33. Sir George Saville, Bart. Queen's College, 1780.

"A most ingenious man, but a flaming Patriot, which means more with us, than the original word conveys: I knew him, and often met him at Mat. Robinson's* of Trinity Hall, with whom he used to play at chess. There is a picture of him in his Doctor of Law's robes in the audit room of Queen's College; and the last time I dined at Mr. Greaves's at Fulburn, on account of his enthusiasm for patriotism, I observed that he had a copy of it, together with many other patriots, Oliver Cromwell, Hamden, Hollis, Pym, Algernon Sydney, Lord Russell, &c."

34. John Bridges, Fellow of Pembroke Hall, afterwards Bishop of Oxford.

Afterwards Bishop of Oxford.

"Jo'es Bridges Londinensis. Art. Bac. admissus Socius Aulæ Pembr. An. 1556. M. A. 1560.

"See Ath. Ox. i. 740. Sir John Harrington's Brief View of the State of the Church of England, p. 150, &c." See also Censura Literaria.

35. Dr. Samuel Salter, Master of the Charter House.

"He died May 2, 1778.

"See his Life in Masters's History of Benet College.

well made,

"Dr. Salter was one of the tallest men I have seen; brown complexion; and had not his assurance and talkativeness been so abundant, his parts and ingenuity would have recommended him to the highest preferment."

Vide more particulars of a personal nature, in Cole's MSS.

36. George Steevens, Fellow Commoner of King's College. "I met him at dinner with Dr. Farmer, &c. at Dr. Lort's chambers in Trinity College, Aug. 9, 1780. He is much of a Afterwards 2d Lord Rokeby.

gentleman, well-bred, civil, and obliging. Editor of Shakespeare. He told me that he was admitted in King's College, 1754, the year after I quitted it. He is an Essex gentleman in the Militia; wellmade, black, and tall.

"See A Letter to George Hardinge, Esq. on the subject of a passage in Mr. Steevens's Preface to his Impression of Shakespeare, Lond. 4to. 1777. Dedicated to Lord Dacre, p. 48. Very severe on Mr. Steevens, whom he accuses of plagiarism from Mr. Capell, whom he abuses. It is said to have been written by the Rev. Mr. Collins of Hertfordshire. It was sent by the anonymous author as a present to Dr. Turner, whom he often compliments; yet who has wrote in the first blank leaf this quotation from Dr. Johnson : "A great gun without powder or ball."

37. Christopher Smart, Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Aug. 24, 1750.

"Educated under Mr. Dongworth at Durham.

"On

"The Cambridge Chronicle May 25, 1771, says, Tuesday last died in London Mr. Chr. Smart, M.A. a gentleman eminently distinguished in the literary world for his poetical abilities. His five Prize Poems on the attributes of the Supreme Being, which he wrote during his residence in the university, sufficiently testify his powers as a writer.

"He was a little smart black-eyed man.

"He made the following Epigram upon squinting John Wilkes :

His eyes are surely of the amorous kind,

For to each other they are still inclin'd.'

"The Pretty Bar-keeper was written by him, and printed under the name of Lun." Gent. Mag. 1782, p. 126.

38. Thomas Salmon.

"He was son to Mr. Salmon, Rector of Mepsal in Bedfordshire, who brought him up to no learned profession: yet he had no small turn for writing: witness his numerous productions from

the press, most of which were produced while he lived in Cambridge, where at last he kept a small coffee-house; but having not sufficient custom, he removed to London. He had formerly been much on the sea, and had resided in both Indies for some time, as he often told me." V. Hist. of Benet Coll. P. 366.

39. Nathaniel Salmon of Benet College.

"Brother to the last, who told me the following particulars relating to him: that he was educated in Benet College, where his tutors were Dean Moss and Archdeacon Lunn; that he was LLB. and afterwards taking orders, was for some time Curate at Westmill in Hertfordshire, and that after having taken the abjuration oath to K. William, he refused to do the same to his successor Q. Anne: on which account being disabled to officiate in his profession he applied himself to the study of physic, which he practised at Bishop Stortford. He was offered by a friend a living in Suffolk of the value of 1401. per annum if he would have taken the necessary qualifications; but this he refused to do. He afterwards removed to London, where he died in April, 1743, and was buried in St. Dunstan's church, leaving behind him three daughters." See Gough's Brit. Topogr. iii. 2, &c.

40. Dr. John Smith.

"Editor of Venerable Bede. Vide Hearne's Pref. to Tho. Caii Vindicia, p. xxiv.

"See a long and good account of this Dr. John Smith, Prebendary of Durham, who died at Cambridge July 30, 1715, aged 56, and is buried in St. John's College Chapel; drawn up by Mr. Joseph Smith, of Oxford, who sent many good materials to Edmund Carter, when he was printing his History of the University of Cambridge, p. 258.

"See a further account of the family at p. 215; viz.

"John Smith, M. D. of Durham, 1749.

"George Smith, of the Inner Temple, and of Burnhall near Durham, Esq. 1748.

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George Smith, B.D. of St. John's College, Vicar of Hig ham, ent.

41. Sir Robert Smyth, Bart. of Trinity College.

"My most worthy, lively, and ingenious friend, was of Trinity College; married to Lady Louisa Hervey, daughter to the Earl of Bristol; built and added greatly to the late Sir John Jacob's house at Wratting; now sold to Mr. Shafto. Sir R. S. bought it, to be near the late Lord Montfort at Horseth; but now lives at Bury, 1778, selling it on his lady's death, and on that of the late Lord Montfort. I have elsewhere mentioned this worthy Baronet's gentile taste and elegant library; and his turn for Antiquities: indeed it was he, that gave me the first relish for them; going often out with him to churches, and other places, in quest of them, especially in the neighbourhood of Wratting, and Horseth. He has a nephew of both his names, now in Italy with his lady; 1778; and was also of Trinity College: his seat is near Colchester. Vide Drake's Eboracum, Pref."

42. Daniel Wray, Queen's Coll.

"Deputy and first Clerk to the Hon. Philip Yorke, one of the four Tellers of the Exchequer. A man of good parts and learning, of a very ample private fortune, which enabled him to make the tour of Europe to his no small advantage.

"He communicated the materials for the Life of Dr. Birch to the independent Editors of the new edition of Biographia Britannica in 1780, vol. 2. who however has led them into a mistake relating to my cousin german Dr. Cock at p. 317, whose father, the late Mr. Joseph Cock, merchant in Cambridge, was the patron of the rectory of Debden, and presented his son, then of St. John's College, to it, Mr. Chiswell was indeed then lord of the manor, but had nothing to do with the Rectory, till Dr. Cock, within these five or six years, sold it to that gentleman for 40007. having taken a disgust to the place from having been robbed and gagged, and confined in his cellar by a gang of smugglers some twenty years ago, when he procured an exchange with Dr. Birch, Rector of Horkesley in Essex, with the consent of Lord Hardwicke, the

patron and upon Dr. Birch's unfortunate death, the living of Debden again reverted to its true patron, Dr. John Cock, who is still, Feb. 23, 1780, rector both of it and Great Horkesley, at which last he resides, and has laid out on the buildings it is supposed 3000l.

"I suppose Mr. Wray is descended from a Nonconformist family, as I meet with one of both his names in Calamý's Lives, a minister among them. However that be, he is an ingenious, and an amiable man. Vide my vol. p. 74.

43. John Asgill.

"Vide Bp. Burnet's Hist. of his own Time, vol. 2. p. 248. "Mr. Asgill's Defence, upon his Expulsion from the House of Commons of Great Britain in 1707, with an Introduction and a Postscript, L. 80. 1712. price 1s. pages 87. penes me. Qu. If of either univ.?

Vide Biographia Britannica.

"John Asgyll, an ingenious writer and eminent lawyer, died Nov. 10, 1738, aged upwards of fourscore. In 1698, he wrote a treatise, entituled, An Argument, proving, that according to the Covenant of Eternal Life, revealed in the Scriptures, Man may be translated from hence into that Eternal Life, without passing through Death.' This publication was the alledged cause of his, being expelled the House of Commons in 1707, though it is more probable that the desperate state of his affairs was the real motive. After his expulsion he became more embarrassed in his circumstances, and spent the last thirty years in prison. During this time he published a multitude of small Tracts, most of which were well received. Note in the 2d vol. of Mr. Nichols's Supplement to. Swift's Works, in 3 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1779.

Vide Memoirs of Thomas Hollis, Esq. p. 518. London. 4to. 1780."