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20. Sir Wm. Peer Williams, Clare Hall.

"He was son of Sir Hutchins Williams, educated at Eton, then of Clare Hall, and was one of the prettiest figures of a man that could be seen. He was wild and extravagant, and not having an estate equal to the greatness of his condition, it is said that he went in the expedition to Bellisle, with a formed design not to return home again. His brother, Sir.... Williams, who I think was of Oxford, tho' I have seen him at Cambridge, was a good person of a man; but almost a natural.”

See Gray's Lines on Sir W. P. W. in his Poems.

21. Edw. Waring, M. D. Mag. Coll.

"Author of Meditationes Algebraica, 1771. Elected Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in Feb. 1760.

"Before he married, he took it ill that the Society of Magdalen did not elect his brother into a better Fellowship on his quitting it after his marriage, he settled for a time at St. Ives; and now, 1778, at Cambridge; but has little practice as a physician, being of a most shy and reserved disposition. He entered himself of Trinity College, on his quitting Magdalen. Vide Monthly Review, 1778, p. 81, where he is called to account for endeavouring to lessen the credit and abilities of Sir Isaac Newton. V. Gent. Mag. for 1779, p. 605, twice."

22. Tho. Wilson, A. M. 1643. Qu.

"He was Rector of Otham in Kent, where, being prosecuted for dilapidations, and for contumacy suspended by the High Commission, he got an exchange for the Curacy of Maidstone in that neighbourhood, where he revenged himself of Abp. Laud by refusing to read the prayer against the northern expedition against the Scots, and the declaration for Sports on the Lord's day, which

made him very popular with the puritan party; and was in 1643 appointed one of the Assembly of Divines, and was an evidence against Archbishop Laud at his trial; when testifying that he had been suspended by the Abp. for not reading the Book of Sports, it turned out that it was for nonpayment of dilapidations.— Wharton's Hist. of the Trial of Abp. Laud, p. 344; Prynne's Canterbury's Doom, p. 149. He printed a sermon, called ' David's Zeal for Zion; preached before sundry of the Honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's, Westminster, Ap. 4, 1641. His life is written by Mr. George Swinock.

"He is represented by the writer of his Life, as a very pious, zealous, and useful man, in the way he took; and died about 1651 or 1652. Newton's Hist. of Maidstone, p. 66, 67,

23. Paul Wright, D.D. olim of Pembroke Hall.

"He is Rector of Oakley, near Saffron-Walden in Essex; and in 1769, at the Commencement at Cambridge, printed bills for a new edition, with additions, of Sir Henry Chauncey's History of Hertfordshire. He then plagued me for assistance in it; but I soon found him to be a most odd and extravagantly ridiculous person; and by no means qualified to undertake such a work, He wanted me and others in the University to sign a paper of recommendation to be received a Member of the Antiquarian Society, which I declined; however he got one somewhere else; for in Dec. 1770, he was admitted a Fellow of that Society. He is a married man, and has a son a jeweller, or goldsmith, in London, where the father was born, and educated in St. Paul's school, as he told me he then gave me a printed bill to find his shop, if I wanted any thing in his way. He has since printed a book on heraldry." [I suppose Mr. Cole means a new edition of Heylin's Help to History.]

"At the Commencement, 1778, he proceeded D.D. Dr. Colman, the new Master of Benet College, told me, July 5, that he called upon him to see the Book of St. Alban's, which he had, to his chamber, and shewed it to him: but he could not read it,

tho' the most distinct and legible hand I have met with. He told him he meant to visit him on Abp. Parker's Anniversary, Aug. 6. The Master told him, that he should be then in Dorsetshire. Indeed I have met with few people of his assurance.

"I was told, July 23, 1778, that he was Rector of Snoring in Norfolk. To publish himself in the Cambridge Chronicle Rector of Snoring, and Vicar of Ugly, would have excited a laugh in the University: so when he put himself into the papers, D. D. and F. A.S. he suppressed the Rectory. That he put the other in, Dr. Colman told me from pretty good proof.

"In the London Chronicle of Nov. 22, 1781, was this advertisement:

By

The Complete Family Bible, &c. With Notes, &c. Paul Wright, D. D. F. A. S. Vicar of Oakley, and Rector of Shoreham in Essex, and late of Pembroke Hall.' '

24. Ferdinand Warner, Jesus College.

"Dr. Warner's Ecclesiastical History of England deserves the highest applause, on account of that noble spirit of liberty, candour, and moderation, that seems to have guided the pen of the judicious Author. It were at the same time to be wished, that this elegant Historian had less avoided citing authorities, and been a little more lavish of that erudition, which he is known to possess: for then, after having surpassed Collier in all other respects, he would have equalled him in that depth and learning, which are the only meritorious circumstances of his partial and disagreeable History. Mosheim's Eccles. Hist. ed. 1758, 8vo. i p. 27, note (2)."

25. Wm. Warren, LL. D. Trinity Hall.

"A most worthy and good man, and my friend. He died in Kent of a cancer in his mouth, which he had laboured under for about two years in Cambridge: and returning to die in his native

county, was not long there before it happened to him. Vide Dr. Middleton's Germana quædam Antiquitatis erudita Monumenta, p. 65,"

26. Francis Willoughby, Trinity Coll, Camb.

"Francisci Willughbeii de Middleton in Agro Warwicensi Armigeri; Ornithologia Libri Tres, e. 1676. fol.

"Mr. Willoughby, who did assist in this book, (viz. Mr. Ray's Catalogue) and whose experiments are at large set down, p. 136, &c. is a virtuous gentleman, and one excellently accom plished in learning. He is one of those to whom Mr. Barrow did dedicate his Euclid. He is A. M. also, having continued a longer time in the University than usually Fellow Commoners do. But he is lately gone from the University. His father is a Knight in Warwickshire, and would have him into the country to settle there, he being his only son. Mr. Barrow saith, that he never knew a gentleman of such an ardour after real knowledge and learning; and of such capacities and fitness for any kind of learning. See Dr. J. Worthington's Letter, dated Mar. 9, 1659.

"Mr. Willoughby was Mr. James Duport's pupil at Trinity Coll. to whom and three others, he, Mr. Duport, dedicates his Gnomologia, 1660." T. B.

27. Thomas Woolston, Fellow of Sidney College.

V. Dunciad, b. iii. 1. 208. and Mrs. C. Cockburne's Works, ii. 272. See also Voltaire's character of him, &c.

"B. D. Born at Northampton, 1669, son of a tradesman there. Deprived of his Fellowship of Sidney College, 1721. Lived the last four or five years of his life mostly in confinement in the King's Bench prison; and the three last years were totally passed there, where he died, Jan. 23, 1733, Saturday, after a four days' illness; viz. a cold, which was then epidemical. Buried in St. George's churchyard, Southwark, Jan. 30.

"For his Six Discourses on the Miracles of Christ, and two Defences of them, 1727-30, he was again under prosecution, and sentenced to a year's imprisonment, and 100%. fine. He purchased the liberty of the Rules of the King's Bench. Part of his sentence was, to give security not to offend again in any future writings; which he refused to give, being resolved to continue the freedom he had begun with."

28. Tho. Watson, Bishop of Lincoln, Master of St. John's College.

"See Dod's Church History, i. 485, and Strype's Cranmer, Pr269, 325.

"See two curious passages concerning him in Roger Ascham's Scholemaster, in Ascham's English Works, published in 4to. Lond. about 1766, by one James Bennet, Schoolmaster at Hoddesdon, Herts. He was admitted Master, Sept. 28, 1553.

"His Antigona, a tragedy out of Sophocles, was much admired."

28. Rich. Walter, A. M. Fellow of Sidney College.

"A voyage round the world, &c. from 1740 to 1744, by George Anson, Esq. commander in chief, &c. By Richard Wulter, A. M. &c. 3d edit. Lond. 1748. 8vo.

"The author of this book I was acquainted with at Cambridge, where he was Fellow of Sidney College, and was always esteemed a very worthy and sober man. His father was a silkmercer in London. He was rather a puny, weakly, and sickly man; pale, and of a low stature; and suffered great hardships on board, being often forced to do the most laborious duty, for want of sufficient hands to work the ship, when it was at times so deplorably overrun with the scurvy. So he came back to England in another ship, by the Cape of Good Hope, on the Centurion's first getting to China, &c. After he got home, he married, and setVOL. III.

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