REVIEWS 473 his distrust of scholastic methods a sincere desire to touch ' the hem of the garment which enshrouded the Immortal and the Divine'. But the interference of the hierarchy and the Governments in the life of the University was not all that it had to suffer. London as well as Westminster exerted its influence, and the Citrus Londinensh in an age of pluralism included several Cambridge men whose contribution to academic developements operated more from the City than in Cambridge. For instance Mr Mullinger complains rightly of Lazarus Seaman's non-residence and indifference as (the Intruded) Master of Peterhouse. But Seaman, who held the City benefice of All Hallows, did not hesitate, though he was admitted Master of Peterhouse in April 1644, to Downloaded from accept office as junior dean of Sion College, London, in April 1645,and to serve the office of President for two years, 1651-2. Among his colleagues on the Court were Arthur Jackson (Mullinger, p. 227) and Thomas Horton, President of Queens'. As Sion College had been founded by a Puritan at the outset of the period covered by this volume for the promotion of 'love in conversing together', it became the meeting- http://jts.oxfordjournals.org/ place of many academic divines whose benefices gave them the right of fellowship; Richard Holdsworth, Master of Emmanuel, Brian Walton, of the Polygloti, Sidrach Simpson, of Emmanuel and Arnheim, Simeon Ashe, Manchester's chaplain, and John Arrowsmith, Master of Trinity, are only a few of Mr Mullinger's personae who could use the college in London Wall as a place in which to lay their plans and push their particular men. Indeed, John Lawson, the physician, whom Mr Mullinger (p. 519) describes as being vainly put forward by poor Richard Crom- at Université Laval on July 15, 2015 well's mandate for a fellowship at Queens', enriched the Library of Sion with a benefaction of books which might have gone to Cambridge if Queens' had been more compliant That the University should have survived these external interferences and brought itself out at last into the wealthy place of the 'Platonist' search for truth is not the least encouraging feature in our historian's present instalment of his elaborate record. E. H. PEARCE. Dr John Walker and 'The Sufferings of the Clergy'. By G. B. TATHAM, M.A. The Prince Consort Prize, 1910. (University Press, Cam- bridge, 190.) A REVIEWER who has found Dr Walker's a fascinating work, whether he is airing the prejudices of the age of Anne or describing the adventures 474 THE JOURNAL OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES and afflictions of the clergy in the Civil War, has a gentle quarrel with Mr Tatham, who thinks that ' of those who are aware of its existence few have had the curiosity to peruse its contents'. And evidently he considers that this public judgement is right, and that only minute students of the Civil War or of local antiquities need trouble themselves with our author. Yet it is very doubtful whether in fact Walker is so little known and appreciated. Mr Tatham has in any case done him excellent service in shewing his honesty in the use of his materials, and his zeal in collecting them. It was obviously not Walker's fault that they were imperfect. From many districts he got few answers to his enquiries, and the libraries offered every obstacle to research. Hence- Downloaded from forth the great question as to the fate of the royalist and Laudian clergy will be easier of solution. Mr Tatham has calendared Walker's MSS in the Bodleian, and furnished them with a full index. It is plain that this work is excellently done ; there are few obvious mistakes, though 'Hent' on p. 150 should be 'Hext', and 'Devenham' on p. 306 must http://jts.oxfordjournals.org/ be ' Davenham', not ' Dunham', as Mr Tatham suggests. But there are points at which he should have given ampler information. On p. 156 he says that an authority of Walker's gives the names of seven Suffolk clergymen ; why are they denied to us ? On p. 218 we are told of a letter giving the names of twelve parishes in Wiltshire the incumbents of which are ejected : those names are not given. As a rule Mr Tatham gives names and places; one wishes he had been quite consistent in this good practice. But he has given a sure starting-point for the next stage in the enquiry. This is the local one, and if as much interest were taken at Université Laval on July 15, 2015 in the antiquities of our counties as in their birds and butterflies, we might soon hope to see it accomplished. Every parish register needs to be examined to see if there be not a change of hand at one of- the critical points, or the baptism of children of a new family at the rector)', or the entry of the marriage of a new incumbent of some neighbouring parish.- Such a search, carefully conducted over a sufficiently wide area, would produce considerable results; and if all England were subjected to it, probably a larger number of sufferers than 3,500, Mr Tatham's guess, would appear. It would also appear that the holders of fairly good livings had a much worse chance of continuance than those who occupied poor vicarages. But all this lies outside Mr Tatham's scheme. His calendar of Walker's collections, and especially of those which reached him too late for incorporation in the Sufferings, is a most thankworthy piece of work; and his account of Walker himself, his methods, his difficulties, his measure of success, and the criticisms he endured, is admirable..