tington, Earl of Kent, Earl of Kingston, Earl of Sunderland, Earl of Orford, Earl of Albemarle, Lord Wharton, Lord Lovelace, Lord Byron, Lord Halifax, Lord Harvey, Lord Allington, Lord Sherard. Sir Thomas Hanmer, Sir John Jacob, Sir John Tyrwhitt, William Feilding, Esq., John Noell, Esq.(1)

From the Schools Her Majesty went to Trinity College, the Master whereof, Dr. Bentley, received Her Majesty likewise with a very dutiful Speech; and Her Majesty was pleased to confer the Honour of Knighthood upon John Ellis, Esq. Doctor in Physick, & Vice Chancellor of the University, James Mountague, Esq.(2) Council for the University, & Isaac Newton, Esq., formerly Mathematick Professor, & fellow of that College: Then about 300 Ladies & Gentlewomen were admitted to kiss Her Majesty's hand. Her Majesty was afterwards entertained at Dinner in Trinity College Hall, at the expence of the University, upon a Throne erected five foot high for that purpose; & 4 large tables, with 50 covers each, were prepared for the Nobility & Gentry: all which was performed with the greatest order and magnificence. After Dinner her Majesty visited Trinity College Library; from whence she went to St. John's, where she was likewise received with a speech by Dr. Gower, Master of the College, & Margaret Professor of Divinity. Her Majesty went from thence to Prayers in King's College Chapel, at the entrance whereof Dr. Roderick, the Provost, addressed himself to her Majesty with very dutiful & loyal expressions. After Prayers Her Majesty went to Queen's College, where she was received by Dr. James, in the same manner, & with the same expressions of Duty & Loyalty, as she had been in the other Houses which she had been pleased to Honour with her presence: From thence Her Majesty took Coach, and returned the same Evening to Newmarket, very well satisfied with all the marks of Obedience & Loyalty which she had met with.(3)

Alderman Newton gives the following account of the Queen's reception :

16 APRIL, 1705. On Munday, some time after 12 o'clock, came Queen Anne to Cambridge and was met by the Corporacion of the Towne on Christs College Peeces, and after a speech made by Sir John Cotton Baronet, our Recorder, was conducted from thence by Mr. Mayor, my Lord Offord our High Steward, & ye rest of the Corporacion, to the Regent Walk, the Comon Councell this time rid on horseback which was not formerly done. At ye Regent Walk we left her. The Duke of Somerset then Chancellour of the University & Master of ye Horse was then here and performed his place as Chancellour, the Vice Chancellour Dr. John Ellis not then appearing as Vice Chancellor for that day. The same day the Queen knighted Dr. Ellis.(4)

At the general election there was a contest for the University between the Hon. Arthur Annesley (5) M.A. fellow of Magdalene College, the Hon. Dixie Windsor (6) M.A. of Trinity College, the

(1) Ludolph Kuster and Henry Sike afterwards Hebrew Professor, were also created Doctors of Law. Three Doctors of Physic were created on this occasion. One of these was the celebrated John Arbuthnot.

(2) Afterwards Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

(3) London Gazette, 19 April, 1705.

(4) Ald. Newton's Diary.

(5) Afterwards Earl of Anglesey and High Steward of the University.

(6) Second son of Thomas Earl of Plymouth by his second wife Ursula daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Widdrington. In July, 1712, Mr. Windsor was appointed Storekeeper of the Ordnance.

Hon. Francis Godolphin (1) M.A. of King's College, and Sir Isaac Newton Knt. M.A. of Trinity College. The votes were, Annesley 182; Windsor 170; Godolphin 162; Newton 117.(2)

On Michaelmas Day, when Sir John Ellys the Vicechancellor went to swear in the Mayor and Bailiffs he claimed the precedency in the joint seat at the upper end of the Guildhall. James Fletcher the Mayor,(3) refused to concede this, and was supported by Aldermen Love,(4) and Percy,(5) and Mr. Welbore the Deputy Recorder. Some rude persons treated the Vicechancellor and his attendants with great contempt. On the 2nd of October, the following grace for discommuning Mr. Fletcher the Mayor, Alderman Percy and Mr. Welbore passed the Senate:

WHEREAS by Mr. James Fletcher, present Mayor of Cambridge, and Daniel Love and Francis Percy, Aldermen of the said Town, and Mr. John Wellbore, Deputy Recorder of the same, the Rights and Privileges of this University have of late been notoriously and highly violated in the person of Sir John Ellys, the Vice Chancellor, going to swear the said Mayor and the four Bayliffs of the said Corporation on Michaelmas Day last, according to the Usage and Charter of the said University; for the preventing therefore the many growing mischiefs that may proceed from our not opposing such Attempts and Invasions upon our Liberties Rights and Privileges:

MAY IT PLEASE YOU, that the said present Mayor, Mr. Francis Percy Alderman, and Mr. J. Wellbore Deputy Recorder, by your Sentence and Decree be now discommuned; and that no College or particular Member of this University whatsoever, or any other Person privileged according to the Charters of this University, shall deal or trade or have any commerce with the said persons so discommuned or with any others that act by for or under them, or in conjunction or partnership with them; until such time as the said Persons so discommuned shall acknowledge their offence in violating the Rights of this University, in the Chancell of Great St. Maries Church before the Vice-Chancellor and the two Proctors for the time being, in writing under their hands, and shall promise for the time to come never again willfully to offend in like manner. And if any College or Member of the University, Scholar, or Scholar's Servant, or other privileged Person whatsoever, shall presume contrary to this Decree, by themselves or any others for them, to buy or otherwise contract, give or continue any beneficial Place or Employment directly or indi

(1) Son of Sidney Earl of Godolphin, to which title he succeeded in 1712. He died 1766. (2) In the House of Lords in November this year, Dr. Patrick Bishop of Ely, " stood up, " and moved, That the Judges might also be consulted what Power the Queen had in visit"ing the Universities, complaining of the Heat and Passion of the Gentlemen there; which they inculcated into their Pupils, who brought the same Fury with them to the Parishes, when they came Abroad, to the Great Disturbance of Public Charity; That at the Election "at Cambridge 'twas shameful to see 100 or more young Students, encouraged in hollowing "like School-Boys and Porters, and crying out, No Fanaticks, no Occasional Conformity, "against two worthy Gentlemen that stood as Candidates."-Compleat Hist. of Europe for the year 1705, p. 420.

(3) Mr. Fletcher died before his year of office expired, viz. 8th August, 1706.

(4) Mr. Love was the Mayor who went out of office on Michaelmas Day. It is singular he was not discommuned, especially as his name occurs in the preamble to the grace.

(5) Francis Percy who was great grandson to Thomas Percy Constable of Alnwick Castle, one of the Powder Plot Conspirators, laid claim to the title or estates of the Earls of Northumberland. (Collect. Topog. & Geneal. ii. 58-64.) Ald. Percy's eldest son, Charles Percy, was one of the Bailiffs this year.

rectly with or to any of the said Persons so discommuned; that then the College Person or Persons so offending, shall every one of them incur the penalty of £5 for every offence, to be applyed to the common Chest of this University; and if a Scholar not Graduate, he shall be incapable of any Degree; or if a Graduate he shall be suspended from all Degrees till he makes satisfaction to the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors of this University.

Mr. Fletcher the Mayor submitted himself to the University on the 6th of October, when he appeared in Great Saint Mary's church, and in the presence of the Vicechancellor, the Proctors, the Master of Jesus College, two of the Esquire Bedels, and other members of the University, read and subscribed the subjoined paper acknowledging his offence, promising in future to shew due respect to the Vicechancellor, and desiring that the sentence of discommuning might be recalled:

WHEREAS I James Fletcher, Mayor of the Town of Cambridge, did upon Michaelmas Day last past, by mistake and misinformation, infringe the just Rights and Privileges of the University of Cambridge, in refusing and denying unto Sir John Ellys, the Vice-Chancellor of the said University, the precedency in the joynt seat at the upper end of the Guild Hall of the said Town, when he came according to the Charter of the said University, to give the usual Oath to me and the four Bayliffs of the said Corporation: which refusal of mine was the occasion of a great deal of contempt and indignity offered by some rude persons to the said Vice-Chancellor and his attendants; for which offence I stand censured and discommuned by the said University; I DO THEREFORE Now freely acknowledge that my offence, and faithfully promise for the future never to be guilty of the like offence, but to shew all due respect to the Vice-Chancellor of the said University, and to give him the precedence in all places whatsoever (as of right he ought to have) while I continue in my Office: and I humbly desire that the said sentence of discommuning may be recalled, and that I may be restored to the favour of the said University.

JAMES FLETCHER, Mayor.

MEM. This acknowledgment was made and read over verbatim by the above-mentioned James Fletcher, in the Chancell of Great St. Maries Church in Cambridge Oct. 6, 1705, and then and there by him humbly, submissively, and publickly acknowledged and delivered as his own Act and Deed, before Sir John Ellys Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Nicholas Parham, and Mr. Daniel Newcome, Proctors of the said University (the Persons and places appointed by the decree of the Senate thereof) and in the presence of the Rev. Dr. Ashton, Doctor in Divinity, Master of Jesus College, and of two Esquire Bedells, viz. John Pern, M.A. and Public Notary, and Edward Clarke, M.A. Fellow of Clare Hall, and many others there met upon the occasion.

Sic testamur,

JOHN ELLYS, Vice Chancellor,

NICHOLAS PARHAM, Senior Proctor,
DANIEL NEWCOME, Junior Proctor,
C. ASHTON, Master of Jesus College,
JOHN PERN, Notary Public.(1)

(1) Gunning, Ceremonies of Univ. of Camb. 433-436.

Alderman Percy submitted himself at the same time,(1) and Mr. Welbore on the 29th of March, 1706.(2)

1706.

The University of Frankfort on the Oder intending to hold a jubilee to celebrate the foundation of that University, (by Joachim Marquess of Brandenburgh in 1506) sent a formal invitation to the University of Cambridge to be present at this ceremony, who thereupon deputed Andrew Snape D.D. (afterwards Provost of King's College), Henry Penrice LL.D. of Trinity Hall (afterwards Judge of the Admiralty and a Knight), Henry Plumptree M.D. of Queen's College, William Grigg M.A. of Jesus College (afterwards Master of Clare Hall), and John Wyvill M.A. of Trinity College, to rcpresent this University on the occasion. This deputation (3) was received at Frankfort with the utmost courtesy, the King of Prussia assisting in person upon the occasion.(4)

At a Common Day held on the 29th of June, the Corporation deputed Alderman Chambers and the Town Clerk to draw up an address to the Queen congratulating her on the victories over the French, Bavarian, and Spanish forces. They accordingly prepared

(1) " WHEREAS I, Francis Percy, Alderman of the Town of Cambridge, misled by my own "ignorance and error, and seduced by the bad example of others for whose judgment I had "much value, upon Michaelmas Day last past (when Sir J. Ellys, Vice-Chancellor of the "University of Cambridge, according to his place and office came to swear Mr. James "Fletcher Mayor, and the four Bailiffs of the Town) was one of those that opposed the said "Vice-Chancellor taking his due place, and in so doing was guilty of a high violation of the "Rights and Privileges of the said University, from which unadvised Act of myself and "others, divers unworthy affronts and indignities were occasioned to the said Vice-Chan"cellor and his Attendants. Convinced now of the rashness and indiscretion of such "actions, and moved with true sorrow and repentance for having had so great a share "therein, I ACKNOWLEDGE my fault, and here before you Mr. Vice-Chancellor beg pardon "of the University, praying your kind assistance for my being reconciled to your favour, " and faithfully promising that for the future I will never be guilty again of the like offence, "but shew the University, and all the Members thereof respectively, a due reverence and "regard, and whenever I can influence others, dispose them to do the like.

"FRANCIS PERCY Alderman."

(2) "WHEREAS I, John Wellbore Esq. Deputy Recorder of the Town of Cambridge, not "fully understanding the Rights and Privileges of the University of Cambridge, did upon "Michaelmas Day last past, (when Sir John Ellys the Vice-Chancellor came to the Town Hall "according to the ancient Charters of the University to administer the usual Oath to the "Mayor and Bailiffs of the said Town), by my opinion then declared, encourage the refusal "of the chief place to the said Vice-Chancellor above the Mayor in the said Hall, which I am now convinced that of right He the Vice-Chancellor ought to have; I DO HEREBY freely " acknowledge my error in that particular, which proceeded wholly out of mistake, and not "out of malice to the said University, or to any member thereof, and promise that I will not "be guilty of any such like indignity for the future. All which I declare with the same sincerity that I now desire to be restored to the good will and favour of the University. "JOHN WELLBORE. "READ AND SUBSCRIBED by John Wellbore Esq., in the Chancel of Great St. Mary's *Church, in Cambridge, the 29th of March, 1706, in the presence of us

"BARDSEY FISHER, Vice Chancellor,
"R. STEVENS, Senior Proctor,
"R. CLOTTERBROOKE, Junior Proctor,
"R. GROVE, Registrary."

(3) Mr. Grigg was left behind at Brunswick being disabled by a fall from pursuing his journey.

(4) Monk, Life of Bentley, 8vo. edit. i. 190; Compleat History of Europe for the year 1706, p. 501. See in Bentley's Correspondence (i. 233) a letter from Ludolph Kuster to Dr. Bentley, dated Berlin, the 1st of May, N. S. 1706.

the following address, to which the Corporate seal was affixed on the 4th of July:(1)—

TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

THE HUMBLE ADDRESS of the Mayor, High Steward, Recorder, Aldermen, Common-councilmen, Bailiffs, and Burgesses of the Corporation of the Town of Cambridge.

Most gracious Sovereign,

THE signal and early victories obtained by your Majesty's forces, and those of the allies under the command of his grace the Duke of Marlborough in the Netherlands and of the Earl of Peterborough in Spain, engage us as our bounden duty for such immense blessings to congratulate your Majesty on these glorious occasions wherein we cannot sufficiently express our grateful sense of God Almighty's providence over your Majesty and your allies, and the great care and vigilance of your Majesty in supporting and delivering us from the imminent danger of utter destruction into which the ambitious power of our enemy had designed to involve us.

AND we earnestly beseech your Majesty to accept this our congratulation of your successes abroad as a firm assurance of our united affections at home for your Majesty's safety and honour, of our constant endeavours to preserve peace and unity amongst ourselves and promoting it amongst others, of our unfeigned and continual prayers to God for your long and prosperous reign over us and of his preserving your royal consort in lasting health and your more lasting happiness.

GIVEN under our common seal the fourth day of July in the fifth year of your Majesty's reign.(2)

On the 20th of July, Dr. Thomas Tudway the Music Professor was cited before Dr. Fisher Vicechancellor and the Heads, charged with having uttered words highly reflecting on the Queen and her administration. His crime was a bad pun(3) reflecting on the Queen, or rather on the ministry. He said in company, that though her Majesty had refused the address of the Hertford burgesses, yet had it been from Daniel Burgess (the celebrated dissenting minister) it would have been received. For these words he was, by the Vicechancellor and eight other Heads, sentenced to be suspended from his degrees, and to be deprived of his organist's place at St. Mary's, and his professorship in the University. He was also deprived of his places as organist to King's College and Pembroke Hall.(4) On the 10th

(1) Corporation Common Day Book. (2) Corporation Coucher.

(3) Dr. Tudway was at Cambridge longer remembered as an inveterate punster than as a great musician. "In the time of the Duke of Somerset's chancellorship at Cambridge, during the discontents of several members of that University at the rigour of his govern"meat and paucity of his patronage, Tudway, himself a malcontent, and joining in the "clamour, said, the chancellor rides us all, without a bit in our mouths." Nor did the "wicked sin of punning quit him even in sickness; for having been dangerously ill of a "quinsy and unable, for some time, to swallow either food or medicines; the physician "who attended him after long debates and difficulties at length turning to Mrs. Tudway "says, Courage, madam! "the doctor will get up May-hill yet, he has been able to swal"low some nourishment: the doctor cries out, don't mind him my dear, one swallow "makes no summer.""-Burney, Hist. of Music, iii, 459.

(4) CAMBRIDGE, July 28. The Vice Chancellor of this University having received infor"mation, that Mr. Tudway had spoken words highly reflecting on Her Majesty, he convened