99. John Halle. "A most excellent and learned work of chirurgery, calledChirurgia parva Lanfranci, Lanfranke of Mylangne his brief, reduced from diverse Translations to our vulgar phrase, and now first published in the English print, by J. H. Chirurgion. Who hath thereunto necessarily annexed a Table, as well of the names of diseases and simples, with their virtues, as also all other terms of the art opened. And in the end a compendious work of Anatomy, more utile and profitable than any heretofore in the Eng. Tongue, with a goodlye doctrine and instruction, necessary to be followed by all the Chirurgions, Lond. 40. 1565. His print in wood at the back of the title-page, 1564. J. H. Anno ætatis suæ 35, In a bonnet, long beard, and ruff, furred gown, and holding a sprig of rosemary. R. M. Corporis effigies quam vides graphice pictam, "He was also a poet, and has a good deal of poetry scattered up and down, with godly devotion and prayers to be used by surgeons. Ded. to the Surgeon's Company, by J. H. one of the least of them. He says he translated his book of Lanfranc out of French into old Saxon English about 200 years since; which he new modelled with other translations in French and Latin, and other English copies, which he had of John Chamber one, and another of John Yates, both very ancient. He laments his not being able to attend the lecture of Dr. Cunningham at Surgeon's Hall, by reason of his froward fortune and distance of place. I guess he lived at Maidstone in Kent, by speaking so much of it in his account of empiricks, who came there about 1556, and whom he heartily abuses with pretty foul language. In a preface to it, by Wm. Cunningham, it appears that Halle had made another work, inveighing against vice, which was now in the printer's hands and which he calls The Court of Virtue. John Yates and Tho. Halle have verses before the second Part. "James Cook of Warwick, practitioner in physic, translated in 1679, John Hall, physician, his select observations on English bodies of eminent persons in desperate diseases. But qy. if the same? for the first case is of the Countess of Northampton, in 1622. "V. Bp. Tanner's Biblioth. p. 372. Granger on Engl. engr Heads, vol. i. p. 512. Warton's Hist. of Engl. Poetry, vol. iii. p. 180, 181. &c." 100. Wm. Hawkins. "Corolla veria: contexta per Guil. Haukinum Scholercham Hadleianum in agro Suffolciensi. Cantabrigiæ 8vo. 1632. Ded. to the Cambridge Muses. It is a very curious little book of Latin poems. In the Eclogue, called Fastidium, p. 11, he under the name of Nisus complains to a brother schoolmaster, that being a M' of Arts of Cambr. and in holy orders, and a Student in Divinity, yet had no Benefice, but forced to drudge in teaching schools, and wishes to have a parish, p. 13. ................O quam placide mihi vota quiescant, "Hæc Regio abundat salicibus magis quam quercubus aut ulmis. Quoddum profitetur autor de campestri et depressiore solo, sperat se patriæ suæ non derogare utpote frugi feræ magis quam glandiferæ." **From which marginal note, I suppose he was a native of Okinton in Cambridgeshire. The next Eclogue is upon the re ception of John Bowles, Bp. of Rochester, Apr. 9, 1632, at Had ley School. He had been schoolmaster of Elden in Suffolk, and for whipping or striking one of his scholars for neglecting the school, was brought into trouble by a namesake of mine, as it should seem, Carbonius, of which he gives an humourous account in his Musa Juridica. He was also a good antiquary, and describes very pleasantly the custom of the offering up a white bull at St. Edmund's shrine at Bury, and gives a print of the abbey seal: Several verses by his friends in various parts of the book. V. my vol. 45, p. 48. "Bp. Tanner in his Bibliotheca mentions one of this name, a poet also, long before this time: but gives no account of him more than from Pitts, who mentions him also." 101. Henry Justice, Esq. Trin. College. "He admitted himself Fellow Commoner under Professor Taylor, a very modest meek man, in order solely to steal what books and prints he could out of Trin. Coll, Library, the University, and every other College Library he could get access to : but being suspected to have pillaged the Library of the Temple, they began to suspect his dealings of that sort at Cambridge: upon which Mr. Taylor of St. John's College, Under Librarian of the public Library, afterwards Chancellor of Lincoln, Mr. afterwards Dr. John Wilson, Mr. Alen, Mr. Hutchinson, Librarian of Trin. Coll. and Professor Taylor, all of that College, with others, came up to town, and by a search-warrant from Mr. Baron Thompson, they had admission to his chamber in the Temple, and found a great number of their best books, some curious ones cut out of other books, which had been bound together. He was tried in May, 1736, before Lord Hardwick, Mr. Justice Comyns, and Mr. Justice Denton, and ordered for transportation. He pleaded he was deaf and could not hear; and laid great stress on his being Scholar and Member of Trin, Coll. and of the University, and on that pretence had a right to borrow books, and take them to his chamber, and desired much to be burnt in the hand, and not sent abroad, by which he should be deprived of making restitution, or of settling his affairs with great numbers of people, who had trusted him with his management of them, as also he had a young family to take care of: that owing rent to his landlord, he had been obliged to send these books into the country and Holland, to make money, and hoped for mercy, as he had been already in confinement half a year, at the hands of his judges, with whom he had the honour to be acquainted: that if he was suffered to stay in England, no one should see his face any more. Finding his transportation determined on, he begged that he might be allowed to transport himself, or for a gentleman of York to contract for him; but this was not allowed, and he went with the common transports to America: but returned into Europe, and lived in some of the Flemish towns, where, I think, he died. I remember to have seen him in Trin. College: he was a short squat fat man, and pitted with the small pox. See his whole trial in the Sessions Papers, N° iv. part ii. Lond. 4to. 1736, p. 110. from whence I chiefly extracted this.” 102. Soame Jenyns, one of the Lords of Trade, St. John's College. "This gentleman is son to Sir Roger Jenyns, Knt. of Botisham in Cambridgeshire; who being an artful, cunning, and intriguing man, raised from a small beginning in fortune, for he was of a good family, of Hayes, a very considerable estate by his management in the fen corporation matters. He married Eliz. a daughter of Sir Peter Soame of Haydon in Essex, Bart. by whom he had this only child, Soame Jenyns, Esq. But by a former wife, who is buried in the south transept of Ely Cathedral, in which city he formerly lived, and built a neat house fronting the Bishop's palace gallery, before he purchased Botisham, he had a daughter, married to one Mr. Delamore, of Long Sutton in Lincolnshire, A whom I have often seen at Botisham, and indeed at my chambers in King's College: which daughter was taken small notice of by her father and mother-in-law. "Mr. Soame Jenyns was educated in St. John's College, under Mr. White, and was married very young by his father to a young lady of between 20 and 30,000l. to whom he was left guardian, and without much consulting the inclinations of the young couple, who were first cousins in blood, she being natural daughter to Colonel Soame, of Dereham Grange in Norfolk: so that it is generally supposed there never was any great affection between them. However they lived tolerably well together, as to any outward appearance in the eye of the world, so long as old Sir Roger lived, who was supposed to have kept them together; for they always lived in the same family. But on the death of Sir Roger, Mrs. Jenyns, under pretence of a journey to Bath for her health, made an elopement with one Mr. Levyns, whom I remember at Eton School, and was a Leicestershire gentleman, with whom it was supposed she had lived long familiarly; even while that gentleman used to be at Mr. Jenyns' house at Botisham, on the footing of a friend and acquaintance: and what made it more extraordinary, Mrs. Jenyns was neither young nor handsome, a very bad complexion, lean scraggy arms, and no ways inviting; since which elopement, about the year 1742, they never cohabited together; a separate maintenance being allowed to the lady, who lived altogether in or about London. By this lady he has no issue; who dying about the beginning of 1754, or the latter end of the preceding year, Mr. Jenyns remarried, in Somerset House Chapel, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 1754, his first cousin, Mrs. Eliz. Gray, who had lived in the house with him long before his first wife's elopement, and ever after; and has been said to have occasioned early differences between them. She was daughter to a Mr. Gray, a merchant in London, who failed in his business; after whose death, she and her mother for some time lived at Hackney; and after Mr. Jenyns's first wife's elopement, with him in London and Botisham, where the old lady died and was buried. Mr. Jenyns marrying this lady may be looked upon as a great piece of generosity and honour, as she is a person of no great beauty now, |