49. Walter Balcanqual, Dean of Durham, Pembroke Hall.

"V. Sir Dudley Carleton's Letters, Lond. 4to. 1757, p. 317, published by the 2nd Earl of Hardwick. His letters to Sir Dudley Carleton concerning the Synod of Dort are at the end of Hales' Golden Remains. V. Dean Barwick's English Life, p. 413, 444. Nalson's Collections, vol. i. p. 428. vol. ii. p. 447. The King's Large Declaration, ao. 1639, fol. p. 272, 273, 274, 275. Kennet's Register and Chronicle, p. 28, 29. Original Papers relating to Lord Clarendon, p. 37. an 8vo. pamphlet among my collection of pamphlets, vol. 10. Lloyd's Memoirs, ed. 1677, p. 523. Fasti Oxon. vol. i. p. 211. W. B. A. M. Admissus Socius Aulæ Pembr. Sept. 8, 1611. Fuller's Ch. Hist. L. 16, p. 79."*

"Isaac Walton's Compleat Angler, p. 84. edit. 4. Lond. 8vo. 1668. Ath. Ox. vol. ii. p. 812.

"Mr. Knight, jun. shewed me a MS. written by Wm. Basse, and corrected by him, in 4to. called Polihymnia. DedicationTo the Right noble and vertuous Lady the Lady Bridget, Countess of Lindsey, and Baroness of Eresbie and Ricot, in verse, with verses to the Right hon. Francis Lord Norreys, Earl of Berkshire (in his days) To the Right hon. the Lady Aungier (then wife of Sir Tho. Wenman) upon her coming out of Ireland, and return thither. To the Right hon. the Lady Viscountess Falkland, upon her going into Ireland, two sonnets. The Youth in the Boat.

Acrostics of the truly noble, vertuous, and learned Lady the Lady Agnes Wenman; of the Lady Penelope Dynham; of Mrs. Jane Wenman. Verses on the Chapel of Wadham College consecration, St. Peter's day, 1613; on Caversham, or Causham House; of Witham House, Oxfordshire, the house of a noble Knight and favourer of my Muse, and Elegy on a Bullfinch, 1648; of the four wide course of Bagarde's Green six times over, by two famous Irish footmen, Patrick Dorning and Wm. O'Farrell. It contains about 40 leaves, much corrected, and at the end is L'Envoy.

* See Coll. Peerage, new edit. vol. ii. Art. Thynne,

'Go, sweet Polymnia, thanks for all your cost
And love to me; wherein no love is lost.
As you have taught me various verse to use,
I have to right you to be a Christian Muse.'

"The poetry seems to be below mediocrity: so no wonder he has escaped the list of poets, and that we know so little of him. "He took his A. M. degree in Eman. Coll. 1636, at least one of both his names. V. my vol. 50, p. 22.

"Wm. Basse admitted sizar in Eman. Coll. 1629. of Suffolk, A.B. 1632, A. M. 1636. id. p. 55.

"In Warton's Life of Dr. Bathurst, p. 288, is a copy of English verses by Dr. Bathurst.

To Mr. W. Basse upon the intended publication of his poems, January 13, 1654.'

"Mr. Warton has added this note at the bottom: 'I find no account of this writer or his poems.' But from the beginning and end of the short poem of about 40 verses, it should seem that the Emanuelian was too modern for the poet, who might be his father. They begin thus ;—

'Basse, whose rich mine of wit we here behold

As porcelain earth, more precious, 'cause more old;
Who, like an aged oak, so long hath stood,
And art religion now as well as food:

Though thy grey Muse grew up with elder times,
And our deceased grandsires lisp'd thy rhymes;
Yet we can sing thee too, and make the bays,
Which deck thy brow, look fresher with thy praise.

Though these, your happy births, have silent past
More years than some abortive wits shall last;
He still writes new, who once so well hath sung:
That Muse can ne'er be old, which ne'er was young."

* See Commendatory Verses to Shakespeare; and Restitutą, vol. i,

51. Tho. Colbath, Vicar of Little Abington.

"This most worthy man, whom I well remember, christened me; my father, then living in the parish, though occupying the great farm at Baberham, whither he retired soon after my birth, and whither Mr. Colbatch used often to walk over to see him and my mother, whose funeral I well remember, at her desire, he attended to St. Clement's Church, in Cambridge, to be laid by her father and mother in that churchyard; though my father is buried in the Chancel of Baberham Church. Mr. Colbatch was brother to Mr. Colbatch of Trinity, and was rather looked upon as a singular person in an age that set no value on exemplary virtue and goodness he let his beard grow for some years before his death, on a vision which he supposed to have seen, and had ordered him to do so. He used to read the Psalms of the Day wholly himself, and not let the congregation read one verse and the Clergyman the other alternately, as is the common practise. He was a tall thin man; and going over to Cambridge to see his brother, he fell from his horse on Gogmagog Hill, and broke his leg, which occasioned his death, March 14, 1731-2, in the 75th year of his age, and was buried in Little Abingdon churchyard, under an altar tomb, with an epitaph (see in my first vol. of Collections for the County of Cambridge, p. 4.) He left a daughter behind him, to whom her uncle left 10,000 7. and with whom she lived at Orwell for some years, and married. I have heard my father say, that he believed an honester or more worthy man never lived. I remember to have seen, when a boy, a book of devotion which he published; but have never met with it since."

52. Sir Sam. Prynne, Sergeant at Law.

"Educated at St. John's College, born at Bury St. Edmund's, son of a tallow-chandler.

"He flung up his profession in disgust, that Lord Camden was put over his head-and married the widow Shepherd of Suffolk, with a jointure of 1800l. a year, the daughter of Mr. Wil

mot of Banstead, an heiress of 20,000l. He bought the estate at Whitton, in Twickenham, Middlesex, formerly Sir Godfrey Kneller's; and died at Whitton, 24 Feb. 1776, leaving a son, formerly of St. John's College, to whom he bequeathed 70,000 L”

53. Ambrose Philips, St. John's.

"The Life of John Williams, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Bishop of Lincoln, and Archbishop of York in the Reigns of K. James, and K. Ch. I. Wherein are related several remarkable occurrences of those times, both in Church and State; with an Appendix, giving an account of his benefactions to St. John's College, Camb. By A. P. Fellow of the sume College. Cambridge, 8°. 1700."

From the Whitehall Evening Post, Tuesday, June 20, 1749.

"Last week was buried in Audley Chapel from his house in Hanover Street, Ambrose Philips, Esq. late Member for Armagh in Ireland, and Registrar of the Prerogative Office in that Kingdom: a Gentleman well known to the learned world by his writings whose Pastorals and Translations from Pindar, with his tragedy, called the Distressed Mother, are esteemed among the most elegant compositions in the English language. He died in the 78th year of his age, after a life spent most in foreign states. He was remarkable for his politeness and integrity of manners. He was a native of Shrewsbury, but descended of the Phillipses of Leicestershire, who have been frequently representatives of that county. He was many yea's Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and paymaster of the lottery office. He was the last survivor of the excellent authors of the Tatlers, Spectators, and Guardians."

54. Hen. Peacham, Trin. Col.

Author of The Compleat Gentleman, 1622, 4to. &c. And of The Gentleman's Exercise, for drawing, limning, &c. 1634. &c. The Worth of a Penny. Reprinted 1664.*

* Again reprinted, 1814.

"He lived sometime in St. Martin's in the Fields, and was addicted to melancholy.

"In Mr. West's Catalogue of Books sold by auction in April, 1773, at p. 226, No 4391, is this article and note:

"A Dialogue betweene the Crosse in Cheap and Charing Crosse. By Ryhen Pamcach, 4to.

"Anecdote of the Author. This Dialogue was made by Hen. Peacham, author of the Compleat Gentleman, who was reduced to poverty in his age, and wrote penny pamphlets, signed Johan. Gibbon. Bluemantle.”

See Hawkins's Hist. Mus. iii. 194, 195. Walpole's Engravers, 44, and Anec. Paint. ii. 13.

55. Sir Edward Peyton.

"V. Hist. of King-Killers, or 30th of January commemorated. Lond. 8vo. 1719, p. 58, and Wood's Ath. Ox. ii. 156.

"Author of The divine Catastrophe of the kingly Family of the House of Stuarts: or a short History of the Rise, Reign, and Ruin thereof; wherein the most secret and chamber Abominations of the two last Kings are discovered, divine Justice in K. Charles his overthrow vindicated, and the Parliament's proceedings against him clearly justified. By Sir Edw. Peyton, Kt. and Bart. a diligent observer of those times. Lond. 1652. in 8vo. pp. 149. Dedicated to the supreme authority of this nation, assembled in this present Parliament.'

"He seems by his writing to have been an enthusiast of the fifth monarchy sort; and sets out with a most glaring proof of false history, making Francis II. King of France, husband to Mary Q. of Scots, to have been killed with a shiver of a lance at a tournament; whereas it was that young King's father who was killed in that manner. But his divinity and history are equally valuable. V. p. 7, 22, 31, 35, 51, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 74, 113, 118, 119, 120, 134, 139."