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Cujus Beneficia sentimus Immortalia.
Multa Tuo, O Johannes Dilecte Deo,
Cui prope nunc astat et Ipse Dilectus,
Magnifice donavit Collegio:
Huic, quibus Ipse tam est feliciter
Usus, Legavit Libros;

O si potuisset et Doctrinam!

Quanquam eidem, jure dixerim, et illam reliquit,
Plusque Nos vivens, quam Moriens locupletavit,
Praeclaris Praeceptis, Praeclariori Exemplo:
Hic sacra cernimus impressa vestigia,

Et, quem sequi non possumus, e longinquo veneramur.
Postquam sat Ecclesiae, Patriaeque datum,
Discessit,

Nostro (heu!) infinito Damno,

Nisi quod suo discesserit multo majori bono:
Discessit

Ad Patriam Coelestem,

Ad Ecclesiam triumphantem

Annorum et Gloriae Satur,

Nec tam vita privatus, quam Donatus morte,
Morte nobis nunquam satis lugenda,
Sed qua Ipse factus est Immortalis:

Atque istoc, quo solo potuit, modo
Flagrantiorem consecutus est charitatem,

Et Scientiam Diviniorem.'

P. 238 1. 3. a certain prelate. Burnet's Own Times, 1. 181 fol. ed.: (In the Savoy conference) 'Baxter was the opponent, and Gunning was the respondent:....he was a man of great reading and noted for a special subtilty of arguing: all the arts of sophistry were made use of by him on all occasions, in as confident a manner as if they had been sound reasoning: he was a man of an innocent life, unweariedly active to very little purpose: he was much set on the reconciling us with popery in some points: and because the charge of idolatry seemed a bar to all thoughts of reconciliation with them, he set himself with very great zeal to clear the church of Rome of idolatry: this made many suspect him as inclining to go over to them: but he was far from it, and was a very honest, sincere man, but of no sound judge. ment, and of no prudence in affairs: he was for our conforming in all things to the rules of the primitive church, particularly in praying for the dead, in the use of oil, and in many other rituals: he formed many in Cambridge upon his own notions, who have carried them perhaps farther than he intended.' He opposed the test act 1678 (ibid. 436; Evelyn's Diary 15 Nov. 1678). Burnet says again (ibid. 590): 'He had a great confusion of things in his head, and could bring nothing into method: so that he was a dark and perplexed preacher. His sermons were full of Greek and Hebrew, and of the opinions of the fathers. Yet many of the ladies of a high form loved to hear him preach: which, the king used to say, was because they did not understand him.'

P. 238 1. 3. Mr. Baxter. Life 1. 337, 340 (in favour of ceremonies); 349, 350 'Dr Gunning brought in a large Discourse,...full of insulting Words', [Baxter replies 'whether your confident insulting arise from your advantages or infirmity of Mind, and want of Matter for more pertinent Answers, are Questions that we shall leave to impartial Judges']; 5 356, 357; 363 of a good insight in the Fathers and Councils, Cosins and he [Henchman] and Dr. Gunning being all that shewed any of that skill among us considerable: in which they are all three of very laudable understandings, and better than any other of either of the Parties that I met with'; 364 'Dr. Pierson and Dr. Gunning did all 10 their Work (beside Bishop Morley's Discourses) but with great difference in the manner. Dr. Pierson was their true Logician and Disputant, without whom, as far as I could discern, we should have had nothing from them, but Dr. Gunning's passionate Invectives mixt with some Argumentations... Dr. Gunning was their forwardest and 15 greatest Speaker; understanding well what belonged to a Disputant; a Man of greater Study and Industry than any of them, well read in Fathers and Councils; and of a ready Tongue; (and I hear and believe of a very temperate Life, as to all Carnal Excesses whatsoever): but so vehement for his high imposing Principles, and so over-zealous 20 for Arminianism and Formality and Church Pomp, and so very eager and fervent in his Discourse, that I conceive his Prejudice and Passion much perverted his Judgment, and I am sure they made him lamentably over-run himself in his Discourses.'

P. 238 1. 6. his benefactions. See his will in Documents of the Gunning 25 Family, 4-22; a certificated copy in Cambr. MS. Oo. vii. 31; MS. Baker xx. 356-362. He left by his will dated 25 Aug. 1679 to Clare hall £100 in addition to the £100 sent before, towards a new chapel (Documents p. 6); Item I bequeath to St. John's College where I was with all their good will and affection chosen Master, and there con- 30 tinued so about nine years and more, the sum of £100 more to be joined to that poor provision for a Quire there, which I have (under the College seal) assured for the maintenance of some singing Youths and others upon £300 given them by......Dr. John Barwick of pious memory, and upon my own £300 heretofore given, and Dr. Turner's, 35 Dean of Canterbury, £150, and Dr. Turner the present Master's £50. To all which I say I now desire to add my other £100 for the better provision of more voices for the Quire, whereby God's service may be more solemnly performed and decently sung upon the Lord's Days and other Holy-days, and their Eves, and their commemorations, by what 40 way my very Reverend Friends the Master of the College and Dr. Humphry Gower and the Senior Fellows shall contrive' (pp. 6, 7); to C. C. C. C. and to New Coll. £20 each (p. 7); to Clarehall his library (p. 10). By a codicil dated 29 Aug. 1680 he bequeathed to Clarehall £200 'more than I have disposed of in my Will'; and £100 45 more to St. John's College (p. 15); any surplus to be bestowed upon pious and charitable uses, having respect especially to the Quire begun to be founded at St. John's College' (p. 16). By a codicil 12 Febr. 168 to Clarehall '£300 more towards the building of their Chapel'; 'Item,

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not £100 only, but £300 to St. John's College towards the beginning for the building for themselves a new Chapel' (pp. 16, 17); to the building of St. Paul's £350 besides the £150 before sent (p. 17). By a codicil 27 July 1682 £200 towards the paving of Ely quire with marble (p. 18). By a codicil 11 Sept. 1683 the remainder to be employed ‘upon the present relief of some poor Vicars within the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, where the Impropriations are in the Bishop' (p. 20). By his last will 26 June 1684 ‘I do order my Books to be divided into two parts, by the appointment of the Master and Fellows of St. John's College.....; and being so divided, I do declare my Will is, that William Saywell, my Executor, shall choose one half of them for his use during his natural life, and after his decease to be given to the use of St. John's College aforesaid, but the other half is to be immediately delivered to the Master and Fellows for the use of the said College' (pp. 21, 22).

P. 238 1. 8. His books, which have the bp's arms on the side, and the following book-plate:

Ex Dono Reverendi admodùm in Christo
Patris, ac Domini Domini PETRI
GUNNING Cicestrensis priùs dein
Eliensis Episcopi, Pietate & Doctrinâ con-
summatissimi, in Academia CANTABRI-
GIENSI Sacræ Theologia olim Professoris
longè Celeberrimi, nec non Magistri hujus
Collegii Div. Johan. Evang. cui trecenas
libras præter totidem olim datas unà cum in-
tegra Bibliotheca suâ, eâque locupletissima
testamento legavit.

Anno M Do Lxxxiv.

See Cowie's Catal. of MSS. in St. John's Library 85, 108, 114, 115. MS. L 8 is the epistle to Philemon in Slavonic English and German, with some particulars of the Slavonic language, dedicated to Gunning. 'At the end is a list of persons who rewarded the author for his pains. It is a curious account of his successful foraging on the benevolent of the day.'

P. 238 1. 14. Certain Disquisitions. Humphr. Gower, l. c. 17: 'He did not forbear to protest publickly against the Faction even when it was most formidable: And in a Sermon preach'd before the University in St Maries Church in Cambridge, He urged them vehemently and convincingly to publish a formal protestation against the Rebellious League. And they to whom he spoke were sufficiently dispos'd to comply and close with so Christian and Loyal an exhortation. For the spirit of Error and Delusion, of Faction and Fury, which had long before broke loose and ravaged far and near, confounding and subverting all Orders of men and things, had not been able to poison or corrupt that bright and wholesome Fountain of Learning and Religion, tho' situated in the midst of the enemies quarters, and perpetually surrounded and infested with boisterous Troops of Rebels. The good Work was therefore presently begun and soon finish'd; But could not be published in

the name of the whole Corporation, and consequently not at Cambridge, because one man, who alone could hinder it, would not permit it to be done. But I have not only Charity enough to hope, but sufficient Reason to believe, that He soon repented of the opposition He had made, and became quite of another mind. But however, printed it 5 was, tho' most of the impression was seiz'd at London, before it could get abroad; And this Renowned Nursery of Learning and Loyalty did not loose the honour of getting the start of her equal Sister, and giving her an excellent pattern and encouragement by so early and laudable an undertaking.'

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P. 239 1. 5. I will absolve his trustees that nothing has been published since his death. By his will Gunning directed his two exors. Wm. Saywell and Tobias Henshaw, to sort his papers according to subjects; then he entreated his tutor Barn. Oley, Fras. Turner, Hen. Gower, Wm. Beveridge and John Saywell to join themselves to the exors. 'as to 15 the care of revising and considering all my writings (my Philological Papers only excepted, being some fruits of my youth) I would humbly beseech them seven together, or any five of them, to whom being together present, I require my Executors then first to open all my papers, to take the care to revise and well consider, if aught there can 20 be judged any ways truly useful for the Public, wherein Religion or Learning may in their judgment be truly advanced, there they will find a laborious silva at least of collections upon most of the Heads of Divinity, together with my annotations and judgments, most what upon the testimonies there collected in Bundles, besides many sermons 25 there produced into treaties, I humbly crave their care and judgment in revising, disposing and digesting for the public use of the Church of God'; his philological papers on Hebr., Gr., Lat., Ital., Fr., to be burnt, unless Wm. Saywell think any part useful to himself in private (Documents pp. 11, 12). By a codicil six overseers were appointed of his 30 papers, Wm. and Jo. Saywell, Turner and Beveridge, Drs. Aucher and Nalson, who were to have £50 each for their pains (ibid. 17).

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digressive and immethodical.

Burnet's Vindication, Svo:

1696 p. 93: I passed over what he had said of my stealing many hints from Bishop Gunning, and then printing them: it is no great 35 matter whether it be true or false; but, as it happens, it is absurdly false. Bishop Gunning had much learning and true piety; but his ideas were so confused, and so over subtle, that I could never learn any thing in all the time that ever I conversed with him, and so I did not wait often on him.'

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P. 239 1. 11. his looks, the most graceful and venerable I ever saw. See his portraits in the university and in St John's libraries, in St John's lodge (representing him in his robes A.D. 1661), and a small one in Clare combination room (Bentham's Ely, II. 112). His portrait by Rubens (Granger Letters, 137). His noble monument in the S. aisle 45 of Ely cathedral (figured in Bentham, pl. XXVIII. engraved by P. S. Lamborn at the expense of the college, and dedicated to Dr Newcome master and the fellows). Humphry Gower's Discourse, 53: 'As for

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his Common converse it was pleasant, affable and courteous, and yet still grave and highly becoming his Sacred Character. That doubtfulness and fear which his Venerable Presence, his high Station and Quality, together with his great and just Renown did frequently produce in strangers at their first approach, was by the easiness of the access they met with, by his humble and courteous deportment, and all-obliging affability and condescension soon converted into perfect Delight and Love. So sweet and heavenly a temperament there was in him of Greatness and Goodness, of Meekness and Majesty, of Gravity and Courtesie, of every thing, indeed, that is amiable and Reverend; that it was impossible to know him well and not to Honour and Delight in him.'

P. 239 1. 25. Wood believed that Jo. Tillotson succeeded Gunning at Clare. Retracted by Wood upon information from Clare (A. O. IV. 140). Mr Hen. Holcroft, Sir [Dav.] Clarkson and Sir Palmer were admitted fellows of Clare by warrant from the earl of Manchester 5 May 1645. Sir Clarkson succeeds Mr Gunning (Baker's MS. note on Calamy's Contin. 813, where Calamy comments on Walker's account of Gunning, Sufferings, II. 142).

20 P. 239 n. 3. Jo. Tillotson admitted pensioner of Clare 28 Apr. 1647. In Birch's Life of Abp. Tillotson, p. 4, 10, it is said, that he was admitted in Clare Hall Apr. 23. In this copy it is evidently 28. But 3 and 8 are often mistaken one for the other: and probably this transcript may be in fault.' WM. COLE. Read 23 Apr., as it stands in the register.

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P. 241 1. 13. that excellent book. Mr Westcott finds Cosin's Scholastical History partial, and contrasts it with the great work of Humphry Hody.

P. 241. at the end of Gunning. He was a friend of Du Moulin's (Du M.'s Parerga bk. III. p. 108, epigr. 7) and recommends his Parerga; he refused to license Du Moulin's verses in praise of the Royal Society (Boyle's Works, v. 594). He has two letters in Is. Basire's Correspondence, by Darnell, 262, 308; one to Cosin in MS. Qu. coll. Ox, CCXVIII. 329; and others in the Tanner MSS. On his fame see Is. Milles' Life, 20, 119, 120, His Lent fast was reprinted in the Anglo-Cath. Libr. 8vo. Oxf. 1845. His arms may be seen in 'MS. Cole 57. 374,' in Bentham's Ely, pl. XIV. n. 42, and in the Blazon of Episcopacy.

'Finished thus far, being the whole of Mr. Baker's MS. History of St. John's College, on Thursday, Aug. 7, 1777, at Milton: containing 278 pages of the MS. I have added the arms, as I went along: but left room generally for the impaled coat of the several masters, except Percy's, Day's, and Bp. Gunning's, in which I could not be mistaken. I did not fill up the rest, as I remember to have seen a very beautiful table of the arms of all the masters, hanging in the lodge in Dr. Powell's time, and which he told me I might send for, whenever I pleased: and as I do not doubt of the present master's acquiescence, from his reputed character, I shall reserve them to the time I send back the book, and then borrow the said table. Other arms I have

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