^{page 1 note a} Gilbert Coles, D.D., educated at Winchester, Fellow of New College 1637, and afterwards Fellow of Winchester College. Successively Rector of East Meon, co. Hants, of Easton, near Winchester, and of Ash, in Surrey. Died 1676. The book referred to is “Theophilus and Orthodoxus; or several Conferences between two Friends, the one a true Son of the Church of England, the other faln off to the Church of Rome.” Oxf. 1674, 4to.

^{page 1 note b} “Catalogus impressorum Librorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ in Academia Oxoniensi. Curâ et operâ Thomæ Hyde è Coll. Reginæ Protobibliothecarii.” Oxon. 1674, fol.

^{page 1 note c} “Novi Testamenti Libri Omnes. Accesserunt Parallela Scripturæ Loca, necnon Variantes Lectiones ex plus 100 MSS. Codicibus, et Antiquis Versionibus Collectæ.” Oxon. 1675, 8vo.

^{page 1 note 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.

^{page 2 note a} Walter Dayrell or Darrell, D.D. of Christ Church, and William Hawkins, D.D., Prebendaries of Winchester.

^{page 2 note b} Dr. George Morley, formerly Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Worcester.

^{page 2 note c} The distinguished Royalist who held Jersey for the King. After the Restoration, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and Treasurer of the Navy.

^{page 3 note a} John Fell, son of Dr. Samuel Fell, Dean of Christ Church, was born at Sunningwell, 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 afterwards 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 disciplinarian, 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 as 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.

^{page 3 note b} Thomas Hobbes, of Malmesbury, born 1588. Educated at Malmesbury and Magdalen Hall, which he entered in 1602. After taking his degree, in 1607, he 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 “Antiquities.” “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 1674 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. to Oxford for the purpose of being shown to the Dean. The latter, however, treated it with scorn, read it over carelessly, and bade Wood tell Hobbes “that he was an old man, had one foot in the grave, that he should mind his latter end, and not trouble the world any more with his papers.” But the epistle was then printed, the Dean gave it more attention, and, “upon the reading of it, fretted and fumed.” The title was “Epistola ad dom. Ant. à Wood, Authorem Historiæ et Antiq. Univ. Oxon; 29 Apr. 1674.” Fell took a mean revenge by printing, at the end of the “Antiquities,” a savage attack, in which he denounces “irritabile illud et vanissimum Malmesburiense animal,” and takes some credit to himself for being so forbearing as “ut Viro pessime de Deo, hominibus, literisque merito, locum inter literatos relinqueret.“Hobbes gave the best answer to this extravagance by his contemptuous silence.—See John Aubrey, Letters written by eminent Persons, Lond. 2 vols. 1813. Ath. Oxon. iii. 1214.

^{page 4 note a} “The Russian Impostor, or the History of Muskovie under the Usurpation of Boris, and the Imposture of Demetrius, late Emperors of Muskovy.” London, 1674, 8vo.

^{page 4 note b} Windsor Castle.

^{page 5 note a} Perhaps James Fincher, of Trinity College, B.A. 1674, M.A. 1677.

^{page 6 note a} This name does not appear among the Oxford graduates of the period.

^{page 6 note b} Thomas Bourchier, LL.D. Eegius Professor of Civil Law, Principal of St. Alban's Hall 1678.

^{page 6 note c} Thomas Bayley, D.D. of Magdalen College.

^{page 8 note a} The Duke of York.

^{page 8 note b} Arthur Squibb, elected from Westminster to Christ Church 1656; B.A. 1659; M.A. 1662.

^{page 8 note c} Richard Byfield, B.A. at Corpus Christi College 1649; Fellow of Magdalen College 1650; M.A. 1652; B.D. 1663; Curate of Horspath 1666; presented to Selborne 1678; died 1679.

^{page 8 note d} Richard Peers, born in Down, in Ireland, was, according to Anthony Wood, intended by his father to be trained a tanner; bnt, running away from home to a relative at Bristol, he was sent to Westminster School, where he became a favourite of Busby. By another account he is said to have been also a pupil of Jeremy Taylor, at Newton, in Carmarthenshire. In 1665 he was elected a Student at Christ Church, Oxford, “where, making a hard shift to rub out (for 'twas usual with him to make the exercise of idle scholars, either for money, or something worth it from the buttery book), he took the degree in Arts, and, afterwards, being elected superior beadle of that faculty and of physic, in the place of Franc. White, deceased, on the 21st of Sept. 1675, he, instead of prosecuting his studies, took to him a wife, and enjoyed the comforts of the world. In the latter end of the reign of King James II. he applied his mind to the study of physic, haying been secretly informed that his beneficial place was to he bestowed on a person more agreeable to those times; but, fearing his bulk and fatness, which he had obtained by eating, drinking, and sleeping, would hinder his practice, he quitted that project.”

Among other literary work he was employed “in the translating from English into Latin Historia et Antiquitates Univers. Oxon., but in the beginning of his undertaking, he being much to seek for such a version that might please Dr. Fell, the publisher of that history, that doctor therefore did condescend so far as to direct and instruct him in it (while the author, being made a tool, was forced to stand still); and not only so, but to correct with great pains what he had done, so much sometimes that that doctor's handwriting being more seen in the copy than that of the translator, the copy was sometimes transcribed twice before it was fit to go to the press. At length the translator, by his great diligence and observation overcoming the difficulties, became a compleat master of the Latin tongue, and what he did was excellent, yet always to the last 'twas overseen and corrected by the publisher, who took more than ordinary liberty to pnt in and out what he pleased, contrary to the will of the author.” Peers died at Oxford, 11th August, 1690.—Ath. Oxon. iv. 290, 291.

Wood further adds, in regard to the translation of the Antiquities, “Peers was a sullen, dogged, clownish, and perverse fellow, and, when he saw the author concerned at the altering of his copie, he would alter it the more, and studie to put all things in that might vex him, and yet please his deane, Dr. Fell.”—Life, lxviii. This matter of the translation was a sore subject with Wood, and certainly the Dean had peculiar views of the rights of authors.

^{page 9 note a} Richard Busby, the famous Master of Westminster, was born in 1606; Scholar of Westminster, and elected to Christ Church in 1624; B.A. 1628; M.A. 1631. Provisionally appointed Master of Westminster in 1638, and confirmed in 1640; Rector of Cadworth 1639. After the Restoration he became D.D., Prebendary of Westminster and Canon of Wells. “He was a person eminent and exemplary for piety and justice, an encourager of vertnous and forward youth, of great learning and hospitality, and the chief person that educated more youths that were afterwards eminent in the church and state than any master of his time.” He died 6 April, 1695, aged 93. Ath. Oxon. iv. 417. Welch, Westminster Scholars, 95.

^{page 10 note a} Wood's “Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis duobus voluminibus comprehensæ.” Oxon. 1674, fol.

^{page 10 note b} John Dolben, elected Student of Christ Church from Westminster School in 1640. He served in the Royalist army, and rose to the rank of major. Canon of Christ Church in 1660, Dean of Westminster in 1662, and Bishop of Rochester in 1666; translated to York in 1683.

^{page 10 note c} James Penny, of Christ Church, B.A. 1669; M.A. 1672.

^{page 10 note d} Richard Reeve, Servitor at Trinity College in 1661, and Head-Master of Magdalen School in 1670. In 1667 he joined the Church of Rome, and in 1674 went to Douay and became a monk. Returning to England in 1687, he was re-established at Magdalen School, and thence removed to the mastership of Sir T. Rich's hospital at Gloucester. At the Revolution he was imprisoned for eight months. “He had a considerable hand in the translation of the Hist. et Antiq. Unix. Oxon., which he took upon him at the desire of Dr. John Fell.” Died 1693.

^{page 11 note a} Anthony Wood, the antiquary and biographer, born at Oxford 1632. Educated at Thame and Merton College; B.A. 1652; M.A. 1655. He resided all his life at Oxford, and devoted himself to the history of his University. He began to write his “History and Antiquities “in 1663; published in Latin in 1674. The original English was published by John Gutch, 1792–6. His great work, the “Athenæ Oxonienses,” containing biographies of all writers and bishops bred at the University from the year 1500, was first published in 1691. Having in this book stated that Judge Glynne obtained his promotion at the time of the Restoration “by the corrupt dealing of the then Chancellor,” he incurred the displeasure of the Earl of Clarendon, who, in 1693, brought an action against him for defamation of hia father's character. Wood was severely punished; he was sentenced to banishment from the University until he should subscribe a public recantation, and his book was burnt. This attack upon him was from a quarter where he might least expect it, his partiality to the High Church party, and even to Romanism, being most conspicuous. He died in 1695. His life is prefixed to Bliss's edition of the “Athenæ.”

^{page 11 note b} Soladell or Soladin Harding, cook, who kept a house of entertainment in All Saints parish.

^{page 12 note a} The Sheldonian Theatre.

^{page 12 note b} “Statutum est quod omnes scholares cujuscumque conditionis, quos occasione quacumque extra collegia sua vel aulas vesperi agere contigerit, ante horam nonam (quæ pulsatione magnæ campanæ Collegii Ædis Christi denunciari solet) ad collegia et aulas proprias se recipiant.” — Statuta Univ. Oxon..

^{page 12 note c} Thomas Good, Scholar of Balliol in 1624, when fifteen years of age; B.A. 1628; Fellow 1629. He obtained the cure of Coreley, in his native county, Shropshire, in 1658; at the Restoration, D.D. About the same time he became Canon of Hereford and Rector of Wistanstow; Master of Balliol in 1672. “He was in his younger years accounted a brisk disputant, and, when resident in his college, a frequent preacher, yet always esteemed an honest and harmless Puritan. A noted author [Richard Baxter] of the Presbyterian persuasion tells us that he was one of the most peaceable, moderate, and honest conformists of his acquaintance, and subscribed the “Worcestershire agreement for concord, and joyned with the Presbyterians in their association and meetings at Kedirminster, and was the man that drew the catalogue of questions for their disputations at their meetings, and never talked then to them of what he afterwards wrote in his book called Dubitantius and Firmiamus; by which, when published, he lost his credit among them, and was lesser esteemed by Mr. Baxter, the pride and glory of that party.” Died 1678. Ath. Oxon. iii. 1154.

^{page 13 note a} “Firmianus and Dubitantius : or certain Dialogues concerning Atheism, Infidelity, Popery, and other Heresies and Schisms,” &c. Oxon. 1674, 8vo.

^{page 13 note b} Ralph Bathurst, D.D. distinguished wit and Latin poet, was born at Howthorpe, co. Northampton, in 1620, being one of a large family, of which six of the sons fell in the King's service. He entered at Gloucester Hall, but removed to Trinity, where he became Scholar and B.A. in 1637, and Fellow 1640. He was ordained in 1644 ; but during the Civil War he practised as a physician in the navy, and then at Oxford. He was one of the founders of the Royal Society. President of his college 1664; Vice-Chancellor 1673 and 1675 ; Dean of Wells 1670. The last appointment he is said to have owed to the Earl of Devonshire, whose notice was attracted by his copy of Latin Iambics prefixed to Hobbes's “Human Nature.“He refused the Bishopric of Bristol in 1691. It was during his presidency that the buildings of Trinity College were reconstructed or improved. He died in 1704, being blind during the latter years of his life.

^{page 14 note a} In preparation for the “Marmora Oxoniensia,” which he published in May, 1676.

^{page 15 note a} “Saul and Samuel at Endor, or the New Waies of Salvation and Service, which usually temt men to Rome and detain them there, Truly Represented and Refuted. By Dan. Brevint, D.D.” Oxford, 1674, 8vo. The writer was a native of Jersey, and was the first holder of the French fellowship founded in Jesus College by Charles I. Ejected in 1648, he went into exile in France. At the Restoration he became Prebendary of Durham, and, in 1682, Dean of Lincoln. Died in 1695.

^{page 16 note a} This reference is probably to the work, published later, “Historiæ Britannicæ, Saxonicæ, Anglo-Danicæ, Scriptores xv. by T. Gale.” Oxon. 1691.

^{page 16 note b} “Joannis Antiocheni cognomento Malaiæ Historia Chronica. E MS. Cod. Bibliothecas Bodleianæ nunc primum edita, cum Interpret, et Notis Edm. Chilmeadi. ….. Præmittitur Dissertatio de Autore, per Humfredum Hodium, S. T. B. Coll. Wadham Socium. Accedit Epistola Richardi Bentleii ad Cl. V. Jo. Millium S. T. P.” Oxon. 1691, 8vo.

^{page 16 note C} James Usher, Archbishop of Armagh, 1624–55.

^{page 16 note d} Edmund Chilmead, born at Stow-in-the-Wold, co. Gloucester, entered Magdalen College in 1625; M.A. 1632, Minor Canon of Christ Church. He was ejected in 1648, and was forced to get a living by a weekly music meeting, which he set up at the Black Horse, Aldersgate. He was accounted a good mathematician and Grecian. Died 1654.—Ath. Oxon. iii. 350.

^{page 17 note a} Stephen Crespion, Westminster scholar, and of Christ Church; B.A. 1670; M.A. 1672; Prebendary of Bristol 1683. Died 1711.

^{page 17 note b} One of the Arundel Marbles, published by Prideaux in his “Marmora Oxoniensia,” p. 157.

^{page 17 note c} “The Secret History of the Court of the Emperor Justinian. Written by Procopius of Cesarea; Faithfully rendered into English.” London, 1674, 8vO.

^{page 17 note d} Wood took particular care, on his deathbed, to deny such rumours. “He himself particularly ordered that it should be inserted in his will, which was made three or four days before his death, that he died in the communion of the Church of England as by law established.” Life, Appendix, cxxxiii.

^{page 18 note a} William Dugdale, the herald and antiquary, at this time Norroy. Appointed Garter and knighted in 1677. The report of his having joined the Church of Rome may have had its foundation in the publication of his great work, the “Monasticon Anglicanum;” it being noticed in his Life, prefixed to the “History of St. Paul's” (London, 1716, fol.), that some looked suspiciously upon that work as a means to further the restoration of the monasteries, preparatory to the re-establishment of the Romish religion.

^{page 18 note b} Nicholas Horseman, B.D. Fellow of Corpus Christi. In 1669 he,“after going the college-progress, became crazed by an unseasonable journey (late at night) through certain marshes in Kent, and so continued to his dying day, with an allowance from his college in consideration of his fellowship.”—Ath. Oxon. iv. 616.

^{page 18 note c} Peter Schumacher, Count Griffenfeldt, the able minister of Christian V. He was “a sojourner this [1657] and several years after in Oxon, purposely to obtain literature in the public library …. Afterwards he became a man of note in his own country, and, tho' the son of a vintner, Chancellor of Denmark, &c. He hath lately sent his picture to the University of Oxon, and it now hangs in the school gallery.”—Fasti Oxon. ii. 213.

^{page 18 note d} Thomas Henshaw, of University College, F.R.S. French Secretary successively to Charles II., James II., and William III. In 1672 he was sent as Secretary to the Duke of Richmond on his embassage to Denmark, and succeeded as Ambassador on the Duke's death in the same year. Died 1700.

^{page 18 note e} Mutilated.

^{page 19 note a} Sir Joseph Williamson, son of Joseph Williamson, Vicar of Bridekirk, in Cumberland, was educated at Westminster, and afterwards at Queen's College, Oxford, of which he became Fellow, and a benefactor in after-years; B.A. 1653. He is said to have taken deacon's orders. After the Restoration he was made Keeper of the Paper Office, Whitehall; Under Secretary of State, 1665; Plenipotentiary for the Treaty of Cologne, 1673–4; Secretary of State, 1674–78. President of the Royal Society, 1678. Died in 1701. For fuller particulars of the subject of this note, see vol. i. of “Letters addressed from London to Sir Joseph Williamson,” published by the Camden Society in 1873, p. xiv. of the Introduction.

^{page 19 note b} Ellis had been lately engaged in the Paper Office, under Sir Joseph Williamson. He was now thinking of becoming a proctor.

^{page 19 note c} Henry Compton, a younger son of Spencer Earl of Northampton, entered Queen's College in 1649. After the Restoration he became a cornet in the regiment commanded by Aubrey Earl of Oxford. He then went to Cambridge, took the M.A. degree, and was ordained. Master of St. Cross, Winchester, in 1667; Canon of Christ Church in 1669; Bishop of Oxford, 1674; Dean of the Royal Chapel, and translated to London, and Privy Councillor, 1675. He was suspended by James II. in 1686, “for having behaved cross to him.” An active promoter of the Revolution. Died 1713.

^{page 19 note d} Sir Richard Willys, a Royalist officer, was Governor of Newark, and was created a baronet by Charles I. in 1646. Died 1690.

^{page 20 note a} “Il Mercurio, overo Historia de' correnti Tempi,” by Vittore Siri. Casal. 1644–82, 15 vols. 4to.

^{page 20 note b} George Sandys, younger son of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, and probably of Corpus Christi College. In 1610 he set out on his travels, and in 1615 published an account of them with the title, “A Relation of a Journey begun An. Doni. 1610. Foure Bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and Hands adioyning.“London, 1615, fol. Whatever the Italian book may be, the fact is that many of the plates in Sandys's work also appear in “Le Tresdevot Voyage de Jerusalem, avecq les Figures des lieux saincts, et plusieurs autres, tirées au naturel. Faict et descript par Jean Zuallart.” Antwerp, 1608, small 4to. See Ath. Oxon. iii. 97 note.

^{page 20 note c} Sir Richard could hardly have taken the trouble to compare more than the titles of the two books; he would otherwise have found Sidney's “Arcadia” a very different work from that of Sannazaro.

^{page 21 note a} Barbara Villiers, daughter of William Viscount Grandison, and mistress of Charles II.; created Duchess of Cleveland in 1670. Died 1709.

^{page 21 note b} Charles Fitz-Boy, created Duke of Southampton, 10 September, 1674; succeeded hia mother in the dukedom of Cleveland, 1709. Died 1730.

^{page 21 note c} George Fitz-Roy, Earl, afterwards Duke, of Northumberland, was born within the walls of Merton College, 28 December, 1665; the Court being then at Oxford, on account of the plague in London. He died in 1716.

^{page 22 note a} Sir Joseph Williamson succeeded the Earl of Arlington as Principal Secretary of State, 11 September, 1674.

^{page 22 note b} See above, page 16, note ^b.

^{page 23 note a} Prideaux did not entirely carry out this plan.

^{page 23 note b} Probably one of the family of Warcupp, of Oxfordshire.

^{page 24 note a} See above, page 17.

^{page 24 note b} “Pour small copies of Verses made on sundry Occasions.” Oxon. 1667, 4to.

^{page 24 note c} This edition of Sir John Narborough's voyage is not noticed in the bibliographical manuals. However, it is quoted by Seixas y Lovera (Descripcion de la Region austral Magallicana. Madrid, 1690, p. 59) as a work printed by John Tcmpleman, one of Narborough's companions, and is referred to by Burney (Discoveries in the South Sea. London, 1813, vol. iii. p. 317), who, however, had never met with a copy. It must have soon become a scarce book, for it is stated in the Introduction to “An Account of several late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North ” (London, 1694, 8vo.), in which Narborough's Voyage appears, that it is there for the first time published. Narborough was sent out on this voyage by the Government, and was engaged in it from May, 1669, to June, 1671.

^{page 25 note a} This seems to be the name of a ship ; but no such vessel was in the fleet.

^{page 25 note b} Ellis did not graduate. The Duke of Ormonde applied to the University in favour of his being admitted M.A. by a letter of 31 May, 1674; in which it is stated that his engagements in the public service had prevented his taking his degree at the proper time.—Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 28,930, f. 43.

^{page 25 note c} David Whitford, son of Dr. Walter Whitford, Bishop of Brechin. Elected from Westminster to Christ Church, 1642. He bore arms in the garrison of Oxford, and was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Worcester. He afterwards “became usher to James Shirley, the poet, when he taught school in the. Whitefryers.” Restored to studentship in 1660, and became chaplain to the Earl of Lauderdale. He died “suddenly in his chambers in Christ Church, in the morning of 26 Oct. in 1674 (at which time his bed-maker found him dead, lying on his bed with his wearing apparel on him).”—Ath. Oxon. iii. 1016; Welch, 118.

^{page 27 note b} Perhaps, “Diyi Britannici: being a Remark upon the Lives of all the Kings of this Isle, from the year of the world 2855 unto the year of grace 1660.” By Sir Winston Churchill, Knt. London, 1675, fol.

^{page 27 note c} Master of the Rolls, 1685.

^{page 27 note d} Sir John Vaughan, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

^{page 27 note e} “A Paraphrase and Annotations upon the Epistles of St. Paul written to the Romans, Corinthians, and Hebrews.” Oxford, 1675, 8vo.

^{page 27 note f} Obadiah Walker, Fellow of University College; Master, 1676. Declared himself a Roman Catholic 1685, and was deprived 1689.

^{page 27 note g} The works of St. Cyprian, printed in 1682, were perhaps the first result of this project.

^{page 28 note a} “Vitæ excellentium Imperatorum, collatione quatuor MSS. recognitæ. Accessit Aristomenis Messenii Vita ex Pausania.” Oxon. 1675, 12mo.

^{page 28 note b} Roger Altham, Scholar of Westminster, and Student of Christ Church 1668; M.A. 1675; Senior Proctor, 1682; B.D. and Prebendary of York, 1683; Canon of Christ Church and Hebrew Professor, 1691; D.D. 1694. He was Vicar of Finedon, co. Northampton, 1688.

^{page 29 note a} Henry More, D.D. “An Antidote against Atheism.” London, 1656, 8vo.

^{page 29 note b} Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, died in exile at Rouen, 19 December, 1674.

^{page 29 note c} William Levett, of Christ Church, D.D. 1680; Principal of Magdalen Hall, 1681; and Dean of Bristol, 1685. Died 1694.

^{page 29 note d} Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, son of Henry second Earl of Clarendon, succeeded his father as third Earl.

^{page 29 note e} Lawrence Hyde, created Earl of Rochester, 1682.

^{page 29 note f} Prideaux has confounded the College with the Hall. James Hyde, M.D. sometime Fellow of Christ Church, Principal of Magdalen Hall, 1662–81. He was also Eegius Professor of Medicine.

^{page 29 note g} The “History of the Rebellion ” was first printed at Oxford, in 1702–4.

^{page 29 note h} Prideaux means the Earl of Shaftesbury, which title had been conferred on Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Ashley, in 1672. He would still be better remembered as the Ashley of the Cabal. In his letter of 3 February, 1674–5, addressed to the Earl of Carlisle, Shaftesbury himself refers to this rumour: “I hear from all quarters of letters from Whitehall that I am coming up to town, that a great office, with a strange name, is preparing for me, and such like.” The Life of the first Earl of Sltaftetoury. Edited by Cooke, G. W.. London, 2 vols. 8vo; vol. ii. p. 110.Google Scholar

^{page 30 note a} These famous, or rather infamous, engravings, executed by Marc Antonio from designs by Giulio Romano, were intended to illustrate the sonnets of Pietro Aretino; but most of the plates were seized and destroyed by Clement VII., who also imprisoned Marc Antonio and expelled Aretino from Rome. The impressions are extremely rave.

^{page 31 note a} Charles Morley, of All Souls College, B.C.L. 1677. Prideaux accuses him of immorality and his college of overlooking it.

^{page 31 note b} Timothy Nourse, Fellow of University College, 1658, was a noted preacher. “This person, who was a man of parts but conceited, changed his religion for that of Rome, and therefore was deprived of his fellowship, January, 1673[4].” He bequeathed a good collection of coins to the Bodleian Library. His book, mentioned above, if published at all, did not appear under his name.—Ath. Oæon. iv. 448.

^{page 31 note c} Daniel Whitby, D.D. of Trinity College, Eector of St. Edmund's church, Salisbury. He was a great writer against Eoman Catholic doctrines. The work which provoked Nourse's answer was probably “A Discourse concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Kome, wherein that charge is justified, and the pretended Eefutation of Dr. Stillingfleet's Discourse is answered.” London, 1674, 8vo.

^{page 31 note d} Benjamin Woodroffe.

^{page 31 note e} Edward Poeock, D.D. Canon of Christ Church, the famous Orientalist, was born at Oxford in 1604, and educated at Thame. He entered at Magdalen Hall in 1618; Scholar of Corpus Christi College, 1620, and afterwards Fellow. In 1636, after travelling in the East, he became the first Laudian professor of Arabic, and was appointed Hebrew professor in 1648. Died 1691.

^{page 32 note a} Cornelis van Tromp, the Dutch admiral, visited England in 1675, and was created a baron by Charles II.

^{page 32 note b} John Speed, of St. John's College, M.D. 1666.

^{page 33 note a} Dudley Digges, son of Sir Dudley Digges, Commoner of University College, 1629; B.A. 1631 ; Fellow of All Souls, 1632. “Became a great scholar, general artist, and linguist.” Died 1613.—Ath. Oxon. iv. 63.

^{page 33 note b} Ralph Brideoake, Bishop of Chichester. He entered Brasenose College in 1630; was afterwards of New College. As chaplain to the Earl of Derby he was in Latham House during the memorable siege. He afterwards got preferment liy favour of Speaker Lenthall. Canon of Windsor, 1660; Dean of Salisbury, 1667. “I n Feb. 1674[5] he was, by the endeavours of Lodovisa, Duchess of Portsmouth (whose hands were always ready to take bribes), nominated by the King to be Bishop of Chichester.”— Ath. Oxon. iv. 859.

^{page 33 note c} Joseph Gascoigne, elected from Westminster to Christ Church, B.A. 1673 ; M.A. 1675.

^{page 33 note d} The famous Declaration of Indulgence, the original cause of such rumours, was published in March 1672, and withdrawn in February 1673.

^{page 33 note e} “Besides this, the great Ministers of State did in their common publick assure the partie that all the places of profit, command, and trust, should only be given to the old Cavalier ; no man that had served or been of the contrary party should be left in any of them ; and a direction is issued to the great Ministers before mentioned, and six or seven of the Bishops, to meet at Lambeth House, who were, like the Lords of the Articles in Scotland, to prepare their compleat modell for the ensuing session of Parliament.”—A Letter from a Person of Quality, 1675.

^{page 34 note a} Samuel Jackson, of Christ Church, M.D. 1671. Served in the King's army, and afterwards practised in the University for many years. He died 3 March, 1675—Fust. Oxon. ii. 331.

^{page 34 note b} The bell.

^{page 34 note c} John Locke, the famous writer and philosopher, was born in 1632. Elected to Christ Church from Westminster in 1652 ; B.A. 1655 ; M.A. 1658 ; “but, rather than take orders and be a minister according to the Church of England, he entered on the physic line, and on a course of chymistry, and got some little practice in Oxon.” B.M. 1674, and afterwards appointed faculty student of medicine, as referred to in the letter above. He had accidently been introduced to Lord Ashley, afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury, and became his secretary, receiving the post of Secretary of Presentations when the Earl became Lord Chancellor in 1672, and in 1673 being appointed Secretary of the Board of Trade. After Shaftesbury's death, in 1683, he retired to Holland. The next year he was deprived of his studentship. He returned to England in 1689, and was made Commissioner of Appeals in the Excise and of Trade and Plantations. Died 1704.—Ath. Oxon. iv. 638; Welch, Westm. Scholars, 140.

^{page 34 note d} Nathaniel Hodges of Christ Church, M.A. 1657; Proctor 1666 ; Professor of Mnral Philosophy. He was chaplain to the Earl of Shaftesbury, who procured for him, in 1673, prebendaries both at Norwich and Gloucester Died 1700.

^{page 34 note e} Thomas Ireland, elected from Westminster to Christ Church, 1649. Afterwards ejected, and took the degree of B.C.L. at St. Mary's Hall. In 1664 he was nominated to the newly-created faculty studentship of medicine at Christ Church ; Chancellor of Durham, 1674. Died 1676.—Welch, 132.

^{page 35 note a} Etienne de Courcelles, Swiss theologian, 1586–1659. “Stephani Curcellaji Opera Theologica, Quorum pars præcipua Institutio Religionis Christiaæ.”—Amstelod. 1675, fol.

^{page 35 note b} See above, page 1, note ^d.

^{page 35 note c} Ellis accompanied Sir Leoline Jenkins to the Conference of Nimeguen, as his secretary, at the end of this year.

^{page 36 note a} Perhaps Charles Allestree; entered Christ Church, 1671; B.A. 1674; M.A. 1677. Afterwards Vicar of Cassington, co. Oxon., and of Dayentry, co. Northampton.

^{page 36 note b} William Lilly, the astrologer. Died 1681.

^{page 36 note c} Sir William Wylde, Puisne Judge of the King's Bench.

^{page 36 note d} Sir Edward Thurland, Junior Baron of the Exchequer.

^{page 37 note a} The “Marmora Oxoniensia.”

^{page 37 note a} The “Marmora Oxoniensia.”

^{page 37 note b} Thomas Willis, the most famous physician of his time, born 1621. Entered Christ Church in 1636. He bore arms in the garrison of Oxford, and, after taking his degree of B.M., practised there. He married a daughter of Dr. Samuel Fell, Dean of Christ Church. In 1660 he became Sedley Professor, M.D., and F.R.S. He removed to Westminster in 1666, where he had a large practice. “Though he was a plain man, a man of no carriage, little discourse, complaisance, or society, yet for his deep insight, happy researches in natural and experimental philosophy, anatomy, and chymistry, for his wonderful success and repute in his practice, the natural smoothness, pure elegance, delightfal unaffected neatness of Latin stile, none scarce hath equall'd, much less outdone, him, how great soever.” He died in 1675. The work referred to above is “Pharmaceutice Rationalis: sive Diatriba de medicamentorum operationibus in humano corpore.” Oxon. 1674–5, 4to.—Ath. Oxon. iii. 1048.

^{page 38 note a} One of the Dean's peculiarities of spelling in this Bible, and that which Prideaux had probably in mind, is the substitution of i or ie for y in all cases, without regard to the ordinary rules of orthography, as eies, maiest, daies, slaieth, alnaies, staled, &c.

^{page 38 note b} Edward Waple, of St. John's College, B.A. 1667; M.A. 1671. He became Prcbendary of Wells, 1680, and Archdeacon of Taunton, 1682. Afterwards Vicar of St. Sepulchre's, London.

^{page 39 note a} Correspondence has from time to time been maintained between the Samaritans and European scholars, from a desire on the part of the latter to obtain information regarding the ancient laws, rites, and history of that people and the Jews. Joseph Scaliger was the first to open communication, in 1589. In 1671, Robert Huntington, minister of the English Church at Aleppo, and afterwards Bishop of Raphoe, visited the Samaritans of Nábulus, and so surprised them by his knowledge of their language that they assumed that some of their brethren must have settled in England. Huntington encouraged the idea, and the result was that he at once received a copy of the Samaritan Pentateuch, and soon after a letter, for the Samaritan brethren in England. It is this letter that Prideaux refers to. An answer to it was written by Dr. Thomas Marshall in 1674. The correspondence thus begun was kept up for some years; and it has been re-opened early in the present century. A Latin translation of the letter, by Edward Bernard, who is, in all probability, the Mr. Bernard that appears in Prideaux's next letter, was printed by Cellarius (Epistolæ Samaritanæ ad Jobum Ludolfum) in 1688, and may be the very translation mentioned above.—See Correspondence des Samaritains de Naplonse, par S. de Sacy, in Notices et Extraits des MSS. de la Bibl. du Roi, tom. xii. Paris, 1831.

^{page 40 note a} Edward Bernard, elected Scholar of St. John's College from Merchant Taylors' School, 1655; afterwards Fellow. M.A. 1662; D.D. 1684; Savilian Professor of Astronomy, 1673. Rector of Cheam, in Surrey, and of Brightwell, in Berkshire, “He is a person admirably well read in all kind of ancient learning, in astronomy, and mathematics, a curious critic, an excellent Grecian, Latinist, chronologer, and orientalian.” Died 1696. —Ath. Oxon. iv. 701.

^{page 40 note b} Thomas, second Lord Leigh, 1672–1710.

^{page 40 note c} St. Oswald's Hospital, in the parish of Claines, in the city of Worcester, was founded in the thirteenth century. At the time of the dissolution of the monasteries it was given to the Dean and Chapter as a college or hospital for poor men and women. Dr. John Fell was appointed Master in 1660, in succession to his father.— Nash, Hist. Worcestershire, 1781–2, fol. i. 224.

^{page 40 note d} On the east side, on the side of the old refectory.

^{page 41 note a} Woodroffe had taken his D.D. degree as far back as January, 1673.

^{page 41 note b} The origin of the Terræ filius has never yet been properly investigated, though the office is provided for in the old University statutes. He was an officer appointed to take part in the Disputations at the Acts, and appears to hare been allowed a certain licence of tongue, a statute providing for his punishment in case he should exceed proper bounds. Ayliffe (Ancient and Present State of the University of Oxford, ii. 134) says, “There is not that licence given for an impudentbuffoon, of no reputation in himself, called a Terrm filius, to sport and play with the good name and reputation of others; but the business of this Terræ filius is a solemn and grave disputation. And although this manner of sportive wit had its first original at the time of the Reformation, when the gross absurdities and superstitions of the Roman Church were to be exposed, and should have been restrain'd to things, and not have reach'd men's persons and characters, yet it has since become very scandalous and abusive.” As early as 1591 a Terræ filius was expelled for his bitter satire. Nor did the unlucky speaker always escape with a whole skin; Wood (Life, xci.) tells us that More, Terræ filius of Merton, was cudgelled by Sir T. Spencer's son for some reflections on the father, 9 July, 1681.

^{page 41 note c} “Historia Jacobitarum seu Coptorum in Ægypto, Lybia, Nubia, &c. Opera Josephi Abudacin seu Barbati,” &c. Oxon. 1675, 8vo.

^{page 41 note d} I have been unable to identify this book.–ED.

^{page 41 note e} Nicholas Prideaux, of Corpus Christi College, a younger brother.

^{page 42 note a} Thomas Lydiat. “Canones Chronologici, necnon series summorum Magistratuum Romanorum,” &c. Oxon. 1675, 8vo.

^{page 42 note b} See above, page 1, note ^c.

^{page 42 note c} See above, page 27, note ^e.

^{page 42 note d} The Commentary on Hosea appeared in 1685, and that on Joel in 1691.

^{page 42 note e} “M. F. Quintiliani Declamationum liber, etc. quæ omnia notis illustrantur ” Oxon. 1675, 8vo.

^{page 42 note f} William Oughtred. “Opuscula Mathematica hactenus inedita.” Oxon. 1677, 8vo.

^{page 42 note g} “Maximi Tyrii Dissertationes.” Oxon. 1677, 8vo.

^{page 42 note h} Edward, Viscount, afterwards Earl of, Conway; Secretary of State, 1681–83.

^{page 42 note i} Sir Heneage Finch; Lord Finch and Lord Chancellor, 19 December, 1675; afterwards Earl of Nottingham.

^{page 42 note k} Shrivenham, co. Berks.

^{page 44 note a} William Guise, Fellow of All Souls, B.A. 1674; M.A. 1677. He was held “in great esteem for his Oriental learning, but soon after [1683] cut off by the small pox, to the great reluetancy of all those who were acquainted with his pregnant parts.”—Ath. Oxon. iv. 114.

^{page 44 note b} Peers was elected Superior Beadle of Arts, 21 September, 1675.

^{page 45 note a} Henry Evans, M.A. 1661.

^{page 45 note b} 7th October.

^{page 46 note a} “Oxonia Illustrata.” Engravings of Oxford, by David Loggan. Oxon. 1675, fol.

^{page 46 note b} “Plantarum Umbelliferarum Distributio nova, per tabulas cognationis et affinitatis ex libro Naturæ observata et detecta. Authore Roberto Morison, Medico et Professore Botanico Regio." Oxon. 1672, fol.

^{page 46 note c} “This year also the same books were, by a decree of Convocation, presented to the most illustrious prince Cosmo de Medicis, Grand Duke of Tuscany; which present was accompanied with a Latin letter, written by the public orator, Dr. South, wherein a character of the books was given.”—Wood, Life, lxxvi.

^{page 46 note d} Johann Hevelius, of Danzig, 1611–87.

^{page 47 note a} Northampton was burnt down, 20 September, 1675, and was rebuilt by public subscription.

^{page 47 note b} “De Græcæ Eeclesiæ hodierno statu Epistola. Authore Thoma Smitho, S.T.B.” Oxon. 1676, 8vo.

^{page 47 note c} Thomas Smith, of Queen's College, 1657; B.A. 1661; M.A. 1663; B.D. 1674: D.D. 1683. Fellow of Magdalen College, 1660; Master of Magdalen School, 1663; chaplain to Sir Daniel Harvey, 1668–71; and, about 1676, chaplain to Sir Joseph Williamson. Rector of Stanlake, 1684. Deprived of his fellowship by Dr. Gifford the Popish President of Magdalen College, in 1688, and again in 1692, for refusing the oaths of allegiance. Died 1710.—Ath. Oxon. iv. 597.

^{page 48 note a} Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford, translated to London, 18 December, 1675.

^{page 48 note b} Fell was elected Bishop of Oxford, 8 January, 1676, and got over his scruples so far as to retain his deanery.

^{page 48 note c} Peter Mews, or Meaux, educated at Merchant Taylors' School; St. John's College, 1637; afterwards Fellow. Served in the Royalist army. Archdeacon of Huntingdon and LL.D. 1660; Canon of Windsor, 1662; President of his college, 1667; Vice-Chancellor of the University, 1669–72. He became Dean of Rochester, 1670, and Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1672. Translated to Winchester, 1674. He served in the field against Monmouth. Died 1706 —Ath. Oxon. iv. 888.

^{page 48 note d} Henry Aldrich, Scholar of Westminster; Student of Christ Church, 1662; B.A. 1666; M.A. 1669; D.D. 1682. A noted tutor in his college. Canon of Christ Church, 1682; and Dean, 1689. Vice-Chancellor, 1692 and 1694. Besides being a theologian and scholar, he was fond of architecture, on which he wrote a small treatise. His name will be noticed in the next letter, in connexion with the building of St. Mary's Church. He is also said to have made designs for Peckwater and Canterbury quadrangles. Aubrey (Letters by Eminent Persons) adds that he was skilled in music, and that he indulged much in smoking.

^{page 48 note e} Ellis left England for Holland, 20 December, 1675.

^{page 49 note a} George Walls, Scholar of Westminster, and Student ef Christ Church 1663; B.A. 1667; M.A. 1669; B.D. 1682; D.D. 1694. Prebendary of Worcester, 1694, and Rector of Holt, 1695. Died 1727.—Welch, 157.

^{page 49 note b} Locke resided abroad, for the benefit of his health, from December 1675 to May 1679.

^{page 49 note c} Probably Thomas Bennet, Scholar of Westminster and Student of Christ Church; B.A. 1666; M.A. 1669. After taking his degree he was appointed one of the correctors of the University press. Vicar of Steventon, and minister of Hungerford. Died 1681.—Welch, 154.

^{page 49 note d} Richard Trevor, M.D. of Padua. Incorporated 12 November, 1661. Died 17 July, 1676.—Fast. Oxon. ii. 251.

^{page 49 note e} William Dobrey, M.A.; Fellow of Merton, 1672.

^{page 49 note f} Edward Warren, M.A.

^{page 49 note g} Charles Owen, M.A.

^{page 49 note h} Richard Clayton, D.D. Master of University College, 1665–76; Canon of Salisbury, where he died, 10 June, 1676.—Fast. Oxon. ii. 291.

^{page 49 note i} Norton Bold, Superior Beadle of Divinity, 1671; formerly Fellow of Corpus Christi College.

^{page 50 note a} Thomas Barlow, educated at Appleby; entered Queen's College in 1624; Fellow 1633; and eventually Provost, 1657. In 1646 “he sided with the men in power,” and kept his fellowship during the Commonwealth. Keeper of the Bodleian Library 1652; D.D. 1660; and Margaret Professor of Divinity 1662. Archdeacon of Oxford 1664, and Bishop of Lincoln 1675. Wood makes him out a time-server, and adds that “he was esteemed by those who knew him to have been a thorough-paced Calvinist, tho’ some of his writings show him to have been a great scholar, profoundly learned both in divinity, and the civil and canon law.” He died in 1691.—Ath. Oxon. iv. 333.

^{page 50 note b} Obadiah Walker. See above, p. 27, note^a.

^{page 50 note c} John Hall, D.D. Master of Pembroke College. Scholar 1647; M.A. 1653. He became a preacher during the Commonwealth, “but whether he was ordain'd by a Bishop, till the King's Restoration, I cannot tell.” Elected Margaret Professor, 24 May, 1676; Bishop of Bristol, 1691. Died 1709.—Ath. Oxon. iv. 900.

^{page 50 note d} Christopher Minshull, B.A. 1661; M.A. 1665. Killed by a fall from his horse, 1681.

^{page 50 note e} Maurice Wheeler, B.A. of New Inn Hall, 1670; M.A. of Christ Church, 1670. Rector of St. Ebbe's, Oxford, and of Sibbertoft, co. Northampton. Afterwards head-master of Gloucester School.

^{page 50 note f} Very extensive buildings, including the new quadrangle, were carried on at Trinity College in 1675 and 1676, under the care of Dr. Bathurst.

^{page 50 note g} See above, p. 27, note^a.

^{page 50 note h} “The Natural History of Oxfordshire, being an Essay toward the Natural History of England. By Robert Plot, Doctor of Laws.” Oxon. [1677] fol.

^{page 51 note a} Robert Plot, the celebrated naturalist, F.R.S.; entered Magdalen Hall, 1658. He was the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Historiographer Royal, 1688; Mowbray Herald, 1694. Died 1696.

^{page 51 note b} See above, p. 42, note^d.

^{page 51 note c} “Jamblicus Chalcidensis de Mysteriis. Epistola Porphyrii de eodem Argumeato, Gr. et Lat. ex versione Thomse Gale.” Oxon, 1678, fol.

^{page 51 note d} Thomas Gale, the famous Grecian, historian, and antiquary, F.R.S. Scholar of Westminster; elected to Cambridge 1655; B.A. 1659; M.A. 1662; D.D. 1675. Regius Professor of Greek, 1666; High Master of St. Paul's School, 1672; Prebendary of St. Paul's, 1677; Dean of York, 1697. Died 1702. His collection of MSS. he gave to Trinity College, Cambridge.

^{page 51 note e} “S. Patris et Martyris dementis ad Corinthios Epistola.” Oxon. 1677, 12mc.

^{page 52 note a} Chimney or Hearth-money, a tax of 2s. on every hearth.

^{page 52 note b} Byram Eaton, Fellow of Brasenose College; D.D. 1660; Principal of Gloucester Hall, 1662–92; Archdeacon of Stow, 1677; and of Leicester, 1683. Died 1703.

^{page 52 note c} Gilbert Ironside, D.D. son of Gilbert Ironside, Bishop of Bristol, entered Wadham College in 1649; Fellow, 1656; Warden, 1664; Vice-Chancellor, 1687 and 1688; Bishop of Bristol, 1689; translated to Hereford, 1691. Died 1701.

^{page 52 note d} Henry Clerk, M.D. He was Vice-Chancellor for this year.

^{page 52 note e} Alan Carr, M.A.; Proctor, 1671.

^{page 52 note f} Hippolyte du Chastlet de Luzancy, educated at the University of Paris, and became a tutor and preacher for some years. He then came to England, and openly abjured the Roman Catholic religion in the Savoy Chapel; and was consequently violently attacked, a Jesuit, named St. Germaine, threatening to assassinate him. He was protected by the Bishop of London, and soon ordained. He went to Oxford, and was allowed rooms and diet at Christ Church; and in 1676 was admitted M.A. According to Wood he left Oxford in debt in 1679. He was afterwards Vicar of Dovercourt, and in 1702 of South Weld, co. Essex. Died 1713.—Fast. Oxon. ii. 350.

^{page 53 note a} Sir Blewet Stonehouse, of Amberden Hall, co. Essex, Bart.; died 1693.

^{page 53 note b} Charles Finch, fourth son of Lord-Chancellor Finch, of Christ Church; B.A. 1678; afterwards Fellow of All Souls; B.C.L. 1683; D.C.L. 1688. He died young.

^{page 53 note c} Henry Maurice, of Jesus College; B.A. 1668; M.A. 1671; B.D. 1679; D.D. 1683; Margaret Professor of Divinity, 1691. Early distinguished as a controversialist. He accompanied Sir Leoline Jenkins to Nimeguen as his chaplain. He was also chaplain to Archbishop Sancroft, 1683–91. Rector of Chevening, in Kent; of Llandrillo, in the diocese of St. Asaph; and of Newington, co. Oxon. He was also Prebendary of Worcester. Died 1691.—Ath. Oxon. iv. 326.

^{page 54 note a} “Caph Nacath,” commentary on the Mishna by Isaac Ibn Gabbai.

^{page 54 note b} The “Yuchasin ” of Abraham ben Samuel Zacuto.

^{page 54 note c} Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, died 9 November, 1677.

^{page 54 note d} Sir Leoline Jenkins entered Jesus College in 1641; and became Fellow in 1660, and soon after Principal and D.C.L.; Judge of the Admiralty Court, and of the Prerogative Court in 1668. He was sent on an embassy to France in 1669; negociated the Treaty of Cologne, 1673–4; and was one of the Plenipotentiaries at NimegUen. On the death of Archbishop Sheldon “all the report was that he was to succeed to that See;” M.P. for Oxford University 1679–85; Secretary of State 1680–4. Died 1685. He was buried in Jesus College, of which he was a great benefactor.—Fast. Oxon. ii. 231.

^{page 54 note e} John Lenthall, son of Speaker Lenthall, married, as his second wife, Mary, widow of Sir James Stonehonse. Wood calls him “the grand braggadocio and Iyer of the age he lived in; bred in C.C.C. in this University, made early motions and ran with the times, as his father did; was a recruiter of the Long Parliament, consented to the trial of the King, was a colonel while Oliver was Protector, from whom he received the town of Rutland on the 9 Mar. 1657, was one of the six clerks in Chancery, and for a time Governor of Windsor Castle.” High Sheriff for Oxfordshire 1672; knighted 1677. Died 1681.—Ath. Oxon. iii. 609.

^{page 55 note a} Acton Cremer, B.A. 1674; M.A. 1677.

^{page 55 note b} Venables Keeling, B.A. 1673; M.A. 1675.

^{page 55 note c} John Cartwright of Aynho, co. Northampton, twice Sheriff for Oxfordshire, died 17 October, 1676. He married Catherine, daughter of William Noy, Attorney-General, and had one son, William, who died before him. William Cartwright married, first, Anne, daughter of Sir Roger Townsend, by whom he had two daughters, Mary and Dorothy; and, second, Ursula, daughter of Ferdinando Lord Fairfax, by whom he had surriving issue Thomas and Rhoda.—Bridge's History of Northamptonshire, Oxon. 1791, i. 137.

^{page 55 note d} The Duke of Southampton.

^{page 56 note a} One of Ellis's colleagues employed in the Secretary of State's Office.

^{page 56 note b} See above, p. 49, note^a.

^{page 56 note c} Robert South, D.D. Public Orator. Elected from Westminster to Christ Church 1651; B.A. 1655; M.A. 1657, when he was “Terras filius;” D.D. 1663; Chaplain to the Earl of Clarendon, 1660; and to James Duke of York, 1667. Prebendary of Westminster, 1663; Canon of Christ Church, 1670; Rector of Islip, 1678. He was famous as a preacher, and, as such, called “the scourge of fanaticism.” Wood gives an unfavourable character of him, that at Westminster “he obtained a considerable stock of grammar and philological learning, but more of impudence and sauciness,” and that he trimmed to every party in turn. Busby is said to have remarked of him when at school, “I see great talents in that sulky boy, and I shall endeavour to bring them out.” He died in 1716.—Ath. Oxon. iv. 631; Welch, 136.

^{page 56 note d} See above, p. 46.

^{page 57 note a} Charles, fourth Lord Mohun, father of the notorious duellist. He appears, after all, to have died from the effects of his wound, the result of a duel, about Michaelmas 1677, if Wood is right in stating that “Casus Medico-Chirurgieus, or a most memorable Case of a Nobleman deceased, by Gideon Harvey, M.D.,” refers to him. He was a zealous member of Shaftesbury's party. The Mohuns were a Cornish family.

^{page 57 note b} No doubt “The Foundations of Hell Torments shaken and removed,” a pamphlet published at this time, to which an answer was written by the Rev. John Brandon with the title “Everlasting Fire no Fancy,” 1678.

^{page 57 note c} Arthur Annesley, Earl of Anglesey. “Truth unveiled on behalf of the Church of England.” London, 1676, 8vo.

^{page 58 note a} Thomas Tully, D.D., Dean of Ripon, died 1676. His book, “Justificatio Paulina,” was answered by Richard Baxter.

^{page 58 note b} Sir Charles Wolseley. “Justification Evangelical, or a Plain Impartial account of God's method in justifying a sinner.” London, 1677, 8vo.

^{page 58 note c} Richard Annesley of Magdalen College, M.A. 1670; B.D. 1677; D.D. 1689; Dean of Exeter 1680. Succeeded his nephew as Lord Altham, and died 1701.

^{page 58 note d} An error for Lloyd. William Lloyd, D.D. entered Oriel College 1639; Scholar of Jesus College, 1640, and afterwards Fellow; B.A. 1642; D.D. 1667. Rector of Bradfield; Prebendary of Ripon, 1660; Vicar of St. Mary's, Reading, and Archdeacon of Merioneth, 1668; Dean of Bangor, 1672; Canon of Salisbury, 1674; Vicar of St. Martin's, Westminster, 1676; Bishop of St. Asaph, 1680; translated to Lichfield 1692, and to Worcester 1699. Besides being a good preacher, divine, critic, and historian, he was “a zealous enemy to Popery and Papists.” Died 1717.—Ath. Oxon. iv. 714.

^{page 58 note e} “Considerations touching the true way to suppress Popery in this Kingdom …. on occasion whereof is inserted an historical Account of the Reformation here in England.” London, 1677, 4to.

^{page 58 note f} See above, p. 40.

^{page 58 note g} François de Harlay de Champ-Valon.

^{page 58 note h} Trinity College Library was built from designs supplied gratuitously by Sir Christopher Wren. It was several years building.

^{page 59 note a} Busby gave to Christ Church a stipend of 30l. a year for a catechetical lecture to be read in one of the parish churches of Oxford.

^{page 59 note b} Thomas Knipe, Scholar of Westminster; elected to Christ Church, 1657; B.A. 1660; M.A. 1663. First an under-master, and afterwards successor to Busby as head-master of Westminster, his service as a teacher amounting in all to fifty years; D.D. 1695. Busby is said to have had a poor opinion of him, but he seems to have been esteemed by his pupils. He died 1711.—Welch, 147.

^{page 59 note c} Thomas Sprat, D.D. Entered Wadham College, 1651; B.A. 1654; M.A. 1657; D.D. 1669. He was chaplain to George, Duke of Buckingham; Prebendary of Westminster, 1668; Canon of Windsor, 1680; Dean of Westminster, 1683; and Bishop of Rochester, 1684. He made some attempts as a poet in his younger days, and was, according to Wood, known at Oxford as “Pindaric Sprat.” The reference to his marriage will remind the reader of Macaulay's description, in his third chapter, of the state of the clergy under Charles the Second, and of their choice of wives. As far, however, as Sprat is concerned, we may presume that there was no truth in the scandal, as in his will he refers to his wife in terms of affection and esteem.

^{page 59 note d} This is perhaps John Dolben, second son of the Archbishop of York, and who appears to have been attached to the English embassy in Paris in 1680 and following years.

^{page 60 note a} Francis Vernon, Scholar of Westminster, and Student of Christ Church in 1654; B.A. 1657; M.A. 1660; F.R.S. 1672. In 1669 he was secretary to Ralph Montagu, Ambassador at Paris. He was a great traveller, and on one occasion was captured by pirates. In 1677, “being in Persia, arose between him and some of the Arabs a small quarrel concerning an English penknife that Mr. Vernon had with him; who shewing himself cross and peevish in not communicating it to them, they fell upon him and hack'd him to death.”—Ath. Oxon. iii. 1133.

^{page 60 note b} Thomas Coryate, “esurient of fame ” and “a whetstone for wits of his time,” was a commoner of Gloucester Hall, 1596. He was received into the family of Henry, Prince of Wales, “at which time falling into the company of the wits, who found him little tetter than a fool in many respects, made him their whetstone, and so became notus nimis omnibus.” In 1608 he travelled in Europe, and published Ms ” Crudities hastily gobled up in five months' travel in France, Savoy,” etc. 1611. In 1612 he set out again, and, making his way overland to India, stayed some time at Agra. He became very proficient in the native dialects. Wood tells an amusing story of his silencing “a Landry-woman, a famous scold,” in her own Hindustani. He died at Surat, 1617.—Ath. Oxon. ii. 208.

^{page 60 note c} Vernon's journal is, however, preserved in the library of the Royal Society.

^{page 60 note d} See above, p. 50, note^h

^{page 60 note e} Robert Plot.

^{page 61 note a} Hans Tradescant, botanist and traveller. He settled in England about 1600, was gardener to Charles I. and owned some large gardens at Lambeth. He formed a good collection of natural objects, coins, medals, etc. Some account of him is to be found in “A Letter from Dr. Ducarel, F.R.S. and F.S.A. to William Watson, M.D., F.R.S. upon the early cultivation of Botany in England.” Lond. 1763, 4to.

^{page 61 note b} Elias Ashmole, son of a saddler of Lichfield, born in 1617. In his youth he was a chorister in the cathedral. He went up to seek his fortunes in London in 1633, under the patronage of James Paget, Junior Baron of the Exchequer, a connexion by marriage. In 1638 he became a solicitor with Chancery practice, but left London on the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1644 he entered Brasenose College, and during the wars lived at various places, studying as an astronomer, chemist, and antiquary. In 1660 he was appointed Windsor Herald, and was called to the Bar; F.R.S., M.D.. 1669. In 1677 he offered to the University all his coins, medals, MSS. and the rarities which he had obtained “of a famous gardener called Joh. Tredescant, a Dutchman,” if a building were raised to receive them; but lost many of them in the fire in the Middle Temple, in 1678. The Ashmolean Museum was built in 1679–82, and his collections were then removed thither. He died in 1692.—Ath. Oxon. iv. 354.

^{page 61 note c} Sir Thomas Wendy, of Haselingfield, co. Cambridge, K.B. sometime gentleman commoner of Balliol College, bequeathed to it, in 1673, his library, valued at 600l., which was removed to Oxford in 1677.

^{page 61 note d} Sir Matthew Hale. “The primitive origination of Mankind considered and explained according to the light of Nature.” London, 1677, folio.

^{page 62 note a} “Memoirs of the Lives and Actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton, etc. in which an Account is given of the Rise and Progress of the Civil Wars of Scotland, with other Transactions, both in England and Germany, from the year 1625 to 1652.” London, 1677, folio.

^{page 62 note b} William, Earl of Lanark, afterwards Duke of Hamilton.

^{page 62 note c} William Outram, D.D. Canon of Westminster. “De sacrificiis libri duo: quorum altero explicantur omnia Judæorum nonnulla Gentium Profanarum sacritcia, altero Sacrificium Christi.” London, 1677, 4to.

^{page 62 note d} Ralph Cudworth, D.D. Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, and Professor of Hebrew. “The true Intellectual System of the Universe; wherein the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is confuted,” etc. London, 1678, folio.

^{page 63 note e} “A second Pacquet of Advices and Animadversions. Sent to the men of Shaftsbury. Occasioned by several Seditious Pamphlets,” etc. London, 1677, 4to.

^{page 63 note f} The Rectory of Llanddewi-Felfrey, in Pembrokeshire.

^{page 63 note g} Isaac Barrow, D.D. Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, died 4 May, 1677.

^{page 63 note a} Degory Wheare, Camdenian Professor of History at Oxford, died 1647. “Lectiones Hiemales de ratione et methodo legendi Historias Civiles et Ecclesiastieaa.”

^{page 63 note b} William Howell, LL.D. Chancellor of Lincoln. “An Institution of General History.” London, printed for Henry Herringman, 1662, folio.

^{page 64 note a} “Dionysius Halicarnassensis. Antiquitatura Bomanorum libri xi. ab æmilio Porto et post aliorum Interpretationes Latine redditi.” Geneva, 1614, 12mo.

^{page 64 note b} “Dion Cassius. Rom. Hist. libb. xlvj. Gr. Lat. partim integri, partim mutili, partim excerpti, Joannis Letmclavii studio tam aucti quam expoliti,” etc. Hanov. 1606, folio.

^{page 65 note a} The Mercurius Librarius must have been an ephemeral publication, which has not survived to the present day.

^{page 65 note b} “Appian's History, in two parts made English by J. D.” London, 1679, folio.

^{page 65 note c} Edward Simpson, D.D. “Chronicon Historiam Catbolicam complectens, ab orbe condito ad annum Christi 71.” Oxon, 1652, folio.

^a James Butler, son of the gallant Earl of Ossory. He entered at Christ Church; M.A. 1680; D.C.L. 1683. He succeeded his grandfather as Duke of Ormonde and Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1688.

^b P. Drelincourt. Some of his letters are among the Ellis Correspondence (Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 28875 et seqg.), and are sometimes endorsed “Dr. Drelincourt.”

^c Heneage Finch, second son of the Lord Chancellor.

^d John Edisbury, of Brasenose, LL.D. 1672. Afterwards Master in Chancery and Chancellor of Exeter.

^e John Lamphire, M.A., Fellow of New College and Camden Professor of History. M.D. 1660; Principal of Hart Hall. Died 1688.

^f “19 Feb. 1679.—Convocation, wherein letters were read from the Chancellor on behalf of Mr. Heneage Finch, Solicitor-general, to be one of our burgesses to sit in Parliament, purposely to set aside Dr. Eadisbury, of Brazennose, who audaciously, and with too much conceit of his own worth, stood against the said Mr. Finch, Dr. Lamphire, and Dr. Yerbury; but a week before Dr. Yerbury put off his votes to Finch, for fear Eddisbury Bhould carry it. Note that Dr. Eddisbury stood in 1675 against him and Sir Christopher “Wren, but, being soundly geered and laughed at for an impudent fellow, desisted.”—Wood, Life, lxxxiii. Edisbury and Finch were returned.

^a The rising of the Scottish Covenanters was finally quelled by Monmouth at Bothwell Bridge on the 22nd June.

^a William Jane, Scholar of Westminster, Student of Christ Church 1660; B.A. 1664; M.A. 1667; B.D. 1674; D.D. 1679. Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Divinity, 1680; Dean of Gloucester, 1685; Chancellor of Exeter, 1703.

^b Thomas Ken, educated at Winchester, Fellow of New College; M.A. 1664; B.D. 1678; D.D. 1679; Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1684. One of the Seven Bishops. Deprived in 1690 for refusing the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. Died 1711.

^c John Hinckley, of St. Alhan's Hall; Vicar of Coleshull, co. Berks, of Drayton, co. Leicester, and of Northfield, co. Worcester; and Prebendary of Wolverhampton.

^d Thomas Lockey, D.D., Canon of Christ Church. Formerly a celebrated tutor and antiquary, and Keeper of Bodley's Library. He died 29 June, 1679, aged 78. He was succeeded in his canonry by John Hammond.

^e Henry Killigrew, son of Sir Robert Killigrew, of Christ Church, 1628; chaplain in the King's army; Prebendary of Westminster, 1642; Almoner to the Duke of York and Rector of Wheathamstead, 1660; Master of the Savoy, 1661. He was the father of Anne Killigrew, on whose death Dryden wrote an elegy in 1685.

^f William Burt, D.D. Fellow of New College, 1627; master of the free school at Thame; Rector of Whitfield and Head-master of Winchester College, 1647; and Warden, 1658. Died 8 July, 1679.

^g John Nicholas, D.D. Warden of New College.

^h Henry Beeston, LL.D. Head-master of Winchester College, and Prebendary of Winchester. Warden of New College, 7 August, 1679.

^a Sir George Wakeman, one of the Queen's physicians; put upon his trial for designing to poison the King, and acquitted, 18 July, 1679.

^b Perhaps Colonel Edward Vernon, of North Aston, co. Oxon. on whom the honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred in 1677.

^c Henry Coventry, Secretary of State, 1672–80.

^{page 73 note a} Sir Henry Goring, Bart, of Burton, co. Sussex, and Sir John Gage, Bart, of Firle, were connected by marriage.

^{page 73 note b} Mary, Dowager Lady Abergavenny, widow of George, eleventh Earl, and daughter of Thomas Gifford, of Dunton Walet, co. Essex.

^{page 74 note a} The prorogation was repeated many times, till Octoher, 1680.

^a For a parliament

^{page 76 note a} Thomas Yate, D.D. Principal of Brasenose College. Died 1681.

^{page 77 note a} This “fabrication,” as Dibdin calls it, has been long since disposed of.

^{page 79 note a} This probably refers to a journey to Holland which Ellis undertook about this time, to lay before the States General the claims of the Earl of Ossory. The Karl had received the commission of General from the Prince of Orange, but the appointment had never been confirmed by the States. It was this confirmation on which the Earl insisted, and which he now obtained.

^{page 80 note a} The Duke of York returned on this day from Scotland, whither he had gone the previous Octoher.

^{page 80 note b} “A.D. 1679, Robert Pauling [or Pawlin], draper, chose mayor. This person walks in the night to take tradesmen in tipling houses, prohibits coffee to be sold on Sundays, …. hath been bred up a Puritan; he is no friend to the University, and a dissuader of such gentlemen that he knows from sending their children to the University, because that he saith 'tis a debauched place, a rude place of no discipline.”—Wood, Life, lxxxvii.

^{page 80 note c} John Trenchard; entered New College, but soon after went to the Bar. His early life was spent in continual turmoil. M.P. for Taunton, 1679. He was concerned in Oates's plot, and again in the Whig conspiracies of 1683. He passed many years in exile, and was excepted from the general pardon of 1686. Serjeant-at-Law and knighted in 1689; Secretary of State, 1693.

^{page 80 note d} Altham Vaughan, son of the Earl of Carbery. He was M.P. for Carmarthen in the parliament of 1679, and, in company with Trenchard and other Members, assisted in drawing up the Exclusion Bill.

^{page 81 note a} “The English Atlas; by M. Pitt, W. Nicholson, and E. Peers.” Oxon. 1680–3, 5 vols. folio.

^{page 81 note b} Drelincourt did not get the living. He remained in the Duke of Ormonde's family for many years after this time.

^{page 82 note a} James Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. After the death of the Earl of Ossory, in August, 1680, Ellis became secretary to the Duke.

^{page 82 note b} Sir Richard Croke.

^{page 82 note c} The Earl of Essex and other peers petitioned the King against the meeting of parliament at Oxford, 11 March.

^{page 82 note d} Henry Bertie, brother of James Lord Norreys of Rycote, afterwards Earl of Abingdon.

^{page 82 note e} George Pudsey, of Ellsfield; succeeded Sir R. Croke as Recorder.

^{page 83 note a} “A short View of the late Troubles in England; setting forth their Rise, Growth, and Tragical Conclusion. To which is added, A perfect Narrative of the Treaty of Uxbridge, in 1644.” Oxford, 1681, folio.

^{page 83 note b} “History of the Reformation of the Church of England.” London, 1679–81, 2 vols. folio.

^{page 83 note c} Francis Smith, of Magdalen College, elected to succeed Dr. James Hyde, in opposition to Dr. Levett of Christ Church. He afterwards served as a physician in King William's army in Ireland, and died there in 1691.

^{page 83 note d} As Chancellor of the University.

^{page 84 note a} A declaration of his reasons for dissolving the two last parliaments, to which addresses of thanks were presented from the country.

^{page 84 note b} See above, page 29, note °. Another claim to the election of the Principal of Magdalen Hall was set up by Magdalen College after Levett's death in 1693. The result was a trial, and a verdict against the College.

^{page 85 note a} Henry Clerk, M.D. President of Magdalen College, 1671–87.

^{page 85 note b} Solicitor-General, 1675–9.

^{page 85 note c} John Luffe, of St. Mary's Hall, sometime of Trinity College; M.D. 1673.

^{page 85 note d} John Sharp, D.D. Dean of Norwich, 8 June, 1681; Dean of Canterbury, 23 September, 1689; and Archbishop of York, 1.691.

^{page 86 note e} Croon's name does not appear among the list of Graduates. It is evident that he held a fellowship at Christ Church, which Ellis hoped to step into on Croon's marriage.

^{page 87 note a} The Earl of Shaftesbury was committed to the Tower for high treason, 2nd July.

^{page 87 note b} Dr. Olirer Plunket, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, was put upon his trial, 3 May, 1681, charged with plotting a French invasion of Ireland and the destruction of the Protestants; he was found guilty, and was executed. Burnet (History of Ms Own Times, 502) says, “The witnesses were brutal and profligate men, yet the Earl of Shaftesbury cherished them much.”

^{page 87 note c} Anthony Radcliffe, Canon of Christ Church.

^{page 87 note d} John Younger, Prebendary of Canterbury.

^{page 87 note e} Alexander Pudsey.

^{page 87 note f} John Smith.

^{page 87 note g} Henry Fairfax, Bean of Norwich, 1689.

^{page 87 note h} Francis Carswell.

^{page 87 note i} William Hore, Prebendary of Worcester.

^{page 87 note k} John Hearne.

^{page 87 note l} George Reynell.

^{page 87 note m} Edward Fowler, afterwards Bishop of Gloucester, 1691. He took the degree of M.A. at Trinity College, Cambridge.

^{page 88 note a} Stephen Colledge, “the Protestant joiner,” was arraigned for high treason, but the grand jury for Middlesex threw out the bill. The Crown, however, moved the trial to Oxford, on the ground that the plot with which he was charged was to hare been carried out in that place; and, succeeding in the prosecution, obtained his conviction.

^{page 88 note b} John Doughty, D.D. died 1672.

^{page 89 note a} Edward Gregory.

^{page 89 note b} Sir John Cope, Bart, of Hanwell; M.P. for co. Oxon, 1680.

^{page 89 note c} Thomas Hoard, M.P. for co. Oxon, 1680–1.

^{page 89 note d} William Wright, M.P. for Oxford, 1679–81.

^{page 89 note e} Son-in-law of Alderman Wright.

^{page 89 note f} Edward, Lord Howard of Escrick, charged with complicity in Fitz-Harris's libel. He was concerned in the Rye House plot, and turned informer and appeared as witness against Lord William Bussell and Algernon Sidney.

^{page 89 note g} Sir Thomas Myddelton, Bart, of Chirk Castle, co. Denbigh.

^{page 89 note h} Sir Edward Atkyns, Junior Baron, afterwards Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

^{page 90 note a} Sir John Hobart, Bart, of Blickling, co. Norfolk. He was one of “Cromwell's peers ” nominated to sit in “the other House ” of 1658.

^{page 90 note a} F. W. Bayly.

^{page 90 note b} Taverner Harris.

^{page 90 note c} Anne, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Cleveland, Dowager Lady Lovelace.

^{page 90 note d} Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Altham, one of the Barons of the Exchequer, married to Arthur Lord Anglesey.

^{page 91 note a} Thomas Prince, lately elected town clerk.

^{page 91 note b} Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, Bart, of Wickham, co. Oxon. He married Margaret, daughter of Edmund Prideaux, a kinsman of Humphrey. Catherine, the elder of his two daughters, was married thrice: to Viscount Wenham, to the Earl of Abingdon, and to Francis Wroughton, of Heskett; the younger daughter, Penelope, married Sir Robert Dashwood, Bart, of Northbrooke.

^{page 91 note a} See above, p. 44, note ^a.

^{page 92 note b} The following is an extract from “The Loyal Protestant and True Domestic Intelligence, or News both from City and Countrey. Printed by Nath. Thompson, next the Cross-Keys, in Fetter Lane,” for Tuesday, September 20, 1681:—

“Newmarket, September 13, 1681.—The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Quinborough, living in Oxford, accompanied by some of his Protestant Brethren, the Aldermen, and other Friends, for want of a convenient Introducer to his Majesty's Presence, performed that Ceremony one for the other, and presented His Majesty with a Petition, the Contents of which was, That His Majesty will be graciously pleas'd to waive that part of his Prerogative-Royal of His Approbation of their Town-Clerk, and accept of Mr. Prince, who had really qualified himself (spick and span new in behalf of the Good Old Cause ) on purpose for the said Trust, and mas oppos'd by the majority of the Citizens, and Lord Lieutenant of the County; And (as in duty bound) would pray, &c.

“His Majesty caused the Petition to be read, and immediately rejected it, well perceiving the pretended Loyalty and Integrety of the Presenters, who immediately return'd to their Quarters at honest Bess Pitchers, where they were suppos'd to be recommended by Mr. Bull, the Minister of Cordwainers' Hall, in London, or some particular Friend of his that was well acquainted there.

“The Black-Guard (a Society, perhaps, for its antiquity not to be match'd in any part of Europe) as a signal mark of their Gratitude for their kind Reception at Oxford in March last, waited on their Worships (upon the first notice they had of their Arrival) and secured their Quarters by their continued Guards, and did them the Honour of seeing them out of the Town, following them with lowd Acclamations, God preserve the King, and His whole Family and Kindred, and keep him safe from the hands of all that are any ways related to the Tribe of Forty-One ; continuing shouting as long as they had any sight of them.”

^{page 93 note a} The late mayor.

^{page 93 note b} Edmund Everard, one of the informers in the Popish Plot.

^{page 93 note c} Smith's career was more successful than he deserved. He was Oates's legal adviser during the Popish Plot, and afterwards became Solicitor to the Treasury in 1689, and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1699.

^{page 93 note d} A line lost from decay.

^{page 94 note a} See above, p. 13, note ^b, and p. 50, note ^c.

^{page 94 note b} Dr. William Jane, Regius Professor of Divinity, and Canon of Christ Church.

^{page 94 note c} I think that Prideaux here refers to Sir Jonathan Trelawny. He was elected from Westminster to Oxford in 1668; B.A. 1672; M.A. 1675; D.D. 1685. Bishop of Bristol 1685, of Exeter 1689, and of Winchester 1707. It is uncertain in what year he succeeded to the baronetcy; but he was resident at Oxford at this time, and must be the Sir Jonathan Trelawny mentioned shortly afterwards, at page 102, although his father bore the same Christian name.

^{page 94 note d} A line lost from decay.

^{page 95 note a} Colledge was executed on the 31st August.

^{page 95 note b} Bryan Haynes, against whom a charge of plotting had also been laid.

^{page 96 note a} Charles, son of Charles Holloway, Serjeant-at-Law; called Necessity, because. “Necessitas non habet legem,” he being a barrister but no lawyer.—Wood, Life, lxxix.

^{page 96 note b} Arthur Annesley, first Earl of Anglesey, Lord Privy Seal, 1673–82; died 1686.

^{page 97 note a} See above, p. 92, note b.

^{page 97 note b} John Hammond, D.D. Canon of Christ Church; M.A. 1664; B.D. 1679; D.D. 1680; Archdeacon of Huntingdon, 1673.

^{page 97 note c} John Benson, son of Dr. George Benson, Dean of Hereford; elected from Westminster to Christ Church 1669; M.A. 1676. He succeeded his father in the Rectory of Cradley, which he held for thirty-one years; Prebendary of Hereford 1691. Died 1713.

^{page 97 note d} Samuel Benson, of Christ Church ; M.A. 1671 ; afterwards Archdeacon of Hereford.

^{page 97 note e} John, third Baron Lovelace of Hurley, 1670–93, the audacious and intemperately vehement Whig who figures in Macaulay's History.

^{page 98 note a} James Bertie, son of Montagu, Earl of Lindsey, became Lord Norreys of Rycote in 1679, and was created Earl of Abingdon in 1682. Lord-lieutenant for co. Oxon. His second wife was Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, mentioned above, p. 91. He died in 1699.

^{page 99 note a} Sir Thomas Jones, Puisne Judge of the King's Bench, 1676; Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1683; dismissed by James II. 1686.

^{page 99 note b} Sir Francis Winnington, Solicitor-General, 1675; removed 1679.

^{page 100 note 1} Sir Richard Wenman, Bart. of Caswell, co. Oxon.; afterwards fourth Viscount Wenman.

^{page 100 note b} Sir Baynham Throckmorton, Bart. of Tortworth, co. Gloucester, was succeeded by his cousin, William Throckmorton, who was killed in a duel in June 1682.

^{page 100 note c} See above, p. 27, note ^f.

^{page 100 note d} After the dissolution of the Cabal, in 1673, the Duke of Buckingham was distinguished as an opponent of the Court.

^{page 101 note a} William Moreton, D.D.; Student of Christ Church, 1660. Chaplain to the Earl of Oxford, and afterwards to the Duke of Ormonde. Dean of Christ Church, Dublin, in 1677; Bishop of Kildare in 1681; and translated to Meath, 1705. Died 1716.

^{page 103 note a} See above, p. 76, note ^a, and p. 29, note ^f,

^{page 103 note b} A slip of the pen for Nicholas. John Nicholas, D.D. Warden of Winchester College.

^{page 103 note c} Thomas Marshall, CD. Rector of Lincoln College. Dean of Gloucester, 1681. Died 1685.

^{page 103 note d} John Wallis, D.D. of Exeter College, Savilian Professor of Geometry.

^{page 103 note e} Timothy Halton, D.D. Provost of Queen's College.

^{page 103 note f} John Lloyd, D.D. Bishop of St. David's, 1686. Died 1687.

^{page 103 note g} See above, p. 29, note ^c.

^{page 103 note h} Henry Smith, D.D. Canon of Christ Church, 1676.

^{page 103 note i} See above, page 44.

^{page 104 note a} William Williams, distinguished at this period for his violent opposition to the Court; but he afterwards made his peace, and became Solicitor-General in 1687.

^{page 105 note a} Lord James Annesley, M.P. for Winchester, succeeded his father as Earl of Anglesey.

^{page 106 note a} Probably Thomas Baker, town clerk in 1685.

^{page 106 note b} See above, p. 97, note ^b.

^{page 108 note a} William Pendarves, of Pendarves, married Admonition Prideaux.

^{page 108 note b} Richard Coffin, of Portledge, married Anne Prideaux. He escaped being Sheriff till 1684.

^{page 108 note c} Sir Courtenay Pole, Bart, of Shute, was appointed. He had been Sheriff in 1668. The reference to the chimneys doubtless points to the hearth-tax.

^{page 109 note a} He was not appointed. Christopher Bollot, of Bochym, was Sheriff for Cornwall in 1682.

^{page 109 note b} Richard, Lord Arundel of Trerice, an old Cavalier officer.

^{page 109 note c} Charles Perot, M.D. of St. John's College; afterwards M.P. for the University. Died 1686.

^{page 109 note d} Henry Beeston, LL.D. formerly Head-master of Winchester College.

^{page 110 note a} Sir William Walter, Bart, of Saresden, co. Oxon. He was not returned.

^{page 111 note a} “S. C. Cypriani Opera recognita et illustrata per Joannem Oxoniensem Episcopum,” etc. Oxon, 1682, fol.

^{page 111 note b} “The Ancient Usage of bearing such Ensigns of Honour as are commonly called Arms; with Catalogues of the present Nobility and Baronets of England, Scotland, and Ireland." Oxford, 1682, 8vo.

^{page 111 note c} Probably Richard Tufton, Earl of Thanet.

^{page 111 note d} Arthur Bury, D.D. Student of Exeter College 1638; Rector of Pointington, co. Somerset; Prebendary of Exeter 1660; Rector of his college 1665. He was suspended for a short time, in 1690, for writing a heterodox work,“The Naked Gospel.” —Ath. Oxon. iv. 482.

^{page 112 note a} Sir Robert Jenkinson, Bart, of Walcot, co. Oxon. He was M.P. for the county in William HI.'s reign.

^{page 112 note b} There was foundation for this rumour. About this time Shaftesbury wrote to Lord Arlington, the Lord Chamberlain, offering, if released from imprisonment, to retire to Carolina, of which province he was part proprietor.—See W. D. Christie, Life of Anthony Ashley Cooper, first Earl of Shaftesbury, 1871, ii. 419.

^{page 113 note a} The Earl of Thanet, however, died unmarried early in 1684.

^{page 113 note b} William Cardonnel, M.A. of Merton College. “Oct. 23.—Sunday, between 10 and 11 in the morning, Mr. Cardonnell hanged himself in his bedchamber, on his door; discovered by his maid after 12 of the clock; he had only his shirt and night-cap on, and there he hung till between 7 and 8 at night, and then the coroner and jury, coming and seeing him, there pronounced that lie was not compos mentis; about 11 at night he was buried stark naked in the vestry yard, on the south side of the chancel; he was troubled in conscience for cheating the college of 3l.or l. when he was bursar the year before, and troubled for the warden's misusing him for another matter, as he thought. When he was bursar last Spring, or deputy bursar, [he] sent the gardener to him for money due to tbe gardener for doing work in the warden's garden. Mr. Cardonnell, not being in a right humour, bid the warden be hanged, he should have no money; the gardener told the warden these words, the warden took affidavit of it, drew up a recantation, which being shown the fellows, Cardonnel at a meeting read it, but this stuck so close to him, that bringing a melancholy fit on him he could never shake it off. In June or August before he threw himself into the water in Magdalen walks to drown himself, but could not effect it.“—Wood, Life, xcii. The Warden was Sir Thomas Clayton, knt. M.D.

^{page 116 note a} “No Protestant Plot: or, The present pretended Conspiracy of Protestants against the King and Government discovered to be a Conspiracy of the Papists against the King and his Protestant Subjects." London, 1681, 4to. It was continued in a Second and Third Part in 1682.

^{page 116 note b} In a letter written to the Earl of Pembroke, in 1684, Locke denied the authorship of the many pamphlets attributed to him: “I do solemnly protest in the presence of God that I am not the author, not only of any libel, but not of any pamphlet or treatise whatever, in part good, bad, or indifferent.”—See W. D. Christie, Life of Shaftesbwry, i. 261.

^{page 116 note a} For fellowships.

^{page 116 note b} John Lamphire, M.D. sometime Fellow of New College; Principal of Hart Hall and Camdcnian Professor of History.

^{page 117 note a} Lord Conway married, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of George Booth, Lord Delamere. His brother-in-law was Robert Booth, of Christ Church, M.A. 1681; B.D. 1708. Archdeacon of Durham, 1691; Dean of Bristol, 1708.

^{page 118 note a} John Clerke, of Christ Church, son of Sir Francis Clerke, of Rochester; M.A. 1671; afterwards Fellow of All Souls. Rector of Ulcomb and Harrietsham in Kent. —Fast. Oxon. ii. 335.

^{page 118 note b} Leopold William Finch, fifth son of Heneage Earl of Winchilsea; entered Christ Church, 1679; B.A. 1681; of All Souls, and M.A. 1685; D.D. 1694. He became Warden of All Souls in 1686, and Prebendary of Canterbury in 1689. Died 1702.

^{page 118 note c} William Harrington, of All Souls; M.A. 1686.

^a Dr. Lamphire lived till 1688.

^a Horatio, Baron, in 1682 Viscount, Townshend. Died 1687.

^b An error for Sir Peter Gleane, of Hardwick, Bart.

^{page 121 note c} Hugh Bokenham, afterwards, 1689–94, M.P. for Norwich. Prideaux married one of his kinswomen.

^{page 122 note a} Rebecca, daughter of Sir Jasper Clayton, knt., and wife of Robert Paston, first Earl of Yarmouth.

^{page 122 note b} William Paston, who succeeded to the title of Yarmouth in 1682.

^c Herbert Losinga, born at Exmes (or Hiemes), in Normandy; Prior of Fécamp; made Abbat of Ramsay by William II. in 1087, and Bishop of Thetford in 1091 He removed the see to Norwich in 1094. Died 1119. He was never Chancellor Prideaux completed the restoration of his tomb in 1682.

^{page 122 note a} Alexander Nevile, in his “Norwicns,” printed at the end of “De Furoribns Norfolciensium Ketto duce,” 1575.

^{page 122 note b} Francis Godwin, Bishop of Hereford. “De Præsulibus Angliæ,” 1616.

^{page 124 note a} John Hildeyard, LL.D. Rector of Cawston.

^{page 124 note b} See above, page 90, note ^a.

^{page 124 note c} Canon of Christ Church.

^{page 125 note a} George Compton, Earl of Northampton; M.A. of Christ Church, 18 February, 1682.

^{page 125 note b} Charles Somerset, Lord Herbert of Ragland, eldest son of Henry Marquess of Worcester, who was this year created Duke of Beaufort.

^{page 125 note c} Sir Richard Browne, Bart., Ambassador to France in Charles I.'s time; Clerk to the Privy Council. He was father-in-law to John Evelyn.

^{page 126 note a} It may be gathered from allusions made by Ellis's correspondents (Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 28875) that he was to have had some office under the English Ambassador France, at this time James Graham, Viscount Preston. He failed, however, to get the appointment, though he appears to have been in Paris early in the year.

^{page 127 note a} The association which Shaftesbury was accused of forming for the exclusion of the Duke of York.

^{page 127 note b} Sir Creswell Levinz and Sir Robert Atkyns, Puisne Judges of the Common Pleas.

^{page 127 note c} See above, p. 93, note ^c.

^{page 127 note d} Brome Whorwood, of Halton, co. Oxon; sometime of Trinity College; M.P. for Oxford City.

^{page 129 note a} “Daniel in the Den, or the Lord President's Imprisonment and Miraculous Deliverance represented in a Discourse from Heb. xi. v. 33. By S. J. Rector of Chinner, in the County of Oxon.” London, 1682, 4to.

^{page 129 note b} Roger Altham and William Dingley.

^{page 129 note c} Richard, Earl of Arran, son of the Duke of Ormonde, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1682–4.

^{page 129 note d} Part of the edge of this letter is torn away.

^{page 130 note a} Probably James Penny. See above, p. 10.

^{page 130 note b} Roger Puleston, M.A. 1661.

^{page 130 note c} Thomas Acworth, M.A. 1665; B.D. 1683.

^{page 130 note d} William Duke, M.A. 1670.

^{page 130 note e} There was a Henry Guy, of Christ Church, M.A. 1663; afterwards Cupbearer to the Queen and Secretary to the Treasury in 1679.—Fast. Oxon. ii. 272.

^{page 130 note f} See above, p. 36, note^a.

^{page 130 note g} Richard Allestree, entered Christ Church in 1636; bore arms for the King; M.A. 1643; was ejected by the Parliamentary visitors. D.D. and Canon of Christ Church, 1660; Regius Professor of Divinity, 1663; Provost of Eton, 1665. Died 1681.—Ath. Oxon. iv. 202.

^{page 131 note a} Jamea Allestree or Allestry, son of a bookseller of the same name who suffered great losses in the Fier of London; Scholar of Westminster; elected to Christ Church. 1672; M.A. 1679. Died 1686.

^{page 132 note a} See above, p. 59, note ^a.

^{page 132 note b} Prideaux refers to the Hebrew professorship, which he anticipated falling vacant by the death of Dr. Pocock. The Doctor, however, did not die till 1691.

^{page 132 note c} Robert Huntington, entered Merton College in 1662, and became Fellow. Chaplain to the English Factory at Aleppo for many years; D.D. 1683; and, in the same year, Master of Trinity College, Dublin. Bishop of Raphoe, 1701; in which year he died. See also above, p. 39, note ^a.

^{page 132 note d} Thomas Hyde, son of Ralph Hyde, Minister of Billingsley, in Shropshire, began Oriental studies under his father. Entered King's College, Cambridge, in 1652, and was encouraged in his studies by Abraham Wheelock, the famous Orientalist, who made him one of the correctors of the Polyglot Bible. In 1658 he entered Queen's College, Oxford; M.A. 1659; D.D. 1682. Keeper of the Bodleian Library, 1665; Archdeacon of Gloucester, 1678; and Professor of Arabic, in succession to Dr. Pocock, in 1691.—Ath. Oxon. iv. 522.

^{page 133 note a} The Principal of Jesus College.

^{page 133 note b} Ellis received at this time the appointment of Secretary to the Commissioners of the Revenue of Ireland.

^{page 133 note c} Perhaps Henry Seymour, one of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber.

^{page 134 note a} See above, p. 49, note^a.

^{page 134 note b} Dr. Thomas Marshall, who had himself been Preacher to the English merchants of Rotterdam and Dort during the Civil War. He preceded Prideaux in the Rectory of Bladen. See also above, p. 103, note^c.

^{page 134 note c} Shaftesbury was in hiding at this time; but he did not actually leave England till the 28th November.—Christie, Life of Shaftesbury, ii. 452.

^{page 134 note c} Shaftesbury was in hiding at this time; but he did not actually leave England till the 28th November.—Christie, Life of Shaftesbury, ii. 452.

^{page 134 note d} Edmund Prideaux, of Padstow, died 25 October, 1683.

^a See above, p. 6.

^{page 136 note a} See above, p. 6.

^{page 136 note b} See above, p. 47, note^c.

^{page 137 note a} Dr. Clerk.

^{page 137 note b} Thomas Peirce, D.D. President of Magdalen College, 1661–72. Dean of Salisbury, 1675. Died 1691.

^{page 137 note c} Robert Brady, M.D. Master of Caius College, Cambridge. “An Introduction to Old English History, comprehended in Three several Tracts,” &c. London, 1684, fol. The first volume of his “Complete History of England ” to Richard II. was published in 1685.

^{page 138 note a} Dr. George Morley. The book referred to is “A Revision of Dr. George Morlei's judgment in matters of Religion, by L. W. Permissu Superiorum,” 1683, 4to. written in answer to the Bishop's “Several Treatises ” against the Church of Rome.

^{page 138 note b} “The History of the League, written in French by Monsieur Maimbourg. Translated into English according to His Majesty's command. By Mr. Dryden.” London, 1684, 8vo.

^{page 138 note c} Sir Hugh Wyndham, Puisne Judge of the Common Pleas; died at Norwich, 27 July, 1684.

^{page 138 note d} At his living of Bladen-cum-Woodstock, to which he had been presented by Lord Gutldford in 1682.

^{page 139 note a} Thomas Papillon, an Exclusionist; one of the directors of the East India Company. He had stood for the representation of one of the City wards, but his election had been thwarted by the Lord Mayor, Sir William Pritchard; whereupon he brought an action, and obtained the temporary arrest of the Mayor. Pritchard then sued Papillon for false imprisonment. The trial took a political complexion, and Papillon was cast with 10,000l. damages.

^{page 139 note b} Locke fled to Holland at the end of August of this year.

^{page 139 note c} Thomas Dare, afterwards slain in a quarrel by Fletcher of Saltoun, in Monmouth's rebellion.—See Macaulay's History of England.

^{page 139 note d} Robert West, barrister, implicated in the Eye House Plot. He gave evidence on Lord William Russell's trial.

^{page 140 note a} The Duke of Ormonde was succeeded, after a short government by Lords Justices, by Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, was Lord President of the Council, and soon after Lord Treasurer.

^{page 140 note b} George Savile, Marquess of Halifax, Lord Privy Seal, succeeded Rochester as Lord President.

^{page 140 note c} Prideaux's aunt Elizabeth married Sir William Morrice, knt., of Werrington, co. Devon, sometime Secretary of State. John Morice appears to have been the second son of this marriage.

^{page 140 note d} An elder brother, a Smyrna merchant.

^{page 140 note e} Peter Mews, translated to Winchester, 22 November, 1684.

^{page 141 note a} Thomas Kenn, D.D. Prebendary of Winchester, consecrated Bishop of Bath and Wells 25 January, 1685.

^{page 140 note b} Samuel Parker, D.D. Archdeacon of Canterbury, made Bishop of Oxford 17 October, 1686.

^{page 140 note c} Anthony Sparrow, Bishop of Norwich, died 19 August, 1685, and was succeeded by William Lloyd, Bishop of Peterborough.

^{page 142 note a} See the correspondence between Sunderland, as Principal Secretary of State, and Bishop Fell, printed in Lord King's Life of John Locke, 1830, i. 278.

^{page 142 note b} Burnet was appointed Preacher at the Rolls Chapel in 1675. Soon after the date of the above letter he retired abroad.

^{page 142 note c} Welbore Ellis, elected from Westminster to Christ Church, 1680; M.A. 1687; Prebendary of Winchester, 1696; D.D. 1697. He became Dean of Christ Church, Dublin; and Bishop of Kildare in 1705, and of Meath in 1731. Died 1734.—Welch, 189.

^{page 143 note a} Woodroffe.

^{page 143 note b} Guy Carleton, died 6 July, 1685.

^{page 143 note c} Jonathan Trelawny was consecrated Bishop of Bristol, 8 November, 1685. John Lake, the present Bishop, was translated, not to Peterborough but to Chichester. Thomas White, Archdeacon of Northampton, succeeded to Peterborough.

^{page 143 note d} Edward Stillingfleet, Dean of St. Paul's. “Origines Britannicæ, or Antiquities of the British Churches.” London, 1685, folio.

^{page 144 note a} The lady was Bridget, daughter of Anthony Bokenham, of Helmingham, co. Suffolk.

^{page 144 note b} Saham-Tony, into which Prideaux was inducted, 8 June, 1686. He afterwards, p. 149, estimates the value of the living at 120l.

^{page 145 note a} Thomas Hyde. See above, p. 132.

^{page 145 note b} Sir William Godolphin, created a baronet in 1661. Died unmarried, 1710.

^{page 145 note c} Ellis was on a visit to England at this time.

^{page 146 note a} Philip Ellis. He was kidnapped by the Jesuits from Westminster School, and was brought up at St. Omer, and is said to have been afterwards accidentally recognised by means of his Westminster nick-name of “Jolly Phil.” He became a Benedictine monk, and was chaplain to Mary of Modena, Queen of James II. He retired abroad after the Revolution, and was made Bishop of Segni.—Welch, 164.

^{page 146 note b} Dr. Sharp. The cause of the King's displeasure was a sermon preached by Sharp in St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, of which he was Rector, against the pretensions of the Church of Rome.—See Macaulay''s History.

^{page 147 note a} The Declaration of Indulgence was published on the 4th April.

^{page 148 note a} This letter forms part of Birch MS. 4194 in the British Museum, and was published, with the other letters contained in that volume, in the Ellis Correspondence, edited by the Hon. G. A. Ellis, London, 1829, ii. 47.

^{page 148 note b} The former Dean of Norwich, now Archbishop of York.

^{page 148 note c} Charles Ellis, the youngest brother, elected from Westminster to Cambridge, 1681; B.A., 1684; M.A. of Christ's College, 1688. He was appointed chaplain to the Earl of Pembroke.

^{page 148 note d} The Bishop of Norwich, who is here referred to, was John Moore, D.D. of St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge. He had been chaplain to Lord Chancellor Finch; Prebendary of Ely, 1679; Rector of St. Austin's, London, 1687, and of St. Andrew's, Holborn, 1689. He became Bishop of Norwich, 23 April, 1691, in the room of Dr. Lloyd, deprived. Translated to Ely in 1707.

^a Ellis left Dublin early in 1689, and did not retain his place at the Irish Treasury after the Revolution. Towards the close of the year he became Secretary to the young Duke of Ormonde, the same office he had held in his father the Earl of Ossory's household.

^b Richard Kidder, Dean of Peterborough; nominated Bishop of Bath and Wells. 13th June, 1691. He was killed in the storm of the 26th November, 1703.

^{page 150 note a} Henry Fairfax, D.D. Fellow of Magdalen College. Dean of Norwich, 1 Nov. 1689. He is best remembered by his bold opposition to James II. in the affair of the election of the President of Magdalen in 1687. He died in 1702.

^{page 150 note b} Ellis was about this time appointed one of the Commissioners of Transports.

^{page 151 note a} Perhaps the same as “halped—crippled,” which appears in Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words.

^{page 151 note b} Sir Robert Baldock, Puisne Judge of the King's Bench in 1688.

^{page 151 note c} The battle of La Hogue, 19 May, 1692.

^{page 151 note d} As Archdeacon of Suffolk, which office Prideaux had held since 21 December 1688.

^{page 152 note a} Thomas Alexander, appointed Lecturer to the Corporation in the church of St. Mary Tower in 1687.—Wodderspoon, Memorials of Ipswich, 1850, p. 375.

^{page 153 note a} The mutiny of the regiment which now ranks as the First Regiment of Foot, in 1689. It was almost entirely composed of Scotchmen. The story is graphically told by Macaulay in the eleventh chapter of his History.

^{page 153 note b} Kelvedon.

^{page 154 note a} Passed in 1689.

^{page 154 note b} The reply written by the Grand Pensionary Fagel to a letter from James Stewart, on the views of the Prince of Orange with regard to James II.'s Declaration of Indulgence. The English version was prepared by Burnet, and published with the title, “A letter to Mr. Stewart, giving an account of the Prince and Princess of Orange's thoughts concerning the Repeal of the Test and Penal Laws.” Amsterdam, 1688, 4to.

^{page 155 note a} The Toleration Act provided that the penal statutes against nonconformity should not extend to such as took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and subscrihed the Declaration against Transubstantiation.

^{page 155 note b} Bishop Moore's second wife, Dorothy, daughter of ——Barnes, of Sadbergh, Co. Durham, and relict of two husbands: Sir Michael Blacket, of Newcastle, and Sir Richard Browne, Bart.—Blomefield's History of Norfolk, iii. 591.

^{page 156 note a} Sir John Somers, Lord Keeper, 23 March, 1693.

^{page 156 note b} Baronets of Playford, co. Suffolk.

^{page 156 note c} Charles Whittaker, Serjeant-at-Law, was appointed Recorder of Ipswich in 1692. The Recorder of Oxford was Sir George Pudsey.

^{page 156 note d} Sir Roger Potts, Bart., of Mannington, co. Norfolk; Sir Samuel Barnardiston, Bart., of Brightwell, co. Suffolk; and Sir Gervase Elwys, Bart., of Stoke, co. Suffolk. With the exception of Sir R. Potts, they were all returned in the Parliament of 1695.

^{page 157 note a} Daniel Finch, second Earl of Nottingham, Secretary of State, 1689–93, and again in 1702.

^{page 157 note b} An Abjuration Bill was introduced in 1689, but was not passed. Nothing further was done.

^{page 159 note a} I suppose that this is a not very complimentary reference to the Dean.

^{page 159 note b} See above, p. 34, note ^d.

^{page 160 note a} “A Dialogue betwixt Whig and Tory, alias Williamite and Jacobite, wherein the Principles and Practices of each Party are fairly and impartially stated.” 1693, 4to.

^{page 161 note a} One recalls Addison's two bottles of wine in the long library of Holland House, if Addison may be compared with Dean Fairfax and port and sherry with claret and “nog.”

^{page 161 note b} See above, p. 34, note ^d.

^{page 162 note a} Pensioners of the Court of St. Germain.

^{page 162 note b} William Sancroft, the deprived Archbishop of Canterbury, was buried in the churchyard of Fressinfield, co. Suffolk, on the 27 November. “The day before he breathed his last, he received the sacrament from Dr. Trumbull, who had formerly been his chaplain and who was a nonjuror. Dr. Trumbull came there accidentally that day: he had intended to receive it from the ejected minister of Eye, Mr. Edwards.”—D'Oyly, Life of Sancroft, 1821, ii. 63.

^{page 162 note c} Charles Trumbull, of Christ Church, B.C.L. 1670; D.C.L. of All Souls, 1677.

^{page 162 note d} He had been Master of that college.

^{page 162 note e} Charles Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, at length accepted office in the following March, and was created a Duke.

^{page 162 note f} Dr. Narcissus Marsh was translated thither from Cashel.

^{page 162 note g} Thomas Burnet. “Archæologiæ Philosophicæ, sive doctrina antiqua de rerum originibns.” London, 1692, fol.

^{page 163 note a} Probably Ralph Trumbull, of Christ Church, M.A. 1663.

^{page 164 note a} Dr. William Lloyd.

^{page 164 note b} Dr. John Tillotson.

^{page 165 note a} Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Monmouth, afterwards Earl of Peterborough, First Commissioner of the Treasury, 1689–90; Lord of the Bedchamber; and one of the Council of Nine appointed by William to act during his absence from England.

^{page 165 note b} John, third Baron Lovelace. His daughter Martha, afterwards Baroness Wentworth, married Sir Henry Johnson, a shipbuilder.

^{page 165 note c} Charles, second Viscount Townshend, Ambassador at the Hague in the reign of Queen Anne, and Secretary of State under George I.; K.G.; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1717.

^{page 165 note d} See above, p. 121.

^{page 166 note a} Richard Berney, second son of Sir Richard Berney, Bart., of Reedham, co. Norfolk. He succeeded to his father's estates and fortune, his elder brother being disinherited. “He was high sheriff in the fourth year of William III., and died s. p. having sold the family seat at Redham and spent very nearly his whole estate.”— Blomefield's Norfolk, xi. 128.

^{page 166 note b} Sir Edward Ward, Lord Chief Baron.

^{page 166 note c} Henry Howard, twelfth Duke of Norfolk.

^{page 167 note a} The “Association ” in defence of the King after the discovery of the assassination plot was subscribed in Parliament and throughout the country in February and following months.

^{page 167 note b} Mayor of Norwich in 1693, and one of the founders of Cooke's Hospital in that city.

^{page 167 note c} Sir Henry Hobart, of Blickling, Bart., at this time M.P. for Norfolk. He was present at the battle of the Boyne with William III. Died from a wound received in a duel with Oliver Le Neve, 1698.

^{page 167 note d} Sir James Edwards, of Reedham Hall, Bart.

^a Nicholas Bickerdyke, Mayor of Norwich, 1696.

^{page 171 note a} Nicholas Bickerdyke, Mayor of Norwich, 1696.

^{page 172 note a} Sir Robert Yallop, of Bowthorp, Kt.

^{page 172 note b} Sir Christopher Calthorp, of East Barsham, K.B.

^{page 172 note c} Sir Nicholas Lestrange, of Hnnstanton, Bart.

^a Samuel Warkehouse, Mayor of Norwich 1698.

^a Peter Mews, Bishop of Winchester, lived to 1706.

^b Simon Patrick, Bishop of Ely.

^{page 175 note c} Augustine Briggs, Mayor of Norwich in 1695, died in 1704.

^{page 176 note a} Sir Robert Rich, of Rosehall, co. Suffolk, Bart.

^{page 175 note b} In accordance with the terms of the Recoinage Act, all clipped money was called in and was now being replaced by the new milled coinage. A mint was set up at Norwich.—See Macaulay's account of the state of the coinage, in chapter xxi. of his History.

^c This letter and the following, its enclosure, have been much injured by damp.

^a See above, p. 166.

^{page 181 note a} John Paterson, Archbishop of Glasgow, 1687; ejected soon after the Revolution.

^{page 181 note b} Sir John Barker, of Grimston Hall, co. Suffolk, Bart.

^{page 181 note c} Lionel Tallemache, Lord Huntingtower, son of Sir Lionel Tallemache, Bart, and of Elizabeth Murray, daughter of William Earl of Dysart. He became Earl of Dysart in 1697. His mother married, secondly, John Duke of Lauderdale.

^{182 note a} Sir Thomas Wilbraham, of Woodhey, co. Chester, Bart., married Elizabeth Mitton. He had three daughters: 1. Elizabeth, married Sir Thomas Myddleton; Grace, married Lord Huntingtower; and 3. Mary, married Richard Newport, Earl of Bradford in 1708.

^{page 182 note b} This sentence is struck out with the pen.

^{page 182 note c} Locke died in 1704.

^a These fire words are struck out with the pen.

^b Sir Roger Potts, of Mannington, co. Norfolk, Bart.

^c Sir John Treby, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

^{page 185 note a} This was Prideaux's new work, “The True nature of Imposture fully display'd in the Life of Mahomet.” London, 1697, 8vo.

^{page 185 note b} Sir William Trumbull, Kt., Secretary of State, 1695–7. He entered St. John's College; B.C.L. of All Souls, 1659; D.C.L. 1667. He was sent Envoy Extraordinary to France in 1685, and was Ambassador to Constantinople, 1687–91.—Ath. Oxon. ii. 229.

^{page 186 note a} Dr. William Smyth, Prebendary of Norwich, 1670–97.

^{page 186 note b} Not so. Dr. Smyth's successor was Richard Brodrepp.

^{page 186 note c} Lord Chancellor Somers.

^{page 186 note d} Laurence Goodwin.

^{page 187 note a} Ath, in Hainault, surrendered to the French 26 May.

^{page 188 note a} The Congress of Ryswick was sitting at this time, and at length, after long delay, signed the treaty of peace on the 11th of September.

^{page 189 note a} Injured by damp.

^{page 189 note b} Ralph Tayler, of Trinity College; M.A. 1673; D.D. 1686.

^{page 191 note a} Admiral Edward Russell, Earl of Orford, 1697–1727.

^{page 191 note b} Nicholas Lepel, afterwards Brigadier-General. The lady whom he married was Mary Brooke, daughter of John Brooke of Rendlesham. The notice of the marriage is of interest, for the issue of it was Mary Lepel, ——“Youth's youngest daughter, sweet Lepel,” married in 1720 to John, Lord Hervey. From Prideaux's words we may gather that her beauty came from her father, her wit from her mother.

^{page 191 note c} Charles Whittaker, Serjeant-at-law, Recorder of Ipswich. He was also M.P. in 1701. See above, p. 156, note^c.

^{page 192 note a} Charles, Lord Paston; died before his father the Earl of Yarmouth.

^{page 192 note b} Sir Joseph was elected in the Parliaments of 1695,1698, and 1700, for Rochester as well as for Thetford; and the latter place was represented by James Sloane, Lord Paston, and Thomas Hanmer successively in his stead. Sloane also sat in the Parliament of 1698.

^{page 192 note c} Isabella, daughter of Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, married Henry Fitz-Roy, Duke of Grafton, who died in 1690. The young duke was Charles, their son.

^{page 192 note c} Isabella, daughter of Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, married Henry Fitz-Roy, Duke of Grafton, who died in 1690. The young duke was Charles, their son.

^{page 192 note d} Oliver Le Neve, of Great Wichingham, co. Norfolk. Prideaux refers to his fatal duel with Sir Henry Hobart. “In 1695, he [Sir H. Hobart] was again elected to serve in Parliament for the county, and always behaved like a man of honour in that post, but being disappointed of his election in 1698, and resenting some words said to be spoken by Oliver Le Neve, Esq. (which Le Neve denied under his hand), a challenge was given, and a duel ensued, in which Sir Henry passed his sword through Neve's arm, and Neve ran his into Sir Henry's belly, of which wound he died the next day, being Sunday, 21 August, 1698.”—Blomefield's Norfolk, vi. 402.

^{page 192 note e} Edward Lombe, Sheriff for Norfolk.

^{page 193 note a} This letter is injured by damp.

^{page 193 note b} Thomas Dogget, founder of the Dogget coat and badge.

^{page 193 note c} Ashe Wyndham, of Felbrigg.

^{page 193 note d} Sir Joseph Ashe of Twickenham, Bart. His elder daughter, Catherine, married William Wyndham; his younger daughter, Mary, married Horatio, Viscount Townsend.

^{page 193 note e} Richard Anguish succeeded to the property, and assumed the name, of his uncle, Sir Thomas Allin, of Blundeston, Bart. He was created a baronet of Somerleyton, co. Suffolk, 14 Dec. 1699. He married Trances, daughter of Sir Henry Ashurst.

^{page 194 note a} Words lost from damp.

^{page 195 note a} The Duke lived to 1701. Lord Townshend afterwards became Lord Lieutenant.

^{page 195 note b} Robert Walpole, father of the statesman. Charles Lord Townshend married his daughter Dorothy.

^{page 195 note c} “In 1704 there were great disputes about electing an alderman in the room of Augustine Briggs, Esq., deceased, for the great ward of Conisford and Berstrect. The court swore Benjamin Austin, who was displaced in 1706 by Thomas Dunch, who had the majority at the election, and obtained a mandamus to be sworn in Austin's place.”—Blomefield's Norfolk, iii. 431.

^{page 196 note a} Peter Thacker.

^{page 196 note b} Thomas Blofield, M.P. for Norwich.

^a Towards the end of May of this year Ellis resigned his appointment of Under-Secretary. He seems to haye fallen under the displeasure of his chief, Secretary Hedges, for some hreach of duty; though the particular cause cannot now be ascertained.

^{page 198 note a} The futile attempt of the Chevalier St. George to effect a landing in Scotland.

^{page 198 note b} The dismissal of Harley, which had taken place in February.

^{page 199 note a} Prince George of Denmark held the office of High Admiral, and was assisted by a Council. Slight changes were made in the Council both in April and June of this year.

^{page 199 note b} Fought on the 15th July. The only action of importance during the rest of the campaign was the repulse, by General Webb, of the enemy who attacked him in great force at Wynendael on the 28th September.

^{page 200 note a} Charles Trimnell, Prebendary; Bishop of Norwich in succession to Dr. Moore, 23 Jan. 1708. Translated to Winchester, 1721.

^{page 200 note b} Robert Baylis.

^{page 200 note c} Sir John Woodhouse, Bart., had represented Thetford in several Parliaments.

^{page 201 note a} The allies invested Tournay in June, and finally reduced it in September.

^{page 201 note b} Samuel Clarke, of Caius Coll., Cambridge; B.A. 1694; M.A. 1698; S.T.P. 1710; Rector of Drayton, co. Norfolk; of St. Benet's Wharf, London; and of St. James's, Westminster; died 1729.

^{page 201 note c} Dr. John Moore, translated from Norwich in 1707.

^{page 201 note d} Robert Cannon, D.D.; Prebendary of Ely, 1709; Dean of Lincoln, 1721; died 1722.

^{page 202 note a} Sidney, Earl of Godolphin.

^{page 202 note b} The new Bishop of Chichester was Dr. Thomas Manningham, Dean of Windsor, Dr. John Robinson succeeding him as Dean; and became Bishop of Bristol, 1710; Lord Privy Seal, 1711; and Bishop of London, 1713.

^{page 202 note c} I suppose that Dr. Sharp, Archbishop of York, is referred to; but he lived to 1714.

^{page 202 note d} John Wynne, D.D.

^{page 202 note e} Thomas Venner, one of the leaders in the insurrection of the Fifth Monarchy Men in London, January, 1661. He was taken and executed.

^{page 203 note a} This is probably Prideaux's work, “The Original and Eight of Tithes,” the publishing date of which is 1710.

^{page 204 note a} Charles XII.; killed in 1718.

^{page 204 note b} Lionel Cranfield Sackville, seventh Earl, afterwards Duke, of Dorset, married Elizabeth, daughter of Lieut-General Walter Colyear, a younger brother of the Earl of Portmore. General Colyear lived to 1747.

^a However, he underwent the operation and was cut for “the calamitous distemper of the stone,” as he tells us in his Preface to the Connection of the Old and New Testaments.

^{page 206 note a} John Clarke, of Caius Coll. Cambridge; B.A. 1703; M.A. 1707; S.T.P. 1717; Dean of Salisbury, 1728; died 1757. He was brother of Dr. Samuel Clarke mentioned above, p. 201.

^{page 206 note b} The Sheriff for Norfolk for the year 1723 was Gresham Page.

^{page 206 note c} Charles Viscount Townsend and John Lord Carteret became Principal Secretaries of State in 1721.

^{page 206 note d} Christopher Layer, concerned in the Jacobite plot of this year, was sent to the Tower 20 September. He was tried and condemned in November, and was executed in the following May.

^{page 207 note a} Thomas Pitt, Lord Londonderry.

^{page 207 note b} Perhaps Robert Knight, Treasurer of the South Sea Company, who had escaped abroad the previous year.

^{page 207 note c} This letter is written by an amanuensis.