Who in Hymen's bands is join'd, He thy picture, thou his shrine, He the dog that freths the pale, Anvil thou to beat upon: More I could, but more I will not, Since to speak more much it skills not; Only I will here extend, Th' period of my speech, as friend; And express what, I protest, Comes from the centre of my breast, That my protestations may Bear record another day. To Hymen crown the night Of these nuptials with delight. No more, no more; much honour ay betide The lofty bridegroom, and the lovely bride; But now retire, dark shades have lodg'd the sun, Biographiana. Collectanea for Athena Cantabrigienses. 71. John Hall of St. John's Coll. O. HALL, Dunelmensis, annos natus octodecim, filius Michaelis Hall, Generosi, literis Grammat. institutus in schola Dunelmensi, admissus Pensionarius Coll. Johan. Cantab. sub Mro Pauson, Feb. 26, 1645." Regr. Coll. Joh. Cantab. He was afterwards Fellow Commoner. Baker. A reprint of his scarce volume of Poems is nearly ready for publication, 1815. Editor. 72. Anthony Hammond of St. John's. "Afterwards of Somersham, co. Hunt. and Member of Parliament for the University in parliaments in the reign of K. William. See an account of him in Nichols's Collect. of Poems, Lond. 1780, 8vo. vol. ii. p. 204, &c. He was father of James Hammond, the elegiac poet." 73. David Hughes, Vice President of Queen's College, March 6, 1773. "He is a very worthy good man, but strongly tinctured with the fanaticism of his College, in petitioning with the whole Society for an alteration of the Liturgy and Thirty-nine articles, and taking away all subscription at matriculation, degrees, and orders; by which means all fences would be broken down which guard a regular establishment. However the Parliament, within these ten days, have given a second refusal to this foolish, if not wicked project. When Wilkes was at Cambridge, about 1770, he was neglected by every one in the University. Wilkes shewed his judgment in nothing more, than in sending for the provincial newspaper printers wherever he came. Accordingly, Fletcher and Hodson were sent to the Rose tavern, and cajoled by him for their puffs in their paper, a most offensive one against the Government, King, and Establishment, religious and civil, of the country: by whose means all the blacksmiths and low farmers all over the country are poisoned with this malevolence. Mr. Hughes is a sensible, quiet, easy man, of a most retired turn; and perhaps as punctual and regular in all his motions as the college clock. I was informed he might have been Master on Mr. Sedgewicke's death, had he been so disposed. "Poor Mr. Hughes died of a cold and decay, lying ill about 10 days, and never kept his bed till the last day, this morning, Friday, July 11, 1777. He had sent me a letter about a fortnight before, about the Abbey of Longford, in Shropshire, of which I knew nothing. About three days ago, hearing he was ill, I sent my servant to College to inquire after his health; when he sent word that he was much out of order. I suppose he will be the first person to hansel the new vault under their chapel, made about four years ago. The Master told me at Wimpole, July 21, 1777, that he buried him therein. That he left the butler of the College Executor; and desired that the Master would particularly burn all his letters and papers, which were immense, as he never destroyed any among the rest he burnt one which Mr. Hughes had laid aside for me, being a list of all the Fellows since his admission, a term of above 50 years, with a short account of them. This the Master thought hal been a duplicate, as he knew that Mr. Hughes had drawn it out for me, and thought he had sent it. He left his bed-maker comfortably, and other legacies, and the residue to the College, about 20007. He did business till two days before his death, and died easily, at about the age of 76 years. His boundup pamphlets, ten years ago, were near about 200 volumes. "V. Bentham's Ely. p. 111 of Preface. "His father's name was Hugh Richard: so his christian name being David, he called himself David Ap Hugh, or David Hughes, being more English. "V. my vol. xlviii. p. 284, 285, being Dr. Plumptre's account of him in the MS. History of Queen's. "See his Epitaph in my vol. v. p. 199." 74. Henry Hubbard, Fell. of Em. "Dr. King of St. Mary Hall, in his ingenious pamphlet, stiled A Key to the Fragment, published in 1751, when the new regulations about discipline at Cambridge made a great bustle, thus at p. 31 describes him, chap. vi. of Boy Harry. 'He is recorded in the 26th page of the Fragment. The author designs by this name Mr. Henry Hubbard, who has a small copyhold of about 507. per annum, in the manor of Bridgetown: he was a man of good repute, and well esteemed in the country, that many people thought him a cavalier in his heart; till such time as he was seduced by Sharp [Dr. Keen, v. Chanc.] the steward. Sharp took an opportunity of inviting him to dinner; and at that very instant, when he had loaded poor Hal's plate with fat venison, or, as others affirm, with excellent plumb pie, obtained a promise of his vote in favour of the new laws, which were to be proposed at the next general court. Sharp had been informed by the great negociator, his brother, [Chapman] that there are certain junctures, and certain means, by which a very good man 'may be prevailed upon to act a very bad part, and sometimes against the dictates of his reason and his conscience. We have all heard of him, who sold his birth-right for a mess of porridge, when perhaps no other consideration would have tempted him to so foolish a bargain. And our Hal, who, I verily believe, would In Mich. Term, three years after David Hughes's death, the present Editor became a member of Queen's College, and had next year the Declamation Prize decreed to him, of Hughes's foundation; and the first, (if he recollects,) given from that bequest. have rejected a bribe of 5001. sold himself for sixpennyworth of plumb pie. I have a song by me, which is called Edmund Sharp's Letter to the Copyholder of Bridgetown, in which I find four lines addressed to our Hal. For our honour, O Hal, for the good of three nations, "Mr. Hubbard is now living, June 14, 1768, senior Fellow, and has long expected a vacancy to be Master; and though both are infirm, and one very old, yet it is thought the ill state of health of the other may wear him out before the Master, who was always temperate and thin; whereas the other always loved his bottle, but not to excess, and more than that, good eating, which he still practises, as I am told. He has saved a good deal of money from being long Tutor, and is also Registrar to the University: his brother was Master of St. Catherine's Hall, and a sister was the third wife of Mr. Thurlbourne the bookseller. He is a very corpulent and fat man, and was always in a state of perspiration: reckoned a good tempered, cheerful man, and merry companion, and always a severe disciplinarian; and was used to put in more non placets in the senate house, while I was in the University, than any person besides; so that it is likely he will go out of the world with a non placet in his mouth, as is natural to all men : but on Monday, July 1, Mr. Horne of Brentford coming to Cambridge for his Master's degree, having not long before given, in a letter to Mr. Wilkes, a very indecent expression, reflecting on the episcopal character, it was thought by many that he would be stopped in his degree; and accordingly Mr. Hubbard was brought in a sedan-chair from his College, and put in his non placet to his Grace, upon which he was hissed as he passed along to his place. Particularly he took notice of one who hissed him, Mr. Blackall, a fellow of his College, to whom he immediately said, That he did not understand such behaviour in that place, and more especially from a person to whom he had conferred more obligations |