had caused horses to be kept in readiness in anticipation of CHAP. L the event, and no sooner had the news of Tyndall's death reached the college than he was to be seen urging his steed along the road, by Hockerill and Broxbourne, for Whitehall. He had friends at court, and through their interest he obtained the royal permission for the college to exercise a free election, a permission which he well knew would be equivalent to a royal nomination of Davenant. With his habitual tact, he would not however quit London until he had gained the concurrence of the royal favorite. If, as Preston's biographer asserts, Dr Montaigne had so completely set his heart on succeeding Tyndall that he had been heard to declare that he would sooner be president of Queens' than dean of Westminster', he had been singularly reticent on the subject with his noble patron, for Somerset, uninformed of his wishes, readily assented to Preston's representations. The latter then hastened back to Cambridge. The 'free election,' which both Montaigne and Davenant professed to desire, was forthwith held,-without however the former being able to bring his patron's influence to bear upon the electors,-and The nelety Davenant was chosen. 'Never,' says the narrator, 'did Aetna Davenant or Vesuvius more fume' than did the Mountain,' when he chagrin learned the result. This Doctor had made great promises; gave a very goodly piece of plate into the college with this inscription, Sic incipio, but now he vowed it should be Sic desino. It is due to Montaigne, who had, says another and less partial writer, 'the happiness of a generous mind and a forgiving temper,' to state that he was not long in laying aside his anger, for four years later he founded two scholarships in the college. Nor did his disappointment in any way mar his success. In 1617 he was promoted to the bishopric of Lincoln; and in 1621 was made bishop of London, in which st capacity it devolved upon him to admit his former rival to 1 That appointment of the mastership of Queens' was more accounted of than now it is. There were very many that had their eyes upon it, but Dr Mountain in a special manner, who was often heard for to professe, he would rather be master Ward, Lives of the Gresham Pro- elects Dr dare career. CHAP. VI. the see of Salisbury; and in 1628 he was promoted to the LANCELOT master of College. 158-1005% founded by Dr Watts. and genius of archbishopric of York, dying in the same year. Queens' college, on the other hand, had little cause to regret the result of the election. Dr Davenant's short eight years' rule, concurrent as it was with Preston's activity as tutor, was eminently successful; and the student of our ecclesiastical and university history alike must ever regard with grateful interest the memory of the relative and patron of THOMAS FULLER'. When we turn to Pembroke, which with its total of 120 comes next in John Scot's list, we seem, in the society ruled by Lancelot Andrewes and his successor, Harsnet, to breathe another atmosphere. The career of Andrewes at his college Scholarships was exemplary and brilliant throughout. He had been sent to Pembroke in 1572 at the expense of Dr Watts, a prebendary of St Paul's and archdeacon of Middlesex, who, about the same time, materially benefited the society by Character founding eight Greek scholarships'. Among the first of those Andrewes, elected to fill these scholarships, was Andrewes himself. His election to a fellowship, which took place in 1576, presents us with another instance of what appears now to have been becoming more frequent, the practice of examining candidates. There was but one fellowship vacant, and the claims of another member of the college, Dove, afterwards bishop of Peterborough, appeared to some not less strong than those of Andrewes. The two were accordingly subjected to a competitive examination which resulted in the election of the latter. The whole spirit and temper of Andrewes were in I love of singular contrast to those which belonged to Puritanism. His genius has been happily described as one which 'saw mysteries in common things,' 'felt itself still living amid visible traces of a Divine dispensation,' and 'gave the beauty of natural nature and delight in observing natural objects. 1 For a few months in 1612, Davenant held the college living of Oakington (more properly Hockington) in Cambridgeshire. To the present incumbent, the Rev. W. G. Searle, we are indebted for the valuable History of Queens' College. On page 410 Mr Searle quotes an amusing anecdote told by Fuller respecting his uncle during the latter's tenure Fuller, Abel Redevivus, 11 157. • Fuller, Abel Redevivus, n 158. L objects a place in religion'.' 'He would profess,' says his CHAP. VL biographer, 'that to observe the grass, herbs, corn, trees, cattle, earth, waters, heavens, any of the creatures, and to contemplate their natures, orders, qualities, virtues, uses, etc., was ever to him the greatest mirth, content, and recreation that could be; and this he held to his dying day". To this gladsome genuine delight in the contemplation of nature, we may perhaps partly attribute the fact that the young fellow of Pembroke, when travelling between Cambridge and London, generally preferred to make his journey on foot. As a divine, his efforts while at college were singularly effective. Ably as he afterwards acquitted himself in the arena of controversy, it is certain that he disliked dispu tation; but he found a special pleasure in teaching, and he appears to have possessed the faculty of investing didactic instruction with peculiar force and charm. Like all those who have achieved a reputation as teachers, he loved the love of labour; and long after, when residing at his deanery in Westminster, he found his greatest delight in occasionally appearing in the school and instructing a class of the Westminster lads'. The custom of catechizing in church (a practice still observed in the afternoon services in some rural districts), was in those days systematic and general, and,— in the absence of any printed manuals of elementary instruc 1 The late J. B. Moziey, in British Critic (Jan. 1815), pp. 189 192. 2 Isaacson, Eract Narration, p. vi; 'Andrewes', says dean Church, was one of the few to whose sympathetic interest, as an observer of Nature, Bacon felt he could confidently ap peal in his physical investigations, and in his daring attempt to put the knowledge of Nature on a new and sound basis. See his careful study of Andrewes in Masters of English Theology, pp. 61-112; see also Spedding, Letters and Life of Bacon, vII 371-375. Andrewes, says Hacket (himself a Westminster boy), was strict to charge our masters that they should give us lessons out of none but the most classical authors; he did often supply the place both of head school- teaching As a cate chetical lecturer. CHAP. VI. tion, and in dealing with an uneducated laity,-was obviously a matter of the highest importance. While not one minister in ten was permitted to preach, all were expected to catechize. Incess With the view therefore of rendering those in the university who were destined for the clerical profession more competent to the discharge of this primary duty, Andrewes initiated at Pembroke a series of Saturday and Sunday afternoon catechetical lectures, designed to serve to some extent. as illustrations of the best method of teaching the elements of Christian belief. In the hands of such a master of exposition, the subject acquired almost a novel charm. The most distinguished members of the university and young curates from the country alike flocked to listen; 'so that,' says the narrator, 'he was scarce reputed a pretender to learning and picty in Cambridge (during Andrewes' residence), who had not made himself a disciple of Andrewes by diligent resorting to his lectures; nor he a pretender to the study of divinity who did not transcribe his notes, which ever after passed from hand to hand in many hundred copies. M an ad SANTEL HARSYET, master of Pembroke, 1603-1616. Andrewes succeeded to the mastership of Pembroke in 1589, and continued to hold the office until the year 1605. IT's ability As an administrator he was no less successful than as a ministrator. teacher. He found the society in debt, and left it not only with the debts paid off but with a reserve fund of a thousand pounds at its command'. His successor, Dr Harsnet, was a man of like temper and similar views, and, without possessing the same original ability as an instructor and as a thinker, was distinguished alike by his attainments, sound judgement, and courageous spirit. He had boldly defended the principles of Arminianism at a time when they were still disavowed by nearly all who aimed at popularity and preferment, and had thus drawn upon himself the dis ITis Arminian views 1 Teale, Lives of English Divines, P. 6. 2 Ibid. p. 77. This however was largely owing to Andrewes' unselfish nature; Fuller, speaking of the mestership, says it was a place of credit, but of little benefit; for he ever spent more upon it than he received by it.' Abel Redevirus, 11 160. 3 Harsnet is described by Warbur ton as a man of the greatest learning and parts of his time.' He scems, however, to have been eminently unpopular with the Puritans. See Neal, History of the Puritans (ed. 1822), 1 126. the tim pleasure of Whitgift. But in no way were his courage and CHAPL superior discernment more clearly shewn than by the resolute opposition which he offered to the then prevailing and be to increasing belief in witchcraft,-that cruel superstition which craf constitutes so gloomy a feature in the history of the contemporary and later Puritanism, and to which James himself, with all his shrewdness, gave such unequivocal sanction. Towards the close of the century, a bachelor of arts named John Darrel, created considerable excitement among the population of Nottinghamshire by professing to have successfully performed the part of an exorcist. His reiterated assertions and perseverance gained over not a few reputable persons to give credence to his professed powers, among whom were such men as Hildersham. Harsnet, however, His detection was at the pains and expense of subjecting Darrel's more glaring impostures to a lengthy analysis which filled a small quarto volume of 300 pages, and the imposition altogether collapsed'. of Darrel Respecting John Duport, who presided at Jesus College Jer from 1590 to 1618 and was distinguished as one of the trans- master of lators of the Bible, there is little known that here calls for 1 See A Discovery of the fraudulent Practises of John Darrel, Bacheler of Artes, in his Proceedings concerning the pretended Possession and Dispossession of William Somers at Nottingham: etc., etc., London: imprinted by John Wolfe [n. d.]. Hars. net's name does not appear on the title-page, but the Preface is signed S. H. which, says a manuscript note to the copy in the University Library [Tracts, Dd. 3. 46], 'is Sam'. Harsnet 84 appears by Darrels Answer.' Harsnet takes up the position that the power of casting out devils, together with that of working miracles, was restricted to the Apostles' time and some fewe ages after the Apostles' (To the Reader, A. 4), tius implicitly rejecting the long array of mediaeval legends. The samne volume contains another tractate by the same author entitled A Declaration of Popish Impostures in casting out of Devils, practised by Edmunds, alias Weston, a Jesuit, etc. London, 1001, which is designed to expose similar |