leaving the College upwards of 30007. by which they have been enabled to pull down their old hall, and build a new one from the ground, in the place where the old one stood, and of equal dimensions, in a most elegant taste; Mr. Burroughs of Caius, one of the Esquire Beadles, being the architect. The hall will be made use of the latter end of this summer, 1745. They have also since this benefaction entirely new cased the inside of the square with freestone, and new fronted the East front which looks to wards the Bishop of Norwich's garden, in Caius College. Sir Nathaniel died out of College, where he had not resided of many years, but was buried in the chapel, under the wall, and on the step of the altar there is also an elegant mural monument of white marble against the South wall just above his grave.”.

43. Andrew Burnaby, A. M. Queen's College, D.D.

«Travels through the middle Settlements in North America in

the years 1759 and 1760, with observations upon the state of the Colonies. By the Rev. Andrew Burnaby, A. M. Vicar of Greenwich. L. 4to. 1775. Pages 106, besides a preface of 8 pages, dated from Greenwich, Jan. 23, 1775.

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At the end at p. 95 is a diary of the weather in Virginia for 1760, communicated to him while he was Chaplain to the British factory at Leghorn by Francis Fauquier, Esq. At p. 52 he gives au account of a very providential escape, as it should seem, which he had from out of the hands of a mad, bigotted, independent teaclien of New England, who had taken it into his head that it would be a meritorious action in the sight of God for him to murder a clergyman of the Church of England: accordingly he was off the point, and his hand lifted up, when he was stopped by

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person who stood by him, to stab a minister in the back, who was then officiating in reading the funeral service over a person of his congrégation. Upon this he was confined, and sent to a madhouse at Philadelphia, where Mr. Burnaby, happening to lodge

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at the same house with this enthusiast's sister, who was come to see him, was strangely and unaccountably persuaded by her, much against his own judgment and inclination, to pay a visit to her brother, who had most eagerly and pressingly desired to see him. It is probable that, had he had an opportunity to have accomplished his design, for he was chained then to his bed, he would have stabbed him. Mr. Burnaby says not so himself; but seems to hint that he was in no small danger.

"I was acquainted with a very worthy gentleman of the name of Burnaby many years ago, when he was a Fellow of St. John's College: a thin, tall man, of a tender constitution; whose brother was our Minister in one of the Northern Courts, either Sweden or Denmark: but I don't know if this is the person."

44. Thomas Bulguy, Fellow of St. John's College, 1752. Archdeacon of Winchester.

"A Sermon, preuched at Lambeth Chapel on the Consecration of the right Rev. Jonathan Shipley, D. D. Lord Bishop of Landaff, Feb. 12, 1769. 21 pages. Hebrews xiii. 7.

"An excellent discourse on church government; He was one of the best preachers I ever heard at St. Mary's. A very thin, pale, little man, son to a Dr. Balguy.

"A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Winchester in the year 1772, by Thomas Baiguy, Archdeacon. London, 4to. 1772. Price 1 s. pp. 24. A most convincing, clear, and admirable charge.

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"He contributed materials towards the life of the famous Dr,, John Browne, Vicar of Newcastle, in the new edition, of Biogra phia Britannica.

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"In July 1781 he was actually offered, on the translation of Bishop Yorke from Gloucester to Ely, the Bishopric of Glouces ter; but being 65 years of age, and a new sort of life to begin, he wisely declined it, and it was given to Dr. Halifax."

45. Geoffery Ekins.

"The following verses by Mr. Geoffery Ekins, Fellow of King's College and Rector of Quainton in Buckinghamshire, were made on the delivery of his wife, a great beauty, and fortune of 8000 1. of the name of Baker, of her first child, in the autumn of 1766, and given to me by Mrs. Robinson of Cransley, Nov. 26, 1766. Mr. Ekins's father, Rector of Barton in Northamptonshire, resigned Quainton to his son on his marriage, he having the advowsɔn, as he has also Barton by an exchange with the Duke of Montague.

"A Sermon preached before the House of Commons at St. Margaret's, Westminster, on Wednesday, January 30, 1739-40. By J. W. D. D. M1 of St. P. C. in C. and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. L. 4to: 1740. Heb. xi. 4. By it, he being dead, yet speaketh. Pages 22.

"Mr. since Bishop, Warburton, in his Preface to Shakespeare, p. 26, thus alludes to Dr. Whalley:

'I remember to have heard of a very learned man, who had long since formed a design of giving a more correct edition of Spenser; and without doubt would have performed it well, but he was persuaded from his purpose by his friends, as beneath the dignity of a Professor of the occult sciences. Yet these friends, I suppose, would have thought it would have added a lustre to his high station to have furnished out some dull northern chronicle, or dark Sibilline enigma.',

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"Dr. Whalley died at his lodge, Monday, Dec. 12, 1748. He married a niece of Mrs. Newcome, wife of Dr. Newcome, Master of St. John's, and daughter of Archdeacon Squire of Wells; but had been engaged before to a person, with whom he broke off after he was made M' of P. H. He was born át Barn

well near Cambridge, in his mother's way into Norfolk; by which means he became a Cambridgeshire man, and entitled to his Fellowship: but his father lived and had a small estate at Cosgrove in Northamptonshire, which his son now enjoys; as had Dr. Rye, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, of much the same value, and which his son now occupies there as a farmer. Dr. Whalley died much in debt, though he had an income of 1000l. per annum. They blamed his wife, who scraped up all she could, and paid no body."

47. Abraham Wheelock, Clare Hall,

"Arabic Professor and Librarian of the University of Cambridge, has a copy of Latin verses before James Duport's Liber Job. Printed 1637.

"Dr. Brian Walton, in his preface to his Polyglot Bible, says that he was much assisted by him; but was taken away by death just as he began his work. The Dr. begun it in 1653.

“In a letter, original, from him to one whom he styles his patron, and to whom he was Chaplain, calling him his Worship, dated from Cambridge, Dec. 9, 1638, he tells him that 'Mrs. Huscroft offered him five pounds for dilapidations for the repairs of his house, which he was going to repair, and where he was desirous to be about midsummer, more to do the duty than to gain any profits; and that he was to come to London to compound for the first fruits, or lapse his living.

"See Original Letters Miscellan. in an unbound volume belonging to the late Bishop More, now in the royal public library Cambridge, in an octavo portfolio of vellum, marked on the back B."