CHAP. VI. record. The general efficiency of the administration during his mastership may be inferred from the fact that in 1617 the numbers were larger than in 1672, being 118 and 112 respectively. A certain share of this prosperity may probably be attributed to the patronage of Bancroft, who always regarded with special favour the society where he had studied and taught with like success'. Duport's successor, Roger Andrewes, the brother of the bishop, was notorious for his misrule'; but the historian of the society notes, however, that he was the first master who caused a regular journal of the proceedings of the college to be kept3.

ROGER ANDREWES, marter 1515-1632

SANTEL WARD, master of

1601043

When we turn to the college which comes next in numbers, that of Sidney Sussex, with a total of 117, the contrast presented in the character of Samuel Ward to the enlightened faith of an Andrewes and the robust intellect of a Harsnet, is such that it seems difficult to understand. how they could have been, not merely contemporaries in the same university, but probably well known to each other and His remark- occasionally holding intercourse. That, in one sense, Ward was a man of considerable mental power is proved by his remarkable attainments. The son of an able and popular minister in Suffolk, his great capacity for acquiring knowledge brought him very early into notice, and when, in 1619, he was elected one of the delegates to the Synod of Dort, I general his reputation for learning was probably unequalled in the

able powers of acquisi

tion.

character.

university. His subsequent election to the lady Margaret chair and lengthened tenure of the office served only still further to enhance that reputation. But although his receptivity was altogether abnormal, it must be admitted that his judgement was singularly feeble; and while his disposition was forgiving and his heart kindly, his estimate of those who differed from him in matters of religious belief was morose and intolerant in the extreme. His Diary, his Ad

1-nunquam socius, verum tutor nominatissimus et potestate plane magistrali pollens, pupillos bene multos in sociorum numerum promovebat.' Shermanni Hist. (original MS.). p. 64.

He was notwithstanding appoint

ed to valuable preferments by his brother: see Russell (A. T.) Memoirs of Bishop Andrewes, p. 396.

-'omnium primus a collegio primitus fundato ephemeridem sive registrum conscribi curavit.' Shermanni Hist., p. 38.

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versaria, and his admirable portrait-all still preserved in CHAP. VL.
the college,-scem, in a manner, to supplement each other, Drum,
and combine to indicate a character that cannot be mis- and portra
taken. The amiable but irresolute face looking dubiously,
half timidly forth upon us from the canvas, is in perfect
keeping with the man who, in pages meant for no eye save
his own, appears self-depicted, at once morbidly introspective
and morbidly distrustful of the world. Neither Augustine
nor Rousseau ever subjected himself to a more pitiless self-
dissection, or estimated with sterner impartiality the main-
springs of his own action; but while the African father and
the French sceptic often excite our wonder, they seldom
suggest the ludicrous. To Samuel Ward, as he summed His Dry
up each day's experience nothing appeared too trivial tocally.
form an indictment against himself, nothing in the course
of events so ordinary as not to furnish a theme for wonder,
or to constitute a mystery. If an Arminian had succeeded
to the headship of a neighbouring college', if a 'problem'
in chapel indicated 'a carnal curiosity' on the part of the
propounder, or a commonplace' savoured of views which
Ward himself held heterodox, such occurrences to him were
'judgements.' The category of his own shortcomings is such
as to suggest that something of spiritual pride must have
entered into their record, for when it became necessary to
recall such trifles in order to formulate his own self-con-
demnation, it is evident that his life must have been really
singularly blameless. If he had incautiously eaten too freely f
at supper, if he had been conscious of feeling but inade
quate compassion for some culprit flogged in the college
hall, if he had felt some natural elation at being appointed
to lecture in Greek, if his thoughts had wandered at

1 Wo is me for Christ's College, now is one imposed upon, who will bo the utter ruin and destruction of that college. O! Lord, thou hast some, judgements in store for this land, of which this is no doubt a forerunner.' Adversaria, Baker MSS. X1 311.

211 May, 1595. Also thy glut tony the night before.' Diary. 24

Dec. 1597. My gluttony in exiting
to much, notwithstan ling that I
have often before fallen into the
satue sin.' 1b.

* 11 May 1595. My little pity
of the boy which was whint in the
hall.' 5 June 1594. My little com-
passion of the wal-h boy,' Ib.

15 June 1595. My thought of pril att reading of Greck, commenc.

CHAP. VI prayers', if he had been guilty of ostentation in the presence of strangers',-had listened with too little interest to the catechist, or had misinterpreted and suspected another's remarks, these and such like peccadillos were regularly noted down at the end of the day to be a theme of sad and humiliating reflexion ere he sought the night's repose. It seems difficult to believe that such minute and incessant self-introspection can have conduced either to a healthy tone of mind or to a sound judgement. Better, surely, the moral strength and the joy which comes with the genuinely progressive life, which, conscious of honorable aims and integrity of purpose, 'forgets, as nature forgets,' and each morning rises to its task as 'a babe new-born'! It is almost a relief to turn from the perusal of entries like the foregoing, to those which relate to the illness of a favorite pupil, and if here, again, we recognise something of the same morbidness of sentiment, to note at the same time the of pupt feelings which do honour to our common human nature: as we mark the poor college tutor full of self-reproach at imaginary neglect of those committed to his charge,watching, in alternate hope and fear, by the couch where youth lies struggling in the grasp of death,-and then, when at last the end comes, in the early hours of a dark November morn, recording, in a few simple sorrowful words, the happy departure, and the bright promise of a life well taken from the sin and suffering here.

the loss of one

ing the teaching of my auditors the
Greek accents.' Ib.

117 May 1595. Thy wandering
mind on herbals att prayer tyme and
att common place.' Ib.

21 July 1597....Also my pride in walking in the middest of the orchard when St John's men were there.' lb. 32 June 1595. My careless hearing at Mr. Wm. Gouge catechising.' Ib.

19 May 1595. And of thy sur misings of M. N. that day, when he were speaking against them that saught prayse, as we were comming downe Gogmagog.' Ib.

$10 and 11 Nov. 1599. Remember the great agony thou wast in for

Luck... thy greef thou hadst, in part for that thou hadst bene so negligent in looking to thy puples...' 14 being tuesday, att night, 1599, about 4 o'clock, before day, it pleased God to take away my puple Luck. God make me thankful for his happy departure! Remember how willing he was to dye from the beginning. Remember God's providence in bring ing his brother out of Sussex to Carabridge the Satturday before his death. He confessed his sin before his death, prayed heartily, was very desirous to be informed in his duty towards God, desired that he might leave behind him a good example of his death unto others.' Ib.

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At Peterhouse, where the total was 110, the puritanical CHAP VL rule of Robert Some was exchanged in 1609 for that of one of wider views and more liberal culture. John Richard- Je son's tenure of the post, which lasted to 1615, is associated f with a reminiscence which stands in pleasant contrast to the 1:11 prevailing academic activity,-the visit of Isaac Casaubon Cabo's to Cambridge. During the months of August and September im 1-11 in 1611, the great scholar was the guest of bishop Andrewes at Downham near Ely. He seems to have greatly enjoyed the quiet and repose of his summer sojourn in the fen country, the aspects of which he describes in terms of admiration which almost excite our surprise'. But to Casaubon, Heb even during this brief interval of rest, not to study would have been to seem not to live, and access to a good library was indispensable to his happiness. Andrewes, it is hardly necessary to say, had an excellent library, but it was far away in London; and in his perplexity, Casaubon had recourse to the master of Peterhouse. Dr Richardson was a genuine student, and he had at one time taken to a line of reading of which traces are singularly rare in the Cambridge of those days, the pages of the imperialist chroniclers. Casaubon, who happened to be then engaged in examining for himself the details of the great struggle between the Empire and the Papacy in the days of Hildebrand, was not a little aided by Richardson's library'.

hbrary.

Prior to his election to the mastership of Peterhouse, Richar Richardson had been a member of Clare College and then a fellow of Emmanuel, and from Peterhouse he was promoted in 1615 to the mastership of Trinity. From the year 1607 to 1617 he was also Regins professor of divinity. The compiler of the Memoriale, the splendid volume which adorns the library of the last-named society, notes it as a very exceptional mark of respect that, on Richardson's first entrance upon his new office, his arms were emblazoned on the pages of that record,-an honour that had been paid only to one master before, namely to Dr Neville'. The new

1 Pattison, Isaac Casaubon, p. 391. • Ibid. p. 390.

3.Sic ad nos accedit Richard. sonus summa cum exspectatione, et

CHAP. VL master's rule during the decennium that marks his presence at Trinity, in every way justified his election. The foregoing writer, in a comparison which he institutes between Richardson and each of his illustrious predecessors in succession, asserts, that he seemed to unite in his administration the cardinal excellencies of each one and all,—the munificence of a Neville, the watchfulness over the financial condition of the college shewn by Dr Still, the care for its studies and for the studious which distinguished Whitgift, the fidelity to principles that belonged to Dr Bill, the prudent forethought of a Christopherson, and the conciliatory genius of a Redman'.

State of Care College.

William
Sth and

masters.

Little, especially here calling for note, presents itself at this period in connexion with the two societies of Clare and Magdalene, which numbered 110 and 85 respectively, or with the lives of their respective heads. At the former society, William Smyth was master from 1598 to 1612, and Rt scot, Robert Scot from 1612 to 1620. The epitaph on the tomb of the latter attests his fidelity to his trust',-evidence which is supported by the testimony implied in the flourishing condition of the college, which in 1617 numbered ten more than in 1672, the total at the latter date being only 100. The names of George Ruggle, Nicholas Farrar, Abraham Whelock, and Augustine Lindsell, among the fellows, are also suggestive of an atmosphere of genuine. culture.

BARTABY Gooch, master of Magdalene, 1504-20

At Magdalene, during the mastership of Barnaby Gooch, the society began to reap the full fruits of Dr Kelke's maladministration'. An attempt on the part of the master to assert the college rights to extensive property in Aldgate, was not only unsuccessful but resulted in the committal of both master and fellow to prison for contumacy; and during a

omnium judicio dignum praefecturae.
Quocirca quum primum ad collegium
accederet, illius insignia in ipsa pa-
ginae facie exprimi curaverunt, qui
honos ante Nevillum habitus est
nemini; pro certo habentes scilicet,
quamquam cum Nevillo majorum
imaginibus contendere non posset,

fore tamen ut virtute et rebus pro bono publico gestis eundem superaret.' Memoriale.

1 Memoriale, in Trinity College Library.

* Baker MSS. xxxп 312.
See supra, p. 286.