tho' the most distinct and legible hand I have met with. He told him he meant to visit him on Abp. Parker's Anniversary, Aug. 6. The Master told him, that he should be then in Dorsetshire. Indeed I have met with few people of his assurance.

“I was told, July 23, 1778, that he was Rector of Snoring in Norfolk. To publish himself in the Cambridge Chronicle Rector of Snoring, and Vicar of Ugly, would have excited a laugh in the University: so when he put himself into the papers, D.D. and F. A. S. he suppressed the Rectory. That he put the other in, Dr. Colman told me from pretty good proof.

"In the London Chronicle of Nov. 22, 1781, was this advertisement:

By

The Complete Family Bible, &c. With Notes, &c. Paul Wright, D. D. F. A. S. Vicar of Oakley, and Rector of Shoreham in Essex, and late of Pembroke Hall.”

24. Ferdinand Warner, Jesus College.

"Dr. Warner's Ecclesiastical History of England deserves the highest applause, on account of that noble spirit of liberty, candour, and moderation, that seems to have guided the pen of the judicious Author. It were at the same time to be wished, that this elegant Historian had less avoided citing authorities, and been a little more lavish of that erudition, which he is known to possess: for then, after having surpassed Collier in all other respects, he would have equalled him in that depth and learning, which are the only meritorious circumstances of his partial and disagreeable History. Mosheim's Eccles. Hist. ed. 1758, 8vo. ii. p. 27, note (2).”

25. Wm. Warren, LL. D. Trinity Hall.

"A most worthy and good man, and my friend. He died in Kent of a cancer in his mouth, which he had laboured under for about two years in Cambridge and returning to die in his native

county, was not long there before it happened to him. Vide Dr. Middleton's Germana quædam Antiquitatis eruditæ Monumenta, p. 65.”

26. Francis Willoughby, Trinity Coll. Camb.

"Francisci Willughbeii de Middleton in Agro Warwicensi Armigeri; Ornithologia Libri Tres, &c. 1676. fol.

"Mr. Willoughby, who did assist in this book, (viz. Mr. Ray's Catalogue) and whose experiments are at large set down, p. 136, &c. is a virtuous gentleman, and one excellently accom plished in learning. He is one of those to whom Mr. Barrow did dedicate his Euclid. He is A. M. also, having continued a longer time in the University than usually Fellow Commoners do. But he is lately gone from the University. His father is a Knight in Warwickshire, and would have him into the country to settle there, he being his only son. Mr. Barrow saith, that he never knew a gentleman of such an ardour after real knowledge and learning; and of such capacities and fitness for any kind of learning. See Dr. J. Worthington's Letter, dated Mar. 9, 1659.

"Mr. Willoughby was Mr. James Duport's pupil at Trinity Coll. to whom and three others, he, Mr. Duport, dedicates his Gnomologia, 1660." T. B.

27. Thomas Woolston, Fellow of Sidney College.

V. Dunciad, b. iii. 1. 208. and Mrs. C. Cockburne's Works, ii. 272. See also Voltaire's character of him, &c.

"B. D. Born at Northampton, 1669, son of a tradesman there. Deprived of his Fellowship of Sidney College, 1721. Lived the last four or five years of his life mostly in confinement in the King's Bench prison; and the three last years were totally passed there, where he died, Jan. 23, 1733, Saturday, after a four days' illness; viz. a cold, which was then epidemical. Buried in St. George's churchyard, Southwark, Jan. 30.

For his Six Discourses on the Miracles of Christ, and two Defences of them, 1727-30, he was again under prosecution, and sentenced to a year's imprisonment, and 1007. fine. He purchased the liberty of the Rules of the King's Bench. Part of his sentence was, to give security not to offend again in any future writings; which he refused to give, being resolved to continue the freedom he had begun with.”

28. Tho. Watson, Bishop of Lincoln, Master of St. John's College.

"See Dod's Church History, i. 485, and Strype's Cranmer, p. 269, 325.

"See two curious passages concerning him in Roger Ascham's Scholemaster, in Ascham's English Works, published in 4to. Lond. about 1766, by one James Bennet, Schoolmaster at Hoddesdon, Herts. He was admitted Master, Sept. 28, 1553.

"His Antigona, a tragedy out of Sophocles, was much admired."

28. Rich. Walter, A. M. Fellow of Sidney College.

"A voyage round the world, &c. from 1740 to 1744, by George Anson, Esq. commander in chief, &c. By Richard Walter, A. M. &c. 3d edit. Lond. 1748. 8vo.

"The author of this book I was acquainted with at Cambridge, where he was Fellow of Sidney College, and was always esteemed a very worthy and sober man. His father was a silkmercer in London. He was rather a puny, weakly, and sickly man; pale, and of a low stature; and suffered great hardships on board, being often forced to do the most laborious duty, for want of sufficient hands to work the ship, when it was at times so deplorably overrun with the scurvy. So he came back to England in another ship, by the Cape of Good Hope, on the Centurion's first getting to China, &c. After he got home, he married, and set

tled at Portsmouth, where I think he had one of the Churches; and coming sometime afterwards to Cambridge, I met him several times at Dr. Middleton's. It was then generally said that a gen tleman of the squadron had the chief hand in drawing up this account; which Mr. Walter had the publication of, as well as the profit attending a large subscription," &c.

Cole adds in another place, that "Mr. Robins is said to have been the writer of Lord Anson's voyage," and cites a passage, complaining that neither in Walter's nor in Hawksworth's compilations are there passages as if the authors thought that the crews were Christians, and believed in a Providence.""

29. Sir Peter Wyche, Trinity Hall.

"A short Relation of the River Nile, &c. 1673. Ded. by Sir P. W. to Henry Lord Arlington, to whom he calls himself kins

man.

"He was Embassador to the Porte. See Clar. Hist. iii. 205. Wood's Ath. ii. 954. f. ii. 152.

30. John Wallis.

"Originally of Emanuel College, Cambridge.
"He was the celebrated Savilian Professor at Oxford."

31. John Weever, Queen's College:

"Author of the Funeral Monuments, has a copy of English verses at the end of Butt's Dyet Dinner, 1599, with an answer also to them by himself.

"Joannes Weever, admissus Sizator Coll. Regin. (Tutore Magro Covell) Apr. 30, 1594."

32. Philip Stubbes.*

"The Anatomie of Abuses: containing a Discoverie, or briefe Summarie of such notable Vices and Imperfections, as now reigne in many Countries of the World; but especially in a famous Island called Ailgna; together with most fearefull examples of God's Judgements, executed upon the Wicked for the same, as well in Ailgna of late as in other places elsewhere. Very Godlie to be reade of all true Christians, but most needeful to be regarded in Englande. Made Dialoguewise by Philip Stubbes. Seene and allowed according to order. Printed at London by Ric. Jones, 16 Aug. 1583, 8vo." Dedicated to Philip, Earl of Arundel, 125 double pages.

At the back of the last page is a wooden cut of a man in a round bonnet, beard, gown with strait sleeves, stooping, and a pair of gloves in his left hand. Mr. Lort of Trinity College gave 7s. 6d. in May, 1772, for this scarce book at an auction of Mr. Joseph Hart's books. B. L..

"Long, tedious, and pedantic dedication. At p. 21 a most curious description of every particular kind of dress used in Q. Elizabeth's time, both of men and women at large. He is a most bigotted Puritan, and tells such ridiculous tales of judgements, as could be invented no where but in a most superstitious and credulous breast. The present outcry of dearness of provisions on account of Inclosures was the same then as now. At p. 71 he says: " that which might have been bought within these 20 or 24 yeres for 20s. is now worth 20 nobles or 201.. That which was then worth 201. is now worth 1001. or more." At p. 83, he says, that he penned a book about 1581 giving an account of a judgment which befell a great swearer in Lincolnshire. No less an enemy to Sabbath breakers, as he calls them, and stage plays, than his successor Wm. Prynne: as also to May games, and other rural pastimes, of which there are many curious facts, though, no doubt, aggravated and heightened, particularly with church-ales, wakes, and dancing, to which he is a bitter enemy, in short, a sour, rigid, puritan."-V. Ath. Ox. I. 282.

* See Restituta, p. 520.