self taken notice of, put in his non placet: and Mr. Jebb and that set of people said, that it was meant as no particular mark of disrespect to Mr. Davies, but only to shew the world that there were people at Cambridge who disapproved of Mandamus Degrees.

"In the autumn of 1775, when an address to the King was voted by the University against the factious Americans, and their more blameable Fautors in the mother country, this person, who was one of the scrutators, and kept the key of the University chest, in which their seal was kept, refused to deliver it: the ostensible pretence was, that the Caput was not legally constituted, as Dr. Halifax, who was LL. D. had lately also procured a Mandamus for a D. D. degree, in order to qualify himself for the Headship of Catherine Hall, when it should fall, and therefore he was not properly the senior of the law faculty: yet the real motive was their inveterate hatred to order, and submission to Government. The Vice Chancellor, on his obstinacy, was forced to go with proper assistance and break the chest open to get at the key.

"I am told, for I don't know I ever saw him, that he is a puny, weakly man, constantly rides out for his health, on no occasion ever goes to chapel, and rarely sees any company, and never out in an evening: Mr. Jebb now and then drinks tea with him.

"In a warm book, full of misrepresentations, called Subscription, printed 1776, in favour of Arianism and the clerical petitioners, is this passage, p. 127, after giving instances of Abps. Wake and Secker endeavouring to keep things quiet:

'The Divines of Oxford, however, do not stand alone: those of Cambridge seem to participate of the same spirit of laying an undue restraint on religious liberty. In the year 1770, if I am rightly informed, Mr. Tyrwhit proposed to Dr. Rutherforth, the Professor of Divinity, the following questions for disputation:

1. The prayers of Christians are to be directed to God alone, the Father of Jesus Christ.

2. Those persons may be received into the Christian Church who acknowledge Jesus Christ to be the true Messiah, although they believe him to be not equal to God, or even no more than Man.

3. The Christian institution is not established by the sanc tion of eternal punishment.

4. No doctrine of Christian faith, delivered in the Scripture, is contrary to right reason.

The three first questions were refused by the Professor abso lutely; the fourth he declined to accept, until it had been approved of by the Vice Chancellor. When the fourth question was afterwards proposed to Dr. Richardson, Master of Emanuel, as Vice Chancellor, he answered, That he did not approve of it. This conduct also speaks too plainly for itself, to require any comment upon it.'

"In 1777 he resigned his Fellowship, upon the same principle that he had acted; and though Dr. Caryl had endeavoured to persuade him to the contrary, as his income was small, he could not prevail with him; and now lives as Fellow Commoner in the College, being a man of no expence."

3. Joseph Ames:

"My friend, Mr. Joseph Ames, Secretary to the Antiquarian Society and Fellow of the Royal Society, an ingenious person, and diligent in preserving every thing either in art or nature, that pertains to learning, curiosity, and antiquity. Stukeley's Caransius, P: 115.

Typographical Antiquities: being an historical Account of Printing in England: with some Memoirs of our ancient Printers, and a Register of the Books printed by them, from the year 1471 to 1600, with an Appendix concerning Printing in Scotland and Ireland to the same time. By Joseph Ames, F. R. S. and Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries, London. 4to. 1749. Inscribed to Philip Lord Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor. Preface and list of subscribers five leaves; index of thirteen leaves: book 589.

"I have written as follows on the back of the title-page-The author, Mr. Ames, I was well acquainted with, having been se

veral times to see him, in order to look over his curious prints, of which he had no small collection, especially of English heads; many of which at different times I purchased of him to add to my collection of the same sort. He lived in a strange alley or lane in Wapping; was a patten-maker, an Anabaptist, with a spice of Deism mixed with it. I have often thought it no small reproach and disgrace to the Antiquary Society, to have so very illiterate a person to be their Secretary: he could not even spell, much more write, English: I have several letters of is by me at this time, which prove it. It was by no means proper to have such a person in that station, which required reading aloud at the meetings of the Society, several papers, in various languages often, of which he was used to make miserable work; more especially when strangers and foreigners happened to be there, which was often the case.

"He was a little, friendly, good-tempered man; a person of vast application and industry in collecting curious old printed books, prints, and other curiosities, both natural and artificial. It is to this must be attributed his office of Secretary to the Society: but surely, a Secretary who could neither read nor write, was an odd appointment for a learned Society! He must have procured some one to have perused his book for him, which yet is full of blunders, and proves my assertion in an hundred places: the printers would correct the false English and spelling. Wm. Cole.

"What is singular, Mr. Stephen Wren employed Mr. Ames, an Independent, and Deist professed, to usher into the world the Parentalia, or Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens in 1750, which throughout is a most orthodox book, full of reflections Apon the fanatics of King Charles I.'s time."

3. George Tollet, Esq. King's College.

"He was a Fellow Commoner of King's College, and my cotemporary, about 1745. A shy, reserved man, and of no genteel appearance or behaviour. He was much acquainted with the late Mr. Ewin, father of Dr. Ewin, whose sister told me, 1780, that the acquaintance began when she went to Stratford-le-bow school,

where Mr. Tollet's aunt (a little, crooked woman, but a sharp wit, and author of some poems in print) took notice of her.

"Mr. Tollet has many notes in Mr. Steevens's Edition of Shakespeare in the first volume of which he has an ingenious dissertation on the figures of some pantomimes in his house at Betley in Staffordshire, a print of which morris dancers is at the head of it, and sent to me by Mr. Steevens in September, 1780, who was also a Fellow Commoner of the same College, but came thither the year after I left it, viz. in 1753, as he told me at Dr. Lort's chambers' in Trinity College. He died Oct. 22, 1779."

4. Michael Tyson, Fellow of Bene't Coll. Nov. 20, 1769.

"Son of the Rev. Wm. Tyson, Dean of Stamford in Lincolnshire, who had been Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge: mother's family-name Curtis, of the same place. He was born in All Saints parish in Stamford, Nov. 19, 1740, admitted in Bene't College, A. B. A. M. ordained Deacon at White Hall Chapel by John Green, formerly Master of his College, and now Bishop of Lincoln, Sunday, March 11, 1770. In 1776, being then Bursar of the College, made one of White Hall preachers on the death of Mr. Colman of C. C. C. C. Vide some account of the name and family of Tyson of the North, in Leland's Itinerary, vol. viii. p. 5. edit. 1744.

"His father, Michael Tyson, A. M. about Christmas, 1773, made Archdeacon of Huntingdon by Bishop Green, great sportsman and gunner, who appointed him soon after his Official; about which time, or before, he was made Bursar of the College, 1774. About this same time, on Mr. Colman's quitting it, Mi nister of St. Bene't's Church in Cambridge.

"In 1766, he went with a young gentleman of his College a tour into the North, and at Glasgow he was honoured with the freedom of that city. The ticket is about a foot square of parchment, the border being nicely printed with a scroll at top and bottom, of 'let Glasgow flourish;' at one corner a bird, at another parti per pale, A. and G. a tree proper, on the top of which is a bird, and hanging from a bough, a bell azure in chief, and in base

a salmon on its back; being parts of the arms of the city, which are thus blazoned on the back: party p. pale A. and G. a tree proper, on the top of which is a bird, and hanging from a bough, a bell azure in chief, and in base a salmon on its back en over all, argent, with an annulet in its mouth Or; above all are two boys holding a scroll over their heads, and let Glasgow flourish,' blowing trumpets: underneath is written, Michael Tyson, Esq. his Burgess Ticket of Glasgow, 1766; on the other side is this-At Glasgow, the twelfth day of Sept. 1766 years: The which day, in presence of the Right Honourable John Bowman, Esq. Lord Provost of the said city, John Alston, Robert Donald, and George Buchanan, Baillies thereof, Arthur Connel Dean of Gild, and sundry of the Gild Council of the said city, Michael Tyson, Esq. of Lincolnshire, is admitted and received Burgess and Gild Brother of the said city, and the whole Liberties, Privileges, and Immunities, belonging to a Burgess and Gild Brother thereof, are granted to him in most ample form, who gives his oath of fidelity as use is Extracted from the Gild books of the said city by John Wilson.

"My freedom was given to me there, 25 August, 1749: v. my vol. 34, p. 123, 124. The same arms, and exactly the same words, mutatis mutandis. In the same expedition Mr. Tyson went as far as Inverary, where he had the same compliment, on a piece of parchment of about six inches by ten; on the back of which is written-Burgess Act in favour of Michael Tyson, Esq. 1766, Inverary; on the other side a shield; and at the bottom a large seal of red wax, with five herrings swimming into a net, and at its top is written Inverary, and round it, Semper tibi pendeat Halec. At the Burgh of Inverary the 17 day of September, 1766 years: The which day, Michael Tyson, Esq. of Lincolnshire, was, by the unanimous advice and consent of John Duncanson, Esq. Provost, Messrs. John Mac Neill and John Colquhoun, Baillies, Dugald Mac Keller, Dean of Guild and Common Council of the Burgh, received, created, and admitted Burgess, Freeman, and Guild Brother thereof, with power for him and

enjoy the Privileges, Liberties, and immunities belonging to a Burgess, Freeman, and Guild Brother of the same, and that for the love, favour, and respect the said Magistrates and Council