we shall find, one of the Teachers-Brooke--is gratefully and characteristically remembered by our Worthy in one of his Latin poems, none the less gratefully that 'the rod' is recalled. He was Schoolmaster' from 1627-8

to 1643. The age of admission was 10 to 11: the latter would bring us to 1627-8, or Brooke's first year of office. Probably, however, he entered sooner; but neither RoBERT GREY (1621-26) nor WILLIAM MIDDLETON, A.M. (1626-28), nor others of the Masters or celebrities of the famous School are celebrated by him, with the exception of (afterwards) BISHOP LANEY. FRANCIS BEAUMONT was Head-Master in June 18, 1621, and I should have liked to have been able to associate CRASHAW with the Beaumont family. Probably DR. JOSEPH BEAUMONT of Psyche' was a school-fellow.

How long the Charterhouse was attended is unknown; but renewed researches at CAMBRIDGE add to as well as correct the usual dates of his attendance there. WILLMOTT States that he was elected a scholar of Pembroke Hall, March 26, 1632,' and remarks, and yet we find him lamenting the premature death of his friend, William Herrys, a fellow of the same College, which happened in the October of 1631." He quotes from the COLE MSS. The original register in the Admissionbook of Pembroke College removes the difficulty, and is otherwise valuable, as will be seen. It is as follows:

Julij 6. 1631. Richardus Crashawe, Gulielmi presbyteri filius, natus Londini annos habens 18, admissus est ad 2æ mensæ ordinem sub tutela M" Tourney.' He was matriculated pensioner of Pembroke, March 26, 1 As before, vol. ii. p. 302.

1632,' but, as above, his admission preceded. Belonging to Essex, it is not improbabie that ChHAW and HARRIS were school-fellows at the Charterhouse. Ha •friendships' and associates, so winsomely 'ung' of, vl demand fill after-actice. In 1642-3 appeared GEORGE HERBERT · Temple :" an mitential event in our Poet', history. He took the degree of BA 144 I: 1644 he published ancaymonly his roimme of Latin Epigrama and other Pieme, a very noticeable book from a ponti of 2o, especialŢ as most at have been proed ing previously. He paused from more to Pertice a 2006; and again I have the assfaction to give, for the find time the entry ʼn the sit Courge leg dr. I is as 5.LowE

He was made Fellow in 1637, and M.A. in 1638; looking forward to becoming a 'Minister of the Gospel. His Latin Poems in honour of, and in pathetic appeal regarding PETERHOUSE, are of the rarest interest, and suggest much elucidatory of his great 'change' in religious matters; a change that must have been a sad shock to his ultra-Protestant father, but in which, beyond all gainsaying, conscience ruled, if the heart quivered. While at the University he was called on to contribute to the various Collections' issued from 1631 onward; and it certainly is once more noticeable that such a mere youth should have been thus recognised. His Verses-Latin and English-appeared thus with those of HENRY MORE, JOSEPH BEAUMONT, EDWARD KING (Lycidas'), COWLEY, and others; and more than hold their own. In 1635 SHELFORD, 'priest' of RINGSFIELD, obtained a laudatory poem from him for his Five Pious and Learned Discourses.' According to ANTHONY A-WOOD, on the authority of one who knew (not from the Registers), he took a degree in 1641 at Oxford.1

Of his inner Life and experiences during these years (twelve at least), and the influences that went to shape his decision and after-course, and his relation to the COUNTESS OF DENBIGH, I shall speak fully and I trust helpfully in our Essay. We need to get at the Facts and Circumstances to pronounce a righteous verdict.

1 I feel disposed to think that it must have been some other RICHARD CRASHAW, albeit attendance at both Universities was not uncommon. Wood's words are, that he was incorporated' in 1641 at Oxford; and his authority 'the private observation of a certain Master of Arts, that was this year living in the University;' and he adds, afterwards he was Master of Arts, in which degree it is probable he was incorporated' (Fasti, s. n.).

For his great-brained, stout-hearted, iron-willed Father, the stormy period was congenial: but for his son the atmosphere was mephitic; as the Editor's Preface to the Learned Reader,' in his 'character' of him, suggests. Signatures were being put unsolemnly to the 'Solemn League and Covenant,' and as a political not a religious thing, by too many. RICHARD CRASHAW could not do that, and the crash of Ejection' came. Here is the rescript from the Register of PETERHOUSE Once more unused hitherto :1

'Whereas in pursuite of an ordinance of Parliament for regulating and reforming of the Universitie of Cambridge, I have ejected Mr. Beaumont, Mr. Penniman, Mr. Crashaw, Mr. Holder, Mr. Tyringham, late fellowes of Peterhouse, in Cambridge. And whereas Mr. Charles Hotham, Robert Quarles, Howard Becher, Walter Ellis, Edward Sammes, have been examined and approved by the Assembly of Divines now sitting at Westminster, according to the said Ordinance as fitt to be Fellowes : These are therefore to require you, and every of you, to receive the said Charles Hotham, Robert Quarles, Howard Becher, Walter Ellis, Masters of Arts; and Edward Sammes, Bach', as fellowes of your Colledge in room of the said Mr. Beaumont, Mr. Penniman, Mr. Crashaw, Mr. Holder, Mr. Tyringham, formerly ejected, and to give them place according to their seniority in the Universitie, in reference to all those that are or shall hereafter bee putt in by mee accordinge to the Ordinance

1 I owe very hearty thanks to my good friend Mr. W. Aldis Wright, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, and to the Masters and other authorities of Pembroke and Peterhouse, for unfailing attention to my inquiries and the most zealous aid throughout.

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The ejection" of 1944, 'the that larger one of 1662, brought much sorrow and trial to a number of good and fine souls. To one so gentle, shy, self-introspective as CRASHAW, it must have teen as the tearing down of a nest to a poor bird His fellow sufferers went hither and thither Our first glipse of cur Worthy after his ejec tion' is in 1646, when the Steps to the Temple' and Delights of the Muses appeared, with its Editor's touching saying at the close of his Preface now dead to A second edition, with considerable additions, was published in 164S Previous to 16:46 he had · gone over' to Catholicism, for in the Steps of that year is · An Apologie for huis · Hywn' In Memory of the Vertuous and Learned Lady Madre de Teresa, that sought an early Martyrdome In 1046 it is beaded simply An Apologie for the precedent Hymne a the · Carmen Deo Nostro of 16 it is more fully mscribed · An Apologie for the foregoing Hymn, as baung been writt when the author was yet attent the Protestantes to latin poems,

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