IV. CONTENTS. PAOlt The Lengthening Day. 196 To a Lady Margaret Blazer 197 Skyntylations 198 Obituary: Rev Canon Henry Bailey D.D. 199 Rev Frederick Armitage M.A. 203 William Woods Haslett M.A. 204 For the Year 208 Our Chronicle 217 The Lihrary 247 THE EA G LE. F,'ontispiece- Gdobe,. Term 1906. Notes C, om the College Records-continued 251 The Commemoration Sermon 279 Constancy 291 NOTES FROM COLLEGE RECORDS. A Doomsday Book of THE Twenty·six Centuries Ago 292 From Goethe 299 (Colltimud/rom Vol. XXVII,p. 343·) Ein Gleiches 299 Grenada 300 HE documents printed in what follows are Bocca Basciata taken from the Baker· 307 collections in the Corstopitulll British Museum ,MSS. Harl. 7039)' Baker 308 Obituary: seems to have copied them from the originals - Re r Rev Charles Stanwell M.A. in the gist y of the Bishop of Ely. 317 Rev John Prowde M.A. They relate to one Everard Digby, who matriculated 328 Rey John Henry Stork in the University as a Sizar of St John's College, 25 M.A. 330 The Rev Canon Charle& Nevill Keeling October 1567; he was admitted, a l\1.A. 331 Scholar of the Rev John Fitzherbert Bateman M.A. College, on Key ton's foundation, 9 November 1570, 334 a Our Chronicle Fellow of the College 12 March 1572-3, and became 339 a Fellow The Library Senior 10 July 1585. He took the following 361 degrees: B.A. 1570-1, M.A. 1574, and B.D. 158[. He was a man of some literary distinction, and was the author of the first treatise on swimming published in England, and also in some other works suggested a classification of the Sciences. His parentag'e cannot be precisely stated, but he is said to h ave been a great­ graudson of Everard Digby, Sheriff of Rutlandshire; a Lancastrian killed at Towton in 146 I. vVhen adm itted a Scholar and Fellow he gave Rutland as his county of VOL XXVIII. B 2 /I/o/esfrom the College Records. Notes fr07'Fl lJU! Colleg'/! Records. 3 birth, and it is worth noting that an Everard Digby was I59c). It is possible that the Parish Registers of these Rec tor of Barrowden in Rutland, compounding for parishes, if they still exist for this period, might contain First Fruits 2') April J 546, and holding the li ving until all entry with regard to Digby. �562 ; it is possible that this was Digby's father. It will be noticed that Digby threatened to put the Key ton's scholarships were in the first instance President Cl in the Stocks." Odd as it seems to us now, restricted to those who had been choristers of the it would appear that in Queen Elizabeth's day the Collegiate Church at Southwell. Stocks in the Hall were a College institu tion. For The first document printed, Digby's statement, of his Roger Goad, Provost ot King's, in r 5 71 forbad all own grievances, gives us a very dear statement of his members of his College to enter any stream, pool, or side of the case; with the names of his witnesses and water within the County of Cambridge for the purpose l1is references to the Statutes it leaves little to be of swimming or bathing, either by day or by night. desired. We have a curious picture of the Fellows The penalty for junior membe,rs was to be a flogging in gathering round the " fire," or brazier, which used to the Hall in the presence of the whole Society, while stand under the open lantern in the Hall. senior members, who broke this law, were to sit in the The Mr Knox whose name is mentioned is Elea-zar Stocks in Hall for a day. Thus Digby's threat may Knox, who was Junior Dean of the College from have been accoml-'anied with a wave of the hand '14 December 1587 to 20 December 1588. He was the towards the Stocks. We gather that the office of second son of John Knox, the famous Scotch reformer; Steward, as held by a Fellow, was then of recent origin, he died on Whitsun-eve 1591 and was b uried in th� replacing the office 0.[ Manciple, which seems to have (old) College Chapel. been one of lower status. Some part of the trouble William Whitaker had just been appointed Masterl appears to have arisen from the reluctance of the 25 February 1586-7. About this tirr:e the puritan or Steward to call on Digby for the payment of his dues. presbyterian party were very strong in St John's, thus The payment for commons seems to· have given some Digby's views, whether they were actually Roman trouble in CQ]lege about this time. Some Orders Catholic, or what we might now call High Church, were relating to the matter, made by Queen Elizabeth's probably distasteful to the majority of the Fellows. Commissioners were printed in The Eagle, vol. xx, In Heywood and Wright's C07llbrz'dg'e UmverstCy pp. 286-29°. Trrmsaclz'ons dztrt'llg the Puritan Controve1'Szes, i, 507-519, Mr. Digbie's Case. will be found a very lengthy statement of Dr Whitaker's Casus. I not having discharged my commons ror one month 22 the t answers to Digby's case. From this it appears that ended December 1587, Mr Alvey S eward Ilot demandillg debt of me, gave my as were be I� Digby had a benefice away from Cambridge to which the name amongst such to Pllt out of commons. Whereupon Mr Dr Hickman pronollllCtd in he hardly ever went. An Everard Digby compounded, the Chappell that certain had not payd their commons, and that fL.1' Fir!'t Fruits as Rector of Lyndon, Rutland, 18 July they should expect execution according to the Statute. Afte� 1581, apparently holding the living until 1,587, and that, I taking- no notice of this Mr Palmer the President in our compounded as Vicar of Glaiston, Rutland, 6 August Master's absence spake to me first at the table, sitling wilh 1582, h din this till the end year 1605. And ol g of the certain Seniors and others, saying that the Steward had com­ one of the same names was instituted Rector of Orton plained of me for si tting down, not having d i sc h d rged IIlV Longueville, LIunts, 27 January 1592-3, vacating it ill commons, and that I did not well to sitt down t here. I asked 4 Noles /rom Ilia College Records. iVo!es fr.om tltB Collego Ruords. '5 billl wht!lher he spake to me as a flielld or Olilgistrate. as a 3. 1\1:1' Alvey our Sa)'d he, as a flielld. Steward nolV, is by his oath bound to And afterwards the said 1\1,. Pal mer spakt: Ille continue this duty or going to the l\Jaster and Seni,ors to another day at the fire to the like effect, ill the presenc� for his Chambers of Selliors money, since from the first erection of the Stewarrl's and others, whom I then ane! there required, with the office, until this day, it hath beene continned Seniors, to hear and in cnstome. Tbis determille the controversy lisen betwixt the duty is layd upon him by these in Steward and me, words his oath: Jumbo qllod according to the Statute Dissentio1les £nler oburvabo o7llnia Statu/a. rilus, et cOllsueilldines SOC/GS dc. And likewise laudabiles hlljlls offered the money to the Steward, if he would Collegiz'. And this cnstom is not taken away by our new go with me for it. But neither did Mr Palmer call tht! Statutes (Statute 14), being no way Seniors to this effect, disagreable rrom them, the neither the Steward take the mo'lIey so Statute appointing that commons be payd. this custome offered, except I wo'uld shewing lVlaster the manner. Neither did Her M ajesties Commissioners mean himstlf, in the presence of certain Seniors, gave me an to take away such bring it to his 13ooke. admonition, for customes as are not d isagreable from their After thi,] the taking my commons in the Hall, and presently was the Statutes, for then this oath for custom is both vain and void. money offered unto him by another in my behalf, and 4. Tile he, the a , very same question was in Dr Styll his time, Mr T<1ylor M ster refusing it, it was presently payd to the Steward, ,b eing Senior and and by the Steward Mr Hickman beillg Steward. 1\11' Taylor, received. Notwithstanding all this, the when the Master would have admonished him for sitting down Master five days after e pronounc d me IIOU socius be fore th� at u Seniors. the THble, his commons bting npayd, answered that the Steward had not come to his Chamber, according to bis duty, and was thereby dismissed Oa. Taylor). QuatS/t'o. The controversy is, whether I be justly removed 5. When any are put out of Commons it is provided that and pronounced ?IOIZ SOcillS or no, I answere not, and for myself there should be tt/us eXclUS1GlIis publicaHo ill Sa cello per lJ.fagistmm 1 alledge as followith. (Statutes, cap 8). And publz'calio ought to be in such manlltor, A note of Everard Digbie Ids allegations again�t that by nam ing them, every one present may have special notice }\Tr Doctor Whitakcr, his unjust p,oceedings against of every one out of Commons, otherwise it is not publicaNo.