IV CONTENTS. Obituary: PACOIl:. Sand ford Arthur Strong M.A. Rev 190 George Richardson M.A. Rev 194 Gage Rarle Freeman M.A. 197 Rev Hel1l'y Russell B.D. 198 OUI' Chronicle 210 The Library 245 P;'ontisjz'ece-William Wordsworth Notes from the College Records (continued) 251 The Anatomist's Hymn %80 THE EAGLE. Der Lebendige Tempel 281 Nature and the Pitchfork 286 October Term, 1903. A Thought 301 Was Ben Jonson ever a Member of our College? 302 The Commemoration Sermon 306 Nemo Domine NOTES FROM THE COLLEGE RECORDS. 310 Tintagel . I 31I The Rev Thomas Spencer M.A. (Continued from Vol. XXIV., p. 315)' 1 Obituary: 3 2 The Ven. John WilIiam HE document which follows is one of consider­ Sheringham M.A. 326 Rev S. F. Cl'eswell D.D. able interest. It is a petition from some of Rev 329 Andrew Burn B.A. the American clergy to the University of 332 Rev Humphrey Noble M.A. Cambridge to exercise its influence in pro- William Justice 334 Ford M.A. curing the consecration of Bishops for the Episcopal Rev George Hel1l'Y 337 Rnssell Garcia B.A. Church in America. It is not clear how this docu ment 3 0 Our Chronicle 4 came to find a resting place in St John's. Dr W. S. The Library 343 Powell, the then Master of the College, was Vice-Chan­ 3�2 cellor of the U niversity in 1765, the year of the Petition. But it appears from the covering letter not to have been sent till 1766 when Dr John Smith, Master of Gonville and Caius College, was Vice-Chancellor. The petition. was not successful at the time, for nearly twenty years passed before a Bishop was con­ secrated for the American Church. The first Bishop Was Dr Samuel Seabury (who it will be observed signs the petition) ; he was consecrated Bishop of Connecticut, at Aberdeen, 14 November 1784, by three nonjuring VOL. XXV. B Notes Jrom tlze College Records. 3 2 Notes .from t�� College Records. ' ' University of Cambridge, to the members of . Scotch prelates. The University of Oxford had con- particularly in the to t Society, we now beg leave most reSpectfully fe rred on him the degree of D.D. by diploma; 15 Dec. which augus 11 ourselves, praying them by whatever they hold 1777, when he was Rector of West Chester, New York. recommend to use their utmost influence, that one or valuable and sacred The fact alluded to in the petition, that the Moravian govern ps may be speedily appointed to reside, and Church was specially recognised in the Colony, by Act more Bisho the Church, in America. of Parliament passed at Westminster, makes it seem all you, Gentlemen, upon whose And shall we not hope that the more strange that no Bishop was appointed to this zeal we have the strongest dependence, Christian spirit and true branch of the Established Church. upon almost a Million of People, will look with a pitying eye to be Members of the Church of There seems to have been some difficulty about the who profess themselvts to partake of are not sutTered oath of allegiance to the King, which the Archbishop England on this Continent, and of every Denomination are of Canterbury was bound by law to require. those advantages, which Dissenters Each <if their respective forms of at full liberty to enjoy? To the Chancellor, Vice-ChanceHor, Masters and Scholars is dericient in the most Church Government is entire: Ours of the University of Cambridge. uneasiness of their disposi­ essential parts. And yet such is the they are not contented with the most extraordinary We, the Clergy of the Church of England in His Majesty's tion, that but make it their too constant practice to traduce American Provinces of New Jersey and New York, in voluntary Indulgences, it makes so considerable a part of the Convention assembled, beg leave in our necessities to make the Church, allho' under which such Immunities are allowed th�m. application to the University of Cambridge; which we do with Constitution, Extent of inhabited Country, which with respect to the greater assurance, as some of us have been so happy, as to The thousands of Episcopacy hath been hitherto neglected. is some receive our education in that illustrious seminary of Learning, with no miles. And we presume that History can furnish us Virt,ue and Religion. Country instance of a people, originating from a Christian Afler the Church's sufft::ring in these countries, for consider. (wherein Episcopacy is generally esteemed, and commonly ably more than a century, by want of Bishops and a regular believed, to be the immediate institution of Christ Himself, Discipline, we, at last, with all humility have resolved to or most undoubtedly of I-lis Apostles) who have labored for p rostrute ourselves berore the Throne, imploring the counten­ such a number of years, under so capital a defect. The very ance and protection of our most Gracious Sovereign towards the World Moravians amongst llS, concerning whose Princip,les the possessions of the established religion in these remote parts is not without its sllspicions, enjoy tlteLr full form of ecclesiastical of His Majesty's Dominions. Government, which is episcopal, and have a Bishop aLlowed Addresses to the same purpose are likewise to be presented them by Parliament: alLho' the Professors of the Church of to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of England, that ornament and honor of Christendom and Chris­ London, under whose Inspection long usage haR more immedi­ tianity, are left to shift for themselves in the most naked and �tely taught us to esteem ourselves, and the venerable Society forlorn situation. for the Propagation of the Gospel, to whose paternal care it is We doubt not of His Majesty's being fully sensible, that the owing, under Providence, that the Church of England hath not Kational Church must ever be one of the main supports of His yet lost Her very Being in these parts of America. sacred Person and Government; But with regret we are forced From these methods of application we 'cannot want hopes of to observe, that the unaccountable neglect of one part of the success, especially if the two famous Universities, which have Constitution, must in all human probability, create a contempt ever been the Guardians of the Church, will condescend to use for �he other. Independency and Monarchy could never yet their interest in our favour, and we trust that the reasonableness SUbS1St together. That the former may not be triumphant ill. of our request will every where procure it a candid reception, 'I- Notes jrom the College Records. Notes fro'm the College Records. 5 these countries, as our Fathers have told us it once was in those The letters which fon ow refer to a kind of claim from whence they came, must surely be the concern of every from which the College has long been free, but which well-wisher to the British Establi�hment, and of every sincere at one time must have given rise to a good deal of and well-principled subject of the British Crown. We want not trouble. It was a claim to a Fellowship in the College, to deprive our Fellow.subjects of the most ample toleration j based on no particular merit on the claimant, save that but at the same time we think it extremely hard, not to say in some distant way he was related to the Founder of injcrious, tl�at Sectaries should be allowed what the Established the Fellowship he sought. Church is not permitted to enjoy. To procure for ourselves, at least, an equality with other Paul Batchellor, the writer of the first two letters, Denominations of Christians in this part of the World, is our son of Paul Batchellor, of Salisbury, linen-draper, was Desire and Petition in the present Address j wherein we once admitted to the College 31 October 169+' It will be more entreat you to promote, as fa r and as much as your better observed that he claims through his mother. This Paul judgment shall direct, the earnest application of your distressed Batchellor was instituted Rector of Storring-ton, Sussex, American brethren, who beg leave to join to their fe rvent, daily 17 September I720, vacating the living on being insti­ and devout Prayers fo r the advanCemeI)t and happiness of the tuted Rector of Walsoken, Norfolk, 20 September 1733. Church of England, their most sincere and ardent wishes for He was succeeded as Rector of Storrington by his son the promotion and prosperity of the University of Cambridge. Paul, who was instituted 12 November 1733. This Perth Amboy in New Jersey MYLES COOPER, M.A. younger Paul was afterwards instituted Rector of es October the 2nd 1765 Pr zdent of the Pulborough, Sussex, IO December I736, and held the C01wmlion. two livings by dispensation until his death in 1759. AR SAML. SEABURY RICHARD CH LTON A.M. AM. He was admitted to St John's 28 June 1728. ISAAC BROWNE A.M. ROBT. M' K AN, A.M. E There was one fact probably quite fa miliar to Dr COLIN CAMPBELL A.M. LEOn. CUTTING, A.M. Lambert, the Master, though unknown to Mr Batchellor, SAMUEL AUCHMUTY, A.M. ANDREW MOKTON, A.M. which was that the College possessed a very elaborate SAML. COOKE, kM. J OHN OGILVIE, A.B. THOMAS B. CHANDLER A.M. chart pedigree of the Platt fa mily and its branches. This pedigree was drawn up by, or under the direction Reverend Sir of, Hilkiah Bedford, the nonjuror, apparently at the It would be of no use to detain your attention by an request of Dr J enkin, the then Master, to be entered at account of the accident which hath so long delayed the incIosed the Herald's College in 1721.