"the previous conversation which I had frequently had with Dr. "Newcome about this affair, I did not believe that Dr. Newcome "would vote for Dr. Baker."'

1. Query, Whether Mr. Williams was guilty of any collusions in 5 his answers and conduct in this affair?

2. Query, Whether Mr. Williams did not always decline appearing as an advocate, and only undertook to act as a messenger between Dr. Baker and Dr. Newcome?

3. Query, Whether, if Mr. Williams had been certain, which he IO was not, that Dr. Newcome would vote against Dr. Baker, was he obliged in honour to discover it to Dr. Baker?

4. Since Dr. Newcome had come to no final resolution, and Mr. Williams had only probable arguments to incline him to believe that Dr. Newcome would vote against Dr. Baker, was he obliged by any 15 rules of honour to declare his own private opinion to Dr. Baker? and, on the other hand, was not he obliged, by all the rules of friendship, to keep secret all the conversation which had passed between him and Dr. Newcome under the confidence of friendship?

The exact time when Dr. Lambert took his degrees I do not 20 know in 1722 he was Lady Margaret's preacher and the same year that he was elected master of the college, viz. 1727, he was elected vice-chancellor of the university. This office he served again in 1729; but not without the utmost struggle between the two parties that then divided the body. The two candidates were Dr. 25 Mawson master of Benet college, and our Dr. Lambert, who carried it by one vote only, 84 for Dr. Lambert, and 83 for Dr. Mawson': and had the votes been equal, as was like to be the case, the regius professor of divinity, Dr. Bentley, in that case, was to have had the determining vote. Indeed people's spirits were then warmly agitated 30 by party distinctions: and tho' the Tory interest carried it this time by a single vote, it was a strong presumption that the cause was declining; and that the Whigs, with the countenance of the court, would soon have the majority. This shewed itself at their next election in 1730, when Dr. Mawson was chosen and the party, to shew 35 their triumph, elected him again the following year. It seems that times have altered the property of things: for at this time, 40 years after, that office is looked upon so burthensome and troublesome, that no one takes it upon him but thro' necessity and by rotation. When party ran high, it was the harvest for preferment hunters. Dr. 40 Mawson stood upon the Whig interest, and was rewarded with a bishoprick: Dr. Lambert was supported by the Tories, and got nothing. I have a very particular account and list of this contested election, with the names of each voter as he voted2. One thing however the Tories gained their point in: for a public commencement

1 [Monk's Life of Bentley, II. 293; Lamb's C. C. C. C. 230].

was voted to grace the second year of Dr. Lambert's vice-chancellorship.

In the first year also of Dr. Lambert's vice-chancellorship he met with some trouble and vexation from a disputed election of a person to be one of the four vintners of the university, at the Mitre 5 tavern in Trumpington strete, now converted into a coffee house and stands on King's college rents, towards the S.E. angle of their designed quadrangle. The Tory part of the university supported Thomas Whitstones of Wittlesey Esq. and a member of the body : the other party set up John Bacon of Cambridge: the election 10 came on upon the 12 June, 1728, when it was pretended that Mr. Bacon was chosen by a majority of legal and statutable votes: but this not appearing so to the gentlemen who supported Mr. Whitstones, the vice-chancellor ordered him to be declared duly elected. Upon this determination, the party injured made a complaint against 15 the vice-chancellor to the king, who laying it before the privy council, they were pleased to reverse the vice-chancellor's decree, and ordered him to declare Mr. Bacon duly elected into that office, and to cause the university seal to be affixed to his appointment. The affair thus related I take from a pamphlet supposed to have 20 been written by that pragmatical coxcomb, Dr. Chapman, then master of Magdalene college, called An Inquiry into the Right of Appeal from the Chancellor &c. in matters of Discipline, &c.1 and from a detail in my Vol. 51, p. 92, 93, &c.2

After having presided over this house near 8 years, he gave way 25 to fate on 24 Jan. 1734-5, and was buried in the college chapel.

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I remember to have seen him when I was first admitted of the university: his appearance was not advantageous, being small and not at all bettered by a squint in one of his eyes: but what was more to the purpose, he was generally esteemed a very worthy man. have seen a small and ordinary picture of him in his scarlet gown, which is extremely like him, at Mr. alderman Norfolk's in Jesus Lane. I think Dr. Lambert, LL.D. fellow of Peter House, and who died at Bath not many years after him of a jaundice, and whom I often called upon there, was his brother: I know he was a relation. 35 Whether he had any other preferments I cannot say. His will is entered in one of Mr. Baker's MS. volumes3, where more particulars possibly may be met with concerning him.

In the Cambridge Chronicle of Apr. 2, 1763, at which time it was expected that his majesty king George III. meant to pay a visit to the 40 university, was the following paragraph. The account probably came from Dr. Walker, then vice-master of Trinity college, who was present Ao. 1705 when queen Anne was here, and 1717, when k.

Lond. 8vo. 1751, p. 47, 48, 49.

2 [See Cooper's Annals, IV. 202, 203, from Stat. Acad. 314].
3 Vol. 36. No. 22. p. 263.

George I. came hither. The manner of k. George II.'s reception was thus.

"Apr. 23, 1728, his majesty k. George II. set out from St. James's "about 9 in the morning, being attended by a numerous retinue of 5 "noblemen and persons of distinction, and among the rest Sir "Robert Walpole the prime minister, and arrived at Newmarket "the same evening. The next day the university in a body, with "Dr. Lambert the vice-chancellor at their head, attended the "king at Newmarket, and congratulated his majesty on his arrival 10 "there, and desired he would honour them with his royal presence "at Cambridge: whereupon his majesty appointed the next day to “dine with the university, and came here accordingly the next morn"ing, attended by the dukes of Dorset, Grafton, Richmond, Ancaster, "Newcastle, and Manchester, the earls of Essex, Cardigan and Scar15 "borough, Sir Robert Walpole, and several other persons of distinc"tion. His majesty was met at some distance from the town by the "corporation in their formalities on horseback: and at the Re'gent Walk was received by the chancellor the duke of Somerset, "and the whole body of the university, and conducted into the 20 "senate house; from whence his majesty went to King's college "chapel, and then to Trinity college. He dined in the hall in a 'very magnificent manner: and several of the principal ladies of “ 'Cambridge had the honour of being introduced to his majesty, who "returned to Newmarket the same evening, and from thence on the 25" 27th to St. James's."

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His arms, as on the atchievement hanging in the organ loft, and on a table of masters in the lodge, are, gules, a cheveron inter 3 lambs passant argent, a chief checquy or and azure. 1779.

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ADDITIONS TO COLE'S LIFE OF ROB. LAMBERT.

Most of Cole's account is printed in Nichols, Lit. Anecd. 1. 550-552. Rob. Lambert, son of the Rev. Jos. Lambert of Beverley, where he was educated under his father, was admitted pensioner 21 Apr. 1693, aet. 16, under Pet. Nourse. His father Jos. Lambert, was also of St. John's, B.A. 167, M.A. 1674, master of Beverley 1674-1716 (Poulson's Beverlac, 467, 689). He had been admitted pensioner 22 Jan. 166, aet. past 16, under 35 Tho. Watson, afterwards bishop; educated at Hull school under Mr Catlyn, son of Rob. Lambert lanarii,' of Kingston on Hull. He died 1716 (Gent's Ripon, 95).

Rob. L. was admitted Platt scholar 6 Nov. 1693, on the same day that Pet. Needham was admitted to a Billingsley, and Ambrose Phillips to a 40 foundation scholarship. On 6 Nov. 1693, 5 Nov. 1694, 4 Nov. 1695, 2 Nov. 1696, he was elected Hare exhibitioner for the president [Tho. Thurlin]. Elected to a Clarke exhibition 26 May 1693, into which a successor was elected 28 Mar. 1699 (Register II. 669-675). Lector matutinus 7 Jul. 1699, sublector sive moderator in aula 5 Jul. 1700, examinator in mathe

maticis 4 Jul. 1701, lector mathematicus in geometria 10 Jul. 1702, lector principalis and lector Graecus in aula 8 Jul. 1715; lector Graecus in sacello 4 Jul. 1718; Dr. Thomson's chaplain 4 Jul. 1718, vacating the chaplaincy 'pro Mr. Sawkins,' at the same time; on 8 Jul. 1720 he vacated the place of lector Graecus in sacello; lector Hebraeus in sacello 7 Febr. 172f; jun. 5 dean 4 Mar. 1703, 10 Mar. 170§, 14 Mar. 1798, 6 Mar. 1711, 13 Mar. 1711⁄2, 10 Mar. 1713, 11 Mar. 171; sen. dean 22 Mar. 1714, 14 Febr. 1719, 12 Febr. 171, 4 Febr. 171, 27 Jan. 1718, 9 Febr. 178; sen. bursar 7 Febr. 172, 13 Febr. 172, 7 Mar. 172, 4 Febr. 172, 18 Febr. 172, 3 Mar. 1725, 14 Mar. 1729. Ap. 26. 1727. Rolandus Simpson surrogatus 10

in locum Roberti Lambert thesaurarii senioris.'

B.A. 1699, M.A. 1700, B.D. 1707, D.D. 1718.

He was curate of Fen Ditton in 1707 (MS. Cole XIX. 102 a).

He occurs as subscriber to Spencer De legibus Hebr. 1727, and to Peck's Desid. Cur. 1732.

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'Found dead in his bed, being in health when he went into it' (25 Jan. 173, Gent. Mag. VIII. 51).

The following summary of his will is from the Catalogue of MSS. in Cambr. Univ. Libr. v. p. 439.

'Dr. Lambert, late Master of St Joh. College, his Will.' pp. 263–266. 20

'Dated 25 July 1734, proved at Cambridge 21 Febr. 173. His real estate in Spalding Moor, Beverley and elsewhere in Yorkshire to his niece Martha Perrott, or if she die before she is 21 years of age or marries, to his kinsman Dr. Nic. Lambert fell. Pet.; £350 to Martha Perrott; to the University £100; to St. John's College £300, with such of his books as are 25 wanting there; £100 to clergy widows and orphans; £10 to each of the parishes of All Sts, St. Sepulchre's and St. Clement's Cambridge; to Leon. Chappelow his MSS., such as may be of use to the coll. for the sen, bursar. Residuary legatee Nic. Lambert exor. with Dr. John Bowtell of Patrixbourne Kent and Leon. Chappelow; 20 vols. of English sermons in 4to. to 30 the vicar of Royston for the time being.'

In Cambridge university library MS. Nn. II. 46 is by Lambert.

'A quarto, on paper, containing 188 leaves, 24 of which are blank, written in Latin, in the early part of the XVIIIth century.

'Nineteen Lectures upon some of the Articles of the Church of England. 35 By Robert Lambert, D.D., Master of St. John's College, Cambridge.

"There are dates in the margin extending from 1707 to 1719, not in chronological order, which probably indicate the periods when each Lecture was given in the College. The whole is fairly written as if for the press. On the fly-leaf at the end is Lambert's name, and a note that 3 MS. books 40 are for his nephew, Leonard Chappelow.'

On a silver flagon in All Saints' church Cambridge: 'Given to the Altar of All-Hallows Church by Robt. Lambert, D.D. master of St. John's College. 1735' (MS. Cole III. p. 74 a).

'There is no monument or inscription to Dr. Lambert; but on a half. 45 length portrait in the master's lodge is written, Dr. Lambert, 1727' (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. VIII. 377).

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He was buried in the college chapel, where a simple inscription on a flag-stone is the only memorial of him. His funeral escutcheon still remains in the antechapel. The coat of arms on the escutcheon differs from the above, in having upon the chevron a trefoil slipped' (CHARLES YATE).

See Parkin's Hist. Norf. IX. 97.

College order 11 Jan. 173. Agreed that a letter of attorney be granted to Mr. Barnard sen. bursar, to receive Dr. Lambert's legacy, and to give Dr. Bowtel a discharge.'