MC:PR30

THE PAPERS OF

MARTIN JOSEPH ROUTH

(D. 1771–5; F. 1775–91; P. 1791–1854)

Catalogued by

Robin Darwall-Smith

December 2015

Magdalen College Oxford MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD i

MC:PR30 PAPERS OF MARTIN ROUTH (D. 1771–5; F. 1775–91; P. 1791–1854)

CONTENTS

Introduction ii 1 - The life and career of Martin Routh ii 2 - Select bibliography of the works of Martin Routh iii 3 - The history of the present collection iii 4 - Bibliography of works about Martin Routh iv

MC:PR30/1: Routh papers collected by John Bloxam 1 MC:PR30/1/C1: Letters concerning Routh’s family and personal life 1 MC:PR30/1/C2: Letters from members of Magdalen College 22 MC:PR30/1/C3: Letters concerning particular individuals or groups of people 130 MC:PR30/1/C4: Letters from miscellaneous correspondents 203 MC:PR30/1/MS1: Material concerning Richard Chandler’s life of William Waynflete 289 MC:PR30/1/MS2: Material concerning Routh’s research 295 MC:PR30/1/MS3: Material concerning Routh’s activities as President 299 MC:PR30/1/MS4: Inscriptions composed by Routh 303 MC:PR30/2: Documents from and concerning Routh’s Library 309 MC:PR30/2/MS1: MS Books from the Routh Library 309 MC:PR30/2/MS2: Catalogues of the Routh Library 312 MC:PR30/3: Documents relating to Routh’s scholarly research 312 MC:PR30/3/MS1: Documents relating to Reliquiae Sacrae 312 MC:PR30/3/MS2: Documents relating to Gilbert Burnet’s memoirs 313 MC:PR30/4: Routh Papers found in Magdalen after Bloxam 313 MC:PR30/4/C1: Letters, mainly concerning Routh’s family 314 MC:PR30/4/C2: Letters on Routh’s dealings with College Visitors 318 MC:PR30/4/C3: Miscellaneous correspondence 322 MC:PR30/4/MS1: Papers on South Petherwyn (now Petherwin) 324 MC:PR30/4/MS2: Miscellaneous Papers 326 MC:PR30/4/N1: Printed Miscellanea 328 MC:PR30/4/P1: Daguerreotype 328 MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD ii

MC:PR30 PAPERS OF MARTIN ROUTH (D. 1771–5; F. 1775–91; P. 1791–1854)

INTRODUCTION

1 - The life and career of Martin Routh

Martin Joseph Routh was born in South Elmham, Suffolk, on 18 September 1755. His father Peter was rector there, but later became master of the Fauconberge Grammar School at Beccles. Peter Routh and his wife Mary (née Reynolds) had fourteen children, of whom Martin was the oldest. Among the Routh children, the most significant, as far as concerns the current collection, are the third son, Robert, the sixth son Samuel (D. 1785–91; F. 1791–1811), who followed Martin to Magdalen, and the fourth and youngest daughter Sophia (1769/70–1848), of whom more later.

Routh matriculated from The Queen’s College on 31 May 1770 aged only 14, but in the following year he migrated to Magdalen College having been elected a Demy there. He then remained at Magdalen for the next 83 years until his death.

Routh was elected a Fellow of Magdalen in 1775, and in 1781 he became tutor to Edward South Thurlow (matr. 1781). Thurlow was extremely well connected: his uncles included Edward, 1st Baron Thurlow and Lord Chancellor from 1778–92, and Thomas (D. 1755–9; F. 1759–72), who was Bishop of Lincoln in 1779–87 and of Durham in 1787–91. Another early pupil who, like Thurlow, retained a lifelong link with Routh was Granville Penn (matr. 1780).

In addition to his teaching, Routh took on several important College offices. He served as Librarian in 1781, Junior Dean of Arts in 1784 and 1785, and Bursar in 1786. At University level, he was appointed Senior Proctor in April 1785. It is important to remember these details about his career in the light of later accounts which like to dwell on his scholarly and apparently unworldly character. This is especially true in April 1791, when George Horne resigned as President. Routh, with his father’s advice and encouragement, keenly canvassed to be his successor (see MC:PR30/1/C1/3), and was elected by a majority of one in the final ballot on 28 April. As a published scholar (see below) and someone who had already shown an interest in and aptitude for College business, Routh would from the first have been a serious candidate for the post.

Once elected President, Routh’s worldly ambitions seem to have been at an end: unlike other contemporary heads of house, he never served as Vice-Chancellor, nor does he seem ever to have aspired to a deanery or a bishopric. His only later appointment occurred in 1810, when he was instituted as Rector of Tilehurst, Berkshire, by his brother-in-law Thomas Sheppard, who owned the living. Routh tried to stay at Tilehurst during University vacations well into his nineties, and in later years his nephew John Routh acted as his curate. Nevertheless, he could still intervene in University politics on occasion: in 1821, for example, when his friend Richard Heber was standing as a Parliamentary candidate for the University of Oxford, Routh was energetically seeking support for him, as can be seen in these papers.

When Routh first moved into the President’s Lodgings, his youngest sister Sophia acted as his housekeeper until she married Thomas Sheppard (D. 1747–9; F. 1749–70) in 1801. Thomas MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD iii

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Sheppard was a wealthy man, and on his death in 1814 Sophia became a major philanthropist, supporting many causes, including Magdalen. One of her most substantial gifts was the construction of a new church in Theale, a hamlet within Tilehurst, which was consecrated in 1832. Routh took a keen interest in his sister’s project, and even provided the church with several pieces of medieval stonework which had been uncovered during the restoration of the College Chapel during this time.

On Sophia’s marriage, it seems that another of Routh’s sisters, Anne, kept house for him for a while, but then in 1820 he married Eliza Agnes Blagrave, daughter of a Tilehurst family. Although Routh was thirty-five years older than his wife, the marriage proved a happy one, and several observers commented on the hospitable atmosphere which the Rouths created in the President’s Lodgings.

Throughout his long Presidency, Routh kept a firm hand and a keen eye on the administration of Magdalen. Whether this was always advantageous to the College is another matter: Routh took no interest in any kind of reform, academic, institutional or otherwise, and Magdalen acquired a reputation as a backwater, to the point that the report of the Royal Commission into Oxford, published in 1852, dismissed it as being ‘among the least important’ academic institutions in the University. Routh also remained stoutlyloyal to traditional interpretations of the College statutes, as handed down to him, which could lead to abuses. By the 1790s, for example, it had become the custom that Demies were automatically elected to Fellowships, and could remain in their posts until the right post fell vacant, yet this was entirely contrary to Waynflete’s statutes.

The greatest changes which took place at Magdalen during Routh’s Presidencywere undoubtedly architectural. After several years of dithering, and a disastrous demolition of the north range of the Cloisters (quickly reversed after national protest), Routh and the College engaged in a major rebuilding of the College in the 1820s and early 1830s, which culminated in a complete refurbishment of the Chapel.

In his religion, Routh was a devout High Churchman. He claimed kinship with Archbishop Laud, and in his churchmanship derived inspiration from the Arminian divines of the 1630s. Worship in Magdalen Chapel assumed a significantly more High Church character than in many Anglican places of worship in England. Unsurprisingly, Routh took a supportive interest in the Oxford Movement, even if he did not completely agree with all its aims and beliefs, and its leaders, especially John Henry Newman, greatly admired him.

Routh’s churchmanship let him to take an interest in outposts of Protestant episcopal churches elsewhere. In 1782, he was called upon to offer advice to the Episcopal Church in what would soon become the independent United States of America as to how to create an episcopate there, and his suggestion that its first Bishops should be consecrated in Scotland was followed. In 1803 he arranged for duplicate books from the disbanded undergraduate Library at Magdalen to be presented to King’s College, Nova Scotia. He was also a supporter of the newly-founded University of Durham, which in its early years was open only to Anglicans, and bequeathed his remarkable library to it. However, it was the Scottish Episcopalian Church which received Routh’s most loyal support: he dedicated Reliqiuae Sacrae to its Bishops and priests, and he MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD iv

MC:PR30 PAPERS OF MARTIN ROUTH (D. 1771–5; F. 1775–91; P. 1791–1854) regularly corresponded with Scottish Bishops. In addition, Routh and his sister Sophia Sheppard regularlysupported appeals for building churches or for supporting the Episcopal Church in other ways.

Routh, however, was most distinguished among his contemporaries for his scholarship, and it is fair to say that he and the scientist Charles Daubeny (D. 1810–15; F. 1815–67) were the only members of Magdalen in the first half of the nineteenth century to enjoy international reputations for their learning. He was certainly unusual among Oxford heads of house at this time in publishing some major works and—characteristically for him—still more unusual in that his publications spanned almost seven decades, from 1784 until the year before his death. Routh was also widely admired for his skill in writing inscriptions, mainly in Latin.

Routh’s earliest major publication was an edition of Plato’s Euthydemus and Gorgias, published in 1784 with a dedication to Bishop Thomas Thurlow. Like many Oxford academics of his day, however, Routh then left Classics behind for the study of theology. In 1788 he published a prospectus for a major edition of the fragmentary writings of the Christian fathers who were active before the Council of Nicaea in 324. The first edition of the promised work, Reliquiae Sacrae, was published in four volumes between 1814 and 1818, to general acclaim. Routh even published a substantially revised edition in five volumes between 1846 and 1848, in his nineties. Routh’s other major work was an edition of Gilbert Burnet’s memoirs, first published in 1823. A fuller list of Routh’s major publications is given below. Routh was very generous in presenting free copies of his works, and many of the letters catalogued below are from grateful recipients of his latest books.

Although, therefore, Routh’s life took him rarely outside the worlds of Magdalen and Tilehurst, he did enjoy a considerable reputation in his lifetime, and perhaps in his old age he attained an even greater fame on account of his being the last significant link with a lost age. He therefore enjoyed a wide and eminent circle of correspondents, as will be seen from the papers below, writing and receiving letters right up until the last weeks of his life.

Martin Routh died after a short illness on 22 December 1854 aged 99. His mind had only started to wander in the last day or two of his life. Although he himself had hoped to be buried at Theale, he was buried in the Chapel of Magdalen College, in front of the altar. The site is now marked with a memorial brass.

2 - Select bibliography of the works of Martin Routh

Edition of Plato’s Euthydemus and Gorgias (1784). Reliquiæ sacræ: sive, Auctorum fere jam perditorum secundi tertiique sæculi fragmenta, quæ supersunt.: Accedunt epistolæ synodicæ et canonicæ Nicæno Concilio antiquiores (4 vols. 1814–18). Volumes I–II came out in 1814, Volume III in 1815 and Volume IV in 1818. Bishop Burnet's History of his own time: with the suppressed passages of the first volume, and notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, and Speaker Onslow, hitherto unpublished, to which are added the cursory remarks of Swift. And other observations. (6 vols. 1823). Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum opuscula præcipua quædam (2 vols, 1832). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD v

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The additional annotations in the second edition of Bishop Burnet's History of his own times, with notes: accommodated to the pages of the first edition (1833). Bishop Burnet's History of his own time: with the suppressed passages of the first volume, and notes. (6 vols., 1833; a revised edition of 1823). Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum opuscula præcipua quædam. (2nd edition, 2 vols, 1840). Reliquiæ sacræ: sive, Auctorum fere jam perditorum secundi tertiique sæculi post Christum natum quæ supersunt.: Accedunt synodi, et epistolæ canonicæ, Nicæno Concilio antiquiores. (5 vols, 1846–8). De episcopis et presbyteris adnotata quædum ad concilium contra noetum tertio sæculo celebratum (1852). Bishop Burnet's History of the reign of king James the second. Additional observations now enlarged. (1852). This is a single volume, containing a revised edition of that part of Burnet’s history which covers James’s reign. Tres breves tractatus. De primis episcopis. S. Petri Alexandrini episcopi fragmenta quædam S. Irenæi illustrata Õησις in qua Ecclesia Romana commemoratur. (1853).

3 - The history of the present collection

The papers of Martin Routh in the following collection can be divided into four main groups, as follows:

(1) Papers on Routh collected by Magdalen’s great antiquarian and first historian, John Bloxam (D. 1830–5; F. 1835–63). It seems that, on Routh’s death, John Bloxam was given access to the President’s Lodgings, and assembled a great quantityof Routh’s papers. He then sorted them out, and had them bound into a succession of guardbooks.

Bloxam’s collection of Routh papers mainly comprises many hundreds of letters written to Routh, with a few draft replies from Routh himself, but there are also a few papers relating to Routh’s scholarly activities and his work as President. The writers of the letters include many members of Magdalen College, but also several Bishops, both English and Scottish, manyclerics and scholars, and some politicians.

These Routh papers were later presented by Bloxam to the Library at Magdalen, along with a large quantity of material created or collected by Bloxam himself as part of his historical research. These are all listed at Macray Register, vi. 114–16. It would appear, however, that Bloxam did not give the College his complete collection of Routh papers. For example, the second volume of a guardbook of letters from and about Choristers (MC:PR30/1/C2/14) only came to the College in 1943, by way of the family of W. E. Sherwood, Master of Magdalen College School in 1888–1900, and the first volume appears to have been lost long ago.

A few Routh papers which came into Bloxam’s hands were bound up by him elsewhere, namely in Vol. III of a series of collections made by Bloxam on Presidents of Magdalen (ref. MS 655 (c)). Bloxam nowhere explains why these records, most of which comprise letters to Routh from his father Peter, were bound up here and not with the main Routh collection. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD vi

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Posterity owes John Bloxam a great deal in preserving so much of Routh’s correspondence. It is not known, however, whether he weeded Routh’s correspondence before sorting and binding it. As matters stand, the papers comprise letters from or about members of Magdalen College, and letters from miscellaneous correspondents, most of whom nevertheless are sufficiently eminent that they have since been granted entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Descriptions of Routh’s study suggest that it was always in a rather chaotic state, so that it is perhaps more likely that Bloxam, rather than Routh, might have disposed of items which he thought were not worth keeping.

(2) Manuscripts from Routh’s Library. Routh was a great bibliophile, and collected a large personal library of many thousands of volumes. The printed volumes were bequeathed by Routh to the University of Durham, where they remain. However, the manuscript volumes were sold at auction. Some copies of the auction catalogue are preserved among John Bloxam’s Routh papers, and they show that some volumes were bought by him and others, and have made their way back to the College. They are various in character, not all of them relating to Magdalen. One item in this section, MC:PR30/2/MS2/2, was transferred to the archives from the President’s Lodgings in August 1997 as Accession No. 97/206.

(3) Documents relating to Routh’s scholarly research. Surprisingly few items in the Routh collections relate to his academic work. The actual autographs of his major published works are lost, but there are some manuscript volumes containing material relating to his work on Reliquiae Sacrae, and a volume of Burnet’s memoirs which Routh used for his 1852 reprinting.

(4) Other Routh material. Some Routh material appears not to have been gathered up by Bloxam, but instead made its way into other corners of Magdalen. They have gradually made their way to the archives at a later date. They include some miscellaneous correspondence, including with Routh’s family, and some material relating to College administration, as well as a remarkable daguerreotype of Routh, taken on his 99th birthday in September 1854.

Various letters from Routh himself have been given to the College at various times. They are listed elsewhere.

4 - Bibliography of works about Martin Routh

J. R. Bloxam, A Register of the Presidents, Fellows, Demies, Instructors in Grammar and in Music, Chaplains, Clerks, Choristers, and Other Members of Saint Mary Magdalen College in the University of Oxford, 8 vols. (Oxford, 1853–85), vii. 1–37. J. W. Burgon, Lives of Twelve Good Men, 2 vols. (London, 1888), i. 1–115. R. H. Darwall-Smith, ‘The Monks of Magdalen: 1688–1854’, from L. W. B. Brockliss (ed.), Magdalen College Oxford: A History (Oxford, 2008), pp. 253–386. C. G. B. Daubeny, A Biographical Sketch of Rev. Dr. Routh (publisher unknown, c. 1855). R. D. Middleton, Dr. Routh (Oxford, 1938). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 1

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MC:PR30/1 - ROUTH PAPERS COLLECTED BY JOHN BLOXAM

See the Introduction for an account of the provenance of these particular papers concerning Martin Routh. Unless otherwise indicated, all of them are mentioned in the list of documents given to the College by John Bloxam itemised in Macray Register, vi. 114–16.

All these documents are bound up in guardbooks. Most of them were bound for Bloxam himself, in distinctive dark green covers with labels in gold lettering on their spines. A few have different bindings, which may or may not have been done for Bloxam.

All the letters in the guardbooks have been foliated in pencil, presumably by Bloxam. Several of them also contain loose documents added later. In the following lists, letters and documents bound into the guardbooks bear the prefix “Fol.”, but loose documents have the preface “No.”

MC:PR30/1/C1 - LETTERS CONCERNING ROUTH’S FAMILY AND PERSONAL LIFE

Other letters from Peter Routh (Martin’s father) and other close members of Routh’s family can be found at MC:PR30/4/C1/1 and MC:PR30/4/C3/1 below, and at MS 655 (c), a volume of collections on several Presidents of Magdalen College. The latter letters were also known to Bloxam, who bound them up there, but the former ones seem only to have come to light in the 1930s. Bloxam nowhere explains why he included some letters from Routh’s family in the volume of collections, and not in this sequence.

MC:PR30/1/C1/1 1771–1851 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “M. J. Routh Vol. I” on the spine. It contains letters to Routh from members of his family, in particular his father Peter (d. 1802).

Fol. 1: Letter from Robert Routh to John Bloxam, 26 Jan 1851. This contains a detailed memorandum on the origins of the Routh family. Fol. 2: undated note on Routh genealogy titled “Routh of Pollington”, and addressed to Martin Routh. Fol. 3: Note in Bloxam’s hand “John Routh of Thorp”. Fol. 4: Letter from Adolphus Holmes (address, St. Margaret’s Rectory) to an unnamed addressee, 4 Apr 1848, promising to send extracts on the Routh family from the parish registers in his custody. Later documents show that Holmes is writing from South Elham. Fol. 5: Letter from an unnamed correspondent to “Edward”, “Wednesday night”. The correspondent has asked Adolphus Holmes to look for Rouths in his parish registers, at the request of John Bloxam. Fol. 6: Note on the death of Sophia Sheppard (née Routh) in 1848. Fols. 7%9: Family trees, in different hands, of members of the Routh family living in the early 17th century. Fol. 10: Page of extracts from the parish registers of Beccles on the family of Peter Routh. Fol. 11: Family tree of the Routh family in John Bloxam’s hand. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 2

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MC:PR30/1/C1/1 (con.) Fol. 12: Transcript by Adolphus Holmes (see Fol. 4 above) of references to Rouths from the South Elmham parish registers, 4 Aug 1848. Fols. 13%15: Three variants of the Routh family tree in John Bloxam’s hand. Fol. 13 is dated 29 Mar 1848. Fol. 16: MS of a Greek poem in anacreontic metre titled ΕΙΡΗΝΙΚΑ (eirenika) by Peter Routh, father of Martin, undated. Fol. 17: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 9 Dec 1771. Peter Routh discusses his son’s prospects of a Fellowship at Magdalen. Fol. 18: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 10 Mar 1772. Peter Routh discusses his son’s financial arrangements, discusses news of the day, and advises his son to make his handwriting more legible (in which request he was singularly unsuccessful). Fol. 19: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 27 Feb 1774. Peter Routh uses this letter to provide a letter of introduction for his son to an unnamed person at Cambridge. There is a PS addressed to Martin offering general advice. Fol. 20: Letter from Peter Routh, (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 16 May 1774. Peter Routh fusses over whether each party has received a letter lately, and passes on local and family news. Fol. 21: Letter from Robert Routh (third brother of Martin; address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 11 Jun 1781. Robert expresses pleasure at the news that Mr. Thurlow has asked Martin to be tutor to his son. Fol. 22: Letter from Peter Routh (address missing) to Martin Routh (date missing, but “1783" written in pencil on it). Peter Routh is planning to move to a smaller house because numbers at his school are falling. He also passes on local and family news. Fol. 23: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 17 Nov 1783. Peter swaps classical quotations with his son, and passes on local news. Fol. 24: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 6 Mar 1784. Peter expresses concern at current politics. On the same sheet he writes a second latter to his son Samuel, full of local news. Fol. 25: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 25 Mar 1785. Peter appears to be trying for another living. Fol. 26: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 5 Feb 1790. Peter regrets not having had a letter from his son, but passes on some family and local news. Fol. 27: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 5 Nov 1790. Peter regrets that when he was in Norwich Martin did not visit George Horne (F. 1750–68; P. 1768–91; now Bishop there). He is well settled into his new home. Fol. 28: Letter from George Routh (a cousin; address, St. Clement’s Ipswich) to Martin Routh, 26 Jan 1791. George discusses the nature of Demyships and Fellowships at Magdalen, and hopes that they will meet soon. Fol. 29: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 31 Mar 1791. Peter offers a proposed text for a dedication to the Scottish bishops for an MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 3

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MC:PR30/1/C1/1 (con.) unspecified book. Martin added to this letter that he followed almost noen of his father’s suggestions. Fol. 30: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 21 Aug 1791. Peter is upset at Martin’s reasons for not writing sooner, and passes on local news. Fol. 31: Letter from Mary Routh (Martin’s mother; no address given) to Martin Routh, 8 Jul 1792. Mary thanks her son for his hospitality in Oxford, and expresses her pleasure at his situation. She passes on family and local news. Fol. 32: Letter from George Routh (a cousin; address Ipwich) to Martin Routh, 15 Apr 1792. George hopes to visit Martin in Oxford. Fol. 33: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 18 Aug 1793. This is a covering note accompanying a letter to Martin from William Boycatt (address, Dresden), 3 Aug 1793. Boycatt reports on examining some manuscripts for Routh in a library in Vienna, and the assistance offered him there by Baron von Swieten. [William Boycatt matriculated from Gonville and Caius College in 1772, and was a Fellow there from 1776–96. He was taught by Routh’s father, and was close friend of Routh himself . His son, another William Boycatt, would become a Demy at Magdalen in 1816–29.] Fol. 34: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 17 Oct 1793. Peter reports on Boycatt’s return to England, and on other local and family news. Fol. 35: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 19 Dec 1795. Some of the right-hand margin of this letter is missing. Peter discusses theology with his son. Fol. 36: Letter from Mary Routh (no address given) to Martin Routh, 30 Aug 1810. Mary expresses her joy at her son taking priest’s orders, and at the generosity of Thomas Sheppard (her son-in-law). Fol. 37: Letter from Mary Routh (no address given) to Martin Routh, 1 Nov 1810. Mary discusses family matters. Fol. 38: Letter from Robert Routh (third brother of Martin; address Chertsey) to Martin Routh, 10 Apr 1812. Robert understands that the post of Steward at Magdalen is falling vacant, and wants to put himself forward. Fol. 39: Letter from George Routh (cousin; address, Holbrooke) to Martin Routh, 3 Oct 1814. George thanks Martin for sending him a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae. He has also heard something of the visits made to Oxford by several crowned heads. Fol. 40: Undated note in the hand of Mary Routh giving a statement of the cash and effects of Peter Routh at the time of his death. Fol. 41: Undated fragment of a letter from Martin Routh, presumably written soon after his father’s death in 1802, because it includes part of the text of an epitaph for him, and also some proposals for the fate of his books. Fol. 42: Letter from William Boycatt (address, Bungay) to Martin Routh, 27 Sep 1813. Boycatt describes the memorial and grave set up to Routh’s parents in the church at St. Margarets. He is unimpressed by the former. Fol. 43: Letter from George Routh (cousin; address, Ipswich) to Martin Routh, MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 4

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MC:PR30/1/C1/1 (con.) 22 Oct 1818. George thanks Martin for another volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 44: Letter from Joseph Routh (address, Marshall Street, London Road) to Martin Routh, 23 Mar 1823. Joseph claims to be a distant relative of Martin’s. He is a printer, and he commends his eldest son Joseph Martin Routh to Martin’s care. Fol. 45: Letter from James Reynolds (address, no. 4 Angel Court, Throckmorton) to Martin Routh, 7 Aug 1823. Reynolds has evidently been asked to investigate Joseph Routh, for he reports on him positively. Fol. 46: Receipt of Anne Routh (Martin’s sister) for a draft of £72 16s 3d, 22 Jan 1851.

MC:PR30/1/C1/2 1771–1854 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “M. J. Routh Vol. II” on the spine. This contains letters to Martin Routh from his father Peter, and documents relating to Routh’s university posts and degrees, and to his appointments as President and as Rector of Tilehurst.

Fol. 1: Note in John Bloxam’s hand, written on a fragment of a letter to Routh, reading “Papers relating to the President himself”. Fol. 2: Transcript by Adolphus Holmes from the registers of St. Margarets, South Elmham, recording the baptism of Martin Routh., dated 17 Mar 1852. Fol. 3: Letter from Peter Routh (address missing) to Martin Routh, 1771 (day and month missing). Part of the text of this letter is lost. Peter discusses Martin’s new surplice, and gives him advice on what to study and how to spend his time. Fol. 4: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 4 Feb 1774. On the same sheet is a letter of introduction from Peter to Gonville and Caius College (where he had been an undergraduate). Peter advises Martin what to do about presenting the letter there. Fol. 5: Official copy, written on parchment and signed by the Vice-Chancellor of the accounts kept by Martin Routh and Phineas Pett when they were Proctors of the University for 1785/6. Fols. 6–8: MS in Routh’s hand of a discourse on the title “An Christus sit vere Deus”. Someone has added in pencil that this was Routh’s exercise for his BD degree, which he took in 1786. Inserted into this text is a bill, dated 15 Jul 1786, for the costs incurred by Routh in taking his BD degree. Fol. 9: Draft letter from Routh to an unnamed addressee, Oxford, 21 May 1791. Routh thanks his correspondent for congratulating him on his election as President. Fol. 10: Letter from an illegible correspondent (address, London) to Martin Routh, 23 May 1791. The writer congratulates Routh on being elected Master [sic] of Magdalen College. On the back of this letter Routh has made a note of the significant dates in his life up to 1791, including a record of the years in which he went to Beccles. Fol. 11: Letter from J. Sturges (identified by Routh as the Chancellor of the Diocese of Winchester; address, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 3 May 1791. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 5

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MC:PR30/1/C1/2 (con.) Sturges explains that he is not competent in his own right to admit Routh as President of Magdalen. Fol. 12: Draft letter from Martin Routh, no address, to an unnamed peer or possibly Bishop (“My Lord”), no date given. Routh asks after his addressee’s health. Fol. 13: Letter from J. Sturges (address, Winchester) to an unnamed addressee, 1 May 1791. Sturges advises the new President of Magdalen (i.e. Routh) not to come to Winchester to see him alone, as he does not have the power to confirm him as President, but hopes to hear from the Bishop of Winchester about what should be done. Fol. 14: Draft letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to “Evans”, “Friday Morn” (presumably May 1791). Routh has had to go out of town to visit the Bishop of Winchester. He thanks Evans for his good wishes on his election, and for his recommendation of one Goodday for election to a Demyship in 1792 (see also MC:PR30/1/C1/3 Fol. 39; in fact, no one of this name was elected that year). There is also on this draft a note to Dr. Randoph thanking him for his “discourse” (it is not clear whether this is a pamphlet presented, or a lecture attended). Fol. 15: Certificate from Philip, Bishop of Norwich, that on 21 Dec 1777 he ordained Martin Routh a deacon. Fol. 16: Certificate from the Churchwardens of Shipmeadow, Suffolk, that Martin Routh received the sacrament at communion on 2 Oct 1791. Fol. 17: Note in Routh’s hand of the places visited on the Norfolk and Suffolk progress of October 1791. Fol. 18: Letter from J. Bacon (?) (address, First Fruits Office) to D. Wills (address, Oxford), 21 Feb 1794. Bacon has received a deposit of 35 guineas from Routh, and invites Routh to attend the service for the Sons of the Clergy as one of the Stewards. Bacon supplies a list of all the Stewards, including Routh. Fol. 19: Draft letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Thomas Thurlow, Bishop of Durham (D. 1755–9; F. 1759–72), no date given. Routh discusses some coins which have been sent to Thurlow, which appear to be some of the “Spur Royals” given to Magdalen by William Waynflete. Fol. 20: Note, apparently from the Principal of Brasenose College, to Martin Routh, 1809. The Principal attaches a note from the supporters of Lord Grenville which is to appear in the Morning Chronicle to disclaim any links with a letter which had mistakenly claimed that Routh supported Grenville for the Chancellorship. Fol. 21: Letter from Sophia Sheppard (address, Amport) to Martin Routh, 17 Jul 1810. She reports that her husband Thomas has visited the Bishop of Salisbury, and has presented Routh to the living of Tilehurst, without telling him. She reports that the Bishop was surprised that Routh was not in priest’s orders, but says that he would be happy to perform a private ordination for him. Sophia also adds a few words to her sister Anne, who was looking after Routh at this time. Fol. 22: Letter from the Bishop of Salisbury (address, Palace, Sarum) to Martin MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 6

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MC:PR30/1/C1/2 (con.) Routh, 6 Aug 1810. The Bishop makes arrangements for Routh’s ordination. No. 23: Draft letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to the Bishop of Salisbury (John Fisher, 1748–1825; Bishop of Salisbury 1807–25), undated (August 1810?). Routh makes arrangements to come to Salisbury for his ordination. Fol. 24: Letter from John Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury (address, Palace, Sarum) to Martin Routh, 16 Aug 1810. The Bishop has to postpone the date of Routh’s ordination. Fol. 25: Notice of Installation, dated 26 Aug 1810, by the Bishop of Salisbury of Martin Routh as Rector of Tilehurst. Fol. 26: Authorisation, dated 29 Aug 1810, from the Archdeacon of Salisbury, for the induction of Martin Routh as Rector of Tilehurst. Fol. 27: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to an unnamed Bishop (presumably the Bishop of Salisbury), 4 Nov 1814. Routh thanks the Bishop for sending him a copy of a speech recently delivered by him against the slave trade. He also asks whether the Bishop has received his copies of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 28: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to an unnamed addressee (identified tentatively on the letter as John Wilson, matr. 1803), 14 May 1820. Routh praises his correspondent as being the most eminent “non-foundationer” of the College he can remember. He regrets that his College duties prevented him from getting to know Wilson better. Fol. 29: Petition to Martin Routh, dated Monday 23 Feb [1829 - not 1827 as written on the letter] from several Oxford academics, including some Fellows of Magdalen College. Routh is asked to nominate Sir Robert Inglis for the forthcoming Parliamentary election (in which he stood against Robert Peel on the question of Catholic Emancipation). Fol. 30: Anonymous note, undated, but presumably c. 1834. The writer mocks Routh for supporting the Duke of Wellington (presumably for the Chancellorship), who had carried through Catholic Emancipation, when he had previously opposed Robert Peel, who had also supported it. Fol. 31: Copy of a minute from the Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends for Berkshire and Oxfordshire, 15 April 1828. Routh has had in his possession the first volume of records of the Oxfordshire Quarterly Meetings, begun in 1746, and has offered to give it back to them. In return, the Meeting agrees to offer him a selection of important Quaker theological texts, which are listed. Several of these volumes appear to be in the Routh collection at the University of Durham. Fol. 32: Text of an anonymous Latin poem (written in elegiac couplets) addressed to Routh, with a dedicatory note, and written from Queen’s College, July 1828. The poem praises Routh for his learning, and his age and experience. Fol. 33: Draft letter from Routh to an unnamed Bishop, undated (mid-1840s?). Routh notes a suggestion from his correspondent that the Queen should make nominations to the Welsh bishoprics and the proposed see of Manchester with the MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 7

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MC:PR30/1/C1/2 (con.) advice of the Privy Council, and warns against this diminution in the Royal prerogative. A date of 1833 has been added to this letter, but the see of Manchester was not created until 1847, which suggests that the letter was written over a decade later. Fol. 34: Draft letter from Routh (address, Tilehurst near Reading) to Henry Phillpotts (F. 1795–1805; Bishop of Exeter 1830–69), 12 Jul 1833. Routh supports Phillpotts in his opposition to an unnamed bill (probably the Irish Church Temporalities Act of 1833). Fols. 35–36: Two versions of a petition submitted to Parliament by Martin Routh, protesting against what appears to be the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836. Fol. 37: Memorandum in Routh’s hand giving an account of his career to 1814. The circumstances for the creation of this memorandum are unknown. Fol. 38: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to an unnamed Archbishop (presumably William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury 1828–48), 14 Mar 1837. Evidently concerned at a new act concerning pluralities, Routh explains the division of his time between Magdalen and his parish at Tilehurst. Fol. 39: Letter from Henry Ravenscroft (address illegible) to Martin Routh, 2 April 1844. Ravenscroft tells Routh that his clerical wig will be sent off to him tomorrow. Fol. 40: Letter from William White, (address, London, Brown Court) to Martin Routh, 22 May 1842. White has prepared an engraving based on a portrait of Routh by Thompson, paying £50 for the privilege. White now passes on some comments on the print by one Mr. Collins (probably Thomas Collins, F. 1805–16), who called it “ a complete failure”, and asks Routh to deny this is the case. Fol. 41: Letter to Martin Routh signed by several Oxford academics, dated 3 Jun 1851. The signatories report that the portrait of Martin Routh by Thompson has been presented to the University of Oxford, to hang in the Bodleian Library, and hope that he will approve of this act. Fol. 42: Another copy of the above letter, with a copy of Routh’s reply, dated 3 Jun 1851, in which he thanks the signatories for their act. Fol. 43: Letter from J. B. Mozley, as Vice-President, to Martin Routh, 29 Apr [year not given, but Mozley served as Vice-President 1849–50]. Mozley, on behalf of the Fellowship, asks Routh to agree to sit for his portrait, on the grounds that none of the existing ones of him are satisfactory. Fol. 44: [this letter is loose] Letter from Philip Bliss (address, Clay Hall near Stevenage) to Martin Routh, 30 Jul 1850. Bliss reports that Karl Hartmann has sold his portrait of Routh to a certain Mr. Ryman for 25 guineas to make an engraving from it, and not for 80 guineas, as rumour had it. Fol. 45: Memorandum in Martin Routh’s hand, dated 1788, in which he leaves instructions for the disposal of his papers and books in the event of his death. Fol. 46: Text of Martin Routh’s will, dated 17 Mar 1837, in which he leaves all his land at Tilehurst to his sister Sophia Sheppard. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 8

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MC:PR30/1/C1/2 (con.) Fol. 47: Extract in Routh’s hand, undated, of what appears to be a Latin epitaph for a member of the Routh family. Fol. 48: Printed handbill giving details of the order of procession at Martin Routh’s funeral, 29 Dec 1854. Fol. 49 (found loose): Copy made by William Macray in February 1901 of a letter from Martin Routh (address, Beccles) to Edward Lister (1766–82; Ch. 1774–82), 18 Sep 1780. Macray notes that the text was sent to him by W. H. Bliss. In the letter Routh reports on his activities in Suffolk, and encourages Lister in his writing.

MC:PR30/1/C1/3 1791 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “M. J. Routh Vol. III” on the spine. It contains letters and documents relating to Martin Routh’s (successful) campaign to be elected President of Magdalen in April 1791.

Fol. 1: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unknown addressee, dated 13 April 1791, soliciting his vote in the forthcoming Presidential election at Magdalen. Fol. 2: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Charles Williams (D. 1766–75; F. 1775–83), 16 Apr 1791. Routh asks Williams to encourage his friends at Magdalen to vote for him as President. Fol. 3: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unknown addressee, dated 13 April 1791, soliciting his vote in the forthcoming Presidential election at Magdalen. Fol. 4: Another version (undated) of Martin Routh’s letter to Charles Williams, as in Fol. 2 above. Fol. 5: Letter from Charles Williams (address, Woolbeding near Midhurst) to Martin Routh, 20 Apr 1791. Williams promises to do what he can to solicit votes for Routh in the Presidential election. Fol. 6: Folded sheet with three draft letters from Martin Routh soliciting support for the Presidential election. One is addressed to John Washbourne (F. 1774–1805). There are also several Routhian doodles on the paper. Fol. 7: Draft letter from Martin Routh to Alexander Schomberg (D. 1776–82; F. 1782–92), 15 Apr 1791. Routh reports on his electioneering for the Presidential election. Fol. 8: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, 14 Apr 1791, soliciting his vote in the forthcoming Presidential election at Magdalen. Fol. 9: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, 19 Apr 1791, hoping that he will be able to come and help him (i.e. vote for him in the Presidential election). Fol. 10: List of names in Martin Routh’s hand, evidently of the Fellows of Magdalen, noting who is likely to vote for him, Apr 1791. See also Fol. 28. Fol. 11: Letter from Henry Kett (Fellow of Trinity College, 1784–1823; address, Trinity College) to Martin Routh, “Tuesday”. Kett passes on gossip he has picked up about who plans to vote for who in the Presidential election. See also Fols, 16, 27 and 51 below, MC:PR30/1/C3/8 No. 5, MC:PR30/1/C4/4 Fol. 210 and MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 9

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MC:PR30/1/C1/3 (con.) MC:PR30/1/C4/10 Fols. 24–32 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 12: Letter from William Boycatt (see MC:PR30/1/C1/1 Fol. 33; address, Caius College Cambridge) to Martin Routh, Easter Sunday [i.e. 24 Apr] 1791. Boycott wants to know whether it is true that Routh is likely to become the new President of Magdalen College. Fol. 13: Letter from William Deacle (D. 1761–72; F. 1772–92; address, Thorpe) to Martin Routh, 18 Apr 1791. Deacle feels that he cannot say in advance for whom he will vote before the election takes place. Fol. 14: Letter from James Hawkins (D. 1770–89; F. 1789–99; address, Bampton) to Martin Routh, 18 Apr [1791]. Hawkins is not yet sure whether to vote for Routh or for Parkinson in the election. Fol. 15: Letter from W. Drake (address, Ishworth) to Martin Routh, 20 Apr 1791. Drake says that he will do his best to persuade his nephew Frank (Francis Drake, F. 1789–1802) to vote for Routh as President. Fol. 16: Letter from “H. K.” (Henry Kett, as in Fol. 11 above) to Martin Routh, undated (Apr 1791?). Kett discusses voting arrangements in the forthcoming Presidential election. Fol. 17: Draft letter from Martin Routh to “Bridges”, (Nathaniel Bridges, D. 1767–75; F. 1775–93), undated. Routh thanks Bridges for supporting him in the forthcoming election. Fol. 18: Letter from George Innes (D. 1781–8; F. 1788–93; address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 23 Apr 1791. Innes regrets that he cannot decide whom to vote for in the election, and decides to withhold his vote instead. Fol. 19: Folded paper with three draft letters from Martin Routh to unnamed addressees, all undated, thanking his correspondents for agreeing to vote for him. Fol. 20: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, undated, in which he thanks him for persuading Dr. Bridges to support him in the election. Fol. 21: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, thanking his correspondent for agreeing to vote for him. Fol. 22: Letter from Francis Mead (F. 1784–1810; address, Sherbourn) to H. Kett, Trinity College, 23 Apr 1791. Mead regrets that he will be unable to vote for Routh in the forthcoming election. Fol. 23: Draft note by Routh headed “I have written in much hurry the following circular to each of the absent Fellows”, n.d. (Apr 1791?). Fol. 24: Sheet of paper containing two draft letters from Martin Routh, undated, soliciting votes for the election. Fol. 25: Letter from Francis Drake (F. 1789–1802; address Beverley) to Martin Routh, 17 Apr [1791]. Drake’s father is very ill, and he is anxious to leave him at this stage, but he hopes to be in Oxford for the Presidential election, in which case he will support Routh. Fol. 26: Letter from T. James (annotated by Routh as “Head Master of Rugby School”; address, Rugby) to an unnamed ally of Martin Routh, 20 Apr 1791. James reports on sounding out various Fellows of Magdalen over the election: he is unable to communicate with Arthur Homer (Ch. 1765–72; D. 1775–82; F. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 10

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MC:PR30/1/C1/3 (con.) 1782–1802), and reports that George Innes (D. 1781–8; F. 1788–93) does not plan to go to Oxford to vote. Fol. 27: Letter from Henry Kett to Martin Routh, undated (Apr 1791?). Kett reports on his latest attempts to canvass support for Routh. Fol. 28: List of names in Martin Routh’s hand, evidently of the Fellows of Magdalen, noting who is likely to vote for him, Apr 1791. See also Fol. 10. Fol. 29: Letter from James Routh (Martin’s brother; address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 19 May 1791. James Routh congratulates his brother on being elected President of Magdalen College. Fol. 30: Letter from “PH” (Philip Homer, D. 1783–1802; F. 1802–6; address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 3 May 1791. Homer congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College, but also laments the poor health of himself and his family. Fol. 31: Letter from Thomas Hutchinson (D. 1759–62; F. 1762–88; address, Beeding Priory near Steyning, Sussex) to Martin Routh, n.d. (May 1791?). Hutchinson congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College. Fol. 32: Letter from George Murthwaite (d. 1798; matr. Queen’s 1750; Fellow there 1765–85; address, Brackley) to Martin Routh, 25 Jul 1791. Murthwaite congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College. Fol. 33: Letter from Charles Burney (1757–1817, schoolmaster and book collector; address, Fair Lawn House, Hammersmith) to Martin Routh, 2 May 1791. Burney congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College. A draft reply from Routh thanking Burney for his letter is on the second page of the document. Fol. 34: Letter from Thomas Crompton (address, Yarmouth) to Martin Routh, 14 May 1791. Crompton congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College. Fol. 35: Letter from Charles Williams (D. 1766–75; F. 1775–83; address, Woolbeding) to Routh, 1 May1791. Williams congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College. On the second page of this document is a draft letter from Routh to “my Lord” (identified in another hand as “To Lord Thurlow probably”) saying that he will be happy consider an application by a Mr. Etty (presumably for a Demyship; but no one of that name was elected to a College post). Fol. 36: Letter from John Perkins (matr. 1784; address, Pynes House) to Martin Routh, 3 May 1791. Perkins congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College. Fol. 37: Letter from Edward Synge (incorp. Magdalen 1776; address, Birr) to Martin Routh, 25 Jun 1791. Synge congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College. Fol. 38: Undated draft letter from Martin Routh to Thomas Hutchinson, thanking him for his good wishes. Fol. 39: Letter from John Evans (D. 1771–3; F. 1773–83; address, Nottingham) MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 11

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MC:PR30/1/C1/3 (con.) to Martin Routh, 9 May 1791. Evans congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College. He also asks Routh to support the candidature of the son of a friend of his, Dr. Goodday, for a Demyship (the application was unsuccessful; see also MC:PR30/1/C1/2 Fol. 14). Fol. 40: Letter from J. Bartlam (possibly John Bartlam, matr. Merton 1789; address, Alcester) to Martin Routh, 29 Apr 1791. Bartlam congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College. He is sure that Dr. Parr will be delighted at the news. Fol. 41: Letter from Herbert Croft (presumably Herbert Croft, matr. University College 1771; address, Holywell) to Martin Routh, 28 Apr [1791]. Croft congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College. He also recommends to Routh the services of Mr. Forty, a local butcher. Fol. 42: Letter from Robert Hughes (D. 1758–67; address, Plymouth Dock) to Martin Routh, 2 June 1791. Hughes congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College. Fol. 43: Letter from J. Turner (address, Pembroke Hall) to Martin Routh. 1 May 1791. Turner congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College. Fol. 44: Letter from David Urquhart (matr. Magdalen 1771; address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 2 May 1791. Urquhart congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College. On the back of the letter is a draft reply to him from Routh. Fol. 45: Letter from Thomas Monro (D. 1783–97; address, Brooke House, Hackney, Middlesex) to Martin Routh, 15 May1791. Monro congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College. Fol. 46: Letter from Richard Porson (1759–1808, classical scholar; address, Essex Court No. 5) to Martin Routh, 30 May 1791. Porson congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College. He also discusses some textual points on the works of Euthymius. Fol. 47: Letter from William Woodroffe (D. 1774–94; address, Hardwick near Aylesbury) to Martin Routh, 11 May1791. Woodroffe congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College. On the back of the letter is a draft reply to him from Routh. Fol. 48: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, summer 1791. Routh thanks his correspondent for congratulating him on becoming President of Magdalen, and discusses his request to Routh to make the son of his friend Mr. Cobbold a Demy of the College, explaining that this might not be possible. Fol. 49: Draft letter from Martin Routh to John Perkins (matr. 1784), 6 May 1791. Routh thanks Perkins for his letter of congratulation, and hopes to see them in Oxford. Fol. 50: Note from Nathaniel Bridges (D. 1767–75; F. 1775–93) to Martin Routh, “3 o’clock Monday”. Bridges has arrived in Oxford, and he makes arrangements for them to meet. Fol. 51: Letter from Henry Kett to Martin Routh, “Saturday 2 o’clock” (spring MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 12

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MC:PR30/1/C1/3 (con.) 1791?). Kett discusses Routh’s Presidential campaign, identifying more people who might support him. Fol. 52: Sheet of paper with two draft letters from Martin Routh to unnamed addressees. One discusses the arrangement of a visit to the addressee; the other appears to be written in the name of Robert Paget (D. 1757–62; F. 1762–93), the senior Resident Fellow, to the Bishop of Winchester, to discuss Routh’s admission as President. Fol. 53: Letter from John Henry Gell (address, Cloisters, Westminster Abbey) to C. B. Fisher, Steward of Magdalen College, 1 May 1791. Gell discusses arrangements for how to contact the Bishop of Winchester in order to arrange for Routh to be admitted President. Fol. 54: Letter from J. Sturges (address, Winchester) to John Metcalfe (F. 1772–99), then Vice-President of Magdalen College, 1 May 1791. Sturges discusses arrangements for the admission of Routh as President by the Bishop of Winchester. Fol. 55: Letter from Brownlow North (Bishop of Winchester 1781–1820; address, Bath) to an unnamed addressee (probably J. Sturges), 2 May 1791. North discusses arrangements for admitting the new President of Magdalen College. Fol. 56: Letter from Brownlow North (address, Bath) to an unnamed addressee (John Metcalfe?), 2 May 1791. North asks his correspondent to supply him with information about the procedures for admitting a new President of Magdalen College. Fol. 57: Draft letter from Martin Routh to the Bishop of Winchester, n.d. (May 1791). Routh, on behalf of the College, continues to discuss with the Bishop arrangements for his admission as President. Fol. 58: Letter from John Henry Gell (address, Cloisters, Westminster Abbey) to Robert Paget (as in Fol. 52 above), 5 May 1791. Gell has sent a set of instruments for the admission of Routh to the Presidency to the Bishop of Winchester, and discusses arrangements for the process. Fol. 59: Letter from John Henry Gell (address, Cloisters, Westminster Abbey) to Martin Routh, 13 Jul 1791. Gell will be passing through Oxford in August, and hopes to visit him then to settle their accounts for his admission to the Presidency. Fols. 60–62 were found loose in this book. Fol. 60: Letter from James Butler (address, Bryanston Street, Portman Square) to Martin Routh, 29 Apr 1791. Butler congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen College. Fol. 61: Letter from William Alcock (D. 1770–83; F. 1783–1810; no address given) to Martin Routh, 22 Apr 1791. Alcock is still unsure which candidate to support in the election. Fol. 62: letter from John Henry Gell (address, Cloisters, Westminster) to Robert Paget (as in Fol. 52 above), 3 May 1791. Gell sends Paget papers about the procedure for admitting Routh as President of Magdalen College. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 13

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MC:PR30/1/C1/4 1788–1848 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “M. J. Routh Vol. IV” on the spine. It contains miscellaneous notes and letters relating to Routh not least concerning the producing of his books, which Bloxam brought together here.

Fol. 1: Chronological table of events from the Old Testament, in Routh’s hand, with Adam’s creation reckoned as Year 1. Fol. 2: List of the Archbishops of Canterbury appointed between 1532 and 1768, probably not in Routh’s hand. Fol. 3: Chronological tables of events from the creation of Adam to the death of Commodus, in Routh’s hand. Fol. 4: Draft letter from Routh to an unnamed addressee, addressed as “Right Honourable”, 17 Jan 1800. Routh expresses his concern at proposals to call Parliament an Imperial Parliament. Fol. 5: Draft letter from Routh to an unnamed bishop, addressed as “My Lord”, 19 Nov 1838. Routh thanks the bishop for a copy of his episcopal charge. Fol. 6: Copy in Routh’s hand of “To a Butterfly”, by Baron Smith of the Irish Exchequer, taken from the Morning Herald of 7 Sep 1836. Fol. 7: Draft letter from Routh to an unnamed addressee, undated (c. 1800–10?). Routh discusses a request for a volunteer corps to carry out their exercises in Magdalen. Fol. 8: Letter from Routh to “Mr. Byfield” (address, 8 Beak Street, Regent Street, London), 12 Feb 1837. Byfield has asked Routh to speak to the Duke of Wellington on his behalf; Routh refuses on the grounds that he does not know the Duke. Fol. 9: Draft note from Routh to “Mr. Parker”, undated. Routh thanks Parker for giving him a publication on patristic theology. Fol. 10: Draft letter from Routh to an unnamed female addressee, undated. Routh is unable to help his correspondent in an unspecified matter relating to a Mrs. Chaloner. Fol. 11: Sheet with parts of four draft letters from Routh. They are as follows: (i) to a Mr. Ogilvie, undated, in which Routh discusses his health; (ii) to an unnamed addressee, dated Jan 1842, again discussing his health; (iii) to an unnamed addressee, undated, asking whether he is still interested in putting forward his son for a choristership; (iv) to an unnamed addressee, undated, apparently on the subject of a second edition of one of Routh’s works (the Reliquiae Sacrae?). Fol. 12: Draft note from Routh to the Archbishop of Cashel, thanking him for a publication. Undated, but written on a fragment of a printed sheet dated 15 March 1838. Fol. 13: Sheet, undated, with two notes by Routh on it, numbered I and II. “I” is an explanation of Routh’s refusal to answer any more enquiries on an unspecified subject of which he disapproves; “II” is an explanation of Routh’s concern against betraying the liberty of the subject. Fol. 14: Draft letter from Routh to an unnamed Editor, undated. Routh protests against a proposal to give Home Rule to Ireland. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 14

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MC:PR30/1/C1/4 (con.) Fol. 15: Note in Routh’s hand on the use of the word “Catholic”. Fol. 16: Sheet of paper, with on one side a “Clerk’s List”, giving the names of Clerks by services on days of the week (function uncertain), and on the other what appears to be a draft letter from Routh to Oxford University Press on the publication of the second edition of one of his works (the Reliquiae Sacrae?). Undated, but the clerks were only all at Magdalen during the years 1846–8. Fol. 17: Verses, written in Routh’s hand, to accompany the gift of a pen to his wife Eliza (née Blagrave), undated. Published in Macray, Register, V, 115. Fol. 18: Sheet of paper with, on one side, a request from one Simon Pidsley of Exeter College, for a dispensation for absence towards an MA degree, dated 1 Mar 1810, and on the other, a draft letter from Routh to an unnamed addressee, about doing an unspecified good turn to the son of a Mr. South. Fol. 19: Draft letter from Routh to an unnamed addressee, sending his condolences on the death of the addressee’s father. Fol. 20: Latin quatrain in elegiac couplets in Routh’s hand, in praise of an unnamed woman (perhaps intended for an epitaph?). Fol. 21: Draft letter from Routh to an unnamed addressee, which appears to relate to the Scottish Episcopalian church (there is a reference to the Bishop of Edinburgh). Fol. 22: Draft letter from Routh to Mr. Hatchett, “Thursday Even”, regretting that they are unable to meet, and suggesting another time. Fol. 23: Sheet with two draft letters from Routh, one thanking a Mr. Lancaster for the present of a book, the other on subscription payments to the Spottiswoode Society. Fol. 24: Sheet of rough notes in Routh’s hand on a Syriac version of the works of St. Ignatius, and on the binding of some of Routh’s books. Fol. 25: Draft letter from Routh to an unnamed addressee (William Windham?), 19 Oct 1806. Routh asks the addressee whether or not he is willing to stand as an MP for the University of Oxford. Fol. 26: Letter from Routh to Sophia Sheppard, Apr. 1848. Routh reports that he has been in poor health of late, and encloses Fol. 27 below. Fol. 27: Letter from Lord Forbes (address, Cheltenham) to Routh, 8 Apr 1848. He is glad that Routh’s health has improved, and discusses Mrs. Sheppard’s proposed gift for a new church. He notes that she wants to support the endowment rather than the building of the church, and realises that he will have to find some trustees to administer it. Fol. 28: First page of a sermon in Routh’s hand on Luke 24.49. Fol. 29: Copy in Routh’s hand of a parody of an epitaph composed by Joseph Bodenham, Rector of Stoke Ash, Routh’s great-uncle. Routh has copied it onto an envelope postmarked Sept 1828. Fol. 30: Copy by Routh of “A Scotch Ode”, published in the Times, 29 Apr 1833. Fol. 31: Copy by Routh of a poem titled Answer to the Vicar of Bray by a Hanover Tory, written by John Routh. Fol. 32: Draft letter from Routh to Dr. Burney (?Charles Burney, 1757–1817), 14 MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 15

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MC:PR30/1/C1/4 (con.) Jul 1807. Routh thanks Burney for an unspecified present to Magdalen College (it appears to be a book). Fol. 33: Letter from Walter Vicary (O. 1797–1845) to Routh, “Thursday Morning”, to accompany the present of a turbot from Birmingham. Routh has used this letter on which to draft a letter of his own to an unnamed addressee, in which he discusses the arrangements for the election of Demies. Fol. 34: Draft letter from Routh to an unnamed Bishop, undated, thanking him for sending an unspecified publication. Fol. 35: Letter from Routh to “Mr. Nicoll” of the Bodleian Library, asking him to confirm a reference. Nicoll has sent the letter back, writing the reference on it. Fol. 36: Draft letter from Routh to an unnamed addressee, undated. It is very hard to read, but appears to discuss the Episcopalian Church in Scotland. Fol. 37: Fragment of notes, possibly in Routh’s hand (although they are unusually neat for him), undated. They discuss the role of bishops in the English Constitution. Fol. 38: Printed leaflet issued by Routh, Oxford 1788, advertising his intention to produce a publication which will become his Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 39: Draft application from Routh to an unnamed Board (presumably of the Delegates of Oxford University Press) offering his Reliquiae Sacrae for publication. Fol. 40: Draft letter from Routh to “Dear Mr. Dean” (Thomas Gaisford, Dean of Christ Church?) about sending in corrections to Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 41: Draft letter from Routh, presumably to Oxford University Press, proposing a corrected edition of Reliquiae Sacrae, 1836. Fol. 42: Latin text in Routh’s hand headed “Praefatio”, apparently suitable for Reliquiae Sacrae, but seemingly not used in any published edition. Fol. 43: MS version of the dedicatory note to Reliquiae Sacrae, addressed to the Bishops of the Episcopalian Church in Scotland. Fol. 44: Draft letter from Routh to an unnamed Bishop, 29 Jul 1789. Routh alludes to his plans for Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 45: Draft letter from Routh to an unnamed bishop, offering him a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae. Undated, but presumably c. 1814. Fol. 46: Letter from Lord Grenville (William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, 1759–1834, Prime Minister 1806–7 and Chancellor of the University of Oxford 1810–34; address, Camelford House) to Routh, 8 Nov 1814. Grenville discusses the procedure for presenting books to the Prince Regent, suggesting that Routh might present his work to the Prince in person. Fol. 47: Letter from Lord Grenville (address, Dropmore) to Routh, 19 Nov 1814. Grenville has arranged for a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae to be presented to the Prince Regent. (See also MC:PR30/1/C4/8 Fol. 33, and MC:PR30/1/C4/9 Fols. 8–12 for other letters from Lord Grenville). Fol. 48: Letter from Thomas Gaisford (1779–1855, Regius Professor of Greek 1812–55 and Dean of Christ Church 1831–55; address, Christ Church) to Routh, 10 Dec 1847. Gaisford tells Routh that the Delegates of Oxford University Press MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 16

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MC:PR30/1/C1/4 (con.) have agreed to publish a fifth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. (See also MC:PR30/1/C4/3 Fols. 146–149 and MC:PR30/1/C4/9 Fols. 2–3 for other letters from Gaisford). Fol. 49: MS translation of the advertisement for Reliquiae Sacrae at Fol. 52 below. Fol. 50: Copy of letter from Routh to an unnamed addressee saying that he is collecting material for a new and enlarged edition of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 51: Letter from Philip Bliss (Philip Bliss, 1787–1857, Registrar of Oxford 1828–53 and Principal of St. Mary’s Hall 1848–57; address, Delegates of the Press) to Routh, 10 Dec 1847. Bliss reports that the Delegates of OUP accept his proposal to publish a fifth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 52: German printed pamphlet titled “Neueste Erscheinungen auf dem Gebiete catholischer Literatur”, listing new theological publications. Undated, but listing books published in 1847. One of the texts mentioned is the second edition of Reliquiae Sacrae, with some laudatory comments. Fol. 53: Bill to Routh from S. Collingwood for printing Volume I of Reliquiae Sacrae, 18 Aug 1812. Fol. 54: Bill to Routh from S. Collingwood for printing Volume II of Reliquiae Sacrae, 8 Feb 1814. Fol. 55: Bill to Routh from S. Collingwood for corrections to the proofs of Reliquiae Sacrae, 18 Jun 1814. Fol. 56: Bill to Routh from S. Collingwood for corrections to the proofs of Volume II of Reliquiae Sacrae, and printing Volume III, 18 Jun 1814–19 Jul 1815. Fol. 57: Bill to Routh from S. Collingwood for printing Volume III of Reliquiae Sacrae, 19 Jul 1815–7 Feb 1816. Fol. 58: Bill to Routh from S. Collingwood for work on Volumes II and III of Reliquiae Sacrae, 18 Jun 1814–1816. Fols. 59/60: Letter from an illegible correspondent (address, Westminster) to Routh, 6 Jun 1818. Routh’s correspondent passes on information from J. Mawman (James Mawman, London bookseller) about the selling and distribution of Reliquiae Sacrae. [this sheet has been given two numbers in error] Fol. 61: Bill from James Mawman to Routh, Jul 1818, in relation to the distribution of copies of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fols. 62–63: Two copies of a bill to Routh from S. Collingwood for printing Volume IV of Reliquiae Sacrae, 11 Aug 1817. Fol. 64: Receipt from S. Collingwood to Routh for payment of the above bill, 17 Aug 1817. Fol. 65: Bill to Routh from S. and J. Collingwood for for printing Volume IV of Reliquiae Sacrae, Jun 1818. Fol. 66: Receipt from Samuel Collingwood to Routh for payment of the above bill, 21 Jul 1818. Fol. 67: Bill from J. Mawman to Routh, 10 Jun 1818. Fol. 68: Bill to Routh from S. and J. Collingwood for printing an erratum slip in MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 17

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MC:PR30/1/C1/4 (con.) Volume IV of Reliquiae Sacrae, Jan 1819. Fol. 69: Letter from J. H. Parker (address, Broad Street) to Martin Routh, undated but after 1827. Parker tells Routh how many copies of Reliquiae Sacrae he has sold, and how many sets remain in the warehouse under the theatre. Fol. 70: Bill from Thomas Combe (1792–1872) to Routh for corrections to the proofs of Volume V of Reliquiae Sacrae, 14 Dec 1848. Fol. 71: Account for sales of Reliquiae Sacrae, 1840–2. Fol. 72 [loose in volume]: Note from Philip Bliss to Routh passing on a resolution from the Delegates of OUP to publish Routh’s Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula, 13 Apr 1832.

MC:PR30/1/C1/5 1789–1869 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “M. J. Routh Vol. V” on the spine. It contains material collected by Bloxam about the death of Martin Routh, and also some texts of inscriptions by Routh himself. See MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 for a whole guardbook devoted by Bloxam to inscriptions composed by Routh.

Fol. 1: Cutting from an unnamed newspaper with a report of the death of Martin Routh, taken from the Times. Dec 1854. Fol. 2: Cutting from another unnamed newspaper, with the same report on the death of Martin Routh taken from the Times. Dec 1854. Fol. 3: Cutting from an unnamed newspaper with an obituary of Martin Routh, and a mention of his funeral. After 29 Dec 1854. Fol. 4: Cutting from an unnamed newspaper with a report of the funeral of Martin Routh. After 29 Dec 1854. Fol. 5: Cutting from an unnamed newspaper with another report of the funeral of Martin Routh. After 29 Dec 1854. Fol. 6: Cutting from an unnamed newspaper with a report of the death and funeral of Martin Routh. After 29 Dec 1854. Fol. 7: Cutting from an unnamed newspaper with report of the death of Martin Routh. Dec 1854. Fol. 8: Copy of the Church of England Magazine, 10 Mar 1855, with a tribute to Martin Routh. Fol. 9: Copy of A Century of Verses in Memory of the Reverend, the President of Magdalen College, by John Burgon, Oxford 1855. This copy bears a dedicatory inscription and a letter to John Bloxam from Burgon dated 30 Apr [1855]. Fol. 10: MS copy of A Biographical Sketch of the Revd Dr. Routh, late President of Magdalen College, by Charles Daubeny (D. 1810–15; F. 1815–67). The hand (which also wrote out Fol. 14 below) is not Daubeny’s, and the MS lacks the final two paragraphs given in printed versions of this text. Fol.11: MS in Charles Daubeny’s hand of the last two paragraphs of his memoir of Martin Routh, which were lacking in Fol. 10 above. Fol. 12: MS poem addressed to Routh on his 100th birthday [recte 99th], 19 Sep 1854 by George Booth (F. 1816–34). See also Fol. 17. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 18

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MC:PR30/1/C1/5 (con.) Fol. 13: Printed leaflet with a poem addressed to Routh from “F. K.” (F. Kilvert) of Bath, 1853 (see Fols. 15 and 28–29 below). Francis Kilvert matriculated from Worcester College in 1811, and died in 1863. Fol. 14: MS account of Routh’s last days by Edward Hawkins (1789–1882, Provost of Oriel College 1828–82), 24 Dec 1854. The hand is the same as that which wrote out Fol. 10, and is almost certainly not Hawkins’s. Fol. 15: MS version of Kilvert’s poem addressed to Routh (see Fol. 13 above and 28–29), which here is dated to 19 Sept 1853, Routh’s 98th birthday. Fol. 16: MS Latin poem, in hendecasyllables, written in Bloxam’s hand, composed on the occasion of Routh’s planting a tree in May 1848, by Walker (possibly Richard Walker? See Fols. 32 and 35). See also Fol. 20. Fol. 17: Another copy of George Booth’s poem to Routh from 1854 (see also Fol. 12). Fol. 18: MS extract from a French newspaper reporting on Routh’s 99th birthday in 1853 (in fact it was his 98th). Fol. 19: MS Latin poem, written in elegiac couplets, by George Booth with a dedicatory preface, addressed to Routh, expressing relief at his escaping injury when his house (the President’s Lodgings or his vicarage at Tilehurst?) was damaged by a falling tree. See also Fol. 38. Fol. 20: Another MS copy of the Latin poem in Fol. 17 above. Fol. 21: Printed text of a sermon titled The Three Nativities, given by Thomas Frederick Smith (F. 1846–56) on Christmas Day, 1854, just after Routh’s death. Fol. 22: MS poem by “F. K.” (Francis Kilvert), dated Christmas Day 1853, addressed to Routh. Fol. 23: MS Greek poem, written in elegiac couplets, with a dedicatory preface, by “Δ”. The poem praises Routh on celebrating sixty years as President of Magdalen, and compares him with King Nestor. Fol. 24: Draft text in Greek written in Routh’s hand, and dated 12 Dec 1853, too illegible to decipher. Fol. 25: Draft note in Routh’s hand, of a proposed title of what would be published in 1853 as Tres breves tractatus. Fol. 26: MS transcript (not by Routh) of a memorial in St. Michael’s church, Oxford for Edward Lister (1766–82; Ch. 1774–82), copied 30 Mar 1853. Fol. 27: MS of sonnet by Edwin Millard (Ch. 1834–41; D. 1842–53; F. 1853–65; Master of MCS 1848–64) written to mark Routh’s starting the 50th year of his Presidency at Magdalen, 1840. Fol. 28: MS poem addressed to Routh aged 97, and dated January 1853. This is the same text as in Fols. 13 and 15, but here the poet is identified as F. Kilvert. Fol. 29: Another printed copy of Kilvert’s poem to Routh, as in Fol. 13 above. Fol. 30: Printed leaflet advertising engravings of the portrait of Routh by H. W. Pickersgill, 22 May 1850. Fol. 31: Printed catalogue of Routh’s manuscripts, to be sold at auction on 5 July 1855. Bloxam has annotated those lots which he purchased. See, however, MC:PR30/1/C3/9 No. 1, which suggests that Bloxam bought some slightly MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 19

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MC:PR30/1/C1/5 (con.) different items. Fol. 32: MS dedication in Latin to Routh from Richard Walker (F. 1821–52). Fol. 33: List of names of Oxford worthies, inscribed by Bloxam “To be invited to the Funeral” (Routh’s, on 29 Dec. 1854). Fol. 34: Printed “Order of Procession of Private Friends” for Martin Routh’s funeral, 29 Dec 1854. Fol. 35: MS Latin poem, in iambic dimeters catalectic, about the seasons, titled “Anni Menses”. It is dated 1847 at the end and appears to be signed “Rds Wr” - presumably Richard Walker (F. 1821–52)? Fol. 36: Latin epitaph composed by Routh for his sister Anne Routh (d. 1854). See also Fols. 57, 70, 73 and 75, as well as MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 Nos. 13–20 and 112–113. Fol. 37: Latin epitaph, probably in Bloxam’s hand, composed by Routh for John Oliver (F. 1621–39; P. 1644–8 & 1660–1). See also MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 No. 94. Fol. 38: MS Latin poem, written in elegiac couplets, by George Booth with a dedicatory preface, addressed to Routh, expressing relief at his escaping injury when his house (the President’s Lodgings or his vicarage at Tilehurst?) was damaged by a falling tree, 1851/2. See also Fol. 19 above. Fols. 39–42: Four versions of Latin epitaphs, some in Bloxam’s hand, in memory of Edward Lister (1766–82; Ch. 1774–82). See also MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 Nos. 35–43 and 115. Fols. 43–45: Three sheets of paper, each with small samples of Routh’s handwriting, done in 1854. Presumably Routh was invited to make these as souvenirs. Fols. 46–47: Letter from John Buckler (address, Bermondsey, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 6 Dec 1824. Buckler sends a design for an epitaph composed by Routh to go on a tablet in Wainfleet, Lincs., to commemorate the memorial to Waynflete’s father Richard Patten (which is now in the Chapel of Magdalen College). See also MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 Nos. 93–4 on this inscription. Other letters from John Buckler may be found at MC:PR30/1/C3/5. Fol. 48: Draft Latin epitaph by Routh for Sophia Bliss, who died aged 11. See also Fols. 55 and 79, as well as MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 Nos. 46–48 and 116–120. Fol. 49: MS in Bloxam’s hand with three Latin texts by Routh, respectively for a copy of Plato given to Henry Best (D. 1785–92; F. 1792–7) in 1789, a brass plate for the foundation stone of Magdalen College School, and a copy of the second edition of Reliquiae Sacrae, sent to Tsar Nicholas I (on which see also Fol. 67). Fol. 50: Latin dedication, copied by Bloxam, made by Routh to accompany some books given to Roundell Palmer (F. 1834–48). See also Fols. 54 and 64, which date it to 1847. Fol. 51: Design for an epitaph in the hand of Joseph Parkinson for John Shaw (F. 1771–1824). See also Fol. 63 and MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 Nos. 146–147. Fol. 52: Another version of an epitaph for Edward Lister (see Fols. 39–42), this time bearing several emendations in Routh’s hand. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 20

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MC:PR30/1/C1/5 (con.) Fol. 53: Copy of the Latin dedication placed by Routh on the salver given to him by Tsar Alexander I, when he presented it in turn to Magdalen College. See also Fol. 58. See also MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 Nos. 139–140. Fol. 54: Another version of Fols. 50 and 64, the dedication to Roundell Palmer (F. 1834–48), this time with emendations in Routh’s hand. Fol. 55: Another version of Fol. 48 above (the epitaph for Sophia Bliss), which was hung in “St. Peter’s Church, Oxford” (the church of St. Peter in the East). See also Fol. 79. Fol. 56: Copy of a Latin inscription by Routh intended for a bust of the Duke of Wellington. See also Fol. 77. Fol. 57: Another version of Routh’s epitaph for his sister Anne (see also Fols. 36 70, 73, and 75). Fol. 58: Another version of Fol. 53, the dedicatory inscription made by Routh on Tsar Alexander’s salver when he gave it to the College. Fol. 59: Latin epitaph composed by Routh for Francis Burdett, 11 Sep 1853. See also Fols. 76–77 and MC:PR30/1/MS4/1, Nos. 68–70. Fol. 60: Copy of the inscription composed by Routh for the foundation stone of Magdalen College School, 1849. Fol. 61: Copy (by Bloxam) of a Latin inscription composed by Routh for a chair in the President’s Lodgings made from the old Magdalen oak, which fell in 1789. See also MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 Nos. 143–144 Fol. 62: Copy (by Bloxam) of a Latin inscription composed by Routh for a copy of Plato given to Henry Best (D. 1785–92; F. 1792–7) in 1789 (see also Fol. 49 and MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 No. 138). Fol. 63: Copy (by Bloxam) of Routh’s Latin epitaph for John Shaw (see Fol. 51). Fol. 64: Another version of Fols. 50 and 54, the dedication to Roundell Palmer (F. 1834–48), this time in Bloxam’s hand, and with a date of 1847 given. Fol. 65: Copy (by Bloxam) of Latin epitaph composed by Routh for his sister Sophia Sheppard (d. 1848). See also Fols. 72 and 79. Fol. 66: Copy (by Bloxam) of Latin epitaph composed by Routh for Benjamin Tate (D. 1769–80; F. 1780–1820). See also MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 No. 67. Fol. 67: Copy (by Bloxam) of Latin dedication composed by Routh to accompany a copy of the second edition of Reliquiae Sacrae sent to Tsar Nicholas I in 1852. See also Fol. 49 and MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 No. 45. Fol. 68: Copy (by Bloxam) of Latin epitaph composed by Routh for Lord Thurlow for the Temple Church, London. See also MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 Nos. 97–103 and 133. Fol. 69: Copy (by Bloxam) of Latin epitaph composed by Routh for Arthur Loveday (D. 1784–99; F. 1799–1827). See also MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 Nos. 87–90 and 132. Fol. 70: Another version of Routh’s epitaph for his sister Anne (see also Fols. 36, 57, and 73). Fol. 71: Copy (by Bloxam) of Latin epitaph composed by Routh for John Anthony Blagrave, son of John Henry Blagrave, died 2 Jan 1850. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 21

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MC:PR30/1/C1/5 (con.) Fol. 72: Another copy of Routh’s epitaph for his sister Sophia Sheppard (d. 1848; see Fols. 65 and 79). Fol. 73: Another version of Routh’s epitaph for his sister Anne (see also Fols. 36, 57, 70, and 75). Fol. 74: Copy (by Bloxam) of Latin epitaph composed by Routh for Arthur Homer (Ch. 1765–72; D. 1775–82; F. 1782–1802; d. 1806). Fol. 75: Another version of Routh’s epitaph for his sister Anne (see also Fols. 36, 57, 70, and 75). Fol. 76: Another copy of Latin epitaph composed by Routh for Francis Burdett, 11 Sep 1853, this one bearing Routh’s annotations. See also Fols. 59 and 77. Fol. 77: Copies of Fol. 56 (inscription for bust of the Duke of Wellington) and Fol. 76 (epitaph for Francis Burdett). Fol. 78: Copy, made by George Booth, of Latin epitaph by Routh for Edward Tawney (D. 1830–2; d. 1832). See also MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 Nos. 105–6 and 134. Fol. 79: Copies made by Bloxam, and annotated by Routh himself, of epitaphs for Sophia Bliss (see Fols. 48 and 55) and Sophia Sheppard (see Fols. 65 and 72). Fol. 80: MS of English verse epitaph for Sophia Sheppard (d. 1848), author unknown. Fol. 81: MS in Routh’s hand giving notice of a Demyship election for candidates from the dioceses of York and Durham. Fol. 82: Printed catalogue of the furniture and books of Mrs. Routh (Mary Routh, Routh’s mother) to be sold after her death, 4 Oct 1813. Fol. 83: Latin dedication in Routh’s hand to an illegible addressee. Fol. 84: Letter, written in French, from the editor of the Mémorial Historique, to Routh, 2 Jul 1851. The editor appears to agree to advertise the publication of one of Routh’s books. Fols. 85–87: Letter from Joseph Bosworth (address, The Lodge, Islip) to John Bloxam, 12 Nov 1855, enclosing a letter and envelope written to him by Routh on 14 Dec 1854. Bosworth and Bloxam appear to agree that this was the last letter which Routh wrote, and indeed Routh’s hand is especially shaky. He appears to be granting Bosworth permission to examine the College’s MS of the life of St. Mary Magdalene attributed to Rhabanus Maurus. Fol. 88: Draft letter from Routh to Dr. Smith, editor of Scriptorum Testamentum, 17 Jan 1820. Routh thanks Smith for sending him one of his books. Fol. 89: Draft letter from Routh to an unnamed addressee, undated, thanking him for sending him a treatise on the English Reformation. Fol. 91: Draft letter from Routh to an unnamed addressee, undated, enclosing money towards the constuction of an Episcopal church in Edinburgh. Fol. 91: Draft letter from Routh to an unnamed addressee, undated, enclosing a copy of what appears to be his edition of the memoirs of Bishop Burnet. Fol. 92: Letter written on behalf of the President by an unknown writer to an unknown address, undated, written in reply to a request for his support in a forthcoming Demyship election. Fol. 93: Fragment of a letter from Routh to Lady Burdett dated “Saturday MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 22

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MC:PR30/1/C1/5 (con.) evening”. Routh hopes that Lady Burdett and her daughter might be able to visit him. Fol. 94: Letter from T. Gladstone (address, Laurencekirk, Scotland) to Routh, 9 Aug 1854. Gladstone thanks Routh for his letter. Fol. 95: Letter, written in French, from Prince Lieven (address, Harley Street) to Lord Grenville, 26 Feb 1821. Lieven asks Grenville to thank Routh for the presentation of the last two volumes of his Reliquiae Sacrae to Tsar Alexander I, and asks him to pass on a present to him. Presumably this was the salver which Routh later gave to the College. [Fols. 96–100 are loose] Fol. 96: Letter from H. Wellesley (address, London) to Routh, 21 Sep 1853. Wellesley thanks Routh for his inscription for a bust of Wellington, and comments on it. Fol. 97: MS note of the death of Routh’s mother Mary in 1813. Fol. 98: Memorandum in Routh’s hand on two annuities to his servants, and the bequest of his books to the University of Durham, with an explanatory note from “C.A.O” (a solicitor?) explaining that Routh gave him this document. Fol. 99: Memorandum in Routh’s hand suggesting the creation of Praelectors at Magdalen in Natural Philosophy and Jurisprudence, c. 1850. Fol. 100: Letter from John Rigaud (D. 1840–9; F. 1849–88; address, Magdalen College) to John Bloxam, 20 Apr 1869. Rigaud reports that Routh’s widow died on 23 March, and was buried at Holywell Cemetery.

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MC:PR30/1/C2/1 1784–1850 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters from Fellows Vol I” on the spine, and inscribed “J. R. Bloxam Beeding Priory” on the inside front cover. This contains letters from and about Fellows of Magdalen College elected between 1730 and 1795 who had not been Demies before their election. Letters from and about Fellows of Magdalen who had previously been Demies are to be found in the sequence of letters from Demies.

Fols. 1–8: Letters concerning a bequest from William Haward (F. from 1730; d. 1756). Fol. 1: Letter from an addressee whose name has been crossed out, presumably by Routh (no address given, but postmarked “Hadleigh”) to Martin Routh, postmarked 24 Mar 1798. The correspondent thanks Routh for his hospitality on a visit to Oxford, and then confesses at length that he didn’t fulfil all the regulations relating to taking his MA. Someone has written “Case of Conscience” on the letter. Fol. 2: Letter from Anthony Highmore (address, Bury & Co., St. Mary Axe) to Arthur Homer (Ch. 1765-72; D. 1775-82; F. 1782-1802), 14 Jun 1792. Highmore discusses a legacy from Dr. Haward to Magdalen College, of £200 towards the new buildings fund, which was subject to a life interest in his wife. Fol. 3: Letter from Anthony Highmore (address, Bury & Co., St. Mary Axe) to MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 23

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MC:PR30/1/C2/1 (con.) Arthur Homer, 3 Jul 1792. Highmore discusses how to obtain Haward’s legacy. Fol. 4: Letter from Thomas Dunn (address, Lincoln’s Inn) to Richard Wooddeson (D. 1759-71; F. 1772-1822), 27 Oct 1792. Dunn discusses arrangements for the receipt of an unspecified bequest, which is presumably Haward’s; see Fol. 6 below. Fol. 5: Letter from Thomas Dunn (address, Lincoln’s Inn) to Richard Wooddeson, 4 Nov 1792. Dunn discusses how the College is to obtain Haward’s legacy. Fol. 6: Copy of a letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Tooks Court, ChanceryLane) to an unnamed addressee, 18 May 1793. Wooddeson declares the College’s intention to secure their legacyfrom William Haward, not least because they are considering plans for the New Building drawn up by James Wyatt. Fol. 7: Letter from Thomas Matthews (address, Southampton Place, London) to Martin Routh, 31 May 1793. Matthews promises to expedite matters so that the College receives Haward’s bequest. Fol. 8: Letter from William Townsend (address, Staple Inn, London) to Martin Routh, 20 August 1802. This confirms that Haward’s wife died in 1788, and records that Magdalen is due at last to receive his bequest, which, with interest included, will amount to £296. Fols. 9–13: Letters from and concerning George Horne (1730–92; F. 1750–68: P. 1768–1791). Fol. 9: Letter from George Horne (no address given) to Martin Routh, 16 May 1789. Horne discusses an unspecified motion which Routh hoped to be brought to Convocation, reporting that it had been thought best not to proceed further with it. Fol. 10: Letter from William Jones (1726–1800; clergyman and religious controversialist; address, Nayland) to Martin Routh, 5 Mar 1792. Jones laments the death of George Horne (who had been a friend of his since they were undergraduates at University College together). He asks for a copy of a letter sent to George Parr from Horne’s housekeeper. He also expresses his anxieties about the influence of ideas emanating from France. Fol. 11: Unsigned note, dated 11 April 1835, offering a copy of the memoirs of George Horne’s cousin, William Stevens (1732–1807). The correspondent might be Sir James Park, who wrote a biography of Stevens. Fol. 12: MS copy of a poem “A Letter to the Revd. Mr. Watson”, by George Horne. George Watson (Fellow of University College 1747–54) had introduced Horne to the precepts of Hutchinsonianism, and Horne uses this poem to praise Watson for this. Fol. 13: MS copy of a poem “The Ghost of the Revd. Dr. Horne, sometime Bp of Norwich”. Fols. 14–22: Letters from and concerning Thomas Pindar (d. 1813; F. 1761–96). Fol. 14: Letter (partly torn) from Thomas Pindar (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, date missing. Pindar passes on some medical advice for the care of someone (unnamed) suffering from mental illness. This is almost certainly Francis Massingberd (D. 1775–81; F. 1781–1824); see further MC:PR30/1/C2/6 Fols. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 24

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MC:PR30/1/C2/1 (con.) 5–26. Fol. 15: Letter (partly torn) from Thomas Pindar (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 29 Sep 1791. Pindar is trying to make contact with one “Squire Fisher”, a College tenant evidently in Hampshire, before he sets off on progress. Fol. 16: Letter from Thomas Pindar (address, Kintbury) to Martin Routh, 29 Feb 1792. Pindar protests at the incompetence of William Deacle (D. 1761–72; F. 1772–92) as Bursar, and the confusion in which he left his accounts, and his own attempt to work out what dividend Routh and the Fellows should be receiving. Fol. 17: Letter from Thomas Pindar (address, Kintbury) to Martin Routh, 9 Feb 1794. Pindar discusses the possible effects on College property in Benham Marsh and Kintbury of a proposed canal which is to be dug through this region. Fol. 18: Letter from Thomas Pindar (address, Kintbury) to Martin Routh, 14 Nov 1794. Pindar writes to Routh on some estate business. Fol. 19: Memorandum by Thomas Pindar (address, Magdalen College), 8 Jun 1795. Pindar is discussing a decision made by the Visitor on the payments to be made to what he called “Faculty Fellows” (i.e. Fellows not in holy orders). Fol. 20: Letter from Thomas Pindar (address, Bromby-Wood Hall, near Brigg, Lincs.) to Martin Routh, 25 Dec 1795. Pindar has come to Lincolnshire, because his brother has just died. This also means that he will have to vacate his Fellowship (because he has inherited his brother’s estate). Fol. 21: Letter from Thomas Pindar (address, Seymour Street, Bath) to Martin Routh, 24 Jul 1796. Pindar asks to make sure that he receives all the money that is his due. He also asks to be kept on the College’s books, and wishes his successor as Fellow well. Fol. 22: Letter from Thomas Pindar (address, Seymour Street, Bath) to Martin Routh, 15 Mar 1797. Pindar express his surprise that he had not received his final dividend from the College, and blames Dr. Sheppard for his lethargy in this matter. Fols. 23–24: Letters from and concerning Thomas Grimwood (d. 1809; F. 1762–84). Fol. 23: Letter from Thomas Grimwood (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, 27 Mar 1799. Grimwood thanks Routh for his help in appointing a Master at Dedham School, and says that his living at Brandeston usually gives him an income of £90 a year from his tithes. Fol. 24: Letter from Thomas Grimwood (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated, but postmarked 24 Jan 1795. Grimwood confirms that he leases the tithes of Brandeston out at £90 a year, of which he pays £30 to a curate. Fol. 25: Letter from Richard Chandler (1737–1810; D. 1757–70; F. 1770–80). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/3 Fols. 47–50 for other letters from Chandler, and MC:PR30/1/MS1/1–3 for papers relating to his life of William Waynflete. Fol. 25: Letter from Richard Chandler (address, Chawton) to Martin Routh, 10 Jan 1797. Chandler asks Routh for a reference to Mr. Smith, a Demy of Magdalen, who has applied to become his curate at West Tisted (this is probably Gainsford Smith, D. 1780–99; F. 1799–1810). He discusses his academic work, including a planned edition of Pindar. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 25

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MC:PR30/1/C2/1 (con.) Fols. 26–49: Letters from and about John Metcalfe (d. 1807; F. 1772–99). Fol. 26: Letter from John Metcalfe (address, Findon) to the College in general, 19 Oct 1784. Metcalfe is asking about having his lease renewed. Fol. 27: Letter from John Metcalfe (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (1792? See Fol. 16 above). He understand that Dr. Deacle has resigned an exhibition, and asks about his own finances. Fol. 28: Formal note of John Metcalfe’s resignation as Praelector in Moral Philosophy, 12 Mar 1795. Fol. 29: Letter from John Metcalfe (address not given) to Martin Routh, 13 Oct 1796. Metcalfe protests against the actions of an enemy (whose name Routh is unwilling to pass on) who he thinks is turning people in College against him. Fol. 30: Letter from John Metcalfe (no address given) to Martin Routh, 26 Jun (no year given). Metcalfe tenders his resignation as College tutor, and wishes to know who will succeed him. Fol. 31: Letter from John Metcalfe (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Metcalfe sets out his opinion that holders of the Ingledew Fellowships (of which he was one) were to have larger stipends than the other Fellows. Fol. 32: Letter from Brownlow North (Bishop of Winchester 1781–1820; address, Chelsea) to Martin Routh, 6 May 1799. North has been asked to intervene in an unspecified dispute between the College and John Metcalfe. Fol. 33: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Brownlow North, 1 May 1796. Routh asks North whether John Shaw (D. 1764–71; F. 1771–1824), who has just been made vicar of South Petherwin-cum- Frewen, Cornwall, would be allowed to be remain a Fellow while holding this living. Since Shaw retained his Fellowship until 1824, he was clearly allowed to do so (see further MC:PR30/4/MS/1 on Shaw’s Cornish living). Fol. 34: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address not given) to Brownlow North, undated. Routh asks North whether they can elect someone to an Ingledew Fellowship who is not in holy orders. Fol. 35: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address not given) to Brownlow North, undated, but presumably c. 1798/9. Routh discusses Metcalfe’s unspecified appeal to the Visitor. Fol. 36: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address not given) to Brownlow North, undated, but presumably c. 1798/9. John Metcalfe is evidently appealing to the Visitor with regard to his rights to the tithes of Findon. Fol. 37: Letter from John Metcalfe (address not given) to Martin Routh, 12 Sep 1798. Metcalfe is furious at Routh’s request that he should resign his Fellowship sooner than he had expected to. Fol. 38: Letter from Anthony Gell (address, Cloisters, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 14 Dec 1798. Gell encloses an unspecified document from the Bishop of Winchester. Fol. 39: Letter from Brownlow North, Bishop of Winchester (address, Farnham) to Martin Routh, 20 Dec 1798. North expresses his approval of the College’s actions in their dealings with John Metcalfe. He asks them to send him in person MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 26

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MC:PR30/1/C2/1 (con.) their answer to Metcalfe’s appeal. Fol. 40: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address not given) to (probably) John Metcalfe, 28 Aug 1798. Routh asks Metcalfe to vacate his Fellowship by 28 January next. Fol. 41: Letter from Charles Marshall (address, Steyning) to Martin Routh, 27 Nov 1799. Marshall discusses his attempts to reach a financial settlement with John Metcalfe on behalf of the College. Fol. 42: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address not given) to an unnamed addressee (perhaps Charles Marshall?), undated. Routh says that John Metcalfe has been offered a lease on the tithes of Findon, and that in return he will resign his Fellowship at Magdalen. Fol. 43: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address not given) to an unnamed addressee (perhaps Charles Marshall?), undated. Routh asks that the Visitor’s decree be delivered directly to John Metcalfe in Findon, to confirm that he can accept the lease of the tithes there, in return for resigning his Fellowship. Fol. 44: Letter from John Metcalfe (address, Otley) to Brownlow North, Bishop of Winchester, 19 Feb 1799. Metcalfe makes arrangements for the answer to his appeal from Magdalen College to be sent to him. Fol. 45: Letter from C. Goring (address, Wiston) to Martin Routh, 9 Apr 1801. Goring reports that John Metcalfe was suggesting that the tithes of Buddington should be sold. Fol. 46: Draft letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Brownlow North, undated, but presumably c. 1798/9. Routh discusses once more the affairs of John Metcalfe, and the College’s difficulty in coming to an agreement with him. Fol. 47: Portion of a draft letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to an unnamed addressee (probably Brownlow North), written on a scrap of paper postmarked 12 Jan 1799. Routh is evidently discussing the affairs of John Metcalfe. Fol. 48: Draft letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Brownlow North, undated, but presumably c. 1798/9. Routh thanks North for his assistance in settling the affair of John Metcalfe. Fol. 49: Letter from John Metcalfe (no address given) to the Bursar of Magdalen College, 6 Dec 1799. He will be unable to come to Oxford at the time appointed, but has arranged to present his resignation as Fellow. Fols. 50–56: Letters from and concerning Francis Mead (d. 1833; F. 1784–1810). Fol. 50: Letter from Francis Mead (address, Sherbourne, Warwick) to Martin Routh, 1 Nov 1794. Mead is happy to support the College’s proposals with regard to the Livings Fund, even if it means losing an increase in his dividend. Fol. 51: Letter from Francis Mead (address, Kineton, Warks.) to Martin Routh, 21 Oct 1802. Mead does not expect to be in College before the November meeting, and passes on news of a conversation with Mr. Holbeche, who is interested in purchasing some copyhold land at Syresham, Northants. Fol. 52: Letter from Francis Mead (address, Kineton, Warks.) to Martin Routh, 1 Dec 1802. Mead has more information about Mr. Holbeche’s interest in MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 27

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MC:PR30/1/C2/1 (con.) copyhold land at Syresham. Fol. 53: Letter from Francis Mead (address, Gaiton, Louth) to Martin Routh, 12 Jul 1810. Mead encloses a formal resignation of his Fellowship. Fol. 54: Letter from Francis Mead (address, Candlesby, Spilsby) to Martin Routh, 1 Aug 1814. Mead expresses his pleasure in the news that his nephew has just been elected a Demy at Magdalen. (The two Demies elected in 1814 were Charles Miller and William Morgan; it is not known which of them was Mead’s nephew). Fol. 55: Letter from Francis Mead (address, Candlesby, Spilsby) to Martin Routh, 11 Jul 1821. Mead agrees to support Richard Heber in the forthcoming Parliamentary election. Fol. 56: Letter from Francis Mead (address, Candlesby) to Martin Routh, 7 Aug 1821. Mead confirms his intention to come to Oxford for the election. Fols. 57 & 60–65: Letters from and concerning Francis Drake (d. 1847; F. 1789–1802). Fol. 57: Letter from Francis Drake (address, 16 Berkeley Square) to Martin Routh, 2 Apr (year not given, but after Sophia Routh’s marriage in 1801 and before Routh’s marriage in 1820). Drake asks what vacant Demyships there will be at the next election, because a Mr. Gilly (or Gill) wants to propose his son as a candidate (no one of that name was elected a Demy in Drake’s lifetime). He would like to publish a account by his father (also called Francis Drake; F. 1746–65) of his travels in Italy. A 19th century copy of a journal kept by Francis Drake’s father when he was travelling in Italy is in the archive (MC:F15/J1/1–2). It is possible that Francis Drake himself was involved in preparing this copy. Fols. 58–59: Letters from and concerning William Carr (d. 1843; F. 1787–1804). Fol. 58: Letter from William Carr (address, Bolton Abbey) to Martin Routh, 27 Sep 1794. Carr approves of the College’s decision to reduce the Fellows’ dividend in return for investing in College livings. Fol. 59: Letter from Mary Sidgwick (address, Bolton Abbey) to Martin Routh, Tuesday 25 July (1843). Sidgwick reports on the death of her uncle, whom Routh identifies on the letter as being William Carr. Fol. 60: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address not given) to an unnamed addressee, undated (probably c. 1791). Someone has enquired about one of the College’s Yorkshire Fellowships, which has been occupied for two years by Mr. Drake. Routh explains the regulations behind elections to these Fellowships. Fol. 61: Letter from Francis Drake (address, Beverley) to Martin Routh, 2 May 1791. Drake congratulates Routh on his election as President. He was sorry not to attend the election himself, but his father was badly ill and he could not leave him. Fol. 62: Letter from Francis Drake (address, Winestead, Holderness) to Martin Routh, 12 Sep 1794. Drake expresses his approval for the planned change to the Fellows’ dividends. Fol. 63: Letter from Francis Drake (address, “Don” - probably Doncaster) to Martin Routh, 20 Feb 1799. Drake warns that the bad weather where he is will make it difficult to travel down to Oxford before March. He expresses his unwillingness to serve as Bursar, and would be glad to pay any Fellow who MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 28

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MC:PR30/1/C2/1 (con.) wishes to carry out the work in his stead. Fol. 64: Letter from Francis Drake (address, Doncaster) to Martin Routh, 12 Feb 1801. Drake’s uncle is in need of a curate in his church, and so Drake asks Routh if he can recommend someone for the post. Fol. 65: Letter from Francis Drake (address, Isleworth) to Martin Routh, 8 June 1803. Drake is being canvassed in an unspecified election, which he hopes he will be able to attend. Fols. 66–76: Letters from Henry Phillpotts (1778–1869; F. 1795–1805; Bishop of Exeter 1830–69). Fol. 66: Letter from HenryPhillpotts (address, Auckland Castle) to Martin Routh, 24 Sep 1814. Phillpotts thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 67: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Birmingham) to Martin Routh, 26 Mar 1816. Phillpotts asks Routh to give him a prompt answer to the question he put to him at Oxford. Fol. 68: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, College, Durham) to Martin Routh, 28 Jun 1819. Phillpotts discusses an extract from a letter by Archbishop Wake in which he compares the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches, and would like to know more about it. Routh has written a draft reply on the letter, in which he provided a reference to the full text of the letter. Fol. 69: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Stanhope, Durham) to Martin Routh, 29 Mar 1825. Phillpotts asks Routh’s advice in tracking down various texts and references. Fol. 70: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, 125 Regent Street) to Martin Routh, 12 Apr 1825. Phillpotts asks Routh to help track down another reference. Fol. 71: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, 34 St. James’s Place) to Martin Routh, 24 Feb 1833. Phillpotts sends belated thanks to Routh for presenting him with a copy of his latest book. He recommends a Mr. Robinson, son of the Bishop of Bristol, who is a candidate for a Fellowship at Magdalen (he was not elected). Fol. 72: Letter (2 sheets) from Henry Phillpotts (address, 9 Mansfield Place) to Martin Routh, 6 Jul 1833. Phillpotts announces his intention to fight the Irish Church Temporalities Bill, and seeks Routh’s advice on some arguments to deploy against it. He also recommends a candidate for a Demyship called Scott Surtees (he was not elected). Fol. 73: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Exeter) to Martin Routh, 19 Mar 1841. Phillpotts presents his apologies for not thanking Routh sooner for a copy of his Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula. Fol. 74: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Bishopstowe, Torquay) to Martin Routh, 31 Mar 1847. Phillpotts thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the new edition of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 75: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Bishopstowe, Torquay) to Martin Routh, 23 Jan 1849. Phillpotts thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the fifth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 76: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, The College, Durham) to Martin Routh, 26 Aug 1850. Phillpotts thanks Routh for his support at an unspecified MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 29

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MC:PR30/1/C2/1 (con.) difficult time for him.

MC:PR30/1/C2/2 1801–54 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters from Fellows Vol II” on the spine. Like MC:PR30/1/C2/1 above, this contains letters from and about Fellows of Magdalen College elected between 1795 and 1843 who had not been Demies before their election. Letters from and about Fellows of Magdalen who had previously been Demies are to be found in the sequence of letters from Demies.

Fols. 1–21: Further letters from and concerning Henry Phillpotts (1778–1869; F. 1795–1805; Bishop of Exeter 1830–69). Fol. 1: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Exeter) to Martin Routh, 15 Apr 1851. Phillpotts sends Routh as copy of a pastoral letter which he has sent to his clergy. Fol. 2: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Durham) to Martin Routh, 30 Jul 1851. Phillpotts expresses his pleasure at being asked by Magdalen to sit for his portrait. He shares Routh’s anxieties about the future of the Church. Fol. 3: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Exeter) to Martin Routh, 19 Sep 1851. Phillpotts sends Routh a copy of another letter he has circulated to his clergy. Fol. 4: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Bishopstowe, Torquay) to Martin Routh, 30 Nov 1851. Philpotts seeks Routh’s advice on the subject of non- episcopal ordination. Fol. 5: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Bishopstowe) to Martin Routh, 8 Dec 1851. Phillpotts thanks Routh for his last letter. Fol. 6: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, London) to Martin Routh, 7 Feb 1852. Phillpotts is glad that Routh approved of his address to his clergy on the subject of episcopal ordination. Fol. 7: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Bishopstowe, Torquay) to Martin Routh, 9 Jun 1852. Phillpotts thanks Routh for sending him a copy of an unspecified book (in fact this was Routh’s latest edition of Bishop Burnet’s memoirs, as revealed in other letters addressed to him from this date). He expresses his pleasure at recently seeing Routh in Oxford Fol. 8: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Durham) to Martin Routh, 5 Jul 1852. Phillpotts thanks Routh for a copy of his new edition of extracts from Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 9: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Exeter) to Martin Routh, 19 Sep 1852. Phillpotts enthusiastically joins Routh in supporting Lord Derby as a candidate for the Chancellorship of Oxford. Fol. 10: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Bishopstowe, Torquay) to Martin Routh, 6 Jan 1853. Phillpotts thanks Routh for his latest letter, which he has found most useful. Fol. 11: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Durham) to Martin Routh, 28 Jul 1853. Phillpotts thanks Routh for sending a copy of his latest work (apparently MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 30

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MC:PR30/1/C2/2 (con.) De Episcopis). Fol. 12: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Bishopstowe) to Martin Routh, 28 Nov 1853. Philpotts thanks Routh for his paper on Irenaeus. Fol. 13: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Bishopstow) to Martin Routh, 7 Dec 1853. Philpotts discusses the meaning of the word συνιέναι, as used by Irenaeus. Fol. 14: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Bishopstowe) to Martin Routh, 10 Dec 1853. Phillpotts once again returns to the interpretation of Irenaeus. Fol. 15: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, 17 Albemarle St., London) to Martin Routh, 11 Mar 1854. Phillpotts thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his latest work. Fol. 16: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Exeter) to Martin Routh, 17 Apr 1854. Phillpotts sends Routh a copy of his latest pastoral letter, and looks forward to hearing his comments on it. Fol. 17: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Porthgwidden, Truro) to Martin Routh, 27 May 1854. Phillpotts apologies for not have been in touch with Routh lately, but he has been very busy. Fol. 18: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Exeter) to Martin Routh, 19 June 1854. Phillpotts discusses some textual matters, and expresses hopes that the Universities Bill will be amended. He hopes to see Routh soon. Fol. 19: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, London) to Martin Routh, 21 Jun 1854. Phillpotts regrets that he will be unable to call on Routh in Oxford, because he has to leave for Durham at once. Fol. 20: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Durham) to Martin Routh, 23 Jun 1854. Phillpotts returns to some textual matters. Fol. 21: Letter from Henry Phillpotts (address, Durham) to Martin Routh, 1 Jul 1854. Phillpotts asks Routh to send him a copy of Vol. V of Reliquiae Sacrae, as he does not have one to hand. Fols. 22–23: Letters from William Doncaster (d. 1847; F. 1796–1819). Fol. 22: Letter from William Doncaster (address, Wiston, Newark, Notts.) to Martin Routh, 21 May 1801. Doncaster recommends the son of Dr. Storer for a forthcoming Demyship (he was not elected). He also asks Routh for his thoughts on the size of the stipends of Fellows of Magdalen College. Fol. 23: Letter from William Doncaster (address, Wiston, Newark) to Martin Routh, 15 Jul 1821. Doncaster agrees to support Richard Heber at the forthcoming election. He asks to have a bed for the night in Magdalen. Fols. 24–25: Letters from William Wheeler (d. 1841; F. 1796–1807). Fol. 24: Letter from William Wheeler (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated, but postmarked Hull, 17 July 1821. He agrees to support Richard Heber in the forthcoming election. Fol. 25: Letter from William Wheeler (address, H. M. College, Bagshot [?]) to Martin Routh, 4 Nov 1835. Wheeler recommends one Mr. Abraham for a forthcoming Fellowship (he was not elected). Fols. 26–35: Letters from and concerning John Johnson (1776–1831; F. 1800–27). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 31

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MC:PR30/1/C2/2 (con.) Fol. 26: Letter from John Johnson (address, Petworth) to Martin Routh, 6 Sep 1803. Johnson thanks Routh for appointing his brother (recte brother-in-law) Mr. Michell as the College’s Steward. Fol. 27: Letter from John Johnson (address, Petworth) to Martin Routh, 16 Oct 1815. Johnson writes to Routh about North Chapel, with reference to whether he will be able to retain his Fellowship if he is appointed to the living (Johnson was appointed to the living in 1816, and was allowed to retain his Fellowship). Fol. 28: Letter from John Johnson (address, London) to Martin Routh, 26 Jul 1821. Johnson considers who to support in the forthcoming parliamentary election in Oxford: since Lord Egremont has not directly recommended a candidate to him, Johnson agrees to support Richard Heber for Routh. Fol. 29: Letter from John Johnson (address, Brighton) to Martin Routh, 24 May 1827. Johnson formallyresigns his Magdalen Fellowship, and appends a personal note to Routh thanking him for his friendship. Fol. 30: Letter from John Johnson (address, Northchapel) to Martin Routh, 23 Jan 1828. Johnson thanks Routh for his friendship. He also says that his nephew will be visiting Routh to discuss his College rooms and his affairs in Oxford, and regrets that he may never see Magdalen again. Fol. 31: Letter from John Johnson (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated (c. 1829?). Johnson reports on his health, after he has fallen, injuring his shin bone. He has also been discussing tithe abatements for 1829–30. Fol. 32: Letter from John Johnson (address, Northchapel) to Martin Routh, 18 Jun 1830. Johnson is writing a new will, in which he plans to make the College one of his residuary legatees, should his nephew and niece have no heirs. (As it was, he left Magdalen £1000 to endow three Demyships; see Bloxam Register vii. pp. xiv–xvi). Fol. 33: Letter from H. W. Michell (address, Northchapel, Godalming) to Martin Routh, 20 Jul 1831. Michell reports on the death of his uncle, John Johnson. He reports that his uncle has left Routh a ring, and the College a handsome legacy. Fol. 34: Letter from H. Luttman Johnson (address, 14 Steyne, Worthing) to Martin Routh, 26 Jan 1833. Johnson, another nephew of John Johnson, is planning to erect a second memorial to his uncle, this one at Sandford, and asks Routh’s help in preparing an inscription for it. Fol. 35: Letter from H. Luttman Johnson (address, Redhill, near Petworth) to Martin Routh, 15 May 1833. Johnson asks about the possibility of erecting a memorial to his uncle, John Johnson, somewhere in Oxford. Fols. 36–38: Letters from and concerning Godfrey Faussett (d. 1853; F. 1802–9). Fol. 36: Letter from H. Towney (address, Wadham College) to Martin Routh, 25 Jan (year not given; actually 1827). Towney regrets that he cannot support the candidature of Godfrey Faussett for the post of Margaret Professor of Divinity. Macray Register, v.147, shows that Faussett was elected to this chair on 29 Jan 1827. Fol. 37: Letter from Godfrey Faussett (address, Heppington, near Canterbury) to Martin Routh, 26 Sep 1840. Faussett’s professorship used to come attached to a MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 32

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MC:PR30/1/C2/2 (con.) prebendal stall at Worcester, but, under the terms of a recent Act of Parliament, he has had to exchange this for a canonry at Christ Church. Because of this change, he will now have to have his name removed from Magdalen’s books. He expresses his regret to Routh that he can no longer be a member of this College. Fol. 38: Letter from Godfrey Faussett (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 7 Jun 1839. Faussett discusses his plans for a forthcoming lecture, which he has talked about with Dr. Hampden (Renn Dickson Hampden, Regius Professor of Divinity 1836–47). Fols. 39–40: Letters from Thomas Collins (1780–1870; F. 1805–16). Fol. 39: Letter from Thomas Collins (address, Barningham, Greta Bridge) to Martin Routh, 18 Mar 1818. Collins passes on a request from a Mr. Fanshawe to exchange livings with the current incumbent at Ilsley, a College living. Collins states that Fanshawe is an old schoolfriend of his, but nevertheless has heard that in his last living he had lived beyond his means. Fol. 40: Letter from Thomas Collins (address, Knaresborough) to Martin Routh, 26 Jan 1852. Collins states that his third son, Richard, currently a student at University College (Richard Collins, matr. Univ. 1845), is applying for a vacant Fellowship at Magdalen, and hopes that his application will be successful (it was not). Fols. 41–44: Letters from Henry Dawson Roundell (d. 1852; F. 1809–19). Fol. 41: Letter from H. D. Roundell (address, Fringford) to Martin Routh, 27 Jul 1826. Roundell thanks Routh for his kindness towards his (unnamed) nephew. Fol. 42: Letter from H. D. Roundell (address, Fringford) to Martin Routh, 5 Jun 1828. Roundell has written an answer to Wilmot Norton’s appeal, and would like Routh to examine it for him (the circumstances of this appeal are not known). Fol. 43: Letter from H. D. Roundell (address, Fringford) to the Editor of Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 26 Aug 1833. Roundell protests at rumours of proposed changes to the liturgy of the Church of England. Fol. 44: Letter from H. D. Roundell (address, Fringford) to Martin Routh, 30 Jun 1852. Roundell thanks Routh for sending him a reprint of extracts from Reliquiae Sacrae. Fols. 45–47: Letters from and concerning Charles Henry Hutton (d. 1862; F. 1816–45). Fol. 45: Letter from C. H. Hutton (address, Cubington) to Martin Routh, 7 Jul 1821. Hutton promises to support Richard Heber in the forthcoming Parliamentary election. Fol. 46: Letter from C. H. Hutton (address not given) to Martin Routh, 1 Mar 1828. Hutton thanks Routh for offering support in trying for some preferment. He was unsuccessful, but is philosophical because the successful candidate has a wife and ten children to support. Fol. 47: Letter from the British Consul at Caen to Martin Routh, 1 Feb 1841. The consul confirms that Charles Hutton has been acting as Chaplain to the British Vice-Consul there since his appointment in October 1838. Fols. 48–51: Letters from George Mawson Nelson (d. 1859; F. 1819–33). Fol. 48: Letter from G. M. Nelson (address, Amwell) to Martin Routh, 9 Jul MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 33

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MC:PR30/1/C2/2 (con.) 1821. Nelson agrees to vote for the candidate recommended by Routh (this is Richard Heber). Fol. 49: Letter from G. M. Nelson (address, Bodicote Grange) to Martin Routh, 6 Nov 1840. Nelson presents the College with a portrait of George Horne, Routh’s predecessor as President. Fol. 50: Letter from G. M. Nelson (address, Bodicote Grange) to Martin Routh, 30 Jun 1852. Nelson thanks Routh for an unspecified gift (namely his reprint of extracts from Reliquiae Sacrae). Fol. 51: Letter from G. M. Nelson (address, Bodicote Grange) to Martin Routh, 26 Mar 1853. Nelson thanks Routh for an unspecified gift (one of Routh’s publications; it is not certain which one). Fol. 52: Letter from Ichabod Charles Wright (1795–871; F. 1819–25). Fol. 52: Letter from I. C. Wright (address, Bramscote, near Nottingham) to Martin Routh, March 1842. Wright recommends the son of a certain Charles Smelt for election as a Demy (he was not elected). Fols. 53–55: Letters from and concerning John Gervas Hutchinson Bourne (d. 1845; F. 1826–31). Fol. 53: Letter from Charles Wightwick (Fellow of Pembroke College to 1841; address, Brinkworth) to Edward Ellerton (F. 1803–51), 20 Jul 1826. Ellerton has heard unfavourable rumours about Bourne’s character and opinions, which Wightwick is very happy to refute (Bourne had been an undergraduate at Pembroke College). Fol. 54: Letter (written in Latin) from John Bourne (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, “X Cal. Augusti” (i.e .23 July; year not given; presumably it was 1826). Bourne formally applies for a Fellowship at Magdalen. Fol. 55: Letter (written in Latin) from John Bourne (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated (late July or early August 1826?). Bourne thanks Routh for the great favour shown him by the College (presumably referring to his election as Fellow). Fol. 56: Letter concerning Robert Price Morrell (d. 1872; F; 1827–33). Fol. 56: Letter from Charles Ogilvie (1793–1873; Fellow of Balliol 1816–34; address, Balliol College) to Martin Routh, 12 Jun 1827. Ogilvie recommends Robert Morrell for the Oxfordshire Fellowship at Magdalen. Fols. 57–60: Letters from and concerning Roundell Palmer, later 1st Earl of Selborne (1812–95; F. 1834–48). Fol. 57: Letter from H. D. Roundell (address, Fringford) to Martin Routh, 7 Jul 1834. Roundell recommends his nephew Roundell Palmer for a vacant Oxford Fellowship at Magdalen. Fol. 58: Letter from Roundell Palmer (address, Eastwell Park) to Martin Routh, 30 Jul (year not given; probably 1834). Palmer thanks Routh for his election as Fellow of Magdalen; and for permitting him to leave Oxford. Fol. 59: Letter from Roundell Palmer (address, London) to Martin Routh, 17 Jun 1848. Palmer formally resigns his Fellowship, now that he has married, and expresses his pleasure at having been a member of Magdalen. Fol. 60: Letter from Roundell Palmer (address, Lincoln’s Inn, London) to Martin MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 34

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MC:PR30/1/C2/2 (con.) Routh, 21 Jul 1842. Palmer recommends three men as candidates for Demyhips at Magdalen, namely Prichard, Ridley of Christ Church, and Rodwell of Exeter (Theodore Prichard was elected a Demy in 1842; the others were unsuccessful). Fol. 61: Letter from Sir Francis Burdett (1770–1844, politician). Fol. 61: Letter from Sir Francis Burdett (address illegible) to Martin Routh, undated, but postmarked 3 Jul 1815. Burdett recommends a Mr. Lane for a Fellowship (he was not elected). Fols. 62–87: Letters from Francis Atkinson Faber (d. 1876, F. 1833–45). Fol. 62: Letter from Francis Faber (address not given) to Martin Routh, 1 Feb 1842. Faber sends Routh a list of College prizewinners. Fol. 63: Letter from Francis Faber (address, Magdalen) to Martin Routh, 19 Apr 1842. Faber passes on some miscellaneous pieces of College news to Routh. Fol. 64: Letter from Francis Faber (address, Magdalen) to Martin Routh, 13 Jun 1842. Faber passes on some more pieces of College news to Routh (who, it seems, was currently staying at Tilehurst). Fol. 65: Letter from Francis Faber (address, Magdalen) to Martin Routh, Christmas Day 1842. Faber hears news that Bernard Smith (D. 1831–6; F. 1836–9) has converted to Catholicism. On the back of this is a draft letter (undated) from Routh to an unnamed addressee, about making an appointment to a Choristership. Fol. 66: Letter from Francis Faber (address, Magdalen) to Martin Routh,13 May 1843. Faber passes on some Magdalen news to Routh (who was presumably in Tilehurst), mainly on the question of the seniority of Theodore Prichard and John Wenham (both Demies from 1842). Fol. 67: Letter from Francis Faber (address, Magdalen) to Martin Routh,15 Jun 1843. Faber passes on news of a dispute about the awarding of BD degrees, and asks Routh, on account of his seniority, to pass an opinion on the ancient practice of disputations. Fol. 68: Letter from Francis Faber (address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 18 Mar 1845. Faber thanks Routh for an unspecified donation, and expresses his concern about a Chancery suit in which the College is involved. Fol. 69: Second page only of a letter from Francis Faber (address, Saunderton) to Martin Routh, 6 Mar 1846. Faber has been discussing an unspecified act of Parliament, but the details are uncertain. Fol. 70: Letter from Francis Faber (address, Saunderton, near Tring) to Martin Routh, 18 Oct 1848. Faber sends Routh birthday greetings. He reports on his health, and passes on news of William Palmer (D. 1826–32; F. 1832–55). Fol. 71: Letter from Francis Faber (address, Saunderton, Tring) to Martin Routh, 3 Oct 1851. Faber sends Routh birthday greetings, and reports on his poor health. Fol. 72: Letter from Francis Faber (address, Saunderton, Tring) to Martin Routh, 8 Aug 1853. Faber thanks Routh for sending him a pamphlet. Fol. 73: Letter from Francis Faber (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated (but clearly c. 1842–6). He reports on College prizes being awarded to Goldwin Smith (D. 1842–6) and William Bradley (D. 1842–55). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 35

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MC:PR30/1/C2/2 (con.) Fol. 74: Letter from Francis Faber (address not given) to Martin Routh, 17 Nov (year not given; 1843?). Faber reports on the appearance of an engraving of Routh based on his portrait by Thompson, which is generally held to be a very poor likeness. (The engraving is dated Jan 1843, so the letter presumably dates from the same year) Fol. 75: Letter from Francis Faber (address not given) to Martin Routh, 31 Oct (year not given). Faber wishes to introduce to Routh a friend of his, Mr. Morris, who is currently a Fellow of Exeter College. Fol. 76: Letter from Francis Faber (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated. Faber seeks Routh’s advice on deciding the seniority of Fellows within the College. Fol. 77: Letter from Francis Faber (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated. Faber asks Routh to subscribe to a forthcoming book by his uncle on the subject of church psalmody. Fol. 78: Letter from Francis Faber (address not given) to Martin Routh, 12Jan (year not given) Faber reports on a discussion about whether to use “invasit” or “invadebat”, presumably in relation to a draft inscription. Fol. 79: Letter from Francis Faber (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated. Faber discusses a passes from Optatus on which he seeks Routh’s advice. Fol. 80: Letter from Francis Faber (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated. Faber discusses the eligibility of a candidate for a Yorkshire Fellowship. He also discusses the question of rules regarding rooms. He also reports that a Danish clergyman called Gruntvig, currently in Oxford, would like to meet Routh. (This is Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783–1872), an eminent Danish theologian). Fol. 81: Letter from Francis Faber (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated. Faber seeks Routh’s opinion on a question put him by his uncle on the question of how the Church is said to be a witness of Holy Writ. Fol. 82: Letter from Francis Faber (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated. Faber thanks Routh and his wife for their kindness shown to him during his illness. Fol. 83: Letter from Francis Faber (address, Stockton-on-Tees) to Martin Routh, 26 Dec (year not given, but postmarked 1837). Faber asks to be relieved from his duties as College Tutor, on the grounds that he is not well enough to do them. Routh has drafted a reply on the back of the letter accepting his request. Fol. 84: Letter from Francis Faber (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated. Faber asks Routh to accept a copy of a translation of the Psalms from the Hebrew, the work of the widow of a clergyman. Fol. 85: Letter from Francis Faber (address, Saunderton, Tring) to Martin Routh, 29 Nov (year not given). Faber thanks Routh for sending him a new tract. Fol. 86: Letter from Francis Faber (address, Saunderton, Tring) to Martin Routh, undated. Faber expresses his regret that a Mr. Forster has failed an examination to enter Magdalen (presumably as a Demy). He expresses his unhappiness at the creation of what he calls “real examinations”, and recalls how much easier it was MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 36

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MC:PR30/1/C2/2 (con.) to enter Oxford in his youth. Fol. 87: First sheet only of a letter from Francis Faber (address lost) to Martin Routh, date lost (but probably 1845/6 - see below). Faber discusses tithes on the woodlands at Saunderton. He expresses his sorrow at the news of the death of William Tuckwell (who died in 1845), and asks after Routh’s health. He also expresses his pleasure at his new parsonage. Fol. 88: Letter from John Fisher (d. 1896; F. 1836–96). Fol. 88: Letter (in Latin) from John Fisher (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated, but presumably 1836. Fisher applies for a Fellowship at Magdalen. Fol. 89: Letter from James Bowling Mozley (1813–78, F. 1840–56). Fol. 89: Letter from James Mozley (address not given) to Martin Routh 6 Feb (year not given). Mozley sends Routh a copy of the Christian Remembrancer, which contains an article by him on William Laud. Fol. 90: Letter concerning George Woodfield Paul (1820–1911; F. 1842–8). Fol. 90: Letter from Samuel Paul (address, Finedon Vicarage, Wellingborough) to Martin Routh, 17 Mar 1842. Paul had recommended his son (unsuccessfully) for a Northamptonshire Demyship in 1837. There is now a vacant Northamptonshire Fellowship at Magdalen, and he now recommends his son once again (this time he was successful). Fols. 91–93: Letters from Robert Cholmeley (d. 1880, F. 1843–58). Fol. 91: Letter (in Latin) from Robert Cholmeley (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated, but presumably 1843. Cholmeley formally applies for a Fellowship at Magdalen. Fol. 92: Latin essay by Robert Cholmeley, submitted as part of his application for a Fellowship at Magdalen. Fol. 93: Letter from Robert Cholmeley (address, Magdalen) to Martin Routh, 29 Apr (year not given). Cholmeley asks Routh to accept the gift of an inkstand which he has made from part of an elm branch which fell from a tree in the Grove.

MC:PR30/1/C2/3 1759–1850 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters from Demies 1723 1759” on the spine. This guardbook contains letters from and concerning Demies elected between 1723 and 1759. It also includes those Demies who were later elected Fellows.

Fol. 1: Letter from Richard Jackson (d. 1796; D. 1723–33; F. 1733–44). Fol. 1: Letter from Richard Jackson (address, Offchurch) to Martin Routh, 12 Mar 1793. Jackson hopes to visit Oxford, apparently in connection with a Parliamentary election. He himself would support Sir William Scott. Fols. 2–3: Letters from and concerning Thomas Winchester (d. 1780; Ch. 1722–9; Clerk; 1729; D. 1730–47; F. 1747–61). Fol. 2 [now loose]: Letter from Thomas Winchester (address, London) to an unnamed addressee, 10 January1759. Winchester reports on his efforts (including getting advice from Richard Blackstone) on getting aid in dealing with the Hand MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 37

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MC:PR30/1/C2/3 (con.) in Hand insurance company and Dr. Freman, brother of Richard Freman, College benefactor. The letter suggests that Freman’s Court has been damaged byfire, and Winchester is seeking insurance money to help rebuild it. Fol. 3: Letter from H. H. Norris (address, Grove Street, Hackney) to Martin Routh, 25 Jan 1838. Norris asks Routh to pass on any reminiscences of Thomas Winchester he may have. Fol. 4: Letter concerning Thomas Townson (1715–92; D. 1735–7; F. 1737–52). Fol. 4: Letter from John Townson to Martin Routh, 1 August 1793. (address, Greys Inn Square). Townson reports that his brother Thomas has bequeathed Magdalen £100. Routh has added a note that he has received the money. Fols. 5–6: Letters concerning Andrew Etty (d. 1784; Ch. 1728–35. D. 1736–51; F. 1751–9). Fol. 5: Letter from S. Stebbing (address, Beaconsfield) to “My Lord” (Lord Chancellor Thurlow), 1 May 1791. Stebbing hopes that Thurlow might be able to persuade Routh to offer a Demyship to the second son of Andrew Etty. Fol. 6: Letter from Lord Thurlow (address illegible) to Martin Routh, 2 May 1791. Thurlow encloses the preceding letter to Routh about the Etty family, hoping that it may be well received (it was not; no Etty received a Demyship at this time). Fols. 7–11: Letters from and concerning Henry Homer (d. 1791; D. 1737–47) and his family. Fol. 7: Letter from Henry Homer (address not given) to George Horne, 5 Dec 1780. Homer discusses the progress of a dispute between the College and the executors of a Mr. Burton. He also reports on the death of one of his sons, who had suffered from epilepsy. Fol. 8: Letter from Henry Homer (address, Bybury) to an unnamed addressee (probably George Horne), 21 Aug 1781. Homer reports that Mrs. Burton has been given the College considerable trouble. Fol. 9: Letter from Henry Homer (address not given) to an unnamed addressee (George Horne?), undated. Homer discusses the value of a farm occupied by Mrs. Jephcott. Fol. 10: Letter from Dorothy Cobbold (address, Woolpit) to Martin Routh, 11 Nov 1850. Cobbold is the daughter of Henry Homer, and the sister of two other Demys of Magdalen, Arthur and Philip. She now recommends her grandson, Herbert William Cobbold Page, for a Demyship at Magdalen. The letter is written in the hand of her daughter Susanna Page. (Page was not elected to a Demyship). Fol. 11: Letter from Susanna Elizabeth Page (daughter of Mrs. Cobbold) (address, Woolpit Parsonage) to Martin Routh, 11 Nov. 1850. Page explains that she wrote out the previous letter, because her mother is now blind, and adds some further particulars about her son. Routh has drafted a reply on the back, saying that, at the age of 16, her son is probably too young for a Demyship, and he has already nominated someone for the next election. Fol. 12: Letter concerning James Norris (D. 1739–48). Fol. 12: Letter from R. Woodeson ((D. 1759–71; F. 1772–1822; address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 28 Oct 1792. Woodeson reports that about six years ago James Norris left £5000 in bank annuities to Magdalen College MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 38

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MC:PR30/1/C2/3 (con.) towards the New Building fund, and discusses how the money is to be handed over. Fol. 13: Letter concerning William Collins (1721–59; D. 1741–4). Fol. 13: Letter from W. Pickering (address, Chancery Lane) to Martin Routh, 28 Jul 1830. Pickering is going to publish an edition of the poems of William Collins, and asks Routh to confirm some facts about his university career. Fol. 14: Letter from James Horseman (d. 1844; D. 1794–1803; F. 1803–7). Fol. 14: Letter from James Horseman (address, Whipsnade) to Martin Routh, 2 Nov 1806. Horseman regrets that private reasons meant that he voted in an unspecified election contrary to the rest of the College. He also reports that he has just got married, and therefore must resign his Fellowship. He expresses his gratitude for his time at Magdalen. Fols. 15–34: Letters from and to Thomas Sheppard (1728–1814; D. 1747–9; F. 1749–70; also brother-in-law of Martin Routh). Fol. 15: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address, Amport) to Martin Routh, 25 May 1794. Sheppard discusses renewing the lease of one Mr. Jolliffe, and settling the size of his entry fine. Fol. 16: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address, Amport) to Martin Routh, 5 Jul 1795. A living of which Sheppard is patron has fallen vacant, and he would like to present Richard Chandler (D. 1757–70; F. 1770–80) to it. He hopes that the College will agree to let Chandler hold this living in conjunction with that of Worldham. Fol. 17: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address, Amport) to Martin Routh, 21 Jul 1795. Sheppard discusses the Basingstoke tithes, and questions whether its sums are right this year. Fol. 18: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address, Amport) to Martin Routh, 20 Nov 1795. Sheppard has seen the proposed bill for enclosing Basing, and inserted special clauses relating to Magdalen, which he explains. Fol. 19: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address, Basingstoke) to Martin Routh, 11 Jan 1796. Sheppard is going to pay into the College’s bank £200 for peat sold in Benham meadow. He hears of plans for a bill to be sent to Parliament to change the procedures for creating encloses, which he suspects may be detrimental to the owners of tithes. Fol. 20: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address, Amport) to Martin Routh, 21 Dec 1797. Sheppard reports on the College’s estate at Andover, and also the College’s tenant of the manor of King’s Somborne. Fol. 21: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address, Amport) to Martin Routh, 18 Nov 1798. Sheppard is sorry that he will be able to visit Routh and his sister Sophie (whom he later married), but he is unwell and unable to travel. He discusses whether the College ought to purchase the Land Tax for Basingstoke, Basing, and Nately. Fol. 22: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address, Basingstoke) to Martin Routh, 12 Jan 1799. Sheppard declares himself happy to assist the College in any property transactions relating to the redemption of Land Tax. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 39

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MC:PR30/1/C2/3 (con.) Fol. 23: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address, Amport) to Martin Routh, 19 Jul 1799. Sheppard discusses the College’s properties in London and Southwark and their possible value. Fol. 24: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address, Amport) to Martin Routh, 7 Nov 1799. Sheppard discusses a possible enclosure at Dinton. Fol. 25: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address, Amport) to Martin Routh, 25 Dec 1799. Sheppard is going to send a turkey to Routh. Fol. 26: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address, Magdalen College) to Mr. Davies, 18 Feb 1803. (Original written to Mr. Davies, Canal Office, Bath. This is a copy annexed to a letter from Ward & Merriman to Sheppard 25 Nov 1813. (address, Marlborough). Sheppard reports that the College has agreed to sell some land at Benham Marsh to the Canal Company which was building the Kennet and Avon Canal, and discusses arrangements for drawing up a conveyance. The letter from Ward and Merriman suggests that the conveyance has still not been drawn up, and asks whether one will be. Fol. 27: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address, Amport) to Martin Routh, 24 Nov 1805. Sheppard reports on a valuation of the tithes at Corton. Fol. 28: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address not given) to Martin Routh, 26 Jan 1806. Sheppard discusses the Bakers Arms, in Petersfield, Hants. Fol. 29: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address, Basingstoke) to an unnamed Bursar, 28 Dec 1806. Sheppard discusses arranging a fine for Bramdean Farm. Fol. 30: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address, Basingstoke) to Mr. Hawkes (address, Market Place, Reading) Jan 1811 (day not given). Sheppard discusses the purchase of a bed. Fol. 31: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address not given) to an unnamed addressee, undated. Sheppard discusses renewing a lease with his correspondent. Fol. 32: Letter from Thomas Sheppard (address, Basingstoke) to Martin Routh, Jan (day and year torn away). Sheppard has been unwell, and so unable to see Routh recently. Fol. 33: Undated memorandum by Thomas Sheppard on calculating the cost of tithes. Fol. 34: Undated memorandum by Thomas Sheppard on purchasing the Land Tax for Basingstoke, Basing, and Nately. Fol. 35: Letter from Richard Scrope (d. 1787; D. 1748–57; F. 1757–67). Fol. 35: Letter from Richard Scrope (address, Castle Combe) to Thomas Sheppard (address, Basingstoke, Hants.), 4 Feb 1783. Scrope reports that he is very ill with dropsy and unlikely to live long, and so bids his friend farewell. Fol. 36: Letter from Ambrose Kent (d. 1793; D. 1749–50; D. 1750–72). Fol. 36: Letter from Ambrose Kent (address, Berkeley) to Martin Routh, 6 Apr 1792. Kent has heard of the College’s plans to re-roof the Hall and Chapel. He recalls the state of the New Building when he first came up to Magdalen, and how incomplete and empty it still was. He advises Routh, since he is still a young man, that he ought to consider completing the New Building project, and to avoid James Wyatt’s costly gothic proposals. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 40

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MC:PR30/1/C2/3 (con.) Fol. 37: Letter from Henry Gabell (d. 1823; D. 1750–7; F. 1751–74). Fol. 37: Letter from Henry Gabell (address, Standlake) to Martin Routh, 16 Jul 1795. Gabell discusses a College estate, presumably in Standlake. Fol. 38: Letter from John Burrough (D. 1753–61; F. 1761–1802). Fol. 38: Letter from John Burrough (address not given) to Martin Routh, 29 Dec 1798. Burrough apologises for losing his temper at a meeting. He had been unhappy at being assigned a College office, and losing an appeal about it. Fol. 39: Letter from Phipps Weston (d. 1794; D. 1753–63; F. 1763–72). Fol. 39: Letter from Phipps Weston (address, Witney) to Martin Routh, 25 Dec 1793. Weston discusses renewing his lease at Tubney. Fols. 40–46: Letters from and concerning Thomas Thurlow (1737–91; D. 1755–9; F. 1759–72; later Bishop of Lincoln 1779–87 and of Durham 1787–91). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/11 no. 9 and MC:PR30/4/C1/1 Fols. 39–41 for other letters to and from this correspondent. Fol. 40: Letter from Thomas Thurlow, Bishop of Lincoln (address, Temple House, London) to Martin Routh, 25 Apr 1781. Thurlow asks whether Routh wil be willing to be a tutor to his nephew (Edward South Thurlow, matr. 1781). Fol. 41: Letter from John Thurlow (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 19 Nov 1781. Thurlow sends Routh some money to help settle the financial affairs of his son Edward, and expresses his hopes that Routh may keep him away from bad company. Fol. 42: Letter from Thomas Thurlow (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated , but written c. 1779–87, when Thurlow was Bishop of Lincoln. Thurlow thanks Routh for sending him a book (presumably Routh’s edition of Plato’s Euthydemus and Gorgias, published in 1784). Fol. 43: Letter from Thomas Thurlow (address, Deanery, Rochester) to Martin Routh, 16 Jun 1777. Thurlow congratulates Routh on an unspecified occasion. Fol. 44: Letter from Thomas Thurlow (address, Deanery, St. Paul’s) to Martin Routh, 13 Feb 1787. Thurlow thanks Routh for congratulating him on his promotion to the see of Durham. Fol. 45: Letter from Thomas Thurlow (address, Auckland) to Martin Routh, 3 Sep 1789. Thurlow hopes that Routh may come north to visit him in the autumn. Fol. 46: Letter from Thomas Thurlow (address, Portland Place) to an unnamed addressee (Martin Routh?), 26 Mar 1790. Thurlow asks for more details about some coins mentioned by his correspondent. These could be the “spur royals”, which the College decided to sell in 1789. Fols. 47–50: Letters from and about Richard Chandler (1737–1810; D. 1757–70; F. 1770–80). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/1 Fol. 25 for another letter from Chandler, and MC:PR30/1/MS1/1–3 for papers relating to his life of William Waynflete. Fol. 47: Letter from Richard Chandler (address, Selborne) to Martin Routh, 11 Jan 1791. Chandler discusses how to find out what manuscripts are in the Vatican Library, and offers Routh help in recommending contacts in Rome and Vienna. He reports that Routh’s work is known and regarded in Rome. He also plans to send Routh an engraving of the chapel and school house at Wainfleet. Fol. 48: Letter from Richard Chandler (address, Chawton near Alton) to Martin MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 41

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MC:PR30/1/C2/3 (con.) Routh, 6 Sep 1796. Chandler recommends a new gamekeeper for Selborne. He reports on agitation in West Tisted concerning the effects there of relieving Catholics from having to pay double land tax. Fol. 49: Letter from Richard Chandler (address, Tilehurst) to Martin Routh, 10 Nov 1802. Chandler thanks Routh for sending him a copy of “the famous Greek Inscription brought from Egypt”. He also asks to borrow some books (specified) from the College Library. Fol. 50: Letter from J. Hodgson (address, Holybourne near Alton, Hants.) to Martin Routh, 22 May 1810. Hodgson reports on the death of Richard Chandler. Hodgson has been acting as Chandler’s curate at East Worldham, but wishes to cease doing this once a new incumbent has been appointed. Fols. 51–53: Letters from Robert Houlton (1738–1815; D. 1757–65). Fol. 51: Letter from Robert Houlton (address, London, Fleet Prison) to Martin Routh, 4 Jan 1796. Houlton gives an account of his life to date: having been elected a Demy for Somerset, he found that the current Fellow, Thomas West (Ch. 1720–7; D. 1727–32; F. 1732–81), was content to remain in post, and so he married and resigned his Demyship, and lived in Ireland for many years. In 1792 he returned to England, and became an editor of the Morning Post. He then fell ill, and had to resign his position, and has now ended up in a debtors’ prison. He therefore wonders whether Magdalen College might be able to help him in some way. Fol. 52: Letter from Robert Houlton (address, London, Fleet Prison) to Martin Routh, 8 Jan 1796. Houlton thanks Routh for his kind letter and for the gift of two guineas. Fol. 53: Letter from Robert Houlton (address, London, Fleet Prison) to Martin Routh, 11 Feb 1796. Houlton thanks Routh for the news that the College have agreed to give him £20. Routh has noted at the end of the letter that Houlton gave the College a print of the Founder which was currently hanging in the Demies’ Common Room. Fols. 54–56: Letters from or concerning Coventry Lichfield (d. 1810: Ch. 1752–9; D. 1759–62; F. 1762–83). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/2 Fol. 68 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 54: Letter from Coventry Lichfield (address not given) to Martin Routh, 22 Nov 1799. Lichfield encloses the letter from Sir John Mordaunt below, and asks about the Land Tax for Boyton. Fol. 55: Letter from Sir John Mordaunt date and address not given, but sent to Routh with Fol. 54 above. Mordaunt writes about the Chapelry of Rodden, Somerset, presentations to which are made by the Rector of Boyton, and the stipend attached to the living. Fol. 56: Letter from Coventry Lichfield (address, “Wh: Ch: [sic]”) to Martin Routh, 15 Mar 1803. Thomas Sheppard has asked Lichfield whether he would be willing to accommodate Routh’s brother for a while. He has not replied sooner, because he has lost his own brother. He would be happy to oblige Routh, but his own health is poor, and unequal to the undertaking. Fols. 57–59: Letters from Thomas Hutchinson (d. 1812; D. 1759–62; F. 1762–88). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 42

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MC:PR30/1/C2/3 (con.) Fol. 57: Letter from Thomas Hutchinson (address, Beeding Priory) to Martin Routh, 3 Jun 1797. Hutchinson regrets that the College is unable to make him a grant of timber, but will apply again next year. Fol. 58: Letter from Thomas Hutchinson (address, Beeding) to Martin Routh, 10 Aug 1803. Hutchinson recommends a Mr. Michell of Brighthelmstone for the vacant Stewardship of Magdalen. Fol. 59: Letter from Thomas Hutchinson (address, Beeding) to Martin Routh, 2 Mar 1810. Hutchinson recommends an unnamed protege of his for a Demyship. Fols. 60–83: Letters from Richard Wooddeson (1745–1822; D. 1759–71; F. 1772–1822). Fol. 60: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane) to Martin Routh, 21 Jul 1791. Wooddeson discusses a legacy from Mr. Norris (see letter Fol. 12 above), and how to get it paid to the College. Fol. 61: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Tooks Court) to Martin Routh, 5 May 1792. Wooddeson declines Routh’s invitation to be appointed a Bursar. He reports on the progress of securing Norris’s legacy. Fol. 62: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Tooks Court) to Martin Routh, 26 May 1792. Woodeson reports that the Master of the Rolls has decreed that Norris’s legacy be transferred to the College. Fol. 63: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Tooks Court) to Martin Routh, 12 Jul 1792. Woodeson reports on progress on securing Norris’s legacy. Fol. 64: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Tooks Court) to Martin Routh, 14 Nov 1792. Wooddeson discusses how much tax might be payable on Norris’s legacy. He also has news of a bequest of £200 from Dr. Heywood. He was pleased to hear that Dr. Parr had praised his published lectures. Fol. 65: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Tooks Court) to Martin Routh, 10 Dec 1792. There are problems over the payment of Heywood’s legacy, this time relating to the land on which the legacy is chargeable. Fol. 66: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Tooks Court) to Martin Routh, 16 Oct 1793. Wooddeson will arrange that an unnamed candidate for a choristership will visit Magdalen soon. He hopes to come to Oxford to support James Hurdis (D. 1782–8; F. 1788–1800) for the election for the Professorship of Poetry, but there is a hearing in Chancery relating to Norris’s legacy which he ought to attend. Fol. 67: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Tooks Court) to Martin Routh, 4 Nov 1793. Wooddeson has more news about securing Heywood’s legacy. He is glad to hear of Hurdis’s success in being elected Professor of Poetry. Fol. 68: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Tooks Court) to Martin Routh, 25 Mar 1794. Wooddeson has more news on the legacies of Norris and Heywood. Fol. 69: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Tooks Court) to Martin Routh, 30 May 1794. Wooddeson has more news on the legacies of Norris and Heywood. Fol. 70: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Tooks Court) to Martin Routh, 17 Nov 1794. Wooddeson has more news about securing Heywood’s legacy. Fol. 71: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Tooks Court) to Martin Routh, MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 43

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MC:PR30/1/C2/3 (con.) 23 Sep 1797. Wooddeson reports on an adverse judgement in an unspecified case. He also recommends the son of a Mr. Russell, now at Charterhouse, for a Demyship (he was not elected). Fol. 72: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Tooks Court) to Martin Routh, 11 Oct 1797. Wooddeson returns to the judgement mentioned in the previous letter, which appears to relate to a property dispute. Fol. 73: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, 65 Chancery Lane) to Martin Routh, 5 Dec 1800. Wooddeson reports on the results of taking legal advice on an unspecified subject, evidently to do with the College’s estates. Fol. 74: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Chancery Lane) to Martin Routh, 30 May 1801. Wooddeson appears to be discussing the same unspecified subject as in his previous letter. Fol. 75: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Chancery Lane) to Martin Routh, 13 Apr 1802. Wooddeson discusses helping the College in an unspecified legal matter. Fol. 76: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Chancery Lane) to Martin Routh, 28 Apr 1802. Wooddeson discusses the progress of an unspecified bill in Parliament (it appears to be an Enclosure Act). Fol. 77: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Chancery Lane) to Martin Routh, 30 Apr 1802. Wooddeson discusses progress on the same bill, and his attempts to get it revised in the College’s favour. Fol. 78: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Chancery Lane) to Martin Routh, 11 Nov 1802. Wooddeson has been offered the post of Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer, but if he accepts, he will have to relinquish his legal work. He therefore asks Routh if he would have to resign his Fellowship at Magdalen if he accepts the post; if yes, then he is minded to refuse it, because of the potential financial loss. Fol. 79: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Chancery Lane) to Martin Routh, 13 Nov 1802. Wooddeson weighs up the pros and cons of keeping his Fellowship or taking up the Cursitor Baronship. Fol. 80: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Chancery Lane) to Martin Routh, 8 Feb 1803. Wooddeson sends Routh details of the stove used in the Temple Church. Evidently Routh wanted to know about this with regard to purchasing something similar for the Chapel in Magdalen. Fol. 81: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Chancery Lane) to Martin Routh, 3 Sep 1803. Wooddeson has just met the College’s new Steward, who has greatly impressed him. He discusses how an individual and a collegiate body may exchange land. Fol. 82: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, 82 Boswells Court, Carey Street) to Martin Routh, 18 Dec 1813. Wooddeson is in poor health (this letter is written in another hand, and he has added his signature), and discusses the College’s statutes relating to the tenure of Demyships. Fol. 83: Letter from Richard Wooddeson (address, Tooks Court) to Martin Routh, 23 Mar 1796. Wooddeson discusses a dispute with an unnamed city authority. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 44

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MC:PR30/1/C2/4 1788–1829 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters from Demies 1761 1770” on the spine. This guardbook contains letters from and concerning Demies elected between 1761 and 1770. It also includes those Demies who were later elected Fellows.

Fol. 1: Letter from Christopher Taylor (d. 1822; D. 1761–71; F. 1771–85). Fol. 1: Letter from Christopher Taylor (address, Moyles Court, near Ringwood) to Martin Routh, 1 Apr 1793. Taylor promises to support the campaign to have James Hurdis (D. 1782–8; F. 1788–1800) elected Professor of Poetry. He promises to investigate an unspecified matter relating to the parsonage at Selborne. Fols. 2–5: Letters from William Deacle (d. 1816; D. 1761–72; F. 1772–92). Fol. 2: Letter from William Deacle (address, Marston) to Martin Routh, 2 Apr 1788. Deacle hears that Routh has been unwell, and reports on his own poor health. He sends Routh a copy of a letter to him from Dr. Pindar, and his reply, apparently in relation to a dispute about the College’s accounts and a possible error in one of the Libri Computi. Fol. 3: Letter from William Deacle (address, Thorpe) to Martin Routh, 30 Aug 1791. Deacle weighs up the options of taking up the College livings of Willoughby and Stanway, expressing a preference for the former. Fol. 4: Letter from William Deacle (address, Thorpe) to Martin Routh, 2 Nov 1791. Deacle enclosed a letter (lost) from a College tenant. He encourages Routh to visit Syresham, and check on some damage to College woodland there. He also has news of the leasing of the tithes at Willoughby. Fol. 5: Letter from William Deacle (address, Thorpe) to Martin Routh, 28 Feb 1792. Deacle has been checking his papers relating to his term as Bursar for an unspecified matter, but without success. Fol. 6: [blank] Fol. 7: Letter from Edmund Cartwright (1743–1823; D. 1762–4; F. 1764–73). Fol. 7: Letter from Edmund Cartwright (no address given) to Martin Routh, 25 Mar 1806. Cartwright sends Routh some papers written when he was an undergraduate at Magdalen. Fols. 8–9: Letters from Thomas Hatch (d. 1828: D. 1762–73; F. 1778–86). Fol. 8: Letter from Thomas Hatch (address, Washington) to Martin Routh, 20 Aug 1794. Hatch is anxious to hear from Routh with regard to a request made by him for financial assistance in rebuilding work on the church at Washington. Fol. 9: Letter from Thomas Hatch (address, Washington) to Martin Routh, 19 Jan 1813. Hatch has lost a lawsuit with Mr. Goring of Wiston, and may have to pay £400. The College has already given him £80, and he wonders whether they might be able to help him again. Fols. 10–14: Letters from and concerning Charles Walker (d. 1811; D. 1762–81; F. 1781–97). Fol. 10: Letter from Charles Walker (address, Warley Camp) to Martin Routh, 4 Sep 1794. Walker consents to the proposal to invite Fellows to decline an increase in dividends, and puts his own name forward for this. Fol. 11: Letter from Charles Walker (address, Slimbridge) to Martin Routh, 9 Jun MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 45

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MC:PR30/1/C2/4 (con.) 1800. The landowners of Slimbridge wish for an enclosure to take place there, and so Walker asks Routh to seek the College’s approval for this plan. Fol. 12: Letter from Thomas Davis (address, Gloucester) to Martin Routh, 25 Oct 1800. Davis joins Charles Walker in asking Magdalen College to give its approval to the proposed enclosure of Slimbridge. Fol. 13: Letter from Charles Walker (address, Slimbridge near Dursley) to Martin Routh, 16 Jan 1801. Walker returns to the proposed enclosure of Slimbridge, pointing out the possible benefits to the incumbent of the living. Fol. 14: Letter from John Davis (address, Bloxham) to Martin Routh, 14 Apr 1801. Davis discusses fine details in the wording of the enclosure bill for Slimbridge, especially with regards to the tithes of the parish. Fol. 15: Letter from John Washbourn (d. 1805; D. 1763–74; F. 1774–1805). Fol. 15: Letter from John Washbourn (address, Cirencester) to Martin Routh, 17 Sep 1794. Washbourn discusses the questions of beneficial leases for incumbents of College livings, the possibility of his accepting preferment, and the proposal not to accept an increase in the Fellows’ dividend, which he supports. Fol. 16: Letter concerning John Curtis (d. 1820; D. 1763–77; F. 1777–1820). Fol. 16: Letter from an unknown writer (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, Monday 3 June [1820?]. The writer (evidently a doctor) reports that he has taken a large quantity of blood from Curtis, and two other doctors who have seen him expressed grave concern about any hope of recovery. Since Curtis died on 3 June 1820, this letter may have been written on that very day. Fol. 17: Letter from John Shaw (d. 1824: D. 1764–71; F. 1771–1824). See also MC:PR30/4/MS/1 for various letters and documents concerning Shaw’s appointment to the living of South Petherwin. Fol. 17: Letter from John Shaw (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated (1790s?). Shaw recommends one John Gould to Routh to succeed “old Cosier” when there was a vacancy. Cosier was a College servant (see MC:PR30/1/C2/6 Fol. 30, which suggests that he was dead by 1795). Fol. 18: Letter from Charles Williams (d. 1808; D. 1766–75; D. 1775–83). See also MC:PR30/1/C1/3 Fols. 5 & 35, and MC:PR30/1/C4/12 Fol. 49 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 18: Letter from Charles Williams (address, Woolbeding) to an unnamed addressee, 14 Jul 1803. Williams regrets that he has no influence at Magdalen now, not even with President Routh, for putting in a word for nominating a friend to an unspecified place there. Fols. 19–35: Letters from Nathaniel Bridges (d. 1834; D. 1767–75; F. 1775–93). Fol. 19: Letter from Nathaniel Bridges (address, Orlingbury) to Martin Routh, 18 Apr (year not given, but postmarked 1791). Bridges promises to vote for Routh in the forthcoming Presidential election. Fol. 20: Letter from Nathaniel Bridges (address, Orlingbury) to Martin Routh, 13 Feb (year not given, and the postmark is illegible; possibly 1792 or 1793). Bridges apparentlydiscusses his possible resignation as Fellow. He also confesses that he is love with the daughter of a country gentleman, but fears that it may not MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 46

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MC:PR30/1/C2/4 (con.) prove possible to marry her. Fol. 21: Letter from Nathaniel Bridges (address, Clifton, near Bristol) to Martin Routh, 3 Mar 1809. Bridges recommends to Routh’s acquaintance one Dr. Buchanan (Claudius Buchanan, 1766–1815, East India Company chaplain). He regrets that he missed Routh when he was last in Oxford, because he wanted to thank him for his kindness to a recently deceased nephew of his (probably Brooke Bridges, D. 1805–7; d. 1807). Fol. 22: Letter from Nathaniel Bridges (address, Clifton, near Bristol) to Martin Routh, 24 Apr 1809. Bridges asks Routh to intervene in an apparent dispute between him and Samuel Parr. He would regret it if their friendship were interrupted. The letter also bears a copy (not in Routh’s hand) of Routh’s reply, written from Amport, Hants., on 17 May 1809. Routh passes on a message from Parr, and urges the two of them to be reconciled. Fol. 23: Letter from Nathaniel Bridges (address, Willoughby, near Daventry) to Martin Routh, 5 Sep 1810. Bridges suggests that one William Crupper of Willoughby be appointed the new College gamekeeper for the manor there. Fol. 24: Letter from Nathaniel Bridges (address, Clifton) to Martin Routh, 5 Dec 1814. A friend of Bridges is passing through Oxford, and Bridges takes the chance to send him this letter, in which he thanks him for the present of the first volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 25: Letter from Nathaniel Bridges (address not given) to Martin Routh, 31 Dec 1823. Bridges is glad to hear that Routh is good health, but he himself is still suffering from the death of his wife a year ago. He recommends the son of a friend of his, Mr. Bromfield, for the forthcoming Warwickshire Fellowship (Bromfield was not elected). Fol. 26: Letter from Nathaniel Bridges (address, Richmond Terrace, Clifton) to Martin Routh, 10 Feb 1826. Bridges discusses the forthcoming Parliamentary election in Oxford: he is glad that he is no longer on Magdalen’s books, or he would have had trouble deciding who to support. He reflects on Dr. Parr’s sermons, and concludes that, for all Parr’s virtues in other areas, he was no theologian. Fol. 27: Letter from Nathaniel Bridges (address, HollowayPark) to Martin Routh, 12 Jul 1827. Bridges recalls with pleasure his recent meeting with Routh and his wife. He recommends for the vacant Oxfordshire Fellowship one Daniel Wilson (unsuccessfully). Fol. 28: Letter from Nathaniel Bridges (address, Foots Cray) to Martin Routh, Sunday 24 Oct (year not given; since it is addressed to “Mr. Routh”, it must date from before 1791, when he graduated as DD; 24 October falls on a Sunday in 1790). Bridges is coming to Oxford this term, and asks Routh to instruct his bedmaker Samuel to get his rooms ready for his arrival. Fol. 29: Letter from Nathaniel Bridges (address, Willoughby) to Martin Routh, 17 Jul 1829. Bridges recommends the son of the Archdeacon of Coventry, Mr. Spooner, for a Demyship (unsuccessfully). Fol. 30: Letter from Nathaniel Bridges (address, No. 8 Axton Buildings, Bath) to MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 47

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MC:PR30/1/C2/4 (con.) Martin Routh, 14 Dec (year not given, but probably before 1801, when Sophia Routh, to whom he sends his greetings, married Thomas Sheppard). Bridges regrets that he will not be able to attend a forthcoming election, but he wishes to keep his name on the College’s books. He disapproves of the Lady Margaret Professorship being given to the Head of a College. Fol. 31: Letter from Nathaniel Bridges (address, Willoughby) to Martin Routh, 12 Apr (year not given; probably 1792). Bridges has been seeing Dr. Parr, who was pleased to hear of the death of the King of Sweden (Gustav III, assassinated 29 Mar 1792). He recommends one Benjamin Blackhall as a groom for Routh. Fol. 32: Letter from Nathaniel Bridges (address, Willoughby) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul (year not given). Bridges recommends Thomas Weetman to be appointed gamekeeper for Willoughby. He reports on a quarrel with Samuel Parr. Fol. 33: Letter from Nathaniel Bridges (address, Willoughby near Daventry) to Martin Routh, 19 Oct (year not given). Bridges understands that there is a possibility of presenting John Shaw (D. 1764–71; F. 1771–1824) to a College living. In confidence, Bridges protests that, although he likes Shaw as a person and scholar, he cannot imagine him as a parish priest. Fol. 34: Letter from Nathaniel Bridges (address, Willoughby) to Martin Routh, 19 Mar (year not given). Bridges bewails to Routh his treatment at the hands of Dr. Parr. Fol. 35: Letter from Nathaniel Bridges (address, Hatton) to Martin Routh, 1 Aug (year not given; 1805?). Bridges hopes to visit Routh in Oxford with his wife soon, and he thanks Routh for his support of his nephew (probably Brooke Bridges, D. 1805–7; d. 1807). He is currently staying with Dr. Parr. Fol. 36: Letter from Richard Goldesborough (d. 1818; Ch. 1761–7; D. 1767–81; F. 1781–94). Fol. 36: Letter from Richard Goldesborough (address, Bruton) to John Covey (D. 1772–80; F. 1780–1801) as Bursar, 14 Mar 1799. Goldesborough sends Covey payment for Land Tax for Saunderton. Fols. 37–38: Letters from John Lichfield (d. 1803; D. 1768–80; F. 1780–9). Fol. 37: Letter from John Lichfield (address, Whitchurch, near Reading) to Martin Routh, 14 Feb 1793. Lichfield regrets that he could not call on Routh when he was in Magdalen, because he wishes to discuss with him the question of the leases on impropriate tithes, and which parishes will benefit from an increase in income. Fol. 38: Letter from John Lichfield (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated. Lichfield sends Routh letters from a Dr. Pilkington and a Mr. Goring concerning properties which they are leasing from Magdalen. Fols. 39–44: Letters from and concerning William Andrew Jenner (d. 1832; D. 1769–85; F. 1785–1832). Fol. 39: Letter from William Andrew Jenner (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 8 May 1803. Jenner has heard nothing about Edward Ellerton’s appeal (about being elected a Fellow), and passes on the latest pieces of news from Magdalen. Fol. 40: [the cover of the letter of Fol. 39 given this number in error] MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 48

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MC:PR30/1/C2/4 (con.) Fols. 41–43: 3 pages of accounts for William Jenner’s estate on his death. Jenner had left money to Magdalen. Fol. 44: Notes in Routh’s hand, apparently concerning the finances of William Jenner in the light of his bequest to Magdalen College. Fols. 45–47: Letters from and concerning Benjamin Tate d. 1820; D. 1769–80; F. 1780–1820). Fol. 45: Letter from Benjamin Tate (address, Michaelstone near Cardiff) to Martin Routh, 10 Aug 1803. Tate has been asked to tell Routh that a Mr. Michell of Brighton is eager to succeed Mr. Fisher as Steward of Magdalen, although he himself knows nothing about Michell’s abilities. Fol. 46: Letter from Benjamin Tate (address, Michaelstone near Cardiff) to Martin Routh, 1 Nov 1806. Tate has already promised to support Mr. Abbott in the forthcoming Parliamentary election, which means that he is unable to vote for Richard Heber, as Routh asked him to. Fol. 47: Letter from George Tate (address, Langdown) to Martin Routh, 24 Jul 1821. Tate thanks Routh for drafting a memorial inscription to his brother Benjamin, who died in 1820. Fols. 48–50: Letters from William Alcock (d. 1813; D. 1770–83; F. 1783–1810). Fol. 48: Letter from William Alcock (address not given) to Martin Routh, 13 Oct 1794. Alcock agrees to an unspecified measure agreed on by the College (presumably to freeze the size of the dividend that year). Fol. 49: Letter from William Alcock (address, Trotton, near Midhurst) to Martin Routh, 26 Jan 1796. Alcock understands that he is to serve as Dean of Divinity in the coming year. He hopes that he will not have to attend services in College regularly. Fol. 50: Letter from William Alcock (address, Selborne) to Martin Routh, 26 May 1812. Alcock reports on the death of Farmer Spencer, a College tenant. Spencer had hoped that his second son and son-in-law might succeed him in the tenancy. Alcock recommends this action to the College. Fols. 51–52: Letters from James Hawkins (d. 1846; D. 1770–89; F. 1789–99). Fol. 51: Letter from James Hawkins (address, Bampton) to Martin Routh, 1 Aug 1788. Hawkins offers a copy of the edition of his Bampton sermons to the College Library. Fol. 52: Letter from James Hawkins (address, Bampton) to Martin Routh, 16 Oct 1794. Hawkins agrees to the proposed freeze in the College dividend.

MC:PR30/1/C2/5 1774–1842 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters from Demies 1771 1774” on the spine. This guardbook contains letters from and concerning Demies elected between 1771 and 1774. It also includes those Demies who were later elected Fellows.

Fols. 1–2: Letters from Samuel Partridge (d. 1817: D. 1771–4; F. 1774–82). Fol. 1: Letter from Samuel Partridge (address, Boston) to Martin Routh, 15 Aug 1803. Partridge is trying to obtain a valuation of a house leased to a Mr. Barnard, and has some questions about his lease for Routh. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 49

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MC:PR30/1/C2/5 (con.) Fol. 2: Letter from Samuel Partridge (address, Boston) to Martin Routh, 11 May 1806. Partridge’s neighbour, Edward Wilford, would like to purchase some land from the College, and Partridge is wondering how progress on the sale is going. Fols. 3–4: Letters from Henry Linton (d. 1841; D. 1771–4; F. 1774–1801). Fol. 3: Letter from Henry Linton (address not given) to Martin Routh, 7 Oct 1794. Linton objects to a proposal made by the College that the practice of granting beneficial leases to the incumbents of smaller College livings should be discontinued. Fol. 4: Letter from Henry Linton (address not given) to Martin Routh, 22 Jun 1801. Linton encloses the formal Latin notice of the resignation of his Fellowship, but also protests at some financial demands which the College has made of him in relation to the renewal of a lease. Fol. 5: Letter connected to Thomas Hodges (d. 1784; D. 1771–83). Fol. 5: Letter from Elizabeth Sayer (address, Arlingham, Newnham, Glos.) to Martin Routh, 6 Apr 1842. Sayer is the daughter of Thomas Hodges, and is writing to recommend her son John Sayer for a Gloucestershire Demyship (unsuccessfully). She remembers her father, and describes the character of her grandson, who is being bred up to take over the living of Arlingham, which is owned by her family. Fols. 6–9: Letters from and concerning John Parkinson (d. 1840; D. 1772–5; F. 1775–98). Fol. 6: Letter from John Parkinson (address not given) to Martin Routh, 16 Jul 1798. Parkinson sends Routh a Latin poem (in elegiac couplets) and a version of the same in English poetry which Parkinson explains was made by an unnamed lady, based on an English prose translation. Fol. 7: Letter from John Parkinson (address, Ravendale) to Martin Routh, 17 Jul 1801. Parkinson regrets missing Routh when he was passing through Oxford, because he wanted to discuss his nephew, whom he recommends for a Demyship (no one called Parkinson was elected a Demy that year). Fol. 8: Letter from John Parkinson (address, Ravendale near Castor, Lincs.) to Martin Routh, 10 Jul 1826. Parkinson agrees to support Richard Heber in the forthcoming Parliamentary election. Fol. 9: Letter from John P. Wilson (address, Louth, Lincs.) to Martin Routh, 30 Aug 1840. Wilson reports that John Parkinson has just died. (John Posthumous Wilson (later Parkinson), D. 1827–34; F. 1834–42. Wilson changed his name to Parkinson when in 1842 he married Parkinson’s daughter) Fols. 10–13: Letters from Thomas Bosvile (D. 1772–94). Fol. 10: Letter from Thomas Bosvile (address, Ravenfield near Doncaster) to Martin Routh, 11 Jul 1794. Bosvile has inherited some property on the death of his mother, and so has to resign his Demyship. He expresses his pleasure at having been a member of Magdalen. Fol. 11: Letter from Thomas Bosvile (address, Doncaster) to Martin Routh, 20 Jul 1794. Bosvile sends a formal note resigning his Demyship. Fol. 12: Letter from Thomas Bosvile (address, Doncaster) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul 1794. Bosvile supplies some details about his inheritance. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 50

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MC:PR30/1/C2/5 (con.) Fol. 13: Letter from Thomas Bosvile (address, Doncaster) to Martin Routh, 22 Jul 1794. Bosvile confirms his intention to resign as a Demy, having come into an inheritance. Fols. 14–15: Letters from William Bagshaw Stevens (1756–1800; D. 1772–94; F. 1794–1800). Fol. 14: Letter from William Bagshaw Stevens (address, Repton near Derby) to Martin Routh, 12 Jun 1798. Stevens, as requested by the College, gives specific reasons why he cannot give his lectures, namely that he is living away from Oxford, and has been ill. Fol. 15: Letter from William Bagshaw Stevens (address, Repton) to Martin Routh, 22 May 1799. Stevens hopes to pay his respects to Routh at election time. Fols. 16–27: Letters from and concerning John Hind (d. 1832; D. 1773–84; F. 1784–1808). Fol. 16: Letter from John Hind (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, “Sunday Evening” (presumably 1791, since Routh is addressed as “The President-Elect” on the back of the letter). Hind expresses his unwillingness to take on the office of Public Orator, but also congratulates Routh on his election as President. Fol. 17: Letter from T. Hind (address illegible) to Martin Routh, or Dr. Burrough, or Dr. Hutton, or Dr. Bourne, 30 Apr (year not given). Hind’s mother has just died after suffering a major stroke, and Hind asks Routh, or one of the other Fellows addressed here, to break the news gently to his brother John, and ask him to join him at once. Fol. 18: Letter from John Hind (address, Rochdale) to Martin Routh, 24 Feb 1790. Hind reports on an unspecified fatal event (the death of his father, as explained below). Fol. 19: Letter from Martin Routh (address not given) to John Hind, 28 Feb 1790. Routh consoles Hind on the death of his father. He assures Hind that any College business involving him has been sorted out, and that he need not return until he is ready. Fol. 20: Formal notice from John Hind of his resignation as Fellow, 6 Jul 1808. Fol. 21: Letter from John Hind (address, Findon) to Martin Routh, 11 Aug 1814. Hind thanks Routh for sending him the first two volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 22: Letter from John Hind (address, Findon near Horsham) to Martin Routh, 4 Jul 1815. Hind requests on behalf of the Commissioners of the Turnpikes that they may be allowed to purchase some College land in front of Findon Parsonage in order to widen the road there. He reports on his poor health, and the fact that Dr. Loveday (Arthur Loveday, D. 1784–99; F. 1799–1827) is helping him with his clerical duties. Fol. 23: Letter from John Hind (address, Findon) to Martin Routh, 14 Mar 1816. Hind thanks Routh for sending him the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He reports on the health of Mr. Ventris (James Ventris, D. 1781–6; F. 1786–1814). Fol. 24: Letter from John Hind (address, Findon) to Martin Routh, 13 Jul 1818. Hind thanks Routh for sending him the fourth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He passes on news of Mr. Ventris and Dr. Loveday (Arthur Loveday, as in Fol. 22). Fol. 25: Letter from John Hind (address, Findon) to Martin Routh, 13 Jul 1821. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 51

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MC:PR30/1/C2/5 (con.) Hind has been canvassed for the forthcoming Parliamentary election, and promises that, at the very least, he will not vote against Richard Heber. He sends his belated congratulations on Routh’s marriage. Fol. 26: Letter from John Hind (address, Findon) to Martin Routh, 7 Feb 1828. Hind discusses a memorial tablet to Arthur Loveday which has been erected in the College’s antechapel (the letter shows that Loveday was Hind’s brother-in- law). He is delighted to hear that the family is pleased with it. He reports that he has been injured by falling when reaching for a book from an upper shelf. Fol. 27: Letter from John Hind (address, Findon near Horsham) to Martin Routh, 27 Mar 1829. Hind seeks the College’s permission to chop down an elm tree on College land which is inconveniencing a neighbouring house. Fols. 27a and 28–56: Letters from George Hirst (d. 1802; D. 1774–6; F. 1776–1802). Fol. 27a: Letters from George Hirst (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated. (1774?). Hirst would like to apply for a Norfolk Demyship, and seeks his advice on whom he should lobby if he is to be successful. Fol. 28: Letter from George Hirst (address not given) to Martin Routh, “Thursday Evening”. Hirst has received an unexpected call from Magdalen, but feels himself unable to tell Routh what it is about. Fol. 29: Letter from George Hirst (address not given; postmarked Norwich) to Martin Routh, 19 Sep 1790. Hirst thanks Routh for sending him some extracts from the statutes of Magdalen College, apparently relating to the value of a living which a Fellow can hold in plurality with his College post. There is something awry with the dating here: Hirst writes to “Dear Routh”and dates his letter 19 September 1790, and yet it is addressed to Routh as President. Fol. 30: Letter from George Hirst (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 12 Apr 1791. Routh has asked Hirst’s opinion on James Wyatt’s plans to replace the roofs of the Hall and Chapel, and Hirst expresses his concerns at the proposed costs. Fol. 31: Letter from George Hirst (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 18 Feb 1793. A friend of Hirst’s wants to send his nephew to Oxford, and so Hirst is seeking Routh’s advice on a suitable College for him. He is always eager to hear College news: he understands that there may be a vacancy in one of the Parliamentary seats, and hopes that there will be a grand installation for their new Chancellor (the Duke of Portland). He sends his regards to John Hind (see Fols. 16–27 above) and John Parkinson (see Fols. 6–9 above). Fol. 32: Letter from George Hirst (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 1 Oct 1793. Hirst has been asked to support James Hurdis (D. 1782–8; F. 1788–1800) in the forthcoming election for the Professorship of Poetry, and asks whether his attendance at the election is absolutely essential. All he knows of Hurdis is that he has a cast in his eye, and so is disinclined to come. Fol. 33: Letter from George Hirst (no address given) to Martin Routh, 17 Oct 1793. Hirst accepts Routh’s summons to come to Oxford to vote for Hurdis in the election for the Professorship of Poetry. Fol. 34; Letter from George Hirst (no address given) to Martin Routh, 12 Dec MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 52

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MC:PR30/1/C2/5 (con.) 1793. Hirst thanks Routh for his hospitality at Magdalen. He has been musing on the College’s debate about altering the dividend, and is not sure about it. He asks after James Hurdis. When visiting Oxford, he had a look at the Chapel at New College. He did not like what he saw, and is glad that the College has taken time to consider James Wyatt’s proposals for Magdalen. Fol. 35: Letter from George Hirst (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 6 Feb 1794. Hirst thanks Routh for sending him his Fellowship stipend. Fol. 36: Letter from George Hirst (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 1 Sep 1794. Hirst discusses with Routh an official letter sent from the College about the augmentation of small College livings. Fol. 37: Letter from George Hirst (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 8 Sep 1794. Hirst thanks Routh for explaining the College’s plans for its smaller livings. Fol. 38: Letter from George Hirst (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 10 Oct 1794. Hirst now gives his formal response to the College’s proposals on its smaller livings. Fol. 39: Letter from George Hirst (address, Ber-Street [sic]) to Martin Routh, 17 Oct 1794. Hirst writes in a more personal capacity to Routh about the proposals on College livings. Fol. 40: Letter from George Hirst (address, Ber-Street [sic]) to Martin Routh, 13 Feb 1795. Hirst thanks Routh for an account of the November meeting, which discussed College livings. He is still unhappy at the decision. Fol. 41: Letter from George Hirst (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 27 Oct 1795. Hirst is relieved that he does not have to come to Oxford, apparently to fill a College office. He would like to accept an office in a couple of years time. Fol. 42: Letter from George Hirst (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 26 Dec 1796. Hirst has received a letter from the Vice-President about plans to alter the way that the dividend is assigned. He would like Routh to give him his opinion on the scheme. Fol. 43: Letter from George Hirst (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 20 Feb 1797. Hirst realises that, because some Fellows have taken their Doctorates in Divinity, he has fallen down the order of seniority, and therefore suffered a decrease in his stipend (Hirst took his DD degree later in 1797). Fol. 44: Letter from George Hirst (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 12 Apr 1797. Hirst is back in Norwich, and thanks Routh for his hospitality. He asks Routh’s advice on what would be an appropriate allowance for a gentleman commoner at New College, and hopes that Routh and his sister might visit Norfolk on their next College progress. Fol. 45: Letter from George Hirst (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 11 May 1797. Hirst is seeking a professional to carry out a survey for the College in Norfolk, and reports on his findings. Letter Fol. 46 below shows that the survey is intended for Lincoln Hall and Caldecot Hall. Fol. 46: Letter from George Hirst (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 10 Jun 1797. Hirst continues his account of finding a surveyor for Lincoln Hall and MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 53

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MC:PR30/1/C2/5 (con.) Caldecot Hall. Fol. 47: Letter from George Hirst (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 11 Jul 1797. Hirst reports on his visits to Lincoln Hall and other College estates, and warns that he will be applying to Magdalen to have his travel expenses repaid. Fol. 48: Letter from George Hirst (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 12 Aug 1797. Hirst discusses the new valuation of some of the College’s lands in East Anglia, namelyCaldecott Hall, Lincoln Hall, Gorleston, Lowestoft, and Hobland. Fol. 49: Letter from George Hirst (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 25 Sep 1797. Hirst discusses the valuations for College lands in Caldecott Hall, Lincoln Hall, Gorleston, Lowestoft, and Hobland. Fol. 50: Letter from George Hirst (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 19 Mar 1798. Hirst thanks Routh for sending him his stipend. He has been appointed Dean of Divinity, and wants to know what Demyships will come up for election at this time. Fol. 51: Letter from George Hirst (address, Beaconsfield) to Martin Routh, 26 Nov 1801. Hirst is glad to hear that Routh’s health has improved. He reports on the poor state of the parsonage at Beaconsfield, and the money he has spent on it. He reports on expelling a troupe of twenty strolling players from his parish. Fol. 51a: Letter from George Hirst (address, Beaconsfield) to Martin Routh, 5 Feb 1802. Hirst thanks Routh for his stipend, and news of his health, whilst reporting on his own illness: his lungs are affected, and his doctor is wondering about a change of air for him. Fol. 52: Letter from George Hirst (address, Beaconsfield) to Martin Routh, 14 Mar 1802. Hirst warmly thanks Routh for his interest in his health, which remains poor. Fol. 53: Letter from George Hirst (address, Beaconsfield) to Martin Routh, 12 Jan 1802. Hirst is deeply unimpressed by Mr. Kett, a candidate for the Professorship of Poetry, and is exasperated at Kett’s hope of his support. Fol. 54: Letter from George Hirst (address, Beaconsfield) to Martin Routh, 31 Mar 1802. Hirst reports on his health, and thanks Routh for sending him some medicine. Fol. 55: Letter from George Hirst (address, Beaconsfield) to Martin Routh, 7 May 1802. Hirst reflects that he may not have long to live. Fol. 56: Letter from George Hirst (address not given, but postmarked Beaconsfield) to Martin Routh, 4 Jul 1802. Hirst asks Routh to thank Mrs. Sheppard for sending his friend Mrs. Pope a pair of spectacles. He himself appears resigned to his fate (Hurst would die of consumption in October 1802). Fol. 57: Letter from Thomas Hopkinson (d. 1793; D. 1774–8; F. 1778–93). Fol. 57: Letter from Thomas Hopkinson (address, Market Overton) to Martin Routh, 29 Nov 1792. Routh’s letter to Hopkinson of August arrived there, just when he had set off on a tour of Derbyshire. While there, he heard about the election for a new Chancellor. He is now happy to concur with the views of the College on the matter. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 54

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MC:PR30/1/C2/6 1787–1829 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters from Demies 1775 1778” on the spine. This guardbook contains letters from and concerning Demies elected between 1775 and 1778. It also includes those Demies who were later elected Fellows.

Fol. 1: Letter from Thomas Camplin (d. 1814; D. 1775–81; F. 1784–1814). Fol. 1: Letter from Thomas Camplin (address, Bristol) to Martin Routh, 8 Oct 1794. Camplin agrees to the proposal on impropriate tithes. Fols. 2–4: Letters from Francis Whitcombe (d. 1832; D. 1775–83; F. 1783–1807). Fol. 2: Letter from Francis Whitcombe (address, Selsey near Chichester) to Martin Routh, 3 Sep (year not given, but postmarked 1794). Whitcombe expresses his opposition to the proposal on impropriate tithes. Fol. 3: Letter from Francis Whitcombe (address, Poynings) to Martin Routh, 31 Jan (year not given). Whitcombe approves of a proposed exchange (details unknown) offered him by Routh, but fears that the College will not approve of it. Fol. 4: Letter from Francis Whitcombe (address, Lodsworth near Petworth) to Martin Routh, 25 Mar (year not given). Whitcombe warns him about the eccentric behaviour of William Alcock (D. 1770–83; F. 1783–1810). He hears that Alcock is planning to endow a school at Selborne; however, he plans to do this at the expense of disinheriting his brother’s orphaned children, whom, Whitcombe claims, he is treating unjustly. He therefore hopes that Routh will treat the proposal for a new school with caution. Fols. 5–26: Letters concerning Francis Massingberd (d. 1824; D. 1775–81; F. 1781–1824). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/1 Fol. 14 and MC:PR30/1/C2/11 no. 5 for other letters concerning Massingberd. Fol. 5: Letter from Edward Brackenbury(matr. Lincoln 1774; address, Skendleby near Spilsby) to Martin Routh, 29 Dec 1791. Brackenbury regrets the unhappy situation of Francis Massingberd, and asks that Routh arrange for him to be taken to Dr. Willis at Gretford (this is Francis Willis, 1718–1807, the doctor who specialised in mental illness and treated George III, who had a private asylum at Greatford) Fol. 6: Letter from Francis Willis (address, Gretford) to Martin Routh, 5 Jan 1792. Willis arranges to have Massingberd transported to his own home. Fol. 7: Letter from Francis Willis (address, Gretford near Peterborough) to Martin Routh, 11 Feb 1792. Willis reports on a visit made by a colleague to Massingberd at Thrapston. Massingberd wants a leather portmanteau sent to him, and asks Routh if he can sort this matter out. Fol. 8: Letter from James Clayworth (address, Candlesby) to Mr. Fisher (address, Magdalen College; but no one of this name a Fellow of Magdalen), 25 Jan 1795. Clayworth discusses the financial aspect of looking after Massingberd, who he understands is improving in health. Fol. 9: Letter from Thomas Pindar (F. 1761–96; address, Seymour Street, Bath) to Martin Routh, 17 Nov 1795. Pindar reports on efforts to find safe accommodation for Massingberd in the area in and around Bath. Because of the risk of a relapse, he thinks it unlikely that they will be able to find private MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 55

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MC:PR30/1/C2/6 (con.) College plans to increase its subscription to the Government, as it can certainly afford to do so. He asks because, in a time of national crisis, he would like to make his own contribution. Fol. 28: Letter from Arthur Homer (address, “Warwick - en passant”) to Martin Routh, 7 Oct 1787. Homer sends Routh some enquiries on College estate business. He expresses concern as to possible controversy about his financial affairs having been Bursar. Fol. 29: Letter from Arthur Homer (address not given) to Martin Routh, 22 Apr 1791. Homer regrets that, in the forthcoming Presidential election, he will be supporting John Parkinson over Routh. Fol. 30: Letter from Arthur Homer (address, Priors Marston near Southam, Warwickshire) to Martin Routh, 30 Nov 1795. Homer defends a Mrs. Cosier, to whom the College at his recommendation had made a charitable grant, against charges of spending its money on fine clothes, which he tries to refute. It seems that Mrs. Cosier had had pupils at Magdalen College School lodging with her including Homer himself). Her husband was also a servant at the College. He discusses her and her husband’s lives and vicissitudes in some detail. Fol. 31: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Arthur Homer (address: “to be left at the Post Office, Banbury”), 8 Feb 1797. Routh asks Homer whether he wishes to be Vice-President in his turn, in case he is elected Bursar. Fol. 32: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Arthur Homer (address: “to be left at the Post Office, Banbury”), undated (presumably after 12 Feb 1797). Routh thanks Homer for his two letters (Fols. 33–4 below), which have helped settle matters over the Bursarship. Fol. 33: Letter from Arthur Homer (address, Radway) to Martin Routh, 12 Feb 1797. Homer has received Routh’s letter of 8 Feb (Fol. 31 above). He never intended to accept the offer of Bursar without being Vice-President as well. He writes at some length why he wanted some time to think about this. He attacks an unnamed Fellow who he claims has been making things difficult for him. Fol. 34: Letter from Arthur Homer (address, Arlescot near Banbury) to Martin Routh, 15 Feb 1797. Homer has been thinking about the Bursarship again, and discusses the matter at some length once more. Fol. 35: Letter from Arthur Homer (address, Attlebro’ near Nuneaton) to Martin Routh, 12 Jun 1797. Homer sends Routh an account of his late dispute with the College over the Bursarship. He asks Routh to vet it before he distributes it to other members of the Fellowship. He thanks Routh for his own fairness in this matter. Fol. 36: Letter from Arthur Homer (address, Attlebro’ near Nuneaton) to Martin Routh, 22 Jun 1797. Homer asks Routh to send him back the account mentioned in letter Fol. 35 above. He does so on the advice of the Vice-President, somewhat ungraciously, but for the sake of College harmony. Fol. 37: Letter from Arthur Homer (address, Mitre Inn) to Martin Routh, 5 Nov 1797. Homer asks whether the entry in the College Acta for 27 Feb 1797 has been expunged (indeed it has been). Evidently Homer felt that it could be read as MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 58

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MC:PR30/1/C2/6 (con.) reflecting badly on himself. Fol. 38: Letter from Arthur Homer (no address given) to Martin Routh, 19 Jan 1798. Homer asked whether his last letter to Routh was laid before the College or not, especially the part about the conduct of one of the present Bursars. Fol. 39: Letter from Arthur Homer (address, Magdalen College) to John Covey (D. 1772–80; F. 1780–1801), 20 Feb 1798. Homer writes a furious and lengthy letter to Covey, accusing him of saying insulting things in the rudest of ways about two friends of his. Covey had merely returned the letter to Homer, crossing out his own name on the envelope, and writing Homer’s on it in stead. See Fol. 43 below. Fol. 40: Letter from Arthur Homer (no address given; presumably Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, “Ash Wednesday” (i.e. 21 Feb 1798). Homer asks that the Fellows who were present at the altercation between himself and John Covey to comment on his letters to Covey and Routh. He names the Fellows present as Hoskins, Shaw, Tate, and Cobbold. Fol. 41: Letter from Arthur Homer (address, not given) to Martin Routh, 21 Jan 1798. Homer grumbles about a dispute over who is to be Vice-President and who the Bursars in the coming year. Fol. 42: Letter from Arthur Homer (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 25 Jan 1798. Homer discusses again the question of who is to be Vice-President. Fol. 43: Letter from Arthur Homer (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 21 Feb 1798. Homer forwards letter Fol. 39 above (his attack on John Covey) to Routh, furious that it was returned to him unopened, and asks Routh to see what the statutes can do to settle this matter. Fol. 44: Letter (3 pages) from Arthur Homer (address, Ipsley near Henley in Arden) to Martin Routh, 19 May 1800. Homer reflects on a dispute between him and the Fellows at the last election of College officers, in relation to the interpretation of a College order made on 31 Jan 1789 (in relation to the taking up of College offices). He angrily justifies his conduct at great length. In particular, Homer feels that there is one (unnamed) Fellow who is trying to victimise him. Fol. 45: Letter from Arthur Homer (address, Warminster) to Martin Routh, 6 Mar 1802. Homer expresses his pleasure at the latest elections of College officers, but remains bitter about his previous treatment on such occasions. Fol. 46: Letter from Arthur Homer (address. Fol. 50 Parliament Street) to Martin Routh, 21 May (year not given). Homer thanks Routh for his advice on how to correct a book of Livy. He also discusses Routh’s advice on his brother Philip (D. 1783–1802; F. 1802–6). He does not think that Philip would be an appropriate person for the post of Schoolmaster (presumably at Magdalen College School). He does not think that he has the right character, and he would have to take a pay cut from his current teaching post at Rugby. Fols. 47–48: Letters from William Mathews (D. 1775–92). Fol. 47: Letters from William Mathews (address, Nayland) to Martin Routh, 14 Nov 1792. Mathews owns up that he is suffering from financial difficulties, and MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 59

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MC:PR30/1/C2/6 (con.) hopes that Routh can advance him £120. Fol. 48: Letter from William Mathews (address, Nayland) to Martin Routh, 12 Dec 1792. Mathews explains how he ended up in such financial difficulties. Fols. 49–52: Letters from James Williams Hoskins (d. 1844; D. 1776–92; F. 1792–1803). Fol. 49: Letter from James Williams Hoskins (address, Witney) to Martin Routh, 24 Jan 1798. Hoskins has heard from Arthur Homer that he does not wish to take the post of Vice-President, which means that Hoskins might have to take it up. Hoskins explains why it might be difficult for him to live in College for a year. Fol. 50: Letter from James Williams Hoskins (address, Appleton) to Martin Routh, 15 Jul 1821. Hoskins agrees to support Richard Heber in the forthcoming Parliamentaryelections, having learnt Heber’s attitudes to Catholic emancipation. Fol. 51: Letter from James Williams Hoskins (address, Appleton) to Martin Routh, 4 Apr 1827. Hoskins has the right to present a child to Christ’s Hospital next Easter, and invites Routh to recommend a candidate. Fol. 52: Letter from James Williams Hoskins (address, Appleton) to Martin Routh, 19 Jul 1829. Hoskins writes to offer his son as a candidate for a Demyship (he was not accepted). Fols. 53–55: Letters from and concerning Robert Pargeter (d. 1803; D. 1777–1803). Fol. 53: Letter from Robert Pargeter (address, Midhurst, Sussex) to Martin Routh, 3 May 1791. Pargeter congratulates Routh on his election as President. Fol. 54: Letter from William Pargeter (address, No. 16, Kentish Town) to Martin Routh, 7 Feb 1803. Pargeter reports that his brother Robert died last Sunday of a ‘pulmonic attack’. Fol. 55: Letter from William Pargeter (address, 16 Mansfield Place, Kentish Town) to Martin Routh, 27 Feb 1803. Pargeter asks whether the College can make a contribution towards the expenses of his brother’s medical treatment and funeral. Fol. 56: Letter from Sir John Filmer (d. 1834; D. 1778–85; F. 1785–95). Fol. 56: Letter from Sir John Filmer (address, c/o Abbots Langley, near King’s Langley, Herts.) to Martin Routh, 31 May 1795. Filmer formally resigns his Fellowship, having got married. He expresses his gratitude to Routh and the College for the happy time he spent there.

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MC:PR30/1/C2/7 (con.) application for the post of Chaplain and Secretary to the Female Orphans in London. [NB: Bloxam spells his name “Aguttar”, but the letters are all signed by him as “Agutter”] Fol. 2: Letter from William Agutter (address, Northampton) to Martin Routh, 14 May 1791. Agutter congratulates Routh on his election as President. Fol. 3: Letter from William Agutter (address, Fol. 7 Furnivals Inn Court, Holborn) to Martin Routh, 19 Oct 1791. Agutter thanks Routh for his testimonial (presumably Fol. 1 above). He is sorry that he cannot help Routh in his present work, but he has many other distractions at present. Fol. 4: Letter from William Agutter (address, Furnivals Inn Court, Holborn) to Martin Routh, 6 Jan 1792. Agutter has heard that Dr. Bridges (Nathaniel Bridges, D. 1767–75; F. 1775–93) is going to accept a living, and that he might take his place at College (as a Fellow). Mr. Lawson is currently occupying Agutter’s rooms in College, and says that he is happy to share them with him, should he want to come to Oxford. Fol. 5: Letter from William Agutter (address, Fol. 7 Furnivals Inn Court, Holborn) to Martin Routh, 21 Jul 1792. Agutter discusses the identity of a Joseph Bromehead (matr. Queen’s 1764). He is also pleased that the Republican party in Britain is so much reduced. Fol. 6: Letter from William Agutter (address, Furnivals Inn Court, Holborn) to Martin Routh, 18 Oct 1792. Agutter sends Routh a sermon (by Agutter himself) which has been well received. He appreciates Routh’s efforts on behalf of French refugees, especially the clergy. Fol. 7: Letter from William Agutter (address, Fol. 4 Furnivals Inn Court, Holborn) to Martin Routh, 8 Apr 1793. Agutter is wondering about applying to deliver the Bampton Lectures, and asks whether Routh and the College would support him. He was sorry to hear of the death of Thomas Hopkinson (D. 1774–8; F. 1778–93). Fol. 8: Letter from William Agutter (address, Furnivals Inn Court, Holborn) to Martin Routh, 28 May 1793. Agutter announces his forthcoming marriage, and therefore his resignation from Magdalen. He asks for his name to remain on the College’s books. He will come and sort his affairs out at Magdalen as soon as he can. Fol. 9: Letter from William Agutter (address, 4 Canonbury) to Martin Routh, 28 Jan 1797. Agutter thanks Routh for his testimonial (presumably Fol. 1 above). He would have reported the news of his election, but he has been unwell, but he can now report that he has been successful (in his application to become Chaplain and Secretary to the Female Orphans in London). Fol. 10: Letter from William Agutter (address, 52 Upper Gower Street) to Martin Routh, 21 June 1832. Agutter seeks Routh’s opinion on the library of George III, which was given to the British Museum, supposedly as a sign of George IV’s regard for learning. Agutter, however, thinks the opposite: George IV should have carried out his father’s wish to create a royal library by the palace, not least because the British Museum already owns copies of most of these books. He MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 61

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MC:PR30/1/C2/7 (con.) expresses his anxieties about the troubles of the present age. Fols. 11–15: Letters from George Hutton (d. 1817; D. 1781–5; F. 1785–97). Fol. 11: Letter from George Hutton (address, Lincoln) to Martin Routh, 2 Oct 1792. Hutton thanks Routh for this letter, in which Routh apparently suggested that he take a private pupil, but would like to find out some more about his character. Fol. 12: Letter from George Hutton (address, Plum tree [sic?]) to Martin Routh, 6 Aug 1798. Hutton thanks Routh for his advice over a possible vacancy. Sadly the living in question has now been disposed of. He reports on meeting Henry Best (D. 1785–92: F. 1792–7) at Lincoln, and now hears that he has converted to Roman Catholicism. He has also heard rumours that James Hurdis (D. 1782–8; F. 1788–1800) is planning to resign the Poetry Professorship at the end of his term, and asks Routh if this is true. Fol. 13: Letter from George Hutton (address, Sutterton) to Martin Routh, 30 Jul 1808. Hutton thanks Routh for sending him an unnamed book. Fol. 14: Letter from George Hutton (address, Sutterton) to Martin Routh, 29 Jan 1816. Hutton introduces to Routh his ward Basil Beridge (matr. Magdalen 1815), who is being tutored by Dr. Ellerton. He describes his ward’s character to Routh, and hopes that Routh will ensure that he keeps good company, not least because Beridge is intended for the Church (he was eventually ordained). Fol. 15: Letter from George Hutton (address, Sutterton) to Martin Routh, 1 May 1816. As Basil Beridge is returning to Magdalen, Hutton sends this letter to Routh, to thank him for the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Their friend Henry Best has borrowed the volumes, and joins Hutton in praising him (although they do not discuss Routh’s views on religion). Beridge seems to be settling in well at Magdalen, and Hutton hopes that he will behave himself. Fols. 16–27: Letters from and concerning James Hurdis (1763–1801; D. 1782–8; F. 1788–1800). Fol. 16: Letter from James Hurdis (address, Bishopstone) to Martin Routh, 28 Sep 1792. Having had to leave Burwash (where he had been curate, and where he chose to leave on the death of one of his sisters), Hurdis is planning to move to Oxford. He wonders whether Routh can recommend him to some potential pupils. Fol. 17: MS copy in an unknown hand of a poem by Hurdis titled “Lines addressed to a Lady who removed the pins from her head-dress during a Thunderstorm.” Fol. 18: Letter from James Hurdis (address, Bishopstone) to Martin Routh, 31 Jul 1796. Hurdis asks Routh for details about Magdalen’s scheme of terminal examinations. The reason for this request is that Hurdis plans to write a vindication of Magdalen against the attacks made on it by Edward Gibbon (in his recently published memoirs). He will publish his work anonymously because the husband of his patron, Lady Sheffield, was a good friend of Gibbon. Fol. 19: Letter from James Hurdis (address, Bishopstone) to Martin Routh, 2 Dec 1796. Hurdis sends Routh a copy of his vindication of Magdalen College against Edward Gibbon. As well as writing it, Hurdis was also the work’s compositor and MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 62

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MC:PR30/1/C2/7 (con.) printer. He hopes to distribute 500 copies in Oxford, and has taken pains to retain his anonymity. Fol. 20: Letter from James Hurdis (address, Horsham, Sussex) to Martin Routh, 12 Jan 1797. Hurdis replies to Routh’s letter Fol. 22 below concerning his letter to the then Vice-President which had been seen as offensive. He agrees to come to Oxford and apologise in person to those people who had attended the meeting at which the matter had been discussed. Fol. 21: Letter from James Hurdis (address, Fulham) to Martin Routh, 19 Jul 1799. Hurdis reports on his marriage, and therefore the resignation of his Fellowship. He reflects on his time at Magdalen. Fol. 22: Draft letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to James Hurdis, undated (presumably written in late 1796 or early 1797). Routh regrets to tell Hurdis that his letter to the Vice-President had been considered offensive, and requests that he make an apology for it. Fol. 20 above is Hurdis’s reply. Fol. 23: Draft letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to James Hurdis, undated. It is almost illegible, but appears to be a reply to Hurdis’s letter Fol. 20 above. On the other side of the paper is a transcription, in an unknown hand of “Lines by Mr. Hawksworth”, dated 12 Dec 1809. Fol. 24: Letter from Eliza Hurdis (one of James Hurdis’s sisters; address, Bishopstone) to Martin Routh, 24 Dec 1806. Miss Hurdis reports on her family’s intention to publish the poems of James Hurdis by subscription. Printed notices will be circulated soon, but she has sent Routh early notice of this plan. Fol. 25: Letter from James Hurdis (address, Bishopstone) to Martin Routh, 4 Nov 1797. Hurdis has heard of the imminent death of Timothy Neve, the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity (he died in January 1798), and seeks Routh’s advice on whether to stand as a candidate to replace him. He admits that he would be glad of the stipend, since he has to support his mother and sisters. On the other hand, he is cautious of standing against Septimus Collinson, Provost of Queen’s, who is another known candidate (and who was eventually elected), and he fears that he has enemies in Oxford. Fol. 26: Draft letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Eliza Hurdis, undated, but written some time in 1806/7 in reply to Fol. 24. Routh speaks warmly of Hurdis’s memory, and expresses his support for her initiative of publishing her brother’s poems. He asks to order ten copies for himself, and promises to circulate the printed appeals in the Common Room. Fol. 27: Letter from Mary Hurdis (another of James Hurdis’s sisters; address, 16 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea) to Martin Routh, 28 Feb 1807. Miss Hurdis thanks Routh for his support for her brother. She asks where she might send a list of subscribers for her brother’s work. She reports that the Duke of Portland has supported her. Fols. 28–44: Letters from Philip Bracebridge Homer (d. 1838; D.1783–1802; F. 1802–1806). Fol. 28: Letter from Philip Bracebridge Homer (address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 18 Apr 1791. Homer gives Routh his full support in his campaign to be elected President of Magdalen. Fol. 29: Letter from Philip Homer (address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 5 Aug 1791. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 63

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MC:PR30/1/C2/7 (con.) Homer would like to congratulate Routh on his election, but does not wish to offend his brother Arthur (who opposed Routh). He assures Routh that he is content in his current situation. He also reflects at length on the death of his father, and regrets that he did not always behave well to him. Fol. 30: Letter from Philip Homer (address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 24 Sep 1792. Homer considers who to vote for in the forthcoming Chancellorship election, be it the Duke of Beaufort or the Duke of Portland. Fol. 31: Letter from Philip Homer (address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 12 Mar 1796. Homer regrets that he cannot come to Magdalen, as this would cause inconvenience at Rugby. He expresses his friendship to Routh, and hopes to see him soon. Homer also copies into his letter an extract from the first letter sent by his father to him at Oxford, and explains the change in his conduct. Fol. 32: First page only of a letter from Philip Homer (address, Rugby) to an unnamed addressee, 3 Sep 1799. Homer asks his addressee to thank the President for an unspecified offer which he feels obliged to refuse. Fol. 33: Letter from Philip Homer (address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 8 May 1818. Homer writes in the support of the son of a neighbour, Mr. Tawney for a Demyship. The son had applied unsuccessfully last year (and was unsuccessful again; although a Richard Tawney from Warwickshire, who matriculated from Trinity College in 1819, was elected a Fellow of Magdalen in 1824; this might be the same person). His eldest daughter is very ill, but Homer may have to go to Rome to recover property that might descend to his children through his first wife. He fears it may be too late to ask Routh if he can seek out any books there on his behalf. Fol. 34: Letter from Philip Homer (address, Rome) to Martin Routh, 26 Jul 1818. Homer reports on his attempts to find books for Routh out there. He reports on what he has seen in and around Rome, including seeing the sculptor Canova. Fol. 35: Letter from Philip Homer (address, St. Paul’s School, London) to Martin Routh, 14 Oct 1818. Homer sends Routh the one book he was able to find for him on the continent. He reports on his journey home from Italy, during which he fell badly ill. He reports that he never had a chance to visit any Italians during his time in Rome. He also encloses a sonnet of his composition to Rome, in both an English and an Italian version. Fol. 36: Letter from Philip Homer (address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 24 Nov 1818. Homer reports on his lack of success in trying to recover his first wife’s property for his children. Fol. 37: Letter from Philip Homer (address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 4 Oct 1824. Homer remembers that, when he went to Rome, Routh asked him to procure two books for him, one of which he found. Homer’s Italian lawyer, Signor Cicognani tells him that he has found a copy of the second book (the Acta Gaij) in a library, and that, because it is not very long, he can arrange to have it copied for Routh. Homer now has that transcript. It appears to have errors in it, but it should be usable. He gives Routh a list of contents of the book, and discusses it. Fol. 38: Letter from Philip Homer (address, Rugby) to A. Grimes 19 Oct 1824. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 64

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MC:PR30/1/C2/7 (con.) Homer has sent Grimes a book he mentioned in his last letter, and a transcript of Gaius’s Decretal Epistle. He discusses the book’s contents once again. Fol. 39: Letter from Philip Homer (address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 2 Nov 1824. Homer has sent Routh the transcript of Caius’s Epistle and Acta, and looks forward to hearing Routh’s opinion on their authenticity. He also sends Routh a book about the church of St. Paul’s in Rome, which was recently destroyed by fire, as well as some editions of Fronto’s epistles. He thinks that, if Routh wants any books from Rome, his friend Cicognani would help him. Homer reports that he has resigned his post at Rugby, and his income has declined as a result. He also explains why he chose to resign his post there, namely that he was not being assigned enough pupils. Fol. 40: Letter from Philip Homer (address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 25 Nov 1824. Homer has been encouraged to produce a new Greek grammar based on his teaching experiences at Rugby, and he wonders about producing a new version of the Eton grammar. He seeks Routh’s advice on the propriety of this. Fol. 41: Letter from Philip Homer (address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 16 Nov 1825. Homer sends Routh a copy of the Eton Greek Grammar bearing his revisions. He asks Routh to let him know if there’s anything he should change for a second edition. Fol. 42: MS (in an unknown hand) of a poem by Philip Homer titled “The Character of Dr. Parr”. Fol. 43: Letter from Philip Homer (address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 8 Oct 1829. Homer’s son Philip is coming up to Oxford. He is disappointed that his son failed to get a Demyship at Magdalen, but hopes to encourage him to try again next year (if his son did apply then, he was not successful; instead the younger Philip Homer went to Trinity College). Fol. 44: Letter from Philip Homer (address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 17 Jan 1833. Homer thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum opuscula. He reports on his son Philip, who has left Trinity without a degree, and admits that he is relieved that his son had not gone to Magdalen, where his departure would have been even more embarrassing. The younger Philip turned against studying at Oxford or joining the Church, and retreated to Wales where he died. Fortunately, a friend there took care of him, and later found his body and saw that he was buried. Fols. 45–50: Letters from and concerning Thomas Monro (d. 1815; D. 1783–97). Fol. 45: Letter (in Latin) from Thomas Monro (no address given) to Martin Routh, 3 Feb 1784. Monro writes of his admiration for Routh. Fol. 46: Letter from Thomas Monro (address, Bedford) to Martin Routh, 9 Aug 1786. Monro has heard from Dr. Parr (see Fol. 47 below) that some drafts for cash which he had sent Routh were returned. Fol. 47: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given) to Thomas Monro, 3 Aug 1786, enclosing a transcript of a letter from Martin Routh (see Fol. 46 above). This relates to drafts for cash from Monro being returned. Fol. 48: Letter from Thomas Monro (address, Selborne) to Martin Routh, 12 Sep MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 65

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MC:PR30/1/C2/7 (con.) 1796. Monro notes that Richard Chandler (D. 1757–70; F. 1770–80) currently appoints a gamekeeper in Selborne, and asks that, when Chandler wishes to resign this appointment, he be appointed to succeed him. He warns Routh that Chandler has grossly mismanaged the manor of Selborne, to the annoyance of the local gentry. Fol. 49: Letter from Thomas Monro (no address given) to Martin Routh, 20 Sep 1796. Monro thanks Routh for his positive response to his last letter, and supplies some more details about the problems in Selborne. Fol. 50: Letter from Thomas Monro (no address given) to Martin Routh, 19 Oct 1796. Monro thanks Routh for his interest in the Selborne business, and tells him more about what has been happening there. The matter is made more complicated, because Chandler has asked Monro to be his curate at Worldham, and then withdrawn the offer, and it may be feared that Monro has acted against him over the question of game because of this. Monro denies the supposition. Fol. 51: Letter from Christopher Robinson (d. 1833; D. 1783–99). Fol. 51: Letter from Christopher Robinson (address, Southampton Buildings) to Martin Routh, undated, but postmarked 15 Apr 1796. Robinson reports on his activities in London. He has been lobbying the Duke of Portland and William Windham for unspecified posts, but so far without success.

No. 1 was found loose within this volume: No. 1: Booklet in the hand of James Hurdis containing an ode written in honour of the Duke of Portland, presumably on his being installed as Chancellor in 1792. Routh has added a note to confirm Hurdis’s authorship.

MC:PR30/1/C2/8 1791–1829 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters from Demies 1784 1792” on the spine. This guardbook contains letters from and concerning Demies elected between 1784 and 1792. It also includes those Demies who were later elected Fellows.

Fols. 1–6: Letters from Henry Bagshaw Harrison (d. 1830; D. 1784–8). Fol. 1: Letter from Henry Bagshaw Harrison (address, “at my son’s Lodgings”, Kerby’s Holywell) to Martin Routh, “Tuesday morning” (July 1821?). Harrison is in town, but keeping away from Magdalen since his son is a candidate for an unspecified post. The rest of the letter is apparently devoted to discussions concerning drumming up support for Richard Heber in a forthcoming Parliamentary election. Fol. 2: Letter from Henry Bagshaw Harrison (address, Bugbrooke Rectory near Northampton) to Martin Routh, 9 Jul 1821. Harrison confirms his support for Richard Heber in the forthcoming Parliamentaryelection, and discusses the views of some of his neighbours who have voting rights in Oxford. Fol. 3: Letter from Henry Bagshaw Harrison (address, Bugbrooke Rectory) to Martin Routh, 14 Jul 1821. Harrison passes on the names of more men who have promised to vote for Richard Heber. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 66

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MC:PR30/1/C2/8 (con.) Fol. 4: Letter from Henry Bagshaw Harrison (address, Bugbrooke Rectory, Northampton) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul 1821. Harrison once again discusses the names of possible supporters of Richard Heber. Fol. 5: Letter from Henry Bagshaw Harrison (address, Bugbrooke Rectory, Northampton) to Martin Routh, 19 Jul 1821. Harrison reports on trying to persuade people to vote for Richard Heber. Fol. 6: Letter from Henry Bagshaw Harrison (address, Rochester) to Martin Routh, 31 Sep [sic] 1821. Before he leaves for the continent, Harrison congratulates Routh on Heber’s success in the election. He declares that he canvassed hard for Heber because he owed a debt of gratitude to Routh: when Harrison was an undergraduate, Routh, as one of the Deans of Arts, saved him rustication. Fol. 7: Letter from Samuel Routh (1765–1822; D. 1785–91; F. 1791–1811; and brother of Martin). Fol. 7: Letter from Samuel Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 2 Sep 1794. Samuel Routh discusses the College’s proposal not to increase the dividend that year, and agrees to it. Fol. 8: Letter from Henry Digby Best (1768–1836; D. 1785–92; F. 1792–7). Fol. 8: Letter from Henry Best (no address given) to Martin Routh, 28 July (no year given; but written in 1796). Best asks on behalf of the Fellows whether it might not be better to elect to a vacant Nottinghamshire Fellowship a graduate of another county than an undergraduate from that county (Best is referring to the election of 1796, when William Doncaster, an undergraduate from University College, was elected to a Nottinghamshire Fellowship because of the lack of any suitable graduate candidates). Fols. 9–28: Letters from Charles Wetherell (1770–1846; D. 1788–91). Fol. 9: Letter (part torn away) from Charles Wetherell (address lost) to Martin Routh, 10 [month lost) 1804. Wetherell discusses when he might be able to come down to Oxford. Fol. 10: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 6 Apr 1804. Wetherell hopes to come up soon to discuss an arbitration. He will stay at University College (where his father was Master). Fol. 11: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 27 Jul 1804. Wetherell has received a letter inviting him to act as Counsel for Magdalen College, and is delighted to accept. Fol. 12: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 3 Nov 1809. Wetherell has been discussing with the Lord Chancellor (John Scott, Lord Eldon) whether Eldon should resign his post as High Steward of Oxford should he stand for the Chancellorship of the University (made vacant by the recent death of the Duke of Portland). Wetherell asks Routh if he can take some soundings within the University on that question. Fol. 13: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 9 Apr 1814. Wetherell should be happy to help Routh in the Court of Exchequer if an unnamed person forces Routh into court action (the letter has been written MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 67

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MC:PR30/1/C2/8 (con.) by a secretary, and is only signed by Wetherell). Fol. 14: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 19 Jul 1805 (Wetherell’s hand makes the date look like “14 [or 15] July 1815", but the postmark is clearly 19 Jul 1805). Wetherell discusses the affairs of a Mr. Mitchell at Brighton who has been accused of criminal information. It seems that he had been accused of helping to publish a song deemed offensive. Wetherell thinks that Mitchell is not guilty. Fol. 15: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 16 Jul 1821. Wetherell is not sure if he is able to vote for Richard Heber in the Parliamentary Elections, being the MP for the City of Oxford, but he assures Routh that two of his brothers have given Heber their support. Fol. 16: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 5 Jan 1823. Wetherell thanks Routh and the College for the support for his candidacy for an unspecified post (possibly as MP for the University of Oxford). Fol. 17: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 24 Feb (year not given; 1823?). Wetherell has been encouraged to stand as an MP for the University of Oxford, and hopes that Magdalen might be supportive too. Fol. 18: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, undated (1823?). Wetherell has decided to not to stand for the University. Fol. 19: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 19 Apr 1825. Wetherell thanks Routh for sending him his edition of Burnet. He regrets not being able to see him in Oxford. He also has an unnamed candidate to recommend for a Demyship. Fol. 20: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 27 Jun 1826. Wetherell sends Routh an enclosed document (lost). Routh has drafted a reply on a blank sheet of this letter, in which he expresses his support for an approval of Wetherell’s actions. Fol. 21: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 15 Jun 1818. Wetherell reports on a court case between Magdalen College and a Dr. Tolhurst [sic?], which the College appears to have won (although Wetherell’s handwriting makes this difficult to discern). Fol. 22: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 22 Nov (year not given; possibly 1814?). Wetherell discusses questions arising from the interpretation of the will of Thomas Sheppard (D. 1747–9; F. 1749–70). Fol. 23: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address not given) to Martin Routh, 28 Mar (year not given; but postmarked 1804). Wetherell regrets that he cannot come to Oxford as hoped, as he has to be in court then. Fol. 24: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 1 Mar (year not given). Wetherell speaks of retiring from an unspecified post or candidacy. Fol. 25: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated (c. 1820?). Wetherell discusses Routh’s marriage settlement. Fol. 26: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 27 Jul (year not given; 1825?). Wetherell thanks Routh for his letter of MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 68

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MC:PR30/1/C2/8 (con.) congratulation on the election of his nephew (presumably Thomas Wetherell, D. 1825–9). He discusses Routh’s marriage settlement. Fol. 27: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 29 Feb 1804. Wetherell is delighted to offer professional assistance to Magdalen in an unspecified (or illegible) matter. Fol. 28: Last page of an otherwise lost letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, Mar 1809. Wetherell mentions presenting a petition to the House of Lords relating to an unspecified bill. Fols. 29–35: Letters from Jeremiah Ives Day (d. 1837; D. 1788–92; F. 1792–5). Fol. 29: Letter from Jeremiah Ives Day (address, Whepstead, near Bury St. Edmunds) to Martin Routh, 4 May 1791. Day congratulates Routh on his election as President. The letter has been badly crumpled up, making it hard to read. Fol. 30: Letter from Jeremiah Ives Day (address, Bury St. Edmunds) to Martin Routh, 9 Sep 1794. Day approves of the proposal not to increase the Fellows’ dividends this year. Fol. 31: Letter from Jeremiah Ives Day (address, Yelverton, near Norwich) to Martin Routh, 21 Oct 1812. Day discusses filling in a bond to pay money to a Miss Hirst. Fol. 32: Letter from Jeremiah Ives Day (address, Yelverton, near Norwich) to Martin Routh, 17 Dec 1812. Miss Hirst has not yet received the money owed her by the College. Fol. 33: Letter from Jeremiah Ives Day (address, Yelverton, near Norwich) to Martin Routh, 8 Jun 1821. Day had hoped that he might send his eldest son to Magdalen, a plan frustrated by his death. He now has similar hopes for his second son, who is will be 18 next August. He seeks Routh’s advice on whether he should apply for Demyship now or next year. Fol. 34: Letter from Jeremiah Ives Day (address, Yelverton, near Norwich) to Martin Routh, 24 Jun 1822. Day has heard news of a vacancy at Magdalen, and wants his son to apply for the post. His son is currently a member of Exeter College (and John Day would remain at Exeter for the rest of his Oxford career). Fol. 35: Letter from Jeremiah Ives Day (address, Yelverton, near Norwich) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul 1822. Day’s son is leaving for Oxford, and he hopes that he will be successful at Magdalen. Fol. 36: Letter from William Horne (d. 1841; D. 1790–3; F. 1795–8). Fol. 36: Letter from William Horne (address, London) to Martin Routh, 10 Jul 1798. Horne has inherited a property from his uncle, which means that he must resign his Fellowship. He expresses to Routh his gratitude for his happy time at Magdalen. Fols. 37–41: Letters from and concerning John Cholmeley (d. 1814; D. 1791–7; F. 1797–1810). Fol. 37: Letter from John Cholmeley (address, Easton) to Martin Routh, 25 Jan 1797. Cholmeley’s father had wished him to join a militia corps, provided that it was not contrary to College regulations. Routh’s advice is sought on how he should proceed. Fol. 38: Letter from John Cholmeley (address, London) to Martin Routh, 14 Jul MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 69

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MC:PR30/1/C2/8 (con.) 1810. Cholmeley thanks Routh for the benefits which he has received from his time at Magdalen. Fol. 39: Letter from Montague Cholmeley (matr. 1761; father of John; address, Easton) to Martin Routh, 13 May 1791. Cholmeley recommends to Routh his son John, currently a Commoner at University College, for a Demyship. Fol. 40: Letter from “T. Sarum” (probably Thomas Burgess, Bishop of Salisbury 1825–37; address, Palace, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 18 June (year not given; 1829?). The Bishop recommends to Routh John Cholmeley, the son of his friend Mrs. Cholmeley, for a Demyship. (John Montague Cholmeley, son of John Cholmeley the Demy of 1791–7, was himself elected to a Demyhip in 1829. The letter almost certainly relates to the election of this son, rather than of his father). Fol. 41: Letter from John Cholmeley (address, London) to Martin Routh, 12 Mar (year not given; 1810?). Cholmeley has just been presented to the living of Burton Coggles by the Lord Chancellor. Because of the value of the living, he will have to resign as Fellow. Fols. 42–46: Letters from and concerning Walter Birch (d. 1829; D. 1791–7; F. 1797–1818). Fol. 42: Letter from Thomas Birch (address, Thoresby) to Martin Routh, 9 Aug 1791. Birch thanks Routh for making his son Walter a Demy of Magdalen. Fol. 43: Letter (in Latin) from Walter Birch (no address, given) to Martin Routh, undated (presumably 1791). Birch appears to be thanking Routh for his election as a Demy. Fol. 44: Letter from Walter Birch (address, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 17 Jul 1813. Birch sends Routh the copy of an appeal he has made to the Visitor. He assures Routh that it was not intended in any hostile spirit against any individual. (Bloxam, Register vii. 117–18, shows that Birch was appealing to the Visitor against a College decision not to alter the tenure of Demyships, or their right to seek leave of absence. In September 1815 the Visitor turned down Birch’s appeal). Fol. 45: Letter from Walter Birch (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, 26 Mar 1814. Birch sends Routh a paper (lost) setting out his arguments for a particular subject (presumably the tenure of Demyships). Fol. 46: Letter from Walter Birch (address, Staunton [?]) to Martin Routh, 9 Jul (year not given; 1821?). Birch had been debating who to support in a forthcoming Parliamentary election, but in the light of Routh’s support for Richard Heber, will vote for him (Heber was elected MP in 1821). Fols. 47–52a: Letters from and concerning John Corby Cockle (D. 1792–3; F. 1793–1809). Fol. 47: Letter from John Corby Cockle (address, Bassingham, near Newark, Notts.) to Martin Routh, 12 Jan 1797. Cockle has received a letter from Henry Best that it is presumed that he and Mr. Stanton will be elected Deans at the end of the month. He is furious to be told this news at such short notice: he has a curacy, and cannot readily appoint a substitute so quickly. Fol. 48: Letter from John Corby Cockle (address, Bassingham, Newark, Notts.) to Martin Routh, 30 Oct 1797. In the light of Cockle’s being unable to take up the post of Dean earlier in the year, he is writing to Routh to check whether he might MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 70

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MC:PR30/1/C2/8 (con.) be offered the post in 1798. Fol. 49: Letter from John Corby Cockle (address, Spalding) to Martin Routh, 15 Jul 1809. Cockle is aghast to receive a message from Routh summoning him back to Magdalen on 28 July. He will try to come back as soon as possible, and protests his innocence. (This letter is quoted in full in Bloxam, Register vii. 122–3, which shows that Cockle had been summoned back to Magdalen to answer “certain charges of a heinous nature” placed by Charles Cox, an innkeeper of Oxford.) Fol. 50: Formal letter from John Corby Cockle resigning his Fellowship from Magdalen College, 20 Jul 1809. Fol. 51: Letter from George Pretyman (1750–1827; Bishop of Lincoln, 1787–1820; address, Bugden Palace) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul 1809. Pretyman replied to Routh’s letter (Fol. 52 below) saying that the letter has come too late, because Cockle arrived in Lincolnshire earlier than expected, and has just been instituted at Blyton. He now wonders whether Cockle had arrived early to escape trouble at Oxford, and asks Routh to pass on any further information which he may have. (The letter is transcribed in full in Bloxam, Register vii. 124) Fol. 52: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College Oxford) to the Bishop of Lincoln, 10 Jul 1809. Routh asks the Bishop to regard a testimony which the College had written for Cockle as now void and of no effect. (The letter is transcribed in full in Bloxam, Register vii. 123–4) Fol. 52a: Letter from D. H. Urquhart (David Henry Urquhart [matr. 1771]; address, Gainsborough) to Martin Routh, 5 Apr 1793. Urquhart thanks Routh’s recommendation of John Cockle for a curacy (presumably with Urquhart), and suggests that he meets Cockle for an interview. He discusses the parish at which Cockle might officiate. He would be delighted to visit Routh at Magdalen, if his wife’s health permits. Fol. 53: Letter concerning William Alston (D. 1792–1802). Fol. 53: Letter from George Downing (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 17 Jun 1800. Downing reports on the health of his future brother-in-law William Alston: he is in a private home in Islington looked after by Dr. Simmons, suffering from mental illness, and it is not known when he will recover. Fols. 54–59: Letters from and concerning William Rust Cobbold (d. 1841; D. 1792–5; F. 1795–1814; instructor in grammar in Magdalen College School 1795–9). Fol. 54: Letter from Thomas Cobbold (address, Ipswich) to Martin Routh, 17 Oct 1792. Cobbold thanks Routh for making his son William Rust Cobbold a member of Magdalen College. Fol. 55: Letter from William Rust Cobbold (address, Mixbury, near Buckingham) to Martin Routh, 24 Sep 1805. Cobbold reports that his application to a Mr. Aldrich has been successful, and that his vote is at Cobbold’s service. This seems to be connected to some attempts to put Richard Heber up as a Parliamentary Candidate for the University. Fol. 56: Letter from William Rust Cobbold (address, Tylehurst Cottage) to Martin Routh, 18 Feb 1812. Cobbold is writing to Routh to attempt to clear up a MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 71

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MC:PR30/1/C2/8 (con.) misunderstanding on an unspecified matter between them. Fol. 57: Letter from William Rust Cobbold (address, Selborne) to Martin Routh, 5 Mar 1814. Cobbold informs Routh of his recent marriage, and says that his wife will be delighted to live in Selborne, to which Cobbold has just been presented. He therefore gives notice of his resignation as a Fellow, and expresses his gratitude to Magdalen. He also reports on his dealings with Pullinger, a farmer in Selborne. Fol. 58: Letter from William Rust Cobbold (address, Alton) to Martin Routh, 25 Jul 1821. Cobbold agrees to support Richard Heber in the forthcoming Parliamentary election. Fol. 59: Letter from William Rust Cobbold (address, Selborne) to Martin Routh, 15 Aug 1821. Cobbold expresses his surprise that he had not been told the date of the Parliamentary election, and is anxious to know if he is still needed in Oxford that day. Fols. 60–66: Letters from and concerning Robert Lukin (D. 1792–1802; F. 1802–8). Fol. 60: Letter from Robert Lukin (address, War Office) to Martin Routh, 16 Aug 1799. William Windham (1750–1810; politician) is going to appoint a Chaplain to serve with the troops going to serve on the continent, and has asked Lukin to ask Routh if he can recommend someone for this post. Fol. 61: Draft letter from Martin Routh, written in reply to Fol. 60 above. He regrets that he cannot think of anyone suitable for this post just yet. Fol. 62: Letter from Robert Lukin (address, War Office) to Martin Routh, 23 Jul 1802. Lukin explains the way that members of staff in the War Office are appointed, dismissed, or moved around. Fol. 63: Letter from Robert Lukin (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 24 Jul 1802. Lukin puts himself forward as a candidate for a vacant Fellowship, subject to certain reservations on his part, which he hopes Routh can resolve. Fol. 64: Letter from Robert Lukin (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 5 Nov 1806. Lukin explains why he will vote against Richard Heber as a Parliamentary candidate (his father would prefer him to vote for someone else). Fol. 65: Letter from Robert Lukin (address, War Office) to Martin Routh, 5 Apr 1808. Lukin announces that he will shortly get married (to a daughter of a former Bishop of St. Asaph), and so he will have to resign his Fellowship. He expresses his sincere regard for Magdalen. Fol. 66: Letter from Robert Lukin (address, War Office) to Martin Routh, 16 Sep 1808. Several Brigade Chaplains are wanted to accompany the British forces to Portugal, and so Lukin invites Routh to offer some candidates for these posts.

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MC:PR30/1/C2/9 (con.) Fol. 1: Draft letter (written on the back of a note dated 28 Mar 1798 giving the date of a meeting of the Delegates of the University Press) from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, undated. Routh recommends to his correspondent, as he had done to Dr. Parr, John Goldesborough, who has missed out on a Fellowship at Magdalen. Routh wonders whether this correspondent can put in a good word for him at Oriel. Fol. 2: Letter from John Goldesborough (address, Discove near Bruton) to Martin Routh, 9 Jul 1821. Goldesborough undertakes to come and vote for Richard Heber. Fol. 3: Letter from John Goldesborough (address, Discove near Bruton) to Martin Routh, 20 Jul 1833. Goldesborough recommends to Routh a Mr. Phelps of Wadham College for a vacant Demyship. Phelps had been educated at the Free School at Bruton (he was not elected). He also sends Routh a draft inscription to go on the gateway of their school, and seeks Routh’s opinion. Routh has written an amended version on the letter. Fol. 4: Letter from John Goldesborough (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 28 Sep 1833. Goldesborough thanks Routh for his emended inscription for Bruton School. He is passing through Oxford, and was sorry to find that he had just missed Routh. On the back of this letter is a draft note from Routh, apparently to another correspondent. Fol. 5: Letter from John Goldesborough (address, Discove near Bruton) to Martin Routh, 15 Jul 1837. Goldesborough writes in recommendation of a Mr. Ridout for a Demyship at Magdalen. Ridout had been at Bruton School (but was not elected). Fol. 6: Letter from Edward Henry Hesledon (d. 1828; D. 1793–8; F. 1798–1803). Fol. 6: Letter from Edward Henry Hesledon (address, Barton) to Martin Routh, 19 Jan 1802. Hesledon has been asked to become Dean of Magdalen, but regrets that he must refuse, as he is unable to leave his parish duties. Fols. 7–9: Letters from and concerning Marmaduke Hervey Matthews (d. 1855; D. 1793–1806; F. 1806–17). Fol. 7: Letter from William Russell (D. 1804–15; F. 1815–31; address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, postmarked 27 Apr 1817. Russell sends Routh the texts of letters written between him and Marmaduke HerveyMatthews. Russell accuses Matthews of disgraceful conduct (see Fol. 8 below), and urges him to resign his post in the College to avoid any trouble. After a degree of browbeating, Matthews agrees to resign his Fellowship by 1 May. Russell also reports that citations were served on Matthews by the Vice-Chancellor’s Court, but that he had decamped on the coach to Worcester. Fol. 8: Text of a resolution passed by the President and Officers, 27 Jun 1817. The resolution is in an unknown hand; the MS is dated and annotated by Routh himself. This motion reports that Matthews was accused of living with a woman “of bad reputation”, but that they agreed not to press matters further so long as he resigned his Fellowship, which he did. Fol. 9: Letter from Marmaduke Hervey Matthews (no address given) to Martin MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 73

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MC:PR30/1/C2/9 (con.) Routh, 15 May 1817. Matthews formally resigns his Fellowship at Magdalen. Fols. 10–13: Letters from and concerning Philip Le Geyt (d. 1847; D. 1793–8; F. 1798–1801). Fol. 10. Letter from James Buller (address, Downes, near Crediton) to Martin Routh, 19 Oct 1792. Buller writes in support of the candidature of Philip Le Geyt for a Demyship at Magdalen. He reports that his father was a friend of George Horne (this application was successful). Fol. 11: Letter from E. Routh (one of Routh’s sisters; address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 9 June (postmarked 1793). Miss Routh sends her brother an extract from another letter written in support of Le Geyt’s candidature for a Demyship. She and another (unnamed) sister hope to travel to Oxford shortly to see their brother. Fol. 12: Letter from James Buller (address, Downes) to Martin Routh, 16 Jun 1793. Buller writes a letter of introduction for Philip Le Geyt, and again recommends him for a Demyship. Fol. 13: Letter from James Buller (address, Downes) to Martin Routh, 3 Aug 1793. Buller has just heard that Le Geyt has been elected a Demy at Magdalen, and writes to thank Routh for his assistance in this matter. Fols. 14–19: Letters from and concerning James Blatch (d. 1864; D. 1794–1808; F. 1808–16). Fol. 14: Letter from John Parsons (Master of Balliol 1798–1819) address, Balliol College) to Martin Routh, “Thursday” (July 1794?). Parsons writes on behalf of James Blatch. He cannot speak in detail about his character, but is happy to assure Routh that his conduct at Balliol as been excellent (Blatch had matriculated at Balliol before his election to a Demyship). Fol. 15: Letter from James Blatch (address, Colchester) to Martin Routh, 4 Feb 1812. Blatch apologises that he has been detained in Essex (for an unspecified reason) for longer than expected. Fol. 16: Letter from James Blatch (address, Colchester) to Martin Routh, 14 Jun (year not given). Blatch announces his intention to accept the living of Slimbridge (although Bloxam, Register vii. 129, suggests that he did not get it). On the back of this letter is a draft letter from Routh to an unnamed addressee, quite unconnected with Blatch, apparently on estate business. Fol. 17: Letter from James Blatch (address, Basingstoke) to Martin Routh, 2 Dec 1839. Blatch asks Routh to sign a paper on behalf of Magdalen to signify consent to the proposed increase of accommodation in Basingstoke Church. He hopes that the College will make a subscription to the appeal. Fol. 18: Letter from James Blatch (address, Rectory, Basingstoke) to Martin Routh, 22 May 1844. Blatch thanks Routh for the College’s contribution towards the church at Nately (presumably for some building work). Fol. 19: Letter from James Blatch (address, Basingstoke) to Martin Routh, 27 Aug 1849. Blatch enclosed a draft epitaph for Mrs. Hannah Waldo for Routh’s comments; it appears that Routh had mislaid an earlier copy which Blatch had sent him. Fol. 20: Letter from Charles Pilkington (d. 1797; D. 1750–2; F. 1752–74). Fol. 20: Letter from Charles Pilkington (address, Findon) to Mr. Lichfield (address, Whitchurch, Reading, Berkshire), 11 Feb 1796. Pilkington discusses a MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 74

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MC:PR30/1/C2/9 (con.) question over some lands in Findon between the College and a Mr. Goring. This letter has been filed by Bloxam as if it came from Charles’s son, another Charles Pilkington, [D. 1794–8]). Fols. 21–22: Documents concerning Theophilus Leigh Cooke (d. 1846; D. 1794–1810; F. 1810–16). Fol. 21: English essay on the fear of the future written by Theophilus Leigh Cooke. Undated, but presumably written in the mid-1790s when he was an undergraduate. Fol. 22: Letter from Philip Bliss (address, Studley Priory) to Martin Routh, 11 Oct 1846. Bliss reports that their friend Theophilus Leigh Cooke is dying. He reflects on Cooke’s character. He has also heard from the daughter of Thomas Frognall Dibdin that her father is very badly ill. Fol. 23: Letter from James Horseman (d. 1844; D. 1794–1803; F. 1803–7). Fol. 23: Letter from James Horseman (address, Middle, Salop) to Martin Routh, 19 Jul 1831. Horseman writes in support of a young friend, Oliver Naylor, for a Demyship (unsuccessfully). Fols. 24–25: Letters from Thomas Lowndes (d. 1860; D. 1795–1804; F. 1804–24). Fol. 24 Letter from Thomas Lowndes (address, East Worldham, Alton, Hants.) to Martin Routh, 23 Dec 1847. Lowndes reports on attempts to restore the church of East Tisted. Work has progressed well, but a great deal of work is needed on the chancel. Lowndes therefore asks the College to help out. Fol. 25: Letter from Thomas Lowndes (address, East Worldham) to Martin Routh, 29 Nov 1848. Lowndes asks the College to make a further contribution towards repairing the chancel at East Tisted church. Fols. 26–27: Letters from James Peterson Chambers (d. 1849; D. 1795–1833; F. 1833–7). Fol. 26: Letter from James Peterson Chambers (address, Shelton) to Martin Routh, 12 Jul 1821. Chambers agrees to vote in the forthcoming election for Richard Heber. Fol. 27: Letter from James Peterson Chambers (address, Shelton, Long Stratton) to Martin Routh, 23 Aug 1824. Chambers draws Routh’s attention, as a delegate of the Clarendon Press, to certain inaccuracies in the current editions of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. Fols. 28–29: Letters from Charles Townsend (d. 1865; D. 1796–1800; F. 1800–8). Fol. 28: Letter from Charles Townsend (address, West Bromwich) to Martin Routh, 10 Jul 1821. Townsend agrees to vote in the forthcoming election for Richard Heber. Fol. 29: Letter from Charles Townsend (address, West Bromwich) to Martin Routh, 4 Mar 1833. Townsend thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his second edition of Burnet’s History. He reports on his recent visit to Dr. Ellerton (Edward Ellerton, F. 1803–51) at Theale. Fols. 30–31: Letters from James Hoare Christopher Moor (1779–1853; D. 1796–1810; F. 1810–15). Fol. 30: Letter from James Hoare Christopher Moor (address, Rugby) to Martin MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 75

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MC:PR30/1/C2/9 (con.) Routh, 10 Jul 1821. Moor agrees to vote in the forthcoming election for Richard Heber. Fol. 31: Latin poem (written in elegiac couplets) by James Moor, undated, presumably dating from his undergraduate years. Fol. 32: Letter from William Oddie (d. 1851; D. 1797–1801; F. 1801–9). Fol. 32: Letter from William Oddie (address, Leamington) to Martin Routh, 4 Nov 1842. Oddie regrets that he is unable to forward a letter for Routh, as he has lost contact with the addressee. He thanks Routh for sending him a print of Theale Church. Fols. 33–37: Letters from and concerning Henry Birch (d. 1857; D. 1797–1804; F. 1804–12). Fol. 33: Latin essay ascribed to “Birch”, whom Bloxam suggests is Henry Birch. Fol. 34: Last page of otherwise lost letter (written in Latin) from Henry Birch (address missing) to Martin Routh, date lost. This may be Birch’s formal letter of application requesting a Demyship. On the back of this is a note from Routh on timber. Fol. 35: Letter from Henry Birch (address, No. 5, Edward Street, Cavendish Square) to Martin Routh, 22 Jun 1809. Birch thanks Routh for urging him not to resign his Fellowship, but his mind is made up, and he will go ahead. Fol. 36: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College, Oxford) to Henry Birch (address, no. 16 Little Tichfield Street, Great Portland Place, London), 18 Feb 1810. Routh is very glad to hear that Birch will not be resigning his Fellowship, assuring him that he is doing nothing contrary to the College statutes. Fol. 37: Letter from Henry Birch (address, 28 Upper Grove Place, Camden Square, London) to Martin Routh, 1 Dec 1812. Birch has recently married, and so formally resigns his Fellowship. He expresses his thanks to Routh and to the College for his time there. Fol. 38: Letter from John Haynes Townsend (d. 1864; D. 1797–1805). Fol. 38: Letter from John Haynes Townsend (address, Tamworth) to Martin Routh, 16 Aug 1805. Townsend thanks Routh for letting him know about William Windham’s possible candidature for Oxford University, but he wuld rather not vote for him. Fols. 39–40: Documents concerning John Gould (d. 1866; D. 1799–1808; F. 1808–19). Fol. 39: Letter from John Buckner (Bishop of Chichester 1797–1824; address, Chichester) to Martin Routh, 22 Aug 1816. Buckner reports on the troublesome behaviour of John Gould, who has apparently deserted his parish at New Shoreham, pleading College duties. The bishop therefore asks Routh to confirm that Gould has been living in College during this time. Fol. 40: Petition from certain named inhabitants of Beaconsfield to Martin Routh, 1838 (day and month not given). The petitioners ask Magdalen to help relieve the wife and children of John Gould, their vicar, who has been imprisoned for debt for a year. Fols. 41–46: Letters from and concerning William Aldrich (d. 1859; D. 1799–1808; F. 1808–24). Fol. 41: Letter from William Aldrich (address, Ipswich) to Martin Routh, 7 Sep 1817. Aldrich thanks Routh for enquiring about the living of Hintlesham, even MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 76

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MC:PR30/1/C2/9 (con.) if the result was unsuccessful. However, there might be a way by which he might get it. Fol. 42: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address not given) to an unnamed Bishop of Winchester, undated (1818?). Routh seeks the Bishop’s advice, as Visitor, concerning William Aldrich, and the question of whether a Fellow can hold a benefice pro tempore. Fol. 43: Letter from Brownlow North (Bishop of Winchester 1781–1820; address, Farnham Castle) to Martin Routh, 21 Aug 1818. North encloses a copy (lost) of his judgement in the case of William Aldrich and the living of Hintlesham. Fol. 44: Letter from William Aldrich (address, Ipswich) to Martin Routh, 19 Aug 1818. Aldrich thanks Routh for his letter. He will himself write to the Bishop over the appeal. Fol. 45: Letter from William Aldrich (address, Ipswich) to Martin Routh, 15 Jul 1821. Aldrich agrees to vote for Richard Heber in the forthcoming election. Fol. 46: Letter from William Aldrich (address, Ipswich) to Martin Routh, 29 Mar 1833. Aldrich reports that the living of Great Thurlow, Suffolk, is for sale, and wonders if the College might like to buy it. He encloses further details for Routh. At the end of the letter is a draft reply from Routh, who thanks Aldrich for this news, and reports that the matter is now with the College. Fol. 47: Letter concerning Henry Price (D. 1799–1815). Fol. 47: Letter from Thomas Price (address, Christ Church, Oxford) to an unnamed address, 28 May 1799. Price writes that his younger brother Henry is applying for a Demyship at Magdalen. He has, however, no friends of the College, and so he asks the addressee to encourage Dr. Parr to put in a good word with Routh to further his brother’s cause. (Thomas was successful: Henry Price was duly elected a Demy that year).

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Fols. 1–3: Letters from George Augustus Lamb (d. 1864; D. 1800–6). Fol. 1: Letter from George Augustus Lamb (address, Iden Parsonage) to Martin Routh, 10 Jul (year not given; but postmarked 1821). Lamb regrets that he will be unable to come to Oxford to vote in the Parliamentary election. Fol. 2: Letter from George Augustus Lamb (address, Iden Parsonage) to Martin Routh, 14 May (year given as 1827 on back of letter). Lamb wonders whether his son (currently at Westminster) might be successful in applying for a Sussex Demyship. Fol. 3: Letter from George Augustus Lamb (address, Iden Parsonage) to Martin Routh, 1 Jun (year given as 1827 on back of letter). Routh’s reply to the above letter has led Lamb to decide that it is best if his son does not apply for a Demyship at Magdalen (which he did not). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 77

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MC:PR30/1/C2/10 (con.) Fol. 4: Letter from Samuel Selwood (d. 1819; D. 1800–7; F. 1807–19). Fol. 4: Letter from Samuel Selwood (address, Lisbon) to Martin Routh, 25 Jul 1811. Selwood reports on the results of his contacting a French bookseller in Lisbon on Routh’s behalf. He discusses his time at Lisbon, and his opinions on the place, in some detail. Fols. 5–6: Letters from Edward Repton (d. 1860; D. 1801–8). Fol. 5: Letter from Edward Repton (address, Cloisters, Westminster Abbey) to Martin Routh, 24 Sep 1849. Repton tells Routh of his pleasure on learning that he continues to be in good physical and mental health. Fol. 6: Letter from Edward Repton (address, Cloisters, Westminster Abbey) to Martin Routh, 14 Jul 1852. Repton thanks Routh for sending him an unnamed publication, and discusses the possibilities for Christian unity. Fol. 7: Letter from James John Hudson (d. 1839; D. 1801–10; F. 1810–39). Fol. 7: Letter from James John Hudson (address, White House, Pond Street, Hampstead) to Martin Routh, 25 Apr 1823. Hudson writes in some distress to own up to a trifling lie made during his BA examination, and offers his resignation from his Fellowship. The letter is transcribed in full in Bloxam, Register vii. 145–6; the resignation was not accepted. (see Fol. 61 below for another letter from Hudson). Fol. 8: Letter from Charles Richards (d. 1835; D. 1801–7). Fol. 8: Letter from Charles Richards (address, South Stoneham, near Southampton) to Martin Routh, 13 Jun 1821. Richards will be happy to vote for Richard Heber in the forthcoming Parliamentary election. Fol. 9: Document concerning William Henry Tinney (d. 1871; D. 1801–6). Fol. 9: A draft letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to an unnamed addressee (possibly William Windham), undated, but written on a printed notice advertising the examination of William Henry Tinney (the first member of Magdalen to take an Honours degree) on 14–16 May 1805. Routh is discussing William Windham’s plans to stand for Parliament in Oxford, and the letter may well be written to Windham himself. See also MC:PR30/1/C4/6 Fols. 356–357 and MC:PR30/1/C4/12 Fols. 50–71 for other correspondence between Routh and Windham. Fols. 10–13: Letters from Richard William Hutchins (d. 1859; D. 1802–11; F. 1811–28). Fol. 10: Letter from Richard William Hutchins (address, New Shoreham, Sussex) to Martin Routh, 12 Jul 1821. Hutchins has received letters from Routh and another asking him to vote for different candidates in the forthcoming Parliamentary election. However, he has decided to support Routh and Richard Heber. Fol. 11: Letter from Richard William Hutchins (address, New Shoreham) to Martin Routh, 29 Mar 1825. Hutchins writes about a dispute between him and John Gould (D. 1799–1808; F. 1808–19), who had preceded him as vicar of New Shoreham. Gould is pursuing Hutchins for some money which he claimed was his due from his stipend at New Shoreham (as shown in a letter from him copied into this letter), and Hutchins seeks Routh’s advice about what to do with him. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 78

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MC:PR30/1/C2/10 (con.) Fol. 12: Letter from Richard William Hutchins (address, East Bridgford, Bingham, Notts.) to Martin Routh, 2 Apr 1842. Hutchins recommends a young man called Charles Smelt for a Demyship at Magdalen (unsuccessfully). Fol. 13: Letter from Richard William Hutchins (address, East Bridgford, Bingham, Notts.) to Martin Routh, 11 Sep 1848. Hutchins sends Routh his condolences on the news of the death of his sister Sophia Sheppard. He praises her character and her generosity. Fol. 14: Letter from Thomas Nixon Blagden (d. 1865; D. 1802–7; F. 1807–29). Fol. 14: Letter from Thomas Nixon Blagden (address, Chichester) to Martin Routh, 3 Apr (year not given; postmarked 1812). Blagden understands that the Stewardship of Magdalen College may be falling vacant soon, and he recommends his brother for the post. Fols. 15–18: Letters from Henry Lloyd Loring (d. 1822; D. 1802–7; F. 1807–16). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/11 No. 8 for another letter concerning Loring. Fol. 15: Letter from Henry Lloyd Loring (address, Hatchet’s Hotel, Dover Kent) to Martin Routh, 5 May (no year given; probably 1814, when Loring sailed for India). Loring reports that the Chaplaincy which he had been given has now been transformed into the Archdeaconry of Calcutta. He will be happy to provide Routh with more information on his new situation, as appropriate. Routh has written a draft reply on the letter, assures Loring that he will be able to apply successfully for leave of absence for a year, which can be be renewed. Fol. 16: Letter from Henry Lloyd Loring (address of Marlow written on back) to Martin Routh, 12 Dec 1810. Loring reports that a Mr. Nares is still eager to be Routh’s curate at Tilehurst, having understood that Routh intends to spend three months a year there. Fol. 17: Letter from Henry Lloyd Loring (address, Madras) to Martin Routh, 15 May 1816. Loring reports that he has just married a Miss Kindersley. He reports on a visitation to southern India, evidently made with Thomas Middleton, the Bishop of Calcutta. Fol. 18: Letter from Henry Lloyd Loring (address, Calcutta) to Martin Routh, Dec 1814. Having arrived in Calcutta, Loring found a ship about to leave for England, so he takes the chance to thank Routh for granting him leave of absence. He reports on his arrival in India, and the warm welcome given to Thomas Middleton, as first Bishop of Calcutta. He describes his journey, and his impressions of Calcutta. Fols. 19–20: Letters concerning Charles Ives Urquhart (D. 1803–12; F. 1812–20). Fol. 19: Letter from Fanny Huntingford (no address given) to Martin Routh, including note written by H. Ward (address, Lechlade), dated 28 Jul 1820. Huntingford reports on the wretched state of health, mental and physical, of Charles Ives Urquhart. He was due to get married, but Huntingford thinks that it should be postponed, and possibly cancelled. (Urquhart married a Miss Huntingford on 2 Aug anyway). She urges Routh to save Urquhart from further disgrace. The note from Ward says that Urquhart is suffering from “mental excitement” and ought to be sedated for his own good. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 79

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MC:PR30/1/C2/10 (con.) Fol. 20: Letter from Thomas Huntingford (address, Kempsford) to Martin Routh, 27 Jul 1820. Huntingford reports that the marriage between Urquhart and his daughter will take place soon, and hopes that no further measures may be taken against him by members of Magdalen College. Fols. 21–24: Letters from William Chambers (d. 1860; D. 1804–15; F. 1815–24). Fol. 21: Letter from William Chambers (address, Clifton, near Bristol) to Martin Routh, 11 Jul 1821. Chambers would like to vote for Richard Heber in the Parliamentary elections, but is suspicious that he might support Catholic Emancipation. Fol. 22: Petition from William Chambers and William Russell (D. 1804–15; F. 1815–31) to the President and Fellows of Magdalen College, 29 Dec 1822. Chambers and Russell explain that, having been elected Demies in 1804, they took their BA degrees in Oct 1807 and Jun 1808 respectively. They then see that Francis Swan (D. 1807–10; D. 1810–24), who was elected to a Demyship some time after matriculating, took his BA in Oct 1808, but was allowed under university regulations to proceed to the degree of MA in 1810, before either Chambers or Russell. They complain that, thanks to this, they have both lost precedence in the College, not least with regard to ecclesiastical preferment, and ask that in such matters they may be given precedence over Swan. See also Fol. 26 below. Fol. 23: Letter from William Chambers (address, Warwick) to Martin Routh, 29 Jan 1823. Chambers thanks Routh for his letter (in response to the above petition). He has refrained from seeking information about how his petition was received. Fol. 24: Petition from William Chambers (address, Ashbury), 24 Jan 1831, concerning the parish of Ashbury. Chambers reports on a severe housing shortage in Ashbury for the poor, and wonders whether Magdalen might be willing to pay to erect at least a couple of cottages to help. Fols. 25–29: Letters from and concerning William Russell (d. 1831; D. 1804–15; F. 1815–31). Fol. 25: Letter from William Russell (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 27 Nov 1820. Russell discusses the case of Sophia Graves, daughter of the late Porter of Magdalen, to whom the College had voted a grant of £50 to help her travel to India with a clergyman and his family. The clergyman, just before the voyage, had decided that she was not sufficiently spiritual, and so cast her off. Despite trying to set up as a dressmaker at Streatley, she is now, he understands, in a state of destitution, and he is trying to find more information. He hopes that the College will help her out. He also reports that Dr. Tate is to be buried shortly. On Sophia Graves, see also MC:PR30/1/C2/11 No. 12. Fol. 26: Letter from William Russell (address, Eliot Hill, Blackheath) to Martin Routh, 10 Jan 1823. Russell encloses the petition written by him and William Chambers (Fol. 22 above). He apologises for his absence from College, but this has been on medical advice. Fol. 27: Letter from William Russell (address, Charterhouse [where his brother MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 80

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MC:PR30/1/C2/10 (con.) was Headmaster]) to Martin Routh, 22 Feb 1823. Russell has heard that his and Chambers’ appeal was unsuccessful, but has not heard why. He therefore asks Routh to give him the reasons for the rejection. Fol. 28: Letter from John Russell (address, Charterhouse; Russell was Headmaster there 1811–32) to Martin Routh, 14 Jun 1827. Russell reports on the terrible state of his brother William’s health, and suggests arrangements for the payment of his College stipend. Fol. 29: Letter from John Russell (address, Charterhouse) to Martin Routh, 12 Dec 1831. Russell has a copy of the portrait of Cardinal Wolsey which had been made for his brother William (who had died the previous month), which he offers to Magdalen as a gift in memory of him. Fol. 30: Letter concerning Brook Bridges (d. 1807; D. 1805–7). Fol. 30: Letter from John Bridges (Address, Wallingdon House, near Carshalton, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 8 Jul 1807. Bridges reports that his son Brook Bridges died earlier that morning. Fol. 31: Letter concerning Henry Winstanley (d. 1826; D. 1806–16; F. 1816–26). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/11 No. 11 for another letter about Henry Winstanley. Fol. 31: Letter from [illegible] Winstanley (address, London) to Martin Routh, 21 Jul 1817. Winstanley reports on the health of his brother Henry Winstanley. Henry has been unwell, and is recovering, but he is showing signs of severe nerves at the prospect of going to Oxford for an election in which he will be admitted an actual Fellow. Winstanleytherefore provides Routh with a draft letter which he could send his brother to encourage him to come up. Fol. 32: Letter from Charles Eddy (d. 1830; D. 1806– 13). Fol. 32: Letter from Charles Eddy (address, Gailsborough [?but postmarked Northampton) to Martin Routh, 11 Jul 1821. Eddy promises to come to Oxford to vote for Richard Heber in the Parliamentary election. Fol. 33: Letter from Francis Swan (1787–1878; D. 1807–10; F. 1810–24). Fol. 33: Letter from Francis Swan (address, Langton, Spilsby) to Martin Routh, 9 Jul 1821. Although he has been petitioned by several people to vote for Sir John Nichol in the forthcoming Parliamentary election, Swan agrees to obey Routh’s request to vote for Richard Heber instead. Fols. 34–36: Letters from Peregrine Bingham (d. 1864; D. 1807–16). Fol. 34: Letter (in Latin) from Peregrine Bingham (address not given) to Martin Routh, “9 days before the Kalends of July” [i.e. 23 Jun], 1807. Bingham expresses delight and gratitude at becoming a member of Magdalen College. Fol. 35: Letter from Peregrine Bingham (address, Cranborne, Dorset) to Martin Routh, 4 Oct (year not given, but postmarked 1810). This is the father of Peregrine Bingham the Demy; he reports that his son is taking private study with a clergyman, and then coming to stay with him. Fol. 36: Letter from Peregrine Bingham (the son rather than the father; address, 1 Garden Court, Temple, London) to Martin Routh, 30 Jan 1817. Bingham reports that he has just got married, and expresses his thanks to Routh and the College. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 81

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MC:PR30/1/C2/10 (con.) Fol. 37–38: Letters concerning Henry Hoper (d. 1858; D. 1807–15). Fol. 37: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Hodnet Hall, near Shrewsbury) to Martin Routh, 19 Apr 1807. Heber recommends (successfully) Henry Hoper for a Demyship. Fol. 38: Testimonial from the Principal and three Fellows of Brasenose College in support of Henry Hoper’s application for a Demyship, 9 Jun 1807. A letter has been cut out from the guardbook here. This was done before the letters were numbered up. Fol. 39: Letter from Joshua Holmes Newby (d. 1827; D. 1808–17). Fol. 39: Letter from Joshua Holmes Newby (address, Great Rollright) to Martin Routh, 12 Jan [year illegible]. Newby recommends a Mr. Pearson as a recipient of College charity. Fols. 40–45: Letters from and concerning William Thomas Philipps (1787–1854; D. 1808–20; F. 1820–42). Fol. 40: Letter from Henry Gould (address, Butleigh, Glastonbury) to Martin Routh, 24 Jun (year not given). Gould recommends William Thomas Philipps for a Demyship at Magdalen (successfully). See MC:PR30/1/4C/9 Fol. 6 for another letter from Henry Gould. Fol. 41: Letter from C. Barker (address, Wells) to Martin Routh, 29 Jun 1808. Barker likewise recommends Philipps for a Demyship. Fol. 42: Letter (in Latin) from William Thomas Philipps (address, Pembroke College) to Martin Routh “10 days before the Kalends of August” [i.e. 23 July], 1808. Philipps formally applies for a Demyship at Magdalen College. Fol. 43: Letter (in Latin) from William Thomas Philipps (address, Pembroke College) to Martin Routh “7 days before the Kalends of August” [i.e. 26 July], 1808. Philipps thanks Routh for being elected a Demy of Magdalen. Fol. 44: Letter from William Thomas Philipps (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated. Philipps suggests that each undergraduate gentleman commoner should pay 5 guineas a year for their teaching, and wonders whether the College could find 40 guineas a year to pay for the tuition of the Demies. Fol. 45: Letter from William Thomas Philipps (address not given) to Martin Routh, 27 May 1842. Philipps formally resigns his Fellowship, expressing his thanks to the College for his time there. Fols. 46–52: Letters from and concerning Thomas Sheriffe (d. 1861; D. 1809–14; F. 1814–23). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/11 Fol. 36 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 46: Letters from Thomas Sheriffe (address, Uggeshall) to Martin Routh, 30 Jul 1809. Sheriffe understands that his son (also called Thomas) has just been elected a Demy at Magdalen, and expresses his pleasure at the news. Fol. 47: Latin poem in hexameters composed by Thomas Sheriffe, titled “Hispania”. Undated, but presumably written when he was an undergraduate. See Fol. 59 below for another Latin poem written on the same theme, namely the sufferings of Spain during the Peninsular war. Fol. 48: Letter from Thomas Sheriffe (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 18 Jun 1832. Sheriffe thanks Routh for his kind present. This is unspecified, but is MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 82

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MC:PR30/1/C2/10 (con.) presumably a copy of Routh’s Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum opuscula. Fol. 49: Letter from Thomas Sheriffe (address, Henstead) to Martin Routh, 23 Jan 1841. Sheriffe thanks Routh for an unspecified present (it is not clear what this is, unless it is a copy of the second edition of Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum opuscula, which was published in 1840). Fol. 50: Letter from Thomas Sheriffe (address, Henstead) to Martin Routh, 18 Jun 1847. Sheriffe thanks Routh for sending him a book (one of the volumes of the revised edition of Reliquiae Sacrae). Fol. 51: Letter from Thomas Sheriffe (address, Henstead) to Martin Routh, “Sunday Evening” (1848?). Sheriffe thanks Routh for the present of another book, and reflects on the generosity of Mrs. Sheppard. Sophia Sheppard died in 1848, and the last volume of the revised edition of Reliquiae Sacrae also came out that year, so the letter presumably dates from then. Fol. 52: Letter from Thomas Sheriffe (address, Henstead) to Martin Routh, “Friday”. Sheriffe sends Routh a present of some game, and looks forward to hearing news of both Routh and his wife, in the light of the current cold weather. He reports that his own father continues to enjoy good health. Fols. 53–54: Letters concerning Thomas Samuel Smith (d. 1820; D. 1809–17; F. 1817–20). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/11 fol. 36 for another letter concerning Smith. Fol. 53: Letter from J. Goodall, Master of Eton School (address, Eton) to Martin Routh, 20 Jul 1808. Goodall writes a testimonial in favour of Thomas Samuel Smith. Fol. 54: Letter from J. B. Sumner (address, Eton) to Martin Routh, 20 Jul 1808. Sumner likewise writes a testimonial for Thomas Samuel Smith. (Smith failed to get a Demyship in 1808, and matriculated from Merton in December that year. However, he was luckier on his second attempt the following year). Fols. 55–56: Letters from Thomas Grantham (d. 1864; D. 1809–13; F. 1813–31). Fol. 55: Letter from Thomas Grantham (address, Steyning) to Martin Routh, 14 Jan 1837. Grantham asks the College to help pay for fencing a field in Bramber. Fol. 56: Letter from Thomas Grantham (address, Bramber Rectory) to Martin Routh, 6 Oct 1840. Grantham thanks Routh for his proposed emendations to an epitaph for his brother (George Grantham, D. 1798–1809; F. 1809–40; Usher of MCS 1801–40; died 12 May 1840). Fols. 57–58: Letters from Charles Daubeny (1795–1867; D. 1810–15; F. 1815–67). Fol. 57: Latin Essay (two sheets) by Charles Daubeny titled “Quantum ad mores populi effingendos valeant leges....” (“How much do laws contribute to changing the behaviour of the people...”). Fol. 58: Letter from Charles Daubeny(address, Botanic Garden) to Martin Routh, 16 Nov 1847. Daubeny is willing to erect a new (unspecified) building, either attached to or detached from a particular wall. He prefers the latter option, Fols. 59–60: Letters from and concerning George Galbraith Augustus Wratislaw (D. 1820; D. 1810–17; F. 1817–20). Fol. 59: Latin poem in hexameters composed by George Galbraith Augustus MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 83

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MC:PR30/1/C2/10 (con.) Wratislaw, titled “Hispania”. Undated, but presumably written when he was an undergraduate. See Fol. 47 above for another Latin poem written on the same theme, namely the sufferings of Spain during the Peninsular war. Fol. 60: Letter from J. Wratislaw (address, Tenderden Street, Hanover Square) to Martin Routh, 22 Sep 1812. Wratislaw asks Routh to help support his brother George who is suffering from consumption. George would like to resume his College duties, but his doctor has forbidden it, and so his brother hopes that he can be granted leave of absence. Fol. 61: Letter from James John Hudson (d. 1839; D. 1801–10; F. 1810–39). Fol. 61: Letter from James John Hudson (address, Searby, near Brigg, Lincs.) to Martin Routh, 26 Jun 1811. Hudson seeks Routh’s advice. His father has just died, leaving him some lands, and some debts, and he wants to know what to do. He is also concerned about whether he will be in a position to return to Magdalen next month to be admitted a Fellow, and fears that he might have to resign his post if he cannot do so. (see Fol. 7 above for another letter from Hudson). Fols. 62–70: Letters from Zachary Henry Biddulph (d. 1842; D. 1810–13; F. 1813–29). Fol. 62: Letter from Zachary Henry Biddulph (address, Worcester) to Martin Routh, 10 Jan 1828. A close friend of Biddulph is very seriously ill, and he cannot leave his side just now. He therefore apologises that he will be unable to attend the audit. Fol. 63: Letter from Zachary Henry Biddulph (address, Worcester) to Martin Routh, 20 Jan 1828. Biddulph’s friend has just died, and he feels at present unable to accept Routh’s offer to appoint him one of the Tutors in the College. Fol. 64: Letter from Zachary Henry Biddulph (address, Worcester) to Martin Routh, 24 Jan 1828. Biddulph thanks Routh for his letter of consolation. He once again confirms his wish to relinquish his duties as Tutor. Fol. 65: Copy of a petition submitted to Magdalen for building and enlarging of churches by the Vestry of New Shoreham following a meeting held 29 Nov 1828. The Vestry, with Biddulph, the vicar there, as chairman, seeks funds to help enlarge the seating in their church. The copy also includes a letter from the Bishop of Chichester expressing support for the initiative. Fol. 66: Letter from Zachary Henry Biddulph (address, Backwell) to Martin Routh, 29 Dec 1828. Biddulph enclosed the above petition (Fol. 65) to Routh, supplying more information about the state of the church at New Shoreham. Fol. 67: Letter from Zachary Henry Biddulph (address, Shoreham) to Martin Routh, 15 May 1829. Biddulph formally resigns his Fellowship at Magdalen, and speaks warmly of his time there. He is optimistic about his plans for the rebuilding of the church at New Shoreham. He also reports on a proposal to replace the tithe barn there, and asks Routh’s advice on a pending campaign to maintain a tradition that the vicar of New Shoreham has the right to a bushel of coal from any vessel entering the harbour there. Fol. 68: Memorial (undated) submitted to the President and Fellows of Magdalen College asking for assistance in repairing the tithe barn at Old Shoreham. Fol. 69: Letter from Zachary Henry Biddulph (address, Backwell) to Edward MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 84

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MC:PR30/1/C2/10 (con.) Ellerton (F. 1803–51), 25 Jan 1830. Biddulph asks Ellerton for the College’s support concerning a strip of glebe land in New Shoreham. He would like to erect some new school buildings there, and would like to give over some of the glebe for this purpose. Fol. 70: Letter from Zachary Henry Biddulph (address, new Shoreham) to Martin Routh, 4 Jul 1833. Biddulph sends Routh a copy of a sermon of his which he has been prevailed upon to publish. (This must be "To preach the word of God; The chief duty of a Christian minister." A sermon delivered at the visitation, held at Lewes, June 6th, 1833, a copy of which is still in the Routh Library). Fols. 71–72: Letters from and about William Mills (d. 1834; D. 1810–20; F. 1820–34). Fol. 71: Letter from William Mills (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 4 May 1829. Mills sends Routh (currently resident in Tilehurst) a copy of the letter he has written to the father of Thomas May Wetherell (D. 1824–9), and seeks Routh’s opinion on it. The letter explains that Wetherell has been involved in nighttime disturbances which have brought him to the notice of the Proctors, so that he may be rusticated for some while. He suggests that Wetherell’s name be taken off the College books, so that the Vice-Chancellor does not take matters any further. This letter is transcribed in full in Bloxam, Register, vii. pp. 293–4. (Wetherell’s name was taken off the College books, and he was given a licence to migrate to Cambridge or Trinity College Dublin. He chose the latter, from where he was awarded a BA in 1830). There is also a PS added by Edward Ellerton asking Routh to send back a key to the place where the College seal is kept, as he needs to use it. Fol. 72: Letter from G. W. Hope (address, 6 Hamilton Place) to Martin Routh, 4 Jan 1836. Hope sends Routh the text of an inscription for a monument to be erected to Mills, and asks for his comments on it.

MC:PR30/1/C2/11 1792–1853 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters from Demies 1811 1824” on the spine. This guardbook contains letters from and concerning Demies elected between 1811 and 1824. It also includes those Demies who were later elected Fellows.

Fols. 1–2: Letters concerning Martin Davy (d. 1833; D. 1811–15; F. 1815–33). Fol. 1: Letter from William Davy (address, Ingoldsthorpe) to Martin Routh, 3 Aug 1811. Davy thanks Routh for the election of his son Martin to a Demyship. Fol. 2: Letter from J. Davy (address, Ingoldsthorpe) to Martin Routh, 20 Aug (postmarked 1833). Davy reports that his/her brother Martin has just died. Fols. 3–4: Letters from William Morgan (d., 1883; D. 1812–20; F. 1820–9). Fol. 3: Letter from William Morgan (address, 26 Old Square, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 19 May 1830. Morgan has applied for the Professorship of Jurisprudence and English Law at King’s College London, and asks Routh whether he would supply him a testimonial. Fol. 4: Letter from William Morgan (address, 26 Old Square, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, “Thursday 27 May” (1830). Morgan thanks Routh for writing him MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 85

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MC:PR30/1/C2/11 (con.) a testimonial, and explains where it ought to be sent. Fol. 5: Letter from Sherlock Willis (D. 1813–15). Fol. 5: Letter from Sherlock Willis (address, Wormley) to Martin Routh, “Wednesday 17 Sep”. Willis wishes to send his son to Christ Church to apply for a Studentship there, and hopes that Routh may able to assist him in this (he appears to have been unsuccessful). Fol. 6: Letter from Robert George Cecil Fane (d. 1864; D. 1813–24; F. 1824–35). Fol. 6: Letter from Robert George Cecil Fane (address, 12 Downing Street) to Martin Routh, 2 Feb (year not given). Fane tells Routh that he wishes to study law in London, and therefore to live there, and so applies for leave of absence. Fols. 7–9: Letters from and about Charles Miller (d. 1885; D. 1814–31). Fol. 7: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, 14 Jun 1816. Routh writes on behalf of Charles Miller, speaking warmly of his character and ability, and asks that he be allowed to proceed to a BA, so that he is eligible for a Fellowship at Magdalen. The letter is quoted in full in Bloxam, Register, vii. 256, where it is reported that the plea was unsuccessful and so he never became a Fellow of Magdalen. Fol. 8: Letter from Charles Miller (address, Harlow Vicarage, Essex) to Martin Routh, 18 May 1833. Miller has been asked by a friend to give him an inscription to put on some plate which, as High Sheriff of Warwickshire, he will present to his Chaplain. He therefore asks Routh if he can help in this matter. Fol. 9: Letter from Charles Miller (address, Harlow Vicarage, Essex) to Martin Routh, 27 Apr 1843. Miller asks Routh whether he could recommend him for the post of Bampton Lecturer. He discusses the possible theme of his talk. Fol. 9a: Letter concerning William Morgan (d. 1881; D. 1814–21; F. 1821–54). Fol. 9a: Letter from Philip Pett (address, Newingham) to Martin Routh, 17 Jul 1813. Pett recommends for a Demyship a friend’s nephew William Morgan. Morgan was not elected in 1813, but was successful the following year. Fols. 10–14: Letters from James Charles Stafford (1793–1873; D. 1815–32; F. 1832–42). Fol. 10: Letter from James Charles Stafford (address, Chacombe) to Martin Routh, 28 May 1830. Stafford understands that his request to hold the curacy of Penkridge in conjunction with his Demyship has been granted bythe College, and thanks Routh for arranging this. Fol. 11: Letter from James Charles Stafford (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 31 May 1836. Stafford apologises profusely to Routh for writing this, but he is very uneasy about the current system of electing Demies, and as a College officer for this year, is unsure how he can agree to consent to participating in it. Fol. 12: Letter from James Charles Stafford (no address) to Martin Routh, undated. Stafford his delighted to hear that Routh and his wife are both well. He records that his wife is expecting to give birth to her sixth child. Fol. 13: Letter from James Charles Stafford (address, Dinton) to the Vice- President of Magdalen unnamed), 13 Nov 1847. Stafford has written to ask the College to lend him £100, which he would repay in 1849. He wishes to buy a MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 86

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MC:PR30/1/C2/11 (con.) cottage and some land, which might be useful for the incumbent of that living. Fol. 14: Letter from James Charles Stafford (address, Dinton Vicarage) to Martin Routh, 19 Jul 1851. Stafford recommends one of his parishioners, Edmund Wyndham, for a Demyship. (Wyndham did not get a Demyship, but did come up to Magdalen as a Commoner in 1853). Fol. 15: Poem by Henry Middleton (D. 1815–22) . Fol. 15: Translation into English verse by Henry Middleton from the Carmina Quadragesimalia, and an Ode to Hope, also by him. The former is noted as having been delivered by Middleton at Midhurst School on 17 Jun 1811. Fol. 16: Letter concerning Frederick James Parsons (d. 1875; D. 1815–33; F. 1833–43). Fol. 16: Draft letter to the Bishop of Winchester, c. Dec 1833. The letter has been written in an unknown hand, and then corrected by Routh himself. The letter states that Frederick James Parsons is prevented under old statutes from taking his BD, and so in danger of losing seniority in the College unless he can take his priest’s orders soon. He had been admitted probationary Fellow the previous July (1833), and the Bishop of Oxford has agreed to ordain him at Christmas. It is now known that the Bishop of Winchester will be holding an ordination on 15 December, and it is hoped that the Bishop will receive Parsons’ testimonials for this. (Parsons was able to take his BD in Feb 1834). Fols. 17–22: Letters from Robert Meadows White (1798–1865; D. 1815–24; F. 1824–47). Fol. 17: Letter (in Latin) from Robert Meadows White (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated (Jul 1815?). White appears to be thanking Routh for his election to a Demyship. Fol. 18: Letter from Robert Meadows White (address, 23 Hanover Square) to Martin Routh, 13 Jul 1825. White has just returned from the continent, but aims to be in Oxford in time for the elections next week. Fol. 19: Letter from Robert Meadows White (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 16 May 1833. White needs to borrow £500 or £600 to help tide over his family’s affairs while he is sorting out the finances of his recently deceased father. Fol. 20: Letter from Robert Meadows White (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 24 Nov 1840. White wishes to resign his tutorship at the end of the current term, because of possible preferment that might be coming his way. Fol. 21: Letter from Robert Meadows White (address, Rectory, Slymbridge, Dursley) to Martin Routh, 14 Apr 1847. White has heard that Routh is recovering from the effects of a heavy book falling on him, and hopes that he is better. He also gives notice that he will resign his Fellowship before 16 July. Fol. 22: Letter from Robert Meadows White (address, Rectory, Slymbridge, Dursley) to Martin Routh, 11 Dec 1847. White is planning to create a school for the poor in his parish, and is seeking subscriptions for it. He hopes that Magdalen will contribute. Fol. 23: Letter from Henry Biddulph (1796–1867; D. 1816–20; F. 1820–33). Fol. 23: Letter from Henry Biddulph (address, Birbury Rectory) to Martin Routh, 14 Nov 1849. Biddulph thanks Routh for his letter recommending Mr. Hansell MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 87

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MC:PR30/1/C2/11 (con.) (Edward Halifax Hansell; D. 1832–43; F. 1847–53) being a candidate for the headmastership of Rugby. He has sent the letter to his brother, who is one of the School trustees, but advises Routh to send a letter to the trustees as a body (Hansell did not get the job). Fols. 24–35: Letters from William Boycatt the elder (d. 1830; matr. Gonville and Caius, Cantab., 1772, and Fellow there 1776–96) and William Boycatt the younger (1798–1871; D. 1816–29). William the elder had taught been by Routh’s father, and was close friend of Routh himself. See MC:PR30/1/C1/1 Fols. 33 & 42, MC:PR30/1/C1/3 Fol. 12, MC:PR30/1/C4/7 Fols. 67–68 and MC:PR30/4/C1/1 Fol. 38 for other letters from William the elder. Fol. 24: Letter from William Boycatt the elder (address, Reims en Champagne) to Martin Routh, 4 Feb 1789. Boycatt understands from his father that Routh would like him to find a book at Paris. He reports on his lack of success in finding it. Fol. 25: Letter from William Boycatt the elder (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, 3 Jul 1794. He has been in poor health, but hopes that his time at Bath has improved him. He regrets that he will be unable to go via Oxford on his return to Cambridge. Fol. 26: Letter from William Boycatt the elder (address, Burgh) to Martin Routh, 10 Nov 1802. Boycatt thanks Routh for sending him a ring (Routh’s father died in 1802, so he was presumably sending Boycatt a mourning ring). He reports that Routh now has a god-daughter, Emily, at Burgh. Fol. 27: Letter from William Boycatt the elder (address, Burgh near Beccles) to Martin Routh, 21 Jul 1805. Boycatt thanks Routh for checking on the relation of his children to William of Wykeham but he fears that the effort of getting a son into Winchester or New College may be too great. He discusses what education he should arrange for his son William; he thinks that it would be good for him to be educated away from home. Fol. 28: Letter from William Boycatt the elder (address, Burgh) to Martin Routh, 18 Dec 1807. Boycatt is discussing once again the education of his son William, and seeks Routh’s advice. He would like to educate him at Winchester (he has a claim to be on the foundation thanks to his mother’s family, but it may prove difficult to prove), and he wants to know how much it would cost to send him there. Routh has scribbled some answers to his questions on the letter. Fol. 29: Letter from William Boycatt the elder (address, Burgh) to Martin Routh, 14 Oct 1814. Boycatt has visited Routh’s sister in Norwich, and discusses Routh’s proposals for a monument to erected to his parents and siblings in St. Margaret’s (South Elmham, where Peter Routh was vicar). He also thanks Routh for the present he has received from his sister (the first volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae). He is glad of Routh’s suggestion that his son William might apply for a Demyship at Magdalen, and seeks Routh’s advice on how to proceed with this. Fol. 30: Letter from William Boycatt the elder (address, Burgh) to Martin Routh, 9 May 1823. Boycatt thanks Routh for sending him a copy of edition of Burnet. He also thanks Routh and Sophia Sheppard for a letter written jointly by them to him. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 88

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MC:PR30/1/C2/11 (con.) Fol. 31: Letter from William Boycatt the younger (address, Burgh) to Martin Routh, 25 Jan 1830 (this is William Boycatt, D. 1816–29). Boycatt apologises that he has not been in contact with Magdalen for a while, but he has been busy with settling into his new living, and his recent marriage, for his father has given him the living of Burgh. He hopes that Routh might come on a Norfolk progress one day. Fol. 32: Letter from William Boycatt the elder (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (but before Sophia Routh’s marriage in 1801). Boycatt apologies for not letting Routh know that he had received a letter. He is glad that Routh approved of his latest sermon. Fol. 33: Letter from William Boycatt the younger (address, Burgh) to Martin Routh, 19 Jan 1843. Boycatt tells Routh that his youngest sister has married a husband twelve years her junior and will be living in Oxford. He is clearly surprised at this turn of events, but hopes that Routh and his wife will take notice of them. He reports on his own family. Fol. 34: Letter from William Boycatt the younger (address, Burgh) to Martin Routh, “Wednesday 16 June” [1852?]. Boycatt thanks Routh for his gift of a book (presumably his latest edition of Burnet’s history). He reports that he now has eight children, the eldest one aged 22. Fol. 35: Letter from William Boycatt the younger (address, Burgh) to Martin Routh, 2 Aug 1851. Boycatt regrets that he has not sent his son Arthur to Magdalen (Arthur Boycatt instead went to Trinity College, Cambridge), but he wonders whether the son of his sister (who has recently lost her husband, and been left in a poor way) might be eligible for a Demyship (he did not get one). Fol. 36: Letter concerning Thomas Samuel Smith (D. 1809–17; F. 1817–20). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/10 Fols. 53–54 for other letters concerning Smith. Fol. 36: Letter from Thomas Sheriffe (D. 1809–14; F. 1814–23; address, Windsor) to Martin Routh, 23 Feb 1820. Sheriffe reports on the death of Thomas Samuel Smith. (the letter had been filed on the assumption that it related to the death of Edmund Smith (D. 1816–21), but this Smith died in July 1821) Fol. 37: Letter concerning Edmund Smith (d, 1821; D. 1816–21). Fol. 37: Letter from Edmund Smith (address, East Pallant, Chichester) to Martin Routh, 24 Nov 1822. Smith mourns the death of his eldest child (Edmund Smith), and now reports that he has lost some of his money. He has another son, and he wonders whether he might put him up for a Demyship. He includes copies of testimonials to his son from his teachers (his application was not successful). Fols. 38–40: Letters from Joseph Cox (D. 1817–24; F. 1824). Fol. 38: Letter from Joseph Cox (address, Braithwell near Tickhill) to Martin Routh, 12 Jul 1821. Cox is willing to support Richard Heber in the forthcoming Parliamentary election, but asks that he is not summoned to Oxford to vote, unless his vote is strictly necessary. Fol. 39: Letter from Joseph Cox (address, Braithwell near Tickhill) to Martin Routh, 5 Sep 1821. Cox apologises for failing to reach Oxford for the election on 22 August, but he did not receive Routh’s summons until it was too late. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 89

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MC:PR30/1/C2/11 (con.) Fol. 40: Letter from Joseph Cox (address, Hickman Hill, Gainsborough) to Martin Routh, 11 Aug 1824. Cox apologises for resigning his Fellowship so soon after being elected to one, but he has just got married. He recommends (unsuccessfully) his younger brother to succeed to the Demyship which he had just vacated on his election to the Fellowship. Fol. 41: Latin exercise by Charles Nutt (d. 1878; D. 1817–22). Fol. 41: Document written in Latin by Charles Nutt (address, Corpus Christi College), undated. When read alongside Fols. 42–3 and 52 below, this appears to be Nutt’s translation of a passage of English into Latin, perhaps relating to his application for a Demyship. Fol. 42: Latin exercise by Henry Anthony Pye (d. 1823; D. 1817–23). Fol. 42: Another translation into Latin of the same passage as in Fol. 41 above, this time by Henry Anthony Pye. Fols. 43–51: Letters from and concerning Francis Charles Massingberd (d. 1872; D. 1818–24). Fol. 43: A third translation into Latin of the same passage as in Fol. 41 above, this time by Francis Charles Massingberd. Fol. 44: Letter from C. B. Massingberd (address, Ormsby near Spilsby) to Martin Routh, 6 Aug 1818. Massingberd expresses his pleasure that his nephew Francis has been elected a Demy at Magdalen. Fol. 45: Letter from Francis Charles Massingberd (address, Candlesby House, Spilsby) to Martin Routh, 13 Jul 1847. Massingberd forwards a letter from an acquaintance, Sir William Ingilby, in which he recommends a candidate (unnamed) for a Demyship. Fol. 46: Letter from Francis Charles Massingberd (address, Candlesby House, Spilsby) to Martin Routh, 9 Dec 1847. Massingberd thanks Routh for acknowledging the present of his book (Massingberd had published a new edition of his book The English Reformation in 1847, but there appears to be no copy of this in the Routh Library at Durham). Fol. 47: Letter (2 sheets) from Francis Charles Massingberd (address, Candlesby, near Spilsby) to Martin Routh, 12 Feb 1849. Massingberd thanks Routh for sending him the fifth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He has agreed to write a volume about the Church in India, and seeks Routh’s advice for the best authority on the Syrian and Nestorian Christians. Fol. 48: Letter from Francis Charles Massingberd (address, Ormsby near Alford, Lincs.) to Martin Routh, 22 Mar 1852. Massingberd has been asked by Sir Charles Anderson to recommend an undergraduate at University College, Digby Legard, for a Demyship (the application was unsuccessful). Fol. 49: Letter from Francis Charles Massingberd (address, Wimbledon, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 6 Jul 1852. Massingberd thanks Routh for sending him his notes on the episcopacy and the apostolic succession. He hopes to come to Oxford for an election (unspecified; for Parliament?), and looks forward to seeing Routh then. Fol. 50: Letter (2 sheets) from Francis Charles Massingberd (address, Ormsby near Alford) to Martin Routh, 23 Sep 1853. Massingberd thanks Routh for MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 90

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MC:PR30/1/C2/11 (con.) sending him a copy of his supplementary treatise De episcopis. In turn, he sends Routh a book which he acquired at Rome from its author, Dr. Dressel (this may be a copy of Dressel’s edition of the works of St. Epiphanius, published in 1842, of which there is indeed a copy in the Routh Library). Fol. 51: Letter from Francis Charles Massingberd (address, Ormsby Parsonage, Alford) to Martin Routh, 6 Dec 1853. Massingberd thanks Routh for his annotations on a passage of St. Irenaeus. Fol. 52: Latin exercise by John Alington (d. 1883; D. 1818–25; F. 1825–35). Fol. 52: A translation into Latin of the same passage as in Fols. 41–43 above, this time by John Alington. Fols. 53–62: Letters from John Frederick Winterbottom (D. 1819–21; F. 1821–7). Fol. 53: Letter (in Latin; bottom left-hand corner missing) from John Frederick Winterbottom to Martin Routh, undated (Jul 1819?). Winterbottom thanks Routh for electing him to a Demyship. Fol. 54: Letter from John Frederick Winterbottom (address, Newbury) to Martin Routh, 8 Jul 1826. Winterbottom stands to inherit a large bequest from his father, and discusses with Routh whether he should give up part of it to his mother or not, because this might affect his eligibility to retain his Fellowship. Fol. 55: Letter from John Frederick Winterbottom (address, Newbury) to Martin Routh, 12 Dec 1826. Winterbottom returns to the question of his inheritance from his father. He has decided to accept the whole amount. He therefore wishes to check with Routh whether he would have to resign his Fellowship as a result. Fol. 56: Letter from John Frederick Winterbottom (address, Newbury) to Martin Routh, 5 Feb 1827. Winterbottom is content to agree with the decision of the College on his Fellowship, namely that he is to resign it. The main problem is that quite a bit of the land appears to be held on copyhold tenure. Fol. 57: Letter from John Frederick Winterbottom (address, Newbury) to Martin Routh, 14 Feb 1827. Winterbottom encloses a formal resignation of his Fellowship, and expresses his thanks to Routh and the College. Fol. 58: Letter from John Frederick Winterbottom (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 2 Mar 1840. Winterbottom encloses for Routh the first volume of Dr. Wiseman’s lectures on the Eucharist (probably Nicholas Wiseman, The real presence of the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ in the blessed Eucharist (1836), of which there is a copy in the Routh Library). Dr. Turton, the Regius Professor of Cambridge has been writing a riposte to these, but Winterbottom wonders whether Routh could recommend someone to write a rather better response. Fol. 59: Letter from John Frederick Winterbottom (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 26 Jan 1841. Winterbottom thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the second edition of his Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum opuscula. Fol. 60: Letter from John Frederick Winterbottom (address, Athenaeum Club, London) to Martin Routh, 18 Jun 1850. Winterbottom, who has just returned from the continent, writes to thank Routh for a copy of the fifth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae (which had been published in 1848) He reports that he has left MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 91

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MC:PR30/1/C2/11 (con.) Lincoln’s Inn now, and is resident in England only for a few months of the year, at East Woodhay. Fol. 61: Letter from John Frederick Winterbottom (address, London) to Martin Routh, 2 Jan 1833. Winterbottom thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum opuscula. Fol. 62: Part of notes for counsel’s opinion on J. F. Winterbottom’s case over his inherited land, with comments added in another hand (possibly Charles Wetherell’s); undated, but presumably 1826/7. Fols. 63–64: Letters from James Robert Pears (d. 1865; D. 1820–6; F. 1826–35). Fol. 63: Letter from James Robert Pears (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, 7 Feb 1833. Pears has a friend who has been appointed to preside over a College in which he will train men for the church. He asks Routh whether he could suggest for his friend a selection of theological works to read which he might find useful. Fol. 64: Letter from James Robert Pears (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, 14 Feb (year not given, presumably 1835). Pears has just married, and so resigns his post at Magdalen. He expresses his thanks to Routh and the College. Fol. 65: Letter from Frederick Graeme Middleton (d. 1863; D. 1821–30). Fol. 65: Letter from Frederick Graeme Middleton (address, Hildersham near Linton, Cambs.) to Martin Routh, “Friday27 Oct” (postmarked 1826). Middleton has accepted a curacy, and he wishes to check whether it will be compatible with his Demyship. Routh has written a draft reply on the back. Fols. 66–69: Letters and poems from Richard Clarke Sewell (1803–64; D. 1821–37; F. 1837–56). Fol. 66: MS text of a poem, “Palmyra”, by Richard Clarke Sewell, undated. Sewell won the Newdigate Prize in 1825. Fol. 67: MS text of poem, “Liberty restored to Greece by the Roman Senate”, by Richard Clarke Sewell, 21 Jul 1821. Fol. 68: Letter from Richard Clarke Sewell (address, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 5 Jan 1840. Sewell hopes to come to Oxford to attend a Committee meeting. Fol. 69: Letter from Richard Clarke Sewell (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 25 Jan 1840. Sewell announces his attention to proceed to the degree of DCL (which he received in November that year). Fols. 70–72: Letters from and concerning Richard Durnford (1802–95; D. 1822–7; F. 1827–35; Hon. F. 1888). Fol. 70: Letter from John Keate (Headmaster of Eton 1809–34; address, Eton) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul 1822. Keate recommends to Routh Richard Durnford, who is coming to Oxford to apply for a Demyship. Fol. 71: Letter (in Latin) from Richard Durnford (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (July 1822). Durnford thanks Routh for his being elected a Demy. Fol. 72: Letter from Richard Durnford (address, Middleton Rectory, Manchester) to Martin Routh, 21 Dec 1844. Durnford would like to put his name back on the College books, so that he can vote again in Convocation, and asks Routh how to do this. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 92

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MC:PR30/1/C2/11 (con.) Fol. 73: Letter concerning George Wells (d. 1872; D. 1823–8; F. 1828–36). Fol. 73: Letter from George Wells (address, Boxford) to Martin Routh, 6 Mar 1823. Wells wishes his eldest son George Wells Jr., who is currently at Exeter College, to apply for a Demyship. He hopes that he will be successful (he was). Fol. 74: Letter concerning Thomas Sale (d. 1873; D. 1823–33; F. 1833–5). Fol. 74: Letter from J. H. C. Moor (address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 21 Jun 1822. Moor’s brother-in-law Thomas Sale will be applying for a Demyship once again, having applied last year, and he hopes that he will be more fortunate this time (as it was, Sale had to try a third time before he was successful). Fols. 75–77: Letters from and concerning Francis Knyvett Leighton (d. 1881; D. 1823–9). Fol. 75: Letter (2 sheets) from Richard Heber (address, Westminster?) to Martin Routh, “Tuesday 16 July” (1822). Heber recommends Francis Knyvett Leighton for a Demyship (if Leighton did apply in 1822, he was unlucky; but he was successful the following year). Fol. 76: Letter (in Latin) from Francis Knyvett Leighton (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (Jul 1823?). Leighton thanks Routh for his election as a Demy. Fol. 77: Letter from John Wooll (Headmaster of Rugby 1807–28; address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 7 (month missing; July?) 1823. Wooll recommends Francis Knyvett Leighton for a Demyship. Fol. 78: Letter concerning William Robertson (d. 1877; D. 1824–36; F. 1836–77). Fol. 78: Letter from John Dupré (address, Wymouth) to Martin Routh, 9 Jan 1821. Dupré recommends his pupil William Robertson for a Demyship at the forthcoming election (he had to wait until 1824 before he was successful). Fol. 79: Letter concerning William Pilkington (d. 1832; D. 1824–31; F. 1831–2). Fol. 79: Letter from Charles Pilkington (D. 1794–8; address, Shopwick near Chichester) to Martin Routh, 7 Feb 1823. Pilkington offers his third son William Pilkington (D. 1824–31; F. 1831–2) as a candidate for a Demyship. Fols. 80–83: Letters from and concerning Thomas May Wetherell (d. 1873; D. 1824–9). See further MC:PR30/1/C2/10, Fols. 71–72, not least on the reasons for his departure from Oxford. Fol. 80: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tilehurst near Reading) to Mr. Scott (Thomas Scott, D. 1785–92; address, Bromley College, Kent), 7 May 1830. As promised, Routh includes in this letter a liceat migrare for Thomas May Wetherell to enable him to take his degree at Cambridge or Dublin. Fol. 81: Letter from Richard Wetherell (address not given) to an unnamed addressee, 12 May 1830. Wetherell sends the preceding letter to his correspondent. Unfortunately, Routh called his son “HenryWetherell”, and made a mistake about number of terms he had attended. Wetherell therefore asks if he could have a corrected version of the liceat migrare sent to him to give his son. Fol. 82: Letter from Thomas MayWetherell (address, Wing Rectory, Uppingham, Rutlandshire) to Martin Routh, 22 Jul 1837. Wetherell has just taken his MA degree from Dublin, and asks if he can therefore be incorporated in the University of Oxford, and have his name restored to the College books. Fol. 83: Letter from Thomas May Wetherell (address, Mansion House) to Martin MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 93

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MC:PR30/1/C2/11 (con.) Routh, “Tuesday 21 July” (year not given; 1836?). Wetherell plans to take his MA from Dublin shortly, and then would like to have his name put on the College books. He would like to know how to proceed in this matter.

The following items were found loose at the end of this book:

No. 1: Letter from David Henry Urquhart (matr. Magd. 1771; address, Gainsborough) to Martin Routh, 7 Apr 1792. Urquhart reports on a visit to an unnamed place (Gainsborough or a neighbouring town or village?), and debates whether he would like to take the living there. His wife is recovering from having just given birth. No. 2: Letter from Septimus Collinson (Septimus Collinson, 1739–1827, Provost of Queen’s 1796–1827; address, Holwell) to Martin Routh, 3 Aug 1795. Collinson agrees to come and vote in Convocation on an unspecified matter in support of a friend of Routh. No. 3: Letter from Charles Talbot, 15th Earl of Shrewsbury (1753–1827; no address given), to Martin Routh, 15 Oct 1797. Shrewsbury indignantly refuses to relinquish the manorial rights of South Newington. No. 4: Letter from Thomas Massingberd (address, Scarborough) to Martin Routh, 3 Oct 1801. Massingberd is a College tenant in Candlesby, and has recently built a new house there. He now applies for the deputation of the manor of Candlesby. No. 5: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to an unnamed addressee, 26 Oct 1802, which appears to have been torn from a guardbook, because parts of one side are missing. It discusses the case of Francis Massingberd (D. 1775–81; F. 1781–1824). Massingberd’s medical bills with Dr. Thomas Arnold will be paid out of his Fellowship stipend, and any extra money will be placed in the hands of his relatives. Routh agrees that Massingberd may be removed into private care if Dr. Arnold agrees to it. See also MC:PR30/1/C2/6 fols. 5–26 for other letters about Francis Massingberd. No. 6: Letter from James Dove (address, New Boswell Court) to Martin Routh, 20 May 1803. Dove writes in relation to his friend Mr. Fisher. Fisher’s health is not allowing him to perform his duties as Steward of Magdalen College, and is looking to recommend a successor. Dove suggests that he might be the right person for the job. No. 7: Copy of a petition to Parliament for leave to sell the tithes of Basing and East Worldham, 6 Feb 1810. This petition is supported by the Bishop of Winchester. No. 8: Copy (c. 1814?) in Routh’s hand of a letter sent to the Bishop of Winchester, in his capacity as Visitor of the College, on the case of Henry Lloyd Loring (D. 1802–7; F. 1807–16), who has been appointed a Chaplin and Secretary to Lord Moira, and will be travelling to India with him. The College asks whether Loring may apply regularly for leave of absence by letter while he is out there, which is not something permitted under the statutes. (Loring left for India in 1814, and this permission was granted him). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/10 fols. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 94

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MC:PR30/1/C2/11 (con.) 15–18 for other letters from Loring. No. 9: Draft letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to an unnamed addressee, undated (c. 1815?). The correspondent had been promised the tenancy of Skyres (late Scures) Farm in 1806, but in 1813 it was leased to a Mr. Pearce, who is likely to hold it until at least 1825. No. 10: Letter from Martin Davy (Master of Gonville and Caius College, 1803–39; address, Caius Lodge) to Martin Routh, 2 Jul 1816. Davy congratulates Routh on what is probably the latest volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Dr. Parr is planning to visit him at his house in Heacham in Norfolk, and Davy hopes that Routh might be able to come out and join them. No. 11: Letter from Thomas Winstanley (address, St. Alban Hall) to Martin Routh, 21 Jul 1817. Winstanley passes on a letter from his son William. He hears that his other son Henry Winstanley (D. 1806–16; F. 1816–26), because of what he thought was improper conduct at the time of his election to a Fellowship, is anxious about offering himself to be admitted as an actual Fellow. He encourages Routh to write to Henry to put his mind at rest. See also MC:PR30/1/C2/10 No. 31 for another letter about Henry Winstanley. No. 12: Letter from Sophia Graves (address, Streatley) to Martin Routh and the Fellows of Magdalen College, 23 Jul 1819. Graves is the daughter of William Graves, who was Porter at Magdalen for thirty years. On her mother’s death, she lived with her brother in France, but left him on account of his poor treatment of her. She set up as a dressmaker in Streatley, but the business has failed. A clergyman, Henry Davies, who is due to return to India has invited her to join them there, if she can pay for her passage, which will cost £50. She asks if the College will contribute towards this expense. See MC:PR30/1/C2/10 Fol. 25 on her later life. No. 13: Letter from John Lonsdale (Principal of King’s College London 1839–43; Bishop of Lichfield, 1843–67; address, King’s College London) to Martin Routh, 12 Jul 1839. Lonsdale sends Routh an appeal for building a hospital near King’s College. He understands that Magdalen College owns land in the area, so that its tenants might benefit from this institution. No. 14: Draft letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to an unnamed addressee (evidently the then Bishop of Winchester), undated, but written on the back of a letter postmarked Jan 1842, from which a stamp has been cut away at a later date, losing some of the text. The letter relates to the journey, made by William Palmer (D. 1826–32; F. 1832–55) to Russia in 1840–1 and his plans to return there. See also MC:PR30/1/C2/12 Fols. 1–23 for letters from William Palmer. No. 15: Undated memorandum in Routh’s hand concerning possible uses for the Sheppard Fund. Written c. 1850, because it talks of the building of the new Magdalen College School. It is proposed that about £500 a year be put towards erecting and endowing a hall for poor scholars at Oxford. This was a proposal seriously considered at Magdalen in the early 1850s, which Routh eventually vetoed. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 95

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MC:PR30/1/C2/11 (con.) No. 16: Undated memorandum in Routh’s hand on whether to dismiss the senior cook for fraud or not. No. 17: Draft letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to an unnamed addressee, undated. Routh thanks his correspondent for an unspecified service, and sends him a copy of Musgrave’s edition of Euripides. References in it to the Scottish Episcopal Church suggest that the correspondent is member of that church, possibly even a bishop in it. No. 18: Undated note apparently in Routh’s hand about the quantity of arable land at Horspath. No. 19: Letter from Mr. Jerram (address, Rectory, Witney) to Martin Routh, 27 Jul (year not given). Jerram asks Routh to check with the President of St. John’s when they would like to receive the venison usually presented by the Bishop of Winchester. No. 20: Undated note in Routh’s hand apparently on College estate matters. No. 21: Letter from Thomas Bridges (address, Witney) to Martin Routh, “Thursday”. Bridges reports on the state of his son’s injured leg. (The identity of this correspondent is unknown; he seems to have had no Magdalen links, and no one called Bridges who was at Magdalen in Routh’s time had a father called Thomas)

MC:PR30/1/C2/12 1822–54 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters from Demies 1826 1846” on the spine. This guardbook contains letters from and concerning Demies elected between 1826 and 1846. It also includes those Demies who were later elected Fellows.

Fols. 1–23: Letters from and concerning William Palmer (1811–79; D. 1826–32; F. 1832–55). See Fol. 48 below. Fol. 1: Letter from William Palmer (address, Chapel Stairs, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 10 Aug 1840. Palmer thanks Routh for a document (relating to his forthcoming trip to Russia, when he hoped, unsuccessfully, to bring about intercommunion between the Anglican and Orthodox churches) and a formal leave of absence from the College. He will send Routh a copy of his Latin composition on the 39 Articles, which is intended for use in Russia. Fol. 2: Letter (2 sheets) from William Palmer (address, St. Petersburg) to Martin Routh, 30 Nov (old style) and 12 Dec (new style) 1840. Palmer reports in some detail on his activities in Russia, including his attempts to receive communion in Orthodox churches, and to learn Russian. He is evidently having more success with the latter than with the former. Fol. 3: Letter from William Palmer (address, St. Petersburg) to Martin Routh, 11/23 March 1841. Palmer reports that his plans to return to England have been hampered by his falling ill. He would like to resume his Tutorship on his return to Oxford. Fol. 4: Letter from Francis Atkinson Faber (F. 1833–45; address not given, but presumably Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, undated, but evidently summer MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 96

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MC:PR30/1/C2/12 (con.) 1841, on his Palmer’s return from Russia. Faber reports that William Palmer returned to Magdalen last night. He names eight Fellows who do not wish to support a motion to ask Palmer to resign his Tutorship, including himself, James Mozley, Frederic Bulley, and John Bloxam. Fol. 5: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, undated, but probably written c. 1841. Routh declares that he would be happy for William Palmer to take communion in Russia, so long as he affirms his allegiance to the Church of England. He also discusses a letter from Richard Sewell (D. 1821–37; F. 1837–56) concerning Palmer. Fol. 6: Letter from Richard Bagot (Bishop of Oxford 1829–45; address, Smithfield, near Rugeley, Staffs.) to Martin Routh, 3 Feb 1842. Bagot passes on to Routh a letter which he has received, and over which he does not wish to take any action which might cause any trouble (the letter was probably from Richard Sewell - see Fol. 7 below). Fol. 7: Letter from Richard Bagot (address not given) to Martin Routh, 6 Feb 1842. Bagot sends Routh a copy of his letter to Richard Sewell. Sewell has evidently written to him to protest about the conduct of William Palmer, and the Bishop replies that he will not answer any questions about an individual whom he does not know, and who in any event is under the authority of the College. Fol. 8: Letter from Richard Clarke Sewell (no address given) to the Vice- President of Magdalen (then Frederick Faber), 22 Feb 1842. Sewell enclosed a letter from Routh about William Palmer. He is evidently unhappy at Routh’s sanctioning Palmer to take communion in Russia, and plans to write to this effect to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishops of Winchester and Oxford. Fol. 9: Letter from Frederick Atkinson Faber (no address given) to Martin Routh, “Wednesday morning” (23 Feb 1842?). Faber passes on letter Fol. 8 to Routh. He says that Sewell could only write to the Bishops as an individual, and not as a member of the College, and advises Routh to make sure that the powers that be know that Routh agreed to Palmer’s request so long as he did nothing contrary to the faith and practice of the Church of England. Fol. 10: Letter (2 sheets) from Richard Clarke Sewell (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 14 Feb 1842. Sewell has learned that the Bishop of Oxford has forwarded to Routh a letter which he had written to the Bishop. Sewell is concerned about Routh’s advice to William Palmer in Russia, and wants to be reassured that he gave it in a private capacity rather than an official one, because the way in which William Palmer made it public has suggested that it was in the latter capacity. He is concerned about the effect this might have on the reputation of the College, and knows that Charles Daubeny agrees with him. Fol. 11: Letter from William Jocelyn Palmer (father of William; address, Hadham, Ware) to Martin Routh, 15 Jan 1843. Palmer has received letters from his son William in St. Petersburg. He is not sure when he will return, and so asks that someone else be appointed Tutor in his stead. Fol. 12; Letter from William Palmer (address, St. Petersburg) to Martin Routh, 30 Sep 1842 (it is not clear is this is dated in old or new style). Palmer realises MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 97

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MC:PR30/1/C2/12 (con.) that it may be a while before he can leave St Petersburg, because it will take time to prepare himself before he meets the Synod. He therefore suggests that he be replaced as Tutor. Fol. 13: Letter from William Palmer (address not given, but presumably St. Peterburg) to Martin Routh, 8 Oct / 26 Sep 1842. Palmer does not yet know when he will be able to return to England, and again confirms that he should be replaced as Tutor. Fol. 14: Letter from William Palmer (address, Cronstadt [sic]) to Martin Routh, 28 Oct / 7 Nov 1842. Palmer has heard from his father advising him to return to England at once, and telling him that Routh has let him stay as Tutor, but dispensing him from his duties until the end of October. He will now have trouble getting back to England before the end of term, as winter draws in. In the meantime, his attempts to meet people seem to be going fairly well. Fol. 15: Letter from William Jocelyn Palmer (father of William; address, Mixbury, Brackley) to Martin Routh, 1 Jan 1843. Palmer Sr. forwards a letter from his son (apparently lost) with possible news of his return. Palmer has also asked that a pamphlet of his be published. Fol. 16: Letter from William Jocelyn Palmer (father of William; address, Mixbury, Brackley) to Martin Routh, 27 Nov (1842?). Palmer Sr. has received news from his son: he hopes that his return to England will not be delayed beyond Christmas. Palmer thinks that he left a copy of his pamphlet with Routh, and hopes that it can be published. Fol. 17: Letter from William Palmer (address, St. Petersburg) to Martin Routh, 2/14 January 1843. Palmer has learned that his application has been approved by the Synod, although nothing now can be done during the Christmas holidays. He hopes to leave at the end of the month, and will probably not reach England until the middle of February. He accepts that this presents difficulties for his holding of the Tutorship. Fol. 18: Letter (2 sheets) from William Palmer (address, St. Petersburg) to Martin Routh, 11/23 Sep (year not given; 1842?). Palmer writes despondently about his prospects of success in Russia. In particular, he has been badly embarrassed by the affair of a woman who had said she has converted to Anglicanism, but then returned to Orthodoxy. Fol. 19: Letter (2 sheets) from William Palmer (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 2 May 1845. Palmer reports on a spat within College when, in his capacityas Vice-President, he rebuked another (unnamed) Fellow for not wearing a surplice when he should have done so, but the Fellow took the rebuke badly. No 20: Letter from Samuel Wilberforce (Bishop of Oxford 1845–69; address, Cuddesdon Palace) to Martin Routh, 13 Apr 1849. Wilberforce thanks Routh for sending him a copy of William Palmer’s book. Fol. 21: Letter from William Palmer (address, 90 Prince’s Street, Edinburgh) to Martin Routh, 14 Jul 1849. Palmer has said to Routh that he would prefer to be ordained a priest in Scotland rather than in England, and Routh has agreed to this. Palmer may be travelling to the Levant with his youngest brother, and so would MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 98

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MC:PR30/1/C2/12 (con.) like to be ordained a priest soon, so that he can act as chaplain. The Bishop of St. Andrews would be happy to do this. He now asks Routh to write to the Bishop to explain his position as the Fellow of an Oxford College. Fol. 22: Letter from William Palmer (no address given) to Martin Routh, 23 Jan 1853. Palmer returns to Routh a volume containing Brocard’s “Itinerary”, and discusses its authorship. Fol. 23: Letter (6 sheets) from William Palmer (address, Athens) to Martin Routh, 21 Jan 1854. Palmer reports in detail on his travels in Egypt and Palestine. Fols. 24–28: Letters from and concerning William Walter Tireman (d. 1872; D. 1827–32; F. 1832–41). Fol. 24: Letter from William Coxe (1748–1828, historian and Church of England clergyman; address, Bemerton, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 23 Aug 1824. Coxe expresses his pleasure for the kindness which Routh has shown by placing his nephew William Tireman “in the Octave” [meaning uncertain]. Fol. 25: Letter (in Latin) from William Tireman (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Tireman thanks Routh for the honour which he has done him (in electing him to a Demyhip?). Fol. 26: Letter from William Coxe (address, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 5 Jan 1824. Coxe thanks Routh for expressing interest in his hopes to have his nephew William Tireman’s candidature for a Demyship. Fol. 27: Letter from John Fisher (1748–1825, bishop of Salisbury 1807–25; address, Seymour Street) to Martin Routh, Apr 1822. The bishop expresses his support for his for William Tireman, the nephew of his friend Archdeacon Coxe, in applying for a Demyship in 1823 or 1824. Fol. 28: Letter from William Walter Tireman (address, Bowers Gifford, Rayleigh) to Martin Routh, 22 Mar 1845. Tireman thanks Routh for sending him an inscription for an unspecified purpose. Fol. 29: Letter from John Posthumus Wilson (later Parkinson; 1809–74; D. 1827–34; F. 1834–42). Fol. 29: Letter from John Parkinson (formerly Wilson; address, Ravendale near Grimsby) to Martin Routh, 8 Jan 1834. Parkinson thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his annotations to Burnet’s history. Fols. 30–35: Letters from and concerning Charles William Borrett (d. 1867; D. 1828–34; F. 1834–67). Fol. 30: Letter from Samuel Butler (1774–1839, headmaster and Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield; address, Shrewsbury) to Martin Routh, 18 May 1827. Butler recommends as a candidate for a Demyship one of his pupils, Charles William Borrett. Fol. 31: Letter from Giles Borrett (address, Great Yarmouth) to Martin Routh, 13 May1827. Borrett recalls the friendship between his late mother-in-law and some of Routh’s female relatives, as he writes to recommend his youngest son Charles for a Demyship. Fol. 32: Letter from Edward Maltby (1770–1859, Bishop of Chichester 1831–6 and of Durham 1836–56; address, Preacher’s Chambers, Lincoln’s Inn) to Martin MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 99

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MC:PR30/1/C2/12 (con.) Routh, 25 Jun 1827. Maltby adds his support for Charles Borrett for a Demyship. Fol. 33: Letter from Giles Borrett (address, Yarmouth) to Martin Routh, 26 May 1828. Borrett writes about having his son apply a second time for a Demyship at Magdalen. Fol. 34: Letter from Samuel Butler (address, Barmouth, North Wales) to Martin Routh, 17 Jul 1828. Butler writes a testimonial for Charles Borrett. Fol. 35: Letter from Charles Borrett (address, 9 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square) to Martin Routh, 31 July(year not given). Borrett expresses astonishment that some of the Fellows of Magdalen have accused him of Socinianism, and strongly denies the charge. Fol. 36: Letter concerning Henry Cope Onslow (d. 1870; D. 1829–42; F. 1842–4). Fol. 36: Letter from John Cope (address, 11 Arlington Street) to Martin Routh, 7 May 1828. Cope recommends to Routh the son of his friend General Onslow, Henry Cope Onslow, as a candidate for a Demyship. Fols. 37–39: Letters from George Ayscough Chaplin (1810–59; D. 1829–35; F. 1835–6). Fol. 37: Letter from George Ayscough Chaplin (address, Tathwell) to Martin Routh, Friday 14 Aug (year not given; probably 1835, to judge from the smudged postmark). Chaplin apologises profusely for not officially calling upon the President when he was about to leave Oxford. He would have done so, but understood that Routh was unwell. Fol. 38: Letter from George Ayscough Chaplin (address, Tathwell, Louth, Lincolnshire) to Martin Routh, 24 Oct 1844. Chaplin has found for Routh a copy of Mr. Nicholson’s lecture to the Lincolnshire Topographical Society on Tattershall Castle. He will send a copy of it to Routh via a cousin of his who is now at University College (Augustus Sutton, matr. 1843), whose character he praises. Fol. 39: Letter from George Ayscough Chaplin (address, Tathwell) to Martin Routh, 18 Nov 1844. Chaplin sends Routh the promised paper on Tattershall Castle (A copy of A selection of papers relative to the county of Lincoln. Read before the Lincolnshire Topographical Society, 1841, 1842 (Lincoln, 1843) is in the Routh Library at Durham). Fols. 40–41: Letters from John Mountague Cholmeley (d. 1860; D. 1829–35; F. 1835–8). Fol. 40: Letter from John Mountague Cholmeley (address, Lower Beeding, Horsham) to Martin Routh, 23 Mar 1840. Cholmeley is concerned at the dangers facing the church, and sends Routh a few lines on the subject. He is glad at the reaction of the Hebdomadal Council to Tract 90. Fol. 41: Letter from John Mountague Cholmeley (address, Lower Beeding, Horsham) to Martin Routh, 19 Oct 1847. Cholmeley gives notice that he will resign the curacy of Lower Beeding, having accepted another living. He warns that the parish is an expensive place in which to live. Fol. 42: Letter from George Charles Hall (D. 1831–7). Fol. 42: Printed circular (with some extra names added in MS) signed by George Charles Hall, asking for a subscription for the rebuilding of the chancel of the church of Bulley, Gloucestershire. Undated. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 100

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MC:PR30/1/C2/12 (con.) Fols. 43–44: Letters from and concerning Charles Reade (1814–84; D. 1831–5; F. 1835–84). Fols. 43–44: Anonymous letter sent to Martin Routh (no address given), August 1847. The writer enclosed a copy of a printed handbill seen in Birkenhead in which Charles Reade advertises the sale of Cremona violins and “choice pictures” there. The writer reports that Reade has been dealing in violins for a while, but he is suspected of dishonest dealing, and protests that such a man should be Fellow of an Oxford College. Fol. 44a: Letter from Charles Reade (address, 10 Great Russell Street, Covent Garden) to John Bloxam, undated. Reade declines the Senior Bursarship this year. He discusses his play Masks and Faces (published 1852), which for the time being he is not going to publish. Fol. 45: Letter concerning John Hallett Hotham (D. 1831–6). Fol. 45: Letter from Edward Copleston (1776–1849; Bishop of Llandaff 1828–49; address, Deanery, St. Paul’s) to Martin Routh, 12 Jun 1830. Copleston recommends to Routh for a Demyship John Hallett Hotham, the son of a friend of his. Fol. 46: Letter from Thomas Harding Newman (d. 1882; D. 1832–47; F. 1847–7). Fol. 46: Letter from Thomas Harding Newman (address, Shotover) to Martin Routh, “Monday”. Newman reports on some manuscripts he has seen at Shotover. There are the papers of James Tyrrell. He has selected four MS volumes and an MS roll, which he hopes the President might find interesting. Fol. 47: Letter from Francis Ballard Wells (d. 1888; D. 1832–41). Fol. 47: Letter from Francis Ballard Wells (address, Addington Park, near Croydon) to Martin Routh, 24 Nov 1841. Wells reports that he has been presented to the living of Woodchurch, Kent, and so resigns his Demyship. He expresses his thanks for his time at Magdalen. Fol. 48: Letter concerning William Palmer (see Fols. 1–23 above). Fol. 48: Letter from Ashurst Turner Gilbert (Principal of Brasenose 1822–42, Bishop of Chichester 1842–70; address, Brasenose College) to Martin Routh, 14 Mar 1837. Gilbert asks whether William Palmer would be willing to be an Examiner at Rugby this year. Fol. 49: Epitaph for Edward Daubeny (d. 1838; D. 1833–48). Fol. 49: Copy (in an unknown hand) of an inscription erected at Eastington, Glos., in memory of Edward Daubeny (D. 1833–48), who died in 1848. Fols. 50–51: Letter from Edward Halifax Hansell (d. 1884; D. 1832–47; F. 1847–53). Fols. 50–51: Letter with enclosed memorandum from Edward Halifax Hansell (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 31 Dec 1850. Hansell sends Routh a detailed memorandum proposing that the College ceases to admit Gentlemen Commoners who are not prepared to work. Fol. 52: Letter concerning George Frederick Goddard (b. 1817; D. 1837–40). See also fol. 92 below. See also MC:PR30/1/C4/9 Fol. 4 for another letter from Charles Goddard. Fol. 52: Letter from Charles Goddard (1769/70–1848; Church of England clergyman; address, Kew) to Martin Routh, 9 Aug 1837. Goddard thanks Routh for admitting his son George Frederick Goddard to a Demyship at the College. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 101

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MC:PR30/1/C2/12 (con.) Fol. 53: Letter concerning Philip Leonard Drake (d. 1848; D. 1833–47). Fol. 53: Letter from W. F. Drake (address, The Close, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 29 Jul 1833. Drake expresses his pleasure to Routh that his son Philip Leonard Drake has been elected to a Demyship at Magdalen. Fol. 54: Letter concerning John Edward Chaplin (d. 1852; D. 1833–6; F. 1836–52). Fol. 54: Letter from William Chaplin (address, Tathwell, near Louth) to Martin Routh, 9 Jun 1830. Chaplin recommends his youngest son John Edward Chaplin, who is currently at Rugby, for a Demyship. Fol. 55: Letter from John Hoare Moor (1816–56; D. 1834–43). Fol. 55: Letter from John Hoare Moor (address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 11 Feb (year not given). Moor asks Routh for a testimonial for a post at Kidderminster Grammar School. Fol. 56: Letter from John Henry Worsley (D. 1835–42). Fol. 56: Letter from John Henry Worsley (address, Chalfont St. Giles, Gerrards Cross) to Martin Routh, 27 Mar 1847. Worsley’s wife’s brother-in-law, Robert Gray, has been appointed Bishop of Cape Town, and he is helping to raise money to give Gray for the supply of the spiritual wants of his new diocese, including to help build a new cathedral. He hopes that Routh will contribute to this. Fols. 57–58: Letters from Godfrey Faussett (d. 1887; D. 1835–49; F. 1849–53). Fol. 57: Formal resignation (in Latin) by Godfrey Faussett of his Fellowship at Magdalen, l5 Jul 1853. Fol. 58: Letter from Godfrey Faussett (address, Heppington, near Canterbury) to Martin Routh, 22 Sep 1853. Faussett wishes to take the curacy of Leadenhall, Essex, and asks Routh to give him a testimonial. He also wants to check whether he needs a signature from the Bishop of Oxford. Fols. 59–60: Letters concerning Edward Shaw Mount (1816–79; D. 1835–77). Fol. 59: Letter from John Shute Duncan (1769–1844, museum curator; address, Westfield Lodge) to Martin Routh, 23 Jul 1833. Duncan recommends Edward Shaw Mount (D. 1835–77) as a candidate for a Demyship. Fol. 60: Letter from G. S. Faber (address, Sherburn House, Durham) to Martin Routh, 12 Jul 1835. Faber explains that his nephew (Francis Faber, F. 1833–45) would like to nominate Edward Mount for a Demyship next year, but would also like to nominate Francis Minden Knollis (D. 1836–9; F. 1839–63). Now it turns out that two Demyships will fall vacant this year, so Faber’s nephew is at a loss as to what to do. Fols. 61–65: Letters from and concerning Dawson William Turner (d. 1885; D. 1836–46). Fol. 61: Letter (in Latin) from Dawson William Turner (address, Exeter College) to Martin Routh, “7 days before the Calends of September” (26 Aug) 1836. Turner thanks Routh for his election to a Demyship. Fol. 62: Latin essay by Dawson William Turner titled “Suum cuique decus Posteritas rependit”. This was clearly a subject set for a Latin essay for the Demyship examination of 1836: see Fols. 69, 75, 84 and 99 below. Fol. 63: Latin passage titled “no. 273", by Dawson William Turner. See also Fols. 70 and 100 below, which shows that it was a passage from no. 273 of the MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 102

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MC:PR30/1/C2/12 (con.) Spectator, which was to be translated into Latin, and also Fol. 76. This was also clearly part of the Demyship examination of 1836. Fol. 64: Letter from Dawson Turner (address, Yarmouth) to Martin Routh, 24 Apr 1837. Turner thanks Routh for his kindness to his son Dawson William Turner. He remembers meeting Routh when Routh was dining with his grandfather. Fol. 65: Letter from Dawson William Turner (address, Bishop Wearmouth, Durham) to Martin Routh, 30 Jun 1846. Turner resigns his Demyship and expresses his thanks to Routh for his kindness to him. Fols. 66–68: Letters from and concerning Arthur Alcock Barker (D. 1897; D. 1836–53; F. 1853–63). Fol. 66: Letter from Charles Sutton (1756–1846; matr. St. John's Cambridge 1775; Fellow there 1784-93; address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul 1836. Sutton introduces to Routh Francis Howes of Norwich, and his pupil Arthur Alcock Barker, who is applying for a Demyship. Sutton explains that he was interested in knowing about James II and Cambridge (see Fol. 67 below), because he has come across an MS account of proceedings relating to the dispute between James II and the University of Cambridge, heard before Judge Jeffreys. Fol. 67: Letter from Charles Sutton (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 23 May 1836. Sutton hears that a Demyship for Norfolk has fallen vacant, and recommends Arthur Barker for the post. He reports on the health of Routh’s sisters, and also asks Routh for advice on seeking an account of James II’s dispute with Cambridge. Fol. 68: Letter (in Latin) from Arthur Alcock Barber (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (1836). Barker thanks Routh for being elected to a Demyship. Fols. 69–72: Letters and exercises by Thomas Pearse (d. 1885; D. 1836–50; F. 1850–6). Fol. 69: Latin essay by Thomas Pearse titled “Suum cuique decus Posteritas rependit”, submitted by him for his Demyship exam; see also Fols. 62 above and 75, 84 and 99 below. Fol. 70: Latin passage, titled “Spectator 273", also by Thomas Pearse. This was a piece of Latin translation submitted by Pearse for his Demyship examination; see Fols. 63 above and 76 and 100 below. Fol. 71: Letter (in Latin) from Thomas Pearse (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated (1836). Pearse thanks Routh for being elected to a Demyship. Fol. 72: Letter (in Latin) from Thomas Pearse (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated (1836). Pearse formally applies for a Demyship at Magdalen. Fols. 73–77: Letters and exercises by Henry Cadwallader Adams (1817–99; D. 1836–43; F. 1843–52). Fol. 73: Letter (in Latin) from Henry Cadwallader Adams (D. 1836–43; F. 1843–52; no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (1836?). Adams formally applies for a Demyship at Magdalen. Fol. 74: Letter (in Latin) from Henry Cadwallader Adams (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (1836?). Adams thanks Routh for being elected to a Demyship. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 103

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MC:PR30/1/C2/12 (con.) Fol. 75: Latin essay by Henry Adams titled “Suum cuique decus Posteritas rependit”, submitted by him for his Demyship exam; see also Fols. 62 and 69 above and 84 and 99 below. Fol. 76: Passage in Latin by Henry Adams, which, when compared with Fols. 63 and 70 above and 100 below, is shown to be Adams’s translation into Latin of the same passage from no. 273 of the Spectator. Fol. 77: Letter from Henry Adams (address, 9 Hyde Park Street, London) to Martin Routh, 7 Apr 1854. Adams thanks Routh for a kind letter and unspecified present (one of Routh’s publications?). Fols. 78–82: Letters and exercises from Francis Minden Knollis (1816–63; D. 1836–9; F. 1839–63). Fol. 78: Letter (in Latin) from Francis Minden Knollis (no address given) to Martin Routh, “15 days before the Calends of August” (18 Jul) 1836. Knollis formally applies for a Demyship at Magdalen. Fol. 79: Another version of Knollis’s letter of application Fol. 78 above, undated. Fol. 80: Letter (in Latin) from Francis Minden Knollis (no address given) to Martin Routh, “6 days before the Calends of August” (27 Jul) 1836. Knollis thanks Routh for being elected to a Demyship. Fol. 81: Letter (4 sheets) from Francis Minden Knollis (address, Cromer, Norfolk) to John Bloxam, 16 Jun 1848. Knollis is unwell, and has been dealing with an extremely difficult College tenant (unnamed). He also grumbles at length that he is having a difficult time at his living in Brandeston, where he is having to spend a great deal of money, and feels that the College is offering him no support (Knollis resigned from the living just a few days later). Fol. 82: Letter from Francis Minden Knollis (address, Penn, Amersham) to John Bloxam, “Monday”. Knollis thanks Bloxam for sending him a list of incumbents of an unspecified parish. Fol. 83: Letter from John Earle Welby (d. 1905; D. 1836–40; F. 1840–72). Fol. 83: Letter (in Latin) from John Earle Welby (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated (1836). Welby thanks Routh for being elected to a Demyship at Magdalen. Fols. 84–87: Letters and exercises from William George Henderson (1819–1905; D. 1836–46; F. 1846–52). Fol. 84: Latin essay by William George Henderson titled “Suum cuique decus Posteritas rependit”. This was an essaysubmitted by Henderson for his Demyship examination; see also Fols. 62, 69 and 75 above, and 99 below. Fol. 85: Letter from William George Henderson (address, University College, Durham) to Martin Routh, 30 Jan 1847. Henderson thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae. He also thanks Routh for his assistance in money matters. Henderson recently met the Bishop of Durham, who thought that there would not be a Commission into the state of the Universities. He reports that he enjoys life at Durham. Fol. 86: Letter from William George Henderson (address, University College, Durham) to Martin Routh, 11 Feb (1848?). Henderson thanks Routh for sending MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 104

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MC:PR30/1/C2/12 (con.) him a copy of the fifth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He hopes to visit Oxford before too long. Fol. 87: Letter from William George Henderson (address, Victoria College, Jersey) to Martin Routh, 14 Sep 1854. Henderson sends Routh birthdaygreetings. He hopes to come to Oxford soon, but he finds the sea voyage from Jersey a major ordeal. Fols. 88–91: Letters concerning Henry Balston (1816–40; D. 1837–40). Fol. 88: Letter from Charles Balston (address, Maidstone) to Martin Routh, 8 Oct 1840. Balston writes on behalf of his brother Henry Balston to thank Routh for his letter, and report on his health. He also reports on his attempts to obtain a collation of a manuscript of Tertullian from Milan. Fol. 89: Letter from Charles Balston (address, Guernsey) to Martin Routh, 18 Dec 1840. Balston passes on the warm thanks of his brother Henry to the College for allowing his body to be buried at Magdalen. He reports that he is now very ill. He also is still awaiting news from Milan on the Tertullian. Fol. 90: Letter from Charles Balston (address, Guernsey) to Martin Routh, 24 Dec 1840. Balston reports that his brother Henry died on the previous day. He describes the circumstances of his death, and gives details of his travel plans. Fol. 91: Letter from Charles Balston (address, Corpus Christi College) to Martin Routh, 3 Feb 1841. Balston thanks Routh once again for the kindness which he has shown him and his brother Henry. He also thanks Routh for the gift of some books. Fol. 92: Letter from George Frederick Goddard (b. 1817; D. 1837–40). See also fol. 52 above. Fol. 92: Letter from George Frederick Goddard (D. 1837–40; address, Loughton, Essex) to Martin Routh, 26 Jul 1849. Goddard understands that Routh is planning to write a rejoinder to Macaulay’s history, and offers his services to assist in the printing of it. Fols. 93–95: Letters concerning Charles Burney (1815–1907; D. 1833–8) and Edward Kay Burney (1817–80; D. 1838–42; F. 1842–7). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/13 Fol. 62, MC:PR30/1/C4/1 Fols. 45–48 and no. 2, and MC:PR30/1/C4/7 Fols. 91–98 for other letters from Charles Parr Burney. Fol. 93: Letter from Charles Parr Burney (matr. Merton 1804; address, Greenwich) to Martin Routh, 26 Jun 1837. Burney thanks Routh for subscribing to Thomas Streatfield’s proposed history of Kent (a copy of the prospectus for the history is in the Routh Library). His oldest son Charles is very ill and may not able to read for any academic honours. Fol. 94: Letter from Charles Parr Burney (address, Greenwich) to Martin Routh, 24 Jul 1837. Burney apologises on behalf of his son Charles and himself for not sending him the necessary certificates. Fol. 95: Letter from Charles Parr Burney (address, Rectory-House, Sibb Hedingham [sic]) to Martin Routh, 15 Dec 1840. Burney thanks Routh for his congratulations on his new appointment. “The Demy” (who must be Burney’s second son Edward Kaye Burney) thanks Routh for his friendship, and Burney himself hopes that one of his sons will yet become a Fellow of Magdalen. He MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 105

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MC:PR30/1/C2/12 (con.) reflects too on his family’s love of books. He also reports that “the Elder of your Demies” (i.e. Charles), is proving a good clergyman, and has just had a son: another Charles. Fols. 96–100 & 102–106: Letters and exercises from and concerning Robert Drummond Burrell Rawnsley (1817–82; D. 1839-40; F. 1840-3). Fol. 96: Letter from J. H. Rawnsley (address, Parsonage, Halton, Spilsby, Lincs.) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul 1836. Rawnsley hopes that his son, Robert Drummond Burrell Rawnsley, will be well enough to be present for the forthcoming Demyship examination. Fol. 97: Letter (in Latin) from Drummond Rawnsley (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (1836?). Rawnsley formally applies for a Demyship. Fol. 98: Letter (in Latin) from Drummond Rawnsley (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (1839?). Rawnsley once again formally applies for a Demyship, admitting that this is the first time that he has done so. Fol. 99: Latin essay by Drummond Rawnsley titled “Suum cuique decus Posteritas rependit”. This was an essay assigned Rawnsley for his Demyship examination of 1836; see also Fols. 62, 69, 75 and 84 above. Fol. 100: Latin passage, titled “Spectator 273", also by Drummond Rawnsley. This was a piece of Latin translation assigned Rawnsley for his Demyship examination in 1836.; see also Fols. 63, 70 and 76 above. Fol. 101: Letter from Alfred James Coleridge (d. 1880; D. 1854–7). Fol. 101: Letter (in Latin) from Alfred James Coleridge (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (Jul 1854?). Coleridge thanks Routh for his election to a Demyship. Fol. 102: Letter from Francis Faber (F. 1833–45; address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 30 Apr 1843. Faber asks that a matter concerning the presentation to Shoreham should be discussed at a full College meeting. An idea had been put forward that Drummond Rawnsley’s father should be presented to Shoreham to hold it until his son had been ordained a priest, since he is only a deacon at present. Faber disagrees with this proposal. Fol. 103: Letter from J. H. Rawnsley(address, Halton Parsonage, Spilsby, Lincs.) to Martin Routh, 4 Apr 1843. Rawnsley hopes that the proposal relating to the living of Shoreham, for the benefit of his son, whom he is sure will be a conscientious clergyman there (it would seem that Rawnsley was never presented to Shoreham). Fols. 104–106: Three drafts of a letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to an unnamed addressee (possibly Faber?), undated (Apr 1843?). Routh observed that, according to the custom of Magdalen, Drummond Rawnsley is entitled to be presented to the living of Shoreham if all his seniors have refused it. In particular, since Rawnsley is now in priest’s orders, he should be presented to the living. Fols. 107–111: Letters and exercises from Frederick Pretyman (1819–1905; D. 1839–42; F. 1842–58). Fols. 107–108: Two versions of a letter (in Latin) from Frederick Pretyman (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated, in which Pretyman formally applies for MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 106

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MC:PR30/1/C2/12 (con.) a Demyship. Fols. 109–110: Two brief Latin essays by Frederick Pretyman, presumably entered for Demyship examinations. Neither piece is titled, but they appear to be essays written by the author, rather than translations from passages of English into Latin. Fol. 111: English essay by Frederick Pretyman, presumably submitted for a Demyship examination. Fol. 112: Letter from Harris Smith (1821–88; D. 1841–3; F. 1843–56). Fol. 112: Letter (in Latin) from Harris Smith (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (1841?). Smith thanks Routh for his election to a Demyship. Fols. 113–117: Letters from and concerning James George Wenham (b. 1820; D. 1842–6). Fol. 113: Letter (in Latin) from James George Wenham (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, “the 6th day before the Calends of Sextilis” (27 Jul) 1842. Wenham thanks Routh for his election to a Demyship. Fol. 114: Letter (in Latin) from James George Wenham (address, St. John’s College) to Martin Routh, “the12th day before the Calends of August” (21 July) 1842. Wenham formally applies for a Demyship. Fol. 115: Letter from Edward Coleridge (address, Eton) to Martin Routh, 5 Aug 1846. Wenham is currently living in Ceylon, with Coleridge’s brother-in-law, the Bishop of Colombo. The Bishop has told Coleridge that he has no suspicions about Wenham’s loyalty to the Church of England, contrary to rumours that he holds “Romanistic” views (in fact, according to Bloxam, Register vii. 350, Wenham was received into the Roman Catholic Church on 29 June 1846). Fol. 116: Letter from James George Wenham (address, Ceylon) to Martin Routh, 6 May 1846. Wenham gives notice of his resignation of his Demyship, and thanks Routh for the kindnesses shown him there. Fol. 117: Letter from John Wenham (address, St. Leonards on Sea) to Martin Routh, 15 Jul 1846. Wenham thanks Routh for letting him know that his son James has resigned his Demyship. It came as a shock to him, and he asks Routh to defer accepting the resignation until he himself has had a chance to write to his son and receive an answer. Fol. 118: Letter from Goldwin Smith (1823–1910; D. 1842–6). Fol. 118: Letter (in Latin) from Goldwin Smith (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, undated (Jul 1842?). Smith formally applies for a Demyship. Fol. 119: Letter concerning William Wyndham Bradley (b. 1823; D. 1842–55). Fol. 119: Letter from Bonamy Price (1807–88, economist; address, Rugby) to Martin Routh, 23 Jun 1842. Price recommends William Wyndham Bradley, presumably for a Demyship. Fol. 120: Exercise from James Elwin Millard (1823–94; Ch. 1834–41; D. 1842–53; F. 1853–65; Master of MCS 1848–64). Fol. 120: Latin essay by James Elwin Millard titled “Dat veniam corvis, vexet censura columbas”, presumably submitted for the 1842 Demyship examination. Fol. 121: Letter from Thomas Keble (1826–1903; D. 1842–6; F. 1846–51). Fol. 121: Letter from Thomas Keble ( address, St. MaryChurch, Torquay, Devon) MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 107

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MC:PR30/1/C2/12 (con.) to Martin Routh, 11 Jul 1851. Keble is about to marry, and so resigns his Fellowship. Fol. 122: Letter concerning John Conington (1825–69; D. 1843–6). Fol. 122: Letter from Richard Conington (address, Boston) to Martin Routh, 26 Mar 1846. Conington muses on the fact that his son John Conington has resigned his Demyship. He thanks Routh for the kindnesses shown to him, and reflects on his son’s refusal to take holy orders. Fol. 123: Letter from Edmund Coffin (b. 1825; D. 1843–51). Fol. 123: Letter from Edmund Coffin (address, St. George’s Catholic Church, Southwark) to Martin Routh, 11 Apr 1851. Coffin resigns his Demyship at Magdalen because he has converted to Catholicism. Fol. 124: Letter concerning Edward Graham Moon (1825–1904; D. 1843–51). Fol. 124: Letter from R. H. Goolden (address, 41 Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park) to Martin Routh, 3 Jan 1847. Goolden reports that Edward Graham Moon is seriously ill, and will be unable to return to Magdalen for several weeks. Fol. 125 & 128: Letter from and concerning John Sedgwick (1823–1909; D. 1844–54; F. 1854–62). Fol. 125: Letter (in Latin) from John Sedgwick (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Sedgwick formally applies for a Demyship. Fols. 126–127: Letters concerning John Morland Rice (1823–97; D. 1846–7; F. 1847–64). Fol. 126: Letter from Robert Bullock Marsham (Warden of Merton College 1826–80; address, Merton College) to Martin Routh, 15 Jun 1846. Marsham recommends John Morland Rice to Routh as a candidate for a Demyship. Fol. 127: Letter from Edward Craven Hawtrey (1789–1862; Headmaster of Eton 1834–52; Provost 1852–62; address, Eton College) to Martin Routh, 4 Jun 1846. Hawtrey recommends John Morland Rice for a Demyship. Fol. 128: Letter from Edward Halifax Hansell (D. 1832–43; F. 1847–53; address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, dated July (day illegible; year not given; possibly 1852?). Hansell discusses a little book published by John Sedgewick (probably Oremus: Short Prayers in Verse for Sundays and Holydays; suggested by the Services of the Church of England, published in 1852). He thinks that the verses are good, but does not see the point of the exercise. Fol. 129: Letter concerning Montague Earle Welby (1827–1910; D. 1846–53; D. 1853–7). Fol. 129: Letter from Edward Coleridge (address, Eton) to Martin Routh, 20 Jul 1846. Coleridge recommends Montague Earle Welby, a great-grandson of George Horne, for a Demyship. Fol. 130: Exercise from Samuel James Bowles (1826–85; D. 1847–55; F. 1855–68). Fol. 130: Latin essay by Samuel James Bowles titled “Suum cuique decus Posteritas rependit”. Other Latin essays with this title may be found at Fols. 62, 69, 75, 84 and 99 above. These all seem to have been written for the 1836 Demyship examinations; it would appear that the title was recycled for the examinations of 1847. Fol. 131: Letter concerning James Edward Henderson (1826–82; D. 1848–58; F. 1858–82). Fol. 131: Letter from Richard Lynch Cotton (Provost of Worcester College MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 108

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MC:PR30/1/C2/12 (con.) 1839–80; address, Worcester College) to Martin Routh, 25 Apr 1853. Cotton reports that a petition from James Edward Henderson was submitted to the Hebdomadal Board. This relates to a request to award Henderson an MA in absentia (Henderson was then working for the Government in Western Australia). Fol. 132: Letter concerning Frederick Meadows White (1829–98; D. 1849–65; F. 1865–7). Fol. 132: Letter from John Meadows White (address, 35 Lincolns Inn Fields) to Martin Routh, 27 [month illegible] 1846. White would like to enter his second son Frederick Meadows White as a candidate for the forthcoming Demyship elections, although he is still young. Fol. 133: Letter concerning Henry Miller (1828–92; D. 1846–48; F. 1858–61). Fol. 133: Letter from Letitia Pott (address, St. Giles, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 23 Jun 1846. Pott writes on behalf of a friend, Edward Miller, to recommend his son Henry Miller for a Demyship.

MC:PR30/1/C2/13 1792–1856 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters from G. Commoners 1757 1856” on the spine. This contains letters from and about Gentlemen Commoners who attended Magdalen College.

Fol. 1: [blank] Fols. 2–17: Letters from and concerning Edward South Thurlow (1764–1847; matr. 1781; and former pupil of Martin Routh). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/14 Fol. 59 for another letter from Thurlow. Fol. 2: Inscription for a window to be erected in Norwich Cathedral in memory of E. S. Thurlow. Fol. 3: Letter from E. S. Thurlow (address, Houghton) to Martin Routh, 30 July 1792. Thurlow regrets that Routh cannot visit him in Houghton. He discusses an episcopal Visitation, and a forthcoming Assizes sermon. Fol. 4: Letter from E. S. Thurlow (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 17 Apr 1807. Thurlow asks Routh to compose an inscription for a monument to his uncle, Lord Thurlow, which is to be placed in the Temple Church. He also recommends one “Mr. Hoper” of Brasenose College for the forthcoming Demyship elections (Henry Hoper was indeed elected a Demy in 1807). Fol. 5: Letter from E. S. Thurlow (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 10 Jan 1808. Thurlow once again discusses the monument to his uncle Lord Thurlow, and possible alterations to its design. Fol. 6: Letter from E. S. Thurlow (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 8 Feb 1808. Thurlow thanks Routh for his thoughts on his uncle’s monument. Fol. 7: Letter from E. S. Thurlow (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 5 Jun 1808. He plans to talk to “Dr. Proctor” (Joseph Proctor, Master of St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 1799–1845, and Canon of Norwich) about helping “Mr. Burney” obtain a degree. This refers to Charles Burney (1757–1817), a friend through Samuel Parr of Routh’s (and father of Parr’s godson, Samuel Parr MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 109

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MC:PR30/1/C2/13 (con.) Burney), who had been expelled from Cambridge in 1777 for stealing books from the University Library. He was given an MA degree from Cambridge in 1808. He also discusses Lord Thurlow’s tomb once more. Other letters relating to Charles Burney’s attempt to obtain a Cambridge degree can be found at MC:PR30/1/C4/7 Fols. 72–90. Fol. 8: Letter from E. S. Thurlow (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 7 Feb 1810. Thurlow thanks Routh for congratulations on his supposed marriage, but explains that this is only gossip. He hopes to visit Routh later in the year. Fol. 9: Letter from E. S. Thurlow (address, Houghton) to Martin Routh, 8 May 1813. Thurlow discusses the intrigues relating to an appointment to a living owned by the Dean and Chapter of Norwich: he had hoped to appoint his son to a newly vacant living, but discovered to his annoyance that the Dean has appointed his own brother instead bywhat Thurlow considered underhand means. Fol. 10: Letter from E. S. Thurlow (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 31 Jan 1815. Thurlow has sent a brace of pheasants to Routh, and asks after his health. The letter also has a draft letter by Routh about transcribing manuscripts and giving a book to the library, which appears to be a reply to a totally different letter to an unnamed correspondent. Fol. 11: Letter from E. S. Thurlow (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 8 Aug 1821. Thurlow thanks Routh for his circular asking him to vote for Mr. Heber as MP for Oxford University, but he is unsure of Heber’s views on Catholic Emancipation, to which Thurlow himself is totally opposed. Fol. 12: Letter from E. S. Thurlow (address, Houghton) to Martin Routh, 2 June 1823. Thurlow recommends to Routh the son of an unnamed friend of his as a candidate for a Demyship. Fol. 13: Letter from E. S. Thurlow (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, undated. Thurlow thanks Routh for settling a bill for him, and discusses his health. He reports that he has turned down the offer of a prebend at Gloucester. Fol. 14: Letter from E. S. Thurlow (address, Houghton) to Martin Routh, 24 Oct, no year given. Thurlow regrets that his wife’s health and his own duties mean he cannot help Routh in an unspecified matter (presumably a request to come to Oxford to vote in a Parliamentary election). Fol. 15: Letter from E. S. Thurlow (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 5 Jan, postmarked 1792. Thurlow has tried, unsuccessfully, to lobby the Lord Chancellor (his uncle) for a position for Routh’s father. Fol. 16: Letter from E. S. Thurlow (address missing) to Martin Routh, postmarked 15 Aug 1807. Thurlow discusses a bust of his late uncle, and how best to display it. Fol. 17: Letter from E. S. Thurlow (no address given) to Martin Routh, 18 Feb, no year given, postmarked 1792. Thurlow needs to go to Lambeth for a dispensation, and asks Routh to send him a certificate that he has an MA degree from Oxford. Fol. 18: Letter from Sir Edward East (1764–1847; matr. 1782). Fol. 18: Letter from Edward Hyde East (address, Sherwood Lodge, Battersea) to MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 110

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MC:PR30/1/C2/13 (con.) Martin Routh, 20 Jul 1846. East recommends to Routh one George Deane of Christ Church in the forthcoming Demyship election. Deane was not elected. Fol. 19: Letter from Strickland Freeman, (1754–1821; matr. 1773). Fol. 19: Letter from Strickland Freeman (address, Cheltenham) to Martin Routh, 26 Aug 1817. Freeman owns an estate in Buckinghamshire, where he owns the advowson. The incumbent there, Thomas Powys, has just died leaving a large family, and Freeman wonders whether one of his sons could be made a chorister. No Powys was made a chorister at Magdalen at this time. Fol. 20: Letter from James Buller (1766–1827; matr. 1783). Fol. 20: Letter from James Buller (address, illegible) to Routh, 4 Nov 1787. Buller discusses settling his bills at Magdalen, and arranging to send some plate to Magdalen. Buller gave Magdalen six egg-cups, an inkstand, a snuffer tray, and 24 tablespoons (see E. Alfred Jones, Catalogue of the Plate of Magdalen College Oxford (Oxford 1940), pp. 23, 24, 33–4, and 90). Fols. 21–24: Letters from and concerning John David Perkins (d. 1845; matr. 1784). Fol. 21: Letter from J. D. Perkins (address, Heavitree, near Exeter) to Martin Routh, 8 June 1792. Perkins asks Routh to use his friendship with Edward Thurlow to help put in a good word with his uncle, Lord Thurlow, for some preferment in the Church. Fol. 22: Letter from J. D. Perkins (address, Heavitree) to Martin Routh, 23 Jan 1793. Perkins thanks Routh for agreeing to be a godfather to his son. He reports on the poor health of his father. Fol. 23: Letter from J. D. Perkins (address, Heavitree, Exeter) to Martin Routh, 16 Mar 1798. Perkins is trying to get a minor canonry at Windsor, and asks Routh to put in a good word for him. Fol. 24: Letter from Frederick David Perkins (d. 1856; matr. Brasenose 1810; address, Dawlish) to Martin Routh, 2 Jul 1814. Perkins reports on financial troubles in his household: he himself owes money in Oxford, and his father John David Perkins is unable to help him. He asks Routh to lend him some money to tide him over. See MC:PR30/1/C4/11 Fol. 55 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 25: Letter concerning Robert Blakeney (matr. 1785). Fol. 25: Letter from W. Blakeney (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, 17 Dec 1794. Blakeney’s son Robert is about to be presented to a living in Ireland, and needs a certificate that he has been admitted BA. (Robert had been admitted to Lincoln’s Inn in 1787, and took a BCL in 1792.) Fol. 26: Letter from Sir Montague Cholmeley, Bart. (1772–1831; matr. 1790). Fol. 26: Letter from Montague Cholmeley (address, London) to Martin Routh, 16 Jul 1821. Cholmeley thanks Routh for recommending Mr. Heber to him in the forthcoming Parliamentary election, and hopes to be present and vote for him. Fols. 27–28: Letters to and from William Major (b. 1774; matr. 1791). Fol. 27: Letter from W. F. Major (address, Thurnby Vicarage, near Leicister) to Martin Routh, 28 Jun 1830. Major reflects on his short stay at Magdalen, and now explains to Routh that he wishes to be ordained a priest, and asks that Routh MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 111

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MC:PR30/1/C2/13 (con.) could recommend him to the Bishop of Lincoln. Fol. 28: Draft reply by Martin Routh to William Major, undated (presumably, July 1830). He admits that he is unable to remember Major’s conduct, but is willing to send a certificate to say that he was a member of the College. Fol. 29: Letter from Sir John Head (1773–1838; matr. 1793). Fol. 29: Letter from J. Head (address, London) to Martin Routh, 23 Sep 1799. Head thanks Routh for agreeing to let him take his degree. He also asks that Routh can give him a certificate so that he can take holy orders. Head took both his BA and his MA degrees in 1800. Fol. 30: Letter concerning Thomas Hervey (d. 1796; matr. 1794). Fol. 30: Letter from James Buller (see fol. 20 above; address, Wimpole Street) to Martin Routh, 19 Mar 1794. Buller asks Routh to accept Thomas Hervey as a Gentleman Commoner at Magdalen. The "Gentleman's Magazine" Vol. 79, p. 255 (1796), says that Hervey died on 3 Jan 1796 in Lisbon, where he had gone for the good of his health. Fol. 31: Letter from Adam Duff (d. 1840; matr. 1796). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/8 Fol. 57 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 31: Letter from Adam Duff (address, 55 Princes Street, Edinburgh) to Martin Routh, 21 May 1803. Duff recommends one Mr. Wilson on his arrival at Magdalen. John Wilson (1785–1854), a man of letters best known under his pseudonym “Christopher North”, matriculated from Magdalen on 26 May 1803. Fol. 32: Letter concerning William Balliol Best (d. 1822 matr. 1810). Fol. 32: Letter from George Best (1759–1818; matr. University 1779; address, Chilston Park) to Martin Routh, 22 Nov 1810. Best thanks Routh for appointing Mr. Cooke as his son’s tutor. “Mr. Cooke” is presumably Theophilus Leigh Cooke (D. 1794–1810; F. 1810–16). His son is William Balliol Best, who came up in 1810. Fol. 33: Letter from Maynard Colchester (d. 1860; matr. 1803). Fol. 33: Letter from Maynard Colchester (address, Huxley Grange, Newnham, Gloucestershire) to Martin Routh, 9 Jul 1821. Routh has lobbied Colchester to vote for Mr. Heber in the forthcoming Parliamentary elections and Colchester agrees to support him. Fols. 34–38: Letters from and concerning John Wilson (also known as “Christopher North”; 1785–1854; matr. 1803). Fol. 34: Extract about John Wilson from the Vice-President’s register of 1830, copied out by John Bloxam. Because Wilson has not paid his batells in full, his name is removed from the College books. Fol. 35: Letter from John Wilson (address, 53 Queen’s Street, Edinburgh) to Martin Routh, 6 May (1820). Wilson is applying for the chair of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University, and asks Routh to write him a testimonial. He encloses copies of testimonials which he has already received. He also reports that Sir Walter Scott encouraged him to apply for the chair. Fol. 36: Testimonials in favour of John Wilson for the Edinburgh chair, dating from 1820, and presumably enclosed with Fol. 35 above. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 112

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MC:PR30/1/C2/13 (con.) Fol. 37: Letter from John Wilson (address, 53 Queen’s Street, Edinburgh) to Martin Routh, 24 Jul (1820). Wilson thanks Routh for his testimonial, and reports that he has been elected to the professorship. He asks Routh to suggest to him some books on Greek philosophy. Fol. 38 Letter from John Wilson (no address given) to Martin Routh, 6 Aug 1827 (year supplied from the postmark). Wilson would like his nephew, James Ferrier, to become a Gentleman Commoner of Magdalen, and describes his family and character to Routh. James Ferrier (1808–64) matriculated from Magdalen on 2 Feb 1828. Fol. 39: Document concerning Cornelius O’Callaghan (matr. 1806). Fol. 39: Form of dimission from Trinity College Dublin for C. E. O’Callaghan, 27 Jan 1806. Fols. 40–42: Letters from and about George Fitz-Ernest (illegitimate son of the Duke of Cumberland; d. 1828; matr. 1814). Fol. 40: Letter from George Fitz-Ernest (address, Cumberland House, Kew) to Martin Routh, “Saturday” Jul 1817. Fitz-Ernest passes on the gratitude of his father (the Duke of Cumberland) for receiving him into Magdalen again. He plans to be ordained, and hopes that he could act as a curate for his friend Dr. Ellerton (Edward Ellerton, F. 1803–51). Fol. 41: Letter from John Haythorne (address, Clifton) to Martin Routh, 19 Dec 1815. Haythorne protests at the expulsion of his son Joseph (matr. 1814) from Magdalen, having heard an account of this from him and his friend Edward Poore (1795–1838; matr. 1814). Apparently the expulsion was connected with a duel with George Fitz-Ernest. Fol. 42: Draft reply by Martin Routh to John Haythorne, setting out his undertsanding of the row between Joseph Haythorne, Edward Poore, and George Fitz-Ernest. He reports that Fitz-Ernest has now left Magdalen, after another unfortunate incident. He says that Haythorne Jr. voluntarily left the College, and was not expelled. He cannot therefore return to Magdalen, but will be happy to give him a good reference to enter another College or Hall. Fols. 43–46: Letters from and to Basil Beridge (d. 1881; matr. 1815). Fol. 43: Copy of letter (numbered “1”) from Basil Beridge (address, Algarkirk) to William Russell (D. 1804–15; F. 1815–31), 10 Oct 1819. Beridge wishes to apologise to Russell for some bad behaviour (unspecified) towards him in the past, and to be reconciled with the College.. Fol. 44: Copyof letter (numbered “2”) from William Russell (address, Magdalen) to Basil Beridge, 1 Nov 1819. Russell accepts Beridge’s apology, but regrets that it is not possible for him to be restored to the University. Fol. 45: Copy of letter (numbered “3”) from Basil Beridge (no address given) to the President and Fellows of Magdalen College, dated by the copyist to the middle of Nov 1819. Beridge reports that his apology to William Russell has been accepted. He understand that it may well not be possible for him to return to Magdalen, but hopes that he may be given permission to migrate to another College. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 113

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MC:PR30/1/C2/13 (con.) Fol. 46: Copy of letter (numbered “4”) from Basil Beridge (no address given) to the William Russell, dated by the copyist to the middle of Nov 1819. Beridge writes to Russell enclosing letter Fol. 45, which he asks him to give to the President and Fellows, because he wishes to proceed to an Oxford degree by some means. Fols. 47–61: Letters from John Hamilton Gray (d. 1867; matr. 1818). Fol. 47: Letter from John Hamilton Gray (address, 26 Howe Street, Edinburgh) to Martin Routh, 11 Jun 1825. Gray sends Routh a copy of the theses which he published on being called to the Scottish bar, and which he wishes to dedicate to him (the Routh Library in Durham University includes several works by Gray). He speaks warmly of this time at Magdalen. Fol. 48: Letter from John Hamilton Gray (address, Carntyne, near Glasgow) to Martin Routh, 15 Jun 1825. Gray reports on the vain attempts of Lady Frances Erskine to find references to Bishop Burnet among her family papers. He also reports on his forthcoming marriage. Fol. 49: Letter from John Hamilton Gray (address, Carntyne, near Glasgow) to Martin Routh, 8 Dec 1828. Gray announces his intention to take holy orders, and asks Routh when the next series of divinity lectures take place. Fol. 50: Letter from John Hamilton Gray (address, Carntyne, near Glasgow) to Martin Routh, 25 Apr 1829. Gray reports on a visit to Bishop Gleg (recte Gleig) on tracking down a copy of Bishop Burnet’s history. He discusses annotated copies of Burnet’s book in possession of the Bishop and also Lady Frances Erskine. He also thanks Routh for the hospitality shown him at Magdalen. Fol. 51: Letter from John Hamilton Gray (address, Carntyne, near Glasgow) to Martin Routh, 1 Jul 1831. Gray thanks Routh for his comments on his recent pamphlet. Fol. 52: Letter from John Hamilton Gray (address, Bolsover Castle, Chesterfield) to Martin Routh, 8 Jan 1832. Gray recommends to Routh one Tait, a Scottish undergraduate at Balliol College, and hopes that he will make his acquaintance (this is Archibald Tait, undergraduate and Fellow of Balliol College, and Archbishop of Canterbury 1867–82). He asks Routh’s opinion on the state of the church, and mentions to of his forthcoming publications. Fol. 53: Letter (2 sheets) from John Hamilton Gray (address, Bolsover Castle, Chesterfield) to Martin Routh, 9 Jan 1843. Gray is sending Routh another of his pamphlets. He also asks whether the youngest son of an old friend of his, the Hon. Thomas Erskine, might be given a Choristership at Magdalen College. (No Erskine was admitted a Chorister at this time) Fol. 54: Letter (2 sheets) from John Hamilton Gray (address, Bolsover Castle) to Martin Routh, 13 Jan 1843 (the letter paper has a fine engraving of Bolsover Castle on the first page). NB: an error occurred in the binding of these letters, so that what appears to be the second sheet of this letter is actually the second sheet of Fol. 58, and vice-versa. Gray thanks Routh for his promise to find something for Erskine’s son when an unengaged vacancy arises among the Choristers. He writes more about his family’s situation. His wife is about to publish a book of MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 114

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MC:PR30/1/C2/13 (con.) her own, on Etruscan History, which they will send Routh when it comes out (this was the first volume of “The History of Etruria”, by Elizabeth Gray, published in three volumes in 1843–68). He is planning to visit Edinburgh, and he reflects on the looming schism in the Church of Scotland, and its effects on the Church of England. Fol. 55: Letter (2 sheets) from John Hamilton Gray (address, Bolsover Castle, Chesterfield) to Martin Routh, 17 July (no year given; perhaps 1843?). Gray checks whether his wife’s latest publication on Etruria has reached Routh yet. He also discusses the conduct of Dr. Pusey: he has just read one of his sermons, and been impressed by it, to his surprise. Fol. 56: First sheet only of a letter from John Hamilton Gray (address, Bolsover Castle, Chesterfield) to Martin Routh, 24 Jul 1848. Gray recalls a conversation he had with Routh on the subject of the church in Ireland, and a more recent conversation he had in Chesterfield on the same subject. Fol. 57: Letter (2 sheets) from John Hamilton Gray (address, New Club, Edinburgh, 16 Feb (year not given; a previous cataloguer has suggested 1843). Gray recommends an unnamed candidate for a Demyship. He is about to send Routh another pamphlet. Fol. 58: Letter (2 sheets) from John Hamilton Gray (address, Bolsover Castle, Chesterfield) to Martin Routh, 12 June (no year given; a previous cataloguer has suggested 1843). NB: an error occurred in the binding of these letters, so that what appears to be the second sheet of this letter is actually the second sheet of Fol. 54, and vice-versa. Gray’s wife is about to send Routh a copy of her history of Etruria (although no copy of this appears to survive in the Routh Library in Durham). He discusses ecclesiastical politics in Oxford and the secession in the Church of Scotland. Fol. 59: Letter from John Hamilton Gray (address, Bolsover Castle, Chesterfield) to Martin Routh, 9 May 1851. Gray sends Routh another pamphlet. Fol. 60: Letter from John Hamilton Gray (address, Botanic Garden) to Martin Routh, “Monday”. Gray returns a couple of books to Routh with his thanks, but wishes to retain some other books which he has lent him. Fol. 61: Letter from John Hamilton Gray (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, “Thursday”. Gray seeks Routh’s advice on the interpretation of the Greek text of Acts 3.21. Fol. 62: Letter concerning William Edward Collins (matr. 1829). Fol. 62: Letter from Charles Parr Burney (1785–1864; godson of Samuel Parr, matr. Merton 1804; address, Greenwich) to Martin Routh, 20 Nov 1828. Burney recommends a pupil of his, William Edward Collins as a potential Gentleman Commoner at Magdalen. He also speaks warmly of James Ferrier, who is already at Magdalen. Fols. 63–64: Letters from Frederick Heathcote Sutton (d. 1888; matr. 1851). Fol. 63: Letter from Frederick Heathcote Sutton (address, Magdalen College) to John Bloxam, n.d. (dated to 1856 by Bloxam himself). Sutton thanks Bloxam for allowing him access to the Library while he was in Oxford. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 115

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MC:PR30/1/C2/13 (con.) Fol. 64: Letter from Frederick Heathcote Sutton (address, Luffenham Hall) to Charles Cholmeley (D. 1846–55; F. 1855–69), 20 Dec 1856. Sutton asks Cholmeley to present the enclosed two claret jugs as a present to the Common Room. (see E. Alfred Jones, Catalogue of the Plate of Magdalen College Oxford (Oxford 1940), p. 17).

MC:PR30/1/C2/14 1811–68 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters relating to Choristers Vol. II” on the spine. These letters relate to Choristers elected between 1809 and 1853.

This guardbook stands apart from the others in this collection. It is bound up in the same manner as the guardbooks created by Bloxam, but it is not included on Macray’s list of books given by him to the College. In addition, there is no extant Volume I of letters on choristers. On the inside cover of this book is a note in the hand of C. T. Onions, then Fellow Librarian, that it had been given to him on 29 November 1943 by Bruce McFarlane, who had received it from the Home Bursary Clerk, who reported that this book, and the interleaved copy of Bloxam Vol. I (now part of MS 881?) came from a sale (date and place unknown) of the effects of the sister of W. E. Sherwood, Master of Magdalen College School in 1888–1900. Presumably Bloxam gave two volumes of Choristers’ correspondence to Sherwood, and only this volume now survives.

This book is also unusual in that it contains quite a few of John Bloxam’s working papers in relation to his research for Volume I of his great biographical register of members of Magdalen, which was devoted to the Choristers, and which was published in 1853.

It is important to know that there were two editions of Volume I of Bloxam’s Register. The first edition, published in 1853, stops on page 224, with the choristers elected in 1853. However, there are other copies (including one available on Google Books, now in Harvard Library), containing four more pages, which list the choristers up to early 1857. On the other hand, the title page is still dated 1853. At the end of Volume III of his Register (published 1863), Bloxam gives a continuation of the list of Choristers from Volume I—but he starts it in June 1857. So the extra pages had been published by then.

Fols. 1–2: Letters concerning Robert Wickham (d. 1880; Ch. 1809–19; matr. Christ Church 1820). Fol. 1: Letter from Joseph Corfe (d. 1878; Ch. 1814–21; Cl. 1822–9; Chaplain 1832–6; matr. 1822; address, the Close, Exeter) to John Bloxam, 28 Jul 1853. Corfe has been sent proof sheets of volume I of Bloxam’s register, and offers some proposed emendations to the entry on Robert Wickham and one or two others. Fol. 2: Letter from a Mr. Bower (address, St. Thomas Street, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 20 Oct 1812. Bower, who is the writing master at Winchester College, enquires about nominating his son for a choristership at Magdalen (unsuccessfully), having heard of the great progress made by Robert Wickham at Magdalen College School. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 116

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MC:PR30/1/C2/14 (con.) Fols. 3–4: Letter and document concerning John Alexander Gower (Ch. 1810–20; Cl. 1820–7; Chaplain 1827–32; matr. 1821). Fol. 3: Letter from George Cleather (Ch. 1804–16; matr. Exeter College 1816); address Albourne) to Joseph Corfe, 14 Mar 1853. Cleather passes on some biographical information about John Alexander Gower. Fol. 4: English poem titled “Arch of Titus”, by John Alexander Gower. It is not known if the poem is written out in Gower’s hand or someone else’s. Fol. 5: Letter from James Walker (Ch. 1813; Cl. 1813–18). Fol. 5: Letter from James Walker (address, King’s School, Parramatta, New South Wales) to T. Collins (probablyThomas Collins, F. 1805–16), 30 Mar 1844. Walker discusses the state of education and the clergy in Australia, with both of which he is very unimpressed. Fols. 6–8: Letters from and concerning Joseph Corfe (d. 1878; Ch. 1814–21; Cl. 1822–9; Chaplain 1832–6; matr. 1822). Fol. 6: Letter from John Fisher (1748–1825; Bishop of Salisbury 1807–25; address, Palace, Sarum) to Martin Routh, 17 Sep 1811. Fisher recommends the son of Mr. Corfe, the organist of Salisbury Cathedral, for a choristership. A note on the letter in Bloxam’s hand suggests that he was writing on behalf of Joseph Corfe, who was eventually appointed a Chorister in 1814. Fol. 7: Letter from W. L. Bowles (William Lisle Bowles, 1762–1850, Church of England clergyman and poet; address, Close, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 9 Feb 1835. The post of Vicar Priest at Salisbury Cathedral is vacant, and Martin Routh has recommended Charles King (Ch. 1818–25, Cl. 1825–34, Chaplain 1834–6) for the post (and he would eventually get it). Bowles notes that Joseph Corfe is another candidate, but there are unfavourable rumours about his behaviour at New College, and asks Routh if he can report anything about Corfe’s behaviour at Magdalen. Fol. 8: Letter from Joseph Corfe (address, Magdalen) to Martin Routh, 18 Apr 1836. Corfe has just been elected a Priest Vicar of Exeter Cathedral, and thanks Routh for writing a testimonial for him. He had hoped to visit Routh at Tilehurst, but has been asked to go to Exeter at once for his formal election. Fol. 9: Letter from a group of pupils at Magdalen College School, 1822 or 1823. Fol. 9: Petition to Martin Routh, by Bloxam, from a group of pupils of Magdalen College School, undated. The pupils are: Charles Wilkins (Ch. 1815–23); John Dicks (Ch. 1816–24); Charles Poore (the only pupil not to have been a chorister); Charles King (Ch. 1818–25; Cl. 1825–34); George Corfe (Ch. 1818–24); Henry (Harry) Manders Roberts (Ch. 1816–25; Cl. 1827–34; Chaplain 1836–55); Jonathan Lord Hobbes (Ch. 1823–6); William Jonathan Sawell (Ch. 1819–30; Cl. 1830–6; Usher of MCS 1849–61); Frederick Walsh (Ch. 1820–7), and Thomas Reed (recte Thomas Peisley Reid, Ch. 1822–3). The petitioners protest to Routh at their long hours, and the lack of time given for recreation. The petition is undated; Bloxam suggested a date of 1822, but 1823 seems more likely as being the one year when everyone named in this petition was known to have been at the school. It is quoted in full in Bloxam Register iii. 261, where Bloxam reports that MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 117

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MC:PR30/1/C2/14 (con.) it apparently had no effect. Fol. 10: Letter concerning Charles King (d. 1885; Ch. 1818–25; Cl. 1825–34; matr. 1827). Fol. 10: Letter from Edward Copleston (1776–1849; Provost of Oriel 1814–28; Bishop of Llandaff 1828–49; address, Oriel College) to Martin Routh, 29 Apr (1825). Routh had already appointed Charles King to a Choristership in his recommendation. He now hears that William Woodcock (Cl. 1784–1818 & 1819–25) has just died (in fact he had died only the previous day), and suggests that King be appointed in his stead - as indeed he was. See also MC:PR30/1/C3/11 Fols. 61–68 for other letters from Copleston. Fols. 11–19: Letters concerning Walter Cliffe Mowett (Ch. 1819–22). Most of the letters concerning Mowett are from George Gleig (1753–1840; Bishop of Brechin 1810–40), who had clearly taken a longstanding interest in the welfare of boy’s family. Other letters to Routh from Gleig can be found at MC:PR30/1/C3/13 Fols. 4–19. Fol. 11: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 16 Oct 1816. Gleig thanks Routh for sending him the latest volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He also reports on his interest in a Captain Mowett, a Barrack Master at Eastbourne, who has a numerous family, and wonders whether one of his sons might be made a Chorister. Fol. 12: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 14 Jan 1817. Gleig thanks Routh for his goodness to Walter Mowett, and recommends his character to him. He also thanks Routh for taking an interest in his son Robert (who had matriculated from Balliol in 1811, and later migrated to Magdalen Hall). Fol. 13: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 2 Nov 1818. Gleig had written to Routh to thank him for the final volume of Reliquiae Sacrae, but now learns that his letter had not arrived. He drops more hints about hoping that a vacant choristership can be found for Walter Mowett. He also wonders whether a bible clerkship could be found for his older brother John (none was). Their father is now resident in Romford, Essex. Fol. 14: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 23 Mar 1819. Gleig thanks Routh once again for his kindness towards Walter Mowett (who had been appointed a Chorister the previous month). He expresses his sorrow at the death of John Parsons, Master of Balliol and Bishop of Peterborough, and hopes that his son Robert might get a post as a tutor. Fol. 15: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 10 Mar 1820. Gleig has heard good reports of Walter Mowett’s progress. He also reports on his son’s progress. Fol. 16: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 16 Nov 1820. Walter Mowett’s father is anxious about his son’s academic progress, and is unsure what he will do in later life. Gleig asks Routh what can be done for Walter to keep him on at Magdalen - whether he could get a Demyship, for example. Once again he discusses his son’s future. Fol. 17: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 15 Jan 1821. Walter Mowett’s father is dangerously ill, and Gleig wants to know what MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 118

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MC:PR30/1/C2/14 (con.) might happen to Walter at Magdalen should he die. Fol. 18: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 19 Nov 1821. Walter Mowett’s father continues badly ill, and is thinking of withdrawing his son at the end of this year, to apprentice him to a medical practitioner. Fol. 19: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 26 Mar 1824. Gleig discusses the Scotch Episcopal Fund, which Routh and Mrs. Sheppard have supported. He reports that Walter Mowett is now apprenticed to a “practical Chymist”, and doing well. His father is dead, but his eldest brother is looking after the family. It seems that Routh wishes to send Walter some money. Gleig also discusses his health, and Routh’s work on Burnet’s history. Fol. 20: Letter concerning James Chase (b. 1813; Ch. 1823–8). Fol. 20: Letter from John William Routh (b. 1817; D. 1835–41; address, Tilehurst) to John Bloxam, 21 Mar 1853. Routh sends Bloxam a short biography of James Chase. Fol. 21: Letter concerning Ellis Roberts Pring (Ch. 1824–9; Cl. 1833–7; matr. 1833). Fol. 21: Letter from Joseph Pring (address, Bangor) to Martin Routh, 22 Jun 1825. Pring is writing about his son Ellis Roberts Pring, and in particular the costs of his education. He has recently received a bill for his board and lodgings, which he cannot pay. To save money, he asks that his son can live with his elder brother, Isaac, who is a member of Christ Church. Fol. 22: Letter from William Buckler (d. 1876; Ch. 1824–9; Clerk 1828–33; matr. 1828). Fol. 22: Letter from William Buckler (address, Ilchester) to Joseph Corfe, 1 Jan 1853. Buckler supplies biographical material about himself for John Bloxam’s register. Fol. 23: Letter concerning William Hill (Ch. 1824–31). Fol. 23: Note from Mary Hill appointing one Mr. North to receive an exhibition from Magdalen College on behalf of her son William Hill, 3 Oct 1832. On the back of this is a draft note from Martin Routh apologising to the Duchess of Kent that he is prevented by a cold from meeting her. Fol. 24: Letter from Richard Donald Harris (Ch. 1827–35). Fol. 24: Letter from Richard Donald Harris (address, Castle Street, Farnham, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 10 Dec 1841. Harris would like to return to Magdalen to continue his studies, and wonders whether he could be appointed to a bible clerkship (he was not). Fols. 25–26: Letters from and concerning Charles Lockey (Ch. 1828–36). Fol. 25: Letter from A. Lockey (address, 97 Holywell Street, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 17 Jan 1843. Lockey asks Routh to send a testimonial about his son Charles Lockey to the Dean and Canons of St. Paul’s, as he is applying to be appointed a Lay Vicar there. Fol. 26: Letter from Charles Lockey (address, Lavender Hill, Wandsworth, Surrey) to Benjamin Blyth, 18 June 1853. Lockey sends Blyth biographical material about himself, presumably for John Bloxam’s register. This shows that his application in 1843 for a post at St. Paul’s was successful. Fol. 27: Letter concerning William Henry Birt (Ch. 1828–33). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 119

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MC:PR30/1/C2/14 (con.) Fol. 27: Letter from John Birt (address, Oxford) to an unnamed addressee (probably Martin Routh), 30 Jun 1827. Birt (who is currently a Master at King’s School, Canterbury), writes to Routh to recommend his second son William Henry Birt for a Choristership. Fol. 28: Letter concerning William Attree Fuller (Ch. 1829–37). Fol. 28: Letter from S. N. Blagden (address, Westdean, Midhurst) to Martin Routh, 28 Dec 1826. Blagden writes to recommend William Attree Fuller, a son of his younger sister, for Choristership. Fol. 29: Letter concerning George Augustus Lohr (Ch. 1829–35). Fol. 29: Letter from Zechariah Buck (1798–1879, organist of Norwich Cathedral 1819–77; address, Upper Close, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 15 Mar (year not given; probably 1845). Buck writes about George Augustus Lohr, who, since leaving Magdalen, has spent nine years at Norwich. Buck would now like Lohr to get an appointment at Magdalen. He understands that the current organist of Magdalen, Walter Vicary is very ill (he died in May 1845); if this is so, then he warmly recommends Lohr as his successor. Fol. 30: Letter concerning Nathan Baly (Ch. 1830–5). Fol. 30: Letter from George Innes (D. 1781–8; F. 1788–93; address, College Warwick) to Martin Routh, 20 Nov 1828. Innes thanks Routh for his encouraging reply to his request to grant a Choristership to Nathan Baly. Fols. 31–32: Letters concerning Octavius Arthur Hodgson (Ch. 1830–6; Cl. 1836–41; matr. 1836). See also loose document no. 9 below. Fol. 31: Letter from Charles Henry Hodgson (address, Close, Sarum) to Martin Routh, 28 Jun 1830. Hodgson thanks Routh for making his son Octavius Arthur Hodgson a Chorister at Magdalen. Fol. 32: Letter from Charles Henry Hodgson (address, Close, Sarum) to Martin Routh, 4 May 1836. Hodgson thanks Routh for appointing his son Octavius a Clerk at Magdalen. Fol. 33: Document concerning Augustus Drake (Ch. 1831–6; matr. Gonville and Caius, Cantab. 1843). Fol. 33: Scrap of paper giving biographical details of Augustus Drake. Presumably this was prepared by or for Drake to provide information on himself for Bloxam’s register. Fol. 34: Letter concerning Alfred Gott Woolward (d. 1873; Ch. 1833–7; Cl. 1837–41; matr. 1837). See also loose document no. 10 below. Fol. 34: Letter from Sir Francis Burdett (1770–1844, politician; address, St. James’s Place) to Martin Routh, 6 Jul 1830. Burdett recommends to Routh for a Choristership Alfred Gott Woolward, whose father is a naval officer injured at the Battle of the Nile. He hopes that they will meet soon. Fol. 35: Letter concerning Samuel Martin Edwards (Ch. 1833–5). Fol. 35: Letter from S. Price Edwards, collector of customs at Yarmouth (address, Bromston Hall, Suffolk), to Martin Routh, 25 Aug 1835. Edwards discusses his son Samuel Martin Edwards, who has been a Chorister at Magdalen for two years. Unfortunately, Edwards is not at all impressed by his son’s progress under MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 120

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MC:PR30/1/C2/14 (con.) the teaching of George Grantham (D. 1798–1809; F. 1809–40; Usher of MCS 1801–40), and has decided to withdraw him from the school. Fol. 36: Letter concerning Fraser John Fletcher (d. 1845; Ch. 1833–42). Fol. 36: Letter from Richard Fletcher (address, Oxford), to Martin Routh, 5 May 1844. Fletcher notes that his son Fraser John Fletcher has now twice applied unsuccessfully for a Demyship at Magdalen, and asks that he can now be given the Clerkship which was promised him. Fols. 37–38: Letters concerning James Elwin Millard (1823–94; Ch. 1834–41; D. 1842–53; F. 1853–65; Master of MCS 1846–64). Fol. 37: Letter from Charles Sutton (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 24 Dec 1833. Sutton is delighted to hear that one of the sons of his friend Millard, namely James Elwin Millard, is on the list to be appointed a Chorister at Magdalen, and praises Millard’s family. He wonders whether Richard Heber’s will has been found, and passes on news of Routh’s (unnamed) sister. Fol. 38: Letter from Allen Whitmore Lechmere, perpetual curate of Brockhampton, Herefordshire (address, Founhope) to the President and Fellows of Magdalen College, 19 Jul 1842. Lechmer recommends James Millard for a Demyship at Magdalen. Fol. 39: Letter concerning Benjamin Blyth (d. 1883; Ch. 1835–41; matr. Magd. 1841; Cl. 1842–5; Organist 1845–60). Fol. 39: Letter from Benjamin Blyth (address, Richmond) to Martin Routh, 27 Feb 1840. Blyth is writing about his son Benjamin Blyth. He is grateful for the favour shown his son so far, and discusses his progress. Now he wonders whether an opening could be found for his younger son. Fol. 40: Letter from John Walker Knight (matr 1845, Ch. 1835–44; D. 1845–9; F. 1849–66). Fol. 40: Letter in Latin from John Walker Knight (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (1845?). Knight thanks Routh for an unnamed honour; the context (and the use of Latin) suggests that he has just been made a Demy. Fol. 41: Letter concerning John Marklove (Ch. 1836–41). Fol. 41: Letter from Sir Francis Burdett (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. He writes to recommend John Marklove for a Choristership. Fols. 42 & 44: Letters concerning and from William Cooke (d. 1881; Ch. 1837–45; Cl. 1845–54; matr. 1845). Fol. 42: Letter from Vaughan Thomas (matr. Oriel 1792; Fellow of Corpus Christi to 1812; address, Holywell) to Martin Routh, 9 Feb 1837. Thomas keenly recommends William Cooke for a Choristership. On the back of the letter Routh has drafted a reply agreeing to place Cooke on the list for Choristerships. Fol. 43: Letter concerning Henry Lee Smith (Ch. 1838–42). Fol. 43: Letter from Thomas B. Smith (address, Devizes) to Martin Routh, 8 Apr 1840. Smith writes about his son Henry Lee Smith, who has been seriously ill, and been granted leave of absence. His son is still not fully recovered, and so Smith asks for his son to be allowed to convalesce a little longer. Fol. 44: Letter from William Cooke (address, Magdalen) to an unnamed addressee, 10 Oct 1853. On the death of George Brown (Chaplain 1831–53), MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 121

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MC:PR30/1/C2/14 (con.) which occurred on 8 April, Cooke has written to the President asking to be appointed Chaplain in his place. He was told that his voice was not good enough for the post, but now Dr. Elvey (Sir George Elvey, 1816–93; organist and composer) and Benjamin Blyth are willing to speak up for him (but he was still not appointed). Fols. 45–46: Letters concerning Frederick Weichsel Gutteridge (Ch. 1841–7). See also loose documents nos. 14–15 below. Fol. 45: Letter from the Master of the Household (address, Buckingham Palace) to Martin Routh, 7 Jan 1839. The Master recommends Frederick Weichsel Gutteridge, the son of the Queen’s Organist at Brighton, for a Choristership. Fol. 46: Letter from Lady Mary Pelham (address, Parham) to Martin Routh, 12 Jan 1839. Pelham writes at the request of Princess Augusta likewise to recommend Frederick Gutteridge for a Choristership. Fols. 47–48: Letters concerning John Budgen Ward (Ch. 1842–50; matr. Trinity College Dublin 1853). Fol. 47: Letter from Francis Knyvett Leighton (D. 1823–9; address, Great Ilford, Essex) to Martin Routh, 23 Nov 1840. Leighton recommends John Budgen Ward for a Choristership, describing his family’s straitened circumstances. Routh has written a draft reply at the bottom of the letter agreeing to add Ward’s name to the list of Choristers. Fol. 48: Letter from Robert Harrison (address, 1 Herne Street, Dublin) to Martin Routh, 8 Sep 1844. Harrison reports that he has been attending John Ward, who has been dangerously ill with rheumatism and fever. Ward’s condition has now improved, but Harrison advises that he should not be moved for another fortnight. Fol. 49: Letter concerning Frederick Thomas William Wintle (Ch. 1842–7; Cl. 1849–54; matr. 1849). Fol. 49: Letter from Vaughan Thomas (see fol. 42 above; address, Lady Silvester’s, 30 Bloomsbury Square) to Martin Routh, 20 Aug 1841. Thomas recommends Frederick Thomas William Wintle for a Choristership. His father is the director of the Warneford Asylum. Thomas reports that George Vicary thinks that young Wintle has a good voice. Fols. 50–51: Letters concerning and from Thomas Knight (Ch. 1842–9). Fol. 50: Letter from Richard Walker (D. 1812–21; F. 1824–47; Master 1828–44; address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 17 Mar 1842. Walker passes on the gratitude of the father of Thomas Knight, who is surgeon to the Duke of Buckingham, for Routh’s intention to make his son a Chorister. He regrets that young Knight did not acquit himself very well at his audition, as he was suffering from nerves. Fol. 51: Letter from Thomas Knight (address, Brill, near Thame, Oxon.) to Martin Routh, 3 Aug 1853. Knight explains to Routh that his father has died after falling from his horse, and his family is now in difficult circumstances. He therefore asks whether Routh would be willing to place his youngest brother, now aged 9, onto the list of Choristers. Fols. 52–53: Letters concerning Arthur Henry Faber (Ch. 1842–3; matr. New College 1849). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 122

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MC:PR30/1/C2/14 (con.) Fol. 52: Letter from Francis Faber (F. 1833–45; address not given) to Martin Routh, undated (c. 1842?). Faber asks that his nephew Arthur Henry Faber might be appointed a Chorister. His father lives in India, and all his sons, having been born out there, are ineligible for almost every scholarship in Oxford. Fol. 53: Letter from Francis Faber (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated (c. 1842?). Faber confirms that his nephew has a good name for scholarship. Fols. 54–55: Letters concerning Henry Bennett Relton (d. 1850; Ch. 1842–7). Fol. 54: Letter from John Rudge Relton (address, Kemerton, Tewkesbury) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul 1837. Relton thanks Routh for offering a Choristership to his son Henry Bennett Relton. Unfortunately, his son has just fallen badly ill, and he asks whether his son can remain for now under the care of his existing doctors. Fol. 55: Letter from John Rudge Relton (address, St. Omer) to Martin Routh, 4 Sep 1843. Relton encloses a letter from Hannah Baverstock in which she asks for a Choristership for one of her sons, but also expresses his pleasure at his own son’s good academic progress. Fol. 56: Letter concerning Robert Ives (Ch. 1843–6). Fol. 56: Letter from George Vicary (O. 1797–1845; no address given) to Martin Routh (no address given), 17 May 1843. Vicary reports on Robert Ives, and declares his voice and ear very good. Fol. 57: Letter concerning Edward Hill (Ch. 1843–9; D. 1849–65). Fol. 57: Draft letter from Martin Routh to Richard Sibthorp (D. 1810–18; F. 1818–41), undated, but written on the back of part of a letter postmarked 11 Oct 1842. Routh agrees to put an unnamed lad, recommended by Sibthorp, on the list of Choristers. At the top of the letter, Bloxam has identified the lad as Edward Hill. Fol. 58: Letter concerning Edmund Hillier (Ch. 1843–8). Fol. 58: Letter from James Radford (Rector of Lincoln College 1834–51; address, Lincoln College) to Martin Routh, 9 Dec 1842. Radford recommends to Routh Edmund Hillier, the son of the recently deceased cook at Lincoln College, for a Choristership. Fol. 58a: Letter from Walter Currer Holiwell (Ch. 1844–50). See also loose documents nos. 16–17 below. Fol. 58a: Letter from Walter Currer Holiwell (no address given) to an unnamed address, undated. Holiwell encloses the text of a play he has written (lost). Fol. 59: Letter concerning Edward Owen (b. 1839; Ch. from 1846). Fol. 59: Letter from Edward South Thurlow (1764–1847; matr. 1781; address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 4 Apr 1843. Thurlow recommends for a Choristership Edward Owen (Ch. from 1846), the son of a surgeon and apothecary at Oxford, who has recentlylost his wife. See MC:PR30/1/C2/13 Fols. 2–17 for other letters from Thurlow. Fol. 60: Letter concerning Henry Homer Page b. 1844; (Ch. from 1853). See also loose document no. 37 below. Fol. 60: Letter from Luke Flood Page (address, Woolpit Parsonage, Suffolk) to Martin Routh, 12 Dec 1851. Page thanks Routh for putting the name of his son MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 123

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MC:PR30/1/C2/14 (con.) Henry Homer Page onto the list of Choristers. Fols. 61–66: Letters concerning William Jerome Burdett (b. 1841; Ch. from 1853; matr. St. Edmund Hall 1860). Burdett was the dedicatee of Volume I of John Bloxam’s Register. Fol. 61: Letter from John H. Burgess (address, 7 New Square, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 7 Oct 1851. Burgess has been appointed guardian to the children of Sir Charles Burdett, now that their mother has died, but they have almost no provision. He therefore wonders whether Routh could consider appointing the youngest son, William Jerome Burdett to a Choristership. Fol. 62: First page only of a letter from Angela Burdett Coutts (address, Stratton Street) to Martin Routh, 16 Dec 1851. Burdett Coutts likewise asks Routh to consider giving a Choristership to William Burdett (who was a distant cousin). Fol. 63: Letter from Angela Burdett Coutts (address, Conkill [?] Bank) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul 1853. Burdett Coutts is delighted that William Burdett has been given a Choristership. She is shortly to visit the grandchildren of the Duke of Wellington. Fol. 64: Letter from Angela Burdett Coutts (address, Conkill [?] Bank) to Martin Routh, 25 Jul 1853. Burdett Coutts once again thanks Routh for helping Wiliam Burdett. Fol. 65: Letter from Angela Burdett Coutts (address, Bedford Hotel, Brighton) to Martin Routh, 7 Jan 1854. Routh has evidently agreed to help Burdett Coutts restore the church where the Duke of Wellington worshipped as a boy, and she asks for his details to go on a list of subscribers. She wonders about sending young Burdett (here called “Jerome”) a twelfth night cake. Fol. 66: Letter from Angela Burdett Coutts (address illegible) to Eliza Routh, 18 Feb 1854. She is glad that the President approved of her sending Jerome Burdett a cake. Fol. 67: Letter concerning George Gordon Wilder (b. 1845; Ch. from 1853). Fol. 67: Letter from John Macmahon Wilder (address, Brandeston, Attlebridge) to Martin Routh, 28 Feb 1853. Wilder understands that Routh has agreed to add one of his sons, George Gordon Wilder, to the list of Choristers, and expresses his gratitude for this, as he does not have the means to give his sons a good education. Fol. 68: Document concerning George Johnson Fookes (b. 1842; Ch. from 1853). Fol. 68:Extract in an unknown hand from the Moniteur (presumably the Moniteur universel) of 2 October 1853, of an article taken from the Gazette d’Augsburg. The article reports that Martin Routh has just celebrated his 99th [recte 98th] birthday, and has appointed a chorister someone whose grandfather he appointed to the same post sixty years ago. The chorister is identified by John Bloxam as George Johnson Fookes (Ch. from 1853), but Bloxam does not name his grandfather; presumably it was his maternal grandfather, because no Chorister called Fookes was admitted in the 1790s. Fol. 69: Letter concerning William Boultbee Whall (b. 1846; Ch. from 1854). Fol. 69: Letter from William Whall (Thurning Rectory) to John Bloxam Saturday 11 February (1854). Whall hopes to call on Bloxam shortly to discuss the vacant MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 124

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MC:PR30/1/C2/14 (con.) Choristership which Martin Routh has agreed to offer to one of his children. The son chosen was William Boultbee Whall. Fols. 70–71: Letters concerning William Philpott (b. 1844; Ch. 1855–60; Cl. 1863–6; matr. 1863). Fol. 70: Letter from Henry Charles Philpott (address, Severn Stoke) to an unnamed addressee (John Bloxam?), 19 Feb 1855. Philpott expresses his pleasure that the President (now Frederic Bulley) has put down the name of one of his sons as a candidate for a Choristership. This was William Philpott. Fol. 71: Letter from John Knott (address, Kenilworth, Warwickshire) to John Bloxam, 29 Jan 1855. Knott requests on behalf of the Philpotts that Bloxam can put in a good word for William Philpott’s candidature. Fol. 72: Letter concerning John Dynham (b. 1849; Ch. from 1857). See also loose document no. 45 below. Fol. 72: Letter from Anne Dynham (address, Wantage) to an unnamed addressee (John Bloxam?), 12 Jun 1855. Dynham sends Bloxam circulars about a girls’ school at Wantage which is run by lay sisters there, and which needs some more financial support. She hopes to have a son of hers made a Chorister (and a John Dynham was appointed a Chorister in 1857). Fol. 73: Letter about the Choristers in general. Fol. 73: Letter from Thomas Collins (F. 1805–16; address, Knaresborough) to the Bursar of Magdalen College (who he thinks is Frederic Bulley), 25 Jul 1853. When Collins was visiting Magdalen he noticed that in the Choristers’ playground there was no space for a blank wall on which to play fives. He recommends that the College do something about it, now that they have got a new school room and a good Master. He would be happy to make a contribution to such a project.

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No. 1: Letter concerning Ezekiel Hopkins (1634–90; Ch. 1648–53; Usher 1655–6; Chaplain 1656–8). No. 1: Letter from Maurice (initials illegible; address, South Grove) to John Bloxam, 1 Jan 1856. Maurice has visited an unnamed church for Bloxam in search of a monument for Bishop Hopkins (Ezekiel Hopkins; Ch. 1648–53; Usher 1655–6; Chaplain 1656–8), but he could not find it, or find anyone who knew about it. Hopkins was buried at St. Mary Aldermanbury, London, so perhaps this was the church in question. No. 2: Notes concerning Thomas Drake (Ch. 1707–11; D. 1711–21). No. 2: Notes taken from the catalogue of music at Durham Cathedral, headed “Thomas Drake”, and dated 18 May 1868. There is no mention in Bloxam’s entry on him of Drake having had a link with Durham. No. 3: Letter concerning John Walker (d. 1807; Ch. 1761–72; Cl. 1772–6). No. 3: Letter from Trivet Allcock (address, Sourbland, Norwich) to John Bloxam, 1 Sep 1860. Allcock sends Bloxam the text of the memorial to mark the grave of MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 125

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MC:PR30/1/C2/14 (con.) John Walker (Ch. 1761–72; Cl. 1772–6) at Norwich Cathedral. No. 4: Letter concerning Arthur Homer (Ch. 1765–72; D. 1775–82; F. 1782–1802). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/6 Fols. 27–46 for other letters from and about this correspondent.. No. 4: Letter from Susanna E. Page (address, Woolpit) to John Bloxam, 29 Feb 1852. Page’s mother, Mrs. Cobbold (née Homer) cannot remember who wrote the epitaph for her brother Arthur Homer at Standlake, but thinks it was her brother Philip (D. 1783–1802; F. 1802–6). She herself reminisces about her grandfather Henry Homer (D. 1737–47), and her two uncles. No. 5: Letter from George Valentine Cox (1786–1875; Ch. 1793–1802; Cl. 1803–7). No. 5: Letter from George Valentine Cox (Ch. 1793–1802; Cl. 1803–7; address, 34 High Street) to John Bloxam, 19 Jan 1859. Cox agrees to send a photograph of himself for the Magdalen Common Room. Nos. 6–7: Letter from and document concerning James William Graves (Ch. 1798–1803). No. 6: Letter from James William Graves (Ch. 1798–1803; address, 47 Wellclose Square) to John Bloxam, 26 Nov 1855. Graves will call for an unspecified portrait. He regrets that he was unable to published his account of his travels (A Synopsis of forty years’ adventurous Travel) at the start of the Crimean War, but he has not yet got enough subscribers for the purpose. No. 7: Printed handbill advertising the services of John William Graves’s British and Foreign Medical Institution, n.d. No. 8: Letter concerning Robert Francis Walker (d. 1854; Ch. 1800–6; Cl. 1806–12). No. 8: Letter from Thomas Collins (F. 1805–16; address, Knaresborough) to John Bloxam, 8 Feb 1862. Collins has been given a profile of Robert Francis Walker (Ch. 1800–6; Cl. 1806–12) which he sends Bloxam. It was drawn by John Page of Brasenose. Collins remembers Walker’s later life, in which he developed Calvanistic tendencies. No. 9: Letter from Octavius Arthur Hodgson (Ch. 1830–6; Cl. 1836–41; matr. 1836). See also Fols. 31–32 above. No. 9: Letter from Octavius Arthur Hodgson (address, Dething, Maidstone, Kent) to John Bloxam, 22 Oct 1859. Hodgson agrees to come and preach in Oxford on St. Thomas’s Day. No. 10: Letter from Alfred Gott Woolward (d. 1873; Ch. 1833–7; Cl. 1837–41). See also fol. 34 above. No. 10: Letter from Alfred Gott Woolward (address, Little Gaddedon, Berkhampstead) to John Bloxam, 29 Oct 1859. Woolward discusses arrangements for him to preach at St. Mary’s (the University Church?). No. 11: Letter to Richard Humphrey Hill (Ch. 1834–42; D. 1842–51; Master of MCS 1864–76). No. 11: Letter from John Bloxam (address, Beeding Rectory, Hurstpierpoint) to Richard Humphrey Hill (Ch. 1834–42; D. 1842–51; Master of MCS 1864–76), 12 Dec 1865. Bloxam discusses Dr. Sheppard’s exhibition for Choristers, and the creation of payments to former choristers. He recently attended a performance of Hamlet at Lancing College, which he much enjoyed, and talks about preparations for Christmas in his parish (which include setting up a Christmas tree and gifts of alcohol). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 126

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MC:PR30/1/C2/14 (con.) No. 12: Letter from Richard Zouche Walker (b. 1829; Ch. 1835–46; D. 1846–56; F. 1856–62). No. 12: Letter from Richard Zouche Walker (Ch. 1835–46; D. 1846–56; F. 1856–62; address, Boyton Rectory, Heytesbury) to John Bloxam, 3 Jan 1862. Walker sends Bloxam some corrigenda to put in a volume of sermons which he has published. No. 13: Letter concerning John William Cattle (Ch. 1836–45; Cl. 1848–55). No. 13: Letter from H. Aldham (name uncertain; address Stoke Prior Vicarage, W. Bromsgrove) to John Bloxam, 8 Feb 1856. The writer has been asked to write a testimonial for John William Cattle for him to take orders. At Cattle’s request, the writer now asks Bloxam for his assessment of Cattle as a potential clergyman. Nos. 14–15: Letters from and concerning Frederick Weichsel Gutteridge (Ch. 1841–7). See also fols. 45–46 above. No. 14: Sheet with copies of two letters from Martin Routh to William Gutteridge, Her Majesty’s Organist, Brighton, Sussex, dated 8 and 22 Mar 1841. Routh had received a request from Princess Augusta to place a son of Gutteridge’s in the choir but he had been unable to do so, until now, when a vacancy has arisen. The son was Frederick Weichsel Gutteridge. No. 15: Letter from Frederick Weichsel Gutteridge (Ch. 1841–7; address, Brighton, 8 Pavilion Buildings) to John Bloxam, 11 Jan 1856. Gutteridge has met his old friend James Elwin Millard (Ch. 1834–41; D. 1842–53; F. 1853–65; Master of MCS 1846–64), and been hearing about Magdalen College School. He has heard of Bloxam’s register of choristers, and would like to obtain a copy, as he has happy memories of his time in the choir and of Bloxam’s kindness to him. Nos. 16–17: Letters from Walter Currer Holiwell (Ch. 1844–50). See also Fol. 58a above. No. 16: Letter from Walter Currer Holiwell (Ch. 1844–50; address, Rearsby, Leicester) to John Bloxam, 17 Apr (year not given). Holiwell reports on his recent activities: having got his degree from Durham, he is now working as a tutor, and enjoying his life. He hopes to visit Oxford soon. No. 17: Letter from Walter Currer Holiwell (address, Rearsby) to John Bloxam, 24 Apr (year not given). Holiwell sends Bloxam some Latin essays and letters. He has revisited Rugby, and has also purchased a photograph of Bloxam himself, which greatly pleases him. Nos. 18–22: Letters from Frederick John Sutton (b. 1837; Ch. from 1845). No. 18: Letter from Frederick John Sutton (address, Ilminster) to John Bloxam, “Thursday” (1855?). Sutton is going to Wincanton to meet his brother who has arrived from Calcutta, and hopes to come on to Oxford to see Bloxam. He guesses that the new President must have made some changes. No. 19: Letter from Frederick John Sutton (Ch. from 1845; address, Wincanton) to John Bloxam, “Sunday” (c. 1855?). Sutton looks forward to meeting Bloxam in Oxford, and hearing the new organ (installed in 1855). He wonders what Magdalen must be like with 36 Commoners. No. 20: Letter from Frederick John Sutton (address, Great Bridge) to John Bloxam, 23 Mar. Sutton intended to catch the train for Oxford on Thursday morning. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 127

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MC:PR30/1/C2/14 (con.) No. 21: Letter from Frederick John Sutton (address, Wincanton) to John Bloxam, 3 Jun 1855. He is amused to hear tales of “Little Rugby” (a jocular name for Magdalen College School?), and the misbehaviour of boys there. He also longs to listen to the new organ, of which he has heard good things. He has also heard from his younger brother. No. 22: Letter from Frederick John Sutton (address, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, EC) to John Bloxam, 27 Mar (year not given). Suttons asks for news of Magdalen, and regrets that he does not have the time to visit. He mentions meeting Sir Frederick Ouseley on a train journey. No. 23: Letter from Charles Henry Haden (b. 1837; Ch. 1846–53). No. 23: Letter (2 sheets, of which half of the second appears to be missing) from Charles Henry Haden (address, Ettapolla [in Sri Lanka]) to John Bloxam, 8 Nov 1857. Haden thanks Bloxam for his letter, and passes on news of his family. He remembers fondly the visits which they made to Brighton and the Rhine. He is sorry to hear that Benjamin Blyth (Ch. 1835–41; matr. Magd. 1841; Cl. 1842–5; Organist 1845–60) has had an accident, as he is very grateful to him for his music teaching. He reports on life in Ceylon, at a time when the Indian Mutiny is at its height. No. 24: Letter from William Sanders (d. 1869; Ch. 1846–50; Cl. 1850–7). No. 24: Letter from William Sanders (address, Christ Church) to John Bloxam, 20 May 1859. Sanders expresses regret that he has thanked Bloxam for the kindness he showed him at Magdalen, and that he might have forfeited Bloxam’s good opinion of him. Nos. 25–26: Letters from Arthur Henry Giles (b. 1839; Ch. 1849–53). No. 25: Letter from Arthur Henry Giles (address Rectory, Perivale near Ealing) to John Bloxam, undated. Giles asks Bloxam to send him a testimonial as to his character. He is going to be examined by the local marine board, and needs one. No. 26: Letter from Arthur Henry Giles (address Perivale) to John Bloxam, undated. Giles thanks Bloxam for giving him a testimonial. Nos. 27–35: Letters from Thomas William Hansell (Ch. 1849–57). No. 27: Letter from Thomas William Hansell (address, The Close, Norwich) to John Bloxam, 11 May 1859. Hansell is glad that Bloxam liked the photograph which he sent him. He also seeks advice on an appropriate hotel in London for his parents to stay in. No. 28: Letter from Thomas William Hansell (address, The Close, Norwich) to John Bloxam, 24 Jun 1859. Hansell passes on news of his family, and teases Bloxam on his mock horror at seeing in the Times that day that Bloxam is a member of the committee to support W. E. Gladstone’s election as MP for the University of Oxford. No. 29: Letter from Thomas William Hansell (address, The Close, Norwich) to John Bloxam, 2 Dec 1859. Hansell thanks Bloxam for sending him a copy of his latest volume (of his Register). No. 30: Letter from Thomas William Hansell (address, The Close, Norwich) to John Bloxam, undated (1859). Hansell is pleased to hear that Millard took his DD MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 128

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MC:PR30/1/C2/14 (con.) (which he did in 1859). He hears that Bloxam has been to look at a living in Nottinghamshire, but rather hopes that he will not take it. He jokes that there is a lady in Oxford who would gladly marry Bloxam. No. 31: Letter from Thomas William Hansell (address, The Close, Norwich) to John Bloxam, 28 Apr 1860. Hansell sends Bloxam another photograph. His sister is collecting autographs, so wonders whether Bloxam has any autographs of “cardinals or other swells” which he could give him. He begs Bloxam not to take a living, as he is the last of the old set of Magdalen who loved the old President. No. 32: Letter from Thomas William Hansell (address, The Close, Norwich) to John Bloxam, 21 Nov 1860. Hansell recalls a visit to Radley to see a play there. He is pleased to hear that the windows are almost up in Chapel, and urges Bloxam to vote for Monier Williams in the Sanskrit Professorship. No. 33: Letter from Thomas William Hansell (address, The Close, Norwich) to John Bloxam, 17 Dec 1861. Hansell has to decline an invitation from Bloxam to attend Christmas Eve at Magdalen. He continues to regret Bloxam’s decision to move to a College living. No. 34: Letter (2 sheets) from Thomas William Hansell (address, The Close, Norwich) to John Bloxam, 23 Oct 1862. Hansell is pleased to receive a letter from Bloxam, and, recalls with pleasure his visit to Bloxam’s rooms, while regretting his departure from Magdalen to take a College living. No. 35: Letter from Thomas William Hansell (address not given) to John Bloxam, undated. Hansell thanks Bloxam for an invitation for dinner, which he accepts. No. 36: Letter from Hugh Redmond Morres (b. 1838; Ch. 1849–55; Cl. 1857–63; matr. 1858). No. 36: Letter from Hugh Redmond Morres (Ch. 1849–55; Cl. 1857–63; address not given) to John Bloxam, 30 Jul (year not given). Morres regrets that he will be unable to visit Bloxam at Brighton at the time suggested, as he has to play a cricket match; but hopes that they can meet soon. No. 37: Letter from Henry Homer Page (b. 1844; Ch. from 1853). See also Fol. 60 above. No. 37: Letter from Henry Homer Page (Ch. from 1853; address, Woolpit Rectory, Suffolk) to an unnamed addressee (probably John Bloxam), undated (c. 1862?). Page wishes Bloxam a happy Christmas. He was surprised that Bloxam has taken a living (Bloxam was appointed to Beeding in 1862), and hopes that he will like it. Nos. 38–39: Letters concerning Henry Schneider (b. 1843; Ch. from 1854). No. 38: Letter from Henry Schneider (Ch. from 1854; address Carlton Scroop, Grantham) to John Bloxam, 2 Aug 1858. Schneider reports to Bloxam that he has got home safely, and thanks him for his kindness during his visit to Brighton. No. 39: Letter from Henry Schneider (address Carlton Scroop) to John Bloxam, 3 Jan 1860. Schneider asks Bloxam to forward home some papers which he left behind at Oxford. Nos. 40–44: Letters from or concerning Henry Chittenden Rogers (b. 1845; Ch. from 1856). No. 40: Letter from Margaret Knapp Rogers (address 13 Upper College Green) to John Bloxam, 15 Jul 1855. Roberts encloses a copy of a letter to her from MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 129

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MC:PR30/1/C2/14 (con.) Frederic Bulley explaining that there is no immediate possibility of an opening for her son. She herself reports that John Corfe at Bristol Cathedral and his brother at Christ Church both think her son has musical potential, and, because she is a cousin of Frederic Bulley, would like her son to go to Magdalen. No. 41: Letter from Margaret Knapp Rogers (address 13 Upper College Green) to John Bloxam, 3 Oct 1855. Rogers hopes to visit him at Oxford shortly with her son. She encloses a copy of a testimonial as to his voice from John Corfe, the Organist of Bristol Cathedral. The letter also reveals that she is a cousin of Frederick Bulley. No. 42: Letter from Frederic Bulley (no address given) to John Bloxam, undated (1855/6?). Bulley has had a good report on Henry Roger’s voice and ear, and has no objection to his being appointed a chorister. No. 43: Letter from Margaret Knapp Rogers (address not given) to John Bloxam, Festival of St. Matthias (24 Feb) 1856. Rogers expresses her pleasure that her son has now been appointed a Chorister at Magdalen. No. 44: Letter from Henry Chittenden Rogers (address, Yarmouth Villa, Wellington Park) to John Bloxam, undated (late 1850s). Rogers thanks Bloxam for sending him a present. He also reports that he is recovering from well from his illness. No. 45: Letter concerning John Dynham (b. 1849; Ch. from 1857). See also fol. 72 above. No. 45: Letter from Anne Dynham (address, Wantage) to John Bloxam, 23 Apr 1855. Dynham discusses her son John (Ch. from 1857), in whom President Routh had taken an interest. He is only six years old, but she hopes that the promise made by Dr. Routh that an opening would be found for him when he is old enough will be confirmed (it was). No. 46: Letter concerning Henry Mitford Faber (b. 1851; Ch. from 1860). No. 46: Letter from Francis Atkinson Faber (F. 1833–45; address, Saunderton Rectory) to John Bloxam, 27 Dec (no year given; 1861/2?). Faber thanks Bloxam for helping his son get home after Christmas (this must be Henry Mitford Faber), and reflects on the news that Bloxam has decided to accept the living of Beeding. He fears that the Choir will never have such a patron again. No. 47: Document concerning the new hall for Magdalen College School. No. 47: Three copies of an order of service for the laying of the foundation stone for the new hall for Magdalen College School (now the New Library), 19 Sep 1849. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 130

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MC:PR30/1/C3/1 1785–1843 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters from Granville Penn” on the spine. Granville Penn (1761–1844) had come up to Magdalen in 1780, but left without taking a degree. He was one of Routh’s early pupils (see Middleton, Dr. Routh, p. 38), and remained on close terms with him for the rest of his life. As well as working in the War Office as an assistant clerk, Penn published various works, including translations from Greek literature, and what his ODNB entry describes as “many theological and semi-scientific works.” As is clear from what follows, Penn regularly sent Routh copies of his works, and several of them are now preserved in the Routh Library in the University of Durham. Fol. 1: Letter from Granville Penn (address, New Street, Spring Gardens) to Martin Routh, 13 May 1791. Penn congratulates Routh on his election as President of Magdalen. Fol. 2: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Petersham) to Martin Routh, 28 Jul 1791. Penn sends Routh some pamphlets discussing current affairs, which he hints that he wrote himself. Fol. 3: Letter from Granville Penn (address not given) to Martin Routh, 24 Feb 1798. Penn sends Routh another of his pamphlets. He also discusses with Routh a textual problem at Jeremiah 46.17. Fol. 4: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Hastings) to Martin Routh, 29 Oct 1798 [2 sheets]. Penn discusses his wife’s poor health, and discusses again the passage in Jeremiah, and the possible relationship between Egyptian and Coptic, as well as some of Edward Gibbon’s strictures against Magdalen. Fol. 5: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Stoke Park) to Martin Routh, 17 Dec 1798 [2 sheets]. Penn thanks Routh for his help in the matter of the reading in Jeremiah. He discusses the Battle of the Nile. Fol. 6: Letter from Granville Penn (address, London) to Martin Routh, 20 Jan 1799. Penn thanks Routh for sending him a book, which appears to be about Coptic manuscripts in Britain and Ireland, and discusses the Coptic and Egyptian languages. Fol. 7: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Petersham) to Martin Routh, 23 May 1799. Penn discusses the fate of Woide’s papers after his death (Karl Woide 1725–90, orientalist). Fol. 8: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Petersham) to Martin Routh, 17 Jun 1799. Penn sends Routh a pamphlet. Fol. 9: Letter (apparently incomplete) from Granville Penn (address, Petersham) to Martin Routh, 18 Dec 1799. Penn discusses aspects of Egyptian history, in particular the work of Manetho. Fol. 10: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Petersham) to Martin Routh, 15 Jan 1800. Penn discusses Egyptian history once more, this time with reference to the work of Herodotus. Fol. 11: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Brighton) to Martin Routh, 5 Dec 1800. Penn discusses Orthodox Christianity. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 131

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MC:PR30/1/C3/1 (con.) Fol. 12: Letter (incomplete) from Granville Penn (address, Hill Street) to Martin Routh, 27 Mar 1800. Penn discusses the different branches of the Christian church. Fol. 13: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Downing Street) to Martin Routh, 14 Nov 1800. Penn discusses editions of the works of Plato. Fol. 14: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Downing Street) to Martin Routh, 7 Jan 1802. Penn reports on the death of his mother. Fol. 15: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Petersham) to Martin Routh, 26 Apr 1802. Penn discusses various literary matters. Fol. 16: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Downing Street) to Martin Routh, 31 Aug 1802. Penn sends Routh a Greek inscription to read. Routh has scribbled some Latin on the back of the last page. Fol. 17: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Downing Street) to Martin Routh, 29 Nov 1802. Penn discusses again the Greek inscription mentioned in letter Fol. 15 above. Routh has scribbled some arithmetical calculations on the back of the last page. Fol. 18: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Downing Street) to Martin Routh, 10 Apr 1804. Penn asks after Routh’s health, and reports on the death of his eldest child, a daughter. He also sends Routh one of his pamphlets. Fol. 19: Letter from Granville Penn (address, 6 Duke Street, St. James’s) to Martin Routh, 28 Dec 1807. Penn asks after Routh’s health, and laments that they have been out of contact for some time. Fol. 20: Letter from Granville Penn (address, New Street, Spring Gardens) to Martin Routh, 28 Mar 1810. Penn thanks Routh for his latest letter, and hopes that work on an unspecified literary project of his (presumably the Reliquiae Sacrae) is going well. Fol. 21: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Tunbridge Wells) to Martin Routh, 15 Jun 1810. Penn hopes that Routh has received a book which he sent him, and asks to know what he thinks of it. Fol. 22: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Stoke Park, near Colnbrooke) to Martin Routh, 24 Aug 1814. Penn thanks Routh for what must be copies of the first volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 23: Letter from Granville Penn (address, 37 Hertford Street, May Fair) to Martin Routh, 24 Nov 1814. Penn asks Routh to comment on a translation into Latin elegiacs of Gray’s Elegy which he has written. He hopes to introduce Routh to his two eldest sons, and discusses their education to date. Fol. 24; Letter from Granville Penn (address, Hertford Street) to Martin Routh, 9 Dec 1814 (2 sheets). Penn thanks Routh for his comments on his translation (as in Fol. 23 above). He also discusses a textual problem in Matthew 16:18 (“Thou art Peter and on this rock....”) Fol. 25: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Hertford Street) to Martin Routh, 17 Dec 1815. Penn sends Routh a present, which Routh, in a note written on the letter, identifies as his translation of St. Macarius. Fol. 26: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Hertford Street) to Martin Routh, MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 132

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MC:PR30/1/C3/1 (con.) 31 Dec 1815. Penn thanks Routh for accepting his present. He discusses visiting the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Grenville. Fol. 27: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Brighton) to Martin Routh, 22 Dec 1816. Penn regrets being unable to visit Routh in Berkshire. He discusses Matthew 16:18 again (see letter Fol. 24). Fol. 28: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Hertford Street) to Martin Routh, 31 Jan 1817. Penn discusses Routh’s thoughts on the same passage in Matthew. Fol. 29: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Hertford Street) to Martin Routh, 4 Feb 1817. Penn thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Volume III of Reliquiae Sacrae, but returns once again to the question of Matthew 16:18. Fol. 30: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Tunbridge Wells) to Martin Routh, 13 Jun 1818. Penn thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Volume IV of Reliquiae Sacrae. He reports on his family, and that he hopes to enter his eldest son at Christ Church. Fol. 31: Letter from Granville Penn (address, 22, New Steine, Brighton) to Martin Routh, 17 Dec 1818. Penn reports on the marriage of his eldest daughter. He also reverts to discussing Matthew 16:18, and also a textual crux in Mark 13:32. Fol. 32: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Hertford Street) to Martin Routh, 11 Jan 1820. Penn hopes that Routh has been saved from an unspecified disaster (revealed in Fol. 33 below to be the fire at Magdalen Hall). Fol. 33: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Hertford Street) to Martin Routh, 9 Apr 1820. Penn reverts to the discussion of Mark 13:32, which has been interrupted by his family travelling on the continent. He is going to bring his eldest son to Christ Church, and hopes to meet Routh then (Granville John Penn, Penn’s eldest son, did indeed matriculate from Christ Church on 19 May 1820). Fol. 34: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Hertford Street) to Martin Routh, 4 May 1820 (2 sheets). Penn discusses his forthcoming visit to Oxford, and hopes to send his second son to Christ Church as well (Thomas Gordon Penn matriculated from Christ Church on 20 Jan 1823). He also discusses a passage from Romans. Fol. 35: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Hertford Street) to Martin Routh, 27 May 1820. Penn thanks Routh for his hospitality on his recent visit to Oxford, and asks Routh whether the 39 Articles of the Church of England were originally written in English or Latin. Fol. 36: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Hertford Street) to Martin Routh, 13 Mar 1821. Penn’s son is returning to Oxford, so he asks him to pass on this message of greeting to Routh and his wife. He hopes that they will meet at Tilehurst soon. Fol. 37: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Hertford Street) to Martin Routh, 3 Aug 1821. Penn asks that a tract which he has recently sent Routh should be kept confidential until its official publication in October. Fol. 38: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Hertford Street) to Martin Routh, 21 Aug 1821. Penn thanks Routh for his comments on an unspecified work of his, and discusses them in some detail. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 133

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MC:PR30/1/C3/1 (con.) Fol. 39: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Hertford Street) to Martin Routh, 1 Mar 1823. Penn thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his edition of the history of Bishop Burnet. He discusses Burnet’s political views. Fol. 40: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Hertford Street) to Martin Routh, 21 Nov 1824. Penn plans to reprint a tract on chronology published in 1774, and dedicate it to Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St. Davids. He sends Routh a draft of his dedication for comment. Fol. 41: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Hertford Street) to Martin Routh, 29 Nov 1824. Penn thanks Routh for his comments on his dedication. See also Fol. 58 below. Fol. 42: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Chelsea Farm) to Martin Routh, 13 Dec 1826. Penn seeks Routh’s help in tracking down an Anglo-Saxon document of which he wishes to publish a translation. He passes on news of his two sons. Fol. 43: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Chelsea Farm) to Martin Routh, 16 Dec 1826. Penn thanks Routh for his help in answering his enquiry. Fol. 44: Incomplete letter (two sheets) from an unknown correspondent (address, Foxley) to an unnamed addressee (Martin Routh?), 1 Feb 1827. The letter has been found in with Granville Penn’s letters, but it is not written in his hand, and whereas by the 1820s Penn usually addressed Routh as “My dear friend”, this is addressed to “My dear Sir”. The writer, who says that he will turn 80 in two months’ time, hopes to get some of his manuscripts into print. Fol. 45: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Chelsea Farm) to Martin Routh, 26 Dec 1827. Penn has been unwell for the last few months, and unable to read or write, and apologises for not returning Routh his books. Fol. 46: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Richmond) to Martin Routh, May 1832. Penn thanks Routh for sending him two new volumes (presumably Routh’s Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula). He also recommends to Routh a nephew of his wife’s who would like to apply for a Demyship at Magdalen in July. Fol. 47: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Stoke Park near Colnbrook) to Martin Routh, 1 Jul 1833. Penn thanks Routh for sending him a new edition of notes on Bishop Burnet’s history. He refers in turn to a biography he has written of his great-grandfather Sir William Penn (1621–70), because he discusses some of the figures who appear in Routh’s work, in particular the Earl of Clarendon. Fol. 48: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Stoke Park) to Martin Routh, 2 Mar 1834. Penn’s son William is passing through Oxford, so Penn is delivering to Routh his latest publication. He hopes to see Routh soon, to discuss the Earl of Clarendon with him. Fol. 49: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Stoke Park, Colnbrook) to Martin Routh, 8 Jun 1836. Penn sends Routh an unspecified publication of his. Fol. 50: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Stoke Park, Colnbrook) to Martin Routh, 30 Jun 1836. Penn discusses a reading from the Gospel according to St. John in a Neapolitan manuscript. Fol. 51: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Stoke Park, Colnbrook) to Martin Routh, 15 Jul 1836. Penn returns to the same question of textual criticism as in MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 134

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MC:PR30/1/C3/1 (con.) his previous letter. Fol. 52: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Stoke Park) to Martin Routh, 26 Jan 1841. Penn thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the second edition of his Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula. Fol. 53: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Stoke Park) to Martin Routh, 11 Jun 1843. This letter is written in another hand, with Penn adding his signature. Penn thanks Routh for some textual advice. Routh has annotated the letter “his last Letter to me”. Fol. 54: Letter from Granville Penn (address, Stoke Park) to Martin Routh, 20 Dec 1843. This letter is also written in another hand, with Penn adding his signature. Penn sends Routh Christmas greetings, and his hopes to meet in another world (he died in September 1844). Fol. 55: Letter from J. Parr (address not given) to Samuel Parr, 22 Aug (year not given). Parr advises Samuel Parr on a forthcoming journey up north. It is unclear why this letter has been bound into this particular guardbook. Fol. 56: Letter from Granville Penn (c/o 30 Bruton Street, Berkeley Square) to Martin Routh, “Tuesday 12 o’Clock”. Penn regrets that he and Routh have been out of contact for some while. Penn describes his efforts in Doncaster to find a printer by the name of Lister, who turned out to be a painter, who had just died, but whose family remembered Routh. Fol. 57: Letter from Granville Penn (address not given) to Martin Routh, “Thursday 18th May” (1820s?). Penn has just arrived with his son in Oxford at the Mitre Inn, and hopes to call on Routh soon. Fol. 58: Letter from Granville Penn (address not given) to Martin Routh, “Wednesday 1 Dec” [1824]. Penn discusses further his dedication to the Bishop of St. David’s. See further Fols. 40–41 above. Fols. 59a–59c have been put together as one long letter, but the individual sheets do not match up one with the other, and so they are treated as three fragments of otherwise lost letters. Fol. 59a: Sheet from an incomplete letter from Granville Penn (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated, whose contents suggest the 1790s. Penn discusses a passage in Herodotus on the differences between Greek and Egyptian handwriting. Fol. 59b: Sheet from an incomplete letter from Granville Penn (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated, whose contents suggest c. 1799, as Penn mentions “the great naval Victory of Egypt”. Penn discusses Coptic matters. Fol. 59c: Sheet from an incomplete letter from Granville Penn (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated, but with a postmark which suggests 24 May 1799. Penn hopes to see Routh again soon. Fol. 60: Concluding sheet from an incomplete letter from Granville Penn (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated. Penn expresses his pleasure in corresponding with Routh. Fol. 61: Concluding sheet from an incomplete letter from Granville Penn (address, York) to Martin Routh, 29 Oct 1785. Penn passes on his regards to various Oxford friends. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 135

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MC:PR30/1/C3/2 1792–1804 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “The Hardcastle Election Papers” on the spine. The material of the covers is identical with the other guardbooks created by Bloxam, but the lettering on the spine is different, presumably because this guardbook is thicker than most of the others. MC:PR30/1/C3/8 below has a spine with similar lettering.

These documents in this book relate to the election for the Rawlinsonian Professorship of Anglo- Saxon, to which Thomas Hardcastle was elected in 1800. Routh was one of his supporters in this campaign. Thomas Hardcastle had matriculated from Queen’s College in 1769 aged18, but was later elected a Fellow of Merton College. Routh matriculated from Queen’s in 1770, which must be how they became friends. The letters here addressed to Hardcastle presumably came into Routh’s hands after the former’s death in 1814.

On the inside cover are some notes on Hardcastle’s life in the hand of John Bloxam.

Fol. 1: (Loose) Letter from Hardcastle (address, Masham near Bedale) to Martin Routh, 19 Jul 1792. Hardcastle asks Routh about the powers of the Visitor of Magdalen College. Fol. 2: Letter from Hardcastle (address, Croydon) to Martin Routh, 13 Jul 1795. Hardcastle regrets that he will not be able to support Mr. Shaw in a forthcoming election. Fol. 3: Letter from Hardcastle (address, 41 Gloster Street, Queen Square) to Martin Routh, 3 Mar 1802. Hardcastle describes in considerable detail the state of his health. Fol. 4: Letter from Hardcastle (address, Masham near Bedale) to Martin Routh, 17 Oct 1803. Hardcastle reports on his marriage and his happy life. Routh has added to Hardcastle’s signature to this letter “one of the most sensible men I was ever acquainted with.” Fol. 5: Letter from Hardcastle (address, Frenchay) to Martin Routh, 8 Mar 1808. Hardcastle regrets that he is too busy to assist other scholars. He also thanks Routh for his hospitality in the President’s Lodgings, and asks him to give him Thomas Sheppard’s address, as he needs Sheppard’s advice in the matter of collecting tithes. Fol. 6: Letter from Hardcastle (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, 1 Nov 1804. Hardcastle reports on an improvement in his health and on his presentation to a new living. Fol. 7: Letter from Hardcastle (address, Masham, Bedale) to Martin Routh, 27 Dec 1804. Hardcastle and his wife thank Routh for his invitation to visit him in the spring. He is hoping to move to Wapley. Fol. 8: Letter from M. H. Vassall (address, 9 Lansdowne Place East) to Martin Routh. Mrs. Hardcastle has asked Vassall to inform Routh that her husband has just died. Fol. 9: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Thomas Hardcastle, 19 Feb 1800. Routh writes jokingly in spoof military language of assembling supporters to vote for Hardcastle in the professorial election. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 136

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MC:PR30/1/C3/2 (con.) Fol. 10: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Thomas Hardcastle, 24 Dec 1799, appended to list of possible supporters of Hardcastle. Fol. 11: Letter from Hardcastle (address, Gloucester Street) to Martin Routh, 18 Feb 1800. Hardcastle gives a list of possible supporters, arranged by College. Fols. 12–143: Letters, mainly addressed to Thomas Hardcastle, and mostly written in relation to his canvassing for the Anglo-Saxon Professorship. The correspondents have been arranged in alphabetical order, and are as follows: 12: Hardcastle’s brother (identified only as “W.H.”; address, Bath), 8 Dec (no year given). 13: Robert Vans Agnew (address, Tenby). 1 Feb 1800. 14: Isaac Arding (matr. Merton 1785; address, Compton), 25 Dec 1799. 15: Isaac Arding (as above; address, Compton), 19 Feb 1800. 16: Aston (no initial given; address, Barton), 30 Oct 1800. 17: Thomas Atwood (matr. Merton 1779; address, Hammersmith), 6 Jan 1800. 18: Charles Barker (matr. Christ Church 1786; BA Hertford 1790; illegible address), 5 Nov 1800. 19: Thomas Barnard (matr. Corpus Christi 1753; address, Steeple Langford), 8 Jan 1800. 20: Thomas Barnard (as above; address, Steeple Langford), 31 Oct 1800. 21: John Bartlam (matr. Merton 1789; address, Tatenhall), 3 Jan 1800. 22: Henry Bathurst (probably Henry Bathurst matr. New College 1761; Bishop of Norwich 1805–37; address, Bath), 30 Nov 1795. 23: Mr. Baxter (no initial given; address, Jesus College), 5 Nov 1800. 24: Thomas Brathwaite (either matr. Brasenose 1765 or St. John’s 1786; address and date illegible). 25: J. Beresford (?James Bereford, matr. Merton 1783; address, Temple), 6 Nov 1800. 26: Willoughby Bertie (matr. Trinity 1774; MA All Souls 1782; address, Buckland), 6 Dec 1799. 27: George Blakiston (matr. St. John’s 1776; address, Bellbroughton near Stourbridge), 1 Dec 1799. 28: Richard Bleamire (matr. Pembroke 1791; (no address), “Saturday noon”. 29: Richard Bleamire (as above; no address), 26 Feb (no year given). 30: Richard Bleamire (as above; address, Ely Place), 7 Nov 1800. 31: Thomas Bracken (matr. Queen’s 1785; no address given), 3 Nov 1800. 32: Thomas Brathwaite (either matr. Brasenose 1765 or St. John’s 1786; no address or date given). 33: Thomas Brathwaite (as above; no address given), 4 Mar (postmarked 1800). 34: William Buckle (matr. Christ Church 1775; address, Pyrton), 11 Dec 1799. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 137

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MC:PR30/1/C3/2 (con.) 35: John Buckland (matr. Corpus Christi 1762; address, Warborough), 27 Jan (postmarked 1800). 36: Joseph Bullock (matr. Merton 1749; address, Caversfield), 27 Oct 1800. 37: Edward Capel(matr. Christ Church 1788; address, Colchester Barracks), 8 Nov 1800. 38: Daniel Parker Coke (matr. Queen’s 1762; BA All Souls 1769; address, Lincoln), 9 Mar 1800. 39: Septimus Collinson (matr. Queen’s 1759; Provost there 1796–1827; address, Queen’s College), 10 Jan 1800. 40: Brian Combe (matr. Merton 1775; MA Oriel 1782; address, Combe), 31 Jan 1800. 41: John (signature illegible; no address given), 31 Jan 1800. 42: J. Crouch (? John Crouch, matr. Wadham 1748; address, Holywell), 30 Apr (year not given). 43: Duncombe Pyrke Davis (matr. Queen’s 1769; address, Monmouth), 22 Feb 1800. 44: Duncombe Pyrke Davis (as above; address, Monmouth), 19 Jan 1800. 45: Duncombe Pyrke Davis (as above; address, Monmouth), 22 Dec 1799. 46: John Deedes (matr. Christ Church 1785; MA Oriel 1792; no address given), “Thursday” (postmarked 5 Dec [1799?]). 47: Frederick Dodsworth (address, Thornton Hall), 1 Dec 1799. 48: Edward Hay Drummond (matr. Christ Church 1774; address, Hadleigh), 3 Dec 1799. 49: Frederick Morton Eden (matr. Christ Church 1783; address, Lincoln’s Inn Fields), 25 Oct 1800. 50: John Elliott (either matr. New College 1783 or matr. Balliol 1784; address, Pimlico), 4 Nov (year not given). 51: John Maurice Eyre (address, Salisbury), 20 Jan 1800. 52: John Farmer (address, Reading), 8 Jan 1800. 53: William Fendall (matr. University 1774; MA Merton 1781; address, Rudhall), 9 Jan 1800. 54: Samuel Goodenough (matr. Christ Church 1760; address, Windsor), 14 Mar 1800. 55: James Graham (matr. Magdalen 1778; address, Lincoln’s Inn), 27 Oct 1800. 56: Henry Hall (probably matr. St. John’s 1765; address, Lamb’s Conduit Street), 8 Nov 1800. 57: James Hook (matr. St. Mary Hall 1792; address, 36 Conduit Street), 2 Apr 1800. 58: William Hooper (matr. University College 1783; address, University College), “Tues morn”. 59: Joseph Ingram (matr. Trinity 1763; address, Stanford), 20 Jan 1800. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 138

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MC:PR30/1/C3/2 (con.) 60: John Ireland (matr. Oriel 1779; address, Croydon), 1 Dec 1799. 61: John Ireland (as above; address, Croydon), 10 Dec 1799. 62: John Johnstone (matr. Merton 1786; 1768–1836; physician and biographer; address, Birmingham), 20 Dec (year not given; postmarked 1799). 63: John Johnstone (as above; address, Birmingham), postmarked 27 Jan 1800. 64: John Johnstone (as above; address, Birmingham), 25 Oct 1800. 65: John Johnstone (as above; address, Birmingham), 20 Nov 1800. 66: Jerome William Knapp (matr. St. John’s 1777; address, Brick Court, Temple), 30 Dec 1799. 67: Augustus Legge (matr. Christ Church 1790; MA Merton 1796; address, Blithfield), 22 Jan 1800. 68: Coventry Lichfield (matr. Magdalen College 1758; no address given), 10 Jan 1800. 69: John Lilly (matr. Balliol 1787; BA St. Mary Hall 1790; MA Merton 1795; address, Worcester), 4 Feb 1800. 70: John Lilly (as above; address, Worcester), 11 Mar 1800. 71: John Lilly (as above; address, Worcester), 3 Nov 1800. 72: Digby Mackworth (matr. Magdalen 1788; address, Oxford), 17 Jan 1800. 73: J. Milles (?Jeremiah Milles, matr. Queen’s 1768; Fellow of Merton; address, All Souls), “Monday”. 74: J. Milles (as above; no address given), 10 Nov (no year given). 75: J. Mitchel (either matr. University 1755 or matr. Worcester 1790; address, Great Missenden), 29 Jan (year missing). 76: James Musgrave (?matr. St. John’s 1769; address, 39 Wimpole Street), 6 Jan 1800. 77: James Musgrave (as above; address, Wimpole Street), Saturday 25 Jan (1800). 78: Edward Nares (matr Christ Church 1779; Fellow of Merton; address, Tunbridge Wells), 1 Dec 1799. 79: Edward Nares (as above; address, Tunbridge Wells), 2 Jan 1800. 80: Edward Nares (as above; address, Tunbridge Wells), 21 Jan 1800. 81: Edward Nares (as above; address, Biddenden), 26 Oct 1800. 82: Edward Nares (as above; address, Brighton), 2 Nov 1800. 83: Edward Nares (as above; address, Tunbridge Wells), 24 Nov 1799. 84: Edward Nares (as above; no address or date given, but postmarked 17 Jan 1800). 85: Anne Neve (address, Oxford), 29 Dec (postmarked 1799). 86: William Newnham (matr. Corpus Christi 1771; address not given), 8 Jan 1800. 87: John Savile Ogle (matr. Merton 1784; address, Salisbury), 25 Feb 1800. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 139

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MC:PR30/1/C3/2 (con.) 88: Arthur Onslow (matr. Exeter 1764; MA All Souls 1771; Canon of Christ Church 1779–95; address, Worcester), 29 Dec 1799. 89: William Palmer (either matr. University 1766 or matr. Worcester 1788 and BA Balliol, 1791; address, Newington), 6 Feb 1800. 90: Albert Pell (matr. St. John’s 1787; no address or date given). 91: John Phillips (too many possible candidates for secure identification; address, Heavitree), 29 Aug 1792. 92: John Phillips (as above; address illegible), 25 Dec 1799. 93: John Delafield Phelps (matr. Oriel 1781; address, Dursley), 13 Jan 1800. 94: James Phelps (matr. Oriel 1783; address, Andover), 21 Jan 1800. 95: Joseph Pickford (matr. Christ Church 1785; address, Derby), 24 Mar 1800. 96: R. Powell (?Richard Powell, matr. Pembroke 1785; BA Merton 1788; address, Essex Street), 18 Dec 1799. 97: R. Powell (as above; address, Essex Street), 27 Oct 1800. 98: James Preedy (matr. Queen’s 1771; address, White Knights near Reading), 3 Jan (year not given; postmarked 1800). 99: James Preedy (as above; address, Balls Mark), 14 Jan 1800. 100: James Preedy (as above; no address given), 28 Jan (no year given; postmarked 1800). 101: Christopher Puller (matr. Christ Church 1792; Fellow Queen’s College; address, Temple), 11 Nov 1800. 102: Henry Purlewent (matr. Oriel 1763; Fellow Corpus Christi; address, Hertford), 28 Jan 1800. 103: Henry Purlewent (as above; Fellow Corpus Christi; address, Hertford), 26 Jan 1800. 104: Henry Anthony Pye (matr. Merton 1782; address, Lapworth), 14 Jan 1800. 105: Henry Anthony Pye (as above; address, Lapworth), 23 Jan 1800. 106: Henry Anthony Pye (as above; address, Lapworth), 28 Jan 1800. 107: Henry Anthony Pye (as above; address, Lapworth), 9 Feb 1800. 108: Henry Anthony Pye (as above; address, Lapworth), 20 Mar (no year given; postmarked 1800). 109: Henry Anthony Pye (as above; address, Lapworth), 28 Mar (no year given; postmarked 1800). 110: Henry Anthony Pye (as above; address, Lapworth), 25 Oct (no year given). 111: Henry Anthony Pye (as above; address, Lapworth), 1 Nov (no year given). 112: HenryAnthonyPye (as above; 1782; address, Lapworth), “Monday”. 113: Alexander Radcliffe (matr. Oriel 1776; BA All Souls 1781; address, Titchfield), 31 Dec 1799. 114: Christopher Robinson (matr. University 1782; Demy Magdalen MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 140

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MC:PR30/1/C3/2 (con.) 1783–9; address, Doctors Commons), 1 Nov 1800. 115: Francis Rowden (matr. Merton 1743; address, Cuxham), 22 Jan 1800. 116: Rogers Ruding (matr. Merton 1768; address, Maldon), 31 Oct 1800. 117: Kenrick Saunders (matr. Merton 1783; address, Bath), 20 Dec 1799. 118: Kenrick Saunders (as above; address, Bath), 11 Feb 1800. 119: Kenrick Saunders (as above; address, Bath), 28 Oct 1800. 120: Francis Simpson (matr. University 1774; address, [Tarrant] Gunville), 6 Dec (no year given; postmarked 1799). 121: Francis Simpson (as above; address, [Tarrant] Gunville), 23 Dec 1799. 122: Francis Simpson (as above; address, [Tarrant] Gunville), 20 Jan 1800. 123: Francis Simpson (as above; address, London), 9 Mar 1800. 124: Francis Simpson (as above; address, [Tarrant] Gunville near Blandford), 20 Mar 1800. 125: Francis Simpson (as above; address, Faversham), 2 Nov 1800. 126: Francis Simpson (as above; address, Faversham), 6 Nov 1800. 127: Francis Simpson (as above; no address given), 8 Nov (no year given; postmarked 1800). 128: Joseph Small (matr. Exeter 1764; address, Portland Square, Bristol), 7 Nov 1800. 129: Samuel Strutt (matr. Merton 1791; address, Sandy), Monday 23 Dec (postmarked 1799). 130: Benjamin Tate (matr. University 1769; Demy and Fellow Magdalen 1769–1820; address, Magdalen College), 13 Feb 1800. 131: George Thompson (matr. Queen’s 1769; address, Queen’s), 6 Jan 1800. 132: Charles Thomson (address, Queen Square), Sunday 26 Oct [1800]. 133: Charles Thomson (address, Queen Square), Sunday 2 Nov [1800]. 134: George Turner (matr. Merton 1776; BA Christ Church 1781; address, Spelsbury), 1 Jan 1800. 135: George Turner (matr. Merton 1776; BA Christ Church 1781; address, Spelsbury), 29 Oct 1800. 136: Thomas Twisleton (matr. St. Mary Hall 1789; address, Worcester), 10 Jan (year not given). 137: Peter Vaughan (matr. Merton 1787; address, Merton College), 22 Dec 1799. 138: Peter Vaughan (as above; address, Merton College), 24 Dec 1799. 139: Peter Vaughan (as above; address, Merton College), 3 Feb 1800. 140: M.(?) Walpole (address, Dover St.), 16 Mar (year not given; postmarked 1800). 141: Lewis Way (matr. Christ Church 1790; BA Merton 1794; address, Temple), 2 Mar (year not given; postmarked 1800). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 141

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MC:PR30/1/C3/2 (con.) 142: Charles Wetherell (matr. University 1786; Demy at Magdalen 1788–91; address, Lincoln’s Inn), 10 Nov 1800. 143: Yeomans (initials illegible; possibly Joseph Lane Yeomans, matr. Worcester 1784; no address given), 1 Nov 1800.

MC:PR30/1/C3/3 1786–1823 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters from Dr. Routh to Dr. Parr” on the spine. Samuel Parr (1747–1825), schoolmaster, scholar, and pamphleteer, was perhaps Routh’s closest friend, and certainly a passionate admirer of his scholarship. Uniquely for the Routh papers at Magdalen, both sides of the correspondence between Routh and Parr are preserved here, Routh’s letters being listed here, and Parr’s at UC:PR30/1/C3/4 below. The fact that Bloxam bound both collections up suggests that Routh’s was given his letters to Parr some time after Parr’s death in 1825.

Fol. 1: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Samuel Parr, 27 Jul 1786. Routh apologises for not visiting, but an unnamed Professor was staying with him. Fol. 2: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 18 Jan 1788. Routh tactfully asks when Parr’s promised review of his book in the Monthly Review is due to be published. Fol. 3: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 12 Jan 1789. Routh discusses offering aid to a poor family recommended by Parr. He also discusses how regency should be appointed during the indisposition of George III. Fol.4: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Samuel Parr, 10 Mar 1790. Routh discusses the recent Bampton Lectures, and Parr’s involvement in their composition. He also discusses the work of Sherlock and Hoadly. Fol. 5: Routh’s draft of Fol. 7 below. Fol. 6: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Samuel Parr, 2 May 1791. Routh reflects on his election as President of Magdalen. Fol. 7: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Samuel Parr, 22 May 1792. Routh thanks Parr for some compliments paid by him in print, and discusses a forthcoming Demyship election. Fol. 8: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Samuel Parr, 11 Jun 1792. Routh offers some money towards an unspecified book of Parr’s. He also discusses dealings with the Bishop of Chester with regard to a book to be returned to Parr. Fol. 9: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Samuel Parr, 6 Dec 1792. Routh gladly agrees to receive Parr’s books in Oxford. Fol. 10: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 26 Mar 1793. Routh sends Parr two extracts on kingship from J. C. Wolff’s notes on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, as published in his Curae philologicae et criticae (a copy of this work, published in the 1730s, is in the Routh Library in the University of Durham). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 142

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MC:PR30/1/C3/3 (con.) Fol. 11: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Samuel Parr, 2 Jun 1793. Routh discusses the (unsuccessful) attempts made by Henry Kett (Fellow of Trinity College, 1784–1823) to be elected Professor of Poetry, and the forthcoming inauguration of the Duke of Portland as Chancellor of the University of Oxford. He also passes on some news of Richard Porson. Fol. 12: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Samuel Parr, 22 Dec 1793. Routh discusses a dedicatory inscription composed by Parr. Fol. 13: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Samuel Parr, 29 Oct 1795. Routh discusses William Jones’s life of George Horne, expressing his anger at Jones’s attack on Parr. He also discusses other recently published books. Fol. 14: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Samuel Parr, 20 Mar 1796. Routh promises to send some unspecified publications to Parr, and discusses some activities of John Shaw (D. 1764–71; F. 1771–1824). Fol. 15: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Samuel Parr, 24 Apr 1796. Routh looks forward to a visit from Parr. He also discusses the publication of Edward Gibbon’s memoirs. Fol. 16: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Samuel Parr, 7 Dec 1796. Routh expresses anxiety at not having heard from Parr recently. He also discusses his work in the Bodleian. Fol. 17: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Samuel Parr, 12 Jan 1797. Routh discusses some passage of Aristotle, and regrets that Parr could not meet him and Henry Kett. Fol. 18: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Samuel Parr, 8 May 1798. Routh discusses some forthcoming academic works. Fol. 19: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Samuel Parr, 14 May 1798. Routh praises Parr’s epitaph on Dr. Farmer, but suggests some alterations. Fol. 20: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Samuel Parr, 17 Jun 1802: Routh looks forward to a visit from Parr, but expresses concern that Parr, along with Nathaniel Bridges (D. 1767–75; F. 1775–93), may have been involved in a case of buying and selling a living. He also reports on his father’s last illness. Fol. 21: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Samuel Parr, 3 Feb 1804. Routh wants to discuss something (unspecified) with Parr at their next meeting, but also discusses some bibliographical matters. Fol. 22: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 23 Oct 1806. Routh reports that William Windham has resigned (apparently from standing as a candidate for Oxford University), and that his relation Richard Heber is now standing as a candidate. Routh hopes that Parr will support him. Fol. 23: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 5 Jan 1808. Routh hopes to see Parr soon, and reports on the death of the Master of University College, Nathan Wetherell. Fol. 24: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Samuel Parr, 24 Dec 1808. Routh appears to discuss various anti-Catholic documents, including a parody of the Lord’s Prayer. Fol. 25: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Amport, Andover, Hants.) to Samuel MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 143

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MC:PR30/1/C3/3 (con.) Parr, 30 Apr 1809. Routh discusses a letter from their friend Nathaniel Bridges, who is anxious that he might have offended Parr. Routh wants to effect a reconciliation. Parr has scribbled some notes at the bottom of this letter. Fol. 26: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 16 Jun 1809. Routh discusses Charles Parr Burney (matr. Merton 1804) winning the Chancellor’s English Essay Prize, and has some more discussion on Dr. Bridges. Fol. 27: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 4 Aug 1809. Routh reassures Parr that an unspecified problem within the College has been settled with an unnamed person’s resignation. Someone has added “(Cockle?)” in pencil above this passage. This is John Cockle (D. 1792–3; F. 1793–1809), who was forced to resign his Fellowship in July 1809 (see MC:PR30/1/C2/8 Fols. 47–52a). Routh also includes a draft epitaph for Edward Lord Thurlow for Parr’s comments. Fol. 28: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 16 Aug 1809. Routh discusses Parr’s comments on his epitaph for Lord Thurlow. He also passes on some general College news. Fol. 29: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 18 Nov 1809. Routh discusses the forthcoming election for a new Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Routh supports the Duke of Beaufort against Lord Grenville. Fol. 30: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Samuel Parr, 4 Jan 1810. Routh promises to put up a protégé of Parr’s for (presumably) a choristership, but warns that he must pass the organist’s examination. He also discusses some books, the forthcoming installation of the new Chancellor, and the recent attack on Oxford published in the Edinburgh Review. Fol. 31: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Samuel Parr, 17 Nov 1810. Routh discusses some books, and a forthcoming visit from Parr, as well as “the Pugilist” (Routh’s brother Samuel [D. 1785–91; F. 1791–1811], recently installed to Boyton). Fol. 32: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Samuel Parr, 15 Jan 1811. Routh discusses some books, the Scottish Episcopal Church, and the possibility of meeting, and passes on news of his family. [the bottom parts of the pages of this letter are missing] Fol. 33: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen) to Samuel Parr, 16 Dec 1812. Routh asks Parr for financial advice for Parr’s namesake (presumably his brother Samuel). He also asks Parr to put in a good word for Nassau Senior (D. 1807–21; F. 1812–21), who is applying for a law scholarship. Routh also reports that he is printing some of his work. Fol. 34: Extracts, in Routh’s hand, from some of his letters written between 16 Dec 1812 and 20 Feb 1825, on the subject of his publications. Fol. 35: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Samuel Parr, 30 Mar 1813. Routh discusses the next Demyship election, and some of the candidates. Fol. 36: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 144

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MC:PR30/1/C3/3 (con.) 19 May 1813. Routh discusses his plans to publish two volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae at his own expense. Fol. 37: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 9 Oct 1813. Routh reports on meeting Sir Francis Burdett, and on the progress of the two volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 38: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 18 Oct 1813. Routh laments that he cannot read Parr’s most recent letter to him, and asks for some help. Fol. 39: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 21 Oct 1813. Routh has now read Parr’s letter, and approves of a draft inscription in it, suggesting some emendations. A note on the back says that Parr’s inscription was for Sir John Moore. Fol. 40: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 27 Oct 1813. Routh once again discusses an inscription sent him by Parr, which according to a note on the back, was for Sir John Moore. Fol. 41: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 8 Nov 1813. Routh sends Parr the second volume of Reliquiae Sacrae, and also an unnamed book by William Laud. Fol. 42: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 27 Jan 1814. Routh asks Parr to return the volume of Reliquiae Sacrae, with his comments. He reports on the death of Thomas Sheppard, and discusses current peace negotiations in Europe. Fol. 43: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 22 Jun 1814. Routh looks forward to seeing Parr in Oxford shortly. Fol. 44: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 30 Jul 1814. Routh is planning to send Parr a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae, and thanks him warmly for all his help with the project. Fol. 45: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 23 Feb 1815. Routh hopes to meet Parr before too long. He has not forgotten to look out for a nephew of Parr’s friend Mr. Askew when he applies for a Demyship. He reports that the Dutch classicist Daniel Wyttenbach and he have exchanged books. Fol. 46: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 8 Aug 1815. Routh thanks Parr for the gift of a gown and scarf. He is now working on the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He wonders what will happen in France now. Fol. 47: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 29 Nov 1815. Routh thanks Parr for his comments on the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He also transcribes a letter concerning a G. Downing, for whom Parr is planning to write an epitaph. Fol. 48: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 11 Nov 1816. Routh wishes Parr luck in an unspecified venture. He discusses his publications, and the reaction to them. He also discusses some books Parr has mentioned to him. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 145

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MC:PR30/1/C3/3 (con.) Fol. 49: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 15 Oct 1817. Parr’s friend Mr. Askew’s nephew may be applying in a later year. He hopes to see Parr in Oxford soon, and discusses books of mutual interest. Fol. 50: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 26 Dec 1817. Routh discusses a request from Parr to give a choristership to a protégé of his, explaining the pressures on him at election times. He discusses the standard of the choir. Fol. 51: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to Samuel Parr, 6 Apr 1818. Routh praises an inscription of Dr. (Charles?) Burney written by Parr, but suggests some emendations. Fol. 52: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 6 Nov 1818. Routh discusses the fourth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae, and also the death of his third brother Robert. Fol. 53: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 3 Jan 1819. Routh discusses a text of Tertullian, and a commentary on it by Salmasius. Fol. 54: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 13 Jan 1820. Routh describes the fire which badly damaged Magdalen Hall, and expresses his relief that his Lodgings were unaffected by it. Fol. 55: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 3 Feb 1820. Routh asks after Parr’s health, but also reports on the death of Daniel Wyttenbach. Fol. 56: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 16 May 1820. Routh discusses the applications of Parr’s protege for a choristership, and Mr. Askew’s nephew for a Demyship. Fol. 57: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 16 Jun 1820. Routh asks after the would-be chorister, and hopes that Parr can look over the four volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae to check for any errors. He reports that his sister Sophia Sheppard is building a church near Tilehurst. Fol. 58: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College, Oxford) to Samuel Parr, 1 Aug 1820. Routh asks after Parr’s health. He has been involved in settling an unspecified affair which could be damaging to Magdalen. Fol. 59: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College, Oxford) to Samuel Parr, 14 Aug 1820. Routh reports on his forthcoming marriage to Miss Blagrave. He thinks that there is a vacant choristership for Vaughan, Parr’s protege (a John Vaughan was admitted chorister in 1820). Fol. 60: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 26 Sep 1820. Routh reports that he is now married, and hopes that he will see Parr before too long. Fol. 61: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 10 Apr 1821. Routh is glad to hear that Parr is better than he has been, and discusses some applications for Demyships at Magdalen. He reports on the gift of a silver dish from the Tsar of Russia, and on the progress of the building of Theale church. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 146

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MC:PR30/1/C3/3 (con.) Fol. 62: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 3 Aug 1821. Routh hopes that he and Parr can meet before too long. He reports that Richard Heber is now MP for Oxford University. Fol. 63: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 22 Apr 1822. Routh looks forward to receiving Parr in Oxford soon. Fol. 64: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst near Reading) to Samuel Parr, 24 Sep 1822. Routh congratulates Parr on the marriage of his granddaughter. Routh reports on the rebuilding of the north side of the Cloisters at Magdalen. Fol. 65: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Samuel Parr, 28 Feb 1823. Routh sends Parr a set of copies of Reliquiae Sacrae. He reports that John Shaw is now dying.

MC:PR30/1/C3/4 1790–1828 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters from Dr. Parr to Dr. Routh” on the spine. This is the counterpart to MC:PR30/1/C3/3 above, containing Samuel Parr’s side of the correspondence. Unfortunately, Parr’s handwriting is even more illegible than Routh’s, and his letters therefore even harder to read.

Fol. 1: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (but probably written after 1820, since he talks of Routh’s wife). The letter is well- nigh illegible, but Parr appears to report that he is in good health, and asks after Routh and his family. Fol. 2: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, 7 Apr 1790. Parr is arranging to have some papers sent to Routh in two instalments, and he asks Routh to read them carefully. The papers evidently relate to a dispute between Parr and Joseph White, Laudian Professor of Arabic, about the amount of assistance which Parr had given White in writing his Bampton Lectures in 1783. Fol. 3: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given) to Henry Kett(?), “Saturday” (1791?). Parr expresses his joy at news about Martin Routh in Kett’s last letter to him, namely that Routh has been elected President of Magdalen. The name of the addressee of this letter is almost illegible, but the letter is addressed to Trinity College, Oxford, and Henry Kett (1761–1825) was the most prominent Fellow of that College at this time. He also knew Routh quite well at this time, as is clear from other documents in the Routh papers. Fol. 4: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to Samuel Parr (address, Hatton), 3 Dec 1791. Routh looks forward to seeing Parr at Oxford soon. Parr has then turned the letter around and written a reply to Routh on 4 December, which he then sent to Oxford. In his reply, Parr writes that he does not expect to come to London before Easter, but that he will certainly call on Routh on his way there. Fol. 5: Letter (evidently written by an amanuensis) from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, with a PS which appears to be Parr’s hand to date to 5 December 1794 (or 1795?). Parr reports on his health, and MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 147

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MC:PR30/1/C3/4 (con.) his book purchasing. He also discusses some controversial university orations from the past. Fol. 6: Letter from Samuel Parr (address, Alcester) to Martin Routh, 15 Mar 1798. Parr asks Routh to arrange to have a catalogue of manuscripts ready for collection by a friend of his called John Pearson, who is travelling to London to stand bail for an unnamed reformer charged with treason. Fol. 7: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Sophia Sheppard, 22 Mar 1801. Parr congratulates Mrs. Sheppard on her marriage, while lamenting in jest about what he and Martin Routh will do when she is no longer looking after them in the Lodgings. Fol. 8: Letter from John Bartlam (address, Henley in Arden) to Martin Routh, 22 Dec 1809. Bartlam reports that Dr. Parr is much distressed about Mrs. Wynne (his daughter Sarah, then in very poor health; she died in 1810), and is writing to others on her behalf. Fol. 9: Letter (in the hand of an amanuensis) from Samuel Parr (address, Hatton) to Martin Routh, 3 Jul 1813. Parr has evidently been lent the manuscript of Reliquiae Sacrae by Routh, because he praises its scholarship, while offering a few comments on it. Fol. 10: Letter from Samuel Parr to Martin Routh, noted on the envelope as being written from London 21 May 1813. Parr reports on his planned movements in the summer, which include a planned visit to Oxford. Fol. 11: Letter (in the hand of an amanuensis) from Samuel Parr (no address given) to Martin Routh, 7 Aug 1813. Parr hopes to visit Oxford later in the month, and hopes to stay with Routh then. He asks to look again at “the second volume” (a draft of Reliquiae Sacrae?). He passes on gossip about the Bishopric of Lincoln. Fol. 12: Letter (in the hand of an amanuensis) from Samuel Parr (address, Hatton) to Martin Routh, 18 Apr 1819. Parr recommends the son of a Mr. Hughes for a Demyship (the application was not successful). Fol. 13: Letter (in the hand of John Bartlam) from Samuel Parr (address, Hatton) to Martin Routh, 17 Jun 1820. Parr hopes to visit Oxford shortly, and hopes that he can stay with the President, when he can introduce him to a German scholar called Bekker. Fol. 14: Letter from John Bartlam (address, Hatton) to Martin Routh, 21 Mar 1822. Bartlam knows that Parr has written to Routh because he understands that Routh is unhappy that Parr has taken so long to comment on Reliquiae Sacrae. Parr in turn is very upset to have caused Routh any displeasure. Parr’s letter is Fol. 64 below. Fol. 15: Letter (in the hand of an amanuensis) from Samuel Parr (no address given) to Martin Routh, 5 Mar 1823. Parr reflects on Routh’s preface to his edition of Bishop Burnet’s history. Fol. 16: Letter from John Bartlam (address, Alcester) to Martin Routh, 21 Nov 1816. Bartlam reports that Dr. Parr is about to marry again. Fol. 17: Letter (partly in Parr’s hand) from Samuel Parr (address, Hatton) to MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 148

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MC:PR30/1/C3/4 (con.) Martin Routh, 15 May (year not given). Parr discusses the difficulties of a friend of his called Mr. Clarke in finding a living. Much of the letter is taken up with quotations from Latin and Greek texts. Fol. 18: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given) to Martin Routh, dated 16 Dec, but noted on the envelope as being sent from London on 19 Dec 1808. Parr plans to come to Oxford in the following month. Fol. 19: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, 19 Aug (year not given). Parr is arranging to send some papers to Routh. Fol. 20: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, 21 Jan (year not given). Parr hopes to visit Routh soon. Fol. 21: Letter from Sarah Anne Wynne (Parr’s daughter; no address given) to “Miss Routh” (one of Routh’s sisters), “Tuesday Evening” (written before Wynne’s death in Jul 1810). Wynne wittily invites Miss Routh to dinner, being sure that the President will spare her. Fol. 22: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, “Saturday March 1st” [1800, 1806, 1817 or 1823]. Parr thanks Routh for an unspecified present of books. Fol. 23: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given) to Martin Routh, 26 Dec (year not given). Parr reports on an improvement in his health. He is sending this letter via a Mr. and Mrs. Jenner. Fol. 24: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, 13 Aug (year not given). Parr appears to have some comments for Routh on details of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 25: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given) to Martin Routh, with an illegible date. This letter is hard to read, but it seems that Parr has upset Routh in some way, and he protests his friendship towards him. Fol. 26: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Henry Kett, 7 Jul (year not given). Parr is planning to come down to Oxford shortly, and hopes to see him at Magdalen. The letter has a note from Kett indicating that he has forwarded it to Martin Routh at Magdalen. Fol. 27: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, 9 Aug (year not given, but before 1801, since he speaks of Routh’s sister Sophia as unmarried). Parr discusses some textual criticism on an unnamed work. Fol. 28: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given) to Martin Routh, 31 Dec 1809. Parr fears that he may lose his only remaining child, Sarah Anne Wynne, and wonders whether he will be able to see her children. He also fears for the health of another friend, a Mr. Butler. Fol. 29: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given) to Martin Routh, 2 Jun (no year given). Parr sends Routh a letter from the son of a Mr. Price, which he hopes that he will receive as a letter of introduction. Fol. 30: Fragment of a letter from Samuel Parr to Martin Routh, 19 Dec (year not given), which consists of some quotations from an unidentified Greek text. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 149

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MC:PR30/1/C3/4 (con.) Fol. 31: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Parr appears to praise Routh’s learning and scholarship. Fol. 32: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, 18 Dec (year not given). Parr has read an unnamed book of Routh’s (part of Reliquiae Sacrae?). The rest of the letter is well-nigh illegible. Fol. 33: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Parr asks Routh to send an unnamed book to a Mr. Hanley. Fol. 34: Letter (partly written in another hand) from Samuel Parr (no address given) to Martin Routh, 14 Mar (before 1801, when Sophia Routh married). Parr appears to be teasing Routh about his politics. Fol. 35: Second sheet of a letter from Samuel Parr (no address given on extant portion) to Martin Routh, 21 Nov (year not given; 1806?). Parr reflects on the state of British politics on the death of Charles James Fox (who died in September 1806). Fol. 36: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, undated. Parr thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Casaubon (it is not clear whether this was a biography of Casaubon or an edition of his works). Fol. 37: Draft Latin inscription, scribbled on a fragment of an otherwise lost letter to Samuel Parr. The hand could be either Martin Routh’s or Parr’s, probably the former. Fol. 38: Notes by Samuel Parr on a translation of an unknown work by one Richards. Fol. 39: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, 26 Sep (postmarked 1807). Parr has been writing about a pupil of his who has recently died. He asks whether Routh is currently at Oxford, so he could visit him. Fol. 40: Letter (mostly in the hand of an amanuensis) from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, undated. Parr discusses a textual crux in an unnamed Greek text (probably from the New Testament or the Early Christian Fathers). Fol. 41: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Chipping Norton) to Martin Routh, “Sunday”. Parr, after a certain amount of apparent teasing of Routh, says that he is planning to visit Oxford soon. Fol. 42: Letter from Samuel Parr (address, Birmingham) to Martin Routh, 23 Jan (year not given). Parr has enjoyed a visit to Wales, and will be home again shortly. Fol. 43: Letter (mostly in the hand of an amanuensis) from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, 7 Feb (year not given). Parr’s friend Richard Sharpe (usually spelled Sharp), whose character he describes, has asked him to write to Routh in support of a lad called Knox for a Demyship (the application was unsuccessful). Fol. 44: Letter (in the hand of an amanuensis) from Samuel Parr (address, 22 Newman Street, Oxford Road) to Martin Routh, 11 Jun (postmarked 1813). Parr MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 150

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MC:PR30/1/C3/4 (con.) will be leaving London soon, and wishes to know whether Routh is currently in Oxford, and so able to receive him on a visit on his return to Hatton. Fol. 45: Copy (2 sheets) of a letter from Samuel Parr (no address given) to Mr. Jones, a tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge, Friday 21 November (year not given; probably 1800). Parr protests with some vehemence on the behaviour of “Dr. M”, the Principal [sic] concerning one Joseph Gerrald (“Dr. M.” is William Lort Mansel, Master of Trinity College Cambridge, 1798–1820). Gerrald’s father Joseph (1763–96), a radical politician, had been sentenced to transportation in Australia in 1794, where he died, and Parr had looked after his son. Mansel was unwilling to accept the son into his College on account of his father’s politics. Parr defends the father’s character, and explains that he has brought up the son to be educated, first by Charles Burney, and then at Charterhouse under its headmaster Matthew Raine (who died in 1811, and had been a Fellow of Trinity). He therefore asks the College to reconsider its decision. Alumni Cantabrigenses claims that Joseph Gerrald was indeed admitted to Trinity College Cambridge on 3 Dec 1800, but adds “Doubtful if resided”. Fol. 46: Letter from Samuel Parr (address, Shrewsbury) to Martin Routh, 1 Apr (postmarked 1810). Parr has been visiting his friend Samuel Butler at Shrewsbury, and has seen a catalogue (apparently of books or manuscripts) with Routh’s name in it. He asks Routh to tell him what it is all about. He also notes references to Benjamin Heath, and is not sure whether Heath is still alive or not. He also reports on the troubles of his son-in-law John Wynne, who was being sued for unpaid bills. On the back of the letter Routh has written down some lists of book titles with reference numbers (perhaps taken from this catalogue). Fol. 47: Fragment of a letter addressed to Martin Routh, and dated 13 Mar 1819. None of the text of the letter survives. Fol. 48: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, 1 Apr (no year given; before 1801). Parr hopes to be with Routh and his sister Sophia shortly. Fol. 49: Copy of a letter from Samuel Parr (address not given) to Martin Routh, 15 Oct (year not given; 1809 or slightly later). Parr sends Routh a draft Latin epitaph for Sir John Moore (who died in January 1809). See Fol. 67 for the original of this letter Fol. 50: Latin epitaph by Samuel Parr, copied out by Martin Routh, for Richard Farmer (d. 1792). Fol. 51: MS in an unknown hand of a Latin poem, “A Thought upon the Pillow”, based on a variety of Latin puns around Parr’s surname. Fol. 52: Copy in an unknown hand of a Latin epitaph composed by Samuel Parr for Thomas Twining. Fol. 53: Copy of a letter from Samuel Parr (address not given) to John Bartlam, “Tuesday” (year not given). Parr writes about his efforts to install painted windows in an unspecified building (his church at Hatton?). Fol. 54: Copy of a note by Samuel Parr, dated 16 Feb 1820, in which he declares his intention to include Queen Caroline among his prayers for the Royal Family. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 151

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MC:PR30/1/C3/4 (con.) Fol. 55: Letter from John Lynes (address, Hatton) to an unnamed addressee (probably Martin Routh), 7 Mar 1825. Lynes reports that Samuel Parr has just died. Fol. 56: Letter from John Lynes (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (but presumably after March 1825). Lynes reports that Samuel Parr has bequeathed Martin Routh a ring. Fol. 57: Letter from John Lynes (address, Elmly Lovett) to Martin Routh, 21 May 1826. Lynes sends Routh some sermons (by Samuel Parr?) which Samuel Butler has just seen. Fol. 58: Letter from John Lynes (address, Elmly Lovett) to Martin Routh, 17 Jul 1828. Lynes sends Routh a copy of the collected works of Samuel Parr (the volumes sent to Routh, with a dedicatory inscription from Lynes, are in the Routh Library). Fol. 59: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (but enough of the postmark can be read to date it to 1798). Parr thanks Routh for his comments about an epitaph for Samuel Johnson. Fol. 60: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to John Bartlam (address, Merton College), 10 Apr (year not given). Parr asks Bartlam to forward this letter to Martin Routh. In it, Parr appears to be discussing a clutch of literary references, mainly in Latin, to share with Routh. Fol. 61: MS poem (undated), opening “‘Me.’, Horseley cries, ‘Heaven’s chosen herald view’”, followed by some Greek iambics which are claimed to be a free translation of the foregoing. The author is unknown, as is the hand, but there are some annotations on the Greek verses which appear to be in Samuel Parr’s hand. Fols. 62–63: Three bifolia of notes, partly in Samuel Parr’s hand, including a letter (entirely in Parr’s hand) from Parr to Routh, whose postmarks show that it was sent from Warwick, and appear to date the letter to 5 May 1800. The first two of these bifolia had been numbered “62", and the third one “63", but they all appear to have been folded up together, and so are treated as one item here. The notes are entirely taken up with discussions of textual criticism. Fol. 64: Letter (in John Bartlam’s hand) from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, 21 Mar 1822. Parr writes somewhat incoherently of his sorrow at being unable to furnish Routh with some detailed comments on Reliquiae Sacrae. This letter should be read with Fol. 14 above (Bartlam’s own letter to Routh, which he sent alongside Parr’s). Fol. 65: Fragment of notes in John Bartlam’s hand which appear to come from a list of eminent people. This fragment include Matthew Raine and Martin Routh. Fol. 66: Letter (in the hand of an amanuensis) from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, undated, but clearlyafter 1809. Parr sends Routh a neat copy of his Latin epitaph for Sir John Moore, with some comments on it. This was evidently written after Fol. 67 below. Fol. 67: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, year not given (1809?). Parr sends Routh a first version of his Latin epitaph for Sir John Moore. Fol. 49 is a copy of this letter, which shows that MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 152

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MC:PR30/1/C3/4 (con.) some of Parr’s handwriting unsurprisingly defeated that copyist. Fol. 68: Letter (almost entirely in the hand of an amanuensis) from Samuel Parr (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Parr discusses an emendation by Routh on an unspecified passage from Aristotle. Fol. 69: Second sheet only of a letter (almost entirely in the hand of an amanuensis) from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, undated (written before Sophia Routh’s marriage in 1801). As with Fol. 68, Parr is discussing textual matters on an unspecified work.

The following items were found loose at the end of this book:

No. 1: Copy of a letter from Samuel Parr (address, President’s Lodgings, Magdalen College, Oxford) to an unnamed cleric, 23 Jul 1792. Parr has been attacked in print byhis addressee, and now threatens a counterattack with interest. No. 2: 2 MS sheets containing copies of letters to Samuel Parr, and miscellaneous notes, written between 1792 and 1796, concerning the financial affairs of the parish of Wadenhoe (where Parr was rector), and his disputes with Nathaniel Bridges, with whom he had exchanged the living for the perpetual curacy of Hatton. No. 3: Letter from Samuel Parr (no address given) to Martin Routh, “Monday” (postmark illegible, but before 1801, when Sophia Routh married). Parr regrets that he will be unable to come town to Oxford for a few days. No. 4: Letter (mostly in the hand of an amanuensis) from Samuel Parr (no address given, but postmarked Warwick) to Martin Routh, undated. Parr thanks Routh for an unnamed book, but regrets to hear that he has been unwell. No. 5: Draft letter from Martin Routh, written on a spare sheet of a letter postmarked 1823. Routh expresses his pleasure at receiving a copy of the life of Dr. Parr, so the letter was presumably written to John Lynes. No. 6: Letter from John Lynes (address, Hatton) to Martin Routh, 26 Jan 1825. Lynes reports on Samuel Parr’s health. No. 7: Letter from John Lynes (address, Elmley Lovett) to Martin Routh, 1 Oct 1825. Lynes hopes to visit Oxford soon to present to Routh some bequests of books and other items which Samuel Parr had wished to bequeath to him. He also reports that Dr. John Johnstone has been commissioned to write an official biography of Parr, and hopes that Routh will be willing to correspond with him. No. 8: Letter from John Lynes (address, Mount Hotel, Lower Grosvenor Street, London) to Martin Routh, 24 Jul 1826. John Johnstone has asked Lynes to call on Routh so that he can return to Johnstone a draft of part of his life of Samuel Parr. Routh is encouraged to comment on it. No. 9: Letter from John Johnstone (1768–1836; physician and biographer; no address given) to Martin Routh, 31 May 1827. Johnstone confirms that he has received a set of papers from Routh. He plans to finish the first part of his memoir of Samuel Parr shortly, which he will then send to Routh for his comments. No. 10: Letter from John Lynes (no address given) to Martin Routh, 20 Dec 1827. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 153

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MC:PR30/1/C3/4 (con.) Lynes is passing through Oxford, and so leaves for Routh a volume of Samuel Parr’s sermons. No. 11: Letter from John Johnstone (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (1827?). Johnstone sends Routh the first part of his memoir of Samuel Parr, for his comments. No. 12: First sheet only of a letter from John Johnstone (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (1827?). Johnstone now sends Routh the second part of his memoir of Samuel Parr. No. 13: Printed copy of a Latin inscription by Samuel Butler, for the christening of Samuel Parr Lynes, 1838.

MC:PR30/1/C3/5 1798–1851 Guardbook inscribed on the spine “MS Letters John Buckler”, containing letters from John Buckler to Martin Routh and to John Bloxam. This has been bound up in a totally different manner from the other Routh papers gathered up by Bloxam, so it may have been assembled by him at a different date. Other letters and papers from John Buckler may be found at MC:PR30/1/C1/5 Fols. 46–47.

John Buckler (1770–1851), architect and topographical artist, was for much of his life in charge of collecting rents for Magdalen College from its properties in London. He was a friend of Routh’s: a candid assessment of their relationship is given by Buckler’s son John Chessell Buckler (1793–1894), himself an architect, at MC:P371/MS1/1.

Flyleaf: Cutting from the Oxford Herald of 20 Dec 1851, comprising an obituary of John Buckler. Fol. 1: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 26 Nov 1847. Buckler asks Bloxam to seek out a large plan of the College drawn by him. Fol. 2: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 9 Nov 1848. Buckler apologises that his poor health will make it impossible to visit Oxford this year. Fol. 3: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 18 Jul 1849. Buckler once again apologises that his poor health will prevent him from visiting Oxford. Fol. 4: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to Martin Routh, 30 Jul 1849. Buckler thanks Routh for arranging that he be paid an annual pension of £70 for the rest of his life. Fol. 5 (loose): Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 30 Jul 1849. Buckler once again expresses his gratitude for his pension, and regrets his poor health. This letter has now come loose. Fol. 6: Letter from John Buckler (address, Leamington) to John Bloxam, 26 Sep 1849. Buckler regrets that Bloxam will be unable to come and visit him in Leamington, and reports on a visit to Dropmore. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 154

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MC:PR30/1/C3/5 (con.) Fol. 7: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 12 Nov 1849. Buckler announces his intention to visit Oxford soon. Fol. 8: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 2 Oct 1850. Buckler reports on his poor health. Fol. 9: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 4 Dec 1849. Buckler suggests that a collection of etchings and prints of cathedrals and abbeys which he had presented to the Architectural Society of Oxford should be bound together. Fol. 10: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 5 Jan 1842. Buckler sends Bloxam some drawings, and asks him to seek out a sketch for rebuilding Balliol College which he had done some years earlier. Fol. 11: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to an unnamed addressee (probably John Bloxam), 2 Dec 1842. Buckler sends Bloxam drawings for the restoration of Carfax Church, to be presented to the Architectural Society. Fol. 12: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 28 Dec 1842. Buckler sends Bloxam a set of his engravings of cathedrals and collegiate churches for the Architectural Society, but also presents Bloxam with a sketch of the Cloister of Magdalen as it appeared in 1822 (presumably this is MC:FA1/9/1P/2 fol. 18a, which comes from a collection of pictures and prints assembled by Bloxam). Fol. 13: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 18 Jan 1843. Buckler sends Bloxam some drawings of St. Martin’s Church, Carfax. Fol. 14: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to Martin Routh, 27 Nov 1830. Buckler discusses the effigy of the Founder’s Father and the statues over the gatewayunder the Founder’s Tower and the west door of the Chapel. He also encloses an invoice for work carried out on the Founder’s tomb at Winchester. Fol. 15: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 1 Dec 1847. Buckler sends Bloxam a plan of the College he made in 1820. He also reports that he is preparing a new rental on the College’s London estates, and expresses his pleasure in his long relationship with Magdalen, and with Martin Routh in particular. He also sends Bloxam a sketch of Caistor Castle which he had drawn when visiting there during the summer (this must be MC:FA1/9/1P/1 fol. 29, which comes from a collection of pictures and prints assembled by Bloxam). Fol. 16: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 7 Dec 1847. Buckler is glad that Bloxam liked his sketch of Caistor Castle, and reflects on Sir John Fastolf’s life and the places linked with him. He also discusses College properties in London. Fol. 17: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 155

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MC:PR30/1/C3/5 (con.) Road) to John Bloxam, 14 Dec 1847. Buckler sends Bloxam some papers about the College’s London estates which he has just found. He reminisces about a recent visit to Bloxam and Routh, and remembers meeting Bloxam’s father, and also how he came to help salvage the monument to the Founder’s father in Wainfleet church. Fol. 18: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 20 Jan 1848. Buckler sends Bloxam good wishes, and reflects that it is time for “the end of all things” (when the College’s finances for the previous year were all properly audited). Fol. 19: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 14 Jan 1848. Buckler wants to check that the College has received his accounts, as he has heard nothing. Fol. 20: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 3 Feb 1848. Buckler sends Bloxam some prints of Caistor Castle which he asks him to pass on to some friends. Fol. 21: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 2 Aug 1848. Buckler reports on his journey back from Lincoln, which included a meeting with Mr. Sibthorp (presumably Richard Waldo Sibthorp), and reflects on the architecture of Lincoln and Tattershall Castle. He also remembers fondly his last visit to Magdalen and to Martin Routh, and comments on the “strange and odd” remarks on Pugin’s new gate. Fol. 22: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 10 Sep 1849. Buckler reports that his health has improved, and sends Bloxam a new drawing he has made of Magdalen Tower seen from the Botanical Garden, sent to mark Routh’s 94th birthday on 19 September, and the laying of the foundation stone for the new school, for which Buckler hopes to be present. He reflects on his long and happy relationship with the College. Fol. 23: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 30 Nov [year not given; must be 1849]. Buckler reflects that he has just completed his 79th year, and reflects that he has been involved in Magdalen’s affairs for 64 years. He discusses plans and maps of the College and its properties which ought to have been in the Bursary on his last visit there. Fol. 24: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 4 Dec 1849. At Bloxam’s request, Buckler gives an account of how he came to take an interest in antiquities and architecture, and tries to give a list of the drawings and prints which he has created down the years. Fol. 25: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to John Bloxam, 17 Dec 1849. Buckler supplies some more information about his life and works, again at Bloxam’s request. Fol. 26: Letter from John Buckler (address, 20 Spa Road, Bermondsey, Surrey) to “Reverend Dr. Bloxam”, 26 Jul 1810. This letter must have been addressed to John Bloxam’s father Richard. Buckler sends him some drawings of Bloxham church drawn by his son. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 156

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MC:PR30/1/C3/5 (con.) Fol. 27: Letter from John Buckler (address, no. 12 near the Jamaica House, Bermondsey) to Martin Routh, 19 Nov 1798. Buckler promises to amend an unspecified drawing along the lines suggested by Routh. Fol. 28: Letter from John Buckler (address, no. 2 opposite the Spa Gardens, Bermondsey, Surrey) to an unnamed addressee (Routh?), 19 Mar 1801. Buckler thanks Routh for the receipt of his salary, and promises to send him an account. Fol. 29: Letter from Buckler (address, Bermondsey, Surrey) to John Cholmeley (D. 1791–7; F. 1797–1810), 2 Apr 1804. Buckler discusses proposals for widening Tooley Street in Southwark. Fol. 30: Letter from John Buckler (address, Bermondsey, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 17 Mar 1810. Several of Buckler’s friends have nominated him for the Society of Antiquaries, but some people oppose his election. Buckler asks Routh to put in a good word with those of his friends who are members of the society. Fol. 31: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to Martin Routh, Oct 1828 (no day given). Buckler reports on his inspection of the Founder’s tomb at Winchester Cathedral. He asks Routh to subscribe to an account of Eltham Palace which his son is publishing. Fol. 32: Letter from John Buckler (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 2 Nov 1828. Buckler reports on the College progress in Lincolnshire, which he attended. In particular he describes visiting Magdalen College School, Wainfleet, where he saw the fragments of the tomb of the Founder’s father. He also reports on architectural activity in Magdalen itself, in particular the tidying up of the remains of Magdalen Hall which created the present Grammar Hall. Fol. 33: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul 1849. Buckler regrets that his health will forbid him to visit Oxford for St. Mary Magdalene’s day. He also asks whether he can be relieved from his duties of collecting rents for the College, but still receive a stipend. Fol. 34: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to Martin Routh, 23 Aug 1851. Buckler writes of his declining health, and fears that his disease is now incurable. He looks forward to seeing an engraving of Routh’s latest portrait, and is glad to hear that his son’s new hall for Magdalen College School is well regarded. Fol. 35: Letter from John Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to Martin Routh, 1 Oct 1851. Buckler writes again of his declining health, and thanks Routh for sending him the engraving of his portrait. Fol. 36: Letter from John Buckler (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 20 Feb 1801. Buckler discusses Magdalen estate matters, in London and Southwark. Fol. 37: Letter from John Chessell Buckler (no address given) to Martin Routh, 24 Aug 1841. Buckler thanks Routh for approving his design for the Diocesan Training College at Chester, and discusses the sources he used in the design. Fol. 38: Letter from John Chessell Buckler (no address given) to Martin Routh “Monday”. Buckler encloses two designs for gable crosses to be installed on the church at Tilehurst. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 157

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The following items were found loose at the end of this book:

No. 1: Letter from John Buckler (address, No. 2 opposite the Spa Gardens, Bermondsey, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 16 Aug 1803. Buckler discusses the heating arrangements in the Church of St. Margaret’s, Westminster. He also discusses some estate business in London and Southwark, and asks whether he might be considered for the vacant post of Steward at Magdalen College. No. 2: Letter from John Buckler (address, Stourhead, Wilts.) to William Jackson, ironmonger (address, 6 Fleet Street, London), 11 Jul 1811. Buckler asks Jackson to produce a design for a stove to be installed in the Chapel of Magdalen College, and includes a sketch to show the sort of thing he wants. Jackson has returned the letter to Buckler with a reply of his own, promising to comply with his request. No. 3: Letter from John Buckler and John Chessell Buckler (address, 15 Rockingham Row, New Kent Road) to Martin Routh, 6 Jan 1843. The Bucklers enclose an elevation for the new front of Fremans Court, designed by “Mr. I’Anson Junr”. No. 4: Letter from John Chessell Buckler (no address given) to an unnamed addressee (probably John Bloxam), 9 Aug (no year given). Concern has grown among the Fellows about the proposals for restoring an unspecified building (probably a wing of the Cloisters?), and Buckler assures his correspondent about the extent of the proposed work. No. 5: Letter from John Chessell Buckler (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Buckler discusses some of the items in his bill for the College for his work on the new hall for Magdalen College School. No. 6: Letter from J. B. Mozley (address, Magdalen College) to an unnamed addressee (J. C. Buckler?), 6 Aug (no year given). Mozley passes on to Buckler that several Fellows are concerned about the proposed restorations to the College, and confirms that President Routh with discuss this matter with John Bloxam when he is next in College. No. 7: Letter from Charles A. Buckler (address, Oxford House, Reading) to John Bloxam, 12 Aug (no year given). Buckler grumbles at the dilatoriness of Hardman & Co.

MC:PR30/1/C3/6 1810–78 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “The Sibthorp Correspondence” on the spine.

Richard Waldo Sibthorp (1792–1879; D. 1810–18; F. 1818–41) was a member of Magdalen who spent his lifetime unsure which denomination was his spiritual home. In 1811, having come up to Magdalen as an Anglican in 1810, he briefly left the College to enter the Roman Catholic Church, but was forcibly brought back to Oxford and Anglicanism. He then became something of an evangelical within the Church of England, before converting to Catholicism a second time in 1841. In 1843, however, he returned to the Anglican fold. Finally in 1865, he converted to Catholicism yet again, and remained a Catholic until his death. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 158

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Routh and Bloxam evidentlysympathised with Sibthorp’s spiritual troubles: Routh’s relationship with him can be traced below, while Bloxam, in his biographical register, chose to give Sibthorp a longer entry than any other former member of the College, even Routh himself.

On the inside front covers are two cuttings from the Oxford Herald, from July 1841, concerning Sibthorp, and an unsigned pencil sketch of him.

Fol. 1: Letter from Humphry Waldo Sibthorp (address, Canwick) to Martin Routh, 27 Feb 1810 (Humphry Sibthorp was Richard’s father). Sibthorp discusses plans for an unspecified project in his native Lincolnshire. He also reports that he intends to offer his son Richard as a candidate for a Demyship for a second time. Fol. 2: Letter from Humphry Waldo Sibthorp (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, 1 Sep 1810. Sibthorp thanks Routh for giving his son Richard a Demyship. Fol. 3: Letter from Humphry Waldo Sibthorp (address, Sudbrooke House) to Martin Routh, 7 Nov 1811. Sibthorp writes in some agitiation of the reason for his son’s abrupt departure from Magdalen, namely a conversion to Catholicism. Fol. 4: Draft letter (in another hand) from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Col. Humphry Sibthorp, 10 Nov 1811. Routh condoles with Sibthorp about his son’s conversion, expressing his anger at his apparent ensnarement. He reassures Sibthorp that his son will still be welcome at Magdalen should he change his mind. Fol. 5: Letter from Humphry Waldo Sibthorp (address, Sudbrooke House) to Martin Routh, 15 Jan 1812. Sibthorp thanks Routh for his kindness, and hopes that Richard has come to his senses. Fol. 6: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Vicarage House, Eltham, Kent) to Martin Routh, 30 Jan 1812. Sibthorp thanks Routh and the College for supporting him during his spiritual crisis, and assured him that he is now a member of the Church of England. He looks forward to returning to Magdalen. Fol. 7: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (no address given) to Martin Routh, 10 Mar (no year given - presumably 1812). Sibthorp confirms his allegiance to the Church of England, and writes that he does not wish to discuss the matter again. Fol. 8: Letter from Humphry Waldo Sibthorp (address, Sudbrooke House) to Martin Routh, 1 Apr 1812. Sibthorp’s son Richard has been staying with him. He thanks Routh for his support, and explains that his son will be seeing a private tutor so that he can make up for lost time. He also reports on plans relating to the church at Wainfleet All Saints. Fol. 9: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Waddington) to Martin Routh, 9 Apr 1816. Sibthorp thanks Routh for being presented with a book prize by the College for his good conduct as an undergraduate. He also discusses a bequest made by his grandfather Humphrey Sibthorp (D. 1732–4; F. 1734–41; Professor of Botany 1747–84) to Magdalen. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 159

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MC:PR30/1/C3/6 (con.) Fol. 10: Letter from Coningsby W. Sibthorp (address, London) to Martin Routh, 19 Dec 1816 (ConingsbySibthorp was Richard’s eldest brother). He explains that Humphrey Sibthorp had left £1700 to any one of his grandsons who was brought up “in the mercantile line”, and that if none of his grandsons had pursued this aim before the age of 23, then the money was to be left to the President and Demies of Magdalen College. That time has passed, with no grandson taking up the offer, and now Sibthorp arranges with Routh for the payment of the money to Magdalen College. Fol. 11: Letter from Coningsby W. Sibthorp (address, Canwick) to Martin Routh, 26 Dec 1816. Sibthorp discusses further the terms of his grandfather’s will, and arrangements to pay Magdalen his bequest. Fol. 12: Letter from Coningsby W. Sibthorp (address, Canwick) to Martin Routh, 7 Jan 1817. Sibthorp explains that there are some problems in releasing the funds to execute his grandfather’s bequest to Magdalen. Fol. 13: Letter from Coningsby W. Sibthorp (address, Canwick) to Martin Routh, 30 Jan 1817. Sibthorp once again apologises for the legal delays preventing him from paying Magdalen its legacy. Fol. 14: Letter from Charles Wetherell (address, Lincoln’s Inn) to Martin Routh, 5 May (1817?). Wetherell has been asked to advise on Humphrey Sibthorp’s will, and seeks some more information on it. (Charles Wetherell, 1770–1846, D. 1788–91) Fol. 15: Letter (possibly a copy?) from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Canwick) to an unnamed Bishop (identified by Routh as the Bishop of Lincoln), 7 Aug 1817. Sibthorp apologies for preaching on two occasions in someone else’s parish within Lincolnshire without permission. Fol. 16: Testimonial to the President and Fellows of Magdalen College signed by 13 clergymen from in and around Hull, dated 6 Jun 1818. The signatories praise Richard Waldo Sibthorp’s ministry in their town over the last 15 months. There is also a note from the Archbishop of York, dated 19 Jun 1818, supporting the testimonial. Fol. 17: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Canwick Hall) to Martin Routh, 30 Jun 1818. Sibthorp apologises for his conduct in Lincolnshire (see Fol. 15 above), and protests his support for the laws of the Church of England. Fol. 18: Letter (2 sheets) from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Canwick Hall) to Martin Routh, 8 Jul 1818. Sibthorp expresses anxiety that his election to a Fellowship might be opposed, on the grounds of supposed dissent from the Church of England. Sibthorp passionately and at some length assures Routh that this is not the case. Fol. 19: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Canwick Hall) to Nassau Senior, 8 Jul 1818. Sibthorp once again expresses concern to Senior about possible opposition to his election as Fellow. Fol. 20: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Tattershall) to Martin Routh, 9 Jul 1821. Sibthorp agrees to vote for Richard Heber in the forthcoming Parliamentary election for an MP for the University. On the back of the letter, MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 160

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MC:PR30/1/C3/6 (con.) Routh has written a long list of names, presumably of people who he has successfully canvassed on Heber’s behalf. Fol. 21: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Holmwood, Ryde) to Martin Routh, 3 Apr 1841. Sibthorp thanks Routh for expressing interest in the appointment of a clerk at Magdalen, but the person that Sibthorp was supporting has found a post elsewhere. Fol. 22 (loose): Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Oscott College, Birmingham) to Martin Routh, 18 Nov 1841. Sibthorp discusses his second conversion to Roman Catholicism, but continues to declare his regard for Magdalen College. Fol. 23: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, St. Helens, Isle of Wight) to Martin Routh, 2 Oct 1843. Sibthorp writes that he has rejoined the Church of England, and taken communion in an Anglican church. He asks to receive communion at Magdalen when it is next administered there. Fol. 24: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, St. Helens) to Martin Routh, 25 Dec 1843. Sibthorp has taken communion at the local church, and hopes to come to Magdalen before too long. Fol. 25: Letter from Giles Eyre, Rector of Kilmina (address, Carrchally, Westport, Ireland) to Martin Routh. 5 Mar 1844. Eyre asks for confirmation that Sibthorp has returned to the Church of England, and taken communion at Magdalen at Routh’s hands. Routh has written some notes on the back of his letter towards a reply. Fol. 26: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College, Oxford) to an unnamed address, who is clearly Giles Eyre, 9 Mar 1844. He confirms that he has indeed administered communion to Sibthorp. Fol. 27: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, St. Helens) to Martin Routh, 21 Mar 1844. Sibthorp apologises to Routh for being pestered by Eyre. He asks that his name might be put back on the books of Magdalen College. Fol. 28: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 2 Nov 1846. Sibthorp declines the invitation to have his name restored to the College books. He will explain his reasons when they next meet. Fol. 29: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Carlton, near Nottingham) to Martin Routh, 8 Feb 1847. Sibthorp thanks Routh for news of a gift (presumably of one of Routh’s books?). He reports on the appalling poverty he has seen in Nottingham. He reaffirms his commitment to the Church of England, but admits a sympathy with some doctrines of Roman Catholicism. Fol. 30: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Carlton by Gedding, near Nottingham) to Martin Routh, 23 Mar 1847. Sibthorp has now received Routh’s present. He expressed concern for Routh after he had suffered an accident in his library. Sibthorp plans to go to Lincoln, where he hopes that the Bishop there may re-admit him as a clergyman in the Church of England. Fol. 31: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Lincoln) to John Bloxam, 8 Apr 1847. Sibthorp is planning the construction of an almshouse at Lincoln, and seeks Bloxam’s advice on an appropriate inscription for it. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 161

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MC:PR30/1/C3/6 (con.) Fol. 32: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Lincoln) to Martin Routh, 7 May 1847. Sibthorp thanks Routh for advising him on an inscription for his almshouse. He is applying to the Bishop of Lincoln for readmission to officiate in the Church of England, and asks Routh if he will supply a favourable testimony, if asked. Fol. 33: Letter (3 sheets) from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Lincoln) to Martin Routh, 12 May 1847. Sibthorp expresses irritation that the Bishop of Winchester demands ever more pieces of proof that he has returned to the Church of England, and seeks Routh’s advice. Fol. 34: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Lincoln) to Martin Routh, 23 Dec 1847. Sibthorp reports that the Bishop of Lincoln has given him leave to officiate in the Church of England. Fol. 35: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Lincoln) to Martin Routh, 30 Dec 1847. Sibthorp encloses a copy of a letter from him to the Bishop of Lincoln applying to officiate in the Church of England. Fol. 36: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Lincoln) to Martin Routh, 8 Jan 1849. Sibthorp thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Volume V of Reliquiae Sacrae, and sends him best wishes for the coming year. Fol. 37: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Lincoln) to Martin Routh, 15 Jul 1850. Sibthorp recommends to Routh’s attention the son of a friend of his as a candidate for a Demyship, called Frederic Quilter, and reports on his poor health (Quilter did not get a Demyship). Fol. 38: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, St. Anne’s Lincoln) to Martin Routh, 27 Apr 1851. Sibthorp congratulates Routh on the 60th anniversary of his election as President, and thanks him for the kindness he has shown him. Fol. 39: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Lincoln) to Martin Routh, 14 Jun 1852. Sibthorp thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his edition of Burnet’s Reign of James II. He discusses current politics. Fol. 40: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, St. Anne’s, Lincoln) to Martin Routh, 8 Sep 1853. Sibthorp thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his his Reliquiae Sti Petri Episcopi et Martyris, and sends him birthday greetings. He reports on the construction of a chapel at the St. Anne’s almshouses. Fol. 41: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, St. Anne’s, Lincoln) to Martin Routh, 6 Dec 1853. Sibthorp thanks Routh for an unspecified present (his Tres Breves Tractatus?), and reports on progress on his chapel. Fol. 42: Letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, St. Anne’s Lincoln) to Martin Routh, 28 Sep 1854. Sibthorp sends Routh a print of his new Chapel, and wishes him well for his birthday. Fol. 43: The final sheet of a treatise (signed “Sibthorp” at the end) on contemporary political matters.

The following items were found loose at the end of this book:

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MC:PR30/1/C3/6 (con.) Brighton) to an unnamed addressee, President, 23 Mar (no year given). Sibthorp explains the system for electing Demies at Magdalen College. Possibly this Humphrey is a brother of Richard, and this letter therefore dates from c. 1818–41. Fol. 45: Draft letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Nottingham) to an illegible addressee, 14 Dec 1876. Sibthorp asks about old friends in Ryde, and passes on his own news. Fol. 46: Draft letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Nottingham) to an illegible addressee, 17 Sep 1877. Sibthorp discusses his affairs, and asks after his addressee’s family. Fol. 47: Draft letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Nottingham) to an illegible addressee, 30 Oct 1877. Sibthorp thanks his correspondent for sending him a photograph. Fol. 48: First part of a letter from Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, Nottingham) to an unnamed addressee, 20 Aug 1878. Sibthorp discusses his affairs. Fol. 49: Copy in John Bloxam’s hand of a letter by Richard Waldo Sibthorp (address, St. Helens) to a Mr. Bickersteth, dated 5 Oct 1843, which was published in the Orthodox Journal, Vol. XVII, p. 407. Sibthorp reports that he has taken communion in the Anglican Church, and renounces his Catholicism.

MC:PR30/1/C3/7 1821–55 Guardbook bound in dark blue covers, with “Rev. Thomas Scott’s poetry” on the spine. Although the book is bound in blue, rather than dark green covers, it is clearly one of the volumes created by John Bloxam. It relates to Thomas Scott (d. 1846; D. 1785–92), Chaplain of Bromley College Kent, 1821–46, and possessed of poetic ambitions. Bromley College (also known as Bromley Hospital) was originally founded by John Warner (1581–1666; D. 1599–1604; F. 1604–10) for the widows of clergymen. In 1840, however, the College was expanded with a fresh endowment from Sophia Sheppard, who paid for accommodation and financial support for the daughters of such widows who had no other means of support when their mothers died. Magdalen College had the right to nominate the Chaplain of the College.

Inside front cover: two engravings of Bromley College. Between fols. 1 and 2: three printed pamphlets containing poems by Scott: (i) An untitled poem, dated 24 Jun 1844, in praise of John Warner, the original founder of the hospital, into which Scott has added an MS poem titled “The Chaplain’s Gate”; (ii) “The Musings of an Old Suffolk Rector”, dated Michaelmas 1842; (iii) “In commemoration of the Consecration of the New Church on Bromley Common”, dated 1842. Fols. 2–8: MS of a poem by Scott “Campaneuloga; or The Eulogy of Church Bells by an Octogenary”, dated St. Mark’s Day 1844. Fols. 9–10: Letter from Thomas Scott (address, BromleyCollege, Kent) to Martin Routh, dated 30 March 1841. Scott discusses the new rules and regulations created for the College under the auspices of Routh’s sister, Sophia Sheppard. Fols. 11–12: MS poem titled “On the Opening of the Sheppardean College on St. Mary Magdalene’s Day July 22nd 1841", inscribed to Martin Routh at the end. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 163

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MC:PR30/1/C3/7 (con.) Fol. 13: MS poem titled “For the Sheppardean College on fixing the Shield bearing the Sheppard Arms”, dated 13 April 1841, and inscribed to Sophia Sheppard. Fol 14: MS Poem titled “The Grateful Matin Musings of the Chaplain and Mrs. Sheppard’s five College Daughters, for the 22nd of July 1844", inscribed to Mrs. Routh. Fol. 15: Another copy of the printed poem at fols. 1–2 (i). Fol. 16: Blank. Fols. 17–18: Letter from C. I. Urquhart (D.. 1803–12; F. 1812–20; address, Westerham) to Martin Routh, dated 2 Jun 1846. Urquhuart tells Routh the news of Scott’s death. Fols. 19–20: Letter from Thomas Scott (address, Bromley College, Kent) to Sophia Sheppard, dated 5 Nov 1842. Scott thanks Sheppard for a gift, and mentions some positive reactions to his poem “The Musings of an Old Suffolk Rector”. Fols. 21–22: Letter from the Bishop of London, William Howley, to Martin Routh, 19 Mar 1821. Howley reports that the current chaplain at Bromley plans to resign his post there, and asks Routh to recommend a successor. The letter includes Routh’s draft reply, in which he recommends Thomas Scott for the post. Fols. 23–24: Letter from Thomas Scott (address, Tavistock Hotel, Covent Garden) to Martin Routh, dated 7 May 1821. Scott expresses his pleasure at being elected Chaplain to Bromley Hospital. Fol. 25: Letter from Thomas Scott (address, Little Oakley Parsonage) to Martin Routh, dated 1 Jun 1821. Scott once again expresses his pleasure at his new appointment. Fol. 26: Letter from James J. B. Landon (address, Bromley College, Kent) to the President of Magdalen College, dated 19 Feb 1855. Landon informs the President that the Chaplaincy of Bromley College is to be made vacant as from 25 June.

The following items were found loose at the end of this book:

No. 1: Letter from Thomas Scott (address, Bromley College, Kent) to Martin Routh, 6 Jun 1830. Scott recommends to Routh one Rev. J. C. Lloyd. No. 2: Letter from Thomas Scott (address, Bromley College, Kent) to Martin Routh, 14 May 1836. Scott encloses a poem, and protests at the appointment of the new Regius Professor of Divinity (R. D. Hampden). No. 3: Letter from Thomas Scott (address, Bromley College, Kent) to Martin Routh, 12 Oct 1840. Scott thanks Routh for preparing a Latin inscription to commemorate the benefaction of his sister Sophia Sheppard to Bromley College, but proposes some modifications. No. 5: Letter from Thomas Scott (address, Bromley College, Kent) to Martin Routh, 16 Oct 1840. Scott thanks Routh for sending a revised inscription. No. 5: Letter from Thomas Scott (address, Bromley College, Kent) to Martin Routh, 19 Nov 1840. Scott reports that Sophia Sheppard’s new building is now MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 164

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MC:PR30/1/C3/8 1817–19 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Dr. Benjamin Wheeler” on the spine. As with MC:PR30/1/C3/2, the binding is identical with the other books created by Bloxam, but the lettering on the spine is different from the others. It is not listed by Macray as being among the volumes given to the College by Bloxam, but the evidence of the binding, suggests that the contents of this volume were found by Bloxam among Routh’s papers after his death, and sorted and bound up by him.

Benjamin Wheeler was a Fellow of Magdalen College from 1761–77. He was educated at New College and was elected to a scholarship at Trinity College, where he matriculated in 1751. He obtained a BA in 1755 and an MA in 1758. He was elected to a Fellowship at Magdalen College in 1761, became Bursar in 1766, Professor of Poetry in 1766–76, Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy in 1767–82, and Proctor in 1768, and was made a DD in 1770. Wheeler became Rector of Candlesby in 1772 and retained the living until his death in 1783. In 1775 he became Dean of Divinity and was appointed Chancellor of the Diocese of Oxford. He was named Regius Professor of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church in 1776. Wheeler died of an apoplectic fit on 22 July 1783. The young Routh knew Wheeler and clearly respected him (see Middleton, Dr. Routh, pp. 4–5).

The lectures in this volume were published by Thomas Horne in his edition of Wheeler’s Theological Lectures (1819, pp. 1–144). Horne had matriculated from Christ Church in 1755 aged 18, and then been a Fellow of Trinity College. He later became Master of the Manor House School at Chiswick, and died in 1824. A proof copy of Horne’s edition is in the Routh Library, as is a copy of the book as published.

As will be seen from the correspondence here (especially letters Fols. 12–13), there were plans to publish up to three volumes of Wheeler’s works, but the response to the first volume published in 1819 was so poor, both in terms of reviews and of sales, that Thomas Horne’s son thought it inadvisable to publish any more.

The writers of these letters include both Thomas Horne, who edited the lectures for publication, and his son, also called Thomas Horne, who matriculated from Christ Church in 1790, and succeeded his father as Master of the Manor House School. To tell them apart, they are therefore called here “Thomas Horne the elder” and “Thomas Horne the younger”.

Fol. 1: Note in Routh’s hand on the identity of Benjamin Wheeler. Fol. 2: Note by Routh, written on the blank portion of a letter sent on 16 Dec 1817, in which he expresses his opinion on Wheeler’s lectures. He thinks them good, and suggests that Thomas Horne should consult with others to seek their opinion. Fol. 3: Letter from Thomas Horne the elder (address, Chiswick) to Martin Routh, 15 Jan 1818. Horne understands that Routh considers some portions of Wheeler’s MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 165

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MC:PR30/1/C3/8 (con.) lectures inferior to others, and asks him to provide more details. Fol. 4: Letter from M. Wheeler (sister of Thomas Wheeler; address, St. Giles’) to Martin Routh, 15 Mar (year not given; 1818?). Wheeler sends Routh a letter from Thomas Horne, which evidently discusses financial aspects of the publication of her brother’s works. She is most grateful to Routh for his support in the venture. Fol. 5: Letter from Thomas Horne (address, Chiswick) to Martin Routh, 19 Mar 1818. Horne discusses fine details relating to the publication of Wheeler’s lectures. Fol. 6: Letter from Thomas Horne the elder (address, Chiswick) to Martin Routh, postmarked 6 Sep 1817. Horne warmly thanks Routh for agreeing to review Wheeler’s lectures, and assist with their publication. He has had the lectures transcribed, but would be happy to arrange for Routh to see the originals, if he wishes. Fol. 7: Letter from M. Wheeler (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 3 Dec 1818. Wheeler sends Routh the text of Thomas Horne’s preface to the first volume of her brother’s divinity lectures for his comments. She thanks him for sending her a letter from an unnamed Primate. Fols. 8–10 are loose. Fol. 8: Letter from M. Wheeler (address, St. Giles) to Martin Routh, 13 Nov (year not given; 1818?). She understands that the unnamed Primate will sanction the publication of her brother’s lectures. Fol. 9: Letter from M. Wheeler (no address given) to Martin Routh, 26 Aug (year not given; 1818 or 1819?). Wheeler returns the four first sheets of the lectures to Routh with her thanks. She understands that Mrs. Sheppard will be visiting Magdalen soon, and hopes to call on her. Fol. 10: Letter from M. Wheeler (no address given) to Martin Routh, Monday 28 Dec (1818). Wheeler thanks Routh warmlyfor all his assistance in the publication of her brother’s lectures. She discusses some slight inaccuracies in the biographical sketch of her brother written by Thomas Horne. Fol. 11: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, undated, but written on the back of a fragment of a Chapel music list dated 2 Feb 1818. Routh discusses details of printing Wheeler’s lectures, in particular concerning page lengths, the number of copies to be printed, and the costs of the whole process. Fol. 12: Letter from Thomas Horne the younger (address, Chiswick) to Martin Routh, 6 Sep 1824. Horne has heard via Wheeler’s sister that, notwithstanding the poor reviews and sales of the first volume of Wheeler’s works, Routh thinks that the remaining volumes should be published. He now explains that only half a dozen copies of the book were sold (which he didn’t tell Wheeler’s sister; but see Fol. 15 below), and that Hatchard (John Hatchard, 1768–1849; publisher and bookseller) has recommended that the unsold volumes be sold for waste paper. He himself therefore advises against publishing any more of Wheeler’s works. Fol. 13: Letter from Thomas Horne the younger (address, Chiswick) to Martin Routh, 11 Sep 1824. Horne assures Routh that, in spite of the poor reception of MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 166

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MC:PR30/1/C3/8 (con.) Wheeler’s published works, he has a high regard for the man himself. The problem is that the public do not agree, and so there is no point in publishing any more of his work. Fol. 14: Epitaph (in Latin) composed for Benjamin Wheeler by Thomas Horne the elder. This was written on a part of a letter sent to Wheeler’s sister dated 22 Apr 1818. There then follow the texts of Wheeler’s six lectures. Fol. 6 shows that they had been transcribed, and the text of the lectures in this volume is a transcript: on the inside front cover is a list of editorial conventions followed by the transcriber, who signs himself “J.N.” The lectures are separately foliated, and are titled thus: Lecture 1: “Introductory Lecture.” Lecture 2: “Of natural religion, and of its principles of theology.” Lecture 3: “Of natural theology, as it respects the moral attributes of the Deity.” Lecture 4: “Of the general ground and foundation of revealed religion: and of the nature of its evidences.” Lecture 5: the first 18 leaves of this lecture, with its title, are missing in this transcription. Lecture 6: “On the state of man before and after his fall”. Fol. 15: Letter from M. Wheeler (address, St. Giles) to Martin Routh, 8 Nov 1819. Wheeler thanks Routh for sending her two hares, and asks after members of his family. She has heard from Thomas Horne: 40 copies of her brother’s book have been sold already, and he is evidently not bothered by reviews of it.

The following items were found loose at the end of this book:

No. 1: Letter from Thomas Horne the elder (address, Chiswick) to Martin Routh, 4 Sep 1818. Horne wonders whether it would be better to publish Wheeler’s works in two or more volumes; he himself prefers the latter. He also agrees that it is best to publish just one volume now, to test the public’s response. No. 2: Letter from Thomas Horne the elder (address, Chiswick) to Martin Routh, 13 Mar 1819. Horne thanks Routh for his support in publishing Wheeler’s sermons. No. 3: Letter from Thomas Horne the younger (address, Chiswick) to M. Wheeler, 6 Sep 1824. Horne now explains to Wheeler that, although he admires the content of her brother’s work, he can see no circumstances to encourage them to publish any further volumes of it. No. 4: 2 sheets of an incomplete manuscript copy of Dialogus in Theatro Sheldoniano habitus inter Ricardum Hely Hutchinson et Davidem Henricum Urquhart, 1773 (composed by Wheeler). There is an edition of this in College Library. Richard Hely Hutchinson and David Henry Urquhart matriculated from Magdalen as gentlemen commoners in 1772 and 1771 respectively. The dialogue is written in hexameters and is supposed to be between a Fellow living in his College and one living in the country “Socius Collegii Commorans, et MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 167

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MC:PR30/1/C3/8 (con.) Parochialis”. No. 5: Letter (2 sheets; one quarter of the first sheet missing) from Henry Kett (1761–1825; Fellow of Trinity College; address, Trinity College) to Martin Routh, 4 Dec (no year given; must be 1793). Kett had lost to James Hurdis (D. 1782–8; F. 1788–1800) in the election for the Professorship of Poetry held that year. Evidently still upset and angry at his defeat, he expresses his feelings at some length. In particular, Kett feels that Routh treated him unfairly, claiming that Routh had promised him his support, and then went back on his word. This letter has nothing to do with the remaining contents of this book, and seems to have been inserted here at an unknown date. See also MC:PR30/1/C1/3 Fols, 11, 16, 27, & 51, MC:PR30/1/C4/4 Fol. 210 and MC:PR30/1/C4/10 Fols. 24–32 for other letters from this correspondent.

MC:PR30/1/C3/9 1818–80 Guardbook inscribed on the spine “Dr. Routh Letters and Memoir of”. Inside are two notes; the first is one from Philip Bliss, indicating that the book is to be presented to John Bloxam; the second one from Bloxam, indicating that he has presented this volume to the library of Magdalen College (and it is among the volumes Macray lists as having been presented by Bloxam). There is also a note that item Fol. 27 was recorded as missing in 1978. On several of the later letters, where Routh’s handwriting becomes even more spidery than usual, someone (Bloxam?) has added pencil annotations over some words to attempt to interpret them.

This volume was evidently created by the antiquarian and book collector Philip Bliss (1787–1857; Registrar of Oxford 1824–53 and Principal of St. Mary’s Hall 1848–57), who knew Routh well in his later years. It would appear that Bliss presented (or bequeathed) it to Bloxam, who then included it among his Routh collections. For other letters from Bliss to Routh, see MC:PR30/1/C1/2 Fol. 44, MC:PR30/1/C1/4 Fols. 51 & 72, MC:PR30/1/C2/9 Fol. 22, MC:PR30/1/C4/1 fols. 27–32, MC:PR30/1/C4/7 Fols. 52–58, MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 Fols. 3, 38 & 54, and MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 No. 116.

Fol. 1: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Philip Bliss, 8 Sep 1822. Routh discusses book catalogues and book purchases, in particular editions of Bishop Burnet’s works. Fol. 2: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Philip Bliss, 11 Nov 1833. Routh invites Bliss to visit to discuss some recent purchases. Fol. 3: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Philip Bliss, 14 Jan 1835. Routh consoles Bliss on the death of his mother. Fol. 4: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Philip Bliss, 3 Apr 1835. Routh is trying to obtain what he calls a “possibly authentic” copy of Burnet’s history. Fol. 5: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Philip Bliss, “Thursday Morn”. Routh wants to see one or two items from Richard Heber’s collection of books. Fol. 6: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Philip Bliss, 6 Jun 1835. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 168

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MC:PR30/1/C3/9 (con.) Routh wants to know when copies of Burnet’s history are likely to reach him. Fol. 7: Letter from Richard Jenkyns (1782–1854; Master of Balliol 1819–54; address, Balliol College) to Martin Routh, 7 Dec 1837. Jenkyns regrets not being able to meet Routh, on account of too much College business. Fol. 8: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading) to Philip Bliss, 27 Oct 1841. Routh passes on a message from his sister Sophia Sheppard, regretting that she is unable to subscribe towards the construction of a new church, but might contribute towards its endowment. Routh himself offers some money. Fol. 9: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Philip Bliss, dated by Bliss to 1842. Routh discusses an offer made to him by Queen’s College to purchase his personal library. Fol. 10: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst near Reading) to Philip Bliss, 5 Jul 1844. Routh agrees, at Bliss’s request to appoint “young Macray” (William Dunn Macray; Cl. 1844–50; Chaplain 1856–70; F. 1891–1916) to a vacant clerkship. Fol. 11: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Philip Bliss., 6 Nov 1846. Routh sends Bliss an index to an unnamed work, compiled by “Mr. Henderson of Magdalen College” (William George Henderson, D. 1836–46; F. 1846–52). Fol. 12: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Philip Bliss, “Tuesday evening” (c. 1847?). Routh discusses a possible publication date for the Reliquiae Sacrae. The first volumes of the revised edition were published in 1847. Fol. 13: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Philip Bliss, “Thursday noon” (c. 1847?). Routh asks for a copy of the Authors Index (for Reliquiae Sacrae?). Fol. 14: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Philip Bliss. The date is illegible, but Bliss has noted that he received it on 17 Mar 1847. Routh reports on his current poor health. Fol. 15: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Philip Bliss, undated. Routh asks Bliss’ opinion on an addition at the bottom of an unspecified page. Fol. 16: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Philip Bliss, 21 Jul 1844. Routh asks after Bliss’s health. He asks for the address of Mr. Garbutt, so that he can be thanked for sending Routh a sermon. Fol. 17: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Philip Bliss, 22 Apr 1845. Routh encloses money to pay for some sherry. He alludes to a forthcoming meeting of Convocation. Fol. 18: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst) to Philip Bliss, 8 Jun 1845. Routh asks Bliss to check some references in the Bodleian Library. Fol. 19: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Philip Bliss, 2 Jun 1848. Routh asks Bliss to insert a notice in the “Oxford Herald” expressing anger at proposals both to repeal the union with Ireland and to subject Oxford to a commission. Fol. 20: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to Philip Bliss, 16 Dec MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 169

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MC:PR30/1/C3/9 (con.) 1853. Routh asks Bliss to tell him about the answer given to Lord Palmerston by the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Derby. Bliss notes that he called on Routh and read him Derby’s letter. Fol. 21: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Philip Bliss, 4 Feb 1854. Routh asks how many copies of his latest tract have been sold by Parker’s. He discusses a book on the Herbert family. Fol. 22: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Philip Bliss, 26 Jul 1854. Routh expresses his disgust that the House of Lords has passed “the subversive, tyrannical, University Bill”. Fol. 23: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Philip Bliss, 7 Sep 1854. Routh reports on a visit from Professor Dindorf. He gave him a copy of his tract, which it seems Dindorf had also edited. Fol. 24: Letter from William Alexander, Wine Merchant (address, Leith) to Bliss, 6 Mar 1854. Alexander discusses sending an order of sherry to Martin Routh, and expresses his pleasure in having a customer of such an age. Fol. 25: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, written on a fragment of a letter which is postmarked 20 Dec 1818. Routh is evidently replying to a request for a reference to Philip Bliss, and he writes recommending his character and education. Fol. 26: Letter from Philip Bliss (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 14 Oct 1846. Bliss reports on meeting “poor Dibdin” ((Thomas Frognall Dibdin, 1776–1847, bibliographer) in London, and his poor state of health. Bliss also asks Routh whether he could put in a word with his sister to be presented to the living of Theale when it next falls vacant. Fol. 28: Letter from Charles Atmore Ogilvie (1793–1873; Fellow of Balliol and later Canon of Christ Church; no address given) to Philip Bliss, “Sunday evening”. Ogilvie reports that Routh has allowed a statement of his views on an unspecified matter, which had been circulated among his friends, to be sent anonymously to the Bishop of London and Lord Palmerston. Fol. 29: Letter from D. Chase (address illegible) to Philip Bliss, 22 Dec [year not given; must be 1854] Chase reports that Routh is not expected to last the night, in case Bliss wants to call on him one last time. Fol. 30: Letter from R. Jackson (address, Holywell) to Philip Bliss, 22 Dec 1854. Jackson reports on Routh’s failing condition. Fol. 31: First sheet only of a letter from R. Jackson (no address given) to Philip Bliss, n.d. (but clearly 22 Dec 1854). Since Jackson last wrote, news has come that Routh had just died. He reports on seeing Routh on his deathbed. Fol. 32: Letter from Charles Ogilvie (address, Christ Church) to Philip Bliss, 22 Dec 1854. Ogilvie reports on Routh’s death. Fol. 33: Letter from John William Routh (b. 1817; D. 1835–41; address, Magdalen College) to Philip Bliss, “7.30 p.m.” (22 Dec 1854). Routh reports that Martin Routh (his uncle) has just died. Fol. 34: Letter from John W. Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Philip Bliss, 24 Dec 1854. Routh reports that Martin Routh is to be buried at Magdalen, in MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 170

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MC:PR30/1/C3/9 (con.) spite of his wish to be buried at Theale. Routh explains why his uncle’s wishes have been overridden. Fol. 35: Letter from Thorp & Co. (no address given) to Philip Bliss, 24 Dec 1854. Bliss is invited to attend Routh’s funeral (which it appears he did not attend). Fol. 36: Letter from Sir Robert Inglis to Bliss (address, Milton Bryan) to Philip Bliss, 27 Dec 1854. Inglis regrets that he will be unable to attend Routh’s funeral. Fol. 37: Letter from Henry Adams (D. 1836–43; F. 1843–52; address, Malvern) to Philip Bliss, 10 Jan 1855. Adams mentions Martin Routh’s funeral, and considers the new President, Frederic Bulley. He asks Bliss to purchase a copy of Dr. Burger’s Repentance of Nineveh. Fol. 38: Letter (2 sheets) from BulkeleyBandinel (1781–1861, Bodley’s Librarian 1813–60; address illegible) to Philip Bliss, 29 Dec 1854. Bandinel describes Martin Routh’s funeral. His greatest emphasis is on how cold the whole occasion was. Fol. 39: Printed list, published by Oxford University Press, of Routh’s published works. Fol. 40: Printed poem addressed to Martin Routh on his 100th birthday [sic], 19 September 1854, by George Booth (F. 1816–34). Fol. 41: Printed text of poem written in praise of Routh by “F. K., Bath” [This is Francis Kilvert]. Fol. 42: Copy of A Century of Verses in memory of the Reverend, the President of Magdalen College, by John Burgon (published 1855). This copywas presented by the author to Philip Bliss. Fol. 43: Letter from Burgon (address, Oriel) to Philip Bliss, 19 Jan [1855] Burgon sends Bliss a copy of the above poem. Fol. 44: Flyer advertising the publication of a sermon preached in Magdalen College Chapel on Christmas Day 1854 by Thomas Frederick Smith (F. 1846–56), just after Routh’s death. Fol. 45: Copy of A Biographical Sketch of the Rev. Dr. Routh, by Charles Daubeny (1795–1867; D. 1810–15; F. 1815–67). Fol. 46: Cutting from the Morning Herald, 27 Dec 1854, with an article about Martin Routh. Bliss has added that the article first appeared in The Times, and was the work of John Bloxam and James Mozley (F. 1840–56). Fol. 47: Another version of the same article about Routh, from a different (unidentified) newspaper). Fol. 48: A third version of the same article about Routh, this time printed in the Oxford University Herald, 30 Dec 1854. Bliss notes on this that “this is the best account I have yet seen”. Fol. 49: Letter from J. G. Nichols (address, 2 Parliament Street) to Philip Bliss, 16 Feb (1855). Nicholas reports that a memoir of Routh (by Bliss?) has been published. Fol. 50: Galley proofs for an obituary of Martin Routh, heavily corrected by Bliss. Bliss has noted that this obituary was intended for the Gentleman’s Magazine, and that Bliss offered some corrections, which could not be incorporated into the MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 171

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MC:PR30/1/C3/9 (con.) final version. Fol. 51: Apparently part of a proof of an obituary of Routh, with corrections in an unknown hand. Fol. 52: Cutting of an obituary of Routh, which appears to come from the Morning Post. Fol. 53: Cutting from what appears to be the Morning Herald, 18 Jul 1854, with a letter from “Academicus”, protesting against the passing of the University Bill. There is a note that the letter was written by Routh. Fol. 54: Cutting from an unnamed newspaper with a report of Martin Routh’s funeral on 29 Dec 1854. Fols. 55–56: Proofs for an obituary(or two obituaries) of Martin Routh, annotated by Philip Bliss. Fol. 57: Printed auction catalogue for Martin Routh’s manuscripts, sold by Sotheby and Wilkinson, 5 July 1855. See also. No. 1 below. Fol. 58: Printed auction catalogue of Routh’s furniture, 21 Feb 1855. Fol. 59: Printed prospectus for ordering an engraving by David Lucas of a portrait of Martin Routh by T. C. Thompson, n.d. (c. 1843). Fol. 60: Letter from J. Godwin for J. H. Parker (address, Broad Street, Oxford) to Philip Bliss, 24 Feb 1855. Godwin tells Bliss that Routh’s tract is now out of print.

The following items were found loose at the end of this book:

No. 1: List of the names of purchasers of Routh’s manuscripts at the auction as in Fol. 57 above. The 227 lots fetched £270 16s 6d. John Bloxam is shown as having bought nos. 122, 123, 135 and 212. Another copy of the auction catalogue, at MC:PR30/1/C1/5 Fol. 31, suggests that Bloxam bought slightly different lots. No. 2: Letter from J. H. Backhouse (address, Laverton Rectory, Bath) to John Bloxam, 11 Oct 1880. Backhouse asks Bloxam about some MS collections of extracts from Greek writers compiled by Henry Dodwell (Camden Professor of Ancient History 1688–91), with reference to any writings of St. Polycarp to be found there. Backhouse erroneously thinks that Routh’s MSS were all given to the Bodleian or to Magdalen College; in fact this MS was sold off as Lot 73 in the sale to “Boone”. No. 3: Extract from a letter written to John Bloxam and General Rigaud from an unknown addressee, discussing the opinions of Cardinal Newman about Thomas Mozley’s memoirs (which among other things passed comment on Martin Routh). N.d., but Mozley’s Reminiscences were published in 1882. No. 4: Extracts from Thomas Mozley’s Reminiscences which allude to Martin Routh.

MC:PR30/1/C3/10 1796–1854 Scrapbook inscribed “M.S. Letters” on the spine. This book is quite different from all the other volumes created by John Bloxam, in having a leather spine and marbled covers. Also, whereas MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 172

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MC:PR30/1/C3/10 (con.) the other volumes are all guardbooks, in which letters have been bound together, this is a scrapbook, into which documents have been pasted. Over a third of the book has been unused, and there are several long gaps between items, especially towards the end.

This book was assembled by John Bloxam, and is a miscellany of letters from Routh to Bloxam, letters to Bloxam from other correspondents, and also scraps relating to Routh which Bloxam can only have found among Routh’s papers after his death. The decision was therefore taken to list this scrapbook among Bloxam’s Routh papers.

No. 1: Letter (written in French) from Jean-Baptiste Bethune (1821–94; architect; address, Leeds) to John Bloxam, 30 Sep 1843. Before returning to his native Belgium, Bethune thanks Bloxam for his warm welcome in Oxford. He speaks of his pleasure at visiting England, and seeing English cathedrals and churches. On the last page of the letter is a note to Bloxam from George Aloysius Mann (address, St. Mary’s College, Oscott) dated 10 Oct 1843, in which Mann explains that he is forwarding this letter at Bethune’s request. No. 2: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 19 Jun 1847. Routh has received a request from Charles Reade to proceed to the degree of DCL. He asks Bloxam to tell Reade that the request will be considered at the next College meeting. No. 3: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 21 Jun 1847. Routh discusses Reade’s possible DCL degree, and whether Bloxam had a chance to meet the Bishop of Winchester when he was in Oxford. No. 4: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 15 Jul 1847. Routh is sorry to hear of the death of Mr. Gott, and suggests that Mr. Whiting should replace him. He hopes to see Mr. Bracebridge’s (unspecified) present when he returns to Oxford next week. No. 5: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 17 Jun 1847. Routh agrees that Roundell Palmer (F. 1834–48) should be asked to draw up a legal opinion on Magdalen College School. No. 6: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 13 Jun 1847. Routh discusses the dispute between the College and George Parsons Hester (Ch. 1807–14; later Town Clerk of Oxford) over Magdalen College School, and asks Routh to tell Hester that the College will offer some regulations concerning the School to the Visitor. This dispute is discussed further in Robin Darwall-Smith, ‘Thomas Allom and the Building of Magdalen College School', in MCR 2002, 85–97. No. 7: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 12 Jun 1847. Routh expresses his pleasure at Magdalen’s success in its lawsuit with George Hester, thanks to Roundell Palmer, and agrees that the College must now invite the Bishop of Winchester to dinner to discuss the matter further (the verdict of the court was that the Bishop, as Magdalen’s Visitor, should be given the ultimate decision as to how to proceed). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 173

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MC:PR30/1/C3/10 (con.) No. 8: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 1 Oct 1842. Routh is sorry to hear that Richard Sibthorp (D. 1812–18; F. 1818–41) has been injured in a fall from a carriage. No. 9: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 13 Apr 1844. Routh asks that discussion of compensation for the College’s property at Fremans Court, London, be reserved for the next College meeting. He is also willing to support the purchase of an advowson (unnamed). No. 10: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to John Bloxam, “Saturday even” (but addressed to Bloxam as Vice-President, which post he held in 1847). Routh asks Bloxam to return him an unnamed manuscript. No. 11: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to John Bloxam, “Sunday afternoon” (but addressed to Bloxam as Vice-President, which post he held in 1847). Routh asks Bloxam to carry out an illegible piece of business. No. 12: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to John Bloxam, 22 Nov 1846. Routh lets Bloxam know that the College charter and its original set of statutes have been placed in the custody of Roundell Palmer. No. 13: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to John Bloxam, 11 Nov 1846. Routh advises Bloxam on previous practice on consulting the Visitor about what should be done with College surpluses. No. 14: Note in Routh’s hand (undated) about the design of a window for the Porter’s Lodge at Magdalen. No. 15: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to John Bloxam, 19 Nov 1846. Routh thanks Bloxam for his help in an unspecified “troublesome business”. No. 16: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 27 Sep 1846. Routh discusses an unspecified request which has been made to Bloxam on College business, and suggests that it should be discussed at a College meeting in November. No. 17: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 2 Jul 1846. Routh thinks that discussion of a vacancy left by George Wenham (D. 1842–6), when he converted to Catholicism, should be reserved for later discussion. No. 18: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to John Bloxam, “Friday Morn”. Routh thanks Bloxam for sending him some unspecified designs. No. 19: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to an unnamed addressee, “Thursday Morn”. Routh discusses the procedure for resigning a living. No. 20: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Oxford) to an unnamed addressee, 28 Apr 1802. Routh discusses arrangements relating to an enclosure taking place in an unnamed parish where the College owns property. No. 21: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 26 Jun 1844. Routh discusses a case between Mr. Butler and Mr. Carr’s executors (details unknown). No. 22: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 22 Sep 1844. Routh thanks Bloxam for sending him some MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 174

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MC:PR30/1/C3/10 (con.) “figures” (presumably prints, rather then sculptures). No. 23: Family tree in an unknown hand of select members of the Bayley family, which shows that Martin Routh and Richard Heber were second cousins, being descended respectively from a Bayley sister and brother. No. 24: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 5 Jul 1844. Routh approves of Bloxam’s plans for a ceremony for laying the foundation stone of Tubney Church. No. 25: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to John Bloxam, “Thursday Even”. Since Bloxam may be writing on the subject of a conversation between them this morning, Routh would prefer an image of the Virgin Mary on the inside of the gate (Pugin’s gate?), to that of any other saint. No. 26: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 19 Sep 1844. Routh would have preferred to defer discussing a proposal (unspecified) made by the Rector and Churchwardens of St. Clements until the College meeting in November, but the matter is urgent, and Routh is happy for the proposal to be accepted if the Fellows like it. He is sorry to hear of Mr. Pugin’s loss (his second wife had recently died), and looks forward to seeing his drawings for the figures for the gate which he is designing for the College. No. 27: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 3 Oct 1842. Routh thanks Bloxam for sending him a letter from Richard Sibthorp, and is pleased to hear that he is recovering. He and his wife are grateful to Bloxam for his account of the painted windows at Littlemore Chapel. No. 28: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to John Bloxam, undated (c. 1844?). Routh asks Bloxam to come and look at Mr. Pugin’s plan for a gate before Chapel. No. 29: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 14 Oct 1847. Routh discusses vacant choristerships, the Fastolf family, access to the College archives, and congratulates Bloxam on his degree (He had just been made a DD). No. 30: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 29 Jun 1847. Routh discusses with Bloxam how to gather information about Magdalen College School for the Visitor. No. 31: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to John Bloxam, “Tuesday afternoon” (dated by Bloxam to 18 Sep 1849, the day before Routh’s 94th birthday). Routh looks forward to seeing his friends at dinner on Thursday. No. 32: Undated note in Routh’s hand about renewing a lease at Guton Hall Farm. No. 33: Undated note in Routh’s hand, which appear to be agenda points for a College meeting. No. 34: Formal notice, signed by Martin Routh, of an election to take place on 8 November (year not given) for two Exhibitioners in Hebrew under the will of Edward Ellerton (F. 1803–51). Ellerton died in December 1851, so this document must date from 1852–4. No. 35: Undated draft inscription in Routh’s hand for an unspecified memorial MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 175

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MC:PR30/1/C3/10 (con.) to William Waynflete at Eton. No. 36: Undated draft inscription in Routh’s hand for a foundation stone for Magdalen College School, Oxford, 1849. No. 37: Another version of the inscription for Eton at No. 35 above. No. 38: Draft letter in Routh’s hand signed “Academicus”, evidently intended for submission to a newspaper, undated. It is almost illegible, but appears to be in relation to the commissions into the universities. No. 39: Draft letter in Routh’s hand (address Oxford), signed “Academicus”, June 1850. Routh attacks the proposed commission into the universities. Fols. 40–1: Two cuttings from unnamed newspapers, reprinting the above letter from “Academicus”, which was sent to the Morning Post. No. 42: Undated note in Routh’s hand about a letter sent by the Duke of Monmouth to James II. No. 43: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to John Bloxam, 1 Jul 1847. Routh thanks Bloxam for sending him Roundell Palmer’s opinion on Magdalen College School. He has noted on it those parts which he thinks should not be sent to the Visitor. He also sends Bloxam a Latin inscription which is to be inscribed into a present of books to Palmer. No. 44: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to John Bloxam, undated (but dated by Bloxam himself to 23 Mar 1852). Routh looks forward to seeing Bloxam again. He has evidently not been well, as his writing is even shakier than usual. No. 45: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to an unnamed addressee, identified by a later hand as being Robert Reynolds, grandfather of James Jones Reynolds (matr. St. John’s College 1837), 13 Feb 1796. Routh thanks Reynolds for offering to send a barrel of oysters. He asks why his cousin James is planning to settle in America, and hopes that he will not renounce his Anglicanism. He agrees to go halves on a lottery ticket. No. 46: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst, near Reading, Berks.) to an unnamed addressee, 23 Sep 1841. Routh will write to the Bishop of Exeter, hoping to hear that a Mr. Reynolds has been ordained there on a title in that diocese (presumably this is James Reynolds as above). Routh is sorry to hear that his addressee had to bury his niece recently; he himself has just married his nephew J. W. Routh to a Miss Pole. Someone has written on the back that this letter was written to his father on his leaving Oxford; the hand is unknown, and may well be that of James Reynolds, in which case the letter has been written to his father. No. 47: List of names in Routh’s hand, headed “Reliquiae S”. This appears to be a list of people to whom Routh is sending presentation copies of Reliquiae Sacrae. To judge from some of the names on it (e.g. Dr. Pusey), this list must relate to the revised version of Reliquiae Sacrae, published in 1846–8. No. 48: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, undated. He thanks the addressee for their work on his behalf. He notes that, if there is any opposition in the House of Lords, the Bishop of Peterborough might be applied MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 176

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MC:PR30/1/C3/10 (con.) to. The only Bishop of Peterborough known to Routh was John Parsons, who was in post from 1813–19, so the letter probably dates from around then. No. 49: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, undated. Routh is examining a draft bill to amend the laws relating to the residence of livings. Routh suggests adding a clause to take account of Heads of Colleges or Public Readers at Oxford or Cambridge. No. 50: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to an unnamed addressee, 2 Nov 1801. Routh thanks the addressee for sending him various (named) texts. He now gives them a list of further texts which he hopes he can find, either at home or abroad. No. 51: Note in John Bloxam’s hand titled “German Catalogue”. This is a translation of a review of the second edition of Reliquiae Sacrae from a German pamphlet titled “Neueste Erscheinungen auf dem Gebiete catholischer Literatur”, listing new theological publications. A copy of the original German publication is at MC:PR30/1/C1/4 Fol. 52. No. 52: Draft letter from Martin Routh to Thomas James Mathias (c. 1754–1835), undated (1815?). Routh thanks Mathias for sending him a copy of his Observations on the writings and on the character of Mr. Gray, of which there is a copy in the Routh Library. The Observations were published in 1815, so the letter presumably dates from around then (see also MC:PR30/1/C4/11 Fol. 6 for the letter from Mathias to which Routh is replying). No. 53: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, undated. Routh thanks the addressee for the efforts which he and Mr. Wetherell (Charles Wetherell, D. 1788–91) have taken with regard to his living (unnamed). No. 54: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, undated. Routh discusses a paper sent him by the addressee, which appears to discuss the doctrine of the Trinity. No. 55: Extract in Bloxam’s hand of a letter from Martin Routh to John Tawell. This extract is printed in Bloxam, Register Vol. VII pp. 19–20, where he explains the story behind it. In January 1845, Tawell murdered one Sarah Hart. He was quickly arrested, and, having been tried and found guilty, was executed on 28 March. According to Bloxam, Routh knew Tawell’s family, and, on hearing of Tawell’s sentence of death, felt moved to write to him, urging him to repent. No. 56: List in Routh’s hand, taken from the Times of 28 Apr 1836, of members of the House of Commons who had voted to exclude Bishops from their seats in Parliament. No. 57: Undated note in Routh’s hand recording the genealogy of members of the Pawlet family. No. 58: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen) to a Mr. Taylor, 30 Dec 1801. Routh thanks Taylor for replacing the first volume of his translation of Plato. No. 59: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, undated. Routh is unwilling to propose for adoption any of the proposals made by an unnamed committee at the next College meeting. See also No. 81 for another draft of this MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 177

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MC:PR30/1/C3/10 (con.) letter. No. 60: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to John Bloxam, “Thursday Even”. Routh asks about checking on an annotation in a copy of Burnet’s History of his Own Times (Harleian MS 6584). Bloxam has written the annotations in pencil onto the letter. No. 61: A neat copy by Bloxam (written in ink) of the same annotations. No. 62: Copy in an unknown hand of the dedication to Martin Routh made by Friedrich Münter in his book Julii Firmici Materni V.C. De errore profanarum religionum, ad Constantium et Constantem Augustos liber (1826). There is a copy in the Routh Library. No. 63: Sheet of undated notes in Latin by Martin Routh which appear to be the forms of words to admit someone to unspecified posts at Magdalen. No. 64: Sheet of undated notes by Martin Routh, partly on donations made by him and his sister Sophia Sheppard towards the building of Perth Cathedral, and partly requesting leave of absence. No. 65: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to John Bloxam, undated (but written c. 1847, when Bloxam was Vice-President). Routh is not well enough to attend the audit that day, and asks Bloxam to go in his stead. No. 66: Draft of Latin speech by Routh, evidently delivered at the admission of a Fellow to an unspecified College office. No. 67: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to John Bloxam, undated. Routh thanks Bloxam for a copy of a document relating to Sophia Sheppard. No. 68: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to John Bloxam, undated. Routh sends Bloxam a note to circulate among Fellows about discussing a report of an unnamed committee at the next College meeting. No. 69: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to John Bloxam, undated. Routh writes a recommendation for a Mrs. Pearse, who is a daughter of Graves, a long serving porter of the College, and who has fallen into penury. No. 70: Note in Routh’s hand about renewing the lease on Golder Farm to comment from Michaelmas 1850. No. 71: Letter from Sam Walter Burgess (address, Leyton, near Stratford, Essex) to Martin Routh, 30 Jan 1854. Burgess requests an answer to a note which was sent to Magdalen with copies of some lines on the death of a curate. Routh has scribbled a draft letter on this document, which appears to relate to the University Commission. No. 72: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to John Bloxam, “Monday morn.” Routh discusses (illegible) antiquarian matters with Bloxam. No. 73: Pedigree, in John Bloxam’s hand of the Routh family to the seventeenth century, taken from Poulson’s Holderness. No. 74: Envelope (now empty) addressed by Martin Routh to John Bloxam, and postmarked 31 Jul 1851. No. 75: Undated compliments slip addressed by Martin Routh to John Bloxam. No. 76: Note from Philip Bliss, dated 28 Mar 1848, with a copy of Martin Routh’s entry in the University’s matriculation register from 31 May 1770. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 178

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MC:PR30/1/C3/10 (con.) No. 77: A second undated compliments slip addressed by Martin Routh to John Bloxam. No. 78: Cutting from the Oxford Herald, dated 1 Nov 1851, reporting on the presence in Oxford of the artist T. C. Thompson, who is noted as having painted a portrait of Martin Routh. No. 79: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to John Bloxam, undated, but with a date of “St. John’s Eve [23 June] 1851". Routh asks Bloxam to look after the Vice-Chancellor at the sermon on the following day. No. 80: Draft letter from Martin Routh to John Bloxam, undated. Routh discusses some unspecified leases. No. 81: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, undated. Routh is unwilling to propose for adoption any of the proposals made by an unnamed committee at the next College meeting. See also No. 59 for another draft of this letter. No. 82: Letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College Oxford) to John Bloxam, 6 Aug 1848. Routh was sorry to see that Bloxam had not returned to College, as he has something to tell him. No. 83: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to John Bloxam, undated. Routh asks Bloxam to ask some unspecified booksellers what lives of James II and Histories of the 1688 revolution have been published in French and English within the last three years. No. 84: Letter (written in French) from an illegible writer (address, Langoustin?), to an unnamed address (Martin Routh or John Bloxam?), 30 Jun 1842. The letter is very hard to read, but the writer appears in part to discuss an account of Rugby given by a Miss Thomasina Evans. No. 84a: Letter from “W. J. C.” (no address given) to John Bloxam “Tuesday St. Matthew’s Day”. The writer discusses arrangements for a service in which Bloxam will help to officiate. No. 85: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, undated. Routh thanks his correspondent for passing on news about the Episcopal Church of Scotland. He plans to help establish a fund to support its bishops and clergy. No. 86: Letter from Mark Pattison (1813–84; Rector of Lincoln College 1861–84; no address given) to John Bloxam, “Tuesday Morning”. Pattison has dropped off for Bloxam copies of an unnamed book by M. Faillon. No. 87: Letter from Thomas Edward Morris (Student of Christ Church 1832–55; address, Christ Church) to John Bloxam, “Wednesday”. Morris explains that an undergraduate at Christ Church called Scratton plans to stand for a Demyship. Scratton is evidently in a desperate state: he has no means of funding, and if he cannot get an award at a College, he might go to Rome. Scratton could either be Thomas (matr. Ch. Ch. 1839) or William (matr. Ch. Ch. 1847). No. 88: Letter from Charles Marriott (Fellow of Oriel 1833–58; address, Oriel) to John Bloxam, 20 May 1845. Marriott invites Bloxam to dinner. No. 89: Letter from J. B. Hope(?) (address, Merton) to John Bloxam, “Monday”. The writer invited Bloxam to dinner. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 179

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MC:PR30/1/C3/10 (con.) No. 90: Letter from Frederic Rogers (address, Oriel) to John Bloxam, 18 Feb 1840. Rogers invites Bloxam to dinner at Oriel to meet Isaac Williams, and Copeland (presumably William John Copeland, 1804–85, clergyman). No. 91: Envelope (now empty) addressed by Martin Routh to John Bloxam. The postmarks are smudged, but appear to date from 1853. No. 92: Letter from Isaac Williams (1802–65; poet and theologian; address Bisley, near Stroud) to John Bloxam “3rd Sunday in Advent”. Williams discusses with Bloxam “an old Roman Catholic Book of pictures” (unnamed). He praises its beauty, and wonders whether it could be republished. He thanks Bloxam for lending him the Vita Aeterna. No. 93: Letter from Isaac Williams (no address given) to John Bloxam, “Sunday”. Williams asks Bloxam to return him a set of unspecified lectures, as he needs to lend them to someone else. No. 94: Letter from Isaac Williams (address, Bisley) to John Bloxam, 18 Dec (year not given). William discusses a book of prints (perhaps the same one as in No. 92 above?). He also discusses some unspecified Oxford politics. No. 95: Empty envelope addressed to Bloxam in an unknown hand, undated. No. 96: Empty envelope addressed to Bloxam in an unknown hand, postmarked 25 Jul 1847. No. 97: Letter from Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–82; Regius Professor of Hebrew 1828–82; address not given) to John Bloxam, undated. Pusey asks Bloxam whether he can call on him this morning to show him some drawings.

MC:PR30/1/C3/11 1785–1854 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters from Bishops Vol. 1” on the spine. This is one of two volumes of letters to Routh from Bishops, mainly of the Church of England, but with some other Anglican dioceses in the British Empire, and also from other countries, both Catholic and Protestant. There is a separate volume (MC:PR30/1/C3/13) devoted entirely to letters from Bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scotland. The Bishops are arranged in alphabetical order of surname.

Fols. 1–8: Letters from Richard Bagot (1782–1854; Bishop of Oxford 1829–45 and of Bath and Wells, 1845–54). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/12 Fols. 6–7 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 1: Letter from Richard Bagot (address, Deanery, Canterbury) to Martin Routh, 21 Nov 1838. Bagot thanks Routh for expressing his approval of Bagot’s latest episcopal charge. Fol. 2: Letter from Richard Bagot (address, Cuddesdon Palace) to Martin Routh, 28 Jan 1841. Bagot thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the second edition of Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum opuscula. Fol. 3: Letter from Richard Bagot (address, Cuddesdon Palace) to Martin Routh, 15 Mar 1841. Bagot plans to take confirmations in Berkshire in May this year, and would like to use Routh’s church at Theale to conduct one. He would like to call on Routh to discuss this matter. Fol. 4: Letter from Richard Bagot (address, Cuddesdon) to Martin Routh, 30 Aug MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 180

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MC:PR30/1/C3/11 (con.) 1841. Bagot discusses the examination of an illegible person in whom Routh has taken an interest. Fol. 5: Letter from Richard Bagot (address, Blithfield) to Martin Routh, 20 Nov 1841. Bagot encloses a testimonial for John Henry Worsley (D. 1835–42). Fol. 6: Letter from Richard Bagot (address, Wells) to Martin Routh, 22 Oct 1847. Bagot thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 7: Letter from Richard Bagot (address, 12 Marine Parade, Brighton) to Martin Routh, 3 Apr 1851. Bagot has received a letter from Routh, but he is not sure what it is about. Fol. 8: Letter from Richard Bagot (address, Palace, Wells) to Martin Routh, 19 Jun 1853. Bagot encloses a (lost) petition to Routh which he hopes he will take some account of. He has heard from the new Chancellor of the University of Oxford that Routh is in good health. Fols. 9–18: Letters from Charles James Blomfield (1786–1857; Bishop of Chester 1824–8 and of London 1828–56). Fol. 9: Letter from Charles James Blomfield (address, Dunton) to Martin Routh, 8 Mar 1816. Blomfield thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He hopes to visit Oxford shortly, and give him a letter of introduction from Mr. Heber. Fol. 10: Letter from Charles James Blomfield (address, Chesterford, Essex) to Martin Routh, 24 Jul 1818. Blomfield thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the fourth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 11: Letter from Charles James Blomfield (address, London House) to Martin Routh, 24 Feb 1830. Blomfield has suffered an unspecified accident, and he writes to thank Routh warmly for his expressions of sympathy. Fol. 12: Letter from Charles James Blomfield (address, Fulham) to Martin Routh, 16 Oct 1830. Blomfield’s old pupil Sir Thomas Fremantle has asked him to recommend to Routh his brother, who is a candidate for a Fellowship at Magdalen (the application was successful: William Robert Fremantle was elected a Fellow in 1831). Fol. 13: Letter from Charles James Blomfield (address, London House) to Martin Routh, 29 Jul 1836. Blomfield thanks Routh for the College’s grant of £1000 towards the fund for building extra churches in his diocese. Fol. 14: Letter from Charles James Blomfield (address, London House) to Martin Routh, 10 Feb 1842. Blomfield recommends to Routh his nephew John Smith, who is a candidate for a Lincolnshire Demyship. (The application was unsuccessful). Fol. 15: Letter from Charles James Blomfield (address, London House) to Martin Routh, 3 Feb 1847. Blomfield thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the new edition of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 16: Letter from Charles James Blomfield (address, Fulham) to Martin Routh, 24 Jan 1849. Blomfield thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the remaining volume of his new edition of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 17: Copy of a letter from Charles James Blomfield (address, London House) MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 181

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MC:PR30/1/C3/11 (con.) to J. Beresford Hope, 11 Mar 1850. Blomfield writes to Hope on the judgement in the Gorham case (a dispute over baptism which caused much controversy within the Church of England), urging him not to leave the Church of England. Fol. 18: Letter from Charles James Blomfield (address, Fulham) to Martin Routh, 27 Oct 1853. Blomfield thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the appendix to his Opuscula. He was delighted to hear that Routh had been able to attend a communion service in Magdalen Chapel on the previous Christmas day. Fol. 19: Letter from William Grant Broughton (1788–1853; Bishop of Australia 1836–46 and of Sydney 1846–53). Fol. 19: Letter from William Grant Broughton (address, Sydney, New South Wales) to Martin Routh, 14 Jul 1845. Broughton recalls that in 1839 Routh gave some books to the Theological Library of the Diocese of Australia, for the use of the Bishop and his clergy. Unfortunately, the books spent six years in a merchant’s warehouse, and have only just reached Broughton, who therefore sends his thanks and profuse apologies. Fols. 20–52 & 54–56: Letters from Thomas Burgess (1756–1837; Bishop of St. Davids 1803–25 and of Salisbury 1825–37). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/8 Fol. 40 and MC:PR30/1/C3/12 fol. 53 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 20: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Durham) to Martin Routh, 28 May 1792. Burgess passed on a message from one Signor Giuntotardi who is seeking copies of fragments of certain (specified) classical authors. Burgess wants to know whether Routh can help in his research. Fol. 21: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, 18 Arundel Street) to Martin Routh, 25 Jun 1794. Burgess has received a packet of fragments, evidently sent from the Vatican by Signor Giuntotardi. He is about to write to Giuntotardi, if Routh has any requests to make of him. Fol. 22: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Durham) to Martin Routh, 17 Feb 1821. Burgess sends Routh a revised proof of his “Vindication” (presumably this is Burgess’s pamphlet A vindication of Bishop Cleaver's edition of the Decretum Lacedaemoniorum contra Timotheum, from the strictures of R.P. Knight, of which there is a copy in the Routh Library; see also Fols. 27 and 31 below). He also discusses the readings of a Neapolitan manuscript of an unnamed document (presumably the Decretum?). Fol. 23: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Durham) to Martin Routh, 9 Apr 1814. Burgess asks Routh whether the University of Oxford ever expressed approval of Unitarian doctrines. Fol. 24: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, 12 Upper Montagu Street) to Martin Routh, 23 Apr 1824. Burgess sends Routh a sheet from a volume which he is currently working on namely A selection of tracts and observations on I John V. 7. Part the first (1823), of which there is a copy in the Routh Library. He discusses some textual minutiae relating to this verse. Fol. 25: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address Abergwilly [now Abergwili] Palace) to Martin Routh, 22 Dec 1814. Burgess discusses some Elizabethan divines, including John Rainolds and John Jewell. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 182

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MC:PR30/1/C3/11 (con.) Fol. 26: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Abergwilly Palace) to Martin Routh, 14 August (year not given; c. 1803–25). Burgess thanks Routh for a collation of the MSS of the Vulgate from Magdalen’s Library, and discusses an unspecified election. Fol. 27: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Durham) to Martin Routh, 18 Mar 1816. Burgess sends Routh a MSS copy of the vindication of Bishop Cleaver’s edition of the Decretum Lacedaemoniorum (see Fols. 22 above and 31 below), and an MSS which the Bishop collated. He asks Routh to find a member of his College who could check these documents through. Fol. 28: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Durham) to Martin Routh, 9 Apr 1816. Burgess thanks Routh for helping him over the text of the Decretum. He also thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae, which he understands awaits him at Aberwilly. Fol. 29: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Durham) to Martin Routh, 18 May 1816. Burgess sends Routh a copy of Reasons why a new translation of the Bible should not be published... (of which there is a copy in the Routh Library), which he wrote on hearing of a proposal by one J. Bellamy to produce a new translation of the Bible, a task for which Burgess thought he was totally unqualified. Fol. 30: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Abergwilly Palace) to Martin Routh, 18 Jun 1818. Burgess thanks Routh for sending him the fourth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 31: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Durham) to Martin Routh, 9 Feb 1821. Burgess sends Routh the first pages of his A vindication of Bishop Cleaver's edition... (see Fols. 22 and 27 above), with some discussion of the text of the Decretum. Fol. 32: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, 11 Orchard Street) to Martin Routh, 4 Jun 1821. Burgess sends Routh the preface and postscript to his tract on I John 5:7. Fol. 33: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Abergwilly Palace) to Martin Routh, 7 Aug 1821. Burgess discusses a passage of the theologian Socrates. Fol. 34: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Abergwilly Palace) to Martin Routh, 19 Nov 1821. Burgess reports on his work on I John 5:7. Fol. 35: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address not given) to Martin Routh, 13 Dec (year not given; presumably c. 1821, on account of the subject matter?). Burgess discusses some evidence from an African source on the authenticity of I John 5:7. Fol. 36: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, 12 Upper Montagu Street) to Martin Routh, 14 May 1824. Burgess sends Routh a copy of his pamphlet Speech of the Bishop of St. David's, in the House of Lords, on the Unitarian Bill, Tuesday, the 4th of May, 1824 (of which there is a copy in the Routh Library). Fol. 37: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Palace, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 1 Nov 1826. Burgess thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Dr Wheeler’s lectures. He has arranged his publishers Hatchards to send Routh in turn a copy of his edition of Milton’s treatise Protestant Union (of which there is a copy in the Routh Library). He reports on his wife’s poor health, but hopes MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 183

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MC:PR30/1/C3/11 (con.) to visit Routh when he is travelling up to London. Fol. 38: Letter (written in another hand—presumablya secretary’s—which is also used for Fols. 39, 42, 54 and 56) from Thomas Burgess (address, Palace Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 3 Sep (year not given; c. 1825–37). Burgess has been asked to recommend one Arthur Rowlandson for a choristership (the application was not successful). Fol. 39: Letter (written in the same secretary’s hand as Fols. 38, 42, 54 and 56) from Thomas Burgess (no address given) to Martin Routh, 16 Mar (no year given; possibly c. 1825–37?). Burgess sends Routh an unspecified publication. He is glad to hear that an address from the University of Oxford to the King on an unspecified subject is to be presented to the House of Lords. Fol. 40: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Palace, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 29 July (1829; see below). Burgess discusses the edition of the works of Dr. Parr, and a memoir of him, which he has been reading. Burgess is currently writing a pamphlet discussing Richard Porson’s analysis of I John 5:7 (published in 1829 as A letter to the Reverend Thomas Beynon, Archdeacon of Cardigan, in reply to A vindication of the literary character of Professor Porson, of which there is a copy - with pages uncut - in the Routh Library). Fol. 41: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Palace, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 20 May (year not given; c. 1825–37). Burgess encloses a letter he has sent to one Dr. Scholz on an edition of the New Testament in Greek, mainly on I John 5:7. Fol. 42: Letter (in the same hand as Fols. 38–9, 54 and 56) from Thomas Burgess (address, Beacon Lodge, Christchurch) to Martin Routh, 9 Apr (year not given; c. 1825–37). Burgess thanks Routh for helping him find a first edition of Bishop Ridley’s Lamentation. He has commissioned a special printing of a hymn by Ridley as a present for his friends, and so sends one to Routh. Fol. 43: Letter (in another hand, different from that used in Fols. 38–9, 42, and 54, but in the same hand as Fol. 55) from Thomas Burgess to Martin Routh, 9 Mar (1829). Burgess expresses his pleasure on the news that Sir Robert Inglis has been elected MP for Oxford University in place of Sir Robert Peel (which happened in 1829). Fol. 44: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Palace, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 2 Nov 1831. Burgess sends Routh an appendix to his Remarks on the general tenour of the New Testament, regarding the nature and dignity of Jesus Christ. Addressed to Mrs. Joanna Baillie (there is a copy of the treatise in the Routh Library). Once again he discusses the authenticity of I John 5:7. Fol. 45: Letter from Thomas Burgess (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (c. 1825–37, since Burgess signs himself “T. Sarum”). Burgess recommends for a Demyship William Pearson, the son of his Dean (he was not accepted; see Fol. 55 below). He discusses a fragment on the canon of the New Testament which Routh printed in Volume IV of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 55 is a copy of this letter, which is dated 9 March. Fol. 46: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Palace, Salisbury) to Martin MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 184

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MC:PR30/1/C3/11 (con.) Routh, 29 Sep 1832. Burgess sends Routh a copy of the last leaf of an appendix to his latest charge (see Fol. 47 below). He also discusses, once again, the authenticity of I John 5:7. Fol. 47: Printed sheet from Thomas Burgess’s charge to his clergy, 1832 (see Fol. 46 above). It comprises notes for the admission of candidates for taking holy orders who had been dissenting ministers, and an acknowledgement to Martin Routh for his help in preparing this work. Fol. 48: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Palace, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 16 Oct 1832. Burgess sends Routh some notes on a passage in the Philopatris of Lucian concerning the Trinity, with some observations on it. Fol. 49: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Palace, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 9 Nov 1832. Burgess discusses some early texts about the Trinity. Fol. 50: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Palace, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 23 Feb 1833. Burgess thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his new edition of Burnet’s History of his Own Times. He in turn sends Routh some notes on a passage in the Philopatris of Lucian. Fol. 51: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Palace, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 28 Sep 1833. Burgess sends his condolences on the death of a Mr. Tahourdin (identity unknown). He sends Routh the contact details of his wigmaker, a Mr. Ravenscroft. Fol. 52: Letter from Thomas Burgess (address, Torquay) to Martin Routh, 19 Mar 1834. Burgess recommends for a choristership the son of a clergyman in his diocese, a Mr. Evans (he was not accepted). Fols. 53 & 57–60: Letters from Samuel Butler (1774–1839; Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 1836–9). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/12 Fols. 30 & 34, and no. 3 below for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 53: Letter from Samuel Butler (address, Pulteney Hotel) to Martin Routh, 14 Jul 1836. Butler thanks Routh for congratulating him on his elevation to a bishopric. Fol. 54: Letter (written in the same hand as Fols. 38–9, 42 and 56) from Thomas Burgess (address, Palace, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 26 Aug 1836. Burgess sends Routh the first sheet of A discourse upon the prophecy of the seventy weeks of Daniel, by William Magee, Archbishop of Dublin 1822–31 (who had died in 1831), which Magee had hoped that Burgess would publish (copies of the 1836 and 1837 editions of this work are in the Routh Library). Fol. 55: Copy (written in the same hand as Fol. 43 above) of Burgess’s letter to Routh, Fol. 45 above, dated 28 Jun. Fol. 56: Letter (written in the same hand as Fols. 38–9, 42, and 54) from Thomas Burgess (address, Palace, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 2 June (1832). Burgess thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula. Fol. 57: Letter from Samuel Butler (; address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 25 Jan 1826. Butler has sent Mr. Lynes some comments on Dr. Parr’s sermons, and discusses them now with Routh. Fol. 58: Letter from Samuel Butler (address, London) to Martin Routh, 15 Jan MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 185

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MC:PR30/1/C3/11 (con.) 1829. Butler reports that his and Dr. Parr’s friend Henry Drury is a candidate for the Mastership of Harrow, and hopes that Routh will support his campaign. He notes that Drury is opposed to the Evangelicals there left by Dr. Cunningham. Fol. 59: Letter from Samuel Butler (address, Shrewsbury) to Martin Routh, 3 Jun 1832. Butler thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula. Fol. 60: Letter from Samuel Butler (address, Shrewsbury) to Martin Routh, 4 Feb 1836. Butler sends Routh a transcription of the epistle from Stephanus to Bonaventura. Fols. 61–68: Letters from Edward Copleston (1776–1849; Provost of Oriel 1814–28; Bishop of Llandaff 1828–49). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/14 Fol. 10 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 61: Letter from Edward Copleston (address, Deanery, St. Paul’s) to Martin Routh, 24 May 1841. Copleston recommends one R. Franklin Wright for a Demyship (unsuccessfully). Fol. 62: Letter from Edward Copleston (address, Deanery, St. Paul’s) to Martin Routh, 11 Jan 1847. Copleston thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the new edition of Reliquiae Sacrae, and expresses his pleasure on Routh’s continuing good health. Fol. 63: Letter from Edward Copleston (address, Deanery, St. Paul’s) to Martin Routh, 4 Jan 1849. Copleston thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the final volume of his new edition of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 64: Letter from Edward Copleston (address, Deanery, St. Paul’s) to Martin Routh, 24 May 1832. Copleston thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula. Fol. 65: Letter from Edward Copleston (address, Oriel) to Martin Routh, 3 Feb (year not given; c. 1814–28, when Copleston was Provost there?). Copleston thanks Routh for a letter relating to an unspecified difference of opinion between them. Fol. 66: Letter from Edward Copleston (address, Oriel) to Martin Routh, 18 Nov (year not given; 1827?). Copleston sends Routh a pamphlet by a Mr. Dennis which he might find interesting (possibly, A speech delivered by the Reverend John Dennis ... at a meeting held at Teignmouth, on Thursday, May 14th 1827, for the purpose of petitioning both houses of Parliament, to grant no further concessions to the Roman Catholics, of which there is a copy in the Routh Library). Fol. 67: Letter from Edward Copleston (address, Oriel) to Martin Routh, 1 Dec (1827). Copleston thanks Routh for congratulating on him on his appointment as Bishop of Llandaff (which occurred in 1827). Fol. 68: Letter from Edward Copleston (address, Oriel) to Martin Routh, 19 Nov (year not given; c. 1814–28, when Copleston was Provost there?). Copleston thanks Routh for agreeing to insert the name of a boy whom he had recommended (for a choristership?) on his list. He also reports on his health. Fol. 69: Letter from Edmund Denison (1801–54, Bishop of Salisbury 1837–54). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 186

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MC:PR30/1/C3/11 (con.) Fol. 69: Letter from Edmund Denison (address, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 17 Sep 1853. Denison thanks Routh for a kind letter. His reply is edged with mourning black, so he may have suffered a bereavement. Fol. 70: Letter from Edward Feild (1801–76; Bishop of Newfoundland 1844–76). Fol. 70: Letter from Edward Feild (address, Queen’s College) to Martin Routh, 23 Feb 1853. Feild is visiting England and Oxford in order to seek help to endow education, especially for theologians, in his diocese, and is hoping that Magdalen College might be able to offer some assistance. Fols. 71–76: Letters from John Fisher (1748–1825; bishop of Salisbury 1807–25). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/14 Fol. 6, MC:PR30/1/C2/12 Fol. 27, and MC:PR30/1/C1/2 Fols. 22–24 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 71: Letter from John Fisher (address, Seymour Street) to Martin Routh, 27 Jun 1818. Fisher thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the fourth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 72: Letter from John Fisher (address, Seymour Street) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul (year not given; c. 1810–25). Fisher recommends a Henry Dod for a Demyship (unsuccessfully). He congratulates Routh on passing a Tylehurst Bill (therefore this letter must have been written after 1810, when Routh was appointed rector there). Fol. 73: Letter from John Fisher (address, Seymour Street) to Martin Routh, 14 Mar 1824 [? - the last digit is smudged, but see Fol. 75 below]. Fisher recalls that he has received a letter from Routh, but cannot remember its subject matter, save that he thinks it was in relation to application from Fisher to give a choristership on a boy called Corfe or a boy called Young. Fol. 74: Letter from John Fisher (address, Seymour Street) to Martin Routh, 9 Jun 1823. Fisher passes on to Routh a letter from one of the curates in his diocese. He observes that Ashbury (a College living) is much neglected, and deeds a resident incumbent. Fol. 75: Letter from John Fisher (address, Palace, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 18 Nov 1823. Fisher recommends a lad called Young to Routh for a place at Magdalen College School. He also asks after the current incumbent of Ashbury. Fol. 76: Letter from John Fisher (address, Palace, Sarum) to Martin Routh, 13 Feb 1824. Archdeacon Coxe has asked Fisher to put in a good word with Routh for his nephew (presumably for a Demyship?). Fols. 77–78: Letters from Ashurst Turner Gilbert (1786–1870; Principal of Brasenose 1822–42; Bishop of Chichester 1842–70). See MC:PR30/1/C2/12 Fol. 48 above and no. 5 below for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 77: Letter from Ashurst Turner Gilbert (address, Brase Nose [sic] College) to Martin Routh, 26 Jan 1842. Gilbert thanks Routh for congratulating him on him appointment as Bishop of Chichester. Fol. 78: Letter from Ashurst Turner Gilbert (address, Palace, Chichester) to Martin Routh, 8 Mar 1852. Gilbert sends Routh a letter from an unnamed priest whom he had ordained, who appears to have had dealing with Routh. He reports that he hears about Routh from a friend of his, McCarrogher (John Ommanney MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 187

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MC:PR30/1/C3/11 (con.) McCarogher, D. 1843–58). Fol. 79: Letter from Walter Kerr Hamilton (1808–69; Bishop of Salisbury 1854–69). Fol. 79: Letter from Walter Kerr Hamilton (address, Sarum) to Martin Routh, 21 Apr 1854. Hamilton thanks Routh warmly for congratulating him on his appointment as a bishop. Fols. 80–86: Letters from William Howley(1766–1848; Bishop of London 1813–28; Archbishop of Canterbury 1828–48). Fol. 80: Letter from William Howley (address, Fulham) to Martin Routh, 17 Sep 1822. Howley sends Routh a treatise from the Bishop of Zealand, Dr. Münter (Friedrich Münter, 1761–1830, Bishop of Zealand, Denmark, 1808–30), and apologises for not sending it sooner. He also quotes from a letter to him in which Münter praises Routh’s work. The Routh Library at Durham includes several treatises by Münter; it is not clear which of them Howley sent with this letter. Fol. 81: Letter from William Howley (address, London) to Martin Routh, 6 Dec 1823. Howley sends Routh some more treatises (unidentified) by Dr. Münter. Fol. 82: Letter from William Howley (address, London) to Martin Routh, 28 Jan 1828. Howley once again sends Routh an unidentified publication from Dr. Münter. Fol. 83: Letter from William Howley (address, Lambeth) to Martin Routh, 19 Nov 1832. Howley thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula, which he has much enjoyed reading. Fol. 84: Letter from William Howley(address, Lambeth) to Martin Routh, 29 Apr 1836. Howley sends Routh a copy of the Plurality Bill, and invites Routh to comment on it. Fol. 85: Letter from William Howley (address, Lambeth) to Martin Routh, 24 Jan 1841. Howley thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his revised edition of Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum opuscula. Fol. 86: Letter from William Howley (address, Lambeth) to Martin Routh, 25 Jan 1847. Howley thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his revised edition of Reliquiae Sacrae, praising its contents.

The following items were found loose at the end of this book:

Nos. 1–2: Letters from Shute Barrington (1734–1826; Bishop of Salisbury 1782–91 and of Durham 1791–1826). No. 1: Letter from Shute Barrington (address, Cavendish Square) to Martin Routh, 30 Mar 1801. Barrington is sorting out the affairs of his late brother, Lord Barrington, and wonders whether he could enfranchise their leasehold property at Stainswick, where his brother was the tenant. In return he would be happy to purchase an estate in Sussex for the College. On the back of the letter is a draft reply from Routh, in which he explains that the College is unwilling to sell any of its ancient estates. No. 2: Letter from Shute Barrington (address, Mongewell) to Martin Routh, 8 April 1801. Barrington thanks Routh for his reply. He promises to investigate the MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 188

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MC:PR30/1/C3/11 (con.) matter of chopping down young trees at Stainswick and report on his findings. No. 3: Letter from Samuel Butler (1774–1839; Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 1836–9). See also Fols. 53 & 57–60 above. No. 3: Letter from Samuel Butler (address, Eccleshall Castle) to Martin Routh, 9 Feb 1837. Butler writes on behalf of Mrs. Maltby, the wife of Edward Maltby, Bishop of Durham, to recommend her cousin John Lewis Fytche for a Demyship (the application was not successful). No. 4: Letter from John Douglas (1721–1807; Bishop of Salisbury 1791–1807). No. 4: Letter from John Douglas (address, Windsor Castle) to Martin Routh, 24 July 1797. Douglas agrees to wait for the College to make a presentation to Fittleton (Wilts.). No. 5: Letter from Ashurst Turner Gilbert (1786–1870; Principal of Brasenose 1822–42; Bishop of Chichester 1842–70). See also Fols. 77–78 above. No. 5: Letter from Ashurst Turner Gilbert (address, Delegates Room) to Martin Routh, 4 Dec 1839. Gilbert sends Routh a copy of the minutes of a meeting of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, in which they turn down an application from the President and Fellows of Magdalen College for the return of a copy of their statutes. Nos. 6–7: Letters from George Isaac Huntingford (1748–1832; Warden of Winchester College 1789–1832; Bishop of Gloucester 1802–15 and of Hereford 1815–32). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/12 Fols. 1–18 below and MC:PR30/1/C4/9 Fols. 72–74 for other letters from this correspondent. No. 6: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 18 Feb 1806. Huntingford discusses his unnamed nephew, who has been educated at Winchester, but is unlikely to be able to obtain a Fellowship at New College, because he is not founder’s kin. He therefore wonders whether he might be able to apply for something at Magdalen (no one called Huntingford came up to Magdalen at this time). No. 7: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 28 May 1818. Huntingford regrets that it may not be possible to grant a lease on some woods to Magdalen College. He also expresses his anger that Henry Brougham, as chairman of the Education Committee, has demanded to see Winchester’s statutes and most recent accounts. No. 8: Letter from John Parsons (1761–1819; Master of Balliol 1798–1819; Bishop of Peterborough 1813–19). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/12 Fols. 35–36 and 41 for other letters from this correspondent. No. 8: Letter from John Parsons (1761–1819; Master of Balliol 1798–1819; Bishop of Peterborough 1813–19; address, Balliol College) to Martin Routh, 21 Nov 1813. Parsons thanks Routh for his letter of congratulations on Parsons’ elevation to a bishopric. No. 9: Letter from Thomas Thurlow (D. 1755–9; F. 1759–72; Bishop of Lincoln 1779–87 and of Durham 1787–91). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/3 Fols. 40–46 and MC:PR30/4/C1/1 Fols. 39–41 for other letters to and from this correspondent. No. 9: Letter from Thomas Thurlow (address, London) to an unnamed addressee MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 189

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MC:PR30/1/C3/11 (con.) (presumably Martin Routh), 13 May 1785. Thurlow agrees to do something to help Routh’s father. In return he asks Routh to support the application of a Mr. Browne for a Demyship this year (he was not elected). No. 10: Letter from Samuel Waldegrave (1817–69; Bishop of Carlisle 1860–9). No. 10: Letter from Samuel Waldegrave (1817–69; Bishop of Carlisle 1860–9; address, All Souls College) to Martin Routh, 20 May 1844. Waldegrave understands that in July 1838 the President and Fellows of Magdalen College agreed to pay £100 towards the rebuilding of the church of St. Ebbe’s in Oxford (where he is curate). However, he has been unable to find any evidence that the sum has been paid, and asks Routh whether the money can now be sent to him. Nos. 11–12: Letters from William Ward (1762–1838; Bishop of Sodor and Man 1828–38). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/12 fol. 67 for other letters from this correspondent. No. 11: Letter from William Ward (address, Bishop’s Court, Isle of Man) to Martin Routh, 16 May 1833. Ward writes his son applied for a Demyship at Magdalen last year but failed. He now hopes that his son will be more fortunate this year (he was not). No. 12: Letter from William Ward (address, Great Horksley, Colchester) to Martin Routh, 19 Dec 1837. There is a proposal to suppress the Bishopric of Sodor and Man, and Ward asks Routh to help mobilise opinion within Oxford to oppose this. Nos. 13–14: Letters from Samuel Wilberforce (1805–73; Bishop of Oxford 1845–69 and of Winchester 1869–73). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/12 Fols. 44–51 below for other letters from this correspondent. No. 13: Letter from Samuel Wilberforce (address, Wallingford) to Martin Routh, 22 Oct 1847. Wilberforce thanks Routh for an unspecified letter. No. 14: Letter from Samuel Wilberforce (address, 61 Eaton Place) to Martin Routh, 27 May 1848. Wilberforce thanks Routh for his opinion on a marriage question. He has also been asked to recommend to him one Thomas Gott Livingston of Magdalen Hall, for a Clerkship, although he knows nothing about him (Livingston was not appointed).

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Fols. 1–18: Letters from George Isaac Huntingford (1748–1832; Warden of Winchester College 1789–1832; Bishop of Gloucester 1802–15 and of Hereford 1815–32). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/11 Nos. 6–7 and MC:PR30/1/C4/9 Fols. 72–74 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 1: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 25 May 1794. Huntingford understands that Routh seeks his views on any candidates who might offer themselves to Magdalen but who were involved in the revolt which broke out at the school in the previous year. Huntingford is in a magnanimous mood: if boys had shown good conduct either MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 190

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MC:PR30/1/C3/12 (con.) before or after the revolt, then their conduct during it should not be held against them. Fol. 2: Letter from J. M. Newbolt (address, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 12 May 1794. Newbolt writes on behalf of the Warden (Huntingford) about the revolt of 1793. Huntingford does not wish to pursue any further those people who were expelled, and promises to write to Routh himself on the subject. Fol. 3: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 16 Jul 1794. Huntingford discusses the characters of two Wykehamist applicants for Demyships, namely Kinneir and Johnson (neither candidate was elected that year). Fol. 4: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 29 Jan 1795. Huntingford has heard that Routh is examining Christian writings on the Trinity before the Council of Nicaea. He therefore asks Routh to examine some (lost) papers enclosed with this letter, and consider their possible orthodoxy. Fol. 5: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 2 Aug 1814. Huntingford warmly thanks Routh for sending him the first two volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 6: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address not given) to Martin Routh, “Wed. Morn” (c. 1815–32, since Huntingford signs himself “G.I.H.”, short for “George Isaac Hereford”). Huntingford thanks Routh for his enquires after his health. He is still not very well. Fol. 7: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 27 Jan 1816. Huntingford suggests some small corrections to the text of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 8: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 28 Feb 1816. Huntingford thanks Routh for sending him the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 9: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address, Hereford) to Martin Routh, 16 Sep 1816. Huntingford sends Routh a copy of his charge delivered at his latest visitation in his diocese, which he happily admits owed a great deal to his reading of Reliquiae Sacrae. He asks Routh to make sure that he has expressed Routh’s ideas correctly. Fol. 10: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 20 Jan 1818. Having found Routh’s Reliquiae Sacrae so useful at his last visitation, Huntingford asks when the fourth and final volume is due for publication, as he hopes that he can benefit from it when writing his next charge. Fol. 11: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 2 Feb 1818. Huntingford thanks Routh for sending him the fourth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. To judge from Fol. 13 below, this appears to have an incomplete or a proof copy, specially sent to Huntingford by Routh in response to his request. Fol. 12: Letter from Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address not given) to Martin Routh, 1 May (year not given; c. 1816–18?). Huntingford reports on his MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 191

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MC:PR30/1/C3/12 (con.) poor health, and discusses a detail in the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 13: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 1 Jun 1818. Huntingford thanks Routh for sending him the complete copy of the fourth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He will send back to Routh the earlier copyof the fourth volume. Huntingford also discusses the recent riot at Winchester, and his and several other members of Winchester being summoned to Westminster to be examined by Lord Brougham. Fol. 14: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 11 Oct 1819. Huntingford sends Routh the text of his latest charge to his clergy, asking for his comments. Fol. 15: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 11 Jan 1820. Huntingford has heard of a great fire near the President’s Lodgings (identified by John Bloxam, in a note on the letter, as being the fire which damaged Magdalen Hall), and he hopes that Routh and his property are safe. Fol. 16: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to an unnamed addressee, 29 Nov 1821. Huntingford advises his addressee and Martin Routh on a “Critique” in an edition of Herodotus in the library of Winchester College, which is apparently the work of Jonathan Swift. Fol. 17: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 28 Dec 1825. Huntingford returns to Routh his copy of Probabilia de evangelii et epistolarum Joannis Apostoli, by Karl Gottleib Bretschneider (which is preserved in the Routh Library). He was not impressed by it. Fol. 18: Letter from George Isaac Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 23 Jul 1827. Huntingford regretted that he was away when Routh called on Winchester, as he wanted to discuss with him Friedrich Schleiermacher’s essayon St. Luke’s Gospel, which he thought “most offensive”. An English translation of the same, published in 1825, is in the Routh Library. Fols. 19–22: Letters from John Jebb (1775–1833; Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe 1822–33). For more on John Jebb, and his chaplain Charles Forster see MC:PR30/1/C4/2 Fols. 138–142 and MC:PR30/1/C4/8 Fols. 74–75. See also MC:PR30/1/C4/10 fol. 11 for another letter which may be from him. Fol. 19: Letter from John Jebb (address, 41 Curzon Street, London) to Martin Routh, 25 Feb 1824. Jebb thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his edition of Burnet’s History, and hopes to meet him when he next passed through Oxford. He sends Routh a volume of sermons by his friend and chaplain Charles Forster (possibly Discourses principally on subjects of scripture history, published in 1823, of which there is a copy in the Routh Library). Fol. 20: Letter from John Jebb (address, Curzon Street) to Martin Routh, 5 Mar 1824. Jebb expresses his pleasure at Routh’s suggestion that he call on Jebb when he is next passing through Oxford. Fol. 21: Letter from John Jebb (address, 5 York Terrace, Regents Park) to Martin Routh, 14 Feb 1829. Jebb thanks Routh for his messages (Jebb had recently suffered a stroke). He admits to finding it difficult to write with his left hand (this MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 192

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MC:PR30/1/C3/12 (con.) letter is written in a very different manner from the previous two). He is pleased to hear that there are plans for a Parliamentary election in Oxford, and he hopes that Sir Robert Inglis will stand, as he is a good champion of Protestatism. Fol. 22: Letter from John Jebb (address, Leamington) to Martin Routh, 20 Dec 1830. Jebb sends Routh a paper (lost) which he praises. He also sends him a prospectus for the literary remains of Dr Phelan, which will be published in two volumes, and which he hopes Routh will support. A copy of The remains of William Phelan, D.D. with a biographical memoir by John, Bishop of Limerick (2 vols., 1832) is in the Routh Library. Fols. 23–25: Letters from Charles Lloyd (1784–1829; Bishop of Oxford 1827–9). Fol. 23: Letter from Charles Lloyd (address Christ Church) to Martin Routh, 21 Nov (no year given, but c. 1822–7, when Lloyd was Regius Professor of Divinity, but not yet Bishop). Lloyd regrets that he is not well enough to call on Routh, but asks his approval for an essay title for the Theological Prize. Routh has written a draft reply on the back of the letter, in which he approves of the title. Fol. 24: Letter from Charles Lloyd (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, ‘Friday 26 May’ (1826?). Lloyd sends Routh some suggestions (missing). for a subject for the Theological Essay. Fol. 25: Letter from Charles Lloyd (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, 2 May 1828. Lloyd tells Routh that the last essay (submitted for the Theological Prize?) has reached him too late to be considered for the prize. Fols. 26–34: Letters from Edward Maltby (1770–1859; Bishop of Chichester 1831–6 and of Durham 1836–56). Fol. 26: Letter from Edward Maltby (1770–1859; Bishop of Chichester 1831–6 and of Durham 1836–56; address, 14 Old Square, Lincoln’s Inn) to Martin Routh, 9 Nov 1825. Maltby sends Routh a sermon in vindication of the Apostolic Fathers, and plans to send him a second one. Fol. 27: Letter from Edward Maltby (address, Buckden) to Martin Routh, 14 Oct 1825. Maltby is delighted at Routh’s good opinion of his sermon (possibly The original Greek of the New Testament asserted and vindicated, published in 1825, of which there is a copy in the Routh Library?), and explains why he did not discuss St. Clement’s Epistle to the Corinthians. He has discussed this in another sermon. Fol. 28: Letter from Edward Maltby (address, Buckden) to Martin Routh, 28 Oct 1825. Maltby thanks Routh for agreeing to see his sermon in vindication of the Apostolic Fathers. Fol. 29: Letter from Edward Maltby (address, Buckden) to Martin Routh, 24 Dec 1825. Maltby warmly thanks Routh for his comments (presumably on his sermon). He also discusses a passage in Aristotle’s Politics, and asks about recommending an (unnamed) candidate for a Demyship. Fol. 30: Letter from Edward Maltby (address, Buckden) to Martin Routh, 13 Jan 1826. Maltby continues to discuss the meaning of the same passage of Aristotle. Fol. 31: Letter from Edward Maltby (address, Auckland Castle) to Martin Routh, 1 Feb 1847. Maltby thanks Routh for sending him the revised edition of Reliquiae MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 193

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MC:PR30/1/C3/12 (con.) Sacrae. Fol. 32: Letter from Edward Maltby (address, Auckland Castle) to Martin Routh, 25 Jan 1854. Maltby thanks Routh for his interpretation of Irenaeus (from Tres breves tractatus). He reports on his difficulties when two of his Chaplains are away, and his own eyesight is failing. Fol. 33: Letter from Edward Maltby (address, Auckland Castle) to Martin Routh, 19 July (no year given; 1852). Maltby thanks Routh for sending his note on the early episcopate (De episcopis et presbyteris adnotata quædum, published in 1852). Fol. 34: Letter from Edward Maltby (address, Auckland) to Martin Routh, 20 Jan (year not given; 1848). Maltby thanks Routh for sending him the fifth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae (published 1848). Fols. 35–36 & 41: Letters from John Parsons (1761–1819; Master of Balliol 1798–1819; Bishop of Peterborough 1813–19). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/11 no. 8 above for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 35: Letter from John Parsons (no address given) to Martin Routh undated (c. 1818/19? See Fol. 36 below). Parsons returns an (unnamed) volume which Routh has lent him. He thinks that Mr. Curwen’s bill (see Fol. 36 below) will not pass, but is concerned about a proposed tithe leasing bill. Fol. 36: Letter from John Parsons (address, Balliol College) to Martin Routh, 4 Mar 1818. Parson’s thanks Routh for his letter from a pamphlet by the late Bishop Warren, which he thinks provides some good answers to Mr. Curwen’s bill. He is hopeful that the bill may not pass the House of Commons, but is starting to mobilise opinion if it does. Fols. 37–38: Letters from George Murray (1784–1860; Bishop of Sodor and Man 1813–27 and of Rochester 1827–60). Fol. 37: Letter from George Murray (address, Danbury Palace) to Martin Routh, 28 Sep 1850. Murray appears to be writing about possible admissions to Bromley College, which has benefitted from a bequest from Routh’s sister Sophia Sheppard. Fol. 38: Letter from George Murray (address, Danbury Palace) to Martin Routh, 10 Sep 1852. Murray thanks Routh for a copy of his treatise De episcopis et presbyteris adnotata quædum. Fols. 39–40: Letters from Brownlow North (1741–1820: Bishop of Winchester 1781–1820). See also MC:PR30/1/C1/3 Fols. 53–59, MC:PR30/1/C2/1 Fols. 32–36, 39, 44, & 46–48, and MC:PR30/1/C2/9 Fol. 43 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 39: Letter from Brownlow North (address, Chelsea) to Martin Routh, 16 Aug 1814. North thanks Routh for sending him the first volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 40: Letter (in a secretary’s hand) from Brownlow North (address, Winchester House) to Martin Routh, 26 Jun 1818. North thanks Routh for sending him the final volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 41: Letter from John Parsons (address, Balliol) to an unnamed addressee, 22 Oct 1789. Parsons recommends a Mr. Clapp, a Fellow of Balliol for the living of Loxhore, Devonshire, which is in the gift of the University. The addressee could MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 194

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MC:PR30/1/C3/12 (con.) either be George Horne (Vice-Chancellor 1776–80) or Martin Routh (Proctor 1785). Fol. 42: Letter from Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth (1782–1842; Warden of New College 1822–40; Bishop of Chichester 1840–2). Fol. 42: Letter from Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth (address, Southampton?) to Martin Routh, 21 Apr 1841. Shuttleworth thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the revised edition of Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum opuscula, which has only just reached him. Fol. 43: Letter from Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright (1792–1854; Bishop of New York 1852–4). Fol. 43: Letter (2 sheets) from Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright (address, New York) to Martin Routh, 21 Jan 1854. Wainwright thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his treatise De episcopis et presbyteris adnotata quædum. He also reminisces about their meeting in Oxford, when they discussed the history of the Episcopalian Church in America. It is possible that these two sheets might belong to two separate fragments of letters. Fols. 44–51: Letters from Samuel Wilberforce (1805–73; Bishop of Oxford 1845–69 and of Winchester 1869–73). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/11 Nos. 13–14 above for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 44: Letter from Samuel Wilberforce (1805–73; Bishop of Oxford 1845–69 and of Winchester 1869–73; address, Cuddesdon Palace) to Martin Routh, 16 Jan 1847. Wilberforce thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the revised edition of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 45: Letter from Samuel Wilberforce (address, Cuddesdon Palace) to Martin Routh, 11 Nov 1848. Wilberforce thanks Routh for sending £200 for the Diocesan Institution. He also wonders whether Magdalen could augment the stipend of the living of Horspath so that its incumbents could live there. Fol. 46: Letter from Samuel Wilberforce (address, Cuddesdon) to Martin Routh, 15 Nov 1848. Wilberforce has heard that Magdalen plans to give £50 towards the Diocesan Training Insitution. He was disappointed to hear this, and hopes that Magdalen might be able to give some more. Fol. 47: Letter from Samuel Wilberforce (address, Cuddesdon Palace) to Martin Routh, 29 Dec 1848. Wilberforce thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the fifth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 48: Letter from Samuel Wilberforce (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, 22 Dec 1850. Wilberforce writes an introduction to Routh for the Rev. G. U. Pope, who has preached his ordination sermon that day, and is a missionary in Southern India. Fol. 49: Letter from Samuel Wilberforce (address, Cuddesdon Palace) to Martin Routh, 4 Jan 1851. Wilberforce has noted that Routh’s name is absent from a protest against Papal aggression, and would like to know if this an accident or not. If it is, then he hopes that Routh will add his name. Fol. 50: Letter from Samuel Wilberforce (address, Cuddesdon Palace) to Martin Routh, 19 Sep 1852. Wilberforce thanks Routh for a copy of his treatise De episcopis et presbyteris adnotata quædum. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 195

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MC:PR30/1/C3/12 (con.) Fol. 51: Letter from Samuel Wilberforce (address, Cuddesdon Palace) to Martin Routh, 26 Nov 1853. Wilberforce thanks Routh for sending him his tract on Irenaeus. Fol. 52: Letter from William Selwyn (1806–75; Church of England clergyman). Selwyn was never a Bishop, and this letter must have been bound in with this guardbook by Bloxam in error. Fol. 52: Letter (written in Latin) from William Selwyn (1806–75; Church of England clergyman; address, Melbourne, Royston) to Martin Routh “4 days before the Calends of May” (28 Apr) 1852. Selwyn hopes that Routh appreciates his work Horae Hebraicae (published 1848; there are two copies in the Routh Library). Fol. 53: Letter from Thomas Burgess (1756–1837; Bishop of St. Davids 1803–35 and of Salisbury 1825–37). The main body of letters from Burgess to Routh are at MC:PR30/1/C3/11 Fols. 20–52 & 53–56 above. Fol. 53: Letter from Thomas Burgess (1756–1837; Bishop of St. Davids 1803–35 and of Salisbury 1825–37; address, Beacon Lodge, Christchurch, Hants.) to Martin Routh, 31 Mar 1835. Burgess is printing a new edition of Bishop Nicholas Ridley’s Lamentation, and asks Routh if he has access to a copy of the first edition, as there are some textual matters he wishes to check. Fols. 54, 59, & 66: Letters from William Cleaver (1742–1815; Principal of Brasenose 1785–1809; Bishop of Chester 1787–1800, of Bangor 1800–6, and of St. Asaph 1806–15). Fol. 54: Letter from William Cleaver (no address given) to Martin Routh, “Sunday 31 Jan” (1790, 1791 or 1796, since it was written when Cleaver was at Chester). Cleaver wishes Routh to attend a meeting to discuss the work of a Dr. Holmes, which is probably to be published by the University Press. Fol. 55: Letter from John Medley (1804–92; Bishop of Fredericton 1845–92). Fol. 55: Letter from John Medley (1804–92; Bishop of Fredericton 1845–92; address, Exeter) 20 Jul (year not given; late 1840s?). Medley thanks Routh and the College for making a donation of £100 to his parish. He hopes that Routh might also send to his cathedral library a signed copy of his Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 56: Letter from John Kaye (1783–1853; Bishop of Bristol 1820–7 and Lincoln 1827–53). Fol. 56: Letter from John Kaye (address, Buckden) to Martin Routh, 27 Aug 1833. Kaye thanks Routh for sending a testimonial on a Mr. King (probably Charles King, matr. 1827; Chorister 1818–25, Clerk 1825–34, and Chaplain 1834–6). Fol. 57: Letter from Robert Gray (1809–72; Bishop of Cape Town 1847–72). Fol. 57: Letter from Robert Gray (1809–72; Bishop of Cape Town 1847–72; address, 19 Cambridge Square) to Martin Routh, 6 Dec (year not given; c. 1847–54). Gray thanks Routh for a present of some unspecified books which he will add to his diocesan library. Fol. 58: Letter from William Magee (1766–1831; Archbishop of Dublin 1822–31). Fol. 58: Letter from William Magee (address, King’s Arms) to Martin Routh, 18 May 1823. Magee hopes that Routh can receive him for a short visit that morning. Fol. 59: Letter from William Cleaver (address, Bruton Street) to Martin Routh, 27 Jan 1815. Cleaver thanks Routh for sending him a copy of part of his MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 196

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MC:PR30/1/C3/12 (con.) Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 60: Letter on the Episcopal Church in Scotland. This has migrated in error from MC:PR30/1/C3/13 below. Fol. 60: Letter from Robert [illegible] and Robert Young (address, St. Andrews) to Martin Routh, 15 Jun 1829. The writers thank Routh for his support for the Episcopal Church in Scotland. They ask for financial assistance towards completing a Chapel at St. Andrews. Fol.61: Letter from Giovanni Antonio de Fulgure (1754–1833; Archbishop of Taranto 1818–33). Fol. 61: Letter (written in Latin) from “Josephus Copycius” (presumably Giovanni Antonio de Fulgure) to Martin Routh, 24 Mar 1829. The Archbishop thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fols. 62–65: Letters from Friedrich Münter (1761–1830; Bishop of Zealand, Denmark, 1808–30). Fol. 62: Letter (written in French) from Friedrich Münter (address, Copenhagen) to Martin Routh, 15 Apr 1821. Münter warmly praises Routh for his Reliquiae Sacrae, and wishes to send him some of his Latin works. If Routh can read German, he will send him his works written in that language (the Routh Library includes several works by Münter, written in both languages). He also reports on his current scholarly projects. Fol. 63: Letter (written in French) from Friedrich Münter (address, Copenhagen) to Martin Routh, 28 Aug 1823. Münter thanks Routh for sending him a personal copy of Reliquiae Sacrae, and tells him how highly it is regarded both in Denmark and Germany. He has sent their friend the Bishop of London (William Howley) a package to be directed to Routh, and reports again on his current projects. Fol. 64: Letter (written in French) from Friedrich Münter (address, Copenhagen) to Martin Routh, 20 Sep 1823. Münter understands that Routh, fearing that the first set of Reliquiae Sacrae which he had sent him had been lost, has sent out a second set. He expresses his gratitude, and regrets that he is now too old to travel to England to meet Routh in person. Fol. 65: Letter (written in French) from Friedrich Münter (address, Copenhagen) to Martin Routh, 21 Apr 1825. Münter recommends to Routh a Dr. Hohlenberg, who is delivering this letter. He also hopes that the Bishop of London (William Howley) has sent him his latest publication. Fol. 66: Letter from William Cleaver (no address given) to Martin Routh, “Sunday night” (1814?). Cleaver hopes that it would be convenient to show Magdalen Chapel to the King of France (Louis XVIII) and his suite. Fol. 67: Letter from William Ward (1762–1838; Bishop of Sodor and Man 1828–38). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/11 Nos. 11–12 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 67: Letter from William Ward (1762–1838; Bishop of Sodor and Man 1828–38; address, 3 Montagu Square) to Thomas Burgess, 12 Apr 1832. Ward hopes that Burgess can introduce a son of his to Martin Routh, as he wishes to apply for a Demyship there (the application was not successful). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 197

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MC:PR30/1/C3/13 1814–56 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters from Bishops of Scotland” on the spine. Routh took a great interest in the Episcopal Church in Scotland, which had led a precarious existence since the abolition of the episcopate in Scotland after 1689. He dedicated Reliquiae Sacrae to its Bishops and priests, and, as the following letters show, corresponded with many of its Bishops, who greatly valued Routh’s support, both intellectual and financial.

Fol. 1: Letter from Alexander Ewing (1814–73; Bishop of Argyll and the Isles 1847–73). Fol. 1: Letter from Alexander Ewing (address, West Miil Rectory, Buntingford, Herts.) to Martin Routh, 21 Feb 1852. Ewing thanks Routh for Magdalen College’s contribution of £50 towards his Argyll and Isles fund. Fols. 2–3: Letters from Alexander Forbes (1817–75; Bishop of Brechin 1847–75). Fol. 2: Letter from Alexander Forbes (address Dundee) to Martin Routh, 20 Sep (year not given). Forbes is trying to build a chapter room and diocesan library at Brechin, and hopes that Routh can contribute to the project. He has recently read a collection of Jacobite memoirs, currently owned by Mr. Robert Chambers of Edinburgh. Fol. 3: Letter from Alexander Forbes (address, Dundee) to John Bloxam, 23 May 1856. Forbes plans to hang up in St. Andrews Hall Routh’s dedication to the Scottish Bishops from Reliquiae Sacrae, and asks Bloxam for some dates from Routh’s life which can be written on the back of the document. Fols. 4–19: Letters from George Gleig (1753–1840; Bishop of Brechin 1810–40). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/14 Fols. 11–19 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 4: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 2 Sep 1814. Gleig warmly thanks Routh for a copy of Reliqiuae Sacrae, and in particular for its dedication. Fol. 5: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, Easter Eve (13 Apr) 1816. Gleig thanks Routh for sending him the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He mentions that his son George is now at Magdalen Hall. (George Robert Gleig (1796–1888) had matriculated from Balliol College in 1811, but then left Oxford to join the army. After 1815 he then returned to Oxford, to become a member of Magdalen Hall) Fol. 6: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 30 Jun 1818. Gleig thanks Routh for sending him the fourth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. However, he notes that he and Routh disagree about whether or not St. Luke was ever an attendant on Jesus. He reports on the good progress of his son George Robert Gleig. Fol. 7: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 2 Jan 1819. Gleig discusses a donation from Mrs. Sheppard to an unnamed church (presumably in Gleig’s diocese). His son is going to take orders, and Gleig is looking out for a curacy for him. Fol. 8: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 4 Feb 1819. Gleig explains the nature of his title as Bishop of Brechin and Primus of the Scottish Episcopalian Church. He is pleased that his kinsman Walter Mowett has been admitted a chorister of Magdalen (he was a chorister from 1819–22; see MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 198

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MC:PR30/1/C3/13 (con.) further MC:PR30/1/C2/14 Fols. 11–19), and passes on news of his son. Fol. 9: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 5 Apr 1819. Gleig discusses Mrs. Sheppard’s benefaction, and some problems encountered in how to pay it. He is pleased to hear that sales of Reliquiae Sacrae have gone well. Fol. 10: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 8 Apr 1819. Gleig has just heard that Mrs. Sheppard’s benefaction has now been paid. Fol. 11: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 28 Jan 1822. Gleig discusses Bishop Burnet’s history, and some documents that might be of use for Routh’s edition of it. Fol. 12: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 5 Mar 1824. Gleig reports that a petition is being sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to ask that such aid as is generally granted to Catholics and dissenters be granted to the Scottish Episcopalian Church. He has also written to Robert Peel on the subject, but asks Routh and the other heads of houses in Oxford to lobby him in support. He reports on his son’s dispute with the Church Missionary Society. Fol. 13: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 30 Jul 1827. Gleig may be a bishop, but he also has to perform the duties of a parish priest, and in recent years has been in need of a curate to help him. His current curate is about to leave, and so Gleig asks Routh if he can recommend him anyone. Fol. 14: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 4 Sep 1827. Gleig sends Routh some MS remarks on Bishop Burnet and his history, which he found in his copy of Bevil Higgons’s Historical and critical remarks on Bishop Burnet's History of his own time (first published 1725). He thanks Routh for his help in trying to find him a curate. Fol. 15: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 24 Nov 1827. Gleig thanks Routh and Edward Ellerton for their help in finding him a curate, but in fact Gleig’s son has now found him someone suitable. He is very grateful to Routh for sending him a copy of his edition of Burnet, and in return send him a copy of his book Directions for the study of theology (of which there is a copy inscribed by Gleig in the Routh Library). Routh has drafted a reply on a blank page of this letter. Fol. 16: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 29 Dec 1827. Gleig discusses Burnet’s work once again, noting that Routh’s edition has made him reconsider his longstanding dislike of it, on account of Burnet’s principles. Fol. 17: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 17 Aug 1832. Gleig thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum opuscula. He thinks that he sent Routh a copy of his Directions for the study of theology, but offers to send him another one (and, indeed, there are two copies of this work in the Routh Library). Fol. 18: Letter from Lady Frances Erskine (address, Gartier) to George Gleig, 7 May 1829. Erskine sends Gleig a leaf from his copy of Higgons’ book on MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 199

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MC:PR30/1/C3/13 (con.) Burnet’s history (see Fol. 14 above), which he had given away. She will look in her family’s archives to see if there is anything that might be relevant to this. Fol. 19: Letter from George Gleig (address, Stirling) to Martin Routh, 4 Jul 1829. Gleig sends Routh letter Fol. 18 above, and discusses his dealings with her. Fols. 20–24: Letters from Alexander Jolly (1756–1838; Bishop of Moray 1796–1838). Fol. 20: Letter from Alexander Jolly (address, Fraserburgh) to Martin Routh, 10 Oct 1814. Jolly thanks Routh both for sending him a copy of the first two volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae, and for the compliment which he has paid the Scottish Episcopal Church by dedicating the work to them. Fol. 21: Letter from Alexander Jolly (address, Fraserburgh) to Martin Routh, 27 May 1816. Jolly thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He once again expresses his gratitude to Routh for his support for the Scottish Episcopalians. Fol. 22: Letter from Alexander Jolly (address, Fraserburgh) to Martin Routh, 1 Aug 1818. Jolly thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the fourth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae, and, once again, for his support for the Scottish Episcopalians. Fol. 23: Letter from Alexander Jolly (address, Fraserburgh) to Martin Routh, 8 Jul 1822. Jolly thanks Routh for sending him an unnamed book. Fol. 24: Letter from Alexander Jolly (address, Fraserburgh) to Martin Routh, 7 Jul 1832. Jolly thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum opuscula. Fol. 25: Letter from William Oldfield (who was a priest in the Scottish Episcopalian Church rather than a Bishop). Fol. 25: Letter from William Oldfield (address, Priory, Pittenweem) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul 1837. Oldfield reports to Routh on a resolution in the diocese of Ross and Argyle to build an Episcopal chapel on the Isle of Skye. They now need to raise funds to support a resident clergyman there, and hope that Routh might support them. Fols. 26–29: Letters from Daniel Sandford (1766–1830; Bishop of Edinburgh 1806–30). Fol. 26: Letter from Daniel Sandford (address, Edinburgh) to Martin Routh, 29 Aug 1814. Sandford thanks Routh both for sending him a copy of the first two volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae, and for his dedication of the work to the Scottish Episcopal Church. Fol. 27: Letter from Daniel Sandford (address, Edinburgh) to Martin Routh, 19 Apr 1816. Sandford thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae, apologising for not having written sooner. Fol. 28: Letter from Daniel Sandford (address, Edinburgh) to Martin Routh, 24 Apr 1819. Sandford has asked his London bookseller to send Routh a volume of his sermons (which does not appear to have been preserved in the Routh Library). Fol. 29: Letter from Daniel Sandford (address, Edinburgh) to Martin Routh, 1 Aug 1816. Sandford thanks Routh and the College for supporting his building programmes for Episcopalian chapels in Edinburgh. Fol. 30: Letter from John Skinner (1744–1816; Bishop of Aberdeen 1786–1816). Fol. 30: Letter from John Skinner (address, Aberdeen) to Martin Routh, 5 Oct MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 200

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MC:PR30/1/C3/13 (con.) 1814. Skinner thanks Routh both for sending him a copy of the first two volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae, and for his dedication of the work to the Scottish Episcopal Church. Fols. 31–37: Letters from William Skinner (1778–1857; Bishop of Aberdeen 1816–57). Fol. 31: Letter from William Skinner (address, Aberdeen) to Martin Routh, 17 Jun 1836. Skinner writes a letter of introduction for the Revd. Charles Tyrie of Inverness and his wife and daughter, who are visiting Oxford. Fol. 32: Letter from William Skinner (address, Aberdeen) to Martin Routh, 12 Nov 1842. Skinner thanks Routh and Mrs. Sheppard for their contributions towards the church at Cruden. He is pleased to hear good reports of Routh’s health. Fol. 33: Letter from William Skinner (address, Aberdeen) to Martin Routh, 12 Sep 1846. Skinner thanks Routh and his wife for their hospitality towards him and his wife during the summer. He also reports on the dealings of William Palmer (D. 1826–32; F. 1832–55) with the Bishops of the Episcopalian Church. Palmer wished to attend a Synod of the church as the representative of Bishop Matthew Luscomb (1775–1846; missionary bishop to the Scottish Episcopalian church), but his request was refused, to Palmer’s annoyance. Skinner’s letter suggests that he found the episode rather an embarrassing one. Fol. 34: Letter from William Skinner (address, Aberdeen) to Martin Routh, 14 Mar 1847. Skinner thanks Routh for an unnamed gift (probably part of the revised edition of Reliquiae Sacrae). Fol. 35: Letter from William Skinner (address, Aberdeen) to Martin Routh, 27 Feb 1849. Skinner thanks Routh for sending him the final volume of his revised edition of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 36: Letter from William Skinner (address, Aberdeen) to Martin Routh, 11 Jun 1852. Skinner thanks Routh for the sympathy he has shown him at a difficult time in his life. The members of the congregation at Longside ask to thank Routh for his donation to them. Fol. 37: Letter from William Skinner (address, Aberdeen) to Martin Routh, 12 Dec 1853. Skinner thanks Routh for sending him what must be a copy of his Tres breves tractatus. He also recommends to Routh his grandson William Skinner Wilson, and hopes that he might be admitted a Commoner at Magdalen, now that it is permitted to do so (in fact Wilson went to Oriel College instead). Fol. 38: Letter from Charles Hughes Terrot (1790–1872; Bishop of Edinburgh 1841–72). Fol. 38: Letter from Charles Hughes Terrot (address, Edinburgh) to Martin Routh, 3 Nov 1847. Terrot thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fols. 39–41: Letters from Patrick Torry (1763–1852; Bishop of Dunkeld 1808–44, and of St. Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane, 1844–52). Fol. 39: Copy of a letter from Patrick Torry (address Peterhead) to Lord Forbes, 2 Jul 1847. Torry has heard of a plan to build a church and collegiate institution at Perth, and understands that Forbes was the originator of the project. He therefore thanks Forbes for his support. Fol. 40: A second copy of the same letter as Fol. 39. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 201

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MC:PR30/1/C3/13 (con.) Fol. 41: Letter from Patrick Torry (address, Peterhead) to Martin Routh, 15 Nov 1847. Torry thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fols. 42–43: Letters from Charles Wordsworth (1806–1892; Bishop of St. Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane, 1852–92). Fol. 42: Letter from Charles Wordsworth (address, Trinity College, Glenalmond) to Martin Routh, Rogation Tuesday (2 May) 1853. Wordsworth sends Routh a copy of his Report of the proceedings of the Special Synod of the United Diocese of St. Andrews (which remains in the Routh Library), and thanks him for having sent him earlier a copy of De episcopis et presbyteris adnotata quædum. Fol. 43: Letter from Charles Wordsworth (address, Trinity College, Glenalmond, Perth) to Martin Routh, 11 May (no year given; 1853 or 1854). Wordsworth has sent Routh a circular on the financial difficulties of Glenalmond, and now asks him to encourage his friends to contribute to the cause. Fol. 44: Letter from Robert Eden (1804–86; Bishop of Moray, Ross, and Caithness, 1851–86). Fol. 44: Letter from Robert Eden (address, Hedgfield, Inverness) to Martin Routh, 11 Jul (no year given). Eden recommends his nephew, Herbert Dickins, for a Demyship at Magdalen (he was not selected). Fol. 45: First sheet only of a letter from an unknown writer to an unnamed addressee (Martin Routh?), undated. The writer, who evidently lives in Scotland, discusses the current state of the Scottish Episcopal Church, and some of its personalities. He is unimpressed with what he finds: the only cleric whose learning the writer can praise is George Gleig, who has evidently not yet been made a bishop (this letter must therefore date from before 1810). Fol. 46: First sheet only of a letter from an unknown writer (address, Edinburgh) to an unnamed addressee, 4 Feb 1808. The writer reports on the results of his search to find some books for Martin Routh in Edinburgh. He also discusses the current poor state of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Fol. 47: Letter from Andrew Macfarlane (address, Inverness) to Martin Routh, 22 Oct 1814. Macfarlane thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae.

The following items were found loose at the end of this book:

Nos. 1–3: Letters from B. C. Stephenson on behalf of Princess Augusta. No. 1: Letter from B. C. Stephenson (address, Windsor Castle) to Martin Routh, 1 May 1819. Stephenson is writing on behalf of Princess Augusta (1768–1840; daughter of George III), soliciting Routh's support for obtaining a Demyship at Magdalen for Mr William Battiscombe of Pembroke College (the application was not successful). No. 2: Letter to from B. C. Stephenson (address, Windsor Castle) to Martin Routh,14 August 1819. Stephenson, on behalf of the Princess, thanks, for his efforts on Battiscombe’s behalf. No. 3: Letter to from B. C. Stephenson (address, 16 Hertford St, May Fair) to Martin Routh, 5 July 1820. Stephenson once again asks Routh, on behalf of the Princess to support young Battiscombe’s candidature for a Demyship (once again MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 202

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MC:PR30/1/C3/13 (con.) unsuccessfully). Nos. 4–5: Letters from R. K. Mackenzie. No. 4: Letter from R. K. Mackenzie (address, Flowerburn, Fortrose, N.B.) to Martin Routh, 18 Jan 1823. Mackenzie sends Routh a narrative of the troubles suffered by members of the Episcopalian Church living in the northern Highlands, which includes an appeal for money towards building a new Chapel at an unnamed place. Routh has written on the letter a list of names of people whom he presumably thinks might be willing to contribute. No. 5: Letter from R. K. Mackenzie (address, Flowerburn, Fortrose, N.B.) to Martin Routh, 19 Mar 1823. Mackenzie thanks Routh for his positive response to his appeal, and gives advice on how to pay the money which Routh has raised. No. 6: Letter from John Skinner (1769–1841; Scottish Episcopal clergyman) address, Inchgarth near Forfar) to Martin Routh, 14 July 1832. Skinner thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum opuscula, and recalls praising him in his Annals of Scottish episcopacy (of which there is a copy in the Routh Library) for dedicating his Reliquiae Sacrae to the Bishops of Scotland. No. 7: Letter (2 sheets) from William Grant Broughton (1788–1853; Bishop of Australia 1836–46 and of Sydney 1846–53; address, Sydney) to “Gilbert” (?possibly Ashurst Turner Gilbert Principal of Brasenose 1822–42; Bishop of Chichester 1842–7), 1 Apr 1844. Broughton writes gloomily about his travails in Australia, and reports his unhappiness at news from Britain, not least in Ireland. He still thinks that the Catholic Emancipation of 1829 was a disaster. Broughton has been supporting a young man called Patrick Tushy, who converted to the Church of England from Rome, and is now studying Greek, and would now like him to go to University. He therefore asks Gilbert to ask his friends to give Tushy some financial assistance in his studies. Presumably this letter was passed on by Gilbert to Routh, as someone likely to support Tushy. No one of that name is recorded as having gone to Oxford or Cambridge, to the plan presumably foundered. No. 8: Letter from George Routh (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (c. 1817–18?). George Routh recommends Martin Routh an Edward Cobbold (who had matriculated from Trinity College in Nov 1816) for a Demyship (the application was unsuccessful). He also thanks Martin Routh for sending him a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae. George Routh was evidently a relative of Martin, but it is not known in what way. No. 9: MS eulogy, written in Latin, in honour of an unnamed man. Routh has scribbed a few names of Early Christian fathers on this document. The hand might be that of Richard Chandler (1737–1810; D. 1757–70; F. 1770–80). No. 10: Printed proposal (with list of subscribers) for rebuilding the church at Forgue, diocese of Aberdeen, October 1855. No. 11: Printed appeal (with list of subscribers) for a church to be erected at Nairn, diocese of Moray & Ross, Lent 1856. No. 12: Printed appeal (with list of subscribers) for the erection and endowment MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 203

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MC:PR30/1/C3/13 (con.) of a church at Bridge of Allan, from Charles Wordsworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane. With covering letter, n.d., from J.T.Boyle, address, Bridge of Allan nr Stirling.

MC:PR30/1/C4 - LETTERS FROM MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENTS . . . .

Having arranged Routh’s correspondents by members of his family, members of Magdalen College, Bishops, and individual friends, Bloxam was left with a great many letters sent to Routh by other people. He therefore created twelve guardbooks of letters from miscellaneous correspondents, but in two separate alphabetical sequences, one of guardbooks of letters written on small sheets of paper (MC:PR30/1/C4/1–6), and one of guardbooks written on larger sheets of paper (MC:PR30/1/C4/7–12). Inevitably, therefore, some correspondents appear in both sequences; these are cross-referenced as appropriate.

Whereas all the other “Bloxam” guardbooks are numbered individually, so that each book starts with a “Fol. 1", the letters in MC:PR30/1/C4/1–6 were numbered in one continuous sequence from 1–363. This numeration is preserved in the present catalogue.

MC:PR30/1/C4/1 1819–54 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters A B C” on the spine.

Fol. 1: Letter from Montagu Bertie, 5th Earl of Abingdon (1784–1854). See MC:PR30/1/C4/7 Fols. 2–5 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 1: Letter from Lord Abingdon (address, Wytham) to Martin Routh, 3 Jun 1852. Abingdon thanks Routh for “another kindness” on receipt of a copy of Bishop Burnet’s History of King James II. Fol. 2: Letter from Thomas William Allies (1813–1903; theologian and Catholic convert). Fol. 2: Letter from T. W. Allies (address, Bicester) to Martin Routh, 29 Jan 1849. Allies thanks Routh for a copy of his Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 3: Letter from J. Allport (unidentified). Fol. 3 Letter from J. Allport (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 14 Apr 1840. He encloses a sermon (unidentified) to be bound in an octavo volume, and asks Routh to subscribe to its publication. Fol. 4: Letter from John Anderson (matr. Merton College 1833). Fol. 4: Letter from John Anderson (address, Chislehurst, Kent) to Martin Routh, 25 Aug 1852. He acknowledges receipt of Burnet’s history and encloses a copy of his “Life of (Thomas) Ken, the Holy Bishop of Bath” and an arrangement of devotional writings. Fol. 5: Letter from Churchill Babington (1821–89; Fellow of St. John’s College Cambridge). Fol. 5: Letter from Churchill Babington (address, St. John’s College, Cambridge) to Martin Routh, 14 Mar. 1852, concerning the Attic Orator Hyperides, whose works Babington was editing. Fols. 6–13: Letters from James Bailey (1791–1864; classical scholar). See MC:PR30/1/C4/7 Fols. 44–46 for other letters from this correspondent. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 204

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MC:PR30/1/C4/1 (con.) Fol. 6: Letter from James Bailey (address, 7 Carlton Street, New Peckham, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 4 Apr 1846, Bailey encloses a list of errata in relation to “the Hermesianax”. Seeks advice on “a good life of Toup”. Fol. 7: Letter from James Bailey (address, 7 Carlton Street, New Peckham, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 26 Oct 1846. Bailey requests prepayment of subscription for a critical essay following financial difficulties. He describes an unsuccessful application to the Prime Minister for a pension and his intention to apply to the Royal Bounty Fund. Fol. 8: Letter from James Bailey (address, 7 Carlton Street, New Peckham, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 7 Nov 1849. Bailey acknowledges receipt of payment in respect of two volumes sent to Mr Harris, librarian, Magdalen College. He discusses the financial difficulties associated with classical scholarship. Fol. 9: Letter from James Bailey (address, 7 Carlton Street, New Peckham, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 23 Oct 1850. Bailey informs Routh that he had received an annual pension of £100 from the government following the intervention of the Bishop of Durham. Fol. 10: Letter from James Bailey (address, 7 Carlton Street, New Peckham, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 30 Jul 1851. Bailey encloses the second part of his book, including details of errata. A second copy is sent to the College Library. Fol. 11: Letter from James Bailey (address, 7 Carlton Street, New Peckham, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 22 Jun 1852. Bailey expresses concern that a copy of the second volume of his work had not been placed in the College Library. He explains that the majority of his personal books were held by a pawnbroker and £60 is required to recover them. A list of books already sold is provided. Fol. 12: Letter from James Bailey (address, 7 Carlton Street, New Peckham, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 28 Feb 1853. Bailey discusses the completion of his “Diatribe”. He proposes publishing a small classical work including the “parasitic fragment of Epichermus” and invites Routh’s subscription. Fol. 13: Letter from James Bailey (address, 7 Carlton Street, New Peckham, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 9 Sep 1854. Bailey thanks Routh for his subscription to his publishing project and congratulates Routh on his “surprising age”. Fol. 14: Letter from D. Balbi (unknown). Fol. 14: Letter to Martin Routh from D. Balbi in Latin beginning “Domine Parce queso libertati meæ”, n.d.. Balbi explains that he is an Italian exile and seeks employment by Routh as a teacher of Italian, French or Spanish. Fol. 15: Letter from George Bancroft (1800–91; historian and US Ambassador to London, made DCL 1849). Fol. 15: Letter from George Bancroft (address, New York) to Martin Routh, 18 Oct 1852. Bancroft thanks Routh for his hospitality at Magdalen College and for his interest in the life of William Penn. See MC:PR30/1/C4/6 Fol. 337 below. Fols. 16–17: Letters from BulkeleyBandinel (1781–1861; Bodley’s Librarian 1813–60). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/9 Fol. 38, MC:PR30/1/C4/7 fol. 8 and MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 Fols. 17–18 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 16: Letter from Bulkeley Bandinel (address, the Bodleian Library) to Martin MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 205

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MC:PR30/1/C4/1 (con.) Routh, 13 Jul 1819. Bandinel acknowledges receipt of some books from Routh for the library. Fol. 17: Letter from Bulkeley Bandinel (address, the Bodleian Library) to Martin Routh, 23 Nov [no year given]. Bandinel discusses sending copies of Conte’s papers to Routh with a copy of a letter from the second of Earl of Clarendon. Fol. 18: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (1788–1839; classical scholar and friend of Samuel Parr). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/7 Fols. 11–38a for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 18: Letter from E. H. Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 18 Sep 1832. Barker encloses a copy of Buttmann’s “Greek Grammar” to which Barker had written a preface and pamphlets relating to the “Latitudinarian Divines”. Refers to a “Narrative of the Loss of the Rothesay Steamer” by Rev. J. H. Bransby. Fol. 19: Letter from Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, first duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776–1839), or Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges- Chandos-Grenville, second duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1797–1861). Fol. 19: Letter from the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (address, Pall Mall, London) to Martin Routh, 13 Mar [no year given]. He recommends Joseph Bason of Kings College School as a potential Demy of Magdalen College (Bason was not accepted as a Demy at Magdalen). Fol. 20: Letter from Henry Bathurst (1781–1844; matr. New College 1797). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/2 Fol. 22 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 20: Letter from Henry Bathurst (address, Burnham, Norfolk) to Martin Routh, 30 Jan 1841. He thanks Routh for his subscription to Bathurst’s biography of his father, the former Bishop of Norwich, at a cost of £2.10.0. Fol. 21: Letter from Francis Cunningham Belfour (matr. Magdalen Hall 1819). Fol. 21: Letter from F. C. Belfour (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 26 May 1836. Belfour congratulates Routh on his appointment of “a safe and sure man to the professorship of moral philosophy”. He regrets that neither Whig nor Tory ministers will eventually elevate the same appointee to “any thing Regium”. Fols. 22–25: Letters from Edward Berens (matr. Christ Church 1795). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/7 Fol. 47 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 22: Letter from Edward Berens (address, Shrivenham) to Martin Routh, 27 Jan 1847. Berens thanks Routh for an unspecified present. Fol. 23: Letter from Edward Berens (address, Shrivenham) to Martin Routh, 2 Jan 1849. Berens thanks Routh for the gift of a book noting that the last fly leaf “is marked for Dr Pusey”. Fol. 24: Letter from Edward Berens (address, Shrivenham) to Martin Routh, 30 Jun 1852. Berens thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his book and “his most valuable services in the cause of sound theological learning”. He encloses a copy of his memoir of Bishop (Richard) Mant, and expresses his pleasure that Routh had met Bishop Phillpott, an intimate friend of Berens, “since his election at Oriel”. Fol. 25: Letter from Edward Berens (address, Shrivenham) to Martin Routh, 12 Dec 1853. Berens acknowledges receipt of a paper “clearing up the sense of MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 206

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MC:PR30/1/C4/1 (con.) S(aint) Irenæus”. Fol. 26: Letter from Lady Georgina Bertie (nee Kerr; d. 1881). Fol. 26: Letter from Lady Georgina Bertie (address, Albury) to Martin Routh, 28 May 1852. She acknowledges receipt of a book and presents her compliments. Fols. 27–32: Letters from Philip Bliss (1787–1857; Registrar of Oxford 1828–53 and Principal of St. Mary’s Hall 1848–57). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/9 for a scrapbook of documents relating to Routh which was evidently assembled by Bliss, and MC:PR30/1/C1/2 Fol. 44, MC:PR30/1/C1/4 Fols. 51 & 72, MC:PR30/1/C2/9 Fol. 22, MC:PR30/1/C4/7 Fols. 52–58, MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 Fols. 3, 38 & 54 and MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 No. 116 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 27: Letter from Philip Bliss (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 23 Nov 1824. Bliss confirms to Routh that a recently-acquired volume belonging to Sir Thomas Phillipps will shortly arrive in Oxford. He suggests forwarding the manuscript to Routh’s home in Tylehurst. He proposes purchasing a number of items from Phillipps’ collection of manuscripts. Fol. 28: Letter from Philip Bliss (address, New College Lane, Oxford) to Martin Routh, “Tuesdayevening”. Bliss seeks permission to show Magdalen’s “ drawing of Haines in the character of Wolsey” to his friend Mr. Matthews, a comedian, and also a collector of theatrical portraits. Fol. 29: Letter from Philip Bliss (address, Halstead Place, Kent) to Martin Routh, 30 Dec 1846. Bliss describes the death of William Grenville, and laments Grenville’s bequest of his library to the British Museum as opposed to his earlier intention of leaving his library to his great-nephew, the Duke of Buckingham at Stowe. He refers to Henry Gough and George Lane as “perhaps the only persons in England who can repair and preserve decayed manuscripts”. Fol. 30: Letter from Philip Bliss (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Bliss recommends Henry Gough of London as a restorer of decayed manuscripts. He suggests Routh examine some of his “handy work”. Fol. 31: Letter from Philip Bliss (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Bliss introduces Mr Leigh Sotheby and his collection of books. He credits Sotheby with discovering some Melanchthon manuscripts. Fol. 32: Letter from Philip Bliss (no address given) to Martin Routh, “Saturday evening”. Bliss discusses the origins of A Seasonable Discourse and his search for bibliographical information in the Bodleian Library. He attributes authorship to either “Fell or Lloyd”, and refers to a reply by Lord Castlemaine . Fol. 33: Letter from J. Bosville (unidentified). Fol. 33: Letter from J. Bosville (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Bosville confirms the conveyance by Mr Lloyd of Christ Church of Burnet’s History of his own Time to Oxford. He requests that Routh acknowledge receipt of the books. Fol. 34: Letter from Joseph Bosworth (1788–1876; Rawlinson Professor of Anglo-Saxon 1858–76). Fol. 34: Letter from Joseph Bosworth (address, Islip) to Martin Routh,19 Dec 1854. Bosworth discusses his interest in “Rabanus”, and asks Routh to accept “a MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 207

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MC:PR30/1/C4/1 (con.) copy of King Alfred’s description of Europe”. Fol. 35: Letter from J. Bourdillon (unidentified). Fol. 35: Letter from J. Bourdillon (address, Lincoln’s Inn) to “Dear Madam” [Mrs. Routh], 14 Jan 1846. Bourdillon discusses Mrs. Routh’s nephew’s intentions to become a barrister and seek a position in Bourdillon’s chambers. Fol. 36: Letter from Sir William Boyd (unidentified). Fol. 36: Letter from Sir William Boyd (address, 18 Old Cavendish Street, Cavendish Square, London) to Martin Routh, 13 Dec 1843. Boyd invites Routh to subscribe to his History of Literature. Fol. 37: Letter from Bragge (initial uncertain; unidentified). Fol. 37: Letter from Bragge (address, Beaumont St., Oxford) to Martin Routh, 12 Jul 1833. Bragge thanks Routh for the gift of a copy of his volume on Burnet’s life. Fol. 38: Letter from Richard Griffin (formerly Neville), third Baron Braybrooke (1783–1858). Fol. 38: Letter from Lord Braybrooke (address, Burlington Court) to Martin Routh, 16 Jun 1852. Braybrooke thanks Routh for the gift of a copy of his volume on Burnet’s life. Fol. 39: Letter from John Bull (d. 1858, matr. Christ Church 1808). Fol. 39: Letter from Dr Bull (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, 26 Nov 1852. Bull thanks Routh for the gift of a copy of Burnet’s history of the reign of King James II. Fols. 40–41: Letters from George Burges (1785/6–1864, classical scholar). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/7 Fol. 71 for another letter from Burges about Buckley. Fol. 40: Letter from George Burges (address, 20A Bayham Street, Camden Town) to Martin Routh, undated. Burges thanks Routh for offering financial assistance to Mr Buckley, a servitor at Christ Church (Theodore Buckley, 1825–56; classical scholar). Fol. 41: Letter from George Burges (address, 20A Bayham Street, Camden Town) to Martin Routh, undated. Burges asks for Routh’s assistance in producing a study on Thucydides. As a delegate of the Clarendon Press, he invites Routh to recommend the project to his fellow delegates. Fol. 42: Letter from Henry Burgess (1808–86; cleric and scholar). Fol. 42: Letter from Henry Burgess (address, Blackburn, Lancashire) to Martin Routh, 22 Jul (no year given; 1853?). Burgess requests that Routh and the college library subscribe to his edition of The Repentance of Nineveh (published 1853), providing a list of existing subscribers including the King of Hanover, the Bishop of Exeter, the Duke of Sutherland and the Earls of Hardwicke and Balcarres. Fols. 43–44: Letters from John William Burgon (1813–88; Dean of Chichester 1875–88). Fol. 43: Letter from John Burgon (address, Oriel College) to Martin Routh, 15 Sep 1852. Burgon sends birthday greetings to Routh, and thanks Routh for his past kindness. Fol. 44: Letter from John Burgon (address, Oriel College) to Martin Routh, 9 Dec 1853. Burgon thanks Routh for the gift of a paper on the works of St. Irenæus, and requests an interview with Routh to discuss the matter further. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 208

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MC:PR30/1/C4/1 (con.) Fols. 45–48: Letters from Charles Parr Burney(1785–1864; godson of Samuel Parr, matr. Merton 1804). See also no. 2 below, and also MC:PR30/1/C2/12 Fols. 93–95, MC:PR30/1/C2/13 Fol. 62, and MC:PR30/1/C4/7 Fols. 91–98 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 45: Letter from Charles Parr Burney (address, Rectory House, Sible Hedingham, Essex) to Martin Routh, 2 Feb 1841. Burney thanks Routh for the gift of a book, and discusses various pieces of current affairs. Fol. 46: Letter from Charles Parr Burney (address, Rectory House, Sible Hedingham, Essex) to Martin Routh, 6 Feb 1844. Burney enquires after Routh’s health and conveys the regards of his family. He discusses his son’s appointment as a clergyman in Halstead by the Bishop of London and the labourious task awaiting him. Fol. 47: Letter from Charles Parr Burney (address, Rectory House, Sible Hedingham, Essex) to Martin Routh, 3 Feb 1847. Burney thanks Routh for the gift of a copy of his Reliquiæ Sacræ. Fol. 48: Letter from Charles Parr Burney (address, 4c Marine Parade, [illegible]) to Martin Routh, 20 Feb 1849. Burney thanks Routh for the gift of an unspecified volume (presumably the last volume of Reliquiæ Sacræ). He sympathises with Routh for the loss of his sister (Sophia Sheppard?), and requests that Routh assist Mr Shelford, Rector of Preston near Sudbury in seeking a position as chorister for his son, Thomas. Shelford’s uncle, Thomas Pearse “is a Demy of your college”. Routh has drafted a reply on the back. Fol. 49: Letter from Edward Burton (1794–1846; Regius Professor of Divinity 1829–36). Fol. 49: Letter from E. Burton (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, 5 Mar 1832. Burton thanks Routh for an unspecified “munificent present”, and requests an interview with him. Fols. 50–54: Letters from Edward Cardwell (1787–1861; Principal of St. Alban Hall 1831–61). Fol. 50: Letter from the Principal (Edward Cardwell) (address, St. Alban Hall) to Martin Routh, 3 Mar 1833. Cardwell thanks Routh for an unspecified present. On his return to Oxford he hopes to thank him in person. Fol. 51: Letter from Edward Cardwell (address, St. Alban Hall) to Martin Routh, 23 Jan 1841. Cardwell discusses an insertion to be made into the text of Routh’s book Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum opuscula præcipua quædam. Fol. 52: Letter from Edward Cardwell (address, St. Alban Hall) to Martin Routh, 14 Jan 1847. Cardwell thanks Routh for the gift of a copy of a volume of his Reliquiæ sacræ. Fol. 53: Letter from Edward Cardwell (address, St. Alban Hall) to Martin Routh, 21 Feb 1854. Cardwell thanks Routh for the gift of a copy of his Tres breves tractatus. Fol. 54: Letter from Edward Cardwell (address, St. Alban Hall) to Martin Routh, 25 Nov 1839. Cardwell thanks Routh for sending him a notice concerning a 1689 Bill “for uniting their majesties protestant subjects”. He seeks permission to inspect papers relating to (Bishop) Burnet. Fol. 55: Letter probably concerning Edmund Cartwright (D. 1762–4; F. 1764–73). Fol. 55: Letter from the unnamed the son-in-law and executor of the late Dr MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 209

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MC:PR30/1/C4/1 (con.) Cartwright (no address given) to Martin Routh, 21 Feb 1826. He sends Routh an unspecified volume as an acknowledgement of Routh’s kindness to Mrs Cartwright. Presumably the “Dr. Cartwright” is Edmund Cartwright, D. 1762–4; F. 1764–73) Fols. 56–57: Letters from Edward Churton, (1800–74; theologian and Spanish scholar). Fol. 56: Letter from Edward Churton (address, Crayke Rectory, near York) to Martin Routh, 12 Aug 1853. Churton thanks Routh for the gift of an unspecified present (possibly S. Petri Alexandrini episcopi freagmenta quædam). Fol. 57: Letter from Edward Churton (address, Crayke) to Martin Routh, 2 Dec 1853. Churton thanks Routh for the gift of a copy of his S. Irenæi illustrata ρησις in qua Ecclesia Romana commemoratur. He discusses the history of the primacy of the See of Rome referring to St. Irenæus. 2 Dec 1853. Fol. 58: Letter from Urania Anna de Burgh (née Paulet), Marchioness of Clanricarde (d. 1843). Fol. 58: Letter from Urania, dowager Marchioness of Clanricarde (no address given to Mrs (Sophia) Sheppard (Routh’s sister), undated (before 1814). She comments on her forthcoming union with Sir Joseph Yorke, and notes that her brother Harry has been appointed a lord of the admiralty. She also sends her regards to Dr. Sheppard. Fols. 59–69: Letters from Edward Coleridge, 1800–83; matr. Corpus Christi College 1818; Fellow of Exeter 1823–6). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/8 Fol. 10 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 59: Letter from Edward Coleridge (address, Eton College) to Martin Routh, “Second Sunday in Advent” [7 Dec] 1845. Coleridge thanks Routh for clarification of “the term universal as applied to the Bishop of Rome”. He asks that Routh consider donating books to his patristic collection and additionally making contributions to the theological libraries of the Bishops of New Zealand, Newfoundland, Colombo and Tasmania. Fol. 60: Letter from Edward Coleridge (address, Eton College) to Martin Routh, 11 Dec 1845. Coleridge asks Routh to examine a list of books “received from Mr Leslie”. He indicates that he is shortly to visit “the good Archbishop” in Croydon. Fol. 61: Letter from Edward Coleridge (address, Eton College) to Martin Routh, “The Conversion of St. Paul” [25 Jan] 1847. He thanks Routh for the gift of a new edition of “your remains of the early fathers”. He confirms that Lady Waldegrave’s late sister has left her libraryto St. Augustine’s (college), originally the property of Mr. Stephens. Fol. 62: Letter from Edward Coleridge (address, Eton College) to Martin Routh, 26 Feb 1849. Coleridge sends Routh a prospectus prepared by his brother-in-law the Bishop of Colombo (James Chapman - d. 1879) for a college in Ceylon. He also discusses church matters in Devonport. Fol. 63: Letter from Edward Coleridge (no address given) to Martin Routh, “Second Sunday after the Epiphany” [14 Jan] 1849. Coleridge thanks Routh for a copy of Volume V of Reliquiae Sacrae. He also asks what the College plans to do with the money left it by Routh’s sister Sophia Sheppard, and wonders whether any of it might be put towards the College being created by his brother- MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 210

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MC:PR30/1/C4/1 (con.) in-law the Bishop of Colombo (James Chapman). Fol. 64; Letter from Edward Coleridge (address, Eton College) to Martin Routh, 18 Sep 1850. Coleridge encloses a poem written to mark Routh’s 95th birthday. Fol. 65: Letter from Edward Coleridge (address, Eton College) to Martin Routh, 21 Mar 1851. Coleridge thanks Routh for an unspecified good turn done to the Bishop of Sydney (William Broughton). Fol. 66: Letter from Edward Coleridge (address, Eton College) to Martin Routh, 14 Sep 1852. Coleridge encloses a poem written to mark Routh’s 97th birthday. Fol. 67: Letter from Edward Coleridge (address, Eton College) to Martin Routh, 2 July [no year given]. Coleridge thanks Routh for sending him an unspecified book, and reports on the sufferings of a Miss Sellar. Fol. 68: Letter from Edward Coleridge (address, Eton College) to Martin Routh, 4 Oct [1853]. Coleridge sends Routh his best wishes for 1854. Fol. 69: Letter from Edward Coleridge (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (c. 1847?). He gives Routh the contact details for a sculptor called Mr. Behnes. He also reports on a donation of £40,000 made by Miss Burdett Coutts to help endow Bishoprics at Adelaide and the Cape of Good Hope, an event which took place in 1847. Fol. 70: Letter from William Gifford Cookesley (1802–80; classical scholar). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/8 Fol. 9 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 70: Letter from W. G; Cookesley (address, Eton College) to Martin Routh, 30 Jul 1846. Cookesley discuss copying a bust held at Eton. Fols. 71–72: Letters from Henry Cotton (1790–1879; ecclesiastical historian). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/8 Fol. 13 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 71: Letter from Henry Cotton (address, 12 Merrion Street, Dublin) to Martin Routh, 12 Feb 1841. Cotton thanks Routh for sending him an engraving of the church at Theale and a copy of his Opera Ecclesiastica. Fol. 72: Letter from Henry Cotton (address, 12 Merrion Street, Dublin) to Martin Routh, 28 Feb 1842. Cotton sends Routh a prospectus for an institution for promoting the spiritual welfare of the Irish by teaching them in their own language, and hopes that Routh can contribute to this. Fols. 73–75: Letters from Richard Lynch Cotton (1794–1880; Provost of Worcester College 1839–80). Fol. 73: Letter from R. L. Cotton (address, 10 Augusta Terrace, Harrowgate) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul 1852. Cotton thanks Routh for giving him an extract from Reliquiae Sacrae, and discusses whether St. Peter was indeed the first Pope or not. Fol. 74: Letter from R. L. Cotton (address, Worcester College) to Martin Routh, 11 Jun 1853. Cotton thanks Routh for an unspecified present. Fol. 75: Letter from R. L. Cotton (address, Worcester College) to Martin Routh, 1 Jul 1853. Cotton thanks Routh for another unspecified present. Fol. 76: Letter from Sir Alexander Croke (1758–1842; lawyer and author). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/8 Fol. 14 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 76: Letter from Sir Alexander Croke (address, Studley Priory) to Martin MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 211

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MC:PR30/1/C4/1 (con.) Routh, 28 Mar 1841. Croke thanks Routh for the present of an unnamed book. Fol. 77: Letter from James Crossley (1800–83; writer and book collector). Fol. 77: Letter from James Crossley (address, Manchester) to Martin Routh, 13 Dec 1847. Crossley presents Routh with his edition of the first volume of Dr. Worthington’s diary. Fols. 78–80: Letters from and concerning John Rustat Crowfoot (1817–75; Hebrew and Syriac scholar). Fol. 78: Letter from J. R. Crowfoot (address, Cambridge) to Martin Routh, 29 Mar 1854. Crowfoot thanks Routh for an unspecified present, and sends him in return a little treatise of his own. Fol. 79: Letter from W. S. Crowfoot (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 8 Jun 1852. Crowfoot thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his edition of Burnet’s memoirs, and passes on good wishes from his family (Routh himself grew up in Beccles). This Crowfoot is presumably related J. R. Crowfoot. Fol. 80: Letter from J. R. Crowfoot (address, Cambridge) to Martin Routh, 28 Feb 1854. Crowfoot reminisces about the long friendship between his and Routh’s two families. Fol. 81: Letter from William Cureton (1808–64; Syriac scholar). Fol. 81: Letter from William Cureton (address, British Museum) to Martin Routh, 15 Jan 1849. Cureton thanks Routh for sending him the fifth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae.

The following items were found loose at the end of this book:

No. 1: Letter from William Buckland (1784–1856; geologist and Dean of Westminster; no address given) to Charles Daubeny (1795–1867; D. 1810–15; F. 1815–67), “Wednesday”. Buckland asks Daubeny to check whether Magdalen owes some land in Deddington, Oxfordshire. See also MC:PR30/4/C3/5 for another letter from this correspondent. No. 2: Letter from Charles Parr Burney (address, Rectory House, Sible Hedingham) to Rev. William Morgan, 24 Dec 1844. Burney promises to pass on a message from Morgan to his son in Paris. See also fols. 45–48 above.

MC:PR30/1/C4/2 1809–54 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters D E F” on the spine. See the introduction to this section on the numbering of documents in this volume.

Fol. 79: Letter from William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth (1784–1853). Fol. 79: Letter from Lord Dartmouth (address, London) to Martin Routh, 5 Jun 1852. Dartmouth thanks Routh for a copy of his edition of the memoirs of Bishop Burnet. Fol. 80: Letter from George Anthony Denison (1805–96; Fellow of Oriel 1828–38). Fol. 80: Letter from George A. Denison (address, East Brent) to Martin Routh, 22 May 1854. Denison thanks Routh for an unspecified gift, and remembers their MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 212

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MC:PR30/1/C4/2 (con.) meeting 28 years before when Denison applied for a Demyship. Fols. 81–101: Letters from and concerning Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847; bibliographer). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/8 Fols. 22–37 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 81: Letter from T. F. L. Dibdin (address, Kensington) to Martin Routh, 24 Apr 1812. Dibden askes Routh to subscribe for a forthcoming literary bibliography. Fol. 82: Letter from T. F. L. Dibdin (address, Kensington) to Martin Routh, 4 Feb 1813. Dibdin sends a letter of recommendation for an unnamed colleague to examine a rare edition of the satires of Juvenal and Persius which is held in the Library at Magdalen. Fol. 83: Letter from T. F. L. Dibdin (address, 14 Wyndham Place) to Martin Routh, 12 Feb 1827. Dibdin asks Routh to support an unspecified literaryventure. Fol. 84: Letter from T. F. L. Dibdin (address, Wyndham Place) to Martin Routh, 14 Jun 1832. Dibdin thanks Routh for the contents of an unspecified parcel. He hopes to meet Routh during the summer. Fol. 85: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, 49 Cambridge Street, Connaught Square) to Martin Routh, 4 Mar 1842. Dibdin is pleased to hear that Routh’s health has improved. He reports on his plans, when he has published a history of Dover, to go travelling in Italy and write a book about his experiences. But he seeks money for this, and hopes that Routh may help him find funding in Oxford. Fol. 86: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, 49 Cambridge Street) to Martin Routh, 5 Apr 1842. Dibdin encloses a circular setting out his future literary plans, which include attracting subscribers for a new project. He expresses his shock at recent news from India (presumably Elphinstones's disastrous retreat from Kabul that year). Fol. 87: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, 49 Cambridge Street) to Martin Routh, 6 Jul 1842. Dibdin reports on his financial difficulties to Routh, which mean that his plans for an Italian tour are off. Fol. 88: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, 49 Cambridge Street) to Martin Routh, 19 Jul 1842. Dibdin thanks Routh for some financial assistance. He also discusses Mr. Grenville’s latest catalogue (of books for sale). Fol. 89: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, 49 Cambridge Street) to Martin Routh, 7 Jun 1843. Dibdin sends Routh a circular soliciting funds for another of his literary projects. Fol. 90: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, 49 Cambridge Street) to Martin Routh, 14 Feb 1843. Dibdin invites Routh to purchase a rare book, namely The Life of St. Rumold (Louvain, 1662), by Hugh Ward (also Vardaeus). Fol. 91: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, 8 Beaumont Street, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 16 Sep 1843. Dibdin is staying in Oxford, and hopes to visit Routh. Fol. 92: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address not given) to Martin Routh, 29 Sep 1843. Dibdin thanks Routh for a payment, and reports on a visit to Blenheim Palace, where he had hoped to inspect some books. Fol. 93: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, 8 Beaumont Street) to Martin Routh, 7 Nov 1843. Dibdin discusses the sale of the library of Richard Heber, and the MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 213

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MC:PR30/1/C4/2 (con.) latest edition of his work Bibliomania, a copy of which he now sends Routh. Fol. 94: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, 49 Cambridge Street) to Eliza Routh, 6 Apr 1844. Dibdin hopes to visit Mrs. Routh and her husband at Tilehurst shortly. Fol. 95: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, 49 Cambridge Street) to Martin Routh, 31 May 1844. Dibdin discusses his financial affairs. Fol. 96: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address not given) to Martin Routh, 8 Jul 1844. Dibdin is seeking preferment to a country parish, and to move out of Marylebone. Fol. 97: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, 28 York Street, Portman Square) to Martin Routh, 26 Feb 1845. Dibdin discusses his poor health, and reflects on the death of Sidney Smith. Fol. 98: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address not given) to Martin Routh, 24 Jul 1845. Dibdin expresses horror at an attack carried out on Routh, and discusses his health and finances. Fol. 99: Letter from Sophia Dibdin, daughter of T. F. Dibdin (address, 28 York Street) to Martin Routh, “Monday” (Jul 1845). She reports that her father was so shocked at the news of the attack on Routh that he fell violently ill in the middle of writing to him. But he is now recovering. Fol. 100: Letter from Sophia Dibdin to Martin Routh (address, 3 Park Road, Regents Park), undated. She thanks Routh for a gift of money for her father, who is now in poor health. Fol. 101: Letter from Sophia Dibdin to Martin Routh (address, 7 Cumberland Place, New Road), 23 Jul [no year given - 1847?] She reports that her father is now very ill. Fol. 102: Letter from Sir John English Dolben, bart. (1750–1837; matr. Christ Church 1768). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/8 Fols. 38–50 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 102: Letter from Sir English Dolben (address, Finedon Manor House) to Martin Routh, 9 Oct 1818. Dolben sends Routh a painting of St. John the Baptist, attributed to Bloemart (Abraham Bloemaeart [1566–1651], Dutch artist), hoping it might hang in the President’s Lodgings. He also recalls his friendship with George Horne. Fol. 103: Letter from Sir Henry Robert Dukinfield, bart. (d. 1858; matr. Christ Church 1809). Fol. 103: Letter from H. R. Dukinfield (address, Reading) to Martin Routh, 15 Jan 1822. He thanks Routh and Mrs. Sheppard for offering financial assistance to his church. He discusses his attempts to get to see “the Magdalen letters” (sic). Fols. 104–126: Letters from Philip BuryDuncan (1772–1863; Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 1826–54). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/8 Fols. 58–60 for other letters from this correspondent and his brother John. Fol. 104: Letter from P. B. Duncan (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, 3 Sep 1843. He is glad to hear the Routh’s health is good, and reports on a visit to the Bishop of Llandaff (Edward Copleston). Fol. 105: Letter from P. B. Duncan (address, “N. C.” [New College?]) to Martin Routh, 12 Oct 1846. Duncan reports on his travels on the continent, mainly in France. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 214

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MC:PR30/1/C4/2 (con.) Fol. 106: Letter from P. B. Duncan (address, “N.C.” [New College?]) to Martin Routh, 2 Jul 1847. Duncan asks about visiting Routh to tell him of his latest travels. Fol. 107: Letter from P. B. Duncan (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, 16 Jan 1849. Duncan thanks Routh for a copy of the last volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 108: Letter from P. B. Duncan (address not given) to Martin Routh, 29 Oct 1849. Duncan discusses numismatics and his political views. Fol. 109: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, 2 Mar 1850. Duncan discusses the art of writing an epitaph, and his own attempts to write ones for Mrs. Siddons and John Kemble. Fol. 110: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, 9 Jun 1852. Duncan thanks Routh for a letter, and reflects on his narrow escape from a building which collapsed, and reflects on what to do for those who were injured in the incident. Fol. 111: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Duncan discusses certain librarians of the Italian Renaissance. Fol. 112: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Duncan discusses how one should define a learned man. Fol. 113: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Duncan discusses the notorious “Black Assizes” at Oxford in 1577. Fol. 114: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. 15 Sep (no year given). Duncan thanks Routh for presenting his treatise De Episcopis to him, and reports on his poor health. Fol. 115: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, “Tuesday” (1849). Duncan expresses himself unimpressed with Cyclops Christianus, by Algernon Herbert (published 1849), and reports on the poor health of the Bishop of Llandaff (Edward Copleston, who died in 1849). Fol. 116: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Duncan discusses the life and work of the French monk and scholar Rémi Ceillier (1688–1761). Duncan spells him “Cellier”. Fol. 117: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Duncan discusses the case of Thomas Aikenhead, who was found guilty of blasphemy in 1696 and executed. See also Fol. 124 below. Fol. 118: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (1820s?). Duncan discusses a subscription for Greeks in the university. This may be related to the Greek uprising against the Ottoman Empire in the 1820s. Fol. 119: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, 20 Nov (year not given - 1844?). Duncan discusses a catalogue of rare books in the library at Lambeth Palace. He discusses the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is now in his 79th year. This can only be William Howley (1766–1848), who turned 78 in February 1844. He also discusses the state of education and literature in France, and passed on news of Routh’s Reliquiae Sacrae being praised over there. Fol. 120: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Duncan sends Routh a passage from Seneca’s De Consolatione. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 215

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MC:PR30/1/C4/2 (con.) Fol. 121: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Duncan passes on a story about the Franciscans petitioning the Pope in the 1290s to be allowed to purchase land. Fol. 122: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Duncan quotes Samuel Parr’s assessment of the life and character of the historian John Jortin (1698–1770). Fol. 123: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (1842?). Duncan discusses Arnold’s Lectures on History, which were published in 1842. Fol. 124: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Duncan discusses the differing penalties for blasphemy within Great Britain. See also Fol. 117 above. Fol. 125: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Duncan discusses Burnett’s moral and religious essays, and admits that he is unimpressed by them. Fol. 126: Letter from P. B. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Duncan discusses the different constitutions of Convocation in York and Canterbury. Fols. 127–128: Letters from George Dyer (1755–1841; advocate of political reform). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/8 Fols. 61–66 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 127: Letter from George Dyer (address, 13 Clifford’s Inn, Fleet Street) to Martin Routh, 3 Apr 1821. Dyer discusses bibliographical matters with Routh. Fol. 128: Letter from George Dyer (address, 14 Fleet Street) to Martin Routh, 7 Oct 1825. Dyer’s wife passes on her thanks for the welcome given her by Routh and his wife in Oxford. Fol. 129: Letter from John Eveleigh (1748–1814; Provost of Oriel 1781–1814). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/8 Fol. 11 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 129: Letter from J. Eveleigh (address, Oriel College) to Martin Routh, 30 Mar 1809. Eveleigh thanks Routh for his comments on one Mr. Russell, who is evidently applying for a Fellowship at Oriel (possibly William Russell. D. 1804–15 and F. 1815–31?). Fol. 130: Letter from Thomas Grimston Bucknall Estcourt (1775–1853; MP for Oxford University 1826–47). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/8 Fols. 70–71 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 130: Letter from T. G. Bucknall Estcourt (address, House of Commons) to Martin Routh, 16 Jul 1832. Estcourt sends Routh a copy of a bill currently before Parliament concerning the employment of labourers. Routh has written a list of names on the back of the letter, apparently of members of both Houses of Parliament. Fol. 131–136: Letters from Walter Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes (1798–1868). Fol. 131: Letter from Lord Forbes (address, Cheltenham) to Martin Routh, 22 Jul 1847. Forbes discusses a proposal from the Bishop of St. Andrews for the construction of a Collegiate Church, and hopes that Routh can help put in a good word with Miss Burdett Coutts on the subject. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 216

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MC:PR30/1/C4/2 (con.) Fol. 132: Letter from Lord Forbes (address, Cheltenham) to Martin Routh, 8 Feb 1848. Forbes sends Routh a revised prospectus (presumably of the plan mentioned in Fol. 131), and thanks him for the letter from Miss Burdett Coutts. Someone has written “Perth College” on the back of the letter; this is presumably the institution for which Lord Forbes is trying to raise money. Fol. 133: Letter from Lord Forbes (address, Cheltenham) to Martin Routh, 8 Mar 1848. Forbes is delighted to report that Mrs. Sheppard now supports the Perth College scheme. Fol. 134: Letter from Lord Forbes (address, Clevedon, Bristol) to Martin Routh, 30 Aug 1850. Forbes discusses his plans for establishing a national office at St. Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth, and hopes that Routh can persuade Miss Burdett Coutts to assist in this. Fol. 135: Letter from Lord Forbes (address, Clifton, Bristol) to Martin Routh, 13 Sep (year not given; 1850?). Forbes regrets that Miss Burdett Coutts will not support the cathedral at Perth. Fol. 136: Letter from Lord Forbes (address, Clifton) to Martin Routh, 28 Apr 1851. Forbes sends Routh a proof impression of a picture of St. Ninian’s Cathedral, as a present to mark the 60th anniversary of Routh’s election as President. Fol. 137: Letter from George Hay Forbes (1821–75; Scottish Episcopal clergyman and liturgical scholar). Fol. 137: Letter from G. H. Forbes (address, Burntisland) to Martin Routh, 5 Jul 1853. Forbes seeks Routh’s help in collating the text of the works of St. Gregory of Nyssa, which he had begun to edit at the request of John Henry Newman. Fols. 138–142: Letters from Charles Forster (d. 1871; chaplain to John Jebb and Rector of Stisted 1838–71). See MC:PR30/1/C4/8 Fols. 74–75 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 138: Letter from Charles Forster (address, Ash Vicarage, Wingham) to Martin Routh, 10 Mar 1837. Forster asks Routh to subscribe to the posthumously collected works of the poet Edward Smedley, who had died the previous year, and to the support of his family. Fol. 139: Letter from Charles Forster (address, Stisted Rectory, Braintree, Essex) to Martin Routh, 4 Feb 1841. Forster thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula, and expresses his admiration for him. Fol. 140: First sheet only of a letter from Charles Forster (address, Stisted Rectory, Braintree) to Martin Routh, 13 Feb 1847. Forster effusively thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the second edition of Reliquiae Sacrae. He also discusses his own work on oriental studies. Fol. 141: Letter from Charles Forster (address, Stisted Rectory, Braintree) to Martin Routh, 3 Mar 1849. Forster thanks Routh for a copy of the fifth volume of his Reliquiae Sacrae. He reports at length on the progress of his latest work through the printers. Fol. 142: Letter from Charles Foster (address, 18 Royal Terrace, Ramsgate) to Martin Routh, 6 Sep 1852. Forster writes effusively on Routh’s learning. Fols. 143–145: Letters from Edward Bowles Knottesford Fortescue (1816–77; matr. Wadham MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 217

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MC:PR30/1/C4/2 (con.) 1834). Fol. 143: letter from Edward B. Knottesford Fortescue (address, Perth) to Martin Routh, 10 Sep 1853. Fortescue thanks Routh for the gift of £500 to the cathedral at Perth (where he was Provost). Fol. 144: letter from Edward B. Knottesford Fortescue (address, Perth) to Martin Routh, 29 Apr 1854. Fortescue thanks Routh for a copy of his latest publication, and reports that the cathedral is making good progress. Fol. 145: Last sheet only of a letter from Edward B. Knottesford Fortescue to Martin Routh, undated. Fortescue is discussing the building of the cathedral at Perth.

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Fols. 146–149: Letters from Thomas Gaisford (1779–1855; Regius Professor of Greek 1812–55 and Dean of Christ Church 1831–55). See also MC:PR30/1/C1/4 Fol. 48 and MC:PR30/1/C4/9 Fols. 2–3 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 146: Letter from T. Gaisford (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, 10 Jan 1842. Gaisford discusses sources for fragments of the early Christian writer Africanus. Fol. 147: Letter from T. Gaisford (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, 18 Feb 1842. Gaisford acknowledges Routh’s request to the Delegates of the University Press to produce a new edition of his Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 148: Letter from T. Gaisford (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, 3 Jun 1843. Gaisford has just seen some Syriac manuscripts at the British Museum, and reports on some of the authors whose works are represented there. Fol. 149: Letter from T. Gaisford (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, 26 May 1852. Gaisford thanks Routh for a copy of the history of King James II. Fol. 150: Letter from Thomas Garnier (1776–1873; Dean of Winchester 1840–73). Fol. 150: Letter from T. Garnier (address, Deanery) to Martin Routh, 21 Apr 1854. Garnier thanks Routh for contributing towards their organ fund. Fol. 151: Letter from James Garbett (1802–79; Professor of Poetry 1842–52). Fol. 151: Letter from the Professor of Poetry(i.e. James Garbett; address, Clayton near Brighton) to Martin Routh, 21 Jan 1849. Garbett thanks Routh for what is clearly the fifth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fols. 152–153: Letters from Thomas Grenville (1755–1846; politician and book collector). Fol. 152: Copy of a letter from Thomas Grenville (address, Hamilton Place) to an unnamed address, 2 Jan 1844. Grenville thanks his correspondent for a specimen of a translation of Archbishop Potter, and thinks that Martin Routh will support his project. Fol. 153: Letter from Thomas Grenville (address, Hamilton Place) to Martin Routh, 25 Mar 1844. Grenville thanks Routh for sending him something unspecified, and reports on his health. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 218

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MC:PR30/1/C4/3 (con.) Fols. 154–156: Letters from Richard Greswell (1800–81; Fellow of Worcester College, 1824–36, and promoter of church schools). See also MC:PR30/1/4C/9 Fol. 7 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 154: Letter from Richard Greswell (address, Beaumont Street, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 17 Jan 1844. Greswell sends Routh the text of some unspecified resolutions about creating a new cemetery in Oxford, and raising money for it. Fol. 155: Letter from Richard Greswell (address, Beaumont Street, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 30 Jul 1849. Greswell asks to visit Routh, to seek his support for the creation of a university museum with lecture rooms attached, and encloses a prospectus for it. Fol. 156: Letter from Richard Greswell (address, Beaumont Street, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 30 Jun 1854. Greswell thanks Routh for his financial support towards his native town (Denton, Lancs.). Fol. 157: Letter from Edward Griffith (unidentified). Fol. 157: Letter from Edward Griffith (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, 17 Jun 1852. Griffith thanks Routh for the gift of an unnamed book (presumably his edition of the memoirs of Bishop Burnet). Fols. 158–159: Letters from Edward William Grinfield (1785–1864; biblical scholar). Fol. 158: Letter from E. W. Grinfield (address, Brighton) to Martin Routh, 12 Feb 1847. Grinfield thanks Routh for a present (presumably a copy of the second edition of Reliquiae Sacrae). Fol. 159: Letter from E. W. Grinfield (address, Brighton) to Martin Routh, 5 Jan 1849. Grinfield thanks Routh for what must be the fifth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 160: Letter from Charles Hardwick (1821–59; ecclesiastical historian). Fol. 160: Letter from Charles Hardwick (address, Slingsby near York) to Martin Routh, 29 Dec 1853. Hardwick thanks Routh for sending him a copy of De Episcopis. Fol. 161: Letter from Edward Charles Harington (1804–81; Canon of Exeter 1856–81). Fol. 161: Letter from E. C. Harington (address, Exeter) to Martin Routh, 13 Jan 1853. Harington thanks Routh for an unnamed book (this may be his Tres breves Tractatus, in which case the year would be 1854). Fols. 162–166 & 174: Letters from Edward Hawkins (1789–1882; Provost of Oriel College 1828–82). Fol. 162: Letter from Edward Hawkins (address, Oriel College) to Martin Routh, 15 Jan 1847. Hawkins thanks Routh for a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 163: Letter from Edward Hawkins (address, Rochester) to Martin Routh, 6 Aug 1850. Hawkins passes on the comments of a William Copleston concerning an unspecified inscription drafted by Routh. Fol. 164: Letter from Edward Hawkins (address, Oriel College) to Martin Routh, 20 Jun 1852. Hawkins thanks Routh for sending him a note on ancient episcopacy. Fol. 165: Letter from Edward Hawkins (address, Oriel College) to Martin Routh, 14 Mar 1853. Hawkins thanks Routh for his advice on a petition sent to an MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 219

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MC:PR30/1/C4/3 (con.) unnamed board (presumablyrelating to rebutting attempts for the enforced reform of Oxford). Fol. 166: Letter from Edward Hawkins (address, Oriel College) to Martin Routh, 29 Mar 1854. Hawkins discusses plans for the enforced reform of Oxford, and Parliamentary intervention on this score. Fols. 167–173 & 175–176: Letters from Richard Heber (1774–1833; book collector). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/10 Fol. 37, MC:PR30/1/C2/11 Fol. 75 and MC:PR30/1/C4/9 Fols. 16–65 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 167: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 21 Apr 1820. Heber recommends two candidates for Demyships (neither of whom appear to have been successful). Fol. 168: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 18 Mar 1825. Heber reports on some books he has purchased at auction, and offers to let Routh inspect them. Fol. 169: Letter from Richard Heber (no address given) to Martin Routh, 25 Feb 1822. Heber informs Routh of the death of their friend James Boswell (James Boswell, 1778–1822, barrister and literary scholar, and son of the biographer of Samuel Johnson). Fol. 170: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Brussels) to Martin Routh, 17 Jan 1826. Heber reports on his resignation as MP for Oxford University. Fol. 171: Letter from Richard Heber (address, “H of C” [House of Commons] to Martin Routh, “Thursday 27 Feb” [1823]. Heber tells Routh of a conversation with Robert Peel about a clause in the Worthing Road Bill, which might be prejudicial to the Rector of Findon. Fol. 172: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Paris) to Martin Routh, 5 Jul 1831. Heber writes to recommend to Routh the letter’s bearer, Dr. Hauthals, a German scholar. This is Ferdinand Hauthal (1803–70), who edited Horace and two of his ancient commentators. Fol. 173: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul 1832. Heber thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula, and discusses a forthcoming book auction. Fol. 174: Letter from Edward Hawkins (address, Oriel College) to Martin Routh, 24 Oct 1842. Hawkins says that Henry Vaughan, whom he had supported for the post of Professor of Moral Philosophy, can no longer promise substantial residence in Oxford, and recommends to his notice another Fellow of Oriel, Charles Marriott. Fol. 175: Letter from Richard Heber (address, London) to Martin Routh, “Wednesday 21 July” [probably 1824]. Heber also recommends a Mr. Davies of Brasenose for a Demyship (no one of that name was successful). Fol. 176: Letter from Richard Heber (no address given) to Martin Routh, “Saturday July 21" [probably 1821]. Heber thanks Routh for all his help in an unspecified matter (probably his election as an MP for Oxford University). Fol. 177: Letter from Edward Adolphus Holmes (1809–86, Rector of St. Peter and St. Margaret, South Elham 1833–86). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 220

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MC:PR30/1/C4/3 (con.) Fol. 177: Letter from E. Adolphus Holmes (address. St. Margaret’s Rectory, Harleston) to Martin Routh, 31 Aug 1847. Holmes solicits a contribution from Routh towards the repair of the church of St. Peter’s at South Elmham, where Routh’s father had been Rector. Fols. 178–179: Letters from Walter Farquhar Hook (1798–1875; Vicar of Leeds 1837–59; Dean of Chichester 1859–75). Fol. 178: Letter from W. F. Hook (address, Vicarage, Leeds) to Martin Routh, 8 May 1847. Hook thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 179: Letter from W. F. Hook (address, Vicarage, Leeds) to Martin Routh, 31 Dec 1847. Hook reports on another clergyman, a Mr. Stills, whom he is encouraging to apply to Routh for aid. Fols. 180–181: Letters from Robert Hussey(1801–56; Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History 1842–56). Fol. 180: Letter from Robert Hussey (address, 25 Beaumont Street) to Martin Routh, 22 Aug 1853. Hussey thanks Routh for a copy of his Tres Breves Tractatus. Fol. 181: Letter from Robert Hussey (address, 25 Beaumont Street) to Martin Routh, 17 Nov 1853. Hussey discusses a passage in Irenaeus. Fols. 182–196: Letters from Sir Robert Harry Inglis (1786–55; MP for Oxford University 1829–54). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/9 Fol. 36 and MC:PR30/1/C4/10 fols. 1–4 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 182: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, Manchester Buildings, Westminster) to Martin Routh, undated. Inglis thanks Routh for an unspecified present (one of his books?). Fol. 183: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, Manchester Buildings, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 1 Nov 1832. Inglis sends Routh a catalogue for the sale of the library of Sir James Mackintosh. He also seeks Routh’s advice on the landholdings of the Church of England, with regard to proposals made by the Ecclesiastical Revenue Commissioners. Fol. 184: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, 11 Manchester Buildings, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 3 Nov 1832. Inglis thanks Routh for an invitation to stay at Magdalen. Fol. 185: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, 11 Manchester Buildings, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 3 Jun 1833. Inglis discusses a question of land law with Routh, on the sale of a piece of land to be divided among several proprietors. Fol. 186: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, Battersea Rise, Clapham) to Martin Routh, 19 May 1834. Inglis discusses his and Routh’s health. Fol. 187: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, 7 Bedford Square) to Martin Routh, 28 Jan 1836. Inglis discusses a proposed monument to the Bishop of Limerick (John Jebb), and also allays Routh’s concerns over the omission by the late Sir James Mackintosh, in his history of the revolution of 1688, of any mention of Routh’s edition of Burnet’s memoirs. Fol. 188: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, 7 Bedford Square) to Martin Routh, 30 Jun 1841. Inglis thanks Routh for a copy of his Scriptorum MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 221

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MC:PR30/1/C4/3 (con.) Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula. Fol. 189: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, 7 Bedford Square) to Martin Routh, 19 Jul 1843. Inglis has sent a private note to the editor of the Standard on an unspecified matter, at Routh’s request. Fol. 190: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, 7 Bedford Square) to Martin Routh, 28 Jun 1847. Inglis thanks Routh for a copy of the new edition of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 191: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, 7 Bedford Square) to Martin Routh, 10 Feb 1848. Inglis seeks Routh’s confidential views on a proposed renewal of diplomatic relations with Rome. Fol. 192: Draft letter from Martin Routh to Sir Robert Inglis, undated. It appears to be an answer to the preceding letter. Fol. 193: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, 7 Bedford Square) to Martin Routh, 26 Jan 1849. Inglis thanks Routh for a copy of the fifth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 194: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, 7 Bedford Square) to Martin Routh, 15 Jun 1852. Inglis thanks Routh for an unspecified present (his new edition of Burnet’s memoirs?). He reports that he passed in committee the “Magdalen College Oxford Estate Bill”, without any problem. Fol. 195: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, 7 Bedford Square) to Martin Routh, 15 Apr 1853. Inglis thanks Routh for a letter on an unspecified subject. Fol. 196: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, 7 Bedford Square) to Martin Routh, 14 Jan 1854. Inglis reports on his plan to step down as MP for Oxford University, and thanks Routh for his support and friendship for the last 25 years. Fol. 197: Letter from James Ingram (1774–1850; Old English scholar and antiquary). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/10 fols. 5–6 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 197: Letter from J. Ingram (address, Trinity College) to Martin Routh, 4 March (year not given). Ingram asks Routh’s opinion on the date of the creation of the “hieroglyphics” in the cloisters at Magdalen. Fol. 198: Letter from John Ireland (1761–1842; Dean of Westminster 1815–42). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/2 Fols. 60–61 and MC:PR30/1/C4/10 fol. 7 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 198: Letter from the Dean of Westminster (identified as John Ireland on the letter) (address, Islip) to Martin Routh, “Friday”. The Dean regrets that he is unable to visit Routh, as hoped.

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Fols. 199–201: Letters from William Jacobson (1803–84; Bishop of Chester 1865–84). Fol. 199: Letter from M. Jacobson (address, Magdalen Hall) to Martin Routh, 29 Dec 1846. Jacobson tells Routh that he is a candidate for the Professorship of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 222

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MC:PR30/1/C4/4 (con.) Fol. 200: Letter from M. Jacobson (address, Magdalen Hall) to Martin Routh, “Tuesday Evening” [1841?]. Jacobson thanks Routh for giving him a new edition of his Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula. He also tells Routh about the son of Charles Mareham, who had been a servant at Magdalen College and then of Magdalen Hall. Mareham has just died, leaving a son aged ten, and Jacobson wonders whether he could be made a chorister. Fol. 201: Letter from M. Jacobson (address, Ewelme, Wallingford) to Martin Routh, 6 Sep 1854. Jacobson sends Routh a copy of his editions of the works of Bishop Sanderson. Fol. 202: Letter from John Jebb (1805–86; clergyman and religious writer). Fol. 202: Letter from John Jebb (address, Desmond, Killeney, near Dublin) to Martin Routh, 16 Aug 1852. Jebb thanks Routh for sending him an extract from his Reliquiae Sacrae on the subject of the apostolic succession. Fol. 203: Letter from Richard William Jelf (1798–1871; Principal of King’s College London, 1844–68). Fol. 203: Letter from R. W. Jelf (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, 8 Aug 1853. Jelf thanks Routh for his kindness over Lord Derby’s Reply (meaning unclear). Fol. 204: Letter from Richard Jenkyns (1782–1854; Master of Balliol 1819–54). Fol. 204: Letter from R. Jenkyns (address, Balliol) to Martin Routh, 29 Feb [1836]. Jenkyns discusses the number of signatures on two requisitions to be sent to the Vice-Chancellor. He also invites Routh to attend an unspecified meeting. Routh wrote on this letter “Dr. Hampden’s Business”, and the letter is clearly linked with the controversies which surrounded the appointment of Renn Dickson Hampden as Regius Professor of Divinity in 1836. Fol. 205: Letter from Francis Jeune (1806–68; Master of Pembroke 1844–64). Fol. 205: Letter from Francis Jeune (address, Pembroke College) to Martin Routh, 11 May 1846. Jeune thanks warmly Routh for a foundation created by Sophia Sheppard for Pembroke College. Fols. 206–207: Letters from John Johnstone (1768–1836; physician and biographer). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/2 Fols. 62–65, MC:PR30/1/C3/4 nos. 9 & 11–12, and MC:PR30/1/C4/10 Fols. 13–21 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 206: Letter from John Johnstone (address, London) to Martin Routh, 31 May 1832. Johnstone thanks Routh for an unspecified “remembrance” (a copy of Routh’s Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula?). Fol. 207: Letter from John Johnstone (address, Monument House) to Martin Routh, 22 Jan 1836. Johnstone discusses the arrival of a portrait of Samuel Parr (with whom, like Routh, he was on friendly terms) at Harrow. Johnstone discusses the text of an inscription he drafted to accompany the portrait. Fol. 208: Letter from John Collier Jones (d. 1838; Rector of Exeter 1819–38). Fol. 208: Letter from J. C. Jones (address, Exeter College) to Martin Routh, 17 Feb (no year given). Jones explains to Routh which editions of Tertullian are in the library of Exeter College. [Bloxam gave a list of correspondents at the front of this volume, in which he claimed that there MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 223

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MC:PR30/1/C4/4 (con.) should be a letter from John Keble here. There are signs of it having been cut out at an unknown date before the letters were numbered. The letter was officially noted as missing in July 1990.] Fol. 209: Letter from George Kenyon, 2nd Baron Kenyon (1776–1855). Fol. 209: Letter from Lord Kenyon (address, Gredington, Whitchurch, Shropshire) to Martin Routh, 27 Nov 1838. Kenyon asks to have his name added to a list of subscribers to a memorial to the Oxford Martyrs. Fol. 210: Letter from Henry Kett (1761–1825; Fellow of Trinity College 1784–1823). See also MC:PR30/1/C1/3 Fols, 11, 16, 27, & 51, MC:PR30/1/C3/8 No. 5, and MC:PR30/1/C4/10 Fols. 24–32 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 210: Letter from Henry Kett (address, Trinity College, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 4 Feb (year not given, but Routh has written a note dated 9 Feb 1811 on the back of it). Kett sends Routh a syllabus of his book The Elements of General Knowledge, which was published in 1802. Fols. 211–214: Letters from Thomas Kidd (1770–1850; classical scholar and schoolmaster). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/10 Fols. 34–37 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 211: Letter from Thomas Kidd (address, Croxton, near St. Neots) to Martin Routh, 20 Nov 1841. Kidd’s son Philip, who is a servitor at Christ Church, wants to present himself for a degree, and he thanks Routh for agreeing to defray the expense for this. Fol. 212: Letter from Thomas Kidd (address, Croxton, near Laxton, Cambridgeshire) to Martin Routh, 16 Dec 1843. Kidd thanks Routh for his help in restoring Kidd to his living, and tells him of some money raised to help him. Fol. 213: Letter from Thomas Kidd (address, Croxton, near Laxton, Cambridgeshire) to Martin Routh, 15 Feb 1844. Kidd thanks Routh for giving him £20 to reinstate him into the living of Croxton. Fol. 214: Letter from Thomas Kidd (address, Croxton, Laxton, Cambridgeshire) to Martin Routh, 29 Jan 1848. Kidd pours out his woes to Routh, lamenting his poor health and poverty, and hopes that Routh may be able to help him. Fols. 215–217: Letters from Francis Kilvert (1793–1863; Church of England clergyman and writer). Fol. 215: Letter from Francis Kilvert (address, Claverton Lodge, Bath) to Martin Routh, 1 Mar 1841. Kilvert thanks Routh for subscribing to his supplementary volume of Bishop Warburton’s works. Fol. 216: Letter from Francis Kilvert (address, “C. L.” [Claverton Lodge], Bath) to an unnamed addressee. 10 Jul 1852. Kilvert asks the addressee to pass on his thanks to Martin Routh for a copy of his edition of Burnet’s memoirs. Fol. 217: Letter from Francis Kilvert (address, Claverton Lodge, Bath) to Martin Routh, 23 Dec 1853. Kilvert thanks Routh warmly for a copy of his Tres breves Tractatus. Fols. 218–227: Letters from Francis Fortescue-Knottesford (d. 1859; matr. Queen’s 1790). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/10 Fols. 39–64 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 218: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Alveston Manor) to Martin Routh, 15 Apr 1836. Fortescue-Knottesford’s son is given this letter to MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 224

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MC:PR30/1/C4/4 (con.) Routh. He reports on his son’s progress. He hopes that his son might become a member of Magdalen (the son, Edward Fortescue-Knottesford, never did). He also suggests the idea of a book of memorial inscriptions. Fol. 219: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Alveston Manor) to Martin Routh, 20 Jan 1841. Fortescue-Knottesford thanks Routh for an unspecified present (probably a copy of the second edition of Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula). He reports on a visit to Norwich. Fol. 220: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Bridgetown) to Martin Routh, 29 Jul 1836. Fortescue-Knottesford once again appeals to Routh that his son Edward may be elected a Demy at Magdalen (he was not). Fol. 221: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Alveston Manor) to Martin Routh, 18 May 1841. Fortescue-Knottesford recommends one Hallward for a Demyship (no one of this name was elected). Fol. 222: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Alveston Manor) to Martin Routh, 21 Nov 1845. Fortescue-Knottesford expresses his pleasure that the (unnamed) son of a friend has been appointed a Chorister at Magdalen. Fol. 223: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Alveston Manor) to Martin Routh, 15 Jan 1847, Fortescue-Knottesford thanks Routh for the present of the new edition of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 224: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Alveston Manor) to Martin Routh, 1 Jan 1849. Fortescue-Knottesford thanks Routh for a copy of the fifth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He expresses regret on the death of Sophia Sheppard. Fol. 225: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Alveston Manor) to Martin Routh, 20 Dec 1850. Fortescue-Knottesford reports that his son has been elected Dean of Perth Cathedral, and tells Routh of his activities there. Fol. 226: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, St. Ninian’s College, Perth) to Martin Routh, 3 Jul 1852. Fortescue-Knottesford thanks Routh for sending him a republication of extracts from his Reliquiae Sacrae. He reports in some detail on the activities at Perth of his son, with whom he is staying. Fol. 227: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Alveston Manor) to Martin Routh, 6 Dec 1853. Fortescue-Knottesford thanks Routh effusively for sending him a copy of his Tres breves Tractatus. Fol. 228: Letter from R. Harris Kirby (unidentified). Fol. 228: Letter from R. Harris Kirby (address, Torrington Square) to Martin Routh, 17 May 1832. Kirby encloses a tract for Routh. Fol. 229: Letter from John Lamb (1789–1850; Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1822–50). Fol. 229: Letter from Dr. Lamb (address, Corpus Christi Lodge) to Martin Routh, 29 Jun 1832. Lamb thanks Routh for giving him a copy of Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula. Fol. 230: Letter from Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780–1863). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/10 Fols. 66–67 and MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 Fol. 27 for other letters from this correspondent. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 225

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MC:PR30/1/C4/4 (con.) Fol. 230: Letter from Lord Lansdowne (address, Bowood) to Martin Routh, 6 Sep (year not given; 1852?). Lansdowne thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his edition of Burnet’s memoirs. Fol. 231: Letter from George Robert Lewis (1782–1871; painter and engraver). Fol. 231: Letter from George R. Lewis (address, 61 Upper Norton Street, Portland Place, London) to Martin Routh, 13 Dec 1842. Lewis invites Routh to subscribe to his planned work on the early fonts of England. Fol. 232: Letter from John David Macbride (1778–1868; Principal of Magdalen Hall 1816–68). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/11 Fol. 1 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 232: Letter from J. D. Macbride (no address given) to Martin Routh, 20 May (no year given). Macbride sends Routh the address of an unnamed person. Fols. 233–236: Letters from Samuel RoffeyMaitland (1792–1866; Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist). Fol. 233: Letter from S. R. Maitland (address, Lambeth) to Martin Routh, 19 Jan 1841. Maitland thanks Routh for giving him a copy of the second edition of his Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula. Fol. 234: Letter from S. R. Maitland (address not given) to Martin Routh, 28 Jan 1847. Maitland thanks Routh for an unspecified present (presumably the second edition of Reliquiae Sacrae), and sends him in return a printed letter that he plans to circulate. Fol. 235: Letter from S. R. Maitland (address, 4 Newington Terrace, Kennington), 5 Jan 1849. Maitland thanks Routh for sending him the fifth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He explains that he has had no connection with Lambeth (where he had been librarian) since the last Archbishop died. Fol. 236: Letter from S. R. Maitland (address, Gloucester) to Martin Routh, 3 Jul 1852. Maitland thanks Routh for an unspecified publication. Fols. 237–239: Letters from James Heywood Markland (1788–1864; antiquary). Fol. 237: Letter from J. H. Markland (address, Great Malvern) to Martin Routh, 22 Jan 1841. Markland thanks Routh for a present (presumably a copy of the second edition of his Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula). Fol. 238: Letter from J. H. Markland (address, Edinburgh) to Martin Routh, 11 Jul 1850. Markland thanks Routh for approving a paper which he had sent him, and for his comments on it. Fol. 239: Letter from J. H. Markland (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, 8 Dec 1851. Markland sends Routh the published version of the letter discussed in his previous letter. Fol. 240: Letter from James Mawman (London bookseller). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/11 fol. 9 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 240: Letter from J. Mawman (39 Ludgate Street ) to Martin Routh, 31 Jul 1819. Mawman confirms with Routh how many pages he has got of the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 241: Letter from Richard Michell (1805–77; Principal of Magdalen Hall 1868–74, and Principal of Hertford College 1874–7). Fol. 241: Letter from R. Michell (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 22 Sep 1852. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 226

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MC:PR30/1/C4/4 (con.) Michell reports that he has just managed to include the Bishop of Exeter (Henry Phillpotts) among the list of supporters of Lord Derby for the post of Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Fol. 242: Letter from Arundell Charles St. John Mildmay (matr. Merton 1839, and Fellow there 1844–9). Fol. 242: Letter from Arundell Mildmay (address, Merton) to Martin Routh, 17 Aug 1847. Mildmay encloses some samples of modern Greek for the President, and explains their contents to him. Fol. 243: Letter from Mary Russell Mitford (1787–1855; playwright and writer). Fol. 243: Letter from M. R. Mitford (address, Three Mile Cross) to Martin Routh, 3 Mar 1843. Mitford thanks Routh for a donation for an unspecified purpose (this may relate to the subscription raised after the death of Mitford’s father to help her pay his many debts). Fol. 244: Letter from Robert Montgomery (1807–55; poet and Church of England clergyman). Fol. 244: Letter from Robert Montgomery (address, London, 51 Torrington Square) to Martin Routh, “Tuesday Dec 1848". Montgomery sends Routh a treatise written in defence of the Scottish (Episcopalian) Church. Fols. 245–247: Letters from John Brande Morris (1812–80; Roman Catholic convert and devotional writer). Fol. 245: Letter from J. B. Morris (address, Exeter College) to Martin Routh, [feast of] “St. Barnabas” [c. 1846?]. Morris discusses a passage from St. Ephrem, whose works he would edit and publish in 1846. Fol. 246: Letter from J. B. Morris (address, Prior Park, Bath) to Martin Routh, 18 [?] Dec 1850. Morris seeks Routh’s opinion on the authenticity of an account of the martyrdom of St. Andrew. Fol. 247: Letter from J. B. Morris (address, Prior Park, Bath) to Martin Routh, 18 Sep 1851. Morris thanks Routh for lending him a copy of the works of Methodius. Fol. 248: Letter from Joseph William Moss (1803–1862; bibliographer). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/11 fols. 17–18 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 248: Letter from Joseph W. Moss (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 2 May 1827. Moss has news from John Johnston about the memoir of Samuel Parr, and hopes to meet Routh to talk about them. Fols. 249–250: Letters from Robert Nares (1753–1829; philologist and clergyman). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/11 Fol. 22 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 249: Letter from R. Nares (address, St. Mary’s Reading) to Martin Routh, 12 Feb 1816. Nares thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae, and sends him a publication of his own. Fol. 250: Letter from R. Nares (address, Hart Street, Bloomsbury) to Martin Routh, 20 Mar 1820. Nares sends Routh Bishop Gleig’s charge and letter, and thanks him for taking up Mr. Williams as curate of Tilehurst. Fol. 251: Letter from John Nash (1752–1835; architect). Fol. 251: Letter from John Nash (no address) to Martin Routh, undated. Nash recommends the bearer, Mr. Britten, to Routh, and asks Routh to give him some MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 227

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MC:PR30/1/C4/4 (con.) advice on medieval architecture. Fol. 252: Letter from R. Neville (unidentified). Fol. 252: Letter from R. Neville (address, Billingham) to Martin Routh, 14 Sep 1821. Neville thanks Routh for sending him a pamphlet. Fols. 253–254: Letters from Alexander Nicoll (1793–1828; orientalist). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/11 fol. 24 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 253: Letter from Alexander Nicoll (address, Bodleian Library) to Martin Routh, 28 Sep 1818. Nicoll gives Routh some extracts from MSS in the Bodleian. Fol. 254: Letter from Alexander Nicoll (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, 10 Aug 1826. Nicoll discusses an Arabic document from 1638 concerning the patriarch of the Copts.

MC:PR30/1/C4/5 1829–54 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Letters P R” on the spine. See the introduction to this section on the numbering of documents in this volume.

Fols. 255–263: Letters from William Patrick Palmer (1803–85; clergyman and theologian). This is a different William Palmer from the one who was a Fellow of Magdalen (see MC:PR30/1/C2/12 fols. 1–23). See MC:PR30/1/C4/11 Fols. 49–50 for other letters from this William Palmer. Fol. 255: Letter from William Palmer (address, Vicarage, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Bridport) to Martin Routh, 22 Jan 1847. Palmer thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his latest book. He expresses his pleasure that Routh is still active. Fol. 256: Letter from William Palmer (address, 1 Gloucester Place, Portman Square) to Martin Routh, 20 Mar 1848. Palmer thanks Routh for an unspecified act of kindness. Fol. 257: Letter from William Palmer (address, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Bridport) to Martin Routh, 24 Apr 1848. Palmer explains to Routh that certain unspecified acts of kindness on his and others’ parts have saved him from some unidentified embarrassments. Fol. 258: Letter from William Palmer (address, St. Giles) to Martin Routh, “Friday”. Palmer sends Routh an unnamed publication of his. Fol. 259: Letter from William Palmer (address, St. Giles) to Martin Routh, “Monday 11 Feb” (possibly an error for Sunday 11 Feb 1843). Palmer thanks Routh and other members of Magdalen College for their support in an unspecified affair. He discusses his wife and his father, and raising a subscription for the Bishop of Meath’s family (presumably that of Charles Dickinson, Bishop of Meath 1840–2, who died of typhus in July 1842). Fol. 260: Letter from William Palmer (address, Vicarage, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Bridport) to Martin Routh, 15 Oct (year not given). Palmer asks Routh to support an initiative to raise money for a school and other buildings in his parish, to help Palmer contend with what he sees as an aggressive campaign of “Romanism” there. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 228

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MC:PR30/1/C4/5 (con.) Fol. 261: Letter from William Palmer (address, Vicarage, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Bridport) to Martin Routh, 18 Jan 1849. Palmer thanks Routh for a copy of Volume V of Reliquiae Sacrae. Palmer discusses his financial affairs, and reports that he has been appointed a Rural Dean. Fol. 262: Letter from William Palmer (address, Vicarage, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Bridport) to Martin Routh, 20 May 1854 [2 leaves]. Palmer asks for help in supporting Church of England schools in his parish, and discusses again his problems with Catholics and Dissenters there. Fol. 263: Letter from William Palmer (address, St. Giles) to Martin Routh, 4 Nov 1850. Palmer reports on the progress of the Achill Mission, and seeks help against seeing a chunk of the island being purchased by the Catholics. This is written in a different hand from the rest of Palmer’s letters, but is clearly composed by him, if written out by someone else. Fols. 264–266: Letters from Thomas Lister Parker (1779–1858; antiquary and collector). Fol. 264. Letter from Thomas Lister Parker (address, Tabley House) to Martin Routh, 14 Sep 1849. Parker sends Routh birthday greetings. Fol. 265: Letter from Thomas Lister Parker (address, Tabley House) to Martin Routh, 20 Dec (year not given; 1830s?). Parker recommends to Routh the young son of a Mr. Price Edwards, the collector of customs at Shoreham, for a chorister’s place at Magdalen. He hears good reports of the newlyrestored Chapel at Magdalen. Fol. 266: Letter from Thomas Lister Parker (address, Tabley House) to Martin Routh, 31 Dec (year not given). Parker thanks Routh for an encouraging reply to his previous letter (Fol. 265). Fol. 267: Letter from James Parsons (1762–1847; clergyman). Fol. 267: Letter from J. Parsons (address, Nernham, Glos.) to Martin Routh, 14 Jul 1829. Parsons understands that Routh has agreed to look at the proofs of an edition of the sermons of Alexander Nicoll (1793–1828; orientalist), his son-in- law, and thanks him for his help. Fol. 268: Letter from Christian Pauli (d. 1877; missionary of London Jews’ Society, made privileged member of Oxford 1841). Fol. 268: Letter from C. W. H. Pauli (address, 14 St. Giles, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 19 Feb 1841. Pauli encloses a document soliciting Routh’s aid in an unspecified literary and theological venture. Fol. 269: Letter from Mr. Pearson (unidentified: perhaps one of the sons of Hugh Nicholas Pearson, Dean of Salisbury 1823–46? Pearson himself had a DD by 1837) Fol. 269: Letter from “Mr. Pearson” (address, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 17 Jun 1837. Pearson sends Routh a copy of A discourse upon the prophecy of the seventy weeks of Daniel by William Magee (1766–1831; Archbishop of Dublin 1822–31), which Pearson has seen through the press. Fols. 270–271: Letters from George Pellew (1793–1866; Dean of Norwich 1828–66). Fol. 270: Letter from George Pellew (address, Deanery, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 9 Apr 1847. Pellew asks Routh to contribute to a plan to erect a stained glass window in Norwich cathedral in memory of their friend Mr. Thurlow MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 229

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MC:PR30/1/C4/5 (con.) (presumably Edward South Thurlow, who had died in February 1847). Routh has drafted a reply on the back. Fol. 271: Letter from George Pellew (address, Deanery, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 17 Apr 1847. Pellew thanks Routh for agreeing to support the proposal for a memorial window for Thurlow. Fols. 272–279: Letters from Arthur Philip Perceval (1799–1853; clergyman and religious writer). See MC:PR30/1/C4/11 Fols. 56–59 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 272: Letter from Arthur Perceval (address, East Horsley, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 24 Jan 1834. Perceval sends Routh a parcel of copies of letters to American and Scottish Bishops. Fol. 273: Letter from Arthur Perceval (address, 26 St. James’s Place, London) to Martin Routh, 14 Jan 1846. Perceval sends Routh a copy of the new edition of the Churchman’s Manual. Fol. 274: Letter from Arthur Perceval (address, Lichfield) to Martin Routh, 27 Aug 1846. Now that Perceval’s parish of East Horsley, hitherto a peculiar of the diocese of Canterbury, has been made part of the diocese of Winchester, he asks Routh whether people from this parish might be eligible for posts at Magdalen open to people from the diocese of Winchester. Routh has drafted a reply. Fol. 275: Letter from Arthur Perceval (address, East Horsley) to Martin Routh, 12 Jan 1841. Perceval thanks Routh for an unspecified gift (probably a copy of the second edition of Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula). He also asks Routh two questions about the status of baptised (but unconfirmed) or unbaptised persons receiving communion. Fol. 276: Letter from Arthur Perceval (address, Merrow, Guildford) to Martin Routh, 28 Jan 1847. Perceval thanks Routh for a copy of his new edition of Reliquiae Sacrae. He praises Routh for dedicating his book to the Bishops of the Episcopal Church in Scotland, and discusses the current government. Fol. 277: Letter from Arthur Perceval (address, Little Bookham, Leatherhead) to Martin Routh, 4 Jan 1849. Perceval thanks Routh for an unnamed gift (almost certainly a copy of the final volume of Reliquiae Sacrae). Fol. 278: Letter from Arthur Perceval (address, “D. P.”) to Martin Routh, 19 Dec 1850. Perceval discusses his ceasing to be a royal chaplain, and the Gorham case. Fol. 279: Letter from Arthur Perceval (address, Little Boreham, Leatherhead) to Martin Routh, 22 Sep 1852. Perceval expresses unhappiness at Routh’s decision to back the Earl of Derby for the Chancellorship of Oxford. Fol. 280: Letter from Frederick Henry Petrie (1772–1842; antiquary). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/11 Fol. 60 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 280: Letter from Henry Petrie (address, Stockwell) to Martin Routh, 27 Feb (no year given). Petrie thanks Routh for his comments on some work he has sent him. Fol. 281: Letter from Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872; collector of books and manuscripts). Fol. 281: Letter from Thomas Phillipps (address, Middle Hill) to Martin Routh, 23 Aug 1852. Phillipps sends Routh a copy of the index to his catalogue of manuscripts. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 230

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MC:PR30/1/C4/5 (con.) Fols. 282–283: Letters from Frederick Charles Plumptre (1796–1870; Master of University College 1836–70). Fol. 282: Letter from Frederick Plumptre (address, University College) to Martin Routh, 25 May 1852. Plumptre thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his edition of Burnet’s history of the reign of James II. Fol. 283: Letter from Frederick Plumptre (address, University College) to Martin Routh, 11 Aug 1851. Plumptre reports that a petition submitted by the University to be heard by Counsel against the University Commission is not to be granted. Fol. 284: Letter from David Proing [?] (unidentified). Fol. 284: Letter (2 sheets) from David Proing [?] (address, 6 Meadow Place) to Richard Walker (D. 1821–21; F. 1821–52)., 6 Jul 1853. Proing discusses Walker’s literary projects, and inveighs against the spread of popish doctrines in the Church of England within Oxford. Walker has forwarded this letter to Routh with a note that he need not return it. Fols. 285–300: Letters from Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–82; Regius Professor of Hebrew 1828–82). Fol. 285: Letter from E. B. Pusey (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, 16 Feb 1846. Pusey expressed his concern that he has mislaid a manuscript which Routh had lent him. Fol. 286: Letter from E. B. Pusey (no address given) to Martin Routh, 1 Apr 1840. Pusey exchanged information with Routh on MSS at Magdalen and at Christ Church. Fol. 287: Letter from E. B. Pusey (no address given) to Martin Routh, 6 Apr 1840. Pusey discusses the same subjects as in Fol. 286 above. Fol. 288: Letter from E. B. Pusey (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, 7 Apr 1840. Pusey thanks Routh for lending him a book from Magdalen’s library. Fol. 289: Letter from E. B. Pusey (no address given) to Martin Routh, 30 Jun 1840. Pusey thanks Routh for lending him so many books, and discussing collating a manuscript. Fol. 290: Letter from E. B. Pusey (no address given) to Martin Routh, 1 Apr 1840. Pusey discusses similar matters to the preceding letters. Fol. 291: Letter from E. B. Pusey (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, 3 Jun 1840. Pusey discusses the collation of some Italian MSS of Tertullian. Fol. 292: Letter from E. B. Pusey (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, 8 Dec 1841. Pusey thanks Routh again for the books he has lent him. Fol. 293: Letter from E. B. Pusey (address, Clifton) to Martin Routh “Friday in Easter Week” (9 Apr) 1847. Pusey thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the new edition of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 294: Letter from E. B. Pusey (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, 11 Dec (no year given). Pusey reports on his health. Fol. 295: Letter from E. B. Pusey (no address given) to Martin Routh, “Wedn.” (1841). Pusey thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the second edition of his Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula, and for lending him some texts. Fol. 296: Letter from E. B. Pusey (no address given) to Martin Routh, 8 Dec (no MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 231

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MC:PR30/1/C4/5 (con.) year given). Pusey discusses the collation of some manuscripts, and hopes to visit Routh to discuss them. Fol. 297: Letter from E. B. Pusey (address, 1 Arundell Terrace, Brighton) to Martin Routh, 7 Aug (no year given; must be 1840). Pusey promises to send Routh the collations for some manuscripts. He expressed pleasure that James Mozley has been elected a Fellow of Magdalen (which he was in 1840). Fol. 298: Letter from E. B. Pusey (no address given) to Martin Routh, 14 Aug (no year given). Pusey continues to discuss the collation of manuscripts. Fol. 299: Letter from E. B. Pusey (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, 9 Apr (no year given). Pusey sends Routh some variant readings of some of the texts printed by Routh in his Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula. Fol. 300: Letter from E. B. Pusey (address, Sussex Square) to Martin Routh, 10 Aug (no year given; postmarked 1840). Pusey once again discusses the collation of manuscripts. Fols. 301–302: Letters from John Radford (d. 1851; Rector of Lincoln College 1834–51). Fol. 301: Letter from John Radford (address, Lincoln College) to Martin Routh, 5 Jan 1848. Radford thanks Routh for lending him a book, and discusses John Underhill (Bishop of Oxford 1589–92, and Rector of Lincoln). Fol. 302: Letter from John Radford (address, Rectory, Lincoln College) to Martin Routh, 18 May 1848. Radford sends Routh an unnamed book. Fol. 303: Letter from James Randall (d. 1882; matr. Trinity College 1809). Fol. 303: Letter from James Randall (address, Binfield, near Bracknell) to Martin Routh, 1 Oct 1852. Randall thanks Routh for sending him an unnamed tract (presumably De episcopis et presbyteris). Fol. 304: Letter from Hormuzd Rassam (1826–1910: archaeologist and civil servant). Fol. 304: Letter from Hormuzd Rassam (address, 1 Paragon Parade, Cheltenham) to Martin Routh, 4 Jul 1849. Rassam is about to leave Britain to return with Austin Layard to excavate at Nineveh, and thanks Routh for all his kindness towards him. Fols. 305–307: Letters from Stephen Reay(1782–1861; orientalist). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/11 Fols. 64–65 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 305: Letter from “S. R.” (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 29 Feb 1836. The writer asks Routh to subscribe to an edition of the geographical work of the Arabic scholar Edrisi. “S.R.” is presumably Stephen Reay, as below, on account of the subject matter. Fol. 306: Letter from S. P. Reay (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 18 Sep 1843. Reay discusses the treatment of Talmud by Lightfoot. Fol. 307: Letter from S. P. Reay (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 24 Jun 1847. Reay hopes that Routh’s health is improving. Fol. 308: Letter from Samuel Wilton Rix (unidentified). Fol. 308: Letter from Samuel Wilton Rix (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 12 Oct 1848. Rix asks Routh’s advice on some details in a book he is writing on the Fauconbridge Endowment. Fol. 309: Letter from John Fuller Russell (1813–84; ecclesiastical historian). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 232

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MC:PR30/1/C4/5 (con.) Fol. 309: Letter from John Fuller Russell (address, Walworth, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 1 Dec 1837. Russell sends Routh a copy of an unnamed book to which he has subscribed. Fol. 310: Letter from William Rutson (unidentified). Fol. 310: Letter from William Rutson (address, Nunnington Hall, Oswaldkirk, Yorkshire) to Martin Routh, 23 Sep 1853. Rutson has heard a rumour that “the Pretender” [sic] was hidden in his house, and wonders whether Routh can confirm this or not.

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Fol. 311: Letter from George Benjamin Sandford (d. 1852; matr. Brasenose 1829). Fol. 311: Letter from G. B. Sandford (address, Minshull Vicarage, near Middlewich) to Martin Routh, 22 Aug 1842. Sandford thanks Routh for sending him a copy of an unspecified work of his. Fols. 312–320: Letters from Robert Scott (1811–87; lexicographer; Master of Balliol 1854–70, and Dean of Rochester 1870–87). Fol. 312: Letter from Robert Scott (address, Duloe, near Liskeard) to Martin Routh, 1 Feb 1841. Scott thanks Routh for sending him some unspecified books. Fol. 313: Letter from Robert Scott (address, Duloe Vicarage, near Liskeard) to Martin Routh, 5 Oct 1842. Scott takes advantage of Goldwin Smith’s visit to Oxford to pass on a tract written by Scott in response to a dissenter. He also draws Routh’s attention to a new fragment of Louis the Presbyter. Fol. 314: Letter from Robert Scott (address, Duloe, Liskeard) to Martin Routh, 12 Apr 1847. Scott thanks Routh for sending him the new edition of Reliquiae Sacrae. He regrets that he has to rest his eyes in consequence of overwork on a new edition of his lexicon. Fol. 315: Letter from Robert Scott (address, Duloe, Liskeard) to Martin Routh, 2 Feb 1849. Scott thanks Routh for sending him a fifth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He reports again on the poor state of his eyes. Fol. 316: Letter from Robert Scott (address, South Luffenham, Stamford) to Martin Routh, 31 May 1852. Scott thanks Routh for sending him his latest book (Routh’s new edition of the memoirs of Bishop Burnet). Fol. 317: Letter from Robert Scott (address, South Luffenham, Stamford) to Martin Routh, 13 Nov 1852. Scott apologises that his letter thanking Routh for his latest book has gone astray, and thanks him a second time, now enclosing a little volume of his sermons that he has just published. Fol. 318: Letter from Robert Scott (address, South Luffenham, Stamford) to Martin Routh, 29 Jun 1853. Scott asks Routh to support him in his candidature for the vacancy of the Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity. Fol. 319: Letter from Robert Scott (address, South Luffenham, Stamford) to Martin Routh, 8 Dec 1853. Scott thanks Routh for his latest publication. He MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 233

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MC:PR30/1/C4/6 (con.) apologises that he could not see Routh when he was last in Oxford, but his wife’s health meant that he could not stay any longer than was necessary. Fol. 320: Letter from Robert Scott (address, Balliol College) to Martin Routh, 19 Sep 1854. Scott congratulates Routh on his birthday, and discusses, as Routh had asked him to, the text of a passage from the works of St. Peter of Alexandria. Fol. 321: Letter from William Scott (1813–72; clergyman). Fol. 321: Letter from William Scott (address, Hoxton, near London) to Martin Routh, 3 Jul 1847. Scott sends Routh a copy of the first volume of his edition of the works of William Laud. He also thanks Routh for lending him 21 tracts about Laud, which he lists. Fol. 322: Letter from William Selwyn (1806–75; clergyman). Fol. 322: Letter from William Selwyn (address, Melbourn Royston) to Martin Routh, 29 Sep 1852. Selwyn thanks Routh for sending him a tract (an extract from his Reliquiae Sacrae). Fols. 323–326: Letters from William Sewell (1804–74; matr. Merton 1822; Fellow of Exeter 1827–74). Fol. 323: Letter from William Sewell (address, Exeter College) to Martin Routh, 26 Jan 1841. Sewell thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the second edition of his. Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula. Fol. 324: Letter from William Sewell (address, St. Peter’s College, Radley) to Martin Routh, 15 Jun 1847. Sewell recommends Mr. Singleton, the first Warden of Radley, to Routh, and also thanks Routh warmly for his agency in persuading his sister Sophia Sheppard to give the new school £1000. Fol. 325: Letter from William Sewell (address, Exeter College) to Martin Routh, 24 May 1852. Sewell thanks Routh for sending him his latest book. Fol. 326: Letter from William Sewell (address, St. Peter’s College, Radley) to Martin Routh, 15 Dec 1853. Sewell thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his latest publication. He reports on the happy state of Radley College, after a difficult few years. Fol. 327: Letter possibly from Louis Shadwell (d. 1849; matr. St. John’s College, Cambridge, 1828). Fol. 327: Letter from Louis Shadwell (address, Magdalen College) to Martin Routh, 23 Oct 1845. Shadwell sends Routh the text of the epitaph to Richard Berns (first Vice-President of Magdalen College, d. 1499) in the College Chapel. Fol. 328: Letter possibly from Henry Sheppherd (unidentified). Fol. 328: Letter from an almost illegible correspondent, thought to be Henry Sheppherd by John Bloxam (address, [illegible] House) to an unidentified address, 29 Jul 1805. Sheppherd sends his correspondent a letter to pass on to Routh about an unspecified vacancy at Oxford. Fols. 329–30: Letters from John Sinclair (1797–1875; clergyman). Fol. 329: Letter from John Sinclair (address, 133 George Street, Edinburgh) to Martin Routh, 28 Jan 1833. Sinclair sends Routh an essay on church patronage, and expresses his concern at the growth of the belief that the people should choose their own minister. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 234

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MC:PR30/1/C4/6 (con.) Fol. 330: Letter from John Sinclair (address, Vicarage, Kensington) to Martin Routh, 17 Jun (no year given; after 1844, when Sinclair was appointed archdeacon of Middlesex). Sinclair ask Routh to comment on some papers relating to an ecclesiastical dispute in Braintree, and asking if Routh can supply some aid. Fol. 331: Letter from S. [?] Smith (unidentified). Fol. 331: Letter from S.? Smith (address, Durham) to Martin Routh, 21 Apr 1833. Smith thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his edition of Bishop Burnett’s history. Fol. 332: Letter from John Pye Smith (1774–1851; Congregationalist Minister). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/12 Fol. 10 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 332: Letter from J. Pye Smith (address, Homerton) to Martin Routh, 26 Jul 1832. Pye Smith thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula. Fols. 333–336: Letters from George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758–1834; politician and book collector). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/12 Fol. 17 and MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 Fols. 19–20 & 48–49 for other letters to and from this correspondent. Fol. 333: Letter from Earl Spencer (address, Althorp) to Martin Routh, 29 Dec 1821 . Spencer sends Routh a letter from Lord Hardwicke about Hardwicke’s copy of Burnet’s history of his own times, which Spencer hopes will come to Routh on loan quite soon. Fol. 334: Letter from Earl Spencer (address, Ryde) to Martin Routh, 4 Aug 1827. Spencer thanks Routh for a letter about the recent Demyship election, in which a protégé of his was not elected. Fol. 335: Letter from Earl Spencer (address, Althorp) to Martin Routh, 18 Mar 1833. Spencer thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his edition of Burnet’s history of his own times. Fol. 336: Letter from Earl Spencer (address, Ryde) to Martin Routh, 21 Jun 1833. Spencer thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the additional notes of Bishop Burnet. Fol. 337: Letter from Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815–81; Fellow of University College 1838–51 and Dean of Westminster 1864–81). Fol. 337: Letter from Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (address, University College) to Martin Routh, 3 Dec (no year given). Stanley encloses a letter from Mr. Bancroft, the late American minister. He hopes to call on Routh to deliver some books. See MC:PR30/1/C4/1 Fol. 15 above, a letter from Bancroft himself, dated October 1852. Fols. 338–339: Letters from Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799–1869; Prime Minister 1852, 1858–9 and 1866–8). Fol. 338: Letter from the Earl of Derby (address, St. Leonards) to Martin Routh, 25 Jun 1853. Derby thanks Routh for the gift of an unspecified book by him. Fol. 339: Letter from the Earl of Derby (address, Knowsley) to Martin Routh, 5 Dec 1853. Derby thanks Routh for a gift, presumably of his Tres breves Tractatus, which was dedicated to Derby. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 235

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MC:PR30/1/C4/6 (con.) Fols. 340–341: Letters from Thomas Stevens (1809–88; clergyman and founder of Bradfield College). Fol. 340: Letter from Thomas Stevens (address, Rectory, Bradfield) to Martin Routh, 8 Jan 1849. Stevens thanks Routh for a donation to the Berkshire Clery Widows and Orphans Charity. Fol. 341: Letter from Thomas Stevens (address, Rectory, Bradfield) to Martin Routh, 20 Apr 1854. Stevens thanks Routh for sending him an unspecified book (his Tres breves Tractatus?). Fol. 342: Letter from David Alphonso Talboys (1789/90–1840; publisher and translator). Fol. 342: Letter from D. A. Talboys (address, High Street) to Martin Routh, 2 Jun 1831. Talboys sends Routh an essay for his comments, and thanks Routh for his encouragement to date. Fols. 343–344: Letters from Thomas Thorp (1797–1877; clergyman). Fol. 343: Letter from Thomas Thorp (address, Kemerton, Tewkesbury) to Martin Routh, 4 Jan 1847. Thorp thanks Routh for a donation towards the restoration of the round church at Cambridge. Fol. 344: Letter from Thomas Thorp (address, Trinity College, Cambridge, written on headed notepaper of the Cambridge Camden Society) to Martin Routh, 7 May 1842. Thorp invites Routh to become an Honorary Member of the Camden Society. Fol. 345: Letter from Mr. Torre (unidentified). Fol. 345: Letter from Mr. Torre (address, Leamington, Warks.) to Martin Routh, 5 Nov 1845. Torre sends Routh a copy of his Latin translation of Bishop Heber’s poem Palestine. Fol. 346: Letter from Samuel Prideaux Tregelles (1813–75; biblical scholar). Fol. 346: Letter from S. Prideaux Tregelles (address, 6 Portland Square, Plymouth) to Martin Routh, 3 Sep 1851. Tregelles sends Routh a book he has just published about the Jansenists. He remembers fondly a meeting he had with Routh. Fols. 347–348: Letters from Richard Valpy (1754–1836; schoolmaster) and (probably) his son Abraham John Valpy (1786–1854; classical scholar and printer). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/12 Fols. 37–43 and MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 Fol. 35 for other letters from members of this family. Fol. 347: Letter from R. Valpy (address not given) to Martin Routh, 11 Sep 1810 or 1811?). Valpy sends Routh the texts of three poems unsuccessfully admitted for an unspecified Oxford prize (the Newdigate?). Fol. 348: Letter from Mr. Valpy (address Tookes Court) to Martin Routh, 15 Oct 1814. Valpy sends Routh a copy of a recent issue of the Classical Journal, with an article by him in it. This is written in a different hand from Fol. 347, and the context suggests that the writer is Abraham. Fol. 349: Letter from John Wood Warton (unidentified). Fol. 349: Letter from John Wood Warton (address, Vicarge, West Tarring) to Martin Routh, 5 Jan 1839. In having to contact Magdalen on an unspecified matter, Warton expresses his high regard for Routh (perhaps with regard to recommending someone for a choristership or Demyship?). Routh has scribbled MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 236

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MC:PR30/1/C4/6 (con.) a draft reply. Fols. 350–352: Letters from Alexander Watson (1815/16–65; clergyman). Fol. 350: Letter from Alexander Watson (address, The Vicarage, St. Mary Church) to Martin Routh, 25 Feb 1854. Watson asks Routh for a contribution to the repairs of his church. Fol. 351: Letter from Alexander Watson (address, The Vicarage, St. Mary Church) to Martin Routh, 7 Jul 1854. Watson has read Routh’s latest tract, and reports on the forthcoming consecration of the restored chancel of his church. Fol. 352: Letter from Alexander Watson (address, The Vicarage, St. Mary Church) to Martin Routh, 26 Jul 1854. Watson renews his thanks to Routh for a fresh contribution towards the repairs of his church. Fols. 353–355: Letters from David Williams (d. 1860; Headmaster of Winchester College 1823–35 and Warden of New College 1840–60). Fol. 353: Letter from David Williams (address, the Close, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 5 Aug 1852. Williams discusses the nomination to a scholarship at Winchester of a son of Routh’s nephew Robert. In the light of Routh’s kindness to his daughter Mary (married to the Vice-President of the College), Williams promises to put a good word in. Fol. 354: Letter from David Williams (address, New College) to “Mr. Dancer”, 31 May 1845. Williams encloses an extracts from some statutes (of New College?) on the question of a stipend for a headmaster. Some extracts relating to this subject have been copied onto the letter in another hand. Fol. 355: MS extract from Daniel Williams’s Evidences of Christianity, Vol. I. Williams discusses a passage in Eusebius, and Routh’s analysis of it. Fols. 356–357: Letters from William Windham (1750–1810; politician). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/10 Fol. 9 and MC:PR30/1/C4/12 Fols. 50–71 for other letters between Routh and this correspondent. Fol. 356: Letter from William Windham (address, Pall Mall) to Martin Routh, 27 Apr 1807. Lady Anson has asked Windham to recommend to Routh the son of Mr. Bracken for a Demyship. He also discusses attitudes to Catholicism in Oxford, which explains why he has decided not to stand for election there (Windham was supportive of Catholic emancipation). Fol. 357: Letter from William Windham (address, Sonning) to Martin Routh, Monday 29 Oct (1804?). Windham hopes to meet Routh at Reading soon. Fols. 358–360: Letters from Christopher Wordsworth (1807–85; Bishop of Lincoln). Fol. 358: Letter from Christopher Wordsworth (address, Bodleian Library) to Martin Routh, 4 Aug 1843. Wordsworth sends Routh a letter from Sir Thomas Phillipps, and promises to tell him about some MSS which he is about to see. Fol. 359: Letter from Christopher Wordsworth (address, Cloisters, Westminster Abbey) to Martin Routh, 7 Apr 1853. Wordsworth thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his Opuscula. Fol. 360: Letter from Christopher Wordsworth (address, Cloisters, Westminster Abbey) to Martin Routh, 23 Nov 1853. Wordsworth discusses Routh’s views on St. Irenaeus. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 237

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MC:PR30/1/C4/6 (con.) Fol. 361: Letter from Mr. Yates (unidentified). Fol. 361: Letter from Mr. Yates (address, St. Mary’s Vicarage, Reading) to Martin Routh, 1 Jul 1852. Yates thanks Routh for sending him an unspecified treatise. Fol. 362: Letter from John Young (1781–1852). Fol. 362: Letter from John Young (address, Methley, Yorks.) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul 1807. Young sends Routh a book prepared by his father, also named John (John Young, 1746/7–1820, Professor of Greek at Glasgow, 1774–1820). See MC:PR30/1/C4/12 fols. 76–77 for letters from John Young Sr. Fol. 363: Letter from Edward Cooper Woollcombe (d. 1880; Fellow of Balliol 1838–80). Fol. 363: Letter from E. C. Woollcombe (address, Balliol) to Martin Routh, 22 Nov (year not given). Woollcombe asks if an American called J. H. Alexander and his wife could attend Chapel at Magdalen that afternoon.

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Fol. 1: Letter from John Charles James Hoskyns Abrahall (d. 1876; matr. Wadham 1817). Fol. 1: Letter from J. C. J. Hoskyns Abrahall (address, Brightwell near Tetsworth, Oxon.) to Martin Routh, 25 Feb 1826. Abrahall (who had applied unsuccessfully for a place at Magdalen, and instead went to Wadham) asks Routh for a testimonial for the Mastership of Bruton Free Grammar School in Somerset. There are some notes by Routh about the letter on the back of it, suggesting that he was minded to write a testimonial. Fols. 2–5: Letters from Montagu Bertie, 5th Earl of Abingdon (1784–1854). See MC:PR30/1/C4/1 Fol. 1 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 2: Letter from Lord Abingdon (address, Wytham) to Martin Routh, 19 Jan 1826. Abingdon thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Bishop Burnet’s history. Fol. 3: Letter from Lord Abingdon (address, Wytham) to Martin Routh, 9 Feb 1833. Abingdon thanks Routh for sending him a copy of a new edition of Bishop Burnet’s history. Fol. 4: Letter from Lord Abingdon (address, Wytham) to Martin Routh, 13 Dec 1842. Abingdon reports on his eldest son’s health after falling from a horse. Fol. 5: Letter from Lord Abingdon (address, Wytham) to Martin Routh, 17 Mar 1853. Abingdon reports on the sickness and death of his youngest son Brownlow Bertie, when at sea. Fol. 6: Letter from Mr. Anstruther (unidentified). Fol. 6: Letter from Mr. Anstruther (no initial given; address, London) to Martin Routh, 25 Jan (postmarked 1834). Anstruther (whose handwriting rivals Routh’s in its illegibility) appears to thank Routh for some unspecified activity in relation to the Church. Fol. 7: Letter from Charles Assey (b. 1779/80; matr. St. Alban Hall 1819). Fol. 7: Letter from Mr. Assey (address, Alban Hall) to Martin Routh, 14 Jan 1820. Assey thanks Routh for an unspecified present, identified by Routh in a MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 238

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MC:PR30/1/C4/7 (con.) note on the letter as an edition of Thucydides. Fol. 8: Letter from Bulkeley Bandinel (1781–1861: Bodley’s Librarian 1813–60). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/9 Fol. 38, MC:PR30/1/C4/1 Fols. 16–17, and MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 Fols. 17–18 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 8: Letter from Bulkeley Bandinel (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated. Bandinel sents Routh an index to the Ormond and Carte papers held in the Bodleian Library, offering to make a precis of any document in them which Routh would like to have. Fol. 9: Letter from John Cleaver Banks (d. 1845; matr. Clare College, Cambridge, 1783). Fol. 9: Letter from John Cleaver Banks (address, West Wickham near Croydon) to Martin Routh, 18 Jun 1792. Banks reports that Richard Porson (1759–1808; classical scholar). will have to resign his College Fellowship because he will not take holy orders. He and some of Porson’s friends are raising money to support him, and asks Routh to join them. Fol. 10: Letter from Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820; naturalist and patron of science). Fol. 10: Letter from Sir Joseph Banks (address, Soho Square) to Martin Routh, 11 Aug 1815. Banks thanks Routh for an unspecified present, and in return offers Routh an unnamed book. On the back of the letter is a draft reply from Routh, which suggests that Banks had sent him an account of the Prince Regent’s visit to Oxford. Routh has also written out a passage of Greek on this letter, and a draft letter to the Bishop of St. Davids (Thomas Burgess, Bishop there 1803–35) about a College tenant. Fols. 11–38a: Letters from Edmund Henry Barker (1788–1839; classical scholar and and friend of Samuel Parr). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/1 fol. 18 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 11: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 18 Nov 1823. Barker recommends to Routh Edward Blaquiere (1779–1832, author and philhellene), a member of the Greek Committee, to seek Routh’s advice on how to raise money for the Greek cause in Oxford. See also fol. 51 below. Fol. 12: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 16 Apr 1824. Barker asks Routh to make a contribution towards what he called the ‘suffering Greek patriots’. Fol. 13: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 1 Jun 1826. Barker is applying for a librarian’s post at the British Museum, and asks Routh to send him a testimonial. On the back of the letter Routh has drafted a note on textual matters. Fol. 14: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 7 Jul 1827. Barker had sent Routh two letters from Uvedale Price on the pronunciation of Greek, and wonders what Routh thinks of them. He discusses some of his own scholarly work, including an index to the Greek Thesaurus. Fol. 15: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 20 Jul 1827. Barker discusses again the index to his Greek Thesaurus, as well as some other literary subjects. Fol. 16: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 239

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MC:PR30/1/C4/7 (con.) 25 Sep 1827. Barker discusses some works of Richard Bentley, and also some papers by Samuel Parr on William Paley. Fol. 17: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 27 Nov 1827. Barker continues to discuss Parr on Paley, and Uvedale Price’s works, as well as the index to the Greek Thesaurus. He also discusses attitudes towards Richard Porson. Fol. 18: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 29 Feb 1828. Barker sends Routh a copy of his reprint of an edition of Anthon’s edition of John Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary. He hopes that he can encourage colleagues at Magdalen to purchase copies. He regrets that Routh has mislaid the two letters from Uvedale Price. Fol. 19: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 28 Mar 1827. Barker understands that a friend of his has delivered to Routh his notes on the letters of “Junius”, and seeks Routh’s opinions on their authorship. He also hopes that some of Samuel Parr’s papers on Sophocles can be published. Fol. 20: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 12 Aug 1828. Barker sends Routh copies of his book on “Junius”, and his Parriana, a collection of papers by and about Samuel Parr. He also reports on progress on his index to the Greek Thesaurus. Fol. 21: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 2 Sep 1828. Barker continues to discuss the character of Samuel Parr, and other people’s accounts of him. He reports that sales of his edition of Lempriere are going well, but could go better. Fol. 22: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 20 Feb 1829. Barker sends Routh a book by him which had been sold among Samuel Parr’s effects. He expresses hopes for a negotiation with the Clarendon Press over a new English Dictionary. Fol. 23: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 9 Sep 1829. Barker sends Routh some more books, including Volume 2 of Parriana. He reports on more sales of his edition of Lempriere. Fol. 24: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 30 Sep 1831. Barker thanks Routh for having himself and the College Library subscribe to his edition of Webster’s English Dictionary, and reports on sales of it. He also discusses his interest in latitudinarian divines. Fol. 25: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 19 Jun 1832. Barker thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula. He reports on his researches into latitudinarian divines, and on his other literary projects in hand, including a work on Richard Porson. Fol. 26: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 23 Jan 1833. Barker asks Routh for a testimonial as part of his application for the Mastership of Stamford School. He reports on a second edition of his reworking of Lempriere, and his researches into Porson. On the back of the letter is a draft of Routh’s testimonial for Barker addressed to the Mayor of Stamford. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 240

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MC:PR30/1/C4/7 (con.) Fol. 27: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 12 Apr 1834. Barker expresses his regret that Richard Heber’s great library will have to be sold. He wonders about moving to Oxford to work as a private tutor, to improve his income. He is about to publish a new Latin dictionary, and discusses his finances. Fol. 28: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 2 May 1834. Barker plans to stand as a candidate for the Professorship in Greek at Glasgow, and asks whether Routh will write him a testimonial. Fol. 29: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Thetford) to Martin Routh, 13 May 1835. Barker discusses his failure to find a publisher for his Latin Dictionary, and the poor state of his finances, which may mean that he will have to sell his library. He therefore asks Routh to join his friends in lending him some money to tide him over and prevent him from having to carry out the sale. Fol. 30: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, St. Paul’s Coffee House, London) to Martin Routh, 6 Jun 1835. Barker sends condolences to Routh on the death of his brother. He reports on his own financial problems, and how to solve them. He has sold some of his books, and received financial aid from various friends. Fol. 31: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, St. Paul’s Coffee House, London) to Martin Routh, 13 Jun 1835. Barker has applied for the Editorship of the General Biographical Dictionary, and discusses his financial affairs once again. He mentions a possible candidate for a choristership (unnamed). He discusses the sale of Heber’s library. Fol. 32: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, St. Paul’s Coffee House, London) to Martin Routh, 23 Jun 1835. Barker thanks Routh for sending him £10. He discusses the sale of Heber’s library. Fol. 33: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Jackson’s Coffee House, Bow Street, Covent Garden, London) to Martin Routh, 27 Oct 1836. Barker reports on his latest books, which are due out soon. He has presented a petition to Parliament to allow him to recatalogue the classics books in the British Museum. He once again discusses his shaky finances, and asks Routh to lend him £50. Fol. 34: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, The Fleet, Faringdon Street, London) to Martin Routh, 24 Jun 1837. Barker explains how he has ended up in a debtors’ prison. He asks Routh to help him pay his way out. Fol. 35: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, The Fleet) to Martin Routh, 29 Jun 1837. Barker thanks Routh for his two letters, including ‘the contents of the former’, which suggests that Routh had sent him some money. Fol. 36: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, The Fleet Prison, London, Fol. 15 in Fair) to Martin Routh, 13 Oct 1837. Barker discusses his financial affairs with some optimism, and hopes to be released soon. He also discusses his current literary projects. Fol. 37: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, The Fleet Prison, No. 15 in Fair) to Martin Routh, 21 Nov 1837. Barker thanks Routh for sending him on MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 241

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MC:PR30/1/C4/7 (con.) behalf of Magdalen College £20. Fol. 38: Letter from Edmund Henry Barker (address, Jackson’s Coffee House, Bow Street) to Martin Routh, 19 Jan 1839. Barker discusses his new literary projects, and hopes that Routh can send him some more money. Fol. 38a: Second sheet of a letter from Edmund Henry Barker (no address given) to Martin Routh, date lost (c. 1827). Barker discusses the letters of Junius. He also reports on his unsuccessful attempt to apply for the Latin professorship at London University (which took place in 1827), and his suggestion to the university that they found a professorship of Greek and Latin philology - and appoint him to it. Fols. 39–40: Letters from Mr. Barnes (unidentifiable). Fol. 39: Letter from Barnes (first names illegible; address, Exeter) to Martin Routh, 16 Aug 1824. Barnes has been asked by the Dean of Exeter to send Routh a copy of an MS in Exeter Cathedral Library of a text by Abbot Aelfric, but regrets to say that he can find no such book there. Fol. 40: Letter from Barnes (first names illegible; address, Exeter) to Martin Routh, 23 Aug 1824. Barnes confirms that he has checked an MS which Routh asked him to examine, and confirms that this is not quite the text he had hoped to see. Fol. 41: Letter from John Bartlam (possibly John Bartlam, matr. Merton 1789). Fol. 41: Letter from John Bartlam (address, Alcester) to Martin Routh, 27 Oct 1806. Bartlam regrets that he cannot agree to Routh’s request to support William Windham in the next University election. Fol. 42: Letter from Charles Barton (possibly Charles Barton, matr. Christ Church 1768). Fol. 42: Letter from Charles Barton (address, St. Andrew’s Holborn) to Martin Routh, 12 May 1794. Barton discusses a forthcoming Festival at St. Paul’s, for which he will act as Routh’s deputy, in particular whether Routh has any friends to whom he would like to have tickets sent. Fol. 43: Letter from Charles Bathurst (politician; 1754–1831). Fol. 43: Letter from Charles Bathurst (address, Cleve-Dale near Bristol) to Martin Routh, 14 Jan 1793. Bathurst reports that the current Speaker of the House of Commons would be interested in standing for the University of Oxford, should a vacancy occur, and hopes that Routh would support him. Fols. 44–46: Letters from James Bailey (1791–1864; classical scholar). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/1 Fols. 6–13 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 44: Letter from James Bailey (address, 7 Carlton Street, New Peckham, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 18 Aug 1846. Bailey reports that the Bishop of Durham has encouraged his friends to lobby the Prime Minister to give him a pension, and hopes that Routh will add his name to the list of his supporters. Fols. 45–6: Letter from James Bailey (address, 7 Carlton Street, New Peckham, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 6 Feb 1849. Bailey thanks Routh for sending him £10. He expresses his thanks that many people have been so kind to him, not least because some years ago he offended someone, now a Bishop, by writing an article about him many years ago, whose anger he thinks has blighted his career ever MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 242

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MC:PR30/1/C4/7 (con.) since. [the first sheet of this letter is bound into this book as Fol. 46, and the second sheet as Fol. 45] Fol. 47: Letter from Edward Berens (matr. Christ Church 1795). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/1 Fols. 22–25 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 47: Letter from Archdeacon Berens (address, Shrivenham) to Martin Routh, 13 Feb 1841. Berens thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his latest book (presumably the second edition of Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula). Fol. 48: Letter from James Beaven (matr. St. Edmund Hall 1820). Fol. 48: Letter from James Beaven (address, Leigh, Uttoxeter) to Martin Routh, 16 Aug 1841. Beaver asks Routh to support him in applying for the vacant living of Draycott. Fol. 49: Letter from J. Bishop (unknown). Fol. 49: Letter from J. Bishop (address, Mells) to Martin Routh, 21 July (year not given; c. 1806?). Bishop asks Routh to support William Windham (1750–1810; politician) in a forthcoming election (Windham considered standing for Oxford University in 1806). Fol. 50: Letter from William Blakeney (father of Robert Blakeney matr. Magdalen 1785) Fol. 50: Letter from William Blakeney(address, Bath) to his son Robert Blakeney at Magdalen College, 8 Nov 1786. Blakeney thanks his son for his letter, and offers him some suggestions for reading. Fol. 51: Letter from Edward Blaquiere (1779–1832, author and philhellene). Fol. 51: Letter from Edward Blaquiere (address, Gloucester) to Martin Routh, 31 Dec 1823. Blaquiere asks Routh to give his support to the Greek cause. See also Fol. 11 above. Fols. 52–58: Letters from Philip Bliss (1787–1857; Registrar of Oxford 1824–53 and Principal of St. Mary’s Hall 1848–57). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/9 for a scrapbook of documents relating to Routh which was evidently assembled by Bliss, and MC:PR30/1/C1/2 Fol. 44, MC:PR30/1/C1/4 Fols. 51 & 72, MC:PR30/1/C2/9 Fol. 22, MC:PR30/1/C4/1 Fols. 27–32, MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 Fols. 3, 38 & 54 and MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 No. 116 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 52: Letter from Philip Bliss (address not given) to Martin Routh, “Friday evening”. Bliss returns a book to Routh, apparently Alfonso Chacon’s Historia Utriusque Belli Dacici a Trajano Caesare Gesti (Rome, 1576) which discusses Trajan’s Column (here called a ‘pillar’), a copy of which is in the Routh Library at Durham. Fol. 53: Letter from Philip Bliss (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 19 Nov 1824. Bliss thanks Routh for his support in his successful campaign to be elected Registrar of Oxford. Fol. 54: Letter from Philip Bliss (address not given) to Martin Routh, 4 Mar 1831. Bliss discusses a Restoration comedy, Sir Courtly Nice, or It cannot be by John Crowne. Fol. 55: Letter from Philip Bliss (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 10 Oct 1833. Bliss writes about the death of Richard Heber, describing his last meeting with him, and giving an account of Heber’s last hours. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 243

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MC:PR30/1/C4/7 (con.) Fol. 56: Letter from Philip Bliss (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 18 Oct 1833. Bliss passes on an account of Richard Heber’s funeral, and reports that no will has yet been found. Fol. 57: Letter from Philip Bliss (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 21 Oct 1833. Bliss proposes the brother of one Mr. Dodd of Queen’s College as a possible curate for Routh. Heber’s will has still not been found. Fol. 58: Letter from Philip Bliss (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 18 Apr 1836. Bliss passes on news of plans for the vote on a statute intended to restrict the powers of R. D. Hampden, Professor of Divinity. Fol. 59: Letter from either John Henry Martin Bohn (c. 1757–1843; bookseller) or his son Henry Bohn (1796–1884). Fol. 59: Letter from H. (?) Bohn (address, London) to Martin Routh, 9 Aug 1824. Bohn sends Routh some manuscripts for his inspection, to see if he wants to buy them. He discusses the price of some other books that Routh had expressed interest in. Fol. 60: Letter from John Francis Browne Bohun (d. 1836; D. 1786–91). Fol. 60: Letter from J. F. B. Bohun (address, Blackheath) to Martin Routh, 2 Apr 1832. Bohun asks Routh for an engraving of his picture. Fols. 61–65: Letters from William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850; Church of England clergyman and poet). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/14 fol. 7 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 61: Letter from W. L. Bowles (address, Bremhill) to Martin Routh, 13 Jul 1824. Bowles recommends one Mr. Hughes, the son of one his neighbours, for an unspecified vacancy at Magdalen (a James Henry Hughes was indeed elected a Demy that year). Fol. 62: Letter from W. L. Bowles (address, Wells) to Martin Routh, 18 Jun 1825. Bowles invites Routh to subscribe to a forthcoming history of the monastery of Glastonbury, written by Richard Warner. Fol. 63: Letter from W. L. Bowles (address, Bremhill) to Martin Routh, 26 Nov 1825. Bowles thanks Routh for subscribing to Warner’s work (a copy of which is in the Routh Library in Durham). Fol. 64: Letter from W. L. Bowles (address, Bremhill) to Martin Routh, 27 Jun 1832. Bowles thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his latest book. He hopes to meet Routh soon. Fol. 65: Letter from W. L. Bowles (address, Canonry House, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 26 Jan 1835. Bowles thanks Routh for recommending one Mr. King to an unspecified position, but reports that they already have several candidates for this post. Fol. 66: Letter from Sir John Bowring (1792–1872; politician, diplomatist, and writer). Fol. 66: Letter from John Bowring (address, Greek Committee Room, London) to Martin Routh, 12 Mar 1824. Bowring thanks Routh for showing his support for the Greek cause. He discusses the Greek Committee’s current projects in Greece. Fols. 67–68: Letters from William Boycatt the elder (d. 1830; matr. Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, 1772, and Fellow there 1776–96, and friend of Martin Routh). See MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 244

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MC:PR30/1/C4/7 (con.) MC:PR30/1/C1/1 Fols. 33 & 42, MC:PR30/1/C1/3 Fol. 12, MC:PR30/1/C2/11 Fols. 24–35, and MC:PR30/4/C1/1 Fol. 38 for other letters from William the elder and his son William the younger (1798–1871; D. 1816–29) Fol. 67: Letter from William Boycatt (address, Burgh) to Martin Routh, 10 Sep 1808. Boycatt sends Routh a sermon which he has just published. Fol. 68: Letter from William Boycatt (address, Burgh) to Martin Routh, 9 Jan 1811. Boycatt passes on a copy of a letter sent to him from the Bishop of Gloucester concerning his son’s right to a place at New College by reason of his kinship to William of Wykeham. He discusses the trouble he is having in obtaining a copy of a pedigree to prove his claim. Fol. 69: Letter from William Bragge (unidentified). Fol. 69: Letter from William Bragge (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 11 Dec 1829. Bragge sends Routh a document from the papers of the late Charles Cooper (d. 1819) relating to Lord Chancellor Cowper, which he hopes Routh will appreciate. Fol. 70: Letter from Walter Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch and 7th Duke of Queensberry (1806–84). Fol. 70: Letter from the Duke of Buccleuch (address, Bowhill, Selkirk) to Martin Routh, 18 Sep 1854. The duke belatedly thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Routh’s edition of Bishop Burnet’s memoir. Fol. 71: Letter from George Burges (1785/6–1864; classical scholar). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/1 Fols. 40–41 for other letters from this correspondent on the same subject. Fol. 71: Letter from George Burges (address, 20A Bayham Street, Camden Town, London) to Martin Routh, undated (1844?). Burgess sends Routh a piece of work by a young scholar called Buckley (Theodore Buckley, 1825–56, classical scholar, whose edition of Apuleius, de Deo Socratis, was published in 1844, and of which there is a copy in the Routh Library in Durham). Burges described Buckley’s life to date, and his struggles to rise from a humble background. He hopes that funds can be found to get him a place at Oxford. Fols. 72–90: Letters from Charles Burney (1757–1817; schoolmaster and book collector). See also MC:PR30/1/C1/3 Fol. 33 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 72: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Fair Lawn House) to Martin Routh, 27 Apr 1790. Burney seeks Routh’s support in applying to the Archbishop of Canterbury to be awarded an MA. Burney had been expelled from Cambridge in 1778 for stealing books from the University Library, and spent many years trying to have this sentence reversed. Eventually, in 1808, he was successful. Fol. 73: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Brighthelmstone) to Martin Routh, 8 Jul 1790. Burney regrets to report that the Archbishop has refused his petition, but thanks Routh for his support. N. 74: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Fair Lawn House, Hammersmith) to Martin Routh, 30 May 1791. Burney asks Routh to support him in his application to become Headmaster of Charterhouse. Fol. 75: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Fair Lawn House, Hammersmith) to Martin Routh, 8 Jun 1791. Burney regrets to tell Routh that his application to MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 245

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MC:PR30/1/C4/7 (con.) Charterhouse proved unsuccessful. Fol. 76: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Fair Lawn House, Hammersmith) to Martin Routh, 14 Nov 1792. Burney asks Routh to recommend him someone to act as second master in his school. Fol. 77: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Margate) to Martin Routh, 30 Sep 1793. Burney recommends to Routh one of his pupils, the son of a Mr. Ansley, who wishes to come up to Oxford. (A Benjamin Ansley matriculated from Queen’s College on 1 November 1793) Fol. 78: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Greenwich, Kent) to Martin Routh, 10 Mar 1794. Burney had been lent an MS of Photius’s Lexicon which had come from Queen’s College. The manuscript had then been returned to the College, and Burney now asks Routh if he can arrange for him to borrow it once more. Fol. 79: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Greenwich, Kent) to Martin Routh, 19 Mar 1794. Burney has now obtained the MS of Photius, and thanks Routh for arranging this for him. Fol. 80: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Greenwich, Kent) to Martin Routh, 8 Nov 1794. Burney reports that an annuity has been arranged for Richard Porson (1759–1808, classical scholar), and asks Routh to confirm to whom he sent his contribution. Fol. 81: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Greenwich, Kent) to Martin Routh, 13 Nov 1794. Burney reports that about £1400 has been collected for Porson, and it has now been invested on his behalf. He thanks Routh again for arranging the loan of the Photius MS. Fol. 82: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Greenwich, Kent) to Martin Routh, 26 Mar 1803. Burney has just overseen the creation of a bust of his father, the musician Charles Burney (1726–1814), by the sculptor Joseph Nollekens (1737–1823), and he has had some casts made. He would like to present one to Oxford (since his father took his D. Mus. there), and seeks Routh’s advice on who to contact about arranging this. Fol. 83: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Greenwich, Kent) to Martin Routh, 15 Oct 1804. Burney recommends his son Charles Parr Burney to Routh, since he has just come up to Oxford. He will bring Routh a volume of Plato as a gift. Burney discreetly hopes that he may yet get an English MA. Fol. 84: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Greenwich, Kent) to Martin Routh, 14 Oct 1807. Burney reports that he is about to take holy orders, and expresses his delight at this news. Fol. 85: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Greenwich, Kent) to Martin Routh, 30 Dec 1807. Burney reports that he should be able to receive a degree from Cambridge next year. He asks Routh to write to any heads of Cambridge Colleges whom he knows to support his case. Fol. 86: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Greenwich, Kent) to Martin Routh, 12 Feb 1808. Burney reports on his progress in lobbying the heads of Cambridge Colleges to be awarded a degree. He reports that his son Charles Parr Burney is unhappy with his work, and asks Routh to encourage him. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 246

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MC:PR30/1/C4/7 (con.) Fol. 87: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Caius College, Cambridge) to Martin Routh, 10 Aug 1808. Burney reports that the Master and Fellows of Gonville and Caius College had passed a resolution to rescind an order passed on January 1778 against Burney (when he was expelled from Cambridge). He has therefore been spending time in his old College. He expresses his joy at this reversal of fortune. He also recommends a pupil of his called Churchill for Routh as a possible candidate for Magdalen (no such person came up to Magdalen). Fol. 88: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Greenwich, Kent) to Martin Routh, 31 Aug 1811. Burney asks Routh to confirm a bibliographical reference. He is about to be installed in his new living of St. Paul’s Deptford, and reports on the good progress of his son Charles Parr Burney as a schoolmaster. Fol. 89: Letter from Charles Burney (address, Althorp, Northampton) to Martin Routh, 14 Jan 1815. Burney looks forward to visiting Magdalen soon. He thanks Routh for sending him two volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 90: Letter from Charles Burney(address, RectoryHouse, Deptford) to Martin Routh, 24 Apr (year given on postmark as 1816). Burney expresses his pleasure at receiving the next volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fols. 91–98: Letters from Charles Parr Burney (1785–1864; son of Charles Burney above and godson of Samuel Parr; matr. Merton 1804). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/12 Fols. 93–95, MC:PR30/1/C2/13 Fol. 62, and MC:PR30/1/C4/1 Fols. 45–48 and no. 2 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 91: Letter from Charles Parr Burney (address, Greenwich) to Martin Routh, 13 Jun 1816. Burney sends Routh a copy of a sermon which he has just had published. Fol. 92: Letter from Charles Parr Burney (address, Rectory House, St. Paul’s Deptford) to Martin Routh, 1 Jan 1818. Burney reports on his father’s death. Fol. 93: Letter from Charles Parr Burney (address, Greenwich) to Martin Routh, 6 Feb 1826. Burney thanks Routh for his letter written after the resignation of Richard Heber from his parliamentary seat. He expresses his sorrow at this turn of events, and regrets that his duties at school may make it impossible to attend the subsequent by-election. Fol. 94: Letter from Charles Parr Burney (address, Greenwich) to Martin Routh, 24 Feb 1830. Burney passes on news to Routh of a publication of some annotations by Jonathan Swift in one of his books which Routh might like to know about. Fol. 95: Letter from Charles Parr Burney (address, Greenwich) to Martin Routh, 10 Mar 1830. Burney discusses once more the book with Jonathan Swift’s annotations, and where it might now be kept. Fol. 96: Letter from Charles Parr Burney (address, Greenwich) to Martin Routh, 8 Oct 1831. Burneyreports that a forthcoming edition of extracts from the Church Fathers has not yet gone to press. He hopes that they will meet soon. Fol. 97: Letter from Charles Parr Burney (address, Greenwich) to Martin Routh, 16 Feb 1833. Burney thanks Routh for sending him his latest book. He reports that his eldest son Charles will be coming up to Christ Church in May, and will MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 247

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MC:PR30/1/C4/7 (con.) present himself for the Demyship elections in July (Charles Burney (1815–1907) was indeed elected a Demy that year). Fol. 98: Letter from Charles Parr Burney (address, Greenwich) to Martin Routh, 31 Jan 1834. Burney hopes to come to Oxford soon. He reports that his son Charles is very happy at Magdalen. Fol. 99: Letter from Rachael Burton (unidentified). Fol. 99: Letter from Rachael Burton (address, New Bond Street) to Martin Routh, 3 May 1816. Burton mentions an unspecified book which she plans to send to Routh. She also reports on the gossip surrounding Princess Charlotte’s wedding. Fols. 100–101: Letters from Charles Butler (1750–1832; Roman Catholic layman and lawyer). Fol. 100: Letter from Charles Butler (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 16 Feb 1822. Butler proposes the publication of a new edition of Collins’ Commercium Epistolicum with the Clarendon Press, and asks Routh to support the idea. Fol. 101: Letter from Charles Butler (address, Lincolns Inn) to Martin Routh, 14 Sep 1815. Butler would be delighted if Routh can send him a particular book to read.

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Fol. 1: Letter from George Owen Cambridge (d. 1841: matr. Queen’s 1774; archdeacon of Middlesex and prebendary of Ely). Fol. 1: Letter from G. O. Cambridge (address, College, Ely) to Martin Routh, 8 Oct 1833. Cambridge understands that Routh is looking for a curate to serve Tilehurst, and recommends one Mr. Shortland to him to fill the vacancy. Fol. 2: Letter from Samuel Carter (d. 1832; matr. Trinity Cantab. 1770). Fol. 2: Letter from Samuel Carter (address, Fersfield Parsonage) to Martin Routh, 22 Jun 1816. Carter remembers being taught by Routh’s father, and now recommends one of his pupils, one Monro to Routh (no Monro came up to Magdalen at this time). Fol. 3: Letter possibly from Henry Francis Cary (1772–1844; translator). Fol. 3: Letter from Henry Cary (address, 8 Prospect Street, Reading) to Martin Routh, 22 Feb 1838. Cary sends Routh two volumes of the Catena Patrum on St. Matthew. Fol. 4: Letter from Edmund Castle (1698–1750; Master of Corpus Christi, Cambridge). Fol. 4: Letter from Edmund Castle (no address given) to “the Revd. Mr. Denne” (John Denne, 1693–1767, clergyman and Fellow of Corpus Christi, Cambridge), seemingly dated 16 Jul 1720 (or 1726). Castle discusses aspects of the theology of Origen. No explanation is given for the appearance of this document in the Routh Papers. Fol. 5: Letter from D. Chaloner (unidentified). Fol. 5: Letter from D. Chaloner (address, Bishop Auckland) to Martin Routh, 7 Dec 1789. Chaloner asks Routh to confirm whether Mrs. Thurlow had ever told MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 248

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MC:PR30/1/C4/8 (con.) him that he was engaged. Fols. 6–8: Letters from Septimus Collinson (1739–1827; Provost of Queen’s 1796–1827). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/11 no. 2 and MC:PR30/1/C3/2 fol. 39 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 6: Letter from Septimus Collinson (address, Holwell) to Martin Routh, 8 Sep 1796. Collinson has heard about the death of the Provost (of Queen’s) and has decided to put his name forward as his successor (which he duly became). Fol. 7: Letter from Septimus Collinson (address, Bristol) to Martin Routh, 9 Jul 1805. Collinson reports that a Mr. Richards wants to stand for the University (presumably as an MP). Fol. 7a: Letter from Septimus Collinson (no address given) to Martin Routh, 16 Apr 1807. Collinson encloses a print of a drawing of Queen’s College, as a tribute to Routh’s having been a member of it. Fol. 8: Letter from Septimus Collinson (no address given) to Martin Routh, “Monday 11 o’clock”. Collinson is prepared to act for the Regius Professor of Divinity in Parliament, but expresses his evident unease at this. Fol. 9: Letter from William Gifford Cookesley (1802–80; classical scholar). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/1 Fol. 70 for another letter from this correpondent. Fol. 9: Letter from W. G. Cookesley, assistant Master of Eton (address, Eton College) to Martin Routh, 27 Jul 1846. Eton would like to commission a bust of Henry Hammond for their upper school room, and Cookesley asks Routh if he will allow them to make a copy of the portrait of Hammond at Magdalen. Fol. 10: Letter from Edward Coleridge (1800–83; matr Corpus Christi 1818; F. Exeter 1823–6). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/1 Fols. 59–69 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 10: Letter from Edward Coleridge (address, Waring Place, Aldermaston, Newbury) to Martin Routh, “Feast of St. John the Evangelist & Sunday after Christmas” [27 Dec] 1846. Coleridge asks Routh whether anything has been done about copying the portrait of Henry Hammond. On the back of the letter is a draft (and well-nigh illegible) reply from Routh. Fol. 11: Letter from John Eveleigh (1748–1814; Provost of Oriel, 1781–1814). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/2 Fol. 129 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 11: Letter from the Provost of Oriel (address, Oriel College) to Martin Routh, 12 Oct 1814. The Provost (who must be John Eveleigh, who died in December that year) thanks Routh for sending him a copy of what must be Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 12: Letter from George Vernon Cotton (unidentified). Fol. 12: Letter from George Vernon Cotton (address, Guildford St., Russell Square) to Martin Routh, 2 Jun 1826. Cotton asks Routh if he has any information on his ancestors, Leonard and Alicia Lisle. He has been reading Routh’s edition of Burnet’s History, and wonders if Routh has any manuscript sources that might be useful. Routh’s draft reply is on the back of this letter. Fol. 13: Letter from Henry Cotton (1790–1879; ecclesiastical historian). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/1 Fols. 71–72 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 13: Letter from Henry Cotton (address, Thurles, Co. Tipperary) to Martin Routh, Feb 1851. Cotton draws attention to his new work, Fasti Ecclesiae MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 249

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MC:PR30/1/C4/8 (con.) Hibernicae, and invites Routh to order a copy. There is a copy in the Routh Library. Fol. 14: Letter from Sir Alexander Croke (1758–1842; lawyer and author). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/1 Fol. 76 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 14: Letter from Alexander Croke (address, Halifax, Nova Scotia) to Martin Routh, 29 Nov 1802. Croke seeks Routh’s advice in finding people to come and work at the Windsor University. Fols. 15–16: Letters from Alexander Crombie (1760–1840; philologist and schoolmaster). Fol. 15: Letter from Alexander Crombie (address, 12 York Terrace, Regents Park) to Martin Routh, 16 Jun [1832] Crombie thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula. Fol. 16: Letter from Alexander Crombie (address, 12 York Terrace, Regents Park) to Martin Routh, 19 Nov [year not given]. Crombie, at the recommendation of his friend Edmund Barker, sends Routh a copy of his latest (unspecified) book. Fol. 17: Letter from T.(?) Crompton (unidentified). Fol. 17: Letter from T.(?) Crompton (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated. Crompton sends Routh details of a Greek grammar published at Glasgow in 1780. Fols. 18–19: Letters from William Crowe (1745–1829; Public Orator for the University 1784–1829). Fol. 18: Letter from William Crowe (address, Pewsey) to Martin Routh, 26 Jun 1827. Crowe regrets that he may not be able to see Routh this year. Fol. 19: Letter from William Crowe (address, 35 Curzon Street) to Martin Routh, 22 Apr 1824. Crowe regrets that he will be unable to visit Routh at Tilehurst. He also seeks Routh’s advice on the meanings of the word dulcis. Fols. 20–21: Letters from John Davison (1777–1834; Fellow of Oriel 1798–1818). Fol. 20: Letter from Mr. Davison (address, Oriel College) to Martin Routh, “Monday morning”. Davison thanks Routh for lending him a copy of the Vulgate edition of the New Testament. Fol. 21: Letter from John Davison (address, Upton upon Severn) to Martin Routh, 18 Jun 1832. Davison thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula. Fols. 22–37: Letters from and to Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847; bibliographer). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/2 Fols. 81–101 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 22: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (no address given) to Martin Routh, dated 14 Jun 1810 on the back of the letter. Dibdin thanks Routh for commenting on a piece of his work, and passes on some news on his bibligraphic activities. He reports on reactions to the reply from the Edinburgh Review to Edward Copleston’s riposte to its original article attacking the University of Oxford. Fol. 23: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, Kensington) to Martin Routh, 4 Dec 1817. Dibdin thanks Routh for commenting on another piece of work by him. Fol. 24: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, “At Mr. Robinson’s”, High Street) to Martin Routh, 25 Jul 1808. Dibdin hopes to call on Routh the following day, and to discuss early English printed books with him. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 250

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MC:PR30/1/C4/8 (con.) Fol. 25: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, Kensington) to Martin Routh, 15 Feb 1813. Dibdin thanks Routh for sending him an edition of Juvenal and Persius, printed at Paris c. 1471. He promises to return it, and gives advice on its conservation (there is a copy of this edition in the Old Library at Magdalen College; presumably this is the book which Routh lent Dibdin). Fol. 26: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, Kensington) to Martin Routh, 4 Aug 1814. Dibdin thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 27: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, Kensington) to Martin Routh, 19 Aug 1814. A friend of Dibdin, Mr. Petrie, is producing a translation and commentary on the work of William of Malmesbury, and Dibdin asks whether the College could lend its manuscript of William’s work (MS. Lat. 172) to Petrie to help him in his research. Fol. 28: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (no address given) to Martin Routh, 1 Jul 1815. Dibdin discusses his forthcoming book The Bibliographical Decameron, and discusses Richard Heber: there are rumours that if one of the parliamentary seats for the University falls vacant, he will get one of them. Routh has written a draft reply on this letter, discussing Heber’s prospects. Fol. 29: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, Kensington) to Martin Routh, 18 Nov 1818. Dibdin thanks Routh for the fourth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He reports that he has just come back from travelling on the continent. Fol. 30: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, Kensington) to Martin Routh, 16 Nov 1821. Dibdin discusses the binding of a copy of his account of his tour of Europe which he has sent to Routh (and which appears not to be in the Routh Library in Durham). Fol. 31: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, Kensington) to Martin Routh, 22 Dec 1821. Dibdin promises to sent a copy of this account of his tour to Magdalen Library. He also discusses how to find an image of a “gothic parochial church” of the 13th or 14th century, and recommends Mr. Blore (Edward Blore, 1787–1879, antiquarian artist and architect). He looks forward to seeing Routh’s edition of Burnet published. Fol. 32: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, St. John’s College) to Martin Routh, 24 Feb (the year 1823 has been added in pencil). Dibdin asks to borrow Routh’s copy of “Gallandus” (presumably Pierre Galland’s Petri Castellani magni Franciae eleemosynarii vita (1674), of which there is a copy in the Routh Library). Fol. 33: Letter from Lord Grenville (William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville; 1759–1834; prime minister 1806–7 and Chancellor of the University of Oxford 1810–34; address, Dropmore) to Thomas Dibdin, 10 Oct 1827. Greville discusses an unspecified project of Dibdin’s. (See also MC:PR30/1/C1/4 Fol. 46–47 and MC:PR30/1/C4/9 Fols. 8–12 for other letters from Lord Grenville). Fol. 34: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, Wyndham Place) to Martin Routh, 26 Aug 1829. Dibdin discusses a prospectus for a forthcoming work (unspecified), and sends Routh a copy of a letter from Lord Grenville on the subject. He hopes MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 251

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MC:PR30/1/C4/8 (con.) that Grenville will offer his patronage to the project, which will involve the publication of three volumes. Fol. 35: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, Exning Vicarage, Newmarket) to Martin Routh, 15 Apr 1837. Dibdin thanks Routh for agreeing to subscribe to his latest publication (unspecified). Fol. 36: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, 58 Cambridge Street, Connaught Square) to Martin Routh, 30 Sep 1839. Dibdin thanks Routh for his recent kind letter. He discusses a letter from Cardinal Wolsey which might be at Christ Church, and the characters of some of Henry VIII’s bishops. Fol. 37: Letter from T. F. Dibdin (address, 8 Beaumont Street, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 19 Sep 1843. Dibdin sends Routh his best wishes for his birthday. Fols. 38–50: Letters from and concerning Sir John English Dolben, bart. (1750–1837; matr. Christ Church 1768). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/2 Fol. 102 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 38: Letter from English Dolben (address, Malvern) to Martin Routh, 14 Mar 1829. Dolben introduces a Mr. Clements, who is to make a copy of Magdalen’s portrait of Accepted Frewen, and who he thinks could make a good likeness of Routh himself. He regrets to learn that the Catholic Emancipation act will be passed, and enclosed his translation of the Te Deum into Latin hexameters. Fol. 39: Letter from English Dolben (address, Finedon near Wellingborough) to Martin Routh, 29 Jul 1823. Dolben, in a very roundabout way, appears to be thanking Routh for helping him sell some of his books. Fol. 40: Letter from English Dolben (address, Sheldon Lodge, Broad Street, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 2 Dec 1823. Dolben reports on his poor health, and hopes that Dr. Bandinel will be able to answer a question about an MS in the Bodleian. Fol. 41: Letter from English Dolben (address, Finedon) to Martin Routh, 7 Jan 1825. Dolben once again discusses the selling of some of his books, including to Edward Ellerton (F. 1803–51) of one, and of the valuation by Richard Heber of another. Fol. 42: Letter from English Dolben (address, Finedon) to Martin Routh, 18 May 1825. Dolben discusses again the valuation of one of his books by Richard Heber, the political situation in Europe, and proposals for Catholic Emancipation. Fol. 43: Letter from English Dolben (no address given) to Martin Routh, 26 May 1825. Dolben thanks Routh for his reply to his last letter. Fol. 44: Letter from English Dolben (address, Finedon) to Martin Routh, 22 Oct 1829. Dolben sends Routh some dried apples from Finedon. He is pleased that Richard Bagot has been appointed Bishop of Oxford. Fol. 45: Letter from English Dolben (address, Malvern) to Martin Routh, 12 Jan 1830. Dolben sends Routh some letters from “Mr. Wilcocks” (Joseph Wilcocks?), and reports that he is planning to sell some other letters to Dr. Bandinel, to put the proceeds towards new church furnishings at Finedon. Fol. 46: Letter from English Dolben (address, Claines Castle near Worcester) to Martin Routh, 18 Dec 1832. Dolben sends Routh Christmas greetings, and MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 252

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MC:PR30/1/C4/8 (con.) discusses his plans for ecclesiastical and political reform. He mentions the Duke of Somerset a possible successor to Lord Grenville as Chancellor. Fol. 46: Letter from English Dolben (address, Worcester) to Martin Routh, 1 Aug 1833. Dolben wishes Routh and his wife happy and long lives, and asks Routh’s advice in the case of a friend who, having qualified as a doctor, now wishes to take holy orders. He also discusses contemporary politics. Fol. 48: Letter from English Dolben (address, Claines House, near Worcester) to Martin Routh, 1 Sep 1833. Dolben thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his edition of the life of Burnet, and copies out for Routh some triolets written by his godson. Fol. 49: Letter from English Dolben (address, Finedon, near Wellingborough) and his daughter Louisa (address, Finedon Cottage) to Martin Routh, 13 and 28 Jan 1836. Dolben sends Routh an acrostic poem which spells Routh’s name out. Louisa then adds some words of her own, explaining that her father is unable to attend to business, and discusses the deaths of Earl Spencer (George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, 1758–1834) and “Dr. Bridges” (unknown). She describes her father’s failing mental and physical health. Fol. 50: Letter from Julia Dolben (address, Claines, Worcester) to Martin Routh, 24 Aug [1835 given on postmark]. Dolben’s father is unable to write himself, so she passes on his thanks to Routh for sending him a copy of his life of Bishop Burnet. Fols. 51–53: Letters from and to Thomas D’Oyly (Possibly Thomas D’Oyly, matr. Christ Church 1790). Fol. 51: Letter from Thomas D’Oyly (address, Brighton) to Thomas Gaisford, 24 Oct 1824. D’Oyly sends Gaisford a (missing) letter which he has received from Routh. The subject appears to relate to the politics of the 1680s. Fol. 52: Letter from Thomas D’Oyly (address, 13 Argyll Street) to Martin Routh, 10 Dec 1826. D’Oyly sends his correspondent two passages from the journal of Lord Leicester, as a contribution to Routh’s edition of Burnet. He recalls their discussions at Magdalen about early members of the d’Oyly (or d’Oilly) family. Fol. 53: Letter from R. W. Blencowe (address, Tunbridge Wells) to Thomas D’Oyly, “Tuesday”. Blencowe sends D’Oyly an extract from a letter of Algernon Sydney, which he asks him to pass on to Routh for his opinion. Fols. 54–56: Letters from Edward Auriol Hay Drummond (d. 1829; matr. Christ Church 1774). Fol. 54: Letter from E. A. Hay Drummond (address, Hadleigh, Suffolk) to Martin Routh, 22 Dec 1814. Drummond has seen a copy of Routh’s Reliquiae Sacrae. He approves of its dedication to the Scottish Bishops. Fol. 55: Letter from E. A. Hay Drummond (address, Southwell, Notts.) to Martin Routh, 10 Dec 1815 Drummond hopes that Routh will subscribe to his son-in- law’s book on the destruction of Jerusalem. The letter has been written on a printed form which shows that the author was the Revd. George Wilkins (Routh evidently did subscribe, for there is a copy of Wilkins’s The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem in the Routh Library). Fol. 56: Letter from E. A. Hay Drummond (address, Southwold, Suffolk) to MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 253

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MC:PR30/1/C4/8 (con.) Martin Routh, 21 Oct 1824. Drummond recommends to Routh one Marcus Butcher (Mark Grigson Butcher, matr. Brasenose 1822), whom he has asked to report back to him on Routh’s health. Fol. 57: Letter from Adam Duff (d. 1840; matr. Magdalen 1796). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/13 Fol. 31 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 57: Letter from Adam Duff (address, Edinburgh) to Martin Routh, 19 Dec 1818. Duff thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his Reliquiae Sacrae. He reports that Philip Bliss has applied for the post of Librarian to the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, and he asks for Routh’s opinion of him. Fols. 58–60: Letters from John Shute Duncan (1769–1844) and Philip Bury Duncan (1772–1863), both museum curators and Fellows of New College (Philip was Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 1826–54). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/2 Fols. 104–126 for other letters from Philip Duncan. Fol. 58: Letter from “Mr. Duncan” (address, New College) to Martin Routh, 7 Jan 1824. Duncan has borrowed two books from Routh. He discusses the meaning of the word “relevant”. (To judge from Fol. 59 below, which is partly in John’s hand, and partly in Philip’s, this letter must be by John) Fol. 59: Letter from J.S. and P. B. Duncan, with PS from Philip (address, Westfield Lodge) to Martin Routh, 3 Jun 1832. The Duncans (with John doing the writing) thank Routh for sending them a copy of his Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula, and then Philip adds a PS in his own hand to offer his extra thanks. Fol. 60: Letter from P. B. Duncan, with a PS from J. S. Duncan (no address given) to Martin Routh, 3 Dec 1835. Philip reports on an improvement in his health, and on a meeting held for the benefit of suffering Irish clergy. John adds a PS just to send his greetings. Fols. 61–66: Letters from George Dyer (1755–1841; author and advocate of political reform). See MC:PR30/1/C4/2 Fols. 127–128 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 61: Letter from G. Dyer (address, Clifford’s Inn, Fleet Street) to Martin Routh, undated (1823?). Dyer reports that he has just bought a copy of Routh’s edition of Burnet’s history of his own time, and is much enjoying reading it. Fol. 62: Letter from G. Dyer (address, 14 Clifford’s Inn, Fleet Street) to Martin Routh, 14 Apr 1824. Dyer has some forms from Edmund Barker to solicit subscriptions in support of the Greeks, which he hopes that Routh can circulate in Oxford. Fol. 63: Letter from G. Dyer (address, 14 Clifford’s Inn, Fleet Street) to Martin Routh, 17 Jan 1826. Dyer reports on his poor health, and thanks Routh for sending him some birds. Dyer also sends on to Routh the memoirs of a Mr. Coodack [?] as well as some pamphlets of his own, including one for Mrs. Routh (various works by Dyer are in the Routh Library). Fol. 64: Letter from G. Dyer (address, 14 Clifford’s Inn, Fleet Street) to Martin Routh, 27 Nov 1826. Dyer reports again on his poor health, and asks about certain books and MSS in Magdalen’s library. Fol. 65: Letter from G. Dyer (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated, but MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 254

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MC:PR30/1/C4/8 (con.) postmarked 21 Nov 1828. Dyer and his wife thank the Rouths for their hospitality when they were in Oxford. Routh wishes it to be known that he is not a Jacobite (which apparently was claimed by Samuel Parr), and Dyer’s friend Mr. Valpy (Abraham Valpy, 1786–1854) has suggested that he might submit an article about this to the Classical Journal. Fol. 66: Letter from G. Dyer (address, Dickensons Coffee-House) to Martin Routh, “Wedn: Morn.” Dyer is in Oxford, and regrets that he has too many appointments to be able to visit Routh this time. He describes the MSS he is examining in the Bodleian. Fol. 67: Letter from William Eccles (unidentified). Fol. 67: Letter from William Eccles (address, Manchester) to Martin Routh, 15 Apr 1819. He explains that the manuscripts of the late Mr. Sawkins are to be given to a Revd. Markham. Fol. 68: Letter from Boetius Egan (unidentified) Fol. 68: Letter (written in Latin) from Boetius Egan (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated. Egan writes to seek aid from Routh. He claims that he and his wife have been badly ill, so that they are in great want, and that he was born with only two fingers on each hand, so that he cannot easily find work. Fol. 69: Letter from John Ellison (unidentified). Fol. 69: Letter from John Ellison (address, 22 Moore Street, Dublin) to Martin Routh, 13 Dec 1794. Ellison encloses a (lost) letter to Routh. He also asks Routh what he might know about a Mr. Boycatt. Fols. 70–71: Letters from Thomas Grimston Bucknall Estcourt (1775–1853; MP for Oxford University 1826–47). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/2 Fol. 130 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 70: Letter from T. G. Bucknell Estcourt (address, 12 Lower Grosvenor Street) to Martin Routh, 7 Mar 1828. Escourt thanks Routh for his comments on a Tithe Commutation Bill. Fol. 71: Letter from T. G. Bucknell Estcourt (address, House of Commons) to Martin Routh, 3 Jul 1832. Estcourt sends Routh a copy of the Labourers’ Employment Bill in its amended form, and seeks Routh’s comments on it. Fol. 72: Letter from Thomas Falconer (1771–1839; classical scholar). Fol. 72: Letter from Thomas Falconer (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, 4 Feb 1819. Falconer asks Routh’s advice on the meaning of ¦πισκευη in a letter from Constantine the Great to Eusebius. Fol. 73: Letter from Henry Ford (d. 1813; Principal of Magdalen Hall 1788–1813 and Professor of Arabic 1780–1813). Fol. 73: Letter from Henry Ford (address, Magdalen Hall) to Martin Routh, “Mond. Aft.” Ford sends Routh some unspecified papers, and discusses an Arabic text of Edmund Pocock. Fols. 74–75: Letters from Charles Forster (d. 1871; chaplain to John Jebb, and Rector of Stisted 1838–71). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/2 Fols. 138–142 for other letters from this correspondent, and also MC:PR30/1/C3/12 Fols. 19–22 for letters from Forster’s patron John Jebb. Fol. 74: Letter from Charles Forster (address, Vicarage, Ash, Wingham) to Martin MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 255

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MC:PR30/1/C4/8 (con.) Routh, 4 Aug 1834. Forster sends Routh a resolution relating to raising money for a monument to John Jebb (1775–1833), Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, 1822–33. Forster hopes that Routh will contribute. Fol. 75: Letter from Charles Forster (address, East Hill, Wandsworth, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 12 Dec 1833. Forster gives a detailed account of the death of Bishop John Jebb, and mourns his passing. Fol. 76: Letter from Edward Drax Free (1764–1843; matr. St. John’s 1781). Fol. 76: Letter from E. Drax Free (address not given) to Martin Routh, 26 Oct 1837. Free has just been reading about the expulsion of the President and Fellows of Magdalen College under James II, and likens his own situation to theirs. He would like Routh to put in a word with the Bishop of Winchester with regard to his case. (Free was notorious for his unclerical behaviour, and in 1830 had been removed from his living.)

The following item was found loose in this book:

No. 1: Engraving of a memorial to Thomas Frognall Dibdin (see Fols. 22–37 above) in Exning Church.

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Fol. 1: Letter from W. Garrow (unidentified). Fol. 1: Letter from W. Garrow (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated. Garrow seems to rejoice in the acquittal of someone known to Routh. Fols. 2–3: Letters from Thomas Gaisford (1779–1855; Regius Professor of Greek 1812–55 and Dean of Christ Church 1831–55). See also MC:PR30/1/C1/4 Fol. 48 and MC:PR30/1/C4/3 Fols. 146–149 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 2: Letter from Thomas Gaisford (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 2 Nov 1804. Gaisford asks Routh about an unpublished letter of Algernon Sidney (who had been executed for treason under Charles II). Fol. 3: Letter from Thomas Gaisford (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated. Gaisford offers an explanation to the siglae used in a recent edition of Eusebius. Routh wrote some notes in Latin on the back of this letter. Fol. 4: Letter from Charles Goddard (1769/70–1848; Church of England clergyman). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/12 Fol. 52 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 4: Letter from C. Goddard (address, Kew) to Martin Routh, 15 Jul 1837. Goddard discusses an inscription which Routh composed on Archbishop Laud. His son is about to apply for a Demyship at Magdalen (Goddard’s son George was indeed elected a Demy that year). Fol. 5: Letter from J. Gooch (probably John Gooch, d 1823, matr. Christ Church, 1769, who came from Suffolk). Fol. 5: Letter from J. Gooch (address, Davies Street No. 43) to Martin Routh, 30 May 1794. Gooch is staying with the Bishop of Gloucester. He recommends to MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 256

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MC:PR30/1/C4/9 (con.) Routh his friend Mr. Buxton, MP for Thetford, who is visiting Oxford (Robert John Buxton, 1753–1839). Fol. 6: Letter from Henry Gould (d. 1839; matr. Queen’s College 1771; later canon of Wells). See MC:PR30/1/C2/10 Fol. 40 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 6: Letter from H. Gould (address, Butleigh, Glastonbury) to Martin Routh, 18 Jun (year not given; probably 1815). Gould sends Routh a letter from a young protege of his (unnamed). He reports on their friend Preedy (probably James Preedy, matr. Queen’s 1771), and passes on gossip that his Dean has been appointed Bishop of Gloucester, but wishes to hold on to both posts. He expresses dislike for his Dean’s Methodist views (This is Henry Ryder, 1777–1836, Dean of Wells 1812 and Bishop of Gloucester 1815–24). Fol. 7: Letter from Richard Greswell (1800–81; Fellow of Worcester College, 1824–36, and promoter of church schools). See also MC:PR30/1/4C/3 Fols. 154–156 and MC:PR30/4/C3/6 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 7: Letter from Richard Greswell (address, Beaumont Street, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 10 Jan 1844. Greswell asks Routh to support an initiative to create a new cemetery on the outskirts of Oxford, open to Anglicans and dissenters alike. Fols. 8–12: Letters from William Wyndham Grenville, Lord Grenville (1759–1834; Prime Minister 1806–7 and Chancellor of the University of Oxford 1810–34). See also MC:PR30/1/C1/4 Fol. 46–47 and MC:PR30/1/C4/8 Fol. 33 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 8: Letter from Lord Grenville (address, Exeter College) to Martin Routh, “Thursday morning” (1814). He thanks Routh for receipt of two volumes, and suggests that copies of them be presented to the Prince Regent and “two other august visitors” who are due to visit Oxford. This must refer to the first volumes of Routh’s Reliquiae Sacrae, copies of which were indeed presented to the Prince Regent, and to King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia and Tsar Alexander I of Russia, when they all visited Oxford in 1814. Fol. 9: Letter from Lord Grenville (address, Dropmore) to Martin Routh, 9 Jul 1813. Grenville passes on an unspecified request from a friend in Ireland, to seek Routh’s opinion on it. Grenville says that he makes it his business to abstain from any interference in College elections, which suggests that his friend is writing about a vacancy at Magdalen. On the last page is a draft reply from Routh. Fol. 10: Letter from Lord Grenville (address, Dropmore) to Martin Routh, 5 Nov 1814. Grenville thanks Routh for his favourable comments on a publication which he has sent him. He apologises for his delay in presenting copies of Routh’s Reliquiae Sacrae to their royal visitors. Since the Tsar and King are now in Vienna, it is probably best now to send them the books when they are back in their own courts. Fol. 11: Letter from Lord Grenville (address, Dropmore) to Martin Routh, 3 Dec 1814. Grenville thanks Routh for sending him a book. Fol. 12: Letter from Lord Grenville (address, Dropmore) to Martin Routh, 29 Feb 1816. Grenville thanks Routh for the next volume in his work (presumably MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 257

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MC:PR30/1/C4/9 (con.) another volume of Reliquiae Sacrae). Fols. 13–14: Letters from Peter Hall (1803–49; Church of England clergyman and topographer). Fol. 13: Letter from Peter Hall (address, Salisbury) to Martin Routh, 21 Oct 1831. Hall describes himself as “Curate of St Edmund’s in this city”. Hall has been editing the Remains and Memoirs of Robert Lowth, former Bishop of London, and hopes to submit the MS to the Clarendon Press. He has been advised to contact Routh, in case he knows of any useful sources about the life of Lowth. On the back of this letter is a draft letter from Routh congratulating an unknown correspondent on his marriage. Fol. 14: Letter from Peter Hall (address, Sarum) to Martin Routh, 12 Nov 1831. Hall thanks Routh for his kind reply, and gives more detail of his project for the works of Lowth. Fol. 15: Letter from Charles Henry Hartshorne (1802–65; antiquary). Fol. 15: Letter from Charles Henry Hartshorne (address, Brosley Hall, near Shifnal) to Martin Routh, 14 Apr 1827. Hartshorne discusses some scholarly and antiquarian matters, but also protests at the unpleasant rumours concerning his relationship with Richard Heber. He thinks that Heber’s absence abroad makes it harder for him to refute them on his own. Fols. 16–65: Letters from and concerning Richard Heber (1774–1833; book collector). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/10 Fol. 37, MC:PR30/1/C2/11 Fol. 75 and MC:PR30/1/C4/3 Fol. 167–173 & 175–176 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 16: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, “Saturday”. Heber discusses bibliophile matters, including their respective purchases at a recent auction. Fol. 17: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, “Thursday”. Heber regrets that he cannot answer an (unspecified) question of Routh’s. Fol. 18: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Hodnet Hall, Shrewsbury) to Martin Routh, Thursday (postmarked 28 Aug 181- [the final digit is lost]). Heber apologises for not answering a letter from Routh, which he appears not to have received. Fol. 19: Letter from Richard Heber (no address given) to Martin Routh, 14 Nov (no year given). Heber discusses sending on some books for Routh. Fol. 20: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, Saturday 4 July (no year given). Heber reports on arranging to advertise Routh’s most recent publication, and on sending some of Routh’s works on to Lord Grenville (are these the copies of Reliquiae Sacrae for Alexander I and Friedrich Wilhelm III?). Fol. 21: Letter from Reginald Heber (1783–1826, bishop of Calcutta; address, Hodnet, near Shrewsbury) to Martin Routh, 1 March (year not given; possibly 1821). Heber seeks Routh’s advice on some questions relating to the life of Jeremy Taylor, whose works he was editing. At the foot of the letter is a draft letter from Routh to Lord Grenville, expressing his pleasure at the silver salver presented to him by Tsar Alexander I of Russia, which he received in 1821. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 258

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MC:PR30/1/C4/9 (con.) Fol. 22: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 9 Jun 1804. Heber encloses a bookseller’s catalogue for Routh’s perusal. Fol. 23: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Eastbourne) to Martin Routh, 8 Sep 1805. Heber asks for news of a rumour William Windham will not stand as an MP. He has been walking along the Kent and Sussex coast, and was able to see French preparations at Boulogne, as well as several British armies. He has heard from his brother Reginald, who is travelling in eastern Europe. Fol. 24: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 8 Nov 1806. Heber thanks Routh for his support in his unsuccessful campaign to be elected MP for Oxford University. Fol. 25: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 4 Mar 1809. Heber is arranging for a copy of his brother Reginald’s latest book, Europe: Lines on the present war, to be sent to him (and indeed there is a copy of this in the Routh Library). He is trying to get Routh’s copy of Holinshed bound up and sent to him. Fol. 26: Letter from Richard Heber (no address given) to Martin Routh,“Thursday 1810" [sic]. Heber offers to help Routh with various book purchases. Fol. 27: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 13 Feb 1811. Heber has been checking up on some of Routh’s book orders. Fol. 28: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Grand Jury Room, Shrewsbury) to Martin Routh, 13 Aug 1811. Heber hopes that Routh has received an order of books from Paris by now, although he fears for its cost. Fol. 29: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 20 Dec 1811. Heber regrets that he will be unable to call on Routh on his way back to Shropshire. He plans to send Routh Priestley’s latest book catalogue. The letter contains two drafts letter from Martin Routh, one apparently to Charles Burney, thanking him for sending him a portrait of an unnamed scholar, the other to one John Eardley-Wilmot thanking him for sending him a copy of his life of Bishop Hough (Eardley-Wilmot’s The Life of the Rev. John Hough was published in 1812, and there is a copy inscribed to Routh by the author in the Routh Library). Fol. 30: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 11 Jul 1812. Heber tells Routh what he has bought for him in the Roxburgh sale, and gives an account of the auction. He has news of a cargo coming to him from Paris. Fol. 31: Letter from Richard Heber (no address given) to Martin Routh, 9 Aug 1812. Heber has asked his friend George Chalmers to bring Routh the books from the Roxburgh sale, and recommends Routh his acquaintance (this is George Chalmers, 1742–1825), antiquary and political writer). Fol. 32: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 15 Mar 1813. Heber promises to run various bibliophile errands for Routh when he is next in London. He sends his condolences on the news of the death of Routh’s mother. Fol. 33: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 2 Jun 1813. Heber promised to vote with Routh on an unspecified matter. He is about MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 259

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MC:PR30/1/C4/9 (con.) to send him a new book catalogue. Fol. 34: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 11 Jun 1813. Routh has asked Heber to buy him a new pen; he sends him details of a suitable candidate for purchasing. Fol. 35: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Hodnet) to Martin Routh, 31 Oct 1813. Heber discusses Routh’s plan to dedicate the Reliquiae Sacrae to the Episcopal Church in Scotland, and expresses his pleasure that the book is nearing publication. Fol. 36: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 17 Jan 1814. Heber introduces Routh to a Mr. Würtz, a bookseller based in both Strasburg and Paris, and recommends that he use his services. Fol. 37: Letter from Richard Heber (no address given) to Martin Routh, 7 Jul 1814. Heber regrets that he was unable to have Routh’s presentation copies of Reliquiae Sacrae bound before Alexander I and Friedrich Wilhelm III left the country. He discusses how best to have them sent to their respective courts. Fol. 38: Letter from Richard Heber (no address given) to Martin Routh, 28 Jul 1814. Heber has now sent the presentation copies of Reliquiae Sacrae to Lord Grenville. Fol. 39: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 20 Aug 1814. Heber apologises for not answering Routh’s letters sooner, and will now act on them. Fol. 40: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 8 Oct 1814. Heber promises to settle the matter of Routh’s new pen. He discusses the distribution of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 41: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 2 Dec 1814. Heber reports that a book order placed by Routh with Machinleys has been processed, and that the books will be sent to him soon. Fol. 42: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 1 Jun 1816. Heber has found a package from Routh containing copies of Volume III of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 43: Letter from Richard Heber (no address given) to Martin Routh, Thursday (c. 1818 - see below). Heber gives an account of a discussion with James Mawman’s travelling agent, on the sales and the advertising of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 44: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 31 Mar 1818. Heber reports on a further meeting with Mawman about sales of Reliquiae Sacrae, concluding that Mawman has fared rather better than Routh out of the deal. Fol. 45: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Hodnet) to Martin Routh, 14 Nov 1819. Lord Grenville now has the remaining volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae, to send to the Prince Regent, Alexander I and Friedrich Wilhelm III. Fol. 46: Printed circular from Frodsham Hodson (1770–1822; Principal of Brasenose College 1809–22), 3 Jul 1821. Hodson solicits votes for Richard Heber, who is standing as a Parliamentary candidate for Oxford University. The circular has been amended and annotated byRouth, who notes Heber’s opposition MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 260

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MC:PR30/1/C4/9 (con.) to any plans to repeal the Test Acts. Fol. 47: Letter from Richard Heber (no address given) to Martin Routh, 3 Jul 1821. He hears that there is a campaign afoot in Oxford to support Sir John Nichol’s candidature for Parliament, and discreetly asks whether something similar can be done for him now. Fol. 48: Letter from Richard Heber (no address given) to Martin Routh, Wednesday 4 July (1821). Heber confirms his opposition to Catholic Emancipation. Fol. 49: Circular letter sent out from Magdalen in support of Richard Heber’s Parliamentary candidature, 17 Jul 1821. It includes a note of Heber’s opposition to the repeal of the Test Acts. Fol. 50: Printed circular, dated 21 Aug 1821, expressing opposition to Heber’s campaign. Fol. 51: Letter from Richard Heber (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated, but presumably from 1821. Once again Heber discusses Catholic Emancipation. Fol. 52: Letter from Richard Heber (no address given) to Martin Routh, Monday July 9 (1821). Heber discusses election tactics with Routh, expressing concern at the over-eagerness of some of the younger Fellows of Magdalen. Fol. 53: Letter from Richard Heber (address, 18 Charles Street, St. James’s Square) to Martin Routh, Saturday 21 July (1821). Heber asks Routh to help quash rumours that he supports Catholic Emancipation. Fol. 54: Letter from Viscount Althorp (address, Althorp) to H. B. Harrison (address, Bugbrooke Rectory), 14 Jul 1821. Althorp encourages Harrison to vote for Heber, even if they are of different political views. (John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp and third Earl Spencer, 1782–1845, politician, agriculturist, and sportsman; Henry Bagshaw Harrison, d. 1830, D. 1784–8). Fol. 55: Letter from Viscount Althorp (address, Althorp) to H. B. Harrison (address, Bugbrooke Rectory), 28 Jul 1821. Althorp reports that he has persuaded Mr. Burton to vote for Heber. Fol. 56: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Hodnet) to Martin Routh, 26 Oct 1821. Heber thanks Routh for his support during his Parliamentary campaign. He hopes to be in Oxford soon to thank him in person. He passes on his brother Reginald’s regards. Fol. 57: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Hodnet) to Martin Routh, 7 Dec 1822. Heber sends his condolences to Routh on a bereavement (of his father?). Fol. 58: Letter from Richard Heber (no address given) to Martin Routh, 9 Aug 1824. Heber agrees to sign for the sale of some stock for Routh, and promises to send him a book. Fol. 59: Letter from Richard Heber (address not given) to Martin Routh, 16 Mar 1825. Hever passes on to Routh a letter from Cardwell (possibly Edward Cardwell, Principal of St. Alban Hall 1831–61). Fol. 59a: Letter from Mary Heber (address not given) to Martin Routh, 29 Dec 1827. Heber sends the Rouths some game from Hodnet Hall. She laments the absence of either her late husband or her stepson Richard. She reports that the MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 261

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MC:PR30/1/C4/9 (con.) widow of her son Reginald is publishing his journal of his travels in Upper India, and hopes that he will receive a copy (he did; a copy is in the Routh Library in Durham). Fol. 60: Letter from Mary Heber (address, Whitchurch, Shropshire) to Martin Routh, 12 Jul 1828. Heber seeks advice on the wording of a proposed monument to her husband (father of Reginald and Richard). She is unable to consult Richard Heber, who is still abroad. Routh has drafted a reply to this letter on the back. Fol. 61: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 18 Feb 1832. He hopes to call on the Rouths when they are at Tilehurst. He also reports on his health, and on the cholera epidemic then in London. Fol. 62: Letter from Richard Heber (address not given) to Martin Routh, Saturday 1 March (1823—not 1833, as written on the letter in pencil). Heber thanks Routh for sending him and his brother (who is preparing to leave for India) copies of his edition of Burnet. Fol. 63: Letter from Richard Heber (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 27 Mar 1833. Heber thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his new edition of Burnet. Fol. 64: Letter from Mary Cholmondeley (address, Pimlico) to Martin Routh, 9 Oct 1833. Cholmondeley describes the death of her brother Richard Heber. Fol. 65: Letter from Mary Cholmondeley (address, Hodnet Hall, Shrewsbury) to Martin Routh, 17 Nov 1833. Dr. Dibdin (Thomas Frognall Dibdin) has offered his services to Cholmondeley to help arrange the sale of Heber’s library, if necessary. She asks Routh whether Dibdin can be trusted with such a project. Fol. 66: Letter from Henry Hodgkinson (d. 1839; matr. Brasenose 1776). Fol. 66: Letter from Henry Hodgkinson (address, Arborfield, Reading) to Martin Routh, 28 Aug 1821. Mr. Neville has asked Hodgkinson to ask Routh to lend him a book on the election held at Reading in 1656 which will help him in his research into the history of Berkshire, and of which he understands Routh has a copy. Fol. 67: Letter from R. Holmes (unidentified). Fol. 67: Letter from R. Holmes (address not given) to Martin Routh, 18 July (year not given). Holmes gives Routh a report on the different readings in various texts of the Septuagint version of Jeremiah 26:17. Fol. 68: Letter from Thomas Hornby (unidentified). Fol. 68: Letter from Thomas Hornby (address, Nastle [?]) to Martin Routh, 31 Dec 1789. Hornby promises to observe confidentiality in an unspecified matter that Routh had shared with him. Fol. 69: Letter from Robert Hughes (unidentified). Fol. 69: Letter from Robert Hughes (address, Plymouth Dock) to Martin Routh, 17 Sep 1794. Hughes regrets that his nephew (unnamed) has not called upon Routh at Magdalen. Fols. 70–71: Letters from Joseph Hunter (1783–1861; antiquary and record scholar). Fol. 70: Letter from Joseph Hunter (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, 5 Sep 1832. Hunter has in his possession a volume of the private diary of Thomas Cartwright, MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 262

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MC:PR30/1/C4/9 (con.) Bishop of Chester, which runs from August 1686 to October 1687, and therefore covers the time when he was taking part in James II’s visitation of Magdalen. Hunter gives a summary of Cartwright’s account of the latter event, and offers to transcribe it for Routh’s benefit. Fol. 71: Letter from Joseph Hunter (address, Belvedere, Bath) to Martin Routh, 26 Oct 1832. Hunter discusses payment for a book on the topography of Doncaster, and hopes that Routh has found his transcript of extracts from Bishop Cartwright’s diary useful. He reports on the arrival of the Robertson family in Bath. Fols. 72–74: Letters from George Isaac Huntingford (1748–1832; Warden of Winchester College 1789–1832; Bishop of Gloucester 1802–15 and of Hereford 1815–32). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/11 Nos. 6–7 and MC:PR30/1/C3/12 Fols. 1–18 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 72: Letter from G. I. Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 19 Feb 1795. Huntingford asks for Routh’s opinions on some papers of his. He also expresses his regard for Dr. Parr, and discusses the nature of the Trinity. Fol. 73: Letter from G. I. Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 1 Mar 1799. Huntingford has heard that Magdalen plans to take into hand the wood at Otterbourne, and recommends one W. Gough as a woodward to manage it for them. Fol. 74: Letter from G. I. Huntingford (address, Winchester College) to Martin Routh, 24 Apr 1802. Huntingford expresses his high regard to Routh, and thanks him for his kind letter.

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Fols. 1–4: Letters from Sir Robert Harry Inglis (1786–55; MP for Oxford University 1829–54). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/9 Fol. 36 and MC:PR30/1/C4/3 Fols. 182–96 for other letters from this corresndent. Fol. 1: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, Manchester Buildings, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 20 Mar 1829. Inglis thanks Routh for nominating him as a Parliamentary candidate for the University. Fol. 2: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, 11 Manchester Buildings) to Martin Routh, 29 Nov 1830. Inglis asks whether Routh has sent him some promised observations on a forthcoming bill to be put before Parliament on labourers’ wages. Fol. 3: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, Manchester Buildings, Wesminster) to Martin Routh, 23 Feb 1833. Inglis thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his second edition of Burnet’s History of his own Times. Fol. 4: Letter from Robert Harry Inglis (address, Milton Bryan, Woburn, Beds.) to Martin Routh, 27 May 1844. Inglis asks Routh where he could find information on people who, after the Reformation, remained in high positions in MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 263

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MC:PR30/1/C4/10 (con.) the Church, and continued to receive income from lands given to them before the Reformation. He asks, because an MP is likely to attack Oxford on the grounds that the Colleges are still holding lands given to them when they were Catholic institutions. Fols. 5–6: Letters from James Ingram (1774–1850; Old English scholar and antiquary). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/3 Fol. 197 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 5: Letter from J. Ingram (address, Trinity College) to Martin Routh, 16 Jul [no year given] Ingram asks for access to a copy of Wood’s Athenae Oxonienses, which he understands has MS notes on members of Magdalen College. He would like to consult this as part of his work on his Memorials of Oxford. He hopes that Mackenzie and Le Keux’s illustrations will do Oxford’s buildings justice. Fol. 6: Letter from J. Ingram (address, Trinity College) to Martin Routh, Monday Jan 9 [no year given]. Ingram discusses Florence of Worcester’s account of Anglo-Saxon bishops, and their dioceses. Fol. 7: Letter from John Ireland (1761–1842; Dean of Westminster 1815–42). See also MC:PR30/1/C3/2 Fols. 60–61 and MC:PR30/1/C4/3 Fol. 198 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 7: Letter from John Ireland (address, Deanery, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 2 Jun 1832. Ireland thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his Opuscula. He apologises for not replying sooner, but he has been involved in elections at Westminster School. Fols. 8–10: Letters from Samuel Farmar Jarvis (1786–1851; historian of the Episcopal Church in America). Fol. 8: Letter from Samuel Farmar Jarvis (address, London, 18 Howland Street, Fitzroy Square) to Martin Routh, undated (but probably early 1844, to judge from the content, and letter Fol. 9 below). Jarvis is planning to write a history of the American Bishops, but is having trouble finding a publisher. He wonders whether Routh could help him have the book published by the University Press in Oxford. Fol. 9: Letter from Samuel Farmar Jarvis (address, London, 18 Howland Street, Fitzroy Square) to Martin Routh, 1 May1844. Jarvis thanks Routh for his friendly response to his letter (presumably Fol. 8 above). He is impressed by the revival of Christianity in England, as manifested in rebuilding of old churches and creation of new ones, and reflects on the state of the Episcopal Church in America. He is planning to build a new church himself, and wonders how he can find funding for this project. He sends Routh two copies of a recently published sermon, one for himself and one for Dr. Ellerton. This is probably Worldly and Christian education compared (1844), of which there is a copy in the Routh Library. Fol. 10: Letter from Samuel Farmar Jarvis (address, Middletown, Connecticut, USA) to Martin Routh, 18 Feb 1850. Jarvis expresses his pleasure at receiving a copy of the new edition of Reliquiae Sacrae. Jarvis reports on his recent activities, and asks Routh whether he or anyone he knows has any letters from Bishop Seabury (Samuel Seabury 1729–96, first Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America), because Jarvis and Seabury’s MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 264

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MC:PR30/1/C4/10 (con.) grandson are planning an edition of his works. He includes in the letter the draft of an inscription for a new memorial to Seabury. He also seeks Routh’s advice on how they might appoint a Bishop to be in charge of the General Theological Seminary, because such a Bishop would have to be independent of any diocesan authority. Fol. 11: Letter, presumably from John Jebb (1775–1833; later Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe). See MC:PR30/1/C3/12 Fols. 19–22 for letters which are definitely from this correspondent. Fol. 11: Letter from “Mr. Jebb” (address, King’s Arms) to Martin Routh, 17 Nov 1817. Jebb is passing through Oxford, and hopes to visit Routh and thank him for presenting him with a copy of the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 12: Letter from William Jones “of Nayland” (1726–1800; matr. Univ. 1745; clergyman and divine). See MC:PR30/1/C2/1 Fol. 10 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 12: Letter from William Jones (address, Nayland) to Martin Routh, 8 Jan 1795. Jones sends Routh a certificate on William Alston (D. 1792–1802), and asks what the statutes of Magdalen can do for him in these circumstances (Bloxam, Register vii. 124 says of Alston: “Before the year 1800 he was afflicted with mental derangement”; presumablysigns of his illness were evident by1795). Fols. 13–21: Letters from John Johnstone (1768–1836; physician and biographer). See MC:PR30/1/C3/2 Fols. 62–65, MC:PR30/1/C3/4 nos. 9 & 11–12, and MC:PR30/1/C4/4 Fols. 206–207 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 13: Letter from John Johnstone (address, Birmingham) to Martin Routh, 17 Nov 1825. Johnstone undertakes to meet one Mr. Lyons, who has charge of Samuel Parr’s papers, to obtain Routh’s letters to Parr and send them to him. He reports that it will be a major task to inspect Parr’s papers. Fol. 14: Letter from John Johnstone (address, Birmingham) to Martin Routh, 11 Nov 1825. Johnstone reports that the papers of Samuel Parr have been placed in his hand, with the intention of publishing them. Johnston has found several letters to Parr from Routh, and assures him that nothing from them will be made public without his permission. Fol. 15: Letter from John Johnstone (address, Monument House, Birmingham) to Martin Routh, 26 Apr 1826. Johnstone has assembled two bundles of Routh’s letters to Dr. Parr, which he will hand over to him when he can. Archdeacon Butler (Samuel Butler, 1774–1839, headmaster and Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield) would like to confer with Routh about Parr’s sermons, and Johnstone is seeking a time when all three of them can meet. Fol. 16: Letter from John Johnstone (no address given) to Martin Routh, 25 May 1826. Johnstone sends Routh a draft of his memoir of Samuel Parr, explaining its contents. He reports that the Archdeacon (Butler) will come with him to Oxford next month. Fol. 17: Letter from John Johnstone (address, Monument House) to Martin Routh, 15 Dec 1826. Johnstone thanks Routh for a present. He now sends him his notes on Parr’s pamphlet about the works of Bishop Warburton, and asks for Routh’s comments. He also discusses Parr’s opposition to the repeal of the Test MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 265

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MC:PR30/1/C4/10 (con.) Act. He hopes that Routh’s health has improved. Fol. 18: Letter from John Johnstone (no address given) to Martin Routh, 30 Sep 1827. Johnstone thanks Routh warmly for his comments on his manuscript (presumably part of his life of Parr). He is glad of the support given him by Routh and others in his work. Fol. 19: Letter from John Johnstone (address, Monument House, near Birmingham) to Martin Routh, 12 May 1828. Johnstone thanks Routh for approving of his Harveyan discourse (Johnstone’s Oratio Harveiana, published in 1828, of which there is a copy in the Routh Library). He presented copies of this to the Emperor of Russia (Nicholas I) and his brother, who have both thanked him. He asks Routh to lend the letters written to him by Samuel Parr. Fol. 20: Letter from John Johnstone (address, Birmingham) to Martin Routh, 21 May 1828. Johnstone tells Routh that his packet has arrived. Fol. 21: Letter from John Johnstone (address, Monument House) to Martin Routh, 10 Apr 1829. Johnstone has seen Routh’s opposition to Robert Peel’s re- election at Oxford. Although they disagree on the Catholic question, Johnston agrees with him about Peel. Johnstone also sends Routh a book which he asks him to present to the Bodleian Library. Fol. 22: Letter from John Kennedy (unidentified). Fol. 22: Letter from John Kennedy (address not given, but postmarked Tunbridge) to Martin Routh, undated, but postmarked 19 Jul 1813. Kennedy thanks Routh for a letter he has received from him. He laments the evil treatment he has received from various clergymen. Fol. 23: Letter from Benjamin Kennicott (1718–83, biblical scholar). Fol. 23: Letter [4 sheets, of which the lower half of the fourth sheet has been cut away] from Benjamin Kennicott (no address given) to Samuel Richardson (1689–1761; printer and author), 9 Jul 1754. Kennicott thanks Richardson for his kindness when he was in town. He gives a detailed account of a commemoration of benefactors held in the Sheldonian Theatre, including a full summary of a speech given by William King (1685–1763; Principal of St. Mary Hall 1719–63, and notorious Jacobite). This letter is printed almost in full in A. L. Barbauld (ed.), The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (London, 1804), Vol. II, pp. 183–96, which shows that the letter was written from Exeter College, and provides the text of the missing portion of the original. The letter bears various annotations, such as the deletion of short passages, or the concealing of certain names, which were added when the letter was being prepared for publication, because these omissions are observed in the book. It is not known how this letter came into Routh’s hands. Fols. 24–32: Letters from Henry Kett (1761–1825; Fellow of Trinity College, 1784–1823). See also MC:PR30/1/C1/3 Fols, 11, 16, 27, & 51, MC:PR30/1/C3/8 No. 5, and MC:PR30/1/C4/4 Fol. 210 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 24: Letter from Henry Kett (address, Paris) to Martin Routh, 26 Aug 1791. Kett has been examining manuscripts in the King’s Library for Routh. He describes in some detail his impressions of France at the start of the Revolution. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 266

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MC:PR30/1/C4/10 (con.) Fol. 25: Letter from HenryKett (address not given) to Martin Routh, “Wednesday 12 o’clock”. Kett is unable to take the Grabe MSS out of an unspecified library, and so describes it to him. Fol. 26: Letter from Henry Kett (address, Trinity College) to Martin Routh, 22 Feb (year not given). Kett seeks Routh’s advice on the interpretation of one of the statutes of Trinity College, on the election of a President. Fol. 27: Letter from Henry Kett (address, Trinity College) to Sophia Routh, “Fridaymorning Jan. 18" (almost certainly1793; Sophia Routh kept house for her brother from 1791 until her marriage in 1801, and this is the only year when 18 January fell on a Friday). Kett sends Sophia Routh a book of travels by a member of Trinity to give to her sister. He expresses his concern for her sister’s health, and offers advice on how to cheer her up. Fol. 28: Fragment of a letter from Henry Kett (address, Gray’s Inn Coffee House) to Martin Routh, 16 Aug (year not given). Kett reports on manuscripts which he has been examining at the British Museum. Fol. 29: Letter from Henry Kett (address, London) to Martin Routh, 19 Sep (year given on postmark as 1797). Kett apologises for not writing to Routh from Cambridge, and now gives an account of his visit to Trinity College to examine some manuscripts there. Fol. 30: Letter from Henry Kett (address, Trinity College) to Martin Routh, “Sunday 10 o’clock”. Kett asks Routh’s advice on making an application to members of Convocation on an unspecified matter. Fol. 31: Letter from Henry Kett (address, Trinity College) to Martin Routh, “Saturday Morning, May 31st” (1794 or 1800; probably the former). Kett discusses his candidature for an unknown post. Fol. 32: Fragment of a letter from Henry Kett (address, Trinity College) to Martin Routh, 27 Oct (year not given; 1793). Kett discusses the forthcoming election for the Professorship of Poetry, in which he is a candidate, as is James Hurdis of Magdalen (who would defeat him). Fol. 33: Letter from William Kett (unidentified). Fol. 33: Letter from William Kett (address, Shottisham Parsonage) to Martin Routh, 27 Apr 1829. Kett’s youngest son has been working in Oxford as a chemist and druggist, and wishes to set up business on his own. Kett asks Routh to support his application to matriculate as a privileged person. A note in support of Kett is added in the hand of William Andrew Jenner (D. 1768–85; F. 1785–1832). Fols. 34–37: Letters from Thomas Kidd (1770–1850; classical scholar and schoolmaster). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/4 Fols. 211–214 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 34: Letter from Thomas Kidd (address, School House, Lynn Regis [sic], Norfolk) to Martin Routh, 22 Sep 1823. Kidd writes to Routh in support of the application by his former pupil C. W. Stocker of St. John’s for the vacant Arabic Professorship, and alludes to his own friendship with Samuel Parr. It seems that Stocker was not elected. Fol. 35: Letter from Thomas Kidd (address, School House, Wymondham, MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 267

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MC:PR30/1/C4/10 (con.) Norfolk) to Martin Routh, 5 Dec 1829. Kidd thanks Routh for the testimonial which he sent to the electors of the Free Grammar School at Norwich, reporting that he has just been appointed to the headmastership there. Fol. 36: Letter from Thomas Kidd (address, School House, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 3 Aug 1832. Kidd thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his Opuscula. He also hints that he has a son whom he would like to send up as a candidate for a Demyship (it looks as if his son, John Tyrwhitt Davy Kidd, instead went up to St. John’s in 1832). Fol. 37: Letter from Thomas Kidd (address, School House, Wymondham, Norfolk) to Martin Routh, 25 Sep 1829. Kidd wishes to apply for the post of headmaster of the Free Grammar School in Norwich, and asks Routh if he could write him a testimonial. Fol. 38: Letter from Wyndham Knatchbull (d. 1868; matr. Christ Church 1804; Laudian Professor of Arabic 1823–40). Fol. 38: Letter from Wyndham Knatchbull (address, Knowlton Court, Wigham) to Martin Routh, 16 Sep 1823. Knatchbull assures Routh that, should he be elected Laudian Professor of Arabic, he will carry out the duties associated with the position. Fols. 39–64: Letters from Francis Fortescue-Knottesford (d. 1859; matr. Queen’s 1790). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/4 Fols. 218–227 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 39: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Tottenham High Cross) to Martin Routh, 8 Sep 1795. Fortescue-Knottesford thanks Routh for his friendship and support. He discusses settling one of Routh’s bills for books, and reports on his own affairs, in particular that he has been offered several curacies. He also discusses his health, and that of his mother. He also asks Routh to obtain a certificate from the Professor of Divinity that he has attended his lectures. Fol. 40: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Tottenham High Cross) to Martin Routh, 2 Apr 1796. Fortescue-Knottesford reports on his difficulties in tracking down a manuscript of Eusebius for Routh. He plans to visit William Jones at Nayland, in the hopes of getting a curacy there, and will be ordained a priest later in the month. Fol. 41: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Tottenham High Cross) to Martin Routh, 10 Jun 1796. Fortescue-Knottesford apologises for not sending Routh a collation of the Eusebius manuscript sooner. It is now in the post, and he reports on his overall impression of it. Fol. 42: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Hadleigh) to Martin Routh, 5 Mar 1800. Fortescue-Knottesford thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Ernesti’s Livy, and remembers the instruction which Routh gave him when he was at Oxford, but he tactfully notes that he already has a good edition of Livy, and hopes that, when he is next in Oxford, he may exchange it for something else recommended by Routh. Fol. 43: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Stoke by Nayland) to Martin Routh, 20 Jan 1807. Fortescue-Knottesford thanks Routh for his friendship. He has settled Routh’s account with some booksellers, and discusses MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 268

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MC:PR30/1/C4/10 (con.) the works of Plato. Fol. 44: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Stoke by Nayland) to Martin Routh, 10 Apr 1811. Fortescue-Knottesford recommends a friend’s relative, Mr. Retton, for a Demyship (unsuccessfully, as it turned out). He also discusses his suspicions over a Mr. Tuck who claims to be a Demy of Magdalen, and who wishes to help Fortescue-Knottesford in his church (his suspicions were justified; no one called Tuck was a Demy at this time). He also discusses his latest book purchases, and asks what Routh has acquired lately. Fol. 45: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Stoke by Nayland) to Martin Routh, 15 Feb 1813. Fortescue-Knottesford recommends the son of his friend Mr. Totton for a Demyship, setting out his friend’s straitened circumstances (no Totton was elected to a Demyship). He hopes that they will meet soon. Fol. 46: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Stoke by Nayland) to Martin Routh, 23 Aug 1814. Fortescue-Knottesford thanks Routh warmly for sending him the first part of Reliquiae Sacrae. He was glad to see that Routh is a member of the Auxiliary Bible Society, as this reassures him of the Society’s worth. He is sorry to hear of Thomas Sheppard’s death, and passes his condolences on to his widow. Fol. 47: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Stoke by Nayland) to Martin Routh, 21 Nov 1815. Fortescue-Knottesford thanks Routh for his help in drafting a memorial inscription to George Downing, and is sorry to hear of Routh’s sister’s illness. He gives some information on Downing’s life and character, and describes a visit to Scotland. Fol. 48: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Stoke by Nayland) to Martin Routh, 4 Mar 1816. Fortescue-Knottesford thanks Routh effusively for sending him the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 49: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Stoke by Nayland) to Martin Routh, 4 May 1818. Fortescue-Knottesford asks Routh if he can come up with a memorial inscription for George Downing. He also reports on the death of his son, and sends Routh a draft inscription for his son’s memorial (Routh has written a few corrections on this part of the text). Fol. 50: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Stoke by Nayland) to Martin Routh, 15 May 1818. Fortescue-Knottesford thanks Routh for his corrections for his memorial inscription for his son. He describes his son’s character and interests, not least in drawing and architecture. Fol. 51: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Stoke by Nayland) to Martin Routh, 20 May1818. Fortescue-Knottesford submits a fresh version of his son’s memorial inscription to Routh for his comments. Fol. 52: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Stoke by Nayland) to Martin Routh, 9 Jun 1818. Fortescue-Knottesford once again prods Routh to help draft a memorial inscription to George Downing, and includes a draft of his own to give Routh a start. On the back of the letter is the draft of an opening of a letter from Routh to an unnamed addressee about sending a book to Professor MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 269

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MC:PR30/1/C4/10 (con.) Wyttenbach at Leyden. Fol. 53: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Stoke by Nayland) to Martin Routh, 25 Jun 1818. Fortescue-Knottesford thanks Routh for emending the draft inscription for George Downing, and also for sending him the final volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 54: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Stoke by Nayland) to Martin Routh, 16 Sept 1819. Fortescue-Knottesford and his wife are planning to pass through Oxford in October, and wonder whether Routh will be around then for them to visit him. Fol. 55: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Stoke by Nayland) to Martin Routh, 27 Mar 1823. Fortescue-Knottesford thanks Routh for sending him his edition of Burnet’s History. He and his wife hope to visit Routh in Oxford soon. He also reports that he may be moving to a new parish. Fol. 56: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Stoke by Nayland) to Martin Routh, 15 May 1823. Fortescue-Knottesford recommends Thomas Hand, the nephew of a friend of his, for a Demyship (he was not selected). He also asks Routh if he can put in a good word to help him be appointed to the living of Stratford-upon-Avon, whose current incumbent is old and in poor health. Fol. 57: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Bridgetown) to Martin Routh, 10 Feb 1825. Fortescue-Knottesford reports on Dr. Parr’s declining health, and thanks Routh and his wife for their hospitality in Oxford. Fol. 58: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Bridgetown) to Martin Routh, 4 Oct 1825. Fortescue-Knottesford thanks Routh for sending him a joint of unspecified meat. He and his wife were sorry not to see him over the summer. Fol. 59: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Bridgetown House) to Martin Routh, 2 May 1826. Fortescue-Knottesford writes a letter of introduction to Routh for a friend of his, Mr. Sims, and his son, who will be visiting Oxford, and would like to meet Routh. Sims was a former curate to William Jones of Nayland. His son is thinking of applying to Oxford, and they are wondering about entering him at Magdalen. Fortescue-Knottesford hopes that Routh and his wife will be able to visit him when they visit Suffolk over the summer. On the blank pages of the letter Routh has written a draft letter to an unnamed addressee, in which he discusses his recent poor health, and some recently published works of Dr. Parr. Fol. 60: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Bridgetown House) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul 1826. Fortescue-Knottesford thanks Routh for his hospitality to his friend Mr. Sims. He also reports on the death of another of his sons, and describes his last days. Fol. 61: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Dawlish) to Martin Routh, 2 Jul 1827. Fortescue-Knottesford understands that an Oxfordshire Fellowship is vacant at Magdalen, and recommends the son of his friend Daniel Wilson for the post (he was not elected). He and his family did not wish to be at home at the time of the anniversary of their son’s death, and so have come to Devonshire. He was pleased to find that the Vicar of Dawlish, Dr. Perkins, is a MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 270

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MC:PR30/1/C4/10 (con.) former pupil of Routh’s (John David Perkins, matr. Magdalen 1784). Fol. 62: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Bridgetown House) to Martin Routh, 29 May 1832. Fortescue-Knottesford thanks Routh effusively for a copy of his Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula. He had heard from Dr. Ellerton that Routh was engaged in a fresh work. He has got a new tutor for his son, a Mr. Meade of Wadham College, and has had a visit from Routh’s old pupil Dr. Perkins. Fol. 63: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 5 May 1835. Fortescue-Knottesford regrets that Routh was not in College when he called to see him. He has been settling his son Edward into Wadham (from where he had matriculated in June 1834), but had been wondering about putting him for the next Demyship examination (Edward Fortescue - he dropped the “Knottesford” - was never elected Demy). Fol. 64: Letter from F. Fortescue-Knottesford (address, Alveston Manor) to Martin Routh, 19 Jul 1838. Fortescue-Knottesford is glad to hear that there is demand for a second edition of the Opuscula, and wonders whether there might be a similar call for the Reliquiae Sacrae. He expresses regret that Froude’s Remains were published, as they will have made many observers suspicious of his supporters; a shame, because Fortescue-Knottesford is in sympathywith many of their beliefs. He also offers some possible corrections to the Opuscula. Fol. 65: Letter from a Mr. Langton (unidentified). Fol. 65: Letter from Mr. Langton (no address given) to Martin Routh, “Tuesday morning”. Langton thanks Routh for his enquiries after his health. He encloses a translation of part of Justin Martyr’s Dialogue by Sir David Dalrymple and asks Routh to comment on it. Fols. 66–67: Letters from Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice (1780–1863; 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/4 Fol. 230 and MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 Fol. 27 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 66: Letter from Lord Lansdowne (address, Lansdowne House) to Martin Routh, 20 Jun 1833. Lansdowne thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his additional notes to Burnet’s history. He has to use a secretary for his letter, because he has been suffering from gout in his right hand. Fol. 67: Letter from Lord Lansdowne (address, London) to Martin Routh, 27 Feb (year not given; probably 1823). Lansdowne thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his new edition of Burnet. Fol. 68: Letter from F.(?) Lawrence (unidentified). Fol. 68: Letter from F.(?) Lawrence (address, London) to Samuel Parr, 19 Nov 1792. Lawrence assures Parr that he now knows that he has made a mistake about the President of Magdalen’s opinion of Lord Bagot, with regard to the forthcoming election of a new Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Fol. 69: Letter from Samuel Lee (1783–1852; Orientalist). Fol. 69: Letter from Samuel Lee (address, Rectory, Barley, Royston, Herts.) to Martin Routh, 6 Oct 1840. Lee discusses the passages in Josephus, which occur in the Syriac versions of Eusebius, which might refer to Jesus. The letter has a MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 271

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MC:PR30/1/C4/10 (con.) “penny black” stamp on the back. Fol. 70: Letter from George Coventry Lichfield (1785–1812; Fellow of King’s College Cambridge 1807–12, and the son of Coventry Lichfield [Ch. 1752–9; D. 1759–62; F. 1762–83]). Fol. 70: Letter from G. C. Lichfield (address, Stamford Hill, Middlesex) to Martin Routh, 3 Dec 1810. Lichfield sends Routh a passage from the statutes of his own College relating to the use of horses on progress (noted by Routh as being King’s College Cambridge). Fols. 71–72: Letters from (John Englebert Liebenrood (d. 1821; made DCL 1810). Fol. 71: Letter from J. E. Liebenrood (address, Prospect Hill) to Martin Routh, 14 Feb 1812. Although the portion of the letter with the addressee’s name on it has been torn away, the fact that Routh was by then Rector of Tilehurst makes the identification clear. Liebenrood understands that Mr. Cobbold has resigned his curacy, because he thinks that he has incurred Routh’s displeasure, who thinks that he is trying to dispossess him of the parsonage. He assures the addressee that nothing could be further from the truth and praises Cobbold’s work in the parish. However, he does suggest that accommodation be found for Cobbold somewhere. Mr. Cobbold is William Rust Cobbold, d. 1841 (D. 1792–5; F. 1795–1814; instructor in grammar in College School 1795–9), who was curate at Tilehurst at this time. He was presented to the living of Selborne in 1813. Fol. 72: Letter from J. E. Liebenrood (address, Prospect Hill) to Martin Routh, 14 Jan 1820. Liebenrood expresses his relief that Routh escaped injury from a fire (this must be the fire which badly damaged Magdalen Hall). Fols. 73–74: Letters from John Ingram Lockhart, later John Wastie (d. 1835; matr. Univ. 1783; Recorder of Oxford). Fol. 73: Letter from J. I. Lockhart (address, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 11 Mar 1816. Lockhart thanks Routh for sending him a copy of the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 74: Letter from James Lockhart (address, Cowley Rectory) to Martin Routh, 4 Dec 1838. Lockhart is the brother of John Lockhart (later Wastie), who he knows was a friend of Routh, and so he thinks he might be interested to read an account from his own son (John Lockhart’s nephew) of a recent archaeological discovery in Rome near the Porta Maggiore. Fol. 75: Letter from William Lowndes (d. 1850; matr. Brasenose 1811). Fol. 75: Letter from William Lowndes (address, 21 Henrietta Street, Brunswick Square) to Martin Routh, undated (but it must be 1821). Lowndes apologises that he will be unable to come up to Oxford to vote for Richard Heber in the forthcoming Parliamentaryelection, but he wishes him well. At the bottom of this letter, Routh has scribbled some notes on reasons for divorce. Fols. 76–79: Letters from John Lynes. Lynes helped sort out the affairs of Routh’s friend Samuel Parr; several further letters from him can be found in MC:PR30/1/C3/4. Fol. 76: Letter from John Lynes (address, Hatton) to Martin Routh, 19 Jul 1825. Lynes is sorry to hear that Routh has not yet received a pamphlet from him. He reports that Dr. Parr has bequeathed a ring to Mrs. Routh. Fol. 77: Letter from John Lynes (address, Elmley Lovett) to Martin Routh, 20 MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 272

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MC:PR30/1/C4/10 (con.) Aug 1825. Lynes thanks Routh for his letter; he is just packing up the library at Hatton (of Samuel Parr), and reports on the copies of Routh’s books which he is and is not able to find there, some of which are annotated by Parr. He has also had Parr’s will proved, and mentioned a bequest to Routh’s nephew. Fol. 78: Letter from John Lynes (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 4 Oct 1827. Lynes regrets that Routh was not in when he called at Magdalen, as he would like Routh to send him the MS sermons which he left with him before (presumably by Parr). He asks advice on which works of Parr to print, and also asks Routh whether he can offer patronage to an amanuensis of his. Fol. 79: Letter from John Lynes (address, Elmley Lovett, near Stourport) to Martin Routh, 27 Oct 1827. Lynes apologises for having been away from home for a while; he asks Routh to hang onto the sermons until he is next in Oxford. He also wonders whether his young protege (unnamed), if he can sing, could be made a Bible Clerk at Magdalen.

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Fol. 1: Letter from John David Macbride (1778–1868; Principal of Magdalen Hall 1813–68). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/4 Fol. 232 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 1: Letter from J. D. Macbride (address, 28 Harley Street, London) to Martin Routh, 8 Sep 1832. Macbride understands that the Laudian Professorship of Arabic is vacant, and asks Routh to support his candidature for the post. (Macbride never became Laudian Professor of Arabic) Fols. 2–5: Letters from George Marwood (originally Metcalfe; became Marwood in 1809; 1746–1827; matr. Trinity College Cambridge, 1764; vicar of Amport, Hants., and canon of Chichester) to William Radclyffe (1770–1828; Rouge Croix Pursuivant 1803–23; convicted of forging his pedigree, 1820). It is not known how these letters came to be in Routh’s possession. Fol. 2: Letter from George Marwood (address, Busby Hall) to William Radclyffe (address, Rouge Croix, College of Arms, London), 17 Jun 1809. Marwood discusses the genealogy of his Metcalfe relatives with Radclyffe, and hopes that they will meet soon. Fol. 3: Letter from George Marwood (address, Busby Hall) to William Radclyffe (address, Rouge Croix, College of Arms, London), 6 Jul 1809. Marwood again discusses the pedigrees of the Marwood and Metcalfe families. Fol. 4: Letter from George Marwood (address, Busby Hall) to William Radclyffe (address, Rouge Croix, College of Arms, London), 27 Jul 1809. Marwood again discusses the pedigrees of the Marwood and Metcalfe families, and their relationship with each other. Fol. 5: Letter from George Marwood (address, Busby Hall) to William Radclyffe (address, Rouge Croix, College of Arms, London), 1 Aug 1809. Marwood promises to pay Radclyffe for a Patent of Exemplification (presumably in relation to changing his name from Metcalfe to Marwood). Fol. 6: Letter from Thomas James Mathias (1753/4–1835; satirist and Italian scholar). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 273

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MC:PR30/1/C4/11 (con.) Fol. 6: Letter from Thomas J. Mathias (address, Middle Scotland Yard, Whitehall) to Samuel Parr, 27 Jul 1815. Mathias hopes that Parr has arrived at Magdalen to see Dr. Routh, and hopes that Routh is happy to receive the volume which Mathias asked Parr to give him. The book was Observations on the writings and on the character of Mr. Gray, of which there is a copy in the Routh Library. See MC:PR30/1/C3/10 No. 52 for Routh’s draft reply to Mathias. Fols. 7–8: Letters from Thomas Maurice (1754–1824; matr. St. John’s 1774; Oriental scholar and librarian). Fol. 7: Letter from Thomas Maurice (address, British Museum) to Martin Routh, 2 Dec 1813. Routh has subscribed to a copy of Maurice’s poem on Westminster Abbey. Maurice now asks for a little more money from Routh, because the volume will also include his translation of Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus. He also sends two more copies, which he asks Routh to send to Nassau Senior (D. 1807–12; F. 1812–21) and John Shaw (D. 1764–71; F. 1771–1824). A copy of Maurice’s book is in the Routh Library at Durham. Fol. 8: Letter from Thomas Maurice (address, Low Layton, Essex) to Martin Routh, 14 Nov (year not given). Maurice asks to add Routh’s name to a list of subscribers for what seems to be one of his volumes of Indian theology. Fol. 9: Letter from James Mawman (London bookseller). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/4 Fol. 240 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 9: Letter from J. Mawman (address, 35 Ludgate Street) to Martin Routh, 13 Mar 1816. Mawman reports that the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae has been received from the printer’s. Fols. 10–11: Letters from L. Meikelen (unidentified). Fol. 10: Letter (written in Latin) from L. Meikelen (address not given) to Martin Routh, undated. Meikelen thanks Routh for his assistance when he is in difficult circumstances. Fol. 11: Letter (written in Latin) from L. Meikelen (address, Ship Inn) to Martin Routh, undated. Meikelen has been incapacitated from chest pains and rheumatism since June, and requests financial assistance from Routh. Fol. 12: Letter from Sir Charles Granville Stuart Menteath, bart. (1769–1847). Fol. 12: Letter from C. G. Stuart Menteath (address, Edinburgh) to Martin Routh, 2 Feb 1829. Menteith has asked Lady Erskine about lending Routh a copy of Bishop Burnet’s history which supposedly has annotations by the Earl of Mar, but Lady Erskine has discovered no annotations in her copy. Fol. 13: Letter from H. Montagu (unidentified). Fol. 13: Letter from H. Montagu (address, Cleeve House, Yatton, Bristol) to Martin Routh, 26 Jun 1837. Although he has not met Routh before, Montagu asks to help him answer three obscure questions, namely on an aspect of Greek history, the authorship of a couplet of verse, and the derivation of the French word “zero”. Fol. 14: Letter from John Morgan (d. 1848; matr. Christ Church 1775). Fol. 14 (loose in the volume): Letter from John Morgan (address, Burton Dassett, Heinton, Warks.) to Martin Routh, 27 Jun 1837. Morgan puts his daughter’s MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 274

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MC:PR30/1/C4/11 (con.) eldest son forward as a candidate for a choristership at Magdalen. He understands that Mr. Vicary the organist is willing to give him a trial. Morgan does not give his daughter’s married name, so it is not known whether his grandson was accepted. Fols. 15–16: Letters from J. [?] Morton (unidentified). Fol. 15: Letter from J. [?] Morton (address, Richmond Terrace) to Martin Routh, 4 Feb 1828. Morton hopes to call on Routh tomorrow and sends him some papers relating to Catholic Emancipation. Fol. 16: Letter from J. [?] Morton (address, Richmond Terrace) to Martin Routh, 5 Jul 1828. Morton hopes that Routh’s friend Sir Francis Burdett will have told him to expect a parcel from Morton soon. Fols. 17–18: Letters from Joseph William Moss (1803–62; bibliographer). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/4 Fol. 248 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 17: Letter from Joseph W. Moss (address, 46 Southampton Buildings, Holborn) to Martin Routh, “Thursday Morning”. Moss sends Routh a brace of pheasants. He reports on the progress of his bibliographical work. Routh has scribbled a list of names on the back of this letter. Fol. 18: Letter from Joseph W. Moss (address, Dudley, Worcs.) to Martin Routh, 11 Sep 1825. Moss sends Routh a copy of his latest book (his A Manual of Classical Bibliography, of which there is a copyin the Routh Library in Durham). Fols. 19–21: Letters from George Murthwaite (d. 1798; matr. Queen’s 1750; Fellow there 1765–85). See also MC:PR30/1/C1/3 Fol. 32 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 19: Letter from George Murthwaite (address, Brackley) to Martin Routh, 2 Jul (year not given; 1793?). Murthwaite thanks Routh for sending him copies of John Potter’s edition of works by Plutarch and Basil (Oxford, 1694), which are of a size to fit in his pocket to read between services, although he is unimpressed by John Potter’s editing skills. He has examined an unnamed pupil in Homer. Fol. 20: Letter from George Murthwaite (address, Brackley) to Martin Routh, 26 May 1793. Murthwaite expresses his pleasure at the appointment of Michael Russell to an unspecified post. He also recommends a candidate for a Demyship. He also asks whether Routh could lend him a book suitable for putting in a pocket (hence letter Fol. 19 above?). Routh has written at the bottom of the letter of Murthwaite ‘my ingenious Friend and formerly my Tutor at Queens College’. Fol. 21: Letter from George Murthwaite (address, Brackley) to Martin Routh, 6 Oct 1797. Murthwaite has heard from some Fellows at Queen’s that they are campaigning to have their Provost elected Lady Margaret Reader, and hopes that Routh will lend his support. Fol. 22: Letter from Robert Nares (1753–1829; philologist and clergyman). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/4 Fols. 249–250 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 22: Letter from Robert Nares (address, London) to Martin Routh, 29 Aug 1818. Nares thanks Routh for sending him a set of volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae. [A letter has been torn out between Fols. 22 and 23] Fol. 23: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed correspondent. Fol. 23: Draft letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to an unnamed MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 275

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MC:PR30/1/C4/11 (con.) addressee (‘Revnd Sir’), undated. Routh thanks his addressee for sending him a copy of Dr. Sturges’s answer to Mr. Milner, and asks him to thank the Chancellor for defending the Church and constitution of this country. Fol. 24: Letter from Alexander Nicoll (1793–1828; orientalist). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/4 Fols. 253–254 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 24: Letter from Alexander Nicoll (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Nicoll discusses the works of Pope Caius (283–96). Fols. 25–46: Letters from George Frederick Nott (1767–1841; clergyman and literary editor). Fol. 25: Letter from George Nott (address, Close, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 13 Dec 1816. Nott and his sister wish to erect a memorial to their parents in the Cathedral where his father was a Prebendary. He has drafted something in Latin, and asks Routh whether he would have a look at it. Nott also informs Routh that he has contacts in Spain and Italy who could help find books for him there. Fol. 26: Letter from George Nott (address, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 14 Aug 1818. Nott wonders whether Routh has a copy of a new edition of Dionysius of Alexandria, published at Rome. If not, Nott himself has a copy which he is willing to lend. He also recommends the son of Mr. Dixon, a friend of his, for a Demyship (No Dixon was elected to a Demyship at this time). Fol. 27: Letter from George Nott (address, Close, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 28 Feb 1819. Nott has just received a copy of Morcelli’s Africa Christiana from Italy, which he is happy to lend Routh. He also thanks him for returning the edition of Dionysius, and for sending him the remaining volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 28: Letter from George Nott (address, Herot’s Hotel, Clifford Street, Bond Street, London) to Martin Routh, 12 Mar 1819. Nott has arranged for the copy of Morcelli to be sent to Routh. Nott reports on plans for a memorial, to be designed by Canova, to be erected in Rome in memory of the Old Pretender and his family. He has seen two draft inscriptions, which he thinks are very poor, and so has drafted one of his own, which he submits to Routh for his thoughts. Fol. 29: Letter from George Nott (address, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 6 Mar 1821. Nott asks Routh whether he knows of any works by Pierre Allix other than his Judgement of the Jewish Church, in particular a book on non-jurors published in 1689. Fol. 30: Letter from George Nott (address, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 28 Mar 1821. Nott has another question for Routh about the works of Pierre Allix, this time on whether Allix wrote anything attacking Whiston. He also expresses concern about the progress of the Catholic Bil through the House of Commons. Fol. 31: Letter from George Nott (address, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 6 June 1821. Nott regrets that he was too ill to see Routh when he came to visit him, and reports on his current poor health, which means that he may have to go abroad. He returns two books of Routh’s with his thanks, and asks whether Routh knows the name of the author of a book called God’s Judgements upon the Gentile Apostasized Church [it was John Hildrop]. Fol. 32: Letter from George Nott (address, Rome) to Martin Routh, 27 Oct 1822. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 276

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MC:PR30/1/C4/11 (con.) Nott discusses trying to buy books for Routh in Italy, but apologises that his health has been very bad. He also discusses his experiences of Rome. Fol. 33: Letter from George Nott (address, Florence) to Martin Routh, 29 Aug 1823. Nott apologises that his poor health meant that he had not answered Routh until now. He discusses the inscription placed on the memorial to the Stuart pretenders, which he does not like. He is also sending Routh some books from Rome. Nott discusses witnessing the exequies carried out in Florence in memory of the recently deceased Pope (Pius VII), which left him profoundly unimpressed. Fol. 34: Letter from George Nott (address, Florence) to Martin Routh, 13 Dec 1823. Nott regrets that his poor health still prevents him from returning to England, but once again offers his services in finding books for Routh. Fol. 35: Letter from George Nott (address, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 8 Feb 1825. Nott has arranged to send a box of books to Routh. He discusses how difficult it is find rare or old books in Italy, and generally discusses books of mutual interest. He also reports that the Archbishop of Taranto (Giovanni Antonio de Fulgure, 1754–1833; Archbishop of Taranto 1818–33) has received a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae, and has asked Nott to send Routh his sincere thanks for the gift. Fol. 36: Letter from George Nott (address, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 28 Apr 1825. Nott returns to Routh a book which he has lent to him. He also discusses a work by (Karl Gottleib) Bretsneider, which he thinks could do mischief. He greatly enjoyed Routh’s recent visit. Fol. 37: Letter from George Nott (address, The Close, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 9 May 1836 (wrongly dated in pencil as May 1826). Nott thanks Routh and his wife for their hospitality in Oxford. He discusses the meaning of the term “the Third Day” in regard to Christ’s allusions to it. Fol. 38: Letter from George Nott (address, Close, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 24 Dec 1826. Nott asks Routh for his comments on an inscription written in memory of his parents. Fol. 39: Letter from George Nott (address, Rome) to Martin Routh, 30 Jun 1827. Nott had heard a rumour that Routh had died, and so was delighted to hear that it was untrue. Nott discusses the effect of an accident on himself, and reports that he must live in Italy for the good of his health. He encourages Routh to ask for books from there. He has had, at short notice, to bury a British visitor in Rome, and sends Routh a draft epitaph which he has composed for him. Fol. 40: Letter from George Nott (address, The Close, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 5 Dec 1832. Nott sends Routh a copy of his translation of the Anglican liturgy into Italian (the copy is in the Routh Library). He thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his latest book, and plans to send a copy to their friend the Archbishop of Taranto (Giovanni Antonio de Fulgure). Fol. 41: Letter from George Nott (address, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 6 Mar 1833. Nott thanks Routh for sending a copy of his book to the Archbishop of Taranto, whose character he praises. He also praises Routh’s work, and expresses concern at the dangers facing the Church of England. He asks Routh’s advice for MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 277

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MC:PR30/1/C4/11 (con.) books on the doctrine of Election. Fol. 42: Letter from George Nott (address, The Close, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 6 June 1833. Nott sends Routh a little (unidentified) book. Fol. 43: Letter from George Nott (address, The Close, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 14 Jul 1833. Nott thanks Routh for his advice on the doctrine of Election, and discusses his difficulties with it in more detail. He also discusses a proposed reprint of his translation of the Anglican liturgy into Italian, and seeks Routh’s advice on how to translate “the Sabbath day”. Fol. 44: Letter from George Nott (address, The Close, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 26 Jul 1833. Nott again seeks Routh’s advice on translating “the Sabbath day”. Fol. 45: Letter from George Nott (address, The Close, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 29 Feb 1836. Nott expresses pleasure that Routh had taken a stand on the right side in an hour of trial for the Church (he is alluding to the dispute over R. D. Hampden’s appointment as Regius Professor of Divinity). He regrets that some of his friends have expressed support for the other side. He understands that there might be a meeting of Convocation, and asks Routh whether his presence would be useful. Fol. 46: Letter from George Nott (address, The Close, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 20 Mar 1836. Nott understands that the Proctors plan to veto a motion (depriving Hampden of some of his duties), and so does not think it worth his while to come up to Oxford. Fol. 47: Letter from Arthur Onslow, 3rd Earl of Onslow (1777–1870). See MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 Fols. 37 & 50 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 47: Letter from Arthur Onslow (address, Lindridge) to Martin Routh, 15 Oct 1814. Onslow thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his latest book (the first volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae). Fol. 48: Letter from Michael Pakordy (unidentified). Fol. 48: Letter [in Latin] from Michael Pakordy (address, Little Turnstile, opposite Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Holburn, London) to Martin Routh, 6 Aug 1805. Pakordy is in England in exile, and in difficult circumstances. He is seeking work as a typographer, preferably for the Clarendon Press, and hopes that Routh can help. Fols. 49–50: Letters from William Patrick Palmer (1803–85; Church of England clergyman and theologian). This is a different William Palmer from the one who was a Fellow of Magdalen (see MC:PR30/1/C2/12 fols. 1–23). See MC:PR30/1/C4/5 Fols. 255–263 for other letters from this William Palmer. Fol. 49: Letter [2 sheets] from William Palmer (address, Vicarage, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Bridport) to Martin Routh, 25 Jan 1847. Palmer seeks advice concerning his parish, which is troubled both by Catholics and Dissenters, who each have influence over schools there. Parmer would like to erect four new Anglican schools. One school is in a remote area, and he would like to erect a chapel next to it. He would hope to use some of his income to support a curate there, but he hopes that Routh might be able to support him in these plans. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 278

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MC:PR30/1/C4/11 (con.) Fol. 50: Letter from William Palmer (address, 11 Elmcote Place, Portman Square) to Martin Routh, 17 Mar 1848. Palmer reports that his stipend at Whitchurch Canonicorum is proving to be less than he had expected, and that he is in some financial straits. He therefore asks Routh whether he could lend him some money to tide him over. Fols. 51–53: Letters from Sir James Alan Park (1763–1838; judge). Fol. 51: Letter from J. A. Park (address, Westminster Hall) to Martin Routh, 22 Feb 1810. He regrets that Magdalen College has been put down for an unspecified list of subscriptions for £50, rather than £100, and discusses a two- year subscription from Routh for an unspecified purpose. Fol. 52: Letter from J. A. Park (address, Lincolns Inn Fields) to Martin Routh, 13 Feb 1815. Park sends Routh a copy of the second edition of his memoir of William Stevens, profits from which he intends for the Scotch Episcopal Fund (a copy of this is in the Routh Library). He praises Routh’s own support for the Scottish Episcopal Church. He praises Routh’s sister for her generosity. Fol. 53: Letter from J. A. Park (address, Lincolns Inn Fields) to Martin Routh, 1 Jul 1818. Park thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Volume IV of Reliquiae Sacrae. He hopes to meet him when he is next in Oxford. Fol. 54: Letter from Charles Frederick Parker (d. 1870; matr. Pembroke 1802). Fol. 54: Letter from C. F. Parker (address, Needham Market) to Martin Routh, 12 July(year not given; postmark and context suggest 1821). Parker promises to vote for Richard Heber in the forthcoming Parliamentaryelection in Oxford, unless Sir John Sewell is a candidate. Fol. 55: Letter from Frederick David Perkins (d. 1856; matr. Brasenose 1810). See MC:PR30/1/C2/13 Fols. 21–24 for other letters from this correspondent and also his father John David Perkins (d. 1845; matr. Magd. 1784). Fol. 55: Letter from F. D. Perkins (address, Vicarage, Sowe) to Martin Routh, 19 Apr 1849. Perkins is planning the restoration of his church, and hopes that Routh can contribute to it. He describes his plans for the church in some detail. Fols. 56–59: Letters from Arthur Philip Perceval (1799–1853; clergyman and religious writer). See MC:PR30/1/C4/5 Fols. 272–279 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 56: Letter from Arthur Perceval (address, East Horsley) to Martin Routh, 12 Feb 1834. Perceval discusses the question of Apostolic Succession in Sweden. He thinks that he can prove it for the English and Scottish churches, but not for the Danish. Routh is not sure about the claims of the Swedish Church. Fol. 57: Letter from Arthur Perceval (address, East Horsley) to Martin Routh, 15 Jun 1836. Perceval asks Routh to help answer a series of questions, mainly on the biographical details of some theologians, which he includes in his letter. Fol. 58: Letter from Arthur Perceval (address, East Horsley) to Martin Routh, 9 Apr 1838. Perceval seeks Routh’s help in tracking down some obscure French theological texts. Fol. 59: Copy of a memorandum by Arthur Perceval (sent by him to Routh), dated 29 Jan 1839, titled “Observations on the proposed Memorial of the Martyrdom of Cranmer, Ridley & Latimer at Oxford.” Perceval expresses strong reservations MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 279

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MC:PR30/1/C4/11 (con.) on the project. Fol. 60: Letter from Frederick Henry Petrie (1772–1842; antiquary). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/5 Fol. 280 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 60: Letter from Henry Petrie (address, Stockwell, Surrey) to Martin Routh, 11 Feb 1823. Petrie discusses his plans for a major plan to publish early English historical documents. He sends Routh a proposal (not extant) and asks for his comments on it. Fol. 61: Letter from Richard Porson (1759–1808; classical scholar). See also MC:PR30/1/C1/3 Fol. 46 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 61: Letter from Richard Porson (address, Essex Court) to Martin Routh, 29 Jan 1805. Porson has sent Routh his editions of four Greek tragedies, the Hecuba, Orestes, Phoenissae, and Medea (these copies are all in the Routh Library), as well as some unnamed pamphlets. Fol. 62: Letter from Isaac Preston (d. 1796; matr. University College 1772). Fol. 62: Letter from Isaac Preston (address, Tunstead, near Norwich) to Martin Routh, n.d. (c. 1792?). Routh has sought Preston’s support for an unnamed candidate for the Chancellorship, but his letter reached Preston only after the election. However, Preston tends to vote in such matters on the recommendation of his former tutor Sir William Scott. Fol. 63: Testimonials for William Cureton (1808–64; Syriac scholar). Fol. 63: A collection of testimonials in favour of William Cureton’s (unsuccessful) application for the Laudian Chair of Arabic, all dated March 1840. There is no note accompanying this to explain why it was sent to Routh. Fols. 64–65: Letters from Stephen Reay (1782–1861; Orientalist). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/5 Fols. 305–307 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 64: Letter from S. P. Reay (address, Frenchay, near Bristol) to Martin Routh, 15 Jul 1840. Reay reports on his difficulties in trying to obtain a collation of the MS of Tertullian at the Ambrosian Library. Fol. 65: Letter from S. P. Reay (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 22 Aug 1842. Reay has just received a letter from Bishop Skinner of Aberdeen (William Skinner, 1778–1857, Scottish Episcopal Bishop of Aberdeen 1816–57), and passes on its news to Routh, in particular the request for a subscription for a new Chapel. He also asks to thank Mrs. Routh for sending him some fruit from Magdalen. Fol. 66: Letter from John Henry Renouard (sic? The writer calls himself a Fellow of Trinity College, but no one of that spelling is in Alumni Oxonienses). Fol. 66: Letter from John Henry Renouard (address, Trinity College) to Mr. Kett (address, Trinity College), 6 June 1797. Renouard has put before the senior members of Trinity a request made through Henry Kett from the President of Magdalen (Routh) to have an MS of Origen sent to him. He reports that the Fellows do not want their MS to leave the College, but will allow it to be inspected within the College itself. Fol. 67: Letter from Thomas Roberson (unidentified). Fol. 67: Letter from Thomas Roberson (address, London) to Martin Routh, 19 MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 280

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MC:PR30/1/C4/11 (con.) Aug 1835. Roberson regrets that he was unable to visit Theale on his last visit to Oxford. He reports that he has stripped an unnamed bill (identified by Routh as a Corporation Bill) “of its sting”. Fol. 68: Letter from Edward Rodd (d. 1842; matr. Oriel 1785; Fellow of Exeter 1791–1805). Fol. 68: Letter from Edward Rodd (address, Trebertha Hall, Launceston, Cornwall) to Samuel Parr (address, c/o Magdalen College), 11 Aug 1792. Rodd has received a letter with a publication (see below) which purports to be from Parr. Rodd is unable to believe that it is Parr’s work, and asks Parr to confirm or deny it. Fol. 69: Letter from Francis Rodd (d. 1812; matr. Balliol 1751). Fol. 69: Letter from Francis Rodd (address, Trebertha Hall, Launceston, Cornwall) to Martin Routh, 13 Aug 1792. Rodd includes in his letter transcripts of the letter purporting to come from Samuel Parr to his son Edward, and his son’s reply (Fol. 68 above). The letter from “Parr” attacks Rodd for sending him an abusive letter, and mocks him for his poor command of Greek, which he regards as typical of Oxford. Rodd asks Routh to show the correspondence to Parr, and other interested parties. Fols. 70–72: Letters from Thomas Rodd (1763–1822; bookseller). Fol. 70: Letter from Thomas Rodd (address, London) to Martin Routh, 15 Aug 1815. Rodd sends Routh a letter of thanks from Sir Joseph Banks for Routh’s present to him (presumablythe first volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae?). Banks wishes to send Routh a present of a book in return, but Rodd is not sure what to send him. He is currently compiling a catalogue of his collection of tracts and pamphlets. He does not intend to print it, but will send Routh an MS copy. Fol. 71: Letter from Thomas Rodd (address, London) to Martin Routh, 12 Jan 1818. Rodd discusses sending Routh some catalogues, and asks Routh’s opinion on reprinting a couple of treatises by Sir Humphrey Lind. He also muses on Roman Catholicism. Fol. 72: Letter from Thomas Rodd (address, London) to Martin Routh, 16 Jul 1819. Rodd thanks Routh for returning an unnamed MS on the Trinity with his comments on it. He asks whether a young clergyman might like to write a preface to it, so that it could win him some welcome publicity.

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Fol. 1: Letter from Sir Edwin Baynton Sandys (d. 1848, created DCL 1812). Fol. 1: Letter from Edwin Sandys (address illegible) to Martin Routh, 4 Aug 1810. Sandys thanks Routh for his present, and invites him to visit the castle at Miserden, Gloucestershire). Fols. 2–4: Letters from Charles Sawkins (d. 1818; matr. Christ Church 1774). Fol. 2: Letter from Charles Sawkins (address, Manchester) to Martin Routh, 11 Dec 1802. Sawkins reports that Routh’s letter to him has only just arrived. He thanks Routh for agreeing to his (unspecified) request, and reports that he is in MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 281

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MC:PR30/1/C4/12 (con.) good health. Fol. 3: Letter from Charles Sawkins (address, Frodsham, Cheshire) to Martin Routh, 10 Aug 1814. Sawkins thanks Routh for sending him the first two volumes of Reliquiae Sacrae. He also alludes to two loans, of £100 and £50, made to him by Routh, and discusses his financial situation at some length by way of an explanation as to why he cannot repay them just yet. Fol. 4: Letter from Charles Sawkins (address, Frodsham, Cheshire) to Martin Routh, 7 March 1816. Sawkins thanks Routh for sending him the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He hopes that he will live long enough to complete it. He also thanks Routh for the loan of a copy of Bishop Hooper’s sermons on Jonah. Fols. 5–6: Letters from Seward (first name illegible; unidentified). Fol. 5: Letter from Seward (first name illegible; address, Reading, Fryars’ Street) to Martin Routh, “Sunday”. Seward sends Routh a small token [unspecified] of his admiration for him. Fol. 6: Letter from Seward (the same correspondent as in Fol. 6 above; address, Dean Street, 50) to Martin Routh, “Monday”. The letter is almost illegible, but appears to consist of Seward’s concerns about the safety of the Church in Oxford. Fols. 7–8: Letters from Sir Samuel Shepherd (1760–1840; lawyer and politician). Fol. 7: Letter from Sir Samuel Shepherd (address, Streatley) to Martin Routh, 11 Apr 1836. Shepherd gladly accepts Routh’s offer of a copy of his Opuscula Sacra, and invites him to call at Streatley when he is next travelling between Tilehurst and Oxford. Fol. 8: Letter from Sir Samuel Shepherd (address, Streatley) to Martin Routh, 18 May 1836. Shepherd is delighted to report the safe arrival of his copy of Opuscula Sacra. Fol. 9: Letter from Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757–1844; Prime Minister 1801–4). Fol. 9: Letter from Lord Sidmouth (address, Early Court) to Martin Routh, 16 Jun 1834. Sidmouth thanks Routh for the hospitality shown to his wife when she was visiting Oxford, and regrets that he was unable to be there too (evidently in relation to the installation of the Duke of Wellington as Chancellor earlier that month). Fol. 10: Letter from John Pye Smith (1774–1851; Congregationalist minister). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/6 Fol. 332 for another letter from this correspondent. Fol. 10: Letter from J. Pye Smith (address, Homerton) to Martin Routh, 27 Dec 1820. Pye Smith sends Routh a copy of the second volume of his book Scripture Testimony to the Messiah (copies of both volumes are in the Routh Library in Durham). He expresses pleasure that members of the Established Church and most dissenters can find more on which to agree than to disagree. Fols. 11–16: Letters from Philip Smyth (d. 1840; matr. New College 1777). Fol. 11: Last part of a letter from Philip Smyth (no address given) to an unknown recipient “½ 12 Friday Morn.” Smyth asks if the President (Routh) can procure a manuscript for him. On the back of the letter is a draft reply from Routh asking if Smyth can produce manuscripts for him in return. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 282

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MC:PR30/1/C4/12 (con.) Fol. 12: Letter from Philip Smyth (address, New College) to Martin Routh, 28 Dec (no year given). Smyth forwards extracts from a letter from a Mr. Taylor in which he offers to check the Greek text of the Gospels, Acts and Epistles if Routh will do the same for his Plato. Fol. 13: Letter from Philip Smyth (address, Worthen) to Martin Routh, 21 Jun 1823. Smyth hopes that Routh and his wife are in good health. He praises Mrs. Routh, and hopes that it will not be long before Routh’s edition of Bishop Burnet is published. Fol. 14: Letter from Philip Smyth (address, Worthen, near Salop) to Martin Routh, 2 Jun 1824. Smyth thanks Routh for his copy of his edition of Bishop Burnet. His health makes it impossible to travel at present. He expresses his regrets at the death of Dr. S[haw] (John Shaw, d. 1824; D. 1764–71; F. 1771–1824). He discusses the death of Lord Byron and the destruction of his memoirs. Fol. 15: Letter from Philip Smyth (address, Worthen, near Salop) to Martin Routh, 7 May 1833. Smyth will be delighted to receive copies of Routh’s latest books. He reports on his poor health. He hopes that he can one day see Magdalen Chapel and Theale Church, and discusses the restoration of Gothic buildings. Fol. 16: Letter from Philip Smyth (address, Worthen, near Salop) to Martin Routh, 6 Dec 1833. Smyth thanks Routh for sending copies of his latest books. He is not impressed by his new Bishop (Edward Grey, Bishop of Hereford 1832–7), much preferring his predecessor, George Isaac Huntingford (Bishop 1815–32). Fol. 17: Letter from George John Spencer, second Earl Spencer (1758–1834; politician and book collector). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/6 Fols. 333–336 and MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 Fols. 19–20 & 48–49 for other letters to and from this correspondent. Fol. 17: Letter from Earl Spencer (address, Spencer House) to Martin Routh, 27 Mar 1833. Spencer thanks Routh warmly for sending a copy of his edition of Bishop Burnet. Fols. 18–20: Letters from Charles Sutton (1756–1846; matr. St. John’s College Cambridge 1775; Fellow there 1784–93; Perpetual Curate of St. George’s Tombland, Norwich 1788–1841). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/12 Fols. 66–67 and MC:PR30/1/C2/14 Fol. 37 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 18: Letter from Charles Sutton (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 10 Jan 1815. Sutton thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae. He is struck by how few heads of Cambridge College have published anything substantial (he does not know how things stand in Oxford). He hopes that a relation of his, Thomas Howes, might become a Fellow of Magdalen (Howes, who had been elected a Demy in 1803, was elected a Fellow that year). Fol. 19: Letter from Charles Sutton (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 9 Sep 1818. Sutton agrees with Routh that the tithes of Wicklewood ought not to be let to one person, and discusses what should be done. He thanks Routh for the third volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He wonders whether it would be a good thing for the Church of England to create Suffragan Bishops. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 283

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MC:PR30/1/C4/12 (con.) Fol. 20: Letter from Charles Sutton (address, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 14 May 1841. Sutton thanks Routh for sending him a copy of a print of his church at Theale. He thinks it better than an earlier print of the church which Routh’s sister Mary had sent him. He reports on the health of one of Routh’s sisters (unnamed). Fol. 21: Letter from G. Tahourdin (unidentified). Fol. 21: Letter from G. Tahourdin (address, Burdon’s Hotel, Whitecross Street) to Martin Routh, 29 Nov 1853. Tahourdin has only just heard of the death of Routh’s sister, Mrs. Sheppard (who in fact died in 1848). He had written to her in relation to the property which she purchased in Wandsworth, claiming that he was owed money by her in relation to that property. Fols. 22–23: Letters from John Taylor (unidentified). Fol. 22: Letter from John Taylor (address, “Carcere Ilcestrense” [Ilchester Prison]) to Martin Routh, 19 Oct 1823, with a second letter (address, Shepton Mallett) to Routh, dated 9 Dec 1823. The first letter is written in Latin, the second in English. In the Latin letter, Taylor explains that he was a neighbour and friend of Routh’s brother Samuel (D. 1785–91; F. 1791–1811; d. 1822), and is a clergyman, and vicar of Shepton Mallett, but is now in a debtor’s prison, and asks Routh for aid. In the second letter, Taylor explains that he had been set free from prison by the kindness of friends before he needed to send Routh a letter, but now writes to him because his resources are now exhausted and he needs more help. Fol. 23: Letter from John Taylor (address, 9 Kingsmead Terrace, Bath) to Martin Routh, 20 Apr 1849. Taylor mentions the kindness shown him by Routh’s sister Mrs. Sheppard. He also remembers encountering Routh himself when he was working in the Bodleian and Routh was doing some research there. He is now asking, once again, for some more financial aid. Fols. 24–26: Letters from Vaughan Thomas (d. 1858; matr. Oriel 1792; later Fellow of Corpus Christi). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/14 Fols. 42 & 49 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 24: Letter from Vaughan Thomas (address, Magdalen Lodge) to Martin Routh, 2 May 1832. Thomas thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula, praising its theological orthodoxy, and attacking in turn the degenerate standards of Christian belief in their own time. Fol. 25: Letter from Vaughan Thomas (no address given) to Martin Routh, 14 Mar 1836. Thomas discusses opinions on pagan theology. Fol. 26: Letter from Vaughan Thomas (address, High Street) to Martin Routh, 25 Feb 1850. Thomas has been asked to compose a memorial inscription to Edward Copleston, former Bishop of Llandaff (1776–1849). He sends a draft of it (missing) to Routh for his comments. Fol. 27: Letter from John Thorpe (unidentified). Fol. 27: Letter from John Thorpe (address, Malines) to Martin Routh, 21 Mar 1844. Knowing Routh’s interest in the Oxford Martyrs, Thorpe draws to Routh’s attention an edition of the works of Isidore of Seville published in 1534, which was dedicates to Nicholas Ridley and Cuthbert Tunstall. Fol. 28: Letter Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow (1731–1806). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/3 Fol. 6 for another letter from this correspondent. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 284

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MC:PR30/1/C4/12 (con.) Fol. 28: Letter from Lord Thurlow (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Thurlow thanks Routh for his letter and promises him his continuing support. Fol. 29: Letter from Charles Augustus Thurlow (d. 1873; matr. Balliol 1820). Fol. 29: Letter from Charles Thurlow (address, Upper Rectory, Malpas) to Martin Routh, 1 Dec 1847. Thurlow, the son of Edward South Thurlow (matr. Magd. 1781), and his brother are preparing an inscription for the slab on their father’s grave in Norwich Cathedral, and asks Routh to approve the results. Fol. 30: Letter from Jonathan Toup (1713–1785; classical scholar and Church of England clergyman). Fol. 30: Letter from J. Toup (address, St. Martins) to Thomas Warton (address, Trinity College), 8 Nov 1777. Toup thanks the Delegates of the University Press for paying him £100 for his book (his edition of Longinus On the Sublime?), and discusses Samuel Musgrave’s new edition of Euripides. Fol. 31: Letter from Arthur Trevor (unidentified). Fol. 31: Letter from Arthur Trevor (address, Whittlebury) to Martin Routh, 23 Feb 1834. Trevor thanks Routh for sending him a copy of his latest book (his revision of Burnet?). Fols. 32–34: Letters from Joseph Turner (1745–1828; Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1784–1828 and Dean of Norwich 1790–1828). Fol. 32: Letter from Joseph Turner (address, Pembroke Lodge, Cambridge) to Martin Routh, 24 Jan 1808. Turner discusses Charles Burney’s visit to Cambridge, and assured Routh that, if Burney wants to obtain a degree there, he will offer his support. Fol. 33: Letter from Joseph Turner (address, Deanery, Norwich) to Martin Routh, 7 Oct 1814. Turner thanks Routh for sending him a copy of Reliquiae Sacrae. He regrets that he has not seen Routh for several years, but has recently heard about him from Henry Beckwith (Ch. 1807–14; Clerk 1814–20; Chaplain 1820–2). Fol. 34: Letter from Joseph Turner (address, Pembroke Lodge, Cambridge) to Martin Routh, 2 Jun 1819. Turner thanks Routh for a copy of the fourth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He hopes that they will be able to meet before too long, and hopes that Henry Beckwith continues to make satisfactory progress. Fols. 35–36: Letters from David Henry Urquhart (d. 1829; matr. Magdalen 1771). See also MC:PR30/1/C1/3 Fol. 44, MC:PR30/1/C2/8 No. 52a and MC:PR30/1/C2/11 No. 1 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 35: Letter from D. Urquhart (address, Gainsborough) to Martin Routh, 16 Aug 1792. Urquhart asks whether someone who has taken their names off the College’s books, and then put them on again, needs to keep any more terms before he can vote in Convocation. He hopes not, since he already has an MA. He asks, because he would like to vote in the forthcoming Chancellorship election. He also hopes that, if Routh is visiting Suffolk, they will be able to meet. Fol. 36: Letter from D. H. Urquhart (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, 17 Jun 1793. Urquhart recommends Frederick North, son of Lord North, former Prime Minister and Chancellor of the University of Oxford, to Routh’s acquaintance. Fols. 37–43: Letters from Richard Valpy (1754–1836; schoolmaster) and his sons Abraham John MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 285

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MC:PR30/1/C4/12 (con.) Valpy (1787–1854; classical scholar and printer) and Francis Edward Jackson Valpy (1797–1882; Church of England clergyman and schoolmaster). See also MC:PR30/1/C4/6 Fols. 347–348 and MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 Fol. 35 for other letters from members of this family. Fol. 37: Letter from Richard Valpy (no address given) to Martin Routh, 1 Oct 1814. Valpy regrets that he was out when Routh came to visit him, because he could not thank him for his copy of Reliquiae Sacrae. Fol. 38: Letter from A. J. Valpy (address, 26 Tooke’s Court) to Martin Routh, 28 Oct 1814. Valpy thanks Routh for his help in his planned edition of Stephanus, and for his support for the Classical Journal. Fol. 39: Letter from Richard Valpy (no address given) to Martin Routh, 25 Jun 1818. Valpy thanks Routh for giving him a copy of the fourth volume of Reliquiae Sacrae. He would like to have visited Routh at Tilehurst, but he has had a riding accident which has left him immobile for the time being. He was sorry at his friend Abrahall’s failure at Magdalen (presumably to get a Demyship?). Fol. 40: Letter from Abraham Valpy (address, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street) to Martin Routh, 5 Dec 1822. Valpy reminds Routh to pay a subscription (presumably for his edition of Stephanus). He asks whether Routh has encountered a journal called the Museum, which might be useful for his work on Burnet. Fol. 41: Letter from Abraham Valpy (address, Red Lion Court) to Martin Routh, 2 Aug 1823. Valpy hopes that Routh has received the missing numbers of his copy of the Greek Thesaurus, so that it can be found. He reports that Routh’s latest work as been reviewed in the Museum, and that his father plans to marry. Fol. 42: Letter from F. Valpy (no address given) to Martin Routh, 10 July (no year given; 1832?). Valpy thanks Routh for a copy of his “edition of some of the tracts of the Christian Fathers” (presumably this is Routh’s Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula), and passes on news of his father. Fol. 43: First page only of a letter lacking a signature, but clearly in the hand of Abraham Valpy, and addressed to Martin Routh. Valpy discusses the meanings of certain Greek words in a theological context. Fol. 44: Letter from Charles Wallington (d. 1843; matr. Christ Church 1770, Rector of Hawkeswell 1791–1843). Fol. 44: Letter from C. Wallington (address, Hawkswell Rectory, Rochford, Essex) to Martin Routh, 29 Apr 1839. Wallington has been visited by his and Routh’s friend Sir Francis Burdett, and the have been reminiscing. He expresses his dislike of the Oxford Tracts, and the threat which their writers pose to the Church of England. Fol. 45: Letter from James Welsh (unidentified). Fol. 45: Letter from James Welsh (address, 10 Union Terrace, Camden Town) to Martin Routh, 10 Apr 1829. Welsh sends Routh a brief memoir of Thomas Taylor (1758–1835; philosopher and translator of Plato). He understands that the Clarendon Press is producing an edition of Plotinus, and asks Routh to confirm if this is the case. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 286

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MC:PR30/1/C4/12 (con.) Fol. 46: Letter from Dr. White (unidentified). Fol. 46: Letter from a Dr. White (unidentified; no address given) to Martin Routh, “Tuesday evening”. White asks Routh if he can borrow the two last volumes of Matthäi, on the remaining Epistles of St. Paul [These appear to be part of a series of editions of books of the Bible published by Christian Friedrich von Matthäi (1744-1811) at Riga in the 1780s]. There are some notes by Routh on the back of this letter, about readings in an unidentified Greek text. Fol. 47: Letter from Herbert White (d. 1868; matr. Oriel 1811; Scholar and Fellow of Corpus Christi 1812–38). Fol. 47: Letter from Herbert White (address, Newton Valence) to Martin Routh, 3 Jun 1830. White will be attending a scholarship examination at Corpus Christi College next week, and will call on Routh then. He seeks the consent of the College to a scheme for settling his father’s debts with his creditors, which includes Magdalen College. The letter bears some near-illegible notes in Routh’s hand. Fol. 48: Letter from Robert Wells Whitford (d. 1879; matr. St. Edmund Hall 1825). Fol. 48: Letter from R. Wells Whitford (address, London) to Martin Routh, 9 Jun 1838. Whitford plans to print a manuscript which has been widely supported in Oxford and Cambridge and bears the names of many subscribers. It does not bear Routh’s because Routh was away when Whitford visited. He now hopes that Routh will support it. The volume is an English version of Tromm and Schmidt’s Greek Concordance to the Bible. Fol. 49: Letter from Charles Williams (d. 1808; D. 1766–75; F. 1775–83). See also MC:PR30/1/C1/3 Fols. 5 & 35, and MC:PR30/1/C2/4 Fol. 18 for other letters from this correspondent. Fol. 49: Letter from Charles Williams (address, Woolbeding near Midhurst) to Martin Routh, 16 May 1806. Williams writes a letter of recommendation for the son of a Dr. Dodson, a former Fellow of Oriel, apparently for a Demyship. No one of that name was admitted to Magdalen at this time. Fols. 50–71: Letters from William Windham (1750–1810; politician). See also MC:PR30/1/C2/10 Fol. 9 and MC:PR30/1/C4/6 Fols. 356–357 for other letters between Routh and this correspondent. Fol. 50: Letter from William Windham (address, Pall Mall) to Martin Routh, 29 Jun 1805. Windham has heard a rumour that William Scott, the current MP for Oxford University, is to be made a peer. If this is true, Windham would like to stand for election in his place. However, he asks Routh whether Magdalen would like to support him, in the light of his views on Catholic emancipation (he supported Catholic relief), and generally asks his advice on how to proceed. Fol. 51: Letter from William Windham (address, Pall Mall) to Martin Routh, 4 Jul 1805. Windham discusses once again his chances of success in standing as MP for the University, and considers which Colleges might support him. Fol. 52: Copy of a letter from William Windham (address, Pall Mall) to “Hippisley” (Sir John Hippisley, 1745/6–1825, political ally of Windham), 6 Jul 1805. Windham sets out his views on the Catholic question, with regard to his MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 287

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MC:PR30/1/C4/12 (con.) possible election to the University. Fol. 53: Letter from D. Hughes (David Hughes; d. 1817; Principal of Jesus College 1802–17; address, London) to Martin Routh, 9 Jul 1805. Hughes reports that Windham is determined to be candidate for the University, but that the Master of University College (where Windham was an undergraduate) feels unable to support him. Fol. 54: Letter (2 sheets) from William Windham (address, Pall Mall) to Martin Routh, 12 Jul 1805. Windham fears that his plans to stand for Oxford will come to nothing, mainly thanks to Dr. Hughes’ duplicity in this matter. Fol. 55: Letter (2 sheets) from William Windham (address, Pall Mall) to Martin Routh, 17 Jul 1805. Windham discusses the intentions of William Pitt’s government with regard to the Catholic question, reassuring Routh that they are not as dangerous as had been feared. Fol. 56: Letter from William Windham (address, Pall Mall) to Martin Routh, 18 Jul 1805. Windham discusses the burning of Joseph Priestley’s house in 1791, which he opposed, if even he disapproved of Priestley’s politics. He also discusses his attitudes to dissenters, and expresses irritation at having to defend his conduct over the Catholic question. He is also unimpressed by Dr. Hughes’s behaviour. Fol. 57: Letter from William Windham (address, Pall Mall) to Martin Routh, 2 Aug 1805. Windham suggests that he and Routh meet, either in Oxford, or somewhere nearer London, to discuss the names of possible supporters. Fol. 58: Letter from William Windham (address, Pall Mall) to Martin Routh, 10 Aug 1805. Windham discusses various possible supporters to his electoral campaign. Fol. 59: Letter from William Windham (address, Pall Mall) to Martin Routh, 16 Sep 1805. Windham reports on his discreet canvassing for the Oxford University seat. Fol. 60: Letter from William Windham (address, Beaconsfield) to Martin Routh, 8 Nov 1805. Windham reports on his pleasure at meeting Routh, but also reflects on current events, including the news of the battle of Trafalgar and the death of Lord Nelson. He also discusses the possibility of appointing his nephew Mr. Lukin to a regimental chaplaincy. Fol. 61: Letter from William Windham (address, Beaconsfield) to Martin Routh, 14 Nov 1805. Windham continues to discuss the possible Parliamentary vacancy at Oxford, and the current state of the war. Fol. 62: Letter from William Windham (address, Park Street, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 23 Aug 1799. Windham asks Routh if he can suggest any candidates to be the garrison chaplain at Minorca. He describes the post, and praises the current governor, General Fox. Fol. 63: Letter from William Windham (address, Park Street, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 19 Sep 1799.Windham assures Routh that he need not hurry to make a choice (presumably over a nomination for the garrison chaplaincy at Minorca). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 288

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MC:PR30/1/C4/12 (con.) Fol. 64: Letter from William Windham (address, Park Street, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 6 Nov 1799. Windham would be happy to nominate Routh’s brother (presumably to the chaplaincy in Minorca) if Routh wishes. Fol. 65: Letter from William Windham (address, Park Street, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 6 Jan 1801. Windham considers at length the case of a Mr. Thomas who has been found guilty of fraud or forgery, which carried then death penalty, and whether or not Thomas should suffer this fate. Fol. 66: Letter from William Windham (address, Park Street, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 10 Mar 1801. Windham is aware of a vacancy for Parliament at Oxford University, and raises with Routh the possibility of standing as a candidate. Fol. 67: Letter (2 sheets) from William Windham (address, Park Street, Westminster) to Martin Routh, 14 Mar 1801. Windham thanks Routh for his support. He reflects on his position as a former minister, and on the safety of the Church of England. He discusses where he might find support for his candidacy in Oxford, noting that his own College (University) would not support him. Fol. 68: Letter from William Windham (address, Arlington Street) to Martin Routh, 20 Oct 1806. Windham has decided to abandon plans to stand in Oxford, and instead is going to try Norfolk. Fol. 69: Letter from Thomas Amyot, William Windham’s private secretary (address, Downing Street). to Martin Routh, 27 Oct 1806. Lady Carnarvon has asked Windham to seek Routh’s support for her son, Mr. Herbert and his colleague Mr. Thistlethwayte (for unknown purposes). In Windham’s absence, Amyot passes on the request to Routh. Fol. 70: Letter from William Windham (address, Arlington Street) to Martin Routh, 26 Nov 1806. Windham thanks Routh for fresh news of his brother, and reports on his success in Norfolk . Fol. 71: Last sheet of a letter from William Windham (address lost) to Martin Routh, postmarked 8 May 1807. Windham assures Routh that he does not wish to seek his assistance on an unspecified matter. Fol. 72: Letter from Thomas Winstanley (1749–1823; historian and classical scholar). Fol. 72: Letter from T. Winstanley (address, Oxford) to Martin Routh, 10 Sep 1815. Winstanley copies in a letter from Charles Butler (1750–1832; Roman Catholic layman and lawyer) to Winstanley, written from Lincoln’s Inn and dated 7 Sep 1815, in which he regrets that he has been able to find a particular book, and wonders whether Winstanley could prevail on Routh to lend him his copy. In his own letter, Winstanley encourages Routh to help Butler. Fol. 73: Letter from John Chappell Woodhouse (d. 1833; matr. Christ Church 1767; Dean of Lichfield 1807–33). Fol. 73: Letter from J. C. Woodhouse (address, Deanery, Lichfield) to Martin Routh, 4 Jun 1832. Woodhouse thanks Routh warmly for sending him a copy of his Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum opuscula. Fol. 74: Letter from Creuttel Wurtz (unidentified). Fol. 74: Letter (in French) from Creuttel Wurtz (address, Paris) to Martin Routh, MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 289

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MC:PR30/1/C4/12 (con.) 9 Jul 1811. Wurtz reports on the progress of a package to be delivered for Routh by way of Richard Heber, and where it should now be. Fol. 75: Letter from Daniel Wyttenbach (1746–1820; classical scholar). Fol. 75: Letter (in Latin) from Daniel Wyttenbach (address, Leiden) to Martin Routh, 30 Dec 1800. Wyttenbach is publishing an edition of Plutarch’s Moralia with the Clarendon Press, using Thomas Randolph as his intermediary. In 1798 he sent a package containing his latest text to the British Legate at Hamburg, and has heard nothing since. He asks Routh to help him find out what is going on. (The package was eventually found, having been lying forgotten in the Legate’s house. See further R. H. Darwall-Smith, ‘Daniel Wyttenbach and the Clarendon Press’, in Plutarchea Lovaniensia: A Miscellany of Essays on Plutarch, Studia Hellenistica 32 (1996), 53–77). Fols. 76–77: Letters from John Young (1746–1820; Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow 1774-1820). See MC:PR30/1/C4/6 Fol. 362 for a letter from Young’s son. Fol. 76: Letter from Professor Young (address, Glasgow College) to Martin Routh, 12 Mar 1807. Young has sent Routh a specimen of an intended edition of the Greek dramatic posts, and hopes to employ his son, a member of Balliol College in correcting the proofs. Fol. 77: Letter from Professor Young (address, Glasgow College) to Martin Routh, 4 Oct 1815. Young recommends to Routh his younger son Charles (who has just gone up to Balliol as a Snell Exhibitioner), and hopes that Routh will take an interest in him.

MC:PR30/1/MS1 - MATERIAL CONCERNING RICHARD CHANDLER’S LIFE OF WILLIAM WAYNFLETE

Richard Chandler (1737–1810; D. 1757–70; F. 1770–80) was one of the few Magdalen men of his generation to produce any major scholarly work, starting with Marmora Oxoniensia (1763), an edition of classical inscriptions preserved in Oxford. He later travelled in Asia Minor and Greece, publishing important accounts of his visits between 1769 in 1776. He was well acquainted with Martin Routh: letters from him to Routh can be found at MC:PR30/1/C2/1 Fol. 25 and MC:PR30/1/C2/3 Fols. 47–50.

In later life he devoted himself to the life of William Waynflete (c. 1398–1486), the Founder of Magdalen College. As the introduction to the published texts makes clear, Chandler had largely completed the book by 1791, but it seems that he could never quite bring himself to complete the work. The Life of William Waynflete was therefore not published until 1811, a year after Chandler’s death.

Chandler’s work was prepared for publication byCharles Lambert. However, it is veryclear from what follows that Martin Routh took a great interest in the progress of the book, and provided both Lambert and Chandler’s widow with much assistance. This is undoubtedly the reason why the autograph of Chandler’s book, and the accompanying papers ended up in the archives of Magdalen College. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 290

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Of these papers, MC:PR30/1/MS1/3 certainly passed through the hands of John Bloxam, because he had it bound in his customary way; it is therefore conjectured that he also owned MC:PR30/1/MS1/1–2.

MC:PR30/1/MS1/1 c. 1791–1810 Volume inscribed on the spine “Chandler’s Life of Bishop Waynflete Vol. I”. This contains the main text of Chandler’s life of William Waynflete. The main text is Chandler’s hand, but the notes, here written on facing pages, seem to have been added by Charles Lambert, who prepared the work for publication. There are also some pencil annotations to the text, perhaps added when it was being set up for printing. The text has been amended in various places, and some material has been pasted in on slips of paper.

MC:PR30/1/MS1/2 c. 1791–1810 Volume inscribed on the spine “Chandler’s Life of Bishop Waynflete Vol. II”. This volume contains the text of most of the appendices to Chandler’s life of Waynflete, with some supplementary material, as follows: Fols. 1–2: Texts of Chandler’s appendices I and III, in Chandler’s hand. Fols. 3–6: Text of Chandler’s appendix V, in Chandler’s hand. Fols. 7–8: Text of Chandler’s appendix VI, in Chandler’s hand. Fols. 9–11: Material towards Chandler’s appendix VII, partlyin Chandler’s hand. Fols. 12–13: Text of Chandler’s appendix VIII, probably not in Chandler’s hand. Fols. 14–19: Text of Chandler’s appendix IX, not in Chandler’s hand. Fol. 20: Text of part of Chandler’s appendix X, in Chandler’s hand. Fol. 21: Text of Chandler’s appendix XII, in Chandler’s hand. Fols. 22–23: Text of Chandler’s appendix XIV, in Chandler’s hand. Fols. 24–25: Text of Chandler’s appendix XVI, in Chandler’s hand. Fol. 26–28: Texts and notes for Chandler’s appendix XVII, written partly in Chandler’s hand, partly in that of Charles Lambert. Fol. 29: Text of Chandler’s appendix XVIII, in Chandler’s hand. Fol. 30: Text of Chandler’s appendix XIX, in Chandler’s hand. Fols. 31–33: Text of Chandler’s appendix XX, not in Chandler’s hand. Fols. 34–35: Text of Chandler’s appendix XXI, not in Chandler’s hand. Fol. 36: Text of Chandler’s appendix XXII, in Chandler’s hand. Fols. 37–38: Text of Chandler’s appendix XXIII, in Chandler’s hand. Fol. 39: Text of Chandler’s appendix XXIV, in Chandler’s hand. Fol. 40: Text of Chandler’s appendix XXVI, in Chandler’s hand. Fols. 41–43: Text of Chandler’s appendix XXVII, in Chandler’s hand. Fols. 44–47: Text of Chandler’s appendix XXVIII, in Chandler’s hand. Fol. 48: Text of Chandler’s appendix XXIX, in Chandler’s hand. Fol. 49: Text of Chandler’s appendix XXX, not in Chandler’s hand. Fol. 50: Note (by Lambert) on the numbering of Chandler’s appendix XXXI. Fols. 51–53: Text of Chandler’s appendix XXXII (here numbered XXXI), in Chandler’s hand. Fols. 54–55: Text of Chandler’s appendix XXXIII (here numbered XXXII), not MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 291

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MC:PR30/1/MS1/2 (con.) in Chandler’s hand. Fols. 56–66: Miscellaneous notes, mostly in Chandler’s hand, about his efforts to establish William Waynflete’s pedigree. Fols. 67–69: Notes in an unknown hand (possibly Lambert’s) about the writer’s attempts to make sense of Chandler’s text in order to prepare it for publication. Various portions have been crossed out, presumably because the author has successfully dealt with them. Fols. 70–104: A group of pages which appear to be Chandler’s own notes to the text of his life of Waynflete. Some of them were used by Lambert in his final edition, but not all. Fols 105–106: Letter to Chandler from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College), 29 Dec 1784, discussing Chandler’s research into his life of Waynflete, and offering him some help. Fol. 107: Pasted onto this leaf a note from Harwood’s Alumni Etonienses about William Waynflete, and also a fragment of a letter from John Loveday (probably matr. 1727/8 rather than his son, who matr. 1760), discussing Chandler’s work, and mentioning a visit to Gilbert White of Selborne. Fol. 108: Pasted onto this leaf a note by Chandler for Chapter I, and also an extract from Thomas Rymer’s Foedera in an unknown hand. Fols. 109–120: Pasted onto these leaves are various notes, mainly in Chandler’s hand, connected with research into his life of Waynflete. Fols. 120–127: Leaves comprising more notes, again mainly in Chandler’s hand, connected with research into his life of Waynflete. Fols. 128–134: Letter from Ralph Churton (address, Brasenose College) to Chandler, 11 March 1791, discussing Chandler’s work, followed by a collection of notes taken by Churton from various sources to send to Chandler. Fols. 135–137: Miscellaneous notes in Chandler’s hand about Waynflete. Fols. 138–142: More leaves with short notes, mainly in Chandler’s hand. Fol. 143: Letter from “R. M.” (address, Windsor) to Ralph Churton, dated 23 Jan (no year given), discussing carrying out research for Chandler at King’s College, Cambridge. Fols. 144–145: Notes by Charles Lambert titled “Additional notes & corrections by the Editor”. Fols. 146–7: More miscellaneous notes in Ralph Churton’s hand, intended for Chandler’s use. Fols. 148–9: Letter from Ralph Churton (address, Brasenose) to Chandler, 15 July 1791, enclosing some more notes for him. Fol. 150: Letter from Ralph Churton (address, Middleton) to Chandler (address, Tilehurst), 23 Aug 1802, thanking him for sending him a copy of his recently published “History of Ilium or Troy”, and discussing aspects of the early history of Magdalen. Fol. 151: Notes on Chandler’s life of Waynflete in an unknown hand. Fol. 152: Letter from Thomas Wharton (address, Oxford) to Chandler, 26 Nov 1786, sending him notes on Waynflete. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 292

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MC:PR30/1/MS1/2 (con.) Fol. 153: Notes in Charles Lambert’s hand, connected with editing Chandler’s text for publication. Fols. 154–5: Letter from Chandler (address, Clapham Terrace) to George Horne (address, Magdalen College), 16 Mar 1790, protesting at being deprived of the Deputation of the Manor of Selborne. Fol. 156: Letter from George Horne (address, Sackville Street) to Chandler, 7 Feb 1791, saying how much he enjoyed reading Chandler’s life of Waynflete. Fols. 157–71: Pages 51–82 taken from a printed copy of the life of William Waynflete by John Budden, first published in 1602. This copy does not resemble on-line copies of that 1602 edition, and it is not clear when it was published. The pages which contain Budden’s transcripts of documents have been heavily corrected by Chandler.

MC:PR30/1/MS1/3 1767–1851 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Papers relating to Bishop Waynflete’s Life” written on the spine. It contains the following items:

Fol. 1: Drawing in pen and black wash of the arms of William Waynflete. Fols. 2–3: Copy (not in Chandler’s hand) of Waynflete’s will “e veteri Registro Coll. Magd. A. 1486". Fol. 4: “A more exact copy” (written in the same hand that wrote Fols. 2–3 above) of Waynflete’s will. Fols. 5–6: Draft of a letter to President Horne from T(homas) W(ilson), undated, offering comments and corrections to the draft life of Waynflete. Fol. 7: Genealogy of the Patten family, extracted by Ralph Bigland, Somerset, and Thomas Heard, Lancaster, from the Visitation of Lancashire in the College of Arms, 2 June 1767. Fol. 8: Extracts by Thomas Wilson from “an Authentic copy of the Statutes lent me by the Bp. of Winchester A.D. 1767". Fols. 9–11: Further extracts from records by Wilson. Fols. 12–13: Letter from “I.T” (no address given) to Thomas Wilson (address, Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells), 29 Sept 1768, discussing his plans to publish material concerning James II. Fols. 14–15: Letter (presumably to Thomas Wilson) from Horace Walpole (address, Arlington Street), 29 Feb 1768, discussing Wilson’s comments on his book “Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third”. Fols. 16–20: Notes and extracts relating to the life of Waynflete, written in various hands (none of them Chandler’s). Fols. 21–22: Letter from Edward Barnard, provost of Eton (address, Eton College) to Wilson (address, the Abbey Cloysters, Westminster), 5 April 1767, concerning evidence for William Waynflete in the archives at Eton. Fols. 23–34: Further notes and extracts relating to the life of Waynflete, again written in various hands. Fol. 35: Letter from Edward Barnard (no address given) to Thomas Wilson, 24 MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 293

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MC:PR30/1/MS1/3 (con.) April 1767, enclosing some unspecified documents (presumably material on Waynflete). Fols. 36–44: Further notes and extracts relating to the life of Waynflete, again written in various hands. Fols. 45–46: Letter to “My Lord” (almost certainly George Horne, now bishop of Norwich) from Chandler (address, Selborne), 20 Apr 1791, sending him proofs of three engravings, and discussing Horne’s comments on his life of Waynflete. Fols. 47–48: Letter from the Bishop of Winchester (address, Farnham Castle) to Martin Routh, 24 Sep 1811, thanking him for a copy of Chandler’s Life. Fols. 49–50: Letter from G. Nott (address, Winchester) to Martin Routh, 3 Sept 1817, concerning damage alleged to have been done to Waynflete’s tomb. Fols. 51–52: Letter from Charles Lambert, executor to Chandler (address, Inner Temple) to Martin Routh, 2 May 1810, discussing arrangements to publish Chandler’s life of Waynflete. The letter contains a (near illegible) draft of Routh’s reply. Fols. 53–54: Letter from Charles Lambert (address, Inner Temple) to Martin Routh, 4 Dec 1810, concerning the printing of the life of Waynflete and the engraving of Waynflete’s portrait. Fols. 55–56: Letter from Charles Lambert (address, Inner Temple) to Martin Routh, 27 Jan 1811, again concerning the publication of Chandler’s life of Waynflete. Fols. 57–58: Letter from Charles Lambert (address, Inner Temple) to Martin Routh, 15 April 1811, enclosing proofs of Chandler’s life of Waynflete. Fols. 59–60: Letter from Charles Lambert (address, Inner Temple) to Martin Routh, 25 May 1811, discussing printing costs of Chandler’s life of Waynflete, and the distribution of copies. Fols. 61–62: Letter from Charles Lambert (address, Inner Temple) to Martin Routh, 22 June 1811, expressing his pleasure at the safe arrival of copies of Chandler’s life of Waynflete at Magdalen. There is also a draft by Routh of a letter to the Bishop of Winchester, thanking him for his kind offer “of granting me ordination.” Fols. 63–64: Letter from W. B. Chandler (address, Armathwaite Castle near Carlisle) to Martin Routh, 7 May 1815. Chandler was Richard Chandler’s son, and he discusses with Routh what to do with unsold copies of his father’s life of Waynflete. Fol. 65: Notes for a letter from Routh to an unnamed addressee, discussing preparations for publishing a work - presumably Chandler’s life of Waynflete. Fols. 66–67: undated letter from J. Wilson Patten (no address given) to an unnamed addressee, sending a pedigree found among the papers of Thomas Wilson. Fol. 68: Scrap of paper, possibly in Chandler’s hand, about Waynflete. Fols. 69–70: Notes by Routh. Those on Fol. 69 relate to an unnamed work about the Fellows of Magdalen and James II, those on Fol. 70 to the foundation of the College. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 294

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MC:PR30/1/MS1/3 (con.) Fol. 71: Notes, attributed by Routh to Thomas Warton, on the building of Magdalen Tower. Undated. Fol. 72: Letter from George Horne, Bishop of Norwich (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, 11 May 1791, enclosing a letter of Chandler’s. Fol. 73: Letter from Benigna Chandler (address, Tilehurst) to Martin Routh, 16 July 1809, thanking Routh for his interest in Chandler’s life of Waynflete, and discussing arrangements for its publication. Fol. 73: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen) to an unnamed addressee (possibly Charles Lambert), 7 Dec 1810, thanking his correspondent for his work on Chandler’s life of Waynflete. Fol. 75: Notes in an unknown hand on the town of Wainfleet, Lincs. Fol. 76: Letter from Charles Goddard, archdeacon of Lincoln (1769/70–1848, Church of England clergyman; address, Acleham Parsonage, Maidenhead) to an unnamed addressee (almost certainly Martin Routh), 4 May 1819, about the rebuilding of Wainfleet church and the tomb of Richard Patten. Fol. 77: Receipted bill of William Stainton, builder, and John Buckler, for journeys to Wainfleet. Receipt dated 2 July 1851. Fol. 78: Estimate by John Buckler for repairs at Waynflete to the school and the tomb of the father of the founder, and for a bust of the founder in marble and in Roche Abbey stone. November 1828. Fol. 79: Letter from John Pickburn (address, Wainfleet) to Joseph Brackenbury (address, Spilsby), 22 October 1804, about the decayed state of Richard Patten’s tomb. Fols. 80–81: Letter from Margaret Pickburn (address, Wainfleet) to Martin Routh, 27 February 1818, thanking the College for offering her financial support after her husband’s death. Fols. 82–83: Letter from John Pickburn to Martin Routh, 24 May 1811, thanking him for his liberal provision on his retirement from the post of Master of the school at Wainfleet, and also expressing his pleasure at the forthcoming arrival of a copy of Chandler’s life of Waynflete. On an inside page of the letter is written a certificate from the vicars of Wainfleet, Burgh, Mumby, and Friskney, that Simon William Wilcox, usher, is a fit person to succeed him as Master, 13 May 1811. Fols. 84–85: Letter from John Pickburn (address, Wainfleet) to Martin Routh, 14 August 1807, reporting on the School and School house. Fols. 86–87: Letter from John Pickburn (address, Wainfleet) to Martin Routh, 27 August 1811, reporting on the state of the school house at Wainfleet. Fols. 88–89: Letter from S. W. Wilcox (address, Grammar School, Wainfleet) to Martin Routh, 28 December 1833, enclosing a copy of a House of Commons paper about schools, 24 May 1833, and his answer to some questions required by it. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 295

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MC:PR30/1/MS2 - MATERIAL CONCERNING ROUTH’S RESEARCH

As stated in the introduction surprisingly few records survive relating to Routh’s scholarly work, and only MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 can be shown to have ended up in Bloxam’s possession on Routh’s death. The few other papers at Magdalen relating Routh’s publications can be found at MC:PR30/3/MS1–MS2 below.

MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 1811–52 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Papers relating to Burnets [sic] History”. On the inside cover, Bloxam has described the book thus: “A collection of Papers relating to Bishop Burnet’s History formerly belonging to the late President Dr. Routh”. Although this guardbook was clearly created by Bloxam, and its contents must therefore have been among the items gathered up by him after Routh’s death, although it is not one of the volumes recorded by William Macray as having been handed over by him to the College.

The contents are as follows:

Fol. 1: Note in Gilbert Burnet’s hand that the original manuscript of his history will be deposited in the Cotton Library. Fol. 2: Engraving of Gilbert Burnet, published by J. Parker in December 1819. Fol. 3: Letter (2 sheets) from Philip Bliss 1787–1857, Registrar of Oxford 1828–53 and Principal of St. Mary’s Hall 1848–57; address, British Museum) to Martin Routh, 18 Sep 1822. Bliss sends Routh details of various publications concerning Burnet and his work. Fol. 4: MS extract (in an unknown hand) from a footnote added by Routh to Burnet’s memoir (vol. iv p. 344), concerning a petition relating to Sir John Fenwick. Fol. 5: Notes for Routh concerning textual questions in Burnet’s work. Fols. 6–7: MS extracts (in the same hand as Fol. 4) of what appear to be footnotes for Routh’s edition of Burnet’s work, which were eventually not used in the published text. Fol. 8: Three sheets of notes in Philip Bliss’s hand on textual questions relating to Burnet’s memoir. Fol. 9: MS note in an unknown hand concerning Burnet’s relationship with William III. Fol. 10: 2 sheets in an unknown hand titled “Remarks Page 280 on Burnet”. Fol. 11: Note (in the same hand as Fols. 4 and 6–7) on William’s relationship with the Earl of Albemarle. Fol. 12: Undated note to Martin Routh titled “Private Character of Bp Burnet from Mr. Chalmers’ Biographical Dictionary.” Fol. 13: Undated note from Philip Bliss giving the reference to a pastoral letter from Burnet on taking the oaths to William III and Mary II. Fol. 14: Note from a member of staff at the British Museum on copies of Burnet’s history. Fol. 15: Letter from James Boswell (1778–1822, barrister and literary scholar; MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 296

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MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 (con.) address, Temple) to Martin Routh, 29 Dec (year not given). Boswell reports on his progress in carrying out research for Routh’s work on Burnet at the British Museum. Fol. 16: Letter from HenryEllis (1777–1869, librarian; address not given) to John Shaw (D. 1764–71; F. 1771–1824), undated (1821?). Ellis thanks Shaw for sending him a brace of pheasants, which arrived just after he had heard the news about the fire at Magdalen Hall. He asks Shaw to tell Routh about editions of Burnet in the British Library. Fol. 17: Letter from Bulkeley Bandinel (1781–1861, Bodley’s Librarian 1813–60; no address given) to Martin Routh, undated. Bandinel encloses for Routh a list of Peers who voted against the rejection of the Exclusion Bill in 1680. Fol. 18: Letter from Bulkeley Bandinel (address, Bodleian Library) to Martin Routh, 3 Apr 1822. Bandinel supplies details of those who voted against the attainder of Sir John Fenwick in 1696. Fol. 19: Letter from Earl Spencer (George John Spencer, second Earl Spencer, 1758–1834, politician and book collector; address, London) to Martin Routh, 26 Nov 1821. Spencer has arranged to have sent to Routh his copy of an edition of the memoirs of Lord Lauderdale. He promises to ask Lord Hardwicke about his set of MS notes on Burnet. Fol. 20: Letter from Lord Hardwicke (Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, 1757–1834; address, Wimpole) to Earl Spencer, 26 Dec 1821. Hardwick will arrange for the editors of the memoirs of Burnet to have access to documents in his possession. Fol. 21: MS note in an unknown hand concerning aspects of James II’s withdrawal from Rochester. Fol. 22: MS note (2 sheets) in the hand of Richard Walker (D. 1812–21; F. 1824–47; Master 1828–44; address, Magdalen College) giving an extract from Autograph Letters, relating to England, under the reign of the Stuarts (1835), containing an account in Italian of the arrival of Queen Mary of Modena and her son in France. See the loose Fol. 32 at the end of this file for an English translation of the same. Fol. 23: Copy of a note in Lord Auchinleck’s hand made at the end of the first volume of his copy of Burnet’s memoirs. Fol. 24: Letter from Sir Thomas Miller (address, Frogle Park) to Martin Routh, 7 Jun 1852. Miller and his wife thank Routh for sending them a copy of Bishop Burnet's history of the reign of king James the second. Additional observations now enlarged. They invite him to visit them to see the original manuscript which they hold. Fol. 25: 4 sheets of notes taken from a manuscript in the possession of Sir Thomas Miller, which contains material on the Glorious Revolution. Fol. 26: 9 sheets of notes, probably in the hand of Philip Bliss. Five of them are described as being “Various anecdotes from Cartes Papers”, and four of them as “Letters from Robert (afterwards Judge) Price to the Duke of Beaufort”. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 297

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MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 (con.) Fol. 27: Letter (2 sheets) from the Marquess of Lansdowne (Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1780–1863, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne; address, London) to Martin Routh, 14 Mar 1823. Lansdowne wishes to correct an error in Routh’s edition of Burnet, namely that Swift’s notes on Burnet’s history have not been destroyed, but are in his family’s possession. He is happy to make them available to Routh. Fol. 28: Letter from an anonymous correspondent (address, Europe [sic]) to Martin Routh, 1811 (no day or month given). The writer sends Routh an extract from James I’s views on tobacco. Fol. 29: MS in an unknown hand (possibly Philip Bliss) containing extracts from the Journal of the House of Lords for 1672/3. Fol. 30: 3 sheets of notes, sent to Routh at Tilehurst, and postmarked 11 Sep 1832, containing extracts from the diary of Thomas Cartwright, Bishop of Chester, for October 1687 (when he was visiting Magdalen). Fol. 31: Extract from an MS volume containing a short biography of Gilbert Burnet. Routh has noted that this MS was written by Mr. Ogilvie, Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, on 8 June 1833. Fol. 32: Copy in an unknown hand of an extract from a letter from Lord Hardwicke on the location of his copies of Burnet’s history. Fol. 33: 2 sheets of notes in an unknown hand on voting patterns in the House of Lords at the time of the Exclusion Crisis. Fol. 34: Scrap of paper in an unknown hand, annotated by Routh, of an extract from Harl. MSS. 6584. Fol. 35: Letter from Abraham John Valpy (1787–1854, classical scholar and printer; address, Red Lion Court) to Martin Routh, 7 Dec 1822. Valpy sends Routh an issue of “The Museum” with an article about Gilbert Burnet. Fol. 36: Draft letter from Martin Routh to Lord Onslow (Thomas Onslow, 2nd Earl of Onslow, 1754–1827), 2 Nov 1822. Having commissioned an unnamed person to transcribe notes from Onslow’s copy of Burnet, Routh has now come to an agreement with the Delegates of the Clarendon Press for paying him. He will now arrange to return Onslow’s volumes to him. Fol. 37: Letter from Arthur Onslow (1777–1870; later 3rd Earl of Onslow; address, London) to Martin Routh, 18 Apr 1822. Onslow thanks Routh for his letter, and says that his father is happy with the arrangements proposed. Fol. 38: Letter from Philip Bliss (no address given) to Martin Routh, 30 Sep 1822. Bliss discusses various aspects of Routh’s work on Burnet, and encloses three sheets of notes on it. Fol. 39: 6 sheets of notes, in an unknown hand, identified by Routh as notes by Cole on a copy of Volume II of Burnet’s history. Fol. 40: 2 sheets of notes, in an unknown hand (the same as Fols. 43 and 45), evidently of annotations by an unnamed reader on a copy of Burnet. Fol. 41: MS in an unknown hand with another set of annotations on a copy of Burnet. Fol. 42: List of names, explained in a note in Routh’s hand as being a list of MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 298

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MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 (con.) letters from various persons to Burnet. Fol. 43: MS of notes, written in the same hand as in Fols. 40 and 45, with a note in Routh’s hand explaining that they are a copy of Burgess’s transcription of suppressed passages from Burnet’s history. Fol. 44: List in an unknown hand of errata from of an edition of Burnet’s history identified in a note by Routh as being taken from a manuscript owned by Lord Dartmouth at Sandwell. Fol. 45: MS of notes, written in the same hand as Fols. 40 and 43, identified by Routh as being written by a Mr. Godwin (or Goodwin) of Balliol. Fols. 46–54 are all loose. Fol. 46: Letter from Thomas, Lord Onslow (address, Clandon, Guildford, Surrey), to Martin Routh, 7 Sep 1822. Onslow knows that the copy of Burnet’s history with notes by Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House of Commons, is on loan at Magdalen, and hints that he would like it returned. Fol. 47: Letter from Thomas, Lord Onslow (address, Clandon), to Martin Routh, 26 Sep 1822. Onslow thanks Routh for the arrangements he has made, which are fine by him. Fol. 48: Letter from Philip, Lord Hardwicke (address, Wimpole), to Earl Spencer, 1 Mar 1822. Hardwicke has been unable to find the copy of Burnet’s history with Speaker Onslow’s notes. Fol. 49: Letter from Earl Spencer (address, London) to Martin Routh, 2 Mar 1822. Spencer sends Routh the enclosed letter from Lord Hardwicke, Fol. 50: Letter from Arthur, Lord Onslow (address, Clandon Park, Guildford), to Martin Routh, 20 Jul 1852. Onslow thanks Routh for sending him the latest edition of his work on Burnet, and apologises for not having written sooner. Fol. 51: Letter from a Mr. Lloyd (address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh, “Sunday” (c. 1822?). Lloyd encloses Lord Onslow’s copy of Burnet’s memoir, which he was not able to send sooner, on account of illness. Fol. 52: Letter from H. J. Brooke (address not given) to Philip Bliss, “Saturday”. Brook describes the MS additions in his own copy of Burnet, and is content to lend them. Fol. 53: letter from Frances Erskine (wife of David, 2nd Baron Erskine; address, Brunswick Street) to a correspondent identified by Martin Routh as James Boswell, younger son of James Boswell, 31 Jan 1829. Erskine reports that she has examined a copy of Burnet’s history, but there are no MS notes in it. Fol. 54: Letter from Philip Bliss (address, British Museum) to Martin Routh, 4 Sep 1822. Bliss sends Routh a sale catalogue from abroad, of which there are only four copies in this country. He also discusses editions of Burnett’s history. Fol.32 [sic]: MS copy, annotated by Routh, of an English translation of Fol. 22 above (an account, dated 31 December 1688, of the arrival of Queen Mary of Modena and her son in France). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 299

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MC:PR30/1/MS3 - MATERIAL CONCERNING ROUTH’S ACTIVITIES AS PRESIDENT

In addition to all Routh’s correspondence, John Bloxam did gather up after his death a few documents specifically relating to Routh’s activities as President of Magdalen College. These comprise a volume of baptism certificates and two volumes of testimonials, all connected with applications for positions at Magdalen, and a volume relating to a dispute over a lay Fellowship from the 1830s.

MC:PR30/1/MS3/1 1803–51 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Baptismal Certificates” on the spine. This is a collection of copies and extracts taken from Registers of Baptism submitted by applicants for positions at Magdalen, mainly for Demyships. There is no mention of provenance for these documents, but their dates, and the fact that they were bound up by Bloxam just like the other Routh papers, suggest that they were found by Bloxam in the President’s Lodgings after Routh’s death. The certificates relate both to successful and unsuccessful applicants.

MC:PR30/1/MS3/2 1807–42 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Testimonials” on the spine. This book, and MC:PR30/1/MS3/3 below, contain formal testimonials from other Colleges for candidates for Demyships. In all cases they bear the seal of the appropriate Colleges, and are signed by the Head of the College (or his deputy) and at least two other Fellows. They usually refer to an applicant’s character, ability, and loyalty to the Church of England. The testimonials in both these volumes here only cover candidates from 1807, c. 1820 and 1836–42; there must clearly have been a great many other testimonials from Routh’s Presidency, all now lost. Presumably these were the only ones which Bloxam found in the Lodgings on Routh’s death. The current volume contains testimonials for the following applicants: (1) Thomas Balston (matr. Brasenose 1841); unsuccessful applicant 1841. (2) Peregrine Bingham (matr. St. Mary Hall 1806); successful applicant 1807. (3) William Bradley (matr. Lincoln 1841); successful applicant 1842. (4) Edward Augustus Breedon (matr. Trinity1838); unsuccessful applicant 1840. (5) Richard Joseph Pegge Boultbee (matr. Merton 1841); unsuccessful applicant 1842. (6) John Bushnell (matr. Pembroke 1803); unsuccessful applicant 1807. (7) William Campbell (matr. Merton 1806); unsuccessful applicant 1807. (8) Stephen Cave (matr. Balliol 1839); unsuccessful applicant 1842. (9) George Theophilus Cooke (matr. Balliol 1839); successful applicant 1840. (10) John Charles Cox (matr. Trinity 1839); unsuccessful applicant 1840. (11) William Charles Denshire (matr. Queen’s 1839); unsuccessful applicant 1840. See also MC:PR30/1/MS3/3 no. 9. (12) William Charles Denshire (as above); unsuccessful applicant 1842. (13) HenrySharp Disbrowe (matr. University1841); unsuccessful applicant 1842. (14) Nathaniel Dodson (matr. St. John’s 1805); unsuccessful applicant 1807. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 300

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MC:PR30/1/MS3/2 (con.) (15) Alfred Erasmus Dryden (matr. Trinity 1840); unsuccessful applicant 1842. (16) Thomas Gatehouse (matr. Wadham 1807); unsuccessful applicant 1807. (17) John Leslie Hallward (matr. Worcester 1841); unsuccessful applicant at unknown date (probably 1842). (18) John Hannah (matr. Brasenose 1837; Scholar at Corpus Christi 1837–40); unsuccessful applicant 1840. (19) Vere Henry Hobart (matr. Trinity 1836); unsuccessful applicant 1840. (20) Thomas Baker Morrell (matr. Balliol 1832); unsuccessful applicant 1836. (21) John Peacock (matr. Lincoln 1838); unsuccessful applicant 1839. See also MC:PR30/1/MS3/3 no. 24. (22) John Taylor Plummer (matr. Brasenose 1842); unsuccessful applicant 1842. See also MC:PR30/1/MS3/3 nos. 27–28. (23) William Thomas Price (matr. Wadham 1806); unsuccessful applicant 1807. (24) Charles Pridham (matr. Lincoln 1840); unsuccessful applicant 1842. (25) Henry Reade Quartley (matr. Queen’s 1803); unsuccessful applicant 1807. (26) Robert Drummond Burrell Rawnsley (matr. Brasenose 1836); successful applicant 1839. (27) William Savage (matr. Queen’s 1838); unsuccessful applicant 1840. (28) Nicholas James Ridley (matr. Christ Church 1839); unsuccessful applicant 1842. (29) Robert Sawyer (matr. Merton 1840); unsuccessful applicant 1842. (30) Charles Hooper Shebbeare (at King’s College London 1842; matr University 1843); unsuccessful applicant 1842. (31) “Mr. Turner” from Exeter College; possibly Dawson William Turner (matr. Exeter 1834), who was a successful applicant in 1836. (32) Frederick John Vipan (matr. Caius College, Cantab., 1838; matr. Wadham 1841); unsuccessful applicant 1842. (33) Henry Walford (matr. Wadham 1841); unsuccessful applicant 1842. (34) John George Wenham (matr. St. John’s 1839); successful applicant 1842. (35) William Henry White (matr. Oriel 1805; at Wadham 1807); unsuccessful applicant 1807. (36) Frederick Woodward (matr. Brasenose 1840); unsuccessful applicant 1842.

MC:PR30/1/MS3/3 1807–42 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Testimonials” on the spine. This book’s contents are just like those of MC:PR30/1/MS3/2 as regards content, date, and provenenance, save that this is a much smaller volume, and it also includes informal testimonials from Schools and Colleges. They are usually signed just by one person, and have no seals. (1) Evelyn Boothby (at Oakham School from 1841); unsuccessful applicant 1842 (matr. University 1843). (2) Hugo Boucherett (matr. University 1838); unsuccessful applicant 1840. (3) Frederick Sellwood Bowles (matr. Exeter 1837); unsuccessful applicant 1839. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 301

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MC:PR30/1/MS3/3 (con.) (4)–(5) Thomas Hext Bushnell (at Tunbridge School; matr. Pembroke 1841; testimonials sent from both institutions); unsuccessful applicant 1842. (6) Thomas Spencer Cobbold (matr. Clare Hall, Cantab., 1817); unsuccessful applicant 1820. (7) William Deane (at Rugby 1842); unsuccessful applicant 1842 (did not go to Oxford). (8) Augustus Delafosse (privately educated 1842); unsuccessful applicant 1842 (matr. Oriel 1843). (9) William Charles Denshire (privately educated 1839); unsuccessful applicant 1839 (matr. Queen’s 1839). See also MC:PR30/1/MS3/2 nos. 11–12. (10)–(11) George David William Dickson (matr. Exeter 1839; testimonials sent from his College and his private tutor); unsuccessful applicant 1840. (12) Richard Eddie (matr. Brasenose 1835); unsuccessful applicant for Fellowship 1840. (13) George Hunter Fell (matr. Lincoln 1838) successful applicant 1840. (14) John Turner Fisher (matr. University 1840); unsuccessful applicant 1841. (15) John Hallward (matr. Worcester 1807); unsuccessful applicant 1807. (16) Charles Henry Hardy (matr. Brasenose 1806); unsuccessful applicant 1807. (17) Edward Penrose Hathaway (at Sherborne to 1836; matr. Queen’s 1836); unsuccessful applicant 1837. (18) George Edward Hughes (matr. Oriel 1840); unsuccessful applicant 1842. (19) William Keating (matr. Exeter 1842); unsuccessful applicant 1842. (20) Report form from Rugby completed for “Middleton ma”, undated. This might refer to Frederick Graeme Middleton, who attended Rugby, matriculated from Pembroke in 1820, and was elected a Demy at Magdalen in 1821. (21) Joshua Holmes Newby(matr. Brasenose 1806); unsuccessful applicant 1807 (but was successful on a second application in 1808). (22) Lewis Henry Palmer (matr. Christ Church 1836); unsuccessful applicant 1840. (23) Frederick William Parker (at Winchester College 1842); unsuccessful applicant 1842 (matr. Pembroke 1842). (24) John Peacock (matr. Lincoln 1838); unsuccessful applicant 1840. See also MC:PR30/1/MS3/2 no. 21. (25) Thomas Pearce (matr. Lincoln 1838); unsuccessful applicant 1840. (26) William Penfold (matr. Lincoln 1819); unsuccessful applicant 1820. (27) John Taylor Plummer (at Merchant Taylors 1840; privately educated 1841); unsuccessful applicant 1841 (matr. Brasenose 1842). See also MC:PR30/1/MS3/2 no. 22. (28) John Taylor Plummer (as above); unsuccessful applicant 1840. (29) Frederick Pretyman (privately educated); successful applicant 1839. (30) Theodore Joseph Prichard (matr. Oriel 1838); successful applicant 1842. (31) John Sedgwick (matr. Christ Church 1841); unsuccessful applicant 1842 (but he was elected a Demy in 1844). (32) Goldwin Smith (matr. Christ Church 1841); successful applicant 1842. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 302

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MC:PR30/1/MS3/3 (con.) (33) Offley Smith (matr. Oriel 1837); unsuccessful applicant 1840. (34) Henry Sockett (matr. Exeter 1836); unsuccessful applicant 1839. (35) George Henry Stoddart (at the Free Grammar School, Norwich 1819); unsuccessful applicant 1819 or 1820 (matr. Queen’s 1821). (36) Francis Swan (privately educated 1842); unsuccessful applicant 1842 (matr. University 1843). (37) George Frederick Tiley (at Reading School 1840); unsuccessful applicant 1840 (matr. St. John’s 1841). (38) Another (unsuccessful) testimonial concerning George Tileyfrom 1840, this one for Trinity College. (39) William Walter Tireman (in private education in the 1820s); undated testimonial, but Tireman was elected a Demy in 1827. (40)–(41) Two testimonies for Robert Toynbee (privately educated 1842); unsuccessful applicant 1842 (and does not seem to have gone up to Oxford or Cambridge). (42) Edward Trollope (matr. Christ Church 1835); unsuccessful applicant for Fellowship, 1840. (43) Thomas Valentine (matr. Magdalen Hall 1806); unsuccessful applicant 1807. (44) James [illegible] (educated at Rugby to 1821; matr. St. John’s Cambridge); unsuccessful candidate in the early 1820s. (45) George Wells (at Winchester College 1820); unsuccessful applicant 1820 (but successful in 1823). (46) Richard Franklin Wright (matr. St. John’s 1838); unsuccessful applicant 1840.

MC:PR30/1/MS3/4 1830–40 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Lay-Fellowship Case. Reade & Sewell” on the spine. This is a collection of papers on a case involving Richard Clarke Sewell (D. 1821–37; F. 1837–56) and Charles Reade (D. 1831–5; F. 1835–84) and the right of Fellows practising Law and Medicine to remain Lay Fellows without being forced to take Holy Orders, and to retain their Fellowship at Magdalen. Contains a statement of the case, opinions and related correspondence by Sewell, Reade, Routh, and the Bishop of Winchester. At the front of this collection is a note in Routh’s hand “Papers Relating to the Licencing the Fellows to study Law or Medicine”. This note suggests that these papers were Routh’s personal file about the case, which were found by Bloxam among Routh’s papers, and then bound up by him in the same style as the other documents he found and sorted. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 303

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MC:PR30/1/MS4 - INSCRIPTIONS COMPOSED BY ROUTH

Martin Routh was highly regarded for the quality of the inscriptions he composed, usually in Latin, and usually for memorial purposes. The existence of many drafts for such inscriptions in the Routh papers bears witness to the care which he bestowed on them.

John Bloxam devoted a complete guardbook (MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 below) to such draft inscriptions, but he also bound up a great many other such drafts in with the documents at MC:PR30/1/C1/5.

MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 1789–1856 Guardbook bound in dark green covers, with “Routh Inscriptions” on the spine. It contains the following inscriptions, mainly epitaphs, composed by Martin Routh. They are in his own hand unless otherwise indicated.

No. 1: Epitaph (in English) on Routh himself. No. 2: Letter from Charles A. Ogilvie (address, Rectory, Ross) to John Bloxam, 2 Apr 1855. Ogilvie quotes from Routh’s will on his instructions as to his place of burial, and to the inscription to be placed on his grave. No. 3: Epitaph (in English) on Sophia Sheppard. Nos. 4–8: Several versions of an epitaph (in Latin) on Sophia Sheppard, which was placed in the church at Amport (see also nos. 109–111 below). No. 9: Letter from Henry Wellesley (1794–1866; Principal of New Inn Hall 1847–66; address, New Inn Hall) to Martin Routh, 30 Dec 1851. Wellesley thanks Routh warmly for an epitaph for Sophia Sheppard. He felt moved to produce a version in English verse (see No. 10 below). No. 10: Translation into English verse by Henry Wellesley of an epitaph for Sophia Sheppard, 30 Dec 1851. No. 11: Epitaph (in English) for Simon Peter Routh (d. 1827), brother of Martin Routh. No. 12: Epitaph (in English) for Anne Routh (d. 1852), sister of Martin Routh. Nos. 13–20: Several versions of an epitaph (in Latin) for Anne Routh. See also Nos. 112–113 below, as well as MC:PR30/1/C1/5, Fols. 36, 57, 70, 73 & 75. No. 21: Epitaph (in English) for George Routh (d. 1821). Nos. 22 & 24–28: Several version of an epitaph (in Latin) for the Duke of Wellington (d. 1852). [There is no No. 23 here] No. 29: Translation by Routh into English verse of the above epitaph for the Duke of Wellington, dated 14 August 1853. See also no. 114 below. No. 30: Letter from Henry Wellesley (address, New Inn Hall) to Martin Routh, 31 Dec 1852. Wellesley discusses Routh’s epitaph for the Duke of Wellington (his uncle). No. 31: Another version of an epitaph, written in both Latin and English versions, for the Duke of Wellington. No. 32: Scrap in Routh’s hand on amending an English epitaph for an unknown MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 304

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MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 (con.) subject. No. 33: Epitaph (in Latin) for Samuel Mallon. No. 34: Draft letter from Martin Routh to the Principal of Jesus College, 29 Dec 1812. Routh offers an inscription (in Latin) on George, the Prince Regent. Nos. 35–42: Various version of an epitaph (in Latin) for Edward Jackson Lister (Ch. 1774–82, who died in 1782 aged 16), composed in 1853 by Routh to be hung in the chancel of the church of St. Michael at the Northgate. See also No. 115 below, and MC:PR30/1/C1/5, Fols. 39–42 & 52. No. 43: Another version of Routh’s epitaph for Edward Jackson Lister, which Routh has written on a letter addressed to him by Thomas Lister Parker (1779–1858, antiquary and collector; address Tabley House), dated 10 Sep (1852). Parker had thanked Routh for sending him a copy of his latest edition of Burnet’s history of James II, published in 1852. No. 44: Scrap of paper in Routh’s hand, which appears to be a draft inscription for Tsar Nicholas I. No. 45: Inscription (in Latin) for Tsar Nicholas I which Routh appears to have written to accompany a complimentary set of volumes of his revised edition of Reliquiae Sacrae (he had given a set of the first edition to his brother Alexander I). Nos. 46–48: Versions of an epitaph for Sophia Anne Bliss, daughter of Philip Bliss, who died aged 11 in 1835. See also Nos. 116–120 below, MC:PR30/1/C1/5, Fols. 48, 55 & 79. No. 49: Sheet containing two epitaphs (both in English) for George Hirst (D. 1774–6; F. 1776–1802), the second of which is in Routh’s hand. No. 50: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen) to an unnamed addressee, 5 Jan 1837. Routh enclosed drafts of an epitaph (in Latin) for William Mills (D. 1810–20; F. 1820–34). No. 51: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address, Tylehurst near Reading) to an unnamed Archdeacon (Charles Goddard - see 53a below), 23 Apr 1837. Routh sends Goddard a draft epitaph (in Latin) for William Laud to be placed on a memorial in the church at Ibstock, where Goddard himself was Rector, and where Laud had likewise been Rector in 1615–24. See also Nos. 121–124 below. Nos. 52–53: Further epitaphs (in Latin) for William Laud. On the back of No. 52 is a draft inscription (in Latin) for the grave of Richard Patten, father of William Waynflete, Founder of Magdalen College at the church of Wainfleet, Lincs. (the tomb monument was moved to Oxford in the early 19th century; see also Nos. 71–3 and 93–4 below). On the back of No. 53 is a printed handbill advertising a firm of surgeon dentists. No. 54: Inscription (in Latin) for a book to be given as the Johnson Prize in 1836. No. 55: Inscription (in Latin) for a gift made by John Johnson (F. 1800–27). No. 56: Inscription (in Latin) for prizes made to the two sons of the Earl of Rosse, namely William Parsons, Baron Oxmantown, and John Clere Parsons (both matr. 1821). No. 57: Epitaph (in Latin) for Susanna, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1841). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 305

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MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 (con.) No. 58: Epitaph (in Latin) for John Curtis (D. 1763–77; F. 1777–1820; d. 1820). No. 59: Letter from Henry Drury (1778–1841; teacher and classical scholar; address, Harrow) to Martin Routh, 19 Jan 1829. Drury asks Routh to support him in his campaign to be appointed Headmaster of Harrow. Routh has used this letter to write another draft of his epitaph for John Curtis. No. 60: Inscription (in Latin) to be placed on the new organ screen in the Chapel, 1831. No. 61: Inscription (in Latin) for a cup presented to Elizabeth Whorwood in 1646 by Henry Ireton. Nos. 62–63: Two versions of an inscription (in Latin) for a paten presented in 1852 by Thomas Henry Whorwood (D. 1830–3; F. 1833–50). No. 64: Another version of an inscription for the Whorwood cup. No. 65: Inscription (in Latin) for an almshouse founded by Richard Waldo Sibthorp (D. 1810–18; F. 1818–1841). See also No. 125. No. 66: Another version of an inscription for the Whorwood paten. No. 67: Epitaph (in Latin) for Benjamin Tate (D. 1769–80; F. 1780–1820; d. 1820). See also MC:PR30/1/C1/5, Fol. 66. Nos. 68–70: Three versions of an epitaph (in Latin) for Sir Francis Burdett (1770–1844). One is dated 14 August 1853 in Bloxam’s hand. See also MC:PR30/1/C1/5, Fols. 59 & 76–77. Nos. 71–73: Three versions of an inscription (in Latin) for the grave of Richard Patten, father of William Waynflete, Founder of Magdalen College at the church of Wainfleet, Lincs. (the tomb monument was moved to Oxford in the early 19th century; see also No. 52 above and Nos. 93–4 below). Nos. 74–75: Two epitaphs (in English) for John Johnson (F. 1800–27). Nos. 76–77: Two versions of an epitaph (in Latin) for Henry Benedict Cardinal York (1725–1807), younger brother of Prince Charles the Young Pretender, and known to some as “Henry IX” from 1788–1807. No. 78: Epitaph (in Latin) for Sir John Mordaunt (d. 1833). It is written on the back of a printed circular, dated 10 May 1833, advertising the postponement of the lectures given by the Regius Professor of Divinity. Nos. 79–80: Two versions of an epitaph (in English) for William Tahourdin (Fellow of New College 1821–33; d. 1833). No. 81: Draft letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to Lord Derby, 2 Jun 1853. Routh sends Derby an unnamed tract. Nos. 82–84: Three versions of a dedicatory inscription (in Latin) for a strena (a new year’s gift; presumably his Tres breves tractatus) for Lord Derby, June 1853. See also Nos. 126–128. Nos. 85–6: Two versions (No. 86 not in Routh’s hand) of an epitaph (in Latin) for Thomas Stinton (Rector of Exeter College 1785–97; d. 1797). Nos. 87–90: Epitaph (in Latin) for Arthur Loveday (D. 1784–99; F. 1799–1827). See also No. 132 below and MC:PR30/1/C1/5 Fol. 69. No. 90: Inscription in Latin for a gift (perhaps a book?) for Langford Lovell (matr. 1793). On the other side is part of an epitaph (in Latin) for Edward Synge MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 306

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MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 (con.) (see Nos. 91–2 below). Nos. 91–2: Two versions of a joint epitaph (in Latin) for Edward Synge (1659–1741; Archbishop of Tuam 1716–41), and Edward Synge (d. 1792), erected by their descendant Edward Synge after 1792. Nos. 93–4: Two further versions of an inscription (in Latin) for the grave of Richard Patten, father of William Waynflete, Founder of Magdalen College at the church of Wainfleet, Lincs. (the tomb monument was moved to Oxford in the early 19th century; see also Nos. 52 and 71–3 above). On the back of No. 94 is an epitaph (in Latin) for John Oliver (F. 1621–39; P. 1644–8 & 1660–1). See also MC:PR30/1/C1/5 Fols. 46–47 (Patten) and 37 (Oliver). No. 95: Letter from J. Goldesbrough (address, Discove near Bruton) to Martin Routh, 11 Dec 1833. Goldesbrough discusses an inscription (in Latin) for King’s School, Bruton with Routh, and Routh has drafted some suggested revisions of his own. [There is no No. 96] Nos. 97–104: Seven versions of an epitaph (in Latin) for Edward, 1st Lord Thurlow (1731–1806). See also No. 130 below and MC:PR30/1/C1/5 Fol. 68. Nos. 105–6: Two versions of an epitaph (in Latin) for Edward Tawney (D. 1830–2; d. 1832). See also No. 134 below and MC:PR30/1/C1/5 Fol. 78. No. 107: Note in Routh’s hand comparing the relative demerits of the Stuart and Hanoverian dynasties, undated. No. 108: Satirical poem about Sir Robert Peel, copied out by Martin Routh, undated.

Nos. 109–159 were found loose in this guardbook.

No. 109: Another version of the Latin epitaph for Sophia Sheppard (see also Nos. 4–8 above). No. 110: First sheet only of a letter from an unnamed writer (address, Findon) to John Bloxam, 18 Nov 1856. The writer discusses the epitaph for Sophia Sheppard in the church at Amport (she was buried in the churchyard there). No. 111: Copy in Bloxam’s hand of the inscription for Sophia Sheppard at Amport. Nos. 112–113: Two further versions of an epitaph (in Latin) for Anne Routh (see also Nos. 13–20 above). No. 112 is not in Routh’s hand. No. 114: Translation by Routh into English verse of an epitaph for the Duke of Wellington, dated 14 August 1853, with a draft letter to an unknown recipient written around it. See also No. 29 above. No. 115: Another version, not in Routh’s hand, of his epitaph for Edward Jackson Lister (Ch. 1774–82, who died in 1782 aged 16). See also Nos. 35–42 above. Nos. 116: Letter from Philip Bliss (address, St. Mary Hall) to Martin Routh, 6 Apr 1852. The memorial to Bliss’s daughter Sophia, with an inscription by Routh, was destroyed in a recent fire at St. Peter in the East. He has managed to reconstruct some of the text of Routh’s memorial, but there are some portions MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 307

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MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 (con.) missing. He therefore encloses a copy of as much of the text (No. 117) as he can make out, and asks Routh if he can fill in the gaps. The new version will be made in brass. No. 117: Bliss’s transcript of the extant text of the epitaph to his daughter Sophia. Routh has written a draft reply on the back with his complete inscription. Nos. 118–119: Three versions of an epitaph for Sophia Anne Bliss, daughter of Philip Bliss, who died aged 11 in 1835, not all in Routh’s hand. No. 120: Letter from an illegible writer to the Principal of St. Mary Hall, 1 April (year not given). The writer is discussing reconstructing the text of an inscription. This must refer to the epitaph for Sophia, daughter of Philip Bliss, who was Principal of St. Mary’s Hall in 1848–57. No. 121: Letter from Charles Goddard (1769/70–1848, Church of England clergyman; postmarked Bromley) to Martin Routh, postmarked 23 Apr 1837. Goddard sends Routh a fresh version of a Latin epitaph for William Laud at Ibstock. See also Nos. 51–53 above. Nos. 122–124: three more drafts of the epitaphs for William Laud at Ibstock, of which only No. 122 is in Routh’s hand. No. 125: Inscription (in Latin) for an almshouse founded by Richard Waldo Sibthorp (D. 1810–18; F. 1818–1841). See also no. 65. Nos. 126–127: Two versions of a dedicatory inscription (in Latin) for a strena (a new year’s gift; presumably his Tres breves tractatus) for Lord Derby, June 1853. No. 127 is in John Bloxam’s hand. No. 128: Copy in an unknown hand of an inscription and a poem, both in Greek, and written for Martin Routh by the Earl of Derby, to thank him for the receipt of Routh’s pamphlet Tres breves tractatus, 1853. The text includes some proposed emendations to Derby’s Greek. Nos. 129–131: Three more copies (possibly in Bloxam’s hand?) of the Greek inscription and poem written for Routh by the Earl of Derby. No. 129 appears to have some suggested emendations in Routh’s hand. No. 132: Epitaph (in Latin) for Arthur Loveday (D. 1784–99; F. 1799–1827). See also Nos. 87–90 above. No. 133: Epitaph (in Latin) for Edward, 1st Lord Thurlow (1731–1806). See also Nos. 97–104 above. No. 134: A printed version of an epitaph for Edward Tawney, on which there is a letter from George Booth (F. 1816–34; address, Magdalen) to Martin Routh, Monday 20 May (year not given; must be 1833). Booth encloses this proposed epitaph for Tawney, and asks Routh for his comments on it. No. 135: Copy in Routh’s hand, dated 23 Mar 1819, of a laudatory inscription (in Latin) to Pope Pius VII, with an address to him. No. 136: MS in Bloxam’s hand which appears to be a copy of a speech given in Latin by the Duke of Wellington on his enthronement as Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1834. No. 137: Letter from Thomas Pearce (address, Lambeth) to Martin Routh, 5 Feb 1800. Pearce recommends his son for a Demyship (unsuccessfully). On the back MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 308

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MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 (con.) of this letter Routh has copied out two Latin inscriptions, one by Dr. Samuel Parr for Edward Basset [?] the other by John Shaw (D. 1764–71; F. 1771–1824) for John Sibthorp (Sherardian Professor of Botany 1784–96). No. 138: Inscription (possibly in Routh’s hand) to accompany a present made to Henry Best (D. 1785–92; F. 1792–7), given 14 July 1789. See also MC:PR30/1/C1/5 Fols. 49 and 62. No. 139: Envelope (now empty) addressed to Routh, on which is a copy (possibly in Bloxam’s hand) of a version of the Latin inscription placed by Routh on the salver given him by Tsar Alexander I, which he in turn presented to the College at the end of his life. See also MC:PR30/1/C1/5 Fols. 53 and 58. No. 140: Letter from Charles Hamilton (address, 22 Anderson’s Buildings, City Road, London) to Martin Routh, 5 Jun 1851. Hamilton is sending Routh a copy of the Phaenomena of Aratus (an edition of Aratus, dating from 1672, is in the Routh Library), and suggests some other books that he might want to know about. Routh has written some notes about his dealings with Hamilton, but has also drafted a another version of the Latin inscription for Tsar Alexander I’s salver. Nos. 141–142: Two versions (each in an unknown hand) of a Latin inscription composed by Martin Routh for Holy Cross Cemetery, Oxford, in 1848. No. 143: Letter from H. Robbins (address, 46 Carey Street, Lincoln’s Inn) to Martin Routh, 13 Sep 1838. Robbins has sent Routh a wig, and promises to send him a new wig soon. Routh has used the letter to compose some draft Latin inscriptions concerning the Magdalen Oak, which was blown down in 1789 (although Routh’s drafts suggest that he had trouble remembering the exact year). No. 144: Final version (in Bloxam’s hand) of a Latin inscription to be placed on a chair carved from wood from the Magdalen Oak. See also MC:PR30/1/C1/5 Fol. 61. No. 145: Document (in an unknown hand) with two versions of an inscription for the tomb of Isaac Barrow (1612/13–80), Bishop of St. Asaph 1670–80. No. 146: Draft in Martin Routh’s hand of the Latin inscription for John Shaw (D. 1764–71; F. 1771–1824) It has been written on a fragment of a letter dated 24 Apr 1828. See also MC:PR30/1/C1/5 Fols. 51 and 63. No. 147: Engraving of the monument set up to John Shaw (D. 1764–71; F. 1771–1824) in the Antechapel of Magdalen College, which bears Routh’s inscription as above. No. 148: Note from Godfrey Faussett (F. 1802–9) to an unnamed addressee, 6 Jul 1831, in which he puts his name forwarded to the Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity. On this, Routh has first listed the names of what appear to be candidates for choristerships in 1831, and also drafted a Latin inscription for the new organ case in the College Chapel. Nos. 149–155: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given) to John Bloxam, undated. Routh encloses six versions of a satirical epigram on Queen Victoria, with suggestions for its rewording. No. 156: Letter from an illegible address (address also illegible) to John Bloxam, undated. The writer sends Bloxam the text of an epitaph for Routh (in Latin) MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 309

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MC:PR30/1/MS4/1 (con.) erected in the Chapel of Radley College. Nos. 157–158: Letter from John William Routh (D. 1835–41; address, Tylehurst) to John Bloxam, 9 Jul 1855. Routh encloses a draft Latin inscription from Dr. Jacobson to mark the restoration of part of Tilehurst Church by Martin Routh, and requests his comments on it. Routh was Martin Routh’s nephew. No. 159: Letter from George Booth (F. 1816–34; address, Findon) to John Bloxam, 20 May 1859. Booth discusses other members of the Routh family, and a Latin epitaph which they have composed in memory of Martin Routh to be placed in Theale Church, and with which Booth is very unimpressed. Booth also discreetly hints at his own views on Routh here.

MC:PR30/2 - DOCUMENTS FROM AND CONCERNING ROUTH’S LIBRARY

Martin Routh was a passionate bibliophile and amassed a considerable library in the President’s Lodgings. On his death, his printed books were bequeathed to the University of Durham, where they remain. His manuscript books, however, were sold at auction. A few of them were acquired by John Bloxam and others and returned to the College, and they are all listed here apart from MC:P261/MS8/1 (a collection of MS tracts on the College’s dispute with James II), sold as Lot 161, and MC:F3/MS1/1 (a notebook owned by Alexander Pudsay, D. 1657–61; F. 1661–1721), sold as Lot 183.

Most of the books in MC:PR30/2/MS1 below can be linked with items listed in the auction catalogue for Routh’s manuscripts (see MC:PR30/1/C3/9 Fol. 57 and No. 1 for a copy of this).

MC:PR30/2/MS1 - MS BOOKS ORIGINATING FROM ROUTH’S LIBRARY

MC:PR30/2/MS1/1 n.d. (Early 17th cent.?) MS Latin verse play in 3 acts, titled ‘S. Edwardus Confessor sive Mites terram possidebunt. Tragoedia’ [St. Edward the Confessor; or the meek shall inherit the earth]. 1000 lines long, The play is anonymous and undated, but the hand is consistent with the early 17th century, when such plays were written (and performed) in Oxford. There is a note in the front that this volume was purchased by John Bloxam at the sale of Routh’s MSS at Sotheby’s, 5 July 1855, for £1 18s as Lot 212.

MC:PR30/2/MS1/2 n.d. (Early 17th cent.?) MS Latin verse play (with some stage directions in English) in 4 acts, titled ‘Valetudinarius’ [The hypochondriac]. It appears to be a comedy. As with MS 980, the play is anonymous and undated, but the hand is consistent with the early 17th century. This was purchased by Bloxam at the sale of Routh’s MSS on 5 July, for 10s as Lot 59.

MC:PR30/2/MS1/3 11 Jul 1630 Manuscript volume titled ‘A Copie of the Sermon preached at Oxon on Sunday MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 310

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in the afternoon ye 11th of Julie, being the Act-Sundaie, 1630. By Peter Haylin’ [Peter Heylin, D. 1615–18; F. 1618–30]. The text is Matthew 13.25. It is part published in O’Gorman, Journal of Religious History, 1975. See also John Morrell (ed.), Bibliography of 17th century Britain. There are notes by Routh at the beginning and end of the manuscript and on a strip from a bookseller’s catalogue, where he writes that this was among the MSS belonging to Dr. A. Clarke. This shows that the book had been part of Routh’s collection of books and manuscripts, although there is no visible lot number on it.

MC:PR30/2/MS1/4 n.d. (c. 1675–87) An Epitome of Grotius de jure Pacis et Belli, with a preface addressed to Henry Clerke (President 1672–87). A note by Routh on the flyleaf states that the MS is by George Hunt (Demy 1675–81; F. 1681–99), no doubt rightly since the hand is the same as that in MC:F5/MS1/1. Routh’s note also states that he was given this book by Daniel Prince in 1795 (Daniel Prince [1712–96] was the OUP warehouseman in the late eighteenth century). Inside the book is a letter from Thomas Thorpe, dated 31 March 1859, which confirms that the book had been bought by John Bloxam at the Routh sale for 2s as Lot 299.. At the end of the book is two lists of books in another hand, the first headed “12o & 24o” (i.e. books in duodecimo and vingesimo-quarto), the second “School Books”.

MC:PR30/2/MS1/5 n.d. (c. 1694/5?) Bound volume containing a collection of papers concerning the dispute between Magdalen College and the University on the appointment of a new Principal of Magdalen Hall in 1694. The Principal of Magdalen Hall died in February 1694, and Magdalen College challenged the right of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford to appoint a successor, so that for a while there were two rival Principals. In the end, the Chancellor’s candidate was appointed. (see further Darwall-Smith in Brockliss, Magdalen College, Oxford: A History (Oxford, 2008), p. 260). This volume was once in Routh’s possession: it has a number “142" written on it, and Lot 142 from Routh’s sale was an MS titled “The Proceedings about Magd. Hall on the death of Dr. Levett, 1693/4". There is no indication on the papers of any previous provenance.

MC:PR30/2/MS1/6 1786 Printed copy of Bion’s Epitaph of Adonis translated and other compositions by Edward Jackson Lister (1766–1782; a chorister of Magdalen from 1774 who died aged 16 of consumption), Oxford, 2nd ed., 1786. 24 pages. At the front of the book is a Latin poem in elegiac couplets by George Murthwaite (matr. Queen’s 1750; Fellow there 1765–85), written in Routh’s hand, in praise of Lister. At the back of the book are bound in 42 pages of manuscript poems by Lister, written between the ages of 12 and 16, which were not published. Some of the MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 311

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poems are in draft, and even bear schoolboy doodles. It seems that this book was published at the instigation of Routh, who took an interest in Lister’s progress. Presumably Routh then gathered up the remaining fragments of Lister’s work and bound them into his copy of this book. Lister was a precocious young scholar, and even helped Routh in correcting the text of his edition of Plato’s Euthydemus and Gorgias (Middleton, Dr. Routh, pp. 105–8). His early death was evidently much mourned by Routh. This book was purchased by John Bloxam at the sale of Dr. Routh’s MSS as Lot 135.

MC:PR30/2/MS1/7–9 n.d. (c. 1805?) Three manuscripts of notes (written in Latin) on European history by Daniel Wyttenbach (1746–1820). Wyttenbach was one of the leading classical scholars of his age, best known for his major edition of Plutarch’s Moralia. He was a professor first at Amsterdam and then in Leiden. Evidence from Routh’s correspondence shows that he and Wyttenbach were well enough acquainted with each other to correspond and exchange books (MC:PR30/1/C3/3 Fols. 45 and 55, MC:PR30/1/C4/10 Fol. 52, and MC:PR30/1/C4/12 Fol. 75). There is no explicit provenance for these volumes, but on the title page, which is inscribed “D. Wyttenbach Praelectiones de Historia Antiqua”, Martin Routh has added in his own hand the comment “in Academia Lugduno-Batava Professoris”. This suggests that these three volumes were acquired by Routh at some point. There is a note on the inside cover “844 3 vols 3/13/6", which presumably refers to the lot number, and to the price paid for this and the other two books. The three volumes are therefore included among the Routh papers as part of what had been his collection of manuscripts. The three volumes were bound as a set and are inscribed “D. Wyttenbachii Historia Universalis” on the spine. The notes are quite cursory, and are too informal to have been written with a thought of publication (and, certainly, they never do seem to have been published). It is therefore at least possible that Wyttenbach did indeed use them, as the title page to the first volume suggests, for lecture notes, or else for his private use, as a kind of aide-memoire. The books seems to have been written in the same hand, and that hand appears to be Wyttenbach’s, but it is much more cursory than the hand he uses in his letters. MC:PR30/2/MS1/7 comprises 362 pages of notes on ancient history up to the death of Justinian (565 AD). MC:PR30/2/MS1/8 comprises 186 folios of notes on the Middle Ages starting with events after the death of Justinian. It is divided up into sections for each country, and generally brings their respective histories down to the early eighteenth century. MC:PR30/2/MS1/9 comprises 186 folios of notes on modern history. It is arranged as a series of short biographies of European monarchs, arranged by country, from the fifteenth century to the early nineteenth: the accession of Tsar MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 312

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Alexander I of Russia in 1801 is mentioned, but not that of King Frederick VI of Denmark in 1808, which suggests that this volume was compiled in about 1805.

MC:PR30/2/MS2 - CATALOGUES OF THE ROUTH LIBRARY

MC:PR30/2/MS2/1 1855 Volume titled on the spine “Catalogue of the Routh Library”, and inscribed on the inside front cover by J. R. Bloxam “Dr. Routh’s Books as they were packed up and sent to Durham in 1855". At the start of the catalogue is a copy of the clause in Routh’s will relating to his library, dated 29 March 1852, in which he bequeathed his printed books to the University of Durham. The catalogue is arranged by box, and, according to I. A. Doyle, ‘Martin Joseph Routh and his books in Durham University Library’, Durham University Journal, June 1956, pp. 100–7, is the work of Markham John Thorpe, the son of a bookseller who had known Routh.

MC:PR30/2/MS2/2 26 Jan 1855 MS catalogue, prepared by W. D. Macray, of the manuscripts held in Martin Routh’s Library.

MC:PR30/3 - DOCUMENTS RELATING TO ROUTH’S SCHOLARLY RESEARCH

As stated in the introduction, surprisingly few items in the Routh collections relate to his academic work. All that remains here are some manuscript volumes containing material relating to his work on Reliquiae Sacrae, and a volume of Burnet’s memoirs which Routh used for his 1852 reprinting.

It is not known how these particular documents ended up in the library, and then the archives, of Magdalen College. MC:PR30/1/MS2/1 above, a guardbook of papers relating to Routh’s work on Burnet’s memoirs, found its way into John Bloxam’s hands, and so is listed among Bloxam’s Routh papers, but there is no similar indication of provenance for any of these items, except possibly for MC:PR30/3/MS3/1.

MC:PR30/3/MS1 - DOCUMENTS RELATING TO RELIQUIAE SACRAE

MC:PR30/3/MS1/1–8 1780s? A group of eight notebooks, all written in Routh’s hand, and inscribed on their spines “Routh Vol. 1” to “Routh Vol. 8". Each volume of a series of extracts from the early Christian Fathers, written in both Latin and Greek, which Routh has arranged under certain thematic headings, which are listed at the start of the book. MC:PR30/3/MS1/7 differs from the other volumes in that the fourth section of the book comprises notes made by Routh in 1781 of the contents of several Greek and Latin manuscripts held at Magdalen. The books are otherwise undated, but they are so similar in their overall presentation (and in the state of Routh’s handwriting) that they all probably date MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 313

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from the same period, namely the early 1780s. Routh would appear to have assembled this books for his own use, as part of his preliminary studies in the history of the early Christian Fathers towards the creation of Reliquiae Sacrae.

MC:PR30/3/MS1/9 1796–1814 Volume lettered on the back ‘ROUTH’ and inscribed inside in Routh’s hand ‘Collations of MSS. for the Reliquiae Sacrae first published in 1814, but of little importance except to a future Editor’. It does indeed consist of collations of MS readings made for Reliquiae Sacrae. Most of the notes are in Routh’s hand, but some are in other, unknown hands. Several of Routh’s notes are written on the backs of fragments of letters addressed to him. Almost all the book is undated, but the first page is dated 1796, and a page near the end is dated 1803.

MC:PR30/3/MS1/10 n.d. (1824?) Volume of notes made (in English) by Martin Routh on Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider’s Probabilia de Evangelii et Epistolarum Joannis Apost. indole et origine (Leipzig 1820). Autograph MSS of 148 leaves, mostly written on rectos only. Bretschneider had cast doubt on the authorship of the Gospel and Epistles of St. John, and Routh devotes this notebook to refuting Bretschneider’s arguments, and to defending St. John as the works’ author. The MS is undated. There is, however, a copy of this book in the Routh Library, which is inscribed “M. J. Routh 1824". Presumably these notes were made after Routh had acquired this particular copy.

MC:PR30/3/MS2 - DOCUMENTS RELATING TO GILBERT BURNET’S MEMOIRS

MC:PR30/3/MS3/1 1852 Copy of Volume III of Bishop Burnet’s History of his own Time, edited (anonymously) by Martin Routh (Oxford, 1833), which has been extensively annotated by Routh to form the basis of a second edition of this part of Burnet’s history, which was published in 1852 as Bishop Burnet’s history of the reign of king James the second. Additional observations now enlarged. There is a note, dated 4 October 1852, by John Rigaud (D. 1840–9; F. 1849–88), explaining the use to which this volume was put. Presumably Routh presented Rigaud with this volume, and Rigaud in turn presented it to the College.

MC:PR30/4 - ROUTH PAPERS FOUND IN MAGDALEN AFTER BLOXAM

The greater part of the Routh Papers owe their existence to John Bloxam salvaging them from the President’s Lodgings after Routh’s death in 1854. However, some Routh material did remain at Magdalen, either because Bloxam could not find it in the Lodgings, or because it was stored elsewhere, and this gradually made its way to the library and the archives at a later date. They include some miscellaneous correspondence, including with Routh’s family, and some material relating to College administration, as well as a remarkable daguerreotype of Routh, taken on his 99th birthday in September 1854. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 314

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MC:PR30/4/C1 - LETTERS, MAINLY CONCERNING ROUTH’S FAMILY

MC:PR30/4/C1/1 1771–1935 Scrapbook titled on spine “Letters from President Routh’s Father and Other Papers”. Opposite fol. 1 is a note: “These papers were found in an old tin box, filled with documents referring to College Benefices, etc., on July 3rd 1935. The box had evidently been long stored in the Bursary from which it was removed at the beginning of July 1935.” The letters here were discovered in time for H. D. Middleton to use them in his biography (Dr. Routh, p. 19). The items relating to Routh were evidently separated out and pasted into this volume. Other letters from Peter Routh to his son may be found at MC:PR30/1/C1/1–2 above, MC:PR30/4/C3/1 below and MS 655 (c). Fol. 2: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 17 Jun 1771. Peter Routh is very disappointed not to have received a letter from his son at the expected time. Fol 3: Letter from Peter Routh (address Beccles) to Martin Routh, 14 Nov 1776. Peter Routh approves of a proposal (unspecified) made by Dr. Wheeler (Benjamin Wheeler, F. 1761–77) to his son, and discusses whether Martin should apply for a curacy or remain in College. He also approves of Martin exploring Oriental studies, and passes on news of family friends. Fol. 4: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Burgh St. Peters) to Martin Routh, 7 Jan 1777. Peter Routh passes on news of family friends whom he has visited, and hopes that Routh’s College duties may enable him to support his brothers and sisters. Fol. 5: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 13 Feb 1777. Peter Routh is glad that Martin has taken Dr. Wheeler’s advice. He sends him a list of payments that he has made on his son’s behalf, and asks for reimbursement. He advises him to start keeping accounts for his domestic expenditure. Fol. 6: Letter from Peter Routh (postmarked Beccles) to Martin Routh, undated. Peter Routh gives his son more careers advice, mainly on taking holy orders, and also advises him on his clothes and on powdering his hair. He passes on some family news. Fol. 7: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 3 Jun 1779. Peter Routh apologises for not writing sooner, and passes on news of family friends. Fol. 8: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 20 Mar 1780. Peter Routh is glad that his son’s Fellowship stipend is more than had been expected. He passes on news of family and friends. Fol. 9: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 26 Oct 1780. Peter Routh asks his son to look after his health. He discusses possible vacant livings in Norfolk of a certain value. Fol. 10: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 1 Mar 1781. Peter Routh is sorry that his son’s dividend was smaller than expected, and gives him some financial advice. He asks after Martin’s health, and passes on news of MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 315

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MC:PR30/4/C1/1 (con.) family and friends. Fol. 11: Letter from Peter Routh (address, Beccles) to Martin Routh, 25 Jul 1781. Martin has evidently told his father of a plan involving him travelling to France, which Peter Routh evidently does not wholly support. Fol. 12: First sheet only of an incomplete letter from Peter Routh (address missing) to Martin Routh, undated. Peter asks for news from his son. Fol. 13: Lower half only of a letter from Peter Routh (address missing, but postmarked Beccles) to Martin Routh, undated (postmarked 1781). What remains of the letter contains news of Martin’s family and friends. Fol. 14: Letter from Martin Routh (no address given, but postmarked Oxford) to Peter Routh, 16 Aug 1787. Martin hopes to visit his father soon, and reports on his health. He copies into this letter a prospectus for his plans for what will eventually become the Reliquiae Sacrae. He reports on his brother Samuel (D. 1785–91; F. 1791–1811). Fol. 15: Bill for Martin Routh for alcohol and tobacco consumed, 1779. Fol. 16: Bill for Martin Routh for powder and pomatum for his hair or wig, 1782. Fol. 17: Bill for Martin Routh for alcohol and tobacco consumed, 1778. Fol. 18: Bill for Martin Routh for items of clothing, 1780. Fol. 19: Bill for Martin Routh for powder and pomatum for his hair or wig, 1779. Fol. 20: Bill for Martin Routh for repairs to his shoes, 1777–9. Fol. 21: Bill for Martin Routh for alcohol and tobacco consumed, 1779. Fol. 22: Bill for Martin Routh for items of clothing, 1780. Fol. 23: Bill for Thomas Jenner (D. 1703–15; F. 1715–45; F. 1745–68) for cleaning pictures, 1765. Fol. 24: Bill for Martin Routh for various small items of furniture, 1781. Fol. 25: Fragment of an inventory for an unnamed building, perhaps the President’s Lodgings, undated (18th century). Fol. 26: Bill for Martin Routh for alcohol and tobacco consumed, 1781. Fol. 27: Bill for Martin Routh for framing some prints, 1780. Fol. 28: Invitation from a Mr. Neale to Martin Routh to supper at the Angel Inn, undated (before 1791, since Routh is still called “Mr.”). Fol. 29: Bill for Martin Routh for books and stationery bought from Daniel Prince, 1776–7. The books are all named. Fol. 30: List of names and sums, which appears to be an account for collection money taken at a service officiated by Martin Routh, undated. Fol 31: Bill for Martin Routh for repairs to his gown and clothes, 1779–80. Fol. 32: Essay or lecture (3 sheets; written in Latin) on Odyssey XV. The hand is unknown; it is certainly not Martin Routh’s. Fol. 33: Scrap of paper with a proposal for an edition and translation by Routh of an unnamed text. This almost certainly refers to Routh’s edition of Plato’s Euthydemus and Gorgias, published in 1784. [There is no Fol. 34] Fol. 35: Bill for Martin Routh for builder’s work carried out in his rooms in Magdalen, 1781. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 316

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MC:PR30/4/C1/1 (con.) Fol. 36: Printed form completed by Martin Routh permitting one “Jewson” from Balliol College to proceed to the exercise for his MA degree, undated. No Jewson is mentioned in Alumni Oxonienses. Fol. 37: Letter from S. Willis (no address given) to Martin Routh, undated (1771, 1775 or 1791). Willis writes to congratulate Routh on being elected either a Demy, Fellow or President of Magdalen College. It seems that Willlis and some of his friends had been subsidising Routh’s education until then. Fol. 38: Letter from William Boycatt (matr. Gonville and Caius 1772; F. there 1776–96; address, Caius College, Cambridge) to Martin Routh, 17 Mar 1774. Boycatt hopes that Routh will come and visit him at Cambridge. He gently teases Routh about Routh’s affection for a girl named Maria. Fol. 39: Letter from Thomas Thurlow (D. 1755–9; F. 1759–72; Bishop of Lincoln 1779–87 & Durham 1787–91; address, Temple) to Martin Routh, 28 May 1779. Thurlow thanks Routh for congratulating him on his appointment as Bishop of Lincoln. Fol. 40: Letter from Thomas Thurlow (address, Temple) to Martin Routh, 10 Jul 1781. Thurlow is delighted to hear that his nephew (Edward South Thurlow; matr. 1781) is to get a good set of rooms in the College. He invites Routh to visit him at Buckden, so he can meet Thurlow’s brother and nephew. Fol. 41: Draft letter from Martin Routh to Thomas Thurlow, undated (1781). Routh thanks Thurlow for recommending his nephew to his care, and promises to do his best for him. Fol. 42: Letter from Robert Reynolds (address Coventry) to Martin Routh, 17 Mar 1773. Reynolds looks forward to seeing Routh in Coventry, and offers him directions as to how to get there from Oxford. Fol. 43: Letter from John Evans (D. 1771–3; F. 1773–83; address, Nottingham) to Martin Routh, 2 Mar 1780. Evans thanks Routh for sending him his stipend as Fellow. He looks forward to meeting some pretty women in Bath. Fol. 44: Letter from John Evans (address, Bath) to Martin Routh, 9 Feb 1781. Evans passes on the gossip from Bath. Fol. 45: Letter from William Byrne (1743–1805; address, London) to Martin Routh, 5 May 1785. Byrne sends Routh a copy of a print showing the death of Captain Cook. Fol. 46: Letter from Robert Hughes (D. 1758–67; address, Plymouth Dock) to Martin Routh, 24 Jan 1788. Hughes thanks Routh for sending him a book (his edition of Plato?). Fol. 47: Letter from Mary Routh (sister of Martin; address, London) to Martin Routh, 6 Jan 1779. Miss Routh has come up to London. She passes on news of their family. The sermons on Fols. 48–52 are all undated, but their handwriting (and their presence among all these documents dating from the 1770s and 1780s) suggests that they were written by Routh as a young man; possibly before his election as President in 1791. Fol. 48: Sermon in Routh’s hand on Romans 15.6 (“That ye may with one mind and with one mouth glorify God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ”). MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 317

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MC:PR30/4/C1/1 (con.) Undated. Fol. 49: Sermon in Routh’s hand. It was originally preached on the text “Whosoever ye do, do all for the glory of God” (I Cor. 10.32), and then rewritten to be preached on the text “Glorify your Father which is in Heaven” (Matthew 5.16). The sermon has been amended in many places to fit the new text. Undated. Fol. 50: Another sermon in Routh’s hand on Romans 15.6. On the final page are some doodles, which might or not might be by Routh himself. Undated. Fol. 51: Sermon in Routh’s hand on I Tim. 3.16 (“And without all controversy great is the mystery of Godliness”). Undated. Fol. 52: Sermon in Routh’s hand on Psalm 27.10 (“When my Father and my Mother forsake me the Lord taketh me up”). Undated. Fol. 53: Letter from Charles Thorp (address, College, Durham) to John Bloxam, 24 Jan 1855. Thorp is delighted to hear the news that Durham is to receive President Routh’s library. He offers assistance in sorting and packing the books up to travel northwards. Fol. 54: Copy in John Bloxam’s hand of a letter from Charles Thorp (address College, Durham) to J. M. Routh, 24 Jan 1855. Thorp thanks Routh and his relations for the gift of their relative’s library. He is very grateful for John Bloxam’s help in this matter. Fol. 55: Letter from Charles Thorp (address, College, Durham) to John Bloxam, 31 Jan 1855. Thorp reports that Convocation at Durham has formally accepted the gift of Routh’s library. He once again expresses his gratitude, and is happy to visit Oxford himself, if that would be useful. Fol. 56: Letter from Charles Thorp (address, College, Durham) to John Bloxam, 9 Feb 1856. Thorp once again thanks Bloxam for his arrangements over Routh’s books. Fol. 57: Memorandum on the payment of men to pack up Routh’s books to travel to Durham, 3 Feb 1855. Fols. 57v–58: Two copies of the printed version of Charles Daubeny’s A Biographical Sketch of Rev. Dr. Routh. Fol. 59: Cutting from the Oxford Herald, 30 Dec 1854, with an obituary of Martin Routh. Fol. 60: Photograph of a portrait of Martin Routh made by Thomas Thompson in 1849. A note on the back, written in the same hand as that on fol. 1, suggests that in 1935 this portrait had been in the position of R. A. Routh, who lived at Amport, Hants. Fol. 61: Letter printed in the Times of 9 Sep 1933 from Martin Routh, noting that, having been born in 1846, he had met his great-uncle and namesake Martin, who himself as a young man had met a woman who had seen Charles II. The rest of the volume is unused. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 318

MC:PR30 PAPERS OF MARTIN ROUTH (D. 1771–5; F. 1775–91; P. 1791–1854)

MC:PR30/4/C2 - LETTERS ON ROUTH’S DEALINGS WITH COLLEGE VISITORS

This is a collection of letters assembled in a folder. At the head of them is a rough list of the contents in the hand of H. A. Wilson (F. 1876–1927; sometime Fellow Librarian).

MC:PR30/4/C2/1 1 May 1796 Draft letter from Martin Routh (address, Magdalen College) to the Visitor of Magdalen College. Routh asks the Visitor whether John Shaw (D. 1764–71; F. 1771–1824), who has just been appointed Vicar of South Petherwyn, is able to retain his Fellowship in plurality with his living, or whether he should proceed to the degree of DD in order to be able to do so.

MC:PR30/4/C2/2 9 Jun 1796 Letter from Brownlow North (1741–1820; Bishop of Winchester 1781–1820; address, Chelsea) to Martin Routh. North recommends that Shaw proceed to the degree of DD in order to be able to retain both his Fellowship and his new living.

MC:PR30/4/C2/3 12 Dec 1798 Letter from Brownlow North (address, Farnham) to Martin Routh. North reports that John Metcalfe (F. 1772–99) has called on him to institute an appeal against the College.

MC:PR30/4/C2/4 6 Nov 1799 Letter from Brownlow North (address, Farnham) to Martin Routh. North suggests that Routh and the Fellows decide what to do concerning an unspecified corn rent. He has also sent his opinion on Dr. Metcalfe’s appeal (see below).

MC:PR30/4/C2/5 6 Nov 1799 Opinion byBrownlow North (presumablysent with MC:PR30/4/C2/4 above) on John Metcalfe’s appeal. It seems that Metcalfe and the College are in dispute about a lease of the tithes at Findon, where he had been appointed vicar. North finds in favour of the College.

MC:PR30/4/C2/6 9 Mar 1799 Letter from Brownlow North (address, Winchester House, Chelsea) to Martin Routh. North discusses precedents for deciding an unspecified matter relating to Magdalen, and encloses an opinion (see below).

MC:PR30/4/C2/7 9 Mar 1799 Opinion by Brownlow North (presumablysent with MC:PR30/4/C2/6 above) on whether Ingledew Fellows can be elected as Probationers before they take holy orders. He thinks they can, as long as they are about to do so.

MC:PR30/4/C2/8 3 May 1803 Letter from Brownlow North (address, Chelsea) to Martin Routh. North reports MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 319

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that he has received an appeal from Edward Ellerton concerning the recent election of an Ingledew Fellow.

MC:PR30/4/C2/9 n.d. (c. 1799?) Undated note on an agreement that the President should tell the Visitor that, following his judgement of May 1799, two laymen had been elected Ingledew Fellows.

MC:PR30/4/C2/10 n.d. (c. 1803?) First sheet only of the text of Edward Ellerton’s appeal concerning the recent election to an Ingledew Fellowship. Ellerton protests that a layman has been elected in preference to him to this post.

MC:PR30/4/C2/11 13 May 1803 Draft letter from Martin Routh (addres, Amport near Andover) to Brownlow North. Routh explains that the Society elected a layman to the Ingledew Fellowship in the light of North’s own guidance from 1799. He also discusses some estate matters in Petersfield.

MC:PR30/4/C2/12 28 Jun 1803 Letter from Brownlow North (address, Chelsea) to Martin Routh. North admits that his opinion of 1799 on the Ingledew Fellowships were general ones, not intended to apply to particular elections. He does not wish to depart from the Founder’s intentions, in cases where qualified and unqualified candidates are standing against each other.

MC:PR30/4/C2/13 n.d. (1803) Portion of a draft letter from Martin Routh on behalf of the Fellows of Magdalen College to Brownlow North. The petitioners seek the Bishop’s advice on what to do in a fresh election for an Ingledew Fellowship, in case Ellerton is excluded from standing.

MC:PR30/4/C2/14 2 Sep 1803 Letter from Brownlow North (address, Farnham Castle) to Martin Routh, North sends an opinion on Ellerton’s appeal. He decrees that Edward Ellerton is to be admitted a Probationer Fellow on the Ingledew Foundation.

MC:PR30/4/C2/15 16 Mar 1809 Letter from Brownlow North (address, Chelsea) to Martin Routh. North promises to promote a bill (subject unspecified) submitted by Magdalen to Parliament.

MC:PR30/4/C2/16 7 Aug 1811 Letter from Brownlow North (address, Farnham) to Martin Routh. North thanks Routh for sending him both a copy of the College’s statutes, and a copy of Chandler’s life of Waynflete. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 320

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MC:PR30/4/C2/17 13 Sep 1811 Letter from Brownlow North (address, Farnham Castle) to Martin Routh. North has received papers concerning an appeal from James Hudson (D. 1801–10; F. 1810–39), but none of them have been prepared in the appropriate way, and he is unsure how to proceed.

MC:PR30/4/C2/18 17 Jan 1812 Letter from Brownlow North (address, Farnham Castle) to Martin Routh. North encloses an opinion on James Hudson’s appeal (see below).

MC:PR30/4/C2/19 17 Jan 1812 Opinion of Brownlow North (sent with MC:PR30/4/C2/18 above) on the appeal of James Hudson. Hudson has inherited some property, and North decrees that its income is not so great that he should resign his Fellowship, and should therefore remain in post.

MC:PR30/4/C2/20 26 May 1812 Letter from Brownlow North (address, Chelsea) to Martin Routh. North has received a paper concerning the transfer of Magdalen College from the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Lincoln to that of the Bishop of Winchester, which he will arrange to put in his Register.

MC:PR30/4/C2/21 14 Dec 1814 Letter from Brownlow North (address, Bath) to Martin Routh (written by an amanuensis, with North’s signature added). North appears to be giving approval to a request to allow a Fellow of Magdalen leave of absence on the service of the King.

MC:PR30/4/C2/22 14 Aug 1818 Letter from Brownlow North (address, Farnham) to Martin Routh (written by an amanuensis). North discusses an unspecified application made to him by William Aldrich (D. 1799–1808; F. 1808–24), and asks Routh to send him some papers on the matter.

MC:PR30/4/C2/23 21 Aug 1818 Copy of a letter from Brownlow North (address, Farnham Castle) to an unnamed addressee (William Aldrich?). North tells his addressee that he is not allowed to hold the living of Hintlesham together with his Fellowship at Magdalen.

MC:PR30/4/C2/24 27 Apr 1839 Letter (2 sheets) from Charles Sumner (1790–1874; Bishop of Winchester 1827–69; address, Winchester House, St. James’s Square) to Martin Routh. Sumner discusses an appeal from Richard Sewell (D. 1821–37; F. 1837–56) and Charles Reade (D. 1831–5; F. 1835–84) on whether a Fellow of Magdalen College can study in the Law Faculty. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 321

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MC:PR30/4/C2/25 n.d. (1843; see below) Draft letter from Martin Routh to Charles Sumner. Routh sends the Bishop the College’s answer to an appeal from one Arthur Roberts, who has been unsuccessful in a Fellowship election.

MC:PR30/4/C2/26 20 Nov 1843 Letter from Charles Sumner (address, Farnham Castle) to Martin Routh. Sumner considers the appeal of Arthur Roberts, who was not elected to a Berkshire Fellowship. He considers the election null, and wishes the College to hold a fresh election.

MC:PR30/4/C2/27 21 Nov 1843 Letter from Charles Sumner (address, Farnham Castle) to Martin Routh. This is a private letter for Routh, sent alongside MC:PR30/4/C2/26 above. Sumner regrets that any details of the Fellowship election have been made known, and advises Routh to inform the Fellows to keep such elections confidential on future occasions.

MC:PR30/4/C2/28 28 Jul 1845 Letter from Charles Sumner (address, Farnham Castle) to Martin Routh. Sumner has received a letter from Frederic Bulley, then Bursar, that the College is giving £100 towards a fund for Southwark. He writes to express his gratitude to the College.

MC:PR30/4/C2/29 4 Apr 1848 Letter from Charles Sumner (address, Farnham Castle) to Martin Routh. Sumner has written this letter on the blank page of a printed circular from the Winchester Diocesan Board of Education, which includes an appeal to create a fund to support its schools, and hopes that Magdalen might contribute.

MC:PR30/4/C2/30 11 Dec 1849 Letter from Charles Sumner (address, Farnham Castle) to Martin Routh. Sumner agrees to consider a point submitted to him by the College for his consideration as Visitor. Presumably it relates to the matter discussed in MC:PR30/4/C2/31 below.

MC:PR30/4/C2/31 22 Dec 1849 Letter from Charles Sumner (address, Farnham Castle) to Martin Routh. Sumner discusses the bequest made to Magdalen by Dudley Fereday (matr. 1811), to endow four Fellowships, giving preference to Fereday’s relatives and to natives of Staffordshire. At this stage, Sumner is uncertain how easily the new Fellowships could be grafted into the existing constitution of the College.

MC:PR30/4/C2/32 3 Jan 1850 Letter from Charles Sumner (address, Farnham Castle) to Martin Routh. Sumner MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 322

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has continued to think about Dudley Fereday’s bequest, and concludes that the conditions attached to the new Fellowships would be inconsistent with the spirit of the College’s statutes.

MC:PR30/4/C2/33 3 Jan 1850 Letter from Charles Sumner (address, Farnham Castle) to Martin Routh. Marked “Private”, this letter contains Sumner’s personal reflections on the Fereday bequest. On account of the size of the bequest, he has discussed the matter with two senior judges, who agree with his conclusion.

MC:PR30/4/C2/34 10 Jul 1851 Letter from Charles Sumner (address, Farnham Castle) to Martin Routh. Sumner notes a letter sent to Routh by five Fellows from a committee, and has decided that their decisions are inconsistent with the decisions of former Visitors. This might be to do with a committee which proposed radical reform in the College including a suggestion to create a hall of residence for poor scholars in the College (see Darwall-Smith in Brockliss, Magdalen College, Oxford: A History (Oxford, 2008), pp. 383–4).

MC:PR30/4/C2/35 22 Mar 1854 Letter from Charles Sumner (address, Farnham Castle) to Martin Routh. Sumner sends Routh his formal opinion on two questions submitted to him (see MC:PR30/4/C2/36 below).

MC:PR30/4/C2/36 22 Mar 1854 Opinion from Charles Sumner in his capacity as Visitor (sent with MC:PR30/4/C2/35 above), on two questions relating to Demies in the College. First of all, all Demies should resign at the age of 25; secondly, Demies should not consider themselves as entitled to receive vacant Fellowships.

MC:PR30/4/C2/37 27 Mar 1854 Letter from Charles Sumner (address, Guildford) to Martin Routh. Sumner confirms that his new regulations for Demyships should only apply to Demies elected in the future, and not be applied retrospectively.

MC:PR30/4/C2/38 Mar 1854 Note in an unknown hand about the formal reading at a College meeting of preceding opinion and letter from Charles Sumner concerning Demyships.

MC:PR30/4/C3 - MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE

MC:PR30/4/C3/1 28–30 Nov 1777 Letter from Philip Young (1709–83; Bishop of Norwich 1761–83; address, London), to Peter Routh, 28 Nov 1777. Yonge discusses arrangements for examining Routh’s son Martin (for his ordination as deacon). Peter Routh has MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 323

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then forwarded this note to Martin with an extra message of his own, dated 30 Nov 1777, discussing arrangements to meet the Bishop. Other letters from Peter Routh to his son may be found at MC:PR30/1/C1/1–2 and MC:PR30/4/C1/1 above, and MS 655 (c).

MC:PR30/4/C3/2 n.d. (1791?) Letter written in Latin from John Cholmeley (D. 1791–7; F. 1797–1810) to Martin Routh. It appears to be Cholmeley’s letter of application for a Demyship (which proved successful).

MC:PR30/4/C3/3 23 Jul (year not given; 1840s?) Letter from Charles Frederick Plumptre (d. 1870; Master of University College 1836–70) to Martin Routh. Plumptre writes in support of George Lewthwaite (matr. Univ. 1837), presumably for a Fellowship, since Plumptre mentions his getting a Second in Maths and Physics in 1843 (recte 1842). Lewthwaite did not get a position at Magdalen.

MC:PR30/4/C3/4 1840s A copy of an undated (c. 1840s), open letter (2 sheets) to the Duke of Wellington, as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, from the President and Scholars of Magdalen, headed “to the Duke of Wellington” in Routh’s hand. The President and Scholars repudiate the Duke’s charges (as Chancellor of the University), as set out in a letter to the Vice-Chancellor, of violating the College’s statutes concerning the election of Fellows and allowing Demies to retain their posts after the prescribed term. The affair seems to have grown out of the unauthorised publication in 1840 by G. R. M. Ward of an English translation of Magdalen’s statutes.

MC:PR30/4/C3/5 8 Jan 1844 Letter from William Buckland (1784–1856; geologist and Dean of Westminster; address, Christ Church) to Martin Routh. Buckland sends Routh a rare Dutch edition of Horace owned by his grandfather (there are several Dutch editions of Horace in the Routh Library, any one of which might be this volume). He also encloses some letters (now lost) from masters at Winchester College concerning Buckland's son who was an (unsuccessful) candidate for a Demyship. See also MC:PR30/1/C4/1 No. 1 for another letter from this correspondent.

MC:PR30/4/C3/6 31 May 1847 Letter from Richard Greswell (1800–81; college teacher and promoter of church schools; address, 21 Beaumont St, Oxford) to Martin Routh. Greswell sends Routh some documents (now lost) relating to the approaching election of an MP for the University. He supports William Gladstone’s candidature. See also MC:PR30/1/4C/3 Fols. 154–156 and MC:PR30/1/4C/9 Fol. 7 for other letters from this correspondent. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 324

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MC:PR30/4/C3/7–12 are letters from Jean-Baptiste-Francois Pitra (1812–89; theologian; later Cardinal) to Martin Routh. Pitra was working on Spicilegium Solesmense (4 vols., Paris, 1852-1858), a collection of hitherto unpublished works of Greek and Latin Fathers of the Church and other early ecclesiastical writers.

MC:PR30/4/C3/7 11 Days before the Calends of December (22 Nov) 1849 Letter (in Latin) from Jean-Baptiste-Francois Pitra (address, Magdalen) to Martin Routh. Pitra thanks Routh warmly for the hospitality and assistance he has shown him in Oxford.

MC:PR30/4/C3/8 n.d. Letter (in Latin) from Jean-Baptiste-Francois Pitra (no address given) to Martin Routh. Pitra once again thanks Routh warmly for his assistance in his research.

MC:PR30/4/C3/9 The day before the Nones of December (4 Dec) 1849 Letter (in Latin) from Jean-Baptiste-Francois Pitra (address, Magdalen) to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the Delegates. Pitra explains his work on Spicilegium Solesmense, and the setback it has received since the recent upheavals in France. He hopes that the University can help him in his research, mentioning Martin Routh’s assistance in the project.

MC:PR30/4/C3/10 n.d. A copy of MC:PR30/4/C3/9 above in John Bloxam’s hand.

MC:PR30/4/C3/11 12 Dec 1849 Letter (in French) from Jean-Baptiste-Francois Pitra (address, Danesfield, Great Marlow) to an unnamed addressee. Having left Oxford, Pitra wishes to thank his correspondent for all the kindness shown him there.

MC:PR30/4/C3/12 n.d. Letter (in French) from Jean-Baptiste-Francois Pitra (address not given) to an unnamed addressee. Pitra asks his addressee to thank Routh for giving him a copy of Monasticon Gallicanum.

MC:PR30/4/C3/13 3 Jun 1854 Letter from James Knowles (address, St. John’s Road, Battersea Rise, Wandsworth, Surrey) to Martin Routh. Knowles seeks Routh’s help in establishing the identity of one “Duncombe”, who was expelled by the Puritans. Bloxam has noted that John Duncombe was expelled on 29 Jun 1648.

MC:PR30/4/MS1 - PAPERS ON SOUTH PETHERWYN (NOW PETHERWIN)

MC:PR30/4/MS/1 1794–1800 Papers which were once found wrapped up in a folder inscribed “Papers relating to Dr. Shaw’s dispute as to the Great Tithes of S. Petherwyn”. They were evidently found within Magdalen MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 325

MC:PR30 PAPERS OF MARTIN ROUTH (D. 1771–5; F. 1775–91; P. 1791–1854) itself, since they have been placed into a guardbook which looks like others which date from the early 20th century. “Dr. Shaw” is John Shaw (D. 1764–71; F. 1771–1824), who became vicar of South Petherwyn (today usually spelled “Petherwin”) in 1796. To judge from the nature of this package’s contents, it was kept by Routh. The advowson of South Petherwin, in Cornwall, was given to the University of Oxford by Mary I in 1554.

See MC:PR30/1/C2/4 Fol. 17 for a letter from Shaw to Routh.

No. 1: Letter from J. Bartlam (address, Alcester) to Martin Routh, 17 June 1794. Bartlam understands that John Shaw is a candidate for the vacant living of South Petherwyn. He hopes to persuade his brother to support Shaw, but would like to be sure whether the living is indeed to be vacated, and, if so, whether Shaw really wishes to apply for it. No. 2: Letter from Septimus Collinson (Provost of Queen's 1796-1827; address, Holwell) to Martin Routh, 7 Jul 1795. Collinson is unable to support Shaw for South Petherwyn, because he has promised his vote elsewhere. No. 3: Unfinished letter from an unnamed correspondent (address, Sandwell), presumably to Martin Routh, 12 Jul 1795. The writer regrets that, because he has not yet taken his MA, he cannot vote for John Shaw. No. 4: Letter from Thomas Burgess (1756–1837; Bishop of St. Davids 1803–35 and of Salisbury 1825–37; address, Winston) to Martin Routh, 16 Jul 1795. Burgess agrees that, if he is able to vote, he will vote for John Shaw. No. 5: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, 8 Feb 1796. Routh notes that the University is going to draw up a lease of the great tithes of South Petherwyn to the vicar there for 75 years, at a rate of £250 a year. They wish to insert a clause that, if John Shaw lives in the parish, he will get some of the rent, but if not, all the tithes will go to the University. Routh notes that Shaw’s predecessor only paid a rent of £100 a year on the tithes, and that Shaw is unhappy at the change in his situation. No. 6: Letter from James Buller (address, Wimpole Street) to Martin Routh, 12 Feb 1796. Buller agrees to discuss Shaw’s case with the Bishop of Exeter. No. 7: Letter from John Shaw (address, British Museum) to Martin Routh, 17 Feb 1796. Shaw fears that the Bishop of Exeter has been brought onto the side of the Delegates of the University against him. No. 8: Letter from Francis Bedford (address, South Petherwyn) to John Shaw, 28 Apr 1796. Bedford looks forward to meeting Shaw at Launceston, and taking him to South Petherwyn. He hopes that Shaw will win his battle over the tithes. No. 9: Letter from John Shaw (address, South Petherwin) to Martin Routh, 5 May 1796. Shaw, writing from his parish, is angered to find that the Delegates have leased his vicarage without telling him. He asks Routh to see what is going on in Oxford. No. 10: Letter from John Shaw to Martin Routh, 9 May (year not given; 1800?). Shaw is about to set off for Cornwall, but before doing so reports that he has been asked to put in words for Jenkins and Selwood for Demyships (these could be references to Samuel Selwood or Sellwood, D. 1800–7 & F. 1807–19, and to MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 326

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Henry Jenkins, D. 1803–27; F. 1827–31, and Master of MCS 1812–28). Fols. 11–12: Notes by Martin Routh on Mary I’s letters patent which granted the rectory of South Petherwyn to the University, and whether the University is currently infringing its terms. No. 13: Valuation of the vicarial tithes of South Petherwyn, undated (c. 1796?). No. 14: Printed circular protesting that the current valuation of the vicarial tithes of South Petherwyn has overestimated their value. No. 15: A copy of No. 14 above in Routh’s hand. The presence of several corrections on this document suggests that Routh wrote it himself. No. 16: Notice from John Wills, Vice-Chancellor, that a meeting will be held to seal a lease to Digory Warne and others of the great tithes of South Petherwyn at a rent of £250 a year. No. 17: Draft petition, in the hand of Martin Routh, to the Vice-Chancellor, asking him to give fourteen days’ notice of the day when he will bring the lease of South Petherwyn before Convocation. The petition includes the names of signatories. No. 18: Undated message to Routh giving notice of a date when the lease of the tithes of South Petherwyn will be discussed. No. 19: Printed open letter, undated, to the members of Convocation on the South Petherwyn tithes. The writer is interested in the question of whether it is legal to lease the great tithes to the vicar of the parish. No. 20: Printed pamphlet, dated 11 March 1796, by John Shaw, in which he sets out his case in the dispute with the University over the South Pertherwyn tithes. No. 21: Printed handbill, dated 13 Mar 1796, proposing a compromise over the South Petherwyn tithes. No. 22: MS draft in John Shaw’s hand of No. 23 below. No. 23: Printed handbill giving an account of John Shaw’s further dealings with the Delegates over South Petherwyn. No. 24: Another copy of No. 23, now with an extra paragraph dated 16 Mar 1796. No. 25: Printed notice from John Eveleigh, Provost of Oriel 1781–1814, dated 16 Mar 1796, in which he protests at a record of a conversation involving himself and John Shaw. No. 26: Printed copy of a report from Council, dated 2 July 1796, on the South Petherwyn tithes. This concludes that the vicar of the parish is not restrained from taking a lease on the tithes of the parish where he is vicar.

MC:PR30/4/MS2 - MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

MC:PR30/4/MS2/1 1733–1844 Folder of documents inscribed “Miscellaneous Papers”. The folder itself appears to date from the middle of the 20th century, but there is no indication in it of the origins of these papers. Certain things about them suggest a link with Martin Routh, so they are listed here. They are as follows:

No. 1: Four sheets of paper containing an MS history of Magdalen from its MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 327

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foundation up to 1648. The hand is unknown, but could date from the late 18th or early 19th century. No. 2: MS copy of poem opening “Meek Animal whose simple mein [sic]...”. It is the work of Richard Crowe, and was published in the Gentleman’s Magazine of February 1793 with the title “Verses written under the Picture of an Ass”. There is a note at the bottom in the hand of Martin Routh giving the author’s name. No. 3: MS of Latin poem, written in hexameters, titled “Exequiae Achilleae” and signed “Jodrell”. A Richard Jodrell matriculated from Magdalen College in 1799 as a Gentleman Commoner; it could be his work. No. 4: MS of Latin poem, written in alcaics, titled “In Inaugurationem W. H. C. Ducis De Portland”, signed “Lukin Magd. Coll.” (Robert Lukin, D. 1792–1802; F. 1802–8). Portland became Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1792. No. 5: MS (fragmentary) of a verse translation of an Ode of St. Chrysostom, attributed in a note in Martin Routh’s handwriting to Thomas Monro (D. 1783–97). No. 6: MS of a translation of Psalm 46 into Latin Alcaics, dated March 1844 and signed “Paulson” (although no one of that name is known to have been at Oxford at this time). The MS has been extensively corrected in another hand. [There is no No. 7] No.8: letter from an unnamed writer (possibly Richard Aston; address, Wadley) to Edward Butler (addressed as Vice-Chancellor), 8 Nov 1730. The writer protests to Butler at having to complete some accounts for him. No. 9: Letter from Thomas West (Ch. 1720–7; D. 1727–32; F. 1732–81; address, Magdalen College) to an unnamed addressee, 21 May 1753. West thanks the addressee for a generous present of botanical books to the Library at Magdalen College. No. 10: Letter from Charles Marshall (address, Steyning) to an unnamed addressee, 16 Jul 1800. Marshall has been appointed to collect the College’s rents in Sussex, and has certain questions to ask about the nature of his duties, and the amount of his remuneration. Martin Routh has scribbled some names at the bottom of this letter. No. 11: Draft letter from Martin Routh to an unnamed addressee, undated. Routh discusses applications for choristerships: so manypeople have alreadyapplied for one that he is unable to take any more names, including the protege of this correspondent. No. 12: Letter from William Raphael Eginton (address, Claines near Worcester) to Edward Ellerton, 12 Jan 1827. Eginton is sorry to hear of an accident to the window in the antechapel of Magdalen (installed byFrancis Eginton in the 1790s; presumably a relative of this correspondent), and agrees to undertake its repair as soon as possible.

MC:PR30/4/MS2/2 c. 1818 Rough notes by President Routh on the holding of an unstatutable preferment during a minority. This relates to the case of William Aldrich (D. 1799–1808; F. MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 328

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1808–24), who in 1818 wished to hold the living of Hintlesham, Suffolk, for five years in conjunction with his Fellowship, in trust for a minor. Routh objected to this application, as did the Visitor (see Macray Register v. 153).

MC:PR30/4/MS2/3 19th century (before 1848) Rough, undated and unsigned notes of accounts, annotated by Routh, for the New Building Account, interest payments on the Chapel, Wine, Holywell Street House, and Frewin Hall accounts, Mrs. Sheppard’s donation to Tylehurst School, prizes for Demies, payments to the poor, and other accounts. Undated, but drawn up before Sophia Sheppard’s death in 1848.

MC:PR30/4/MS2/4 mid-19th cent? Notes made by Martin Routh titled by him on the back “Usages in Magdalen College Oxford”. The usages relate to Fellows and College offices, the cutting of wood on College estates, when the bells can be rung, and changes to the hours of prayer.

MC:PR30/4/MS2/5 early 19th cent.? Rough notes made by Martin Routh concerning College accounts relating to dividends.

MC:PR30/4/N1 - PRINTED MISCELLANEA

MC:PR30/4/N1/1 1840s Printed subscription list for a proposed church at Headington Quarry. Several hands have been added in MS, including from Martin Routh.

MC:PR30/4/N1/2 1820–50 Three Printed Acts of Parliament, bound into one volume inscribed “Tilehurst Benefice Acts”, as follows: (1) Act for erecting 2 distinct rectories within the parish of Tilehurst, Berks., to create the new parish of Theale, 24 July 1820. (2) Act to abridge the holding of benefices in plurality & to make better provision for the residence of the clergy, 14 Aug 1838. (3) Act to amend the law on the holding of benefices in plurality, 14 Aug 1850. No provenance is given for this volume, but it may well have come from Routh’s papers, because he was the incumbent of Tilehurst in plurality with his post at Magdalen, and therefore all three acts would have been of great relevance to him.

MC:PR30/4/P1 - DAGUERREOTYPE

MC:PR30/4/P1/1 19 Sep 1854 Daguerreotype of President Martin Routh, taken sitting down. The print is in a small red box stamped with the name of M. Kilburn, 234 Regent Square (who no doubt took the picture). Bloxam (Register vii. 33) says that this daguerreotype MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD 329

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was taken on Routh’s 99th birthday, namely 19 September 1854. Size: 10 x 12.5 cm (dimensions of red box). Copyright: The College.