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With a political Memoir. the dispute which led to the great 2 Vols. 8vo. Lond. 1883. 1.32.22,23. Corporation of Shrews­ Wardale (J. R.). Clare College. (College Histories Series.) 8vo. Lond. between the College and the 1899. (see 5.28.70. some account has already been given Zachariah of Mitylene. Syriac Chronicle. Translated ioto English by F. J. bury of which the Trust governing the Hamilton and E. W. Breoks. 8vo. Land. 1899. 9.4°.32• Eagle, xx, 485-510). Under right of nominating the School the College had the to be approved by the Headmaster, who was then ry and installed by the Bishop of Lichfield and Covent 1 2'2, when the correspon­ Mayor of Shrewsbury. In 7 Richard Lloyd was Vicar of Sellack in dence here printed opens, Mr "vas also Headmaster. I-le of Hereford and Herefordshire and a Prebendary preferment with his Brecon. The holding of church School Statutes, and mastership was contrary to the obtained a decree the Corporation of Shrewsbury had Mr Lloyd to from the Court of Chancery directing resign his Vicarage or his School. the College, was William Clarke, the nominee of He was born at Haghmond .-\bbey near Shrewsbury. in the College the son of John Clarke, who is described Q VOL, XXII. Q 298 Notes .from the College Records. Notes from the College Records. 299 Register as a far mer (agncola), but who is elsewhere arrear due to the CoUege; the matter (being then referred to stated to have been the confidential agent of the thtir Council learned in the law) is not yet complied with, Kynastons of Hard wick in Shropshire. Clarke was eiliJer by paying one penny of money, or so much as answering born in 1696, and entered St John's 5 June 17 I 2 in his your convincing letter though I have often pressed them 17th year. He was enrolled a Fellow of the College thereunto. So that though they don't now dispute their 2 2 June 17 I.fj- when he was barely 20 years of age, there obligation to pay yet, they so unreasonably delay it as to being then an exceptional impose unsufferably upon the goodness of the College, and to number of vacancies owing ' to the ej ection of the Non-jurors. He was ordained deserve very highly to smart for it. Deacon 25 September But this perhaps the College may think fit to wink at a little 1720 and Priest 29 June 1723 by the Bishop of St longer till another occasion of contending with them also shall David's. In 1723 he was domestic chaplain to Dr Adam arise, which I apprehend will very speedily upon the following Otley, Bishop of St David's. In reading Clarke's account. letters this ilhould be borne in mind as fr My unckle being pretty much worn out with the dull fatigue equently both the Bishop of St David's and the Bishop of Pedagoguing, is almost prevailed upon to rc:sign that employ of Lichfield and Coventry are ref erred to in the same of Chiefschoolmaster to our counlryman Mr Clark, who is letter in very similar terms. Dr Otley died 30 October exactly qualified according to the Ordinances of the said 17 23· William Clarke married a daughter of Dr School for that office, and therefore we fairly presume the William W otton, well known as a famous youthful College will nominate him to it. We have reason to apprehend prodigy who (according to Sir Thomas Browne, that our worshipfull Corporation will not come into this truly author of the Religzo jlfedzcz) could read and construe good scheme; because they claim an absolute power to them­ Latin, Greek and Hebrew at the age of six or seven selves in this matter, and threaten to lay aside those Ordinances years. Through Wotton's influence with Dr Wake, in this behalf which they have covenanted to observe. The Archbishop of Canterbur College being parties to that Covenant cannot suffer one of y, Clarke was collated by that prelate to the Rectory their own members to be thus unjustly dealt with and therefore of Buxted in Sussex, so that he was provided fo r (1 fear) another bone of contention will shortly arise between in spite of the failure of his hopes at Shrewsbury. the College and the Corporation of Salop. Clarke was a man of very considerable The present Mayor's name is lvlichael Brickdale, esq. literary reputation in his day. His son Edward Clarke was Another will be elected into that office upon friday seven­ a Fellow of St John's, while two of the latter's sons, night and sworn at Michaelmas. I have been so oflen put in Dr J ames Stanier Clarke, a Canon of Windsor, and expectation of the Corporation and School money, that I Edward Daniel Clarke, the traveller and Professor of deferred sending you a Bill for the [40 received so long Mineralogy at Cam bridge, were also literary men. The since from Mr Wynn, with tbe hopes of sending you the Bishop of Lichfie ld and Coventry at this time was Arrears so long due from them at the same time, but the Dr Edward Chandler who took the D.D. degree from persons to whom this matter was referred at the meeting of Emmq.nuel College in 1701; he afterwards became the Corporation being of late pretty much engaged at our Bishop of Durham. Assize and since gone the Circuits of Wales, I cannot expect to send you a more agreeable answer for some lime; and there­ Salop, 18 August 1722 fore I have ullderneath sent you a bill of exchange for that Reverend Dr small sum, which has been lodged in London ready for you Notwithstanding the Opll1l0n which our wise Corporation­ some months, and will undoubledly be duly paid, to any person men seemed be of some months ago concerning the large you shall order to receive it. If you please to send me your 300 Notes .from the College Records. Notes Jrom tlte College Rtcords. 301

receipt in the same form pro 1]22, I hope to prevail upon the made, but this I leave to wiser heads. Steward to remit the like summ upon his return from collecting I have underneath sent you a bill of exchange for the £4-0 his rents in Carnarvonshire before X'ma� and then will take care due from Watkyn Williams Wylln esq at l\Iidsummer last which to send you a good bill a e for it before the next Audit, and to save I doubt not will be duly honoured. I h v kept it some time in the disagreeable sight of an arreal" for the future, which I know bopes of tilt: Arrear to be sent at the same time. And am sorry will be obliging to you serVe and no small satisfaction to (Sir) with that I cannot better you and the College. \\·ho am humble duty to the worthy Master and service to all friends your servant your most obedient JOHN LLOYD. Humble Servant Addressed: To the Reyerend Dr BOlVteIl, Bursar St John'S JOHN LLOYD. College in Cambridg Addresud: To the Reverend Dr Lambert, Fellow of St J ohn'3 pr. London College in Cambridge. pr. London. Honoured and Reverend l\Taster Since my troublesome employment will not give me leave to Salop, 13 April 1723. wait on you, I presume to st:!nd my humble service ill this ldter Reverend Dr and to enquire how you do for I lately heard that you were not I have no other Apology to make for not wlltlI1g to you in in a good state of health; I heartily wish and pray [or your so many months but that I expected our worthy Corporation recovery and the continuance of your life. Gentlemen would (according to tht::ir promise) have waited on But I have another occasion of writing to you at present for you in College. I thinke my selfe obliged to acquaint you and the College with The excuse which they made is that their affair kept them so my intention of rf:signing my post in the Free School of long in London as not to give them time to make any stay upon Shrewsbury about l\lidsummer next. I had some thoughts of the road. doing this 3 years ago if I could have found out a person The reason which they give for not paying the arrears at qualified by our School ordinances to be my successor. After present is that though they believe the Corporation will pay it, I had considered of this matter for some time Mr Clarke, Fellow yet they think fit to respite it for a while till they see how of St John'S, was first in my thoughts on this account, and it was submissive the College will be to their will and pleasure in my opinion then that if he came [or a year or two to be an placing of a new Master in the Free-School. Assistant to me in the School, upon my resignation or death he For this reason I must acquaint you that by an expensive might make the way easier to sucoeed me, and in the mean time suit in Chancery, and other methods, they have rendered that I proposed to make him a handsome allowance for his trouble. post very troublesome to my Unckle, in so much that he is This proposal was accordingly made to the said lVIr Clarke but resolved to resign it very speedily. To induce him the more he refused to accept of it. thereunto they offer him some gratuity for leaving his pleasant I believe sir you may remember that my cosen Lloyd (lately house and some of the furniture. This he finds himself obliged Fellow of your College) acquainted you with this matter when to or else resign an agreable Parsonage that he has quietly he waited on you at Oxford. I think it was about Michaelmas enjoyed in Herefordshire many years. The College if they last, when I made a second proposal to M r Cla l ke, viz, to think fit to dispute their right of placeing of a Master will do resigne my School to him upon such conditions as some of his well to consider whether they had not best begin with them best friends and relations approve of, and such as he himselfe beforehand in this matter of Arrears, to which I think they have was willing to accept. In a little time after he had notice how a good title and may probably discourage the contending with this affair was concerted, he came here in order to sollicite an the in College the placing of a Master, when the resignation is interest for himselfe amongst the members of our Corporation 303 302 Notes /rom the College Records. Notes /rom the College Records.

proposal between me and the Corporation for my resignation and others but he was not successfull ; and indeed I think (as the takes effect. ministry of our Body stands at present) he hath vl�ry little hopes I beg you would be pleased to make my humble service of s ucceedi n g in the Schoole, and Sl-ems to d espai r of it by his acceptable to my honoured friend Mr Baker to all the Seniors expressions in a letter whic ll he wrote latdy to a friend in this and other friends in St John's who shall think fit to enquire for country. Within the compass of a few weeks the Corporati on Honoured and Reverend Masler here sent one of their cheif agents to me to make an offer of a your very obliged summ of money if I would resigne my post. that they might humble servant choose a successor, for they say by the Grant of Edward 6th RICH n. LLOYD. they have the whole po,wer of election upon any vacancy. I Addressed: To the Reverend Dr J enkins, Margaret Professor desired that if I should resign they 1V0uld at lertst ask the and Master of St John'S College in Cambridge, These present. consent of St john's College in this choice and accept of A whole sheet. Mr Clarke, but they refused and only said I might if I pleased By way of London. acquaint the College with their intention, but they could not let them joyn in the election of a master. For my own part I have in no power by our ordinances in this choice, but as I always have To the Rev. Mr Lloyd, Master of the School upon any occrtsion so I s hal l still thinke myselfe in duty bound Shrew sbury. to promote the College interest in this Corporation: if it were Reverend Sir to the to any purpose to strive against the stream or torrent of violent Since you was pleased to communicate your design been obliged to Corporation men who will (quo iure fjuave 1'lIjuria) have the College of resigning about Midsummer 1 have favoured power in their olVn hands. I have till of late years been treated come up to Town. But a letter which your nephew ution. with respect by this Corporation, and have done my endeavours me with assures me you continue in that resol there will be a to promote the publick good as well as to cultivate a fair It seems too plain that upon this occa�ion Master, and in con­ correspondence between St John's and Ollr body politick; but dispute about the right to nominate the College J presume now I find the case altered here, and meet with indiffc:rent fidence of your kind intentions towards the rticul ars : viz. that treatment from those ,\ ho Ilave been my olVn scholars and have to desire your favour in the following pa the form of resignation, the cheifest aut hority amongst us. This usage together with you'll be pleased to have a duplicate of e , at the same time and my oid age and indifferent health make me inclinable to accept exactly the same in all resp cts signed sent to the College, the the offer now made and to take my Quietus. I cannot learn before the same witnesses, One to be as your Statutes direct. who is the person de�igned for my SUCCesso r though since other tendered to the Corporation, may be a public notary (if Mr Clnrke was refused one Mr Cook formerly of your College That whereas one of the witnesses may be one of the under­ and qualified by our Ordinances hath endeavoured to make all that caution be necessary) the other er the resignation, signed and interest and though he is a person of m erit yet I doubt he will masters, who is desi red to deliv concerned, and then send a succeed. You will have better advice then any I can presume attested in due form to the persons the resignation was delivered by him to send, how to act in the aforesaid aff

nephew writes that you th ink it would be well taken if the say no more of him, is universally disliked. The Corporation College condescend to write to the Corporation letting them very frankly own that they choose him to shew the contempt know yonr inclinations to agree with the Corporation in they have for the College'S right of nomination and the Statutes appointing a fit successor according to the Ordi nances of by which they claim it. Sir J oseph J ekyl made a Decree tbe School. The College is willing to do everything they can against Mr L10yd upon the authority of these Statutes, and fairly, without violating their trust, to maintain a good agree­ said they were as fine a body of old Statutes as he had seen, ment with the Corporation. I only beg leave to ask, whether and 'tis not possible that they should all of 'em be so easily such a motion may not weaken the claim of the College fr om overthrown as our Governors here imagine. Every body almost 1\1r Ashton's Statutes, whether tis not a receding fr om their very much approves of the resolution of the College, and as I right and sharing the nomination between the College and the have declared that they will stand by their Right of Nomination, Corporation. Perhaps I do not rightly apprehend your mean­ I hope they won't come to any terms with tbe Corporation now ing, if so, I beg pardon for the mistake, and shall own myself the case is so much in their favour. Mr Tench the second extremely obliged for any advice or information you will fa vour master is en tirely and zealously in the College interest, and us with on this occasion. would be glad to serve it in any manner that the Master and My stay in Town is uncertain, but if you honour me with a Sen iors shall think proper to direct him. He's of opinion that letter about this affair, it will come safe if directed to me in a sollicitor here will be necessary to prevent any im proper steps, College. My humble service to your nephew and thanks for and to supply the College with materials for a bill in Chancery. his last. I am with all respect, Reverend Sir For the Corporation in letting the school leases have been London your most obedient Servan t guilty of very flagrant breaches of trust, and forfeited their bond June 3, 1723 ROBERT LAMBERT. by refusing in the Public Hall to dispose of the Tythes to the best bidder, which (if I remember well) is the condition of the

Reverend Sir bond. The person Mr Tench would recommend as a Sollicitor is one of the Aldermen, a brother of Ambrose Philips, but a very I have been detained here much longer than I had thought honest man, and of great experience and skill in his professi on. of staying by an unhappy accident, which for some time made and well acquainted with the constitution of the School. When me incapable of ridillg; but I am now petty well recovered and I left College the Master and Seniors were pleased to resolve think of setting out for Abergwily very soon, though I would upon sending me a blank nomination to be in readiness against willingly stay here a fortnight longer if Mr L10yd would come a vacancy, and I desire that it may be drawn as soon as possi bly to a lesolution of resiglling the school in that time, He seems it can and directed to Corbet Kynaston Esq at the Crown and willing to comply with your proposal of making two original Rolls in Chancery Lane, who will take care to convey it here resi gnations. Though even that is not to be depended on, for immediately. I shall be very willing to pursue this affair as he is entirely in the interest of the Corporation and dares do far as the College will support me in it, and do all I can to prevent noth ing that they don't approve of; and I am afraid that they such a precedent as the Corporation think of establishing to will draw the resignation and have evidences of their OWIl, defea without giving him leave to choose for himself, since he expects t the College right. I am obliged to you for the trouble which you have already taken in this matter, and beg leave to to be paid for it. And 'tis my opinion that he may expect it . assure you that I am with very great regard. Rrwerend Sir T'will be much easier to get a resignation out of his hands, your most obliged than money out of theirs. I can't say but the Corporation give IZ humble servant the College as much advantage in this matter as they could ask Shrewsbury, June W. CLARKII. for. Mr Owen, the person they value themselves for choosing, is neither a Master of Arts, nor a Burgess, nor educated in the My duty to the Master and Seniors. you School, and in short has not one statutable qualification, a nd to If you have occasion to write to me must direct it at VOL. XXII. RR 306 Notes from the College Records. Notes from tke Cot!ege Records. 307 the Bishop of St David's at Abergwily, near Carmarthen, South July 3, 1723 Wales. Salop Addressed: To the Reverend Dr Lam , Senior bert Fellow of Reverend Sir St John' s College in Cambridge . On M unday last 1\1r Lloyd resigned his post of chief school­ master to the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses; I was present Reverend Sir at t he resignation and have p r ocured an attested copy of the I received yours of the r 3th instant and also a pretty large said resignation. Mr Lloyrl received, before he signed, in my packett from one Mr Philip Williams. Those papers from presence, £50 in money, and a bond for £100 more. Im­ Mr Wi lliams I will carefully keep for their proper uses, when mediately after the resignation I gave, as the statutes direct, there is occasion, which I think now will not be for some notice to the Mayor of the vacancy before witn ess, being the time, for the Corporatio n hearing of the College's resolution first of thi s instant. Some few hours after I received yours by to oppose to the utmost their man, who has nOlhing of his the post, the letter enclosed to the Mayor I del ivered as directed own to defend himself, much less to give to 1\1r Lloyd, it the next morn illg; but notwithstanding the civil terms you is my private opinion none of his most zealous friends here ",rote in, it had no infl uence upon the Corporation, for they met will advance so large a summ for so bad, so ill-grounded that very morn ing and elected one Mr H ugh Owc>n, an entire a title, nor indeed can Mr Lloyd by any means fix them, stranger here, on ly A. B., to be our chief Schoolmaster, and in but they rather seem to decline him. I sh all leave no stone the afternoon gave him possession. In their proceedi ngs they unturned to persuade him to act in tbis matter for the inte rest had no m ore r egard for the power of the Bishop than that of of the College, which sometimes he seems inclined to do. The the Co ll ege, and d id everything by their own authority. It was death of the Earl of Bradford will, I believe, very much break moved in the house by some, that are friends to the College a the measures taken, who it is generally t hought was the chief right that the letter I delivered to the M yor might be publickly supporter of these irregular attempts; however it be, the Cor­ read in the meeting. but it was ref used. A special messenger yd y M r and r poration are much abated in their mettle and I hope j ustice will wen t on fr a last to fetch Clarke, 1 expect him he e at last take place. If Dr Lambert stays any while longer ill this day. If the College please to proceed in asserting their ri gh , Mr P ip i r d oll e he can to London, there is one Mr Corbett Kyn aston, to be heard of at the t hil s s ea y to c ect all th materials make up a oil!. but expects first to hear from the College. If I Crown and Rolls Tavern in Chancery L ane, a gentleman very can serve the College in the prosecution of their rights I desire fit, I humbly conceive, in this matter to be consulted, and one am Sir, s dm d , who wil l undergo any pains to serve this cause; he is well they may use me freely. I with e rvice to Dr E un son acquai n ted with all the proceedings here and will I dare say your obliged h umble servant ROWLAND TENCH. wait upon the Doctor whenever sent to. Mr Clarke is gone t they scarce would have chose this man, but into Sonth Wales to wait upon the Bishop of St David's. I am I though once a atutable one, but this hasty proceeding is g rounded certain I shall have such timely notice of the res ignation as to rather st th y had f rom London . be able to send for him by a special messenger, which I have in upon an opinion e Dr Edm undson at St John's College readiness, time enough. I am Si r, with service to all friends Addressed: ffor the Revd. your most obliged hum ble s ervant in Cambridge. ffree, J. Kynaston. June 18, IF3 ROWLAND TENCH. Salop. Saturday July 5, 1723 Addressed: To the Revd. Dr Edmundson at St John's College Reverend Sir in Cambridge. By way of London. You have al ready had an account of our new schoolmaster it and the manner of electing him; the Corporation managed 0308 No/es from the College Rt·cords. Notes from tile College Ruonls. 309

in thrir usual method with much art and very little honesty, and they say, brought it back at best without Interest. l\rr Philips had full a� great a regard to the Ordinances as they have to declines acting as a Sollicitor till he receives a letter from the their own honour, or anything but their interest. l\1r Lloyd College, and I hope that I have done as much as the College at resigned on Monday at eight at night and the vacancy \Vas present expects from me, who am a little weary of long journeys supplyed before ten on Tuesday morning. They shewed that are of so little use either to the College, or him, who is Sir Ph. York's opinion opon the Case and laughed at any right with very great regard, Reverend Sir the College could clai m, and thought it proper to lay aside the My duty to the your most obliged Bishop's. Mr Hill (who is senior Alderman) r:alled upon the Master and Seniors. humble servant Mayor to have the Statutes relating to the election, and the W. CLARKE College letter, read. But was refused both and the question Addressed: To the Reverend Dr Lambert Senior Fellow of was immediately put and Mr Owen elected and admitted by the Sl John's College Cambridge. Mayor the same afternoon. I came here on Wednesday and found that the Presentation and myself had come here to very July 2 little purpose, the one too late and the other too soon to be of 1 , '723 any other use but to be returned-like two Blanks to the College. Salop For the Corporation declare that they will have nothing to do Reverend Sir e with any person or presentation that comes from such a Society. On thursday night last I received a letter from l\lr Newcom resolved to Mr Lloyd tells me that he was not satisfyed who was to be his elated the 8th instant, wherein I find the College ale successor till after he signed his resignation; but 'tis firmly contest their right in relation to the school. We could not of the 20 da) 5 believed here that an £150 certain was of more consequence to prevail with Mr Clarke to stay till the expiration ion, but he went from Mr Lloyd than any successor; and I am persuaded tbat Brigdale to know the result of the Colleges resolut ore I received (who treated with Mr Lloyd in the name of the Corporation) hence to the Bisr.op of St David's tbe morning bef letter either thought that they could not remove him withoot resigning, Mr Newcome's letter. There was inclosed in the said cross post a few or that his resigning in that manner would be detrimental to one to Mr Clarke which I sent after him by the Clarke waited the Colleges right of nomination ; I caQ't otherwise see why hours after I received it. On munday last Mr the Bishop of Litchfidd and Coventry, but the Bisbop they should part with so much publick money, when they had a upon this matter. Sure it Decree in Chancery against him. I intend to wait opon the declared he would be entirely neuter in will amiss in the College to put his Lordsbip in mind by Bishop and represent the case to him as well as I can; and in not be are Mr Clarke fit my opinion a new Presentation can now be of no ose, since the your letter of his duty at least so far as to decl it) a creature of the school is filled and I was nominated at the election. Had I for the school. The Dishop is more er take p than the late one's, so that that clog been in Town it had been to no purpose, since I could possibly resent Earl of Bradford's was his patron to a living have no legal and valid Presentation , or if the Presentation had is not removed. For the present Earl £ will be made to bring him been good, before I could have informed the Bishop of it the of 500 ptr a1l1lUnl. I suspect efforts Though I take the vacancy would have been supplied. There is no way left but in to the measllTes of the Corporation. When occasion one, the Corporation declare open War; The Mayor took the Bishop to be a man of integrity and honour. for again. Be pleased to give school key and locked out the other Masters during tbe Vacancy, requires Mr Clarke shall be sent my Mr Bursar, Mr Newcome etc. I heartily wish the who I believe begin to be afraid of them. The College can service to Col le success and (\m Sir your obliged humble servant never have a fairer opportunity, or dispute their right against a ge person less qualified, or less regarded here ; I believe he is an ROWLAND TENCH. entire stranger to the business of a Public School. He carried The Bishop of Litchfield etc. is to be directed to at his a little learning out of Wales with him to the University, and as Palace at Eccleshall in Staffordshire. Notes from tlte Cotleg'e Rao1'ds. 3 I I 3 I O Notes /1 '0111 the College Records. receive it, and did not go so fa r as to examine whether it was Addressed : ffo r the Revd Dr Edmundson at St John's College blank or no, but said that receiving my Presentation would be Cambri d ge. declaring for me, which he was determined not to do, and that free J. Kynaston. the College m ust enter a Caveat, or some rule of Court, i f they expected that he should not approve of Mr Owen. I should beg Reverend Sir pardon for be i ng so pa rticu l ar but that I thought it necessary I returned here on Saturday, having had so clear an answer t o give YOll as fu ll an a ccount of his Lordship'S answer as I from the Bi�hop t h at it will entirely excuse me from payin g any could. If staying longer in Shropshire 1V0uld have been of any more attendance on his LordS h ip . I waited upon him last use, either to the College or myst'lf, 1 should not have returned Monday at Ecc1eshall and gave h i m the fi rst account that so soon ; But since his Lo rd ship refuses to accept of the l\Tr I.loyd had resigned, and that tile Corp oration had made Presentation, 1 can't pursue that affair any further, and there Mr Owen h i s successor ; But that the College were in hopes that can be no occasion for another. Every body is in hopes that his Lordship would pay such a regard to the Statutes as not to the Col l ege will asser t their r i gh t in a proper manner, for the approve ofa person who had not one of the qualificationsreq uired Corporat i on declare pllblickly that no body of St John's 5ball be by them. H is answer was, that the C o lleg never e had wrote to concerned in any of tlle schools, I am, Sir h im. and that he had never seen any o rigi nal or attested copy your most obedient of the Statutes which I tal ked of. that I indeed shown had h im Abergwily bumble servant a copy of them in Town last wi nter, but that he tho u ght himself July '5 W. CLARKE. under no obligation to pay any regard to them till he was more Duty to the Master and Seni ors. P.S. Si nce I sealed this I fully satisfyed of' their authority. I endeavoured to represent to received the letter l\lr Newcombe sent me to Shrewsbury, and I his Lords h ip, h o w i mpo�sible it was for me to wait upon him had determined to stay th ere, if the B i sh op 1V0uld have accepted with either of the O rigi nals. and to procure such an attested my Presentation. but since his Lordship h ds declared himself in copy that his Lordship would approve of, was putti ng me under the manner I have mentioned I can ' t think it necessary to be very great, and as I supposed, unnecessary difficulties, since refused again, and for that reason shall wait h ere till the College nei ther Mr Owen nor th e Co rporation had offered any thing to have some opinion that it is absolutely n ecessary, otherwise I destroy the credit of what I had sbewn him. or to prove that shal l be glad to be excllsed, fo r it is hig h ly inconvenient. the right of election was without any limit ations lodged solely Excuse haste for the Post 5lays, while I add this. and intirely in themselves, and that the College could never Addresud : To the Reverend D r Lambert, Senior Fellow of have any views of pretendi ng to a power independent of his St John's Col l ege in Cambridge. Lordship's ; I had almost said enough to make his Lordship Free : A. St David. a g y, n r and he told me with some warmth, that the College mnst not expect that he should embroil himself with a Corporation of My Lord so much consequence in his own Diocese, and that he could The bearer 1\1"rW i I l iam Clarke wails on your Lordship with not refuse to approve of Mr OlVen if he offered himself, and a Presentation from the Master and Fellows of St John's had th e common qualifications fo r a School ; and added, th at Coll ege Cambridge to the Headmaster's place in the school of it did n ot appear to him that I came from the College, he had Sh rewsbury, and I am ordered in thei r names to beg your only my word for it who was a party in the question. I told his Lordsh ip's favourable acceptance of the same, that you would Lordsh ip that I h ad taken care to bring such a Presentation be plea�ed to admit the said Mr Clarke to subscribe and do with me as would put that out of all doubt, and produced it such things as shall be requisite, before he otTers himself to the immed i ately, and offered it to h is Lordship ; and though I had Corporation . not filled up the blank, it wou l d have been an evidence that the If the College had been ascertained of the design of that College designed to present me. But the Bishop refused to 3 IZ Notes /? 'om tlz o College Records. Notes fr om the College Records. 3 13 bo dy to proceed in this unusual manner, I had done myself the Reverend Sir ho nour to attend your Lordship during your stay in Town, but I shall be always ready to pay all proper obedience to a it was not certain which way Mr Lloyd would determine ; I am Society which I am in duty and interest obliged to serve, and loath to give your Lordship unnecessary trouble, and depended to shew that I am very sincere in it, shall set out at the rfI upon the notice of your kind intentions to be tender of the begi ling of next week for Shrewsbury. 1 shall endeavour to College rights when Dr Hill recommended Mr Clarke to your pursue all your directions with as much exactness as possible, Lord ship's fa vourab le opinion. I have in vain endeavoured to and if the College have any further commands should be glad pr eserve a good agreement with the Corporation that we might to receive them at Shrewsbury. I own that I have no great proceed in a friendly manner, comformably with the Statutes we opinion of his Lordship's conduct in this affair, or any prospect are both obliged to observe inviolably for ever. I say nothing of prevailing with him ; and as to the two points you mention, of the authority of those statutes, since they were owned by all I beg leave to return this answer at present, First, That he will partys concernedin the late case of Mr Lloyd before the Master refuse to read my Presentation, and Secondly That he will think of the Rolls, as appears by the Decretal Order in the Register himself obliged to admit Mr Owen, if the Corporation are Office. The claim of the College to nominate and elect a pleased to apply to him. And as to what Mr Newcome master is fo undf'd upon tbose statutes and subsequent covenants, mentions of offering it before a Public Notary, I am afraid authoriz ed by prescription, and the College find themselves that his Lordship has too much art and insight in this affair to under a necessity to defend their rights, which are now openly give me an opportunity of doing it, unless it be in a public violated by the late proceedings. manner, which perhaps he would resent as a rudeness little less They stayed till the twenty days fo r notice of the avoy­ than insulting him. I am glad that you have given Mr Philips dance were expired, and as Mr Clarke offered himself in the directions fo r providing an attested copy of the Statutes, though accustomed manner to your Lordship according to the rules in I wish it is in his power to do it. That would remove one very that case provided, 'tis the request of the College that he may material objection and make his Lordship very much at a loss be allowed to do what is required by the same ordinances, and how to reply or excuse what he has already determined to if ther e be any reasonable objection against him, the Corpora­ do wit hout excuse. Will it be necess�ry for me to apply tion will then be at li berty to plead the same, as the Statutes to the Corporation in case the Bishop refuses me ? And might direct, hoping there will be no hindrance on your Lordship's I not be at liberty to return when I have done as you have part. directed ? I am not at all afraid of exercise or the fatigue of my If your Lordship apprehend yourself under obligations not journeys but I am unwilling to be long or frequently absent to allow this, our next request is, that you would be pleased to from his Lordship, fo r I leave him alone without any company def err the admission of either party till the cause has been or assistant, neither Secretary nor Chaplain, being forced to heard and determined in due form of law. serve for both. I am Reverend Sir This your Lord ship's candour and goodness will not giv e your obliged me It:ave to doubt of, and therefore I shal l only beg pardon fo r Abergwily and humble servant this trouble, and subscribe myself Aug. 8. 1723 W. CLARKll. your Lordship's most dutifull P.S. My duty to the Master and Seniors. I hope your letter London and obedient servant may have some influence on the Bishop, though I could wish July 24 ROBERT LAMBERT the College would have applyed to him before I had made him 1723 Senior Bursar of St J ohn'9 this second visit. College, Cambridge I desire that you would please inclose all my letters in a To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Litchfield and cove,- to his Lordship and give me leave to make as much use Coventry at Eccl eshall, Staffordshire. as I can of Abergwily. VOL. XXII. 5 S 3 [4 No tes fr om the Coll ege Reco7'dr. No tes fr om tft e College Records. 315

Addrused : To the Reverend Dr Lambert Bursar of St J oh n' s exempt from any Bishop's jurisdiction, and all matters here of College in Cambridge. ecclesiastical cognizance are transacted by an official of this Free. A. St Da,·id. pl ace, who is put into the pl::e by the school. So that if Mr Clarke is to do anything in order to his possessi on, such as subscribing etc. he ust apply to t e court here or any Salop m h cavtaf m us be entered here, for we take all our licences out of this August the J oth 17Z 3 t Sir court. We Wh9 came in by the Statutes applyed to the Bishop I sent my c1erke over last weeke to wayte on t h e Bishop of on ly for his approbation , which he signified to the Mayor by Coventry and Litchfield c with an examined copy of the I ndenture !lis letter. So that I onceive Mr Clarke to have nothing be[weene the Bishop of Coven try and Litchfield that then was, further to do with the Bisho p th an getting such approbation, the Corporation, and the College, and Mr Aston (Which deed w h ich I presume in justice he cannot deny. Whatever is to be recites all the material parte of King Edward the 6th' s grant done in this court, the College may depend upon a just and and the whole gran t or conveyence from Qlleene Elizabeth) favourable complyance. I design to send for Mr Clarke next and an examined cop y of I\T r Aston's ordinances. I recei ved a post ; if you think proper to alter any of h i s directions with the letter from the Bishopp in answer to mine to his Lordship, Bishop, be pleased to l et us know as soon as may be, for I whereby I guesse that he will avoyde d eterm ininge in the affaire believe it will be needless upon these grounds to trouble the all that he possibly can And I doe not a pprehend the least Bishop with any thi ng more tban his approbation. Be pl eased danger of hi s:a pprov inge of or concerninge h i msel fe in the to give my humble service to Mr Bursar and all other friends least in relation to Mr Owen's being placed in the schools. I formerly mentioned. I am Sir your obliged humble servant take it t here will be a necessity of makinge ;\lr Lloyd, late ROWLAND TENCH. schoolmaster, a party to the in tended bill ; a s ketc h of whicll Phil i p has shelVed me a letter from the Bishop b ill co nteyni e P.S. Mr s ng all the gran ts "nd all the facts and breaches of wherein his Lordship takes it right and expects whoever is trust I am in hopes to send to your lodgings in London fo r you Ma ter take his licence out of the peculiar, and owns his to presen t to your s will Counsel before the time of your intended Mr Philips is proctor of the peculiar. I am retturn e thither. !\Ir no power there. C larke is not yet retturned to Salop. But fully satisfyed the Bishop has nothing to do but to declare the notice is sent him t tha his p resentati on is Col1'J.j':) to my hands, p erson duely qualified as a scholar, and a man that professes which s h a l l be del ivered to him with your instructions at my sound principles. first opportllllity. With respect I am si r Addressed : ffor the Rev Dr Edmundson at St John's College your mo-st humble servant Cambridge. THO. PHI LIPS. ffree J. Kynaston. Addressed : To The Reverend Doctor Lambert at Sai nt Johll's Col lege ill Cambridge, present. Reverend Sir My Lord Bishop' s illness obliged me to return with so much August 10, '723 haste to Abergwily, that I had not time to give you an account Salop in what manner and with what sllccess I was received at Reverend Sir Eccleshall. But since I h ad done all that was necessary, I Mr Bursar's directions to !\Ir Clarke what to request of the fancyed you would excuse me from g ivin g you a relati on of it �llo seem Bi p to me as if he t h ought the Bishop had the power till I was more at leisure. I delivered your letter to his of licensing a scho m ol aster here, which if he doth, his directions Lordship and be acknowledged that the Corpo rati on had not are founded a upon mistake. For our parish is a royal pecu iar, l paid him so much re�ard as the College h<\d been please'ct to 317 3 16 No tes j?'om th e College Records. No tes fr om the Culltg"e R,·coris . be occasion can shew him, and he desires to be Imown to Dr Lambert, when he Mr Lloyd was present, and if there should that his Lordship is next in London. The letter was received with great evidence tha t I offered to be examined, and ifyed and had no objection appearance of satisfaction, and it fu lly answered my purpose. said he did not suspect my being qual ation to the Mayor on He took no notice of St I\Tary's Peculiar, nor seemed appre­ to me. I gave the letter and my Present Worship returned the hensive that you were in the least unacquainted with it, and all the 4th instant and on the sixth his the vacancy was fi lled, and your care and concern upon that occasion might have been Presentation and his answer " that it." I delivered my very well spared. He took my Presentation with great readiness that the Corporation had a right to do s directed me. Tis and returned it with as much complaisance, and begged leave Presentation in such a manner as Mr Philip I think the Bishop did to be excused either from examining or approving me, because nolV in a fair way of being decided, and to the Mayor. that would be making himself a party in the dispute which he enough to encourage me to oa-e r my Presentation and I shall think desired and would endeavour to avoid. Otherwise he was very The College will now know how to proceed, them any service in well inclined to shew his regard for the College, but could not myself very fortunate if I can be able to do that you ha\'e spared no come up intirely to what I expected of him. Such was Our this affair; or myself. I am sensible Reverend Sir conversation, very civil and very insignificant, and I had the trouble and am with great regard obliged humble servant pleasure of seeing him shift anct shuffle and set himself against Your most CLARKE. his authori ty to preserve his intere3t. He renewed at last his W. old objection, which he could not get over ti Il he had seen an My duty to the Master and Seniors. Senior Bur sar of attested copy, and had time allo wed him till his next return to Addressed .' To The Revd. Dr Lambert, London to advise upon it. I humbly hoped that Mr Philips' St John's College in Cambridge copy would fully satisfy him in that matter, and that he would Free : A. St David. about Michaelmas 1723· attest it to be an exact copy of those Statutes which were allowed Endorsed : Without date, Mr Clarke, ery, 16 SE. : perhaps and read in the late proceedings in Chancery hetween the [The letter bears a post mark : Llandov Corporation and Mr Lloyd, and that Mr Lloyd (who was there 16 Septem b J. with me) could assure his Lordship of the truth of it ; and I added, that Mr Philips was of opinion that he had given his Reverend Sir the impor­ Lordship a legal and sufficient notice of his trust and could not I came here last week from Abergwily, where me to stay much think that we were obliged to attend or answer all his Lord­ tunity of the Executors had prevailed upon Philips, who tells ship's scruples. After much soliciting his Lordship was longer, than I had designed. I have seen Mr here prevailed upon to write to the Mayor, but so cautiously and me the Bill is now before Counsel, though our managers in it. I can with so much art, that he would not allow of the College Title, give out that the College is too discreet to proceed further instructions or recommend me to the Corporation. He read over his letter only say that I am ready here to receive any the Seniority to me and I was glad to receive it as it was, since the Statutes from you, and to submit with great duty to whatever sorry that my only require him to allow, and prescribe no form for doing it. shall think most advisable in this affair. I am liberty to attend to I don't remember the words exactly, but it was to this effect, Lord Bishop's death has left me so much at think that I have any and almost in the same terms " That I had been with :him and it. But it will be some satisfaction to with how much produced a Presentation to the Head-Schoolmaster's place from opportunity of serving the College, or shewing the College of St John in Cambridge. That he had no original regard I am, Reverend Sir humble servant of the Tripartite Indenture by him to which they refer in their Shreusbury Your obliged W. CLARKB:. letter, and could not so well judge whether they had a Right to Nov. 16, 1723 me at Mr present, or not. Therefore he did trallsmit me and my papers If you have any commands you may direct to th8m for an answer etc." Botevyle's in the High Street, Shrewsbury. om the College Records. 319 318 No tes /1 '01/; the College Records. No tes fr

a wrong foundation. And Chaloner had Addnmd : To the Reverend Dr Lambert at the B ishop's because he was in upon first. I-lead in St PauJ"s Churchyard, London. been duly placed at Mr nominated by the After Mr Chaloner's death, BL111 being the Corporation Colledge came down with such nomination. But Corporation desired liked Mr Andrew Taylor better. And the S ir as for his journey, him (Mr Bull) to desi st and gave him fiveguine Ha v ing received a copy of the answer of the Corporation p ration sent a member which he did accord i ngly, and the Cor o from 1\1r. Rnderick L10yd an d havinge considered thereof with lege to nominate Mr of their body to intercede with the Col my n eigh bour Mr L10yd and enquired into the fa cts sett out i n he was regularly ad­ Taylor which they did accordingly and the answer, upon talkinge with Mr Richard Andrewes who was mitted as agreed by the Answer. formerly nominated by the Colledge to the place of 2nd. mith enjoyed the The Defendants by the Answer say Mr S Schoolemaster. he hath given vs the account of the several approbation. The place all his lifetime without the Coliedge fa cts in the within written page mentioned which happened in ted by the Colledge case was thus : lVIr Andrews was nomina his memory and observation , he beinge neare 80 yeares of age. yor for the time being but Smith was placed in by the Ma I have by this post sent another coppy of the Mr fa cts to Mr Andrews applying immed iately before his office ended and Lloyd for i n structi ons to d raw the interrogatories. If you find by him to take Smith out to the succeeding :"dayor was offered anythinge in your College books or regi ste rs relati nge to these place Mr Andrews in his of the Schooles by the shoulders and fa cts I thinke if they were sent downe when the commission urpose. In the meantime roome and appoi nted a day for that p shall be executed to refreshe and assist M r Andrews' memory Mr Andrews patron, the matler was agreed by 1\Ir Kynaston, it may be of service. Mr Andrews being very aged it may be did accordingly, but that he should declille his ri ght, which he necessary to speede the execution of the Commission for fe are Colledge to enable them refused to resigne his nomination to the least by delays the Coil edge may be depri ved of such a le. Which the Colledge to choose another and dispute the tit witnesse' s t estimony. Wi th respect I am Sir ted. would have done if he had consen January 2nd Your most hllmble serva nt at Saint John'S Addressed : To the Reverend Dr Lambert J724 Salop. THO. PHILIPS. sheet. College Cambl i d ge these. A single Mr Wal thall was not dropt by the Corporation as is se tt out in the answer, but the fa ct stood thus : The Colledge receivi ng notice fr om the Corporation of a this letter of Mr Philips caused Dr vacancy of Second Schoolmaster wrote a recommendatory Apparently College Records on the points letter to the Cor poration on behal fe of Mr WalthalI. But the Lam bert to look up the it appears that Richard Corporation not approving of Mr Walthall desired the College involved. In the College books College to be Head­ to accept of Hllghes [corrected in Dr Lambert's handwri ting to Piggott was nominated by the omas Chaloner ' HaynesJ . WalthaII was prevailed on to desist and on Hughes' master 'on the resignation of Th as Chaloner was [HaynesJ application to the Colledge he was nominated by 4 September 1660, and that Thom 13 February 166�. them and accepted by the Corporation. again nominated by the Colle ge Chaloner being Head School e 24 : master in th e troublesom l\IrPhil ips writes on February 1 7 times and an obnoxious person, fl ed and was arrested and taken times of confusion and aloner w;],s turned ont in the into custody by a Troop Ch of Horse aud forced to quit his schoole enjoyed ' resigned, and Pi gott was placed in his room. Pigott and retire into Wales and Pig;.,ott putt into his place. After Pigott was turned it till the Restoration. After the Restoration some absence the Restoration came on and then t of by he Act e Act of Parliament out by the Commissioners for putting th Parliament fo r r estoring persons that had been dep rived to fo rmer places. The in execution [or restoring persons to their their places, he was restQrred accordingly and Pigott displacod 3 20 No tes Fr om the College Records. No tes fr om the College Records. 3 21 Commi ssioners placed Cotton then Second Schoolemaster in Pigotl's room, possible though I believe it cannot be published before the first Schoolmaster. Chaloner being absent, Michaelmits term. Dr Wotton designed a large Preface, which Cotton declined and went to his old place again of Second he had thought of drawing up this winter, but the appearance Master. The Colledge thereupon recommended WalthalI by of the dropsy intirely prevented it. There will be no way of letter who came down with his recommendation, but voluntarily declined. supplying that, for he never used any sort of Common Place, but laid up all his materials in his memory. I shall dispose of Then the Corporation recommended Chaloner, and he was re-elected by none of his books, but only those that are purely Rabinnical, the CoIledge ill the lifetime of Pigott, all this, some in Welsh and in the Northern languages. H is study is not as Mr Andrews says he remembers. This clears up the cloud large, and we have no duplicates, I having ,bought for some both in the Corporations answer and the CoIIedge Books. years no books, that he had. I heartily rejoice in the good success we have had in the House of Lords. When the Corporation are obliged to own We conclude with a letter from Mr William Clarke, that we had justice on our side, they may begin to repent that written after the College had been finally successful in they had not more discretion on theirs. If I could have had its contest with the Corporation. It is addressed to peaceful possession at first I should have been very well pleased, Leonard Hotchkiss, then third and ultimately Head­ but I don't care to be concerned in the peevish consequence!: master of Shrewsbury School. The first part of the of such a dispute. I am ready to cancell my instrument of letter refers to the death of Clarke's fa ther-in-law nomination, and desire you would ask Mr Tho. B1akeway for it, Dr Wotton and that genlleman's unfinished work on in whose hands I left it, and if Dr Philips pleases he may take the Welsh laws which Clarke afterwards edited with it up wilh him to the College and deliver it to the Seniority, I a preface in 1730. believe that is the best way to give satisfaction to them, and as well to the person they present. If Mr Blakeway has lost it, I would subscribe any fo rm of resignation. I can't think but Dear Sir that the College will press Mr Tench to resign, but it is yOUl I think, as you do, that we have great reason to be sub­ best way to keep well with Dr Philips and him, till that affair missive under our p resent ' affliction. The last years of the is over. I will give you my opinion of your scheme for Greek Doctors life have been literally nothing else but labour and verbs when I come to London. I must be there soon after sorrows, and upon the first appearance of his last distemper we Easter, and you may direct to me at NI r Wilkins, Bookseller in all saw death attending it. But though he had much sorrow, Paul's Churchyard, London. I should be glad to know the he had many mercies with it ; his understanding continued name of the 12 Lords who voted for the Corporation, besides perfect to the la&t moment, and he himself directed wh 1t offices Lords Bradford, Macclesfield and Leehmere ; you may easily be should be read to him. Yet notwithstanding all the comfortable informed when the Mayor returns. My humble Service to circumstances which can be thought of, it is not so easy to Mrs Hotchkiss and I am Sir fo rget him. I lost a very indulgent fa ther and a most useful Buxted, your affect. humble servant. and instructive compauion. I'm truly sorry that so many good March 20, '726,7 W. CLARKE. hours were spent upon his Welsh Work. If he wearied his Humble service to all friends subscribers patience, I can justly say it helped to wear out his Addressed : To the Reverend Mr Hotchkis at the Schools in own health. He finished the translation last summer, above Shrewsbury. 3 books are already printed ; the glossary is above 4- parts in R. F. S. 5 quite finished and Mr WilIiams can easily supply what is wanting there ; It shall be done with as much expedition as (To b" cOlltili ued).

VOL. XXII. TT -�

A DEDICATION. THE VALLEY OF LOST CAUSES.

(After the Dant'sh 0./ Cat'! Ewald. ) I..... :amI F you travel by the train from Newcastle to WE Hexham, you will cross the Devilswater near strayed, thy little hand in mine, the end of your journey j but the brief glance, One summer morning fresh and fine,. which is all that the hurryi ng train allows, In a wood where birches met : gives little indication of the size and beauty of the dale A great sun-bonnet served as fr ame from which the river has issued on its way to join the To rounded childish cheeks afiame, -Thy voice is ringing yet ! Tyne. You will see a shallow rippling stream with a of brownish stone and deep banks of sloping Of birdies' songs, of fiow'rs, of trees,­ channel arched over with a canopy of green branches or the Whate'er thy tender mind could seize­ turf, : at no great distance I wove thee tales, my pet : tangled tracery of leafiess boughs the prospect is c10seu by the high banks of the gorge, -Ah, thou canst not remember it, Tynedale j and the And I can ne'er fo rget ! through which the river passes into gaunt grey tower of Dilston Castle peeps out above the trees, like a sentinel guarding the entrance to the fairy­ And now my locks are thin and gray, land which lies beyond. For years since then have slipped away, It is curious to findso uncanny a name imposed upon For gladness or regret ! a stream of such great natural beauty : it is rather to And, ah, the woods where now I roam, the freaks of nature or the mysterious works of pre­ And those wide chambers of my home, historic engineers that the devil has usually stood Know thee no more, Ninette ! sponsor. Dilston itself is mer ely a contraction of Since I shall never find thee then, Divelston, and historians have discovered or invented a 0, let this Book remind thee then Norman knight named D'Eivill, from whom they derive Of a wood where birches met : the title of his supposed place of residence. Such -For thou canst not remember it, residence, however, is purely hypothetical, and it seems And I can ne'er fo rget ! more probable that the river and not the fo rtress was G. C. M. S. the original bearer of the name. A thirteenth century charter describes certain lands as lying " inter Denise­ burn et Divelis," and a contemporary account of the battle of Hexham makes mention of "le ewe Devyls," while Michael Dray ton and the old.chroniclers call th� 324 Th e Va lley ofLos! Causes. Th e Vu lley ofLost Causes. 325

Paul's dec1aration,­ stream the Dowel. Whether the devil ever had even a fo re devils in accordance with St s with horns, tails, and legendary connection with the river remains a subject not swarthy and malicious being fauns of the fo rest, the fo r conjecture. The Celtic enthusiast will readily prove cloven hoofs, but nymphs and Thus it came to his own satisfaction, if not to ours, that th e name m ountain, and the moorland stream. as heathendom means Black Water, or Wh ite Water, or Winding (if you will pardon the fantasy) that, rth country retreated Water :-all Celtic riv er-names seem to be capable of passed away, the Oreads of the no wood and water bearing one or more of these three interpretations to Cross Fell, while the nymphs of of this unfrequented But this is a romantic neighbourhood, and even a sought a refuge in the leafy gorges brought to regard combination of all three epithets must fa il to satisfy our valley, till the common folk were being undoubtedly craving for the picturesque, the dramatic, and the them with a proper abhorrence as mysterious. The Muse of Legend, who is usually so devils, in disguise. it has the advantage fo nd of inventing traditions to expl ain outlandish names, The theory may be fantastic, but the face of ndture has shrunk from applying her ingenuity to the Devils­ of fitting the facts, if only we observe and to the unphilo­ water, or at any rate all record of her theories has with sufficiently imaginative eyes ; a dozen competing perished, and the Muse of Fancy must be allowed to logical soul it is worth more than easier to appreciate take her place. We may divert ourselves by weaving etymologies. But the facts are the river presents a score of weird or exciting episodes into the little­ than to describe. Every turn of of still or rippling known history of early Saxon times, when Christianity some new and fascinating picture like marble mosaics in was slowly driving out the worship of the old Teutonic water, of wet stones gleaming cooling their deities. Perhaps a herd of swine once ran violently the river bed or moss-covered boulders of green branches down a steep place and perished in a deep pool of the grey sides in the eddy ing stream, rries by, as though river, and the imaginative Gurth who tended them bending to kiss the water as it hu or sombre recalled the history of the swine of Gadara, and named they were wood-gods wooing a water-nymph, on the brink of the the stream accordingly ; or if this theory fa il to please pine-trees standing in serried ranks haugh of smooth the fa ncy, let us try another. gorge, with here and there a pleasant might dance to the music of Tradition tells us that the baffled fiends of heathen­ green turf, where Dryads these pictures on a dom continu ed to haunt the moory summit of the the moving water. Gaze at any of early summer fo r choice,­ mountain anciently known as Fiends' Fell, till St fine summer day-let it be which often comes to paint Cuthbert exorcised them by planting a cross there, and or in the mellow sunshine you will scarcely find it thus gave the height the name which it now bears. the fo liage in October, and that the valley began Surely we may be allowed to imagine that some stray altogether impossible to dream of Tempe and a last members of the company were once reputed to have its history ' as a northern rival golden age. But alas ! a fo und a refuge among the wild barren uplands where lingering survival of the weather, and when Astraea the headsprings of the Devilswater ooze from the peaty golden age needs golden ft only too little of the latter ground ; or, if we are poetically inclined, we may fledfrom the earth, she le mists lie thick upon the propound the theory that the devils of the fe ll and behind her : when the grey down from the south dale were only technically devils (if we may be allowed hills and the rain comes sweeping · transmuted the expr...: ssion),-objects of heathen worship, and there· west, the gold vanishes altogether, or is Tlt e Va lley of Lost Causes. 3 27 3 26 Ti le Veil/e)! of Lost Causes. they marched out across the haughs to force the passage into the most unromantic lead. It was not without of the Ty ne and storm the British stronghold of good reason that the Greeks made the Sun-god the Corstopitum. During the early period of the Roman patron of poetry : a wet day in the valley of the Devils­ dominion this valley must have been the haunt and water would have ruined every string of Apollo's hiding place of the irreconcileable native : even at the lyre. present day and with the aid of modern weapons it But beauty of wood and water is not the only charm would be by no means easy to clear these wooded that our valley possesses. If we are so skilful as to ravines of an active and cunning enemy, and between deduce water-nymphs from its very nFt-me, we may surely the times of Agricola and Hadrian the task would be able to conjure up one or two pictures fro m its history ; probably be beyond the powers of the local com manders. fo r on three occasions the dale of the Devilswater has The cause of British freedom was lost, but it lingered been the scene of events entitled to rank as part of the here ; and so long as the waning lamp still flickered, history of England, and there must be numberless unre­ its devotees must have lived an exciting and even a corded episodes which our imaginations may at least fascinating life. The days, no doubt, would for the attempt to recover. But whether we deal with fact or most part be passed in repose and idleness, except conjecture, there is one keynote which runs lhrough the when the refugees sought variety by making a swift whole history. We have indulged in the playful idea foray against a convoy travelling northwards by the that this was the last place to which the nymphs of great road which lay a fe w miles to the east, or set an Northumberland retreated before they vanished fo r ever, ambush to overwhelm the cohort that was sent to drive and the fancy is aftp.r all a type of the history of the them from their hidden lairs ; but the night must have dale : it is the Valley of Lost Causes, and we shall find been their chief season of daring and revenge. Many fe w episodes to relate or imagine which do not display a time must the darkness have covered a stealthy the panic and miser,y of the vanquished as their most expedition against the lonelier farms of Tynedale, from striking fe ature. The valley is a natural hiding place, which the fo rayers would return doubly elated, if only a woodland sanctuary ; and in every age when war has they had been so fo rtunate as to capture some of their devastated the neighbouring district, the dale of the enemies' cattle and shed some of their enemies' bloocl. Devilswater has afforded a refuge to some of its victims. From these fa stnesses spies would issue, to risk their Even in the misty years which preceded the Roman lives in trying to communicate with the still unconquered conquest the process must have begun. Somewhere in clansmen of the north, or punish their recreant kinsmen the near neighbourhood ran the line which divided the who had tamely submitted to the Roman yoke ; but territories of the Brigantes and the Ottadini : boundary sometimes,-inc1eed oftener as month after month went disputes and border fo rays are no modern invention ; by,-they never came back, and there were women and and no doubt our valley has many a time sheltered the ch ildren waiting fo r them hungrily in the lonely- coverts survivors of an internecine war of which history knows of N unsbrough or Dipton Dene. nothing. It is probable that a flying column of That cause was lost and vanished ; but there came a Agricola's army looked down into this wooded dale, time when the Roman domination became a lost cause as it moved along the great ridge which rises at the too. The temporary ruin of Hadrian's Wall, which back of Hexham, and perhaps the fi rst Roman invaders probably occurred during the reign of Commodus, must of Tylledale drank from the stream at Dilston, before Tlt e Va lley 0/ Lost Causes. 3 29 3 28 Th e vet/Icy 0/ Lost Causes. victorious English overtook Cadwallon, the Welsh have filled these hiding places with anxious fu gitives ; army devastator of the north, when the ruin of his but the ruin was soon restored, and the Roman rule drove him to seek a refuge in the Valley of Lost Causes. still continued. It was when the final onslaught of It is the closing scene of a grim and lurid tragedy, Caledonian fury burst the great barrier fo r the last s. Earlier and we can almost picture its very detail time and fo und a fo e 100 degenerate and an empire too in the acts bave shown us the truculent Welsh king enervated to repair the disaster, that our valley once of zenith of his pride and cruelty, the tame submission more became the home of a lost cause, and sheltered h. the apostate Eanfrith and the brutal murder whic some of the denizens of Ro man Tynedale fr om the death and rewarded it, the dreadful march which spread merciless triumph of a barbarian conqueror. Who can desolation over the southern portions of Bernicia, and say what scenes of death and suffering these rocks and the last desperate gathering on the bleak hill-summit streams may not then have witnessed ? That level the beside the Roman Wall. Now in the final act stretch of turf, shadowed by the overhanging crag and At catastrophe has come with dramatic swiftness. edged by the tawny gravel of the river bed, may once still the first dim greying of the dawn Cadwallon was have been a camping place where delicately nurtured certain a tyrant and a conqueror, still flushed with women and children have huddled shivering together, the last expectation of a victory which was to destroy and cried fo r the luxuries which were lying wet with well clear organised effort of his fo es : befo re the sun is blood or buried in smoking ruins beside the Roman fu gitive, of the horizon, he is a ruined and deserted Wall. How wearily must the days and weeks have wooded flying in mad haste to seek a hiding place in the crept away, as the fu gitives waited and waited still fo r recesses of this lonely dale ; and here, as he turns aside the Legion which was never to come ! Perhaps the Burn, into the narrower and lonelier ravine of Rowley lost cause lingered here fo r years, and little by little his wearied retribution overtakes him at last. Perhaps • the Romanized Britons lost th eir refinement and slipped fu rther bank, horse fell dead as it struggled to mount the back into something like the savagery of their ancestors : the villain of leaving Cad wallon (one likes to see even perhaps the Picts tracked them to their hiding place sword the piece end courageously) to face his pursuers within the hour ; and dreadful as this fa te must surely well aimed in hand and die a soldier's death : perhaps a have been, perhaps it was less terrible than the other. surprised arrow cut short his flight, or perhaps he was Similar episodes must have marked the long years the burn. and slaughtered as he stooped to drink from of battle and bloodshed during which the English the lonely At any rate we may catch one last glimpse of invaders were slowly conquering or exterminating the tragedy : the glen, before the curtain falls upon the Celtic tribes of N orthum berland ; but the first clear wind, trees are still whispering gently in the morning picture of a definite event dates fr om the day which saw st the and the stream still murmurs placidly among the last attempt to reverse that conquest irremediably them lies the boulders ; and there on the grass between defeated. The main battle was fo ught upon Heaven­ and harmless dead body of the fierce Welsh king, still field, a fe w miles to the north ; but the dale of the at last. Devilswater saw the crowning incident of the pursuit. centuries Hundreds of times during the succeeding Deniseburn, as we have seen, was a tributary of the this valley must the thick woods and deep gorges of Devilswater,-nowadays it is calleu Rowley Burn,-and have served their old purpose. The Danish invasions, his it was beside Deniseburn that King Oswald and 'VOL. XXII. U U 330 Th e Va llq of Lost Causes. Th e Va lley of Lost Causes. 3 3 1 the ravages of William the Conqueror, and the ruthless those communications cut by Lord Montagu at the head incursions ofthe Scotch all spent their fury upon Hexham of a powerfu l force, though we cannot tell whether his and its neighbourhood ; and this valley would be the success was due to a rapid march fro m the south natural haven of those who were lucky enough to escape (Edward was at York), or whether he reached Berwick slaughter or the worse horrors of captivity. We must by sea and thence moved south. In either case he must pass over some eight hundred years before we get have used the old Roman road which ran from Berwick another definite picture ; but the events which the to the neighbourhood of Corbridge and is now called valley is now to recall are the most thrilling and im­ the Devil's Causeway ; and whether he came from north portant in its story, and the legend which has sprung or south, he seems to have established himself on from them is one of the most familiar and romantic of Hedgeley Moor, which tha t road crosses,-a position the traditions of English history. admirably suited fo r preventing any of the three castles It was in the month of May I46� that the battle of we have mentioned from communicating with Scotland, Hexham was fo ught : that is the name by which it is and a base from which he could threaten a1l three known to history, though the encounter took place not simultaneously without disclosing the real object of his ' on the haughs of Tynedale beside that town, as the attack till the last moment before it was delivered. name would seem to suggest, but here on the banks of King Henry was at A1nwick, less than twelve miles the Devilswater, at the spot known as the Linnels. distant from his enemies, and the direct road to Scot­ Just below the site of the battle the river i� crossed by land was barred. The capture of the king meant the the Linnels Bridge,-a graceful arch, which was, as an ruin of his cause ; and it was therefore necessary to inscription inform us, " belldete of lyme and stone " in take him to Scotland by some more circuitous route. the year I 58 I: here the stream runs between high The chroniclers record that Sir Ralph Percy attacked wooded banks, but above the bridge the valley spreads Montagu on Hedgeley Moor, was basely deserted by .. out to enclose a little saucer-like plain,-a kind of Lords Hungerford and Ross, and after a gallant struggle natural amphitheatre of great beauty, with the river against desperate odds " comme home fuit occise," as brawling through it in a double curve like a huge S; the Norman French account puts it,-he died like a and it was here beside the Devilswater that the cau�e man, declaring that "he had saved the bird in his of the Red Rose became a lost cause at last, at least breast." until the battle of Bosworth restored it. Various writers have explained Percy's dying ''l ords The history of this portion of the Wars of the Roses in various ways ; but a reference to the map will enable is very obscure, but it seems probable that the position us to set fo rth a new or at least a modified theory, and as of affairs in the early part of the year 146+ was perhaps to rehabilitate the bespattered characters of fo llows. The Lancastrians held the castles of Bamburgh , Ross and Hungerford, Was not the battle of Hedgeley ng Dlinstanburgh, and Alnwick, King Henry himself bei Moor in reality a rearguard action, and the bird in g to at the last named stronghold : they were expectin Percy's breast a promise which he must have given t(') ry receive aid from Scotland, and it was vitally necessa check the advance of Montagu even at the cost of his open, to keep their communications. with that country life, while Henry was escaping into Scotland ? Nobly ers in order .to afford the king,a place of refuge if matt he fulfilled his promise, if our suggestion be correct, we fin.d went from bad to worse. Suddenly, however, though not altogethel; effectually, as we shall presently 33% Th e Va lley of Lost Causes . Th e Va lley of Lost Causes. 333

abococket, garnished with discover : he remained to die upon the field, while Ross high cap of estate, called e Norman French account and Hungerford, after making a demonstration of twOO riche crounes." Th may therefore conclude support in accordance with a prearranged plan, retreated corroborates the story, and we ewsbury, "the King swiftly to Alnwick to escort Henry in his flight. No that, like his grandfather at Shr or at any rate in his doubt they would cross the Coquet at Weldon, and there had many masking in his coats," join the Devil's Causeway : that road would bring them hats. eventually made to the Dere Street a fe w miles north of Carbridge ; and Henry escaped into Lancashire, and his principal sup­ it was probably their intention to make their way west­ hi� way into Scotland, but many of Duke of Somerset, ward, either by the Tyne valley or by the Roman porters were not so fo rtunate. The and the brother military road beside the '.Vall, and so by the Maiden himself a descendant of John of Gaunt ken prisoner : he Way and the West Marches into Liddesdale. of Lady Margaret Beaufort, was ta the war, and But if that were so, the plan failed. Percy had done had changed sides more than once during d been specially his best, but he could not delay Montagu's advance fo r not long before this battle he ha ray gentilnes and many hours, and before long the Yorkist general was pardoned by Edward, so that " of ver grounded in every in hot pursuit : he may even have detached some of his the noble honour that oweth to be in fe rme fe ith lighter troops to seize positions on the supposed line of gentilman he shuld have been stablished had " rered werre Henry's flight ; for such a conjecture explains the fa ct and trouth unto his highnes "; but he and there was no that the Lancastrians made no attempt to break away ayenst our seyd soverayne lord," fr om the field and westward, but retreated to the best position they could mercy for him now ; he was taken bones still fill some find, and there turned to bay. That position was on the beheaded at Hexham, where his . Many other lords, Linnels in the Valley of Lost Causes. nameless grave in the abbey church ered the same fate, We know little of the details of the battle that as well as knights and esquires, suff Newcastle ; and fo llowed ; but it is probable that after a desperate and lost their heads at Hexham or immediate capture struggle superior numbers and the moral effect of a even of the fe w who escaped death or at a later date. previous victory won the day. The nature of the ground most were hunted down and beheaded do not belong made an orderly retreat impossible, and the battle ended But these closing scenes of the tragedy river in the complete rout of the Lancastrians, great numbers to the dale of the Devilswater : the of whom were slain or captured, while the rest took to "with blood of Englishmen the woods and denes which had sheltered so many Whose stream was deeply dy'd in that most cruel war," survivors of earlier lost causes. King Henry himself seems to have been a spectator of the battle, but it is soon ran fresh and clear as ever, and the rich grasses of probable that as soon as the day began to go against the Linnels soon swallowed up the bones of the his party, he was hurried from the field. "He fled so fallen. fa st," says Hall, "that no man could overtake hymm, Tradition has planted the romantic figureof Margaret of and yet he was so nere pursued that certain of his Anjou so firmly in the neighbourhood of the battle­ henxmen or folowers wer taken, their horses being field of Hexham, that even the ruthless pen of historical trapped in blew velvet ; wherof one of them had on his criticism cannot wholly dispossess the place of its pict head the said King Henrie's healmet, some say his uresque legend ; and we have already plunged so Th e Va lley of Lost Causes. 335 334 Th e Va lley of Lost Causes. then be attired in the tender and delicate gold and deeply in the pleasing waters of fa ntasy that we may green of newly born fol iage, and the latest primroses certainly be pardoned if we refuse to return to the dry would not have vanished from the rough slopes of the land of proved fa cts. The Queen,-so the story runs,­ gorge. Surely, in spite of all doubts and denials, we fled fr om the battle with her son Prince Edward, and can see the whole picture as clearly as though we our­ took refuge in the neighbouring woods : after narrowly selves were hiding amongst the hazel bushes and spying escaping from one band of outlaws, the fugitives fe ll upon the fu gitives, as they rest there in the last of the into the hands of another robber, and it was only Queen evening light. There is a little fire burning close by Margaret's prompt appeal to the man's generosity that the fo ot of the overhanging cliff, so that the smoke may saved them from plunder and ill-treatment. "To your spread and lose itself as it crawls upward against the loyalty," she said, as with a proud gesture she pointed rock. One of the robbers (tradition mentions no more to her boy, "I entrust the son of your king "; and the than one, but we must supply him with a comrade or appeal was not made in vain : the robber sheltered the perhaps a son) attends to the cooking of the rude queen and prince in his cave, and eventually enabled supper which is thus at short notice to be transformed them to make their escape from the country. into a royal banquet ; let it be venison stolen from the There is a little cave in the long narrow dene of Prior of Hexham's park at Dotland, or good beef lift ed Dipton Burn, which the tradition of th e countryside has from the richer pastures of Tynedale : on a mossy stone fixed upon as the place where Margaret and her son beside the burn sits the Outlaw of tradition, a stout, were concealed ; and if there be any truth in the story, brown-bearded ruffian, clad in hose and jerkin of well it is not remarkable that her refuge was never dis­ worn leather ; and on the strip of green turf at his fe et, covered : even at the present day, with a guide-book with his elbows on the ground and his chin propped on to direct the explorer, it is a matter of some difficulty to the palms of his hands, lies the young prince, or rather hit upon the ex act spot. The cave lies at the fo ot of a what was and will be the prince. For this brief period precipitous rock,-one of the walls of a deep narrow of happiness he is a prince no longer, and his rough ravine, and its mouth is masked by a heap of stones host is regaling him with wilder and stranger histories and rubbish which the centuries have weathered from than princes usually hear at first hand. In outward the cliff above : the dene is full of trees and under­ appearance he is still a gentle delicate boy of eleven, wood,-stunted oaks, tangled alders and ashes, and on with a handsome fa ce, long fair curls, and blue eyes the higher banks the tall brown-stemmed sombre­ which open wider at each astounding tale ; but in his headed pines, which stand out so gloriously when the own imagination he is sometimes a sturdy bowman of evening sun looks eastward along the dene and gives Hexhamshire, sometimes a dashing reiver of North even to grey limestone the radiance of gol den-tinted Tynedale, but most often a noble knight fighting by marble ; and down in the twilight below runs Dipton Percy's side at Chevy Chase (the outlaw's grandfather Burn, presenting an indescribable succession of little may have taken part in the battle), rescuing his leader pictures, each different from the last, but each composed from captivity with his own unaided sword, and finally of the same elements,-cool, clear water, leafy branches, driving the Scotch in headlong flight over the border : green turf, and mossy stones. that is how his young imagination corrects the unsatis- A lovely spot it must have been on that fa tal spring factory episodes of history. day more than fo ur hundred years ago : the trees would 336 Th e Va lley of Lost Causes. Th e Va lley of Lost Causes. 337

And here on the mound before the mouth of the put them beyond the reach of pardon. It was to cave sits Queen Margaret herself, gazing with wistfu l Hexham that the leaders of the rising of the North eyes now at th� boy whose young life embodies her first retreated on the sudden collapse of their rebellion ; political ambitions as well as her motherly affection, and though the two rebel earls escaped into Scotland, and now at the pine-crowned rock to the eastward. we may imagine that some at least of their misguided which the last glory of the setting sun has illumined fo llowers hid themselves where so many had been with such mellow and pathetic light. Darkness will hidden before. Hexham is said to have been the soon be falling, and all that loveliness will have faded place where the Scotch army first drew blood against to shadow in a few moments : her own hopes and King Charles, and no doubt that invasion would fo r a prospects were once as bright, and upon them the while repeople these quiet woods and gorges ; but to night of ruin and defeat has fallen already. But day speak generally, Tynedale was a backwater in the great will dawn upon crag and pine-tree : shall not a new stream of the Civil War, and it was not until the cause day dawn for the cause which has set, as it seems, fo r of the Stuarts was lost fo r ever that the valley of the ever in that red carnage on the Devi1swater haughs 1 Devilswater came to be intimately associated with it. That is surely the keynote of Margaret's life and It was to Dilston,-to the manor house which then character. Everything seems to be lost : her king nestled beside the gaunt grey tower of our earliest and husband has fled, and she cannot tell whether his picture,-that the third Earl of Derwentwater brought flight has carried him beyond the pursuit of his enemies ; his Countess in the autumn of 1714, and here he lived she herself and her son depend for life and freedom on and perhaps plotted during the months which fo llowed the faith and chivalry of a lawless and possibly his home-coming. He was rich, young, handsome, and murderous outlaw : but still she hopes ; still, like the popular j he possessed every personal quality needful to

Hope of a famous painting, she thrums expectantly on • make him the leader of his neighbours and the idol of the one loose string of her crazy lyre, and still she his dependents : but he was a papist and a Jacobite, an hears from its voiceless quivering a prelude strain of adherent of a lost cause in religion and a lost cause in the grand triumphal music which is to welcome Henry politics. and herself, as they once more enter into undisputed However, the lost cause has not yet shed all its possession of their own. It is hope sublime, hope vitality, and in August of th e fo llowing year matters unquenchab1e,-but hope that is fated never to find came to a crisis. The Pretender landed in Scotland and fr uition. was proclaimed K.ing : the Earl's political sympathies Queen Margaret is the most striking but not the last were no secret, and in order to prevent his position and representative of the lost causes with which the dale of influence from being used in support of the rebellion, the Devilswater has been connected. Seventy years the government issued a warrant fo r his arrest. But later the supression of the lesser monasteries roused the warrant came too late : the Earl received warning the north of England to a rebellion, and there must of his danger; he fled from Dilston, and tradition has have been some who sought safety in the old refuge�- naturally given him a hiding place in the valley which places on that March morning when the Duke of Norfol opened out behind his home. an rode into Hexham to take possession of the Priory Whether that hiding place were near the Linne1s, as not receive the submission of those whose offences had tradition declares, or in some remoter and more secluded VOL. XXI+. X � 338 Th e Va lley oJ Lost Causes. Til e Va lley oJ Lost Causes. 339 recess, we need not stop to consider : at any rate the tp,asehim vivaciously, and perhap., make subtle attempts quiet drowsiness of the dale was soon broken by th e to inveigle him into treason ; for of course we must add stir of preparation and the sough of the coming storm . to the dram atic qualities of the situation by making our It is probable that many of the leading Jacobites of the hero an ardent Whig. Presently she will invent some neighbourhood followed the Earl's example ; and triflinger rand or service to keep his eyes occupied while between the hidden conspirators and their un hidden she visits the holly bush, and the next day she will adherents constant communication was maintained . meet him in her undisguised person, and chaff him Not far from the site of the battle of Hexham, on the mercilessly about the fa ir unknown upon whom he was long sloping flank of our valley, stands a huge holly so eager to press his intentions. bush,-it must have been still huger in those days,-and Beyond the Linne1s is Nunsbrough, a wooded horse­ close beside it is a little stretch of an ancient road, shoe ravine which is one of the wonders of the north ; which recalls Macau1ay's description of the roads of and here tradition has planted another story of the 1085 , and is probably in mu ch the same condition nowa­ unfo rtunate Earl. Here, it is said, as he walked in the days as it was when horsemen in laced coats and dusk of the evening, to relieve the weariness of his full-bottomed wigs rode splashing through its quag­ seclusion, he was met by a weird grey figure, which mires. This holly bush is reputed to have been the warned him that he ought already to be in arms fo r his Post Office where the secret emissaries of the conspi­ king, and gave him a crucifix which was to protect him rators concealed their le tters and received their replies. against sword and bullet. Nor is there any inherent ' There is a certain air of burlesque about the whole improbability in the story, if we except the suggested proceeding; fo r the government does not appear to ghostliness of the apparition. It is well known that have made any serious eff ort to discover the Earl's the Earl was most reluctant to commit his fo rtune and whereabouts, and in any case the system was decidedly friends to the miseries of civil war : what could have happy-go-lucky and hazardous. But the story is a been more natural than that some enthusiastic Jacobite pretty one, more especially as many of the emissaries should devise this masquerade to cure him of his (so it is said) were ladies of birth and (let us imagine) hesitation ? But whether that be so, or whether the beauty, and it may be that they were often driven to final .impulse came from his wife, who (as the story use all the subtleties of fe minine address and fa scination runs) taunted him with his backwardness, flung her fan before they could collect or deposit their letters without at his fe et, and demanded in exchange the sword that being observed. Let us imagine a susceptible young he was so 10th to draw, his reluctance was overcome at gentleman of a somewhat romantic nature, and send him last, and the 6th of October saw him in open rebellion. riding casually into the dale of the Devi lswat�r, where He and his retainers rode away by Corbridge and the he shall encounter my lady emissary, as she hastens, Dere Street to join their partizans from the northern masked and mysterious, towards the holly bush above districts of the county, and when he returned to Dilsto{1 the Linne1s. What a fe ncing match they will make of a fe w days later, the lost cause was lost once more : the it, especially if my lady be not too bigoted a politician, rebels had failed to surprise Newcastle, and they merely and the cavalier sufficientlyattractive to take her fancy ! p aused here before beginning that ill-ordered and Somehow we cannot help feeling confident that she will circuitous march which ended so disastrously at P not reject the offer of his escort and company : she will reston. HO Tlt e Va lley of Lost Causes.

That ends the valley's history as the Valley of Lost Causes, unless it happened that in 1745, when General Wade was struggl ing to drag his artillery up Tyn edale, some of the Pretender's avowed adherents fo und it wise to conceal themselves in the old places. Yet once since then the dale was nearly called upon to resume its fam iliar office. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the country was alarmed by the prospect of a French invasion, organised arrangements were TO CHLOE, ASKING A POEM. made fo r transporting th e women and children of th e districts near the sea to Alston at the head of the South CHLOE, had I but Ovid's power of song, Tyne valley ; and no doubt, if the emergency had ever Wherewith to hymn your beauty and your grace, arisen, the dale of the Devilswater would also have To all posterity you should belong, served as a place of refuge and concealment. But And men should praise the memory of your face. happily the cause of England was no lost cause, and if God help us it never shall be. The wilder period of Had Horace but bequeathed his lyric skill Northumbrian history is, we trust, closed for ever ; and To me, to sing of wine and Venus' sport, the Valley of Lost Causes is a place of pilgrimage fo r A pleasing task right gladly I'd fu lfil, those who love natural beauty and romantic association, And trace your lustre as a poet ought. rather than a haven of refuge for those who fly from Or if that gay divine, dear Herrick, chose battle, murder, and sudden death. To waft me inspiration from his lyre, R. H. F. And grant me power to speak, do you suppose 1 would not frame a song at your desire ?

Nay, Chloe, ask me not for dainty strains : Had 1 the power, the pen I'd quickly seize. Alas ! my better judgement now refrains­ Apply to Mr Austin, if you please.

But these poor lines may solace you withal (1 may not say "apoem "-merely "verse ") ; Lines, penned by me, resemble each and all The sombre movement of a tardy hearse. Til e Commemoralt'cJlt Sermon. 30

WP>� its foliagE', or the excellence of its fruit. And, of all of praise, this, could they hear it, would be the most pleasing to our benefactors. What greater satisfaction can we conceive them as having than the knowledge that their gifts have borne the fr uit they designed them to bear ? Every College does well to have its greatest THE COMMEMORATION SERMON. men in remembrance, and may be proud to possess permanent memorials of them. Who can walk unmoved in that noble Walhalla, the ante-chapel of Trinity, St. LUKE xxii. 25 He said ,mto thcm : Th e kings 0.1 the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and where " deep-browed Verulam " is fo r ever seated, and they that exet'cisc authority up on them a7'e called benefactors. Bm J1e shall not be so ; bltt he that is where, as Words worth sings, greatest among you let him be as tlu younger, and he th at is ch ie.f as lu that doth serve. "the statue stands Of Newton with his prism and silent fa ce, The marble index of a m ind fo r ever HE titles of "benefactor" and "saviou r" were · much aff Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone "? ected by the Greek kings of Syria and of Egypt, and are to be seen upon their And besides its "famous men," who by great deeds or coins. Gentile flattery and servility, says our by immortal writings or discoveries have made it Lord, often accorded these titles to mere despots. In illustrious, every College owes an inestimable debt to the new society it should not be so. There, supre­ those lesser-known, who, by devoted service or by macy and its titles should be based upon service. "\Vith nobility or charm of character, have raised the ideal of good cause, then, do we give to those whom we com­ life, of work or of intercourse in the place that knew memorate to-day the name of "beIJefactors," fo r they them. But those to whom we are to do honour to-day, have rendered us the service of calling us, as a College, whatever else they may have been or may have done, into existence. All that the College is, has been, or have th is as th eir common and as their special claim yet may be,-the lives of research, of learning and of Up01l our gratitude, that without them we � hould not teach ing, the lives of prayer and meditation that have have been : they are " our fathers that begat us." been spent in it, the great or useful careers the found­ Many. indeed, upon our roll of benefactors are also ation of which was laid here, the friendships that have upon the roll of fame, as having played some notable been fo rmed within its walls, all are due to our fo undress part in the history of their time : others, were it only and our benefactors. for some ' one event ' in their lives, should be more than "Let us praise fa mous men," so begins the proper mere names to us. Thus, not to speak of men so fa mous lesson .'" We cannot praise our own "famous men " as Cecil or Archbishop Williams, Sir Marmaduke without, in so doing, praising the foundress and bene­ fa ctors to whom * we owe them. You praise the man Prelude, Book Ill. "Upon entering the chapel of Trinity the Queen . was who planted the tree when you descant on the luxul'Ian ce delighted to observe six Trinity noblemen holding torches round the statue or Newton. It is a great thing that even six of the peerage should be fit to hold a candle to that immortal astronomer." Letter from Cha,lcs * Ecclus. XLIV, 1-16. Medl'ule dated Oct. 26, 1843. Autobiography, 1899. p. 160. Tlt e Commemoratto7t Sermon. Tl u COmmellt01'attOlt Sermon. 3 +4 345

Constable, the only benefactor upon our list to-day ardently promoted the reading of the King's declaration who was "famoused fo r fight," served in France under throughout his diocese ; yet, as appears from his bearing Edward IV and Henry VII and, "accompanied with his under William and Mary, from no mere subservience seemly sons," fought the Scots at Flodden. to power. Condemned by a sentence of doubtful justice, John Barwick, who declined a bishopric at the he died, deprived ann excommunicate, in I7 17. * Restoration, had in 1642 "outmanc:euvred "% Cromwell In Soulden Lawrence we have the upright judge who, (who lay in wait fo r him at "Lowlert hedges ") and in 1814, left by his will a sum of money to compensate a conveyed a large sum in money and College plate to suitor who, through his misdirection of the jury, had the King at Nottingham. John Knewstub, at the lost his cause.t Perhaps of all our benefactors the most Hampton Court Conference in 1604, stoutly opposed accomplished and many-sided was Thomas Linacre, conformity ; while, at the Savoy Conference in 1661, scholar, physician, and divine, the tutor of princes, the Peter Gunning, our Master (who, it is said, was specially fr iend and medical counsellor of Erasmus, Colet, and pitted against Richard Baxter), opposed with equal More, and in a great measure fo under ofthe Royal College vigour all concession to the Nonconformists . of Physicians. A saying of his, spoken in his later In defence of the privileges of the University which years, may well be pondered still. After reading afresh were assailed by James II in 1687, Thomas Smoult the Sermon on the Mount, he said : "either this is not (with John Billers, also a Johnian, at his side) withstood the Gospel, or we are not Christians" ? One of the most the fu rious J effreys to the fa ce, when "Peachell (the beautiful and saintly characters among our benefactors Vice-Chancellor) faltered, and Tsaac Newton was silent."t was Thomas Whytehead, the scholar- and poet-mission­ In the fo llowing year, Francis Turner (Gunning's suc­ ary, whose short life of twenty-eight years fe ll in the cessor, both as Master of the College, and also as first half of the century that has passed away. After Bishop of Ely) was one of the "Seven Bishops "§­ a short curacy at Freshwater, he went out to join Bishop three of whom were Johnians-who resisted the King's Selwyn in New Zealand, and would have become, had policy of indulgence to the Dissenters ; while Thomas he lived, the president of a new St John's College near Watson, Bishop of St David's, the friend of Baker, both Auckland. Dying in March 1843 he left us nearly all favoured that policy (surely a wise and right one in * Watson died at Great Wilbraham, where, in I 683,'he had bought the itself, however wrong under the circumstances) and estate and house known as the Te mp le. Having been deposed on a charge of simony, he was excommunicated for contumacy May 4, 1701. "He was buried * To be exact, was one of tbose who did so. See Dictionary of Na tional (says D. N. E.) in the chancel of the parish church under the south wall, but Biog raphy . Barnabas Oley of Clare, who (it is said) 'knew all the highways without any service, as he was still excommunicated." There is nothing to and byeways between Cambridge and NOllingham,' led the party. See mark the spot and the Vicar, the Rev. T. W. Hutchillson, informs me that D. N. B. and Mr Wardale's Clm"e OolLege, p. 129. there is no reference in the pm;sh records to this singular burial. The Bishop is, however, several times mentioned in a long Latin epitaph setting fo rtll t So Baker writes it. An old man who has lived at Lol worth for ninety the merits of his fa ithful secretary, John Ward. Ward married his years well knows the name and spot. Another Jolmianmn is connected patron's niece J oann.. Their son , grandson and greatgrandson bore the name of with 'Lowler.' Henry Martyn was curate here fro m 1803 till Ap' il 7, 1805· Thomas \V atson Ward . They seem to have lived at the Te mple and were See H.M. , Saint and Scholar by George Smith (1892), pp. 35, 74· buried at Great Wilbraham. Th e Temp le (adds Mr Hutchinson) was sold to t See Mr MlIll in ger's Sf John's Co llege , p. 190. the Rev. James Hicks ill I788. \V atson's arms are in the same window as v n a fo urth § Blit for an accident \V IIl . Lloyd of Norwich would h a e bee those fo ur of the four. Johnian among the protesting bishops. ifJ. p. 192. The arlllS of the t See D.N.B. and Mr. Torry's Benefactors, p. 84. may be seen side by side in the north oriel window in the Hall. VOL. XXII. yy 346 Th ! C0 n217leIl201'ait"oJZ Se 1?1l0n. The Co mrJtemoratt'on SermMl. 347 his books, having previously given us, out of one year's active. "Furthermore, the benefactor associates with the income from the fellowship his tenure of which was recipient the idea of the nohle ; the recipient on the so brief, the " eagle-desk " fr om which the lessons have other hand associates with his benefactor the idea of been read in Chapel since June 1842. To the English­ the profi table, and this is a less loveable idea." But he atTLov cpuuLlcwTaTov speaking Church he has bequeathed, what is so rare, also points to (as we might call it), a hymn of deep religious fe eling and of great poetic a cause still more deeply seated in our nature. " More­ beauty, "Sabbath of the saints of old." Almost his over," he says, "all love more that which is effected by last act was to translate this together with Bishop Ken's labour and travail. Now to receive benefits is easy, evening hymn into rhymed Maori verse.* In the storied to confer them is hard. And fo r this reason mothers ceiling above our heads he stands, side by side with love their children more (more, that is, than their fathers Dr James Wood, with Wordsworth , Wilberfo rce, and do) ; fo r the act of giving birth is painful." It may seem out of place to speak of 'labour and Henry Martyn, a fifth among the Johnian worthies of travail ' in connexion with our benefactors. To give the XIXth Century. money, when one has it to give, seems so easy. Our "It is more blessed to give than to receive." If we benefactors, however, were, I believe, fo r the most part ask why and how it is so, Aristotle supplies an men of moderate or of modest fo rtune. N or can we answer. He is enquiring, as though it were some­ estimate how much careful thought and self-denial may thing extraordinary, why it is that benefactors take have gone with their gifts. Certainly Bishop Fisher more interest in the welfare of those whom they have 1 had 'labour and travail ' on our behalf in abundance. benefited than the benefited take in theirs. t Dismissing, Bishop Fisher was no millionaire freely and amid as in adequate though human enough, the explanation general applause doing what he would with his own. that it is because benefactors look fo r a return, and The Lady Margaret dying without having given effect to therefore desire the prosperity of those to whom they . her wish in our regard, it was left to Fisher, as one of may fa irly look fo r one, he assigns what he calls ber executors and the original inspirer of her wish, to a,nov CPUU£lCWHPOV, "a cause that lies deeper in our carry that wish into effect as best he might, This (in nature." " Benefactors (he says) love those whom they some measure) he only did, as Baker expresses it, benefit as the artist loves his work." 'TO elva£ 7TaU' " after much solicitation and long delay, after a tedious CP£A.'T}TOV, "existence is dear to all"; eup,€v oe EVfP'YEtq, "process at Rome, at Court and at Ely, under an " now our being consists in conscious activity." And e, imperious Pope, a forbidding prince (who had ' no very whereas the recipient may be passive and even un­ "strong inclination to favour a design that must swallow conscious of the benefit, the benefactor is consciously "up a part of his inheritance ') and under a mercenary " prelate, with great application and industry and at an • So D.N.B. Mr Torry and the late Dean Howson speak only of Ken�s IS "equal expense."'" bymn. In A al/d ill (which retains the metJe of the orginal) the fir,t line wn The College was not ungrateful. Upon the fall of Rest,'l1g fr m11 hiJ work to-day . The poem, like R. Baxter's well kno Ja�t LOI d, it belongs 1101 (0 my care, was not wlillen as a hymn, but is the their father and fr iend and patron, "the Society " (con­ T.W, 5 of a series on the clays of Creation. It will be fo und at pp. 243-5 of tinues our historian) "was not wanting to him. He (1877). Po etzcal Remains and Letters with a preface by the Dean of Chester The book i5 in the College Library. • Pl ofessor Mayor's Baker, i. pp. 62, 66. He is "peakil1g or the Jissolll. t Etlt . Nicom. IX, 7. lioll of the old house, Jan. 20, '510. 348 1 he Commemora/t'(m Se l'mO?t. Th e Commemoraflon Sermon. 3 ·19

"was several times attended by the Master and The benefactor of a College, such as our own, seeks some ' " of the Fellows during his imprisonment. Above all, to render the like service, to furnish the like equipment "there is a noble letter fr om them wherein, as they to a society, and in view of a fa r-stretching fu ture. If "profess to owe everything to his bounty, all that they we ask what spirit he is of, the ans wer must be that, " enjoy, an d all that they know, so they offer an d devote besides his love for "religion, learning, education and .. themselves, and all they are masters of, to his service, research " and for the place that is (or is to be) their "and beg of him to use it as his own."· home"" and where he naturally desires to be held in Of all forms of giving one of the noblest and that remembrance, t it is a spirit of faith and hope. It isquite most truly "blesses him that gives and him that takes " true that some of our benefactors shewed a certain is that which aims at the fu rtherance, by material distrust of new developments. Their ideals were, in means, of some ideal end. When the last century some cases, those of their own, or of an earlier day. the late Dean Merivale, his was young, Mr Sidney Cooper, ' the English Paul Potter,' "Dr James Wood," writes who is still with us, was a poor boy at . Canterbury, younger contemporary, "with St John's College at his who used to sketch the cathedral, or the country "back, had strenuously resisted the establishment of round, upon his slate. An artist (Cattermole) who saw " the Classical Tripos ...The older men continued to him at work, gave him paper and pencils. Having no "harbour deep jealousy of the new lights they could penknife, the boy one day asked a kind-looking old "not exclude."t Even as regards Mathematics, "St clergyman to cut his pencils for him. The old clergy­ " John's College," he tells us, "lagged behind or man, who proved to be Dr Manners-Sutton, Archbishop " offered passive resistance (t'. e. to the introduction of of Canterbury, both sharpened the pencils and also, "analytic methods). Old Dr Wood, our Master, had adds Mr Cooper, "gave me £5 fo r my childish draw­ " been a leading geometer of the elder generation, and ing:' He speaks of this as the begin ning of his car�er. t "his College still bound itself at the wheels of Wood's In 1833 the Princess Victoria, our late beloved Queen, "Algebra and Wood's Mechanics, till the younger having become interested in an Arctic expedition then "Tutors fo und that their men were at a great dis­ being fitted out to search fo r the Rosses, contributed to "advantage."� Yet Dr Wood, thus doubly defeated, its equipment a set of mathematical instruments and a both as regards the new Tripos and as regards pocket-compass. The President of the Royal Geo­ the new me thod, nevertheless cherished that hopeful­ graphical Society states that "the gift proved extremely ness and that faith in the future by which he became useful. In the estuary of the Fish River, where there one of the most munificent of all our benefactors. was great disagreement in the other needles in denoting The life of a College or of a University is like a magnetic north, that of the Princess could alone be stream. The stream may at times run low or run relied upon. It almost seemed like an emblem or fo re­ cast of the excellent steadfastness to duty of the great * Statute XVII. Queen, 'true as the needle to the pole I' "t t e.g. by dirge, obit, collect, speech, or sermon. � Autoo£ograPhy , p. 84. * £0. p. 102. § ib. p. 60. He adds : "I remember one of the London newspapers having t My Life, by T. Sidney Cooper, R. A., 1890. i., pp. 45. 6. ii. p. 54· a leader on the subject which ended with 'Geometry has had its day i and a , ; St. Ja mes's Gazette. lOll!: day too, fr om Archimedes to Dr '\V ood.' . 3.50 Th e Co1lt memora/z(J1Z Sermo1t. Th e Comtllcmora!t'r)Jl Sermon. 3 5 1

turbid, yet deep in it s bed it still flows on, and the activity of various kinds in our Universities, yet let us sources that fe ed it are not dried up. There have note that, evt'n as regards the past, much may be set been times of unproductiveness, times even of indolence against the testimonies just quoted. In 1765, under the and self-indulgence in our Universities. Much of the sway of "Laziness," our own Master and benefactor, eighteenth and part of the nine�eenth century were vV illiam Samuel Powell, established annual examina­ such times. Adam Smith, who was at Oxfo rd fro m tions in the College, a thing unheard' of before ; and in 1740 to 1 7 47 , tells us that " in the University of Oxford the same year, under the growing influence of the the greater part of the Professors have for these many Royal Society, of which he was a member, set up an years gIven up altogether the pretence of teaching.". observatory in College, some sixty years before the The poet Gray, who lived at Cambridge fo r the most erection of the University Observatory. Whatever we part from 1734 to 177 1, speaks in a letter to Wharton of may think of Wm. Wilberforce's testimony, let it never "our Sovereign Lady and Mistress, the President of be fo rgotten that it was a University prize, won in Presidents and Head of Heads (if I may be permitted 1785 by Wilberfo rce's contemporary, Thos. Clarkson, to pronounce her name, that ineffable octogrammaton), for an essay on slavery, that led, through the in­ the Power of Laziness."t William Wilberfo rce, who domitable perseverance of Clarkson himself, aided by came into residence here in 1776, writes with great the exertions of Wilberforce in Parliament, first to the severity of those of the Fellows with whom he was restriction, then to the abolition of the slave trade, and intimate. "Their object," he says, "seemed to be to finally, in 183 3 , to the abolition of slavery itself in the make and keep me idle. If ever I appeared studious, British dom inions. Lastly, Charles Merivale's " period they would say to me, 'Why in the world should a man of slack water," which, after all, says the historian of I of your fo rtune trouble yourself with fagging l' was Tile Romans under the Empire, "suited me best," saw a good classic, and acquitted myse1f well in the College the rise of more than one new Tripos, while the Natural examinations, but Mathematics, which my mind greatly Sciences Tripos was to come into being only three years needed, I almost entirely neglected, and was told that I later ; saw also the beginnings of the life work of Cardale was too clever to require them."t C. Merivale, whose Babington, of Cayley, and of Adams. Cambridge life extended fr om 1826 to 1848, calls that The author of the Epistle to the .lIt b1'e7US conceives time "a period of slack water," and speaks of the himself and his readers as "encompassed by a great Universities as having " entirely fo rfeited the lead in cloud of witnesses," the heroes of faith in the remote the teaching of the nation at large, if indeed they had and in the rece nt past, intent upon the issue of the ever possessed it." § struggle upon earth. In the XVIIIth Pa radiso, the While we most gratefully acknowledge the revival of poet, now in the sixth sph ere, sees a multitude of beatified spirits that group themselves into flaming letters and spell out sentences from the Latin Bible, * We alth of Na tions, v, 3, 2. So we might conceive the spirits of our generous and t Tovey's Letter,' of 7�w1llas Omy. LX. such ::: Life of Wm . Wi lberforce by his Sons, 1838. i, I r. lOVing benefactors as tracing, fo r our admonition, se § Autobiograp hy, pp, 85, 6. "The moment of my first entrance into ntences as these : owpeaJl €ha(3€T€ owpeaJl oche, "freely Cambridge life was just the fa g end of an academic movement of some fo rce, ye have received, fr eely give ;" r; 7rape8eVTo 7T'OA.V which beiran with the conclusion of the great revolutionary war." ib. p. 82. 7T'ep£UUOTfPOJl ah1uouuLJI aUTOJl, "to whom men have 351 Th e CommemoraHon Se rmon. committed much, of him they will ask the more ;" lastly, and, while they spell out this sentence, we must picture them as glowing and sparkling (as do Dante's spirits for greater emphasis) with an intenser brilliance : ry cptAaOEA.cpla p..EV€TW, "let love of the brotherhood, let brotherly love continue." ON THE FRINGE OF THE EMPIRE. W. A. C.

BOUT twenty miles off Cape York, the ex­ treme north-eastern point of Australia, lies Thursday Island, a spot in which people of all colours and from all parts of the earth (or most of them) do congregate for the gathering of the pearl-shell oysters. It is a port of call fo r the British India and other steamers, and I fa ncy that, as the genuine globe-trotter approaches it, he fe els that he is getting pretty near to the edge of the world, and is confusedly reminded of Robinson Crusoe and cannibals, and probably takes a private peep at the revolver hidden in his cabin-trunk. One hundred and twenty miles to the north-east of Thursday Island three small volcanoes, of which the fires have long been • extinct, fo rm the group known as the Murray Islands. From their summits one may see on a clear day the Pacific rollers breaking upon the Great Barrier Reef, within the extreme northern end of which they lie sheltered. On these islands three members of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition of 1897-98 spent several months making the acquaintance of the natives, and the fo llowing pages are extracted from letters sent home by one of them.

Darnley Island, May 7th.

We sailed for this place from Thursday Island on Monday last in a 6o-ton pilot schooner, which the Queensland Government very kindly put at our disposal f or those few days. Our schooner is too large a boat to venture among the reefs which lie between this and VOL. XX II. Z Z; 3 54 On the Fn 1zge of tile E112pt're. On the Pr z1zg-t oj the Emptrt. 355 Murray Island, and so we have landed here to take their lugger fo r thirty shillings. Friday morning they passage across thirty miles of coral sea in a smaller came alongside in a smart 7-ton lugger to take off our boat. heavy gear, but said it was too blowy to start fo r This island is only one hundred and twenty miles Murray. As they came alongside we heaved them a from Thursday Island and yet, owing to unfavourable rope which fe ll short, and then the whole crew of about weather, we have been fi ve days on the schooner. At eight men and boys (except the captain, who sat calm this time of year the wet windy season of the N.\V. and collected on his heels holding the tiller) shouted at monsoon gives place to the fine weather of the S.E. one another to jump overboard and catch it, until one trade-winds which prevail from May until November. did jump and the excitement reached a climax. We The fair S,E. weather has not yet settled itself, being lay at anchor all day, and in the night the wind rose unusually late this year, and so the winds are stilI again and we had another mild excitement-the anchor strong, irregular and showery. dragged and we had to get up sail and cruise about Starting in the afternoon of Monday we anchored till daybreak. Now we have come ashore and settled early under the lee of a coral islet and had a very quiet ourselves till Monday in the court-house, because it is night. On Tuesday we raced along to windward at still too blowy to sail, and the natives may not and dare ten knots an hour, and our captain determined to go not sail on Sunday. They observe the Sabbath as on through the night instead of anchoring as usual, so strictly as the Scotch, so we must 10afe here two days. that we might reach Darnley Island early in the morn ing. May 8Hz Sunday . This morning the weather seems About I I p.m. we were wakened by a rending, grating at last to be set fair. The sea is as blue and purple noise that seemed to shake the whole ship. We and green and as flecked with white as on the Cornish rushed on deck and fo und ourselves hard and fast on coast sometimes ; the sky is blue, with white cumuli on a coral reef and the tide falling. She would not come the horizon. The court-house, our abode, is a low off, so we fixed a small anchor far astern and waited • thatched cottage of one long room . The walls are of fo r the next tide. As the tide fell the schooner lay bamboo covered with wattle and whitewash, with over on her side or bilge (in nautical phrase), and it numerous square holes for windows-the floor of con. was a novel experience to make one's bed in the angle crete. It stands, with about a dozen native houses between the bulwark and the deck that sloped up at 45° among coco-palms, at the edge of a curved beaoh of under a fitful moon and driving misty clouds. When yellow sand, the middle of a pretty rock-bound bay. the tide rose in the morning we got her off by dint of All round the village are gardens, full of bananas, yamsA much hauling on windlasses, and with the loss of three melons, etc" and behind the la:nd slopes up to six anchors. This gave us a late start, and as tide and hundred fe et, covered with woods and patches of palms wind were against us we had to anchor under an islet and open grassy ground. ten miles from Darnley. On Thursday we reached The people here are a very mixed lot since th.e pearl­ here and anchored in the afternoon. Two stalwart fiShing industry, which is carried on all round about, handsome Kanakas or South-Sea boys came off to us. has introduced Kanakas, Malays, Manillamen and even These men have settled here in numbers, though they negroes. They live in pious harmony together and are are natives of islands fa r out in the South East Pacific. . ruled partly by the " mammoos " with two underlings, to. e. We arranged with them to take us on to Murray 11\. a headman and two native policemen, and partly by Cl.ll \

356 Oil tlte Fr t'nge of tlu ElJtjz?e. Oil the Fn 'llge of Ihe EII/pz're 357 old Englishman, Captain B. Besides the latter there is out station for some time ; but again civilisation jarred only one white man on the Island, a beach-comber, and he sailed to Darnley Island. There, on a promon­ Dirty Johnson by name. The people live in bamboo tory abo\'e the native village, he has made himself a and thatch houses at the edges of the beach all round bamboo house and a sufficient garden from which, by the coast. They are all Christian converts, but Captain regular labour, he secures a vegetarian diet. He has been B. gives them a bad name fo r laziness, selfishness and recognised by the Hon. Joh n Douglas, the autocrat of general unreliability. They have been spoilt by much Tones Straits, as an assistant magistrate and registrar, contact with the pearl-fishers, some of whom are always and receives a small salary. And so he has his court­ to be found loafing about-they come in to get water, house and there he rules wi th a rod of iron and gives yams, bananas etc. the rascals " gyp." The people all respect and fe ar him, Captain B. is perhaps the most remarkable fe ature of but often fo r more than a week he speaks no word to the Island. He is a little withered sun-dried man of sixty­ anyone. All day he delves, and at sundown he lights five with a stern face, dressed in a tattered cotton shirt his lamp, climbs on to his mattress and reads till ten. and patched cotton trousers, his fe et bare and spread out He says he is happy and will never move again from like a native's from long disuse of shoes. He is the SOIl this place. He offered to sell me the title to his house of an English Army Captain, and was well educated at and garden, fo r he does not expect to last more than a the College of He has travelled much and is fe w years. I said I would think it over, and not decide widely read, especially in classical French authors, and till I shall have seen more of the Islands of the Straits. remembers the music of most of the well known Italian (At a later date it was my privilege to nurse Captain B. Operas and all the famous singers of the middle of the through a sharp illness, and the week I spent on the century. He ran away to sea, and at twenty-four became Island was one of the most enjoyable, so that I was only a ship's- m aster and then fo r nearly thirty years com­ prevented from accepting the renewed offer of his free­ manded large vessels of every kind, and during that hold by an exaggerated sense of my own importance). time saved a competence, on which he retired to a lvfur?'ay Island, i1 ,1ay 13t!Z . 'We packed ourselves on country-house. After three years bank-failures left him board our seven-ton half-decked lug-ger on Monday penniless ; all his fortune was gone, just as his fa ther's morning last soon after day-break and started in bright had gone years before. So, fe eling disgusted with the sunlight to beat to Murray, thirty miles to windward, methods of civilisation, and too proud to live on his ag ainst a stiff breeze. Behold us then seated all three well-to-do relatives, he set sail for Australia. There he on our ton of baggage and boxes, piled in the middle of killed rabbits officially fo r some time, and then, finding the boat, while on the strip of deck at the stern our Western Australia too civilised, he set sail fo r New South-Sea skipper squats on his heels holding the tiller­ Guinea to find the rich gold-fields that are believed to on the fore-deck a dark Islander, well built, muscular exist there. He settled among a savage tribe on the and ugly ; and halfway up the win dward stays of the banks of one of the rivers and made himself a home and fo remast hangs or sways or dangles on a single cross­ garden. But after some years he had to shoot a native, piece or ratline, a very long, black Islander with huge and escaped down the river on a raft with many ad­ prognathous face, and beetling brow-ridges and re­ ventures and thrilling incidents. Then he came to treating cranium, an awe-inspiring figure : yet every time Thursday Island and served as signalman on the look- we catch his eye he bows a gracious bow and exposes 358 On the Fn izge o.fthe Empz·1'e. On Ihe Fr t1tge of tlte Empt·re. 3 59

a good six inches of huge teeth in a really genial to and fro across the wind, he only knows that he has smile. All over the boat fro m the top of the masts to done it before and that sometimes he has arrived at his the end of the bowsprit swarm fo ur boys, of all sorts and goal. The other two settle down to sleep as best they sizes, dark cross-breeds of various kinds. Under the may on the wet rugs, and I sit moody and anxious on fo re-deck, over a small wood fire in a large iron plate, the damp deck ready to let fly the foresail if a gust squats a wizened Manilla-man the ship's cook, and he should come too strongly or the boat should strike a like all the others grins affably at us and speaks a reef, and think of sharks and other cheering topics. little pigeon-English. The breeze is strong and the About three times every hour through that long, long lugger dips her lee bul warks, -the sea is short and night that gruesome black thing puts down the helm I choppy and she jumps at each wave with a smack and and the lugger swings round while I do all can to sends the spray flying across the decks and us. The haul tight the sheets, until, just as a blessed glimmer of sailing is done in a very happy-go-lucky manner. The light appears on the eastern sky, we come under the I men do not care to haul tight the sheets each time we shelter of Murray and fall asleep dead-tired. At sun­ go about, and leave it to the boys who do not even know rise the falling of the anchor wakens me to findthat how to make fast the sheets, so that, although the lugger we have come to rest some fifty yards from the yellow is a smart boat by build, she goes hardly at all to wind­ sandy beach. The beach is fr inged with coco-pa1ms, ward and all day long we race to and fro across the and among them stand the native houses singly or in little groups. Behind the palms the land rises steeply, wind, Darn1ey on the one side and the dim outline of , Murray on the other, and though Darnley recedes a at first covered with flowering bushes and then open little Murray comes no nearer. Here and there a yellow and grassy to a height of some hundreds of feet. There sand-bank lies on the blue water, and here and there the is no sound fr om the land, for everyone is still asleep.

water is a bright patchy green in colour where the coral- • The stillness is only broken by the leaping of millions reefs lie close to the surfa ce. These spots our savage of small fish and the rushing of the larger fish that crew know well and we dodge in and out amongst them pursue them, rippling the surface of the water. We safely enough. Every fo ur hours we produce our one have gone from purgatory to paradise. The change loaf of bread and small tin of potted meat and drink a fr om the dreadful night to this lovely peaceful scene is co co-nut, and all day long the crew eats long yards of to me so sudden that I have to pinch myself to make sure sugar-cane, and the sound of their munching fills the I am awake. But the greatest performance by our crew boat. At sundown comes a heavy shower of rain and is yet to come. Our skipper emerges refreshed by his everything and everybody becomes damp and chilly, and night's sleep and, no doubt, dimly conscious of a gross still the wind blows strongly from Murray and jets of neglect of duty. He wears his hair short and black spray shoot across us from time to time. And now it is except for one tuft of fr izzly bleached hair that makes dark and all the crew creeps round the fire to sleep, him look like a fr ivolous cockatoo. Now it behoves him except our lanky fr iend with the cavernous face. lIe to shew us, before we leave his ship, that he is a sma sits cross-legged and silent by the helm, and as the old rt sailor, that he has sailed in English ships and moon rises above the leaping waves he becomes a knows the ways of Englishmen. He rushes wildly grotesque and fe arful thing, an abysmal blackness o n along the bulwark, reaches the fo re-deck with a eat the silvery light. I don't think he knows why we b hazardous spring and there dances wildly, swearing at 3 60 On lit e Pn 'tI//6 0. / tlz e Ellljlz"re.

all the crew, especially the grinning boys, in pigeon­ Engli!,h "You blHdy monkey, why you stand there ! why you think I keep you long of this ship you bl*'"dy monkey ? I! You thi nk I keep you eat and sleep, make fa st, make fa st, make fa st." There is nothing much to be done but he intends that it shall be done in style. Then they all shout and bellow to wake the people on the land, and presen tly \111 old grey man pushes off in WITH THE YEOMANRY HOSPITAL AT a canoe, a great hollowed trunk with large outrigger PRETORIA. on either side and a bamboo platform amidships. Solemnly and silently he sets us ashore, and we fi nd AST year I fo und myself among those who Jack Bruce the only white man of the Island taking his had decided that khaki's the only wear, and morning tub. at five days' notice started fo r the Cape to Druce has installed us in the old mission house take part in the fo rmation of an Im perial here, disused since the missionaries left the Island Yeomanry Hospital at Pretoria. Owing to the strain some years ago, thinking they had completed the con­ A on the resources of the rmy Medical Department, we vert.ion of the people and driven out all "devil-devil." started without the services of a military Commandant, It is . a wooden house of one storey, with three large , and consequently without the sl ightest knowledge of rooms and a wide verandah, and several small rooms military routine I had to discharge the duties of that behind. It is somewhat dilapidated, but is just large officer. Truly a pleasant predicament in the Bay of enough to hold us comfortably, and as there are several Biscay. We had eighty orderlies on board who had tables and chairs left in it we have, with our own camp • been selected on various grounds, but very fe w of them fu rniture, a luxurious abode. We sleep in our camp fo r actual experience of hospital work. Indeed, at beds on the verandah, each man in a small world of that stage of the war trained orderlies were almost im­ his own, shut off from the rest of the universe, especially possible to obtain. One of my first tasks was to select the mosquitoes, by a fi ne white curtain. The house non-commissioned officers, and to try and reduce this stands on a steep hill-side about one hundred fe et above motley crew of old soldiers and civilians to some the beach and the native houses, so that we look out semblance of discipline. Our troubles began at Madeira. across the tops of the tall coco-palms to a wide ex­ Here some of the men went ashore without leave, got panse of sea with Darnley Island on the horizon. It is drunk and then had a quarrel with the police. A a beautifully coloured sea, fo r the water is pp-rfectly rescue was attempted, and in a moment the police drew clear, and as the tide falls the coral-reefs begin to.shelV their cutlasses. One of the men fe ll close to me with up on the blue as patches of the most vivid luminous his head cut open. He was a Seaforth Highlander, greens of every kind. Just now the weather is perfect. and if the policeman had possessed the physique of his There is a constant breeze that carries masses of fair victim the blow would have been fatal. To add to the weather clouds away towards the North West horizon, confusion the steamer began whistling fo r us to go and keeps our verandah moderntely cool. on board, and the British Consul could not be fo und. 'V. �IcD. VOL. XXII. AAA [T... De conltitlled.] 3 62 rVz"th the Yeomanry .Hosj>t'falat Prelona. Wz 'fh the Ye "manry Hospt'tal at Preforza. 363

The shipping agent undertook to deliver my hasty note small kopjes. Sometimes it takes the fo rm of long to him, and then we had to leave the men to their fate waves of this everlasting red, sometimes it is a plain and the tender mercies of the Portuguese. surrounded by a ring of table mountains. You may But this incident had a somewhat sobering effect on travel a hundred miles and never see a tree or a stream, the remainder, which process was hastened by in ocu­ On and on goes the train-surely round this corner I lating th em against en teric fe ver. was inoculated there will be something fresh ; but no-more veldt, myself and fo und it decidedly sobering in its influence. more kopjes, more thorny mimosa, more scrubby bushes. We also gave them instruction in stretcher drill, and Truly it is a country of magnificent distances. At in the elements of nursing. Gradually we fo und out intervals we see an ostrich fa rm with its vindictive­ the kind of work each man was suited fo r, and on our looking birds enclosed behind a barbed wire fe nce ; arrival at Capetown they proceeded to the Yeomanry with heads nodding at each step they are following Base Hospital at Deelfontein, where they were trained a solitary wayfarer, who plods along the baked road in their allotted departments while our arrangemen ts that stretches like a red scar across the veldt. Where were being completed. did they learn that look of concentrated malignity ? Our first view of Capetown was most depressing ; Does even the ostrich feel towards us as Paul Kriiger everything was veiled in fo g, so that of the vaunted did in that distressful country ? beauties of Table Bay we could see nothing. It seemed This is the first impression ; the mystery and beauty unnecessary to travel six thousand miles fo r a Scotch of the Karroo are not revealed to the casual observer. mist ! But our chief anxiety on getting news from the At high .noon the landscape swims in mirage in shore was lest the war should be over. Perhaps my every direction. A kopje juts out like a cape into a readers will not be surprised to hear that we fo und the shimmering sea, the ant heaps look like children's war was still going on. � castles on the beach. But we draw nearer, and the sea There is no need fo r me to add to the many de­ mockingly fleesbef ore us, resolving itself into the heat scriptions of Capetown. As soon as it was fe asible we haze that rises from the baked Karroo. started fo r the North by a night train, and next morning Towards sunset a subtle change is seen. The hard woke to find ourselves among the beautiful Hex River outlines soften ; the dull reds and green become touched mountains still tipped with winter snows. The fr esh with richer hues, the sky flames with gold. The smoke air blowing across the veldt recalled the words of the rising from a Kaffir kraal is turned into a golden cloud ; late G. W. Steevens ; "there is nothing else in existence every moment the colours are changing like a kalei­ clear enough with which to compare it. You fe el that doscope. hitherto you had been breathing mud and looking out The sun dips below the horizon which is now dyed s on the world through fog. This at last was air, wa a rich, rose-pink hue all round. Soon this rose-pink ether." By mid-day we had reached the edge of the curtain rolls up and leaves a deep blue behind. The of Karroo, the great table-land desert. To readers blue fa des to grey, the grey fades to black, and while Olive Schreine mystery r the Karroo is invested with we are watching the night has come swiftly upon us. g in and beauty. At first sight these are signally lackin And with the night, the cold, a piercing dry cold. The a ttered wide expanse of red earth covered with sca sky is spangled with stars ; and as the moon rises, rocks and scrubby bushes, raised here and there into throwing its magic light over the veldt already sparkling 364 Wt'th the Ye oman'!'y Ho spital at Prdort'a. Wz 'th the Ye omamy II osp t'ta l at Pre!on·a. 365

with hoar frost, the grey leaves of the thorn -bushes I spent nine· days at Bloem rontein acting merely as become pure silver, the rocky boulders assume new and a fo rwarding agent. At home a medical man may fantastic shapes. Who that has seen this happen can devote himself to the stethescope or the scalpel ; in deny to the Karroo its mystery and beauty I Africa, everyone had to become a business man. The Deelfontein, the Yeomanry Base Hospital, is situated buying of stores, the d rawing of rations, and the arrange­ on the Karroo near De Aar Junction. Here we halted ments for tra n sport tormed part of his routine. for a time while arrangements were going fo rward. South of this point the journey had presented no This gave us the opportunity of learning many things, special difficulties, but fro m this point on the obstacles for the hospital, under Col. Sloggett's able adminis­ were considerable. The principal one was of course tration, was a noteworthy success. De Wet. The heavily loaded trains were not allowed Where form�ly there was nothing but a railway to travel through the dangerous zone at night ; the siding and a store, a miniature town of iron huts and officers travelled in wretched little carriages captured tents had arisen-a hospital of a thousand beds with from the Boers. or in covered cattle trucks, the men on

an operating theatre as fully equipped as if in London , the top ot trucks which were loaded high up with stores. a church of its own, a steam laundry and even a Even travelling on the South Eastern seemed quick in bacteriological laboratory. Here we were joined by comparison, for it took two and a half days to get from Surgeon-Major Kilkelly, who had been appointed our Bloemfontein to Pretoria. And we were lucky. One military commandant, and I left with him to go to officer who had to go to Pretoria passed a hospital train

B10emfontein. No longer was this the " tented city of on a siding- he saw some n urses looking tired and pestilence" it had been, but a pleasant little country dishevelled. On his return a few days later he said he town. We were encamped on the veldt beyond the saw the same train on the same siding ; and the nurses Residency behind which was the "flowery spring" were then looking rather more tired and a good deal from which the town takes its name. Here I saw what more dishevelled . a"donga " really meant. Going across the level veldt One of the most striking facts on this journey was

we suddenly encountered a deep trench cut by tropical that all the way we were scarcely ever out of sight of a rains in sandy soil. Now quite dry it could easily dead horse or mule. It brought home the enormous contain and completely hide hundreds of men. Yet mortality that war means for these animals. Such fr om the conformation of the surrounding country, its sights as the station at Roodeval rid dled with bullets, existence would never be suspected. the burnt trains, the long line of veldt fires. the broken Military law was strictly enforced at B10emfontein. bridges, and the ruined farms represe nted the inglorious All civilians had to be indoors at eight o'clock, and side of war, a side which in this campaign has not been after that time one had to be prepared fo r the sentry's lacking. challenge. At Dee1fonte in this had been but a fa rce, At l ast the long wished fo r sight of the Pretoria for a friend of mine in response to the challenge, Forts greeted our eyes. Two of these guard the southern

"Halt, who goes there ?" once said "Kruger. " The entrance to Pretoria. It will not surprise my readers, g r, sentry rose to the occasion and replied, " Pass Kru � though it apparelltly greatly surprised the Boers, th

able to open the Hospital at Pretoria just one calendar a picturesque town. To a Cambridge man, the little month after the advance guard landed at Capetown. conduits running along the roadside bore a fa miliar Of our lavish supply of drugs we at first only possessed aspect. The villas are pretty, often artistic and em­ a box of seidlitz powders and a bottle of quinine pills. bowered in roses. When we arrived, Pretoria was pink Lights were a great difficulty-paraffin could not be with peach blossom. We were quartered in the district obtained in anything like sufficient quantity, and the called Arcadia, and the name is not inappropriate. The army allowance of candles and matches was very scanty. pretty stream that enters the town from Fountain Grove " When is the match going to be lit ?" was the usual fringed with weeping willows, and with the nests of question after breakfast. We discovered some colza, weaver birds hanging over its edge is indeed a refreshing which by cautious admixture with our precious paraffin sight. To the eyes of a traveller wearied with the veldt, • was induced to lend a flickering light. But before long the town is an oasis in the desert. Of its buildings, of the our difficulties were brought to an end by the skill of buildings where our men were imprisoned, of Wi nston Captain Dumaresq R.E., who rapidly installed an Churchill's map drawn on the walls of the Model School excellent service of electric light, the motive fo rce being with the stages of Lord Robt!rts' advance mysteriously supplied by an old traction engine. m3.rked upon it I need say nothing ; these are by now fa miliar facts to a1l. Milk was very scarce, and in the train we had to depend on condensed milk, keeping the fresh fo r those We secured for our hospital a fine country house on cases where it was essential . Eggs cost sixpence each the hill side about two miles outside Pretoria. It had and were mostly bad. belonged to an Englishman who was believed to have Wh ile speaking of diet, I may say how much the sold ammunition to the Boers, and it was acquired by addition of jam to the rations has been appreciated. I the simple method of "commandeering." The owner believe this innovation was due to a suggestion made appeared to have been ready fo r any contingency as he by my colleague, Dr Sandwi,th, of Cairo, in the Soudan had both Union Jack and a Transvaal flag on the campaign. Of him it may be said, as of Sir Christopher premises. The upper floor of the house was turned into Wren, "si monumentum qUalris, circumspice," fo r South wards for sick officers, the ground floor into offices and Africa is literally strewn with jam-pots. wards for men. A large conservatory at the back Clothes presented another problem. Th e man came fo rmed a charming mess-room. But all told the house would only hold about fi fty invalids. The remaining in from the veldt in clothes which were quite unfit for beings to wear ; yet, if they were destroyed how three hundred and fifty had to be accomodated in tents human could they be replaced ? which were pla�ed in the grounds. When complete the We had plenty of pyjama hospital was excellently equipped, an operating theatre suits, and our convalescents at first used to promenade in that commanded the admiration of the Hospital Com­ these. The weather was beginning to get warm, and th mission, large kitchens, stores, bathrooms, and a supply is attire was cool and consequently popular, though of the most modern drugs. But it was not thus at the the effect produced was a little quaint. But when the stores came up we were able to fit out everyone leaving beginning, as may be easily imagined when it is re­ membered that all the equipment had to be brought up the hospital. The British public have been most a thousand miles of single rail which was constantly generous in supplying comforts, and in some cases being cut. In spite of all these difficulties, we were undue advantage has been taken of this by enterprising 3 68 Wt th the Ye omanry I-I osp ttut at Pretona. Wi th t/u ; Ye omanry Eo sptial at Preton'a. 369 Tommies. I heard of one man who managed to secure the opportunity of talking to the secretary of J oubert's fo r himself from one source or another twenty-three election committee, who had been a member of the pyjama suits ! and I fe ar this was not an isolated in­ Volksraad himself. Some of his information may be stance. of interest. He told me of an interview he had had August 18th saw our hospital fo rmally opened. The with Krtiger, in the course of which the President sai.d, place was swept and garnished, the band of the 2nd "Why do you always oppose me, why do you hate me Lincolns was in attendance, and punctually at the time so ? " appointed Lady Roberts drove up, accompanied by the "I do not hate you, President," he replied, "but I Commander-in-chief. The presence of Lord Roberts hate your Hollander policy, and I know that sooner or was in itself sufficient to guarantee the success of the later it will lead to war with England." He told me opening ceremony, and we concluded our day's work • that the armament scheme had been proposed before with much mutual congratulation. The next day saw the raid, and this occurrence simply gagged the oppo­ our first patient admitted, who promptly sampled the sition to it. He had an interesting conversation with seidlitz powders and the quinine pills. The day after J oubert after the fa mous election in which it was that we took in a fe w more, and on August 21st a believed, with reason, that Joubert had the majority of convoy of a hundred sick and wounded arrived at half­ the votes, but that Kriiger had the advantage of past ten at night Some of them had spent th ree days counting them. He urged Joubert to fight it out, saying in bullock waggons, and a fe w were delirious or ., that if he did not he would never get the support of unconscious. The oxen that drew the convoy were so the burghers again. "Ithought you would have under­ worn out that many of them fell asleep while still yoked stood," said Joubert, " Paul Kriiger would never allow to the waggons ; the rest seemed to huddle together fo r me to be President : he would have civil war first." mutual support. Amid the flickering light from swing­ Another man I met had been station master at a ing lanterns the work of drJ.fting off the patients to their town near Capetown, notorious fo r its Afrikander respective wards went on. Mere novices as we were at sy mpathies. Some months before the war he felt sus­ the work, we fe lt some pride in accomplishing this in picious about some large cases consigned to a prominent three-quarters of an hour. By that space of time every member of the Bond in the town. On his own responsi­ man had been got to bed and given a good draught of bility he opened them-they contained Mauser rifles milk or beef tea. and ammunition. Any idea of a Dutch conspiracy has From that time forward our hospital was in full been indignantly repudiated ; fo r what "big game " swing. Vve soon raised our accommodation to 400, and could they have been intended ? We made the interest­ this was rapidly utilised. Difficulties were gradually ing discovery in a shop at Pretoria of a number of overcome, and the hospital proved so successfu l that little plaster busts of Kriiger, labelled "President of it is now the only one still supported by private enter­ Cape Colony." This throws an interesting side-light on prise. the popular aspirations of a people, who occupied the Of the political side of the war r have thought it northern part of Cape Colony for "purely strategic: best to say nothing. Everybody has made up his reasons I " mind one way or the other, and fa cts can produce There has been pessimism enough and to spare over but little effect in modifying opinions. But I had this war, and that not without reason : let me conclude VOL. XXII. BB B 3 70 TV/tit the Ye omanry .Hospital at Pre/orla.

with some words of hope. For the agricultural develop­ ment of the country enormous sums would have to be spent in constructing reservoirs and irrigation works ; on the other hand only the fr inge of the mineral re­ sources has been touched. At Middelburg there is THE GYMNAST. iron on one side of the line and coal on the other, both close to the surface ; there is reason to believe that I, LONG years loitering in the study Pretoria is as rich in gold as Johannesburg. Of old Greek classics and divinity, When I was at Ladysmith kindly nature was doing Sought but such pastimes (like a cuddy) her best to cover the rents that men had torn in her As had a smack of fe mininity­ garment. The Spring was making all th ings new ; Golfing and bowling ; and the issue life was in the ascendant once more, even in that Was masses of superfluous tissue. tortured town. And the sight seemed to tell of hope A full-orbed, globular Adonis, in the fu ture for South Africa, a not impossible dream I greatly spurned such toil as cricket in' ; of the Pax Britannica. The links I haunted with my cronies, As redolent as I of nicotine­ W. LANGDON BROWN. A jolly life ! but yet a blunder, I grew rotunder and rotunder.

Blit lo ! a young Greek god is seen From out the starry heights of Ulster­ As unto Dido once, I ween, Ere Troj an histories convulsed her, Came Mercury on fluttering pinion, A marvel to the Carthaginian.

" Behold !" he cried, "0 perfe ct spherity ! Behold my figure lithe and rlastic. I speak the sober words of verity, By use judicious of gymnastic, You shall attain, 0 fa r too succulent ! Like beauty, right and tight and truculent."

'Twas true the tale. Each day resplendent In shirt of white and snowy breeches I lift the weight and swing suspendent, Exactly as my Mentor teaches, And hope (nor is my hope chimerical) I shall be soon not quite so spherical. gUIS TERE'l'IOR ? On Actz"ve Servlce. 373

sentry in the rain. During the night before the rain soaked through the earth which fo rms the roof of the block-house, and started dropping inside. The result was my blankets got fa irly soaked ; luckily I managed to borrow one for last night, or I should have been in ON ACTIVE SERVICE. a bad way. March 1 4th. Had two dry days and got fa irly into shape again ; I should think we ought to have done with Vereeniging, rain here now, as I hear a wire came to-day to say we 9 Ma rch 1901. were to start down South in a week. I have had enough Dear --, of pickets, about one night in fo ur for about a month. We have had rather a poor time here the last I hear my brother has had two months' hard work down fe w days, as it is not playing the game at all, and has below, fighting nearly every day ; when last heard of rain ed the greater part of the last fo ur days, although he was still all right. He seems to have caught me in the rainy season is nearly over, and they seldom get weight at last, as he says he is eleven stone, and I only rain fo r more th an a day at a time. Our tents stood did eleven stone and a pound or two with my clothes all right, but one section had two or three down. As on the other day ; legs all gone to pot. we seemed likely to be here fo r some time we got a Yours truly, Pecoana grammar the other day ; some people say it . . .. is the pure Zulu language, others say it is Basuto, but whatever it is the Basutos can understand a good deal of it. Simmer and Jack's Mine, We got a couple here last night, and tried to get the pronunc EJandsfontein, iation from them. We would say a word, Transvaal, pronounced according to the in structions, as far 28 1J1arch 1901. as we could make it out ; a blank look would come over Dear --, their faces, this would suddenly turn into a broad grin, We left Vereeniging on the 22nd to come here, ending in roars of laughter, as it dawned on them what a matter of about 40 miles. We left about 3 p.m., but it was we were trying to say, and then they would say did not manage till 3 next morning here. ,Ve hod got it fo r us in a very different way to ours. The best thing about half-way when we met some down traffic, and by is their numerals ; six is literally "crossing over." means of muddling up the whole show they did not because you have used up the fingers of the left hand, get away befo re dark, and so had to stop the night. and cross over to begin the right. The plurals are also From the station we moved out about !t mile East. sometimes peculiar, and the singular does not give much After getting !'ettled there we were shifted over here hint of what they will be = (le!wto a lE'g, pl ural 1?Zaota). to relieve the Manchesters. About 5.30 on the 25th March 12th. Rain stopped fo r a bit this morning I orders came fo r 30 men to move at once. So off we am glad to say, so started to dry things, but have not started in what we thought was the right direction ; a been able to finish as rain r has come on again. Yeste ­ good many men carrying both blanket and overcoat I day had a poor time , urs' as I got about seven ho as they could not all go on the cab that took over one 374 On Actt"ve Servz'ce. On Actt've Se rvz'ce. 375 of the officers. We kept fa irly good line, and did not and he skids away. The parallels have not got the break our necks, thanks to there being a good moon ; stand fo r the bars as fa r.as we have been able to find once, however, we fo und it getting soft and wet under out. We are here in thp. middle of the mine, which is, fo ot, and fo und we were just walking into a dam. I believe, the biggest gold mine in the world, employing Finally we got across all right, and most of us slept in 900 whites and 1000 Kafnrs. All round are shafts and a room wh ich is the dining hall fo r the mine people. machinery covering a good many acres. I haven't seen The Manchesters kicked up the very dickens of a row, any of the engines yet, but hope to soon, especially the and kept it up long after 'lights out.' At 4 30 a.m. pumps. They are working more or less, putting down they kicked us out to relieve their outposts. Later in new railways and getting out the water ; one shaft has, the day the rest of the Co mpany came over and they I think, 350 feet in it. They say, however, that if the cleared out. The post I got to was a very good one �ar fini shed to- morrow they would not get started by day, although at night, according to all accounts, under three months, there are so many th ings to put it is not extra safe. There are, so fa r as I know, no right. The place looks quite deserted now, but it must Boers about, but close by is a detail camp of Imperial fa irly hum when everything is run ning. To-day they Yeomanry, and apparently some of them are very keen started a new arrangement by \"v'hich two secti ons are to shoot something, or else rather nervous, as every always away on detached P()st, but keep moving round now and again they let drive. One of our men saw to keep things fair. This is the best place. them drilling yesterday, and one of them ran his bayonet Yours truly, into his hand and had to retire. When I got back here, '" '" '" on being relieved at night I fo und the first three [These two Idle rs complete the sert'es from our COlltrt'btltor who sections were quartered in the big room, and we were Jzasre/ti med fro m the fro nt.] in groups of fo ur in the rooms the mine men live in. There is electric light in the big place, which has a good kitchen attached, and in some of the rooms. [Letters from members of the College who have About 50 yards away are some big tanks which make recently volunteered in the Imperial Yeomanry, give a first-class swimming bath, and up the road is a sort cheerful accounts of their experiences so far. Lieut. of Club. There are two "pool " tables, but the cloth is G. W. Williams writes from Springfon tein within a few cut up all over the place and the cues have no tips : in hours of entraining fo r the fro nt, where he has been addition there seemed to be nothing but pool balls, etc., appointed to a va cancy in the fighting line. which makes it rather confusing when both red and Trooper N. S. Hoare, in a letter from Honing Spruit white and red and spot is brown ; it helps to pass the dated April 24, writes as fo llowsJ :- time, however, when off duty. Behind there is a big "We have arrived at this rather out of the way spot, room which has been used as a gymnasium ; the hori­ and have just joined General Broadwood's column. zontal bar is all right and there are some mattresses ; Unfortunately coming out here Palmer and Henslow the vaulting horse and spring board are all in good Were separated from Chell and myself, and we have order, but we have not been able to keep them fr om just joined Palmer about two days ago. He has just sliding about, which makes your final landing place : Come out of hospital at Kroonstadt, and I am sorry to say I matter of doubt when you land full flight on the stee Benslow has just gone there with sunstroke believe, and we have heard no news how he is. vV e 3 7 6 01t Acft've Se 1'VtC�. had a very good voyage out, with only one death 011 board, although one has died since from heat apoplexy contracted at sea. We had two more who had various complaints fr om the heat, and went wrong in the head. We landed at Durban and went through Natal, vza Colenso, Ladysmith, an d Majuba Hill to Elandsfontein in the Transvaal. Nothing of any note occurred there, and after stopping there for a week we went on to Kroonstadt-and this was a place fu ll of danger as fa r L'AMOUR ET L'AMITIE. as I was concerned, fo r here they provided us with horses, and I got a buck-jumper .••••" However, I weathered that storm and came on here. IF Love be Friendship, from itself decoy'd, The Boers are all about, but do not trouble the Friendship is Love's pure essence unalloy'd. garrison here much. The other night we were all sitting round the fire when a shot hit the ground about L. HORTON-SMITH. two yards from where we were. Later on one of our sentries was shot in the thigh, and that is the only time we have been under fire. However, we are going on a three months' trek vza Standerton and Lindley, and we are certain to see some fighting shortly. Last night our pom-pom, which the Artillery have with them, opened fire on a body of horsemen, who afterwards rode into camp and seemed very annoyed because they CONSTANT ONLY IN INCONSTANCY. belonged to our party. At present the only way the Company to which I belong has distinguished itself, is by having one of its (Wo/'ds importi" g the mascull'" e ge llder shall include the fe mi1lillt I men shot as a spy. He was caught in a Boer house Inlerplelatioll Act, 1889.) giving information to the Boers. At Kroonstadt I saW the 'Varsity Volunteers on their way home, and Oakeley, How like is man to butterfly, of course, was looking very fit. That tastes each passing flow'r ; The hardships are nothing like so severe as I e"� He loves to sip ; then-flutter by : o pected, as the commissariat department has got int A fresh sweet every hour ! not better worki.ng order and, although life out here is sely . like one's rooms at Cambridge, I enjoy it immen L. HORTON-SMITH. very If I could run home fo r the week-end I should be happy indeed ...... We have an awfully good time, he and it is fa r nicer than waiting fo r the result of t " ' Li.ttle Go ' .••••• VOL. XXII. CCC A Challenge . 379

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CIPHER C. MD MFHJYSWGRQIXNLKTAEBZV PORTRAIT OF PROFESSOR LIVEING. OCPUCGMRWSPQRTYJK BOXKYE AM NDS GBFCRBJWOHYYH VAMSJ TLTSVNGMTVCOFGSRHOKRPFMP AT a meeting held in College on the 27th of April, under the AQ JVCBULYMDYRVL MTPDM WLM presidency of the M aster, it was resol ved to raiRe a fu nd fo r the HETVACUVKCOKLCNPUWJC MHG purpose of securing a purtrait of Professor Liveing as a mark of EFMBMQITINCLTSIWNYZPH SMQ personal regard and in recognition of h i s valuable services to INU CGQLQZPNCRFYEEGWWSEK PATZCZOTHFASYGD science a nd to the Ulliversity, Town, and County. Professor Liveing graduated ill 1850, and he has since then been continu­ Trallslatiolt of above : -The Bo�rs have again appeared 011 the railway ; ously engaged in teaching in the University. He was the fi rst but it is doubtful if De Wet is with them. What is to be our next move ? C r e The war drags on. When it will end, who knows ? We keep our powder to open a laboratory available for am b i d g Students. He has dry, but that is not everything. Will write. taken an active part in University aifd i rs, and h"s l ong acted as the U n ive rsi ty Secretary to the l ate and to the present Chan­ cellor. He is also a Magistrate for both the Town and the NQOLEAJCZKGBVXPRNTWDYIS County, and with rare geuerosity devotes much time ancl money MHFUACAGUUGLYRFKBQQTIVG URFPBLXMLNVPEESIFXAYMDAO to many organisations for fu rthering the well-being of the HMMXNNTWLYSANPWSUBOZE NR people. BJLUCDYPMBNW DGMIDQZREZEG Professors Lewis ancl Thomson and Mr R. F. Scott were WACELTLXRBDUIFVYK XUWXHT appoi n ted joint Secretaries and Treasurers. Gentlemen desirous BUBVZYLRQVUPX GYZCROVGSSJ of j oining the General Comm i t tee are requested to send their TPKW EPQRQS MHPPIRGLKZMAI n ame one or other of the Secretaries. ZNSLIECDVANMCR s to It has been determined not to fix any limit to the subscrip­ tions. The names only of the Con tr ibutors will be published, and not the amount given. The destination of the portrait is reserved for the determina­ tion of the subscribers. We take the followi ng account of the proceedings at the meeting in College from The Cambridge C h1'Onz'cle of 3 May J 90 I. "In open ing the proceedings, the Rev Dr Tay lor said he need not expl ain at any length how the meeting came to be held. , "'. " . '

38l PO?'h'att of Pro/woI' Lzvezng. Po rlraz"t of Pnifesso?' Lt'velllg. 383 A letter requesting him to convene a meeting was circulated, number in the diminishing Mathematical Tripos. In the first and was largely and influentially signed, The Chancellor of the year the examination did not admit to a degree, and not until University had written, 'I am very glad to hear of tl,e movement 186 I did the examination qualify for the B.A. degree. Two fo r the recognition of Professor Liveing's services, and hope that years from the fi rst Natural Sciences Tripos the chemical you will be so good as to add my name to its supporters.' Some laboratory in St John's College was being built, and Professor of the many who had expressed a desi re to have a meeting had Liveing was, in 1854, appointed the first superintendent of it. written to say they were unable to attend. Sir John Gorst M.P. In 1861 he was elected to the Professorship of Chemistry which wrote that he would be very glad to promote, in any way in his he had ever since held. Thus he was very fillya representative power, the object for which the meeting was to be held. The of science in the University during the whole of what might be Master of Caius College wrote that he would gladly co-operate called its modern period-exactly So years. Professor Liveing with any movement to recognise Professor Livei ng's services to jllso took a very importan t part in the general business of the the University. The l'Ifaster of Jesus wrote expressing regret at University, He had lived under three sets of College and being unable to attend the meeting, and joined with others in the University statutes, and had taken his fu ll share in the framing proposal to make some acknowledgment to Professor Liveing­ of two of them. Altogether, they might say he was not only one of the very oldest friends he had in Cam bridge. Professor a representative of science, but of modern education generally A. Newton, Professor T. McKenny Hughes, Professor Clifford in the University, and that there was no one living who had All butt, Professor F. W. Mai tland, Professor Hudson, Dr H. taken a larger share in those movements and changes which Jackson, Mr T. Andrews, Mr F, J. H. Jenkinson (the Librarian), had transformed their ancient University into what it now is. and others had also written. Dr Sandys suggested Mr Brock's [Applause.] name if it was decided to paint a portrait. Continuing, the "Dr J. Peile (Master of Christ' S) proposed the following Master of St John's said he would at once call upon the proposer resolution :-' That as a mark of our personal regard for Professor and seconder of the first resolution, but although it was not fo r Liveing, and in recognition of his valuable services to science him to speak about Professor Liveing's claim to recognition, fo r and to the University, Town, and Connty, a testimonial be that was the business of others, it had occurred to him to remark presented to him f and that it consist of a portrait of him, to be that this was a remarkable year-an epoch-making year-in the painted by an artist selected by a Committee in conjunction progress of science in the University. with Professor Liveing ; the destination of the portrait to be "S cience in the old times was represented by the Professor­ determined by the subscribers.' He felt he was unduly honoured ship of Physic, fo unded by Henry VUL, and at a later date by ill being asked to propose the resolution, and said no one was the Professorship of Chemistry, fo ullded in 17°2, two years it:ss qualified than himself to estimate the merits of a man of before the publication of Newton's Optics, and two years after science. But he did not know that it needed special knowledge the appointment of Bentley to the Mastership of Trinity College. to appreciate the beauty and the worth of a life given to honest But op­ science as it was now in tile Universi ty, in its large devel work, and as a very old friend of Professor Li veing he felt he ked ment, was the growth of exactly 50 years, for if they loo could not refuse when he was asked to propose the resolution. back into their records in the University Calendar, under the The Master of St John'S, he said, had already pointed ont that heading of Natural Sciences Tripos, they would fi nd that the it was 50 years ago since Professor Liveil1g began his teaching­ first examination was held in 185 I. In the first class there we:e Duril1g that time the change in Cambridge had been something and I n tben fo ur names (that of Professor Liveing being fi rst), remarkabLe. It was not till about ten years after he became' the second two, making six altogether. Looking to the fiftieth a Profe ssor that the Colleges began to promote the study of examination, in '900, in the first class instead of fo ur names� natural science at Cambridge, by the establish ment of entrance there were 40, and in the whole of the Tripos 122, or a g rea er scltol;,uships for science. Since then there had been an enormous number than in the Classical Tripos, and nearly double t le extension. The face of Cambridge was being covered over with 3 84 Porkatt of Professor Lz"vdllg. Po rtrait of P?'ofe'Sso?' .ltv�ing>. 3SS museums, laboratories, and lecture rooms, and as one walked was a point which had always struck him (Dr Peile). In the along Downing Street, one perhaps felt-he did-a shudder at old days the relation of a Professor towards the University was the havoc caused by the advance of science. [La.ughter.] He quite different t� what i.t is at present. Each scientific Pro­ did not doubt it was necessary, but it was painful, and to him, fessor then received a salary, by no means a large one, and was expected to run his department on it. Professor Liveing was he confessed that in these days of unnecessary destruction in all parts of Cambridge it was a real source of pleasure anxious that the work done in the department should be to think that the building of the chemical laboratory did not thoroughly good and stinted in no way, and he also held that it was a matter private to himself, the UBiversity trusting him involve the sacrifice of a single large tree. [Laughter.] The chemical laboratory would always be Professor Liveing's best and placing a certain business ill his hands which he was to carry out. He never cared to give any account of it, and memorial at Cambridge. Everyone who was concerned with naturall a the work knew the care and the thought which Professor y, when the number of students and fees increased, eertain amount of comment was caused which gave rise to a Liveing gave to every detail of it. No detail was too small to be carefully considered if only he thought it would con­ slight misunderstanding. A conversation with Professor Liveing revealed the fact that for many years the fund was tOlally inade­ duce to make the laboratory one of the best in Europe. quate to pay the expenses of the department, and that he. As to the work done in that laboratory, it was not for him himsel f, had paid the money out of his own pocket to do to speak, but it would be recorded as an evidence of the value whatever was necessary to keep the department up to its of the work that in each of the last fiveyears one, he believed, ut saying a word to anyone. lApplause J of Professor Liveing's old pupils had become a Fellow of the fullest efficiency witho ord uld be said in esteem of Professor Liveing of Royal Society for original research. [Applause.] Professor One w sho the way in which he discharged a very peculiar trust. It was Liveing was a man whose opinion was always listened to with bridge that for many respect ; it was always sensible, and given calmly and fairly, not a matter of common knowledge in Cam Chancellor and the present pushed, and on that ground he thought it gained in infl uence. years, both in the time of the late been a sort of University secretary to the Chancellor He could remember Professor Liveing as Chairman of the ill­ one, he had in order that the Chancellor might be properly informed of any fa ted Cavendish College, which if it failed, was no fault of his. ersity ought er wished to For long time he had been on the Council of Girton College, matter which the head of the Univ he believed that Professor and was connected with various trusts in which he displayed a know. In the late Duke's time, him letters giving him the vast knowledge of details and the best way in which funds could Liveing used constantly to write infor a fact seemed to speak very much be employed. His fairness seemed to be quite remarkable, and mation he desired. Such for it-the Chancellor, who was so eager to be it was no doubt the appreciation of that quality-that he was the parties to thoroughly informed on the state of the University, and Professor prepared to give any amount of pains to a thing and to the Live who, by his knowledge and sense of his absolute fairness, which had led to the recognition ing, as the man he chose fairne ded upon to give the proper sort of he had so often received from outside, and particularly in ss, could be depen inform and more. He thought Professor Liveing must recent years. At the request of theCha ncellor of the Exchequer, ation, no have as a man of clearly marked individuality, Professor Li\'eing assisted in making a report upon the grants struck most men a man rly fairminded, singularly single-hearted, very given to University Colleges throughout England. Of late singula tborough in all his work, anxious simply to do what he regarded years he had rendered signal service to the UniversilY by as his duty in any matter to make his work thoroughly efficient. organising classes and preparing and developing the way for The words in which James Russell Lowell described Abraham agricultural science before the department had blossomed out � Lincoln were by no means inappropriate to Professor Liveing­ into full success with ample funds and an able Professo • Tbe kindly-earnest. brave, fore-seeing man ; sagacious, The conception which Professor Liveing had always �el e patient, dreading praise, not blame.' [Applause.] Hc was of his duty as the head of his scientificdepartm ent in Cambndg VOl.. XXII. DJ;)D 386 P(J rt-rm'! ifPro fessor Lt·vdng. Portrat't of Professor Lt'veti1g. 387 not 'the new birth of a new soil ' as Abraham Lincoln was, the front of the battle and ready to give his help. He was but rather his very virtues were those which they might believe acquainted with everything that was done in the laboratory, and had been fostered and developed by the very old soil of when he worked in the old miserable, inadequate, ill-erected Cambridge. [Applause.] building that was quite unfit for use, he succeeded somehow or Prof essor Dewar, in seconding the motion, referred to other in teaching chemistry. Professor Liveing was a man of Professor Liveing's conscientious thoroughness and honest uniform kindness, always putting himself in the background, labours. His wo rk, quite independently of any co-operative and the University to the fore. In addition he was a man of work with himself, which he had carried on with Professor extraordinary kindness and generosity ; and there must be many Liveing for twenty-fiveyears, was marked by thoroughness and who would be thankful for an opportunity of recognising this. absol ute reliability, yet with no desire of publicity or notoriety. l Applause.] He had stamped his character on the school of chemistry, and The motion was unanimously carried. one of his greatest memorials would be the men whom he had "The Mayor of Cambridge (Mr H. M. Taylor) said if he had seen devel oping under his eyes, and largely by his own not at once accepted the invitation of Professor Lewis to be influence and generosity of heart. The personal services he present that day he would have shirked what was really the had given not only to the University, and in the maintenance of duty of the Chief Magistrate of the town to take an interest in the laborator y out of his own pocket, but to the encouragement any movement organised for the purpose of doing honour to of men of ability, was only known to a few, His generosity of a man who really deserved hononr from all its inhabitants. heart had been rewarded by seeing a large number of his own [Hear, hear,] A great deal had been said with regard to the pupils advance into positions important in the scientific world. scientific attainments of Professor Livcing and to the work he In that sense his labours ought to be recognised, and that had had done in connection with the University. He looked upon been a feeling, which he was bound to say, had permeated a Professor Liveing as one of those products of, he might say, large number of the members of the scientific world for many the old soil of St J ohn's-men of ability, men of modesty and years. Lord Kelvin had authorised him to state that if there retirement, men who were never happy unless they were hard at was anything he could do to support the movement he gave it work, and whose ambition it was to do their duty and to be his most he arty support. [Applause.] Dr Ludwig Mond had useful to their fe llow men, men of the type of Henry Martyn, of said that he would render any help which they might want, John Couch Adams, who fu lly deserved all the honour that because there was no man for whom he had a higher respect could be given them. Those modest men did a great deal of than Professor Liveing. After all these years of work Professor work that was never known. A great deal more was behind the Liveing was still as active minded as he was twenty-five years work of Professor Liveing than that which had been mentioned. ago, and was equally as responsive to any new development, For J 7 years, he (the Mayor) had lived in the same parish with whether it was in relation to agriculture, medicine, or the Professor Liveing, and he knew the trouble which he took in exten�ion of the tea ching of pharmaceutical chemistry. They raising a fund annually for the benefitof the parish, and the could only hope that he would continue encouraging youth, for money came out of his own pocket if the sum collected was not it was by a belief in that that advancement would be made. sufficient. For 30 years Professor Liveing had been one of the [Applause.] Borough Bench, and was regarded there as a very valuable "The Re gistrary (Mr J. W. Clark), in supporting the motion, Magistrate. He went regularly to the Brewster Sessions, and. said he would like to feel he had taken the part in promoting knew the law of licensing very well. For more than J 0 years admirable object of finding some means of commemorating Professor Liveing had been one of the Coun ty Bench attending Professor Liveing's lif d e-long work amongst them. He referre at the Shire Hall, and there he was a most active magistrate. to his close atten g tion to detail in connection with the buildin Tbough he (the Mayor) had been there but a few times, he had of the new museums, and said Professor was always in Liveing seen enough of Professor Liveing as a magistrate to know the 38S Po rb'az't ofProfe ssor Lz·vdng. Po7'fra�'t 0/ Professor L�·vez'ng. 389

hed care with which he watched the interests of a prisoner o'n tdaY. knowledge tbat in the domain of the spectroscope the publis He took an interest rn at! persons in distress, and had been for work of Professor Liveing carried an authority which was second term, a long time a member of the Board of Visitors to the PrIson, to none in the world. A few weeks ago, at the end of last taining and was now Chairman. He did a lot of work on ihe Standi·ng he contributed a paper to the Philosophical Society, con to the joint Committee, and was a very valuable colleague to the a vast amount of results in spectroscopy and relating have members of that Board. In conclusion, the Mayor said it gave lighter constituents of the atmosphere, which must him great pleasure to move :-' That the General Committee involvt'd an en ormous amount of labour. Professor Liveing, teach consist of the gentlemen who have signed the letter to the being a mathrmatician, had been in a position to nt ; Master of St john's College, which was circulated by Professors physical chemistry in the early stages of its developme quiet Lewis and Thomson and that the Executive consist of the and it was well known that the subject was in his own ded in Masters of Christ's and St john's Colleges, Professors Dewar way taught by him long before it had come to be inclu · to and Somerville. Messrs Fenton, Sell, and W. Aldis Wright. the course of instruction elsewhere. Thanks were due in with Professors Lewis and Thomson, and i\[r R. F. Scott as Professor Lewis and Professor Thomson for their trouble joint secretaries and treasurers, and that both Committees have undertaking the initial arrangements in connection with the power to add to their number.' meeting. asked him " Mr ]oseph Larmor seconded the proposition. It had been " Professor Mayor said the Master of Trinity had a very great pleasure, he said, to the community of St john's to state how sorry he was he could not be present. reference College to hear that a proposal was on fo ot for doing honour "The Rev J, F. Buxton thanked the Mayor for the rish of St to Professor Liveing. Of course, Professor Liveing belonged he made to Professor Liveing's generosity in the pa Professor to the University and not to a single College, but he was proud to Giles. The kindness and gentleness with which aise, and he say that, especially during the last few years, Professor Liveing Liveing performed such works were beyond pr essing his had been making the College more and more his home. He was very thankful to have the opportunity of expr rish to which was personally known to them all, even to the most junior of sense of the valuable work he carried on in the pa the community, and he went to a great deal of pai ns to put he belonged. himself in a position of easy comradeship with all of them. " The motion was unanimously agreed to. to the [Applause] That, he believed, was an illustration of the sense " Professor Somerville, in proposing a vote of thanks College of duty of which they had already heard. Professor Liveing was Chairman, and to the Master and Fellows of St john's coming connected with the College as a Fellow, and laid himself out to for the use of the Combination Room, said that since u nt of spend generally two evenings a week there, and to know all to Cambridge, he had not only received a great amo indebtedness that belonged to it. Professor Liveing made it the rule of his kindness, but had suffered under a great load of icularly to life to place himself absolutely at the disposal of the public to to the members of St john's College, and part berations and execute whatever duty was assigned to him. He had ob3erved Professor Liveing, who not only guid'ed the deli in the establish­ that over and over again. Professor Liveing never put himself gave his support to the movement that resulted a local forward, and hac\. neverbeen known to refuse to undertake any ment of an agricultural department, but he also provided duty, however arduous. His very great activity ai1d knowledge habitation. and alluded 01 business and 0/ academic aRail's had been spoken oJ alre.tdy, " Professor Bradbury seconded the proposition, . He was the most The wonder was that with all the calls upon his time he was to the lucid teaching of Professor Liv eing must account able to do anything else. He thOHght there were very fe w methodical man he had ever come across and that ormed in connection people who could have discharged such a large amount of for the great deal of work which he perf him, and spoke business and at the same time have achieved such a high with the University. Pupils always asked after OI> position as a scientific worker. It was a matter of comm in the most affectionate terms of him. 390 Portrazc 0/ Projessor Lz·vezilg.

"The motion was put to the meeling and carried unan i mously. "The Master of St John's, in ack nowledging the thanks, said that St John's College had always taken a great interest in the progress of science. and was very gratified to see one of its members so efficiently and fo r so long a time representing an ®bftuar». important branch of science, and to hear the remarka ble testimony of that great and representative meeting to the REV EDWARD CUADWICK M.A. manner in which he had discharged the duties of that office. .. The proceedings then term inated." By the death of the Rev Edward Chadwick at Thornhill Lees Vicarage, on Saturday March 16 (the day on which he reached the age of 73), the last of the old incumbents of the Rural " Deanery of Dewsbury has been removed. Mr Chad wick was the wn of Mr James Chadwick and of Sarah, daughter of George Murray. He was born in Edinburgh on 16 March 1828. His mother was a Scotch woman, and he was proud of being half a Scot. He was educated at Wakefield Proprietary School, and Bury Grammar School, and afterwards received private tuition from the Rev R. W. B. Marsh, Vicar of Plaistow. He entered St John's in 184-6, and took the RA. "1 \ degree in 1850. From 1850 to 1851 he was private tutor to Sir W. Bowyer Smijth. In 1851 he was ordained by the Bishop of Manchester to the curacy of St. George's, Hulme, Manchester, a parish at that time of 30.000 souls : this he held until 1856, when he left to become curate in charge of Castleton, Lancashire. In 1858 he became the first vicar of Thornhill Lees. The parish was even then of considerable population, which has since very greatly increased ; and one of the last public appearances of the late vicar was at the consecration last year of a new Church in Savile-town-a rapidly increasing part of the parish. Mr. Chadwick's tenure of the vicarage for fo rty-three years has been marked by no striking events. It is the record, not so common now as formerly, of an incumbent instituted in comparatively early life to a cure of souls and remaining in the same charge all his life, quietly and fa ithfully, without seeking or desiring any change. So he worked cheerfully on, till fa iling health compelled him to relinquish active duty. He was a loyal and consistent Churchman, holding firmly 10 the principles of the Prayerbook. He reverenced the names of Hook and Keble. From the first the services at ThornhiIl Lees Church were marked by great care and reverence. His love of order and method was conspicuous in everything he did, 390 Portratc 0/ ProjesSOI' Lt·vez"ng.

"The motion was put to the meeting and carried unanimously. "The Master of St John's, in acknowledging the thanks, said tbat St John's Co1Jege had always taken a great interest in the progress of science. and was very gratified to see one of its members so efficiently and for so long a time representing an

no less in his public ministrations than in his ordinary life. In Francis Esq, a member of the College, and grandson of Sir Philip ) 890 the Bishop of Wakefield appointed him Rural Dean of Francis K.C. B. lVIr H. R. Francis was admitted a pensioner Dewsbury, and he held that office till three yeats ago. No one of the College 5 November 1829, when he is described as the else commanded in the same way the affection and respect of son of Philip Francis Esq of Fulham, Middlesex, and is stated all the clergy of the deanery. His unvarying kindness and to have been educated at Brentford School by Dr Morris. courtesy, his sympathy and hospitality in the exercise of his Philip Francis his father was admitted a pensioner of the office were shown to all alike. The transparent goodness and College 4June 1785, he is stated to have been born in Middlesex, simple piety of his character won the hearts of young and old. and to have been educaterl at Harrow School, but his parentage a The graces of true Christian spi rit told on all with whom he is nut given in the College Register. On the other hand from came in contact and made him beloved by all his parishoners the Register of Lincoln's Inn, we know that Philip Francis of a nd friends. His assistant curates, of whom there have been St John's College, Cambridge, only son of Philip Francis of many, always held him in veneration. He was of too retiring a I"Iarley Street, �r!lliger, was admitted a student of that society disposition to have a strong liking for committees and diocesan 20 June 1786. He migrated to the Inner Temple wbere he business, though he scrupulously performed all that was incum­ was admitted 27 January '790, and was called to the Bar 23 bent on him, and on many occa,sions his experience of affairs November 1790. He resided at 16 St James Square, London, and knowledge of the neighbourhood made him a most valuable and at Ranelagh I-Jouse, Fulham. Philip Francis of Harley adviser. It was characteristic of him that the ollly society in Street was the famous Sir Philip. which he took a prominent place was the West Riding Chari­ · Mr Henry Ralph Francis took his degrc>e as a Junior Optime table Society for the widows and orphans of the cler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1833, and was also third Classic gy, of which he was one of the oldest stewards in the diocese. In his own in that year. He was admitted a Fellow of the College 7 April family he was regarded with the deepest affection, and he leaves 1835; Ids fellowship was filled up again in March 1839. He behind him the memory of a holy and consistent life and of seems to have been Princ ipal of Kingston (proprietary) College, single-hearted devotion of duty. Hull, from about 1839 to about 1843. He was admitted a Mr Chadwick was also a Surrogate for the Ripon and Wake­ Student of the Inner Temple 3 June 18+4. and was called to the field Dioceses. Bar 28 January 18+8. He was a District Judge in New South Mr Chad wick married in Manchester Cathedral on 20 April Wales for the Northern District from 1861 to 1869; for the 1857, Sarah, daughter of William Bates, who survives him. He Soutb Western District from 1869 to 1883. He was twice of also leaves three sons, all members the University of married, first on 1 J April 1839 to Beata Lloyd Jones of Pia! Cambridge-(i) Rev William Edward Chadwick (of Jesus 1\[adoc, Co Denbigh, and secondly on II February 1862 to (ii) College, B.A. 1881), Vicar of St Paul's, Sale, Manchester; Anne, daughter of tbe Rev Joseph Cooke D.D., late of Newark­ Rev James Murray Chadwick (of Trinity College, B.A. 1886; upon-Trent. Throughout his life Mr H. R. Francis was a (iii) H. Munro Chadwick (of Clare College, B.A. 1892), and writer for the papers and an active journalist His first con­ one daughter . tribution to the literature of angling, to which he was destined to be a large contributor, appeared in the' Cambridge Essays' for 1856, under the title of The Fly-fisher ami Ms LibralY, and is one of the most valued essays on the literary fiy-fisher's HENRY RALpH FRANCIS M.A. shelves. After his return to England from Australia, he contri­ nry Some effort has been made to trace the career of Mr He buted many articles to the Fzeld, Fls/n"ng Gazelle, and other d at Ralph Francis, formerly a Fellow of the College, who die papers on his favourite pursuit of angling. In 1894 he published H . R. Pulteney Street, Bath, on 10 June 1900 aged 88. Mr . Junius Revealed by Ms surviving grandson. Without entering on PJlliJp Francis, who was born 11 July 1811, was the third son of that knotty subject, it may be stated that in the opinion of many, VOL. XXII. E:E It Obt·ua?'Y· 395 394 Obzl1tary. f'In the long vacations of 1833 and 1834 he revisited his 11r H. R. Francis was consi.dered to have proved that his grand­ favourite haunts in North Wales with a few pupils, and though father Sir Phil i P was the author of the celebrated letters of bis opportunities for fly·fishing were now comparatively few, he ] unius. st:ems to have extended his acquaintance with the streams and A long account of Mr 1-1.' R. Francis, by Mr R. Marston, the 'lIyns' of the principality. For twenty years afterwards he publisher, appeared in the FzSlzz'11g Gazelle for 20 November continued engaged in the work of education-first in a large this or the major part of it was republished in the same 1886; proprietary school at Hull, which did not long survive his Journal on 16 ] une J 900. From this we take the following resignation of the headmastership, and afterwards as a private extracts: tutor at the beautiful village of Hurley-on- the-Thames, near ., The veteran fly-fisher whose portrait we present to our Marlow. At the former place he became well known on the readers was born on the I I th of July, 181 I, and, by a curious waters of the Driffield Club, which we believe he still occa- coincidence, all the important events of his life have occurred on • sionally visi ts. At the latter he extended his early experience the 11th of some month. He was, we are told, a precocious of Thames angling, and was exceptionally successful in the chilci, leall1ing so quickly and easily as almost to illustrate capture of Thames trout. He was also mainly instrumental in Dogberry's view that " reading and writing come by nature." establishing the MarIow Angling Association, under whose During his eitrlier schooldays his holidays were passed either in auspices the trout fishing between Temple and Spade Oak was Loncion or at his father's shooting-box, near Bury St. Edmunds, restored after being for a time almost extinct, and has continued and his first angling experience was gained in Suffolk ponds. to flourish e\'er since. Its sllccess was due, in the first place, to When he was about ten years old the family removed from the liberal support of the late George Vansiltart Esq, afterwards Upper Berkeley street to Ranelagh House, Fulham, then a quip.t Const:rvative member for the Eastern Division of Berkshire, country residence, with finely timbered, ornamental grounds, of and of Col. Williams, long IVI.P. for Marlow, father of the which the larger portion has been lately added to those of the present Gen. Williams, of Temple House. Both thefe gentlemen Hurlingham Club. They included a pretty piece of water, fed placed their private rights of fishery at the disposal of the from the river by a sluice way, and well stored with tench, roach, association, which was thus enabled to apply an efficient check alld eels, on which he doubtless practised largely. BlIt his to the poaching then rampant. favourite fishing haunts were along the river bank and abollt .. In his summer vacations Mr Francis found time for a good Putney Bridge, where th-.: roach fishing was then good and deal of fly-fishing in various trouting districts of England-on barbel were not uncommon. Here, s too, he got his first lesson tht: Teme and its tributaries, and in the neigh bouring Hereford­ in rowing, and formed an atta es chment to old Father Tham shire streams, and elsewhere. Indeed, he maintains that a day which appears to have clung to him through life. at Leintwardine or Downton Castle about the close of August, "He entered at St mber john's College, Cambridge, in Nove when the trout are still in condition and the grayling just 1829, and became a Found 1832 ation Scholar in due course. In coming on, is the very ideal of plt:asant fly-fishing. he joined a reading party in North Wales, when he read ., After the year 1850 he used to combine grouse-shooting moderately and fished immoderately. easy In those days it was with angling, and was led to explore scores of streams, lochs, to make good baskets with succesS the spinning minnow, and ,his and tarns in Perthshire and Inverness-shire. In Loch Treig in that li ne was great; gnise the but he also learned to reco (lIot in special repute as a trouting loch) he was particularly superior attractions of practice by the fly, and obtained varied successful. We have heard bim say that on one occasion he lake and river.. himself h igh In 1833 he was startled by finding basketed close upon two stone in a rough walk from end to end in the first class of the have often heard Classical Tripos, and we of the lake. Much of his success as a fly-fisher in wild country him say that a success gained without due labour made him set . was doubtless due to his being an indefatigable pedestrian. to work In earnest. He worked very hard as a prIv. tea iulor . . Lightly built, long-limbed, and sinewy, thoug-h not muscular. at St John's and had many pupils distinguished in diffc'lent WiI)S 396 OOltuaf'Y· Obtluary. 397

he was fresh for an evening cast for trout after a sti If day's long days in court.� These things were not to be done with grousing. He always refused to ride home, even from the most impunity in a hot climate, and a severe travelJing accidt"nt, in distant beat, objecting both to the sl ow pace of a pony alung a which a buggy-wheel passed over his hare thloat, can hardly mountain track and to the cralllping of the limbs in the sadLlle have inlproved the state of bis Herves. On returning to Sydlley after a wet walk over moor and brae. about the end of 1870 his life WilS found in imminent dangl::r "About the end 01 1855 he resolved on a nelV career, and from cerebral exhaustion, and change of climate, with absolute after a pleasant residence with his pupils in the old manor rest from all mental exertion, was strictly enjoined on him. He house of Treganwy, near Conway, finally gave up tuition and visited sundry tributaries of the Derwent, in three of which he came to the neighbourhood of LOlldon, bent on studying for the had the good fortune to take the first trout with the fly. Bar, to which he had been formally called some ten years before. .. After a year in Tasmania he returned to England, and in He opened his first law book early in 1856, choosing the tre intervals of graver occupation he has writt\ n. we believe, a Chancery Bar as best suited to so late a beginner. He had for good deal for the press. 'vVe know that shortly after his return many years-indeed, from 18341 when he first broke ground in home he contributed 10 the FI'eld a series of articlt:s on Athtra­ the TI'lIIes-been a frequent, though irregular, contributor to the lian field sports, including various experiences in sea anLl river periodical press, both on politif:al and general topics. But his fishing. More recently he has writt f'n two e�sa)'s for the first contribut.ion to the literature of angling appeared in th e volumes of the' Badminton Library' d\�di::ated to fi,hing, and • Cam�ridge Essays for 1856,' under the title of' The Fly Fisher the leaders of the Fislziltg Gazelle have seen several articles and his Library.' The essay reads like the work of a man from his pen. whose head was busy with his new studit::s, while his heart was ,. The circle of his old Cambridge friends ha� narrowed sadly playi n g truant among hills and streams. However, he seems to during the last few rears, but he �ays the fly-fishers wear best. have stuck to his work earnestly, though somewhat ma/gr!, citing. as examples, tbe Rev J. Chaloner, well known to fre­ writing for the newspapers in the intervals of reading equity quenters of Loch Awe, and the late Rev Joseph Jekyll. long and drafting couveyances. rt::ctor of lIawkridge and Withypool, on the Bade. who. though more than ten years his senior when they were fellow· students •. In little more than two years he formed the bold scheme of shortening his It::gal probation by making a dash for practice at St John's, continued up to recent date to be • bad to beat' on at Sydney, where he landed on the 11th of August 1858. On a Devonshire stream. a c his voyAge out he made his first co n tribution to a question .. 1\lr Fr n is is bappier than several of his immediate in which he subsequently took an active part-that of the ancestors in having two sOIlst-both, by the way, successful acclimatisation of British fish in Anstralasia. fly-fishers-and five grandsons to bear his name after him. His father was the only son of Sir Phi lip Francis, of junian and "From 1861 to 1870 1\1r Frdncis was actively engaged as political celebriLy, who was likewise the only SOli of Dr Francis, judge, first of the Northern. and then of the South-Westelll the translator of . HoraC't:,' who was himself an only son. This District. Railways were then in thdr infancy, and his long seli\�s approaches-it could ha rdly be expe cted to emulate-the circuits in the north, performed on horseback, by any roads or record of another Irish family in which ' it was hereditary to no roads, tried his constitution severely. [-le probably presumed have no ciJildrell.' too far ori his working energ ies, for we are told tlwt. in addition ,. It may interest American readers of our Gazflle (some of to his judicial dutie� and var.ious contributions to the Sydney Press, he used to conduct tbe Sunday services at his different * DlIdn>! hi;; travels in tbe SOllLb·vVesl he ],dd tbe fOllndation·slolles 0PP0rIunity for circuit towns (in order to give the clergymen an of two mnch·needed churches at tbe relllote towns of DLllil!qllin and and visitino-o the outlyin0o- portions of their extensive cures). Welllw0rtb. . '.a fter would also give frequent lectures and dramallc readll1gs t QlIe of Mr Francis's sons, Mr A. L. Francis M.A., is headmaster of Blundell'. School, Tiverton. 398 Obituary. Obtfuary. 399 whom 'have received Mr Francis's contributions with special a new a the accom ­ favour) to know that the elder branch of his house have been building of church for Emmanuel parish, s quile inadt'qll�te for citizens-alld not undistinguished ones-of the Great Republic. modation in the little origi nal Church was Church Col. Francis, long a senator �for Rhode Island if our memory the rapidly increasi ng population. The new Emmannel w a lo ) was consecrated does not mislead us), was always recognised by his far-off (or at least as much of it as Funds ould l w on th e 8th October 1898, Engl ish cousins as the head of the family. by the Bishop (Creighton) of London and as it is often inconveniently crowded an effort is being mClde to raise sufficient funds to complete the architect's original design. REV EDMUND DAVYS, IVLA. J. F. BATEMAN.

The Rev Edmund Davys. B,A. (of St John's College, Cam ­ bridge), 16th Wrangler in 1845, died on the gth of l\Jarch REV CANON CHARLES COLSON, M.A. at Lee-on-the-Solent at the age of 77. The eldest son of the Rt, Rev. George Davys, Bi�hop of Peterborough, he was ordained With the death on 25 April 190 1, at Cuxton Rectory near Rev C one of Deacon in 1845 and Priest in 18+6 by h is fat h er, and I icensed to Rochester, of the anon Colson, the most beloved tbe Curacy of U ppingham. From t henr.e he was promoted to the and respected clergymen in the diocese of Rochester, passeu important post of Vicar of St John the Baptist, Pete rborough, to h is rest. I I r when:: during a ministry of fifteen years he was instrumental Mr Colson, who was born at Dulwich Ma ch 1818, was in the building of two churches and bore tire main burden of the son of Edward Colson and Elizabeth Hewitt his wife. building a s chool necessitated by the growing population of Ectward Colson was a London m erchant, as had been his father, g dfa h r and greatgrandfather. all of good standi the place. But the immediately spiritual part of the clergy ­ ran t e ng man's duty was most to his taste. His earnest loving way of and cultivated men. Elizabeth Hewitt came of a N orfolk presenting t he great t ruths of the gospel fi lled the huge church family. l\Jr Colson's gr andmother (on the Colson side), with a devout congregation. and made his ministry a power for Elizabet!-. Brereton, was of an old Cheshire family of that' good. In 1865 he became Vicar of Holy Trinity, Leicester, name. Her grandfather, !\Ir Brereton, married a niece of Sir and in 1876 he offered himself to the Cburch M issionary Cloudesley Shovel. so that Mr Col80n was remotely connected Society, and worked for five years at his own expense in Hong with the Marshams (Earl Romn ey) one of whom married Sir Kong. There for six years he did much useful work among Cloudesley Shovel's daughter. and !VIr Colson was gr eatly English residents and others, and then returned to work at intere�ted to know that he was thus distantly connected with West Hampstead, where he became Curate, and eventually Dr Pusey. Vicar of Emmalluel Cburch until 1893. wh en, the needs of Charles Colson was educated at Dedham School in Essex the rapidly growing population having become more than under Dr George Taylor, whose daughter he afterwards married. his strength could cope with, he retired to Lee-on-the- ne preached the sermon at the tercentenary festival of his old Solent. There t o the last he helped the Vicar at a l ittle school 19 July 1871. The school at that time was very success­ Mission Church, and "there it was," writes A.G. in the ful and in 1839 not only counted Mr Colson (the th i rd wrangler) h Record (to whose obituary notice the present writer is muc as one of its successes, but also Philip Freeman of Trinity, the any indebted) "he entered into rest. leaving behind him in m Senior Classic of his year, afterwards Archdeacon of Exeter, and : ach­ " hearts thankful memories of much help gained from the e l\Ir Barnard Smith of PeterhOtlSe the twenty-eighth wrangler, nIidess C e "inD'<> and influence of his faithful min istry and simple g afterwards a Fellow of his oll ge. The Rev Henry Russell, I, 0 f hiS Cl "life." It may be added that one of the fi rst dut es formerly Fellow of the College, now Rector of Layh m, was for the it successor, the Rev E. N. Sharpe, was to raise funds also at Dedham wilh Mr Colson. He entered the College as Pe\1f;ioner 12 May 1835 and was eJected a scholar next year. 400 Obt'tua1Y· ()UtuaIfY· 401

He read parl1y with Mr Charles Pritchard, afterwards Savilian carried out in the year 187:-3, the architect bdng Mr A. W. Professor at Oxfnrd, bllt chiefly with the Rev. W. N. Griffin, Blomfield. The tOlal cost of the restoratioJl was [2300, raised the Seniur Wrangler of 1837. To the teaching of the latter he partly by sllbscliplions from I.llldowllers alld others in the attrihntl'd his place in the Tri�os. It was a great year for paritih. paltl)" flOIll lIlembers of St J()hn's College (wllo sub­ St John's; B. M. Cowie afterwards Dean of Exeter was Senior scribed [z8b) and panly from private fliends. The work must vVrangler. Percival Frost, many years a successful' coach' at have involved an immense amount of correspondeIlce and Cambridge, being second, Mr Colson was third and G. F. un wearied patience, the result is a fitting memorial to him Reyner afterwards Senior Bursar and Rector of Staplehurst was who was laid there to rest, fourth. 1\1r Colson is the last snrvivor of the quartette. Among 1\1r Colson's College tutor was the Rev H. H. HLlghes his College fr iends and contemporaries were the late Dr Atlay, afterwards Rector of Layham in Suffolk, and he remained OIl Bishop of Hereford, who was a pupil of Colson's, the Rev Sidney illtimate terms with him all bis life, visitillg him at Layham Smith, Rector of Brampton Ash and Prebendary of Hereford, once a year. By his will Mr Hughes appointed Canon Colson and the Rev Edward Brumell, Rector of Holt in Norfolk. his executor and residuary legatee. !\Ir Colsoll shewed greilt During his residence in Cambridge the aesthetic and anti­ self-dellial and gellerosity iJl this position. Mr Hughes' will quarian side of the Church movement was beginning to be felt. had been made SI me yeals hefore hls death, and 1\Ir Colson In 1839 Mr Colson formed a friendship with Benjamin Webb believed that if the will were strictly interpreted he would and John Mason Neale of Trinity. With these and others he benefit to it greater extent than the testator had perhaps meant helped to found the Cambridge Camden Society, he WilS a him to do. The extent of his self-d enial was probably known mem ber of the original committee in 1839, and one of the only to himse lf. But it is believed that he treated several rough e s cretaries for the year 1839-40. The first published Part memoranda, which he found among the papers of his deceased of the Transactions of the Society contains a paper On an friend, practically as codicils to the will bequeathillg further expedz'l1ol1 10 Lztlle Gzddz'lIg by Charles Colson. He was admitted legacies. Alld even after thus dimillishing the residuary estate, a Fellow of the College 7 April 1840 and was ordained at Ely, to which he was in every sense elltitled . he spent further sums Deacon in 184 I, Priest in the following year. He was for some on such objects as he thol'ght migllt havt: commencied them­ ' time curate of St Giles' v selves to Mr He foullded • The Hllghes Exhibition in Cambridge under the Re . H. H. Hllghes. Swinney, afterwanis Principal of Cuddesdon College. His stay at St J oh n's for Ecclesiastical History; he placed a handsome in Cambridge was however short. He became Perpetual Curate window in the College Library to the memory of his friend; of Hoddesdon, Herts, in 1842; and on IS June of that year further he placed oak benches in the Chancel of Layltam Church, married Emma Mary Taylor, eldest daughter of his former gave to it a handsome oak pulpit by Kett of Cambridge and built headmaster at Ded ham. On 8 S eptember 1842 he was pre­ a hOilse for the parish schoolmistress. His was an example of sented by the College to tbe Vicarage of Great Hormead, generosity and sdf-denial. which if not unprecedented, must be Herts, where he remained until 1874; his wife died there in exceedingly rare. Two of j\lr Colsol1'8 sons are mc:mbers of 1859. He was for some timt: Rural Dean of Buntingford. In the University: Charles George Colson, of Clare College, 15th 1874 Bishop Claughton gave him the Rectory of Cuxton on the wrangler in J871, and Francis Henry Colson. 4th classic in 1880 bank of the Medway above Rochester, with an honorary canonry and sometime Fellow of St John'S. This brief and in adequate in Rochester Cathedral. He was also Rural Dean of Rochester notice of a singularly good and unselfish man may fitly close from 1874 to 1889 and examining Chaplain to Bishop Thorold with illl extract from a noticl' of him which appeared in The .111 from 1887 to 1891. While at Hormead Mr Colson toO{I Ilal ld Guardian of l\lay 8, written, we believe, by Archdeacon Cheetham were the restoration of his church. The Nave and Aisles of Rocitester, el, reseated by private gift from a parishioner. A new Chan� .. At CuxtOI1 he died. and was laid to rest on April 30 in belllg Orjian Chamber and South Porch were built, the work the churchyard of Great Hormead, where his wife had been VOL. X,XII, F' F F' 402 Obttua'l'J.

interred in 1859. One who witnessed the demeanour of the vi l lage rs at the funeral of their old pastor said it was indeed a home-bringing. .. It w i l l be seen that he p'lssccl his life in the quiet lahours of a vi l l age cl ergyman. Both at Hormeacl and at Cuxton the church was da i ly opened for matins, and he continu e d this d u ty without help until a mon th before his death. It is worth record ing that he never preached an old sermon. and that he THE JOHNIAN DINNER, 1901. began on Monday h is p repa ra t ion for th e fo llowing Sunday. He never fa iled to visit the school twice a day u n t i l the last The Dinner was held this year at the Holborn

year of his life, wh en he contenteci himself with one visit. No Restaurant on Wed n esday , April 17. one of his little flock was ever neglected or treated roughly. The Toast List was as fo llow:;:-T he Kz'ng ,. Tlz e No wonder that wherever he was he was loved and trusted. College , p roposed by the Chairman, replied to by Mr "He was so perfectly sim p l e and humble in all h i s wa),s that R. F. Scott and Mr J. Bigwood M.P. ; Tit e Guests, probably his rustic p a r h a i s i 6n e rs were hard ly aware t h t thei r proposed by Mr J. J. Lister, replied to by Mr W. H. clergyman was a man of great intellectual so distinction. But it Eyre of the London Ro \ving Club ; o Th e Chazrman, was ; n t o nly was he distin�uished in ea rly Jays bllt h i s mental proposed by the Rev A. G. Cane. acti vity and love of knowledge never ceased. Ile iv as eager to The following is a list of those present : read all ne w books of importance, and in t h e clerical gatherings of his n e ighbou rhood no one cl 10 id mo re prom ote animated Cltairmall- Sir \V illiam Lee· Warner K.C.S,I. discussion or contribute d more originrtl thought ; and, it may Rev W. F. Aston T. E. Forster Rev J. G. McCormick be added, no one was so tolerant of the opin i ons of others, WaILer Baily H, S. Foxwdl J. Bass MulJinger however different from his olVn. His temper was al ways Talbot Baines Rev COUrlen,,)' Gale Rev Ca"on Newton unruffled. It is impossible to characterise him by any of the Rev J. F. Bateman R. A. Gillespie E. Prescott usual parti san e pithets. At the bottom he was Rev W. L. Belltho1ll T. L. Hal rison E. J. Rapson ?I wil)'s an James Bigwood M.P. J. T. Halhornthwaite Rev A. J. Robert�on Evangelical in th e true sense of the word ; but the teachers J. Broolcsmilh F. C. Healh Rev E. J. S. Rudd whom he most valued in his later days \\'as Canon Liddoll and Rev W. A, Bryan F. W. Hill R. F. Scott Canon Gore, esp ecial y c l the latter. His chicf re rea t ion was G. J. M. BUl'I1ett A. B. Holmes Rev A. Simmonds ' chess, in which be was a fO rlllidable oppone n t. Suci:dly he L. H. K. Bushe-Fox R. Horton.Smith K.C. R. C. Smith Carington had great charm from his quid humour and perfect si mplici ty, Rev A. W. Cal lis P. Horton·Smith Rev J. Snowdon and Rev A. G. C,me Horton·Smith E. J. Soares M.P. many will deeply reg ret the cessation of the l\Iond,IY L. Rev J. S. ff. Chamber. Pl'Of W. H. H. Hudson W. H. Spragge gath eri n gs at Cuxton rectory, in the garden or the d rawing­ lain Rev H. JambJin Rev W. H. Homby Steer room, according to t h e season. Charles C o truLh ols n was in Rev K. Clarke H. P. Jones Rev J. E. Symns an e admirabl specimen of a type pecu l i a r ly Engl ish ; a mall Rev J. S, Clementson Rev H. A. King Rev J. F. Tarleton .whose ability migh t have adorued a h ig h e r sphere, devoti ng J. Ratc1iffe Cousins J. J. Lister Rev G. E. Thorpe ,himself with single· hemted elevation to unobtrusive labours G. E. ClUicksha"k C. D. Lord G. J. 1;'umer Rev T. and th e pleasant cares of a fa mily, allci finding the fu llest Rev H P. Davi�s J. Lupton A. Wallis S. H. D. Dew (C. G. Botting) Rev Benjamin West sali�faction in those labours. en thought While inferior m (A. T. Walmi51ey) e R. H. Forster R. MatTack themselves inj ured in that l hey were not pr d to gr at om ote (W. H. Eyre) P. L. May P. T. Wl'igley honour he \\ as con tent to labou r unremi ttingly in the. field · where Goe! had placed him, caring only to pIease his Master," 402 ObttuarJ'.

interred in 1859. One who witnessed the demeanour of the vill agers at the funeral of their old pastor said it was inde:ed a home-bringing . .. It will be seen that he P'lSSCO his life in the quiet lahnnrs of a village clergyman. Both at Hormeao and at Cuxton the

c u , h rch was daily opened for matins and he continued this duty without help until a month before his death. It is worth recording that he never preached an old sermon . and that he THE JOHNIAN DINNER, 1901. began on Monday his preparation for the following Sunday. He never failed to visit the school twice a day ulltil the last The Dinner was held this year at the Holborn year of his life, when he contented himself with one visit. No Restaurant on Wednesday, April 17. one of his little flock was ever neglected or treated roughly. The Toast List was as follows :-Tlze KZ·12g,. The No wonder that wherever he was he was loved and trusted. College, proposed by the Chairman, replied to by Mr "He was m so perfectly si ple and humble in all his wal'S that R. F. Scott and Mr J. Bigwood M.P.; Ttie Guests, probabl y his rustic parishioners were hardly aware: that their proposed by Mr J. J. Lister, replied to by Mr W. H. clergyman was a man of great intellectual distinction. Blit so it Eyre of the London Ro\ving Club; The Chat'rman, was; not only was he distinguished in early days bnt his mental proposed by the Rev A. G. Cane. activity and love of knowledge never ceased. lie was eager to The following is a list of those present: read all new books of importance, and ill the clerical gatherings of his neighbourhood no one oid more 10 promole animated ClLainnall- Sir 'Villinm Lee. Warner K.C.S.I. discussion or contributed more origin

- Bartholomew's. Bristol, in 186 f, anrl Rector of St Ebbe's, Oxford, in 1873' In 1875 the Church I\li,sionary Society in 8z appointed him Principal of their College at Islington; 18 he accepted the Vicarage of St .lames's, Clilpham. returning to Islington as Vicar of St lVJary's in 1887. He received the pre­ bend of Holborn in St Paul's Cathedral from Bishop Creighton in 1898. Dr Barlow has also been active in various projects for the training of the clergy and for education on Church lines. OUR CHRONICLE. He was one of tht: originill p,omoters of Wycliffe Hall. Oxford, and Ridley Ha!l, Cambridge. Ue is on the council of the Midland Clergy College, Binning-ham, and has recently become May Term 190'. He is chairman of the president of St lohn's Hall, H,ghbury. The King hRs been council of Westfield College for Women, and is a director of the pleased to arpro\'e the arpointment of the Rev Prebendary Church Schools Company. will bring to the W. H. Barlow D.D. (I3.A. 18j7). Vicar He perform;l11ce Islington. to the Dt:anery of Pderborough. of of his dutie� as head of the Peterborough Chaptt!r the business­ like methods and the slJft::wd judgment such a position The Eagle may be pardoned if it records this appointment that with peculiar satisfilction. reqlli res." The new Deiln Peterborough was the first Secretary of the or Editorial Comlllittee 01 the (see Dr H. H. Tooth (RA.. dln), of t e Portl�nd Hospital, xv, 322). ano. as successive Etlg/e h has Eagle. Editors have known, has ever received the C.l\1.G. for I,is �e'lvices in Suuth Africa. since taken a friendly int,..rest in its carea. The for J\lay 27th has the [ollowing The Right Hon Sir John E. Gorst (I3.A. IIlS7) F.R S., Barlow's 1,'mes note on Dean career: Honorary Fellow of the College. will be the President of .. The appointment Section L UO:dl cational Science) at the Glasgow meeting of the of Prebendilry Barlow to the deanery l Peterborough will of British Association to be held S'"ptembt:r. be taken as a recognition by the Crown of the lIext c1ilims of a clergyman who has long been great in the councils Mr Ra que (I3.A. 1884) has been appointed of the EvangeliCill party. l\luhalllmarl fi From the circumstances of his position a Fellow of tht: Universitl' of Allah;rbad. by the Chancellor of and its associations, any Vicar of ISlington is important in that that Ullivtrsity. !\Ir Rafiqut:. wllo is Cl a risttr or Lhe respect. lie convenes the B r Middle Islington clerical meeting ill Janu Templ�, Judge of tht: Small Cause Court at Luclwow. which Iry, is under Dr ilarlow's guidance has outgrown the Memorial Wilson Hall, has flOW }lassed to the MildmilY Conference Mr D. Kikllchi (I3.A. 1877) has been appointed Minister of Hall, and has become Education in the new japallese Cabint:t by Viscount a notable gath'-ring of ome 700 or formed the 800 clergy s fr0111 all parts of the country. As Vicar of Islington Katsura. for the last years, Dr ilarlolV '4 has had much to do WIth the -Dr L. E. S ore 1885) has been elected Junior Bursar app i ment the clergy h (RA. of o n of in that vast rural deanery, part the the College in sucees-ion to .vIr Htitland, who has rdired after patronaget falling to him of as Vicar. and much also as trustee of fifteen years' tenure of the office. the various trust livings. As Rural Dean he has set himself with considerable success to T. R. Glover (B.A. 18g I ) . formerly Fellow of the College, bring the clergy together in ruridecanal l\'T r conferences and monthly clerical meetings, and he has been the and lately Proft!ssor of Latin at the Queen's University, Kingston, means of establishing a number of endowed curacies, to tl Canada, has bt:en appointed Classical Lectur.:r of the College. relief both of the incumbents and of aId. the various c1�rical Dr E. T. Sweeting, Organist, has been appointed le 8oc1ettes. He was one of the rare cases who our Music in which clergy, Mastt:r at Winchester College. under the old system were ex-oJIido rmen of vestries, wer� re-elected by ch i the new vestries as formeda under the Loca Dr William Hunter, Fellow Commoner of the College. and Government Act, and he y f ' thus became a J.P. for the Count 0 ( formerly John Lucas Walker student, has been appointed London. Dr Barlow was ner (ormerly Scholar and Exhibitio 0 Examiner in Medicine at the University of Glasgow. St john's College, Cambridge, e Matt e and took honours in �h The following members of the College have been appointed .matical. Theological, and Moral Science Triposes, '�Innll. lg : ; the Carus at .External Examiners in the University Birmingham: J\lr G. F. Greek Testame llt Prize. He WilS ordilll :d te of Curacy . . � t StOllt (U A. dl83) In Philosoph)'. Prufeswr A. J\·lacalister (:Il.D. of St JalDes's. llnstol, 111 1858, became VIcar �f St 188+) ill Allatqmy, and Dr D. MacAhsttr (ll.A. 1877� ill ;\ledicine. Our ChrJ1Ude. 407 406 Our CltromCle. :Mr LC.S. has been tr;lnsferred from Maubin Dr e thro Brown (B.A. J 880) has been a point d Professor A. E. English W. J p e to Katlla, as officiating D.-pu ty of l� oll1 Law and Jurisprudence at he n i C le e of Burma, Commis,iont:r. an t U ivers ty ol g Wales, Aberystwith. A. ... r.r.S., COnlmi,sioller. 1\Tr E. K ndall A�sisti1nt G"nda, Sessions Mr A. W. Flux (B.A. 1887), who has been for some time ha� l)l-t'n appoillted tD officiate as Di�trict and J lIdge of Profeswr of ol c w n that di�tl iet. P iti al Economy in the O e s College, Mancht:ster, been appointed Professor of Economics has in Mr C. I\Tor!!'an Webb (B A 1894) T h<1s been <1pp()inted McGi11 University, Montreal. C.S. c te po t: e to offi ia as Deputy COlllllli�siont:r and is �t d to th '1 harra­ G. E. been appointed to a m gi t r l Mr lies (B.A. J8(8) has a s e ia walldy di�trict. post in tht: Soudan, !'vir lies came from Pockington School and studied for tht: Oriental Langulg't:S Tripos Tllis was followed Mr C. G. T.eftwich (fl.A. dl(4) . omm ssione T.(',S . As�ist�nt C i r, up by colloqui al expt:rit:nce as tt:mporary I\lnrket Inspt:ctor at Raipur, h IS been appointed to oliiciate as Dt:pllty Commissiont:r, M BelLd, Central P ov c n . Cairo. and later as a SU!Jt!rintt:Jldc-Jlt of I tive labourers in the r in es, I dia i ltion v\'itllill t lll ee of his (j,.·grt'e therefure he rnW works. ),t'aIS 18qR) Co m o e , fillds 11ll11sell' i nstalled ill fezzed di gnity as Cadi of Omd urma n . I\1r P. S. Paiuck (13.A LC.S, Assist�nt m issi n r Wardha, has been transft:rred to RaijJ ur, Central Provinct:s, The Rev T. Ni klin (13.A, 1890) h s been appointed a M ster c a a India. at Ros-al ScbooI. of h d on a g thr Royal College Phl'sicians e At merti n of l Mr Reginald Thomas Smith en A. 18qz). who was for some John's, havin� con­ Ap ril z5th. the following' members of St time Professor of Applie d Matht:matics alld Experimel�tal Physics n llLltiolls. an passt'd form... to the bye 1,[IVS a d reg d the n�qllire(l at the South AfriC<1I1 College, Cape Town, and has been latterly d grantt:cl to them:­ hac! l icence to practic physic of examinations, i tal l\laster of the Mathematics and Physics Department the B;trI1dt (ll.A. 1896). St (-;eorgt"s Hosp ; 11. M. Goldsmiths' Institute at New Cross, has been appointed Principal B. L. T. Leathes (Il.A. 18(2). St Thomas's Hospital; and F. E. Murray of the Northern Polytt:chnic Institute. ), St Bartholomew's H ospi tal. (13A. 189] ewton- rain (Rh.. 18(9). Schol ar of the College, has i n y quarterly met' g Colle e Ds L. L B At the ord ar tin of the Royal g ,of been appointed assistant to the lr (I1A. 1872) F.R.C S. lins been appo i ted Mr E. A. Avory Jones (B.A. 18(6) has been appointed an EdIVards n Honorary Surgeon to tire TOlteniralll Hospital. South TOtleniram. Assistant Native Commissioner in North-East Rhodesia. Dr Rolleston (Il.A. 1886). fornlPrly ...llow, has gone Ds A. Howard (I3.A. 1899) has been appointed by the H. D. F to take principal chargt: of Imper eomanry Hospital at Secretary of State for the Colonit:s to be Mycologist to th the ial Y e Pretoria, in relief of Imperial t for the We i VI' Wasirbourn. Agdcultural Depal tmen st Ind esJ l'vIr A Thatcher (RA 1897) elected to the Ds M. Alexa der (B.A. 1900) was admitted an Advocat of has bef'n 1'I1nc;\1;dlOn n e L<1w Studentsirip vacated by the admissioll of !\lr J. E. R. de the Supreme of th Ca e 15 November Court e p of Good Hope to a Fellowship, 1900• Villiers

Ds J. H. A. Hart 18(8). Scholar and Nilden Divinity Major J. E. Nicholson (r sided 1898-99) has been (ll.A. e R.A.M C. e app t d e of of the Colleg , was I\lan:h 15 t:iected to the Alien oin e Secretary to the Principal Medical Offic r . . th Stn

M Pass (n.A. 1898) has b�en awarded the first a iv r of College, rH. L. At the Statutory nn ersa y Sion London T,l'rwhilt Ilehr<-'w S ol arshi p alld also the I\lascn (Univnsity) t d April 30, the Rev P. Clemellli-Smith, Rec or of St And rew l or re ell r 0 an PriZl' Biblical ! I .-b w . Us C. A L. S io (II.A. 1 9 0) by the Wardrobe LOlldon was elected Assistant of the passed the exallliniltioll for the TyrlVhitl Hebrew SdlOlCLr�hip College. wilh cred il and was awarded a ratuit of £20. g y W. ect The Rev H. Whiting (B.A. 1884). In sp or in Chief for Scholar ancl Stuornt J. C. H. Ho w, Choral of the Collt'ge, the Lincoln Diocesan Board of Education, has been appointed was

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and suppo t should be ven the University Appointments Thomas r gi to College, he was appointed secretary to the eminent Association, and also to be a member of a Syndicate to Morton, Bishop of Dllrham; and it is said that it was while he superintend tbe erection of the new Medical School; Mr Bishop's a i W. was under the roof that his conversion to C thol cism Bateson to be deputy for Professor Newton during the ensuing took place. He subsequently became an assiduous and ter academic year; Professor A. M acalis to be an Examiner in vehement assertor of the doctrines which he had embraced. Hum an Anatomy for Medical Degrees. is to 1:-1 controversial treatises hal'c, however, long ago ceased attract attention; but the late Professor Chandler of Pembroke The f ol ow ng booles by members of l i the College are College, Oxford, held his metaphysical writings in high announced :-The working Consiz'Iutzlm of Ihe Uniled KZ1!{{dom esteem. The manuscript above referred to,-a small 4to and ZIS Oull{rowlh, by the Rt. Hon. L eonard Courtney (Dent) ; 1 59 pages, written in a neat and legible hand,-wa s The lJforphology of the Brain, by G. Elliot Smith (Arnold); of A edited and published by Dr John Kirk under t e title of 'nail'se . h , TheLiterary Life of John Sergeant. Written by Himself on Dde?'lJu"llallls, on elelllmtary Stalics, by W. J. Dobbs ( lack A Ireatise by R. F. B ); in Puris, at the request of the DukeS coof t, Pnewe r th, edition" G. F.R.S. (Un i versity Press); Zoology, by Prof. W. MacBride '700, t by Mathews E. and London, 18 I 6 Among those w om Sergeant with B. another (University Press ); FOSSIL Plants vol ii, by A. Seward, . h attacked C. e Stillingfleet F.R.S his pen w re and Tillotson, and in his diary he writes: "Yet though neither . Dr Sdllingfleet nor Dr Tzlloiso1' Dr T. G. onney FRS. B , , (University Press) d id thillk it in their interest to eply, yet we cannot(CasseJl); but judge ; Charles Lye" and Modern Geology, by R. Hargreaves (Clarendon Press); r Text Book oj'Arilhmetic, by Evangelt'ca! it p i s and grated upon their s i r t stirr'd them to revenge their Trul/ls, by Rev C. Anderson Scott, Kensington Presbyterian Docln'm, Bible defeat. A little time a fter K. Charles put up a Proclam ation Church (Holder and Stoughton); Plir?ticzlms 2 Anaemia. Its all priests to be gone out of England by an a poi nted day; pathology, fer p inJectlv,- nature, symptoms, diagnOSIs and trea/mm/, I then wellt for a Dr of Physick, and living in the part of the illcluding illvtsligalzons 011 the PhYSIO/Og)1 of /zqemolysls, by William TOII'lle where thought my self un no V e, I resolv'd to hazard Hunter, I\1.D., F.R.C.P., 1 k l ll to stay two days before that time allow'd was F.R.S.E.elapst. Pillage, with olher Miscellallies, by Angustus .i}fr J essopp, D.l). Lallghome of the Temple, went to Dr Waring, then dean of the (Fisher U nwin); The Hzstory oj' he Legislalloll (Griffin) t concerning Real chap er, and told him that an hon est Protestant, a good friend ; Before the greal and Personal Property in England during t Ihe Reign oj' Quem of his, desir'd him if he knew one Saj(allt, who went by the Vicloria, orke Prize Essay, by]. E. R. Y de Villiers (University name of Dr Sm z'tlz, to acquaint hilll that Dr 1illo/so1l and Dr Press); Down by Ihe River, a Rowing Mart's Miscellany, by H. R. Stztlillgfleet had got knowledge of his lodging a nd resolv'd to Forster (E. J ol son , Cambrioge); m The causalzoll oj' jimclzo1lal have him taken up (and prosecuted as a priest) the very next cardiac murmurs, by Dr W. Foxwell (Cornish). A. morni ng after the time of the Proclamation was elapst. Dr A Waring heard this at night, and the next morning before day, former member of the Co ege, Clarence Esme Stuart, Esq., ll sent to give me notice of it. So I left lodging at an hour's of Addington House, Reading, having noticed in our Librarian's my warning, and the next morning run away to France." recent History of the College that the copy of Complulensian Polyglot bequeathed to it by George Day, our former Master, A bio ra hical sketch of the career of one of the most . g p had d isa eared, bas most kindly presented C l eminent of the Old Catholics, Professor Franz Heinrich Reusof pp the o lege WJll� a fine copy in his possession, complete in six volumes f?�IO, of BOlln (I 8 �5- 1 goo) is dedicated to Professor J. E. B, Mayor h andso ely bound and in ma llOIl by h n m hogany case. Of this famous edl t e author, Professor Gaetz, i the following terms; (the earliest of the Polyglots), printed at Alcala in 1514-1,7 VIRO DOCTISSIJllO t the expens a e of Cardinal Ximines, Darl ing, in his C)'c/opaedrfZ DE LITTERIS OPTlME MERITO B£blz'r>graphzca writes, " e of vely Copi s of this great work are STVDIORVM NOSTROt{VM FAUTORI BENE,VOLO rare occurrence. The imoression 6 D� was limited to 00. , JOANNI MAYOR Whita er 's copy in , 1857' k calf sold for £67 at Sotheby's QVI VI' HIC LIBER DE AMICI SVI VITA SCRIBEKETVR , ", uaritch's catalogue as s l Q of sales in 1899 shews a copy e lwo Pl

There will be a ju ged d d in the MicJ,aelmas Term of each JOHNIANA. year a prize fo r an essay 011 a mathematica l subject. The prize [The fo llowing extract fr om Cole's Athmrre (Bl it. Mus. will consist of a copy of t he Collected Works Ca nt" brig imses of Professor Add!. MSS. 5882,\, with regard to John lwi< in�ton, M,lster of Clare Hall, J. C. Adams, together with about £4 in money or books at is a charactel islic example of the style that chronicler "a gussip', car the chOIce 01 wllI, of the recipient, and a tailer's pen." 1\ ,rkin�ton had been "pl'ointed Master in 1781. In 1782 The competition is be sLOod for the office Vice-Cua"cdlor, hut waS defealed by Dr lUchard open to all undergraduates of the College 01 who have Beadun, oligin"lIy of St john's, but then Maste of Jesus Cullege Tile votes not entered on their seventh term of residence r at the being, fur Beadon 55, lor 10, oh n l'odity, Mechanics ; Thomson and T Natur, prelerellce to his brother, he could make no objection to their act. The Dr . , S Ph Ilosophy ; l\1axwcll, on Governors (Collected Vol l). acqu

at an end. To which the Vice·Chancellor replied That that was as he thought "one oflhe worst men in all respects thal ever I knew in holy orders, passionate, proper and '0 tool< his leave. covelous and (;']'e." While "thers, including Thomas B" ker, the hi,toriall, seem to have that he WaS the victim 01 polilical persecutioll, chiefly He further adued that Mr Boice one of the Fellows of Clare Hall, being believed applied to by the E.rl of Denbigh to vote for Mr l'oddngttln, at the re' uest on nccoullt of his Jacobite opinions. The adv(Hv,onS Bishop vV at,on gave l to the Colle�� were th",e of inleillg excommunicated by tbe 1111' sllch was Dr Ch. calling on me on Sunday, 24 November 1782, thonght his usa!1'e Archbishop of Canterbury, whose officers fees he would not pay, that on his very hard, as did Or Smith of Caius. infol med by Mr Wailer Strocold of Cherry Binton, my fa ther's They allowed his insufliciency, but SaId death as I was look roulld among those who have served the cannot r friend and acquaintance, who was at th� funeral, baving office and see it they particula marriecl find an example of as great insufficiency. No d ou t the to of his nieces, the family was obliged to carry him out by stealtb ancl b y alluded Dr one Plumtre of Queens'. They .ffinlledth at Dr Be"don's ambition w as at the privately at midnight and to bury him, though in a church of his own bottom, who had cajoled many, though una,ked alld had wrote 3 or 4 lelters patronage, without service, attended by his own servants and tenants., fo r fear to Town in order to have them shewn to Bbhops, complaining of the he�vy of an opposition from di;orderly and ri�tous people. He died June 3, 1717 in the load of his office, which he only undertook at the desire of tile UlIlver�lty. at Great Wilbraham, and was put in the ground the night following They say that he bad an eye to an Add,e,s fo r the Peace, when the VI�e­ Chancel under the South wall, clo�e to it, and within the rails of the Altar. com",on Chancellor lool(ed on as the ollly cun"iderable person. It no doubt cal'l lcd ,\V hen was there in 1748, there was nothing over the grave but the is I e handsome Dr Farmer to Canterbury. bl icks; but his great·nephew told me he d signed to lay a Illarble over him. On Ids co n was [The followin g note on Thomas 'V atson, Bishop of St David's, is ffi pnl : ta!cens from Cole's MS5. vol XL, Brit. Mus. Add!. 584[, [5. Thoma T. W. B. st aged 80 MSS. p. , he D. Watson was consecrated Bi.hop 01 St D

take the following from the Emmaltuel Colleffe Afagllzi/le fur the Lent ,Vc Term 1901 : Characters of the XI. : SMART HUGHE:S. [1786-1847]. Mr Aldis "\Vright, (Capt.)-Has unfortunately not been able to play regularly this "THOMAS W. W. SI1'adlil1g Vice-Nbster of 'Inllity College, has lately presented to our College Lib, ary season, but has scored pretty consistently when he has. Has dou� much Rome manuscripts of Thoma, S,"al t Hughes, sometime Fellow of the College. ill'prove tue fielding the tellm his own energy at cover-point. to of by The manuscripts are (I) h.emarks 011 the Turkish or Ottoman Empire, (2) £:£Il)I7tlall-Very soune!al)d styli�h bat, though Ilttime s ovel' anxious Bel,!rnzzar's Feast-a poem wi th which Hughes won the Seatonian Prize, C. iI. 7: Mr to s('OI'� la,[. Has lo,t some of his bowlillg of Idst year. Fine field (3) A 10llg letter to th", ll'mes on [Jal ga, and Notes to Bel-hazzar's Feast. 101'111 (4) in the slips. Mr Hughes was a member of Sl John's College. He won the origillally s Latin Ode in 1806, the Greek Ode in Ih07, 111ld the Members' Latin Essay y. Fra llMin-Has not played much this term very u eful bat. Slow in H.the field, uut u,ually sale. i P,ize in 1809 ano 1810. He was elected Fellow of St John's in 1811, and , about that time travel1ed Italy, Greece, Albania and Sicily, puhli,hillg a A. starting badly at the beginning the season, ill D. C. Aforrisoll-Thollgh of volume 01 Tlavels in 1820. He was As,istant-Tutor of St John'S in IMI5, balled in the te matches better thall he has ever done before. Is a good la r was SOOIl afler elected Fellow and Tutor of Trillit)' Hall, amI 1818 became and ve, y keel! fidc.J. Fellow of Enllnalluel, where he was also Dean and Greek Lecturer until 1823, D""glas-Fa,t �coril!g and very useful bat. Unfortunately fo r the side, when he was ma, ried and hecallle Curate (If CheSlerton. S. kt. n later life he held various preferments the Church, and was also a was IIOt able to this term. Excetlent point. 1 in play 11111Ch prolific Author, hi, mo.t important wOlk being the Contilluation of Hume Race- Left-hllnded rast bowler erratic on the whole, but good 011 his R. 7: i and Smollett's of day. Much impruved field. [To this mayHi bestory added ElIgL the and."/ollowing notes : Mr Hughes was married in . Addison-Vel'y finehil ter, who rarely failed to get rllns this y"ar u i t Peterborough Calhedral 30 April 1823, to Ann, daughter of the Rev John Ii . i q e above I he average as a wickel-keeptr. Fo,ter. He was sometillle inclIm bent or All Saints, Cambridge, and Per­ petual Curate of Edgware, Middlesex. He died at Edgwal'e 1 I August E. Buoker-Good bat, though unrortunate at the beginning of tlle season. 1847.] Medium pace bOld"r, who keeps a good Icngth and llearly always gels wldcds. Very ;ound field. Very fa,t right-handed bowler distinctly above the .lI.average. H. H. Hoc V""ykey -fair bat and field. i Lill1ull-Right-handed ;Iow bowler ; breal,s both ways and keeps CRICKET CLUB. y. W. a good le1lgth as a rule ; on some days seemed almost unpla),able. Matches played Won Lost o. Drawn 14. Poor field. 18. 4. Li1Z1Iell-Decidedly useful change bowler, keeping a good length. There has been a improvement in every department R. MrC.Occasional1y also made rUlls. Slow uncertain in field. marked alld the since last year, but the fi elding leaves good deal be still a to desired. No matches were lost, and most of those left drawn Ma tches. v. Jesus. Drawn. St John's 210 for 6 wickets (H. ison 80 not out). were decidedly in our fa vour. Add Jesus 217 for 6 wickets. Batting Averages. Hie-hest Times v. Clnist·s. Drawn. St John's 162 for 7 wickets (C. H. T. Hayman 63). Innings. Runs. score. not out. Averilge. Christ's 220 for 8 wickets. W. Stradling ...... •• 10 408 84 0 40'8 v. Emmalluel. Drawn. St John's 226 for 6 wickets (H. Addison not E. Booi

v. Caiu!. Drawn. SI John's 141 for 4 wicl,ets (E. Booker 56 not OUI). Caius 278 for 5 wickets. advantage will not exist much longer, but that they are on the upwa d path towards the reattainment of the First Division and v. Sidney. r Won. St John's 182 for wickets (W. Stradling 54). a light ship. Sidney 145. 7 Tbe race for the Low! Double Smlls took place on May 17th . v. Caius. Drawn. St John's 195 (D. C. A. Morrison 66). Caius 173 The result was an easy win fo r B. C. Cox (Trini ty Hall) and for 3 wickets. H. Tdylor (Third Trin y o C. W. it ), who beat H. P. C r ft (Trinity v. Trinity Hall. Won. St John's 146. Trinity Hall 60 (H. H. H. Hall) and T. D rysdale (J esus) in the record time of 7mins. 2 I secs. Hockey 3 wickets [or Linnell 4 wickets for 15). 39, J. W. Th e Races. v. Queens'. Drawn. St John's 140. Queens' 120 fo r 8 wickets. The races were rowed on June 5th and three following days. v. Magdalene. Won. St Jo s 237 for I wicket (E. Booker III not out, The raci ng general ly was interesting. First Trinity were bn' J. H. Franklin 103 not out). Magdnlene 142. brought down on t he first night alter having been head of tbe v. Christ's. Drawn. St John's 225 (W. Stradling 72). Christ's 113 fo r river since 1898. Qui te a new feature was the "lawn " of the Pitt Club just ab ove G rassy Corner. From th e social point of 7 wickets. view this appears to have been a great success and to have added l argely to the attractions of the races. CLUB. LADY MARGARET BOAT The resul ts were as follow :- Presidmt-Mr L. H. K. Bu-he-Fox. Treasurer-Mr F. Scott. R. Nlght. The second boat got a poor start, but were p ain G. Ticehurst. 211d Ctlplaill-J. H. Towle. Secrela1y-H. Ft 'rst - Ca t - A. yn latter Sanger. Junior 7'·easuru-J. M. Gaskell. Cap ttlins -P. B. Haigh, within their distance of Sdw when the made their Lent M. C. Cooper, S. Barradell-Smith, W. H. Roseveare. bump. Our crew rowed over comfortably ahead of the boat beh i nd. This term h as been full of incident so far as the The fi rst boat went off very fast, and were within two feet of L.M.B.C. is concerned. In the first a e, pl c the new boathouse is a reali ty Emin anud I. at Grassy, but failed to bump them. and no longer a dream. The Club has been in occu pati on of Secolld Night.-The second boat got off much better, and, its new home since the beginni ng of er t m , and h as found the after gaining steadily on Emmanuel 11., bumped them just c m r a o fo t delightful change. The boathouse is completely in the Lon above the Willows g Reach . finished as regards its interior, and the outside no u e w req ir s The first boat started smartly, and, go ing up rapidly round only the fi nish ing touches. the corners, bumped Emmanuel I. in the Plough Reach. Another occasion for excitement was provided by a new light The ship. I t had been fe lt for some time that the boat, which had Th z'rd Nzgh l.- second boat rowed over, a bump having ro of them. been used since 1894, was too large for the crews we have had been made in f n t lately. Particularly was thi The fi rst boat went off very hard, and gained rapidly on s the this term, when we had case P m broke from the fi rst stroke, making their bump just on not one m an over 1 2 stone in wei ght. Mr Bushe Fox, having e I. - Grassy Co rn er. watched the Oxford crew at practice in their short boat designed Dr Warre decided to helve one built for our year by , crew this Fo urth Nlglzt.-The second boat were within a length of on al most the same l i nes. re was a rh e sul t complete success, Jesus II. in fifteen strokes, and bumped them just above and after a few necessary alterations the boat ran beautifully. Grassy Corner. It was from the first most comfortable to sit in, and took t he The first boat got a good start, and gai ned about two-thirds corners very easily. At the beginn n term it was First Trinity this, i g of the of a length on 1. by First Post Corner. After evident that our first boat this year would be a very light however, First went steadily away, and our crew had to be crew, but they overC,lme this natural disadvantage to a g reat n . c onte t with rowing over extent by keenness and hard work. They were m st hap i ly o p Characters of the Crews : free Jrom any serious illness the whole time of practice, ne th er i Fz'rst th ey nor the second boat losing a single member. Mr Bush:­ Boat. Bow -Swings straight and long, and for his weigh t is a splendid worker. Fox is to be congratulated on crew out by tbe he has turned h;S When he has learnt to control his slide, and has acquired the walermall­ skilful and indefatigabl e coaching. It is gratifyil1g to be ship which ex erience alone can give, he will be an admirahle bow. ab a�: p to record success as well for the second boat. 1 he,f l olll Tw o-Always rowed with the greatest vigour and ver h determination, but ne under the d isadvantage of having to propel a tub h got really used to the novelty of tl,e stroke His I(eenness has Ship, t O�fs _ side. been li ghte rst. hope t at a gl eat factor in the success of this crew and of the Club generally during even a r crew than the fi We h thIS his year of office. ' p o OUY Chromc!e. O"r Clll'Omde. 42 1 Th ru-A consi,tently hard worker. who can always be relied upon to do best. his Names and weights : Has learnt the use of liis outside halld. but has yet to learn how to grip the ate alld Second w r how get an ea,y ini h, Fi" st Boat. Boat. to f s st. lbs. st. lbs. Fo ur-Slides very well, and is smart i w t his hands. Shoves hare!. a i (bow) •••• h bnt f ls R. R. Walker (bow) •• 9 6 . .I, Jones 9 IO! to use his t ength to the best dvan age through gettillg VV s r nOl his 2 G. A. Ticehurst .• . •.• I I ° 2 C, H. 10 shoulders on al t e beginning. a t Stokes I� h 3 H. B. Carlyll IQ S 3 F. WOl lhington 10 II·l Five-Has improved greatly r 4 S. Brown...... J[ 1 since last yea . having practically cured himself R...... II 7� 4 W. KellY . . of all his old fa ults excepl thal of M. Cooper 11 3 S H. B. Jellkins ...... • nol �ittillg up at the ' In lhe S C. t li S! races he rowed really wel fini,h. H. Towle .•...•...• J 1 6 Slator .... ,...... 1 1 3 l. 6 .I. 6 F. � 7 R. S""ger ...... I') S 7 W. H. Roseveare 11 SIx-Is sliding hetter. but 131- has not yet got tI,e knack .. • . of gripping the G. C. Simpson (stroke) I I 4 J. T. oole (stroke) . . 10 7 smanly. and ill consequence is oflell late. A waler P very hard wOlker. wilh H. C. Sandall (cox) .. . . 8 9 W. Hayward 8 7! good budy fo rm. A. (cox) .. Sevm-Filled his place most creditably. and rowed both hard and long. and LAWN TENNIS CLUB. with 1lI0re lif<:: than in Ihe Lenls. Has a tendency lo over-reach. alld has President-Mr 7;·cas.-Mr L. H. yel to leal ll how to acquire an ea,y R. F. Scotl. H01.. K. Bushe·Fox. finish. Captain-A. Chapple. Sec. -I:'. U, s y CV1Ilmittee-J. . H. Ho n. La bre . W Stroke -Is an immensely im rov d oar. and when he has learnt tosteacly Alkins. P. H. Vi ld A. Paton. swillg p e his ' nfie . M. and slide coming fo rward he will be an excellent slroke. Has any amounl of pluck i i twelve alld dash. alld wUlk, almost loo hard. We have had a fa irly mccessfui season. w n n ng '4- m es l osi g fi ve doubles and two !;illgles. Ullforlunately Cox -S.teers excellelltly. Save for an error u gm at atch and n of j d ent Grassy on filst nighl.liis steerillg during the races was the we have not been able to play a fu l team in many matches. as fa ultless. l Argylc has been playillg regularly for the 'Varsi ty six. The fa ct Second Boat. that three fi rst year men have got their colours promises well for our success next se son . The Se ond six also done Bow-Always works hard fr om starl to finish. but must learn to hold his slide a c hiive at the begi well. having won five and lost three. The fo llowing llllillg oJ Ihe sli ol

Second Six Ma tches. G. N. Pocock has also shot fo r the 'Varsity on two occasions, April 23 ...••C lare ...... •.. • Lost .. . . 2-7 and we hope he will succeed in getting Half-Blue next yea . .. 24 .. • . Ellm1anuel 2nd his r VI. .... Lost .... 1-8 Th e Company was represented in the Company Medals May 3· ..... We,lmillster College ••Won .... S-4 competition by the fol lowin./r team :- 7 . . . . Caius 211d VI...... Won .•..S-4 14 ...... Jesus 211d VI...... Won ....5-4- A. R. Kidner (Capt.). .•...... A. Ticehurst . 21 vV esllllin_ter College ..Lost .. 4-5 G. .. 27 ··· . . S-4 C. 'i'icehurst. ..Caius 2nd VI...... Won .. B. .. 28 .... Jesus 2nd Vl...... Won ...• E. N. Pocock. 7-2 R. F. Brayn. H. Bernard. EAGLES LAWN TENNIS CLUB. G. At a meeting held on Tuesday June 4th the following new It was unlucky in having to compete against two exceptionally members were elected : H. Addison, F. W. Argyle, E. Booker, strong teams, and came in a very creditable third, being a long E. S. R. Brown, H. B, CarlyJl, A. W. Hayward. H. H. H. way ahead of the other three teams. Sa al , G. E. R. al er. At the annual cam p, which took place at Portsmouth this Hockey, 11. C. nd l C. Simpson, R. W k year owing to want of accoll1mod"tioll at Aldershot, the Com­ C.U.R.V. pany was well represented, taking down one officer, fo ur (G Oompany). Sergeants, and forty-two rank and file. We were the only Officers and N.C.O.'s C. Browning. Co lour Sergeant- :-Cap tain-K. Company to take the full complement of Sergeants. The A. Ticehurst. Serge ants-A. D. A. Morrisoll, B. F. G. R. Kidner, C. work done was less interesting perhaps than usual, but we Woods Armslron;:,J. H. Towle, W. H. Kennell, C. F. Corp,wals-F. \I,T. had to mount our own guards, and the Corporals had plenty Hayman. Lance Corporals-C. S. Pelkins, B. Ticehurst, E. A. Martell, G. K. Eralt, C. E. Sidebotham. C. of opportunities of learning work. We were quartered le their in largest of the three fo rls, Fort SOLlthwick, together with The n<,w �ompany is fast gaining a reputation fo r keenness the the Caius and Trinity Companies. quarters were very and marksmanship. Tht! strength is at present sevt!nty-three ; The comfortable, and everyone appeared to thoroughly enjoy of this llulIlber filly-eight are T.V.'s and fifteen recruits. Nu his wetk'� training Our Fort-Adjutant was especially pleased less than thirty· five of the T.V.'s have become marksmen, this with our kCtnnt!ss and skill in trench digging, which we tried being a larger number than any other Company. Our recruits fo r the first time. also l>romise well. The weather was not all that could be desired during the The best scores are as fo llows :- early part of the week, but the Sunday was glori ous, and nearly T. V: s everyone took the opportunity of goillg over to the hIe of Wight 200 yds. 500 600 yds. Total. Church parade, where our apl>t:arance created a great stir (Max· 56) & after (Max· 56) (Max. [[2) among the inhabitants, most of whom seemed to think we were Sgt. A. Kiclnel' ., •••• , . 47 48 5 R. 9 just off to the F rollt. Pte. B . S(JUper.,...... 46 91 N. 45 Pte. R. F. Brayn ...... • 45 43 8R This term the only event of importance has been the Lc.-Cpl. C. B. Ticehurst .• 45 43 88 Inspection. The Coml>any .. fe ll ill " outside the New Court Ple. A. C. Dundas 38 So 88 gatt� after having fa ced the ordeal of being photographed. The Col.-Sgt. Ticehurst .. 3 86 G. A. 9 47 general appearance of the fu ll-dress tunics and the newly-issued Ple. J. R. Bradshaw .. .. . • 44 4z 80 slouch hats very smart. Pie. G. H. Teall ...... 45 39 84 was Ple. J. B. Irvillg 4 [ 4[ 82 We are glad to wticome back H. E. H. Oakeley and P. A. Ple. V. C. Honeybourne ,. 41 40 80 Lloyd-Jones among the Volunteer Service Company of the 1st Suffolks. Recruits. Pte. R. McC. Linnell...... [63 In conclusion, we appeal to the present first and second Ple. A. G. Walker .. . • •• ..•• [00 years to do their best to maintain the reputation of the Pte. F. D. Canham.... .••.•• [ 4 [ Company. This term we shall lose some of our most prominellt Pte. H. A. Browning.... .• • • 140 membt!rs, and others must be found to take tlldr l> laces. It is by John's in the Michaelmas Term obtain proficiency certifi­ The St Cup was won hoped that as many as possible will nt Kidner, and in the Lent by vate the prt!sellt first year and next term's Sergea A. R. Term Pri cates, and that many of C. Dundas. Freshers will join before the end of the Vol unteer year in A. core in the Kidner won the Roberts' Cup for the best s October, so that our strength will not be diminished by th e A. R. in loss , class firi ng of Sergeants. He is, of course, shooting the ing down this term. of those who are go University team. Ott?' CII?'07ude. ·P·l . Our Chrom'cle. 425

members to come in. We have to congratulate Mr P. Hai g THE COLLEGE MISSION. B. h (ex-President) on h is election to the Secretaryship of the Union, Pre ridellt-The �1aster. Viu -PresidClIt.-"1-.fr :MnS(ll1. Professor ",,,,i!t,ff, �{"yor, and also Mr A. Latif P e ident) who was returned at the :!lIt- Graves, Dr S'llldys. Co Se "ivr f]!embers-Mr Cox, �ir DyS"", A. C. ( r s , ShO/e, Mr Ta nl1('r S ·et .ry; �!f" \Vard, 0,. (Senivr head of the poll as men! ber of the Committee. Two other Dr (S811/0" e,, , , VV ,>(S"" _ Junior Afe7llbas-J e Treasurer; E. C hees , C Elsee (J"ni",' Trerzsltler) , members of the Society, lVIr H. L. Garrett and Mr S. H. J. Greellice" Rnseveare, Senior, B R. P. R. C. W. H. C. A. L. I>. WaIler. Robinson, stood fo r th e Union Committee, bu t h ou gh th ey Gregory, C. E. SidebOlhal11, Galrelt (7ullior Secretar), ), t C. Coore, H. L. e Sand,,]], N. B. Souper, Booker, J. B. were unsuccessful we hope to see them having bett r luck next H. C. E. Garle· B,olVue, and K. P. vV alker. time .

At the om m ittee meeti n g held early in th e C term, J. B. The ol lowing were the peba es held : Garle-l3rolVneWilS �Iected as a representative of the Freshmen f t in place of Barradell-Smi lh, re �i J ned. W. April z7th-L. R. Garcia moved : th is House fe els Tlie exptriment of Iiolding small medings in College rooms B. "That a want of confidence in the present Government." H. L. O. in pl ace of the ge neral me�ling u ual l held ill term s y the Lent Garrett opposed . There al so spoke-For the motion, E. P. was, on tlie whole, very successful. In Mr Tanner's rooms the Hart, S. H. Robinson, J. C. Arnold, and P. B. Haigh ; against S n i o r Missioner, ct imly discerned through a clDud of o bacco­ e t the motion, F. W. Armstrong and J. H. A. Hart. The motion smoke, treated of various matters connected with t work at he was carried by one vote. vV a lwor In th. C. Elsce's rooms a meeting was addressed by l\1r H. Sneath, tlie Junior Missioner, and in H. L. Garrett's rooms both lVIr Ward e and MI S n a th spoke. An invitation was sent to tlie Bishop o f Manchester to May 4th-S. H. Robinson moved : "That this House would preach ll in the Co eg e Chapel on beha lf of the Mission during view wi th regret any alteration in the Coronation Oath." S. G. the l\ lay but the Bishop was u n fortu nat ly obliged to Stewart opposed. The e also spoke-For the moti on, H. L. O . krm, e • 4. r decline it owing to tlie pressure of other \Vork. Garrett, C. E. Sidebotham, L. R. B. Garcia, C. Elsee, and The Tredsurer d e i r�s to cal l t l i e attention e e G. Pocock ; against tht! motion, Haigh, J. C. Arnold, , of m mb rs of N. P. B. the College to the fa ct that tbe excursion from W l o t and E. P. Hart. The motion was carried by one vote. a w r h to the o l l eg e on the last gu t Hol ida C .\u � l3allk y. in many ways so successful, cost the General i Fund of the M ssion something like £'20. As tbe General Fund could not possibly bear this charge May 25th-H. R. Crofton moved : "That this House would every year. it has been sugge ed that a s eci al I J st p ospi wlity view with regret the foundation of a Roman at ol ic niversity Fund should be fo rmed fo r present the Coll ege C h U tlds purpose. At in Ireland." Mr A. A. Robb opposed . There also spoke-For entertains about one hundred of the Wal ort eopl e' every w h p the motion, S. G. Stew rt and W. BarradelI-Smith against the year, and it would be a u n o rtun a e t hi ll g from every point a ; most f t motion, P. B. Haigh, J. C. Arnold, L. R. B. Garcia, J. A. of view the exp�diti()n had to be given up or the scale of it if Cunningham, and H. G. Lewis. by six m u c h reduced. Intending contri butors can ob tai n fu rther i n fo r­ The motion was lost votes. mation from any of the or me e of Committee. officers m b rs the

DEBATING SOCIETY. Vi ce-Presidtllt-H. L. O. P,-esidmt-A. C. A. Lalir. Garrett. Tr eflSurel'- l\IUSICAL SOCIETY. G. N. Pocock. Secl Ctary-J. Co mmit/et-To H. Kobiu,OIl, S. C. ArnuJd. G. Stewa. t. Presidmt J. Sandys. TrtflSUrlr-Rev Stevens. -Dr E. A. J. Ho norary F. Jarchow. Co mmittee-O. May, W. B. Marshall, Easter term is the S i t Sccl'ttary-C. J. never a ve enthusiastic one fo r oc e r· H. E. H. G. Ticehurst (Librarian), H. J. W. Wrellford, ry their Oakeley, A. as many of its members seem to be more i n tline to spend J. H. How, C. Nicholl, J. F. L. Southam. d C. A. M. summer evenings in cool ness of tbe open air ralher thall in the e sful the heated fe rvour of debate. However. some very succ s been The May Concert, held in the Hall on the evening or meetings have been h eld tilouO'h the atLendance has not sjo 1 .t he June is acknowledged on all hands to have been a distinct al l that might be desi red «nd �n th 111 one occa � loth, : more o th e w l s success. The programme was varied and well chosen. and not much desiderater:! llorum could not be o med u ntil tbe q f r led the so long as to make response to •• encores " im possible. The had gone forth to the highways and hedges and compel performance opened with a fine of Haydn Bracken- trio by Mr VOL. XXII. III ,

426 Our Chro1Zlck Our C!zrom'cl�. 427

Miss , BoLItItO •••••••• ••••.• "I spri Siciliaui " ••••.••••••.•••••• Ve rdi bury, Gray and Mr Roper. Mr Brackenbury's well known 5 Ve delicacy of style was well in keeping Haydn's music, reminding Miss FLOREN CE SCHMIDT. one as it does of court dress and sixteenth century periwigs. VOCAL .•.. Rest, Dearest Rest " ...... Ku clle" Miss Teresa del Riego then sang a song of her own com­ 6 QUARTET " . . . W. B. MARSHALL, H. J. W. WKENFORD, response h position, which was deservedly " encored," and in s e sang a tragic little comedy in three verses. The Rev F. G. G. A. TICItHURST, W. H. ROSllVIIARll. Given Wi lson's most pleasant rendering of Wagner's wonderrul "WaIter's Preisl ied " from The Mei stersingers was ro llowed by ss PART an excellent performance on the viol incello by Mi Gray. The n. two pieces selected were by the inevitable Galtermann and 7 PIANOFORTIt SOLO •• .••.l . " Prelude " ••••. , • •• ...• •• • • Rackmaniltif Popper, the latter at his very wildest. M iss TKRESA DEL RIRGo. n e Then fol lowed what was u d oubt dly the fe ature of the evening, being an Italian song by Miss Florence Schmidt. 8 VOCAL D URTT ...... " Break, Diviner Light , ...... Fm llcu Allilsm The perrormance was nothing short of wonderful, and defies R. H. CROFTON and J. C. H. How. description. W. SONGS ...... " Als die ...... : ...... Dvorok 9 . . (11) B. Marshalte ?futteral! was .the life-one is almost tempted to say (b) "Bonjour Suzon ...... De/iltes the saving-of the q uarte t that fo llowed. He gained fo r it a . . . deserved encore. Miss FLOKI£NCI! SCHMIDT. The duet by R. H. Crorton and J. C. How would have been more of a success we fe l if the performers e 10 VOCAL QUARTET • • " A Frankly 's Dogge leped over a style " had endeavoured to look a little less unhappy, and to put a little n A. C. Maclun�il more "go" into the song. The Rev Given Wilson and Miss W. B. . l\IIARSHALL, H. J. W. WRItNFORD, Schmidt sang agai n, and were repeate l recalled, and the A. TICEHURST, W. ROSEVEAJuJ:. d y G. H. Concert was terminated by the singing of the " Boating Song '

. and "G II SONG ...... " Walter's Preislied " ...... od Save the King." . . . . . Wa gller Sincere thanks are due Miss to Schmidt, Miss del Rieg o, (Frolll .. The Meistersingers. ") and all the other visitors who contributed so largely to the Rev F. G. GIVEN WrLSON. enjoyment of the audience and the success of the evening, and also to J . C. Jarchow and the Musical CHORUS] .•••.•" Lady Margaret Boating Song".. .. Committee, in whose 12 G. M. Garrett hands the management of the Concert "GOD SAV E THE lay. KING." fu ll is appended : The Programme I Miss TIl ESA DEL RIIlGO R .. ACCOMPANISTS r \ M . E. S. KOPEK (Corpus Chnsll). PART I.

1 TRIO iu D major -No. VI..•• , .•••••.••• •...••.•.•.•••••.•••Ha tf)'n Allegro, Andante, Allegro, ma dolc . e THEOLOGICAL F. BRACKI!NBUJ(Y (Selwyn , Miss GRAY, SOCIETY. C. ) ROPItR (Corpus Christi). Co mmittee-Presidmt, o (in re�idence), C. Elsee E. S. C. C ore; Ex-Presi,uf/ts .• J. H. B. Vlood wa! l<, B. B.A J. H. A. H" rL B.A., E. Cheese B.A., P. IreaSUler. . ; ..•• ... ..Te resa del B A. ; Souper 2 SONG , Dry Tears .. . . . ; J E. Cheese SecretalY, N. B. elected, ...... " 0 Those . /{i�f" Wailer A. L. G. S. l{aynur, G. Hopkins. Miss TERESA DEL RIEGO. the programme fo r The following has been the term : loth. "Bible Translation, with special 1�le en e tcl th Great Indiall 3 .• .••. •••• .••. " • •.....•.•.. .•.. May r c e SpNGS (il) "Ein Schwan Grttg' Versions," by B. ::Oouper's roOIllS, (b) "\Valdwanderung " •• ...... ••••• } C. ElllllLluds M.A., in N. C, New Court.

Rev F. . s by J. E. B.A., G GIVEN "\V ILSON. Mily [7th. .. The Holy Land and the Ea t," Cheese ill Alien's 01 tile F. W. rOOIllS, H, I sl Courl. Electiull vfficers [or Michadmds e .. . •• . . T rlll 1901. VI OLONCELLO SOLO.. (a) Andante ...... (Jolten,,(!n" ..• 4 ... .•. , (0) :Mazurka•• •••• ••.•• • poj} e Ju Dean, room. May 24th. "Mvnasticism," by the Rev the uior in his Miss GRAY. £, 2nd Court. 428 Our Chro1tult.

SATURDAY NIGHT SERVICES.

In the Ante- Chapel at 10 o'clock.

Objecls :-(i) Intercession fo r the College Mission ; (ii) In­ tercession fo r Foreign Missions ; (iii) Preparation for Holy Communion ; obj�cts. The Commiand kindred THE LIBRARY. ttee for the Easter Term has been the same as that for the Lent Term, see p. 288. • TheasteriJk denotes past 0" present /I{embers of the College . The following is the list of addresses during the Term : Donations and Additions to the Library during April 27lh. Ur Ward. May 4lh. Mr W. L. E. Quarter ending Lady Day 190 I. " Parsons, Dean and Leclurer al Selwyn ColJege. IIth. N. VV. , Mr A. Edw alds As�islant Collete Mbsioner at Wal­ " worth. DOl/a/zons. 18th. 11:rJ. O. F. �{l1n'ay, Fellow and Dean of Emmanuel College. DONORS. " 25th. Mr Forbes } Fellow and . Robillson, Lecturer of o e *Clarke (Sir Phi lip Pusey, June 1st. Mr Dyson. Christ's C lleg Ernest). horn June 25, 1799 ; died July 9, 1855. LA M emoir.] 8vo. Land. 1900...... -- The Aut or. John, Fifteenth Lord Somerville*, born h Sept. 21, 1765 ; died Oct. 5. 1819. [A M emoir. 8yo. Lond. . • ••••••• J 1 898 C } * Hihhert (F. A.). Bede : a Poem Whi h obtained the Seatonian Prize at Cam­ The Author. bridge. 8vo. Camb. 1900 ..•.•.••••• '"Taylor (C.).s Hebrew-Greek Cairo Genizah Palimp ests from the Taylor-Schechter Collection, including a Frag ent of the Twenty.Second' Psalm according to The Editor. Origen s Hexapla. Ediled for the Syndics of the University Press. Large l 4to. Camb. 1900. 9. I...... ) -Sayle (C. E.). Early Englishm printed­ Books in the University Library, C am Syndics of the University bridge ( 147 5 to 1640). Vol. 1. Caxton Press. " .••• to F. King ton . 8vo. Camb. 1900 } *S\leringham (J. W.). Graiana Elegia. (For Tewlcesbury Abbey Restoration). Professor Mayor. 8vo. Gloucester [190I.J ...... } Cambridge Philo'ophical Society. proceed Dr. Shore. ings. Vo!. Xl. Part i. [Michaelmas Term 1900]. 8vo. Camb. 1901. •. . . . ) '"Roberts (C. }.L). A Treatise on the History of Confession until it developed inlo The Author. Auricular Confession A.D. 1215. 8yo.. Lond. 1901. 9.38.48... o ...... } '"Caldecott(A.). The Phil sophy of Relir�iOn The Author. in England and America. 8yo. Lond. . . . • ...... 19010 1 J. 1 5 .3 I...... ! and D isea es -RoJ]e"toll (H. D.). Jaundice s ted fr om the The Author. of the Livel' (Reprin Encyclnp . Medim ca). 8vo . • •• .• . ... • • Green (A. B.). A yloid Disease. (Raymond The Author. Horlon-Smith Prize 1900). 8vo. . .. 1900. Refermce Ta ble. Dr. D. MacAlister. Medical Directory sfor ) South Green (J.). Cau es of th e War in rica from the American Lawyer's Af n The Aut or. S tandpoi t. :md Edition. 8yo. Wor- h

... . f •••• ,' I' I • cester, Mass" 1900. . • ' 428 Ottr Chromclt.

SATURDAY NIGHT SERVICES.

III the A1lte-Chajel at 10 o'clock.

Objeels :-(i) Intercession for the College Mission; (ii) In­ tercession for Foreign Missions; (iii) Preparation for Holy Communion; and kindred objt:cts. THE The Committee for LIBRARY. the Easter Term has been the same as that for the Lent Term, see p. 288. • The asteriJk denDtes past 01' present Members of the College. The following is the list of addresses during the Term: Donations and Additions to the Library during April 27th. Mr Ward. May 4th. Mr W. L Quarter ending Lady Day 19°1. . E. Parsons, Dean and Lecturer at Selwyn College. " I lth. Mr N. W. A. Edwalds, Assistant College :Mbsioner at Wal- " worth. DonatlO1lS. 18th. Mr J. O. F. F �{tllTay, Fellow and Dean of Emmanuel College. DONORS. " 25th• Mr orbes RobillSOIl, } Fellow and , Lecturer of Christ's College. *Clarke (Sir Ernest). Philip Pusey, born June 1st. Mr Dyson. June 25, 1799; died July 9, 1855. LA Memoir.J 8vo. Lond. 1900...... ut -- The A hor. Jeohn, Fifteenth Lord Somerville*, born S pt. 21, 1765; died Oct. 5, 1819.. [A Memoir. J 8vo. Lond. [898. ••••••• } *Hibbert (F. A.). Bede: a Poem WhiCh ob taitled the Seatonian Prize at Cam- The Author. . .. bndge. 8vo. Camb. 1900 ...... } "Taylor (C.). Hebrew-Greek Cairo Geni zah Palimpsests from the Taylor-Schechter Collection, including a Fragment of the Twenty-Second Psalm according to The Editor. Origen's Hexapla. Edited for the SYlldics of the University Press. Large 4to. Camb. [goo. 9. I...... } • Sayle (C. E.). E"rly English printed­ Books in the University Library, Cam Syndics of the Univs ersity bridge (1475 to 1640). Vo!. I. Caxton Pres . . to F. Ki.n gs ton. 8vo. Camb. 1900 .••• } *Sheringham (J. W.). Graiatla Elegia. f (For Tewkesbury Abbey Restoration). Pro essor Mayor. 8vo. Gloucester [1901.J } ...... Cambridge Philo_ophical Society. proceed- ings. Vo!. Xl. Part i. [Michaelmas- Dr. Shore. Term 1900J. 8vo. Camb. 1901... s . . } "Roherts (C. �L). A Treatise on the Hi tory of Confession until it developed into fss The Author. Auricular Con e ion ....A.D. 1215. Bvo. Land. 1901. 9.38.48...... } *Caldecntt (A.). The Philosophy of Relir�iOn in England and America. 8vo. Lond.. The Author. 1901. ll.15-31. .. .. - . _...... s ! e, D.). Jaundice and Di eases • Roll ton (H; of the Liver (Reprinted from. the The Author. Encyclnp .Medica). 8vo ...... ond Green (A. B.). Amyloid Disease. (Raym The Au thor. BOlton-Smith Prize 1900). 8vo. . .. Medical Directory for IgOO. Reference Table. } Dr. D. MacAlister. Green (J.). Causes of the War in South' Lawyer s Africa from the American The Author. Standpoint. 2nd Edition... . 8vo. ,Vor- I' •.•. .• , cester, Mass" 1900 . . . I." 1 430 The Lzora1')" The Lzo1'ary. 43

DONORS. Oxford Univer�ity Calendar for 1901. Reference Table. } . . Official Year Book of the Church of Enl!1and. Polaeontographical Society. Vol. LIV. Is-tIed for 1900. 4tO. L on d 1 900 1901. 8yo. Lond. 1901. Ref�rellce Dr. Sandys. Rolls Se.ies. Calendar of the Close Rolls. Edward 1. 1272-1279. !lvo. Table...... " .. " . . .•.• ...... Lo.,d. 1900. 5 40. } .• and ·Cole'ho (Bp. J. New Testament -- Calend r of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of William W.). (in 8vo. Zulu). livo. Lond. 1897. 9. iD 22 . Mary. 1st Nov . 1691 to end of 1692. Edited by W. J. Hardy. --B'wk of Exodu. (i'l Zulu). 8vo. 1882. Lond. 1900. 5.3. • O. I. . . •• • • . • • . . . .• . . • • Roy,,1 Histoncal Society. The Cely P"pers. Se1ectiom f.om the Correspon­ 9· 2 . . . . . 'ISS M C 0I enso. of A.D. --Two Books of Samuel (in Zulu). 2nd dence and Memolancla Ihe Cely Family, Melchants of the Staple edilioll. 8vo. Maritzburg, 1881. 9.10.20. 14i5- 1488. Ediled hyH. E. Maiden. Sill. 4to Lond.1900. 5.17.168. o of joihn, second E.'rl of Bucking­ --Comlllon Prayer Book (in Zulu). Srn. -- The Despatches, and Corresp ndence 8Yo. Pietermad,z!Jur/.!. 1896. 11.19.58 . . llamshi. e, Amba sador to the COl1rt of Catherine 11. of Russia 1762-/ i65. Hitchcock (F. H.). SectiOll of Foreign Edited by Adelaide d'Arcy Collyer. Vol. 1. SII1 . 4to. Lond. 1901. Markets. 8vo. Wa,hington, 1898 5.17.170• Vo!. H. --Trad� of Puerto Rico. 8yo. Washing- Strutt (J. W.) Bllron Rayleigh. Scientific Papers. 1881-1887. IqOO. ton, t898. . •• • . . . .. •• ...... Roy. 8vo. Camb. 3.41. o --Tr"de of the Philippine Island.. 8vo. Sturleson (Sn rro). TheHeimskringla, or Chronicle of the Ki n gs of Norway.

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