of whose excellent parts and hopes in all manner of learning, fitting a schollar of his tyme i n the two following cases the Royal command was and age, WEe haue receaused cleere testimonies as also of his complied with, both Wadeson and Bulkeley being life and conversation from some members of your owne howse elected Fellows. and from other Colledges in that vnyversity. Wee doe require you, That vnlesse you can except against this his testymony in pointe of doctrine and manners you the Master doe propound CHARLl!S R. and you the Master and Seniors doe elect this so hopefull Well beloved wee greet yow wel!. Whereas wee are informed a young man into the place and Fellowship of the said Edward that at your last election of ffeIJowes you were willing to haue Floyd. And if any exception shall be made against him being chosen Robert Waideson, Inceptor in Arts, if you had not beene neilher of such Schooles or of sl:ch foundations as are lymited hindered by your statute of Countreys, which [or that time made by the composition betweene the Executors of Dr ,\V ynne and him vncapable of a ffeJlowes place in your Colledg. Wee are that socyety because wee are credibly informed that neither therefore pleased of our Royal Clemency (if hee shall be other­ Floyd the ymmediate, nor Wynne the predecessor before him wise fo und fitt by you to be chosen fIe llow, ei,ther before or were so ql1allyfied, Wee doe by our royall Prerogative dispense at your election) lo dispense wilh your Statute in that particular with Buckley in those and the like inferior circumstances. And fO T Countries, that he may be made capable of the fa vour and re quiring these Our letters to bee read by you the Master vnto place which you intended him, and withall if you shalbe willing eight Seniors then present in the College wilhin one howe to giue him that Senioritie in your Colledge amongst your after the receipt of the same that there may bee no default in fe IJow es which he once had amongst his aequalls we are sattisfying Our desire in so just a motion Wee bydd you � _ ..'- -J -

302 No '�s fr om Ins Colleg� Reco?'d�. No tes .from the College Records. 303 fa rewelI Gyven at our Pall ace of Whitehall this twentith day of the parties now in competition shold be preferred, the other of March 1628 would be exasperated, and so the schisme fo mented, which we will by no meanes endure, besides that both the Competitors Addressed : To our trustie and wcllbeloued the Master and haue submitted the whole matter to our decision, do therefore Seniors of St John's College in our vniuersitie of Cambridge. in our Princely care of learning and of the peace and good of that our Vniuersity hold it necessary to interpose our Royal! authority, and do by these presentes nominate and appointe William Beale, Doctor in Diuinity and now Master of Jesus The fo llowing letter shews the King nominating Colledge to be Master of St John's Colledge, willing aad com­ a Master. The circumstances were, however, peculiar. manding yon and euery of you forthwith to accept receaue and On the death of Dr Owen Gwynn the Fellows could admitt the said William Beale to be Master there, and to yield not agree on the choice of a 1\iaster. One party elected him all obedience due to that place without farther dispute, Robert Lane, the other Richard Holdsworth, and each together with all profitts, commodities preeminences and aduan­ party admitted their man and gave the oath of office tages whatsoeuer therevnto belonging, fo r so is our expresse to him, so that for a time there were two Masters. will and pleasure. Given vnder our Signet at our Pallace of h King Charles' letter recites the steps taken to inquire Westminster the fourteent day of fe bruary in the ninth yeare of our Reigne. into the matter and nominates Dr \V illiam Beale, who was accordingly admitted l\,faster of the College Addressed: To onr trustie and wellbeloued the fellowes of 19 February 1633-4. St John's Colledge in Cambridge, and to all and eurie of them, to whome it doth or may apperteine

CHARLES R. R. F. S. Trusty and wellbeloued we greete you well. Whereas vpon a litigious and tumultuous eleccion of the Master of that (To lie COlltinuea.) Coli edge. we were pleased fo r preuencion of fa rther distrac­ dons there to vouch!afe a hearing to both parties ourselfe, at which time there were sondry crimes and aspersions so haynous and personal! and with that confidence cast vpon Dr Lane as in iustice we thought fitt to grant a commission to the Heads of Hawses of lhat our Vniuersity to enquire of the trueth of them. And whereas we obserued that after much time necessarily spent in the execucion of that Commission, the busines neuertheles continued perplexed as before, and oathes were retourned almost directly against oathes, an d as many (if not more) depositions concurred fo r Dr Lane's iusti­ ficacion and sober cariage as fo r the contr'lry, besides the disagreeing of a considerable nomber of the Commissioners, by meanes whereof the fyer begon in that CoJtedge is in danger to spread it selfe into the whole Vniuersity, if some powerfull remedy be not speedily applied. We finding the right of Eleccion by these diuisions d�voll1ed to vs, and that if either - v - -' . .J

THE COMMEMORATION SERMON

THE FEAR OF THE LORD. BY

THE REV JOHN E. B. MAYOR, KINDLY death we do not fe ar, PIIOPKSSOR. OF LATIN. Not the guess' d, mysterious change To some incorporeal sphere, PROVIlRBS ][X [2. The hearing ea", the seting ey e, the LOI'd is tlie maker of Passionless, unflesh'd and strange. the", ooth.

i Tho' each separate spirit end fIE hearing ear-tradition, experience, learn ng, 'Vith the last, low, gasping breath, -the seeing eye-observation, experiment, Pain might welcome as a friend science, peering into the secrets of nature and In the dim death-chamber Death. of man-armed with these two the wise teacher, the living university, will bring out of their treasure things new and old. Yea, the divers deadly pains, One hundred years ago Cape Colony was surrendered Which, to haunt our jot1.rney here, by England to the Dutch. In each of the years 1799, Seeming-callous God ordains, " 1800, 1801, St John's could boast a senior wrangler, These, and Him that plann'd, we fe ar. the last being Henry Martyn. Herbert Marsh, then the fo remost Cambridge resident, was engaged in Pestilence, earthquake, shipwreck, war : paper wars, abroad with Napoleon, at home now with Tortured brain and shatter'd limb : Simeon and Calvinists, now with high churchmen or His the will to make and mar : low in defence of biblical criticism ; before long he .His the power : fe ar we Him. would lead the assault on the Bible Society. These names, Martyn and Marsh, stand for movements CHARLES E. BYLES. spanning the nineteenth century. Cambridge sent into the mission field many of her noblest sons, St John's perhaps more than any other house, witness Selwyn, \Vhytehead, TyrreU, Colenso, Cotterill, Mackenzie.· Little by little critical study of the Bible was revealed as a condition of the Church's health. When I came ap in 18 H, th ere were no biblical commentaries for students VOL. XXIII. R1� .J ,,,.

306 Th e Comme11'foraIt"01t .5e-r1tion. Th e Com memo-raft"ott Se-rmon. 307 at all on a level with the current editions of profane College Master's buildings as yet were not. Not until authors. Now the difficulty lies in the choice. The 1858, under Dr Bateson's rule, did our library invade Bible Society, having outlived the anathemas of Marsh the ground floDr. The new chapel, opened 6 May 1869, and Christopher Wordsworth, is honoured by all as a involved the closing of St John'S lane leading to the powerful ally of missionaries. Abolition of tests has Cam, the building of a new Master's lodge with garden broken down the walls of prejudice. Theologians, on the river bank, the lengthening of the hall, the trained in our schools, become professors in noncon­ conversion of the gallery in the Second Court into a formist colleges, and thus free criticism, fo r the scholar combination room and the widening of the street nea� a necessary element of reverence, finds a home in every the Round Church. Already the wall joining the gates Christian communion. of St, John's and Trinity had fallen, giving for th e first Although, by the presence of man like ThirIwall and time a full view of the noble front of the College. Hare, Maurice and Thompson, Jeremy, Kennedy, Lastly in 1885 and 1886 the Chapel Court was added. Merivale, and later of my friends the brotherhood Until I became a fellow, I never entered the college Westcott, Hort, Lightfoot, Cambridge escaped the library, nor that of the University befo re my bachelor's shocks which thrilled Oxfo rd to the core, still there was degree,-not I hope fo r lack of hunger fo r knowledge, enough unworthy jealousy, for example of London but from sheer want of standing. However we did not University, to make many of us eager, by overthrowing idly fret ; bookselling was then a gainful trade, many of all checks on opinion, to bar persecutions such as fo r us were forming libraries, and year by year our growing three centuries had purged us now from Romish or stores kept pace with our needs. The Union library , puritan, now from Anglican leaven. Adam Sedgwick, was the only one open to me from my cradle till 1848, Frecerick Maurice, William Henry Bateson, laboured and I still envy all who as boys at school or under­ to open our doors on equal terms to all, not from hatred graduates can roam at ease among the heroes of letters : of England's church, but in the assured belief that o fo r/una/os 1u'mz'unt, sua st' bona no-rz"nt. clergy trained in the bracing air of freeborn debate- Unhappily opportunity, like familiarity, too often breeds 7rUPPlj(J[a-these, I say, alone could meet the demands of contempt. To us the very hindrances in our path acted our time. The revision of the English Bible, long as a spur. Curiosity, I sometimes fear, is dying out in since happily completed, brought many nonconformists the land. Else why do so few share Bentley's taste, into fri endly relations with Anglicans of every school. who greedily devoured living works of dead authors, The hearty welcome given to Dr l\loulton, and lately to leaving carrion crows to batten on dead works of vY estminster College, would have been scouted as a the living ? Why else do we pile up fo rtunes for wild day-dream in 1802, and so would the College novelists, butterflies of a day, even consulting them Mission. gravely as oracles in matters of faith ? Even the material aspect of Cambridge has changed In 1844 and long after, morning service on week­ days was at seven, evening at six, hall at four ; for greatly since I came up by coach fifty-eight years ago. Where the Divinity School, reared by William Selwyn's study no times could have been better fixed. Men could read till two, take exercise till four, and have a generosity, now stands, stood then a range of stabling. All Saints now fa ces Jesus College ; its tower then long evening after. Meals were simpler then ; indeed Ovelhung the side path of St John's Street. Trinity the charge fo r dinner was but seven-twelfths of the v- .J ,,,.

308 Th e Commemora!t'(J1l Sermon. The C{J1II11lcllZoraltim Sermon. 309

present charge. Some, who could afford it, might spend graceful act of filial piety. Other guides, which turned more, but many never ' sized,' as we called it. Candi­ my thoughts to college history were Morgan Cowie's dates for scholarships and fellowships still wrote Latin Catalogue of our MSS (1842) and the catalogue of letters to the electors, and fellows never went down Baker MSS by Cardale Babington and three others without signing their names in the Master's book. The (1847). In [ 855 appeared the life of Bishop Fisher by College was more of a home, less of Cl. club than now. John Lewis of Margate and in 1858 our Eagle spread his The common hall, next only to the common chapel, was wings fo r his first flight. On becoming bursar William a bond of union. I knew many men well and delighted Henry Bateson made me free of the college treasury, in their conversation, who were never in my rooms nor which fo r a century and a half had never been ransacked. I in theirs. We talked of Coleridge and Wordsworth I was allowed to bind the old registers and the building and Thirlwall, of university reform, of literary plan�. plans of the second· court, to supply Prof. Wallis and No book bearing on the history of learning could have Mr J. W. Clark with materials fo r our architectural eluded our keen scent. history, and Mr Charles Henry Cooper with fa cts bearing Preaching once before at commemoration, I cast a on his unselfish labours-unselfish, for we never gave hasty glance over the worthies who in many ways have him a degree-to transcribe admissions from the done honour to their nursing mother. I will not repeat beginning of 163 I, and to work heartily for the myself or the college history which is fresh in our Antiquarian Society. I calendared the Baker 11SS, memories. One name however I must cite, next to and made large biographical collections; these have Richard Bentley the greatest master of Greek learning long been used by labourers in other colleges or outside ever bred here, Thomas Gataker. True, he does not Cambridge and will survive with the manuscripts of appear on the list of fe llows, but only because he Baker and Cole. I printed the fo ur earliest codes of our migrated to Sidney, as one of the original fo undation. Statutes, and several biographies, together with Roger But he was a scholar here, one of those who at four in Ascham's Schoolmaster and some of his English letters, the morning flocked to the bedside of John ]3ois, to hear with much in Notes and Queries, and helped writers fo r his Greek lecture. the Dictionary of National Biography. Three years in For more than half the nineteenth century I was a the University Library threw all my work out of gear, fe llow of St John'S. Standing at the entrance of the but I have since brought out the fil'st volume of Bishop twentieth, I look backward for a fe w moments and Fisher's English works and Baker's History of the forward ; backward on work planned long since and in College, a pious wish of Zachary Grey, Thomas Smart part accomplished, forward on what I must leave to Hughes and Churchill Babington, The first volume of you. the College Registers, from 163[ to 17[5. has been On becoming Lady Margaret's Preacher, Dr. John issued, and I have joyfully handed over the work to the Hymers reprinted, with large supplements (I840), Baker's capable hands of the bursar. edition of Fisher's funeral sermon on the Lady Margaret. As examiner fo r prize essays I was fo rtunate enough One undergraduate, the late Father Bridgett, on reading to enlist J ames Bass Mullinger and Christopher the book posted off to Rome. Mr. Bridgett afterwards Wordsworth in the pursuit of academic history. Two published Lives of Fisher and Sir Thomas 110re, which treasures long coveted fo r the public library I secured with other volumes he placed in the college library, a. through the good officesof two fellows of King's, George - v - .J f J) • -

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Williams and Henry Brads haw. The fo rmer won from barbarous decree dealt a stroke at Oxford. But mark the owner the Strype and Patrick papers, con taining the odds. Our Registrary wept but yielded up the spoil ; letters of Thomas Baker ; the latter from Dr Maitland's Oxford carried a short act, restoring its possessions on that annotated copy of Strype which I had executors the easy terms of publishin g a list. Cambridge has seen at Gloucester with longing eyes in 1854. We have already more than a bare list printed by me after Baker. Baker's copy of Strype's Parker in our library. No The present Vice-Chancellor is a historian ; one of our better service could be rendered to historical study than members is in the government. What can be easier a critical edition of Strype, and Cambridge has now than to follow Oxford's lead here also and come by our some at least of the necessary tools, waiting only fo r own again ? the workman's hand. The Surtees Society projected an One wish more and I pass from letters to life . The edition of Baker's letters. However tempting the task:' University registers should be printed as they standi I dared not undertake it ; but the offer is open. The year by year, matriculations as well as degrees. Even second volume of Fisher's English Works to contain so our college registers, in their entirety, scholarships, letters and a contemporary life has long been promised, exhibitions, college offices. We shall recover not a fe w and has been partially in type fo r years ; it may never admissions earlier than the memorable college order of be completed unless St John's puts its shoulder to the 21 January 163�· wheel. Some constitutional changes made of late jar on The two colleges of the Lady Margaret enabled me one's sense at once of college dignity and of the to print Mr Cooper's Life of the Foundress, with an gratitude due to benefactors. Mr Courtney and I appendix of documents, where we see the good countess both pleaded for retaining the donor's name in connexion as a lover of English poetry and patroness of the printing with scholarships and fe llowships. Dr Venn'" shews press. We still need more,-for example a handsome how the thing can be done. "It would have been edition of her will, with seals and other illustrations. perfectly easy, when a scholarship had sunk to one-tenth I commend to you the plans, put fo rth some fo rty of its proper value, to assign it once in ten years, but to years ago by Dr Corrie, W. G. Clark, the Babingtons, retain the fo under's name." Or take a short cut to the H. R. Luard, and others, for a Cambridge Historical same goal of justice to the dead and to our own sense Society. The time was not then ripe and our scheme of right. Why should not the Master and Bursar, fell through ; but now that history has a recognised without meddling with the Statutes, assign clonors'na mes, home among us, and Oxford has set us an example, the joining two or more names where the fu nas are unequal attempt might be renewed with brighter hopes. If to the burden ot an entire stipend ? Read Thomas Bollandists can publish Acta Sanclorum in scores of Baker's touching verses to his founder, and say, is it fo lios, why cannot we, who are of th e day, reprint all seemly, is it politic, to kill such human sympathies in original memoirs of our saints, and heroes, and patriots, our body corporate ? Convicts in prison may be known and men of science or letters, equipped with every by numbers, but we who are free should be jealous fo r instrument of research ? the honour of our patrons. Many years ago Parliament in a hurry ordered us to Once again, by sweeping away all regards to means in send all wills from the Registry to Peterborough, where they remained for years in the pacl�ing cases. The like *Gollville anu Caius College. Biogra phieaJ History iii, 22 1n. .J , 11 •

Tlt e Commemoratzon Sermo7Z. 3 12 Th e C01117llC1JlOl'ateoft Sermon. ,3 1 3 awarding scholarships and fe llowships, we have in some that he mentions it as mine is more than I desired, cases lured men to luxury wh ich has been their ruin. In but shews his Lordship's readiness to do right to all early days this was 110 Capua, as we know from Thomas men, even in the most minute particulars, and his Lever. Some no doubt, here and elsewhere, have freely willingness to correct and confess his own mistakes, given the stipend which they did not need to the college which is more than some men are willing to do." This for public uses : but the rule should be made absolute. is Macaulay's 'fierce attack.' But, apart from this Holders should endow some worthy cause, to be approved particular case, Baker had nothing whatever of the by authority, with whatever they receive and do not want bigot in his character. From the boundless stores of his for their maintenance. So the rich would learn how to learning he helped the low-church Wake, Kennet, hold their wealth as a trust, and no longer debauch byI Strype, as readily as the 11onjuror Thomas Hearne ; he example their poorer friends. was even on friendly terms with the Arian William I close with glimpses into lives brought near to me Whiston and the freethinker Conyers Middleton. A by my studies or in daily converse. note of his on Calamy's account of the nonconformists The rhetorician Thomas Babington Maculay* admires­ gives us a peep into his private charities : needy Bishop Burnet's christian charity in fo rgiving a 'fierce Puritans mounted his staircase in the Third Court fo r attack ' on his History of the Reformation by Thomas alms, and not in vain. Baker. As a nonjuror our socius ezedus, it is implied, In the few moments that remain I make room for looked askance on the Reformation, and hated a Whig voices of greater power, sounding from the world unseen. bishop. I am bound to rebut the slander, not only And first the plea wherewith Bishop Fisher, in 1530, because Baker's good name is in my keeping,-fo r no commended his third code (ch. 53) to our society. one, not even Williall1 Cole or Charles Henry Cooper, They are no dead words, as I had proof just before has been so long familiar with Baker's folios-but alsa Easter. A small reformed church, escaping from a in particular because I printed tror the first time in crisis of faction, met in synod. Af ter prayers this 1849, the so-called attack at full length. Henry charge was read in the original Latin. It acted as oil Wharton indeed, masked as Anthony H:armer, dzd on troubled waters. He who had called them together assail Burnet with no lack of gall, but Baker merely went in fe ar and trembling, a Daniel into the lions' den. sent corrections to the author himself, leaving him to But the lions' mouths were stopped and all was harmony. use them at his discretion. " This is very true," writes "Our will therefore is, that the master and all Baker, :t"and very much to the author's honour, that � students, as well fellows as scholars, of St John's he scorned to make use of the power that was given College, Cambridge, be ruled and governed by these him, though he might have suppresst these papers in laws aforesaid, which we deem both wholesome and part or in whole "; and again §" This mistake I did just. Whereby if they diligently order themselves, we indeed mention to the Bishop, ...intending he should nothing doubt but the inspiration at the Holy Spirit alter it, as he thought fit, and under his own name ; will be with them, leading the obedient by a straight path to great learning wedded to equal ho liness, For " Histm,), of England, ed. 1855, iii 7911. question whether that Holy Spirit, who lhen ediled it were a sin to t III the expiring Britislt l'dagflzil!e, by J. C. Croslhll"aile, will be vols. xxxv, xxxvi. abides in every congregation of Christians, .; xxxl'i 6q7. ibid. °56. to aid all who strive to live in faith and present . VOL. XXIII. SS ,.J f 11 • -

314 Th e Commemora/zon Sermon. Tlz e Commemoralzon Sermon. 315 conscience un defiled, yet mainly those who toil in the and sore cares and crosses which long since beset you, study of Holy Writ. For to unlock this was the main Reverend Father in Christ, deign to peruse this letter end of His mission : • when,' He saith, 'He, the spirit of from us your sons. To you, we confess, we are indebted truth, shall come, He will guide you into all the truth.' for favours more than we can count or couch in words. But whom will He guide ? to be sure, the lowly and You are our father, doctor, teacher, law-giver, in a word obedient : on such he rests, cherishing them and refresh­ the pattern of all virtue and holiness. To you, we ing them with consolations unspeakable ; moreover to acknowledge, we owe our maintenance, our learning, all these, being the porter, He openeth and unlocketh the the good we either have or know. Except prayer, mysteries of Scripture. Be not slow of heart then, wherewith we continually intercede fo r you with God, brethren, to believe, that if ye study at once to k�ep we have no means of returning thanks to you or repaying these laws and likewise to dwell continually of one soul benefits. Should we lavish on your behalf our whole in charity, our Father will at length vouchsafe to inspire common stock, the entire possessions of the college, you with His Spirit; which that He may do I, though a even so we should fall short of your bounty to usward. sinner, will without ceasing pray, and beg of you in Wherefore, Reverend Father, we entreat, use all we have your turn to pray for me." as your own. Yours is and shall be all our power, one Five years later, shortly before Fisher's execution, and all we are and will be wholly yours. You are our the College shewed itself no less brave than grateful in glory and our stay, you are our head, so that whatever upholding their benefactor in his hour of need. " There harm befalls you, bitterly afflicts us as subject members is a noble letter from them" says Thomas Baker (p. 102) of the body." 'c penned in such a strain that whoever was the composer For some 350 years, half a week of centuries, the must surely have been very sensibly and feelingly tyrant's proscription effaced Fisher's name from the affected with the bishop's sufferings, as well as with the roll of honour in St Mary's. For great as were the obligations of the college ...... The college was first Bishop's services to four colleges-Michaelhouse, undertaken with his advice, was endowed/by his bounty Queens', Christ's, St John's-he did even more fo r the or interest, preserved from ruin by his prudence and University at large. Until he arose, Cambridge Was care, grew up and flourished under his countenance and indeed a silent sister, while Oxford could boast many of protection, and was at last perfected by his conduct. the greatest names, Roger Bacon fo r example and In a word he was the best friend since the fo undress and Wycliffe. But the Bishop of Rochester imported greatest patron the college ever had to this day." Hebrew and Greek and Erasmus with his new testament; Competent judges will endorse each word of our with his motto 'I will make you fishers of men,' his historian's testimony. rebus, a fish holding in its mouth an ear of wheat, his Every loyal J ohnian must be proud of his college Lady Margaret Preacher in the University, his statutes as he thinks how the martyr in the Tower was cheered sending forth preachers through the land, he did more by a message like this : "In your great occupations on than any other man to pave the way for reform. Go behalf of the flock by God committed to your charge, in into our libraries, remember the small population of your universal labours undertaken in defence of Christ's England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, religion, in your never-ceasing meditations in God's see the solid fo lios and quartos of sermons and exposi4 law, in your prayers, readings, writings, in the bitter tions of scripture which ran through edition afte�' ,,J f n ••

316 Th e Com mcmo'f'atzim Se rmon. Th e Commemo?'aliu1Z Sermon. 317 edition,-books which now would fall dead from the instead of fulfilling the high purposes for which it was press,-and you see some fr uits of Fisher's labours. established, to neglect its duties and become rich and Well did Erasmus, his devoted friend and admirer, despised, endowed and useless, you might well say dedicate to his memory the ecclest"astes ; well did what is the use or profitto such an institution of wealth, Dr Watson, in a commemoration sermon, urge the of fine buildings, and of ample revenues, if this is to be university to repent of its ingratitude. The seed fe ll on the outcome of it all ? Or again suppose there be in such good ground; we were not bigoted or hard-hearted, only a college, with every incentive and appliance fo r learn­ asleep, and glad to be awakened from our slumber. ing and study, a band of students sent hither from year to Bishop Fisher is now duly commemorated by Cambridge, year with bright hopes and noble aspirations, yet many of and is not forgotten by St John's. If the spirits of �he them neglecting or misusing the opportunities fo r good, just men made perfect know what passes here below, acquiring evil habits, and indulging in vicious propen­ those white souls, John Fisher and Thomas Baker, must sities, and gradually becoming a gnawing care to their rejoice to hear of a church of the Lady Margaret, a sun parents and friends, and finally a bur then to themselves, of warmth and light in one of London's darkest places. may we not ask whether even a student's life in a noble If you stint yourselves to give liberally to this most college like this is not in danger of becoming worse Christlike work you are true, be sure, to the best traditions than a wasted opportunity I" of our house, and pass on the torch lit near four hundrE'd years ago. Lastly coming down to our own day, I leave with you the warning words *of our late master, chief founder of this chapel and reformer of our constitution, who by stealth did more generous acts than will ever be known on this earth : GOD and our sailots we alike adore, ., Suppose the case of a noble UniversIty like this, or In times of danger, not before : to come more closely home, a college like our own, The danger past, both are alike requited, founded in a remote age to fo ster learning and the arts, God is fo rgotten and the sailor slighted. to be a centre of intellectual life and of moral influence, LORD KELSON. to be in short a corporate teacher and to lead a teacher's life, to continue long beyond the mortal term of three­ w!: 'l Crf/V lflpav Vl}10}1fV vavTaL!: T£ OWl"; T£' score years and ten to perform a teacher's duties and to Tf}1W}1lv yE }16vov �EfVct CTaAW6}1fVol. be crowned with a te3.cher's glory. Suppose the rulers KaL �� K[V�VVO"; 7rapEAr,Av(lE, CTwCTTpa �' o}1fJia of such a noble institution grown fo rgetful of the ends fo r T!VO}1fV' ov vavTI1"; ou8€ }1lAOVCTL Ow!. which it was founded, anxious only for their own ease T. NICKLIN and their own advancement, were either to give themselves up to luxur y and idleness, or to allow their college,

* Six Sermolls, by lite Rev. "V: [1. Batesoll. Cambridge 185 [. Printed for private circulation. No. iii. 'Loss and Gain ' pp. 25, 26. .J III.. ...

Th e Czly upon flte Ho ly Stream. 319 was deeply impressed by the traces of its fo rmer magnificence and the m iserable condition to which it had been reduced. He began to consider the possibility of reviving its old life and restoring its old importance, and in Eilaf he fo und a willing helper : Eilaf begged him to commit the church to a properly constituted THE CITY UPON THE HOLY STREAM. body of canons, and in I I 13 Thomas took the first X. step towards the fo undation of the future monastery. The beginning was humble enough. Richard de Maton surrendered his rights and received compen­ E are now coming to the third and last phase sation : Thomas sent two canons, one from York and of the history of medieval Hexham. We one from Beverley, to be the first canons of Hexham ; have seen its glories as the cCj.thedral city and Eilaf built the necessary buildings with his own of Saxon bishops, and we have watched its hands,-humble wooden structures, no doubt, which vicissitudes as the benefice of a fa mily of married must have looked all the hu mbler by contrast with the priests : the third stage is to be of a more chequered gaunt and battered fabric of Wilfrid's minster, beside character, marked by some distinctions not unworthy which they nestled. Surely there is material fo r a of its younger days, and by many disasters as terrible picture here, in this first meeting of the old and the as those of the eleventh century. new. Let us imagine Edric and his companion, as they The close of that century saw Eilaf the younger still ride up the valley from the east (for they have travelled in possession of the church of Hexham, but he and it from Yorkshire by way of the Dere Street) on the first had fallen upon evil days : the inhabitants of the of November, while the trees are still glorious with neighbourhood (so Prior Richard tells us) had treated autumnal colours and the stubble is still yellow on the the place badly, and Aelred declares that Eilaf began haughs. We can almost hear their ej aculations of to grow anxious about the safety of the relics which the pious astonishment, as they catch the first glimpse of church contained,-assets of incalculable value in those the weathered minster which is to be their charge ; but superstitious and not over scrupulous times. Very what are their words and fe elings, when presently they possibly his early enthusiasm had died away ; fo r he of the church, and discover Eilaf .. come to the south side was a middle-aged man by this time, and his life at sitting (one cannot help imagining it) astride of the Hexham must have been a hard life at the best. At ridge-beam of their humble wooden refectory, �turdily any rate he was ready to accept and even to welcome hammering away at the last nails needed to complete the change which was presently brought about. his handiwork,-perhaps he is holding one of them in Thomas the Archbishop, who first assumed the his mouth ! How great must be their embarrassment, lordship of Hexhamshire, died in 1100, and eight years when they realise that this industrious carpenter, later we find the see filled by his nephew, Thomas the dressed like the peasants whom they have passed on Second, all able and energetic prelate, who paid much the road, is the priest of Hexham, and the homely attention to the state of the monasteries contained in woman who sits in the sun yonder, twirling her spindle his diocese. More than once he visited �Iexham, and and watching the rise and fall of the hammer, is the --> I J) ... --

Tlt e Ihe Stream. 321 ,320 Til e Cd)' u/JOIt lite Ho ly Stream. City upon HO!)I priest's wife r Perhaps there is a little fo ur-year-old discipline : indeed, some writers refuse to regard them urchin playing amongst the shavings which still litter as monks at all, but allot them an intermediate place the floor of their future home : if so, the worthy canons between true monachism and the secular canons of such never dream that the bashful imp is to die Abbot of places as York, Beverley, and Southwelr: Canons the Rievaulx, the honoured friend of the house they have brethren of Hexham are consistently styled, but at the come to found and the historian of the saints of same time their house is with equal consistency termed Hexham. a monastery, and their system presents all the dis� The driving of those nails was possibly the last piece tincti ve features of monasticism. Their conventual Qf work that Eilaf did at Hexham, though his connection buildings were arranged in the customary monastic with the place was not finallysevered till shortly bef<;>re manner ; their estahlishments were termed abbeys or his death, a quarter of a century later. He was allowed priories, and were governed by officersbearing the same to retain the greater part of the endow�ents ; and it titles as those of stricter orders : in fact it was only in they says much for the patience and fo rbearance of the new the comparative laxity of their discipline that community that although the brethren were often differed from others, and the difference was one of sorely straitened by poverty and even by hunger, they degree and not of kind. At any rate the Rule of St Austin was not unpopular in the north of England,­ remained on good terms with Eilaf to the last, and Hexham and Brinkburn in Northumberland, Lanercost refused to utter a word of complaint. Carlisle in Cumberland, Nostell, Guisborough, Thomas the Second died in the following year, and Bolton, and many more in Yorkshire, were Augustinian before he had completed his plans : he had made some s,-and in the life of those unquiet centuries the provision for the new canons, but as their number house order played at least as useful a part as many more increased this proved inadequate ; he had laid down no ascetic systems. It appealed to minds of a different definite rules fo r the fu ture governance �f the com­ but not necessarily of a less religious type,-men to munity, which at first must have consisted of canons whom peace and quietness were means of moreeff ectua secular, like those of the two great foundations from l grace than penance and privation, men of wider which Edric and his companion had come. It is sympathies, sounder sense, and perhaps of truer charity Thurstan, the successor of Thomas, who is entitled to than those who hankered after more rigorous bonds. rank as the real founder of Hexham monastery : he The Augustinians were specially noted for learning and added considerably to the endowments and to the '" hospitality, and in these respects Hexham was not ecclesiastical furniture of the place, giving relics, books, unworthy of the order : two Priors of the house have and vestments, as well as "two pairs of candlesticks, left valuable histories behind them, and it was only one of silver and the other of copper gilt "; but his when fire and sword drove the canons from their home most important gift to Hexham was the Rule of St that the Guest House was not open to every traveller. Austin. Under Thurstan the secular canons became Augustinians or canons regular, and Asketill, the first XI. Prior, wa5 brought from Huntingdon to teach them the Thus at Hex ham, as elsewhere, "the old order rule under which they were thenceforth to live. changeth, yielding place to new"; but we have one Of all the mona stic orders the Augustinians or more scene to describe before the old order of Alured Canons Regular were subject to the least severe and his descendants shifts from the stage altogether. VOL. XXIlI. TT ---> In . A

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Asketill, the kindly and cultured Prior (vz'r z"lle tkgans of God, and he had determined to make restitution iR et affabtHs) who had done so much for the house of this specially solemn manner. So saying, he handed Hexham,-like a lesser Augustus, he found the con­ to the Prior a silver cross, which conta�led relics of ventual buildings of wood and left them of stone,-was Acca and A1chmund, thereby making symbolical dead, and Robert Biseth was Prior of Hexham in his delivery of Hexham and its possessions, and he ended place. Biseth had ruled the struggling and still with a fervent petition that his memory might ever be poverty-stricken monastery for eight years, when he kept alive in the church where once he had ministered. was suddenly summoned to Durham by the aged man Thus Eilaf surrendered Hexham, and a fe w days who had once been the priest of Hexham. Eilaf was later he renounced the world, taking the habit of a ' ill, and he wished to do justice to Hexham before he monk in Durham Abbey : but this was only the prelude , died. to the last change of all, and after a brief period of It is a curious and pathetic scene that we are to solemn preparation the old man passed quietly away. witness in Eilaf's sick-room. There is the infirm old man, suffering from a malady which was to end in XII. death, and troubled in conscience by the thought of the Most of the twenty-six years, which had passed six and twenty years during which he had enjoyed the since the Rule of St Austin was established at Hexham, property of the needy and uncomplaining canons. had been blest by the peace and security which the There is Prior Biseth, the quiet visionary who was so strong hand of the first Henry maintained throughout soon to desert Hexham fo r the stern er discipline of England : but Henry died in 1 135, and peace and Clairvaux. There is Wi11iam, first Abbot of the justice, as Prior Richard says, died with him, leaving Cistercian house of Rievaulx, and with him stands every manner of crime and calamity free to tyrannise one of his monks,-Aelred, who is Eilafs own son. over the country. David of Scotland was the uncle of Samuel and Ethelwold, also sons of Eilaf, are there Henry's daughter, the Empress Matilda ; and in support too ; and three monks of Durham and one canon of of her claim to the throne he made more than one Hexham complete the company. The canon is Richard, incursion into the north of England : the year of Eilaf's the future Prior and historian, whose pen has left us so death saw the most serious of these expeditions, and touching a description of the scene. the last ; for by the end of Augu�t David had been To Prior Biseth, Richard tells us,-and it is perhaps signally defeated at the Battle of the Standard. the best paragraph that ever he wrote,-Eilaf sur­ In the early days of January 11,38, David laid siege rendered the church of Hexham and all his interest in to Wark Castle beside the Tweed j but meeting with no its endowments, freely releasing it from all claims on success there, he resolved to devastate Northumberland, the part of himself or his fa mily. Manifold thanks he and his nephew, William Fitz Duncan, was sent fo rward paid to the Prior and Canons fo r the numberless with a strong force to begin the work of destruction. benefits which he had received at their hands ; fo r they On the 35th of ' the same month Fitz Duncan pitched had treated him as lovingly as if he had been not their his camp at Warden, within sight of Hexham, and the chaplain but their father. He repented of having fo r terrors of Malcolm's invasion seemed not unlikely to be so long a time wrongfully enjoyed the property which repeated ; for one of the Scotch captains, a man of should have been used fo r the sustenance of the servants wealth and influence in his own country,-so saYis J 11.1le A

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Prior John, the second of Hexham's historians,-left a successful sally of the garrison of vV ark, "\\7ho pro­ the camp with a small body of followers, and advanced tects the good and confounds the wickE'd." towards the little city with the intention of plundering But other places were less fortunate than Hexham, the church. But a new generation had grown up at and if our t\Vo historians are to be b81ip.vE'd, the horrors Hexham, and we hear nothing of unmanly grovellings of that invasion and the suffcrings of Northumberb.nd on the abbey pavement : the young men of the place baffle description. The maramlers slal.lg'h tered the sick attacked the aggressors, slew their leader, and put his man on his bed and the babe in his mother's arms ; followers to flight. The Scotch army was as furious as they threw down the altars of the churches, and blew Malcolm had been in earlier days : the dead man's the priests upon the wreckage ; maids and widows comrades threatened to extirpate the city and ( its they roped together in gangs and drove away to a fate inhabitants ; but Fitz Duncan was able to restrain their worse than death. Dut a terrible vengeance overtook violence, and very possibly they were overawed by the them, when these same butchers were Hying fro m the presence of David himself, who, with his son and the Battle of the Standard : the Picts and Scots fell foul of rest of his army presently arrived at Corbridge, and each other during the retreat, and used their weapons stayed there fo r at least a week. It was on this occasion upon each other's limbs : great numbers also were that two Picts plundered the oratory uf St Michael on separated from the main body, and these were the hill of Erneshow, and were suddenly smitten with slaughtered like sheep (tamquam oves ot:etszoms). There madness : for some time they roamed like wild beasts was no pity fo r the pitiless, and their bodies were left about the woods and fields, till the one died of self­ to rot unburied, as they themselves had left the bodies inflicted wounds, and the other drowned himself in the of their victims. neighbouring river. XIII. David himself was a devout and amiable monarch, but So the history of Hexham runs on, like an April he lacked the strength and ruthless determination which morning of rain and sunshine intermixed. Here we were needed to control the half-barbarous marauders catch a glimpse of some gorgeous ceremonial, as when of his army. He was a good friend to Hexham : he in 1154 the relics of the Saints of Hexham were respected the privileges of the Sanctuary, confirmed solemnly translated to a statelier shrine ; and here, them by charter, and even placed officers in the city to though no record remains, we can imagine the agitation prevent their violation. Outside the precincts of the of the brethren, when William the Lion, who was at holy place the estates of the monastery were ravaged once the enemy of their country and the benefactor of and despoiled, but the pious king made over his own their house, invaded Northumberland and lost his share of the booty to Prior Biseth as compensation fo r liberty beside Alnwick, not fa r from the spot where his the losses of his house. He seems to have won the predecessor Ma1colm had lost his life. Here we see an respect and gratitude of the canons, but not their archbishop holding a visitation of the monastery, here sympathy or allegiance : , Prior Richard and Prior John a papal legate rests at Hexham as he journeys towards are the sturdiest of Englishmen, and whenever the Scotland, and on one occasion King John makes a brief smallest check impeded the progress of David's designs, appearance on the scene. It is a time of comparative they ascribe the event to the special favour of Heaven. prosperity, and the church, which vV ilfrid's contem­ " Blessed be God," says Prior Richard, after describing poraries thought so magnificent, is no'w far below the --J In A"

326 TIl e Cd)' UPOIl the Hu ly Str-ea'm. TJl e Ct'ty upon tlU! Holy Stream. 327

common standard. The closin,g yeal's of the twelfth the image of their (lwn patron St Andrew. The century saw the completion of the still existing choir, sequence is a curious . illustration of the intensity of to which, as years passed by, tower and transept were medieval relic-worship : to burn a crowd of living added, alld then the nave that was to share the splen­ children was less heinous than to burn the bones of a dours of Hexham for so brief a period. long dead saint. It is the year 1296 that brings us the next striking The Prior and Canons seem to have escaped in time, picture of Hexham,-a picture not unlike some that and they were slow in returning to their ruined home. have gone before, but painted in even more lurid colours. When the invasion was repeated under William Wall ace Early in April two Scotch armies poured across the in the November of the fo llowing year, only three of the Border, and all the brutalities of earlier invasions were brethren had found their way back to Hexham, and but ' repeated or surpassed. The Galloway men came by for the personal influence of Wall ace himself these the fo rds of Solway into Cumberland, while another brave men would certainly have perished. Strange to host passed by way of Redesdale and the North Tyne relate, our only record of the scene comes from the pen valley to the neighbourhood of Hexham. Young in of a canon of Leicester ; but he must have heard the years and without experience of war were these latter story on good authority, since one of the canons of (Iota v�dus tyl'onum ac /uvenum), but at the first essay Hexham was transferred to that abbey not long they outdid their elders ; and by them the Sanctuary, afterwards. which even David's marauders had been induced to How dreary and desolate the great roofiess, fire­ respect, was violated at last. stained church must have looked on that grey November Lanercost Priory by Irthing and the little nunnery morning ! The three canons had built a little oratory, of Lambley by the South Tyne were burnt and pillaged, probably in some corner of the choir or transept aisles, and Hexham met with no better fate : indeed at where the vaulting remained uninjured ; and to this Hexham the tragedy must have been more appalling place of refuge they retired, when the Scotch army came than elsewhere ; fo r no doubt many of the inhabitants pouring into Hexham. But they were not safe from of the surrounding country would take refuge in the their enemies even there. " Show us the treasures of town, trusting to its old immunity, and terribly was that your church, or die," cried their pursuers, threatening trust belied. We may read an account of the invasion the defenceless canons with their spears ; and even the in the turgid Latin of the Chronicle of Lanercost. At previous year's spoliation would have been no sufficient Hexham, says the scribe, who was probably a Minorite plea, if Wall ace himself had not made a timely appear­ friar of Carlisle, they blocked up the doors of the school ance. The Scotch leader restrained his men, and asked house, and burnt school and scholars together ; they one of the canons to celebrate mass : he himself plundered the monastery and set the sacred building remained to witness part of the service ; but as soon as on fire : rape was followed by slaughter of the victim, he was gone, the cupidity of the wild marauders broke and murder made no distinction of age, sex, or con­ out with a violence which no reverence nor solemnity dition ; and finally, as the climax of their crimes (ad !toe could repress. The officiating priest went to the tandem pe1'jidt"ae stgnum pl'ol'upemnt), they stripped the sclcrarium to wash his hands ; and when he returned, gold and jewels from the relics of the Saints of Hexham, the chalice and altar fu rniture and even the mass-book threw the treasured bones into the flames, and beheaded had disappeared. Wall ace threatened to behead the v f 1.1 A "

318 Tlt e Czly upon the Ho ly Sb'eanz. Th e'Ct't y upon the Ho ly Stream. 32<} offenders, but they were never brought to account : and new buildings were erected, perhaps with fragments of while their captain remained at Hexham, he never the ruined nave which was never restored ? lands were allowed the three canons to leave his side, granting brought back into cultivation and new benefactions them also letters of protection when, three days later, were conferred ; but the glory had departed from he marched away. Hexham, the relics, upon which its reputation had so XIV. largely depended, were lost fo r ever, and the convent The next chapter of the history of Hexham is a began to suffer from that decrepitude which was growing wearisome record of heart-breaking difficulties and upon the monastic orders generally. The light was recurring disasters. For the time being the monastery dimmed, and dim it remained : it is only when the was ruined : its buildings were wrecked, its estates moment of extinction approaches that the waning lamp "", ere a wilderness, and its canons had sought shelter blazes up with a flicker of its old life and energy. in the Augustinian priory of Bridlington. Edward the XV. First gave them some assistance, but that great monarch was near his end : the work of repair and resettlement This last scene does not begin for almost two proceeded, but the brief interval of peace was fo llowed hundred years after the year of Neville's Cross, but by the calamities of the second Edward's reign. the interval contains little that is worthy of particular Three times in the course of four years was the mention. The Prior of Hexham took part in the Earl neighbourhood of Hexham laid waste by the armies of of Northumb�rland's conspiracy which followed the Robert Bruce ; and though the invaders seemed to death of Hotspur, arid presently found it politic to take have spared the monastery, its estates were again refuge in Scotland ; but Prior and Canons were event­ devastated, the farm-buildings destroyed, and the ually pardoned by the King in the most prosaic manner. cattle driven away. Once more the canons were In 1464 the last hopes of the Lancastrian party were starving and penniless, and once more they were fo rced wrecked beside the Devilswater, a mile or two away to to take refuge with the Augustinian houses of Yorkshire. the south east ; but we hear nothing of the Priory, Once more too the same disastrous history repeats except that the body of the Duke of Somerset was itself, when in 1346 David of Scotland passed through buried in the Priory church. So things drifted on for Tynedale on his way towards Durham : but this story seventy years longer. The Augustinian order tried to has a brighter ending than the last ; for the canons reform itself, and failed : Wolsey himself met with no must have seen something of the fragments of the better success ; and then the last act of the drama opens Scotch army, as they fled towards the Border after the sharply and suddenly. In March 1536 Parliament Battle of Neville's Cross, and must have heard with passed the bill fo r the suppression of the Lesser thanksgiving and delight that their persecutor was a Monasteries. captive in the hands of their countrymen. The income of Hexham was at that time just within This was the last occasion on which Hexham suffe red thp. prescribed limit of two hundred pounds, but there from Scotch invasion, but the effect of its fo rmer was good reason fo r hoping that the house might obtain calamities was too deep and lasting to admit of a a special exemption. Archbishop Lee, Wolsey's suc­ complete recovery in an age when the monastic system cessor, wrote an urgent letter to Cromwell, pointing out had lost its vitality. The church was repaired, and the utility of the monastery as the only resting-place VOL XXIlI. U U v , IJ A "

Th e Cz/y up on the Ho ly Stream. 331 330 Th e Cz'ty upon th e H5I ly Stream. fo r travellers passing through that portion of the King on October 1 3th, "aft er his suit made to your Marches ; but it is probable that Ahab was already Highness fo r saying h,is house from Suppression, I in my barge coming from York in the hearing of my plotting against Naboth : on September 1 3th of the same year we find the Earl of Northumberland writing chaplains and servants charged him. not to resist your to remind the King that at his request the monaster.y Commissioners. The same charge I gave to a canon of Hexham had already been promised to Sir Raynald after the prior was returned home." Carnaby. However, it is clear that the canons Qf Hexham must However, fo r the present there was hope, but about have received some �nformatio.n Qf the intended dis­ the middle of July it was changed to consternation by appointment of their hop.es. Possibly the news filtt"red the ai"rival of commissioners from the King, charged through the Earl of Northumberland, who had asked with the duty of making a valuation of the monastery the King to grant the mOllastery to Sir Raynald and its possessions. The danger was only too apparent, Carnaby, to Sir Thomas and S.ir �l'\gram. Percy, the and we learn from a letter of the Archbishop that, earl's brothers, who were Sir Rayna)d's cl,eadliest either at this Juncture or at some earlier time, the enemies. At any rate there came a time when the Prior of Hexham journeyed to London and made his suit ca,nons prepC\.red for resis.tance : the house was put in a state of cl,efence, and the tenants and well-wishers of to the King " fo r saving his house from Suppression " : of t�is journey no other record remains, but we may th.e monastery were warned to hold themselves ready infer from what happened later that the King granted for service. him a charter exempting Hexham from the operation It was on the 28th of September thC\.tthe crisis came. of the statute. That Henry deliberately deceived the The King's Commissioners reached Dilston, three mile;> poor canons from the first is scarcely probable : a plain to the east of Hexham, and there learnt that the canons refusal would have served his purpose equally well. It " had prepared them with gonnes and artilery mete fq r is more likely that from motives of pity or policy he did the warre, with people in th,e same house, a,nd to defend fo r a time intend to preserve the house, but was after'" and kepe the same with fo rce." The Commissioners wards persuaded, or found it expedient, to go back were not strong enough to overcome resistance.. and upon his word. Simple N aboth imagined that the accordingly two of their number, Lionel Gray and King's charter made the whole affair settled and secure ; Robert Collingwood, were sent forward to attempt but Ahab had influence in high places, and no scruple persuasion, while their colleagues, Williarn Green and about using it, while the Archbishop, who ought to J ames Rokeby, remained at Dilston. have been Naboth's champion, was a timid and time- Gray and Collingwood with a few attendants would , serving prelate, whose chief anxiety was fo r the security enter the town by way of Priestpopple, and sorely must of his own neck. Indee'd, there is some ground fo r their nerves have been tried before they got out again. supposing that Ahab had already come to an arrange­ There were "many persones assembled with bills, ment with the champion, who seems, if we may j udge halbartes, and other defenceable wepyns, redy standing by the almost hysterical manner in which he warned in the strete, like men redy to defende a toun of war ; the canons against resistance, to have had a shrewd and in theire passing by the strete, the common bell of idea of how the matter was to end. " At the return of the toun was rongen ; and, streight after the sound of the prior of Hexham fr om London," he writes to the itt, the grete bell of the monastel'Y was likewise ronge." ,� In " "

332. Tlt e Ciiy upon Ihe .!I() i.t Stream Th e Ctty upon the .f-I() ly' Stream. 333 The two commissioners rode up the hill and across Eighth. God save his Grace. We think it not the the market place to the monastery, the crowd growing King's honor to gyff fu rthe oon seall contrarye to an thicker about them every moment j and there, fi nding other, and afore any other of our landes, goods or hous. the gates shut, they had a colloquy with the Mas.ter of be takin from us we shall all dye, and that is our full Ovingham, that being the title borne by one of the aunswere," canops who presided over the Cell of Ovingham, some So Grey and Collingwood returned to Dilston, and mile� dovvn the valley. Strangely picturesque is the the four commissioners " reculed bak to Corbrigg, whet' :figure of this warrior-canon in the o.ne glimpse that we they leyed all that nigh t." Meanwhile the final pageant get of him : we do not kno.w his name, and we can only of this notable day was being played out at Hexham. conjecture his ultimate fate j but fo r the moment he is The canons of the house came fo rth in all their warlike the protagonist of our drama. Of the Prior we hear gear, accompanied by their retainers, and the whole nothing, either on this day or (except ' in tradition) company marched " by ij togeders " to the haughs afterwards : the leader of the rebellion is the Master of which lie between Hexham and the river, where they Ovingham, who stands "in harnes, with a bowe bentt " stode in arraye with theyre wepyns in they re hands, with arrowes, accompanyd with divers other persones unto the comissioners were past oute of sight of the ".all stonding upon the leades and walls of the hous and monasterye." Perhaps they were hankering after a ' . steple " j and the Master of Ovingham answers the battle in spite of their profession j but if that were so, Commissioners defiantly. they were disappointed, and presently this procession " We be twenty brethern in this hous," he cries, " and of the church militant returned peacefu lly to the we shall dye all, or that ye shall have this hous," monastery. " Advise you well," the Commissioners answer, " and XVI. speke with your brethern, and shewe unto them th is our 'request and declaracion of the King's gracios writings, The two months which fo llowed must have been a and then gyff lLS aunswere fy nallye." stirring and picturesque period. Before many days had So the Master of Ovingham disappeared for a while. passed, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire were aflame with after providing for the safety of the commissioners. the rebellion known as the Pilgrimage of Grace, and fo r H aboute whome did come and accongregate many the present Hexham was beyond the reach of attack or people, both men with wepyns, and many women j " punishment. Meanwhile the place was full of strange and his place was taken by fi ve or six canons 'c in harnes figures and curious intrigues. At one time the canons with swordes gyrde about them, having bowes and made a half-hearted attempt to negotiate fo r a pardon j arrowes and other wepyns." Presently he returned in but that did not suit the designs of some to whom civil company with the Sub-Prior, who still wore his canon's war was a glorious opportunity. John Heron, whom dress j and the two showed the Commissioners " a they employed as their intermediary, so edited both writing under the King's brode seall." message and reply that he caused the canons to despair "We doo notte doubte," said the Sub-Prior, "botte of obtaining terms, and induced them to purchase the ye bring with you the King's seall of auctorite fo r this support of certain notorious freebooters of North Tyne­ hous, albeitt ye shall se here the King's confirmation of dale, who were kinsmen or connections of his own. our hous under the great seall of King Henry the Sir Raynald Carnaby seems to have had some presage '...J /11" '"

33 Th e Czly ztJ01t the Holy Stream. 4 Th e Cz·I)' upon tlte Ho l# Stream. 335 of the storm, and his moveable property had been dis­ fo r a little while it seemed as if their resistance had tributed fo r safe custody among several of his friends. been successfu l. Presently, however, the truth became He himself was safe in Chillingham Castle, while his known, and the North of England was again in an · enemies tried many expedients to rob him of his goods, inflammable condition : Sir Thomas Percy and hi 3 of which some succeeded and the greater number failed. brother were still troublesome, if not actively rebellious I But the story of these attempts is too long to be related and the North Tynedale reivers were in no mood to end here : the tricks of Little John Heron and the blu5terings a commotion which they found so profitable. In of Sir Thomas Percy and his brother have no immediate February 1537 a new insurrection was begun in connection with Hexham. Cumberlahd and Westmoreland, and these rebels were Sir Thomas and Sir Ingram Percy were the main­ joined by a con3iderable fo rce from Hexhamshire. \Ve stays of the rebellion in Northumberland, and Hexham may conjecture that since the meeting at Doncaster must have seen much of them during these two months ; there had been a war party and a peace party in the for beside their endeavours to inj ure their arch-enemy, monastery of Hexham, and it is not unlikely that the they were busily recruiting fo r the rebel forces further belligerent canons,-perhaps with the Master of south. Sir Thomas, we read, "was dyvers tymes at Ovingham at their head,-once more donned their Hexham on market days, and opynly in the abbay harness and marched away to take part in the assault demaunded the inhabytantes there what help or ayd he which the rebels were to make upon Carlisle. Of the myght have of thame in the quarrel of the commons ; twenty brethren who were in the house in September, whiche his wordes encoragid many ewill disposed persons we shall find six missing when we come to the last to be wors minded agaynst the Kinge's magcsty than scene of all ; and this rebellion furnishes a plausible they wold have beyn but onely by his pro\'ocacon." reason fo r their disappearance. How fa r Sir Thomas Percy's recruiting prospered at The attempt to capture Carlisle ended in a disastrous Hexham, we cannot tell, but generally it was a failure. fa ilure. The rebels were an ill-organised rabble with "He promessid to hav e aided the comons with five no leaders of note, and " the valiaunt and fe ithful hart hundred Northumbreland speres ; which whan he had and courage of our trusty and wellbiloved servaunt, Sir made all the meanes he culd, and myght nat be able to Christofer Dacres, knight, and his most thankfull and fullfill his intendid porpose, he was so asshamyd of acceptable service done unto us," as the King himself bymesellf, that he sent his prest to the comons with his writes, broke the strength of the insurrection even excuse, and was not by reason thereof at the metinge before the Duke of Norfolk arrived and displayed the last at Dankester." King's banner,�the customary symbol of martial law, The meeting at Doncaster, which lasted throughout " by reason whereof, till the same shall be closed again, November, resulted in a promise of pardon to all who laid the cours of our lawes must give place to th' ordinaunces down their arms ; and it is probable that most of the and estatutes marciall." Severity was exercised, but canons of Hexham availed themselves of the opportunity severity was needed. "It shal be moche better," wrote and prepared to make their submission. The preser­ Henry, "that these traitours shulde perishe in their vation of the monasteries was one of the terms which wilful , unky nde, and .traitorous fo lyes, thenne that so had been demanded by the rebels and (as was commonly slendre punishment shuld be doon upon them, as the but erroneously believed) granted by the King, so that dredde therof shuld not be a warning to others : wherof fa J\" , ..

j36 Tlz e Ctty up on the Ho ly Stream. The'Cz'ty 'It/on the Ho ly Stream. 337 'Shall ensue the preservation of a greate multitude ; A picturesque if somewhat tragic tradition records whiche, if the terror of this execution should not lye in that the last Prior of Hexham was hanged in front of the eye of their remembraunce, might, percase, upon the great gateway of his own monastery ; but it is no light rumours, tales, and suggestions of ewyll personnes, more than a tradition : the letter in which Sir Raynald fall into the pytte of like mischief." Carnaby reports the dissolution makes no mention of This letter of Henry to the Duke of Norfolk ends any such event,-an inexplicable omission, if the tale ominously with an injunction that he is to visit Hexham were true. We have seen nothing of Edward Jay since and such other monasteries " as have made any manner he listened to that lecture on passive obedience from of resistence, or in any wise conspired, or kept their the Archbishop on the Ouse beside York: ; and the fact houses with any force, sithens the appointement at that he made no appearance when the King's Com­ Dancastre," and that he should "cause all the monks missioners visited Hexham, tends to show that he took and chanons, that be in anywise faultie, to be tyed uppe, no part in the commotions of the time : indeed it is not without fu rther delaye or ceremony, to the terrible improbable that he died before the end came, and so &xemple of others "; but in all probability the faulty was spared the bitterness of that last farewell. canons of Hexham were not present when the Duke So ended the monastery of Hexham, nearly nine came to visit their house. We know nothing of their hundred years after Wilfrid's firstfou ndation, and more fate : they may have been killed in battle, they may than fo ur centuries after its reestablishment as an have been captured and hanged, or they may have Augustinian house ; but the romance and dignity of a escaped and fo und a refuge in Scotland. In any case noble past hang about the weathered abbey still, and Hexham saw no more of them. form an endowment which no commissioners or Acts of Meanwhile there were still fo urteen canons waiting at Parliament can escheat. Still may we stand in the Hexham fo r the coming of the inevitable. Oh how crypt which Wilfrid built, or sit in the Frithstool where dreary must the gloom of that last month have been, many a medieval homicide has claimed the peace of like the gloom of a house which waits fo r the tardy Hexham ; still may we tread where kings and heroes approach of death, when death is only a matter of time ! have trodden, or kneel where saints have knelt. We But the end came at last, as simply and quietly as death may pace the flagstoIle pavement of the church, or comes upon a sick man in his sleep. Oh the 26th of wander by street and by-way round the precincts, February the Duke of Norfolk, as we learn from a letter conjuring up a hundred scenes of gorgeous ceremonial written by Sir Raynald Carnaby to Cromwell, was at or lurid tragedy : at least we cannot fa il to carry away Hexham and dissolved the monastery, "avoiding " the with us the memory of the most romantic scene of all, canons and putting Carnaby in possession ; of Carnaby when the Master of Ovingham, in harness with his bow he enquired if he knew that any of the canons had made bent and arrows, stood upon the walls of the house, any insurrection or resistance since the pardon, and Sir ready to defend and keep the same with fo rce. Raynald answered " No,-otherwise he would have been an untrue man to conceal it." The fo urteen remaining R. H. F. canons were thereupon pensioned and turned out into the world, and their old home became the property of a successful courtier. N aboth was ousted, and Ahab came by his desire at last. VOL. XXIII. XX 'il}\ t'l • '-

DER SCHIFFMUSCHEL.

Es liegt ein Perlenschifflein da, Das, nach den aiten Dichtersagen, Die schattenlose See befuhr, Vom Sommerwlnde fortgettagen. Kuhn ausgespannt die Segellein, THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. Wie purpurrote Fli'tgel, wagten Sich in die Zauberbuchten ein This is the ship of pearl, which, poets fe ign, Urn die Korallenriffe ragten ; Sails the unshadowed main- Wo lockend die Sirene sang, The venturous bark that flings Und Meeresjungfern liessen prahlert On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings Ihr fe uchtes ungeflochtnes Haar In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, Im Glanze goldner Sonnenstrahlen. And coral reefs lie bare, Zertri.immert liegt das Schifflein jetzt, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming Die zarten Segel sind verschlissen, hair. rhr lebendes Geweb' erschlafft : Die Kammerlein sind aufgerissen Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Worin, des Daseins kaum bewusst, Wreck'd is the ship of pearl ! Verlebte seine stillen Stunden And every chamber' d cell, Der traumende Bewohner einst, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, U nd bildete die Schalenrunden. As the fr ail tenant shaped his growing shell, Am Tage liegen, wie entweiht, Before thee lies reveal'd- Die Wande jener Perlenstuben, Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd ! Die schillerbunte Decke klafft, EntblOsst sind jene dunkeln Gruben. Year after year beheld the silent toil Jahr aus Jahr ein, der stumme Fleiss That spread his lustrous coil ; Erschuf die gHi.nzende Spirale ; Still as the spiral grew, Und wie erwuchsen, Raum auf Raum, He left the past year's dwelling fo r the new, Die hohlen Windungen der Schale Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Verliess der Insass allemal Built up its idle door, Des Vorj ahrs engeres Gehii.use, Stretch'd in his last-found home, and knew the old no U nd durch den lichten Bogengang more. Schlich ein in's neue, sanft und leise I Der ode Thorweg zugebaut, Das jiingste Heim einmal besessen, Streckt' er zur Ruhe hier sich hin, Das alte druben war verg essen. I a " "

3 40 Til e Clzambered Na utiltts. Del' Sclzijjimtschel. 3 4 1

Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Ich danke dir, verlornes Kind Child of the wandering sea, Van jenem wandelbaren MeerE!, Cast from her lap, forlorn ! Aus seinem Mutterschoss verbannt From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Du bringst mir eine Himmelslehre ! Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn ! Aus deinem toten Mund erschallt While on mine ear it rings, Ein Mahnetuf van hellerm Tone Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that Denn je auf vielgewundnem Horn sings : Geblasen wurde vom Tritone. Van dem gewaltigen Widerhall Build thee more stately mansions, 0 my soul, Des Rufs mir noch die Ohren klingen i As the swift seasons roll t A us tiefen Sinnes Hohlen klar Leave thy low-vaulted post ! Vetnehm' ich eine Stimme singen : Let each new temple, nobler than the last, D Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, " u Seele mein, erbaue dir Mehr raumige, mehr erhabne Heime i Till thou at last art fr ee, Den Umzug meide nicht, verlass Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea ! Die alten enggewolbten Raume ! Ein jeder neue Tempel soIl OLIVER WENDELL Houm.s. Den vorigen hoch iibertiirmen, U nd stattlicher sein Bogendach SolI vor dem Himmel dich beschirmen : Bis, van der Hiille ganz befreit, Am Ende deines langen Strebens, Das Ausgewachsne du verlasst Am ruhelosen Meer des Lebens !"

DONALD MACALISTER. fa " "

On Aclz've Se?'Vt'c�. 3 43 - On column this is not so noticeable, but when one gets stranded in hospital or detail camp, time hangs very heavy on one's hands. However I expect they will begin relieving the Yeomanry pretty soon, for if they start straight away most of us would not get home till June. Just lately we have been doing some large ON ACTIVE SERVICE. " drives " in this district, acting in conjunction with the Blockhouses, with the result that in the last month we have cleared about 1300 Boers out of the N.E. Free HE fo llowing letters have been received from State alone, and very materially reduced De Wet's members of the College serving in South following. The Boers are undoubtedly beginning to feel Africa. the strain very severely. The prisoners we take are in a very different frame of mind to those No 19 General Hospital we captured three months ago, and when the winter really sets in I Harrismith O. R. C. 9 March 190Z fancy that surrenders will become pretty numerous ; as it is I see that they are averaging 400 a month. I hope My dear --, I am afraid that it is a very long time since I last that you are very well and have had a good Term. I wrote to you, but no doubt you will understand that am afraid that I shall find nearly all my oId friends opportunities are not very frequent, and when they do gone down when I return. '" .. • Very sincerely yours occur are generally exceedingly short ...... I hope to be back before next Michaelmas Term, in fa ct I think T. NORMAN PALMER. it may be taken as certain. You will be sorry to hear that Chell was killed in action on February 26th. The South African Field Force bullet broke his left arm and entered his side, making Rietfontein, Western Transvaal a wound which was hopeless from the first. He died 19 March 1902 about ten hours later. The last news we had of Hoare Dear --, was to the effect that he was slightly better, but still Last mail brought me a copy of Th e Eagle and in very ill. He was not with us when he got enteric, but it I see it is a long time since you heard from me ; so I on a post outside Kroonstad. At present I am having am writing again now to report our doings. Soon after a rest after a touch of fever, but I expect to be out again the last letter I went down to Fredericstadt, where very soon. The last letter I had from Williams con� De Wet had the big fight with Barton (,Xmas 1900) tained nothing as regards his fu ture movements. He and where the kopjes even now are still covered with merely said that he was very well and had had a very little loop-holed sangars, and strewn with splintered narrow escape of being shot, through attempting to shell and Mauser bullets. I had 50 men and a maxim collar 200 Boers with six men ! I/f I/f I/f The war still up there, but we were never troubled by Boers ; though goes on, slowly but sur ely, and we are all loo king early one morning a patrol of 10 of my men and 10 fo rward to its termination. After about a year of it one Coldstream Guards were right up close to about 100 of begins to feel the want of decent books and conversation. them in the rocks. They never tried to capture us '--l la Arl

344 On Acl?"ve Servt"ce. On Acft'v e Sc?'vzee. 345 however, as they were too much afraid of our 4 · 7 at Soon afterwards we handed the town over to the Headquarters which would just have reached them Dublins, left it and went on trek with Kekewich, north nicely. of Klerksdorp. We covered a good deal of ground in A fe w weeks later we were on trek in the hills of a short time, with very little fighting. and th en coming the Gatsrand and Losberg districts under Colonel Hide back to the Schoon Spruit, built a line of Blockhouses of the Dublins, with half a Battalion Dublin Fusiliers, a from there to Lichtenberg, and here we are now. few Coldstreams and some S. A. C. In about six weeks De la Rey and I\.emp are now our particular friends, we had captured half the local commando, induding but they left us a short time since, and went 30 the comma.ndant, and th e last gun they had in these miles south to Elandslaagte, when they got Von parts. The other half came in and surrendered, and we Ponop's �onvoy, and on the WilY back caug-ht Methuen then established S. A. C. posts in the favourite Boer too. haunts there, and went into Potchefstroom, to find that They are all here again now though, and say they the Battalion had moved in there from Blauubank, and are going to attack Vaalbank (our' Head-quarters) with had taken the place over from the Cheshires. the captured guns they have brought along with them(. I was a month up the line doing M. !. work after It will be a bad business if they do as they can pot that ; and then back to Potchefstroom fo r Christmas, away with the guns all day, keeping well out of rifle where we had Sports fo r the men on the 27th, and the range, and we can do nothing, as we have none. Garrison Gymkhana on the 4th January. The first­ However French is at Mafe king with a column, and 'named was good fu n, though terribly hot, and running troops are pouring into Klerksdorp every day, so in ammunition boots is a bit laborious and slow. Still evidently we are going to have a "drive " round here in spite of it all, the men did well ; we had some shortly, and with a bit of luck may get the guns back Cumberland wrestling too, which surprised the Dutch and a fe w Boers as well. onlookers to a great extent, as they had never seen Every night somebody on the line gets some anything of the kind in their lives before. shooting, and one or two men have been hit, but It was cooler on the 4th and we had three races and nothing happens generally as these sniping J ohnnies two jumping competitions. I rode in a couple and won always get into such lovely cover before they begin one of them. The mounted Tug-of-war (bareback) was operations. perhaps the most interesting event ; but the Menagerie Every fe w days we have patrols out, and occasionally race (for ladies) was vastly amusing. Cats, cows, doves, we bring in cattle ; but though the fe w scattered Boers hens, rabbits, goats, all running contrariwise ; and one we see invariably ride off long before we are in range, little girl driving an old duck with a sj ambok big one never knows when we will come across th.e enough for a team of trek oxen was too quaint for proverbial hornet's nest. words. Two months ago I had a bad spill. I was chasing Gerard Williams eSt John'S and 1. Y.) came down stampeded mules, and my horse got both fe et into an from Methuen's column for a few days to stay with me ant-bear hole, and went over on his back. Nothing then ; and Downes (Trinity and Irish Fusiliers) was got broken, though my shoulder still C11eaks horribly, there too, so we had a most excellent Christmas but luckily the arm is getting quite strong again and I together. can shoot all right now-shot 43 birds last week, VOL. XXIII. Y Y IClIII') �

3 46 On AcHve Service. mostly bustards and duck. Scoular is still in hospital, having been down with enteric since the middle of December, but he is getting fit again and will rejoin us soon. Williams was captured the other day near Lichtenburg. From what I can hear it was rather a plucky thing with a handful of men he was chasing 40 Boers, when he ran into an ambush of De la Rey and Co. In the C. U. R. V. report I see that the St John's Company did well in the Class Firing. To get so PARTHENOS. many ' Marksmen ' was good, but the ' collective ' was the weak point. After all, the first is perhaps the more The sUn breaks out through the clouds of a misty day ; important, and the best test of efficiency, but I'm sure The rain-drops cease, and the whole earth lives again. the N. C. O.'s will agree with me that the latter is God's room is swept, and the cob-webs brushed away worthy of attention and improvement this year, if only By the touch of the cleansing rain. to place the Company higher on the list. True, the Hythe School of Musketry are almost neglecting it in The leaves are fresh, for as yet the Maiden Spring the new scheme, but that is not a very good reason fo r But kisses her loves in the woods with a dream-like not developing it. For in the old 'pro-volley ' days kiss ; they cared very little fo r individual shooting ; but now, And the World to Come seems closer in everything when this war has demonstrated its great utility, one By the wonderful magic of This. hears they have gone to the other extreme. Head-quarters people in Pretoria say this Volunteer When Summer comes, and the dust-dried leaves seem Company is not going home before it is relieved-and dead, there is no relief Company coming, so we are here now And the heat of the day makes Nature wearily faint, until the end of the war. which I suppose will come­ The Soul is asleep to God, to Worldliness wed, sometime. Locked in a close constraint. Yours sincerely GEORGE H. SHEPLEY But now we * • • • are free and alive. With a passionate sob Our mother conceives anew : and we see displayed We understand that a circumstantial account of On the bosom of earth, with a joy that none can rob, Lord Methuen's disaster, written by an eye-witness The coming of Spring, the Maid. expressly for the Eagle and containing the undiluted truth set out with all the forceful eloquence of a well-known pen, has been appropriated by a zealous Censorship at Capetown. \ I /

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short - sighted abstraCted manner. He wag then a:s always intetested in music; and while other boys would idle in the Library he would take a full musical score; get into a corner, and bury himself in its perusal. (g bit u a\' n. After taking his degree he was admitted a Fellow of the College g November 1870; he had been elected it Mathematical Lecturer in succession to Mr B. W. Home in the previous RICHARD PENDLEBURY M.A. October. As a lecturer he cannot be said to have been very We regret to record the death, on the '3 th March last, at successful. An attack of scarlet fever during his boyhood had J Leonard Street, Keswkk. of lUr Richard Pendlebury, one of affected both his sight and hearing. He was very short-sighted the Senior Fellows and for thirty years a mathematical lecturer and his deafness was of a somewhat perplexing nature. With a of the College. single companion he seemed at ease and it was hardly necessary to Mr Pendlebury was a son of Mr James Pendlebury of raise the voice, When two or three were talking together, each Brownlow HilI, Liverpool, and was born 28 March 1847, so joining in turn, he seemed to become bewildered; and all this that at the date of his death he had nearly completed his interfered greatly with the effectiveness of his expository style. fifty-firth year. But in one respect the Johnian mathematicians of those days He entered the Middle School of Liverpool College in owe a debt of gratitude to his memory, for with characteristic Janua:ry 1856, passed into the Upper School at Midsummer pluck he attempted wOl'k which needed to' be done. yet which no one else would touch. The present writer well remembers lSOI, and enteJed St john's in 18oo.. His career at School \Vas one of great brilliancy and success, each successive year adding Mr Pendlebury' s classes thirty years ago. The schedule of sub­ to l.he list of prizes, medals and scholarships which he won. jects for the Mathematical Tripos had been greatly extended. He also distinguished himself at both the Oxford and Calnbridge Many new suhjects were introduced into the Cambridge I"ocal Examinations, and his friend's course for the first time, some with the menacing prefix looked forward' with con­ fidence to an equally successful career at Cambridge. Nor 'Higher.' The first examination under the new system were they disappointed. His name appeared at the top of the was to take place in 1873, and neither Lecturers nor Coaches lists for the College examinations in each of his undergraduate seemed to have very clear idf'as of what might be expected. years and he finished his care er as Senior Wrangler in 187°' University history is always a little obscure, bnt presumably The year was a notable one for St. John's, for not only was the Johnian Lecturers did not approve of the alterations. At l\Ir Pendlebnry Senior Wrangler, but Mr A. G. Greenhill (nolY any rate most of them took practically no notice of the impend­ professor at Woolwich) was second and l\Tr E. L. Levett (nolY ing change. While the better men were reading quite advanced King's Counsel) was third. Mr Ptndlebury and Mr Greenhill subjects with their Coaches, they found they had, under penalty were bracketted as Smith's Prizemen. of being gated, to attend College lectures on the most elementary One who lmew Mr Pendlebury during !Jis school days states Algebra and Trigonometry and to be .. viva voce'd" in the fifth. that his mathematical po\\'erg were always remarkable, and even book .of Euclid. The' lecture ' consisted in the dictation of when he was only tS it was prophesied that he w0uld Qe SeniM twelve questions, partly book work, partly riders, and the Wralljl"ler. He was ahvays a quiet somewhat reserved lad. but lecture hour was spent in writing the answers out under the eye

wilty and sarcastic at times. He was well versed in Classics, of the Lecturer. It was felt to be improbable that problems of traditional J ohnian 'hepta-diabolic' variety would be con­ he could constl ue well,' even without preparation , but his the a composition was somewhat inferior. 1'1s i school nickname was sidered ' Higher Algebra ' and something like p nic arose. l\Tr Pendlebury came to nd announced lectures 'l\Ioses,' and in those da ys he was chaffo;:d about his odd habit, the rescue a of whicb he retained through life, of waLking close �o the wall in a on some the newly introduced subjects, Elliptic Functions, \ I I

350 Obztual'y. Obt'tuary. 351 the Algebra of Binary Forms, the Geometry of Cubic Curves, The capacity for lucid oral exposition is certainly not and the like-no doubt the first of such courses in Cambridge. given to all possessed of high mathematical powers. Mr These were not given in the morning, but in his rooms in the Pendlebury's short-comings as a teacher were shared in those evening. The classes were small, consisting at most of some days by two men of quite different stamp and greater genius. two or three enthusiasts. The lecture consisted chiefly of a The late Professor Cayley used to pour out algebra to a select statement as to the best German or French book on the subject, and sorely tried audience. He wrote it out as he went along, followed by a short and it must be confessed rather bewildering not on a blackboard, but on sheets of paper at the same table summary of the opening chapters. After a few such evenings with his class, and therefore upside down as far as the class was it was announced that now the learners were started the class concerned. He had apparenLly no idea whether his listeners would be dropped, but if any special difficulty were met with in were following him. One lost link and the rest of the lecture subsequent reading the Lecturer might be consulted. It was was an arid waste. Professor Clerk Maxwell, with his curious all very different from the precise, well-ordered tuition of others: hesitation of manner, and haunted by a perpetual indeCIsion, the wistful air of the Lecturer anxious to communicate his was in his way even more vexatious. First, suggesting that the learning, yet lacking the power to do so; the puzzledom of temperature of a heated bar at a given point should be denoted his victims struggling with an unfamiliar subject and the added by x; rejecting this on second thoughts "because it is too difficulty of a foreign tongue. The knowledge we felt was good a letter to waste"; discarding m "because you will be sure there if we could only get at it; the instructor was anxious to to mix it up with n"; finally, with a happy smile, adopting t as impart it-it was as if the stoppers of the decanters were a useful alternative and then-using all the letters indiscrimin­ inexorably jammed, and host and guests alike disappointed. ately and apologising for each in turn. It was not only in these higher and voluntary courses that To the present writer two mathematicians stand out both as Mr Pendlebury found difficulty. In the routine work also great teachers and as men of original powers. One was the his very virtues were against him. He somehow lacked the late Professor T. Archer Hirst, a great expert in the field of teaching power, perhaps from want of patience, or sympathy; modern descriptive geometry. After drawing a diagram or or insight. He was no doubt a little impatient of the rigid writing on the black board, his eye never cea�ed to roam over drill for a more restricted examination through which he had his hearers. By some kind of intuition he seemed to know himself recently passed. He was widely read and deeply when he had not made himself clearly understood, he would interested in many branches of mathematics, and he was wont retrace his steps, recapitulate and amplify until he saw that he to stray without notice or preparation from the beaten track. again carried his audience with him. To the gift of clear The J ohnian system up to that time had been to work the exposition he added inexhaustible patience with the learner. classes systematically through a collection of' problems,' perhaps The other was the late Professor W. K. Clifford, whose powers to dictate a summary or circulate a 'manuscript' which might of oral exposition bordered on the marvellous. The writer do instead of cultivating a closer acquaintance with the remembers. many years ago, hearing Clifford at a meeting of writings of the masters of the science. The field of mathe� the London Mathematical Society read a paper on some appli­ matics was, if the simile may be allowed, to be ' folded ' over cation of Elliptic Functions to Geometry. Now using space like a crop of clover by a flock of sheep. When one field was conceptions to illustrate the processes of algebra, now using cropped bare the next was to be entered on, and straying from algebra to �how that certain geometrical conclUSIOns must the prescribed course was discouraged. With such a system follow, all without a moment's hesitation, and with a glow of Pendlebury had no sympathy. He had no consecutive story to enthusiasm which for the time made everything seem simple tell, he probably never prepared for his lectures; but he tried and obvious. But the magic of the spoken word was gone to bring home to the learner that there was something living when the paper came to be read in printed form. progressive, something of fascinating interest to be followed To such powers Pendlebury had no claim, yet he had a and . tip by a few. \ I j

OOzlua,y. 35% Obt'fuary. 353 l stimulating power of his own. About the year 1890 he was mountain exp oration must be struck by the frequency with persuaded by his fJiends to allow his name to go forward for which his name is connected with important expeditions made a University Lectureship in Mathematics, then recently insti­ bet ween 1870 and 1877 ill almost all parts of the Alps. The tuted and he was of course elected. For about ten years he Tirol, the Dolomites, the mountains of Dauphine, the Monte announced lectures mainly on the Theory of Numbers or on Rosa district, the Bernese Oberland, the Grisaus and the Mont the Theory of Equations, subjects which in their modern Blanc group were all laid under contribution, and he made developments occupy some of the highest ranges of pure splendid expeditions in each, as Volumes vi, vii, and viii of mathematics. His lectures were private conferences with the The A lpz'ne Jou17Ialbear record. He contributed three papers to few men attracted to such abstruse studies, either reading for The Alpine jou1'1lal, viz. "The Schreckhorn from the Lauteraar the higher part of the Tripos or subsequent to graduation. Sattel" vol vii, 34; "The Thurnerkamp, Zillerthaler Femer," Most of these were then or afterwards Fellows of their Colleges vol vii 232, and" Gleanings from Coyne, The Grivola and Tour and have themselves made contributions to these subjects. de St Pierre." His name however will always be best remembered The method adopted seems to have been the writing out of a in connection with the famous first ascent of Monte Rosa from manuscript conspectus of the subject for circulation beforehand, Macunaga in 1872, an expedition recorded in detail by one of and then conversation relating to the topics treated of in it. his companions (Rev. C. Taylor, now Master of St John's, There is no question as to the remarkable outburst of research ,. Monte Rosa from Macunaga," vol vi, 232). But in my in the Theory of Numbers in Cambridge which characterised opinion the finest expedition he ever made was that of the that period, and by common consent Pendlebury's unobtrusive Schreckhorn from the Lauteraar Sattel. In the Alpine Club zeal has been thus markedly fruitful for the progress of mathe­ re-edition of Ball's Westem Alps, Mr Coolidge specially mentions matics. In his earlier days Pendlebury had some thought of 1\1r Richard Pendlebury as one of a "small band of mountain· writing a history of mathematics. It has often been said that eers" who from .. 1876 onwards proceeded to complete the he and the late Professor H. J. S. Smith, of Oxford, planned a minute exploration of the Dauphine Alps," where his most history of Mathematical Science. Pendlebury was to be important expeditions were the passage of the terrific Col du responsible for the classical and earlier modern periods. For Roche Fauris, and the first ascent of the central peak of the this his extensive library of earlier mathematical works and his Pic d'Olan (now known as the " Cime Pendlebury,") and the familiarity with the decipherment of classical documents were Pic sans nom. In July 1873 Mr Pendlebury made an attempt high qualifications. The story runs that when the two men on the Aiguille du Dru, which Mr Dent in his paper entitled came together again some considelable time after, it leaked out .. Two attempts on the Aiguille du Dru" vol vii p. 66-68, that the older and more famous man had utterly forgotten the considers was the first real assault upon that peak, and in 187Q scheme. he climbed one of the pinnacles of tbe Aiguille de Blatit:re, vol. Other interests also claimed Pendlebury's time and energies. viii, p. 106, which he speaks of as ., perhaps a foot or two lower Little as his appearance at any time suggested it, he was a than the central or highest peak," and he modestly adds: .. the famous and daring Alpine climber. He was also deeply climb was of some difficulty." AIJother famous ascent was that interested in music. In both pursuits he attained distinction. of the Grivola by the same aJi�te on the North, starting from the The following sketch of his Alpine work is from the pen of foot of the Glacier on the North of the peak. Of this expe­ - Mr Frederick Gardiner. dition he remarks: "The ascent of this glacier was a little difficult; considerably more than 1000 steps were cut on it and "The Alpine record of the late Mr Richard Pendlebury is on the long ice ridge." On most of his more difficult of such a remarkable nature (although it only extended from expeditions he was accompanied by his brother Mr W. M. 1870 to 1877) that something more than a mere passing reference Pendlebury, and by his well known guide Gabriel Spechten­ is due to his memory. Any careful student of the annals of ballses of Unsere Licbe Frau in Schllatserthal, and sometimes VOL. XXtIl, zz , I l

35<4- Obt'tuary. Obztuary. 355 by J oseph Spechtenhauses also; but on the celebrated Schreck­ apropos of some distant port, Pendlebury mentioned that on horn ascent the guides were Peter Baumann and Peter going on board the steamer in the dark he missed his footing Kauffman. and was nearly drowned in the dock there. I first met Richard Pendlebury on the Swiss side of the As has been indicated above Pendlebury took a great interest Matterhorn in 1872, where he, his brother and Mr C. Taylor in music and was himself no mean performer. In his earlier were on their way to the old Matterhorn hut, and then received days at Cambridge he was always ready to help in concerts or the news of the successful first ascent of Monte Rosa from other musical gatherings, charitable or social. He formed a Macunaga, an expedition about as dangerous as the storming very extensive and valuable library of musical works. This he of a fortress. As Mr Pendlebury once remarked about it "if presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum, and the extent of his nothing came down on you it was all right, but if it did you gifts may be gathered from the following statement sent to the would probably ed l ou be wip out." As a matter of fact, a th gh Vice-Chancellor in May last by the Director Dr M. R. James. he never allowed the reputation for danger ever to deter him and printed in the University Reporter of May 6th. from attempting a new expedition, he never met with an accident of serious importance, and although a stone hit him "In 1880 Mr Pendlebury presented one hundred volumes of during his way up the Schreckhorl"\ and caused a rath�r severe printed Music to the Museum, and, in each of the nine years wound, it did not incapacitate him or prevent his completing following, continued to present the same number. After that the ascent. I had the pleasure of climbing in his company in period he made yearly gifts Gf varying numbers of volumes. Dauph ine in 1873 and several times in short expeditions to the His latest contributions came into the Library within a very few Cumberlalld hills, where on one occasion (I think in 1873) we days of his death. made what was then considered an unusual ascent of the PIllar The collection which the Museum owes to the unwearied Rock, which I believe is now known by the name of the generosity of this single benefactor consists of about two 'Pendlebury traverse' .,.. Unfortunately Mr Pen dlebury after thousand bound volumes. It comprises not only the best ) 877 found that owing to a weakness of his eyesight he was collective editions of the works of all the great musicians. linable to stand the glare of the average Alpine expedition, but together with a large mass of miscellaneous vocal and instru­ be never lost his love for the mountains and finally m ade his mental music, but also the best Musical Dictionaries, Histories, home among them at Keswick." and other works of reference. Considered merely with reference to its pecuniary value, this gift ranks high among After glVlng up mountain climbing Pendlebury spent the the possessions of the Museum, while it may fairly be said vacations of several years in taking sea voyages. Several that no benefaction received by the institution since its expeditions were made to the Mediterranean, including visits foundation rivals in the extent of its general utility that for to Cyprus, Constantinople and even Odessa. In one Long which we have to thank the uns.elfish care of Mr Pendlebury." Vacation he started from Liverpool to Rosario; changing steamers in South America, he visited Rio Janeiro, Para, Bahia, He was also a very generous donor to the College Library. Pernambuco, Buenos Ayres and Monte Video. On another For some years past he had led a very retired, almost a occa�ion he visited the chief West India islands, together with hermit, life and saw but little society. His eyesight was always Carthagena, C olon , Panama, Vera Cruz and New Orl eans , from a trouble to him, and some years ago his medical advisers had which place, after a jou rney to St Louis, he returned by sea to warned him that he must take the very greatest care of it and Liverpool. He al�o visited South Africa, landing at POlt husband its powers to the utmost. His deafness made him Elizabeth, and travelling up country for a short distance. Not withdraw from Hall. A solitary life in College rooms cannot much is known of these expeditions, for Pendlebury hardly ever be very cheerful and Pendlebury spent much of his time away referred to them in conversation. To the present writer, from Cambridge at Royston, Bishops Stortford and other places. \ I j

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Finally, a little more than a year ago, he withdrew from the' Geology of Dorsetshire,' on the • Flora of Dorset,' and of Cambridge, resigning all his appointments, and settling down the' Birds ' and the' I'I'Iollusks of Dorset,' and in recognition at Keswick, where he died. With all his promise and great of their value was elected a Fellow of the Geological and the powers, but little direct achievement can be pointed to, but the Linnean Societies. In J875 he founded' The Field Club of memory of his kiudly nature will long be cherished by his Dorset,' and with hill almost enc)'clopredic knowledge and his friends. universal popularity had been its pres iding genius ever since. He enriched the county museum with geolugical ' finds,' chiefly made by himself on his own estate, of extraordinary value, as, JOHN CLAVELL MANSEL-PLEYDRLL B.A. for instance, the perfect fore-paddle of the Pleiosaunts 1Ilacr01llems, Mr Mansel-Pleydell, who died at Whatcombe House, discovered and disinterred with his own hands arter many weeks Blandford, Dorset, on May 3rd, was the eldest son of John of work in the Kimmeridge clay, and the huge tusk and molars Mansel of Smedmore, Dorset, Lieutenant Colonel of the 5 3rd of the rare Elephas meridionalis, d iscovered in a fissure in the Regiment. He was born 4 December 1817. He was privately chalk at Dewlish, Dorset ...... Abounding in benevolence. educated and took the B.A. degree from St John's in 1839, as intensely human, loyal, loving, genial, humorous, he preserved John Clavell Manse!. He did not proceed to the M.A. degree. to the end of his life the freshness, the vigour, the intensity, the He was admitted a student of Lincoln's Inn 2 May 1840, but simplicity of a child with the mature judgment, the ripe was not called to the Bar. He assumed the additional name of experience, the wide knowledge, the rapt insight into the life Pleydell in 1872. He was a man of mark in every way. The beyond the grave of a departing saint. -The Times, 20 May owner of a large estate in Dorset, to the duties direct and 1902. indirect of which he devoted himself, he was almost equally Mr Mansel-Pleydell was twice married: (I) on 6 June 1844 distinguished as a philanthropist, as a naturalist, and as a to Emily daughter of Captain Arthur Batt Bingham, R.N.; devoted and doughty champion of the Protestant and Evangelical she died 4 November 1845; (2) on 2 I June 1849, to !sabe1, character of the Church of England. His family motto, Quod daughter of Frederick Charles Acton Clavi lie, of Barton House, vull valde vult, was characteristic not only of his family, which co Warwick, who had served as A. D:'C. to Lord Lyndoch had distinguished itself in the field from the Norman Conquest throughout the Peninsular War. Their golden wedding was and from Crusading times downwards, but of the whole-hearted­ celebrated with great rejoicings at Whatcombe by about a ness, of the public spirit, of the strength of will which marked thou-and of their friends and of the tenants on the estate on him throughout his long life. He was High Sheriff of Dorset 21 June 1899. At the time of his death lVIr Mansd-Pleydell in 1876, and had been a member of the County Cuuncil ever was heir presumptive to the Baronetcy of Mansel of Muddles­ since its establishment. In 1856 he built at his own expense at cornbe, co Carmarthen. a distance of three miles from his home a boys' reformatory. changed in 18S2 into an industrial school. Of this institution, REV. CANON FREDERICK HOCKIN l\LA. which has removed hundreds of boys from unfavourable or criminal surroundings and has weaned them by its strict and The Rev Canon Hockin, who died at Phillack Rectory, loving discipline to a higher and, in some cases, even to a Cornwall on the 21st of April last, was the tenth child of the distinguished life, he was throughout the informing, the inspiring, Rev WiIliam Hockin (of Jesus College, Cambridge, LL.B. the dominating influence ••••.. He was a serious and enthusi­ 1802). He was born at Phillack 18 May 18 J 8. He took his astic student of science and of natural history in many of its B.A. degree from St John's in 1850, passing his examinations branches, especially those of geology, of botany, and of orni­ in 1849. It is stated that in early life he studied law in tending thology. Devoted to his native county, with whose dialect and to be called to the Bar, but he was ordained Deacon in 1849 humour he was intimately at home, 'he published works on and Priest in 1850 by the Bishop of Chester. He was curate of , I j

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Bardsea, Lancashire, from 1849 to 1851, and curate of Phillack open-handed supporter of Church schools in his parish and neigh bourhood. from 1851 to 1853' His father dIed 22 April 1853 and he succeeded him as Rector of Phillack with GWYlhian. He was His death removes one of the foremost clergy in the diocese, Rural Dean of Penwith from 1861 to 1882. He was elected one of the old school of Bishop Phillpotts, who did so much in proctor in Convocation by the Cornish clergy in Exeter diocese days anterior to the Cornish bishopric's resuscitation, to build in 18]4-, and by the clergy of Truro in 1877, 1880, 1885 and up the Church in Cornwall under great difficulties. h 1886. In 1880 t ere was a contest and he headed the poll by The life of such men gives the lie to the too common idea a large number of votes. He retired from Convocation in 189z that Cornwall was evangelised by an Act of Parliament passed principally on account of his increasing deafness, which greatly in 1876. He was ever fearless and outspoken j indeed , as has prevented him taking part in public matters during his later been said since his death, his motto might have been" I believe and therefore will I speak." But it is doubtful if he ever made years. His speeches in Convocation were not frequent, but one in favour of toleration of ritualists in 1875 was much noted at an enemy by his outspokenness, for his kindness and sunny and genial temperament made him as much liked as he was respected. the time. He published the following: (I) Assurance; A sermon preached at St Mary's Penzance, on the 21St June 1865, at the He was buried at Phillack on April 24th by the bishop.-(The visitation of the Venerable the Archdeacon of Cornwall; (2) GUardlall, 7 May 1902). Jolm Tftesl

360 Obilua1J'. Obzlua?')'. 36[ would have obtained the first, were it not that Arthur Cayley of He entered Derby school in January 1895. At Derby he dis­ Trinity was favoured by the ceieris paribus clause. He was tinguished himself as an athlete, establishing the school record admitted a Fellow of the College 4- April 18+3, vacating his of 20ft. sin. for the long jump at the School Sports in 1897. fellowship on marriage. He was admitted a student of Lincoln's He played in the School Cricket eleven in 1897 and was Inn 18 November 184-3 and was called to the Bar 26 November captain of the Football Team in 18g8. He was also a Schohtr 1846. When he went to the Bar he felt compelled wholly to of the School and Prizeman in Natural Science (Derby School drop mathematics lest its spell should divert his attention Register, 14-4). from his professional work. Once when a friend hinted at the His name was entered at St John's 15 October 1898 and he career he might have made for himself in science he stamped commenced his studies as a medical student. Reference to the on the floor with chagrin. The naval architect Frowde explain­ Chronicle of The Eagle will show that at the College he main­ ing to him the principles on which a new type of vessel was tained his reputation as an athlete (see vol. xx, 477,613; vo!. constructed was startled to find that Mr Simpson knew more of xxi, 135-6, 259; vo!. xxii, 126-7). the abstract view of the matter than he did himself. In March IgOI he proceeded to South Africa with the Mr Simpson practised at the Bar as an equity draftsman; Imperial YeomalFY, and after serving very nearly a year met though a man of great intellectual power he lacked the self­ with a soldier's death in the service of his country. He was confidence necessary for court work. For some forty years he buried on February 26th near a farm called Bathsheba, on a was conveyancing counsel to the Post Office, and played a spruit running into the Wilge river. The spot is marked with useful if unostentatious part in the hard fought contests between a wooden cross, and his name enclosed in a glass bottle is the Post Office and the Telephone companies. He continued placed in the grave, to attend his chambers until quite recently. Few members of We are privileged to print the following extracts from letters the Equity Bar were more highly esteemed, and though a stuff sent home by him while on service. The last it will be noticed gownsman, he was with the universal approval of the profession is dated only a few days before his death. elected a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn. K.roonstadt, .A.prillolh, 1901. lVfr Sim pson was twice married: (I) on 27 Novem ber 1855 "We stayed at Elandsfontein for a long time after landing at St George's Hanover Square to Gaynor Elizabeth, second at Durban, and coming up country passed Ladysmith, Spion daughter of Robert Wynne Williams of Bedforcl Place, Russell K.op, Laing's Nek, General CoJley's grave and a few Boers on Square; (2) on I February 1865, at St Mary Abbots, Kensington the way. At Standerton we had to stop a day, as the line was to Mary Charlotte Mair, only daughter of Nassau William blown up in front of us and a train with it but we weren't Senior, master in chancery and professor of Political Economy molested in the least when we went up. One of the most at Oxford. striking facts you notice is that although there are so many men ... out here you can't imagine where they are, and, as you see, the

JOHN WHYLEY CHELL. communications aren't altogether safe even now. We are going with General Broadwood's flying column. It is with deep regret that we record the death on February 25 You should just see our horses. I've got a tiny Cape pony-an of Corporal J. W. Chell of the 4-4-th Squadron, 12th troop of awfully wicked little buck-jumping brute at first, and now I can the Imperial Yeomanry, from a wound received in action at do what I like with him, he is as quiet as a mouse and goes Frankryk in the Orange River Colony. splendidly. He comes in as fresh as paint after a whole 1\1 r Chell was the son of the Rev George Russell Chell (of morning's walking, trotting, and galloping, which is simply St John'S, B.A. 1860),V icar of KneesalJ near Newark. He was marvellous considering m)" weight and his size, but he happens to born at Kneesall 14- Augnst 1880. At the age of ten he went Lo be one of the best in tile troop although he is one of the r. St 1\lichael's College, Tenbury, where ·be became a choriste smallest. VOL, XXIII. AAA , U

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We hear tllat Cambridge \v on the boat race, I wonder if sometimes at such a pace. it's very fu nny the way the horses it's true ...... " Washing also is rather difficult to meet with. don't mind them a bit, they gallop through them without We have about a mile and a half to go to water the horses and gettillg at all frightened. wash, and, as you have to take three wild, untamed brutes you We had half a day in Kr oonstadt yesterday. 1 never ate w can't, you daren'�, cl ismo�nt and wa�h or you would not get o n much in half a day in my life before, so you can imagine what again. a treat it was. The only thing is that the soldiers are not We are up about four in the morning, feeding and cleaning ; allowed to buy any fo od to take away with them except at the out on the veldt all morning ; come in, feed and clean ; foot­ canteens. They were ciosed yesterday. That's because the drill all afternoon ; fe ed, clean and bed. And I can tel l you we soldiers would buy so much that the supply would fail and the are ready for it, especially as we have po lights and i� gets dark prices would run up so for the poorer people in the town. pretty early. It is rather weird goi ng th rough some of the deserted towns, l� roonstadt, Jlt tle, 190 I, such as Vrede, on trek. Tht'y are so absolutely empty and pulled We have just come offa two months' trek all through the about. Free State. On the way we visited Vrede, Lindley, Harrismith Senekal, jltfu 26, 1901. and lots of places. We haven't been with Broadwood all the time. , ...., ,. Last night we dici a fo rced march (two sqU

The dinner was held this year on Thursday, April .May Terth 'go2. ] 7 th, at the Holborn Restaurant. an l\trarch 21 the King was pleased to give directio The Secretaries are to be congratulated on the ns fot the appointment of Mr Charles Peter Layard (I1.A. 1872), success of the arrangements for the evening. Attorney General, to be Chief Justice of the island of Ceylon. The Toast List was as follows :�The Ktng; Quem Mr Layard, who is the eldest son of Mr Charles Peter Layard of Colombo was admitled a student of the Inner A lexandra, The Pnnce and Prt"ncess of Wales, and tlze Temple 13 June 1870 and was called to the Bar 7 June 1873. He was rest of the Royal Famtly i The College, proposed by the admitted an advocate of the supreme court of Ceylon in August Chairman, replied to by Messrs R. F. Scott, J. Larmor, dl73. Became Solicitor General of Ceylon in July 1878; acting Attorney General from May I Y J. J. Lister; The Chairman, proposed by Mr R. H. 189 to J ul 1892; a puisne judge of the Supreme Court in Octo bet 1892. He has been Forster; The Secretaries, proposed by the Chairman, Attorney General of Ccylon since November 1892. replied to by M essrs R. H. Forster and E. Prescott. On April 11 the Committee of the Athenaeum Club elected The following is a list of those present: M t J. Larmor (B A. 1880), Secretary to the Royal Society, a Chairma.t-Lewis Edlllunds, K.C. Fello\v and Leclurer of the College, to be member of tbe Club under the rule empowt!ring them to elect persons "of A. F, Alcock Rev C. El see A. R. Pennington distinguished eminence in science, literature, the arts, or [or \Valter Ba ily A. J. Finch E. Prescott public services." Rev J. F. Bateman R. H. Forster J.W.R(\b F. C. Bayard T. E. Forster Rev A. J. Robertsort The Right Rev John Nathaniel Quirk (B.A. 1873), Bishop E. Beaumont A. G. Greenhill C. B. Rootham Suffragan of Sheffield, was admitted to the degree of Doctor in J. H. Beith Rev E. Hill W. N. Roseveare Divinity, hOlloris causa, on Thursday May 22. The Public ·W.A. Bond R. Horton Smith, K.C. R. F. Scott Orator in presenting him to the Vice-Chancellor made the J. BrooJ{�mith L. HOIton Smilh Jason Smith following speech: . [Wo F. HigginsonJ ProfW. H. H. Hudson R. C. Smilh-Carington Archiepiscopo Eboracensi, alumno nostro insigni, adiutor Rev W. A. Bryan H. T. Kemp Rev J. E. Symns nuper datus est alumnus noster alter, qnem hodie non sine G. J. M. Bmnelt D. M. Kerly [R. C. �1. Symns] gaudio salutamus. Collegii Diyi Ioannis ex umbraculis abhinc L. H. K. Bushe-Fox Rev H. A. King H. G. Taylor-Jones annos triginta egressus, septem deinceps in locis. quos hodie Rev \V. Dane BusheII J. Lannor G. A. Ticehurst recitare Iongum est, laboribus sacris non sine laude functus est, C. Collison G. M. Light Rev B. West Spirilus iIlius divini munera septem, quae et in presbyteris et in H. Collison J. J. Lisler [C. A. WestJ episcopis ordinandis exoptantur, sine dubio expertus, Rev Dr Creswell R. Marracle ,V. F. ,Vhetstone qui septiformis gratiae G. E. Cruiksbank F_ MeUor G. C. Whiteley dat septiforme donum, Rev F. C. Davies Rev Canon Newton G. T. Whiteley virtutis septifariae, Rev F. H. Dinnis O. V. Payne P. T. Wrigley septem petitionum1• C. D. Edwards F.tenim,ut Hugonis de Sancti Victoris mon

The dinner was heJd this year on Thursday, April May Tu';;: H)OZ.

J 7th, at the Holborn Restaurant. On March 21 the King was pleased to give directions fot The Secretaries are to be congratulated on the the appointment of Mr Charles Peter Layard (I3.A. 187 z', success of the arrangements for the evening. Attorney General, to be Chief Justice of the island of Ceylon. The Toast List was as follows: � The Kzng; Mr Layard, who is the eldest son of Mr Charles P�ter Layard Queen of Colombo was admitted a student of the Inner Temple 13 A lexandra, The Prz1zce and Prtncess of Wales, and the June 1870 and was called to the Bar 7 June 1873. He was rest of the Royal Famzly I The College, proposed by the admitted an advocate of the supreme court of Ceylon in August Chairman, replied to by Messrs R. F. Scott, J. Larmor, 1873. Became Solicitor General of Ceylon in July 1878; acting Attorney General from May 1891 to July 1892; a puisne J. J. Lister; The Chat"rman, proposed by Mr R. H. judge of the Supreme Court in Octobet 189z. He has been Forster; The Secretarzes, proposed by the Chairman, Attorney General of Ceylon since November 1892. replied to by Messrs H. Forster and Prescott. R. E. On April 11 the Committee of the Athenaeum Club elected The following is a list of those present: M t J. Larmor CB A. 1880), Secretary to the Royal Society, Chairmmt-Lewis Edmunds, K.C. FellO\v and Lecturer of the College, to be a member of the Club under the rule empowt!riug them to elect persons ,. of F, A1cock A. Rev C. Elsee A. R. Pennington distinguished eminence in science, literature, the arts, or for "\Valter Baily A. J. Finch E. Preseott public services." Re,' J. F. Bateman R. H. Forste;r J. W. R(\b F. C. Bayard T. E. Forster Rev A. J.. Robcrtsott The Right Rev John Nathaniel Quirk (B.A. 1873), Bishop E. Beaumont A. G. Greenhill C. B. Rootham Suffragan of Sheffield, was admitted to the degree of Doctor in J. H. Beilh Rev E. Hill VI. N. Roseveare Divinity, honoris causa, on Thursday May zz. The Public "\V. A. Bond R. Horton Smith, K.C. R. F. Seolt Orator in presenting him to the Vice-Chancellor made the J. Brook�milh L. Horlon Smith Jason Smith following speech: , [Wo F. Higginson] ProfW. H. H. Hudson R. C. Smith.Caringlon Archiepiscopo Eboracensi, alumno nostro insigni, adiutor Rev 'vV. A. Bryan H. T. Kemp Rev J. E. Symns nuper datus est alumnus noster alter, qnem hodie non sine G. J. M. Burnel! D. M. Kerly [R. C. :VL Symns] gaudio salutamus. Collegii Divi Ioannis ex umbraculis abhinc L. H. K. Bushe·Fox Rev H. A. King H. G. Taylor-Jones annos triginta egressus, septem deinceps in locis. quos hodie Rev"\V. J. Larmor G. A. Tieehurst recitare longum est, laboribus sacrisDone non Bushell sine laude functus est, C. CollisOll G. M. Light Rev B. 'Vest Spi ritus illins divini munera septem, quae et in presbyleris et in H. Collison J. J. Lisler [ C. A. WestJ episcopis ordinandis exoptantur, sine dubio experlus, Rev Dr Creswell R. Marraek W. F. 'Vhelslone qui septiformis gratiae G. E. Crui1

Oratione propterea ponuntur, ut septem dona mereamur Spiritus The Governor of Cape Colony has appointed l\'[r J. E. H .. Sancti, quibL:s recipiamus septem virtutes, per quas, a septem de Villers (B.A. 1897), Fel10w of the College, to be a member vitiis liberati, ad septem perveniaml1s beati tl1dines.' Faxit of the Commission Lo deal with the water ql16stion of the Ca pe Deus, ut, episcopi in munere difficillimo obel1ndo, alumnus noster Peninsula. populo fidei suae credito pacis et concordiae sua50r et hortato r Mr R. P. Paranjpye (B.A. ,899), Fellow of the College, has assiduus adsit, et ilia saltem beatitudine non indignus existimetur:-' beati pacifici, quoniam filiiDei vocabuntur.' been appointed acting Principal of the Fergusson College, Duco ad vos Scholae Salopiensis al umnum, virum admodum Poonah. reverendl1m, JOANNEM NATHANIELEM QUIRK, archiepiscopi The Rev Preb ndary H. E, J. Bevan (RA. 1878), Gresham Eboracensis episcopum adiutorem. . . . � Lecturer In DIVl11lty and Rector of Upper Chelsea, delivered a 1 FlacillS Illyriclls, Varia P"imata p. 66" ed. 1557. course of Lectures on Religious Thought in the 19th Century, during the Easter Term of '902 ; the subjects of the several , The A Ihenatum for M ay qth has the (ollowi ng criticism of lectures were: (i) The life and genius of Shelley ; (ii) Shelley's Sir George Reid's portrait of Professor Liveing, now 011 view moral and spiritual philosophy; (iii) Keats, The Singer of the. at the New Gallery : "For downright sincere portrayal of char­ senses ; (iv) The higher element in Byron's poetry. acter we find nothing in the present exhibition equal to this portrait of Professor Liveing. The colouring has, as usual, At the election of fifteen members of the Royal Socitly held rather negative virtues, but the accomplishment and zeal with in May, five Cambridge men were elected. Of these two were which the characteristic forms are explained and etched out with members of the College. The following is an account of their delicate pencillings are unmistakable." work. The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain ALFRED HARKER (B.A. 1882). H.M. Geological Survey. at a meeting held on May 7 elected Dr D. MacAlister (B.A. 1877), Demonstrator in Petrology, Cambridge. Fellow of St john's Fellow and Tutor of the Collegej to be an honorary member of '. College, Cambridge. Has made discoveries in Geology and is the Society. The Council stated that it was their desire by the author of about fifty papers treating of that Science. Among this act to indicate its appreciation of the great value of the his works the following may be mentioned :-" On Slaty work done by Dr MacAlister in the branches of knowledge Cleavage and Allied Rock-Structures" (Report, British embraced in the educational objects of the Society. The number Association, 1885); "On the Eruptive Rocks of the Neighbour­ of Honorary Members of the Pharmaceutical Society is limited hood of Sarn, Carnalvonshire " (Quart. Journ. Geo!. Soc., to fifty. Dt MacAlister has also been appointed to represent 1888); "On the Gabbro of Carrock Fell " (ibz'd., 189 t and 1895); the Government as British delegate to the International Confer­ .. On the Granophyre of Strath, Skye " (z'bz'd" 896); 1 "The ence, summoned to meet at Brussels i.n September next, for the Bala.Volcanic Rocks of Carnarvonshire" (Cambridge, J88q\; purpose of preparing an International Pharmacopoeia of potent Petrology for Students, " (Cambridge, ,895). Also the fo l1owing drugs. paper in collaboration with another writer :-" The Shap The Senatus Academlcus of the University of Edinburgh have Granite and Associated Rocks " (Quart. Joum. Geo!. Soc., appointed the Rev Professor H. M. Gwatkin (8.A. 1 867) to be 189' and 1893). the Gifford Lecturer in the University of Edinburgh for the years 1903- . Sydney Samuel Hough (B.A. 1892). Chief Assistant at the 5 Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope. Author of the At the meeting of the British Association for the Advance­ following papers :-" The Oscillations of a Rotating Ellipsoidal ment of Science to be held at Belfast in September next, Shell con taining Fluid " (Phi\, Trans. A., 1895); "The Rotation Professor W. F. R. Weldon F. l�.S. (RA. 1882) will give an of an Elastic Sphere " (Phi!. Trans. A., ) 896); "On the evening lecture on ., Inheritance." application of Harmonic Analysis to the Dynamical Theory of the Tides"; Part 1., "On Laplace's Oscillations of the First 1894), Mr R. K. McElderry (B.A. Fellow of the Col1eg-e. has Species " (Phi!. Trans. A" 1897) ; Part n., "On the General , been appointed Proftssor of Greek in Queen's Colleg<>, Galway 1 ntcgration of Laplace's Dynamical Equations" (Phi!. Trans. in succession to the late Prof. D'Arcy W. Thompson. A" ) 898); "On the Influence of Viscosity on Waves and Currents " (Proc. Lond. Math. Soc" vo!. xxviii.); "On Certain Mr T. J. l' A. Bromwich (B.A. ,895), Professor of I\rathel11 ticS � Discontinuities connected with Periodic Orbits" (Acta. Math., in Queen's College, Galway, has been appointed an EX

The Rev Cornwell Robertson (B.A. 1891), who has been Ds C. A. L. S enior (RA. 1900) was in May elected to the senior mathematical master of St Peter's School, York was on first Tyrwhitt Hebrew (University) Schola rship ; the Mason April 17th appointed Headmaster of King Edward's School, (University) Prize for Biblical Hebrew was also awarded Stratford on Avon. to him. The Rev H. Sneath (B.A. 1897) has been appointed an The POIVis Medal for the best exercise in Latin Iiexameter Assistant Mathematical Master in Christ's Hospital. verse has been awarded to H. D. Wakely, Scholar of the College. Ds F. E. Cole (RA. ! 90 I ) has been appointed to a mastership at Emanuel School, Wandsworth. W. 1\1. Leadman and N. C. Pope hflve been elected to Mr A. J. Chotzner IC.S. (B.A. 1895), officiating joint Stewart of H.annoch (University) open Scholarships in Hebrew. magistrate and deputy Collector at Purnea, has been appointed G. A. Gaze has been appointed to a clerkship in Queen to act as Magistrate and Collector. Anne's Bounty office.

Mr C. A. H. Townsend (B.A. 1896) LC.S., who has been The Exhibition oltered by tlie College to the boy standing under Settlement training in Hazara, was in March last placed first in mathematics in the Oambridge University Local in charge of the Pind Dadan Khan Sub-division of the Jhelulll Examinations in December last has been gained by C. A. District, Punjab. Jackson of Wolverhampton Grammar School. l'vIr G. E. Iles (B.A. 1898), magistrate in the Soudan, has We regret to learn that N. S. Hoare, who went out to South been transferred from Omdurman to Khartoum. Africa in the 4-4lh Company of Imperial Yeomanry, is still in Mr W. Falcon (RA. 18c)5) has been appointed to an Hospital after a severe attack of enteric fever. At one time he important post at Johannesburg in connection with the seemed unable to rally from the weakness and prostration Education Df'partment of the Transvaal. induced by the disease, but the latest accounts of him are somewhat more hopeful. At the ordinary quarterly coml'lz'a of the Royal College of Physicians of London held on Thursday 24th April; Dr T. H. A. 1fr J. R. Tanner has been elected Treasurer of the Union Chaplin (l3.A. 1886) was elected to the Fellowship of the Society in the room of 1\1r Oscar Browning wllO' retires. At the !;ollege. terminal election held on Tuesday May Z,7th J. C. Arnold and M. F. J. McDonnell weye elected members of the standing At an ordinary meeting held on the same day the following ommi t e. members of St John's, having conformed to the by laws and C t e regulations and passed tbe required examinations, had licences The Coronation number of Scoffislt Ads and Lellers contains to practice physic granted to them : J. 1\1. Bennion (B.A. 1898), .an excellent reproduction of the portrait of Anne of Denmark, St Bartholomew's; H. P. Wiltshire (l3.A. 1897), Guy's HospItal. consort of I( illg J ?mes I, "hie h hangs in the Master's Locl£,e. 372 .....Ottr CIZ7·omC!c. Om' C!tl'o1lZd�. 373

Sermons ha\'e been preached in the College Chapel this 'the Rev George Washington (I3.A. 1857), Chapl ain of Term by Prebendary W. Covington, Rector of St Giles-in-the­ George's Church, Rue Auguste Vecquerie, Paris, has been Fields, Apri l 20; by Professor l\Iayor, Commemoration Sermon , elected a delegate to the London Diocesan Conference for the May 4-; by Canon J. T. Pollock, Vicar of Brigham, Carlisle, 11ext three years. May 25. The Rev J. T. Nunns (B.A. 1858). Vicar of Launceston, has The list of Se lect prear.hers before the University to the end been appointed by the BisllOp to the honorary Canonry of St of the Easter Term 1903 incl udes the names of the following Aldhelm, in Trura Cath edral. members of the College: 1902, August 10, Ven J. M. W ilson . n (B.A. 1859), Archdeacon of Manchester ; August 17, Rev H. E. J. Th e Rev R. J. 1\1artyn (B.A. 1870) Rector of St B urya . Bevan (B.A. 1878), Rector of St Luke, Chelsea, Prebendary of Cornwall, has been appointed by the Dishop of Truro to the St Paul's; December 16, Rev F. Dyson, (B.A. 1877), Junior honorary cananry of ::;t Conan, in Truro Cathedral. Dean of the College; 1903 April 26 Rev G. H. Wbitake r The Rev F. Willcox (B.A. 1874), Headmaster of St Albans (B.A. 1870), Honorary Canon of Truro. Grammar School, has been collated by the Bishop of St Albans It may be convenient for candidates for Fellowships at the to the Vicarage of Great Bentley, near Colchester. eh:ction for 1902 to know that the following dates have been The Rev E. C. Peake (B.A. 1875), Rector of Hinton, Hants, fixed: Can dates to inform the master of the subject of their di has been appointed Honorary Diocesan Inspector of Schools Dis;ertation not later than May 2znd; Di ssertation to be sent for the Diocese of Winchester. to the Master not later than AlIgust 25th. The examination will he held in the Combination Room on Satu rday, October 18. The Rev. J. H. Mackie (B.A. r878), who has been a mathe­ The election will take place on Monday, November Fd. matical master of Sedbergh School since 1882, has been appointed Rector of Filton, Gloucestershire. The following members of the College were ordained in February last: The Rev J. B. Armstrong (B.A. 1881), Rector of Stanthorpe, Queensland, has been appointed incumbent of Toowong in the Deacom: W. A. Birks (R.A. 1901) y the Archbishop o f b same colony. York, at Bish"pthorpe Oll February 22, licensed to St Stephen' s Sheffield; R. M. Woolley (B.A. 1899) by the Bishop of London, The Rev W. J. Caldwell (B. A. 1891) has been presented by in St Paul's Cathedral, on February 23, with letters dimissory the University to the Vicarage of Ditton Priors in the Diocese from th e Dishop of Pde rborough ; T. W. Hunt (B.A. 190 I) by of Hereford. the Bishop of Manchester, in his Cathedral on February 23, at ( A. the request of the Bishop of Chester. The Rev Kenneth Clarke B. 1896) has been appointed Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Rochester. Priests: F. B. Speed (I3.A. 1876) by the Bishop of London, in St Paul' s Cathedr�l; A. I�. Ingram (13.A. 1899) by th e Bishop Th e following ecclesiastical appointments are announced: of Ripon, in Ripon Cathedral; and W. E. Robinson (B.A. 1900) Name B.A. From To be by the Bishop of St Albans, in Trinity Parish Church, all on Brown, J. E (1861) V. Oltlbury, Binniug- V. Studhum, Beds. Februa ry 23. ham Cule, F. G. (1887) C. St Augustine's, V. BiIton, in Holder- The following were ordained on Trinity Sunday (I\Tay 25): Hull ness Deacolls, A. E. Bevan (B.A. 1899) by the Bishop of London, Chester, F. E. (1886) C. Ashby-de-la-Zouch V. Packing ton w Snibston, Leics. licensed to Hornsey; F. L. Gwa tkin (B.A. 1899) by t he I3ishop Cheeseman, H. J. (1874) R. Up ton Loyel, R. Girton, Cambs. of Winchester, l ce se to St J olr n Baptist, 1\100rdoWIl; i n d \VillS. C. O. S. Halton (J3 A. 1894) by the Bishop of Winchester, 'Vanen, ,v. (1877) V. Po,lingforrl, Suffulk Talhum, licensed to Byfleet; Harold Bentley Smith (B.A. 1901) by tlie Robelts, A. S. (1890) C. Todmorclen R. Lallcaster Bishop of Manchester, licensed to Sacred Trinity, Sal ford ; Clark, G. \V. (1883) C. St Saviour, Stoke V. Beoley next Guil dfo rd Pnfsls, H. P. V. Nunn (B.A. 1899) by the Bishop of Chester; Cur,ham, F. C. (IBi3) V. Tithby with Crop­ V. Flintham, Notts. W. C. u s . A . B. P r er (B.A. 1900) by the Bishop of Rochester; T well Butler 1\loxon (B.A. 1899) by the Bishop of South well. Sunders, R. �. (lB92) Assist. Master, Liver­ P. C. Wormhill, pool College Derbyshire of V The Rev Joseph Russel Little (8.A. 1855), Rector Fergtlson, W. H. (18,91) V. Longwood, St Paul's, Stratford Stansfield, Suffolk, has been appointed Rural Dean of Clare. lIutlde. ,rieh! 374 Our Clz1'om'cle. Our Chrom'cle. 375

The following appointments have been madt! to benefices Church, Eastbourne, in quite a voluntary capacity and, in in the gift of the College: the Rev George Robinson recognition of his invaluable assistance, the Vicar and church­ (B.A. 1869), Vicar of Asbington near l\Iorpeth, Honorary Canon wardens, together with a number of members of the of Newcastle, has been presented to the Vicarage of Holme on congregation, have presented him with a handsome clock. The Spalding l\Ioor, vacant by the death of the Rev G. G. Bolmes; timepiece is in a carved, massive oak case and has a brass the Rev A. R. J ohnson (B. A. 1883), formerly Fellow of the dial. There are alternative quarter chimes: the Westminster College, has been presented to the Rectory of Marwood, on four gongs and other chimes on eight bells, which can be vacant by the institution of the Rev H. T. E. Barlow It to used. at \V.ill.. The clock is of English work throughout. bears the Rectory of Law[ord. the lIlscnptlOn "Presented to the Rev W. N. Willis, M.A., by members of the congregation in grateful appreciation of his The following University appointments of Members of the services at the Parish Ch lIrch, Eastbourne, I H - I 0 I. The College have been made since our last issue: Dr D. MacAlister . 9 I 9 to be an additional Examiner in Medicine for the third gl �t, whIch was accompanied by the subjoined letter, was sent pnvately to Mr Willis's residence, Ascham School, Oil Saturday, examination for the degree of M.B., and to be further a ] alluary th. The letter was as follows:- Member of the Appointments Board; Dr Watson to be an r I Examiner for the Theological Tripos in 1903; Prof I\IarshaJl, THE PA kISH CHURCH, EASTBOURNE, JANUARY, 190%. lVIr H. S. Foxwell and Mr J. R. Tanner to be members of a To the Syndicate to inquire into the best means of enlarging the Rev W N. Wt'lll's, lIf.A. opportunities for the study in Cambridge of Economics and Dear Sir,-Ten years have now passed since you were ordained associated branches of Political Science: 1\11' W. Bateson to be to the ministry. During the whole of this period you have deputy for the Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy; generously served the Parish Church, Easlbourne. We ask you Mr T. R. Glover to be an Examiner for the Porson Prize in to accept the clock which will accompany this letter as a token 19°3· of our deep appreciation of the services you have so earnestly interest you have ever taken in the As we go to Press we learn that Mr L. H. K. Bushe rendered and of the kind Fox has Trusting that your been appointed to a Law Lectureship in the College. affairs of the church and parish of St Mar),. connection with our old Parish Church may continue in the The following books hy members of the College are years to come, along with that affectionate respect and friend­ announced: The Phormz'o of Termce, by W. C. Lamillg ship you have long since won amongst us, (Blackie); Pel11lj' His/OIy of Ihe Church of England, Rev We remain, dear Sir, yours faithfully, Augustus Jessopp, D.D. (S. P. C. K. ). Signed) F. W. GOODWIN, Vicar. At the 270th C. A. LI!ATHAM I anniversary meeting for the election of the ChurchwardtllS, Court of Goyernors of Sion Colle!l'e held on April 22, tbe Rev A. STAPLEY j P. Clementi-Smith (I3.A. 1871), Rector of St'Andrew by the The names of the other subscri bers follow. Wardrobe, London, was elected one of the Assistants. At Gloucester, Thursday, May 15th, Archdeacon J. P. A. A portrait of the Rev T. B. Rowe (B.A. r856), formerly Bowers (l:l.A. 1877), was presented with an elaboralely carved Fellow of the College and Heaumaster of Tonbridge School eight-day bracket clock on behalf of past and present members he said from 1875 to 1890, appears in The Tonbndgzcl1I [or December of the diocesan mission staff. In acknowledging the gift 190 I. he was thankful the officehe now held did not sever him from his many old friends and fellow-workers, but he wished to make it The of Sport' general ' Encyclopaedia contains an excellent an opportunity for a still further extension of the work of the article on Cricket by Mr W J. Ford (l:l.A. 1876). diocesan mission. He urged upon the mission staff loyalty for his successor, Canon Alexander, and expressed A memoir of the Rev George Everard (13 A. 185 I, see l�, and support !ag not necessarily keep to the olu plans xxiii, 80), has been published by his daughter. Th� tllle IS the hope that they would developments should A ./azilzjitl Sower; it contains a record of Mr Everard's pastoral of working, but that any wisely-considered man had his individuality, and it work at vVolverhampton, Dover, Southport and elsewhcr�. be heartily welcomed. Each . diocese if the individuality o[ Ius suc­ The volume, which has a preface by the Bishop of Durham, IS would be a loss to the written by Mr Everard's children and old curates. cessor was not taken advantage of. Since his ordination sOl11e ten years ago the Rev W . N. The Rev Canon W. Moore-Ede (B.A. 1872), Rector of . Cha rman of the Willis (B.A. 1887) has rendered d(;voled service at the ParISh Whitburn, who was Rector of Gateshead and i 376 Out' CI/romC/c. OUt' Clu'omc!e. 377

School Board from ,88, to '90', has been presented at the Sir Noah took his B.A. degree in '742-3 and as the Tripos offi ces of the Gateshead School Board with his portrait. printed lists prior to that of 1747-8 have not been published the fa ct by l\Ir J. E. Reid, in recognition of his educational work. that he was Senior Wrangler has not hitherto been noted. He Can on Moore-Ede presented the portrait, in turn, to the entered the College as a pensioner 18 July 1738, his Tutor l3oard· heing Dr Philip Williams, Public Orator of the Univ�rsity. The Dr ' Rutherford ' mentioned in Mrs Lutwyche's will is no The Bishop of Rochester on Saturday, April 26th, dedicated doubt Dr Thomas Ruther[orth, Regius Professor of Divinity a churc hya rd cross which has been erected in the burial ground fr om 1756 to 1771. at Cuxton, near Rochester, in memory of the late Canon Charles Colson (B.A. ,839, see Eagle, xxii.p. 399), who was for The fo llowing item appears in a list of books and manuscripts 27 years r�tor of that parish. Archdeacon Cheetham delivered issued by !\Ir Quaritch : a eulogy of Canon Colson, and recited Chaucer's .. Parson of a Town " as a correct description of him. There was a very large Norfolk : assemblage at the ceremony, including Dean Hole, the Earl 644 ASHBY (Rev George). Remarks on Bloomfieid alid and Coulltess of Darnley, and the clergy and lead ing residents Parkyn's History of Norfolk, consisting of Additions, Correc­ of the district. tions) etc. Srn. fo lio lI£S. of about IZ0 pages, halfmor occo 1776-77 4 0 0 In our Chronicle for the Easter Term '900 (Eagle, xxi, 3 5 8) George Ashby (B.A. '744) was President of the College mention was made of th e opinion expressed by Mr Buttery that from '767 to '77 5, and Rector of Barrow, Suffolk from 1774 to College the portrait of Sir Noah Thomas, which hangs in the his death in 1808. lIa l l , was painted by Romney. This portlait has for many years been ascribed to Sir Joshua Reynolds (see l\1unk Roll of The following appear in recent catalogues : 'he Rv'al College of PhYSIcians, ii, 218-9 ; TI le Eagle, xi, 365'. WORDSWORTH (Wm.) A.L.s., 3 pages 4to, Rydal Mount; The exercise of a little patience and research, combined with a 9th Sept. 1849, written 6 months before his death , £3· modicum of luck, has led not only to tbe confirmation of Mr " My Lord, I much regret bein g obl iged once again to throw myself upon Buttery's opinion, but to the discovery of how the portrait came your good offices by requesting you, if it be possible, to gain for my grandson the i en e of Ordinance examimi to the College, all memor), of the latter fa ct having died out. nd ulg c the Master General of the to allow his ­ tion to be deferred until May next. For his not being sufficientty prepared lt appears that the portrait was bequeathed to the College by to present himself in Noyember, I blame as much as his own slackness his Sir N oah's daughter Mrs l\Iary Lutwyche of Marlborough fa ther, whose obj ection to the 'cramming ' system has prevented the youth Buildings, in the parish of Walcot in the city of Bath, who died fr om going to \V oolwich," etc. at Bath H February ,845 . Her will, dated 21 June 18H, White (Henry Kirke, '785-1 806) Eminent Poet ; Original proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 6 March 1845 , Autograph Manuscript, with his signature in full, being contains the fo llowing clause. "Remarks on and Translations from the Ancients;" No. 2 "I Sir give the fine picture by Romney of my dear fa ther Virgil's Georgics, commencing " There can be little doubt, that Noah Thomas, knight, PhYSician to his Majesty George t he those writers had a very erroneous idea of the nature of that Head of ge, Third, to the Master or St JOhn's College, Cambrid species of poetry who could assert, that to write a truly heir­ for the time being, Upon trust to place the same as an excellent Georgic, was one of the greatest efforts of the loom in the said College, where my said fa ther received his human mind," etc., 55 lines closely written, also 25 lines of education, and where he was as much disting uished, not only translation, commencing " Thrice happy swains did May fu lly for hiS for his having been Senior Wrangler of his year, but know," etc., 3 pp., 4to, circa 1800, portrai t added £ 9 9s• 2 e rare Occurrence. deep learning, which laid the fo undation of the high reputation MSS. of Kirke White (wb0 died at the early age of I) ar of he afterwards enjoyed in his profession, in which his skill was The Master and Fellows propose to institute an Annual sufficiently proved by the great success of his prescri ptions. It Dinner to Members of the Col lege who have taken the M.A. would be injustice to the memory of his Tutor the learned �r degree and have retained their names on the Col lege Boards : Rutherford whose " Essay on Virtue " did su ch honour to lts tlIe first of these Dinners is to be held this year on Thursday, Author, and to that of the great Mathematician the blind Dr June 19. As there are some 850 names on the Boards, al d Saunderson were no mention made of the great advantages he � as it is impossible to accommodate more than about 120 guests III reaped from their instructions." the College at any one time, it has been necessary to make It appears from Romney's diary that Sir Noah Thomas sa� a beginning by issuing invitations to certain particular years ; for his purtrait on the fo llowing days in '781 : Jul), 2 6, z8 , and on consideration it was decided to divide the names on the August, 1, 4, I I, It, 16. VOL. XXIII. C C C 8 Ott?' CIll'om'cle. 37 Our ChromCle. 379

Boards inlo three chronological groups according to the dale of about [562 on Chetham's death or retirement. He i5 no doubt the It Dns­ the B.A. degree, and then to issue invitations to those ,whose Randle Cotgreyv " who took the oath in 1563 ( " Sheaf," 3rd S,' i. 34). An names stood first in each group. In this way it is possible extra.c t was printed a few we ks ago in the " Sheaf" from the account books to e , of hiS clc. k Henry Pennallt (No. 558), and t appe the isitation of include among the guests of the College, J ohnians of quite i ars from V 1580 that be sti ll survived in that y ar. He may very well have been the different standing, and at the same time to st:cure that e each " Ralltlle Cotgrave, chapLai n," who was presented to the rectory of St. Peter's, guest should find himself among his own contemporaries. For CiIe,hire, in '541, by William Brereton, esquire, Willian, Cotgrave of this year invitations have been issued (i) to those who took their Christleton, junior, and Nicholas Newbold of Dodl eston, yeoman; in which case B.A. degree earlier than 1852 ; (ii) to a grot1p beginning with the second of tbese would probably be his brother (Ormerod i, 326). Nothing is said as to the reason of the vacancy, e recorded those who took the B.A. degree in 1869 ; (iii) to a group begin­ when th next rector, WiIliam Orton, is mentioned in 1569. If he had married during ning wilh those who look the B.A. degree in 1882. It IS hoped Edward VI.'s reign he would have been expelled f. om this benefice or compelle(t that in subsequent years other members will be asked in their to resign it, under Bishop Coates, thougb he migh t have retained his place turn. under the registrar. The arll1S in the Visitation give eight quarterings, w ich fo ur are n ot The guests will be accommodated in College ; an attempt of h identified ; others show connections with C ot ton, Ridwue, and Bostoclc. to in being made as far as possi IJle put them their old rooms. Tbose of Cot grave are the sam e as these assigned to " William Cotgrave, Dinner will be served in Hall at 7.30 on the Thursday evenign, late Alderman " (of Chester, 1629) in the Armoury printed in the " Sheaf " and will be followed by speeches, terminating with smoking in (ii. 18). the Combination Room. Tht:re will be breakfast in the Hall on A. B. C. the Friday morning at sllch an hour as may not be incompatible RANDLE COTGRA VE. Wilh a late sitting tbe night before. The following leller has been kindly copied from the Oligina] by lIfr. Gilbert P. Gamon. It is mentioned by the writer of the Cotgrave article ill JOHNIANA. the Dietiona,,), of Na tional Biogmphy, who remarks that the al JUS on the seal are proof that the author of the famous French Dictionary belonged to t The Ch ester Courant ' has a columu devoted to not es on local history. the Cheshire Cotgraves ; "they are quite different from those of HlIgll From this we extract the fo llowing wi th regard to Randle COlgrave a member Cotgrave, Richmond Herald in 1566, who is sometimes supposed to have of the Colle"e. been his father." The same writer gives a reference to an earlier letter oC Cotgrave's, printed in No tes and Queries (3rd Series, viii, 84), to whick RANDLE COTGRAV E. it wa. communicated by Mr.'V. C. Hazlitt; this letter (dated Nov. 27, 1610) is Monsi ut' Beaulien, who appears to have elp revi, g the 'the Dictioltary of Na tiollal Biography has an account of this Cheshire to the same e h ed in in proof s eets of the scholar, the author of the first French-English Dictionary, from which it h Dictionary. Letter by Ran. Cotgrave to Mons. Bealllieu. 8th July, \V ith seal appears that he was admitted a scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge, 011 16[2. b aring arms : " A fesse dancette ermine, between 3 bugle horns ski ged." November 10, 1587, and afterwards became secretary to \Villiam Cecil, Lord e n To my worthie and most deere frend 'sieur Beaulieu Secretary to the Burghley, eldest son of the first Earl of Exeter, and the, efore grandson of M s Gre.at Drit i e at Paris or elsewhere, haste theis. Elizabeth's great statesman. Cotgmve brought out his Dictif)nary ill 1 6 1 I, Emhas ad' of a n I e t for you a l'r at Inesters the 1 9th of last enclosed w'thin yt one and a second edition ill 1632. He died ill 1634, a reference for this date being l f e IVIr. fr om my 10 : go ne hence but a few days bef"re. This I h ope you received given to Cooper's "Memorials of Camb. i tl ge " (ii I (3). The year of his ere this. The t had it t entry at college shew;; that be was born about 1570. 30 h I one fro l11 you, and ill answer of send you by his bearer ( the same that brought from you the Picktoothes for my 10 :) of my There are other statements, or rather suggestions, made in the biography 2 D i nari , wherin many r ye Printer which must be rejected. "Possibly," says tbe writer, "he was Randal, SOil ict o es (1 da e not say all) slips of be corrected ; b t y are t h r t e ordinarie ones. This of \V illiam Cotgrave of Christleton," mentioned in the pedigree ill Harl, ut he e eby somwhat handsommer than h Bearer, as it seems, was not furnished for ye payment of the and therefore 115. 1500 (fo. I 18), because the arms known to have been used by the m, sha take hat course you will ar xxijs w'ch they cost me, snbj ect of the notice closely resemble those givcn in t hat pcdigree i "if he be you ll w f ye return of who have not been rovi ent e n reserve an of them, theref re am the same person as the Randle Cotgreve of the Harl MS he became subse­ p d no gh to y and o DOW forced to be beholden, for them t a 1Iechatlicall e eration, that suIT.rsno quen tly registrar to the Bishop of Chester and married ELlinor Taylor of tbat o g n a private ai e e rer t y were by xijd a city by whom he had fo ur sons-William. Randolf, Robert, and Alexander­ l'espect to waigh downe g n . D e h e in booke, unlil of l t ; yet had they beene mine owne tht!y shonld not have bene so and a daughter Mary." A reference to the printed C heshire Visitation of a e be dere to yon, whom I o more than a ul itud of those booki 1580 (Harleian Soci ety, (882) would have shown this supposi tion to we much m t e are of worth : and so for t is bid you farewell 'es i my erroneous i for at th at ti me Randle Cotgrave, son of Wi Iliam Cotgrave h time I l t n::- allwayes and to of utmost abililie, Cbristlcton, was husband of ElIinor Taylor and registrar to the Bisbop e Your frend and servant Chester, so that he could not be the youth who went up to Cambrid g sOl11e d SOli 0 years later. The latter may, however, very well have been the secon RAN : COTGRAVE. ' . y be Rand olf of the registrar ; and perhaps some reader of the "Sheaf " .... July 1612. ench 8 ble to confirm this, or to point out the true parentage of Cotgrave of I' . a The Bri tish Ambassador at the time was Sir Tho as Ed ondes. " My Dictionary fame. . m m S rd " is Lord Burleigh (afterwards Earl of Exeter), in whose !ervice R"ntlle Randle Cotgrave, the Bishop's registrar, appears to have entered tbl lo Cot�rave then was. service about 1541, wh en " Sir John Chetham, clerk," w�s tbe a�tll1g .re�.stlclf hUllS under Chancellor \Vllms]ow, and to have become actlllg reglstnu 38Q Our Chrom'cle. Our ChnJ1ltde. 381

The fact that the clergyman who married G;eorge Washi ngtan to Martha ideo virens et valens, Sibi hunc sepul turae locum posuitet elegit Uxoribus :pandridge Custis at St Pe�er's Church, New Kent County, Virginia, Elizahetba et Maria quidem juxta Sepultis Ubi reqlliescat donec resu?cltatus J e on 6 anuary 1759 was a Johnian is worth noticing in the Eag:e. The cl rgy_ ad vitam' eternam Per Jesum Chri-tnm salvatorem nostrum, Qnahs erat. \nl\1l St Peter's Church, in question was the Rev David Mossom, Rector of indicant ilIi qui bus bene notus Super,tites non hoc sepulchral e saxum. Londini New Kent, from 1727 to his death in 1767. He was admitted to St John's, Natns 25 Martii [690, Obiit 40 Janii 1767 S June 1705 at the age of 16. om, He was the son of Thomas Moss chandler, To this inscription there is a note ibid p. 51. r and d t (3) was born at G; eenwich e uca ed at Lewisham SCllOol under Mr Tanner. David Mossom (see Quarterly iv, p . 66) becam e minister of St Pder's :tIis name does not appear in the printed Gmdua# Ca 1ltabrigienses, but he Church in 1727. There is proof that he waS married three times. Bishop the was Ol'dained Deacon I May IH8 and Pri�st 8 June I71 8!:1y Bishop of lIIeade says he was married fo ur times. He was the person who officiated at l-ondon, when he is describ.ed as B.A. of St John'S 'College, Cambridg�. the Il uptials of George vV ashington, and continned in the ministry 40 years. p b 7;'he Wi tlia m and Mary College quarterly Historical Magn�i'" ( u lished at �<\ ccording to his epi taph he was educated at St John's Coll ege Cambridge ) p Williamsburg, Virginia has some notes about Mossom which we re roduce. and was the first native Americ3u admitted to the office of presbyter in the (I) vol v. p. 67 has the fo llowing note : I have been favoured by Miss Calvin Church of Englan . In his ob a ux Jarratt auri­ d aut iogr phy the Rev Devere . Perldns, of Mem, phis, 1;enn., with a view of the Bible used by Rev David butes a poor character to morals and religion in New Kent. But it 15 so �ossom, who maqied George Washington at St Peter's Church, New Kent. much eaiser to overdraw than to give an exact representation. Jarratt says .. 1660. o On the inside front cov!!r is : Ri : Criche David M ssom his book that 1I1(0ssom was a poor preacher, very near sighted, and reading his sermons given by R,ic : Criche !,:sqr I�99." On, tl:\e insic\e book cover is written: closely, kept his eyes fixed on the paper, and his remarks "seemed rather " My dear fa ther died September 12th 1701, I being then eleven year!> old addressed to the cu!.hion than to th e congregation." As ill ustrative of the ",nd a half." As Rev David Mossooo was born March 25, 1690, tl:\isprobahly lifeless condition of religion he mentions a quarrel between Mr Mossom and �efers to the death of his father. On a flyleaf are these entries : Itis clerk, in which the fo rmer assailed the laller from the pulpit in his serman, ''< David the son of David a,lld Eliza Mo.ssom was born Sunday Augt. 71 ;l.lld the latter to avenge himself, gave out from the desk the psalm in whicl, ",bout half an hou� past seven in, the evening and b.aptized Sllnday Sept .. the w�re these lines � 17[5." 4th With restless and ungoverned rage t , "Rebert the 3rd sop of David and E.1 iza Mossom, was born Sa urday Why do the heathen storm ? b t o k b z [6, 1716. December 1st a ou eleven of the cl c and apti ed Snnday the Why in such rash attempts engage :tIe died Thursday Sep .. 26, 17 [7 ab.vut 6 clock in the morning, and was, As they can ne'er perfo rm. buried Sep. 27 in St Margarets Churchyard.'� lIis daughter Elizabeth married Captain William Reynolds • .. Thomas ye 4th son of David and Eliza Mossorn was bom \Vednesda,y �1ay ye [4th at a quarter pa.st one in ye rnornin,g. Baptized on "Whit Sunday' .. . .. June ye 1 st 1718.'" o e p d r " S usanna Danghter oJDav : and Eliza Mossom was born Fr\day July 2Z [A c rr s on ent sends the fo llowing notes with rega d to George Plaxton, about qua t r Sunday July ye 31" who was admitted a pensioner of the College 24 March 1665-0 an,l took the

The compet ition is open to all undergraduates of the College Tw o Mile Race.-R . McC. Linnell, St Jobn's, 1; S. It.Bake�, Jesus, 2; the C. Beard, Jesus, 3. Won by three hundred yards ; a poor third. Tllne, who have not entered on their seventh term of residence at 10 mins. 36 2-5 secs. time when the essay is sent in, The competition is intended to promote independent study Lone'Jump .-F. W. Alien, Jesus, 2b ft. S in., I; J. Strand-Jones, Jesus, 18 fl . 41- iti., Sleight, 5t John's, ° j W. St John's, of original authorities, and to encourage practice in compact 2; A. B. T. Ritcbie, 0. and systematic exposition. Originality in the treatment of the One Mile Rau.-H. Sanger, St Jobn's, I; E. A. Weston, St Jobn'., 2; subject is not essential, but freshness and precision will carry C. L. Ricbards, Jesus, 3 j A. Fenn, Jesus, 0; 11. W. Jones, Jesu., o. Wun weight; the length of the essay is limited to about 3000 words. by three hundred yards. Time, 4 mins. 46 2-5 secs. The essay, marked " Adams Memorial Prize," should be sent to the Senior Bursar before the end of September. CRICKET CLUB. For the present year the essay is to be on one of the fo llowing Prw'dent-Mr Sikes. Cap ta in-C. H. T. Hayman. Secretary-E. subjects : Booker. (i) Unicursal and Elliptic Curves. The season has been a success on the whole. although the (ii) Partial Differential Equations of the fi rst order. batting had been very unsafe on wet wickets;. Our bowling was (iii) A critical account of Lagrange's Mecanique Analytique. strong and suited to any kind of wicket. The fielding was quite up to the mark with regard to ground-work, but left something (i v) Gravitational problems in Hydrostatics. to be desired in the matter of catches. H. Chapple and P. G. The fo llowing authorities may be consulted on the essay Broad were both given their Crusaders early in the term, both subjects : playing in the Freshmen's Match, and the former also in the Trial game. (i) Salmon, Higher Pla ne Curves .. Halphen, Fo nctlims Elliptiques. Matches played 20. Won S. Lost 1. Drawn 13. (ii) Forsyth, Tr eatise on Differential Eq uaHons .. Lie-Scheffers, Geometric der BeruehrulIgs-transj'ormal£ollw. Batting Averages. Times Bigbeat (iii) Thomson and Tait, Na tural Ph ilosop hy. Inning. not out Total Score ATCf. E. Booker ...... 22 6 814 Il7· 5°'9 ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE V. JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD. H. Chapple ••.•••.• ••.•••.• .. 14 2 368 75 3°'6 P. G. Broad ...... 14 J 333 I05* 3°'2 We take the following from the Cambnilge Review for C. H. T. H ayman ...... 13 2 298 100 %7' 1 March 13. On Tuesday, March 11, St J ohn'5 journeyed over J. Vf. Linnell •••••••• ...... S 4 27 I S 27 '0 to Oxford to meet Jesus. They were, however, beaten by the H. Addison •..••• ...•...... •• 21 2 5 " lI8 26'9 odd event. J. Strand-Jones, the Rugby Football Blue, was P. C. Sands ...•...... 13 4 174 38 19'3 successful in the Weight. and was second in the Hurdles and A. Chapple ...... IS 0 296 80 19'0 Long Jump. Sanger and Linnell ran well for the visitors. R. T. G. French ...... 16 5 172 69 15'6 100 Ya rlis Racl.-S. H. Lockyer, Jesus, I; A. B. Sleight, St John's, 2; R. l\1cC. Linnell ...... I4 2 166 3j* 13'8 W. Home, St John'S, 3. WOll by a yard. Time, II 1·5 secs. J. W. A. Rix ...... 14 2 lu6 42 11'9 High Jump.-S. H. Baker, Jesus, s ft. I in ., 1; J. C. H. How, St John's, H. n. H. Hockey ..••...•.... 14 3 124 34 11'2

. •• t ••••••• •••••• 5 ft . 2 in G. L. Jarratt 5 34 15* 8'S Quarter-Mile Race.-S. H. Loc1,yer, Jesus, 1; J. W. Home, St John's, 2. • Sicnifiel not out. Won by three yards. Time 53 secs. Bo'wliltg Averages. the J. Strand-Jones, J s, 31 6 in., I; W. T. Pu tting We ight.- esu ft. 'Wickets Aver. Ritchie, St John'S, 29 ft. 8 in., 2. Overs Maidens Runs H. Chapple ...... 84 7 286 23 12'43 St nd. Hurdle Race.-H. H. Oa ley. SI John's, 1; J. r� 120 Ya t·ds R. ke ••..••••.• 67'3 16 216 17 12'�0 . Time, R. McC. Linnell Jones, Jesus, 2 j W. T. Ritchie, SI John'S, 3. Won by three yardS J. ·W. Linnell •••••••••• '0 168'4 11 673 45 14'95 :z 1 secs. T. F nc •• ...... I 1'3 22 515 28 18'39 ""VOo(!I nrtl, R. G. re h S Mile-Race.-J. H. Bradshaw, St John's, I; C. S. �. Half- .••.•.•• • • 27 I9'22 ardS. 'lIme, H. H. H. Hockey 173'3 2� 5 1 9 Jesus, 2; L. J. P. Jolly, St John'S, 3. ""V on by thirty y A. Rix . . , ...... 69' 15 234 12 19'5° 2 mins. 12 �ec�. "IV. 4 384 O�tr Chronicle.

Glwrac/el's of'he leam : C. H. T. Hayman (Capt.)-Has unfortunately not been a ble to captain the side regularly, but has played several fine innings, especially on bad wickets. Scores fj'eely behind the wicket on the off-side, and possesse. a very sonnd defence, Fields well in any position, and could not be im proved upon at first slip. E. Booher-A very fine bat, especially on the leg-side ; has scored most consistently, ann easily heads the batting averages. Is a safe field, and can bowl at a pincb . Has been a m05t energet ic secretary.

W. A. Rix-Is over anxious to make runs, and frequen tly got himself out by trying to score too fast. A very useful bowler on his day . :.4.. Cha.pple-Has been most nseful to t be team as a bat, wbo could be relied on to make runs, and as a fine outfield. H. Addiso>l-A hitter of the ' Jessop ' type, who started hy heing dead out of fo rm, bu t bas finisbed very strongly. His innings again st Trinity Hall was 11Iagnificent. On his day a really first class wicket.keeper. H. H. H. Ho ckey-As there have been fe w fast bowlers' wickets this season, he has been rather off colour, but when he did find his length proved most difficult to play. A plucky bat, who has saved the side from defeat on more than one occasion. J. W. Linnell-Has proved most destructive on the wet wickets - would do even belter if he bo wled more at the batsman's pads ; can make runs if he likes in good style. R. Mc C. Limull-Usually tbrows rus wicket away by cllOosing the wrong ball to hit. Has been most Ilseful as a bowler, and is very energetic ill the field. R. T. G. F1 'ench-A slow but usefu l bat, and a safe field. Has bowled very well at limes, especiaJly in the Trinity match. H. C1Ulpp le -A very difficult batsman to dislodge, and has good scori ng sll okes all roun d the wicl,et. Is a very nasty bowler to play when the wicket helps him at all. Ougbt to be a great success next year. P. C. Sands-Patient and careful bat with a good defence. A splendid field at point, and may make a useful ch ange bowler. P. G. Broad-Has played some fine innings, notably in the second Tdnity n:alch ; he is a trifle slow, but his placing on the leg'side is excellent. Fielding clean and safe.

Ma tches.

v. Pembroke. Drawn. Pembroke 188. St John'S 142 {or 8 wickets � (H. Chapple 69).

v. Emmanuel. Drawn. St John's 244 for 6 wickets (E. Booker 88, H. Ch apple 75). Emmanuel 198 for 5 wickets.

v- Caius. D,awn. St John's 227 (E. Booker 77) and 168 for 3 wickets (H. Addison 81). Caius 356. I..� ker v. Sidney. "V on. Sidn ey 202. St John's 219 [or 4 wickets (E. Boo 80, H. Chapple 57). v. Emmanuel. "Van. St Jo hn's 273 for 9 wicl,ets (A. Chapple 80) Emmanuel 99 (H. Hockey 4 wickets for 36, W. Rix 4 wickets fo r 9)· v. King's. Drawn. St John'S 169. King's 43 fo r I wicket. � v. Caius. Drawn. Caius 113 for 9 wickets. S lopped by rain. ./' \ o �"1,...,:. f' /- " - ,� - . .? i0� ,r. . , -

Our Chr01ticie. 385

v. Trinity. Lost. St John's 29 and 68 [or 3 wickets. Trinlty 132 (H. Ch�pple 5 wickets [or 37).

v. Sidney. 'V on, St John's 128 (C. H. T. Hayman 47 not out). Sidney 46 (J. VV . Linnel! 6 wickets [o r 26. R. T. G. French 4 wickets fo r 17). v. Jesu�. Di'awn, SI Jolinls 2bj and 108 for 8 wickets. Jesus 110 and 74 tor 3 wicl,ets.

v. St John's (Oxford). Drawn. St John'S (Camb.) 272 fo r 5 (E. Booker 117 not out, H. Chapple 53). SI Juhn's (Ox[ord) 141 [or 6 wickets.

v. Pembroke. Drawn. Pembroke 169 fat 2 wickets. St John's 39 for 6 wickets.

v. Trinity Hall. Drawll. St John'S 225 [o r 6 wickets (P. G. Broad ro.5 not out, R. T. G. French 69). T.illity Hall 182 [o r 6 wickets.

v. Christ's. Won. Chdsl's 155 and 177. St Jobnis 2 76 (E. Booker 90) and 59 (or 110 wickets.

v. Tdn;ty. Drawn. St John'S I [I (C. H. T. Hayman 38, P. G, Broad 29). Stopped by raill.

v. Peterhouse. Lost, PeterhOllse [83 (It.T. G. French 7 wickets for 67), St John's 69.

v. Emmanuel. Drawn. St John's 231 for 6 wickets (E. Booker 77 not but). Emmanuel ) 59 [o r 6 wickets.

v. Queens'. Drawn. St J h n's 245 fo r 3 wic e s (C. H. T. Hayman 1001 '", o k t E. Booker 65 not out). Queens' 162 [or 7 wickets. v. Sidney. Drawn Sidn�y 126 (J. W. Linnell 9 wickets for 73). St John's 99 for 8 wickets.

v. Trinity Hal!. Wall. St Johh'S 256 for 4 wickets (H. A ddison 118; E. Booker 66 lIot out). Trinity Hall 77 (H. H. H. Hockey 6 wickets fo r 32/ including the hat tdck. R. McC. Linuell 4 wickets for 8).

tAIlY MARG.A.RET DoA.T CLUB.

Pnsident-Mr L. H. K. Bushe-Fox. TrtalUre;--�·tr R. 1". ScoH, [ st Captain -H. Sangcr. 21ld Captflin-J. H. Towle. Secreta,y-H. B. Carlyll. Junior Tt'easurer-G. C. E. Simpson. 1St Lent Captain-So R. 'Valker. Captai'J- H. C. � Brown, 2nd Lwt Captain-R. R. 3rd Llltt Sandal!. Additional Lent Caplai1l-J. T. Poole.

Position of Boats : May Races 30 bo:tts)-tst Boat 5 th ; 2.1d Boat 1 4th . Lent Races (43 boati)-lSt Boat 5th ; 2nd Boat 13th ; 3rd Boat 25th.

The success which fe ll to us last Lent Term caused a great feeling of hopefulness and confidence in the Club. Consequently, when practice began on April [ Ith last for the Mays, every hope was held not only that the fi rst boat would improve its position, but that the second boat would regain its proper place in the first division. VOL. XXIII. DD D

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86 Om' Cizro mi;ie. Our Chronicle. 3 387

The early part of the Term was remarkable in several way s. and sl1cceeded in getling home after a most magnificent race by In the first place the weather for days together was as bad as it about three-quarters of a length. Jesus rowed much better than could well be. Strong north winds and cold rain were very on Wednesday, and made spurt after spurt. Our cox steered frequent. Practice was thus made extremely difficult and on very well, and stroke showed great judgment and skill. some days unpleasant. The other two points of interest were the record for the 3,-d Ni��t. The second boat gained very rapidly on 'Varsity pairs (7 mins. 37 secs., made by C. W. H. Taylor and Pembroke 11 up the Gut and overlapped by Ditton. [lere Pt:mbroke drew away a little, but up the Long Reach our men R. Nelson in a row over) and the finerace for the Lowe Double . Sculls. In this Taylor and Nelson were opposed by Thomas �e �t gOl llg ,and finally made a good bump at the Rail way Bridge. h and Edwards-l\foss. It was expected that there would be TIllS success made them Sandwich Boat. In t e first division a good race, and there wa s. Thomas and Edwards-Moss beat they paddled over, as Sel w)' n only had to row 3 strokes to clai m the other crew by a l en gth and a half. This was said to be a b �lmp over Hall ii, who were not rowing out of r("spect to Taylor's first defeat on the Cam. t�elr late Master. (Mr Latham had died suddenly on Th ursday nIght). Some very fa ir eights have been turned out this year-certainly The First Boat started fai rly, but (hopped to a slow stroke. the fi rst fi ve boats of the fi rst division were strong and were This let Jesus up and they shot at Ditton , but missed. From credited with good times. The records fo r the Red Grind and Ditton home there was a good race,-onr boat rowi ng 32 and the Lo ng Reach were lowered in the last week of practice. It never more than la feet from Jesus, rowing 38 to 4-0. On the mllst be said, however, that the river has been kept fu ll and is whole the first crew were not to be congratulated on their more lively than usual. perfo rmance, they really were capable of a mnch better show. Our first boat practised and rowed in the Brocas boat, bought for the 190 I crew, as this ship suited them better than any other. 4th Nigll!. The second boat rowed over head of the second This year's crew was the heaviest we have had for some time, division very comfortably ; afterwards they rowed up to the post and when " on its day " performed well. of Hall ii to make a fo rmal bump. This put them definitely in The second boat was also heavy for a second boat and was the first division. Most probably if Hall ii had rowed our possessed of extraordinary keenness, so that the crew practised second boat would have caught them fa irly easily. well, right from the beginning of Term. They did some very The first boat was fe eling the effects of the three previous good times in their tub-ship. nights and to add to their discomfort a bitterly cold wind arose about 6 o'clock. They got olf fa irly and to Grassy were COI11 - The races were rowed on Jnne 4, 5, 6, and 7 before the fo rtably away. From here to Ditton Jesus gain ed a length. It customary crowds. The Pitt Club Lawn was again conspicuous. looked as if our crew would get away again, but J eSlIs gained As well as the C.U.R.V. Band, Pierrots, and Strolling M instrel s up the Long Reach and macle a tremendous spnrt at the Railway of varied sort and quality amused the spectators. The weather Nurseries. Here they caught our boat amid the wildest excite­ was rather duller than usual. ment. It is not often that three races sllch as those between The following is the result of the racing ;- our first boat and Jesus are seen on the Cam. In one way these have done good ; the newer men will have had a thronghly good Th not to IS/ Night. e second boat did row up practice fo rm, experience of hard racing and they will be the better fo r it. but bumped Clare i easily half way up the Plongh Reach. The results of the races are at once gratifying and rlis­ The first boat started well and gained half a length on appointinO'. The success of the second boat was most pleasing 1st Trin. i by Ditton. Here they dropped behind and finished they and their coach (the 1st Captain) have every reason to be well away, both from the boat in fr ont and the boat behind. proud of themselves. The first boat should have done better. They did not row h 2nd Niglzl. T e second boat went away better and bumped up to their practice form in the races, particularly on Friday and Caius ii in 2;[ mins. Saturday. Th i�; may have been partly caused by the sev�re The first boat got a good start and were gaining on 1st Tril1. i race on Thursday, and it must be said that Jesns were qUlte . when the bowside oars touched on Post Corner,owing to a gust another crew with Drysdale at 7. Their original seven fe ll III of wind and the wash. This accident caused the boat to stop an d retired from the boat after the first night and Drysdale took and almost entirely. They just pushed out started again as his place. He had been rowing lately and �vas by no mean� Jesus i came within 6 fe et ; Jesus overlapped at Grass)' and were u nli t. All three nights he rowed most plnckIly and gave grlat just up at Ditton. After this our crew drew away inch by inch, life: to the crew. � .-

388 Our CltromCle, Ol/,r Chrowde. 389

The names and weights of the two crews were as follow :- Fo ur-Work!i well, but, through failing to swing Lis body, is very short. Fi ve-Has improved greatly. }4ust learn to be lighter handed, and to get an First Boat. Second Boat, easier and a firmer finish. st. los. st. lhs. H. Sanger (how) •...... 10 F. "\Vorthington (oow) ..... 1I 5 5 Six -Is a really good anI' o his clay, but at other imes does not swing and • . . . • . n t 2 J. H. Towle •...... •••. , 11 6 2 Q. Wilson . • ...... 1 I 1 � is heavy handed ; should try to be sleadier fo rlVal cl on his slide. 3 S. R. Brown . , ...... ! • • 1 2 3 3 J. F. Spink . , .... " .•.•.. It 3 J. l ins ....•...... 12 6 4 ...... , [[ [ 2 4 S. Co i J. R. Draper Sevm -FilIed his place well ; rows very hard indeed, being clean and smart J. E...... [ 2 Hendel n ...... 5 P. Alien 3i 5 M. so 1I 7 at both ends of the stroke. Should try to row a trifle longer in the water. 6 H. G. Frean ...... 12 6 6 A. E. Corbelt .•••...•.••• 1 [ s ...... 2 e •• ..•• ••..•• 0 7 s. H. Scott [ 3! 7 H. L. Clarlc 1 9 Stroke-Stroked well throughout practice and the races. Is inclined to be G. C. E. Simpson (stroke) . . 11 7 J. T. Poole (stroke) . , .... 10 11 short and slow with his hands, but always keeps his crew going all over l!:. R. Wilkinsol\ (q'.x)., .• 9 2t C. 4. Wright (co�) . . . ..� 8 0 the course.

Cox-Steered well in practice, b ut in the races was inclined to lose his head: Characters of the Crews l and sleer wide at his comel s.

First Boa t, THE NEW BOAT HOUSE • ./low-Rows long and clean, but s.hol.\1d get his shoulders on quicleer and be smarter with his hands, The accounts fo r the building of the Boat House have nolV been settled amounts ascertained. The total amount r'wo-Improved his rowing very much this term- get s a good grip of the or their water and uses his slide well, so that his work tells right to the finish of due to the contractors, Messrs Rattee and Kett, is £ 2268 16.s. I d. , the stroke. towards which they have received L 1700. on account, leaving a balance of due to them. All other bills have .Th ree-Has not yet learnt how to slide and swing together. Always tries his. £568 I6s. Id. qn relied Oil r been settled. The total expenditure therefore stands as fo llows � best �nd be to work hard f om start to fi,1,ish. 1- ,Fo ur-Rushes forward and is frequently late in consequence. Must swing £ s. cl, longer, use hi5 legs more af\d his arms less. purchase o.f Site ...... •••• 50.0. 0 0 Vendors' Law Costs ...... 14 [ 4 0. ,Five-Impl'oved .... considerahly towards the end of practice. Has a weak finish Messrs Rallee & !Cell •• 2 268 16 n through J;J,ot usi g his legs throu.ghout the stroke and lying too far back. Archilecl's Commission ...... 1 1 0 0. 0 Plinting and Post ages .....• 21 10 Cl Six-Has good style and is very painstaking. Must get a smarter and firmer grip of the water, and finish the stroke right oul. Works hard though £2915 0. not in the right way, but keeps improving.

Sevm-Has learnt to row well very rapidly, and, if he talees pains, should The total amount received is as fo llows, including only make a good oar. At presen t he over swings and has an awkward fini!ih, subscriptions paid :

stt'oke-Was rowing very well in the earlier !itages of practice, but was, £ s. d. val iable later on. J;n the races the absence of tlw vigour and determina-. Total su bscri ptions as per previo.us lists .... 2042 18 8 lion which have always previously characterized his rowing shows that he � Interest on deposits, etc...... •.. 57 1 4 7 was not at all fit, but he displayed aU his old pluck, Sale of Stock .....•..•• .....• , •••.. .••• 244 16 8 Adtltiio",�l Suoscriptions : C"x-Steers admirably, and shows great judgment in his remarks to the crew, Cbadwick, R. A. (1899) ...... 2 2 0. C�ub .•...... His increasing weight is likely to deprive. the of o.ne of the best Cbeese, Rev J. Eo (190.0.) 0 10 0 coxes it has had for many years_ Frean, G. M ...... If••• ••••••••• 1 I 0 Forster, R. H. (1888), 2nd donation ...... 5 0 0 Tones , H. G. T. (1891) ...... 1 0 0 Second Boa�. Lucld ing lon, L. H. (1897) ...... •.•.•••.• 2 2 0 ]Jow-Rows hard and clean ; sb,ould slide and swing more together and keep Oul(eley, H. E. H. (1898) ...... 2 2 0 Powell, .•.....• his outside shoulder up. N. G. (1898), 31'd donation 2 0 0 WeIJuon, J. T. . ...•• •• ..••••.. •••••. • • 2 2 0 Tw o -Rows very hard. Must try to get his shoulders back more at the end ------of the stroke, and so get an easier and a cleauer finish. 2363 8 11 " "f. 2 Deficit still to be collected ""f"' 55 1 Il Th ,.ee-Always rows his hardest. Has not yet learnt to man'lge his slide anc\ so fa ils to get hold of the water really sn�artJy, �2915 0 ..-

0 Our Clu'ontCle. 39 OUt' Cft t'omCle. 3 9 1 T S LAWN ENNI CLUB. C.U.R.V. Our season has been a most successful one, as we won " G" Company. eleven matches out of th i rteen at doubles. At singles we have not been ahle to play a rep esent ive P. U. r at team once. Cap tain-Ko C. Browning. Second Lieutmant-M. Henderson. Golo uy Lasbrey is to be con gratul ated on his untiring efforts, as Captain. Sergeant-A. R. Kidner. Sergeanls-vV. H. Kennelt, J H. Towle, C. B. F. W. Argyle is th is year Secretary fo r th e 'Varsity, while H. E. Ticehurst. Co rpom1s-C. H. F. Hayman, E. A. MarleJl, Ji[.E. H. O.,keley. La'ICe,C01j>orats-G. R. Evall, G. K. King, A. Gaze, W. J. JOlles. Davies has also received his half-blue, and R. P. Gregory G. played for the Second Six. The strength of the Company is at presen t 95, so \Ye possess The following are the team :-P. U. Lasbrey, F. W. Argyle, the sma llest Com pany. We are still in danger of losing our R. P. Grego ry, F. W. AlIen, E. Evans, H. E. Davies. College Company, and it is to be hoped that everyone will ehdeavour to turn out in force to the parades and to obtain DOUBLES. more recruits. It must be agai n pointed out to those in control Played 13. "V on ll. Lost 2. of other branches of Col lege pursuits, that although the demands the Corps makes on the time of its m embers are very small, Opponents. Result. For. Agst. they should be mo re respected, and that in o ther companies April 19 ...... 2nd Vr...... Won . . 7 :.: .. much less difficulty is fo und in r con cili Volunteering with 21 ...... SeJwyn ...... W on . . 8 . . 1 e ng " 25 ...... Trillily Hall ...... ';V on . . 7 2 o lher branches of Ath let ics. There have been morning drills 28 .•••..Elll manuel •..•.•..WOIl . . 5 .... 4 twice a week during the term, and the attendance at some of " 29 . .... CJare ...... ,';Von 9 .... 0 them has been satisfactory. Towards the end of the term the May 7 ...... TJ i llity ...... Won . . 5 •• .. 4 drills have been interfered with by Examinations, &c. All men 10 ...... Tlinily Hall ...... W on .• 5 4 12 ...... EmmanueJ ...... vV on . . 5 w ho have not finished their shooting are requested to do so 14. . ..Jesus ...... Lost .. 3 � as soon as possible. Anyone wishing to be coached should 26 . . . . . Peterhollse ...... Won .. 5 4 inform an Officer or N.C.O., and it is hoped that this will ahvays 28 .• ....Pembroke • • ...... Lost . . 4 c S. .be done. 29 ...... Sidney ...... 'V on . . 5 4 The BattaIlort will proceed to Camp on June 1 8th, and leave " 30 ...... Clare ...... Won . . 5 2 June 25th. A detach m ent will go to the Coronation cere­ m o s. SINGLES. nie Col . -Sergt. Kidner has been Captain of th e ' Varsity VIIL Played 3. Won o. Lost 3. and Sergt . Ticehurst has also shot for the ' Varsity. We are May 9 ...... Sidney ...... L ost .. 3 6 ve ry glad to state that the members of "G" Co. still servin g " 27 ...... Emmanuel ...... Lost .. 3 6 in SOllth Afri ca will shortly return. June 2 ...... Clllist's ...... Lost. . 4 5

THE DEBATING SOCIETY. EAGLES LAWN TENNIS CLUB.

P, esidmt-Mr R. F. Scott. l'·easurer-H. Sanger. Secretary-H. H. H. LI!1lt Te rm , 1902. Hockey. PreJidmt-J. C. ArnoJd. Vice·PreJident-T. H. Rohlllson. l:f071. The following new members have been elected. On April 25- Treas.-\V. Barradell-Smith. £-./0 ". Soc.-P. K Sell. Co mmittee-The R. McC. Linnell , R. T. Race : on June 4-J. E. P. AIlen, ]. S. afo, esaid officers wilh E. J. Dodgshull and B. Melivalc. CoIlins, H. G. Frean. S. H. Scott, E. R. Wi lkinso n, E. D. Evans, P. C. Sands, H. Lee, H. E. T. Dawes, P. U. Lasbrey, Subjects for Debate : A. B. Sleight, H. Chapple. SalurdaJ', Ja il. 18th-CC That the suggested reduction of the Irish Parliamentary Representation w oul d be fu tile and FIVES CLUB. unj ust." The motion was carried by I1 votes to 10, lhe President gi ving the casting vote. President-Mr Tottenham. Cap tain-J. R. C. Greenlees. Ser.retary- E. Booker. Saturday, Ja n. 25th-CC That this House considers that E. Colours have been awarded to Booker, A. l\L C. NichoJl, Vaccination sh ould be made compulsory in this country ." and C. B. Ticehurst. The voting was :--Ay es, 16; Noes, 3. A ,_

2 Ottr ChronzCle. 39 Our Chromde. 393 Sa turday, Fe b. Isl-Mr E. J. Urwick (Wadham ColI. Oxford Sa turday, l1la y 17Ih-" That this House disapproves of the and Vice-Warden of Toynbee Hall) proposed " That for the solution of the Housing Problem improved education is more present Education Bill." Voting :-Ayes, 5; Noes, 7. The motion was therefore lost by 2 votes. important than any other remedy." The motion was carried nemo con. Sa turday, Ma y 24-th-(Visitors' Debate)-Mr Oscar Browning (Fellow of King's College) moved " That in the opinion of Saturday, Fe b. 8th-" That this House deplores the deca­ this I-louse, the Drama is the highest form of Literature." Mr dence of the Modern N ove!." The motion was carried by 10 C. W. Pearsall (Trinity College) and ]Hr J. S. Bames (Trinity votes to 6. College) also spoke. The motion was carried by 10 votes to 9. Sa turday, Fe b. J Slh-(Visitors' bebate)-Mr J. Strachnn (Clare CoIl.) proposed " That the Cellic fringe has been the Sa turday, lPIa y 3Is!-" That in the opl11!on of this House, the Government should take steps to secure the abolition of making- of England." Mr H. G. Woon (Jesus ColI.) opposed. chaperones." The house was counted out at lO p. m. In addition Mr E. S. Montagtle, Trinity College, (Hon. Sec. : Camb. Univ. Union Society) and Mr J. 1. Sheppard, King's The Debates have been well maintained throughout this College; spoke on the motion. The voting was : for the motion, Term, which augurs well for the success of the Society in tlte 6 votes ; against, 12. coming Michaelmas Term.

Sa turday, Fe b. 2znd-" That this House deplores the SCHOLARS' READING UNION, indiffe rence of the country to the cause of Total Abstinence." President-Prof Mayor. Vz"ce-Presidmts-Mr Glover. Ayes, 7 votes : Noes, i J votes. Silces, 1\11' Several of the senior members of the Society being candidates Sa turday, Ma r. 1 SI _H That the study of Modern Languages in the Classical Tripos, the course of meetings this Term was in this University is totally Inadequate." The motion was much interfered with. Two were held in the early part of the carried by 9 votes to 2. Term, at which the Menaechmi of Plautus was the subject for reading. At the last meeting of the year, held on June 3, parts Sa turday, lilar. 8th-" That Bachelors be taxed." The of the tenth book of Quintilian's " Institutiones Oratoriae " were House was counted out about 10 p.m. read, and a very pleasant series of meetings was thus terminated, from which the members have derived much benefit, by the opportunity offered for studying those parts of the classics which

Ea ster Te rm, J 902. are not so commonly read.

President-to H. Rdbinson , Vice-Presidwt-W. Barradell-Slllith. MUSICAL SOCIETY. Ho ". 1i·eas.-P. K. Sen. HO ll. &c.-11. F. J. McDonnell. CO /nmittee­ .-01 B. Meril'ale and H. H. Roseveare. Pres:'ilmt-Dr j. E. Sandys. Treasurer-Rev A. J. Stevens. Co mmittet- J. C. H. How, W. B. Marshall, O. May, A. M. C. Nicholls, H. E. H. Oakeley, C. B. Rootham (Librarian), R. Sterndale-Benuett. Ho"ol'flry Subjects for Debate i Secretary-H. J. W. Wrenford, Conductor-Mr C. B. Rootbam. Sa turday , Apr. 26th-" That this House disapproves of the proposals of the Government in the present Budget." The The May Concert, which took place on Monday, June 9th, motion was carried by votes to in the College Hall, marked a new era in the history of these 5 4-. concerts, as, for the first time for many years, professional assistance was dispensed with, reliance being placed almost Sa turday, 11£0) / 3rd-" That this House approves of the entirely on College talent. Justification for this policy was revival of the Coercion Act." Voting :-For the motion, 3 found in its success-a splendid programme, appreciated to the votes ; aginst, 1 I. full by a crowded and enthusiastic audience. It would perhaps be invidious to single out any of the Sa turday , l1fay I oth-" That in the opllllon of this I-louse items for special praise ; mention must, however, be made of Mr Kipl ing's claims to literary distinction rest on an insuf­ R. Sterndale-Bennett's magnificent Pianoforte-Solo, which was ficient basis." The voting was :-Ayes, 5 j Noes, 7. vociferously encored.

VOL. XXIII. E E E A • _

3 94 eJur Chromcle. OUt' Chrome/e. 3 95 The Society's best thanks are due to Mr Rootham for the , THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. untiring ener gy and skill displayed by him in organising and conducting the chorus, also to H. J. W. Wrel1ford fo.r tbe time 'the Committee consisted of the following : and trouble he bestowed on his duties as Hon. Sec. The programme was as fo llows � P" 4sident-H. C. Sandal!. Ex-Presidents (in Residence)-J. H. A. fIart, M.A., B. P. Wailer, B,A., C. Coo re, N. B. Souper. Treasurer­ PART I, J. C. H. How. Sec;-etary-F. W. Alien. Elected-E . D. F. Canbam, J. B. ::;haw. CANTATA ...... «(A Song of Destiny " (Schicksalslied) ...... Brahm-s THE CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA. In accordance with the usual cllstom for the Easter Term the number of ml�etings held during the term was restricted to three. SONG A·rthur S01llervell 2 ...... " Mary Morison " ...... The following papers were read : H. J. W, WRENFORD. May 9-" A Great J ohnian," (George Se V.WLIN SOLO ...... lwyn), by Rev A. 1'. ., ...... C. IJ. Rootham Coo re. Four "1mp�essions " (Memories of KiIlamey) (a) Prelude. (b) At the Lake Side. lIfC/jl I6-" Early days of one's Ministry," by Rev S. Symonds (e) On the Heights. �d) 011 the Road. A. P. THOM;PSON, ilIay 23-" Brother Lawrence," by Rev V. N. Gilbert.

VOCAL UARTET ....•• .. ..••...... •...•.•To urs 4 Q " Hymn to Cynthia " , W. B. W. WRENFORD, MARSHALL, H. J. COLLEGE ENGLISH ESSAY FRIZES. J. C. H. How, A. M. C. NICHOU.. The hllowing are the subjects for the College Essay Prize : PIANOFORTE SOLO .. .. •... 5 " Fantasie " in F Minor (01" 49) . •. • Ch"Pill R. STEllND.ALE BENNETT, Fo r Stu dents ill thez'r Subjecl. First Year Leonardo da Vinci. Interval of 20 minutes, during which Refreshments were ser,

the Essays are to be sent to the Master on or before Wednesday, October 15. PART 1I.

6 MADRIGAL . . ... " Let me Careless " (For Five Voices) .•.•..•• T. Li,zley THE CHORUS. NATURAL SCIENCE CLUB. 7 SONG . . "Vulcan's Sonl:" ••(Fro m Ph ilhnon et Baucis) .• ....Ch. Gounod' Pnsidmt-G. H. K. Macalister. Tr easure1'-Mr J. E. Marr. Seen. A. NrCHOLL., M. C. ta1Y-C, B. Ticchurst.

8 PIANOFORTE TRIO .•••.." Waltzer Miirchen " . , .. ••.. . Edward SclZZI!t Hv llorary Me mbers-Mr R. H. Adie, :\11' W. Bateson, Mr F. F. Black. (I) Allegro Moderato. (2) Allegretto. man, Mr K. C. Browning, Mr T. J. Jebll, Mr J. J. Lister, Pro[ G. D. C. B. ROOTHAM, A. P. THOMPSON, R. STERNDALE·BENNETT. Liveing, Prof A. Macalister, Dr D. UacAlister, Mr J. E. Marr, 1I1:r J. E. PUt'vis, Dr W. H. R. R ivers. 9 CHORAL SONGS .. "From the Bavarian Highlands " .....'" . Ed. Elgar OrdillalY Me mber.f-G. H. Aslle, H. A. Browning, H. C. Cameron, (r) The Dance. (2) On the AIm. A. T. Densbam, G. "\V . Grabham. J. R. C. Greenlees, R. P. Gregory, P. P. Laidlaw, L. Lewton.Brain, G. n. K. Macalister, 0 May (Ex-presl'dmt), TH IL CHORUS AND. ORCHESTRA. G. C. Simpson, C. B. Ticehurst, R. R. Walker, R. H. Yapp.

10 QUARTETT ...•....« I lov'd a lass " ...... •...•.•••.. Reay VOCAL S. The following papers have been read this term i W. B. MARSHALL, H. J. W. WREN FORD,

J. C. H. How, A. M. C. NrCHOLL. April 28-" Papuan Genealogies," by Dr Rivers, " ....•• lIfay 19- The Caves of Baollsse ROllsse, by d. H. 1(, I I CHORUS .•.•..•..." Lady Margaret Boating Song " G. ll 'f . Garret' Soloists : 1St Boat Captain-H. SANGER, G. A. TrcEHuJ(sT, Macalister. J. H. BEITH, H. OAK;I!LI!Y. H. E. lI-Iay 26 -" The Science of Examinations," by Mt Adie. 396 Our Chronfcle" THE COLLEQE MISSION.

President-The Master. Vice -Presidents-Mr Mason, Professor Mayor, Mr Graves, Dr. Saudys. Committee, SeniDr J,cfembers-Mr Cox, Mr Dysou, Dr Shore, Ml' Tanner (Senior Secrela,y), �1r Ward, Dr Watson (Senior tHE LIBRARY. Treasurer) . yunior Aft/ltoers-J. R. C. Greenlees, R. P. Gregory, C. A. L. Senior, B. P. Wailer, C. COOl'e, A. L. Garrelt, H. C. Sandall, N. B. Souper, J. 'V renford (yunior J'reasu,·e,·) , E. Booker, J. B. 6arle-B, owne, R. R . H. If 77, e asteriJk denotes past or present Alel/loers of the CO llege _ Walker (Y,mior Secreta'y), G. Beith, J. S. CoBins, J. F. Spink. There has been no meeting in connection with the Mission this Term, but Mr Elsee has paid one or two flying visits to the Donations and Additions to the Library during College. Quarter ending Lady Day 1 902• A plan is under consideration fo r establishing a Walworth Boys' Camp somewhere near the sea this summer. Members of DOllaiz'ons. College who are prepared either to go down or subscribe are the . invited to communicate with R. R. Walker DONORS Utt nior Secretary). British Association Meeting at Glasgow, )90). Discussion on the Teaching of Mathe­ matics which took place on Sept. 14th. SATURDAY NIGHT SERVICE. Edited by John Perry. 8vo. Lond. 189 T. 3·49· 5 1 . ....•••...... ••••...... In the Ante- Ch ap el at 10 o'clock. Everell (J. D.). Illustrations of the C.G.S. System of Units, with Tables of Physical DJ'. D. MacAlister The following is the list of addresses during the Term : Constants. 8yo. Land. 1891. 3.47.2 ..• Howes (G. B.). Atlas;of practical elementary April 26th. Canon F. J. Foakes-Jacksoll, Dean of Jesus College. Zootomy. With a Preface to the 1st May yd. Mr ·Ward. v Edition by the late Rt. Hon. Professor loth. Mr E. S. 'Voods, Curate of Holy Trinity, Cambridge. T. H. Huxley. 4to. Lond. 1902. 3.12.8. } " I71h. The Bishop of Melanesia. *Todhunter (I.). Spherical Tril:Onometry. 24th. Mr C. Elsee, Assistant College Missioner at Walworth. Revised hy J. G. Leathem.* 8vo. Lond. The Editor. and College. 1901. 3.49 52...... " 31st• lIh R. H. Kennett, Fellow Lecturer of Queens' } "'Roby (H. J. ). Essays on the Law in CiCeIO'S Private Orations. 8vo. Camh. 1902 . The AUlhor. 7.30.66 ..•••••.••• .•....••••.•...• . } *Glover (T. R.). Life and Letters in the Fourth Century. 8vo. Camh. 1901. The Author. 7.27.37 ...... Macaulay (Lord ). Hymn by Lord MacaulaY' An eITort of his early Childhood (hitherto The Editor. unpubJisherf). Edited by Lionel HOI ton­ . .•.••.•• ..1 Smith. * 8vo. Camb. 1902 } Rolls Series. Report on Fredera. APP' A-E. By C. P. Cooper. 3 Vols. 8vo. The Master of the Rolls. Lond. 1869. 5.13...... Rosenberg (J.). Assyrische Sprachlehre und Keilschriltkunde. 8yo. 'V ien, n.d. 7.39.22...... Ioselian (P.)'. A short History of the Georgian Church. Edited, with additional Notes, hy the Rev S. C. Malan. 8vo. Lond. 1866. 9.22.26...... •...... CRley (Rev 'V . B. R.). The Doctriue of Rev A. VV . Greenup M.A. Justification according to Scripture and the Church of England. 81'0. Land. 1899. 11.18·54· ...... Girdlestone (R. B.), Monle (H. C. G.), DrUlY (T. 'V .). English Church Teaching on Fai th, Life, and Order. 8"0. Lond. 1897. 11. 18·55· ...... tHE LIBRARY.

If The asterhk denotes past or pnsmt lIfellluers of the Collete.

Donations and Additions to the Library during Quarter ending Lady Day 1902.

DOllaHons. n bONORS. British Association lI1:eeti g at Glasgow,190 1. Discussion on the Teaching of Mathe· matics which took place on Sept. 14th. Edited by John Perry. 81'0. Lond. 1891. 3· 49·51...... Everett (J. D.). Illustrations of the C . G . S. System of Units, with Tables of Physical Dr. D. MacAlister Constants. 81'0. Lond. 189!. 3.47.2 ... Howes (G. B.). Atlas of practical elementary Zootomy. With a Preface to tbe 1st Edition by the late Rt. Hon. Professor T. H. Huxley. 4to. Lond. 1902. 3.12.8.} *Todhunter (1.). Spherical Trieonometry. • Revised by J. G. Leathem.* 81'0. Lond. The Editor. '901. 3.4952 ...... "'R Law } oby (H. J.).Orations. Essays on the in CiCeIO'S Private 81'0. Camb. 1902. The Author. 7.30•66 ..•••.•.•••....•and ••••••...... } *Glover (T. R.). Life Letters in the t . ' ' 0 ' The Author. ��� . . ���1�: : ;.�����. ��ll ��� ...... : Macaulay (Lord ). Hymn by Lord MacaulaY' An effort of his early Childbood (hitherto The Editor. unpublisherl). Edited by Lionel Horton­ Smitb.* 81'0. Camb. 1902 .•...•••• .. Oll 1} Rolls Series. Report Fccdera. APP' A-E. By C. P. Cooper. 3 Vols. 81'0. The Master of the Rolls. Lond.1869· 5.13...... Rosenberg (J.). Assylische Spracblehre und Keilschriltkunde. 81'0. 'Vien, n.d. 7.39.22. ....•. .•....•• ..... • •.. • Ioselian (P.). A short History of the Georgian Church. Ed ited, with additional Notes, by tbe Rev S. C. Malan. 8vo. Lond. • ...., .. .••.. ' . . 1865. 9.22.26. . ' .. Rev n Caley (Rev VV. B. R.). The �oclnne of A. 'V. Gree up 1ILA. Justification accordIng to Scnpture and the Church of England. 8\'0. Lond. ,899. I I. ,8·54. • •.•.• .. ..•• ..•••••• Girdlestone (R. B.), Moule (H. C. G.), DJ'Uly (T. 'V.). English Cburch Teachin g on Faith, Life, and Order. 81'0. Lond. 1897. 11.18·55· ...... 3t)S The LtOrafj; The L z()7'ary. 3�9

r Hodgkin (t.). Charles the Great. 8VO. Co pus Inscripti"onu1l1 Latinarum. Vol. XI. Pars. ii. Fasc. T. Inscrip. Lond. 1897. 11.25.72...... tiones UllIbriae. E<.Iidit E. Bormann. Fo!. Berolini. 1901. Library Table. -- "'Greenup (Rev A. W.). "The London Rev A. W. Greenup M.A. Vo!. XIII. Pars. iii. Fasc. I. Inscriptiones Trium Galiiarum et B.D. Degree." A critique Jnd a sug­ Gennalllanlln:. Instrumentum Domesticum. Coliegerunt Otto Hirschfelcl ) et C. Zangemelster. Edidit O. Bohn. Fo!. Berolini, 1901. Libm,y Table, gestion. 8vo. Lond. 1901. rl.11.4l. . , , Dugdale (Sir Wm.). The History of snint DlclIOna ry (New Englisl:) on Hi to ical Principles. Edited by Dr. J. A. H. Paul's Cathedral in London, from its Murray. (Lap-Leisurely). By Henry Bradley. 4to. Oxford, 1902, LIbrary 1 nble. Foundation. 'Vith a Cominuation and Rev C. E. Tho11)e -WI.A. Dionysius of Halicarnassu s. The T e Letters (El" ad Ammaeu l11 I, Additions by Henry Ellis. Fo!. Lond. hre Literary Ep. �d �olllpelum, Ep. ad Ammaelllll II.) Tbe Greek Text edited with ...... f 181B. H.2.B...... } EnglIsh TranslatIOn, &c., by W. Rhys Roberts. Bvo. Camb. 1901. "Clark (Prof E. C.). Paper on an alleged 7.15.59. Law of Numa. [From the P, oc. Soc. The Author. Dixon (R. W.). History of the Church of England from the A.holition of the Antiqnaries, June 20, 1901]. 8vo . . . . . } Roman Jurisdiction. Vols V. and VI. Bvo. Oxford, 1902. 5.2;.45,46. Tbe Army and the Press in 1900. A StUdY Early English Text Society. Lydgate's Reson and Sensuallyte. E<.Iited by by a British Field-Officer. 8vo. Lond. Major A. C. Yate. Ernst Sieper. Part r. (Extra Seri�s, LXXXIV). Bvo. Lond. 190 I. 1 . 190 ...... } Ecthesis Chronica and Chronicon Athenarum. Edited, with critical Notes *Gilbert ( Wm.) . On the :Magnet. [TranS- and Indices, by S. P. Lalllbros. (Byzantine Texts edited by J. B. Bury.) lated with Notes, from the 1st Edition Mrs Adams. Bvo. Lond. 1902. 9.40.33. of 1600.J Fo!. 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