^{page iv note a} John Smith was installed in the 7th stall at Durham, 26 Sept., 1695, and held it till his death, on 30 July, 1715. He graduated D.D. of St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1696, and was buried in the chapel there.

^{page iv note b} This copy is written on a folio sheet inserted in the MS., by a different hand.

^{page iv note c} The deposition of Richard Grey is printed at the end of the 1888 edition of The Landian Code of Statutes.

^{page v note a} This can refer only to the deposition, which is fonndin a college MS. called Exemplificatio Chartarum, written by William Vesey, Fellow 1703–1755. No copy of John Smith's MS. Life of Lord Crewe is known to exist in Lincoln College.

^{page 1 note a} The second hand corrects “son” to “younger brother.”

^{page 1 note b} Two letters, here, and several on corresponding places in folios 2–8, are eaten out by worms.

^{page 2 note a} Fol. 2.

^{page 2 note b} Sic, for “ Joyce.”

^{page 2 note c} Letters eaten out by worms.

^{page 3 note a} Fol. 3.

^{page 3 note b} But see Wood's Life and Times (edit. Clark, 1891), i. 264.

^{page 3 note c} Henry Bishop, see Alumni Westmon.

^{page 3 note d} Blank in MS.; “Terence” is to be supplied.

^{page 3 note e} In the University Matriculation Eegister, under date 23 May, 1653, we have “Nathanael Crew, armigeri films” and “Samuel Crew,” Nathaniel's brother. The second hand notes here that “Dr. Jn. Barnard was his” (Nathaniel's) “Tutor ; vide Dr. Win. King's Remains, page 25.” John Barnard, Fellow of Lincoln 1648–1656 ; D.D. 6 July, 1669.

^{page 4 note a} Nathaniel Crew and Samuel Crew took their B.A. on 1 Feb., 1655–6. Nathaniel was elected into a Lincoln diocese fellowship on 9 May, 1656.

^{page 4 note b} The College titles of the offices are the Moderator in Logic, who presided over the disputations of undergraduates, and the Moderator in Philosophy, who presided over the disputations of Bachelors of Arts. N. Crewe held both offices from 6 Nov., 1656, to 5 Nov., 1658. The combination of the two offices was unusual, and perhaps due to domestic dissensions in the College.

^{page 4 note c} Name or word lost, eaten out by the worm.

^{page 4 note d} Gilbert Wats, Fellow of Lincoln, 9 Dec., 1611, D.D. 1 Nov., 1642, died 9 Sept., 1657. He had been Senior Fellow since 1645.

^{page 4 note e} Fol. 4.

^{page 4 note f} Paul Hood, D.D.; elected Kector 20 Nov., 1620 ; died 2 Aug., 1668, aged 83.

^{page 4 note a} N. Crewe took his M.A. on 29 June, 1658, and in the Act in July that year was “prior opponens” i.e. “senior inceptor” (in Arts).

^{page 5 note a} Thomas Thynne, created Viscount Weymouth 11 Dec, 1682.

^{page 5 note b} John Owen, (intruded) Dean of Ch. Ch. from 1650–1 to 11 March, 1659–60.

^{page 5 note c} The Bursarship and Subrectorship of Lincoln College were annual offices, elected into every 6 Nov. The procedure was that candidates were named on the evening of 5 Nov., the Rector asking the Fellows “who offers himself for the Bursarship?” or “the Sub-rectorship?” and the election took place the next morning in Chapel. Crewe was Sub-rector from 6 Nov., 1659, to 5 Nov., 1661, and from 6 Nov., 1663, till his election to the Rectorship in 1668.

^{page 5 note d} The Theology disputations took place on each Friday in Term and had to be attended by all members of the College of M.A. standing or over.

^{page 5 note e} Sic, in error for “important.”

^{page 6 note a} The Bishop of Lincoln is by statute Visitor of Lincoln College. The appeal was made by John Eobinson and Henry Foulis, fellows, in behalf of Christopher Pike, M.A., against the admission of William Adams, B.A., Wadh., to the fellowship to which he had been elected on 13 Dec, 1662. The question at issue seems to have been about the particular preference given by the Statutes to natives of the parish of Rotherham, Yorks. The Visitor's Commissioners decided in favour of Adams.

^{page 6 note b} Fol. 5.

^{page 6 note c} Sic, in error for “Pierce.”

^{page 6 note d} On 29 Apr., 1663.

^{page 6 note e} Sept., 1663; see a narrative of this Royal Visit in Wood's Life and Times, i. 490.

^{page 7 note a} As he was required to do by the statutes governing his fellowship. On 21 Jan., 166½, Crewe had a dispensation from the College to defer taking priest's orders till 12 July, 1663 ; and on 6 May, 1664, he received a further dispensation to defer taking Holy Orders till Ember Week in the next Lent following.

^{page 7 note b} The Liber Niger Procnratorum is a register, in custody of the Senior Proctor, of the graver sentences inflicted by the Proctors.

^{page 7 note c} Probably only by applauding his speech. Wood thought it “a light vaine sillie speech.” (Life and Times, ii. 10.)

^{page 7 note d} All the Fellows of Lincoln, except the Canonist, were required to graduate in Divinity. Crewe had been elected into the Canonist fellowship on 22 March, 1658–9, and, as there was now no degree in Canon Law, was on 21 Jan. 166½ ordered by the College to graduate in Civil Law, before July, 1663. He took D.C.L. on 2 July, 1664.

^{page 7 note e} Fol. 6

^{page 7 note f} i.e. Pierce

^{page 8 note a} “Explorates,” in MS.

^{page 8 note b} Fol. 7.

^{page 9 note a} Paul Hood died 2 Aug., 1668, in the 83rd year of his age and the 48th of his Rectorship.

^{page 9 note b} Fol. 8.

^{page 9 note c} On Tuesday, 11 Aug., the election of Rector was fixed for Wednesday, 12 Aug., and on that day Crewe was unanimously elected, and a letter sent off to the Visitor (William Fuller, bp. of Line.) requesting his admission. On 8th Sept. he was admitted Rector by the Visitor; and on 17th Sept. after the 2nd lesson at Morning Prayers installed Rector “in the chiefest seat of the quire of All Saints Church” (Oxford).

^{page 10 note a} Fol. 9

^{page 11 note a} Vice Chancellor “in MS. in error. Archbishop Sheldon was elected Chancellor of Oxford University 20 Dec., 1667, and nominally held it till his resignation on 31 July 1669. But he was never formally installed, and the powers of the Chancellor were exercised informally either by the Heads of Houses or by Convocation.

^{page 11 note b} “bag'd” in MS.

^{page 11 note c} Fol. 10.

^{page 12 note a} “Togather,” in MS.

^{page 12 note b} Dr. Fell afterwards withdrew his censure on the conjunction of a Headship with a Bishopric and held the Deanery of Ch. Ch. in commendam with the Bishoprio of Oxford 1676–1686.

^{page 12 note c} Fol. 11.

^{page 13 note a} Sic in MS.

^{page 13 note b} Fol. 12.

^{page 13 note c} Probably a slip for “Papists.”

^{page 13 note d} Fol. 13.

^{page 14 note a} Henry Compton, Canon of Ch. Ch. since 1669 ; he succeeded Crewe in the see of Oxford.

^{page 14 note b} Fol. H.

^{page 14 note c} A slip for “now.”

^{page 15 note a} MS. has “Landerdale.”

^{page 15 note b} Bp. Cosiu died 15 Jan., 1671–2. “Wood (Life and Times, ii. 241) says “his bishoprick was kept void to please a woman.”

^{page 15 note c} Fol. 15.

^{page 15 note d} Sic, for “Bed.”

^{page 16 note a} Fol. 16.

^{page 16 note b} An error for Berwick.

^{page 16 note c} Dr. John Sudbury, admitted Dean 21 Dee., 1661, died in 1684.

^{page 16 note d} Fol. 17.

^{page 17 note a} William Sancroft, Dean of St. Paul's, was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury, 27 Jan., 1677–8.

^{page 17 note b} Archbishop Sterne died 18 June, 1683. and was succeeded by John Dolben.

^{page 17 note c} Fol. 18.

^{page 18 note a} MS. has “Landerdale.’

^{page 18 note b} Fol. 19.

^{page 19 note a} MS. has “Landerdale.”

^{page 19 note b} Fol. 20.

^{page 20 note a} Fol. 21.

^{page 21 note a} Sic in MS., for “I'll.”

^{page 21 note b} Fol. 22.

^{page 21 note c} Thomas Cartwright, Dean of Eipon, was consecrated Bishop of Chester, 17 Oct., 1686.

^{page 22 note a} Fol. 23.

^{page 22 note b} MS. has “sell.”.

^{page 22 note c} Samuel Johnson, author of Julian the Apostate.

^{page 23 note a} Fol. 24.

^{page 23 note b} Laurence Echard, in his History of England, vol. iii (publ. 1718) p. 876.

^{page 23 note e} John Morton, fellow of Lincoln College 1665–167, B.D. 11 Nov., 1674, D.D. 6 Apr., 1692 ; Prebendary of 6th stall in Durham, 9 Nov., 1676 ; removed to 12 stall, 13 July, 1685 ; Archdeacon o:f Northumberland, 5 Oct., 1685 ; Rector of Egglescliffe, co. Durh., 1676; Rector of Sedgefield, co. Durh., 1711. Thomas Hearne has the following note, MS. Collections vol. 143, p. 5 : “1734, July 25, Thursday. Mr. Baker (in his letter to me from Cambridge of the 4th inst.) observes that Dr. Bently goes on at Trinity College there as formerly, not w^th standing the Bishop of Ely's sentence, hut he notes that he would he under some tryal this month when the Bishop should visit his diocese and come to Cambridge, being one of his Clergy. When Mr. Baker was in the Bishop of Durham, Dr. Crew's, family in 1688, he remembers one of his Arch-Deacons was suspended for contempt, only for not appearing at his Visitation, tho' another reason was probably at the bottom. Mr. Baker hop'd there would be no occasion for it here.”

^{page 24 note a} Fol. 25.

^{page 25 note a} Fol. 26.

^{page 25 note b} Fol. 27.

^{page 26 note a} Samuel Eyre, Fellow of Lincoln 1671–168, D.D. 8 July, 1687, Prebendary of Durham, 14 Oct., 1690 ; died in 1694.

^{page 26 note b} Fol. 28.

^{page 27 note a} Fol. 29.

^{page 27 note b} An error for “Leyden.”

^{page 27 note c} The second hand notes here :—”Vide D^r Denis Granvill, ye Dean of Durham's, Letter to Lord Crew, Bishop of Durham, Dated from Rouen, July 1, 1689, upon ye Revolution w^th ye reasons of his abdication and his not complying w^th his Lordship's advice, w^th other particulars therein recited. The said Letter was published by y^e Dean in his Book intituled Y ^eResigned & Resolvd Xtn & Faithfull & undaunted Royalist, in 4^to, very scarce & hard to be met with.”

^{page 28 note a} Fol. 30.

^{page 28 note b} Sic, for “excepted.”

^{page 28 note c} Fol. 31

^{page 29 note a} Fol. 32.

^{page 30 note a} Fol. 33.

^{page 30 note b} Fol. 34.

^{page 31 note a} Fol. 35.

^{page 31 note b} Sic, for “Hierarchy.”

^{page 32 note a} Blank in MS.

^{page 32 note b} Fol. 36.

^{page 33 note a} Fol. 37.

^{page 33 note b} Fol. 38.

^{page 34 note a} “Of,” in error for “at.”

^{page 34 note b} The second hand notes here :—“1710 : vide Hist. Reg ^r, p. 70. Lord Crew's 2^d Lady was y^e Dau^r of S^r W^m Forster of Balmborough Castle in Northnmb^d who was to have been his first wife, and when his L^dship asked her Ladyship how she came to refuse his first offer, she replyd y^t she was ‘so many years older, and by eonsequence so much wiser, and therefore ye fitter for his Lordship.’ She resided in her Infancy much at Durham : at w^ch time Mr. [Joseph] Smith (afterwards [1730–1756] Provost of Queen's College [Oxford]) going frequently to her Father's (Mr. Foster), they were play Fellows together, & w^D in company w^th him wⁿ they grew up. she w^d take a pleasure in talking of y^e little Tricks in their Youth, & being of a lively Temper & disposition w^d occasionally be very jocular, and among other things relate his taking her up in his arms and setting her bare upon a cold stone in y^e Garden, when she said “by my Faith, you hare usd me very scurvily, you took up my Cloaths & set me upon my bar Breach.” Thomas Hearne has a note (MS. Collections, vol. 92, p. 91) : “ 1722, Sept. 26, Tuesday. I am told that the late Bishop of Durham's second lady was sister to Foster that acted treacherously lately at Preston, that she was the prettiest young Woman in England (in so much that she was commonly called pretty Dolly Foster) but that she never enjoyed her self after Marriage but pin'd away, the bishop being old.”

^{page 35 note a} The visit was to intimate to the College that he was going to execute in his lifetime the provisions of his will for the benefit of the College. On 8 Oct., 1717, he nominated his first twelve exhibitioners ; and a College order of 21 July, 1718, provides that the directions he had given about the allocation of his benefaction of £474 6s. 8d. a year to the College (including these exhibitioners), which sum he had already began to pay, “be engrossed on vellum and placed in the College treasury amongst the rest of our archives as a perpetual monument of our duty and gratitude to his Lordship.”

^{page 35 note b} “1678” in MS in error.

^{page 35 note c} Fol. 39.

^{page 36 note a} “ Dr. Smith.” is inserted by the second hand, in error.

^{page 36 note b} At the end of the MS., among other notes by the second hand, is this following : —“Mr. [John] Offley [husband of Anne Crewe] changd his name to Crew aa being heir to S^r Jⁿ Crew. He was Father to Mr. [John] Crew of Crew-hall, who mar^d Sarah King who was Chamber Maid at y^e Crown Inn at Oxford belonging to S^r Sebastian Smith. She was much followd by Lord Brook's son of X^t Church & as she was a strong well-made woman she made nothing of throwing y^t nobleman's son into y^e bason in y^e great Quadrangle there : and afterw^ds being drove out of Oxford by Mr. [Joseph] Smith, yⁿ [in 1704 Senior] Proctor of y^e University, for keeping company w^th y^e Gownsmen, and particularly w^th y^t young nobleman & Mr. Crew, she went to London, & Mr. Crew was so fired w^th y^e beautiful & excellent frame of her Person y^t to allay them he went after her to London & was there tempted to marry her altho’ he had before two illegitimate sons by her. [John] the eldest of them was obligd to procure an Act of Parliam^t for his naturalisation before he c^d make a settlement on his marriage w^th Miss [Anne] Shuttleworth ye Dau^r of Mr. [Richard] Shuttleworth, member for Lancash^r : otherwise Dr. Joseph Crew who was the 3d, and only son born in wedlock w^d have been y^e lawfull Heir. He took his name from Dr. Joseph Smith, as he was undesignedly y^e Instrument of his Father's mar^ge. This rash act of Mr. Crew's mar^ge to her did at first give great disgust to the Family ; but, contrary to expectation, she behaved so extremely prudent & was so courteous and obliging to her Husb^d's Friends y’ she soon gaind their esteem & by her good management & Frugality she not only paid of[f] a considerable debt y^t was owing on y^e Estates but savd Ten Thousand p^ds apeice for her younger children. Dr. Joseph Crew was ye 3d, & only son born in wedlock : this gentleman, who is preferred to y^e considerable living of Crew hall, mard a Dau^r of Mr. Haywood of Oxford.”

^{page 37 note a} A dinner was given to Lord Crewe in Lincoln College Hall on the occasion of this visit. The dinner cost £6 15s. 6d.; new table-linen was provided for the High Table, costing “ for linen and making cloths and napkins, £2 4s. 0d.” The Accounts mention also “for wine in hall at entertainment to the Bp. of Durham our Benefactor, £3 15s. 0d.: to the University nrasick at the same time, £1 Is. 6d.”

^{page 38 note a} The second hand in John Smith's MS. has this note :—“Copy of the Register of Bp. Crew's benefaction to Queen's College as it is entered among the rest of the benefactors of that College :—Capellae Omnium Sanctorum in Coll^o Reg^is Benefactores— Nath^iel, Baro Crew, Ep^us Dun^sis. Ut aedes deo opt^o max^o dicatae pulchrius enitescerent, utque in atrio tam eleganti quam sancto Reginenses Dom^m adorarent, suam esse voluit curam suae aetatis praesul omnium munificentissimus, N^ael, permiss. Div. Dun^sis ep^us, et Baro Crewe de Steane, qui ut opus adeo pium promoveret ex innata animi benignitate centum libras lubentissime donavit. Idem, ne in caeteris aedificiis erigendis deficeret societas, anno insequente centum aureos largitus est.”

^{page 38 note b} William Lupton was adm. Fellow of Lincoln 22 Dec. 1698, and died 13 Dec. 1726. He had been promoted by Crewe to the 9th stall at Durham, 13 Sept. 1715. A note by the second hand in John Smith's MS. says :—“Dr. Lupton was recommended to his Lordship for his chaplain by Dr. John Smith, prebendary of Durham, who had a particular interest in the Bishop.”

^{page 39 note a} Richard Grey, adm.to Lincoln Coll. as servitor on 20 June 1712 ; B.A. 15 May 1716 ; nom. by lord Crewe on 8 Oct. 1717 to the first of his newly founded Exhibitions in Line. Coll.; M.A. 1718–9; D.D. 1731; died Archdeacon of Bedford 28 Feb. 1771.

^{page 40 note a} According to Anthony Wood (Life and Times, iii. 142) the same consideration had determined the preceding election : “May 2, Sat., 1685, Fitzherbert Adams chose rector of line. Coll. against Dr. George Hickes. He had 9 voices and Dr. Hickes but 3. Occasioned by John Radcliffe and Edward Hopkins that they might have a governour that they might govern. Radcliffe represented Hickes to be a turbulent man, and that if he should be rector they should never be at quiet.”

^{page 40 note b} Fitzherbert Adams, adm. Fellow of Line. Coll. 17 Oct. 1672, res. 29 Sept. 1684 ; elected Rector 2 May 1685. He had long been a persona grata to Lord Crewe, who ultimately, on 14 April 1711, conferred on him the 11th stall (the “golden prebend”) at Durham.

^{page 41 note a} John Morley wag adm. Fellow of Line. Coll. 30 Nov., 1689, and res. 27 May, 1712. In the interval he had been Rector of Scotton, co. Line. He died 12 June, 1731, and was buried in Scotton church.

^{page 41 note b} Morley's will directed a mourning-ring to be given to each Fellow who had been present at his election. It appears from the accounts of his executor that nine rings were paid for.

^{page 41 note c} William Watts, adm. Fellow of Lincoln 22 Dec, 1706, resigned 20 Sept., 1721. Dr. Adams, the deceased Rector, had been the Bishop's Chaplain; Crewe passed over Morley, the new Rector, and made Watts, who had strongly opposed Morley's election, his Chaplain. Other promotion soon followed. In MS. Ballard 33, fol. 150^v, is a letter from Francis Taylour to Dr. Charlett, dated Univ. Coll., Oxon., 9 Aug., 1719, which says :—” Mr. Watts of Lincoln goes down to Durham this week to be Install’d prebendary “ [of the 6th stall, vice John Dolben removed to the 11th stall, vacant by Dr. Fitzherbert Adama’ death]. “The Bishop, he says, has promisd to give him a living, his Design being never to prefer any in his Church, but to give the Benefices likewise in his Diocese to his Eesidentiaries.” Watts in 1720 was presented by Lord Crewe to the Rectory of Hinton, Northts., and in 1721 to that of Wolsingham, co. Durh.

^{page 42 note a} Robert Shippen Principal of Brasenose.

^{page 43 note a} Shippen, again.

^{page 44 note a} Wood's Life and Times, iii. 498.

^{page 44 note b} Wood's Life and Times, i. 366 (Wallis “lives upon rapine and perjury”); ii. 424. 488, 189, 507–508 : iii. 84, 326,396.

^{page 45 note a} Splutterings of Wood's ill-will to Crewe will be found in Wood's Life and Times i. 268, 332–333, 500 ; ii. 16 ; iii. 285, 298.

^{page 45 note b} Hearne several times speaks of the 1721 edition of the Athenae Oxon. in terms of extreme depreciation. A careful examination of the sources of the edition has convinced me that Hearne's suspicions are quite unreasonable.

^{page 45 note c} The reflections on Crewe are as follows :—“At the Restoration … Mr. Crew … turn'd about, and no man seemed greater for the royal cause and prelacy than he . . . . [He showed] himself ready to keep pace with the humour of King James II. … But when Dr. Crew fully saw that the Prince of Orange would take place he began in some respects to flinch from and desert his master, by sneaking after and applying himself to the Orangian party.”—Athenae Oxon. edit. 1721, vol. ii. col. 1177, 1178. What Hearne had heard is therefore a concise but not unfair summary of what is found in the printed text. It must be borne in mind that it had been positively reported that Crewe “had declared himself a Roman Catholic,” and that Wood had noted this in his Diary, 3 Apr. 1687—Wood's Life and Times, iii. 217 ; Luttrell's Diary, i. 399.

^{page 46 note a} There was a service of commemoration held in Lincoln College, on which occasion the College allowed Richard Hutchins, Fellow, two guineas “for a speech in chapel upon the death of the Bishop of Durham.”