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Letters of Humphrey Prideaux to John Ellis y — LETTERS HUMPHREY PRIDEAUX TO JOHN ELLIS. Oxf[ord], July 28th, [16]74. Here is now come out of our presse a booke of Dr. Coles," Fellow of Winchester, against the Papists, writt in dialogues: I suppose the old tale tould over again. There is nothing in the presse at present but a catalogue of the books of Bodleian Library,1* and a Greeke Testamente with the various lections (which at the same time is now performeing in Holland and will be out before ours), and an English Bible in qut0.d Dr. • Gilbert Coles, D.D., educated at Winchester, Fellow of New College 1637, and afterwards Fellow of Winchester College. Successively Hector of East Meon, co. Hants, of Easton, near Winchester, and of Ash, in Surrey. Died 1676. The book .referred to is "Tbeophilus and Orthodoxus; or several Conferences between two Friends, the one a true Son of the Church of England, the other fain off to the Church of Rome." Oxf. 1674, 4to. b " Catalogus impressorum Librorum Bibliothecse Bodleianse in Academia Oxon- iensi. Cura et opera Thomse Hyde e Coll. Reginte Protobibliothecarii." Oxon. 1674, fol. 0 " Novi Testamenti Libri Omnes. Accesserunt Parallela Scriptures Loca, necnon Variantes Leetiones ex pins 100 MSS. Codicibus, et Antiquis Versionibus Collectse." Oxon. 1675, 8vo. d " The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New; Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majestie's Special Command." Oxford, 1675, 4to. CAMD. SOC. B Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.93, on 25 Sep 2021 at 18:55:53, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042170200006173 2 LETTERS OF HUMPHREY TR1DEAUX Dorrel and Dr. Hawkingsa are the Bishop of Winchester's11 Com- missioners to visit his colledges. In town, on of their inquirys is whither any of the schollars of those colledge[s~] weare pantaloons or periwiques, or keep dogs, but which is most materiall is their inquiry wither any buy or sel places. If he can rectify this abuse which is crept in at Magdalen's and New Colledge, to the notorious scandall of the University, he will doe us a considerable kindnesse and gain himselfe much credit; but I thinke not that he is able soe far to provide against this in such manner as those which have found out soe many tricks to cheat God Almighty and their own consciences will not likewise have store of them to evade all his provisions, especially since they have the old politician Satan to hclpe them out, and their damd averice to entice them to harken to his counsel. But the Bishop on farther deliberation is ashamed to own that which first put him upon the humour of risking his dcsignes, beeing then to show his power and indignation on Corpus Christi, for that the fellows with contempt rejected his letters which he wrot to them, whereby he enjoyned them to transfer on of those two places, which the founder entaild on Hampshire, on Jersey and Garnsay; but he beeing since informed that it is not within the limits of his or the colledge's power to alter a clause which is inserted in their charter, or deprive a county of their right which will not tamely be parted with, the gentlemen thereof beeing resolved to commence a law sute if any such thing should be enacted, he hath wholely omitted the mention thereof by his Commissioners, and excuseing his attempt to others by alledgeing he was compeld thereto by the King's command on the instigation of Sir George Carteret.0 But, however, that he may come of with credit, it is talked that he himselfe will make provision for those place [s] by * Walter Dayrell or Darrell, D.D. of Christ Church, and William Hawkins, D.D., Prebendaries of Winchester. b Dr. George Morley, formerly Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Worcester. c The distinguished Royalist who held Jersey for the King. After the Restora- tion, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and Treasurer of the Navy. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.93, on 25 Sep 2021 at 18:55:53, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042170200006173 TO JOHN ELLIS. 3 some new settlement of his own on some colledge or other in the University; but I suppose it will be hard for him to find on that will receive his donation except Pembroke, the fittest colledge in town for brutes. Mr. Deana was yesterday taken with a violent fit of the stone, but he is now again abroad. At the end of the Antiquitys you will find an answer of his to a pamplet of Hobs,1' * John Pell, son of Dr. Samuel Fell, Dean of Christ Church, was born at Sunning- well, near Abingdon, and became student of Christ Church in 1636, when eleven years old. Took arms in the Royalist cause in garrison at Oxford, and became ensign. At the Restoration he was made Canon of Christ Church, and soon after- wards Dean. He was a great benefactor to his college, adding considerably to its buildings. Vice-Chancellor, 1666-9. Wood gives him the character of a good dis- ciplinarian, and reformer in the cut of caps and gowns. " He likewise advanced the learned press, and improv'd the manufacture of printing in Oxford in such manner a3 it had been designed before by that public-spirited person, Dr. Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury He was also a person of a most generous spirit, undervalued money, and disburs'd it so freely upon learned, pious, and charitable uses, that he left sometimes for himself and his private use little or nothing. "He caused also at his own proper charge the Hist, and Antiq. of the Univ. of Oxon. to be translated into Latin, and kept two men in pay for doing it, besides what he did himself, which was considerable, and the author, which was less. And, being so done, he caused it, at his own charge also, to be printed with a good character on good paper; but he taking to himself liberty of putting in and out several things according to his own judgment, and those that he employ'd being not careful enough to carry the whole design in their head as the author would have done, it is desired that the author may not be accountable for anything which was inserted by him, or be censured for any useless repetitions or omissions of his agents under him." He was made Bishop of Oxford in 1676, but was still allowed to hold his deanery. Died 10 June, 1686, " leaving behind him the general character of a learned and pious divine, and of an excellent Grecian, Latinist, and philologist, of a great assertor of the Church of England, of another founder of his own college, and of a patron of the whole University."—Ath. Oxon. iv. 193-199. b Thomas Hobbes, of Malmesbury, born 1588. Educated at Malmesbury and Magdalen Hall, which he entered in 1602. After taking his degree, in 1607, ho became tutor to Lord William Cavendish, son of Lord Hardwick, afterwards Earl of Devonshire, with whose family he was intimate all his life. On the outbreak of the Civil War he retired to Paris, where he wrote his "Leviathan." Died in 1679 at Hardwick, the house of the Earl of Devonshire. His quarrel with Fell, referred to in the text, is an amusing instance of the Dean's overbearing temper, and arose out of the unhappy translation of Wood's "Anti- Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.93, on 25 Sep 2021 at 18:55:53, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042170200006173 4 LETTERS OF HUMPHREY PRIDEAUX which he set forth against him. If you use to read before you sleep, there is a booke put forth last term of the Imposters of .Muscovy," which will be very proper to be read at such times. It containeth a very pleasant story and true; only you must pardon the ill stile, which is some places bombast. I assure you it kept me awake last night longer then I was willing; but I repent not of it, since it gave me very pleaseing diversion and informed of a good tale. I cannot learn where Bernard lodgeth in London, or know not how to come to the knowledge of it, without enquireing of that fellow who was with him at the Castle * with us, who I feur hath been already instructed not to let any on know. Without takeing farther trouble on you, the best way when he cometh next to town (juities." " The Deane of Christ Church, having the absolute power of the presse there, perused every sheet before it was sent to presse, and after, and maugre the author, and to his grief and sore displeasure, expunged and inserted what he thought litt. Among other authors, he made divers alterations in Mr. Wood's copie, in the account he gives of Mr. T. Hobbes of Malmesbury's life." In self-defence Wood told Fell that he must inform Hobbes of these alterations, to which he replied," Yea, in God's name, and great reason it was that he should know what he had done; and what he had done he would answer for." In the early part of 1671 Hobbes was accordingly told of what was going on, and he thereupon, having got the King's leave to vindicate himself, wrote an epistle to Wood, which was sent down in MS.
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