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New Subscribers to Eagle Magazillt, commencz'1zg with No. 120. Addison, H. Gauvaiu, H. J. Marshall, W. B. Allott, P. B. Goddard, H. Mitchell, B. E. Ashe, G. H. Grabham, G. W. Nicholl, A. M. C. Allay, M. E. Grundy, M. Norwood, G. Belcher, H. C. P. Harris, H. Palmer, T. N. P. Benians, E. A. Hayman, C. H. T. Priston, S. B. Brayn, R. F. Hayward, A. W. Ramage, H. Brown, S. R. Heuslow, R. B. W. Raynor, L. G. S. Cameron, S. Herschel, J. C. W. Redlich, S. Clay, W. K. Honeybourne, V. C. Ritchie, J. N. Cooke, S. J. S. Horlon, C. T. Sandall, H. C. COOl'e, C. Hough, J. F. Sanger, H. Crc,>ggon,J. F. S. Hunt,T. W. Simpson, G. C. E. L en! Te?'lJt, 1900. Cunningham, E. Jauvtin, R. B. le B. F. Slator DicksOIl, R. St. J. Jenkins, R. S. Stokes, C. H. Dodgshun, E. J. Kennelt, W. H. Tealde, S. G. Duudas, A. C. King, G. K. Weston, E. A. Fe"gllssou, J. N. F. Linnell, J. W. Woods, B. F. NOTES FROM THE COLLEGE RECORDS. FLelcher, J. H. B. MacDonald, S. G. Wrenford, H. J. W. Garrett, H. L. Man's, F. W. (Continued f"om Vol. xxi. p. 23.)

lE z :x;:-slE commence this instalment of Notes with some letters. The firsl is from Richard Vaughan, a Carnarvonshire man, who matri­ culated from St John's 16 November 1569'. He is said to have been a cousin of John Aylmer, Bishop of London, whose Chaplain he became. He was a Canon of St Paul's ; Archdeacon of Middlesex ; and Rector of Chipping Ong ar, of Little Canfield, and of Moreton, and Vicar of Great Dunmow, all in Essex. I-le became successively Bishop of Bangor (159'6), of Chester (1597), and of London (1604). He died 30 March 1607 and was buried in St Paul's Cathedral. The son to whom the letters refer is probably the John Vaughan, born in Surrey, who was admitted a Foundress' Scholar of the College 5 November 1605.

Sallltem z"n Christo. Cosyn Gwyn I am encouraged by Mr Dr Cleyton your Master and perswaded by my good kynsman Mr Holland to place my soone in the same Coli edge where I layed the foundations of that poore estate which I now enioye. And because myne acquayntance is worne out and knowe not any to whose ctlstodie I would rather committe my sonne, then VOL. XXI. X --

Notes from the Colleg'e Reco1'd�. I55 154 Notes from the College Rer.o1'ds. Sal LItem in Christo. Cosyn Gwyn though my leysure be very to your selfe, both in regards of consangllinitie and the good small at this tyme, yet I cannot but in fa ire wordes acknowledge reporte which you beare. These are heartily to pray you (if you how much I rest beholdinge vnto you for the kynde receyvinge may conveniently) to take him for your pupill, or yf your studies, of my sonne into your tuition, vnder which I hope though he and occasions will not permitte, to vse your credite to com­ attayne through his dull and slow apprehension but little mende him to such a one as may take some paynes with him learneing yet I hope he shall learne the fe are of God to beYllge yet rawe, and not so forward as I could wishe. I have season his ensuinge life withal!. 1 know not how to counter­ longe kept him at his bookes, but his conceyte, and apprehen­ vayle this kyndnesse, but assure yoursel fe of all the kyndnesse sion is slowe, his memory fray le, and his mynde not so devoute IllY poore self can affoorde you, or God may enable mee to to studye, nor so willynge to fo llowe the same vnlesse by strict performe hereafter. . I commende him eftsoones to God's discipline he be helde in, and spurred thereunto. I do not blessing, and your care and his direclion to whom you haue expecte he should prove any great Clerke (though slow wittes r.ommitted him, whom also I do. assure of any good turne do often prove deepest) but my desyre is he should add some­ I may yelde him. I am still of mynde to keepe him under the what to that he hath, that he may prove fi tte for ciuill companie, strictest discipline of your howse, and not to giue him any and for some purpose in the commonweale ne aul./rltslra, aul libertie till I see how he doth deserve it. Nevertheless I would 1't/foeHd/er natus vz"ieatur. And that he may the better allayne not have him want anythinge convenient ether for his studye, to that I most desyre, I have resolued that he shall begynne, or diet, but when his small sto.ck is spent I shall be ready to where I ended namely in the Schollers commons, esteemynge supplie his necessity. I would be gladd to hean� fr om you it daungerous to gille him any head, whose head I would haue before my goynge downe, which for ought I yet kllowe wilbe alwayes kept vnder the girdle of discipline, the marrow of all about the 1. or second weeke of J ulie. In the meane tyme with good learninge aud pietye. And although I am farre from my hearly commendalions to my kynd fr een d your Master, my Cambridge, yet doo I leaue the observing of my sonne to my cosyn Holland, yourself� and Mr Williams I cease and rest ever brother, who is nearer hand so that he shall see all his wants . xijlh Junij your very assured supplied. If I presume to farre vpon you it is not my manner 1604 lovynge freelld and kinsman to offende in that kynde over often, and I deserve the lesser Ric. CESTREN. blame, because both my auncient friende your discreete "'h governor, and allso my Cosyn Holland have drawen me there­ This bearer my allye entreale d/your fauor for one Fletcher vnto. If yow shewe me any kyndness herein you shall much a Bangor scholler now of Jeslls C':olledge, who by your good bynde me vnto you and I will endeavour by all meanes to meancs mflY be this next election chosen scholIcr into your requite your kind affection And so referring my suite to your howse. You shall doe a very charitable act therein, an d such [auorable respecte I cease and rest ever as both my L. of Bangor, my selfe, and many others will be very Maij, I gO, 1604 your very assured friende thankfull vnto you fo.r. R. C. and lovynge kinsman RIC. CESTHEN. Addressed: To my very loving fr eend and kinsman Mr Gwyn fellow of St John's Colledge in Cambridge, and Bachelor in I hope my Cosyn Holland will be a mediator vnto you for Diuinitie geve these. me to whom I would have written, but that as I him he sayd he should be in N orfolke about this tyme. R. C. Lawrence Deiose, the writer of the letter which Addressed: To verie loving fr iende and kinsman Mr Gwyn n follows, was born in Shropshire. He was admitted fellow of St John's CoIledge in Cambridge and Batchelor in a Fellow of the College 12 March 157i. He was diuinitie these dd. admitted Sacrist of the College 14 February 158�, 156 Notes from the College Records. N()tes from tlte College Records. 157

towards me in the forgiving of this being succeeded in that office by Christopher Webbs shew as much compassion conveniently. You shall doe therein a II December 1583; Junior Dean 26 January 158�, detle as you maie naie to manie that are in need. If being succeeded by Daniel Lindsell 18 December 1583 ; charitable woorke to one continue my lire but a few yeares and shall make me able, and Junior Bursar 2 T January 158*, being succeeded by Gael not be vnthankfull to the College, and will acknowledg John Robinson 12 December 1585. The only one of I will elf allwaies much bound vnto you. Thus praying to God these offices which Thomas Playfere held was that mys of maie be multiplied vpon you and vpon the that his blessings Sacrist from 13 December 1598 to April 160 1. It Maie 1607. whole college to the grace of Christ. London 27, looks therefore as if Deiose had left College without your loving rrend bound vnto accounting for the offertory money. His career is a you in all christian and little difficult to follow owing to the fact that he spelled dutirull affection his name so variously. But there is little doubt that he LAuRRNcE DEIOSE. held the following church preferments, the dates being those on which he compounded for fi rst fr uits : Rector of Chidingstone, Kent (Diose), 28 June 1585; Rector of Richard N eale, the writer of the following letter was East Horsley, Surrey (Deios), 6 July 1590; and Rector sometime a Fellow of the College and successively of Brasted, Kent (Deiose) 4 February 159�. All th,ree Bishop of Durham and Winchester, and finally Arch­ livings were vacant at the end of 1618, practically bishop of York, until his death 3 I October 1640• proving that they were held by one man. The Rev Lawrence Dyos, B D., was on 28 June 1585 licensed Mr Dr Gwin I am desirous to be truly informed by you of by the Bishop of London to marry at Little Barfield, a matter which this day was alledged to me to haue bin done Margaret Springe, spinster, of Little Barfield, co. Essex, by you and some of your Colledge-which is this. That when daughter of Thomas Springe, Colledge, of Chilton, Bucks., yeo­ l\IrPalmer, late of your Coli edge, andnow of Queenes man. He was the author of the following: Lawrence was to haue his grace with you at St Johns, his degree was DetDs, B.D., and Mz'nzster of tlze Gospel: E-Its two notably denied him, till he gaue assurance that he should neuer offer to learned and profitable Treatzses or Sermons agilZnst Antt'­ stand fo r a fellowship in your Colledge, in regard of the mean­ chrtst, on Apocal. xzx., 12, London 1590, 8vo. ness of his stature, and contemptibleness of his person, and that this was done as a publicI. acte with you. I am bold to intreat to be enformed by you of the truth of this matter both in that this Right Worshipfull, Whereas at my departure from the College regarde that I cannot beleeue it to be so, as also is alledged by some of I left vnpaied xij'i pro paupen'blls and my good fr iend Mr D. publick acte of yours at St J ohns bar to Mr Palmer of euer Plaifere as I vnderstood from him about two or three yeares Queenes Colledg as a sufficient haue neuer seene Mr since thinking that I had paid it to him, vndertooke the debt beinge admittable into any societye. I monstrous and contemptible for me: the truth is that I am indebted to the College fo r it. Palmer, but surely he must be very ag take place. I heare I have striven as much as lies in me to have paied it him these ainst whom so peremptorye a rule shuld two or three yeares, but have not bene nor yet am able to corn­ he is 10IVe of stature, but of good morrall and scholasticall is such passe it. manie chardges lye vpon me by reason of seven partes, neither doe I heare that his bodyly infirmitie as it like to bringe danger to children, whereof some are ready to be placed abrode, and I not is any way contagious, or any tha intreate you to aduertise able to fu rnish them in anie tolerable sorte. Wherefore I t shall connerse with him. I me both person, moralities and scholer- humbly and hartely desire you all as my oId good friendes to what yon thinke of his 158 Notes .from tlte College Records. Notes .from the College Records. 139 the following letter, ship; and also what is the truth of that said to be done at the Samuel Peachie, the writer of passinge of his grace with you. (himself a Fellow of the And so with my hearty com_ was son of William Peachey mendations to your good selfe, and all our freindes with yOU itted 10 April 1590), Vicar of Oak­ College, being adm I commit you to God-and rest. admitted Billingsley Scholar ham, Rutland. He was from the Court your loueingc friende 1614 and Fellow 7 April 1620. He was 9 November at Newmarkett R. DUNELM. to the Vicarage of High am, presented by the College feb. 24, 1622 instituted 28 April 163°' Kent, 23 February 16� and Addressed: his c, Year of Grace " and To the right worshipfuIl my very Loving ffrend He resigned, however, during Mr Dr Guyn Master of St ] obn's CoIIedge in Cambridge He was admitted Junior Bursar be so kept his Fellowship. these with speed dd. g the office till December 1636. 1 February 163!, holdin I January 164!, ceding He was admitted Senior Dean 25 January 164g· He was Instances have been given in these Notes of private this on becoming Sacrist to the Vicarage of North influence being used in favour of candidates for Fellow­ presented by the College I I 48, holding it until his ships. Dr George Monteigne, Bishop of London, it will Stoke, co. Oxford, May 16 is a little obscure, but it be observed in the next letter, frankly offers a quza pro death in 1663. The letter as Impropriators, had quo. Robert Sandys was not elected a Fellow of the would appear that the College, then withdrew their College. agreed to provide a curate and in the refer­ grant. There is, however, some interest Soulderne, whose Salulem in Christo. ence to Thomas Hodges, Rector of to it in the Good Mr Dr Gwin presentatioll, from several references peculiarity about it . I desire as mulch to doe roue any curtisy I can, as lhat arohives, must have had some youe should do " into the me thi! curtisy I request; and if youe have any I-lodges was an Emmanuel man " intruded occasion youe shall find it with the to be true that youe have only th' Coll ege in 1644 by the Earl of Manchester advantage to begin; and if it Iy in my power I will He was pre­ folow. approval of the Assembly of Divines. Ther is a deare [rend of mine that thinkes I may praevayle with October 1647, sented by the College to Soulderne 18 YOlle, and I love him so well as I will advocate for him as mutch Restoration. and again 9 December 1662, after the as I can, and yett YOlle shall lose nothing by the bargaine for to the College Soulderne was one of the Livings given youe shall gaine two frendes by one curtisy. The request is that been vVi.1liams in 1622, to whom it had youe would be pleased at this election of fellows next to prefer by Archbishop s 1. The Advowson was claimed one Robert Sandys, Bachelor of Artes of Sidney Colledg to be given by Ki ng Jame iture in the reign of a fellow among youe, ask a praebend of me for your {rend and by the Crown under a forfe rival title which clearly both are satisfied he shalbe as sure of a prebend as my frend of Elizabeth. But there was a a Hodges purchased the fellowship and besides I will remaine caused anx.iety to the College. and on 3 November your most assured loving frend Advowson under this title in 1653, true respect to ffrom London House GEO. LONDON. 1662 "in consideration of his great and ly to St John's febr. 29th 1621 piety and learning and particular the College. He was then Addressed: To the right worshipfull my very loving frend Colledge," conveyed it to episcopally instituted. Mr Doctor Gwin Master of St] ohn's Coli edge in Cambridge dd. presented by the college and the first It is clear that Peachie thought that, in I 160 N(Jtes from the College Records. Notes from the College Records. 16

inioy. There is none in the parish instance, I-lodges was unfairly preferred to himself an um then this which I d ann pay 70li. per annum for all my tithes, and others. The Senior Bursar who thrust " the base and re will give mee he year 16 SI, I to the State and Curats. In the c1ypt money" on Peachie was William Bodurda. ll payments a house withal!. for all my maintenance to keepe had not soli. mine rather than his that hath it, derne might have beene sol of. is a summe considerable to be deprived Right Worshipfull nd 4-oli. per annum a moneys cience expect the returne of any I doe well vnderstand what it is to be quaestioned by How can you in cons and Seniors that then were had a College, who tho they may hav\! sometimes litle reason for m mee, tho the Master fr o but than they did. I tooke nothing thei r action, yet may find power enough to maynteine therr gran ted me favor more but what by vnanimous consent, nothing wills. It was strange to mee to see such crooked bills come what was given mee would have beene directed to have from a College so fu ll of impertinences, falsities, and vnworthy y might have had, if they the nce to ing to mee (save only in refere accusations. It was necessarie for mee to vindicate my credit, askt it, and it is noth litle for I gave that Htle that I had, too tho I have done it with more candor then such stuffdid deserve. a good wife to whom ct, and shee put it in trust It had beene better if the College had never sent such a busines , long beror this suit was commen hir you ge will take it againe where it is, abroad, and it is not so farr gone but that yet you may deter­ to hir kindred) if the Colle from me, that eyther you can mine it at home if you please to incline to any moderation. shall not wan t any assignment hard my part I have nothing but a Besides what is my defence, the College may please to take desire, or I can make. For no honor to the College to vndoe into consideracion that before my comeing to Northstoke my mayntenance, and it will be or to vse that rigour against mee, predecessors never gave more then J7N. per annum for the' him that is vndone already, yet any officer in the College, and serving of two churches here. The inhabitants hereat grieved which never was vsed against it has defects in some officers, and did move that they might have a Curat to each church, and there has beene some real should bee sued yet could never knowing my meanes to be short did petition the College for beene desired that theyr bond some allowance. whereupon the College granted 20N. per be obteyned. such as if I had not payd annum to the vicar. that soe there might be a Curat to each My engagement for Mr Hart was wanted it, and I have pro­ church. and each Cmat might receave 20N. per annum. But that money the College must have which is to me for I04-li. soone after this grant was retracted, which act of retracting is fered the College his bill obligation, Mr Seele your tenant and 20H. per annum out of. my way. N eyther should I have yeelcled You might make something of it. something. But you will vp that grant if I could have dreamt of such hard vs age as this, his kinsman did promise to give me am it is something to mee, neyther was there any motive for your recalling of it which say this is nothing to you, sure I the Seniors that then were might not fully have beene answered. You have a statute that and might have beene more if Master and Seniors in the if your reventions doe decay vpon any ne�essarie occasion you had continued, and that act of the rwise but as a speciall act of may deminish the number of your fellolVes. Some regard is to yeare 164-7 I could take it no othe losses. If these motives be had of poore Curats. You may with farr more honor retract God's providence to recrute my former eration, yet let me make one this busines in hand, or else reckon that grant as if it had will not incline you to any mod a coppie of the composi­ continued till this time, and then your present demands are in request, which is that I may obteyne College Seale, and I shall be a manner satisfied. It is strange that good and pious deeds tion for N orthstoke vnder the an if soe you be pleased to end should soe easily bee recalled, and iniuries stand soe firme, that Willing to pay therefor 2011'., of good and lawfull money in a man must be content with hard vsage, and not bee capable of differences. There was not zoN. that ; all the base and clypt money a favour. It may be remembered that 5 Bachelors in Divinitie all the 801i. that you sue for yeare being thrust vpon my office, and others, were past by to thrust Mr Hodges into Soulderne, the Senior Bursar took that owne a had no other pay then theyr legally presented hee was not. That living is better by 40lz". per nd the College could have Y VOL. XXI. 162 Notes from the College Records. Notesfrom. the College Records. 163

coyne, if they had askt it. Neyther can I say anything fmther, it with the State Officers. As for order of Master and Seniors, but if they that had my money will not yeeld mee some reliere, though there was none in that particular case, yet what was I am readie to yeeld to the law. There may be some comfort done, was by reason of the prizing of the chamber to Mr Hodges in a prison, there wilbee releife in a grave. My comfort is that at twelve pounds by a custome founded vpon an order made in I shall leave things here better than I found them. Whilst I\Ir Beecher's case. Who having a Liuing neere Oxford left I had money I bestowed above 30li. vpon the vicaridge house, his chamber before he resolued to leaue his fellowship (that he and that may bee vsefull to some of the College that may might as I suppose the better get the full Income of his succeed, and God send him better vsage then I have found. chamber) which some in the College cannot but know, for . These and other vexations will soone wearie out a weake he dyed in Mr Brinley's chamber with whom he desyred lodging ' man, and the stoutest must yeeld in time. Fm/res monemur, for a tyme, hauing left his own chamber. The case was this. and were I now dyeing I can tell you that I have done the 1fr Beecher compounded with the sequestrators for three pounds College no wrong, nor any man in it. God forgive them that for Mr Mason's Income, but when he left the chamber he have wronged mee, and so wishing you all happiness I rest demanded of Mr Sikes, who was to succeed him, according to the rate which he found in the Income book, which Mr June 26 your poore vicar and 1654 dayly Orator Sikes refused to pay, so it was brought before the Seniors to determin (and if my memory do not much deceiue it was in Sam: Peachie the Audit chamber). I was then present as Deputy Senior Addressed: To the right worshipfull the Master and Seniors and can depose vpon oath that then it was concluded by the of St John's College in Cambridge these present. :Major part of the Company, that the Officers in the priziog of chambers should not goe according to what had been payd to the Sequestrators but according to the College Income book, The following letter from J ames Creswick, Rector of and that if any one could agree with another for a chamber at Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, refers to the valuation a' lower rate then it was prized at, he should haue the advantage or prizing of the fixtures in his College rooms. He to himself. For, they sayd, that if any man could make a good was admitted Fellow 19 June 1644, Junior Dean bargain there was no reason but he should haue the gain to 25 January 1641', Junior Bursar 14 January I 64tr, and himself. This I doe remember very well, and the better,. again Junior Dean 15 January 164-¥-, Senior Dean because I myself being negatiue to what was then past did to 5 January 164*, holding office fo r a year. He was the vtmost of my weak abillity plead the vnfitnes (as to my own presented by the College to Freshwater 16 June 16.53, particular iudgment) that any man should gaine by a Colledge and was ej ected at the Restoration. chamber. Vpon this order the Colledge officers prized Mr Beecher's chamber to Mr Sikes at ten pounds, though Mr Beecher payd but three pounds. And the reason why it was Right worshipfull prized at no more then ten pounds, wher more was in the May it please jlOU to giue me le�l.Ue to trouble you with 'Income book, was because there was scarc anything in the what I haue to say for my self in reference to an order which chamber Incomeable which was worth anything. Dr Waydson (as I heard the last week) is made by yourself and the Seniors also compounded with the Sequestrators at a low rate for Mr concerning my Income. Viz. that I shall not haue the whole Readings chamber, but yet the prizers in their prizals of it Income till I make it appeare that I payd three pounds to Will. neuer regarded what had been payd .flut what was in the book. Witty either by order of the Master and Seniors or Mr Tyrwhit's Mr Allot agreed with the Sequestrators for Mr Tyrwhit's cham­ b desyre. As for the latter, I suppose there was no need to ask er for eight pounds, when he left the College his chamber was a Mr Tyrwhit's leaue to pay it, agreement hauing been made for ssigned to Mr Hodges, in whose behalf I agreed with ,Mr Al1qt I .L. ------...... ,,,.,..------_.-_._.---- � r+�

Notes from the College Records. 165 164 Notes from the College Records. after the Reformation, which for eight pounds which was the same summ which Mr Allot effect of such conditions repealed or replaced by others, payd, which sum I payd to him for Mr Hodges; but yet in the had not been specifically two memoranda which follow. prizing of it to Mr Hodges the custome grounded on the fo re� is illustrated by the unded early in College mentioned order was obserued and the chamber was prized to Constable's Fellowship was fo tenure were laid down in him at twelue pound though it was kn0lvn that I payd but eight history, and the rules fo r its Statutes of 15 16, this is pounds to Mr Allot for him. Afterwards hauing heard Will, a supplement to Bishop Fisher's Witty say that Mr Tyrwhit (from whom that chamber had been whether a candidate here printed. The arguments as to sequestered) owed him three pounds (and those that knew him or must not, be in for the Constable Fellowship must, will I belieue, say that he was a man to be belieued, beside he The water mark on the Priest's Orders are not dated. shewed me his book) I told Mr Hodges that he might in my is that of the last paper is G. R. and the handwriting iudgment doe a great deale better to giue Witty three pounds ury. The reference to a Fellow who vacated his out of the Income then take the aduantage to gain it to himself, cent because he was not in Priest's Orders seems as some others had don by their chambers, to which he yeelded, Fellowship case of Richard Wadeson, a Foundress and accurdingly I payd th ree pounds to Witty for him on that to point to the con's Orders, but neglected to account. And when the chamber was prized from Mr Hodges Fellow, who was in Dea years of his election. If to me, it was prized at eleuen pounds which summ I payd. take Priest's Orders within six I772• Vpon these considerations I am. confident you will not think it so the documents were written after fo nows equall or iust that I alone should be made a particular example. The deed establishing Constable's Scholarship with whom the Colledge should deale in extremity of rigour, these two. and should haue three pounds deducted out of my Income, the like whereto was neuer done to any one that euer was in any N obilis Vir Mar­ Pateat universis per praesentes, quod cum sequestered chamber, though some gained thereby. Nor am Eboracensi Nobis maducus Cunstable de Flamburgh Comitatu I conscious to my self of anything for which I should deserue Divi Johan nis Alano Piercy, Custodi seu Magistro Collegii such a Vale from the College, but however the Coli edge please in augmentum Evangelistae in Canta brigia, et Sociis ejusdem to deale with me it shall euer be in the prayers of, Sir certam centum Cultus Divini et Religionis Christianae summam justum et dignum Freshwater your vnworthy friend and Seruant Librarum pie et liberaliter largitus est. Nos iis spiritalibus, April 16: 1655. JA. CRESWICK existimantes tanto Muneri respondere suffrag in dicto nostro Collegio inviolabiliter obser­ Addressed: For the worshipfull Anthony Tuckny Dr in Statutum edidimus Libro Statutorum tenor cum rubrica sequitur Diuinity and Master of St John's College in Cambridge, these. vandum, cujus in et est talis videlicet :- De uno Socio Sacerdote funda/o per incli/um eques/ris ordl'1lZ's Virum Some readers of these Notes have expressed a wish Dominum Mannaducum Cuns/able de Flamburgh Comitatu Ebor that further examples of early Foundation deeds should acensi be printed. Such documents illustrate the manners of ari ordine insignis Equidem Vir conspicuus equestri seu milit time and explain the objects which Founders had in Eboracensi in Marmaducus Cunstable de Flamburgh Comitatu view. Accordingly some documents are et honorem printed relating Divini Cultus Christianaeque Religionis obsequium benefa ea in dicto Divi to the ctions of Sir Marmaduke Constable of devota mente et spiritu fideli anhelans ut et Elimosyna Flamborough. During his lifetime he founded a Fellow­ J ohannis Evangelistae Collegio sua Caritate beraliter centum ship in the College, the holder of which was to be a augeantur pecuniae summam et ipse contulit li tali beneficentiae Priest and to say masses for the Constable fa mily. The Librarum de bonis propriis: Hujus igitur I.� ---� •__ - -

the College Records. 167 166 Notes from the College Records. Notes from quam in ceteris quod tam in prima admissione vicern umanis aget, a reddere dignurn et just urn existirnantes, Ordinarnus et in h mittetur Sacerdos ille in Socium ad statuimllS quod praeter mernoratos Socios pro Fundatrice insti­ eO vivente vacationibus as sua nobis voluerit commen­ s quem industriosa probit tutos aut imposterum instituendos praeterque eos Socios, per Nobi criptam ejus Vocatio ad formam supras ; post mortem autem quorumcunque aJiorum beneficia ordinatos adjectos vel adji­ dari perpetuum Testimonium vero fidele et ciendos, no reducatur. In sit etiam deinceps et adjiciatur Unus alills Socius omni communi hoc praesens Script. Sigillo Sacerdos perpetuo fu turis temporibus ex bonis ipsius Collegii omnium praemissarum communiri. sustentatus ; qui paribus per omnia libertatibus et commodis Collegii fecimus potietur atque ceteri Socii per Executol es antedictos instituti, quia hoc jure praedicta mereter Jargitio. 1<:Jigetur autem dictus CASE OF CONSTABLE'S FELLOWSHIP. Socius Sacerdos quoties ejus vacatio contingit juxta tempus et Before Bishop ffisher had compiled his Statutes for St John'S fo rmam quae pro aliorum Sociorum electionibus in Statutis College, under which we sometime lived, the College had been providentur. Sic tamen quod juxta piam Marmaduci Mentem benefited by several Subfounders, particularly by Sir Marmaduke et Votum, quibus in doctrina fidei salutaris cupiebat subveniri Constable of Flamborough in Yorkshire. These several Founda­ interdum populo fideli suarum partium per accessum illuc Viri tions are thrown into the form of Statutes and as such make part quandoque eruditi in sacra Theologia hac occasione omnino of Bishop ffisher"s Constitution. et semper Socius et Sacerdos iste assumalur de Comitatu Constable's Foundation is pro uno Sodo Sacerdoto, who should Eboracensi Qui peculiarem in singulis ab eo Missis dicendis not diITer fr om the' other Fellows in emolument, rank or quali­ memoriam faciet pro anima dicti Marmaduci Constable, fications, saving that he should be a Yorkshire man born, and animabus Patris et l'vIatris ejus, Progenitortlm quoque et de be employed in offering a satisfactory Mass for the Soul of his suo sanguine succedentium in perpetuum. Protinus autem Founder, and Family of Constable. cum admissus fuerit Socius et Sacerdos iste tactis sacrosanctis The first question that will naturally arise is this, viz. It is Evangeliis simile praestabit Juramentum sicuti ceteri Socii ne·cessary that Constable's Fellow should be a Priest at the Fundatricis qui bus juxta Statuto rum exigentiam in omnibus time of his Admission ? Or rather should be a Priest in order se conformem exhibebit praeterquam in his duntaxat tribus : to obtain Admission? It is apprehended not, because the Primo, quod iste vocabitur Sacerdos Constable de Flamburgh; Priesthood is not a previous necessary qualification, required of Secundo, quod speciaJem in lVIissis Collectam pro dictis tbe candidate, like Learning and good Morals, without which superius animabus dicat; Et tertio, quod cum ad talem in he sllall not be chosen, but Constable's Fellow is to do certain sacris Litteris pervenerit Eruditionem, ut verbum Dei possit acts hereafter, which none but a Priest can perform, He is not rite populo seminare, tunc peculiarem faciet Commendationem to be Priest in order to be Fellow, but to be elected Fe llow in praecipue animae dicti Marmaduci ac etiam reliquarum prae­ order to perform the acts of a Priest afterwards. It is no where dictarum Animarum. Ad quorum quidem trium observationem required, that Constable's Candidate as well as Constable's jurabit idem Socius et Sacerdos in antedicta primi praestatione Fellow should be a Priest. Juramenti. Statuimus quoque et ordinamus ut tam Magister Again Constable's endowment for a Chantry Priest in a quam Socii dicti ColIegii ad hujus supradicti Socii et Sacerdotis House of Religion, is to be regulated by the Canon Law. And Statuti firmam et inviolabilem undique ex parte ipso rum per­ ir it shall from thence appear, that there was no necessity at petuam observantiam in sua Admissione in Specie, sicuti ad that time of day, and under that Dispensation, it will follow cetera Statuta in genere, jurejurando astringantur, et mediis frOI11 other considerations, to be mentioned hereafter, that there eorem Juramentis solemniter et.specifice promi ttant quod omnia is still a less obligation upon Us and at this time to prefe� et singula in eodem contenta ad unguem in quantum possunt a Priest. observabllnt. Nihilominus autem de prudentia et magna gravi­ Now it is plain that the want of Orders did not exclude even tate dicti Mannaduci confidentes promittimus ei, quamdiu ipse I i.J

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' from institution into a Cure of Souls, at the time that Constable But in the next place, the Reformation, which followed hard erected his Chantry in the College. The division of Orders in upon the appointment now in question, will give a new force to. the Canon Law Books stand thus : viz. In Sacerdotio, as Bishops this Consideration. The connection fo rmerly between Houses and Priests : in Sams ordimous as Deacons and Subdeacons ; and of Learning and Houses of Religion was very great, and in Minoribus otdillibus cot/sHluli, as the Acolyte, Exorcist and Chantries might be, and were, fo unded as well in, the one as Reader. I shall produce some Passages from the Canon Law the other. It is plain that Constable look'd upon his Fellow ill Books, which shall evince that actual Institution might be t bis light. He was a Chantry Priest in the new erected House, granted not only to the Deacon and Subdeacon, but even to to rank with Fellows of the Foundation, and therefore intitled those in the Lower Orders, who are not unlike our Yirgers and SOCI'US Saw'dos, But by the Act of Henry VIII, which abolished Choristers. Lancelot. Instit. Iuris Canon. 1. i, tit. 27. In all Chantries whatsoever, it is submitted, whether that part of rectorem parochialzs Ecclesiae, et nott ift sacn's conslziulus praesmlarz' Constable's Foundation, which respects the Chantry, is not pottst dummodo alias szi zdomus, et infr a tempus a jure consHtulum extinguished by the Statute Law of the land, and of con­ ad ordines, quos ip sziu Ecclesia cura requini, promoveri valeal. sequence the necessity of those qualifications which attended Which means that a Patron may Present a Layman. He goes it : that part which concerns the Fellowship still retaining its on to inform us, that Col lation (w hich includes Presentation of force and its qualifications to be regulated and ascertained by the Bishop and Institution too) requires some kind of Orders. those of the other Fellows. It may be a Subdeacon, or, by dispensation one of the lesser Chantries and Masses being therefore dissolved by PublicI. Orders. Collatio autem fieri non pofest, msi /'n persona ej us, qui Authority, and under the severest penalties, It is asked, Why sal/em Sl'l /'n subdiaconatz' c�nslilutus. Cum hzs famen qui {n are those qualifications so r.igorously insisted upon, when the minorz'bus sunt ordll11ouS consHtuH, si fales sint, qui infra breve exercise of them according to Constable's intention, is by the tempus possillt in Presbyteros ordillari, dzspensatipoterzi. Again in Law of the Land become so highly criminal as to be deemed a Constitution of Archbishop Stephen, in Lyndwood lib. 3. tit. fe lony without benefit of clergy ? For it is to be noted, that De CleriCls 1I0n nszdentzous, are these words. SIatul11lUSvi lIullus Constable's Fellow is not required to be a Priest at large, but Ep is coporum ad Vzi:ariam quol/quam, admz'ttat, msi velzi in Ecclesia a Priest upon a particular designation and for a particular in qua ei Vz'caria cOfuedilur, persot/aliter mimstrare, ac tabs ex/slal purpose ; which purpose a Priest of the Church of England qui infr a breve lempus valeat in Presbytuum ordinan'. And so in is no more capable of performing, than a Deacon of the same the Decretals of Boniface Lib. 1. tit. 6. Cap. 2. Rubric, No n Church or even a Layman. repelli praesenlatum, deficlu sacrorum ordinum. The words of the To give a preference therefore to a Priest, and to require the Constitution are, Si zs ad quem Reclons Praesentatzo in aliqua Order without a possibility of exerting the function, is rather parochz'alz' Ecclesla noscilur perHllere, quempiam 1I0n conslliutum in a weakness of judgment, than an obligation of Statute. The sacns praesenlel ad eam, ip sum (dmnmodo alias sit zdomas et it/Ira l\rerit, the Spirit and Virtue of that qualification is sufficiently tempus a jure Statutum ad Ordz'nes quos ip sius Ecclesiae cura requini, extinguished and it is but fa llacious to reason fro m the word valeat promoveri) decernimus adlldltendum. Sacerdos to Priest of the Church of England, and that fo r this Therefore if a want of the Higher Orders did not bar Institu­ reason, b ecause it would hold as strong for a Priest of any tion into a Cure of Souls, if the Sacerdotz'um be not a previous Church or Community in the world, Jewish or Mahometal�. requisite, and if a person in the Lower Orders is as much For it is clear that Constable in his intel�dment, did not intitled to Institution as an actual Priest, all which is express describe a Priest of the Church of England, and it is as clear, raw, it will hold still stronger in the admission of a Deacon that a Priest of .the Church of England cannot come up to into a Chantry Fellowship. For the Law regards not what he Constable's designation. actually is upon admission, but requires what he shall be as But fUlther, Queen Elizabeth when the Reformation was well soon after as he can conveniently. established gave the Col lege a new body of Statutes, by which VOL. 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we are now governed. Let it be observed that Constable ment between each Sub-Founder and the College being thrown required of every Master and Fellow of their respective admis_ into the fo rm of a Statute and made part of the Constitution. sions to be sworn to the inviolable observation of his endow_ Sir Marmaduke Constable of Flamburgh, Yorkshire, gave to ment, and accordingly in Bishop Fisher's Statutes it actually the Ma5ter and Fellows one hundred pounds as a valuable con­ does make a part of the Oath of the Master and of the Fellows, sideration for their founding a new Fellow, who should be but in Queen Elizabeth's Statutes, which now alone are in fo rce, a Priest and taken out of the County of York, and enjoy the that clause is expunged, and has not been heard of since. How like Privi leges and Emoluments with the Fellows of the Founda­ then comes this obligation to be required of the Master and tion. Fellows to the time of the Reformation and no longer ? Is it That the order of Priesthood is a qualification necessary fo r not plain from the date of these Statutes, from the circum­ oLtaining admission to the Constable Fellowship appears from stances of their being given, and from removing this obligation Sacerdos Leing perpelually joined wilh Socius in the title of the of Master and Fellows, that the Queen intended nothing should Statute and in the description of the sait.! Fel low. It is likewise bind the College which contradicted the new Establishment of said in his Foundation adj/da lllr UrllIS Socius Sacerdos ; and in Religion ? his election Eligelllr aulem die/us So cius Sa ardos. If it had been The Queen therefore abolished the superstition of Constable's said " There shall be one M.A.'s Fellow added to the Founda­ Foundation, but still kept up a. regard to a succession of Priests. tion "; or "The said M.A. Fellow shall be elected "; it is For she enacts, that all Fellows of this Society, indiscriminately apprehended that there would be little doubt but the degree of lX alt'qua Fu ndallone, should De Priests within six years from M.A. would be a qualification necessary in order to any one's ' their Regency, two only excepted for Physic. By this Provision being added to the Foundation, or to his being elected Fellow. therefore of a regular succession of Priests, one of the clauses Again, where the Statute comes to speak of the Admission of of Constable's Foundation, viz : ad aug tttdum Dei cullu1!l, was the Constable Fel low, it is said Protz'nus all/em cum admissus abundantly satisfied, the other which was a Perpetual Chantry fl ltrit Soct"us et Sa cerdos z's lt praeslabil jllramtnlttm- ; which fo r the souls of the Constables, being prudently neglected. It passage plainly declares that the Constable Fellow is both is however certain that by requiring all her Fellows to bePriests Sodlls and actual Sa cerdos at the very time of his admissiion. at a particular standing. she cannot be supposed to expect that Lastly, he is expressly said to be Sacerdos even before his some of them should be Priests in order to be Candidates. Admission-Sacerdos ille i/.1. So oz'zml admz'/elur a nobIS. Wh ich from what wt: have seen is more than Constable himself, Constable's Foundation is not wholly to be regulated by the when Chantries exi sted, seemed to expect or desire. Canon Law, nor is it so much an Endowment for a Chauntry The late Visitation of Christ's College is sufficient to declare Priest in a House of Religion, as fo r a sacerdotal Fellow in the present sense of Visitors. If the Judgment there given be a College. or incorporated Society. It appears indeed, that Law, where the Priesthood in general was required as a quali­ under the Dispensation of the Canon Law a want of Priest's fication, it will be easy to say what is Law in this Case, where Orders did not exclude from Institution to a Cure of Souls, at the obligation to be a Priest ceases, and is so contrary to the the time when Constable founded this sacerdotal Fellowship ; express tenor of several Acts of Parliament. but it does not appear, that the Canon Law either did or could dispense with the oblig ation of Constable's sacerdotal Fellow being in the order of Priesthood. On the contrary if sacerdotal O rders h ad been as necessary for Institution by the Canon Law CASE OF CONSTABLE'S FELLOWSHIP. of these times, as they were fo r Admission into Constable's The Body of Statutes which Bishop Fisher gave to St John's Fellowship by his own Endowment; then a Deacon would have College upon its first opening, was afterwards enlarged by the been equally incapable of either according to the Canon Law Bo accession of several . Sub-Foundations : the contract or agree- oks, which confessedly confine the Sacerdolttttlt to Bishops an d Prie3ts. 173 172 No tes .fr om the College Records. No tes jn}JJz the College Records.

qualification was obliged to quit his Fellowship. The abolition 6lf Chauntries by Henry 8th did not extinguish ddect oT such Election or by's Fellow must be Priest at the time of his the necessity of these qualifications which were originally relative Rookes Convoca­ in months ensuing at the fa rthest. Nay, the to the Institution of Chauntries. But Constable did not look with six Eliz. had so great regard to the Will of upon tion 1597 Ann. 39. his Fellow in the light of a mere chauntry P,iest, nor was ty, that in favour of those in either Universi 't be exercise of Chauntries and Masses the only thing in his College-Founders, obliged Statutes of their respective Colleges, were inte.n tion in fo unding his Sacerdotal Fellowship. For though who by the with Orders within a limited time, they dispensed he lays his Fellow under a particular obligation of offering to take Holy which made the age of 24 a necessary a satisfactory Mass fo r the soul of his Founder and the Family their OlVn Constitution, is an in a Candidate for Holy Orders. This of Constable ; yet he founded his Fellowship in div I1z i cultus qLlalification Foundations regulating Canon Law not of ChnsNa1lCuqttt Rdigio nzs obsequlum et honorelll-u/ ea ift dzCto Divi in3tance of College by it. Jo harmts Evange/zslae Collegio sua cad/ale el elt'mosuna attgeanlur; being regulated of dispensing with the age of the Candidate which was the main inducement to the College to add to the But if the Power away by the Legislature of the Realm, the Foundation a sacerdotal Fellow, and is expressly declared a full fo r Orders is taken College dispense with the sacerdotal qualifica­ equivalent fo r communicating the privileges of the Foundation. Visitors of any ly date for a Fellowship ; Visitors being general Now the Act of Henry 8th which abolished all Chantries tion in a Candi of the Will of the Founder by his own extinguished the Fellow's private obligation to his Founder of the authorized declarers to that their judgement may be law with regard offering a satisfactory Mass ; but did not the least affect either appointment, But it is apprehended, that as it may be the Necessity or the Exercise of the Sacerdotal qualification at particular College. for Christ's College to exclude a Candidate large, which appears to have been primary in the intention of now unlawful in Qualification ; so it may be no less so the two contracting parties, the Founder and the College. defect of the Sacerdotal him in the case before us into Constable's Hence it is plain, that Constable in his intendment did in Our's to admit a proper authority. The Convocation did describe a Christian Priest ; and he confessedly described a Fellowship without o it dispense with the sacerdotal qualifica­ Priest of the Church of England, since Queen Elizabeth, when n t, nor indeed could at present, as it seems, be dispensed with any she abolished the Superstition of Constable's Foundation, still tion; nor can it the Will of the Founder statutably declared kept up her regard to a Succession of Priests, i. e. of the Church other way, than by by the Law of the Land. of England. The Queen's Statutes, now in force, did not by his Visitor, or over-ruled retain tITe antient clause requiring every Master and Fellow at their respective admissions to be sworn to the intire and iuviol­ made the iiij day of Julie able observation of the Constable Endowment, because some This Indenture tripertite indented Kyng Henry the eght betwen particulars of that Endowment were superstitious ; and the in the xvj yere of the reigne of of the Colledge of saynt J ohannis Queen intended no Statute should bind the College as far as it Nicholas Metcalff clerk master the fe llowes and the Scolers of contradicted the new Establishment. But that she intended to thaungeliste in Cambridge and partie and John Constable clerk inforce, not to abolish, the Sacerdotal Qualification of Con­ the same place of the oon of lincoln Marmaduke Constable stable's Fellow may be collected from her requiring that All the Dean of the Cathedrall church Wi knyghtes and John Constable Fellows, excepting two, should be Priests within six years of lliam Constable of Hatfelde and last will of Marmaduke their Regency. This new Cdnstitution was never understood to esquier executoures of the testament C of the other partie Witnesseth vacate the obligation of any particular Fel low to take Holy onstable knyght late deceasyd it aggreid betwene the said parties Orders according to the Will of his Founder within a more is couenaunted graunted and in say that the said master fellowes l,imited Time. Bayley's Fellow must be a Priest at the age forme fo lowinge That is to and ledge haith and by thies presentes of 24 or within one year after; and an instance has happened scolers of the said Col ful ly to the said John Constable deane in tIle memory of l�l aIly present Members, where the party fo r couenaunt and graunte , - �

No tes from the College Records. 1 7 5 lH No les from the College Records. disciples that the saide iiij scolers and the same place And Marmaduke Constable William Constable and John Constable of ColI edge and admitted unto the said albe receuyd and takyn that there shall be fo wnded and kept fo. r the welth of the sowll sh That is as hereafter shalbe expressed such tyme and tymes of the said l\Iarmaduke late deceased iiij scolers in the saide at shalbe naymed and the said iiij scolers and disciples coliedge for euer to continew as it war of the fllndacion of the to say and shalbe receuyd takyn a ted by the saide executours saide Marmaduke deceasyd in such manner and forme as her­ ppoyn within oon month next admitted vnto the ,said Colledge after shalbe declared ouer and aboue other scolers fownded or and ensewyng the date of these er the feaste of all sayntes next herafter to be fo wnded in the saide Colledge by the fo wndresse aft said feIlowes and scolers of the ntes by the saide Master the saide coIledge or any other person The saide iiij scolers prese as of and disciples there to continew ledge The said iiij scolers and disciples and euery of theme to haue yerely fo r euer mete CoJ with in said Marmaduke late deceasid the fundacion of the and drinke of the said CoIledge such as other scolers of the of or may as longe as they will there continew the said Colledge saide coiledge after their degree now haith with other com­ the said of the vniuersitie and of ontinew by the Statutes modities and profittes in the said CoIl edge vsed or hereafter to c d it and aggreed betwix the sai edge Also it is condescend be vsed or had by ony other scoler of the saide Coli edge of the coli fe llowes and scolers and their es that the said Master fo wndresse fo undacion of the saide Colledge and the said iiij parti cion and election after that ours shall hane the nomina scolers and disciples and euery of them for euer to haue also Sl1ccess late disciples of the said Marmaduke the said scolers aud their chambers yerely and continually within the same CoIledge tymes as that shall succeede at such cleceasid or any of them there redinge launder and barbor and to be dischargied of cokes voide by of them shall fortune to be the rowme or place of any and butlers wagies and all other charges annually belongynge fo rme and admitted in manner and any manner to be receuyd to the said colledge at the costes and charges of the saide fo r euer expressed and so successively as is affo re declared and Master fellowes and scolers of the said College and their suc­ and and scolers graunte for them And the saide Master fe llowes cessours for euer And if hereafter the said scolers of the succes­ presentes that they and their their successours by these fundacion of the said fo wndresse of the saide College haue d scolers the full nombre of the sai sours shall haue perpetually more or larger profettes or advauntage in tyme to come then other h next after the decease or and disciples within oon mont the said scolers of the fo wndresse now haue within the said and of the said iiij scholars departure or discharge of any College The said maister fellowes and scolers graunteth that and the place of euery such disciples to supplie the rome then the said iiij scolers and disciples of the said Marmaduke decease departe or be discharged scol er and disciple as so shall late dece.,asyed to haue like profett to as large advauntage and feast of allhallowes then Or els within oon month next after the other liberties and commodities like as the .same fo wndresse fe llowes and scolers graunte next ensewing Also the said Master scolers now haue or hereafter shall haue And also the saide that they shall at all tymes and COllenaunte by these presentes iiij scolers and disciples so by the saide executours of the said required seal! any composi­ hereafter when they shalbe thereto Marmaduke late deceasyd to be accept into the saide CoIledge seall that shalbe. cion or writing indented with their common shalbe of the name and kynryd of the said Marmaduke if ony and ordering of the saide acluyscd for the sewre continuance such be able in, the vniuersitie of Cambridge And if none such the which premisses well and iiij scolers and disciples fo r can be fownd able that then the said Master fe Ilowes and scolers Master fe llowes and scolers tre",l), to be performed by the said and their successours shall electe and chose theme and euery Marmaduke Constable William the said John Constable deane the oon of theme of such scolers as war borne or herafter le graunteth couenaunteth bargan Constable and John Constab shalbe borne within the cowntie of Yorke and the diocesse the said Master fe llowes and and sell by these presentes vnto of the same And for defa ut of such other or ony of them the the Manor of MiIlington with scolel s and their Sllccessours said Master fe lJowes and scolers shall electe and chose theme of York whereof the said thappurtenau nces in the cowntie of the most able and apte after their discretion within the of Lincoln and Sir Robert J Ohn Constable clerke and deane said vniuersitie of Cambredge after the fo rme of the Statutes Reco1'ds. 17 176 No tes fr om th e College Records. 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shalbe deuysed at the costes and ch arges Tyrwhit knyght be now seased and haue the gift and fe offm e ll owes' and scolers nt fe and thereof indifferently of the saide Master fel!owes of Syr Robert Constable knyght to thuse and intent that the i n the law susteyned at nd of the said executours to be borne and said executours and fe offees shall and may sell the same manor scolers a and swlers euery tyme as thei by the saide Master fellows after their discretions to the trew performance of the last will of all and the feast of successours shalbe thereunto required affore the said Syr Marmaduke Constable late deceased concerning or their executours next ensewinge And forther the said the fy ndynge of the said iiij scolers and disciples to haue and pentecoste pay vnto and graunteth by thees presentes to to hold the said manor of Millington with thappurtenaunces to couenaunteth lawfull fellowes and scolers fourty powndes of the said Master fellowes and scoLers to them and their Succes­ the said Master parceIl of the said xij score powndes at sours for euer to there own proper vse which maner of Millington )Uoney of yngelonde Master the ensealynge hereof whereof the said with thappurtenances the said execlltours couenallntith to be the day of paid and scolers knowledge them selffs to be of the ye rely valew of eght powndes iijs. iiijd. ob. q. aboue all feIlowes and dischargied the said executours thereof to be charges in fuJ I recompens and satisfaction of eght score powndes satisfied and euer by tbies preselltes And forther the said of money parcell of xij score powndes which the said Maste and acquite for r vnto p.nd couenaunteth by thies presentes fell owes and scolers shuld haue of the bequest of the said executours graunteth scolers tbei shall delyuer vnto the Marmaduke And further the said executours couenauntit the said Master fellowes and h and of of thies Indentures oon obIigacion grauntith that the said fe offees and all other persons enfeoffe d said Master at sealinge stable, powndes wherein Sir Robert Con in the said manor shall from hensforth stonde and be seased dew dett of fo urty to bownde Ellarcar of ElIarcar gentleman stondes the vse of the said Masters fellows and scolers and their succes­ knygbt and John to be paid at the fe ast of Saynt Martyn sours for euer to thuse and thentente aforesaid clereIie d Is­ to the saide executours the said date hereof to haue and enjoy charged of all farther bargans and sales Statutes next ensewyng the and executions to their said Master fe llowes and scolers and other encombraunces had or maide by the said executours obl igacion to the score powndes in full satisfaccion of the said xij or any of them And farther the saide executours by these proper vse said Master sommes of xij score powndes the presentes bargaineth and seIIeth vnto the said Master fe llowes of the which be paid and scolers knowledge them selffs to and scolers and their successours all manner escriptes charturs fcllowes and scharged for said executours thereof to be di and munimentes and all other euidences concernynge the said satisfied and the saide executours graunte eucr by thies presentes And forther the manor with thappurtenaunces or any parceIl thereof to hane indifferent by thies presentes that thei at the and retene the said euidences to the said Master fe ll owes and and couenaunte and of the said charges and costes of the said excecutours scolers and their success ours for euer And shall deIyuer the said of sewtes: and scolers shall suffer all manner euidences all such as be in their handes or hereafter shall come l\Iaster fellowes the said oblyga­ acti demaundes for the said dewtie or to their handes to' the Master fe llowes and scoIIers affore the ons and in their names without cion presented sewid and recouered feast of the natiuite of our lorde next ensewing the date of th,ies to be by them or any of any rel or other discharge to be maide presentes Also the' said execlltollrs couenaunteth by thies pre­ ease of fourty powndes in them for the discharge of the said dett sentes that thei and euery of them when thei shalbe thereto scolers so to the said Master felIowes and or the said obligacion resonably required by t·h e said Master fe llowes and scalers of the said fourty delyuered as is afforesaid for the payment their successoures for the further assurance of the same shall parte of thies Inden­ powndes In Witnesse whereof to the oon make or cause to be maide a sewre sufficientand lawfull estate felloll'es and scolers the tures remanyng with the said Master of and in the sajd maner with thappurtenaunces to the said to the other Sai their seueral! seClles and ere d executours have put Maister fellowes and scolers or to such other persons to th said exec'utours parte of indentures remaynynge with the nte by thies vse as the saide Master fellows and scolers shall apo)' have put their common the said Master fellowes and scolers fy ne feoffament recouery or release with warraunte and other entures remaynynge Scale And to the third parte of thies ind wisse as by the lernyd cownseIl in the law of the saide Master AA VOL. XXI. 178 Sonnet. with the Prior and Couent of Watton in the cowntie of Yorke for a perpetual! memory as sewrtie of the premisses as wel lthe said Master fe llows and scolers haith put their comon seal as the said executours their seuerall sealles yewen the day and yere aboue written. (Signed) Per nos JOHN CONSTABLE, MARMADUC CONSTABLE, W1LL1AM CONSTABLE, JOHN CONSTABLE. Aijpov A'l/pE'ie;. Endorsed : Mr Constable Indenture ; and in a later hand- 4- Schol!ers. young lady of Riga., R. F. S. THERE was a Who wen t fo r a ride on a tiger ; ride (To be c01Iti'lued) . They returned from the With the lady inside, And a smile on the face of the tiger.

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of Quebec, As when some lily-maid with simple grace, There was a small boy . neck . Seeking in garden fair her chaste delight, Who was buried in snow to the re you friz ?" Places a rose within her curls' embrace When they said, "A is, And brings an added beauty to our sight : He replied, "Yes, I H But we don't call this cold at Quebec." So Thou, when labour craves a brief repose, RUDYARD KIPLING.- Or sorrow dims thine eye with passing tear, Seek the abode of lily and of rose �U'TIJ KOpOe; TLt;, we; E1TEtKaCTal ,,/' EJ1.� And find new strength and consolation here ; KE{3ElwLoe;. ;'v �E Vlrpo{3oAoe; Ta J1.EV Karw, Kapa �E J1.0vvov 1TpOCT{3AE1f'WV aVl'/POJ1.l'/V, €CTW, In this fa ir Paradise of chastened song "KPVCTTaAA01f'IJKTOV aIJ1.a TWV rpAE{3WV " IJ. ; Whose passion-flowersyet shew their radiant hUA, OO'" KEtV� EJ1.0ryE,,/ vLrpaCTLV EJ1.{3 E {3"1\11J1.EVO " "1f'we; �' Ov," 1f'POCTEL1f'EV, W �EV' ; aAA' 8J1.we; KPVOIJt;: Mindful of Singer and lo\'e's labour long / " � ' , " rOCTOIJ. Rend'ring thy praise to whom all praise is due, OV n..�,pOVTLe; ECTTL TOLe; 'YE K{3E EKaWle; Choose here and there a blossom which shall bring To Thy sweet soul an added grace of Spring. the , a pr vat Magazine edited by * Contributed the newspapers say, to i e Canada. H. L. P. daughter of Lord Aberdeen, when he was Governor G(ffieral of A Questz6n of Chronology. 181 ' called upon to slay the dragon instead of him : the Union Jack waved majestically in the breeze, but in the - next line it became the snowy handerchief of the young lady whom Mr. Atkins was leaving behind him, and snowy Union Jacks were not calculated to suit the public taste : regiments of gallant hussars fo und them­ A QUESTION OF CHRONOLOGY. selves ploughing the briny main, while the iron walls of old England went galloping with clamorous hoofs HE Ed itor of the Daz'ly Cataclysm was in a across the sunny veldt. In fact the idea of a composite state of mental and physical collapse. Never, regiment of selected verse proved impracticable ; but in the whole length of his unr ivalled experi­ the Editor was unwilling to consign so much sterling ence, had the direction of that world-famous emotion to the waste paper basket. He engaged three journal called fo r such intense thought and such supernumerary office-boys, and set them to measure incessant labour, as during the last three months ; and every line that was by its author confidently expected never had such skill, wisdom, ingenuity, and enterprise to ad'Orn the columns of the Daz'ly Cataclysm : a large been expended upon the management of any business map of the world was exhibited in the office window, whatsoever. The trouble began early in October with and a smaller copy was printed in every issue of the the flowing tide of patriotic verse,-such, at least, was paper ; on these the united leng th of the lines, placed the name by which the patriotic versifiers described it ; end to end, was daily recorded, and a daily prize was and the Edito r, being an abnormally conscientious offered fo r the nearest estimate of the parallel of longi­ person, had felt hi mself in duty bound to analyse the tude to which the chain of poesy would reach in the bulk of the output, only to discover that the pro­ course of the next twenty foul' hours. portion of poetry to patriotism was considerably more For a little while all went well, except that the beggarly than the proportion of bread to sack, as Editor got into temporary difficulties with the City comm only adjusted by the immortal Falstaff; or as police, because Fleet Street was completely blocked by the City Editor described it (the City Editor would the crowds that gathered to watch the great red line introduce "s hop " into everthing), the crushing value creep remorselessly eastward over the face of the map; of the ore was 2'03 1 grains to the ton. and every day it became necessary to engage six more However, the City Editor was not far wrong. On a office boys, and to buy six more graduated rulers. The fa ir average, only three sixteenths of a line in every first day's operations brought the head of the column copy of fo urteen quarto pages were worthy of publi­ (the Editor was martial in his metaphors) to Warsaw ; cation ; and though in his desire to please his patrons, the second extended it to Orenburg, the third to and encourage poetic culture, the Editor endeavoured to Irkutsk, the fourth to the mid Pacific, the fifth to N ew­ extract and fu se together the particles of gold contained fo undland ; and then the Editor was obliged to remove in the whole accumulation of rubbish, the compound the map and withdraw the offer of a daily prize, owing was somewhat incoherent, and the fragments did not to a raid of the unprinted poets, which led to the readily coalesce. St George was always in a faulty discovery that the unprincipled office-boys had grown line, and som ehow or other Britannia was always tired of measurement : for the last hll O days they had 182 A Queskon ofChronol ogy. A Ques#o1Z of Chronology. 183 and stability of mind been computing the results by guess-work, working order, the Editor's peace fo rm of attack. spending the time so saved in playing noughts were subjected to a still more insiduous elf " Old Fool " (and crosses at a halfpenny a game. A correspondent, who signed hims arked), wrote to After a lull, which unhappily lasted for no more than he was, as the sub-editor pithily rem might be expected a week, the amateur strategists mobilized their wisdom, enquire when the twentieth century itor was only too un limbered their pens, and opened a terrific bombard­ to begin ; and the guileless Ed of devoting his ment of the Dat"1y Cataclysm office. At first the Editor rapturously delighted at the prospect no particular con­ attempted to read every one of these effusions, but he attention to a subject which had a witty and soon repented of his temerity, and would more willingly nection with Africa. He at once composed he gently rebuked have attempted to read a live Lyddite shell : to print playful leading article, in which in so desperate a them all was beyond the resources of machinery ; and those too eager enthusiasts who were which had given accordingly one letter was chosen at random from every hurry to be rid ot the dying century, a light heart, fifty, and passed on to the compositors without perusal, them birth. Then he went to bed with for though even this restricted proportion made it necessary and slept the first sound sleep that he had enjoyed the last sleep of any to add an extra sheet to the daily issue, and the pro­ many weeks. Poor man ! It was day. prietors began to grumble at the length of the paper kind that was to visit him fo r many a weary brought hill. However, one-fiftieth of the amateur strategists Early in the following afternoon the postman Editor, who achieved supreme happiness, and every number of the an extra sack of letters to the office, and the all-laughed Daz'ly Cataclysm contained a perfect carnival of elaborate was interested in the subject, read them tore his hair movements, which ought to have been made, and over the first fifty, sighed over the second, Postmaster ingenious evolutions which ought to have been per­ over the third, and threatened the life of the fo rmed. Never since the days of Agamemnon or General as he read the rest. Every correspondent in his Amen-em-hat was there such a war as this might have controverted the views which he had expressed his poi.nt been, if only the right men had occupied the right leading article, and every one of them proved arguments. places. Everything was a series of Knight's moves, by different, and indeed totally inconsistent and everybody was always popping round the corner Nor was that the worst ; a dozen indignant chronologers leader, and with a sublime disregard fo r the fa ce of nature : cavalry fell upon the style and tone of the offending to charged gallantly, at the rate of five hundred miles a with intense seriousness tore the whole composition atized as day, up the beetling fronts of precipitous mountains, tatters ; the playful sallies of wit were anathem scornfully and artillery fired clean through the most monstrous brutal flippancy ; the gentle rebukes were assump­ masses of the eternal hills ; food and ammunition per­ condemned as an arrogant and unwarrantable favourite fo rmed miraculous journeys-apparently by wireless tion of so-caned superiority (so-called is a generally telegraphy ; battle-ships steamed up the Tugela; first­ adjective with the controversialist, and is one class cruisers disported themselves on the Modder understood to convey an irrefutable imputation of less than River ; and the whole course of every campaign went of the blackest shades of infamy) ; and no together) as smoothly and as swiftly as a patriotic spectacle at seven correspondents (for great minds jump a little Earl's Court or Olympia. independently reminded the poor man that of them But just as the system had been brought into fu ll knowledge is a dangerous thi.ng, while five 1

184 A Questio n ofChronol ogy . A Questt'on 0/ Chronology. 18,) went so far as to suggest that he must certainly have happened when a newly made bride inscribed her name been drinking deep, but not of the fountain which the and age in the register ; this provoked the obvious poet mentions-an accusation which, during the course retort that ladies are seldom trustworthy judges of their of the next fo rtnight, caused the unfortunate Editor to own ages, and that any argument founded upon such be overwhelmed by the fe rvent but inordinately prolix. statements might land the world in the ninth instead of appeals of sixty-seven temperance lecturers, and of the nineteenth century. f01·ty-two earnest Protestants, who were ashamed to Others performed conj uring ,tricks with clocks and think that our great, free, aJ1d enlightened Press should watches, but even an appeal to Big Ben failed to bring be defiled by a quotation from Pope. about a reconciliation of divergent views. Some raised The Editor inserted all these effusions in the next the phantom of the Year Nought in all its naked and day's issue, and the result was a still fiercer torrent of hideous simplicity, and others exorcised the spectre by correspondence, which reached the office in two mail elaborate references to the Consular Fasti, the Jewish carts and a hand-barrow. From that time fo rward, and Mahommedan calendars, and the French Revolu­ until the date of the events presently to be related, the tionary era. Some were inflamed with so ardent a storm raged with unabated violence between the parti­ desire to taste the delights of the twentieth century, that sans of the old and new centuries, while a few eccentric they raised pathetic appeals for permission to enter it free-lances amused themselves by controverting the by the early door, so to speak, lest the influenza should ideas of either side in turn. Some drew the right make an end of them befo re the ordinary entrance was conclusion from false premises, some laid down true thrown open ; but the desire produced a counter appeal premises and drew a false conclusion ; some drew from Paterfamilias Expectant, who indignantly refused conclusions without troubling themselves to state their to allow his future offspring to be robbed of the privilege premises, and some stated their premises with such of living in two centuries during the first year of his wealth of elaborate detail that they fo rgot to draw any life. This in turn provoked a retort from Centenarian, conclusion at all. Hundreds of illustrations were pressed who had first seen the light in the year 1799, and had into the service, and every illustration was made to set his heart upon living in three centuries ; there was prove opposite propositions with equal facility and no proper reverence for age, he complained, in these conclusiveness. Some laid out imaginary bicycle tracks iconoclastic times, when the simple desires of the vener­ a hundred miles long, with mile-posts numbered one to able were expected to give way to the precocious a hundred ; but'after a wearisome discussion Verax won ambition of infants yet unborn. However, the poor by one mile, or year, from Mathematicus, the fo rmer old man was utterly extinguished by Milesius, who proving to his

I:9 t 190 A Questtcm of Chronology. A Question 0/ Ch?'oltology, Wells ; so that round it-red and blue alternately. "The Ram, the But my name isn't John Wellington Bull, the Heavenly Twins, the Virgin. and the Scales," won't do. he chanted, making weird scrawls, which were intended Chirocineta, adincantida, to represent the signs of the Zodiac ; but at that point Archimedon, marmaritin, calicia ! his memory fa iled him. No, evidently wrong ! Oh, what a fo ol I am ! Of course "That's only five,"he muttered, pensively scratchin g it must be something connected with chronology. Let his head with the blue end of the pencil, ., and I'm sure me think ! Ah ! Here goes ! there ought to be twelve. Scale, scales I Dickory, dickory dock ! have it ! Do, re, mi, sol, fa ! That's five more ; five and The mouse ran up the clock ! fivema ke nine. Fa, fa --yes ! Fee, fi,fo , fum! Four The clock struck one-- more ; nine and fo ur make twelve. Right !" nd us! Who's this ?" The magic lamps and the mystio cauldron (the lady Angels and ministers of grace defe of distant in the picture had one, and therefore he must have the There was a faint musical sound, as though a purple robe same) puzzled him, till his eye lighted upon the brandy trumpets, and a maJestic figure, wearing just outside the decanter, which stood on a side table. and a wreath of gilded laurel, appeared "Spirit of Christmas," he exclaimed, "you're the magic circle. -- mean, why didn't very thing ! Lend me thy lambent and cerulean flame, "Oh villain, villain, smiling I gasped the Editor. o ethereal Accompaniment of Plum Pudding ! " you knock before you came in ?" Two ash-trays, an ink-pot lid, an old tobacco tin, "Pray, who may you be ?" a con- and two saucers from the office tea-set served to hold "Look upon Caesar as he still appeared, the spirit, and strips of the office duster formed the queror ! " said the apparition solemnly. ; "thought I knew wicks ; before long five lamps were burning with a " Glad to see you," said the Editor course. Now if you weird mysterious light at the fi ve points of the pentacle ; your face ; saw you at the theatre of I wish to and the coal-scuttle, emptied of its contents, was set in will kindly answer a few simple questions, estion of chrono- the centre of the circle, with the remains of the duster ascertain your opinion on a vexed qu and some more of the brandy flickering in its dusty logy." replied. " I recesses. This was the magic cauldron. "Beware the Ides of March !" Caesar or rather, hence this "Now I wonder what is the proper incantation to didn't j hinc illae lacrimae, begin with," said the Editor. "Perhaps I had better ghostliness." me,'.' the Editor try several, till one of them produces some effect. Now "First, would you please inform must get the then ! continued, "--but wait a moment ! I happen to see Ye elves of hills, brooks, slanding lakes, and groves, full company together. You didn't Little as you came And ye that on the sands with printless foot-- Gregory XIII or Dionysius the No, printless foot won't do in a newspaper office ; I along, did you ? >- of their acquaintance," Caesar must try another. "I haven't the honour spheres. No doubt My name is John Wellington Wells, replied ; "we-er-move in different happen to be a I'm a dealer in magic and spells, they'll be here presently. You see, I to in can- In blessings and-- heathen, and am therefore more susceptible /'"

A Questt'on 0/ Chronology. 1 93 192 A Questzon 0/ Chronology, tized, presumptuous pagan !" tations. If I were you, " You be anathema I should give them another spel l that I was d Gregory. "Did not our friend tell you or two ; I hate being kept waiting. Veni, vidi, and I crie please, or I'll make you move." want to get back again." a pope / Move, if you " Pardon me," Caesar responded : "Ducite ab urbe domum, mea carmina, ducite Daphnin ! " exclaimed the Editor ; "turn, magic wheel, "I do know but one and draw my hero home." That unassailable holds on his rank, There was a burst of sleepy music, and a fat little tlnshaked of motion : and that I am hel abbot became visible beside the ghost of Ca�sar. The Let me a little show it even in this." reverend spectre appeared somewhat :flustered by the to the word, he sat dowrt. journey, and extremely disconcerted by finding himself And suiting the action it most abominable impudence," said Gregory: in such company. "1 call life." .e was never so wronged in my "It's too bad;' he gasped, " to hurry an old man-an I doth never wrong, but with just cause," his abbot too ! Just wait till his " Caesar Holiness arrives ; he's the wrong reading. rival retorted. " Stay ! That's bringing his bell, book, and candle with him." so you needn't be insulted : if you're a pope, "Yes, indeed he is," cried an angry voice-and However, with mas North's Plutarch from am 1. Reach me Sir Tho the first word Gregory himself, vested in pontificalibus, was made shelf yonder, and I will show you that I made his appearance. "Exorcizo, anathematizo, om,. the u ' Chief Bishoppe of Rome." nib s diabolis trado--come out of that circle, you opened his Gregory gave Dionysius his bell to ring, pestilent heretic, and I'll I'll deliver you over one of the magic book, and tried to light his candle at to the secular arm." impatient. lamps. However, the Editor was growing " Pardon me," interposed the Editor : "I only want us get to "Come, gentlemen," he remarked, "let to ask your opinion as a recognised ex.pert as to when fo r no man,-or business : time and the Linotype wait the next century begins." any of you has ghost either. Now, may I ask whether "Next century !" roared Gregory. c. Come out of ever heard of a Year Nought /" that circle, and rH knock you into the middle of it ! " ive me some' alking's dry work," said Caesar :· "g "Pray, calm your excited fe elings," said the Editor "T drink, Titinius." suavely, "and let me introduce you. Pope Gregory after all," said "This pagan is not utterly reprobate XIII, Caius J ulius Caesar : Caius J ulius Caesar, Pope Gregory pensively. Gregory XIII. I think you know Dionysius the Little out of the' The Editor pushed the brandy decanter already. Oh, pardon me!" tumblers. In circle, and told them where to find the He proceeded to introduce Dionysius- to Caesar, and had become less than a minute the three apparitions Caesar to Dionysius, and then asked his visitors to de> questions of pre'­ considerably more genial, and all him the favour of being seated. Gregory made a dash cedence were forgotten. for the principal arm-chair, but the strategic genius ot as he filled his " It's a thorny subject,'" said Caesar, Cq,esar intercepted him. he disposed of the liquid, glass for the third time,-how "Excuse me," Caesar blandly remarked ; "but my of it ;-" but the Editor failed to see, but he did dispose greater age and s.uperior eminence entitle me to this e. Those rascally it's nothing to what it was in my tim chair." 00 VOL. XXI. f"\

A Queste'on 0.1 Chronolog y. 1 95 1 94 A Ques/Z"(J1Z 0.1 Ch1'onology . ed Dionysius ; "then divide by priests (don't be offended, friend Gregory ; I was o « Double it," murmur ne' by six multiply by six,-no ! I mean, divide, myself) had such an inconvenient habit of putting i three and n and "- and multiply by three, extra months at short notice. I've often accepted an Caesar. Bother the twentieth century :" cried invitation to stay with a friend on the first of April, and " the year when I reformed the then, when my best Everything :dates from toga was packed, and the chariot began more endar : therefore the twentieth century waiting at the door, the news would come that the first cal ago." of April was postponed for another thirty days or so." than fo rty years Gregory. "Why, " You reform the calendar !" said " Ah I" said. the Editor : "so they used to make I had to made such a bungle of the business that April fo ols even in those days ! I must make a note of you work over again." that, and provoke a correspondence about it during the do all the retorted, "at any rate you 'couldn't next silly season." "Well," Caesar o one year. Besides, beat my record : I got 445 days int "Things had got sadly mixed, when I took them a in ing because you were you only meddled with the th hand," Caesar continued. "'Twas on a summer's the ic old curmudgeon : you wanted to spite evening, in my tent, that day I overcame the Nervii, misogynist mber of leap years. ladies by cutting down the nu that the idea first came into my head : you see, it was year, I the poor dears to do in this coming only nominally a summer's evening ; th e calendar was What are quite out of joint and really it ought to have been wonder ? " to migrate to Russia," suggested winter-that was why I was wearing a mantle." "They'll have suppose it will be a leap year there." "But with regard to the Year Nought," the Editor Dionysius, "I me," said the Editor ; "I'm afraid we interrupted. "But pardon to a solution of the problem." "The are getting no nearer Year Nought ?" said Dionysius thoughtfully. " Can't you see " Bother the problem ! " said Caesar, " The Year Nought is the Year nz'l; the Year nz'lis the Gregory about that I want to have a chat with friend Year nothing : that settles the question completely." I it a good deal later than I, and "Well, if that be so," said the Editor, "the twentieth Rome ? He saw there has been some alteration in the century begins"- understand that "The twentieth century," said Gregory with oracular place since my time." go to press at three," said the Editor plain- precision and solemnity, "begins immediately after the " But we . tively. nineteenth century ends; and the nineteenth century impatiently ; " Oh, send fo r Sosigenes," cried Caesar ends "- than I do." "he knows all the figures, which is more "Yes, yes t" cried the Editor eagerly. Editor. his telephone number ?" sighed the "Immediately before the twentieth century begi ns," "What's proper form of incantation to fetch sain Gregory triumphantly. "I mean, what's the him?" "But give me a date," said the Editor. "When Gregory testily. "Now please don't bother us," said does the one end and the other begin ?" about ' " We are having a most interesting conversation "Now you're trying to perpetrate an argumentum in my little man, certain historical obscurities. Dionysius, circulo," said Gregory solemnly. "However, I'll give while you're just slip out and fetch Sosigenes ; and you a date,-A.D. 1 582, the year when I reformed the ab ght as well bring all the experts you calendar: that's the only date I remember." out it, you mi '"

196 A Qzmtzon ofChron ology. A QztesHon of Cltro1Zolog·y . 197 can find ; then, perhaps, our worthy friend will be Such is the Editor's account of the matter, and he is satisfied. Now, my dear Caesar, where were w e 1 Did ready to make a statutory declaration that every detail you say she came in a roll of carpet - 1" is true ; but the sub-editor (unimaginative beast !) is still Dionysius sighed wearily, but durst not disobey a sceptical. He declares that the Editor drank too much pope. In a fe w minutes he returned with a phalanx of brandy, fell asleep in his chair, and dreamt the whole spectral chronologers-Manetho and Berosus, Eratos_ thing; or else it must be the delu!:iion of a disordered thenes, Apollodorus, Sosigenes, Hellenicus, Ephorus, brain. As to the brandy, the Editor can co nfidently Timaeus, Julius Africanus, PC1-QoQorus, Joseph Scaliger, claim that the fo regoing narrative gives a conclusive and a crowd of Assyrians and Et ruscans, who had lost cxplanation of the fact (which he cannot deny) that the their own names, and had to be introduced per stirpes decanter was found empty. As to the other alternative, and not per capita. The Editor opened his mouth to how could he have written so lucid and coherent an propound his questions, but his visitors were far too account of the episode, if he had not been in his sober loquacious to listen. In a moment the room was ringing senses 1 It is not true that he has been removed to an with a Babel of sesquipedalian words and clamorous asylum:; that is a calumny invented by the sub-editor­ disputations ; every chronologer adopted a different era, a designing villain who is intriguing to supplant him. fixed the commencement of the year on a different day As a matter of fact, he is taking a prolonged holiday, of a different month, and insisted upon calling the and spending it as a paying guest in a delightful country months by different na , mes, and allotting to each a mansion not far from Roehampton, where he has every different number of days. They raved about lunisolar comfort and every possible attention ; indeed he has years and Calippic periods ; they shrieked about the nothing to complain of, except that materials for the Mathematical Canon, the reforms of Gelal-ed-din Malek practice of magic are difficultto procure, and chronology Shah, and the Mundane Era of Antioch ; they belaboured as a subject of conversation is strictly tabooed. J ulius each other with solstitial points, sexagenary cycles, and Caesar, Pope Gregory XIII, and Dionysius the Little Constantinopolitan Indictions. The Editor cowered often drop in fo r a quiet chat after the lights are out ; within his circle, and fo llowed the controversy as well and if anyone be still sceptical, he will ask them as a as he could ; much of it was far a.bove his comprehension, favour to haunt the offender until he recants his heresy ; but one thing was clear. If all the chronologers were or Gregory will fe tch his bell, book, and candle, and correct (and who could doubt itl) the world was entering give him a real, sound cursing. As fo r the sub-editor, upon a new century onoe a month with the greatest let him beware ! The Editor is collecting candle regularity. The problem was solved ! Everybody was drippings, and will soon have enough to make a wax at perfect liberty to be living in whatever century best image of his persecutor, if only his plastic skill can do suited his fa ncy I justice to the ugliness of the villain's face and figure. Suddenly there was a violent crash ; the magic lamps He has also accumulated a large number of stray pins, and the mystic cauldron disappeared, and the next and he intends shortly to insert them in the wax image moment, or what seemed to be th� next moment, the after the orthodox manner. Meanwhile he is preparing Editor became conscious of the fact that he was sitting the sub-editor's obituary notice, which is expected to in his own armchair ; the spectres time. had vanished, th� appear in the Daziy Cataclysm in about a month's electric light was turned on, and a doctor was fe eling R. H. F. his pulse. ••-=- =-_;: 4"'-.

FROM THE GREEK A T N HOLOGY.

THE COLLEGE DEBATING SOCIETY. WHO is the best of poets ? He ""Vho when he reads his poetry A Retrospect and an Exhortation. Dilutes it with a dinner : But he who lets us hear and fa st ME time ago the present writer was enabled, May righteous heaven requite at last by the courtesy of a country Vicar, to while His madness on the sinner. away many hours of an otherwise dull Vaca­ LUCILLUS (xi. 394.). tion in investigating some parish records, which went back to about the end of the sixteenth century. More recently he has been enabled to utilize Mortals are we and mortal too the experience thus gained in conducting another Are all things to our life that bind us ; investigation, less arduous, but much more interesting They take them wings and pass from view ;, both to the writer and to the readers of this Magazine. Or we, and leave them all behind us. The records of the St John'S College Debating Society go back about thirty years, comprising, that is LUCIAN I). ex. 3 to say, ten generations of Undergraduates. In the case of the former investigation, the events recorded in the parish registers would probably also extend over about Life is a parlous voyage : storm winds fling us ten generations of human beings ; so that in both Where worse than ship-wrecked mariners we lie ; instances there was an equal sense of awful solemnity Chance the one pilot of man's life will bring us in turning over the pages recording the deeds of the Chance knoweth where as o'er the sea we fly. fo rgotten dead. Some meet good weather, others ill have found ; For, unfo rtunate as it may seem, to the present All reach the common haven undergr ound. generation of Undergraduates, the great men whose PALLADAS (x. 65)' oratory has thundered of yore in the Debating Society are, with scarcely an exception, both dead and for­ gotten. Not that many of them have reached that final dissolution, which, according to the pedantic Doctor in one of Charles Reade's novels, is "the cessation of all r'

200 The College Debatz"ng Socz'ety. Th e College Debalz'ng Soczdy. 201 functions-called by the vulgar, Death." But they al"e throW into the fo rm of a readable narrative the infor­ gone ; they have passed out of the microcosm of College mation concerning the past history of the Debating life ; and if, as occasionally happens, one of them should Society, which he has gleaned from many sources. The appear at a Debate and talk to us of other days, we story of its long series of ups and downs cannot fail to cannot rid ourselves of a sort of uncanny fe eling that a be interesting to many of its members, and the accumu­ spirit from another w9rld has unreasonably come to life lated experience of the past must necessarily be full of again, that the shape befo re us has already once crossed suggestions fo r the right conduct of its affairs in the that bourne from which none have ever returned, except present. by a miracle. Befo re setting forth on a detailed narrative of the And we, who are now members of the College Society'S history, however, it behoves us, in the manner Debating Society hardly, perhaps, sufficiently realise of responsible historians, to give an account of the our obligation to our predecessors, whose tradition w e authorities from which our information has been inherit, and whose tentative but untiring effortsin past obtained. First among these we must place the days have produced the Constitution under which we 1\Iinutes of the Debates and Private Business Meetings live and thrive. For the trite saying so- often used in which have been kept by thirty generations of Secre­ describing the English Constitution-that it was never taries. Although the value of these documents is made, but has grown-might with perfect aptitude be, somewhat unequal, owing to different opinions enter­ applied to the Constitution of a Debating Society. The tained by their writers as to the amount of time and rough and Feady set of rules first prepared as a make­ care which the responsibility of their high office might sh ift are gradually developed as experience indicates require them to expend upon the Mi nute Book, the their flaws and omissions, or as changing conditions information contained in them is, on the whole, so com­ require a legislative readjustment. Now and again an plete and various that during the period fo r which they exceptionally enterprising officer win arise, who will are still in existence we have little need to go any make it his business thoroughly to master the Society's further afield. The deplorable fact remains, however, Constitution, and to institute all kinds of reforms. There that fo r a period of eleven years-from 1877 to 1887 are several instances of this during the " seventies," and inclusive-there is absolutely no trace of the Secretary's on one or two occasions an officer of this kind has left Minute Books. That the Society was in existence ; that his mark on the Society's history just as unmistakably during a part of this interval it flourishedas it has never as Henry II or Edward I have left theirs on the history done before or since ; and that the practice of keeping of England. Sometimes his efforts will be in the minutes was never allowed to fall into disuse, at any direction of reforming the Society'S procedure by rate for any long period, we have abundant evidence the introduction of new laws ; sometimes he will en­ from other sources. But in the Secretary's Box-that deavour to institute a better method of book-keeping or ponderous receptacle whose fate it has been to be of recording the minutes of debates and private business­ dragged from one set of College rooms to another every meetings ; and in one or two instances we have written term during so many generations of Undergaduates­ in the Minute Book a sort of "Dialogus de Scaccario " there is not a single trace of the missing Minute Books. fo r the guidance of officers to the end of time. It is, perhaps, vain to hope that they will ever be Therefore, it seemed good to the present writer to recovered now, though the present writer must confess V01.. XXI. PD /"I.

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that if he were ever offered th e choice between readers o.f this Magazine, and which have acquired books of Livy and the missing Debating fa me elsewhere, if they are now seldom heard of in the college itself. Fo.r instance-to. mentio.n o.nly two. Minutes he should decline, as a non-classical man, to names-we have the signature o.f J. S. Yeo, late Fello.w be responsible for the consequences. He takes this of the College and Seco.nd Wrangler o.f 1882, who. is opportunity of saying, however, that should these wo.rds w a Master at Fettes College, Edinburgh ; and that meet the eye o.f any ex-o.fficer of the So.ciety who. can no of J, Ratcliffe Co.usins, Barrister o.f the Inner Temple, thro.w any light o.n the matter, a great service will be co.nferred upo.n the Society by the immediate communi­ whose work at the Bar and o.n the Lo.ndo.n Co.unty ca tio.n of particulars. Council has been achieved by an eloquence which first rnt to. tackle legal and econo.mic problems in a The Minute Books, then, are only available fo r about lea Society, whose mo.st o.bvious claim to. superio.rity qver two thirds of the period whose history we have under­ the latter body is that it can sanction the immediate taken to relate. There is, however, another volu.me, realizatio.n of the most beautiful ideals without incurring known as the Treasurer's Book, which, although the the lo.SS o.f a single penny of other people's money, information it contains is of much less general interest, To. return, however, to. the Treasurer's Book. Apart has the advantage o.f being complete from about a year after the foundatio.n o.f the Society down to the present from the interest attaching to. the signatures above­ mentio.ned, this vo.lume co.ntains little that is day. This is, as it were, the Great Pipe Roll of the valuable to.the histo.rian, excert perhaps the assurance, Society's Exchequer. Much o.fits interest is due to the at times when the fact might otherwise be open to co.n­ fact that in olden days it was the practice to. require siderable doubt, that the Society was still in existence. every new member, on paying his first subscription, to. From the terminal balance-sheets we can infer the inscribe his signature in a column of the Treasurer's Society's general prosperity (o.r otherwise) from its Book provided for that purpose. Thus we come across financial position, though it must be confessed that for such well-known names as J. J. Lister, J. R. Tanner, many years these acco.unts seem never to have been G. F. Stout, L. H. K. Bushe-Fo.x, H. T. E. Barlow, and en to have received the signature of the W. N. Roseveare-uft en betraying the uncertain hand of audited, or ev President. These relapses into, " slackness " on the part the Freshman, who is conscious of being enrolled among the members of a great institution. The above names of the Society 's officers occur a great deal too. often in are selected because they are likely to be well known to the course of the last thirty years. Badly kept, and, still the resident members of the Co.llege. Four out of the worse, undated Minutes, have been a nightmare to six gentlemen mentioned are now engaged in ex­ the present investigator ; and it is also, a deplorable fact that on several occasions no account of the Term's po.unding to. Undergraduates the mysteries of Animal work has been sent to the Eagle, although the Editors Morphology, History, Mathematics, and Theology respectively, with an eloquence and lucidity which were tell us that they have assailed the Secretary with "repeated applications." o.f these faults in adminis­ first acquired at the meetings of the College Debating t Society. ration, however, more hereafter. For the, pres.ent we are led to the consideration of our third source of There are, however, many other names in the o.rmatio.n by the mention of this Magazine. Treasurer's Book which, though not now so fa miliar inf The value of the accounts o.f the Society's meetings to. Undergraduates, will be well remembered by so.me r. '-�.,

Tlt e College Debaft'rtg Sodety. 205 20+ The Co llege Deblttz"ng Sucz'e/y. held, though the number present at each is not specified. which have been published in the Eagle with more Or The Society discussed the Eastern Question, the Con­ less regularity since the year 1872 is immensely, Reaction, the International Society, and enhanced fo r us by the fact that fo r eleven years servative priately closed the Session with a revolutionary the Minutes from which these acccounts were originally appro n in reference to Proctors and Compulsory compiled are lost. During this period the Eagle takes motio Chapels. We have no minutes of the Debates, and the its place with Plutarch in the list of original authorities. only other fact that can be asserted with confidence is In both cases the literary sources of the writers' infor_ t the office of President was filled by C. P. Layard. mation are no longer in existence, and the later work is tha This was certainly not .the first Session of the therefore of priceless historical value. But apart from Debating Society, for the first item on the debtor side this circumstance, there is sometimes a peculiar interest the Treasurer's accounts fo r this Term is : "By attaching to the reports in the Eagle, because on several of I occasions the writers have stepped beyond the narrow balance fr om Lent Term, 18,!, £ 9S. bd." There was, therefore, a Session in the Lent Term of 1871 of which limits of convention, and have indulged freely in a we have not a shred of fu rther evidence ; and the veil running criticism of the Term's debates. V\There those which envelops all remoter antiquity has, so far, re­ accounts occur they are of the greatest value, and it mained entirely impervious to the thwarted gaze of the must be regretted that until just lately (when a revival present chronicler. All he can say is that we know of the practice has been attempted) nothing of the kind there was a Session of the College Debating Society in has been published fo r several years. the Lent Term of 187 1, and that beyond that we know These, then, are our three main authorities-the nothing. Minute Books, the Treasurer's Accounts, and the Eagle After this the Eagle is again silent for two Terms, Magazine. The only others are such minor sources of though again the Treasurer's Book comes to our assist­ information as old receipt books, tradesmen's bills, stray ance with a confirmation of the Society's existence. letters sometimes found between the pages of the Minute And here we come to an end of what may be called the Books, and, for a short period during the height of the mythical or Homeric age of the Society. Before this Society's prosperity, the counterfoils of a cheque-book. we have nothing but vague tales of Heroes whose deeds And now, equipped by a profound study of all these are but dimly shadowed forth in a fe w brief hints documents, we proceed with our narrative. upon which the imagination must enlarge as best it It is, perhaps, a matter fo r congratulation rather can. For the May Term of 1872, however, we have the than regret, that the beginnings of the College Debating testimony of the Secretary's Minutes, and henceforward Society are not without that element of romance which Our information of the Society'S transactions is almost ignorance of their origin is thought to impart to all as full as could be desired. great and glorious institutions. Our first intimation At the beginning of this period the Society seems to that such a Society existed comes from the Eagle of the have been in what, considering its infancy, may be' said East'er Term 18]1, and from the account tl1E're given we to be a very flourishing condition. The average attend­ get no suggestion whatever that it had been recently ance was about thirty, and on one occasion a motion in fo rmed, nor indeed does the successful programme thera reference to the " Pernicious use of Tobacco " produced detailed indicate anything in the nature of new and House of 48. The Minute Book gives us no clue to tentative effort. We learn that seven Debates were a " I.

206 Th e College Debalt"ltg Socz'rdy. Th e College Debatz?zg Soczety. 207 there the date of the Society's fo undation, though, judging apparent from the fact that during this period from the somewhat in the Eagle. In the crude and experimental nature of is often no account of the Debates the Rules introduced into (which appear to have been first printed in Lent Term of 187 6 a new feature was November ng Bee con­ 1872), we should say that the most likely the programme in the shape of a Spelli supposition two prizes of would date the birth of the Society at some ducted by Professor Mayor. There were time during the guinea year 18,0. books to the value of two guineas and one There is a Mayor " gave quaint interest attaching to one document respectively, and we read that Professor wh ich derivations, has been pasted into the Minute Book by some plenty of amusing stories and interesting of enterprising Secretary of a later age, and dated by him making it a time not only of amusement but also "P robably about November 1872." It is a note which instruction." runs W. R. as fo llows :-" Mr --- and Mr --- present At the first debate of the next Term, 1\1r their compliments to the President of the Debating Hannam proposed : "That, in the opinion of this House, press Society, and request him to remind the members that the opposition to the assumption of the title of Em fo r." . another meeting is being held immediately above them, of India by the Queen is both factious and uncalled which is interrupted by the applause of the Debating The small att endance at this meeting, however, led to SOciety." The handwriting of this note is well known the abandonment of the Session by the Committee, and to for the many members of the College at present zn statu this precedent was followed every May Term puptllarz; though it was possibly more legible twenty� next fo ur years. In reference to the above motion, it eight years ago than it is now. At any rate we may may be noted that there is a curious interest in tracing reflect with shame that the undue applause at our the politics of the last generation in the Society'S meetings once elicited this remonstrance from one Debates. We have the eternal Eastern Question again whose oratory in another place has long been the and again in all its diffe rent phases ; the conduct of admiration of scholars, despite the fact that the medium certain fo rgotten agricultural labourers in the Eastern of his eloquence has been a tongue with which some of Counties is arraigned ; and some Englishmen resident us are only indifferentlyacquaint ed ! i 11 Japan are said to have " disgrace!l their nationality." The success of the Society seems to have continued On one occasion the House, by a substantial majority, at about the same level for several Terms. It was refused to agree that "while recognising the great generally found difficultto continue the meetings during public services of the Earl of Beaconsfield, it regretted the May Term, but until 1877 the officers always that his career had been marked by self-interest." And managed to arrange at least two or three Debates in again, in the Lent Term of 1878, the I-louse declined by spite of the other multitudinous interests of that festive One vote to consider "that the conduct of cer tain and-to third year men-anxious season. In the Lent Undergraduates in presenting an address to Lord Term of 1873 we learn from the Eagle that the Society Derby is highly reprehensible." was in a C' very flourishing condition," and that there It was in this Term that Mr J. J. Lister, who had were 130 resident members. joined the Society in the previous October, persuaded During the latter part of 1874, and the whole of 1875, the House that the study of the Natural Sciences was there is a slight falling off in the average attendance, greatly neglected in English Schools. At this time, so and some "slackness " on the part of the officers is however, the Society seems hardly to have been ' "l /'I n

208 Th e Collt'ge DebaNng' Socz"e fy. Th e College Deba#nc Sodety. 209 prosperous as of yore, fo r the writer of the Eagle report the largest on record. And this revival was so far from " cannot but feel that the standing taken by the Society being factitious that, fo r the first time in the history of in the College is not all that could be wished." the Society, a thoroughl:),succes sful Session was carried This appeal, however, does not seem to have been out in the May Term. immediately succes sful, fo r it is not till the Lent Term The writer has here deliberated long before per:. of 1880 that we hear of a distinct improvement in the suading himself to give to the world the piece of attendance. It mu st be remem bered that we are now information which follows. His hesitation has been traversing the period fo r which the Minutes are lost, so due to a fe ar that some injudicious reader may think he that it is more difficult t9 get a true idea of what took has discovered a chain of cause and effect, where the place. The impr ession retained after reading the scanty historian has been unable to find anything more accounts in the Eag le, however, is that that the Society than a sequence and a coincidence. Howe" er; in the contined to be in a some what uncertain position untiL interest of Truth, the following quotation from the October 188 I. But it is none the less evident that there Eagle's report fo r the May Term 1882 must be published. were men on the Commit tee who were determined to For it is written :-" According tt) an oid established make it a success, and one may hazard the statement custom the fi rst Meeting, which was held ort April 29th; that whenever, in a College Debating Society, there are was devoted to a consideration of the policy of Her men with this spirit- the spirit which is inevitably . Majesty's Government. J. H. Merrifield, who proposed described in the 'Varsity slang term, keenness-their the motion, was so numerously supported that for the efforts are almost certain to be crowned with success. first time within the memory of man the Conservatives; This year an attempt was made to conduct Debates in catching their opponents napping, obtained a majority the May Term, thus reviving the practice which had in a Society which invariably hitherto has voted fallen into disuse for a period of fo ur years. It was LiberaL" only partially successful, but in the following October it The next Term (Michaelmas 1882) under the presi- is evident that Titanic R. efforts were made to get hold of dency of Mr J. Tanner, the Debating Society the Freshmen. The result was that five new members reached the high water-mark of its prosperity. There spoke at the first meeting. and that the attendance all has never been a Session anything like it either before through the Term was almost phenomenally large. or since. The average attendance was 88, and on one During this Term, Mr G. F. Stout carried a motion night there were no less than 126. The writer in the deprecating the agitation for fu rther vivisectionist Eagle is exultant, voluble, and the master of a literary legislation, and Mr J. R. Tanner, who appears in the style adequate to the occasion. And the remembrance office of Secr etary, persuaded the House that " .l.Estheti­ of these things only deepens our regret that for the cism is, on the whole, injurious to the mental and moral whole .of this period of unsurpassed prosperity the tone of English Society." Minute Books of the Society have been lost. It is clear, then, that The Eagle a new lease of life had been report in the for the following Term is in granted to the a sim Debating Society. In the following ilar strain, and obviously by the same writer-the term the expectat ions of continued Success were more wielder of the readiest pen that ever wrote Debating th an fu lfilled, fo Society reports. So versatile is he, however, that he r on one occasion there were no less than 105 members has no present-a number which was by far time to tell us the names of the officers, so that VOL. XXI. Et /In j '

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in the list of presidents which Term, but in the is appended to this article three debates were held in the May we are compelled, in the absence those great of other sources of following October we meet with one of information, to leave a blank fo r this Term. names \Vhich, fo r the next few years, loom so large in In the Easter Term of 1883 we have the first fo re. the annals not only of the College Debating Society, boding of evil. Despite " exceptional activity," some but of the Union. For on 17 November 1888 Mr E. W. of the speeches showed " a deplorable lack of prepara_ J\IacBride unsuccessfully endeavoured to persuade the tion." Next Term it is distinctly stated that there has IJo use that the study of the ancient classics should be been a falling off, and, as if to try and retrieve the lost entirely removed from our system of education. During position, the Socie ty alters its rules so as to give places the next Term the same speaker, who now appears on on the Com mittee to all ex-Presidents in residence. By Committee, attacked Mr Gladstone's policy in regard this means Mr Tanner again takes his place on the to his native Isle, and from this time onward, until the Commi ttee, and possibly also the ready writer whom great collapse of Liberalism in 1895, we constantly find we have mentioned. Things, however, go from bad to the stormy debates in the House of Commons on the worse. There is a slight revival in the Michaelmas Home Rule question reflected at the meetings of our Term of 1884, during which l\fr W. N. Roseveare own Society. In June 1889 we learn from the Eagle defended Rugby Football from the aspersions of Asso­ that " there has been a remarkable revival of interest ciation players. But this proved to be only of temporary , in the Society, a result largely due to the unflagging duration, and in Easter 1886 we hear that " unless some exertions of the President'� ; and it is a sad reminder of great impe tus is given to the Debating Society it will the untimely end which was recently put to a promising cease to exist altoge�her." career to find that this energetic President was H. D. In the-ne xt Term only fo ur meetings were held ; in Darbishire. It was doubtless owing to the same officer's the ne xt five ; and in the next only three. No report enterprise that in the following October the Society of the Society's the doings appears in the Eagle fo r the received large reinforcements from the ranks of Michael mas Term 1887, and as only twenty SUbscriptions freshmen, and that the average attendance once more are accounted fo r in the Treasurer's book it must have rose so high as 48. been in a terribly low state. It is extremely probable Throughout the academical year this success was that it was during this period of abject depression that sustained, and in the May Term there seems to have the Minu te Books were lost, and in view of the dis­ been a series of lively private business meetings, which tressin g circumstances we cannot be too thankfu l that led to a Committee of the whole House being sum­ both the Society and the whole of the Archives did not moned to consider the action of the Treasurer and perish miserably together. Sec-retary. This unusual course indicates the height But at now the Dark Ages are drawing to a close. In which party fe eling ran at the time, but " the only the Len t Term of 1888 there is the first indication of an tangible outcome of the whole proceeding was to stimu­ approaching renaissance, for from this time onward we late the flaggingen ergies of the College with regard to are in possession of the Society's Minute Books. At attendance at the Society's meetings." There was, the secon d debate of this Term a proposition " that the however, one other result than that mentioned by the St John's w Debating Society be abolished " only fo und riter in the Eagle, for it is impossible not to connect one supporter th , and was lost by a majority of 17. Only is incident (which had its rise in a contested election III) l 1

2[2 Th e College DebaHng Soc�efy. Th e College Debatz'ng Socz'efy. 213 fO,r the Vi ce-Presidency) with a nev,; rule passed shortly that a Debating Society thu,s supported must have been �fterwards, which excludes from the presidential office in a very flou];ishin.g condition. all who have not served at least twice on the Com­ The pronounced influence of tobacco on t�e debates mittee. �hi� is Ot:l1y one more instance of the way in is attested by the highly original programme fo r the which the Society's cOJils,�itu,tio,n �a5 been gl,"ad1,lally Lent Term 189.2, which, as the Eagle writer remarks, evolved during the last thirty years. Almost every comprises discu,ssions of "men, manners, morals, and �lteration to the rules can be traced to some incident maidens." Perhaps the most significant thing about which laid bare legislative weakness in a particular the session under the circu�stances, is that the House �Hrection, and which suggested to th e officel,"s t�e intro­ declined to believe that Altruism was the tr�e 1;lasis fo r �uction of a rule to p�eyent arliament of Friedel;ich Wilhelm, King of Prussia. near 45. At this period it had become an established Although du,ring this period the average attendance custom to devote the last meeting of every Term to did not rise to anything like what it v,;as in the great a "rag debate," generally a sort of orgie in which every �ays of Mr Tanner's p�'esidenc:;y, We must infer from existing University and College institution is assailed, the remarkable success, of many of our members at the and in which the discussions between the newly-elected Union that the quality of ou,r debates must, on the President and the gentlemen who are eternally endea­ whole have been exceedingly high. In eqch of the vouring to perplex him with all kinds of "points of �o ur years, from 1890 to 1 89,3, one, o,u,t of the three order " and "points of personal explanation," or to ::rresidents of the St John's Deb,ating S,O,ciety s,u,b,se� worry him into extraordinary rulings, occupy nearly quently becam,e Pl,"esidents, of the Union, and �any of the whole of the evening. our other membel,"s during thes.e years made good It was long ago decided at one of these meetings 'Onion reputations, although trey did not attain to the "that cabbages should be cultivated in the College pinnacle of the University o,rator's am,bition, and fill Courts "; and on one occasion, when the motion for �he Presidential chair. debate was " that busts of the Presidents be placed in Those who did so were E. W. MacBride, G. D. the College Chapel," Mr R. O. P. Taylor proposed as an Kempt, Peter Green, and J. H. B. Masterman, the amendment c, that the Presidents provide busts in the mel1:tion of wh�ch fa mous College singularly offensive that na�es is Q su,fficient I?roof Hall," a �roposition so I ,

' 214 Th e Collegt Debatz"llg So dely. Th e College Debatt'1zg So ctety. 215 nothing would induce the present chronicler to mention An efficient College Debating Society is to be it in this magazine, had it not already defiled the pages desired fo r many reasons. It affords an excellent of the Eagle in the Debating Society's report fo r the opportunity for practice to all who are beginning to Lent Term of 1894. speak, and possibly also to think. It gives to the And now we are coming to times yet within cC the reading man a serious interest outside his wor k ; he memory of living man." The days of A. J. CampbeU must be "keen " on something, and if it is not a and W. Fairlie Clarke, of A. W. Foster, T. F. R. Debating Society it will probably be the Dazly Ma z"!, MacDonnell, and H. L. Pass, are still fresh in the or worse. And above all it tends to destroy " cliques," minds of many, and have not yet passed into the and to promote that element of cohesion and espnl de domain of history. Before laying down his pen, how­ corps which, in a large College like ours, is often so ever, the writer desires to turn from this long considera­ conspicuously lacking. tion of the past and to direct for a brief moment the There is no reason whatever why, by a serious an d attention of his readers to the fu ture. The long concerted effort, we should not, within a few Terms, "retrospect " is accomplished, and there is but a very res Lore the Society to the position it held in the early small amount of space left fo r the "exhortation," of nineties ; even if the great days of Mr Tanner's pre­ which promise was given in the title of this paper. sidency are, fo r the present, an unattainable ideal. If The reason of that promise, was that the writer cannot this article in any way contributes towards this end, it pretend to be blind to the unfortunate fact that the ,vi11 have attained the object fo r which it was written. position of the College Debating Society during the E. P. H. last few Terms is not by any means so satisfactory as it has been, or as it ought to be. The speeches have often displayed a lack of preparation, the average THE PRESIDENTS OF THE ST JOHN'S DEBATING SOCIETY. attendance has fa llen off, and the Society has not s. received that general support from the members of the Lent. Easter. Micllaelma Adan1!i 18il Unknown C. P. Layard T. College which is absolutely essential to its success. It H. Cunnyngbame 18i2 Unknown G. L. Hodgkinsoll N. J. Litlletoll must, moreover, be admitted that during that critical 18i3 H. Cllnnynghame F. J. Lowe Hildyard period-the first week of the Michaelmas Term-the 18i4 H. N. Read H. N. Read G. G. S. Tait officers did not display that amount of enterprise which 1875 .J. F. Skipper C . E. S. Ratcliffe T. J. H. Lloyd ! 8i6 J. Pope J. P. Baynes is necessary to gain the strong support of the freshmen. W. R. Hannam 18i7 G. H. Marwood No session Coppock For this unfortunate " slackness " the present writer is 1878 ·W. W. D. Firth No session T. Coppock quite prepared to take his share of the blame, and it is 1879 J. Russell No session T. H. Colson partly in recognition of his responsibility that he has 1880 J. Russell No session F. F. S. Hughes 188! ·0. Rigby G. C. M. Smith undertaken to prepare this paper., in the hope that the * J. R. 1882 F. L. Muirhead A. J. David Tanner A. G. Chapman story of the great deeds of the men of old time, and of 1883 Unknown Unlmown L. E. Shore our fathers that begat us, may quicken the flagging. 1884 E. P. Boys Smith J. E. Jagger E. R. Cousins 1885 Unknown W. N. Harper interest of his contemporaries and inspire them with 1 T. H. Siflon 886 G. \V. Kinman H. H. Brindley a healthy desire to restore to the Society its pristine 18 own 87 \V . A. Russell R. H. Bigg Unkn prosperity. 1888 C. Fo�le:l:' C. Foxley A. ",,'. Flux I I

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Lmt. Baste,'. Michaelmas. 188� J. J. Alexander H. D. Darbisbire H. F. Baker 1890 T. Nicklin H. J. Spenser *E. W. MacBride (rtsignea ) W. J. Brown 1891 ·G. D. Kempt G. H. R. Garcia W. B. MOl·ton 1892 A. J. Pitkin R. E. Baker * Peter Green 1893 *J. H. B. Masterman G. C. Desmond A. K. B. Yusuf AJi PADDY'S LAMENT. 1894 H. H. Davies W. B. Allan C. T. Powell 1895 K. M. Schroder R. O. P. Taylor J. S. Bryers 1896 A. A. G. Wdgbt C. P. Keeling A. J. Campbell Och, Rowin' dovm to Clayhithe' 1897 W. Fairlie Clark A. W. Foster 'T. F. R. MacDonnel! 1898 H. L. Pass W. H. Wincb P. L. Babington In a clinker eight 1899 D. Linney W. Browne A. F. Russell With Bushey on a Gee Gee, 1900 G. H. Sheplty Shoutin' "Bow, you're late'." Oh, the dreadful spasms N.B.-Those marked with an asterisk have also been Presidents of the Union. I had in my inside I wished that Bushey had 'em If the truth I must confide.

When at last I reach that place: They tell me to get out, I do so with a murmur Like an old man with the gout.. They then escort me kindly To a long and dingy room, To take my turn with other chaps For the grub that's promiied soon .

In my mind as I wint down 1'd visions very nice, Of lots ' of cake and tea and things, And of beef perhaps a slice, But oh, the stern reality Was very different quite, I got Khaki-coloured water And one biscuit, such a mite'.

Feelin' very much refreshed An' longin to git back I row my little body out, But Beith just says I'm slack. VOL. XXI. FF I I

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At last I reach the blessed lock And rest comes once again, But that's no great advantage For there's either snow or rain.

Once again I get into That stately craft of mine, And Bushey says he'd like to see ADVERTISEMENT. "A course done in good time." I am a modest man myself HERE have appeared from time to time various And dare not here rep ate editions of that useful and compendious , g manual generally known as the complete The language that the stern four used When they realised their fate. letter writer, containing letters suitable and appropriate to a number of exigencies which may befall Don't ask me what I looked like individuals of limited leisure and unskilled in the When I reached the P. and E., Epistolatory Art. A lobster after boiling In these volumes may be found letters such as these : Won't be happier than me; " From a young gentleman to his employer suggesting But what annoys me most of all an increase of salary," or from " a young lady in answer I venture to relate, to a gentleman who has offered his hand in marriage­ Some of my nationality conveying an [affirmative or negativeJ answer." Never­ Was rubbed off by the sate. theless, the fa ct that these volumes, excellent in them­ selves, do not fulfil all requirements which they might M. A. K. reasonably be expected to do·, is proved by the fa ct that that gifted and learned author (Frank R Stock ton, Esq.) has recently published " An Appendix to the Complete Letter Writer," in which provision 1S made fo r cases unlooked fo r by the compilers of the aforesaid volumes. A single instance will supply the necessary demon­ stration of our meaning. The 7th letter : "From an Ambassador to Tunis, who has become deaf in his left ear, to the widow of a manufacturer of perfo rated underclothing, whose second son has never been vaccinated."

Tunis, Africa, Aug. 3 '77.

1\[ost honoured lVIadam,-Permit me, I most earnestly l. il1p lore of you, from the burning sands of this only too fa r distan t clime, to call to the notice of your reflective and judicial Iq OU I I

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fa culties the fi l�t that there are actions which may be deferred 1. a until too recent a pCliod. From a young gentleman who has recently become With the earnestas surance of my most distinguished regard igious Foundation of , pensioner of the Ancient and Rel I am, most honoured <).nd exemplCj.ry maqam, your obeqie unable to nt �t _'s College, and who, having been ,servaIH to commanq, questions attempt more th an a small percentage of the L. GRANVILLE TIBBS, of the Previous addressed to candidates in Part 1. informed by a But although the wants of the general public have Examination, and further having been answers were been thus praiseworthily supplied, no one has as yet, to com petent authority that the aforesaid the best of our belief, compiled a series of letters not altogether in accordance with the opinions expressed puitable fo r the requirements of the Undergraduate by certain eminent scholars in their works on Greek and Members of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Latin Etymology-and, moreover, that his renderings of Such a compilation is rendered especially desirable by certain words were at variance with those set fo rth by and having further the fact that the strenuous and unremitting labours of the most renowned lexicographers, this section of the community afford little time for the ascertained that by an unfortunate oversight he had epistolatory exercises. offered to the said examiners renderings of passages, or We have, therefore, compiled sundry epistles suitable portions of passages, the original text of which was not in our estimation to occasions likely to arise with more fo und in the examination paper, and, finally, that his or less frequency during the cq.reer of an q.verage translation of a passage from the Latin Author-with undergraduate. whose works he was hitherto totally un acquainted, al­ Whilst attempting to supply this long-felt want we though it might have found favour with a certain school of have endeavoured to set fo rth in the examples given Teutonic commentators who are in the habit of fostE:ring herewith that loftiness of diction and terseness of and fa vouring textual emendation-was unlikely to be expression which ShOl.j.ld be th e characteristic of all acceptable to the more conservative notions of Anglican such productions. criticism. To the Reverend Doctor ---, Headmaster an, For the 1.).se of those gentlemen who fi nd prose of --- School. The said Reverend Gentlem an inadequate channel for the conveyance of their having frequently impressed upon him (the writer )­ emotions-we append an epistle in verse-a fo rm of 'even at the cost of extreme physical discomfort-the correspondence which, in our opinion, is rendered not utility and advantage of a diligent and discreet study his unnecessary by the cultl.J.re and refinement of academio of the Greek and Latin classics, with a view to life. future advancement and success in the wider spheres of Should Ollr labours commend themselves to th e taste academic learning and culture. and requirements of thq.t enlightened and cultured Reverent and Respected Sir, academic circle to which we have the honour of You will, I am convinced, readily admit tha t there are offering them, we hold ourselves prepared to supple­ m oments in the life of an individual when, overwhelmed by the f{1 the heart of man, ment the appended examples·-which are of necessity rce and circumstance o f h is environment, ' iill" d shrinks from the task of limited in nllmber owing to the time at the disposal of lo its uttermost capacity, de�cl iLing alld setting forth the manifold emotions and diverse the compilers-by other examples, which, we trust, may an �Cl)lilllents to h it has of necessit rendered itself proye equally whic y serviceaqle, lI1 VOluntary sacrifice. / q ou I I

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Such being my lot I will refrain altogether from endeavouri c , or onthe other hand the hour ng acceptan e of my invitation to the give expression to those sentiments which well nigh over repast. Under the circumstances it is my ­

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ullwillingly-to deny myself Though my mind be steeped in learuiug to-day that fo rm of nautical in­ struction which the generosit And my thoughts in classic lore, y of yourself and your su'bordinates­ has impelled you to impart to me Yet for thee my soul is yearning, daily for a numbeF of weeks past, and from which Yea, it yearneth more and more. I have, as I believe, deri ved no incon_ siderable benefit. Trusting that this enforced absence may be Thou art fairer than the Graces in nowise prejudicial to my future remigoral success, That adorn the temple' s frieze, a I h ve the honour to remain, Which benighted heathen races Yoms to command, Worship'd on their bended knees.

would liken thee to Venus, Letter IV. I Whom the Ancients held divine From a young gentleman who, having on the pre­ , Yet 1 feel it wouid be heinous ceding night, at a ball held under the auspices of the To con4pare her charms to thine. Master and Fellows of St ---'s College, met not r l m altogether without precognisance, a beautiful mother Naught in ea of dream -or vision, Naught on land nor a ugh t by accompanied by her yet more beautiful daughter, and sea, Can with suitable precision having waltzed with the latter some undeterminate Love, be likened unto thee, number of times-best expressed by the mathematical Therefore, I the task despairiag, symbol x (where x is any positive integral integer)-and Bring reluctant having ascertained from the said young lady, in the to a close, This epistle, scarcely daring course of an intersaltatory ramble in the Master's To enclose a fad ing J:GSe. gardens-during which he had pointed out the beauties of nature there discernible, and had discussed at some May I hope that you wi].J cherish For hour length the value of moonligh� as a stimulant to the the brief space of an ( Placed in water it won't perish) higher and quasi-religious emotions-that she, whilst This ana be<\uteous withering flower. acquainted with and admiring the works of the late Poet Laureate, Alfred, l.ord Tennyson, was totally Type and image of my fa te, unacquainted with those of his successor, Mr Alfred Sweet lady in thy fair control, fity me ere it be too late, Austin. To the said young lady, with a copy of some Wholly thine in h eart and soul. of Mr A. Austin's poems. No te .-The occasional metrical abnormalities are to Who, fe arful of thy proud disdaining a· e the dearest indicate emotional ebullition. (Oh, d r I name Mab), Eas now the honour of remaining Dear Madam, ere Aurora's beams Sincerely yours, the the Gild shadows of night, G. K, .... An the my dreams d memories of Cantab . Take their s wi ft, capricious il igh t., H. L. P. Wouldst thou deem me over bold, G. W. W. Wilt thou lilillk me insincere, If the truth to thee I told That your image reigncth hen', Other initials may be substituted. VOL. XXI. GG \ \

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The advantages of such an Association cannot fail to present themselves to the minds of those members of the College who will soon have to make the choice of a profession, and there is therefore no need for us to enlarge upon the point. We may add that the subscription for associates is sf- per an num, and that we shall be very pleased to supply any further particulars to gentlemen who wish to join. CORRESPONDENCE, ' We remain, Gentremen, ApPOINTMENTS ASSOCIATION. THE CAMBRIDGE Faithfully yours, To the Editors ofthe " Ea gle," E. P. HART GENTLEMEN, (College Represelltative fo t· Dr Salld,.lIs' puPils),

We venture to ask for a small space in the next issue OTTO l\IAY of the Eag le, in order to call the attention of its readers to the (College Rep,·eJmtativefo ,' DrMa cAlister's puPils), above recently-formed Association. F. W. ARMSTRONG Its objects are (College Represetltative fo r JJfr Graves's Plt} ils). (a) .. To collect and distribute information respecting Appoint.· ments which can be appropriately filled by members of .. . the University," and Cb) ('To establish and organise means of communication between candidates for such appointments and the persons or bodies making the appointments." The appointments which the Association has principally in view are connected with the fo llowing departments of work ; The Army. The Navy. The Diplomatic Service. The Home, Indian, and Colonial Services, and other Appoint- ments in India and the Colonies. Law. 1\1ed i cine. Journalism: Banking. Railways. Shipping and Ship Building. Commerce. Technical Industries. Agriculture. Engineering. Ob£tttary. 229

produced upon them much of him here. TIre impression he and of life. Like so many ",as of singular simplicity innocency of the world, ",ho are destined to escape early out of the tumult which was !le was endowed with a quiet serenity of disposition, before @bttuar». not greatly disturbed when he came to know what was him. His letters from Davos showed a cheerful courage which or by was unaffected either by the nature of his surroundings nR RT at one time it seemed JOHN H BE WEJilBER a sense of disappointed hopes; and when almost certain that his life was to be spared he was concerned John Herbert to make it more useful. He had made a study of the Webber was born in Paris, 10 February J 880. ollly His father was r of Livingstone, and, writing as one delivered out of" the a missionary to French Roman Catholics, working caree in connexion death," he expressed a wish to follow as far as might be with a mission founded by the Rev R. W. McAll dust of in I P.7J, after the footsteps and to devote himself to ,the same work. He C@mmune, and thus his early childhood was in his spent entirely from Livingstone's epitaph: "Other sheep I have which abroad, for the most part either in Paris itself, or quotes at Meaux not of this fold. Them also mllst I bring." in the Department of Seine et Marne. In 1885 the are family But the plans thus made in thankfulness for life spared were moved to Switzerland, and here he went to his first school at not destined to be carried out, and the maker of them sleeps in Lausanne, where he remained for thrf'e years. In 1888 Mr Webber fureign ground. Perhaps we may apply to the Johnian, whose was appointed to take charge of the work of career was still to make, the words of another J ohnian whose the McAll Mission at Cannes, where his sons went to a small four and thirty years of lif� had already brought him splendid private school, but in 1891 they were sent to England and entered fame, and say of him that he had "so much dispatched the Redland House School, Clifton, under Mr W. Dyer Ware. Here business of life . . . . that the youngest enter not into the world Herbert Webber remained until the summer of 1887, taking the Matriculation ,,,ilh more innocency: whosoever leads such a life needs not London in .June 1896 'It the age of sixteen. In care upon how short warning it be taken from him.""" September 1897 he entered the Leys School, and joined the College in 1898, being electe.d to a Sizarship for Clas�ics and Mathematics at the October Examination. When he entered the College Webber thought of Law as his , ARCHIBALD SAMUELS CAMPBELL M.A. future profession, although he decided to read for the History Tripos. But his work was very soon interrupted by ill-health, Archibald Samuels CampbeJl was the eldest son of James and in the Lent Term he was ordered to Davos, his medical Campbell, and was born at his father's London residence, advisers giving him a good prospect of returning to England 75, Baker Street, on 20 October 1820. His mother was the after a single winter abroad. At Davos he made excellent daughter of John Armstrong, of Belgrove Cottage, Belgravia. progress and was pronounced practically cured, though he was .James Campbell was the direct descendant of Gillespick advised not to begin work too soon. But in travelling to Campbell, Lord of Lochow, A. D. 1000; also of Mac-Alan-More Cannes he caught a chill, and the disease developed again (Great) and of Sir Niel CampbelI, who married Lady Mary with alarming rapidity. It was not possible to move him from l\lurray Bruce (sister of Robert Bruce); and of Sir Colin Cannes, and he passed away there on January 12 of this year, Campbell, who married Margaret, sister of Annabel Queen not very long before the time when he had hoped to be coming Consort of Robert lII. The late Archibald Samuels CampbeJl home again. Was chief of the Kilmory-Auchinbreck Campbel1s. His early Although his connexion with the College was so brief, IIerbert Webber will not be readily forgotten by th05e who saW * Clarendon, of Lord Falld"\11d. 230 Obt'tuary. Ohituary. 231 life was spent in London, and he went as a day boy to the He finally returned to England, and in J 87 I married Alice, London High School in Tavistock Square. His mother died daughter of the late Henry Plumpton-Gipps, of Elmley, Kent, when he was 15, and he grieved so much for her that he got d left three sons and two daughters. After living a great many into bad health, an and in 1837 his father called in Sir lames years in Sherborne, Dorsetshire, he removed to 3, Salilibury Clark, who found that an abscess had formed on his left lung, Villas, Cambridge, in 1898, as it was a place he had a strong and strongly advised his being sent off at once to the Bahamas ection for, and he has often stated that the first Spring he had as the only aff chance of saving his life. He went out there in ever seen was after he came up to Cambridge in 1 840, and of a small sailing ship and resided for two years with a Mr Bridge_ the great delight it gave him to watch the leaves and flowers man, who was living there, and had formerly been a Master coming out in the Backs. He was taken ill about six months the London High in School, where he got strong and well. ago and advised by his doctors to go to Torquay, but the In 1839 he was sent for to return home at once on account autumn air there was too relaxing for him, and he gradually of the illness of his father, but to his great grief he fouud he sank and entered into his rest on 14 December 1899. His wa� had died a few days before his ship reached England. He character, and he was a most true­ therefore, was a noble, unselfish, beautiful at the age of J 9, left with five young brothers and earted follower of Christ. He always had his little Greek sisters to h look after, the youngest being only 9 years old. Testament in his pocket, and when travelling or sitting quiet He determined that he would carry out his father's wishes would ddight in reading it. that he should go to Cambridge, and came up to St John's By his special wish he was brought back to Cambridge and College i J n 84-0, where he was awarded a sizarship. His rooms stood interred in the Trumpington Cemetery. where the Chapel now stands. He has often related how the first person he got into conversation with at the Scholarship Examination was the late Professor J. C. Adams. They were waiting to go in for the viva voce part of it and were the two last, so they got into conversation, and Mr Campbell came the to The following members of the College have died during the conclusion that his master had considerably over estimated year in brackets is that of the B.A. degree: his abilities if all the undergraduates year 1899; the were like Mr Adams, and he almost decided then Lewis Agas,iz, of Stour Lodge, and there to return to London Rev Rodolph Agassiz ([862), son of the late at once. of Herts., 1862-63; Vicar of Great However, after the examination Bradfield, Essex. Curale RadwelJ, was over Mr Adams Litlle Holland, 1863-70; Curale of Snareslun, Leicester­ Campbell asked Claclon wilh to come and have tea shire, 187°-74; of East Keswick.in.Harewood, YOI ks, 1874'78; of ill his rooms, which he did, and he was so St Giles', Cam berwell, 1878.80; of St Mary, Woolnoth, 1881-3; of charmed with Adams that he decided to stay on Uptoll.wilh.Calvey, Bucks, 1883-86; Rector of Radnage, near TetswOI tb, at the College. In 1843 he went Died at the Rectory, 3 November. in for his Tripos and came Oxfordshire, 1886'99. out 4-th Wrangler, and he was afterwards [858-62: of (on 23 March 18,n) Rev William Ager (1845), Curate of Barningham, Suffolk, admitted a Head Master of Kim· Fellow of St John's. After Irlhlengborough, NOllbamptonshire, 1863-65; he had taken his e he became degre bollon Grammar School, Hunls, [86,-77; Curate of Eastleacb, Glouces­ very devoted to boating, and was Stroke in the tershire, 1877.80; of Longworth, Berks, 1880·82; Rector of Newton 2nd St John's boat in the Lent races Bromswold, near Rushden, 1882'99. Died at the Rectory, 29 April, and made twelve bumps, leaving it aged 78. Mr A::er married in 1868 Kezia, eldest surviving daughter of head of the river. He took pupils and remained up the late Rev R. A. Hannaford, Rector of Irthlingborou::h. at College till he was 27 years old, when the severe illness of Sir Edmund Antrobus (1841), Baronet, of Antroblls, co. Chester, and of his youngest brother, ]oscelin, made Rutherford, co . Roxburgh. Son of Sir Edmund Antrobus, born 3 Sept. it necessary for him to give up his 1818; to St John's from Elon. He married, 11 February 1847, College career, of which . came he was very fond, to take Man danghter of Sir George Dashwood, Baronet. He his brother out anne Georgina, to]amaica. His uncle, serv Wilts Yeomanry Cavalry, and was a Magistrate John Graham CampbeJl, ed for a time in the had several estates and Deputy Lieutenant for '''lilts, for which counly he served the office of there, and the brothers remained in that J-1Igh ShelifTin 188o, and a Magislrate for Surrey. He succeeded to the country a great many years. baronetcy in 1870. Sir Edmund sat as M.P. for East Surrey from 1841 to 1847, and was first returned for 'Vilton in March 1885 as a Liberal 232 O!JtlUa1'Y· Obtluary. 233 Conservativ , continuing to sit for that Co � nstituency till Feb�uary [877', when he retired from ParlIamenta ry life. Sa onhurst, Boscombe, agecl 62, and was buried at Sh irley. He He voted for the disestabli at x ment of tbe Irish Church sh_ in [868, and was in favour of a "comprehe married in 1865 Josephina, daughter of the late J. Balton Esq, of East measUl nsive e of national education, if possible on a Leigb, Hants. scIiptural basis." lfe died at his London residence, [6, Grosvenor CresGent, London, I aged April, 80. Francis Haden Cope (18H), died 26 April at Rawal Pindi, India (see Eagle XXI, 80). The Indim. Civz'l and Military Gazette, in announcing Mr Francis Beeb y (did not g raduate), only son of the Rev William Beeby Cope's death, adds; " The news will be received with genuine regret St John's (of B.A. 1857). Entered the College 2 February throughout the Punj ab, where for many years Mr Cope was widely [881, his name remaining on the Boards till 31 January 1888. ,nown and universally popular, Mr Cope was equally at home ill He was admitted a student l of the Middle Temple 21 January a ending all educational code, compiling a school mannal, writing 1881, and was called to the B m 26 January ar 1888. He manied in 1892 Jane Elizabeth, eldest articles for the public press, telling a good story, or-as hundreds will sl1l'vivini daughter of the late M. B. Benham tebtily who rem ember the suppers of some years ago in the P njab Club­ Esq. He was of Birkby HaU, u CumberJand, and a Fellow of the Royal Society turning out an unsurpassable Welsh rabbit from the Club bawarchikhana," of Literature. Died 20 March at the residence of his brother-in-law, West Kensing aged ton, 39; buried at Cross Canonby, Rev \Villiam Curtis (1844), Assistant Master at Marlbol'Ough College, 1841- 5[; M athematical Master Charterhouse School, 1857-60; Chaplain of :Rev Gilbert Beresford (1835), died at Tbe Priory, Roehampton, 1872-99. Latterly resided at 3, Cumberland Hoby Rectory, 4 January, aged 86 (see Eagle xx, j25). Road, Acton, London, W. Died there 25 July, aged 78,

Rev Samuel Blacl,all ([ 838), Robert Archibald Douglas (1849), second son of the Rev Henry Douglas (of admllted a Fellow of the College [9 March 1839, holding his Fellowship until 1848. St John's, B.A. 1815), Canon of DUlbam and sometime Rector of He was an Etonian ; PerpetLUll Curate of Ixworth, Suffolk, 1847-67; Salwarpe, born 15 October 1825. Admitted a student of the Inner Chaplain to Bishop Harold Browne, 1866- 73; Vicar of Earls Colne, Temple 28 April 1848, called to the Bar 26 January 1854. Practised as Essex, 1867-89; Rural Dean of Halstead, 1877-89.; Honorary Canon of Equity Draftsman and Conveyancer. Died 27 November at his residence, Ely, 1866-99; Chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester, 1873-99; Chaplain 14, Cromwell Crescent, Earl's Court, London, VV. to the General Hospital at Bury St Ed­ munds, 189°-99, Died at his residence in the Abbey Precincts, Bury St Edmunds, Rev Robert Stafford Edwards (1852), eldest son of Joseph Holbeche Edwarcls 11 November, aged 82. Canon BlackaU married in 186S R.N., born at Chatham 19 September 1828, whele his father, ho was of Penelope, daughter of w tbe Rev E. Gould, Rector of Sproughton, Suffolk. Amongst an ancient vVarwiclcshire family, was then stationed. Educated at Christ's his ancestors he was proud to reckon Dr Offspring BlackalI, H0spital and Huntingdon Grammar School. He played Clicket in the Bishop of Exeter, 1701-{8. He was distinguished for his courtesy, Univelsity Eleven three successive years. Chaplain to the Chester his kindly consideration of others, and his accurate and varied learning. Diocesan College, 1857-8; Curate of Packington, Warwickshire, 1858- 6o; of Dudley, 1860-62; of King swinfo rd, 1862-65; of Kenver, 1865-69; 'Rev Elihu Edmund Body (1845), Matbematical Master and Cbaplain of of Enville, 1869-73. He was afterwards engaged in private tuition, in Clapham Grammar School, 1845-52; Vicar ofWouersh, Surrey, 1852-92. which he was most successful, bis old pupils being scattered over the Latterly resided at 18, Chapel Park Road, St Leonards-.on-Sea; died whole world, Died 29 March at Monmouth House, vVatford, Herts, there 7 December, aged 82 ; buried at "\Vonersh. aged iO.

Rev Francis Henry Brett (1845), Head Master of Wirksworth Gramma.r John Thompson Exley (1838), died 7 September at his residence, I, Cotham School, 1851-59; Curate of Carsington, near \Vi,)csworth, 1855-59; Bristol, aged 83. Rector of Carsington, Road, 1859-99. Died at the Rectory, 2 December, aged 85. • Rev Henry B;'umeIl Finch (1873), Second Master of Whitclmrch Grammar School, 1874-82; Curate of Whitchurch, Salop, 1877-99; Vicar of Ash, VelY Rev Thomas Edward Bridge tt (did not graduate). Died 17 February near Whitchurch, 1882-99. Died at the Vicarage 8 November 1899, at St JHary' 5 Monastery, Clapham, aged 70 (see Eagle xx, 577). aged 50. Mr Finch's papers on scriptural and other subjects were much valued at clerical meetings. 011 account of his practical ability he was Rev William Brown (1843), admitted Fellow of the College 4 April 1843, chosen Chairman of the Parish Council of Whitchurch. His attainments holding it until 1852, in which year he was presented by the College tu as an antiquarian are shown in a pamphlet entitled Whitchurch i11 the the Rector of Litlle Hormeaci, Helts, tbis he resigned in 1886. He Rei{n 0./ Quem Elizabeth, in which be edited in a scholarly fashion some rebided lattelly at Westwood, St Mildred's Road, Lee, London, S.E.; ancient documents relating to the ?!l:auor. died there 27 January, aged 79. Mr Brown married, 2 December 1852, at St Ma,),'s, Surbiton, \Villi Frances, youngest daughter of the late Jobn am Shl'llbsole Foster (1860); appoi nted a member of the Madras Civil Wheeler Esq., of Prestwich, Manchester. He published in 1871 Note� Service after tbe examination of 1859. Served in Madras from November on the Lexic01t 0./Hes yclzius. 1861 as Assistant Magistrate and Colleetor and Sub-Collector. Appointed Fellow of the University of Madras, 1873. Collector and Magistrate anti Archibald Samuels CampbelI (1843), admitted a Fellow of the College Political Agent, Godaveri, from 1875 until his retilement in 1885. Died 17 March 1847. Died at Idd eoleigh, Torqll ay, 14 December, aged 79 3 [ August at his residence at Hoddesdon, aged 61. (see Eagle XXI, 229). Rev \V!l}iam Gibson (1849), Curate of Exton, co. Rutland, 1850-59; Rector Rev Thomas Lilford NeilI Cnllston (1859), Curate of Christ Church, Croydon, of Itlty, near Dunmow, Essex, 1859-99. Died 10 September at The 1860·66; Rector of St Matthew's, Croydon, 1866-99. Died 16 March \Vhite House, Ongar. VOL. XXI. HH 234 Obz'tua1'Y· Obituary. 235

Greaves (1850), 20 H author of the Rev Talhot Aden Ley died Feb ruary at Stoke ous e' Endowed Schools (Spaldiug, R. Appleby). He was the near Bristol, aged 72 (see Eagle xx, 584). First Athlet£c SpOlts at r..:ambr£d,r;e, which appeared in The article The . le XVI, 358. Rev John Green (18,p), sometime Curate of Shipton Moyne, near Tetbury Eag co. Gloucester; e Rector of Eyam, Derbyshire, 1860-84_ Latterl y resided Rev John Fothergill J nldn ([860), younger son of the late Can on J enkin, at 3, Pembroke Villas, The Green, Richmond, Surrey; died there Hector of Llangyniew, 1Iontgomery, and of Dowlais, co. Glamorg.n; 16 March, aged 82. Mr Green was the author of Funeral A Sermo1l• Curate of Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, 1862.63; of Mossley, Lancashire, published in 1852. 1863.65; of Rochdale, 1865-75; Vi car of Lydgate, near Lees, Oldham, 1875'99. Died at the Vicarage 20. May, aged 65· Rev William Greenwell (1843), Curate of Market WeightoD, 1844; of St Michael, Spurrier Gate, York, 1866'75. Latterly resided at Carr Rev ,Villiam Vistirin Kitching (1846), Curate of Gretworth, 1847'48; of Moun t, Ruswarp, Whitby; died there 30 March, aged 79. Brocldey, 1848-5�; of Carleton Road, 1852-60; Vicar of Great Fin. bororough, Suffolk, 1860'90; Rural Dean of Stow, 1870-93; Vicar of Rev Arthur Washington Cornelius Hallen ([858), died 27 March at The Little Finborough, Suffolk, 1885-96. Latterly resided at Great Fin­ Parsonage, Alloa, aged 65 (see Eagle xx, 722). borough, near Stowmarket; died there 3 November, aged 78. Mr h Kitching married in [866 Isabella, daughte r of the late J. Shepherd, Esq, Jo n Bailey Haslam ([866), admitted a Fellow of the College 5 November House. 1867, hold ing his Fellowship until 1873. Natural Science Master at Depnty Master of the Trinity l f o College, 1867.69; of St n r ew s, C i t n Warden Leo a d's Hall, St Andr ' Reginald Peter Northall Laurie ([875), only son of Peter Northall Laurie, of 1869'73; A.sistant Master Classical Department, Cheltenham College, Lincoln's Inn, Barrister.at·Law. Admitted a s tudent of Lincoln's Inn 1873'4; one of Her Majesty's Inspectors 1874-99. of Schools, Resided 27 December [87[, called (0 the Bar 17 November 1875. Mr Northall at Rugb . 19 y Died March, aged 55. His wife, Helen Maria, died Laurie was of the Commi,sion of Lieutenancy for the City of London and 11 June 1898 at Rugby. a J. P. for Middlesex. Died at 57 Sloane Gardens, I I June, aged 47· Mr elder, was 1832). Raymond John Horton Smith (1895), died 8 October at Davos, Switzerland, Peter Northall Laurie, the of Peterhouse (LL.B. aged 26 (see Eagle XXI, 94). He was the third son of Alexander Laurie, of Laurence House, East Lothian, Esq; he W:;lS admitted a student of Lincoln's Inn 14 February Christopher Howarth ([892), only son of Mr J. Howar(h, ofWallsuches, near 1829, was called to the Bar 22 November 1833 and died 21 Ap.il 1877. Horwich, Lancashire_ Called to the Bar at the Inner Te mple 19 November Henry ([891), 26 s a 1894. In 1895 he left London and joined his f:lther in the bleaching trade. Frederick Lewis died October at the London Fever Ho pit l, Died atWallsuches 27 February, aged 27. aged 32 (see Eagle XXI, 90). Rev John Robert Lunn (1853), admitted a Fellow of the College 27 March Edward Russell James Howe (1846), third son of Edward Russell James 1855, holding his Fellowship unlil 1864; Sadle.ian Lecturer, 1857.64; Howe, of Chart SuLton, Kent. Admitted a student of Lincoln's Inn Vicar of Marton.cum·GrafLol1, Yori

20 August 1897, at Bramcote, Slough, aged i2). Jl,lr S, Thompson was Rev Alexao,ler Poole (1855), Curate of Walton, co. Derby, 1855-57: of at oue time Captain in the Bucks Militia and afterwar ds a M ajor in the Christ Church, Salford, 1857-58; of St Mark' s, Brighton, 1858-61' 1St Bucks Rifle Volunteers. He was for some time a member of the Perpetual Curate of Bussage, co. Gloucester, 1861; Minor Canon an d County Council for Bucks, at one time Chairman of the Slough Local Precentor and Saclist of Bristol Cathedral, 1861-68; Curate of St Petel"s Clifton, 1862-68; R Board, and was a J.P. for Bucks. Died 13 February at his residence, Vicar of yde, Isle of Wight, 1868'91; Surrogate fa; Bramcote, Slo ugh, aged 78. the Diocese of Winchester, 1868 -99 : HOllorary Canon of Winchester 1890-99; Rector of West Meon, near Petersfield, 1891 '99; died at th� Thomas Toiler (1880), fifth son of Richard Toll er, of Stoneygate RectorY, 3 April, aged 67, ArtDur House, Knigh ton, co. Leicester, Solicitor, born at Knighton 28 Dec. 1857. His mother was Mary Bolton, eldest daughter 01 the late "Villialll Rev Frederick Reade (1830), Rector of Sutton-oo-Derwent, 1835-37; Per. petnal Curate of St Margaret's, Brighton, 1838-48: of St Mark's, Kemp Seddon, a member of the Midland Circuit. Admitted a student of the Town, Brighton, 1849-53: of St John th e Baptist, Hove, Sussex, Middle Temple 15 June 1878, called to the Bar 11 May 1881. Recorder of Leicester, 1895-99. Died 13 July at Tregunter Park, Tal garth. 1854-94. Chaplain to the Duke of Devonshire. Latterly resided at 41 Brunswick Terrace, Hove, Brigh ton ; died there 15 March, aged 90. Rev 'Villiam Robert Tomlinson ( 1 833), last surviving son of the late Admiral Samuel Oliver Roberts (1883), Assistant Master at Merchant Taylors School, Nicholas Tomlinson. Curate of Hove, Sussex, 1835-3i; Vicar of \.Vhite­ Died 3 I May at St Bartholomew's Hospital, aged 3<) (see Eagle XXI, 87), paJ ish, Wilts, 1837-78: Rector of Sherfiehl-English, Hants, 1837-92. Latterly resided at Btiarswood, Rodwell, "Veymouth j died there 6 Feb., John Baldwin Roby, youngest son of Henry John Roby (B.A. 1853). aged 88. Honorary Fellow of t he College. Admitted 14 October 1884, but did not graduate. Died 2 February at Douglas, Isle of Mall, aged 33. Charles John Cliff TOtlzel (1878). Curate of St Michael's, Coventry, 18i8-80: Rector of Heswell, near Chester, 1880 85. Availed himself of the pro­ Rev WilIiam Rotherham (1852), Assistant Master at Bury St Edmund's vision of" The Clerical Disabilities Relief Act 1870," and disclaimed his School, 1856-72: Rector of Somerton, near Bury St Edmunds, 18i9-99, Orders in 1885. He was of Rhysnall t Hall, Oswestry. He was gazetteJ Died 3 October, aged 70, a Captain in the 3rd Batt. Royal Welsh Fusiliers 17 March 1888. Died 24 Angust at the Cotswold Sanatorium, aged 44· Rev Charles Walker Simons, son of Willi"m Simons of Ullesthorpe, Lulter. worth, bom at Claybrook, co. Leicester in 1825. Admitted to St John's Rev Charles White Underwood (r844), Vice-Principal of Liverpool College. 10 May 1841, migrated to Queens' College (B.A. 18'18). Curate of 1853-65 : Vicar of Histon, near Cambridge, 1865-99 j Rural Dean of Darb ston, 1848-50: Perpetual Curate of Cradley, 1850-59: Rector of Chestel ton, 1876-92; Honorary Canon of Ely, 1875-99' Died at Histon Hlllfold, 1859-73: Rector of Saintbury, co. Gloucester, 1873-97. Died Vicarage, I [ November. 9 November at 12, Claremont Road, Leamington. Rev Richard "Vall (1844), first Incumbent (P.C.) of St Anne's, Birkenhead, Ernest Algemon Sp arks (186 1 ), second son of Thomas Hougham Sparks, of 1847-60; Head Ma,ter of Brewood Grammar School and Curate of London. Admitted a student of the Inner Temple 8 TUlle 1860, called Brewood, 1860-,2 j Vicar of St James', We51 Brolllwich, 1872.89; Rector to the Bar 30 April 1863. He malried 16 August di6 4 fllary, eldest of Drayton Basset, co. Stafford, 1889-97. Latterly resided at 21, Dun. daughter of the late Robert Alien, Esq, of SlIdbury, Suffolk. Clerk of raven Road, West Kirby, Bilkenhead; died there 24 May, aged 79. Arraigns on the Midhtnd Circu it, 1876-80: Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, 1880. Died at his re;idence, Suffok HOllse, Putney Hill, Rev Frank Bric1geman "Valter3, admitted to the College 9 Ju ne 1873, kept 27 March, aged 61. the Michaelmas Term 1873, when he migra ted to Queens' College, where he t ook the B.A. degree in 1877 and was afterwards Fellow of that Rev GeOl'ge Augustus Slarl

Rev WiIliam Farren White (1856), Curate of Holy Tr inity, Dover, 185 7-59 : Chaplain to Messrs S. VV. and H. A. Silver, Bishopsgate, and Silvertown, N. Wool wich, 1859-60 ; Curate of St Dunstan in the West, 1860-6 1 ; Vicar of Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, 1801-98. Died 17 July at Bourne. mouth, aged 66.

Rev Robert Esbury Whittington (187 I), Curate of Hartshorne, co Derby, 1870-72 ; of Swainswick, S omerset, 1873-82 ; Snnday MOlning Lecturer at Char lcombe, Bath, 1873-90 ; Master an d Chaplain of St J ohn's Hospital, Bath, 1892-99. Died 20 February ill London, aged 57.

Lewis WiIliams (186 1), eldest son of William Williams E�q, of Everton, co Lancaster. Admitted a Student of the Inner Temple 2 May 1861, called t o the Bar 26 January 1866. Died 15 January at his Chambers, 14 South Square, Gray's Inn, aged 58.

Rev John James Tall Wilmot (did not graduate), son of Joh n ,\Vilmot, of Cambridge, Printer ; born in Cambridge 18 t-farch [829. Entered St John'S as a ten year man 6 February 1856, but did not proceed to the B.D. degree. M.A. by the Archbishop of Canterbury 1 863. Assistant Master in the Classical Department Cheltenham College 1854-57. Curate of St Mary's, Chester, 1857-8 ; of St Luke's, Cheltenham, 1859-6 1 ; of St John's, Brixton, 1863-65 ; Perpetual Curate of St PhiIip, Old KC!lt Road, 1868-69 ; Curate of KenSington, 1869-75 ; Rector of Amptlull and Chaplain of the Ampthill Union, [875-90 ; rector of North Li lchfield. Hants, 1890-93 ; Vicar of Winterbourne Earls with Winterbourne­ Dauntsey, Wilts, 1893-97. Latterly resided at Harrington Moun t , Coc1dngton, Torquay ; died there 29 December.

John Windsor (1887), died 26 June at Bllrdwan, Bengal, aged 32 '(see Eagle. XXI, 89). Our Chrom'cle. 241

 On December 19, 1899, !'Ifr A. C. Seward (B.A. 1886), F.R.S., Fellow of the College and University Lecturer in Botany, was elected a Senior Fellow and Tutor in Natural Science at Emmanllel College. l\fr H. Woods (B.A. 1890) has been appointed University Lecturer in Palaeozool·ogy. G. Elliot-Smith (B.A. 1898). Fellow of the College, has OUR CHRONICLE. Mr been appointed University Demonstrator of Anatomy for five years, from I January Igoo. Lent Term 1 goo. The Rev Dr W. H. Barlow (B.A. 1857), Vicar of Islington, r was on Monday, December 4, at the Smithfield Club Annual The list of New Year's Honours includes the name or Show, at Islington, presented with an Illuminated Address by Mr H. H. Cunynghame (B.A. 1874). who has been appointed the Prince of Wales. Dr Barlow has fo r the last twelve years a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath conducted Divine Service for the herdsmen and shepherds on (Civil Division). tile Sunday evenings preceJing the show. The London Gazelle of February 16 announces that the r F. C. Bayard (B.A. 1874), who has been President of Queen has directed Letters Patent to pass the Great Seal in M the I\Teteorological 1899, 12 Scotland, appointing Sir T. D. Gibson-Carmichael (B.A. 1881) Society fo r the year was on January . a Trustee and Commisioner of the Board of Manufactures in elected one of the Secretaries of the Society for the year 1900 Scotland. At a meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have Society held on February 13. the Wildc premium was awarded appointed Lord Windsor (B.A. 1878) to be a Trustee of the to Prof A. W. Flux (B.A. 1887), fo rmerly Fellow of the College, National Gallery, in the place of the late Sir Henry Tate. for two papers on .. The cost of sea transport in proportion to value of cargoes" and .. The fall in prices during the last Captain Wilmot Hawkesworth Fawkes R.N. (Fellow Com­ twenty years." moner of the College 1872-76), lately Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, has been appointed first captain of At the anniversary meeting of The Geological Society of the new battleship Canopus. London held in February last the fo llowing members of the College were appointed officers of the Society:-Pymaml, Mr Edward Carpmael (B.A. 1871), President of the Chartered I\J r J. J. H. Teall, F.R.S. (B A. 1875) Vlce-Preslaents, Professor Institute of Patent Agents, has been j appointed by Mr Ritchie, Seeley, F.R.S. and Professor W. J. Sollas. F.R.S. (B.A. President of the Board of Trade, to 11. G. be a member of a Depart­ 1874). The Lyell Medal was awarded to !\Ir J. E. Marr, F.R.S. mental Committee upon the subject of patent fa cilities. The (RA. 1879), Fellow and Lecturer of the College, and part of the following are the official terms of the reference: "To consider various suggestions Barlow-Jameson Fund was awarded to Mr T. T. Groom which have been made for developing the (B.A. 188g). benefits afforded by the Patent Office to investors, and to report." Mr. W. H. R. Rivers (M.A. 1898) delivered a course of three Man " at the Royal Sir Clarke (I\f.A. 1894) hds been re-appointed Gilb y lectures on "The senses of Primitive E. � Ins 25, and February I. (University) Lecturer on the History and Economics of Agn­ titution, London, on January 18 and culture for the year Igoo. The authorities of University College School, London, have est Mr Graves, Fellow and Tutor of the College, has been ablished a Commercial Department in connexion with the SC ho nominated by the College Council a Governor of Aldenham . ol. Mr A. Kahn (B.A. 1889) has b.een appointed head of tIllS D School. in the room of Mr Sikes, who has resig' epartment. During the past sumluer Mr Kahn spent ned his place on Some methods.of commercial that Governing Body. time in Leipzig studying German education. e Dr D. MacAlister (B.A. 1877), Fellow and Tutor of th. Il Mr. R. Heron (B.A. 1893) has been appointed one of College. has been appointed a member of the Executive Counc . C. of the General Medical Council. 11 M. Inspectors of Schools in Ireland. VOL. XXI. II Our Chrometl!. 2-+2 Our Cltronz'cle. 243 Ds P. H. Winfidd (B.A. and LL.l3. 1899) was, on Friday, I Ds A. S. Lnpton (B.A. 1898) and Ds D. Todd (B.A. 1898) have been successful in the recent competition for appointments 19 January, elected to ': MacMahon Law Studentship. Mr field was placed first III the Fast Part of the Law Tflpos of in the Rome Civil Service. Mr Lupton has been appointed Win a and first in the Second Part of the Law Tripos of 1899. First-Class Clerk in the Inland Reyenue Office and Mr Todd 1898, a First-Class Clerk in the Board of Trade. An election of Naden Divinity Students was held on Friday, ary. There were two Studentships vacant, one vacated Mr A. A. G. Wlight (resided 1895-7), who has been Master 19 ] anu of the High School at Poona, has been appointed Master of the by Ds W. L Waiter in the ordinary course, and one, tenable fo r Elphinstone High School, Bombay. one year, vacated by Ds R. F. Pearce, who has accepted a curacy. J. H. A. I-Iart (B.A. 1898) was elected to a Studentship fo r At a meeting of the Royal College of Physicians London 1)s of t Ilree years ; Ds C. Elsee (B.A. /898) was elected to a Student­ held on January �6, Waiter L, Brown (B.A, 1892) M.B., B.C. ship (until then held by himself and Ds Rart jointly) fo r two was admitted a mem ber of the College. The fo llowing gentle­ years; Ds T. A. Moxon (B.A. 1899) to a Studentship for one men, having conformed to the bye-laws and regulations, and ear. passed the required examinations, had licenses to practise physic y granted to them at this meeting: T. Gillespie (B.A. 1897), Sermons have been preached in the College Chapel during St Bartholomew's; O. Inch ley (B.A. 1895), St BartholoITjew's. the past Term by Professor Mayor, Jan uary 21; Mr Bushell, The two last�named gentlemen were on 22 February admitted ]\faster of Harrow School, February 11; Mr A. J. Robertson, Members of the Royal College of Surgeons of El1g1and, Vicar of Lady 1\tI-argaret Cliurch, Walworth, February 25; and by Mr Cox, March 10. The Royal College of Physicians of London have appointed Dr F. J. Waldo (B.A. J 874) and Dr P. Rorton-Smith (B.A. 1889) An examination for the election of' one Choral Student will to deli'ver the Milroy and Goulstonian Lectures respectively. be held in the College Hall on Wednesday, May 2. The Studentship will be awarded to a Bass singer. Further and Mr P. W. G. Sarge�lt (B.A. 1894) M.B., B.C., L.R.C.P.; fl1ller information may be obtained from either of the Deans, M.R.C.S., has been appointed Hou.se-Surgeon at St Thomas' the Organist, or from any one of the Tutors. Hospital. Ds R. F. PeaFce (B.A. 1897) was adjudged to be Mr W. N. Maw (B.A. 1891), LC.S., Commissioner of Excise, Proxzl1t1· &c., Central Provinces, India, has been appointed to officiate as accesst"1 fo r the Crosse (U niver sity)'. Scholarship awal ded in December last. Deputy Commissioner, Damoh. l\Tr de Souza (B.A. 1893), LC.S., Assistant Judge at Ds P. a M. Parker (B A. 18q7) has passen the examination F. X. for Associale l\lembership of the Institution of Civil Ahmedabad, has been appointed additional Sessions Judge in Ellgineers. the Ahmedabad Sessions Division. Ds M. Hornibrook (B.A. 1898) has been appoi nted Private l\Ir C. A. R. Townsend (B.A. 1896), LC.S., Assistant Com­ Secretary to the Rt Ron John Alkinson M.P., Attorney General for lreland. missioner, Umballa, has been appointed to officiate temporarily as Cantonment Magistrate of Kasauli, Punjab, from 29 November Ds E. F. D. Bloom (B.A. 18q9) has passed, with honours in last. Mathematics, the final examination fo r the degree of B.Sc. at the U ive si y of London. Mr P. S. Patuck (B.A. 1898), LC.S., Assistant Commissioner, n r t Chanda, is transferred to Wardha, Central Provinces, India. Ds A. B. Field (B.A. 1899) has been appointed Electrical Engineer to the British Thomson-Houston Company. . W. M. Crawford, LC.S., whQ has been Assistant Commis­ Sioner at Mandla, is appointed Personal Assistant to the Chief Miles Walker, Scholar of the College, has been appointed COmmission'er, Central Province, India. Electrical Engineer to the Westinghou.se Company at Pittsburg, D. United States. The Rev H. Jones (B.A. 1865), Rector of Upper St Leo­ nard's, has been appointed a Canon ResiLielltiary ill Chichwster F. Feignonx (advanced stu.dent 1898-99) has obtained the Cathedral. highest honours in the examinations for the" Certificat d'apti­ l'enseignment de l'anglais dans les lycees et Colleges" The Rev Canon 1- N. Qu irk (B.A . 1873), Rector of Bath, tude a as b . . held in by the French Government,and has been appointed � een elected Proctor in ConvocatIOn for the Diocese of Paris ath and ''''ells. a Profc:ssor in the Lycee Michelet, Vauves. Our ClzrontCle. 244 Our Clzromde. 245 The Rev G. Hodges (D.A. 1874-), Vicar of St James', Tbe following University appointments of members of the nllry Harker to be St Edmunds, has been appointed an Honorary Canon of Ely College have been made since our last issue :-Mr Foxwell to Cathedral. an Elector to the Harkness Scholarship; Mr H. S. an Examiner for the Moral Sciences Tri pos 1900; 1\1rH. R. Rev A. W. Greenup (RA. 1889), Principal of the Lon be The don nham to be an Examiner in French for tlte Additional College of Divinity, has been nominated by the Bishop of London Totte ects of the Previous Examinations in 1900; Professor 1I. l\f. as one of his representatives on the Council of the Society for Subj Gwatkin to be Chairman of tbe Examiners for tbe Historical Clerical Study. in 1900; Mr F. F. Blackman to be an additional Member TripoS of the Special Board for Biology and The following ecclesiastical appointments are announced: of the Degree Committee Geology ; Mr H. F. Baker to be Chairman of the Examiners for to Nam� B.A. F"om Tv be the lVlatbematical Tripos, Part Il, [900; Mr H. S. Foxwell Causlon, E. A (1862) R. Soulh Shoebury R. Fairslead be Chairman of the Examiners for the Moral Sciences Tripos Hartley, T. P. (r888) C. Ulverslon V. Colton-in-Furness, Lan. of the Auditors of the Univer­ cashire 1900; Mr J. R. Tanner to be one Winlaw, a 1899; W. H. Gunston to be an G. P. K. (1894) C. St M ry's, Chelten· R. MOl'den, Surrey sity Accounts for the year Mr ham Examiner in the Mathematical Subjects for the General Ex­ W. Covington, (I866) V . .lhompton , London R. St Giles in the Fields, amination for the ordinary B.A. degree in the year 1900; Mr London our's W. n H. Gunston to be a Governor of St Olave's and St Savi Legg, P. (1888) Lon. Diocesan Home V. St Simo , Saltram C,es. W. years from Missionary cent, Paddi glon Grammar School Foundation, Southwark, for five n of the Board Manby, A. L. (1880) formerly C. Whitby V. Penn-Street, Bucks. 19 May 1900; Dr D. MacAlister to be a Member Mason, H. E. (189 [) C. Churchsloke, V. Beltws.y.Cruen, Clun, of Electors to the Professorship of Anatomy to 20 February 1908 ; Shrew&bury Salop W. H. Hudleston to be a Member of the Board of Electors Jones, ([886) C. Sandeord St Martin, J\1r G. Clewer V. to tbe Woodwardian Professorship of Geology to 20 February Oxfordshire the Board of Electors Blunn, J. H. (1867) Chaplain R.N. R. Franklon, Rugby 1908; Professor Liveing to be a Member of Dodd, C. E. ([891) C. Whitchurch, Salop Ash, Salop rsbip of Natural Philosophy to 20 Feb. V. to the Jacksonian Professo a a A. (1882) C. ShaTurbinia was built, and Dr H. Howard Tooth (B.A. 1877) has been appointed Civil fitted with engines of 2,000 actual horse-power. Many trials Physician to the Portland Field Hospital for service in connexion were made with various propellers, but the speed obtained was with the war in South Africa. very disappointing o,wing to the excessive slip and inefficiency of the forms used. 1\'[r Parsons here digressed to explain the Mr C. H. Reissmann (B.A. 1895), who has been selected as 'c which wasted the power, giving Civil � avitation" phenomena an Surgeon in the Army Medical Service during the war in Illgenio demonstration of the vortices formed South us experimental in Africa, is serving on board the transport MajesHc in charge the screw, and pointing out that the best of wounded water by the revolving and invalids flOm the front. way to avoid them was to have a coarse pitch on the screw and a he Mr J. A. H. Bri ncker (B.A. 1895) M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., has large blade area. Returning to the Turbinia, de�cribed ho h new been appointed a Civil Medical Officeron special service with w she was radically altered and fittedwit turbines. These the Army in South Africa. consisted of three separate engines-high pressure, intermediate, low pressure-each driving one screw shaft, and each shaft On Friday, 26 January, and the Hon C. A. Parsons .(B.A. J 877) carrying three propellers. These alterations had a marvellous delivered a Lecture at the Royal Institution entitled JIIIolive dkct. The speed was doubled and 32i knots authenticated on Power, High Speed, Steam TlIrbi'lles, giving an account of t he the measured mile, while when the vessel was at the Naval Review work he has done in this new It branch of engineering. We was estimated that Hi were attained. There was but l1ttle take the following summary of the J lecture from Tile Times of V \.Jration, and the engines worked very economically. After 2 +8 OUI' CltromCle. Our CM07ZZd�. 249 this success larger works were constructed at Wal1send-on-Ty ne, have been purchased by him at the Constable sal e . For and contracts entered into with the Admiralty for building to account of Dr John Burton, see ante, p. 1°9. a torpedo-boat destroyer with a displacement of 350 tons to some have a speed of 3' knots. The engines were similar to those £ s. d. RTON (John). COLLECTIONS FOR THE of the Turbinia, but there were two distinct sets working four 2+86 BU screw-shafts, each of which carried two propellers. The two SECOND VOLUME OF THE MONASTICON EnORA" CENSE Iow-pressure turbines acted on the two inner shafts, which also (ofwMch only Vol. I was printed in 1758). carried the reversing turbine that enabled the vessel to go back­ Folio, AUTOGRAPH MS. of over 1000 pp. with wards. The boilers and auxiliary engines were as usual on Such £tlnumerable rough d,'awi1tgs of arms and mont/­ ships, and the dc:stroyer, which was named the Viper, could be ments j hf. calfneal About 1748-60 36 0 ° manceuvred like an ordinary twin-screw vessel. On her second An invalnabie contribution to the topographical trial trip she attained a mean speed of 34'8 knots, her fastest history of Yorkshire. It is in a condition of almost trial being over 35 knots, or about 4' statute miles, per hour, complete readiness for the press, and is entirely in the with an indicated horse-power of , ',000. The Viper was thus autograph of Dr Burton, representing the continuous labour of about twenty years or more. It ts based the fastest vessel afloat. After commenting on the great ratio upon the earlier worl, of James Torr, and incorporates of her steam expansion, the steam entering her high-pressure the compiler's transcript of Ton"s history so far as it engines through an 8 in. inlet, while it left the low-pressure had gone. Burton died in 177 r, having recently sold this unpublished Vo!. II to Sir ,William Constable. It turbines through an outlet 4- ft. square, Mr Parsons concluded his lecture by sketching a few types of vessel in which his h as since remained in close hiding. and was not even recognised by the man who had it bound a few years turbines might be used. One was a cross-Channel boat, with ago. He took J. B. [or John Borough, and has caused a length of 270 ft., a beam of 33 ft., and a tonnage of 1,000. the binder to letter the book ,. Sir John Borough' s She would carry 600 passengers, and with engines of ,8,000- Yorkshire Collection "-Sir John Borough, G.lI'ter, who died in 1643, havi g never had an t ing tQ do with horse power attain a sea speed of 30 knots, against the 19-22 n y h the gathering of the materials. They are due to the uuited now reached. Another was a small unarmoured cruiser, with and successive labours of two great Yorkshire anti, a length of 420 ft. , and a rlisplacement of 2,800 tons. Provided quarians, Jarnes Torre and John Burton. with eight propellers and engines giving 80,000-horse power she would be able, if necessary, to maintain a speed of 44 knots The following item occurs in a sale catalogue of Mesrrs for eight hours. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge l it realized £ 30. The following items occur in a sale catalogue of Autograph CLOG. AN ANCIENT" CLOG" OR PERPETUAL ALMANACK; 479 Letters : of Crab-apple wood, r 8; in. long by It in. broad, in BRONTE velY good preservation, undated (Rev. Patrick, Father of Charlotte Bronte) A. L. s. I p. 8vo, July22, 1857, to the Editor of the Manchester Examiner # % This interesting and ancient " Clog," or Notched-Stave and Times in reference to his controversy with Mrs Gaskell, ;� together with a letter (Il pp. 8vo) from a friend of his (W. Almanack is identical, even to minute details in almost Dearden); also to the Editor of the Examiner and Times, all the Symbolism, with a Clog in the Library of defending him (Rev P. Bronte) against the mis-statements St John's College, Cambridge. In most respects the two agree with another, larger, Clog in the British in Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte. Thl's laller IS most 111lporla1tl. Museum. Dr. Plot has described a similar one in the Bodleian (ofwMch an MS. account arid a drawing of the COLERIDGE (S. T.) A. L. s. 3 full pp. 8vo 23 Aprzl, ,823, to his Clog accompany this lol). The system for the Golden son Derwent at St. J olm's College, Cambridge, a very Number is the usual one of the Roman notation, with affectionate letter, principally on family and private matters, the letter cyphers placed vertically to suit the arrange­ and says:- ment fo r space. The first, or January side, contains will write aga in as soon 84 days, from Jan. I to March 25; the second side I as ever I can put the last hand to my t. of which is grown Elemm Discourse from a mere Pistolette in to an ad lt Blunderbuss, contains 91 days, from March 26 to June 24; the third without n any pun on the Canons of Logic. side, 98 days, from June 25 to Sept 30; and the fourth sice, 92 days, from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31. It has 66 Sym­ The fo llowing item occurs in a catalogue I\ISS of books and bols and Mark days. A small brass ring, for suspending issued by the late Mr Beruard Quaritch on January!. It seems the instrument, is in the upper end. VOL. XXI. KK Our CJl?'OlUCU. 2 5[ 250 Our Chrome/e. was the Ilcsh to our head and who in the enu ]OHNIANA. perpetual tb?11l in mast�r, y dlSllllssed. quietl house; we were a very happy and. contented set in the school " Cambridge, On the wbole 'I1,ere j, tradition that the Venerable Bede studied at and an master) we were only other boarding house was that of Green the second house Ileal' St john's College is still shewn as the house, built on tbe Spot (the for one could nd ahllndantIy fe d: we had sometllnes mu'teal evemll"S,b where the house was in which he studied, called Bede's house. It is the \\,ell a tue ante, another the violin, while some conld ;ing. comer one opposite the Round, St Sepulchre's, Church, the corner next p].IY we 01' we seldom saw excepting when perllaps once in a half year Jesus College (MSS. Cole xxv, Brit. Mus. Add!. MSS. 5826, fo!' 23b.). Mrs. F.vans witb her. were a,ked in to tea or sup.per of age, sometimes Johl1 Davic\ Evans, their little son of two or three years and III our room anc\ was lifted 011 to tbe table 101' general in.pection Although Mr Woodfall always declared he never knew any particular npl'earecl author of Junins, think fr om circumstances that Rosenhagen was iLlllll!'lCment. I an was not a witlt occasional negociator; he was known to live afterwards in Paris, at great Now what can I say about our Headm:l,stel'? He man or Kennedy of Shrewsbury: he expense without any visible means. once mentioned the subject to Professor vel y ominent characteristics like Dr Amolcl I 1" was provoked, there was 1I0 Mainwaling, who said he recollected Rosenhagen as Fellow at St John'S, and W,IS a very quiet reserved man, he ' not easily his name there called to mind a wretched pun made upon it by one of the sudden ebullition of wratll. : his heart was in his Johnian Society who was going downstairs when Rosenhagen was scraping have no recollection of allY severity of punishment I was well known that he on his fiddle with his door open: Mr Rosenhagen," exclaimed he, "if wOlk: tllough he "'as such an accomphshed sch"lar it "0 and the Tragedians before you will persist in scraping upon your fiddle for heaven's sake rosin.again spellt hours over difficult passages in Thu,cydides in Cambriuge that his interpretations of your fiddle stick." [Cradock's Memoirs iv, '34-5, Philip Rosenhagen was he heard the lessons, and it was said admitted a Fellow of the College IO March 1761.] such passages were never improved upon. enabled him to tum out so many 1 have often wondered what it was which (j,st cl.tos men at the Universities. in school, and we We take the following Reminiscences of Sedbergh School (18'�2-3) by the As to Mathematics very little time waS devoted to them evenings once or twice Rev E. D. Ward, Vicar of Upton, Birkenhead (B.A. ,847), from 77u in tbe school b,ouse had o.nly an el(tra lesson in the Sedberghian for November ,899. On the Rev John Harrison Evam (B.A. a week. to his su,ccess as school- 1828), see The Eagle xv, p. 479-80, note. One thing I think which greatly contributed a in the upper forms. I entered Sedbergh School in 1842, more tban half a century. ago; my master was the remarkable working spirit which el(isted boys: there was a healthy emulation among father was a clergyman in Carlisle. In those days Cumberland sent, as she If Evans worked hard so did the has since, many of her hard-headed sons to Sedbergh-in my days I{i�'g of them. for boys to read St John's, and Gunson of Christ's, both Fellows of their respective Colleges, Before ell;arninations it was not an uncommon thing in out the marks the latter a double first, were Cumberland men. their bedrooms as soon as it was Iigb.t, and the readillg 01 as much eagerness My firstintr oduction to Sedbergh was on the ev�ning of a winter's day, obtained in the several subjects was lookecl fo rward to with when the ground was covered with snow-l had walked from Kendal, anu as the pnblishing of Hsts in College or Senate House. of the school was reached the old School when it was dark. Then Evans in his plivate character and conduct impartial: he hau no Well I remember my first interview with Mr Evans. He was not the man irreploacbable; he was a Christian gentleman, just ancl which a boy migllt to terrify a new comeI'; he received me kindly, and aftu a few word,-his lilllenesses and no peculiarities of speech or demeanour . words were always few-I was committed to the care of the commander-in­ (asten on and ridicule. I heard of him speaking in public: he chief who looked after and supplied my bodily wants, and in due cOUlse was He was no.t a public Illan: never introduced to my companions, who to the best of my recollection numbcreu Ilcver atldressedthe boys collectively. thoughtful sermons, a about 25 to 30. Sometimes he preached in the church: good solid CUI who was perpetually raving agaillst I had been in an inferior school at Carlisle and was, I think, hardly fit for g�'eat contra,t to those the then ate, of in those days tte second class, in which I was placed. ulSRentcrs. they were not ClIltLvated I can remember what painful laboUl' I spent over the repetitions. As to the game, a,nd an,usem.ents, clicI

\ d Master of tbe Savoy and t 1648, 12 July. O,dered That : 1\11' Bon me mor of the jus is blessed · ; Evans was j ust and he W;lS not AlIno day , Tit\! y 'I ll Sed wick be desi r<:d to pI e clt before this House, 011 this ust l3east." )\[1 Ubadiah g � . j fo r the many late great Vlctol1es -bight, the Day of publlck ThanksgIVIng, .ven the Parliament al by the Mercy of God upon Force in the Sever [The following notes on John Bond the Commonwealth stowed �� House of v. p. 6 33· k of the Kingdom. Jo urnats of the Comm01'l$, Master of Tl illi ty Hall al e ta n from Cole's MSS. vi, p,"ts e ust 11, �648 : Ordered tbat Mr Bond be desired to pray Brit. d l . MSS. 5807. He is there giving all Aug before tbe }411S. A, q 1l 0 ns the next fa,st day. Ibid. v. 667· account of the Masters of Trini ty Hall. J Com 1 to o nd do, fr om this House, give thanks August 30, Ordered That Mr B born a,t a t e of Commons this �645· John Bond LL.D. was Dorch ester in Dorsetshire and sent tQ l3und for his gre t pai ns iu Praying befOl e h House �t Joh )\1r. 'vV estminster, il bei n a day of publ ic Uumilia,tion. n ' s College in Cambridge where he took the degree of LL.B. and at St Margaret's, g t d�Y ,vas for a time Lecturer in Exe er ; and being a violent Puritan was made p. 692• e e r be a Day preacher of the Savoy and one of tbe Assembly of Divines and LL.D. an ibid, 18 December. Ordered, That Friday next 22 Dec mb d I b48, r 1 at I\l arga et s, 'vV est­ 11 December 645 was made 1\�aster of the Savoy. On the death of Dr u l ck Humiliation for both Houses of �'adiament ' p b i e a Eden (who by the by ept his Mastership of t Cokay n e a,nd Mr. Bond be d e"i d to p re ch on that day k through the indulsence of the Illinster and hat Mr , University Visitors in 1643) this Dr Bond was, on the refusal of Mr Selden, vi, iuid p, lOO. to whom it was offered made }4aste� of this ColJeg-e. Though Le Neve Hut on 21 Der.ember is this Order. know, that insteac\ of Mr 1)laces Dr I<-ing as being elected October 28, 1645. which and Tbat the Lprds have commanded us to l t you may be true, e r ' was not supposed to k eep it, in all pr l i 1\Ir Ra linsol l to preach tOlllorrow at Ma garet s, obabi ity by tbose in author ty at tbat Bond, they have nominated w time. In 1654 he was 102. made an Assistant to tbe Commissioners in }4iddlesex "\\-cstminster £bid. p. \lod Westminster for ejecting those whome they called scand:jlous and a fO,ur o'clock, a ignorant Scholemasters and Ministers. Anthony \V �Qd is yery severe upon Thursday mornin g [2 1 September 1780J bout half past t Park, e een lh� Rev Mr Bate and Mr Rich ard­ �im callin g him " an impudent canting Person, wbo by his Doctdne did l ead Duel was fough in Hyde b tw b i t College, Cambridge. rhe people to Re ell on, aqvance t�e cause of Satan much, and in fine by his son, a s u dent of the law and late of St John's s n from c ertain wnrds that were used by illld the endeavours of his Bret hren brought all things t o ruin meeIly to cause of their di a,greem ent origi ated advan ce their unsatiable anq ambitions cours� of an altercation that took place between tbe general designs." He seems also to bave 11r Bate in the been a ecrui er P of Mornin g Paper, of which Mr Richardson �s oue. R t in the Long Parliament though one of tbeir Divines (See bol\y of tbe roprietors a , r ced the offeQce, consisted plu,'a in my vol. B, p, (28). At length upon the bappy Restoration of parti ul r expression which immediately p od u c a ­ Tue conduct of the Proprietors (speak Charles the 2nd, this man being then about 49 years of age thought fit to in a di l cct intimation from Mr B. that the a instances, been cl and stine I'elire to Lutton in Dorsetshi re, where he died about (he year 1680. His ing of the whole collecti ely) had in sever l recent e v the A rms on t e MS. extreme. In comeq ence of freqnent repeti ioJlS of h Table are thus blazoned : 0 a Fess S. and cowardl y in the u t , ar a l t ter to 1\1r Bate ex­ He was son' to Dcnnis Bond, and both fa ther anq son Members of the latter e pression, 1\1rRi ch dson the 11ext day senl e x himself as par­ ltump Parliament in 1648. CIl!mel1t Walker s, His tory of In depel/dency. pressing his resentment at the expr�ssiun and considering ' ie . In a M in m s a. letlers passed between the part s S . the Public Library is a Trl\ct wrote by one Mr William ticipalory in the com on t ig'11 Several a m Rate a poi i ng Time, Whiteway, Burgess in Parliament fo r Dorsetshire in 1626 ;, in it i, pdvatt; l en g th Mr Rich rqson sent a for al repl y to Mr p nt a At of the first fir" Chronology and tries l'Jace and Veapon s . They accordingly met and tue chance these en : v , n a a , ( , alic\ hit Mr Rich ld on in the An. 1610, Co : Den is Bond married co. Jo ane Gould. fa lli11g to Mr B te he disch rged his pi ol u b not sufficient to An 1 6 1 1 . My co. John Bond of Cam ri dge lJurn . This was prob,al,ly the il e,hy part of the l igh t ann, The wound however was V wh ch he did, but wiluout effect. The �I"ster of TJ inity Hall v, my ol. 31, p. Ii9. incapacitate him from returning the fire, i Sec o him n �fr Bate bei ug asked whether he thell a l ng account of in Ward's Greeltmn f'rofessurs, 24 7. Sccullds now interposed and o , nt p. c1uubt he replied in the most See an accou of him inHut chills' Hi,tory of D.JrJetJhiu i, 205, 206. entertained a of Mr Richardson's courage, full t t doubted it : 208. explicil m an ner, that he nei her did doub it, nor ever had and an in t rpreta tion to an , Anno 1644, 3 Jul . Ordered that the humble Petition of John Bono" but that �[r Richardson had precipitately annexed e o y it to convey. Upon this }i i11ister of tbe Sav y, he referred to thc consideration of the C(),m m ittee of eXI " e,sion uf his, which he had never intended t ­ . i usted h Seconds mutually declar the "\Ve t . Jo urnals of the House of Commons, ii , 550. cxpl.l1lation the affair was ultimately adj e h a ui tt d themselves with the most Nov . 4, 1644. Resolved, That all the Profits, with the arrears, helol1gi11� i11g that the gen tl emen on both sides ad cq e [c et r \p the I\laster of the Savoy, suall be paid to Mr Bond, the pl esent Mi11ister, honour, spi it and resolutioLl. pc, of SHtUl'day, and that he sh all enjoy the same profits in as ample a mallnef as Dr Baban­ [Quoted Irom Th e Ca mbridge Chronicle r Cole. BJilish Museum, qual, lute l\Iaster, enj oyed them ; and that the sequestered Goc,ds in the 22 Septembe 1780 by Cole, 1\ISS. o tbe l etters whicll L dgins of the Master of the Savoy, amounting to 97/i. 6s. be disposed Add!. MSS. 58i9' Col e adds " See of n te of 12 llnd left to the use of Mr Bond, £bid. 685. passed between them in tbe English Chro ic ,eL si ble. Anno r 645, 29 Dec. An ordinance for a uthorisi ng the Commi ssioners of September 1780, and both very l ' St John's in 1774 the G reat S eal to pass a Palent under the Gre t Seal of a GIant to Mr John On J oseph Richardson who en tered a the Dictionary of Bond of tbe Mastership of the Hospital of tue Savoy for life. £Md. 289. See 'vVright's Hist01J' of Hexltam, n l Gmttemall's Maga zine Anno 1646, 26 March. Upo rcadi ng the bumble petilion of the Fel ows Na tional Biography il 1!d Th e of Hall, shewing : That whereas it halh I-Ionses of for 1803 602-3]. Trinity pleased both . p. :raJ liamellt, aft er an order of Restraint, to restore them the liberty of chooslllg fit t t The two to Titus Oates are taken a Master, who is and capable by their Sta u es to be approved by both following extracts relating from the • Act Bnok ' Houses, wheleupon the Petilioners have unanimously chosen John Bond of Dr Gilbert Sheldon, Alchbishop of Canterbury. It will be t Civil law, m e A d ee to i Doctor of he a Member of their House and do desire Apprl?­ obsel "cd tuat Oates describes hi s l f a Bacbelor of rts, a egr wh ch the sal never a ttai 11 d, justifying Baker's statement that " He was a Lyal' fr om batioil of both Houses-Resolved that this House doth approve of the £\ he e beginning." He as inducted icar of Bo bing 13 March 167i, e:lccliulI. Journal. etc. iv, 489. \ltc w V b resign- 25 t Our Clzromde. Our Cllrom'cle. 2 55 ing the living 1689 when in he removed into Sussex. . The Archbl hop Qun hardly be blamed [or acceptin·g the statement MATHEMATICAL EXAMINATIONS, December ) that Oates was B.A., 899· even in whell these days of cheap prin t ng the U l ver i l i sity leaves it to private enter prise to inform _ Th ird Ye ar. Second Ye m'. First Ye ar. us in an accessible fo rm, who is a graduate of Cambridge. First Titus Oates, clerk, Bach l Arts, First Class. Fi rst Class Class. e or of exbibited a pI es ntat on of e i himself I. Division I. Division 1. to his Grace (obteyned f, om George t DivisitJ n Moore, pa ron to the icar e Bobbing in the County ) V ag of Slator of Kent, lllld pray'd institution which, thereuppon, 2. Divisio n CHllningham upon his petition, was granted him, Division 2. to by Fiat dated l\!(al ch the sth [i. e, 167·�J . 1672 Casson Scott Guduard Balak Ram Franklin Titus Otes Batc1lelour of Arts Robinson, M. H. Gharpurey Division 2. and clerke, Vicar of Bobbing in the County of Kent, petitione Locl{(on King d his Grace fo r bis Dispellsation to absent ar himself from Ilis said V i c idge by reason of the unwho ol l e Second Class. Kennelt les l en ss of the Ayre of that place, Which accoluingly glan t e! Fiat Second Class. Stradling e I.\nto him by ua,ted the 14th ay September 1671!. u of poole Webb Second Class. Havelock Roseveare Hough El\t ract from (. The Lives of n,i n n f E e t and Remarkable Characters, Born Th ird Class Allowed the Exam. Tlz ird Class. or .ong Re.iclent in the Counties of Essel(, Sulf"Jk, and Norfolk " (1820). ] Wiles Wailer Horton Agrotant. EDMUND HICKERINGILL. Allowed the Exczm. Beechey This eccentric person was a native of Ess�x, and was born in 1630. Sneath Chalmers was first ad He mittee! as a peusioner at St John's College, a C m bridge, and was afterwards, ill 1650, j u i o INTER-COLLEGIATE EXAMINATION IN Der.ember n r bachelor of Gonville and Caius College. LAW, 1 899. him vVe lint! suhsequently a lieutenant in tbe English army in Scotland ; and next First Class. Second Class. Third Cla ss. captain in General a Fleelwood's regiment, when be was r r amba,sauor in Eng­ (none) Latif D ornho st land fo r C a ol liS Gustavus of Sweden. He after this made a voyage to Sotltham Jamaica, probably in a military capacity ; and on his returnin 166Q, publi an acc ,hed Van Zijl ou nt of that island, in qual to, Ullder the lille of " Jamaica Viewed." This work was dedicated to Char le;; H., amI procured for the aut hor, fr om CLUB. that monarch, th ap e pointment of Secretary to the Earl of LADY MARGARET BOAT oi vV indsor, who was g ng out as governor of Jamaica. This office, however, l\!(r Hi ckel ingill Ptesident-Mr L. H. K. Bushe-Fox. Tnasunr-Mr R. F. Scott. declined, having resolvee! upon entel ing into the CajJtai1l-J. H. Beith. 2mlC a ta n-G. A. T ceh st. Ju nior Tr easurer­ ac or clerical proles,ion. He p i i ur c dingly look orders, and was presented first 10 the vicarage of BraxteJ, ,\V. M. Royds. Secretary-M. C. Cooper. Captains-R. C. in Essex, in October, Htm. Lent t662 j and soon afterwards to the rectory Blowning, P. B. Haigh, J. H. Towle, W. Kerry. Colchester. of All Saints, He resigned the l v fo rmer i ing in 1664 j but retai ed lalter s ll the to the end of hi life. He was, however, The rowing man this term has existed, but nothing more_ conti nually givil,g high o ence to e lr Iris clerical breth r n, by the pu blicat n a Frost, snow, influenza, the peculiar ills which attend the oars­ io of scurrilous t t:(c s on the Church. 'I FIe was k a ln an," says NeWCollrt, ill his .. le H epertoriul'n,," though episcopal ly man, and finally floods have all combined to heap disaster on ordained, yet publicly bade defiance to a the prel cy, :(ud that of h is OWl1 our heads. A melancholy tale of unrewarded effort has cul­ dioc s n in a c a rn e a p rti ul r : an i p e t, viulent ud ll and ignorant fe lluw, very minated suitably in the over-bumping of First Boat. troublesome as fa r as he could, la' his the light leverend diocesan, aud to all that lived near him." He died November . Three boats competed in the races. A fourth boat had been 30, l708 ; and was !Juriec[ in the Church of All Saints, Colchester. an A long complimentary a practice all the term, and was considered to have had w epit ph, in Latin, III as inscr ibed on his tomb, a pal t of which, cllm pri,i ng the fo llowing passage, excellent chance of "getting on." Unfortunately, when the was afterwards effaceu, it is said by order of Bishop Crompton. "Reverendus clay of ordeal arrived, the crew was found wanting. A combined ad mouum dominus-tam marle quam ar l\lelculio cl us Cjuippe qui tel ra o blighted their hopes. marique militavit non .ine or nslaught by the crabs which infest the gut gl ia j ingeniique vires sCl iptis multiplice ;rrgumento insignilis demonstravit, T unspeakable weather fr.o m Feb. &c." " The very leverene!-enlinent botll he races were rowed in 2 7 in war and litel ature, having ou a on account f ght with honor on land and sea, and evinced to March after having been postponed for week t he powers 2. of his mind in excellent wri i n s set t g on val ious subjects." His pi eces o f th floods. The adventures of the First Boat need not be were collected by himself; and publbheu e ill a quarto volulne, in � 07 This com pris i . clown here. An over-bump is not quite such a disgrace as ed his " Accouut of Jamaica j" the " r Trial of tile S pi i tual Courts ; " ; but .. General History of l'riestcralt;" " a �e years ago, when the starting distances were longer a Satyr upon Poverty ;" .. a Satyr lV against . . the I rowed better the Fame ; " Survey of the Earth ; " " lhe de It S not a subject to dwell upon. The crew , vV rit Excoll1ll1unicato Capiendo Unmasked ;" " ece R ip ts to Cure the Evils of this vVicked next three nights. 'Vo lld ; " "the t of Conten AI tment, a poem, &c." Mr Malone in Iris life luck. If they had not been of yd en, The Second Boat had bad Dr has ascribed to him " the Mushroom, or a Satyr against Libelling stopped Clare they would have had a good Tories, and Pl elative Tentatives." lVas also the first night by He the author of a few occasional senllons, which are prin ted . chance of bumps. In the re-rowed race next in a seconu edition of his worlc, making two octavo, in two V01UIIICS, published ill I i 16. �norning Sidney started too fast for them, and they were caught elt th were again caught, e Willows. In the afternoon they this Our Chrotlz'cle. 2 5 7 256 Our CltromCle. . took place on Saturday, March 10 The Handicap Sculls with time by Selwyn. On the following day they kept away The winner was O. V. Payne, 45 There were 16 entries. some luck from Queens', and wound up the week's work by J. R. Brown was second. seconds start. Freshmen's a good bump on the last night. . 13ateman Pairs, and Andrews and Maple The Third Boat saved the credit of the Club. They wer The e take place on March 16. the only crew of the three who appeared capable of rowing Sculls of H. E. H. Oakeley, This Term the Club has lost the Rervices a fast stroke ; and the manner in which Paramore spurted on best oars we have ever had. old First Captain, and one of the the last hight deserved the highest praise. Forty-one strokes an Transvaal with the C.U.R.V. contingent, He has gone out to the per minute, even though you do row some of them in the air, we all wish him the best of fortune. justly entitle any Third Division boat to a bump. where Subjoined is a brief account of the races. NO It-S'rIlOkillg Smoker. Co rrespondent. Fz "rs t Nz"glzt. The First Boat was unexpectedly over-bumped By Oltt'Sp eci"l by Third Trinity at the Railway Bridge. uary 17, the Boathouse being This was held on Saturday, Febr -side to Lecture Room VI. The Second Boat was stopped by Clare at Ditton, after the that night changed from the river fo r time. Mr Ticehurst-who latter had made a bump. This necessitated another race next The First Boat got away in good morning with Sidney. Sidney started off fa st, and in spite of of a Tight 'Un-a name which, was billed under the pseudonym an some good spurts by Stroke our boat was bumped in the Long vation, 'he did nothing to justify-gave whilst under our obser by the Reach. ng, chiefly the " Greek Slave," who, exhibition of hammeri joke.­ The Third Boat rowed over. Exchange. [This is a subtle way, is not on the Stock his charac­ Second Nigh t. The First Boat rowed over, within fo ur feet It is a maller fo r common regret that ED. Eagle.l giving us an encore. of Hall If. tic modesty prevented him from teris an escape of laughing gas The Second Boat were bumped by Selwyn in the Gut. After the applause had subsided ction was as pai nless to Mr The Third Boat, after a wretched start, caught Third Trin. rf. place : we hope the extra tock are in rl oubt as to whether at the Railway Bridge. GaskeIl as to his audience. We a harmless patient or a rival TMrd Nigh!. The First Boat were bumped by First Trin. If. the Dutchman he told us of was when within two feet of Hall at Grassy. Mr BIake. n. practitioner to the celebrated the The Second Boat rowed over. of the laughing gas had evaporated, As soon as the effect post. The Third Boat rowed over. and paddled down to, the starting Light Four embarked piano, the Fo urth Nz"gh t. The First BOat were bumped by Jesus at Post guns had been struck on the Arter sundry starting erences in Corner. got away, and despite sundliY diff exhibition boat stroke-suc­ The Second Boat bumped Corpus at Post Corner. tmree paying litlle or no heed to time-bow and a strange gloomy The Third Boat, after fo llowing Hall close all the way to a very good race. Th ere was Ill. ceeded in rOlVing who continually Ditton, spurted very finely in the Long Reach and mad.e their pes5imism about stroke, attitude of advanced tears in the bump. of the crew of th,e inevitability of reminded the rest sunny optimism The following are the names and weights : ; w.hilst the bO"l three, with all the crew's future breaking in with the First lb. of th, continually interupted stroke, Bont. st. you er stroke or one of the S. Barradell Smilh (bow) .•.••••••• I I 5 for someone-wheth P. reiterated request exactly to 2 Win field .•.•.....•.•.•••.• 11 0 nobody seemed H. spectators-to kiss them. Anyhow 3A.E Kirk ••...•...... •.... 11 3 the encore, stroke caught relish the commencement of G. C. E. Simpson ...... •..••.•.. 11 8 it. At rest. 4 that he was a verse behind the 5 W. Roseveare ...... 12 0 a crab owing to the fact H. . . . . ing Poko and a certain 6 K. C. Browning .....•..••.••••• 12 g a song, concern 9 Sunny Southam san e, but nobody 1\1. C. Cooper is moral somewher 7 ...... II II solfarino's daughter ;. there , hymn, E. e (stt'o e ..••••.•..•• 10 another heathen H. Pasco k ) S seemed to find it. Afterwards he sang G. W. l-Iinde 8 3 , \v.e could. very well ,. do A. (cox)...... but we found that it was " n.ot" a song Second lJoat. st. st. lb. lhz"t'd Boat. Ih. without." Rohinson (bow) .. .. 9 9 Sanger (b07il) , . . 10 appointing. M. H. H. . if! the famous minstrels was dis 2 Senior ...... • of A...... !l J I The appearance , garments c. L. JI 6 2 IV. H. Kcnnett . tly blacked, nor did their 3 R. Casson ...... 10 2 3 F. vV orlhinglOll . .. . . 10 Their faces were not sufficien . . . . . 9 hue that is characteristic of Crowlher .••...... 12 C. D undas ..••.. ••.• I [ d is tion of art and 4 C. R. I 4 A. 8 play that variega have forgotten 5 .T. N...... 12 5 J...... 10 they seemed to Rilchie .. If Lister . . . Bb the " famous minstrel," moreover 6 S. G...... 12 5 6 G...... 10 manifold disadvantages, Teakle . . . Hazlcrigg . 8 the bones. Nevertheless, despite these 7 E. Johnston ...... 12 I 7 G. A. Browning ...... 10 [r Douglas (stroke) .• " 12 'vV. E. Parall10re .• 1 0 2 LL S. 1\1. 4 (stroke) VOL. :XXI R. F. Brayn (cox) • • • • •• •• . BO A. W. H.yward (cox) •••• B rof 2 Chro1ttct�. Our Chromde. 59 2,58 Our they succeeded with the instruments provided in ch arm ng th 5. Banjo Duet .. i e By THE FAMOUS MINSTRELS, audience, and gave several encores, duets and otherwise. BRUDDER MAC W. H. Rowsfive, despite the fact that he had first stroked the and light ships, came over the course again-this time in a fu nny. Mr JOHNSON. He trilled a ditty about a big black bounding beggar-we don't 6. Ballad : know the gentleman-perhaps he referred to his coach. By W. H. ROWSFIVE. Si n r about a c c on good g o Sanger sang something hi ken ; 7. Song : authority we learn that his "double-breasted, iron-chested, armour. Singer-SIGNOR SANGER. plated, dynamite proof chicken " appeared in hall next day. Had 8. Ditty : we known him to be such a prophet his words had cast a gloom By A NEW CUURT JOHNNY. over the e ening that even the songs of the ensuing singers had v 9. Songs without Si1Zgers (and other Marvellous Illusions) : not removed; but it was not so. y AN I RISH PROFKSSOR. The New Court Johnnie proved to be an old friend mas­ B querading under a new name. He burbled a touching ditty 10. ll!fusical Exh01,tatiolL : By Mr SENIOR concerning an attractive housemaid of his acquaintance, and (of Exeter (and an-other) Halls). brought four other men on to the platform to emphasize his remarks. We sincerely hope that the episode of the coach and 11. Boa#ng Song Beggaf the damsel has no real foundation. He got three encores, e m n of the D-y M-l 17ze Absent-Afi,tded N.B.-By ldnd p r issio which met the reception always accorJed to the inimitable at this Concert. will NOT be sung songs of this inimitable singer. by -PARSLEY. . Pia /lo by -MuRPHY. Refreshllle1lts Mr MacDonald, who had previously been flitting about the by -ELEVEN. Ch airJ/lalt-BuSHEY. boat house in a very nervous manner, produced, with the aid of Bed Mr Gaskell, an infernal machine, from which after various adjustments he extracted many weird noises, of which we con­ ATHLETIC CLUB. sider the piccolo solo to be far and away the best. We have it jo hn's College v. Wa dltam Colleg e, Ox./ord, on excellent authority that the fresh Professor is MAC not MC. S/ r e inning My next Surr is our Senior. His first song p oduc d huge These teams met on March 3rd at Fen ners, St John's w applause, but he succeeded in absolukly carrying his audience by 6 events to 3. with " The Soldiers in the Park." After hearing Mr Senior we The times on the whole were an improvement on last year's, shall forego the Empire and betake liS to Exeter Hall. did well for the visitors, winning their three F. R. D. Monro The Captain of Lady Margaret Boat Club now sang " Th e l;vents. Coll e Boating Son " into the phonograph. This was after­ eg g C. Kingdon, 2. Time rds-F. R. D. Momo (Wadham Coil .), I; wards repeated. It is not fo r every singer to hear, as it were, 100 Ya the far-off echoes of his own words. 10� secs. . Won by 2 feet. (Wadham CoIl.), 2. Height The full programme is appended. High Jump-J. W. Chell, I; E. F. Medley .� ft. I I in. PROBABLE STARTERS. Coli.), I; J. H. Bradshaw 2. Ha if- Mae -F. R. D. Momo (Wadham , l. · 8 Ha mvze1!ing : Tune 2 mins. I2} secs. Won by yds. By A TIGHT 'UN. I; C. H. B. Kendall (Wad. Coll.), 2. · Putting the We ight- F. Fletcher, 2. Pa inless Extract : Distance 3 [ ft. 7 in. 20 tin, By LAUGHING GAS(KELL). B. Allo t, I; J. W. Chell, :Z. Distance ft. LOl1g :Jump-P. t 2. C. R. Leadley-Brown (Wadham Coll.), 3. Exhibition : ". Olle-Mile-H. Sanger, I; secs. Won by �o yds. By LlGHT FOUR, lime 4 mins. 50% A Webster (Wadham Tlw Ha mmer-F. J. Wyeth , I; Edw. bow l\fARSHALL. owing tlte Coll.), 2. Distance 66 ft . 2 MARTELL. BaJlott, E, 'V . vV ebster (Wad. Coll.), 2. 3 1'ICEHURST.'" · 120 Ya rds Httrdle Race-P. I; stk. ROS EVEARE. TlJne 20 secs. Won by 10 yds. CoIl.), C. Kingdon, z. * Steerll. . . Quarter-Mile-F. R. D. Monro (\Vadh{\m I; Outbunt .. 4. S4 5ecs. Won by S of SUNNY SOUTHAM. rime yds. 261 260 Our CltromCle. Our Chronz'cle .

IC ld be arraigned for treason." Mr R. H. Crofton opposed. C R KET CLUB. sh ou There also spoke-for the motion V. C. Honeybourne, P. B. President-Mr J. R. Tanner. Treasurer-Dr Shore. Captain-F. D. h, J. H. Field, H. L. Garrett ; against the motion L. S. Caulley. Hon. Stradling. Jhig Secretllry-W. Commitlee-J. H. Franklinl A. A. Robb, H. S. Van Zijl, T. A. Moxon, R. A. D. C. A. MOlTison, S. M. Douglas, F. Flelcher, A. Chapple. Laver, Chadwick. Result-Ayes 9, Noes I I; Majority against 2. A Committee Meeting was held on February 7. It was of this decided that the Club should build a shed at a cost of not more o-A. F. Russell moved " That in the opinion Fe b. l justified than L 18 for the purpose of sheltering the rollers, mowing Great Britain would under no circumstances be lIouse opposed. machines, and other implements during the winter months. exing the two Dutch Republics." M. Alexander in ann S. Van Zijl, F. W. ere also spoke-for the motion H. Th motion P. B. Haigh, TENNI CLUlI. ong, A. C. A. Latif; against the EAGLES LAWN S Armstr Noes Crofton, T. N. Palmer. Result-Ayes 7, 12 ; Pnsident-Mr R. F. Scott. Ho n. Treasurer-F. D. Caulley. Ho n. R . H. Secretary-J. R. C. Greenlees. l\1aj ority against 5· At a Meeting of the Club held on January 25th the above­ " That q-E. S. Montague (Trinity College) moved named officers were elected. Fe b. the conduct of methods employed by the Gov ernment in the war are extremely blameworthy." Mr G. C. Rankin the present the motion D College) opposed. There also spoke-for EBA TING SOCIETY. (Trinity F. W. Armstrong, S. Van Zijl, E. P. Hart ; against the motion Officers for Term. Pnsident-F. W. Vice- n. Noes 5; the ensuing Armstrong. A. Moxon, T. N. Palmer. Result-Ayes 16, Pnsident-E. P. Hart. T, .eaJtlI'Cr-P. B. Haigh. Secl·etar),-A. C. T. for I I. Abdul Latif. l\Iajority hat recent events have The chief event of the Term has been the revision of the Fe b. z4-H. L. Garrett moved "T book of Rules, a measure which has long been needful. Several sort of compulsory military service has become shown that some -for changes have been adopted and numerous additions m'1de, G. W. Williams opposed. There also spoke inevitable." Haigh, chiefly with regard to holding elections. The revised Rules A. C. A. Latif, F. W. Armstrong, P. B. the motion L. S. Laver, are to be published shortly. Mention should also be made of C. EIsee ; against the motion R. A. Chadwick, . Result-Ayes the generosity of a member who has presented the Society with C. E. Sidebotham, E. P. Hart, F. Benians 7, an album for the purpose of containing the portraits of all Noes 13 ; Maj ority against 6. Presidents and Ex-Presidents. The Secretary tal{es this motions were opportunity of inviting any Ex-Presidents within whose notice March 3-Impromptu Debate. The following this may fall to oblige the Society by sending a photograph discussed : of this room (carte de visite size) for insertion in this album. "That this House regards the floral decorations H. Woodwark ; opposer, The following is a list of the Debates : to be an improvement." Proposer, B. Lost by 3 votes. E. P. Hart. Kruger." Ja n. :lO-P. B. Haigh moved " That in the opmon of this House is a staunch admirer of President "That this Carried by House the time has now come for the institution of some Proposer, W. H. Milnes ; opposer, G. H. Shepley. scheme of Old Age Pensions." Mr A. C. A. Latif opposed. votes. 9 keeping cats by There also spoke-for the motion E. P. Hart and E. Dodgshun ; "That this house deplores the practice of E. Dodgshun ; opposer, C. Elsee. Lost against the motion T. A. Moxon and C. Elsee. Result­ old maids." Proposer, Ayes 1 Z, Noes 3; Majority for 9. by 2 votes. is the better part of valour." Proposer, "That discretion Lost by Ja n. 27-E. P. Hart moved "That this House desires to H. ; opposer, J. E. R. de Villiers. e Bentley-Smith urge on the present Government the need of a drastic measur vote 6 s. the College of Licensing Reform." C. Elsee opposed. There also spoke:­ .. of white rats by members of lf; . That the keeping M. Stevenson ; for the motion F. W. Armstrong, E. Dodgshun, A. C. A. Lat a pra to be encouraged." Proposer, C. ZIJI, I S ctice ' against the motion R. St. J. Dickson, C. Coore, H. S. Van oppos . Latif. Carried by 2 votes. er, A C. R. for incorrect P. B. Haigh. Result-Ayes 12, Noes 8; Majority fo r 4. " That the be expelled from the House . President opposer, F. ltngs this term." Proposer, L. S. Laver ; A. Fe b. 3-F. W. Armstrong moved " That those Irish Members of Parliament who have recently uttered seditiolls speeches Russell. Carried. 263 2 62 Our ChronzCle. Our Chromde. in addition "That in the opinion of this House ' blood ' waistcoats fu rther decided that the team should have, are It was colour chosen being white useless, dangerons, and ought to be abolished." Proposer he existing colours, a cap, the A. A. A. to t Robb ; opposer, R. Chadwick. Carried by votes. ' College crest. 4 with the scratched for nately many of the matches had to be Ma 1ch Io-G. H. Shepley moved " That Unfortu this House wo uld reasons. Those played were : welcome the popularisation of the R. A. Chad wit varioUS Eagle." :k m . opposed. C bs. Ga es lu •••••. •...•• • , ...... 5-2 ....•• •• Lost Emmanuel .....•.• ••••..6- 4 .••••• .. •.••••••Lost GENERAL ATHLETIC CLUB. Sidney ...... •••• ••.. 7-2 ...•.•.• ...... 'Von Cains ...... Lost ...... 9-5 Presidmt-Mr H. T. Barlow. Trea surer-Mr J. J. Lister. St Paul's ...... E...... •..6-3 ...... Ho n. •••..• •• .••• Lost Secretary-Wo Stradlillg. Co 1/tlllittu-Messl's J. R. Tanner, J. H. Belth, Christ's F. D. Cautley, O. V. Payne, J. Sterndale-Bennett, C. Kingdon, E. F. D. their colours :-C. Kingdon, Bloom, R. P. Gregol'Y, M. C. Cooper. The following have been awarded R. H. Crorton, and W. Stradling. A H. T. Hudson, Committee Meeting was held on January 30, when the R. W. estimates of each Club fo r the Term were considered and THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. agreed on. The Sub-Committee whit:h had been appointed esidmts-J. H. A. Hart B.A., to revise the rules of the Club not having yet made its repor C. B. Purser. Ex-P,' t, Presidm t-W. B. Woodwork. lIo n. the same Sub-Committee was re-appointed with V. B.A., C. Elsee B.A. Treasure,·-H. W. the addition of P. Nunu S. C. H. Wood, J. JI. P. Waller. Co mmittee -R. H. Mr Lister. The report was presented to the Committee at Sccre!rlly--B. 'V rcn rord. a Spet:ial Meeting on February 27, and is no w under their during the Term : careful consideration before being brought up finallyat a General . The following papers have been read Meeting. yphal Gospels in the Second jail . 19-" The use of Apocr on. Century," by the Rev Professor Stant ASSOCIATION FOOTBA.LL CLUB. George Augustus Selwyn ja il. 26-" A few words on Bishop · the Master of Captain-F. D. Cautley. Ho n. Secretary-N. S. Hoate. Thomas Whytehead," by the Rev and the Rev Owing to the bad weather and postponement of the Lents Trinity. all Dean. the football matches have not yet been played. In the League Herbert," by the Rev the Junior Fe b. 2-" George we have beaten Magdalene and King's, and have yet to meet suits in France," by the Rev 9-" Assllmptionists and Je Trinity Hall, at present the only unbeaten team in the Second Fe b. Professor Mayor. Division. Colours have been awarded to B. F. Woods. Cautley Schools." ussion on teaching in Sunday has, of course, been playing [o r the 'Varsity. Fe b. 16-" Disc List of matches ; Opener, the Rev A. G. Fox B.A. by the Rev Materials of the Old Testament," Jan. 20 11. Caius ...... Won 4-1 Fe b. 2 3 -" The " 24 V. Clare ...... " ..•• '" • Drawn I-I Dr Watson. " 26 v. Magdalene (League) .... Won 3-0 of Rome," by C. Elsee B.A. Election .....•...... Clement Feb. 7 V. Pembroke Won 2-1 lIfa r. 2-" St ) 900. " 20 V. Pembroke...... Won 3-2 of Officers for the Easter Term " 23 v. King's (League) ...... • 'Von 8-2 l\IUSICAL SOCIETY. J. Stevens. Ho n. Sec retary THE FIVES LUB. T" easurer-Rev C Pnsidmt-Dr Sandys. A. Slerndale­ H. Oakeley. G. A. Tlcelmrst, J. May. Co mmittee-H. E. ord. BO. Marshall, J. VV. Wrenf At a General Meeting of the Club held early in the term the ennelt, C. F. J. Jarchow, W. B. H. following officers were elected fo r the year : have been held P Chorus for the May Concert ractices of the Sweeting. The Presidmt-Mr H. Henham. Cap tain-C. Kingdon. dur the direction of Dr ing the term, under large as might Secretary-R. H. Crefton. tten have not been nearly so f dances, however, that next term the be expected, and it is to be hoped A Committee was also formed to execute the necessary lave en measure of support. Cb s will receive a considerably greater business, consisting of the President, Captain, and Secretary ?!·u were held during the and one other. R. W. H. T. Hudson was elected to fill the wo very successful Smoking Concerts t 1 mes. vacancy. crm. Subjoined are the program 264 Our Chrome/e. Our Ch1'onzcle. 265

On Monday, January 29 : PART n. PART r. PIANOFORTE SOLO . 0 •••••••••0 •••••••0 •••0 •••• o •••••••••••• • o ••0 PIANOFORTE DUET ••Selections from " D.er Prophet " DR SWEETING. C. J. F. JARCHOW, O. MAY, RTETT .•.•..••..•. " Lovely Night " 0· •••• o •••00 X. ChevataZ S QUA F. 2 SONG . • •• • • • • . • •••••• W. E. A. MARTRLL, G. A. TICEHURST, ":My Dreams." .• ...•.. •• •••••• • • •• •• B. MARSHALL, TO Jti ROSEVEARE. W. B. MARSHALL. W. H. 9 BASSOON SOLO .••0 •••••••0 •••••••••••0 • 0 •••0 •••• 0 0 •••••••••••••• 3 VIOLIN SOLO...... " Romance ...... Svensdm G. T. SHAW (Caius). J. MILNES. R 10 SONG. 0 •••••••0 • • •• "The Admiral's Broom " • 0 0 • 0 ••••• 0 0 F. Bevan A. R BY . ...•.••••. .••• A 4 SONG " Ask Nothing More " : ...•.. , ...... A.!arzial,s ...... , ...... H. J. \V . "\VREN!i'URD, I I MUSICAL SKETCH D'ARCY GORDON (Caius). MANDOLIN!;: ANQ GUITAR. TRIOI ...... , ...... 5 " God Save the Queen." L. LELA,ND (Trin. Hall), R. J. WHITE (Tlin. Hall), G. THWAITRS. Chairman-Mr R. H. AmE. PART n.

SONG .•• . 00 •••• 6 o ' •• " Song of the Bow " THE J OHNIAN DINNER. RAllY. A. It has been decided not to hold the J ohnian Dinner this

7 HU)IOROUS .... SON:G: .••... • •• ••• •0 •••••••••••• ••• 0 '. ' ••••••••• '.' ••• year. L. LELAND (Trin. Hall). PIANOFORTE THE COLLEGE MISSION. 8 SOLO ••Polonaise in C sharp Minor •..•., .• •••••• Chopin G. A. TlcEHunsT. Mr H. Sneath was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of

SONG .•••.0" •••••• 9 " s.tar of •....•.. Rochester at Advent and has begun his work as Junior Mis­ "0 Eve " .•••••••.. Wa gner (Tannhaiiser) �ioner. The Senior Missioner preached in the College Chapel H, J. W. WRENFORD. on Quinquagesima Sunday, and also took the Service of Inter­ cession on the Saturday evening. The Terminal Meeting was 10 :MANDOLINE AND GUITAR . TRIO ...... 0 • ••••••••••• •• •••• on the Monday in Lecture Room The Master presided, L. LEL D (Trin. Hall), held 1. AN R. J. WHITE (Trin. Hall), G. THWAITES. and speeches were made by the Senior Missioner, the Junior "God Save the Queen." Missioner, and Mr Tanner. The meeting was very well attended

Chairman-MR Scor£'. and was in every way a success. A hearty vote of thanks to the Master for presiding was passed, proposed by the Senior Secre­ tary and seconded by the Senior Treasurer. On Monday, March 5 : It is hoped that a large number of undergraduates may be PART J. able to go down to the Mission during the Easter Vacation. PIANOFORTE SOLO 0 ••0 Nocturne in Minor ..•• .. 0 •• F • 0 ••• o ••• Chop in G. A. TICEHURST. SATURDAY NIGHT SERVICES. 2 SONG •••••. •..•.••• "Thy Sentinel am ••••• TO, ••••• o •••M. Wa ts01z R. H. CROI!'TON. In the Ante- Chapel at 10 o·clock.

DUET .•.• 3 " When the Wind blows in has been the same as fo r last Term (see fr om the Sea " • 0 0 The Committee o l'Imry Sm art H. J. W. WRENFORO, A. . page 141). RAllY VIOLIN 4 SOLO .• o ••• " Cbanson Polonaise List of Addresses : " ••• . o. 0 0 •••• o. Wie niawski C. W. BENNETT. Jan. 20th. �Ir Barlow. " 27th. Mr Ward . SONG ••••.••••• 5 " The Blackbird and the Feb. Ely Professor of Divinity. Thrush " .•..arr. by C. Wo oll 3rd. Dr Stanton, of Trinity College. G. T. SHAW (Caius). " loth. Mr H. Askwith, Chaplain E. ag u . " 17th. H. Whitley, S.P.G. Missionary at Chota N p r lIiuSICAL SKETCH ••••••. Mr E. 6 0 ••••••••••••• Missioner. ••••••••• Senior College •••••••• 24th. Mr A. J. Robertson, •••0 •• 0 • " D'A!l.cy GORDON (Caius). Mar. 3rd. Dr Chase, PrinciJ;lal of the Clergy Training School. loth. Professor Mayor. VOL. XXI. MM The Lt·brary. 267

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