he must be, for his Contribucion towardes it.' Again, 16 May 1600: 'I could not improve your lettre to the best advantage, bycause of that which you write concerning your building: herafter write not of both matters in one paper... Let not any of your company (whomsoever you trust best) knowe of any hope that your case may alter to the 5 better for it is better that they languish a tyme, then that by their receyving an overspeedy comfort, the good which is intended to your howse should be hindred. Concerning your building, order is taken to send into the Cowntrye for mony for it; yf you take order with Mr Cradock for exchawnge: lett me knowe where to fynde him' (Com- 10 mun. to Cambr. Ant. Soc. II. 142-144). In this last letter, and in one dated 6 June 1600 (ibid. 1. 345) there is mention of differences 'betwene you and your overthwart neighbours,' i.e. Trinity college. Some months later (Febr. 1609) the feud came to an open outbreak at the performance of a comedy at Trinity: a Trinity scholar advised his 15 Johnian friend to keep away, giving this reason, that their skulls, by the appointment of the fellows, had gathered and layd up in the tower as many stones as would fill a large studye. The goodwife Freshbien deposed, that upon the Wednesday night four schollers. . of Trinity college, coming into her shopp for tobacco,.. spoke to her of the provi- 20 sion of stones layd up; and also of some bucketts to be provided to fetch water from her conduyt, to poure downne upon St. John's mene.' Mr Massey M.A. of St John's was felled to the ground by a club (Cooper's Ann. II. 601). From the original, under seal, in the college treasury:-' Honoratis- 25 sime Domine, quod latifundiorum nostrorum ius in agro Cantabrigiensi a pijs fundatoribus nobis relictum tam honorifice nuper in Aula Regia propugnaveris perpetuae in nos nostrosque inclinationis [tuae] illustre argumentum fuit; cuius si non clarum aliquod posteris nostris monumentum [trada]mus, ineptissimi; si nulla apud Amplitudinem tuam 30 mentione grata praedicemus, omnium hominum ingratissimi viveremus. Surgentia nunc auspicatissima areae nostrae alterius moenia quid tandem nobis posterisque nostris profutura erunt, si iuris nostri moenia omnium munitissima corruant? Illa vetustatis, aeris, ignis damnum aliquod passa refici denuo amplis impensis potuit, nec unquam natura 35 magnifico defuit, materieve necessaria architectum destituit. [Haec] autem, si ea semel dikns σrépnois, quam Chrysippus iniustitiam definivit, in rebus minimis vel levissimo praescriptionis damno laeserit, non nisi extra ordinem, mutato rerum omnium statu resarciri possunt, et ex vna tantum parte labantia non levi ruinae vniversalis praeiudicio 40 aedificium totum concutiunt. Quod cum in fundis, quos proprie et seorsum privatis hominibus elocamus, si iure nostro excidamus, accidere soleat; tum multo magis id nobis metuendum est, vbi commune et municipale totius vrbis oppidive ius aut plurimum periclitatur aut plane amittitur. Id enim sine sacrilegio quodam non admitti a nobis 45 posse Numa Pompilius et qui de finibus regendis leges sanxerunt, ad vnum omnes contendunt. A quo sacrilegij genere pium tuum de nobis studium (Honoratissime Domine) nos vindicare et tui nominis familiaeque honoratissimae memoriam splendidissimam apud nos posterosque nostros relinquere perget. E Collegio Diui Joannis Cantabrigiae 15° die Aprilis 1600. Honori tuo addictissimi 5 10 To the Right Honorable oure singular good Lorde The Earle of Shrewsberye 15 Knight of the most noble [Order] of the Garter etc.' 20 25 30 35 40 45 Ric. Claitonus. Daniel Monsey. Arthurus Johnson. Joannes Allenson. Guilielmus Pratt. This letter is rotten and torn. It was probably restored to the college by Booth. P. 1931. 1. lady Arabella. See MS. Baker VI. 338, 339, 348-350-B 298— 304. P. 1931. 3. lady Shrewsbury imprisoned. Jo. More writes to Ra. Winwood, Lond. 18 June 1611 (Winwood's Memorials III. 281): 'On Saturday last the Countesse of Shrewsbury was lodged in the Tower, where she is like long to rest, as well as the Lady Arabella. The last named Lady answered the Lords at her Examination with good Judgment and Discretion: But the other is said to be utterly without Reason, crying out that all is but tricks and giggs; that she will answere nothing in private, and yf she have offended the Lawe, she will answere it in publicke. She is said to have amassed a great somme of Money to some ill use, £20,000 are known to be in her Cash: and that she had made provision for more Bills of Exchange to her Neice's use, then she had knowledge of. And thoughe the Lady Arabella hath not as yet been fownd inclinable to Popery, yet her Aunt made account belike that being beyond the Seas in the Hands of Jesuites and Priests, either the Stroke of their Arguments or the Pinch of Poverty might force her to the other Syde'. Cf. ibid. 429. The fullest account may be seen in the Calendar of State Papers, 1611-1618, index 8. v. Talbot, Mary. On 9 Oct. 1611 the earl of Shrewsbury writes to ld. Salisbury, requesting 'shutters for the windows, boards before the doors, and repair of a hole in the roof of the rooms where his wife is lodged' (p. 80). On 27 Mar. 1616 Chamberlain speaks of her as liberated by Ra. Winwood's means (p. 358). Her troubles did not cease: on 9 May 1617 Geo. Gerrard writes: "The widowed countess of Shrewsbury is almost out of her mind, with a dread of being poisoned; her two court sons, the lord chamberlain and the earl of Arundel, beg the protection of her estate, and will enjoy the fruits of it, if she do not mind.' Cf. p. 548. One is glad to find that she had the best rooms in the Tower, 12 Sept. 1618 (p. 569). See Kennett's Memoirs of the Family of Cavendish 4 seq.; Thoroton's Notts 455; Lilly's Life 27. Howell's Sta. Trials. II. 770-775; Nichols' Progresses of James, II. 642. Wotton's Remains 412 (the 2nd). Tho. Lorkin to Sir Tho. Puckering, Greenwich 30 June 1618 (Birch's Court and Times of James I. II. 77): Lady Shrewsbury 'was com- 5 mitted to the Tower some months since, for refusing to answer to some interrogatories propounded unto her, upon a fame that was divulged abroad, how the Lady Arabella should have left a son to inherit her right; which resolution she peremptorily continued in the open face of the court, under pretence forsooth of a vow formerly made, 10 of not answering to any article touching the said Lady Arabella, and was for that her obstinacy censured with a fine of £20,000 and perpetual imprisonment, unless, upon her voluntary submission in that particular, his majesty should graciously please to grant her enlargement.' Jo. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton, Lond. 13 Aug. 1618 15 (ibid. 87): 'This week the Lord Coke, the attorney-general, and solicitor, by order from the king, went to the lady of Shrewsbury to offer her the oath of allegiance, which she, absolutely refusing it, run they say into a præmunire, and so in danger, if the king deal rigorously with her, to lose all she hath.' Cf. ibid. 80 n. 20 P. 194 l. 15. Cooper's P. 194 1. 18. P. 194 1. 20. An order for the observance of 5 Nov. MS. Baker XLII. 27; University burgesses, ibid. 3, 4. charter, ibid. 14-17; cf. MS. Baker XXIX. 383, 384 25 P. 194 1. 23. the livings of popish recusants. Stat. 3 Jac. I. c. 5, s. 13; 30 Cooper ibid. 21, 22. P. 194 1. 25. Gift of Somersham and Terrington, ibid. 18; Patrick Papers (Univ. Libr.) 23 (5) ff. 6 vo. 7. P. 194 1. 31. order against tobacco. Cooper ibid. 27, 28; Heywood and Wright II. 224-226; MS. Baker XLII. 28. During the king's visit 35 Mar. 161 expulsion was the penalty for resorting to a tobacco shop, or taking tobacco in St Mary's church or Trin. coll. hall (Cooper, 68). P. 194 l. 33. that evil custom. Archly said; Baker's one indulgence was a new pipe laid out for him daily. 40 P. 195 1. 23. See p. 199 n. 1; App. B. to 5th Educ. Rep. (1818) p. 405. P. 195 l. 27, 28. complaints at court; a visitation. See pp. 498, 499 5 ΙΟ 15 20 P. 195 n. 5. D. M. David Morton. P. 196 1. 1. his next relations not agreeing about the division. One thing at least was carried away, which belonged to the college (Commun. to Cambr. Ant. Soc. II. 144). Rob. Booth to Dr Gwyn 18 July, 1612: 'I am informed by some of your Colledg, (vppon my enquyrye aftTM a picture of my La: the Cowntesse of Shrewsbury, we her ho. at my humble sute bestowed vppon the Colledg, and desyred yt Dr Clayton would cause it to be hanged vpp in the gallerye there) yt Mrs Ashton hath taken it away, as parte of the goodes of her brothr deceased: These are therfore earnestlye to desyre yo" to vse all good meanes for the recoverye thereof for the Colledg behoof, & yf it shalbe needful, I will at all tymes be readye to testifye vppon my othe, yt it was bestowed vppo the Colledg, & yt Dr Clayton only made sute for it, for yt purpose. I am boulde to signifye thus much vnto yo" out of love and dutye to the Colledg. And so wt hartiest comendacōs I take leve. in Brode-Street in London in hast.' P. 196 l. 13. Williams' life of Vaughan. See p. 255 l. 18; Cooper's Ath. Cant. II. 451. P. 196 1. 21. Barret. Strype's Whitgift bk. IV. c. 14, p. 436, c. 16, p. 458. One of the 'false doctrines' which he taught against Calvin, Peter Martyr, Beza, Zanchius, was 'Quod ad eos attinet, qui non servantur, peccatum esse veram, propriam causam reprobationis.' Against this Hen. Alvey and 17 others of St John's protested (ib. c. 14, PP. 436, 437). 25 P. 196 1. 21. Baro. Overal, Clayton, Harsnet and Andrewes approved his doctrine of universal grace and of God's good-will to all mankind. Strype's Whitgift, bk. IV. c. 18 p. 473. 30 35 40 45 P. 198 1 3. Ri. Senhouse. In June 1621 there was a report that Gwyn was preferred to St David's and Senhouse would succeed him. Birch's Court and Times of James I. II. 263. P. 198 1. 11. Val. Carey twice fellow, pp. 291 1. 17, 292 l. 6. P. 198 1. 16. Owen Gwyn. See some account of him in Commun. to Cambr. Ant. Soc. II. 26; also his letter 17 June 1616, respecting the prosecution of Allesson a puritan, in Heywood and Wright Cambr. Univ. Trans. II. 263, 264. A lively picture of college life under this master is contained in a diary of Sir Symonds D'Ewes, preserved at Colchester. Canon Marsden published some extracts from it in Blackwood, and afterwards separately Lond. 1841. 12mo. I have a complete transcript and hope at leisure to edit the whole.-In Gwyn's time the following patents were granted (Commission Documents 1. 79): 15 Jac. p. 18 n. 12: Court leet in Ickelford manor Herts.—18 Jac. p. 6 n. 16 and 20 Jac. p. 8 n. 14: Licences in mortmain. In Dec. 1624 the French ambassador was entertained at St John's (Heywood and Wright ibid. 617). P. 198 1. 18. his pupil's intrigues. Jo. Williams to Sir Jo. Wynne, Proctors' booth in Sturbridge 13 Sept. 1612 (Letters of abp. Williams, Cambr. 1866, pp. 15, 16): 'Afterwards falls in the interim our Heade-shippe of St. John's, in which busines I, servinge my turne abroade, with the good opinion conceiv'de of me at home, was thoughte to have donne such service, as procur'de the hatred of two of the chiefe masters, Dr. Carye beinge one of them; who, as they thinke, hadd it not been for me, hadd gott the maistershippe of St. John's.' 5 P. 199 1. 21. a better lease. See pp. 195 l. 23, 551 1. 7; App. B. to 5th Educ. Rep. (1818) pp. 405, 406. P. 199 1. 29. Downehale petitions the chancellor. See p. 498 1. 42, and for what follows p. 499. P. 200 1. 5. 1. I-22. to have recourse to the bp. of Ely. See p. 176 1. 30. See p. 491 ΙΟ P. 201 1. 6. dividend of the fines amongst the fellows. See college orders 27 Apr. 1626 (App. B., as above, pp. 406, 407), n. 3: 'That the same fine money may be disposed to the best advantage of the whole 15 society.' n. 6: That the master and fellows in their seniority may have the offer of the seals, upon expiration or other avoidances of them, before strangers, upon proportionable fines.' Two excellent decrees were made at the same time. '9. That there be presently a Copy writt out of all their Decrees, which may be kept in the Library with 20 the Statutes, that all the fellows may know them, and so enable themselves to observe them. 10. That all the former decrees may be by the master and seniors examined, whether they be agreeable to the Statutes or not; and such as are found contrary to them, to be utterly reversed and cancelled.' Gwyn was also the author of the admirable 25 system of registration on admission, which was continued for about 150 years, and which every college would do well to adopt; Caius and King's have still, I believe, as exact a register.—(ibid. 406): 21 Jan. 163: That the register of the College should have a booke provided him, wherein he should from time to time write and register the names, 30 parents, country, school, age, and tutor of every one to be admitted into the College before their enrolling into the buttry tables; and shall receive of each of them for his pains, as the head lecturers and deans do, for their admission.' P. 2011. 14. visit of the prince of Wales. Cooper's Ann. III. 56, 57; 35 MS. Cambr. Univ. Libr. Ee. v. 16 art. I. P. 201 n. 3. The sum is incorrectly given £130. 6s. 2d. in Nichols' Progr. and thence in Cooper l. c., from Cole's copy; the original has £131. 68. 2d. P. 201 1. 37 and 38. King's visits Mar. 161 and May 1615. See MS. 40 Baker XXXI. 243, 244; Cooper, 65–89; Nichols 111. 46—77, 82—91. Baker (MS. xx. 254 in Nichols) has a notice of an earlier visit from the college accounts 1613: 'For wood at the king's coming £4. Jo. Chamberlain writes to Sir Dudley Carleton 16 Mar. 161 (Nichols 49 seq.): The Lord Treasurer [earl of Suffolk] kept there a great port 45 and magnificent table, with the expense of £1000 a day, as it is said, |